Year-End Lists

The Quietus: Top 100 Albums of 2017

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Peasant
   Richard Dawson
2. Zimpel/Ziołek
   Zimpel/Ziołek
3. Plunge
   Fever Ray
4. Interplanetary Class Classics
   The Moonlandingz
5. Holiday Destination
   Nadine Shah
6. Take Me Apart
   Kelela
7. The Animal Spirits
   James Holden & The Animal Spirits
8. 1992
   Princess Nokia
9. Trifle
   Lone Taxidermist
10. Thin Black Duke
    Oxbow
11. TFCF
    Liars
12. VV
    Lotto
13. Arpo
    Call Super
14. Come Play the Trees
    Snapped Ankles
15. Feed the Rats
    Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs
16. Hunter Huntress Hawker
    Laura Cannell
17. Just Say No to the Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine
    Gnod
18. Modern Kosmology
    Jane Weaver
19. Terminal
    Circle
20. Rûwâhîne
    Ifriqiyya Electrique
21. Play What They Want
    Man Forever
22. Madonnatron
    Madonnatron
23. Through the Mirror
    ENDON
24. The Underside of Power
    Algiers
25. Unseen Forces
    Justin Walter
26. Multiverse
    BNNT
27. Total S**t!
    Shit & Shine
28. Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds
    Nicole Mitchell
29. Vanishing
    Vanishing
30. Big Fish Theory
    Vince Staples
31. Utopia
    Björk
32. Arca
    Arca
33. Rock N Roll Consciousness
    Thurston Moore
34. Before the Applause
    Re-TROS
35. Black Origami
    Jlin
36. Hungan
    Kemper Norton
37. The Two of Us
    Chloe x Halle
38. Suspended Second
    The Granite Shore
39. Everywhere At The End Of Time – Stage 3
    The Caretaker
40. Frequency is the New Ecstasy
    Teleplasmiste
41. Collective: The Shape of He to Come
    Botanist
42. Let the Dancers Inherit the Party
    British Sea Power
43. Enkar
    Al-Namrood
44. american dream
    LCD Soundsystem
45. Reassemblage
    Visible Cloaks
46. Bitter Music
    Perc
47. Kingdom Come
    Gazelle Twin
48. Savage (Songs from a Broken World)
    Gary Numan
49. Superlative Fatigue
    Errorsmith
50. It
    Alan Vega
51. The Kid
    Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
52. Configuração do Lamento
    Deafkids
53. And Right Lines Limit and Close All Bodies
    The Inward Circles
54. Songs from the Sides of Lorries
    I, Ludicrous
55. Sells His Record Collection
    Japan Blues
56. Nightmare Logic
    Power Trip
57. Afro Mutations
    Riddlore
58. I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone
    Chastity Belt
59. Post Self
    Godflesh
60. Short Passing Game
    Davy Kehoe
61. For the Climax of the Night
    Total Leatherette
62. Wizard Bloody Wizard
    Electric Wizard
63. Ambient Black Magic
    Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement
64. A flame my love, a frequency
    Colleen
65. Common Sense
    J Hus
66. Sterilize
    Unsane
67. async
    Ryuichi Sakamoto
68. Ctrl
    SZA
69. Mnestic Pressure
    Lee Gamble
70. Kicking Away At The Decrepit Walls Til The Beautiful Sunshine Blisters Thru The Cracks
    MXLX
71. Tar
    Siavash Amini
72. Fabric of Time
    The Yossarians
73. UUUU
    UUUU
74. The Guillotine
    Hey Colossus
75. English Tapas
    Sleaford Mods
76. Sacred Horror in Design
    Sote
77. Bring On the Sun
    Laraaji
78. Gang Signs & Prayer
    Stormzy
79. Also sprach Zarathustra
    Laibach
80. I
    Still
81. Targ
    Bargou 08
82. Laisse ça être
    Aquaserge
83. Hesaitix
    MESH
84. IV
    Part Chimp
85. Veld
    Daniel O’Sullivan
86. Mario Batkovic
    Mario Batkovic
87. Silver / Lead
    Wire
88. Dust
    Laurel Halo
89. Fantasii
    Mhysa
90. Murder Of The Universe
    King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
91. Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia
    Hannah Peel
92. Here Lies Man
    Here Lies Man
93. Every Country’s Sun
    Mogwai
94. AZD
    Actress
95. Stellular
    Rose Elinor Dougall
96. Giraffe
    Simon Fisher Turner
97. Gangsta Bitch Music, Vol. 2
    Cardi B
98. Short Fuse
    Akatombo
99. Concrete Desert
    The Bug & Earth
100. Primal Incinerators of Moral Matrix
     Tetragrammacide

Slant Magazine: 25 Best Albums of 2017

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1. DAMN.
   Kendrick Lamar
2. MASSEDUCTION
   St. Vincent
3. Big Fish Theory
   Vince Staples
4. Something To Tell You
   HAIM
5. 4:44
   JAY-Z
6. Need to Feel Your Love
   Sheer Mag
7. Melodrama
   Lorde
8. american dream
   LCD Soundsystem
9. 50 Song Memoir
   The Magnetic Fields
10. Run the Jewels 3
    Run the Jewels
11. Utopia
    Björk
12. Plunge
    Fever Ray
13. Thrum
    Joe Henry
14. Flower Boy
    Tyler, The Creator
15. Ctrl
    SZA
16. Harmony of Difference
    Kamasi Washington
17. reputation
    Taylor Swift
18. Drunk
    Thundercat
19. The Order of Time
    Valerie June
20. Pure Comedy
    Father John Misty
21. The Navigator
    Hurray for the Riff Raff
22. Robyn Hitchcock
    Robyn Hitchcock
23. Black Cab
    Higher Brothers
24. Contact
    Harriet Brown
25. The Ride
    Nelly Furtado

The Guardian: 31 Best Fiction Books of 2017

[see also 2021 • 2020]

• Lincoln in the Bardo
  George Saunders
• Exit West
  Mohsin Hamid
• Reservoir 13
  Jon McGregor
• H(A)PPY
  Nicola Barker
• House of Names
  Colm Tóibín
• Mrs. Osmond
  John Banville
• The Golden House
  Salman Rushdie
• The Sparsholt Affair
  Alan Hollinghurst
• Manhattan Beach
  Jennifer Egan
• The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
  Arundhati Roy
• Birdcage Walk
  Helen Dunmore
• Home Fire
  Kamila Shamsie
• Dunbar
  Edward St. Aubyn
• We That Are Young
  Preti Taneja
• When I Hit You or a Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife
  Meena Kandasamy
• The End of Eddy
  Édouard Louis
• First Love
  Gwendoline Riley
• Fever Dream
  Samanta Schweblin
• Such Small Hands
  Andrés Barba
• Flights
  Olga Tokarczuk
• The Lie of the Land
  Amanda Craig
• Homegoing
  Yaa Gyasi
• My Absolute Darling
  Gabriel Tallent
• Conversations with Friends
  Sally Rooney
• Spoils
  Brian Van Reet
• The President’s Gardens
  Muhsin Al-Ramli
• Madame Zero

  9 Stories
  Sarah Hall
• Room Little Darker
  June Caldwell
• Attrib. and other stories
  Eley Williams
• Midwinter Break
  Bernard MacLaverty
• Winter
  Ali Smith

Lara Zarum: 16 Best TV Shows of 2017, as published by The Village Voice

[see also 2018]

1. Big Little Lies
2. The Leftovers
3. Better Things
4. Alias Grace
5. Broad City
6. The Good Place
7. Search Party
8. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
9. One Day at a Time
10. The Vietnam War

Honorable mentions

• Superstore
• GLOW
• Younger
• American Vandal
• The Deuce
• Girls

A.O. Scott: 21 Best Movies of 2017, as published by The New York Times

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1. The Florida Project
   Sean Baker
2. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
3. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
4. I Am Not Your Negro
   Raoul Peck
5. Faces Places
   Agnès Varda and JR
6. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
7. A Fantastic Woman
   Sebastián Lelio
8. Graduation
   Cristian Mungiu
9. A Quiet Passion
   Terence Davies
10. War for the Planet of the Apes
    Matt Reeves

And Also

• The Bad Batch
  Ana Lily Amirpour
• BPM (Beats Per Minute)
  Robin Campillo
• Call Me by Your Name
  Luca Guadagnino
• Dawson City: Frozen Time
  Bill Morrison
• I Called Him Morgan
  Kasper Collin
• Logan Lucky
  Steven Soderbergh
• The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
  Noah Baumbach
• Mudbound
  Dee Rees
• Okja
  Bong Joon-ho
• The Post
  Steven Spielberg
• The Shape of Water
  Guillermo del Toro

Manohla Dargis: 40 Best Movies of 2017, as published by The New York Times

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Dunkirk
   Christopher Nolan
2. Ex Libris: New York Public Library
   Frederick Wiseman
3. Faces Places
   Agnès Varda and JR
4. The Florida Project
   Sean Baker
5. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
6. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
7. Okja
   Bong Joon-ho
8. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
9. A Quiet Passion
   Terence Davies
10. Wonder Woman
    Patty Jenkins

Other Favorites

• After the Storm
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• The Big Sick
  Michael Showalter
• Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
  Alexandra Dean
• Call Me by Your Name
  Luca Guadagnino
• The Challenge
  Yuri Ancarani
• Dawson City: Frozen Time
  Bill Morrison
• The Death of Louis XIV
  Albert Serra
• Escapes
  Michael Almereyda
• Girls Trip
  Malcolm D. Lee
• Good Time
  Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
• The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki
  Juho Kuosmanen
• I Am Not Your Negro
  Raoul Peck
• Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond – Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton
  Chris Smith
• Kedi
  Ceyda Torun
• The Lost City of Z
  James Gray
• mother!
  Darren Aronofsky
• Mudbound
  Dee Rees
• My Journey Through French Cinema
  Bertrand Tavernier
• Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
  Joseph Cedar
• The Ornithologist
  João Pedro Rodrigues
• Patti Cake$
  Geremy Jasper
• Personal Shopper
  Olivier Assayas
• The Post
  Steven Spielberg
• Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
  Angela Robinson
• Quest
  Jonathan Olshefski
• Song to Song
  Terrence Malick
• Tonsler Park
  Kevin Jerome Everson
• Twin Peaks: The Return
  David Lynch
• The Woman Who Left
  Lav Diaz
• Wonderstruck
  Todd Haynes

Stereogum: 50 Best Albums of 2017

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Melodrama
   Lorde
2. DAMN.
   Kendrick Lamar
3. Nothing Feels Natural
   Priests
4. No Shape
   Perfume Genius
5. Ctrl
   SZA
6. A Deeper Understanding
   The War on Drugs
7. Guppy
   Charly Bliss
8. Out in the Storm
   Waxahatchee
9. american dream
   LCD Soundsystem
10. A Crow Looked at Me
    Mount Eerie
11. SATURATION II
    BROCKHAMPTON
12. Plunge
    Fever Ray
13. Turn Out the Lights
    Julien Baker
14. MASSEDUCTION
    St. Vincent
15. Slowdive
    Slowdive
16. You’re Not As _____ As You Think
    Sorority Noise
17. Soft Sounds from Another Planet
    Japanese Breakfast
18. Big Fish Theory
    Vince Staples
19. Aromanticism
    Moses Sumney
20. Not Even Happiness
    Julie Byrne
21. Rocket
    (Sandy) Alex G
22. Pure Comedy
    Father John Misty
23. Everybody Works
    Jay Som
24. Reflections of a Floating World
    Elder
25. Heartless
    Pallbearer
26. Take Me Apart
    Kelela
27. Tourist in This Town
    Allison Crutchfield
28. Utopia
    Björk
29. You’re Not You Anymore
    Counterparts
30. The Dusk In Us
    Converge
31. Antisocialites
    Alvvays
32. Sleep Well Beast
    The National
33. Culture
    Migos
34. Thousand Mile Stare
    Incendiary
35. Thx
    Lomelda
36. Powerplant
    girlpool
37. After Laughter
    Paramore
38. The Weather Station
    The Weather Station
39. White Halo
    Heaven In Her Arms
40. Pleasure
    Feist
41. The Iceberg
    Oddisee
42. RARE
    Hundredth
43. Okovi
    Zola Jesus
44. Black Origami
    Jlin
45. GT Ultra
    Guerilla Toss
46. The Hanged Man
    Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
47. Drunk
    Thundercat
48. Rosebudd’s Revenge
    Roc Marciano
49. The Nashville Sound
    Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
50. 4:44
    JAY-Z

American Songwriter: Top 25 Albums of 2017

[see also 2023 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. All American Made
   Margo Price
2. The Nashville Sound
   Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
3. Wrangled
   Angaleena Presley
4. Soul of a Woman
   Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
5. UNDIVIDED HEART & SOUL
   J.D. McPherson
6. Sleep Well Beast
   The National
7. Carry Fire
   Robert Plant
8. MASSEDUCTION
   St. Vincent
9. Freedom Highway
   Rhiannon Giddens
10. DAMN.
    Kendrick Lamar
11. american dream
    LCD Soundsystem
12. Big Bad Luv
    John Moreland
13. Turn Out the Lights
    Julien Baker
14. The Navigator
    Hurray for the Riff Raff
15. The Underside of Power
    Algiers
16. So You Wannabe an Outlaw
    Steve Earle & The Dukes
17. Spades and Roses
    Caroline Spence
18. Heavy Meta
    Ron Gallo
19. Goodnight Rhonda Lee
    Nicole Atkins
20. Wonderful Wonderful
    The Killers
21. The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone
    Lee Ann Womack
22. A Deeper Understanding
    The War on Drugs
23. Puxico
    Natalie Hemby
24. No Shape
    Perfume Genius
25. Canyons of my Mind
    Andrew Combs

O, The Oprah Magazine: 11 Favorite Books of 2017

[see also 2020 • 2019 • 2018]

• We Were Eight Years in Power

  An American Tragedy
  Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Lincoln in the Bardo
  George Saunders
• Sour Heart
  Jenny Zhang
• Exit West
  Mohsin Hamid
• Goodbye, Vitamin
  Rachel Khong
• The Leavers
  Lisa Ko
• The Future Is History

  How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
  Masha Gessen
• Her Body and Other Parties
  Carmen Maria Machado
• There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce
  Morgan Parker
• Future Home of the Living God
  Louise Erdrich
• The Hate U Give
  Angie Thomas

Cahiers du Cinéma: Top Ten Films of 2017

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Twin Peaks: The Return
   David Lynch
2. Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc
   Bruno Dumont
3. Certain Women
   Kelly Reichardt
4. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
5. The Day After
   Hong Sang-soo
6. Lover for a Day
   Philippe Garrel
7. Good Time
   Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
8. Split
   M. Night Shyamalan
9. Jackie
   Pablo Larraín
10. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
    Ang Lee