Year-End Lists

Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2017

1. The War on Drugs
   A Deeper Understanding
2. Julien Baker
   Turn Out the Lights
3. St. Vincent
   MASSEDUCTION
4. Slowdive
   Slowdive
5. Wolf Alice
   Visions of a Life
6. Kendrick Lamar
   Damn
7. The National
   Sleep Well Beast
8. Grizzly Bear
   Painted Ruins
9. Father John Misty
   Pure Comedy
10. Japanese Breakfast
    Soft Sounds from Another Planet
11. Broken Social Scene
    Hug of Thunder
12. LCD Soundsystem
    American Dream
13. Spoon
    Hot Thoughts
14. The Horrors
    V
15. Charlotte Gainsbourg
    Rest
16. Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile
    Lotta Sea Lice
17. Fleet Foxes
    Crack-Up
18. Perfume Genius
    No Shape
19. Mount Eerie
    A Crow Looked at Me
20. Alvvays
    Antisocialites
21. Big Thief
    Capacity
22. Rose Elinor Dougall
    Stellular
23. Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly & James McAlister
    Planetarium
24. Moses Sumney
    Aromanticism
25. Jay Som
    Everybody Works
26. Wolf Parade
    Cry Cry Cry
27. Foxygen
    Hang
28. King Krule
    The OOZ
29. Kelly Lee Owens
    Kelly Lee Owens
30. Feist
    Pleasure
31. Björk
    Utopia
32. Fever Ray
    Plunge
33. Future Islands
    The Far Field
34. Elbow
    Little Fictions
35. Yumi Zouma
    Willowbank
36. Algiers
    The Underside of Power
37. Jens Lekman
    Life Will See You Now
38. Girl Ray
    Earl Grey
39. The xx
    I See You
40. Midnight Sister
    Saturn Over Sunset
41. The New Pornographers
    Whiteout Conditions
42. Marika Hackman
    I’m Not Your Man
43. Protomartyr
    Relatives in Descent
44. Mount Kimbie
    Love What Survives
45. Bedouine
    Bedouine
46. Alex Lahey
    I Love You Like a Brother
47. Phoebe Bridgers
    Stranger in the Alps
48. Chilly Gonzales & Jarvis Cocker
    Room 29
49. Baxter Dury
    Prince of Tears
50. Goldfrapp
    Silver Eye
51. SZA
    Ctrl
52. Kevin Morby
    City Music
53. Temples
    Volcano
54. Waxahatchee
    Out in the Storm
55. Vince Staples
    Big Fish Theory
56. Lorde
    Melodrama
57. Godspeed You! Black Emperor
    Luciferian Towers
58. Laura Marling
    Semper Femina
59. Ride
    Weather Diaries
60. Kirin J Callinan
    Bravado
61. alt-J
    RELAXER
62. Thundercat
    Drunk
63. Zola Jesus
    Okovi
64. Sampha
    Process
65. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
    The Hanged Man
66. Dirty Projectors
    Dirty Projectors
67. Nick Hakim
    Green Twins
68. Grandaddy
    Last Place
69. Phoenix
    Ti Amo
70. The Afghan Whigs
    In Spades
71. Jessie Ware
    Glasshouse
72. Julie Byrne
    Not Even Happiness
73. Jane Weaver
    Modern Kosmology
74. Madeline Kenney
    Night Night At the First Landing
75. Destroyer
    ken
76. Deerhoof
    Mountain Moves
77. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
    Soul of a Woman
78. Tricky
    Ununiform
79. The Weather Station
    The Weather Station
80. British Sea Power
    Let the Dancers Inherit the Party
81. girlpool
    Powerplant
82. Saint Etienne
    Home Counties
83. Austra
    Future Politics
84. The Mountain Goats
    Goths
85. Nadine Shah
    Holiday Destination
86. Priests
    Nothing Feels Natural
87. Mogwai
    Every Country’s Sun
88. Beach Fossils
    Somersault
89. The Flaming Lips
    Oczy Mlody
90. Run the Jewels
    Run the Jewels 3
91. Blanck Mass
    World Eater
92. Pond
    The Weather
93. Little Dragon
    Season High
94. Kamasi Washington
    Harmony of Difference
95. Mac DeMarco
    This Old Dog
96. Cut Copy
    Haiku From Zero
97. Sondre Lerche
    Pleasure
98. Fazerdaze
    Morningside
99. EMA
    Exile In the Outer Ring
100. This Is the Kit
     Moonshine Freeze