Insecure Men

This week in the Indie Basement: Bill’s favorite albums of 2018, focusing on classic indie, college rock, and more.

UK music site The Quietus have published their Albums of the Year 2018 list and, as usual, it looks pretty different than most other sites’ lists…

Their #1 pick may surprise you.

This week in the Basement: The Bevis Frond, a reissue of Silicon Teens’ ’Music for Parties,’ Saul from Fat White Family sings ’Karaoke for One,’ plus Dutch band Lewsberg, Kevin Hairs and more.

Listen to new songs by DAWN, Cursive, The Hold Steady, The Twilight Sad, Marissa Nadler, Petal, Racetraitor, Author & Punisehr, Yves Tumor, Windhand, Insecure Men, Horrendous, and a whole lot more.

This week in the Indie Basement we’ve got the new solo album from The Clean’s Hamish Kilgour; French artist (and former Melody’s Echo Chamber bandmember) Halo Maud; a new ’50s exotica compilation from The Numero Group; balaeric pop from Australia; and debauched party rock from Warmduscher (featuring members of Fat White Family and Childhood).

This week in the basement: Kero Kero Bonito go indie rock, the return of indie cult artist Lawrence (Felt), Fat White Family offshoot Insecure Men, Quilt offshoot Olden Yolk, Swedish musician Sibille Attar, and more.

The 2018 lineup was revealed today featuring headliners Vampire Weekend (their first show in four years) and St. Vincent, plus Feist, Yo La Tengo, Ezra Furman, Jeff Tweedy, John Cale, Oh Sees, Gruff Rhys, Fat White Family, Julia Holter, Destroyer, Big Thief, Aldous Harding, Hookworms, Omar Souleyman, Mulatu Astatke, Protomartyr, Japanese Breakfast, Gwenno, and lots more.

Insecure Men, the group led by Saul Adamczewski (Fat White Family) and his old friend and school chum Ben Romans-Hopcraft, will release their self-titled debut album on February 23 via Fat Possum.

A roundup of NYC shows (and more) on sale today.