Year-End Lists

Paste Magazine: 50 Best Albums of 2017

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1. Everybody Works
   Jay Som
2. DAMN.
   Kendrick Lamar
3. Pure Comedy
   Father John Misty
4. Run the Jewels 3
   Run the Jewels
5. Lotta Sea Lice
   Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile
6. Need to Feel Your Love
   Sheer Mag
7. Antisocialites
   Alvvays
8. american dream
   LCD Soundsystem
9. A Crow Looked at Me
   Mount Eerie
10. Process
    Sampha
11. Whiteout Conditions
    The New Pornographers
12. The Nashville Sound
    Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
13. The OOZ
    King Krule
14. The World’s Best American Band
    White Reaper
15. Sketches of Brunswick East (feat. Mild High Club)
    King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
16. Slowdive
    Slowdive
17. Mental Illness
    Aimee Mann
18. Out in the Storm
    Waxahatchee
19. What Now
    Sylvan Esso
20. City Music
    Kevin Morby
21. Nothing Feels Natural
    Priests
22. Orc
    Oh Sees
23. A Deeper Understanding
    The War on Drugs
24. Witness
    Benjamin Booker
25. Ctrl
    SZA
26. Moonshine Freeze
    This Is the Kit
27. Not Even Happiness
    Julie Byrne
28. I See You
    The xx
29. Needle Paw
    Nai Palm
30. The Kid
    Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
31. Semper Femina
    Laura Marling
32. Ty Segall
    Ty Segall
33. The Imperfect Sea
    Penguin Cafe
34. MASSEDUCTION
    St. Vincent
35. Swear I’m Good At This
    Diet Cig
36. Nothing Valley
    Melkbelly
37. Soft Sounds from Another Planet
    Japanese Breakfast
38. Hot Thoughts
    Spoon
39. Bedouine
    Bedouine
40. Crack-Up
    Fleet Foxes
41. Multi-Task
    Omni
42. Please Be Mine
    Molly Burch
43. Care
    David Bazan
44. Soul Sick
    Sallie Ford
45. Plum
    Wand
46. Wide Open
    Weaves
47. Turn Out the Lights
    Julien Baker
48. Soul of a Woman
    Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
49. Not Dark Yet
    Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer
50. UNDIVIDED HEART & SOUL
    J.D. McPherson