This week, tune in to hear the best of New Hot albums of the year. Listen to hear tracks from albums that helped define the sound of 2018. Discover new artists who made not only the best songs, but the greatest albums you should hear before ringing in the new year, from debut releases to the return of old favorites, you'll find out what made the list of the best New Hot albums of 2018.

Segments

Friday Morning
Khruangbin
Con Todo El Mundo

One Rizla
Shame
Songs of Praise

Every 1's a Winner
Ty Segall
Freedom's Goblin

Pearly Gates
U.S. Girls
In A Poem Unlimited

The Mother
Brandi Carlile
By the Way, I Forgive You

In My View
Young Fathers
Cocoa Sugar

My Contribution to this Scam
Jean Grae and Quelle Chris
Everything's Fine

Space Cowboy
Kacey Musgraves
Golden Hour

Addictions
Lucy Dacus
Historian

My Queen Is Harriet Tubman
Sons of Kemet
Your Queen Is a Reptile

Catch My Breath
Confidence Man
Confident Music for Confident People

Django Jane
Janelle Monae
Dirty Computer

Emerald Rush
Jon Hopkins
Singularity

Almost Had to Start a Fight/In and Out of Patience
Parquet Courts
Wide Awake!

Trouble on Central
Buddy
Harlan and Alondra

La Di Da
The Internet
Hive Mind

Night People
Deafhaven
Ordinary Corrupt Human Love

Nearer My God
Foxing
Nearer My God

Any Other Way
Tomberlin
At Weddings

Charcoal Baby
Blood Orange
Negro Swan

Bloom
Troye Sivan
Bloom

Geyser
Mitski
Be the Cowboy

Great
IDLES
Joy as an Act of Resistance

Disarray
Low
Double Negative

Doesn't Matter
Christine and the Queens
Chris

Ace feat. Smino and Saba
Noname
Room 25

Honey
Robyn
Honey

Work It
Marie Davidson
Working Class Woman

Champagne
My Brightest Diamond
A Million and One

I Know What It's Like
Jeff Tweedy
WARM