The albums of the year
Yes, it’s that time of the year, when newspapers, magazines, blogs and websites are gripped by listomania, ranking the albums, tracks, concerts, and bands of the year. Metacritic, the king of aggregator sites, has analysed a wide array of year-end lists to compile their own list of ‘Artists Mentioned Most On Most Top 10 Lists’ or, to put it another way, The Best Albums of 2017. Here is the top ten:
1 DAMN. by Kendrick Lamar
2 American Dream by LCD Soundsystem 3 Melodrama by Lorde
4 Slowdive by Slowdive
5 Masseduction by St. Vincent
6 CTRL by SZA
7 Drunk by Thundercat
8 Visions of a Life by Wolf Alice
9 Kelly Lee Owens by Kelly Lee Owens 10 Sleep Well Beast by The National