Norman Records' Best Albums of 2018

Our picks of the best new albums and reissues of 2018.

Source

# 1

Death from a Love by Malk

Album • Dec 08 / 2017

# 2

You Won't Get What You Want by Daughters

Album • Oct 26 / 2018 Noise Rock Industrial Rock

# 3

New Bodies by Tangents

Album • Jun 15 / 2018 Jazz Fusion Post-Rock

# 4

There’s A Riot Going On by Yo La Tengo

Album • Mar 16 / 2018 Ambient Pop Indie Rock

# 5

Your Queen Is A Reptile by Sons Of Kemet

Album • Mar 30 / 2018 Afro-Jazz

# 6

soil by serpentwithfeet

Album • Jun 08 / 2018 Alternative R&B Art Pop

# 7

27 Passports by The Ex

Album • Mar 22 / 2018 Art Punk

# 8

Be the Cowboy by Mitski

Album • Aug 17 / 2018 Art Pop Indie Rock

# 9

Lush by Snail Mail

Album • Jun 08 / 2018 Indie Rock Indie Pop

# 10

An Angel Fell by Idris Ackamoor + The Pyramids

Album • May 11 / 2018 Spiritual Jazz

# 11

Humble Pi by Homeboy Sandman + Edan

Album • Oct 26 / 2018 East Coast Hip Hop Abstract Hip Hop

# 12

Slowly Paradise by Eric Chenaux

Album • Mar 09 / 2018 Singer-Songwriter

# 13

The Return by Kamaal Williams

Album • May 25 / 2018 Jazz-Funk Jazz Fusion

# 14

Hope Downs by Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever

Album • Jun 15 / 2018 Jangle Pop Indie Rock

# 15

Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino by Arctic Monkeys

Album • May 11 / 2018

# 16

I Have Fought Against It, But I Can’t Any Longer. by The Body

Album • May 11 / 2018 Death Industrial Drone Metal

# 17

Belmont Slope by The Declining Winter

Album • Sep 21 / 2018 Slowcore Avant-Folk

# 18

Safe in the Hands of Love by Yves Tumor

Album • Sep 07 / 2018 Neo-Psychedelia Post-Industrial

# 19

Con Todo El Mundo by Khruangbin

Album • Jan 26 / 2018 Psychedelic Rock

# 20

Devotion by Tirzah

Album • Aug 10 / 2018 Alternative R&B Art Pop

# 21

Now Only by Mount Eerie

Album • Mar 16 / 2018 Indie Folk Singer-Songwriter

# 22

>>> by Beak>

Album • Sep 21 / 2018 Experimental Rock Electronic Post-Rock

# 23

Grid of Points by Grouper

Album • Apr 27 / 2018 Singer-Songwriter Ambient Pop

# 24

Pure Expenditure by Hiro Kone

Album • Aug 24 / 2018 IDM

# 25

Hive Mind by The Internet

Album • Jul 20 / 2018 Neo-Soul

# 26

Aviary by Julia Holter

Album • Oct 26 / 2018 Progressive Pop Art Pop Experimental Ambient Pop

# 27

MITH by Lonnie Holley

Album • Sep 21 / 2018 Singer-Songwriter Soul

# 28

K.O. by Miss Red

Album • Jul 13 / 2018 Dancehall

# 29

Universal Beings by Makaya McCraven

Album • Oct 26 / 2018 Jazz Fusion Nu Jazz

# 30

And Then There Was This Sound by Cult Party

Album • Jul 23 / 2018 Indie Folk

# 31

Anne by Joseph Shabason

Album • May 10 / 2019 Ambient Nu Jazz

# 32

Sujud by Senyawa

Album • Nov 02 / 2018 Avant-Folk Southeast Asian Folk Music

# 33

Heaven and Earth by Kamasi Washington

Album • Jun 22 / 2018 Spiritual Jazz

# 34

Gave in Rest by Sarah Davachi

Album • Sep 14 / 2018 Ambient Drone

# 35

Channels by Daniel Brandt

Album • Oct 12 / 2018 Post-Minimalism Electronic Progressive Electronic

# 36

My Mother the Vent by Guttersnipe

Album • Oct 26 / 2018 Noise Rock Experimental Rock

# 37

Double Negative by Low

Album • Sep 14 / 2018 Ambient Pop Glitch Pop

# 38

Possible Dust Clouds by Kristin Hersh

Album • Oct 05 / 2018 Alternative Rock

# 39

Hairband by Hairband

EP • Oct 19 / 2018 Indie Rock

# 40

The Lookout by Laura Veirs

Album • Apr 13 / 2018 Singer-Songwriter Indie Folk

# 41

Body by The Necks

Album • Aug 14 / 2018 Post-Rock Avant-Garde Jazz

# 42

Janus by Dalham

Album • Dec 01 / 2017

# 43

Permanently Midnight by The Gentleman Losers

Album • Dec 08 / 2017 Ambient

# 44

Hormone Lemonade by Cavern of Anti-Matter

Album • Mar 23 / 2018 Krautrock Electronic

# 45

For Concrete and Country by Concretism

Album • Apr 20 / 2018 Progressive Electronic

# 46

OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES by SOPHIE

Album • Jun 15 / 2018 Bubblegum Bass Deconstructed Club

# 47

The Height of the Reeds by Eivind Aarset + Jan Bang + Arve Henriksen

Album • Aug 31 / 2018 Third Stream Ambient

# 48

Energy Dreams by Rejoicer

Album • Aug 31 / 2018 Wonky

# 49

Magus by Thou

Album • Aug 31 / 2018 Doom Metal Sludge Metal

# 50

Infinite Moment by The Field

Album • Sep 21 / 2018 Minimal Techno