Last update: June 10th, 2017
Source: Album of the Year
* Kendrick Lamar – DAMN. Hip-Hop
* Mount Eerie – A Crow Looked at Me Singer-Songwriter
* Arca – Arca Art-pop
* Valerie June – The Order of Time Americana
* Jlin – Black Origami Footwork
* The Magnetic Fields – 50 Song Memoir Indie Pop
* Vagabon – Infinite Worlds Indie Rock
* Laura Marling – Semper Femina Singer-Songwriter
* Ulver – The Assassination Of Julius Caesar Synthpop
* Power Trip – Nightmare Logic Trash Metal
* Sampha – Process Alternative R&B
* Slowdive – Slowdive Dreampop
* Juana Molina – Halo Folktronica
* Charly Bliss – Guppy Indie Rock
* Perfume Genius – No Shape Art Pop
* Jesca Hoop – Memories Are Now Indie Folk
* Gas – Narkopop Ambient
* All Them Witches – Sleeping Through the War Stoner Rock
* Noga Erez – Off the Radar
* Jane Weaver – Modern Kosmology Dreampop
* The Moonlandingz – Interplanetary Class Classics Ambient
* Idles – Brutalism Neo-Psychedelia
* Father John Misty – Pure Comedy Post-Punk
* Tinariwen – Elwan World