Year-End Lists

AllMusic: 70 Best Albums of 2017

• Aimee Mann
  Mental Illness
• Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
  Telemann: Concerti per molti stromenti
• Algiers
  The Underside of Power
• Alvvays
  Antisocialites
• Angaleena Presley
  Wrangled
• Ann Hallenberg, il pomo d’oro & Stefano Montanari
  Carnevale 1729
• Arca
  Arca
• Katy Perry
  Witness
• Björk
  Utopia
• Bunbury
  Expectativas
• La Compagnia del Madrigale, Cantica Symphonia, La Pifarescha & Giuseppe Maletto
  Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine
• Circuit Des Yeux
  Reaching For Indigo
• Colleen
  A flame my love, a frequency
• Converge
  The Dusk In Us
• Curtis Harding
  Face Your Fear
• Cécile McLorin Salvant
  Dreams and Daggers
• Depeche Mode
  Spirit
• Downtown Boys
  Cost of Living
• EMA
  Exile In the Outer Ring
• Ex Eye
  Ex Eye
• Fever Ray
  Plunge
• Fleet Foxes
  Crack-Up
• François-Xavier Roth / Les Siècles
  Maurice Ravel: Daphnis & Chloé, Complete Ballet
• Fred Thomas
  Changer
• Gas
  Narkopop
• Girl Ray
  Earl Grey
• Hurray for the Riff Raff
  The Navigator
• Idles
  Brutalism
• Jane Weaver
  Modern Kosmology
• J.D. McPherson
  UNDIVIDED HEART & SOUL
• Jlin
  Black Origami
• Juana Molina
  Halo
• Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
  The Kid
• Kehlani
  SweetSexySavage
• Kelela
  Take Me Apart
• Kendrick Lamar
  Damn
• King Krule
  The OOZ
• Kip Moore
  Slowheart
• La Santa Cecilia
  Amar Y Vivir (En Vivo Desde La Ciudad De México, 2017)
• Laura Marling
  Semper Femina
• LCD Soundsystem
  American Dream
• Lorde
  Melodrama
• Lost Horizons
  Ojalá
• Mac DeMarco
  This Old Dog
• Mastodon
  Emperor of Sand
• Max Richter
  Three Worlds: Music from Woolf Works
• Mount Eerie
  A Crow Looked at Me
• Nicole Atkins
  Goodnight Rhonda Lee
• Nicole Mitchell
  Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds
• Omni
  Multi-Task
• Paramore
  After Laughter
• Protomartyr
  Relatives in Descent
• Randy Newman
  Dark Matter
• Riccardo Muti & Chicago Symphony Orchestra
  Bruckner: Symphony No. 9, WAB 109 (Original 1894 Version)
• Robert Plant
  Carry Fire
• Roscoe Mitchell
  Bells For the South Side
• SACRED PAWS
  Strike a Match
• Sampha
  Process
• Sheer Mag
  Need to Feel Your Love
• Sherwood & Pinch
  Man vs. Sofa
• St. Vincent
  MASSEDUCTION
• Susanne Sundfør
  Music For People In Trouble
• SZA
  Ctrl
• The Clientele
  Music for the Age of Miracles
• The Moonlandingz
  Interplanetary Class Classics
• Tyler, The Creator
  Flower Boy
• Vijay Iyer Sextet
  Far from Over
• Vince Staples
  Big Fish Theory
• Whitney Rose
  Rule 62
• Zara McFarlane
  Arise