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All records rated 7/10 or higher (or occasional 6.5's if I feel like it)
1956
Modern Jazz Quartet: Fontessa || cool jazz, third stream
Charles Mingus: Pithecanthropus Erectus || hard/post-bop, avant-garde jazz
Horace Silver: Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers || hard bop
Jimmy Giuffre: Clarinet || chamber/cool jazz, third-stream
Erroll Garner: Concert By the Sea (live) || stride, bebop/swing
1957
Thelonious Monk: Brilliant Corners || hard bop
Yusef Lateef: Jazz Moods || hard/post-bop
Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus || hard bop
George Russell: Jazz Workshop || hard/post-bop
Art Pepper: Meets the Rhythm Section || cool jazz
Herbie Mann & Bobby Jaspar: Flute Soufflé || cool jazz
1958
Blue Mitchell: Big 6 || hard bop
Cannonball Adderley: Somethin' Else || hard bop, cool jazz
Max Roach: Deeds Not Words || hard/post-bop
Miles Davis: Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (soundtrack) || cool, modal, dark jazz
John Coltrane: Blue Train || hard bop
1959
Charles Mingus: Ah Um || post-bop, cool jazz
Miles Davis: Kind of Blue || modal/cool jazz
Art Blakey: Moanin' || hard bop
Sun Ra: Jazz in Silhouette || hard/post-bop
Dave Brubeck: Time Out || cool jazz
1960
Max Roach: We Insist! Freedom Now Suite || avant-garde jazz
Jimmy Giuffre: Western Suite || cool jazz, third stream/avant-garde
Tina Brooks: True Blue || hard bop
Miles Davis: Sketches of Spain || third stream, modal jazz
Joe Meek: I Hear a New World (1991 archival) || space age pop, psychedelia
1961
Ornette Coleman: Free Jazz || free jazz
Joe Harriott: Free Form || avant-garde jazz, post-bop
Charles Mingus: Presents (live) || avant-garde jazz/third stream, post-bop
John Coltrane: My Favorite Things || modal jazz, post-bop
Oliver Nelson: The Blues and the Abstract Truth || hard bop
1962
Charles Mingus: Oh Yeah || hard/post-bop, avant-garde jazz
Art Blakey: Mosaic || hard/post-bop
Max Roach: It's Time || avant-garde jazz
Yusef Lateef: Eastern Sounds || hard bop
Oliver Nelson: Afro/American Sketches || post-bop, big band
Dexter Gordon: Go || hard bop
Benny Carter: Further Definitions || bebop, swing, big band
1963
Charles Mingus: The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady || avant-garde jazz, third stream
Joe Harriott: Abstract || post-bop, avant-garde jazz
Art Blakey: Ugetsu (live) || hard bop
Jackie McLean: Let Freedom Ring || post-bop
Jimmy Giuffre: Free Fall || avant-garde/free jazz
Joe Henderson: Page One || hard bop
Phil Spector: A Christmas Gift For You || Christmas music, traditional pop, soul/R&B
1964
Eric Dolphy: Out to Lunch || avant-garde jazz
Albert Ayler: Spirits / Witches and Devils || spiritual/free jazz
Grachan Moncur III: Evolution || post-bop/avant-garde jazz
Lee Morgan: The Sidewinder || hard bop
Jackie McLean: Destination Out || post-bop
1965
Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited || folk-rock
John Coltrane: A Love Supreme || spiritual jazz, modal, avant-garde, post-bop
Grachan Moncur III: Some Other Stuff || post-bop, avant-garde jazz
Herbie Hancock: Maiden Voyage || modal jazz, hard/post-bop
Grant Green: Idle Moments || hard bop
Monks: Black Monk Time || garage rock
Bob Dylan: Bringing It All Back Home || folk-rock
Who: My Generation || garage rock, pop-rock
Byrds: Mr. Tambourine Man || folk-rock, pop-rock
Donovan: Fairytale || chamber folk
Vince Guaraldi: Charlie Brown Christmas (soundtrack) ||Christmas music, cool jazz
1966
Bob Dylan: Blonde On Blonde || folk-rock, garage soul
Love: Da Capo || psych-rock, baroque pop
Mothers of Invention (Frank Zappa): Freak Out || experimental/psych-rock
Beach Boys: Pet Sounds || baroque-pop
Rolling Stones: Aftermath || blues-rock, garage rock
Jefferson Airplane: Surrealistic Pillow || psych-rock
13th Floor Elevators: The Psychedelic Sounds || garage rock, psych-rock
Bob Dylan: The Royal Albert Hall (live, Bootleg Series 1998) || folk-rock
Byrds: Younger Than Yesterday || psych-pop, folk-rock
Wayne Shorter: Speak No Evil || post-bop
1967
Velvet Underground: Velvet Underground & Nico || art rock, chamber pop
Red Krayola: Parable of Arable Land || experimental rock, psychedelic
Leonard Cohen: Songs of Leonard Cohen || chamber folk
Don Cherry: Symphony for Improvisers || avant-garde/free jazz, post-bop
Pink Floyd: Piper at the Gates of Dawn || psych-rock
Jimi Hendrix: Are You Experienced || psych-rock, hard/blues-rock
Doors: Doors || psych-pop, blues-rock
Jefferson Airplane: After Bathing at Baxter's || psych-rock
United States of America: United States of America || psych-rock
Doors: Strange Days || psych-pop, blues-rock
Kaleidoscope: Beacon From Mars || psych-rock, folk-rock
Mothers of Invention (Frank Zappa): Absolutely Free || experimental/progressive/rock opera
Archie Shepp: Mama Too Tight || avant-garde/free jazz, hard bop
Captain Beefheart: Safe As Milk || blues-rock, psych-pop
Rolling Stones: Between the Buttons || garage rock, psych-pop
Cream: Disreali Gears || psych-pop, blues-rock, jam band
Frank Zappa: Lumpy Gravy || musique concrete/sound collage, modern classical, experimental
Beach Boys: Smile (2011 archival) || psychedelic/baroque pop
Love: Forever Changes || prog-pop, folk-rock, psych-pop
Dr. John: Gris-Gris || New Orleans R&B, psych-rock/soul, zydeco
Bonzo Dog Band: Gorilla || psych-pop, music hall/vaudeville/cabaret
Pearls Before Swine: One Nation Underground || chamber folk, psych-pop
Tim Buckley: Goodbye and Hello || psych-pop, folk-rock
Traffic: Mr. Fantasy || psych-pop, folk-rock
John Fahey: Requia || american primitivism/solo guitar
Byrds: Notorious Byrd Brothers || psych-pop, folk-rock
Animals: Twain Shall Meet || psych-rock
Bob Dylan & the Band: Basement Tapes (bootleg until 1975) || folk-rock
Incredible String Band: The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion || psychedelic folk
Country Joe & the Fish: I Feel Like I'm Fixing to Die || psych-rock
Buffalo Springfield: Buffalo Springfield Again || folk-rock, psych-pop
Bob Dylan: John Wesley Harding || country-rock
Beatles: Sgt Pepper || psych-pop
1968
Mothers of Invention (Frank Zappa): We're Only In It For the Money || psych-pop, experimental rock, sound collage
Velvet Underground: White Light/White Heat || art rock, noise/garage rock, psychedelic
Van Morrison: Astral Weeks || jazz-folk
Grateful Dead: Anthem of the Sun || experimental/psych-rock, jam band
Silver Apples: Silver Apples || psych-rock, electronic
David Peel: Have a Marijuana || folk-punk
Jimi Hendrix: Electric Ladyland || psych-rock, blues-rock, jam band
Silver Apples: Contact || psych-rock, electronic
Kinks: Village Green Preservation Society || psych-pop
Leonard Cohen: Songs from a Room || chamber folk
Rolling Stones: Beggars Banquet || blues-rock, garage rock
Cream: Wheels of Fire || blues-rock, psych-pop, jam band
MC5: Kick Out the Jams || garage/hard rock
Pink Floyd: Saucerful of Secrets || psych-rock, prog-rock
Bonzo Dog Band: The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse || psych-pop/rock, vaudeville/music hall
Doors: Waiting for the Sun || psych-pop
Johnny Cash: At Folsom Prison (live) || country-rock
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Bayou County || blues-rock
Al Kooper, Mike Bloomfield & Steve Stills: Super Session || blues-rock, jam band
Band: Music from Big Pink || folk-rock, country-rock
Big Brother & Holding Company: Cheap Thrills || blues-rock
Moody Blues: In Search of the Lost Chord || psych-rock, prog-pop
1969
Miles Davis: Bitches Brew || jazz fusion/funk, psychedelic
King Crimson: In the Court of the Crimson King || progressive/psychedelic rock
Captain Beefheart: Trout Mask Replica || experimental rock, blues
Van Morrison: Moondance || jazz-pop, country-rock
Pharoah Sanders: Karma || spiritual jazz
Neil Young: Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere || folk-rock, jam band
Colosseum: Valentyne Suite || prog-rock
Amon Duul: Phallus Dei || psych-rock, avant-prog
Stooges: Stooges || garage rock/proto-punk, psychedelic
Grateful Dead: Live/Dead || jam band, psych-rock
Tim Buckley: Happy Sad || jazz-folk
Miles Davis: In a Silent Way || modal jazz
Robbie Basho: Venus in Cancer || american primitivism
Band: The Band || country-rock
Beatles: Abbey Road || pop-rock
Who: Tommy || rock opera
Mothers of Invention (Frank Zappa): Uncle Meat || experimental rock
Frank Zappa: Hot Rats || jazz-rock, avant-prog
Tim Buckley: Blue Afternoon || jazz-folk
Simon & Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Water || folk-pop
Can: Monster Movie || krautrock
Blind Faith: Blind Faith || blues-rock, jam band
Grateful Dead: Aoxomoxoa || psych-rock, jam band, folk-rock
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Willy and the Poor Boys || blues-rock
It's a Beautiful Day: It's a Beautiful Day || psych-rock, prog-rock
Nick Drake: Five Leaves Left || chamber folk
Santana: Santana || blues-rock, psych-rock, jam band
Chicago: Chicago Transit Authority || jazz-rock, prog-pop
Sly & the Family Stone: Stand || funk, psychedelic soul
Sun Ra: Atlantis || avant-garde jazz
Pink Floyd: Ummagumma || progressive/psychedelic/experimental rock
Jefferson Airplane: Volunteers || psych-rock
Kevin Ayers: Joy of a Toy || Canterbury scene/psych-pop
Isaac Hayes: Hot Buttered Soul || soul, funk
Deviants: Deviants || garage, acid/psych-rock
Allman Brothers Band: Allman Brothers Band || blues/hard rock
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Green River || blues-rock
T Rex: Unicorn || psych-folk
James Taylor: Sweet Baby James || country-rock, folk-pop
1970
Soft Machine: Third || psychedelic, jazz fusion, progressive/experimental rock
Third Ear Band: Third Ear Band || instrumental folk, drone, world music, jazz
Amon Duul: Yeti || psych-rock
Mothers of Invention (Frank Zappa): Weasels Ripped My Flesh || experimental rock
Nico: Desertshore || chamber folk, goth
Lol Coxhill: Ear of Beholder || avant-garde/free jazz, Canterbury scene
Robert Wyatt: End of an Ear || jazz fusion/canterbury scene, psychedelic
Don Cherry: Mu ||free jazz, avant-garde
Peter Green: The End of the Game || instrumental psych-rock, jam band/jazz-fusion
Kevin Ayers: Shooting at the Moon || Canterbury scene/psychedelic rock, jazz fusion, experimental
Mothers of Invention (Frank Zappa): Burnt Weeny Sandwich || experimental rock
Stooges: Fun House || garage rock, art punk
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Cosmo's Factory || blues-rock
Neil Young: After the Gold Rush || folk-rock
Black Sabbath: Paranoid || goth, stoner/hard rock
Nucleus: We'll Talk About It Later || jazz-rock, psych-rock, prog
Joni Mitchell: Ladies of the Canyon || folk-pop
Tim Buckley: Starsailor || psych-pop, folk-rock
Tim Buckley: Lorca || chamber folk, psych-folk
Exuma: Exuma || psych-folk, calypso
Pink Floyd: Atom Heart Mother || psych-rock, prog-rock
Nick Drake: Bryter Layter || chamber folk
Syd Barrett: Barrett || psych-pop, folk-rock
Comus: First Utterance || progressive folk, psychedelic
Kraftwerk: Kraftwerk || krautrock, experimental, electronic prog
Black Sabbath: Black Sabbath || goth, stoner/hard rock
Pharaoh Sanders: Black Unity || spiritual jazz
Janis Joplin: Pearl || blues-rock
Cat Stevens: Tea for the Tillerman || chamber folk
Guru Guru: UFO || krautrock, heavy psych
Yes: Yes Album || prog-rock
Grateful Dead: Workingman's Dead || country/folk-rock
Bob Marley & the Wailers: Soul Rebels || reggae
1971
Faust: Faust || krautrock, experimental/progressive
Can: Tago Mago || krautrock, experimental rock
Aphrodite's Child: 666 || prog-rock
Captain Beefheart: Mirror Man || blues-rock, jam band, psych-rock
Nick Drake: Pink Moon || folk
Yes: Fragile || prog-rock
Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers || blues-rock, country-rock, garage rock
John Fahey: America || american primitivism/solo guitar
Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin IV || hard/blues-rock
Neil Young: Harvest || country-rock
Kraftwerk: Kraftwerk 2 || krautrock, electronic prog
Amon Duul: Tanz der Lemminge || psych-rock
Gong: Camembert Electrique || psych-rock, jazz-rock, prog-pop
T Rex: Electric Warrior || glam rock
Todd Rundgren: Something/Anything || pop-rock
Joni Mitchell: Blue || folk
Who: Who's Next || hard rock
Deep Purple: Machine Head || stoner/hard rock
Leonard Cohen: Songs of Love and Hate || chamber folk
Black Sabbath: Master of Reality || stoner/hard rock
Doors: L.A. Woman || blues/hard rock, pyschedelic
Sly & the Family Stone: There's a Riot Goin' On || funk, psychedelic soul
Jethro Tull: Aqualung || prog-rock, folk-rock, hard rock
Funkadelic: Maggot Brain || funk-rock, psych-rock
Allman Brothers Band: At Fillmore East (live) || blues rock, jam band
Marvin Gaye: What's Going On || soul
King Crimson: Islands || prog-rock, jazz-rock
Caravan: In the Land of Grey and Pink || Canterbury scene/prog-rock
Cluster: Cluster || space ambient, electronic prog, krautrock
Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces of a Man || soul, jazz-funk
Soft Machine: Fourth || Canterbury scene/jazz fusion
Alice Cooper: Love It to Death || glam/hard rock
1972
Popol Vuh: Hosianna Mantra || neoclassical new age, krautrock/psych-rock
Rolling Stones: Exile on Main Street || blues-rock, country-rock, garage rock
Neu: Neu || krautrock
Yes: Close to the Edge || prog-rock
Roxy Music: Roxy Music || glam rock, prog-rock
Matching Mole: Matching Mole || prog-rock, jazz fusion, psychedelic
Miles Davis: On the Corner || jazz-funk
Can: Ege Bamyasi || krautrock
Klaus Schulze: Irrilicht || electronic prog, ambient
Joni Mitchell: For the Roses || folk-pop
Charles Mingus: Let My Children Hear Music || third stream, experimental big band, avant-garde
Hawkwind: Doremi Fasol Latido || psych-rock
Deep Purple: Made In Japan (live) || hard rock
Soft Machine: Six || jazz fusion, avant-prog
Allman Brothers Band: Eat a Peach || blues-rock, jam band
Tangerine Dream: Zeit || ambient, electronic prog
Alice Coltrane: World Galaxy || spiritual jazz, avant-garde, third stream, psychedelic
Stooges: Raw Power || garage rock
Curtis Mayfield: Super Fly (soundtrack) || soul, funk
Randy Newman: Sail Away || piano rock
Frank Zappa: Waka / Jawaka || jazz fusion/rock
Keith Jarrett: Expectations || jazz fusion, post-bop
Blue Oyster Cult: Blue Oyster Cult || hard rock
T Rex: The Slider || glam rock
Faust: So Far || krautrock, experimental
1973
Gong: Flying Teapot || prog-rock, jazz-rock, psych-pop
Faust: Faust IV || krautrock
Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells || prog-rock, new age
Todd Rundgren: Todd || art pop, psych-rock
Bruce Springsteen: The Wild, the Innocent, & the E Street Shuffle || folk-rock, jazz-rock
Can: Future Days || krautrock
Neu: Neu 2 || krautrock
Todd Rundgren: A Wizard / A True Star || art rock, progressive pop, psychedelic/experimental
Herbie Hancock: Headhunters || jazz fusion/funk
King Crimson: Larks' Tongues In Aspic || avant-prog-rock
Nico: The End || chamber-folk, ambient, goth
Faust: Tapes || krautrock/experimental rock
New York Dolls: New York Dolls || garage rock/proto-punk
Lou Reed: Berlin || glam rock, rock opera
Roxy Music: For Your Pleasure || glam rock
ZZ Top: Tres Hombres || blues/hard rock
Return to Forever (Chick Corea): Light as a Feather || jazz fusion
Kraftwerk: Ralf & Florian || krautrock, electronic prog
Robert Fripp & Brian Eno: No Pussyfooting || ambient, drone
Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon || progressive/art rock
Gong: Angel's Egg || prog-rock, psych-rock
Joni Mitchell: Court and Spark || folk
Richard & Linda Thompson: I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight || folk-rock
Klaus Schulze: Cyborg || electronic prog
Steely Dan: Countdown to Ecstasy || pop-rock, jazz-rock
1974
Residents: Meet the Residents || experimental, zolo
Robert Wyatt: Rock Bottom || prog-rock, jazz-rock, psych-pop
Brian Eno: Taking Tiger Mountain || new wave, synth-pop
John Cale: Fear || art pop, glam rock
King Crimson: Red || prog-rock, psych-rock
Kraftwerk: Autobahn || electronic prog
Bob Dylan: Blood on the Tracks || folk-rock
Miles Davis: Get Up with It || jazz fusion (jazz-funk-rock), avant-garde, ambient
Clearlight: Clearlight Symphony || prog-rock
Todd Rundgren: Utopia || prog-rock
Miles Davis: Big Fun || jazz fusion, psychedelic
Herbie Hancock: Thrust || jazz-funk
Popol Vuh: Einsjäger & Siebenjäger || neoclassical new age, krautrock/psych-rock
Dadawah (Ras Michael): Peace and Love || reggae, dub/psychedelic
Heldon: Électronique Guerilla || electronic prog
Cluster: Zuckerzeit || electronic prog, krautrock, space ambient
Randy Newman: Good Old Boys || piano rock
Harmonia: Musik von Harmonia || electronic prog, krautrock, space ambient
Mike Oldfield: Hergest Ridge || prog-rock
Robin Trower: Bridge of Sighs || blues/hard rock, psych-rock
Vivian Stanshall: Men Opening Umbrellas Ahead || psych-rock
Yes: Relayer || prog-rock
1975
Lou Reed: Metal Machine Music || noise, drone
Keith Jarrett: The Köln Concert (live) || ECM style jazz, post-minimalism
Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here || prog-rock, pop-rock
Queen: A Night at the Opera || prog-pop, glam rock
Vangelis: Heaven and Hell || electronic/symphonic prog
Patti Smith: Horses || art rock
Neu: Neu 75 || krautrock
Brian Eno: Another Green World || art rock
Bruce Springsteen: Born to Run || heartland rock
Neil Young: Tonight's the Night || country/folk-rock
Brian Eno: Discreet Music || ambient/minimalism, neo-classical
Bob Dylan: Desire || folk-rock
Popol Vuh: Das Hohelied Salomos || progressive, psych-rock
Aerosmith: Toys in the Attic || hard rock/glam metal
Willie Nelson: Red Headed Stranger || country
Dictators: Go Girl Crazy || proto-punk/hard rock
Todd Rundgren: Initiation || prog-pop
Neil Young: Zuma || folk-rock
1976
Penguin Café Orchestra: Music from the Penguin Café || chamber/progressive folk, new age
Television: Marquee Moon || post-punk/new wave, psych-rock
Neil Ardley: Kaleidoscope of Rainbows || jazz fusion, third stream
Joni Mitchell: Hejira || folk-rock, jazz-folk
Ramones: Ramones || punk rock
Patti Smith: Radio Ethiopia || post-punk, art rock
Mort Garson: Mother Earth's Plantasia || electronic prog
David Bowie: Low || glam rock, art pop
Tom Petty: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers || heartland rock
Jean-Luc Ponty: Imaginary Voyage || jazz fusion, psychedelic
Modern Lovers: Modern Lovers || proto-punk, garage rock
Stomu Yamashta, Steve Winwood & Michael Shrieve: Go || prog-rock, jazz fusion
Warren Zevon: Warren Zevon || country-rock
Aerosmith: Rocks || hard rock
Jaco Pastorius: Jaco Pastorius || jazz fusion/funk
Upsetters: Super Ape || dub/reggae
Rush: 2112 || prog-rock, hard rock
Cerrone: Love in C Minor || euro-disco
Boston: Boston || hard rock, AOR/power-pop
Al Di Meola: Land of the Midnight Sun || jazz fusion/rock, Latin jazz, classical crossover
1977
Suicide: Suicide || synth-punk, industrial
Talking Heads: 77 || new wave
Throbbing Gristle: Second Annual Report || industrial, experimental, ambient
Clash: Clash || punk rock
Brian Eno: Before and After Science || new wave
Ramones: Rocket to Russia || punk rock
Sex Pistols: Never Mind the Bollocks || hardcore punk
Chrome: Alien Soundtracks || industrial, art punk, psych-rock
David Bowie: Heroes || experimental rock, art pop
Richard Hell: Blank Generation || new wave, art punk
Warren Zevon: Excitable Boy || pop/country-rock
Wire: Pink Flag || post-punk
Kate Bush: The Kick Inside || art pop
Giorgio Moroder: From Here to Eternity || electro-disco
XTC: White Music || new wave/post-punk
Van Halen: Van Halen || hard rock/glam metal
Alan Parsons Project: I Robot || prog-pop
Residents: Fingerprince || experimental, minimal synth, art pop
Lou Reed: Street Hassle || glam rock
Patti Smith: Easter || post-punk, art rock
1978
Residents: Not Available || experimental, minimal wave, operetta/cabaret
Pere Ubu: The Modern Dance || new wave/post-punk, experimental rock
Jon Hassell: Vernal Equinox || tribal ambient, new age/drone, avant-garde jazz
Brian Eno: Music For Airports || ambient, new age
Talking Heads: More Songs About Buildings and Food || new wave/post-punk
Pere Ubu: Dub Housing || post-punk/new wave, experimental rock
Devo: Are We Not Men || new wave
X-Ray Spex: Germfree Adolescents || punk rock, new wave
Throbbing Gristle: D.o.A. || industrial, experimental, ambient
Paul Winter: Common Ground || new age, chamber jazz
Wire: Chairs Missing || post-punk
Stiff Little Fingers: Inflammable Material || punk rock
Negative Trend: Negative Trend (EP) || punk rock
Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove || funk rock
Public Image Ltd: First Issue || post-punk
UK: UK || prog-rock
Cars: Cars || new wave/pop-rock
Elvis Costello: This Year's Model || new wave/pop-rock
Magazine: Real Life || post-punk/new wave
Captain Beefheart: Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) || experimental rock
Kraftwerk: Die Mensch-Maschine / The Man-Machine || electronic/synth-pop
1979
Chrome: Half Machine Lip Moves || experimental/art punk/noise-rock, industrial, psych-rock
Pop Group: Y || post-punk, funk-rock, experimental/no wave, dub
Pere Ubu: New Picnic Time || post-punk/new wave, experimental rock
Residents: Eskimo || experimental, ambient, program music
Germs: (GI) || hardcore punk
Public Image Ltd: Metal Box (aka Second Edition) || post-punk
Tuxedomoon: Half Mute || post-punk, minimal wave, jazz fusion, goth
Neil Young: Rust Never Sleeps || country-rock, hard rock
Teenage Jesus & the Jerks: Teenage Jesus & the Jerks (mini) || no wave/noise-rock
Tom Petty: Damn the Torpedoes || heartland/pop-rock
Talking Heads: Fear of Music || new wave
Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures || post-punk, goth-rock
Clash: London Calling || punk-pop, new wave
Gang of Four: Entertainment || new wave
Raincoats: Raincoats || post-punk
Wire: 154 || art/post-punk
This Heat: This Heat || experimental/post-rock
Pink Floyd: The Wall || rock opera, hard rock
Young Marble Giants: Colossal Youth || post-punk, indie-pop, minimal wave
Swell Maps: A Trip to Marineville || post-punk
Lydia Lunch: Queen of Siam || post-punk, no wave
Throbbing Gristle: 20 Jazz Funk Greats || industrial, minimal synth, dark ambient
Crass: Stations of the Crass || post-punk
Tom Verlaine: Tom Verlaine || art rock, new wave
Rush: Permanent Waves || hard rock, prog-rock
Fleetwood Mac: Tusk || soft rock
1980
Pop Group: For How Much Longer || post-punk, funk-rock, experimental/no wave, dub
Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables || punk rock
Pere Ubu: The Art of Walking || experimental, post-punk/new wave
Public Image Ltd: Flowers of Romance || experimental rock, post-punk, goth
Cramps: Songs the Lord Taught Us || punk rock, psychobilly/goth
Soft Boys: Underwater Moonlight || post-punk, neo-pyschedelic
X: Los Angeles || punk rock
Throbbing Gristle: Heathen Earth (live) || industrial, krautrock
Jody Harris & Robert Quine: Escape || no wave, electroacoustic improv
Killing Joke: Killing Joke || industrial-rock, post-punk
Talking Heads: Remain In Light || new wave
Lounge Lizards: Lounge Lizards || avant-garde jazz, no wave
Joy Division: Closer || post-punk, goth
Van Morrison: Common One || chamber folk, blue-eyed soul, jazz fusion
Brian Eno & David Byrne: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts || instrumental new wave
Bruce Springsteen: The River || heartland rock
Suicide: Alan Vega/Martin Rev || synth-punk
Penguin Café Orchestra: Penguin Café Orchestra || instrumental chamber-folk, new age
AC/DC: Back In Black || hard rock
Negativland: Negativland || musique concrete/sound collage, electronic
Teardrop Explodes: Kilimanjaro || post-punk/new wave
U2: Boy || post-punk
Bauhaus: In the Flat Field || post-punk, goth-rock
Rush: Moving Pictures || hard rock, prog
1981
Gun Club: Fire of Love || punk-blues
Flipper: Generic || noise-rock/art punk
Glenn Branca: The Ascension || no wave/noise-rock, experimental rock, totalism
This Heat: Deceit || experimental rock
Fear: The Record || hardcore punk
Black Flag: Damaged || hardcore punk
Residents: Mark of the Mole || experimental rock
Material: Memory Serves || jazz fusion, funk-rock, post-punk/mutant disco
Einsturzende Neubauten: Kollaps || industrial, experimental/no wave
Birthday Party: Prayers on Fire || post-punk/noise-rock, goth
Bauhaus: Mask || post-punk, goth-rock
Trio: Trio || post-punk, new wave
Nick Mason: Fictitious Sports || jazz-rock, progressive, zolo
R.E.M: Chronic Town (EP) || jangle-pop, alternative
Jaco Pastorius: Word of Mouth || jazz fusion
King Crimson: Discipline || new wave/art rock
David Thomas: The Sound of the Sand || experimental rock
Minutemen: Punch Line (mini) || post-hardcore
Flesh Eaters: A Minute to Pray, A Second to Die || punk rock, psychobilly/goth
Bad Brains: Bad Brains || hardcore punk, reggae
X: Wild Gift || punk rock
Tom Verlaine: Dreamtime || art rock, new wave
Oingo Boingo: Only a Lad || new wave/zolo
1982
Diamanda Galas: Litanies of Satan || experimental, goth
Gun Club: Miami || punk-blues
Misfits: Walk Among Us || punk
DNA: On DNA (comp, released 2004) || no wave
Mission of Burma: Vs || post-punk
Yasuaki Shimizu: Kakashi || art pop, jazz fusion, dub, post-minimalism
Rip Rig & Panic: I Am Cold || experimental/jazz-rock, post-punk
Cure: Pornography || goth-rock, post-punk
Kate Bush: The Dreaming || art pop
Dead Kennedys: Plastic Surgery Disasters || punk
Michael Jackson: Thriller || pop-soul, dance-pop
Prince: 1999 || funk, dance-pop
Christian Death: Only Theatre of Pain || goth-rock, post-punk
Discharge: Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing || punk
Birthday Party: Junkyard || post-punk
Descendents: Milo Goes to College || punk
Minutemen: What Makes a Man Start Fires|| post-hardcore
Captain Beefheart: Ice Cream for Crow || experimental rock, blues
Pere Ubu: Song of the Bailing Man || post-punk/new wave, experimental rock
Front 242: Geography || electro-industrial
Wall of Voodoo: Call of the West || new wave
Laurie Anderson: Big Science || new wave/minimal synth
Borbetomagus: Barbed Wire Maggots || free jazz, noise
Tom Verlaine: Words from the Front || art rock, new wave
Robert Wyatt: Animals Film (soundtrack) || electronic prog
ZZ Top: Eliminator || hard/blues-rock
SPK: Leichenschrei || industrial, musique concrete
X: Under the Big Black Sun || punk, rockabilly
Lou Reed: The Blue Mask || art rock
1983
Foetus: Hole || industrial rock
Tom Waits: Swordfishtrombones || experimental/jazz-rock, blues, dark cabaret
Violent Femmes: Violent Femmes || folk-punk
Swans: Filth || noise-rock, industrial, sludge metal
Butthole Surfers: Butthole Surfers (EP) || art punk, noise-rock
Metallica: Kill 'Em All || thrash-metal
R.E.M: Murmur || jangle-pop, alternative
Birthday Party: Mutiny (EP) || post-punk
Mark Stewart: Learning To Cope with Cowardice || dub, industrial
Husker Du: Zen Arcade || post-hardcore, psych-rock
Cocteau Twins: Head Over Heels || goth-rock, dream pop, post-punk
Bad Brains: Rock For Light || punk, reggae
Sonic Youth: Confusion Is Sex || noise-rock/art punk
Gun Club: Death Party (EP) || punk-blues
Einsturzende Neubauten: Zeichnungen des Patienten OT || experimental/no wave, industrial
Birthday Party: Bad Seed (EP) || post-punk
Rudimentary Peni: Death Church || punk
Rip Rig & Panic: Attitude || post-punk, experimental rock, jazz-funk
Alien Sex Fiend: Who's Been Sleeping in My Brain || goth-rock/post-punk, industrial
David Thomas: Variations on a Theme || art rock, experimental rock
Meat Puppets: II || alt-rock
Replacements: Hootenanny || punk/garage rock, alternative
Pretenders: Learning to Crawl || new wave, pop-rock
Suicidal Tendencies: Suicidal Tendencies || punk
Run-DMC: Run-DMC || hip-hop
Talking Heads: Speaking in Tongues || new wave
U2: War || post-punk
Huey Lewis: Sports || pop-rock
1984
Nick Cave: From Her to Eternity || punk-blues/post-punk, goth
Minutemen: Double Nickels on the Dime || post-hardcore
Diamanda Galas: Diamanda Galas || experimental, goth
Replacements: Let It Be || punk/garage rock, alternative
Butthole Surfers: Psychic Powerless || noise rock/art punk, psychedelic
Nick Cave: Firstborn Is Dead || punk-blues, goth-rock
Metallica: Ride the Lightning || metal
Cocteau Twins: Treasure || goth-rock, dream-pop
Swans: Cop || industrial, sludge metal
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic: Magnetic Flip || experimental/progressive, electronic fusion, post-minimalism
Prince: Purple Rain || pop-rock
Husker Du: New Day Rising || post-hardcore
Gun Club: Las Vegas Story || punk-blues
Bruce Springsteen: Born in the USA || heartland rock
Penguin Café Orchestra: Broadcasting from Home || instrumental chamber-folk, new age
Scratch Acid: Scratch Acid (EP) || post-hardcore/noise rock
Black Flag: Slip It In || punk
Naked Raygun: Throb Throb || punk
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Red Hot Chili Peppers || funk-rock
Flaming Lips: Flaming Lips (EP) || alt-rock, psych-rock
Flipper: Gone Fishin || noise-rock/art punk
Violent Femmes: Hallowed Ground || folk-punk, goth-country
1985
Foetus: Nail || industrial, experimental rock
Tom Waits: Rain Dogs || jazz-rock, blues, dark cabaret
Sonic Youth: Bad Moon Rising || noise rock/no wave, drone
Metallica: Master of Puppets || metal
Dead Can Dance: Spleen and Ideal || neoclassical darkwave
Camper Van Beethoven: Telephone Free Landslide Victory || indie rock, alt-country, ska
Rites of Spring: Rites of Spring || post-hardcore
Replacements: Tim || punk/garage rock, alternative
Swans: Greed || goth rock, industrial
Camper Van Beethoven: II & III || alt-country, indie rock
Jesus & Mary Chain: Psychocandy || post-punk, dream pop/shoegaze
Meat Puppets: Up On the Sun || alt-country/alt-rock
Fetchin Bones: Cabin Flounder || cowpunk/alt-country/alt-rock
Flaming Lips: Hear It Is || alt-rock, psych-rock
Robyn Hitchcock: Fegmania || psych-pop, post-punk
Fall: This Nation's Saving Grace || post-punk
Smiths: Queen Is Dead || post-punk
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Freaky Styley || funk-rock
Anthrax: Spreading the Disease || hard rock
John Mellencamp: Scarecrow || heartland rock
Big Audio Dynamite: This Is || new wave
Black Flag: Loose Nut || punk rock
1986
Big Black: Atomizer || industrial, noise-rock/post-hardcore
David Thomas: Monster Walks the Winter Lake || chamber folk, experimental
Nick Cave: Your Funeral My Trial || punk-blues, goth rock
Swans: Holy Money || goth rock, industrial
Butthole Surfers: Rembrandt Pussyhorse || experimental rock
Coil: Horse Rotorvator || industrial, neo-classical darkwave
Controlled Bleeding: Headcrack || experimental, drone, industrial
Slayer: Reign In Blood || thrash metal
Run-DMC: Raising Hell || hip-hop
High Rise: II || garage rock, heavy psych, jam band
Camper Van Beethoven: Camper Van Beethoven || indie, country-rock, psychedelic
Nuclear Assault: Game Over || metal
Sonic Youth: Evol || noise-rock, indie
Henry Rollins: Hot Animal Machine || punk rock/post-hardcore
David Thomas: Blame the Messenger || experimental rock, post-punk
Diamanda Galas: Divine Punishment || experimental, post-industrial/ambient, goth
Paul Simon: Graceland || folk-pop
Flaming Lips: Oh My Gawd || psych-rock, art punk
Diamanda Galas: Saint of the Pit || neoclassical darkwave, experimental
Afrika Bambaataa: Beware || synth-funk, electro, hip-hop
Cramps: Date with Elvis || psychobilly/surf punk, goth
Husker Du: Warehouse || pop-rock, post-hardcore
1987
Swans: Children of God || goth rock
Sinead O'Connor: The Lion and the Cobra || art pop
Guns N Roses: Appetite for Destruction || hard rock
Nick Cave: Tender Prey || post-punk, goth rock, punk-blues
Tom Waits: Franks Wild Years || jazz-rock, blues, rock opera
Lubricated Goat: Plays the Devil's Music || art punk/post-punk
Hugo Largo: Drum (EP)|| dream pop/ethereal wave
Dinosaur Jr: You're Living All Over Me || noise-rock, indie
Peter Jefferies & Jono Lonie: At Swim 2 Birds || experimental/post-rock
Slint: Tweez || post-hardcore/post-rock
Pixies: Come On Pilgrim (EP) || alt-rock
Sonic Youth: Sister || noise-rock/indie
Henry Rollins: Life Time || punk rock/post-hardcore
Faith No More: Introduce Yourself || funk/rap metal
Eric B & Rakim: Paid In Full || hip-hop
U2: Joshua Tree || pop-rock
Butthole Surfers: Locust Abortion Technician || experimental/noise-rock
Bats: Daddy's Highway || jangle pop
Pussy Galore: Right Now || noise-rock, punk-blues
Prince: Sign o' the Times || funk-rock, dance-pop
Lemonheads: Hate Your Friends || punk rock
Sisters of Mercy: Floodland || goth-rock/darkwave
Cowboy Junkies: Trinity Session || alt-country, slowcore
Big Black: Songs About Fucking || noise-rock/post-hardcore, industrial
Ralph Carney, Daved Hild & Mark Kramer: Happiness Finally Came to Them || experimental rock
Live Skull: Dusted || post-punk
Laughing Hyenas: Merry Go Round || punk-blues, noise-rock/post-hardcore
Replacements: Pleased to Meet Me || punk/garage rock, alternative
Public Enemy: Yo! Bum Rush the Show || hip-hop
R.E.M: Document || jangle-pop, alternative
1988
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation || noise-rock, indie
Pixies: Surfer Rosa || alt-rock
Fugazi: Fugazi (EP) || punk rock/post-hardcore
Ministry: The Land of Rape and Honey || industrial, electro-metal
My Bloody Valentine: Isn't Anything || post-punk, shoegaze
Godflesh: Godflesh (EP) || industrial, sludge metal
Royal Trux: Royal Trux || noise-rock, punk-blues
Jane's Addiction: Nothing's Shocking || hard rock/alternative, psychedelic
Enya: Watermark || ambient-pop, new age
Henry Rollins: Hard Volume || post-hardcore
Rudimentary Peni: Cacophony || post-punk, experimental rock
Foetus: Thaw || industrial rock, experimental
Flaming Lips: Telepathic Surgery (CD version) || psych-rock, indie/alternative
Rapeman: Two Nuns and a Pack Mule || noise-rock/post-hardcore
Public Enemy: It Takes a Nation of Millions || hip-hop
NWA: Straight Outta Compton || hip-hop
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282: Wormed by Leonard || art punk/post-hardcore
Galaxie 500: Today || psych-rock
Metallica: And Justice For All || metal
Sugarcubes: Life's Too Good || post-punk
Cocteau Twins: Blue Bell Knoll || goth rock, dream-pop, post-punk
Mary Margaret O'Hara: Miss America || alt-country, art rock
Lounge Lizards: Voice of Chunk || jazz fusion, third stream, post-minimalism
Michael Shrieve: Stiletto || jazz fusion
Danzig: Danzig || hard rock, goth
Bongwater: Double Bummer || experimental rock, psychedelic
Mudhoney: Superfuzz Bigmuff (EP) || alt-rock/grunge
Queensryche: Operation Mindcrime || hard rock, rock opera
Ed Hall: Albert || noise-rock/post-hardcore
Green River: Rehab Doll || grunge
Fugazi: Margin Walker (EP) || post-hardcore
Butthole Surfers: Hairway to Steven || psych-rock, noise-rock
Dream Syndicate: Ghost Stories || indie rock
Voivod: Dimension Hatross || prog-metal
R.E.M: Green || jangle-pop, alternative
Souled American: Fe || alt-country
L7: L7 || punk rock
1989
Cows: Daddy Has a Tail || noise-rock, cowpunk
Pixies: Doolittle || alt-rock
Galaxie 500: On Fire || psych-rock/dream pop, slowcore
Laughing Hyenas: You Can't Pray a Lie || punk-blues, noise-rock/post-hardcore
Cop Shoot Cop: Consumer Revolt || industrial rock
Mark Lanegan: The Winding Sheet || blues-rock
Nine Inch Nails: Pretty Hate Machine || electro-industrial
Stone Roses: Stone Roses || indie pop/rock
Godflesh: Streetcleaner || industrial, sludge metal
Cure: Disintegration || goth rock, dream pop
De La Soul: 3 Feet High and Rising || hip-hop
Beastie Boys: Paul's Boutique || hip-hop
Ween: God Ween Satan || noise-rock
Fugazi: Repeater || post-hardcore
Hugo Largo: Mettle || dream pop/ethereal wave
Bats: Law of Things || indie pop/rock
Pussy Galore: Dial M for Motherfucker || noise-rock, punk-blues
808 State: 90 || acid house
Bongwater: Too Much Sleep || experimental/psychedelic rock, lo-fi
Voivod: Nothingface || prog-metal
Bad Religion: No Control || punk-pop
Jesus Lizard: Pure (EP) || industrial, noise-rock/post-hardcore
Camper Van Beethoven: Key Lime Pie || country-rock, indie
The The: Mind Bomb || prog-pop
Tom Petty: Full Moon Fever || heartland rock
Dogbowl: Tit || psych-pop
Boredoms: Soul Discharge || noise-rock
Aerosmith: Pump || hard rock
Jesus & Mary Chain: Automatic || pop-rock
Helios Creed: Super Catholic Finger || psych-rock, noise-rock, industrial
Daniel Lanois: Acadie || art/folk pop
Fugazi: Margin Walker (EP) || post-hardcore
They Might Be Giants: Flood || indie rock
1990
Royal Trux: Twin Infinitives || experimental/noise-rock/no wave
Primus: Frizzle Fry || funk-metal
Phish: Lawn Boy || prog-rock, jazz-rock, jam band
Daniel Johnston: 1990 || indie folk
Jesus Lizard: Goat || noise-rock/post-hardcore
Ed Hall: Love Poke Here || noise-rock/post-hardcore, punk
John Zorn: Naked City || avant-garde, jazz-rock, no wave, grindcore
Pain Teens: Born In Blood || noise-rock/post-punk, industrial rock
Ozric Tentacles: Erpland || space/psych-rock, progressive
Ween: The Pod || psych-rock, alt-rock/lo-fi
Dwarves: Blood Guts & Pussy (mini) || punk
Marc Ribot: Rootless Cosmopolitans || avant-garde/no wave, jazz-rock
Mazzy Star: She Hangs Brightly || dream pop/psych-rock, alt-country, slowcore
Jesus Lizard: Head || noise-rock/post-hardcore
Ride: Nowhere || shoegaze
Codeine: Frigid Stars || slowcore
Ice Cube: AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted || hip-hop
Public Enemy: Fear of a Black Planet || hip-hop
Black Crowes: Shake Your Money Maker || blues-rock
Lush: Gala || dream-pop/shoegaze
Silverfish: Fat Axl || punk
Pantera: Cowboys From Hell || thrash-metal, hard rock
Steel Pole Bath Tub: Tulip || noise-rock/post-hardcore
Spongehead: Legitimate Beef || noise-rock/post-hardcore/art-punk
Flaming Lips: In a Priest Driven Ambulance || alt-rock, psych-rock
1991
My Bloody Valentine: Loveless || shoegaze
Slint: Spiderland || post-rock, emo/post-hardcore
Dogbowl: Nuclear Cyclops Submarine Captain || psych-pop
Type O Negative: Slow Deep and Hard || prog-metal, goth-rock
Oxbow: King of the Jews || noise-rock/post-hardcore, punk blues
Henry Rollins: The End of Silence || post-hardcore, alt-metal
Lida Husik: Bozo || lo-fi/indie folk, dream pop, alt-rock
Slowdive: Just For a Day || dream pop/shoegaze/ethereal wave
Lisa Germano: On the Way Down from the Moon Palace || dream-pop, country-rock
Unsane: Unsane || noise-rock/post-hardcore, sludge metal
Jarboe: Thirteen Masks || experimental rock, neofolk, industrial, darkwave
Cop Shoot Cop: White Noise || industrial rock, noise-rock
Sonny Sharrock: Ask the Ages || avant-garde jazz, post-bop
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282: Lonelyville || experimental/noise-rock, art punk, lo-fi/indie
Nirvana: Nevermind || grunge
Pearl Jam: Ten || grunge
Mercury Rev: Yerself Is Steam || psych-rock, jam band
Cul de Sac: Ecim || post-rock, psych-rock
Melvins: Bullhead || stoner rock
Fugazi: Steady Diet of Nothing || post-hardcore
Swans: White Light from the Mouth of Infinity || post-punk, goth rock
Steroid Maximus: Quilombo || jazz, avant-garde, industrial
Spiritualized: Lazer Guided Melodies || dream pop, psych-rock
Cypress Hill: Cypress Hill || hip-hop
Hole: Pretty on the Inside || grunge, noise-rock
Godflesh: Pure || industrial sludge metal
White Heaven: Out || heavy psych-rock
Nick Cave: Henry's Dream || punk-blues, folk-rock, goth country
Mudhoney: Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge || grunge, indie rock
Primus: Sailing the Seas of Cheese || funk-metal
Ed Hall: Gloryhole || noise-rock/post-hardcore
Pere Ubu: Apocalypse Now (live) || post-punk, art rock
Catherine Wheel: Ferment || shoegaze
Primal Scream: Screamadelica || dance-pop, indie, psych-pop
Pavement: Slanted and Enchanted || indie rock
Daniel Johnston: Artistic Vice || indie folk/pop
Drive Like Jehu: Drive Like Jehu || noise-rock/post-hardcore
Girls Against Boys: Tropic of Scorpio || post-hardcore
Paradise Lost: Gothic || death/doom metal
Pixies: Trompe le Monde || alt-rock
Swans: Love of Life || post-punk, goth rock
Sarah McLachlan: Solace || folk-pop
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Blood Sugar Sex Magik || funk-rock
Neil Young: Arc || noise-rock/no wave, jam band
Orbital: Orbital (Green) || techno
Metallica: Black Album || alt-metal
1992
Red House Painters: Down Colorful Hill || slowcore, folk-rock
Morphine: Good || jazz-rock, blues-rock
Medicine: Shot Forth Self Living || shoegaze, noise-rock
Jesus Lizard: Liar || noise-rock/post-hardcore
Jon Spencer: Jon Spencer Blues Explosion || punk-blues, garage rock
Rage Against the Machine: Rage Against the Machine || metal/hard rock
Earth: Earth 2 || drone, stoner metal
Orb: UFOrb || electronic prog, ambient techno
Slowdive: Souvlaki || dream-pop, shoegaze
Vampire Rodents: Premonition || experimental, industrial metal
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282: Mother of All Saints || experimental/noise-rock, art punk, lo-fi/indie
Slowdive: Blue Day || shoegaze
Kyuss: Blues for the Red Sun || stoner rock
Dr. Dre: The Chronic || hip-hop
Goats: Tricks of the Shade || hip-hop, rock opera
Jon Spencer: Extra Width || punk-blues, garage/noise-rock
Alice In Chains: Dirt || grunge/alt-metal
Cows: Cunning Stunts || noise-rock, cowpunk
Flaming Lips: Hit to Death in the Future Head || psych-rock, alt-rock
PJ Harvey: Rid of Me || punk-blues, alt-rock
Sonic Youth: Dirty || noise-rock, indie
Lida Husik: Your Bag || lo-fi/indie folk, dream pop, alt-rock
Arrested Development: 3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life || hip-hop
Damon & Naomi: More Sad Hits || dream pop, slowcore
Cop Shoot Cop: Ask Questions Later || industrial rock, noise-rock
Pain Teens: Stimulation Festival || post-punk, industrial rock
Scorn: Vae Solis || industrial metal
Fugazi: In On the Kill Taker || post-hardcore
Tom Waits: Bone Machine || blues-rock, dark cabaret/goth-country
Babes In Toyland: Fontanelle || grunge
L7: Bricks are Heavy || grunge, pop-rock
Swirlies: Blender Tongue Audio Baton || indie rock, shoegaze
Lemonheads: It's a Shame About Ray || acoustic rock, power pop
Built To Spill: Ultimate Alternate Wavers || indie rock
Pigface: Fook || industrial rock
Magnetic Fields: House of Tomorrow (EP) || indie pop
Circus Lupus: Super Genius || post-hardcore/noise-rock
Dogbowl: Flan || psych-pop
Dazzling Killmen: Dig Out the Switch || post-hardcore/noise-rock
Royal Trux: Royal Trux || garage rock, punk-blues
1993
Liz Phair: Exile In Guyville || alternative/indie rock
Red House Painters: Rollercoaster || slowcore, folk-rock
Morphine: Cure for Pain || jazz-rock, blues
Smog: Julius Caesar || lo-fi, indie folk
Stereolab: Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements || shoegaze, prog-pop
Six Finger Satellite: The Pigeon Is the Most Popular Bird || noise-rock/post-hardcore, industrial rock
Vampire Rodents: Lullaby Land || experimental, industrial metal
Tindersticks: Tindersticks || indie rock, chamber-pop
Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese Dream || grunge, dream-pop/psych-rock
Unwound: Fake Train || noise-rock/post-hardcore
Nas: Illmatic || hip-hop
Girls Against Boys: Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby || post-hardcore/noise-rock
Wu Tang Clan: Enter the Wu Tang (36 Chambers) || hip-hop
Neurosis: Enemy of the Sun || prog-metal, post-hardcore, industrial
Mark Lanegan: Whiskey for the Holy Ghost || blues-rock
Pain Teens: Destroy Me Lover || noise-rock/post-punk, industrial
Mazzy Star: So Tonight that I Might See || dream-pop/psych-rock, alt-country, slowcore
Mercury Rev: Boces || psych-rock
Lisa Germano: Happiness (4AD version) || dream pop, chamber-folk
Unsane: Total Destruction || noise-rock/post-hardcore, sludge metal
Nirvana: In Utero || grunge, noise-rock
Mentallo & the Fixer: Revelations 23 || electro-industrial
Breeders: Last Splash || indie rock
Caspar Brotzmann: Koksofen || experimental rock, industrial
KMFDM: Angst || industrial metal, electro
Lida Husik: Return of Red Emma || lo-fi/indie folk, alt-rock
Marilyn Manson: Portrait of an American Family || industrial metal
Bjork: Debut || art pop
Snoop Dogg: Doggystyle || hip-hop
Swervedriver: Mezcal Head || shoegaze, hard rock
Type O Negative: Bloody Kisses || prog-metal, goth rock
Primus: Pork Soda || funk-metal
Trumans Water: Spasm Smash XXXOXOX Ox and Ass || noise-rock/post-hardcore
Elliott Smith: Roman Candle || indie folk
Seefeel: Quique || ambient techno/dub, shoegaze
Ed Hall: Motherscratcher || noise-rock/alternative
Spongehead: Curb Your Dogma || noise-rock/art punk
Henry Rollins: Weight || post-hardcore
Guru: Jazzmatazz || hip-hop/jazz rap
Phish: Hoist || indie, jam band, jazz-rock
Juliana Hatfield: Become What You Are || alt-rock, indie
Afghan Whigs: Gentlemen || grunge/alt-rock
Pavement: Crooked Rain Crooked Rain || indie rock
Belly: Star || dream pop
Frank Black: Frank Black || indie rock
Hammerbox: Numb || grunge/alt-rock
Tori Amos: Under the Pink || art pop, piano rock
Alice In Chains: Jar of Flies (EP) || grunge/acoustic rock
Today Is the Day: Supernova || noise-rock/post-hardcore, sludge metal
Brainiac: Smack Bunny Baby || noise-rock/post-hardcore
Tool: Undertow || alt-metal
Scorn: Colossus || industrial metal
1994
Nine Inch Nails: The Downward Spiral || industrial metal
Magnetic Fields: Charm of the Highway Strip || chamber/synth-pop, alt-country
Rodan: Misty || post-rock, noise-rock/post-hardcore
Fear Factory: Demanufacture || industrial metal
Bardo Pond: Bufo Alvarius || psych-rock
Lisa Germano: Geek the Girl || dream pop, slowcore
Today Is the Day: Willpower || noise-rock/post-hardcore, sludge metal
Azonic: Halo || drone/ambient, psych-rock
Portishead: Dummy || trip-hop, jazz-pop
Drive Like Jehu: Yank Crime || noise-rock/post-hardcore
Soundgarden: Superunknown || grunge
Lycia: Burning Circle and Then Dust || goth rock
Skylab: #1 || trip-hop/downtempo, ambient, electronic psych
Bark Psychosis: Hex || post-rock, slowcore
Shellac: At Action Park || noise-rock/post-hardcore
Korn: Korn || nu metal
Pearl Jam: Vitalogy || grunge/alt-rock
Tortoise: Tortoise || post-rock
Stereolab: Mars Audiac Quintet || shoegaze/dream pop, prog-pop
Sky Cries Mary: This Timeless Turning || psych-rock
Low: I Could Live in Hope || slowcore
Beck: Mellow Gold || indie/alternative
Magnetic Fields: Holiday || synth-pop
Kyuss: Welcome to Sky Valley || alt-rock/stoner
Green Day: Dookie || pop-punk/alt-rock
Soul Coughing: Ruby Vroom || jazz-rock, alt-rock, experimental
Brainiac: Bonsai Superstar || noise-rock/post-hardcore
Denison / Kimball Trio: Walls in the City || jazz-rock, avant-garde
Jon Spencer: Orange || punk-blues, garage rock, noise-rock
Cherubs: Heroin Man || noise-rock/post-hardcore, sludge
Common Sense: Resurrection || hip-hop
Laughing Hyenas: Hard Times || punk-blues, noise-rock/post-hardcore
Jeff Buckley: Grace || alt-rock
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282: Strangers From the Universe || art punk/experimental rock
Bedhead: What Fun Life Was || slowcore
Cows: Orphan's Tragedy || noise-rock/post-hardcore
Jesus Lizard: Down || noise-rock/post-hardcore
Dazzling Killmen: Face of Collapse || noise-rock/post-hardcore
Neil Young: Sleeps with Angels || folk-rock, garage rock
Boredoms: Chocolate Synthesizer || noise-rock
Medeski, Martin & Wood: Friday Afternoon in the Universe || jazz fusion
R.E.M: Monster || jangle-pop, alternative
1995
Fugazi: Red Medicine || post-hardcore
Foetus: Gash || industrial rock
Jarboe: Sacrificial Cake || goth rock, chamber-folk
Polvo: Exploded Drawing || indie rock, emo/post-hardcore
Sepultura: Roots || nu metal
16 Horsepower: Sackcloth 'n' Ashes || goth/alt-country
Alanis Morissette: Jagged Little Pill || pop-rock, alternative
Morphine: Yes || jazz-rock, blues-rock
Six Finger Satellite: Severe Exposure || post-hardcore, industrial rock
Don Caballero: 2 || post-rock, post-hardcore
U.S. Maple: Long Hair in Three Stages || noise-rock/post-hardcore
Cul de Sac: China Gate || post-rock, psych-rock
Roy Montgomery: Temple IV || post-rock, shoegaze/ambient/new age
Unwound: Future of What || noise-rock/post-hardcore
Magnetic Fields: Get Lost || indie pop
My Dying Bride: The Angel and the Dark River || doom/goth metal
Fugees: The Score || hip-hop
Geraldine Fibbers: Lost Somewhere Between the Earth and My Home || alt-country/rock
Smog: Wild Love || lo-fi/indie rock
Primus: Tales From the Punchbowl || funk-metal
5ive Style: 5ive Style || post-rock
Roy Montgomery: Scenes From the South Island || post-rock, shoegaze/ambient/new age
Lida Husik: Joyride || indie folk, jangle pop, alt-rock
KMFDM: Nihil || industrial metal, electro
Garbage: Garbage || indie pop, grunge
Enya: Memory of Trees || ambient pop, new age
Ed Hall: La La Land || noise-rock/post-hardcore
Smashing Pumpkins: Mellon Collie || grunge, dream pop
Vampire Rodents: Clockseed || experimental, industrial metal
Sonic Youth: Washing Machine || noise-rock, indie
Eyehategod: Dopesick || stoner/hard rock, metal
Spiritualized: Pure Phase || dream pop, psych-rock
Oxbow: Let Me Be a Woman || experimental/noise-rock, post-hardcore
1996
Tortoise: Millions Now Living Will Never Die || post-rock/progressive, minimalism
Lisa Germano: Excerpts from a Love Circus || dream-pop, indie folk
Swans: Soundtracks for the Blind || post-rock, goth, ambient
Neurosis: Through Silver in Blood || prog-metal, sludge, industrial
Belle & Sebastian: If You're Feeling Sinister || chamber folk, dream pop
Vas Deferens Organization & Brad Laner: Transcontinental Conspiracy || psych-rock, electronic
Laika: Sounds of the Satellites || trip-hop, dream pop/psych-rock
DJ Shadow: Endtroducing || instrumental hip-hop
Vas Deferens Organization: Saturation || experimental, psych-rock
Today Is the Day: Today Is the Day || noise-rock/post-hardcore, sludge metal, industrial
Ghost: Lama Rabi Rabi || psychedelic folk/rock
Dirty Three: Horse Stories || post-rock, instrumental slowcore
Tool: Aenima || alt-metal
Stereolab: Emperor Tomato Ketchup || prog-pop, indietronica
Belle & Sebastian: Tigermilk || chamber-folk, dream-pop
Unwound: Repetition || noise-rock/post-hardcore
Modest Mouse: This Is a Long Drive || midwest emo, indie rock
Bowery Electric: Beat || shoegaze, trip-hop, post-rock
Dr. Octagon: Dr. Octagon || hip-hop
Bardo Pond: Amanita || psych-rock
Screaming Trees: Dust || grunge/alt-rock, psychedelic
Orbital: In Sides || ambient techno, IDM
Fishmans: Long Season || prog-pop
Soul Coughing: Irresistible Bliss || jazz-rock, alt-rock
Smog: Red Apple Falls || folk-rock, slowcore
Fatboy Slim: Better Living Through Chemistry || big beat, acid breaks/house
Cibo Matto: Viva La Woman || trip-hop, art pop
Brian Jonestown Massacre: Thank God for Mental Illness || country/folk-rock, psychedelic, indie
Brainiac: Hissing Prigs in Static Couture || noise-rock/post-hardcore
Lamb: Lamb || trip-hop
1997
Built To Spill: Perfect From Now On || indie rock/midwest emo, post-rock
Amon Tobin: Bricolage || jazzstep, IDM/downtempo
Storm & Stress: Storm & Stress || experimental/math rock
Acid Mothers Temple: Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso UFO || psych-rock, jam band, noise-rock
Laddio Bolocko: Strange Warmings || noise-rock/post-hardcore, post-rock
Radiohead: OK Computer || indie/art rock
Today Is the Day: Temple of the Morning Star || avant-garde metal
Godspeed You Black Emperor: F♯A♯∞ || post-rock
Yo La Tengo: I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One || dream pop, indie rock
Hash Jar Tempo: Well Oiled || instrumental post-rock/drone, psychedelic
Geraldine Fibbers: Butch || alt-country/rock
Bjork: Homogenic || art pop
Modest Mouse: Lonesome Crowded West || midwest emo, indie rock
Electric Wizard: Come My Fanatics || stoner metal
Edith Frost: Calling Over Time || alt-country, indie folk, slowcore, dream pop
Unwound: Challenge for a Civilized Society || noise-rock/post-hardcore
Oxbow: Serenade In Red || experimental/noise-rock, punk blues/post-hardcore
Spiritualized: Ladies and Gentlemen || dream-pop, psych-rock
Bardo Pond: Lapsed || psych-rock
Chumbawumba: Tubthumper || dance-pop
Ladybug Transistor: Beverley Atonale || indie pop/rock
1998
Tortoise: TNT || post-rock, jazz fusion, instrumental
Eels: Electro-Shock Blues || indie pop/folk
Neutral Milk Hotel: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea || indie folk/rock
Add N To (X): On the Wires of Our Nerves || electronic prog, electroclash
Six Organs of Admittance: Six Organs of Admittance || prog-folk, ambient
Tribes of Neurot & Walking Timebomb: Static Migration || post-rock, industrial, drone, ambient
Lisa Germano: Slide || dream pop, chamber folk
Mercury Rev: Deserter's Songs || psych-pop
Lauryn Hill: The Miseducation || neo-soul, R&B, hip-hop
Edith Frost: Telescopic || alt-country, dream pop/psychedelic folk, slowcore
Dalek: Negro Necro Neckros || hip-hop, industrial
Air: Moon Safari || downtempo, ambient pop
Duster: Stratosphere || lofi/indie, slowcore, emo/post-hardcore
Massive Attack: Mezzanine || trip-hop
Built to Spill: Keep It Like a Secret || indie rock
Black Tape For a Blue Girl: As One Aflame Laid Bare by Desire || goth
Meshuggah: Chaosphere || technical thrash-metal/djent
Gastr Del Sol: Camofleur || experimental/post-rock, chamber folk
Dirty Three: Ocean Songs || post-rock, instrumental slowcore
Boards of Canada: Music Has the Right to Children || IDM/downtempo
Soul Coughing: El Oso || alt-rock, indie rock
Fatboy Slim: You've Come a Long Way Baby || big beat, acid breaks
Arab On Radar: Rough Day at the Orifice || post-hardcore, no wave
Gorguts: Obscura || technical death metal
Don Caballero: What Burns Never Returns || post-rock, post-hardcore
Mark Lanegan: Scraps at Midnight || blues/folk-rock, alt-rock
1999
Boredoms: Vision Creation Newsun || psych-rock, progressive
Sigur Ros: Ágætis byrjun || post-rock
Red Stars Theory: Life in a Bubble Can Be Beautiful || post-rock, slowcore
Hash Jar Tempo: Under Glass || drone/post-rock, psychedelic
Nine Inch Nails: The Fragile || industrial metal, ambient
Mos Def: Black On Both Sides || hip-hop
Sleep: Jerusalem / Dopesmoker || stoner/doom/drone metal
Low: Secret Name || slowcore
Papa M: Live From a Shark's Cage || post-rock, instrumental slowcore, post-minimalism
Yume Bitsu: Yume Bitsu || post-rock/drone, shoegaze
Magnetic Fields: 69 Love Songs || indie pop
Arab On Radar: Soak the Saddle || post-hardcore, noise-rock/no wave
5ive Style: Miniature Portraits || post-rock
Eminem: Slim Shady LP || hardcore hip-hop
Acid Mothers Temple: Pataphisical Freak Out Mu || psych-rock, jam band
Slipknot: Slipknot || nu metal
Prince Paul: A Prince Among Thieves || hip-hop
Roy Montgomery: 324 E. 13th Street #7 || psych-folk
Mindless Self Indulgence: Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy || electroclash/industrial rock, nu metal
U.S. Maple: Talker || noise-rock/post-hardcore
2000
Animal Collective: Spirit They're Gone Spirit They've Vanished || neo-psychedelic, experimental rock/noise pop
Eminem: Marshall Mathers LP || hardcore hip-hop
Spring Heel Jack: Disappeared || electronic/drum and bass, avant-garde/nu jazz
Godspeed You Black Emperor: Lift Yr Skinny Fists || post-rock
Sunn O))): Flight of the Behemoth || drone-metal, post-rock
Outkast: Stankonia || hip-hop, funk
Low: Things We Lost in the Fire || slowcore
Anaal Nathrakh: The Codex Necro || black metal, grindcore
Electric Wizard: Dopethrone || doom/stoner metal
Hives: Veni Vidi Vicious || garage-rock, dance-punk
Deftones: White Pony || alternative/nu metal
Morphine: The Night || jazz/blues-rock
Cursive: Domestica || emo/post-hardcore
Aesop Rock: Float || hip-hop
Bohren & der Club of Gore: Sunset Mission || dark jazz
Evanescence: Origin || alt-metal, goth, industrial
David Grubbs: The Spectrum Between || folk-rock
Lou Reed: Ecstasy || art rock
2001
cLOUDDEAD: cLOUDDEAD || experimental hip-hop, ambient
Toby Dammit: Top Dollar || electro
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Yeah Yeah Yeahs (EP) || garage rock
Xiu Xiu: Knife Play || art pop, experimental rock
Cannibal Ox: The Cold Vein || experimental hip-hop
Solex: Low Kick and Hard Bop || indietronica, art pop
Strokes: Is This It || indie pop, garage rock
Khanate: Khanate || drone metal
Notwist: Neon Golden || indie
Tool: Lateralus || prog/alt-metal
System of a Down: Toxicity || nu metal
Converge: Jane Doe || metalcore
Unwound: Leaves Turn Inside You || indie rock, post-hardcore
Cult of Luna: Cult of Luna || post-metal, sludge
Angels of Light: How I Loved You || country-rock, goth
Seconds: Y || post-punk/new wave, post-hardcore/noise-rock
Spring Heel Jack: Masses || electronic, avant-garde jazz
Venetian Snares: Doll Doll Doll || breakcore/drum and bass, post-industrial
Matmos: A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure || glitch, IDM, electroacoustic
Lightning Bolt: Ride the Skies || noise-rock, math/brutal prog, instrumental
White Stripes: White Blood Cells || garage/indie rock
Wolf Eyes: Dread || experimental/noise
Puppetina: Piewacket || experimental, folk
2002
To Live and Shave in LA: The Wigmaker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg || noise/experimental
Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot || indie pop, art rock
Black Dice: Beaches and Canyons || neo-psychedelic, electronic, experimental
Acid Mothers Temple: Electric Heavyland || psych-rock, jam band, noise-rock
Califone: Sometimes Good Weather Follows Bad People || avant-folk, alt-country, psychedelic/trip-hop
Low: Trust || slowcore
Today Is the Day: Sadness Will Prevail || avant-garde metal, noise/experimental rock
Books: Thought For Food || folktronica, psych-folk
Interpol: Turn On the Bright Lights || post-punk revival, indie rock
Animal Collective: Here Comes the Indian (aka Ark) || psych-rock, avant-garde, electronic fusion
Tom Waits: Alice || piano blues, dark cabaret
Godspeed You Black Emperor: Yanqui UXO || post-rock
Add N To (X): Loud Like Nature || electroclash, synth-punk
Cat Power: You Are Free || indie folk
Agalloch: The Mantle || folk-metal
Neko Case: Blacklisted || alt-country
Múm: Finally We Are No One || indietronica
Spring Heel Jack: Amassed || avant-garde jazz, electronic
Nile: In Their Darkened Shrines || metal
Boards of Canada: Geogaddi || IDM/downtempo
Hunches: Yes No Shut It || garage/noise-rock, punk blues
Acid Mothers Temple: Univers zen ou de zéro à zéro || psych-rock, jam band, experimental rock
Sigur Ros: () || post-rock
Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots || neo-psychedelia/hypnagogic pop
Queens of the Stone Age: Songs for the Deaf || alt-rock/stoner
Nels Cline: Instrumentals || avant-garde jazz/fusion
2003
Books: The Lemon of Pink || folktronica, sound collage
Fiery Furnaces: Gallowsbird's Bark || indie rock, psych-rock
Ralph Carney: This Is! || avant-garde jazz, experimental
M83: Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts || electronic prog, shoegaze
Dizzee Rascal: Boy in Da Corner || grime, UK hip-hop
Broadcast: Haha Sound || art pop, psych/dream-pop
Xiu Xiu: A Promise || art pop, experimental
Pelican: Australasia || post-metal, sludge
Firewater: Man on the Burning Tightrope || art rock
Cursive: The Ugly Organ || emo/post-hardcore
Ponys: Laced with Romance || garage rock
Boris: Feedbacker || drone/post-metal
Pelican: Pelican (EP) || post-metal, sludge
Rapture: Echoes || dance/post-punk revival
Locust: Plague Soundscapes || noise-rock, metal/sasscore
2004
Meshuggah: I (EP) || progressive metal/djent
Pan Sonic: Kesto (234.48:4) || post-industrial/electronic, experimental/power noise, ambient
Orthrelm: OV || avant-garde metal, minimalism
Arcade Fire: Funeral || chamber-pop, indie rock
Dalek: Absence || industrial hip-hop
Fiery Furnaces: Blueberry Boat || art-pop
cLOUDDEAD: Ten || experimental hip-hop, indietronica
Kanye West: College Dropout || hip-hop
Joanna Newsom: Milk-Eyed Mender || chamber-folk
Black Dice: Creature Comforts || neo-psychedelic, electronic, experimental
Liars: Drum's Not Dead || indie/art rock
Madvillain: Madvillainy || hip-hop
Go Team: Thunder, Lightning, Strike || indietronica
Boredoms: Seadrum / House of Sun || psych-rock, ambient/drone, hindustani
Mastodon: Leviathan || prog-metal
Isis: Panopticon || post-metal
TV On the Radio: Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes || indie pop, electro-soul
System of a Down: Mezmerize || metal
Green Day: American Idiot || punk-pop, rock opera
Das Oath: Das Oath || powerviolence/thrashcore
Jesu: Heart Ache || post-metal, industrial, sludge
Shit & Shine: You're Lucky to Have Friends Like Us || post-industrial, noise-rock, experimental
Animal Collective: Sung Tongs || neo-psychedelia, avant-folk
2005
Fiery Furnaces: Rehearsing My Choir || art pop/indie, rock opera
Sufjan Stevens: Illinoise || prog-pop, chamber folk
Shit & Shine: Ladybird || post-industrial, noise-rock/sludge metal, psych-rock, sound collage
Black Dice: Broken Ear Record || neo-psychedelic, electronic, noise/experimental
Mars Volta: Frances the Mute || prog-rock
Hella: Church Gone Wild / Chirpin Hard || math rock, electronic fusion, avant-garde
Dalek: Untitled || symphonic hip-hop, ambient, industrial
Acid Mothers Temple: Iao Chant From the Cosmic Inferno || psych-rock
Kanye West: Late Registration || hip-hop
Xiu Xiu: La Foret || post-industrial, avant-garde, indie folk
Eels: Blinking Lights and Other Revelations || indie pop
Andrew Bird: The Mysterious Production of Eggs || indie folk, chamber pop
Sunn O))): Black One || drone-metal
Gojira: From Mars to Sirius || death metal, progressive
J Dilla: Donuts || instrumental hip-hop
2006
Shit & Shine: Jealous of Shit & Shine || post-industrial, noise-rock/sludge metal, avant-garde
Joanna Newsom: Ys || chamber-folk, prog-folk
TV On the Radio: Return to Cookie Mountain || indie pop, electro-soul
Fiery Furnaces: Bitter Tea || art/indie pop, neo-psychedelic
Cult of Luna: Somewhere Along the Highway || post-metal
Subtle: For Hero: For Fool || experimental hip-hop, indie rock
James Holden: The Idiots Are Winning || minimal techno/IDM
Shit & Shine: Toilet Door Tits (mini) || post-industrial/noise-rock, sludge metal
Fucked Up: Hidden World || post-hardcore
Built to Spill: You In Reverse || indie rock
Boxhead Ensemble: Nocturnes || post-rock, ambient
2007
Burning Star Core: Operator Dead Post Abandoned || drone/noise, neo-psychedelic
Panda Bear: Person Pitch || ambient-pop, electronic fusion
Have a Nice Life: Deathconsciousness || post-industrial, goth, post-punk/shoegaze, slowcore
Battles: Mirrored || math-rock, prog-rock
Nick Cave: Grinderman || garage rock, punk-blues
Holy Fuck: LP || indietronica, krautrock
LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver || dance-punk
Baroness: Red Album || prog-metal
Deerhunter: Cryptograms || neo-psychedelia/shoegaze, indie rock
Between the Buried & Me: Colors || prog-metal
Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend || indie pop
2008
Juana Molina: Un Día || folktronica, art-pop
Midori: Hello Everyone Nice to Meet You We Are Midori || art punk, noisecore, j-pop, jazz fusion
Vivian Girls: Vivian Girls (mini) || punk-pop, garage/noise-rock
Dodos: Visiter || indie rock, psychedelic folk
Blackie: Wilderness of North America || industrial/experimental hip-hop
Sun Araw: Beach Head || neo-psychedelic, drone/ambient
Micachu: Jewellery || indie/art rock
Cut Copy: In Ghost Colours || electropop/new rave, neo-psychedelia
Acid Mothers Temple: Journey Into the Cosmic Inferno || psych-rock, prog-rock, jam band
2009
Dan Deacon: Bromst || indietronica, neo-psychedelia
Mi Ami: Watersports || noise-rock/no wave
Antlers: Hospice || indie rock, rock opera
These New Puritans: Hidden || post-punk, art rock
Fuck Buttons: Tarot Sport || psychedelic, drone, electronic prog
Shit & Shine: 229-2299 Girls Against Shit || post-industrial, noise-rock, psych-rock/avant-garde
Blues Control: Local Flavor || psych-rock, drone
Yoga: Megafauna || dark ambient, drone, lo-fi, black metal, psychedelic
Black Meteoric Star: Black Meteoric Star || acid techno
2010
Joanna Newsom: Have One On Me || progressive folk, chamber folk
Janelle Monae: The ArchAndroid || contemporary R&B, progressive/art pop, neo-soul, funk
Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy || pop-rap
Titus Andronicus: The Monitor || indie rock, midwest emo/post-hardcore, rock opera
Soft Moon: Soft Moon || post-punk, synth-punk, goth, electro-industrial
Grimes: Geidi Primes || ethereal wave, indietronica/synth-pop, neo-psychedelic
Deerhunter: Halcyon Digest || indie rock, neo-psychedelic/dream pop
M.I.A: Maya || industrial hip-hop, electropop/deconstructed club
Big Boi: Sir Lucious Left Foot || hip-hop
Midori: Shinsekai || art punk, noisecore, j-pop, jazz fusion
Yellow Swans: Going Places || noise, drone
Daughters: Daughters || noise-rock/post-hardcore, art punk
James Blake: James Blake || art pop, alternative R&B, electronic
Purling Hiss: Public Service Announcement || lo-fi, psych-rock
Purling Hiss: Hissteria || lo-fi, garage/noise-rock, psych-rock
2011
Giles Corey: Giles Corey || slowcore, dark/avant-folk
Julia Holter: Tragedy || experimental, ambient-pop
Peste Noire: L'ordure à L'état pur || black metal, folk-metal
Death Grips: Exmilitary || industrial hip-hop
Andy Stott: Passed Me By || dub/ambient techno
Men: Leave Home || noise-rock/post-hardcore, garage punk
Julianna Barwick: The Magic Place || ambient, new age
War On Drugs: Slave Ambient || indie, folk-rock
Macintosh Plus: Floral Shoppe || vaporwave
James Ferraro: Far Side Virtual || vaporwave, MIDI/sequencer
Weyes Blood: The Outside Room || psychedelic folk, ethereal wave
Fucked Up: David Comes to Life || post-hardcore, rock opera
2012
King Tears Bat Trip: King Tears Bat Trip || avant-garde jazz
Ono: Albino || industrial/experimental rock
Seirom: 1973 || ambient, shoegaze
Andy Stott: Luxury Problems || dub/ambient techno
Godspeed You Black Emperor: Allelujah Don't Bend Ascend || post-rock
Fiona Apple: The Idler Wheel Is Wiser || art pop
Neil Young: Psychedelic Pill || jam band, country-rock, psych-rock
Pat Metheny: Unity Band || jazz fusion
Goat: World Music || psych-rock, garage pop
Beach House: Bloom || dream pop
Ty Segall: Slaughterhouse || garage rock
2013
Knife: Shaking the Habitual || post-industrial, tech house
Pharmakon: Abandon || death industrial
Guerilla Toss: Guerilla Toss (mini)|| noise-rock/post-hardcore
Julianna Barwick: Nepenthe || ambient, new age
Chance the Rapper: Acid Rap || hip-hop
Kacey Musgraves: Same Trailer Different Park || contemporary country
Flaming Lips: The Terror || psych-rock, ambient pop
Mark Kozelek & Jimmy LaValle: Perils from the Sea || folktronica, ambient pop
2014
DJ Rozwell: None of This Is Real || instrumental hip-hop, plunderphonics
Pyrrhon: Mother of Virtues || technical death metal
Desmadrados Soldados De Ventura: Interpenetrating Dimensional Express || jam band, instrumental psych-rock
Sylvan Esso: Sylvan Esso || electropop
Bent Knee: Shiny Eyed Babies || art rock
Frankie Cosmos: Zentropy (mini) || indie rock, dream pop
Lana Del Rey: Ultraviolence || dream/chamber pop
75 Dollar Bill: Wooden Bag || instrumental psych-rock, jam band/improvisation, molam
Khun Narin: Electric Phin Band || instrumental psych-rock, jam band/improvisation, molam
Sun Kil Moon: Benji || contemporary folk
2015
Vince Staples: Summertime '06 || hip-hop
Lil Peep: Part One || emo-rap/alternative R&B
Earl Sweatshirt: Solace (EP) || hip-hop, lo-fi
Kamasi Washington: The Epic || spiritual jazz
Lil Ugly Mane: Oblivion Access || hip-hop, industrial, ambient
Gongjoong Doduk (Mid-Air Thief): Gongjoong Doduk || psychedelic/avant-folk, folktronica
Earl Sweatshirt: I Don't Like Shit I Don't Go Outside || hip-hop, lo-fi
Girl Band: Holding Hands with Jamie || post-punk/noise-rock
Kendrick Lamar: To Pimp a Butterfly || hip-hop, funk, jazz fusion
Lupe Fiasco: Tetsuo & Youth || hip-hop
Fucked Up: Year of the Snake (EP) || post-hardcore, psych-rock
Sophie: Product || bubblegum bass/hyperpop
2016
Impossible Nothing: Phonemenomicon || instrumental hip-hop, plunderphonics/glitch
Jpegmafia: Black Ben Carson (original mix) || industrial hip-hop
Drose: Boy Man Machine || industrial, slude metal, no wave/noise-rock
Radiohead: A Moon Shaped Pool || art pop
Neil Rolnick: Ex Machina || electroacoustic, plunderphonics
Oranssi Pazuzu: Varahtelija || psych-rock, black metal
Parquet Courts: Human Performance || post-punk, indie rock
2017
Stabscotch: Uncanny Valley || art metal/experimental rock
Lingua Ignota: Let the Evil of His Own Lips Cover Him || neoclassical darkwave/goth, death industrial
Government: Shitshitshit || experimental, avant-prog, sound collage, nu jazz
Sadaf: Shell (EP) || epic collage, deconstructed club, experimental/post-industrial
Lingua Ignota: All Bitches Die || neoclassical darkwave/goth, death industrial
Brockhampton: Saturation II || hip-hop
Joni Void: Selfless || sound collage, electronic/ambient
Billie Eilish: Don't Smile At Me (EP) || electropop/alt-pop
Death Grips: Steroids (EP) || experimental hip-hop, digital hardcore, gabber
Machine Girl: Because I'm Young, Arrogant and Hate Everything You Stand For || digital hardcore, breakcore
King Krule: The Ooz || indie/art rock
Fire-toolz: Interbeing || electro-industrial, sound collage, vaporwave, black metal
2018
Daughters: You Won't Get What You Want || noise-rock/art punk, industrial, goth
Brockhampton: Iridescence || experimental/hardcore hip-hop
Earl Sweatshirt: Some Rap Songs || lo-fi/experimental hip-hop
Julia Holter: Aviary || experimental/art pop
Mike: Black Soap (mini) || experimental hip-hop, lo-fi
Lonker See: One Eye Sees Red || post-rock, psychedelic, jazz fusion
Black Dresses: Wasteisolation || electro-industrial, synth-punk/power noise, glitch pop
Benny the Butcher: Tana Talk 3 || hip-hop
Denzel Curry: TA13OO || hip-hop/trap
2019
Sadaf: History of Heat || epic collage/program music, experimental, deconstructed club
Caretaker: Everywhere at the End of Time || plunderphonics, program music, dark ambient/drone
Carl Stone: Himalaya || glitch/plunderphonics, electroacoustic, post-minimalism
Injury Reserve: Injury Reserve || experimental hip-hop
Chat Pile: This Dungeon Earth (EP) || noise-rock/post-hardcore, sludge metal, industrial
Liturgy: HAQQ || black/post-metal
Benny the Butcher: The Plugs I Met (EP) || hip-hop
2020
Ono: Red Summer || industrial/experimental rock, dub, post-punk
Military Genius: Deep Web || hypnagogic/ambient pop, downtempo/trip-hop
Your Old Droog: Dump YOD: Krutoy Edition || hip-hop
Carl Stone: Stolen Car || glitch/plunderphonics
Samuel Goff: Transmissions || musique concrete, EAI, drone, post-industrial
Sewerslvt: The World Is Fvcked || atmospheric drum and bass, hardcore EDM/breakbeat
2021
Lil Ugly Mane: Volcanic Bird Enemy and the Voiced Concern || lo-fi/indietronica, hypnagogic pop
Pharaoh Sanders: Promises || post-minimalism, third stream jazz, ambient
Ill Considered: Liminal Space || avant-garde jazz
Injury Reserve: By the Time I Get to Phoenix || experimental hip-hop
Jpegmafia: LP || experimental hip-hop
Your Old Droog: Time || hip-hop
Sewerslvt: We Had Good Times Together Don't Forget That || atmospheric drum and bass, hardcore EDM/breakbeat
Sematary: Rainbow Bridge 3 || trap-metal
2022
Soul Glo: Diaspora Problems || punk/post-hardcore
Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul: Topical Dancer || art/synth-pop, tech-house
Ethel Cain: Preacher's Daughter || slowcore, alt-pop, ethereal wave
Denzel Curry: Melt My Eyez See Your Future || hip-hop/trap
Wet Leg: Wet Leg || pop-rock, garage revival/indie
Chat Pile: God's Country || sludge metal, noise rock/post-hardcore
Little Simz: No Thank You || UK hip-hop
2023
Christine & the Queens: Paranoia, Angels, True Love || art pop/alt-pop
Katie Gately: Fawn / Brute || art pop, post-industrial, darkwave
Blackie: Catharsis Only (mini) || industrial hip-hop, power electronics/noise
2024
Crippling Alcoholism: With Love from a Padded Room || goth-rock/darkwave, post-metal
Chat Pile: Cool World || sludge metal, noise rock/post-hardcore
Colin Stetson: The Love It Took to Leave You || post-minimalism, nu jazz, dark ambient
Nala Sinephro: Endlessness || jazz fusion/third stream, electronic prog
2025
YHWH Nailgun: 45 Pounds || experimental rock, industrial
Sh!tomato: Sh!tomato || experimental/industrial rock
Ethel Cain: Perverts || drone/dark ambient, goth
Artificial Go: Musical Chairs || post-punk/art punk, jangle pop
Cosmic Ear: Traces || avant-garde jazz
Cóclea & Canut de Bon: No Esperan por Nadie (split) || post-hardcore/noise-rock
Honningbarna: Soft Spot || post-hardcore/noise-rock
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