The Roots Music Report's
Top Alternative Rock Album Chart
for the Year of 2017
1 |  | Graveyard Whistling by: Old 97's   | Label: ATO Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist:     |
2 |  | Waiting on a Song by: Dan Auerbach | Label: Nonesuch Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
3 |  | Bobby Fuller Died for Your Sins by: Chuck Prophet | Label: Yep-Roc Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist:  |
4 |  | Hot Thoughts by: Spoon | Label: Matador Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
5 |  | A Deeper Understanding by: The War on Drugs | Label: Atlantic Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
6 |  | My Piece of Land by: Amanda Shires | Label: Silver Knife Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
7 |  | Whiteout Conditions by: The New Pornographers | Label: Concord Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
8 |  | I See You by: The xx | Label: Young Turks Recordings Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
9 |  | Heartworms by: The Shins | Label: Columbia Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
10 |  | Northern Passages by: The Sadies | Label: Yep Roc Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
11 |  | Gilded by: Jade Jackson | Label: Anti Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
12 |  | Silver Tears by: Aaron Lee Tasjan | Label: New West Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
13 |  | Pure Comedy by: Father John Misty | Label: Sub Pop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
14 |  | Light by: Moses Guest | Label: Aufheben Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
15 |  | Witness by: Benjamin Booker | Label: ATO Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
16 |  | La Divine by: Cold War Kids | Label: Capitol Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
17 |  | Soulrocker by: Michael Franti & Spearhead | Label: Fantasy Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
18 |  | Masseduction by: St. Vincent | Label: Concord Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
19 |  | RELAXER by: Alt-J | Label: Atlantic Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
20 |  | Apocalipstick by: The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer | Label: Tonic Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
21 |  | Hug of Thunder by: Broken Social Scene | Label: Arts & Crafts Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
22 |  | Now That the Light is Fading by: Maggie Rogers | Label: Capitol Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
23 |  | A Black Mile to the Surface by: Manchester Orchestra | Label: Loma Vista Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
24 |  | Yours, Dreamily, by: The Arcs | Label: Nonesuch Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
25 |  | I Had a Dream That You Were Mine by: Hamilton Leithauser | Label: Glassnote Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
26 |  | Little Fictions by: Elbow | Label: Concord Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
27 |  | Painted Ruins by: Grizzly Bear | Label: RCA Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
28 |  | Sleep Well Beast by: The National | Label: 4AD Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
29 |  | Humanz by: Gorillaz | Label: Warner Music Group Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
30 |  | Backlash by: Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
31 |  | As You Were by: Liam Gallagher | Label: Warner Brothers Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
32 |  | Paging Mr. Proust by: The Jayhawks | Label: Thirty Tigers Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
33 |  | Death Song by: The Black Angels | Label: Partisan Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
34 |  | Crack-Up by: Fleet Foxes | Label: Nonesuch Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
35 |  | Modern Pressure by: Daniel Romano | Label: New West Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
36 |  | Rekihndled by: Greg Kihn | Label: Riot Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
37 |  | New Lore by: Sean Rowe | Label: Anti Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
38 |  | Memories Are Now by: Jesca Hoop | Label: Sub Pop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
39 |  | Cleopatra by: The Lumineers | Label: Dualtone Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
40 |  | Walk into a Storm by: The Lone Bellow | Label: Sony Masterworks Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
41 |  | Love Stuff by: Elle King | Label: RCA Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
42 |  | Life Love Flesh Blood by: Imelda May | Label: Decca Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
43 |  | Tell It to the Judge by: Walker Lukens | Label: Modern Outsider Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
44 |  | Heart-Shaped Mountain by: Ha Ha Tonka | Label: Bloodshot Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
45 |  | Heavy Meta by: Ron Gallo | Label: New West Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
46 |  | Eternally Even by: Jim James | Label: ATO Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
47 |  | And then Like Lions by: Blind Pilot | Label: ATO Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
48 |  | In Mind by: Real Estate | Label: Domino Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
49 |  | Queens of the Breakers by: The Barr Brothers | Label: Secret City Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
50 |  | Johannesburg by: Mumford & Sons | Label: Glassnote Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
51 |  | When to Talk and when to Listen by: Current Swell | Label: Nettwerk Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
52 |  | Soul Sick by: Sallie Ford | Label: Vanguard Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
53 |  | New Magic by: Son Little | Label: Anti Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
54 |  | Reskinned by: Larkin Poe | Label: RH Music Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
55 |  | Still Summer by: Matt Pond PA | Label: 131 Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
56 |  | I Am Another You by: Making Movies | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
57 |  | The Southern Surreal by: The Legendary Shack Shakers | Label: Tenticles Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
58 |  | Salutations by: Conor Oberst | Label: Nonesuch Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
59 |  | Goodnight Rhonda Lee by: Nicole Atkins | Label: Single Lock Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
60 |  | Case/lang/veirs by: case/lang/veirs | Label: Anti Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
61 |  | Firehorse by: The Young Presidents | Label: MKM Productions Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
62 |  | We All Want the Same Things by: Craig Finn | Label: Partisan Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
63 |  | A Head Full of Dreams by: Coldplay | Label: Parlophone Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
64 |  | What Now by: Sylvan Esso | Label: Loma Vista Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
65 |  | Once a Day Rise Up by: Michael Franti & Spearhead | Label: Fantasy Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
66 |  | Lotta Sea Lice by: Courtney Barnett | Label: Matador Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
67 |  | The Greatest Thing You'll Ever Learn by: The Roosevelts | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
68 |  | Last Place by: Grandaddy | Label: 30th Century Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
69 |  | The Shelters by: The Shelters | Label: Warner Brothers Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
70 |  | To the Edge by: 61 Ghosts | Label: Bluzpic Media Group Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
71 |  | Cry Cry Cry by: Wolf Parade | Label: Sub Pop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
72 |  | Reservoir by: Gordi | Label: Jagjaguwar Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
73 |  | This Old Dog by: Mac DeMarco | Label: Royal Mountain Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
74 |  | Silver Eye by: Goldfrapp | Label: Mute Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
75 |  | Out in the Storm by: Waxahatchee | Label: Merge Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
76 |  | Limit of Love by: Boy & Bear | Label: Universal Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
77 |  | Robyn Hitckcock by: Robyn Hitchcock | Label: Yep Roc Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
78 |  | Sunlit Youth by: Local Natives | Label: Concord Music Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
79 |  | Pleasure by: Feist | Label: Polydor Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
80 |  | Factory Made by: Wyatt Brewer | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
81 |  | The Ghost for You by: Lines West | Label: Nunya Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
82 |  | Oczy Mlody by: The Flaming Lips | Label: Warner Bros. Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
83 |  | A Moon Shaped Pool by: Radiohead | Label: XL Recordings Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
84 |  | 22, a Million by: Bon Iver | Label: Jagjaguwar Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
85 |  | Jen Cloher by: Jen Cloher | Label: Marathon Artists Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
86 |  | VHS by: X Ambassadors | Label: Interscope Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
87 |  | Still Life on Fire by: Mise En Scene | Label: Light Organ Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
88 |  | Fake Sugar by: Beth Ditto | Label: Virgin Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
89 |  | Monster by: Sarah Potenza | Label: Snax Records Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
90 |  | Darling Destroyer by: Leopold & His Fiction | Label: Native Fiction Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
91 |  | Damage and Joy by: The Jesus And Mary Chain | Label: Artificial Plastic Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
92 |  | Emotions and Math by: Margaret Glaspy | Label: ATO Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
93 |  | What We Lose in the Fire We Gain in the Flood by: The Mynabirds | Label: Saddle Creek Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
94 |  | LoveJoys by: Pickwick | Label: Small Press Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
95 |  | Blind Sighted Faith by: The Dunwells | Label: Concord Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
96 |  | Visionland by: Banditos | Label: Bloodshot Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
97 |  | Memory Mirror by: The Octopus Project | Label: Robot High School Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
98 |  | A Place I'll Always Go by: Palehound | Label: Polyvinyl Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
99 |  | Light of a Strange Day by: Hite | Label: Six Degrees Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
100 |  | Why You Wanna Leave, Runaway Queen? by: Lisa LeBlanc | Label: Bonsound Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
101 |  | Middle Kids by: Middle Kids | Label: Domino Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
102 |  | Teens of Denial by: Car Seat Headrest | Label: Matador Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
103 |  | Mexican Dust by: Mosquitos | Label: Six Degrees Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
104 |  | The World We Built by: The Wild Reeds | Label: Dualtone Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
105 |  | Mental Illness by: Aimee Mann | Label: SuperEgo Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
106 |  | New Mistakes by: Terra Lightfoot | Label: Sonic Unyon Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
107 |  | Scavengers by: My Goodness | Label: Votiv Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
108 |  | Please Be Mine by: Molly Burch | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
109 |  | City Music by: Kevin Morby | Label: Dead Oceans Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
110 |  | Sneaker Waves by: Tristen | Label: Modern Outsider Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
111 |  | Many Moons by: Martin Courtney | Label: Domino Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
112 |  | Love Letter for Fire by: Sam Beam & Jesca Hoop | Label: Sub Pop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
113 |  | Young Mopes by: Louise Burns | Label: Light Organ Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
114 |  | Dear Danger by: Billy Harvey | Label: Gold Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
115 |  | The Wild by: The Rural Alberta Advantage | Label: Saddle Creek Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
116 |  | How Did We Get So Dark? by: Royal Blood | Label: Warner Music Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
117 |  | Under the Lights by: Midnight North | Label: Trazmick Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
118 |  | Everybody Works by: Jay Som | Label: Polyvinyl Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
119 |  | Apocalipstick by: Cherry Glazerr | Label: Secretly Canadian Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
120 |  | Glamour Child by: Moonrise Nation | Label: Zinc Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
121 |  | Two Hearts and No Brain by: Kane Strang | Label: Dead Oceans Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
122 |  | One Way by: The Local Boys | Label: Maynard House Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
123 |  | Plunge by: Fever Ray | Label: Mute Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
124 |  | Freedays by: Tall Tall Trees | Label: Joyful Noise Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
125 |  | Rocket by: (Sandy) Alex G | Label: Domino Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
126 |  | Weight Falls by: Kim Churchill | Label: Rufus Nomad Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
127 |  | Slow Wave by: The Velveteins | Label: Factor Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
128 |  | La Migra by: Battle Of Santiago | Label: MWPC Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
129 |  | Turn out the Lights by: Julien Baker | Label: Matador Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
130 |  | Young by: Overcoats | Label: Arts & Crafts Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
131 |  | Both Sides of the Ceiling by: Duncan Fellows | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
132 |  | The Weather Below by: Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds | Label: Thirty Tigers Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
133 |  | 50 Song Memoir by: The Magnetic Fields | Label: Nonesuch Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
134 |  | Routines by: Hoops | Label: Fat Possum Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
135 |  | Young Ones by: Rococode | Label: Marquis Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
136 |  | Ease My Mind by: Shout Out Louds | Label: Merge Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
137 |  | It's a Myth by: Sneaks | Label: Merge Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
138 |  | Benjamin Booker by: Benjamin Booker | Label: ATO Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
139 |  | Ruminations by: Conor Oberst | Label: Nonesuch Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
140 |  | Remember Roses by: Lola Marsh | Label: Anova Music Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
141 |  | Night Surfer by: Chuck Prophet | Label: Yep Roc Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
142 |  | Half the City by: St. Paul & The Broken Bones | Label: Single Lock Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
143 |  | 4th of July by: Carl Broemel | Label: Stocks In Asia Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
144 |  | Won't You by: Growl | Label: Austin Town Hall Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
145 |  | Andy Warhol's Dream by: Trevor Sensor | Label: Jagjaguwar Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
146 |  | Show Me Emotion by: The Dunwells | Label: Playing In Traffic Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
147 |  | Tom Faia and the Juice by: Tom Faia | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
148 |  | We Can Die Happy by: Tennis | Label: Mutually Ditrimental Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
149 |  | As Long As Your Eyes Are Wide by: Said The Whale | Label: Hidden Pony Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
150 |  | Busted Jukebox, Vol. 2 by: Shovels & Rope | Label: New West Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
151 |  | Strange Constellations by: William Matheny | Label: Misra Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
152 |  | Dark Nuclear Bogs by: Laser Background | Label: Mutual Crush Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
153 |  | Bedouine by: Bedouine | Label: Spacebomb Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
154 |  | Jet Plane and Oxbow by: Shearwater | Label: Sub Pop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
155 |  | Human Voicing by: The Luyas | Label: Paper Bag Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
156 |  | Second Son by: Holy Oak | Label: Holyoak Music Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
157 |  | Twin Solitude by: Leif Vollebekk | Label: Secret City Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
158 |  | Creatures by: Sweet Crude | Label: Rhyme and Reason Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
159 |  | Terraform by: Sam Roberts Band | Label: Paper Bag Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
160 |  | Little Seeds by: Shovels & Rope | Label: New West Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
161 |  | Medicine for Birds by: Angelica Garcia | Label: Warner Bros Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
162 |  | Blurryface by: Twenty One Pilots | Label: Fueled by Ramen Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
163 |  | The Glory of Fruit Bats by: Fruit Bats | Label: Easy Sound Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
164 |  | Afterglow by: Ásgeir | Label: Columbia Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist:  |
165 |  | Blessings by: Tom Walker | Label: Epic Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
166 |  | The Courtneys II by: The Courtneys | Label: Flying Nun Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
167 |  | Part of Me by: Good Old War | Label: Nettwerk Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
168 |  | Sincerely by: Dude York | Label: Hardly Art Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
169 |  | Plastic Soul by: Mondo Cozmo | Label: Republic Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
170 |  | No Culture by: Mother Mother | Label: Def Jam Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
171 |  | If You See Me, Say Yes by: Flock Of Dimes | Label: Partisan Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
172 |  | Deadeye by: The Ballroom Thieves | Label: United for Opportunity Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
173 |  | Fool's Paradise by: Cold Specks | Label: Arts & Crafts Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
174 |  | Clever Disguise by: Gordi | Label: Jagjaguwar Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
175 |  | Born Yesterday by: Hollerado | Label: Royal Mountain Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
176 |  | First Sign of Morning by: The Young Folk | Label: ARC Music Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
177 |  | If I Should Go Before You by: City And Colour | Label: Dine Alone Music Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
178 |  | Trials & Truths by: Horse Thief | Label: Bella Union Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
179 |  | Warm Glow by: Hippo Campus | Label: Grand Jury Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
180 |  | In Spades by: The Afghan Whigs | Label: Sub Pop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
181 |  | Death of the Cool by: Cotton Mather | Label: Star Apple Kingdom Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
182 |  | Last of the Acid Cowboys by: Evolfo | Label: Royal Potato Family Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
183 |  | More Rain by: M. Ward | Label: Merge Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
184 |  | Haze by: Nataly Dawn | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
185 |  | Faux Real by: Fake Shark | Label: Light Organ Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
186 |  | Citizen of Glass by: Agnes Obel | Label: PIAS Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
187 |  | Things Change by: Grabbitz | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
188 |  | Something American by: Jade Bird | Label: Glassnote Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
189 |  | Exile in the Outer Ring by: EMA | Label: City Slang Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
190 |  | Lonesome No More! by: Nellie Pearl | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
191 |  | So Many Hoops, So Little Time by: Hideout | Label: Small Plates Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
192 |  | No Burden by: Lucy Dacus | Label: Matador Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
193 |  | Terrible Human Beings by: The Orwells | Label: Atlantic Recording Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
194 |  | What a Pleasure by: Beach Fossils | Label: Captured Tracks Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
195 |  | B'lieve I'm Goin Down... by: Kurt Vile | Label: Matador Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
196 |  | Gentlewoman, Ruby Man by: Flo Morrissey & Matthew E. White | Label: Glassnote Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
197 |  | 810 by: Trementina | Label: Burger Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
198 |  | The Beat is Dead by: Nina Diaz | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
199 |  | Neighbors by: Israel Nash | Label: Escondido Creek Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
200 |  | Singing Saw by: Kevin Morby | Label: Dead Oceans Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
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