Consequence of Sound's Top 50 Albums of 2018

Our staff selects their absolute favorite records from a wild and unpredictable year of music.

Published: December 03, 2018 05:00 Source

# 1
Album • Aug 17 / 2018 Art Pop Indie Rock
# 2
Album • Apr 27 / 2018 Contemporary R&B Art Pop
# 3
Album • Apr 05 / 2018 Conscious Hip Hop Jazz Rap
# 4
Album • Jun 22 / 2018 Spiritual Jazz
# 5
Album • May 25 / 2018 Hardcore Hip Hop Southern Hip Hop
# 6
Album • Sep 21 / 2018 Synthpop Alt-Pop
# 7
EP • Oct 26 / 2018 Indie Rock Indie Folk Singer-Songwriter
# 8
Album • Apr 06 / 2018 Trap East Coast Hip Hop
# 9
Album • Mar 30 / 2018 Country Pop Singer-Songwriter
# 10
Album • Sep 07 / 2018 Neo-Psychedelia Art Rock
# 11
Album • Apr 06 / 2018 Neo-Soul Contemporary R&B
# 12
Album • Oct 26 / 2018 Dance-Pop Electropop House
# 13
Album • Jun 08 / 2018 Doom Metal
# 14
Album • Aug 24 / 2018 Alternative R&B Sophisti-Pop
# 15
Album • Sep 21 / 2018 Experimental Hip Hop Hardcore Hip Hop
# 16
Black Panther The Album by Various Artists
Album • Feb 09 / 2018 Film Soundtrack West Coast Hip Hop
# 17
Album • Mar 02 / 2018 Indie Rock Singer-Songwriter
# 18
Album • Sep 14 / 2018 Jazz Rap Conscious Hip Hop
# 19
Album • Nov 30 / 2018 Art Pop
# 20
Album • Oct 19 / 2018 Film Score Horror Synth Dark Ambient Halloween Music
# 21
Album • Nov 02 / 2018 West Coast Hip Hop Trap Hardcore Hip Hop
# 22
Album • Jun 08 / 2018 Indie Rock Indie Pop
# 23
Album • Aug 31 / 2018 Electropop Alt-Pop
# 24
Album • May 25 / 2018 East Coast Hip Hop Cloud Rap
# 25
Album • Oct 26 / 2018 Progressive Pop Art Pop Experimental Ambient Pop
# 26
Album • Jul 20 / 2018 Neo-Soul
# 27
Album • May 18 / 2018 Indie Rock Singer-Songwriter
# 28
Album • Oct 05 / 2018 Black Metal Death Metal
# 29
Album • Jan 16 / 2018 East Coast Hip Hop Trap
# 30
Album • Jul 13 / 2018 Blackgaze Post-Metal
# 31
EP • Sep 14 / 2018 IDM
# 32
Album • Feb 16 / 2018 Slacker Rock
# 33
Album • Aug 31 / 2018 Neo-Soul Psychedelic Soul Alt-Pop
# 34
Album • Jan 02 / 2018 Power Pop Indie Rock
# 35
Album • Jun 08 / 2018 Film Score Dark Ambient Post-Minimalism
# 36
Album • Oct 26 / 2018 Noise Rock Industrial Rock
# 37
Album • Mar 09 / 2018 Indietronica Neo-Soul
# 38
Album • Jun 08 / 2018 Contemporary R&B Alt-Pop Electropop
# 39
Album • Jun 01 / 2018 Progressive Electronic
# 40
Album • Nov 30 / 2018 Alt-Country Singer-Songwriter
# 41
Album • Sep 13 / 2018 Pop Rap Hardcore Hip Hop
# 42
Album • May 11 / 2018 Dream Pop Neo-Psychedelia
# 43
Album • Oct 12 / 2018 Pop Rock Singer-Songwriter Sophisti-Pop
# 44
Album • May 18 / 2018 Indie Rock
# 45
Album • Jul 27 / 2018 Southern Hip Hop Trap
# 46
Album • Jan 26 / 2018 Garage Rock Glam Rock Psychedelic Rock
# 47
Album • Feb 16 / 2018 Art Pop Neo-Psychedelia Psychedelic Pop
# 48
Album • Jun 08 / 2018 Alternative R&B Alt-Pop
# 49
Album • Mar 02 / 2018 Indietronica Neo-Psychedelia Glitch Pop
# 50
Album • Oct 05 / 2018 Singer-Songwriter Americana