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
Iridescence
36 pts
52
Our Raw Heart
36 pts
53
Kids See Ghosts (Album)
35 pts
54
Redemption
35 pts
55
Hive Mind
35 pts
56
Singularity
34 pts
57
Con Todo El Mundo
34 pts
58
Swimming
33 pts
59
Championships (Album)
33 pts
60
Record
33 pts
61
The Future and The Past
33 pts
62
Ephorize
32 pts
63
Mudboy
32 pts
64
Ventriloquism
32 pts
65
66
Bottle It In
29 pts
67
Dying Star
29 pts
68
Devotion
28 pts
69
By the Way, I Forgive You
28 pts
70
Cocoa Sugar
28 pts
71
Beyondless
27 pts
72
Magus
27 pts
73
Loner
25 pts
74
Im All Ears
25 pts
75
Us
25 pts
76
Sparkle Hard
25 pts
77
The Sciences
25 pts
78
Freedom
25 pts
79
Twin Fantasy
25 pts
80
TA13OO
25 pts
81
Heaven
24 pts
82
Negro Swan
24 pts
83
LP5000
24 pts
84
Lavender
24 pts
85
And Nothing Hurt
23 pts
86
Joy As An Act Of Resistance
23 pts
87
Negative Capability
23 pts
88
El Mal Querer
23 pts
89
MITH
22 pts
90
Errorzone
22 pts
91
Wanderer
22 pts
92
Songs Of Praise
22 pts
93
Only Love
22 pts
94
Dose Your Dreams
21 pts
96
Love Is Dead
21 pts
97
Starfire
21 pts
98
May Your Kindness Remain
21 pts
99
Scorpion
21 pts
100
101
Voicenotes
21 pts
102
Desperate Man (Album)
20 pts
103
Universal Beings
20 pts
104
Blood
19 pts
105
Time & Space
19 pts
106
You Won’t Get What You Want
18 pts
107
All At Once
18 pts
108
Konoyo
18 pts
109
Boarding House Reach
18 pts
110
There’s A Riot Going On
18 pts
111
Victory Lap
18 pts
112
Now Only (Album)
18 pts
113
Hippo Lite
17 pts
114
The Wake
17 pts
115
Good Thing
17 pts
116
Little Dark Age
17 pts
117
The Midnight Hour
17 pts
118
Sparrow
17 pts
119
No News Is Good News
17 pts
120
The Horizon Just Laughed
17 pts
121
Dirty Pictures (Volume 2)
17 pts
122
777
17 pts
123
Cheer
17 pts
124
Golden (Album)
17 pts
125
Ye (Album)
16 pts
126
Noir
16 pts
127
Last Man Standing
16 pts
128
129
Wasteland
16 pts
130
Springtime and Blind
16 pts
131
Veteran
15 pts
132
Superorganism
15 pts
133
All Nerve
15 pts
134
Piano + A Microphone, 1983
15 pts
135
The Pains Of Growing
15 pts
136
KOD
15 pts
137
Youngblood
15 pts
138
Stranger Fruit
15 pts
139
Twerp Verse
14 pts
140
Sex & Food
14 pts
141
Ultraviolet
14 pts
142
God Level
14 pts
143
WARM
14 pts
144
No Shame
14 pts
145
Thank You For Today
13 pts
146
Love In Shadow
13 pts
147
Harlan & Alondra
13 pts
148
Landfall
13 pts
149
Songs You Make At Night
13 pts
150
Le Kov
13 pts
151
Where We Were Together
12 pts
152
On Watch
12 pts
153
Drank
12 pts
154
Remain in Light
12 pts
155
Firepower
12 pts
156
Die Lit
12 pts
157
Vessel
12 pts
158
159
Caution
12 pts
160
High As Hope
12 pts
161
Pieces Of A Man
12 pts
162
Pillars
11 pts
163
Paraffin
11 pts
164
Rifles & Rosary Beads
11 pts
165
The Thread That Keeps Us
11 pts
166
Shawn Mendes
11 pts
167
K.T.S.E.
11 pts
168
Tha Carter V
11 pts
169
Broken Politics
11 pts
170
Grid of Points
11 pts
171
Colt
11 pts
172
Fine But Dying
11 pts
173
Bellowing Sun
10 pts
174
Ouch
10 pts
175
Negro Swan
10 pts
176
Abysskiss
10 pts
178
Arbiter
10 pts
179
I’ll Sing
10 pts
180
Ecstatic Arrow
10 pts
181
Split
10 pts
182
Almost Persuaded
10 pts
183
Look Now
10 pts
184
Sister Cities
10 pts
185
Slide
10 pts
186
Twin Cities Mix No. 11
10 pts
187
Saturn (Album)
10 pts
188
Songs of the Plains
10 pts
189
A Matter Of Time
10 pts
190
Book Of Ryan
10 pts
191
Still Trippin
10 pts
192
Riddles
10 pts
193
It Took the Shape of a Bird
10 pts
194
Mutual Horse
10 pts
195
Automata II
10 pts
196
Constant Image
10 pts
197
Basement Beehive
10 pts
198
Quiet & Peace
10 pts
199
Be More Kind
10 pts
200
Aviary
10 pts
201
Manor Of Infinite Forms
10 pts
202
Prequelle
10 pts
203
204
YRU Still Here?
10 pts
205
Hypnic Jerks
10 pts
206
Never Stop II
10 pts
207
Prisma Tropical
9 pts
208
4275
9 pts
209
Hope Dawns
9 pts
210
Left Hand
9 pts
211
Songs From The Lodge
9 pts
212
Listening to Pictures
9 pts
213
DiCaprio 2
9 pts
214
Electric Light
9 pts
215
Omid
9 pts
216
Sweet Bunch
9 pts
217
A Star Is Born OST
9 pts
218
Lord of the Desert
9 pts
219
The Insulated World
9 pts
220
Bambi (Album)
9 pts
221
Here Come the Runts
9 pts
222
Putting on Airs
9 pts
223
Cannonball! (Album)
9 pts
224
225
The Crossing
9 pts
226
The Now Now
9 pts
227
Essential Mix
9 pts
228
Dreamers & Runaways
9 pts
229
Bloom (Troye Album)
9 pts
230
C’est La Vie
9 pts
231
No Dogs Allowed
9 pts
232
Code Girl
9 pts
233
Forth Wanderers
9 pts
234
Theres Always Glimmer
9 pts
235
Suspiria
9 pts
236
Goat Girl
9 pts
237
Sex & Cigarettes
9 pts
238
Everythings Fine
9 pts
239
Tantabara
9 pts
240
The Drought
9 pts
241
Onion
9 pts
242
Pirouette EP
9 pts
243
Indigo
9 pts
244
Longwave
9 pts
245
Merrie Land
9 pts
247
12 Little Spells
9 pts
248
Fury
9 pts
249
Radio Siwèl
9 pts
250
251
All I See Is War
8 pts
252
Nasty
8 pts
253
254
Poschiavo
8 pts
255
Burst Into Flame (Album)
8 pts
256
In Rounds
8 pts
257
Spirit Crusher
8 pts
258
New York United
8 pts
259
All That Must Be
8 pts
260
Live In Europe
8 pts
261
262
Look
8 pts
263
Feeding Frenzy
8 pts
264
Paranoid Fiction
8 pts
265
In Celebration Of Us
8 pts
266
Childqueen
8 pts
267
The Official Body
8 pts
268
Expectations (Rexha)
8 pts
269
BbyShoe (EP)
8 pts
270
Hundreds of Days
8 pts
271
Nudes
8 pts
272
Infernal
8 pts
273
Casual High Technology
8 pts
274
Quit The Curse
8 pts
275
Goodbye & Good Riddance
8 pts
276
Megative
8 pts
278
Freedom’s Goblin
8 pts
279
Dude, The Obscure
8 pts
280
Warrior
8 pts
281
Angels of Death
8 pts
282
Gangland Landlord
8 pts
283
Magic Ship
8 pts
284
Morose
7 pts
285
286
287
Channel Tres EP
7 pts
288
Tina Snow
7 pts
289
Eat the Elephant
7 pts
290
Hardly Electronic
7 pts
291
America’s Child
7 pts
292
With Doom We Come
7 pts
293
Premonitions
7 pts
294
Alive In The East?
7 pts
295
Summertime Songs
7 pts
296
The Pact
7 pts
297
The Kicking Mule
7 pts
298
Everythangs Corrupt
7 pts
299
Question Mark
7 pts
300
Pinned
7 pts
301
Samurai Japon
7 pts
302
303
Big Red Machine
7 pts
304
Upside Down Flowers
7 pts
305
Hɪðəˈtu
7 pts
306
QUARTERTHING
7 pts
307
Starebaby
7 pts
308
Call the Comet
7 pts
310
The Weeknd
7 pts
311
Endless Scroll
7 pts
312
Burnt Sugar
7 pts
313
Aura
7 pts
314
Forever
7 pts
315
Hex
7 pts
316
Hunter (Album)
7 pts
317
318
Mother Of My Children
7 pts
319
re: member
7 pts
320
321
322
Parts
7 pts
323
Providence Canyon
7 pts
324
Rausch
6 pts
325
Gone Away WIth A Friend
6 pts
326
Kill The Lights
6 pts
328
Dime Bag
6 pts
329
Jumping Over Rocks
6 pts
330
Silver Dollar Moment
6 pts
331
Awaken
6 pts
332
Lush Life
6 pts
333
Untitled
6 pts
334
3X4
6 pts
335
Crack Mix 220 (July 20)
6 pts
336
Empty Pool to No One
6 pts
337
The Kids Are Alright
6 pts
338
Compro
6 pts
339
Cosmic Crypt
6 pts
340
Focus
6 pts
341
Pastoral
6 pts
342
343
344
Queen Of Time
6 pts
345
I’m Dreaming
6 pts
346
Private Stock
6 pts
347
The Tree
6 pts
348
Utopia Teased
6 pts
349
Arthur Buck
6 pts
350
Both Directions at Once
6 pts
351
Invisible Threads
6 pts
352
Darlène
6 pts
353
Care
6 pts
354
Rare Birds
6 pts
355
Former Member
6 pts
356
Yene Alem
6 pts
357
Before U I Didnt Exist
6 pts
358
Working Class Woman
6 pts
359
360
Simulation Theory
6 pts
361
I Like Fun
6 pts
362
363
364
Fully Loaded
6 pts
365
Sister Orchid
6 pts
366
Leikeli 47
6 pts
367
My Mind Makes Noises
6 pts
368
Grapetooth
6 pts
369
Return Of The Trill
5 pts
370
Cast Of Static And Smoke
5 pts
371
Vanished Gardens
5 pts
372
Living In Reverse
5 pts
373
Ex:Re
5 pts
374
375
Transangelic Exodus
5 pts
376
Wild! Wild! Wild!
5 pts
377
Old Ghost
5 pts
378
Loma
5 pts
379
Bad Contestant
5 pts
380
That Santa Fe Channel
5 pts
381
Cerebral Hemispheres
5 pts
382
Death Lust
5 pts
383
Cry Pretty (Album)
5 pts
384
Sleepwalkers
5 pts
385
Follow Them True
5 pts
386
Hollie Cook
5 pts
388
The Switch
5 pts
389
Blue Motel
5 pts
390
November
5 pts
391
Capture The Flag
5 pts
392
Emanon
5 pts
393
Getting Better
5 pts
394
Hovvdy
5 pts
395
Bimini Twist
5 pts
396
397
See You Around
5 pts
398
AFTER BACH
5 pts
399
Saved
5 pts
400
401
Nothing to Loose
5 pts
402
Lamp Lit Prose
5 pts
403
Sissel
5 pts
404
Odds And Ends
5 pts
405
Mania
5 pts
406
Black Ego
5 pts
407
Find the Right Place
5 pts
408
Lost & Found
5 pts
409
Gang Gang Dance
5 pts
410
Freddie
5 pts
411
Willow
5 pts
412
Dove
5 pts
413
Moon 2
5 pts
414
Rhododendron
5 pts
415
Vacation In Hell
5 pts
416
Friendship
5 pts
417
Thrice (EP)
5 pts
418
Dog Bless
5 pts
419
Captured
5 pts
420
Beautiful You
5 pts
421
Chrome Neon Jesus
5 pts
422
Kin Sonic
5 pts
423
Made an American
5 pts
424
Skinless X-1
4 pts
425
Please Don’t Be Dead
4 pts
426
Everything Here
4 pts
427
Expectations (Kiyoko)
4 pts
428
Outside
4 pts
429
Donut County OST
4 pts
430
Birds of America
4 pts
431
Bloodgrass Vol. I & II
4 pts
432
Temet
4 pts
433
Art of Doubt
4 pts
434
Eve
4 pts
435
Cumbia City
4 pts
436
Obey
4 pts
437
438
Sparrow Nights
4 pts
439
There You Have It
4 pts
440
Pass If Music
4 pts
441
Genocidal Majesty
4 pts
442
Things Have Changed
4 pts
443
Years
4 pts
444
Love, Loss And Auto-Tune
4 pts
445
446
Civilisation
4 pts
448
Ethereality
4 pts
449
Contraband Love
4 pts
451
We’re Not Talking
4 pts
452
moon
4 pts
453
454
Year of the Snitch
4 pts
455
Skylight
4 pts
456
Somewhat Literate
4 pts
457
Exorcism
4 pts
458
The Blue Hour
4 pts
459
It’s Hard To Have Hope
4 pts
460
Charalambides
4 pts
461
462
Luca Brasi 3
4 pts
463
Path
4 pts
464
Here We Go Love
4 pts
465
Quite A Life
4 pts
466
Müntzers Stern / Solo II
4 pts
467
Heavy the Eclipse
4 pts
468
Trench
4 pts
469
She Remembers Everything
4 pts
470
471
Killer Machine
4 pts
472
Bunny
4 pts
473
Lost Friends
4 pts
474
In Heaven
4 pts
475
Medicaid Fraud Dogg
4 pts
476
The Optimist
4 pts
477
The Nude Party
4 pts
478
Sings His Sad Heart
3 pts
479
ION
3 pts
480
Soft Hell
3 pts
481
Drowning In Daylight
3 pts
482
New Pocket
3 pts
483
All Melody
3 pts
484
Master Volume
3 pts
485
Corpse Fortress
3 pts
486
487
Oil Change
3 pts
488
Eli Keszler
3 pts
490
491
Being Human in Public
3 pts
492
Go To School
3 pts
493
Panic Blooms
3 pts
494
OnePointFive
3 pts
495
200% Galcher
3 pts
496
H.E.R.
3 pts
497
Beast Mode 2
3 pts
498
Period
3 pts
499
Sixth House
3 pts
500
Collapse EP
3 pts
501
Lionheart
3 pts
502
Drip Harder
3 pts
503
Jericho Sirens
3 pts
504
Crush Crusher
3 pts
505
Wishing On The Moon
3 pts
506
Destellos
3 pts
507
15
3 pts
508
Tommy Genesis
3 pts
509
In Another Life
3 pts
510
Goners
3 pts
511
Egypt Station
3 pts
512
Cry No More
3 pts
513
Camila
3 pts
514
Soyuz
3 pts
516
Cruel Magic
3 pts
517
KISS YR FRENEMIES
3 pts
518
Port Saint Joe
3 pts
519
Euringer
3 pts
520
Starcrawler
3 pts
521
Bought To Rot
3 pts
522
Bad Witch
3 pts
523
524
525
Black Noise 2084
3 pts
526
Fetti
3 pts
527
Kelly Lee Owens
3 pts
528
Stone Woman
3 pts
529
Perfect Shapes
2 pts
530
Bloom (Parisalexa Album)
2 pts
531
Pressure Cracks
2 pts
532
DROGAS Wave
2 pts
533
PRhyme 2
2 pts
534
Towards The Shadow
2 pts
535
Rock Island
2 pts
536
Displaced Diaspora
2 pts
537
Love In The Wind
2 pts
538
Green Ways
2 pts
539
In The Rainbow Rain
2 pts
540
What Heaven Is Like
2 pts
541
542
High on Fire
2 pts
543
AMR
2 pts
544
Warm Drag
2 pts
545
Discwoman 52 (August 22)
2 pts
546
Do Or Die
2 pts
547
Quebra Cabeça
2 pts
548
Universal Care
2 pts
549
MihTy
2 pts
550
Yesterday Was Forever
2 pts
551
Black Light
2 pts
552
Down Below
2 pts
553
Lo Improvisado
2 pts
554
Shiroi
2 pts
555
Pink Eye
2 pts
556
TrapStar
2 pts
557
Orients
2 pts
558
559
560
Vide Noir
2 pts
561
Tell No One
2 pts
562
TESTING
2 pts
563
Latinoamericana
2 pts
564
Blueprint
2 pts
565
2042
2 pts
566
Kasvot Växt: í rokk
2 pts
567
Mr. Jukebox
2 pts
568
Its a New Day Tonight
2 pts
569
If All I Was Was Black
2 pts
570
Aru Otoko No Densetsu
2 pts
571
Siblings
2 pts
572
Two Parts Together
2 pts
573
Volume 2
2 pts
574
The Terror End of Beauty
2 pts
575
Wait For Love
1 pts
576
Phoenix
1 pts
577
Halloween
1 pts
578
Inferno Deathpassion
1 pts
579
Shooter
1 pts
580
The Return
1 pts
581
Dear Annie
1 pts
582
Vector
1 pts
583
GOOD Job, You Found Me
1 pts
584
Magic Gone
1 pts
585
Currents, Constellations
1 pts
586
The Fuzz EP
1 pts
587
588
Chime
1 pts
589
590
Schmaltz
1 pts
591
I Need To Start a Garden
1 pts
592
Dillon Carmichael
1 pts
593
594
595
AmeriKKKant
1 pts
596
Silk Canvas
1 pts
597
2 Heartless
1 pts
598
Healing Tide
1 pts
599
Girl Code
1 pts
600
601
602
Super Silver
1 pts
603
604
605
606
Nice Try
1 pts
608
Dream Wife (Album)
1 pts
609
Snares Like a Haircut
1 pts
610
Mariachi Static
1 pts
611
What Is Love?
1 pts
612
Sensitive G
1 pts
613
Nyctophilia
1 pts
614
Body Of Work
1 pts
615
East Atlanta Love Letter
1 pts
616
Pasar De Las Luces
1 pts
617
People of the Sun
1 pts
618
Hellions of Fire
1 pts
619
BloodCrush
1 pts
620
621
Find a Light
1 pts
622
Galapagos
1 pts
623
Hormone Lemonade
1 pts
624
Taika Tapahtuu
1 pts
625
Oxnard
1 pts
626
Ecce Homo (Touch)
1 pts
627
While We’re At It
1 pts
628
Once
1 pts
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