TOP TEN of 2017

The best music ever released in 2017

Scope

Participants were asked to create a list of their favorite albums released in 2017, based on these prompts:

  1. It is created near the end of the year. (Submissions were done at the end of 2017 or within the first few days of 2018)
  2. It contains only full length albums. (EPs, singles and anything less than a full length album was supposed to be ruled out!)
  3. It only contains recordings originally released during the concluding year. (Albums released in 2017 only!)
  4. It only lists ten recordings. (Some people found this difficult.)

Participants

Submissions

Breanna Murphy

  1. Mt Eerie A crow looked at me
  2. John Maus Sunken Memories
  3. Fleet Foxes Crack-Up
  4. Hundred Waters Communicating
  5. The xx I See You
  6. Sampha Process
  7. Charlotte Gainsburg Rest
  8. Molly Nilsson Imaginations
  9. Forest Swords Compassion
  10. Washed Out Mister Mellow

Britt Witt

  1. Kelsey Lu Church
  2. St. Vincent Masseduction
  3. King Gizzard + the Lizard Wizard Murder of the Universe
  4. Thundercat Drunk
  5. Fleet Foxes Crack-Up
  6. Prettiest Eyes Pools
  7. Ariel Pink Dedicated to Bobby Jameson
  8. Alex Cameron Forced Witness
  9. Jamiroquai Automation
  10. Mister Goodnite Night in the Attic

C-Mac

  1. Slowdive S/T
  2. LCD Soundsystem American Dream
  3. Mac Demarco This Old Dog
  4. Frankie Rose Cage Tropical
  5. The Bats The Deep Set
  6. Ariel Pink Dedicated to Bobby Jameson
  7. Will Stratton Rosewood Almanac
  8. Richard Dawson Peasant
  9. The Feelies In Between
  10. Milk Music Mystic 100's

Carman Tse

  • Julien Baker Turn Out the Lights
  • Alice Coltrane The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda
  • Girlpool Powerplant
  • Jonny Greenwood The Score to Phantom Thread
  • King Krule The Ooz
  • Migos Culture
  • The Replacements For Sale: Live at Maxwell's 1986
  • Vince Staples Big Fish Theory
  • Kamasi Washington Harmony of Difference
  • Charli XCX Pop 2

Caroline Borolla

  1. Dude York Sincerely
  2. Drab Majesty The Demonstration
  3. Kelly Lee Owens S/T
  4. Chelsea Wolfe Hiss Spun
  5. Eluvium Shuffle Drones
  6. Sextile Albeit Living
  7. Odonis Odonis No Pop
  8. Algiers The Underside Of Power
  9. Charly Bliss Scare U
  10. Phoebe Bridgers Stranger In The Alps
  11. Fred Thomas Changer
  12. Waxahatchee Out in the Storm

Chris Kallmyer

  1. Sylvan Esso What Now
  2. Visible Cloaks - Reassemblage
  3. Kendrick Lamar Damn
  4. LCD Soundsystem American Dream
  5. Moses Somney Aromanticism
  6. Big Thief Capacity
  7. Chain and the Gang Experimental Music
  8. Laraaji Sun Gong
  9. Bill Orcutt S/T
  10. Thundercat Drunk

Christina Gubala (aka DJ Lady C)

  1. Moses Sumney Aromanticism
  2. Pharaohs In Oeland
  3. Kendrick Lamar Damn
  4. Ill Camille Heirloom
  5. The Steoples Six Rocks
  6. A Vision of Panorama S/T
  7. Brian Ellis Minor Minor
  8. Moniquea Black Wave Funk
  9. Rapsody Laila's Wisdom
  10. Gaussian Curve The Distance

Emily Sage

  1. Julie Byrne Not Even Happiness
  2. Slowdive S/T
  3. Big Thief Capacity
  4. Portugal. The Man Woodstock
  5. The War On Drugs A Deeper Understanding
  6. Fleet Foxes Crack-Up
  7. Beck Colors
  8. Broken Social Scene Hug Of Thunder
  9. Sharon Jones + the Dap-Kings Soul of a Woman
  10. Destroyer ken

Greg Katz

  1. Girlpool Powerplant
  2. Kendrick Lamar Damn
  3. Priests Nothing Feels Natural
  4. SZA Ctrl
  5. Migos Culture
  6. Bully Losing
  7. Vagabon Infinite Worlds
  8. Charly Bliss Guppy
  9. Beach Fossils Somersault
  10. Field Medic Songs from the Sunroom

James Aranda

  1. Mt Eerie A crow looked at me
  2. Kendrick Lamar Damn
  3. Joan of Arc He's Got The Whole This Land Is Your Land In His Hands
  4. Young Jesus S/T
  5. Kamasi Washington Harmony of Difference
  6. Sufjan Stevens Planetarium
  7. Dirty Projectors S/T
  8. St. Vincent Masseduction
  9. Jens Lekman Life Will See You Now
  10. Vince Staples Big Fish Theory

Jeremey Cohen

  1. Waxahatchee Out in the Storm
  2. Kevin Morby City Music
  3. LCD Soundsystem American Dream
  4. Louie Louie Friend of a Stranger
  5. Big Thief Capacity
  6. Daniele Luppi/Parquet Courts/Karen O Milano
  7. ShannonLay Living Water
  8. Cigarettes After Sex S/T
  9. Thundercat Drunk
  10. Margo Price All American Made

Kasey Fries

  1. Sylvan Esso What Now
  2. Kendrick Lamar Damn
  3. Beck Colors
  4. The National The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness
  5. Ten Fé Hit the Light
  6. St. Vincent Masseduction
  7. Sampha Process
  8. Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3
  9. The War on Drugs A Deeper Understanding
  10. Elbow Little Fictions

Kateri Lirio

  1. Kings Kaleidoscope The Beauty Between
  2. Natalia Lafourcade Musas
  3. Bruno Major A Song For Every Man
  4. Sabrina Claudio Confidently Lost
  5. Maggie Rogers Now That the Light is Fading
  6. NAK Ashley Court: Chapter 2
  7. SYD Fin
  8. Sampha Process
  9. Vulfpeck Mr. Finish Line
  10. Daniel Caesar Freaudian

Laura Katz

  1. Mary J Blige Strength of a Woman
  2. Jason Isbell The Nashville Sound
  3. Laura Marling Semper Femina
  4. Vulfpeck Mr. Finish Line
  5. Harry Styles S/T
  6. Robyn Hitchcock S/T
  7. Rookie Segson The Collide
  8. The National Sleep Well Beast
  9. Alex Lahey B Grade University
  10. Kevin Morby City Music

Lauren Kop (aka Mini Bear)

  1. Rina Sawayawa RINA
  2. Kelela Take Me Apart
  3. Kehlani Sweet Sexy Savage
  4. Syd Fin
  5. SZA Ctrl
  6. Jay Som Everybody Works
  7. Princess Nokia 1992
  8. Nite Jewel Real High
  9. Charlie XCX Pop 2
  10. Kendrick Lamar Damn

Lee Bedrouni

  1. Jens Lekman Life Will See You Now
  2. Dirty Projectors S/T
  3. Pleasure Feist
  4. Kendrick Lamar Damn
  5. SZA Ctrl
  6. Land of Talk Life After Youth
  7. Vagabon Infinite Worlds
  8. Run the Jewels RTJ3
  9. Mt Eerie A crow looked at me
  10. St. Vincent Masseduction

Melissa Gibbons

  1. Big Thief Capacity
  2. Mt Eerie A crow looked at me
  3. Slowdive S/T
  4. Mount Kimbie Love What Survives
  5. Noveller A Pink Sunset for No One
  6. The Bug and Earth Concrete Desert
  7. Converge The Dusk in Us
  8. Oxbow Thin Black Duke
  9. Pile A Hairshirt of Purpose
  10. Wall S/T

Mike Kuge

  1. Slowdive S/T
  2. Public Service Broadcasting Every Valley
  3. Stars There Is No Love In Fluorescent Light
  4. Tangerine Dream Quantum Gate
  5. Cornelius Mellow Waves
  6. Goldfrapp Silver Eye
  7. Ulrich Schnauss + Jonas Munk Passage
  8. Alvvays Antisocialites
  9. Broken Social Scene Hug of Thunder
  10. Pixx The Age of Anxiety

Neil Griffin

  1. Slowdive S/T
  2. Julie Byrne Not Even Happiness
  3. The National Sleep Well Beast
  4. Julien Baker Turn Out the Lights
  5. SZA Ctrl
  6. Broken Social Scene Hug Of Thunder
  7. Moses Somney Aromanticism
  8. Kelly Lee Owens S/T
  9. Japanese Breakfast Soft Sounds from Another Planet
  10. Big Thief Capacity

Nick Norton

  1. Dirty Projectors S/T
  2. Sylvan Esso What Now
  3. Hans Zimmer, Benjamin Wallfisch Blade Runner 2049
  4. St. Vincent Masseduction
  5. The Menzingers After the Party
  6. Nicholas Deyoe for Duane
  7. Tigers Jaw Spin
  8. LAPQ Beyond
  9. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith The Kid
  10. Jens Lekman Life Will See You Now

Noé Arteaga

  1. Ariel Pink Dedicated to Bobby Jameson
  2. Cigarettes After Sex S/T
  3. Thee Commons Paleta Sonora
  4. Alvvays Antisocialites
  5. Lana Del Rey Lust for Life
  6. LA Font Tells
  7. Soundwalk Collective Before Music There Is Blood
  8. Juju + Jordash Sis-boom-bah!
  9. Reflect June + Semantic Noise Coral
  10. King Krule The Ooz

Paul Rocha + Marissa Alvord

  1. The xx I See You
  2. Cut Copy Haiku from Zero
  3. Sharon Jones + the Dap-Kings Soul of a Woman
  4. Catholic Action In Memory of
  5. The Horrors V
  6. SZA Ctrl
  7. The National Sleep Well Beast
  8. Waxahatchee Out in the Storm
  9. Slowdive S/T
  10. Curtis Harding Face Your Fear

Ryan M. Carroll

  • SZA Ctrl
  • Sampha Process
  • Vince Staples Big Fish Theory
  • Beach Fossils Somersault
  • Kendrick Lamar Damn
  • Day Wave The Days We Had
  • Arca S/T
  • Drab Majesty The Demonstration
  • Run the Jewels RTJB
  • Knox Fortune Paradise

Shane Carpenter

  1. Kendrick Lamar Damn
  2. Slowdive S/T
  3. Cigarettes After Sex S/T
  4. Lana Del Rey Lust for Life
  5. Migos Culture
  6. Tyler, the Creator Flower Boy
  7. Vince Staples Big Fish Theory
  8. 2 Chainz Pretty Girls Like Trap Music
  9. Drake More Life
  10. Jay-Z 4:44

Stephen Larson

  • Snoop Dogg Neva Left
  • Ariel Pink Dedicated to Bobby Jameson
  • Sparks Hippopotamus
  • Jungle Giants Quiet Ferocity
  • Electric Guest Plural
  • Beck Colors

Taryn Alper

  • Priests Nothing Feels Natural
  • Cold Beat Chaos by Invitation
  • The Feelies In Between
  • The Courtneys The Courtneys II
  • Cut Worms Alien Sunset
  • Japanese Breakfast Soft Sounds from Another Planet
  • Major Leagues Good Love
  • Robyn Hitchcock S/T
  • The War on Drugs A Deeper Understanding
  • Roya Roya

Taylor Dexter

  1. Smino Blkswn
  2. Charli XCX Pop 2
  3. Vince Staples Big Fish Theory
  4. Kelela Take Me Apart
  5. Thundercat Drunk
  6. Kendrick Lamar Damn
  7. Drake More Life
  8. Yaeji EP/EP 2
  9. Calvin Harris Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1
  10. Rina Sawayama Rina

Theresa M. Elorriaga (aka GhostJam)

  • Bodak Yellow (ft. Messiah) Latin Trap Remix Candi B
  • Los Nacionales De Jacinto Gotica Sones Janoches
  • Knock on Wood Ami Stewart
  • ESG Erase You
  • Los Lobos La Pistola y el Corazon
  • Kavinsky Outrun
  • The I.L.Y.'s Scum with Boundaries
  • Kanye
  • Laurence Cummings Baroque Harpsichord (The Art of The)
  • Sun Tzu The Art of War (Complete Audiobook Unabridged)

Traci Larson

  1. Smino Blkswn
  2. Palehound A Place I'll Always Go
  3. Big Thief Capacity
  4. Girlpool Powerplant
  5. The Courtneys The Courtneys II
  6. Vagabon Infinite Worlds
  7. Pile A Hairshirt of Purpose
  8. NeHi Offers
  9. Operator Music Band Coördination
  10. Cory Wong Cory Wong and the Green Screen Band

Wayne Jessup

  1. Radiator Hospital Play the Songs You Like
  2. Chastity Belt I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone
  3. Peaking Lights Fifth State of Consciousness
  4. Cloud Nothings Life Without Sound
  5. Waxahatchee Out in the Storm
  6. Palehound A Place I'll Always Go
  7. Los Campesinos! Sick Scenes
  8. Stef Chura Messes
  9. Two Inch Astronaut Can You Please Not Help
  10. Cayetana New Kind of Normal
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