KYS Contributors: End Of Year Lists For 2018

Before we get all in-depth about which releases we loved this year in a follow-up piece, here are all of our end-of-year lists for 2018. Some of us picked out 20 whereas others just had 10, & a couple of us couldn't even decide on what their faves were. Have a look for yourself below. What releases did you love this year?

Alex Sievers:

1. Rolo Tomassi - 'Time Will Die & Love Will Bury It'
2. Mol - 'Jord'
3. The Wonder Years - 'Sister Cities'
4. Zeal & Ardor - 'Stranger Fruit'
5. The Armed - 'Only Love'
6. Hopesfall - 'Arbiter'
7. Dance Gavin Dance - 'Artificial Selection'
8. Pianos Become The Teeth - 'Wait For Love'
9. Frontierer - 'Unloved'/Sectioned - 'Annihilated'
10. Lower Automation - 'Shoebox Companion' EP
11. Delta Sleep -'Ghost City'
12. Press Club - 'Suburbia'
13. Rivers Of Nihil - 'Where Owls Know My Name'
14. Polyphia - 'New Levels New Devils'
15. Thrice - 'Palms'
16. Vein - 'errorzone'
17. Endless Heights - 'Vicious Pleasure'
18. Foxing - 'Nearer My God'
19. Silent Planet - 'When The End Began'
20. Many Rooms - 'There Is A Presence Here' / Twenty One Pilots - 'Trench'

Owen Morawitz:

1. Southeast Desert Metal - 'Break The Silence'
2. The Comfort - 'What It Is To Be'
3. Don Broco - 'Technology'
4. Drug Church - 'Cheer'
5. Funeral Chic - 'Superstition'
6. Future Corpse - 'Culture Ruins Everything Around Me'
7. Genocide Pact - 'Order of Torment'
8. Gunship - 'Dark All Day'
9. Homesick - 'Terra Nullius'
10. Hopesfall - 'Arbiter'
11. Luca Brasi - 'Stay'
12. Now, Now - 'Saved'
13. Pagan - 'Black Wash'
14. Psycroptic - 'As The Kingdom Drowns'
15. Shame - 'Songs of Praise'
16. Svalbard - 'It's Hard To Have Hope'
17. Tapestry - 'Ghost Of Me' EP
18. Trophy Eyes - 'The American Dream'
19. Unravel - 'Eras Of Forfeit'
20. Vein - 'errorzone'

Jonty Cornford:

The Hard Aches – Mess

Behemoth – I Loved You At Your Darkest

Silent Planet – When The End Began

The Story So Far – Proper Dose

Pianos Become The Teeth – Wait For Love

Slowly Slowly – St Leonards

Deafheaven – Ordinary Corrupt Human Love

Thornhill - Butterfly

Jeff Rosenstock – POST-

Pagan – Black Wash

Underoath – Erase Me

Earl Sweatshirt – Some Rap Songs

Thrice – Palms

Daughters – You Won’t Get What You Want

Foxing – Nearer My God

Camp Cope – How To Socialise & Make Friends

Basement – Beside Myself

La Dispute - 'Somewhere at the Bottom of the River between Vega and Altair' 10th anniversary

Anderson .Paak – Oxnard

Limbs – Father’s Son

Alasdair Belling:

1. God Is An Astronaut - Epitaph
2. Anaal Nathrakh- A New Kind of Horror
3. Emery - Eve
4. Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
5.  mewithoutyou - [Untitled]
6. Rivers of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name
7. Steven Wilson - Home Invasion Live
8. Tesserac T- Luminary
9. Thrice - Palms
10. Underoath - Erase Me

Christopher Wallace:

1. FM! - Vincent Staples

2. Daytona - Pusha T

3. Trident Wolf Eclipse - Watain

4. Vicious Pleasure - Endless Heights

5. Twisted Visions - Ill Natured

6. Good To Feel - Candy

7. Some Rap Songs - Earl Sweatshirt

8. Self titled - Bonechurch

9. High as Hope - Florence and the Machine

10. I Have Fought Against It But I Can’t Any Longer - The Body

11. Hive Mind - The Internet

12. The Color Of You - Alina Baraz

13. Down Below - Tribulation

14. Victory Lap - Nipsey Hussle

15. Sunblushed - Bloom Parade

16. Snow Turns Red - Judas Wolf

17. De Doden Hebben Het Goed III - Wiegedood

18. Women of The Wand - Potion

19. Humanity Plague - Burn in Hell

20. Sever The Ties - Excarnate

JP Pallias: 

1. Rolo Tomassi – Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It
2. Rivers of Nihil – Where Owls Know My Name
3. Night Verses – From the Gallery of Sleep
4. Silent Planet – When the End Began
5. VOLA – Applause of a Distant Crowd
6. Don Broco – Technology
7. Voices from the Fuselage – Odyssey II: The Founder of Dreams
8. Ice Nine Kills – The Silver Scream
9. Ihsahn – Ámr
10. Zeal & Ardor – Stranger Fruit
11. Hellions – Rue
12. Behemoth – I Loved You at Your Darkest
13. Haken – Vector
14. The Ocean – Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic
15. Tesseract – Sonder
16. Trash Boat – Crown Shyness
17. The Plot in You – DISPOSE
18. MØL – Jord
19. Brockhampton – Iridescence
20. Bleed From Within – Era

Hunter Hewgley: 

1. nothing,nowhere. - ruiner
2. Ice Nine Kills - The Silver Scream
3. Can’t Swim - This Too Won’t Pass
4. Architects - Holy Hell
5. Animal Flag - Void Ripper
6. thebreathingbackwards & brody - blackheartemoji
7. Dance Gavin Dance - Artificial Selection
8. Lil Peep - Come Over When You’re Sober 2
9. Unearth - Extinction(S)
10. Foxing - Nearer My God / Harms Way - Posthuman

Peyton Bernhardt: 

1. Lily Allen - No Shame

2. Joyce Manor - Million Dollars to Kill Me

3. Saba - Care for Me

4. They.- Fireside

5. Iceage - Beyondless

6. Blaise Moore - Temporary Her

7. Architects - Holy Hell

8. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

9. Camp Cope - How to Socialise & Make Friends

10. Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy

11. Fall Out Boy - Mania

12. Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy

13. Lido - Spacesuit

14. Yungblud - 21st Century Liability

15. Logic - YSIV

16. Trophy Eyes - The American Dream

17. Jon Bellion - Glory Sound Prep

18. Vic Mensa - Hooligans

19. Post Malone - Beerbongs & Bentleys

20. Logic - Bobby Tarantino II

Owen Jones (photographer):

Megan Langley:

1. As It Is - The Great Depression

2. Five Seconds Of Summer - Youngblood

3. SHADED - A Familiar Love

4. From Ashes To New - The Future

5. Waterparks - Entertainment

6. Stand Atlantic - Skinny Dipping

7. Boys Of Fall - Better Moments

8. AMOR - Love Vs. Logic

9. Mae Krell - Anabasis 10.

Trophy Eyes - The American Dream

11. Lovelytheband - Finding It Hard To Smile

12. Trash Boat - Crown Shyness

13. Beartooth - Disease

14. THRILLCHASER - A Lot Like Love

15. Tiny Moving Parts - Swell

16. Goldview - Until Morning Comes

17. Boxford - Facade

18. Tonight Alive - Underworld

19. 18th & Addison - Vultures

20.Modern Maps - hope you’re happy.

Bill Peel:

1. Daughters - You Won't Get What you want

2. Tropical Fuck Storm - a laughing death in Meatspace

3. Uniform - The Long walk

4. IDLES - Joy as an act of resistance

5. Confidence man - Confident Music for confident people

6. Parquet Courts - Wide Awake

7. Bosse de Nage - Further Still

8. Uada - Cult of the dying sun 9.

Kanye West - Ye 10.

HMLTD - Hate music last time delete