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
Hive Mind
35 pts
54
Kids See Ghosts (Album)
35 pts
55
Redemption
35 pts
56
Con Todo El Mundo
34 pts
57
Singularity
34 pts
58
The Future and The Past
33 pts
59
Record
33 pts
60
Swimming
33 pts
61
Championships (Album)
33 pts
62
Mudboy
32 pts
63
Ephorize
32 pts
64
Ventriloquism
32 pts
65
66
Dying Star
29 pts
67
Bottle It In
29 pts
68
By the Way, I Forgive You
28 pts
69
Cocoa Sugar
28 pts
70
Devotion
28 pts
71
Magus
27 pts
72
Beyondless
27 pts
73
Sparkle Hard
25 pts
74
Us
25 pts
75
TA13OO
25 pts
76
Im All Ears
25 pts
77
Freedom
25 pts
78
Twin Fantasy
25 pts
79
The Sciences
25 pts
80
Loner
25 pts
81
Heaven
24 pts
82
LP5000
24 pts
83
Negro Swan
24 pts
84
Lavender
24 pts
85
Joy As An Act Of Resistance
23 pts
86
Negative Capability
23 pts
87
El Mal Querer
23 pts
88
And Nothing Hurt
23 pts
89
Errorzone
22 pts
90
Songs Of Praise
22 pts
91
Wanderer
22 pts
92
Only Love
22 pts
93
MITH
22 pts
94
Scorpion
21 pts
95
96
Dose Your Dreams
21 pts
97
Starfire
21 pts
98
Voicenotes
21 pts
99
May Your Kindness Remain
21 pts
101
Love Is Dead
21 pts
102
Desperate Man (Album)
20 pts
103
Universal Beings
20 pts
104
Blood
19 pts
105
Time & Space
19 pts
106
Victory Lap
18 pts
107
There’s A Riot Going On
18 pts
108
All At Once
18 pts
109
Konoyo
18 pts
110
Boarding House Reach
18 pts
111
You Won’t Get What You Want
18 pts
112
Now Only (Album)
18 pts
113
The Wake
17 pts
114
Golden (Album)
17 pts
115
Sparrow
17 pts
116
Little Dark Age
17 pts
117
Good Thing
17 pts
118
Cheer
17 pts
119
Dirty Pictures (Volume 2)
17 pts
120
Hippo Lite
17 pts
121
777
17 pts
122
The Midnight Hour
17 pts
123
No News Is Good News
17 pts
124
The Horizon Just Laughed
17 pts
125
Last Man Standing
16 pts
126
Wasteland
16 pts
127
Ye (Album)
16 pts
128
129
Springtime and Blind
16 pts
130
Noir
16 pts
131
Youngblood
15 pts
132
Piano + A Microphone, 1983
15 pts
133
The Pains Of Growing
15 pts
134
Veteran
15 pts
135
KOD
15 pts
136
Superorganism
15 pts
137
Stranger Fruit
15 pts
138
All Nerve
15 pts
139
No Shame
14 pts
140
Sex & Food
14 pts
141
Ultraviolet
14 pts
142
WARM
14 pts
143
God Level
14 pts
144
Twerp Verse
14 pts
145
Harlan & Alondra
13 pts
146
Love In Shadow
13 pts
147
Songs You Make At Night
13 pts
148
Le Kov
13 pts
149
Thank You For Today
13 pts
150
Landfall
13 pts
151
Die Lit
12 pts
152
Where We Were Together
12 pts
153
High As Hope
12 pts
154
155
Remain in Light
12 pts
156
On Watch
12 pts
157
Firepower
12 pts
158
Drank
12 pts
159
Vessel
12 pts
160
Pieces Of A Man
12 pts
161
Caution
12 pts
162
K.T.S.E.
11 pts
163
Broken Politics
11 pts
164
Paraffin
11 pts
165
Pillars
11 pts
166
Colt
11 pts
167
The Thread That Keeps Us
11 pts
168
Grid of Points
11 pts
169
Rifles & Rosary Beads
11 pts
170
Shawn Mendes
11 pts
171
Tha Carter V
11 pts
172
Fine But Dying
11 pts
173
Twin Cities Mix No. 11
10 pts
174
Saturn (Album)
10 pts
175
I’ll Sing
10 pts
176
Never Stop II
10 pts
177
Basement Beehive
10 pts
178
Arbiter
10 pts
179
Be More Kind
10 pts
180
Songs of the Plains
10 pts
181
Split
10 pts
182
183
Almost Persuaded
10 pts
184
Bellowing Sun
10 pts
185
Ecstatic Arrow
10 pts
186
Negro Swan
10 pts
187
Sister Cities
10 pts
188
Ouch
10 pts
189
YRU Still Here?
10 pts
190
Quiet & Peace
10 pts
191
Look Now
10 pts
192
Automata II
10 pts
193
Abysskiss
10 pts
194
Mutual Horse
10 pts
195
Manor Of Infinite Forms
10 pts
196
Hypnic Jerks
10 pts
197
Slide
10 pts
198
Aviary
10 pts
199
A Matter Of Time
10 pts
200
It Took the Shape of a Bird
10 pts
201
Still Trippin
10 pts
202
Prequelle
10 pts
203
Riddles
10 pts
204
Book Of Ryan
10 pts
206
Constant Image
10 pts
207
Radio Siwèl
9 pts
208
Sweet Bunch
9 pts
209
Code Girl
9 pts
210
The Drought
9 pts
211
Here Come the Runts
9 pts
212
Electric Light
9 pts
213
Suspiria
9 pts
214
4275
9 pts
215
Putting on Airs
9 pts
216
Essential Mix
9 pts
217
Everythings Fine
9 pts
218
The Crossing
9 pts
219
Omid
9 pts
220
Lord of the Desert
9 pts
221
Tantabara
9 pts
222
Pirouette EP
9 pts
223
Listening to Pictures
9 pts
224
DiCaprio 2
9 pts
225
Bambi (Album)
9 pts
226
The Now Now
9 pts
227
228
Goat Girl
9 pts
229
Forth Wanderers
9 pts
230
C’est La Vie
9 pts
231
Onion
9 pts
232
A Star Is Born OST
9 pts
233
Cannonball! (Album)
9 pts
234
Dreamers & Runaways
9 pts
235
Prisma Tropical
9 pts
236
237
Sex & Cigarettes
9 pts
238
Merrie Land
9 pts
240
Songs From The Lodge
9 pts
241
Left Hand
9 pts
242
The Insulated World
9 pts
243
Hope Dawns
9 pts
244
Longwave
9 pts
245
Theres Always Glimmer
9 pts
246
Bloom (Troye Album)
9 pts
247
Fury
9 pts
248
12 Little Spells
9 pts
249
No Dogs Allowed
9 pts
250
Indigo
9 pts
251
Feeding Frenzy
8 pts
252
Paranoid Fiction
8 pts
253
Spirit Crusher
8 pts
254
Gangland Landlord
8 pts
255
Poschiavo
8 pts
256
257
Nudes
8 pts
258
In Celebration Of Us
8 pts
259
Casual High Technology
8 pts
260
New York United
8 pts
261
Megative
8 pts
262
Burst Into Flame (Album)
8 pts
263
Magic Ship
8 pts
264
All That Must Be
8 pts
265
All I See Is War
8 pts
266
Dude, The Obscure
8 pts
267
Warrior
8 pts
268
Freedom’s Goblin
8 pts
269
Infernal
8 pts
270
Hundreds of Days
8 pts
271
Childqueen
8 pts
272
BbyShoe (EP)
8 pts
273
274
Goodbye & Good Riddance
8 pts
275
Expectations (Rexha)
8 pts
276
Angels of Death
8 pts
277
Nasty
8 pts
278
Live In Europe
8 pts
280
The Official Body
8 pts
281
Quit The Curse
8 pts
282
In Rounds
8 pts
283
Look
8 pts
284
Alive In The East?
7 pts
285
Summertime Songs
7 pts
286
287
Morose
7 pts
288
Channel Tres EP
7 pts
289
Everythangs Corrupt
7 pts
290
Hardly Electronic
7 pts
291
With Doom We Come
7 pts
292
Parts
7 pts
293
re: member
7 pts
294
295
The Pact
7 pts
296
Starebaby
7 pts
297
The Weeknd
7 pts
298
America’s Child
7 pts
299
Forever
7 pts
300
301
Premonitions
7 pts
302
303
Tina Snow
7 pts
304
Pinned
7 pts
305
Aura
7 pts
306
The Kicking Mule
7 pts
307
Mother Of My Children
7 pts
308
309
Providence Canyon
7 pts
310
Big Red Machine
7 pts
311
Hex
7 pts
312
Question Mark
7 pts
313
Samurai Japon
7 pts
314
QUARTERTHING
7 pts
316
Upside Down Flowers
7 pts
317
Call the Comet
7 pts
318
Burnt Sugar
7 pts
319
Endless Scroll
7 pts
320
321
Hɪðəˈtu
7 pts
322
Hunter (Album)
7 pts
323
Eat the Elephant
7 pts
324
Darlène
6 pts
325
The Tree
6 pts
326
Arthur Buck
6 pts
327
Pastoral
6 pts
328
Private Stock
6 pts
329
Kill The Lights
6 pts
330
I Like Fun
6 pts
331
Queen Of Time
6 pts
332
Lush Life
6 pts
333
Crack Mix 220 (July 20)
6 pts
334
Invisible Threads
6 pts
335
Awaken
6 pts
336
Utopia Teased
6 pts
337
Grapetooth
6 pts
338
Former Member
6 pts
339
Cosmic Crypt
6 pts
340
3X4
6 pts
341
The Kids Are Alright
6 pts
342
Simulation Theory
6 pts
343
Leikeli 47
6 pts
344
Both Directions at Once
6 pts
345
Rausch
6 pts
346
Untitled
6 pts
347
Focus
6 pts
348
349
350
Dime Bag
6 pts
351
Silver Dollar Moment
6 pts
352
Care
6 pts
353
Compro
6 pts
354
355
I’m Dreaming
6 pts
356
Sister Orchid
6 pts
357
My Mind Makes Noises
6 pts
359
360
Gone Away WIth A Friend
6 pts
361
Before U I Didnt Exist
6 pts
362
Empty Pool to No One
6 pts
363
Yene Alem
6 pts
364
Rare Birds
6 pts
365
Working Class Woman
6 pts
366
367
Fully Loaded
6 pts
368
Jumping Over Rocks
6 pts
369
370
Getting Better
5 pts
371
Wild! Wild! Wild!
5 pts
372
Bad Contestant
5 pts
373
Vanished Gardens
5 pts
374
November
5 pts
375
Old Ghost
5 pts
376
The Switch
5 pts
377
That Santa Fe Channel
5 pts
378
AFTER BACH
5 pts
379
Hollie Cook
5 pts
380
Cerebral Hemispheres
5 pts
381
Bimini Twist
5 pts
382
Emanon
5 pts
383
Cry Pretty (Album)
5 pts
384
Capture The Flag
5 pts
385
Hovvdy
5 pts
386
Cast Of Static And Smoke
5 pts
387
Loma
5 pts
388
Return Of The Trill
5 pts
389
Death Lust
5 pts
390
Sleepwalkers
5 pts
391
Blue Motel
5 pts
393
394
Living In Reverse
5 pts
395
Follow Them True
5 pts
396
Transangelic Exodus
5 pts
397
Ex:Re
5 pts
398
See You Around
5 pts
399
Thrice (EP)
5 pts
400
Mania
5 pts
401
Moon 2
5 pts
402
Black Ego
5 pts
403
Dove
5 pts
404
Lamp Lit Prose
5 pts
405
Find the Right Place
5 pts
406
Odds And Ends
5 pts
407
Willow
5 pts
408
Nothing to Loose
5 pts
409
Saved
5 pts
410
Sissel
5 pts
411
Lost & Found
5 pts
412
Gang Gang Dance
5 pts
413
Rhododendron
5 pts
414
415
Chrome Neon Jesus
5 pts
416
Captured
5 pts
417
Made an American
5 pts
418
Beautiful You
5 pts
419
Friendship
5 pts
420
Kin Sonic
5 pts
421
Dog Bless
5 pts
422
Vacation In Hell
5 pts
423
Freddie
5 pts
424
Birds of America
4 pts
425
Killer Machine
4 pts
426
Outside
4 pts
427
Expectations (Kiyoko)
4 pts
428
We’re Not Talking
4 pts
429
Everything Here
4 pts
430
Please Don’t Be Dead
4 pts
431
Temet
4 pts
432
Bloodgrass Vol. I & II
4 pts
433
Sparrow Nights
4 pts
434
Eve
4 pts
435
Love, Loss And Auto-Tune
4 pts
437
Genocidal Majesty
4 pts
438
439
Ethereality
4 pts
440
It’s Hard To Have Hope
4 pts
441
Civilisation
4 pts
442
Things Have Changed
4 pts
443
Cumbia City
4 pts
444
Years
4 pts
445
Pass If Music
4 pts
446
Obey
4 pts
447
There You Have It
4 pts
448
Donut County OST
4 pts
449
Art of Doubt
4 pts
450
451
Contraband Love
4 pts
453
Skinless X-1
4 pts
454
Exorcism
4 pts
455
Path
4 pts
456
Luca Brasi 3
4 pts
457
Quite A Life
4 pts
458
Heavy the Eclipse
4 pts
459
Here We Go Love
4 pts
460
Müntzers Stern / Solo II
4 pts
461
462
The Nude Party
4 pts
463
Charalambides
4 pts
464
The Blue Hour
4 pts
465
Somewhat Literate
4 pts
466
Skylight
4 pts
467
Year of the Snitch
4 pts
468
469
moon
4 pts
470
Trench
4 pts
471
Medicaid Fraud Dogg
4 pts
472
473
The Optimist
4 pts
474
In Heaven
4 pts
475
She Remembers Everything
4 pts
476
Lost Friends
4 pts
477
Bunny
4 pts
478
H.E.R.
3 pts
479
ION
3 pts
480
481
Bad Witch
3 pts
483
484
15
3 pts
485
Eli Keszler
3 pts
486
Master Volume
3 pts
487
Drowning In Daylight
3 pts
488
All Melody
3 pts
489
Soft Hell
3 pts
490
Beast Mode 2
3 pts
491
Period
3 pts
492
Drip Harder
3 pts
493
Being Human in Public
3 pts
494
Go To School
3 pts
495
Sixth House
3 pts
496
OnePointFive
3 pts
497
Wishing On The Moon
3 pts
498
Crush Crusher
3 pts
499
Jericho Sirens
3 pts
500
Corpse Fortress
3 pts
501
Sings His Sad Heart
3 pts
502
Collapse EP
3 pts
503
Destellos
3 pts
504
Oil Change
3 pts
505
Lionheart
3 pts
506
New Pocket
3 pts
507
Goners
3 pts
508
In Another Life
3 pts
509
Bought To Rot
3 pts
510
511
Fetti
3 pts
512
Cruel Magic
3 pts
514
Camila
3 pts
515
Stone Woman
3 pts
516
Port Saint Joe
3 pts
517
Egypt Station
3 pts
518
Panic Blooms
3 pts
519
Black Noise 2084
3 pts
520
Starcrawler
3 pts
521
Soyuz
3 pts
522
Cry No More
3 pts
523
Tommy Genesis
3 pts
524
200% Galcher
3 pts
525
526
Kelly Lee Owens
3 pts
527
Euringer
3 pts
528
KISS YR FRENEMIES
3 pts
529
MihTy
2 pts
530
TrapStar
2 pts
531
The Terror End of Beauty
2 pts
532
DROGAS Wave
2 pts
533
Down Below
2 pts
534
Bloom (Parisalexa Album)
2 pts
535
Black Light
2 pts
536
Perfect Shapes
2 pts
537
Pressure Cracks
2 pts
538
PRhyme 2
2 pts
539
Universal Care
2 pts
540
Displaced Diaspora
2 pts
541
Pink Eye
2 pts
542
Yesterday Was Forever
2 pts
543
Lo Improvisado
2 pts
544
Rock Island
2 pts
545
Shiroi
2 pts
546
Towards The Shadow
2 pts
547
Quebra Cabeça
2 pts
548
If All I Was Was Black
2 pts
549
Green Ways
2 pts
550
Orients
2 pts
551
Siblings
2 pts
552
What Heaven Is Like
2 pts
553
Vide Noir
2 pts
554
Love In The Wind
2 pts
555
556
Tell No One
2 pts
557
558
High on Fire
2 pts
559
Aru Otoko No Densetsu
2 pts
560
561
AMR
2 pts
562
Discwoman 52 (August 22)
2 pts
563
In The Rainbow Rain
2 pts
564
Kasvot Växt: í rokk
2 pts
565
Warm Drag
2 pts
566
TESTING
2 pts
567
Do Or Die
2 pts
568
Its a New Day Tonight
2 pts
569
Volume 2
2 pts
570
Latinoamericana
2 pts
571
Blueprint
2 pts
572
Two Parts Together
2 pts
573
Mr. Jukebox
2 pts
574
2042
2 pts
575
Inferno Deathpassion
1 pts
576
The Fuzz EP
1 pts
577
578
Dear Annie
1 pts
579
580
Halloween
1 pts
581
Vector
1 pts
582
583
While We’re At It
1 pts
584
Chime
1 pts
585
East Atlanta Love Letter
1 pts
586
587
Shooter
1 pts
588
Magic Gone
1 pts
589
Wait For Love
1 pts
590
BloodCrush
1 pts
591
Taika Tapahtuu
1 pts
592
Dream Wife (Album)
1 pts
593
594
Mariachi Static
1 pts
595
Body Of Work
1 pts
596
Hormone Lemonade
1 pts
597
GOOD Job, You Found Me
1 pts
598
Currents, Constellations
1 pts
599
Phoenix
1 pts
600
Girl Code
1 pts
601
Sensitive G
1 pts
602
603
Schmaltz
1 pts
604
605
Find a Light
1 pts
606
Healing Tide
1 pts
607
2 Heartless
1 pts
608
Oxnard
1 pts
609
Super Silver
1 pts
610
People of the Sun
1 pts
611
612
What Is Love?
1 pts
613
Pasar De Las Luces
1 pts
614
Snares Like a Haircut
1 pts
616
Nice Try
1 pts
617
Nyctophilia
1 pts
618
Once
1 pts
619
620
621
AmeriKKKant
1 pts
622
The Return
1 pts
623
I Need To Start a Garden
1 pts
624
Ecce Homo (Touch)
1 pts
625
Dillon Carmichael
1 pts
626
Silk Canvas
1 pts
627
Galapagos
1 pts
628
Hellions of Fire
1 pts
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