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Best Music of 2017

Top 10 albums

Lukas Henne - Top 10 Albums

1. Mount Eerie: A Crow Looked at Me (P.W. Elverum & Sun)

2. Kamasi Washington:

Harmony of Difference (Young Turks)

3. The War on Drugs: A Deeper Understanding (Atlantic)

4. Offa Rex: The Queen of Hearts (Nonesuch)

5. Kendrick Lamar: DAMN. (Top Dawg Entertainment)

6. LCD Soundsystem:

American Dream (DFA Records/Columbia)

7. Natalia Lafourcade: Musas (Columbia)

8. Tyler, the Creator: Flower Boy (Columbia)

9. Protomartyr: Relatives in Descent (Domino)

10. White Reaper: The World’s Best American Band (Polyvinyl Record Co.)

 

Liam Starnes - Top 10 Albums

1. Mount Eerie: A Crow Looked at Me (P.W. Elverum & Sun)

2. Hiss Golden Messenger: Hallelujah Anyhow  (Merge)

3. Run the Jewels: Run the Jewels 3 (Run The Jewels, Inc.)

4. Alex Cameron: Forced Witness (Secretly Canadian)

5. At The Drive-In: in•ter a•li•a (Rise Records)

6. Kamasi Washington:

Harmony of Difference (Young Turks)

7. The National: Sleep Well Beast (4AD)

8. Thundercat: Drunk (Brainfeeder)

9. White Reaper: The World’s Best American Band (Polyvinyl Record Co.)

10. Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers:

The Long-Awaited Album (Universal)

 

Eli Teed - Top 10 Albums

1. Alex Cameron: Forced Witness (Secretly Canadian)

2. A. Savage: Thawing Dawn (Dull Tools)

3. Protomartyr: Relatives in Descent (Domino)

4. King Krule: The OOZ (True Panther Sounds)

5. Tyler, the Creator: Flower Boy (Columbia Records)

6. Kevin Morby: City Music (Dead Oceans)

7. Destroyer: ken (Merge Records)

8. At the Drive-In: in•ter a•li•a (Rise Records)

9. Broken Social Scene: Hug of Thunder (Arts & Crafts)

10. Thundercat: Drunk (Brainfeeder)

 

John Goodman - Top 10 Albums

1. Björk: Utopia (One Little Indian)

2. Lankum: Between the Earth and Sky (Rough Trade)

3. King Krule: The OOZ (True Panther Sounds)

4. Alvvays: Antisocialites (Polyvinyl Record Co.)

5. Waxahatchee: Out in the Storm (Merge)

6. Kelly Lee Owens:

Kelly Lee Owens (Smalltown Supersound)

7. Kelela: Take Me Apart (Warp Records)

8. Banker and Moses:

Journey to the Mountain of Forever (Gearbox)

9. Chris Stapleton:

From A Room Vol. 1 & 2 (Mercury Nashville)

10. Tinariwen: Elwan (Anti-)

 

John Goodman - Favourite Reissues/Archival Recordings

1. Neil Young: Hitchhiker (Reprise Records)

2. Brian Eno: Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) (Island)

3. Thelonious Monk:

Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (SAM Records)

4. The Replacements:

For Sale: Live at Maxwell’s 1986 (Rhino)

5. Slow: Against the Glass (Zulu Records)

6. Alice  Coltrane: World Spirituality Classics 1:

The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane

Turiyasangitananda (Luaka Bop)

7. Jackie Shane: Any Other Way (The Numero Group)

8. The Fall: The Fall - Singles 1978-2016 (Cherry Red)

9. Jon Hassell: Dream Theory in Malaya:

Fourth World, Volume Two (Editions EG)

10. KleenexLiliput: First Songs (Light In The Attic Records)