Top 100 Music Albums of 2018 by travelful

2018 snapshot

Every album I listen to will be included on here, even if I hated it. You may also notice some higher rated albums in the comments, while some albums I hated are still featured in the chart. This is because I create my yearly charts as "snapshots" of the music scene from that year. From these I create my decade charts, where you will find no filler. Basically anything rated 60% or higher I recommend depending on your tastes.

Enjoy! 2018 has been an amazing year for music.

Other albums heard in 2018:

- Amen Dunes - 'Freedom' - 7.5/10
- Aminé's 'ONEPOINTFIVE' - 5/10
- Animal Collective's 'Tangerine Reef' - 3/10
- Aphex Twin - 'Collapse EP' - 7/10
- Big Red Machine - 'Big Red Machine' - 5.5/10
- Black Milk's 'Fever' - 7.5/10
- Black Moth Super Rainbow's 'Panic Blooms' - 5/10
- Børns' 'Blue Madonna' - 4/10
- Chvrches's 'Love Is Dead' - 6.5/10
- Clarence Clarity's 'Think:Peace' - 6.5/10
- Earthgang's Royalty EP - 5/10
- Future's 'BEASTMODE2' - 3/10
- Freddie Gibbs''Freddie' - 4/10
- Grouper's 'Grid Of Points' - 4/10
- Gucci Mane's 'Evil Genius' 6-6.5/10
- Iceage's 'Beyondless' - 5/10
- Interpol's 'Marauder' - 4/10
- Iron & Wine's 'Weed Garden' - 7.5/10
- Jeff Rosenstock's 'Post-' - 6.5/10
- Joey Purp - 'QUARTERTHING' - 7/10
- Jorja Smith - 'Lost & Found' - 5.5/10
- Justin Timberlake's 'Man Of The Woods' 4/10
- Kadhja Bonet's 'Childqueen' - 6/10
- Kenny Chesney - Songs for the Saints - 7/10
- Khruangbin's 'Con Todo El Mundo' - 5.5-6/10
- Lets Eat Grandma - I'm All Ears - 6/10
- Logic's Bobby Tarentino 2 mixtape - 3/10
- Lori Mckenna's 'The Tree' - 7/10
- Migos 'Culture 2' - light 2
- Milo's 'Budding Ornithologists Are Weary of Tired Analogies' - 5.5-6/10
- of Montreal's 'White Is Relic / Irrealis Mood' - light 7
- Pinegrove's 'Skylight' - 6.5/10
- Rae Sremmurd's 'Sr3MM' - 4/10
- Ravyn Lenae - 'Crush' - 4/10
- Rezzett self titled LP - 5.5/10
- Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever's 'Hope Downs' - 6/10
- SiR's 'November' - 4/10
- Snail Main 'Lush' - light 5
- SOB x RBE's 'Gangin' - 6.5/10
- SOB x RBE's 'Gangin II' - 6.5/10
- Spiritualized's 'And Nothing Hurt' - 4/10
- Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks' "Sparkle Hard" - 5/10
- The 1975's 'A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships' - 6.5/10
- The Alchemist - 'Bread' - 7/10
- The Carters' 'Everything Is Love' - 5.5/10
- The Field's 'Infinite Moment' - 5/10
- The Internet's 'Hive Mind' - 3/10
- Tirzah's 'Devotion' - 6/10
- Tom Misch's 'Geography' - 6 - 6.5/10
- Trippie Red's "Life's a Trip" - 3/10
- Twenty One Pilots' 'Trench' - 5/10
- Unknown Mortal Orchestra's 'Sex & Food' - 5.5 - 6/10
- US Girls "In A Poem Unlimited" - 6/10
- Wanderwelle's 'Gathering Of The Ancient Spirits' - 6.5-7/10
- WeedPecker's 'III' - 5.5-6/10
- Wiz Khalifa's 'Rolling Papers 2' - 5.5/10
- YG's 'Stay Dangerous' - 5/10
- Young Fathers' 'Cocoa Sugar' - 5/10
- Young Thug's 'Slime Language' - 5/10

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Experimental hip-hop, abstract hip-hop

Light - decent 6
[First added to this chart: 07/28/2018]
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Noise rock, industrial rock, post-hardcore

light 6
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United States Nas
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Kanye's production is the only reason I am giving this a 6. Kanye's production is consistently great on here, even if it isn't quite up to par with the standards he set on Daytona, Ye, or Kids See Ghosts this year. Without Kanye's efforts this would be a 4/10 from me. Nas' contributions to the album are weak, and extremely disappointing for a widely considered top tier rapper. The lyrical performance consists of topics that have been discussed numerous times on other hip-hop projects, and in a much more interesting fashion. Nas' delivery is frequently quite boring throughout the project with many "fake deep" moments that would fit snug on a Hopsin record. He even has a line about Fox News that is just flat out false, and can be fact checked on Google. Overall, this album is quite the let down. It may be time for Nas to retire, it's not a good sign when even Kanye beats can't make you interesting anymore. Nas just doesn't have the same energy that Pusha T, Kanye, or Kid Cudi were able to display to make the other three Ye-related albums as great as they are.

Favorite track: everything

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East Coast, boom bap

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85. (84) Down1
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East coast, experimental hip-hop, cloud rap

strong 5 - light 6
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Trap rap

Started out strong, but couldn't keep up the same energy. I felt like a lot of this was half assed filler tracks. I'm wondering if Travis will ever be able to top Rodeo, it seems he's getting worse after every release.

strong 5 - light 6
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West coast, trap rap, hyphy

strong 5
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East coast pop rap, boom bap

Logic's second release of 2018 after a horrible installment in the horrible Bobby Tarantino mixtape series, which I scored a 3/10. Honestly this album has some really good moments and after disliking basically everything Logic has released since his debut album Under Pressure, it was a refreshing listen. Well, at least some moments were. The album still plays out way longer than I would care to listen to Logic, and the album is just not doing enough artistically for me to applaud it. The song with Wu Tang was pretty dope, but other than that its just merely a step in the right direction. Anthony Fantano described this as the "Disneyland version of Boom Bap", and I think that describes the record perfectly. I'm not saying Logic can't rap, he clearly can and he has a likeable personality, but since his debut I just always feel like something is missing.

decent - strong 5
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Pop rap

Her best project, the first three tracks actually had me really excited. However it took a huge dive after that.

decent 5
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Contemporary R&B, Electropop

light - decent 5
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Top 100 Music Albums of 2018 composition

Country Albums %


United States 69 69%
United Kingdom 10 10%
Mixed Nationality 7 7%
Germany 4 4%
Canada 2 2%
Poland 1 1%
Norway 1 1%
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Soundtrack? Albums %
No 99 99%
Yes 1 1%

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From 01/26/2019 14:16
Cheers for the rating pal. Just picked up your no.1 LP for cheap from Urban Outfitters to try it out to celebrate!
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The fact that we only have 5 albums in common only proves that this was a great year in music: there was plenty of choice in good quality music for every taste
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Great chart!
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