Year-End Lists

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2018 Music

Vinyl Me, Please: Best Albums of 2018

20 December 2018

Be the Cowboy - Mitski

Vinyl Me, Please: Best Albums of 2018

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2017]

  1. Be the Cowboy
    Mitski
  2. soil
    serpentwithfeet
  3. Golden Hour
    Kacey Musgraves
  4. Room 25
    Noname
  5. Some Rap Songs
    Earl Sweatshirt
  6. Dirty Computer
    Janelle Monáe
  7. Care for Me
    Saba
  8. Whack World
    Tierra Whack
  9. LONER
    Caroline Rose
  10. Paraffin
    Armand Hammer
  11. 7
    Beach House
  12. Con Todo El Mundo
    Khruangbin
  13. Veteran
    JPEGMAFIA
  14. Songs of the Plains
    Colter Wall
  15. Chris
    Christine and the Queens
  16. Invasion of Privacy
    Cardi B
  17. Negro Swan
    Blood Orange
  18. Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
    Deafheaven
  19. Orquesta Akokán
    Orquesta Akokán
  20. Nasty
    Rico Nasty
  21. Our Raw Heart
    YOB
  22. Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
    Arctic Monkeys
  23. Safe in the Hands of Love
    Yves Tumor
  24. Dream Girl
    Ness Nite
  25. Die Lit
    Playboi Carti
  26. Lush
    Snail Mail
  27. El Mal Querer
    Rosalía
  28. abysskiss
    Adrianne Lenker
  29. Sweetener
    Ariana Grande
  30. Freedom
    Amen Dunes
  31. TA13OO
    Denzel Curry
  32. God’s Favorite Customer
    Father John Misty
  33. Now Only
    Mount Eerie
  34. Heaven and Earth
    Kamasi Washington
  35. boygenius
    boygenius
  36. Daytona
    Pusha T
  37. Voicenotes
    Charlie Puth
  38. Origami Harvest
    Ambrose Akinmusire
  39. ASTROWORLD
    Travis Scott
  40. A Star Is Born Soundtrack
    Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper

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