NME: Best Albums of the Year 2018
[see also 2020, 2010s, 2019, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2011]
- The 1975 — A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
- Arctic Monkeys — Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
- Idles — Joy as an Act of Resistance
- Sunflower Bean — Twentytwo in Blue
- Pusha T — Daytona
- Shame — Songs of Praise
- Kali Uchis — Isolation
- Cardi B — Invasion of Privacy
- Mitski — Be the Cowboy
- Christine and the Queens — Chris
- Robyn — Honey
- Blood Orange — Negro Swan
- Dream Wife — Dream Wife
- Snail Mail — Lush
- Kids See Ghosts — Kids See Ghosts
- BROCKHAMPTON — iridescence
- Parquet Courts — Wide Awake!
- Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever — Hope Downs
- Travis Scott — ASTROWORLD
- Slaves — Acts of Fear and Love
- Ariana Grande — Sweetener
- Deafheaven — Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
- Sophie — Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
- Young Fathers — Cocoa Sugar
- Tommy Cash — ¥€$
- Matt Maltese — Bad Contestant
- Jon Hopkins — Singularity
- Ezra Furman — Transangelic Exodus
- Troye Sivan — Bloom
- Vince Staples — FM!
- Amen Dunes — Freedom
- J. Cole — KOD
- Years & Years — Palo Santo
- Kanye West — ye
- Turnstile — Time & Space
- Janelle Monáe — Dirty Computer
- Parcels — Parcels
- Mac Miller — Swimming
- Soccer Mommy — Clean
- Spiritualized — And Nothing Hurt
- Tirzah — Devotion
- Tom Misch — Geography
- Unknown Mortal Orchestra — Sex & Food
- David Byrne — American Utopia
- The Story So Far — Proper Dose
- Father John Misty — God’s Favorite Customer
- Gorillaz — The Now Now
- The Prodigy — No Tourists
- Rejjie Snow — Dear Annie
- Jack White — Boarding House Reach
- Ross from Friends — Family Portrait
- Maribou State — Kingdoms In Colour
- Pale Waves — My Mind Makes Noises
- Confidence Man — Confident Music For Confident People
- Mastersystem — Dance Music
- Fucked Up — Dose Your Dreams
- Viagra Boys — Street Worms
- Kurt Vile — Bottle It In
- Earl Sweatshirt — Some Rap Songs
- Architects — Holy Hell
- Agar Agar — The Dog and the Future
- Lil Peep — Come Over When You're Sober, Pt. 2
- Courtney Barnett — Tell Me How You Really Feel
- Connan Mockasin — Jassbusters
- Kacey Musgraves — Golden Hour
- The Breeders — All Nerve
- Let’s Eat Grandma — I’m All Ears
- JPEGMAFIA — Veteran
- Manic Street Preachers — Resistance Is Futile
- Muse — Simulation Theory
- Superorganism — Superorganism
- The Garden — Mirror Might Steal Your Charm
- The Good, the Bad & the Queen — Merrie Land
- Nine Inch Nails — Bad Witch
- U.S. Girls — In a Poem Unlimited
- Greta Van Fleet — Anthem of the Peaceful Army
- Iceage — Beyondless
- Ghetts — Ghetto Gospel: The New Testament
- Octavian — Spaceman
- Noname — Room 25
- Jay Rock — Redemption
- Goat Girl — Goat Girl
- Nakhane — You Will Not Die
- Florence + The Machine — High As Hope
- Leon Vynehall — Nothing Is Still
- Eminem — Kamikaze
- Blossoms — Cool Like You
- Lykke Li — so sad so sexy
- Vein — Errorzone
- Anderson .Paak — Oxnard
- The Carters — Everything Is Love
- Kamasi Washington — Heaven and Earth
- Vinyl Williams — Opal
- Rosalía — El Mal Querer
- Hovvdy — Cranberry
- Gengahr — Where Wildness Grows
- Peace — Kindness Is the New Rock and Roll
- Rae Morris — Someone Out There
- Natalie Prass — The Future and the Past
- Interpol — Marauder