Year-End Lists

AllMusic: 70 Best Albums of 2017

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• Mental Illness
  Aimee Mann
• Telemann: Concerti per molti stromenti
  Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
• The Underside of Power
  Algiers
• Antisocialites
  Alvvays
• Wrangled
  Angaleena Presley
• Carnevale 1729
  Ann Hallenberg, il pomo d’oro & Stefano Montanari
• Arca
  Arca
• Witness
  Katy Perry
• Utopia
  Björk
• Expectativas
  Bunbury
• Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine
  La Compagnia del Madrigale, Cantica Symphonia, La Pifarescha & Giuseppe Maletto
• Reaching For Indigo
  Circuit Des Yeux
• A flame my love, a frequency
  Colleen
• The Dusk In Us
  Converge
• Face Your Fear
  Curtis Harding
• Dreams and Daggers
  Cécile McLorin Salvant
• Spirit
  Depeche Mode
• Cost of Living
  Downtown Boys
• Exile In the Outer Ring
  EMA
• Ex Eye
  Ex Eye
• Plunge
  Fever Ray
• Crack-Up
  Fleet Foxes
• Maurice Ravel: Daphnis & Chloé, Complete Ballet
  François-Xavier Roth / Les Siècles
• Changer
  Fred Thomas
• Narkopop
  Gas
• Earl Grey
  Girl Ray
• The Navigator
  Hurray for the Riff Raff
• Brutalism
  Idles
• Modern Kosmology
  Jane Weaver
• UNDIVIDED HEART & SOUL
  J.D. McPherson
• Black Origami
  Jlin
• Halo
  Juana Molina
• The Kid
  Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
• SweetSexySavage
  Kehlani
• Take Me Apart
  Kelela
• DAMN.
  Kendrick Lamar
• The OOZ
  King Krule
• Slowheart
  Kip Moore
• Amar Y Vivir (En Vivo Desde La Ciudad De México, 2017)
  La Santa Cecilia
• Semper Femina
  Laura Marling
• american dream
  LCD Soundsystem
• Melodrama
  Lorde
• Ojalá
  Lost Horizons
• This Old Dog
  Mac DeMarco
• Emperor of Sand
  Mastodon
• Three Worlds: Music from Woolf Works
  Max Richter
• A Crow Looked at Me
  Mount Eerie
• Goodnight Rhonda Lee
  Nicole Atkins
• Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds
  Nicole Mitchell
• Multi-Task
  Omni
• After Laughter
  Paramore
• Relatives in Descent
  Protomartyr
• Dark Matter
  Randy Newman
• Bruckner: Symphony No. 9, WAB 109 (Original 1894 Version)
  Riccardo Muti & Chicago Symphony Orchestra
• Carry Fire
  Robert Plant
• Bells For the South Side
  Roscoe Mitchell
• Strike a Match
  SACRED PAWS
• Process
  Sampha
• Need to Feel Your Love
  Sheer Mag
• Man vs. Sofa
  Sherwood & Pinch
• MASSEDUCTION
  St. Vincent
• Music For People In Trouble
  Susanne Sundfør
• Ctrl
  SZA
• Music for the Age of Miracles
  The Clientele
• Interplanetary Class Classics
  The Moonlandingz
• Flower Boy
  Tyler, The Creator
• Far from Over
  Vijay Iyer Sextet
• Big Fish Theory
  Vince Staples
• Rule 62
  Whitney Rose
• Arise
  Zara McFarlane