Year-End Lists

Paste Magazine: 50 Best Albums of 2018

1. Lucy Dacus
   Historian
2. Parquet Courts
   Wide Awake!
3. Courtney Barnett
   Tell Me How You Really Feel
4. Soccer Mommy
   Clean
5. Snail Mail
   Lush
6. Mitski
   Be the Cowboy
7. Pusha T
   Daytona
8. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
   Hope Downs
9. Low
   Double Negative
10. Hop Along
    Bark Your Head Off, Dog
11. Amen Dunes
    Freedom
12. Shame
    Songs of Praise
13. U.S. Girls
    In a Poem Unlimited
14. Janelle Monáe
    Dirty Computer
15. The Decemberists
    I’ll Be Your Girl
16. Sunflower Bean
    Twentytwo in Blue
17. MGMT
    Little Dark Age
18. Father John Misty
    God’s Favorite Customer
19. Robyn
    Honey
20. Arctic Monkeys
    Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
21. Courtney Marie Andrews
    May Your Kindness Remain
22. Big Red Machine
    Big Red Machine
23. Elvis Costello & The Imposters
    Look Now
24. Iceage
    Beyondless
25. Idles
    Joy as an Act of Resistance
26. Superchunk
    What a Time to Be Alive
27. Ought
    Room Inside the World
28. Camp Cope
    How to Socialise & Make Friends
29. The Beths
    Future Me Hates Me
30. Haley Heynderickx
    I Need to Start a Garden
31. Neko Case
    Hell-On
32. Noname
    Room 25
33. Rosanne Cash
    She Remembers Everything
34. DJ Koze
    Knock Knock
35. I’m With Her
    See You Around
36. Lonnie Holley
    MITH
37. Preoccupations
    New Material
38. Richard Swift
    The Hex
39. Alejandro Escovedo
    The Crossing
40. Kelly Moran
    Ultraviolet
41. Adrianne Lenker
    abysskiss
42. Bettye LaVette
    Things Have Changed
43. Caroline Rose
    Loner
44. Kacey Musgraves
    Golden Hour
45. Paul Kelly
    Nature
46. Phosphorescent
    C’est La Vie
47. Flasher
    Constant Image
48. Ashley McBryde
    Girl Going Nowhere
49. Blood Orange
    Negro Swan
50. Yo La Tengo
    There’s a Riot Going On