Although we are already some solid days into the new year, I still want to share some of my favorite albums from 2018 with you. It was a year full of interesting discoveries, promising debuts, rock-solid continuations as well as pleasant comebacks – and of some last minute changes to the list even while drafting this post (sorry, Alias Caylon & Mike Vennart). It was also the first year of my musical biography in which I somehow lost track of new releases for months, mostly for work reasons. While I do hope that 2018 will remain an exception in this respect, I am very happy with what it brought to my attention. So here is my list (in alphabetical order):

• Albert Hammond Jr. – Francis Trouble
• Alice in Chains – Rainier Fog
• Bass Drum of Death – Just Business
• Bodega – Endless Scroll
• Culture Abuse – Bay Dream
• Dan Mangan – More or Less
• The Dirty Nil – Master Volume
• The Frights – Hypochondriac
• Graveyard – Peace
• Hodja – The Flood
• The Joy Formidable – Aaarth
• Murder by Death – The Other Shore
• Pablo Matisse – Rise
• Pagan – Black Wash
• Parquet Courts – Wild Awake!
• Sooma – Sooma
• The Sore Losers – Gracias Señor
• Turnstile – Time & Space
• White Denim – Performance
• Zeal & Ardor – Strange Fruit