The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in 2018. These albums are (1) original, i.e. excluding reissues, remasters, and compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) notable, defined as having received significant coverage from reliable sources independent of the subject.
For additional information about bands formed, reformed, disbanded, or on hiatus, for deaths of musicians, and for links to musical awards, see 2018 in music.
First quarter January + List of albums released in January 2018 Release date Artist Album Genre Label January1 Jeff Rosenstock Post- Punk rock, indie rock, power pop Quote Unquote Records, Polyvinyl January5 Cupcakke Ephorize Hip-hop Watain Trident Wolf Eclipse Black metal Century Media January12 Anderson East Encore Southern soul Elektra Avatar Avatar Country Groove metal, melodic death metal, heavy metal eOne, Century Media Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Wrong Creatures Alternative rock Abstract Dragon, Vagrant, PIAS Cooperative Black Veil Brides Vale Glam metal, hard rock, nu metal Lava, Republic Børns Blue Madonna Pop Interscope Camila Cabello Camila Pop Epic, Syco Music, Sony Music Corrosion of Conformity No Cross No Crown Stoner rock, sludge metal, Southern metal Nuclear Blast Francesca Michielin 2640 Pop, indie pop Sony Music Italy Joe Satriani What Happens Next Instrumental rock Sony Music Maxo Kream Punken Hip-hop TSO Music Group, Kream Clicc Meghan Patrick Country Music Made Me Do It Country Warner Music Canada Panda Bear A Day with the Homies Domino Shame Songs of Praise Post-punk, indie rock Dead Oceans Sylvan LaCue Apologies in Advance WiseUp & Co Tonight Alive Underworld Alternative rock, pop rock, pop-punk Hopeless, UNFD Typhoon Offerings Indie rock Roll Call January19 Anvil Pounding the Pavement Heavy metal Steamhammer The Bad Plus Never Stop II Jazz Legbreaker Records Black Label Society Grimmest Hits Heavy metal, hard rock Entertainment One Caitlyn Smith Starfire Country pop Monument Cane Hill Too Far Gone Nu metal, grunge, groove metal Rise Drake Scary Hours Young Money, Cash Money, Republic Eden Vertigo Alternative rock, indie pop, Electronic MCMXCV, Astralwerks Fall Out Boy Mania Pop rock, electronic rock, electropop Island, DCD2 First Aid Kit Ruins Folk, indie folk Columbia Glen Hansard Between Two Shores Anti- The Go! Team Semicircle Indie pop Memphis Industries Joe Perry Sweetzerland Manifesto Hard rock, blues rock Roman Records John Surman Invisible Threads Jazz ECM JPEGMafia Veteran Experimental hip-hop, industrial hip-hop, avant-garde Deathbomb Arc Magnum Lost on the Road to Eternity Rock Steamhammer Records/SPV Moon Taxi Let the Record Play Alternative rock RCA Mudhoney LiE Sub Pop Of Mice & Men Defy Metalcore, nu metal Rise Porches The House Synth-pop Domino Ron Gallo Really Nice Guys Indie rock, comedy rock New West Shopping The Official Body Post-punk FatCat Starcrawler Starcrawler Garage rock, punk rock Rough Trade They Might Be Giants I Like Fun Alternative rock Idlewild Tune-Yards I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life Indie pop, alternative dance, art pop 4AD The Xcerts Hold On to Your Heart Raygun Music Xylouris White Mother Indie folk Bella Union, Universal Music Australia January23 Jonghyun Poet Artist R&B, soul, electronic SM January24 iLoveMakonnen and Ronny J iLoveMakonnen x Ronny J January26 Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa Black Coffee Soul, blues J&R Adventures Burna Boy Outside Afrobeats, dancehall, reggae Spaceship Entertainment, Bad Habit, Atlantic Calexico The Thread That Keeps Us Anti- Craig David The Time Is Now R&B, tropical house Speakerbox, Insanity, Sony Music The Dangerous Summer The Dangerous Summer Hopeless Dream Wife Dream Wife Punk rock, indie rock, indie pop Lucky Number Elliot Galvin The Influencing Machine Edition Evidence Weather or Not Alternative hip-hop Rhymesayers Hollie Cook Vessel of Love Reggae Merge Khruangbin Con Todo el Mundo Psychedelic rock Dead Oceans, Night Time Stories Loudness Rise to Glory Heavy metal Ward Records, earMUSIC Machine Head Catharsis Groove metal, nu metal, alternative metal Nuclear Blast Marmozets Knowing What You Know Now Alternative rock, post-hardcore, math rock Roadrunner Migos Culture II Hip-hop, trap Quality Control, Motown, Capitol Nils Frahm All Melody Erased Tapes No Age Snares Like a Haircut Noise rock, noise pop, art punk Drag City Orphaned Land Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs Oriental metal, progressive metal, symphonic metal Century Media Payroll Giovanni and Cardo Big Bossin, Vol. 2 Def Jam Pestilence Hadeon Technical death metal Hammerheart Portal Ion Profound Lore The Spook School Could It Be Different? Fortuna Pop! Therion Beloved Antichrist Symphonic metal Nuclear Blast Tiny Moving Parts Swell Triple Crown, Big Scary Monsters Tribulation Down Below Gothic metal, heavy metal, black 'n' roll Century Media Ty Segall Freedom's Goblin Drag City Waterparks Entertainment Pop-punk, rock, pop rock Equal Vision
February + List of albums released in February 2018 Release date Artist Album Genre Label February2 47Soul Balfron Promise Cooking Vinyl Awolnation Here Come the Runts Alternative rock, pop rock, indie rock Red Bull Bat Fangs Bat Fangs Don Giovanni Don Broco Technology Hard rock, electronic rock SharpTone Efrim Menuck Pissing Stars Constellation Field Music Open Here Indie rock Memphis Industries Hookworms Microshift Rock Domino Kyle Craft Full Circle Nightmare Indie rock Sub Pop Justin Timberlake Man of the Woods Pop, R&B RCA Mélissa Laveaux Radyo Siwèl No Format! Mike and the Moonpies Steak Night at the Prairie Rose Rae Morris Someone Out There Art pop, electronic Atlantic Rhye Blood R&B Loma Vista Rich Brian Amen Hip-hop Empire, 88rising Saxon Thunderbolt Heavy metal Silver Lining Music Shannon Noll Unbroken Pop rock Warner Music Australia The Soft Moon Criminal Industrial Sacred Bones February9 Alela Diane Cusp AllPoints The Atlas Moth Coma Noir Prosthetic Brigid Mae Power The Two Worlds Folk Tompkins Square Dashboard Confessional Crooked Shadows Pop, alternative rock Fueled by Ramen Don Diablo Future Future house Hexagon Ezra Furman Transangelic Exodus Alternative pop Bella Union Franz Ferdinand Always Ascending Indie rock, dance-punk, new wave Domino Fu Manchu Clone of the Universe Stoner rock At the Dojo Records Joan as Police Woman Damned Devotion PIAS Kendrick Lamar and various artists Black Panther: The Album Hip-hop, gqom, trap TDE, Aftermath, Interscope Melody Gardot Live in Europe Jazz Decca MGMT Little Dark Age Synth-pop, psychedelic pop Columbia Mist Diamond in the Dirt Synth-pop, psychedelic pop Warner Bros. Natalia Lafourcade and Los Macorinos Musas, Vol. 2 Folk Sony Music Mexico, RCA Palm Rock Island Avant rock, art rock, indie rock Carpark Ravyn Lenae Crush R&B, neo soul Atlantic, Three Twenty Three Wade Bowen Solid Ground The Wombats Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life Indie pop, indie rock, synth-pop 14th Floor, Bright Antenna February14 Band-Maid World Domination Hard rock, heavy metal Crown Stones, JPU Kodak Black Heart Break Kodak R&B Atlantic Moneybagg Yo 2 Heartless Hip-hop CMG, Bread Gang Entertainment, Interscope Riri Riri R&B, EDM Sony Music Associated Records February15 Lonzo Ball Born 2 Ball February16 Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto Glass Ambient NOTON Brandi Carlile By the Way, I Forgive You Americana Low Country Sound, Elektra Car Seat Headrest Twin Fantasy (Face to Face) Indie rock Matador Dabrye Three/Three Ghostly International Dita Von Teese Dita Von Teese Synth-pop Record Makers Evan Parker, Barry Guy, and Paul Lytton Music for David Mossman: Live at Vortex London Free improvisation Intakt Everything is Recorded Everything Is Recorded by Richard Russell XL Felix Jaehn I Dance, tropical house, EDM L'Agentur Fischerspooner Sir Ultra For the Fallen Dreams Six Metalcore Rise Geowulf Great Big Blue 37 Adventures I'm with Her See You Around Progressive bluegrass Rounder ionnalee Everyone Afraid to Be Forgotten Synth-pop, dance-pop, electropop To whom it may concern. Kronos Quartet and Laurie Anderson Landfall Nonesuch, WEA Loma Loma Sub Pop Marlon Williams Make Way for Love Caroline Australia Nipsey Hussle Victory Lap West Coast hip-hop All Money In, Atlantic Onra Nobody Has to Know All City Records Onyx Black Rock East Coast hip-hop, hardcore hip-hop, rap rock X-Ray The Orielles Silver Dollar Moment Indie pop, indie rock Heavenly Ought Room Inside the World Post-punk, art punk, punk rock Merge Pianos Become the Teeth Wait for Love Post-hardcore, post-rock, emo Epitaph The Plot in You Dispose Post-hardcore, pop rock Fearless Poliça and Stargaze Music for the Long Emergency Transgressive Pop Evil Pop Evil Rock eOne Rejjie Snow Dear Annie 300 Senses Fail If There Is Light, It Will Find You Screamo, pop-punk Pure Noise Shannon and the Clams Onion Easy Eye Sound Superchunk What a Time to Be Alive Indie rock, punk rock Merge Tyga Kyoto R&B Last Kings, Empire U.S. Girls In a Poem Unlimited Psychedelic pop, art pop, synth-pop 4AD February17 Against All Logic 2012–2017 Electronic, deep house, house Other People February20 Kero Kero Bonito TOTEP February23 6ix9ine Day69 Trap ScumGang, TenThousand Projects, Interscope Bad Gyal Worldwide Angel Dancehall, reggaeton, trap Puro Records, Canada Black Milk Fever Hip-hop Mass Appeal Caroline Rose Loner Indie rock, indie pop New West Carpenter Brut Leather Teeth No Quarter Prod, Caroline Danielle Nicole Cry No More Concord Dessa Chime Alternative hip-hop, avant-pop Doomtree EarthGang Royalty Conscious hip-hop, southern hip-hop, jazz rap Spillage Village, Empire Grant-Lee Phillips Widdershins Americana, indie rock Yep Roc Hailu Mergia Lala Belu Jazz, funk Awesome Tapes From Africa Imarhan Temet Desert blues, world City Slang Keiji Haino and Sumac American Dollar Bill – Keep Facing Sideways, You're Too Hideous to Look at Face On Free improvisation, post-metal Thrill Jockey Milestones Red Lights Pop-punk, pop rock, pop Fearless Our Lady Peace Somethingness Alternative rock, art rock Ryan Porter The Optimist World Galaxy Records Ronny J OMGRONNY Screaming Females All at Once Rock, punk rock Don Giovanni Shawn Colvin The Starlighter Children's music, folk SLC Recordings SOB X RBE Gangin Empire Turnstile Time & Space Hardcore punk Roadrunner Vance Joy Nation of Two Indie folk, indie pop Liberation Music February24 Mick Jenkins Or More; the Frustration February27 Roc Marciano RR2: The Bitter Dose Hip-hop, gangsta rap Marci Enterprises
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