top 40 albums of 2017
Another shitty has come and gone, so it's time to take a look back at all the music that gave us solace. Overall I felt this year was pretty weak compared to the last two, but we still got some pretty solid stuff out of it. It was also pretty great for me personally. I went to Cuba, became an uncle, finally found a paying job (albeit a pretty crappy one), and I started doing comics again. And since i didn't make a list last year (a lot was going on at the time and a best-of list implied that there was something good about it) I'm throwing in 10 albums I listened to from that year that I discovered this year,as well. So without further ado, in no particular order: |
1 | | Chelsea Wolfe Hiss Spun
Doom Metal, Sludge |
2 | | Fleet Foxes Crack-Up
Indie Folk |
3 | | Kendrick Lamar DAMN.
Hip-hop |
4 | | Elder (USA-MA) Reflections of a Floating World
Doom metal, stoner metal, prog rock |
5 | | Brand New Science Fiction
Alt-rock, post-hardcore, experimental rock |
6 | | The National Sleep Well Beast
Indie rock, post-punk |
7 | | Roger Waters Is This The Life We Really Want?
Psychedelic rock, prog rock |
8 | | Zola Jesus Okovi
Art-pop, neoclassical darkwave |
9 | | The Smith Street Band More Scared of You Than You Are of Me
Folk Punk, pop punk |
10 | | Mount Eerie A Crow Looked At Me
Indie folk, minimal, slowcore |
11 | | Steven Wilson To the Bone
Art-pop, progressive pop |
12 | | Joey Badass ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$
Dope af political hip-hop |
13 | | Alvvays Antisocialites
Indie pop |
14 | | Drab Majesty The Demonstration
Old-school darkwave/goth rock |
15 | | Dvne Asheran
Stoner Metal, Post-metal, Prog Metal |
16 | | Trivium The Sin and the Sentence
Metalcore, thrash |
17 | | Charly Bliss Guppy
Indie rock, grunge revival |
18 | | The War on Drugs A Deeper Understanding
Shoegaze/dream pop, synthpop, heartland rock |
19 | | Slowdive Slowdive
Shoegaze/dream pop |
20 | | Sampha Process
Alternative R&B, electronic |
21 | | Fever Ray Plunge
Synthpop |
22 | | Jen Cloher Jen Cloher
Indie rock |
23 | | Lorde Melodrama
Pop |
24 | | Spoon Hot Thoughts
Indie rock, art rock |
25 | | King Krule The OOZ
Experimental darkwave post-punk jazz-rock? |
26 | | Paramore After Laughter
New wave, pop rock |
27 | | Tyler, the Creator Flower Boy
Hip hop, alternative r&b |
28 | | King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Flying Microtonal Banana
Garage rock, prog rock, krautrock, psych |
29 | | Jesca Hoop Memories Are Now
Art pop, indie folk |
30 | | LCD Soundsystem American Dream
Dance punk, art rock |
31 | | White Reaper The World's Best American Band
Power pop, garage rock, arena rock |
32 | | Everything Everything A Fever Dream
Indie pop, synthpop, art rock
Not as good or as endlessly relistenable as the previous album, but they're still my boys. |
33 | | Idles Brutalism
Post-punk, noise rock
Noisy post-punk with a hilariously bitey sense of humor. Kinda like Future of the Left but angrier and more British. |
34 | | Nadine Shah Holiday Destination
goth-rock, indie folk, post-punk |
35 | | Brockhampton SATURATION II
Experimental rap, alternative rap |
36 | | Kairon IRSE! Ruination
Prog rock, psych, shoegaze |
37 | | Protomartyr Relatives In Descent
Post-punk |
38 | | Guerilla Toss GT Ultra
Art rock, dance rock, sonic insanity |
39 | | Moses Sumney Aromanticism
Soul, art-pop |
40 | | Algiers The Underside of Power
Post-punk, gospel, industrial rock |
41 | | Injury reserve Floss
Experimental hip-hop, Jazz-rap |
42 | | Avenged Sevenfold The Stage
Heavy metal, prog metal |
43 | | Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere
Post-hardcore |
44 | | Crying Beyond The Fleeting Gales
Pop punk, arena rock, chiptune |
45 | | Sturgill Simpson A Sailor's Guide To Earth
Alt-country, psych rock |
46 | | Kevin Morby Singing Saw
Bass-heavy indie folk |
47 | | Haken Affinity
Prog rock, synthrock |
48 | | Khemmis Hunted
Trad doom |
49 | | Alcest Kodama
Blackgaze |
50 | | Childish Gambino "Awaken, My Love!"
Psychedelic soul, funk |
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