For those who just like a straightforward list without video links here it is, all of my favourite releases from 2018 together. It’s a long list but I consider that minimalism is overrated!

• Sarah McQuaid – If we dig any deeper it could get dangerous
• Jess Morgan – And I still can’t keep still EP/Blue Jay single/Aston expressway, kiss me quick single/Whitby single
• Dean Owens – Southern Wind
• Gem Andrews – North
• Faeland – At my swim
• Jim Ghedi – A hymn for ancient land
• Bennett Wilson Poole – Bennett Wilson Poole
• Don Gallardo – Still here
• Kings of the South Seas – Franklyn
• Zoe Mulford – Small brown birds
• Alela Diane – Cusp
• Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker – Seedlings All
• H.C McEntire – Lionheart
• Winter Wilson – Far off on the horizon
• Jerry Leger – Nonsense and heartache
• Orphan Colours – All on red
• Stick in the Wheel – Follow them true
• Brandi Carlile – By the way, I forgive you
• Fran Wyburn – Wood for the trees
• Hannah Read – Way out I’ll wander
• I’m Kingfisher – Transit
• Cath and Phil Tyler – The Ax and the Ox
• Mary Chapin Carpenter – Sometimes just the sky
• Courtney Marie Andrews – May your kindness remain
• Duotone – A life re-appearing
• Simone Felice – The Projector
• Hayley Henderickx – I need to start a garden
• Israel Nash – Lifted
• Ray Cooper – Between the golden age and the promised land
• Gretchen Peters – Dancing with the beast
• The Fugitives – The promise of strangers
• Hatful of Rain – Songs of the lost and found
• Jill Jackson – Are we there yet?
• Blair Dunlop – Notes from an island
• Olivia Chaney – Shelter
• Hannah Sanders and Ben Savage – Awake
• Laura Veirs – The Lookout
• Juliana Daugherty – Light
• Erin Rae – Putting on airs
• Lucy Ward – Pretty warnings
• Jennifer Castle – Angels of death
• Suburban Dirts – I want blood
• Hadley McCall Thackston – Hadley McCall Thackston
• The Jellyman’s Daughter – Dead reckoning
• Ana Egge – White Tiger
• Modern Studies – Welcome strangers
• Ry Cooder – Prodigal Son
• Mishaped Pearls – Shivelight
• Ben Kunder – Better Human
• Jess Vincent – Lions
• Laura Gibson – Goners
• Benjamin Folke Thomas – Modern man
• William Fitzsimmons – Mission bell
• Karine Polwart, Steven Polwart and Inge Thomson – Laws of motion
• Cam Penner – At war with reason
• Trevor Moss and Hannah-Lou – Fair Lady London
• Nathan Bell – Love, bones and stars
• Marc Ribot – Songs of Resistance 1942-2018
• John Smith – Hummingbird
• Kelly Oliver – Botany Bay
• Jess Matas – Tamarack
• Phillip Henry – True North
• Kitty MacFarlane – Namer of clouds
• Ed Harcourt – Beyond the end
• David Berkeley – The Faded Red and Blue EP
• Sinnober – Projection
• Martyn Joseph – Here come the young
• Ciara O’Neill – Arrow
• The Willows – Through the wild
• Glorietta – Glorietta
• Austin Lucas – Immortal Americans
• Annie Dressner – Broken into pieces
• Gilmore and Roberts – A problem of our kind
• Me for Queen – Loose end
• Curse of Lono – As I fell
• Drew Morrison and the Darkwood – Electric Notes Wild
• Tunng – Songs you make at night
• Treetop Flyers – Treetop Flyers
• Grace Petrie – Queer as folk
• Vanessa Peters – Foxhole prayers
• Dan Webster – Devil sky
• M.G Boulter and The Froe – Blood Moon EP
• The Cowboy Junkies – All that reckoning
• Kerry Devine – Away from the mountains
• Lori McKenna – The Tree
• Elephant Micah – Genericana
• Amanda Shires – To the sunset
• Lachlan Bryan and the Wildes – Some girls quite like country music
• The Innocence Mission – Sun on the square
• Lera Lynn – Plays well with others (a duets album)
• Jason McNiff – Joy and independence
• Alden Patterson and Dashwood – By the night
• Robby Hecht and Caroline Spence – Two people
• Steve Tilston – Distant days
• The Milk Carton Kids – All the things that I did and all the things that I didn’t do
• Rab Noakes – Welcome to anniversaryville
• Kristian Kjellvander – Faux Guernica
• Katherine Priddy – Wolf EP
• Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus – Boygenius EP
• Eliza Gilkyson – Secularia
• Rachel Baiman – Thanksgiving EP
• Reg Meuross – Reg Meuross
• Luluc – Sculptor
• The Shackleton Trio – Fen, farm and deadly water
• Trampled  by Turtles – Life is good one the open road
• Letitia VanSant – Gut it to the studs
• The Trials of Cato – Hide and hair