Steve Edge's Top Albums
Favourite new releases of 2018 - Alphabetized list of my favourite CD releases of the year
| # | Artist | Album | label |
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| 1 | Altan | The Gap O'Dreams | Compass Records |
| 2 | Angelique Kidjo | Remain In Light | Kravenworks |
| 3 | Barbara Dane | Hot Jazz | Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs |
| 4 | Bokante & Metropole Orkestra | What Heat | Real World |
| 5 | Bryan Ferry | Bitter-Sweet | BMG |
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| 6 | Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita | Soar | Bendigedig |
| 7 | Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore | Downey To Lubbock | Yep Roc |
| 8 | David Francey | Broken Heart Of Everything | Laker Music |
| 9 | DeVotchka | This Night Falls Forever | Concord |
| 10 | Djeneba et Fousco | Kayeba Khasso | 438 Productions |
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| 11 | Early Spirit | Unrelated | Early Spirit |
| 12 | Eliza Gilkyson | Secularia | Red House |
| 13 | Fatoumata Diawara | | Shanachie |
| 14 | The Fretless | Live From The Art Farm | The Fretless |
| 15 | Genticorum | Avant L'Orage | Genticorum |
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| 16 | Gretchen Peters | Dancing With The Beast | Scarlet Letter |
| 17 | Imar | Avalanche | Big Mann |
| 18 | Kat Danser | Goin' Gone | Black Hen |
| 19 | Kevin Burke | An Evening With Kevin Burke | Lotfus Music |
| 20 | Le Vent Du Nord & De Temps Antan | Notre Album Solo | La Compagnie Du Nord |
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| 21 | Lord Huron | Vide Noir | Whispering Pines |
| 22 | Loreena McKennitt | Lost Souls | Quinlan Road |
| 23 | Luke Plumb & The Circuit | Turn & Return | L. Plumb |
| 24 | Lunasa | Cas | Lunasa Records |
| 25 | Michael McGoldrick & Dezi Donnelly | Dog In The Fog | Boxroom Music |
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| 26 | Moonlight Benjamin | Siltane | Ma Case |
| 27 | Muddy Gurdy | Muddy Gurdy | VizzTone |
| 28 | Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats | Tearing At The Seams | Stax |
| 29 | Orquesta Akokan | Orquesta Akokan | Daptone |
| 30 | The Outside Track | Rise Up | Lorimer |
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| 31 | Pharis & Jason Romero | Sweet Old Religion | Lula Records |
| 32 | Rory Block | A Woman's Soul: Tribute To Bessie Smith | Stony Plain |
| 33 | Ry Cooder | The Prodigal Son | Concord |
| 34 | Steve Dawson | Lucky Hand | Black Hen |
| 35 | String Sisters | Between Wind & Water | String Sisters |
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| 36 | Talisk | Beyond | Talisk Records |
| 37 | Van Django | Hotel Europe | Van Django |
| 38 | Yves Lambert Trio | Tentation | La Pruche Libre |
