Torched Magazine’s Michael Mitchell gives us his top singles and albums of 2018! His favorite album of the year goes out to Gitane Demone Quartet – Substrata Strip. All other singles/albums are listed in no particular order.
TOP SINGLES
Gitane Demone Quartet – Bells for Barb (Live version)
Big Bliss – Answer
Eyeless in Gaza – Older Day
Test Dept. – Disturbance
Jon Spencer – Beatle Boots
Death Valley Girls – More Dead
Current 93 – Bright Dead Star
German Army – A Bedsheet
Klammer – Modern God
Beauty In Chaos – Look Up
Section 25 – Floating Sun
Twelve Thousand Days – Pathless
Boy Harsher – Fate
Rendez Vous – Sentimental Animal
TOP ALBUMS
Gitane Demone Quartet – Substrata Strip
The Awakening – Chasm
Bad Sav – Bad Sav
Beach House – 7
Beauty in Chaos – Finding Beauty in Chaos
Big Bliss – At Middle Distance
Chris Carter – Chemistry Lessons Vol.1
Julian Cope – Skellington 3
Skellington 3 is currently not available on streaming services but you can order it from Head Heritage
Current 93 – The Light is Leaving Us All
The Damned – Evil Spirits
Death and the Maiden – Wisteria
Death Grips – Year of the Snitch
Death Valley Girls – Darkness Rains
Dentist – Night Swimming
Duende! With David J. – Oracle of the Horizontal
Eyeless in Gaza -Winter Song
Final Cop – Broken Windows
Geniuser – I Am
German Army – Mangas Coloradas
Inade – The Nine Colours of the Threshold
irr. app. (ext.) – A Transfigured System
Christian Kjellvander – Wild Hxumans
Klammer – You Have Been Processed
https://klammerband.bandcamp.com/album/you-have-been-processed
Lizard Pool – Spark
Bill Nelson – Auditoria
Poptone – Poptone
Rendez Vous – Superior State
Rozz Williams / Gitane Demone – In the Heart / On the Altar
Sol Invictus – Necropolis
Spiritualized – And Nothing Hurt
Twelve Thousand Days – Insect Silence
The Venus Fly Trap – Icon
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