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
FM!
36 pts
53
Hive Mind
35 pts
54
Kids See Ghosts (Album)
35 pts
55
Redemption
35 pts
56
Singularity
34 pts
57
Con Todo El Mundo
34 pts
58
Championships (Album)
33 pts
59
Swimming
33 pts
60
Record
33 pts
61
The Future and The Past
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
Devotion
28 pts
69
Cocoa Sugar
28 pts
70
By the Way, I Forgive You
28 pts
71
Magus
27 pts
72
Beyondless
27 pts
73
Im All Ears
25 pts
74
The Sciences
25 pts
75
Twin Fantasy
25 pts
76
Loner
25 pts
77
Us
25 pts
78
Freedom
25 pts
79
TA13OO
25 pts
80
Sparkle Hard
25 pts
81
Heaven
24 pts
82
Negro Swan
24 pts
83
LP5000
24 pts
84
Lavender
24 pts
85
El Mal Querer
23 pts
86
Joy As An Act Of Resistance
23 pts
87
And Nothing Hurt
23 pts
88
Negative Capability
23 pts
89
Wanderer
22 pts
90
Songs Of Praise
22 pts
91
MITH
22 pts
92
Only Love
22 pts
93
Errorzone
22 pts
95
Scorpion
21 pts
96
Dose Your Dreams
21 pts
97
Voicenotes
21 pts
98
99
Starfire
21 pts
100
Love Is Dead
21 pts
101
May Your Kindness Remain
21 pts
102
Desperate Man (Album)
20 pts
103
Universal Beings
20 pts
104
Time & Space
19 pts
105
Blood
19 pts
106
There’s A Riot Going On
18 pts
107
You Won’t Get What You Want
18 pts
108
Konoyo
18 pts
109
Victory Lap
18 pts
110
All At Once
18 pts
111
Boarding House Reach
18 pts
112
Now Only (Album)
18 pts
113
Cheer
17 pts
114
Hippo Lite
17 pts
115
The Horizon Just Laughed
17 pts
116
Dirty Pictures (Volume 2)
17 pts
117
Little Dark Age
17 pts
118
The Midnight Hour
17 pts
119
Golden (Album)
17 pts
120
No News Is Good News
17 pts
121
777
17 pts
122
Sparrow
17 pts
123
Good Thing
17 pts
124
The Wake
17 pts
125
Ye (Album)
16 pts
126
Wasteland
16 pts
127
128
Last Man Standing
16 pts
129
Springtime and Blind
16 pts
130
Noir
16 pts
131
Piano + A Microphone, 1983
15 pts
132
KOD
15 pts
133
Veteran
15 pts
134
Superorganism
15 pts
135
All Nerve
15 pts
136
Stranger Fruit
15 pts
137
The Pains Of Growing
15 pts
138
Youngblood
15 pts
139
Ultraviolet
14 pts
140
God Level
14 pts
141
Twerp Verse
14 pts
142
WARM
14 pts
143
No Shame
14 pts
144
Sex & Food
14 pts
145
Love In Shadow
13 pts
146
Le Kov
13 pts
147
Thank You For Today
13 pts
148
Landfall
13 pts
149
Harlan & Alondra
13 pts
150
Songs You Make At Night
13 pts
151
Firepower
12 pts
152
Vessel
12 pts
153
Remain in Light
12 pts
154
Caution
12 pts
155
Pieces Of A Man
12 pts
156
Where We Were Together
12 pts
157
Drank
12 pts
158
On Watch
12 pts
159
160
Die Lit
12 pts
161
High As Hope
12 pts
162
The Thread That Keeps Us
11 pts
163
Paraffin
11 pts
164
Rifles & Rosary Beads
11 pts
165
Broken Politics
11 pts
166
Grid of Points
11 pts
167
Pillars
11 pts
168
Colt
11 pts
169
K.T.S.E.
11 pts
170
Shawn Mendes
11 pts
171
Tha Carter V
11 pts
172
Fine But Dying
11 pts
173
Quiet & Peace
10 pts
174
175
Aviary
10 pts
176
Look Now
10 pts
177
Ouch
10 pts
178
Automata II
10 pts
179
Arbiter
10 pts
180
Bellowing Sun
10 pts
181
Ecstatic Arrow
10 pts
182
Slide
10 pts
183
Saturn (Album)
10 pts
184
It Took the Shape of a Bird
10 pts
185
Basement Beehive
10 pts
186
Hypnic Jerks
10 pts
187
Twin Cities Mix No. 11
10 pts
188
Constant Image
10 pts
189
Be More Kind
10 pts
190
Prequelle
10 pts
191
Book Of Ryan
10 pts
192
Riddles
10 pts
193
Almost Persuaded
10 pts
194
Still Trippin
10 pts
195
Manor Of Infinite Forms
10 pts
196
Never Stop II
10 pts
197
YRU Still Here?
10 pts
198
Abysskiss
10 pts
200
I’ll Sing
10 pts
201
Songs of the Plains
10 pts
202
A Matter Of Time
10 pts
203
Negro Swan
10 pts
204
Split
10 pts
205
Mutual Horse
10 pts
206
Sister Cities
10 pts
207
Suspiria
9 pts
208
Electric Light
9 pts
209
4275
9 pts
210
Sex & Cigarettes
9 pts
211
DiCaprio 2
9 pts
212
Pirouette EP
9 pts
213
Everythings Fine
9 pts
214
Indigo
9 pts
215
Listening to Pictures
9 pts
216
Putting on Airs
9 pts
217
The Insulated World
9 pts
218
Theres Always Glimmer
9 pts
219
12 Little Spells
9 pts
220
Essential Mix
9 pts
221
Longwave
9 pts
222
223
Radio Siwèl
9 pts
224
Songs From The Lodge
9 pts
225
Code Girl
9 pts
226
Prisma Tropical
9 pts
227
C’est La Vie
9 pts
228
Lord of the Desert
9 pts
229
Dreamers & Runaways
9 pts
230
Cannonball! (Album)
9 pts
232
Left Hand
9 pts
233
Omid
9 pts
234
Tantabara
9 pts
235
No Dogs Allowed
9 pts
236
A Star Is Born OST
9 pts
237
Bambi (Album)
9 pts
238
The Now Now
9 pts
239
240
Forth Wanderers
9 pts
241
Goat Girl
9 pts
242
The Drought
9 pts
243
Bloom (Troye Album)
9 pts
244
Fury
9 pts
245
Here Come the Runts
9 pts
246
The Crossing
9 pts
247
Sweet Bunch
9 pts
248
Onion
9 pts
249
Merrie Land
9 pts
250
Hope Dawns
9 pts
251
Nudes
8 pts
252
Poschiavo
8 pts
253
Spirit Crusher
8 pts
254
255
Childqueen
8 pts
256
Magic Ship
8 pts
257
Paranoid Fiction
8 pts
258
Expectations (Rexha)
8 pts
259
New York United
8 pts
260
Gangland Landlord
8 pts
261
Quit The Curse
8 pts
262
Warrior
8 pts
263
Megative
8 pts
264
In Celebration Of Us
8 pts
265
Infernal
8 pts
266
Casual High Technology
8 pts
268
269
BbyShoe (EP)
8 pts
270
Hundreds of Days
8 pts
271
Dude, The Obscure
8 pts
272
Live In Europe
8 pts
273
The Official Body
8 pts
274
All I See Is War
8 pts
275
In Rounds
8 pts
276
Burst Into Flame (Album)
8 pts
277
Nasty
8 pts
278
All That Must Be
8 pts
279
Goodbye & Good Riddance
8 pts
280
Feeding Frenzy
8 pts
281
Look
8 pts
282
Angels of Death
8 pts
283
Freedom’s Goblin
8 pts
284
Tina Snow
7 pts
285
re: member
7 pts
286
Parts
7 pts
287
Summertime Songs
7 pts
288
289
Everythangs Corrupt
7 pts
290
291
Hardly Electronic
7 pts
292
Premonitions
7 pts
293
294
With Doom We Come
7 pts
295
Upside Down Flowers
7 pts
296
Channel Tres EP
7 pts
297
Morose
7 pts
298
Hex
7 pts
299
Providence Canyon
7 pts
300
Hɪðəˈtu
7 pts
301
Alive In The East?
7 pts
302
303
Endless Scroll
7 pts
304
QUARTERTHING
7 pts
305
The Pact
7 pts
306
America’s Child
7 pts
307
Starebaby
7 pts
308
The Kicking Mule
7 pts
309
Question Mark
7 pts
310
Samurai Japon
7 pts
311
Forever
7 pts
312
The Weeknd
7 pts
313
Pinned
7 pts
314
Eat the Elephant
7 pts
315
Burnt Sugar
7 pts
316
Big Red Machine
7 pts
317
Aura
7 pts
318
Hunter (Album)
7 pts
319
Call the Comet
7 pts
320
322
Mother Of My Children
7 pts
323
324
Silver Dollar Moment
6 pts
325
Kill The Lights
6 pts
326
Gone Away WIth A Friend
6 pts
327
Lush Life
6 pts
328
Dime Bag
6 pts
329
Before U I Didnt Exist
6 pts
330
Rausch
6 pts
331
I Like Fun
6 pts
332
Jumping Over Rocks
6 pts
333
Grapetooth
6 pts
334
The Tree
6 pts
335
Cosmic Crypt
6 pts
336
3X4
6 pts
337
Simulation Theory
6 pts
338
The Kids Are Alright
6 pts
339
Focus
6 pts
340
Leikeli 47
6 pts
341
342
343
Fully Loaded
6 pts
344
Private Stock
6 pts
345
Utopia Teased
6 pts
346
Sister Orchid
6 pts
347
Compro
6 pts
348
Yene Alem
6 pts
349
Former Member
6 pts
350
Queen Of Time
6 pts
351
I’m Dreaming
6 pts
352
Empty Pool to No One
6 pts
353
Crack Mix 220 (July 20)
6 pts
354
Untitled
6 pts
355
My Mind Makes Noises
6 pts
356
Awaken
6 pts
357
359
Arthur Buck
6 pts
360
Rare Birds
6 pts
361
Care
6 pts
362
363
Invisible Threads
6 pts
364
Both Directions at Once
6 pts
365
Pastoral
6 pts
366
Working Class Woman
6 pts
367
Darlène
6 pts
368
369
November
5 pts
370
Rhododendron
5 pts
371
Mania
5 pts
372
Follow Them True
5 pts
373
Bad Contestant
5 pts
374
Ex:Re
5 pts
375
376
Getting Better
5 pts
377
Odds And Ends
5 pts
378
Hollie Cook
5 pts
379
Willow
5 pts
380
Return Of The Trill
5 pts
382
Cerebral Hemispheres
5 pts
383
Vacation In Hell
5 pts
384
Cast Of Static And Smoke
5 pts
385
Capture The Flag
5 pts
386
Emanon
5 pts
387
Bimini Twist
5 pts
388
Wild! Wild! Wild!
5 pts
389
Blue Motel
5 pts
390
Chrome Neon Jesus
5 pts
391
Friendship
5 pts
392
See You Around
5 pts
393
Thrice (EP)
5 pts
394
Vanished Gardens
5 pts
395
Lost & Found
5 pts
396
Gang Gang Dance
5 pts
397
Hovvdy
5 pts
398
Living In Reverse
5 pts
399
That Santa Fe Channel
5 pts
400
Death Lust
5 pts
401
Dove
5 pts
402
Moon 2
5 pts
403
Sleepwalkers
5 pts
404
Transangelic Exodus
5 pts
405
Find the Right Place
5 pts
406
Saved
5 pts
407
The Switch
5 pts
408
Captured
5 pts
409
410
Loma
5 pts
411
Cry Pretty (Album)
5 pts
412
AFTER BACH
5 pts
413
Sissel
5 pts
414
Black Ego
5 pts
415
Dog Bless
5 pts
416
Lamp Lit Prose
5 pts
417
Made an American
5 pts
418
Kin Sonic
5 pts
419
Freddie
5 pts
420
Nothing to Loose
5 pts
421
Old Ghost
5 pts
422
Beautiful You
5 pts
423
424
Years
4 pts
425
Skylight
4 pts
426
Somewhat Literate
4 pts
427
Please Don’t Be Dead
4 pts
428
There You Have It
4 pts
429
Art of Doubt
4 pts
430
431
The Blue Hour
4 pts
432
433
Eve
4 pts
434
Sparrow Nights
4 pts
435
Outside
4 pts
436
Cumbia City
4 pts
437
The Optimist
4 pts
438
439
Pass If Music
4 pts
440
She Remembers Everything
4 pts
441
Trench
4 pts
442
443
Müntzers Stern / Solo II
4 pts
444
In Heaven
4 pts
446
Medicaid Fraud Dogg
4 pts
447
Skinless X-1
4 pts
448
449
moon
4 pts
450
Bloodgrass Vol. I & II
4 pts
451
The Nude Party
4 pts
452
Things Have Changed
4 pts
453
Temet
4 pts
454
It’s Hard To Have Hope
4 pts
455
Expectations (Kiyoko)
4 pts
456
Birds of America
4 pts
457
Obey
4 pts
458
Exorcism
4 pts
459
Donut County OST
4 pts
460
Luca Brasi 3
4 pts
461
Path
4 pts
462
Year of the Snitch
4 pts
463
Genocidal Majesty
4 pts
464
Heavy the Eclipse
4 pts
465
Here We Go Love
4 pts
466
Civilisation
4 pts
467
Lost Friends
4 pts
468
Bunny
4 pts
469
Ethereality
4 pts
470
Contraband Love
4 pts
471
Everything Here
4 pts
472
We’re Not Talking
4 pts
473
Quite A Life
4 pts
475
Charalambides
4 pts
476
Killer Machine
4 pts
477
Love, Loss And Auto-Tune
4 pts
478
Sings His Sad Heart
3 pts
479
Black Noise 2084
3 pts
480
Sixth House
3 pts
481
15
3 pts
482
Being Human in Public
3 pts
483
Soyuz
3 pts
484
485
486
Corpse Fortress
3 pts
487
Crush Crusher
3 pts
488
200% Galcher
3 pts
489
Kelly Lee Owens
3 pts
490
Jericho Sirens
3 pts
491
Euringer
3 pts
493
Drowning In Daylight
3 pts
494
Master Volume
3 pts
495
Eli Keszler
3 pts
496
Starcrawler
3 pts
497
ION
3 pts
499
In Another Life
3 pts
500
501
Cruel Magic
3 pts
502
OnePointFive
3 pts
503
KISS YR FRENEMIES
3 pts
504
Egypt Station
3 pts
505
Drip Harder
3 pts
506
Period
3 pts
507
Destellos
3 pts
508
Panic Blooms
3 pts
509
Goners
3 pts
510
Wishing On The Moon
3 pts
511
Soft Hell
3 pts
512
Lionheart
3 pts
513
Oil Change
3 pts
514
Fetti
3 pts
515
Tommy Genesis
3 pts
516
New Pocket
3 pts
517
Port Saint Joe
3 pts
518
Bad Witch
3 pts
519
Camila
3 pts
520
H.E.R.
3 pts
521
Stone Woman
3 pts
522
Beast Mode 2
3 pts
523
Cry No More
3 pts
524
Go To School
3 pts
525
526
All Melody
3 pts
527
Collapse EP
3 pts
528
Bought To Rot
3 pts
529
Orients
2 pts
530
In The Rainbow Rain
2 pts
531
Siblings
2 pts
532
Rock Island
2 pts
533
Universal Care
2 pts
534
535
536
DROGAS Wave
2 pts
537
High on Fire
2 pts
538
AMR
2 pts
539
Shiroi
2 pts
540
TrapStar
2 pts
541
Two Parts Together
2 pts
542
Volume 2
2 pts
543
Displaced Diaspora
2 pts
544
Perfect Shapes
2 pts
545
Quebra Cabeça
2 pts
546
Towards The Shadow
2 pts
547
Pressure Cracks
2 pts
548
Discwoman 52 (August 22)
2 pts
549
Latinoamericana
2 pts
550
Blueprint
2 pts
551
MihTy
2 pts
552
If All I Was Was Black
2 pts
553
Down Below
2 pts
554
TESTING
2 pts
555
Do Or Die
2 pts
556
The Terror End of Beauty
2 pts
557
Green Ways
2 pts
558
Warm Drag
2 pts
559
Bloom (Parisalexa Album)
2 pts
560
What Heaven Is Like
2 pts
561
Love In The Wind
2 pts
562
Black Light
2 pts
563
Vide Noir
2 pts
564
2042
2 pts
565
Kasvot Växt: í rokk
2 pts
566
Mr. Jukebox
2 pts
567
Its a New Day Tonight
2 pts
568
569
PRhyme 2
2 pts
570
Pink Eye
2 pts
571
Lo Improvisado
2 pts
572
Yesterday Was Forever
2 pts
573
Aru Otoko No Densetsu
2 pts
574
Tell No One
2 pts
575
Ecce Homo (Touch)
1 pts
576
577
Dream Wife (Album)
1 pts
578
Girl Code
1 pts
579
Inferno Deathpassion
1 pts
580
Shooter
1 pts
581
Currents, Constellations
1 pts
582
Healing Tide
1 pts
583
Phoenix
1 pts
584
AmeriKKKant
1 pts
585
586
Magic Gone
1 pts
587
588
589
Super Silver
1 pts
590
Vector
1 pts
592
Galapagos
1 pts
593
594
595
Schmaltz
1 pts
596
Silk Canvas
1 pts
597
598
599
Sensitive G
1 pts
600
2 Heartless
1 pts
601
Halloween
1 pts
602
Find a Light
1 pts
603
Mariachi Static
1 pts
604
The Return
1 pts
605
Chime
1 pts
606
607
Taika Tapahtuu
1 pts
608
Once
1 pts
609
People of the Sun
1 pts
610
The Fuzz EP
1 pts
611
What Is Love?
1 pts
612
BloodCrush
1 pts
613
Pasar De Las Luces
1 pts
614
Hormone Lemonade
1 pts
615
Snares Like a Haircut
1 pts
616
While We’re At It
1 pts
617
Dear Annie
1 pts
618
Nyctophilia
1 pts
619
Hellions of Fire
1 pts
620
I Need To Start a Garden
1 pts
621
GOOD Job, You Found Me
1 pts
622
Body Of Work
1 pts
623
Oxnard
1 pts
624
Nice Try
1 pts
625
Dillon Carmichael
1 pts
626
Wait For Love
1 pts
627
East Atlanta Love Letter
1 pts
628
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