Year-End Lists

Sputnikmusic: Top 50 Albums of 2017

[see also 2015]

1. The National
   Sleep Well Beast
2. Ulver
   The Assassination of Julius Caesar
3. Kendrick Lamar
   Damn
4. Manchester Orchestra
   A Black Mile To The Surface
5. The Menzingers
   After the Party
6. Blood Cultures
   Happy Birthday
7. Lorde
   Melodrama
8. Gang of Youths
   Go Farther in Lightness
9. Pain of Salvation
   In the Passing Light of Day
10. Vince Staples
    Big Fish Theory
11. Brand New
    Science Fiction
12. Tyler, The Creator
    Flower Boy
13. Phoebe Bridgers
    Stranger in the Alps
14. Mount Eerie
    A Crow Looked at Me
15. Paramore
    After Laughter
16. The War on Drugs
    A Deeper Understanding
17. Glassjaw
    Material Control
18. Arca
    Arca
19. Sampha
    Process
20. St. Vincent
    MASSEDUCTION
21. Falls of Rauros
    Vigilance Perennial
22. Fleet Foxes
    Crack-Up
22. Jürg Frey
    Ephemeral Constructions
24. Fever Ray
    Plunge
25. Fen
    Winter
26. Artificial Brain
    Infrared Horizon
27. DispersE
    Foreword
28. Iglooghost
    Neō Wax Bloom
29. Slowdive
    Slowdive
30. Propagandhi
    Victory Lap
31. Steven Wilson
    To the Bone
32. Bedwetter
    Vol. 1: Flick Your Tongue Against Your Teeth and Describe the Present
33. Wolves in the Throne Room
    Thrice Woven
34. Krallice
    Go Be Forgotten
35. Brockhampton
    Saturation II
36. Cradle of Filth
    Cryptoriana – The Seductiveness of Decay
37. Do Make Say Think
    Stubborn Persistent Illusions
38. PVRIS
    All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell
39. Blanck Mass
    World Eater
40. King Krule
    The OOZ
41. And So I Watch You From Afar
    The Endless Shimmering
42. Lykantropi
    Lykantropi
43. Julien Baker
    Turn Out the Lights
44. The Smith Street Band
    More Scared of You Than You Are of Me
45. Dad Thighs
    The Ghosts That I Fear
46. death’s dynamic shroud
    Heavy Black Heart
47. The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die
    Always Foreign
48. 1800HaightStreet
    Endless
49. Benjamin Clementine
    I Tell A Fly
50. Sorcerer
    The Crowning of the Fire King