The 54 Best Songs of 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/06/arts ... songs.html
Jon Pareles:
JAY-Z “4:44” (Roc Nation)
MAVIS STAPLES “Little Bit” (Anti-)
LIL PEEP featuring Lil Tracy “Awful Things” (Lil Peep/First Access)
U2 “The Blackout” (Interscope)
WAXAHATCHEE “Never Been Wrong” (Merge)
FEIST “Pleasure” (Interscope)
KELELA “Take Me Apart” (Warp)
SYLVAN ESSO “Radio” (Loma Vista)
MURA MASA “Messy Love” (Anchor Point/Downtown/Geffen)
WILLOW “Oh No!!!” (MFSTS Music/Roc Nation)
IBIBIO SOUND MACHINE “The Chant (Iquo Isang)” (Merge)
LAURA MARLING “Soothing” (More Alarming/Kobalt)
JULIA MICHAELS “Issues” (Republic)
PROTOMARTYR “My Children” (Domino)
GRIZZLY BEAR “Three Rings” (RCA)
DUA LIPA “New Rules” (Warner Bros.)
TYMINSKI “Southern Gothic” (Mercury Nashville)
SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS “Call on God” (Daptone)
JOAN SHELLEY “If the Storms Never Came” (No Quarter)
CHRIS STAPLETON “Without Your Love” (Mercury Nashville)
THE XX “Performance” (Young Turks)
LES AMAZONES D’AFRIQUE “I Play the Kora” (Real World/RFI Talent/3d Family)
ED SHEERAN “Shape of You” (Atlantic)
FATHER JOHN MISTY “Pure Comedy” (Sub Pop/Bella Union)
Jon Caramanica:
1. CHRIS JEDAY FEATURING J BALVIN, OZUNA AND ARCÁNGEL “Ahora Dice” (Universal Latin)
2. A BOOGIE WIT DA HOODIE FEATURING KODAK BLACK “Drowning” (Highbridge/Atlantic); DON Q FEATURING A BOOGIE WIT DA HOODIE “Protect Ya Patek” (Highbridge/Atlantic); A BOOGIE WIT DA HOODIE FEATURING FABOLOUS “Wild Thots” (soundcloud.com/a-boogie-wit-da-hoodie)
3. BRETT YOUNG “In Case You Didn’t Know” (Big Machine)
4. CHARLIE PUTH “Attention” (Atlantic)
5. SAHBABII FEATURING LOSO LOADED “Pull Up Wit Ah Stick” (Casting Bait/Warner Bros.)
6. ASHLEY MCBRYDE “A Little Dive Bar in Dahlonega” (Warner Nashville/Atlantic)
7. LOUGOTCASH FEATURING REMY BOY MONTY “Pipe Down”; LOUGOTCASH “Make 10” (Gwinin)
8. LIL UZI VERT “XO Tour Llif3” (Generation Now/Atlantic)
9. LIL PEEP FEATURING LIL TRACY “Awful Things”; LIL PEEP “Better Off (Dying)” (Lil Peep/First Access)
10. SNOH AALEGRA FEATURING LOGIC “Sometimes” (ARTium)
11. DJ KHALED FEATURING JUSTIN BIEBER, QUAVO, CHANCE THE RAPPER AND LIL WAYNE “I’m the One” (We the Best/Epic)
12. JACOB SARTORIUS FEATURING BLACKBEAR “Hit Me Back” (RCA)
13. CARDI B “Bodak Yellow (Money Moves)” (KSR/Atlantic)
14. FRANK OCEAN “Chanel” (Boys Don’t Cry)
15. SAM HUNT “Drinkin’ Too Much” (MCA Nashville)
16. PRETTYMUCH “Would You Mind” (Syco/Columbia)
17. MATT OX “Overwhelming” (soundcloud.com/matt_ox)
18. BAILEY BRYAN “Hard Drive Home” (300/Warner Nashville)
19. NICKY JAM FEATURING WISIN “Si Tú La Ves” (Sony Latin)
20. THE BLAZE “Territory” (Animal 63)
21. LUIS FONSI AND DADDY YANKEE FEATURING JUSTIN BIEBER “Despacito (remix)” (Universal Latin/RBMG/Def Jam/Republic)
22. JESSIE REYEZ “Gatekeeper” (FMLY)
23. MABEL FEATURING KOJO FUNDS “Finders Keepers” (Capitol)
24. SMOKEPURPP “Ski Mask” (Alamo); LIL PUMP “Molly” (Tha Lights Global/Warner Bros.)
25. ED SHEERAN “Dive” (Atlantic)
The Best Albums of 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/06/arts ... -2017.html
Jon Pareles:
1. ST. VINCENT “Masseduction” (Loma Vista)
2. RESIDENTE “Residente” (Sony Music Latin)
3. MOSES SUMNEY “Aromanticism” (Jagjaguwar)
4. JULIEN BAKER “Turn Out the Lights” (Matador)
5. BJÖRK “Utopia” (One Little Indian)
6. KENDRICK LAMAR “DAMN.” (Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope)
7. LORDE “Melodrama” (Lava/Republic)
8. SZA “Ctrl” (Top Dawg/RCA)
9. VALERIE JUNE “The Order of Time” (Concord)
10. VINCE STAPLES “Big Fish Theory” (Def Jam)
John Caramanica:
1. NOTHING,NOWHERE. “Reaper” (DCD2/Equal Vision)
2. SZA “Ctrl” (Top Dawg/RCA)
3. MOUNT EERIE “A Crow Looked at Me” (P.W. Elverum & Sun, Ltd.)
4. HEY VIOLET “From the Outside” (Hi Or Hey/Capitol/Caroline)
5. TAYLOR SWIFT “Reputation” (Big Machine)
6. NIIA “I” (Atlantic)
7. OZUNA “Odisea” (VP/Dimelo Vi/Sony Music Latin)
8. J. COLE “4 Your Eyez Only” (Dreamville/Roc Nation/Interscope)
9. JULIEN BAKER “Turn Out the Lights” (Matador)
10. LORDE “Melodrama” (Lava/Republic)
11. AMINÉ “Good for You” (Republic)
12. 21 SAVAGE “Issa Album” (Slaughter Gang/Epic)
13. DRAKE “More Life” (Young Money/Cash Money/Republic)
14. KENDRICK LAMAR “DAMN.” (Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope)
15. J HUS “Common Sense” (Black Butter/Epic)
16. JIDENNA “The Chief” (Wondaland/Epic)
17. SOB X RBE “SOB X RBE” (SOB X RBE)
18. KELSEA BALLERINI “Unapologetically” (Black River)
19. YOUNGBOY NEVER BROKE AGAIN “AI YoungBoy” (Never Broke Again)
20. FUTURE “Future” (A1/Freebandz/Epic)
21. JAY-Z “4:44” (Roc Nation)
22. SAMANTHA FISH “Chills & Fever” (Ruf)
23. DOWNTOWN BOYS “Cost of Living” (Sub Pop)
24. FIFTH HARMONY “Fifth Harmony” (Syco/Epic)
25. CHIEF KEEF “Thot Breaker” (Glo Gang/RBC)
Giovanni Russonello:
1. NICOLE MITCHELL’S BLACK EARTH ENSEMBLE “Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds” (FPE)
2. WADADA LEO SMITH “Najwa” (TUM)
3. TYSHAWN SOREY “Verisimilitude” (Pi)
4. JAIMIE BRANCH “Fly or Die” (International Anthem)
5. ROSCOE MITCHELL “Bells for the South Side” (ECM)
6. LIZZ WRIGHT “Grace” (Concord)
7. MATT MITCHELL “Forage” (Screwgun)
8. DAVID VIRELLES “Gnosis” (ECM)
9. TUNE RECREATION COMMITTEE “Voices of Our Vision” (self-released)
10. VIJAY IYER SEXTET “Far From Over” (ECM)
11. KATE GENTILE “Mannequins” (Skirl)
12. RUDRESH MAHANTHAPPA’S INDO-PAK COALITION “Agrima” (self-released)
13. MAKAYA MCCRAVEN “Highly Rare” (International Anthem)
14. THUNDERCAT “Drunk” (Brainfeeder)
15. IRÈNE SCHWEIZER AND JOEY BARON “Live!” (Intakt)
16. AVISHAI COHEN QUARTET “Cross My Palm With Silver” (ECM)
17. BETSAYDA MACHADO Y LA PARRANDA EL CLAVO “Loe Loa: Rural Recordings Under the Mango Tree” (Odelia)
18. CRAIG TABORN “Daylight Ghosts” (ECM)
19. JEN SHYU “Song of Silver Geese” (Pi)
20. RON MILES “I Am a Man” (Yellowbird)
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