The Quietus: Albums of the Year 2018
[see also 2019, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- Gazelle Twin — Pastoral
- Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids — An Angel Fell
- Insecure Men — Insecure Men
- Suede — The Blue Hour
- Objekt — Cocoon Crush
- ILL — We Are Ill
- Sons of Kemet — Your Queen Is a Reptile
- Low — Double Negative
- Audiobooks — Now! (In a Minute)
- Årabrot — Who Do You Love
- Janelle Monáe — Dirty Computer
- Hen Ogledd — Mogic
- Daughters — You Won't Get What You Want
- Marie Davidson — Working Class Woman
- Pusha T — Daytona
- Tropical Fuck Storm — A Laughing Death in Meatspace
- Chris Carter — Chemistry Lessons, Vol. 1
- Hawthonn — Red Goddess (Of This Men Shall Know Nothing)
- Blawan — Wet Will Always Dry
- Julia Holter — Aviary
- Panopticon — The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness
- Senyawa — Sujud
- Grouper — Grid of Points
- Gábor Lázár — Unfold
- Erland Cooper — Solan Goose
- Eric Chenaux — Slowly Paradise
- PLANNINGTOROCK — Powerhouse
- Sophie — Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
- Todd Barton — Multum in Parvo
- The Yossarians — Ambition Will Eat Itself
- Jenny Hval — The Long Sleep
- Laibach — The Sound of Music
- Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert — Here Lies the Body
- Mouse On Mars — Dimensional People
- Skee Mask — Compro
- Gabe Gurnsey — Physical
- Laura Cannell & Andre Bosman — Reckonings
- Yves Tumor — Safe in the Hands of Love
- Szun Waves — New Hymn to Freedom
- Gnod — Chapel Perilous
- Blocks & Escher — Something Blue
- 700 Bliss — Spa 700
- Tirzah — Devotion
- Guttersnipe — My Mother the Vent
- The Caretaker — Everywhere At The End Of Time – Stage 5
- Kali Uchis — Isolation
- Bruce — Sonder Somatic
- Alexander Tucker — Don’t Look Away
- Alison Cotton — All Is Quiet At The Ancient Theatre
- Deena Abdelwahed — Khonnar
- Pig Destroyer — Head Cage
- Eartheater — IRISIRI
- Goat Girl — Goat Girl
- Cardi B — Invasion of Privacy
- Ben Vince — Assimilation
- Bas Jan — Yes I Jan
- тпсб — Sekundenschlaf
- Darren Hayman — Thankful Villages, Vol. 1
- Cucina Povera — Hilja
- Big Joanie — Sistahs
- Nine Inch Nails — Bad Witch
- Synth Sisters — Euphoria
- AJA — AJA
- The Body — I Have Fought Against It, But I Can’t Any Longer.
- Manni Dee — The Residue
- Rezzett — Rezzett
- Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs — King of Cowards
- The Armed — Only Love
- Helena Hauff — Qualm
- Jake Muir — Lady’s Mantle
- ZULI — Terminal
- Primitive Knot — Thee Opener of the Way
- Melting Hand — Faces of Earth
- Miss Red — K.O.
- Vanishing Twin — Magic & Machines
- Lucrecia Dalt — Anticlines
- East Man — Red, White & Zero
- JPEGMAFIA — Veteran
- Warmduscher — Whale City
- Xenony — Polish Space Program
- Lotic — Power
- Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet — Landfall
- Gaika — Basic Volume
- Jerusalem in My Heart — Daqa'iq Tudaiq
- Ian William Craig — Thresholder
- AMOR — Sinking into a Miracle
- Bliss Signal — Bliss Signal
- Dizzy Fae — Free Form
- Drew McDowall — The Third Helix
- Capitol K — Goatherder
- Nonpareils — Scented Pictures
- Richard Skelton — Front Variations (One & Two)
- Creep Show — Mr. Dynamite
- BROCKHAMPTON — iridescence
- David Terry — Sorrow
- Gwenno — Le Kov
- Hailu Mergia — Lala Belu
- Anthroprophh — Omegaville
- Simian Mobile Disco — Murmurations
- Maryam Saleh, Maurice Louca & Tamer Abu Ghazaleh — Lekhfa