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Below, check out the album art that struck us the most this year - for better, or for worse. From Taylor Swift's attempt to dupe the New York Times with Reputation to the many memes birthed by Kendrick Lamar's viral DAMN. the album covers we've seen in 2017 are just as memorable as the music behind them. Below, check out the album art that struck us the most this year - for better, or for worse.

2017's been mega for music and these 50 top albums have defined the year in music. Find out NME's albums of the year. 2017 has been a bad year for silly things like international relations and basic human decency. It’s been a good year, though, for really important things like albums. Grime, rock, singer-songwriters with great facial hair – it’s all here in our albums of the year list.

The Best Albums of 2017. 2017 heralded the major label debuts from a new class of SoundCloud rappers like Lil Yachty, Lil Pump, and Lil Uzi Vert-to varying degrees of success. There were far, far more than 50 great albums this year. Here is Complex's picks for the best Albums of 2017.

These are the best of the best. Graphic by Martine Ehrhart. Though our culture of fast distraction seems hell-bent on crushing the album beneath its endless scroll, the form remains a pillar of art, something to aspire to. In music, when you want to make a statement, you make an album. And right now, those statements are perhaps more varied and fluid than ever before. Publish Date: December 21, 2017.

Enhanced Chill Vol. 2. 5, 112. Various. Schneeweiss III. 4, 102. A State Of Trance Classics, Vol. 10. 4, 96.

The best power-pop band of the last 20 years has always specialized in making knotty ideas and rich abstractions churn with the hummable buzz of bubblegum gold. New Pornographers’ latest is steeped in the hypnotic headrush repetition of the Feelies and Seventies Krautrock, heavy on drum throb, Sensurround synth swirls and micro-managed glowing-fractal harmony elation – like Steve Reich co-producing an ELO record in 1979, or a vision of early New Wave if MTV had beamed forth from some collectivist art cooperative in the Canadian wilds. The year’s best electronic album is a dizzying, disorienting, delirious clatter of hyperreal, synthetic sounds.