1. Deafheaven || Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
2. Tribulation || Down Below
3. Underoath || Erase Me
4. Coheed & Cambria || The Unheavenly Creatures
5. The Ocean || Phanerozoic
6. Amigo The Devil || Everything is Fine
7. LEEDS || Everything's Dandy
8. Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats || Wasteland
9. Monster Magnet || Mindfucker
10. Architects || Holy Hell
11. Ghost || Prequelle
12. Spiritualized || And Nothing Hurt
13. Beach House || 7
14. Zeal & Ardor || Strange Fruit
15. Respire || Denounement

I miss doing year-end lists...

it's pretty much a full blown OCD thing at this point for me.

Beach House does the same thing to me as Cocteau Twins - I know rationally I should respect them but I get physically repulsed when I listen.

OCD? I am 68 years old and I can't stop:

Harry's Top 35 for 2018

1. Nils Frahm – All Melody
2. Park Jiha – Communion
3. Amen Dunes - Freedom
4. Olafur Arnalds – re:member
5. Bruce Brubaker - Codex
6. Jim O’Rourke – Sleep Like It’s Winter
7. Low – Double Negative
8. Michael Pisaro – A Mist is a Collection of Points
9. Car Seat Headrest – Twin Fantasy
10. Yves Tumor – Safe in the Hands of Love
11. Jakob Ullmann - Muntzers Stern Solo II
12. Ice Age - Beyondless
13. Kamasi Washington – Heaven and Earth
14. Big Red Machine – Big Red Machine
15. Gas – Rausch
16. Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin – Awase
17. Goldmund - Occasus
18. Dedekind Cut - Tahoe
19. The Necks – Body (Northern Spy)
20. Non Standard Institute - 5863
21. Nils Økland - Lysning
22. Spiritualized – And Nothing Hurt
23. Jon Hassell – Listening to Pictures
24. Niklas Paschburg – Oceanic
25. Clarise Jensen – From This From That Will Be Filled
26. Steve Hauschildt - Dissolvi
27. Tim Hecker – Konoyo
28. Masayoshi Fujita - Stories
29. Cavern of Anti-Matter – Hormone Lemonade
30. Sons of Kemet – Your Queen is a Reptile
31. Magos Herrera and Brooklyn Rider – Dreamers
32. Yo La Tengo – There’s a Riot Going On
33. US Girls – A Poem Unlimited
34. Let’s Eat Grandma – I’m All Ears
35. Kacey Musgraves – Gold Hour

I hit 67 on 12/29, and am so mainstream, musically, that I probably should be wearing cheap knock-offs of Frank Sinatra suits.

In a generally appropriate order of value:

John Prine, The Tree Of Forgiveness
Alejandro Escovedo, The Crossing
Eliza Gilkyson, Secularia
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Tearing At The Seams
Bottle Rockets, Bit Logic
Mary Gauthier, Rifles And Rosary Beads
Willie Nile, Children Of Paradise
Okkervil River, In The Rainbow Rain
Ray Davies, Our Country: Americana Act II
Gregory Alan Isakov, Evening Machines
Colter Wall, Songs Of The Plains
Arthur Buck, S/T
Amos Lee, My New Moon
Charles Lloyd/Lucinda Williams, Vanished Gardens
Nicolas Gardel & The Headbangers, The Iron Age
Boz Scaggs, Out Of The Blues

And, probably a few I'm forgetting. May The Twang be with you.