Year-End Lists

Stephen Thomas Erlewine: Best Albums of 2018

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2023 • 2017]

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