Bandcamp Daily's Best Albums of 2018

Our guide to the year’s crucial LPs.

Published: December 10, 2018 06:34 Source

# 1
Album • Mar 30 / 2018 Abstract Hip Hop Conscious Hip Hop
# 2
Album • May 11 / 2018 Deconstructed Club UK Bass Post-Industrial
# 3
Album • Sep 14 / 2018 Jazz Rap Conscious Hip Hop
# 4
Album • May 11 / 2018 Surf Rock Indie Rock
# 5
Album • Jun 08 / 2018 Alternative R&B Art Pop
# 7
Album • Jun 08 / 2018 Psychedelic Soul Neo-Soul
# 8
Album • Sep 14 / 2018 Ambient Pop Glitch Pop
# 9
Album • Jan 19 / 2018 Experimental Hip Hop Glitch Hop Industrial Hip Hop
# 10
Album • Apr 13 / 2018 Jangle Pop Indie Rock Indie Surf
# 12
Album • Oct 26 / 2018 Jazz Fusion Nu Jazz
# 13
Album • Aug 10 / 2018 Power Pop Indie Rock
# 14
Album • Jan 01 / 1975 Free Jazz Spiritual Jazz
# 15
Album • Aug 24 / 2018 Alternative R&B Sophisti-Pop
# 16
EP • Mar 02 / 2018 Deep House
# 17
EP • May 25 / 2018 Dream Pop
# 18
Album • Jun 08 / 2018 Indie Rock Post-Punk Post-Punk Revival
# 19
Album • Oct 05 / 2018 Minimal Synth Tech House Techno
# 20
Album • Feb 23 / 2018 Post-Bop Hard Bop
# 21
Album • Apr 27 / 2018 Singer-Songwriter Ambient Pop
# 22
Album • Jun 22 / 2018 Experimental Hip Hop East Coast Hip Hop Conscious Hip Hop
# 23
Album • Mar 02 / 2018 Indie Rock
# 24
Album • Sep 28 / 2018 Hardcore Punk
# 25
Album • Apr 27 / 2018 Post-Hardcore Noise Rock
# 26
Album • Feb 16 / 2018 Slacker Rock
# 27
Album • Mar 02 / 2018 Neoclassical Darkwave
# 28
Album • Aug 30 / 2018 Abstract Hip Hop East Coast Hip Hop Hardcore Hip Hop
# 29
Album • Aug 14 / 2018 Experimental Hip Hop Jazz Rap Drumless West Coast Hip Hop
# 30
Album • Sep 07 / 2018 Metalcore
# 32
Album • Oct 26 / 2018 Neo-Soul
# 33
Album • Mar 30 / 2018 Neo-Psychedelia Singer-Songwriter
# 34
Album • Jun 08 / 2018 Ambient Pop
# 35
Album • Sep 28 / 2018 Ambient Electroacoustic Drone
# 36
Album • May 18 / 2018 Pop
# 37
Album • Aug 24 / 2018 Metalcore
# 38
Album • Apr 21 / 2018 Experimental Rock
# 39
Album • Jun 15 / 2018 Shaabi Electronic
# 40
Album • Sep 07 / 2018 Heavy Metal
# 41
Album • Jun 29 / 2018 Art Pop Synthpop Electropop
# 42
Album • Mar 02 / 2018 Southern Hip Hop Conscious Hip Hop
# 43
Album • Sep 01 / 2018 Indie Rock Garage Rock Revival
# 45
Album • Jul 06 / 2018 Jazz Rap Instrumental Hip Hop
# 46
Album • Mar 02 / 2018 Indie Folk Singer-Songwriter
# 47
Album • Jun 08 / 2018 Avant-Garde Metal Spirituals
# 48
Album • Oct 26 / 2018 Conscious Hip Hop Abstract Hip Hop
# 49
Album • May 25 / 2018 Jazz-Funk Jazz Fusion
# 50
Album • Aug 10 / 2018 Experimental Hip Hop Abstract Hip Hop
# 51
Album • Nov 09 / 2018 Death Metal Black Metal
# 52
Album • Jun 08 / 2018 Neo-Soul
# 53
Album • Feb 13 / 2018
# 54