Year-End Lists

Glide Magazine: 20 Best Albums of 2018, in alphabetical order by artist

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• Undesirable
  Becky Warren
• LONER
  Caroline Rose
• Songs of the Plains
  Colter Wall
• May Your Kindness Remain
  Courtney Marie Andrews
• Sweet Unknown
  Erika Wennerstrom
• Be More Kind
  Frank Turner
• Prequelle
  Ghost
• Glorietta
  Glorietta
• Lifted
  Israel Nash
• Whatever It Takes
  The James Hunter Six
• Rare Birds
  Jonathan Wilson
• The Other
  King Tuff
• Carolina Confessions
  The Marcus King Band
• Wide Awake!
  Parquet Courts
• How To: Friend, Love, Freefall
  Rainbow Kitten Surprise
• Collagically Speaking
  R+R=NOW
• Onion
  Shannon & The Clams
• Life Is Good on the Open Road
  Trampled By Turtles
• Emanon
  Wayne Shorter
• One Drop of Truth
  The Wood Brothers

20 Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order)

• To the Sunset
  Amanda Shires
• Oxnard
  Anderson .Paak
• All Nerve
  The Breeders
• Black Velvet
  Charles Bradley
• Vanished Gardens
  Charles Lloyd & The Marvels & Lucinda Williams
• Downey to Lubbock
  Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore
• Passwords
  Dawes
• Shake the Spirit
  Elle King
• Dirty Computer
  Janelle Monáe
• The Tree of Forgiveness
  John Prine
• Heaven and Earth
  Kamasi Washington
• Bought to Rot
  Laura Jane Grace & the Devouring Mothers
• Dirty Pictures, Pt. 2
  Low Cut Connie
• Years
  Sarah Shook & the Disarmers
• All At Once
  Screaming Females
• Be True
  Sloucher
• Sparkle Hard
  Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
• What a Time to Be Alive
  Superchunk
• Sex & Food
  Unknown Mortal Orchestra
• Rhododendron
  Valley Maker