Albumism's 50 Best Albums of 2018

Albumism's 50 Best Albums of 2018

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48.

June 22, 2018
Critic Score
84
33 reviews

While his 2015 Brainfeeder release The Epic covered a lot of ground and was massive in scope, Heaven and Earth is a more tightly wound mechanism, encapsulating Washington's imagination and emotion in finely packaged ethereal harmonies.

47.

June 29, 2018
Critic Score
76
40 reviews

High As Hope is a true pop album. Not as stylish as How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful (2015), it expresses a more mature, unhurried tempo for the pop outfit.

46.

Kandace Springs - Indigo
September 7, 2018
Critic Score
68
7 reviews

44.

March 2, 2018
Critic Score
80
34 reviews

43.

June 8, 2018
Critic Score
79
36 reviews

In the case of Lush, the debut album by Snail Mail, confessional doesn’t translate to cheesy or cliched; clearheaded would be a better word for 19-year-old Lindsey Jordan’s music. Yes, her lyrics are intimate and soul-baring, and her music easily fits into the jangly indie-rock category, but there’s something refreshingly unwavering and straightforward about her approach.

42.

October 19, 2018
Critic Score
53
16 reviews

What resonates the most from the ten songs on offer here is Ashcroft’s unbridled love of songwriting. He injects the ten songs here with a musical joie de vivre that, while certainly manifested across its precursor albums, achieves full, fantastic bloom on Natural Rebel.

39.

DJ Jazzy Jeff - M3
May 8, 2018
Critic Score
70
1 review

37.

February 16, 2018
Critic Score
85
27 reviews
On an album of top 40 melodies and dance jams, the format is accessible, but the thesis is more cerebral.

36.

PRhyme - PRhyme 2
March 16, 2018
Critic Score
73
8 reviews

35.

October 19, 2018
Critic Score
78
22 reviews

34.

March 30, 2018
Critic Score
74
10 reviews

Czarface Meets Metal Face doesn’t reinvent the wheel and it really doesn’t need to. There’s just something to be said for all three emcees delivering the exact type of album that their longtime fans hoped that this collaboration would bring.

33.

May 4, 2018
Critic Score
71
20 reviews

32.

September 21, 2018
Critic Score
88
5 reviews

31.

Seinabo Sey - I'm A Dream
September 7, 2018
Critic Score
68
4 reviews

30.

May 25, 2018
Critic Score
85
24 reviews
Pusha offers an album that appeases fans' hope for razor sharp bars, but will leave some listeners in search of his growth.

28.

Boy George & Culture Club - Life
October 26, 2018
Critic Score
64
5 reviews

27.

January 19, 2018
Critic Score
73
35 reviews

26.

Dubstar - One
October 12, 2018
Critic Score
80
2 reviews

25.

June 29, 2018
Critic Score
71
39 reviews
As expected, it sounds divine.

23.

April 6, 2018
Critic Score
62
18 reviews

In short, Golden is unequivocally something that Minogue can be proud of.

20.

July 20, 2018
Critic Score
80
34 reviews

Perhaps what’s most encouraging is that while Hive Mind elevates and updates their formulas, it’s still very clearly not the band’s final step.

19.

May 4, 2018
Critic Score
84
6 reviews

Book of Ryan conveys a lot of pain, but Royce balances it with moments of nostalgia and encouragement.

18.

May 11, 2018
Critic Score
72
44 reviews
Sheffield’s Arctic Monkeys are known for their stylistic switch-ups, but this one’s a corker: they’ve gone and made a sci-fi lounge concept album—and it’s brilliant.

17.

October 26, 2018
Critic Score
88
29 reviews

16.

June 1, 2018
Critic Score
82
27 reviews
She doles out her anger in spoonfuls, washed down with humor and hooks. Like a modern siren, Case lures you in with her hypnotic voice until you become lost in the wreckage of her stories.

15.

April 6, 2018
Critic Score
72
11 reviews

14.

August 24, 2018
Critic Score
72
37 reviews

Someday Marauder will probably matter, but it’ll be for the glimmers that suggest all is not lost. And so, I await album number seven from this capable band while conceding these last two have certainly tempered my expectations toward anything new.

13.

Kimbra - Primal Heart
April 20, 2018
Critic Score
75
9 reviews

Primal Heart is solidly compelling pop. A middle ground between a noisier Lorde-style sound and stripped down FKA Twigs vocals, Kimbra has quietly released an incredibly strong album.

11.

May 11, 2018
Critic Score
80
38 reviews
It’s shoegaze, dream pop, whatever you choose to call it, but still uniquely Beach House and done to perfection.

10.

March 2, 2018
Critic Score
79
21 reviews
Even against dreamy Deerhoof-style production, Soccer Mommy’s debut is consistently fun, with freshly journaled lyrics on top of charming lo-fi rock.

8.

March 2, 2018
Critic Score
75
23 reviews

7.

June 1, 2018
Critic Score
80
39 reviews

God’s Favorite Customer is less than half the length of his 2017 LP Pure Comedy but the details are still there, Tillman’s verbose nature still intact.

5.

KT Tunstall - WAX
October 5, 2018
Critic Score
71
7 reviews

4.

August 17, 2018
Critic Score
85
40 reviews

Mitski’s Be the Cowboy is a fabulous album, one you didn’t know you needed. More comfortable with her anxieties, and articulating them beautifully, she has taken a pop turn on her fifth studio affair. She is more playful, content with her discontentedness, but still deeply feeling.

2.

March 30, 2018
Critic Score
79
19 reviews

Musgraves is considered one of the standout voices of modern country and with good reason. Golden Hour is well-crafted and as pleasant as an early sunrise.

1.

April 27, 2018
Critic Score
87
41 reviews
This album should see Janelle Monáe take her place among those peers at the forefront of a brighter horizon for all of us and by revealing herself more fully, she has come out swinging harder than ever.
Original Source: https://www.albumism.com/lists/best-albums-of-2018-index
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4y
um ok, just leave out veteran, some rap songs, you wont get what you want, and time n place....
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