Year-End Lists

Uncut Magazine: 75 Best Albums of 2017

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1. american dream
   LCD Soundsystem
2. A Deeper Understanding
   The War on Drugs
3. DAMN.
   Kendrick Lamar
4. The Weather Station
   The Weather Station
5. Joan Shelley
   Joan Shelley
6. Peasant
   Richard Dawson
7. Sleep Well Beast
   The National
8. Lotta Sea Lice
   Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile
9. MASSEDUCTION
   St. Vincent
10. The Navigator
    Hurray for the Riff Raff
11. Slowdive
    Slowdive
12. How the West Was Won
    Peter Perrett
13. Pure Comedy
    Father John Misty
14. Not Even Happiness
    Julie Byrne
15. Simultonality
    Joshua Abrams
16. Modern Kosmology
    Jane Weaver
17. Halo
    Juana Molina
18. Melodrama
    Lorde
19. Music for the Age of Miracles
    The Clientele
20. Painted Ruins
    Grizzly Bear
21. Semper Femina
    Laura Marling
22. Ty Segall
    Ty Segall
23. Balsams
    Chuck Johnson
24. All American Made
    Margo Price
25. Carry Fire
    Robert Plant
26. Freedom Highway
    Rhiannon Giddens
27. Hallelujah Anyhow
    Hiss Golden Messenger
28. The Kid
    Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
29. 50
    Michael Chapman
30. Music For People In Trouble
    Susanne Sundfør
31. Narkopop
    Gas
32. English Tapas
    Sleaford Mods
33. Orc
    Oh Sees
34. Home Counties
    Saint Etienne
35. Flying Microtonal Banana
    King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
36. New Energy
    Four Tet
37. Weather Diaries
    Ride
38. Robyn Hitchcock
    Robyn Hitchcock
39. Arca
    Arca
40. A Crow Looked at Me
    Mount Eerie
41. Crack-Up
    Fleet Foxes
42. Drunk
    Thundercat
43. Ladilikan
    Trio Da Kali & Kronos Quartet
44. What in the Natural World
    Jake Xerxes Fussell
45. Hot Thoughts
    Spoon
46. Hug of Thunder
    Broken Social Scene
47. The Weather
    Pond
48. It’s Alright Between Us as It Is
    Lindstrøm
49. Adiós Señor Pussycat
    Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band
50. I See You
    The xx
51. Dark Matter
    Randy Newman
52. Dreaming in the Non-Dream
    Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band
53. Ctrl
    SZA
54. Elwan
    Tinariwen
55. Interplanetary Class Classics
    The Moonlandingz
56. House and Land
    House and Land
57. The French Press
    Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
58. Plum
    Wand
59. Screen Memories
    John Maus
60. Bajas Fresh
    Bitchin Bajas
61. Lust for Life
    Lana Del Rey
62. Hey Mr Ferryman
    Mark Eitzel
63. City Music
    Kevin Morby
64. World Eater
    Blanck Mass
65. In Mind
    Real Estate
66. Resin Pockets
    Crescent
67. 50 Song Memoir
    The Magnetic Fields
68. Reflections – Mojave Desert
    Floating Points
69. Hippopotamus
    Sparks
70. No Shape
    Perfume Genius
71. Poor David’s Almanack
    David Rawlings
72. The Nashville Sound
    Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
73. Party
    Aldous Harding
74. Pleasure
    Feist
75. Prisoner
    Ryan Adams