1994 // runner-up // Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Alice In Chains - Jar Of Flies
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Let Love In
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
Lilys - Eccsame The Photon Band
1999 // runner-up // Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
The Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foliage: Animation Music Volume 1
Fiona Apple - When The Pawn [...]
Coil - Musick To Play In The Dark
2003 // runner-up // Kayo Dot - Choirs Of The Eye
Boris - Boris At Last -Feedbacker-
Boris - Akuma No Uta
Soundtrack (Video Game) - Metroid Prime
Xiu Xiu - A Promise
2014 // runner-up // Have A Nice Life - The Unnatural World
Swans - To Be Kind
A Slow Descent - A Slow Descent
White Suns - Totem
The Body - I Shall Die Here
The Flaming Lips - 7 Skies H3
Flying Lotus - You're Dead!
2016 // runner-up // Fire! - She Sleeps, She Sleeps
David Bowie - Blackstar
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
Stimming - Alpe Lusia
Grouper - Paradise Valley
2017 // as of now // runner-up // Avey Tare - Eucalyptus
Boris - Dear
Slowdive - Slowdive
Max Richter - Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works
A/T/O/S - Outboxed
Brian Eno - Reflection
Goldfrapp - Silver Eye
so apparently in publishing the list, it took out 2013 for some reason so here's 2013 // will add genres later:
Ichiko Aoba - 0
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runner-up // Suuns - Images Du Futur
The Knife - Shaking The Habitual
Vakula - You've Never Been To Konotop
Airospace - 戦場ヶ原 ひたぎ [vol. II]
Ulver - Messe I.X-VI.X
Ryuichi Sakamoto and Taylor Deupree - Disappearance
Julia Holter - Loud City Song
Candy Claws - Ceres And Calypso In The Deep Time
Deerhunter - Monomania
Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin
Kinoko Teikoku - Eureka
