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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

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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

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Guest List: The Best Albums of 2016 – John Macintosh

1. David Bowie – β˜…

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 LΓ©preux – Cendres CΓ©lestes

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

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1. David Bowie – β˜…


2. Blood Incantation – Starspawn


3. MΓ©lanie 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 – VΓ€rΓ€htelijΓ€


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 – η‡ƒγˆγͺ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

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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