Year-End Lists

Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2018 (an annual poll of hundreds of critics, published, perhaps for the last time, by The Village Voice)

[see also 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Golden Hour
   Kacey Musgraves
2. Dirty Computer
   Janelle Monáe
3. Invasion of Privacy
   Cardi B
3. Be the Cowboy
   Mitski
5. Honey
   Robyn
6. Daytona
   Pusha T
7. Room 25
   Noname
8. Double Negative
   Low
9. Wide Awake!
   Parquet Courts
10. Historian
    Lucy Dacus
11. What a Time to Be Alive
    Superchunk
12. Hell-On
    Neko Case
13. Clean
    Soccer Mommy
14. A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
    The 1975
15. Interstate Gospel
    Pistol Annies
16. Tell Me How You Really Feel
    Courtney Barnett
17. El Mal Querer
    Rosalía
18. The Tree of Forgiveness
    John Prine
19. Chris
    Christine and the Queens
19. Lush
    Snail Mail
21. Heaven and Earth
    Kamasi Washington
22. Universal Beings
    Makaya McCraven
23. Future Me Hates Me
    The Beths
23. Isolation
    Kali Uchis
25. In a Poem Unlimited
    U.S. Girls
26. boygenius
    boygenius
27. Black Panther The Album Music From And Inspired By
    Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd, SZA
28. 7
    Beach House
29. Whack World
    Tierra Whack
30. Record
    Tracey Thorn
31. Sweetener
    Ariana Grande
32. Some Rap Songs
    Earl Sweatshirt
33. By The Way, I Forgive You
    Brandi Carlile
33. Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
    Sophie
35. Joy as an Act of Resistance
    Idles
36. Your Queen Is a Reptile
    Sons of Kemet
37. Ventriloquism
    Meshell Ndegeocello
38. Knock Knock
    DJ Koze
39. Con Todo El Mundo
    Khruangbin
40. God’s Favorite Customer
    Father John Misty
41. ASTROWORLD
    Travis Scott
42. The Sciences
    Sleep
43. Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
    Arctic Monkeys
44. Hope Downs
    Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
45. Look Now
    Elvis Costello & The Imposters
46. Freedom
    Amen Dunes
47. Bottle It In
    Kurt Vile
48. Aviary
    Julia Holter
49. Safe in the Hands of Love
    Yves Tumor
50. Negro Swan
    Blood Orange
50. Ephorize
    cupcakKe
50. Things Have Changed
    Bettye LaVette
53. 2012-2017
    Against All Logic
53. There’s a Riot Going On
    Yo La Tengo
55. Care for Me
    Saba
56. Bark Your Head Off, Dog
    Hop Along
57. Sparkle Hard
    Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
57. LONER
    Caroline Rose
59. Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
    Deafheaven
60. Hive Mind
    The Internet
61. The Terror End of Beauty
    Harriet Tubman
62. Girl Going Nowhere
    Ashley McBryde
62. Superorganism
    Superorganism
64. Nearer My God
    Foxing
65. And Nothing Hurt
    Spiritualized
66. Singularity
    Jon Hopkins
66. Cocoa Sugar
    Young Fathers
68. Age Of
    Oneohtrix Point Never
69. American Utopia
    David Byrne
69. Constant Image
    Flasher
71. Broken Politics
    Neneh Cherry
72. May Your Kindness Remain
    Courtney Marie Andrews
72. Love Is Dead
    Chvrches
72. Kids See Ghosts
    Kids See Ghosts
75. Twin Fantasy
    Car Seat Headrest
75. Negative Capability
    Marianne Faithfull
75. The Future and the Past
    Natalie Prass
75. Songs of Praise
    Shame
79. The Old Guys
    Amy Rigby
80. Post-
    Jeff Rosenstock
81. The Horizon Just Laughed
    Damien Jurado
82. Scorpion
    Drake
83. Now Only
    Mount Eerie
84. WARM
    Jeff Tweedy
85. Caution
    Mariah Carey
86. I’m All Ears
    Let’s Eat Grandma
87. Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa
    Jeremy Dutcher
87. Emanon
    Wayne Shorter
89. To the Sunset
    Amanda Shires
89. FM!
    Vince Staples
91. Love Yourself 轉 'Tear'
    BTS
91. Wanderer
    Cat Power
91. Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album
    John Coltrane
91. Rebound
    Eleanor Friedberger
95. Rifles and Rosary Beads
    Mary Gauthier
95. soil
    serpentwithfeet
95. Boarding House Reach
    Jack White
98. Lost & Found
    Jorja Smith
99. How to Socialise & Make Friends
    Camp Cope
99. Prequelle
    Ghost
99. I can feel you creep into my private life
    Tune-Yards