Tony Fantano: Top 50 Albums of 2017, as aired on The Needle Drop
[see also 2018]
- Father John Misty — Pure Comedy
- BROCKHAMPTON — SATURATION II
- Mount Eerie — A Crow Looked at Me
- Big K.R.I.T. — 4eva Is a Mighty Long Time
- Sun Kil Moon — Common as Light and Love Are Red Valleys of Blood
- Neil Cicierega — Mouth Moods
- Kirin J Callinan — Bravado
- Rosalía — Los Ángeles
- Algiers — The Underside of Power
- Perfume Genius — No Shape
- Oxbow — Thin Black Duke
- Alex Cameron — Forced Witness
- Xiu Xiu — Forget
- Tyler, The Creator — Flower Boy
- Iglooghost — Neō Wax Bloom
- SZA — Ctrl
- Open Mike Eagle — Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
- Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings — Soul of a Woman
- Richard Dawson — Peasant
- Oh Sees — Orc
- The Mountain Goats — Goths
- JAY-Z — 4:44
- Billy Woods — Known Unknowns
- Uncommon Nasa — Written at Night
- Primitive Man — Caustic
- Quelle Chris — Being You Is Great, I Wish I Could Be You More Often
- Guerilla Toss — GT Ultra
- King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard — Flying Microtonal Banana
- Ibibio Sound Machine — Uyai
- Princess Nokia — 1992
- Idles — Brutalism
- Ariel Pink — Dedicated To Bobby Jameson
- Protomartyr — Relatives in Descent
- Wiley — Godfather
- Alvvays — Antisocialites
- Fleet Foxes — Crack-Up
- Joey Bada$$ — ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$
- Code Orange — Forever
- Feist — Pleasure
- Rapsody — Laila’s Wisdom
- Kelela — Take Me Apart
- Run the Jewels — Run the Jewels 3
- Elder — Reflections of a Floating World
- Converge — The Dusk In Us
- Kendrick Lamar — DAMN.
- Sampha — Process
- Pallbearer — Heartless
- Dying Fetus — Wrong One to Fuck With
- Death from Above 1979 — Outrage! Is Now
- Sinjin Hawke — First Opus