Best of Rock Albums
(Read the reviews)
8/10
- Julia Holter: Tragedy (Leaving)
7.5/10
- Weyes Blood: The Outside Room (Not Not Fun)
- I Am A Lake Of Burning Orchids: Innocence (self)
- Peste Noire: L'Ordure A L'Etat Pur (Rosenkrantz)
- Jenny Hval: Viscera (Rune Grammofon)
- Roly Porter: Aftertime (Subtext Recordings)
- Dirty Knobs: Field Recordings from the Edge of Hell (Xero Music)
- Julianna Barwick: The Magic Place (Asthmatic Kitty)
- Demdike Stare: Tryptych (Modern Love)
- Gnod: Chaudelande Volume 1 (Tamed Records)
- Giles Corey: Giles Corey (Enemies List)
- Liturgy: Aesthethica (Thrill Jockey)
- Nicolas Jaar: Space Is Only Noise (Circus Company)
- The Men: Leave Home (Sacred Bones)
7/10
- Death Grips: Exmilitary (Third Worlds)
- White Suns: Waking In The Reservoir (UgExplode)
- Mitochondrion: Parasignosis (Profound Lore)
- James Blake: James Blake (Universal Republic)
- Lumerians: Transmalinnia (Knitting Factory)
- Dan Joseph: Tonalization for the Afterlife (Mutable)
- Gum Takes Tooth: Silent Cenotaph (Tigertrap)
- Fucked Up: David Comes to Life (Matador)
- James Ferraro: Far Side Virtual (Hippos in Tanks)
- Nate Wooley: The Almond (Pogues)
- Theresa Wong: The Unlearning (Tzadik)
- Pete Swanson: Man with Potential (Type)
- tUnE-YaRDs: Whokill (4AD)
- Braids: Native Speaker (Flemish Eye)
- Dead Skeletons: Dead Magick (A)
- Sun Araw: Ancient Romans (Sun Ark)
- Danny Brown: XXX (Fool's Gold)
- Pyrrhon: An Excellent Servant But A Terrible Master (Selfmadegod)
- Tim Hecker: Ravedeath, 1972 (Kranky)
- Clams Casino: Instrumentals (Type)
- War On Drugs: Slave Ambient (Secretly Canadian)
- Oranssi Pazuzu: Kosmonument (Spinefarm)
- Veronica Falls: Veronica Falls (Slumberland)
- Full of Hell: Roots Of Earth Are Consuming My Home (A389)
- Ulcerate: The Destroyers of All (Willowtip)
- Blu: NoYork (self)
- Government: Soulpuke (Pop Katari)
- Gigan: Quasi-Hallucinogenic Sonic Landscapes (Willowtip)
- Puce Mary: The Closed Room (Posh Isolation)
- Roll The Dice: In Dust (Leaf)
- Pharoah Chromium: Electric Cremation (Grautag)
- Vektroid/ Macintosh Plus: Floral Shoppe (Beer on the Rug)
- Dope Body: Nupping (Hoss)
- El Marrano de la Razon: La Incoacion de las Desbordantes Anomalias Apocalipticas (self)
EPs and minis:
- Endon: Acme Apathy Amok ()
- Yamantaka Sonic Titan: YT // ST (Psychic Handshake) 7.5
- Grouper: Dream Loss (Kranky), 7.5/10 (mini)
- Thee Oh Sees: Carrion Crawler/The Dream (In the Red) (EP) 7.5/10
- Deathspell Omega: Diabolus Absconditus (Norma Evangelium Diaboli) 7.5
- Andy Stott: Passed Me By (Modern Love) 7.5
- Laurel Halo: Hour Logic (Hippos In Tanks) (EP) 7/10
- Grouper: Alien Observer (Kranky), 7/10 (mini)
- Fatima Al Qadiri: Genre-Specific Xperience (UNO), 7/10 (EP)
- Nicolas Jaar: Don't Break My Love (Clown and Sunset) (EP) 7/10
- Andrew Jackson Jihad: Knife Man (Asian Man)
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Songs
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- Adele: Rolling in the Deep
- Endon: The Spasm Of Confession
- Weyes Blood: Storms That Breed
- Tom Waits: Chicago
- Liturgy: High Gold
- Mamaleek: Wake Up Jacob
- Thee Oh Sees: Contraption/Soul Desert
- Grouper: Moon Is Sharp
- Ulterior: Sister Speed
- St Vincent: Northern Lights
- Fucked Up: Queen Of Hearts
- Grails: All The Colors Of The Dark
- Jenny Hval: Portrait Of The Young Girl As An Artist
- Julianna Barwick: White Flag
- Lumerians: Catalini Rises
- The Men: ()
- Lumerians: Burning Mirrors
- Mogwai: Mexican Grand Prix
- Nicolas Jaar: Space Is Only Noise If You Can See
- Bob Drake: Everybody Wants to Meet My Raccoon
- Battles: Futura
- Radiohead: Little By Little
- James Ferraro: Adventures in Green Foot Printing
- M83: New Map
- Kurt Vile: Ghost Town
- Kanye West: Gotta Have It
- St Vincent: Cruel
- Fucked Up: Ship Of Fools
- Atlas Sound: Mona Lisa
- Girls: Vomit
- Dead Reptile Shrine: Summer Forest's Magic
- Dead Skeletons: Yama
- TV On The Radio: Second Song
- The Men: Think
- Tom Waits: Talking At The Same Time
- Death Grips: Culture Shock
- Oranssi Pazuzu: Maavaltimo
- Pete Swanson: Face The Music
- Deafheaven: Language Games
- Lykke Li: Get Some
- Dope Body : The Shape Of Grunge To Come
- Iron & Wine: Rabbit Will Run
- Go Team: Ready to Go Steady
- Moon Duo: Seer
- Patrick Wolf: Armistice
- Full of Hell: Dregs Of Pluto
- White Suns: First Purge
- Blanck Mass: Land Disasters
- Steve Earle: Waitin' on the Sky
- Burial: Stolen Dog
- Bon Iver: Holocene
- Pseudo Nippon: Jebubu And The Whale
- Ayshay: Warn-U
- King Dude: Lucifer Light of the World
- Clams Casino: All I Need
- Frank Turner: If Ever I Stray
- Lykke Li: Youth Knows No Pain
- Car Seat Headrest: Sunburned Shirts
- Holy Other: Yr Love
- Future Islands: Before the Bridge
- Graham Repulski: Molten Girls Iowa
- Azealia Banks: 212
- Clams Casino: Gorilla
- Jessica Jalbert: Whatever Whoever
- Lucinda Williams: Buttercup
- A$AP Rocky: Wassup
- Graham Repulski: Everyone Likes My Three Dollar Shirt
- US Girls: Pamela + GG
- Blu: Everything's OK
- Dope Body : Loner Stoner
- Paul White: The Doldrums
- Royal Headache : Down the Lane
- Andrew Jackson Jihad (AJJ): Back Pack
- James Ferraro: New Waver From Hawaii Saturn
- Dirty Beaches: Sweet 17
- Andy Stott: Dark Details
- Dear Hunter: A Curse Of Cynicism
Extended compositions
- Julia Holter: Tragedy Finale
- Yamantaka Sonic Titan: A Star Over Pureland
- Puce Mary: Iron Tulip
- Weyes Blood: Candyboy
- I Am A Lake Of Burning Orchids: Superclub
- Disappears: Revisiting
- Dirty Knobs: The Monks' Infinite Machine
- Roly Porter: Giedi Prime
- Gnod: Tony's First Communion
- Nate Wooley: The Almond
- Julia Holter: The Falling Age
- Dan Joseph : Tonalization for the Afterlife
- Peste Noire: Casse Peches Fractures Et Traditions
- Grouper: Vapor Trails
- Thee Oh Sees: The Dream
- Natural Snow Buildings: Drift The Water Soul
- Bill Orcutt: A Line From Ol' Man River
- Gang Gang Dance: Glass Jar
- Alexander Turnquist: Waiting At The Departure Gate
- Grails: I Led Three Lives
- Giles Corey: No One Is Ever Going To Want Me
- Sun Araw: At Delphi
- Dirty Knobs: A Lament Crosses the Horizon
- Pete Swanson: Stuff It
- Braids: Glass Deers
- Entropic Advance: Burning
- Necks: Daylights
- Wolves in the Throne Room: Prayer of Transformation
- Alog: Last Day at the Assembly Line
- Liturgy: Veins of God
- Barn Owl: The Darkest Night Since 1683
- Glenn Jones: The Orca Grande Cement Factory at Victorville
- Sun Araw: Crete
- Fatima Al Qadiri: D-medley
- Pyrrhon: A Terrible Master
- Laurel Halo: Head
- El Marrano de la Razon: La Marcha de la Realidad Caduca
- Dirty Knobs: The Locust Eaters
- Carlton Melton: Country Ways
- Ulcerate: Omens
- Deafheaven: Violet
- Oranssi Pazuzu: Andromeda
- Orgone: Void of Course
- Echologist: Creation
- Mitochondrion: Tetravirulence
- Gigan: Mountains Perched Like Beasts Awaiting the Attack
- Roll the Dice: Way Out
- Yob: Adrift in the Ocean
- Grouper: She Loves Me That Way
- Blanck Mass: What You Know
- Vladislav Delay: Lipite
- Fourth World Magazine: The Spectacle of the Light Festival
- Steven Wilson: Raider II
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Jazz
7.5/10
- Alex Sipiagin: Destinations Unknown
- Fred Ho: The Sweet Science Suite (Big Red Media)
7/10
- John Escreet: Exception to the Rule
- Fred Ho: Big Red (Big Red Media)
- Matana Roberts COIN COIN Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libres (Constellation)
- Craig Taborn: Avenging Angel (ECM)
- Ambrose Akinmusire: When the Heart Emerges Glistening (Blue Note)
- Satoko Fujii and KAZE: Rafale
- Harriet Tubman: Ascension
- Darius Jones: Cosmic Lieder
- Rez Abbasi: Suno Suno (Enja)
- Jojo Mayer's Nerve's The Distance Between Zero and One (2011)
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