Guest List: The Best Albums of 2017 – John Macintosh
1. Arca – Arca
2. Fleet Foxes – Crack-Up
3. Mt. Eerie – A Crow Looked at Me
4. Moses Sumney – Aromanticism
5. Big Thief – Capacity
6. Bell Witch – Mirror Reaper
7. Fever Ray – Plunge
8. Blanck Mass – World Eater
9. Kendrick Lamar – DAMN.
10. Kelly Lee Owens – Kelly Lee Owens
11. LCD Soundsystem – American Dream
12. Yaeji – EP/EP2
13. Four Tet – New Energy
14. Sampha – Process
15. Priests – Nothing Feels Natural
16. Power Trip – Nightmare Logic
17. Charli XCX – Pop 2
18. Kelela – Take Me Apart
19. Slowdive – Slowdive
20. Vince Staples – Big Fish Theory
21. King Krule – The Ooz
22. Japanese Breakfast – Soft Sounds From Another Planet
23. Perfume Genius – No Shape
24. Ryuichi Sakamoto – async
25. Karen Gwyer – Rembo
The Best Albums of 2017
1. Ryuichi Sakamoto – async
2. Progenie Terrestre Pura – oltreLuna
3. Power Trip – Nightmare Logic
4. Thundercat – Drunk
5. Mike Oldfield – Return to Ommadawn
6. Ketha – 0 Hours Starlight
7. Cornelius – Mellow Waves
8. Pyrrhon – What Passes for Survival
9. Roedelius / Kasar – Einfluss
10. Oxbow – Thin Black Duke
11. Four Tet – New Energy
12. Amenra – Mass VI
13. Fleet Foxes – Crack-Up
14. Tyler, the Creator – Flower Boy
15. Fever Ray – Plunge
16. King Krule – The Ooz
17. Krallice – Go Be Forgotten
18. Brockhampton – Saturation Trilogy
19. Dawn Ray’d – The Unlawful Assembly
20. Cleric – Retrocausal
21. Craig Taborn – Daylight Ghosts
22. Spectral Voice – Eroded Corridors of Unbeing
23. Lingua Ignota – All Bitches Die
24. The Heads Are Zeros – The Heads Are Zeros
25. Endon – Through the Mirror
Guest List: The Best Albums of 2016 – John Macintosh
1. David Bowie – ★
2. Bon Iver – 22, A Million
3. Solange – A Seat at the Table
4. A Tribe Called Quest – We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service
5. Nicolas Jaar – Sirens
6. Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
7. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – Ears
8. Anohni – Hopelessness
9. Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker
10. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree
11. Tim Hecker – Love Streams
12. Noname – Telofone
13. Jenny Hval – Blood Bitch
14. Mitski – Puberty 2
15. Anderson .Paak – Malibu
16. Frank Ocean – Blonde
17. NxWorries – Yes Lawd!
18. Cantique Lépreux – Cendres Célestes
19. Angel Olsen – MY WOMAN
20. Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels 3
21. Beyonce – Lemonade
22. Oathbreaker – Rheia
23. Jamila Woods – HEAVN
24. Eluvium – False Readings On
25. Kanye West – The Life of Pablo
The Best Albums of 2016
1. David Bowie – ★
2. Blood Incantation – Starspawn
3. Mélanie de Biasio – Blackened Cities
4. Ka – Honor Killed the Samurai
5. Nails – You Will Never Be One of Us
6. Autechre – elseq
7. William Tyler – Modern Country
8. Agoraphobic Nosebleed – Arc
9. Oranssi Pazuzu – Värähtelijä
10. Nicolas Jaar – Sirens
11. Shabaka and the Ancestors – Wisdom of Elders
12. Cass McCombs – Mangy Love
13. The Dillinger Escape Plan – Dissociation
14. Danny Brown – Atrocity Exhibition
15. Teramobil – Magnitude of Thoughts
16. The Gerogerigegege – 燃えない灰
17. Bon Iver – 22, a Million
18. Sumerlands – Sumerlands
19. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – Ears
20. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Nonagon Infinity
21. Ulcerate – Shrines of Paralysis
22. King – We Are King
23. Zhrine – Unortheta
24. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree
25. Sumac – What One Becomes
The Best Albums of 1972
1. David Bowie – The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
2. Roxy Music – Roxy Music
3. Novos Baianos – Acabou chorare
4. Grateful Dead – Europe ’72
5. Curtis Mayfield – Superfly
6. Arthur Verocai – Arthur Verocai
7. Big Star – #1 Record
8. Klaus Schulze – Irrlicht
9. Miles Davis – On the Corner
10. Neil Young – Harvest
11. Aphrodite’s Child – 666
12. Stevie Wonder – Talking Book
13. The Allman Brothers Band – Eat a Peach
14. Lou Reed – Transformer
15. Pharoah Sanders – Black Unity
16. Jackson Browne – Jackson Browne
17. Terry Callier – What Color Is Love
18. Wishbone Ash – Argus
19. Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Will the Circle Be Unbroken
20. Can – Ege Bamyasi
21. Fela Kuti – Roforofo Fight
22. Popol Vuh – Hoisanna Mantra
23. The Rolling Stones – Exile on Main Street
24. NEU! – NEU!
25. Little Feat – Sailin’ Shoes