Pitchfork: 50 Best Albums of 2018
[see also 2010s, 2019, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- Mitski — Be the Cowboy
- Kacey Musgraves — Golden Hour
- DJ Koze — Knock Knock
- Robyn — Honey
- Snail Mail — Lush
- Rosalía — El Mal Querer
- Earl Sweatshirt — Some Rap Songs
- Low — Double Negative
- Tierra Whack — Whack World
- Yves Tumor — Safe in the Hands of Love
- Ariana Grande — Sweetener
- cupcakKe — Ephorize
- Tirzah — Devotion
- Amen Dunes — Freedom
- Noname — Room 25
- Jon Hopkins — Singularity
- Pusha T — Daytona
- Sophie — Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
- Cardi B — Invasion of Privacy
- Beach House — 7
- The 1975 — A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
- U.S. Girls — In a Poem Unlimited
- Travis Scott — ASTROWORLD
- Julia Holter — Aviary
- Playboi Carti — Die Lit
- Vince Staples — FM!
- Soccer Mommy — Clean
- Deafheaven — Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
- boygenius — boygenius
- Christine and the Queens — Chris
- Arctic Monkeys — Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
- Let’s Eat Grandma — I’m All Ears
- Sheck Wes — Mudboy
- Neneh Cherry — Broken Politics
- Against All Logic — 2012-2017
- Rico Nasty — Nasty
- JPEGMAFIA — Veteran
- Kali Uchis — Isolation
- The Internet — Hive Mind
- Iceage — Beyondless
- Jeremih & Ty Dolla $ign — MIH-TY
- Adrianne Lenker — abysskiss
- Sleep — The Sciences
- Camp Cope — How to Socialise & Make Friends
- Cat Power — Wanderer
- Blood Orange — Negro Swan
- Skee Mask — Compro
- Kamasi Washington — Heaven and Earth
- Georgia Anne Muldrow — Overload
- SOB X RBE — Gangin