Favorite Albums of 2018

Erin L. Cork
2 min readJan 9, 2019

So these can trade places on the lineup at any given time but these were my go to albums of the past year. Check them out if you are curious.

1) H. C. McEntire — Lionheart

2) Brandi Carlile — By The Way, I Forgive You

3) Anderson East — Encore

4) Phil Cook — People Are My Drug

5) Field Report — Summertime Sounds

6) Boygenius — Boygenius/EP

7) Ashley McBride — Girl Going Nowhere

8) Darren Jessee — The Jane, Room 217

9) Donovan Woods — Both Ways

10) Courtney Marie Andrews — May Your Kindness Remain

11) The Dead Tongues — Unsung Passage

12) Amanda Shires — To the Sunset

13) American Aquarium — Things Change

14) Ezra Furman — Transangelic Exodus

15) First Aid Kit — Ruins

16) Goat Girl — Goat Girl

17) Janelle Monae — Dirty Computer

18) Holly Miranda — Mutual Horse

19) Middle Kids — Lost Friends

20) Mt. Joy — Mt. Joy

21) Trampled By Turtles — Life is Good

22) Rainbow Kitten Surprise — How To: Friend, Love, Freefall

23) Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats — Tearing at the Seams

24) Phantastic Ferniture- Phantastic Ferniture

25) Cat Power — Wanderer

26) Childish Gambino — “Awaken, My Love!”

27) Anna St Louis — If Only There Was A River

28) The Decemberists — I’ll Be Your Girl

29) Florence + The Machine — High As Hope

30) George Ezra — Staying at Tamara’s

31) Haley Heynderickx — I Need to Start a Garden

32) Phosphorescent — C’est La Vie

33) Natalie Prass — The Future and the Past

34) Neko Case — Hell On

35) Hello June — Hello June

36) The Jayhawks — Back Roads and Abandoned Motels

37) Amen Dunes — Freedom

38) Maggie Rogers — Now That the Light is Fading/ EP

39) Laura Veirs — The Lookout

40) Bishop Briggs — Church of Scars

41) Glen Hansard — Between Two Shores

42) HAERTS — New Compassion

43) Mountain Man — Magic Ship

44) Brian Fallon — Sleepwalkers

45) Lauren Ruth Ward — Well, Hell

46) Robyn — Honey

47) Wye Oak — The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs

48) Mumford & Sons — Delta

49) Ashley Monroe — Sparrow

50) Adrienne Lenker — abysskiss

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Erin L. Cork

Writes fiction, non-fiction and poetry in Missoula, Montana.