Year-End Lists

Anthony Fantano: Top 50 Albums of 2017, as aired on The Needle Drop

1. Father John Misty
   Pure Comedy
2. Brockhampton
   Saturation II
3. Mount Eerie
   A Crow Looked at Me
4. Big K.R.I.T.
   4eva Is a Mighty Long Time
5. Sun Kil Moon
   Common as Light and Love Are Red Valleys of Blood
6. Neil Cicierega
   Mouth Moods
7. Kirin J Callinan
   Bravado
8. Rosalía
   Los Ángeles
9. Algiers
   The Underside of Power
10. Perfume Genius
    No Shape
11. Oxbow
    Thin Black Duke
12. Alex Cameron
    Forced Witness
13. Xiu Xiu
    Forget
14. Tyler, The Creator
    Flower Boy
15. Iglooghost
    Neō Wax Bloom
16. SZA
    Ctrl
17. Open Mike Eagle
    Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
18. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
    Soul of a Woman
19. Richard Dawson
    Peasant
20. Oh Sees
    Orc
21. The Mountain Goats
    Goths
22. JAY-Z
    4:44
23. Billy Woods
    Known Unknowns
24. Uncommon Nasa
    Written at Night
25. Primitive Man
    Caustic
26. Quelle Chris
    Being You Is Great, I Wish I Could Be You More Often
27. Guerilla Toss
    GT Ultra
28. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
    Flying Microtonal Banana
29. Ibibio Sound Machine
    Uyai
30. Princess Nokia
    1992
31. Idles
    Brutalism
32. Ariel Pink
    Dedicated To Bobby Jameson
33. Protomartyr
    Relatives in Descent
34. Wiley
    Godfather
35. Alvvays
    Antisocialites
36. Fleet Foxes
    Crack-Up
37. Joey Bada$$
    ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$
38. Code Orange
    Forever
39. Feist
    Pleasure
40. Rapsody
    Laila’s Wisdom
41. Kelela
    Take Me Apart
42. Run the Jewels
    Run the Jewels 3
43. Elder
    Reflections of a Floating World
44. Converge
    The Dusk In Us
45. Kendrick Lamar
    Damn
46. Sampha
    Process
47. Pallbearer
    Heartless
48. Dying Fetus
    Wrong One to Fuck With
49. Death from Above
    Outrage! Is Now
50. Sinjin Hawke
    First Opus