In December, we asked music critics from across the industry to participate in a new music critics survey, in the hope of bridging together the community to see how our tastes overlap and differ. The response we received was staggering, with nearly 200 critics participating and selecting more than 600 different albums. The expected choices were there, but also so much more, reflecting the writers’ interests in hip-hop, electronic, metal, pop, rock, and country. It revealed musical interests as idiosyncratic as the personalities that participated, where massive commercial successes from Cardi B and Ariana Grande can live comfortably next to ascending critical darlings like Mitski and Saba as well as still emerging artists like The Beths and Tierra Whack. But mostly it affirmed the vitality present in the current music world, both in the artists that create it and the people who’ve dedicated their lives to discussing it.
Uproxx Music Critics Poll 2018: Albums
1
395 points
2
306 points
3
299 points
4
276 points
5
186 points
6
156 points
7
150 points
8
148 points
9
145 points
10
143 points
Albums with additional votes
51
Our Raw Heart
36 pts
52
FM!
36 pts
53
Kids See Ghosts (Album)
35 pts
54
Hive Mind
35 pts
55
Redemption
35 pts
56
Con Todo El Mundo
34 pts
57
Singularity
34 pts
58
Record
33 pts
59
The Future and The Past
33 pts
60
Championships (Album)
33 pts
61
Swimming
33 pts
62
Ventriloquism
32 pts
63
Mudboy
32 pts
64
Ephorize
32 pts
65
66
Bottle It In
29 pts
67
Dying Star
29 pts
68
By the Way, I Forgive You
28 pts
69
Cocoa Sugar
28 pts
70
Devotion
28 pts
71
Beyondless
27 pts
72
Magus
27 pts
73
Us
25 pts
74
The Sciences
25 pts
75
Loner
25 pts
76
Freedom
25 pts
77
TA13OO
25 pts
78
Sparkle Hard
25 pts
79
Im All Ears
25 pts
80
Twin Fantasy
25 pts
81
LP5000
24 pts
82
Lavender
24 pts
83
Heaven
24 pts
84
Negro Swan
24 pts
85
Negative Capability
23 pts
86
Joy As An Act Of Resistance
23 pts
87
And Nothing Hurt
23 pts
88
El Mal Querer
23 pts
89
Wanderer
22 pts
90
Errorzone
22 pts
91
Only Love
22 pts
92
MITH
22 pts
93
Songs Of Praise
22 pts
94
Scorpion
21 pts
95
Starfire
21 pts
96
Dose Your Dreams
21 pts
97
Voicenotes
21 pts
99
Love Is Dead
21 pts
100
May Your Kindness Remain
21 pts
101
102
Desperate Man (Album)
20 pts
103
Universal Beings
20 pts
104
Blood
19 pts
105
Time & Space
19 pts
106
Konoyo
18 pts
107
You Won’t Get What You Want
18 pts
108
There’s A Riot Going On
18 pts
109
Now Only (Album)
18 pts
110
All At Once
18 pts
111
Victory Lap
18 pts
112
Boarding House Reach
18 pts
113
Dirty Pictures (Volume 2)
17 pts
114
Sparrow
17 pts
115
The Horizon Just Laughed
17 pts
116
No News Is Good News
17 pts
117
The Wake
17 pts
118
777
17 pts
119
Hippo Lite
17 pts
120
Cheer
17 pts
121
Little Dark Age
17 pts
122
Good Thing
17 pts
123
The Midnight Hour
17 pts
124
Golden (Album)
17 pts
125
Ye (Album)
16 pts
126
Noir
16 pts
127
Wasteland
16 pts
128
129
Springtime and Blind
16 pts
130
Last Man Standing
16 pts
131
Superorganism
15 pts
132
Youngblood
15 pts
133
Veteran
15 pts
134
Piano + A Microphone, 1983
15 pts
135
The Pains Of Growing
15 pts
136
KOD
15 pts
137
All Nerve
15 pts
138
Stranger Fruit
15 pts
139
No Shame
14 pts
140
Sex & Food
14 pts
141
Ultraviolet
14 pts
142
God Level
14 pts
143
WARM
14 pts
144
Twerp Verse
14 pts
145
Thank You For Today
13 pts
146
Harlan & Alondra
13 pts
147
Love In Shadow
13 pts
148
Le Kov
13 pts
149
Landfall
13 pts
150
Songs You Make At Night
13 pts
151
Vessel
12 pts
152
Firepower
12 pts
153
Where We Were Together
12 pts
154
Caution
12 pts
155
Pieces Of A Man
12 pts
156
On Watch
12 pts
157
High As Hope
12 pts
158
Drank
12 pts
159
160
Remain in Light
12 pts
161
Die Lit
12 pts
162
K.T.S.E.
11 pts
163
Rifles & Rosary Beads
11 pts
164
Paraffin
11 pts
165
Fine But Dying
11 pts
166
Pillars
11 pts
167
Grid of Points
11 pts
168
The Thread That Keeps Us
11 pts
169
Colt
11 pts
170
Broken Politics
11 pts
171
Shawn Mendes
11 pts
172
Tha Carter V
11 pts
173
Aviary
10 pts
174
YRU Still Here?
10 pts
175
Bellowing Sun
10 pts
176
I’ll Sing
10 pts
177
Split
10 pts
178
Sister Cities
10 pts
179
Saturn (Album)
10 pts
180
Quiet & Peace
10 pts
181
Never Stop II
10 pts
182
Constant Image
10 pts
183
Slide
10 pts
184
Hypnic Jerks
10 pts
185
Automata II
10 pts
186
Manor Of Infinite Forms
10 pts
187
Almost Persuaded
10 pts
189
Prequelle
10 pts
190
It Took the Shape of a Bird
10 pts
191
Arbiter
10 pts
192
193
A Matter Of Time
10 pts
194
Riddles
10 pts
195
Ecstatic Arrow
10 pts
196
Abysskiss
10 pts
197
Basement Beehive
10 pts
198
Mutual Horse
10 pts
199
Ouch
10 pts
200
Book Of Ryan
10 pts
201
Songs of the Plains
10 pts
202
Be More Kind
10 pts
203
Twin Cities Mix No. 11
10 pts
204
Still Trippin
10 pts
205
Negro Swan
10 pts
206
Look Now
10 pts
207
Suspiria
9 pts
208
Here Come the Runts
9 pts
209
Pirouette EP
9 pts
210
Merrie Land
9 pts
211
Omid
9 pts
212
The Now Now
9 pts
213
Indigo
9 pts
214
Sex & Cigarettes
9 pts
215
12 Little Spells
9 pts
216
DiCaprio 2
9 pts
217
Left Hand
9 pts
218
Dreamers & Runaways
9 pts
219
Essential Mix
9 pts
220
The Crossing
9 pts
221
Theres Always Glimmer
9 pts
222
Lord of the Desert
9 pts
223
Code Girl
9 pts
224
Everythings Fine
9 pts
225
Electric Light
9 pts
226
4275
9 pts
227
Sweet Bunch
9 pts
228
Putting on Airs
9 pts
229
Tantabara
9 pts
231
The Insulated World
9 pts
232
Forth Wanderers
9 pts
233
Goat Girl
9 pts
234
235
A Star Is Born OST
9 pts
236
Bloom (Troye Album)
9 pts
237
Prisma Tropical
9 pts
238
Fury
9 pts
239
Hope Dawns
9 pts
240
Longwave
9 pts
241
C’est La Vie
9 pts
242
The Drought
9 pts
243
No Dogs Allowed
9 pts
244
Cannonball! (Album)
9 pts
245
Listening to Pictures
9 pts
246
247
Onion
9 pts
248
Songs From The Lodge
9 pts
249
Radio Siwèl
9 pts
250
Bambi (Album)
9 pts
251
Freedom’s Goblin
8 pts
252
The Official Body
8 pts
253
Gangland Landlord
8 pts
255
256
Megative
8 pts
257
Dude, The Obscure
8 pts
258
259
Angels of Death
8 pts
260
Magic Ship
8 pts
261
Burst Into Flame (Album)
8 pts
262
Spirit Crusher
8 pts
263
New York United
8 pts
264
Poschiavo
8 pts
265
Paranoid Fiction
8 pts
266
Nudes
8 pts
267
Live In Europe
8 pts
268
In Rounds
8 pts
269
Feeding Frenzy
8 pts
270
Look
8 pts
271
All That Must Be
8 pts
272
Nasty
8 pts
273
All I See Is War
8 pts
274
Expectations (Rexha)
8 pts
275
Infernal
8 pts
276
Hundreds of Days
8 pts
277
BbyShoe (EP)
8 pts
278
Goodbye & Good Riddance
8 pts
279
In Celebration Of Us
8 pts
280
Childqueen
8 pts
281
Quit The Curse
8 pts
282
Warrior
8 pts
283
Casual High Technology
8 pts
284
Aura
7 pts
285
286
Hɪðəˈtu
7 pts
287
Tina Snow
7 pts
288
289
With Doom We Come
7 pts
290
Channel Tres EP
7 pts
291
The Pact
7 pts
292
Endless Scroll
7 pts
293
Alive In The East?
7 pts
294
America’s Child
7 pts
295
Morose
7 pts
296
Hardly Electronic
7 pts
297
Premonitions
7 pts
298
The Kicking Mule
7 pts
299
Eat the Elephant
7 pts
300
Question Mark
7 pts
301
Everythangs Corrupt
7 pts
302
re: member
7 pts
303
QUARTERTHING
7 pts
304
Samurai Japon
7 pts
305
Call the Comet
7 pts
306
Burnt Sugar
7 pts
307
308
Starebaby
7 pts
309
The Weeknd
7 pts
310
Providence Canyon
7 pts
311
Forever
7 pts
312
Parts
7 pts
313
314
Hex
7 pts
315
Upside Down Flowers
7 pts
316
317
Summertime Songs
7 pts
318
Hunter (Album)
7 pts
319
Big Red Machine
7 pts
320
Pinned
7 pts
321
323
Mother Of My Children
7 pts
324
Lush Life
6 pts
325
Invisible Threads
6 pts
326
Both Directions at Once
6 pts
327
Fully Loaded
6 pts
328
Crack Mix 220 (July 20)
6 pts
329
Darlène
6 pts
330
Working Class Woman
6 pts
331
Rausch
6 pts
332
Silver Dollar Moment
6 pts
333
Untitled
6 pts
334
Gone Away WIth A Friend
6 pts
335
336
Former Member
6 pts
337
Private Stock
6 pts
338
Focus
6 pts
339
I’m Dreaming
6 pts
340
Empty Pool to No One
6 pts
341
Grapetooth
6 pts
342
Yene Alem
6 pts
343
The Kids Are Alright
6 pts
344
Kill The Lights
6 pts
345
3X4
6 pts
346
Compro
6 pts
347
348
349
Leikeli 47
6 pts
350
Awaken
6 pts
351
Utopia Teased
6 pts
352
Rare Birds
6 pts
353
Sister Orchid
6 pts
354
Queen Of Time
6 pts
355
Dime Bag
6 pts
356
Care
6 pts
357
Arthur Buck
6 pts
358
I Like Fun
6 pts
359
360
Simulation Theory
6 pts
362
My Mind Makes Noises
6 pts
363
364
Before U I Didnt Exist
6 pts
365
Cosmic Crypt
6 pts
366
Pastoral
6 pts
367
Jumping Over Rocks
6 pts
368
The Tree
6 pts
369
Loma
5 pts
370
Old Ghost
5 pts
371
Nothing to Loose
5 pts
372
Captured
5 pts
373
Rhododendron
5 pts
374
Getting Better
5 pts
375
AFTER BACH
5 pts
376
See You Around
5 pts
377
Hollie Cook
5 pts
378
Wild! Wild! Wild!
5 pts
379
380
Dove
5 pts
382
Cerebral Hemispheres
5 pts
383
Moon 2
5 pts
384
385
Lamp Lit Prose
5 pts
386
Blue Motel
5 pts
387
Friendship
5 pts
388
Find the Right Place
5 pts
389
Follow Them True
5 pts
390
November
5 pts
391
Sissel
5 pts
392
Bad Contestant
5 pts
393
Lost & Found
5 pts
394
Gang Gang Dance
5 pts
395
Beautiful You
5 pts
396
Bimini Twist
5 pts
397
Kin Sonic
5 pts
398
Mania
5 pts
399
Made an American
5 pts
400
Transangelic Exodus
5 pts
401
Dog Bless
5 pts
402
Saved
5 pts
403
Vanished Gardens
5 pts
404
Chrome Neon Jesus
5 pts
405
Vacation In Hell
5 pts
406
407
Hovvdy
5 pts
408
Living In Reverse
5 pts
409
That Santa Fe Channel
5 pts
410
Death Lust
5 pts
411
Black Ego
5 pts
412
Emanon
5 pts
413
Capture The Flag
5 pts
414
Freddie
5 pts
415
Cry Pretty (Album)
5 pts
416
Return Of The Trill
5 pts
417
Sleepwalkers
5 pts
418
Cast Of Static And Smoke
5 pts
419
Odds And Ends
5 pts
420
The Switch
5 pts
421
Thrice (EP)
5 pts
422
Ex:Re
5 pts
423
Willow
5 pts
424
Quite A Life
4 pts
425
Birds of America
4 pts
426
Contraband Love
4 pts
427
Skylight
4 pts
428
429
Somewhat Literate
4 pts
430
431
Years
4 pts
432
It’s Hard To Have Hope
4 pts
433
Pass If Music
4 pts
434
There You Have It
4 pts
435
Trench
4 pts
436
Sparrow Nights
4 pts
437
Art of Doubt
4 pts
439
The Blue Hour
4 pts
440
Temet
4 pts
441
442
Things Have Changed
4 pts
443
Skinless X-1
4 pts
444
Cumbia City
4 pts
445
Eve
4 pts
446
Expectations (Kiyoko)
4 pts
447
448
Bloodgrass Vol. I & II
4 pts
449
In Heaven (2018)
4 pts
450
Bunny
4 pts
451
Killer Machine
4 pts
452
Exorcism
4 pts
453
moon
4 pts
454
Luca Brasi 3
4 pts
455
Path
4 pts
456
The Nude Party
4 pts
457
She Remembers Everything
4 pts
458
Medicaid Fraud Dogg
4 pts
459
Civilisation
4 pts
460
We’re Not Talking
4 pts
461
Year of the Snitch
4 pts
463
Everything Here
4 pts
464
Please Don’t Be Dead
4 pts
465
Outside
4 pts
466
Donut County OST
4 pts
467
Obey
4 pts
468
Love, Loss And Auto-Tune
4 pts
469
Ethereality
4 pts
470
Genocidal Majesty
4 pts
471
Müntzers Stern / Solo II
4 pts
472
The Optimist
4 pts
473
Heavy the Eclipse
4 pts
474
Here We Go Love
4 pts
475
Charalambides
4 pts
476
477
Lost Friends
4 pts
479
Cruel Magic
3 pts
480
Bad Witch
3 pts
481
In Another Life
3 pts
482
Fetti
3 pts
483
Starcrawler
3 pts
484
All Melody
3 pts
485
Period
3 pts
486
Destellos
3 pts
487
Eli Keszler
3 pts
488
Egypt Station
3 pts
489
Master Volume
3 pts
490
Tommy Genesis
3 pts
491
492
H.E.R.
3 pts
493
Beast Mode 2
3 pts
494
Wishing On The Moon
3 pts
495
Drowning In Daylight
3 pts
496
Panic Blooms
3 pts
497
Sixth House
3 pts
498
Collapse EP
3 pts
499
Go To School
3 pts
500
Corpse Fortress
3 pts
501
Crush Crusher
3 pts
502
Black Noise 2084
3 pts
503
Port Saint Joe
3 pts
504
ION
3 pts
505
Cry No More
3 pts
506
Being Human in Public
3 pts
507
Stone Woman
3 pts
508
Drip Harder
3 pts
509
Euringer
3 pts
510
Soyuz
3 pts
511
512
Jericho Sirens
3 pts
513
Camila
3 pts
514
KISS YR FRENEMIES
3 pts
515
15
3 pts
516
Sings His Sad Heart
3 pts
517
Kelly Lee Owens
3 pts
518
Lionheart
3 pts
519
520
200% Galcher
3 pts
521
Bought To Rot
3 pts
522
OnePointFive
3 pts
523
Soft Hell
3 pts
525
Goners
3 pts
526
Oil Change
3 pts
527
528
New Pocket
3 pts
529
The Terror End of Beauty
2 pts
530
TESTING
2 pts
531
2042
2 pts
532
Latinoamericana
2 pts
533
Blueprint
2 pts
534
535
Volume 2
2 pts
536
High on Fire
2 pts
537
DROGAS Wave
2 pts
538
AMR
2 pts
539
PRhyme 2
2 pts
540
Discwoman 52 (August 22)
2 pts
541
Quebra Cabeça
2 pts
542
In The Rainbow Rain
2 pts
543
Towards The Shadow
2 pts
544
Green Ways
2 pts
545
MihTy
2 pts
546
Perfect Shapes
2 pts
547
Bloom (Parisalexa Album)
2 pts
548
Aru Otoko No Densetsu
2 pts
549
Yesterday Was Forever
2 pts
550
Black Light
2 pts
551
Down Below
2 pts
552
TrapStar
2 pts
553
Orients
2 pts
554
555
Tell No One
2 pts
556
Universal Care
2 pts
557
Pressure Cracks
2 pts
558
What Heaven Is Like
2 pts
559
Warm Drag
2 pts
560
Two Parts Together
2 pts
561
Siblings
2 pts
562
Love In The Wind
2 pts
563
Do Or Die
2 pts
564
Vide Noir
2 pts
565
Its a New Day Tonight
2 pts
566
Shiroi
2 pts
567
If All I Was Was Black
2 pts
568
Displaced Diaspora
2 pts
569
Rock Island
2 pts
570
Mr. Jukebox
2 pts
571
Lo Improvisado
2 pts
572
Pink Eye
2 pts
573
Kasvot Växt: í rokk
2 pts
574
575
576
Halloween
1 pts
577
East Atlanta Love Letter
1 pts
578
Vector
1 pts
579
Hormone Lemonade
1 pts
580
581
2 Heartless
1 pts
582
Inferno Deathpassion
1 pts
583
Shooter
1 pts
584
The Fuzz EP
1 pts
585
Chime
1 pts
586
Wait For Love
1 pts
587
Dear Annie
1 pts
588
Magic Gone
1 pts
589
590
Ecce Homo (Touch)
1 pts
591
While We’re At It
1 pts
592
593
Snares Like a Haircut
1 pts
594
Nice Try
1 pts
595
596
Nyctophilia
1 pts
597
Find a Light
1 pts
598
Oxnard
1 pts
599
600
Mariachi Static
1 pts
601
Dillon Carmichael
1 pts
602
Body Of Work
1 pts
603
I Need To Start a Garden
1 pts
604
Sensitive G
1 pts
605
Currents, Constellations
1 pts
606
GOOD Job, You Found Me
1 pts
607
Dream Wife (Album)
1 pts
608
609
Phoenix
1 pts
610
611
BloodCrush
1 pts
612
Super Silver
1 pts
613
Taika Tapahtuu
1 pts
614
615
Girl Code
1 pts
616
Schmaltz
1 pts
617
Galapagos
1 pts
618
Silk Canvas
1 pts
619
The Return
1 pts
620
Healing Tide
1 pts
621
What Is Love?
1 pts
622
AmeriKKKant
1 pts
623
624
Once
1 pts
625
Pasar De Las Luces
1 pts
626
People of the Sun
1 pts
628
Hellions of Fire
1 pts
Critic List
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