Year-End Lists

Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2017

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

1. A Deeper Understanding
   The War on Drugs
2. Turn Out the Lights
   Julien Baker
3. MASSEDUCTION
   St. Vincent
4. Slowdive
   Slowdive
5. Visions of a Life
   Wolf Alice
6. DAMN.
   Kendrick Lamar
7. Sleep Well Beast
   The National
8. Painted Ruins
   Grizzly Bear
9. Pure Comedy
   Father John Misty
10. Soft Sounds from Another Planet
    Japanese Breakfast
11. Hug of Thunder
    Broken Social Scene
12. american dream
    LCD Soundsystem
13. Hot Thoughts
    Spoon
14. V
    The Horrors
15. Rest
    Charlotte Gainsbourg
16. Lotta Sea Lice
    Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile
17. Crack-Up
    Fleet Foxes
18. No Shape
    Perfume Genius
19. A Crow Looked at Me
    Mount Eerie
20. Antisocialites
    Alvvays
21. Capacity
    Big Thief
22. Stellular
    Rose Elinor Dougall
23. Planetarium
    Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly & James McAlister
24. Aromanticism
    Moses Sumney
25. Everybody Works
    Jay Som
26. Cry Cry Cry
    Wolf Parade
27. Hang
    Foxygen
28. The OOZ
    King Krule
29. Kelly Lee Owens
    Kelly Lee Owens
30. Pleasure
    Feist
31. Utopia
    Björk
32. Plunge
    Fever Ray
33. The Far Field
    Future Islands
34. Little Fictions
    Elbow
35. Willowbank
    Yumi Zouma
36. The Underside of Power
    Algiers
37. Life Will See You Now
    Jens Lekman
38. Earl Grey
    Girl Ray
39. I See You
    The xx
40. Saturn Over Sunset
    Midnight Sister
41. Whiteout Conditions
    The New Pornographers
42. I’m Not Your Man
    Marika Hackman
43. Relatives in Descent
    Protomartyr
44. Love What Survives
    Mount Kimbie
45. Bedouine
    Bedouine
46. I Love You Like a Brother
    Alex Lahey
47. Stranger in the Alps
    Phoebe Bridgers
48. Room 29
    Chilly Gonzales & Jarvis Cocker
49. Prince of Tears
    Baxter Dury
50. Silver Eye
    Goldfrapp
51. Ctrl
    SZA
52. City Music
    Kevin Morby
53. Volcano
    Temples
54. Out in the Storm
    Waxahatchee
55. Big Fish Theory
    Vince Staples
56. Melodrama
    Lorde
57. Luciferian Towers
    Godspeed You! Black Emperor
58. Semper Femina
    Laura Marling
59. Weather Diaries
    Ride
60. Bravado
    Kirin J Callinan
61. RELAXER
    alt-J
62. Drunk
    Thundercat
63. Okovi
    Zola Jesus
64. Process
    Sampha
65. The Hanged Man
    Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
66. Dirty Projectors
    Dirty Projectors
67. Green Twins
    Nick Hakim
68. Last Place
    Grandaddy
69. Ti Amo
    Phoenix
70. In Spades
    The Afghan Whigs
71. Glasshouse
    Jessie Ware
72. Not Even Happiness
    Julie Byrne
73. Modern Kosmology
    Jane Weaver
74. Night Night At the First Landing
    Madeline Kenney
75. ken
    Destroyer
76. Mountain Moves
    Deerhoof
77. Soul of a Woman
    Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
78. Ununiform
    Tricky
79. The Weather Station
    The Weather Station
80. Let the Dancers Inherit the Party
    British Sea Power
81. Powerplant
    girlpool
82. Home Counties
    Saint Etienne
83. Future Politics
    Austra
84. Goths
    The Mountain Goats
85. Holiday Destination
    Nadine Shah
86. Nothing Feels Natural
    Priests
87. Every Country’s Sun
    Mogwai
88. Somersault
    Beach Fossils
89. Oczy Mlody
    The Flaming Lips
90. Run the Jewels 3
    Run the Jewels
91. World Eater
    Blanck Mass
92. The Weather
    Pond
93. Season High
    Little Dragon
94. Harmony of Difference
    Kamasi Washington
95. This Old Dog
    Mac DeMarco
96. Haiku From Zero
    Cut Copy
97. Pleasure
    Sondre Lerche
98. Morningside
    Fazerdaze
99. Exile In the Outer Ring
    EMA
100. Moonshine Freeze
     This Is the Kit

Nictate: Top 10 Films of 2017, as posted to Letterboxd

[see also 2022 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2016 • 2015]

1. Personal Shopper
   Olivier Assayas
2. A Ghost Story
   David Lowery
3. The Square
   Ruben Östlund
4. The Beguiled
   Sofia Coppola
5. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
6. Good Time
   Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
7. Raw
   Julia Ducournau
8. Thirst Street
   Nathan Silver
9. The Florida Project
   Sean Baker
10. Nocturama
    Bertrand Bonello

Esquire: Best TV Shows of 2017

[see also 2023 • 2020 • 2010s • 2018]

1. Twin Peaks: The Return
2. Big Little Lies
3. The Handmaid’s Tale
4. The Good Place
5. The Leftovers
6. Master of None
7. The Deuce
8. The Vietnam War
9. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
10. At Home with Amy Sedaris
11. GLOW
12. The Crown
13. Mr. Robot
14. Better Call Saul
15. This Is Us
16. Mindhunter
17. Will & Grace
18. The Punisher
19. Legion
20. The Good Fight
21. American Gods
22. Game of Thrones
23. Feud: Bette and Joan
24. Girls
25. Riverdale

gal-dem: 27 Albums That Made Our 2017

[see also 2018 • 2016 • 2015]

• At What Cost
  GoldLink
• American Teen
  Khalid
• Drunk
  Thundercat
• AZD
  Actress
• Common Sense
  J Hus
• Humanz
  Gorillaz
• Cost of Living
  Downtown Boys
• Strike a Match
  SACRED PAWS
• Gang Signs & Prayer
  Stormzy
• 4:44
  JAY-Z
• Process
  Sampha
• Needle Paw
  Nai Palm
• Freudian
  Daniel Caesar
• Ctrl
  SZA
• Cleo
  Charlotte Dos Santos
• DAMN.
  Kendrick Lamar
• Migration
  Bonobo
• Voyager
  Moonchild
• Weighing of the Heart
  Nabihah Iqbal
• blkswn
  Smino
• Fin
  Syd
• Flower Boy
  Tyler, The Creator
• Sonder Son
  Brent Faiyaz
• SATURATION
  BROCKHAMPTON
• SATURATION II
  BROCKHAMPTON
• SATURATION III
  BROCKHAMPTON
• Wallflower
  Jordan Rakei
• Girlhood Vol. 1
  Girlhood
• 7 Days
  Krept and Konan
• 7 Nights
  Krept and Konan

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
25. SATURATION II
    BROCKHAMPTON
26. Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1
    Calvin Harris
27. 4:44
    JAY-Z
28. Ash
    Ibeyi
29. From A Room: Volume 1
    Chris Stapleton
29. From A Room: Volume 1
    Chris Stapleton
30. Yours Conditionally
    Tennis

Flood Magazine: Best Albums of 2017

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014]

1. Capacity
   Big Thief
2. Forced Witness
   Alex Cameron
3. DAMN.
   Kendrick Lamar
4. TFCF
   Liars
5. Rest
   Charlotte Gainsbourg
6. Hot Thoughts
   Spoon
7. If All I Was Was Black
   Mavis Staples
8. Need to Feel Your Love
   Sheer Mag
9. Lotta Sea Lice
   Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile
10. Introducing the Crimsmen
    The Peacers
11. City Music
    Kevin Morby
12. american dream
    LCD Soundsystem
13. Ty Segall
    Ty Segall
14. Dark Matter
    Randy Newman
15. Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
    Open Mike Eagle
16. Bad Posture
    John Andrews
17. MASSEDUCTION
    St. Vincent
18. We All Want the Same Things
    Craig Finn
19. Big Fish Theory
    Vince Staples
20. Music for the Age of Miracles
    The Clientele
21. Sleep Well Beast
    The National
22. War & Leisure
    Miguel
23. Orc
    Oh Sees
24. Slowdive
    Slowdive
25. The Courtneys II
    The Courtneys

Another Gaze: Top Ten Narrative Feature Films by Women in 2017 (as posted to Twitter). See also their list of the year’s top five documentaries directed by women and nonbinary people.

[see also 2018]

1. I Am Not a Witch
   Rungano Nyoni
2. Montparnasse Bienvenue
   Léonor Serraille
3. Beauty and the Dogs
   Kaouther Ben Hania
4. Angels Wear White
   Vivian Qu
5. Ava
   Léa Mysius
6. The Party
   Sally Potter
7. The Levelling
   Hope Dickson Leach
8. Maudie
   Aisling Walsh
9. By the Time It Gets Dark
   Anocha Suwichakornpong
10. Western
    Valeska Grisebach
10. Heal the Living
    Katell Quillévéré

Honourable Mentions

• You Were Never Really Here
  Lynne Ramsay
• Zama
  Lucrecia Martel
• In Between
  Maysaloun Hamoud
• The Rider
  Chloé Zhao
• On Body and Soul
  Ildikó Enyedi

Desist Film: Best Films of 2017

[see also 2018]

1. The Nothing Factory
   Pedro Pinho
2. Good Time
   Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
3. On the Beach at Night Alone
   Hong Sang-soo
4. Braguino
   Clément Cogitore
5. Western
   Valeska Grisebach
6. Baronesa
   Juliana Antunes
7. Zama
   Lucrecia Martel
8. El mar la mar
   Joshua Bonnetta and J.P. Sniadecki
9. Rey
   Niles Atallah
10. Sleep Has Her House
    Scott Barley

Special Mention

• Twin Peaks: The Return
  David Lynch

David Morgan: The 10 Best Films of 2017, as published by CBS News (in alphabetical order)

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2016 • 2015]

• BPM (Beats Per Minute)
  Robin Campillo
• Call Me by Your Name
  Luca Guadagnino
• Dawson City: Frozen Time
  Bill Morrison
• Dunkirk
  Christopher Nolan
• Faces Places
  Agnès Varda and JR
• Get Out
  Jordan Peele
• I, Tonya
  Craig Gillespie
• Lady Bird
  Greta Gerwig
• The Lost City of Z
  James Gray
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi
  Rian Johnson

Joey Guerra: 10 Best Albums of 2017, as published by Chron

1. Residente
   Residente
2. American Teen
   Khalid
3. Melodrama
   Lorde
4. Flower Boy
   Tyler, The Creator
5. Macgregor Park
   Fat Tony
6. DAMN.
   Kendrick Lamar
7. The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone
   Lee Ann Womack
8. Bluebird of Happiness
   Tamar Braxton
9. Harry Styles
   Harry Styles
10. La Trenza
    Mon Laferte

Also worth a listen

• Trophy
  Sunny Sweeney
• WildHorse
  RaeLynn
• Unstoppable
  Karol G
• More Life
  Drake
• Mis Planes Son Amarte
  Juanes