Best electronic albums of 2018: an introduction

Don your flashing trousers and grease your moustache with guacamole - it's time for the best electronic albums of 2018!

Other websites and magazines have already published their 2018 retrospectives, including my beloved Electronic Sound. All these so-called "experts" will have "thought" about the year and "listened" again to the best albums to produce "a" considered opin"ion". (Editor's note: can you put those speech marks in the right places? Thanks.)

None of them will have employed the Fat Roland Information Gathering System (FRIGS) for compiling an end-of-year chart. I can't give you details of this spectacularly effective system for legal reasons, but I'm currently surrounded two drones, a magic 8-ball, a blow torch, a signed photo of Trev (not Simon), and 15 colour-coded potties.

Actually, I've secretly put a lot of work into this. You're about to read 30 blog posts, including the top 20 best electronic albums of 2018 according to my excellent opinion, and 10 extra posts telling you what didn't make the cut. They'll appear every half-hour from now until tea-time today, then continue on New Year's Eve. The number one best album of 2018 will be revealed at 4pm on the 31st - it's a corker, and a work that has been woefully overlooked by other lists.

This is the tenth time I have produced this end-of-year list. Happy decade-day, lists. Clark won the first list back in 2009, I seem to remember. Have a look back at all of them here.

Don your guacamole trousers, and flash your greasy moustache. Stand by for the best electronic etc etc what I said earlier (Editor's note: can you please complete this sentence, ffs).