Year-End Lists

Drowned in Sound: 100 Favourite Albums of 2017. See also this year’s staff poll.

[see also 2018 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Visions of a Life
   Wolf Alice
2. Kelly Lee Owens
   Kelly Lee Owens
3. Exile In the Outer Ring
   EMA
4. MASSEDUCTION
   St. Vincent
5. A Pink Sunset for No One
   Noveller
6. Future Politics
   Austra
7. Pleasure
   Feist
8. Modern Kosmology
   Jane Weaver
9. Semper Femina
   Laura Marling
10. Halo
    Juana Molina
11. FROM DEEWEE
    Soulwax
12. Drunk
    Thundercat
13. After Laughter
    Paramore
14. Cascades
    Jean-Michel Blais & CFCF
15. Utopia
    Björk
16. Every Country’s Sun
    Mogwai
17. Okovi
    Zola Jesus
18. DAMN.
    Kendrick Lamar
19. Relatives in Descent
    Protomartyr
20. Painted Ruins
    Grizzly Bear
21. Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia
    Hannah Peel
22. Slowdive
    Slowdive
23. Yesterday’s Gone
    Loyle Carner
24. Atelo
    Eyre Llew
25. No Shape
    Perfume Genius
26. Holiday Destination
    Nadine Shah
27. american dream
    LCD Soundsystem
28. Melodrama
    Lorde
29. The Navigator
    Hurray for the Riff Raff
30. Love In the 4th Dimension
    The Big Moon
31. 1992
    Princess Nokia
32. All This I Do For Glory
    Colin Stetson
33. V
    The Horrors
34. Villains
    Queens of the Stone Age
35. Weather Diaries
    Ride
36. What Now
    Sylvan Esso
37. Brutalism
    Idles
38. Before the Flood
    Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Gustavo Santaolalla, Mogwai
39. Cigarettes After Sex
    Cigarettes After Sex
40. Earl Grey
    Girl Ray
41. BE HERE NOW
    The Mynabirds
42. Ctrl
    SZA
43. Fatal Gift
    Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton
44. Windswept
    Johnny Jewel
45. Memories Are Now
    Jesca Hoop
46. Witness
    Katy Perry
47. Death Peak
    Clark
48. Last Place
    Grandaddy
49. Dumb Days
    Tired Lion
50. A Shadow in Time
    William Basinski
51. New Energy
    Four Tet
52. Try Not to Freak Out
    Sløtface
53. Colors
    Beck
54. Bicep
    Bicep
55. Antisocialites
    Alvvays
56. America
    Juanita Stein
57. Stranger in the Alps
    Phoebe Bridgers
58. Hug of Thunder
    Broken Social Scene
59. Hiss Spun
    Chelsea Wolfe
60. TFCF
    Liars
61. Harmony of Difference
    Kamasi Washington
62. Soft Sounds from Another Planet
    Japanese Breakfast
63. Dark Days + Canapés
    Ghostpoet
64. Rest
    Charlotte Gainsbourg
65. Sleep Well Beast
    The National
66. Jen Cloher
    Jen Cloher
67. Stubborn Persistent Illusions
    Do Make Say Think
68. Love What Survives
    Mount Kimbie
69. Lust for Life
    Lana Del Rey
70. Godfather
    Wiley
71. Pure Comedy
    Father John Misty
72. Three Worlds: Music from Woolf Works
    Max Richter
73. Please Be Mine
    Molly Burch
74. Stellular
    Rose Elinor Dougall
75. Capacity
    Big Thief
76. Imitation of a Woman To Love
    Casey Dienel
77. Heartworms
    The Shins
78. ken
    Destroyer
79. Gang Signs & Prayer
    Stormzy
80. Apocalipstick
    Cherry Glazerr
81. Mura Masa
    Mura Masa
82. Plunge
    Fever Ray
83. Prisoner
    Ryan Adams
84. Spirit
    Depeche Mode
85. Dust
    Laurel Halo
86. Lotta Sea Lice
    Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile
87. The OOZ
    King Krule
88. Take Me Apart
    Kelela
89. Moonshine Freeze
    This Is the Kit
90. Process
    Sampha
91. Ruinism
    Lapalux
92. In Spades
    The Afghan Whigs
93. Life Without Sound
    Cloud Nothings
94. Reaching For Indigo
    Circuit Des Yeux
95. Laila’s Wisdom
    Rapsody
96. A Deeper Understanding
    The War on Drugs
97. Every Valley
    Public Service Broadcasting
98. The Far Field
    Future Islands
99. World Eater
    Blanck Mass
100. Everything Now
     Arcade Fire