The two albums at the top of this list ended up within a few points of each other, and they ended up many, many points beyond every other album on our list. Those of us lucky enough to work at this website vote on our favorite albums every year, assigning a finite number of points to an infinite number of albums. And we had the two albums at the top of this list, both of which are towering achievements that, at least for the members of your Stereogum staff, dominated the year. We had a number of beloved canonical artists returning, after years-long absences, with some of the best music of their careers. We had bracing hardcore and thundering trap and emotionally devastating indie rock and primally soothing doom metal and playfully irreverent folk-rock. We had sharp, observant R&B and hazy, chiming guitar-rock. We had so much music, from so many different corners of the universe. If we didnвЂ™t have music to help us get through this, I donвЂ™t know what we wouldвЂ™ve done.Д«ut we did have music. Every morning, weвЂ™ve woken up to some new, terrible surprise: Another brazen violation of justice by the people in charge of our country, another indication of our government descending into irreparable chaos, another powerful man accused of sexual abuse, another beloved icon dead. But weвЂ™ve made it through 11 months of this godless year, and for that, we deserve to congratulate each other. The world could well end in the next 25 days.

Day 26 new album 2017