Well – a few days into 2019 and I am still signing the date with the wrong year. (I expect this habit to continue well into August.) Now that 2018 is objectively entirely behind us, I thought it best for me to look back and do some good old fashioned list point-format things about the music that sprung forth from the year. I SHALL BEGIN – having been asked this once or twice – with every YouTube reviewer/newspaper music columnist’s favourite title: “THE TOP 50 ALBUMS OF 2018”.
NOTE: THIS IS MY OPINION. Please don’t get too upset about it – it’s/I’m really not that important. A big thing I try to do is look at both the ‘absolute’ quality of the album (nigh on impossible) and also look at it within the context of the market it was trying to capture and its target audience. Of course, I can’t include albums that I haven’t listened to all the way through, so that is probably the explanation for some high-profile omissions.
Want to know a little more on my thoughts about the albums, as well as my favourite tracks from each one? Click here to read the full version. 🙂
LET’S GO.
HONOURABLE MENTION: A Perfect Pain, Merzbow and Genesis P-Orridge (a 2018 reissue of a 1999 album)
50: Invasion of Privacy, Cardi B
49: Shawn Mendes, Shawn Mendes
48: The Now Now, Gorillaz
47: Route One, Sigur Rós
46: Goat Girl, Goat Girl
45: 21st Century Liability, YUNGBLUD
44: A Star Is Born (soundtrack), Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper
43: Language, MNEK
42: YSIV, Logic
41: Honey, Robyn
40: Pray for the Wicked, Panic! at the Disco
39: 1981 Extended Play, I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME
38: You Won’t Get What You Want, Daughters
37: KIDS SEE GHOSTS, KIDS SEE GHOSTS
36: Infections of a Different Kind – Step 1, AURORA
35: Black Panther: The Album, Kendrick Lamar and various
34: Voicenotes, Charlie Puth
33: God’s Favorite Customer, Father John Misty
32: Sweetener, Ariana Grande
31: In a Poem Unlimited, U.S. Girls
30: glisten, Jeremy Zucker
29: OIL OF EVERY PEARL’S UN-INSIDES, SOPHIE
28: beerbongs and bentleys, Post Malone
27: Broken Politics, Neneh Cherry
26: Palo Santo, Years & Years
25: And Nothing Hurt, Spiritualized
24: Bloom, Troye Sivan
23: Egypt Station, Paul McCartney
22: Jubilee Road, Tom Odell
21: isola†ion, Kali Uchis
20: The King, CHAINES
19: Expectations, Hayley Kiyoko
18: Chris, Christine and the Queens
17: El Mal Querer, Rosalía
16: Heaven and Earth, Kamasi Washington
15: Aviary, Julia Holter
14: Lush, Snail Mail
13: Swimming, Mac Miller
12: Golden Hour, Kacey Musgraves
11: hej!, felicita
10: Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino, Arctic Monkeys
9: Hereditary (Official Sound Track), Colin Stetson
8: Someone Out There, Rae Morris
7: High as Hope, Florence + the Machine
6: Bark Your Head Off, Dog, Hop Along
5: DJESSE (Vol. 1), Jacob Collier
4: Dirty Computer, Janelle Monáe
3: A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships, the 1975
2: Age of, Oneohtrix Point Never
1: Trench, twenty øne piløts
Well, there we have it.
You have any thoughts? Let me know! 🙂
