Every year, I listen to enough records this year that should make my head spin. Don’t worry, it is an activity that I take a joy in doing every day. 2018 brought a lovely collection of music ranging from every genre. More and more groups from the 90’s are rejoining, more emerging artists from every genre, and more messages being relayed across the most common medium. Topics ranging from the aftermath of a Trump presidency, #MeToo movement, and pop cultural debacles have taken place of the nucleus for inspiration. Political and social matters have always been iterated through a musical point of view, but the trivial surroundings of 2018 seem to shed more light than usual. Throughout this list, you will begin to pick up on some trends and themes as you shuffle through each record. Some positive, some negative, some even in a satirical shade illustrating depreciating alliance for their respective countries. nonetheless, each project is tasteful, full of raw emotion, and obviously, explosive in composition. Without further ado, here is the top 100, pt. 1.

(exclaimer) I will not include details on the first 50 albums, it will just be this list:

 

100. Meat beat Manifesto- Impossible Star (electronic)

99. MGMT- Little Dark Age (electronic pop)

98. George Fitzgerald- All That Must be (house)

97. Acid Dad-Acid Dad (rock)

96. Girls names- Primitive Desire (post-punk)

95. Steven Julien- bloodline (electronic)

94. Deeper-Deeper (post-punk)

93. Material Girls- Leather (rock)

92. Soft Kill- Savior (post-punk)

91. Profligate- Somewhere Else (industrial)

90. Soft Moon- Criminal (darkwave, post-punk)

89. neurotic Fiction- Pulp Music (alternative rock)

88. Jeff Rosenstock- Post- (punk, pop-punk)

87. Turnstile- Time & Space (post-hardcore)

86. Lowtide- Southern Mind (shoegaze)

85. Dumb- Seeing Green (art rock, post-punk)

84. Israel Nash-Lifted (americana) 

83. noname-Room 25 (conscious hip-hop)

82. The Decemberists- I’ll be Your Girl (folk rock)

81. Paul White- Rejuvenate (electronic)

80. Anna Von Hausswolff- Dead Magic (darkwave, post-industrial)