Top 30 Albums of 2017

Since this year has been pretty rough on me due to family emergencies and reviews were either delayed or postponed because of the situation I was under, I've decided to go ahead and post a little Thanksgiving/Christmas early surprise of my top 30 albums of 2017. So here it is and criticism is welcomed.

1. Schooltree – Heterotopia (Self-Released)
2. White Willow – Future Hopes (Laser’s Edge)
3. Bent Knee – Land Animal (InsideOut Music)
4. Kim Seviour – Recovery Is Learning (White Star Records)
5. Cheer-Accident – Putting Off Death (Cuneiform Records)
6. Gentle Knife – Clock Unwound (Bajkal Records)
7. Gary Peacock Trio – Tangents (ECM Records)
8. Wobbler – From Silence to Somewhere (Karisma Records)
9. Magenta – We Are Legend (Tigermoth Records)
10. Discipline – Captives of the Wine Dark Sea (Laser’s Edge)
11. Steven Wilson – To The Bone (Caroline)
12. Dusan Jevtovic – No Answer (MoonJune Records)
13. Acqua Fragile – A New Chant (Esoteric Antenna)
14. Tohpati Bertiga – Faces (deMajors)
15. Carptree – Emerger (Reingold Records)
16. Pixie Ninja – Ultrasound (Apollon Records)
17. Motorpsycho – The Tower (Stickman Records)
18. Reflections In Cosmo – Reflections In Cosmo (RareNoise)
19. Mumpbeak – Tooth (RareNoise)
20. Ides of Gemini – Women (Rise Above Records)
21. Arabs in Aspic – Syndenes Magi (Apollon Records)
22. Schnauser – Irritant (Bad Elephant Music)
23. Il Tempio Delle Clessidre – il-Ludere (Black Widow Records)
24. Led Bib – Umbrella Weather (RareNoise Records)
25. Big Hogg – Gargoyles (Bad Elephant Music)
26. Sky Architect – Nomad (FREIA/Bad Elephant Music)
27. Avishai Cohen – Cross My Palm with Silver (ECM Records)
28. Saturn – Beyond Spectra (Rise Above Records)
29. Hedersleben – Orbit (Purple Pyramid Records)
30. Roger Waters – Is This the Life We Really Want? (Columbia)