Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2018 (an annual poll of hundreds of critics, published, perhaps for the last time, by The Village Voice)
[see also 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- Kacey Musgraves — Golden Hour
- Janelle Monáe — Dirty Computer
- Cardi B — Invasion of Privacy
- Mitski — Be the Cowboy
- Robyn — Honey
- Pusha T — Daytona
- Noname — Room 25
- Low — Double Negative
- Parquet Courts — Wide Awake!
- Lucy Dacus — Historian
- Superchunk — What a Time to Be Alive
- Neko Case — Hell-On
- Soccer Mommy — Clean
- The 1975 — A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
- Pistol Annies — Interstate Gospel
- Courtney Barnett — Tell Me How You Really Feel
- Rosalía — El Mal Querer
- John Prine — The Tree of Forgiveness
- Christine and the Queens — Chris
- Snail Mail — Lush
- Kamasi Washington — Heaven and Earth
- Makaya McCraven — Universal Beings
- The Beths — Future Me Hates Me
- Kali Uchis — Isolation
- U.S. Girls — In a Poem Unlimited
- boygenius — boygenius
- Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd, SZA — Black Panther The Album Music From And Inspired By
- Beach House — 7
- Tierra Whack — Whack World
- Tracey Thorn — Record
- Ariana Grande — Sweetener
- Earl Sweatshirt — Some Rap Songs
- Brandi Carlile — By The Way, I Forgive You
- Sophie — Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
- Idles — Joy as an Act of Resistance
- Sons of Kemet — Your Queen Is a Reptile
- Meshell Ndegeocello — Ventriloquism
- DJ Koze — Knock Knock
- Khruangbin — Con Todo El Mundo
- Father John Misty — God’s Favorite Customer
- Travis Scott — ASTROWORLD
- Sleep — The Sciences
- Arctic Monkeys — Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
- Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever — Hope Downs
- Elvis Costello & The Imposters — Look Now
- Amen Dunes — Freedom
- Kurt Vile — Bottle It In
- Julia Holter — Aviary
- Yves Tumor — Safe in the Hands of Love
- Blood Orange — Negro Swan
- cupcakKe — Ephorize
- Bettye LaVette — Things Have Changed
- Against All Logic — 2012-2017
- Yo La Tengo — There’s a Riot Going On
- Saba — Care for Me
- Hop Along — Bark Your Head Off, Dog
- Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks — Sparkle Hard
- Caroline Rose — LONER
- Deafheaven — Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
- The Internet — Hive Mind
- Harriet Tubman — The Terror End of Beauty
- Ashley McBryde — Girl Going Nowhere
- Superorganism — Superorganism
- Foxing — Nearer My God
- Spiritualized — And Nothing Hurt
- Jon Hopkins — Singularity
- Young Fathers — Cocoa Sugar
- Oneohtrix Point Never — Age Of
- David Byrne — American Utopia
- Flasher — Constant Image
- Neneh Cherry — Broken Politics
- Courtney Marie Andrews — May Your Kindness Remain
- Chvrches — Love Is Dead
- Kids See Ghosts — Kids See Ghosts
- Car Seat Headrest — Twin Fantasy
- Marianne Faithfull — Negative Capability
- Natalie Prass — The Future and the Past
- Shame — Songs of Praise
- Amy Rigby — The Old Guys
- Jeff Rosenstock — Post-
- Damien Jurado — The Horizon Just Laughed
- Drake — Scorpion
- Mount Eerie — Now Only
- Jeff Tweedy — WARM
- Mariah Carey — Caution
- Let’s Eat Grandma — I’m All Ears
- Jeremy Dutcher — Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa
- Wayne Shorter — Emanon
- Amanda Shires — To the Sunset
- Vince Staples — FM!
- BTS — Love Yourself 轉 'Tear'
- Cat Power — Wanderer
- John Coltrane — Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album
- Eleanor Friedberger — Rebound
- Mary Gauthier — Rifles and Rosary Beads
- serpentwithfeet — soil
- Jack White — Boarding House Reach
- Jorja Smith — Lost & Found
- Camp Cope — How to Socialise & Make Friends
- Ghost — Prequelle
- Tune-Yards — I can feel you creep into my private life
