2018

• Couer De Pirate – En Cas de Tempete, Ce Jardin Sera Ferme (Dare to Care)
• Neko Case – Hell-On (Anti-)
• Jenn Champion – Single Rider (Hardly Art)
• Melissa Laveaux – Radyo Siwel (No Format)
• Arian Saleh – Swan Bird (Googoosh Remixed) (S/R)
• Rosalia – El Mal Querer (Sony)
• Essex Green – Hardly Electronic (Merge)
• Neneh Cherry – Broken Politics (Smalltown Supersound)
• Alba Griot Ensemble – The Darkness Between the Leaves (Riverboat)
• Anna Calvi – Hunter (Domino)

• Adzuki – Undeveloped Land (Shimmering Moods)
• ARP – Zebra (Mexican Summer)
• Art of Flying – Escort Mission (Discobolus)
• Ashan – Far Drift Afield (Inner Islands)
• Aukai – Branches of Sun (Aukai Music)
• Meg Baird and Mary Lattimore – Ghost Forests (Three Lobed)
• Jakob Battick – To Be Born Again & Again (Self-Released)
• Bitchin Bajas / DSR Lines – The Encyclopedia of Civilizations Vol. 2: Atlantis (Abstrakce)
• Chris Carter – CCCL Volume One (Mute)
• N. Chambers – Idea Region (Muzan Editions)
• Chancha Via Circuito – Bienaventuranza (Wonderwheel)
• Jane Antonia Cornish – Constellations (Innova)
• Sarah Davachi – Gave In Rest (Ba Da Bing)
• John Davis – Visiting The Sky (Bimodal Press)
• De Leon – De Leon (Mana)
• Jatinder Singh Durhailay & David Edren – Tea Notes (Bonjour Supermarket)
• Embassador Dulgoon ‎– Hydrorion Remnants (Nonlocal Research)
• M Geddes Gengras – Light Pipe (Room40)
• Les Halles – Zephyr (Not Not Fun)
• Jon Hassell – Listening to Pictures (Ndeya)
• Shuta Hasunuma & U-zhaan – 2 Tone (Commmons)
• Steve Hauschildt – Dissolvi (Ghostly International)
• Kaoru Inoue – Em Paz (Groovement Organic)
• Kali Uchis – Isolation (Virgin)
• Khalab – Black Noise 2084 (On The Corner)
• Kenji Kihara – Scenes of Scapes (Inner Islands)
• Kilchhofer – The Book Room (Marionette)
• Mary Lattimore – Hundreds of Days (Ghostly International)
• Laüst – Edelis (Dream Catalogue)
• Steven Legget – Bathhouse (Firecracker)
• Lunaria – Water Mind (Pantheon)
• Magnétophonique – Une Cartographie Idéale (Not Not Fun)
• Janelle Monae – Dirty Computer (Wondaland Arts Society)
• Mountain Man – Magic Ship (Nonesuch)
• Jonny Nash & Lindsay Todd – Fauna Mapping (Island of the Gods)
• Omni Gardens – West Coast Escapism (Holodeck)
• poemme – Moments in Golden Light (Constellation Tatsu)
• Poppy Ackroyd – Resolve (One Little Indian)
• Pram – Across The Meridian (Domino)
• Pulse Emitter – Xenharmonic Passages (Self Released)
• Saariselka – Ceres (Longform Editions)
• Gunter Schlienz – Liederbuch (Muzan Editions)
• Emily A. Sprague – Mount Vision (Self Released)
• H. Takahashi – Elegy (Muzan Editions)
• Terekke – Improvisational Loops (Music From Memory)
• Tristan Magnetique – Tristan Magnetique (Otomatik Muziek)
• Tuluum Shimmering – Dancing in the Seven Skies (Self Released)
• Valotihkuu – Paths (Self Released)
• Wanderwelle ‎– Gathering Of The Ancient Spirits (Silent Season)
• Zazz – Soft Harbinger (Inner Islands)

Megasoup’s 18 Favorite Reissues & Archival Releases from 2018:

• The Beta Band – The Three EPs – 20th Anniversary Remaster (Because Music)
• Cuasares – Afro-Progresivo (Pharaway Sounds)
• Docteur Nico – Dieux De La Guitare (Planet Ilunga)
• Brian Eno – Music For Installations (Opal)
• Entourage Music & Theatre Ensemble – Ceremony Of Dreams: Studio Sessions and Outtakes, 1972-1977 (Tompkins Square)
• The Fall – The Rough Trade Singles (Superior Viaduct)
• The Future Sound Of London ‎– Lifeforms (Universal)
• Chuck Johnson – Blood Moon Boulder (Scissor Tail Editions)
• Mkwaju Ensemble – Ki-Motion & Mkwaju (WRWTFWW)
• Münchner Studioorchester – Twilights of Bali (Free Soul)
• Spectrum – Highs, Lows, and Heavenly Blows (Medical Records)
• David Sylvian & Holger Czukay – Plight & Premonition / Flux & Mutability (Grönland)
• Various ‎Artists – The Complete Cuban Jam Sessions (Concord Craft Recordings)
• Various Artists – Looking Back (Cairo Records)
• Various Artists – Secao Ritmica – Instrumental Funk From ’70’s Brazil (Atemoya)
• Various Artists – Saigon Supersound Volume 2 (Saigon Supersound)
• Various Artists – Unusual Sounds (Anthology Recordings)
• Various Artists – Zamaan Ya Sukkar (Radio Martiko)

• Poppy Ackroyd – Resolve (One Little Indian)
• The Body – I Have Fought Against It But I Can’t Any Lonfer (Thrill Jockey)
• Zoe Boekbinder – Shadows (s/r)
• Julien Boulier – A Film Not Yet Made (Time Released Sound)
• Carla Bozulich – Quieter (Constellation)
• Jane Antonia Cornish – Constellations (Innova)
• Current 93 – The Light Is Leaving Us All (The Spheres)
• Dire Wolves – Paradisiacal Mind (Feeding Tube)
• DJ Female Convict Scorpion – Ishmagrad (Calar Music)
• Hawthonn – Red Goddess (Of This Men Shall Know Nothing) (Ba Da Bing)
• Zoe Keating – Snowmelt (s/r)
• Low – Double Negative (Sub Pop)
• Drew McDowall – The Third Helix (Dais)
• Roy Montgomery – Suffuse (Grapefruit)
• Jessica Moss – Entanglement (Constellation)
• Marissa Nadler – For My Crimes (Sacred Bones)
• Nordic Affect – H e (a) r (Sono Luminus)
• People Like Us – The Mirror (Cutting Hedge)
• Sangre De Muerdago – Noite (Musica Maxica)
• Matthew Swiezynski – The One Who Modifies Time And Light (Invisible Birds)
• Emily Jane White / House of Wolves – split ep (Discolexique)
• Zu93 – Mirror Emperor (House Of Mythology)

• A Place To Bury Strangers – “Never Coming Back” – Pinned (Dead Oceans)
• Blood Orange – “Charcoal Baby” – Negro Swan (Domino)
• Boy Harsher – “Motion” – Country Girl (Nude Club)
• Cardi B, Bad Bunny, J Balvin – “I Like It” – Invasion of Privacy (Atlantic)
• Choir Boy – “Dark Room” – Passive With Desire (Dais)
• Empress Of – “When I’m With Him” – Us (Terrible)
• Exploded View – “Gone Tomorrow” – Obey (Sacred Bones)
• Frankie Cosmos – “Apathy” – Vessel (Sub Pop)
• The Goon Sax – “Make Time 4 Love” – We’re Not Talking (Wichita)
• Kontravoid – “The Last Thing” – Undone (Fleisch)
• La Luz – “The Creature” – Floating Features (Hardly Art)
• Lala Lala – “Dove” – The Lamb (Hardly Art)
• Marie Davidson – “Work It” – Working Class Woman (Ninja Tune)
• Mary Lattimore – “On the Day You Saw the Dead Whale” – Hundreds of Days (Ghostly)
• Mitski – “Two Slow Dancers” – Be the Cowboy (Dead Oceans)
• Moaning – “Don’t Go” – (S/T) (Sub Pop)
• Patrick Cowley – “One Hot Afternoon” – Afternooners (Dark Entries)
• Robyn – “Missing U” – Honey (Konichiwa)
• SRSQ – “Procession” – Unreality (Dais)
• U.S. Girls – “M.A.H.” – In A Poem Unlimited (4AD)

Favorite releases

• Jessica Moss – Entanglement (Constellation)
• Leila Abdul Rauf – Diminution (Malignant)
• Sarah Davachi – Gave In Rest (Ba Da Bing)
• Andrew Bernstein – An Exploded View of Time (Hausu Mountain)
• Jenny Olivia Johnson – Sylvia Songs (Innova)
• Mary Lattimore – Hundreds of Days (Ghostly International)
• Meg Baird & Mary Lattimore – Ghost Forest (Three Lobed)
• Dire Wolves – Paradisiacal Minds (Feeding Tube)
• Grouper – Grid of Points (Kranky)
• Hawthonn – Red Goddess (of this men shall know nothing) (Ba Da Bing)

Best live music experience 

• Drew McDowall of Coil – Time Machines (reissued in 2017 on Dais) – at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts

• Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet – Landfall (Nonesuch)
• Michael Beharie & Teddy Rankin-Parker –  A Heart From Your Shadow (Mondoj)
• Bets – Future Color (S/R)
• Black Milk –  Fever (Mass Appeal)
• V/A – Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Season 3 Soundtrack (WaterTower)
• Don the Tiger –  Matanzas (Crammed Discs)
• Liran Donin’s 1000 Boats – 8 Songs (Cavalo)
• Dos Santos – Logos (International Anthem)
• Escape-ism –  The Lost Record  (Merge)
• Exploded View –  Obey (Sacred Bones)
• Gajah & Mute Speaker –  Vent (The Order Label)
• Yonatan Gat –  Universalists (Joyful Noise)
• Grupo Mono Blanco – ¡Fandango! (Smithsonian Folkways)
• Hookworms – Microshift (Domino)
• Insólito Universo – La Candela del Río (Olinda)
• Jupiter & Okwess – Kin Sonic (Zamora)
• Les Poules À Colin – Morose (FamGroup)
• Loma –  Loma (Sub Pop)
• Lonesome Leash – Delicate Art (Cruisin’)
• Lumerians –  Call of the Void (Fuzz Club)
• Miolina – Miolina (Composers Concordance)
• Motoko and Myers –  Basis Key (Open Hand Real Flames)
• Motrik – Safety Copy (Jealous Butcher)
• New Music Detroit –  Smoke: Music of Marc Mellits  (Innova)
• Noname – Room 25 (S/R)
• Oracle Hysterical – Hecuba (National Sawdust Tracks)
• Onry Ozzborn –  Nervous Hvnd (Ted)
• Nirmala Rajasekar – Maithree (Innova)
• Rio Mira –  Marimba Del Pacifico  (Aya)
• Roller Trio– New Devices (Edition)
• Ruby Karinto –  Ruby Karinto (Hozac)
• Alejandro Rutty – Exhaling Space (Navona)
• Saba – Care for Me (Saba Pivot, LLC)
• Sextile – 3 (Felte)
• Sons Of Kemet – Your Queen Is A Reptile (Impulse!)
• Paolo Spaccamonti and Jochen Arbeit – CLN (Boring Machines)
• Staves and YMusic – The Way is Read (Nonesuch)
• Tangent – Approaching Complexity (n5MD)
• Tune-Yards –  I Can Feel You Creep into My Private Life (4AD)
• Third Coast Percussion – Paddle to the Sea (Cedille)