Best music of 2018
Normally when I write these things I take a good few hours, get through a good amount of beer or wine, and have a jolly good ramble. This year I’m going to keep it short(er) and make even less of an effort to come up with common themes and write in anything other than lists. Disappointments I’m not going to prattle on about what I found disappointing, except to say while on the new A Perfect Circle record, Eat the Elephant, Maynard James Keenan’s vocal performance is incredible throughout, there isn’t much else to what appears to be their young adult contemporary piano album. A big exception to this is the track By And Down The River, a rerecording of older track By And Down. This song actually has some guitar in it, and it is fascinating to listen to the two versions side by side to hear how Maynard does the vocals differently. While I like the new Deafheaven (Ordinary Corrupt Human Love) a lot, especially the song Glint, they don’t really have the same impact...