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NPR Music: Nate Chinen: Top 21 Albums of 2017

15 December 2017

DAMN. - Kendrick Lamar

Nate Chinen: Top 21 Albums of 2017, as published by NPR

[see also 2022 • 2011]

  1. DAMN.
    Kendrick Lamar
  2. I Am a Man
    Ron Miles
  3. Far from Over
    Vijay Iyer Sextet
  4. BANGS
    Jason Moran
  5. New American Songbooks, Volume 1
    Greg Saunier/Mary Halvorson/Ron Miles
  6. Fly or Die
    Jaimie Branch
  7. The Nashville Sound
    Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
  8. Tipico
    Miguel Zenón
  9. Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds
    Nicole Mitchell
  10. Ctrl
    SZA
  11. Forage
    Matt Mitchell & Tim Berne

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