The Guardian: Best Albums of 2017
[see also 2019, 2018, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- St. Vincent — MASSEDUCTION
- Kendrick Lamar — DAMN.
- SZA — Ctrl
- Lorde — Melodrama
- Perfume Genius — No Shape
- LCD Soundsystem — american dream
- The War on Drugs — A Deeper Understanding
- Thundercat — Drunk
- Kelela — Take Me Apart
- Richard Dawson — Peasant
- Jane Weaver — Modern Kosmology
- Wolf Alice — Visions of a Life
- Tyler, The Creator — Flower Boy
- J Hus — Common Sense
- The Horrors — V
- Father John Misty — Pure Comedy
- Drake — More Life
- Stormzy — Gang Signs & Prayer
- Laura Marling — Semper Femina
- Sampha — Process
- Cigarettes After Sex — Cigarettes After Sex
- King Krule — The OOZ
- Vince Staples — Big Fish Theory
- Protomartyr — Relatives in Descent
- The National — Sleep Well Beast
- Paramore — After Laughter
- Marika Hackman — I’m Not Your Man
- Slowdive — Slowdive
- Alvvays — Antisocialites
- Girl Ray — Earl Grey
- Charlotte Gainsbourg — Rest
- Four Tet — New Energy
- Miguel — War & Leisure
- Juana Molina — Halo
- Nick Hakim — Green Twins
- Rhiannon Giddens — Freedom Highway
- Sparks — Hippopotamus
- Baxter Dury — Prince of Tears
- Cloud Nothings — Life Without Sound
- Moses Sumney — Aromanticism
- Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile — Lotta Sea Lice
- Julie Byrne — Not Even Happiness
- Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith — The Kid
- The xx — I See You
- Powerdance — The Lost Art of Getting Down
- Les Amazones d’Afrique — République Amazone
- Mount Eerie — A Crow Looked at Me
- Vijay Iyer Sextet — Far from Over
- Lisa Knapp — Till April Is Dead – A Garland of May
- Trio Da Kali & Kronos Quartet — Ladilikan