As the 2019 music starts flowing back into KDNK, DJ Cody Lee lists his favorite albums of 2018 not to be missed.
Electronica
1) Nightmares on Wax/Shape the Future/Warp
2) Chancha via Circuito/Bienaventuranza/Wonderwheel
3) Nickodemus/A Long Engagement/Wonderwheel
4) Marley Carroll/Flight Patterns/Loci
5) Dirtwire/Blaze/Dirtwire
6) Thievery Corporation//Treasures from the Temple/ESL
7) CloZee/Evasion/Bruit Rose
8) Uji/Alborada/ZZK
9) FKG/French Kiwi Juice/Roche Musique
10) DJ Spooky/Phantom Dancehall/VP
Funk-Soul-R&B
1) Khruangbin/Con Todo El Mundo/Dead Oceans
2) Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio/Close But No Cigar/Colemine
3) Brownout/Fear of a Brown Planet/Fat Beats
4) Leon Bridges/Good Thing/Columbia
5) Jr. Thomas & The Volcanoes/Rockstone/Colemine
6) Charles Bradley/Black Velvet/Dunham
7) The James Hunter Six/Whatever it Takes/Daptone
8) Adrian Quesada/Look at My Soul:The Latin Shade of Texas Soul
9) The Teskey Brothers/Half Mile Harvest/Glassnote
10) Elise Legrow/Playing Chess/Awesome
Hip-Hop
1) Grand Analog/Survival EP/Grand Analog
2) Gabriel Teodros/A Southend Healing Ritual/Gabriel Teodros
3) Sly5thAve/The Invisible Man: An Orchestral Tribute to Dr.Dre/Tru Thoughts
4) Council of Word/CO2 A Heavy Gas/Roundtable
5) Evidence/Weather or Not/Rhymesayers
6) Abhi the Nomad/Marbled/Tommy Boy
7) Saukrates/Season 2/Culvert
8) Masta Ace & Marco Polo/A Breuklen Story/Fat Beats
9) Del & Amp Live/Gate 13/Plug Research
10) Atmosphere/Mi Vida Local/Rhymesayers
Rock/Pop
1) Glorietta/Glorietta/Nine Mile
2) Elisapie/The Ballad of the Runaway/Bonsound
3) Buck Meek/Buck Meek/Keeled Scales
4) Caroline Rose/Loner/New West
5) Ty Segall/Freedom’s Goblin/Drag City
6) King Tuff/The Other/Sub Pop
7) Calexico/The Thread That Keeps Us/Calexico
8) The Babe Rainbow/Double Rainbow/30th Century
9) Goat Girl/Goat Girl/Rough Trade
10) Eels/The Deconstruction/E-Works
11) Mikaela Davis/Delivery/Rounder
12) Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians/Rocket/Verve
13) Bodega/Endless Scroll/Bodega
14) Chamanas/NEA II/Chamanas
15) Ron Gallo/Stardust Birthday Party/New West
16) La Luz/Floating Features/Hardly Art
17) Guantanamo Bay Surf Club/ Guantanamo Bay Surf Club/ Guantanamo Bay Surf Club
18) Ingeborg Von Agassiz/O Giver of Dreams/Ingeborg Von Agassiz
19) Richard Thompson/13 Rivers/New West
20) Neko Case/Hell-On/Neko Case
World
1) Free Radicals/No State Solution/Free Radicals
2) Animanz & Juanita Euka/Exotic Other/Tru Thoughts
3) Chancha via Circuito/Bienaventuranza/Wonderwheel
4) Angelique Kidjo/Remain in Light/Kravenworks
5) Nickodemus/A Long Engagement/Wonderwheel
6) Atomga/Aga/Atomga
7) Fatoumata Diawara/Fenfo “Something to Say”/Montuno
8) Eric Bibb/Global Griot/Dixiefrog
9) Public Opinion Afro Orchestra/Naming & Blaming/Hopestreet
10) Te’Amir/Abyssinia EP/Tru Thoughts
(Sp*tify was never used in the discovery of any of this music!)
