| 5.0 classic |
| Abigail Williams Walk Beyond The Dark |
| Abigail Williams In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain |
| Akira Senju Fullmetal Alchemist Original Soundtrack 1 |
| Akira Senju Fullmetal Alchemist Original Soundtrack 2 |
| Akira Senju Fullmetal Alchemist Original Soundtrack 3 |
| Akira Yamaoka Silent Hill 2 |
| Alcest Kodama |
| Alice Coltrane Illuminations |
| Alvvays Blue Rev |
| Anberlin Devotion |
| Bell Witch Mirror Reaper |
| Ben Folds Rockin' The Suburbs |
| Billy Joel The Stranger |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Brand New Science Fiction |
| Bright Eyes Cassadaga |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning |
| Brockhampton Iridescence |
| Brockhampton Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine |
| Bruce Springsteen Nebraska |
| Burial Tunes 2011 to 2019 |
| Candlemass Epicus Doomicus Metallicus |
| Casualties of Cool Casualties of Cool |
| Chelsea Wolfe Apokalypsis |
| clipping. There Existed an Addiction to Blood |
| Their best project to date. Save for the extraneous ending ambient track, this was compelling from front to back. Can't stop listening to it. It's conceptual, builds a vivid world and narrative, and might be the most lyrically dense hip hop record I've heard all year. AOTY material for me. |
| Converge The Dusk in Us |
| Converge You Fail Me Redux |
| Coroner Mental Vortex |
| Coroner No More Color |
| Daughters You Won't Get What You Want |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars |
| David Bowie Blackstar |
| David Bowie Earthling |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| Death Symbolic |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance |
| Death Human |
| Death Individual Thought Patterns |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Deftones Ohms |
| Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech |
| Disasterpeace It Follows OST |
| Earl Sweatshirt Some Rap Songs |
| Elliott Smith Elliott Smith |
| Elliott Smith XO |
| Ethel Cain Preacher's Daughter |
| Everything Everything A Fever Dream |
| Everything Everything Get to Heaven (Deluxe Edition) |
| Father John Misty Pure Comedy |
| Flying Lotus Flamagra |
| Frank Ocean Blonde |
| Frank Turner Love, Ire & Song |
| Frightened Rabbit Painting of a Panic Attack |
| Frightened Rabbit Pedestrian Verse |
| Frightened Rabbit The Winter of Mixed Drinks |
| Gang of Youths Go Farther in Lightness |
| George Harrison All Things Must Pass |
| Ghost (SWE) Meliora |
| Glacier Flower Glacier Flower '21 |
| Gorguts Colored Sands |
| Great Grandpa Four of Arrows |
| Quite rude of this to come along and steal my AOTY spot when I've never even heard of the band |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness |
| Heilung Futha |
| Imperial Triumphant Alphaville |
| J Dilla Donuts |
| J. Tillman Vacilando Territory Blues |
| Jason Isbell The Nashville Sound |
| Jason Isbell Southeastern |
| Jeff Buckley Grace |
| Judas Priest Painkiller |
| Julia Holter Have You In My Wilderness |
| Kamasi Washington Heaven and Earth |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly |
| Kids See Ghosts Kids See Ghosts |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King |
| Metallica Ride The Lightning |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue |
| Miles Davis In a Silent Way |
| Miles Davis Bitches Brew |
| Miles Davis Jack Johnson |
| Moonsorrow Viides Luku - Hävitetty |
| Mount Eerie A Crow Looked at Me |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Let Love In |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Henry's Dream |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds The Boatman's Call |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Ghosteen |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral |
| Nine Inch Nails The Fragile |
| Nujabes Modal Soul |
| O'Brother Endless Light |
| Okkervil River Don't Fall In Love With Everyone You See |
| Opeth Damnation |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries |
| Opeth Still Life |
| Phoebe Bridgers Punisher |
| Pink Floyd The Wall |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing |
| Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia |
| Porcupine Tree Anesthetize |
| PUP Morbid Stuff |
| Queen Innuendo |
| Queen Queen II |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd Mysterious Skin: Music From The Film |
| Rush Hemispheres |
| Rush Grace Under Pressure |
| Ruston Kelly Dying Star |
| Shape of Despair Return To The Void |
| Shoji Meguro Persona 3 OST |
| Slift Ummon |
| Slowdive Souvlaki |
| Slowdive Slowdive |
| Slowdive Pygmalion |
| Soundgarden Badmotorfinger |
| Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space |
| Steven Wilson Insurgentes |
| Steven Wilson Hand. Cannot. Erase. |
| Stevie Nicks Bella Donna |
| Strapping Young Lad City |
| Strapping Young Lad Alien |
| Sturgill Simpson A Sailor's Guide To Earth |
| Swans The Seer |
| Sweet Trip A Tiny House, In Secret Speeches, Polar Equals |
| Sweet Trip You Will Never Know Why |
| Sweet Trip Velocity : Design : Comfort |
| Talk Talk Spirit of Eden |
| The Antlers In the Attic of the Universe |
| The Clientele Suburban Light |
| The Cure Wish |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer |
| The Flaming Lips The Terror |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath |
| The Menzingers On the Impossible Past |
| The Mountain Goats All Hail West Texas |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
| The Twilight Sad It Won/t Be Like This All the Time |
| The Twilight Sad Nobody Wants To Be Here And Nobody Wants To Leave |
| The Twilight Sad Forget The Night Ahead |
| The Verve A Storm in Heaven |
| The War On Drugs A Deeper Understanding |
| The Weeknd Echoes of Silence |
| The Weeknd After Hours |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Whenever, If Ever |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Illusory Walls |
| The Wrens The Meadowlands |
| Tom Waits Bone Machine |
| Tom Waits Mule Variations |
| Tom Waits Real Gone |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Uboa The Origin of My Depression |
| Vangelis Blade Runner Soundtrack |
| Yuki Kajiura Kara no Kyoukai: Satsujin Kousatsu (Kou) |
| Yuki Kajiura Kara no Kyoukai: Fukan Fuukei |
| Yuki Kajiura Kara no Kyoukai: Mujun Rasen |
| Zeal and Ardor Stranger Fruit |