Year-End Lists

Stephen Thomas Erlewine: Best Albums of 2018

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2023 • 2017]

1. Interstate Gospel
   Pistol Annies
2. What a Time to Be Alive
   Superchunk
3. Golden Hour
   Kacey Musgraves
4. Dirty Pictures, Pt. 2
   Low Cut Connie
5. Sparkle Hard
   Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
6. Sparrow
   Ashley Monroe
7. Merrie Land
   The Good, the Bad & the Queen
8. Port Saint Joe
   Brothers Osborne
9. Chris
   Christine and the Queens
10. Desperate Man
    Eric Church
11. Hope Downs
    Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
12. Honey
    Robyn
13. Your Queen Is a Reptile
    Sons of Kemet
14. Volunteer
    Old Crow Medicine Show
15. All Nerve
    The Breeders
16. Providence Canyon
    Brent Cobb
17. Lil G.L.'s Blue Bonanza
    Charley Crockett
18. >>>
    Beak>
19. The Big Bad Blues
    Billy F Gibbons
20. Look Now
    Elvis Costello & The Imposters
21. Construction Time & Demolition
    Wreckless Eric
22. Juliana Hatfield Sings Olivia Newton-John
    Juliana Hatfield
23. Sweetener
    Ariana Grande
24. Last Man Standing
    Willie Nelson
25. Mr. Jukebox
    Joshua Hedley
26. Egypt Station
    Paul McCartney
27. Wanderer
    Cat Power
28. Songs of Resistance 1942 - 2018
    Marc Ribot
29. Girl Going Nowhere
    Ashley McBryde
30. Rebound
    Eleanor Friedberger
31. You're Driving Me Crazy
    Van Morrison & Joey DeFrancesco
32. The Prophet Speaks
    Van Morrison
33. Here If You Listen
    David Crosby
34. Heaven and Earth
    Kamasi Washington
35. Electric Light
    James Bay
36. The Future and the Past
    Natalie Prass
37. The Tree of Forgiveness
    John Prine
38. Restoration: Reimagining the Songs of Elton John and Bernie Taupin
    various artists
39. Babelsberg
    Gruff Rhys
40. Clean
    Soccer Mommy
41. To the Sunset
    Amanda Shires
42. True Meanings
    Paul Weller
43. Good Thing
    Leon Bridges
44. Traces
    Steve Perry
45. Currents, Constellations
    The Nels Cline 4
46. The Blue Hour
    Suede
47. Gilbert O'Sullivan
    Gilbert O'Sullivan
48. Cry Pretty
    Carrie Underwood
49. The Mountain
    Dierks Bentley
50. Cubist
    Hal Galper Quartet
51. Steak Night at the Prairie Rose
    Mike and the Moonpies
52. Love Is for Losers
    The Longshot
53. Songs for the Saints
    Kenny Chesney
54. She Remembers Everything
    Rosanne Cash
55. Bought to Rot
    Laura Jane Grace & the Devouring Mothers
56. LONER
    Caroline Rose
57. The Return
    Kamaal Williams
58. The Tree
    Lori McKenna
59. By the Way, I Forgive You
    Brandi Carlile
60. Have Mercy
    Paul Cauthen
61. Dove
    Belly
62. Be the Cowboy
    Mitski
63. Chains Are Broken
    The Devil Makes Three
64. Somewhere in Between
    Adam Hood
65. My Way
    Willie Nelson
66. Vanished Gardens
    Charles Lloyd & The Marvels & Lucinda Williams
67. Lonesome as a Shadow
    Charley Crockett
68. See You Around
    I’m With Her
69. Freedom’s Goblin
    Ty Segall
70. Dark Horse
    Devin Dawson
71. Arkansas
    John Oates
72. Wild! Wild! Wild!
    Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis
73. Strange Conversation
    Mandy Barnett
74. Concentric Circles
    The Kenny Barron Quintet
75. Culberson County
    Red Shahan
76. Experiment
    Kane Brown
77. Wide Awake!
    Parquet Courts
78. Dirty Computer
    Janelle Monáe
79. Bad Mouthin'
    Tony Joe White
80. Plays Well with Others
    Lera Lynn
81. Lush
    Snail Mail
82. Shawn Mendes
    Shawn Mendes
83. The Ice Queen
    Sue Foley
84. Years
    Sarah Shook & the Disarmers
85. Dying Star
    Ruston Kelly
86. Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
    Sophie
87. Outsiders
    The Magic Numbers
88. I Don't Run
    Hinds
89. Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
    Arctic Monkeys
90. Meet Me at the River
    Dawn Landes
91. boygenius
    boygenius
92. As Long As I Have You
    Roger Daltrey
93. I’m All Ears
    Let’s Eat Grandma
94. The High Cost of Low Living
    Nick Moss Band Featuring Dennis Gruenling
95. Other Arrangements
    Parker Millsap
96. Be Cool
    Eddie Henderson
97. Concrete and Mud
    Sam Morrow
98. Quiet and Peace
    Buffalo Tom
99. Boarding House Reach
    Jack White
100. The Now Now
     Gorillaz
101. In the Blue Light
     Paul Simon
102. Game Day
     Peter Holsapple
103. Apart
     Scarlett Johansson & Pete Yorn
104. May Your Kindness Remain
     Courtney Marie Andrews
105. A Star Is Born Soundtrack
     Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
106. Still Dreaming
     Joshua Redman
107. Please Don't Be Dead
     Fantastic Negrito
108. Songs of the Plains
     Colter Wall
109. Life
     Boy George
110. Tell Me How You Really Feel
     Courtney Barnett