To borrow a phrase from the writer James Wolcott, it's Christmas Nocturne - that pleasantly odd week between Christmas and New Years where a significant number of people aren't working and presumably have lots of time to listen to best of the year compilations. As usual, I tried to exclude any artist who had been on any of the best of compilations from the previous two years, but I couldn't resist including Father John's Misty Pure Comedy as the closing cut. I've also re-upped all my previous best of compilations (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016). Hope everyone has a great 2018!
Disc One
| Pleasure | Feist |
| Dancing Down the Hall | Frankie Rose |
| Goodnight Rhonda Lee | Nicole Atkins |
| Rolling Along | The Mavericks |
| Lonely Girl | Chelsea Williams |
| Long Lonely Road | Valerie June |
| Taste | Rhye |
| Humility | Kamasi Washington |
| Evolution | Kelly Lee Owens |
| Systole | Grizzly Bear |
| Into My Arms | Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer |
| Just a Drink Away | Charley Crockett |
| Only Trouble Is | Ron Sexsmith |
| In Between | The Feelies |
| Sinking Down | Son Volt |
| God Bless the Infidels | The Sadies |
| Downhearted | Molly Burch |
| If You Need To, Keep Time On Me | Fleet Foxes |
| Sparks Fly | Waxahatchee |
| Who's Lovin' You | Kelis |
| Disc Two | |
| You Never Loved Me | Aimee Mann |
| Long Time Coming | Coco Hames |
| Last of My Kind | Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit |
| Kanimba | Trio Da Kali & Kronos Quartet |
| Big Fish | Vince Staples |
| Star Roving | Slowdive |
| Shake and Pop | Los Straitjackets |
| I Don't Wanna Die in This Town | Old 97's |
| I Pray When I'm Drunk | Robyn Hitchcock |
| The Singer (For Jason Molina) | Mark Eitzel |
| Til the Goin' Gets Gone | Lindi Ortega |
| Mexican Dust | Mosquitos |
| Road Head | Japanese Breakfast |
| Beautiful | Lera Lynn |
| Morning Dove | Julie Byrne |
| The Silverback | The Heliocentrics |
| The World Is Falling Down | Jim James |
| Plastic | Moses Sumney |
| Wrangled | Angaleena Presley |
| Pure Comedy | Father John Misty |
