| Alban Berg Quartett Beethoven: The Late String Quartets | 4.5 |
| Alice Coltrane Journey in Satchidananda | 4.0 |
| Amebix Arise! | 3.5 |
| American Football American Football | 2.0 |
| Amnesia Scanner Angels Rig Hook | 2.0 |
| Anthony Shakir Frictionalism 1994-2009 | 4.0 |
Perhaps the best techno/house compilation out there? I'm certainly nowhere near experienced enough to make a solid statement like that but who else can presume of making a 3 and a half long
compilation of techno and not have a single track be disposable? Just listen to the bassline from Roaming or the energy of The Fake Left, or the beauty of Arise (A good entry song for fans of the
likes of Discovery-era Daft Punk) and you'll understand why this is a holy grail within circles of techno fans. |
| Anti Cimex The Records 81-86 | 4.0 |
| Antioch Arrow Gems of Masochism | 2.0 |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 3.0 |
| Aphex Twin Drukqs | 4.0 |
| Arghoslent Hornets of the Pogrom | 4.0 |
| Arnold Schoenberg Arnold Schoenberg 2: Streichquartette I-IV | 4.5 |
| Art Blakey Moanin' | 2.0 |
The title track is bomb as fuck. The rest of the album never quite reaches that and has some
pretty boring moments but for the most part stays very enjoyable if not completely outstanding. As
a whole though, the album is worth it for its title track alone - Immediately infectious,
invigorating, and endlessly listenable, it might not be breaking new grounds, but it is everything
a jazz tune should be. |
| Arthur Russell World of Echo | 4.0 |
| Assuck Misery Index | 4.5 |
| Assuck Anticapital | 4.0 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 3.0 |
| Some of the hooks on this thing are so so so so bad it's like how did they not die of embarrassment writing them and the production is HOLY CHRIST bad but you know what fuck it I'm gonna forgive them just for that first track. And One Armed Scissor.rTHIS STATION IS NON OPERATIONALLLLLL |
| Autechre Confield | 5.0 |
| Basic Channel Quadrant Dub | 4.5 |
| Bathory Blood Fire Death | 4.0 |
| Bathory Bathory | 3.0 |
| Bathory Under the Sign of the Black Mark | 4.0 |
| Belle and Sebastian If You're Feeling Sinister | 2.0 |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Sunset Mission | 2.0 |
| There is actually some pretty atmospheric stuff going on here - Problem is that every track is 100% exactly the same and there aren't memorable melodies or rhythms attached to any particular track to make that worth it. It's all just one long drawl of rainy imagery and saxophones. And at 70 minutes long, it wears well thin. |
| Camel Mirage | 3.0 |
| Can Tago Mago | 5.0 |
| Cantus Colln Bach: Johannes-Passion [Junghanel] | 4.0 |
| Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Trout Mask Replica | 4.0 |
| Cecil Taylor Nailed | 4.0 |
| Chico Buarque Construção | 4.0 |
| It has been a long time... Actually I can't recall the last time an album wrapped itself around my quite the way this did. I can't recall when was the last time an album enthralled me with its painstaking beauty to the extent that this has. This is gorgeous, gorgeous music, music that evokes every soft, airy feeling of calmness and warmth at its most "Ballad-y" and even at its most intense and melancholic ("Construo"). Everyone, and I do mean *everyone* should listen to this. At leat once. But they really should listen to it multiple times. |
| Chico Hamilton The Dealer | 3.0 |
| Clipse Hell Hath No Fury | 4.0 |
| Coroner No More Color | 4.0 |
| Corrupted Se Hace Por Los Suenos Asesinos | 4.0 |
| Crossed Out Crossed Out | 4.0 |
| Cursed II | 3.0 |
| D'Angelo Voodoo | 4.0 |
| Dave Holland Conference of the Birds | 3.0 |
| David Bowie Station to Station | 4.0 |
| David Bowie Low | 3.0 |
| Dead Infection A Chapter of Accidents | 4.5 |
| Hey who took that picture of me sleeping |
| Demilich Nespithe | 5.0 |
| Di Melo Di Melo | 3.0 |
| Die Kreuzen Die Kreuzen | 4.5 |
| Disclose Tragedy | 4.0 |
| diSEMBOWELMENT Transcendence into the Peripheral | 4.0 |
| DJ Funk Booty House Anthems | 3.0 |
| If this don't make yo booty move yo booty must be dead |
| DJ Rashad I Don't Give A Fuck | 3.0 |
| Dr. Dre The Chronic | 3.0 |
| Dr. Dre 2001 | 3.0 |
| Drake Nothing Was the Same | 2.0 |
| Drake Views | 2.0 |
| Drake Take Care | 2.0 |
| Erykah Badu Baduizm | 2.0 |
| Evgeni Koroliov Bach: Die Kunst Der Fuge | 5.0 |
| Fela Kuti Sorrow Tears and Blood | 3.0 |
| Fela Kuti Roforofo Fight | 4.0 |
| Fela Kuti Fela's London Scene | 3.0 |
| Fleshcrawl Descend Into the Absurd | 2.0 |
| G.I.S.M. Detestation | 3.0 |
| Genesis Foxtrot | 2.0 |
| Ghazal As Night Falls on the Silk Road | 4.0 |
| How do you get more mesmerizing than this? How can you listen to the "My Eyes, My Heart" without picturing yourself in an entirely alien, unknown world with just enough similarities that it feels beautiful and fascinating just observing it? How can the grandness of "Traces of the Beloved" not feel like living observing the stars forever? I'm starting to think Hindustani Classical Music is one humanity's greatest inventions. It seems every time I listen to it or something inspired it, I'm more amazed than anything since the last HCM-inspired work. |
| Gustav Leonhardt Bach: Goldberg Variations | 4.5 |
| Gustav Mahler Symphonies - Complete (Vaclav Neumann) | 4.5 |
| Hatred Surge Deconstruct | 4.0 |
| Hellnation Cheerleaders for Imperialism | 4.5 |
| Henry Flynt You Are My Everlovin' / Celestial Power | 4.0 |
| High Rise II | 3.0 |
| Horatiu Radulescu Streichquartett No. 4, Op. 33 | 4.0 |
| Iannis Xenakis 1: Chamber Music 1955-1990 | 5.0 |
| Infest No Man's Slave | 5.0 |
| Internal Rot Mental Hygiene | 5.0 |
| J Dilla Donuts | 5.0 |
| Jackie McLean Destination... Out! | 3.0 |
| James Carr You Got My Mind Messed Up | 3.0 |
| Jeff Mills Live at the Liquid Room, Tokyo | 4.0 |
| John Coltrane A Love Supreme | 5.0 |
| John Coltrane Ascension | 4.0 |
| John Coltrane Giant Steps | 3.0 |
| John Coltrane My Favorite Things | 2.0 |
| John Fahey Fare Forward Voyagers (Soldier's Choice) | 4.0 |
| Johnny Dyani Witchdoctor's Son | 3.0 |
| Jorge Ben África Brasil | 4.0 |
| Judee Sill Heart Food | 4.0 |
| Whenever I think I've heard all the lovely voices the human ear could listen to an album like this comes along and completely destroys that belief, and that makes me so happy |
| Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre Humility in The Light of The Creator | 2.0 |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak | 4.0 |
| Kanye West The College Dropout | 4.0 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 5.0 |
| La Petite Bande Bach: Matthaus-Passion [Kuijken] | 4.0 |
| Lee Dorsey Yes We Can | 3.0 |
| Lil Ugly Mane Mista Thug Isolation | 2.0 |
| Mahmoud Ahmed Éthiopiques 7: Erè mèla mèla | 4.5 |
| Maurizio MCD | 3.0 |
| Michael Mayer Fabric 13 | 4.0 |
| Miles Davis In a Silent Way | 4.5 |
| Miles Davis Miles Smiles | 2.0 |
| Milton Nascimento and Lo Borges Clube da Esquina | 4.0 |
| Morton Feldman String Quartet No. 2 | 4.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 5.0 |
| Necrophobic The Nocturnal Silence | 4.0 |
| Omar S The Best! | 3.0 |
| Ornette Coleman Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation | 4.0 |
| Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come | 3.0 |
| Pierre Boulez Anton Webern: Complete Works Opp 1-31 | 4.5 |
| Pierre Hantai Variations Goldberg BWV 988 | 5.0 |
| Prince Dirty Mind | 4.0 |
| Regis Adolescence: The Complete Recordings 1994-2001 | 4.5 |
| Ricercar Consort The Musical Offering | 5.0 |
| Slayer Show No Mercy | 4.0 |
| Sonny Sharrock Black Woman | 4.0 |
| Sulfuric Cautery Chainsaws Clogged With The Underdeveloped Brain... | 4.0 |
| Putrefaction in progress, but with songs! Kind of! |
| T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou Zoundegnon Bernard 'Papillon' guitariste principal | 4.0 |
| Taku Unami, Moe Kamura & Tetuzi Akiyama Hontatedori | 5.0 |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock | 4.0 |
| Talking Heads Remain in Light | 5.0 |
| Terrorizer World Downfall | 4.5 |
| The 13th Floor Elevators Easter Everywhere | 2.0 |
| The Beach Boys Pet Sounds | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul | 2.0 |
| The Beatles Revolver | 4.0 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced | 3.0 |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico | 4.0 |
| Tommy Wright III On The Run | 2.0 |
| Various Artists An England Story | 4.0 |
| Various Artists African Scream Contest | 3.0 |
| Nowhere near as intense and abrasive as its name might imply (Or terribly psychedelic for that matter), but somehow that doesn't matter at all because what you're getting here is still one of the best packages around - Analog Africa's debut does not disappoint, bringing a variety of afro-filled sounds from one of Africa's best hidden secret scenes in Togo and Benin, dropping some of the tightest funk around with plenty of Fela Kuti and James Brown for fans, and a slight Latin flavor for extra exoticism. I don't wanna be in the same place as you if the drums on "Ou C'est Lui Ou C'est Moi" or the chants on "Le Super Borgou De Parakou" don't get you going at all. |
| Various Artists Ethiopian Soul and Groove | 4.0 |
| Various Artists New Orleans -The Original Sound of Funk 1960-1975 | 3.0 |
| Weekend Nachos Torture | 4.0 |
| Weekend Nachos Punish and Destroy | 3.0 |
| Weekend Nachos Unforgivable | 3.0 |
| YOU WANT ME TO SMILE; I WANT YOU TO DIE |
| Weekend Nachos Worthless | 2.0 |
| Weekend Nachos/Lack Of Interest Split EP | 4.0 |
Damn, damn, damn! Is all I can say. Their last couple of records aren't bad, but I did not think
WN could sound this good ever again - Easily on the level of Torture and Punish and Destroy at
least. These 5 minutes alone are better than the existence of the load of Spazz/Crossed Out/Man Is
The Bastard wanna be shitslitters we get today for Powerviolence. Here, instead of just playing
droney sludge with some vaguely hardcoreish moments, with 5 minutes WN figure they'd just throw
all the hardcore in and leave the sludge second and got damn it works. It's hard to argue that
something like this could honestly be among your favorites because it's so brutally short, but
I've been listening to this release non stop for well over half a year now with over 300 plays
(and that's only based on last.fm) and none of these tracks have gone stale, so I'd be lying to
myself if I told you I didn't love this to death. Fabulous job; I'm gonna miss these fucking
pricks. ---- Oh yeah, and Lack of Interest is there as well. They're pretty cool too, check them
out. But damn that A side tho. |
| Wire Pink Flag | 3.0 |
| Yacopsae Timeo Ergo Sum | 4.0 |
| Yann Tomita Music for Living Sound | 5.0 |
| Yes Close to the Edge | 5.0 |
| Young Thug Slime Season 3 | 3.0 |
| Young Thug JEFFERY | 3.0 |
