Today I offer up my annual playlist that caps off my look back at the year in music. I find it way too difficult to do a ranking of songs, so this is my way to capture the tracks that defined the year. As always, I try to make a playlist that fits on a standard CD-R, as a way to limit myself. Keep in mind these aren’t necessarily my favorite songs of the year but rather the best mix I could come up with that I think gives a good look at what 2018 had to offer.
This year’s mix consists of 18 songs. Eight of the songs come from albums in my top 10, with another eight of the songs coming from albums outside my top 10 but within my top 50. The remaining two songs are pulled from EPs (it was a great year for EPs).
Below, you’ll see the tracklist as well as the Spotify playlist (and you can use that to find links to my previous yearly mixtapes). And finally, this is the 11th straight year Amy Runner has provided the album art for the mix, but her first year as a mother! As if you couldn’t tell by the artwork. Precious.
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1) “Good As Gold” – Sarah Shook & The Disarmers :: Years
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2) “Sure” – Hatchie :: Sugar & Spice EP
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3) “Hangout at the Gallows” – Father John Misty :: God’s Favorite Customer
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4) “Night Shift” – Lucy Dacus :: Historian
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5) “Talking Straight” – Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever :: Hope Downs
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6) “Pristine” – Snail Mail :: Lush
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7) “U.S.A.” – Jeff Rosenstock :: POST-
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8) “In My View” – Young Fathers :: Cocoa Sugar
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9) “Me & My Dog” – boygenius :: boygenius EP
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10) “Tints (feat. Kendrick Lamar)” – Anderson .Paak :: Oxnard
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11) “Sober to Death” – Car Seat Headrest :: Twin Fantasy
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12) “Falling Into Me” – Let’s Eat Grandma :: I’m All Ears
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13) “Love It If We Made It” -The 1975 ::A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
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14) “Pynk (feat. Grimes)” – Janelle Monae :: Dirty Computer
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15) “Nobody” – Mitski :: Be The Cowboy
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16) “Poem” – U.S. Girls :: In A Poem Unlimited
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17) “High Horse” – Kacey Musgraves :: Golden Hour
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18) “Whatever” – The Beths :: Future Me Hates Me
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A Round of Sound 