Sage Tellah's Best Albums of 2017
Pretty loosely ranked, but here is my top 50 this year! There was a lot more I wanted to include but (at least for today) I settled on these albums. |
| 50 |  | SZA
Ctrl
3.5/5
alternative r&b, neo-soul |
| 49 |  | A Lot Like Birds
DIVISI
3.5/5
alternative rock, post-hardcore, progressive rock |
| 48 |  | Raekwon
The Wild
3.5/5
hip-hop, boom bap, east coast hip-hop |
| 47 |  | Within the Ruins
Halfway Human
3.5/5
metalcore, deathcore |
| 46 |  | Make Them Suffer
Worlds Apart
3.5/5
metalcore, deathcore |
| 45 |  | Future
HNDRXX
3.5/5
hip-hop, alternative r&b, trap rap, pop rap |
| 44 |  | Wolf and Bear
Everything Is Going Grey
3.5/5
post-hardcore, progressive rock |
| 43 |  | Nova Collective
The Further Side
3.5/5
progressive rock, progressive metal, instrumental, jazz fusion |
| 42 |  | Minus the Bear
VOIDS
3.5/5
alternative rock, progressive rock |
| 41 |  | Turnover
Good Nature
3.5/5
alternative rock, dream pop |
| 40 |  | Enterprise Earth
Embodiment
3.5/5
deathcore |
| 39 |  | Lapalux
Ruinism
3.5/5
electronic, instrumental, glitch hop, art pop, |
| 38 |  | Propagandhi
Victory Lap
3.5/5
punk rock, melodic hardcore |
| 37 |  | Wu-Tang Clan
The Saga Continues
3.5/5
hip-hop, boom bap, east coast hip-hop |
| 36 |  | You Win Again Gravity
Anonymity
3.5/5
post-hardcore |
| 35 |  | Snooze
Actually, Extremely
3.5/5
math rock, progressive rock |
| 34 |  | ASAP Twelvyy
12
3.5/5
hip-hop, trap rap, east coast hip-hop, boom bap |
| 33 |  | Twista
Crook County
3.5/5
hip-hop, boom bap, hardcore hip-hop, trap rap |
| 32 |  | She
Chroma
3.5/5
electronic, house, chiptune |
| 31 |  | Paranoid Void
Literary Math
3.5/5
math rock, progressive rock |
| 30 |  | Archspire
Relentless Mutation
3.5/5
death metal, technical death metal, deathcore |
| 29 |  | Ulver
The Assassination of Julius Caesar
4/5
pop |
| 28 |  | Uneven Structure
La Partition
4/5
progressive metal, djent, ambient, metalcore |
| 27 |  | Ces Cru
Catastrophic Event Specialists
4/5
hip-hop, hardcore hip-hop, |
| 26 |  | dvsn
Morning After
4/5
alternative r&b, neo-soul, trap rap |
| 25 |  | Kauan
Kaiho
4/5
post-rock, ambient |
| 24 |  | Born of Osiris
The Eternal Reign
4/5
metalcore, djent, deathcore |
| 23 |  | Jay-Z
4:44
4/5
hip-hop, east coast hip-hop, pop rap, jazz rap |
| 22 |  | Without Waves
Lunar
4/5
metalcore, progressive metal |
| 21 |  | The Underachievers
Renaissance
4/5
hip-hop, east coast hip-hop, trap rap, cloud rap, |
| 20 |  | Bonobo
Migration
4/5
electronic, downtempo, trip hop, future garage |
| 19 |  | Nobuo Uematsu
Distant Worlds IV: More Music From Final Fantasy
4/5
orhcestral, video game music, soundtrack |
| 18 |  | Ne Obliviscaris
Urn
4/5
progressive metal, black metal, death metal |
| 17 |  | The Hirsch Effekt
Eskapist
4/5
mathcore, post-hardcore, metalcore |
| 16 |  | Oceans Ate Alaska
Hikari
4/5
metalcore, djent |
| 15 |  | Mastodon
Emperor of Sand
4/5
progressive rock, progressive metal, sludge metal(?) |
| 14 |  | Circa Survive
The Amulet
4/5
progressive rock, post-hardcore, alternative rock |
| 13 |  | Save Us From The Archon
Melancholia
4/5
post-hardcore, instrumental, math rock |
| 12 |  | Kendrick Lamar
DAMN.
4/5
hip-hop, pop rap, trap rap |
| 11 |  | Tyler, the Creator
Flower Boy
4/5
hip-hop |
| 10 |  | Glassjaw
Material Control
4/5
post-hardcore, alternative metal |
| 9 |  | Counterparts
You're Not You Anymore
4/5
metalcore, hardcore |
| 8 |  | Icarus the Owl
Rearm Circuits
4/5
post-hardcore, math rock, progressive rock |
| 7 |  | Aversions Crown
Xenocide
4/5
deathcore, technical death metal |
| 6 |  | Shade Empire
Poetry of the Ill-Minded
4/5
death metal, symphonic metal, progressive metal |
| 5 |  | August Burns Red
Phantom Anthem
4/5
metalcore, progressive metal |
| 4 |  | CHON
Homey
4/5
math rock, electronic |
| 3 |  | Stolas
Stolas
4/5
post-hardcore, progressive rock |
| 2 |  | Freddie Gibbs
You Only Live 2wice
runner up
4.5/5
hip-hop, trap rap, cloud rap |
| 1 |  | Eidola
To Speak, To Listen
aoty
4.5/5
post-hardcore, progressive rock |
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