The 30 albums I posted are the 2018 releases I have bought and listened, but since I take a lot of chances with what I buy, they're not necessarily all gold. But actually, I was super lucky this year with my album purchases. Here's the albums with color coding to show what the rough ranking is so far.
Yellow albums are ones that I hesitate to have an opinion on yet.
Bigger size pic:
https://i.imgur.com/ZyTglQW.png