Round-up DIY’s albums of the year 2018
Team DIY pick out their favourite records from the year.
The Quality Streets have been scoffed, the Baileys is on hand and us lot at DIY HQ are getting all misty-eyed and reflective looking back on the last twelve months. And what a twelve months it’s been for music! So, in true end-of-year fashion, we’re running through some of 2018’s biggest highlights, along with a handful of our own favourites.
In our final feature looking back ay 2018, we’ve decided to round up some of our favourite albums from across the year: from the potent manifesto of love and acceptance offered up by IDLES to the otherworldly destination of Arctic Monkeys’ sixth album, via the brilliant weirdness of The 1975’s latest opus, here are Team DIY’s favourite albums of 2018…
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