The 70 Best Albums of 2018

From forward-looking electronic and experimental to new approaches in the ever-evolving R&B scene, from hip-hop and punk to rock and pop, 2018 bestowed an embarrassment of musical riches upon us.

                                      
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        The 25 Best Electronic Albums of 2018
    
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        Rival Consoles Has Created One of the Most Vivid and Soul-stirring Electronic Albums of the Year with 'Persona'
    
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        Be Kind: An Interview with Rival Consoles
    
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Lifting tropes from IDM, deep house, Eno-indebted ambience, and end-of-days electro, Ryan Lee West creates a borderless shadow-reality that is part somnambulant carnival and part cosmic void on Night Melody.

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Rival Consoles: Howl

Rival Consoles humanizes electronic music with his scintillating third LP.

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Kiasmos/Rival Consoles: 65/ Milo

A split that divides time between dubby bleep 'n' bass and messy cut-up intelligent dance music that is indeed danceable.

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Rival Consoles: IO

In the foreground, it's a solid slab of dance beats and sequencers; in the background, it's something more.

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Rival Consoles: Night Melody

Lifting tropes from IDM, deep house, Eno-indebted ambience, and end-of-days electro, Ryan Lee West creates a borderless shadow-reality that is part somnambulant carnival and part cosmic void on Night Melody.

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Rival Consoles humanizes electronic music with his scintillating third LP.

Kiasmos/Rival Consoles: 65/ Milo

A split that divides time between dubby bleep 'n' bass and messy cut-up intelligent dance music that is indeed danceable.

Rival Consoles: IO

In the foreground, it's a solid slab of dance beats and sequencers; in the background, it's something more.

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