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
FM!
36 pts
52
Iridescence
36 pts
53
Hive Mind
35 pts
54
Redemption
35 pts
55
Kids See Ghosts (Album)
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
Ephorize
32 pts
64
Mudboy
32 pts
65
66
Dying Star
29 pts
67
Bottle It In
29 pts
68
Cocoa Sugar
28 pts
69
Devotion
28 pts
70
By the Way, I Forgive You
28 pts
71
Magus
27 pts
72
Beyondless
27 pts
73
Sparkle Hard
25 pts
74
The Sciences
25 pts
75
Im All Ears
25 pts
76
Us
25 pts
77
TA13OO
25 pts
78
Loner
25 pts
79
Twin Fantasy
25 pts
80
Freedom
25 pts
81
LP5000
24 pts
82
Lavender
24 pts
83
Heaven
24 pts
84
Negro Swan
24 pts
85
And Nothing Hurt
23 pts
86
El Mal Querer
23 pts
87
Negative Capability
23 pts
88
Joy As An Act Of Resistance
23 pts
89
Errorzone
22 pts
90
Only Love
22 pts
91
Songs Of Praise
22 pts
92
MITH
22 pts
93
Wanderer
22 pts
95
Dose Your Dreams
21 pts
96
Scorpion
21 pts
97
May Your Kindness Remain
21 pts
98
Love Is Dead
21 pts
99
Voicenotes
21 pts
100
Starfire
21 pts
101
102
Universal Beings
20 pts
103
Desperate Man (Album)
20 pts
104
Time & Space
19 pts
105
Blood
19 pts
106
There’s A Riot Going On
18 pts
107
Konoyo
18 pts
108
All At Once
18 pts
109
Victory Lap
18 pts
110
Now Only (Album)
18 pts
111
Boarding House Reach
18 pts
112
You Won’t Get What You Want
18 pts
113
Dirty Pictures (Volume 2)
17 pts
114
The Wake
17 pts
115
The Midnight Hour
17 pts
116
No News Is Good News
17 pts
117
Little Dark Age
17 pts
118
Good Thing
17 pts
119
Golden (Album)
17 pts
120
777
17 pts
121
Hippo Lite
17 pts
122
Cheer
17 pts
123
The Horizon Just Laughed
17 pts
124
Sparrow
17 pts
125
Last Man Standing
16 pts
126
127
Noir
16 pts
128
Wasteland
16 pts
129
Ye (Album)
16 pts
130
Springtime and Blind
16 pts
131
Stranger Fruit
15 pts
132
All Nerve
15 pts
133
Superorganism
15 pts
134
Piano + A Microphone, 1983
15 pts
135
Veteran
15 pts
136
KOD
15 pts
137
The Pains Of Growing
15 pts
138
Youngblood
15 pts
139
Sex & Food
14 pts
140
Twerp Verse
14 pts
141
No Shame
14 pts
142
Ultraviolet
14 pts
143
WARM
14 pts
144
God Level
14 pts
145
Songs You Make At Night
13 pts
146
Love In Shadow
13 pts
147
Landfall
13 pts
148
Le Kov
13 pts
149
Thank You For Today
13 pts
150
Harlan & Alondra
13 pts
151
Drank
12 pts
152
On Watch
12 pts
153
Where We Were Together
12 pts
154
155
Die Lit
12 pts
156
Pieces Of A Man
12 pts
157
Caution
12 pts
158
Firepower
12 pts
159
Vessel
12 pts
160
High As Hope
12 pts
161
Remain in Light
12 pts
162
Pillars
11 pts
163
K.T.S.E.
11 pts
164
Shawn Mendes
11 pts
165
Broken Politics
11 pts
166
Rifles & Rosary Beads
11 pts
167
Fine But Dying
11 pts
168
Tha Carter V
11 pts
169
Colt
11 pts
170
Grid of Points
11 pts
171
The Thread That Keeps Us
11 pts
172
Paraffin
11 pts
173
Basement Beehive
10 pts
174
Negro Swan
10 pts
176
Ecstatic Arrow
10 pts
177
Manor Of Infinite Forms
10 pts
178
Split
10 pts
179
Sister Cities
10 pts
180
Hypnic Jerks
10 pts
181
Never Stop II
10 pts
182
Almost Persuaded
10 pts
183
I’ll Sing
10 pts
184
Saturn (Album)
10 pts
185
Book Of Ryan
10 pts
186
A Matter Of Time
10 pts
187
Bellowing Sun
10 pts
188
Aviary
10 pts
189
Mutual Horse
10 pts
190
Prequelle
10 pts
191
Slide
10 pts
192
Be More Kind
10 pts
193
Constant Image
10 pts
194
Twin Cities Mix No. 11
10 pts
195
Look Now
10 pts
196
Riddles
10 pts
197
Still Trippin
10 pts
198
199
Songs of the Plains
10 pts
200
YRU Still Here?
10 pts
201
Quiet & Peace
10 pts
202
Automata II
10 pts
203
Arbiter
10 pts
204
Abysskiss
10 pts
205
It Took the Shape of a Bird
10 pts
206
Indigo
9 pts
207
Left Hand
9 pts
208
Bloom (Troye Album)
9 pts
209
Sex & Cigarettes
9 pts
210
Fury
9 pts
211
Suspiria
9 pts
212
Merrie Land
9 pts
213
Tantabara
9 pts
214
No Dogs Allowed
9 pts
215
Onion
9 pts
216
Cannonball! (Album)
9 pts
217
Dreamers & Runaways
9 pts
218
Hope Dawns
9 pts
220
The Drought
9 pts
221
C’est La Vie
9 pts
222
Radio Siwèl
9 pts
223
224
Code Girl
9 pts
225
A Star Is Born OST
9 pts
226
Listening to Pictures
9 pts
227
DiCaprio 2
9 pts
228
Essential Mix
9 pts
229
Everythings Fine
9 pts
230
Pirouette EP
9 pts
231
Electric Light
9 pts
232
4275
9 pts
233
Bambi (Album)
9 pts
234
The Now Now
9 pts
235
Goat Girl
9 pts
236
Theres Always Glimmer
9 pts
237
Forth Wanderers
9 pts
238
12 Little Spells
9 pts
239
Putting on Airs
9 pts
240
The Insulated World
9 pts
241
242
Longwave
9 pts
243
Prisma Tropical
9 pts
244
Here Come the Runts
9 pts
245
Songs From The Lodge
9 pts
246
Omid
9 pts
247
Sweet Bunch
9 pts
248
The Crossing
9 pts
249
Lord of the Desert
9 pts
250
251
Casual High Technology
8 pts
252
Freedom’s Goblin
8 pts
254
In Celebration Of Us
8 pts
255
The Official Body
8 pts
256
All I See Is War
8 pts
257
Nasty
8 pts
258
Infernal
8 pts
259
Magic Ship
8 pts
260
Gangland Landlord
8 pts
261
Megative
8 pts
262
Hundreds of Days
8 pts
263
Nudes
8 pts
264
Paranoid Fiction
8 pts
265
Childqueen
8 pts
266
Goodbye & Good Riddance
8 pts
267
Angels of Death
8 pts
268
Burst Into Flame (Album)
8 pts
269
All That Must Be
8 pts
270
Live In Europe
8 pts
271
Spirit Crusher
8 pts
272
273
New York United
8 pts
274
Poschiavo
8 pts
275
In Rounds
8 pts
276
Feeding Frenzy
8 pts
277
Look
8 pts
278
Expectations (Rexha)
8 pts
279
BbyShoe (EP)
8 pts
280
Quit The Curse
8 pts
281
Warrior
8 pts
282
Summertime Songs
7 pts
283
Question Mark
7 pts
284
Hɪðəˈtu
7 pts
285
286
Morose
7 pts
287
Hardly Electronic
7 pts
288
With Doom We Come
7 pts
289
The Kicking Mule
7 pts
290
The Pact
7 pts
291
America’s Child
7 pts
292
Samurai Japon
7 pts
294
Hex
7 pts
295
Forever
7 pts
296
re: member
7 pts
297
Parts
7 pts
298
The Weeknd
7 pts
299
Premonitions
7 pts
300
301
Tina Snow
7 pts
302
Call the Comet
7 pts
303
QUARTERTHING
7 pts
304
Everythangs Corrupt
7 pts
305
Burnt Sugar
7 pts
306
307
Starebaby
7 pts
308
309
Channel Tres EP
7 pts
310
Providence Canyon
7 pts
311
Endless Scroll
7 pts
312
Mother Of My Children
7 pts
313
Alive In The East?
7 pts
314
Big Red Machine
7 pts
315
Hunter (Album)
7 pts
316
317
Upside Down Flowers
7 pts
318
Pinned
7 pts
319
Eat the Elephant
7 pts
320
Aura
7 pts
321
3X4
6 pts
322
Grapetooth
6 pts
323
Care
6 pts
324
Kill The Lights
6 pts
325
I Like Fun
6 pts
326
Silver Dollar Moment
6 pts
327
Utopia Teased
6 pts
328
Dime Bag
6 pts
329
Compro
6 pts
330
Fully Loaded
6 pts
331
332
Empty Pool to No One
6 pts
333
My Mind Makes Noises
6 pts
334
335
336
Crack Mix 220 (July 20)
6 pts
337
Sister Orchid
6 pts
338
Untitled
6 pts
339
Working Class Woman
6 pts
340
Cosmic Crypt
6 pts
341
The Tree
6 pts
342
Rare Birds
6 pts
343
Invisible Threads
6 pts
344
Both Directions at Once
6 pts
345
Jumping Over Rocks
6 pts
346
Darlène
6 pts
347
Rausch
6 pts
348
Pastoral
6 pts
349
Before U I Didnt Exist
6 pts
350
Gone Away WIth A Friend
6 pts
351
Former Member
6 pts
353
Yene Alem
6 pts
354
The Kids Are Alright
6 pts
355
Private Stock
6 pts
356
Lush Life
6 pts
357
Arthur Buck
6 pts
358
359
360
Queen Of Time
6 pts
361
I’m Dreaming
6 pts
362
Awaken
6 pts
363
Leikeli 47
6 pts
364
Focus
6 pts
365
See You Around
5 pts
366
Getting Better
5 pts
367
Emanon
5 pts
368
Capture The Flag
5 pts
369
Hollie Cook
5 pts
370
Cast Of Static And Smoke
5 pts
371
Rhododendron
5 pts
373
Chrome Neon Jesus
5 pts
374
Follow Them True
5 pts
375
Captured
5 pts
376
Willow
5 pts
377
November
5 pts
378
379
Wild! Wild! Wild!
5 pts
380
Friendship
5 pts
381
Old Ghost
5 pts
382
Odds And Ends
5 pts
383
Saved
5 pts
384
Cerebral Hemispheres
5 pts
385
Bad Contestant
5 pts
386
Loma
5 pts
387
Black Ego
5 pts
388
Beautiful You
5 pts
389
Gang Gang Dance
5 pts
390
Kin Sonic
5 pts
391
Lost & Found
5 pts
392
Sissel
5 pts
393
Dog Bless
5 pts
394
Freddie
5 pts
395
Vacation In Hell
5 pts
396
Made an American
5 pts
397
Mania
5 pts
398
Transangelic Exodus
5 pts
399
Ex:Re
5 pts
400
Nothing to Loose
5 pts
401
Lamp Lit Prose
5 pts
402
Hovvdy
5 pts
403
Living In Reverse
5 pts
404
That Santa Fe Channel
5 pts
405
Death Lust
5 pts
406
Vanished Gardens
5 pts
407
Cry Pretty (Album)
5 pts
408
Return Of The Trill
5 pts
409
Sleepwalkers
5 pts
410
AFTER BACH
5 pts
411
The Switch
5 pts
412
Thrice (EP)
5 pts
413
414
Dove
5 pts
415
Blue Motel
5 pts
416
Moon 2
5 pts
417
Find the Right Place
5 pts
418
Bimini Twist
5 pts
419
420
In Heaven (2018)
4 pts
422
423
Trench
4 pts
424
425
Charalambides
4 pts
426
Everything Here
4 pts
427
The Nude Party
4 pts
428
We’re Not Talking
4 pts
429
Here We Go Love
4 pts
430
Heavy the Eclipse
4 pts
431
Love, Loss And Auto-Tune
4 pts
432
It’s Hard To Have Hope
4 pts
433
The Blue Hour
4 pts
434
Killer Machine
4 pts
435
Civilisation
4 pts
436
Years
4 pts
437
The Optimist
4 pts
438
Ethereality
4 pts
439
Pass If Music
4 pts
440
She Remembers Everything
4 pts
441
Somewhat Literate
4 pts
442
There You Have It
4 pts
443
Skylight
4 pts
444
Medicaid Fraud Dogg
4 pts
445
Sparrow Nights
4 pts
447
Lost Friends
4 pts
448
Art of Doubt
4 pts
449
Bunny
4 pts
450
451
Quite A Life
4 pts
452
Contraband Love
4 pts
453
Birds of America
4 pts
454
Path
4 pts
455
Luca Brasi 3
4 pts
456
Exorcism
4 pts
457
Müntzers Stern / Solo II
4 pts
458
Temet
4 pts
459
Bloodgrass Vol. I & II
4 pts
460
Expectations (Kiyoko)
4 pts
461
Genocidal Majesty
4 pts
462
Skinless X-1
4 pts
463
Please Don’t Be Dead
4 pts
464
Obey
4 pts
465
Eve
4 pts
466
Cumbia City
4 pts
467
468
Year of the Snitch
4 pts
469
Donut County OST
4 pts
470
Outside
4 pts
471
Things Have Changed
4 pts
472
473
moon
4 pts
474
Oil Change
3 pts
475
Tommy Genesis
3 pts
476
Go To School
3 pts
477
Master Volume
3 pts
478
Eli Keszler
3 pts
479
Starcrawler
3 pts
481
482
483
In Another Life
3 pts
484
Cruel Magic
3 pts
485
New Pocket
3 pts
487
Sixth House
3 pts
488
Soft Hell
3 pts
489
ION
3 pts
490
Egypt Station
3 pts
491
All Melody
3 pts
492
Bad Witch
3 pts
493
494
Sings His Sad Heart
3 pts
495
Drip Harder
3 pts
496
Bought To Rot
3 pts
497
Goners
3 pts
498
Black Noise 2084
3 pts
499
Being Human in Public
3 pts
500
Corpse Fortress
3 pts
501
KISS YR FRENEMIES
3 pts
502
Crush Crusher
3 pts
503
Jericho Sirens
3 pts
504
Lionheart
3 pts
505
200% Galcher
3 pts
506
H.E.R.
3 pts
507
Soyuz
3 pts
508
Beast Mode 2
3 pts
509
Euringer
3 pts
510
Wishing On The Moon
3 pts
511
Cry No More
3 pts
512
Fetti
3 pts
513
Destellos
3 pts
514
Period
3 pts
515
516
Stone Woman
3 pts
517
Camila
3 pts
518
Drowning In Daylight
3 pts
519
Port Saint Joe
3 pts
520
Panic Blooms
3 pts
521
15
3 pts
522
Collapse EP
3 pts
523
OnePointFive
3 pts
524
What Heaven Is Like
2 pts
525
Towards The Shadow
2 pts
526
Orients
2 pts
527
Warm Drag
2 pts
528
Do Or Die
2 pts
529
MihTy
2 pts
530
Down Below
2 pts
531
Black Light
2 pts
532
Love In The Wind
2 pts
533
534
Pink Eye
2 pts
535
TrapStar
2 pts
536
Discwoman 52 (August 22)
2 pts
537
Lo Improvisado
2 pts
538
PRhyme 2
2 pts
539
Pressure Cracks
2 pts
540
2042
2 pts
541
Kasvot Växt: í rokk
2 pts
542
Bloom (Parisalexa Album)
2 pts
543
Rock Island
2 pts
544
In The Rainbow Rain
2 pts
545
Mr. Jukebox
2 pts
546
Displaced Diaspora
2 pts
547
Its a New Day Tonight
2 pts
548
If All I Was Was Black
2 pts
549
Shiroi
2 pts
550
Perfect Shapes
2 pts
551
DROGAS Wave
2 pts
552
Vide Noir
2 pts
553
Yesterday Was Forever
2 pts
554
Universal Care
2 pts
555
AMR
2 pts
556
The Terror End of Beauty
2 pts
557
Aru Otoko No Densetsu
2 pts
558
High on Fire
2 pts
559
Volume 2
2 pts
560
561
562
Siblings
2 pts
563
Two Parts Together
2 pts
564
Quebra Cabeça
2 pts
565
Tell No One
2 pts
566
Blueprint
2 pts
567
Latinoamericana
2 pts
568
Green Ways
2 pts
569
TESTING
2 pts
570
Girl Code
1 pts
571
Galapagos
1 pts
572
GOOD Job, You Found Me
1 pts
573
Silk Canvas
1 pts
574
575
Healing Tide
1 pts
576
Currents, Constellations
1 pts
577
578
While We’re At It
1 pts
579
Schmaltz
1 pts
580
Inferno Deathpassion
1 pts
582
583
Phoenix
1 pts
584
Dear Annie
1 pts
585
Wait For Love
1 pts
586
Once
1 pts
587
Magic Gone
1 pts
588
Nyctophilia
1 pts
589
Snares Like a Haircut
1 pts
590
Nice Try
1 pts
591
2 Heartless
1 pts
592
AmeriKKKant
1 pts
593
Pasar De Las Luces
1 pts
594
Body Of Work
1 pts
595
Mariachi Static
1 pts
596
People of the Sun
1 pts
597
Taika Tapahtuu
1 pts
598
The Return
1 pts
599
Halloween
1 pts
600
Ecce Homo (Touch)
1 pts
601
Dillon Carmichael
1 pts
602
Vector
1 pts
603
I Need To Start a Garden
1 pts
604
605
Sensitive G
1 pts
606
BloodCrush
1 pts
607
The Fuzz EP
1 pts
608
Dream Wife (Album)
1 pts
609
610
611
Chime
1 pts
612
Super Silver
1 pts
613
614
What Is Love?
1 pts
615
Hormone Lemonade
1 pts
616
Hellions of Fire
1 pts
617
618
619
620
Find a Light
1 pts
621
Oxnard
1 pts
622
East Atlanta Love Letter
1 pts
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