- Slowdive – Slowdive (Dead Oceans)
- Beach Fossils – Somersault (Bayonet)
- Xiu Xiu – Forget (Polyvinyl)
- Cold Beat – Chaos By Invitation (Crime on the Moon)
- Damaged Bug – Bunked Funk (Castle Face)
- Angel Olsen – Phases (Jagjaguwar)
- Moon Duo – Occult Architecture Vol.2 (Sacred Bones)
- OCS – Memory of a Cut Off Head (Castle Face)
- Sleaford Mods – English Tapas (Rough Trade)
- Priests – Nothing Feels Natural (Sister Polygon)
- Zola Jesus – Okovi (Sacred Bones)
- Mount Eerie – A Crow Looked at Me (P.W. Elverum & Sun)
- Perfume Genius – No Shape (Matador)
- Pharmakon – Contact (Sacred Bones)
- Downtown Boys – Cost of Living (Sub Pop)
- Shabazz Palaces – Quazarz: Born On A Gangster Star (Sub Pop)
- LCD Soundsystem – american dream (Columbia/DFA)
- Fred Thomas – Changer (Polyvinyl)
- Protomartyr – Relatives in Descent (Domino)
- Kelley Stoltz – Qua Ara (Castle Face)
- Mane – Alpha Female (Digital Regress)
- Mount Kimbie – Love What Survives (Warp)
- EMA – Exile In The Outer Ring (City Slang)
- John Maus – Screen Memories (Ribbon Music)
- Widowspeak – Expect The Best (Captured Tracks)
- Blanck Mass – World Eater (Sacred Bones)
- Foxygen – Hang (Jajaguwar)
- Sandy (Alex G) – Rocket (Domino)
- A$AP Ferg – Still Striving (RCA)
- Juana Molina – Halo (Crammed Discs)
- Clark – Death Peak (Warp)
- Planning For Burial – Below the House (The Flenser)
- Cherry Glazer – Apocalipstick (Secretly Canadian)
- Alessandro Cortini – Avanti (Point of Departure)
- Chastity Belt – I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone (Hardly Art)
Fave Live Shows of 2017
- Boy Harsher – The Knockout, February 10
- Alex Cameron – The Swedish American Hall, March 31
- PJ Harvey – The Masonic, May 9
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Greek Theatre, June 24
- Nicolas Jaar – First Avenue (MN), July 14
- Sparks – The Chapel, October 20th
- John Carpenter – The Warfield, November 4
