The Guardian: 50 Best Albums of 2018
[see also 2019, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- Christine and the Queens — Chris
- Robyn — Honey
- Janelle Monáe — Dirty Computer
- Cardi B — Invasion of Privacy
- Mitski — Be the Cowboy
- Idles — Joy as an Act of Resistance
- Kamasi Washington — Heaven and Earth
- Kacey Musgraves — Golden Hour
- Low — Double Negative
- Arctic Monkeys — Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
- Sophie — Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
- Sons of Kemet — Your Queen Is a Reptile
- The Internet — Hive Mind
- Noname — Room 25
- Natalie Prass — The Future and the Past
- Young Fathers — Cocoa Sugar
- Pusha T — Daytona
- Let’s Eat Grandma — I’m All Ears
- Julia Holter — Aviary
- Ariana Grande — Sweetener
- Kali Uchis — Isolation
- Yves Tumor — Safe in the Hands of Love
- Parquet Courts — Wide Awake!
- Shame — Songs of Praise
- Virginia Wing — Ecstatic Arrow
- Nao — Saturn
- Courtney Barnett — Tell Me How You Really Feel
- Travis Scott — ASTROWORLD
- Blood Orange — Negro Swan
- Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever — Hope Downs
- Rosalía — El Mal Querer
- Confidence Man — Confident Music For Confident People
- Tirzah — Devotion
- The 1975 — A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
- Lonnie Holley — MITH
- Snail Mail — Lush
- Troye Sivan — Bloom
- U.S. Girls — In a Poem Unlimited
- Gwenno — Le Kov
- Lily Allen — No Shame
- Deafheaven — Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
- Skee Mask — Compro
- Courtney Marie Andrews — May Your Kindness Remain
- Neneh Cherry — Broken Politics
- serpentwithfeet — soil
- Tracey Thorn — Record
- Khruangbin — Con Todo El Mundo
- Cat Power — Wanderer
- Jon Hopkins — Singularity
- Goat Girl — Goat Girl