New albums 2017

All ReviewsBest New Albums Best New Reissues8. View forthcoming album releases by artist on our Upcoming Music Calender at Metacritic. Modern Kosmology is at once earthbound and otherworldly, with mesmerising vocals balancing on a . Music was full of fury, confusion and resistance in our first post-election year.

Albums came with titles like American Dream (LCD Soundsystem), American Teen (Khalid) and All American Made (Margo Price).

And indee artists did get explicitly political, from Randy Newman to Jason Isbell to Jay-Z. The jangly perfection of “Walkaway” and acoustic inoffensiveness of “Grass” beautifully signal this new direction, while the T. Rex-infuse oddball glam of . Learn when your favorite artists are releasing new Hip Hop albums and new Rap albums. Looking for some fresh new music?

Working mostly in New York with producer Jack Antonoff (Bleachers, St Vincent, Taylor Swift), Lorde created an album that documents feelings of early . An as always, a new crop of artists arrived on the scene. SoundCloud rappers like Lil Yachty, Lil Pump, and Lil Uzi Vert—to varying degrees of success.

There were far, far more than great albums this year. Every December, hip-hop debates tend to get a bit contentious. End-of-year discussions regarding the best rap albums often turn into heated in-your-face spats. Established artists like Drake continue to seek ways to surprise the mainstream, while smaller, emerging acts have turned to apps like YouNow and live. The expanded collection features three new songs plus recent Top single Reggaeton Lento (Remix) with CNCO, and a never-before-seen documentary that goes . The album catalogues the rocky first few months of life after his wife and collaborator Geneviève Castrée lost a battle with cancer.

Through a series of jarring, ramshackle . With new music from Sia and re-releases from Josh Groban and Reba McEntire, you . FREE UK delivery on orders over £10. On top of all of this, . Prepare yourself: the return of Taylor Swift to our airwaves, tabloids and social media feeds is imminent. Even without Lemonade, this was still a pretty good year for music. The greatest albums from a massive year for new music.

Those artists — not to mention Migos, Sampha, Future and Kelela — are twisting hip-hop and RB into vibrant new shapes, both musically and lyrically, while artists like Lorde (who also got a big Album of the Year Grammy nod), Taylor Swift, St. Vincent and Harry Styles are taking more traditional pop .