Around 2018 in 12 Weeks: More Favorite Albums From Outside US/UK!

Continuing a conversation with our readers about their favorite albums from 2018! See Part 1 (featuring selections by Evol Kween, Simple Partial and audioculture.nz) here.

Stringmodulator – Manifesto (Submarine Broadcasting Company)

Skysketch – Fox Wedding (Personal Space Records)
Aesthesys – Achromata (Narshardaa Records)
Árstíðir – Nivalis (Season of Mist)

The Ex – 27 Passports (Ex Records)

Our Solar System – Origins / Bart De Paepe – Pagus Wasiae (Beyond Beyond is Beyond)

Tropical Fuck Storm – A Laughing Death in Meatspace (Joyful Noise / Mistletone)

Kaoru Inoue – Em Paz (Groovement Organic Series / Seeds and Ground)
Mount Shrine – Winter Restlessness (Cryo Chamber)
Deena Abdelwahed – Khonnar (Infine)
Varg – Nordic Flora Series Pt.5: Crush (Posh Isolation)
Susso Seki Singh – Orange Sunshine (Painted Word)
Félicia Atkinson – Coyotes (Geographic North)

Landless – Bleaching Bones (Humble Serpent)

Nils Frahm – All Melody (Erased Tapes)
Jeremy Dutcher – Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa (Self Released)
World Music compilation (Van Sounds) – featuring People with Bodies, Glintshake, Fogbow, Greg Jamie and more

valyri – Expanses (Asura Revolver)

Johann Johannsson – Mandy (Lakeshore Records)
Alva Noto – Unieqav (Noton, p*dis)
GAS – Rausch (Kompakt)
Fever Ray – Plunge (Rabid Records/Mute)

Suko Pyramid – Giant Baby’s Lullaby (Self Released)

Danny Playamaqui – VA (Valentino Arco) (Self Released)
Ilya S.

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