Year-End Lists

The Quietus: Albums of the Year 2018

1. Gazelle Twin
   Pastoral
2. Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids
   An Angel Fell
3. Insecure Men
   Insecure Men
4. Suede
   The Blue Hour
5. Objekt
   Cocoon Crush
6. ILL
   We Are Ill
7. Sons of Kemet
   Your Queen Is a Reptile
8. Low
   Double Negative
9. Audiobooks
   Now! (In a Minute)
10. Årabrot
    Who Do You Love
11. Janelle Monáe
    Dirty Computer
12. Hen Ogledd
    Mogic
13. Daughters
    You Won't Get What You Want
14. Marie Davidson
    Working Class Woman
15. Pusha T
    Daytona
16. Tropical Fuck Storm
    A Laughing Death in Meatspace
17. Chris Carter
    Chemistry Lessons, Vol. 1
18. Hawthonn
    Red Goddess (Of This Men Shall Know Nothing)
19. Blawan
    Wet Will Always Dry
20. Julia Holter
    Aviary
21. Panopticon
    The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness
22. Senyawa
    Sujud
23. Grouper
    Grid of Points
24. Gábor Lázár
    Unfold
25. Erland Cooper
    Solan Goose
26. Eric Chenaux
    Slowly Paradise
27. PLANNINGTOROCK
    Powerhouse
28. Sophie
    Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
29. Todd Barton
    Multum in Parvo
30. The Yossarians
    Ambition Will Eat Itself
31. Jenny Hval
    The Long Sleep
32. Laibach
    The Sound of Music
33. Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert
    Here Lies the Body
34. Mouse On Mars
    Dimensional People
35. Skee Mask
    Compro
36. Gabe Gurnsey
    Physical
37. Laura Cannell & Andre Bosman
    Reckonings
38. Yves Tumor
    Safe in the Hands of Love
39. Szun Waves
    New Hymn to Freedom
40. Gnod
    Chapel Perilous
41. Blocks & Escher
    Something Blue
42. 700 Bliss
    Spa 700
43. Tirzah
    Devotion
44. Guttersnipe
    My Mother the Vent
45. The Caretaker
    Everywhere At The End Of Time – Stage 5
46. Kali Uchis
    Isolation
47. Bruce
    Sonder Somatic
48. Alexander Tucker
    Don’t Look Away
49. Alison Cotton
    All Is Quiet At The Ancient Theatre
50. Deena Abdelwahed
    Khonnar
51. Pig Destroyer
    Head Cage
52. Eartheater
    Irisiri
53. Goat Girl
    Goat Girl
54. Cardi B
    Invasion of Privacy
55. Ben Vince
    Assimilation
56. Bas Jan
    Yes I Jan
57. тпсб
    Sekundenschlaf
58. Darren Hayman
    Thankful Villages, Vol. 1
59. Cucina Povera
    Hilja
60. Big Joanie
    Sistahs
61. Nine Inch Nails
    Bad Witch
62. Synth Sisters
    Euphoria
63. AJA
    AJA
64. The Body
    I Have Fought Against It, But I Can’t Any Longer.
65. Manni Dee
    The Residue
66. Rezzett
    Rezzett
67. Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs
    King of Cowards
68. The Armed
    Only Love
69. Helena Hauff
    Qualm
70. Jake Muir
    Lady’s Mantle
71. ZULI
    Terminal
72. Primitive Knot
    Thee Opener of the Way
73. Melting Hand
    Faces of Earth
74. Miss Red
    K.O.
75. Vanishing Twin
    Magic & Machines
76. Lucrecia Dalt
    Anticlines
77. East Man
    Red, White & Zero
78. JPEGMAFIA
    Veteran
79. Warmduscher
    Whale City
80. Xenony
    Polish Space Program
81. Lotic
    Power
82. Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet
    Landfall
83. Gaika
    Basic Volume
84. Jerusalem in My Heart
    Daqa'iq Tudaiq
85. Ian William Craig
    Thresholder
86. AMOR
    Sinking into a Miracle
87. Bliss Signal
    Bliss Signal
88. Dizzy Fae
    Free Form
89. Drew McDowall
    The Third Helix
90. Capitol K
    Goatherder
91. Nonpareils
    Scented Pictures
92. Richard Skelton
    Front Variations (One & Two)
93. Creep Show
    Mr. Dynamite
94. Brockhampton
    iridescence
95. David Terry
    Sorrow
96. Gwenno
    Le Kov
97. Hailu Mergia
    Lala Belu
98. Anthroprophh
    Omegaville
99. Simian Mobile Disco
    Murmurations
100. Maryam Saleh, Maurice Louca & Tamer Abu Ghazaleh
     Lekhfa