Drowned in Sound: 100 Favourite Albums of 2017. See also this year’s staff poll.
[see also 2018, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2011]
- Wolf Alice — Visions of a Life
- Kelly Lee Owens — Kelly Lee Owens
- EMA — Exile In the Outer Ring
- St. Vincent — MASSEDUCTION
- Noveller — A Pink Sunset for No One
- Austra — Future Politics
- Feist — Pleasure
- Jane Weaver — Modern Kosmology
- Laura Marling — Semper Femina
- Juana Molina — Halo
- Soulwax — FROM DEEWEE
- Thundercat — Drunk
- Paramore — After Laughter
- Jean-Michel Blais & CFCF — Cascades
- Björk — Utopia
- Mogwai — Every Country’s Sun
- Zola Jesus — Okovi
- Kendrick Lamar — DAMN.
- Protomartyr — Relatives in Descent
- Grizzly Bear — Painted Ruins
- Hannah Peel — Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia
- Slowdive — Slowdive
- Loyle Carner — Yesterday’s Gone
- Eyre Llew — Atelo
- Perfume Genius — No Shape
- Nadine Shah — Holiday Destination
- LCD Soundsystem — american dream
- Lorde — Melodrama
- Hurray for the Riff Raff — The Navigator
- The Big Moon — Love In the 4th Dimension
- Princess Nokia — 1992
- Colin Stetson — All This I Do For Glory
- The Horrors — V
- Queens of the Stone Age — Villains
- Ride — Weather Diaries
- Sylvan Esso — What Now
- Idles — Brutalism
- Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Gustavo Santaolalla, Mogwai — Before the Flood
- Cigarettes After Sex — Cigarettes After Sex
- Girl Ray — Earl Grey
- The Mynabirds — BE HERE NOW
- SZA — Ctrl
- Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton — Fatal Gift
- Johnny Jewel — Windswept
- Jesca Hoop — Memories Are Now
- Katy Perry — Witness
- Clark — Death Peak
- Grandaddy — Last Place
- Tired Lion — Dumb Days
- William Basinski — A Shadow in Time
- Four Tet — New Energy
- Sløtface — Try Not to Freak Out
- Beck — Colors
- Bicep — Bicep
- Alvvays — Antisocialites
- Juanita Stein — America
- Phoebe Bridgers — Stranger in the Alps
- Broken Social Scene — Hug of Thunder
- Chelsea Wolfe — Hiss Spun
- Liars — TFCF
- Kamasi Washington — Harmony of Difference
- Japanese Breakfast — Soft Sounds from Another Planet
- Ghostpoet — Dark Days + Canapés
- Charlotte Gainsbourg — Rest
- The National — Sleep Well Beast
- Jen Cloher — Jen Cloher
- Do Make Say Think — Stubborn Persistent Illusions
- Mount Kimbie — Love What Survives
- Lana Del Rey — Lust for Life
- Wiley — Godfather
- Father John Misty — Pure Comedy
- Max Richter — Three Worlds: Music from Woolf Works
- Molly Burch — Please Be Mine
- Rose Elinor Dougall — Stellular
- Big Thief — Capacity
- Casey Dienel — Imitation of a Woman To Love
- The Shins — Heartworms
- Destroyer — ken
- Stormzy — Gang Signs & Prayer
- Cherry Glazerr — Apocalipstick
- Mura Masa — Mura Masa
- Fever Ray — Plunge
- Ryan Adams — Prisoner
- Depeche Mode — Spirit
- Laurel Halo — Dust
- Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile — Lotta Sea Lice
- King Krule — The OOZ
- Kelela — Take Me Apart
- This Is the Kit — Moonshine Freeze
- Sampha — Process
- Lapalux — Ruinism
- The Afghan Whigs — In Spades
- Cloud Nothings — Life Without Sound
- Circuit Des Yeux — Reaching For Indigo
- Rapsody — Laila’s Wisdom
- The War on Drugs — A Deeper Understanding
- Public Service Broadcasting — Every Valley
- Future Islands — The Far Field
- Blanck Mass — World Eater
- Arcade Fire — Everything Now