Robert Christgau: Consumer Guide Index by Release Year: 2017

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Consumer Guide Index by Release Year: 2017

Listing for 246 records from 2017 (selected by release date), sorted by grade.

A	Group Doueh & Cheveu: *Dakhla Sahara Session* [Born Bad] Hamell on Trial: *Tackle Box* [New West] Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit: *The Nashville Sound* [Southeastern/Thirty Tigers] Khalid: *American Teen* [RCA] Jens Lekman: *Life Will See You Now* [Secretly Canadian] Mount Eerie: *A Crow Looked at Me* [P.W. Elverum & Sun] Randy Newman: *Dark Matter* [Nonesuch] The New Pornographers: *Whiteout Conditions* [Collected Works/Concord] Dawn Oberg: *Nothing Rhymes With Orange* [Blossom Theory EP] Brad Paisley: *Love and War* [Arista] Princess Nokia: *1992 Deluxe* [Rough Trade] Rolling Blackouts C.F.: *Talk Tight* [Sub Pop] Waxahatchee: *Out in the Storm* [Merge] *American Epic: The Best of Blues* [Lo-Max/Third Man/Columbia/Legacy] *American Epic: The Collection* [Lo-Max/Third Man/Columbia/Legacy] *American Epic: The Soundtrack* [Legacy] *The Rough Guide to Jug Band Blues* [World Music Network] *The Rough Guide to the Music of West Africa* [World Music Network]
A-	Aesop Rock & Homeboy Sandman: *Triple Fat Lice* [Stones Throw EP] Algiers: *The Underside of Power* [Matador] Alvvays: *Antisocialites* [Polyvinyl] Joey Bada$$: *All-Amerikkkan Bada$$* [Pro Era/Cinematic Music] Chuck Berry: *Chuck* [Dualtone] Robt Sarazin Blake: *Recitative* [Same Room] Blondie: *Pollinator* [BMG] Body Count: *Bloodlust* [Century Media] Playboi Carti: *Playboi Carti* [AWGE/Interscope] Tyler Childers: *Purgatory* [Hickman Holler] Guy Clark: *The Best of the Dualtone Years* [Dualtone] Cloud Nothings: *Life Without Sound* [Carpark] Amber Coffman: *City of No Reply* [Columbia] Daddy Issues: *Deep Dream* [Infinity Cat] Deer Tick: *Vol. 2* [Partisan] Beth Ditto: *Fake Sugar* [Virgin] Open Mike Eagle: *Brick Body Kids Still Daydream* [Mello Music] Steve Earle: *So You Wannabe an Outlaw* [Warner Bros.] Emperor X: *Oversleepers International* [Tiny Engines] Fat Tony: *MacGregor Park* [First One Up] Fever Ray: *Plunge* [Mute] Gogol Bordello: *Seekers and Finders* [Cooking Vinyl] Hard Working Americans: *We're All in This Together* [Melvin/Thirty Tigers] Mariem Hassan: *La Voz Indómita* [Nubenegra] Nona Hendryx & Gary Lucas: *The World of Captain Beefheart* [KFW] Dylan Hicks: *Ad Out* [Soft Launch] Jay-Z: *4:44* [Roc Nation/UMG] Kasai Allstars: *Around Félicité* [Crammed Discs] Kendrick Lamar: *Damn.* [Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope] Les Amazones d'Afrique: *République Amazone* [RealWorld] Daniele Luppi & Parquet Courts: *Milano* [30th] Magnetic Fields: *50 Song Memoir* [Nonesuch] Methodist Hospital: *Giants* [self-released] Migos: *Culture* [QC/YRN/300] Milo: *Who Told You to Think??!!?!?!?!* [Ruby Yacht] Thelonious Monk: *Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960* [Saga/Sam] Motorhead: *Under Cöver* [Silver Lining Music] The National: *Sleep Well Beast* [4AD] Youssou N'Dour: *Raxas Bercy 2017* [self-released] Matt North: *Above Ground Fools* [self-released] Conor Oberst: *Salutations* [Nonesuch] Oddisee: *The Iceberg* [Mello Music] Nnamdi Ogbonnaya: *DROOL* [Father/Daughter/Sooper] Orchestra Baobab: *Tribute to Ndiouga Dieng* [World Circuit] The Paranoid Style: *Underworld U.S.A.* [Bar/None EP] The Perceptionists: *Resolution* [Mello Music] Pere Ubu: *20 Years in a Montana Missile Silo* [Cherry Red] Perfume Genius: *No Shape* [Matador] The Plastic People of the Universe: *Apokalyptickej Pták* [Galén] Angaleena Presley: *Wrangled* [Mining Light] Lee Ranaldo: *Electric Trim* [Mute] Rapsody: *Laila's Wisdom* [Roc Nation] The Rolling Stones: *On Air (Deluxe Edition)* [Polydor/Abkco/Rolling Stones] Whitney Rose: *South Texas Suite* [Six Shooter/Thirty Tigers EP] Run the Jewels: *RTJ3* [self-released] Saint Etienne: *Home Counties* [Heavenly/PIAS] Homeboy Sandman: *Veins* [Stones Throw] A. Savage: *Thawing Dawn* [Dull Tools] Sheer Mag: *Need to Feel Your Love* [Wilsuns RC] Vince Staples: *Big Fish Theory* [Def Jam] Starlito & Don Trip: *Step Brothers Three* [Grind Hard] Harry Styles: *Harry Styles* [Columbia] Sunny Sweeney: *Trophy* [Thirty Tigers] Swet Shop Boys: *Sufi La* [Customs EP] Syd: *Fin* [Epic] Fred Thomas: *Changer* [Polyvinyl] Trio da Kali & Kronos Quartet: *Ladilikan* [World Circuit] Zeal & Ardor: *Devil Is Fine* [MVKA] *Battle Hymns* [quasiband.com] *The Bob's Burgers Music Album* [20th Century Fox/Sub Pop/Bento Box] *Celebrate Ornette* [Song X] *Gentle Giants: The Songs of Don Williams* [Slate Creek] *Now That's What I Call 90s Pop* [Sony Music Entertainment] *Now That's What I Call Tailgate Anthems* [Sony Music Entertainment] *Rock and Roll Music!: The Songs of Chuck Berry* [Ace] *24 Classic Blues Songs From the 1920's: Vol 15* [Blues Images]
B+	Big Thief: *Capacity* [Saddle Creek] Chopteeth Afrofunk Big Band: *Bone Reader* [Grigri] Ornette Coleman: *Ornette at 12/Crisis* [Real Gone Music] Cupcakke: *Queen Elizabitch* [Bigger Picture] Billie Eilish: *Dont Smile at Me* [Darkroom/Interscope EP] Craig Finn: *We All Want the Same Things* [Partisan] Girlpool: *Powerplant* [Anti-] Tim Heidecker: *Too Dumb for Suicide: Tim Heidecker's Trump Songs* [Jagjaguwar] Leikeli47: *Wash and Set* [Hardcover/RCA] Lorde: *Melodrama* [Lava/Republic] Modern Mal: *The Misanthrope Family Album* [Mal] The Mountain Goats: *Goths* [Merge] Youssou N'Dour: *Seeni Valeurs* [Jive/Epic] Peter Perrett: *How the West Was Won* [Domino] Awa Poulo: *Poulo Warali* [Awesome Tapes From Africa] Margo Price: *All American Made* [Third Man] Rolling Blackouts C.F.: *The French Press* [Sub Pop EP] St. Vincent: *Masseduction* [4AD] Oumou Sangaré: *Mogoya* [No Format] Sarah Shook & the Disarmers: *Sidelong* [Bloodshot] Sleater-Kinney: *Live in Paris* [Sub Pop] Omar Souleyman: *To Syria, With Love* [Mad Decent] Thurst: *Cut to the Chafe* [self-released] The xx: *I See You* [Young Turks] Tom Zé: *Sem Você Nâo A* [Irara] *Afrobeats Hot Hits: New Urban Dance Grooves From Africa* [Shanachie] *American Epic: The Best of Country* [Lo-Max/Third Man/Columbia/Legacy] *Howsla* [Owsla] *Lost in China* [Riverboat] *The Rough Guide to Hillbilly Blues* [World Music Network]
*******	Big K.R.I.T.: *4eva Is a Long Time* [Multi Alumni] Elvin Bishop: *Elvin Bishop's Big Fun Trio* [Alligator] Bleachers: *Gone Now* [RCA] Burnt Sugar: *All You Zombies Dig the Luminosity* [AvantGroidd] Rodney Crowell: *Close Ties* [New West] CunninLynguists: *Rose Azura Njano* [RBC] Lana Del Rey: *Lust for Life* [Interscope/Polydor] The Front Bottoms: *Going Grey* [Fueled by Ramen] Frontier Ruckus: *Enter the Kingdom* [Sitcom Universe] Gato Preto: *Tempo* [Unique] Howe Gelb: *Future Standards* [Fire] Rhiannon Giddens: *Freedom Highway* [Nonesuch] G Herbo: *Humble Beast* [Machine] Hurray for the Riff Raff: *Navigator* [ATO] The Isley Brothers/Santana: *Power of Peace* [Legacy] Japandroids: *Near to the Wild Heart of Life* [Anti-] Jlin: *Black Origami* [Planet Mu] Kondi Band: *Salone* [Strut] Jon Langford's Four Lost Souls: *Jon Langford's Four Lost Souls* [Bloodshot] Les Filles de Illighadad: *Eghass Malan* [Sahel Sounds] Arto Lindsay: *Cuidado Madame* [Northern Spy] L'Orange: *The Ordinary Man* [Mello Music] Low Cut Connie: *Dirty Pictures (Part 1)* [Contender] Van Morrison: *Versatile* [Exile/Legacy] Murs: *Captain California* [Strange Music] North Mississippi All Stars: *Prayer for Peace* [Songs of the South] Shilpa Ray: *Door Girl* [Northern Spy] Rev. Sekou: *In Times Like These* [Zent] The Shins: *Heartworms* [Columbia] Spoon: *Hot Thoughts* [Matador] Peter Stampfel and the Atomic Meta Pagans: *The Cambrian Explosion* [MRI] Taylor Swift: *Reputation* [Big Machine] SZA: *Ctrl* [RCA] Wiley: *Godfather* [self-released] *Ape Records Vol. 1* [Ape] *Bluesin' by the Bayou: Ain't Broke, Ain't Hungry* [Ace] *Sweet as Broken Dates: Lost Somali Tapes From the Horn of Africa* [Ostinato]
**	Adamn Killa: *I Am Adamn* [Homespun Media Group] Baby in Vain: *More Nothing* [Partisan] Sam Baker: *Land of Doubt* [self-released] Amina Baraka & the Red Microphone: *Amina Baraka & the Red Microphone* [ESP-Disk'] Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile: *Lotta Sea Lice* [Matador] Brother Ali: *All the Beauty in This Whole Life* [Rhymesayers Entertainment] Chronixx: *Chronology* [Virgin] Stef Chura: *Messes* [Urinal Cake] Cigarettes After Sex: *Cigarettes After Sex* [Partisan] Allison Crutchfield: *Tourist in This Town* [Merge] James Luther Dickinson: *I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone: Lazarus Edition* [Memphis International] Diet Cig: *Swear I'm Good at This* [Frenchkiss] Dizzee Rascal: *Raskit* [Dirtee Stank/Island] Eminem: *Revival* [Aftermath/Shady/Interscope/Goliath] Lupe Fiasco: *Drogas Light* [1st & 15th] Filthy Friends: *Invitation* [Kill Rock Stars] Future: *HNDRXX* [Epic] Case Garrett: *Aurora* [Suitcase] Ibibio Sound Machine: *Uyai* [Merge] Chris Janson: *Everybody* [Warner Music Nashville] Garland Jeffreys: *14 Steps to Harlem* [Luna Park] Talib Kweli: *Radio Silence* [3D] LCD Soundsystem: *American Dream* [Columbia] Walter Martin: *My Kinda Music* [Ile Flottante] John Mayer: *The Search for Everything* [Columbia] Tim McGraw & Faith Hill: *The Rest of Our Life* [Arista] Vic Mensa: *The Autobiography* [Roc Nation] Miguel: *War & Leisure* [RCA] Scott Miller: *Ladies Auxiliary* [F.A.Y.] Mr. Lif & Brass Manazeri: *Resilient* [Waxsimile] Thurston Moore: *Rock and Roll Consciousness* [Caroline] Gurf Morlix: *The Soul and the Heal* [Rootball] Old 97's: *Graveyard Whistling* [ATO] Paramore: *After Laughter* [Fueled by Ramen] Priests: *Nothing Feels Natural* [Sister Polygon] Primate Fiasco: *Massachusetts Winter* [self-released] Chuck Prophet: *Bobby Fuller Died for Your Sins* [Yep Roc] Public Enemy: *Nothing Is Quick in the Desert* [self-released] Quelle Chris: *Being You Is Great, I Wish I Could Be You More Often* [Mello Music] Duke Robillard: *Duke Robillard and His Dames of Rhythm* [M.C.] Sampha: *Process* [Young Turks] Kalie Shorr: *Slingshot* [Kalie Shorr EP] Sam Smith: *The Thrill of It All (Deluxe Edition)* [Capitol] Songhoy Blues: *Résistance* [Fat Possum] Mavis Staples: *If All I Was Was Black* [Anti-] Stik Figa: *Central Standard Time* [Mello Music Group] Tamikrest: *Kidal* [Glitterbeat] Tinariwen: *Elwan* [Anti-] T-Pain & Lil Wayne: *T-Wayne* [self-released] *13 Days of Xmas* [Bloodshot] *Zaire 74: The African Artists* [Wrasse]
*	Amadou & Mariam: *La Confusion* [Because] Thomas Anderson: *My Songs Are the House I Live In* [Out There] Big Boi: *Boomiverse* [Epic] Bully: *Losing* [Sub Pop] Robert Cray: *Robert Cray & Hi Rhythm* [Jay-Vee] The Dirty Projectors: *Dirty Projectors* [Domino] Downtown Boys: *Cost of Living* [Sub Pop] Jason Eady: *Jason Eady* [Old Guitar] Eyelids: or [Jealous Butcher] Future: *Future* [Epic] Grateful Dead: *Cornell 5/8/77* [Rhino] Ray Wylie Hubbard: *Tell the Devil . . . I'm Gettin' There as Fast as I Can* [Bordello/Thirty Tigers] I Am the Polish Army: *My Old Man* [self-released] Idles: *Brutalism* [Balley] Kesha: *Rainbow* [RCA] Kingdom: *Tears in the Club* [Fade to Mind] Kissey: *Unplug the Delusional Monkey* [Fool's Gold EP] Rich Krueger: *Overpass* [Rockink EP] Lil Wayne: *In Tune We Trust* [self-released] Living Colour: *Shade* [Megaforce] Los Campesinos!: *Sick Scenes* [Wichita] Willie Nelson: *God's Problem Child* [Legacy] Pink: *Beautiful Trauma* [RCA] Prophets of Rage: *Prophets of Rage* [Fantasy] Thomas Rhett: *Life Changes* [Valory Music] Brad San Martin: *Shoot Tomorrow/Learn Tonight* [Jigsaw] Serengeti: *Jueles - Butterflies* [Audio Recon/Deacon] Willow Smith: *The 1st* [MSFTS Music/Roc Nation] Boubacar Traoré: *Dounia Tabolo* [Lusafrica] 2Mex: *Lospital* [Water the Plants] Vagabon: *Infinite Worlds* [Father/Daughter] Valerie June: *The Order of Time* [Concord] Young Thug: *Beautiful Thugger Girls* [Atlantic] *Roll Columbia: Woody Guthrie's 26 Northwest Songs* [Smithsonian/Folkways]

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