MeggaMusic : Best albums of 2018
In alphabetical order, not in order of preference.
- 01-N - Southeast Asian Window (Bass Star)
- 36 - Circuit Bloom (3six Recordings)
- 42DE - Fall of the Moon (Fluttery Records)
- 93MillionMilesFromTheSun - Echo Delay Fuzz Reverb (White Light)
- Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Electric Dream Ecstasy (Essence Music)
- Adham Shaikh - Blossom Vol 1 (Sonic Turtle)
- Advanced Suite - Suite Dreams (Astropilot Music)
- AeTopus - Totem Totum (12Ton Productions)
- AirSculpture - Travelling Light (Bandcamp)
- Aksemetrix - Aqua Perception (Astropilot Music)
- Ai Messiah - Sentience & Sapience (Touch Sensitive)
- Aleks Michalski - Existence (Bandcamp)
- Alex Haas & Bill Laswell - Nowstalgia (Sonicontinuum)
- All India Radio - Space / Subspace
- Alluste - Alien Worlds (Neu Harmony)
- Alpha Wave Movement - Tranquility Space (Harmonic Resonance)
- Amman / Josh - Places (Dynamophone)
- Ancient Core - Guideline (Melusine)
- Andrew Forrest - Freefall (Bandcamp)
- Andrew Heath - Evenfall (Disco Gecko)
- Animat - The Last Man (Disco Gecko)
- Another Channel - (Dub) Excursion(s) (Moonshine)
- A Place To Bury Strangers - Pinned: Brainwashing Machine Edition (Dead Oceans)
- Argus - Field of Dreams (Altar)
- Ashen Simian - Shambhala (Nemesis / Bandcamp)
- Astrovia & Derek Nigell - World of Specular Loomings (USC)
- Atmoswaves - Distant Horizons (Mindspring)
- Aukai - Branches of Sun (Bandcamp)
- Autumn Of Communion - Resevoir Of Video Souls (Fantasy Enhancing)
- Au Voyage - Croasa (TXT Recordings)
- Aythar - ElectrOcean (Bandcamp)
- B. Fleischmann - Stop Making Fans (Morr Music)
- Baïkonour - Everybody Knows This Is Hardware (Embassy Recordings / Bandcamp)
- Bansara - Bansara (Mindspring)
- Bardo Pond - Volume 8 (Fire Records)
- Bassline Drift - Give + Take (Gravitas)
- Beach House - 7 (Sub Pop)
- Beak> - >>> (Invada / Temporary Residence Ltd)
- Beatfarmer - Elemental (Bandcamp)
- Beatfarmer - In Stillness (Bandcamp)
- Beautify Junkyards - The Invisible World of Beautify Junkyards (Ghost Box)
- Ben I Sabbah - Tears of a Green Planet: Psychedelic Molam Punk in Dub (Bandcamp)
- Ben McElroy - The Word Cricket Made Her Happy (Eilean)
- Biome - The Shores of Temenos (Harmonic Resonance)
- Bioscape - Imagine Alchemy (Bandcamp)
- Birds Of Passage (Alicia Merz) - The Death Of Our Invention (Denovali)
- Bluetech - Liquid Geometries (DiN)
- Bonnacons of Doom - Bonnacons of Doom (Rocket Recordings)
- Boss Keloid - Melted On The Inch (Holy Roar)
- boygenius (Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers & Lucy Dacus) - boygenius EP (Matador)
- Brocker Way - Wild Wild Country (OST)
- Broekhuis, Keller & Schönwälder feat. Raughi Ebert & Thomas Kagermann - Repelen Revisited (Manikin)
- Bruit ≤ - Monolith (Elusive Sound / Bandcamp)
- bvdub | Brock Van Wey - A Different Definition of Love (Bandcamp)
- bvdub | Brock Van Wey - Drowning in Daylight (Bandcamp)
- bvdub | Brock Van Wey - Nights of Nine Vigils (Bandcamp)
- Byron Metcalf & Jennifer Grais - They Were Here (Dr. BAM's Music)
- Byron Metcalf (feat. Erik Wøllo & Peter Phippen) - Inner Rhythm Meditations Vol II
- C. Diab - Exit Rumination (Injazero)
- Cash - The Sounds My Heart Makes EP (Ambient Musical Genre)
- Casimir Corona - An Occurrence In The Inverse Universe (Kahvi Collective)
- Chatham Rise - Meadowsweet (Picture In My Ear)
- Chris Weeks - Journey to Mars (Odd John Records)
- Chronotope Project - Lotus Rising (Spotted Peccary)
- Church Of Hed - Sandstoned / 2AM At Crownhill Cemetery (Eternity's Jest)
- Circa Survive - The Amulet (Hopeless)
- Circulus - Birth (Mythical Cake / Bandcamp)
- Circulus - Gate 47 (Mythical Cake / Bandcamp)
- CloZee - Evasion (Gravitas)
- CMD094 - Kagami Tears (No Problema Tapes)
- Cosmic Ground - Cosmic Ground IV (Studio Fleisch)
- Cosmic Ground - Relics Vol. 1-3 (Studio Fleisch)
- Cousin Silas - Midnight Beats (Studio 4632)
- Cousin Silas - Short Stories Vols. 1 & 2 (Studio 4632)
- Cousin Silas - Sky Watching (Hortus Conclusus)
- Cousin Silas - The Mechanics of Solitude (Studio 4632)
- Cousin Silas & The Glove of Bones - Spirits of Afrodubism (Submarine Broadcasting Company)
- Cousin Silas & Various - The Emporium Project 1 & 2 (WeAreAllGhosts)
- Dan Caine - Journey Through an Open Mind EP (Fluttery)
- Dan Romer - Far Cry 5: Game Soundtrack (Ubisoft)
- Daniel Pemberton - One Strange Rock (Original Series ST) (Lakeshore)
- David Crosby, Becca Stevens, Michelle Willis, Michael League - Here If You Listen (BMG)
- David Parsons - Atmanaut (Celestial Harmonies)
- David Wright - Stranger Days (AD Music)
- Dead Can Dance - Dionysus (PIAS)
- Dead Meadow - The Nothing They Need (Xemu)
- Dead Otter - Bridge Of Weird (Riot Season)
- Deep Space Destructors - Visions From The Void (Space Rock Productions)
- Deer Park Ranger - Bottom of the Ocean (Fluttery Records)
- Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society - Wow and Flutter (Six Degrees)
- Dense - Impact (Cosmicleaf)
- Derek Nigell - Tender Twilight of Past Years (USC)
- Desert Mountain Tribe - Om Parvat Mystery (Metropolis)
- DF Tram - Serenitay Infinitay (Liquid Sound Design)
- Dhafer Youssef - Sounds Of Mirrors (Anteprima)
- Dilemma - Random Acts of Liberation (Butler)
- Dimmat - Emotions (Mindspring)
- Dinosaur - Wonder Trail (Edition)
- Dream Machine - Temple of Dreams (Bandcamp)
- Dream Twice - Enta (Astropilot Music)
- Dreams Beat - [45E072-2018] Dreams Beat (45 Echoes Sounds)
- Dreamstate Logic - Era4 (Bandcamp)
- Dungen & Woods - Myths 003 (Mexican Summer)
- Dynamo Snackbar - A Myriad of Catalysts (Submarine Broadcasting Company)
- Earth Child - Fragile (Nutek Chill)
- Eartheater - IRISIRI (PAN)
- Earthling Society - Lost Transmission (Bandcamp)
- Earthling Society - MO The Demon (Riot Season)
- Eguana - Stardust (Cosmicleaf)
- Eguana - Invisible Civilization Vol. 2 (Cosmicleaf)
- ElectrowaveZ - Elemental (Merkaba)
- Eliza Shaddad - Future (Beatnik Creative)
- Elkin Sergey - Rays (Plexus)
- Entheogenic - Kykeon (Universal Symbiosis)
- Ephilexia - Hope Is Our God (Black Hill / Bandcamp)
- Eric Electric - Big Love Theory (Bass Star)
- Erik Wøllo - Threshold Point (Projekt)
- Eternell - Beneath an Endless Sky (Stereoscenic)
- Eternell - Elysia (Eternell)
- EugeneKha & West Remi - [45E077-2018] The Third Stage (INKHE-3) (45 Echoes Sounds)
- Failure - In The Future Your Body Will Be The Furthest Thing From Your Mind (Failure)
- Fallen - ást (Time Released Sound)
- Farflung - This Capsule (Nois-O-Lution)
- Fenne Lily - On Hold (INgrooves / Bandcamp)
- Fils des Étoiles - 0 to Infinite (Bandcamp)
- Fischerspooner - Sir (Ultra)
- Flying Moon In Space - Live On Earth (Tortellini)
- Forrest Fang - Scenes From A Ghost Train (Projekt)
- From the Mouth of the Sun - Sleep Stations (Lost Tribe Sound)
- Ghost Island - Assimilation (Fluttery Records)
- Globular - Entangled Everything (Entangled Records)
- Gnod - Chapel Perilous (Rocket Recordings)
- Goat Girl - Goat Girl (Rough Trade)
- God Is An Astronaut - Epitaph (Napalm Records)
- Goldmund - Occasus (Western Vinyl)
- gracerooms - Surfin the Scratchness (Gracerooms / Bandcamp)
- Grouper - Grid Of Points (Kranky)
- Guy Sweens - Dawn Goddess (MG Music)
- Haley Heynderickx - I Need To Start A Garden (Mama Bird)
- Halocraft - Chains For The Sea (Bandcamp / Space Between Us)
- Hammock - Far Cry 5: We Will Rise Again (Game Soundtrack)
- Hammock - Universalis (Hammock Music)
- Hawklords - Brave New World (Hawklords)
- Heinali - Iridescent (Injazero)
- Helios - Veriditas (Unseen Records)
- Holly Miranda - Mutual Horse (Dangerbird)
- Hotel Neon - Means of Knowing (Archives, Spain)
- Hypnotizer - Bholenath (Nutek Chill)
- Ian Boddy & Erik Wøllo - Meridian (DiN)
- Ian Hawgood - 光 (Home Normal)
- Immersion - Sleepless (Swim)
- In The Branches + Bluetech - Behind The Sky (Bandcamp)
- In The Labyrinth - Samas Antaral (Transubstans)
- Indigo De Souza - I Love My Mom (Saddle Creek)
- In'R'Voice - Infinite Sunset (Cosmsicleaf)
- IN SAÏ - IN SAÏ (Desert Trax)
- IO Earth - Solitude (IO Earth)
- Ivar Bjørnson & Einar Selvik - Hugsjá (By Norse Music)
- Jack Hertz - Blue Dunes (Aural Films)
- Javi Cánovas - Dead End
- Jay Tausig - Waking Dreams (Bandcamp)
- jdoblom - The Wild Fields (Plexus)
- Jedidiah - Chill Vibes (Infinity-Tunes)
- Jeff Greinke - Before Sunrise (Spotted Peccary)
- Jim Guthrie - Below (Original Soundtrack)
- Joel Olivé - Door To The Archaic (Byron Metcalf Music)
- Johan Tronestam - Midgard (Syngate)
- Justice - Woman Worldwide (Because / Ed Banger)
- Kalpataru Tree - Rhythmic Fractals of Earth's Imagination
- Kano - Mantrum (Visionary Shamanics)
- Kaya Project - Up From The Dust / The Dust Remixes
- Ken Martin - The Cosmic Enigma / Shadow Light / Orgel Traum / Distant Echoes (4 x albums / Bandcamp)
- Ken Martin - Midnight in Berlin / Collage / Music From The Kosmos / Tangents (4 x albums / Bandcamp)
- Ken Martin & Tom Hawkins - Sands of Time (Bandcamp / SynthMusicDirect)
- Key-G - Curled Up Dimensions (Desert Trax)
- Khamsa Khala - Room With No Walls (Carpe Sonum)
- Kikagaku Moyo - Masana Temples (Guruguru Brain)
- Kin Leonn - Commune (Kitchen.Label)
- Kosmischer Läufer - The Secret Cosmic Music Of The East German Olympic Program: Vol. 4 (Unknown Capability)
- Kristin Hersh - Possible Dust Clouds (Fire Records)
- Klaus Schulze - Silhouettes (Oblivion)
- Kuba - Animalia (Liquid Sound Design)
- Kyoto - Destiny Child (Astropliot Music)
- Lake Mary - Koda (Eilean Records)
- Lala Lala - The Lamb (Hardly Art)
- Landing - Bells In New Towns (El Paraiso)
- Laura Veirs - The Lookout (Bella Union / Raven Marching Band)
- Lay llamas - Thuban (Rocket Recordings)
- Lena Raine - Celeste: Original Soundtrack (Radical Dreamland)
- Living Light - The Great Attractor (Desert Trax)
- Loma - Loma (Sub Pop)
- Low - Double Negative (Sub Pop)
- LTO - Déjà Rêvé (Denovali)
- Lucy Dacus - Historian (Matador)
- Ludo Ji - Organic Nasha 2 (Iboga)
- Lumerians - Call of the Void (Fuzz Club)
- Lunar Vacation - The Lunar Vacation EPs: Swell / Artificial Flavors / Anna (Human Sounds)
- Mac of BIOnighT - FÖRA (Classic EM 34)
- Madhavi Devi - The Truth Of Being (Spotted Peccary)
- Magic Wands - Abrakadabra (Etxe Records)
- Manipulant - The Stars Are Good... What? (Submarine Broadcasting Co.)
- Marcus Denight - Legends of the Imminent Winter (USC)
- Mark Peters - Innerland (Large Scale Version)
- Martin Neuhold & Friends - Dialogue 2 & 3 (Bandcamp)
- Massimo Vivona - Breathe (Carpe Sonum)
- Master Margherita - Border 50 (Ultimae)
- Melody Fields - Melody Fields (K2)
- Melody's Echo Chamber - Bon Voyage (Fat Possum)
- Menhir - Sound Track (Submarine Broadcasting Company)
- Menzman & Friends - Insights (Manikin)
- Mésange - Gypsy Moth (God Unknown)
- Michael Brückner - Deep Space Explorations (Bandcamp)
- Mick Chillage - Between the Endless Silence (Carpe Sonum)
- Mitski - Be The Cowboy (Dead Oceans)
- Mixtaped Monk - Headphone Heaven (Studio 4632)
- Mogwai - KIN (Temporary Residence)
- Mostly Autumn - White Rainbow (Mostly Autumn Records)
- Musicformessier & Whitecube - Protoplanet
- Mystic Crock & Fourth Dimension - Sierra (iM Electronica)
- Mystical Sun - Overview Effect (Buddhaverse)
- Neuroticfish - Antidoron (Non Ordinary)
- Nightcrawlers - The Biophonic Boombox Recordings (Anthology)
- Nils Frahm - All Melody (Erased Tapes)
- Node - Node Live (DiN DDL)
- NoizeFilter Music - Fragments (Kahvi Collective)
- Nosound - Allow Yourself (Kscope)
- Numina - The Chroma Plateau (Spotted Peccary)
- Oak - False Memory Archive (Karisma)
- Obsqure - Tabula Rasa (Cosmicleaf)
- Ocoeur - Inner (n5MD)
- Off Land - Quiet Earth (Bandcamp)
- Oh Hiroshima - Resistance is Futile (Fluttery Records)
- Ólafur Arnalds - Re:member (Mercury)
- Omnia - Reflexions (Pagan Scum)
- Oneida - Romance (Joyful Noise)
- Orbital - Monsters Exist (ACP)
- Origami Girl - Too Cute to Die Too (No Problema Tapes)
- Panda On The Bamboo Tree - Slumber (Mindspring)
- Paulina Cassidy - Drawing Up a Storm (Projekt)
- Pedra Branca - Religare (Merkaba)
- Phil Thornton - Light of the Forest Moon (New World Music)
- Poppy Ackroyd - Resolve (One Little Indian)
- Pram - Across The Meridian (Domino)
- Psychoz - Arabic Jukebox (Visionary Shamanics)
- Quarkspace - All These Suns (Eternity's Jest)
- Radical Face - Missing Film (Bear Machine)
- Rancho Relaxo - Soft Luxury (Trout As Lubrication)
- Randolf Scand remixed by Derek Nigell - The Longest Stories Vol. I (USC)
- Remote Vision - Into Light (Exosphere)
- Rigel Centaurus - Колония. Часть первая = The Colony. Part One (USC)
- Rising Galaxy - Theater of Absence (Cosmicleaf)
- Riverside - Wasteland (InsideOut Music)
- Ron Boots - Once The Dust Settles (Groove Unlimited)
- Rukirek - Voices Of Unknown (Mystic Sound)
- Saadji - Krysalid (Original Dub Gathering)
- Sairen - Neige Nuit (Fluttery)
- Sangam - Soulless Other (No Problema Tapes)
- Sarathy Korwar and Upaj Collective - My East Is Your West (Gearbox)
- Sasha Malkovich - Practical Levitation (Microcosmos Records)
- S. Carey - Hundred Acres (Jagjaguwar)
- Scion - Ascend (Nutek Chill)
- Sendelica - Cromlech Chronicles III (Fruits de Mer)
- Sensitive Chaos - Walking a Beautiful World (Bandcamp)
- Sergiu Salagean - Super Conscience Revelation (Studio 4632)
- Seven That Spells - The Death And Resurrection Of Krautrock: OMEGA (Sulatron)
- Sherpa - Tigris & Euphrates (Sulatron)
- Shunkan Idou - Perspective (Cosmicleaf)
- Six By Seven - EX (Vols 1 & 2) (Krautrock Album)
- Sixsense - Shanti (Bass Star Records)
- Sky Flying By - (Re) Routed (Fluttery)
- Skytechnic - Astral Insıgnias (Astropilot Music)
- Slak Magic - Nature Never Lies (Mutantra)
- Sleeping Pandora - From Above (Fluttery Records)
- Sly & Robbie meet Nils Petter Molvær feat. Eivind Aarset & Vladislav Delay - Nordub (Okeh)
- Sobrias Ebrietas - The Veil (Studio 4632)
- Soccer Mommy - Clean (Fat Possum)
- Solar Fields - Ourdom (Record Union)
- SPCZ - An Ethnostep Songbook (Subbass)
- Spiralmaze - Dunes Of Dorlmeus (Bandcamp)
- Spirit Of The Beehive - Hypnic Jerks (Tiny Engines)
- Spiritualized - And Nothing Hurt (Bella Union)
- State Azure - Modular Works 1 (Bandcamp)
- Stefano Guzzetti - Short Stories. Piano Book Volume Two (Home Normal)
- Steve Roach - Molecules of Motion (Timeroom Direct)
- Steve Roach - Return to the Dreamtime (Timeroom Editions)
- Still Corners - Slow Air (Wrecking Light Records)
- Subtales - Through The Aquatic Blossom Of Dreams (Armadillo)
- Sun Dial - Science Fiction (Sulatron)
- Superorganism - Superorganism (Domino)
- Suuns - Felt (Secretly Canadian)
- Sverre Knut Johansen with David Helpling - The Vast Expanse (Spotted Peccary)
- Swoop And Cross - Stories of Disintegration (Time Released Sound)
- Sylvain Carel - Talisman (AD Music)
- Syndromeda - Eternal Destination (SynGate)
- Szun Waves - New Hymn To Freedom (Leaf)
- Takkra - Divine Arhcitecture (Iboga Records)
- Talitha Rise - An Abandoned Orchid House (Coven Tree Records)
- Tangents - New Bodies (Temporary Residence Ltd.)
- Tangerine Dream - The Sessions Vol. II, III, IV & V (Eastgate / TD Music)
- Tasha - Alone at Last (Father/Daughter Records)
- Tatsava - The InterMIDIaries (Bandcamp)
- Tess Parks And Anton Newcombe - Tess Parks And Anton Newcombe (A Records)
- The Album Leaf - The Endless (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
- The Arms of Someone New - Love, Power & Justice (Projekt)
- The City Gates - Forever Orbiter (Northern Light)
- The Fernweh - The Fernweh (Skeleton Key)
- The Fratellis - In Your Own Sweet Time (Cooking Vinyl)
- The Gateless Gate - Germania+ (Bandcamp)
- The Intangible - Questions in the Wind (Album 10)
- The Myrrors - Borderlands (Beyond Beyond Is Beyond)
- The Oscillation - Wasted Space (Fuzz Club)
- The Rosen Corporation - Stargate Sequence // Outback (Area20.music)
- The Rubies - Sketch of Love (No Problema Tapes)
- The Soft Moon - Criminal (Sacred Bones)
- The Soviet Space Dog Project - First Orbit (Soundcloud / Bandcamp)
- The Spacious Mind - The Drifter (Trail)
- The Summer Kills - Last Night We Became Swans (Fluttery Records)
- The Vryll Society - Course Of The Satellite (Deltasonic)
- Thorsten Quaeschning - Cargo: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Invisible Hands)
- Treeboga - Gnawazonas (Merkaba)
- Twilight Circus Meets Edward Ka-Spel - 800 Saints In A Day (Tourette Records)
- Understated Theory - Tales From The Shadowlands (Sparkwood)
- Unusual Cosmic Process - Frames of Silence / Hidden Emotions (Astropilot Music)
- Various - Ambient Online Themed Compilation 01: The Moon (Ambient Online)
- Various - Anima Mundi (Visionary Shamanics)
- Various - ASIP: The Places Series (Collection) (A Strangely Isolated Place)
- Various - Astrosphere (Astropilot Music)
- Various - Bird of Prey (Space Baby)
- Various - Eilean 92 (Eilean Records)
- Various - Exhibition:Blue Volume 1 (Submarine Broadcasting Company)
- Various - Exhibition:Green Volume 1 (Submarine Broadcasting Company)
- Various - Grounds of the Undersound (Visionary Shamanics)
- Various - Hawk Moon Volume VII (Hawk Moon Records)
- Various - Heavy Dub Vol. 3 (Cold Tear)
- Various - In Love With The Moon: Klaus Schulze Birthday Tribute (Aural Films)
- Various - In Musicorum Sanitas (Carpe Sonum Records)
- Various - In the Blink of an Eye (Disco Gecko)
- Various - Klang (Submarine Broadcasting Company)
- Various - Maui Chill - Vol One (Sunset at the Kihei Cafe) (Waveform Rewcords)
- Various - Pop Ambient 2019 (Kompakt)
- Various - Sacred Bass Sessions Vol.1 (Visionary Shamanics)
- Various - Sacred Rhythms (Visionary Shamanics)
- Various - Shanti Nilaya (Visionary Shamanics)
- Various - Strange-Eyed Constellations 2 (Disco Gecko)
- Various - Studio 4632: Ambient Sampler 2018 (82 tracks) (Studio 4632)
- Various - Submission 02 (DiN DDL)
- Various - United Beats Of Downtempo (Blue Tunes Chillout)
- Various - Visionary Worlds 2 (Visionary Shamanics)
- Various - Zero Gravity (Interchill)
- Vibravoid - Vibrations From The Cosmic Void (Stoned Karma)
- Villagers - The Art Of Pretending To Swim (Domino)
- Vive la Void (Sanae Yamada) - Vive la Void (Sacred Bones Records)
- VOLA - Applause Of A Distant Crowd (Mascot)
- Vortex Mechanic - Questions to Eternity (USC)
- Warmth - Parallel (Archives, Spain)
- Woob - スリープ 研究 プログラム (Time Limited)
- Wooden Shjips - V. (Thrill Jockey)
- World's End Girlfriend - Last Waltz In Tokyo (Virgin Babylon, Japan)
- Wye Oak - The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs (Merge)
- Yaima - Antidote (Yaima / Bandcamp)
- Yarn - Undiscovered Places
- Yawning Man - The Revolt Against Tired Noises (Heavy Psych Sounds)
- Yellow6 - Loops, Notes and Sketches Volume 2 (Cathedral Transmissions)
- Zhalih - Inrushes (Eilean Records)
- Zoungla - Family (Bandcamp)
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