Tony Fantano: Top 50 Albums of 2018, as aired on The Needle Drop
[see also 2017]
- Daughters — You Won't Get What You Want
- Kids See Ghosts — Kids See Ghosts
- JPEGMAFIA — Veteran
- Natalia Lafourcade — Musas
- Parquet Courts — Wide Awake!
- Against All Logic — 2012-2017
- Harunemuri — Harutosyura
- Noname — Room 25
- Death Grips — Year of the Snitch
- Sons of Kemet — Your Queen Is a Reptile
- U.S. Girls — In a Poem Unlimited
- Jack White — Boarding House Reach
- Kali Uchis — Isolation
- Denzel Curry — TA13OO
- Sophie — Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
- MGMT — Little Dark Age
- Ghost — Prequelle
- Idles — Joy as an Act of Resistance
- Horrendous — Idol
- Sleep — The Sciences
- Rosalía — El Mal Querer
- Kero Kero Bonito — Time 'n' Place
- Judas Priest — Firepower
- Armand Hammer — Paraffin
- Portal — Ion
- Earl Sweatshirt — Some Rap Songs
- Anderson .Paak — Oxnard
- Playboi Carti — Die Lit
- The Voidz — Virtue
- Jeane Grae & Quelle Chris — Everything's Fine
- Andrew W.K. — You're Not Alone
- Kanye West — ye
- twenty one pilots — Trench
- Polyphia — New Levels New Devils
- Anna von Hausswolff — Dead Magic
- Janelle Monáe — Dirty Computer
- Pusha T — Daytona
- Hermit and the Recluse — Orpheus vs. The Sirens
- Julia Holter — Aviary
- Car Seat Headrest — Twin Fantasy
- JID — DiCaprio 2
- Zeal & Ardor — Stranger Fruit
- Imperial Triumphant — Vile Luxury
- Tierra Whack — Whack World
- Screaming Females — All At Once
- Hop Along — Bark Your Head Off, Dog
- Guerilla Toss — Twisted Crystal
- Tropical Fuck Storm — A Laughing Death in Meatspace
- Blood Orange — Negro Swan
- Current 93 — The Light Is Leaving Us All