2001 album reviews
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| Artist | Album Title | (Label) | Genre | Rat. | © |
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| Ratings: 10=best rock album ever; 9=masterpiece; 8=buy it now; 7=buy it eventually; 6=buy it if you are a fan |
| Acid Mother Temple | New Geocentric World | (Squealer) | psych-rock | 6/10 | |
| Barry Adamson & Pan Sonic | The Hymn Of The Seventh Illusion | (Kitchen Motors) | ambient | 6/10 | |
| Aereogramme | A Story In White | (Chemikal Underground) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Air | 10.000 Hz Legend | (Virgin) | electronica | 6/10 | |
| Alfie | If You Happy With You Need Do Nothing | (Twisted Nerve) | pop | 5/10 | |
| Alloy Orchestra | Masters Of Slapstick | (Accurate) | avant-rock | 6/10 | |
| American Analog Set | Know By Heart | (Tigeerstyle) | psychedelic | 6/10 | |
| Amp | Saint Cecilia Sinsemilla | (Space Age) | ambient | 4/10 | |
| Anaal Nathrakh | The Codex Necro | (Mordgrimm, 2001) | black metal | 7/10 | |
| Anathema | A Fine Day To Exit | (Music For Nation) | doom-metal | 4/10 | |
| Angels Of Light | How I Loved You | (Young God) | gothic | 6/10 | |
| Aphex Twin | Drukqs | (Warp) | ambient techno | 5/10 | |
| Appendix Out | The Night Is Advancing | (Drag City) | folk | 6/10 | |
| Appleseed Cast | Low Level Owl | (Deep Elm) | emocore | 6/10 | |
| Appliance | Imperial Metric | (Mute) | post-rock | 7/10 | |
| Arab On Radar | Yahweh Or The Highway | (Skin Graft) | noise-rock | 6/10 | |
| Arab Strap | The Red Thread | (Matador) | folk | 5/10 | |
| Arlo | Up High In The Night | (Subpop) | power-pop | 4/10 | |
| Art Zoyd | Ubique | (Inpossible) | prog-rock | 5/10 | |
| Ash | Free All Angels | (Infectious) | Brit-pop | 5/10 | |
| Ass Ponys | Lohio | (Checkered Past) | roots-rock | 5/10 | |
| Natacha Atlas | Ayeshteni | (Mantra) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Atomsmasher | Atomsmasher | (Hydrahead) | ambient | 6/10 | |
| Aube | Seton | (Manifold) | avantgarde | 5/10 | |
| Aube | Timemind | (Alchemy) | avantgarde | 5/10 | |
| Autechre | Confield | (Warp) | electronica | 6/10 | |
| Azusa Plane | The Highway's Jammed With Broken Heroes | (Kraak) | instrumental | 5/10 | |
| Bardo Pond | Dilate | (Matador) | psych | 6/10 | |
| Basement Jaxx | Rooty | (Astralwerks) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Steffen Basho-Junghans | Inside | (Strange Attractors) | instrumental | 6/10 | |
| Beachwood Sparks | Once We Were Trees album | (Subpop) | roots-rock | 7/10 | R |
| Beta Band | Hot Shots II | (EMI) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Bethany Curve | You Brought Us Here | (Unit Circle Rekkids) | shoegaze | 6/10 | |
| Beulah | The Coast is Never Clear | (Velocette) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Bevis Frond | Valedictory Songs | (Rubric) | psyc | 5/10 | |
| Bevis Frond | What Did For The Dinosaurs | (Woronzow) | psych | 5/10 | |
| Biohazard | Uncivilization | (Sanctuary) | metal | 4/10 | |
| Biota | Invisible Map | (Recommended) | avant-rock | 6/10 | |
| Bis | Return To Central | (Spinart) | Brit-pop | 4/10 | |
| Bjork | Vespertine | (Elektra) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Frank Black | Dog In The Sand | (What Are) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Black Crowes | Lions | (V2) | roots-rock | 5/10 | |
| Black Halos | The Violent Years | (Subpop) | punk-rock | 5/10 | |
| Black Sun Ensemble | Hymn Of The Master | (Camera Obscura) | psych | 6/10 | |
| Blake Babies | God Bless | (Zoe) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Blood Brothers | March on Electric Children | (Three One G) | hardcore | 7/10 | |
| Blue Mountain | Roots | (Blue Mountain) | folk | 4/10 | |
| Richard Bone | Tales From The Incantina | (Quirkworks) | ambient | 6/10 | |
| Bonnie Prince Billy | Ease Down The Road | (Palace) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Boris | Flood | (MIDI Creative) | stoner | 6/10 | |
| Boxhead Ensemble | Two Brothers | (Truckstop) | instrumental | 7/10 | |
| Bran Van 3000 | Discosis | (Grand Royal) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Brand New Immortals | Tragic Show | (Elektra) | funk-rock | 5/10 | |
| Brother JT | Maybe We Should Take | (Birdman) | folk-rock | 5/10 | |
| Ian Brown | Music For The Spheres | (Polydor), | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| BS2000 | Simply Mortified | (Grand Royal) | hip-hop | 5/10 | |
| Buckethead | Somewhere Over The Slaughterhouse | (Stray) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
| Built To Spill | Ancient Melodies Of The Future | (Warner Bros) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
| Burning Airlines | Identikit | (DeSoto) | alt-country | 5/10 | |
| Bush | Golden State | (Atlantic) | grunge | 4/10 | |
| Butthole Surfers | Weird Revolution | (Hollywood) | Genre | 6/10 | R |
| David Byrne | Look Into The Eyeball | (Virgin) | songwriter | 4/10 | |
| C Average | Second Rekoning | (Kill Rock Stars) | heavy metal | 6/10 | |
| Cake | Comfort Eagle | (Columbia) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
| Califone | Roomsound | (Glitterhouse) | alt-rock | 7/10 | |
| Calla | Scavengers | (Young God) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Kim Cascone | Residualism | (Ritornell) | industrial | 6/10 | |
| Cash Audio | Orange Sessions | (Orange) | blues-rock | 5/10 | |
| Cathedral | Endtyme | (Earache) | doom-metal | 5/10 | |
| Nick Cave | No More Shall We Part | (Mute) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Charlatans | Wonderland | (MCA) | Genre | 4/10 | |
| Richard Chartier |  Decisive Forms | (Trente Oiseaux) | concrete | 7/10 | |
| Vic Chestnutt | Left To His Own Devices | (SpinArt) | songwriter | 4/10 | |
| Chestnut Station | In Your Living Room | (Drag City) | garage-rock | 4/10 | |
| Child's View | Hoshi No Koe | (Thrill Jockey) | electronica | 6/10 | |
| Circulatory System | Circulatory System | (Cloud) | pop | 6/10 | |
| Kit Clayton | Lateral Forces - Surface Fault | (Vertical Form) | electronica | 7/10 | |
| Clean | Getaway | (Merge) | lo-fi | 5/10 | |
| Nels Cline | Destroy All Nels Cline | (Atavistic) | instrumental | 7/10 | |
| Coastal | Coastal | (Words On Music) | shoegaze | 7/10 | |
| James Combs | Please Come Down | (Ubiquity) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Bobby Conn | The Golden Age | (Thrill Jockey) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Chris Connelly | Blonde Exodus | (Invisible) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Chris Connelly & Bill Rieflin | Largo | (First World) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Lloyd Cole | The Negatives | (At Source) | songwriter | 4/10 | |
| Edwyn Collins & Bill Rieflin | Largo | (First World) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Loren Mazzacane Connors | The Little Match Girl | (Road Cone) | instrumental | 6/10 | |
| Elvis Costello | For The Stars | (Deutsche Grammophone) | songwriter | 4/10 | |
| Cowboy Junkies | Open | (Latent) | roots | 6/10 | |
| Cracker | Forever | (Back Porch) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Cradle Of Filth | Bitter Suites to Succubi | (Koch) | black metal | 4/10 | |
| Cranberries | Wake Up And Smell The Coffeee | (MCA) | alt-rock | 4/10 | |
| Cranes | Future Songs | (Dadaphonic) | dream-pop | 6/10 | |
| Creeper Lagoon | Take Back The Universe | (Dreamworks) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Crooked Fingers | Bring On The Snakes | (Warm) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Crystal Method | Tweekend | (Interscope) | Genre | 4/10 | |
| Cult | Beyond Good And Evil | (Atlantic) | hard-rock | 4/10 | |
| Cult of Luna | Cult of Luna | (Rage Of Achilles) | post-metal | 7/10 | |
| Current 93 & NUrse With Wound | Bright Yellow Moon | (Durtro) | industrial | 5/10 | |
| Current 93 | The Great In The Small | (Durtro) | industrial | 5/10 | |
| Curve | Gift | (Universal) | dream-pop | 5/10 | |
| Daft Punk | Discovery | (Virgin) | techno | 7/10 | |
| Danielson Famile | Fetch the Compass Kids | (Tooth & Nail) | lo-fi pop | 6/10 | |
| Daryll-Ann | Happy Traum | (Excelsior) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Alana Davis | Fortune Cookies | (Elektra) | songwriter | 4/10 | |
| Dead Voices On Air | Frankie Pett Presents | (Invisible) | industrial | 6/10 | |
| Death Cab For Cutie | The Photo Album | (Barsuk) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Death In June | All Pigs Must Die | (NER) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Degenerate Art Ensemble | Rinko | (Unit Circle Rekkids) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
| Vladislav Delay | Anima | (Mille Plateaux) | electronica | 7/10 | |
| Depeche Mode | Exciter | (Mute) | synth-pop | 5/10 | |
| Dickies | All This and Puppet Stew | (Fat Wreck) | punk-rock | 4/10 | |
| Dirty 3 | Lowlands | (Anchor And Hope) | instrumental | 6/10 | |
| Disk Orchestra | K | (Rather Interesting) | electronica | 5/10 | |
| Dismemberment Plan | Change | (Desoto) | hardcore | 6/10 | |
| Divine Comedy | Regeneration | (Parlophone) | pop | 4/10 | |
| Djam Karet | New Dark Age | (Cuneiform) | instrumental | 6/10 | |
| Julie Doiron | Desormais | (Jagjaguwar) | songwriter | 5.5/10 | |
| Graeme Downes | Hammers And Anvils | (Sony) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Bob Drake | The Skull Mailbox | (Rer) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Dropkick Murphys | Sing Loud Sing Proud | (Epitaph) | hardcore | 6/10 | |
| Drugstore | Songs For The Jet Set | (Global Warming) | psych-rock | 6/10 | |
| Dumptruck | Lemmings Travel To The Sea | (Devil In The Woods) | roots-rock | 6/10 | |
| DUnlavy | King OF All He Surveys | (Fleece) | psych | 6/10 | |
| Dunlavy | The Alison Effect | (Camera Obscura) | psych-rock | 6/10 | |
| Bob Dylan | Love And Theft | (Columbia) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Tim Easton | The Truth About Us | (New West) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Eat Static | In The Nude | (Mesmobeat) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
| Echo And The Bunnymen | Flowers | (Cooking Vinyl) | new wave | 5/10 | |
| Eels | Souljacker | (Geffen) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
| Mark Eitzel | The Invisible Man | (Matador) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Electric Frankenstein | Don't Touch Me | (Twenty Stone Blatt) | garage-rock | 4/10 | |
| Elysian Fields | Queen Of The Meadow | (Jetset) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Embrace | If You've Never Been | (Virgin) | pop | 5/10 | |
| Emperor | Prometheus | (Candlelight) | black metal | 6/10 | |
| Enslaved | Monumension | (Osmose) | metal | 5/10 | |
| Entombed | Morning Star | (Music For Nations) | hard-rock | 5/10 | |
| Envy | All The Footprints You've Ever Left | (HG Fact) | screamo | 7/10 | |
| Alejandro Escovedo | A Man Under The Influence | (Bloodshot) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Melissa Etheridge | Skin | (Island) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Euphone | Hashin' It Out | (Jade Tree) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
| Ex | Dizzy Spells | (Touch & Go) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Experimental Pop Band | The Tracksuit Trilogy | (Swarf Finger) | pop | 4/10 | |
| Jad Fair & Daniel Johnston | The Lucky Sperms | (Jagjaguwar) | lo-fi | 5/10 | |
| Faithless | Outrospective | (Cheeky) | dance | 5/10 | |
| Fall | Are You Are Missing Winner | (Cog Sinister) | alt-rock | 4/10 | |
| Fantastic Plastic Machine | Beautiful | (Emperor Norton) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Fantomas | The Director's Cut | (Ipecac) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Jay Farrar | Sebastopol | (Artemis) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Perry Farrell | Song Yet To Be Sung | (Virgin) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Fear Factory | Digimortal | (Roadrunner) | death-metal | 5/10 | |
| Janet Feder | Speak Puppet | (ReR) | instrumental | 7/10 | |
| Mike Fellows | Mighty Flashlight | (Jade Tree) | songwriter | 6.5/10 | |
| Fennesz | Endless Summer | (Mego) | electronica | 7/10 | |
| Dave Fischoff | The Ox And The Rainbow | (Secretely Canadian) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Firewater | Psychopharmacology | (Jetset) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
| Steve Fisk | 999 Levels of Undo | (Subpop) | instrumental | 6/10 | N |
| 5uus | Abandon Ship | (Cuneiform) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
| Flanger | Inner Space Outer Space | (Ninja Tune) | electronica | 5/10 | |
| Fleshtones | Solid Gold Sound | (Fantastik Music) | garage-rock | 6/10 | |
| Flies Inside The Sun | Le Mal D'Archive | (Metonymic) | free-noise | 5/10 | |
| Rosie Flores | Speed Of Sound | (Rounder) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Flying Luttenbachers | Trauma | (Ugexplode) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
| Foetus | Flow | (Thirsty Ear) | industrial | 6/10 | |
| Ben Folds | Rockin' The Suburbs | (Epic) | roots-rock | 5/10 | |
| Fontanelle | F | (Kranky) | instrumental | 5/10 | |
| 4 Hero | Creative Patterns | (Talking Loud) | jungle | 6/10 | |
| Paula Frazer | Indoor Universe | (Birdman) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Lars Frederiksen | And The Bastards | (Epitaph) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Friends Of Nina Martinez | Wichita Lineman | (Glitterhouse) | 6/10 | | |
| Frogs | Hopscotch Lollipop Sunday Surprise | (Scratchie) | folk-pop | 6/10 | |
| From Quagmire | The Tropic Of Barren | (VHF) | avant-rock | 6/10 | |
| Front Line Assembly | Epitaph | (Metropolis) | industrial | 4/10 | |
| Edith Frost | Wonder Wonder | (Drag City) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| John Frusciante | To Record Only Water For Ten Days | (Warner Bros) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Fuck | Cupid's Cactus | (Smells Like) | lo-fi pop | 5/10 | |
| Fugazi | The Argument | (Discord) | hardcore | 6/10 | |
| Fundamental | There Shall Be Loved | (Nation) | ethnic | 5/10 | |
| Fushitsusha | Origin's Hesitation | (PSF) | psych-rock | 6/10 | |
| Garbage | Beautiful | (Mushroom) | alt-rock | 4/10 | |
| Rebecca Gates | Ruby Series | (Badman) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Howe Gelb | Confluence | (Thrill Jockey) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Howe Gelb | Lull Some Piano | (Ow Om) | psych-rock | 4/10 | |
| Howe Gelb | Down Home | (Ow Om) | psych-rock | 4/10 | |
| Go-Go's | God Bless | (Beyond) | girl-group | 4/10 | |
| Godflesh | Hymns | (Music For Nations) | industrial | 5/10 | |
| Gorky's Zygotic Mynci | How I Long | (BEggars Banquet) | folk-pop | 5/10 | |
| Gossip | That's Not What I Heard | (Kill Rock Stars) | garage-blues | 6/10 | |
| Gravitar | Freedom Is Another Word | (Enterruption) | psych-rock | 6/10 | |
| Green Pajamas | The Carolers' Song | (Hidden Agenda) | pop | 5/10 | |
| Green Pajamas | This Is Where We Disappear | (Woronzow) | pop | 5/10 | |
| Groove Armada | Goodbye Country | (Hello Nightclub) | downtempo | 6/10 | |
| Guided By Voices | Isolation Drills | (TVT) | lo-fi pop | 6/10 | |
| Gwar | Violence Has Arrived | (Metal Blade) | metal | 5/10 | |
| Ida | The Braille Night | (Tigerstyle) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Idaho | Levitate | (Idaho) | roots-rock | 5/10 | |
| Illusion Of Safety | In Opposition To Our Acceleration | (Die Stadt) | industrial | 6/10 | |
| In The Nursery | Hindle Wakes | (ITN) | gothic | 6/10 | |
| In The Nursery | Engel | (ITN) | gothic | 6/10 | |
| Incubus | Morning View | (Immortal) | funk-rock | 5/10 | |
| Tetsu Inoue | Firld Tracker | (Anomalous) | ambient | 5/10 | |
| Ioscil | Triple Point | (Kranky) | electronica | 5/10 | |
| Jackie-O Motherfucker | Liberation | (Road Cone) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
| James | Pleased To Meet You | (Mercury) | dance-pop | 5/10 | |
| Bill Janowitz | Up Here | (Beggar's Banquet) | 5/10 | | |
| Peter Jefferies | Closed Circuit | (Emperor Jones) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Jimmy Eat World | Bleed American | (Dreamworks) | emocore | 6/10 | |
| Freedy Johnston | Right Between The Promises | (Elektra) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Simon Joyner | Hotel Lives | (Truckstop) | songwriter | 7/10 | |
| Juno | A Future Lived in Past Tense | (Desoto) | post-hardcore | 6/10 | |
| Damien Jurado | I Break Chairs | (Subpop) | songwriter | 5/10 | R |
| Karamasov | Divorce Your Loved Ones With Dignity | (Satellite) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
| Katatonia | Last Fair Deal Gone Down | (Peaceville) | doom | 5/10 | |
| Cevin Key | The Ghost Of Each Room | (Metropolis) | industrial | 6/10 | |
| Khan | No Comprendo | (Matador) | electronica | 5/10 | |
| Kid 606 | PS You Love Me | (MIlle Plateaux) | electronica | 6/10 | |
| David Kilgour | A Feather in the Engine | (Merge) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Kill Creek | Colors of Home | (Second Nature) | post-rock | 5/10 | |
| Kings Of Convenience | Quiet Is The New Loud | (Source) | folk-rock | 6/10 | |
| Kingsbury Manx | Let You Down | (Overcoat) | folk-rock | 6/10 | |
| Kinski | Be Gentle With the Warm Turtle | (Pacifico) | psych | 6/10 | |
| Steve Kirk | Pop | (Kirk) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Knoxville Girls | In a Paper Suit | (In The Red) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
| Koenjihyakkei | Nivraym | (God Mountain) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
| Thomas Koner | Kontakt Der Junglinge | (Die Stadt) | ambient | 5/10 | |
| Thomas Koner | Daikan | (Mille Plateaux) | ambient | 6/10 | |
| Lenny Kravitz | Lenny | (Virgin) | hard-rock | 4/10 | |
| David Kristian | Sawdust Sinedust Squaredust | (Pandora) | electronica | 6/10 | |
| DJ Krush | Zen | (Sony) | trip-hop | 6/10 | |
| Labradford | Fixed::Context | (Kranky) | ambient | 6/10 | R/A |
| Ladybug Transistor | Argyle Heir | (Merge) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
| Ladytron | 604 | (Invicta Hifi) | synth-pop | 5/10 | |
| Lali Puna | Scary World Theory | (Darla) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
| Lamb | What Sound | (Mercury) | trip-hop | 5/10 | |
| Landing | Circuit | (Music fellowship) | ambient | 6/10 | |
| Landing | Oceanless | (Strange Attractors) | ambient | 6/10 | |
| Mark Lanegan | Field Songs | (Subpop) | songwriter | 6/10 | N |
| Bill Laswell | Cyclops | (Emusic) | dub | 4/10 | |
| Le Tigre | Feminist Sweepstakes | (Mr Lady) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Lenola | Treat Me To Some Life | (Tappersize) | psyc-pop | 6/10 | |
| Leroy | Leroy | (Hollywood) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Alan Licht | Plays Well | (Crank Automative) | avant-rock | 6/10 | |
| Lies | Resigned | (Kill Rock Stars) | gothic | 5/10 | |
| Lightning Bolt | Ride The Skies | (LOad) | noise | 6/10 | |
| Lightwave | Caryotype | (Signature) | cosmic | 6/10 | |
| Richard Lloyd | The Cover Doesn't Matter | (Upsetter) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
| Lofty Pillars | Amsterdam | (Truckstop) | chamber rock | 8/10 | |
| DJ Logic | Anomaly | (Atlantic) | avant-rock | 6/10 | |
| Lord Of Acid | Farstucker | (Antler Subway) | dance | 6/10 | |
| Love As Laughter | Sea To SHining Sea | (Subpop) | alt-rock | 7/10 | |
| Low | Things We Lost In The Fire | (Kranky) | slo-core | 7/10 | R |
| Nick Lowe | The Convincer | (Yep Roc) | Genre | 4/10 | |
| Low + Dirty Three | In The Fishtank | (Subpop) | slo-core | 7/10 | R |
| Gary Lucas | Street of Lost Brothers | (Tzadik) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
| Lucky Boys Confusion | Throwing The Game | (Elektra) | punk-pop | 7/10 | |
| Lupine Howl | The Carnivorous Lunar Adventures | (Beggars Banquet) | acid-rock | 6/10 | |
| Lustmord | Metavoid | (Nextera) | electronica | 5/10 | |
| Magic Carpatians Project | Ethnocore II: Nytu | (Drunken Fish) | pan-ethnic | 6/10 | |
| Magic Magicians | Girls | (Suicide Squeeze) | roots-rock | 5/10 | |
| Mainliner | Imaginative Plain | (PSF) | psych | 6/10 | |
| Stephen Malkmus | Stephen Malkmus | (Matador) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Manic Street Preachers | Know Your Enemy | (Epic) | Genre | 4/10 | |
| Barbara Manning | You Should Know By Now | (Innerstate) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Manorexia | Volvox Turbo | (Ectopic Ents) | industrial | 6/10 | |
| Massacre | Meltdown | (Tzadik) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
| Matt Marque | Get There | (Truckstop) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Maskit Chamber | Heaven Machine | (TMC) | instrumental | 5/10 | |
| Maskit Chamber | The 4th Wave | (TMC) | instrumental | 6/10 | |
| Matmos | A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure | (Matador) | electronica | 7/10 | |
| Dave Matthews Band | Everyday | (RCA) | pop | 4/10 | |
| Robert McCreedy | Streamline | (Safe House) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Megadeth | The World Needs A Hero | (Sanctuary) | metal | 5/10 | |
| Melvins | Colossus Of Destiny | (Ipecac) | grunge | 5/10 | |
| Melvins | Electroretard | (Man's Ruin) | grunge | 5/10 | |
| Natalie Merchant | Motherland | (Elektra) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Mercury Rev | All Is Dream | (V2) | psych-rock | 6/10 | |
| Merzbow | Dharma | (Hydrahead) | noise | 6/10 | |
| Mice Parade | Mokoondi | (Fat Cat) | drum'n'bass | 6/10 | |
| Microphones | The Glow Pt 2 | (K) | pop | 6/10 | |
| Migala | Arde | (Subpop) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
| Justin Mikulka | Move Toward The Exit | (One Mad Son) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Robert Miles | Organik | (Shakti) | instrumental | 6/10 | |
| Minus 5 | Let The War Against The Music Begin | (Mammoth) | pop | 5/10 | |
| Mira | Apart | (Projekt) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Mirah | You Think It's Like | (K) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Miriodor | Mekano | (Cuneiform) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
| Mogwai | The Rock Action | (Matador) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
| Momus | Folktronic | (Le Grand Magistery) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Money Mark | Change Is Coming | (Emperor Norton) | funk | 6/10 | |
| Roy Montgomery | Silver Wheel Of Prayer | (VHF) | instrumental | 6/10 | |
| Mortiis | The Smell Of Rain | (Earache) | goth | 5/10 | |
| Motion Picture | A Paper Gift | (Words On Music) | folk-rock | 7/10 | |
| Motorpsycho | Phanerothyme | (Stickman) | garage | 4/10 | |
| Mountain Goats | The Coroner's Gambit | (Absolutely Kosher) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Mouse On Mars | Idiology | (Thrill Jockey) | post-rock | 7/10 | |
| Moviola | Rumors Of The Faithful | (Spirit Of Orr) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Murder City Devils | Thelema | (Subpop) | garage-rock | 5/10 | |
| Muse | Origin of Symmetry | (Mushroom) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
| My Dying Bride | The Dreadful Hours | (Peaceville) | doom | 6/10 | |
| Napalm Death | Enemy Of The Music Business | (Spitfire) | grindcore | 5/10 | |
| Dave Navarro | Trust No One | (Capitol) | songwriter | 4/10 | |
| Nebula | Charged | (Subpop) | stoner-rock | 7/10 | N |
| Nectarine No.9 | Received Transgressed & Transmitted | (Beggars Banquet) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
| Neotropic | La Prochaine Foix | (Ntone) | trip-hop | 7/10 | |
| Neurosis | The Sun Never Sets | (Relapse) | industrial | 6/10 | |
| New Order | Get Ready | (Reprise) | dance | 5/10 | |
| New Year | Newness Ends | (Subpop) | slo-core | 6/10 | |
| No-Man | Returning Jesus | (3rd Stone) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
| Alva Noto | Transform | (Mille Plateaux) | glitch music | 6/10 | |
| Notwist | Neon Golden | (City Slang) | post-rock | 7/10 | |
| Heather Nova | South | (MCA) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Tara Jane O'Neil | In The Sun Lines | (Quarterstick) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Jim O'Rourke | Insignificance | (Drag City) | avant-pop | 4/10 | |
| Jim O'Rourke | I'm Happy | (Drag City) | avant-pop | 5/10 | |
| Ocean Color Scene | Mechanical Wonder | (MCA) | Genre | 4/10 | |
| Of Montreal | Coquelicot Asleep In The Poppies | (Kindercore) | pop | 4/10 | |
| OHGR | Welt | (Spitfire) | industrial | 4/10 | |
| Old 97's | Satellite Rides | (Elektra) | country-pop | 4/10 | |
| Old Time Relijun | Witchcraft Rebellion | (K) | lo-fi | 7/10 | |
| Oneida | Anthem Of The Moon | (Jagjaguwar) | garage-rock | 7/10 | |
| Orb | Cydonia | (Island) | ambient | 5/10 | |
| Orbital | The Altogether | (FFRR) | techno | 4/10 | |
| Ordo Equilibrio | The Wedlock of Equilibrium | (Cold Meat) | gothic | 5/10 | |
| Outrageous Cherry | The Book of Spectral Projections | (Poptones) | psych-rock | 6/10 | |
| Oval | Commers | (Form & Function) | glitch music | 6/10 | |
| Owls | Owls | (Jade Tree) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
| Oysterhead | The Grand Pecking Order | (Elektra) | prog-rock | 5/10 | |
| Pan Sonic | Aaltopiiri | (Mute) | electronica | 5/10 | |
| Papa M | Papa M Sings | (Rock Action) | folk | 5/10 | A |
| Papa M | Whatever Mortal | (Drag City) | songwriter | 7/10 | |
| Peaches | The Teaches Of Peaches | (Kitty Yo) | rap | 6/10 | |
| Pelt | Ayahuasca | (VHF) | alt-rock | 7/10 | |
| Pelt | Keyhole | (Eclipse) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
| Pennywise | Land Of The Free | (Epitaph) | hardcore | 6/10 | |
| Pernice Brothers | World Won't End | (Ashmont) | alt-country | 5/10 | |
| Grant Lee Phillips | Mobilize | (Zoe) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Sam Phillips | Fan Dance | (Nonesuch) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Pinback | Blue Screen Like | (Ace Fu) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Pinehurst Kids | Bleed It Dry | (Barbaric) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Plaid | Double Figure | (Warp) | dance | 5/10 | |
| Pleasure Forever | Pleasure Forever | (Subpop) | glam | 6/10 | |
| P.O.D. | Satellite | (Atlantic) | metal | 5/10 | |
| Robert Pollard/ Airport 5 | Tower In The Fountain Of Sparks | (Fading Captain) | lo-fi pop | 6/10 | |
| Robert Pollard | Choreographed Man of War | (Recordhead) | lo-fi pop | 6/10 | |
| Portastatic | Looking For Leonard | (Merge) | electronica | 6/10 | |
| Prefab Sprout | The Gunman And Other Stories | (EMI) | pop | 4/10 | |
| Primordial Undermind | Beings Of Game P-U | (Camera Obscura) | psych | 7/10 | |
| Pullman | Viewfinder | (Thrill Jockey) | post-rock | 5/10 | |
| Push Kings | Feel No Fade | (LeGrand Magistery) | pop | 4/10 | |
| Quasi | The Sword Of God | (Touch & Go) | Genre | 6/10 | R |
| Radiohead | Amnesiac | (Capitol) | alt-rock | 7/10 | |
| Raging Slab | The Dealer | (Tee Pee) | blues-rock | 4/10 | |
| Kurt Ralske | Amor 0+01 | (SubRosa) | electronica | 6/10 | |
| Rapoon | Cold War | (Caciocavallo) | ambient | 5/10 | |
| Amy Ray | Stag | (Daemon) | songwriter | 4/10 | |
| Red House Painters | Old Ramon | (Subpop) | folk-rock | 6/10 | R/A |
| Reindeer Section | Y'all Get Scared Now Ya Hear | (Pias) | pop | 4/10 | |
| REM | Reveal | (Warner Bros) | folk-rock | 4/10 | |
| Remy Zero | The Golden Hum | (Elektra) | alt-rock | 4/10 | |
| Retsin | Cabin In The Woods | (Carrot Top) | folk-rock | 6/10 | |
| Reveille | Bleed The Sky | (Elektra) | rap-metal | 5/10 | |
| Marc Ribot | Saints | (Warner) | prog-rock | 5/10 | |
| Robert Rich | Somnium | (Hypnos) | new age | 7/10 | |
| Robert Rich | Bestiary | (Hypnos) | electronica | 6/10 | |
| Rival Schools | United By Fate | (Island) | power-pop | 4/10 | |
| Steve Roach | The Serpent's Lair | (Projekt) | electronica | 6/10 | |
| Steve Roach | Core | (Timeroom) | electronica | 6/10 | |
| Mark Robinson | Canada's Green Highways | (Teenbeat) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Rockets From The Crypt | Group Sounds | (Vagrant) | rock and roll | 7/10 | |
| Rollerball | Trait Of The Butter Yeti | (Road Cone) | prog-rock | 7/10 | |
| Rollins Band | Nice | (Sanctuary) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Rollins Band | Yellow Blues | (Sanctuary) | alt-rock | 4/10 | |
| Rovo | Imago | (Incidental) | noise | 6/10 | |
| Royksopp | Melody A.M. | (Wall Of Sound) | electronica | 6/10 | |
| Ruby | Short Staffed In The Gene Pool | (Thirsty Ear) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
| Run-DMC | Crown Royal | (Arista) | hip hop | 4/10 | |
| Bruce Russell | Painting The Passports Brown | (Corpus Hermeticum) | avantgarde | 7/10 | |
| Table Beat Science | Tala Matrix | (Axiom) | dub | 6/10 | |
| Tarentel | The Order of Things | (Neurot) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
| Techno Animal | The Brotherhood Of The Bomb | (Matador) | industrial | 6/10 | |
| Jimi Tenor | Utopian Dream | (Sahko) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Territory Band 1 | Transatlantic Bridge | (Okka Disk) | punk-jazz | 6/10 | |
| They Might Be Giants | Mink Car | (Restless) | pop | 5/10 | |
| Thighpaulsandra | I, Thighpaulsandra | (Eskaton) | electronica | 5/10 | |
| Thinking Fellers | Bob Dinners | (Communion) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
| David Thomas | Surf's Up | (Thirsty Ear) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Rosie Thomas | When We Were Small | (Subpop) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Thrall | Hung Like God | (Reptilian) | stoner | 6/10 | |
| 310 | Nothing To See Here | (Desolat) | post-rock | 5/10 | |
| Tied + Tickled Trio | Electric Avenue Tape | (Clearspot) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
| Yann Tiersen | L'Absent | (Ici D'Ailleurs) | ambient | 5/10 | |
| Tindersticks | Trouble Everyday | (Connected) | pop | 6/10 | |
| Tindersticks | Can Our Love | (Beggars Banquet) | soul-pop | 6/10 | |
| Toadies | Hell Below Stars Above | (Interscopre) | grunge | 5/10 | |
| To Rococo Rot | Music Is A Hungry Ghost | (Mute) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
| Tomahawk | Tomahawk | (Ipecac) | hardcore | 6/10 | |
| Tool | Lateralus | (Volcano Entertainment) | grunge | 7/10 | |
| Jenny Toomey | Antidote | (Misra) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Tortoise | Standards | (Thrill Jockey) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
| Tram | Frequently Asked Questions | (Jetset) | slo-core | 5/10 | |
| Transglobal Underground | Yes Boss Food Corner | (Ark 21) | trance/dance | 5/10 | |
| Travis | The Invisible Band | (Independiente) | pop | 4/10 | |
| Trembling Blue Stars | Alive To Every Smile | (Subpop) | pop | 6/10 | |
| Trespassers W | Vlucht Over Den Haag | (Snowdonia) | alt-rock | /10 | |
| Tricky | Blowback | (Hollywood) | jungle | 5/10 | |
| Tricolor | Nonparticipant + MIlk | (Atavistic) | post-rock | 5/10 | |
| Trumans Water | Trumans Water | (Emperor Jones) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
| Scott Tuma | Hard Again | (Truckstop) | instrumental | 6/10 | |
| Tyde | Once | (Orange Sky) | psych folk | 6/10 | |
| Unloco | Healing | (Maverick) | metal | 6.5/10 | |
| Unwound | Leaves Turn Inside You | (Kill Rock Stars) | psych-pop | 6/10 | N |
| US Maple | Acre Thrills | (Drag City) | post-rock | 7/10 | |
| Ilpo Vaisanen | Asuma | (Mego) | electronica | 5/10 | |
| Armand Van Helden | Gandhi Khan | (Armed) | house | 5/10 | |
| Varnaline | Songs In A Northern Key | (E-Squared) | roots-rock | 7/10 | |
| Vas Deferens Organization | Suspension | (Beta) | psych-rock | 6/10 | |
| Vaz | Demonstration In Micronesia | (Load) | hard-rock | 5/10 | |
| Suzanne Vega | Songs In Red And Gray | (Universal) | songwriter | 4/10 | |
| Victim's Family | Apocalicious | (Alternative Tentacles) | prog-rock | 5/10 | |
| Vidna Obmana | The Contemporary Nocturne | (Hypnos) | electronica | 4/10 | |
| Vidna Obmana | Tremor | (Release) | electronica | 6/10 | |
| Vibracathedral Orchestra | My Gate's Open | (Roaratorio) | drone-music | 5/10 | |
| Volebeats | Mosquito Spiral | (Blue Rose) | folk-rock | 6/10 | |
| Vue | Find Your Home | (Subpop) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Wagon Christ | Musipal | (Ninja Tune) | techno | 6/10 | |
| Rufus Wainwright | Poses | (Dreamworks) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Walkabouts | Ended Up a Stranger | (Glitterhouse) | folk-rock | 5/10 | |
| TW Walsh | Blue Laws | (Truckstop) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Wellwater Conspiracy | The Scroll and Its Combinations | (TVT) | grunge | 4/10 | |
| Whiskeytown | Pneumonia | (Lost Highway) | alt-country | 6/10 | |
| Jim White | No Such Place | (Luaka Bop) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| White Stripes | White Blood Cells | (Sympathy) | blues-rock | 7/10 | |
| Chris Whitley | Rocket House | (New Machine) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Willard Grant Conspiracy & Telefunk | In The Fishtank | (Konkurrent) | alt-folk | 4/10 | |
| Lucinda Williams | Essence | (Lost Highway) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Windy And Carl | Consciousness | (Kranky) | ambient | 6/10 | R |
| Wipeouters | P'twaaang!!! | (Casual Tonalities) | surf | 6/10 | |
| Jah Wobble & Bill Laswell | Radioaxom | (Axiom) | dub | 6/10 | |
| Shannon Wright | Dyed In The Wool | (Touch & Go) | songwriter | 7/10 | R |
| Wumpscut | Wreath Of Barbs | (Metropolis) | industrial | 4/10 | |
| Steve Wynn | Here Come The Miracles | (Blue Rose) | songwriter | 7/10 | |
| Yesterdays New Quintet | Angles Without Edges | (Stones Throw) | hip-hop | 6/10 | |
| Susumu Yokota | Grinning Cat | (Skintone) | ambient | 6/10 | |
| Otomo Yoshihide | Flutter | (Tzadik) | noise | 4/10 | |
| Young Fresh Fellows | Because We Hate You | (Mammoth) | pop | 5/10 | |
| Thalia Zedek | Been Here And Gone | (Matador) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Zeke | Death Alley | (Aces & Eights) | punk-rock | 5/10 | |
| Zen Guerrilla | Shadows On The Sun | (Subpop) | garage-rock | 7/10 | R |
| Zeni Geva | 10,000 Light Years | (Neurot) | industrial | 4/10 | |
| Zero and Noto | Wohltemperiert | (Raster-Noton) | electronica | 5/10 | |
| Rob Zombie | Sinister Urge | (Interscope) | hard-rock | 5/10 | |
| Ratings: 10=best album ever; 9=masterpiece; 8=buy it now; 7=buy it eventually; 6=buy it if you are a fan |
TM, ®, Copyright © 2001 Piero Scaruffi
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| A = Billboard
| N = Nude As The News