Following my month-by-month review of 2018’s best music, here’s the definitive list of my top 50 albums from 2018. I can’t guarantee you will like all of it but there should be something in here for everyone and you life will be better for having at least experienced some of the fantastic music released during 2018.
1: IDLES – Joy as an Act of Resistance
Standout track: Never Fight a Man With a Perm
3: The Body – I Have Fought Against It, But I Can’t Any Longer
Standout track: Nothing Stirs
6: Sons of Kemet – Your Queen Is A Reptile
Standout track: My Queen is Doreen Lawrence
10: Confidence Man – Confident Music for Confident People
Standout track: Don’t You Know I’m In a Band
11: Shame – Songs of Praise
12: Robert Hood – DJ Kicks
13: Dilly Dally – Heaven
14: Demob Happy – Holy Doom
15: Daniel Avery – Song for Alpha
16: Christian Fitness – Nuance: The Musical
17: TVAM – Psychic Data
18: Jon Hopkins – Singularity
19: No Age – Snares Like A Haircut
20: Miss Red – K.O.
21: Fucked Up – Dose Your Dreams
22: Prettiest Eyes – Pools
23: Phobophobes – Minature World
24: Moaning – Moaning
25: Cosmo Sheldrake – The Much Much How How and I
26: The Orb – No Sounds Are Out Of Bounds
27: Tess Parks & Anton Newcombe – Tess Parks & Anton Newcombe
28: Rival Consoles – Persona
29: The Skull Eclipses – The Skull Eclipses
30: Zeal & Ardor – Stranger Fruit
31: Low – Double Negative
32: Young Fathers – Cocoa Sugar
33: Fantastic Negrito – Please Don’t Be Dead
34: Marmozets – Knowing What You Know Now
35: Rolo Tomassi – Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It
36: Ministry – AmeriKKKant
37: Johnny Marr – Call The Comet
38: Gaz Coombes – World’s Strongest Man
39: Here Lies Man – You Will Know Nothing
40: Menace Beach – Black Rainbow Sound
41: Goat Girl – Goat Girl
42: Breathe Panel – Breathe Panel
43: Gazelle Twin – Pastoral
44: Gwenno – Le Kov
45: Sink Ya Teeth – Sink Ya Teeth
46: The Field – Infinite Moment
47: Hookworms – Microshift
48: Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite – No Mercy In This Land
49: Laibach – The Sound of Music
50: Anna Meredith & Anonio Vivaldi – Anno/The Four Seasons
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