Our Year In Lists - Wichita's Favourite Records & Things Of 2018
Ben The Beths – Future Me Hates Me (Carpark) Blawan - Wet Will Always Dry (Ternesc) John Coltrane – Both Directions At Once (Impulse) Tim Hecker – Konoyo (Kranky) Mick Jenkins - Pieces of a Man (Free Nation) Inigo Kennedy – Strata (Token) Low – Double Negative (Sub Pop) Pusha T – DAYTONA (GOOD Music) Spiritualized – And Nothing Hurt (Bella Union) Surgeon – Luminosity Device (Dynamic Tension)
Top Ten other things I experienced for the 1st time in 2018 The Vorrh by B. Catling The Erstwhile by B. Catling The Cloven by B. Catling (Three of the most wonderful books I have ever read) Modern Sounds in Country & Western Music by Ray Charles (simply sublime - those choral backing vocals are to die for) Hard Off by Delivery Health (another year, another jaw-droppingly beautiful, previously unknown, Jim O'Rourke project) Voodoo Donuts vegan voodoo donut (best damn donut I ever did eat) Indoor Pets live on stage (so much more to come in 2019!) Crossroads' vegan chicken and waffles (I'd never had chicken and waffles - it was awesome) The Impossible Burger (still reckon my first was a beef burger) The Diner's vegan menu (and especially my custom tequila milkshake)
Brandon Records : 1. Tony Molina : Kill the Lights (Slumberland) 2. Pusha T : DAYTONA (GOOD Music) 3. Warm Drag : Warm Drag (In The Red) 4. Laraaji : Vision Songs, Vol. 1 (Flying Moonlight) 5. John Coltrane : Both Directions At Once : The Lost Album (UMG) 6. Greg Sage : Straight Ahead (reissue) (Zenorecords) 7. Limp Wrist : Facades (2017) (La Vida Es En Mus) 8. Chilly Gonzales : Solo Piano III (Gentle Threat Ltd.) 9. Spiritual Cramp : Televiison (Deranged Records) 10. CCFX : CCFX EP (2017) (DFA)
Books : 1. Elena Ferrante : The Neapolitan Novels 2. Joan Didion : A Book of Common Prayer 3. Haruki Murakami : Men Without Women 4. Tim Lawrence : Hold On to Your Dreams : Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-1992 5. Donna Tartt : The Goldfinch
Gareth Bruce Springsteen - Springsteen On Broadway (Columbia) Gruff Rhys - Babelsburg (Rough Trade) Gwenno - Le Kov (Heavenly) Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer (Wonderland Arts Society) Joyce Manor - Million Dollars To Kill Me (Epitaph) Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth (Young Turks) Low - Double Negative (Sub Pop) Parquet Courts - Wide Awake! (Rough Trade) Pusha T - Daytona (GOOD Music) REM - REM At The BBC (Craft Recordings) Soccer Mommy - Clean (Fat Possum)
Mark Pusha T – DAYTONA (GOOD Music) Travis Scott –Astroworld (Epic) Jay Rock – Redemption (Top Dawg) Kamasi Washington – Heaven And Earth (Young Turks) Curren$y, Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist – Fetti (ESGN / Jet Life Recordings / ALC / EMPIRE) Freddie Gibbs – Freddie (ESGN/EMPIRE) Noname – Room 25 (Noname) Daniel Avery – Song For Alpha (Phantasy Sound) Tony Molina – Kill The Lights (Slumberland Records) Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Hope Downs (Sub Pop)
Vicky Pusha T – DAYTONA (GOOD Music) Janelle Monae – Dirty Computer (Bad Boy Records) Robyn – Honey (Konichiwa Records) Soccer Mommy – Clean (Fat Possum) The Beths – Future Me Hates Me (Carpark Records) Flasher – Constant Image (Domino Recording Co.) Virginia Wing – Ecstatic Arrow (Fire Records) Snail Mail – Lush (Matador Records) Cardi B – Invasion Of Privacy (Atlantic) Adrianne Lenker – abysskiss (Saddle Creek)
10 other great things from 2018: Pretty much all the food I ate on our west coast trip (especially the BBQ chicken Sandwich at Honey Hole, Seattle / chicken wings at Fire On The Mountain, Portland & coconut cream pie at Dahlia bakery, Seattle) Fulfilling my life goal of meeting a koala Frida Kahlo: Making Herself Up @ the V&A The World Cup / becoming a football fan The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh All the ragu and tiramisu I ate in Bologna The Adam Buxton Podcast Drahla's set at Robert Smith's Meltdown LC!s 10th anniversary show at the Forum Beastie Boys: Live And Direct at EartH