It’s hard not to hear the post-punk label this year. Like a fashionable postscript, over the course of 12 months we’ve enjoyed the revival of this style with records by Preoccupations, Iceage, los debutantes Shame & Bodega or the more veterans Cloud Nothings & Parquet Courts.As the spearhead of the movement we have the British Idles, that after delivering last year a remarkable debut album such as Brutalism and surprise everyone with an incredible live performance, they give us a blunt and seamless album as outstanding as Joy as an Act of Resistance, with more than enough merits to be our international album of the year 2018.
From the rest of the list, stand out the albums of Low and Janelle Monáe closing the podium, the electronics of Nils Frahm or Nicolas Jaar as A.A.L (Against All Logic), the metal of Zeal and Ardor, Deafheaven & Architects or consecrated bands that over the years continue to deliver high quality records such as Editors, Spiritualized, Suede or Interpol
01. Idles – Joy As An Act Of Resistance
02. Low – Double Negative
03. Janelle Monáe – Dirty Computer
04. Editors – Violence
05. Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
06. Beach House – 7
07. Cloud Nothings – Last Building Burning
08. Parquet Courts – Wide Awake!
09. Nils Frahm – All Melody
10. Alt-J – Reduxer
11. Jungle – For Ever
12. Spiritualized – And Nothing Hurt
13. Shame – Songs Of Praise
14. Bodega – Endless Scroll
15. CHVRCHES – Love Is Dead
16. Zeal and Ardor – Stranger Fruit
17. A.A.L (Against All Logic) – 2012 – 2017
18. Robyn – Honey
19. Christine and the Queens – Chris
20. Car Seat Headrest – Twin Fantasy (Face to Face)
21. Jungle by night – Livingstone
22. Franz Ferdinand – Always Ascending
23. Tash Sultana – Flow State
24. Kurt Vile – Bottle It In
25. Florence & the Machine – High as Hope
26. Django Django – Marble Skies
27. The Vaccines – Combat Sports
28. Suede – The Blue Hour
29. Big Red Machine – Big Red Machine
30. St. Vincent – MassEducation
31. The Blaze – Dancehall
32. Deafheaven – Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
33. 1975 – A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
34. Slaves – Acts of Fear & Love
35. Architects – Holy Hell
36. Iceage – Beyondless
37. Interpol – Marauder
38. Melody’s Echo Chamber – Bon Voyage
39. Father John Misty – God’s Favorite Customer
40. Superorganism – Superorganism
41. Damien Jurado – The Horizon Just Laughed
42. Anna Calvi – Hunter
43. Parcels – Parcels
44. Jack White – Boarding House Reach
45. Carpenter Brut – Leather Teeth
46. Thom Yorke – Suspiria
47. Mount Eerie – Now Only
48. Mitski – Be the Cowboy
49. Soccer Mommy – Clean
50. Preoccupations – New Material
