My favorite records from 2017
Here's this year's records, listed alphabetically, with favorites in bold.
| Album | Bandcamp / SoundCloud / YT | Apple Music |
|---|---|---|
| Aldous Harding — Party | SoundCloud | 🍎 |
| Alessandro Cortini — AVANTI | SoundCloud | 🍎 |
| Alex Cameron — Forced Witness | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
| ANOHNI — Paradise EP | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
| Anton Kubikov — Whatness | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
| Astrïd & Rachel Grimes — Through the Sparkle | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
| Balmorhea — Clear Language | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
| Bedouine — Bedouine | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
| Ben Frost — The Centre Cannot Hold | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
| Björk — Utopia | — | 🍎 |
| Blanck Mass — World Eater | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
| Blonde Redhead — 3 O'Clock EP | — | 🍎 |
| Blondie — Pollinator | — | 🍎 |
| Brainwaltzera — Poly-Ana | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
| Brian Eno — Reflection | — | 🍎 |
| Burial — Rodent | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
| Cameron Avery — Ripe Dreams, Pipe Dreams | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
| Chilly Gonzales & Jarvis Cocker — Room 29 | — | 🍎 |
| Charlotte Gainsbourg — Rest | YouTube | 🍎 |
| Cigarettes After Sex — Cigarettes After Sex | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
| Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile — Lotta Sea Lice | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
| Daniele Luppi & Parquet Courts — Milano | SoundCloud | 🍎 |
| Delia Gonzalez — Horse Follows Darkness | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
| Dustin O'Halloran — 3 Movements | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
| Eluvium — Shuffle Drones | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
| Fatima Al Qadiri — Shaneera | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
| Fever Ray — Plunge | SoundCloud | 🍎 |
| Four Tet — New Energy | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
| Gas — Narkopop | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor — Luciferian Towers | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
| Grizzly Bear — Painted Ruins | — | 🍎 |
| High Plains — Cinderland | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
| Iron & Wine — Beast Epic | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
| Japandroids — Near to the Wild Heart of Life | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
| Jefre Cantu-Ledesma — On the Echoing Green | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
| Jlin — Black Origami | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
| Joni Void — Selfless | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
| Justin Walter — Unseen Forces | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
| Kastil — The Sadistic Abbess | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
| Kelly Lee Owens — Kelly Lee Owens | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
| Kendrick Lamar — DAMN. | SoundCloud | 🍎 |
| King Krule — The OOZ | SoundCloud | 🍎 |
| Kristoffer Lo — Anhedonia | SoundCloud | 🍎 |
| Lana Del Rey — Lust for Life | SoundCloud | 🍎 |
| Laraaji — Sun Gong | SoundCloud | 🍎 |
| LCD Soundsystem - american dream | SoundCloud | 🍎 |
| Leandro Fresco & Rafael Anton Irisarri — La Equidistancia | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
| Lift to Experience — The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads (Reissue) | SoundCloud | 🍎 |
| Mdou Moctar — Sousoume Tamachek | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
| Mogwai — Every Country's Sun | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
| Murcof & Vanessa Wagner — EP02 & EP03 | EP02, EP03 | EP02, EP03 |
| Oscar Mulero — Pattern Series Compilation | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
| Oxbow — The Black Duke | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
| Ryuichi Sakamoto - async | SoundCloud | 🍎 |
| Sevdaliza — Ison | YouTube | 🍎 |
| St. Vincent — MASSEDUCTION | SoundCloud | 🍎 |
| Tale of Us — Endless | SoundCloud | 🍎 |
| The Acid — The Bomb OST | SoundCloud | 🍎 |
| The Blaze — Territory EP | YouTube | 🍎 |
| The National — Sleep Well Beast | YouTube | 🍎 |
| The War on Drugs — A Deeper Understanding | SoundCloud | 🍎 |
| Timber Timbre — Sincerely, Future Pollution | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
| Tom Rogerson & Brian Eno — Finding Shore | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
| Visible Cloaks — Reassemblage | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
| Waxahatchee — Out in the Storm | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
| William Basinski — A Shadow in Time | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
| yaeji — EP2 | SoundCloud | 🍎 |
A significant album I was introduced to this year is the 2012 Changeling by Camille O'Sullivan 🍎, which has been on heavy rotation throughout. It starts with a cover of Gillian Welch's Revelator, about which I got excited this time last year.
Timeline of favorite records: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.
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