Consensus wasn't easy to come by in 2017, but the best albums of the year were bolts of clarity, sonic companions for joy, grief and redemption, for battles hard won and for reckonings still to come.

Beck, Kendrick Lamar and Lorde put out some of the year's best offerings. — -- Another year has passed and we find ourselves taking stock. Here are the 50 albums that made the biggest ...

The Best Albums of 2017. The Best Albums of 2017. This has been a year defined by new voices, new sounds, and statement records. By Matt Miller Published: Dec 29, 2017 9:50 AM EST. Getty Images.

Every year, this intro basically says the same thing: albums seem to matter less now, the way we consume music is shifting, blah blah blah, streaming, blah blah, singles, blahhhhh. The concept of ...

14. Diet Cig, Swear I’m Good At This Pop albums come in a lot of shapes and sizes. For Diet Cig, a two-piece indie pop band from New Paltz, New York, pop music feels at its most quaint and personal.

Donald Trump is still tweeting (oh yeah, and somehow still president). Free internet porn could be a bygone luxury thanks to #RIPNetNeutrality. But hey, music in 2017 didn't suck! Read on for the ...

The 20 best pop albums of 2017, including Taylor Swift, Harry Styles, Kesha and more ... This year, pop’s best albums came from strong women who had a lot to say: ...

Unlike the 2017 comeback albums that were prompted by reunions, Glassjaw’s followup to 2002’s Worship & Tribute was more of a Dr. Dre scenario, an album that had been talked about again and ...

Jazz had an amazing 2017. It was the music’s centennial—the Original Dixieland Jass Band’s “Dixie Jass Band One Step” and “Livery Stable Blues” were recorded on February 26, 1917 and ...

Consensus wasn't easy to come by in 2017, but the best albums of the year were bolts of clarity, sonic companions for joy, grief and redemption, for battles hard won and for reckonings still to come.

NPR Music's list of the 50 best albums of 2017. 9. Hurray For The Riff Raff The Navigator. Hurray for the Riff Raff's Alynda Segarra has always been a storyteller, and in this regard, The ...

While I’m personally of the mind that Chris Stapleton’s latter 2017 offering From A Room Vol. 2 is the superior release, the country superstar’s initial offering this year is no slouch.