Year-End Lists

Earbuddy: 100 Best Albums of 2017

1. Mount Eerie
   A Crow Looked at Me
2. Father John Misty
   Pure Comedy
3. Torres
   Three Futures
4. Vince Staples
   Big Fish Theory
5. Kendrick Lamar
   Damn
6. Perfume Genius
   No Shape
7. Lorde
   Melodrama
8. Julien Baker
   Turn Out the Lights
9. Fleet Foxes
   Crack-Up
10. Big Thief
    Capacity
11. Casey Dienel
    Imitation of a Woman To Love
12. Wolf Parade
    Cry Cry Cry
13. Charlotte Gainsbourg
    Rest
14. (Sandy) Alex G
    Rocket
15. Chelsea Wolfe
    Hiss Spun
16. JAY-Z
    4:44
17. Japanese Breakfast
    Soft Sounds from Another Planet
18. Marika Hackman
    I’m Not Your Man
19. Run the Jewels
    Run the Jewels 3
20. The Horrors
    V
21. P.O.S.
    Chill, dummy
22. The xx
    I See You
23. Alex Cameron
    Forced Witness
24. Thundercat
    Drunk
25. Tyler, The Creator
    Flower Boy
26. Deerhoof
    Mountain Moves
27. King Krule
    The OOZ
28. Sun Kil Moon
    Common as Light and Love Are Red Valleys of Blood
29. The Afghan Whigs
    In Spades
30. Björk
    Utopia
31. Ke$ha
    Rainbow
32. Syd
    Fin
33. Hurray for the Riff Raff
    The Navigator
34. Mount Kimbie
    Love What Survives
35. Priests
    Nothing Feels Natural
36. Sheer Mag
    Need to Feel Your Love
37. Hundred Waters
    Communicating
38. Mac DeMarco
    This Old Dog
39. Briana Marela
    Call It Love
40. Cherry Glazerr
    Apocalipstick
41. Shilpa Ray
    Door Girl
42. Alex Lahey
    I Love You Like a Brother
43. Big K.R.I.T.
    4eva Is a Mighty Long Time
44. Algiers
    The Underside of Power
45. The Drums
    Abysmal Thoughts
46. Fever Ray
    Plunge
47. Katie Von Schleicher
    Shitty Hits
48. Peter Silberman
    Impermanence
49. Queens of the Stone Age
    Villains
50. Waxahatchee
    Out in the Storm
51. Mogwai
    Every Country’s Sun
52. Sorority Noise
    You’re Not As _____ As You Think
53. HAIM
    Something To Tell You
54. Future Islands
    The Far Field
55. St. Vincent
    MASSEDUCTION
56. Uniform
    Wake in Fright
57. WHY?
    Moh Lhean
58. Bedouine
    Bedouine
59. Chastity Belt
    I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone
60. B Boys
    Dada
61. Middle Kids
    Middle Kids
62. Lapalux
    Ruinism
63. Spoon
    Hot Thoughts
64. Citris
    Panic in Hampton Bays
65. Tei Shi
    Crawl Space
66. Dasher
    Sodium
67. Ten Fé
    Hit the Light
68. Single Mothers
    Our Pleasure
69. Slowdive
    Slowdive
70. The National
    Sleep Well Beast
71. Manchester Orchestra
    A Black Mile To The Surface
72. Clark
    Death Peak
73. The Weather Station
    The Weather Station
74. Laura Marling
    Semper Femina
75. Nurses
    Naughtland
76. Happy Hollows
    Concordia
77. Joey Bada$$
    ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$
78. Grizzly Bear
    Painted Ruins
79. Aimee Mann
    Mental Illness
80. Ben Frost
    The Centre Cannot Hold
81. Lovely Dark
    New Born
82. Pallbearer
    Heartless
83. Jay Som
    Everybody Works
84. Arca
    Arca
85. David Bazan
    Care
86. Acceptance
    Colliding By Design
87. Odonis Odonis
    No Pop
88. Cloud Nothings
    Life Without Sound
89. Caddywhompus
    Odd Hours
90. Diet Cig
    Swear I’m Good At This
91. James Vincent McMorrow
    True Care
92. Protomartyr
    Relatives in Descent
93. Arcade Fire
    Everything Now
94. The Mynabirds
    BE HERE NOW
95. This Is the Kit
    Moonshine Freeze
96. The Bug & Earth
    Concrete Desert
97. The Cairo Gang
    Untouchable
98. Wall
    Untitled
99. Brandon Can’t Dance
    Graveyard of Good Times
100. Kirin J Callinan
     Bravado