Guest List: The Best Albums of 2018 – John Macintosh
1. Tim Hecker – Konoyo
2. Beach House – 7
3. Amen Dunes – Freedom
4. Low – Double Negative
5. Mid-Air Thief – Crumbling
6. Adrianne Lenker – abysskiss
7. Against All Logic – 2012-2017
8. Bosse-de-Nage – Further Still
9. Lucy Dacus – Historian
10. Spectral Wound – Infernal Decadence
11. Noname – Room 25
12. Jon Hopkins – Singularity
13. Conjurer – Mire
14. Outre-Tombe – Nécrovortex
15. Saba – Care for Me
16. Deafheaven – Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
17. Oneohtrix Point Never – Age Of
18. Wiegedood – De Doden Hebben het Goed III
19. Mitski – Be the Cowboy
20. Haley Heynderickx – I Need to Start a Garden
21. Gas – Rausch
22. Antlers – Beneath. Below. Behold
23. U.S. Girls – In a Poem Unlimited
24. Shopping – The Official Body
25. Caroline Says – No Fool Like an Old Fool
The Best Albums of 2018
1. Sleep – The Sciences
2. Daughters – You Won’t Get What You Want
3. Dead Can Dance – Dionysus
4. Yob – Our Raw Heart
5. Jon Hopkins – Singularity
6. Kikagaku Moyo – Masana Temples
7. Gas – Rausch
8. Hermit and the Recluse – Orpheus vs. the Sirens
9. Against All Logic – 2012-2017
10. Superorganism – Superorganism
11. Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto – Glass
12. Bongripper – Terminal
13. Clau Aniz – Filha de mil mulheres
14. The Bad Plus – Never Stop II
15. Tribulation – Down Below
16. Carpenter Brut – Leather Teeth
17. Lonker See – One Eye Sees Red
18. Hoth – Astral Necromancy
19. Zeal & Ardor – Stranger Fruit
20. Anna von Hausswolff – Dead Magic
21. Caroline Rose – Loner
22. Outre-Tombe – Nécrovortex
23. Rival Consoles – Persona
24. Soccer Mommy – Clean
25. A Forest of Stars – Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes
The Best Albums of 1973
1. Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon
2. Bob Marley & The Wailers – Catch a Fire
3. Judee Sill – Heart Food
4. Fela Kuti – Afrodisiac
5. Jackson Browne – For Everyman
6. Doug Snyder & Bob Thompson – Daily Dance
7. Herbie Hancock – Head Hunters
8. Roxy Music – Stranded
9. Keith Jarrett – Solo Concerts: Bremen / Lausanne
10. The Stooges – Raw Power
11. Fripp & Eno – No Pussyfooting
12. The Upsetters – Black Board Jungle
13. Led Zeppelin – Houses of the Holy
14. Stevie Wonder – Innervisions
15. Henry Cow – Legend
16. The O’Jays – Ship Ahoy
17. Can – Future Days
18. The Who – Quadrophenia
19. King Crimson – Larks’ Tongues in Aspic
20. John Cale – Paris 1919
21. Black Sabbath – Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
22. New York Dolls – New York Dolls
23. Bruce Springsteen – The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle
24. Faust – The Faust Tapes
25. Gram Parsons – GP
Guest List: The Best Albums of 2017 – John Macintosh
1. Arca – Arca
2. Fleet Foxes – Crack-Up
3. Mt. Eerie – A Crow Looked at Me
4. Moses Sumney – Aromanticism
5. Big Thief – Capacity
6. Bell Witch – Mirror Reaper
7. Fever Ray – Plunge
8. Blanck Mass – World Eater
9. Kendrick Lamar – DAMN.
10. Kelly Lee Owens – Kelly Lee Owens
11. LCD Soundsystem – American Dream
12. Yaeji – EP/EP2
13. Four Tet – New Energy
14. Sampha – Process
15. Priests – Nothing Feels Natural
16. Power Trip – Nightmare Logic
17. Charli XCX – Pop 2
18. Kelela – Take Me Apart
19. Slowdive – Slowdive
20. Vince Staples – Big Fish Theory
21. King Krule – The Ooz
22. Japanese Breakfast – Soft Sounds From Another Planet
23. Perfume Genius – No Shape
24. Ryuichi Sakamoto – async
25. Karen Gwyer – Rembo
The Best Albums of 2017
1. Ryuichi Sakamoto – async
2. Progenie Terrestre Pura – oltreLuna
3. Power Trip – Nightmare Logic
4. Thundercat – Drunk
5. Mike Oldfield – Return to Ommadawn
6. Ketha – 0 Hours Starlight
7. Cornelius – Mellow Waves
8. Pyrrhon – What Passes for Survival
9. Roedelius / Kasar – Einfluss
10. Oxbow – Thin Black Duke
11. Four Tet – New Energy
12. Amenra – Mass VI
13. Fleet Foxes – Crack-Up
14. Tyler, the Creator – Flower Boy
15. Fever Ray – Plunge
16. King Krule – The Ooz
17. Krallice – Go Be Forgotten
18. Brockhampton – Saturation Trilogy
19. Dawn Ray’d – The Unlawful Assembly
20. Cleric – Retrocausal
21. Craig Taborn – Daylight Ghosts
22. Spectral Voice – Eroded Corridors of Unbeing
23. Lingua Ignota – All Bitches Die
24. The Heads Are Zeros – The Heads Are Zeros
25. Endon – Through the Mirror