Favorite released studio albums for 2018

That time of year already..? Few choices there Gary that slipped though my net, so maybe some post-Christmas investigating & shopping to be done.

Don't know if it's just me, but 2018 seemed to get off to a slow start, album-wise, but here's my selection, more in chronological than preference order:-

Joe Satriani - What Happens Next
Anderson East - Encore
Dan Patlansky - Perfection Kills
Jason Wells - Nine Hours
Kris Barras - The Divine & Dirty
Mike Zito - First Class Life
Wilko Johnson - Blow Your Mind
Buck & Evans - Write A Better Day
Magpie Salute - High Water 1
Curse of Lono - As I Fell
Sari Schorr - Never Say Never
Uriah Heep - Living The Dream
Rainbreakers - Face to Face
Bishop Gunn - Natchez
Federal Charm - Passenger
R.H.R. - Mahogany Drift
Lincoln Durham - And Into Heaven Came The Night
Ryan McGarvey - Heavy Hearted

Live album - Wille & the Bandits - Living Free
                   Ryan McGravey - Live at Swinghouse
                   Richard Hawley - Live at the Devil's A***

Re-Issue - Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses

Never thought would be mentioned  on this forum category:-
Kim Wilde - here Come The Aliens

I only purchased 4 CDs this year.  Ridiculous considering my CD collection is over 4000 discs. 

Greta Van Fleet is #1
Joe Bonamassa is #2
Alice In Chains is #3
A Perfect Circle was purchased, but just one listen and I found it incredibly boring and disappointing.

Hm, thinking back, I didn't get a lot of new records this year.  I bought a lot of music, but mostly older releases.

Greta Van Fleet's "Athem of the Peaceful Army" is great, definitely lived up to the promise.
Ultraphonix's "Original Human Music" is a great rock record - it features George Lynch (Dokken) & Cory Glover (Living Color).
"Redemption," of course.

I just listed to Red Dragon Cartel's "Patina" and I really dig that, too, although it's pretty new to me.  Hard to put in on a "best" list after one listen but certainly worth a mention.

Bringing  this back up as I should make mention of Buddy Guys album this year.
He still has it going on and a top notch blues album

Didn't realise I'd even bought 10 New Releases this year!

1. Boss Keloid - Melted on the Inch
2. Conan - Existential Void Guardian
3. Earthless - Black Heaven
4. Elephant 9 - Greatest Show on Earth
5. Ihsahn - Amr
6. Monster Truck - True Rockers
7. Ring Van Mobius - Past the Evening Sun
8. Riverside - Wasteland
9. Rikard Sjoblom's Gungfly - Friendship
10. Sleep - The Sciences

(OK so I bought Spock's Beard's latest too, but I'll keep schtum on that...)

  Of course this is a not too bluesy list !!
Looks like you may be the only one here out  side of me with things like Earthless and Monster Truck on a list!

Bit of a puzzler where to actually post about this one.... Only just got it at the week-end though it did emerge in November last year.

Jawbone - Jawbone

Jawbone is a band that have been kicking about for a while now (mentioned on the forum a couple of years back), a collaboration between good friends Marcus Bonfanti and Paddy Milner, joined by antipodean rhythm section Rex Horan & Evan Jenkins. The overall sound is rooted  in the London scene but taps into bands like Little Feat & The Band (from where they've taken the group name (song title from 2nd album); add a little Stones and some CSN&Y.

Leave No Traces - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp0oTT3isPU

Jack J Hutchinson (not Johnson) started recording sessions for new solo album at New Year (way to work out hangover....) but maybe some stuff may make follow-up to Mahogany Drift; my next opportunity to catch the guys will be in July though I've had word that Mike Ross (the 2nd of the "R"s) will be doing a solo, acoustic in the neighbourhood in March. Mike has a couple of solo albums out worth checking out. Last I heard from Troy Redfern, he was on tour in Russia.....