I am, as I write this, finishing my top 100 albums for 2018. It was a record year for me as I listened to 324 new albums! It remains to be determined which of these will make the final cut, but just to tease my top 100, here is the complete list of albums I listened to in 2018:
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The 1975, A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
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Lindi Ortega, Liberty
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Aaron Lee Tasjan, Karma For Cheap
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littlebabyangel, Gada
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The Aces, When My Heart Felt Volcanic
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Liz Cooper & The Stampede, Window Flowers
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Adam Hood, Somewhere in Between
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Logan Richardson, Blues People
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Albert Hammond, Jr., Francis Trouble
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Lord Huron, Vide Noir
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Alice Bag, Blueprint
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Loretta Lynn, Wouldn’t It Be Great
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Alice in Chains, Rainier Fog
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Lori McKenna, The Tree
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Amanda Shires, To The Sunset
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The Love Language, Baby Grand
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Amen Dunes, Freedom
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The Low Anthem, The Salt Doll Went To Measure The Depth Of The Sea
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American Pleasure Club, A Whole Fucking Lifetime of This
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Low Cut Connie, Dirty Pictures (Part 2)
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Amos Lee, My New Moon
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Low, Double Negative
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Anderson East, Encore
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Lucero, Among the Ghosts
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Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, Upside Down Flowers
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Lucie Silvas, E.G.O.
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Andrew W.K., You’re Not Alone
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Lucius, NUDES
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Angelique Kidjo, Remain in Light
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Lucy Dacas, Historian
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Animal Collective, Tangerine Reef
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Luluc, Sculptor
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Anna & Elizabeth, The Invisible Comes to Us
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Lump, self-titled
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Anna Calvi, Hunter
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Lykke LI, so sad so sexy
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Anna St. Louis, If Only There Was a River
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Maps & Atlases, Lightnessness Is Nothing New
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Anna von Hausswolff, Dead Magic
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Maribou State, Kingdoms in Colour
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Arctic Monkeys, Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
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Marissa Nadler, For My Crimes
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Arkells, Rally Cry
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Mary Gauthier, Rifles and Rosary Beads
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Arthur Buck, self-titled
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Mary Lattimore, Hundreds of Days
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Ashley Monroe, Sparrow
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Matthew “Doc” Dunn, Lightbourn
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Asleep at the Wheel, New Routes
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Meg Myers, Take Me to the Disco
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AURORA, Infections of a Different Kind (Step 1)
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Melody’s Echo Chamber, Bon Voyage
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Azusa, Heavy Yoke
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The Messthetics, self-titled
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Balún, Prisma Tropical
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Metric, Art of Doubt
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Basement, Beside Myself
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MGMT, Little Dark Age
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Beach House, 7
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Milk Carton Kids, All the Things That I Did and All the Things That I Didn’t Do
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Becky Warren, Undesirable
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Mimicking Birds, Layers of Us
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Belly, Dove
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Mitski, Be the Cowboy
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Ben Howard, Noonday Dream
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Miya Folick, Premonitions
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Benin City, Last Night
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Moby, Everything Was Beautiful, and Nothing Hurt
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The Beths, Future Me Hates Me
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Molly Burch, First Flower
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Big Red Machine, self-titled
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Molly Nilsson, Twenty Twenty
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Black Belt Eagle Scout, Mother of My Children
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Mount Eerie, Now Only
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Black Honey, self-titled
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Mountain Man, Magic Ship
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Wrong Creatures
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Mr. Fingers, Cerebral Hemispheres
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Blood Orange, Negro Swan
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Mt. Joy, self-titled
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Bombino, Deran
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Mumford & Sons, Delta
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Boston Manor, Welcome to the Neighborhood
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Nap Eyes, I’m Bad Now
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Brandi Carlile, By The Way, I Forgive You
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Natalie Prass, The Future And The Past
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The Breeders, All Nerve
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Nathaniel Ratelife and the Night Sweats, Tearing at the Seams
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Brent Cobb, Providence Canyon
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The Neighborhood, self-titled
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Brett Naucker, The Mansion
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Neko Case, Hell On
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Caitlin Canty, Motel Bouquet
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Niklas Paschburg, Oceanic
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Calexico, The Thread That Keeps Us
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Nine Inch Nails, Bad Witch
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Camila Camelot, Camila
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No Age, Snares Like a Haircut
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Camp Cope, How to Socialise & Make Friends
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Nothing, Dance On The Blacktop
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Candi Staton, Unstoppable
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Now, Now, Saved
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Car Seat Headrest, Twin Fantasy
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Odetta Hartman, Old Rockhounds Never Die
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Caroline Rose, LONER
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of Montreal, White Is Relic/Irrealis Mood
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Caroline Says, No Fool Like an Old Fool
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Oh Pep!, I Wasn’t Only Thinking of You
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Cat Power, Wanderer
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Ohmme, Parts
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Cavern of Anti-Matter, Hormone Lemonade
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Okkervil River, In the Rainbow Rain
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Christine and the Queens, Chris
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Old Crow Medicine Show, Volunteer
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Chvrches, Love Is Dead
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Oneida, Romance
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Cloud Nothings, Last Buildings Burning
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Oneohtrix Point Never, Age Of
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Colter Wall, Songs of the Plains
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The Ophelias, Almost
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Connor Youngblood, Cheyenne
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Ought, Room Inside the World
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Courtney Barnett, Tell Me How You Really Feel
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Palberta, Roach Goin’ Down
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Courtney Marie Andrews, May Your Kindness Remain
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Panic! At the Disco, Pray For the Wicked
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CowboyJunkies, All That Reckoning
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Parcels, self-titled
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Cullen Omori, The Diet
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Parker Millsap, Other Arrangements
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Cursive, Vitriola
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Parliament, Medicaid Fraud Dogg
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Damien Jurado, The Horizon Just Laughed
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Parquet Courts, Wide Awake
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Daniel Bachman, The Morning Star
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Passenger, Runaway
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Darlingside, Extra Life
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Paul McCartney, Egypt Station
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Dashboard Confessional, Crooked Shadows
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Paul Simon, In the Blue Light
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Dave Matthews Band, Come Tomorrow
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A Perfect Circle, Eat the Elephant
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David Byrne, American Utopia
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Peter, Bjorn & John, Darker Days
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Dawes, Passwords
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Phony Ppl, mō’zā-ik.
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Dear Nora, Skulls Example
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Pinegrove, Skylight
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Death Cab For Cutie, Thank You For Today
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Pistol Annies, Interstate Gospel
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The Decemberists, I’ll Be Your Girl
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Polica/stargaze, Music For the Long Emergency
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Dilly Dally, Heaven
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Preoccupations, New Material
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Dirty Projectors, Lamp Lit Prose
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Priscilla Renea, Coloured
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Django Django, Marble Skies
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Punch Brothers, All Ashore
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Eleanor Friedberger, Rebound
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Rainbow Kitten Surprise, How To: Friend, Love, Freefall
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Elvis Costello and the Imposters, Look Now
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Ray LaMontagne, Part of the Light
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Eric Church, Desperate Man
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Rayland Baxter, Wide Awake
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Erin Rae, Putting on Airs
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The Record Company, All of This Life
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Exitmusic, The Recognitions
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Rhye, Blood
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Fall Out Boy, MANIA
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Richard Reed Parry, Quiet River of Dust Pt. 1
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Fantastic Negrito, Please Don’t Be Dead
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Richard Swift, The Hex
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Father John Misty, God’s Favorite Customer
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Richard Thompson, 13 Rivers
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Fatoumata Diawara, Fenfo (Something to Say)
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River Whyless, Kindness, A Rebel
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First Aid Kit, Ruins
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Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Hope Downs
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Fischerspooner, Sir
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Roseanne Cash, She Remembers Everything
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Flasher, Constant Image
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Roy Montgomery, Suffuse
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Florence + the Machine, High As Hope
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Rubblebucket, Sun Machine
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Fortunate Ones, Hold Fast
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Ruler, Winning Star Champion
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Franz Ferdinand, Always Ascending
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Ry Cooder, Prodigal Son
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Free Cake for Every Creature, The Bluest Star
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Ryan Culwell, The Last American
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Gas, Rausch
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Saintseneca, Pillar Of Na
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Gaz Coombes, World’s Strongest Man
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Santigold, I Don’t Want: The Gold Fire Sessions
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Gazelle Twin, Pastoral
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Sarah Louise, Deeper Woods
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The Glands, Double Coda
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Sarah Shook and the Disarmers, Years
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Glen Hansard, Between Two Shores
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The Shacks, Haze
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The Go! Team, SEMICIRCLE
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Shakey Graves, Can’t Wake Up
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The Goon Sax, We’re Not Talking
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Shame, Songs of Praise
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Gorillaz, The Now Now
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Shemekia Copeland, America’s Child
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Great Lake Swimmers, The Waves, The Wake
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Snail Mail, Lush
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Gregory Alan Isakov, Evening Machines
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Soccer Mommy, Clean
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Greta Van Fleet, Anthem of the Peaceful Army
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Son Lux, Brighter Wounds
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Gulfer, Dog Bless
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Son Volt, The Search
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GUM, The Underdog
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SOPHIE, OIL OF EVERY PEARL’S UN-INSIDES
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Gwenifer Raymond, You Never Were Much of a Dancer
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Speedy Ortiz, ‘Twerp Verse
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Haley Heynderickx, I Need to Start a Garden
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Spider Bags, Someday Everything Will Be Fine
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Half Waif, Lavender
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Spiritualized, And Nothing Hurt
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Hanson, String Theory
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St. Lucia, Hyperion
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Hayley Kiyoko, Expectations
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St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Young Sick Camellia
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Hinds, I Don’t Run
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Stephem Malkmus and the Jicks, Sparkle Hard
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Hippo Campus, Bambi
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Steve Moakler, Born Ready
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Hiss Golden Messenger, Virgo Fool
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The Suffers, Everything Here
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Holly Miranda, Mutual Horse
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Sunflower Bean, Twentytwo in Blue
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Hookworms, Microshift
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Sunwatchers, II
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Hop Along, Bark Your Head Off, Dog
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Superchunk, What a Time To Be Alive
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Hot Snakes, Jericho Sirens
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Superorganism, self-titled
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Houndmouth, Golden Age
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Swamp Dogg, Love, Loss, And Auto-Tune
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I’m With Her, See You Around
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Swearin’, Fall Into The Sun
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Iceage, Beyondless
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Tal National, Tantabara
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IDLES, Joy as an Act of Resistance
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Tall Heights, Pretty Colors For Your Actions
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Inara George, Dearest Everybody
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Tash Sultana, Flow State
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The Internet, Hive Mind
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This Wild Life, Petaluma
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Interpol, Marauder
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Tim Hecker, Konoyo
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It Looks Sad., Sky Lake
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Tirzah, Devotion
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Jack White, Boarding House Reach
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Titus Andronicus, A Productive Cough
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Jake Shears, self-titled
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Tom Misch, Geography
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Jason Eady, I Travel On
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Tom Morello, The Atlas Underground
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Jeff Rosenstock, POST-
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Tom Odell, Jubilee Road
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Jeff Tweedy, Warm
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Tomberlin, At Weddings
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Jess Sah Bi/Peter One, Our Garden Needs Its Flowers
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Tracey Thorn, Record
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Jim James, Uniform Clarity
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Trampled by Turtles, Life Is Good on the Open Road
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Jim Lauderdale, Time Flies
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Trevor Powers, Mulberry Violence
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Joe Bonamassa, Redemption
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Tunde Olaniran, Stranger
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John Prine, The Tree of Forgiveness
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tune-yards, I can feel you creep into private life
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Johnny Marr, Call the Comet
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Turnstile, Time & Space
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Jonathan Wilson, Rare Birds
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Ty Segall and White Fence, Joy
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Joshua Hedley, Mr. Jukebox
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Ty Segall, Freedom’s Goblin
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Julia Holter, Aviary
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Typhoon, Offerings
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Julian Lage, Modern Lore
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U.S. Girls, In a Poem Unlimted
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Jungle, Forever
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Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Sex & Food
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Justin Timberlake, Man of the Woods
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The Vaccines, Combat Sports
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Kacey Musgraves, Golden Hour
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Virginia Wing, Ecstatic Arrow
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Kadhja Bonet, Childqueen
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Wajatta, Casual High Technology
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Kaia Kater, Grenades
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The War And Treaty, Healing Tide
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Khruangbin, Con Todo El Mundo
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War on Women, Capture the Flag
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Kurt Vile, Bottle It In
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Wax Chattels, self-titled
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Kyle Craft, Full Circle Nightmare
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Welles, Red Trees and White Trashes
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L.A. Salami, The City Of Bootmakers
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Welshly Arms, No Place Is Home
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Lake Street Dive, Free Up Yourself
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Wild Nothing, Indigo
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Laura Gibson, Goners
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Wild Pink, Yolk in the Fur
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Laura Jane Grace, Bought to Rot
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Willie Nelson, Last Man Standing
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Laura Veirs, The Lookout
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Wye Oak, The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs
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The Lemon Twigs, Go to School
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Yo La Tengo, There’s a Riot Going On
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Lenny Kravitz, Raise Vibration
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Young Fathers, Cocoa Sugar
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Leon Bridges, Good Thing
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Young the Giant, Mirror Master
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Lera Lynn, Plays Well With Others
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Yowler, Black Dog in My Path
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Let’s Eat Grandman, I’m All Ears
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Yves Tumor, Safe in the Hands of Love
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Lily Allen, No Shame
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Zaki Ibriham, The Secret Life of Planets
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