DECAYCAST : Fifty + Impactful Genre Defying Music Releases of 2018 : Part One
*part two to be released Feb 2018
2018 was a wild year for music and the world. Bad politics and worse people coming to positions of power often spark good art. Here’s fifty genre defying releases from 2018 that we at Decaycast found absolutely exceptional.
Please seek these albums out and support the artists as directly as possible!
700 Bliss “Spa 700” (Halcyon Veil)
Akvan “بلک متال آریایی” (Self Released)
Anna Luisa “Green” (Practical Records)
Attilo Novellino & Collin McKelvey “Métaphysiques cannibales” (Weird Ear)
Bbymutha “MD3” (Self Released)
Beast Nest “A History Of Sexual Violence” (Self Released)
Black Spirituals “Black Access / Black Axes” (SIGE Records)
Bonemagic “Cult Of The Red Vest” (Cult Love!)
The Breathing Light “Light Fast, Black Power!” (Self Released)
Burmese “Privilege” (Fuck Yoga Records)
CBN “Neblastya” (Phage Tapes)
Colin Bragg & Bill Pritchard “Andedyr” (Self Released)
Compactor “Technology Worship” (Oppressive Existence Recordings)
Conscious Summary “Exhaustions” (Skin Trade Recordings
Dental Work “Fog Of Summer Ghosts” (Placenta Recordings)
Dreamcrusher “Grudge2” (C-I-P)
Drew McDowall “The Third Helix” (Dias Records)
Eleh “Wear Patterns” (Self Released)
The Fathers “Sound Advice” (T/ECA)
Fletcher Pratt “Dub Sessions, Volume 4” (Crash Symbols)
Lara Sarkissian “Disruption” (Club Chai)
Girlz N The Hood ‘All 4 Nia’ (Self Released)
Golden Donna “Date Night” (Self Released)
Hiro Kone “Pire Expenditure” (Dias Records)
HIRS “Friends. Lovers. Favorites” (Self Released)
House Of Cake “House Of Cake” (Houdini Mansions)
Jeff Carey “Zero Player Game” (Ehse)
Jasmine Infiniti “Sis” (Club Chai)
Jonathan Snipes “The Nightmare” (Deathbomb Arc)
JPEGMAFIA “Veteran” (Deathbomb Arc)
K 23 “Blacklight Sessions” (Fantasy 1)
Kepla & DeForrest Brown Jr. “The Wages of Being Black is Death ” (PTP)
King Vision Ultra “Pain Of Mind” (Self Released)
KK NULL “Pulsar X” (Self Released)
Kohinoorgasm “Synthwali and The War Empire” (Self Released)
Lunar Tomb “Tierra de las Brujas” (Distort Discos)
LSDXOXO “Body Mods” (Self Released)
Luke Stewart “Works For Upright Bass And Amplifier” (Self Released)
Lana Del Rabies “Shadow World” (Deathbomb Arc)
Macho Blush “Users Guide” (Tymbal Tapes)
Midmight “Cut Cut Cut Bruise” (Resipiscent)
Moira Scar “Wound World Part 1” (Psychic Eye)
Nightmare Difficulty “Run and Gun” (Self Released)
Open Mike Eagle “What Happens When I Try To Relax”
ONO “Your Future Is Metal” (American Damage)
Portal “Ion” (Profound Lore)
Russell E.L. Butler “The Home I’d Build For Myself And All My Friends”
Ryan King “How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love To Bomb” (Serious Hype)
SAN CHA “Capricha Del Diablo” (self released)
Serpentwithfeet “Soil”
S.B.S.M “Leave Your Body” (Thrilling Living)
The Sorcerer Family “Hidden Rooms” (Stay Strange)
TAHNZZ “XILA” (Self Released)
The Bedroom Witch “Triptych” (Self Released)
Turkish Delight “Howcha Magowcha” (I Heart Noise)
Voicehandler “Light From Another Light” (Humbler Records)
White Boy Scream “Remains” (Crystalline Morphologies)
Witches Of Malibu “Fever Dreams” (Self Released)
Yves Tumor “Safe In The Hands Of Love” (Warp)
V/A: “Energies” (Practical Records)
V/A: “Stable Submissions, Vol 2” (Stable)
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