When you consider how massive 2017 has been for brilliant records, it's somewhat surprising there's anything left for 2018. But still, we've done the maths, checked the charts, and there's loads of amazing stuff to come over the next twelve months. Here's just some of it.
The 1975
Yes, it’s Matty Healy and Co.’s much gossiped about third full-length, ‘Music For Cars’ - quite probably the most anticipated record of 2018 full stop. He told Dork this time last year that it will come out “early summer 2018,” and that still seems to be the plan. “It’ll be sad but it’ll change the world ‘cause it’ll be fucking sick,” he added. With Matty currently teasing Dirty Hit catalogue numbers on Twitter, occasionally dropping the odd hint of what’s to come, it’s fair to say the noise is only going to get louder from here on in.
Sky Ferreira
On 16th July, 2014, Sky Ferreira revealed that she was working on her second album, the follow-up to 2013’s ‘Night Time, My Time’. In November of that year she described it as “a little heavier”, and then in 2015 she announced its title: ‘Masochism’. Since then Sky mostly seems to be doing film stuff, notably playing Baby’s mum in Edgar Wright flick Baby Driver. Come on, Sky.
The Japanese House
Here’s one we’ve been chomping at the bit for all year. “There’s a lot of weird shit on it,” Amber Bain revealed of her debut when we tackled her backstage at Reading Festival this summer. “There’s a lot of crazy stuff going on.” Sounds like our kind of album. “I’m writing every day until I’m either dead or it’s complete,” she added. Oo-er.
