Year-End Lists

Uproxx Music Critics Poll: Best Albums of 2018, a survey of nearly 200 music critics

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019]

1. Golden Hour
   Kacey Musgraves
2. Dirty Computer
   Janelle Monáe
3. Be the Cowboy
   Mitski
4. Daytona
   Pusha T
5. Invasion of Privacy
   Cardi B
6. Historian
   Lucy Dacus
7. Sweetener
   Ariana Grande
8. A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
   The 1975
9. boygenius
   boygenius
10. Room 25
    Noname
11. ASTROWORLD
    Travis Scott
12. Lush
    Snail Mail
13. Bark Your Head Off, Dog
    Hop Along
14. Honey
    Robyn
15. 7
    Beach House
16. Nearer My God
    Foxing
17. Double Negative
    Low
18. Interstate Gospel
    Pistol Annies
19. Black Panther The Album Music From And Inspired By
    Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd, SZA
20. Clean
    Soccer Mommy
21. Wide Awake!
    Parquet Courts
22. Isolation
    Kali Uchis
23. Heaven and Earth
    Kamasi Washington
24. Care for Me
    Saba
25. Some Rap Songs
    Earl Sweatshirt
26. Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
    Sophie
27. Knock Knock
    DJ Koze
28. Hell-On
    Neko Case
29. What a Time to Be Alive
    Superchunk
30. Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
    Arctic Monkeys
31. Future Me Hates Me
    The Beths
32. In a Poem Unlimited
    U.S. Girls
33. God’s Favorite Customer
    Father John Misty
34. The Tree of Forgiveness
    John Prine
35. Everything Is Love
    The Carters
36. Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa
    Jeremy Dutcher
37. 2012-2017
    Against All Logic
38. Your Queen Is a Reptile
    Sons of Kemet
39. Tell Me How You Really Feel
    Courtney Barnett
40. Whack World
    Tierra Whack
41. soil
    serpentwithfeet
42. Safe in the Hands of Love
    Yves Tumor
43. Chris
    Christine and the Queens
44. Age Of
    Oneohtrix Point Never
45. To the Sunset
    Amanda Shires
46. Girl Going Nowhere
    Ashley McBryde
47. Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
    Deafheaven
48. Post-
    Jeff Rosenstock
49. Yolk in the Fur
    Wild Pink
50. Our Raw Heart
    YOB