Year-End Lists

PopMatters: 70 Best Albums of 2018

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