Year-End Lists

Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2018

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1. Heaven and Earth
   Kamasi Washington
2. Be the Cowboy
   Mitski
3. boygenius
   boygenius
4. Double Negative
   Low
5. Tell Me How You Really Feel
   Courtney Barnett
6. 7
   Beach House
7. God’s Favorite Customer
   Father John Misty
8. Wide Awake!
   Parquet Courts
9. Bottle It In
   Kurt Vile
10. Aviary
    Julia Holter
11. Cocoa Sugar
    Young Fathers
12. In a Poem Unlimited
    U.S. Girls
13. Hope Downs
    Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
14. Lump
    Lump
15. The Future and the Past
    Natalie Prass
16. Loma
    Loma
17. Little Dark Age
    MGMT
18. I’m All Ears
    Let’s Eat Grandma
19. Indigo
    Wild Nothing
20. Joy as an Act of Resistance
    Idles
21. Love is Magic
    John Grant
22. Tracyanne & Danny
    Tracyanne & Danny
23. The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs
    Wye Oak
24. Now Only
    Mount Eerie
25. Lush
    Snail Mail
26. Singularity
    Jon Hopkins
27. LONER
    Caroline Rose
28. World’s Strongest Man
    Gaz Coombes
29. And Nothing Hurt
    Spiritualized
30. Dirty Computer
    Janelle Monáe
31. Songs of Praise
    Shame
32. Chris
    Christine and the Queens
33. Sparkle Hard
    Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
34. Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
    Arctic Monkeys
35. Clean
    Soccer Mommy
36. Sugar & Spice
    Hatchie
37. Le Kov
    Gwenno
38. C’est La Vie
    Phosphorescent
39. Negro Swan
    Blood Orange
40. Beyondless
    Iceage
41. Room Inside the World
    Ought
42. Hunter
    Anna Calvi
43. Historian
    Lucy Dacus
44. Dose Your Dreams
    Fucked Up
45. Broken Politics
    Neneh Cherry
46. Riddles
    Ed Schrader’s Music Beat
47. There’s a Riot Going On
    Yo La Tengo
48. Babelsberg
    Gruff Rhys
49. Transangelic Exodus
    Ezra Furman
50. Superorganism
    Superorganism
51. How to Solve Our Human Problems
    Belle and Sebastian
52. Room 25
    Noname
53. Make Way for Love
    Marlon Williams
54. abysskiss
    Adrianne Lenker
55. Freedom
    Amen Dunes
56. All Melody
    Nils Frahm
57. High As Hope
    Florence + The Machine
58. Post-
    Jeff Rosenstock
59. Slow Air
    Still Corners
60. Always Ascending
    Franz Ferdinand
61. I can feel you creep into my private life
    Tune-Yards
62. Merrie Land
    The Good, the Bad & the Queen
63. Hell-On
    Neko Case
64. The Lamb
    Lala Lala
65. Your Queen Is a Reptile
    Sons of Kemet
66. Mother of My Children
    Black Belt Eagle Scout
67. soil
    serpentwithfeet
68. Sex & Food
    Unknown Mortal Orchestra
69. Honey
    Robyn
70. Deafman Glance
    Ryley Walker
71. Dance Music
    Mastersystem
72. >>>
    Beak>
73. Perfect Shapes
    Madeline Kenney
74. Cosmic Wink
    Jess Williamson
75. This One’s for the Dancer & This One’s for the Dancer’s Bouquet
    Moonface
76. Wanderer
    Cat Power
77. Constant Image
    Flasher
78. Open Here
    Field Music
79. The Blue Hour
    Suede
80. Frontrunner
    Frontperson
81. Rebound
    Eleanor Friedberger
82. Parcels
    Parcels
83. Bark Your Head Off, Dog
    Hop Along
84. Dead Magic
    Anna von Hausswolff
85. Suspiria (Music for the Luca Guadagnino Film)
    Thom Yorke
86. The More I Sleep the Less I Dream
    We Were Promised Jetpacks
87. Love Is Dead
    Chvrches
88. White Is Relic / Irrealis Mood
    of Montreal
89. The Whole Thing Is Just There
    Young Jesus
90. Bon Voyage
    Melody’s Echo Chamber
91. Out of Touch
    Jaakko Eino Kalevi
92. We’re Not Talking
    The Goon Sax
93. Quit the Curse
    Anna Burch
94. Marble Skies
    Django Django
95. Goat Girl
    Goat Girl
96. Konoyo
    Tim Hecker
97. Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
    Deafheaven
98. Future Me Hates Me
    The Beths
99. Songs You Make at Night
    Tunng
100. The Art of Pretending to Swim
     Villagers