Career playing New World Brewery's final show in Ybor City, Florida. Credit: Jess Phillips

Career plays the Body ElectrIc Yoga Co. in St. Petersburg, Florida on December 22, 2018. Credit: Brian Mahar

Career: Structures Technically, the music from Structures has been hanging around since before 2018 reared its ugly head, but so were so many of the difficult themes (read: poverty, being an outsider in your own neighborhood) that Ryan Fouche baked into the Tampa band’s terrifyingly heavy, sludgey and gripping debut full-length recorded masterfully at Springs Theatre in Sulphur Springs and then finally released for all to hear this spring.

Scroll through a slideshow of 2018's best Tampa Bay music releases or see and sample all of them here. Call your local record store to see if it is carrying the release.

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Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...