The best albums of 2018: The ballots

By The A.V. Club, Clayton Purdom, Katie Rife, Alex McLevy, A.A. Dowd, David Anthony, Annie Zaleski, Marty Sartini Garner | December 18, 2018 | 12:00pm

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