Favourite and best end of year music lists are always difficult to compile, and this makes year number 11 for us. On December 17, we mark exactly 10 years since we began this musical, artistic and technological journey and hopefully we’ll be around for another 10 and more. The reason to continue is the same as the reason we started – to promote independently made and released music we love. All lists are intensely subjective and also subject to taste and exposure. To that end, below is a list of 70 albums that didn’t quite make our Top 30 list for 2018 but we think deserve more an honourable mention. It is deliberately not in order (no more ranking) and it is not sorted into genre (no more dividing). And fundamentally, it is far from definitive. Click on the album covers for links to buy. Thank you to all the independent and underground artists and their communities around the world for all their cutting edge efforts often in the face of an unforgiving economic (and social, political and environmental) world.
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