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Highest Rated Albums of 2017

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

1.

Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights
October 27, 2017
Singer-Songwriter
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

2.

Wolf Alice - Visions of a Life
September 29, 2017
Indie Rock
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

3.

Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins
August 18, 2017
Indie Rock
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

4.

The National - Sleep Well Beast
September 8, 2017
Indie Rock
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

5.

Father John Misty - Pure Comedy
April 7, 2017
Singer-Songwriter
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

6.

Guiding Light - Guide the Lightning
June 30, 2017
Score
85
Source →
Amazon

7.

Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps
September 22, 2017
Indie Folk
Score
85
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

8.

King Krule - The OOZ
October 13, 2017
Art Rock
Score
85
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

9.

St. Vincent - MASSEDUCTION
October 13, 2017
Art Pop
Score
85
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

10.

Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile - Lotta Sea Lice
October 13, 2017
Folk Rock
Score
85
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

11.

Wolf Parade - Cry Cry Cry
October 6, 2017
Indie Rock
Score
85
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

12.

Protomartyr - Relatives in Descent
September 29, 2017
Post-Punk
Score
85
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

13.

Ted Leo - The Hanged Man
September 8, 2017
Power Pop
Score
85
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

14.

The Horrors - V
September 22, 2017
Neo-Psychedelia
Score
85
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

15.

LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
September 1, 2017
Dance Punk
Score
85
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

16.

Everything Everything - A Fever Dream
August 18, 2017
Art Pop
Score
85
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

17.

Bedouine - Bedouine
June 23, 2017
Singer-Songwriter
Score
85
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

18.

Big Thief - Capacity
June 9, 2017
Indie Rock
Score
85
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

19.

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Murder of the Universe
June 23, 2017
Psychedelic Rock
Score
85
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

20.

Ryuichi Sakamoto - async
April 28, 2017
Ambient
Score
85
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

21.

Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up
June 16, 2017
Folk
Score
85
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

22.

Lorde - Melodrama
June 16, 2017
Art Pop
Score
85
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

23.

Hoops - Routines
May 5, 2017
Jangle Pop
Score
85
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

24.

Chilly Gonzales & Jarvis Cocker - Room 29
March 17, 2017
Chamber Pop
Score
85
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

25.

Rose Elinor Dougall - Stellular
January 27, 2017
Indie Pop
Score
85
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
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NOTE: This is not a year end list. This list is ordered by the ratings Under The Radar awarded albums throughout 2017.
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