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.

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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.

The Best Albums of 2017 This year, no common thread unifies all the albums of high quality—except for the obvious fact that they were released at a time of profound anxiety, ...

We're halfway through the year — time to count down the best music we've heard so far. 2017 has been a crazy year (it feels like we just said this on our 2016 list, but it's still true). But ...

The 50 best albums of 2017 so far, including Kendrick Lamar, Bob Dylan, Ed Sheeran, Drake, Harry Styles, Roger Waters and more.

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 ...

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: ...

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.

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.

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 ...