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
    
Paul Carr
Daniel Bromfield
Colin Fitzgerald
Alan Ranta
Spyros Stasis

    07 Dec 2018

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        Rival Consoles Has Created One of the Most Vivid and Soul-stirring Electronic Albums of the Year with 'Persona'
    
Paul Carr

    12 Apr 2018

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        Be Kind: An Interview with Rival Consoles
    
Paul Carr
Paul Carr

    09 Apr 2018

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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: 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 Has Created One of the Most Vivid and Soul-stirring Electronic Albums of the Year with 'Persona'

Be Kind: An Interview with Rival Consoles

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.

Rival Consoles: Howl

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.

Dua Lipa Makes Kitschy Cool on 'Future Nostalgia'

Memoir 'Scratched' Seeks Beauty in the Flawed

The Weeknd Gets Lost in Vegas on 'After Hours'

Pearl Jam Liberate Themselves From the Past on 'Gigaton'

Nick Storring's 'My Magic Dreams Have Lost Their Spell' Is Beautiful, Haunting, and Otherworldly

Anna Calvi Re-writes Her Own History on 'Hunted'

The Weeknd's 'After Hours' Sets Cinematic Vignettes of Hollywood and Las Vegas Nights

Sea Wolf's 'Through a Dark Wood' Is an Honest Portrayal of Emotional Struggle

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The Dream Syndicate Explore "The Longing" (premiere + interview)

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The Kids Might Be Alright: Progress as Virtue in Contemporary Children's Literature

Brits in Hot Weather Presents: False Heads