Year-End Lists

The Quietus: Top 100 Albums of 2017

[see also 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]

1. Richard Dawson — Peasant
2. Zimpel/Ziołek — Zimpel/Ziołek
3. Fever Ray — Plunge
4. The Moonlandingz — Interplanetary Class Classics
5. Nadine Shah — Holiday Destination
6. Kelela — Take Me Apart
7. James Holden & The Animal Spirits — The Animal Spirits
8. Princess Nokia — 1992
9. Lone Taxidermist — Trifle
10. Oxbow — Thin Black Duke
11. Liars — TFCF
12. Lotto — VV
13. Call Super — Arpo
14. Snapped Ankles — Come Play the Trees
15. Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs — Feed the Rats
16. Laura Cannell — Hunter Huntress Hawker
17. Gnod — Just Say No to the Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine
18. Jane Weaver — Modern Kosmology
19. Circle — Terminal
20. Ifriqiyya Electrique — Rûwâhîne
21. Man Forever — Play What They Want
22. Madonnatron — Madonnatron
23. ENDON — Through the Mirror
24. Algiers — The Underside of Power
25. Justin Walter — Unseen Forces
26. BNNT — Multiverse
27. Shit & Shine — Total S**t!
28. Nicole Mitchell — Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds
29. Vanishing — Vanishing
30. Vince Staples — Big Fish Theory
31. Björk — Utopia
32. Arca — Arca
33. Thurston Moore — Rock N Roll Consciousness
34. Re-TROS — Before the Applause
35. Jlin — Black Origami
36. Kemper Norton — Hungan
37. Chloe x Halle — The Two of Us
38. The Granite Shore — Suspended Second
39. The Caretaker — Everywhere At The End Of Time – Stage 3
40. Teleplasmiste — Frequency is the New Ecstasy
41. Botanist — Collective: The Shape of He to Come
42. British Sea Power — Let the Dancers Inherit the Party
43. Al-Namrood — Enkar
44. LCD Soundsystem — american dream
45. Visible Cloaks — Reassemblage
46. Perc — Bitter Music
47. Gazelle Twin — Kingdom Come
48. Gary Numan — Savage (Songs from a Broken World)
49. Errorsmith — Superlative Fatigue
50. Alan Vega — It
51. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith — The Kid
52. Deafkids — Configuração do Lamento
53. The Inward Circles — And Right Lines Limit and Close All Bodies
54. I, Ludicrous — Songs from the Sides of Lorries
55. Japan Blues — Sells His Record Collection
56. Power Trip — Nightmare Logic
57. Riddlore — Afro Mutations
58. Chastity Belt — I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone
59. Godflesh — Post Self
60. Davy Kehoe — Short Passing Game
61. Total Leatherette — For the Climax of the Night
62. Electric Wizard — Wizard Bloody Wizard
63. Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement — Ambient Black Magic
64. Colleen — A flame my love, a frequency
65. J Hus — Common Sense
66. Unsane — Sterilize
67. Ryuichi Sakamoto — async
68. SZA — Ctrl
69. Lee Gamble — Mnestic Pressure
70. MXLX — Kicking Away At The Decrepit Walls Til The Beautiful Sunshine Blisters Thru The Cracks
71. Siavash Amini — Tar
72. The Yossarians — Fabric of Time
73. UUUU — UUUU
74. Hey Colossus — The Guillotine
75. Sleaford Mods — English Tapas
76. Sote — Sacred Horror in Design
77. Laraaji — Bring On the Sun
78. Stormzy — Gang Signs & Prayer
79. Laibach — Also sprach Zarathustra
80. Still — I
81. Bargou 08 — Targ
82. Aquaserge — Laisse ça être
83. MESH — Hesaitix
84. Part Chimp — IV
85. Daniel O’Sullivan — Veld
86. Mario Batkovic — Mario Batkovic
87. Wire — Silver / Lead
88. Laurel Halo — Dust
89. Mhysa — Fantasii
90. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard — Murder Of The Universe
91. Hannah Peel — Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia
92. Here Lies Man — Here Lies Man
93. Mogwai — Every Country’s Sun
94. Actress — AZD
95. Rose Elinor Dougall — Stellular
96. Simon Fisher Turner — Giraffe
97. Cardi B — Gangsta Bitch Music, Vol. 2
98. Akatombo — Short Fuse
99. The Bug & Earth — Concrete Desert
100. Tetragrammacide — Primal Incinerators of Moral Matrix