Here are the albums from 2018 I listened to, along with their ratings as given by me.
- The 1975 – A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships (8/10)
- 5 Seconds of Summer – Youngblood (6/10)
- A Perfect Circle – Eat the Elephant (7/10)
- Abbe May – Fruit (7.5/10)
- Action Bronson – White Bronco (7.5/10)
- Amy Shark – Love Monster (7/10)
- Anderson .Paak – Oxnard (8/10)
- Andrew W.K. – You’re Not Alone (7/10)
- Animal Collective – Tangerine Reef (6.5/10)
- Anthony Green – Would You Still Be in Love (7/10)
- Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino (3.5/10)
- Ariana Grande – sweetener (8/10)
- Art Brut – Wham! Bam! Pow! Let’s Rock Out! (7/10)
- Ash – Islands (2/10)
- Ashley McBryde – Girl Going Nowhere (8/10)
- Augie March – Bootikins (5/10)
- Aunty Donna – The Album (7.5/10)
- Ball Park Music – GOOD MOOD (7.5/10)
- Basement – Beside Myself (7.5/10)
- Beach House – 7 (7/10)
- The Bennies – Natural Born Chillers (7.5/10)
- The Beths – Future Me Hates Me (8/10)
- Big White – Street Talk (7.5/10)
- Bilby – Shade (7.5/10)
- Birds in Row – We Already Lost the World (8/10)
- Bleeding Knees Club – Fade the Hammer (7/10)
- Blood Orange – Negro Swan (6.5/10)
- Bloods – Feelings (7/10)
- Boat Show – Unbelievable (7.5/10)
- The Breeders – All Nerve (7.5/10)
- BROCKHAMPTON – iridescence (8/10)
- BRONCHO – Bad Behavior (7/10)
- Camp Cope – How to Socialise and Make Friends (8/10)
- Cancer Bats – The Spark That Moves (6.5/10)
- carb on carb – For Ages (8/10)
- The Carters – EVERYTHING IS LOVE (8/10)
- Cash Savage and the Last Drinks – Good Citizens (8/10)
- Cat Heaven – Living Room (8/10)
- Charlie Puth – Voicenotes (8/10)
- CHVRCHES – Love is Dead (7.5/10)
- Clare Bowen – Clare Bowen (6/10)
- Cloud Nothings – Last Building Burning (8/10)
- Colter Wall – Songs of the Plains (8/10)
- Confidence Man – Confident Music for Confident People (7.5/10)
- Cosmic Psychos – Loudmouth Soup (7/10)
- Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel (8/10)
- Cousin Tony’s Brand New Firebird – Electric Brown (7/10)
- Craig David – The Time is Now (5.5/10)
- Culture Abuse – Bay Dream (7/10)
- cupcakKe – Ephorize (7/10)
- Dan Mangan – More or Less (7.5/10)
- Daphne & Celeste – Daphne & Celeste Save the World (8/10)
- Dark Times – Tell Me What I Need (7.5/10)
- Darren Middleton – Tides (7/10)
- Darwin Deez – 10 Songs That Happened When You Left Me with My Stupid Heart (7.5/10)
- Datarock – Face the Brutality (5/10)
- David Byrne – American Utopia (8/10)
- Dead Letter Circus – Dead Letter Circus (7.5/10)
- Deafheaven – Ordinary Corrupt Human Love (8.5/10)
- Death Cab for Cutie – Thank You for Today (8/10)
- The Decemberists – I’ll Be Your Girl (8/10)
- Dessa – Chime (8/10)
- The Dirty Nil – Master Volume (8/10)
- Dispossessed – Warpath Never Ended (8/10)
- Disturbed – Evolution (6/10)
- Divide and Dissolve – Abomination (7.5/10)
- Don’t Stop or We’ll Die – Dazzle Me (7.5/10)
- Don’t Worry – Who Cares Anyway? (7.5/10)
- Drake – Scorpion (7/10)
- Dream Wife – Dream Wife (6/10)
- The Drink [********] – ******** [The Drink] (7/10)
- Drug Church – Cheer (7/10)
- Ducking Punches – Alamort (6/10)
- DZ Deathrays – Bloody Lovely (8/10)
- Earl Sweatshirt – Some Rap Songs (5/10)
- East Brunswick All Girls Choir – Teddywaddy (8/10)
- Editors – Violence (7.5/10)
- Eleanor Friedberger – Rebound (6.5/10)
- Emma Davis – Demons (7.5/10)
- Endless Heights – Vicious Pleasure (8/10)
- Evelyn Ida Morris – Evelyn Ida Morris (8/10)
- Fiddlehead – Springtime and Blind (7.5/10)
- Field Music – Open Here (8/10)
- The Finks – Rolly Nice (7.5/10)
- First Aid Kit – Ruins (6.5/10)
- Fischerspooner – Sir (4/10)
- Florence + The Machine – High as Hope (8/10)
- Frank Turner – Be More Kind (7/10)
- Franz Ferdinand – Always Ascending (4/10)
- Fraser A. Gorman – Easy Dazy (7/10)
- The Fratellis – In Your Own Sweet Time (7/10)
- Fucked Up – Dose Your Dreams (8/10)
- Gaelynn Lea – Learning How to Stay (7.5/10)
- Ghost – Prequelle (6.5/10)
- Gin Blossoms – Mixed Reality (5/10)
- The Go! Team – SEMICIRCLE (7/10)
- Gorillaz – The Now Now (7.5/10)
- Gouge Away – Burnt Sugar (8/10)
- GRMLN – Afraid Of… (6/10)
- Gurrumul – Djarririmi (Child of the Rainbow) (7.5/10)
- Half Waif – Lavender (7/10)
- Hana Vu – How Many Times Have You Driven By (7.5/10)
- The Hard Aches – Mess (7.5/10)
- Harm’s Way – Posthuman (7/10)
- Harmony – Double Negative (8/10)
- High Tension – PURGE (8/10)
- Hockey Dad – Blend Inn (8/10)
- Homesick – Terra Nullius (7.5/10)
- Hop Along – Bark Your Head Off, Dog (7.5/10)
- Horror My Friend – Home Life (7.5/10)
- Hot Snakes – Jericho Sirens (7.5/10)
- Iceage – Beyondless (7.5/10)
- IDLES – Joy as An Act of Resistance (8/10)
- Ill Natured – Twisted Visions (7/10)
- Infinite Void – Endless Waves (8/10)
- Interpol – Marauder (7.5/10)
- Isaac Graham – Calendar Year (6.5/10)
- itoldyouiwouldeatyou – Oh Dearism (7.5/10)
- Jack Ladder and the Dreamlanders – Blue Poles (7.5/10)
- Jacob – Show Me Some Passion (7.5/10)
- James Bay – Electric Light (7/10)
- Janelle Monae – Dirty Computer (7/10)
- Jeff Rosenstock – POST- (8/10)
- Jesus Piece – Only Self (8/10)
- Joan as Police Woman – Damned Devotion (6.5/10)
- John Coltrane – Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album (8/10)
- Joyce Manor – Million Dollars to Kill Me (8/10)
- Justin Courtney Pierre – In the Drink (7.5/10)
- Justin Timberlake – Man of the Woods (4.5/10)
- Kacey Musgraves – Golden Hour (8/10)
- Kanye West – ye (8/10)
- Kasey Chambers and the Fireside Disciples – Campfire (6/10)
- Kate Nash – Yesterday Was Forever (7/10)
- Kendrick Lamar – Black Panther The Album, Music From and Inspired By (7/10)
- KIDS SEE GHOSTS – KIDS SEE GHOSTS (6.5/10)
- Kississippi – Sunset Blush (7.5/10)
- The Kite String Tangle – The Kite String Tangle Presents: In a Desperate Moment (7.5/10)
- Laura Jane Grace and the Devouring Mothers – Bought to Rot (7.5/10)
- Laura Jean – Devotion (8/10)
- Laurence Pike – Distant Early Warning (7.5/10)
- The Living End – Wunderbar (7/10)
- Low – Double Negative (8/10)
- Luca Brasi – Stay (8/10)
- Lucy Dacus – Historian (7.5/10)
- Mac Miller – Swimming (8/10)
- Madball – For the Cause (7/10)
- Manor – How to Live with You (7/10)
- Marmozets – Knowing What You Know Now (7/10)
- Math and Physics Club – Lived Here Before (7/10)
- MeanGirls – Is This Me Forever? (7/10)
- MGMT – Little Dark Age (7.5/10)
- Mia Dyson – If I Only Said So Far I Take It Back (7/10)
- Mitski – Be the Cowboy (8.5/10)
- MOD CON – Modern Convenience (7.5/10)
- Mojo Juju – Native Tongue (7.5/10)
- Mountain Man – Magic Ship (8/10)
- Mt. Joy – Mt. Joy (7/10)
- Muncie Girls – Fixed Ideals (7.5/10)
- Naif – the fall and decline of Naif (7.5/10)
- Nas – NASIR (8/10)
- Neko Case – Hell-On (8/10)
- Nils Frahm – All Melody (7.5/10)
- Nine Inch Nails – Bad Witch (8/10)
- Obscura Hail – Pallbearer (7.5/10)
- The Ocean Party – IBO (7/10)
- Pagan – Black Wash (7.5/10)
- Palm (USA) – Rock Island (7.5/10)
- Panic! at the Disco – Pray for the Wicked (4/10)
- The Paper Kites – On the Train Ride Home (6/10)
- Parquet Courts – Wide Awake! (7/10)
- Passenger – Runaway (7/10)
- Paul Kelly – Nature (7.5/10)
- Paul McCartney – Egypt Station (7/10)
- Phantastic Ferniture – Phantastic Ferniture (7/10)
- Pianos Become the Teeth – Wait for Love (8.5/10)
- Pinegrove – Skylight (8/10)
- Pistol Annies – Interstate Gospel (7.5/10)
- P.O.D. – Circles (5.5/10)
- Post Malone – Beerbongs & Bentleys (7/10)
- The Presets – HI VIZ (8.5/10)
- Press Club – Late Teens (7.5/10)
- Pusha T – DAYTONA (7.5/10)
- Quiet Slang – Everything Matters But No One is Listening (6.5/10)
- Razorbumps – Hellrazors (7.5/10)
- Recovery Room – Wallflower (7.5/10)
- Regurgitator – HEADROXX (6.5/10)
- Rejjie Snow – Dear Annie (7.5/10)
- Restorations – LP5000 (8/10)
- Rich Brian – Amen (7/10)
- Robyn – Honey (5/10)
- Rolo Tomassi – Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It (7.5/10)
- RÜFÜS DU SOL – Solace (7.5/10)
- S. Carey – Hundred Acres (7.5/10)
- Sarah Blasko – Depth of Field (7/10)
- Sarah Shook & the Disarmers – Years (8/10)
- Say Hi – Caterpillar Centipede (6/10)
- Say Sue Me – Where We Were Together (7.5/10)
- Screaming Females – All at Once (6.5/10)
- Self Defense Family – Have You Considered Punk Music (6.5/10)
- Shannen Moser – I’ll Sing (7.5/10)
- Shinedown – Attention Attention (6.5/10)
- Shopping – The Official Body (8/10)
- The Sidekicks – Happiness Hours (8/10)
- Skegss – My Own Mess (7.5/10)
- Slowly, Slowly – St. Leonards (7.5/10)
- Smashing Pumpkins – Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun. (5/10)
- Snape – Always (8/10)
- Snow Patrol – Wildness (5/10)
- Soccer Mommy – Clean (7.5/10)
- SOPHIE – OIL OF EVERY PEARL’S UN-INSIDES (7.5/10)
- Speedy Ortiz – Twerp Verse (7.5/10)
- Spike Vincent – Spike Vincent (7/10)
- The Spook School – Could It Be Different? (7.5/10)
- Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks – Sparkle Hard (6.5/10)
- Sting & Shaggy – 44/876 (6/10)
- Stonefield – Far from Earth (7/10)
- The Story So Far – Proper Dose (7.5/10)
- Stryper – God Damn Evil (6.5/10)
- Super Duper – Super Duper (7.5/10)
- Swearin’ – Fall Into the Sun (7.5/10)
- teddy<3 – LilyAnna (7.5/10)
- Teyana Taylor – K.T.S.E. (7/10)
- They Might Be Giants – I Like Fun (7/10)
- Thom Yorke – Suspiria (Music for the Luca Guadagnino Film) (7.5/10)
- Tierra Whack – Whack World (8/10)
- Tiny Little Houses – Idiot Proverbs (4.5/10)
- Tiny Moving Parts – Swell (7.5/10)
- Tom Lyngcoln – Doming Home (8/10)
- Tonight Alive – Underworld (7.5/10)
- Totally Mild – Her (6.5/10)
- Trampled by Turtles – Life is Good on the Open Road (7/10)
- Travis Scott – ASTROWORLD (7.5/10)
- Tropical Fuck Storm – A Laughing Death in Meatspace (8/10)
- Troye Sivan – Bloom (8/10)
- tUnE-yArDs – I can feel you creep into my private life (5.5/10)
- Tunng – Songs You Make at Night (7.5/10)
- Turnstile – Time and Space (8/10)
- Twitching Tongues – Gaining Purpose Through Passionate Hatred (7/10)
- Underoath – Erase Me (7/10)
- Uniform – The Long Walk (7.5/10)
- Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Sex & Food (7.5/10)
- U.S. Girls – U.S. Girls in A Poem Unlimited (6.5/10)
- Usher – “A” (6.5/10)
- Vacationer – Mindset (6.5/10)
- Vacations – Changes (7.5/10)
- Vein – Errorzone (8/10)
- Vertical Horizon – The Lost Mile (6.5/10)
- Vince Staples – FM! (7/10)
- The Vines – In Miracle Land (6.5/10)
- War on Women – Capture the Flag (8/10)
- West Thebarton – Different Beings Being Different (7.5/10)
- The Wombats – Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life (6/10)
- worlds greatest dad – Get Well Soon (7.5/10)
- Xylouris White – Mother (7/10)
- You Me at Six – VI (7.5/10)
- Young Fathers – Cocoa Sugar (7.5/10)
- Yves Tumor – Safe in the Hands of Love (7.5/10)