Year-End Lists

The Quietus: Top 100 Albums of 2017

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1. Peasant
   Richard Dawson
2. Zimpel/Ziołek
   Zimpel/Ziołek
3. Plunge
   Fever Ray
4. Interplanetary Class Classics
   The Moonlandingz
5. Holiday Destination
   Nadine Shah
6. Take Me Apart
   Kelela
7. The Animal Spirits
   James Holden & The Animal Spirits
8. 1992
   Princess Nokia
9. Trifle
   Lone Taxidermist
10. Thin Black Duke
    Oxbow
11. TFCF
    Liars
12. VV
    Lotto
13. Arpo
    Call Super
14. Come Play the Trees
    Snapped Ankles
15. Feed the Rats
    Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs
16. Hunter Huntress Hawker
    Laura Cannell
17. Just Say No to the Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine
    Gnod
18. Modern Kosmology
    Jane Weaver
19. Terminal
    Circle
20. Rûwâhîne
    Ifriqiyya Electrique
21. Play What They Want
    Man Forever
22. Madonnatron
    Madonnatron
23. Through the Mirror
    ENDON
24. The Underside of Power
    Algiers
25. Unseen Forces
    Justin Walter
26. Multiverse
    BNNT
27. Total S**t!
    Shit & Shine
28. Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds
    Nicole Mitchell
29. Vanishing
    Vanishing
30. Big Fish Theory
    Vince Staples
31. Utopia
    Björk
32. Arca
    Arca
33. Rock N Roll Consciousness
    Thurston Moore
34. Before the Applause
    Re-TROS
35. Black Origami
    Jlin
36. Hungan
    Kemper Norton
37. The Two of Us
    Chloe x Halle
38. Suspended Second
    The Granite Shore
39. Everywhere At The End Of Time – Stage 3
    The Caretaker
40. Frequency is the New Ecstasy
    Teleplasmiste
41. Collective: The Shape of He to Come
    Botanist
42. Let the Dancers Inherit the Party
    British Sea Power
43. Enkar
    Al-Namrood
44. american dream
    LCD Soundsystem
45. Reassemblage
    Visible Cloaks
46. Bitter Music
    Perc
47. Kingdom Come
    Gazelle Twin
48. Savage (Songs from a Broken World)
    Gary Numan
49. Superlative Fatigue
    Errorsmith
50. It
    Alan Vega
51. The Kid
    Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
52. Configuração do Lamento
    Deafkids
53. And Right Lines Limit and Close All Bodies
    The Inward Circles
54. Songs from the Sides of Lorries
    I, Ludicrous
55. Sells His Record Collection
    Japan Blues
56. Nightmare Logic
    Power Trip
57. Afro Mutations
    Riddlore
58. I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone
    Chastity Belt
59. Post Self
    Godflesh
60. Short Passing Game
    Davy Kehoe
61. For the Climax of the Night
    Total Leatherette
62. Wizard Bloody Wizard
    Electric Wizard
63. Ambient Black Magic
    Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement
64. A flame my love, a frequency
    Colleen
65. Common Sense
    J Hus
66. Sterilize
    Unsane
67. async
    Ryuichi Sakamoto
68. Ctrl
    SZA
69. Mnestic Pressure
    Lee Gamble
70. Kicking Away At The Decrepit Walls Til The Beautiful Sunshine Blisters Thru The Cracks
    MXLX
71. Tar
    Siavash Amini
72. Fabric of Time
    The Yossarians
73. UUUU
    UUUU
74. The Guillotine
    Hey Colossus
75. English Tapas
    Sleaford Mods
76. Sacred Horror in Design
    Sote
77. Bring On the Sun
    Laraaji
78. Gang Signs & Prayer
    Stormzy
79. Also sprach Zarathustra
    Laibach
80. I
    Still
81. Targ
    Bargou 08
82. Laisse ça être
    Aquaserge
83. Hesaitix
    MESH
84. IV
    Part Chimp
85. Veld
    Daniel O’Sullivan
86. Mario Batkovic
    Mario Batkovic
87. Silver / Lead
    Wire
88. Dust
    Laurel Halo
89. Fantasii
    Mhysa
90. Murder Of The Universe
    King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
91. Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia
    Hannah Peel
92. Here Lies Man
    Here Lies Man
93. Every Country’s Sun
    Mogwai
94. AZD
    Actress
95. Stellular
    Rose Elinor Dougall
96. Giraffe
    Simon Fisher Turner
97. Gangsta Bitch Music, Vol. 2
    Cardi B
98. Short Fuse
    Akatombo
99. Concrete Desert
    The Bug & Earth
100. Primal Incinerators of Moral Matrix
     Tetragrammacide