This highly tumultuous year isn’t even halfway over, ugh, but at least there has already been a surprising amount of great new music that promises to keep us happily distracted for months to come. In the sea of negative news covfefe, it is fitting that the best music to emerge is a Trump-inspired drab doomsday dance party album that is impossible not to love. But regardless of genre, the best albums released from this year reflect our current range of emotions. So without our further ado, here are my 17 best albums of 2017 so far.
17. ROADHOUSE 01
Allan Rayman
Best tracks:
Faust Road, Wolf, 13,
2522, December
16. BELONG
San Fermin
Best tracks:
August, No Promises,
Bride, Belong, Open
15. THE CHIEF
Jidenna
Best tracks:
Bambi, Helicopters/Beware, Chief Don’t Run,
Long Live the Chief, Safari
14. RENNEN
SOHN
Best tracks:
Rennen, Conrad, Proof,
Signal, Hard Liquor
Sevdaliza
Best tracks:
Human, Hero, Shahmaran,
Marilyn Monroe, Hubris
12. THE FAR FIELD
Future Islands
Best tracks:
Cave, Ran, Time On Her Side,
Beauty of the Road, Shadows
11. VOLCANO
Temples
Best tracks:
Mystery of Pop, I Wanna Be Your Mirror, Certainty,
Strange or Be Forgotten, Oh the Saviour
10. A CROW LOOKED AT ME
Mount Eerie
Best tracks:
Emptiness Pt. 2, Real Death, Swims, Crow,
When I Take out the Garbage at Night
9. CULTURE
Migos
T-Shirt, Bad and Boujee, Big on Big,
Kelly Price, Deadz
8. NO SHAPE
Perfume Genius
Best tracks:
Slip Away, Just Like Love, Go Ahead,
Otherside, Die 4 You
7. LIFE & LIVIN’ IT
Sinkane
Best tracks:
Fire, Deadweight, Telephone,
U’Huh, Passenger
6. WHAT NOW
Sylvan Esso
Best tracks:
Die Young, Song, The Glow,
Kick Jump Twist, Radio
5. DAMN
Kendrick Lamar
Best tracks:
HUMBLE, DNA, LOYALTY,
DUCKWORTH, LOVE
4. LAST PLACE
Grandaddy
Best tracks:
A Lost Machine, This is the Part, Jed the 4th,
Brush with the Wild, Way We Won’t
3. RUN THE JEWELS 3
Run the Jewels
Best tracks:
Legend Has It, Call Ticketron, Hey Kids,
Thursday in the Danger Room, 2100
2. RELAXER
alt-J
Best tracks:
Deadcrush, House of the Rising Sun,
3WWW, In Cold Blood, Adeline
1. HUMANZ
Gorillaz
Best tracks:
Hallelujah Money, Saturnz Barz, Ascension,
Let Me Out, Andromeda
Mikethatmiller 
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