Year-End Lists

Paste Magazine: 50 Best Albums of 2018

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1. Historian
   Lucy Dacus
2. Wide Awake!
   Parquet Courts
3. Tell Me How You Really Feel
   Courtney Barnett
4. Clean
   Soccer Mommy
5. Lush
   Snail Mail
6. Be the Cowboy
   Mitski
7. Daytona
   Pusha T
8. Hope Downs
   Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
9. Double Negative
   Low
10. Bark Your Head Off, Dog
    Hop Along
11. Freedom
    Amen Dunes
12. Songs of Praise
    Shame
13. In a Poem Unlimited
    U.S. Girls
14. Dirty Computer
    Janelle Monáe
15. I’ll Be Your Girl
    The Decemberists
16. Twentytwo in Blue
    Sunflower Bean
17. Little Dark Age
    MGMT
18. God’s Favorite Customer
    Father John Misty
19. Honey
    Robyn
20. Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
    Arctic Monkeys
21. May Your Kindness Remain
    Courtney Marie Andrews
22. Big Red Machine
    Big Red Machine
23. Look Now
    Elvis Costello & The Imposters
24. Beyondless
    Iceage
25. Joy as an Act of Resistance
    Idles
26. What a Time to Be Alive
    Superchunk
27. Room Inside the World
    Ought
28. How to Socialise & Make Friends
    Camp Cope
29. Future Me Hates Me
    The Beths
30. I Need to Start a Garden
    Haley Heynderickx
31. Hell-On
    Neko Case
32. Room 25
    Noname
33. She Remembers Everything
    Rosanne Cash
34. Knock Knock
    DJ Koze
35. See You Around
    I’m With Her
36. MITH
    Lonnie Holley
37. New Material
    Preoccupations
38. The Hex
    Richard Swift
39. The Crossing
    Alejandro Escovedo
40. Ultraviolet
    Kelly Moran
41. abysskiss
    Adrianne Lenker
42. Things Have Changed
    Bettye LaVette
43. LONER
    Caroline Rose
44. Golden Hour
    Kacey Musgraves
45. Nature
    Paul Kelly
46. C’est La Vie
    Phosphorescent
47. Constant Image
    Flasher
48. Girl Going Nowhere
    Ashley McBryde
49. Negro Swan
    Blood Orange
50. There’s a Riot Going On
    Yo La Tengo