Best of Rock Albums
(Read the reviews)
8/10
- Pyrrhon: The Mother of Virtues (Relapse)
7.5/10
- Desmadrados Soldados De Ventura: Interpenetrating Dimensional Express (Golden Lab)
- Sylvan Esso: Sylvan Esso (Partisan)
- Khun Narin: Electric Phin Band (Innovative Leisure)
- White Suns: Totem (Flenser)
- Blackie: Imagine Yourself In A Free And Natural World (self)
- Robin Hayward: Nouveau Saxhorn Nouveau Basse (Pogus)
- DJ Rozwell: None of This Is Real (self)
7/10
- Endon: MAMA (Daymare)
- Arca: Xen (Mute)
- Idylls: Prayer For Terrene (Tapes Of A Neon God)
- Valerio Tricoli: Miseri Lares (PAN)
- Richard Dawson: Nothing Important (Weird World)
- Guardian Alien: Spiritual Emergency (Thrill Jockey)
- Los Random: Pidanoma (Las Tias)
- Pye Corner Audio: Black Mill Tapes Volumes 1-4 (Type)
- Peter Batchelor: Kaleidoscope (Pogus)
- Bent Knee: Shiny Eyed Babies (Bent Knee)
- Perfume Genius: Too Bright (Matador)
- Bill Orcutt: Solo Acoustic Volume Ten (Vin du Select Qualitite)
- Lana Del Rey: Ultraviolence (Interscope)
- Jonathan Badger: Verse (Cuneiform)
- St Vincent: St Vincent (Loma Vista)
- Aphex Twin: Syro (Warp)
- Black Dirt Oak: Wawayanda Patent (MIE)
- Thou: Heathen (Gilead Media)
- Peder Mannerfelt: Lines Describing Circles (Digitalis)
- Jute Gyte: Ressentiment (Jeshimoth)
- Teitanblood: Death (Ajna Offensive)
- Klara Lewis: Ett (Editions Mergo)
- Mitski: Bury Me at Makeout Creek (Dead Oceans)
- Chief Keef: Back From the Dead 2 (self)
- Thaiboy Digital: Tiger (mixtape)
- Horseback: Piedmont Apocrypha (Three Lobed)
- Dirty Knobs: The Hermit Seeks for Stillness (Xero Music)
- Typhonian Highlife: HR Giger's Studiolo
- Peruvian Sleep: I'll Tell You Later (self)
- Ora Iso: Bathcat (Ba Da Bing)
- Laura Luna Castillo: Isolarios (Baba Vanga)
- Spectral Lore: III (I Voidhanger)
EPs and minis:
- Jar Moff: On How To Lubricate Capital's Effect (self) 7.5/10
- Frankie Cosmos: Zentropy (Double Double Whammy)
- Secluded Bronte: Secluded in Jersey City (Pogus) 7/10
- Lil Ugly Mane: The Weeping Worm (Self-released), 7/10
- Soul Glo: " " (2014)
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Songs
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- Sylvan Esso: HSKT
- Black Dirt Oak: Demon Directive
- Arca: Sisters
- Aphex Twin: Circlont14
- The War on Drugs: Red Eyes
- Perfume Genius: Grid
- Richard Dawson: Judas Iscariot
- Sadaf: C.F.C.
- White Sun: Priest in the Laboratory
- Andy Stott: Missing
- Jonathan Badger: Dotter
- Camellia: Into the Lava
- Raoul Bjorkenheim: Subterranean Samba
- Sun Kil Moon: Truck Driver
- Fatima Al Qadiri: Shanghai Freeway
- Angel Olsen: Hi-Five
- St Vincent: Birth In Reverse
- Linda Perhacs: When Things Are True Again
- Against Me: Transgender Dysphoria Blues
- Run the Jewels: Close Your Eyes
- Ben Frost: Nolan
- Pharmakon: Body Betrays Itself
- Mitsky: Townie
- Parquet Courts: Black & White
- Lana Del Rey: Sad Girl
- Amen Dunes: White Child
- Arca: Xen
- Real Estate: April's Song
- Circle: Valley
- Perfume Genius: My Body
- XXXtentacion: Vice City
- Ariel Pink: White Freckles
- Aphex Twin: Produk 29
- Tuneyards: Left Behind
- Goat: Words
- Sylvan Esso: Coffee
- Frankie Cosmos: Buses Splash With Rain
- Botanist: Erythronium
- Mark Lanegan: Judgement Time
- Girl Band: Lawman
- New Pornographers: Dancehall Domine
- Carla Bozulich: Ain't No Grave
- Clarence Clarity: Those Who Can't Cheat
- Vince Staples: 65 Hunnid
- Mac DeMarco: Passing Out Pieces
- Perfume Genius: Fool
- Mark Lanegan: Death Trip to Tulsa
- Xiu Xiu: Botanica de Los Angeles
- Sharon Van Etten: Your Love Is Killing Me
- Thaiboy Digital: Gtblessgo
- Future Islands: Seasons
- Lil Ugly Mane: Hideous Disfigurements
- Azealia Banks: Nude Beach a Go-Go
- Soul Glo: Guilty of Being Wait
- Dope Body: Repo Man
- Hval: I Have Walked This Body
- Ora Iso: Florida
- Lucinda Williams: Everything But the Truth
- Digitalism: Wolves
- A Tribe Called Red: Burn Your Village to the Ground
- Yung Lean: Volt
- Zammuto: Great Equator
- Nmesh: AvonNiteMare Liquid Mascara
- Graham Repulski: Octopus Bribes
- Aldous Harding: Two Bitten Hands
- Mogwai: The Lord Is Out Of Control
- Bob Mould: Hey Mr Grey
- Jessica Pratt: Moon Dude
- Jenny Lewis: Just One of the Guys
- Travis Scott: Mamacita
- Leonard Cohen: Did I Ever Love You
- Alvvays: Atop a Cake
- Guerilla Toss: 367 Equalizer
- Alice Boman: Over
- Nicole Dollanganger: Creek Blues
- Chad VanGaalen: Monster
Extended compositions
- Pyrrhon: The Mother Of Virtues
- Endon: Acme Apathy Amok
- Desmadrados Soldados De Ventura: Photospheric Composition
- Blackie : Wings Blocking Out The Sun
- Jar Moff: On How To Lubricate Capital's Effect
- Guardian Alien: Spiritual Emergency
- Los Random: Mee Chango
- Arooj Aftab : Man Kunto Maula
- Desmadrados Soldados De Ventura: 101010,000,000
- Khun Narin's Electric Phin Band: Show Wong Khun Narin
- Idylls: Lied To
- Swans: She Loves Us
- Black Dirt Oak: Crowning The Bard
- Dirty Knobs: The Pier Mourns The Wreck
- Pyrrhon: White Flag
- Richard Dawson: The Vile Stuff
- Valerio Tricoli: Miseri Lares
- Robin Hayward: Plateau Square
- Peter Batchelor: Arcade
- Demdike Stare: Primitive Equations
- Dave Phillips: The Less I Know
- Michael Pisaro: Anabasis
- Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra: What We Loved Was Not Enough
- King Gizzard and the Lizzard Wizard: Am I In Heaven
- Kasai Allstars: Yangye The Evil Leopard
- Katie Gately: Pivot
- Steve Gunn: Tommy's Congo
- France: Meltdown Of Planet Earth (2014)
- Gnod: 20 Sides A Minute
- Earth: Even Hell Has Its Heroes
- Roll the Dice: Assembly
- Scott Walker: Brando
- Steve Gunn & Mike Gangloff: Topeka AM
- Dean Blunt: Forever
- Laura Luna Castillo: Oxytocin
- Shackleton: Freezing Opening Thawing
- Thou: Ode To Physical Pain
- Man Forever: Clear Realization
- Oneohtrix Point Never: I Only Have Eyes For You
- Jute Gyte: Mansions Of Fear Mansions Of Pain
- Carl Hultgren: Transparency and Light
- Bill Orcutt: History And Repetition
- Peruvian Sleep: Stop Menage
- Bing & Ruth: Reflector
- Aisha Devi: Throat Dub
- Thurston Moore: Speak to the Wild
- Klara Lewis: Altered
- Blut Aus Nord: Paien
- Vladislav Delay: Viaton
- Mamaleek: Poor Mourner's Got a Home
- El Marrano de la Razon : No
- Horseback : Chanting Out The Low Shadow
- Kairon Irse: Rulons
- Ono: Oxblood
- Monolord: Empress Rising
- Typhonian Highlife: A Movement in the Cenobytes Journey to 15th Century Verona
- Toad: Bourree de l'Arabe/ Bouree de Mouret/ Marche de l'Arabe
- Horse Lords: Outer East
- Peruvian Sleep: The Flask Whence the Rain Doth Cometh
- Fluisteraars: De Doornen
- Spectral Lore: The Veiled Garden
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Jazz
7.5/10
- Sarah Manning: Harmonious Creature (Posi-Tone)
- Wadada Leo Smith: The Great Lakes Suite
- Fire Orchestra: Enter (Rune Grammofon)
- Anthony Davis: Notes from the Underground (Boston Modern Orchestra Project)
- Kim Myhr: All Your Limbs Singing (Sofa)
- Sylvie Courvoisier Trio: Double Windsor (Tzadik)
7/10
- Trio 3 & Vijay Iyer: Wiring (Intakt Records)
- Oliver Lake Organ Quartet: What I Heard (Passin' Thru)
- Pharoah & the Underground: Spiral Mercury (Clean Feed)
- Steve Lehman Octet: Mise En Abime (Pi)
- Mitchell/Taborn/Baku: Conversations (Wide Hive)
- Tyshawn Sorey Trio: Alloy (Pi)
- The Westerlies: Wish the Children Would Come On Home (Songlines)
- Jane Ira Bloom: Sixteen Sunsets (Pure Audio)
- Ingrid Laubrock: Ubatuba
- Sam Newsome: Straight Horn of Africa - A Path of Liberation (Baby)
- Farmers By Nature: ove and Ghosts (AUM)
- Darius Jones and Matthew Shipp: Cosmic Lieder - The Darkseid Recital (AUM)
- Ambrose Akinmusire: The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint (Blue Note)
- Mark Turner Quartet: Lathe of Heaven (ECM)
- Kenny Barron & Dave Holland: The Art of Conversation (Impulse)
- Battle Trance: Palace of Wind (New Amsterdam)
- Chick Corea: Trilogy (Concord Jazz)
- Marquis Hill: The Poet (Skiptone)
- Jacques Schwarz-Bart: Jazz Racine Haiti (Motema)
- Arve Henriksen: The Nature of Connections (Rune Grammofon)
- Unity Group: Kin (Nonesuch Records)
- Helen Sung: Anthem for a New Day (Concord Jazz)
- Joshua Redman: Walking Shadows (Nonesuch)
- Tom Harrell: Colors Of A Dream (HighNote)
- Kenny Garrett: Pushing The World Away (Mack Avenue)
- Pat Metheny: Tap (Nonesuch)
- Joe Lovano: Cross Culture (Blue Note)
- Matthew Shipp: I've Been To Many Places
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