Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2017 (an annual poll of more than 400 critics, published by The Village Voice)
[see also 2018, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- Kendrick Lamar — DAMN.
- SZA — Ctrl
- St. Vincent — MASSEDUCTION
- Lorde — Melodrama
- Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit — The Nashville Sound
- The War on Drugs — A Deeper Understanding
- Slowdive — Slowdive
- JAY-Z — 4:44
- LCD Soundsystem — american dream
- Waxahatchee — Out in the Storm
- Jlin — Black Origami
- Father John Misty — Pure Comedy
- Thundercat — Drunk
- The National — Sleep Well Beast
- Mount Eerie — A Crow Looked at Me
- Kelela — Take Me Apart
- Vince Staples — Big Fish Theory
- Perfume Genius — No Shape
- Jens Lekman — Life Will See You Now
- Migos — Culture
- Spoon — Hot Thoughts
- Hurray for the Riff Raff — The Navigator
- King Krule — The OOZ
- Sampha — Process
- Priests — Nothing Feels Natural
- Rhiannon Giddens — Freedom Highway
- Moses Sumney — Aromanticism
- The Magnetic Fields — 50 Song Memoir
- Algiers — The Underside of Power
- Randy Newman — Dark Matter
- Alvvays — Antisocialites
- Ke$ha — Rainbow
- Run the Jewels — Run the Jewels 3
- Björk — Utopia
- Margo Price — All American Made
- Julien Baker — Turn Out the Lights
- Lana Del Rey — Lust for Life
- The xx — I See You
- Big Thief — Capacity
- Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith — The Kid
- Jay Som — Everybody Works
- Charly Bliss — Guppy
- Lee Ann Womack — The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone
- Paramore — After Laughter
- Kelly Lee Owens — Kelly Lee Owens
- Daniel Caesar — Freudian
- Charlotte Gainsbourg — Rest
- Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings — Soul of a Woman
- Syd — Fin
- The New Pornographers — Whiteout Conditions
- Miguel — War & Leisure
- Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile — Lotta Sea Lice
- Harry Styles — Harry Styles
- Drake — More Life
- Julie Byrne — Not Even Happiness
- Japanese Breakfast — Soft Sounds from Another Planet
- Alex Lahey — I Love You Like a Brother
- Khalid — American Teen
- Sheer Mag — Need to Feel Your Love
- Aimee Mann — Mental Illness
- Open Mike Eagle — Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
- Ted Leo and the Pharmacists — The Hanged Man
- Kamasi Washington — Harmony of Difference
- The Clientele — Music for the Age of Miracles
- Fever Ray — Plunge
- Power Trip — Nightmare Logic
- Protomartyr — Relatives in Descent
- Roscoe Mitchell — Bells For the South Side
- Tyler, The Creator — Flower Boy
- Ryan Adams — Prisoner
- Taylor Swift — reputation
- Phoebe Bridgers — Stranger in the Alps
- Alice Coltrane — World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane
- Kehlani — SweetSexySavage
- Jaimie Branch — Fly or Die
- The Replacements — For Sale: Live At Maxwell’s 1986
- Fleet Foxes — Crack-Up
- Future — HNDRXX
- The Regrettes — Feel Your Feelings Fool!
- Sparks — Hippopotamus
- Sylvan Esso — What Now
- Robyn Hitchcock — Robyn Hitchcock
- Elder — Reflections of a Floating World
- The Feelies — In Between
- The Courtneys — The Courtneys II
- Queens of the Stone Age — Villains
- Ibeyi — Ash
- Ty Dolla $ign — Beach House 3
- Valerie June — The Order of Time
- Laura Marling — Semper Femina
- Charli XCX — Number 1 Angel
- Converge — The Dusk In Us
- Zola Jesus — Okovi
- Ariel Pink — Dedicated To Bobby Jameson
- Japandroids — Near To The Wild Heart Of Life
- Orchestra Baobab — Tribute to Ndiouga Dieng
- Juana Molina — Halo
- Joshua Abrams — Simultonality
- EMA — Exile In the Outer Ring
- Chris Stapleton — From A Room: Volume 1
- U2 — Songs of Experience