MOJO's Best Albums of 2018

MOJO's Best Albums of 2018

Original Source →

75.

June 29, 2018
Critic Score
71
39 reviews
This is a record that manages to feel both trapped and rootless.

74.

Candi Staton - Unstoppable
August 24, 2018
Critic Score
64
4 reviews

73.

March 23, 2018
Critic Score
71
40 reviews
This is an album restless in its search for the new, the sound of White's reinvention in progress, scorching the Earth in anticipation of what might follow. If it misfires on occasion, it's certainly never dull. And if it never quite reaches its destination, it's still quite a ride.

72.

February 16, 2018
Critic Score
74
8 reviews

71.

January 12, 2018
Critic Score
83
25 reviews
No Brit-band is better equipped to set 2018 alight.

69.

September 14, 2018
Critic Score
69
19 reviews

While there's a sense that Jungle lack the invention of Young Fathers, whose vocals they echo, or Thundercat, whose disaffection they share, For Ever's Sunset Strip soap opera is always compelling.

67.

April 27, 2018
Critic Score
81
15 reviews
It's never morbid, but mortality is a running theme.

65.

Björk - Utopia
November 24, 2017
Critic Score
80
43 reviews

Utopia feels like a diversion, not a destination. A nice place to visit--beautiful, even--but you wouldn't want to live there.

64.

June 29, 2018
Critic Score
77
19 reviews

62.

August 17, 2018
Critic Score
85
40 reviews
If at times things veer towards needy, the sum of the set is saved by how real it all feels.

61.

May 4, 2018
Critic Score
82
34 reviews
Meticulously constructed, yet with melodies and rhythms born out of improvisation, it's an album of two halves, moving from euphoric collapse to an uncertain contentment.

59.

Cedric Burnside - Benton County Relic
September 14, 2018
Critic Score
80
1 review

55.

Mudhoney - Digital Garbage
September 28, 2018
Critic Score
77
13 reviews

50.

February 2, 2018
Critic Score
84
23 reviews
An unusual yet utterly coherent balance of tenderness and euphoria, vulnerability and invention.

48.

October 5, 2018
Critic Score
76
24 reviews

C'est La Vie is as potent, visceral and concise a sonic expression of this act of courage as you could hope to find.

47.

Imarhan - Temet
February 23, 2018
Critic Score
73
3 reviews

44.

March 16, 2018
Critic Score
74
31 reviews
Any sketchiness only adds to the impressionistic atmospheres that the musicians create.

41.

September 14, 2018
Critic Score
79
16 reviews

40.

Maisha - There Is A Place
November 9, 2018
Critic Score
78
4 reviews

39.

May 18, 2018
Critic Score
81
27 reviews
The PG Wodehouse of the indie generation has scarcely dealt a finer hand.

38.

January 26, 2018
Critic Score
80
25 reviews

If he wasn't there already, Freedom's Goblin puts Segall in the very top flight of late-'teens rock contenders.

37.

September 14, 2018
Critic Score
79
15 reviews

36.

April 20, 2018
Critic Score
84
11 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.

35.

September 21, 2018
Critic Score
78
20 reviews
His commitment is palpable, the sequencing deft, and whole wilfully hit-free bombast-fest commendable, if scarcely palatable to anyone apart fro card-carrying Suede-heads.

34.

February 23, 2018
Critic Score
74
6 reviews

33.

May 11, 2018
Critic Score
83
14 reviews

31.

August 31, 2018
Critic Score
80
27 reviews

29.

March 2, 2018
Critic Score
80
21 reviews

28.

May 4, 2018
Critic Score
75
22 reviews

Friedberger's finest solo album to date ... Supple, elastic, and in forward motion, it loses nothing in translation. Vibrate, resonate.

27.

September 7, 2018
Critic Score
73
30 reviews

26.

October 12, 2018
Critic Score
77
19 reviews

Look Now bounces with unforced, uncluttered and cleverly fleshed vivacity, every song a cherishable gem.

Original Source: https://www.mojo4music.com/articles/kate-bush-heads-up-mojos-best-of-2018-issue-1
Comments
Sign in to comment
No one has said anything yet.
Connect with AOTY
Like Us
Follow Us

February Playlist