MOJO's Top 75 Albums of 2018

The new issue of MOJO hits stores Tuesday (11/20), but the issue’s list of MOJO‘s 75 best albums of 2018 has surfaced online. They’ve got a bunch of usual suspects (Low, Janelle Monae, Mitski, Pusha T, Let’s Eat Grandma, Kacey Musgraves), a couple late-2017 albums (Bjork, Neil Young), the token Paul McCartney inclusion, a head-scratcher or two (Cypress Hill at #16?), and a #1 pick that may surprise you. Check out the full list below.

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MOJO’s Top 75 Albums of 2018
75. Gorillaz – The Now Now
74. Candi Staton – Unstoppable
73. Jack White – Boarding House Reach
72. Hailu Mergia – Lala Belu
71. Shame – Songs of Praise
70. Neil Young & Promise of the Real – The Visitor
69. Jungle – For Ever
68. Johnny Marr – Call The Comet
67. Willie Nelson – Last Man Standing
66. LUMP – LUMP
65. Björk – Utopia
64. Jim James – Uniform Distortion
63. Sons of Kemet – Your Queen is a Reptile
62. Mitski – Be the Cowboy
61. Jon Hopkins – Singularity
60. Jon Hassell – Listening to Pictures (Pentimento Volume One)
59. Cedric Burnside – Benton County Relic
58. Laura Veirs – The Lookout
57. John Grant – Love Is Magic
56. Swamp Dogg – Love, Loss, and Auto-Tune
55. Mudhoney – Digital Garbage
54. Go-Kart Mozart – Mozart’s Mini Mart
53. Courtney Marie Andrews – May Your Kindness Remain
52. Confidence Man – Confident Music For Confident People
51. Belle & Sebastian – How to Solve Our Human Problems (Parts 1-3)
50. Hookworms – Microshift
49. Villagers – The Art of Pretending to Swim
48. Phosphorescent – C’est La Vie
47. Imarhan – Temet
46. Binker and Moses – Alive in the East?
45. Wye Oak – The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs
44. Yo La Tengo – There’s a Riot Going On
43. Chris Carter – Chris Carter’s Chemistry Lessons Vol. 1
42. Prince – Piano & a Microphone 1983
41. Richard Thompson – 13 Rivers
40. Maisha – There Is A Place
39. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks – Sparkle Hard
38. Ty Segall – Freedom’s Goblin
37. The Goon Sax – We’re Not Talking
36. Sleep – The Sciences
35. Suede – The Blue Hour
34. Insecure Men – Insecure Men
33. Ry Cooder – The Prodigal Son
32. Gruff Rhys – Babelsberg
31. Anna Calvi – Hunter
30. Khruangbin – Con Todo El Mundo
29. Gwenno – Le Kov
28. Eleanor Friedberger – Rebound
27. Paul McCartney – Egypt Station
26. Elvis Costello & The Imposters – Look Now
25. Cat Power – Wanderer
24. Oh Sees – Smote Reverser
23. Kacey Musgraves – Golden Hour
22. Field Music – Open Here
21. Parquet Courts – Wide Awake!
20. Let’s Eat Grandma – I’m All Ears
19. Low – Double Negative
18. Young Fathers – Cocoa Sugar
17. Gaz Coombes – World’s Strongest Man
16. Cypress Hill – Elephants on Acid
15. Tracey Thorn – Record
14. Paul Weller – True Meanings
13. Kurt Vile – Bottle It In
12. Pusha-T – Daytona
11. Fatoumata Diawara – Fenfo (Something To Say)
10. The Breeders – All Nerve
9. Spiritualized – And Nothing Hurt
8. Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel
7. Ryley Walker – Deafman Glance
6. Idles – Joy as an Act of Resistance
5. Christine and the Queens – Chris
4. Janelle Monáe – Dirty Computer
3. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Hope Downs
2. Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
1. Kamasi Washington – Heaven and Earth