| 4.0 excellent |
| A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory |
| AC/DC Back In Black |
| Alex G God Save The Animals |
| Andrea Due In Color |
| Animal Collective Sung Tongs |
| Aphex Twin Windowlicker |
| Arcade Fire Funeral |
| Avey Tare Cows On Hourglass Pond |
| Beach House 7 |
| Beck Modern Guilt |
| Big Thief Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You |
| Bjork Homogenic |
| Boards of Canada Geogaddi |
| Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited |
| Brand New Daisy |
| Brian Eno Another Green World |
| Brian Eno Thursday Afternoon |
| Bruce Springsteen Born to Run |
| Burial Untrue |
| Chepang Swatta |
| Cocteau Twins Four-Calendar Cafe |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism |
| Death Grips The Money Store |
| death's dynamic shroud Darklife |
| Deerhunter Halcyon Digest |
| Dirty Projectors Swing Lo Magellan |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP |
| Everything Everything Get to Heaven |
| Fennesz Endless Summer |
| Fucked Up David Comes to Life |
| Fugazi The Argument |
| George Clanton Ooh Rap I Ya |
| Gold Panda Lucky Shiner |
| Grails Red Light |
| Grails The Burden of Hope |
| Grails Anches En Maat |
| Grouper A I A |
| Guided by Voices Bee Thousand |
| Holy Sons I Want to Live a Peaceful Life |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights |
| Interpol Antics |
| J Dilla Donuts |
| Jamie xx In Colour |
| Jan Jelinek Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records |
| Joanna Newsom Have One on Me |
| John Francis Flynn Look Over the Wall, See the Sky |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| Kanye isn't just a disser of presidents or an interrupter of pop stars. This Kanye's a cubist nightmare; he's a naked, hairy, 40-swigging monstrosity; and he has his head impaled upon a bloody sword. He doesn't care what you think of him, either. Yeah, he's a scumbag. Yeah, he's the abomination of Obama's nation. He knows it, too; more importantly, he feeds off of it. |
| Mac DeMarco 2 |
| Massive Attack Blue Lines |
| Material Girl i85mixx21-22 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets |
| MGMT Oracular Spectacular |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West |
| MSPAINT Post-American |
| My Morning Jacket At Dawn |
| New Buffalo The Last Beautiful Day |
| New Order Blue Monday |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? |
| Accidental classics come about every once in a while. of Montreal's Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer is, in my book, a fine example of one. Kevin Barnes, ringleader of the theatrical Athens-based collective, penned the majority of these tracks in depression-induced exile while holed up in Norway. We're all familiar with these sad-musician fables: Bon Iver did it with For Emma, Forever Ago, yielding enormously positive results. Barnes, I think, was equally inspired to produce a document of misery, but he most certainly lost himself in doing so. Although subsequent albums reveal that Mr. Barnes' sex driven insanity may be beyond the point of remedy, there will always be Hissing Fauna - proof that the same nasty seed that spawned shit like Skeletal Lamping also gave the world a John Merrick, a misunderstood elephant man who put the words you always felt but never could articulate in your mouth for you. |
| Orville Peck Bronco |
| Palace Music Viva Last Blues |
| Pearl Jam Ten |
| Philip Glass Einstein on the Beach |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon |
| Pink Floyd Animals |
| Pink Floyd The Wall |
| Pixies Doolittle |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa |
| pizzamachine Shriller Killer |
| pizza delivers fun occasional lacunae, seeming thoughtful discrepancies, fragmentary,? ?discontinuous, images and allusions forcoherent complete narrative. no joke this man eat anything.retroactive arrang the accidence both an ending and a beginning, pizzafied processes of simplification, reduction, exposition, intensificatiof sudden, transfigurative events. explosions of novelty! |
| pizzamachine Crunkcore Revenge |
| PJ Harvey I Inside the Old Year Dying |
| Portishead Dummy |
| Primal Scream Screamadelica |
| R.E.M. Automatic for the People |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs |
| Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter SAVED! |
| Ross From Friends Tread |
| Saint Pepsi Mannequin Challenge |
| Say Sue Me The Last Thing Left |
| Shabazz Palaces Black Up |
| Shaggy Boombastic |
| Sharon Van Etten Are We There |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun |
| Spoon Girls Can Tell |
| Spoon They Want My Soul |
| Spoon Hot Thoughts |
| Spoon Lucifer on the Sofa |
| Spoon are a consistent band. They make good albums. Nobody agrees on "how good" or which consistently good album is the best. But they're all good. This is also good. Certainly as good as Transference, likely as good as Gimme Fiction. But I am consistently wrong, so idk? |
| Steely Dan Can't Buy a Thrill |
| Steely Dan Katy Lied |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz |
| Consider for a moment art as a piece of electronic equipment - say, a laptop. Imagine immersing the computer in water, just for a split second, and then observing its slow failure step by step. Perhaps at first there are no distinguishable differences. Soon, though, the laptop undoubtedly exhibits malfunctions. Within half an hour all hell breaks loose as the screen becomes a breeding ground for glitches. There is no control. All hope for control vanished the very second water entered the picture. With The Age of Adz Sufjan has gone for a swim...a long, long swim in who knows what, and the result of such contact can only lead to a spiraling death. |
| Swans The Seer |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| Taeyeon INVU |
| Talking Heads Fear of Music |
| Talking Heads The Name of this Band Is Talking Heads |
| The Beach Boys Pet Sounds |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| The Cars The Cars |
| The Cure Disintegration |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots |
| The Future Sound of London Accelerator |
| The Knife Silent Shout |
| The National High Violet |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead |
| The Sylvers The Sylvers II |
| The Velvet Underground Loaded |
| The xx xx |
| Tim Hecker No Highs |
| Tom Waits Rain Dogs |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| U2 The Joshua Tree |
| Weezer Everything Will Be Alright in the End |
| Wilco Summerteeth |
| Wilco Cruel Country |
| Wild Beasts Smother |
| Women Public Strain |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) |
| Yune Pinku BABYLON IX |
| 3.5 great |
| 12 Rods If We Stayed Alive |
| Alvvays Alvvays |
| Animal Collective Centipede Hz |
| JUST LYING IN A BAR WITH MY DRIP FEED ON TALKING TO MY GIRLFRIEND WAITING FOR SOMETHING TO HAPPEN |
| Aphex Twin Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / In A Room7 F760 |
| Atlas Sound Logos |
| Autechre Tri Repetae |
| Beastie Boys Check Your Head |
| Beck Midnite Vultures |
| Big Thief U.F.O.F. |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Brand New Science Fiction |
| Bruce Springsteen Born in the U.S.A. |
| Burial Rival Dealer |
| Can Ege Bamyasi |
| Caustic Window Caustic Window |
| Chairlift Something |
| Chromatics Closer to Grey |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars |
| death's dynamic shroud After Angel |
| Deerhunter Microcastle |
| DIIV Deceiver |
| DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ Destiny |
| Drake Take Care |
| Elvis Costello My Aim Is True |
| Emil Amos Zone Black |
| Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors |
| Fleet Foxes Shore |
| Foals Total Life Forever |
| Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand |
| Frog GROG |
| Galaxie 500 On Fire |
| Girls Broken Dreams Club |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! |
| Green Day Dookie |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest |
| Holy Sons Survivalist Tales! |
| Holy Sons Decline of the West |
| Holy Sons Lost Decade |
| Japandroids Post-Nothing |
| Joy Division Closer |
| Jungle Jungle |
| Kanye West Graduation |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King |
| Kumo 99 HeadPlate |
| Lady Gaga Artpop |
| Liz Cooper and The Stampede Window Flowers |
| Mac DeMarco Salad Days |
| Mannequin Pussy Romantic |
| Massive Attack vs. Burial Four Walls/Paradise Circus |
| Metallica Metallica |
| Metallica S&M |
| Mew Frengers |
| Michael Jackson Thriller |
| Mitski The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We |
| Mount Eerie Clear Moon |
| Mount Eerie Ocean Roar |
| Phil Elverum's work as Mount Eerie seems to be hearkening back to the elemental song cycle tradition of really-old-man times. Not like the '50s or '40s whatever, not the '20s stuff F. Scott probably dug...we're talking a huddle of drunk bar-dwellers in a grimy fire-heated pub rasping a request: "Phil, sing us a song about the water." And Phil nods but adds this: "But know that the only time you'll hear me is when I come up for breath." Then he cranks up his amps and performs Knife-like instrumentals and really clues you in to what he's really up to with Mount Eerie, what the water's like. Elverum's ocean is immersive, cerebral, loud, and can support your body for 38.6 minutes. Float for a while, and expect the fire. |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade |
| Nazareth Hair of the Dog |
| Nirvana In Utero |
| Nujabes Spiritual State |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| OXN CYRM |
| Pantha Du Prince Black Noise |
| Paul Simon Seven Psalms |
| Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain |
| Pearl Jam Vs. |
| Phoenix (FRA) Bankrupt! |
| Prefab Sprout Steve McQueen |
| R.E.M. Reckoning |
| Robyn Body Talk |
| Run-D.M.C. Raising Hell |
| Saint Pepsi Hit Vibes |
| Scott Walker Bish Bosch |
| Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols |
| Shabazz Palaces Lese Majesty |
| Sigur Ros ( ) |
| Skrillex Quest for Fire |
| Sleigh Bells Reign of Terror |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation |
| Spoon Series of Sneaks |
| Stars of the Lid The Ballasted Orchestra |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois |
| Sun Kil Moon Benji |
| Talking Heads More Songs About Buildings and Food |
| Talking Heads Talking Heads: 77 |
| Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues |
| The Antlers Hospice |
| The Antlers Undersea |
| The Beatles Revolver |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour |
| The Dismemberment Plan Emergency & I |
| The Flaming Lips The Terror |
| The Go! Team Proof of Youth |
| The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me |
| I don't know about you, but this will be my summer loving torture party. |
| The Olivia Tremor Control Music From The Unrealized Film Script |
| The Roots Things Fall Apart |
| The White Stripes Elephant |
| Tokyo Shoegazer Crystallize |
| Tool Lateralus |
| TV on the Radio Dear Science |
| Twice Twicetagram |
| Tyler, the Creator Call Me If You Get Lost |
| U2 Zooropa |
| Weird Al Yankovic Running With Scissors |
| Yamandu Costa De Vida y Vuelta |
