Year-End Lists

NPR Music: Best 50 Albums of 2017

1. Kendrick Lamar
   Damn
2. SZA
   Ctrl
3. Big Thief
   Capacity
4. Sampha
   Process
5. Lorde
   Melodrama
6. Perfume Genius
   No Shape
7. Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
   The Nashville Sound
8. Ke$ha
   Rainbow
9. Hurray for the Riff Raff
   The Navigator
10. Aldous Harding
    Party
11. JAY-Z
    4:44
12. Vijay Iyer Sextet
    Far from Over
13. Rhiannon Giddens
    Freedom Highway
14. Moses Sumney
    Aromanticism
15. Danish String Quartet
    Last Leaf
16. Jlin
    Black Origami
17. Vince Staples
    Big Fish Theory
18. ÌFÉ
    IIII+IIII
19. Ifriqiyya Electrique
    Rûwâhîne
20. The War on Drugs
    A Deeper Understanding
21. Jay Som
    Everybody Works
22. Lil Uzi Vert
    Luv Is Rage 2
23. Sylvan Esso
    What Now
24. The National
    Sleep Well Beast
25. La Santa Cecilia
    Amar Y Vivir (En Vivo Desde La Ciudad De México, 2017)
26. Lee Ann Womack
    The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone
27. Fever Ray
    Plunge
28. Torres
    Three Futures
29. Open Mike Eagle
    Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
30. Ron Miles
    I Am a Man
31. Mount Eerie
    A Crow Looked at Me
32. Alvvays
    Antisocialites
33. Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra & Risto Joost
    Kõrvits: Moorland Elegies
34. Joan Shelley
    Joan Shelley
35. Thundercat
    Drunk
36. Rapsody
    Laila’s Wisdom
37. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
    The Kid
38. Migos
    Culture
39. Tyler Childers
    Purgatory
40. Midland
    On the Rocks
41. Waxahatchee
    Out in the Storm
42. Trio Da Kali & Kronos Quartet
    Ladilikan
43. Danay Suárez
    Palabras Manuales
44. Priests
    Nothing Feels Natural
45. Oumou Sangaré
    Mogoya
46. Mr. Mitch
    Devout
47. Jaimie Branch
    Fly or Die
48. Miguel Zenón
    Tipico
49. Marc-André Hamelin
    Feldman: For Bunita Marcus
50. Paramore
    After Laughter