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Vinyl Me, Please: Best Albums of 2017

30 December 2017

Ctrl - SZA

Vinyl Me, Please: Best Albums of 2017

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018]

  1. Ctrl
    SZA
  2. MASSEDUCTION
    St. Vincent
  3. DAMN.
    Kendrick Lamar
  4. Pure Comedy
    Father John Misty
  5. Melodrama
    Lorde
  6. Turn Out the Lights
    Julien Baker
  7. Aromanticism
    Moses Sumney
  8. Capacity
    Big Thief
  9. Nightmare Logic
    Power Trip
  10. Sleep Well Beast
    The National
  11. american dream
    LCD Soundsystem
  12. A Deeper Understanding
    The War on Drugs
  13. City Music
    Kevin Morby
  14. Take Me Apart
    Kelela
  15. Process
    Sampha
  16. No Shape
    Perfume Genius
  17. Flower Boy
    Tyler, The Creator
  18. Crack-Up
    Fleet Foxes
  19. Drunk
    Thundercat
  20. Soft Sounds from Another Planet
    Japanese Breakfast
  21. Utopia
    Björk
  22. Party
    Aldous Harding
  23. Half-Light
    Rostam
  24. You’re Not As _____ As You Think
    Sorority Noise
  25. SATURATION
    BROCKHAMPTON
  26. SATURATION II
    BROCKHAMPTON
  27. Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1
    Calvin Harris
  28. 4:44
    JAY-Z
  29. Ash
    Ibeyi
  30. From A Room: Volume 1
    Chris Stapleton
  31. From A Room: Volume 1
    Chris Stapleton
  32. Yours Conditionally
    Tennis

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