Top 10:
- Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet: Landfall
- Jon Hassell: Listening to Pictures
- Nils Frahm: All Melody
- Geir Sundstøl: Brødløs
- David Byrne a.o.: True Stories, The Complete Soundtrack
- John Coltrane: Both Directions At Once
- David Byrne: American Utopia
- The Manhattan Transfer: The Junction
- Klaus Schulze: Silhouettes
- The Low Anthem: The Salt Doll Went To Measure The Depth Of The Sea
In no specific order followed by:
- Flavien Berger: Contre-Temps
- Gong Expresso: Decadence
- Peter Gordon: Eighteen
- Guru Guru: Rotate! 50 Years Guru Guru
- Jean-Michel Jarre: Equinoxe Infinity
- Keith Jarrett: La Fenice
- Glenn Jones: The Giant Who Ate Himself
- Cat Power: Wanderer
- Steve Reich: Pulse / Quartet
Noncompetitive albums because not originally or only in parts released in 2018:
- The Beatles: White Album, 50th Anniversary Edition
- Holger Czukay: Cinema
- Brian Eno: Music for Installations
- Janis Joplin & BBHC: Sex, Dope & Cheap Thrills
- David Sylvian & Holger Czukay: Plight & Premonition/Flux + Mutability
Rediscovered:
- Genesis: Seconds Out (1977)
- Steve Hillage/Miquette Giraudy: Rainbow Dome Musick (1979)
- Ougenweide: Herzsprung (2010)
- Gerry Rafferty: City to City (1977)
- Simon & Garfunkel: The Concert in Central Park (1982)
- Karlheinz Stockhausen: Inori (1992)