Q Magazine's Top 50 Albums of 2018

# 1

Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino by Arctic Monkeys

Album • May 11 / 2018

# 2

I'm All Ears by Let's Eat Grandma

Album • Jun 29 / 2018 Art Pop Synthpop Electropop

# 3

A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships by The 1975

Album • Nov 30 / 2018 Art Pop

# 4

Honey by Robyn

Album • Oct 26 / 2018 Dance-Pop Electropop House

# 5

Wide Awake! by Parquet Courts

Album • May 18 / 2018

# 6

Chris by Christine and the Queens

Album • Sep 21 / 2018 Synthpop Alt-Pop

# 7

Joy as an Act of Resistance. by IDLES

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

# 8

Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe

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

# 9

True Meanings by Paul Weller

Album • Sep 14 / 2018 Pop Rock Singer-Songwriter

# 10

Hunter by Anna Calvi

Album • Aug 31 / 2018 Art Rock

# 11

Marauder by Interpol

Album • Aug 24 / 2018 Post-Punk Revival

# 12

Golden Hour by Kacey Musgraves

Album • Mar 30 / 2018 Country Pop Singer-Songwriter

# 13

Babelsberg by Gruff Rhys

Album • Jun 08 / 2018 Singer-Songwriter Baroque Pop Indie Pop

# 14

Tell Me How You Really Feel by Courtney Barnett

Album • May 18 / 2018 Indie Rock Singer-Songwriter

# 15

Negro Swan by Blood Orange

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

# 16

Be the Cowboy by Mitski

Album • Aug 17 / 2018 Art Pop Indie Rock

# 17

Freedom's Goblin by Ty Segall

Album • Jan 26 / 2018 Garage Rock Glam Rock Psychedelic Rock

# 18

Knock Knock by DJ Koze

Album • May 04 / 2018 House Deep House

# 19

DAYTONA by Pusha T

Album • May 25 / 2018 Hardcore Hip Hop Southern Hip Hop

# 20

And Nothing Hurt by Spiritualized

Album • Sep 07 / 2018 Neo-Psychedelia Art Rock

# 21

Double Negative by Low

Album • Sep 14 / 2018 Ambient Pop Glitch Pop

# 22

Hope Downs by Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever

Album • Jun 15 / 2018 Jangle Pop Indie Rock

# 23

Record by Tracey Thorn

Album • Mar 02 / 2018 Synthpop Alternative Dance New Wave

# 24

Look Now by Elvis Costello & The Imposters

Album • Oct 12 / 2018 Pop Rock Singer-Songwriter Sophisti-Pop

# 25

God's Favorite Customer by Father John Misty

Album • Jun 01 / 2018 Singer-Songwriter Chamber Pop

# 26

In A Poem Unlimited by U.S. Girls

Album • Feb 16 / 2018 Art Pop Neo-Psychedelia Psychedelic Pop

# 27

Song for Alpha by Daniel Avery

Album • Apr 06 / 2018 Ambient Techno

# 28

Hell-On by Neko Case

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

# 29

World’s Strongest Man by Gaz Coombes

Album • May 04 / 2018 Art Rock Indie Rock

# 30

Bottle It In by Kurt Vile

Album • Oct 12 / 2018 Folk Rock Singer-Songwriter

# 31

High As Hope by Florence + the Machine

Album • Jun 29 / 2018 Art Pop

# 32

Sparkle Hard by Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks

Album • May 18 / 2018 Indie Rock

# 33

Songs of Praise by shame

Album • Jan 12 / 2018 Post-Punk Indie Rock

# 34

Mozart's Mini-Mart by Go-Kart Mozart

Album • Feb 23 / 2018

# 35

Aviary by Julia Holter

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

# 36

Rebound by Eleanor Friedberger

Album • May 04 / 2018 Indie Pop

# 37

7 by Beach House

Album • May 11 / 2018 Dream Pop Neo-Psychedelia

# 38

Yawn by Bill Ryder-Jones

Album • Nov 02 / 2018 Singer-Songwriter Indie Rock

# 39

Wanderer by Cat Power

Album • Oct 05 / 2018 Singer-Songwriter Americana

# 40

KIDS SEE GHOSTS by KIDS SEE GHOSTS + Kanye West + Kid Cudi

Album • Jun 08 / 2018 Pop Rap Experimental Hip Hop

# 41

so sad so sexy by Lykke Li

Album • Jun 08 / 2018 Alternative R&B Alt-Pop

# 42

OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES by SOPHIE

Album • Jun 15 / 2018 Bubblegum Bass Deconstructed Club

# 43

Everything Is Recorded by Richard Russell by Everything Is Recorded

Album • Feb 16 / 2018 Alternative R&B Art Pop

# 44

Pray for the Wicked by Panic! At the Disco

Album • Jun 22 / 2018 Electropop

# 45

Swimming by Mac Miller

Album • Aug 03 / 2018 Pop Rap Alternative R&B

# 46

Invasion of Privacy by Cardi B

Album • Apr 06 / 2018 Trap East Coast Hip Hop

# 47

Merrie Land by The Good, the Bad & the Queen

Album • Nov 16 / 2018 Art Rock

# 48

Heaven and Earth by Kamasi Washington

Album • Jun 22 / 2018 Spiritual Jazz

# 49

Resistance is Futile by Manic Street Preachers

Album • Apr 13 / 2018 Alternative Rock Pop Rock

# 50

Silver Dollar Moment by The Orielles

Album • Feb 16 / 2018 Indie Pop Neo-Psychedelia Dream Pop