From the archives: Favourites of 2018 (part 1)

We're off for a couple of weeks, so we're delving into our
archives for you. This week we've got this cracker of a
favourites compilation from 2018.


Even though we sit here having played music from 390 releases
this year, we feel a bit uneasy producing a ‘best of’ 2018 when
there’s still so much great music we haven’t heard.


But from what we have heard there are so many highlights to cram
into three shows of favourites. This first one gets us going with
the blistering track from Sophie’s phenomenal Oil of Every
Pearl’s Uninsides LP on Transgressive. Across the first ten
tracks we take in a third play from the 700 Bliss cassette, Anna
von Hausswolff’s sublime LP, middle eastern techno, Kenya
glitches, a track from a ballet and a lot more.


More great highlights coming next week… just don’t call it a best
of.


Tracklisting
Sophie – Ponyboy (Transgressive Records, UK)
700 Bliss – Cosmic Slop (Halcyon Veil, USA / Don Giovanni
Records, USA)
Colin Stetson – Fallout (Anacapamusic, USA)
Jlin – The Abyss of Doubt (Planet Mu, UK)
Anna von Hausswolff – The Mysterious Vanishing of Electra (City
Slang, Germany)
Ko Shin Moon & Simple Symmetry – Halay (Cornelius Doctor
Lonley Mix) (Hard Fist, France)
Lucrecia Dalt – Tar (RVNG Intl, USA)
Slikback – Bantu Zen (Hakuna Kulala, Uganda)
Gazelle Twin – Better in My Day (Anti-Ghost Moon Ray, UK)
WaqWaq Kingdom – Ceremony of Vision (Jahtari, Germany)