| 5.0 classic |
| .O.rang Herd of Instinct |
| Albert Ayler Spiritual Unity |
| Animal Collective Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished |
| Animal Collective Danse Manatee |
| Love it. Transitions feel almost aimless, but they really draw the listener in due to their surprising nature. The whole album has a sense of airiness and is really ventilated.. and a bit of it may drag, but the high points are definitely rewarding. Really hazy and drugged, but it feels so innocent. Drawing you in like a trap and keeping you stuck, like limbo or something. Panda Bear's drumming is so formless that it's almost laughable at how great it oddly fits into songs. Reminds me of some hybrid form of Police + Can's drummers. Danse Manatee is strange, but that's exactly what it was designed to experiment with... and it works incredibly. Another White Singer, Essplode, to Meet the Light Child is probably one of their best three run tracks within all their albums. Light Child creates the strangest tempos and song structures, builds climaxes then throws them away (laughs) then ends with a really addicting coda.. one of my favorite songs of all time. Really smart/interesting experimentation with their sound. Paved the way for a lot of what was to come next and was the perfect idea for what to do after Spirit They've Gone. |
| Animal Collective Ark |
| Here Comes the Indian is extremely unconventional and expresses the emotions we don't want normally wish to confront. Seems as if the band was looking to explore some of the darkest emotions the heart can hold and elicit them within this album. It's apprehensive, chaotic, hectic dreadful, and holds so much sorrow... and the sounds are presented in such a feral manner as if the band was actually possessed by animals as their name suggests. Imagine someone that's close to you who's nowhere close to being adept with nature being thrown into the a murky forest that spread fifty acres wide with no phone, water, or light and the fear or doubt of survival that would run through their mind. Here Comes the Indian is just that. The album is unique, there's no doubting that.. but whether or not it reveals qualities in music that are deemed commendable or distasteful is entirely up to the listeners interpretation in the experiences of emotions that elicit abandonment, insanity, and distraught. |
| Animal Collective Sung Tongs |
| Animal Collective Feels |
| Animal Collective Strawberry Jam |
| Animal Collective Campfire Songs |
| Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti The Doldrums |
| Arvo Part Tabula Rasa |
| Bela Bartok String Quartet No. 5 in B flat major, Sz. 102 |
| Bill Evans Everybody Digs Bill Evans |
| Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children |
| Brian Eno Another Green World |
| Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People |
| BT Ima |
| Built to Spill Perfect from Now On |
| Can Ege Bamyasi |
| Cap'n Jazz Shmap'n Shmazz |
| Charles Mingus The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady |
| Choking Victim No Gods, No Managers |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Dirty Projectors The Getty Address |
| Djrum Mountains |
| Ensemble Pittoresque For This Is Past |
| Felix Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 |
| Glenn Branca The Ascension |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
| Grizzly Bear Yellow House |
| Guided by Voices Bee Thousand |
| Harvey Milk Courtesy and Good Will Toward Men |
| Hungry Ghosts Alone, Alone |
| Iannis Xenakis Metastaseis |
| J Dilla Donuts |
| John Coltrane Meditations |
| John Coltrane A Love Supreme |
| Jonny Greenwood Bodysong |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures |
| Joy Division Closer |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I |
| Kate Bush The Dreaming |
| Kate Bush Hounds of Love |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye |
| Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward |
| Keiji Haino C'est parfait |
| Kleistwahr Myth |
| Krzysztof Penderecki St. Luke Passion |
| Les Rallizes Denudes '77 Live |
| Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible |
| Mark Hollis Mark Hollis |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine |
| maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map |
| maudlin of the Well Bath |
| Miles Davis Bitches Brew |
| Miles Davis In a Silent Way |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica |
| Mr. Bungle California |
| Murmuure Murmuure |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless |
| Nas Illmatic |
| Olivier Messiaen Turangalîla-Symphonie |
| Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come |
| Panda Bear Person Pitch |
| Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain |
| Pavement Slanted and Enchanted |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa |
| Pure Fetor |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Red Krayola The Parable of Arable Land |
| Sonic Youth Sister |
| Talk Talk Spirit of Eden |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock |
| Talking Heads Remain in Light |
| The Avalanches Since I Left You |
| The Knife Tomorrow, In a Year |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 |
| The Smiths The Smiths |
| This Heat Deceit |
| Time of Orchids Sarcast While |
| Tom Waits Rain Dogs |
| Tricky Maxinquaye |
| Trophy Scars Never Born, Never Dead |
| Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You |
| Wingnut DishwashersUnion Burn the Earth, Leave it Behind |
| Women Public Strain |
