Best Albums of 2018
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The end of the year is no doubt a time for rumination on the songs that spoke to us and speculating on which artists will continue to make an impact. In this episode, we bring closure by highlighting the best albums and songs of 2018; the soundtracks that manifested our own experiences. The year taught us to look inwardly, as in Charlotte Day Wilson\\u2019s \\u201cDoubt,\\u201d in which she contemplates leaving behind her vices. Love, she comes to realize, is one of them. Empathetically, Amen Dunes considers mythical heroism and the contradictions of the people we admire in \\u201cMiki Dora.\\u201d And the dashingly brazen \\u201c Pearly Gates\\u201d by U.S. Girls evokes the macro message that the ostensibly pleasurable is the political. We won\\u2019t spoil the rest\\u20142018: let\\u2019s wrap it up.
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Episode playlist: 1. Charlotte Day Wilson - \\u201cDoubt\\u201d from Stone Woman 2. Kaia Kater - \\u201cGrenades\\u201d from Grenades 3. Amen Dunes - \\u201cMiki Dora\\u201d from Freedom 4. U.S. Girls - \\u201cPearly Gates\\u201d from In A Poem Unlimited 5. Lucy Dacus - \\u201cYours & Mine\\u201d from Historian 6. DJ Koze - \\u201cIllumination\\u201d \\xa0(feat. R\\xf3is\\xedn Murphy)\\xa0from knock knock 7. Janelle Mon\\xe1e - \\u201cCrazy, Classic, Life\\u201d from Dirty Computer
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