Year-End Lists

Mojo Magazine: 75 Best Albums of 2018

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1. Heaven and Earth
   Kamasi Washington
2. Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
   Arctic Monkeys
3. Hope Downs
   Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
4. Dirty Computer
   Janelle Monáe
5. Chris
   Christine and the Queens
6. Joy as an Act of Resistance
   Idles
7. Deafman Glance
   Ryley Walker
8. Tell Me How You Really Feel
   Courtney Barnett
9. And Nothing Hurt
   Spiritualized
10. All Nerve
    The Breeders
11. Fenfo
    Fatoumata Diawara
12. Daytona
    Pusha T
13. Bottle It In
    Kurt Vile
14. True Meanings
    Paul Weller
15. Record
    Tracey Thorn
16. Elephants on Acid
    Cypress Hill
17. World’s Strongest Man
    Gaz Coombes
18. Cocoa Sugar
    Young Fathers
19. Double Negative
    Low
20. I’m All Ears
    Let’s Eat Grandma
21. Wide Awake!
    Parquet Courts
22. Open Here
    Field Music
23. Golden Hour
    Kacey Musgraves
24. Smote Reverser
    Oh Sees
25. Wanderer
    Cat Power
26. Look Now
    Elvis Costello & The Imposters
27. Egypt Station
    Paul McCartney
28. Rebound
    Eleanor Friedberger
29. Le Kov
    Gwenno
30. Con Todo El Mundo
    Khruangbin
31. Hunter
    Anna Calvi
32. Babelsberg
    Gruff Rhys
33. The Prodigal Son
    Ry Cooder
34. Insecure Men
    Insecure Men
35. The Blue Hour
    Suede
36. The Sciences
    Sleep
37. We’re Not Talking
    The Goon Sax
38. Freedom’s Goblin
    Ty Segall
39. Sparkle Hard
    Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
40. There Is a Place
    Maisha
41. 13 Rivers
    Richard Thompson
42. Piano & a Microphone 1983
    Prince
43. Chemistry Lessons, Vol. 1
    Chris Carter
44. There’s a Riot Going On
    Yo La Tengo
45. The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs
    Wye Oak
46. Alive in the East?
    Binker and Moses
47. Temet
    Imarhan
48. C’est La Vie
    Phosphorescent
49. The Art of Pretending to Swim
    Villagers
50. Microshift
    Hookworms
51. How to Solve Our Human Problems
    Belle and Sebastian
52. Confident Music For Confident People
    Confidence Man
53. May Your Kindness Remain
    Courtney Marie Andrews
54. Mozart’s Mini-Mart
    Go-Kart Mozart
55. Digital Garbage
    Mudhoney
56. Love, Loss, and Auto-Tune
    Swamp Dogg
57. Love is Magic
    John Grant
58. The Lookout
    Laura Veirs
59. Benton County Relic
    Cedric Burnside
60. Listening To Pictures (Pentimento, Vol. One)
    Jon Hassell
61. Singularity
    Jon Hopkins
62. Be the Cowboy
    Mitski
63. Your Queen Is a Reptile
    Sons of Kemet
64. Uniform Distortion
    Jim James
65. Utopia
    Björk
66. Lump
    Lump
67. Last Man Standing
    Willie Nelson
68. Call The Comet
    Johnny Marr
69. For Ever
    Jungle
70. The Visitor
    Neil Young & Promise of the Real
71. Songs of Praise
    Shame
72. Lala Belu
    Hailu Mergia
73. Boarding House Reach
    Jack White
74. Unstoppable
    Candi Staton
75. The Now Now
    Gorillaz