It’s that time again, folks. With 2018 thankfully behind us, stellar DMNDR contributor Mark Molloy once again brings us our ‘best of the year’ playlist for your listening pleasure.

The list is organized alphabetically by 10s.

1 – 10

The Caretaker – (Tie) – “H1 – Stage 4 Post Awareness Confusions” , “L1 – Stage 5 Advanced plaque entanglements” , “N1 – Stage 5 Sudden time regression into isolation”

(On Bandcamp, the release date is listed as September 22, 2016. The track is part of a multi-volume series exploration of dementia. The first volume was published in 2016. Volumes 4 and 5, from which these tracks are taken, were published in 2018.)

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Jon Hopkins – “Luminous Beings”

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Mary Lattimore – (Tie) – “It Feels Like Floating” , “On the Day You Saw the Dead Whale”

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Mary Lattimore and Meg Baird – “Fair Annie”

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Janelle Monáe – (Tie) – “Make Me Feel” , “PYNK” ft. Grimes

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Nipsey Hussle ft. YG – “Last Time That I Checc’d”

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Oneohtrix Point Never – (Tie) – “Age Of” , “Babylon”

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Panda Bear – “Dolphin”

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Nate Terepka – “Tempelhof”

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Westerman – “Albatross”

11 – 20

The Body – “Nothing Stirs”

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Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt – “Love and Open Windows”

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Ariana Grande – (Tie) – “Breathin” , “No Tears Left To Cry”

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Jerusalem In My Heart – “Thahab, Mish Roujou’, Thahab”

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Kranium – “Last Night”

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Kacey Musgraves – “High Horse”

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Rina Mushonga – “4qrtrs”

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Tess Roby – “Given Signs”

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Robyn – “Honey” (album version)

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Tyga – “Taste”

21 – 30

Benny Blanco, Halsey & Khalid – “Eastside”

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Childish Gambino – “This Is America”

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Counterparts – “Selfishly I Sink”

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Chuck Johnson – “Eye On The Sparrow”

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Ella Mai – “Boo’d Up”

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Pusha T ft. Rick Ross – “Hard Piano”

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Sade – “The Big Unknown”

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Slugdge – “The Spectral Burrows”

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Snail Mail – “Full Control”

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The Spirit Of The Beehive – “hypnic jerks”

31 – 40

American Football – “Silhouettes”

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Phoebe Bridgers ft. Jackson Browne – “Christmas Song”

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Jean Grae & Quelle Chris ft. Nick Offerman – “Everything’s Still Fine”

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Cherrie Laurel – “Pleases Me”

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Mount Eerie – “Distortion”

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Anderson .Paak – “Bubblin”

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Troye Sivan – “My My My!”

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Soccer Mommy – “Skin”

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Rae Sremmurd ft. Juicy J – “Powerglide”

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Christina Vantzou – “Some Limited and Waning Memory”

41 – 50

The 1975 – “It’s Not Living (If It’s Not With You)”

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Inspired School Of Astral Music – “For L.”

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Kendrick Lamar Ft. SZA – “All The Stars”

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Shannen Moser – “Haircut Song”

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NOTD, Bea Miller – “I Wanna Know”

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PORTAL – “Revault Of Volts”

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Steve Tibbetts – “Life Of Alice”

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x.nte – “fictional 1”

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Thom Yorke – “Suspirium”

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Charli XCX & Troye Sivan – “1999”