Paste Magazine: 50 Best Albums of 2017
[see also 2010s, 2019, 2018, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- Jay Som — Everybody Works
- Kendrick Lamar — DAMN.
- Father John Misty — Pure Comedy
- Run the Jewels — Run the Jewels 3
- Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile — Lotta Sea Lice
- Sheer Mag — Need to Feel Your Love
- Alvvays — Antisocialites
- LCD Soundsystem — american dream
- Mount Eerie — A Crow Looked at Me
- Sampha — Process
- The New Pornographers — Whiteout Conditions
- Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit — The Nashville Sound
- King Krule — The OOZ
- White Reaper — The World’s Best American Band
- King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard — Sketches of Brunswick East (feat. Mild High Club)
- Slowdive — Slowdive
- Aimee Mann — Mental Illness
- Waxahatchee — Out in the Storm
- Sylvan Esso — What Now
- Kevin Morby — City Music
- Priests — Nothing Feels Natural
- Oh Sees — Orc
- The War on Drugs — A Deeper Understanding
- Benjamin Booker — Witness
- SZA — Ctrl
- This Is the Kit — Moonshine Freeze
- Julie Byrne — Not Even Happiness
- The xx — I See You
- Nai Palm — Needle Paw
- Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith — The Kid
- Laura Marling — Semper Femina
- Ty Segall — Ty Segall
- Penguin Cafe — The Imperfect Sea
- St. Vincent — MASSEDUCTION
- Diet Cig — Swear I’m Good At This
- Melkbelly — Nothing Valley
- Japanese Breakfast — Soft Sounds from Another Planet
- Spoon — Hot Thoughts
- Bedouine — Bedouine
- Fleet Foxes — Crack-Up
- Omni — Multi-Task
- Molly Burch — Please Be Mine
- David Bazan — Care
- Sallie Ford — Soul Sick
- Wand — Plum
- Weaves — Wide Open
- Julien Baker — Turn Out the Lights
- Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings — Soul of a Woman
- Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer — Not Dark Yet
- J.D. McPherson — UNDIVIDED HEART & SOUL