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Highest Rated Albums of 2017

Year

2017
- - 2019
  - 2018
  - 2017
  - 2016
  - 2015
  - 2014
  - 2013
- - 2012
  - 2011
  - 2010
  - 2009
  - 2008
  - 2007
  - 2006
- - 2005
  - All Time

Genre

All
- - All
  - Alternative R&B
  - Alternative Rock
  - Art Pop
  - Dream Pop
  - Electronic
  - Electropop
  - Experimental Hip Hop
  - Folk
  - Folk Rock
  - Hip Hop
  - Indie Folk
  - Indie Pop
- - Indie Rock
  - Metal
  - Pop
  - Pop Rap
  - Pop Rock
  - Post-Punk
  - Psychedelic
  - Punk
  - R&B
  - Rock
  - Singer-Songwriter
  - Synthpop
  - Trap Rap

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

1. Björk - Utopia

November 24, 2017

Art Pop

Score

100

2. Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights

October 27, 2017

Singer-Songwriter

Score

100

3. Iron Chic - You Can't Stay Here

October 13, 2017

Pop Punk

Score

100

4. St. Vincent - MASSEDUCTION

October 13, 2017

Art Pop

Score

100

5. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid

October 6, 2017

Art Pop

Score

100

6. Worriers - Survival Pop

September 29, 2017

Pop Punk

Score

100

7. Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps

September 22, 2017

Indie Folk

Score

100

8. The Horrors - V

September 22, 2017

Neo-Psychedelia

Score

100

9. The National - Sleep Well Beast

September 8, 2017

Indie Rock

Score

100

10. Iron & Wine - Beast Epic

August 25, 2017

Indie Folk

Score

100

11. Waxahatchee - Out in the Storm

July 14, 2017

Indie Rock

Score

100

12. Algiers - The Underside of Power

June 23, 2017

Post-Punk

Score

100

13. Lorde - Melodrama

June 16, 2017

Art Pop

Score

100

14. Sylvan Esso - What Now

April 28, 2017

Indietronica

Score

100

15. Charly Bliss - Guppy

April 21, 2017

Indie Rock

Score

100

16. Actress - AZD

April 14, 2017

Microhouse

Score

100

17. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.

April 14, 2017

Hip Hop

Score

100

18. Pile - A Hairshirt of Purpose

March 31, 2017

Indie Rock

Score

100

19. Laura Marling - Semper Femina

March 10, 2017

Singer-Songwriter

Score

100

20. Blanck Mass - World Eater

March 3, 2017

Experimental

Score

100

21. Vagabon - Infinite Worlds

February 24, 2017

Indie Rock

Score

100

22. Chris Stapleton - From A Room: Volume 2

December 1, 2017

Score

23. Angel Olsen - Phases

November 10, 2017

Score

24. Fever Ray - Plunge

October 27, 2017

Score

25. Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper

October 20, 2017

Score

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

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