Year-End Lists

Anthony Fantano: Top 50 Albums of 2018, as aired on The Needle Drop

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2017]

1. You Won't Get What You Want
   Daughters
2. Kids See Ghosts
   Kids See Ghosts
3. Veteran
   JPEGMAFIA
4. Musas
   Natalia Lafourcade
5. Wide Awake!
   Parquet Courts
6. 2012-2017
   Against All Logic
7. Harutosyura
   Harunemuri
8. Room 25
   Noname
9. Year of the Snitch
   Death Grips
10. Your Queen Is a Reptile
    Sons of Kemet
11. In a Poem Unlimited
    U.S. Girls
12. Boarding House Reach
    Jack White
13. Isolation
    Kali Uchis
14. TA13OO
    Denzel Curry
15. Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
    Sophie
16. Little Dark Age
    MGMT
17. Prequelle
    Ghost
18. Joy as an Act of Resistance
    Idles
19. Idol
    Horrendous
20. The Sciences
    Sleep
21. El Mal Querer
    Rosalía
22. Time 'n' Place
    Kero Kero Bonito
23. Firepower
    Judas Priest
24. Paraffin
    Armand Hammer
25. Ion
    Portal
26. Some Rap Songs
    Earl Sweatshirt
27. Oxnard
    Anderson .Paak
28. Die Lit
    Playboi Carti
29. Virtue
    The Voidz
30. Everything's Fine
    Jeane Grae & Quelle Chris
31. You're Not Alone
    Andrew W.K.
32. ye
    Kanye West
33. Trench
    twenty one pilots
34. New Levels New Devils
    Polyphia
35. Dead Magic
    Anna von Hausswolff
36. Dirty Computer
    Janelle Monáe
37. Daytona
    Pusha T
38. Orpheus vs. The Sirens
    Hermit and the Recluse
39. Aviary
    Julia Holter
40. Twin Fantasy
    Car Seat Headrest
41. DiCaprio 2
    JID
42. Stranger Fruit
    Zeal & Ardor
43. Vile Luxury
    Imperial Triumphant
44. Whack World
    Tierra Whack
45. All At Once
    Screaming Females
46. Bark Your Head Off, Dog
    Hop Along
47. Twisted Crystal
    Guerilla Toss
48. A Laughing Death in Meatspace
    Tropical Fuck Storm
49. Negro Swan
    Blood Orange
50. The Light Is Leaving Us All
    Current 93