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Post by blondini on Jan 2, 2019 0:21:53 GMT 1
TONY'S TOP HITS OF 2018
31 Christine and The Queens - Doesn't Matter (Voleur de Soleil) In both English and French versions, her best single since Narcissus Is Back. The spiky ones are better than the disco ones.
TONY'S TOP ALBUMS OF 2018
31 Christine and The Queens - Chris And here she is again! Better album than the first but still not quite classic. SPOTIFY
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Post by blondini on Jan 3, 2019 0:05:45 GMT 1
TONY'S TOP HITS OF 2018
30 Post Precious - Lose Myself More bittersweet synth-pop from Alex Winston and Charli's MS MR housemate Max Hershenow.
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30 Johann Johannsson - Mandy (OST)
RIP. Half synth / half prog metal (Sunn O)))'s Stephen O'Malley on guitar). Film itself is 7/10 - substance not matching style. SPOTIFY
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Post by blondini on Jan 3, 2019 0:17:51 GMT 1
TONY'S TOP HITS OF 2018
29 Underoath - On My Teeth They suddenly had an urgency and a clear chorus - like Bring Me The Horizon's Throne. (language)
TONY'S TOP ALBUMS OF 2018
29 Ray LaMontagne - Part Of The Light
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Post by blondini on Jan 3, 2019 0:30:18 GMT 1
TONY'S TOP HITS OF 2018
28 Tiffany - Beautiful 2 shock number ones together here (see Underoath). This grat single is like a grungy Bangles. Pity she never did a video for it.
TONY'S TOP ALBUMS OF 2018
28 Jon Hopkins - Singularity
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Post by blondini on Jan 3, 2019 0:44:07 GMT 1
TONY'S TOP HITS OF 2018
27 Shannon Purser / Allie X - Sunflower Complicated. The original Purser version from Netflix film Sierra Burgess Is A Loser has no synth. Netflix made a video for a version fusing Purser's vocal with the synth music from the Allie X version. Allie's eventually had a video, too.
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27 Hilary Woods - Colt
Former JJ72 bassist doing slo-tempo vocal dream-pop. SPOTIFY
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Post by blondini on Jan 3, 2019 1:01:42 GMT 1
TONY'S TOP HITS OF 2018
26 Field Music - Count It Up Sunderland band had a number one imitating Talking Heads and Devo. Counting their blessings.
TONY'S TOP ALBUMS OF 2018
26 Ashley Campbell - The Lonely One
Glen's daughter did good. SPOTIFY
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Post by blondini on Jan 3, 2019 1:15:32 GMT 1
TONY'S TOP HITS OF 2018
25 Charli XCX - No Angel / Focus Focus is good but No Angel is prime XCX. One of several long-performed songs that got a release in 2018. (language)
TONY'S TOP ALBUMS OF 2018
25 The Slow Readers Club - Build A Tower
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Post by blondini on Jan 3, 2019 1:27:27 GMT 1
TONY'S TOP HITS OF 2018
24 Black Honey - Midnight This Brit quartet are criminally ignored by the media. This disco-rock single hit my top spot and has a lurid video. One more to come.
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24 Blancmange - Wanderlust
Yet another album! SPOTIFY
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Post by blondini on Jan 3, 2019 1:43:15 GMT 1
TONY'S TOP HITS OF 2018
23 Anavae - Afraid Conjuring up feelings of Outlander (see video) is their most "pop" song yet - fans of The Cranberries or Within Temptation might like.
TONY'S TOP ALBUMS OF 2018
23 Chvrches - Love Is Dead A lot of very lazy lyric repetition and an abysmal Imagine Dogsh*t copy in Miracle aside, this is pretty good if not the standard of EOE.
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Post by blondini on Jan 3, 2019 1:57:23 GMT 1
TONY'S TOP HITS OF 2018
22 Kacey Musgraves - Slow Burn The album might not be up to standard but this became her biggest hit by far on my chart hitting the top on the basis of her performing it on TV (i had to link the uninterrupted record, though). So relaxing.
TONY'S TOP ALBUMS OF 2018
22 Leland and Bram Inscore - Sierra Burgess Is A Loser (OST) Like Mandy, another soundtrack that's better than the (7/10) film. Pure synth heaven. Although classed as a comp. every track is composed / produced by the duo.
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Post by blondini on Jan 3, 2019 2:30:11 GMT 1
TONY'S TOP HITS OF 2018
21 Kitten - Pink Champagne / Strange Embrace VIDEO / I Did It! / Abigail (Pink Champagne EP) More classic pop-rock from Chloe, joined by her reconfigured band. You can see another of these songs later...
TONY'S TOP ALBUMS OF 2018
21 Massive Wagons - Full Nelson There IS a group that can take the baton from The Darkness (if radio took notice). This group had an iTunes hit with a Status Quo's Rick tribute and continued momentum with this album.
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Post by blondini on Jan 3, 2019 21:35:49 GMT 1
TONY'S TOP HITS OF 2018
20 Ladytron - The Island Dark subject matter in this song/video.
TONY'S TOP ALBUMS OF 2018
20 Tracey Thorn - Record Great synth set from veteran artist.
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Post by blondini on Jan 3, 2019 21:48:14 GMT 1
TONY'S TOP HITS OF 2018
19 Andrew WK - Ever Again More on him later...
TONY'S TOP ALBUMS OF 2018
19 The Shires - Accidentally On Purpose Best set yet by popular UK country duo but not quite the best country album of the year.
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Post by blondini on Jan 3, 2019 21:58:52 GMT 1
TONY'S TOP HITS OF 2018
18 Andrew WK - Music Is Worth Living For ...and later...
TONY'S TOP ALBUMS OF 2018
18 Megan McKenna - Story Of Me This reality TV star is still ignored by the "too cool" Radio 2 but she shouldn't be. People involved in this album include Catherine McGrath, Lauren Alaina, Amy Wadge, Chelcee Grimes and Beth Nielson Chapman.
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Post by blondini on Jan 3, 2019 22:08:44 GMT 1
TONY'S TOP HITS OF 2018
17 Jessie Ware - Thinking About You No video but playlisted by Radio 1. Glasshouse highlight. One more to come.
TONY'S TOP ALBUMS OF 2018
17 IAMX - Alive In New Light
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Post by blondini on Jan 3, 2019 22:26:42 GMT 1
TONY'S TOP HITS OF 2018
16 Black Honey - Bad Friends This only made #2 compared to Midnight's #1 but lasted longer. It's languidly cool pop-rock / indie-rock.
TONY'S TOP ALBUMS OF 2018
16 Field Music - Open Here
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Post by blondini on Jan 3, 2019 22:28:14 GMT 1
TONY'S TOP HITS OF 2018
15 Jessie Ware - Overtime No vid for this either but she's pregnant and released this as a stop-gap. Still deserved more media attention, though. Back to her early retro-modern dance sound.
TONY'S TOP ALBUMS OF 2018
15 Biosphere - The Hilvarenbeek Recordings Ambient nature recordings.
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Post by blondini on Jan 3, 2019 22:36:21 GMT 1
TONY'S TOP HITS OF 2018
14 Meg Myers - Jealous Sea Her best this year.
TONY'S TOP ALBUMS OF 2018
14 Steffany Gretzinger - Blackout Bethel Music vocalist goes full-on experimental pop. Big surprise.
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Post by blondini on Jan 4, 2019 21:13:43 GMT 1
TONY'S TOP HITS OF 2018
13 Rae Morris - Lower The Tone Such a great track, full of the joys of new love, but it never advanced from a grat to a proper single. Took 10 weeks to reach a #2 peak! It's like Ellie used to be...
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13 Sarah Reeves - Easy Never Needed You And more shades of Ellie here. Initially a mini-album and later expanded to a full length.
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Post by blondini on Jan 4, 2019 21:27:00 GMT 1
TONY'S TOP HITS OF 2018
12 Rufus Du Sol - Underwater The big surprise in dance music, restoring my faith in the genre. This is the most Coldplay / Jon Hopkins ish track of them all. 2nd of 3.
TONY'S TOP ALBUMS OF 2018
12 Kate Nash - Yesterday Was Forever It looked like she'd gone down a lo-fi grunge cul-de-sac but this album has a lot of great pop on it, delivered with a snarl. Nice peach, too.
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