2018 Yearn Rave You

2018 Favorite Albums

Newish

1. Collected Acknowledgements, Table Sugar

2. Two Distinguished Gentlemen, Ralph White and Steve Marsh

3. Mandoria Awakening II, Nicole Mitchell (2017)
4. Hippo Lite, Drinks

5. I'm Bad Now, Nap Eyes

6. Babes With Boyfriends, Chris Moschetti

7. Dimensional People, Mouse On Mars

8. Hypnic Jerks, Spirit Of The Beehive

9. Semi-Permanent, Kitten Forever 

10. Your Queen Is A Reptile, Sons of Kemet

Oldish

1. Shame-Based Man, Bruce McCulloch (1995)
2. Fe, Souled American (1988)
3. Diary Of The Originator: Codeine Fiend, DJ Screw (2004)
4. Harlem Bush Music — Taifa, Gary Bartz NTU Troop (1971)
5. The Human Horn, Shooby Taylor (2001)
6. Vous Et Nous, Brigitte Fontaine and Areski Belkacem (1977)
7. Psychedelic Sanza, Francis Bebey (2014)
8. Circles, William S. Fischer (1970)
9. Big Sun, Chassol (2015)
10. Pass The Dust, I Think I'm Bowie, Black Randy and the Metro Squad (1979)

2018 Favorite Books

Newish

1. Educated, Tara Westover
2. Criminals, Robert Anthony Siegel
3. Underbug, Lisa Margonelli
4. The Brand New Catastrophe, Mike Scalise
5. Mother American Night, John Perry Barlow
6. Limits Of The Known, David Roberts
7. The Last Black Unicorn, Tiffany Haddish
8. The Girl Who Smiled Beads, Clemantine Wamariya
9. The Best We Could Do, Thi Bui
10. The Feather Thief, Kirk W. Johnson

Oldish

1. The Boy Who Invented Skiing, Swain Wolfe (2006)
2. Planet Joe, Joe Cole (2011)
3.  Down City, Leah Carroll (2017)
4. Clothes Clothes Clothes..., Viv Albertine (2014)
5. Muck, Craig Sherborne (2007)
6. A Common Pornography, Kevin Sampsell (2010)
7. Second Wind, Nathaniel Philbrick (1999)
8. Brain On Fire, Susannah Cahalan (2013)
9. Naked In The Woods, Margaret Gundstein (2015)
10. Dispatches From Pluto, Richard Grant (2015)

2018 Favorite Photobooks

Newish

1. Kochetov, Victor and Sergey Kochetov
2. White Night, Feng Li (2nd Ed)
3. Warn'd In Vain, Charalampos Kydonakis

4. Deana Lawson (Self Titled)
5. Landfall, Mimi Plumb

6. Per Strada, Guido Guidi 
7.  The Moth, Jem Southam

8. American Winter, Gerry Johansson

9. Masahisa Fukase (Self Titled)
10. The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand, Geoff Dyer

Oldish

1. Analog Days, John Harding (2012)
2. Vanitas, Christobal Hara (1998)
3. A Few Memories, Nomura Shohhei (2017)
4. Harms Way. Lust and Madness. Murder and Mayhem, Joel Peter-Witkin (1994)
5. Year One, Tobias Faldt (2011)
6. India, Carl De Keyzer (2001)
7. John Stezaker (Self Titled) (2011)
8. Plants and Animals, Sverre Strandberg (2016)
9. Life As a Night Porter, Chris Shaw (2005)
10. Switzerland On The Rocks, Nicolas Faure (1995)


2018 Favorite Films

Newish

1. Brad's Status, Mike White
2. Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig (2017)
3. Ingrid Goes West, Matt Spicer (2017)
4. The Florida Project, Sean Baker (2017)
5. The Square, Ruben Ostland (2017)
6. Dina, Antonio Santini and Dan Sickles (2017)
7. Hereditary, Ari Aster
8. Sorry To Bother You, Boots Riley
9. Beatriz At Dinner, Miguel Arteta (2017)
10. Free Solo, Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vesarhelyi

Oldish

1. The Windmill Movie, Alexander Olch (2008)
2. Into The Abyss, Werner Herzog (2011)
3. Paterson, Jim Jarmusch (2016)
4. Ran, Akira Kurosawa (1985)
5. While We're Young, Noah Baumbach (2014)
6. Tangerine, Sean Baker (2015)
7. Shaun Of The Dead, Edgar Wright (2004)
8. Five Easy Pieces, Bob Rafelson (1970)
9. Come and See, Elem Klimov (1985)
10. Holy Mountain, Alejandro Jodorowsky (1973)