Paste Magazine: 50 Best Albums of 2018
[see also 2010s, 2019, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- Lucy Dacus — Historian
- Parquet Courts — Wide Awake!
- Courtney Barnett — Tell Me How You Really Feel
- Soccer Mommy — Clean
- Snail Mail — Lush
- Mitski — Be the Cowboy
- Pusha T — Daytona
- Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever — Hope Downs
- Low — Double Negative
- Hop Along — Bark Your Head Off, Dog
- Amen Dunes — Freedom
- Shame — Songs of Praise
- U.S. Girls — In a Poem Unlimited
- Janelle Monáe — Dirty Computer
- The Decemberists — I’ll Be Your Girl
- Sunflower Bean — Twentytwo in Blue
- MGMT — Little Dark Age
- Father John Misty — God’s Favorite Customer
- Robyn — Honey
- Arctic Monkeys — Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
- Courtney Marie Andrews — May Your Kindness Remain
- Big Red Machine — Big Red Machine
- Elvis Costello & The Imposters — Look Now
- Iceage — Beyondless
- Idles — Joy as an Act of Resistance
- Superchunk — What a Time to Be Alive
- Ought — Room Inside the World
- Camp Cope — How to Socialise & Make Friends
- The Beths — Future Me Hates Me
- Haley Heynderickx — I Need to Start a Garden
- Neko Case — Hell-On
- Noname — Room 25
- Rosanne Cash — She Remembers Everything
- DJ Koze — Knock Knock
- I’m With Her — See You Around
- Lonnie Holley — MITH
- Preoccupations — New Material
- Richard Swift — The Hex
- Alejandro Escovedo — The Crossing
- Kelly Moran — Ultraviolet
- Adrianne Lenker — abysskiss
- Bettye LaVette — Things Have Changed
- Caroline Rose — LONER
- Kacey Musgraves — Golden Hour
- Paul Kelly — Nature
- Phosphorescent — C’est La Vie
- Flasher — Constant Image
- Ashley McBryde — Girl Going Nowhere
- Blood Orange — Negro Swan
- Yo La Tengo — There’s a Riot Going On