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
Kids See Ghosts (Album)
35 pts
55
Hive Mind
35 pts
56
Con Todo El Mundo
34 pts
57
Singularity
34 pts
58
The Future and The Past
33 pts
59
Championships (Album)
33 pts
60
Record
33 pts
61
Swimming
33 pts
62
Ventriloquism
32 pts
63
Mudboy
32 pts
64
Ephorize
32 pts
65
66
Bottle It In
29 pts
67
Dying Star
29 pts
68
Cocoa Sugar
28 pts
69
Devotion
28 pts
70
By the Way, I Forgive You
28 pts
71
Magus
27 pts
72
Beyondless
27 pts
73
Us
25 pts
74
The Sciences
25 pts
75
TA13OO
25 pts
76
Freedom
25 pts
77
Twin Fantasy
25 pts
78
Im All Ears
25 pts
79
Sparkle Hard
25 pts
80
Loner
25 pts
81
LP5000
24 pts
82
Lavender
24 pts
83
Heaven
24 pts
84
Negro Swan
24 pts
85
Negative Capability
23 pts
86
El Mal Querer
23 pts
87
And Nothing Hurt
23 pts
88
Joy As An Act Of Resistance
23 pts
89
Songs Of Praise
22 pts
90
Only Love
22 pts
91
Wanderer
22 pts
92
Errorzone
22 pts
93
MITH
22 pts
94
Voicenotes
21 pts
95
May Your Kindness Remain
21 pts
96
Love Is Dead
21 pts
98
Scorpion
21 pts
99
100
Starfire
21 pts
101
Dose Your Dreams
21 pts
102
Desperate Man (Album)
20 pts
103
Universal Beings
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
Victory Lap
18 pts
109
All At Once
18 pts
110
Now Only (Album)
18 pts
111
Boarding House Reach
18 pts
112
Konoyo
18 pts
113
Cheer
17 pts
114
The Horizon Just Laughed
17 pts
115
777
17 pts
116
No News Is Good News
17 pts
117
Good Thing
17 pts
118
Sparrow
17 pts
119
The Midnight Hour
17 pts
120
Golden (Album)
17 pts
121
Little Dark Age
17 pts
122
Dirty Pictures (Volume 2)
17 pts
123
Hippo Lite
17 pts
124
The Wake
17 pts
125
Ye (Album)
16 pts
126
Springtime and Blind
16 pts
127
Last Man Standing
16 pts
128
Wasteland
16 pts
129
Noir
16 pts
130
131
The Pains Of Growing
15 pts
132
Veteran
15 pts
133
Youngblood
15 pts
134
KOD
15 pts
135
All Nerve
15 pts
136
Piano + A Microphone, 1983
15 pts
137
Superorganism
15 pts
138
Stranger Fruit
15 pts
139
Sex & Food
14 pts
140
Ultraviolet
14 pts
141
God Level
14 pts
142
WARM
14 pts
143
Twerp Verse
14 pts
144
No Shame
14 pts
145
Thank You For Today
13 pts
146
Le Kov
13 pts
147
Songs You Make At Night
13 pts
148
Love In Shadow
13 pts
149
Harlan & Alondra
13 pts
150
Landfall
13 pts
151
152
On Watch
12 pts
153
Caution
12 pts
154
Firepower
12 pts
155
Remain in Light
12 pts
156
Vessel
12 pts
157
Where We Were Together
12 pts
158
Drank
12 pts
159
Die Lit
12 pts
160
High As Hope
12 pts
161
Pieces Of A Man
12 pts
162
Tha Carter V
11 pts
163
The Thread That Keeps Us
11 pts
164
Grid of Points
11 pts
165
Fine But Dying
11 pts
166
Shawn Mendes
11 pts
167
Colt
11 pts
168
Rifles & Rosary Beads
11 pts
169
Pillars
11 pts
170
Paraffin
11 pts
171
K.T.S.E.
11 pts
172
Broken Politics
11 pts
173
Abysskiss
10 pts
174
Slide
10 pts
175
Almost Persuaded
10 pts
176
Aviary
10 pts
177
I’ll Sing
10 pts
178
Never Stop II
10 pts
179
Sister Cities
10 pts
180
Saturn (Album)
10 pts
181
Ecstatic Arrow
10 pts
182
Negro Swan
10 pts
183
Bellowing Sun
10 pts
184
Ouch
10 pts
185
Look Now
10 pts
186
Twin Cities Mix No. 11
10 pts
187
Be More Kind
10 pts
188
YRU Still Here?
10 pts
189
Quiet & Peace
10 pts
190
Automata II
10 pts
191
Mutual Horse
10 pts
192
Hypnic Jerks
10 pts
193
Manor Of Infinite Forms
10 pts
194
It Took the Shape of a Bird
10 pts
196
Split
10 pts
197
A Matter Of Time
10 pts
198
Basement Beehive
10 pts
199
Book Of Ryan
10 pts
200
Riddles
10 pts
201
Still Trippin
10 pts
202
Arbiter
10 pts
203
204
Constant Image
10 pts
205
Songs of the Plains
10 pts
206
Prequelle
10 pts
207
Cannonball! (Album)
9 pts
208
Forth Wanderers
9 pts
209
Dreamers & Runaways
9 pts
210
Pirouette EP
9 pts
211
Here Come the Runts
9 pts
212
4275
9 pts
213
Electric Light
9 pts
214
The Drought
9 pts
215
Sweet Bunch
9 pts
216
Left Hand
9 pts
217
Longwave
9 pts
218
The Crossing
9 pts
219
Putting on Airs
9 pts
220
The Insulated World
9 pts
221
222
Prisma Tropical
9 pts
223
Listening to Pictures
9 pts
224
Lord of the Desert
9 pts
225
Omid
9 pts
226
Radio Siwèl
9 pts
227
A Star Is Born OST
9 pts
228
Everythings Fine
9 pts
229
Bambi (Album)
9 pts
230
Theres Always Glimmer
9 pts
231
The Now Now
9 pts
232
233
Essential Mix
9 pts
234
Songs From The Lodge
9 pts
235
Code Girl
9 pts
236
Goat Girl
9 pts
237
C’est La Vie
9 pts
238
12 Little Spells
9 pts
239
No Dogs Allowed
9 pts
240
Bloom (Troye Album)
9 pts
241
Sex & Cigarettes
9 pts
242
Merrie Land
9 pts
243
DiCaprio 2
9 pts
244
Hope Dawns
9 pts
245
Suspiria
9 pts
246
Fury
9 pts
247
Tantabara
9 pts
248
Indigo
9 pts
249
Onion
9 pts
251
Nasty
8 pts
252
All That Must Be
8 pts
253
New York United
8 pts
254
Expectations (Rexha)
8 pts
255
Childqueen
8 pts
257
258
Dude, The Obscure
8 pts
259
260
Paranoid Fiction
8 pts
261
In Celebration Of Us
8 pts
262
Casual High Technology
8 pts
263
All I See Is War
8 pts
264
Live In Europe
8 pts
265
Angels of Death
8 pts
266
BbyShoe (EP)
8 pts
267
Warrior
8 pts
268
Burst Into Flame (Album)
8 pts
269
Poschiavo
8 pts
270
Nudes
8 pts
271
The Official Body
8 pts
272
In Rounds
8 pts
273
Feeding Frenzy
8 pts
274
Gangland Landlord
8 pts
275
Quit The Curse
8 pts
276
Spirit Crusher
8 pts
277
Look
8 pts
278
Hundreds of Days
8 pts
279
Freedom’s Goblin
8 pts
280
Magic Ship
8 pts
281
Infernal
8 pts
282
Megative
8 pts
283
Goodbye & Good Riddance
8 pts
284
Premonitions
7 pts
285
America’s Child
7 pts
286
With Doom We Come
7 pts
287
Hardly Electronic
7 pts
288
Forever
7 pts
289
Eat the Elephant
7 pts
290
291
Parts
7 pts
292
re: member
7 pts
293
Summertime Songs
7 pts
294
295
296
Tina Snow
7 pts
297
Channel Tres EP
7 pts
298
Alive In The East?
7 pts
299
Morose
7 pts
300
The Pact
7 pts
301
The Kicking Mule
7 pts
302
Everythangs Corrupt
7 pts
303
Samurai Japon
7 pts
304
Burnt Sugar
7 pts
305
Endless Scroll
7 pts
306
Pinned
7 pts
308
Big Red Machine
7 pts
309
Call the Comet
7 pts
310
311
QUARTERTHING
7 pts
312
The Weeknd
7 pts
313
Starebaby
7 pts
314
Hex
7 pts
315
Mother Of My Children
7 pts
316
317
Hunter (Album)
7 pts
318
Hɪðəˈtu
7 pts
319
320
Upside Down Flowers
7 pts
321
Question Mark
7 pts
322
Aura
7 pts
323
Providence Canyon
7 pts
324
I Like Fun
6 pts
325
Utopia Teased
6 pts
326
Compro
6 pts
327
Kill The Lights
6 pts
328
Grapetooth
6 pts
329
Silver Dollar Moment
6 pts
330
3X4
6 pts
331
Leikeli 47
6 pts
332
Pastoral
6 pts
333
Simulation Theory
6 pts
334
Cosmic Crypt
6 pts
335
The Tree
6 pts
336
The Kids Are Alright
6 pts
337
Private Stock
6 pts
339
Jumping Over Rocks
6 pts
340
Rausch
6 pts
341
Focus
6 pts
342
Gone Away WIth A Friend
6 pts
343
344
345
Queen Of Time
6 pts
346
Both Directions at Once
6 pts
347
Dime Bag
6 pts
348
Yene Alem
6 pts
349
My Mind Makes Noises
6 pts
350
Before U I Didnt Exist
6 pts
351
352
Lush Life
6 pts
353
Empty Pool to No One
6 pts
354
355
Crack Mix 220 (July 20)
6 pts
356
Working Class Woman
6 pts
357
Untitled
6 pts
358
Former Member
6 pts
359
Arthur Buck
6 pts
360
361
Darlène
6 pts
362
Awaken
6 pts
363
Rare Birds
6 pts
364
Sister Orchid
6 pts
365
Care
6 pts
366
Fully Loaded
6 pts
367
Invisible Threads
6 pts
368
I’m Dreaming
6 pts
369
Old Ghost
5 pts
370
Transangelic Exodus
5 pts
371
Bad Contestant
5 pts
372
Ex:Re
5 pts
373
Vanished Gardens
5 pts
374
Return Of The Trill
5 pts
375
Capture The Flag
5 pts
376
Getting Better
5 pts
377
Follow Them True
5 pts
378
Emanon
5 pts
379
Sleepwalkers
5 pts
380
Bimini Twist
5 pts
381
The Switch
5 pts
382
Cry Pretty (Album)
5 pts
383
Death Lust
5 pts
384
That Santa Fe Channel
5 pts
386
Loma
5 pts
387
388
November
5 pts
389
Living In Reverse
5 pts
390
Hovvdy
5 pts
391
Hollie Cook
5 pts
392
Blue Motel
5 pts
393
394
Cast Of Static And Smoke
5 pts
395
Wild! Wild! Wild!
5 pts
396
Cerebral Hemispheres
5 pts
397
See You Around
5 pts
398
AFTER BACH
5 pts
399
Saved
5 pts
400
401
Lamp Lit Prose
5 pts
402
Nothing to Loose
5 pts
403
Sissel
5 pts
404
Lost & Found
5 pts
405
Odds And Ends
5 pts
406
Dove
5 pts
407
Black Ego
5 pts
408
Willow
5 pts
409
Mania
5 pts
410
Gang Gang Dance
5 pts
411
Moon 2
5 pts
412
Freddie
5 pts
413
Find the Right Place
5 pts
414
Friendship
5 pts
415
Kin Sonic
5 pts
416
Captured
5 pts
417
Thrice (EP)
5 pts
418
Beautiful You
5 pts
419
Chrome Neon Jesus
5 pts
420
Vacation In Hell
5 pts
421
Made an American
5 pts
422
Dog Bless
5 pts
423
Rhododendron
5 pts
424
Expectations (Kiyoko)
4 pts
425
Temet
4 pts
426
Everything Here
4 pts
427
We’re Not Talking
4 pts
428
Please Don’t Be Dead
4 pts
429
Birds of America
4 pts
430
Donut County OST
4 pts
431
Bloodgrass Vol. I & II
4 pts
432
433
Outside
4 pts
434
Things Have Changed
4 pts
435
Ethereality
4 pts
437
Civilisation
4 pts
438
Love, Loss And Auto-Tune
4 pts
439
440
Years
4 pts
441
Genocidal Majesty
4 pts
442
Eve
4 pts
443
Pass If Music
4 pts
444
There You Have It
4 pts
445
Sparrow Nights
4 pts
446
Art of Doubt
4 pts
447
Obey
4 pts
448
Cumbia City
4 pts
449
Contraband Love
4 pts
451
Quite A Life
4 pts
452
moon
4 pts
453
454
Year of the Snitch
4 pts
455
Skylight
4 pts
456
Somewhat Literate
4 pts
457
Exorcism
4 pts
458
The Blue Hour
4 pts
459
It’s Hard To Have Hope
4 pts
460
Charalambides
4 pts
461
462
Luca Brasi 3
4 pts
463
Skinless X-1
4 pts
464
Here We Go Love
4 pts
465
Heavy the Eclipse
4 pts
466
Müntzers Stern / Solo II
4 pts
467
Path
4 pts
468
The Nude Party
4 pts
469
She Remembers Everything
4 pts
470
Killer Machine
4 pts
471
Bunny
4 pts
472
Medicaid Fraud Dogg
4 pts
473
474
Lost Friends
4 pts
475
Trench
4 pts
476
The Optimist
4 pts
477
In Heaven
4 pts
478
Go To School
3 pts
479
Soft Hell
3 pts
480
New Pocket
3 pts
481
Drowning In Daylight
3 pts
482
483
Jericho Sirens
3 pts
484
Master Volume
3 pts
485
Corpse Fortress
3 pts
486
Being Human in Public
3 pts
487
Eli Keszler
3 pts
489
Destellos
3 pts
490
ION
3 pts
491
All Melody
3 pts
492
493
Sings His Sad Heart
3 pts
494
200% Galcher
3 pts
495
Period
3 pts
496
H.E.R.
3 pts
497
Oil Change
3 pts
498
Collapse EP
3 pts
499
Beast Mode 2
3 pts
500
Drip Harder
3 pts
501
Lionheart
3 pts
502
OnePointFive
3 pts
503
Panic Blooms
3 pts
504
Wishing On The Moon
3 pts
505
Crush Crusher
3 pts
506
Sixth House
3 pts
507
15
3 pts
508
In Another Life
3 pts
509
Soyuz
3 pts
510
Bought To Rot
3 pts
511
Starcrawler
3 pts
512
Cruel Magic
3 pts
514
Egypt Station
3 pts
515
Cry No More
3 pts
516
Stone Woman
3 pts
517
Goners
3 pts
518
Tommy Genesis
3 pts
519
Camila
3 pts
520
Port Saint Joe
3 pts
521
KISS YR FRENEMIES
3 pts
522
Black Noise 2084
3 pts
523
Euringer
3 pts
524
525
Kelly Lee Owens
3 pts
526
527
Fetti
3 pts
528
Bad Witch
3 pts
529
TrapStar
2 pts
530
If All I Was Was Black
2 pts
531
Bloom (Parisalexa Album)
2 pts
532
PRhyme 2
2 pts
533
Towards The Shadow
2 pts
534
DROGAS Wave
2 pts
535
What Heaven Is Like
2 pts
536
Pressure Cracks
2 pts
537
538
Rock Island
2 pts
539
Displaced Diaspora
2 pts
540
2042
2 pts
541
Shiroi
2 pts
542
Green Ways
2 pts
543
High on Fire
2 pts
544
Quebra Cabeça
2 pts
545
Lo Improvisado
2 pts
546
AMR
2 pts
547
Pink Eye
2 pts
548
Black Light
2 pts
549
Yesterday Was Forever
2 pts
550
Warm Drag
2 pts
551
MihTy
2 pts
552
Discwoman 52 (August 22)
2 pts
553
Universal Care
2 pts
554
In The Rainbow Rain
2 pts
555
Do Or Die
2 pts
556
Perfect Shapes
2 pts
557
Love In The Wind
2 pts
558
Down Below
2 pts
559
Tell No One
2 pts
560
TESTING
2 pts
561
Siblings
2 pts
562
563
Aru Otoko No Densetsu
2 pts
564
Blueprint
2 pts
565
Two Parts Together
2 pts
566
Volume 2
2 pts
567
Latinoamericana
2 pts
568
Its a New Day Tonight
2 pts
569
Vide Noir
2 pts
570
Orients
2 pts
571
572
Mr. Jukebox
2 pts
573
Kasvot Växt: í rokk
2 pts
574
The Terror End of Beauty
2 pts
575
Dear Annie
1 pts
576
Hormone Lemonade
1 pts
577
578
Wait For Love
1 pts
579
Halloween
1 pts
580
Inferno Deathpassion
1 pts
581
Shooter
1 pts
582
Phoenix
1 pts
583
Magic Gone
1 pts
584
585
The Fuzz EP
1 pts
586
Chime
1 pts
587
GOOD Job, You Found Me
1 pts
588
Currents, Constellations
1 pts
589
Schmaltz
1 pts
590
Vector
1 pts
591
Dillon Carmichael
1 pts
592
593
594
2 Heartless
1 pts
595
Healing Tide
1 pts
596
East Atlanta Love Letter
1 pts
597
Taika Tapahtuu
1 pts
598
599
Snares Like a Haircut
1 pts
600
The Return
1 pts
601
Silk Canvas
1 pts
602
Galapagos
1 pts
603
AmeriKKKant
1 pts
604
Ecce Homo (Touch)
1 pts
605
BloodCrush
1 pts
606
Girl Code
1 pts
607
608
609
Oxnard
1 pts
610
Nice Try
1 pts
611
Super Silver
1 pts
613
Nyctophilia
1 pts
614
While We’re At It
1 pts
615
What Is Love?
1 pts
616
617
Pasar De Las Luces
1 pts
618
Dream Wife (Album)
1 pts
619
People of the Sun
1 pts
620
621
Mariachi Static
1 pts
622
623
Hellions of Fire
1 pts
624
Body Of Work
1 pts
625
Find a Light
1 pts
626
I Need To Start a Garden
1 pts
627
Sensitive G
1 pts
628
Once
1 pts
Critic List
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