Tape Op Staff Favorites of 2018

There were so many great records released this year, in fact too many to make a definitve and exhaustive list, but here are a few favorites from the Tape Op family. Consider it a tasting menu and have a great holiday! Click link to listen!

Larry Crane

Neko Case - Hell-On Greg Laswell - Next Time Happy Rhodes - Ectotrophia Brian Eno - Music for Installations The Beatles - White Album 50th Anniversary Edition

John Baccigaluppi

Adrianne Lenker - Abysskiss Cat Power - Wanderer Khruangbin - Con Todo El Mundo Moby - Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt Nils Frahm - All Melody Thom Yorke - Suspiria Soundtrack Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth

Geoff Stanfield

Low - Double Negative Masayoshi Fujita - Stories Jon Hassell - Listening to Pictures John Coltrane - Both Directions at Once Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour Leikeli47 - Acyrlic And from John and Larry's list I wore out Nils Frahm's All Melody, Khruangbin's Con Todo El Mundo, Neko Case's Hell-On, and Eno's Music for Installations.

Andy Hong

José James - Lean On Me Greta Van Fleet - Anthem of the Peaceful Army Nrthrn - Every Creator and Destroyer Covet - Effloresce This Will Destroy You - New Others Pt.1 / New Others Pt.2

Anthony Sarti

Death Grips - Year of the Snitch Billie Eilish - You Should See Me In A Crown Destroy Boys - Make Room Gorillaz - Tranz The Prodigy - No Tourists Grimes - We Appreciate Power

Marsha Vdovin

Kronos Quartet/Laura Anderson - Landfall Tune-Yards - I can feel you creep into my private life Marian Hill - Unusual Libella - The Apostle of Beauty Remain in Light - Angelique Kidjo