AllMusic: 70 Best Albums of 2017
[see also 2018, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- Aimee Mann — Mental Illness
- Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin — Telemann: Concerti per molti stromenti
- Algiers — The Underside of Power
- Alvvays — Antisocialites
- Angaleena Presley — Wrangled
- Ann Hallenberg, il pomo d’oro & Stefano Montanari — Carnevale 1729
- Arca — Arca
- Katy Perry — Witness
- Björk — Utopia
- Bunbury — Expectativas
- La Compagnia del Madrigale, Cantica Symphonia, La Pifarescha & Giuseppe Maletto — Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine
- Circuit Des Yeux — Reaching For Indigo
- Colleen — A flame my love, a frequency
- Converge — The Dusk In Us
- Curtis Harding — Face Your Fear
- Cécile McLorin Salvant — Dreams and Daggers
- Depeche Mode — Spirit
- Downtown Boys — Cost of Living
- EMA — Exile In the Outer Ring
- Ex Eye — Ex Eye
- Fever Ray — Plunge
- Fleet Foxes — Crack-Up
- François-Xavier Roth / Les Siècles — Maurice Ravel: Daphnis & Chloé, Complete Ballet
- Fred Thomas — Changer
- Gas — Narkopop
- Girl Ray — Earl Grey
- Hurray for the Riff Raff — The Navigator
- Idles — Brutalism
- Jane Weaver — Modern Kosmology
- J.D. McPherson — UNDIVIDED HEART & SOUL
- Jlin — Black Origami
- Juana Molina — Halo
- Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith — The Kid
- Kehlani — SweetSexySavage
- Kelela — Take Me Apart
- Kendrick Lamar — DAMN.
- King Krule — The OOZ
- Kip Moore — Slowheart
- La Santa Cecilia — Amar Y Vivir (En Vivo Desde La Ciudad De México, 2017)
- Laura Marling — Semper Femina
- LCD Soundsystem — american dream
- Lorde — Melodrama
- Lost Horizons — Ojalá
- Mac DeMarco — This Old Dog
- Mastodon — Emperor of Sand
- Max Richter — Three Worlds: Music from Woolf Works
- Mount Eerie — A Crow Looked at Me
- Nicole Atkins — Goodnight Rhonda Lee
- Nicole Mitchell — Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds
- Omni — Multi-Task
- Paramore — After Laughter
- Protomartyr — Relatives in Descent
- Randy Newman — Dark Matter
- Riccardo Muti & Chicago Symphony Orchestra — Bruckner: Symphony No. 9, WAB 109 (Original 1894 Version)
- Robert Plant — Carry Fire
- Roscoe Mitchell — Bells For the South Side
- SACRED PAWS — Strike a Match
- Sampha — Process
- Sheer Mag — Need to Feel Your Love
- Sherwood & Pinch — Man vs. Sofa
- St. Vincent — MASSEDUCTION
- Susanne Sundfør — Music For People In Trouble
- SZA — Ctrl
- The Clientele — Music for the Age of Miracles
- The Moonlandingz — Interplanetary Class Classics
- Tyler, The Creator — Flower Boy
- Vijay Iyer Sextet — Far from Over
- Vince Staples — Big Fish Theory
- Whitney Rose — Rule 62
- Zara McFarlane — Arise