Year-End Lists

Far Out Magazine: The 50 Best Albums of 2018

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2017]

1. Joy as an Act of Resistance
   Idles
2. Be the Cowboy
   Mitski
3. Freedom
   Amen Dunes
4. Songs of Praise
   Shame
5. Some Rap Songs
   Earl Sweatshirt
6. Wide Awake!
   Parquet Courts
7. And Nothing Hurt
   Spiritualized
8. In a Poem Unlimited
   U.S. Girls
9. Tell Me How You Really Feel
   Courtney Barnett
10. 7
    Beach House
11. Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
    Arctic Monkeys
12. Clean
    Soccer Mommy
13. Twin Fantasy
    Car Seat Headrest
14. Daytona
    Pusha T
15. ASTROWORLD
    Travis Scott
16. Acts of Fear and Love
    Slaves
17. How Many Times Have You Driven By
    Hana Vu
18. boygenius
    boygenius
19. Lush
    Snail Mail
20. Wanderer
    Cat Power
21. God’s Favorite Customer
    Father John Misty
22. Twentytwo in Blue
    Sunflower Bean
23. Yawn
    Bill Ryder-Jones
24. Freedom’s Goblin
    Ty Segall
25. Historian
    Lucy Dacus
26. Negro Swan
    Blood Orange
27. >>>
    Beak>
28. Bottle It In
    Kurt Vile
29. Bloom
    Troye Sivan
30. Invasion of Privacy
    Cardi B
31. TA13OO
    Denzel Curry
32. so sad so sexy
    Lykke Li
33. American Utopia
    David Byrne
34. Virtue
    The Voidz
35. Double Negative
    Low
36. Heaven and Earth
    Kamasi Washington
37. Little Dark Age
    MGMT
38. Transangelic Exodus
    Ezra Furman
39. Whale City
    Warmduscher
40. Beyondless
    Iceage
41. Oxnard
    Anderson .Paak
42. Michael Nau & The Mighty Thread
    Michael Nau
43. Foxwarren
    Foxwarren
44. I Don't Run
    Hinds
45. Big Red Machine
    Big Red Machine
46. Quarterthing
    Joey Purp
47. Room Inside the World
    Ought
48. Dear Annie
    Rejjie Snow
49. Superorganism
    Superorganism
50. Joy
    Ty Segall & White Fence