PopMatters' 20 Best Avant-Garde and Experimental Albums of 2018

Another year, another fine batch of experimental music. That will never change

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# 1

MITH by Lonnie Holley

Album • Sep 21 / 2018 Singer-Songwriter Soul

# 2

Aviary by Julia Holter

Album • Oct 26 / 2018 Progressive Pop Art Pop Experimental Ambient Pop

# 3

Djarimirri: Child of the Rainbow by Gurrumul

Album • Apr 13 / 2018 Post-Minimalism Indigenous Australian Traditional Music

# 4

Konoyo by Tim Hecker

Album • Sep 28 / 2018 Ambient Electroacoustic Drone

# 5

Care by Klara Lewis + Simon Fisher Turner

Album • Sep 28 / 2018 Dark Ambient Ambient

# 6

Antología del Cante Flamenco Heterodoxo by Niño de Elche

Album • Feb 23 / 2018 Avant-Folk Flamenco nuevo

# 7

Everywhere at the End of Time: Stage 4 by The Caretaker

Album • Apr 05 / 2018 Sound Collage Turntable Music Dark Ambient Noise

# 8

soil by serpentwithfeet

Album • Jun 08 / 2018 Alternative R&B Art Pop

# 9

The Book Room by Kilchhofer

Album • Feb 01 / 2018 Tribal Ambient

# 10

OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES by SOPHIE

Album • Jun 15 / 2018 Bubblegum Bass Deconstructed Club

# 11

Another Life by Amnesia Scanner

Album • Sep 07 / 2018 Deconstructed Club Electro-Industrial

# 12

Mulberry Violence by Trevor Powers

Album • Aug 17 / 2018 Glitch Pop Art Pop

# 13

Anticlines by Lucrecia Dalt

Album • May 04 / 2018 Electroacoustic Electronic

# 14

Ultraviolet by Kelly Moran

Album • Nov 02 / 2018 Post-Minimalism

# 15

Filha de mil mulheres by Clau Aniz

Album • May 18 / 2018 Art Rock

# 16

Disappearing in a Mirror by Giulio Aldinucci

Album • Sep 21 / 2018 Drone Ambient

# 17

DNA Feelings by Aïsha Devi

Album • May 11 / 2018 Deconstructed Club UK Bass Post-Industrial

# 18

Body by The Necks

Album • Aug 14 / 2018 Post-Rock Avant-Garde Jazz

# 19

Communion by Park Jiha

Album • Mar 02 / 2018 Post-Minimalism

# 20

Limpid As The Solitudes by Felicia Atkinson + Jefre Cantu-Ledesma

Album • Nov 09 / 2018 Ambient Electroacoustic Drone