As we’re now ever so slightly past the halfway point for 2018, we as a team thought we would take stock and share our favourite releases of the year with our readers. It’s a great chance to see what has connected the most with our writers, as well as being a handy list for some great albums and EP’s you may have missed so far in 2018.
There is a very wide selection of records on offer, with the top picks across the team being Ghost’s Prequelle (4 times), Møl’s Jord (4 times), Cancer Bats’ The Spark That Moves (4 times), Rolo Tomassi’s Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It (3 times), Turnstile’s Time and Space (3 times) and Judas Priest’s Firepower (3 times).
So, without any further ramblings from us, here’s what the team have picked as their releases of the year so far:
Jamie Giberti
Dream State – Recovery
Long Distance Calling – Boundless
The Xcerts – Hold Onto Your Heart
James Halstead
The Wonder Years – Sister Cities
Rolo Tomassi – Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It
Marmozets – Knowing What You Know Now
Simon Crampton
Ghost – Prequelle
Parkway Drive – Reverence
The Fever 333 – Made In America
Shaun Brown
Møl – Jord
Spanish Love Songs – Schmaltz
A Perfect Circle – Eat The Elephant
Jack Fermor-Worrell
Ghost – Prequelle
Myles Kennedy – Year Of The Tiger
Judas Priest – Firepower
Connor Morris
Møl – Jord
Marmozets – Knowing What You Know Now
Turnstile – Time & Space
Fran Dignon
Camp Cope – How to Socialise & Make Friends
Cancer Bats – The Spark That Moves
The Interrupters – Fight The Good Fight
Sam Dignon
Camp Cope – How to Socialise & Make Friends
The Xcerts – Hold Onto Your Heart
Rolo Tomassi – Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It
James Weaver
Møl – Jord
Conjurer – Mire
Wiegedood – De Doden Hebben Het Goed III
Dan O’Brien
Rolo Tomassi – Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It
A Perfect Circle – Eat The Elephant
Turnstile – Time & Space
Jon Stickler
Ghost – Prequelle
Judas Priest – Firepower
Cancer Bats – The Spark That Moves
Philip Whitehead
Møl – Jord
Bleed From Within – Era
Zeal & Ardor – Stranger Fruit
Will Stevenson
Cancer Bats – The Spark That Moves
The Body – Mental Wounds Not Healing
Vein – Errorzone
Greg Latham
Cancer Bats – The Spark That Moves
Godsmack – When Legends Rise
Cait Maxwell
Myles Kennedy – Year Of The Tiger
Shinedown – Attention Attention
Tremonti – A Dying Machine
Ali Cooper
Ghost – Prequelle
Judas Priest – Firepower
As Sirens Fall – Where Lost Things Go
Jack King
Zeal & Ardor – Stranger Fruit
Khemmis – Desolation
Parkway Drive – Reverence
Alice Burton
CHVRCHES – Love Is Dead
Turnstile – Time & Space
Holding Absence – This Is As One