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Scene Point Blank's Favorites: Year End (2018)

Individual staff lists

Aaron H's list

1. Mitski – Be the Cowboy (Dead Oceans)
2. Murder by Death – The Other Shore (Bloodshot)
3. Janelle Monáe – Dirty Computer (Atlantic)
4. Hop Along – Bark Off Your Head, Dog (Saddle Creek)
5. Screaming Females – All at Once (Don Giovanni)
6. The Pauses – Unbuilding (Arctic Rodeo Recordings)
7. Daughters – You Won't Get What You Want (Ipecac Recordings)
8. Laura Jane Grace & the Devouring Mothers – Bought to Rot (Bloodshot Records)
9. Cloud Nothings – Last Building Burning (Carpark Records)
10. Fucked Up – Dose Your Dreams (Merge)
11. Antarctigo Vespucci – Love in the Time of E-Mail (Polyvinyl)
12. boygenius – boygenius (Matador)
13. Cursive – Vitriola (15 Passenger)
14. Gouge Away – Burnt Sugar (Deathwish Inc.)
15. Deafheaven – Ordinary Corrupt Human Love (Anti)
16. Lemuria – Recreational Hate (Turbo Worldwide/Asian Man)
17. American Nightmare – American Nightmare (Rise Records)
18. Ghost – Prequelle (Loma Vista)
19. Brendan Kelly & The Wandering Birds – Keep Walkin’ Pal (Red Scare Industries)
20. Direct Hit! – Crown of Nothing (Fat Wreck Chords)
21. Chvrches – Love Is Dead (Glassnote Records)
22. Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel (Mom + Pop)
23. Shook Ones – Body Feel (Revelation Records)
24. MGMT – Little Dark Age (Columbia)
25. Pianos Become The Teeth – Wait For Love (Epitaph Records)

Andy's list

1. Yamantaka // Sonic Titan – Dirt (Paper Bag)
2. Daughters – You Won't Get What You Want (Ipecac Recordings)
3. Deafheaven – Ordinary Corrupt Human Love (Anti)
4. Beach House – 7 (Sub Pop)
5. Panopticon – The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness (Bindrune Records)
6. Ah! Kosmos – Beautiful Swamp (Compost Records)
7. Thom Yorke – Suspiria (Music for the Luca Guadagnino film) (XL Recordings)
8. Aphex Twin – Collapse (Warp)
9. Mount Eerie – Now Only (P.W. Elverum & Sun)
10. Sleep – The Sciences (Third Man)
11. Grouper – Grid of Points (Kranky)
12. Say Sue Me – Where We Were Together (Damnably)
13. The Body – I Have Fought Against It, But I Can't Any Longer (Thrill Jockey)
14. Parquet Courts – Wide Awake! (Rough Trade)
15. Tim Hecker – Konoyo (Kranky / Sunblind Music )
16. 夢遊病者 (Sleepwalker) – 一期一会 (Sentient Ruin)
17. Tropical Fuck Storm – A Laughing Death in Meatspace (Joyful Noise Recordings)
18. Nine Inch Nails – Bad Witch (The Null Corporation)
19. Death Grips – Year of the Snitch (Third Worlds / Harvest)
20. Idles – Joy As An Act of Resistance (Partisan)
21. Container – LP (Spectrum Spools)
22. Tash Sultana – Flow State (Lonely Lands / Sony)
23. Oneohtrix Point Never – Age Of (Warp)
24. Jenn Champion – Single Rider (Hardly Art)
25. The Go! Team – Semicircle (Memphis Industries)

Cheryl's list

1. Thou – Magus (Sacred Bones)
2. The Body – I Have Fought Against It, But I Can't Any Longer (Thrill Jockey)
3. VNV Nation – Noire (Metropolis Records)
4. Svartidauði – Revelations of the Red Sword (Ván Records)
5. Svalbard – It's Hard To Have Hope (Translation Loss)
6. Imperceptum – Heart of Darkness (Grey Matter Productions)
7. Sargeist – Unbound (World Terror Committee)
8. Kriegsmaschine – Apocalypticists (No Solace)
9. Akitsa – Credo (Profound Lore Records)
10. Deafheaven – Ordinary Corrupt Human Love (Anti)
11. Mournful Congregation – The Incubus of Karma (20 Buck Spin)
12. Cultes Des Ghoules – Sinister, Or Treading The Darker Paths (Hells Headbangers)
13. Slugdge – Esoteric Malacology (Willowtip Records)
14. Evoken – Hypnagogia (Profound Lore Records)
15. Yob – Our Raw Heart (Relapse Records)
16. Funeral Mist – Hekatomb ( Norma Evangelium Diaboli)
17. Abigor – Höllenzwang (Chronicles of Perdition) (Avantgarde Music)
18. Antlers – Beneath.Below.Behold (Totenmusik)
19. Khemmis – Desolation (20 Buck Spin)
20. Panopticon – The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness (Bindrune Records)
21. Bliss Signal – Bliss Signal (Profound Lore Records)
22. Entropia – Vacuum ( Arachnophobia Records)
23. Vile Creature – Cast of Static and Smoke (Halo of Flies)
24. Fórn – Rites of Despair (Gilead Media)
25. Reverorum ib Malacht – Im Ra Distare Summum Soveris Seris Vas innoble (Annapurna)

Dennis's list

1. Abstracter – Cinereous Incarnate (I Voidhanger Records)
2. Wake – Misery Rites (Translation Loss)
3. Natterers – Head In Threathening Attitude (Boss Tuneage Records)
4. Svalbard – It's Hard To Have Hope (Translation Loss)
5. The Crimson Ghosts – Yet Not Human (Ring Of Fire Records)
6. Rata Negra – Justicia Cósmica (La Vida Es Un Mus)
7. Faux Départ – Au Pied Du Mur (Mutant)
8. Clutch – Book Of Bad Decisions (Weathermaker Music)
9. Youth Avoiders – Relentless (Destructure Records)
10. Blaze Bayley – The Redemption of William Black (Infinite Entanglement Part III) (Blaze Bayley Recordings)
11. The Interrupters – Fight The Good Fight (Hellcat Records)
12. Gaerea – Unsettling Whispers (Transcending Obscurity Records)
13. I Against I – Small Waves (White Russian Records)
14. Amorphis – Queen Of Time (Nuclear Blast Records)
15. American Nightmare – American Nightmare (Rise Records)
16. Sinistro – Sangue Cássia (Seasons Of Mist)
17. Primordial – Exile Amongst The Ruins (Metal Blade Records)
18. Dödsrit – Spirit Crusher (Prosthetic)
19. Astpai – True Capacity (Jump Start)
20. Nag – Nagged to Death (Fysisk Format)
21. Mahlstrom – MÆANDER (Through Love Records)
22. Orange Goblin – The Wolve Bites Back (Candlelight Records)
23. Iskandr – Euprosopon (Eisenwald Tonschmiede)
24. Slægt – The Wheel (Ván )
25. Solstice – White Horse Hill (Dark Descent Records)

Kevin Fitzpatrick's list

1. Alice In Chains – Rainier Fog (BMG)
2. Thom Yorke – Suspiria (Music for the Luca Guadagnino film) (XL Recordings)
3. Stone Temple Pilots – Stone Temple Pilots (Atlantic)
4. Gaz Coombes – World’s Strongest Man (Caroline )
5. Planet B – Planet B (Ipecac)
6. Jon Spencer – Spencer Sings The Hits! (In The Red)
7. Kaada – Closing Statements (Mirakel)
8. Starcrawler – Starcrawler (Rough Trade)
9. Death Valley Girls – Darkness Rains (Suicide Squeeze)
10. Mudhoney – Digital Garbage (Sub Pop)
11. Street Sects – The Kicking Mule (Flenser)
12. Deafheaven – Ordinary Corrupt Human Love (Anti)
13. Johnny Marr – Call the Comet (New Voodoo Records)
14. A Perfect Circle – Eat the Elephant (BMG)
15. The Breeders – All Nerve (4AD)
16. Kitten Forever – Semi-Permanent (Independent)
17. Legend of the Seagullmen – Legend of the Seagullmen (Dine Alone)
18. Superchunk – What a Time to Be Alive (Merge)
19. Jack White – Boarding House Reach (Third Man)
20. Watain – Trident Wolf Eclipse (Century Media)

Kristen Swanson's list

1. Deafheaven – Ordinary Corrupt Human Love (Anti)
2. Shook Ones – Body Feel (Revelation Records)
3. The Sidekicks – Happiness Hours (Epitaph Records)
4. Kississippi – Sunset Blush (Alcopop! Records)
5. Katie Ellen – Still Life (Lauren Records)
6. Petal – Magic Gone ( Run for Cover Records)
7. Chvrches – Love Is Dead (Glassnote Records)
8. Converge – Beautiful Ruin (Epitaph\Deathwish Inc)
9. Sorority Noise – YNAAYT (Triple Crown Records)
10. Cloud Nothings – Last Building Burning (Carpark Records)
11. Direct Hit! – Crown of Nothing (Fat Wreck Chords)
12. Waxahatchee – Great Thunder (Merge Records)
13. Pianos Become The Teeth – Wait For Love (Epitaph Records)
14. Natterers – Head In Threathening Attitude (Boss Tuneage Records)
15. Laura Jane Grace & the Devouring Mothers – Bought to Rot (Bloodshot Records)
16. Muncie Girls – Fixed Ideals (Specialist Subject Records)
17. Tiny Moving Parts – Swell (Triple Crown Records)
18. Elway – For the Sake of the Bit (Red Scare Industries)
19. The Beths – Future Me Hates Me (Carpark Records)
20. Typesetter – Nothing Blues (6131 Records)
21. Gouge Away – Burnt Sugar (Deathwish Inc.)
22. Lemuria – Recreational Hate (Turbo Worldwide/Asian Man)
23. Late Bloomer – Waiting (6131 Records)
24. The Lawrence Arms – We Are the Champions of the World (A Retrospectus) (Fat Wreck Chords)
25. Slow Mass – On Watch (Landland Colportage)

Loren's list

1. Future Virgins – Doomsday Raga (Let's Pretend/Recess)
2. Chiller – Chiller (Dirt Cult)
3. Royal Brat – Eyesore (Moniker Records)
4. Era Bleak – Demo 2018 (Dirt Cult)
5. Neighborhood Brats – Claw Marks (Dirt Cult Records)
6. The Breeders – All Nerve (4AD)
7. Raging Nathans – Cheap Fame (Rad Girlfriend Records)
8. The Brokedowns – Sick of Space (Red Scare Industries)
9. Kitten Forever – Semi-Permanent (Independent)
10. Vacation – Mouth Sounds #2699 (Lets Pretend)
11. Night Birds – Roll Credits (Fat Wreck Chords)
12. Color TV – self-titled (Deranged Records)
13. Future Girls – Motivation Problems (Dirt Cult)
14. Shame – Songs of Praise (Dead Oceans)
15. Mind Spiders – Furies (Dirtnap)
16. Pinned In Place – Rubbernecking at the Gates of Hell (Reflective Tapes)
17. Bad Sports – Constant Stimulation (Dirtnap)
18. Clown Sounds – Preacher Maker (Recess Records)
19. William Elliott Whitmore – Kilonova (Bloodshot)
20. DeeCracks – Sonic Delusions (Pirates Press)
21. Four Fists – 6666 (Doomtree)
22. Hot Snakes – Jericho Sirens (Sub Pop)
23. Maniac – Dead Dance Club (Dirt Cult)
24. Runt – Positions of Power (La Vida Es Un Mus)
25. Brendan Kelly & The Wandering Birds – Keep Walkin’ Pal (Red Scare Industries)

Matt's list

1. Janelle Monáe – Dirty Computer (Atlantic)
2. Sons Of Kemet – Your Queen Is A Reptile (Verve)
3. Beach House – 7 (Sub Pop)
4. Fucked Up – Dose Your Dreams (Merge)
5. Converge – Beautiful Ruin (Epitaph\Deathwish Inc)
6. The Armed – Only Love (No Rest Until Ruin)
7. Snail Mail – Lush (Matador)
8. Soccer Mommy – Clean (Fat Possum)
9. Kacey Musgraves – Golden Hour (MCA Nashville)
10. Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel (Mom + Pop)