Best Albums of 2018
My 75 favorite albums from 2018. 76-80 are my top 5 E.P.s. |
| 1 |  | Typhoon (USA-OR)
Offerings
Indie rock concept album.
Best songs: Algernon, Sleep, Chiaroscuro |
| 2 |  | Foxing
Nearer My God
Indie rock/emo
Best Songs: Grand Paradise, Won't Drown, Gameshark |
| 3 |  | Black Peaks
All That Divides
Post-hardcore/Post-rock/Sludge-rock
Best Songs: Home, The Midnight Sun, Across the Great Divide |
| 4 |  | Daughters
You Won't Get What You Want
Noise-rock/Experimental/Post-punk
Best Songs: Satan in the Wait, City Song, Guest House |
| 5 |  | IDLES
Joy as an Act of Resistance
Punk/Post-punk
Best songs: Danny Nedelko, Colossus, Never Fight a Man with a Perm |
| 6 |  | mewithoutYou
[Untitled]
Post-hardcore/emo/Indie Rock
Best songs: Julia, Tortoises All the Way Down, 2,459 Miles |
| 7 |  | The Ocean
Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic
Post-rock/Post-metal/Sludge/Prog Metal.
Best Songs: Permian, Devonian. Cambrian II |
| 8 |  | J.I.D
DiCaprio 2
Hip-Hop
Best Songs: Workin' Out, Just da Other Day, 151 Rum |
| 9 |  | Father John Misty
God's Favorite Customer
Indie-rock/Singer-Songwriter
Best Songs: The Songwriter, God's Favorite Customer, Please Don't Die |
| 10 |  | Larry and His Flask
This Remedy
Folk-Rock/Punk/Americana
Best Songs: The Place That it Belongs, Three Manhattans, Hoping Again |
| 11 |  | Zapruder
Zapruder
Post-hardcore/Blues/Experimental
Best Songs: Leaving Montreal, Tongue Twister, Half Stache Man |
| 12 |  | Coheed and Cambria
The Unheavenly Creatures
Prog-Rock/Punk
Best Songs: Black Sunday, Queen of the Dark, Toys |
| 13 |  | Zeal and Ardor
Stranger Fruit
Soul/Blues/Black Metal
Best Songs: Row Row, You Ain't Coming Back, Servants |
| 14 | | Between the Buried and Me
Automata I/Automata II
Progressive Metal
Best Songs: Blot, The Grid, Millions |
| 15 |  | Slugdge
Esoteric Malacology
Death Metal/Sludge
Best Songs: Transilvanian Fungus, Slave Goo World, Crop Killer |
| 16 |  | The Family Crest
The War: Act I
Indie Folk
Best Songs: Take Tonight, Rest, Like a Light |
| 17 |  | Kids See Ghosts
Kids See Ghosts
Hip-Hop
Best Songs: Freeee, Reborn, Fire |
| 18 |  | SUMAC
Love In Shadow
Black Metal/Sludge/Experimental
Best Songs: Arcing Silver, Ecstasy of Unbecoming, The Task |
| 19 |  | Azusa
Heavy Yoke
Post-Metal/Sludge
Best Songs: Interstellar Islands, Heavy Yoke, Eternal Echo |
| 20 |  | Saintseneca
Pillar of Na
Indie Folk
Best Songs: Pillar of Na, Beast in the Garden, Denarius |
| 21 |  | Rivers of Nihil
Where Owls Know My Name
Prog Metal
Best Songs: Hollow, Where Owls Know My Name, Subtle Change |
| 22 |  | Cosmo Sheldrake
The Much Much How How & I
Orchestral Indie Pop
Best Songs: Wriggle, Come Along, Solar Waltz |
| 23 |  | Kimbra
Primal Heart
Indie Pop
Best Songs: Recovery, Past Love, Black Sky |
| 24 |  | The Nietzsche
The Parnassus
Hardcore/Metalcore/Dillinger
Best Songs: Rich Bukowski, In Kharms Way, Poe's Law |
| 25 |  | Alkaloid
Liquid Anatomy
Prog Metal/Death Metal
Best Songs: Rise of the Cephalopods, As Decreed by Laws Written, Azagthoth |
| 26 |  | Thou
Magus
Black Metal
Best Songs: The Changeling Prince, Inward, In the Kingdom of Meaning |
| 27 |  | Revocation
The Outer Ones
Death Metal
Best Songs: Ex Nihilo, The Outer Ones, A Starless Darkness |
| 28 |  | Clarence Clarity
THINK: PEACE
Art Pop
Best Songs: Vapid Feels Ain't Vapid, Naysayer, Next Best Thing |
| 29 |  | Pusha T
DAYTONA
Hip-Hop
Best Songs: The Games We Play, What Would Meek Do?, Come Back Baby |
| 30 |  | SOPHIE
OIL OF EVERY PEARL's UN-INSIDES
Art-Pop
Best Songs: Faceshopping, Immaterial, Ponyboy |
| 31 |  | VOLA
Applause of a Distant Crowd
Prog Metal/Prog Rock
Best Songs: Whaler/Ruby Pool/ Green Screen Mother |
| 32 |  | Mitski
Be the Cowboy
Indie-Pop/Art-Pop
Best Songs: Me and My Husband. Nobody, Two Slow Dancers |
| 33 |  | The Republic of Wolves
Shrine
Indie-Rock
Best Songs: The Canyon, Colored Out, Bask |
| 34 |  | Rolo Tomassi
Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It
Dillinger-ish
Best Songs: Rituals, Balancing the Dark, Aftermath |
| 35 |  | Ariana Grande
Sweetener
Indie-Pop
Best Songs: R.E.M., God is a woman, better off |
| 36 |  | Janelle Monae
Dirty Computer
Indie-Pop/Art-Pop
Best Songs: So Afraid, Americans, Make Me Feel |
| 37 |  | Death Grips
Year of the Snitch
Hip-Hop/Industrial
Best Songs: Flies, Streaky, Black Paint |
| 38 |  | Jeff Rosenstock
POST-
Punk/Indie-Rock
Best Songs: 9/10, Beating My Head Against a Wall, Melba |
| 39 |  | Denzel Curry
TA13OO
Hip-Hop
Best Songs: Switch it Up, Black Metal Terrorist, Taboo |
| 40 |  | Sunless Dawn
Timeweaver
Prog Metal/Death Metal
Best Songs: The Arbiter. Biomorph III, Grand Inquisitor |
| 41 |  | Kacey Musgraves
Golden Hour
Country-Folk
Best Songs: Slow Burn, Butterflies, Rainbow |
| 42 |  | Brockhampton
Iridescence
Hip-Hop
Best Songs: District, J'ouvert, San Marcos |
| 43 |  | Imperial Triumphant
Vile Luxury
Death Metal/Black Metal
Best Songs: Lower World, Chernobyl Blues, Swarming Opulence |
| 44 |  | Kanye West
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Hip-Hop
Best Songs: All Mine, Yikes, Ghost Town |
| 45 |  | Night Verses
From the Gallery of Sleep
Prog Metal/Instrumental
Best Songs: No.0, Vice Wave, Trading Shadows |
| 46 |  | Beyond Creation
Algorythm
Prog Metal
Best Songs: Ethereal Kingdom, Entre Suffrage et Mirage, The Inversion |
| 47 |  | Psycroptic
As The Kingdom Drowns
Death Metal/Metalcore
Best Songs: As the Kingdom Drowns, Upon These Stones, Frozen Gaze |
| 48 |  | YOB
Our Raw Heart
Sludge Metal
Best Songs: Beauty in Falling Leaves, The Screen, Ablaze |
| 49 |  | The Wonder Years
Sister Cities
Indie-Rock/Emo
Best Songs: Sister Cities, Pyramids of Salt, Heaven's Gate |
| 50 |  | The Intersphere
The Grand Delusion
Indie-Rock
Best Songs: Secret Place, Don't Think Twice, The Grand Delusion |
| 51 |  | Sectioned (Metalcore)
Annihilated
Dillinger on Speed
Best Songs: Portrait, Life's True Beauty, Release |
| 52 |  | Julia Holter
Aviary
Art-Pop/Folk
Best Songs: Words I Heard, Underneath the Moon, I Shall Love 2 |
| 53 |  | Frontierer
Unloved
Another Dillinger
Best Songs: Bombgnasher, Glitcher, Gower St. |
| 54 |  | Shakey Graves
Can't Wake Up
Indie-Folk
Best Songs: Dining Alone, Counting Sheep, Backseat Driver |
| 55 |  | Skeletonwitch
Devouring Radiant Light
Death Metal
Best Songs: Temple of the Sun, When Paradise Fades, Carnarium Eternal |
| 56 |  | Behemoth
I Loved You at Your Darkest
Death Metal/Doom Metal
Best Songs: Bartzabel, God = Dog, Coagvla |
| 57 |  | Earl Sweatshirt
Some Rap Songs
Hip-Hop
Best Songs: The Mint, Shattered Dreams, December 24 |
| 58 |  | Erra
Neon
Metalcore/Djent
Best Songs: Valhalla, Unify, Monolith |
| 59 |  | Sleep
The Sciences
Stoner Rock
Best Songs: Sonic Titan, Antarcticans Thawed, The Botanist |
| 60 |  | Deafheaven
Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
Black Metal/Shoegaze
Best Songs: Canary Yellow, Worthless Animal, Honeycomb |
| 61 |  | Haken
Vector
Prog Metal
Best Songs: A Cell Divides, Puzzle Box, The Good Doctor |
| 62 |  | Black Thought
Streams Of Thought, Vol. 2
Hip-Hop
Best Songs: How to Hold a Choppa, History Unfolds, Streets |
| 63 |  | Thrice
Palms
Indie Rock
Best Songs: My Soul, A Branch in the River, Blood on Blood |
| 64 |  | Florence and the Machine
High as Hope
Indie Rock/Pop
Best Songs: Sky Full of Song, Big God, The End of Love |
| 65 |  | Panic! at the Disco
Pray For The Wicked
Pop
Best Songs: King of the Clouds, Roaring 20's, Old Fashioned |
| 66 |  | Dance Gavin Dance
Artificial Selection
Metalcore/Post-Hardcore
Best Songs: The Rattler, Count Bassy, Bloodsucker |
| 67 |  | Panopticon
The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness
Black Metal/Folk
Best Songs: En hvit ravns dod, The Moss Beneath the Snow, The Wandering Ghost |
| 68 |  | Frog
Whatever We Probably Already Had It
Indie Rock
Best Songs: Bones, God Once Loved a Woman, Something to Hide |
| 69 |  | Chapel of Disease
...And As We Have Seen The Storm
Death Metal/Black Metal
Best Songs: Null, 1,000 Fifferent Paths, Oblivious/Obnoxious/Defiant |
| 70 |  | Silent Planet
When the End Began
Metalcore
Best Songs: Visible Unseen, Share the Body, Vanity of Sleep |
| 71 |  | Respire
Denouement
Black Metal/Shoegaze
Best Songs: Virtue, Haunt, Bound |
| 72 |  | Lord Huron
Vide Noir
Indie Rock/Folk
Best Songs: Wait By the River, When the Night is Over, Lost in Time and Space |
| 73 |  | Ghost (SWE)
Prequelle
Metal
Best Songs: Rats, Dance Macabre, Faith |
| 74 |  | Monuments
Phronesis
Metalcore/Djent
Best Songs: Jukai, Leviathan, Vanta |
| 75 |  | Obliteration
Cenotaph Obscure
Death Metal/Black Metal
Best Songs: Tumulus of Ancient Bones, Eldritch Summoning, Charnel Plains |
| 76 |  | mewithoutYou
[untitled] e.p.
Post-Hardcore/Indie-Rock
Best Songs: Kristy w/ the Sparkling Teeth, Cities of the Plain, Bethlehem, WV |
| 77 |  | Boygenius
Boygenius
Indie-Folk/Indie-Rock
Best Songs: Souvenir, Salt in the Wound, Ketchum, ID |
| 78 |  | Converge
Beautiful Ruin
Hardcore/Metalcore
Best Songs: Melancholia, Beautiful Ruin, Permanent Blue |
| 79 |  | Open Mike Eagle
What Happens When I Try to Relax
Hip-Hop
Best Songs: Microfiche, Single Ghosts, Every Single Thing |
| 80 |  | Currents
I Let The Devil In
Metalcore
Best Songs: The Rope, My Disguise, Forever Marked |
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