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
Redemption
35 pts
54
Hive Mind
35 pts
55
Kids See Ghosts (Album)
35 pts
56
Con Todo El Mundo
34 pts
57
Singularity
34 pts
58
Swimming
33 pts
59
Record
33 pts
60
The Future and The Past
33 pts
61
Championships (Album)
33 pts
62
Ephorize
32 pts
63
Ventriloquism
32 pts
64
Mudboy
32 pts
65
66
Dying Star
29 pts
67
Bottle It In
29 pts
68
Cocoa Sugar
28 pts
69
By the Way, I Forgive You
28 pts
70
Devotion
28 pts
71
Magus
27 pts
72
Beyondless
27 pts
73
Loner
25 pts
74
The Sciences
25 pts
75
Sparkle Hard
25 pts
76
Freedom
25 pts
77
Us
25 pts
78
Twin Fantasy
25 pts
79
TA13OO
25 pts
80
Im All Ears
25 pts
81
LP5000
24 pts
82
Negro Swan
24 pts
83
Heaven
24 pts
84
Lavender
24 pts
85
El Mal Querer
23 pts
86
Negative Capability
23 pts
87
And Nothing Hurt
23 pts
88
Joy As An Act Of Resistance
23 pts
89
Songs Of Praise
22 pts
90
Wanderer
22 pts
91
Errorzone
22 pts
92
MITH
22 pts
93
Only Love
22 pts
94
Voicenotes
21 pts
95
Starfire
21 pts
96
Dose Your Dreams
21 pts
97
May Your Kindness Remain
21 pts
99
100
Scorpion
21 pts
101
Love Is Dead
21 pts
102
Universal Beings
20 pts
103
Desperate Man (Album)
20 pts
104
Blood
19 pts
105
Time & Space
19 pts
106
Victory Lap
18 pts
107
Now Only (Album)
18 pts
108
Boarding House Reach
18 pts
109
All At Once
18 pts
110
You Won’t Get What You Want
18 pts
111
Konoyo
18 pts
112
There’s A Riot Going On
18 pts
113
Hippo Lite
17 pts
114
No News Is Good News
17 pts
115
Sparrow
17 pts
116
Golden (Album)
17 pts
117
The Horizon Just Laughed
17 pts
118
Good Thing
17 pts
119
The Midnight Hour
17 pts
120
Cheer
17 pts
121
The Wake
17 pts
122
777
17 pts
123
Little Dark Age
17 pts
124
Dirty Pictures (Volume 2)
17 pts
125
Wasteland
16 pts
126
Ye (Album)
16 pts
127
Springtime and Blind
16 pts
128
Last Man Standing
16 pts
129
Noir
16 pts
130
131
Youngblood
15 pts
132
Veteran
15 pts
133
All Nerve
15 pts
134
Piano + A Microphone, 1983
15 pts
135
The Pains Of Growing
15 pts
136
Superorganism
15 pts
137
Stranger Fruit
15 pts
138
KOD
15 pts
139
Twerp Verse
14 pts
140
Sex & Food
14 pts
141
No Shame
14 pts
142
God Level
14 pts
143
Ultraviolet
14 pts
144
WARM
14 pts
145
Thank You For Today
13 pts
146
Harlan & Alondra
13 pts
147
Le Kov
13 pts
148
Songs You Make At Night
13 pts
149
Love In Shadow
13 pts
150
Landfall
13 pts
151
High As Hope
12 pts
152
153
Pieces Of A Man
12 pts
154
Remain in Light
12 pts
155
Caution
12 pts
156
Die Lit
12 pts
157
On Watch
12 pts
158
Drank
12 pts
159
Vessel
12 pts
160
Firepower
12 pts
161
Where We Were Together
12 pts
162
The Thread That Keeps Us
11 pts
163
Paraffin
11 pts
164
K.T.S.E.
11 pts
165
Tha Carter V
11 pts
166
Grid of Points
11 pts
167
Shawn Mendes
11 pts
168
Fine But Dying
11 pts
169
Rifles & Rosary Beads
11 pts
170
Pillars
11 pts
171
Colt
11 pts
172
Broken Politics
11 pts
173
I’ll Sing
10 pts
174
Mutual Horse
10 pts
175
Sister Cities
10 pts
176
Split
10 pts
177
Almost Persuaded
10 pts
179
Automata II
10 pts
180
Quiet & Peace
10 pts
181
Manor Of Infinite Forms
10 pts
182
Bellowing Sun
10 pts
183
Ouch
10 pts
184
Saturn (Album)
10 pts
185
Hypnic Jerks
10 pts
186
YRU Still Here?
10 pts
187
Never Stop II
10 pts
188
Constant Image
10 pts
189
It Took the Shape of a Bird
10 pts
190
Basement Beehive
10 pts
191
Ecstatic Arrow
10 pts
192
Abysskiss
10 pts
193
194
Twin Cities Mix No. 11
10 pts
195
Be More Kind
10 pts
196
Book Of Ryan
10 pts
197
Aviary
10 pts
198
Still Trippin
10 pts
199
Slide
10 pts
200
Negro Swan
10 pts
201
Riddles
10 pts
202
Look Now
10 pts
203
Songs of the Plains
10 pts
204
Arbiter
10 pts
205
Prequelle
10 pts
206
A Matter Of Time
10 pts
207
Everythings Fine
9 pts
208
The Now Now
9 pts
209
Bambi (Album)
9 pts
210
Longwave
9 pts
211
Dreamers & Runaways
9 pts
212
Left Hand
9 pts
213
214
C’est La Vie
9 pts
215
Cannonball! (Album)
9 pts
216
The Crossing
9 pts
217
Prisma Tropical
9 pts
218
Theres Always Glimmer
9 pts
219
Songs From The Lodge
9 pts
220
Listening to Pictures
9 pts
221
Electric Light
9 pts
222
Radio Siwèl
9 pts
223
224
4275
9 pts
225
Omid
9 pts
226
DiCaprio 2
9 pts
227
Sweet Bunch
9 pts
228
A Star Is Born OST
9 pts
230
Essential Mix
9 pts
231
Here Come the Runts
9 pts
232
Lord of the Desert
9 pts
233
Putting on Airs
9 pts
234
The Insulated World
9 pts
235
Indigo
9 pts
236
No Dogs Allowed
9 pts
237
The Drought
9 pts
238
Pirouette EP
9 pts
239
Code Girl
9 pts
240
Forth Wanderers
9 pts
241
Goat Girl
9 pts
242
Sex & Cigarettes
9 pts
243
Fury
9 pts
244
12 Little Spells
9 pts
245
Merrie Land
9 pts
246
Onion
9 pts
247
Bloom (Troye Album)
9 pts
248
Tantabara
9 pts
249
Hope Dawns
9 pts
250
Suspiria
9 pts
251
All That Must Be
8 pts
252
In Celebration Of Us
8 pts
253
Poschiavo
8 pts
254
In Rounds
8 pts
255
256
Live In Europe
8 pts
257
New York United
8 pts
258
Feeding Frenzy
8 pts
259
Magic Ship
8 pts
260
Look
8 pts
261
Megative
8 pts
262
Burst Into Flame (Album)
8 pts
264
BbyShoe (EP)
8 pts
265
266
Freedom’s Goblin
8 pts
267
Infernal
8 pts
268
Nudes
8 pts
269
Paranoid Fiction
8 pts
270
Angels of Death
8 pts
271
Childqueen
8 pts
272
Dude, The Obscure
8 pts
273
Goodbye & Good Riddance
8 pts
274
All I See Is War
8 pts
275
Expectations (Rexha)
8 pts
276
Nasty
8 pts
277
Casual High Technology
8 pts
278
Gangland Landlord
8 pts
279
Spirit Crusher
8 pts
280
Hundreds of Days
8 pts
281
The Official Body
8 pts
282
Warrior
8 pts
283
Quit The Curse
8 pts
284
285
Aura
7 pts
286
With Doom We Come
7 pts
287
Hardly Electronic
7 pts
288
America’s Child
7 pts
289
Alive In The East?
7 pts
290
Channel Tres EP
7 pts
291
Tina Snow
7 pts
292
Everythangs Corrupt
7 pts
293
Morose
7 pts
294
295
The Pact
7 pts
296
Premonitions
7 pts
297
Summertime Songs
7 pts
298
The Kicking Mule
7 pts
299
Eat the Elephant
7 pts
300
Starebaby
7 pts
301
Hɪðəˈtu
7 pts
303
Samurai Japon
7 pts
304
QUARTERTHING
7 pts
305
306
The Weeknd
7 pts
307
Forever
7 pts
308
Question Mark
7 pts
309
Burnt Sugar
7 pts
310
Pinned
7 pts
311
Providence Canyon
7 pts
312
313
Big Red Machine
7 pts
314
Upside Down Flowers
7 pts
315
re: member
7 pts
316
Parts
7 pts
317
318
Call the Comet
7 pts
319
Hex
7 pts
320
321
Hunter (Album)
7 pts
322
Mother Of My Children
7 pts
323
Endless Scroll
7 pts
324
Lush Life
6 pts
325
Private Stock
6 pts
326
Jumping Over Rocks
6 pts
327
Fully Loaded
6 pts
328
Rausch
6 pts
329
Invisible Threads
6 pts
330
Gone Away WIth A Friend
6 pts
331
Empty Pool to No One
6 pts
332
Both Directions at Once
6 pts
333
Silver Dollar Moment
6 pts
334
Crack Mix 220 (July 20)
6 pts
335
Arthur Buck
6 pts
336
The Kids Are Alright
6 pts
337
Compro
6 pts
338
3X4
6 pts
339
Untitled
6 pts
340
Kill The Lights
6 pts
341
I’m Dreaming
6 pts
342
Grapetooth
6 pts
343
Yene Alem
6 pts
344
Care
6 pts
345
Awaken
6 pts
347
348
My Mind Makes Noises
6 pts
349
Before U I Didnt Exist
6 pts
350
Rare Birds
6 pts
351
352
353
Working Class Woman
6 pts
354
355
Queen Of Time
6 pts
356
I Like Fun
6 pts
357
The Tree
6 pts
358
Focus
6 pts
359
360
Utopia Teased
6 pts
361
Dime Bag
6 pts
362
Pastoral
6 pts
363
Sister Orchid
6 pts
364
Former Member
6 pts
365
Leikeli 47
6 pts
366
Simulation Theory
6 pts
367
Cosmic Crypt
6 pts
368
Darlène
6 pts
369
370
AFTER BACH
5 pts
371
November
5 pts
372
Getting Better
5 pts
373
Loma
5 pts
374
Ex:Re
5 pts
375
Blue Motel
5 pts
376
The Switch
5 pts
377
Old Ghost
5 pts
378
Emanon
5 pts
379
Capture The Flag
5 pts
380
Cast Of Static And Smoke
5 pts
381
Bad Contestant
5 pts
382
383
Follow Them True
5 pts
384
Wild! Wild! Wild!
5 pts
385
Cerebral Hemispheres
5 pts
386
Vanished Gardens
5 pts
387
Hollie Cook
5 pts
388
Transangelic Exodus
5 pts
389
Bimini Twist
5 pts
390
Living In Reverse
5 pts
391
That Santa Fe Channel
5 pts
392
Death Lust
5 pts
393
Cry Pretty (Album)
5 pts
394
Return Of The Trill
5 pts
396
Sleepwalkers
5 pts
397
Hovvdy
5 pts
398
See You Around
5 pts
399
Thrice (EP)
5 pts
400
Nothing to Loose
5 pts
401
Lost & Found
5 pts
402
Sissel
5 pts
403
Saved
5 pts
404
Captured
5 pts
405
Lamp Lit Prose
5 pts
406
407
Rhododendron
5 pts
408
Moon 2
5 pts
409
Dove
5 pts
410
Willow
5 pts
411
Black Ego
5 pts
412
Mania
5 pts
413
Freddie
5 pts
414
Dog Bless
5 pts
415
Kin Sonic
5 pts
416
Beautiful You
5 pts
417
Odds And Ends
5 pts
418
Friendship
5 pts
419
Chrome Neon Jesus
5 pts
420
Vacation In Hell
5 pts
421
Gang Gang Dance
5 pts
422
Find the Right Place
5 pts
423
Made an American
5 pts
424
Here We Go Love
4 pts
425
The Optimist
4 pts
426
Genocidal Majesty
4 pts
427
428
429
In Heaven
4 pts
430
She Remembers Everything
4 pts
431
Things Have Changed
4 pts
432
Obey
4 pts
434
Heavy the Eclipse
4 pts
435
The Nude Party
4 pts
436
Donut County OST
4 pts
437
Cumbia City
4 pts
438
Eve
4 pts
439
Expectations (Kiyoko)
4 pts
440
Year of the Snitch
4 pts
441
Medicaid Fraud Dogg
4 pts
442
moon
4 pts
443
444
Art of Doubt
4 pts
445
Outside
4 pts
446
Temet
4 pts
447
Sparrow Nights
4 pts
448
Bloodgrass Vol. I & II
4 pts
449
Please Don’t Be Dead
4 pts
450
There You Have It
4 pts
451
Pass If Music
4 pts
452
Trench
4 pts
453
Years
4 pts
454
Love, Loss And Auto-Tune
4 pts
455
It’s Hard To Have Hope
4 pts
456
Civilisation
4 pts
458
Ethereality
4 pts
459
Skinless X-1
4 pts
460
Charalambides
4 pts
461
462
Skylight
4 pts
463
Birds of America
4 pts
464
Path
4 pts
465
The Blue Hour
4 pts
466
Luca Brasi 3
4 pts
467
468
Somewhat Literate
4 pts
469
Exorcism
4 pts
470
Lost Friends
4 pts
471
Müntzers Stern / Solo II
4 pts
472
Quite A Life
4 pts
473
Contraband Love
4 pts
474
Bunny
4 pts
475
We’re Not Talking
4 pts
476
Everything Here
4 pts
477
Killer Machine
4 pts
478
Black Noise 2084
3 pts
479
KISS YR FRENEMIES
3 pts
480
481
Bad Witch
3 pts
482
OnePointFive
3 pts
483
Soft Hell
3 pts
484
Drowning In Daylight
3 pts
485
New Pocket
3 pts
486
Corpse Fortress
3 pts
487
15
3 pts
489
Drip Harder
3 pts
490
491
492
Oil Change
3 pts
493
Being Human in Public
3 pts
494
495
Crush Crusher
3 pts
496
Go To School
3 pts
497
H.E.R.
3 pts
498
Collapse EP
3 pts
499
Sixth House
3 pts
500
Beast Mode 2
3 pts
501
All Melody
3 pts
502
Tommy Genesis
3 pts
503
Period
3 pts
504
Soyuz
3 pts
505
Cry No More
3 pts
506
Destellos
3 pts
507
Stone Woman
3 pts
508
Sings His Sad Heart
3 pts
509
Euringer
3 pts
510
Starcrawler
3 pts
511
Bought To Rot
3 pts
512
Camila
3 pts
513
In Another Life
3 pts
514
Port Saint Joe
3 pts
515
Eli Keszler
3 pts
516
Lionheart
3 pts
517
Kelly Lee Owens
3 pts
518
Wishing On The Moon
3 pts
519
Master Volume
3 pts
520
Cruel Magic
3 pts
521
ION
3 pts
523
Goners
3 pts
524
Jericho Sirens
3 pts
525
Panic Blooms
3 pts
526
200% Galcher
3 pts
527
Fetti
3 pts
528
Egypt Station
3 pts
529
Volume 2
2 pts
530
2042
2 pts
531
High on Fire
2 pts
532
The Terror End of Beauty
2 pts
533
Perfect Shapes
2 pts
534
MihTy
2 pts
535
DROGAS Wave
2 pts
536
In The Rainbow Rain
2 pts
537
538
Quebra Cabeça
2 pts
539
PRhyme 2
2 pts
540
Discwoman 52 (August 22)
2 pts
541
Towards The Shadow
2 pts
542
Green Ways
2 pts
543
AMR
2 pts
544
Love In The Wind
2 pts
545
If All I Was Was Black
2 pts
546
Siblings
2 pts
547
Pressure Cracks
2 pts
548
Pink Eye
2 pts
549
Yesterday Was Forever
2 pts
550
Tell No One
2 pts
551
Lo Improvisado
2 pts
552
Aru Otoko No Densetsu
2 pts
553
Two Parts Together
2 pts
554
Bloom (Parisalexa Album)
2 pts
555
Shiroi
2 pts
556
Rock Island
2 pts
557
Orients
2 pts
558
Down Below
2 pts
559
TrapStar
2 pts
560
Displaced Diaspora
2 pts
561
Vide Noir
2 pts
562
Universal Care
2 pts
563
564
565
Blueprint
2 pts
566
Mr. Jukebox
2 pts
567
Its a New Day Tonight
2 pts
568
Latinoamericana
2 pts
569
TESTING
2 pts
570
Warm Drag
2 pts
571
Kasvot Växt: í rokk
2 pts
572
Do Or Die
2 pts
573
Black Light
2 pts
574
What Heaven Is Like
2 pts
575
576
Snares Like a Haircut
1 pts
577
East Atlanta Love Letter
1 pts
578
Pasar De Las Luces
1 pts
579
580
People of the Sun
1 pts
581
Nice Try
1 pts
582
Inferno Deathpassion
1 pts
583
Taika Tapahtuu
1 pts
584
585
Shooter
1 pts
586
Wait For Love
1 pts
587
Dear Annie
1 pts
588
Chime
1 pts
589
The Fuzz EP
1 pts
590
Vector
1 pts
591
Magic Gone
1 pts
592
Halloween
1 pts
593
While We’re At It
1 pts
594
595
Galapagos
1 pts
596
Nyctophilia
1 pts
597
Find a Light
1 pts
598
Body Of Work
1 pts
599
Super Silver
1 pts
600
601
Dillon Carmichael
1 pts
602
I Need To Start a Garden
1 pts
603
Phoenix
1 pts
604
GOOD Job, You Found Me
1 pts
605
Currents, Constellations
1 pts
606
The Return
1 pts
607
Schmaltz
1 pts
608
AmeriKKKant
1 pts
609
Healing Tide
1 pts
610
2 Heartless
1 pts
611
BloodCrush
1 pts
612
613
614
Once
1 pts
615
616
617
Sensitive G
1 pts
619
Hormone Lemonade
1 pts
620
Dream Wife (Album)
1 pts
621
What Is Love?
1 pts
622
Oxnard
1 pts
623
Girl Code
1 pts
624
Mariachi Static
1 pts
625
Silk Canvas
1 pts
626
627
Ecce Homo (Touch)
1 pts
628
Hellions of Fire
1 pts
Critic List
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