- Dirty Three: Ocean Songs (Touch & Go) (8.5)
- Calexico: The Black Light (Touch And Go) (8)
- Peter Jefferies: Substatic (Trance Syndicate) (8)
- Tortoise: TNT (Thrill Jockey) (8)
- June Of 44: Four Great Points (Quarterstick) (8)
- Edith Frost: Telescopic (Drag City) (8)
- Add N To (X): On the Wires of Our Nerves (Mute) (8)
- Roy Montgomery: And Now The Rain Sounds Like Life Is Falling Down Through It (Drunken Fish) (8)
- Dave Grubbs: The Thicket (Drag City) (8)
- Eels: Electro-Shock Blues (Dreamworks) (8)
- Flying Luttenbachers: Gods Of Chaos (Skin Graft) (8)
- Supersilent: 1-3 (Rune Grammofon) (7.5)
- Hannah Marcus: Faith Burns (Normal) (7.5)
- Bran Van 3000: Glee (Capitol) (7.5)
- Firewater: The Ponzi Scheme (Jetset) (7.5)
- Tribes Of Neurot & Walking Time Bombs: Static Migration (Release) (7.5)
- Six Organs of Admittance: Six Organs of Admittance (Holy Mountain) (7.5)
- Subarachnoid Space: Endless Renovation (Release) (7.5)
- Sleep: Jerusalem/ Dopesmoker (Music Cartel) (7.5)
- Yume Bitsu: Giant Surface Music Falling (Ba Da Bing) (7.5)
- Liz Phair: Whitechocolatespaceegg (Capitol) (7.5)
- Black Tape For A Blue Girl: As One Aflame Laid Bare By Desire (Projekt) (7.5)
- Lisa Germano: Slide (4AD) (7.5)
- Mercury Rev: Deserter's Songs (V2) (7.5)
- Maquiladora: Lost Works of Eunice Phelps (Tectonic) (7.5)
- Shark Quest: Battle Of The Loons (Merge) (7.5)
- Sulfur: Delirium Tremens (Goldenfly) (7.5)
- Don Caballero: What Burns Never Returns (Touch & Go) (7.5)
- Meshuggah: Chaosphere (Nuclear Blast) (7.5)
- Neutral Milk Hotel: In the Aeroplane Over The Sea (Merge) (7.5)
- American Analog Set: Late One Sunday And The Following Morning (Darla) (7.5)
- Soul Coughing: El Oso (Slash) (7.5)
- For Carnation: Promised Works (Runt) (7.5)
- Lauryn Hill: The Miseducation (Columbia) (7.5)
- Dalek: Negro Necro Nekros (Gern Blandsten) (7)
- Gorguts: Obscura (Olympic) (7)
- Hovercraft: Experiment Below (Blast First) (7)
- Trans Am: The Surveillance (Thrill Jockey) (7)
- Cat Power: Moon Pix (Matador, 1998) (7)
- Refused: The Shape of Punk to Come (Victory) (7)
- Windy And Carl: Depths (Kranky) (7)
- Mark Lanegan: Scraps At Midnight (SubPop) (7)
- Gate: The Lavender Head (Precious Metal) (7)
- Massive Attack: Mezzanine (Virgin) (7)
- Vocokesh: Paradise Revisited (Drag City) (7)
- Tied & Tickled Trio: Tied & Tickled Trio (Bingo) (7)
- New Bomb Turks: At Rope End (Epitaph) (7)
- Air: Moon Safari (Source) (7)
- Tone Rec: Pholcus (Sub Rosa) (7)
- 4 Hero: Two Pages (Talkin' Loud) (7)
- Califone: Califone (Flydaddy) (7)
- Robert Rich: Seven Veils (Hearts Of Space) (7)
- Boris: Amplifier Worship (Mangrove) (7)
- Mocean Worker: Home Movies From the Brain Forest (Conscience) (7)
- Home: Netherregions (1998) (7)
- Vidna Obmana: Crossing The Trail (Projekt) (7)
- Death In Vegas: Dead Elvis (Concrete) (7)
- Jeff Greinke: Cities In Fog (Projekt) (7)
- Body Lovers: Number One Of Three (Young God) (7)
- Kiln: Holo (Roomtone) (7)
- God Lives Underwater: Life In The So-Called Space Age (A&M) (7)
- Zen Guerrilla: Positronic Raygun (Alternative Tentacles) (7)
- Macha: Macha (Jetset) (7)
- Photon Band: All Young In The Soul (Darla) (7)
- Unwound: Challenge For A Civilized Society (Kill Rock Stars) (7)
- Amp: Stenorette (Kranky) (7)
- Quintron: Satan Is Dead (Bulb) (7)
- Simon Joyner: Yesterday Tomorrow and In Between (Sing Eunuchs) (7)
- Bassholes: When My Blue Moon Turns Red Again (In The Red) (7)
- Blonde Redhead: In An Expression Of The Inexpressible: (Touch & Go) (7)
- Escapade: Citrus Cloud Cover (Mother West) (7)
- Phylr: Contra La Puerta (Invisible) (7)
- Ulver: Themes From William Blake's The Marriage Of Heaven & Hell (Jester)
- Uzeda: Different Section Wires (Touch and Go) (7)
- EAR: Millennium Music (Atavistic) (7)
- Tombstone Valentine: Hidden World (Aether) (7)
- Cornelius: Fantasma (Matador) (7)
- Scott Weiland: 12 Bar Blues (Atlantic) (7)
- Alec Empire: The Destroyer (Digital Hardcore) (7)
- Fantastic Plastic Machine (Emperor Norton) (7)
- Gastr Del Sol: Camoufleur (Drag City) (7)
- Richard Davies: Telegraph (Flydaddy) (7)
- Buffalo Daughter: New Rock (Grand Royal) (7)
- Meat Beat Manifesto: Actual Sounds And Voices (Nothing) (7)
- Kristin Hersh: Strange Angels (Rykodisc) (7)
- Linus Pauling Quartet: Killing You With Rock (September Girls) (7)
- Godspeed You Black Emperor: f#a# Infinity (Constellation, 1998) (7)
- Modest Mouse: Lonesome Crowded West (Up) (7)
- Mouse On Mars: Instrumentals (Sonig) (7)
- Plastikman: Consumed (Novamute) (7)
- Joan Of Arc: How Memory Works (Jade Tree) (7)
- Queens Of The Stone Age: self-titled (Loosegroove) (7)
- Rufus Wainwright: Rufus Wainwright (Dreamworks) (7)
- Ex: Starters Alternators (Touch & Go) (7)
- Make-Up: In Mass Mind (Dischord, 1998) (7)
- Gorge Trio: Dead Chicken Fear No Knife (Free Land) (7)
- Third Eye Foundation: You Guys Kill Me (Domino) (7)
- DJ Spooky: Riddim Warfare (Outpost) (7)
- Dead C: Tusk (Siltbreeze) (7)
- Jim Steinman: Tanz der Vampire (Polydor) (7)
- Theo Parrish: First Floor (Peacefrog) (7)
- Sweet Trip: Halica (Darla) (7)
- Fatboy Slim: You've Come a Long Way Baby (Astralwerks) (7)
- Joe Jackson: Heaven And Hell (Sony) (7)
- DJ Q-Bert: Wave Twisters (1998) (7)
- Icarus: Fijaka (Hydrogen Dukebox) (7)
- Sunny Day Real Estate: How It Feels To Be Something On (Subpop) (7)
- DJ Faust: Man Or Myth (Bomb) (7)
- Motion Picture: Every Last Romance (Words on Music) (7)
- Nightstick: Ultimatum (Relapse) (7)
- DJ? Acucrack: Mutants Of Sound (Lost In Bass) (7)
- Beyond Dawn: Revelry (Misanthropy) (7)
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Songwriters
- Liz Phair: Whitechocolatespaceegg (Capitol)
- Edith Frost: Telescopic (Drag City)
- David Grubbs: The Thicket (Drag City)
- Roy Montgomery: And Now The Rain Sounds Like Life Is Falling Down Through It (Drunken Fish)
- Mark Lanegan: Scraps At Midnight (SubPop)
- Lisa Germano: Slide (4AD)
- Julie Ruin: self-titled (Kill Rock Stars)
- Tori Amos: From The Choirgirl Hotel (Atlantic)
- Ani DiFranco: Little Plastic Castle (Righteous Babe)
- Jeff Buckley: Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk (Columbia)
- Mark Hollis (1998)
- Madonna: Ray Of Light (Maverick)
- Kristin Hersh: Strange Angels (Rykodisc)
- Simon Joyner: Yesterday Tomorrow and In Between (Sing Eunuchs)
- Rufus Wainwright: Rufus Wainwright (Dreamworks)
- Bob Mould: The Last Dog And Pony Show (Rykodisc)
- Scott Weiland: 12 Bar Blues (Atlantic)
- Robert Wyatt: Shleep (Thirsty Ear)
- DollsHead: Frozen Charlotte (MCA)
- Beck: Mutations (DGC)
- P.J. Harvey: Is This Desire (Island)
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Industrial
- Tribes Of Neurot & Walking Time Bombs: Static Migration (Release)
- Subarachnoid Space: Endless Renovation (Release)
- Phylr: Contra La Puerta (Invisible)
- God Lives Underwater: Life In The So-Called Space Age (A&M)
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Electronica
- Robert Rich: Seven Veils (Hearts Of Space)
- Steve Roach & Roger King: Dust To Dust (Projekt)
- Vidna Obmana: Crossing The Trail (Projekt)
- Jeff Greinke: Cities In Fog (Projekt)
- TUU & Nick Parkin: Terma (Hearts Of Space)
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Gothic
- Black Tape For A Blue Girl: As One Aflame Laid Bare By Desire (Projekt)
- Body Lovers: Number One Of Three (Young God)
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Heavy rock
- Queens Of The Stone Age: self-titled (Loosegroove)
- Korn: Follow The Leader (Epic)
- Pearl Jam: Yield (Epic)
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Psychedelia
- Tribes Of Neurot & Walking Time Bombs: Static Migration (Release)
- Subarachnoid Space: Endless Renovation (Release)
- Vocokesh: Paradise Revisited (Drag City)
- Yume Bitsu: Giant Surface Music Falling (Ba Da Bing)
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Instrumental
- Hovercraft: Experiment Below (Blast First)
- Peter Jefferies: Substatic (Trance Syndicate)
- Subarachnoid Space: Endless Renovation (Release)
- Phylr: Contra La Puerta (Invisible)
- Kiln: Holo (Roomtone)
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Dance
- Add N To (X): On the Wires of Our Nerves (Mute)
- Massive Attack: Mezzanine (Virgin)
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Britain
- TUU & Nick Parkin: Terma (Hearts Of Space)
- Stereolab: Aluminum Tunes (Warp)
- Belle And Sebastian: The Boy With The Arab Strap (Virgin)
- Prolapse: The Italian Flag (Jetset)
- Ganger: Mammoth Style (Merge)
- Main: Firmament III/ IV (Beggars Banquet)
- Death In June: Take Care And Control (NER)
- Robert Wyatt: Shleep (Thirsty Ear)
- Stone Roses: self-titled (Silvertone)
- Massive Attack: Mezzanine (Virgin)
- Charlatans: Melting Pot (Beggars Banquet)
- Jesus & Mary Chain: Munki (Sub Pop)
- Echobelly: Lustra (Epic)
- Manic Street Preachers: This Is My Truth (Epic)
- Meat Beat Manifesto: Actual Sounds And Voices (Nothing)
- Rapoon: Just Say The Faith (Soleilmoon)
- P.J. Harvey: Is This Desire (Island)
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Europe
- Ex: Starters Alternators (Touch & Go)
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Japan
- Merzbow: 1930 (Tzadik)
- Shonen Knife: Happy Hour (Big Deal)
- Fantastic Plastic Machine (Emperor Norton)
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France & Belgium
- Vidna Obmana: Crossing The Trail (Projekt)
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Australia
- Dirty Three: Ocean Songs (Touch & Go)
- Roy Montgomery: And Now The Rain Sounds Like Life Is Falling Down Through It (Drunken Fish)
- Peter Jefferies: Substatic (Trance Syndicate)
- Dead C: Tusk (Siltbreeze)
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Canada
- Bran Van 3000: Glee (Capitol)
- Cevin Key: Involution (Tone Casualties)
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