Bandcamp Daily's Best Albums of 2017

The wait is over! See which albums made our Top 20 of 2017.

Published: December 15, 2017 04:25 Source

# 1

Aromanticism by Moses Sumney

Album • Sep 22 / 2017 Art Pop Singer-Songwriter

# 2

Black Origami by Jlin

Album • May 19 / 2017 Footwork IDM

# 4

Pantheon of Me by SPELLLING

Album • Sep 12 / 2017 Ethereal Wave Art Pop Ambient Pop

# 5

Guppy by Charly Bliss

Album • Apr 21 / 2017 Power Pop Indie Rock

# 6

The Navigator by Hurray For The Riff Raff

Album • Mar 10 / 2017 Folk Rock Singer-Songwriter Americana

# 7

I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone by Chastity Belt

Album • Jun 02 / 2017 Indie Rock Post-Punk

# 8

The Kid by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

Album • Oct 06 / 2017 Art Pop Neo-Psychedelia Progressive Electronic Ambient Pop

# 9

Stranger in the Alps by Phoebe Bridgers

Album • Sep 22 / 2017 Indie Folk Singer-Songwriter

# 10

L'Rain by L'Rain

Album • Sep 15 / 2017 Neo-Psychedelia Art Pop Neo-Soul

# 11

Antisocialites by Alvvays

Album • Sep 08 / 2017 Indie Pop Jangle Pop

# 12

Being You Is Great, I Wish I Could Be You More Often by Quelle Chris

Album • Feb 10 / 2017 Abstract Hip Hop

# 13

Exile in the Outer Ring by EMA

Album • Aug 25 / 2017 Noise Rock Art Rock Industrial Rock

# 14

A Subtler Kind of Light - by Locust Leaves

Album • Mar 17 / 2017 Progressive Metal

# 15

MAY GOD BLESS YOUR HUSTLE by MIKE

Album • Jun 21 / 2017 Experimental Hip Hop East Coast Hip Hop

# 16

Our Lady Star of the Sea, Help and Protect Us by Tica Douglas

Album • May 05 / 2017 Indie Pop Singer-Songwriter

# 17

AZD by Actress

Album • Apr 14 / 2017 Microhouse Outsider House

# 18

La Saboteuse by Yazz Ahmed

Album • May 12 / 2017 Arabic Jazz

# 19

Fly or Die by Jaimie Branch

Album • May 05 / 2017 Avant-Garde Jazz

# 20

Heartless by Pallbearer

Album • Mar 24 / 2017 Doom Metal

# 21

Business of Dreams by Business of Dreams

Album • Feb 02 / 2017 Indie Pop

# 22

Kelly Lee Owens by Kelly Lee Owens

Album • Mar 24 / 2017 Ambient Pop Tech House

# 23

Halo by Juana Molina

Album • Apr 07 / 2017 Folktronica Art Pop

# 24

Death to the Planet by The Comet Is Coming

EP • May 05 / 2017 Nu Jazz Jazz Fusion

# 25

Imitation of a Woman to Love by Casey Dienel

Album • May 18 / 2017 Art Pop

# 26

The Boy Who Spoke to the Wind by Lando Chill

Album • Jun 23 / 2017 Abstract Hip Hop

# 27

Relatives In Descent by Protomartyr

Album • Sep 29 / 2017 Post-Punk

# 29

Uncontrollable Salvation by Pardoner

Album • Sep 08 / 2017 Noise Rock Indie Rock

# 30

Brick Body Kids Still Daydream by Open Mike Eagle

Album • Sep 15 / 2017 Abstract Hip Hop Conscious Hip Hop

# 31

Out in the Storm by Waxahatchee

Album • Jul 14 / 2017 Indie Rock Singer-Songwriter

# 32

Mirror Reaper by Bell Witch

Album • Oct 20 / 2017 Funeral Doom Metal

# 33

All Bitches Die by Lingua Ignota

Album • Jun 22 / 2018 Death Industrial

# 34

A Crow Looked at Me by Mount Eerie

Album • Mar 24 / 2017 Singer-Songwriter Indie Folk

# 35

Agent Blue by Agent blå

Album • Jun 09 / 2017

# 36

Sudan Archives by Sudan Archives

EP • Jul 14 / 2017 Folktronica Art Pop

# 37

Facades by Limp Wrist

Album • Aug 25 / 2017 Queercore Hardcore Punk Thrashcore

# 38

Arise by Zara McFarlane

Album • Sep 29 / 2017 Vocal Jazz

# 39

Who Told You To Think??!!?!?!?! by Milo

Album • Aug 11 / 2017 Abstract Hip Hop Conscious Hip Hop Experimental Hip Hop

# 40

I Love You Like a Brother by Alex Lahey

Album • Oct 06 / 2017 Power Pop Indie Rock

# 41

French Vanilla by French Vanilla

Album • Mar 24 / 2017 Post-Punk Art Punk

# 42

DUE RENT by lojii + Swarvy

Album • Mar 31 / 2017 Conscious Hip Hop Abstract Hip Hop

# 43

Irreversible Entanglements by Irreversible Entanglements

Album • Sep 26 / 2017 Free Jazz Jazz Poetry

# 44

Dust by Laurel Halo

Album • Jun 23 / 2017 Electronic Art Pop Experimental Ambient Pop

# 45

Rap Album Two by Jonwayne

Album • Feb 17 / 2017 West Coast Hip Hop Abstract Hip Hop Conscious Hip Hop

# 47

Its a Myth by Sneaks

Album • Mar 31 / 2017 Minimal Synth Post-Punk

# 48

Imaginations by Molly Nilsson

Album • May 22 / 2017 Synthpop Art Pop

# 49

Cage Tropical by Frankie Rose

Album • Aug 11 / 2017 Indie Pop Dream Pop Ethereal Wave

# 50

DROOL by NNAMDÏ

Album • Mar 03 / 2017 Abstract Hip Hop Alternative R&B Pop Rap

# 51

The West Against the People by Mary Ocher

Album • Mar 10 / 2017 Art Pop Psychedelic Pop Ambient Pop

# 53

Bye Bye Berta by Palberta

Album • Feb 10 / 2017 Art Punk Post-Punk Experimental Rock

# 56

Wide Open by Weaves

Album • Oct 06 / 2017 Indie Rock Noise Pop