- Alvvays – Antisocialites (Polyvinyl)
- Chastity Belt – I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone (Hardly Art)
- Jen Cloher – Jen Cloher (Milk!)
- Cold Beat – Chaos By Invitation (Crime on the Moon)
- Colleen – A Flame My Love, a Frequency (Thrill Jockey)
- Downtown Boys – Cost of Living (Sub Pop)
- Flat Worms – Flat Worms (Castle Face)
- French Vanilla – French Vanilla (Danger Collective)
- Girlpool – Powerplant (Anti-)
- Jay Som – Everybody Works (Polyvinyl)
- Omni – Multi-task (Trouble in Mind)
- SOAR – Dark/Gold (Father/Daughter)
- Timber Timbre – Sincerely, Future Pollution (City Slang)
- Unity – Unity (Digital Regress)
- The World – First World Record (Upset The Rhythm)
Songs that pleased me in 2017, alphabetically
- Alvvays – “Plimsoll Punks” – Antisocialites (Polyvinyl)
- Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile – “Untogether” – Lotta Sea Lice (Matador)
- B Boys – “Discipline” – Dada (Captured Tracks)
- Beach Fossils – “This Year” – Somersault (Bayonet)
- Chastity Belt – “Different Now” – I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone (Hardly Art)
- Jen Cloher – “Sensory Memory” – Jen Cloher (Milk!)
- Cold Beat – “62 Moons” – Chaos By Invitation (Crime on the Moon)
- Colleen – “Winter Dawn” – A Flame My Love, a Frequency (Thrill Jockey)
- Downtown Boys – “A Wall” – Cost of Living (Sub Pop)
- Escape-ism – “Rome Wasn’t Burnt in a Day” – Introduction to Escape-ism (Merge)
- Flat Worms – “Red Hot Sand” – Flat Worms (Castle Face)
- French Vanilla – “Carrie” – French Vanilla (Danger Collective)
- Girlpool – “It Gets More Blue” – Powerplant (Anti-)
- Girl Ray – “Just Like That” – Earl Grey (Moshi Moshi)
- Grandaddy – “Way We Won’t” – Last Place (30th Century)
- Horrible/Adorable – “Penpal” – Caprice! (Hovercraft)
- Jay Som – “Everybody Works” – Everybody Works (Polyvinyl)
- Kids on a Crime Spree – “Surgical Lights” – Our Love (Emotional Response)
- Mane – “Dying on the Vine” – Alpha Female (Digital Regress)
- Juana Molina – “Paraguaya” – Halo (Crammed Discs)
- Omni – “Equestrian” – Multi-task (Trouble in Mind)
- Ariel Pink – “Feels Like Heaven” – Dedicated to Bobby Jameson (Kemado)
- Priests – “Jj” – Nothing Feels Natural (Polygon)
- Rat Columns – “Someone Else’s Dream” – Candle Power (Upset the Rhythm)
- Rat Fancy – “Five Fingers” – Suck a Lemon (HHBTM)
- Sea Blite – “Cerulean” – Sea Blite (Death)
- Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – “To Follow & Lead” – The Kid (Western Vinyl)
- Sneaks – “Looks Like That” – It’s a Myth (Merge)
- SOAR – “Secret Santa” – Dark/Gold (Father/Daughter)
- Terry Malts – “Cheap Mimicry” – Our Love (Emotional Response)
- Timber Timbre – “Western Questions” – Sincerely, Future Pollution (City Slang)
- Unity – “Days” – Unity (Digital Regress)
- Washer – “Dog Go Bark” – All Aboard (Exploding in Sound)
- Why? – “One Mississippi” – Moh Lhean (Joyful Noise)
- The World – “Ghost Town” – First World Record (Upset The Rhythm)
