Since I don't really believe in lists or in some sort of objective "best," I don't do best of lists, but I do like digging out what my favorite new releases are 9in 2017; the stuff I listen to the most, really. So yeah, here they are, rough groupings and trying not to get overly long.

Electronic
Carl Craig: Versus
Kettenkarussell: Insecurity Guard
Shinichi Atobe: From The Heart, It's A Start, A Work Of Art

Ambient
Visable Cloaks: Reassemblage & Lex (EP)
V/A: mono no aware
Ryuichi Sakamoto: async.

Rockabilly
The Guitaraculas: Preachers Of The Night
Doyley & The Twanglords: Twang Solo
The Bad Breed: Snake Girl

R&B
Sampha: Process
SZA: Ctrl.

Rock
Moon Duo: Occult Architecture Vol. 2
SQÜRL: EP #260
Chuck Berry: Chuck
Queens of the Stone Age: Villians
Beach Fossils: Somersault

Jazz
Yazz Ahmed: La Saboteuse
Josef Leimberg: Astral Progressions

Hip Hop
Migos: Culture
Kendrick Lamar:Damn.
2 Chainz: Pretty Girls Like Trap Music

Tapes
V/A: Styles for Relaxation
Seph & Morgan: Teamwork
V/A: Sensate Silk
Khotin: New Tab

Reissues
Chancha Vía Circuito: Río Arriba
Alice Coltrane: The Ecstatic Music Of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda
Marcello Giombini: Computer Disco
Kraftwerk: 3D live

Reggae/Dancehall
Equiknoxx: Colón Man
Chronixx: Chronology
Alborosie: Freedom In Dub


If I had to pick a single favorite, quite likely I'd go with Equiknoxx: Colón Man, my favorite reggae group to get widely released in quite a while. Their Bird Sound Power release last year was a big favorite as well. SZA: Ctrl. may be the most played of the bunch though as it seems to fit my mood very often these days.

And why not... Spotify playlist of the stuff that's on there, which is most things.

https://open.spotify.com/user/21szzysutcuesxipvor46ikeq/playlist/4xH4tdxsCNGR5m0BMYf9Jp

Nice wide-ranging list.
I'll check out your playlist ASAP. I'm intrigued.

I'll look into that rockabilly stuff!... and perhaps also that Kraftwerk thing.

How many new rockabilly albums did you hear in 2017?

I lump all that rockabilly, surf, retro stuff together. And you may be surprised, a ton of it comes out each year. I haven't listened to tons of full albums, but browsing around and listening to a few songs off this and that to pick what I like best, I go through a good number. One of those genres I never really tire of and always go back to. Satan's Pilgrims: Sinestro was really good this year too, forgot to mention that one.

dig it and will check out a bunch of this

The world needs more rockabilly. Been sayin that since 1994.