NPR Music: Best 50 Albums of 2017
[see also 2018, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2011]
- Kendrick Lamar — DAMN.
- SZA — Ctrl
- Big Thief — Capacity
- Sampha — Process
- Lorde — Melodrama
- Perfume Genius — No Shape
- Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit — The Nashville Sound
- Ke$ha — Rainbow
- Hurray for the Riff Raff — The Navigator
- Aldous Harding — Party
- JAY-Z — 4:44
- Vijay Iyer Sextet — Far from Over
- Rhiannon Giddens — Freedom Highway
- Moses Sumney — Aromanticism
- Danish String Quartet — Last Leaf
- Jlin — Black Origami
- Vince Staples — Big Fish Theory
- ÌFÉ — IIII+IIII
- Ifriqiyya Electrique — Rûwâhîne
- The War on Drugs — A Deeper Understanding
- Jay Som — Everybody Works
- Lil Uzi Vert — Luv Is Rage 2
- Sylvan Esso — What Now
- The National — Sleep Well Beast
- La Santa Cecilia — Amar Y Vivir (En Vivo Desde La Ciudad De México, 2017)
- Lee Ann Womack — The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone
- Fever Ray — Plunge
- TORRES — Three Futures
- Open Mike Eagle — Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
- Ron Miles — I Am a Man
- Mount Eerie — A Crow Looked at Me
- Alvvays — Antisocialites
- Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra & Risto Joost — Kõrvits: Moorland Elegies
- Joan Shelley — Joan Shelley
- Thundercat — Drunk
- Rapsody — Laila’s Wisdom
- Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith — The Kid
- Migos — Culture
- Tyler Childers — Purgatory
- Midland — On the Rocks
- Waxahatchee — Out in the Storm
- Trio Da Kali & Kronos Quartet — Ladilikan
- Danay Suárez — Palabras Manuales
- Priests — Nothing Feels Natural
- Oumou Sangaré — Mogoya
- Mr. Mitch — Devout
- Jaimie Branch — Fly or Die
- Miguel Zenón — Tipico
- Marc-André Hamelin — Feldman: For Bunita Marcus
- Paramore — After Laughter