Back in January, we examined the list of new albums on the horizon in 2017, not necessarily knowing how the year would pan out, musically speaking. And nearly six months later, we’re happy to report that the crop of new long players that have landed in stores and invaded our eardrums so far this year has exceeded our wildest expectations, and then some.

With that, we are thrilled to share our team’s picks for the year’s 25 finest albums thus far, in alphabetical order with links to the original reviews included via the “what we said” text below. Note that only new full-length releases have been included, so new EPs and reissued albums do not appear in this list. We encourage you to check out each of these albums, if you haven’t already, and hope you will let us know if there are any records we’ve overlooked in compiling this list. So without further ado…

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