SEX 14s Non-Definitive 60 Outstanding Albums of 2017 (Alphabetized)

Yazz Ahmed – La Saboteuse (Naim Audio)
Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin – Telemann: Concerti per molti stromenti (Harmonia Mundi)
Ambrose Akinmusire – A Rift In Decorum: Live At The Village Vanguard (Blue Note)
Tony Allen – The Source (Blue Note)
Björk – Utopia (One Little Indian)
Benjamin Booker – Witness (Rough Trade)
Jaimie Branch – Fly Or Die (International Anthem)
Camille – Oui (Because)
Circuit des Yeux – Reaching for Indigo (Drag City)
Colleen – A Flame My Love, A Frequency (Thrill Jockey)
Jane Antonia Cornish – Into Silence (Innova)
Rodney Crowell – Close Ties (New West)
Angèle David-Guillou – En Mouvement (Village Green)
Akua Dixon – Akua’s Dance (Akua’s Music)
Downtown Boys – Cost of Living (Sub Pop)
Steve Earle – So You Wannabe An Outlaw (Warner Brothers)
Amir El Saffar’s Rivers Of Sound Orchestra – Not Two (New Amsterdam)
Forest Swords – Compassion (Ninja Tune)
Godspeed You Black Emperor – Luciferian Towers (Constellation)
Curtis Harding – Face Your Fear (Anti-)
Harriet Tubman – Araminta (Sunnyside)
Hauschka – What If (Temporary Residence)
Iron & Wine – Beast Epic (Sub Pop)
Irreversible Entanglements – Irreversible Entanglements (International Anthem)
Vijay Iyer Sextet – Far from Over (ECM)
Jlin – Black Origami (Planet Mu)
Nicole Johanntgen – Henry (Hofa)
Kelela – Take Me Apart (Warp)
King Krule – The Ooz (XL)
La Santa Cecilia – Amar y Vivir (Universal)
Laibach – Also Sprach Zarathustra (Mute)
Kendrick Lamar – DAMN. (Top Dawg/Interscope)
Arto Lindsay – Cuidado Madame (Northern Spy)
Lost Horizons – Ojalá (Bella Union)
Clint Mansell – Loving Vincent (Original Soundtrack) (Milan)
Laura Marling – Semper Femina (More Alarming)
Makaya McCraven – Highly Rare (International Anthem Recording Company)
Zara McFarlane – Arise (Brownswood)
Cécile McLorin Salvant – Dreams and Daggers (Mack Avenue)
Myra Melford and Ben Goldberg – Dialogue (BAG)
Roscoe Mitchell – Bells for the South Side (ECM)
Juana Molina – Halo (Crammed Discs)
The Moonlandingz – Interplanetary Class Classics (Transgressive)
Mount Eerie – A Crow Looked at Me (P.W. Elverum & Sun, Ltd.)
Randy Newman – Dark Matter (Nonesuch)
Kelly Lee Owens – Kelly Lee Owens (Smalltown Supersound)
Peter Perrett – How The West Was Won (Domino)
Robert Plant – Carry Fire (Nonesuch)
Preservation Hall Jazz Band – So It Is (Legacy)
Max Richter – Max Richter: Three Worlds – Music from Woolf Works (Deutsche Grammophon)
Roots Magic – Last Kind Words (Clean Feed)
Sampha – Process (Young Turks)
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah – The Centennial Trilogy (Ropeadope)
Sheer Mag – Need to Feel Your Love (Static Shock)
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – The Kid (Western Vinyl)
Wadada Leo Smith – Najwa (TUM)
Tyshawn Sorey – Verisimilitude (Pi)
St. Vincent – Masseduction (Loma Vista)
Jane Weaver – Modern Kosmology (Fire)
Wire – Silver/Lead (Pink Flag)

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