Top 50 Albums of 2018

Matthew Beinart
5 min readDec 19, 2018

2018 had a ton of rad music. Here’s a list of my top listens from the past year.

50. In a Poem Unlimited — U.S. Girls

49. Third — Nathan Salsburg

48. I Don’t Run — Hinds

47. I’m Bad Now — Nap Eyes

46. God’s Favorite Customer — Father John Misty

45. Future Me Hates Me — The Beths

44. Invasion of Privacy — Cardi B

43. Daytona — Pusha T

42. Safe In The Hands of Love — Yves Tumor

41. Slide — George Clanton

40. SPACEMAN — Octavian

39. CARE FOR ME — Saba

38. Be the One You Love — Sitcom

37. Constant Image — Flasher

36. And Nothing Hurt — Spiritualized

35. Us — Empress Of

34. Freedom — Amen Dunes

33. The Tree of Forgiveness — John Prine

32. FM! — Vince Staples

31. Bless You — Okudaxij

30. Room 25 — Noname

29. Honey — Robyn

28. I’m All Ears — Let’s Eat Grandma

27. GANGIN — SOB X RBE

26. Kill the Lights — Tony Molina

25. Aviary — Julia Holter

24. Clean — Soccer Mommy

23. Kids See Ghosts — KIDS SEE GHOSTS

22. Wide Awake! — Parquet Courts

21. Knock Knock — DJ Koze

20. Some Rap Songs — Earl Sweatshirt

19. abysskiss — Adrianne Lenker

18. Isolation — Kali Uchis

17. Now Only — Mount Eerie

16. Lush — Snail Mail

15. Historian — Lucy Dacus

14. 2012–2017 — Against All Logic

13. TRU — Ovlov

12. There’s a Riot Going On — Yo La Tengo

11. Bottle It In — Kurt Vile

10. WARM — Jeff Tweedy

9. Cranberry — Hovvdy

8. “Ouch” — Nicholas Krgovich

7. boygenius EP — boygenius

6. Acrylic — Leikeli47

5. Skulls Example — Dear Nora

4. POST- — Jeff Rosenstock

3. Be the Cowboy — Mitski

2. 7 — Beach House

  1. Double Negative — Low

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