Kendrick Lamar’s Damn. is not only the highest rated album of the year so far but also currently sitting at No.2 on our All-Time Top 10 chart
ADM 2017: The half year report
We're six months into 2017 so it's time for our look back at the most critically-acclaimed music so far this year
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9.10
Kendrick Lamar
Damn.
"Luscious harmonies and hints of psychedelic soul - plus guest
support from Bono and Rihanna - couch brilliant, sharp-edged
storytelling from an artist at the top of his game"
The Guardian
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8.77
Mount Eerie
A Crow Looked at
Me
"Overwhelming and humbling, Elverum's revelatory work offers a
blueprint for others going through similar situations in their own
lives, a true testament to the power of art and a loving tribute to
Geneviève"
Consequence Of Sound
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8.74
Lorde
Melodrama
"It's a brave, glorious pop album from a real-deal songwriter
and accidental pop star - thankfully, not the other way
around"
The Irish Times
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8.50
Run The Jewels
Run The Jewels 3
"Hip-hop has seldom sounded this righteous since Public
Enemy"
NME
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8.40
Vince Staples
Big Fish Theory
"Another huge stride forward for an artist that can only move in
giant leaps"
Drowned In Sound
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8.34
Laurel Halo
Dust
"A more challenging and elusive listen than the felted
atmospherics of Chance of Rain or In Situ, this is Halo at her most
artful and poetic"
Exclaim
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8.29
Richard Dawson
Peasant
"A potent and mournfully beautiful meditation on humankind's
inability to fix itself"
Loud And Quiet
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8.29
Hurray For The Riff Raff
The Navigator
"This isn't just one the finest albums of 2017, it may even be
the greatest release of the entire decade. Simply phenomenal"
God Is In The TV
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8.19
Algiers
The Underside Of
Power
"It's galvanizing, uncompromising, and uplifting, and it
should speak to everyone who still has some fight left in
them"
A.V. Club
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8.18
The Magnetic
Fields
50 Song Memoir
"A certifiable masterpiece and one that music lovers
'round the world will not soon forget"
The 405
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And the next 20
11. Arca Arca
12. Laura Marling Semper
Femina
13. Jlin Black Origami
14. PWR BTTM Pageant
15. SZA Ctrl
16. Ryuichi Sakamoto async
17. Perfume Genius No Shape
18. Slowdive Slowdive
19. Sampha Process
20. Charly Bliss Guppy
21. Bedouine Bedouine
22. Marika Hackman I'm Not Your Man
23. Big Thief Capacity
24. William Basinski A Shadow In Time
25. Loyle Carner Yesterday's Gone
26. Father John Misty Pure Comedy
27. Wiley Godfather
28. Pallbearer Heartless
29. Juana Molina Halo
30. Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit The Nashville
Sound