| 5.0 classic |
| Boris Boris At Last -Feedbacker- |
| Much like Akuma no Uta, Feedbacker provides a great summary of the band's versatility. However, It's noticeably constructed more around the mixture of noise and atonal textures than with rocking out. Boris meticulously shifts from pure drone, to an extremely heavy and slow stoner metal impression of surf rock, to the soul-crushingly loud climax, and finally to the album's decay into pure feedback. Truly a unique and unpredictable musical journey. |
| Can Tago Mago |
| The word I'd say best describes Tago Mago is entrancing. There's a quality to Can's performance on this album that gives it a hypnotic air. Skillful drumming, shrieking guitar, and enigmatic vocals makes it easy to get into the groove of the first half of the album, and right as the 18-minute jam 'Halleluhwah' comes to a a close, all of it is extinguished and Tago Mago takes a turn for the insane. |
| Deathspell Omega Paracletus |
| Demilich Nespithe |
| Discordance Axis The Inalienable Dreamless |
| Earth Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version |
| Frank Zappa Hot Rats |
| Joanna Newsom Ys |
| Krallice Years Past Matter |
| Swans The Seer |
| I can confidently say that The Seer is the most inspirational and thought-provoking album I've ever heard. It's a collection of music that has stuck with me since its release and has made a lasting impression like no other album. Its atmosphere is unrivaled, and it never once seems lazily arranged or filler-ridden like the weakest spots of my other favorites. Although you can approach The Seer in many ways, I personally see it as uplifting. The grandiose, noisy climaxes are wholly dark, yes, but the catharsis is pure light. The Seer is a cryptic conflict between the brightest beacons and the filthiest squalor of music. However, it isn't to be figured out, but rather to be processed and listened to repeatedly from multiple stances, making its sounds a veritable rainbow of possibilities, both dark and light. |
| Swans Soundtracks for the Blind |
| A lengthy and ambitious summary of Swans' extensive discography. Soundtracks compresses the influential group's dark, expansive, and above all strange musical style into a patchwork-style compilation clocking in at over two hours. To explain this album or call it cohesive would be impossible, but the tracks are held together by an overarching and perpetual darkness that is found in various way across each song, building and building until it indoctrinates you and leaves your mind warped. |
| The Gerogerigegege Tokyo Anal Dynamite |
| The Paper Chase Now You Are One of Us |
| The Paper Chase Hide the Kitchen Knives |
| Why? Alopecia |
| Peculiar, to say the least. Why? seems to stumble erratically between the line of quirky, They Might Be Giants-esque indie rock and abstract Hip-Hop. Alopecia definitely has enough clever lines and interesting musical elements that warrant many listens. Yoni Wolf seems to have a knack for interesting lyrics, and is extremely good at painting images with his down to earth yet surreal lyricism. The album also seems to have a very personal undertone which is suggested by bits of dialogue which appear sporadically in between tracks, as well as by some of the lyrics. Overall, a wholly unique album that's just consistent enough to make it great. |
| Why? Elephant Eyelash |
| 4.5 superb |
| (The) Slowest Runner (In All The World) We, Burning Giraffes |
| Artificial Brain Labyrinth Constellation |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence |
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| Boris Akuma no Uta |
| A superb execution of Boris's genre-bending style. The perfect amount of drone, sludge, stoner rock, and post-rock sum up the band in one effortless single-take release. |
| Boris Flood |
| Can Monster Movie |
| A powerful debut. At only four tracks and 38 minutes, Can lyrically and instrumentally explores anguish, sadness, and longing while still completely "rocking out". "Father Cannot Yell" utilizes an ear-piercing and chaotic backing chorus of guitar and other sounds as Malcolm Mooney rambles on in a manner that matches the backing music. "Mary, Mary So Contrary" is a spin on the nursery rhyme that turns it into an urgent and dramatic ballad of sorts, if you can even call it that. "Yoo Doo Right" takes up the last 20 minus of Monster Movie and is perhaps the highlight of the album, suggesting the style that would continue into Can's later and more well-known albums on tracks such as "Pinch" and "Halleluhwah". |
| Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Trout Mask Replica |
| Not only influential, but still unique and revolutionary in the 21st century. In about an hour, this album packs a huge amount of abstract and original musical ideas that could inspire anyone at any time, but only if that person decides to play by its rules. |
| Dirty Three Horse Stories |
| Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane |
| Do Make Say Think Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn |
| With Winter Hymn, Do Make Say Think reaches the grandiose climax of their career. The great attention to detail, atmosphere, and use of musical textures creates majestic Post-Rock album leaving you wondering where it will take you next, and not boring you to death with the common, but tried and true, "crescendocore" approach to the genre. Definitely my favorite album under the classification of Post-Rock. |
| Eric Dolphy Out to Lunch! |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ |
| Gorguts Colored Sands |
| John Coltrane Ascension |
| Jute Gyte Ressentiment |
| Kazumoto Endo While You Were Out |
| Liturgy The Ark Work |
| maudlin of the Well Bath |
| Honestly, the first few times I listened to Bath I didn't see anything extraordinary. It seemed like a collection directionless and imbalanced that were drawn out too long. The reality is that there's much more to these songs than they might reveal upon your initial listen. I learned to appreciate the subtle beauty of Heaven and Weak's first few minutes as well as the pure aggression present in tracks such as They Aren't All Beautiful. Bath has very dreamlike qualities in its production and effect usage that make the tracks surprisingly cohesive despite the immense variation present. I guess it was the only way maudlin of the Well was able stick an upbeat and whimsical interlude utilizing water splashes as a drumbeat in between the intense penultimate track and the unbelievably melancholic closer. |
| Miles Davis Bitches Brew |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About |
| Very rarely does a title fully embody the quality of the collection of music it labels as well as This Is A Long Drive. Upon first impression, especially in comparison to its two companion albums released afterwards, Modest Mouse's debut may seem bland, repetitive, lazily put together, etc. As it starts to sink in and each meandering track intertwines with the rest, it becomes evident that this album had more emotional intensity and inspiration behind it than anything released later on in the band's career. Each song strengthens the desolate, drawn-out critique of isolation in modern society and the whole experience of a road trip through Midwestern America. Do not overlook Modest Mouse because you heard Float On and decided that their repertoire was composed purely of generic indie rock. Look to the origins of Modest Mouse and you will be proven wrong. |
| Mogwai Young Team |
| A very beautiful and subtly bleak debut by a great Post-Rock band. This is the origin of the quiet-loud-quiet motif frequently found in 3rd Wave. Mogwai's performance on Young Team is fairly restrained and constant, but is able to create a powerful atmosphere from track to track. I visualize walking around in an unknown city that speaks an unknown language, not unlike the album cover. |
| Mogwai Come On Die Young |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| Neutral Milk Hotel Ferris Wheel on Fire |
| Slint Spiderland |
| Swans Filth |
| Swans Swans Are Dead |
| Swans To Be Kind |
| Behold the might of America's greatest modern rock group. |
| The Avalanches Since I Left You |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| Ulcerate Vermis |
| World's End Girlfriend Seven Idiots |
| An album that stands in stark contrast to the creator's previous work. Seven Idiots is some sort of pop album, if you could call it that. Imagine a series of electronic tracks. Throw in a bit of punk, a decent amount of jazz, and some classical. Now finish it off with some glitch and noise. That's pretty much what has happened here. Listen to it. |
| Xiu Xiu A Promise |
| Yes Close to the Edge |
| 4.0 excellent |
| Agoraphobic Nosebleed Agorapocalypse |
| AJJ Knife Man |
| Arizmenda Stillbirth in the Temple of Venus |
| Baring Teeth Ghost Chorus Among Old Ruins |
| Behold... The Arctopus Skullgrid |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect |
| Colors with less substance and more cheese. The cheese isn't necessarily a bad thing, though. |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors_Live |
| Between the Buried and Me Future Sequence: Live at the Fidelitorium |
| Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic |
| The songwriting has definitely improved from their last full-length. I also think the prominence of the clean vocals and how Tommy weaves his screams in and out of them is a nice touch. Definitely a contrast to the somewhat flat harsh vocals on Parallax. Surprisingly, I feel like the genre-hopping moments meld naturally with the songs in which they occur, unlike Colors and Misdirect. Overall, this is a satisfying release. |
| Boris Heavy Rocks |
| Boris Pink |
| Boris With Merzbow Rock Dream |
| Can Future Days |
| Can Ege Bamyasi |
| A bit of "jam" Can, a bit of "weird" Can, and a bit of "Pop" Can. Ege Bamyasi has no bad tracks, but when compared to Tago Mago or Monster Movie, it doesn't reach the same heights conceptually. |
| Cattle Decapitation Monolith of Inhumanity |
| cLOUDDEAD cLOUDDEAD |
| Coil The Ape Of Naples |
| Dead in the Dirt The Blind Hole |
| Death Grips The Powers That B - Part I: Niggas on the Moon |
| powers that b disc 1 > Exmilitary > The Money Store > No Love Deep Web >>> Government Plates |
| Death Grips The Money Store |
| Death Grips Exmilitary |
| Deathspell Omega Drought |
| Deathspell Omega Mass Grave Aesthetics |
| Deathspell Omega Si Monvmentvm Reqvires Circvmspice |
| Deathspell Omega Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum |
| Demilich 20th Adversary of Emptiness |
| Do Make Say Think Other Truths |
| Do Make Say Think Goodbye Enemy Airship the Landlord is Dead |
| Duster Stratosphere |
| "It's the way home should be, the way the windows frame the trees and smoke fills the room. Colder now than last year, you know they say we'll all be dead. Needle down. Needle in." |
| Electric Wizard Come My Fanatics... |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada |
| Gorguts Obscura |
| GridLink Longhena |
| Hampden HipSTARZ Soundtracks For The Autistic |
| Hampden HipSTARZ A Very Hampden HipSTARZ Christmas |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness |
| Incapacitants As Loud as Possible |
| Inquisition Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical... |
| Joanna Newsom Have One on Me |
| John Coltrane Meditations |
| Jute Gyte Ship of Theseus |
| Jute Gyte Vast Chains |
| Keith Jarrett The Köln Concert |
| Keith Jarrett Changeless |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak |
| Lightning Bolt Hypermagic Mountain |
| Liturgy Aesthethica |
| Masonna Ejaculation Generater |
| Merzbow 1930 |
| Merzbow Venereology |
| Midori Aratame Hajime Mashite Midori Desu |
| The appeal of Midori comes from their charismatic and weird fusion of noise rock and jazz elements, as well as the demented vocal style of their female lead vocalist. Midori Desu is arguably the best display of the group's originality and high energy. |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West |
| Moondog Moondog |
| Neurosis Through Silver in Blood |
| nic Demo |
| Peste Noire La Sanie des Siècles |
| Peter Brotzmann Machine Gun |
| Pig Destroyer Phantom Limb |
| Piss Vortex Piss Vortex |
| Pyramids A Northern Meadow |
| Blut aus Nord + Kayo Dot = ?????????????????????????????? |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Reverend Bizarre In The Rectory Of The Bizarre Reverend |
| Saint Vitus Born Too Late |
| Shinsei Kamattechan Tsumanne |
| Sigh Imaginary Sonicscape |
| Sissy Spacek Sissy Spacek |
| Sleep Sleep's Holy Mountain |
| Sleep Dopesmoker |
| Sun Ra Space is the Place |
| Sunn O))) Monoliths and Dimensions |
| Swans Not Here / Not Now |
| Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky |
| Swans Children of God |
| Swans We Rose from Your Bed with the Sun in Our Head |
| Swans Public Castration Is a Good Idea |
| Swans Holy Money |
| Swans Swans |
| Swans Greed |
| Swans Young God |
| The Angels of Light How I Loved You |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum |
| The Gerogerigegege Senzuri Power Up |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute |
| lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 |
| The Mothers of Invention Freak Out! |
| The Mothers of Invention Roxy & Elsewhere |
| The Paper Chase God Bless Your Black Heart |
| The Rita Thousands of Dead Gods |
| The Velvet Underground White Light/White Heat |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our |
| Tim Hecker Harmony in Ultraviolet |
| Extremely visceral and synesthesia-evoking. I don't think I can continue. |
| toe For Long Tomorrow |
| Wakusei Abnormal Nandemonai Kyoki |
| World's End Girlfriend Hurtbreak Wonderland |
| Wormlust The Feral Wisdom |
