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The Alternative's 50 Best Albums So Far in 2017

The Alternative's 50 Best Albums So Far in 2017

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A Will Away - Here Again
March 3, 2017
Amazon

Adult Mom - Soft Spots
May 19, 2017
Indie Pop
Critic Score
75
1 review
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

Alex G - Rocket
May 19, 2017
Indie Rock
Critic Score
77
25 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

Big Thief - Capacity
June 9, 2017
Indie Rock
Critic Score
82
23 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

Charly Bliss - Guppy
April 21, 2017
Indie Rock
Critic Score
82
11 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sound
January 27, 2017
Indie Rock
Critic Score
73
26 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

Cool American - Infinite Hiatus
June 2, 2017
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

Deer Leap - Wind & Words
June 9, 2017
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

Diet Cig - Swear I'm Good At This
April 7, 2017
Indie Pop
Critic Score
80
19 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

Eisley - I'm Only Dreaming
February 17, 2017
Indie Pop
Critic Score
69
3 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

Girlpool - Powerplant
May 12, 2017
Indie Pop
Critic Score
75
23 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

Gnarwolves - Outsiders
May 5, 2017
Critic Score
77
3 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

Grayscale - Adornment
May 5, 2017
Pop Punk
Critic Score
80
1 review
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

Half Waif - form/a
February 24, 2017
Art Pop
Critic Score
85
1 review
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

Heart Attack Man - The Manson Family
March 3, 2017
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

Hundredth - RARE
June 16, 2017
Shoegaze
Critic Score
65
3 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

Japandroids - Near to the Wild Heart of Life
January 27, 2017
Indie Rock
Critic Score
77
36 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

Jay Som - Everybody Works
March 10, 2017
Indie Rock
Critic Score
78
11 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

Joey Bada$$ - ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$
April 7, 2017
Hip Hop
Critic Score
76
18 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
April 14, 2017
Hip Hop
Critic Score
93
40 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

Kevin Morby - City Music
June 16, 2017
Singer-Songwriter
Critic Score
78
21 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana
February 24, 2017
Psychedelic Rock
Critic Score
74
20 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

Lorde - Melodrama
June 16, 2017
Art Pop
Critic Score
91
41 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

Los Campesinos! - Sick Scenes
February 24, 2017
Indie Pop
Critic Score
80
21 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

Meat Wave - The Incessant
February 17, 2017
Garage Punk
Critic Score
75
9 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

Milk Fluid - Flake
April 24, 2017
Amazon

Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
March 24, 2017
Singer-Songwriter
Critic Score
91
18 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

Oso Oso - the yunahon mixtape
January 13, 2017
Emo
Critic Score
78
1 review
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

Palehound - A Place I'll Always Go
June 16, 2017
Indie Rock
Critic Score
76
6 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

Paramore - After Laughter
May 12, 2017
New Wave
Critic Score
84
19 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

Pile - A Hairshirt of Purpose
March 31, 2017
Indie Rock
Critic Score
82
4 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

Priests - Nothing Feels Natural
January 27, 2017
Post-Punk
Critic Score
76
13 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

Remo Drive - Greatest Hits
March 16, 2017
Indie Rock
Critic Score
70
2 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

Rozwell Kid - Precious Art
June 23, 2017
Power Pop
Critic Score
76
4 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 3
December 25, 2016
Hip Hop
Critic Score
86
35 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

Sinai Vessel - Brokenlegged
January 27, 2017
Emo
Critic Score
79
2 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

Slowdive - Slowdive
May 5, 2017
Dream Pop
Critic Score
82
34 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

Smidley - Smidley
June 2, 2017
Indie Rock
Critic Score
75
1 review
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

Spencer Radcliffe & Everyone Else - Enjoy The Great Outdoors
May 12, 2017
Indie Rock
Critic Score
71
3 reviews
Amazon

SZA - Ctrl
June 9, 2017
Alternative R&B
Critic Score
82
20 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

Tall Ships - Impressions
March 31, 2017
Alternative Rock
Critic Score
79
8 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

The Flats - Auburn in the Everlast
January 6, 2017
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

The Maine - Lovely, Little, Lonely
April 7, 2017
Pop Rock
Critic Score
77
3 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

The Obsessives - The Obsessives
March 17, 2017
Indie Rock
Amazon
iTunes
Music

The Spirit of the Beehive - Pleasure Suck
March 24, 2017
Critic Score
72
3 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

Tigers Jaw - Spin
May 19, 2017
Emo
Critic Score
67
7 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

Turtlenecked - Vulture
June 16, 2017
Critic Score
60
1 review
Amazon
iTunes
Music

Vagabon - Infinite Worlds
February 24, 2017
Indie Rock
Critic Score
81
8 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

Vasudeva - No Clearance
March 31, 2017
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

White Reaper - The World's Best American Band
April 7, 2017
Glam Rock
Critic Score
78
9 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Original Source: http://www.getalternative.com/best-far-2017/
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