DJ Mag's Top 50 Albums of 2018

Our end-of-year list compiling 2018's biggest albums...

Published: December 15, 2018 14:05 Source

# 1

OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES by SOPHIE

Album • Jun 15 / 2018 Bubblegum Bass Deconstructed Club

# 2

Compro by Skee Mask

Album • May 15 / 2018 Breakbeat Ambient Techno

# 3

Here From Where We Are by Pariah

Album • Jul 13 / 2018 Ambient Progressive Electronic Tribal Ambient

# 4

Weighing of the Heart by Nabihah Iqbal

Album • Dec 01 / 2017 Dream Pop

# 5

Something Blue by Blocks & Escher

Album • Mar 26 / 2018 Atmospheric Drum and Bass

# 6

Mercurial Skin by Shlomo

Album • Nov 16 / 2018

# 7

Voids by Martyn

Album • Jun 22 / 2018 UK Garage

# 8

Qualm by Helena Hauff

Album • Aug 03 / 2018 Industrial Techno Electro

# 9

Portrait With Firewood by Djrum

Album • Aug 17 / 2018 UK Bass

# 10

One Hundred Billion Sparks by Max Cooper

Album • Sep 20 / 2018 Ambient Techno Ambient

# 11

Cocoon Crush by Objekt

Album • Nov 09 / 2018 IDM UK Bass

# 12

Power by Lotic

Album • Jul 13 / 2018 Deconstructed Club

# 13

Khonnar by Deena Abdelwahed

Album • Nov 16 / 2018 UK Bass

# 14

MOTHER by Jensen Interceptor

Album • Oct 26 / 2018 Electro

# 15

Song for Alpha by Daniel Avery

Album • Apr 06 / 2018 Ambient Techno

# 16

The Home I'd Build for Myself and All My Friends by Russell E.L. Butler

Album • Nov 15 / 2018 Techno Electro

# 17

Wet Will Always Dry by Blawan

Album • Jun 22 / 2018 Industrial Techno Minimal Techno

# 18

All Melody by Nils Frahm

Album • Jan 26 / 2018 Post-Minimalism Electronic

# 19

Sonder Somatic by Bruce

Album • Oct 26 / 2018 UK Bass

# 20

Heavy the Eclipse by Clouds

Album • Nov 23 / 2018 Industrial Techno Deconstructed Club

# 21

DNA Feelings by Aïsha Devi

Album • May 11 / 2018 Deconstructed Club UK Bass Post-Industrial

# 22

Luminosity Device by Surgeon

Album • May 25 / 2018 Industrial Techno

# 23

Knock Knock by DJ Koze

Album • May 04 / 2018 House Deep House

# 24

Heaven and Earth by Kamasi Washington

Album • Jun 22 / 2018 Spiritual Jazz

# 25

Ups & Downs by Etch

Album • Oct 22 / 2018 Breakbeat

# 26

EPHEM:ERA by WEN

Album • Jul 05 / 2018 Weightless

# 27

Passion by Demdike Stare

Album • Oct 26 / 2018 Deconstructed Club UK Bass

# 28

2000-2005 by Mariel Ito

Album • Oct 26 / 2018 Techno

# 29

Unfold by Gábor Lázár

Album • May 04 / 2018 IDM UK Bass

# 30

Bliss Signal by Bliss Signal + Mumdance + WIFE

Album • Sep 28 / 2018 Blackgaze Industrial Metal

# 31

Autobiography (Music from Wayne McGregors Autobiography) by Jlin

Album • Sep 28 / 2018

# 32

The Return by Kamaal Williams

Album • May 25 / 2018 Jazz-Funk Jazz Fusion

# 33

Life in a Laser by Appleblim

Album • May 11 / 2018 UK Bass IDM

# 34

Cerebral Hemispheres by Mr. Fingers

Album • Apr 13 / 2018 Deep House Downtempo

# 35

Named by EOD

Album • Jul 13 / 2018 IDM

# 36

Bodied by Ital Tek

Album • Sep 07 / 2018 IDM

# 37

Death Don't Always Taste Good by Ivy Lab

Album • May 11 / 2018 Halftime UK Bass

# 38

Undetected Act From the Gloom Chamber by The Mover

Album • Mar 23 / 2018 Electro Industrial Techno

# 39

The Marquis of Hawkes by Marquis Hawkes

Album • Aug 24 / 2018 House

# 40

A Love I Can't Explain by dBridge

Album • Oct 20 / 2018 Minimal Drum and Bass

# 41

Monsters Exist by Orbital

Album • Sep 14 / 2018 Techno

# 42

Build / Destroy by Big Miz

Album • Jan 26 / 2018

# 43

Part Deux: Brick Pelican Posse Crew Gang Syndicate by Cult Of The Damned

Album • Apr 13 / 2018 UK Hip Hop Boom Bap

# 44

Daily Routine by Peder Mannerfelt

Album • Nov 16 / 2018 Post-Industrial Techno

# 45

K.O. by Miss Red

Album • Jul 13 / 2018 Dancehall

# 46

Air Lows by Silvia Kastel

Album • Jan 26 / 2018 Minimal Synth Downtempo

# 47

Burn Slow by Chris Liebing

Album • Sep 07 / 2018 Techno Ambient Techno Minimal Techno

# 48

Offending Public Morality by Dax J

Album • Apr 20 / 2018 Industrial Techno Techno

# 49

Jackuum by D Double E

Album • Aug 31 / 2018 Grime UK Hip Hop

# 50

Shout by Eli Escobar

Album • Oct 31 / 2017