50 Best Albums 2017 (10-1)

10. Julien Baker - Turn Out The Lights

Irresistible piece of vulnerability, introspection, catharsis and self-help made folk music.

9. Ibeyi - Ash

Empowering, feminist, highly idiosyncratic experimental R&B record full of joy and anger.

8. Perfume Genius - No Shape

Wondrous journey that marvels with its wit, precision, hunger and pride.

7. Zola Jesus - Okovi

Incredibly orchestral/electronic suffocating dark pop album that breathes by itself.

6. Colin Stetson - All This I Do For Glory

Effervescent avant-garde jazz collection of excellently produced and developed songs.

5. Lorde - Melodrama

Immaculate and boldly-performed performance from the most important millenial out there.

4. Juana Molina - Halo

Off-kilter, seriously unique experimental record from a powerful, inspiring music witch.

3. Alvvays - Antisocialites

Jammy, savoury group of charmingly well-executed indie pop/rock songs.

2. Jlin - Black Origami

Outstandingly weird, nerve-wracking footwork record that shows the emotions of machines.

1. Xiu Xiu - Forget

Absorbing, gut-punching, enigmatic, lavishly magnificent experimental/noise rock from a band at the peak of its capacities and necessities.

50 Best Albums 2017 (20-11)

20. Kelela - Take Me Apart

Embellishing, utterly sensual/sexual whispery R&B album about love, loss and self-doubt.

19. Kesha - Rainbow

Wonderully self-assuring, inspiring pop record that's the revelation of 2017.

18. Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me

Devastatingly gorgeous indie folk album about things that get too real to handle.

17. Iglooghost - Neō Wax Bloom

Unique piece of a hyperkinetic, entertaining, twisty experimental electronic journey.

16. St. Vincent - MASSEDUCTION

Classy art rock/pop album from one of the most important voices in our generation.

15. Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory

Energetic piece of avant-garde hip hop from an artist truly finding his own voice and style.

14. Rosalía - Los Ángeles

Superb contemporary flamenco music from the artist that will surely be the voice of Spain.

13. Nídia Minaj - Nídia É Má, Nídia É Fudida

Schizophrenic Portuguese/African electronic music for the never-stopping souls.

12. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.

Heavily angry conscious rap/hip hop statement from the most important American voice.

11. Errorsmith - Superlative Fatigue

Funny, cerebral and jaw-dropping experimental techno at it highest.

50 Best Albums 2017 (30-21)

30. Charli XCX - Pop 2

Futuristic approach on banger pop music for the ones unsatisfied with the now and the here.

29. Pan Daijing - Lack

Chaotic but mesmerising adventure on noise and drone meta-music.

28. Feist - Pleasure

Shy yet electrifying indie rock/singer-songwriter record for the melancholic and the sedated.

27. Sevdaliza - ISON

Jigsawed, capital E-xperimental R&B record that propels a true star up to the galaxies.

26. Laurel Halo - Dust

Impressionistic, cockily abstract electronic music that lulls, woos and coos in wacky ways.

25. Ondatrópica - Baile Bucanero

Entertaining, wondrous parade of colours, instruments, joy and optimism made Latin music.

24. Pissed Jeans - Why Love Now

Frenetically charismatic punk album that tells truths and self-depricates like no other.

23. Tyler, The Creator - Flower Boy

Maturely creative hip hop record that might feel as the coming-of-age project of 2017.

22. Wolf Alice - Visions Of A Life

Propulsively melodramatic, immensely powerful album made for the doubted young adults.

21. Open Mike Eagle - Brick Body Kids Still Daydream

Enigmatic, low-key hip hop album that distills elegance, flow and intelligence.

50 Best Albums 2017 (40-31)

40. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid

Other-worldly, galactic ambient music that still manages to sound fresh and engaging.

39. Loyle Carner - Yesterday's Gone

Introspective little take on a mini world from an artist that truly feels one of a kind.

38. Merzbow - Muen

Frenetic, visceral noise album that surprisingly finds rhythm and tune in its own chasm.

37. Forest Swords - Compassion

Mysterious, eerie take on electronic music that, for the first time, also feels shiny and bright.

36. alt-J - Relaxer

Inconsistent and incoherent indiefolktronica music that nonetheless charms and enlights.

35. Pharmakon - Contact

Lush, cinematic journey on a power electronics experience for the body, soul and mind.

34. Susanne Sunførd - Music For People In Trouble

Majestic indie folk/chamber pop songs from an artist that leaves everything on performance.

33. Fyvr - Almost Happy

Glitchy, multicoloured collection of little songs that move and transform in glorious shapes.

32. Xenoula - Xenoula

Catapulted, alien, extremely lush electronic album as well as the ambient record of 2017.

31. Arca - Arca

Savagely intrapersonal and introspectively raw vocal experimental electronic album.

50 Best Albums 2017 (50-41)

An excellent year for music is coming to an end. Some fantastic records have seen the light, in forms of debut, sophomore, third or even comeback albums. The geopolitical tremor we lived in felt instant and necessary in most of them, while a certain will and wish to escape and create alternative worlds also flourished. It's indeed the year where music couldn't be as odd as reality, no matter how hard they tried.

I'm immensely grateful for all the beautiful moments I spent listening to more than two hundred of them, and it's a pleasure for me to catalog and create this list. These are the 50 records I liked the most from this year. 

I'll present them in five different posts, ten by ten, until I reach the most important one. 

Here they are:

50. Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger In The Alps

Bewitching indie folk music for the taciturn and solitaire.

49. Mitú - Cosmus

Enigmatic cumbiatronic record that paints landscapes with psychedelia and charm.

48. Here Lies Man - Here Lies Man

Unsyncopated afrometal jams that rattle and dismantle grace and joy.

47. Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens

Astounding fusion between ambient and experimental techno with lush results.

46. Myrkur - Mareridt

Haunting medieval black metal/folk that's as eerie as comforting.

45. The Horrors - V

Sassy, dirty record that fuses industrial rock and electronic to the verge of claustrophobia.

44. Richard Dawson - Peasant

Magnetic freak folk collection of caustic, dystopian, medieval songs.

43. Dirty Projectors - Dirty Projectors

Unapologetic, weird break-up record that doesn't confront as much as it loors.

42. SZA - Ctrl

Triumphant R&B album that transcends space and time to reach out for the stars.

41. Sorority Noise - You're Not As _____ As You Think

Dumbstruck acoustic songs permeate with raw truths and a clever take on everyday life.