Strange Currency | Best of 2018

Strange Currency--hosted by Jedd Beaudoin--airs six nights a week from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. on KMUW, bringing you new releases, old favorites and forgotten classics. 

In addition to his overall "Best of 2018" list, Jedd offers several "best of" categories this year, including reissues, local/regional releases, and EPs.

  Strange Currency: Best of 2018

1. SASSAFRASS!—Tami Neilson
2. Heaven and Earth—Kamasi Washington
3. Dirty Pictures Pt.2—Low Cut Connie
4. Only In The Dark—Jesse Ainslie
5. Free Yourself Up—Lake Street Dive
6. Egypt Station—Paul McCartney
7. When It Falls—Rachel Eckroth
8. Behold Electric Guitar—Paul Gilbert
9. Life & Times—Neal Morse
10. Blood Moon-Michot’s Melody Makers
11. Here If You Listen—David Crosby
12. Run Tiny Human—Rachel Taylor Brown
13. Rainier Fog—Alice In Chains
14. Dearest Everybody—Inara George
15. The Eclipse Sessions—John Hiatt
16. Pop-N-Downers—Hymn For Her
17. Life Is Good On The Open Road—Trampled By Turtles
18. Mandala Brush—Spain
19. Monument—Galen Ayers
20. Love’s Middle Name—Sarah Borges & The Broken Singles
21. In Lieu of Flowers—Brian Belknap 
22. Elastic Days—J Mascis
23. What Happens Next—Joe Satriani
24. Warm—Jeff Tweedy
25. Disappearing Man—Byron Isaacs

Reissues/Archival:

1. Never Let Me Down (2018)—David Bowie
2. The Beatles (White Album, 50^th Anniversary Boxed Set)—The Beatles
3. All the Pain Money Can Buy—Fastball
4. Frosting On The Beater—The Posies
5. Cinema—Holger Czukay
6. Switched On/Refried Ectoplasm/Aluminum Tunes—Stereolab
7. Piano & A Microphone, 1983—Prince
8. More Blood, More Tracks—Bob Dylan
9. The Girl From Chikasaw County: The Complete Capitol Recordings—Bobby Gentry
10. Red Rose Speedway—Wings

Best Local/Regional Releases:

1. Forest Standards Vol.1—David Lord
2. Stand Still—Sunshine Dreamers
3. Hollow Bones—MariaElena
4. One Stop—Shane Marler
5. Building The Sun—Gooding
6. Melter—Helen Kelter Skelter
7. Always On My Mind—Daydream
8. Celestial Download—False Flag ICT
9. Equestrian Husbandry—The *its
10. Lucky—Carter Sampson

EPs

1. Truth Has Legs—Jenny Wood
2. Gnosis-Carrie Nation and The Speakeasy
3. LVRS—Remains To Be Seen
4. Girl Anthem—Yasmin Nur
5. We Are Wichita—The Wichita Flag
6. The Evil Deeds of the Children of Darkness and the Apathy of the Children of Light—Living Ghost
7. Look Alive—Master Mood TV
8. The Howling Family—The Coma Calling
9. Junior Retreat—Junior Retreat
10. Pretend Friend—Pretend Friend