| 5.0 classic |
| Agnes Obel Aventine |
| Agnes Obel Citizen Of Glass |
| Angelo Badalamenti Twin Peaks |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion |
| Animal Collective Strawberry Jam |
| Animal Collective Feels |
| Austra Feel It Break |
| Bjork Homogenic |
| Boards of Canada Geogaddi |
| Diamanda Galas The Divine Punishment |
| Faith No More Angel Dust |
| Fantomas Delìrium Còrdia |
| Fever Ray Fever Ray |
| Goldfrapp Felt Mountain |
| Howard Shore The Return of the King |
| Howard Shore The Fellowship of the Ring |
| Howard Shore The Two Towers |
| Idiot Flesh Fancy |
| Idiot Flesh The Nothing Show |
| Joanna Newsom Ys |
| Jon Hopkins Immunity |
| Kate Bush Hounds of Love |
| KMFDM Naïve |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine |
| Melvins Stoner Witch |
| Mr. Bungle Disco Volante |
| An alternately hilarious and terrifying avant-garde record of plodding death metal, schizoid jazz, sensual funk and eerie ambience. Never has a record had a more mysterious, haunting personality. Requires many a listen to make sense of it all, but it'll stick with you for life. |
| Mr. Bungle California |
| Mr. Bungle's third and final album was their weakest, but nonetheless an absolute triumph. The weirdest and best pop album ever recorded. |
| Mr. Bungle Mr. Bungle |
| Mr. Bungle The Studio Album Collection |
| Parliament Mothership Connection |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon |
| I actually consider Dark Side Of The Moon a little flawed, and find a couple of tracks far less interesting than others... but the one-two punch of Time and The Great Gig In The Sky is enough to 5 this alone. A timeless, sweeping classic. |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun |
| Sigur Ros Kveikur |
| Sleepytime Gorilla Museum In Glorious Times |
| Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Of Natural History |
| Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space |
| Swans The Great Annihilator |
| Swans Filth |
| Swans The Seer |
| Talking Heads Remain in Light |
| The Jesus Lizard Liar |
| The Jesus Lizard Goat |
| The Knife Tomorrow, In a Year |
| The fragmented, droning dissonance of the first half had me basically twitching in anticipation of a sonic payoff. When it finally came, so did I. What a rollercoaster of an album. |
| Tricky Maxinquaye |
| Ufomammut Eve |
| 4.5 superb |
| A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory |
| Agnes Obel Philharmonics |
| Air Moon Safari |
| Akron/Family Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free |
| Akron/Family Sub Verses |
| Really digging this so far, mathy and direct. Not to mention the production is mindblowing. What the hell is wrong with you people |
| Animal Collective Sung Tongs |
| Animal Collective ODDSAC |
| Animal Collective Fall Be Kind |
| Animal Collective Water Curses |
| "This is where I come to cry" ... "Coooool" |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 |
| Black Moth Super Rainbow Dandelion Gum |
| Blur Parklife |
| Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children |
| Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest |
| BT Ima |
| Daft Punk Alive 2007 |
| Danny Brown XXX |
| David Bowie "Heroes" |
| David Bowie The Next Day |
| David Bowie Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) |
| David Bowie Hunky Dory |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars |
| Dead Can Dance Within the Realm of a Dying Sun |
| Dead Can Dance The Serpent's Egg |
| The opening and closing tracks are two of the best things ever recorded. |
| Deakin Sleep Cycle |
| Deftones White Pony |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... |
| El-P Cancer 4 Cure |
| Faith No More Album of the Year |
| Faith No More King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime |
| Faith No More Original Album Series [Box set] |
| Fantomas Suspended Animation |
| Faun Fables Mother Twilight |
| Fever Ray Stranger Than Kindness/Here Before |
| Fever Ray Live In Luleå |
| Genesis Selling England by the Pound |
| Gorguts Obscura |
| Hans Zimmer Interstellar |
| Jeff Buckley Grace |
| Jenny Hval Blood Bitch |
| Joanna Newsom The Milk-Eyed Mender |
| fuck y'all she has a stunning voice, I love Joanna Newsroom |
| John Williams Star Wars: The Force Awakens |
| John Williams Star Wars, Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back |
| Vader: Luke I am your father /.../ Luke: Daddy /.../ Vader: what the fuck |
| John Zorn Spillane |
| Kate Bush The Dreaming |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city |
| King Crimson Islands |
| KMFDM Symbols |
| KMFDM Nihil |
| KMFDM Don't Blow Your Top |
| KMFDM Rules |
| KMFDM Vogue |
| KMFDM Split |
| KMFDM Godlike |
| KMFDM Extra Vol.1 |
| KMFDM Extra Vol.3 |
| KMFDM Extra Vol.2 |
| Lightning Bolt Earthly Delights |
| Lightning Bolt Wonderful Rainbow |
| Lustmord The Word As Power |
| Madvillain Madvillainy |
| Massive Attack Ritual Spirit |
| Melvins Hostile Ambient Takeover |
| Miles Davis Bitches Brew |
| Motoi Sakuraba and Yuka Kitamura Dark Souls III OST |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless |
| My Bloody Valentine m b v |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| Panda Bear Person Pitch |
| Panda Bear Tomboy |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs: From the Basement |
| Radiohead The Daily Mail/Staircase |
| Ryan Amon Bloodborne Original Soundtrack |
| Scratch Acid Just Keep Eating |
| Sigur Ros Takk... |
| Sigur Ros Heima (DVD) |
| Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Grand Opening and Closing |
| Slowdive Souvlaki |
| Son Lux At War With Walls And Mazes |
| Soundtrack (Film) Donnie Darko |
| Soundtrack (Film) 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) World of Warcraft |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) World of Warcraft: Wraith of the Lich King |
| Stimming Alpe Lusia |
I first heard Stimming nearly five years ago, when a song of his was given to me by a friend as part of a mixtape. The track
exhibited a fresh and meticulous approach to house music, suggesting Stimming possessed something special among the
hordes of bedroom DJs. However, there was something audibly missing from the track, as
though Stimming had not yet realised how to take the disparate elements of his music and add them up to something entire
and profound. While optimistic that I would one day hear Stimming deliver on his promise, a torrent of new music and other
experiences flooded into my life, and I quickly forgot all about him. Cue the release of his new album. Alpe Lusia is the
sound of Stimming fully, gloriously realising the potential I first heard from him half a decade ago. One of the best
electronic albums I've heard in some years. |
| Swans To Be Kind |
| Swans Soundtracks for the Blind |
| Sweet Trip Velocity : Design : Comfort |
| I ain't never seen a gator get punked by no mongooses |
| Talking Heads Fear of Music |
| Tears for Fears Songs from the Big Chair |
| Television Marquee Moon |
| The All Seeing Hand Mechatronics |
| The Beach Boys Pet Sounds |
| The Beatles Revolver |
| The Beatles The Beatles |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour |
| The Knife Shaking the Habitual |
| The Knife Silent Shout |
| The Verve A Storm in Heaven |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Horses in the Sky |
| Tomahawk Mit Gas |
| Ufomammut Snailking |
| Ufomammut Lucifer Songs |
| 4.0 excellent |
| A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore |
| Aglaia Three Organic Experiences |
| A full, warm, oscillating record of organic and gorgeous ambience. Essential. |
| Akron/Family Love Is Simple |
| Alaskalana Safe From Harm |
| if I heard this in a record store I'd buy me a copy on the fucken spot |
| Angelo Badalamenti Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me |
| A fantastic, haunting soundtrack to one of the most unsettling films I've ever seen. The Pink Room is phenomenal. |
| Animal Collective Ark |
| Animal Collective Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished |
| Animal Collective Centipede Hz |
| Merriweather's busy, scrambled and erratic cousin - for better and for worse. |
| Animal Collective Campfire Songs |
| Animal Collective People |
| Animal Collective Honeycomb/Gotham |
This single, particularly a-side Honeycomb, feels very much like business as usual for Animal Collective. You
could call Honeycomb an ecstatic three-minute summation of their last three albums; it has the rough 'n'
tumble execution of 'Feels', the soaring vocals of 'Merriweather Post Pavilion', and the melodic sweetness of
'Strawberry Jam'. Melancholic b-side Gotham isn't quite so familiar-sounding, featuring a heartbreaking vocal
from Avey Tare that sighs across lethargic guitar and unhurried drums. It isn't the blast of energy and colour
Honeycomb is, but may well be the superior track. All in all Honeycomb/Gotham is a fantastic, if slightly
inessential pre-'Centipede' single. |
| Arcade Fire Funeral |
| Autechre Tri Repetae |
| Battles Gloss Drop |
| Beach House Depression Cherry |
| Big Black Songs About Fucking |
| Biosphere Substrata |
| Bjork Vespertine |
| Black Moth Super Rainbow Eating Us |
| Blur Modern Life Is Rubbish |
| Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase |
| Boards of Canada In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country |
| Bonobo The North Borders |
| Boredoms Seadrum/House Of Sun |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports |
| Brian Eno Another Green World |
| Burial Kindred |
| Burial Street Halo |
| Burial Untrue |
| Chelsea Wolfe Abyss |
| Coil Horse Rotorvator |
| Cryptopsy None So Vile |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles |
| D'Angelo Black Messiah |
| Daft Punk Homework |
| Daft Punk Discovery |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories |
| Danny Brown Old |
| Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition |
| Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger |
| David Bowie Blackstar |
| David Bowie Station to Station |
| David Bowie Aladdin Sane |
| David Sylvian Secrets of the Beehive |
| Dead Can Dance Into the Labyrinth |
| Death Human |
| Deerhoof Reveille |
| Deftones Around the Fur |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Devendra Banhart Rejoicing in the Hands |
| Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me |
| Doprah Wasting |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Ocean Rain |
| El-P Fantastic Damage |
| Electric Wizard Dopethrone |
| Estradasphere Buck Fever |
| Faith No More The Real Thing |
| Faith No More Sol Invictus |
| Fantomas Fantômas |
| Faun Fables Light of a Vaster Dark |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma |
| Franz Ferdinand Tonight: Franz Ferdinand |
| Franz Ferdinand Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action |
| Gary Numan Dead Son Rising |
| Gary Numan The Pleasure Principle |
| General Patton vs. The X-Ecutioners General Patton vs. The X-Ecutioners |
| Genesis Platinum Collection |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ |
| Gold Panda Lucky Shiner |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz |
| Gorillaz Demon Days |
| Gravediggaz 6 Feet Deep |
| Hammock Oblivion Hymns |
| How to Destroy Angels Welcome Oblivion |
| Idiot Flesh Tales of Instant Knowledge and Sure Death |
| Jakob Solace |
| Jamie Saft Trio Astaroth: Book of Angels Volume 1 |
| Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid |
| John Zorn Filmworks XIII: Invitation to a Suicide |
| This is a film score consisting of about three or four simple themes, varied upon and repeated throughout. What makes this score wonderful rather than monotonous is a) the sheer, aching beauty of these melodic motifs, and b) the ingenious ways Zorn is able to remould them in different hues. Highly recommended. |
| John Zorn Madness, Love and Mysticism |
| Kate Bush 50 Words for Snow |
| Kate Bush The Sensual World |
| Killer Mike R.A.P. Music |
| King Crimson Starless and Bible Black |
| King Crimson In the Wake of Poseidon |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King |
| King Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic |
| Kings of Leon Because Of The Times |
| KMFDM XTORT |
| KMFDM Angst |
| KMFDM Money |
| KMFDM Opium |
| KMFDM What Do You Know, Deutschland? |
| KMFDM Juke Joint Jezebel |
| KMFDM Sin Sex & Salvation |
| KMFDM Virus |
| KMFDM More'n'faster |
| KMFDM Greatest Shit |
| KMFDM Agogo |
| KMFDM 84-86 |
| KMFDM Retro |
| Kraftwerk Computer World |
| Kraftwerk The Man-Machine |
| Kraftwerk Trans-Europe Express |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV |
| Lightning Bolt Hypermagic Mountain |
| Lightning Bolt Fantasy Empire |
| Lorde Pure Heroine |
| Lorde The Love Club |
| Massive Attack Blue Lines |
| Massive Attack The Spoils |
| Massive Attack 100th Window |
| Fragile, glassy, subtle, ethereal, sparse, gorgeous. Listening to this album is like being haunted by Mezzanine's ghost. |
| Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas |
| Melvins Stag |
| Melvins Houdini |
| Melvins Eggnog |
| Melvins Bullhead |
| Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells |
| Mike Patton Crank: High Voltage |
| Modeselektor Monkeytown |
| Modeselektor & Thom Yorke This |
| Motoi Sakuraba Dark Souls Soundtrack |
| Mr. Bungle OU818 |
| My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult 13 Above The Night |
| My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult Sexplosion! |
| Neutral Milk Hotel On Avery Island |
| Nicolas Jaar Space Is Only Noise |
| Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IV |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral |
| Nine Inch Nails Fixed |
| Nirvana In Utero |
| Nobukazu Takemura Songbook |
| Nujabes Spiritual State |
| Oasis Wibbling Rivalry |
| Om God Is Good |
| OutKast ATLiens |
| Panda Bear Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper |
| Parliament Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome |
| Peeping Tom Peeping Tom |
| Peter Gabriel So |
| Pink Floyd Animals |
| Pink Floyd Ummagumma |
| Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn |
| Portishead Dummy |
| Portishead Portishead |
| Primus Pork Soda |
| Primus Frizzle Fry |
| Primus Animals Should Not Try To Act Like People |
| Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Radiohead TKOL RMX 1234567 |
| Radiohead Supercollider/The Butcher |
| Forgot to butcher this despite colliding both times a ton of magic. Songrater is super okay, and The Hearer is pure |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 |
| Scorn Zander |
| Scratch Acid The Greatest Gift |
| Sigur Ros Valtari |
| Sigur Ros Brennisteinn |
| Sigur Ros ( ) |
| Skinny Puppy Last Rights |
| Skinny Puppy Too Dark Park |
| Slick Idiot Sucksess |
"Sucksess" is the 2009 album by electro-industrial act Slick Idiot, aka ex-KMFDM members En Esch and
Guenter Schulz. Although amateurly produced and a little incoherent stylistically, this album is far superior to
anything KMFDM has come up with since said members left in 1999. Tracks like Everyone's A Winner,
Daydreams, Silly and Wer Bist Du? are exotic and deliciously catchy post-industrial jams far more deserving of
the KMFDM name than Sascha's recent mall goth bullshit. I am yet to listen to their divisive debut, DickNity,
but this album fills me with hope and excitement. Well done fellas. |
| Slick Idiot Dicknity |
| Son Lux Bones |
| Soundtrack (Film) Scott Pilgrim vs. The World |
| Soundtrack (Film) Watchmen: Music from the Motion Picture |
| Soundtrack (Film) Snatch |
| Soundtrack (Film) Pulp Fiction |
| Soundtrack (Film) Reservoir Dogs: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) Witcher 3 - The Wild Hunt |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) Imaginarium: Songs from the Neverhood |
| An underrated and unknown gem of a game. Suitably wacky music to accompany the vistas of plasticine. |
| Sunn O))) Monoliths and Dimensions |
| Swans White Light From the Mouth of Infinity |
| Swans Greed |
| Swans Love Will Tear Us Apart |
| Swans The Glowing Man |
| Talk Talk Spirit of Eden |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock |
| The Beatles Abbey Road |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| The Chemical Brothers Surrender |
| The Cure Disintegration |
| The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin |
| The Jesus Lizard Blue |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced |
| The Necks Sex |
| The Necks Hanging Gardens |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream |
| The Strokes Is This It |
| The White Stripes Icky Thump |
| The White Stripes Elephant |
| The White Stripes De Stijl |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Born Into Trouble As the Sparks Fly Upward |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our |
| Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 |
| Tomahawk Anonymous |
| Tomahawk Tomahawk |
| Trentemoller The Last Resort |
| Ufomammut Idolum |
| Van Morrison Astral Weeks |
| Venetian Snares The Chocolate Wheelchair Album |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) |
| Xiu Xiu Plays the Music of "Twin Peaks" |
| Zahava Seewald and Michael Grebil From My Mother's House |
| 2.5 average |
| Beady Eye Different Gear, Still Speeding |
| Barely competent revivalist rock that does offer some treats and surprises across its thirteen tracks, but not quite enough to bother spinning it. |
| Beady Eye BE |
| Boston Boston |
| File under anthemic, all-American pseudo-prog rock. |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience |
| Kasabian West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum |
| Kings of Leon Come Around Sundown |
| Kings of Leon Mechanical Bull |
| Kings of Leon Walls |
| Korn Life Is Peachy |
| Despite some truly impressive in-your-face production, this is Korn at their most juvenile and embarrassing. Like other Korn albums, it can competently channel superior bands (Faith No More, Mr. Bungle) but offers nothing of worth beyond that. |
| Kraftwerk Tour De France Soundtracks |
| Mark Pritchard Under the Sun |
| Massive Attack Heligoland |
| Heligoland is a record that feels rushed and directionless, a fairly random series of cheap-sounding noises thrown at a canvas. Not a lot of it sticks. |
| Mr. Oizo The Church |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth |
| Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Chasing Yesterday |
| Opeth Still Life |
| PIG The Gospel |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey |
| Not the embarrassing, grating pop-grunge album people would lead you to believe it is, Pablo Honey is simply an unimpressive mix of bland songwriting and ho-hum execution. Not a patch on even The Bends. |
| Regina Spektor Begin To Hope |
| Soundtrack (Film) Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 |
| The Beatles Let It Be |
| The Beatles A Hard Day's Night |
| The Brian Jonestown Massacre Give It Back |
| The Horrors Strange House |
| The Vines Winning Days |
| Aside from the opener and the beautiful title track, this is a step down in quality from their debut. A shame. |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Tool Ænima |
| 1.5 very poor |
| Die Antwoord Ten$ion |
| Possibly the most gimmicky, charmless, style-over-substance band I have ever heard... all surface and no meaning whatsoever. |
| James Blake Overgrown |
| KMFDM WWIII |
| Other than the first minute of the title track (a scorching banjo jam) and some gorgeously-mixed industrial samples, this is a totally forgettable, lifeless release. The chugging metal riffs of earlier KMFDM albums worked because they were catchy and tongue-in-cheek, here they just sound like those of any other cringeworthy metal band. Probably the worst KMFDM album of the post-Esch years. |
| Korn The Path of Totality |
A cross-promotion can of energy drink. I'll admit this match made in hell carries some morbid fascination for me. The one
or two faint glimmers of guilty pleasure on here (e.g. the pre-chorus of 'Get Up') prevent me from rating this as a 1.0... as
much as this id-driven, fad-chasing mess might deserve it. This really does represent some nadir of Western culture. I only
wish I hated it more than I do. |
| Muse The 2nd Law |
| Muse's trashy mix of cheesy guitar riffs, space-themed lyrics and Freddie Mercury-style histrionics can at times be great fun to listen to. On The 2nd Law however the cheese and the drama is cranked to 11, totally at the cost of any enjoyment. This album is almost entirely forgettable, save for the couple of tracks (Survival, Unsustainable) where the band verges into unlistenable territory. The addition of wobble bass on tracks such as Madness, Follow Me and Unsustainable (funnily enough the three singles thus far) was a soulless and ineffective attempt to jump on the dubstep bandwagon, yielding results more tragic than anything else. Stay way clear of this, folks. |
| Run the Jewels Meow the Jewels |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
