Otherwires #51 Review of 2018

James Green & Nick Dawson round up a tumultuous 2018. The crushing return of Low, that track (and video) by Childish Gambino, further epic-ness from Kamasi Washington, all the way brilliance from Shabaka Hutchings... music for our times and no mistake.

3 albums absolutely demanding to be '...of the year' in the form of meticulous widescreen post-rock from Matt Calvert, absolute root deep hip hop from Kev Brown and all encompassing jazz for-the-people from Makaya McCraven. This is how I got through 2018.

Buhrstone - Sarah Davachi

Quorum - Low

My Queen Is Mamie Phipps Clark - Sons of Kemet

Medina - Kamaal Williams

Street Fighter Mas - Kamasi Washington

Good Friday (Boards of Canada Remix) - WHY?, Boards of Canada

This Is America - Childish Gambino

Neon Pattern Drum - Jon Hopkins

Terracotta - Tangents

Human Range - Nils Frahm

Dotwork - Delta Sleep

I’m Janick Gers - Vennart

Denise Paints - Colin Stetson

Back to Electric - Lori Scacco

Empty Grids - r beny

14.12 - Supersilent

Young Genius - Makaya McCraven

Suffer - Matt Calvert

M Go Round - Kev Brown

Time - Kev Brown

Computer Stuff - Kev Brown

Future Classic - Kev Brown

We Won - Kev Brown