| 5.0 classic |
| A Winged Victory for the Sullen A Winged Victory for the Sullen |
| A Winged Victory for the Sullen The Undivided Five |
| A Winged Victory for the Sullen Invisible Cities |
| Ad Nauseam Imperative Imperceptible Impulse |
| Aidan Baker The Sea Swells A Bit... |
| Aidan Baker and Tim Hecker Fantasma Parastasie |
| Alphaxone Edge of Solitude |
| Alphaxone Chronosphere |
| Aluk Todolo Voix |
| This is their masterpiece. An incredible fusion of psychedelic rock, noise and cosmic dread. |
| Amenra Mass V |
| Amenra Mass VI |
| Amenra Mass VI Live |
| Big|Brave Feral Verdure |
| Big|Brave Ardor |
| Big|Brave A Gaze Among Them |
| Big|Brave Vital |
| Blut Aus Nord MoRT |
| Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest |
| Boss Keloid Family the Smiling Thrush |
This deserves much more praise here. They’ve taken everything that made them great on previous releases and
elevated it to a much higher level. It’s like listening to King Crimson one moment, then The Melvins, mixed with
lots of progressive flourishes. Best of all, it all flows seamlessly and sounds massive. |
| BRUIT The Machine Is Burning... |
| Cave In Jupiter |
| Chve Rasa |
| Colin Stetson New History Warfare Vol. 1 |
| Colin Stetson Sorrow - Reimagining of Gorecki's 3rd Symphony |
| Colin Stetson Hereditary |
| Colin Stetson Chimaera I |
| Possibly his best work yet, which is really saying something. Way more than the sum of its parts and reveals itself more with every listen. |
| Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld Never Were The Way She Was |
Absolutely magnificent album, completely transcendental. This is one of the best collaborations I‘ve heard in a
long time. |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Crippled Black Phoenix Ellengaest |
| Cult of Luna The Beyond |
| Cult of Luna Salvation |
| Cult of Luna Cult of Luna |
| Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway |
| Cult of Luna Eternal Kingdom |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal II |
| Cult of Luna Years in a Day |
| Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear |
| Cult of Luna The Raging River |
| Cult of Luna The Long Road North |
| Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas Mariner |
| Dysrhythmia Psychic Maps |
| Dysrhythmia Pretest |
| Dysrhythmia Test Of Submission |
| Absolutely fantastic album. Technical but full of atmosphere and dissonance, with an almost perfect production. They exist in a genre of one. |
| Dysrhythmia Terminal Threshold |
| Earth Hex: Or Printing In the Infernal Method |
| Elder (USA-MA) Reflections of a Floating World |
| Enslaved Isa |
| Enslaved Vertebrae |
| Enslaved Heimdal |
| An album so good that it made me completely reassess my feelings on the band and subsequently revisit their entire back catalogue, which has surely got to be one of the best in metal/prog metal. |
| Fennesz Venice |
| Fennesz Black Sea |
| Fennesz Seven Stars |
| Fennesz AUN - The Beginning and the End of All Things |
| Fennesz and Sakamoto Cendre |
| Final Light Final Light |
| Forest Swords Engravings |
| Forest Swords Shrine: Original Dance Score |
| Forest Swords Compassion |
| Forest Swords The Machine Air (Original Film Soundtrack) |
| Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects Sol Niger Within V3.33 |
| Fvnerals Let the Earth Be Silent |
| Cavernous but also strangely beautiful, this album takes the framework of their previous releases and stretches it in to something much more abstract and rewarding. It would be a strong album even if it was purely instrumental, but the the female vocals and the way they weave their way out of each composition, really elevates this in to something special. My favourite release of 2023 so far. |
| Giacinto Scelsi Quattro Pezzi per Orchestra |
| Giacinto Scelsi Piano Suite No. 10 "Ka" |
| Giacinto Scelsi Scelsi: Oeuvres pour orchestre |
| Giacinto Scelsi Maknongon |
| Giacinto Scelsi Okanagon |
| Giacinto Scelsi Mantram |
| Giacinto Scelsi Un Adieu |
| Giacinto Scelsi Canti del Capricorno |
| Giacinto Scelsi Aion |
| Giacinto Scelsi Uaxuctum |
| Giacinto Scelsi Khoom |
| Giacinto Scelsi Hyxos |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! |
| Hans Zimmer Dune |
| Iannis Xenakis Hibiki-Hana-Ma |
| Inade The Incarnation of the Solar Architects |
| Some of their finest work, which is saying something for a group that has released masterpieces like Aldebaran. |
| ISIS Oceanic |
| ISIS Panopticon |
| Jesu Jesu |
| Johann Johannsson Prisoners OST |
| Johann Johannsson Sicario OST |
| Johann Johannsson Arrival OST |
One of the best scores ever. He was operating on a completely different level for this film. Every single note is in
service to the narrative and atmosphere of Arrival, to the point where the two are inseparable. |
| KEN mode Void |
| King Crimson Starless and Bible Black |
| Klaus Schulze Deus Arrakis |
Just an incredible way for him to finish his career and ultimately his time on this earth. It would be easy to go
through the motions after dozens of albums, but it’s clear that he was completely inspired for this album.
Stunning sound design. |
| Krallice Loüm |
| Krallice Wolf |
| Led Zeppelin Presence |
| Loscil Coast/Range/Arc |
| Lustmord [ O T H E R ] |
| Lustmord The Place Where The Black Stars Hang |
| Lustmord Heresy |
| Lustmord Purifying Fire |
| Lustmord [ B E Y O N D ] |
| Lustmord Zoetrope |
| Lustmord The Word As Power |
| Lustmord Heretic |
| Mansun Six |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine |
| Max Richter Sleep |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere |
| Messa Close |
| Morrow (UK) Fallow |
This was a great discovery. For an album that sounds so unified, there’s a surprising amount of experimentation
and it's all the better for it. |
| Morton Feldman Rothko Chapel |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless |
| My Bloody Valentine m b v |
| Nadja Bodycage |
| Nadja Luminous Rot |
| Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm |
| Neurosis A Sun That Never Sets |
| Neurosis Times of Grace |
| Nine Inch Nails Broken |
| Nirvana In Utero |
| Northaunt Horizons |
| Northaunt Istid I-II |
| Oathbreaker Rheia |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Live At Roadburn |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Mestarin Kynsi |
| Pink Floyd Meddle |
| Portishead Third |
| Present Barbaro |
| Present High Infidelity |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Robert Rich Illumination |
| Robert Rich Echo Of Small Things |
| Robert Rich What We Left Behind |
| Everything about this album is so well executed: the art work, the concept (climate breakdown) and the sound design. Robert continues to push the boundaries of his own work, which has lead to an incredible run of recent albums. |
| Robert Rich & B. Lustmord Stalker |
| Robert Rich and Alio Die Fissures |
| Scott Kelly The Wake |
| Scott Kelly Spirit Bound Flesh |
| Serpentent Ancient Tomes, Volume I: Mother of Light |
| Stunning dark folk album that has genuine heart and isn?t afraid to stray off the beaten track. One of the best discoveries of this year. |
| Skaphe Skáphe³ |
| Skaphe and Wormlust Kosmískur Hryllingur |
| Sleep Research Facility Nostromo |
| Slint Tweez |
| Slint Slint |
| Slow Crush Hush |
| Slowdive Slowdive |
| Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline |
| Stars of the Lid Per Aspera Ad Astra |
| Stars of the Lid The Ballasted Orchestra |
| Stars of the Lid Carte-De-Visite |
| Stars of the Lid Gravitational Pull vs the Desire for an Aquatic Li |
| Stars of the Lid Music For Nitrous Oxide |
| Stars of the Lid Maneuvering The Nocturnal Hum (E.P.)+ |
| Steve Roach New Life Dreaming |
| Steve Roach Structures from Silence |
| Steve Roach Afterlight |
| Steve Roach The Magnificent Void |
| Steve Roach Texture Maps |
| Steve Roach Immersion: Two |
| Steve Roach Immersion: Three |
| Steve Roach Destination Beyond |
| Steve Roach Immersion: Five |
| Steve Roach Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces |
| Steve Roach Invisible |
| Steve Roach The Passing |
| Steve Roach Spiral Revelation |
| Steve Roach The Delicate Forever |
| Steve Roach Atmosphere for Dreaming |
| Steve Roach Mercurius |
| Steve Roach Long Thoughts |
| Steve Roach Bloom Ascension |
| Steve Roach Trance Archeology |
| Steve Roach A Soul Ascends |
| Steve Roach As it is |
| Steve Roach Rest of Life |
| Steve Von Till As the Crow Flies |
| Steve Von Till No Wilderness Deep Enough |
| Thantifaxath Sacred White Noise |
| Thantifaxath Void Masquerading as Matter |
| Thantifaxath Hive Mind Narcosis |
| The Body and Big|Brave Leaving None But Small Birds |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| The Psychic Paramount II |
| The Ruins of Beverast Exuvia |
| Thom Yorke Suspiria |
| Thorns Thorns |
| Throane Derrière-Nous, La Lumière |
| Throane Plus une Main à Mordre |
| Throane Une Balle Dans Le Pied |
| Tim Hecker Harmony in Ultraviolet |
| Treha Sektori Sorieh |
| Treha Sektori Endessiah |
| Univers Zero Heresie |
| Univers Zero Clivages |
| Vangelis Blade Runner Soundtrack |
| Wardruna Kvitravn |
| YOB The Great Cessation |
| YOB Atma |
| YOB Clearing The Path To Ascend |
| YOB Our Raw Heart |
| Yuka Kitamura Elden Ring |
| Zoat-Aon Star Autopsy |
| Zoat-Aon The Triplex Bestial |
| 4.5 superb |
| Absent In Body Plague God |
| Aeoga Triangle of Nebula-Devourers |
| Aidan Baker The Spectrum of Distraction |
| Aidan Baker Sorry for What I Said to You in Your Dream |
| Aidan Baker Synth Studies III |
| Aidan Baker There / Not There |
| Alice in Chains Alice in Chains |
| Alphaxone Altered Dimensions |
| Alphaxone Living In The Grayland |
| Alphaxone / ProtoU Stardust |
| Altar of Plagues Mammal |
| Aluk Todolo Descension |
| Aluk Todolo Occult Rock |
| Amenra Mass I: Prayer I - VI |
| Amenra Mass II: Sermons |
| Amenra Mass I (Remastered) |
| Amenra De Doorn |
| Arktau Eos Unworeldes |
| Ben Frost Scope Neglect |
| Big|Brave An Understanding Between People |
| Big|Brave Au De La |
| Big|Brave nature morte |
| Big|Brave A Chaos of Flowers |
| Folk music infused with massive walls of sound, almost total silence and everything in between. Robin?s vocals and lyrics take it to another level. |
| Blodet Ruiner |
| Blodet Ocean |
| Blodet Vision |
| Blut Aus Nord Hallucinogen |
| Blut Aus Nord Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses |
| Blut Aus Nord Lovecraftian Echoes |
| Blut Aus Nord Disharmonium – Nahab |
| Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase |
| BRUIT Apologie du temps perdu, Vol. 1 |
| Burial ANTIDAWN EP |
| C R O W N The End of All Things |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms Stochastic |
| Cult of Luna Cult of Luna (EP) |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal |
| Cult of Luna The Silent Man |
| Cult of Luna Mariner Live at De Kreun |
| Cult of Luna Bodies / Recluse |
| Dirge (FR) Wings Of Lead Over Dormant Seas |
| Dirge (FR) Elysian Magnetic Fields |
Dirge definitely have a sound all of their own and this album just strengthens their legacy. Everything just flows so
effortlessly. |
| Dvne Etemen Ænka |
| Dysrhythmia Barriers And Passages |
| Dysrhythmia No Interference |
| Dysrhythmia The Veil Of Control |
| Dysrhythmia Contradiction |
| Elder (USA-MA) The Gold and Silver Sessions |
| Enslaved Utgard |
| Fennesz Agora |
| Fennesz and Sakamoto Flumina |
| Fvnerals The Hours |
| Fvnerals The Light |
| Fvnerals Wounds |
| Giacinto Scelsi Natura Renovatur |
| Giacinto Scelsi The Violin Works (Weiping Lin) |
| Giacinto Scelsi Complete Works for Clarinet |
| Giacinto Scelsi Konx-Om-Pax |
| Grails Chalice Hymnal |
| Great Falls Objects Without Pain |
I‘ve not seen much mention of this band, but I think a lot of people will be shocked at just how good this album is.
Noise rock/metal which isn’t afraid to push boundaries and comes across as a completely authentic release of
anguish. |
| Gyorgy Ligeti Atmospheres |
| Halo Manash SYoMA |
| Halo Manash Par-Antra I: VIR |
| Hans Zimmer Interstellar |
| Hans Zimmer Dunkirk |
| Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch Blade Runner 2049 |
| Healthyliving Songs of Abundance, Psalms of Grief |
| Imperial Triumphant Vile Luxury |
| Inade The Crackling of the Anonymous |
| Inade Burning Flesh |
| Insect Ark Portal/Well |
| Insect Ark Marrow Hymns |
| Insect Ark The Vanishing |
| This is their best album yet. Huge drums, mixed with pedal steel, thick bass riffs and various other effects bubbling under the surface, serve an atmospheric whole that is carefully crafted and realised fully. Highly recommended and one of the better albums of the year so far. |
| Ital Tek Hollowed |
| Ital Tek Bodied |
| Ital Tek Timeproof |
| Jonny Greenwood There Will Be Blood OST |
| Kammarheit Somewhere Concealed |
| Karin Park Church of Imagination |
| Katatonia The Fall of Hearts |
| Katatonia City Burials |
| KEN mode Null |
| Khoma The Second Wave |
| King Buffalo Repeater |
| Kowloon Walled City Piecework |
| Latitudes Part Island |
| Loscil Clara |
| Lustmord [ THE DARK PLACES OF THE EARTH ] |
| Fantastic work from Brian once again and severely under appreciated here. |
| Lustmord Dark Matter |
| Lustmord Much Unseen Is Also Here |
| Martin Sturtzer Temporal Paradox |
| Martin Sturtzer Antimatter Resonance |
| Martin Sturtzer Relativity |
| Meshuggah I |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree |
| Messa Feast for Water |
| Mica Levi Under The Skin OST |
| Middian Age Eternal |
| Minsk The Crash and the Draw |
| Miserere Luminis Ordalie |
| Mono The Phoenix Tree |
| Morrow The Quiet Earth |
| Morrow Fallow |
I’m surprised these three fantastic albums haven’t garnered more attention. Fallow mixes several genres but
always sounds cohesive and well constructed. The production job is absolutely top tier, too. |
| Morrow (UK) Covenant of Teeth |
| Morrow (UK) The Quiet Earth |
| Northaunt The Ominous Silence |
| Oathbreaker Ease Me & 4 Interpretations |
| Ocoeur Reversed |
| Ocoeur Everything |
| Om Advaitic Songs |
| Panopticon The End is Growing Near |
| Phelios Gates of Atlantis |
| Plebeian Grandstand Rien ne suffit |
| Psicosfera Beta |
| Rejoice! The Light Has Come Untitled |
| Rejoice! The Light Has Come Untitled EP II |
| Robert Rich Ylang |
| Robert Rich Filaments |
| Robert Rich Vestiges |
| Robert Rich Tactile Ground |
| Robert Rich The Biode |
| Russian Circles Guidance |
| Serpent Column Endless Detainment |
| Setentia Darkness Transcend |
| Shora Malval |
| Slow Crush Aurora |
| Slowdive Everything is Alive |
| SOM The Shape of Everything |
| Soundgarden Superunknown |
| Spotlights Tidals |
| Spotlights Audiotree Live |
| Spotlights Love and Decay |
| Spotlights We Are All Atomic |
| Spotlights Alchemy for the Dead |
| Stars of the Lid The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid |
| Stars of the Lid Avec Laudenum |
| Steve Roach Atmospheric Conditions |
| Steve Roach Immersion: One |
| Steve Roach Dynamic Stillness |
| Steve Roach Immersion: Four |
| Steve Roach Sigh of Ages |
| Steve Roach Bloodmoon Rising : Night 3 |
| Steve Roach Nostalgia for the Future |
| Steve Roach Tomorrow |
| Steve Roach Zones, Drones and Atmospheres |
| Steve Roach What Remains |
| Steve Von Till A Deep Voiceless Wilderness |
| Sunless Ylem |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Peel Session |
| The Haxan Cloak Excavation |
| Theophonos Nightmare Visions |
| Thorns Stigma Diabolicum |
| Tim Hecker No Highs |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Tool Ænima |
| Wardruna Skald |
| Wells Valley Achamoth |
| Fantastic drumming, lots of rhythmic interplay and genuinely impressive sound design in the more ambient sections. A really pleasant surprise. |
| YOB Pickathon 2019 - Live from the Galaxy Barn |
| Zola Jesus Arkhon |
Puzzled a bit at the lukewarm reception this seems to have here. I think it’s a fantastic album, her most fully
realised yet in terms of atmosphere and production. |
