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2017 Music

Nate Chinen: NPR: Top 21 Albums of 2017

15 December 2017

Damn - Kendrick Lamar

Nate Chinen: Top 21 Albums of 2017, as published by NPR

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  1. Kendrick Lamar
    Damn
  2. Ron Miles
    I Am a Man
  3. Vijay Iyer Sextet
    Far from Over
  4. Jason Moran
    BANGS
  5. Greg Saunier/Mary Halvorson/Ron Miles
    New American Songbooks, Volume 1
  6. Jaimie Branch
    Fly or Die
  7. Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
    The Nashville Sound
  8. Miguel Zenón
    Tipico
  9. Nicole Mitchell
    Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds
  10. SZA
    Ctrl
  11. Matt Mitchell & Tim Berne
    Forage

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