Year-End Lists

NPR Music: Best 50 Albums of 2017

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1. DAMN.
   Kendrick Lamar
2. Ctrl
   SZA
3. Capacity
   Big Thief
4. Process
   Sampha
5. Melodrama
   Lorde
6. No Shape
   Perfume Genius
7. The Nashville Sound
   Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
8. Rainbow
   Ke$ha
9. The Navigator
   Hurray for the Riff Raff
10. Party
    Aldous Harding
11. 4:44
    JAY-Z
12. Far from Over
    Vijay Iyer Sextet
13. Freedom Highway
    Rhiannon Giddens
14. Aromanticism
    Moses Sumney
15. Last Leaf
    Danish String Quartet
16. Black Origami
    Jlin
17. Big Fish Theory
    Vince Staples
18. IIII+IIII
    ÌFÉ
19. Rûwâhîne
    Ifriqiyya Electrique
20. A Deeper Understanding
    The War on Drugs
21. Everybody Works
    Jay Som
22. Luv Is Rage 2
    Lil Uzi Vert
23. What Now
    Sylvan Esso
24. Sleep Well Beast
    The National
25. Amar Y Vivir (En Vivo Desde La Ciudad De México, 2017)
    La Santa Cecilia
26. The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone
    Lee Ann Womack
27. Plunge
    Fever Ray
28. Three Futures
    TORRES
29. Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
    Open Mike Eagle
30. I Am a Man
    Ron Miles
31. A Crow Looked at Me
    Mount Eerie
32. Antisocialites
    Alvvays
33. Kõrvits: Moorland Elegies
    Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra & Risto Joost
34. Joan Shelley
    Joan Shelley
35. Drunk
    Thundercat
36. Laila’s Wisdom
    Rapsody
37. The Kid
    Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
38. Culture
    Migos
39. Purgatory
    Tyler Childers
40. On the Rocks
    Midland
41. Out in the Storm
    Waxahatchee
42. Ladilikan
    Trio Da Kali & Kronos Quartet
43. Palabras Manuales
    Danay Suárez
44. Nothing Feels Natural
    Priests
45. Mogoya
    Oumou Sangaré
46. Devout
    Mr. Mitch
47. Fly or Die
    Jaimie Branch
48. Tipico
    Miguel Zenón
49. Feldman: For Bunita Marcus
    Marc-André Hamelin
50. After Laughter
    Paramore