Year-End Lists

The Guardian: 50 Best Albums of 2018

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1. Chris
   Christine and the Queens
2. Honey
   Robyn
3. Dirty Computer
   Janelle Monáe
4. Invasion of Privacy
   Cardi B
5. Be the Cowboy
   Mitski
6. Joy as an Act of Resistance
   Idles
7. Heaven and Earth
   Kamasi Washington
8. Golden Hour
   Kacey Musgraves
9. Double Negative
   Low
10. Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
    Arctic Monkeys
11. Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
    Sophie
12. Your Queen Is a Reptile
    Sons of Kemet
13. Hive Mind
    The Internet
14. Room 25
    Noname
15. The Future and the Past
    Natalie Prass
16. Cocoa Sugar
    Young Fathers
17. Daytona
    Pusha T
18. I’m All Ears
    Let’s Eat Grandma
19. Aviary
    Julia Holter
20. Sweetener
    Ariana Grande
21. Isolation
    Kali Uchis
22. Safe in the Hands of Love
    Yves Tumor
23. Wide Awake!
    Parquet Courts
24. Songs of Praise
    Shame
25. Ecstatic Arrow
    Virginia Wing
26. Saturn
    Nao
27. Tell Me How You Really Feel
    Courtney Barnett
28. ASTROWORLD
    Travis Scott
29. Negro Swan
    Blood Orange
30. Hope Downs
    Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
31. El Mal Querer
    Rosalía
32. Confident Music For Confident People
    Confidence Man
33. Devotion
    Tirzah
34. A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
    The 1975
35. MITH
    Lonnie Holley
36. Lush
    Snail Mail
37. Bloom
    Troye Sivan
38. In a Poem Unlimited
    U.S. Girls
39. Le Kov
    Gwenno
40. No Shame
    Lily Allen
41. Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
    Deafheaven
42. Compro
    Skee Mask
43. May Your Kindness Remain
    Courtney Marie Andrews
44. Broken Politics
    Neneh Cherry
45. soil
    serpentwithfeet
46. Record
    Tracey Thorn
47. Con Todo El Mundo
    Khruangbin
48. Wanderer
    Cat Power
49. Singularity
    Jon Hopkins
50. Goat Girl
    Goat Girl