New Dig: 2018

It's been an inspired year for new music, encompassing resurrections, surprising second albums, poignant farewells, and courageous confessions. And throughout this rollercoaster of a year, there has been a lot of memorable music and uncompromising artistry.

What was the sound of 2018? Looking back on eleven months of New Digs, we were impressed by the variety of releases that we ended up sharing with our listeners, hoping that you might like them as much as we did.

So as the year draws to a close, we shine the New Dig spotlight on the albums we've explored in our weekly feature.

We also built a Spotify playlist of some favorite New Dig tracks of 2018, both singles and deeper fare. Check it out below, along with all of the year's New Dig album reviews.

Thanks for making music discovery possible all year long on FUV.

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New Dig Reviews

• Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel
• Rayland Baxter - Wide Awake
• Belly - Dove
• Big Red Machine - Big Red Machine
• Charles Bradley - Black Velvet
• Leon Bridges - Good Thing
• David Byrne - American Utopia
• Calexico - The Thread That Keeps Us
• Brandi Carlile - By the Way, I Forgive You
• Neko Case - Hell-On
• Dawes - Passwords
• Death Cab For Cutie - Thank You For Today
• The Decemberists - I'll Be Your Girl
• Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers
• Father John Misty - God's Favorite Customer
• Florence and the Machine - High as Hope
• Gorillaz - The Now Now
• Glen Hansard - Between Two Shores
• The Jayhawks - Back Roads and Abandoned Motels
• Jungle - For Ever
• Elle King - Shake the Spirit
• Lake Street Dive - Free Yourself Up
• Amos Lee - My New Moon
• Lo Moon - Lo Moon
• Mitski - Be the Cowboy
• Okkervil River - In The Rainbow Rain
• Phosphorescent - C'est La Vie
• Cat Power - Wanderer
• Natalie Prass - The Future and the Past
• Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - Tearing at the Seams
• The Record Company - All of This Life
• Caroline Rose - Loner
• Shannon Shaw - Shannon in Nashville
• Amanda Shires - To the Sunset
• Paul Simon - In the Blue Light
• Sunflower Bean - Twentytwo in Blue
• Superorganism - Superorganism
• Tracey Thorn - Record
• Tune-Yards - I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life
• Kurt Vile - Bottle It In