Top Music Picks of 2018
I listened to a lot of music on repeat this year. Spotify informed me that I listened to 17 hours of The National, and they didn’t have a new album out in 2018. Lots of really good music this year.
Check out the lists below, in no particular order.
(You can listen to my Top Music Picks of 2018 Spotify Playlist which includes some older songs that I was loving this year!)
Top Ten Songs of 2018
Father John Misty, Mr. Tillman
Sylvan Esso, Funeral Singers
Lucius, Woman
Josh Rouse, Love in the Modern Age
David Byrne, Everybody’s Coming To My House
Lord Huron, Wait By The River
The Decemberists, Once in my Life
Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansonn, Bad Dreams
Lucy Dacus, Night Shift
Arctic Monkeys, Four Out of Five
Plus, I have to give a shout out to two oldies whose albums I really loved this year. Loved the song Come On To Me by Paul McCartney and Mr. & Mrs. Hush by Elvis Costello.
Top Six Albums of 2018
David Byrne, American Utopia
Jim James, Uniform Distortion
Arctic Monkeys, Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
Florence + the Machine, High As Hope
Kurt Vile, Bottle It In
Phosphorescent, C’est La Vie
Top Ten Shows of 2018
David Byrne at Blue Hills Bank Pavilion in Boston
The National at All Points East in London
Beck at New Orleans Jazzfest
Cage the Elephant at New Orleans Jazzfest
Patti Smith at the Minetta Lane Theater
St. Vincent at Newport Folk Festival
Jim James at Rough Trade (read more about that night here)
Radiohead at Madison Square Garden
Belle & Sebastian at Forest Hills
The National at There’s No Leaving New York at Forest Hills (two nights in a row)