Best Albums of the Years: 2018

by 5:4

Original Top 40

  1. The Caretaker – Everywhere at the end of time – Stages 4 & 5
  2. Lee Fraser – Cor Unvers
  3. Piggy Black Cross – Always Just Out of R.E.A.C.H. (Robotic Eclosion After Coming Hylozoic)
  4. Morton Feldman – For John Cage
  5. Lauren Redhead – hearmleoþ—gieddunga
  6. Fia Fiell – All In The Same Room
  7. Thom Yorke – Suspiria (Music for the Luca Guadagnino Film)
  8. ionnalee – Everyone Afraid To Be Forgotten
  9. Rich Shapero & Elsiane – Rin, Tongue and Dorner
  10. various artists – Phantom Images
  11. irr. app. (ext.) – A Transfigured System
  12. Let’s Eat Grandma – I’m All Ears
  13. James Newton Howard – Red Sparrow (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  14. Michael Cutting – Stills
  15. Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir – Choral Works by Schnittke & Pärt
  16. Coppice – Surreal Air Fortress
  17. Toivo Tulev – Magnificat
  18. Ryoji Ikeda – Music For Percussion
  19. Gottfried Huppertz – Metropolis (Complete Original Motion Picture Score)
  20. Computer Magic – Danz
  21. Anna Thorvaldsdottir – Aequa
  22. Colin Stetson – Hereditary (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  23. Lance Austin Olsen – Dark Heart
  24. Chaines – The King
  25. Erkki-Sven Tüür – Illuminatio/Whistles and Whispers from Uluru/Symphony No. 8
  26. Rohan Drape & Anthony Pateras – Ellesmere
  27. Jörg Widmann – Drittes Labyrinth/Polyphone Schatten
  28. Jóhann Jóhannsson – Mandy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  29. Kenneth Hesketh – In Ictu Oculi – orchestral works
  30. Erik Friedlander – Thoroughbreds (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  31. Jeffery Alan Jones – Most Beautiful Island (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  32. Dita Von Teese – Dita Von Teese
  33. Christopher Trapani – Waterlines
  34. Brian Eno – Music For Installations
  35. Autechre – NTS Sessions 1–4
  36. Moritz Eggert – Musica Viva Vol. 30
  37. Jakob Ullmann – Müntzers stern/solo II
  38. Þráinn Hjálmarsson – Influence of Buildings on Musical Tone
  39. Tom Mudd – Gutter Synthesis
  40. Clarence Barlow – Musica Algorithmica

Revised Top 30​

  1. The Caretaker – Everywhere at the end of time – Stage 4
  2. Lee Fraser – Cor Unvers
  3. Piggy Black Cross – Always Just Out of R.E.A.C.H. (Robotic Eclosion After Coming Hylozoic)
  4. Morton Feldman – For John Cage
  5. Aurora – Infections Of A Different Kind (Step 1)
  6. Lauren Redhead – hearmleoþ—gieddunga
  7. Fia Fiell – All In The Same Room
  8. Thom Yorke – Suspiria (Music for the Luca Guadagnino Film)
  9. ionnalee – Everyone Afraid To Be Forgotten
  10. Gottfried Huppertz – Metropolis (Complete Original Motion Picture Score)
  11. Rich Shapero & Elsiane – Rin, Tongue and Dorner
  12. various artists – Phantom Images
  13. irr. app. (ext.) – A Transfigured System
  14. Let’s Eat Grandma – I’m All Ears
  15. IAMX – Alive In New Light
  16. Michael Cutting – Stills
  17. LEYA – The Fool
  18. Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir – Schnittke: Psalms of Repentance / Pärt: Magnificat & Nunc dimittis
  19. Coppice – Surreal Air Fortress
  20. Toivo Tulev – Magnificat
  21. Ryoji Ikeda – Music For Percussion
  22. Christophe Beck – Ant-Man and The Wasp (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  23. Vyacheslav Artyomov – Requiem
  24. Peeter Rebane – Vaibamustrimuusika: The music of rug patterns
  25. Computer Magic – Danz
  26. Anna Þorvaldsdóttir – Aequa
  27. Colin Stetson – Hereditary (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  28. Colin Andrew Sheffield – Repair Me Now
  29. Lance Austin Olsen – Dark Heart
  30. Chaines – The King