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2018 Music

Hanif Abdurraqib: 47 Favorite Albums Of 2018

27 December 2018

Language - MNEK

Hanif Abdurraqib: 47 Favorite Albums Of 2018

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2017 • 2016]

  1. Language
    MNEK
  2. Whack World
    Tierra Whack
  3. Harlan & Alondra
    Buddy
  4. Hive Mind
    The Internet
  5. Joy as an Act of Resistance
    Idles
  6. Resistance Is Futile
    Manic Street Preachers
  7. Your Queen Is a Reptile
    Sons of Kemet
  8. Room 25
    Noname
  9. Be the Cowboy
    Mitski
  10. Historian
    Lucy Dacus
  11. soil
    serpentwithfeet
  12. Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
    Sophie
  13. FM!
    Vince Staples
  14. Before You Go
    EXES
  15. Care for Me
    Saba
  16. Down Below
    Tribulation
  17. Dirty Computer
    Janelle Monáe
  18. Paraffin
    Armand Hammer
  19. Hold on to Your Heart
    The XCERTS
  20. In a Poem Unlimited
    U.S. Girls
  21. You Won't Get What You Want
    Daughters
  22. Honey
    Robyn
  23. Swimming
    Mac Miller
  24. Cold Devil
    Drakeo the Ruler
  25. Sister Cities
    The Wonder Years
  26. Pastoral
    Gazelle Twin
  27. Shawn Mendes
    Shawn Mendes
  28. Floating Features
    La Luz
  29. Nasty
    Rico Nasty
  30. Wouldn't It Be Great
    Loretta Lynn
  31. Jericho Sirens
    Hot Snakes
  32. Kids See Ghosts
    Kids See Ghosts
  33. Orpheus vs. The Sirens
    Hermit and the Recluse
  34. Sweetener
    Ariana Grande
  35. boygenius
    boygenius
  36. Million Dollars to Kill Me
    Joyce Manor
  37. Sink
    Sudan Archives
  38. High As Hope
    Florence + The Machine
  39. Chris
    Christine and the Queens
  40. Everything's Fine
    Jeane Grae & Quelle Chris
  41. The Wolf of Grape Street
    03 Greedo
  42. Golden Hour
    Kacey Musgraves
  43. Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
    Deafheaven
  44. Girl Code
    City Girls
  45. Double Negative
    Low
  46. Cocoa Sugar
    Young Fathers
  47. Veteran
    JPEGMAFIA

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