Crazy's 2018 new release purchases:

[CRAZY-HORSE]

its just about that time of the year when I post my purchases of albums released in the year that is about to end, in this case
it is 2018 (unless ive slipped through a wormhole and ended up on either the past or the future?!?!)

I haven't even kept a tab of what ive bought this year or how many so it will be a surprise when I take the albums out of their 2018
box in a random selection...
when I say bought, I mean acquired because most of them were purchased not with my money but the gift cards of others I received
for Xmas 2017 and my birthday this year...
not sure what will be my favourite album of 2018 as ive actually forgotten a lot of what ive purchased this year, so there will be some surprises when I select my play list...

all I know is, 2018 was a pretty good year for music if you, as I was, prepared to look amongst the crap for the little gems...
it was also a good year for me musically as some of my perennial favourites released albums, namely Weller, Finn, Costello, Macca, Neil,
Paul Kelly, Willie and Loretta...

so, let the listening,rating, and posting begin...

DAVID BYRNE...……………….."American utopia" (2.8) alternative

JIM JAMES...…………………….."uniform distortion" (2.7) alternative
OLD CROW MEDICINE
SHOW...……………………………"volunteers" (2.7) country
BISHOP BRIGGS...…….………."church of scars" (2.7) pop

JIM JAMES...…………………….."uniform clarity" (2.6) alternative
MARK KNOPFLER...……………."down the road wherever" (2.6) soft rock
STING & SHAGGY...…....…….."44/876" (2.6) pop/reggae
NEIL YOUNG...……….…………."Roxy: tonight's the night-live!" (2.6) classic rock

JOSHUA HEDLEY...…………….."Mr Jukebox" (2.5) country
RAY LaMONTAGNE…………….."part of the light" (2.5) alternative

JACK WHITE...……………………"boarding house reach" (2.4) alternative
RAY DAVIES...……………………"our country-Americana act II" (2.4) Americana
GLEN HANSARD...………………"between two shores" (2.4) soft rock
TORI FORSYTH...…....…………"dawn of the dark" (2.4) country
CALEXICO...……….…………….."the thread that keeps us" (2.4) Americana
LADY GAGA & BRADLEY
COOPER...…………………………"a star is born" (2.4) OST
MARLON WILLIAMS...…….……"make way for love" (2.4) easy listening

ELVIS COSTELLO & THE
IMPOSTERS...…………………….."look now" (2.3) alternative
PAUL KELLY...…………………….."nature" (2.3) atlernative
ARCTIC MONKEYS...……………"tranquillity base hotel and casino" (2.3) alternative
IMAGINE DRAGONS...…….……"origins" (2.3) alternative
WILLIE NELSON...………………."last man standing" (2.3) country

KASEY CHAMBERS & THE
FIRESIDE DISCIPLES...………."campfire" (2.2) country
SNOW PATROL...……………….."wildness" (2.2) alternative
FATHER JOHN MISTY.........…"God's favourite customer" (2.2) alternative

SETH LAKEMAN...………………."the well worn path" (2.1) americana
MUMFORD & SONS...………….."delta" (2.1) alternative
UNDERWORLD & IGGY POP..."teatime dub encounters" (2.1) EDM

BRIAN FALLON...……….………."sleepwalkers" (2.0) classic rock
PAUL McCARTNEY……....…….."Egypt Station" (2.0) soft rock
NATHANIEL RATELIFF &
THE NIGHT SWEATS...…;...…."tearing at the seams" (2.0) R+B/soul

PAUL WELLER...……….…………"true meanings" (1.9) easy listening

GEORGE EZRA...…………………"staying at Tamara's" (1.8) alternative

LORETTA LYNN...………………."wouldn't it be great" (1.7) country
NEIL & LIAM FINN...………….."lightsleeper" (1.7) alternative
VANCE JOY...…………………….."nation of two" (1.7) alternative

CHRISTINA AGUILERA...…….."liberation" (1.6) pop
BRENT COBB...…………..….….."providence canyon" (1.6) country

NEIL YOUNG & PROMISE
OF THE REAL...…………….……."paradox - OST" (1.4) Americana

also:
ROGER WATERS "Igor Stavinsky's The Soldiers Tale" which due to it being a complete piece of work
I cannot rate it, I do however, love it

[Ruby]

Wow! You have a 2018 box? That's very organised!
I have no idea what I've managed to pick up this year. 
Watching with interest .... 

[CRAZY-HORSE]

yup. I start a 'box' every year, just to keep the new ones separate from all the others until ive played and posted them...