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Albums of the Year 2017 // New Releases

//40
Migos
Culture
(300 Entertainment)
//39
Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein
Stranger Things 2: A Netflix Original Series Soundtrack
(Lakeshore)
//38
Unsane
Sterilize
(Southern Lord)
//37
Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch
Blade Runner 2049: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
(Epic/ASG)
//36
Ricardo Villalobos
Empirical House
([a:rpi:r])
//35
Brockhampton
Saturation II
(Question Everything Inc./Empire)
//34
Fire-Toolz
Drip Mental
(Hausu Mountain)
//33
Clams Casino
Instrumental Mixtape 4
(no label)
//32
Yves Tumor
Experiencing the Deposit of Faith
(no label)
//31
Lil Yachty
Teenage Emotions
(Virgin/EMI)
//30
Thriftworks
The Feather and the Sword
(no label)
//29
Paul White & Danny Brown
Accelerator
(R&S)
//28
Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke & Oren Ambarchi
This Dazzling, Genuine "Difference" Now Where Shall It Go?
(Black Truffle)
//27
Nazoranai
Beginning to Fall in Line Before Me, So Decorously, the Nature of All That Must Be Transformed
(W.25th)
//26
Crys Cole & Oren Ambarchi
Hotel Record
(Black Truffle)
//25
Wolf Eyes
No Hate
(no label)
//24
Konstrukt & Keiji Haino
A Philosophy Warping, Little by Little That Way Lies a Quagmire
(Karlrecords)
//23
The War on Drugs
A Deeper Understanding
(Atlantic)
//22
Protomartyr
Relatives in Descent
(Domino)
//21
Dasher
Sodium
(Jagjaguwar)
//20
Kendrick Lamar
DAMN.
(Insomniac/Interscope)
//19
David Greenberger, Glenn Jones & Chris Corsano
An Idea in Everything
(Okraina)
//18
Tzusing
東方不敗
(L.I.E.S.)
//17
Laurel Halo
Dust
(Hyperdub)
//18
Lil B
Black Ken
(BasedWorld)
//15
Swans
Deliquescence
(Young God)
//16
Aaron Dilloway
Switches
(Cejero)
//13
Oneohtrix Point Never
Good Time: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
(Warp)
//12
Trouble
Snake Eyes b/w Mother's Gone
(Sacred Bones)
//11
Lil Uzi Vert
Luv is Rage 2
(Generation Now/Atlantic)
//10
Bell Witch
Mirror Reaper
(Profound Lore)
//09
King Krule
The Ooz
(True Panther/XL)
//08
Circle
Terminal
(Southern Lord)
//07
Do Make Say Think
Stubborn Persistent Illusions
(Constellation)
//06
Vince Staples
Big Fish Theory
(ARTium/Blacksmith/Def Jam)
//05
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Async.
(Milan)
//04
Oxbow
Thin Black Duke
(Hydra Head)
//03
Tyler, the Creator
Scum Fuck Flower Boy
(Columbia)
//02
The Bug vs. Earth
Concrete Desert
(Ninja Tune)
//01
Slowdive
Slowdive
(Dead Oceans)

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