Carl Wilson: The Best Albums of 2017, as published by Slate
- Big Thief — Capacity
- Björk — Utopia
- Destroyer — ken
- Mark Eitzel — Hey Mr Ferryman
- Fiver — Audible Songs from Rockwood
- Kendrick Lamar — DAMN.
- Lorde — Melodrama
- LCD Soundsystem — american dream
- The Magnetic Fields — 50 Song Memoir
- Nicole Mitchell — Liberation Narratives
- Nicole Mitchell — Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds
- Arto Lindsay — Cuidado Madame
- Jason Moran — BANGS
- Mount Eerie — A Crow Looked at Me
- The Mountain Goats — Goths
- Randy Newman — Dark Matter
- Open Mike Eagle — Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
- Angaleena Presley — Wrangled
- Margo Price — All American Made
- Residente — Residente
- Joseph Shabason — Aytche
- Jackie Shane — Any Other Way
- Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith — The Kid
- Vince Staples — Big Fish Theory
- Dean Hurley — Anthology Resource Vol. I: △△
- Angelo Badalamenti — Twin Peaks (Limited Event Series Soundtrack)
- Johnny Jewel — Windswept
- Waxahatchee — Out in the Storm