Best of Rock
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8/10
7.5/10
- Low: Trust (Kranky)
- Cerberus Shoal: Mr Boy Dog (Temporary Residence)
- Amon Tobin: Out From Out Where (Ninja Tune)
- Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch)
- Comets On Fire: Field Recordings From the Sun (Ba Da Bing)
- Jessica Bailiff: Jessica Bailiff (Kranky)
- Today Is The Day: Sadness Will Prevail (Relapse)
- Entropic Advance: Red Yellow Noise (Symbolic Insight)
- Maquiladora: Ritual Of Hearts (Better Looking)
- Steffen Basho-Junghans: Waters in Azure (Strange Attractors)
- Vibracathedral Orchestra: Dabbling With Gravity (VHF)
- Black Dice: Beaches & Canyons (DFA)
- Nile: In Their Darkened Shrines (Relapse)
7/10
- Xiu Xiu: Knife Play (5rc)
- Khanate: Khanate (Southern Lord)
- Dorine Muraille: Mani (Fat Cat)
- Books: Thought For Food (Tomlab)
- Ugly Casanova: Sharpen Your Teeth (Sub Pop)
- Out Hud: Street Dad (Kranky)
- Broken Social Scene: You Forgot It in People (Arts & Crafts)
- Oneida: Each One Teach One (Jagjaguwar)
- Godspeed You Black Emperor: Yanqui UXO (Constellation)
- Mastodon: Remission (2002)
- Mike Johnson: What Would You Do (Up)
- Shalabi Effect: The Trial Of St. Orange (Alien 8)
- El Guapo: Super System (Dischord)
- Interpol: Turn on the Bright Lights (Matador)
- Town And Country: C'mon (Thrill Jockey)
- Black Tape For A Blue Girl: The Scavenger Bride (Projekt)
- DJ Spooky: Optometry (Thirsty Ear)
- Neko Case: Blacklisted (Lady Pilot)
- Zu: Igneo (Wide)
- Mum: Finally We Are No One (Fat Cat)
- Boards Of Canada: Geogaddi (Warp)
- Sunn O))): Flight Of The Behemoth (Southern Lord)
- Decemberists: Castaways and Cutouts (Hush)
- Scenic: The Acid Gospel Experience (Hidden Agenda)
- Deca: Simbionte ()
- Otep: Sevas Tra (Capitol)
- Add N To (X): Loud Like Nature (Mute)
- Noize Creator: Deferred Media (Ambush)
- Safe Francis: Personal Journals (2002)
- Sixtoo: Duration (Cease & Desist)
- Howard Hello: Howard Hello (Temporary Residence)
- Sigur Ros: ( ) (MCA)
- Dntel: Life Is Full of Possibilities (Plug Research)
- Oxbow: An Evil Heat (Neurot)
- Jennifer Gentle: Funny Creatures Lane (Sillyboy)
- Loscil: Submers (Kranky)
6.5/10
- !!!: !!! (GSL)
- Alec Empire: Intelligence And Sacrifice (Santeria)
- Songs: Ohia: Didn't It Rain (Secretly Canadian)
- Pan American: The River Made No Sound (Kranky)
- Suicide: American Supreme (Blast First)
- Sleater Kinney: One Beat (Kill Rock Stars)
- David Gray: A New Day At Midnight (RCA)
- Michelle Shocked: Deep Natural (Mighty Sound)
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Playlist
- Xiu Xiu: Hives
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Bang
- Out Hud: Story of the Whole Thing
- Amon Tobin: Searchers
- Xiu Xiu: Luber
- Spring Heel Jack: Lit
- Suicide: Swearing at the Flag
- Add N To X: Large Number
- Interpol: NYC
- Low: Canada
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Miles Away
- Jessica Bailiff: Big Hill
- Broken Social Scene:Anthems for a Seventeen Year-old Girl
- National: Available
- Maquiladora: Chinese Girl
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Mystery Girl
- Neko Case: Deep Red Bells
- National: Trophy Wife
- Lisa Germano: It's Party Time
- Maquiladora: Ritual Of Hearts
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Our Time
- Interpol: PDA
- Queens Of The Stone Age: No One Knows
- Brian Jonestown Massacre: If I Love You
- Neil Hagerty: It Could Happen Again
- Cornelius: Another View Point
- Mirah: Recommendation
- Nina Nastasia: This Is What It Is
- Queens Of The Stone Age: Another Love Song
- Add N To X: Take Me To Your Leader
- Hot Hot Heat: No Not Now
- Mastodon: Workhorse
- Clinic: Welcome
- Lisa Germano: Candy,
- Knotworking: Manuel
- Mountain Goats: Blues In Dallas
- Black Tape For A Blue Girl: A Livery Of Bachelors
- Jason Loewenstein: I'm A Shit
- Doves: There Goes The Fear
- Clinic: Sunlight Bathes Our Home
- Guided By Voices: Skin Parade
- Looper: Fucking Around
- Mirah: Cold Cold Water
- Woven Hand: Arrow Head
- Bright Eyes: Bowl of Oranges
Extended tracks
- Spring Heel Jack: Obscured
- Vibracathedral Orchestra: The Body is the Arrow
- Steffen Basho-Junghans: Inside the Rain
- Out Hud: The L Train
- Spring Heel Jack: One Hundred Years Before
- Nile: In Their Darkened Shrines
- Low: Shots and Ladders
- Maquiladora: She's More Beautiful
- Khanate: Under Rotting Sky
- Shalabi Effect: A Glow in the Dark
- Oxbow: Glimmer Shine
- Scenic: A Journey Through the Outer Reaches
- Comets on Fire: The Black Poodle
- Cerberus Shoal: Tongue Drongue
- Dalek: Black Smoke Rises
Sunn O))): Flight Of The Behemoth (2002), 7/10
- Sunn O))): O))) Bow 1 & 2
- Sixtoo: Duration Project
- Town And Country: Bookmobile
- DJ Spooky: Optometry
- Mum: The Land Between Solar Systems
- Black Tape For A Blue Girl: The Scavenger's Daughter
- Isis: Hym
- Cornershop: Spectral Mornings
- Pan American: Red Line
- Black Dice: Things Will Never Be the Same
- Death Cab For Cutie: Stability
- Nile: Unas Slayer of Gods
- Entropic Advance: Big River
- Gallon Drunk: Forget All That You Know
- Landing: First Snow
- Opeth: Deliverance
- No-Neck Blues Band: Intonomancy
- Pinback: Grey Machine
- Electric Wizard: The Outsider
- Dalek: Black Smoke Rises
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Other critics
Aquarius
Jazz
- Marty Ehrlich: The Long View (Enja)
- Spring Heel Jack: Amassed (Thirsty Ear)
- Jane Ira Bloom: Chasing Paint (2002)
- Ken Vandermark Territory Band: Map Theory (2002)
- Claudia Quintet: I
- Andrew Hill: A Beautiful Day (Palmetto)
- Brad Mehidau: Largo (Warner)
- Mujician: Spacetime (Cuneiform)
- Evan Parker: Memory/Vision (2002)
- Randy Weston: Ancient Future (Mutablemusic)
- Bobby Previte: The 23 Constellations of Joan Miro (Tzadik)
- David Ware: Freedom Suite (Aum)
- Keith Jarrett: Always Let Me Go (ECM)
- Roscoe Mitchell: Song For my Sister (Pi)
- Joe Zawinul: Faces and Places (ESC)
- Tim Berne: Science Friction (Screwgun)
- Tomasz Stanko: Soul of Things (ECM)
- Hamiet Bluiett: Blueback (Justin Time)
- Thomas Buckner: Alone Together Apart (Mutablemusic)
- Joshua Redman: Elastic (Warner)
- Bobby Previte: The 23 Constellations (Tzadik)
- Leo Smith: The Year of the Elephant (Pi)
- Bill Frisell: The Willies (Nonesuch)
- Randy Sandke: Inside Out (Nagel)
- Jason Moran: Modernistic (Blue Note)
- Dave Douglas: The Infinite (RCA)
- Paul Motian: Holiday for Strings (Winter)
- Abdullah Ibrahim: African Symphony (Enja)
Classical
- Prokofev: Symphony 2 (Polyansky, Chandos)
- Gubaidulina: Canticle Of The Sun/ Music For Flute Strings, Percussion (EMI 57153)
- Mahler: Symphony 9 (BBC, Horenstein)
- Varese: Ameriques, Arcana, Deserts, Ionisation (Boulez, DG)
- Haydn: Creation Mass (Gardiner, Philips)
- Wagner: Tannhauser (Barenboim, Teldec)
- Leoninus: Sacred Music (EMI 57153)
- Dvorak: Symphony 9 (Ashkenazy, Ondine)
- Mahler: Symphony 7 (Abbado, DG)
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