| 5.0 classic |
| A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory |
| A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders |
| Alain Goraguer La Planète Sauvage |
| Alice Coltrane Journey in Satchidananda |
| Alice Coltrane Universal Consciousness |
| Alice Coltrane World Galaxy |
| Altar of Plagues Teethed Glory and Injury |
| Amon Tobin Bricolage |
| Amon Tobin Permutation |
| Amon Tobin Supermodified |
| Antonio Sanchez Birdman |
| The greatest film score of all time, it fits the film like a vacuum pack and it isn't an over the top orchestral score which milks all the atmosphere out of the same minor scale |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| Battles Mirrored |
| Ben Frost By the Throat |
| Bernard Parmegiani De natura sonorum |
| Black Kronstadt The Free Spirit |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath |
| Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children |
| Boards of Canada Geogaddi |
| Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports |
| Brian Eno Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss |
| Can Tago Mago |
| Can Ege Bamyasi |
| Charles Mingus The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady |
| Charles Mingus Let My Children Hear Music |
| He considered this album his best, and I agree with him. Not out of fear he may come back to life and scream at me, but out of the fact that this is a flawless album. He really had a knack at orchestrating jazz music which still felt in the moment. |
| Clint Mansell Moon |
| Comus First Utterance |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Dawn of Midi Dysnomia |
As a ravenous fan of The Necks, I am always looking out for like minded artists who put their own
spin on modern minimalism. And Dawn of MIDI have really succeeded, it at points has the visceral
appeal of a tight jazz band, but the looming atmosphere and emotional weight of minimalism. rThis
may also be said for The Necks however DoM differ in their glacial shifts between movements. They
don't linger on ideas for nearly as long as The Necks, which works for them massively due to their
use of polymeter. The grooves on this album interlock in such a spine tingling way. Especially
when sections reach a more dance-like or energetic beat. rEach player fills so much space with a
single instrument, the pianist does a particularly great job of using the range of timbres a piano
can produce. Fantastic stuff |
| Death Symbolic |
| Death Grips The Money Store |
| Deathspell Omega Kenose |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... |
| Drive Like Jehu Yank Crime |
| El-P Fantastic Damage |
| Envy All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead |
| Eric Dolphy Out to Lunch! |
| The album I would use to show the spirit of jazz, its dissonant but it doesn't care, its boundlessness but it doesn't care, its a hard listen but it doesn't care. All the musicians sound like they are loving the performance, which makes it a joy to listen to. If you have listened to 'The Shape of Jazz to Come' and wonder what the next important Avant Garde jazz album you need to check out, this is it. |
| Faust Faust IV |
| Flying Lotus Los Angeles |
| In my opinion the best beat album, each track is stuffed with fantastic sounds and great rhythms. The track flow creates a cohesive album which flows with a noir atmosphere. Flyo succeeded in showing us his vision of Los Angeles |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma |
| Flying Lotus You're Dead! |
| As a huge jazz and hip hop fan this album really is a gift, I love how there are straight up amazing jazz (fusion) tracks between fantastic pieces of hip hop and electronic music. The jazz sections are Bitches Brew quality, sounding absolutely amazing. The album is so diverse and packed with fantastic ideas, yet each track flows into each other and continues the narrative about mortality. You can call this an album of interludes, but you wouldn't be saying that if you actually enjoyed fusion/free jazz. Also all pieces are so cohesive with each other that to treat them out of the context of each other, claiming them to be pointless, is just plain wrong. Simply the best modern jazz, hip hop and electronic album of the decade |
| Fugazi Repeater |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress' |
| Its not like Godspeed haven't done drone music before, and in actual fact their drone pieces have never been this thick and distorted. In my opinion this is their best drone work as a collective band, they are all contributing to the soundscape and it works incredibly well. The composed side of the album is also fantastic, the first movement of the piece (its a 40 minute piece, I think if more people treated it as one composition they would love it as much as me) takes the more eastern rock vibes from their previous album and makes it a bit heavier. The climax section of the piece, which is as long as whole pieces from previous albums, is fantastic. This all adds together as another fantastic record from these guys. I don't understand why this isn't getting more positive reviews, people are treating this like a safe alum? I guess only Godspeed can be criticized with producing a safe album of a single 40 minute piece. |
| Gorguts Obscura |
| Gorillaz Demon Days |
| I love every second of this album, the songs have great production, singing and features. It has a constant original atmosphere which brings me right back to my childhood. One of the only albums I listened to as a kid which isn't garbage, an absolute classic |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness |
| Herbie Hancock Sextant |
| Herbie Hancock Mwandishi |
| Herbie Hancock Crossings |
| J Dilla Donuts |
| Jean-Michel Jarre Oxygene |
| John Coltrane A Love Supreme |
| John Coltrane Giant Steps |
| John Coltrane Live At Birdland |
| John Coltrane Stellar Regions |
| John Coltrane Blue Train |
| John Coltrane My Favorite Things |
| John Coltrane Africa/Brass |
| John Coltrane Olé Coltrane |
| John Coltrane "Live" at the Village Vanguard |
| Kamasi Washington The Epic |
| Really earns its hyperbolic tittle, I challenge anyone to find a track which falls short on composition, this is a modern sounding jazz album (in composition and in production) that doesn't sacrifice its heritage. One of the most enjoyable and easy to listen to albums of this length I have ever heard. I hope it gets the recognition it deserves, anyone who can create a 170 minute jazz album with a orchestra, a choir and a ten piece band deserves to be assaulted by accolades and awards. |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly |
| Brilliant hip-hop album with fantastic songs, production, verses and the best ending to an album I have ever heard. |
| Kraftwerk Radio-Activity |
| Krallice Years Past Matter |
| Locrian The Crystal World |
| Madvillain Madvillainy |
| maudlin of the Well Part the Second |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue |
| Miles Davis Bitches Brew |
| Miles Davis In a Silent Way |
| Mogwai Young Team |
| Mogwai The Hawk Is Howling |
| Murmuure Murmuure |
| Nas Illmatic |
| Neurosis The Eye Of Every Storm |
| Neurosis Through Silver In Blood |
| Nicolas Jaar Space Is Only Noise |
| Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come |
| Pharoah Sanders Karma |
| Pharoah Sanders Black Unity |
| My favourite album of Pharoah's with Karma, you really need to hear this if Karma floated your boat or if you couldn't get into the singing on Karma. At some points I think this overtakes Karma, however overall I think both albums are as perfect as jazz can be, thats down to them being structured and arranged in a way that still sounds modern today. |
| Pharoah Sanders Thembi |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side Of The Moon |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Pink Floyd Meddle |
| Public Enemy It Takes A Nation (...) To Hold Us Back |
| Quasimoto The Unseen |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool |
| Rahsaan Roland Kirk The Inflated Tear |
| Rahsaan Roland Kirk Bright Moments |
| Rahsaan Roland Kirk Rip, Rig And Panic |
| Rahsaan Roland Kirk Blacknuss |
| Rahsaan Roland Kirk I Talk with the Spirits |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come |
| Rosetta The Galilean Satellites |
| Scott Walker Tilt |
| Shabazz Palaces Black Up |
| Shining (NOR) Blackjazz |
| Simply the best progressive metal album, equal parts experimental and awesome. Plus the production is just insanely good, THE MADNESS AND THE DAMAGE DONE! |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun |
| Slint Spiderland |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation |
| Sonic Youth Sister |
| Sonic Youth Evol |
| Sorne House of Stone |
| Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space |
| Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline |
| Steve Reich Music for 18 Musicians |
| Steve Reich Early Works |
| Yeah this stuff is classic, it is going to rain after all |
| Steve Reich Different Trains/Electric Counterpoint |
| Steve Reich Drumming |
| A fantastic study in rhythm, each section bringing something new to enjoy and explore. |
| Sun Ra The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol 1 |
| Sun Ra Atlantis |
| Sun Ra Lanquidity |
| This guy was so ahead of his time it isn't even funny.... Well actually it is, SPACE IS THE PLACE. Anyway this album is a jazz classic overlooked by too many. It has a great atmosphere, and its arrangements are just fantastic. |
| Sun Ra Jazz in Silhouette |
| Sun Ra Sleeping Beauty |
| Sun Ra Super-Sonic Jazz |
| Sun Ra The Nubians of Plutonia |
| Sun Ra Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy |
| Sun Ra My Brother the Wind, Vol. 2 |
| Sunn O))) Black One |
| Sunn O))) Monoliths and Dimensions |
| Sunn O))) Oracle |
| Supersilent 6 |
| Supersilent 5 |
| Swans Filth |
| Swans Soundtracks for the Blind |
| This is a very overlooked album, and I don't mean it in the fanboyish way. I mean from a music technology standpoint, the way Gira assembled this album is amazing. The whole album was built up from previous studio recordings, live recordings, CIA interviews, found sounds, loops used in live performance and interviews. All assembled by Michael Gira, with overdubbing from the all the members at this point in time.rThis album acted as a way for Gira to dissolve Swans, and move on with his life. It is an amalgamation of their entire career (Pre My Farther Guided Me), and is haunting, freaky and beautiful. One of my favourite albums |
| Swans Children of God |
| Swans Swans Are Dead |
| Swans The Seer |
| Swans To Be Kind |
| Tangerine Dream Phaedra |
| Tangerine Dream Zeit |
| Terry Riley A Rainbow In Curved Air |
| The second track makes this album, its so ahead of its time. reminds me of Tim Hecker at some points |
| Terry Riley In C |
| Terry Riley Happy Ending |
| The Books Lost And Safe |
| The Flaming Lips Embryonic |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| The Microphones Mount Eerie |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 |
| The Necks Chemist |
| The Necks Hanging Gardens |
| The Necks Aether |
| The Necks Drive By |
| The Necks Sex |
| The Ocean Precambrian |
| The Ocean Fluxion |
| Tim Hecker Harmony in Ultraviolet |
| Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 |
| Tim Hecker Virgins |
| Tom Waits Bone Machine |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Tool Ænima |
| Ulver Perdition City |
| Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You |
| Unwound Repetition |
| Weather Report I Sing The Body Electric |
| William Basinski The Disintegration Loops I |
| William Basinski The Disintegration Loops II |
| William Basinski The Disintegration Loops III |
| William Basinski The Disintegration Loops IV |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) |
| 4.5 superb |
| 0edit Neotokyo OST |
| Aesop Rock Skelethon |
| Alice Coltrane Ptah, The El Daoud |
| Altar of Plagues White Tomb |
| Altar of Plagues Mammal |
| Ambrose Akinmusire The Imagined Sailor Is Far Easier To Paint |
| Amenra Mass V |
| Amon Tobin Foley Room |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album |
| Ash Koosha GUUD |
| Favourite electronic album of the year so far. God damn, so creative and textured. Its like a more beat driven album of what Nicolas Jaar has been teasing with his recent EP's. Plus it flows like one composition, which is always a plus |
| BADBADNOTGOOD BBNG2 |
| Ben Frost Theory of Machines |
| Ben Frost A U R O R A |
| I love this album, its not his best work, but it is definitely a thoroughly entertaining and rvisceral listen. I also love how this was getting high ratings until Fantano gave it a low score, rthis is way too cohesive to be lower than a 3.5 |
| Can Future Days |
| clipping. CLPPNG |
| After a tone of listens and a long time to think about this album, I think this album is fantastic. It has some of the best hip-hop songs of the year, reaching a high point with Story 2. Which is perhaps my favourite song of the year. The production overall is noisy, textured and really professionally put together. Every timbre sounds like it has been crafted by someone who really knows what they are doing, and is striving to create an original sound. rThe rapping for the most part is fantastic, equal parts dark storytelling, gangster bravado, and surrealism. But it does lead to my only fault with the album which unfortunately takes a large toll on my enjoyment of it. The two tracks, 'Summertime' and 'Tonight' are almost unlistenable because of the really awkward choruses and sub par lyricism. Which is a shame, because I could see this being the 'Teethed Glory and injury' of hip hop in 2014. But as it stands, the remaining tracks are so strong that I can't give this anything less than a 4. |
| Colin Stetson New History Warfare Vol 2: Judges |
| Colin Stetson Hereditary |
| Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld Never Were The Way She Was |
| Really consistent modern minimalism album, I can already tell how much each repeating melody, build and atmosphere is going to be etched into my brain. Plus the production sounds really amazing, the best thing Colin Stetson has done in my opinion, and Sarah is a beast on the violin. You will be hard pressed to find someone creating a larger sound out of such a small instrument. |
| Converge Axe to Fall |
| Corrections House Last City Zero |
| CZARFACE Every Hero Needs a Villain |
| Dalek Absence |
| DangerDoom The Mouse And The Mask |
| Dawn of Midi First |
| Death Grips Exmilitary |
| Death Grips No Love Deep Web |
| Deathspell Omega Veritas Diaboli Manet in Aeternum |
| Deathspell Omega Mass Grave Aesthetics |
| Deathspell Omega Paracletus |
| Dylan Howe Subterranean - New Designs on Bowie's Berlin |
| El-P I'll Sleep When You're Dead |
| El-P Cancer 4 Cure |
| Envy A Dead Sinking Story |
| Fall of Efrafa Elil |
| Fall of Efrafa Owsla |
| Fall of Efrafa Inle |
| Flying Lotus Flamagra |
| Another great album - feel like its gonna get some negativity for being bloated, but honestly, the guy does so much more with sound and arrangement than anyone else in the scene. I have waited so long for another Flylo album, so getting something this dense is a treat (and finding all the tracks featured in Kuso is cool too) |
| Fugazi The Argument |
| Fugazi Red Medicine |
| Giles Corey Giles Corey |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. |
| Grails Take Refuge In Clean Living |
| Inconceivable Master Plan (IMP) Unatureality |
| John Cage In a Landscape |
| John Coltrane The John Coltrane Quartet Plays |
| John Coltrane Ascension |
| John Coltrane Coltrane (1962, Impulse) |
| Ka The Night's Gambit |
| Liturgy H.A.Q.Q. |
| Their best album! Finally an actually modern-sounding black metal album in 2019 (come back Altar of Plagues we need you)! Just wished God of Love was the same as the single version (it basically is but I listened to that track repeatedly and the difference slightly annoy me) |
| Madlib Shades of Blue |
| Madlib Madlib Medicine Show No 8: Advanced Jazz |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine |
| MF DOOM MM.. Food |
| Mount Eerie Wind's Poem |
| Mount Eerie (after) |
| Neurosis Souls At Zero |
| Neurosis A Sun That Never Sets |
| Nicolas Jaar Nymphs II |
| A great sounding little EP, kind of works like one long track. Really imaginative manipulation of sounds |
| Nicolas Jaar Nymphs III |
| Niechec Smierc w Miekkim Futerku |
| Night Shift Trespassers Guide to Nowhere |
| Old Man Gloom The Ape of God I |
| Old Man Gloom The Ape of God II |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Replica |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Garden of Delete |
| Oren Ambarchi Audience of One |
| Oren Ambarchi Live Knots |
| Ornette Coleman Ornette! |
| Underrated, its like no one on this site even bothers with albums which aren't 'The Shape of Jazz to Come'. Which is a shame |
| Pharoah Sanders Jewels of Thought |
| Pig Destroyer Mass & Volume |
| As a stand alone piece in their discography, this is pretty great drone/doom metal ep. |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 |
| I am liking it more as a whole album, though the first album does have some of my favourite hip hop tracks ever |
| Sannhet Known Flood |
| Scott Walker The Drift |
| Sigur Ros ( ) |
| Stars of the Lid The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid |
| Sunn O))) White2 |
| Sunn O))) Dømkirke |
| Supersilent 7 |
| Swans White Light From the Mouth of Infinity |
| Swans The Great Annihilator |
| Swans Public Castration Is a Good Idea |
| Swans Die Tür Ist Zu |
| The Angelic Process Weighing Souls With Sand |
| The Angelic Process Coma Waering |
| The Books Thought For Food |
| The Necks Aquatic |
| The Necks Open |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything |
| Tim Hecker Mirages |
| Tim Hecker Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again |
| Tim Hecker An Imaginary Country |
| Tim Hecker Radio Amor |
| Tim Hecker Love Streams |
| As an admitted massive fan of Hecker's work, I love that this album brings a noticeable shift in his sound. All his previous more drone and noise heavy works are so singular and specific to each album, that another record of a similar sound would have been redundant. Virgins was his first album to start steping away from his sungaze aesthetic, and Love Streams moves even further away whilst still remaining unmistakably a Hecker album. The unpredictability is still there, the nod to minimalism is still there, and of course the textures are both noisy and heavenly. |
| Tim Hecker Konoyo |
| Tom Waits Rain Dogs |
| Tom Waits Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards |
| Tom Waits Blood Money |
| Ulcerate The Destroyers of All |
| Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler |
| Unwound New Plastic Ideas |
| Unwound Challenge For a Civilized Society |
| Unwound Live Leaves |
| Viktor Vaughn Vaudeville Villain |
| Wife Stoic |
| Women Public Strain |
| Wrekmeister Harmonies Then It All Came Down |
| Yosi Horikawa Vapor |
| 4.0 excellent |
| Adult Jazz Gist Is |
| Algiers Algiers |
| Amenra Mass IIII |
| Amon Tobin ISAM |
| Battles Gloss Drop |
| Behemoth The Satanist |
| Ben Frost Steel Wound |
| Bjork Vulnicura |
| Black Milk If There's A Hell Below |
| Botanist VI: Flora |
| Busdriver Perfect Hair |
| Can Soon Over Babaluma |
| Chelsea Wolfe Abyss |
| clipping. Midcity |
| Colin Stetson New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind |
| Dalek From Filthy Tongue Of Gods And Griots |
| Death Blues Ensemble |
| Death Blues Non-Fiction |
| Death Grips Death Grips |
| Death Grips The Powers That B - Part I: Niggas on the Moon |
| Death Grips The Powers That B - Part II: Jenny Death |
| Deathspell Omega Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum |
| Deathspell Omega Diabolus Absconditus |
| Deathspell Omega Drought |
| Fall of Efrafa Tharn |
| Fire! Orchestra Enter! |
| Floex Zorya |
| Flying Lotus Reset |
| Flying Lotus Pattern+Grid World |
| Flying Lotus Until the Quiet Comes |
| Forest Swords Engravings |
| Funki Porcini Fast Asleep |
| Gorguts Colored Sands |
| Grails The Burden of Hope |
| Have a Nice Life The Unnatural World |
| Jenny Hval and Susanna Meshes Of Voice |
| John Coltrane Sun Ship |
| John Coltrane Crescent |
| Jon Hopkins Immunity |
| Kayo Dot Coffins on Io |
| King Geedorah Take Me to Your Leader |
| Krallice Krallice |
| Liturgy Aesthethica |
| I think the sound of this album is a great mix of math rock and black metal, the only reason it has gathered hate is because metal heads on this site underrate anything that someone on youtube labelled hipster, if this had a gory album cover and a spiky logo you guys would be eating this up. |
| Liturgy The Ark Work |
| Locrian Return To Annihilation |
| Madlib Rock Konducta |
| It amazes me how Madlib manages to be one of the most popular underground hip r-hop producers/DJ, and the most overlooked. Any release with another rapper is critically acclaimed and beloved, but his beat/mix albums are generally ignored. rRock Konducta is another great release where mixes of radio interviews or other forms of narrative are mixed with early underground rock music, and tracks more beat oriented. The albums show madlib as both a producer and DJ and pulls it off rather well |
| Makaya McCraven In the Moment |
| I needed to add this to the site, fantastic modern jazz/beat album. Constructed from around 50 different live improvisations, each track feels alive and free yet structured. Which is what I look for in all post production heavy music. Definitely for fans of modern jazz, minimalist jazz (Dawn of MIDI) or hip hop producers such as Madlib. My only critique is that I wished that some tracks where given more time to breathe and develop (except 'first things first', that track is awesome), however this criticism applies to most beat music for me, |
| Massive Attack Blue Lines |
| MF DOOM Operation: Doomsday |
| Milo So The Flies Don't Come |
| Moodie Black Nausea |
| Neurosis Times Of Grace |
| Neurosis Enemy Of The Sun |
| Neurosis Given To The Rising |
| Oren Ambarchi Quixotism |
| Pink Floyd Animals |
| Prurient Frozen Niagara Falls |
| If the one track we got is any indication to what this will be like then I am excited |
| Quasimoto The Further Adventures of Lord Quas |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels |
| Sigur Ros Kveikur |
| Stoned Jesus Seven Thunders Roar |
| Sunn O))) ØØ Void |
| Sunn O))) Kannon |
| Supersilent 12 |
| Swans Cop |
| Swans Greed |
| Swans Holy Money |
| Swans The Burning World |
| Swans Love of Life |
| Taylor McFerrin Early Riser |
| The Black Heart Rebellion Har Nevo |
| The Books The Way Out |
| The Haxan Cloak The Haxan Cloak |
| The Haxan Cloak Excavation |
| The Ocean Aeolian |
| The Ocean Pelagial |
| Tim Hecker Atlas |
| Tom Waits Mule Variations |
| Tom Waits Alice |
| Tom Waits Real Gone |
| Tom Waits Bad As Me |
| Ulcerate Vermis |
| Unwound Fake Train |
| White Suns Totem |
| Its just so angry! Chills run down your spine from beginning to end |
| Wreck and Reference Absolute Still Life |
| Might be higher after a few more listens, this might be their best album yet |
| Wrekmeister Harmonies You've Always Meant So Much To Me |
