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2018 Music

The Line of Best Fit: The Best Albums of 2018

03 December 2018

Be the Cowboy - Mitski

The Line of Best Fit: The Best Albums of 2018

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019]

  1. Be the Cowboy
    Mitski
  2. Devotion
    Tirzah
  3. Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
    Sophie
  4. Joy as an Act of Resistance
    Idles
  5. Cocoa Sugar
    Young Fathers
  6. Invasion of Privacy
    Cardi B
  7. El Mal Querer
    Rosalía
  8. A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
    The 1975
  9. I’m All Ears
    Let’s Eat Grandma
  10. There’s Always Glimmer
    Gia Margaret
  11. Songs of Praise
    Shame
  12. iridescence
    BROCKHAMPTON
  13. Sweetener
    Ariana Grande
  14. Chris
    Christine and the Queens
  15. Negro Swan
    Blood Orange
  16. Your Queen Is a Reptile
    Sons of Kemet
  17. Honey
    Robyn
  18. Double Negative
    Low
  19. Lost & Found
    Jorja Smith
  20. Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
    Arctic Monkeys
  21. Heaven and Earth
    Kamasi Washington
  22. Lush
    Snail Mail
  23. Saturn
    Nao
  24. At Weddings
    Tomberlin
  25. Hive Mind
    The Internet
  26. Bloom
    Troye Sivan
  27. Kids See Ghosts
    Kids See Ghosts
  28. I Don't Run
    Hinds
  29. Freedom
    Amen Dunes
  30. Clean
    Soccer Mommy
  31. Golden Hour
    Kacey Musgraves
  32. East Atlanta Love Letter
    6LACK
  33. My Mind Makes Noises
    Pale Waves
  34. Palo Santo
    Years & Years
  35. boygenius
    boygenius
  36. Dream Wife
    Dream Wife
  37. re:member
    Ólafur Arnalds
  38. Age Of
    Oneohtrix Point Never
  39. Hell-On
    Neko Case
  40. Room 25
    Noname
  41. Infections of a Different Kind (Step 1)
    Aurora
  42. The Anteroom
    How to Dress Well
  43. Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album
    John Coltrane
  44. Tell Me How You Really Feel
    Courtney Barnett
  45. Bottle It In
    Kurt Vile
  46. Sway
    Tove Styrke
  47. Basic Volume
    Gaika
  48. Historian
    Lucy Dacus
  49. Dirty Computer
    Janelle Monáe
  50. American Utopia
    David Byrne

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