Welcome to our 2017 Records of the Year review.
As is tradition, the last issue of the year always turns focus away (although never too far) from the bricks and mortar record shops and instead sheds light on the last twelve months’ worth of releases that have been filling our racks. We have compiled our annual top 100 albums (listed below), plus essential reissues and compilations, some words on EPs, a few points of interest and even things just landing that we’ve fast grown fond of.
You can add Deluxe to your order here. You can browse the releases here. You can also read it online here. We have thousands of copies in the shop, so come and pick one up is probably easiest for everyone right?
2017 Top 100 Albums
Also
Multiple LP Prize: Moon Duo, Shabazz Palaces and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard.
EP's of the Year: Amber Arcades, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Kamasi Washington, Earlham Mystics and Everything Is Recorded.
Reissue of the Year: Midori Takada - Through The Looking Glass
Compilation of the Year: World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda
Released 'too late' but highly recommended: Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile, St. Vincent, Baxter Dury, OCS, Magot Price, Lost Horizons, King Krule, Bitchin Bajas, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Julien Baker, Bjork and Sharon Jones.
As is tradition, the last issue of the year always turns focus away (although never too far) from the bricks and mortar record shops and instead sheds light on the last twelve months’ worth of releases that have been filling our racks. We have compiled our annual top 100 albums (listed below), plus essential reissues and compilations, some words on EPs, a few points of interest and even things just landing that we’ve fast grown fond of.
You can add Deluxe to your order here. You can browse the releases here. You can also read it online here. We have thousands of copies in the shop, so come and pick one up is probably easiest for everyone right?
2017 Top 100 Albums
- Protomartyr - Relatives in Descent
- Blanck Mass - World Eater
- Kendrick Lamar - Damn
- Thundercat - Drunk
- Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness
- Bing & Ruth - No Home of the Mind
- James Holden & The Animal Spirits - The Animal Spirits
- Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me
- Kevin Morby - City Music
- Jane Weaver - Modern Kosmology
- Godspeed You Black Emperor - Luciferian Towers
- Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid
- Omni - Multi - task
- Four Tet - New Energy
- Aldous Harding - Party
- Mac DeMarco - This Old Dog
- Ty Segall - Ty Segall
- Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens
- Dirty Projectors - Dirty Projectors
- Jlin - Black Origami
- Oh Sees - Orc
- Ulrika Spacek - Modern English Decoration
- Mount Kimbie - Love What Survives
- Angelo De Augustine - Swim Inside The Moon
- H. Hawkline - I Romanticize
- LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
- Binker and Moses - Journey To The Mountain Of Forever
- Slowdive - Slowdive
- Father John Misty - Pure Comedy
- Wand - Plum
- Bonobo - Migration
- Richard Dawson - Peasant
- Crescent - Resin Pockets
- Sampha - Process
- The Moonlandingz - Interplanetary Class Classics
- Floating Points - Mojave Desert
- Temples - Volcano
- Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up
- Jake Xerxes Fussell - What in the Natural World
- VENN - Runes
- Daniel Brandt - Eternal Something
- Stormzy - Gang Signs & Prayer
- Andrea Belfi - Ore
- Jen Cloher - Jen Cloher
- Alvvays - Antisocialites
- Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band - Dreaming In The Non-Dream
- Nadia Reid - Preservation
- The National - Sleep Well Beast
- Mario Batkovic - Mario Batkovic
- Cigarettes After Sex - Cigarettes After Sex
- Girl Ray - Earl Grey
- The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
- Gnod - Just Say No To The Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine
- Japanese Breakfast - Soft Sounds From Another Planet
- Real Estate - In Mind
- The Surfing Magazines - The Surfing Magazines
- Algiers - The Underside Of Power
- Warm Digits - Wireless World
- Snapped Ankles - Come Play The Trees
- Bicep - Bicep
- WALL - Untitled
- Kelela - Take Me Apart
- Katie Von Schleicher - Shitty Hits
- Hiss Golden Messenger - Hallelujah Anyhow
- The Cairo Gang - Untouchable
- Laurel Halo - Dust
- Laura Marling - Semper Femina
- Mogwai - Every Country's Sun
- Pixx - The Age Of Anxiety
- Alex Rex - Vermillion
- Proper Ornaments - Foxhole
- Jakuzi - Fantezi Muzik
- Seamus Fogarty - The Curious Hand
- This Is The Kit - Moonshine Freeze
- Big Theif - Capacity
- British Sea Power - Let The Dancers Inherit The Party
- Songhoy Blues - Résistance
- Soulwax - From Deewee
- The Afghan Whigs - In Spades
- Endless Boogie - Vibe Killer
- Liars - TFCF
- Jesca Hoop - Memories Are Now
- The Weather Station - The Weather Station
- Forest Swords - Compassion
- Beach Fossils - Somersault
- Penguin Cafe - The Imperfect Sea
- Lowly - Heba
- Lapalux - Ruinism
- UMFANG - Symbolic Use Of Light
- Michael Chapman - 50
- Los Campesinos! - Sick Scenes
- Soccer Mommy - Collection
- Susanne Sundfør - Music For People In Trouble
- Arca - Arca
- Will Stratton - Rosewood Almanac
- Hannah Peel - Mary Casio: Journey To Cassiopeia
- (Sandy) Alex G - Rocket
- Antibalas - Where The Gods Are In Peace
- Hurray For The Riff Raff - The Navigator
- Perfume Genius - No Shape
Also
Multiple LP Prize: Moon Duo, Shabazz Palaces and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard.
EP's of the Year: Amber Arcades, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Kamasi Washington, Earlham Mystics and Everything Is Recorded.
Reissue of the Year: Midori Takada - Through The Looking Glass
Compilation of the Year: World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda
Released 'too late' but highly recommended: Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile, St. Vincent, Baxter Dury, OCS, Magot Price, Lost Horizons, King Krule, Bitchin Bajas, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Julien Baker, Bjork and Sharon Jones.