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.

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2017 Top 100 Albums

1. Protomartyr - Relatives in Descent
2. Blanck Mass - World Eater
3. Kendrick Lamar - Damn
4. Thundercat - Drunk
5. Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness
6. Bing & Ruth - No Home of the Mind
7. James Holden & The Animal Spirits - The Animal Spirits
8. Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me
9. Kevin Morby - City Music
10. Jane Weaver - Modern Kosmology
11. Godspeed You Black Emperor - Luciferian Towers
12. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid
13. Omni - Multi - task
14. Four Tet - New Energy
15. Aldous Harding - Party
16. Mac DeMarco - This Old Dog
17. Ty Segall - Ty Segall
18. Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens
19. Dirty Projectors - Dirty Projectors
20. Jlin - Black Origami
21. Oh Sees - Orc
22. Ulrika Spacek - Modern English Decoration
23. Mount Kimbie - Love What Survives
24. Angelo De Augustine - Swim Inside The Moon
25. H. Hawkline - I Romanticize
26. LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
27. Binker and Moses - Journey To The Mountain Of Forever
28. Slowdive - Slowdive
29. Father John Misty - Pure Comedy
30. Wand - Plum
31. Bonobo - Migration
32. Richard Dawson - Peasant
33. Crescent - Resin Pockets
34. Sampha - Process
35. The Moonlandingz - Interplanetary Class Classics
36. Floating Points - Mojave Desert
37. Temples - Volcano
38. Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up
39. Jake Xerxes Fussell - What in the Natural World
40. VENN - Runes
41. Daniel Brandt - Eternal Something
42. Stormzy - Gang Signs & Prayer
43. Andrea Belfi - Ore
44. Jen Cloher - Jen Cloher
45. Alvvays - Antisocialites
46. Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band - Dreaming In The Non-Dream
47. Nadia Reid - Preservation
48. The National - Sleep Well Beast
49. Mario Batkovic - Mario Batkovic
50. Cigarettes After Sex - Cigarettes After Sex
51. Girl Ray - Earl Grey
52. The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
53. Gnod - Just Say No To The Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine
54. Japanese Breakfast - Soft Sounds From Another Planet
55. Real Estate - In Mind
56. The Surfing Magazines - The Surfing Magazines
57. Algiers - The Underside Of Power
58. Warm Digits - Wireless World
59. Snapped Ankles - Come Play The Trees
60. Bicep - Bicep
61. WALL - Untitled
62. Kelela - Take Me Apart
63. Katie Von Schleicher - Shitty Hits
64. Hiss Golden Messenger - Hallelujah Anyhow
65. The Cairo Gang - Untouchable
66. Laurel Halo - Dust
67. Laura Marling - Semper Femina
68. Mogwai - Every Country's Sun
69. Pixx - The Age Of Anxiety
70. Alex Rex - Vermillion
71. Proper Ornaments - Foxhole
72. Jakuzi - Fantezi Muzik
73. Seamus Fogarty - The Curious Hand
74. This Is The Kit - Moonshine Freeze
75. Big Theif - Capacity
76. British Sea Power - Let The Dancers Inherit The Party
77. Songhoy Blues - Résistance
78. Soulwax - From Deewee
79. The Afghan Whigs - In Spades
80. Endless Boogie - Vibe Killer
81. Liars - TFCF
82. Jesca Hoop - Memories Are Now
83. The Weather Station - The Weather Station
84. Forest Swords - Compassion
85. Beach Fossils - Somersault
86. Penguin Cafe - The Imperfect Sea
87. Lowly - Heba
88. Lapalux - Ruinism
89. UMFANG - Symbolic Use Of Light
90. Michael Chapman - 50
91. Los Campesinos! - Sick Scenes
92. Soccer Mommy - Collection
93. Susanne Sundfør - Music For People In Trouble
94. Arca - Arca
95. Will Stratton - Rosewood Almanac
96. Hannah Peel - Mary Casio: Journey To Cassiopeia
97. (Sandy) Alex G - Rocket
98. Antibalas - Where The Gods Are In Peace
99. Hurray For The Riff Raff - The Navigator
100. 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.