Year-End Lists

The Alternative: Top 50 Releases of 2017

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2018]

1. The Yunahon Mixtape
   Oso Oso
2. Turn Out the Lights
   Julien Baker
3. DAMN.
   Kendrick Lamar
4. Guppy
   Charly Bliss
5. Plastic Cough
   Great Grandpa
6. Precious Art
   Rozwell Kid
7. You’re Not As _____ As You Think
   Sorority Noise
8. Daymoon
   Strange Ranger
9. First Things First
   Hodera
10. Capacity
    Big Thief
11. As You Please
    Citizen
12. Greatest Hits
    Remo Drive
13. Pleasure Suck
    The Spirit Of The Beehive
14. The Incessant
    Meat Wave
15. A Hairshirt of Purpose
    Pile
16. Rocket
    (Sandy) Alex G
17. Birdie
    Slaughter Beach, Dog
18. Ctrl
    SZA
19. Here Again
    A Will Away
20. Losing
    Bully
21. No One Loves You
    Blis
22. The Dusk In Us
    Converge
23. Soft Sounds from Another Planet
    Japanese Breakfast
24. Dixieland
    Greet Death
25. Infinite Hiatus
    Cool American
26. GN
    Ratboys
27. Wild Pink
    Wild Pink
28. Flower Boy
    Tyler, The Creator
29. Still, I Try
    Fire is Motion
30. Pretty Girls Like Trap Music
    2 Chainz
31. The Obsessives
    The Obsessives
32. Run the Jewels 3
    Run the Jewels
33. Smidley
    Smidley
34. What Not to Do
    Perspective, a Lovely Hand to Hold
35. Nothing Special
    Harmony Woods
36. Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
    Open Mike Eagle
37. All Aboard
    Washer
38. Gloom Cruise
    Walter Etc.
39. SATURATION
    BROCKHAMPTON
39. SATURATION II
    BROCKHAMPTON
39. SATURATION III
    BROCKHAMPTON
40. Exposure & Response
    Mo Troper
41. No Mountains in Manhattan
    Wiki
42. Melodrama
    Lorde
43. Swear I’m Good At This
    Diet Cig
44. Brokenlegged
    Sinai Vessel
45. Always Foreign
    The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die
46. Everybody Works
    Jay Som
47. Lvndr Twn
    Jelani Sei
48. Stranger in the Alps
    Phoebe Bridgers
49. The Manson Family
    Heart Attack Man
50. Summer Megalith
    Caracara