33 Great Songs of 2017
Cuts from LCD Soundsystem, Jay-Z, and more
by Spencer Kornhaber
Dec 20, 2017
3 minutes
Here’s a wildly incomplete and personal list of pop, rock, hip-hop, and electronic songs I became fascinated by this year, ordered only alphabetically. A Spotify playlist of the songs is here, and my best albums of 2017 are here.
“8 Ball,” Waxahatchee
Close in the ear, strumming with unnerving precision, Katie Crutchfield plots her escape from some suffocating relationship: “I’ll breathe / I don’t care who sees.”
“Awful Things,” Lil Peep ft. Lil Tracy
Childlike melodies, serrated punk wailing, and tense trap production could all still make for the next phase of pop music, but Peep’s brooding charisma was a big
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