| 5.0 classic |
| Air Premiers Symptomes |
| Within the first minute of Premiers Symptomes there is an invigorating approach to the sublime. The build up to "Modular Mix" gently pushes your ears into a funky, house groove that warps your head into your headphones or, in the case of speakers, draws you in for the ride serenely. It is the type of release that lets you know, ahead of time, that changing the song is not going to happen for a solid 33.8 minutes. Air is good at this bewilderment upon listening format; but something about "Premiers" gives it a push and shove into a party atmosphere as well as a more than perfect sleep aid. Oh and if you get to that point in the AM where nothing makes sense and you've been glazed-eyed for a good bit, this is an epic electronic soundscape thats sure to spark wave after wave of euphoria. Air means two things to me. Relaxing and partying. Simultaneously. Sorry for spelling errors or brevity. First try at this. PS check out Le Voyage Dans La Lune" after this for a nice one-two punch in the ears. |
| Animal Collective Strawberry Jam |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion |
| Animal Collective Centipede Hz |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| Battles Gloss Drop |
| Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique |
| Beck Odelay! |
| Daft Punk Homework |
| Dirty Projectors Swing Lo Magellan |
| Fantomas The Directors Cut |
| Girls Album |
| Girls Father, Son, Holy Ghost |
| Gorillaz Demon Days |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King |
| King Crimson Red |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV |
| Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti |
| Lil Wayne Tha Carter III |
| Local Natives Sun Hands |
| Local Natives Hummingbird |
| Madvillain Madvillainy |
| Memory Tapes Seek Magic |
| Memory Tapes Player Piano |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice |
| Moby Play |
| Mr. Bungle California |
| My Bloody Valentine m b v |
| Neon Indian Era Extrana |
| Nirvana In Utero |
| Of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? |
| Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain |
| Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA's Desert |
| Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn |
| Pink Floyd Animals |
| Pink Floyd Meddle |
| Pink Floyd The Wall |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Radiohead Knives Out |
| Radiohead No Surprises |
| Rx Bandits Mandala |
| Rest in Peace RxB. This will be a classic to many for many years to come. |
| Sonic Youth Experimental Jet Set, Trash, and No Star |
| Classic in the sense that each listen yields new insights into the noises and voices which nonchalantly destroy your ear drums. Plus Kim is awesome on this album; oh and probably the best tracking of any Sonic Youth release. Screaming Skull catches you off guard where it hurts and you can't help fist pumping in between the songs that get you ready for the more melodious segments. Awesome all the way through. |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation |
| Stephen Malkmus Tigers - Single |
| Stephen Malkmus Mirror Traffic |
| The Beach Boys Pet Sounds |
| The Beatles Revolver |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul |
| The Beatles Please Please Me |
| The Beatles Abbey Road |
| The Beatles The Beatles |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet |
| The Strokes Is This It |
| Unforgettable and classic; easily one of the most influential albums of 21st century so far. |
| The White Stripes Elephant |
| The Zombies Odessey and Oracle |
| Tomahawk Mit Gas |
| Yo La Tengo Popular Songs |
| Yo La Tengo Fade |
| 4.5 superb |
| Animal Collective Sung Tongs |
| Animal Collective Feels |
| Animal Collective Fall Be Kind |
| This grows on you. The "Old Heads" will probably throw a rock at you for putting on the stereo, but will gasp at the brilliantly executed Jerry Garcia sample. The first track is just so...unnatrual in a way. the second the flutes start flying around i can't tell whether I'm at a pub in Scotland or flying through a beautiful meadow on rainy day. Great from start to finish. And with a little time, every vocal melody will stick in your head for a long, long time. |
| Arcade Fire Funeral |
| At the Drive-In Vaya |
| Atlas Sound Logos |
| awesomely inspired. a blend of improv and serious thinking within the subconscious |
| Atlas Sound Parallax |
| Beck Sea Change |
| Beck Midnite Vultures |
| This is without a doubt one of the most over the top, psychedelic albums out there. Every song has so much jammed packed into it; the listener either gets vertigo or dances their ass off. Its hard not to stress the frenzied hip-hoppishness of this classic Beck LP and throw it on the higher pedestals of this magician's career. "Nicotene and Gravy" has always been a favorite of mine. Danceable and catchy. And, naturally, weird in all the right ways. |
| Broken Bells Broken Bells |
| Caribou Andorra |
| Caribou Swim |
| Cursive Happy Hollow |
| Daft Punk Discovery |
| Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse Dark Night of the Soul |
| Dark, yet overwhelmingly euphoric at times. This is indeed a conglomeration of everything good about music today, and a landmark effort in production from both Linkous and Burton. The sounds utilized mould each track into something surreal, and the various vocals add to the collage of atmosphere. Warrants multiple listens, and rewards each run through with something new. |
| Deerhunter Microcastle |
| Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca |
| Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues |
| Girls Broken Dreams Club |
| Gorillaz Plastic Beach |
| LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver |
| LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening |
| Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy |
| Local Natives Gorilla Manor |
| MGMT Time to Pretend |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| Of Montreal Satanic Panic in the Attic |
| Of Montreal Aldhils Arboretum |
| This is an extremely important record that carries a strong influence on 21st century psych-pop music. Kevin Barnes and company have been innovating since the early four-tracks, and Aldhils is a key tweak in sound for the band. Its twitchy rhythms and tempos can be heard clearly even on Skeletal Lamping, and are telling of the latter half of Of Montreal's catalogue. "A Question For Emily Foreman" displays some of the bands best guitar work, and "An Ode To the Nocturnal Muse" will make you smile uncontrollably. The entire work is teeming with a psych-pop chaos, yet maintains a nonchalant groove throughout. |
| Of Montreal Skeletal Lamping |
| Last year's most underrated album, and i couldn't say that more sincerely. As off-putting as this nearly hour-long rapocalypse of dreams and colors and noises appears at first, it has solidified itself into cohesive work upon several rlistens. Its almost as if Kevin Barnes is at the helm of some psychedelic dream-machine; championing the vessel rthrough waves of blissful depression. He has, at last, entirely transformed into his alter ego "Georgie Fruit", and the rhalf woman half man subconsciously parades through each song in rapid ADHD fashion. Altogether, the album rcould've been dissected into three separate works, considering the amount of rhythms and rhyme-scapes present. rBut Barnes would rather throw it all into some sort of terrifying, yet ultimately rewarding experience. |
| Of Montreal Coquelicot Asleep In The Poppies |
| This could be Of Montreal's most ambitious album. It glistens with great harmonies, various instrumentation (lots of great orchestral/classic piano arrangements), and the quirky song structures and lyrics that make Of Montreal's sound so unique. Some of the best bass work in all of their catalogue as well. |
| Of Montreal The Sunlandic Twins [Bonus EP] |
| Of Montreal Paralytic Stalks |
| Pavement Wowee Zowee |
| Pixies Doolittle |
| Portugal. The Man American Ghetto |
| Nothing short of beautiful music in the prime of Portugal's prolific career. Every listen yields new discoveries; this is everything i love about Portugal. The Man |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Radiohead Go to Sleep |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Radiohead Pyramid Song |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs |
| Real Estate Real Estate |
| Real Estate Days |
| Sigur Ros Ágætis Byrjun |
| Sigur Ros ( ) |
| Sonic Youth EVOL |
| St. Vincent Strange Mercy |
| Stephen Malkmus Pig Lib |
| Stephen Malkmus Real Emotional Trash |
| Stephen Malkmus Senator - Single |
| The Beach Boys Smiley Smile |
| The Beatles A Hard Day's Night |
| The Beatles Let It Be |
| The Beatles Anthology 2 |
| The Beatles Anthology 3 |
| The Flaming Lips Clouds Taste Metallic |
| The Good, the Bad & the Queen The Good, The Bad & The Queen |
| A wonderful fusion of Afro-beat, Pop, and Albarn brilliance wrapped up in a neat 12 piece theatre. A showcase of ballsiness and beauty; the Good the Bad and the Queen somehow went relatively under the radar for such spectacular talent involved. Above all else, however, the songs themselves stand out as mini paintings of London and modern life. |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute |
| The Return The Arsonist (Plays the Architect) |
| The Strokes Room on Fire |
| The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan |
| The White Stripes Blue Orchid |
| Tomahawk Oddfellows |
| TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain |
| TV on the Radio Dear Science |
