Year-End Lists

Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2018

1. Noname
   Room 25
2. Mas-T
   Thelonious Sphere Monk
3. Bettye LaVette
   Things Have Changed
4. Parquet Courts
   Wide Awake!
5. Pistol Annies
   Interstate Gospel
6. Rich Krueger
   Life Ain't That Long
7. Hamell On Trial
   The Night Guy at the Apocalypse Profiles of a Rushing Midnight
8. Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd, SZA
   Black Panther The Album Music From And Inspired By
9. Tierra Whack
   Whack World
10. Cardi B
    Invasion of Privacy
11. Mount Eerie
    Now Only
12. Superchunk
    What a Time to Be Alive
13. Pusha T
    Daytona
14. Rich Krueger
    Nowthen
15. The Paranoid Style
    Rock and Roll Just Can't Recall + 3
16. Maria Muldaur
    Don't You Feel My Leg (The Naughty Bawdy Blues of Blue Lu Barker)
17. Willie Nelson
    Last Man Standing
18. Riton & Kah-Lo
    Foreign Ororo
19. Ezra Furman
    Transangelic Exodus
20. Wussy
    Getting Better
21. Janelle Monáe
    Dirty Computer
22. Elza Soares
    Deus É Mulher
23. Amy Rigby
    The Old Guys
24. The Mekons 77
    It Is Twice Blessed
25. Amanda Shires
    To the Sunset
26. Tune-Yards
    I can feel you creep into my private life
27. Wussy
    What Heaven is Like
28. No Age
    Snares Like a Haircut
29. Hinds
    I Don't Run
30. Sophie
    Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
31. John Kruth & La Società dei Musici
    Forever Ago
32. Youssou N'Dour
    Raxas Bercy 2017
33. Mary Gauthier
    Rifles and Rosary Beads
34. Sons of Kemet
    Your Queen Is a Reptile
35. Tyler Childers
    Purgatory
36. Superorganism
    Superorganism
37. Bali Baby
    Baylor Swift
38. John Prine
    The Tree of Forgiveness
39. The Rolling Stones
    On Air
40. Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba
    Routes
41. Ry Cooder
    The Prodigal Son
42. L7
    Fast & Frightening
43. Soccer Mommy
    Clean
44. Mitski
    Be the Cowboy
45. Methodist Hospital
    Giants
46. The Goon Sax
    We’re Not Talking
47. Wynton Marsalis Septet
    United We Swing: Best of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Galas
48. Lupe Fiasco
    Drogas Wave
49. Speedy Ortiz
    Twerp Verse
50. Jon Hassell
    Listening To Pictures (Pentimento, Vol. One)
51. Homeboy Sandman & Edan
    Humble Pi
52. Becky Warren
    Undesirable
53. Tracey Thorn
    Record
54. Cupcakke
    Ephorize
55. The Internet
    Hive Mind
56. Doctor Nativo
    Guatemaya
57. Imarhan
    Temet
58. The Coup
    Sorry to Bother You
59. Chicago Farmer
    Quarter Past Tonight
60. Perfume Genius
    No Shape
61. Tal National
    Tantabara
62. Lyrics Born
    Quite a Life
63. Rapsody
    Laila’s Wisdom
64. various artists
    I'm Not Here To Hunt Rabbits
65. Blue Lu Barker
    Remastered Collection
66. Idles
    Joy as an Act of Resistance
67. Frankie Cosmos
    Vessel
68. Mandy Barnett
    Strange Conversation
69. Paul Simon
    In the Blue Light
70. Open Mike Eagle
    What Happens When I Try to Relax
71. Yo La Tengo
    There’s a Riot Going On
72. Beats Antique
    Shadowbox
73. Leikeli47
    Acrylic
74. Tropical Fuck Storm
    A Laughing Death in Meatspace
75. Fever Ray
    Plunge
76. Jinx lennon
    Grow a Pair!!!
77. Wreckless Eric
    Construction Time & Demolition
78. Courtney Barnett
    Tell Me How You Really Feel
79. Thelonious Monk
    Les liaisons dangereuses 1960
80. Car Seat Headrest
    Twin Fantasy
81. AD the Voice
    Maxi-Single
82. Kids See Ghosts
    Kids See Ghosts
83. Shopping
    The Official Body