Indieheads Review: 2018 Wrap-up!

Happy listmas r/indieheads! This year we reviewed 61 of the most upvoted and discussed albums of 2018. Here's a summary of some of the standouts from the responses this year.

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Highest rated albums of 2018

These were the albums with the highest average rating from 2018.

1. Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy (Face to Face) - 8.77 "This album breaks so many boundaries, Miley Cyrus could ride it into battle."

2. Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want - 8.74 "A masterpiece in tension building, and easily the most interesting piece of music I've heard in forever."

3. Parquet Courts - Wide Awake! - 8.57 "Their best album yet and an important punk resistance record for 2018."

4. Julia Holter - Aviary - 8.50 "Wild, beautiful, madness."

5. Low - Double Negative - 8.34 "A stunning evolution."

6. Idles - Joy as an Act of Resistance - 8.34 "A new instant classic punk album."

7. Amen Dunes - Freedom - 8.32 "A complete and complex work of art."

8. Mount Eerie - Now Only - 8.31 "The ying to Crow's yang."

9. Beach House - 7 - 8.30 "A thought-provoking masterclass in dreampop into which one can easily fade away."

10. The Voidz - Virtue - 8.27 "Ambitious, adventurous, pronounced, and undaunted."

Standout tracks

These are the top tracks which noticeably stood out from the rest of the album.

• Sleep - Marijuanaut's Theme

• Ought - Desire

• Jeff Rosenstock - USA

• Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Hunnybee

• Mount Eerie - Now Only

• Soccer Mommy - Your Dog

• Dirty Projectors - That's a Lifestyle (featuring Haim)

• Franz Ferdinand - Always Ascending

• Young Fathers - In My View

• Hop Along - How Simple

Top growers

These tracks were frequently picked as ones that become more enjoyable after multiple listens.

• Melody's Echo Chamber - Desert Horse

• Palm - Dog Milk

• serpentwithfeet - Cherubim

• Hop Along - Not Abel

• Jack White - Connected by Love

• Let's Eat Grandma - Donnie Darko

• Janelle Monáe - Pynk (featuring Grimes)

• Daughters - City Song

• Nine Inch Nails - Over and Out

• Father John Misty - God's Favorite Customer

Enjoyed less over time

On the other hand, these tracks were often enjoyed less over time.

• Franz Ferdinand - The Academy Award

• Car Seat Headrest - Nervous Young Inhumans

• Big Red Machine - Gratitude

• Deafheaven - Night People

• Mount Eerie - Distortion

• King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Greenhouse Heat Death

• Arctic Monkeys - She Looks Like Fun

• Hop Along - How You Got Your Limp

• Jack White - Connected by Love

• SOPHIE - It's Okay to Cry

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These lists have been determined from various statistics from the album polls. As always, all of this information is available in the album review archive.

Thanks to all of you for your participation in 2018. I've enjoyed collecting and sharing this information, and using it to help guide myself and others as to which albums or songs I should pay attention to. I'm hoping to do the same in 2019 starting in February, so please let me know if you have any feedback or suggestions for the future :)!

As we only reviewed 61 albums this year, be sure to share your top ten in the AOTY voting thread so we can see a comprehensive list of our favourite albums from 2018.

Submitted December 26, 2018 at 01:13PM by pulsivesilver http://bit.ly/2GGFwuS