The Best Albums of 2002

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    8/10
  1. Racebannon: In the Grips of the Light (Level Plane)
  2. To Live and Shave in LA: The Wigmaker in Eighteenth Century Williamsburg (Menlo Park)
    7.5/10
  3. Sightings: Michigan Haters (Psych-O-Path)
  4. Acid Mothers Temple: Electric Heavyland (Alien8)
  5. Low: Trust (Kranky)
  6. Black Dice: Beaches & Canyons (DFA)
  7. Cerberus Shoal: Mr Boy Dog (Temporary Residence)
  8. Amon Tobin: Out From Out Where (Ninja Tune)
  9. Common: Electric Circus (MCA)
  10. Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch)
  11. Comets On Fire: Field Recordings From the Sun (Ba Da Bing)
  12. Jessica Bailiff: Jessica Bailiff (Kranky)
  13. Agalloch: The Mantle (End)
  14. Today Is The Day: Sadness Will Prevail (Relapse)
  15. Entropic Advance: Red Yellow Noise (Symbolic Insight)
  16. Maquiladora: Ritual Of Hearts (Better Looking)
  17. Nile: In Their Darkened Shrines (Relapse)
  18. Frog Eyes: The Bloody Hand (Global Symphonic)
  19. Dorine Muraille: Mani (Fat Cat)
  20. Hunches: Yes No Shut It (In the Red)
  21. Alec Empire: Intelligence And Sacrifice (Digital Hardcore)

    22. 7/10
  22. Vibracathedral Orchestra: Dabbling With Gravity (VHF)
  23. Xiu Xiu: Knife Play (5rc)
  24. Khanate: Khanate (Southern Lord)
  25. Books: Thought For Food (Tomlab)
  26. Ugly Casanova: Sharpen Your Teeth (Sub Pop)
  27. Notwist: Neon Golden (City Slang)
  28. Out Hud: Street Dad (Kranky)
  29. Broken Social Scene: You Forgot It in People (Arts & Crafts)
  30. Hlidolf: V01d (DFRDoom)
  31. Oneida: Each One Teach One (Jagjaguwar)
  32. Godspeed You Black Emperor: Yanqui UXO (Constellation)
  33. Mastodon: Remission (Relapse)
  34. Mike Johnson: What Would You Do (Up)
  35. Shalabi Effect: The Trial Of St. Orange (Alien 8)
  36. El Guapo: Super System (Dischord)
  37. Interpol: Turn on the Bright Lights (Matador)
  38. Town And Country: C'mon (Thrill Jockey)
  39. Black Tape For A Blue Girl: The Scavenger Bride (Projekt)
  40. DJ Spooky: Optometry (Thirsty Ear)
  41. Neko Case: Blacklisted (Lady Pilot)
  42. Acid Mothers Temple: Univers Zen Ou De Zero A Zero (Fractal)
  43. Zu: Igneo (Wide)
  44. Mum: Finally We Are No One (Fat Cat)
  45. Boards Of Canada: Geogaddi (Warp)
  46. Sunn O))): Flight Of The Behemoth (Southern Lord)
  47. Decemberists: Castaways and Cutouts (Hush)
  48. Scenic: The Acid Gospel Experience (Hidden Agenda)
  49. Deca: Simbionte (VideoRadio)
  50. Otep: Sevas Tra (Capitol)
  51. Add N To (X): Loud Like Nature (Mute)
  52. Noize Creator: Deferred Media (Ambush)
  53. Sage Francis: Personal Journals (Anticon)
  54. Sixtoo: Duration (Cease & Desist)
  55. Howard Hello: Howard Hello (Temporary Residence)
  56. Sigur Ros: ( ) (MCA)
  57. Dntel: Life Is Full of Possibilities (Plug Research)
  58. Oxbow: An Evil Heat (Neurot)
  59. Dalek: From Filthy Tongue of Gods and Griots (Ipecac)
  60. Octopus Project: Identification Parade (Peek-A-Boo)
  61. Early Day Miners: Let Us Garlands Bring (Secretly Canadian)
  62. Greg Davis: Arbor (Carpark)
  63. Jennifer Gentle: Funny Creatures Lane (Sillyboy)
  64. Loscil: Submers (Kranky)
  65. Hwyl Nofio: Hymnal (Hwyl)
  66. Alias: The Other Side of the Looking Glass (Anticon)
  67. MC Trachiotomy: W/Love From Tahiti (Bulb)
  68. Baby Dee: Love's Small Song (Durtro)
  69. Brendan Benson : Lapalco (V2)
  70. Jaga Jazzist: The Stix (Ninja Tune)
  71. El-P: Fantastic Damage (Definitive Jux)
  72. Streets: Original Pirate Material (Atlantic)
  73. Blevin Blectum: Talon Slalom (Deluxe)
Songs
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  1. To Live and Shave in LA: Veit Harlan Brown Dress Bob
  2. Xiu Xiu: Hives
  3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Bang
  4. Out Hud: Story of the Whole Thing
  5. Amon Tobin: Searchers
  6. Xiu Xiu: Luber
  7. Spring Heel Jack: Lit
  8. Suicide: Swearing at the Flag
  9. Add N To X: Large Number
  10. Interpol: NYC
  11. Low: Canada
  12. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Miles Away
  13. Dorine Muraille: Perdre
  14. Jessica Bailiff: Big Hill
  15. Broken Social Scene:Anthems for a Seventeen Year-old Girl
  16. Sightings: Michigan Haters
  17. National: Available
  18. Maquiladora: Chinese Girl
  19. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Mystery Girl
  20. Racebannon: Flip N' Fuck
  21. Neko Case: Deep Red Bells
  22. National: Trophy Wife
  23. Agalloch: And The Great Cold Death Of The Earth
  24. Lisa Germano: It's Party Time
  25. Maquiladora: Ritual Of Hearts
  26. To Live and Shave in LA: Blandina Oberwilding '77
  27. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Our Time
  28. Interpol: PDA
  29. Queens Of The Stone Age: No One Knows
  30. Common: New Wave
  31. Bad Religion: Sorrow
  32. Brian Jonestown Massacre: If I Love You
  33. Neil Hagerty: It Could Happen Again
  34. Cornelius: Another View Point
  35. Mirah: Recommendation
  36. Nina Nastasia: This Is What It Is
  37. Hunches: Murdering Train Track Blues
  38. Queens Of The Stone Age: Another Love Song
  39. Add N To X: Take Me To Your Leader
  40. Octopus Project: The Way Things Go
  41. Black Lips: Freakout
  42. Hot Hot Heat: No Not Now
  43. Mastodon: Workhorse
  44. Clinic: Welcome
  45. Coldplay: Clocks
  46. Ladytron: Seventeen
  47. Lisa Germano: Candy,
  48. Knotworking: Manuel
  49. Mountain Goats: Blues In Dallas
  50. Gogol Bordello: When The Trickster Starts A-Poking
  51. Paul Lansky: Pattern's Patterns
  52. Black Tape For A Blue Girl: A Livery Of Bachelors
  53. Tom Waits: Misery Is the River of the World
  54. Jason Loewenstein: I'm A Shit
  55. Doves: There Goes The Fear
  56. Clinic: Sunlight Bathes Our Home
  57. Guided By Voices: Skin Parade
  58. Looper: Fucking Around
  59. Mirah: Cold Cold Water
  60. Frog Eyes: Our Lordship Has Devised A New Billing System
  61. Woven Hand: Arrow Head
  62. Bright Eyes: Bowl of Oranges
  63. Baby Dee: Half A Chance
  64. Clipse: Young Boy
  65. Niobe: Radio Mexico
  66. Apparat Organ Quartet: Stereo Rock & Roll
  67. Drones: Motherless Children
  68. Coral: Dreaming of You
  69. Gorillaz: Clint Eastwood
  70. Brendan Benson : Tiny Spark
  71. Dntel: Suddenly Is Sooner Than You Think
  72. El Guapo: Rumbledream
  73. Sage Francis: Personal Journalist
  74. Alias: Black Tea
  75. El-P: Deep Space 9mm
  76. Atmosphere: Godlovesugly
  77. Streets: Let's Push Things Forward
  78. Alec Empire: Killing Machine
  79. And You Will Know Us: Heart In The Hand Of The Matter
  80. Blevin Blectum: The Way The Cookie Crumbles Straight From The Horses Mouth
Extended compositions
  1. Spring Heel Jack: Obscured
  2. Acid Mothers Temple: Phantom Of Galactic Magnum
  3. Acid Mothers Temple: Pink Lady Lemonade
  4. William Basinski: The River
  5. Hlidolf: V01d
  6. Out Hud: The L Train
  7. Spring Heel Jack: One Hundred Years Before
  8. Sixtoo: Duration Project
  9. Nile: In Their Darkened Shrines
  10. Low: Shots and Ladders
  11. Acid Mothers Temple: Blues Pour Bible Noire
  12. Vibracathedral Orchestra: The Body is the Arrow
  13. Maquiladora: She's More Beautiful
  14. Alec Empire: 2641998
  15. Khanate: Under Rotting Sky
  16. Acid Mothers Temple: Loved And Confused
  17. Oxbow: Glimmer Shine
  18. Comets on Fire: The Black Poodle
  19. Venetian Snares: A Giant Alien Force More Violent & Sick Than Anything You Can Imagine
  20. Cerberus Shoal: Tongue Drongue
  21. Dalek: Black Smoke Rises
  22. Sunn O))): O))) Bow 1 & 2
  23. Sightings: Guilty Of Wrecking
  24. Acid Mothers Temple: Soleil de Cristal et Lune d'Argent
  25. Town And Country: Bookmobile
  26. Shalabi Effect: A Glow in the Dark
  27. DJ Spooky: Optometry
  28. Acid Mothers Temple: 41st Century Splendid Man
  29. Mum: The Land Between Solar Systems
  30. Early Day Miners: Summer Ends
  31. Agalloch: In the Shadow of Our Pale Companion
  32. Black Tape For A Blue Girl: The Scavenger's Daughter
  33. Isis: Hym
  34. Yakuza: 01000011110011
  35. Norma Jean: Pretty Soon I Don't Know What But Something Is Going to Happen
  36. Cornershop: Spectral Mornings
  37. Pan American: Red Line
  38. Racebannon: Sober And Sad
  39. Black Dice: Things Will Never Be the Same
  40. Death Cab For Cutie: Stability
  41. Oxbow: Glimmer Shine
  42. Nile: Unas Slayer of Gods
  43. Entropic Advance: Big River
  44. Gallon Drunk: Forget All That You Know
  45. Fursaxa: Backwards Alchemy
  46. Landing: First Snow
  47. Opeth: Deliverance
  48. No-Neck Blues Band: Intonomancy
  49. Pinback: Grey Machine
  50. Common: Jimi Was a Rock Star
  51. Scenic: Lightspeed
  52. Electric Wizard: The Outsider
  53. Gogol Bordello: Hats Off To Kolpakoff
  54. Xinlisupreme: Fatal Sisters Opened Umbrella
  55. Bohren & der Club of Gore: The Art of Coffins
  56. Sightings: I Feel Like a Porsche
  57. Los Natas: La Tierra Delfin
  58. Jaga Jazzist: Suomi Finland
  59. Steffen Basho-Junghans: Inside the Rain
  60. Lamp Of The Universe: Our Celestial Flow
 		Jazz

    8/10
  1. Spring Heel Jack: Amassed (Thirsty Ear)
    7.5/10
  2. Marty Ehrlich: The Long View (Enja)
  3. Jane Ira Bloom: Chasing Paint (2002)
  4. Brad Mehidau: Largo (Warner)
    7/10
  5. Black Earth Ensemble: Afrika Rising (2002)
  6. Nels Cline: Instrumentals (Cryptogramophone)
  7. Ken Vandermark Territory Band: Map Theory (2002)
  8. Claudia Quintet: I
  9. Andrew Hill: A Beautiful Day (Palmetto)
  10. Evan Parker: Memory/Vision (2002)
  11. Randy Weston: Ancient Future (Mutablemusic)
  12. Bobby Previte: The 23 Constellations of Joan Miro (Tzadik)
  13. David Ware: Freedom Suite (Aum)
  14. Keith Jarrett: Always Let Me Go (ECM)
  15. Roscoe Mitchell: Song For my Sister (Pi)
  16. Joe Zawinul: Faces and Places (ESC)
  17. Tim Berne: Science Friction (Screwgun)
  18. Tomasz Stanko: Soul of Things (ECM)
  19. Hamiet Bluiett: Blueback (Justin Time)
  20. Thomas Buckner: Alone Together Apart (Mutablemusic)
  21. Joshua Redman: Elastic (Warner)
  22. Bobby Previte: The 23 Constellations (Tzadik)
  23. Leo Smith: The Year of the Elephant (Pi)
  24. Randy Sandke: Inside Out (Nagel)
  25. Jason Moran: Modernistic (Blue Note)
  26. Dave Douglas: The Infinite (RCA)
  27. Paul Motian: Holiday for Strings (Winter)
  28. Abdullah Ibrahim: African Symphony (Enja)
Classical
  1. Prokofev: Symphony 2 (Polyansky, Chandos)
  2. Gubaidulina: Canticle Of The Sun/ Music For Flute Strings, Percussion (EMI 57153)
  3. Mahler: Symphony 9 (BBC, Horenstein)
  4. Varese: Ameriques, Arcana, Deserts, Ionisation (Boulez, DG)
  5. Haydn: Creation Mass (Gardiner, Philips)
  6. Wagner: Tannhauser (Barenboim, Teldec)
  7. Leoninus: Sacred Music (EMI 57153)
  8. Dvorak: Symphony 9 (Ashkenazy, Ondine)
  9. Mahler: Symphony 7 (Abbado, DG)
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Best of the 1960's Best of the 1970's Best of the 1980's Best of the 1990's Best of the 2000's