Stereogum: 50 Best Albums Of 2018
[see also 2010s, 2019, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- Kacey Musgraves — Golden Hour
- Snail Mail — Lush
- Ariana Grande — Sweetener
- Cardi B — Invasion of Privacy
- Beach House — 7
- Flasher — Constant Image
- Soccer Mommy — Clean
- Low — Double Negative
- Father John Misty — God’s Favorite Customer
- Mitski — Be the Cowboy
- Pusha T — Daytona
- Robyn — Honey
- Lucy Dacus — Historian
- Vince Staples — FM!
- Spiritualized — And Nothing Hurt
- BROCKHAMPTON — iridescence
- Half Waif — Lavender
- Hop Along — Bark Your Head Off, Dog
- illuminati hotties — Kiss Yr Frenemies
- Tomberlin — At Weddings
- Rosalía — El Mal Querer
- Rolo Tomassi — Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It
- Noname — Room 25
- Wild Pink — Yolk in the Fur
- Fucked Up — Dose Your Dreams
- U.S. Girls — In a Poem Unlimited
- Adrianne Lenker — abysskiss
- Kali Uchis — Isolation
- Teyana Taylor — K.T.S.E.
- Iceage — Beyondless
- The Armed — Only Love
- Tirzah — Devotion
- Dear Nora — Skulls Example
- Kamasi Washington — Heaven and Earth
- Earl Sweatshirt — Some Rap Songs
- Ryley Walker — Deafman Glance
- Birds In Row — We Already Lost the World
- Janelle Monáe — Dirty Computer
- MGMT — Little Dark Age
- Young Fathers — Cocoa Sugar
- Camp Cope — How to Socialise & Make Friends
- Holy Fawn — Death Spells
- Oneohtrix Point Never — Age Of
- Denzel Curry — TA13OO
- The 1975 — A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
- Jon Hopkins — Singularity
- Lil Baby & Gunna — Drip Harder
- Drug Church — Cheer
- Sophie — Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
- Rico Nasty — Nasty