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Recensioni del 1997

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Reviews of 1997 albums

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Artist Album Title (Label) Genre Rat. ©
2 Foot Flame Ultra Drowning (Matador) 5/10
3rd Party Alive (A & N) 4/10
60 Ft Dolls The Big 3 (DGC) mod-rock 5/10
A Small Good Thing The Pink And Purple World of Dishonesty (Soleilmoon) ambient 6/10
A.F.I. Shut Your Mouth And Open Your Eyes (Nitro) 5/10
Acumen More Human Heart (Conscience) industrial 6/10
Adam F Colours (F-Jams) jungle 6/10
Adventures In Stereo Adventures In Stereo (Creeping Bent) Brit-pop 5/10
Aerial M self-titled (Drag City) 7/10 B
Aftertax Return Of The Wizard (2A) /10
Akira Satake Cooler Heads Prevail (Alula) /10
Alan Licht & Tamio Shiraishi Our Lips Are Sealed (Pure/RRR) 6/10
Alan Licht Mercury (Road Cone) 6/10
Alan Licht Evan Dando Of Noise (Corpus Hermeticum) 6/10
Alan Licht Gerry Miles With Alan Licht And Haino Keiji (Atavistic) 6/10
Alana Davis Blame It On Me (Elektra) 6/10 B
Alex Bathgate Gold Lame (Flying Nun) songwriter 4/10
Alpha Stone Soulweed (Bomp) shoegaze/dance 4/10
American Analog Set From Our Living Room To Yours (Emperor Jones) 7/10 R
Amnesia Cherry Flavor Night Time (Island) progressive 6/10
Amoeba Watchful (Lektronic Soundscapes) 6/10
Amon Tobin Bricolage (Ninjatune) dub-hop 8/10
Amp Perception (Darla) ambient 6/10
Amp Astral Moon Beam Projections (Kranky) 6/10
Amy Grant Behind The Eyes (A&M) 4/10
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead self-titled (Trance Syndicate) 5/10
Ant-Bee Lunar Muzak (Divine) prog-rock 7/10
Aphex Twin Richard D. James (Sire) 6/10
Aphex Twin Come To Daddy (Warp) 5/10
Appendix Out The Rye Bears A Poison (Drag City) 6/10 B
Apples In Stereo Tone Soul Evolution (SpinArt) 7/10 R
Apples In Stereo Science Faire (spinArt) 6/10
Aqua Aquarium (MCA) 7/10
Arab On Radar Soak The Saddle (Skin Graft) noise-rock 7/10
Arab Strap The Week Never Starts Around Here (ChemiKal Underground) folk-pop 6/10
Arcanta The Eternal Return (Projekt) 6/10
David Arkenstone and Troika Dream Palace (Enso) /10
Art Zoyd Haxan (Atonal) progressive 6/10
Joseph Arthur Big City Secrets (RealWorld) songwriter 7/10
Atari Teenage Riot Burn Berlin Burn (Grand Royal) techno 8/10
Atari Teenage Riot The Future of War (DHR) techno 6/10
Natache Atlas: Halim (Beggars Banquet) ethno techno 6/10
Atman Ovoo (Naturtonmusik) world-music 6/10
Atman Personal Forest (Lollipop Shop, 1993 - Drunken Fish) world-music7/10
Atom Heart Schnittstelle (Rather Interesting) 5/10
Attrition Etude (Projekt) 6/10
Attrition Eternity (Projekt) 5/10
Aube Aqua Syndrome (Manifold) 6/10
Aube Aqua Metal de Metal (Manifold) 6/10
Aube Cardiac Strain (Alien8) 6/10
Aube Dazzle Reflexion (Releasing Eskimo) 6/10
Aube Stared Gleam (Iris Light) 6/10
Aube Synapse (Korm Plastics) 6/10
Aube Throb In Manic Red (Praxis Dr. Bearmann) 6/10
Auntie Christ Life Could Be A Dream (Lookout) rock and roll 6/10
William Aura and Third Force Vital Force (Higher Octave) /10
Autechre Chiastic Side (Warp) electronica 8/10
Azusa Plane Tycho Magnetic Anomaly & the Full Consciousness of Hidden Harmony (Camera Obscura) ambient 7/10
Baader Meinhof Baader Meinhof (Hut) Brit-pop 6/10
Baby Bird Ugly Beautiful (Echo) songwriter 6/10
Backstreet Boys Backstreet's Back (Jive) pop 4/10
Bad Livers Hogs On The Highway (Sugar Hill) punk/country 7/10
Badawi Jerusalem Under Fire (ROIR) illbient 7/10
Bag Journey To The Center Of The Monkey Skull (Lost) psychedelia 5/10
Bailter Space Capsule (Turnbuckle) 6/10
Banco De Gaia Big Men Cry (Planet Dog) 6/10
Banyan Banyan (Higher Octave) funk-rock 6/10
Bardo Pond Lapsed (Matador) 7/10
Barry Black Tragic Animal Stories (Alias) songwriter 6/10
Bassholes Deaf Mix Vol. 3 (In The Red) garage-blues 5/10
Battery Distance (COP) industrial 6/10
Bazooka Poor Mr Rockstar (SST) jazzcore 6/10
Beatnik Filmstars In Hospitalable (Merge) 4/10 B
Beautiful South Blue Is The Colour (Go Discs) 4/10
Bedhead Transaction De Novo (Trance Syndicate) 7/10
Belle And Sebastian If You're Feeling Sinister (Enclave) 7/10
Ben Folds Five Whatever And Ever Amen (Sony) Progressive 6/10
Ben Harper The Will To Live (Virgin) songwriter 6/10
Ben Lee Something To Remember My By (Grand Royal) songwriter 5/10
Bentley Rhythm Ace Bentley Rhythm Ace (Parlophone) techno 6/10
Better Than A Thousand Just One (Revelation) hardcore 6/10
Bettie Serveert Dust Bunnies (Capitol) 6/10
Beulah Handsome Western States (Elephant 6) alt-rock 6/10
Bevis Frond North Circular (Waronzow) Genre 6/10
Big Back Forty Bested (Polydor) 4/10 B
Big Wreck In Loving Memory Of (Atlantic) grunge 4/10
Bill Ding Trust In God But Tie Up Your Camel (Hefty) post-rock 6/10
Bill Horist Soylent Radio (Unit Circle) 7/10
Bill Laswell City Of Light (SubRosa) ambient dub 6/10
Billy Fox Shelter from The Smoke (Cherry Pop) 5/10
Billy Lawrence Paradise (East West) 4/10
Binary System Live At The Idea Room (SST) progr-rock 5/10
Bio-Tek Darkness My Name Is (Zoth Ommog) 5/10
Biosphere Substrata (For Life Records) electronica 6/10
Bis The New Transistor Heroes (Grand Royal) 6/10
Bisk Strange Or Funny-haha (SubRosa) drum'n'bass 6/10
Bjork Homogenic (Elektra) 7/10
Black Heart Procession 1 (Cargo) alt-rock 6/10
Black Lung Disinformation Plague (Helix, 1996)(Metropolis) 6/10
Black Lung Psychocivilized Society (Nova Zembla) Genre5/10
Jamie Blake Jamie Blake (A&M) 5/10
Blast Stringy Rugs (Cuneiform) prog-rock 6/10
Blink 182 Dude Ranch (Cargo) 6/10
Blonde Redhead Fake Can Be Just As Good (Touch And Go) 6/10 R
Blue Mountain Home Grown (Roadrunner) country-rock 5/10
Blue Rags Rag-N-Roll (SubPop) 5/10 B
Blue Rodeo Tremolo (Sire) pop5/10
Blue Stingrays: Surf-N-Burn (Epitone) 5/10 B
Blues Traveler Straight On Till Morning (A&M) 4/10 B
Bluetones Return To The Last Chance Saloon (A&M) 5/10
Blur Blur (Virgin) 6/10
Bob Wiseman More Work Songs From The Planet Of Apes (GFC) 6/10
Bobby Conn Bobby Conn (Truckstop) songwriter 7/10
Bobgoblin 12-point Master Plan (MCA) 5/10
Richard Bone A Survey Of Remembered Things (Quirkworks) electronica 6/10
Bottle Rockets 24 Hours A Day (Atlantic) roots-rock 5/10
Boud Deun Astronomy Made Easy (Cuneiform) 6/10
Boxhead Ensemble Dutch Harbor (Atavistic) post-rock 7/10
Boymerang Balance Of The Force (Regal) jungle 7/10
Brad Interiors (Epic) Genre 6/10
Bradley Joseph Rapture (Narada) /10
Brainiac Electro-Shock For President (Touch & Go) 6/10
Brainscapes Chakradancer (CyberOctave) 6/10
Branch Manager Anything Tribal (Dischord) hardcore 6/10
Brian Jonestown Massacre Give It Back (Bomp) 6/10
Bright The Albatross Guest House (Ba Da Bing) Genre 7/10
Brother JT Come On Down (Drunken Fish) 6/10
Ian Brown Unfinished Monkey Business (Polydor) 6/10
Bruce Russell Project For A Revolution In New York (Siltbreeze, 1998) 6/10
Brutal Truth Sounds Of The Animal Kingdom (Relapse) 6/10
BT ESCM (Kinetic) house 5/10
Bug Tapping The Conversation (WordSound) dub 7/10
Bugskull Distracted Snowflake Volume One (Pop Secret) 6/10
Built To Spill Perfect From Now On (Warner) 7/10
Burlap To Cashmere Live At The Bitter End (A & M) /10
Bush Tetras Beauty Lies (Tim Kerr) funk-rock 5/10
Butterglory Rat Tat Tat (Merge) 5/10 B
Jonathan Cain Body Language (Higher Octave) /10
Cake Like Bruiser Queen (Vapor) 5/10
Calexico Spoke Light (Quarterstick) 7/10 R
Calvin Krime Dress For The Future (Amphetamine Reptile) hardcore 6/10
Doug Cameron Passport (Higher Octave) /10
Candy Machine Tune International (DeSoto) noise-rock 6/10
Candyskins Sunday Morning Fever (Ultimate) Brit-pop 5/10
Cannanes Arty Barbecue (Ajax) pop 5/10
Ralph Carney Ralph Sounds (Birdman) songwriter 5/10
Carter And The Unstoppable Sex Machine A World Without Dave (Cooking Vinyl) 5/10
Cash Money Black Hearts And Broken Wills (Touch And Go) 7/10 R
Cast Mother Nature Calls (Polydor) 4/10
Cathars Amorpheus (Miau-Miau) electronica 6/10
Catherine Wheel Adam And Eve (Mercury) 7/10 R
Caulfields L (A&M) 4/10
Nick Cave Boatman's Call (Reprise) 6/10
Cerberus Shoal And Farewell To Hightide (Tree) prog-rock 7/10
Cerberus Shoal Element Of Structure/ Permanence (Audio Information Phenomenon) prog-rock 6/10
Craig Chaquico A Thousand Pictures (Higher Octave) /10
Charlatans Tellin' Stories (MCA) 4/10
Charles Gocher Pint Sized Spartacus (Abduction) psychedelic 5/10
Charlie Chesterman Dynamite Music Machine (Slow River) songwriter 5/10
Chavez Ride The Fader (Matador) punk-pop 6/10
Cheater Slicks Forgive Thee (In The Red) garage-punk 6/10
Cheer-Accident Enduring The American Dream (Pravda) prog-rock 6/10
Chemical Brothers Dig Your Own Hole (Astralwerks) 7/10
Chemical People Arpeggio Motorcade (Cruz) punk-pop 4/10
Cheryl Gunn Vanity Of Venus (Anagram) /10
Chesterfield Kings Surfin' Rampage (Mirror) garage-rock 6/10
Children Of The Apocalypse Ta 'Wil (Charnel) 7/10
Chisel Set You Free (Gern Bandsten) punk-pop 6/10
Chokebore A Taste For Bitters (Amphetamine Reptile) hardcore 6/10
Chris Knox Yes!! (Flying Nun) songwriter 5/10
Chris Spheeris Eros (Essence) /10
Christ Analogue In Radiant Decay (Cargo) 4/10
Chrome Retro Transmission (Cleopatra) psychedelic 7/10
Chuck Prophet Homemade Blood (Cooking Vinyl) 6/10
Chumbawamba Tubthumper (Republic) 7/10
Citizens' Utilities No More Medicine (Mute) 7/10
Clan of Xymos Hidden Faces (Tess) techno 5/10
Clawhammer Hold Your Tongue (Interscope) blues-punk 6/10
Clay People Stone-Ten Stitches (Cargo) 4/10
Clean Unknown Country (Flying Nun) lo-fi pop 6/10
Coal Chamber Coal Chamber (Roadrunner) grunge 4/10
Cobra Verde Egomania (Scat) 6/10
Cold Cold Hearts Cold Cold Hearts (Kill Rock Stars) foxcore 6/10
Coldcut Let Us Play (Ninja Tune) 5/10
Collective Soul Discipline Breakdown (Atlantic) mainstream 4/10
Colony Siren (MCA) 6/10
Colossamite All Lingo's Clamor (Skin Graft) math-rock 7/10
Congo Norvell Abnormals Anonymous (Jetset) 6/10
Loren Mazzacane Connors Calloden Harvest (Road Cone) instrumental 6/10
Console Pan Or Ama (Payola) post-rock 6/10
Consolidated Dropped (Sol 3) 5/10
Containe Only Cowards Walk Like Cowards (Enchante`) noise-rock 6/10
Controlled Bleeding Gilded Shadows (Hypnotic) 5/10
Controlled Bleeding Poisoner (Soleilmoon) 5/10
Cornelius Fantasma (Trattoria) pop 7/10
Cornershop When I Was Born For The 7th Time (Wiiija) 5/10
Corrs Talk On Corners (Atlantic) folk-rock 4/10
Coward: self-titled (Elektra) 5/10
Coyote Oldman In Beauty I Walk (Hearts Of Space) /10
Crabs What Were Flames Now Smolder (K) lo-fi pop 5/10
Cradle Of Filth Dusk and Her Embrace (Music For Nations) black metal 7/10
Carl Craig More Songs About Food And Revolutionary Art (Planet E) techno 6/10
Cramps Big Beat From Badsville (Epitaph) 6/10
Cranes Population Four (Dedicated) dream-pop 5/10
Crawlspace The Dark Folds Of Infinity Grow Pink With Desire (Majora) 6/10 R
Creed My Own Prison (Wind-up) grunge 6/10
Crescent Electronic Sound Constructions (Snapshot) psychedelic 4/10
Crystal Method Vegas (Outpost) techno 6/10
Cul De Sac The Epiphany Of Glenn Jones (Thirsty Ear) 6/10
Current 93 In A Foreign Town In A Foreign Land (Durtro) industrial folk 5/10
Cusco Apurimac III (Higher Octave) /10
Cusco Best (Higher Octave) /10
D.J. Shadow Preemptive Strike (Mo' Wax) 6/10
Damaged Token Remedies Research (Rotten) 6/10
Dambuilders Against The Stars (East West) 5/10 B
Damned Not Of This Earth (Cleopatra) punk-rock 6/10
Dance Hall Crasher Honey I'm Homely (MCA) 6/10
Dandy Warhols Come Down (Capitol) 7/10
Dandy Warhols Come Down (Capitol) 6/10
Danielson Famile Tell Another Joke (Tooth & Nail) lo-fi pop 6/10
DJ Dara Rinsimus Maximus (Smile) drum'n'bass 6/10
Dark Magus Night Watchmen (Alphaphone) 4/10
Darrin Verhagen Raised By Wolves (Dorobo) electronica 6/10
Das Ich Egodram (Danse Macabre) industrial 6/10
Datacide Ondas (Rather Interesting) Genre 6/10
David Byrne Feelings (Luaka Bop) 4/10
David Grohl Touch (Capitol) 6/10 R
David Holmes Let's Get Killed (Go Beat) techno 5/10
Dead And Gone God Loves Everyone But You (Alternative Tentacles) 5/10
Dead C Tusk (Siltbreeze, 1998) 7/10
Dead Fucking Last Grateful (Epitaph) 4/10
Dead Voice On Air Fire In The Bronx Zoo (Invisible) 4/10
Deadsy self-titled (Elektra) 4/10
Death In June Kapo (NER) gothic 6/10
Death Organ Universal Stripsearch (Ad Perpetuam Memoriam) prog-rock 7/10
Deep Forest Comparsa (Columbia) world-music 6/10
Deftones Around The Fur (Maverick) angry metal 6/10
Deicide Serpents of The Light (Roadrunner) death metal 4/10
Del Amitri Some Other Sucker's Parade (A&M) 4/10
Delgados Domestiques (Chemikal Underground) folk-rock 6/10
Delta 72 Soul Of A New Machine (Touch & Go) 7/10
Demolition Doll Rods Tasty (In The Red) garage-rock 5/10
Denison-Kimball Three Neutrons (Quarterstick) 7/10
Depeche Mode Ultra (Mute/Reprise) 5/10
Deutsch Nepal Comprendido (Release) industrial 6/10
Dianogah As Seen From Above (Actionboy) post-rock 6/10
Die Form Duality (Trinity) industrial 7/10
Digital Poodle Combat (Cleopatra) Genre 5/10
Dilate Octagon (Cleopatra) 5/10
Dinner Is Ruined Elevator Music (Sonic Unyon) lo-fi 6/10
Dino Pacifici The Journey (Dance Plant) /10
Dinosaur Jr Hand It Over (Sire) Genre 4/10
Disc 2xCD (Vinyl Communications) electronica 6/10
Dismemberment Plan Is Terrified (DeSoto) power-pop 6/10
Dissolve Third Album For The Sun (Kranky) 8/10
Dive Snakedressed (Daft) industrial 4/10
DJ Cam DJ-Kicks (K7) ambient hip-hop 5/10
DJ Shadow Preemptive Strike (Mo' Wax) 7/10
Djam Karet The Devouring (Cuneiform) 7/10 B
John Doan Eire (Hearts Of Space) /10
Doctor Nerve Every Screaming Ear (Cuneiform) 7/10
Dodgy Drawn To The Deep End (Polydor) 4/10
Dogmatics 1981-86 (Vagrant) 7/10
Doldrums Acupuncture (Kranky) 8/10
Tanya Donelly Lovesongs For Underdogs (Reprise) 5/10
Down By Law Last Of The Sharpshooters (Epitaph) 5/10
Download Download III (Nettwerk) industrial 5/10
Dream Theater Falling Into Infinity (East West) 6/10
Drivin'n'Cryin' self-titled (Ichiban) 6/10
Dropkick Murphys Do Or Die (Hellcat) 7/10
Drunk A Derby Spiritual (Jagiaguwar) alt-country 6/10
Duran Duran Medazzaland (Capitol) 4/10
Durutti Column Time Was Gigantic (Factory) 5/10
Dwarves Are Young And Good Looking (Epitaph) punk-rock 6/10
Bob Dylan Time Out Of Mind (CBS) songwriter 6/10
Dylan Group It's All About (Bubble Core) post-rock 7/10
Eat Static Science Of The Gods (Planet Dog) 8/10
EC8OR All Of Us Can Be Rich (Digital Hardcore) industrial 6/10
Echo & The Bunnymen Evergreen (London) 4/10
Edenstreet Live At The Hill (A & M) /10
Edith Frost Calling Over Time (Drag City) 7/10
Edwyn Collins I'm Not Following You (Setanta/Epic) 5/10
Eggman First Fruits (Creation) brit-pop 4/10
Eight Frozen Modules The Confused Designer (Trance) 5/10
808 State Don Solaris (Hypnotic) Genre 6/10
Ein Heit The Lightning And The Sun (Temporary Freedom) roots-rock 6/10
Electric Company Studio City (Island) electronica 7/10
Electric Frankenstein Conquers the World (Get Hip) garage-rock 7/10
Electric Frankenstein Sick Songs (Nesak) garage-rock 7/10
Elevator To Hell Eerieconsiliation (SubPop) 6/10
Eleventh Dream Day Eighth (Thrill Jockey) 7/10 R
Elf Power When The Red King Comes (Arena Rock) psych-pop 6/10
Emperor Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk (Candlelight) black metal 6/10
Alec Empire The Geist of Alec Empire (Geist) techno 7/10
Enigma Le Roi Est Mort Vive Le Roi (Virgin) 6/10
Enslaved Eld (Osmose) black metal 7/10
Entombed To Ride Shoot Straight And Speak The Truth (Silvertone) hard-rock 6/10
Erasure Cowboy (Mute) 5/10
Ether Hush (Charnel Music) ambient 7/10
Everclear So Much For The Afterglow (Capitol) 7/10
Evidence Heart's Grave (1994 - Ad Perpetuam Memoriam) 7/10
Experimental Audio Research The Koner Experiment (Revolver) 6/10
Experimental Pop Band Woof (Swarf Finger) pop 6/10
F/I Helioscopium (Ceres) psych 6/10
Faith No More Album Of The Year (Slash) 5/10
Fall Levitate (Artful) alt-rock 5/10
Farflung 25,000 Feet Per Second (Flipside) psychedelic 6/10
Fastbacks Win Lose Or Both (Popllama, 1998) 6/10 R
Fat Fat (DV8) 6/10
Faust You Know Faust (ReR) 7/10 R
Feeder Polythene (Elektra) grunge-pop 4/10
Fennesz Hotel Paral.Lel (Mego) electronica 7/10
Fiend Caledonian Gothic (God Bless) alt rock 6/10
50 Tons Of Black Terror Gutter Erotica (World Domination) noise-rock 6/10
Fig Dish When Shove Goes Back To Push (Polydor) pop 4/10
Fila Brazilia Luck Be A Weirdo Tonight
(Pork) drum'n'bass 6/10
Final The First Millionth Of A Second (Manifold) industrial 6/10
Fire & Ice Seasons of Ice (Asafoetida) 4/10
Firewater Get Off The Cross (Jetset) 7/10 R
Five Eight Gasolina (Velvel) roots-rock 5/10
Flaming Lips Zaireeka (Warner Brothers) psychedelic 6/10
Flipp Flipp (Hollywood) 6/10
Fluf Waikiki (MCA) 5/10
Fluke Risotto (Astralwerks) techno 4/10
Fly Ashtray Flummoxed (Dark Beloved Cloud) psych-pop 5/10
Flying Saucer Attack New Lands (Drag City) 6/10
Folk Implosion Dare To Be Surprised (Communion) psychedelic 6/10
Foo Fighters Colour And The Shape (Capitol) 5/10
For Against Shelf Life (World Domination) Genre 5/10
For Carnation Promised Works (Runt) 8/10 R
Forrest Fang The Blind Messenger (Cuneiform) 8/10
Freaky Chakra Freaky Chakra vs. Single Cell Orchestra (Astralwerks) techno 5/10
Free Kitten Sentimental Education (Kill Rock Stars) 5/10
Fretblanket Home Truths From Abroad (Polydor) Brit-pop 4/10
Freed Unit Field Reports From Out-There (Bedazzled) psych-pop 6/10
Friends Of Nina Martinez Retrograde (SubPop) 5/10
Friggs Rock Candy (E-Vil) garage 6/10
Frontier Heather (Tug-o-war) 6/10
John Frusciante Smile From The Streets You Hold (Birdman) songwriter 6/10
Fu Manchu The Action Is Go (Mammoth) stoner 5/10
Fuck Baby Loves A Funny Bunny (Rhesus) lo-fi pop 7/10
Fuck Pardon My French (Matador) lo-fi pop 6/10
Fucking Champs III (Frenetic) instrumental 7/10
Robbie Fulks South Mouth (Bloodshot) alt-country 6/10
Furry Things Frequent Lunacy (Trance) 6/10
Fushitsusha A Death Never To Be Complete (Tokuma) 6/10
Fushitsusha The Time Is Nigh (Tokuma) 6/10
Future Bible Heroes Memories Of Love (Slow River) songwriter 5/10
Fuxa Venoy (Mind Expansion) psych-rock 5/10
F.Y.P. My Man Grumpy (Recess) punk-pop 5/10
Gadjits At Ease (Hellcat) 7/10
Galactic Cowboys The Horse That Bud Bought (Metal Blade) prog-metal 4/10
Ganger Fore (Domino) post-rock 6/10
Gary Lucas Evangeline (Paradigm) 6/10
Gate The Mono Lake (Table Of Elements) 7/10
Gene Drawn To The Deep End (Polydor) brit-pop 4/10
Geraldine Fibbers Butch (Virgin) 8/10
Eliza Gilkyson Redemption Road (Silver Wave) songwriter 5/10
Glide Space Age Freak Out (Ochre) instrumental 6/10
Gluecifer Ridin' The Tiger (White Jazz) garage-rock 6/10
God Is My Co-Pilot Je Suis Trop Content (CD) 5/10
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci Barafundle (Fontana) prog-rock 6/10
Gothic Archives The New Despair (Merge) 8/10
Graham Parker The Last Rock'n'Roll Tour (Razor & Tie) Genre 5/10
Grandaddy Under The Western Freeway (Will) lo-fi pop 7/10
Wayne Gratz Simple Gifts/ Songs Of Inspiration (Narada) /10
Wayne Gratz Somewhere In Time/ Songs Of Endless Love (Narada) /10
Gravitar Now The Road Of Knives (Charnel) 8/10 R
Green Apple Quickstep New Disaster (Columbia) grunge 4/10
Green Day Nimrod (Reprise) 5/10
Green Pajamas Strung Behind The Sun (Camera Obscura) psychedelic 5/10
Grifters Full Blown Possession (SubPop) 5/10 R
Grits Rare Birds (Cuneiform) 6/10 R
Ground Zero Consume Red (Creativeman) avantgarde 5/10
Ground Zero Play Standards (Nani) avantgarde 4/10
Dave Grubbs Banana Cabbage, Potato Lettuce, Onion Orange (Table Of The Elements) 6/10
Guided By Voices Mag Earwhig (Matador) 7/10 R
Guitar Wolf Planet Of The Wolves (Matador) punk-rock 6/10
Guided By Voices Tonics And Twisted Chasers (Rockathon) alt rock 6/10
Gus Gus Polydistortion (4AD) techno 7/10
Guttermouth Musical Monkey (Nitro) 6/10
Guy Chadwick Lazy Soft And Slow (Setanta) songwriter 4/10
H2O Thicker Than Water (Epitaph) 6/10
Keiji Haino Keeping On Breathing (Tokuma) 5/10
Keiji Haino So, Black Is myself (Alien8 Recordings) 5/10
Half Japanese Bone Head (Alternative Tentacles) 6/10 R
Half Japanese Heaven Sent (Emperor Jones) 7/10
Hall Of Fame Hall Of Fame (Amish) post-rock 5/10
Handsome Handsome (Epic) 5/10
Hang Ups So We Go (Restless) pop 6/10
Hanson Middle Of Nowhere (Mercury) pop 4/10
Happy Family Toscco (Cuneiform) 7/10 R
James Hardway The Neon Lounge (Recordings Of Substance) jungle 5/10
Harvey Danger Where Have All The Merrymakers Gone (Arena) power-pop 5/10
Harvey Milk Courtesy And Good Will Toward Men (Yesha) prog-metal 7/10
Hash Jar Tempo Well Oiled (Drunken Fish) 9/10
Haujobb Solutions For A Small Planet (Metropolis) 7/10
Hayden Moving Careful (Sonic Unyon) songwriter 4/10
Lili Haydn Lili (Atlantic) songwriter 6/10
He Said Omala Catch Supposes (Origin) industrial 6/10
Helium The Magic City (Matador) 5/10
Hellacopters Payin' The Dues (White Jazz)(SubPop, 1999) Rock and roll 7/10
Helmet Aftertaste (Interscope) 5/10
Hepcat Right On Time (Hellcat) 5/10
Herbalizer Blow Your Headphones (Ninja Tune) trip-hop 5/10
Hi Fi Killers Loaded (Loosegroove) funk 4/10
Him Interpretive Belief System (WordSound) post-rock 6/10
Hoeyry-Kone Huono Parturi (Ad Perpetuam Memoriam) /10
Holiday Cafe Reggio (Spinart) pop 4/10
Hollowbodies Viva La Dregs (Polydor) folk-rock 5/10
Holly Cole: Dark Dear Heart (Metro Blue) 4/10
Honor Role Album (Merge) 7/10 R
Hood Structured Disasters (Happy Go Lucky) lo-fi pop 5/10
Hot Monkey More Than Lazy (Shangri-La) Genre 5/10
Hovercraft Akathisia (Blast First) instrumental 7/10
Howie B Turn The Dark Off (Island) trip-hop 6/10
Humpers Plastique Valentine (Epitaph) 6/10 R
Hurricane #1 Hurricane #1 (Sire) 5/10
Hybryds Clavis (Old Europa Cafe) industrial 4/10
Iceburn Collective Polar Bear Suite (Revelation) prog-rock 6/10
Ida Ten Small Places (Simple Machines) folk-pop 6/10
Ryoji Ikeda +/- (Touch) electronica 7/10
Immortal Blizzard Beasts (Osmose) dark metal 5/10
In The Labyrinth The Garden Of Mysteries (1994 - Ad Perpetuam Memoriam) 7/10 R
In The Nursery Asphalt (ITN) 5/10
Incubus SCIENCE (Immortal) funk-rock 6/10
Index Black Light Twilight (COP) industrial 6/10
Indigo Girls Shaming Of The Sun (Epic) folk 5/10
Inxs Elegantly Wasted (Mercury) 4/10
Irving Klaw Trio Utek Pahjoo Mogol (Road Cone) punk-jazz 6/10
Ivy Apartment Life (Atlantic) folk-pop 5/10
Jack Drag Unisex Headwave (Devil's Weed) psyc-pop 7/10
Jacques How To Make Love Vol 1 (Setanta) pop 4/10
Jad Fair DQE (Dark Beloved Cloud) 5/10
Jad Fair We Are The Rage (Avant) 5/10
Jaloppy Owners Manual (Womb Tunes) 6/10
James Whiplash (Mercury) dance-pop 4/10
Jamirocqai Travelling Without Moving (Epic) funk-soul 5/10
Jane's Addiction Kettle Whistle (Warner Bros) heavy metal 5/10
Bill Janowitz Lonesome Billy (Beggar's Banquet) 5/10
Jayhawks Sound of Lies (American) 5/10
Peter Jefferies Elevator Madness (Trance Syndicate) Genre 6/10
Jessamine Another Fictionalized History (Histrionic) 7/10
Jill Sobule Happy Town (Atlantic) songwriter 5/10
Jimmie's Chicken Shack Pushing The Salmanilla Envelope (Polygram) 6/10
Joan Of Arc A Portable Model (Jade Tree) post-rock 6/10
John Whelan Celtic Crossroads (Narada) /10
Jonathan Fire Eater Wolf Songs For Lambs (Dreamworks) garage-rock 6/10
Freedy Johnston Never Home (Elektra) 6/10
Joy Harjo Poetic Justice (Silver Wave) /10
Joykiller Three (Epitaph) 6/10
Simon Joyner Songs for the New Year (Sing Eunuchs) songwriter 6/10
Jules Shear Between Us (High Street) 5/10
Julie Doiron Loneliest In The Morning (SubPop) 5/10 B
June Of 44 Anatomy Of Sharks (Quarterstick) 7/10 R
Junk Continuation Of Madness (Faffco) 6/10 R
Junkyard Love Anonymous (Normal) 5/10
Damien Jurado Waters Ave. S. (SubPop) 7/10 R
Paul K Love is a Gas (Alias) alt-blues 6/10
Brenda Kahn Outside The Beauty Salon (Shanachie) songwriter 6/10
Kadura From The Depths Of The Other Space (Charnel) 6/10
Kaia Wilson Kaia Wilson (Chainsaw) 4/10
Kampec Dolores Rapid (ReR) world-music 6/10
Karp Karp (K) grunge 5/10
Katatonia Brave Murder Day (Avantgarde) doom 6/10
Matt Keating Killjoy (Alias) songwriter 6/10
Katell Keineg Jet (Elektra) 6/10
Kelly Deal 6000 Boom Boom Boom (New West) 5/10
Mike Keneally Sluggo! (Immune) prog-rock 7/10
Kent 3 Stories Of The New West (Super Electro) garage-pop 6/10
Kepone self-titled (Quarterstick) 6/10 R
Kickstand Autostrada (Revolver) lo-fi pop 4/10
Kill Switch Klick Degenerate (Cleopatra) industrial 5/10
David Kilgour, The Heavy Eights (Flying Nun) songwriter 6/10
Killing Floor Divide By Zero (Cargo) 6/10
King Loser Caul Of The Outlaw (Flying Nun) garage-rock 6/10
King Black Acid Royal Subjects (Cavity Search) psych 6/10
King Kong Kingdom Of Kong (Drag City) 5/10
Kirile Loo Saatus (Alula) /10
Kiss It Goodbye She Loves Me She Loves Me Not (Revelation) hardcore 6/10
Knapsack Day Three of My New Life (Alias, 1997) 5/10
Koenjihyakkei Viva Koenji (God Mountain) prog-rock 6/10
Klangkrieg 38cbm (ND) electronica 6/10
Kol Simcha Klezmer Soul (World Class) /10
Kraftwelt Electric Dimension (Cleopatra) electronica 6/10
Wayne Kramer Citizen Wayne (Epitaph) Genre 4/10
Pete Krebs Western Electric (Cavity Search) songwriter 6/10
DJ Krush MiLight (Mo'Wax) trip-hop 5/10
Ed Kuepper Cloudland (Hot) Genre 6/10
Illyah Kuryahkin Count No Count (Arena Rock) songwriter 6/10
L'Orchestre Noire Cantos (Tursa) Genre 6/10
L7 The Beauty Process: Triple Platinum (Slash) 5/10
L@N L@n (A-Muzik) techno 7/10
La Bouche Moment of Love (RCA) techno 4/10
Ladybug Transistor Beverley Atonale (Merge) pop 7/10
Lagoswki Ashita (Side Effects) industrial 5/10
Lagwagon Double Plaidinum (Fat Wreck) popcore 6/10
Laika Sounds Of The Satellites (Too Pure) 8/10
Lake of Dracula Lake of Dracula (Skin Graft) prog-rock 6/10
Lambchop Thriller (Merge) 5/10
Lard Pure Chewing Satisfaction (Alternative Tentacles) 5/10
Larry Kucharz Metachoral Visions (International Audiochrome) /10
Larry McMurtry It Had To Happen (Sugar Hill) songwriter 5/10
Laurent Garnier 30 (F-Communications) techno 5/10
Leaether Strip Rebirth of Agony (Cleopatra) 5/10
Leaether Strip Self Inflicted (Zoth Ommog) 5/10
Legendary Pink Dots Hallway Of The Gods (Staalplaat) Genre 6/10
Les Jumeaux Cobalt (ITN) 6/10
Letters To Cleo Go (Revolution) power-pop 4/10
Levellers Mouth To Mouth (China) folk-rock 4/10
Jackie Leven Fairy Tales For Hard Men (Cooking Vinyl) songwriter 6/10
Lida Husik Fly Stereophonic (Alias) 7/10
Limp Bizkit Three Dollar Bill Ya'll (Interscope) rap-metal 6/10
Arto Lindsay Mundo Civilizado (Bar/None) 6/10
Linoleum Dissent (Geffen) noise-rock 6/10
Lisa Loeb Firecracker (Geffen) songwriter 4/10
Lithops Uni Umit (Sonig) instrumental 6/10
Live Secret Samadhi (Radioactive) 4/10
Live Human Live Human Featuring DJ Quest (Cosmic) instrumental hip hop 7/10
Long Fin Killie Amelia (Too Pure) dance-pop 6/10
Loop Guru Loop Bites Dog (North South) 6/10
Lords Of Acid Our Little Secret (Never) Genre6/10
Loreena McKennitt The Book Of Secrets (Quinlan Rd) 7/10
Lorin Grean Hand Woven (Silver Wave) /10
Lotus Crown Chokin' On The Jokes (Reprise) psyc-pop 6/10
Love Split Love Trysome Eatone (Maverick) 6/10
Low Songs For A Dead Pilot (Kranky) 6/10
Lowercase Kill The Lights (Amphetamine Reptiles) post-rock 7/10
Luc Vibert Big Soup (Mo' Wax) 6/10
Luke Slater Freak Funk (NovaMute) techno 7/10
Lullaby For The Working Class I Never Even Asked For Light (Bar/None) chamber folk 7/10
Luna Pup Tent (Elektra) 5/10
Lungfish Indivisible (Dischord) hardcore 7/10
Lusk Free Mars (Zoo) progressive 6/10
Lustmord Vs Metal Beast (Side Effects) 5/10
Lutefisk Burn In Hell Fuckers (Bong Load Custom) Genre 6/10
Luxt Disrepair (21st Circuitry) 4/10
LVX Nova self-titled (Miramar) /10
LVX Nova Contimune (Miramar) /10
Johnny Lydon Psycho's Path (Elektra) techno 4/10
Kami Lyle Blue Cinderella (MCA) songwriter 6/10
Lynnfield Pioneers Emerge (Matador) 7/10
Macrocosmica Ad Astra (God Bless) alt rock 6/10
Madder Rose Tragic Magic (Atlantic) 7/10
Maeror Tri Mort Aux Vaches (Staalplaat) ambient 7/10
Magic Dirt Friends In Danger (Warner Bros) grunge 6/10
Magnog More Weather (Kranky) 7/10
Magoo The Soateramic Sounds of Magoo (Chemikal Underground) lo-fi pop 6/10
Main Firmament IV (Beggars Banquet) Genre 6/10
Mainliner Sonic (Charnel) 7/10
Make-Up Sound Verite` (K) funk-punk 6/10
Make-Up After Dark (Dischord) funk-punk 5/10
Makers Hunger (Estrus) garage-rock 6/10
Man Or Astroman 1000x (Touch And Go) 6/10
Man Or Astroman Made From Technetium (Touch & Go) 5/10 R
Barbara Manning 1212 (Matador) songwriter 6/10
Mansun Attack of The Grey Lantern (Parlophone) Brit-pop 5/10
Mariah Carey Butterfly (Columbia) soul-pop 5/10
Mark Eitzel West (Warner) 6/10
Mary Lou Lord Got No Shadow (Work) 5/10
Masaki Batoh CD Collected Works 1995-1996 (New Sound) Genre 7/10
Matchbox 20 Yourself Of Someone Like You (Atlantic) folk-pop 5/10
Material Issue Telecommando Americano (Rykodisc) 6/10
Matmos Matmos (Vague Terrain) electronica 7/10
Matthew Ryan May Day (DV8) /10
Eric Matthews The Lateness Of The Hour (SubPop) 6/10 R
Mecca Normal Who Shot Elvis (Matador) foxcore 5/10
Megadeth Cryptic Writings (Capitol) 4/10
Melvins Honky (Amphetamine Reptile) grunge 6/10
Mentallo And The Fixer Burnt Beyond Recognition (Metropolis) industrial 7/10
Meredith Brooks Blurring The Edges (Capitol) 6/10 B
Metallica Reload (Vertigo) speedmetal 5/10
Michael Brook Albino Alligator (4AD) ambient 7/10
Michael Brook Star Rise (Real World) ambient 5/10
Michael Gettel Winter (Narada) /10
Michael Whalen Nightscenes (Hearts Of Space) /10
Mick Harris & Eraldo Bernocchi Whine (Kk) 6/10
Mick Turner Tren Phantasma (Drag City) 7/10
Mighty Mighty Bosstones Let's Face It (Mercury) 6/10
Mike Ireland Learning How To Live (SubPop) 5/10
Mike Scott Mike Scott (Chrysalis) songwriter 4/10
Mike Watt Contemplating The Engine Room (Columbia) 6/10
Millencolin For Monkeys (Burning Heat) 5/10
Mirza Anadromous (Darla) 5/10
Misery Loves Co Not Like Them (Earache) gothic 5/10
Moby I Like To Score (Elektra) 5/10
Mocket Fanfare (K) Alt rock 6/10
Mogwai Ten Rapid (Jetset), (Jetset) instrumental 7/10
Mogwai Young Team (Jetset- Chemikal Underground) (Jetset) instrumental 7/10
Molecules No-Fi (Commercial Failure) improv-core 5/10
Mommyheads Mommyheads (DGC) power-pop 4/10
Momus 20 Vodka Jellies (Le Grand Magistery) songwriter 5/10
Mono Men Have A Nice Day Motherfucker (Estrus) garage 6/10
Monorchid Let Them Eat (Simple Machines) 7/10
Moon Seven Times Sunburnt (Roadrunner) 5/10 R
Morning Glories Let The Body Hang (Cargo) grunge 4/10
Morphine Like Swimming (Rykodisc) 5/10
Morrissey Maladjusted (Mercury) 6/10
Motorpsycho Angels & Daemons At Play (Columbia) 5/10
Mountain Goats Full Force Goats (Emperor Jones) 6/10
Mouse On Mars: Autoditacker (Thrill Jockey) 6/10
Mouse On Mars: Cache Coer Naif (Thrill Jockey) 6/10
Movietone Day And Night (Drag City) psyc-pop 7/10
Mr T Experience Revenge Is Sweet And So Are You (Lookout) punk-pop 5/10
Muffs Happy Birthday To Me (Reprise) 6/10
Murmurs Pristine Smut (MCA) 7/10
Murmurs Pristine Smut (MCA) 7/10
Muslimgauze Beyond The Blue Mosque (Staalplaat) 4/10
Muslimgauze City Of Djinn (Third Eye) 4/10
Muslimgauze Farouk Enjineer (Soleilmoon). 4/10
Muslimgauze Jaal Ab Dullah (Soleilmoon) 4/10
Muslimgauze Narcotic (Soleilmoon) 4/10
Muslimgauze Sandtrafikar (Staalplaat) 4/10
Muslimgauze Zuriff Moussa (Staalplaat) 4/10
Mu-ziq Lunatic Harness (Hut) 6/10
Mu-ziq Urmur Bile Trax (Virgin) 6/10
Murder City Devils Murder City Devils (Die Young Stay Pretty) garage-rock 6/10
MxPx Life In General (Tooth & Nail) punk-pop 4/10
My Dad Is Dead Everyone Wants The Honey But Not The Sting (Emperor Jones) 5/10
My Dying Bride Like Gods Of The Sun (Mayhem) 5/10
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult A Crime For All Seasons (Red Ant) Genre 5/10
Namanax Audiotronic (Release) noise 5/10
Napalm Death Inside The Torn Apart (Earache) Genre 5/10
Neckbones Souls On Fire (Fat Possum) 7/10
Neko Case The Virginian (Mint) alt-country 6/10
New Bad Things Ennui Go (Pop Secret) alt-rock /10
New Christs Lower Yourself (Citadel) garage-rock 5/10
New Mind Forge (Offbeat) 5/10
New Mind Furnace (Offbeat) 5/10
New Session People Famous Songs From Days Gone By (Abduction) psychedelic 5/10
New Wet Kojak Nasty International (Touch & Go) 7/10
Kenneth Newby Sirens (City Of Tribes) 7/10
Colin Newman Bastard (Swim) instrumental 5/10
Nimrod Nimrod (Scratch) noise 5/10
Nitrogen Intoxica (Alphaphone) 4/10
Nixons Nixons (MCA) 5/10
No Use For A Name Making Friends (Fat Wreck) hardcore 4/10
Nocturnal Emissions Sunspot Activity (Staalplat) 6/10
Noise Therapy Cyclops (A&M) 5/10
Noise Unit Drill (Dossier) 5/10
No-Man Dry Cleaning Ray (3rd Stone) 5/10
Nocturnal Emissions Tharmuncrape An'Goo (Staalplat) Genre 6/10
NOFX So Long (Epitaph) hardcore 5/10
Nothing Painted Blue Emotional Discipline (Scat) 6/10
Alva Noto Mikro Makro (Noton) glitch music 5/10
Notwist 12 (Zero Hour) post-rock 6/10
KK Null Terminal Beach (Manifold) noise 5/10
Numb Blood Meridian (Metropolis) 6/10
Number One Cup Wrecked By Lions (Flydaddy) power-pop 5/10
O.Rang Fields And Waves (Echo - Hitit, 1998) 5/10
Jim O'Rourke Bad Timing (Drag City) avant-rock 7/10
Jim O'Rourke Happy Days (Revenant) avant-rock 6/10
Oasis Be Here Now (Epic) 5/10
Oblivians Play Nine Songs With Mr Quintron (Crypt) 6/10
Rick Ocasek Troublizing (Columbia) pop 4/10
Ocean Color Scene Marchin' Already (MCA) Genre 5/10
Of Montreal Cherry Peel (Bar None) pop 5/10
Offspring Ixnay On The Hombre (Epitaph) Genre 6/10
Ohm O2 (Timothy's Brain) 7/10
Old 97's Too Far To Care (Elektra) 6/10
Old Time Relijun Songbook Vol 1 (K) lo-fi 7/10
Will Oldham Joya (Drag City) 5/10
Olivia Tremor Control Dusk at Cubist Castle (Flydaddy) pop 7/10
Onna-Kodomo Syuuka (Charnel) 7/10
OP8 Slush (Thirsty Ear) 6/10
Optiganally Yours Optiganally Yours (Cargo) songwriter 5/10
Orange Goblin Frequencies From Planet Ten (Rise Above) doom-metal 6/10
Orange Peels Square (Minty Fresh) pop 6/10
Orb Orblivion (Island) 6/10
Ordo Equilibrio The Triumph of Light (Cold Meat) gothic 6/10
Original Sins Suburban Primitive (Blood Red) garage-rock 4/10
Beth Orton Trailer Park (Dedicated) songwriter 6/10
Oscar Lopez Heat (Narada) /10
Outrageous Cherry Nothing's Gonna Cheer You Up (Third Gear) psych-rock 5/10
Oval Dok (Thrill Jockey) 5/10
Oysten Sevag Bridge (Hearts Of Space) /10
Ozric Tentacles Curious Corn (Mad Fish) prog-rock 5/10
Ozzie Ahlers Fingerpainting (Higher Octave) /10
P.W. Long's Reelfoot We Didn't See You On Sunday (Touch & Go) 6/10
Panacea Low Profile Darkness (Position Chrome) steptech 7/10
Panasonic Kulma (Blast First) electronica 7/10
Pansy Division More Lovin' From Our Oven (Lookout) power-pop 4/10
Pantera Official Live (East West) 6/10
Papas Fritas Helioself (Minty Fresh) power-pop 5/10
Paradise Lost One Second (Music For Nations) synth-pop 4/10
Pastels Illumination (Up) Genre 6/10
Pat DiNizio Songs and Sounds (Velvel) 6/10
Patti Smith Peace And Noise (Arista) 5/10
Paul Newman Frames Per Second (Trance Syndicate) 6/10
Paul Sauvanet Nomad (Hearts Of Space) /10
Paul Thorn Hammer And Nail (A&M) 5/10
Paul Weller Heavy Soul (Island) 4/10
Paul Winter Canyon Lullaby (Living Music) /10
Pavement Brighten The Corners (Matador) lo-fi pop 5/10
Pegboy Cha-Cha Damore (Quarterstick) 6/10
Pelt Max Meadows (VHF) psychedelic 7/10
Pennywise Full Circle (Epitaph) 5/10
Perfume Tree Feeler (World Domination) dream-pop 6/10
Peter Holsapple Get Out Of My Way (Monkey Hill) songwriter 5/10
Peter Jefferies & Jono Lonie At Swim Two Birds (Flying Nun, 1987 - Drunken Fish) 8/10
Peter Koppes Love Era / Irony (1997) 5/10
Philosopher's Stone Preparation (Kranky) 6/10 R
Phish Slip Stitch And Pass (Elektra) 7/10
Photek Modus Operandi (Astralwerks) 7/10
Photek Risc vs Reward (Virgin) 7/10
Piano Magic Popular Mechanics (iChe) psych-pop 6/10
Pietasters Willis (Hellcat) 7/10
Pigeonhed The Full Sentence (SubPop) 7/10
Pineal Ventana Breathe As You Might (Altered) noise-rock 5/10
Pinetop Seven Pinetop Seven (Truckstop) alt-country 6/10
Pipe Slowboy (Merge) 7/10
Pistoleros Hang On To Nothing (Hollywood) 6/10
Pizzicato Five Happy End Of The World (Matador) 6/10
Plaid Not For Threes (Warp) techno 6/10
Plug Drums'n'Bass For Papa (Blue Angel, 1996)(Nothing) 7/10
Poem Rocket Infinite Retry On Parallel Time-Out (PCP) noise-rock 6/10
Polara C'Est La Vie (Interscope) 6/10
Polvo Shapes (Touch & Go) 7/10
Poole The Late Engagement (Spinart) pop 4/10
Portastatic The Nature Of Sap (Merge) alt-rock 5/10
Porter Ricks Porter Ricks (Mille Plateaux) techno 6/10
Portishead self-titled (Go Beat) 6/10
Poster Children Rtfm (Reprise) 6/10
Archer Prewitt In The Sun (Carrot Top) songwriter 6/10
Pressure Drop Elusive (Hard Hands) trip-hop 5/10
Pressurehed Explaining The Unexplained (Cleopatra) space-rock 6/10
Primal Scream Vanishing Point (Reprise) 5/10
Primus Brown Album (Interscope) 6/10
Prodigy The Fat Of The Land (XL) 6/10
Prodigy The Fat Of The Land (XL) 6/10
Project Pitchfork !Chakra:Red! (Candyland) 5/10
Promise Ring Nothing Feels Good (Jade Tree) emocore 6/10
Psychopomps Fiction Non Fiction (Zoth Ommog) industial 5/10
Pulley 60 Cycle Hum (Epitaph) 5/10
Pulsars Pulsars (Almo Sounds) synth-pop 5/10
Push Kings Push Kings (Sealed Fate) pop 4/10
Quasi R&B Transmogrification (Up) pop 6/10
Queensryche Hear In The Now Frontier (EMI) prog-metal 4/10
Quickspace Precious Falling (Kitty Kitty) post-rock 6/10
Radiohead OK Computer (Capitol) 7/10
Raison d'Etre Reflections from the Time of Opening (Bloodless Creations) 6/10
Kurt Ralske Kyrie Eleison (Miau-Miau) electronica 6/10
Rapoon Easterly 6 Or 7 (Soleilmoon) 6/10
Rapoon Errant Angels (Soleilmoon) 5/10
Recoil Unsound Methods (Mute) synth-pop 4/10
Red Aunts Ghetto Blaster (Epitaph) 6/10
Red Red Meat There's A Star Above The Manger Tonight (SubPop) 8/10 R
Red Stars Theory But Sleep Came Slowly (Rx Remedy) alt-rock 7/10
Redd Kross Show World (Quicksilver) 4/10
Reef Glow (Sony) hard-rock 4/10
Reservoir Pink Machine (Zero Hour) 4/10
Rex 3 (Southern) post-rock 6/10
RhBand Third Order Parasitism (Drunken Fish) 6/10
Robert Rich & Alio Die: Fissures (Fathom) 8/10
Richard Buckner Devotion And Doubt (MCA) songwriter 7/10
Richard Carpenter Pianist Arranger Composer Conductor (A & M) /10
Richard Souther Illumination (Sony) /10
Richie Hawtin Concept 1 (Minus) Genre 6/10
Rock'A'Teens Cry (Daemon) 5/10
Paul Roland Gargoyles (Gaslight) Genre 4/10
Rollerball Garlic (Resistor) post-jazz 6/10
Rollins Band Come In And Burn (Dreamworks) 5/10
Roni Size New Forms (Mercury) jungle 7/10
Rosetta Stone Hiding In Waiting (Cleopatra) gothic 4/10
Roy Montgomery Harmony of The Spheres (Drunken Fish) 7/10
Royal Trux Sweet Sixteen (Charisma) 5/10
Run On No Way (Matador) 8/10 R
Salaryman Salaryman (City Slang) post-rock 7/10
Sandoz God Bless The Conspiracy (Alphaphone) 6/10
Sarah McLachlan Surfacing (Nettwerk) songwriter 6/10
Satan's Pilgrims Around the World With Satan's Pilgrims (Empty) surf 6/10
Satisfact Satisfact (K) alt-rock 6/10
Saturnine Flags For Unknown Territories (Dirt) folk-pop 5/10
Scanner Mort Aux Vaches (Staalplaat) electronica 6/10
Scanner Delivery (Earache) electronica 5/10
Scanner Sounds For Spaces (Sub Rosa) electronica 6/10
Scar Tissue TMOTD (21st Circuitry) 7/10
Scissor Girls Here Is The Is Not (Atavistic) prog-rock 6/10
Scorn Zander (Invisible) industrial 6/10
Scud Mountain Boys Early Year (SubPop) 6/10
Sea And Cake The Fawn (Thrill Jockey) prog-rock 6/10
Seahorses Do It Yourself (Geffen) Genre 5/10
Seely Seconds (Too Pure) 5/10
Semibeings Three Pawns Standing (C/Z) 7/10 B
John Serrie Upon A Midnight Clear (Miramar) /10
Seven Mary Three Rock Crown (Atlantic) grunge 4/10
Ron Sexsmith Other Songs (Interscope) songwriter 7/10
Shane Faubert Squirrelboy Blue (Music Maniac) garage-rock 5/10
Sheep On Drugs One For The Money (Invisible) techno 4/10
Shelter Beyond Planet Earth (Roadrunner) Genre 6/10
Shipping News Save Everything (Quarterstick) 6/10
Shonen Knife Brand New Knife (Big Deal) 5/10
Shudder To Think 50000 B.C. (Epic) 5/10
Sick Of It All Built To Last (Elektra) 5/10
Sigur Ros Von (Smekkleysa) shoegazing 7/10
Silkworm Developer (Matador) 7/10 R
Silver Apples Beacon (Whirlybird) 5/10
Silverchair Freak Show (Epic) 4/10
Simon Wynberg Songs Of My People (Narada) /10
Simon Says Perfect Example (Almost-Core) grunge 5/10
Sister Machine Gun Metropolis (Wax Trax) 7/10
Sixteen Horsepower Low Estate (A & M) 7/10
Skeleton Key Fantastic Spikes Through Balloon (Capitol, 1997 - Motel, 1996) noise-rock 7/10
Skrew Angel Seed (Metal Blade) industrial 6/10
Skuli Sverrisson Seremonie (Extreme) 6/10
Sky Cries Mary Moon Bathing On Sleeping Leaves (Warner Bros) 7/10
Slackers Redlight (Hellcat) 6/10
Sleater-Kinney Dig Me Out (Kill Rock Stars) 6/10
Sleeper Pleased To Meet You (Indolent) 6/10
Slider Sudden Fun (A&M) 5/10
Sloan One Chord To Another (The Enclave) 5/10
Slotek 7 (WordSound) dub 6/10
Smash Mouth Fush Yu Mang (Interscope) ska-pop 5/10
Smashing Pumpkins The Aeroplane Flies High (Virgin) 5/10
Elliott Smith Either Or (Kill Rock Stars) songwriter 6/10
Smog Red Apple Falls (Drag City) 7/10
Sneaker Pimps Becoming X (Virgin) trip-hop 7/10
Snog Buy Me (IMCC)(Metropolis, 1998) 6/10
Society Burning Tactiq (Cargo) 7/10 B
Softies Winter Pageant (K) power-pop 5/10
Sol Invictus Blade (Tursa) 4/10
Some Velvet Sidewalk Generated (K) 6/10
Son Volt Straightways (Warner) 5/10
Songs: Ohia Songs:Ohia (Secretely Canadian) folk 6/10
Sonora Pine II (Quarterstick) 6/10
Soul Whirling Somewhere Pjewackit (Projekt) 5/10
Souled American Notes Campfire (Moll) folk 6/10
Soundgarden A Sides (A&M) 7/10
Southern Culture On The Skids Plastic Sweat Sweat (Geffen) Genre 6/10
Space Needle The Moray Eels Eat The Space Needle (Zero Hour) 7/10
Spaceship Eyes Kamarupa (Noh Poetry) instrumental 7/10
Spahn Ranch Architecture (Cleopatra) industrial 7/10
Spare Snare Westfield Lane (Wabana) pop 4/10
Spearhead Chocolate Supa Highway (Capitol) 5/10
Spectrum Forever Alien (Reprise) 4/10
Spell Seasons In The Sun (Gramm) goth-pop 5/10
Spiritualized Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space (Arista) 7/10
Spoon Soft Effects (Matador) pop 5/10
Sportsguitar Married 3 Kids (Matador) lo-fi pop 5/10
Spring Heel Jack Busy Curious Thirsty (Island) jungle 6/10
Squarepusher Hard Normal Daddy (Warp) jungle 7/10
Squarepusher Burnin-n-Tree (Warp) jungle 6/10
Kate St John Second Sight (All Saints) 6/10
Star Pimp Docudrama (Kill Rock Stars) Genre 4/10
Star 69 Eating February (Radioactive) 4/10
Starfish Frustrated (Trance Syndicate) 6/10
Starflyer 59 Americana (Tooth & Nail) shoegaze 6/10
Stars Of The Lid Ballasted Orchestra (Kranky) 7/10
State Of Grace Everyone Else's Universe (3rd Stone) dance-pop 6/10
Alison Statton Shady Tree (Vinyl Japan) songwriter 4/10
Stellamara Star Of The Sea (City Of Tribes) 7/10
Stephen Kent Family Tree (City Of Tribes) 6/10
Stereo Total Monokini (Bungalow) Genre 6/10
Stereolab Dots And Loops (Elektra) 6/10
Steve Roach & Vidna Obmana Cavern Of Sirens (Projekt) 6/10
Steve Roach On This Planet (Fathom) 6/10
Stereophonics Word Gets Around (V2) Brit-pop 6/10
Storm & Stress self-titled (Touch & Go) 7/10
Strangelove Strangelove (Food) Brit-pop 4/10
Strapping Fieldhands Gobs On The Midway (Silbreeze) acid-folk 6/10
Stratotanker Gambit (Homestead) prog-rock 6/10
Streetwalkin' Cheetahs Overdrive (Alive) 7/10
Subarachnoid Space Ether Or (Unit Circle) 6/10 R
Subarachnoid Space Almost Invisible (Relapse) 8/10
Sublime Second Hand Smoke (MCA) 5/10
Suede Sci-Fi Lullabies (Columbia) 4/10
Suede Sci-Fi Lullabies (Columbia) 4/10
Sugar Plant After After Hours (World Domination) Genre 6/10
Sugar Ray Floored (Atlantic) funk-metal 6/10
Sun City Girls Box Of Chameleons (Abduction) psychedelic 5/10
Sun City Girls Land Of The Rising (Abduction) psychedelic 5/10
Sundays Static And Silence (Geffen) 5/10
Super Deluxe Via Satellite (Revolution) power-pop 6/10
Super Furry Animals Radiator (Creation) 5/10
Superchunk Indoor Living (Merge) 5/10
Supergrass In It For The Money (Parlophone) Brit-pop 6/10
Supersuckers Must've Been High (SubPop) 7/10 R
Swallow High Flyin' Kid Stuff (Zero Hour) dream-pop 7/10
Matthew Sweet Blue Sky On Mars (Volcano) 5/10
Sweet 75 self-titled (Geffen) 4/10
Swell Too Many Days Without Thinking (Beggars Banquet) 7/10 R
Swing Out Sister Shapes And Patterns (Mercury) pop-jazz 5/10
Swirlies They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days (Taang) noise-rock 6/10
Switchblade Symphony Bread And Jam For Frances (Cleopatra) goth rock 5/10
Synaestesia Ephemeral (Cleopatra) 5/10
Syrup USA All Over The Land (Taang) noise-pop 6/10
Takako Minekawa Rooming Cube (March) synth-pop 6/10
Nobukazu Takemura Child & Magic (Thrill Jockey) electronica 6/10
Talk Show Talk Show (Atlantic) grunge 5/10
Tall Dwarfs Stumpy (Flying Nun) pop 5/10
Tarnation Mirador (Reprise) folk-rock 4/10
Tarwater Rabbit Moon (Kitty-Yo) alt-rock 6/10
Tch Sinflower (Dorobo) electronica 6/10
Teenage Fanclub Songs From Northern Britain (Creation/Sony) 5/10
Telstar Ponies Voices From The New Music (Fire) avant-rock 7/10
Temple Of Bon Matin Bullet Into Mesmer's Brain (Bulb) acid-rock 7/10
Ten Foot Pole Unleashed (Epitaph) punk-pop 6/10

Jimi Tenor Intervision (Warp) techno/kitsch 6/10
10,000 Maniacs Love Among the Ruins (Geffen) folk-rock 5/10
Terminal Sect Bread and Wine For The Dirt (Metropolis) industrial 5/10
Terre Thaemlitz G.R.R.L. (Comatonse) ambient 4/10
Terre Thaemlitz Die Roboter Rubato (Mille Plateaux) ambient 6/10
Texas White On Blonde (Mercury) disco-pop 4/10
Thanatos Blisters (Projekt) 6/10 R
That Dog Retreat From The Sun (Geffen) foxcore 5/10
These Animal Men Accident And Emergency (Hut) Genre 3/10
Thingy Songs About Angels, Evil, And Running Around On Fire (Cargo) songwriter 5/10
Third Eye Blind self-titled (Elektra) 6/10
Third Rail South Delta Space Age (Antilles) ambient dub 5/10
Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments Straight To Video (Anyway) 8/10
3DS Strange News From The Angels (Flying Nun) Genre 6/10
Three Mile Pilot Another Desert Another Storm (Cargo) alt-rock 6/10
Transistor (Capricorn) funk-rock 5/10
Thrush Hermit Sweet Homewrecker (Elektra) pop 5/10
Thurston Moore Piece For Jetsun Dolma (Victo) 5/10
Tim Story & Dwight Ashley Drop (Lektronic Soundscapes) /10
Tindersticks Curtains (Quicksilver) Genre 6/10
Tinfed Hypersonic (Cargo) 5/10
Tiny Lights The Smaller The Grape The Sweeter The Wine (Bar None) 6/10
To Rococo Rot Veiculo (Emperor Jones) 7/10
Toad The Wet Sprocket Coil (Columbia) 5/10
Tobin Sprout Moonflower Plastic (Matador) 5/10
Today Is The Day Temple Of The Morning Star (Relapse) 8/10 R
Toenut Two In The Pinata (Mute) 6/10
Tom Vedvik Sutra Spin (CyberOctave) /10
Tommy Emmanuel Midnight Drive (Sony, 1996 - Higher Octave) /10
Tomorrowland Stereoscopic Soundwaves (Darla) ambient 6/10
Tomrerclaus self-titled (Karma, 1977 - Ad Perpetuam Memoriam) 7/10
Tone Sustain (Independent Project) instrumental 6/10
Tone Float Musik Von Tone FLoat (Timothy's Brain) psychedelic 6/10
Tone Rec Thugny Thugny (SubRosa) post-rock 5/10
Tortoise Millions Now Living Will Never Die (Thrill Jockey, 1996) 8/10
Tosca Opera (G-Stone) trip-hop 5/10
Toy Dolls One More Megabyte (Rotten) 6/10
Trance Mission Head Light (City Of Tribes) 7/10 R
Trance To The Sun Delirious (Ambulancia) gothic 5/10
Trans Am Surrender To The Night (Thrill Jockey) 6/10
Transient Waves Transient Waves (Che) ambient 6/10
Travis Good Feeling (Independiente) pop 6/10
Treble Charger Maybe It's Me (RCA) pop 4/10
Trembling Blue Stars Lips That Taste Of Tears (Shinkansen) dance-pop 6/10
Treponem Pal Higher (Mercury) industrial 4/10
Trial Of The Bow Rite Of Passage (Release) ethno-ambient 7/10
Truly Feeling You Up (Thick) 5/10
Trumans Waters Action Ornaments (Runt) 7/10 R
Tsunami A Brilliant Mistake (Simple Machines) 6/10
Tuatara Breaking The Ethers (Epic) world-music 7/10
Tubetop: Three Minute Hercules (Laundry) 5/10
Turn On Turn On (Duophonic) electronica 5/10
TUU Mesh (Hearts Of Space) 7/10
Twisted Science Blown (Lo) techno 6/10
Two Dollar Guitar Burned And Buried (Smells Like) roots-rock 5/10
2 Foot Flame Ultra Drowning (Matador) noise-rock 5/10
U2 Pop (Island) 4/10
Ulan Bator Vegetale (Disques Du Soleil) avant-rock 7/10
Ultramarine Folk (Crepuscule) ambient house 6/10
Unit 187 Loaded (21st Circuitry) 7/10
Unita Through The Veils (Heartsong) /10
Up Bustle And Out Light Em Up Blow Em Out (Ninja Tune) trip-hop 5/10
Urban Dance Squad Planet Ultra (Virgin) funk-metal 4/10
U.S. Maple Sang Phat Editor (Skin Graft) avant-rock 7/10
U.S. Saucer Hell Yes (Amarillo) alt-country 5/10
Vajra Sichisiki (PSF) 5/10
Armand Van Helden Enter The Meatmarket (Columbia) house 5/10
Van Pelt Sultans Of Sentiments (Gern Blandsten) alt-rock 7/10
Vandermark 5 Single Piece Flow (Atavistic) Genre 7/10
Vapourspace Sweep (Ffrr) techno 6/10
Varnaline Varnaline (Zero Hour) country-pop 7/10
Vas Deferens Organization Sweat Your Cheeses (Charnel) 7/10 R
Vas Deferens Organization Zyzzybaloubah (VDO) 7/10
Vas Sunyata (Narada) /10
Verbena Souls For Sale (Merge) hard-rock 7/10
Veruca Salt Eight Arms To Hold You (Outpost) 6/10
Verve Urban Hymns (Virgin) 6/10
Vidna Obmana Twilight of Perception (Projekt) 6/10
Voices Of Kwahn Peninsular Enclosure (Swarffinger) electronica 6/10
Voivod Phobos (Slipdisc) 5/10
Volapuk Slang (Cuneiform) 7/10
Volebeats Sky And The Ocean (Safe House) 6/10
Voodoo Child The End Of Everything (Elektra) 7/10
Voodoo Glow Skulls Baile De Los Locos (Epitaph) ska-core 6/10
Waco Bros Cowboys In Flame (Bloodshot) Genre 6/10
Waiting For God Desipramine (Cargo) 5/10
Walkabouts Nighttown (Virgin) roots-rock 6/10
Walking Timebombs self-titled (Charnel) 7/10
Wallmen Electronic Home Entertainment (Wild Pitch) psych-rock 6/10
Walt Mink Colossus (Deep Elm) 5/10
Jamie Walters Ride (Atlantic) songwriter 3/10
We As Is (Asphodel) drum'n'bass 7/10
We Wooferwheels (Voices Of Wonder) hard-rock 5/10
Ween Mollusk (Elektra) 6/10
Bill Weita Substance D (Heliocentric) psych 6/10
Wellwater Conspiracy Declaration Of Conformity (Third Gear) 6/10
Steve Westfield Underwhelmed (Glitterhouse) hard-rock 5/10
Wheat Medeiros (Sugar Free) folk-rock 7/10
Whiskeytown Strangers Almanac (Outpost) alt-country 6/10
Jim White Wrong-Eyed Jesus (Luaka Bop) songwriter 6/10
White Winged Moth Silo Blanket (Formacentric) avant-rock 6/10
Chris Whitley Terra Incognita (Columbia) songwriter 6/10
Josephine Wiggs Bon Bon Lifestyle (Grand Royal) songwriter 6/10
Wildhearts Endless Nameless (Mushroom) power-pop 6/10
Windsor For The Derby Minnie Greutzfeldt (Trance Syndicate) 6/10
Windy & Carl Antarctica (Darla) 6/10
Witchman Explorimenting Beats (Deviant) drum'n'bass 7/10
Jah Wobble Celtic Poets (30hertz) Genre 5/10
Jah Wobble Requiem (30hertz) Genre 6/10
World Party Egyptology (Enclave) 7/10
Wu-Tang Clan Wu-Tang Forever (RCA) /10
:Wumpscut: Embryodead (Metropolis) industrial 6/10
Steve Wynn Sweetness And Light (Zero Hour) songwriter 6/10
X Marks The Pedwalk Drawback (Zoth Ommog) Genre 4/10
Xorcist Soul Reflection (21st Circuitry) 5/10
Yo La Tengo I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One (Matador) 6/10
Otomo Yoshihide Sound Factory (Gentle Giant) noise 6/10
Young Fresh Fellows The Lonesome Death Of Buck McCoy (Hollywood) Genre 6/10
Richard Youngs Festival (Table Of The Elements) post-rock 6/10
Richard Youngs House Music (Meme) post-rock 6/10
Yulara Cosmic Tree (Higher Octave) /10
Zazen Cayman Blue (Miramar) /10
Zello self-titled (Ad Perpetuam Memoriam) 6/10
Zeni Geva Nai Ha (Skin Graft) noise 5/10

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