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Highest Rated Albums of 2017

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2017

This is an ordered list of Pitchfork's highest rated albums of 2017. Check out Pitchfork's Year End List.

1. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.

April 14, 2017

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2. Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me

March 24, 2017

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3. King Krule - The OOZ

October 13, 2017

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4. Lorde - Melodrama

June 16, 2017

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5. Jlin - Black Origami

May 19, 2017

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6. Gas - Narkopop

April 21, 2017

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7. Perfume Genius - No Shape

May 5, 2017

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8. Visible Cloaks - Reassemblage

February 17, 2017

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9. Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up

June 16, 2017

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10. Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory

June 23, 2017

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11. The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding

August 25, 2017

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12. Charlotte Gainsbourg - Rest

November 17, 2017

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13. Fever Ray - Plunge

October 27, 2017

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14. Jay Som - Everybody Works

March 10, 2017

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15. Slowdive - Slowdive

May 5, 2017

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16. Moses Sumney - Aromanticism

September 22, 2017

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17. Kelela - Take Me Apart

October 6, 2017

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18. Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights

October 27, 2017

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19. Sampha - Process

February 3, 2017

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20. Thundercat - Drunk

February 24, 2017

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21. Arca - Arca

April 7, 2017

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22. LCD Soundsystem - American Dream

September 1, 2017

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23. Tyler, the Creator - Flower Boy

July 21, 2017

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24. Kamasi Washington - Harmony of Difference

September 29, 2017

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25. Lil B - Black Ken

August 17, 2017

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NOTE: This is not a year end list. This list is ordered by the ratings Pitchfork awarded albums throughout 2017.

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