Best Albums of 2017
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
DAMN.He stopped building museums and made a record with hits on it, and the writing lost nothing in the trade.Read the review
CtrlThe most honest album about being in your twenties and not handling it that anyone made that decade.
Flower BoyHe stops performing and starts writing, and the critical consensus flips inside a single album.
ProcessGrief, a piano and a voice that cracks in exactly the right places.
More LifeSold as a playlist rather than an album, and the looser framing is the most useful thing about it.
FreudianGospel harmony, a clean electric guitar and a voice that never has to raise itself once.
4:44Ten tracks, one producer, and a middle aged man finally writing about what he actually did.
You Only Live 2wiceTwenty two minutes made straight out of a European jail cell, and the weight is audible in every bar.
reputationThe angry one, and its production is far more interesting than its grievances.
HNDRXXThe soft one, released a week later, and much the better of the pair.