Year-End Lists

Q Magazine: Top 50 Albums of 2018

1. Arctic Monkeys
   Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
2. Let’s Eat Grandma
   I’m All Ears
3. The 1975
   A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
4. Robyn
   Honey
5. Parquet Courts
   Wide Awake!
6. Christine and the Queens
   Chris
7. Idles
   Joy as an Act of Resistance
8. Janelle Monáe
   Dirty Computer
9. Paul Weller
   True Meanings
10. Anna Calvi
    Hunter
11. Interpol
    Marauder
12. Kacey Musgraves
    Golden Hour
13. Gruff Rhys
    Babelsberg
14. Courtney Barnett
    Tell Me How You Really Feel
15. Blood Orange
    Negro Swan
16. Mitski
    Be the Cowboy
17. Ty Segall
    Freedom’s Goblin
18. DJ Koze
    Knock Knock
19. Pusha T
    Daytona
20. Spiritualized
    And Nothing Hurt
21. Low
    Double Negative
22. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
    Hope Downs
23. Tracey Thorn
    Record
24. Elvis Costello & The Imposters
    Look Now
25. Father John Misty
    God’s Favorite Customer
26. U.S. Girls
    In a Poem Unlimited
27. Daniel Avery
    Song for Alpha
28. Neko Case
    Hell-On
29. Gaz Coombes
    World’s Strongest Man
30. Kurt Vile
    Bottle It In
31. Florence + The Machine
    High As Hope
32. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
    Sparkle Hard
33. Shame
    Songs of Praise
34. Go-Kart Mozart
    Mozart’s Mini-Mart
35. Julia Holter
    Aviary
36. Eleanor Friedberger
    Rebound
37. Beach House
    7
38. Bill Ryder-Jones
    Yawn
39. Cat Power
    Wanderer
40. Kids See Ghosts
    Kids See Ghosts
41. Lykke Li
    so sad so sexy
42. Sophie
    Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
43. Everything Is Recorded
    Everything Is Recorded
44. Panic! At the Disco
    Pray For the Wicked
45. Mac Miller
    Swimming
46. Cardi B
    Invasion of Privacy
47. The Good, the Bad & the Queen
    Merrie Land
48. Kamasi Washington
    Heaven and Earth
49. Manic Street Preachers
    Resistance Is Futile
50. The Orielles
    Silver Dollar Moment