Best Albums of 2018
My 75 favorite albums from 2018. 76-80 are my top 5 E.P.s. |
1 | | Typhoon (USA-OR) Offerings
Indie rock concept album.
Best songs: Algernon, Sleep, Chiaroscuro |
2 | | Foxing Nearer My God
Indie rock/emo
Best Songs: Grand Paradise, Won't Drown, Gameshark |
3 | | Black Peaks All That Divides
Post-hardcore/Post-rock/Sludge-rock
Best Songs: Home, The Midnight Sun, Across the Great Divide |
4 | | Daughters You Won't Get What You Want
Noise-rock/Experimental/Post-punk
Best Songs: Satan in the Wait, City Song, Guest House |
5 | | IDLES Joy as an Act of Resistance
Punk/Post-punk
Best songs: Danny Nedelko, Colossus, Never Fight a Man with a Perm |
6 | | mewithoutYou [Untitled]
Post-hardcore/emo/Indie Rock
Best songs: Julia, Tortoises All the Way Down, 2,459 Miles |
7 | | The Ocean Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic
Post-rock/Post-metal/Sludge/Prog Metal.
Best Songs: Permian, Devonian. Cambrian II |
8 | | J.I.D DiCaprio 2
Hip-Hop
Best Songs: Workin' Out, Just da Other Day, 151 Rum |
9 | | Father John Misty God's Favorite Customer
Indie-rock/Singer-Songwriter
Best Songs: The Songwriter, God's Favorite Customer, Please Don't Die |
10 | | Larry and His Flask This Remedy
Folk-Rock/Punk/Americana
Best Songs: The Place That it Belongs, Three Manhattans, Hoping Again |
11 | | Zapruder Zapruder
Post-hardcore/Blues/Experimental
Best Songs: Leaving Montreal, Tongue Twister, Half Stache Man |
12 | | Coheed and Cambria The Unheavenly Creatures
Prog-Rock/Punk
Best Songs: Black Sunday, Queen of the Dark, Toys |
13 | | Zeal and Ardor Stranger Fruit
Soul/Blues/Black Metal
Best Songs: Row Row, You Ain't Coming Back, Servants |
14 | | Between the Buried and Me Automata I/Automata II
Progressive Metal
Best Songs: Blot, The Grid, Millions |
15 | | Slugdge Esoteric Malacology
Death Metal/Sludge
Best Songs: Transilvanian Fungus, Slave Goo World, Crop Killer |
16 | | The Family Crest The War: Act I
Indie Folk
Best Songs: Take Tonight, Rest, Like a Light |
17 | | Kids See Ghosts Kids See Ghosts
Hip-Hop
Best Songs: Freeee, Reborn, Fire |
18 | | SUMAC Love In Shadow
Black Metal/Sludge/Experimental
Best Songs: Arcing Silver, Ecstasy of Unbecoming, The Task |
19 | | Azusa Heavy Yoke
Post-Metal/Sludge
Best Songs: Interstellar Islands, Heavy Yoke, Eternal Echo |
20 | | Saintseneca Pillar of Na
Indie Folk
Best Songs: Pillar of Na, Beast in the Garden, Denarius |
21 | | Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name
Prog Metal
Best Songs: Hollow, Where Owls Know My Name, Subtle Change |
22 | | Cosmo Sheldrake The Much Much How How & I
Orchestral Indie Pop
Best Songs: Wriggle, Come Along, Solar Waltz |
23 | | Kimbra Primal Heart
Indie Pop
Best Songs: Recovery, Past Love, Black Sky |
24 | | The Nietzsche The Parnassus
Hardcore/Metalcore/Dillinger
Best Songs: Rich Bukowski, In Kharms Way, Poe's Law |
25 | | Alkaloid Liquid Anatomy
Prog Metal/Death Metal
Best Songs: Rise of the Cephalopods, As Decreed by Laws Written, Azagthoth |
26 | | Thou Magus
Black Metal
Best Songs: The Changeling Prince, Inward, In the Kingdom of Meaning |
27 | | Revocation The Outer Ones
Death Metal
Best Songs: Ex Nihilo, The Outer Ones, A Starless Darkness |
28 | | Clarence Clarity THINK: PEACE
Art Pop
Best Songs: Vapid Feels Ain't Vapid, Naysayer, Next Best Thing |
29 | | Pusha T DAYTONA
Hip-Hop
Best Songs: The Games We Play, What Would Meek Do?, Come Back Baby |
30 | | SOPHIE OIL OF EVERY PEARL's UN-INSIDES
Art-Pop
Best Songs: Faceshopping, Immaterial, Ponyboy |
31 | | VOLA Applause of a Distant Crowd
Prog Metal/Prog Rock
Best Songs: Whaler/Ruby Pool/ Green Screen Mother |
32 | | Mitski Be the Cowboy
Indie-Pop/Art-Pop
Best Songs: Me and My Husband. Nobody, Two Slow Dancers |
33 | | The Republic of Wolves Shrine
Indie-Rock
Best Songs: The Canyon, Colored Out, Bask |
34 | | Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It
Dillinger-ish
Best Songs: Rituals, Balancing the Dark, Aftermath |
35 | | Ariana Grande Sweetener
Indie-Pop
Best Songs: R.E.M., God is a woman, better off |
36 | | Janelle Monae Dirty Computer
Indie-Pop/Art-Pop
Best Songs: So Afraid, Americans, Make Me Feel |
37 | | Death Grips Year of the Snitch
Hip-Hop/Industrial
Best Songs: Flies, Streaky, Black Paint |
38 | | Jeff Rosenstock POST-
Punk/Indie-Rock
Best Songs: 9/10, Beating My Head Against a Wall, Melba |
39 | | Denzel Curry TA13OO
Hip-Hop
Best Songs: Switch it Up, Black Metal Terrorist, Taboo |
40 | | Sunless Dawn Timeweaver
Prog Metal/Death Metal
Best Songs: The Arbiter. Biomorph III, Grand Inquisitor |
41 | | Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour
Country-Folk
Best Songs: Slow Burn, Butterflies, Rainbow |
42 | | Brockhampton Iridescence
Hip-Hop
Best Songs: District, J'ouvert, San Marcos |
43 | | Imperial Triumphant Vile Luxury
Death Metal/Black Metal
Best Songs: Lower World, Chernobyl Blues, Swarming Opulence |
44 | | Kanye West ye
Hip-Hop
Best Songs: All Mine, Yikes, Ghost Town |
45 | | Night Verses From the Gallery of Sleep
Prog Metal/Instrumental
Best Songs: No.0, Vice Wave, Trading Shadows |
46 | | Beyond Creation Algorythm
Prog Metal
Best Songs: Ethereal Kingdom, Entre Suffrage et Mirage, The Inversion |
47 | | Psycroptic As The Kingdom Drowns
Death Metal/Metalcore
Best Songs: As the Kingdom Drowns, Upon These Stones, Frozen Gaze |
48 | | YOB Our Raw Heart
Sludge Metal
Best Songs: Beauty in Falling Leaves, The Screen, Ablaze |
49 | | The Wonder Years Sister Cities
Indie-Rock/Emo
Best Songs: Sister Cities, Pyramids of Salt, Heaven's Gate |
50 | | The Intersphere The Grand Delusion
Indie-Rock
Best Songs: Secret Place, Don't Think Twice, The Grand Delusion |
51 | | Sectioned (Metalcore) Annihilated
Dillinger on Speed
Best Songs: Portrait, Life's True Beauty, Release |
52 | | Julia Holter Aviary
Art-Pop/Folk
Best Songs: Words I Heard, Underneath the Moon, I Shall Love 2 |
53 | | Frontierer Unloved
Another Dillinger
Best Songs: Bombgnasher, Glitcher, Gower St. |
54 | | Shakey Graves Can't Wake Up
Indie-Folk
Best Songs: Dining Alone, Counting Sheep, Backseat Driver |
55 | | Skeletonwitch Devouring Radiant Light
Death Metal
Best Songs: Temple of the Sun, When Paradise Fades, Carnarium Eternal |
56 | | Behemoth I Loved You at Your Darkest
Death Metal/Doom Metal
Best Songs: Bartzabel, God = Dog, Coagvla |
57 | | Earl Sweatshirt Some Rap Songs
Hip-Hop
Best Songs: The Mint, Shattered Dreams, December 24 |
58 | | Erra Neon
Metalcore/Djent
Best Songs: Valhalla, Unify, Monolith |
59 | | Sleep The Sciences
Stoner Rock
Best Songs: Sonic Titan, Antarcticans Thawed, The Botanist |
60 | | Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
Black Metal/Shoegaze
Best Songs: Canary Yellow, Worthless Animal, Honeycomb |
61 | | Haken Vector
Prog Metal
Best Songs: A Cell Divides, Puzzle Box, The Good Doctor |
62 | | Black Thought Streams Of Thought, Vol. 2
Hip-Hop
Best Songs: How to Hold a Choppa, History Unfolds, Streets |
63 | | Thrice Palms
Indie Rock
Best Songs: My Soul, A Branch in the River, Blood on Blood |
64 | | Florence and the Machine High as Hope
Indie Rock/Pop
Best Songs: Sky Full of Song, Big God, The End of Love |
65 | | Panic! at the Disco Pray For The Wicked
Pop
Best Songs: King of the Clouds, Roaring 20's, Old Fashioned |
66 | | Dance Gavin Dance Artificial Selection
Metalcore/Post-Hardcore
Best Songs: The Rattler, Count Bassy, Bloodsucker |
67 | | Panopticon The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness
Black Metal/Folk
Best Songs: En hvit ravns dod, The Moss Beneath the Snow, The Wandering Ghost |
68 | | Frog Whatever We Probably Already Had It
Indie Rock
Best Songs: Bones, God Once Loved a Woman, Something to Hide |
69 | | Chapel of Disease ...And As We Have Seen The Storm
Death Metal/Black Metal
Best Songs: Null, 1,000 Fifferent Paths, Oblivious/Obnoxious/Defiant |
70 | | Silent Planet When the End Began
Metalcore
Best Songs: Visible Unseen, Share the Body, Vanity of Sleep |
71 | | Respire Denouement
Black Metal/Shoegaze
Best Songs: Virtue, Haunt, Bound |
72 | | Lord Huron Vide Noir
Indie Rock/Folk
Best Songs: Wait By the River, When the Night is Over, Lost in Time and Space |
73 | | Ghost (SWE) Prequelle
Metal
Best Songs: Rats, Dance Macabre, Faith |
74 | | Monuments Phronesis
Metalcore/Djent
Best Songs: Jukai, Leviathan, Vanta |
75 | | Obliteration Cenotaph Obscure
Death Metal/Black Metal
Best Songs: Tumulus of Ancient Bones, Eldritch Summoning, Charnel Plains |
76 | | mewithoutYou [untitled] e.p.
Post-Hardcore/Indie-Rock
Best Songs: Kristy w/ the Sparkling Teeth, Cities of the Plain, Bethlehem, WV |
77 | | Boygenius Boygenius
Indie-Folk/Indie-Rock
Best Songs: Souvenir, Salt in the Wound, Ketchum, ID |
78 | | Converge Beautiful Ruin
Hardcore/Metalcore
Best Songs: Melancholia, Beautiful Ruin, Permanent Blue |
79 | | Open Mike Eagle What Happens When I Try to Relax
Hip-Hop
Best Songs: Microfiche, Single Ghosts, Every Single Thing |
80 | | Currents I Let The Devil In
Metalcore
Best Songs: The Rope, My Disguise, Forever Marked |
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