Best of Rock Albums
(Read the reviews)
8/10
- Joanna Newsom: Ys (Drag City)
- Tarentel: Ghetto Beats On The Surface Of The Sun (The Music Fellowship)
7.5/10
- Carla Bozulich: Evangelista (Constellation)
- Ben Frost: Theory Of Machines (Bedroom Community)
- Natural Snow Buildings: The Dance of the Moon and the Sun (Students of Decay)
- Jim Haynes: Telegraphy By The Sea (The Helen Scarsdale Agency)
- TV On The Radio: Return To Cookie Mountain (4AD)
- Shit And Shine: Jealous of Shit and Shine (Riot Season)
- Keith Fullerton Whitman: Lisbon (Kranky)
- Katharsis: VVorld VVithout End (Norma Evangelium Diaboli)
- Volcano The Bear: Classic Erasmus Fusion (Beta-Lactam Ring)
- To Live and Shave in LA: Noon and Eternity (Menlo Park)
- Richard Chartier: Levels Inverted (Line)
- Wolves In The Throne Room: Diadem Of 12 Stars (Vendlus)
- Warhammer 48K: An Ethereal Oracle (Permanent)
- James Holden: The Idiots are Winning (Border Community)
- Ruins Of Beverast: Rain Upon The Impure (Van)
- Cult of Luna: Somewhere Along the Highway (Earache)
- White Flight: White Flight (Range Life)
- Circle: Miljard (Ektro)
- Burial: Burial (Hyperdub)
- Kayo Dot: Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue (Robotic Empire)
7/10
- Julianna Barwick: Sanguine (self-released)
- Subtle: For Hero For Fool (Astralwerks)
- Liars: Drum's Not Dead (Mute)
- KTL: KTL (Editions Mego)
- Sic Alps: Pleasures And Treasures (Animal Disguise)
- Woven Hand: Mosaic (Sounds Familyre)
- Fred Frith: Impur (ReR)
- Georgia Anne Muldrow: Olesi - Fragments Of An Earth (Stones Throw)
- Fiery Furnaces: Bitter Tea (Fat Possum)
- Shogun Kunitoki: Tasankokaiku (Fonal)
- Boxhead Ensemble: Nocturnes (Atavistic)
- Black Angels: Passover (Light In The Attic)
- Fucked Up: Hidden World (Jade Tree)
- Erdem Helvacioglu: Altered Realities (New Albion)
- Christina Carter: Electrice (Kranky)
- Man Man: Six Demon Bag (Ace Fu)
- Loscil: Plume (Kranky)
- Beirut: Gulag Orkestar (BaDaBing)
- Angel: In Transmediale (Oral)
- Ooioo: Taiga (Thrill Jockey)
- Grizzly Bear: Yellow House (Warp)
- Daniel Higgs: Ancestral Songs (Holy Mountain)
- Brightblack Morning Light: Brightblack Morning Light (Matador)
- Scott Walker: Drift (4AD)
- A Broken Consort: The Shape Leaves (Sustain-Release)
- Black To Comm: Ruckwarts Backwards (Dekorder)
- Final Fantasy: He Poos Clouds (Blocks)
- Skullflower: Tribulation (Crucial Blast)
- Alejandro Escovedo: The Boxing Mirror (Back Porch)
- Raccoo-Oo-Oon: Behold Secret Kingdom (Release The Bats)
- Troum: Shutun (Old Europa Cafe)
- Built To Spill: You In Reverse (Warner Bros)
- Agalloch: Ashes Against the Grain (End)
- Clipse: Hell Hath No Fury (Star Trak)
- Bongripper: The Great Barrier Reefer (Bongripper)
- Avarus: II (HP Cycle)
- Black Boned Angel: Bliss And Void Inseparable (20 Buck Spin)
- Machinefabriek: Marijn (Lampse)
- Yakuza: Samsara (Prosthetic)
- Erase Errata: Nightlife (Kill Rock Stars)
- Shearwater: Palo Santo (Misra)
- Paper Chase: Now You Are One Of Us (Trost)
- Wraiths: Oriflamme (Aurora Borealis)
- Islands: Return to the Sea (Rough Trade)
- Ametsub: Linear Cryptics (Progressive Form)
- Celestiial: Desolate North (Handmade Birds)
- Cut Chemist: The Audience Is Listening (Warner)
- Russian Circles: Enter (Flameshovel)
- Dale Cooper Quartet: Parole De Navarre (Diesel Combustible)
- Envy: Insomniac Doze (Rock Action)
- Ilyas Ahmed: Towards The Night (self)
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Songs
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- Fiery Furnaces: The Vietnamese Telephone Ministry
- Beirut: Postcards From Italy
- Johan Johannsson: The Sun's Gone Dim And The Sky's Turned Black
- Fiery Furnaces: Bitter Tea
- Sic Alps: I Am Grass
- White Flight: Pastora Divine
- Black Heart Procession: The Spell
- Cursive: Dorothy at Forty
- Julianna Barwick: Red Tit Warbler
- Velvet Teen: Gyzmkid
- Fiery Furnaces: Nevers
- Woven Hand: Swedish Purse
- Man Man: Engrish Bwudd
- Paper Chase: You Will Never Take Me Alive
- White Flight: Now
- Cursive: At Conception
- Black Angels: Young Men Dead
- Fucked Up: Crusades
- Katharsis: Eden Belovv
- Slow Learner: Martyr
- Yo La Tengo: Point and Shoot
- Woven Hand: Dirty Blue
- Crystal Castles: Alice Practice
- Comets On Fire: Holy Teeth
- Gnarls Barkley: Crazy
- Built To Spill: Wherever You Go
- Ooioo: Ioa
- Asobi Seksu: Thursday
- Band Of Horses: The Funeral
- Black Angels: The Sniper At The Gates Of Heaven
- Dresden Dolls: Shores Of California
- Band Of Horses: Great Salt Lake
- Envy: A Warm Room
- M Ward: Right In The Head
- Sloan: Who Taught You to Live Like That
- Man Man: Black Mission Goggles
- Beach House: Apple Orchard
- Bat For Lashes: Horse And I
- Bug: Jah War
- Erase Errata: Cruisin'
- Grouper: Shadow Rise Drowned
- Chris Clark: Roulette Thrift Run
- Neko Case: John Saw That Number
- Gnarls Barkley: Crazy
- Grails: Black Tar Frequencies
- Snow Patrol: Chasing Cars
- Casiotone For The Painfully Alone: Scattered Pearls
- Grizzly Bear: Lullabye
- Dear Hunter: The Pimp And The Priest
- Jabladav: Zarqawi Mortus
- Final Fantasy: This Lamb Sells Condos
- Cut Chemist: A Peak In Time
- Islands: Humans
- Shogun Kunitoki: Daniel
- Angelic Process: My Blood Still Whispers
- Daughters: Hyperventilationsystem
- Rodrigo & Gabriela: Ixtapa
- J Dilla: Walkinonit
- Chris Clark: Herzog
- Excepter: Rock Stepper
- Lupe Fiasco: Daydreamin'
- Amy Winehouse: Rehab and
- Jenny Lewis: You Are What You Love
- Colour Haze: Gold & Silver
- Dani Siciliano: Slappers
Extended compositions
- Joanna Newsom: Only Skin
- LCD Soundsystem: 45:33
- Shit And Shine: Practicing To Be A Doctor
- Richard Chartier: Levels Inverted
- Natural Snow Buildings: Felt Presence Ghostly Humming
- Ben Frost: Stomp
- Mrtyu: Ash On Ash
- Tarentel: Tied To A Tree In A Jungle Of Mystery
- Angel: In Transmediale
- Tarentel: All things Vibrations
- Joanna Newsom: Emily
- Carla Bozulich: Evangelista I
- Keith Fullerton Whitman: Lisbon
- Fred Frith: Impur
- Joanna Newsom: Sawdust & Diamonds
- KTL: Estranged
- Simon Joyner: The Only Living Boy In Omaha
- Jim Haynes: Telegraphy By The Sea
- Josh Ritter: Thin Blue Flame
- Shit And Shine: Toilet Door Tits
- Circle: Viitane
- Mono: Moonlight
- Ooioo: Sai
- Built To Spill: Goin' Against Your Mind
- Sunn O))): Bathory Erzebet
- Kayo Dot: On Limpid Form
- Black Boned Angel: Bliss And Void Inseparable
- Ricardo Villalobos: Fizheuer Zieheuer
- Daevid Allen, Steve Hillage, etc: Glissando Orchestra
- Boxhead Ensemble: Noctune 10
- Grails: Black Tar Prophecy
- KTL: Forest Floor
- Six Organs of Admittance: River Of Transfiguration
- Katharsis: VVytchdance
- Necks: Fatal
- Wolves In The Throne Room: Diadem Of 12 Stars
- Decemberists: The Mariner's Revenge Song
- Olivia Block: Heave To
- Agalloch: Fire Above Ice Below
- Fred Frith: The Happy End Problem
- P.G. Six: The Book Of Rayguns
- Ruins Of Beverast: Soil Of The Incestuous
- Mountains: Hundred Acre
- Wolf Eyes: Rationed Rot
- Early Day Miners: Land of Pale Saints
- James Blackshaw: Elk With Jade Eyes
- To Live and Shave in LA: Mothers Over Silverpoint
- Circle: Duunila
- Scott Walker: Cue
- Oneida: Up With People
- Town And Country: Up Above
- Jan Jelinek: Happening Tone
- Charalambides: Black Bed Blues
- Cult of Luna: Dark City Dead Man
- Skullflower: Lost In The Blackened Gardens
- Angelic Process: Crippled Healing
- Loscil: Charlie
- Ricardo Villalobos: Ichso
- James Holden: Idiot
- Volcano The Bear: See Me Now
- Bongripper: The Great Barrier Reefer
- Aidan Baker: Betes Noires
- Machinefabriek: Lawine
- Wraiths: Oriflamme
- Acid Mothers Temple: Love Electrique
- Gog: Noriah Mills
- Silvester Anfang: Demonische Agricultuur
- Islands: Swans
- Scott Walker: Clara
- Peste Noire: Phalenes Et Pestilence - Salvatrice Averse
- Prurient: Earthworks/ Buried In Secret
- Russian Circles: You Already Did
- Angelic Process: Coma Waering
- Ametsub: Green Oeuvre
- DJ Olive: Sleep
- Eyesores: Gutterhelmet Ascending
- Jason Lescalleet: The Pilgrim
- Ruins Of Beverast: 50 Forts Along The Rhine
- Om: At Giza
- Cult of Luna: Dim
- Mammatus: Dragon Of The Deep Part One
- Ilyas Ahmed: Red Spring
- Volcano The Bear: Hail The New Mephisto
- Circle: Amputation Crusade
- Dale Cooper Quartet: Lui Hall
- Richard Chartier: Current
- To Live and Shave in LA: This Home and Fear
- Xanopticon: Broken Eye Teeth
- Tank: Tutto Part 1 - La Lave des Condamnes
- Envy: The Unknown Glow
- Corea: Voy a Morir como Nunca Nadie ha Muerto Antes
- Ilyas Ahmed: Satanta's Hand
- Sightings: Only Below
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Jazz
7/10
- Acoustic Ladyland: Skinny Grinn (Babel)
- Kenny Garrett: Beyond the Wall
- Tomasz Stanko: Lontano
- Zeena Parkins: Necklace
- Andrew Hill: Time Lines
- Dave Holland: Critical Mass
- Paul Motian: Garden of Eden
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