Sputnikmusic's Top 50 Albums of 2018

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# 1

Golden Hour by Kacey Musgraves

Album • Mar 30 / 2018 Country Pop Singer-Songwriter

# 2

You Won't Get What You Want by Daughters

Album • Oct 26 / 2018 Noise Rock Industrial Rock

# 3

Aviary by Julia Holter

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

# 4

Some Rap Songs by Earl Sweatshirt

Album • Nov 30 / 2018 Abstract Hip Hop Experimental Hip Hop

# 5

DAYTONA by Pusha T

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

# 6

Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures by Coheed and Cambria

Album • Oct 05 / 2018 Alternative Rock Progressive Rock

# 7

Konoyo by Tim Hecker

Album • Sep 28 / 2018 Ambient Electroacoustic Drone

# 8

Is This Thing Cursed? by Alkaline Trio

Album • Aug 31 / 2018 Pop Punk Alternative Rock

# 9

Magus by Thou

Album • Aug 31 / 2018 Doom Metal Sludge Metal

# 10

Bark Your Head Off, Dog by Hop Along

Album • Apr 06 / 2018 Indie Rock

# 11

Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It by Rolo Tomassi

Album • Mar 02 / 2018 Post-Hardcore Mathcore

# 12

OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES by SOPHIE

Album • Jun 15 / 2018 Bubblegum Bass Deconstructed Club

# 13

By The Way, I Forgive You by Brandi Carlile

Album • Feb 16 / 2018 Singer-Songwriter Americana Folk Rock

# 14

Ordinary Corrupt Human Love by Deafheaven

Album • Jul 13 / 2018 Blackgaze Post-Metal

# 15

Bad Witch by Nine Inch Nails

Album • Jun 22 / 2018 Experimental Rock Industrial Rock

# 16

TA13OO by Denzel Curry

Album • Jul 27 / 2018 Southern Hip Hop Trap

# 17

Singularity by Jon Hopkins

Album • May 04 / 2018 Tech House Microhouse

# 18

The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness, Part 1 by Panopticon

Album • Apr 06 / 2018

# 19

Honey by Robyn

Album • Oct 26 / 2018 Dance-Pop Electropop House

# 20

Schmaltz by Spanish Love Songs

Album • Mar 30 / 2018 Pop Punk Emo Emo-Pop

# 21

Nearer My God by Foxing

Album • Aug 10 / 2018 Art Rock Indie Rock

# 22

A Laughing Death in Meatspace by Tropical Fuck Storm

Album • May 04 / 2018 Art Punk Punk Blues Noise Rock

# 23

They Are the Shield by Toby Driver

Album • Sep 21 / 2018 Art Rock Chamber Music Post-Rock

# 24

Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed by Hooded Menace

Album • Jan 26 / 2018 Death Doom Metal

# 25

Hope Downs by Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever

Album • Jun 15 / 2018 Jangle Pop Indie Rock

# 26

[untitled] by mewithoutYou

EP • Aug 17 / 2018 Indie Rock Art Rock

# 27

Double Negative by Low

Album • Sep 14 / 2018 Ambient Pop Glitch Pop

# 28

Joy as an Act of Resistance. by IDLES

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

# 29

7 by Beach House

Album • May 11 / 2018 Dream Pop Neo-Psychedelia

# 30

Queen of Time by Amorphis

Album • May 18 / 2018 Progressive Metal

# 31

From the Gallery of Sleep by Night Verses

Album • Jun 29 / 2018 Progressive Metal

# 32

Historian by Lucy Dacus

Album • Mar 02 / 2018 Indie Rock Singer-Songwriter

# 33

Esoteric Malacology by Slugdge

Album • Mar 02 / 2018 Death Metal Progressive Metal

# 34

Artificial Selection by Dance Gavin Dance

Album • Jun 08 / 2018 Post-Hardcore

# 35

Nothing 2 Loose by DJ Healer

Album • Apr 01 / 2018 Ambient House Deep House Ambient

# 36

Be the Cowboy by Mitski

Album • Aug 17 / 2018 Art Pop Indie Rock

# 37

Shrine by The Republic of Wolves

Album • Mar 27 / 2018 Indie Rock Alternative Rock

# 38

Dead Magic by Anna von Hausswolff

Album • Mar 02 / 2018 Neoclassical Darkwave

# 39

Sister Cities by The Wonder Years

Album • Apr 06 / 2018 Alternative Rock Emo

# 40

Grid of Points by Grouper

Album • Apr 27 / 2018 Singer-Songwriter Ambient Pop

# 41

The Hallowing of Heirdom by Winterfylleth

Album • Apr 06 / 2018 Dark Folk

# 42

Firepower by Judas Priest

Album • Mar 09 / 2018 Heavy Metal

# 43

Sad Light by ITEM

Album • Mar 27 / 2018 Indie Rock

# 44

Prequelle by Ghost

Album • Jun 01 / 2018 Hard Rock

# 45

Safe in the Hands of Love by Yves Tumor

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

# 46

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

Album • May 11 / 2018 Death Industrial Drone Metal

# 47

Idol by Horrendous

Album • Sep 28 / 2018 Progressive Metal Death Metal

# 48

Hell-On by Neko Case

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

# 49

The Wake by Voivod

Album • Sep 21 / 2018 Progressive Metal

# 50

Vitriola by Cursive

Album • Oct 05 / 2018 Post-Hardcore Indie Rock