BrooklynVegan’s Top 50 Albums of 2017

From Perfume Genius to Kendrick Lamar to Power Trip to Julien Baker, here are our 50 favorite albums of 2017.

Published: December 22, 2017 23:30 Source

# 1

DAMN. by Kendrick Lamar

Album • Apr 14 / 2017 West Coast Hip Hop Conscious Hip Hop

# 2

Ctrl by SZA

Album • Jun 09 / 2017 Alternative R&B Neo-Soul

# 3

MASSEDUCTION by St. Vincent

Album • Oct 13 / 2017 Art Pop Pop

# 4

Slowdive by Slowdive

Album • May 05 / 2017 Dream Pop Shoegaze

# 5

american dream by LCD Soundsystem

Album • Oct 06 / 2017 Dance-Punk New Wave

# 6

Turn Out the Lights by Julien Baker

Album • Oct 27 / 2017 Singer-Songwriter Slowcore Contemporary Folk

# 7

Nightmare Logic by Power Trip

Album • Feb 24 / 2017 Thrash Metal

# 8

Pleasure by Feist

Album • Apr 28 / 2017 Singer-Songwriter Indie Rock

# 9

No Shape by Perfume Genius

Album • May 05 / 2017 Art Pop

# 10

No Mountains In Manhattan by Wiki

Album • Aug 25 / 2017 East Coast Hip Hop Abstract Hip Hop

# 11

Stranger in the Alps by Phoebe Bridgers

Album • Sep 22 / 2017 Indie Folk Singer-Songwriter

# 12

SATURATION by BROCKHAMPTON

Album • Jun 09 / 2017 Pop Rap West Coast Hip Hop

# 13

Capacity by Big Thief

Album • Jun 09 / 2017 Indie Rock Indie Folk

# 14

Big Fish Theory by Vince Staples

Album • Jun 23 / 2017 West Coast Hip Hop Experimental Hip Hop Hardcore Hip Hop

# 15

Life After Youth by Land of Talk

Album • May 19 / 2017 Indie Rock

# 16

Party by Aldous Harding

Album • May 19 / 2017 Contemporary Folk Singer-Songwriter

# 17

Sleep Well Beast by The National

Album • Sep 08 / 2017 Indie Rock Art Rock

# 18

Crack-Up by Fleet Foxes

Album • Jun 16 / 2017 Progressive Folk Chamber Folk

# 19

Smidley by Smidley

Album • May 26 / 2017 Indie Rock

# 20

A Crow Looked at Me by Mount Eerie

Album • Mar 24 / 2017 Singer-Songwriter Indie Folk

# 21

Plunge by Fever Ray

Album • Oct 27 / 2017 Electropop Art Pop Post-Industrial

# 22

Melodrama by Lorde

Album • Jun 16 / 2017 Synthpop Alt-Pop

# 23

The Nashville Sound by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit

Album • Jun 16 / 2017 Americana Alt-Country

# 24

Aromanticism by Moses Sumney

Album • Sep 22 / 2017 Art Pop Singer-Songwriter

# 25

The Dusk In Us by Converge

Album • Nov 03 / 2017 Metalcore

# 26

Process by Sampha

Album • Feb 03 / 2017 Alternative R&B

# 27

Take Me Apart by Kelela

Album • Oct 06 / 2017 Alternative R&B UK Bass

# 28

Laila’s Wisdom by Rapsody

Album • Sep 22 / 2017 Conscious Hip Hop

# 29

Rest by Charlotte Gainsbourg

Album • Nov 17 / 2017 Art Pop Synthpop

# 30

EP2 by Yaeji

EP • Nov 03 / 2017 Ambient House Ambient Pop

# 31

Nothing Feels Natural by Priests

Album • Jan 27 / 2017 Post-Punk

# 32

Soft Sounds from Another Planet by Japanese Breakfast

Album • Jul 14 / 2017 Dream Pop Indie Rock

# 33

Lust For Life by Lana Del Rey

Album • Jul 21 / 2017 Alt-Pop Art Pop

# 34

From A Room: Volume 1 by Chris Stapleton

Album • May 05 / 2017 Contemporary Country

# 35

The OOZ by King Krule

Album • Oct 13 / 2017 Art Rock

# 36

Prince of Tears by Baxter Dury

Album • Oct 27 / 2017 Indie Pop Synthpop

# 37

Not Even Happiness by Julie Byrne

Album • Jan 12 / 2017 Contemporary Folk Singer-Songwriter

# 38

After Laughter by Paramore

Album • May 12 / 2017 New Wave Pop Rock Alternative Dance

# 39

Preservation by Nadia Reid

Album • Mar 03 / 2017 Singer-Songwriter Contemporary Folk

# 40

Painted Ruins by Grizzly Bear

Album • Aug 18 / 2017 Neo-Psychedelia Art Rock

# 41

Fin by Syd

Album • Feb 03 / 2017 Alternative R&B

# 42

Utopia by Björk

Album • Nov 24 / 2017 Art Pop Glitch Pop

# 43

Relatives In Descent by Protomartyr

Album • Sep 29 / 2017 Post-Punk

# 44

Kelly Lee Owens by Kelly Lee Owens

Album • Mar 24 / 2017 Ambient Pop Tech House

# 45

PACKS by Your Old Droog

Album • Mar 10 / 2017 East Coast Hip Hop Hardcore Hip Hop

# 46

Hug Of Thunder by Broken Social Scene

Album • Jul 07 / 2017 Indie Rock

# 47

4eva Is A Mighty Long Time by Big K.R.I.T.

Album • Oct 27 / 2017 Southern Hip Hop

# 48

Apocalipstick by Cherry Glazerr

Album • Jan 20 / 2017 Indie Rock Noise Pop

# 49

ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$ by Joey Bada$$

Album • Apr 07 / 2017 East Coast Hip Hop Political Hip Hop Conscious Hip Hop

# 50

I Love You Like a Brother by Alex Lahey

Album • Oct 06 / 2017 Power Pop Indie Rock