Year-End Lists

Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2018

1. Kamasi Washington
   Heaven and Earth
2. Mitski
   Be the Cowboy
3. Boygenius
   Boygenius
4. Low
   Double Negative
5. Courtney Barnett
   Tell Me How You Really Feel
6. Beach House
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7. Father John Misty
   God’s Favorite Customer
8. Parquet Courts
   Wide Awake!
9. Kurt Vile
   Bottle It In
10. Julia Holter
    Aviary
11. Young Fathers
    Cocoa Sugar
12. U.S. Girls
    In a Poem Unlimited
13. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
    Hope Downs
14. Lump
    Lump
15. Natalie Prass
    The Future and the Past
16. Loma
    Loma
17. MGMT
    Little Dark Age
18. Let’s Eat Grandma
    I’m All Ears
19. Wild Nothing
    Indigo
20. Idles
    Joy as an Act of Resistance
21. John Grant
    Love is Magic
22. Tracyanne & Danny
    Tracyanne & Danny
23. Wye Oak
    The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs
24. Mount Eerie
    Now Only
25. Snail Mail
    Lush
26. Jon Hopkins
    Singularity
27. Caroline Rose
    Loner
28. Gaz Coombes
    World’s Strongest Man
29. Spiritualized
    And Nothing Hurt
30. Janelle Monáe
    Dirty Computer
31. Shame
    Songs of Praise
32. Christine and the Queens
    Chris
33. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
    Sparkle Hard
34. Arctic Monkeys
    Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
35. Soccer Mommy
    Clean
36. Hatchie
    Sugar & Spice
37. Gwenno
    Le Kov
38. Phosphorescent
    C’est La Vie
39. Blood Orange
    Negro Swan
40. Iceage
    Beyondless
41. Ought
    Room Inside the World
42. Anna Calvi
    Hunter
43. Lucy Dacus
    Historian
44. Fucked Up
    Dose Your Dreams
45. Neneh Cherry
    Broken Politics
46. Ed Schrader’s Music Beat
    Riddles
47. Yo La Tengo
    There’s a Riot Going On
48. Gruff Rhys
    Babelsberg
49. Ezra Furman
    Transangelic Exodus
50. Superorganism
    Superorganism
51. Belle and Sebastian
    How to Solve Our Human Problems
52. Noname
    Room 25
53. Marlon Williams
    Make Way for Love
54. Adrianne Lenker
    abysskiss
55. Amen Dunes
    Freedom
56. Nils Frahm
    All Melody
57. Florence + The Machine
    High As Hope
58. Jeff Rosenstock
    Post-
59. Still Corners
    Slow Air
60. Franz Ferdinand
    Always Ascending
61. Tune-Yards
    I can feel you creep into my private life
62. The Good, the Bad & the Queen
    Merrie Land
63. Neko Case
    Hell-On
64. Lala Lala
    The Lamb
65. Sons of Kemet
    Your Queen Is a Reptile
66. Black Belt Eagle Scout
    Mother of My Children
67. serpentwithfeet
    soil
68. Unknown Mortal Orchestra
    Sex & Food
69. Robyn
    Honey
70. Ryley Walker
    Deafman Glance
71. Mastersystem
    Dance Music
72. Beak>
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73. Madeline Kenney
    Perfect Shapes
74. Jess Williamson
    Cosmic Wink
75. Moonface
    This One’s for the Dancer & This One’s for the Dancer’s Bouquet
76. Cat Power
    Wanderer
77. Flasher
    Constant Image
78. Field Music
    Open Here
79. Suede
    The Blue Hour
80. Frontperson
    Frontrunner
81. Eleanor Friedberger
    Rebound
82. Parcels
    Parcels
83. Hop Along
    Bark Your Head Off, Dog
84. Anna von Hausswolff
    Dead Magic
85. Thom Yorke
    Suspiria (Music for the Luca Guadagnino Film)
86. We Were Promised Jetpacks
    The More I Sleep the Less I Dream
87. Chvrches
    Love Is Dead
88. of Montreal
    White Is Relic / Irrealis Mood
89. Young Jesus
    The Whole Thing Is Just There
90. Melody’s Echo Chamber
    Bon Voyage
91. Jaakko Eino Kalevi
    Out of Touch
92. The Goon Sax
    We’re Not Talking
93. Anna Burch
    Quit the Curse
94. Django Django
    Marble Skies
95. Goat Girl
    Goat Girl
96. Tim Hecker
    Konoyo
97. Deafheaven
    Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
98. The Beths
    Future Me Hates Me
99. Tunng
    Songs You Make at Night
100. Villagers
     The Art of Pretending to Swim