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
Iridescence
36 pts
53
Redemption
35 pts
54
Kids See Ghosts (Album)
35 pts
55
Hive Mind
35 pts
56
Con Todo El Mundo
34 pts
57
Singularity
34 pts
58
Swimming
33 pts
59
Championships (Album)
33 pts
60
The Future and The Past
33 pts
61
Record
33 pts
62
Ephorize
32 pts
63
Mudboy
32 pts
64
Ventriloquism
32 pts
65
66
Dying Star
29 pts
67
Bottle It In
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
Twin Fantasy
25 pts
74
Sparkle Hard
25 pts
75
The Sciences
25 pts
76
Us
25 pts
77
Loner
25 pts
78
Freedom
25 pts
79
TA13OO
25 pts
80
Im All Ears
25 pts
81
LP5000
24 pts
82
Heaven
24 pts
83
Negro Swan
24 pts
84
Lavender
24 pts
85
Joy As An Act Of Resistance
23 pts
86
El Mal Querer
23 pts
87
Negative Capability
23 pts
88
And Nothing Hurt
23 pts
89
MITH
22 pts
90
Wanderer
22 pts
91
Songs Of Praise
22 pts
92
Only Love
22 pts
93
Errorzone
22 pts
95
Dose Your Dreams
21 pts
96
Love Is Dead
21 pts
97
May Your Kindness Remain
21 pts
98
Starfire
21 pts
99
Voicenotes
21 pts
100
Scorpion
21 pts
101
102
Universal Beings
20 pts
103
Desperate Man (Album)
20 pts
104
Blood
19 pts
105
Time & Space
19 pts
106
You Won’t Get What You Want
18 pts
107
There’s A Riot Going On
18 pts
108
Konoyo
18 pts
109
Victory Lap
18 pts
110
Now Only (Album)
18 pts
111
All At Once
18 pts
112
Boarding House Reach
18 pts
113
Good Thing
17 pts
114
The Wake
17 pts
115
No News Is Good News
17 pts
116
Golden (Album)
17 pts
117
Hippo Lite
17 pts
118
Cheer
17 pts
119
The Midnight Hour
17 pts
120
Sparrow
17 pts
121
Dirty Pictures (Volume 2)
17 pts
122
The Horizon Just Laughed
17 pts
123
777
17 pts
124
Little Dark Age
17 pts
125
Springtime and Blind
16 pts
126
Noir
16 pts
127
128
Last Man Standing
16 pts
129
Ye (Album)
16 pts
130
Wasteland
16 pts
131
Veteran
15 pts
132
All Nerve
15 pts
133
Superorganism
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
God Level
14 pts
140
Sex & Food
14 pts
141
No Shame
14 pts
142
Ultraviolet
14 pts
143
WARM
14 pts
144
Twerp Verse
14 pts
145
Thank You For Today
13 pts
146
Landfall
13 pts
147
Love In Shadow
13 pts
148
Harlan & Alondra
13 pts
149
Le Kov
13 pts
150
Songs You Make At Night
13 pts
151
Vessel
12 pts
152
153
On Watch
12 pts
154
Caution
12 pts
155
Drank
12 pts
156
Firepower
12 pts
157
Pieces Of A Man
12 pts
158
Where We Were Together
12 pts
159
Die Lit
12 pts
160
Remain in Light
12 pts
161
High As Hope
12 pts
162
Grid of Points
11 pts
163
Rifles & Rosary Beads
11 pts
164
Pillars
11 pts
165
Colt
11 pts
166
K.T.S.E.
11 pts
167
The Thread That Keeps Us
11 pts
168
Shawn Mendes
11 pts
169
Broken Politics
11 pts
170
Tha Carter V
11 pts
171
Fine But Dying
11 pts
172
Paraffin
11 pts
173
Negro Swan
10 pts
174
Sister Cities
10 pts
175
Ouch
10 pts
176
Look Now
10 pts
177
Split
10 pts
178
Almost Persuaded
10 pts
179
Bellowing Sun
10 pts
180
Basement Beehive
10 pts
181
Abysskiss
10 pts
182
I’ll Sing
10 pts
183
Ecstatic Arrow
10 pts
184
Twin Cities Mix No. 11
10 pts
186
Slide
10 pts
187
Be More Kind
10 pts
188
Never Stop II
10 pts
189
Constant Image
10 pts
190
Book Of Ryan
10 pts
191
A Matter Of Time
10 pts
192
Aviary
10 pts
193
Arbiter
10 pts
194
Still Trippin
10 pts
195
It Took the Shape of a Bird
10 pts
196
Riddles
10 pts
197
Mutual Horse
10 pts
198
Automata II
10 pts
199
Quiet & Peace
10 pts
200
201
Songs of the Plains
10 pts
202
Saturn (Album)
10 pts
203
Manor Of Infinite Forms
10 pts
204
Prequelle
10 pts
205
Hypnic Jerks
10 pts
206
YRU Still Here?
10 pts
207
Here Come the Runts
9 pts
208
Dreamers & Runaways
9 pts
209
4275
9 pts
210
Hope Dawns
9 pts
211
Songs From The Lodge
9 pts
212
Electric Light
9 pts
213
DiCaprio 2
9 pts
214
Prisma Tropical
9 pts
215
Lord of the Desert
9 pts
216
217
A Star Is Born OST
9 pts
218
Bambi (Album)
9 pts
219
The Insulated World
9 pts
220
Cannonball! (Album)
9 pts
221
Putting on Airs
9 pts
222
Omid
9 pts
223
Sweet Bunch
9 pts
224
Listening to Pictures
9 pts
225
The Crossing
9 pts
226
The Now Now
9 pts
227
Essential Mix
9 pts
228
No Dogs Allowed
9 pts
229
Bloom (Troye Album)
9 pts
230
Theres Always Glimmer
9 pts
231
Sex & Cigarettes
9 pts
232
Onion
9 pts
234
The Drought
9 pts
235
Suspiria
9 pts
236
C’est La Vie
9 pts
237
Code Girl
9 pts
238
Forth Wanderers
9 pts
239
Indigo
9 pts
240
Everythings Fine
9 pts
241
Fury
9 pts
242
Pirouette EP
9 pts
243
12 Little Spells
9 pts
244
Longwave
9 pts
245
246
Radio Siwèl
9 pts
247
Tantabara
9 pts
248
Left Hand
9 pts
249
Merrie Land
9 pts
250
Goat Girl
9 pts
251
New York United
8 pts
252
Live In Europe
8 pts
253
254
Look
8 pts
255
256
In Celebration Of Us
8 pts
257
Warrior
8 pts
258
All I See Is War
8 pts
259
In Rounds
8 pts
260
Casual High Technology
8 pts
261
Paranoid Fiction
8 pts
262
Feeding Frenzy
8 pts
263
Spirit Crusher
8 pts
264
Childqueen
8 pts
265
Poschiavo
8 pts
266
Nasty
8 pts
267
Quit The Curse
8 pts
268
Infernal
8 pts
269
BbyShoe (EP)
8 pts
270
Hundreds of Days
8 pts
271
Nudes
8 pts
272
The Official Body
8 pts
273
All That Must Be
8 pts
274
Freedom’s Goblin
8 pts
275
Expectations (Rexha)
8 pts
276
Goodbye & Good Riddance
8 pts
277
Megative
8 pts
278
Gangland Landlord
8 pts
279
Angels of Death
8 pts
280
Burst Into Flame (Album)
8 pts
281
Dude, The Obscure
8 pts
283
Magic Ship
8 pts
284
285
286
Morose
7 pts
287
Channel Tres EP
7 pts
288
America’s Child
7 pts
289
Premonitions
7 pts
290
Tina Snow
7 pts
291
Hardly Electronic
7 pts
292
With Doom We Come
7 pts
293
Eat the Elephant
7 pts
294
Alive In The East?
7 pts
295
The Pact
7 pts
296
The Kicking Mule
7 pts
297
Everythangs Corrupt
7 pts
298
Question Mark
7 pts
299
300
Big Red Machine
7 pts
301
Samurai Japon
7 pts
302
Providence Canyon
7 pts
303
Upside Down Flowers
7 pts
304
Hɪðəˈtu
7 pts
305
QUARTERTHING
7 pts
307
Call the Comet
7 pts
308
Starebaby
7 pts
309
Endless Scroll
7 pts
310
The Weeknd
7 pts
311
Burnt Sugar
7 pts
312
Forever
7 pts
313
re: member
7 pts
314
315
Hunter (Album)
7 pts
316
Summertime Songs
7 pts
317
Mother Of My Children
7 pts
318
Aura
7 pts
319
320
Hex
7 pts
321
322
Parts
7 pts
323
Pinned
7 pts
324
Silver Dollar Moment
6 pts
325
Kill The Lights
6 pts
326
Gone Away WIth A Friend
6 pts
327
Rausch
6 pts
328
Dime Bag
6 pts
330
Untitled
6 pts
331
Lush Life
6 pts
332
I’m Dreaming
6 pts
333
Crack Mix 220 (July 20)
6 pts
334
3X4
6 pts
335
Empty Pool to No One
6 pts
336
The Kids Are Alright
6 pts
337
Compro
6 pts
338
Cosmic Crypt
6 pts
339
Pastoral
6 pts
340
Focus
6 pts
341
342
343
Queen Of Time
6 pts
344
Awaken
6 pts
345
Jumping Over Rocks
6 pts
346
Private Stock
6 pts
347
348
Arthur Buck
6 pts
349
Darlène
6 pts
350
Both Directions at Once
6 pts
351
Invisible Threads
6 pts
352
Former Member
6 pts
353
Care
6 pts
354
Rare Birds
6 pts
355
Yene Alem
6 pts
356
Before U I Didnt Exist
6 pts
357
Working Class Woman
6 pts
358
I Like Fun
6 pts
359
The Tree
6 pts
360
Utopia Teased
6 pts
361
362
363
Fully Loaded
6 pts
364
Simulation Theory
6 pts
365
Grapetooth
6 pts
366
Sister Orchid
6 pts
367
Leikeli 47
6 pts
368
My Mind Makes Noises
6 pts
369
Return Of The Trill
5 pts
370
Vanished Gardens
5 pts
372
Ex:Re
5 pts
373
Loma
5 pts
374
Bad Contestant
5 pts
375
Transangelic Exodus
5 pts
376
Old Ghost
5 pts
377
Cast Of Static And Smoke
5 pts
378
379
That Santa Fe Channel
5 pts
380
Follow Them True
5 pts
381
Death Lust
5 pts
382
Cry Pretty (Album)
5 pts
383
Sleepwalkers
5 pts
384
385
November
5 pts
386
Hollie Cook
5 pts
387
The Switch
5 pts
388
Blue Motel
5 pts
389
Living In Reverse
5 pts
390
Cerebral Hemispheres
5 pts
391
Hovvdy
5 pts
392
Capture The Flag
5 pts
393
Getting Better
5 pts
394
Emanon
5 pts
395
Bimini Twist
5 pts
396
Wild! Wild! Wild!
5 pts
397
AFTER BACH
5 pts
398
See You Around
5 pts
399
Rhododendron
5 pts
400
Sissel
5 pts
401
Black Ego
5 pts
402
Odds And Ends
5 pts
403
Mania
5 pts
404
Find the Right Place
5 pts
405
406
Saved
5 pts
407
Gang Gang Dance
5 pts
408
Willow
5 pts
409
Nothing to Loose
5 pts
410
Dove
5 pts
411
Moon 2
5 pts
412
Lamp Lit Prose
5 pts
413
Vacation In Hell
5 pts
414
Captured
5 pts
415
Lost & Found
5 pts
416
Freddie
5 pts
417
Beautiful You
5 pts
418
Made an American
5 pts
419
Chrome Neon Jesus
5 pts
420
Kin Sonic
5 pts
421
Thrice (EP)
5 pts
422
Friendship
5 pts
423
Dog Bless
5 pts
424
Birds of America
4 pts
425
Everything Here
4 pts
426
Ethereality
4 pts
427
Please Don’t Be Dead
4 pts
428
Expectations (Kiyoko)
4 pts
429
Bloodgrass Vol. I & II
4 pts
430
Contraband Love
4 pts
431
Temet
4 pts
433
Civilisation
4 pts
434
Outside
4 pts
435
There You Have It
4 pts
436
Donut County OST
4 pts
437
Love, Loss And Auto-Tune
4 pts
438
Sparrow Nights
4 pts
439
440
Eve
4 pts
441
Cumbia City
4 pts
442
Obey
4 pts
443
444
Years
4 pts
445
Pass If Music
4 pts
446
Art of Doubt
4 pts
447
Things Have Changed
4 pts
448
moon
4 pts
449
Genocidal Majesty
4 pts
450
In Heaven (2018)
4 pts
451
We’re Not Talking
4 pts
452
Quite A Life
4 pts
453
The Optimist
4 pts
454
455
Year of the Snitch
4 pts
456
Skylight
4 pts
457
Somewhat Literate
4 pts
458
The Blue Hour
4 pts
459
Exorcism
4 pts
460
It’s Hard To Have Hope
4 pts
461
462
Charalambides
4 pts
463
Luca Brasi 3
4 pts
464
Path
4 pts
465
Here We Go Love
4 pts
466
Heavy the Eclipse
4 pts
467
The Nude Party
4 pts
468
Müntzers Stern / Solo II
4 pts
469
She Remembers Everything
4 pts
471
Killer Machine
4 pts
472
Bunny
4 pts
473
Skinless X-1
4 pts
474
475
Lost Friends
4 pts
476
Trench
4 pts
477
Medicaid Fraud Dogg
4 pts
478
Jericho Sirens
3 pts
479
H.E.R.
3 pts
480
Drowning In Daylight
3 pts
481
New Pocket
3 pts
482
Destellos
3 pts
483
Master Volume
3 pts
484
Eli Keszler
3 pts
485
486
Being Human in Public
3 pts
488
489
Period
3 pts
490
ION
3 pts
491
Go To School
3 pts
492
Beast Mode 2
3 pts
493
Collapse EP
3 pts
494
Oil Change
3 pts
495
Lionheart
3 pts
496
Panic Blooms
3 pts
497
Sixth House
3 pts
498
Drip Harder
3 pts
499
Crush Crusher
3 pts
500
Corpse Fortress
3 pts
501
Wishing On The Moon
3 pts
502
Cry No More
3 pts
503
Sings His Sad Heart
3 pts
504
OnePointFive
3 pts
505
200% Galcher
3 pts
506
All Melody
3 pts
507
15
3 pts
508
Soft Hell
3 pts
509
KISS YR FRENEMIES
3 pts
510
Tommy Genesis
3 pts
511
Black Noise 2084
3 pts
512
Bought To Rot
3 pts
513
Starcrawler
3 pts
514
In Another Life
3 pts
515
Cruel Magic
3 pts
517
Stone Woman
3 pts
518
Egypt Station
3 pts
519
Camila
3 pts
520
Goners
3 pts
521
Port Saint Joe
3 pts
522
Soyuz
3 pts
523
Euringer
3 pts
524
525
Bad Witch
3 pts
526
527
Kelly Lee Owens
3 pts
528
Fetti
3 pts
529
Discwoman 52 (August 22)
2 pts
530
What Heaven Is Like
2 pts
531
DROGAS Wave
2 pts
532
TrapStar
2 pts
533
534
High on Fire
2 pts
535
AMR
2 pts
536
PRhyme 2
2 pts
537
Pressure Cracks
2 pts
538
Rock Island
2 pts
539
Displaced Diaspora
2 pts
540
Do Or Die
2 pts
541
Shiroi
2 pts
542
Green Ways
2 pts
543
Quebra Cabeça
2 pts
544
Lo Improvisado
2 pts
545
Mr. Jukebox
2 pts
546
Pink Eye
2 pts
547
Volume 2
2 pts
548
Black Light
2 pts
549
Yesterday Was Forever
2 pts
550
Warm Drag
2 pts
551
Universal Care
2 pts
552
MihTy
2 pts
553
In The Rainbow Rain
2 pts
554
Down Below
2 pts
555
Perfect Shapes
2 pts
556
Love In The Wind
2 pts
557
Vide Noir
2 pts
558
Kasvot Växt: í rokk
2 pts
559
Blueprint
2 pts
560
Latinoamericana
2 pts
561
TESTING
2 pts
562
Its a New Day Tonight
2 pts
563
Towards The Shadow
2 pts
564
If All I Was Was Black
2 pts
565
Aru Otoko No Densetsu
2 pts
566
567
Tell No One
2 pts
568
2042
2 pts
569
Two Parts Together
2 pts
570
The Terror End of Beauty
2 pts
571
Siblings
2 pts
572
Bloom (Parisalexa Album)
2 pts
573
Orients
2 pts
574
575
576
East Atlanta Love Letter
1 pts
577
Healing Tide
1 pts
578
Wait For Love
1 pts
579
Phoenix
1 pts
580
Halloween
1 pts
581
2 Heartless
1 pts
582
Inferno Deathpassion
1 pts
583
Shooter
1 pts
584
AmeriKKKant
1 pts
585
586
Vector
1 pts
587
Dear Annie
1 pts
588
589
The Fuzz EP
1 pts
590
Magic Gone
1 pts
591
592
GOOD Job, You Found Me
1 pts
593
Currents, Constellations
1 pts
594
Schmaltz
1 pts
595
Dillon Carmichael
1 pts
596
Chime
1 pts
597
I Need To Start a Garden
1 pts
598
While We’re At It
1 pts
599
Dream Wife (Album)
1 pts
600
Silk Canvas
1 pts
601
Super Silver
1 pts
602
Girl Code
1 pts
603
Ecce Homo (Touch)
1 pts
604
Oxnard
1 pts
605
The Return
1 pts
606
BloodCrush
1 pts
607
Once
1 pts
608
609
610
611
Nice Try
1 pts
612
613
Snares Like a Haircut
1 pts
614
Taika Tapahtuu
1 pts
615
Sensitive G
1 pts
617
Mariachi Static
1 pts
618
What Is Love?
1 pts
619
Nyctophilia
1 pts
620
Pasar De Las Luces
1 pts
621
People of the Sun
1 pts
622
Hormone Lemonade
1 pts
623
Hellions of Fire
1 pts
624
Body Of Work
1 pts
625
626
Galapagos
1 pts
627
628
Find a Light
1 pts
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