Year-End Lists

The Skinny: Top 50 Albums of 2018

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1. Cocoa Sugar
   Young Fathers
2. Wide Awake!
   Parquet Courts
3. Be the Cowboy
   Mitski
4. Joy as an Act of Resistance
   Idles
5. Honey
   Robyn
6. Here Lies the Body
   Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert
7. Dirty Computer
   Janelle Monáe
8. Tell Me How You Really Feel
   Courtney Barnett
9. Twin Fantasy
   Car Seat Headrest
10. All Melody
    Nils Frahm
11. From When I Wake the Want Is
    Kathryn Joseph
12. 7
    Beach House
13. Negro Swan
    Blood Orange
14. Dream Wife
    Dream Wife
15. The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs
    Wye Oak
16. Acts of Fear and Love
    Slaves
17. Confident Music For Confident People
    Confidence Man
18. Saturn
    Nao
19. Chris
    Christine and the Queens
20. Room 25
    Noname
21. Singularity
    Jon Hopkins
22. Isolation
    Kali Uchis
23. Bark Your Head Off, Dog
    Hop Along
24. Ecstatic Arrow
    Virginia Wing
25. Sunday Best
    Martha Ffion
26. Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
    Sophie
27. Lavender
    Half Waif
28. The Future and the Past
    Natalie Prass
29. Now Only
    Mount Eerie
30. Dance Music
    Mastersystem
31. Working Class Woman
    Marie Davidson
32. Freedom
    Amen Dunes
33. Con Todo El Mundo
    Khruangbin
34. Sum of All Your Parts
    Fatherson
35. Lush
    Snail Mail
36. All That Divides
    Black Peaks
37. Beyondless
    Iceage
38. C’est La Vie
    Phosphorescent
39. Superorganism
    Superorganism
40. Compro
    Skee Mask
41. 2012-2017
    Against All Logic
42. Fall Into the Sun
    Swearin’
43. Double Negative
    Low
44. To the Sunset
    Amanda Shires
45. In a Poem Unlimited
    U.S. Girls
46. At Weddings
    Tomberlin
47. Songs of Praise
    Shame
48. The House
    Porches
49. Invitation To Her's
    Her's
50. Veteran
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