Year-End Lists

PopMatters: 70 Best Albums of 2018

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2017 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Cocoa Sugar
   Young Fathers
2. Golden Hour
   Kacey Musgraves
3. Joy as an Act of Resistance
   Idles
4. Dirty Computer
   Janelle Monáe
5. soil
   serpentwithfeet
6. All That Must Be
   George FitzGerald
7. Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
   Deafheaven
8. Power
   Lotic
9. Room 25
   Noname
10. Kingdoms In Colour
    Maribou State
11. Honey
    Robyn
12. Safe in the Hands of Love
    Yves Tumor
13. Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
    Sophie
14. Empress
    Ray BLK
15. Care for Me
    Saba
16. Aviary
    Julia Holter
17. Chris
    Christine and the Queens
18. Persona
    Rival Consoles
19. Young Sick Camellia
    St. Paul & The Broken Bones
20. New Bodies
    Tangents
21. Queen of Golden Dogs
    Vessel
22. Double Negative
    Low
23. MITH
    Lonnie Holley
24. Heaven and Earth
    Kamasi Washington
25. Hell-On
    Neko Case
26. You Won't Get What You Want
    Daughters
27. boygenius
    boygenius
28. Konoyo
    Tim Hecker
29. And Nothing Hurt
    Spiritualized
30. Last Night
    Benin City
31. Negro Swan
    Blood Orange
32. Years
    Sarah Shook & the Disarmers
33. See You Around
    I’m With Her
34. 7
    Beach House
35. Bodied
    Ital Tek
36. IRISIRI
    Eartheater
37. Interstate Gospel
    Pistol Annies
38. Be the Cowboy
    Mitski
39. iridescence
    BROCKHAMPTON
40. Lost & Found
    Jorja Smith
41. Ultraviolet
    Kelly Moran
42. Invasion of Privacy
    Cardi B
43. Ten Fables of Young Ambition and Passionate Love
    St. Lenox
44. Elysia Crampton
    Elysia Crampton
45. Love Is Dead
    Chvrches
46. Sweetener
    Ariana Grande
47. Singularity
    Jon Hopkins
48. Closer Apart
    Okzharp & Manthe Ribane
49. Fenfo
    Fatoumata Diawara
50. Post-
    Jeff Rosenstock
51. Knock Knock
    DJ Koze
52. Open Here
    Field Music
53. God’s Favorite Customer
    Father John Misty
54. Historian
    Lucy Dacus
55. Black Times
    Seun Kuti & Egypt 80
56. Landfall
    Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet
57. Wide Awake!
    Parquet Courts
58. Volunteer
    Old Crow Medicine Show
59. The Future and the Past
    Natalie Prass
60. American Utopia
    David Byrne
61. Le Kov
    Gwenno
62. Daytona
    Pusha T
63. By The Way, I Forgive You
    Brandi Carlile
64. High As Hope
    Florence + The Machine
65. Paraffin
    Armand Hammer
66. Heaven
    Dilly Dally
67. Record
    Tracey Thorn
68. Full Circle Nightmare
    Kyle Craft
69. Prequelle
    Ghost
70. Evening Machines
    Gregory Alan Isakov