For this next segment, I've divided 175+ albums from 2018 into four different categories:
Great (I love these; Score of 80+)
Good (I like these; Score of 65-79)
Meh (These aren't bad... but they aren't good; Score of 50-64)
Bad (These are trash; Score of 49 or lower)
The albums in each category are listed in alphabetic order by artist name.
Please don't be offended if your opinions on an album differ from mine. That just means that your taste in music sucks.
That was a joke.
Like whatever you want to like! Music taste is subjective. But if you want to know why I feel a certain way about an album, feel free to ask me in the comment section below or on social media! I'd be happy to answer any of your questions. Unfortunately, time just does not permit me to elaborate on all ~175 albums in one post.
Without further delay, here are my opinions on just about every album I listened to in 2018!
Great Albums
(I love these; Score of 80+)
Against All Logic (A. A. L.) - 2012 - 2017 (Electronic)
Amen Dunes - Freedom (Indie Rock)
Anderson .Paak - Oxnard (Hip Hop)
Aphex Twin - Collapse (IDM)
Ariana Grande - Sweetener (Pop)
Ashley Monroe - Sparrow (Country)
Autechre - NTS Sessions 1-4 (IDM)
Avantdale Bowling Club - Avantdale Bowling Club (Hip Hop)
Bahamas - Earthtones (Folk)
Beach House - 7 (Indie Pop)
Beak> - >>> (Indie Rock)
Big Red Machine - Big Red Machine (Alternative / Pop Rock)
Blood Orange - Negro Swan (R&B / Soul)
BROCKHAMPTON - iridescence (Hip Hop)
Buddy - Harlan & Alondra (Hip Hop)
Charlie Puth - Voicenotes (Pop)
Daughters - You Won’t Get What You Want (Indie Rock)
Death Cab for Cutie - Thank You For Today (Alternative / Pop Rock)
Denzel Curry - TA13OO (Hip Hop)
DJ Koze - Knock Knock (Electronic)
Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs (Hip Hop)
EDEN - Vertigo (Alternative / Pop Rock)
Eli Keszler - Stadium (Jazz)
Erland Cooper - Solan Goose (Neoclassical)
Haiku Salut - There Is No Elsewhere (Neoclassical)
Half Waif - Lavender (Indie Pop)
Hookworms - Microshift (Indie Rock)
Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog (Indie Rock)
Ian William Craig - Thresholder (Ambient)
Iglooghost - Steel Mogu, Clear Tamei (Electronic)
JID - DiCaprio 2 (Hip Hop)
John Coltrane - Both Directions at Once (Jazz)
Jon Hopkins - Singularity (Electronic)
JPEGMAFIA - Veteran (Hip Hop)
Julia Holter - Aviary (Indie Pop)
Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour (Pop Country)
Kali Uchis - Isolation (R&B / Soul)
Kamasi Washington - Heaven & Earth (Jazz)
Kanye West - ye (Hip Hop)
Kendrick Lamar & Company - Black Panther The Album (Hip Hop)
Kero Kero Bonito - Time ’n’ Place (Indie Pop)
KIDS SEE GHOSTS - KIDS SEE GHOSTS (Hip Hop)
Leon Vynehall - Nothing Is Still (Electronic)
Let’s Eat Grandma - I’m All Ears (Indie Pop)
Low - Double Negative (Indie Rock)
Lupe Fiasco - Drogas Wave (Hip Hop)
Mac Miller - Swimming (Hip Hop)
Melody’s Echo Chamber - Bon Voyage (Indie Alternative)
MGMT - Little Dark Age (Indie Pop)
Miya Folick - Premonitions (Indie Pop)
Nils Frahm - All Melody (Neoclassical)
Noname - Room 25 (Hip Hop)
Novo Amor - Birthplace (Folk)
Objekt - Cocoon Crush (IDM)
OFF THE KUFF - Ok Dis Hard (Hip Hop)
Olafur Arnalds - re:member (Neoclassical)
Parquet Courts - Wide Awake! (Indie Rock)
Phosphorescent - C’est La Vie (Indie Alternative)
Pinegrove - Skylight (Indie Rock)
Pusha T - DAYTONA (Hip Hop)
Robyn - Honey (Pop)
ROSALIA - El Mal Querer (R&B / Soul)
Saba - CARE FOR ME (Hip Hop)
Sarah Davachi - Gave in Rest (Ambient)
Shame - Songs of Praise (Indie Rock)
Smino - NOIR (Hip Hop)
SOPHIE - OIL OF EVERY PEARLE’S UN-INSIDES (Electronic)
Spiritualized - And Nothing Hurt (Indie Rock)
Sure Sure - Sure Sure (Indie Pop)
Szun Waves - New Hymn to Freedom (Ambient)
The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships (Alternative / Pop Rock)
The Beths - Future Me Hates Me (Indie Rock)
Tim Hecker - Konoyo (Ambient)
Tracyanne & Danny - Tracyanne & Danny (Alternative / Pop Rock)
Travis Scott - ASTROWORLD (Hip Hop)
Troye Sivan - Bloom (Pop)
Tunng - Songs You Make at Night (Folk)
Twenty One Pilots - Trench (Pop)
Typhoon - Offerings (Indie Rock)
Vundabar - Smell Smoke (Indie Rock)
Wild Pink - Yolk in the Fur (Indie Alternative)
Good Albums
(I like these; Score of 65-79)
Above & Beyond - Common Ground (Electronic)
Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino (Indie Rock)
Ashley McBryde - Girl Going Nowhere (Country)
Ben Howard - Noonday Dream (Folk)
boygenius - boygenius (Indie Alternative)
Camila Cabello - Camila (Pop)
Capitol K - Goatherder (IDM)
Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy (Hip Hop)
Carseat Headrest - Twin Fantasy (Indie Rock)
Choker - Honeybloom (R&B / Soul)
Dirty Projectors - Lamp Lit Prose (Indie Rock)
Doug Paisley - Starter Home (Country)
Elvis Costello - Look Now (Rock)
Eminem - Kamikaze (Hip Hop)
Eric Church - Desperate Man (Country)
Felix Blume - Death in Haiti: Funeral Brass Bands & Sounds from Port Au Prince (Field Recordings)
First Aid Kit - Ruins (Folk)
Florence + The Machine - High As Hope (Indie Rock)
George Clanton - Slide (Indie Pop)
Gorillaz - The Now Now (Rock)
harunemuri - harutosyura (Noise Pop)
J. Cole - KOD (Hip Hop)
Jack White - Boarding House Reach (Rock)
Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer (R&B / Soul)
Jay Rock - Redemption (Hip Hop)
Jeff Tweedy - WARM (Indie Rock)
JMSN - Velvet (R&B / Soul)
Joji - BALLADS 1 (Lo-Fi Hip Hop)
Jorja Smith - Lost & Found (R&B / Soul)
Khruangbin - Con Todo El Mundo (Indie Rock)
Kimbra - Primal Heart (Pop)
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Gumboot Soup (Indie Rock)
Kurt Vile - Bottle It In (Indie Rock)
Leon Bridges - Good Thing (R&B / Soul)
Lil Peep - Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 2 (Hip Hop)
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter V (Hip Hop)
Logic - YSIV (Hip Hop)
Meek Mill - Congratulations (Hip Hop)
Mick Jenkins - Pieces of a Man (Hip Hop)
Mike Shinoda - Post Traumatic (Hip Hop)
Milk Carton Kids - All the Things I Did and All the Things I Didn’t Do (Folk)
Mitski - Be the Cowboy (Indie Rock)
Mount Eerie - Now Only (Indie Alternative)
Nao - Saturn (R&B / Soul)
Natalia Lafourcade - Musas (Un Homenaje al Folcore Latinoamericano en Manos de Los Macorinos,
Vol. 1) (Latin Folk)
Nitro Fun - closure (Electronic)
Post Malone - beerbongs & bentleys (Hip Hop)
Public Access T.V. - Street Safari (Rock)
Rival Consoles - Persona (IDM)
Screaming Females - All at Once (Indie Rock)
SiR - November (R&B / Soul)
Sons of Kemet - Your Queen Is A Reptile (Jazz)
Superchunk - What a Time to Be Alive (Indie Rock)
Teyana Taylor - K.T.S.E. (R&B / Soul)
The Good, The Bad & The Queen - Merrie Land (Indie Alternative)
The Internet - Hive Mind (R&B / Soul)
The Voidz - Virtue (Rock)
Thom Yorke - Suspiria (Electronic)
Tune-Yards - I can feel you creep into my private life (Indie Pop)
U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited (Indie Pop)
Yves Tumor - Safe in the Hands of Love (Ambient)
Meh Albums
(These aren't bad... but they aren't good; Score of 50-64)
Alessia Cara - The Pains of Growing (Pop)
ASAP Rocky - Testing (Hip Hop)
Ben Rector - Magic (Alternative / Pop Rock)
BORNS - Blue Madonna (Alternative / Pop Rock)
Guerilla Toss - Twisted Crystal (Art Rock)
Hippo Campus - Bambi (Indie Pop)
James Bay - Electric Light (Rock)
Jeff Rosenstock - POST- (Rock)
Jon Bellion - Glory Sound Prep (Hip Hop)
Lord Huron - Vide Noir (Indie Rock)
Mariah Carey - Caution (Pop)
Maxo Kream - Punken (Hip Hop)
Muse - Simulation Theory (Rock)
Nas - NASIR (Hip Hop)
Panic! At The Disco - Pray for the Wicked (Alternative / Pop Rock)
Puma Blue - Blood Loss (Indie Alternative)
REASON - There You Have It (Hip Hop)
Rich Brian - Amen (Hip Hop)
The Weeknd - My Dear Melancholy (R&B / Soul)
Virginia Wing - Ecstatic Arrow (Rock)
Bad Albums
(These are trash; Score of 49 or lower)
6ix9ine - DUMBOY (Hip Hop)
6lack - East Atlanta Love Letter (Hip Hop)
Drake - Scorpion (Hip Hop)
Fall Out Boy - M A N I A (Alternative / Pop Rock)
George Ezra - Staying at Tamara's (Pop Folk)
Greta Van Fleet - Anthem of the Peaceful Army (Rock)
Imagine Dragons - Origins (Alternative / Pop Rock)
Jaden Smith - The Sunset Tapes: A Cool Tape Story (Hip Hop)
Justin Timberlake - Man of the Woods (Pop)
Lil Yachty - Lil Boat 2 (Hip Hop)
Logic - Bobby Tarantino II (Hip Hop)
Migos - Culture II (Hip Hop)
Nicki Minaj - Queen (Hip Hop)
SOB x RBE - Gangin (Hip Hop)
Tory Lanez - Memories Don’t Die (Hip Hop)
Vance Joy - Nation of Two (Indie Pop)
XXXTENTACION - Skins (Hip Hop)
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