Tony's Album Top Tens
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A quick word: Rather than continue updating an arbitrary list of yearly top tens and honorable mentions, I've decided to simply catalog albums I've rated at least 7 out of 10 and higher. (Years wherein I've not given at least ten 7's or higher, I'll also catalog the 6's temporarily.) There's a heavy bias toward very recent years for two reasons: (1) I signed up for a Spotify Premium account in early 2019 and (2) shortly thereafter is when I started rating and cataloging albums I listened to. So anything and everything listed on this page I've heard at least once since ca. mid-2019 (or more recently). Anything before that will not be here until I listen to it again (and believe me, the queue is depressingly long). One last note on live albums: I have finally decided to include live albums on my lists, though my valuation of live albums differs quite a bit from studio albums. A live album in which the artist does little more than play live renditions of songs that are ultra-faithful to their studio counterparts is not interesting to me. Even if I love the songs being played. This type of live album makes no sense to me. The live albums I cherish are the ones that offer an experience you can't get from the studio recordings; maybe the tracks have not been released elsewhere, are completely reimagined, or totally improvised and altered to the extent that they barely resemble their former selves. (Singles not included here; EPs are.)
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10/10
9/10
- The Healer -- SUMAC
8/10
- Where we've been, Where we go from here -- Friko
- I Wish You Every Success -- Fashion Tips
- Lives Outgrown -- Beth Gibbons
- Flesh Tape -- Flesh Tape
- The Promise of Rain -- Scarcity
7/10
- Exhaust -- Pyrrhon
- Look How Long Lasting Everything Is Moving Forward for Once -- Hammok
- What You Want -- Ogbert the Nerd
- Eventually the River Rises Here Too, Same as it Always Has -- Shiroishi, Prymek, Nguyen
- The Vault -- Maruja
- SHAME -- meth.
- Only God Was Above Us -- Vampire Weekend
- Solitude With the Eternal... -- Adversarial
- BLK LBL -- Armand Hammer
- Wild Guess -- Robber Robber
- 13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto With Bison Horn Grips -- Xiu Xiu
- my anti-aircraft friend -- julie
- Pain Without Hope of Healing -- Basque
- Hálios -- Ceremony of Silence
- Something in the Room She Moves -- Julia Holter
- Deep Sage -- Gouge Away
- Activator -- Gerycz Powers Rolin
- SABLE, -- Bon Iver
- Planned Obsolescence -- Chaser
- Drugs of the Sun -- Blinder
- Endlessness -- Nala Sinephro
- Songs of a Lost World -- The Cure
- Häxan Sabaoth -- Unaussprechlichen Kulten
- For the Rest of Your Life -- twikipedia
- Dissection Maps -- Old Saw
- How Could I Not Be Your Girl? -- Space Camp
- Zvyozdny Khram -- Zvyozdny Khram
- Come and See -- Gurriers
- Spot Land -- Gnod
- Purity -- Morgan Garrett
- Muuntautuja -- Oranssi Pazuzu
- "No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead" -- Godspeed You! Black Emperor
- Precipice -- Ill Considered
- A Dog's Chance -- Polo Perks <3 <3 <3, AyooLii & Feardorian
- Ambivert -- Blemishes
- Bright Future -- Adrianne Lenker
- Imaginary Conversations -- Kevin Coleman
- Bronson Arm -- Bronson Arm
- Wake up and smell the petrichor -- chazaiya
- Cloudward -- Mary Halvorson
- Necrobiology -- Effluence
- X's -- Cigarettes After Sex
- Trout Mask Replica Replica -- The 180 Gs
- Y'Y -- Amaro Freitas
- Wall of Eyes -- The Smile
- The Room -- Fabiano do Nascimento & Sam Gendel
- Iechyd da -- Bill Ryder-Jones
- Bicycle -- Patricia Taxxon
- Les chants de l'aurore -- Alcest
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10/10
9/10
- Echoes -- Fire! Orchestra
8/10
- Attachment Styles -- M(h)aol
- The Lamb as Effigy -- Sprain
- Witchy Activities and the Maple Death -- Monika Roscher Bigband
- Camaraderie -- Quetzal Tirado Unit
- Solitaire -- Everyone Asked About You [archival]
- Úpal -- Kostnatění
- Gold Star -- Space Camp
7/10
- Hell Entrance: Liberation Paralysis -- Culpable
- Why Do You Mourn -- The End
- First Aid Kit -- Big Blood
- Figura -- The Canyon Observer
- Pink Colour Surgery -- The Psychotic Monks
- Helionomicon -- Ulthar
- The Head Hurts but the Heart Knows the Truth -- Headache
- Why Is This Happening to You? -- Fotbal
- Build Yourself a Shrine and Pray -- Bruxa Maria
- Thirty Three Recurring -- Fog
- Leprous Daylight -- Fossilization
- Doomscroll -- Naked Lungs
- Everything Is Alive -- Slowdive
- (Whirring Marvels In) Consensus Reality -- Eluvium
- Disharmonium - Nahab -- Blut aus Nord
- Formal Growth in the Desert -- Protomartyr
- zzz... zzz... zzz... -- kuragari
- Bosoragazan -- Odz Manouk
- Elite Terrorism Modulus -- Elite Terrorism Modulus
- Punk Tactics -- Joey Valance & Brae
- Unus mundus patet -- Jute Gyte
- Les trois amis de l'hiver -- Li Jianhong
- Mitsubishi Suicide -- Mitsubishi Suicide
- Posh Swat -- John Dwyer, Ryan Sawyer, Andres Renteria
- Determined to Strike -- Sarmat
- ZA! & la TransMegaCobla -- ZA! & la TransMegaCobla
- Crash Recoil -- Surgeon
- Devil Music -- Portrayal of Guilt
- Nizozot -- Bastarda
- CYRM -- ØXN
- Wasn't Built in a Day -- Rome Streetz & Big Ghost Ltd.
- Malivore -- Hasard
- Faced Out -- Faced Out
- Hive Mind Narcosis -- Thantifaxath
- We Must Leave You -- Throat
- The Gray in Between -- Jeromes Dream
- More Dead -- Sacrifices [Zhertvoprinosheniya]
- Saccades -- Rian Treanor & Ocen James
- Knocknarea -- Maruja
- Silhouette Machine -- Flooding
- Today I Laid Down -- bl4ck m4rket c4rt
- Blackened Cerebral Rifts -- Dead and Dripping
- The Beggar -- Swans
- Stereo Mind Game -- Daughter
- Teratoma -- 15,000 Guns
- Zorn -- Zorn
- Canto Ostinato -- Erik Hall
- Une interprétation de la dissolution glaciale en quatre mouvements -- Turpitude
- Burned Car Highway Light Volcanic -- Prizes Roses Rosa (p rosa) (panda rosa)
- Fake -- Hoplites
- Sól án varma -- Sól án varma
- II -- Pure Adult
- 93696 -- Liturgy
- Killed Alive -- Stella Research Committee
- Travel -- The Necks
- ...I Watched 10 Years of Pacific Weather... -- Prizes Roses Rosa (p rosa) (panda rosa) & Elijah Knutsen
- This Stupid World -- Yo La Tengo
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10/10
9/10
- Ants From Up There -- Black Country, New Road
8/10
- Honest Comedy -- Infinity Land
- Most Normal -- Gilla Band
- Aveilut -- Scarcity
- 2 -- Coconuts
- Where the Heart Is -- Sweet Pill
- Ugly Season -- Perfume Genius
- Feeding the Machine -- Binker & Moses
- Parallel Weaving -- Sheng Jie & Shen Jing
- "Daumenbruch„ -- Faust
- The Liquified Throne of Simplicity -- Širom
7/10
- Dishes Are Never Done but Good Luck -- Helvetia
- God Save the Animals -- Alex G
- The Whole of the Body I Call ZOS -- ZOS
- Killing Nothing -- Boldy James & Real Bad Man
- Belladonna -- Mary Halvorson
- Copperhead -- Doom Beach
- Katyusha -- Martín Escalante, Teté Leguía & Weasel Walter
- Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You -- Big Thief
- Darkness of God -- Heaving Earth
- God's Country -- Chat Pile
- Aethiopes -- Billy Woods
- caroline -- caroline
- Powięź -- Kurws
- A Muted Reality -- Angles
- Punkt -- Faust
- Heart Under -- Just Mustard
- The Ruby Cord -- Richard Dawson
- Bacchanalia -- Spintria
- Psyop of the Year -- EUNOIA
- WHT LBL -- Armand Hammer
- Devils Daughter Sings Her Hybrid Poem -- crazy doberman
- This Is Not an Island Anymore -- Die! Die! Die!
- Með hamri -- Misþyrming
- You Belong There -- Daniel Rossen
- Summer at Land's End -- The Reds, Pinks and Purples
- Regurgitorium -- Why Patterns
- Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses -- Blut aus Nord
- See You Out There -- Dave Gisler Trio with Jaimie Branch & David Murray
- Fair Exchange No Robbery -- Nicholas Craven and Boldy James
- Florist -- Florist
- Mystic Sisters -- City of Caterpillar
- Diner Coffee -- Mamaleek
- Void Patrol -- Void Patrol
- At the Foothills of Deliration -- Faceless Burial
- YHWH Nailgun -- YHWH Nailgun
- Deathfame -- Quelle Chris
- Comradely Objects -- Horse Lords
- While of Unsound Mind -- nouns
- Mowing the Leaves Instead of Piling 'em Up -- Wednesday
- Pools of Green Fire -- Urushiol
- Everything Was Beautiful -- Spiritualized
- Consecration of the Spiritüs Flesh -- Esoctrilihum
- Return -- deathcrash
- Gold -- Rozwód
- Spirit of Ecstasy -- Imperial Triumphant
- Felicita -- Anadol
- Hellfire -- black midi
- Ascetic Reflection -- Altars
- Raum -- Tangerine Dream
- Hexen Valley -- Gnod
- Honeybee Table at the Butterfly Feast -- Teen Suicide
- Echt -- La Colonie de Vacances
- Together -- Duster
- There's Always Blood at the End of the Road -- Wiegedood
- A Light for Attracting Attention -- The Smile
- Koptycus -- Olés Brothers & Dominik Strycharski
- Every Flower in My Garden -- Lilien Rosarian
- stalled flutes, means -- Asian Glow
- Magma -- Black Flower
- The Ailing Facade -- Aeviterne
- In / Out / In -- Sonic Youth
- I Thought I Left You in Eden -- sun is poison
- Nocturnal Triumph -- Nocturnal Triumph
- Tana Talk 4 -- Benny the Butcher
- Eye Escapes -- Kraus
- Znój -- Zguba
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10/10
9/10
- Volcanic Bird Enemy and the Voiced Concern -- Lil Ugly Mane
8/10
- La mort du sens -- Gnod
- For the First Time -- Black Country, New Road
- Filthy Dreams -- Leshiy
- Cull Ficle -- Asian Glow
- Coral Island -- The Coral
- G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! -- Godspeed You! Black Emperor
- Jubilee -- Japanese Breakfast
- Promises -- Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra
7/10
- Caribou Killer -- Sun Is Poison
- The Lurch -- Yautja
- Preserved in Torment -- Mortiferum
- Repetition Hymns -- Black Swan
- _____ -- Sadness
- Contractions -- Michael Foster & Ben Bennett
- Thirstier -- Torres
- For the Glory of Your Redeemer -- Misotheist
- Solar Drone Ceremony -- Neptunian Maximalism
- För Allting -- Makthaverskan
- Uneasy -- Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh & Tyshawn Sorey
- I Became Birds -- Home Is Where
- Famine, Putrid and Fucking Endless -- Atvm
- Surrounding Structures -- Veik
- Calvaire -- Ferriterium
- DOM 1919 -- Nac/Hut Report
- Wax People -- Wax People
- Vlad Tapes -- Filmmaker
- Defeat -- Fire!
- Archeology -- The Stick Figures [archival]
- Katartisis -- Serpent Column
- Cavalcade -- black midi
- Call Me if You Get Lost -- Tyler, the Creator
- My Head Hz -- Naked Days
- Nafs at Peace -- Jaubi
- Azmari -- Samā'ī
- a softer focus -- claire rousay
- A Proposed Method for Determining Sanding Fitness -- Stella Research Committee
- He Whose Name Was Long Forgotten -- Fossilization
- Sinner Get Ready -- Lingua Ignota
- Bird Meets Wire -- Susan Alcorn, Leila Bordeuil & Ingrid Laubrock
- How the Garden Grows -- Yvette
- Razor's Edge -- Rome Streetz & Futurewave
- 1 House -- Slant
- Imperative Imperceptible Impulse -- Ad Nauseam
- Made Out of Sound -- Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt
- Holoceno -- Papangu
- Rien ne suffit -- Plebeian Grandstand
- Seminal Baptism -- Tantric Bile
- lines between the doorframe -- Asian Glow
- Radio Edit -- Ciśnienie
- Phantom Indigo -- Seputus
- Mental Decay -- Kvadrat
- Lucid Express -- Lucid Express
- Lucy & Aaron -- Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt
- The Divine Punishment -- Antediluvian
- Not Quite Dracula Music -- Soft Kill
- Golden Doubt -- Quivers
- The Space in Which the Uncontrollable Unknown Resides, Can Be the Place From Which Creation Arises -- Work, Money, Death
- A Beginner's Mind -- Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine
- I Have Seen the Light, and It Was Repulsive -- Sermon of Flames
- Hidemi -- Patrick Shiroishi
- Little Oblivions -- Julien Baker
- Yamawarau -- Fuubutsushi
- Negative Infinity -- The Flying Luttenbachers
- Laura Stevenson -- Laura Stevenson
- A Magnificent Day for an Exorcism -- TH1RT3EN
- The Cyclic Reckoning -- Suffering Hour
- Tawny -- Drug Church
- With Drums -- Machinefabriek
- Degenerations -- Diskord
- Storm in Summer -- Skullcrusher
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10/10
9/10
- The Microphones in 2020 -- The Microphones
- Éons -- Neptunian Maximalism
8/10
- Dead Kids, R.I.P. City -- Soft Kill
- Hamza -- Lonker See
- Free I.H: This Is Not the One You've Been Waiting For -- Illuminati Hotties
- Lena -- Anna Högberg Attack
- Kathodos -- Serpent Column
- Kaiju Eats Cheeseburgers -- Darrifourcq Hermia Ceccaldi
- Welcome to Conceptual Beach -- Young Jesus
- Skáphe³ -- Skáphe
- Silver Tongue -- Torres
- Speciation -- Faceless Burial
- Endless Detainment -- Serpent Column
7/10
- No Moon -- Black Wing
- Allt Är Intet -- The End
- Punisher -- Phoebe Bridgers
- Telas -- Nicolás Jaar
- Imperii templum aries -- Ôros Kaù
- Less Life -- Died
- Mestarin Kynsi -- Oranssi Pazuzu
- Sideways to New Italy -- Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
- 2R0I2P0 -- Boris with Merzbow
- Songs -- Adrianne Lenker
- All Thoughts Fly -- Anna von Hausswolff
- Songs -- Adrianne Lenker
- Red Sun Through Smoke -- Ian William Craig
- Melinoë -- Akhlys
- The Common Task -- Horse Lords
- Forever Blue -- A.A. Williams
- Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin -- Eartheater
- The Great Dismal -- Nothing
- Don't Waste Your Anger -- The Smith Street Band
- New Dreams -- JFDR
- Mach's Hard Lemonade -- Mach-Hommy
- The Kinspiral -- Prizes Roses Rosa (p rosa) (panda rosa)
- Calculus -- John Zorn
- Mystic Familiar -- Dan Deacon
- Devouring Ruin -- Wake
- Set My Heart on Fire Immediately -- Perfume Genius
- Klue -- Gezan
- Evermore -- Taylor Swift
- Relatos de angustia -- Selbst
- Artlessly Falling -- Mary Halvorson's Code Girl
- Second Body -- Two People
- NO -- Boris
- I Must Be Living Twice -- Black Marble
- The Sanguinary Impetus -- Defeated Sanity
- Unlocked -- Denzel Curry x Kenny Beats
- Atonement -- Exhalants
- Visions -- Matthew Tavares & Leland Whitty
- Lamentations -- William Basinski
- Misanthropic Breed -- Lik
- Visions of Bodies Being Burned -- clipping.
- Shadow of Fear -- Cabaret Voltaire
- Come & See -- Mamaleek
- Sleeper Vessels -- Fawn Limbs
- Undying Thirst -- Black Market Brass
- A Hero's Death -- Fontaines D.C.
- Love, Disorderly -- Thomas Azier
- Eternity of Shaog -- Esoctrilihum
- Alfredo -- Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist
- Empty Country -- Empty Country
- Obliviosus -- MSW
- Three -- The Necks
- The Suns of Perdition - Chapter II: Render Unto Eden -- Panzerfaust
- You Can Never Have a Long Enough Head Start -- Floral Tattoo
- From King to a GOD -- Conway the Machine
- Origin of the Alimonies -- Liturgy
- Terminal Aggressor II -- Dragged Into Sunlight
- Swimmer -- Tennis
- Four Dimensional Flesh -- Afterbirth
- Island -- Owen Pallett
- Lesions of a Different Kind -- Undeath
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10/10
- Arrival -- Fire! Orchestra
9/10
8/10
- The Third Ascension -- Glenn Branca
- Four of Arrows -- Great Grandpa
- Caligula -- Lingua Ignota
- House of Sugar -- (Sandy) Alex G
- Sea of Worry -- Have a Nice Life
- First Body -- Two People
- No World as Good as Mine -- Kai Whiston
- Keepsake -- Hatchie
- Schlagenheim -- black midi
- Two Hands -- Big Thief
- Disgorged from Psychotic Depths -- Mortiferum
- H.A.Q.Q. -- Liturgy
7/10
- Remove Your Skin Please -- Chat Pile
- Pure Adult -- Pure Adult
- Age of Excuse -- Mgła
- I Think We're Alone Now -- Randy Rulz
- From Untruth -- Amirtha Kidambi's Elder Ones
- Hearts of No Light -- Schammasch
- Titanic Rising -- Weyes Blood
- Guns -- Quelle Chris
- Hidden History of the Human Race -- Blood Incantation
- Morbid Stuff -- PUP
- There Existed an Addiction to Blood -- clipping.
- Ode to Joy -- Wilco
- U.F.O.F. -- Big Thief
- The Furnaces of Palingenesia -- Deathspell Omega
- Lover -- Taylor Swift
- This Dungeon Earth -- Chat Pile
- A Dawn to Fear -- Cult of Luna
- Dedicated -- Carly Rae Jepsen
- I Want to Be There -- Sadness
- Daemon -- Mayhem
- American Love Call -- Durand Jones & The Indications
- Cosmicism -- The Great Old Ones
- leaving meaning. -- Swans
- Birth of Violence -- Chelsea Wolfe
- So Divine -- Horse Jumper of Love
- Aevum -- Vukari
- The Fleeting Light of Impermanence -- The Appleseed Cast
- Trust in the Lifeforce of Deep Mystery -- The Comet Is Coming
- Planetary Clairvoyance -- Tomb Mold
- Legacy! Legacy! -- Jamila Woods
- uknowwhatimsayin¿ -- Danny Brown
- False Confession -- Weeping Sores
- Serotonin II -- yeule
- Patience -- Mannequin Pussy
- New Hell -- Greet Death
- IGOR -- Tyler, the Creator
- Sulphur English -- Inter Arma
- The Telluric Ashes of the Ö Vrth Immemorial Gods -- Esoctrilihum
- Purple Mountains -- Purple Mountains
- Algleymi -- Misþyrming
- ZUU -- Denzel Curry
- The Church Is at Fault -- Elephant Watchtower
- Remembering the Rockets -- Strange Ranger
- Bandana -- Freddie Gibbs & Madlib
- Mirror in Darkness -- Serpent Column
- American Football [LP3] -- American Football
- Miss Universe -- Nilufer Yanya
- Complicate Your Life with Violence -- L'Orange & Jeremiah Jae
- -><- -- Collider
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10/10
9/10
- Aviary -- Julia Holter
8/10
- You Won't Get What You Want -- Daughters
- Some Rap Songs -- Earl Sweatshirt
- Spiraling -- Special Interest
- One Eye Sees Red -- Lonker See
- Gestures Been -- They Are Gutting a Body of Water
- Paraffin -- Armand Hammer
7/10
- Inchoate with the Light Go I -- He Was Eaten by Owls
- Brace up! -- Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt
- Distress Test -- Orchestra of Constant Distress
- Sunstroke -- BROM
- Nearer My God -- Foxing
- Inside a Ringing Chord -- Cages
- Qujaku -- Qujaku
- American Dollar Bill – Keep Looking Sideways, You're Too Hideous to Look at Face On -- Keiji Haino + SUMAC
- Wednesday -- Just Mustard
- 7 -- Beach House
- There Is a Place -- Maisha
- Dead Magic -- Anna von Hausswolff
- Love In Shadow -- SUMAC
- Tana Talk 3 -- Benny the Butcher
- Only Love -- The Armed
- Burnt Sugar -- Gouge Away
- 2012 - 2017 -- Against All Logic
- The Sciences -- Sleep
- Twin Fantasy (Face to Face) -- Car Seat Headrest
- Manor of Infinite Forms -- Tomb Mold
- Kiss Yr Frenemies -- Illuminati Hotties
- TA13OO -- Denzel Curry
- Misotheist -- Misotheist
- Infernal Decadence -- Spectral Wound
- Spanish Love Songs -- Schmaltz
- DAYTONA -- Pusha T
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10/10
9/10
- Science Fiction -- Brand New
- Cigarettes After Sex -- Cigarettes After Sex
8/10
- Slowdive -- Slowdive
- Sleep Well Beast -- The National
- I Can Be a Clay Snapper -- Širom
- Ersatz Living -- Anwar Sadat
- Hell -- Hell
7/10
- Relatives in Descent -- Protomartyr
- Ill -- Makthaverskan
- Primal Incinerators of Moral Matrix -- Tetragrammacide
- Stranger in the Alps -- Phoebe Bridgers
- What Passes for Survival -- Pyrrhon
- DAMN. -- Kendrick Lamar
- Ornuthi Thalassa -- Serpent Column
- The King of No Man -- Captain, We're Sinking
- Retrocasual -- Cleric
- GT Ultra -- Guerilla Toss
- Greatest Hits -- Remo Drive
- Rocket -- (Sandy) Alex G
- Altar of Decay -- Mortiferum
- Saturation II -- Brockhampton
- Crack-Up -- Fleet Foxes
- Hiss Spun -- Chelsea Wolfe
- Atonement -- Immolation
- Temple ov BBV -- Temple ov BBV
- Flower Boy -- Tyler, the Creator
- Ornuthi Thalassa -- Serpent Column
- Saturation III -- Brockhampton
- Grotesque Miscreation -- Faceless Burial
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10/10
9/10
- Horse Jumper of Love -- Horse Jumper of Love
8/10
- A Moon Shaped Pool -- Radiohead
- Atrocity Exhibition -- Danny Brown
- Blackstar -- David Bowie
- She Sleeps, She Sleeps -- Fire!
- The Glowing Man -- Swans
7/10
- I. -- Širom
- Ritual -- Fire! Orchestra
- Bottomless Pit -- Death Grips
- Eraser Stargazer-- Guerilla Toss
- Blonde -- Frank Ocean
- 22, A Million-- Bon Iver
- We got it from Here... Thank You 4 Your service -- A Tribe Called Quest
- The Synarchy of Molten Bones -- Deathspell Omega
- Skáphe² -- Skáphe
- Emotion: Side B -- Carly Rae Jepsen
- Cody -- Joyce Manor
- Starspawn -- Blood Incantation
- Worry. -- Jeff Rosenstock
- Teens of Denial -- Car Seat Headrest
- The Wanderer -- Jana Winderen
- Ufonaut -- Entropia
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9/10
- Holding Hands With Jamie -- Girl Band
- Nihil quam vacuitas ordinatum est -- Ad Nauseam
8/10
- Third Side of Tape -- Lil Ugly Mane
- Carrie & Lowell -- Sufjan Stevens
- E·MO·TION -- Carly Rae Jepsen
- Exercises in Futility -- Mgła
- Vulnicura -- Björk
- I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside -- Earl Sweatshirt
7/10
- Viet Cong -- Viet Cong [Preoccupations]
- Oblivion Access -- Lil Ugly Mane
- To Pimp a Butterfly -- Kendrick Lamar
- I Want to Hide My Face & Die -- Acid Ghost
- Divers -- Joanna Newsom
- No Closer to Heaven -- The Wonder Years
- Painted Shut -- Hop Along
- Litourgiya -- Batushka
- Copacetic -- Knuckle Puck
- Peripheral Vision -- Turnover
- Ten Love Songs -- Susanne Sundfor
- Abyss -- Chelsea Wolfe
- Adult Summers -- Prince Daddy & The Hyena
- Lore -- Elder
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10/10
- To Be Kind -- Swans
9/10
8/10
- Africa Express Presents... Terry Riley's In C Mali -- Africa Express
- Transmuted Marrow -- Gath Šmânê
- Wild Ivy League -- Wild Ivy
- Home, Like NoPlace Is There -- The Hotelier
7/10
- Shiny Eyed Babies -- Bent Knee
- The Unnatural World -- Have a Nice Life
- Enter! -- Fire! Orchestra
- Rise -- Jessica93
- The Mother of Virtues -- Pyrrhon
- Hit and Run -- Jack Ruby
- Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything -- Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra
- All That Is Solid Melts Into Air -- Kurws
- Totem -- White Suns
- Benji -- Sun Kil Moon
- Nothing Important -- Richard Dawson
- Want -- Wreck and Reference
- Mess -- Liars
- Promulgation of the Fall -- Dead Congregation
- Anonymous Bash -- Charles Hayward
- Oh, Common Life -- Fireworks
- Never Hungover Again -- Joyce Manor
- Time to Die -- Electric Wizard
- Decline & Fall -- Godflesh
- Black Messiah -- D'Angelo and The Vanguard
- 1989 -- Taylor Swift
- Run the Jewels 2 -- Run the Jewels
- A World Lit Only By Fire -- Godflesh
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10/10
- Trouble Will Find Me -- The National
9/10
- The Future Is Cancelled -- Captain, We're Sinking
8/10
- Maybe You, No One Else Worth It -- Brave Bird
- Teethed Glory and Injury -- Altar of Plagues
- Exit! -- Fire! Orchestra
- Colored Sands -- Gorguts
- Golden Grrrls -- Golden Grrrls
- Ceres & Calypso in the Deep Time -- Candy Claws
- Three Sided Tape Volume One -- Lil Ugly Mane
- Vermis -- Ulcerate
7/10
- Hubardo -- Kayo Dot
- II -- Makthaverskan
- The Feral Wisdom -- Wormlust
- m b v -- My Bloody Valentine
- Whenever, If Ever... -- The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die
- Acid Rap -- Chance the Rapper
- Sunbather -- Deafheaven
- Modern Vampires of the City -- Vampire Weekend
- The Greatest Generation -- The Wonder Years
- The Next Day -- David Bowie
- Three Sided Tape Volume Two -- Lil Ugly Mane
- Yeezus -- Kanye West
- Summer Death -- Marietta
- Illumination Ritual -- The Appleseed Cast
- Kingdom of Conspiracy -- Immolation
- What You Don't See -- The Story So Far
- Kveikur -- Sigur Rós
- Vesper -- Entropia
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10/10
9/10
- Just Married -- Glocca Morra
- The Seer -- Swans
- Bloom -- Beach House
8/10
- The Money Store -- Death Grips
- good kid, m.A.A.d. city -- Kendrick Lamar
- On the Impossible Past -- The Menzingers
7/10
- Outminded -- Dating
- Sorry -- White Lung
- Drought -- Deathspell Omega
- All We Love We Leave Behind -- Converge
- Ceremony -- Anna von Hausswolff
- France 98 -- Girl Band
- 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! -- Godspeed You! Black Emperor
- Hell III -- Hell
- With Hearts Toward None -- Mgła
- Ten Stores -- mewithoutYou
- Mista Thug Isolation -- Lil Ugly Mane
- Green to Blue -- Breathless
- No Love Deep Web -- Death Grips
- channel ORANGE -- Frank Ocean
- Advaitic Songs -- Om
- Centipede Hz -- Animal Collective
- De Vermis Mysteriis -- High on Fire
- Sinews -- White Suns
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9/10
8/10
- Bon Iver, Bon Iver -- Bon Iver
- Voids -- Have a Nice Life
7/10
- Giles Corey -- Giles Corey
- Dog Eat Dog -- Dog Eat Dog
- Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres -- Matana Roberts
- Mammal -- Altar of Plagues
- King of Limbs -- Radiohead
- Kaputt -- Destroyer
- The Destroyers of All -- Ulcerate
- Father, Son, Holy Ghost -- Girls
- Exmilitary -- Death Grips
- The Whole Love -- Wilco
- Let England Shake -- PJ Harvey
- Ravedeath, 1972 -- Tim Hecker
- Diabolus Absconditus -- Deathspell Omega
- Helplessness Blues -- Fleet Foxes
- Suburbia (I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing) -- The Wonder Years
- Gospel -- Fireworks
- From the Depths of Darkness -- Burzum
- Burst Apart -- The Antlers
- Under Soil and Dirt -- The Story So Far
- Damnesia -- Alkaline Trio
- XXX -- Danny Brown
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9/10
- Paracletus -- Deathspell Omega
- Contra -- Vampire Weekend
- Coyote -- Kayo Dot
- High Violet -- The National
8/10
- Coconuts -- Coconuts
- Uberschleiss -- Scorpion Violente
- Daughters -- Daughters
- Halcyon Digest -- Deerhunter
- Teen Dream -- Beach House
- Liberation Through Hearing -- Demdike Stare
- My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy -- Kanye West
- Majesty and Decay -- Immolation
7/10
- Murmuüre -- Murmuüre
- Forest of Evil -- Demdike Stare
- Throat -- Little Women
- Have One On Me -- Joanna Newsom
- Hell II -- Hell
- Sisterworld -- Liars
- It's the Evil -- White Lung
- Brothers -- The Black Keys
- Chapters of Repugnance -- Defeated Sanity
- Have You Seen My Prefrontal Cortex? -- A Great Big Pile of Leaves
- My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky -- Swans
- Public Strain -- Women
- This Addiction -- Alkaline Trio
- Arkhaiomelisidonophunikheratos -- Satanicpornocultshop
- The Age of Adz -- Sufjan Stevens
- The Upsides -- The Wonder Years
- Bonfires -- Fireworks
- .neon -- Lantlos
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10/10
- The Live in Lisbon -- Virginia Genta & Chris Corsano
9/10
- Divorce Lawyers I Shaved My Head -- Jordaan Mason & The Horse Museum
8/10
- Hospice -- The Antlers
- Daisy -- Brand New
- Merriweather Post Pavilion -- Animal Collective
7/10
- Rend Each Other Like Wild Beasts, Till the Earth Shall Reek with Midnight Massacre-- Gnaw Their Tongues
- Everything Is Fire -- Ulcerate
- Symbiosis -- Demdike Stare
- Daughter of Darkness -- Natural Snow Buildings
- Black Hole -- Full Blast
- Facial -- K-Branding
- Watersports -- Mi Ami
- White Tomb -- Altar of Plagues
- Common Existence -- Thursday
- In the Dream of the Sea Life -- Candy Claws
- Cat Party -- Cat Party
- Swarth -- Portal
- Unutella -- Nuito
- Wind's Poem -- Mount Eerie
- You Will Never Know Why -- Sweet Trip
- Helvetia's Junk Shop -- Helvetia
- In This World -- susquatch
- Twin Stumps -- Twin Stumps
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9/10
- Deathconsciousness -- Have a Nice Life
- Third -- Portishead
8/10
- Some Kind of Cadwallader -- Algernon Cadwallader
- Graves of the Archangels -- Dead Congregation
- The Second Original Silence -- Original Silence
- Visiter -- The Dodos
- Child Bearing Man -- Little Teeth
- The Black Flux -- Virus
7/10
- Hello Everyone, Nice to Meet You, We're Midori -- Midori
- The New Backwards -- Coil
- Mass of the Fermenting Dregs -- Mass of the Fermenting Dregs
- Two Airships / Exploder Falls -- Candy Claws
- Gong Lake -- Neptune
- April -- Sun Kil Moon
- Horse -- Motorama
- The Chicago Project -- Matana Roberts
- Songs to Scream at the Sun -- Have Heart
- Blue Lambency Downward -- Kayo Dot
- The Unlistenable Years -- Toy Killers
- Ottoman Black -- Jason Crumer
- Mennonite -- KEN Mode
- Fleet Foxes -- Fleet Foxes
- Dawn -- Mount Eerie
- In Ghost Colours -- Cut Copy
- Black Pus 4: All Aboard the Magic Pus -- Black Pus
- Tigers Jaw -- Tigers Jaw
- Lost Wisdom -- Mount Eerie w/ Julie Doiron & Fred Squire
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9/10
- For Emma, Forever Ago -- Bon Iver
- Strawberry Jam -- Animal Collective
- Boxer -- The National
8/10
- Two Bands and a Legend -- Two Bands and a Legend
- In Rainbows -- Radiohead
- Fas - Ite, maledicti, in ignem aeternum -- Deathspell Omega
7/10
- Outre -- Portal
- Second♥ -- Midori
- Dead Rails -- Air Conditioning
- Drowner Yellow Swans -- Drowner Yellow Swans
- Souvenirs d'un autre monde -- Alcest
- David Thomas Broughton vs. 7 Hertz -- David Thomas Broughton vs. 7 Hertz
- Whitenoise Superstar -- Astrobrite
- Weighing Souls With Sand -- The Angelic Process
- Liars -- Liars
- Plaguebearer -- Wraiths
- Scribble Mural Comic Journal -- A Sunny Day in Glasgow
- Hvarf/Heim -- Sigur Rós
- And Their Refinement of the Decline -- Stars of the Lid
- Volta -- Björk
- Operator Dead... Post Abandoned -- Burning Star Core
- Shadows in the Light -- Immolation
- Allegory of Allergies -- Emeralds
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9/10
- Drum's Not Dead -- Liars
- Ys -- Joanna Newsom
- The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me -- Brand New
8/10
- Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue -- Kayo Dot
- The Drift -- Scott Walker
- Donuts -- J Dilla
- Brother, Sister -- mewithoutYou
- Mass Hysterism in Another Situation -- New Direction Unit
7/10
- Blood in Our Wells -- Drudkh
- Settle Down City -- Young Widows
- Classic Erasmus Fusion -- Volcano the Bear
- Beautiful Seizure -- volcano!
- Ships -- Danielson
- Hail Infernal Darkness -- Drawn and Quartered
- Reprisal -- KEN Mode
- Destroyer's Rubies -- Destroyer
- Our Love Will Destroy the World -- Birchville Cat Motel
- Hell Songs -- Daughters
- Hell Hath No Fury -- Clipse
- Blood Mountain -- Mastodon
- Magic Potion -- The Black Keys
- New Sentimentality -- toe
- Dog Problems -- The Format
- We're Up to No Good, We're Up to No Good -- Rory
- Peregrine -- The Appleseed Cast
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9/10
- Pink -- Boris
- Takk... -- Sigur Rós
- The Book About My Idle Plot on a Vague Anxiety -- toe
8/10
- Frances the Mute -- The Mars Volta
- Illinois -- Sufjan Stevens
- Alligator -- The National
- Feels -- Animal Collective
7/10
- How to Raise an Ox -- Zu & Mats Gustafsson
- Tell Me About the Long Dark Path Home -- The Newfound Interest in Connecticut
- Aerial -- Kate Bush
- Kosherat -- Grand Belial's Key
- Drinking Songs -- Matt Elliott
- Fright Makes Right -- Cough
- ABCDEFGHIJKickball -- Kickball
- The Golden Morning Breaks -- Colleen
- Be -- Common
- Pinkshinyultrablast -- Astrobrite
- The Complete Guide to Insufficiency -- David Thomas Broughton
- I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning -- Bright Eyes
- Late Registration -- Kanye West
- Harnessing Ruin -- Immolation
- Kénôse -- Deathspell Omega
- Juturna -- Circa Survive
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9/10
- ///Codename: Dustsucker -- Bark Psychosis
8/10
- Bluffer's Guide to the Flight Deck -- Flotation Toy Warning
- Funeral -- Arcade Fire
- DNA on DNA -- DNA
- The College Dropout -- Kanye West
7/10
- Archaic -- Rudimentary Peni
- Shibuboshi -- Shibusashirazu
- Return of the Black Death -- Drawn and Quartered
- Jesu -- Jesu
- Sonic Nurse -- Sonic Youth
- Si monvmentvm reqvires, circvmspice -- Deathspell Omega
- Madvillainy -- Madvillain
- They Were Wrong, So We Drowned -- Liars
- A Ghost Is Born -- Wilco
- Panopticon -- Isis
- Catch for Us the Foxes -- mewithoutYou
- Leviathan -- Mastodon
- We Live -- Electric Wizard
- Medúlla -- Björk
- Decimate Christendom -- Incantation
- Pollyanna -- Northstar
- Good News for People Who Love Bad News -- Modest Mouse
- Rubber Factory -- The Black Keys
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10/10
- Ghosts of the Great Highway -- Sun Kil Moon
- The Disintegration Loops III -- William Basinski
9/10
- Mount Eerie -- The Microphones
- The Magnolia Electric Co. -- Songs: Ohia
8/10
- Vaudeville Villain -- Viktor Vaughn
- Pulling Our Weight -- The Radio Dept.
- Things Viral -- Khanate
- Dopesmoker -- Sleep
- Deja Entendu -- Brand New
- The Disintegration Loops II -- William Basinski
7/10
- Boris at Last -Feedbacker- -- Boris
- Happy Songs for Happy People -- Mogwai
- Black Eyes -- Black Eyes
- Choirs of the Eye -- Kayo Dot
- Transatlanticism -- Death Cab for Cutie
- The Disintegration Loops IV -- William Basinski
- Akuma no uta -- Boris
- De-Loused in the Comatorium -- The Mars Volta
- Coma Waering -- The Angelic Process
- A Special Album -- Ralph Myerz and the Jack Herren Band
- velocity : design : comfort. -- Sweet Trip
- War All the Time -- Thursday
- Hail to the Thief -- Radiohead
- Make Yourself Sick -- Boys Night Out
- 6 -- Supersilent
- Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers -- The National
- The Room's Too Cold -- The Early November
- Nervous Cop -- Nervous Cop
- Two Conversations -- The Appleseed Cast
- Interventions and Lullabies -- The Format
- Everything Goes Numb -- Streetlight Manifesto
- It Won't Snow Where You're Going -- Park
- Give Up -- The Postal Service
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9/10
- ( ) -- Sigur Rós
- The Disintegration Loops -- William Basinski
8/10
- Knife Play -- Xiu Xiu
- Mclusky Do Dallas -- Mclusky
- We Are the Only Friends We Have -- Piebald
- Hold Your Horse Is -- Hella
- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot -- Wilco
- Unholy Cult -- Immolation
- Yanqui U.X.O. -- Godspeed You! Black Emperor
7/10
- Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots -- The Flaming Lips
- You Forgot It In People -- Broken Social Scene
- Didn't It Rain -- Songs: Ohia
- Songs About Leaving -- Carissa's Wierd
- Sadness Will Prevail -- Today Is the Day
- Remission -- Mastodon
- Oceanic -- Isis
- Let Us Prey -- Electric Wizard
- [A-->B] Life -- mewithoutYou
- Turn On the Bright Lights -- Interpol
- Ballads -- Derek Bailey
- Songs for the Deaf -- Queens of the Stone Age
- Is This Thing Loaded? -- Northstar
- Lifted, or the Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground -- Bright Eyes
- Heathen -- David Bowie
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10/10
- Vespertine -- Björk
- The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording -- John Coltrane
9/10
- The Argument -- Fugazi
- Amnesiac -- Radiohead
8/10
- Leaves Turn Inside You -- Unwound
- She Knows... -- The Thing with Joe McPhee
- The Glow, Pt. 2 -- The Microphones
- Judeobeast Assassination -- Grand Belial's Key
- Renegade Heaven -- Bang On a Can All-Stars
- They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top -- Liars
- Nivraym -- Koenji Hyakkei
- Full Collapse -- Thursday
7/10
- Endless Summer -- Fennesz
- Bob Dinners & Larry Noodles Present Tubby Turdner's Celebrity Avalanche -- Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
- Khanate -- Khanate
- Bath -- maudlin of the Well
- drukqs -- Aphex Twin
- Low Level Owl, Volume I -- The Appleseed Cast
- Ancient Melodies of the Future -- Built to Spill
- From Wisdom to Hate -- Gorguts
- How I Loved You -- The Angels of Light
- Stay What You Are -- Saves the Day
- A Better Version of Me -- Rainer Maria
- From Here to Infirmary -- Alkaline Trio
- Toxicity -- System of a Down
- Hymns -- Godflesh
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10/10
- Kid A -- Radiohead
- Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven! -- Godspeed You! Black Emperor
9/10
- Whatever You Love, You Are -- Dirty Three
8/10
- Ghost Tropic -- Songs: Ohia
- The Moon & Antarctica -- Modest Mouse
- Mare Vitalis -- The Appleseed Cast
- Close to a World Below -- Immolation
- No Kill No Beep Beep -- Q and Not U
- Dopethrone -- Electric Wizard
- The For Carnation -- The For Carnation
- Dead as Dreams -- Weakling
7/10
- Flood -- Boris
- Surrendered -- David S. Ware
- I Wrote the Last Chapter for You -- Edaline
- Relationship of Command -- At the Drive-In
- NYC Ghosts & Flowers -- Sonic Youth
- And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out -- Yo La Tengo
- Ezarian -- Lisabö
- Ramadan -- ee
- He Has Left Us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms... -- Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra
- Maybe I'll Catch Fire -- Alkaline Trio
- The Infernal Storm -- Incantation
- Fevers & Mirrors -- Bright Eyes
- Rated R -- Queens of the Stone Age
- Nixon -- Lambchop
- Alkaline Trio -- Alkaline Trio
- The Marshall Mathers LP -- Eminem
- Since I Left You -- The Avalanches
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10/10
- American Football -- American Football
9/10
8/10
- Don't Wake Me Up -- Microphones
- The Soft Bulletin -- The Flaming Lips
- Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada -- Godspeed You! Black Emperor
- Failures for Gods -- Immolation
- Ágætis byrjun-- Sigur Rós
- Through Being Cool -- Saves the Day
7/10
- Paysage d'Hiver -- Paysage d'Hiver
- Calculating Infinity -- The Dillinger Escape Plan
- Pinback -- Pinback
- Make It It -- The Wicked Farleys
- 98.12.28 Otokotachi no wakare -- Fishmans
- Ponyoak -- Kleenex Girl Wonder
- The Fragile -- Nine Inch Nails
- Musick to Play in the Dark -- Coil
- Look Now Look Again -- Rainer Maria
- Keep It Like a Secret -- Built to Spill
- Live in Chicago, 1999 -- Joan of Arc
- Uterus and Fire -- Old Time Relijun
- In the Eyes of God -- Today Is the Day
- Come On Die Young -- Mogwai
- First Come, First Served -- Dr. Dooom
- Times of Grace -- Neurosis
- Under Glass -- Hash Jar Tempo
- No Division -- Hot Water Music
- New Mother -- The Angels of Light
- The Slim Shady LP -- Eminem
- Something to Write Home About -- The Get Up Kids
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9/10
- Swans Are Dead -- Swans
- Obscura -- Gorguts
8/10
- End Hits -- Fugazi
- What Burns Never Returns -- Don Caballero
- Deserter's Songs -- Mercury Rev
- Cold River Songs -- Bodychoke
- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea -- Neutral Milk Hotel
- Moon Pix -- Cat Power
- Ocean Songs -- Dirty Three
- Number One of Three -- The Body Lovers
- The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill -- Lauryn Hill
7/10
- How It Feels to Be Something On -- Sunny Day Real Estate
- Challenge for a Civilized Society -- Unwound
- Mocking the Philanthropist -- Grand Belial's Key
- The Shape of Punk to Come -- Refused
- Diabolical Conquest -- Incantation
- Goddamnit -- Alkaline Trio
- XO -- Elliott Smith
- A Thousand Leaves -- Sonic Youth
- Frame & Canvas -- Braid
- Conglomerate International -- Frodus
- EndSerenading -- Mineral
- The Sound of Perseverance -- Death
- Swingset in June -- Swingset in June
- This Is Hardcore -- Pulp
- Water & Solutions -- Far
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10/10
- Consume Red -- Ground-Zero
- The Lonesome Crowded West -- Modest Mouse
9/10
- OK Computer -- Radiohead
- Homogenic -- Björk
8/10
- Perfect from Now On -- Built to Spill
- Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space -- Spiritualized
- Everyone Asked About You -- Everyone Asked About You
- F♯A♯∞ -- Godspeed You! Black Emperor
- Plays Standards -- Ground-Zero
7/10
- Hide Here Forever -- Strictly Ballroom
- Chiastic Slide -- Autechre
- Mogwai Young Team -- Mogwai
- I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One -- Yo La Tengo
- Temple of the Morning Star -- Today Is the Day
- Beautiful Charade -- Camber
- Come My Fanatics... -- Electric Wizard
- Either/Or -- Elliott Smith
- The Power of Failing -- Mineral
- Eight Hours Away From Being a Man -- Roadside Monument
- Portishead -- Portishead
- Sol Niger Within -- Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects
- ...When Life Hands You Lemons -- Piebald
- Jersey's Best Dancers -- Lifetime
- Kelvingrove Baby -- The Bathers
- Nothing Feels Good -- The Promise Ring
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9/10
- Filosofem -- Burzum
- This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About -- Modest Mouse
- Made Available: John Peel Sessions -- This Heat
8/10
- Soundtracks for the Blind -- Swans
- Stereo -- Christie Front Drive
- Repetition -- Unwound
- Oblations and Blessings -- David S. Ware
- Horse Stories -- Dirty Three
- None So Vile -- Cryptopsy
- Endtroducing... -- DJ Shadow
7/10
- Long Season -- Fishmans
- Today Is the Day -- Today Is the Day
- Through Silver in Blood -- Neurosis
- Marshmallows -- The For Carnation
- Die Tür ist zu -- Swans
- I Hope It Lands -- Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
- (Revolutionary Pekinese Opera) Ver.1.28 -- Ground-Zero
- Interstate 8 -- Modest Mouse
- Richard D. James Album -- Aphex Twin
- Being There -- Wilco
- February / M.D. -- Mineral
- Excerpts from a Love Circus -- Lisa Germano
- Stealing From Our Favorite Thieves -- The Van Pelt
- Here in After -- Immolation
- Valentino -- Long Fin Killie
- Pinkerton -- Weezer
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10/10
- Written in Waters -- Ved Buens Ende.....
9/10
- The Infamous -- Mobb Deep
8/10
- Liquid Swords -- Genius/GZA
- Symbolic -- Death
- Red Medicine -- Fugazi
- Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness -- The Smashing Pumpkins
- Washing Machine -- Sonic Youth
- Stellar Regions -- John Coltrane
- 1. Outside -- David Bowie
7/10
- Don Caballero 2 -- Don Caballero
- The Great Annihilator -- Swans
- Upon the Throne of Apocalypse -- Incantation
- Ocean Beach -- Red House Painters
- The Future of What -- Unwound
- Pierced from Within -- Suffocation
- Long Division -- Low
- Electric Wizard -- Electric Wizard
- Post -- Björk
- The Bends -- Radiohead
- Bergtatt: Et eeventyr i 5 capitler -- Ulver
- Castor -- Castor
- Storm of the Light's Bane -- Dissection
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- Yank Crime -- Drive Like Jehu
9/10
8/10
- Those Who Caress the Pale -- Ved Buens Ende.....
- At Action Park -- Shellac
- Willpower -- Today Is the Day
- Dummy -- Portishead
- De mysteriis dom sathanas -- Mayhem
- Welcome to Sky Valley -- Kyuss
- Diary -- Sunny Day Real Estate
- I Could Live in Hope -- Low
7/10
- Rusty -- Rodan
- Selected Ambient Works Volume II -- Aphex Twin
- There's Nothing Wrong With Love -- Built to Spill
- New Plastic Ideas -- Unwound
- Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star -- Sonic Youth
- The Funeral Pudding -- Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
- Phantasies and Senseitions -- Bügsküll
- Selfless -- Godflesh
- Strangers from the Universe -- Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
- Hvis lyset tar oss -- Burzum
- Christie Front Drive -- Christie Front Drive
- Human = Garbage -- Dystopia
- The Sea and Cake -- The Sea and Cake
- Weezer [The Blue Album] -- Weezer
- Ready to Die -- The Notorious B.I.G.
- Merciless -- Godflesh
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9/10
- Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) -- Wu-Tang Clan
- Fake Train -- Unwound
- Souvlaki -- Slowdive
- In utero -- Nirvana
8/10
- The Problem With Me -- Seam
- Debut -- Björk
- Nespithe -- Demilich
- Siamese Dream -- The Smashing Pumpkins
7/10
- Ask Questions Later -- Cop Shoot Cop
- Painful -- Yo La Tengo
- Cure for Pain -- Morphine
- Red House Painters [Rollercoaster] -- Red House Painters
- Tindersticks -- Tindersticks
- Transcendence Into the Peripheral -- diSEMBOWELMENT
- Admonishing the Bishops -- Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
- In On the Kill Taker -- Fugazi
- Repeat -- This Heat
- Spheres -- Pestilence
- Ground Zero -- Ground-Zero
- Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version -- Earth
- The Erosion of Sanity -- Gorguts
- Supernova -- Today Is the Day
- Individual Thought Patterns -- Death
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- Down Colorful Hill -- Red House Painters
- Willisau (Quartet) 1991 -- Anthony Braxton
9/10
- Leng tch'e -- Naked City
8/10
- Liar -- The Jesus Lizard
- Shadow Weaver -- The Legendary Pink Dots
- Theoria -- Barry Guy London Jazz Composers Orchestra feat. Irène Schweizer
- Thunder Perfect Mind -- Nurse With Wound
- Fontanelle -- Babes in Toyland
- Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me -- Angelo Badalamenti
7/10
- Lysol -- Melvins
- Good -- Morphine
- The Red in the Sky Is Ours -- At the Gates
- Lazer Guided Melodies -- Spiritualized
- Onward to Golgotha -- Incantation
- Slumber of Sullen Eyes -- Demigod
- Love of Life -- Swans
- Sleep's Holy Mountain -- Sleep
- This Is Not a Dream -- Dadamah
- Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde -- The Pharcyde
- Dawn of Dreams -- Pan.Thy.Monium
- Epidemic of Violence -- Demolition Hammer
- A Blaze in the Northern Sky -- Darkthrone
- Whut? Thee Album -- Redman
- Dry -- PJ Harvey
- Pure -- Godflesh
- Burzum -- Burzum
- Blues for the Red Sun -- Kyuss
- Wish -- The Cure
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- Spiderland -- Slint
- Laughing Stock -- Talk Talk
9/10
8/10
- Loveless -- My Bloody Valentine
- Dim the Lights, Chill the Ham -- Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
- Goat -- The Jesus Lizard
- Mental Blocks for All Ages -- Dog Faced Hermans
- Tremolo -- My Bloody Valentine
- Unquestionable Presence -- Atheist
- Human -- Death
7/10
- White Noise -- Cop Shoot Cop
- Ask the Ages -- Sonny Sharrock
- Just for a Day -- Slowdive
- April Is the Cruellest Month -- Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit
- Drive Like Jehu -- Drive Like Jehu
- Nevermind -- Nirvana
- Steady Diet of Nothing -- Fugazi
- Great Bliss, Vol. 2 -- David S. Ware Quartet
- Testimony of the Ancients -- Pestilence
- Yerself Is Steam -- Mercury Rev
- Body to Body, Job to Job -- Swans
- Great Bliss, Vol. 1 -- David S. Ware Quartet
- Contradictions Collapse -- Meshuggah
- On the Way Down from the Moon Palace -- Lisa Germano
- Mental Funeral -- Autopsy
- Gish -- The Smashing Pumpkins
- White Light from the Mouth of Infinity -- Swans
- Slavestate -- Godflesh
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9/10
- Repeater -- Fugazi
- Naked City -- John Zorn [Naked City]
8/10
- Goo -- Sonic Youth
- Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic -- The Sundays
- Consumer Revolt -- Cop Shoot Cop
- Frizzle Fry -- Primus
- Rust in Peace -- Megadeth
7/10
- Nowhere -- Ride
- Head -- The Jesus Lizard
- Frigid Stars -- Codeine
- Born in Blood -- Pain Teens
- Danzig II: Lucifuge -- Danzig
- She Hangs Brightly -- Mazzy Star
- In the Marshes -- For Against
- Soundtrack from Twin Peaks -- Angelo Badalamenti
- Heaven or Las Vegas -- Cocteau Twins
- Love Poke Here -- Ed Hall
- Jordan: The Comeback -- Prefab Sprout
- Left Hand Path -- Entombed
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9/10
- Disintegration -- The Cure
- Streetcleaner -- Godflesh
8/10
- Floating Into the Night -- Julee Cruise
- 13 Songs -- Fugazi
- Pure -- The Jesus Lizard
- Griller -- UT
7/10
- Severed Survival -- Autopsy
- On Fire -- Galaxie 500
- Altars of Madness -- Morbid Angel
- Nothingface -- Voivod
- Tweez -- Slint
- Bizarro -- The Wedding Present
- Symphony No. 6 (Devil Choirs at the Gates of Heaven) -- Glenn Branca
- Doolittle -- Pixies
- The Stone Roses -- The Stone Roses
- Snowball -- The Field Mice
- Technique -- New Order
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- Today -- Galaxie 500
9/10
- Spirit of Eden -- Talk Talk
- Daydream Nation -- Sonic Youth
8/10
- Picture One -- Asylum Party
- Godflesh -- Godflesh
7/10
- The Tribe -- Caspar Brötzmann Massaker
- You Made Me Realise -- My Bloody Valentine
- Let's Skip the Details -- My Dad Is Dead
- Wormed by Leonard -- Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
- Dancing to Restore an Eclipsed Moon -- Red Temple Spirits
- Undertow -- Blind Idiot God
- Isn't Anything -- My Bloody Valentine
- Africa -- Pharoah Sanders, John Hicks, Curtis Lundy & Idris Muhammed
- Cacophony -- Rudimentary Peni
- Leprosy -- Death
- Soliloquy for Lilith -- Nurse With Wound
- Malcolm X Park -- Unrest
- Starfish -- The Church
- Introspective -- Pet Shop Boys
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9/10
- Sister -- Sonic Youth
8/10
- Strangeways, Here We Come -- The Smiths
- In Gut's House -- UT
- Children of God -- Swans
7/10
- The Walking -- Jane Siberry
- Ur Kaos -- Ur Kaos
- Blind Idiot God -- Blind Idiot God
- White-Out Conditions -- Bel Canto
- Floodland -- The Sisters of Mercy
- Seize the Rainbow -- Sonny Sharrock Band
- Fünf auf der nach oben offenen Richterskala -- Einstürzende Neubauten
- Psonic Psunspot -- The Dukes of Stratosphear
- Pleased to Meet Me -- The Replacements
- Drum -- Hugo Largo
- Merry Go Round -- Laughing Hyenas
- Come On Pilgrim -- Pixies
- Ruins II -- Ruins
- Killing Technology -- Voivod
- Locust Abortion Technician -- Butthole Surfers
- Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me -- The Cure
- Warehouse: Songs and Stories -- Hüsker Dü
- Within the Realm of a Dying Sun -- Dead Can Dance
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10/10
- The Queen Is Dead -- The Smiths
9/10
- Rembrandt Pussyhorse -- Butthole Surfers
8/10
- Atomizer -- Big Black
- Public Castration Is a Good Idea -- Swans
- The Colour of Spring -- Talk Talk
- Brotherhood -- New Order
- Conviction -- UT
7/10
- EVOL -- Sonic Youth
- Morbid Visions -- Sepultura
- The Ghost Trade -- Camberwell Now
- Holy Money -- Swans
- Peace Sells...But Who's Buying? -- Megadeth
- Epicus Doomicus Metallicus -- Candlemass
- Song X -- Pat Metheny & Ornette Coleman
- Twitch -- Ministry
- Greed -- Swans
- Master of Puppets -- Metallica
- Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express -- The Go-Betweens
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10/10
- Bad Moon Rising -- Sonic Youth
9/10
8/10
- Confidential -- UT
- The Head On the Door -- The Cure
- Hounds of Love -- Kate Bush
- Low-Life -- New Order
7/10
- Tim -- The Replacements
- Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good! -- Megadeth
- Meat Is Murder -- The Smiths
- Winged Serpent (Sliding Quadrants) -- Cecil Taylor Segments II
- New Day Rising -- Hüsker Dü
- Telephone Free Landslide Victory -- Camper Van Beethoven
- This Is the Sea -- The Waterboys
- Spleen and Ideal -- Dead Can Dance
- What Does Anything Mean? Basically -- The Chameleons
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9/10
- Hatful of Hollow -- The Smiths
8/10
- Cop -- Swans
- From Her to Eternity -- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
- UT -- UT
- Tabula rasa -- Arvo Pärt
- Broadcasting From Home -- Penguin Café Orchestra
- The Smiths -- The Smiths
- Double Nickels on the Dime -- Minutemen
- Treasure -- Cocteau Twins
7/10
- Moving -- The Raincoats
- Let It Be -- The Replacements
- The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall -- The Fall
- Beating the Retreat -- Test Dept
- Micro-Phonies -- Cabaret Voltaire
- Zen Arcade -- Hüsker Dü
- Step Forward -- Portion Control
- Psychic...Powerless...Another Man's Sac -- Butthole Surfers
- Purple Rain -- Prince and The Revolution
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10/10
- Filth -- Swans
9/10
8/10
- Prehistory -- Circle X
- Confusion Is Sex -- Sonic Youth
- Power, Corruption and Lies -- New Order
- Symphony No. 1 (Tonal Plexus) -- Glenn Branca
7/10
- Title in Limbo -- The Residents & Renaldo and The Loaf
- Perverted by Language -- The Fall
- What Makes a Man Start Fires? -- Minutemen
- Zeichnungen des Patienten O.T. -- Einstürzende Neubauten
- Violent Femmes -- Violent Femmes
- Transition -- Peter Michael Hamel
- Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks -- Brian Eno with Daniel Lanois & Roger Eno
- Let's Dance -- David Bowie
- Head Over Heels -- Cocteau Twins
- Speaking in Tongues -- Talking Heads
- The Art of Falling Apart -- Soft Cell
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9/10
8/10
- Urban Bushmen -- Art Ensemble of Chicago
- Swans -- Swans
- Sonic Youth -- Sonic Youth
- Pornography -- The Cure
- Hex Enduction Hour -- The Fall
- Broken Shadows -- Ornette Coleman
7/10
- Seven Songs -- 23 Skidoo
- Vs. -- Mission of Burma
- Ice Cream for Crow -- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
- Leichenschrei -- SPK
- Ambient 4: On Land -- Brian Eno
- Philharmony -- Haruomi Hosono
- Room to Live (Undilutable Slang Truth!) -- The Fall
- New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) -- Simple Minds
- Ike Yard -- Ike Yard
- Nebraska -- Bruce Springsteen
- Perspective -- P-Model
- Big Science -- Laurie Anderson
- Miami -- The Gun Club
- You Can't Hide Your Love Forever -- Orange Juice
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10/10
- Deceit -- This Heat
- The Ascension -- Glenn Branca
- Playing With a Different Sex -- Au Pairs
9/10
8/10
- Odyshape -- The Raincoats
- Killing Time -- Massacre
- Circus Mort -- Circus Mort
- Movement -- New Order
- Fire of Love -- The Gun Club
- The Seduction -- Ludus
7/10
- Coffin for Head of State -- Fela
- Mark of the Mole -- The Residents
- Three Quartets -- Chick Corea
- Penguin Café Orchestra -- Penguin Café Orchestra
- Signals, Calls, and Marches -- Mission of Burma
- Architecture & Morality -- Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
- Faith -- The Cure
- Directions -- Miles Davis
- Still -- Joy Division
- Discipline -- King Crimson
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10/10
- Closer -- Joy Division
9/10
- Remain in Light -- Talking Heads
- The River -- Bruce Springsteen
- For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder? -- The Pop Group
- Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror -- Harold Budd & Brian Eno
8/10
- Ming -- David Murray Octet
- Strange Celestial Road -- Sun Ra
- Crazy Rhythms -- The Feelies
- A-Z -- Colin Newman
- Jane from Occupied Europe -- Swell Maps
- The Visit -- Ludus
7/10
- Colossal Youth -- Young Marble Giants
- In the Flat Field -- Bauhaus
- Red Exposure -- Chrome
- Doc at the Radar Station -- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
- Contrasts -- Sam Rivers
- Special Edition -- Jack DeJohnette
- Digital Stimulation -- The Units
- Colours of Time -- Peter Michael Hamel
- Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) -- David Bowie
- Killing Joke -- Killing Joke
- Bass Culture -- Linton Kwesi Johnson
- The Hilversum Session -- Albert Ayler
- Never for Ever -- Kate Bush
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9/10
- This Heat -- This Heat
8/10
- Rust Never Sleeps -- Neil Young & Crazy Horse
- Lodger -- David Bowie
- Unknown Pleasures -- Joy Division
- Y -- The Pop Group
- Eskimo -- The Residents
- Birth of a Being -- David S. Ware
- Teenage Jesus & The Jerks -- Teenage Jesus & The Jerks
7/10
- Entertainment! -- Gang of Four
- Stand By -- Heldon
- Cut -- The Slits
- New Picnic Time -- Pere Ubu
- Live at the Witch Trials -- The Fall
- The Graveyard and the Ballroom -- A Certain Ratio
- The Raincoats -- The Raincoats
- Circle in the Found -- Pere Ubu
- Read Only Memory -- Chrome
- Fear of Music -- Talking Heads
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10/10
- The Modern Dance -- Pere Ubu
9/10
8/10
- Yellow Magic Orchestra -- Yellow Magic Orchestra
- Ducks Stab / Buster & Glen -- The Residents
- Alabama Feeling -- Arthur Doyle Plus 4
- Darkness on the Edge of Town -- Bruce Springsteen
- Music for 18 Musicians -- Steve Reich
- Not Available -- The Residents
7/10
- Dub Housing -- Pere Ubu
- Chairs Missing -- Wire
- No New York -- Contortions; Teenage Jesus & The Jerks; Mars; D.N.A.
- Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) -- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
- Body Meta -- Ornette Coleman
- Vernal Equinox -- Jon Hassell
- Ambient 1: Music for Airports -- Brian Eno
- The Kick Inside -- Kate Bush
- More Songs About Buildings and Food -- Talking Heads
- T.V.O.D. / Warm Leatherette -- The Normal
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10/10
- Low -- David Bowie
- Bäbi -- Milford Graves
9/10
- Marquee Moon -- Television
8/10
- Pink Flag -- Wire
- Dialoghi del presente -- Luciano Cilio
- Pharoah -- Pharoah Sanders
- Alien Soundtracks -- Chrome
- First Meditations (For Quartet) -- John Coltrane
- Lust for Life -- Iggy Pop
- "Heroes" -- David Bowie
- Dancing in Your Head -- Ornette Coleman
7/10
- Paragon -- Sam Rivers
- Zombie -- Fela Kuti & Afrika 70
- Animals -- Pink Floyd
- Before and After Science -- Brian Eno
- Ultravox! -- Ultravox!
- Implosions -- Stephan Micus
- Talking Heads: 77 -- Talking Heads
- The Idiot -- Iggy Pop
- Rumors -- Fleetwood Mac
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10/10
- Station to Station -- David Bowie
9/10
8/10
- Radio Ethiopia -- Patti Smith
- The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse -- Duke Ellington
7/10
- Desire -- Bob Dylan
- Mother Earth's Plantasia -- Mort Garson
- Third Reich 'n Roll -- The Residents
- Balladyna -- Tomasz Stanko
- Music from the Penguin Café -- Penguin Café Orchestra
- Unlawful Noise -- Haazz & Company
- The Modern Lovers -- The Modern Lovers
- Moonmadness -- Camel
- Black Market -- Weather Report
- Water Babies -- Miles Davis
- Songs in the Key of Life -- Stevie Wonder
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9/10
- Wish You Were Here -- Pink Floyd
- Blood on the Tracks -- Bob Dylan
8/10
- Born to Run -- Bruce Springsteen
- Expensive Shit -- Fela Kuti & Africa 70
- Trio and Duet -- Anthony Braxton
7/10
- Another Green World -- Brian Eno
- Zuma -- Neil Young with Crazy Horse
- Neu! '75 -- Neu!
- Brown Rice -- Don Cherry
- In Praise of Learning -- Henry Cow
- Das Hohelied Salomos -- Popol Vuh
- Donna Lee -- Anthony Braxton
- Evening Star -- Fripp & Eno
- Fleetwood Mac -- Fleetwood Mac
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10/10
- Red -- King Crimson
9/10
- Meet the Residents -- The Residents
8/10
- Interstellar Space -- John Coltrane
- Crystals -- Sam Rivers
- Get Up With It -- Miles Davis
- Autobahn -- Kraftwerk
- Love in Us All -- Pharoah Sanders
- Big Fun -- Miles Davis
- The Africa Brass Sessions, Vol. 2 -- John Coltrane
7/10
- On the Beach -- Neil Young
- Mirage -- Camel
- Soon Over Babaluma -- Can
- Here Come the Warm Jets -- Brian Eno
- In the Tradition -- Anthony Braxton
- Starless and Bible Black -- King Crimson
- Diamond Dogs -- David Bowie
- Radio City -- Big Star
- Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) -- Brian Eno
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9/10
- Space Is the Place -- Sun Ra
- Fare Forward Voyagers (Soldier's Choice) -- John Fahey
- Larks' Tongues in Aspic -- King Crimson
- Future Days -- CAN
- Izipho Zam (My Gifts) -- Pharoah Sanders
8/10
- Faust IV -- Faust
- Pakistani Pomade -- Alexander von Schlippenbach Trio
- A.R. IV -- A.R. & Machines
- The Ear of the Behearer -- Dewey Redman
- The Wild, the Innocent, & the E Street Shuffle -- Bruce Springsteen
- Conference of the Birds -- David Holland Quartet
7/10
- The Faust Tapes -- Faust
- Houses of the Holy -- Led Zeppelin
- The Henry Cow Legend -- Henry Cow
- Aladdin Sane -- David Bowie
- AR3 -- A.R. & Machines
- Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. -- Bruce Springsteen
- Head Hunters -- Herbie Hancock
- Sabbath Bloody Sabbath -- Black Sabbath
- Lawrence of Newark -- Larry Young
- Dark Side of the Moon -- Pink Floyd
- Let's Get It On -- Marvin Gaye
- Innervisions -- Stevie Wonder
- Closing Time -- Tom Waits
- For Your Pleasure -- Roxy Music
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10/10
- Ege Bamyasi -- CAN
9/10
- The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars -- David Bowie
- Pink Moon -- Nick Drake
8/10
- Let My Children Hear Music -- Charles Mingus
- Close to the Edge -- Yes
- Echo -- A.R. & Machines
- On the Corner -- Miles Davis
- So Far -- Faust
- Infinity-- John Coltrane
7/10
- Dogon A.D. -- Julius Hemphill
- The Academy in Peril-- John Cale
- Science Fiction -- Ornette Coleman
- Hosianna Mantra-- Popol Vuh
- Sahara -- McCoy Tyner
- Black Unity -- Pharoah Sanders
- Transformer -- Lou Reed
- The Black Ark -- Noah Howard
- Circle-2 Gathering -- Circle
- The Grand Wazoo -- The Mothers of Invention
- The Spotlight Kid -- Captain Beefheart
- Saxophone Improvisations Series F -- Anthony Braxton
- Superfly -- Curtis Mayfield
- Clube da Esquina -- Milton Nascimento & Lô Borges
- World Galaxy -- Alice Coltrane With Strings
- Machine Head -- Deep Purple
- Saint Dominic's Preview -- Van Morrison
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10/10
- Faust -- Faust
- Mirror Man -- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
9/10
- Die grüne Reise - The Green Journey -- A.R. & Machines
- First Utterance -- Comus
- In den Gärten Pharaos -- Popol Vuh
- Hunky Dory -- David Bowie
8/10
- Islands -- King Crimson
- Tago Mago -- CAN
- Improvisie -- Paul Bley
- Journey in Satchidananda -- Alice Coltrane & Pharoah Sanders
- Pawn Hearts -- Van der Graaf Generator
- Universal Consciousness -- Alice Coltrane
- Sun Ship -- John Coltrane
- Meddle -- Pink Floyd
- Twins -- Ornette Coleman
7/10
- Music to Eat -- Hampton Grease Band
- Thembi -- Pharoah Sanders
- Fourth -- Soft Machine
- Chruch of Anthrax -- John Cale & Terry Riley
- A Tribute to Jack Johnson -- Miles Davis
- Fragile -- Yes
- Bronca Buenos Aires -- Jorge López Ruiz
- What's Going On -- Marvin Gaye
- Love Call -- Ornette Coleman
- Bryter Layter -- Nick Drake
- Songs of Love and Hate -- Leonard Cohen
- The Call -- Mal Waldron, Jimmy Jackson, Eberhard Weber & Fred Braceful
- Tupelo Honey -- Van Morrison
- Led Zeppelin IV -- Led Zeppelin
- Sticky Fingers -- The Rolling Stones
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10/10
- Bitches Brew -- Miles Davis
- Starsailor -- Tim Buckley
- Exuma -- Exuma
9/10
- Yeti -- Amon Düül II
- Exuma II -- Exuma
- Lorca -- Tim Buckley
- For Alto -- Anthony Braxton
8/10
- Third -- Soft Machine
- Liberation Music Orchestra -- Charlie Haden
- "mu" Second Part -- Don Cherry
- The Topography of the Lungs -- Evan Parker, Derek Bailey & Han Bennink
- In the Wake of Poseidon -- King Crimson
- Monkey-Pockey-Boo -- Sonny Sharrock
- Piano Rags by Scott Joplin -- Joshua Rifkin (comp. Scott Joplin)
- Lizard -- King Crimson
- Moondance -- Van Morrison
7/10
- Deaf Dumb Blind (Summun Bukmun Umyun) -- Pharoah Sanders
- Third Ear Band [Elements] -- Third Ear Band
- Transition -- John Coltrane
- Lick My Decals Off, Baby -- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
- Les stances à Sophie -- Art Ensemble of Chicago
- Soundtracks -- CAN
- Affenstunde -- Popol Vuh
- Black Suite -- Jacques Coursil
- After the Gold Rush -- Neil Young
- Burnt Weeny Sandwich -- The Mothers of Invention
- Jewels of Thought -- Pharoah Sanders
- Paranoid -- Black Sabbath
- Cosmo's Factory -- Creedence Clearwater Revival
- Parallelograms -- Linda Perhacs
- Music for K -- Tomasz Stańko Quartet
- Loaded -- The Velvet Underground
- The Man Who Sold the World-- David Bowie
- Black Sabbath -- Black Sabbath
- Led Zeppelin III -- Led Zeppelin
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10/10
- In a Silent Way -- Miles Davis
- Uncle Meat -- The Mothers of Invention
- "mu" First Part -- Don Cherry
9/10
- In the Court of the Crimson King -- King Crimson
- Black Woman -- Sonny Sharrock
- Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere -- Neil Young
- Porto Novo -- Marion Brown
- Abbey Road -- The Beatles
- Al - Fatihah -- Black Unity Trio
8/10
- Trout Mask Replica -- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
- Is -- Chick Corea
- Happy Sad -- Tim Buckley
- Townes Van Zandt -- Townes Van Zandt
- The Living Music -- Alexander von Schlippenbach
- Phallus Dei -- Amon Düül II
- Nipples -- The Peter Brötzmann Sextext
- Valentyne Suite -- Colosseum
- Our Mother the Mountain -- Townes Van Zandt
- The Velvet Underground -- The Velvet Underground
- Karma -- Pharoah Sanders
- The Yellow Princess -- John Fahey
- Arthur (or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) -- The Kinks
7/10
- Venus in Cancer -- Robbie Basho
- Prayer for Peace -- Amalgam
- Volume Two -- The Soft Machine
- Five Leaves Left -- Nick Drake
- Anthony Braxton [B-X° / N O I 47A] -- Anthony Braxton
- Let It Bleed -- The Rolling Stones
- Filles de Kilimanjaro -- Miles Davis
- Scott 4 -- Scott Walker
- Bleak House -- Terje Rypdal
- Led Zeppelin II -- Led Zeppelin
- Esoteric Circle -- Jan Garbarek with Terje Rypdal
- Gal Costa -- Gal Costa
- Luna Surface -- Alan Silva and His Celestrial Communication Orchestra
- Hot Rats -- Frank Zappa
- Led Zeppelin -- Led Zeppelin
- Scott 3 -- Scott Walker
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10/10
- Odessey and Oracle -- The Zombies
9/10
- Astral Weeks -- Van Morrison
- The Village Green Preservation Society -- The Kinks
- Machine Gun -- The Peter Brötzmann Octet
- Om -- John Coltrane
8/10
- Begin -- The Millennium
- Silver Apples -- Silver Apples
- It's Not Up to Us -- Byard Lancaster
- White Light / White Heat -- The Velvet Underground
- We're Only in It for the Money -- The Mothers of Invention
- Nefertiti -- Miles Davis
- Electric Ladyland -- The Jimi Hendrix Experience
7/10
- Love Cry -- Albert Ayler
- A Saucerful of Secrets -- Pink Floyd
- Now He Sings, Now He Sobs -- Chick Corea
- The Marble Index -- Nico
- Strictly Personal -- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
- The Magic of Ju-Ju -- Archie Shepp
- Cosmic Music -- John Coltrane & Alice Coltrane
- In C -- Terry Riley
- Miles in the Sky -- Miles Davis
- The Voice of the Turtle -- John Fahey
- 3 Compositions of New Jazz -- Anthony Braxton
- Contact -- Silver Apples
- Music from Big Pink -- The Band
- Beggars Banquet -- The Rolling Stones
- The Beatles [White Album] -- The Beatles
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10/10
- The Piper at the Gates of Dawn -- Pink Floyd
- Strange Strings -- Sun Ra and His Astro Infinity Arkestra
9/10
- The Parable of Arable Land -- Red Crayola
- Safe as Milk -- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
- Intents and Purposes: The Jazz Artistry of Bill Dixon -- The Bill Dixon Orchestra
- Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy -- Sun Ra & His Myth Science Arkestra
- The Velvet Underground & Nico -- The Velvet Underground & Nico
8/10
- Forever Changes -- Love
- Chappaqua Suite -- Ornette Coleman
- Sound -- Roscoe Mitchell Sextet
- Song For -- Joseph Jarman
- Kulu Sé Mama -- John Coltrane
- Compulsion -- Andrew Hill
- Monument -- Hansson & Karlsson
- Tauhid -- Pharoah Sanders
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band -- The Beatles
- Requia & Other Compositions for Guitar Solo -- John Fahey
- Miles Smiles -- The Miles Davis Quintet
7/10
- Axis: Bold as Love -- The Jimi Hendrix Experience
- Contours -- Sam Rivers
- Globe Unity -- Alexander von Schlippenbach
- Goodbye and Hello -- Tim Buckley
- Chelsea Girl -- Nico
- Magical Mystery Tour -- The Beatles
- Indian War Whoop -- The Holy Modal Rounders
- Expression -- John Coltrane
- Absolutely Free -- The Mothers of Invention
- The Empty Foxhole -- Ornette Coleman
- Songs of Leonard Cohen -- Leonard Cohen
- Sorcerer -- Miles Davis
- Far East Suite -- Duke Ellington
- Are You Experienced -- The Jimi Hendrix Experience
- Volume 6: Days Have Gone By -- John Fahey
- The Doors -- The Doors
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10/10
- Meditations -- John Coltrane
9/10
- Pet Sounds -- The Beach Boys
- Ascension -- John Coltrane
8/10
- Unit Structures -- Cecil Taylor
- Revolver -- The Beatles
- The Avant-Garde -- John Coltrane & Don Cherry
- Face to Face -- The Kinks
- Blonde on Blonde -- Bob Dylan
7/10
- The Psychedelic Sounds of... -- The 13th Floor Elevators
- Complete Communion -- Don Cherry
- Freak Out! -- The Mothers of Invention
- Sounds of Silence -- Simon & Garfunkel
- Astigmatic -- Krzysztof Komeda
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9/10
- Ghosts -- Albert Ayler Quartet
- A Love Supreme -- John Coltrane
- Rubber Soul -- The Beatles
8/10
- Spiritual Unity -- Albert Ayler
- The Giuseppi Logan Quartet -- The Giuseppi Logan Quartet
- Highway 61 Revisited -- Bob Dylan
- Explosions -- Bob James Trio
7/10
- Volume 3: Dance of Death & Other Plantation Favorites -- John Fahey
- Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul -- Otis Redding
- Volume 5: The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death -- John Fahey
- Solo Monk -- Thelonious Monk
- Free for All -- Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
- Jackson C. Frank -- Jackson C. Frank
- Pastel Blues -- Nina Simone
- Point of Departure -- Andrew Hill
- E.S.P. -- Miles Davis
- Bahia -- John Coltrane
- Bringing It All Back Home -- Bob Dylan
- The John Coltrane Quartet Plays -- The John Coltrane Quartet
- Help! -- The Beatles
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9/10
- Out to Lunch! -- Eric Dolphy
8/10
- Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus -- Charles Mingus
- Empyrean Isles -- Herbie Hancock
- Spirits -- Albert Ayler
- Tonight at Noon -- Charles Mingus
7/10
- Eastern Sounds -- Yusef Lateef
- Crescent -- John Coltrane Quartet
- Black Pearls -- John Coltrane
- Song for My Father -- The Horace Silver Quintet
- Coltrane's Sound -- John Coltrane
6/10
- Vol. II: Death Chants, Breakdowns and Military Waltzes -- John Fahey
- The Times They Are A-Changin' -- Bob Dylan
- Evolution -- Grachan Moncur III
- The Sidewinder -- Lee Morgan
- A Hard Day's Night -- The Beatles
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10/10
- The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady -- Charles Mingus
9/10
8/10
- Money Jungle -- Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus & Max Roach
7/10
- Monk's Dream -- Thelonious Monk
- Seven Steps to Heaven -- Miles Davis
- Criss-Cross -- Thelonious Monk
6/10
- My Name Is Albert Ayler -- Albert Ayler
- Samba esquema novo -- Jorge Ben
- The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan -- Bob Dylan
- Dakar -- John Coltrane
- Please Please Me -- The Beatles
- Duke Ellington & John Coltrane -- Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
- Quiet Nights -- Miles Davis
- Ballads -- John Coltrane Quartet
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- Ornette! -- Ornette Coleman
9/10
8/10
- It's Time -- Max Roach
- Tijuana Moods -- Charles Mingus
- Ornette on Tenor -- Ornette Coleman
7/10
- Oh Yeah -- Charles Mingus
- Mosaic -- Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
6/10
- Coltrane -- The John Coltrane Quartet
- Far Cry -- Eric Dolphy
- Go! -- Dexter Gordon
- The Quest -- Mal Waldron with Eric Dolphy and Booker Ervin
- The Bridge -- Sonny Rollins
- Dig It! -- The Red Garland Quintet with John Coltrane
- Leapin' and Lopin' -- Sonny Clark
- Coltrane Plays the Blues -- John Coltrane
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9/10
8/10
- We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite -- Max Roach
- Free Jazz -- The Ornette Coleman Double Quartet
- Africa / Brass -- The John Coltrane Quartet
- Out There -- Eric Dolphy
- Olé Coltrane -- John Coltrane
- This Is Our Music -- The Ornette Coleman Quartet
7/10
- My Favorite Things -- John Coltrane
- Steamin' With the Miles Davis Quintet -- The Miles Davis Quintet
- Someday My Prince Will Come -- The Miles Davis Sextet
6/10
- The Blues and the Abstract Truth -- Oliver Nelson
- Settin' the Pace -- John Coltrane
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10/10
9/10
8/10
- Blues & Roots -- Charles Mingus
- Sketches of Spain -- Miles Davis
- Giant Steps -- John Coltrane
- Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus -- Charles Mingus
7/10
- At Last! -- Etta James
- Soul Station -- Hank Mobley
- Change of the Century -- Ornette Coleman
- Mingus Dynasty -- Charles Mingus and His Jazz Groups
- True Blue -- Tina Brooks
6/10
- The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery -- Wes Montgomery
- Portrait in Jazz -- Bill Evans Trio
- Piano in the Background -- Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
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9/10
- The Shape of Jazz to Come -- Ornette Coleman
8/10
- Mingus Ah Um -- Charles Mingus
- Moanin' -- Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
7/10
- Kind of Blue -- Miles Davis
- Tomorrow Is the Question! The New Music of Ornette Coleman! -- Ornette Coleman
- Workin' With the Miles Davis Quintet -- The Miles Davis Quintet
6/10
- Time Out -- The Dave Brubeck Quartet
- Porgy and Bess -- Miles Davis
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9/10
- Blue Train -- John Coltrane
8/10
- Milestones -- Miles Davis
7/10
- Ascenseur pour l'échafaud -- Miles Davis
- Relaxin' With the Miles Davis Quintet -- The Miles Davis Quintet
6/10
- Traneing In -- John Coltrane with the Red Garland Trio
- Something Else!!!! The Music of Ornette Coleman -- Ornette Coleman
- Wheelin' and Dealin' -- John Coltrane, Frank Wess, Paul Quinichette, Mal Waldron, Doug Watkins & Art Taylor
- Soultrane -- John Coltrane
- Somethin' Else -- Cannonball Adderley
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9/10
- The Clown -- Charles Mingus
8/10
- Cookin' With the Miles Davis Quintet -- The Miles Davis Quintet
7/10
- Monk's Music -- Thelonious Monk Septet
- Brilliant Corners -- Thelonious Monk
- Saxophone Colossus -- Sonny Rollins
- 'Round About Midnight -- Miles Davis
- Mingus Three -- Charles Mingus, Hampton Hawes & Danny Richmond
6/10
- Tenor Conclave -- Hank Mobley, Al Cohn, John Coltrane & Zoot Sims
- Mating Call -- Tadd Dameron with John Coltrane
- Miles Ahead -- Miles Davis + 19
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9/10
8/10
- Pithecanthropus erectus -- The Charlie Mingus Jazz Workshop
7/10
6/10
- Collectors' Items -- Miles Davis
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9/10
8/10
7/10
6/10
- Blue Moods -- Miles Davis
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9/10
8/10
7/10
- Clifford Brown and Max Roach -- Clifford Brown and Max Roach
6/10
- Miles Davis, Vol. 3 -- Miles Davis
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9/10
8/10
7/10
6/10
- Miles Davis, Vol. 2 -- Miles Davis