Top 25 Music Albums of 2018
by johnner

Tracks Of The Year:
1. Samaritans - Idles
2. Television - Idles
3. Danny Nedelko - Idles
4. I’m Scum - Idles
5. Great - Idles
6. Colossus - Idles
7. Everlastingly Yours - Piroshka
8. Fly tipping - Suede
9. International Blue - Manic Street Preachers
10. Wake The Dead - The Third Eye Foundation
11. Life Is Golden - Suede
12. Not A Priority - Blancmange
13. Mistress - Suede
14. Free-bird II - Parquet Courts
15. Tenderness - Parquet Courts
16. Distant Colours - Manic Street Preachers
17. Gun To The Head - The Good, The Bad & The Queen
18. All The Wild Places - Suede
19. Little Dark Age - MGMT
20. All Women Love Me - Insecure Men

• Chart updated: 04/28/2025 21:45
• (Created: 01/02/2018 22:57).
• Chart size: 25 albums.

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The Blue Hour 

 Suede

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“As time goes by it becomes more and more apparent how Suede were one, if not THE most important band of the nineties. So after a few dodgy lps, it’s with some relief to report how this new album finds a re-energised, more vital Suede.
Although the tunes are not as instant as before, a pop heart still strongly beats within even if this is a more mature, wiser, darker Suede than ever. There’s even a return to some of the art-rock madness of Dog Man Star - and if that isn’t cause for celebration, I don’t know what is.
Simply put this is the best Suede have sounded since their heyday and no one can hold a candle to them when they’re on this form” September 2018 [First added to this chart: 09/19/2018]

Year of Release:

2018

Appears in:

72 charts

Rank Score:

332

Rank in 2018:

78

Rank in 2010s:

762

Overall Rank:

4,274

Average Rating:

 73 (81 votes)

Comments:

5

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Joy As An Act Of Resistance. 

 Idles

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“Throughout this decade I’ve been moaning about how bad a state rock’n’roll is in. How it seems to be in irreversible decline, how it appears to be dying. No more, IDLES not only resurrect punk rock but breathe new life in to rock’n’roll. Anger of the phlegmatic kind is the tone, Snowflake Oi is the charge - less a flurry and more an avalanche.
If you hate how the 2010’s have turned out, you need this record, IDLES are an oasis of common-sense in a world slowly but surely going to pot.” August 2019 [First added to this chart: 10/17/2021]

Year of Release:

2018

Appears in:

460 charts

Rank Score:

3,264

Rank in 2018:

3

Rank in 2010s:

75

Overall Rank:

537

Average Rating:

 80 (485 votes)

Comments:

38

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Resistance Is Futile 

 Manic Street Preachers

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”And so the Manics continue to make great albums. Lung-busting anthems (International Blue), songs that champion fighting in the face of adversity (Liverpool Revisited), and music that swells and surges with every emotion the lyrics evoke (Distant Colours), this is a welcome return to the big music of Motorcycle Emptiness and A Design For Life.
The heart to Futurology’s brain, Resistance Is Futile is more than anyone could expect from a band this late into their career. It is brilliant.." April 2018 [First added to this chart: 02/02/2018]

Year of Release:

2018

Appears in:

53 charts

Rank Score:

148

Rank in 2018:

148

Rank in 2010s:

1,633

Overall Rank:

8,337

Average Rating:

 69 (71 votes)

Comments:

2

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Wide Awake! 

 Parquet Courts

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“Parquet Courts are the archetypal good-time band, optimistic, wide-eyed and with enough feel-good tunes to get anyone rockin’. That’s not to say that they can’t be affecting cos they can e.g. Freebird II, Death Will Bring Change, Tenderness etc etc, but they’re one band not to be forgotten once the party’s over.” June 2018 [First added to this chart: 06/21/2018]

Year of Release:

2018

Appears in:

434 charts

Rank Score:

2,928

Rank in 2018:

6

Rank in 2010s:

82

Overall Rank:

588

Average Rating:

 80 (529 votes)

Comments:

28

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Wanderlust 

 Blancmange

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“Believe it or not but Blancmange’s latest is a synth-pop album the way they used to make ‘em. There are doff’s of the hat to Moroder, Depeche Mode, especially Depeche Mode, with the synths making more than a passing resemblance to the Violator era, there’s even a song called “In Your Room”!!!
But that’s only half the story with classily, seductive pop songs and thought-provoking lyrics vying for your attention. If you think Blancmange’s story ended in the mid-80’s, you couldn’t be more wrong.“ October 2018 [First added to this chart: 10/31/2018]

Year of Release:

2018

Appears in:

5 charts

Rank Score:

17

Rank in 2018:

1,064

Rank in 2010s:

10,724

Overall Rank:

42,540

Average Rating:

 71 (4 votes)

Comments:

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Always Ascending 

 Franz Ferdinand

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"This is the first Franz Ferdinand album without Nick McCarthy, it is also the first one to feature a palpable change since the debut. With a more synthesised, electronic sound pushed to fore, the songs are more looser, less hard-hitting/direct than before. So it's different but Franz Ferdinand's reputation for delivering incisive, pop songs sure to buzz around your cranium remains intact." February 2018 [First added to this chart: 01/11/2018]

Year of Release:

2018

Appears in:

58 charts

Rank Score:

115

Rank in 2018:

192

Rank in 2010s:

2,082

Overall Rank:

10,303

Average Rating:

 68 (116 votes)

Comments:

6

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Little Dark Age 

 MGMT

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"MGMT are back and this time they're ready to kick ass, albeit in their own distinctive way. As usual, Side 1 is full of addictive, ear worm pop songs whilst Side 2 goes for another woozy, psychedelic journey - not without rewards. Definitely, they're best since their high watermark of 10 years ago." February 2018 [First added to this chart: 01/17/2018]

Year of Release:

2018

Appears in:

451 charts

Rank Score:

2,627

Rank in 2018:

7

Rank in 2010s:

96

Overall Rank:

662

Average Rating:

 80 (772 votes)

Comments:

68

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Double Negative 

 Low

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“Well, kudos to Low for moving out of their comfort zone and making something as weird and well, lovely as this. There is distortion - loads of it, deep bass rumbles and an overwhelming sense of dislocation. It sounds like it shouldn’t work but it does. Reckon Low are just slow-core? Prepare to have that misconception challenged.” September 2018 [First added to this chart: 09/14/2018]

Year of Release:

2018

Appears in:

288 charts

Rank Score:

1,556

Rank in 2018:

17

Rank in 2010s:

167

Overall Rank:

1,122

Average Rating:

 77 (207 votes)

Comments:

15

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Merrie Land 

 The Good, The Bad & The Queen

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“The release of this album couldn’t be more timely with the news being preoccupied with all things Brexit, deal or no deal etc etc.
Musically, Albarn still mines the same Brit-pop/Ska hybrid as before, although things sound a bit more queasy, tired and just a little more tattered.
Rather than the glorious dawn of a 1950’s-Festival-Of-Britain-type proportion as promised by the Brexiteers, this is a sodden soundtrack to the grim reality i.e. economic instability, broken promises, grey leaden skies and pounding, lashing rain.
Nice songs too.” November 2018 [First added to this chart: 10/23/2018]

Year of Release:

2018

Appears in:

67 charts

Rank Score:

253

Rank in 2018:

92

Rank in 2010s:

994

Overall Rank:

5,344

Average Rating:

 76 (55 votes)

Comments:

2

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Wake The Dead 

 The Third Eye Foundation

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"Matt Elliott's Third Eye Foundation exists on it's own, it's mournful, resigned dub-step is unlikely to become highly fashionable. This music is a bit deeper than that, more humanist to ever fit in.
The second return to his post-rock alias this decade, Wake The Dead lets in more light, more hope than The Dark, but is obviously from the same author. It paints a world that owes very little to escapism but is more interested in holding a mirror up to the filth, the sadness and the destruction. So it's heavy going, but it is Punk Fucking Rock." February 2018 [First added to this chart: 02/10/2018]

Year of Release:

2018

Appears in:

3 charts

Rank Score:

8

Rank in 2018:

1,674

Rank in 2010s:

16,432

Overall Rank:

63,823

Average Rating:

 74 (7 votes)

Comments:

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Top 25 Music Albums of 2018 composition

Artist	Albums	%
Various Artists	3	12%
Insecure Men	2	8%
Chris Carter	2	8%
Franz Ferdinand	1	4%
The Chills	1	4%
MGMT	1	4%
John Grant	1	4%
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Country	Albums	%
	11	44%
	6	24%
	5	20%
	1	4%
	1	4%
	1	4%

Top 25 Music Albums of 2018 chart changes

Biggest climbers
Up 4 from 19th to 15th 7 by Beach House
Up 2 from 16th to 14th Dionysus by Dead Can Dance
Up 2 from 4th to 2nd Joy As An Act Of Resistance. by Idles

Biggest fallers
Down 4 from 13th to 17th Snow Bound by The Chills
Down 2 from 9th to 11th Insecure Men by Insecure Men
Down 1 from 2nd to 3rd Resistance Is Futile by Manic Street Preachers

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100/100	09/19/2018 20:39	DJENNY	4,365	100/100

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