MOJO's Best Albums of 2018

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75. Gorillaz - The Now Now

In 9 Lists

June 29, 2018

Electropop

Critic Score

30 reviews

74. Candi Staton - Unstoppable

August 24, 2018

Critic Score

3 reviews

73. Jack White - Boarding House Reach

In 8 Lists

March 23, 2018

Blues Rock

Critic Score

31 reviews

72. Hailu Mergia - Lala Belu

In 5 Lists

February 16, 2018

Jazz

Critic Score

4 reviews

71. Shame - Songs of Praise

In 27 Lists

January 12, 2018

Post-Punk

Critic Score

21 reviews

No Brit-band is better equipped to set 2018 alight.

70. Neil Young & Promise of the Real - The Visitor

December 1, 2017

Folk Rock

Critic Score

17 reviews

69. Jungle - For Ever

In 3 Lists

September 14, 2018

Synth Funk

Critic Score

15 reviews

68. Johnny Marr - Call The Comet

In 8 Lists

June 15, 2018

Indie Rock

Critic Score

15 reviews

67. Willie Nelson - Last Man Standing

In 3 Lists

April 27, 2018

Country

Critic Score

10 reviews

66. LUMP - LUMP

In 8 Lists

June 1, 2018

Indie Folk

Critic Score

20 reviews

65. Björk - Utopia

November 24, 2017

Art Pop

Critic Score

35 reviews

64. Jim James - Uniform Distortion

In 2 Lists

June 29, 2018

Indie Rock

Critic Score

16 reviews

63. Sons of Kemet - Your Queen is a Reptile

In 24 Lists

March 30, 2018

Jazz

Critic Score

8 reviews

62. Mitski - Be the Cowboy

In 74 Lists

August 17, 2018

Indie Rock

Critic Score

32 reviews

61. Jon Hopkins - Singularity

In 34 Lists

May 4, 2018

Microhouse

Critic Score

27 reviews

60. Jon Hassell - Listening to Pictures (Pentimento Volume One)

In 2 Lists

June 8, 2018

Ambient

Critic Score

8 reviews

59. Cedric Burnside - Benton County Relic

September 14, 2018

58. Laura Veirs - The Lookout

In 6 Lists

April 13, 2018

Indie Folk

Critic Score

15 reviews

57. John Grant - Love Is Magic

In 6 Lists

October 12, 2018

Synthpop

Critic Score

19 reviews

56. Swamp Dogg - Love, Loss, and Auto-Tune

September 7, 2018

R&B

Critic Score

5 reviews

55. Mudhoney - Digital Garbage

September 28, 2018

Alternative Rock

Critic Score

10 reviews

54. Go-Kart Mozart - Mozart's Mini Mart

In 4 Lists

February 23, 2018

Indie Pop

Critic Score

4 reviews

53. Courtney Marie Andrews - May Your Kindness Remain

In 10 Lists

March 23, 2018

Singer-Songwriter

Critic Score

8 reviews

52. Confidence Man - Confident Music For Confident People

In 7 Lists

April 13, 2018

Alternative Dance

Critic Score

9 reviews

51. Belle & Sebastian - How to Solve Our Human Problems (Parts 1-3)

In 2 Lists

February 16, 2018

Indie Pop

Critic Score

8 reviews

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50. Hookworms - Microshift

In 3 Lists

February 2, 2018

Neo-Psychedelia

Critic Score

18 reviews

49. Villagers - The Art of Pretending to Swim

In 3 Lists

September 21, 2018

Indie Folk

Critic Score

14 reviews

48. Phosphorescent - C'est La Vie

In 13 Lists

October 5, 2018

Americana

Critic Score

19 reviews

47. Imarhan - Temet

February 23, 2018

Tishoumaren

Critic Score

2 reviews

46. Binker and Moses - Alive in the East?

June 22, 2018

45. Wye Oak - The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs

In 4 Lists

April 6, 2018

Indie Pop

Critic Score

15 reviews

44. Yo La Tengo - There's a Riot Going On

In 15 Lists

March 16, 2018

Ambient Pop

Critic Score

25 reviews

43. Chris Carter - Chris Carter's Chemistry Lessons Vol. 1

In 6 Lists

March 30, 2018

Minimal Synth

Critic Score

5 reviews

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42. Prince - Piano & a Microphone 1983

In 5 Lists

September 21, 2018

Singer-Songwriter

Critic Score

12 reviews

41. Richard Thompson - 13 Rivers

In 4 Lists

September 14, 2018

Folk Rock

Critic Score

7 reviews

40. Maisha - There Is A Place

November 9, 2018

Critic Score

2 reviews

39. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Sparkle Hard

In 16 Lists

May 18, 2018

Indie Rock

Critic Score

26 reviews

The PG Wodehouse of the indie generation has scarcely dealt a finer hand.

38. Ty Segall - Freedom's Goblin

In 10 Lists

January 26, 2018

Garage Rock

Critic Score

22 reviews

37. The Goon Sax - We're Not Talking

In 7 Lists

September 14, 2018

Indie Pop

Critic Score

12 reviews

36. Sleep - The Sciences

In 12 Lists

April 20, 2018

Stoner Metal

Critic Score

10 reviews

After splitting up in disillusion over the London affair, Al Cisneros’s crew reconvened in 2009 for sporadic activity, and have customarily not rushed into nailing The Sciences, nor departed from their rubric of Burroughsian ganja myth-spinning ... set to eardrum-busting, down-tuned slo-mo jams.