Year-End Lists

The Alternative: Top 50 Releases of 2017

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2018]

1. Oso Oso
   The Yunahon Mixtape
2. Julien Baker
   Turn Out the Lights
3. Kendrick Lamar
   Damn
4. Charly Bliss
   Guppy
5. Great Grandpa
   Plastic Cough
6. Rozwell Kid
   Precious Art
7. Sorority Noise
   You’re Not As _____ As You Think
8. Strange Ranger
   Daymoon
9. Hodera
   First Things First
10. Big Thief
    Capacity
11. Citizen
    As You Please
12. Remo Drive
    Greatest Hits
13. The Spirit Of The Beehive
    Pleasure Suck
14. Meat Wave
    The Incessant
15. Pile
    A Hairshirt of Purpose
16. (Sandy) Alex G
    Rocket
17. Slaughter Beach, Dog
    Birdie
18. SZA
    Ctrl
19. A Will Away
    Here Again
20. Bully
    Losing
21. Blis
    No One Loves You
22. Converge
    The Dusk In Us
23. Japanese Breakfast
    Soft Sounds from Another Planet
24. Greet Death
    Dixieland
25. Cool American
    Infinite Hiatus
26. Ratboys
    GN
27. Wild Pink
    Wild Pink
28. Tyler, The Creator
    Flower Boy
29. Fire is Motion
    Still, I Try
30. 2 Chainz
    Pretty Girls Like Trap Music
31. The Obsessives
    The Obsessives
32. Run the Jewels
    Run the Jewels 3
33. Smidley
    Smidley
34. Perspective, a Lovely Hand to Hold
    What Not to Do
35. Harmony Woods
    Nothing Special
36. Open Mike Eagle
    Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
37. Washer
    All Aboard
38. Walter Etc.
    Gloom Cruise
39. Brockhampton
    Saturation
39. Brockhampton
    Saturation II
39. Brockhampton
    Saturation III
40. Mo Troper
    Exposure & Response
41. Wiki
    No Mountains in Manhattan
42. Lorde
    Melodrama
43. Diet Cig
    Swear I’m Good At This
44. Sinai Vessel
    Brokenlegged
45. The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die
    Always Foreign
46. Jay Som
    Everybody Works
47. Jelani Sei
    Lvndr Twn
48. Phoebe Bridgers
    Stranger in the Alps
49. Heart Attack Man
    The Manson Family
50. Caracara
    Summer Megalith