Year-End Lists

Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2018 (an annual poll of hundreds of critics, published, perhaps for the last time, by The Village Voice)

1. Kacey Musgraves
   Golden Hour
2. Janelle Monáe
   Dirty Computer
3. Cardi B
   Invasion of Privacy
3. Mitski
   Be the Cowboy
5. Robyn
   Honey
6. Pusha T
   Daytona
7. Noname
   Room 25
8. Low
   Double Negative
9. Parquet Courts
   Wide Awake!
10. Lucy Dacus
    Historian
11. Superchunk
    What a Time to Be Alive
12. Neko Case
    Hell-On
13. Soccer Mommy
    Clean
14. The 1975
    A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
15. Pistol Annies
    Interstate Gospel
16. Courtney Barnett
    Tell Me How You Really Feel
17. Rosalía
    El Mal Querer
18. John Prine
    The Tree of Forgiveness
19. Christine and the Queens
    Chris
19. Snail Mail
    Lush
21. Kamasi Washington
    Heaven and Earth
22. Makaya McCraven
    Universal Beings
23. The Beths
    Future Me Hates Me
23. Kali Uchis
    Isolation
25. U.S. Girls
    In a Poem Unlimited
26. Boygenius
    Boygenius
27. Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd, SZA
    Black Panther The Album Music From And Inspired By
28. Beach House
    7
29. Tierra Whack
    Whack World
30. Tracey Thorn
    Record
31. Ariana Grande
    Sweetener
32. Earl Sweatshirt
    Some Rap Songs
33. Brandi Carlile
    By the Way, I Forgive You
33. Sophie
    Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
35. Idles
    Joy as an Act of Resistance
36. Sons of Kemet
    Your Queen Is a Reptile
37. Meshell Ndegeocello
    Ventriloquism
38. DJ Koze
    Knock Knock
39. Khruangbin
    Con Todo El Mundo
40. Father John Misty
    God’s Favorite Customer
41. Travis Scott
    Astroworld
42. Sleep
    The Sciences
43. Arctic Monkeys
    Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
44. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
    Hope Downs
45. Elvis Costello & The Imposters
    Look Now
46. Amen Dunes
    Freedom
47. Kurt Vile
    Bottle It In
48. Julia Holter
    Aviary
49. Yves Tumor
    Safe in the Hands of Love
50. Blood Orange
    Negro Swan
50. Cupcakke
    Ephorize
50. Bettye LaVette
    Things Have Changed
53. Against All Logic
    2012-2017
53. Yo La Tengo
    There’s a Riot Going On
55. Saba
    Care for Me
56. Hop Along
    Bark Your Head Off, Dog
57. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
    Sparkle Hard
57. Caroline Rose
    Loner
59. Deafheaven
    Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
60. The Internet
    Hive Mind
61. Harriet Tubman
    The Terror End of Beauty
62. Ashley McBryde
    Girl Going Nowhere
62. Superorganism
    Superorganism
64. Foxing
    Nearer My God
65. Spiritualized
    And Nothing Hurt
66. Jon Hopkins
    Singularity
66. Young Fathers
    Cocoa Sugar
68. Oneohtrix Point Never
    Age Of
69. David Byrne
    American Utopia
69. Flasher
    Constant Image
71. Neneh Cherry
    Broken Politics
72. Courtney Marie Andrews
    May Your Kindness Remain
72. Chvrches
    Love Is Dead
72. Kids See Ghosts
    Kids See Ghosts
75. Car Seat Headrest
    Twin Fantasy
75. Marianne Faithfull
    Negative Capability
75. Natalie Prass
    The Future and the Past
75. Shame
    Songs of Praise
79. Amy Rigby
    The Old Guys
80. Jeff Rosenstock
    Post-
81. Damien Jurado
    The Horizon Just Laughed
82. Drake
    Scorpion
83. Mount Eerie
    Now Only
84. Jeff Tweedy
    WARM
85. Mariah Carey
    Caution
86. Let’s Eat Grandma
    I’m All Ears
87. Jeremy Dutcher
    Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa
87. Wayne Shorter
    Emanon
89. Amanda Shires
    To the Sunset
89. Vince Staples
    FM!
91. BTS
    Love Yourself 轉 'Tear'
91. Cat Power
    Wanderer
91. John Coltrane
    Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album
91. Eleanor Friedberger
    Rebound
95. Mary Gauthier
    Rifles and Rosary Beads
95. serpentwithfeet
    soil
95. Jack White
    Boarding House Reach
98. Jorja Smith
    Lost & Found
99. Camp Cope
    How to Socialise & Make Friends
99. Ghost
    Prequelle
99. Tune-Yards
    I can feel you creep into my private life