PopMatters' 70 Best Albums of 2018

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# 1

Cocoa Sugar by Young Fathers

Album • Mar 09 / 2018 Indietronica Neo-Soul

# 2

Golden Hour by Kacey Musgraves

Album • Mar 30 / 2018 Country Pop Singer-Songwriter

# 3

Joy as an Act of Resistance. by IDLES

Album • Aug 31 / 2018 Post-Punk Post-Hardcore

# 4

Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe

Album • Apr 27 / 2018 Contemporary R&B Art Pop

# 5

soil by serpentwithfeet

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

# 6

All That Must Be by George FitzGerald

Album • Mar 09 / 2018 Deep House

# 7

Ordinary Corrupt Human Love by Deafheaven

Album • Jul 13 / 2018 Blackgaze Post-Metal

# 8

Power by Lotic

Album • Jul 13 / 2018 Deconstructed Club

# 9

Room 25 by noname

Album • Sep 14 / 2018 Jazz Rap Conscious Hip Hop

# 10

Kingdoms in Colour by Maribou State

Album • Sep 07 / 2018 Downtempo Indietronica

# 11

Honey by Robyn

Album • Oct 26 / 2018 Dance-Pop Electropop House

# 12

Safe in the Hands of Love by Yves Tumor

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

# 13

OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES by SOPHIE

Album • Jun 15 / 2018 Bubblegum Bass Deconstructed Club

# 14

Empress by RAY BLK

Album • Oct 26 / 2018 Pop Soul Contemporary R&B Neo-Soul

# 15

CARE FOR ME by Saba

Album • Apr 05 / 2018 Conscious Hip Hop Jazz Rap

# 16

Aviary by Julia Holter

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

# 17

Chris by Christine and the Queens

Album • Sep 21 / 2018 Synthpop Alt-Pop

# 18

Persona by Rival Consoles

Album • Apr 13 / 2018 Microhouse IDM

# 19

Young Sick Camellia by St. Paul & The Broken Bones

Album • Sep 07 / 2018 Soul Contemporary R&B

# 20

New Bodies by Tangents

Album • Jun 15 / 2018 Jazz Fusion Post-Rock

# 21

Queen of Golden Dogs by Vessel

Album • Nov 09 / 2018 Deconstructed Club IDM

# 22

Double Negative by Low

Album • Sep 14 / 2018 Ambient Pop Glitch Pop

# 23

MITH by Lonnie Holley

Album • Sep 21 / 2018 Singer-Songwriter Soul

# 24

Heaven and Earth by Kamasi Washington

Album • Jun 22 / 2018 Spiritual Jazz

# 25

Hell-On by Neko Case

Album • Jun 01 / 2018 Singer-Songwriter Alt-Country

# 26

You Won't Get What You Want by Daughters

Album • Oct 26 / 2018 Noise Rock Industrial Rock

# 27

Boygenius by boygenius

EP • Oct 26 / 2018 Indie Rock Indie Folk Singer-Songwriter

# 28

Konoyo by Tim Hecker

Album • Sep 28 / 2018 Ambient Electroacoustic Drone

# 29

And Nothing Hurt by Spiritualized

Album • Sep 07 / 2018 Neo-Psychedelia Art Rock

# 30

Last Night by Benin City

Album • Apr 06 / 2018 Alternative R&B

# 31

Negro Swan by Blood Orange

Album • Aug 24 / 2018 Alternative R&B Sophisti-Pop

# 32

Years by Sarah Shook & the Disarmers

Album • Apr 06 / 2018 Alt-Country

# 33

See You Around by I'm With Her

Album • Feb 16 / 2018 Indie Folk

# 34

7 by Beach House

Album • May 11 / 2018 Dream Pop Neo-Psychedelia

# 35

Bodied by Ital Tek

Album • Sep 07 / 2018 IDM

# 36

Irisiri by Eartheater

Album • Jun 08 / 2018 Post-Industrial Experimental

# 37

Interstate Gospel by Pistol Annies + Miranda Lambert

Album • Nov 02 / 2018 Contemporary Country

# 38

Be the Cowboy by Mitski

Album • Aug 17 / 2018 Art Pop Indie Rock

# 39

iridescence by BROCKHAMPTON

Album • Sep 21 / 2018 Experimental Hip Hop Hardcore Hip Hop

# 40

Lost & Found by Jorja Smith

Album • Jun 08 / 2018 Contemporary R&B Neo-Soul

# 41

Ultraviolet by Kelly Moran

Album • Nov 02 / 2018 Post-Minimalism

# 42

Invasion of Privacy by Cardi B

Album • Apr 06 / 2018 Trap East Coast Hip Hop

# 43

Ten Fables of Young Ambition and Passionate Love by St. Lenox

Album • Sep 28 / 2018

# 44

Elysia Crampton by Elysia Crampton

Album • Apr 27 / 2018 Deconstructed Club Latin Electronic Digital Cumbia

# 45

Love Is Dead by CHVRCHES

Album • May 25 / 2018 Synthpop Electropop

# 46

Sweetener by Ariana Grande

Album • Aug 17 / 2018 Contemporary R&B Electropop

# 47

Singularity by Jon Hopkins

Album • May 04 / 2018 Tech House Microhouse

# 48

Closer Apart by Okzharp + Manthe Ribane

Album • Jul 06 / 2018 UK Bass Art Pop

# 49

Fenfo (Something to Say) by Fatoumata Diawara

Album • May 25 / 2018 Wassoulou

# 50

POST- by Jeff Rosenstock

Album • Jan 02 / 2018 Power Pop Indie Rock