ICR'S BEST HIP HOP ALBUMS 2018
Action Bronson - White Bronco
Anderson .Paak - Oxnard
Bishop Nehru - Elevators: Act I & II
Black Milk - Fever
Blueprint - Two-Headed Monster
Brockhampton - Iridescence
Chuck Strangers - Consumers Park
Cities Aviv - Raised for a Better View
clipping. - Face
Coops - Life In The Flesh
Cypress Hill - Elephants on Acid
Czarface; MF Doom - Czarface Meets Metal Face
Dabrye - Three/Three
Evidence - Weather or Not
Homeboy Sandman; Edan - Humble Pi
Jean Grae; Quelle Chris - Everything's Fine
Jeremiah Jae - Daffi
Jericho Jackson - Khrysis & Elzhi Are Jericho Jackson
Jpegmafia - Veteran
Knife Knights - 1 Time Mirage
Mac Miller - Swimming
Mick Jenkins - Pieces of a Man
Milo - budding ornithologists are weary of tired analogies
N.E.R.D - No One Ever Really Dies
Ocean Wisdom - Wizville
Pac Div - 1st Baptist
Phoelix - Tempo
Royce Da 5'9" - Book of Ryan
The Underachievers - After the Rain
Vince Staples - FM!
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ICR'S BEST DOWNTEMPO/LEFTFIELD ALBUMS 2018
Bas Relief - QTT8
BIGYUKI - Reaching for Chiron
Chrome Sparks - Chrome Sparks
DJ Koze - Knock Knock
Dorian Concept - The Nature of Imitation
Glenn Astro - Turquoise Tortoise
Helado Negro - Island Universe Story Four
Jazzanova - The Pool
Jungle By Night - Livingstone
Khruangbin - Con Todo El Mundo
Leon Vynehall - Nothing Is Still
Maribou State - Kingdoms In Colour
Morcheeba - Blaze Away
mouse on the keys - tres
Nightmares On Wax - Shape The Future
Nu Guinea - Nuova Napoli
Paul White - Rejuvenate
Pax - Wildflower
Project Pablo - Come To Canada You Will Like It
Rafiq Bhatia - Breaking English
Ratgrave - Ratgrave
Submotion Orchestra - Kites
Substantial - The Garden
Tropics - Nocturnal Souls
Vakula - A Voyage to Arcturus
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ICR'S BEST BREAKS/DUB/BASS ALBUMS 2018
тпсб - Sekundenschlaf
Answer Code Request - Gens
Avatism - Bad Summer
Blocks & Escher - Something Blue
Cosmin Nicolae - Semnal
Demdike Stare - Passion
Djrum - Portrait with Firewood
Eomac - Reconnect
FJAAK - Havel
Forest Drive West - Apparitions
How Du - Landing
Interplanetary Criminal - Get Money
Jay Glass Dubs - Plegnic
Konrad Wehrmeister - 5050
Korridor - End of Cycle
Martyn - Voids
Memotone - The Rounded Room
SCNTST - Scenes and Sketches from the Lab
Skee Mask - Compro
Thug Widow - Hollow Sun
Thug Widow - Moons of Jupiter
Tom VR - Films
X-Altera - X-Altera
Zaumne - Emo Dub
Zuli - Trigger Finger
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ICR'S BEST HOUSE ALBUMS 2018
Adriatique - Nude
Aera - The Sound Path
Against All Logic - 2012 - 2017
Âme - Dream House
Atjazz - Mix 2
Atjazz; Jullian Gomes - Big Bad Crazy
Channel Tres - Channel Tres
Deadbeat - Wax Poetic For This Our Great Resolve
Detroit Swindle - High Life
Galcher Lustwerk - 200% Galcher
George FitzGerald - All That Must Be
GusGus - Lies Are More Flexible
Jacques Greene - Fever Focus
Jazzuelle - Rebirth
Jon Hopkins - Singularity
Marquis Hawkes - The Marquis Of Hawkes
Mateis e. aqir - Born to Be Sand
Max Cooper - One Hundred Billion Sparks
Mr. Fingers - Cerebral Hemispheres
Pablo Bolivar - Traverse (Reprise)
Rival Consoles - Persona
Ross from Friends - Family Portrait
Simian Mobile Disco - Murmurations
The Maghreban - 01DEAS
WhoMadeWho - Through the Walls
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ICR'S BEST TECHNO ALBUMS
Antigone - Rising
Blawan - Wet Will Always Dry
Bnjmn - Hypnagogia
Bruce - Sonder Somatic
Chris Liebing - Burn Slow
Dax J - Offending Public Morality
Donato Dozzy - Filo Loves the Acid
Edit Select - Cyclical Undulations
Fluxion - Ripple Effect
HAU - Brilliant Gospel Alibi
Inigo Kennedy - Strata
John Tejada - Dead Start Program
Kamikaze Space Programme - Void Coefficient
Lawrence - Illusion
Logan Takahashi - Crema
Manni Dee - The Residue
NHK yx Koyxen - Reflexes
Osheyack - Sadomodernism
SCB - Caibu
Surgeon - Luminosity Device
Tensal - Graphical
Territoire- Alix
The Black Dog - Post -Truth
The Field - Infinite Moment
The Lotus Eaters - Desatura
Vril - Anima Mundi
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ICR'S BEST DECONSTRUCTED CLUB ALBUMS 2018
Acre - Hollow Body
ACT! - Universalist
Aisha Devi - DNA Feelings
Amnesia Scanner - Another Life
Ash Koosha - Aktual
Ash Koosha - Return 0
Chevel - Always Yours
Chevel - In A Rush And Mercurial
Gacha Bakradze - Word Color
Ice Eyes - Culture of Pain
Ital Tek - Bodied
Joyfultalk- Plurality Trip
Lorn - Remnant
Lotic - Power
M//R - Among the Methods
mmph - Dear God
Morkebla - Inner Maze Walkthrough
Mouse On Mars - Dimensional People
N1L - 山卂ㄒ乇尺 爪乇爪ㄖ尺ㄚ
Objekt - Cocoon Crush
Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of
Paul Frick - Second Yard Botanicals
Rabit - Life After Death
Renick Bell - Turning Points
Sophie - Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
Wen - Ephem:era
Zuli - Terminal
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ICR'S BEST IDM/ELECTRONICA ALBUMS 2018
Arad - The Glimpse
Autechre - NTS Session 1-4
Daniel Avery - Song For Alpha
ENA - Bridge
EOD - Named
Floex; Tom Hodge; Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra - A Portrait Of John Doe
Kreggo - Introspective Dance Music
Noah Pred - Concrescence
Oberman Knocks - Trilate Shift
Pina - Lärm
Richard Devine - Sort\Lave
Robag Wruhme - Wuzzelbud FF
Robert Lippok - Applied Autonomy
Roel Funcken - Large Magellanic Cloud
Sam Haar - Euso
Sim Hutchins - Clubeighteen2thirty
Steve Hauschildt - Dissolvi
Suumhow - Crash_Reports
Terminal 11 - Harmless Chaos
Text Chunk - No Fun
The Gasman - Controlled Hallucination
Tim Koch - Spinifex
Tomat Petrella - Kepler
Varg - Crush
Venetian Snares; Daniel Lanois - Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois
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ICR'S BEST AMBIENT/DRONE ALBUMS 2018
Asger Kudahl - Sketches for Revolution
Ben Frost - All That You Love Will Be Eviscerated
Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow - Annihilation
Bliss Signal; Mumdance; WIFE - Bliss Signal
Brett Naucke - The Mansion
Chris Weeks - Journey to Mars
David August - DCXXXIX A.C.
Dedekind Cut - Tahoe
Deru - Torn in Two
Dntel - Hate In My Heart
Drew McDowall - The Third Helix
Emra Grid - From a Band of Thoughts That Ended My Year
Graintable - Herons
Hainbach - Songs For Coco
Helios - Veriditas
Inner River - Inner River
Jake Muir - Lady's Mantle
Jóhann Jóhannsson - Mandy
Jon Hassell - Listening To Pictures
Khotin - Beautiful You
Laura Luna Castillo - Laminares
Laurel Halo - Raw Silk Uncut Wood
Mark Pritchard - The Four Worlds
Michael Vallera - All Perfect Days
Nanook of The North - Nanook of the North
Pariah - Here From Where We Are
Plaster - Transition
Ripperton - Sight Seeing
Sigur Rós - Route One
The Subdermic - Morphology
Tim Hecker - Konoyo
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ICR'S BEST EXPERIMENTAL/AVANTGARDE ALBUMS 2018
AJA - AJA
Animal Collective - Tangerine Reef
Controlled Bleeding - Between Tides
David August - D'ANGELO
Death Grips - Year Of The Snitch
Efrim Manuel Menuck - Pissing Stars
Gosheven - Bivaq
Hanz - Plasty I
Jalex - Burden of Perfection
Jigga - lillllill
Julia Holter - Aviary
Liars - Titles With The Word Fountain
Low - Double Negative
Lucrecia Dalt - Anticlines
Moodie Black - Lucas Acid
Nine Inch Nails - Bad Witch
Peder Mannerfelt - The 3D Printed Songbook
Son Lux - Brighter Wounds
Suuns - Felt
Terminal Sound System - The Endless Sea
The Body - I Have Fought Against It, But I Can’t Any Longer.
The Soft Moon - Criminal
waelder - Non Places
Yonatan Gat - Universalists
Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar
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ICR'S BEST INDIE/ROCK ALBUMS 2018
Amen Dunes - Freedom
Beach House - 7
Forth Wanderers - Forth Wanderers
Fucked Up - Dose Your Dreams
Gengahr - Where Wildness Grows
IDLES - Joy as an Act of Resistance.
Interpol - Marauder
Jaye Jayle - No Trail and Other Unholy Paths
Jono McCleery - Seeds Of A Dandelion
Loma - Loma
Moaning - Moaning
Our Girl - Stranger Today
Ovlov - TRU
Phantastic Ferniture - Phantastic Ferniture
Preoccupations - New Material
Prism Tats - Mamba
S. Carey - Hundred Acres
Shame - Songs of Praise
Slaves - Acts Of Fear And Love
Snail Mail - Lush
The Joy Formidable - AAARTH
Thom Yorke - Suspiria
Tunng - Songs You Make At Night
Ty Segall - Fudge Sandwich
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Sex & Food
Wild Nothing - Indigo
Wye Oak - The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs
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ICR'S BEST SOUL/R&B ALBUMS 2018
Astronauts, etc. - Living in Symbol
Blood Orange - Negro Swan
Charles Bradley - Black Velvet
Chris Dave and The Drumhedz - Chris Dave and The Drumhedz
Clarence Clarity - Think: Peace
Georgia Anne Muldrow - Overload
JMSN - Velvet
Joji - Ballads 1
Joji - In Tongues
Jorja Smith - Lost & Found
Jungle - For Ever
Kali Uchis - Isolation
Kelela - Take Me a_Part, The Remixes
Knightstown - Knightstown
Leon Bridges - Good Thing
Meshell Ndegeocello - Ventriloquism
Noname - Room 25
Okzharp - Closer Apart
Phony Ppl - mō'zā-ik.
Prophet - Wanna Be Your Man
Ryan Hemsworth - Elsewhere
serpentwithfeet - soil
Sevdaliza - The Calling
Stimulator Jones - Exotic Worlds and Masterful Treasures
Starchild & The New Romantic - Language
Sudan Archives - Sink
The Internet - Hive Mind
The O'My's - Tomorrow
Tirzah - Devotion
Yves Tumor - Safe In The Hands of Love
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ICR'S BEST JAZZ ALBUMS 2018
Ambrose Akinmusire - Origami Harvest
Anenon - Tongue
Arat Kilo; Mamani Keïta; Mike Ladd - Visions of Selam
Arp - Zebra
Bad Luck - Four
Ben Lamar Gay - Downtown Castles Can Never Block the Sun
Braxton Cook - No Doubt
Eli Keszler - Stadium
Elliot Galvin - The Influencing Machine
Enemy - Enemy
Francis Harris - Trivial Occupations
Get The Blessing - Bristopia
GoGo Penguin - A Humdrum Star
Jakob Bro - Returnings
James 'Creole' Thomas - Omas Sextet
Joachim Kühn - Love & Peace
Joe Armon-Jones - Starting Today
Joe Lovano; Dave Douglas - Scandal
Kamaal Williams - The Return
Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth
Katia Labèque - Moondog
Kristjan Randalu - Absence
Laurence Pike - Distant Early Warning
Makaya McCraven - Universal Beings
Mansur Brown - Shiroi
Mathias Eick - Ravensburg
Mia Dyberg Trio - Ticket!
Onyx Collective - Lower East Suite Part Three
Portico Quartet - Untitled (AITAOA #2)
Robohands - Green
Roller Trio - New Devices
Ryan Porter - The Optimist
Sam Wilkes - WILKES
Shinya Fukumori Trio - For 2 Akis
Szun Waves - New Hymn To Freedom
Tangents - New Bodies
Tigran Hamasyan - For Gyumri
Tortusa; Inge Weatherhead Breistein - Mind Vessel
Toshio Matsuura Group - Loveplaydance (8 Scenes from the Floor)
Tristan De Liege - Kosame
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ICR'S BEST MODERN CLASSICAL ALBUMS 2018
Alexandra Streliski - INSCAPE
C. Diab - Exit Rumination
Chilly Gonzales - Solo Piano III
Christina Vantzou - No. 4
Dmitry Evgrafov - Return
Domiziano Maselli - Ashes
Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch - Époques
Federico Albanese - By the Deep Sea
Jason Sharp - Stand Above the Streams
Jóhann Jóhannsson - Englabörn & Variations
Jonny Greenwood - Phantom Thread
Karolina Rec; Resina - Traces
Kelly Moran - Ultraviolet
Kenneth James Gibson - In The Fields Of Nothing
Kronos Quartet; Laurie Anderson - Landfall
Maarja Nuut; Ruum - Muunduja
Mary Lattimore - Hundreds of Days
Masayoshi Fujita - Book of Life
Matthew Herbert - A Fantastic Woman
Nils Frahm - All Melody
Ólafur Arnalds - re:member
Peter Broderick - Two Balloons
Phil France - Circle
Philipp Rumsch Ensemble - Reflections
Poppy Ackroyd - Resolve
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Async (Remodels)
Shida Shahabi - Homes
Soundwalk Collective - What We Leave Behind (Jean-Luc Godard Archives)
Steve Reich - Pulse / Quartet
Steve Tibbetts - Life Of
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