Year-End Lists

Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2017

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1. A Deeper Understanding
   The War on Drugs
2. Turn Out the Lights
   Julien Baker
3. MASSEDUCTION
   St. Vincent
4. Slowdive
   Slowdive
5. Visions of a Life
   Wolf Alice
6. DAMN.
   Kendrick Lamar
7. Sleep Well Beast
   The National
8. Painted Ruins
   Grizzly Bear
9. Pure Comedy
   Father John Misty
10. Soft Sounds from Another Planet
    Japanese Breakfast
11. Hug of Thunder
    Broken Social Scene
12. american dream
    LCD Soundsystem
13. Hot Thoughts
    Spoon
14. V
    The Horrors
15. Rest
    Charlotte Gainsbourg
16. Lotta Sea Lice
    Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile
17. Crack-Up
    Fleet Foxes
18. No Shape
    Perfume Genius
19. A Crow Looked at Me
    Mount Eerie
20. Antisocialites
    Alvvays
21. Capacity
    Big Thief
22. Stellular
    Rose Elinor Dougall
23. Planetarium
    Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly & James McAlister
24. Aromanticism
    Moses Sumney
25. Everybody Works
    Jay Som
26. Cry Cry Cry
    Wolf Parade
27. Hang
    Foxygen
28. The OOZ
    King Krule
29. Kelly Lee Owens
    Kelly Lee Owens
30. Pleasure
    Feist
31. Utopia
    Björk
32. Plunge
    Fever Ray
33. The Far Field
    Future Islands
34. Little Fictions
    Elbow
35. Willowbank
    Yumi Zouma
36. The Underside of Power
    Algiers
37. Life Will See You Now
    Jens Lekman
38. Earl Grey
    Girl Ray
39. I See You
    The xx
40. Saturn Over Sunset
    Midnight Sister
41. Whiteout Conditions
    The New Pornographers
42. I’m Not Your Man
    Marika Hackman
43. Relatives in Descent
    Protomartyr
44. Love What Survives
    Mount Kimbie
45. Bedouine
    Bedouine
46. I Love You Like a Brother
    Alex Lahey
47. Stranger in the Alps
    Phoebe Bridgers
48. Room 29
    Chilly Gonzales & Jarvis Cocker
49. Prince of Tears
    Baxter Dury
50. Silver Eye
    Goldfrapp
51. Ctrl
    SZA
52. City Music
    Kevin Morby
53. Volcano
    Temples
54. Out in the Storm
    Waxahatchee
55. Big Fish Theory
    Vince Staples
56. Melodrama
    Lorde
57. Luciferian Towers
    Godspeed You! Black Emperor
58. Semper Femina
    Laura Marling
59. Weather Diaries
    Ride
60. Bravado
    Kirin J Callinan
61. RELAXER
    alt-J
62. Drunk
    Thundercat
63. Okovi
    Zola Jesus
64. Process
    Sampha
65. The Hanged Man
    Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
66. Dirty Projectors
    Dirty Projectors
67. Green Twins
    Nick Hakim
68. Last Place
    Grandaddy
69. Ti Amo
    Phoenix
70. In Spades
    The Afghan Whigs
71. Glasshouse
    Jessie Ware
72. Not Even Happiness
    Julie Byrne
73. Modern Kosmology
    Jane Weaver
74. Night Night At the First Landing
    Madeline Kenney
75. ken
    Destroyer
76. Mountain Moves
    Deerhoof
77. Soul of a Woman
    Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
78. Ununiform
    Tricky
79. The Weather Station
    The Weather Station
80. Let the Dancers Inherit the Party
    British Sea Power
81. Powerplant
    girlpool
82. Home Counties
    Saint Etienne
83. Future Politics
    Austra
84. Goths
    The Mountain Goats
85. Holiday Destination
    Nadine Shah
86. Nothing Feels Natural
    Priests
87. Every Country’s Sun
    Mogwai
88. Somersault
    Beach Fossils
89. Oczy Mlody
    The Flaming Lips
90. Run the Jewels 3
    Run the Jewels
91. World Eater
    Blanck Mass
92. The Weather
    Pond
93. Season High
    Little Dragon
94. Harmony of Difference
    Kamasi Washington
95. This Old Dog
    Mac DeMarco
96. Haiku From Zero
    Cut Copy
97. Pleasure
    Sondre Lerche
98. Morningside
    Fazerdaze
99. Exile In the Outer Ring
    EMA
100. Moonshine Freeze
     This Is the Kit