| 5.0 classic |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion |
| Animal Collective Feels |
| Fantomas Delirium Cordia |
| Howard Shore The Lord of the Rings: Complete Trilogy |
| A stunning, colourful and emotive soundtrack to possibly my favourite films of all time. One minute it brings a mischievous smile to your face, the next it fills you with dread, the next it brings tears to your eyes. Epic and ethereal, much like the films themselves. |
| Idiot Flesh Fancy |
| Joanna Newsom Ys |
| KMFDM Naïve |
| 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 |
| 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 OK Computer |
| Radiohead OK Computer: Collector's Edition |
| Radiohead Kid A: Collector's Edition |
| Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Of Natural History |
| Swans Soundtracks for the Blind |
| Swans The Great Annihilator |
| Swans The Seer |
| The Jesus Lizard Goat |
| Ufomammut Eve |
| 4.0 excellent |
| 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 |
| 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 Here Comes the Indian |
| Animal Collective Spirit They're Gone... |
| 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. |
| Atoms for Peace Amok |
| Austra Feel It Break |
| Autechre Amber |
| Battles Gloss Drop |
| Big Black Songs About Fucking |
| Bjork Post |
| Bjork Debut |
| Blur Parklife |
| Boards of Canada Music Has The Right To Children |
| Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports |
| Coil Horse Rotorvator |
| Cryptopsy None So Vile |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles |
| Daft Punk Homework |
| Daft Punk Discovery |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories |
| Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger |
| Devendra Banhart Rejoicing in the Hands |
| Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Ocean Rain |
| Faith No More The Real Thing |
| Faith No More Album of the Year |
| Fantomas Fantomas |
| Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand |
| 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# (Infinity) |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz |
| Gravediggaz 6 Feet Deep |
| How To Destroy Angels Welcome Oblivion |
| Idiot Flesh Tales of Instant Knowledge and Sure Death |
| Joanna Newsom The Milk-Eyed Mender |
| John Zorn Six Litanies for Heliogabalus |
| John Zorn Moonchild |
| Kate Bush 50 Words for Snow |
| Kate Bush The Sensual World |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV |
| Lightning Bolt Hypermagic Mountain |
| Lightning Bolt Wonderful Rainbow |
| Massive Attack Blue Lines |
| Melvins Stag |
| Melvins Houdini |
| Mr. Bungle OU818 |
| 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 |
| Oasis Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants |
| Oasis Definitely Maybe |
| Oasis Wibbling Rivalry |
| Panda Bear Tomboy |
| Peeping Tom Peeping Tom |
| Pink Floyd Animals |
| Pink Floyd Ummagumma |
| Primus Frizzle Fry |
| Primus Animals Should Not Try To Act Like People |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Scratch Acid The Greatest Gift |
| Sigur Ros Takk... |
| Sigur Ros Brennisteinn |
| Skinny Puppy Last Rights |
| Skinny Puppy Too Dark Park |
| Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Grand Opening and Closing |
| 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 |
| Swans White Light From the Mouth of Infinity |
| Swans Children of God |
| Swans Greed |
| Swans Love Will Tear Us Apart |
| The Beatles Abbey Road |
| The Knife Shaking the Habitual |
| The Strokes Is This It |
| The White Stripes Icky Thump |
| The White Stripes Elephant |
| The White Stripes De Stijl |
| Thee Silver Mount Zion Born Into Trouble As the Sparks Fly... |
| Thee Silver Mount Zion He Has Left Us Alone... |
| Tomahawk Tomahawk |
| Tomahawk Oddfellows |
| Ufomammut Idolum |
| Venetian Snares The Chocolate Wheelchair Album |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| KMFDM Blitz |
| I must confess I've yet to hear this album in full, but from what I can make out it is yet another brainless goth-industrial album in the vein of Hau Ruck and WWIII. Even fans who loved those two albums are hating on this one... 'nuff said. |
| KMFDM Hau Ruck |
| 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. |
| The Brian Jonestown Massacre My Bloody Underground |
| Overly derivative name-dropping psych slackers make their most lethargic and vacuous record yet. Yawn. |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
