Earbuddy: 100 Best Albums of 2017
[see also 2018]
- Mount Eerie — A Crow Looked at Me
- Father John Misty — Pure Comedy
- TORRES — Three Futures
- Vince Staples — Big Fish Theory
- Kendrick Lamar — DAMN.
- Perfume Genius — No Shape
- Lorde — Melodrama
- Julien Baker — Turn Out the Lights
- Fleet Foxes — Crack-Up
- Big Thief — Capacity
- Casey Dienel — Imitation of a Woman To Love
- Wolf Parade — Cry Cry Cry
- Charlotte Gainsbourg — Rest
- (Sandy) Alex G — Rocket
- Chelsea Wolfe — Hiss Spun
- JAY-Z — 4:44
- Japanese Breakfast — Soft Sounds from Another Planet
- Marika Hackman — I’m Not Your Man
- Run the Jewels — Run the Jewels 3
- The Horrors — V
- P.O.S. — Chill, dummy
- The xx — I See You
- Alex Cameron — Forced Witness
- Thundercat — Drunk
- Tyler, The Creator — Flower Boy
- Deerhoof — Mountain Moves
- King Krule — The OOZ
- Sun Kil Moon — Common as Light and Love Are Red Valleys of Blood
- The Afghan Whigs — In Spades
- Björk — Utopia
- Ke$ha — Rainbow
- Syd — Fin
- Hurray for the Riff Raff — The Navigator
- Mount Kimbie — Love What Survives
- Priests — Nothing Feels Natural
- Sheer Mag — Need to Feel Your Love
- Hundred Waters — Communicating
- Mac DeMarco — This Old Dog
- Briana Marela — Call It Love
- Cherry Glazerr — Apocalipstick
- Shilpa Ray — Door Girl
- Alex Lahey — I Love You Like a Brother
- Big K.R.I.T. — 4eva Is a Mighty Long Time
- Algiers — The Underside of Power
- The Drums — Abysmal Thoughts
- Fever Ray — Plunge
- Katie Von Schleicher — Shitty Hits
- Peter Silberman — Impermanence
- Queens of the Stone Age — Villains
- Waxahatchee — Out in the Storm
- Mogwai — Every Country’s Sun
- Sorority Noise — You’re Not As _____ As You Think
- HAIM — Something To Tell You
- Future Islands — The Far Field
- St. Vincent — MASSEDUCTION
- Uniform — Wake in Fright
- WHY? — Moh Lhean
- Bedouine — Bedouine
- Chastity Belt — I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone
- B Boys — Dada
- Middle Kids — Middle Kids
- Lapalux — Ruinism
- Spoon — Hot Thoughts
- Citris — Panic in Hampton Bays
- Tei Shi — Crawl Space
- Dasher — Sodium
- Ten Fé — Hit the Light
- Single Mothers — Our Pleasure
- Slowdive — Slowdive
- The National — Sleep Well Beast
- Manchester Orchestra — A Black Mile To The Surface
- Clark — Death Peak
- The Weather Station — The Weather Station
- Laura Marling — Semper Femina
- Nurses — Naughtland
- Happy Hollows — Concordia
- Joey Bada$$ — ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$
- Grizzly Bear — Painted Ruins
- Aimee Mann — Mental Illness
- Ben Frost — The Centre Cannot Hold
- Lovely Dark — New Born
- Pallbearer — Heartless
- Jay Som — Everybody Works
- Arca — Arca
- David Bazan — Care
- Acceptance — Colliding By Design
- Odonis Odonis — No Pop
- Cloud Nothings — Life Without Sound
- Caddywhompus — Odd Hours
- Diet Cig — Swear I’m Good At This
- James Vincent McMorrow — True Care
- Protomartyr — Relatives in Descent
- Arcade Fire — Everything Now
- The Mynabirds — BE HERE NOW
- This Is the Kit — Moonshine Freeze
- The Bug & Earth — Concrete Desert
- The Cairo Gang — Untouchable
- Wall — Untitled
- Brandon Can’t Dance — Graveyard of Good Times
- Kirin J Callinan — Bravado