Year-End Lists

Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2018

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1. Room 25
   Noname
2. Thelonious Sphere Monk
   Mas-T
3. Things Have Changed
   Bettye LaVette
4. Wide Awake!
   Parquet Courts
5. Interstate Gospel
   Pistol Annies
6. Life Ain't That Long
   Rich Krueger
7. The Night Guy at the Apocalypse Profiles of a Rushing Midnight
   Hamell On Trial
8. Black Panther The Album Music From And Inspired By
   Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd, SZA
9. Whack World
   Tierra Whack
10. Invasion of Privacy
    Cardi B
11. Now Only
    Mount Eerie
12. What a Time to Be Alive
    Superchunk
13. Daytona
    Pusha T
14. Nowthen
    Rich Krueger
15. Rock and Roll Just Can't Recall + 3
    The Paranoid Style
16. Don't You Feel My Leg (The Naughty Bawdy Blues of Blue Lu Barker)
    Maria Muldaur
17. Last Man Standing
    Willie Nelson
18. Foreign Ororo
    Riton & Kah-Lo
19. Transangelic Exodus
    Ezra Furman
20. Getting Better
    Wussy
21. Dirty Computer
    Janelle Monáe
22. Deus É Mulher
    Elza Soares
23. The Old Guys
    Amy Rigby
24. It Is Twice Blessed
    The Mekons 77
25. To the Sunset
    Amanda Shires
26. I can feel you creep into my private life
    Tune-Yards
27. What Heaven is Like
    Wussy
28. Snares Like a Haircut
    No Age
29. I Don't Run
    Hinds
30. Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
    Sophie
31. Forever Ago
    John Kruth & La Società dei Musici
32. Raxas Bercy 2017
    Youssou N'Dour
33. Rifles and Rosary Beads
    Mary Gauthier
34. Your Queen Is a Reptile
    Sons of Kemet
35. Purgatory
    Tyler Childers
36. Superorganism
    Superorganism
37. Baylor Swift
    Bali Baby
38. The Tree of Forgiveness
    John Prine
39. On Air
    The Rolling Stones
40. Routes
    Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba
41. The Prodigal Son
    Ry Cooder
42. Fast & Frightening
    L7
43. Clean
    Soccer Mommy
44. Be the Cowboy
    Mitski
45. Giants
    Methodist Hospital
46. We’re Not Talking
    The Goon Sax
47. United We Swing: Best of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Galas
    Wynton Marsalis Septet
48. Drogas Wave
    Lupe Fiasco
49. Twerp Verse
    Speedy Ortiz
50. Listening To Pictures (Pentimento, Vol. One)
    Jon Hassell
51. Humble Pi
    Homeboy Sandman & Edan
52. Undesirable
    Becky Warren
53. Record
    Tracey Thorn
54. Ephorize
    cupcakKe
55. Hive Mind
    The Internet
56. Guatemaya
    Doctor Nativo
57. Temet
    Imarhan
58. Sorry to Bother You
    The Coup
59. Quarter Past Tonight
    Chicago Farmer
60. No Shape
    Perfume Genius
61. Tantabara
    Tal National
62. Quite a Life
    Lyrics Born
63. Laila’s Wisdom
    Rapsody
64. I'm Not Here To Hunt Rabbits
    various artists
65. Remastered Collection
    Blue Lu Barker
66. Joy as an Act of Resistance
    Idles
67. Vessel
    Frankie Cosmos
68. Strange Conversation
    Mandy Barnett
69. In the Blue Light
    Paul Simon
70. What Happens When I Try to Relax
    Open Mike Eagle
71. There’s a Riot Going On
    Yo La Tengo
72. Shadowbox
    Beats Antique
73. Acrylic
    Leikeli47
74. A Laughing Death in Meatspace
    Tropical Fuck Storm
75. Plunge
    Fever Ray
76. Grow a Pair!!!
    Jinx lennon
77. Construction Time & Demolition
    Wreckless Eric
78. Tell Me How You Really Feel
    Courtney Barnett
79. Les liaisons dangereuses 1960
    Thelonious Monk
80. Twin Fantasy
    Car Seat Headrest
81. Maxi-Single
    AD the Voice
82. Kids See Ghosts
    Kids See Ghosts
83. The Official Body
    Shopping