Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy (Atlantic, 2018)

Couple of good moves - first, putting "Bodak Yellow" and "Bartier Cardi" even if we've all heard them a million times by now. Reinserted in the context of an album, it just drives home what gems both those tracks are. The other - keeping it mercifully short. Few things are a bigger drag than a bloated first LP after a string of short, sweet, successful mixtapes. Don't know why rappers suddenly think we want to hear a 23-track, 80-minute affair. This is 13 tracks (2 of which as I've said are already burned in your brain) and 48 minutes. I wouldn't go as far as to call it a classic per se but it's a very good album and a great debut. The only real missteps here are "Be Careful" and "Ring" (feat. Kehlani). It's Cardi taking overtly obvious stabs at pop success, and it just feels unnecessary. You don't need to be Beyonce, just do what got you here. "I Do" (feat. SZA) and "Thru Your Phone" are on the poppier side but both work well. "Best Life", which Chance the Rapper is ALL over, is great, and "I Like It" is almost shameless as a prime example of the Cardi recipe - pure hook, great rapping. "Drip", with Migos, is also a standout, and I wasn't a huge fan but I could see "Money Bag" taking over the world next. All that to say there's plenty here to show that Cardi isn't done yet, or wasn't just a two track fluke.

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Eartheater - IRISIRI (Pan, 2018)

Eartheater first came on my radar (and many others) with 2 Hausu Mountain tapes in 2015. She makes glitchy, disorienting music, combining electronics and synthesized percussion with voice, guitars and who knows what else. The whole thing is a confusing stew, kind of reminiscent of Inga Copeland but I would say even more detached from "song". Didn't do much for me.

Kevin Drumm - Jury Prize (Karl Schmidt Verlag, 2018)

Here's a new kd album on Tom Smith's Karl Schmidt Verlag label that's very much the opposite of some of the kd we've heard earlier this year - namely, it's loud as fuck. There's one 53-minute track here, "Schmickedtwice (Jury Prize)" and it sounds as chaotic and unhinged as anything from Drumm, certainly a return to the noisy Sheer Hellish Miasma days but sonically on par with analog Merzbow. Recorded this year though so not an old recording. It sounds like there's vocals buried way deep, somebody screaming through the TV static, maybe even some percussion? This one's a heater.

Albums of the Year 2017 // New Releases

//40 Migos Culture (300 Entertainment) //39 Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein Stranger Things 2: A Netflix Original Series Soundtrack (Lakeshore) //38 Unsane Sterilize (Southern Lord) //37 Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch Blade Runner 2049: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Epic/ASG) //36 Ricardo Villalobos Empirical House ([a:rpi:r]) //35 Brockhampton Saturation II (Question Everything Inc./Empire) //34 Fire-Toolz Drip Mental (Hausu Mountain) //33 Clams Casino Instrumental Mixtape 4 (no label) //32 Yves Tumor Experiencing the Deposit of Faith (no label) //31 Lil Yachty Teenage Emotions (Virgin/EMI) //30 Thriftworks The Feather and the Sword (no label) //29 Paul White & Danny Brown Accelerator (R&S) //28 Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke & Oren Ambarchi This Dazzling, Genuine "Difference" Now Where Shall It Go? (Black Truffle) //27 Nazoranai Beginning to Fal...

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