Best of Rock Albums
(Read the reviews)
8/10
- To Live and Shave in LA: The Wigmaker in Eighteenth Century Williamsburg (Menlo Park)
7.5/10
- Sightings: Michigan Haters (Psych-O-Path)
- Acid Mothers Temple: Electric Heavyland (Alien8)
- Low: Trust (Kranky)
- Black Dice: Beaches & Canyons (DFA)
- Cerberus Shoal: Mr Boy Dog (Temporary Residence)
- Amon Tobin: Out From Out Where (Ninja Tune)
- Common: Electric Circus (MCA)
- Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch)
- Comets On Fire: Field Recordings From the Sun (Ba Da Bing)
- Jessica Bailiff: Jessica Bailiff (Kranky)
- Agalloch: The Mantle (End)
- Today Is The Day: Sadness Will Prevail (Relapse)
- Entropic Advance: Red Yellow Noise (Symbolic Insight)
- Maquiladora: Ritual Of Hearts (Better Looking)
- Steffen Basho-Junghans: Waters in Azure (Strange Attractors)
- Vibracathedral Orchestra: Dabbling With Gravity (VHF)
- Nile: In Their Darkened Shrines (Relapse)
- Frog Eyes: The Bloody Hand (Global Symphonic)
- Dorine Muraille: Mani (Fat Cat)
- Hunches: Yes No Shut It (In the Red)
7/10
- Xiu Xiu: Knife Play (5rc)
- Khanate: Khanate (Southern Lord)
- Books: Thought For Food (Tomlab)
- Ugly Casanova: Sharpen Your Teeth (Sub Pop)
- Notwist: Neon Golden (City Slang)
- Out Hud: Street Dad (Kranky)
- Broken Social Scene: You Forgot It in People (Arts & Crafts)
- Hlidolf: V01d (DFRDoom)
- Oneida: Each One Teach One (Jagjaguwar)
- Godspeed You Black Emperor: Yanqui UXO (Constellation)
- Mastodon: Remission (Relapse)
- Mike Johnson: What Would You Do (Up)
- Shalabi Effect: The Trial Of St. Orange (Alien 8)
- El Guapo: Super System (Dischord)
- Interpol: Turn on the Bright Lights (Matador)
- Town And Country: C'mon (Thrill Jockey)
- Black Tape For A Blue Girl: The Scavenger Bride (Projekt)
- DJ Spooky: Optometry (Thirsty Ear)
- Neko Case: Blacklisted (Lady Pilot)
- Acid Mothers Temple: Univers Zen Ou De Zero A Zero (Fractal)
- Zu: Igneo (Wide)
- Mum: Finally We Are No One (Fat Cat)
- Boards Of Canada: Geogaddi (Warp)
- Sunn O))): Flight Of The Behemoth (Southern Lord)
- Decemberists: Castaways and Cutouts (Hush)
- Scenic: The Acid Gospel Experience (Hidden Agenda)
- Deca: Simbionte (VideoRadio)
- Otep: Sevas Tra (Capitol)
- Add N To (X): Loud Like Nature (Mute)
- Noize Creator: Deferred Media (Ambush)
- Sage Francis: Personal Journals (Anticon)
- Sixtoo: Duration (Cease & Desist)
- Howard Hello: Howard Hello (Temporary Residence)
- Sigur Ros: ( ) (MCA)
- Dntel: Life Is Full of Possibilities (Plug Research)
- Oxbow: An Evil Heat (Neurot)
- Dalek: From Filthy Tongue of Gods and Griots (Ipecac)
- Octopus Project: Identification Parade (Peek-A-Boo)
- Early Day Miners: Let Us Garlands Bring (Secretly Canadian)
- Greg Davis: Arbor (Carpark)
- Jennifer Gentle: Funny Creatures Lane (Sillyboy)
- Loscil: Submers (Kranky)
- Hwyl Nofio: Hymnal (Hwyl)
- Alias: The Other Side of the Looking Glass (Anticon)
- MC Trachiotomy: W/Love From Tahiti (Bulb)
- Baby Dee: Love's Small Song (Durtro)
- Brendan Benson : Lapalco (V2)
- Jaga Jazzist: The Stix (Ninja Tune)
- El-P: Fantastic Damage (Definitive Jux)
- Streets: Original Pirate Material (Atlantic)
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Songs
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- To Live and Shave in LA: Veit Harlan Brown Dress Bob
- Xiu Xiu: Hives
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Bang
- Out Hud: Story of the Whole Thing
- Amon Tobin: Searchers
- Xiu Xiu: Luber
- Spring Heel Jack: Lit
- Suicide: Swearing at the Flag
- Add N To X: Large Number
- Interpol: NYC
- Low: Canada
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Miles Away
- Dorine Muraille: Perdre
- Jessica Bailiff: Big Hill
- Broken Social Scene:Anthems for a Seventeen Year-old Girl
- Sightings: Michigan Haters
- National: Available
- Maquiladora: Chinese Girl
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Mystery Girl
- Neko Case: Deep Red Bells
- National: Trophy Wife
- Agalloch: And The Great Cold Death Of The Earth
- Lisa Germano: It's Party Time
- Maquiladora: Ritual Of Hearts
- To Live and Shave in LA: Blandina Oberwilding '77
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Our Time
- Interpol: PDA
- Queens Of The Stone Age: No One Knows
- Common: New Wave
- Bad Religion: Sorrow
- Brian Jonestown Massacre: If I Love You
- Neil Hagerty: It Could Happen Again
- Cornelius: Another View Point
- Mirah: Recommendation
- Nina Nastasia: This Is What It Is
- Hunches: Murdering Train Track Blues
- Queens Of The Stone Age: Another Love Song
- Add N To X: Take Me To Your Leader
- Octopus Project: The Way Things Go
- Black Lips: Freakout
- Hot Hot Heat: No Not Now
- Mastodon: Workhorse
- Clinic: Welcome
- Coldplay: Clocks
- Ladytron: Seventeen
- Lisa Germano: Candy,
- Knotworking: Manuel
- Mountain Goats: Blues In Dallas
- Gogol Bordello: When The Trickster Starts A-Poking
- Paul Lansky: Pattern's Patterns
- Black Tape For A Blue Girl: A Livery Of Bachelors
- Tom Waits: Misery Is the River of the World
- Jason Loewenstein: I'm A Shit
- Doves: There Goes The Fear
- Clinic: Sunlight Bathes Our Home
- Guided By Voices: Skin Parade
- Looper: Fucking Around
- Mirah: Cold Cold Water
- Frog Eyes: Our Lordship Has Devised A New Billing System
- Woven Hand: Arrow Head
- Bright Eyes: Bowl of Oranges
- Baby Dee: Half A Chance
- Clipse: Young Boy
- Niobe: Radio Mexico
- Apparat Organ Quartet: Stereo Rock & Roll
- Drones: Motherless Children
- Coral: Dreaming of You
- Gorillaz: Clint Eastwood
- Brendan Benson : Tiny Spark
- Dntel: Suddenly Is Sooner Than You Think
- El Guapo: Rumbledream
- Sage Francis: Personal Journalist
- Alias: Black Tea
- El-P: Deep Space 9mm
- Atmosphere: Godlovesugly
- Streets: Let's Push Things Forward
Extended compositions
- Spring Heel Jack: Obscured
- Acid Mothers Temple: Phantom Of Galactic Magnum
- Vibracathedral Orchestra: The Body is the Arrow
- Acid Mothers Temple: Pink Lady Lemonade
- Steffen Basho-Junghans: Inside the Rain
- William Basinski: The River
- Hlidolf: V01d
- Out Hud: The L Train
- Spring Heel Jack: One Hundred Years Before
- Sixtoo: Duration Project
- Nile: In Their Darkened Shrines
- Low: Shots and Ladders
- Acid Mothers Temple: Blues Pour Bible Noire
- Maquiladora: She's More Beautiful
- Khanate: Under Rotting Sky
- Acid Mothers Temple: Loved And Confused
- Oxbow: Glimmer Shine
- Scenic: A Journey Through the Outer Reaches
- Comets on Fire: The Black Poodle
- Venetian Snares: A Giant Alien Force More Violent & Sick Than Anything You Can Imagine
- Cerberus Shoal: Tongue Drongue
- Dalek: Black Smoke Rises
- Sunn O))): O))) Bow 1 & 2
- Sightings: Guilty Of Wrecking
- Acid Mothers Temple: Soleil de Cristal et Lune d'Argent
- Town And Country: Bookmobile
- Shalabi Effect: A Glow in the Dark
- DJ Spooky: Optometry
- Acid Mothers Temple: 41st Century Splendid Man
- Mum: The Land Between Solar Systems
- Early Day Miners: Summer Ends
- Agalloch: In the Shadow of Our Pale Companion
- Black Tape For A Blue Girl: The Scavenger's Daughter
- Isis: Hym
- Yakuza: 01000011110011
- Norma Jean: Pretty Soon I Don't Know What But Something Is Going to Happen
- Cornershop: Spectral Mornings
- Pan American: Red Line
- Black Dice: Things Will Never Be the Same
- Death Cab For Cutie: Stability
- Oxbow: Glimmer Shine
- Nile: Unas Slayer of Gods
- Entropic Advance: Big River
- Gallon Drunk: Forget All That You Know
- Fursaxa: Backwards Alchemy
- Landing: First Snow
- Opeth: Deliverance
- No-Neck Blues Band: Intonomancy
- Pinback: Grey Machine
- Common: Jimi Was a Rock Star
- Electric Wizard: The Outsider
- Gogol Bordello: Hats Off To Kolpakoff
- Xinlisupreme: Fatal Sisters Opened Umbrella
- Bohren & der Club of Gore: The Art of Coffins
- Sightings: I Feel Like a Porsche
- Los Natas: La Tierra Delfin
- Jaga Jazzist: Suomi Finland
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Jazz
8/10
- Spring Heel Jack: Amassed (Thirsty Ear)
7.5/10
- Marty Ehrlich: The Long View (Enja)
- Jane Ira Bloom: Chasing Paint (2002)
- Brad Mehidau: Largo (Warner)
7/10
- Black Earth Ensemble: Afrika Rising (2002)
- Nels Cline: Instrumentals (Cryptogramophone)
- Ken Vandermark Territory Band: Map Theory (2002)
- Claudia Quintet: I
- Andrew Hill: A Beautiful Day (Palmetto)
- Evan Parker: Memory/Vision (2002)
- Randy Weston: Ancient Future (Mutablemusic)
- Bobby Previte: The 23 Constellations of Joan Miro (Tzadik)
- David Ware: Freedom Suite (Aum)
- Keith Jarrett: Always Let Me Go (ECM)
- Roscoe Mitchell: Song For my Sister (Pi)
- Joe Zawinul: Faces and Places (ESC)
- Tim Berne: Science Friction (Screwgun)
- Tomasz Stanko: Soul of Things (ECM)
- Hamiet Bluiett: Blueback (Justin Time)
- Thomas Buckner: Alone Together Apart (Mutablemusic)
- Joshua Redman: Elastic (Warner)
- Bobby Previte: The 23 Constellations (Tzadik)
- Leo Smith: The Year of the Elephant (Pi)
- Randy Sandke: Inside Out (Nagel)
- Jason Moran: Modernistic (Blue Note)
- Dave Douglas: The Infinite (RCA)
- Paul Motian: Holiday for Strings (Winter)
- Abdullah Ibrahim: African Symphony (Enja)
Classical
- Prokofev: Symphony 2 (Polyansky, Chandos)
- Gubaidulina: Canticle Of The Sun/ Music For Flute Strings, Percussion (EMI 57153)
- Mahler: Symphony 9 (BBC, Horenstein)
- Varese: Ameriques, Arcana, Deserts, Ionisation (Boulez, DG)
- Haydn: Creation Mass (Gardiner, Philips)
- Wagner: Tannhauser (Barenboim, Teldec)
- Leoninus: Sacred Music (EMI 57153)
- Dvorak: Symphony 9 (Ashkenazy, Ondine)
- Mahler: Symphony 7 (Abbado, DG)
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