Year-End Lists

Drowned in Sound: 100 Favourite Albums of 2017. See also this year’s staff poll.

1. Wolf Alice
   Visions of a Life
2. Kelly Lee Owens
   Kelly Lee Owens
3. EMA
   Exile In the Outer Ring
4. St. Vincent
   MASSEDUCTION
5. Noveller
   A Pink Sunset for No One
6. Austra
   Future Politics
7. Feist
   Pleasure
8. Jane Weaver
   Modern Kosmology
9. Laura Marling
   Semper Femina
10. Juana Molina
    Halo
11. Soulwax
    FROM DEEWEE
12. Thundercat
    Drunk
13. Paramore
    After Laughter
14. Jean-Michel Blais & CFCF
    Cascades
15. Björk
    Utopia
16. Mogwai
    Every Country’s Sun
17. Zola Jesus
    Okovi
18. Kendrick Lamar
    Damn
19. Protomartyr
    Relatives in Descent
20. Grizzly Bear
    Painted Ruins
21. Hannah Peel
    Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia
22. Slowdive
    Slowdive
23. Loyle Carner
    Yesterday’s Gone
24. Eyre Llew
    Atelo
25. Perfume Genius
    No Shape
26. Nadine Shah
    Holiday Destination
27. LCD Soundsystem
    American Dream
28. Lorde
    Melodrama
29. Hurray for the Riff Raff
    The Navigator
30. The Big Moon
    Love in the 4th Dimension
31. Princess Nokia
    1992
32. Colin Stetson
    All This I Do For Glory
33. The Horrors
    V
34. Queens of the Stone Age
    Villains
35. Ride
    Weather Diaries
36. Sylvan Esso
    What Now
37. Idles
    Brutalism
38. Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Gustavo Santaolalla, Mogwai
    Before the Flood
39. Cigarettes After Sex
    Cigarettes After Sex
40. Girl Ray
    Earl Grey
41. The Mynabirds
    BE HERE NOW
42. SZA
    Ctrl
43. Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton
    Fatal Gift
44. Johnny Jewel
    Windswept
45. Jesca Hoop
    Memories Are Now
46. Katy Perry
    Witness
47. Clark
    Death Peak
48. Grandaddy
    Last Place
49. Tired Lion
    Dumb Days
50. William Basinski
    A Shadow in Time
51. Four Tet
    New Energy
52. Sløtface
    Try Not to Freak Out
53. Beck
    Colors
54. Bicep
    Bicep
55. Alvvays
    Antisocialites
56. Juanita Stein
    America
57. Phoebe Bridgers
    Stranger in the Alps
58. Broken Social Scene
    Hug of Thunder
59. Chelsea Wolfe
    Hiss Spun
60. Liars
    TFCF
61. Kamasi Washington
    Harmony of Difference
62. Japanese Breakfast
    Soft Sounds from Another Planet
63. Ghostpoet
    Dark Days + Canapés
64. Charlotte Gainsbourg
    Rest
65. The National
    Sleep Well Beast
66. Jen Cloher
    Jen Cloher
67. Do Make Say Think
    Stubborn Persistent Illusions
68. Mount Kimbie
    Love What Survives
69. Lana Del Rey
    Lust for Life
70. Wiley
    Godfather
71. Father John Misty
    Pure Comedy
72. Max Richter
    Three Worlds: Music from Woolf Works
73. Molly Burch
    Please Be Mine
74. Rose Elinor Dougall
    Stellular
75. Big Thief
    Capacity
76. Casey Dienel
    Imitation of a Woman To Love
77. The Shins
    Heartworms
78. Destroyer
    ken
79. Stormzy
    Gang Signs & Prayer
80. Cherry Glazerr
    Apocalipstick
81. Mura Masa
    Mura Masa
82. Fever Ray
    Plunge
83. Ryan Adams
    Prisoner
84. Depeche Mode
    Spirit
85. Laurel Halo
    Dust
86. Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile
    Lotta Sea Lice
87. King Krule
    The Ooz
88. Kelela
    Take Me Apart
89. This Is the Kit
    Moonshine Freeze
90. Sampha
    Process
91. Lapalux
    Ruinism
92. The Afghan Whigs
    In Spades
93. Cloud Nothings
    Life Without Sound
94. Circuit Des Yeux
    Reaching For Indigo
95. Rapsody
    Laila’s Wisdom
96. The War on Drugs
    A Deeper Understanding
97. Public Service Broadcasting
    Every Valley
98. Future Islands
    The Far Field
99. Blanck Mass
    World Eater
100. Arcade Fire
     Everything Now