Year-End Lists

Q Magazine: Top 50 Albums of 2018

[see also 2019 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
   Arctic Monkeys
2. I’m All Ears
   Let’s Eat Grandma
3. A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
   The 1975
4. Honey
   Robyn
5. Wide Awake!
   Parquet Courts
6. Chris
   Christine and the Queens
7. Joy as an Act of Resistance
   Idles
8. Dirty Computer
   Janelle Monáe
9. True Meanings
   Paul Weller
10. Hunter
    Anna Calvi
11. Marauder
    Interpol
12. Golden Hour
    Kacey Musgraves
13. Babelsberg
    Gruff Rhys
14. Tell Me How You Really Feel
    Courtney Barnett
15. Negro Swan
    Blood Orange
16. Be the Cowboy
    Mitski
17. Freedom’s Goblin
    Ty Segall
18. Knock Knock
    DJ Koze
19. Daytona
    Pusha T
20. And Nothing Hurt
    Spiritualized
21. Double Negative
    Low
22. Hope Downs
    Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
23. Record
    Tracey Thorn
24. Look Now
    Elvis Costello & The Imposters
25. God’s Favorite Customer
    Father John Misty
26. In a Poem Unlimited
    U.S. Girls
27. Song for Alpha
    Daniel Avery
28. Hell-On
    Neko Case
29. World’s Strongest Man
    Gaz Coombes
30. Bottle It In
    Kurt Vile
31. High As Hope
    Florence + The Machine
32. Sparkle Hard
    Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
33. Songs of Praise
    Shame
34. Mozart’s Mini-Mart
    Go-Kart Mozart
35. Aviary
    Julia Holter
36. Rebound
    Eleanor Friedberger
37. 7
    Beach House
38. Yawn
    Bill Ryder-Jones
39. Wanderer
    Cat Power
40. Kids See Ghosts
    Kids See Ghosts
41. so sad so sexy
    Lykke Li
42. Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
    Sophie
43. Everything Is Recorded
    Everything Is Recorded
44. Pray For the Wicked
    Panic! At the Disco
45. Swimming
    Mac Miller
46. Invasion of Privacy
    Cardi B
47. Merrie Land
    The Good, the Bad & the Queen
48. Heaven and Earth
    Kamasi Washington
49. Resistance Is Futile
    Manic Street Preachers
50. Silver Dollar Moment
    The Orielles