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Highest Rated Albums of 2018

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Source

Genre

All
- All
- Alternative R&B
- Alternative Rock
- Americana
- Art Pop
- Country
- Dance Pop
- Electronic
- Electropop
- Folk
- Hip Hop
- Indie Folk
- Indie Pop
- Indie Rock
- Metal
- Neo-Soul
- Pop
- Pop Rock
- Psychedelic
- R&B
- Rock
- Singer-Songwriter
- Soul
- Synthpop

2018

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

1. Colter Wall - Songs of the Plains

October 12, 2018

Americana

Score

100

2. Gaika - Basic Volume

July 27, 2018

Experimental Hip Hop

Score

100

3. John Grant - Love Is Magic

October 12, 2018

Synthpop

Score

100

4. Christine and the Queens - Chris

September 21, 2018

Synthpop

Score

100

5. Troye Sivan - Bloom

August 31, 2018

Electropop

Score

100

6. Travis Scott - ASTROWORLD

August 3, 2018

Trap Rap

Score

100

7. Suede - The Blue Hour

September 21, 2018

Alternative Rock

Score

100

8. Ben Howard - Noonday Dream

June 1, 2018

Indie Folk

Score

100

9. CHVRCHES - Love is Dead

May 25, 2018

Synthpop

Score

100

10. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour

March 30, 2018

Country Pop

Score

100

11. Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!

May 18, 2018

Art Punk

Score

100

12. Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer

April 27, 2018

Art Pop

Score

100

13. Mary Gauthier - Rifles & Rosary Beads

January 26, 2018

Americana

Score

100

14. Calexico - The Thread That Keeps Us

January 26, 2018

Americana

Score

100

15. Van Morrison - The Prophet Speaks

December 2, 2018

Score

16. Zayn - Icarus Falls

December 14, 2018

Score

17. Barbra Streisand - Walls

November 2, 2018

Score

18. Matt Corby - Rainbow Valley

November 2, 2018

Score

19. Bryan Ferry - Bitter-Sweet

November 30, 2018

Score

20. The Good, the Bad & the Queen - Merrie Land

November 16, 2018

Score

21. Michael Bublé - Love

November 16, 2018

Score

22. Imagine Dragons - Origins

November 9, 2018

Score

23. Estrons - You Say I'm Too Much, I Say You're Not Enough

October 5, 2018

Score

24. Rita Ora - Phoenix

November 23, 2018

Score

25. Nao - Saturn

October 26, 2018

Score

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

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