Year-End Lists

Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2017 (an annual poll of more than 400 critics, published by The Village Voice)

[see also 2018 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. DAMN.
   Kendrick Lamar
2. Ctrl
   SZA
3. MASSEDUCTION
   St. Vincent
4. Melodrama
   Lorde
5. The Nashville Sound
   Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
6. A Deeper Understanding
   The War on Drugs
7. Slowdive
   Slowdive
8. 4:44
   JAY-Z
9. american dream
   LCD Soundsystem
10. Out in the Storm
    Waxahatchee
11. Black Origami
    Jlin
12. Pure Comedy
    Father John Misty
13. Drunk
    Thundercat
14. Sleep Well Beast
    The National
15. A Crow Looked at Me
    Mount Eerie
16. Take Me Apart
    Kelela
17. Big Fish Theory
    Vince Staples
18. No Shape
    Perfume Genius
19. Life Will See You Now
    Jens Lekman
19. Culture
    Migos
21. Hot Thoughts
    Spoon
22. The Navigator
    Hurray for the Riff Raff
23. The OOZ
    King Krule
24. Process
    Sampha
25. Nothing Feels Natural
    Priests
26. Freedom Highway
    Rhiannon Giddens
27. Aromanticism
    Moses Sumney
28. 50 Song Memoir
    The Magnetic Fields
29. The Underside of Power
    Algiers
29. Dark Matter
    Randy Newman
31. Antisocialites
    Alvvays
32. Rainbow
    Ke$ha
33. Run the Jewels 3
    Run the Jewels
34. Utopia
    Björk
35. All American Made
    Margo Price
36. Turn Out the Lights
    Julien Baker
37. Lust for Life
    Lana Del Rey
38. I See You
    The xx
39. Capacity
    Big Thief
40. The Kid
    Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
41. Everybody Works
    Jay Som
42. Guppy
    Charly Bliss
43. The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone
    Lee Ann Womack
44. After Laughter
    Paramore
45. Kelly Lee Owens
    Kelly Lee Owens
46. Freudian
    Daniel Caesar
46. Rest
    Charlotte Gainsbourg
48. Soul of a Woman
    Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
49. Fin
    Syd
50. Whiteout Conditions
    The New Pornographers
51. War & Leisure
    Miguel
52. Lotta Sea Lice
    Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile
52. Harry Styles
    Harry Styles
54. More Life
    Drake
55. Not Even Happiness
    Julie Byrne
56. Soft Sounds from Another Planet
    Japanese Breakfast
56. I Love You Like a Brother
    Alex Lahey
58. American Teen
    Khalid
59. Need to Feel Your Love
    Sheer Mag
60. Mental Illness
    Aimee Mann
60. Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
    Open Mike Eagle
62. The Hanged Man
    Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
62. Harmony of Difference
    Kamasi Washington
64. Music for the Age of Miracles
    The Clientele
65. Plunge
    Fever Ray
65. Nightmare Logic
    Power Trip
65. Relatives in Descent
    Protomartyr
68. Bells For the South Side
    Roscoe Mitchell
68. Flower Boy
    Tyler, The Creator
70. Prisoner
    Ryan Adams
71. reputation
    Taylor Swift
72. Stranger in the Alps
    Phoebe Bridgers
73. World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane
    Alice Coltrane
73. SweetSexySavage
    Kehlani
75. Fly or Die
    Jaimie Branch
76. For Sale: Live At Maxwell’s 1986
    The Replacements
77. Crack-Up
    Fleet Foxes
77. HNDRXX
    Future
79. Feel Your Feelings Fool!
    The Regrettes
79. Hippopotamus
    Sparks
79. What Now
    Sylvan Esso
82. Robyn Hitchcock
    Robyn Hitchcock
83. Reflections of a Floating World
    Elder
84. In Between
    The Feelies
85. The Courtneys II
    The Courtneys
85. Villains
    Queens of the Stone Age
87. Ash
    Ibeyi
87. Beach House 3
    Ty Dolla $ign
89. The Order of Time
    Valerie June
89. Semper Femina
    Laura Marling
91. Number 1 Angel
    Charli XCX
91. The Dusk In Us
    Converge
91. Okovi
    Zola Jesus
94. Dedicated To Bobby Jameson
    Ariel Pink
95. Near To The Wild Heart Of Life
    Japandroids
95. Tribute to Ndiouga Dieng
    Orchestra Baobab
97. Halo
    Juana Molina
98. Simultonality
    Joshua Abrams
98. Exile In the Outer Ring
    EMA
98. From A Room: Volume 1
    Chris Stapleton
98. Songs of Experience
    U2