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Highest Rated Albums of 2018

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  - Alternative R&B
  - Americana
  - Art Pop
  - Dance Pop
  - Electronic
  - Electropop
  - Folk
  - Hip Hop
  - House
  - Indie Folk
  - Indie Pop
  - Indie Rock
- - Indietronica
  - Neo-Psychedelia
  - Neo-Soul
  - Pop
  - Pop Rap
  - Pop Rock
  - Psychedelic
  - R&B
  - Rock
  - Singer-Songwriter
  - Soul
  - Synthpop
  - Trap Rap

2018

This is an ordered list of The Guardian's highest rated albums of 2018. Check out The Guardian's Year End List.

1. No Age - Snares Like a Haircut

January 26, 2018

Noise Pop

Score

100

2. Hookworms - Microshift

February 2, 2018

Neo-Psychedelia

Score

100

3. Steve Reich - Pulse / Quartet

February 2, 2018

Modern Classical

Score

100

4. Courtney Marie Andrews - May Your Kindness Remain

March 23, 2018

Singer-Songwriter

Score

100

5. Sarah Blasko - Depth of Field

February 23, 2018

Art Pop

Score

100

6. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour

March 30, 2018

Country Pop

Score

100

7. Patricia Kopatchinskaja & Polina Leschenko - Deux

February 23, 2018

Score

100

8. Neko Case - Hell-On

June 1, 2018

Singer-Songwriter

Score

100

9. Let's Eat Grandma - I'm All Ears

June 29, 2018

Art Pop

Score

100

10. Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love

July 13, 2018

Blackgaze

Score

100

11. Mitski - Be the Cowboy

August 17, 2018

Indie Rock

Score

100

12. Anna Calvi - Hunter

August 31, 2018

Art Rock

Score

100

13. Prince - Piano & a Microphone 1983

September 21, 2018

Singer-Songwriter

Score

100

14. Low - Double Negative

September 14, 2018

Ambient Pop

Score

100

15. Gwenifer Raymond - You Never Were Much of a Dancer

June 29, 2018

American Primitivism

Score

100

16. Helena Hauff - Qualm

August 3, 2018

Electro

Score

100

17. Christine and the Queens - Chris

September 21, 2018

Synthpop

Score

100

18. Fucked Up - Dose Your Dreams

October 5, 2018

Art Punk

Score

100

19. Bill Ryder-Jones - Yawn

November 2, 2018

Singer-Songwriter

Score

100

20. Neneh Cherry - Broken Politics

October 19, 2018

Art Pop

Score

100

21. ROSALÍA - EL MAL QUERER

November 2, 2018

Art Pop

Score

100

22. Robyn - Honey

October 26, 2018

Electropop

Score

100

23. Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs

November 30, 2018

Experimental Hip Hop

Score

100

24. MGMT - Little Dark Age

February 9, 2018

Score

25. Maluma - F.A.M.E.

May 18, 2018

Score

NOTE: This is not a year end list. This list is ordered by the ratings The Guardian awarded albums throughout 2018.

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