Best of Rock
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7.5/10
- Supersilent: 6 (Rune Grammofon)
- Fiery Furnaces: Gallowsbird's Bark (Rough Trade)
- Xiu Xiu: A Promise (5RC)
- Cat Power: You Are Free (Matador)
- Menomena: I Am The Fun Blame Monster (Muuuhahaha)
- Blood Brothers: Burn Piano Island Burn (ArtistDirect)
- Khanate: Things Viral (Southern Lord)
- Kopernik: Kopernik (Eastern Developments)
- M83: Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts (Mute)
- Microphones: Mount Eerie (K)
- Books: The Lemon of Pink (Tomlab)
- Manitoba: Up In Flames (Leaf)
7/10
- Ben Frost: Steel Wound (Room40)
- Mono: One Step More And You Die (Arena Rock)
- Need New Body: UFO (File 13)
- Animal Collective: Here Comes The Indian (Paw)
- Black Eyes: Black Eyes (Dischord)
- Czars: The Ugly People Vs The Beautiful People (Manifesto)
- Four Tet: Rounds (Domino)
- Six Organs Of Admittance: For Octavio Paz (Time-Lag)
- Li Jianhong: Talking Freely Before The Beginning (2pi)
- Castanets: Cathedral (Ashtmatic Kitty)
- Colleen: Everyone Alive Wants Answers (Leaf)
- Rapture: Echoes (Universal)
- Dirty Projectors: The Glad Fact (Western Vinyl)
- Lorna: This Time Each Year (Hybrid Electric)
- Boxhead Ensemble: Quartets (Atavistic)
- Intelligent Shanghai Mono University: 7.9 (Subjam)
- Patrick Wolf: Lycanthropy (Tomlab)
- Blithe Sons: We Walk The Young Earth (Family Vineyard)
- Pelican: Australasia (Hydra Head)
- Broadcast: Haha Sound (Warp)
- B Fleischmann: Welcome Tourist (Morr)
- Dizzee Rascal: Boy in Da Corner (XL)
- Daniel Johnston: Fear Yourself (Gammon)
- Calexico: Feast of Wire (Quarterstick)
- Kevin Blechdom: Bitches Without Britches (Chicks on Speed)
- Keiji Haino: C'est Parfait (Turtles' Dream)
- Sixtoo: Antagonist Survival Kit (Vertical Form)
- Double Leopards: Halve Maen (Eclipse)
- Coh: Seasons (Idea)
- Tim Hecker: Presents Radio Amor (Mille Plateaux)
- Portal: Seepia (Profound Lore)
- Ralph Carney: This is (BlackBeauty)
- John Cale: Hobosapiens (EMI)
- Cursive: The Ugly Organ (Saddle Creek)
- Grails: The Burden of Hope (Neurot)
- Excepter: Ka (Fusetron)
- Kayo Dot: Choirs of the Eye (Tzadik)
- Ricardo Villalobos: Alcachofa (Playhouse)
- Mountain Goats: Tallahassee (4AD)
- Aereogramme: Sleep And Release (Matador)
- National: Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers (Brassland)
- Appalachian Death Ride: Hobo's Codebook (Anyway)
- Coachwhips: Get Yer Body Next Ta Mine (Narnack)
- Juana Molina: Segundo (Domino)
- Trollmann Av Ildtoppberg: Arcane Runes Adorn The Ice-Veiled Monoliths (Monolith)
- Furze: Necromanzee Cogent (Apocalyptic Empire)
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Playlist
- M83: Unrecorded
- Blood Brothers: Fucking's Greatest Hits
- Menomena: Oahu
- Cat Power: I Don't Blame You
- Blood Brothers: Burn Piano Island Burn
- Four Tet: My Angel Rocks Back And Forth
- Rapture: Sister Saviour
- Xiu Xiu: Sad Pony Guerilla Girl
- Sons & Daughters: Johnny Cash
- Daniel Johnston: Must
- Rosie Thomas: You And Me
- Calexico: Black Heart
- Nick Cave: Dead Man in My Bed
- Broadcast: Colour Me In
- Four Tet: Spirit Fingers
- John Cale: Reading My Mind
- Daniel Johnston: Love Not Dead
- Fiery Furnaces: We Got Back The Plague
- Black Eyes: Someone Has His Fingers Broken
- Smog: Vessel in Vain
- Tindersticks: Sometimes It Hurts
- Mountain Goats: Oceanographer's Choice
- Cat Power: Half of You
- Manitoba: Kid You'll Move Mountains
- Postal Service: Such Great Heights
- Angels of Light: All Souls' Rising
- Wrens: Per Second Second
- Daniel Johnston: Syrup Of Tears
- Broadcast: Valerie
- Appalachian Death Ride: Comin' Around
- New Pornographers: The Laws Have Changed
- Manishevitz: Mary Ann
- Hawksley Workman: Jealous Of Your Cigarette
- Cursive: Some Red Handed Sleight of Hand
- Ariel Pink: Loverboy
- Manitoba: Bijoux replicate
- 1349: Pitch Black
- Robert Wyatt: Just a Bit
- Lorna: For Hours Light
- White Stripes: Black Math
- Fruit Bats: A Bit Of Wind
- Lightning Bolt: 30000 Monkeys
- Califone: Horoscopic Amputation Honey
- Snow Patrol: Run
- Crooked Fingers: You Threw a Spark
- Kings of Leon: Red Morning Light
- Appalachian Death Ride: The Mission
- Okkervil River: Blanket and Crib
- Califone: Red
- Patrick Wolf: To The Lighthouse
- Pinback: Microtonic Wave
- Brother Ali: Bitchslap!
- Drive-by Truckers: Sink Hole
- Bonnie Prince Billy: Joy and Jubilee
- Kills: Fried My Little Brains
- Rapture: House of Jealous Lovers
Extended tracks
- Khanate: Fields
- Li Jianhong: Talking Freely Before The Beginning
- Keiji Haino: C'est Parfait
- Pelican: Night And Day
- Mono: Com
- Six Organs of Admittance: The Acceptance of Absolute Negation
- !!!: Me And Giuliani Down By the School Yard
- Blithe Sons: The Oldest Living Things
- M83: Beauties Can Die
- Excepter: Forget Me
- Coh: The Colour Of Beauty
- Philip Jeck: Veil
- Kayo Dot: The Manifold Curiosity
- Double Leopards: A Hemisphere in Your Hair
- Sixtoo: The Mile-End Artbike
- Boxhead Ensemble: Quartet Four
- Microphones: The Sun
- Pelican: The Woods
- Furze: Sathanas' Megalomania
- Cerberus Shoal: Scaly Beast vs Toy Piano
- Ricardo Villalobos: What You Say Is More Than I Can Say
- Nick Cave: Babe I'm on Fire
- Cul De Sac: Dust of Butterflies
- Animal Collective: Native Belle
- Steffen Basho-Junghans: The River Suite
- !!!: Me And Giuliani Down By the School Yard
- Meredith Monk: Doctor - Patient
- Robert Rich: Vertigo
- Dirty 3: Alice Wading
- Sun Kil Moon: Duk Koo Kim
- Larval: Something Terrible Is About To Happen
- Harris Newman: Forest for the Trees
- Yo La Tengo: Let's Be Still
- David Sylvian: The Heart Knows Better
- Cheer-Accident: The Autumn Wind is a Pirate
- Birchville Cat Motel: Summer's Seething Pulse
- Juana Molina: Mantra Del Bicho Feo
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Jazz
- Franz Koglmann: Fear Death By Water (2003)
- Denman Maroney: Fluxations (New World)
- Ivo Perelman: Suite for Helen F (2003)
- Jason Moran: The Bandwagon (Blue Note)
- Hiromi: Another Mind (Telarc)
- Claudia Quintet: I Claudia (Cuneiform)
- Vijay Iyer: Blood Sutra (Artists House)
- Spring Heel Jack: Live (Thirsty Ear)
- Paul Rucker: History of an Apology (Jackson Street)
- Scott Rosenberg: Creative Orchestra Music (New World)
- David Ware: Threads (Thirsty Ear)
- Angelica Sanchez: Mirror Me (Omnitone)
- Robert Glasper: Mood (Fresh Sound)
- Bad Plus: These Are The Vistas (Columbia)
- Michael Brecker: Wide Angles (2003)
- Tord Gustavsen: Changing Places (ECM)
- Dave Douglas: Freak In (Bluebird)
- Andrew Hill: Passing Ships (Blue Note)
- Dave Holland: Extended Play (ECM)
- Nicholas Payton: Sonic Trance (Warner)
- Jetemy Pelt: Close to My Heart (Maxjazz)
- Gilad Atzmon: Exile (Justin Time)
- Wayne Shorter: Alegria (Verve)
Classical
- Wagner: Flying Dutchman (Barenboim, Teldec)
- Mahler: Symphony 3 (Boulez, DG)
- Penderecki: Sextet/Clarinet Quartet (Naxos)
- Brahms: Symphonies (Bohm, DG)
- Meredith Monk: Mercy (ECM)
- Georges Lentz: Caeli Enarrant (Naxos)
- John Tavener: Ikon of Eros (Reference)
- Vaughan Williams: Sea Symphony (Daniel, Naxos)
- Messiaen: Transfiguration (Chung, DG)
- John Rutter: Mass of the Children (Collegium)
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