I haven't been keeping track at all this year, or even trying to listen to new albums unless something specific comes to my attention. So I'm just gonna go through RYM, check my last.fm plays for the past 180 days and come up with a rough list in no order:

Lorde - Melodrama
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Murder of the Universe
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana
Bedwetter - Volume 1: Flick Your Tongue Against Your Teeth and Describe the Present.
Arca - Arca
Xiu Xiu - FORGET
Your Old Droog - Packs
Stormzy - Gang Signs & Prayer
水曜日のカンパネラ [Suiyoubi no Campanella] - Superman
Paramore - After Laughter
Neil Cicierega - Mouth Moods
Wiley - Godfather
Charli XCX - Number 1 Angel
Show Me The Body - Corpus I
Ed Sheeran - ÷
J Hus - Common Sense
PWR BTTM - Pageant
HO99O9 - United States of Horror

I actually came back with a massive spotify queue after seeing all the albums I have slept on this year on RYM.

Code orange -Forever

KXM- Scatterbrain

Yung Sherman -Innocence - EP

****ing double post.

Ho99o9 - United States of Horrors

Great punk rap album. A lot of political angst, but no real mind blowing commentary. Just really angry really noisy ****.

Sadistik - Altars

His darkest project yet. It borders on horrorcore but I wouldn't call it horrorcore at all. Sadistik has never put out a bad project. He's extremely consistent and extremely underrated.

Kendrick Lamar - Damn.

A few songs faded into songs I won't bump outside of the context of the album, but the dope songs are still dope. I listen to Pride all the time.

$uicideboy$ - Kill Yourself Parts 11-15

Great dark trap music and I think they may stop making music soon. If I remember right they are going to do one album then quit which kinda sucks if you know the deal they made at the beginning of their career.

Of the relatively few brand new albums I've heard this year, several have been a let down to some degree. Thankfully I've found a metric ton of great releases from previous years and decades.

2017 isn't over by a long shot, so I'll find something.

So far, the only really strong 2017 albums I've heard are:

Crystal Viper - Queen of the Witches
Depeche Mode - Spirit

NORG BUDDY!! missed you, how have ya been?

I kind of hate year end/best of lists and I especially hate them way before the year is even close to being over.

I will still list off a few in no order but not numbering or going to ten.

Big Boi - Boomiverse
Vince Staples - Fish Theory
Lorde - Melodrama
Portugal. The Man - Woodstock
Gorillas - Humanz
Sza - Ctrl
Jidenna - The Chief
Thundercat - Drunk
Ed Sheeran - ÷

Here's some of the stuff I liked most, no particular order. I still got plenty to listen to though.

Father John Misty - Pure Comedy

Ho99o9 - United States of Horror

Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me

Xiu Xiu - Forget

King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard - Murder of the Universe

Billy Woods - Known Unknowns

SZA - CTRL

Elucid - Valley of Grace

William Basinski - A Shadow in Time

I was let down by new Flaming Lips and Japandroids, kind of liked them both, but I expected something better.

Why don't you like them? I think they're a great way to discover new bands, see albums you might have missed, or just see if anyone agrees with you.

Irrational hatred for them but I guess you are right to see albums you might have missed to check out. Potentials to check for.