Year-End Lists

The Quietus: Albums of the Year 2018

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1. Pastoral
   Gazelle Twin
2. An Angel Fell
   Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids
3. Insecure Men
   Insecure Men
4. The Blue Hour
   Suede
5. Cocoon Crush
   Objekt
6. We Are Ill
   ILL
7. Your Queen Is a Reptile
   Sons of Kemet
8. Double Negative
   Low
9. Now! (In a Minute)
   Audiobooks
10. Who Do You Love
    Årabrot
11. Dirty Computer
    Janelle Monáe
12. Mogic
    Hen Ogledd
13. You Won't Get What You Want
    Daughters
14. Working Class Woman
    Marie Davidson
15. Daytona
    Pusha T
16. A Laughing Death in Meatspace
    Tropical Fuck Storm
17. Chemistry Lessons, Vol. 1
    Chris Carter
18. Red Goddess (Of This Men Shall Know Nothing)
    Hawthonn
19. Wet Will Always Dry
    Blawan
20. Aviary
    Julia Holter
21. The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness
    Panopticon
22. Sujud
    Senyawa
23. Grid of Points
    Grouper
24. Unfold
    Gábor Lázár
25. Solan Goose
    Erland Cooper
26. Slowly Paradise
    Eric Chenaux
27. Powerhouse
    PLANNINGTOROCK
28. Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
    Sophie
29. Multum in Parvo
    Todd Barton
30. Ambition Will Eat Itself
    The Yossarians
31. The Long Sleep
    Jenny Hval
32. The Sound of Music
    Laibach
33. Here Lies the Body
    Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert
34. Dimensional People
    Mouse On Mars
35. Compro
    Skee Mask
36. Physical
    Gabe Gurnsey
37. Reckonings
    Laura Cannell & Andre Bosman
38. Safe in the Hands of Love
    Yves Tumor
39. New Hymn to Freedom
    Szun Waves
40. Chapel Perilous
    Gnod
41. Something Blue
    Blocks & Escher
42. Spa 700
    700 Bliss
43. Devotion
    Tirzah
44. My Mother the Vent
    Guttersnipe
45. Everywhere At The End Of Time – Stage 5
    The Caretaker
46. Isolation
    Kali Uchis
47. Sonder Somatic
    Bruce
48. Don’t Look Away
    Alexander Tucker
49. All Is Quiet At The Ancient Theatre
    Alison Cotton
50. Khonnar
    Deena Abdelwahed
51. Head Cage
    Pig Destroyer
52. IRISIRI
    Eartheater
53. Goat Girl
    Goat Girl
54. Invasion of Privacy
    Cardi B
55. Assimilation
    Ben Vince
56. Yes I Jan
    Bas Jan
57. Sekundenschlaf
    тпсб
58. Thankful Villages, Vol. 1
    Darren Hayman
59. Hilja
    Cucina Povera
60. Sistahs
    Big Joanie
61. Bad Witch
    Nine Inch Nails
62. Euphoria
    Synth Sisters
63. AJA
    AJA
64. I Have Fought Against It, But I Can’t Any Longer.
    The Body
65. The Residue
    Manni Dee
66. Rezzett
    Rezzett
67. King of Cowards
    Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs
68. Only Love
    The Armed
69. Qualm
    Helena Hauff
70. Lady’s Mantle
    Jake Muir
71. Terminal
    ZULI
72. Thee Opener of the Way
    Primitive Knot
73. Faces of Earth
    Melting Hand
74. K.O.
    Miss Red
75. Magic & Machines
    Vanishing Twin
76. Anticlines
    Lucrecia Dalt
77. Red, White & Zero
    East Man
78. Veteran
    JPEGMAFIA
79. Whale City
    Warmduscher
80. Polish Space Program
    Xenony
81. Power
    Lotic
82. Landfall
    Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet
83. Basic Volume
    Gaika
84. Daqa'iq Tudaiq
    Jerusalem in My Heart
85. Thresholder
    Ian William Craig
86. Sinking into a Miracle
    AMOR
87. Bliss Signal
    Bliss Signal
88. Free Form
    Dizzy Fae
89. The Third Helix
    Drew McDowall
90. Goatherder
    Capitol K
91. Scented Pictures
    Nonpareils
92. Front Variations (One & Two)
    Richard Skelton
93. Mr. Dynamite
    Creep Show
94. iridescence
    BROCKHAMPTON
95. Sorrow
    David Terry
96. Le Kov
    Gwenno
97. Lala Belu
    Hailu Mergia
98. Omegaville
    Anthroprophh
99. Murmurations
    Simian Mobile Disco
100. Lekhfa
     Maryam Saleh, Maurice Louca & Tamer Abu Ghazaleh