Best of Rock Albums
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8/10
- Solex: Low Kick And Hard Bop (Matador)
- Vladislav Delay: Anima (Mille Plateaux)
- Lofty Pillars: Amsterdam (Truckstop)
7.5/10
- Toby Dammit: Top Dollar (Omplatten)
- Scott Tuma: Hard Again (Truckstop)
- James Plotkin: Atomsmasher (Hydrahead)
- Pelt: Ayahuasca (VHF)
- Jonathan Coleclough: Period (Anomalous)
- Tool: Lateralus (Volcano Entertainment)
- Robert Rich: Somnium (Hypnos)
- Stars Of The Lid: The Tired Sounds Of (Kranky)
- DJ Logic: Anomaly (Atlantic)
- cLOUDDEAD: cLOUDDEAD (Mush)
- Cannibal Ox: The Cold Vein (Def Jux)
- Electrelane: Rock It To The Moon (Let's Rock)
- Anaal Nathrakh: The Codex Necro (Mordgrimm)
7/10
- Roy Montgomery: Silver Wheel Of Prayer (VHF)
- Supersilent: 5 (Rune Grammofon)
- Fennesz: Endless Summer (Mego)
- Neotropic: La Prochaine Fois (Ntone)
- Primordial Undermind: Beings Of Game P-U (Camera Obscura)
- No-Neck Blues Band: Sticks And Stones May Break My Bones But Names Will Never Hurt Me (Revenant)
- Surface of Eceon: The King Beneath the Mountain (Strange Attractors)
- Four Tet: Pause (Domino)
- Old Time Relijun: Witchcraft Rebellion (K)
- Boxhead Ensemble: Two Brothers (Truckstop)
- Radiohead: Amnesiac (Capitol)
- Low: Things We Lost In The Fire (Kranky)
- Nicolai Dunger: Soul Rush (Dolores)
- Lightning Bolt: Ride The Skies (Load)
- Manitoba: Start Breaking My Heart (Leaf)
- Irr. App. (Ext.): Ozeanische Gefuhle (Errata in Excelsis)
- Ex Models: Other Mathematics (Ace Fu)
- Seconds: Y (5 Rue Christine)
- Kammerflimmer Kollektief: Hysteria (Temporary Residence Limited)
- Troum: Tjukurrpa - Harmonies (Transgredient)
- Thomas Brinkmann: Klick (Max Ernst)
- Tara Jane O'Neil: In The Sun Lines (Quarterstick)
- Shannon Wright: Dyed In The Wool (Touch & Go)
- Simon Joyner: Hotel Lives (Truckstop)
- Rollerball: Trail Of The Butter Yeti (Road Cone)
- Motion Picture: A Paper Gift (Words On Music)
- Animal Collective: Danse Manatee (Catsup Plate)
- Matmos: A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure (Matador)
- Keiji Haino: Abandon All Words (Alien 8)
- Jaga Jazzist: A Livingroom Hush (Warner)
- Cult of Luna: Cult of Luna (Rage Of Achilles)
- White Stripes: White Blood Cells (Sympathy)
- Zen Guerrilla: Shadows On The Sun (Subpop)
- Kit Clayton: Lateral Forces - Surface Fault (Vertical Form)
- Jan Jelinek: Loop Finding Jazz Records (Scape)
- Hood: Cold House (Aesthetics)
- Califone Roomsound (Glitterhouse)
- Coastal: Coastal (Words On Music)
- Beachwood Sparks: Once We Were Trees (Subpop)
- Mouse On Mars: Idiology (Thrill Jockey)
- Squarepusher: Go Plastic (Warp)
- Puppetina: Piewacket (PNT)
- Prefuse 73: Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives (Warp)
- Merzbow: Dharma (Hydrahead)
- System Of A Down: Toxicity (Sony)
- Sparklehorse: It's A Wonderful Life (Capitol)
- Blood Brothers: March on Electric Children (Three One G)
- Steve Wynn: Here Come The Miracles (Blue Rose)
- Solefald: Pills Against the Ageless Ills (Century Media)
- Giardini di Miro`: Rise and Fall of Academic Drifting (Homesleep)
- Herbert: Bodily Functions (K7)
- Richard Chartier: Decisive Forms (Trente Oiseaux)
- Avenged Sevenfold: Sounding the Seventh Trumpet (Goodlife)
- Oren Ambarchi: Suspension (Touch)
- Unwound: Leaves Turn Inside You (Kill Rock Stars)
- Ed Harcourt Here Be Monsters (Heavenly)
- As One: 21st Century Soul (Ubiquity)
- Caretaker: A Stairway To The Stars (V/Vm Test)
- Drive-by Truckers: The Southern Rock Opera (Lost Highway)
- Angels of Light: How I Loved You (Young God)
- Wolf Eyes: Dread (Hanson)
- Venetian Snares: Doll Doll Doll (Hymen)
- M Ward: End Of Amnesia (Merge)
- Jack Rose: Red Horse White Mule (Eclipse)
- Crooked Fingers: Bring on the Snakes (Warm)
- Converge: Jane Doe (Equal Vision)
- Hope Sandoval: Bavarian Fruit Bread (Rough Trade)
- Strokes: Is This It (RCA)
- Envy: All The Footprints You've Ever Left (HG Fact)
- Frodus: And We Washed Our Weapons in the Sea (Fueled by Ramen)
- Czars: The Ugly People Vs The Beautiful People (Manifesto)
- Lamp Of The Universe: Echo In Light (Cranium)
- Sunburned Hand of the Man: Jaybird (Qbico)
- Regina Spektor: 11:11 (self)
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Songs
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- Anaal Nathrakh: Pandemonic Hyperblast
- Lofty Pillars: Amsterdam
- Solex: Low Kick And Hard Bop
- Old Time Relijun: Vampire Sushi
- Liars: Mr Your On Fire Mr
- Muse: Newborn
- Hood: You're Worth The Whole World
- Edith Frost: Cars and Parties
- Notwist: Neon Golden
- Herbert: The Audience
- Stereolab: Captain Easychord
- Radiohead: Life in a Glasshouse
- Trumans Water: Limping Towards Oblivion
- Lofty Pillars: Field Of Honor
- Neotropic: The Man Who Catches Clouds
- Sparklehorse: Dog Door
- Lucky Boys Confusion: Dumb Pop Song
- Shannon Wright: Vessel For A Minor Malady
- Four Tet: You Could Ruin My Day
- Low: July
- Joe Henry: Richard Pryor
- Janet Feder: Shouting Valley
- Hope Sandoval: On the Low
- Nebula: Do It Now
- Angels of Light: My True Body
- Squarepusher: Go! Spastic
- Mark Lanegan: One Way Street
- Calexico: Crystal Frontier
- Steve Fisk: Amateur European
- Andrew Bird: Two Way Action
- Nick Cave: No More Shall We Part
- Strokes: The Modern Age
- Simon Joyner: Hotel Lives
- Motion Picture: Winter 1988
- Angels of Light: My Suicide
- Squarepusher: I Wish You Could Talk
- Tool: Triad
- Bjork: Undo
- Steve Wynn: There Will Come A Day
- Manitoba: Mammals Vs Reptiles
- Edith Frost: Cars And Parties
- White Stripes: I Can't Wait
- Zen Guerrilla: 5th & Cecil B
- Tara Jane O'Neil: Your Rate Are
- Manitoba: Paul's Birthday
- Anaal Nathrakh: The Technogoat
- Coastal: Northern
- M Ward: Color Of Water
- Drive-by Truckers: Shut Up And Get On The Plane
- Emperor: Thorns on My Grave
- Giardini di Miro`: Pet Life Saver
- Matt Marque: Here We Are
- Varnaline: Green Eyed Stars
- Butthole Surfers: Dracula From Houston
- White Stripes: Hotel Yorba
- Strokes: Someday
- Tim Hecker: Boreal Kiss
- Suicide Machines: All My People
- Beachwood Sparks: The Sun Surrounds Me
- Emperor: Empty
- Camera Obscura: Happy New Year
- Peaches: Suck And Let Go
- Vitalic: Poney Part 1
- Weezer: Island In The Sun
- Chris Clark: Lord Of The Dance
- Erase Errata: C Rex
- Circle: Suopea
- Jeezy: Bottom of the Map
- Strokes: Last Nite
- Stereo Total: Je Suis Une Poupee
- Skygreen Leopards: The Stars Go To Sleep
Extended compositions
- Robert Rich: Somnium
- Acid Mothers Temple: Psycho Buddha
- Irr. App. (Ext.): Ozeanische Gef”le
- Roy Montgomery: For A Small Blue Orb
- Electrelane: Mother
- Supersilent: 1
- Toby Dammit: Escape From Fire Island
- Surface of Eceon: The Grasshopper King
- Jonathan Coleclough: Periodicity
- Primordial Undermind: Filament
- Jack Rose: Red Horse
- Electrelane: Long Dark
- Breaking Pangaea: Turning
- Stars Of the Lid: Requiem For Dying Mothers
- Neurosis: Stones From the Sky
- Roy Montgomery: For A Small Blue Orb
- Boxhead Ensemble: Requiem
- Keiji Haino: Whereto Can I Cast Away
- Mogwai: My Father My King
- Mice Parade: Open Air Dance
- Pelt: A Raga Called John
- No-Neck Blues Band: Assignment Subud
- Acid Mothers Temple: Occie Lady
- Steven Smith: Tableland
- Surface Of Eceon: Ascension to the Second Tier
- Jonathan Coleclough: Periodic
- Guapo: El Topo
- Keith Fullerton Whitman: For Acoustic Guitar
- Pharoah Chromium: Feral
- Nels Cline: As In Life
- Lamp Of The Universe: Dream Sequence
- Tool: Lateralus
- Mono: Karelia
- Tom Carter: Monument 2
- Lightwave: Pierre J
- Neurosis: The Title
- Ed Harcourt: Beneath The Heart Of Darkness
- Foetus: Kreibabe
- Sleepytime Gorilla Museum: Sunflower
- Alan Licht: The Old Victrola
- Matmos: Lipostudio
- Merzbow: Frozen Guitars and Sunloop/7E 802
- Bardo Pond: Inside
- Jan Jelinek: Rock In The Video Age
- Sunburned Hand of the Man: The Jaybird
- Rollerball: Butter Fairy
- Vladislav Delay: Anima
- Jonathan Coleclough: Period
- Appendix Out: Fortified Jackdaw Grove
- Tara Jane O'Neil: This Morning
- Red House Painters: River
- Nels Cline: Blood Drawing
- Gary Lucas: Sh'ma
- Techno Animal: Hypertension
- Labradford: Twenty
- Tool: Lateralus
- Slipknot: Iowa
- Opeth: Blackwater Park
- Cult of Luna: The Sacrifice
- Djam Karet: Alone With The River Man
- Liars: This Dust Makes That Mud
- Stars Of the Lid: Piano Aquieu
- Tarentel: Death In The Mind Of The Living
- Oren Ambarchi: As Far As The Eye Can See
- Venetian Snares: All The Children Are Dead
- Mogwai: 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong
- My Dying Bride: The Return To The Beautiful
- Green Milk From The Planet Orange: In The Space Far Away From This Planet
- Angels of Light: New City In The Future
- Pleasure Forever: Any Port In A Storm
- Cult of Luna: Hollow
- Love As Laughter: E.H.
- Merzbow: Frozen Guitars and Sunloop/7E 802
- Acid Mothers Temple: Mercurical Megatronic Meninx
- Lupine Howl: Carnival
- If Thousands: Kasio
- Volcano the Bear: The Tallest People In The World
- Richard Chartier: Decisive Forms
- Animal Collective: Ahhh Good Country
- Regina Spektor: Pavlov's Daughter
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Jazz
7.5/10
- John Butcher: Fixations
7/10
- Paul Dunmall: The Great Divide (Cuneiform)
- Ken Vandermark Territory Band: Atlas (2001)
- Supersilent: 5 (Rune Grammofon)
- Steve Lehman: Structural Fire (2001)
- Wynton Marsalis: All Rise
- Jason Moran: Black Stars
- Bob Belden: Black Dahlia
- Sven Ake Johansson: Six Little Pieces for Quintet
- Matthew Shipp: New Orbit (2001)
- Repeat: Select Dialect
- Roy Campbell: Ethnic Stew
- Henry Threadgill: Everybody's Mouth's A Book
- Brad Mehldau: Art of the Trio: Progression
- Triangles: Triangles
- Peter Broetzmann: Fuck DeBoere
- William Parker: O'Neal's Porch
- Crispell, Peacock, Motian: Amaryllis
- Tom Harrell: Paradise
- Fred Hersch: Songs Without Words
- Dave Douglas: Witness
- David Ware: Corridors & Parallels
- Keith Jarrett: Whisper Not
Classical
- Bach: Art Of The Fugue (Labadie, Dorian)
- Schoenberg: Piano Concerto (Uchida, Philips)
- Lutoslawski: Symphony 3 (Lutoslawski, Accord)
- Messiaen: Turangalila (Nagano, Teldec)
- Schubert: Winterreise (Fisher-Dieskau, Philips)
- Penderechi: Seven Gates Of Jerusalem (Kord, Accord)
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