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Albums by Year
Highly Recommended
1955
Highly Recommended
Recommended
Art Farmer - Farmer's Market
Charles Mingus - Pithecanthropus Erectus
Hank Mobley / Al Cohn / John Coltrane / Zoot Sims - Tenor Conclave
The Jazz Messengers - The Jazz Messengers
Louis Prima - The Wildest!
Moondog - More Moondog
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
Sonny Rollins - Sonny Rollins Plus 4
Sonny Rollins Quartet - Tenor Madness
Tito Puente - Cuban Carnival
1956
Highly Recommended
Recommended
Carl Perkins - The Dance Album
Clifford Jordan/John Gilmore - Blowing in from Chicago
Duke Ellington and his Orchestra - Such Sweet Thunder
Miles Davis - Miles Ahead
Miles Davis Quintet - Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
Red Garland - Red Garland's Piano
Sun Ra - Sun Song
1957
Highly Recommended
Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers - Moanin'
Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else
Johnny Griffin - Introducing Johnny Griffin
Miles Davis - Milestones
Miles Davis Quintet - Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
The Red Garland Quartet - All Mornin' Long
Roy Haynes/Phineas Newborn, Jr./Paul Chambers - We Three
Sonny Clark - Sonny Clark Trio
Tina Brooks - Minor Move
Tito Puente - Dance Mania
Recommended
Ahmad Jamal - Ahmad's Blues
Johnny Griffin - The Congregation
Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin'
Sonny Clark - Sonny's Crib
Woody Herman/Tito Puente - Herman's Heat & Puente's Beat
1958
Must Listen
Highly Recommended
Recommended
Blue Mitchell - Big 6
Bud Powell - The Lonely One
Cecil Taylor - Love for Sale
Chet Atkins - Chet Atkins in Hollywood
The Flamingos - Flamingo Serenade
Hank Mobley/Lee Morgan - Peckin' Time
James Brown and his Furious Flames - Try Me
João Gilberto - Chega de Saudade
Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come
Nina Simone - Little Girl Blue
Wynton Kelly - Kelly Blue
1959
Highly Recommended
Bill Evans Trio - Portrait in Jazz
Charles Mingus - Blues & Roots
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain
Recommended
Babatunde Olatunji - Drums of Passion
Bo Diddley - Have Guitar Will Travel
Booker Little - Booker Little
Hank Mobley - Soul Station
Johnny Cash - Ride This Train
Muddy Waters - At Newport 1960
Tina Brooks - True Blue
Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery
1960
1961
Must Listen
Highly Recommended
Recommended
Ahmad Jamal - Ahmad Jamal's Alhambra
Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers - The Freedom Rider
Bill Evans Trio - Explorations
Bill Evans Trio - Sunday at the Village Vanguard
Dion - Runaround Sue
Gerry Mulligan - Gerry Mulligan and the Concert Jazz Band at the Village Vanguard​
Must Listen
Highly Recommended
Recommended
Ahmad Jamal - Ahmad Jamal's Alhambra
Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers - The Freedom Rider
Bill Evans Trio - Explorations
Bill Evans Trio - Sunday at the Village Vanguard
Cecil Taylor - Cell Walk for Celeste
Dion - Runaround Sue
Gerry Mulligan - Gerry Mulligan and the Concert Jazz Band at the Village Vanguard​
John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
Tito Puente - Dance Mania, Vol. 2
1962
Highly Recommended
Recommended
Bill Evans Trio - Waltz for Debby
Bobby Bland - Here's the Man!
Cannonball Adderley with Bill Evans - Know What I Mean?
Charles Mingus - Oh Yeah
Dick Dale & His Del-Tones - Surfer's Choice
Roy Orbison - Crying
The Shirelles - Baby It's You
1963
Must Listen
Highly Recommended
Duke Ellington/Charles Mingus/Max Roach - Money Jungle
Gerry Mulligan - Night Lights
Roy Orbison - In Dreams
The Ventures - The Ventures in Space
Recommended
The Oscar Peterson Trio - Night Train
Tito Peunte - El Rey Bravo
Must Listen
Highly Recommended
Recommended
Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers - Free for All
The Bobby Fuller Four - I Fought the Law
The Centurions - Surfers' Pajama Party
Doc Watson - Doc Watson
Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch!
Herbie Hancock - Empyrean Isles
Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
Muddy Waters - Folk Singer
Phineas Newborn Jr. Trio - The Newborn Touch
Wayne Shorter - Night Dreamer
1964
Must Listen
Highly Recommended
B.B. King - Live at the Regal
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
The Maytals - The Sensational Maytals
The Rolling Stones - Out of Our Heads
Wayne Shorter - JuJu
Recommended
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
Celia Cruz con La Sonora Matancera - Sabor y Ritmo de Pueblos
Donovan - Fairytale
Grant Green - Idle Moments
The Horace Silver Quintet - Song for My Father
The Horace Silver Quintet / J.J. Johnson - Cape Verdean Blues
Jackson C. Frank - Jackson C. Frank
Phil Ochs - I Ain't Marching Anymore
The Ventures - Knock Me Out!
Wayne Shorter - The Soothsayer
The Who - The Who Sings My Generation
1965
Must Listen
Highly Recommended
Celia Cruz - Son con Guaguanco
Doc Watson - Southbound
The Fugs - The Fugs Second Album
The Kinks - Face to Face
Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
The Who - A Quick One
Recommended
The 13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators
The Fugs - Virgin Fugs
Hugh Masekala - The Americanization of Ooga Booga
Johnny Cash - Everybody Loves a Nut
Nina Simone - Wild Is the Wind
The Rolling Stones - Aftermath
1966
1967
Must Listen
Highly Recommended
The Beach Boys - Smiley Smile
Gene Clark - Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers
The Kinks - Something Else
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
Nico - Chelsea Girl
The Who - The Who Sell Out
Recommended
The 13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere
The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday
Donovan - A Gift from a Flower to a Garden
Ennio Morricone - Death Rides a Horse
Harry Nilsson - Pandemonium Shadow Show
The Holy Modal Rounders - Indian War Whoop
McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy
Pharoah Sanders - Tauhid
The Rolling Stones - Between the Buttons
The Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties Request
West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - Part One
1968
Must Listen
The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo
Dillard & Clark - The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark
The Kinks - Village Green Preservation Society
Highly Recommended
The Band - Music from Big Pink
Dr. John - Gris-Gris
The International Submarine Band - Safe at Home
Miles Davis - Filles de Kilimanjaro
Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes
The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Recommended
The Beatles - The Beatles
Harry Nilsson - Aerial Ballet
The Mothers of Invention - We're Only in it for the Money
The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
1969
Must Listen
Dillard & Clark - Through the Morning, Through the Night
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
The Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
Highly Recommended
Bee Gees - Odessa
The Flying Burrito Brothers - Gilded Palace of Sin
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Pharoah Sanders - Karma
Skip Spence - Oar
Recommended
B.B. King - Completely Well
Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Sly and the Family Stone - Stand!
1970
Must Listen
Highly Recommended
The Ahmad Jamal Trio - The Awakening
Alice Coltrane - Ptah, the El Daoud
John Cale - Vintage Violence
The Flying Burrito Brothers - Burrito Deluxe
Recommended
Anthony Braxton - For Alto
Frank Sinatra - Watertown
Grateful Dead - American Beauty
The Kinks - Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One
The Maytals - Monkey Man
Miroslav Vitous - Infinite Search
The Nitty Gritty Dirty Band - Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy
Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day
The Velvet Underground - Loaded
The Who - Live at Leeds
1971
Must Listen
Highly Recommended
Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidanada
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
The Kinks - Muswell Hillbillies
T. Rex - Electric Warrior
Recommended
The Beach Boys - Surf's Up
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Ennio Morricone - Giu' La Testa
​Françoise Hardy - La question
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
John Martyn - Bless the Weather
John Prine - John Prine
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
Lee Hazlewood - Requiem for an Almost Lady
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
The Who - Who's Next
1972
Must Listen
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
The Nitty Gritty Dirty Band - Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Norman Blake - Back Home in Sulphur Springs
The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
Highly Recommended
Big Star - #1 Record
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Neil Young - Harvest
Townes Van Zandt - The Late Great Townes Van Zandt
Recommended
Lou Reed - Transformer
Mott the Hoople - All the Young Dudes
Pharoah Sanders - Black Unity
T. Rex - The Slider
Townes Van Zandt - High, Low, and In Between
1973
Highly Recommended
Recommended
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
Gram Parsons - GP
Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters
James Brown - The Payback
New York Dolls - New York Dolls
Nina Simone - Emergency Ward!
Pharoah Sanders - Izipho Zam
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
The Rolling Stones - Goats Head Soup
1974
Must Listen
Highly Recommended
Big Star - Radio City
Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Stars and Stripes Forever
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
The Velvet Underground - 1969: The Velvet Underground Live
Recommended
Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (')
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
Tom Waits - The Heart of Saturday Night
1975
Highly Recommended
Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Parliament - Mothership Connection
R. Stevie Moore - R. Stevie Moore Reforms the Beatles
Recommended
10cc - The Original Soundtrack
Billy Harper - Black Saint
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Neil Young - Zuma
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Queen - A Night at the Opera
Shigeo Sekito - Special Sound Series Vol. 1
Shigeo Sekito - Special Sound Series Vol. 2
Willie Colón - The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
1976
Must Listen
Highly Recommended
Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action
James Booker - King of the New Orleans Keyboard
Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene
Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers - Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers
Norman Blake - Whiskey Before Breakfast
Recommended
Giorgio Moroder - From Here to Eternity
James Booker - Junco Partner
Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby
Michael Hurley / The Unholy Modal Rounders / Jeffrey Fredericks & The Clamtones - Have Moicy!
R. Stevie Moore - Play
Tom Waits - Small Change
Toots & The Maytals - In the Dark
1977
Must Listen
Highly Recommended
Recommended
David Bowie - Low
Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
Norman Blake - Blackberry Blossom
Parliament - Funkentelechy Vs. The Placebo Syndrome
R. Stevie Moore - Swing and a Miss
Ramones - Rocket to Russia
1978
Highly Recommended
Recommended
Buzzcocks - Another Music in a Different Kitchen
Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo
Max Roach/Anthony Braxton - Birth & Rebirth
Neil Young - Comes a Time
The Only Ones - The Only Ones
Pere Ubu - Dub Housing
R. Stevie Moore - The North
Ramones - Road to Ruin
Sun Ra - Lanquidity
1979
Highly Recommended
Recommended
The Beat - The Beat
Electric Light Orchestra - Discovery
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Masayoshi Takanaka - All of Me
Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
Roy Clark and Gatemouth Brown - Makin' Music
Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats
Vangelis - Opera Sauvage
Wire - 154
1980
Recommended
Arthur Blythe - Illusions
B.B. King - Now Appearing at Ole Miss
Devo - Freedom of Choice
The Durutti Column - The Return of the Durutti Column
Fad Gadget - Fireside Favourites
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Pink Military - Do Animals Believe in God?
Roscoe Mitchell and the Sound Ensemble - Snurdy McGurdy and Her Dancin' Shoes
The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight
Wayne Shorter - Et Cetera
1981
Must Listen
Highly Recommended
Recommended
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Television Personalities - ...And Don't the Kids Just Love It
1982
Highly Recommended
Charanjit Singh - Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat
The Cure - Pornography
Lou Reed - The Blue Mask
Television Personalities - They Could Have Been Bigger Than The Beatles
Recommended
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five - The Message
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Pharaoh Sanders - Heart Is a Melody
Slade - Slade on Stage
Yellowman - Mister Yellowman
1983
Must Listen
Highly Recommended
Recommended
Cybotron - Enter
The Durutti Column - Amigos em Portugal
The Three O'Clock - Sixteen Tambourines
The Undertones - The Sin of Pride
Must Listen
Highly Recommended
Recommended
Everything But the Girl - Eden
Lou Reed - New Sensations
Metal Church - Metal Church
Rain Parade - Explosions in the Glass Palace
Rainy Day - Rainy Day
Tangerine Dream - Poland: The Warsaw Concert
Yellowman - Nobody Move Nobody Get Hurt
1984
Must Listen
Highly Recommended
Recommended
Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion
The Cure - The Head on the Door
Dead Can Dance - Spleen and Ideal
Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians - Fegmania!
Sade - Promise
The Sisters of Mercy - First and Last and Always
The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
1985
Must Listen
Highly Recommended
Recommended
Ahmad Jamal - Live at the Montreal Jazz Festival 1985
Astor Piazzolla - Tango: Zero Hour
Cameo - Word Up!
Coil - Horse Rotorvator
Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians - Element of Light
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring
1986
1987
Must Listen
Highly Recommended
The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands
The Pastels - Up for a Bit with The Pastels
R. Stevie Moore - Teenage Spectacular
The Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
Recommended
Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark
Dead Can Dance - Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
Death - Scream Bloody Gore
Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
The Go-Betweens - Tallulah
Opal - Happy Nightmare Baby
Pharaoh Sanders - Africa
Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription
1988
Highly Recommended
Beat Happening - Jamboree
Chick Corea Elektric Band - Eye of the Beholder
Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll
Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session
Galaxie 500 - Today
The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
Slick Rick - The Great Adventures of Slick Rick
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Recommended
Dead Can Dance - The Serpent's Egg
Everything But the Girl - Idlewild
Jungle Brothers - Straight Out the Jungle
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
1989
Must Listen
Highly Recommended
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
The Cure - Disintegration
The Frogs - It's Only Right and Natural
Galaxie 500 - On Fire
The Pastels - Sittin' Pretty
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Recommended
The Blue Nile - Hats
Bob Dylan - Oh Mercy
Jungle Brothers - Done by the Forces of Nature
Lou Reed - New York
Nona Hendryx - Skin Diver
Pixies - Doolittle
Razorcuts - The World Keeps Turning
The Vaselines - Dum-Dum
Highly Recommended
Bathory - Hammerheart
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
Jonathan Richman - Jonathan Goes Country
Yo La Tengo - Fakebook
Recommended
Angelo Badalamenti - Soundtrack from Twin Peaks
The Flatlanders - More a Legend than a Band
Galaxie 500 - This Is Our Music
The KLF - Chill Out
Pixies - Bossanova
Prefab Sprout - Jordan: The Comeback
Ride - Nowhere
1990
1991
Highly Recommended
Beat Happening - Dreamy
The KLF - The White Room
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Saint Etienne - Foxbase Alpha
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
Recommended
Bathory - Twilight of the Gods
Bongwater - The Power of Pussy
The Jesus Lizard - Goat
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Nightmares on Wax - A Word of Science
Nirvana - Nevermind
Pharoah Sanders - Welcome to Love
The Pooh Sticks - The Great White Wonder
Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
1992
Must Listen
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Jonathan Richman - I, Jonathan
The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde
Highly Recommended
Beat Happening - You Turn Me On
Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky
The Irresistible Force - Flying High
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - Mecca and the Soul Brother
Uncle Tupelo - March 16-20, 1992
Recommended
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Honey's Dead
The Orb - U.F.Orb
Polygon Window - Surfing on Sine Waves
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
Red House Painters - Down Colorful Hill
1993
Highly Recommended
Autechre - Incunabula
Black Dog Productions - Bytes
µ-ziq - Tango n' Vectif
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Recommended
Ahmad Jamal - Chicago Revisited: Live at Joe Segal's Jazz Showcase
Black Moon - Enta da Stage
Darkthrone - Under a Funeral Moon
David Sylvian / Robert Fripp - The First Day
Digable Planets - Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space)
Orbital - Orbital
The Pooh Sticks - Million Seller
Red House Painters - Red House Painters
Smog - Julius Caesar
Suede - Suede
Yo La Tengo - Painful
Must Listen
Highly Recommended
Autechre - Amber
Digable Planets - Blowout Comb
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - The Main Ingredient
Recommended
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Tatay
Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
Ween - Chocolate and Cheese
1994
1995
Must Listen
Highly Recommended
Autechre - Tri Repetae
The Black Dog - Spanners
GZA - Liquid Swords
Ol' Dirty Bastard - Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version
Son Volt - Trace
Recommended
The 6ths - Wasps' Nests
AFX - Hangable Auto Bulb
Aphex Twin - ...I Care Because You Do
BMX Bandits - Gettin' Dirty
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Bwyd Time
The Irresistible Force - Global Chillage
Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
The Pharcyde - Labcabincalifornia
Robert Hood - Nighttime World Volume 1
Royal Trux - Thank You
Smog - Wild Love
1996
Highly Recommended
Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
Kruder & Dorfmeister - DJ-Kicks
Orbital - In Sides
Nearly God - Nearly God
Wilco - Being There
Recommended
Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
Asunta - Landscapes
BMX Bandits - Theme Park
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Thank God for Mental Illness
De La Soul - Stakes Is High
Ghostface Killah - Ironman
Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island
1997
Highly Recommended
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Barafundle
µ-ziq - Lunatic Harness
Teenage Fanclub - Songs from Northern Britain
Recommended
Biosphere - Substrata
Built to Spill - Perfect from Now On
Daft Punk - Homework
Of Montreal - Cherry Peel
Radiohead - OK Computer
Royal Trux - Sweet Sixteen
Smog - Red Apple Falls
Ween - The Mollusk
1998
Must Listen
Highly Recommended
Caustic Window - Compilation
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Gang Starr - Moment of Truth
Recommended
Autechre - LP5
Beck - Mutations
Belle and Sebastian - The Boy with the Arab Strap
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Strung Out in Heaven
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Silver Jews - American Water
Wagon Christ - Tally Ho!
1999
Must Listen
Highly Recommended
Recommended
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Underground
Blackalicious - Nia
GZA - Beneath the Surface
Immortal - At the Heart of Winter
MF Doom - Operation: Doomsday
Peace Orchestra - Peace Orchestra
Royal Trux - Veterans of Disorder
Todd Edwards - Prima Edizione
Underworld - Beaucoup Fish
Wilco - Summerteeth
2000
Highly Recommended
Recommended
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
Ian Boddy / Chris Carter - Caged
Mystikal - Let's Get Ready
Outkast - Stankonia
Papas Fritas - Buildings and Grounds
2001
Must Listen
Recommended
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - FF
Björk - Vespertine
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Bravery, Repetition and Noise
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Daft Punk - Discovery
Jackie-O Motherfucker - Liberation
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
The Moldy Peaches - The Moldy Peaches
The Strokes - Is This It
Universal Indicator - Innovation in the Dynamics of Acid
2002
Must Listen
Highly Recommended
Recommended
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - House Arrest
Augie March - Strange Bird
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Destroyer - This Night
El-P - Fantastic Damage
Murcof - Martes
Thomas Fehlmann - Visions of Blah
2003
Highly Recommended
Recommended
Ahmad Jamal - In Search of Momentum
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Worn Copy
Dizzee Rascal - Boy in da Corner
The New Pornographers - Electric Version
The Strokes - Room on Fire
Tosca - Delhi9
Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place
Wayne Shorter - Alegría
Ween - Quebec
2004
Recommended
Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
Brian Wilson - Brian Wilson Presents Smile
Dizzee Rascal - Showtime
Fennesz - Venice
The Heavy Blinkers - The Night and I Are Still So Young
Kanye West - The College Dropout
RTX - Transmaniacon
2005
Highly Recommended
Recommended
Coil - The Ape of Naples
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter II
Little Brother - The Minstrel Show
Mirror System - Mirror System
Smog - A River Ain't Too Much to Love
The Tough Alliance - The New School
Vex'd - Degenerate
2006
Highly Recommended
Recommended
Burial - Burial
Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country
Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
Kenny Garrett - Beyond the Wall
Natural Snow Buildings - The Dance of the Moon and the Sun
The Radio Dept. - Pet Grief
Squarepusher - Hello Everything
Studio - West Coast
2007
Must Listen
Recommended
Burial - Untrue
Jonny Greenwood - There Will Be Blood
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Younger Brother - The Last Days of Gravity
2008
Must Listen
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Oddities Sodomies Vol. 1
The Beets - Spit in the Face of People Who Don't Want to Be Cool
Recommended
Ahmad Jamal - It's Magic
The Black Dog - Radio Scarecrow
Diplo & Santogold - Top Ranking: A Diplo Dub
DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues
Mrs. Jynx - The Standoffish Cat
2009
Must Listen
Highly Recommended
Recommended
Girls - Album
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Vivian Girls - Everything Goes Wrong
The xx - The xx
2010
Must Listen
Highly Recommended
Recommended
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
Beach House - Teen Dream
Best Coast - Crazy for You
Bonobo - Black Sands
Moon Wiring Club - A Spare Tabby at the Cat's Wedding
The Radio Dept. - Clinging to a Scheme
Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones
Vex'd - Cloud Seed
Wavves - King of the Beach
2011
Highly Recommended
Recommended
The Haxan Cloak - The Haxan Cloak
Molly Nilsson - History
Monster Rally - Coral
Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
The Beets - Stay Home
2012
Must Listen
Recommended
billy woods - History Will Absolve Me
Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
Raime - Quarter Turns Over a Living Line
Robert Hood - Motor: Nighttime World 3
Voices from the Lake - Voices from the Lake
Wild Nothing - Nocturne
2013
Highly Recommended
Recommended
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Jon Hopkins - Immunity
Kanye West - Yeezus
Molly Nilsson - The Travels
The Pastels - Slow Summits
Wayne Shorter Quartet - Without a Net
2014
Must Listen
Recommended
Ariel Pink - Pom Pom
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata
Mamman Sani - Taaritt
Takuya Kuroda - Rising Son
Telepath - Beyond Reality
2015
Highly Recommended
Recommended
billy woods - Today, I Wrote Nothing
death's dynamic shroud.wmv - I'll Try Living Like This
Destroyer - Poison Season
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Mamman Sani - Unreleased Tapes 1981-1984
Vince Staples - Summertime '06
2016
Highly Recommended
Recommended
Bane's World - Drowsy
Bruno Pernadas - Those Who Throw Objects At The Crocodiles Will Be Asked To Retrieve Them
Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
Tricky - Skilled Mechanics
Ulrika Spacek - The Album Paranoia
2017
Recommended
Ariel Pink - Dedicated to Bobby Jameson
The Irresistible Force - Kira Kira
Kodak Black - Painting Pictures
Slowdive - Slowdive
Tyler, The Creator - Flower Boy
2018
Recommended
Amen Dunes - Freedom
Autechre - NTS Session 1
Autechre - NTS Session 2
2019
Recommended
Long Beard - Means to Me
R. Stevie Moore - Afterlife
Tyler, The Creator - Igor
Vivian Girls - Memory
2021
Recommended
Liquids - Life Is Pain Idiot
The Murlocs - Bittersweet Demons
2022
Recommended
Liquids - Life Is Pain Idiot
Highly Recommended
Recommended
Built to Spill - When the Wind Forgets Your Name
The Weeknd - Dawn FM
The World We Live In - Shame and Forgiveness
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