The Roots Music Report's
Top 50 Alternative Rock Album Chart
for the Week of Aug 11, 2018
| TW | LW | Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | 1 | 1 | Free Yourself Up | Lake Street Dive | Nonesuch |
| ▲ | 2 | 15 | Look Now | Elvis Costello & The Imposters | Concord |
| ▼ | 3 | 2 | Part of the Light | Ray LaMontagne | Sony |
| ▲ | 4 | 28 | Lifted | Israel Nash | Thirty Tigers |
| ▼ | 5 | 3 | Tell Me How You Really Feel | Courtney Barnett | Mom+Pop |
| - | 6 | 6 | A Deeper Understanding | The War on Drugs | Atlantic |
| ▼ | 7 | 5 | Chorus | The Mother Hips | Blue Rose Music |
| ▼ | 8 | 4 | Lush | Snail Mail | Matador |
| - | 9 | 9 | Everything I Could Never Say... | lovelytheband | Another Century |
| ▼ | 10 | 7 | American Utopia | David Byrne | Nonesuch |
| ▼ | 11 | 10 | Delivery | Mikaela Davis | Rounder |
| - | 12 | 12 | Egypt Station | Paul McCartney | Capitol |
| ▼ | 13 | 11 | Thank You for Today | Death Cab for Cutie | Atlantic |
| ▲ | 14 | 17 | God's Favorite Customer | Father John Misty | Sub Pop |
| ▼ | 15 | 14 | Between Two Shores | Glen Hansard | Plateau |
| ▼ | 16 | 13 | Be More Kind | Frank Turner | Universal |
| ▲ | 17 | 23 | Watching It All Fall Apart | Fruition | Lohi |
| ▼ | 18 | 8 | Hell-On | Neko Case | Anti |
| ▲ | 19 | 43 | The Thread That Keeps Us | Calexico | Anti |
| ▼ | 20 | 19 | Staying at Tamara's | George Ezra | Sony |
| ▼ | 21 | 18 | Expectations | Wild Child | Dualtone |
| *NEW* | 22 | - | Weed Garden | Iron & Wine | Sub Pop |
| ▼ | 23 | 20 | Earthtones | Bahamas | Brushfire |
| ▲ | 24 | 30 | The Future and the Past | Natalie Prass | ATO |
| ▼ | 25 | 16 | 7 | Beach House | Sub Pop |
| ▼ | 26 | 25 | Goodbye Sunshine, Hello Nighttime | Family Of The Year | Reprise |
| ▼ | 27 | 22 | High As Hope | Florence + the Machine | Universal |
| ▼ | 28 | 21 | Castles | Lissie | Lionboy |
| ▼ | 29 | 26 | Wide Awake | Rayland Baxter | ATO |
| ▲ | 30 | 40 | Critical Equation | Dr. Dog | We Buy Gold |
| ▼ | 31 | 27 | Reskinned | Larkin Poe | RH Music |
| ▼ | 32 | 29 | Witness | Benjamin Booker | ATO |
| ▼ | 33 | 31 | Fooled Again | Teresa Eggertsen Cooke | Self-Release |
| - | 34 | 34 | The Mystery of Me | Danielia Cotton | Cottontown |
| ▼ | 35 | 24 | Vide Noir | Lord Huron | Republic |
| ▲ | 36 | 37 | Open Here | Field Music | Memphis Industries |
| ▲ | 37 | 38 | Her | Her | FAM |
| ▲ | 38 | 42 | The Now Now | Gorillaz | Parlophone |
| ▼ | 39 | 32 | People Are My Drug | Phil Cook | Thirty Tigers |
| ▼ | 40 | 35 | Lo Moon | Lo Moon | Columbia |
| - | 41 | 41 | Wildness | Snow Patrol | Polydor |
| ▼ | 42 | 39 | Little Dark Age | MGMT | Columbia |
| ▼ | 43 | 33 | Electric Light | James Bay | Republic |
| ▲ | 44 | 47 | Marauder | Interpol | Matador |
| *NEW* | 45 | - | Sculptor | Luluc | Sub Pop |
| ▼ | 46 | 45 | Waiting on a Song | Dan Auerbach | Nonesuch |
| *NEW* | 47 | - | C'est La Vie | Phosphorescent | Dead Oceans |
| *NEW* | 48 | - | Puff: in the Air Without a Shape | Bernice | Arts & Crafts |
| *NEW* | 49 | - | Safe Until Tomorrow | The Kennedys | Self-Release |
| ▼ | 50 | 49 | Welcome to Flat Earth | Ty Richards | Tremolo |
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