Old Time Relijun	Lost Light	(K)	post-rock	7/10
Laddio Bolocko	Strange Warmings	(Hungarian)	post-rock	7.5/10
Streets	Original Pirate Material	(Atlantic)	garage	7/10
Streets	A Grand Don't Come For Free (Atlantic	(Atlantic)	garage	6/10
Atmosphere	You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having	(Rhymesayers)	hip-hop	6/10
Atmosphere	God Loves Ugly	(Rhymesayers)	hip-hop	6/10
Atmosphere	Lucy Ford	(Rhymesayers)	hip-hop	7/10
RJD2	Deadringer	(Def Jux)	hip-hop	6/10
El-P	Fantastic Damage	(Definitive Jux)	hip-hop	7/10
El-P	I'll Sleep When You're Dead	(Definitive Jux)	hip-hop	6/10
Cex	Cells	(Underscore)	hip-hop	6/10
Common	Resurrection	(Relativity)	hip-hop	7/10
Common	One Day It'll All Make Sense	(Relativity)	hip-hop	6/10
Common	Like Water for Chocolate	(MCA)	hip-hop	6/10
Common	Electric Circus	(MCA)	hip-hop	7.5/10
Common	Be	(Geffen)	hip-hop	5/10
Alias	The Other Side of the Looking Glass	(Anticon)	hip-hop	7/10
Alias	Muted	(Anticon)	hip-hop	6/10
Sole	Bottle Of Humans	(Anticon)	hip-hop	6.5/10
Sole	Selling Live Water	(Anticon)	hip-hop	7/10
Sole	Sole and the Skyrider Band	(Anticon)	hip-hop	6.5/10
Sixtoo	Songs I Hate and Other People Moments	(6Months)	hip-hop	6.5/10
Sixtoo	Duration	(Cease & Desist)	hip-hop	7/10
Sixtoo	Antagonist Survival Kit	(Vertical Form)	hip-hop	6.5/10
Locust	The Locust	(Gold Standard Laboratories)	metalcore	6/10
Locust	Plague Soundscapes	(Anti-)	metalcore	6.5/10
Jaga Jazzist	A Livingroom Hush	(Ninja Tune)	jazztronica	6/10
Jaga Jazzist	The Stix	(Ninja Tune)	jazztronica	7/10
Jaga Jazzist	What We Must	(Ninja Tune)	jazztronica	6/10
Jaga Jazzist	Starfire	(Ninja Tune)	jazztronica	5/10
Jaga Jazzist	Pyramid	(Brainfeeder)	jazztronica	5/10
Set Fire To Flames	Sings Reign Rebuilder	(Alien8)	post-rock	6/10
Set Fire To Flames	Telegraphs In Negative	(Alien8)	post-rock	7/10
Ed Harcourt	Here Be Monsters	(Heavenly)	songwriter	7/10
Ed Harcourt	From Every Sphere	(Heavenly)	songwriter	6/10
Ulrich Schnauss	Far Away Trains Passing By	(Domino)	dance	6/10
Ulrich Schnauss	A Strangely Isolated Place	(Domino)	dance	6/10
Darkspace	I	(Avantgarde)	black metal	7/10
Darkspace	II	(Avantgarde)	black metal	6/10
Darkspace	III	(Avantgarde)	black metal	6/10
Kammerflimmer Kollektief	Maander	(Payola)	post-rock	7/10
Kammerflimmer Kollektief	Incommunicado	(Payola)	post-rock	5/10
Kammerflimmer Kollektief	Hysteria	(Temporary Residence Limited)	post-rock	6/10
Kammerflimmer Kollektief	Cicadidae	(Temporary Residence)	post-rock	7/10
Kammerflimmer Kollektief	Jinx	(Staubgold)	post-rock	7/10
Apparat	Walls	(Shitkatapult)	techno	6/10
Apparat	Duplex	(Shitkatapult)	techno	5/10
Apparat	Multifunktionsebene	(Shitkatapult)	techno	6/10
Dizzee Rascal	Boy in Da Corner	(XL)	grime	7/10
Philip Jeck	Loopholes	(Touch)	noise	6/10
Philip Jeck	Surf	(Touch)	noise	6/10
Philip Jeck	Vinyl Coda I-III	(Intermedium)	noise	7/10
Philip Jeck	Host	(Bubble Core)	noise	7/10
Philip Jeck	Sand	(Touch)	noise	6/10
AGF	Words Are Missing	(AGF)	songwriter	6/10
AGF	Source Voice	(AGF)	songwriter	6/10
AGF	Westernization Completed	(Orthlorng Musork)	songwriter	7/10
Laub	Kopflastig	(Kitty-Yo)	post-rock	7.5/10
Nudge	As Good As Gone	(Kranky)	post-rock	7/10
Nudge	Elaborate Devices for Filtering Crisis	(Tigerbeat)	post-rock	6/10
Virus	Carheart	(Jester)	post-metal	6/10
B. Fleischmann	Welcome Tourist	(Morr)	glitch	7.5/10
B. Fleischmann	Tmp	(Charhizma)	glitch	5/10
B. Fleischmann	A Choir of Empty Beds	(Fuzzy Box)	glitch	6/10
Japancakes	Waking Hours	(Warm)	post-rock	7/10
Japancakes	The Sleepy Strange	(Kindercore)	post-rock	6/10
Japancakes	If I Could See Dallas	(Kindercore)	post-rock	6/10
Merzbow	Dharma	(Hydrahead)	noise	7/10
Merzbow	Sha Mo 3000	(Essence Music)	noise	7.5/10
Merzbow	Magnesia Nova	(ZSF Produkt)	noise	7.5/10
Merzbow	Rainbow Electronics	(Alchemy)	noise	6.5/10
Merzbow	Venereology	(Release)	noise	6.5/10
Merzbow	Pulse Demon	(Release)	noise	6.5/10
Merzbow	Mercurated	(Alchemy)	noise	6.5/10
Merzbow	Hybrid Noisebloom	(Vinyl Communications)	noise	6.5/10
Merzbow	1930	(Tzadik)	noise	6.5/10
Merzbow	Aqua Necromancer	(Alien 8)	noise	6.5/10
Prurient	Pleasure Ground	(self)	noise	6/10
Jack Rose	Raag Manifestos	(VHF)	instrumental	7/10
Trollmann Av Ildtoppberg	Forest Of Doom	(Monolith)	doom-metal	6/10
Trollmann Av Ildtoppberg	Arcane Runes Adorn The Ice-Veiled Monoliths	(Monolith)	doom-metal	6/10
Trollmann Av Ildtoppberg	Tolling Beyond The Tombs Of Ancient Grimnity	(Monolith)	doom-metal	5/10
Trollmann Av Ildtoppberg	Dark Clouds Blacken The Sky	(Monolith)	doom-metal	6/10
Trollmann Av Ildtoppberg	As the Fog Clears but for a Moment	(Dungeon Tapes)	doom-metal	7/10
Wolf Eyes	Dog Jaw	(Heresee)	noise	6/10
Regina Spektor	Home, Before and After	(Sire)	songwriter	5/10
Regina Spektor	Remember Us to Life	(Sire)	songwriter	6/10
Regina Spektor	Soviet Kitsch	(Sire)	songwriter	6/10
Regina Spektor	11:11	(self)	songwriter	7/10
Los Natas	Toba-Trance	(Ektro)	psych-rock	6.5/10
Hanne Hukkelberg	Little Things	(Leaf)	songwriter	6/10
Burmese	Monkeys Tear Man To Shreds	(tUMULt)	industrial	6/10
Hunches	Hobo Sunrise	(In The Red)	garage-rock	6.5/10
Hunches	Yes No Shut It	(In the Red)	garage-rock	7.5/10
Black Eyes	Black Eyes	(Dischord)	noise-rock	7/10
Black Eyes	Cough Cough	(Dischord)	noise-rock	7/10
Corrupted	Paso Inferior	(Frigidity Disco)	drone metal	7/10
Corrupted	El Mundo Frio	(HG Fact)	drone metal	7/10
Corrupted	Llenandose de Gusanos	(HG Fact)	drone metal	6/10
Emit	A Sword Of Death For The Prince	(Total Holocaust)	noise	6/10
Richard Hawley	Late Night Final	(Setanta)	songwriter	6/10
Richard Hawley	Lowedges	(Setanta)	songwriter	4/10
Richard Hawley	Coles Corner	(Mute)	songwriter	5/10
Richard Hawley	Lady's Bridge	(Mute)	songwriter	6/10
Richard Hawley	Truelove's Gutter	(Mute)	songwriter	7/10
Richard Hawley	Standing at the Sky's Edge	(Parlophone)	songwriter	6/10
Charming Hostess	Sarajevo Blues	(Tzadik)	prog-rock	6/10
Charming Hostess	Punch	(ReR)	prog-rock	4/10
Jewlia Eisenberg	Trilectic	(Tzadik)	songwriter	6/10
Deathprod	Morals and Dogma	(Rune Grammofon)	avantgarde	6/10
Deathprod	Imaginary Songs From Tristan Da Cunha	(dBUT interambience)	avantgarde	7/10
Deathprod	Treetop Drive 1-3/ Towboat	(Metal Art Disco)	avantgarde	6/10
Max Richter	The Blue Notebooks	(130701)	chamber	7/10
Dani Siciliano	Likes	(K7)	songwriter	6/10
Dani Siciliano	Slappers	(K7)	songwriter	6/10
Sightings	Michigan Haters	(Psych-O-Path)	noise-rock	7.5/10
Sightings	Absolutes	(Load)	noise-rock	6/10
Sightings	Arrived In Gold	(Load)	noise-rock	6/10
Sightings	End Times	(Fusetron)	noise-rock	6/10
Sightings	Through The Panama	(Load)	noise-rock	5/10
Sightings	City Of Straw	(Load)	noise-rock	5/10
Sightings	Future Accidents	(Load)	noise-rock	6/10
Sightings	Terribly Well	(Load)	noise-rock	5/10
Sunburned Hand of the Man	Trickle Down Theory Of The Lord	(Eclipse)	psych-rock	6/10
Sunburned Hand of the Man	Jaybird	(Qbico)	psych-rock	7/10
Jens Lekman	When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog	(Service)	songwriter	6/10
Death from Above 1979	You're a Woman I'm a Machine	(Last Gang)	hardcore	6/10
Riverside	Out of Myself	(Mystic)	prog-rock	6/10
Riverside	Second Life Syndrome	(Mystic)	prog-rock	6/10
Killswitch Engage	Alive or Just Breathing	(Roadrunner)	metalcore	6/10
Killswitch Engage	The End of Heartache	(Roadrunner)	metalcore	6/10
Rusted Shut	Rehab	(Emperor Jones	punk-rock	7/10
Shadow Huntaz	Corrupt Data	(Skam)	hip-hop	6.5/10
Sage Francis	Personal Journals	(Anticon)	hip-hop	7/10
Sage Francis	A Healthy Distrust	(Epitaph)	hip-hop	6.5/10
Jneiro Jarel	Three Piece Puzzle	(Viberian)	hip-hop	6/10
DJ Scotch Egg	KFC Core	(Adaddat)	digital hardcore	6/10
Edan	Beauty And The Beat	(Lewis)	hip-hop	7/10
Jackie-O Motherfucker	Cross Pollinate	(Imp)	post-rock	7/10
Jackie-O Motherfucker	Flat Fixed	(Imp)	post-rock	6/10
Jackie-O Motherfucker	Fig. 5	(Road Cone)	post-rock	6/10
Jackie-O Motherfucker	Wow	(Fisheye)	post-rock	6/10
Jackie-O Motherfucker	Magick Fire Music	(Ecstatic Peace)	post-rock	7/10
Jackie-O Motherfucker	Liberation	(Road Cone)	post-rock	6/10
Skaters	Dark Rye Bread	(Humbug)	electronic	6/10
Skaters	Receding Smokebath	(self)	electronic	6/10
Franz Ferdinand	Franz Ferdinand	(Domino)	dance-rock	6/10
Franz Ferdinand	You Could Have It So Much Better	(Sony)	dance-rock	6/10
Arthur Russell	Instrumentals	(Crepuscule)	instrumental	6/10
Arthur Russell	Tower Of Meaning	(Chatam Square)	minimalism	6/10
Arthur Russell	World Of Echo	(Upside)	songwriter	7/10
cLOUDDEAD	Ten	(Anticon)	hip-hop	7/10
Odd Nosdam	Burner	(Anticon)	hip-hop	6/10
Lamp Of The Universe	The Cosmic Union	(Cranium)	psych-rock	5/10
Lamp Of The Universe	Echo In Light	(Cranium)	psych-rock	7/10
Lamp Of The Universe	Heru	(Barl Fire)	psych-rock	6/10
Lamp Of The Universe	Earth Spirit & Sky	(Cranium)	psych-rock	5/10
Lamp Of The Universe	From The Mystic Rays Of Astrological Light	(Astral Projection)	psych-rock	6/10
Lamp Of The Universe	Arc Of Ascent	(Astral Projection)	psych-rock	6.5/10
Jasper TX	I'll Be Long Gone Before My Light Reaches You	(Lampse)	ambient	7/10
Jasper TX	This Quiet Season	(Slaapwell)	ambient	6.5/10
Jasper TX	Lungs	(Under the Spire)	ambient	6/10
Jasper TX	Singing Stones	(Fang Bomb)	ambient	5/10
Jasper TX	The Black Sun Transmissions	(Fang Bomb)	ambient	5/10
Ilyas Ahmed	Between Two Skies	(self)	free-folk	6.5/10
Ilyas Ahmed	Towards The Night	(self)	free-folk	7/10
Ilyas Ahmed	Century Of Moonlight	(Time-Lag)	free-folk	6.5/10
Ilyas Ahmed	Yahan Aur Wahan	(self)	free-folk	6/10
Ilyas Ahmed	Goner	(Root Strata)	free-folk	4/10
Ilyas Ahmed	With Endless Fire	(Immune)	free-folk	4.5/10
Ilyas Ahmed	I Am All Your Own	(Immune)	free-folk	4.5/10
Ilyas Ahmed	Closer to Stranger	(MIE)	free-folk	5/10
Ilyas Ahmed	Behold Killers	(Geographic North)	free-folk	7/10
Ilyas Ahmed	A Dream of Another	(Geographic North)	ambient	5/10
Vex'd	Degenerate	(Planet Mu)	dubstep	7/10
Vic Chesnutt	West Of Rome	(Texas Hotel)	songwriter	7/10
Vic Chesnutt	Drunk	(Texas Hotel)	songwriter	6/10
Vic Chesnutt	Is The Actor Happy	(Texas Hotel)	songwriter	7/10
Vic Chesnutt	The Salesman & Bernadette	(Capricorn)	songwriter	6/10
Vic Chesnutt	Silver Lake	(New West)	songwriter	5/10
Vic Chesnutt	Ghetto Bells	(New West)	songwriter	6/10
Vic Chesnutt	Dark Developments	(Orange Twin)	songwriter	5/10
Vic Chesnutt	At The Cut	(Constellation)	songwriter	6/10
Why?	Oaklandazulasylum	(Anticon)	pop	6/10
Why?	Elephant Eyelash	(Anticon)	pop	7/10
Why?	Alopecia	(Anticon)	pop	6/10
Chad VanGaalen	Infiniheart	(Flemish Eye)	songwriter	7.5/10
Chad VanGaalen	Soft Airplane	(Flemish Eye)	songwriter	6/10
Chad VanGaalen	Diaper Island	(SubPop)	songwriter	5/10
Chad VanGaalen	Shrink Dust	(SubPop)	songwriter	5/10
Skygreen Leopards	She Rode On A Pink Gazelle & Other Dreams	(Jewelled Antler)	acid-folk	6.5/10
Skygreen Leopards	The Story of the Green Lamb & the Jerusalem Priestess of Leaves	(Jewelled Antler)	acid-folk	5/10
Skygreen Leopards	One Thousand Bird Ceremony	(Soft Abuse)	acid-folk	6/10
Skygreen Leopards	Life & Love In Sparrow's Meadow	(Jagjaguwar)	acid-folk	5/10
Tape	Opera	(Hapna)	post-rock	6.5/10
Tape	Milieu	(Hapna)	post-rock	5/10
Tape	Rideau	(Hapna)	post-rock	7/10
Tape	Luminarium	(Hapna)	post-rock	5/10
Coheed And Cambria	Good Apollo	(Sony)	emopop	6/10
El Guapo	Super System	(Dischord)	post-rock	7/10
Guapo	Great Sage	(Tumult)	prog-rock	6/10
Guapo	Black Oni	(Ipecac)	prog-rock	5.5/10
Neutral Milk Hotel	On Avery Island	(Merge)	alt-pop	7/10
Neutral Milk Hotel	In the Aeroplane Over The Sea	(Merge)	alt-pop	7/10
Keiji Haino	Ama No Gawa	(Mom'n'Dad Productions)	noise	7.5/10
Keiji Haino	Nijiumu	(PSF)	noise	7/10
Keiji Haino	Affection	(PSF)	noise	6.5/10
Keiji Haino	Beginning An End Interwoven	(Streamline)	noise	6/10
Keiji Haino	Execration That Accept To Acknowledge	(Forced Exposure)	noise	6.5/10
Keiji Haino	I Said This Is The Son Of Nihilism	(Table of the Elements)	noise	7/10
Dorine Muraille	Mani	(Fat Cat)	glitch	7.5/10
Pita	Seven Tons For Free	(Mego)	Genre	7/10
Flying Luttenbachers	Gods Of Chaos	(Skin Graft)	jazz-punk	8/10
Dntel	Early Works For Me If It Works For You	(Phthalo)	drum'n'bass	6.5/10
Dntel	Something Always Goes Wrong	(Phthalo)	drum'n'bass	4/10
Dntel	Life Is Full of Possibilities	(Plug Research)	drum'n'bass	7/10
Daryll-Ann	Weeps	(Hut)	noise-rock	7/10
Charalambides	Union	(Siltbreeze)	psych-rock	6/10
Charalambides	Historic Sixth Ward	(self)	psych-rock	5/10
Charalambides	Strangle The Wretched Heavens	(Wholly Other)	psych-rock	5/10
Charalambides	Market Square	(Siltbreeze)	psych-rock	7.5/10
Simon Joyner	Room Temperature	(One-hour)	songwriter	5/10
Simon Joyner	The Cowardly Traveller Pays His Toll	(Sing Eunuchs)	songwriter	6/10
Simon Joyner	Heaven's Gate	(Truckstop)	songwriter	6.5/10
Simon Joyner	Songs for the New Year	(Sing Eunuchs)	songwriter	7/10
Simon Joyner	Yesterday Tomorrow and In Between	(Sing Eunuchs)	songwriter	7/10
Simon Joyner	The Lousy Dance	(Truckstop)	songwriter	6.5/10
YBO2	Alienation	(Trans)	noise-rock	6.5/10
YBO2	Kingdom Of Family Dream	(Trans)	noise-rock	4/10
YBO2	Pale Face Pale Skin	(Trans)	noise-rock	5/10
Ruins	Stonehenge	(Shimmy Disc)	noise-rock	7/10
Ruins	Vrresto	(Sonore)	noise-rock	6.5/10
Koenjihyakkei	Hundred Sights of Koenji	(God Moutain)	prog-rock	6/10
Koenjihyakkei	Viva Koenji	(God Mountain)	prog-rock	7/10
Koenjihyakkei	Nivraym	(Magaibutsu)	prog-rock	5/10
Koenjihyakkei	Angherr Shisspa	(Magaibutsu)	prog-rock	6.5 /10
Excepter	Throne	(Load)	psych-tronica	6.5/10
Excepter	Self Destruction	(Fusetron)	psych-tronica	5/10
Excepter	Alternation	(5RC)	psych-tronica	6/10
Excepter	Debt Dept	(Paw Tracks)	psych-tronica	5/10
Excepter	Black Beach	(Paw Tracks)	psych-tronica	6/10
Excepter	Presidence	(Paw Tracks)	psych-tronica	6/10
Excepter	Zion	(Skrot Up)	psych-tronica	6/10
Excepter	Maze of Death	(Dog Daze Tapes)	psych-tronica	6/10
Excepter	Familiar	(Blast First Petite)	psych-tronica	5/10
Chris Clark	Empty the Bones of You	(Warp)	dance	6.5/10
Deaf Center	Pale Ravine	(Type)	ambient	7/10
Deaf Center	Low Distance	(Sonic Pieces)	ambient	6.5/10
My Cat is an Alien	Landscapes Of An Electric City	(ZZZ)	noise	6.5/10
My Cat is an Alien	Il Segno	(self)	noise	6.5/10
My Cat is an Alien	The Cosmological Eye Trilogy	(Last Visible Dog)	noise	7/10
Ocean Collective	Fluxion	(Make my Day)	metal	6.5/10
Ocean Collective	Aeolian	(Metal Blade)	metal	6/10
Ocean Collective	Precambrian	(Metal Blade)	metal	7/10
Ocean	Heliocentric	(Metal Blade)	metal	5/10
Ocean	Anthropocentric	(Metal Blade)	metal	5/10
Ocean	Pelagial	(Pelagic)	metal	6.5/10
Ocean	Phanerozoic I	(Metal Blade)	metal	6.5/10
Ocean	Phanerozoic II	(Metal Blade)	metal	6/10
Ocean	Holocene	(Pelagic)	metal	5/10
Imogen Heap	Speak for Yourself	(Megaphonic)	songwriter	6/10
Mountain Goats	Bleed Out	(Merge)	roots-rock	4/10
Mountain Goats	Dark in Here	(Merge)	roots-rock	5/10
Mountain Goats	Full Force Galesburg	(Emperor Jones)	roots-rock	6/10
Mountain Goats	Jenny from Thebes	(Merge)	roots-rock	4/10
Mountain Goats	Nothing For Juice	(Ajax)	roots-rock	5/10
Mountain Goats	Sweden	(Shrimper)	roots-rock	7/10
Mountain Goats	The Sunset Tree	(4AD)	roots-rock	7/10
Mountain Goats	Zopilote Machine	(Ajax)	roots-rock	6/10
Pinetop Seven	Bringing Home The Last Great Strike	(Truckstop)	roots-rock	7/10
Circle	Pori	(Metamorphos)	prog-rock	7/10
Circle	Prospekt	(Resonant)	prog-rock	7/10
Au Revoir Simone	The Bird Of Music	(Moshi Moshi)	dance-rock	7/10
Au Revoir Simone	Verses Of Comfort, Assurance & Salvation	(Moshi Moshi)	dance-rock	6/10
Horse the Band	R. Borlax	(Pluto)	metalcore	6.5/10
Horse the Band	The Mechanical Hand	(Koch)	metalcore	7/10
P.H.O.B.O.S.	Bleaker Beater	(Megaton Mass)	metal	6/10
DJ Speedsick	Faces.Of.Death	(self)	techno	6/10
DJ Speedsick	Blood Mixed With Shit Mixed With Blood	(self)	techno	6/10
Brave Little Abacus	Just Got Back From the Discomfort	(self)	emo	7/10
Brave Little Abacus	Masked Dancers	(self)	emo	7.5/10
Wolvennest	The Dark Path to the Light	(Van)	gothic	5.5/10
Wolvennest	Temple	(Van)	gothic	4.5/10
Silent Strike	Ghostophonia	(Cinemaude)	collage	6/10
Mare Cognitum	Solar Paroxysm	(I Voidhanger)	black metal	6/10
Spectral Lore	11 Days	(I Voidhanger)	black metal	4/10
Esoctrilihum	Funeral	(I Voidhanger)	black metal	5/10
Esoctrilihum	Astraal Constellations of the Majickal Zodiac	(I Voidhanger)	black metal	4/10
Disappears	Disappears + Steve Shelley + White/Light	(Vampire Blues)	post-rock	4/10
Camera	Prosthuman	(Bureau B)	post-rock	4/10
Camera	Emotional Detox	(Bureau B)	post-rock	5/10
Camera	Phantom Of Liberty	(Bureau B)	post-rock	6/10
38KEA	Keeper	(self)	hip-hop	6/10
38KEA	More Seeds? Take the Seeds!	(self)	hip-hop	5/10
38KEA	Seeds Thy Divine Thresher	(self)	hip-hop	6.5/10
38KEA	Into Your Eye, I've Found, My Everything	(self)	hip-hop	5/10
Rachika Nayar	Heaven Came Crashing	(NNA Tapes)	ambient	5/10
Audry	More Stretched by the Curtain	(self)	noise	6/10
Daniel Rossen	You Belong There	(Warp)	songwriter	6.5/10
Joe Rainey	Niineta	(37d03d)	songwriter	6.5/10
Caroline	Caroline	(Rough Trade)	post-rock	6.5/10
Sirom	The Liquified Throne of Simplicity	(Glitterbeat)	free-folk	6/10
Sirom	Svet Ki Spece Konju Cvet/ A Universe That Roasts Blossoms For A Horse	(Glitterbeat)	free-folk	6.5/10
Meute	Taumel	(Tumult)	techno	5/10
Meute	Tumult	(Tumult)	techno	6/10
Ikarus	Plasma	(Ronin Rhythm)	prog-rock	6/10
Ikarus	Mosaismic	(Ronin Rhythm)	prog-rock	5/10
Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Pupul	Topical Dancer	(Deewee)	dance-pop	6/10
Fluisteraars	Gegrepen Door de Geest der Zielsontluiking	(Eisenwald Tonschmiede)	black metal	5/10
Fluisteraars	Bloem	(Eisenwald Tonschmiede)	black metal	6/10
Dwarfs of East Agouza	The Green Dogs of Dahshur	(Akuphone)	psych-rock	6/10
Dwarfs of East Agouza	High Tide in the Lowlands	(SubRosa)	psych-rock	6.5/10
Broeder Dieleman	Komma	(Snowstar)	songwriter	6/10
Broeder Dieleman	Uut de Bron	(Snowstar)	songwriter	6.5/10
Broeder Dieleman	Oh Mijn Ziel	(Snowstar)	songwriter	6/10
Colour Haze	Sacred	(Elektrohasch)	stoner	4/10
Yikii	Chorion	(self)	industrial	6/10
Yikii	The Crow-Cyan Lake	(self)	industrial	6.5/10
Yikii	Black Hole Ringdown	(self)	industrial	6.5/10
Raja Kirik	Phantasmagoria of Jahtilan	(Yes No Wave)	industrial	7/10
Raja Kirik	Rampokan	(Yes No Wave)	industrial	7.5/10
Black to Comm	Before After	(Thrill Jockey)	noise	5/10
Black to Comm	Seven Horses For Seven Kings	(Thrill Jockey)	noise	5/10
Black to Comm	Oocyte Oil & Stolen Androgens	(Thrill Jockey)	noise	5/10
Black to Comm	At Zeenath Parallel Heavens	(Thrill Jockey)	noise	4.5/10
Julie Byrne	The Greater Wings	(Ghostly International)	songwriter	5/10
Mamaleek	Diner Coffee	(Flenser)	blues-punk	6/10
Sewerslvt	Sewer//Slvt	(self)	breakcore	6.5/10
Sewerslvt	Drowning in the Sewer	(self)	breakcore	6.5/10
Sewerslvt	The World Is Fvcked	(self)	breakcore	7.5/10
Sewerslvt	Draining Love Story	(self)	breakcore	6/10
Stella Research Committee	A Proposed Method for Determining Sanding Fitness	(self)	noise-rock	7/10
Stella Research Committee	Killed Alive	(self)	noise-rock	6.5/10
Sewerslvt	Skitzofrenia Simulation	(self)	breakcore	6/10
Sewerslvt	We Had Good Times Together Don't Forget That	(self)	breakcore	7.5/10
Sewerslvt	Tortvred Lesbians Ripped Apart	(self)	breakcore	7/10
Swans	The Beggar	(Young God)	songwriter	5/10
Pan Daijing	Tissues	(Pan)	electronic	7.5/10
Pan Daijing	Jade	(Pan)	electronic	7/10
Nicole Dollanganger	Married in Mount Airy	(self)	songwriter	5/10
The Smile	Wall of Eyes	(XL)	pop	4/10
Monika Roscher	Of Monsters and Birds	(Zenna)	prog-rock	7/10
Monika Roscher	Witchy Activities and the Maple Death	(Zenna)	prog-rock	5/10
Monika Roscher	Failure in Wonderland	(Enja)	prog-rock	6/10
Dorthia Cottrell	Death Folk Country	(Relapse)	songwriter	6/10
HIRS Collective	We're Still Here	(Get Better)	grindcore	7/10
Zach Bryan	Zach Bryan	(Warner)	country	5/10
Zach Bryan	American Heartbreak	(Warner)	country	7/10
Underscores	Wallsocket	(Mom + Pop)	songwriter	6/10
100 Gecs	10,000 Gecs	(Atlantic)	hyperpop	6.5/10
L’Rain	I Killed Your Dog	(Mexican Summer)	songwriter	5/10
Yeule	Softscars	(Ninja Tune)	songwriter	5/10
Nourished by Time	Erotic Probiotic 2	(Scenic Route)	neosoul	4.5/10
Christine and the Queens	Paranoia Angels True Love	(Because)	songwriter	7.5/10
Petra Hermanova	In Death’s Eyes	(Unguarded)	songwriter	6.5/10
Jacob Collier	Djesse Vol. 3	(Decca)	pop	6/10
Jacob Collier	Djesse Vol. 2	(Decca)	pop	5/10
Jacob Collier	Djesse Vol. 1	(Decca)	pop	4/10
Sault	11	(Forever Living Originals)	soul	4/10
Sault	Today & Tomorrow	(Forever Living Originals)	soul	4/10
Sault	Untitled	(Forever Living Originals)	soul	4/10
Sault	Earth	(Forever Living Originals)	soul	5/10
Oren Ambarchi	Shebang	(Drag City)	post-rock	5/10
Oren Ambarchi	Simian Angel	(Editions Mego)	post-rock	6/10
Oren Ambarchi	Ghosted	(Drag City)	post-rock	5/10
El Marrano de la Razon	Schadenfreude	(self)	noise	6/10
Behold the Arctopus	Interstellar Overtrove	(P2)	post-rock	5/10
Blackie	Catharsis Only	(label)	hip-hop	7/10
Wednesday	Rat Saw God	(Dead Oceans)	alt-country	6/10
Caroline Polachek	Desire I Want To Turn Into You	(Top Dawg)	pop	5/10
Lil Yachty	album Let’s Start Here	(Motown)	psych-soul	6/10
Celestaphone	Paper Cut From the Obit	(self)	hip-hop	6.5/10
Acloudyskye	What Do You Want	(self)	songwriter	7/10
Olivia Rodrigo	Guts	(Geffen)	songwriter	5/10
Jason Isbell	Weathervanes	(Thirty Tigers)	country	5.5/10
Billy Woods and Kenny Segal	Billy Woods and Kenny Segal Maps	(Backwoodz Studioz)	hip-hop	5/10
Paramore	This Is Why	(Atlantic)	dance-pop	4/10
Blondshell	Blondshell	(Partisan)	songwriter	5/10
Victoria Monet	Jaguar II	(Lovett)	soul	4.5/10
Amen Seat	Amen Seat	(Deathbomb Arc)	electronica	6.5/10
Old Nick	A New Generation of Vampiric Conspiracies	(self)	black metal	6.5/10
Old Nick	Iam Vampire Castle	(self)	black metal	6/10
Old Nick	Forest of Grief	(self)	black metal	6/10
Old Nick	T.N.O.T.A.A.T.P.B.T.Q.A.S.F.A.B.O.O.T.D.O.S.S.T.T.E.V.H.S.	(self)	black metal	6/10
Neptunian Maximalism	Eons	(I Voidhanger)	psych-rock	7.5/10
Moin	Paste	(AD93)	post-rock	5.5/10
Moin	Moot	(AD93)	post-rock	6.5/10
Let's Eat Grandma	Two Ribbons	(Transgressive)	synth-pop	4/10
Let's Eat Grandma	I'm All Ears	(Transgressive)	synth-pop	5/10
Let's Eat Grandma	I Gemini	(Transgressive)	synth-pop	6/10
Lemon Twigs	Everything Harmony	(4AD)	pop	4/10
Sufjan Stevens	Javelin	(Asthmatic Kitty)	songwriter	6.5/10
Anohni	My Back Was a Bridge For You to Cross	(Secretly Canadian)	songwriter	4/10
Janelle Monae	The Age of Pleasure	(Atlantic)	songwriter	4/10
Lana Del Rey	Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd	(Interscope)	songwriter	4.5/10
Miley Cyrus	Endless Summer Vacation	(Columbia)	songwriter	4/10
Bad Bunny	Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Manana	(Rimas)	reggaeton	4/10
Drake	For All the Dogs	(OVO)	hip-hop	4/10
Amaarae	Fountain Baby	(Interscope)	soul	5.5/10
Travis Scott	Utopia	(Cactus Jack)	hip-hop	5/10
Avenged Sevenfold	Life Is But a Dream	(Warner)	prog-metal	5/10
Sprain	As Lost Through Collision	(Flenser)	post-rock	6/10
Sprain	The Lamb as Effigy	(Flenser)	post-rock	6/10

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Ratings: 10=best album ever; 9=rock masterpiece; 8=buy it now; 7=buy it eventually; 6=buy it if you are a fan