Year-End Lists

NME: Best Albums of the Year 2018

[see also 2019, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2011]

1. The 1975 — A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
2. Arctic Monkeys — Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
3. Idles — Joy as an Act of Resistance
4. Sunflower Bean — Twentytwo in Blue
5. Pusha T — Daytona
6. Shame — Songs of Praise
7. Kali Uchis — Isolation
8. Cardi B — Invasion of Privacy
9. Mitski — Be the Cowboy
10. Christine and the Queens — Chris
11. Robyn — Honey
12. Blood Orange — Negro Swan
13. Dream Wife — Dream Wife
14. Snail Mail — Lush
15. Kids See Ghosts — Kids See Ghosts
16. BROCKHAMPTON — iridescence
17. Parquet Courts — Wide Awake!
18. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever — Hope Downs
19. Travis Scott — ASTROWORLD
20. Slaves — Acts of Fear and Love
21. Ariana Grande — Sweetener
22. Deafheaven — Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
23. Sophie — Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
24. Young Fathers — Cocoa Sugar
25. Tommy Cash — ¥€$
26. Matt Maltese — Bad Contestant
27. Jon Hopkins — Singularity
28. Ezra Furman — Transangelic Exodus
29. Troye Sivan — Bloom
30. Vince Staples — FM!
31. Amen Dunes — Freedom
32. J. Cole — KOD
33. Years & Years — Palo Santo
34. Kanye West — ye
35. Turnstile — Time & Space
36. Janelle Monáe — Dirty Computer
37. Parcels — Parcels
38. Mac Miller — Swimming
39. Soccer Mommy — Clean
40. Spiritualized — And Nothing Hurt
41. Tirzah — Devotion
42. Tom Misch — Geography
43. Unknown Mortal Orchestra — Sex & Food
44. David Byrne — American Utopia
45. The Story So Far — Proper Dose
46. Father John Misty — God’s Favorite Customer
47. Gorillaz — The Now Now
48. The Prodigy — No Tourists
49. Rejjie Snow — Dear Annie
50. Jack White — Boarding House Reach
51. Ross from Friends — Family Portrait
52. Maribou State — Kingdoms In Colour
53. Pale Waves — My Mind Makes Noises
54. Confidence Man — Confident Music For Confident People
55. Mastersystem — Dance Music
56. Fucked Up — Dose Your Dreams
57. Viagra Boys — Street Worms
58. Kurt Vile — Bottle It In
59. Earl Sweatshirt — Some Rap Songs
60. Architects — Holy Hell
61. Agar Agar — The Dog and the Future
62. Lil Peep — Come Over When You're Sober, Pt. 2
63. Courtney Barnett — Tell Me How You Really Feel
64. Connan Mockasin — Jassbusters
65. Kacey Musgraves — Golden Hour
66. The Breeders — All Nerve
67. Let’s Eat Grandma — I’m All Ears
68. JPEGMAFIA — Veteran
69. Manic Street Preachers — Resistance Is Futile
70. Muse — Simulation Theory
71. Superorganism — Superorganism
72. The Garden — Mirror Might Steal Your Charm
73. The Good, the Bad & the Queen — Merrie Land
74. Nine Inch Nails — Bad Witch
75. U.S. Girls — In a Poem Unlimited
76. Greta Van Fleet — Anthem of the Peaceful Army
77. Iceage — Beyondless
78. Ghetts — Ghetto Gospel: The New Testament
79. Octavian — Spaceman
80. Noname — Room 25
81. Jay Rock — Redemption
82. Goat Girl — Goat Girl
83. Nakhane — You Will Not Die
84. Florence + The Machine — High As Hope
85. Leon Vynehall — Nothing Is Still
86. Eminem — Kamikaze
87. Blossoms — Cool Like You
88. Lykke Li — so sad so sexy
89. Vein — Errorzone
90. Anderson .Paak — Oxnard
91. The Carters — Everything Is Love
92. Kamasi Washington — Heaven and Earth
93. Vinyl Williams — Opal
94. Rosalía — El Mal Querer
95. Hovvdy — Cranberry
96. Gengahr — Where Wildness Grows
97. Peace — Kindness Is the New Rock and Roll
98. Rae Morris — Someone Out There
99. Natalie Prass — The Future and the Past
100. Interpol — Marauder