Best Albums of 2018

Listed below are the best albums of 2018 as calculated from their overall rankings in over 58,000 greatest album charts. (Chart last updated: 3 hours ago).
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2018 year summaryThe best artists of 2018 were Car Seat Headrest, Kids See Ghosts, Idles, Beach House, Parquet Courts, Daughters, MGMT, Arctic Monkeys, Kacey Musgraves and Earl Sweatshirt.
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"JID truly reaches his full artistic potential on here. Like DiCaprio, he's been underappreciated for such a long time, and on here he puts in 100% effort so he can prove himself. This album is an improvement on The Never Story in every way. His delivery is more consistent, the songs are more memo..."  [+]  Reply
- paranoidandroid5 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (4 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"Starts off really boring, but there is a breath of life during the final tracks. I really wish J Cole reached his expected potential, but it always feels like he falls short. I appreciate the topics covered on this album, depression and drug addiction is a serious problem where I'm from so I real..."  [+]  Reply
- Anti | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (3 helpful | 2 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"Interesting instrumental mix of jazz and electronic music elements with powerful musical themes. This sounds more like a score recording than a usual rock/jazz record. The audio quality is excellent - full of dynamic range, solid bass and detailed instrument sound. The "deluxe version" of the alb..."  [+]  Reply
- nocturnaldelight | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | 0 votes (0 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"Holy crap! The track MT1 t29r is peak Aphex Twin. It’s a perfect melding of math-melody; a cracking track. So far this is album is a great listen immersed through headphones. First two tracks are the auditory hallucinations experienced by the first cyborg AI to try DMT. The last couple would sit ..."  [+]  Reply
- Strangel | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"I can’t say that I have a close relationship with "Editors". The only thing I noticed a while back was that the band sounded like some sort of Joy Division "light" to me. It was only a feeling and possibly not justified, but I still felt that there was a relationship between the voice of Ian Curt..."  [+]  Reply
- leMonk | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | 0 votes (0 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"This is a bunch of ok tracks that unfortunately wear very thin very quickly Exception being the track "Circuits In The Sand " an excellent track critiquing our screen focused lifestyle 50 Hippy's Out Of 100"  Reply
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