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
Our Raw Heart
36 pts
53
Redemption
35 pts
54
Hive Mind
35 pts
55
Kids See Ghosts (Album)
35 pts
56
Singularity
34 pts
57
Con Todo El Mundo
34 pts
58
Record
33 pts
59
Swimming
33 pts
60
The Future and The Past
33 pts
61
Championships (Album)
33 pts
62
Ventriloquism
32 pts
63
Mudboy
32 pts
64
Ephorize
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
Beyondless
27 pts
72
Magus
27 pts
73
Us
25 pts
74
Freedom
25 pts
75
Sparkle Hard
25 pts
76
TA13OO
25 pts
77
Twin Fantasy
25 pts
78
The Sciences
25 pts
79
Im All Ears
25 pts
80
Loner
25 pts
81
Negro Swan
24 pts
82
LP5000
24 pts
83
Heaven
24 pts
84
Lavender
24 pts
85
Joy As An Act Of Resistance
23 pts
86
And Nothing Hurt
23 pts
87
Negative Capability
23 pts
88
El Mal Querer
23 pts
89
Only Love
22 pts
90
Songs Of Praise
22 pts
91
Errorzone
22 pts
92
Wanderer
22 pts
93
MITH
22 pts
94
Love Is Dead
21 pts
95
Starfire
21 pts
96
Scorpion
21 pts
97
May Your Kindness Remain
21 pts
99
Dose Your Dreams
21 pts
100
101
Voicenotes
21 pts
102
Desperate Man (Album)
20 pts
103
Universal Beings
20 pts
104
Time & Space
19 pts
105
Blood
19 pts
106
Konoyo
18 pts
107
All At Once
18 pts
108
You Won’t Get What You Want
18 pts
109
Victory Lap
18 pts
110
There’s A Riot Going On
18 pts
111
Boarding House Reach
18 pts
112
Now Only (Album)
18 pts
113
The Wake
17 pts
114
The Midnight Hour
17 pts
115
Hippo Lite
17 pts
116
The Horizon Just Laughed
17 pts
117
Little Dark Age
17 pts
118
Cheer
17 pts
119
Dirty Pictures (Volume 2)
17 pts
120
777
17 pts
121
Good Thing
17 pts
122
Golden (Album)
17 pts
123
Sparrow
17 pts
124
No News Is Good News
17 pts
125
Last Man Standing
16 pts
126
Wasteland
16 pts
127
Springtime and Blind
16 pts
128
Ye (Album)
16 pts
129
130
Noir
16 pts
131
Piano + A Microphone, 1983
15 pts
132
The Pains Of Growing
15 pts
133
Veteran
15 pts
134
Stranger Fruit
15 pts
135
KOD
15 pts
136
All Nerve
15 pts
137
Superorganism
15 pts
138
Youngblood
15 pts
139
Sex & Food
14 pts
140
Twerp Verse
14 pts
141
WARM
14 pts
142
No Shame
14 pts
143
Ultraviolet
14 pts
144
God Level
14 pts
145
Le Kov
13 pts
146
Harlan & Alondra
13 pts
147
Thank You For Today
13 pts
148
Songs You Make At Night
13 pts
149
Landfall
13 pts
150
Love In Shadow
13 pts
151
Vessel
12 pts
152
Die Lit
12 pts
153
Caution
12 pts
154
Drank
12 pts
155
On Watch
12 pts
156
Remain in Light
12 pts
157
High As Hope
12 pts
158
Firepower
12 pts
159
160
Where We Were Together
12 pts
161
Pieces Of A Man
12 pts
162
Shawn Mendes
11 pts
163
Paraffin
11 pts
164
Broken Politics
11 pts
165
Pillars
11 pts
166
The Thread That Keeps Us
11 pts
167
Rifles & Rosary Beads
11 pts
168
Tha Carter V
11 pts
169
Grid of Points
11 pts
170
Fine But Dying
11 pts
171
K.T.S.E.
11 pts
172
Colt
11 pts
173
Never Stop II
10 pts
174
Slide
10 pts
175
Songs of the Plains
10 pts
176
Basement Beehive
10 pts
177
178
Twin Cities Mix No. 11
10 pts
179
Ecstatic Arrow
10 pts
180
Look Now
10 pts
181
Bellowing Sun
10 pts
182
Ouch
10 pts
183
Sister Cities
10 pts
184
I’ll Sing
10 pts
185
Saturn (Album)
10 pts
186
Aviary
10 pts
187
Almost Persuaded
10 pts
188
Abysskiss
10 pts
190
A Matter Of Time
10 pts
191
Be More Kind
10 pts
192
Book Of Ryan
10 pts
193
YRU Still Here?
10 pts
194
Quiet & Peace
10 pts
195
It Took the Shape of a Bird
10 pts
196
Mutual Horse
10 pts
197
Arbiter
10 pts
198
Manor Of Infinite Forms
10 pts
199
Prequelle
10 pts
200
Constant Image
10 pts
201
Hypnic Jerks
10 pts
202
Split
10 pts
203
Automata II
10 pts
204
Still Trippin
10 pts
205
Negro Swan
10 pts
206
Riddles
10 pts
207
Omid
9 pts
208
Essential Mix
9 pts
209
Theres Always Glimmer
9 pts
210
211
The Drought
9 pts
212
Longwave
9 pts
213
C’est La Vie
9 pts
214
Code Girl
9 pts
215
DiCaprio 2
9 pts
216
The Crossing
9 pts
217
The Now Now
9 pts
218
Cannonball! (Album)
9 pts
219
Everythings Fine
9 pts
220
Electric Light
9 pts
221
Putting on Airs
9 pts
222
4275
9 pts
223
Listening to Pictures
9 pts
224
Sweet Bunch
9 pts
225
226
Prisma Tropical
9 pts
227
Here Come the Runts
9 pts
228
Dreamers & Runaways
9 pts
229
Radio Siwèl
9 pts
230
Songs From The Lodge
9 pts
231
A Star Is Born OST
9 pts
232
Lord of the Desert
9 pts
233
Bambi (Album)
9 pts
234
Bloom (Troye Album)
9 pts
235
No Dogs Allowed
9 pts
236
Onion
9 pts
237
Fury
9 pts
238
Tantabara
9 pts
239
Suspiria
9 pts
240
12 Little Spells
9 pts
241
Pirouette EP
9 pts
242
The Insulated World
9 pts
243
Sex & Cigarettes
9 pts
245
Left Hand
9 pts
246
Merrie Land
9 pts
247
Goat Girl
9 pts
248
Forth Wanderers
9 pts
249
Hope Dawns
9 pts
250
Indigo
9 pts
251
Angels of Death
8 pts
252
Casual High Technology
8 pts
253
Nasty
8 pts
254
255
Live In Europe
8 pts
256
Poschiavo
8 pts
257
In Rounds
8 pts
258
Spirit Crusher
8 pts
259
Feeding Frenzy
8 pts
260
BbyShoe (EP)
8 pts
261
Look
8 pts
262
Warrior
8 pts
263
Magic Ship
8 pts
264
All That Must Be
8 pts
265
Paranoid Fiction
8 pts
266
Burst Into Flame (Album)
8 pts
267
Nudes
8 pts
268
269
New York United
8 pts
271
Goodbye & Good Riddance
8 pts
272
Hundreds of Days
8 pts
273
Dude, The Obscure
8 pts
274
The Official Body
8 pts
275
Gangland Landlord
8 pts
276
Expectations (Rexha)
8 pts
277
Freedom’s Goblin
8 pts
278
Quit The Curse
8 pts
279
Infernal
8 pts
280
Megative
8 pts
281
Childqueen
8 pts
282
In Celebration Of Us
8 pts
283
All I See Is War
8 pts
284
Forever
7 pts
285
Everythangs Corrupt
7 pts
286
The Pact
7 pts
287
Alive In The East?
7 pts
288
re: member
7 pts
289
Morose
7 pts
290
With Doom We Come
7 pts
291
292
Summertime Songs
7 pts
293
Premonitions
7 pts
294
Parts
7 pts
295
296
Tina Snow
7 pts
297
Channel Tres EP
7 pts
298
299
Hardly Electronic
7 pts
300
The Kicking Mule
7 pts
301
302
Samurai Japon
7 pts
303
Endless Scroll
7 pts
304
Burnt Sugar
7 pts
306
307
Question Mark
7 pts
308
Mother Of My Children
7 pts
309
QUARTERTHING
7 pts
310
America’s Child
7 pts
311
Starebaby
7 pts
312
Hex
7 pts
313
Big Red Machine
7 pts
314
Hunter (Album)
7 pts
315
Upside Down Flowers
7 pts
316
The Weeknd
7 pts
317
318
Call the Comet
7 pts
319
Providence Canyon
7 pts
320
Hɪðəˈtu
7 pts
321
Eat the Elephant
7 pts
322
Pinned
7 pts
323
Aura
7 pts
324
Silver Dollar Moment
6 pts
325
Former Member
6 pts
326
I Like Fun
6 pts
327
Dime Bag
6 pts
328
Grapetooth
6 pts
329
Utopia Teased
6 pts
330
Leikeli 47
6 pts
331
Kill The Lights
6 pts
332
Pastoral
6 pts
333
Compro
6 pts
334
Simulation Theory
6 pts
335
Cosmic Crypt
6 pts
336
The Tree
6 pts
337
3X4
6 pts
338
The Kids Are Alright
6 pts
339
Lush Life
6 pts
340
Private Stock
6 pts
341
Focus
6 pts
342
Jumping Over Rocks
6 pts
343
Rausch
6 pts
344
345
346
Fully Loaded
6 pts
347
Gone Away WIth A Friend
6 pts
348
Working Class Woman
6 pts
349
Rare Birds
6 pts
350
Before U I Didnt Exist
6 pts
351
Invisible Threads
6 pts
352
Arthur Buck
6 pts
354
Both Directions at Once
6 pts
355
Untitled
6 pts
356
Yene Alem
6 pts
357
358
My Mind Makes Noises
6 pts
359
Darlène
6 pts
360
361
Care
6 pts
362
Crack Mix 220 (July 20)
6 pts
363
Sister Orchid
6 pts
364
Empty Pool to No One
6 pts
365
Queen Of Time
6 pts
366
Awaken
6 pts
367
I’m Dreaming
6 pts
368
369
Return Of The Trill
5 pts
370
November
5 pts
371
Cast Of Static And Smoke
5 pts
372
Ex:Re
5 pts
373
Vanished Gardens
5 pts
374
AFTER BACH
5 pts
375
Transangelic Exodus
5 pts
376
Getting Better
5 pts
377
Old Ghost
5 pts
378
Hovvdy
5 pts
379
Cry Pretty (Album)
5 pts
380
Emanon
5 pts
381
The Switch
5 pts
382
Cerebral Hemispheres
5 pts
383
Bimini Twist
5 pts
384
Follow Them True
5 pts
385
Sleepwalkers
5 pts
386
Blue Motel
5 pts
387
Death Lust
5 pts
388
Living In Reverse
5 pts
389
Bad Contestant
5 pts
390
Wild! Wild! Wild!
5 pts
392
Loma
5 pts
393
394
Capture The Flag
5 pts
395
Hollie Cook
5 pts
396
That Santa Fe Channel
5 pts
397
398
See You Around
5 pts
399
Thrice (EP)
5 pts
400
Dove
5 pts
401
Lost & Found
5 pts
402
Sissel
5 pts
403
Saved
5 pts
404
Lamp Lit Prose
5 pts
405
Captured
5 pts
406
407
Rhododendron
5 pts
408
Moon 2
5 pts
409
Willow
5 pts
410
Black Ego
5 pts
411
Nothing to Loose
5 pts
412
Dog Bless
5 pts
413
Kin Sonic
5 pts
414
Beautiful You
5 pts
415
Odds And Ends
5 pts
416
Friendship
5 pts
417
Vacation In Hell
5 pts
418
Chrome Neon Jesus
5 pts
419
Mania
5 pts
420
Gang Gang Dance
5 pts
421
Find the Right Place
5 pts
422
Freddie
5 pts
423
Made an American
5 pts
424
Cumbia City
4 pts
425
Killer Machine
4 pts
426
Civilisation
4 pts
427
Genocidal Majesty
4 pts
428
We’re Not Talking
4 pts
429
Everything Here
4 pts
430
moon
4 pts
431
It’s Hard To Have Hope
4 pts
432
Ethereality
4 pts
433
Expectations (Kiyoko)
4 pts
434
The Nude Party
4 pts
435
436
Eve
4 pts
437
The Optimist
4 pts
438
Love, Loss And Auto-Tune
4 pts
439
Trench
4 pts
440
Skinless X-1
4 pts
441
Donut County OST
4 pts
442
Here We Go Love
4 pts
444
She Remembers Everything
4 pts
445
Obey
4 pts
446
Things Have Changed
4 pts
448
In Heaven
4 pts
449
Medicaid Fraud Dogg
4 pts
450
Year of the Snitch
4 pts
451
452
Charalambides
4 pts
453
454
The Blue Hour
4 pts
455
Somewhat Literate
4 pts
456
Art of Doubt
4 pts
457
Temet
4 pts
458
Skylight
4 pts
459
460
Path
4 pts
461
Birds of America
4 pts
462
Outside
4 pts
463
Exorcism
4 pts
464
Müntzers Stern / Solo II
4 pts
465
Bloodgrass Vol. I & II
4 pts
466
Luca Brasi 3
4 pts
467
Sparrow Nights
4 pts
468
Lost Friends
4 pts
469
There You Have It
4 pts
470
471
Heavy the Eclipse
4 pts
472
Bunny
4 pts
473
Please Don’t Be Dead
4 pts
474
Quite A Life
4 pts
475
Pass If Music
4 pts
476
Years
4 pts
477
Contraband Love
4 pts
478
Sings His Sad Heart
3 pts
479
Being Human in Public
3 pts
480
200% Galcher
3 pts
481
Kelly Lee Owens
3 pts
482
Fetti
3 pts
483
484
Beast Mode 2
3 pts
485
Bad Witch
3 pts
486
487
Corpse Fortress
3 pts
488
Soft Hell
3 pts
489
H.E.R.
3 pts
490
Crush Crusher
3 pts
491
15
3 pts
492
New Pocket
3 pts
493
Sixth House
3 pts
494
495
Go To School
3 pts
496
Drowning In Daylight
3 pts
497
ION
3 pts
498
Master Volume
3 pts
500
Starcrawler
3 pts
501
Black Noise 2084
3 pts
502
In Another Life
3 pts
503
Bought To Rot
3 pts
504
KISS YR FRENEMIES
3 pts
505
Cruel Magic
3 pts
506
Lionheart
3 pts
507
Tommy Genesis
3 pts
508
Jericho Sirens
3 pts
509
Egypt Station
3 pts
510
OnePointFive
3 pts
512
513
Drip Harder
3 pts
514
Goners
3 pts
515
All Melody
3 pts
516
Collapse EP
3 pts
517
Camila
3 pts
518
Eli Keszler
3 pts
519
Oil Change
3 pts
520
Period
3 pts
521
Euringer
3 pts
522
Cry No More
3 pts
523
Destellos
3 pts
524
Port Saint Joe
3 pts
525
Stone Woman
3 pts
526
Panic Blooms
3 pts
527
Soyuz
3 pts
528
Wishing On The Moon
3 pts
529
PRhyme 2
2 pts
530
Discwoman 52 (August 22)
2 pts
531
MihTy
2 pts
532
2042
2 pts
533
Perfect Shapes
2 pts
534
The Terror End of Beauty
2 pts
535
In The Rainbow Rain
2 pts
536
Volume 2
2 pts
537
Green Ways
2 pts
538
DROGAS Wave
2 pts
539
AMR
2 pts
540
High on Fire
2 pts
541
542
Quebra Cabeça
2 pts
543
544
Blueprint
2 pts
545
Rock Island
2 pts
546
Aru Otoko No Densetsu
2 pts
547
Siblings
2 pts
548
Two Parts Together
2 pts
549
Latinoamericana
2 pts
550
Down Below
2 pts
551
TrapStar
2 pts
552
If All I Was Was Black
2 pts
553
Pressure Cracks
2 pts
554
Displaced Diaspora
2 pts
555
Shiroi
2 pts
556
Vide Noir
2 pts
557
Lo Improvisado
2 pts
558
Yesterday Was Forever
2 pts
559
Pink Eye
2 pts
560
Universal Care
2 pts
561
Black Light
2 pts
562
Do Or Die
2 pts
563
Warm Drag
2 pts
564
565
What Heaven Is Like
2 pts
566
Tell No One
2 pts
567
Orients
2 pts
568
Its a New Day Tonight
2 pts
569
Kasvot Växt: í rokk
2 pts
570
Towards The Shadow
2 pts
571
TESTING
2 pts
572
Bloom (Parisalexa Album)
2 pts
573
Mr. Jukebox
2 pts
574
Love In The Wind
2 pts
575
AmeriKKKant
1 pts
576
People of the Sun
1 pts
577
Taika Tapahtuu
1 pts
578
Dillon Carmichael
1 pts
579
Inferno Deathpassion
1 pts
580
Shooter
1 pts
581
Wait For Love
1 pts
582
Dear Annie
1 pts
583
Body Of Work
1 pts
584
Magic Gone
1 pts
585
Halloween
1 pts
586
Nice Try
1 pts
587
While We’re At It
1 pts
588
589
590
Vector
1 pts
591
The Fuzz EP
1 pts
592
Super Silver
1 pts
593
Chime
1 pts
594
595
596
597
Mariachi Static
1 pts
598
Snares Like a Haircut
1 pts
599
Pasar De Las Luces
1 pts
600
East Atlanta Love Letter
1 pts
601
What Is Love?
1 pts
602
Find a Light
1 pts
603
2 Heartless
1 pts
604
605
606
Once
1 pts
607
608
Sensitive G
1 pts
609
Dream Wife (Album)
1 pts
610
Hormone Lemonade
1 pts
612
The Return
1 pts
613
Healing Tide
1 pts
614
Oxnard
1 pts
615
BloodCrush
1 pts
616
Girl Code
1 pts
617
Galapagos
1 pts
618
Silk Canvas
1 pts
619
Schmaltz
1 pts
620
Ecce Homo (Touch)
1 pts
621
Phoenix
1 pts
622
623
624
Currents, Constellations
1 pts
625
I Need To Start a Garden
1 pts
626
Nyctophilia
1 pts
627
GOOD Job, You Found Me
1 pts
628
Hellions of Fire
1 pts
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