This is a constantly-updated list of the 25 best albums per year dating back to when albums were relevant. Lists for the ’80s, ’60s & ’50s are incoming.
My rating out of 10 for each album will now appear beside it.
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2025
- Geese – Getting Killed (9.5/10)
- Dijon – Baby (9/10)
- Los Thuthanaka – Los Thuthanaka (9/10)
- Titanic – HAGEN (8.5/10)
- Wednesday – Bleeds (8.5/10)
- Djrum – Under Tangled Silence (8.5/10)
- PinkPantheress – Fancy That (8.5/10)
- Bad Bunny – DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS (8.5/10)
- YHWH Nailgun – 45 Pounds (8.5/10)
- Nourished by Time – The Passionate Ones (8.5/10)
- Water From Your Eyes – It’s a Beautiful Place (8/10)
- Addison Rae – Addison (8/10)
- Sudan Archives – THE BPM (8/10)
- Barker – Stochastic Drift (8/10)
- billy woods – GOLLIWOG (8/10)
- ROSALÍA – LUX (8/10)
- Ninajirachi – I Love My Computer (8/10)
- Earl Sweatshirt – Live Laugh Love (8/10)
- Oneohtrix Point Never – Tranquilizer (8/10)
- Alex G – Headlights (8/10)
- FKA twigs – EUSEXUA (8/10)
- Nick León – A Tropical Entropy (8/10)
- Wet Leg – moisturizer (8/10)
- Rochelle Jordan – Through the Wall (8/10)
- KeiyaA – hooke’s law (8/10)
2024
- Charli xcx – BRAT (9/10)
- Cameron Winter – Heavy Metal (9/10)
- Cindy Lee – Diamond Jubilee (9/10)
- Waxahatchee – Tigers Blood (8.5/10)
- Jessica Pratt – Here in the Pitch (8.5/10)
- MJ Lenderman – Manning Fireworks (8.5/10)
- Kim Gordon – The Collective (8.5/10)
- Mount Eerie – Night Palace (8.5/10)
- Magdalena Bay – Imaginal Disk (8.5/10)
- Nala Sinephro – Endlessness (8.5/10)
- Mannequin Pussy – I Got Heaven (8.5/10)
- Mk.gee – Two Star & the Dream Police (8.5/10)
- Mabe Fratti – Sentir Que No Sabes (8.5/10)
- Bladee – Cold Visions (8/10)
- Tyla – TYLA (8/10)
- Cassandra Jenkins – My Light, My Destroyer (8/10)
- Astrid Sonne – Great Doubt (8/10)
- Rafael Toral – Spectral Evolution (8/10)
- Nilüfer Yanya – My Method Actor (8/10)
- Sabrina Carpenter – Short n’ Sweet (8/10)
- Adrianne Lenker – Bright Future (8/10)
- Julia Holter – Something in the Room She Moves (8/10)
- Arooj Aftab – Night Reign (8/10)
- KA – The Thief Next to Jesus (8/10)
- Loidis – One Day (8/10)
2023
- billy woods & Kenny Segal – Maps (8.5/10)
- Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (8.5/10)
- Wednesday – Rat Saw God (8.5/10)
- Nourished by Time – Erotic Probiotic 2 (8.5/10)
- ML Buch – Suntub (8.5/10)
- Amaarae – Fountain Baby (8.5/10)
- Lana Del Rey – Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd (8.5/10)
- Sufjan Stevens – Javelin (8.5/10)
- Sofia Kourtesis – Madres (8.5/10)
- yeule – Softscars (8.5/10)
- Mandy, Indiana – I’ve Seen a Way (8.5/10)
- Jaimie Branch – Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)) (8.5/10)
- Kelela – Raven (8/10)
- ANOHNI and the Johnsons – My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross (8/10)
- Fever Ray – Radical Romantics (8/10)
- Sexyy Red – Hood Hottest Princess (8/10)
- Chuquimamani-Condori – DJ E (8/10)
- 100 gecs – 10,000 gecs (8/10)
- Earl Sweatshirt & The Alchemist – VOIR DIRE (8/10)
- Liv.e – Girl in the Half Pearl (8/10)
- Tirzah – trip9love…??? (8/10)
- Laurel Halo – Atlas (8/10)
- Water From Your Eyes – Everyone’s Crushed (8/10)
- MIKE – Burning Desire (8/10)
- HiTech – DÉTWAT (8/10)
2022
- Beyoncé – RENAISSANCE (9/10)
- Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You (9/10)
- SZA – SOS (9/10)
- Alvvays – Blue Rev (9/10)
- Bad Bunny – Un Verano Sin Ti (8.5/10)
- Special Interest – Endure (8.5/10)
- Sudan Archives – Natural Brown Prom Queen (8.5/10)
- Jockstrap – I Love You Jennifer B (8.5/10)
- Nilüfer Yanya – PAINLESS (8.5/10)
- ROSALÍA – MOTOMAMI (8.5/10)
- Asake – Mr. Money With the Vibe (8.5/10)
- Yaya Bey – Remember Your North Star (8.5/10)
- Alex G – Save the Animals (8.5/10)
- Björk – Fossora (8/10)
- Grace Ives – Janky Star (8/10)
- Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul – Topical Dancer (8/10)
- Daphni – Cherry (8/10)
- Rachika Nayar – Heaven Come Crashing (8/10)
- Makaya McCraven – In These Times (8/10)
- Chat Pile – God’s Country (8/10)
- Huerco S. – Plonk (8/10)
- Hikaru Utada – BAD MODE (8/10)
- Florist – Florist (8/10)
- Destroyer – LABYRINTHITIS (8/10)
- Soul Glo – Diaspora Problems (8/10)
2021
- Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra – Promises (9/10)
- Low – HEY WHAT (9/10)
- Turnstile – GLOW ON (8.5/10)
- Jazmine Sullivan – Heaux Tales (8.5/10)
- Faye Webster – I Know I’m Funny Haha (8.5/10)
- Dry Cleaning – New Long Leg (8.5/10)
- Mach-Hommy – Pray for Haiti (8.5/10)
- Mdou Moctar – Afrique Victime (8.5/10)
- Dean Blunt – Black Metal 2 (8.5/10)
- L’Rain – Fatigue (8.5/10)
- Jane Remover – Frailty (8.5/10)
- Nala Sinephro – Space 1.8 (8/10)
- Arooj Aftab – Vulture Prince (8/10)
- Wednesday – Twin Plagues (8/10)
- Tirzah – Colourgrade (8/10)
- Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt – Made Out of Sound (8/10)
- Rx Papi & Gud – Foreign Exchange (8/10)
- SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE – ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH (8/10)
- Magdalena Bay – Mercurial World (8/10)
- MIKE – Disco! (8/10)
- Dijon – Absolutely (8/10)
- Grouper – Shade (8/10)
- Tyler, the Creator – CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST (8/10)
- Japanese Breakfast – Jubilee (8/10)
- The Weather Station – Ignorance (8/10)
2020
- Waxahatchee – Saint Cloud (9/10)
- Fiona Apple – Fetch the Bolt Cutters (9/10)
- Bad Bunny – YHLQMDLG (9/10)
- Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher (9/10)
- Playboi Carti – Whole Lotta Red (9/10)
- Jessie Ware – What’s Your Pleasure? (9/10)
- The Microphones – Microphones in 2020 (8.5/10)
- Yves Tumor – Heaven to a Tortured Mind (8.5/10)
- The Soft Pink Truth – Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase? (8.5/10)
- Taylor Swift – folklore (8.5/10)
- Perfume Genius – Set My Heart on Fire Immediately (8.5/10)
- Adrianne Lenker – songs (8.5/10)
- Dua Lipa – Future Nostalgia (8.5/10)
- Amaarae – THE ANGEL YOU DON’T KNOW (8.5/10)
- HAIM – Women in Music, Pt. III (8.5/10)
- The 1975 – Notes on a Conditional Form (8/10)
- Lil Uzi Vert – Eternal Atake (8/10)
- Fleet Foxes – Shore (8/10)
- Soccer Mommy – color theory (8/10)
- KMRU – Peel (8/10)
- KeiyaA – Forever, Ya Girl (8/10)
- Nubya Garcia – Source (8/10)
- Ulla – Tumbling Towards a Wall (8/10)
- DJ Python – Mas Amable (8/10)
- BbyMutha – Muthaland (8/10)
2019
- Lana Del Rey – Norman Fucking Rockwell! (9.5/10)
- FKA Twigs – MAGDALENE (9/10)
- Big Thief – U.F.O.F. (9/10)
- Angel Olsen – All Mirrors (9/10)
- Solange – When I Get Home (9/10)
- Jai Paul – Leak 04-13 (Bait Ones) (9/10)
- Purple Mountains – Purple Mountains (9/10)
- Helado Negro – This Is How You Smile (8.5/10)
- Big Thief – Two Hands (8.5/10)
- Weyes Blood – Titanic Rising (8.5/10)
- Jamila Woods – LEGACY! LEGACY! (8.5/10)
- Tyler, the Creator – IGOR (8.5/10)
- Alex G – House of Sugar (8.5/10)
- 100 gecs – 1000 gecs (8.5/10)
- Kim Gordon – No Home Record (8.5/10)
- Jenny Hval – The Practice of Love (8/10)
- billy woods & Kenny Segal – Hiding Places (8/10)
- Brittany Howard – Jaime (8/10)
- Erika de Casier – Essentials (8/10)
- Burna Boy – African Giant (8/10)
- Faye Webster – Atlanta Millionaires Club (8/10)
- Fennesz – Agora (8/10)
- Thom Yorke – ANIMA (8/10)
- Denzel Curry – ZUU (8/10)
- Jessica Pratt – Quiet Signs (8/10)
2018
- Kacey Musgraves – Golden Hour (9.5/10)
- SOPHIE – OIL OF EVERY PEARL’S UN-INSIDES (9.5/10)
- Earl Sweatshirt – Some Rap Songs (9.5/10)
- Rosalía – El Mal Querer (9.5/10)
- Cardi B – Invasion of Privacy (9/10)
- Robyn – Honey (8.5/10)
- Snail Mail – Lush (8.5/10)
- Mitski – Be the Cowboy (8.5/10)
- Low – Double Negative (8.5/10)
- Tirzah – Devotion (8.5/10)
- Tierra Whack – Whack World (8.5/10)
- Noname – Room 25 (8.5/10)
- DJ Koze – Knock Knock (8.5/10)
- Bad Bunny – X 100PRE (8.5/10)
- Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino (8.5/10)
- U.S. Girls – In a Poem Unlimited (8.5/10)
- Yves Tumor – Safe in the Hands of Love (8.5/10)
- Pusha T – DAYTONA (8.5/10)
- Amen Dunes – Freedom (8.5/10)
- Jon Hopkins – Singularity (8/10)
- Ariana Grande – Sweetener (8/10)
- The 1975 – A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships (8/10)
- Julia Holter – Aviary (8/10)
- JPEGMAFIA – Veteran (8/10)
- Soccer Mommy – Clean (8/10)
2017
- SZA – Ctrl (9.5/10)
- Kendrick Lamar – DAMN. (9.5/10)
- Charli XCX – Pop 2 (9.5/10)
- King Krule – The OOZ (9/10)
- Jlin – Black Origami (9/10)
- Fever Ray – Plunge (9/10)
- Lorde – Melodrama (8.5/10)
- Moses Sumney – Aromanticism (8.5/10)
- Perfume Genius – No Shape (8.5/10)
- Kelela – Take Me Apart (8.5/10)
- Mount Eerie – A Crow Looked at Me (8.5/10)
- Tyler, the Creator – Flower Boy (8.5/10)
- Big Thief – Capacity (8.5/10)
- Playboi Carti – Playboi Carti (8.5/10)
- The War on Drugs – A Deeper Understanding (8.5/10)
- Arca – Arca (8.5/10)
- Sheer Mag – Compilation (8.5/10)
- Vince Staples – Big Fish Theory (8/10)
- LCD Soundsystem – American Dream (8/10)
- Julien Baker – Turn Out the Lights (8/10)
- Jay Som – Everybody Works (8/10)
- Sampha – Process (8/10)
- Charlotte Gainsbourg – Rest (8/10)
- Kelly Lee Owens – Kelly Lee Owens (8/10)
- Chuck Johnson – Balsams (8/10)
2016
- Frank Ocean – Blonde (10/10)
- Solange – A Seat at the Table (9.5/10)
- Rihanna – ANTI (9.5/10)
- Mitski – Puberty 2 (9.5/10)
- David Bowie – Blackstar (9.5/10)
- Beyoncé – Lemonade (9.5/10)
- A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here…Thank You 4 Your Service (9/10)
- ANOHNI – Hopelessness (9/10)
- Blood Orange – Freetown Sound (8.5/10)
- Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Denial (8.5/10)
- Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker (8.5/10)
- Bon Iver – 22, A Million (8.5/10)
- Kanye West – The Life of Pablo (8.5/10)
- Danny Brown – Atrocity Exhibition (8.5/10)
- Angel Olsen – My Woman (8.5/10)
- Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool (8.5/10)
- Chance the Rapper – Coloring Book (8/10)
- Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – EARS (8/10)
- Parquet Courts – Human Performance (8/10)
- Lil Peep – Hellboy (8/10)
- Jenny Hval – Blood Bitch (8/10)
- 21 Savage/Metro Boomin – Savage Mode (8/10)
- Kaytranada – 99.9% (8/10)
- Anderson .Paak – Malibu (8/10)
- Cobalt – Slow Forever (8/10)
2015
- Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly (10/10)
- Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell (9.5/10)
- Jamie xx – In Colour (9.5/10)
- Carly Rae Jepsen – E•MO•TION (9.5/10)
- Vince Staples – Summertime ’06 (9/10)
- Kamasi Washington – The Epic (9/10)
- Tame Impala – Currents (9/10)
- Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit (9/10)
- Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear (9/10)
- Grimes – Art Angels (9/10)
- Future – DS2 (9/10)
- Drake – If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late (8.5/10)
- Björk – Vulnicura (8.5/10)
- Young Thug – Barter 6 (8.5/10)
- Rae Sremmurd – SremmLife (8.5/10)
- Oneohtrix Point Never – Garden of Delete (8.5/10)
- Jenny Hval – Apocalypse, girl (8.5/10)
- Joanna Newsom – Divers (8.5/10)
- Jessica Pratt – On Your Own Love Again (8.5/10)
- Girlpool – Before the World Was Big (8/10)
- Julia Holter – Have You in My Wilderness (8/10)
- Archy Marshall – A New Place 2 Drown (8/10)
- Floating Points – Elaenia (8/10)
- Deerhunter – Fading Frontier (8/10)
- Miguel – Wildheart (8/10)
2014
- D’Angelo – Black Messiah (9.5/10)
- FKA Twigs – LP1 (9.5/10)
- Grouper – Ruins (9/10)
- The War on Drugs – Lost in the Dream (9/10)
- Caribou – Our Love (9/10)
- Todd Terje – It’s Album Time (8.5/10)
- Aphex Twin – Syro (8.5/10)
- Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire for No Witness (8.5/10)
- Rich Gang – Tha Tour Part 1 (8.5/10)
- Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels 2 (8.5/10)
- The Hotelier – Home, Like NoPlace Is There (8.5/10)
- Mac DeMarco – Salad Days (8.5/10)
- Taylor Swift – 1989 (8.5/10)
- Future Islands – Singles (8.5/10)
- Spoon – They Want My Soul (8.5/10)
- Perfume Genius – Too Bright (8.5/10)
- Swans – To Be Kind (8.5/10)
- St. Vincent – St. Vincent (8/10)
- Sun Kil Moon – Benji (8/10)
- Joyce Manor – Never Hungover Again (8/10)
- Arca – Xen (8/10)
- Ariel Pink – Pom Pom (8/10)
- YG – My Krazy Life (8/10)
- Sharon Van Etten – Are We There (8/10)
- Frankie Cosmos – Zentropy (8/10)
2013
- Beyoncé – Beyoncé (10/10)
- Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City (10/10)
- Kanye West – Yeezus (9.5/10)
- DJ Rashad – Double Cup (9.5/10)
- Sky Ferreira – Night Time, My Time (9/10)
- Blood Orange – Cupid Deluxe (9/10)
- Haim – Days Are Gone (9/10)
- Burial – Rival Dealer EP (9/10)
- Disclosure – Settle (8.5/10)
- Chance the Rapper – Acid Rap (8.5/10)
- Daft Punk – Random Access Memories (8.5/10)
- Drake – Nothing Was the Same (8.5/10)
- The Knife – Shaking the Habitual (8.5/10)
- Waxahatchee – Cerulean Salt (8.5/10)
- Kurt Vile – Wakin’ on a Pretty Daze (8.5/10)
- Deafheaven – Sunbather (8.5/10)
- My Bloody Valentine – m b v (8.5/10)
- Earl Sweatshirt – Doris (8.5/10)
- Majical Cloudz – Impersonator (8.5/10)
- Lorde – Pure Heroine (8/10)
- Arcade Fire – Reflektor (8/10)
- Danny Brown – Old (8/10)
- Bill Callahan – Dream River (8/10)
- DJ Koze – Amygdala (8/10)
- Kelela – CUT 4 ME (8/10)
2012
- Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel… (10/10)
- Frank Ocean – channel ORANGE (9.5/10)
- Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d. city (9.5/10)
- Grimes – Visions (9/10)
- Tame Impala – Lonerism (9/10)
- Taylor Swift – Red (9/10)
- Japandroids – Celebration Rock (8.5/10)
- Burial – Kindred (8.5/10)
- Chromatics – Kill for Love (8.5/10)
- Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan (8.5/10)
- Death Grips – The Money Store (8.5/10)
- Swans – The Seer (8.5/10)
- Andy Stott – Luxury Problems (8.5/10)
- Beach House – Bloom (8.5/10)
- Future – Pluto (8.5/10)
- Killer Mike – R.A.P. Music (8/10)
- Mac DeMarco – 2 (8/10)
- Jessie Ware – Devotion (8/10)
- Chief Keef – Finally Rich (8/10)
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend! (8/10)
- Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Mature Themes (8/10)
- Hot Chip – In Our Heads (8/10)
- Cloud Nothings – Attack on Memory (8/10)
- Grizzly Bear – Shields (8/10)
- Disasterpeace – FEZ (8/10)
2011
- Destroyer – Kaputt (10/10)
- Drake – Take Care (9.5/10)
- Bon Iver – Bon Iver, Bon Iver (9.5/10)
- Bill Callahan – Apocalypse (9/10)
- Oneohtrix Point Never – Replica (9/10)
- Beyoncé – 4 (9/10)
- Danny Brown – XXX (9/10)
- Jay-Z/Kanye West – Watch the Throne (9/10)
- St. Vincent – Strange Mercy (8.5/10)
- Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring for My Halo (8.5/10)
- M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming (8.5/10)
- Real Estate – Days (8.5/10)
- EMA – Past Life Martyred Saints (8.5/10)
- The Weeknd – House of Balloons (8.5/10)
- Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues (8.5/10)
- A$AP Rocky – Live.Love.A$AP (8.5/10)
- The Caretaker – An Empty Bliss Beyond This World (8.5/10)
- Girls – Father, Son, Holy Ghost (8.5/10)
- Nicolas Jaar – Space Is Only Noise (8.5/10)
- Tim Hecker – Ravedeath, 1972 (8.5/10)
- James Blake – James Blake (8/10)
- Frank Ocean – nostalgia, ULTRA (8/10)
- Macintosh Plus – Floral Shoppe (8/10)
- Grouper – A I A: Alien Observer (8/10)
- Tune-Yards – W H O K I L L (8/10)
2010
- Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (10/10)
- Beach House – Teen Dream (9.5/10)
- Joanna Newsom – Have One on Me (9.5/10)
- Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest (9.5/10)
- Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma (9/10)
- Robyn – Body Talk (9/10)
- LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening (9/10)
- Erykah Badu – New Amerykah Pt. 2 (Return of the Ankh) (9/10)
- Arcade Fire – The Suburbs (8.5/10)
- Waka Flocka Flame – Flockaveli (8.5/10)
- Vampire Weekend – Contra (8.5/10)
- Four Tet – There Is Love in You (8.5/10)
- Emeralds – Does It Look Like I’m Here? (8.5/10)
- The National – High Violet (8.5/10)
- Various Artists – Bangs & Works, Vol. 1: A Chicago Footwork Compilation (8.5/10)
- Titus Andronicus – The Monitor (8/10)
- Janelle Monáe – The ArchAndroid (8/10)
- The-Dream – Love King (8/10)
- Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today (8/10)
- Crystal Castles – (II) (8/10)
- Big Boi – Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty (8/10)
- Caribou – Swim (8/10)
- Sleigh Bells – Treats (8/10)
- Actress – Splazsh (8/10)
- Earl Sweatshirt – Earl (8/10)
2009
- Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion (9.5/10)
- The xx – xx (9/10)
- Fever Ray – Fever Ray (9/10)
- Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (9/10)
- Bill Callahan – Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle (9/10)
- Micachu and the Shapes – Jewellery (9/10)
- Paramore – Brand New Eyes (8.5/10)
- Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca (8.5/10)
- St. Vincent – Actor (8.5/10)
- Miranda Lambert – Revolution (8.5/10)
- Girls – Album (8.5/10)
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz (8.5/10)
- Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest (8/10)
- Bat for Lashes – Two Suns (8/10)
- Atlas Sound – Logos (8/10)
- Nicki Minaj – Beam Me Up Scotty (8/10)
- Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport (8/10)
- Oneohtrix Point Never – Rifts (8/10)
- Neon Indian – Psychic Chasms (8/10)
- Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Pt. 2 (8/10)
- DJ Quik & Kurupt – BlaQKout (8/10)
- The Flaming Lips – Embryonic (8/10)
- The-Dream – Love vs. Money (8/10)
- Neko Case – Middle Cyclone (8/10)
- Antony and the Johnsons – The Crying Light (8/10)
2008
- Erykah Badu – New Amerykah Part One (4th World War) (9/10)
- Grouper – Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill (9/10)
- Portishead – Third (9/10)
- Kanye West – 808s & Heartbreak (9/10)
- Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes (9/10)
- Deerhunter – Microcastle (8.5/10)
- Los Campesinos – Hold on Now, Youngster… (8.5/10)
- Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend (8.5/10)
- Flying Lotus – Los Angeles (8.5/10)
- DJ Sprinkles – Midtown 120 Blues (8.5/10)
- Vivian Girls – Vivian Girls (8.5/10)
- Gang Gang Dance – Saint Dymphna (8.5/10)
- Rihanna – Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded (8.5/10)
- Jean Grae – Jeanius (8/10)
- Air France – No Way Down EP (8/10)
- No Age – Nouns (8/10)
- Ponytail – Ice Cream Spiritual (8/10)
- Frightened Rabbit – The Midnight Organ Flight (8/10)
- Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours (8/10)
- Fucked Up – The Chemistry of Common Life (8/10)
- M83 – Saturdays = Youth (8/10)
- TV on the Radio – Dear Science (8/10)
- Lindstrom – Where You Go I Go Too (8/10)
- The Hold Steady – Stay Positive (8/10)
- Fennesz – Black Sea (8/10)
2007
- Burial – Untrue (10/10)
- Radiohead – In Rainbows (9.5/10)
- Panda Bear – Person Pitch (9.5/10)
- M.I.A. – Kala (9.5/10)
- LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver (9.5/10)
- Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago (9.5/10)
- Lil Wayne – Da Drought 3 (9.5/10)
- Robyn – Robyn (International Edition) (9/10)
- Kanye West – Graduation (9/10)
- The Field – From Here We Go Sublime (8.5/10)
- Battles – Mirrored (8.5.10)
- Daft Punk – Alive 2007 (8.5/10)
- Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (8.5/10)
- Jens Lekman – Night Falls Over Kortedala (8.5/10)
- Paramore – Riot! (8.5/10)
- Jonny Greenwood – There Will Be Blood (8.5/10)
- RP Boo – Dude Off 59th Street (8.5/10)
- Feist – The Reminder (8/10)
- Theo Parrish – Sound Sculptures Vol. 1 (8/10)
- The-Dream – Love/Hate (8/10)
- UGK – UGK (Underground Kingz) (8/10)
- Of Montreal – Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? (8/10)
- Blonde Redhead – 23 (8/10)
- Stars of the Lid – And Their Refinement of the Decline (8/10)
- Arctic Monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare (8/10)
2006
- J Dilla – Donuts (10/10)
- The Knife – Silent Shout (9.5/10)
- Joanna Newsom – Ys (9.5/10)
- Amy Winehouse – Back to Black (9/10)
- Destroyer – Destroyer’s Rubies (9/10)
- Clipse – Hell Hath No Fury (9/10)
- Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not (9/10)
- Justin Timberlake – FutureSex/LoveSounds (9/10)
- Beyoncé – B’Day (9/10)
- Jay Reatard – Blood Visions (9/10)
- Ghostface Killah – Fishscale (8.5/10)
- TV on the Radio – Return to Cookie Mountain (8.5/10)
- Liars – Drum’s Not Dead (8.5/10)
- Phoenix – It’s Never Been Like That (8.5/10)
- Tim Hecker – Harmony in Ultraviolet (8.5/10)
- Scott Walker – The Drift (8.5/10)
- Hot Chip – The Warning (8.5/10)
- The Thermals – The Body, the Blood, the Machine (8.5/10)
- Love Is All – Nine Times That Same Song (8.5/10)
- My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade (8.5/10)
- Camera Obscura – Let’s Get Out of this Country (8/10)
- Clark – Body Riddle (8/10)
- The Roots – Game Theory (8/10)
- Lily Allen – Alright, Still (8/10)
- Band of Horses – Everything All the Time (8/10)
2005
- Sufjan Stevens – Illinois (10/10)
- Kanye West – Late Registration (9.5/10)
- Antony and the Johnsons – I Am a Bird Now (9/10)
- Sleater-Kinney – The Woods (9/10)
- Fiona Apple – Extraordinary Machine (9/10)
- M.I.A. – Arular (9/10)
- The National – Alligator (9/10)
- Broadcast – Tender Buttons (8.5/10)
- Mariah Carey – The Emancipation of Mimi (8.5/10)
- Lil Wayne – Tha Carter II (8.5/10)
- Smog – A River Ain’t Too Much to Love (8.5/10)
- Jeezy – Let’s Get It: Thug Motivation 101 (8.5/10)
- Clipse – We Got It 4 Cheap, Vol. 2 (8.5/10)
- The Hold Steady – Separation Sunday (8.5/10)
- Wolf Parade – Apologies to the Queen Mary (8.5/10)
- The Decemberists – Picaresque (8.5/10)
- Animal Collective – Feels (8.5/10)
- Kate Bush – Aerial (8.5/10)
- Bright Eyes – I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning (8.5/10)
- Sigur Ros – Takk… (8/10)
- Bloc Party – Silent Alarm (8/10)
- My Morning Jacket – Z (8/10)
- LCD Soundsystem – LCD Soundsystem (8/10)
- The Mountain Goats – The Sunset Tree (8/10)
- Okkervil River – Black Sheep Boy (8/10)
2004
- Madvillain – Madvillainy (10/10)
- Arcade Fire – Funeral (9.5/10)
- Kanye West – The College Dropout (9.5/10)
- Joanna Newsom – The Milk-Eyed Mender (9.5/10)
- Usher – Confessions (9/10)
- Cam’ron – Purple Haze (9/10)
- MF DOOM – MM..Food (9/10)
- Wilco – A Ghost Is Born (8.5/10)
- Animal Collective – Sung Tongs (8.5/10)
- Arthur Russell – Calling Out of Context (8.5/10)
- Junior Boys – Last Exit (8.5/10)
- Loretta Lynn – Van Lear Rose (8.5/10)
- Air – Talkie Walkie (8.5/10)
- Blonde Redhead – Misery Is a Butterfly (8.5/10)
- Annie – Anniemal (8.5/10)
- Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand (8.5/10)
- The Go! Team – Thunder, Lightning, Strike (8.5/10)
- Mastodon – Leviathan (8.5/10)
- The Walkmen – Bows + Arrows (8/10)
- Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus (8/10)
- Mannie Fresh – The Mind of Mannie Fresh (8/10)
- M.I.A./Diplo – Piracy Funds Terrorism Vol. 1 (8/10)
- Björk – Medulla (8/10)
- Jesu – Jesu (8/10)
- The Fiery Furnaces – Blueberry Boat (8/10)
2003
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever to Tell (9.5/10)
- Broadcast – Haha Sound (9.5/10)
- Cat Power – You Are Free (9/10)
- Alicia Keys – The Diary of Alicia Keys (9/10)
- Death Cab for Cutie – Transatlanticism (9/10)
- The White Stripes – Elephant (9/10)
- Jay-Z – The Black Album (9/10)
- The Postal Service – Give Up (9/10)
- The Exploding Hearts – Guitar Romantic (8.5/10)
- Lightning Bolt – Wonderful Rainbow (8.5/10)
- The Shins – Chutes Too Narrow (8.5/10)
- Sufjan Stevens – Michigan (8.5/10)
- Viktor Vaughn – Vaudeville Villain (8.5/10)
- Four Tet – Rounds (8.5/10)
- Caribou – Up in Flames (8.5/10)
- T.I. – Trap Muzik (8.5/10)
- Dizzee Rascal – Boy in Da Corner (8.5/10)
- The Wrens – The Meadowlands (8.5/10)
- Deerhoof – Apple O’ (8.5/10)
- Sleep – Dopesmoker (8.5/10)
- Ricardo Villalobos – Alcachofa (8.5/10)
- Boris – Akuma No Uta (8/10)
- Songs: Ohia – Magnolia Electric Co. (8/10)
- Prefuse 73 – One Word Extinguisher (8/10)
- My Morning Jacket – It Still Moves (8/10)
2002
- Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (10/10)
- William Basinski – The Disintegration Loops (9.5/10)
- Spoon – Kill the Moonlight (9/10)
- Boards of Canada – Geogaddi (9/10)
- Neko Case – Blacklisted (9/10)
- Broken Social Scene – You Forgot It in People (9/10)
- Coldplay – A Rush of Blood to the Head (9/10)
- The Streets – Original Pirate Material (9/10)
- Rilo Kiley – The Execution of All Things (8.5/10)
- Interpol – Turn on the Bright Lights (8.5/10)
- The Mountain Goats – Tallahassee (8.5/10)
- Missy Elliott – Under Construction (8.5/10)
- Michael Mayer – Immer (8.5/10)
- Tego Calderón – El Abayarde (8.5/10)
- The Notwist – Neon Golden (8.5/10)
- Sonic Youth – Murray Street (8.5/10)
- Clipse – Lord Willin’ (8.5/10)
- Beck – Sea Change (8.5/10)
- Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the Deaf (8.5/10)
- The Books – Thought for Food (8.5/10)
- Drexciya – Harnessed the Storm (8.5/10)
- Hikaru Utada – Deep River (8.5/10)
- Brandy – Full Moon (8.5/10)
- Iron & Wine – The Creek Drank the Cradle (8.5/10)
- The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (8.5/10)
2001
- Daft Punk – Discovery (10/10)
- Jay-Z – The Blueprint (10/10)
- The Strokes – Is This It (10/10)
- Björk – Vespertine (10/10)
- Aaliyah – Aaliyah (9.5/10)
- The Microphones – The Glow, Pt. 2 (9.5/10)
- The White Stripes – White Blood Cells (9.5/10)
- Fennesz – Endless Summer (9.5/10)
- Missy Elliott – Miss E…So Addictive (9.5/10)
- Fugazi – The Argument (9/10)
- Life Without Buildings – Any Other City (9/10)
- Gillian Welch – Time (The Revelator) (9/10)
- Basement Jaxx – Rooty (9/10)
- The Shins – Oh, Inverted World (8.5/10)
- Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – The Tyranny of Distance (8.5/10)
- Low – Things We Lost in the Fire (8.5/10)
- Kylie Minogue – Fever (8.5/10)
- Destroyer – Streethawk: A Seduction (8.5/10)
- Radiohead – Amnesiac (8.5/10)
- Cannibal Ox – The Cold Vein (8.5/10)
- Stars of the Lid – The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid (8.5/10)
- Silver Jews – Bright Flight (8.5/10)
- Andrew W.K. – I Get Wet (8.5/10)
- Jan Jelinek – Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records (8.5/10)
- Sparklehorse – It’s a Wonderful Life (8.5/10)
2000
- Radiohead – Kid A (10/10)
- D’Angelo – Voodoo (10/10)
- Ghostface Killah – Supreme Clientele (10/10)
- Erykah Badu – Mama’s Gun (10/10)
- The Avalanches – Since I Left You (10/10)
- OutKast – Stankonia (9.5/10)
- Yo La Tengo – And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out (9.5/10)
- Luomo – Vocalcity (9/10)
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (9/10)
- Modest Mouse – The Moon & Antarctica (9/10)
- Elliott Smith – Figure 8 (9/10)
- PJ Harvey – Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (8.5/10)
- The New Pornographers – Mass Romantic (8.5/10)
- Aimee Mann – Bachelor No. 2 or, the Last Remains of the Dodo (8.5/10)
- Bright Eyes – Fevers and Mirrors (8.5/10)
- Moodymann – Forevernevermore (8.5/10)
- GAS – Pop (8.5/10)
- Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP (8.5/10)
- Broadcast – The Noise Made By People (8.5/10)
- Three 6 Mafia – When the Smoke Clears: Sixty 6 Sixty 1 (8.5/10)
- Common – Like Water for Chocolate (8.5/10)
- Slum Village – Fan-Tas-Tic, Vol. 2 (8.5/10)
- Clinic – Internal Wrangler (8.5/10)
- Sade – Lovers Rock (8.5/10)
- Jill Scott – Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1 (8/10)
1999
- Fiona Apple – When the Pawn… (9.5/10)
- Built to Spill – Keep It Like a Secret (9.5/10)
- Mos Def – Black on Both Sides (9.5/10)
- The Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs (9/10)
- The Roots – Things Fall Apart (9/10)
- Boredoms – Vision Creation Newsun (9/10)
- MF Doom – Operation: Doomsday (9/10)
- Destiny’s Child – The Writing’s on the Wall (9/10)
- The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin (9/10)
- Le Tigre – Le Tigre (9/10)
- Wilco – Summerteeth (9/10)
- Smog – Knock Knock (9/10)
- Sigur Rós – Ágætis byrjun (8.5/10)
- The Dismemberment Plan – Emergency & I (8.5/10)
- Jim O’Rourke – Eureka (8.5/10)
- American Football – American Football (8.5/10)
- Drexciya – Neptune’s Lair (8.5/10)
- Bonnie “Prince” Billy – I See a Darkness (8.5/10)
- Dr. Dre – 2001 (8.5/10)
- Blur – 13 (8.5/10)
- The Chicks – Fly (8.5/10)
- Sleater-Kinney – The Hot Rock (8/10)
- Prince Paul – A Prince Among Thieves (8/10)
- Kelis – Kaleidoscope (8/10)
- The Olivia Tremor Control – Black Foliage: Animation Music Volume One (8/10)
1998
- OutKast – Aquemini (10/10)
- Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (10/10)
- Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (9.5/10)
- Boards of Canada – Music Has the Right to Children (9.5/10)
- Silver Jews – American Water (9.5/10)
- Elliott Smith – XO (9/10)
- Cat Power – Moon Pix (9/10)
- Massive Attack – Mezzanine (9/10)
- Lucinda Williams – Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (9/10)
- Juvenile – 400 Degreez (9/10)
- Madonna – Ray of Light (9/10)
- Air – Moon Safari (9/10)
- Tortoise – TNT (9/10)
- Boredoms – Super Æ (9/10)
- PJ Harvey – Is This Desire? (9/10)
- Autechre – LP5 (8.5/10)
- Black Star – Mos Def and Talib Kweli Are Black Star (8.5/10)
- Pulp – This is Hardcore (8.5/10)
- Mark Hollis – Mark Hollis (8.5/10)
- Gang Starr – Moment of Truth (8.5/10)
- Sparklehorse – Good Morning Spider (8.5/10)
- Belle & Sebastian – The Boy With the Arab Strap (8.5/10)
- Beastie Boys – Hello Nasty (8/10)
- Big Pun – Capital Punishment (8/10)
- The Beta Band – The Three EPs (8/10)
1997
- Radiohead – OK Computer (10/10)
- Björk – Homogenic (10/10)
- Elliott Smith – Either/Or (10/10)
- Erykah Badu – Baduizm (9.5/10)
- Janet Jackson – The Velvet Rope (9.5/10)
- The Notorious B.I.G. – Life After Death (9/10)
- Daft Punk – Homework (9/10)
- Sleater-Kinney – Dig Me Out (9/10)
- Yo La Tengo – I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One (9/10)
- Bob Dylan – Time Out of Mind (9/10)
- Modest Mouse – The Lonesome Crowded West (9/10)
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor – F# A# ∞ (9/10)
- Spiritualized – Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space (9/10)
- Missy Elliott – Supa Dupa Fly (8.5/10)
- Built to Spill – Perfect from Now On (8.5/10)
- Stereolab – Dots and Loops (8.5/10)
- Mariah Carey – Butterfly (8.5/10)
- Roni Size & Reprazent – New Forms (8.5/10)
- Mogwai – Young Team (8.5/10)
- Wu-Tang Clan – Wu-Tang Forever (8.5/10)
- Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – The Boatman’s Call (8.5/10)
- Squarepusher – Big Loada (8/10)
- Jim O’Rourke – Bad Timing (8/10)
- Pavement – Brighten the Corners (8/10)
- Carl Craig – More Songs About Food and Revolutionary Art (8/10)
1996
- Belle and Sebastian – If You’re Feeling Sinister (9.5/10)
- DJ Shadow – Endtroducing… (9.5/10)
- 2Pac – All Eyez on Me (9.5/10)
- Aphex Twin – Richard D. James Album (9.5/10)
- Fugees – The Score (9.5/10)
- Stereolab – Emperor Tomato Ketchup (9/10)
- Aaliyah – One in a Million (9/10)
- OutKast – ATLiens (9/10)
- Fiona Apple – Tidal (9/10)
- UGK – Ridin’ Dirty (9/10)
- Jay-Z – Reasonable Doubt (9/10)
- Ghostface Killah – Ironman (9/10)
- Beck – Odelay (9/10)
- Lil Kim – Hard Core (9/10)
- Maxwell – Maxwell’s Urban Hang Suite (9/10)
- Weezer – Pinkerton (8.5/10)
- Mobb Deep – Hell on Earth (8.5/10)
- Gillian Welch – Revival (8.5/10)
- Tortoise – Millions Now Living Will Never Die (8.5/10)
- De La Soul – Stakes Is High (8.5/10)
- Wilco – Being There (8/10)
- Silver Jews – The Natural Bridge (8/10)
- Team Dresch – Captain My Captain (8/10)
- Orbital – In Sides (8/10)
- Everything But the Girl – Walking Wounded (8/10)
1995
- Björk – Post (9.5/10)
- Mobb Deep – The Infamous… (9.5/10)
- D’Angelo – Brown Sugar (9.5/10)
- Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… (9.5/10)
- Elliott Smith – Elliott Smith (9.5/10)
- Pulp – Different Class (9.5/10)
- Radiohead – The Bends (9/10)
- Genius/GZA – Liquid Swords (9/10)
- Scott Walker – Tilt (9/10)
- Tricky – Maxinquaye (9/10)
- Oval – 94diskont (9/10)
- DJ Screw – 3 ‘n the Mornin’ (Part Two) (9/10)
- Three 6 Mafia – Mystic Stylez (9/10)
- Autechre – Tri Repetae (8.5/10)
- Pavement – Wowee Zowee (8.5/10)
- Ol’ Dirty Bastard – Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version (8.5/10)
- Alanis Morissette – Jagged Little Pill (8.5/10)
- Bone Thugs-n-Harmony – E. 1999 Eternal (8.5/10)
- Fugazi – Red Medicine (8.5/10)
- The Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (8.5/10)
- Garbage – Garbage (8/10)
- Elastica – Elastica (8/10)
- Sparklehorse – Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot (8/10)
- Oasis – (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? (8/10)
- Sonic Youth – Washing Machine (8/10)
1994
- The Notorious B.I.G. – Ready to Die (10/10)
- Portishead – Dummy (10/10)
- Hole – Live Through This (10/10)
- Nas – Illmatic (10/10)
- Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (9.5/10)
- TLC – CrazySexyCool (9.5/10)
- Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works Volume II (9.5/10)
- Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral (9.5/10)
- Scarface – The Diary (9/10)
- Jeff Buckley – Grace (9/10)
- Blur – Parklife (9/10)
- Digable Planets – Blowout Comb (9/10)
- Weezer – Weezer (Blue Album) (9/10)
- Autechre – Amber (9/10)
- Nirvana – MTV Unplugged in New York (9/10)
- Bikini Kill – The C.D. Version of the First Two Records (9/10)
- Arthur Russell – Another Thought (9/10)
- Guided By Voices – Bee Thousand (8.5/10)
- Built to Spill – There’s Nothing Wrong With Love (8.5/10)
- Soundgarden – Superunknown (8.5/10)
- Tom Petty – Wildflowers (8.5/10)
- Gang Starr – Hard to Earn (8.5/10)
- OutKast – Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik (8.5/10)
- Sunny Day Real Estate – Diary (8.5/10)
- Mary J. Blige – My Life (8.5/10)
1993
- Wu-Tang Clan – Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (10/10)
- Liz Phair – Exile in Guyville (10/10)
- Nirvana – In Utero (9.5/10)
- PJ Harvey – Rid of Me (9.5/10)
- Janet Jackson – Janet (9/10)
- The Breeders – Last Splash (9/10)
- Slowdive – Souvlaki (9/10)
- A Tribe Called Quest – Midnight Marauders (9/10)
- The Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream (9/10)
- Mazzy Star – So Tonight That I Might See (9/10)
- Bikini Kill – Pussy Whipped (9/10)
- Yo La Tengo – Painful (9/10)
- Björk – Debut (9/10)
- De La Soul – Buhloone Mindstate (8.5/10)
- The Cranberries – Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? (8.5/10)
- Snoop Doggy Dogg – Doggystyle (8.5/10)
- Aimee Mann – Whatever (8.5/10)
- Digable Planets – Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space) (8.5/10)
- Sarah MacLachlan – Fumbling Towards Ecstasy (8/10)
- Bratmobile – Pottymouth (8/10)
- Stereolab – Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements (8/10)
- Souls of Mischief – 93 ’til Infinity (8/10)
- Cocteau Twins – Four-Calendar Cafe (8/10)
- Archers of Loaf – Icky Mettle (8/10)
- Unrest – Perfect Teeth (8/10)
1992
- Dr. Dre – The Chronic (9.5/10)
- Sade – Love Deluxe (9.5/10)
- Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (9.5/10)
- R.E.M. – Automatic for the People (9/10)
- Pavement – Slanted and Enchanted (9/10)
- The Pharcyde – Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde (9/10)
- Mary J. Blige – What’s the 411? (9/10)
- Rage Against the Machine – Rage Against the Machine (9/10)
- Tori Amos – Little Earthquakes (8.5/10)
- PJ Harvey – Dry (8.5/10)
- Beastie Boys – Check Your Head (8.5/10)
- Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth – Mecca and the Soul Brother (8.5/10)
- Jonathan Richman – I, Jonathan (8.5/10)
- Various Artists – Artificial Intelligence (8.5/10)
- Iris DeMent – Infamous Angel (8.5/10)
- Beat Happening – You Turn Me On (8.5/10)
- Madonna – Erotica (8.5/10)
- K.d. Lang – Ingenue (8/10)
- Babes in Toyland – Fontanelle (8/10)
- Heavenly – Le Jardin de Heavenly (8/10)
- Sonic Youth – Dirty (8/10)
- Tom Waits – Bone Machine (8/10)
- Lucinda Williams – Sweet Old World (8/10)
- Alice in Chains – Dirt (8/10)
- The Cure – Wish (8/10)
1991
- My Bloody Valentine – Loveless (10/10)
- Nirvana – Nevermind (10/10)
- A Tribe Called Quest – The Low End Theory (10/10)
- Talk Talk – Laughing Stock (9.5/10)
- Slint – Spiderland (9/10)
- De La Soul – De La Soul is Dead (9/10)
- Primal Scream – Screamadelica (9/10)
- Massive Attack – Blue Lines (9/10)
- Sonny Sharrock – Ask the Ages (9/10)
- Ice Cube – Death Certificate (9/10)
- U2 – Achtung Baby (9/10)
- The Orb – The Orb’s Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld (8.5/10)
- Geto Boys – We Can’t Be Stopped (8.5/10)
- Ice-T – O.G. Original Gangster (8.5/10)
- Pearl Jam – Ten (8.5/10)
- Hole – Pretty on the Inside (8.5/10)
- Teenage Fanclub – Bandwagonesque (8.5/10)
- Scarface – Mr. Scarface Is Back (8.5/10)
- Gang Starr – Step in the Arena (8/10)
- Guns N’ Roses – Use Your Illusions I & II (8/10)
- Sebadoh – III (8/10)
- Public Enemy – Apocalypse 91…The Enemy Strikes Back (8/10)
- The Jesus Lizard – Goat (8/10)
- Organized Konfusion – Organized Konfusion (8/10)
- Fugazi – Steady Diet of Nothing (8/10)
1990
- Cocteau Twins – Heaven or Las Vegas (9.5/10)
- Public Enemy – Fear of a Black Planet (9.5/10)
- Sonic Youth – Goo (9/10)
- The KLF – Chill Out (9/10)
- A Tribe Called Quest – People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm (9/10)
- Depeche Mode – Violator (9/10)
- Pet Shop Boys – Behaviour (9/10)
- Ice Cube – AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted (9/10)
- Sinead O’Connor – I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got (9/10)
- Fugazi – Repeater (9/10)
- Ride – Nowhere (8.5/10)
- Angelo Badalamenti – Soundtrack from Twin Peaks (8.5/10)
- Prefab Sprout – Jordan: The Comeback (8.5/10)
- John Zorn – The Naked City (8.5/10)
- The Breeders – Pod (8.5/10)
- Daniel Johnston – 1990 (8.5/10)
- The Sundays – Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic (8.5/10)
- Mazzy Star – She Hangs Brightly (8.5/10)
- Galaxie 500 – This Is Our Music (8.5/10)
- Kool G Rap & DJ Polo – Wanted: Dead or Alive (8.5/10)
- Pixies – Bossanova (8/10)
- Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – The Good Son (8/10)
- The Geto Boys – The Geto Boys (8/10)
- Jane’s Addiction – Ritual De Lo Habitual (8/10)
- Codeine – Frigid Stars (8/10)
1980
- Talking Heads – Remain in Light (10/10)
- Joy Division – Closer (9.5/10)
- Prince – Dirty Mind (9.5/10)
- Motörhead – Ace of Spades (9/10)
- Young Marble Giants – Colossal Youth (9/10)
- Steely Dan – Gaucho (9/10)
- Bob Marley & the Wailers – Uprising (9/10)
- Laurie Spiegel – The Expanding Universe (9/10)
- The Feelies – Crazy Rhythms (8.5/10)
- David Bowie – Scary Monsters (And Nice Sprites) (8.5/10)
- The Pretenders – Pretenders (8.5/10)
- Paul McCartney – McCartney II (8.5/10)
- Wipers – Is This Real? (8.5/10)
- Swell Maps – Jane from Occupied Europe (8.5/10)
- X – Los Angeles (8.5/10)
- Kate Bush – Never for Ever (8.5/10)
- Bruce Springsteen – The River (8.5/10)
- AC/DC – Back in Black (8/10)
- Diana Ross – Diana (8/10)
- Change – The Glow of Love (8/10)
- Stevie Wonder – Hotter Than July (8/10)
- The Cure – Seventeen Seconds (8/10)
- Harold Budd/Brian Eno – Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror (8/10)
- Dead Kennedys – Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables (8/10)
- The B-52’s – Wild Planet (8/10)
1979
- The Clash – London Calling (10/10)
- Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures (10/10)
- Michael Jackson – Off the Wall (9.5/10)
- Talking Heads – Fear of Music (9.5/10)
- The Raincoats – The Raincoats (9.5/10)
- Fleetwood Mac – Tusk (9.5/10)
- Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Rust Never Sleeps (9.5/10)
- Throbbing Gristle – 20 Jazz Funk Greats (9.5/10)
- Donna Summer – Bad Girls (9/10)
- The Slits – Cut (9/10)
- Chic – Risqué (9/10)
- Buzzcocks – Singles Going Steady (9/10)
- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Damn the Torpedoes (9/10)
- The B-52’s – The B-52’s (9/10)
- Gang of Four – Entertainment! (9/10)
- The Pop Group – Y (9/10)
- The Roches – The Roches (9/10)
- This Heat – This Heat (9/10)
- Supertramp – Breakfast in America (8.5/10)
- Public Image Ltd. – Metal Box (8.5/10)
- Sparks – No. 1 in Heaven (8.5/10)
- Sun Ra and His Arkestra – Sleeping Beauty (8.5/10)
- Germs – (GI) (8.5/10)
- Motörhead – Overkill (8.5/10)
- Earth, Wind & Fire – I Am (8.5/10)
1978
- Brian Eno – Ambient 1: Music for Airports (9.5/10)
- X-Ray Spex – Germfree Adolescents (9.5/10)
- Steve Reich – Music for 18 Musicians (9.5/10)
- Kraftwerk – The Man-Machine (9.5/10)
- Bruce Springsteen – Darkness on the Edge of Town (9.5/10)
- Blondie – Parallel Lines (9/10)
- Talking Heads – More Songs About Buildings and Food (9/10)
- Big Star – Third (9/10)
- Siouxsie and the Banshees – The Scream (9/10)
- Kate Bush – The Kick Inside (9/10)
- Funkadelic – One Nation Under a Groove (9/10)
- Devo – Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo (9/10)
- The Cars – The Cars (9/10)
- Wire – Chairs Missing (9/10)
- Elvis Costello & the Attractions – This Year’s Model (9/10)
- Various Artists – No New York (8.5/10)
- The Walker Brothers – Nite Flights (8.5/10)
- David Behrman – On the Other Ocean (8.5/10)
- Robert Ashley – Private Parts (8.5/10)
- Warren Zevon – Excitable Boy (8.5/10)
- Bernard Parmegiani – De natura sonorum (8/10)
- Van Halen – Van Halen (8/10)
- Robbie Basho – Visions of the Country (8/10)
- Marvin Gaye – Here, My Dear (8/10)
- The Patti Smith Group – Easter (8/10)
1977
- David Bowie – Low (10/10)
- Kraftwerk – Trans-Europe Express (10/10)
- Television – Marquee Moon (10/10)
- Fleetwood Mac – Rumours (10/10)
- Suicide – Suicide (9.5/10)
- Brian Eno – Before and After Science (9.5/10)
- Steely Dan – Aja (9.5/10)
- Bob Marley & the Wailers – Exodus (9.5/10)
- Augustus Pablo – King Tubbys Meet Rockers Uptown (9/10)
- The Congos – Heart of the Congos (9/10)
- Wire – Pink Flag (9/10)
- David Bowie – Heroes (9/10)
- Fela Kuti & Afrika 70 – Zombie (9/10)
- Iggy Pop – Lust for Life (9/10)
- Don Cherry – Don Cherry (9/10)
- Giorgio Moroder – From Here to Eternity (9/10)
- The Clash – The Clash (9/10)
- Billy Joel – The Stranger (9/10)
- Parliament – Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome (8.5/10)
- Iggy Pop – The Idiot (8.5/10)
- Ashra – New Age of Earth (8.5/10)
- Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols (8.5/10)
- Cerrone – Supernature (8.5/10)
- Ramones – Rocket to Russia (8/10)
- Miles Davis – Dark Magus (8/10)
1976
- Stevie Wonder – Songs in the Key of Life (10/10)
- Joni Mitchell – Hejira (9.5/10)
- David Bowie – Station to Station (9.5/10)
- The Modern Lovers – The Modern Lovers (9.5/10)
- Ramones – Ramones (9.5/10)
- Jorge Ben – África Brasil (9/10)
- Marvin Gaye – I Want You (9/10)
- Tom Zé – Estudando o samba (9/10)
- Thin Lizzy – Jailbreak (9/10)
- The Upsetters – Super Ape (9/10)
- Tom Waits – Small Change (8.5/10)
- ABBA – Arrival (8.5/10)
- Leon Ware – Musical Massage (8.5/10)
- Bob Dylan – Desire (8.5/10)
- Steve Reid feat. The Legendary Master Brotherhood – Nova (8.5/10)
- The Abyssinians – Satta Massagana (8.5/10)
- Charlemagne Palestine – Strumming Music (8/10)
- Roy Ayers Ubiquity – Everybody Loves the Sunshine (8/10)
- Boz Scaggs – Silk Degrees (8/10)
- Patti Smith Group – Radio Ethiopia (8/10)
- Serge Gainsbourg – L’homme à tête de chou (8/10)
- The Isley Brothers – Harvest for the World (8/10)
- Steely Dan – The Royal Scam (8/10)
- Bernard Herrmann – Taxi Driver OST (8/10)
- Cluster – Sowiesoso (8/10)
1975
- Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run (10/10)
- Patti Smith – Horses (10/10)
- Bob Dylan – Blood on the Tracks (10/10)
- Brian Eno – Another Green World (10/10)
- Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti (9.5/10)
- Joni Mitchell – The Hissing of Summer Lawns (9.5/10)
- Fela Kuti & Afrika ’70 – Expensive Shit (9.5/10)
- Parliament – Mothership Connection (9.5/10)
- Neil Young – Tonight’s the Night (9/10)
- Willie Nelson – Red Headed Stranger (9/10)
- Keith Jarrett – The Köln Concert (9/10)
- Miles Davis – Agharta (9/10)
- Neu! – Neu! 75 (8.5/10)
- Queen – A Night at the Opera (8.5/10)
- Fripp & Eno – Evening Star (8.5/10)
- Manuel Göttsching – Inventions for Electric Guitar (8.5/10)
- Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here (8.5/10)
- Tim Maia – Racional Vol 1 (8.5/10)
- Donald Byrd – Places and Spaces (8/10)
- Lou Reed – Metal Machine Music (8/10)
- Iasos – Inter-Dimensional Music (8/10)
- Fleetwood Mac – Fleetwood Mac (8/10)
- Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Zuma (8/10)
- Harmonia – Deluxe (8/10)
- Earth, Wind & Fire – That’s the Way of the World (8/10)
1974
- Neil Young – On the Beach (9.5/10)
- Joni Mitchell – Court and Spark (9.5/10)
- Brian Eno – Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) (9.5/10)
- Millie Jackson – Caught Up (9/10)
- Kraftwerk – Autobahn (9/10)
- Dolly Parton – Jolene (9/10)
- Brian Eno – Here Come the Warm Jets (9/10)
- Stevie Wonder – Fulfillingness’ First Finale (9/10)
- Sparks – Kimono My House (9/10)
- Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson – Winter in America (9/10)
- Miles Davis – Get Up With It (9/10)
- King Crimson – Red (9/10)
- Idris Muhammad – Power of Soul (9/10)
- Randy Newman – Good Old Boys (8.5/10)
- Kool & the Gang – Light of Worlds (8.5/10)
- Roxy Music – Country Life (8.5/10)
- Willie Nelson – Phases and Stages (8.5/10)
- Gene Clark – No Other (8.5/10)
- Tangerine Dream – Phaedra (8.5/10)
- Bennie Maupin – The Jewel in the Lotus (8.5/10)
- Cluster – Zuckerzeit (8.5/10)
- Pharoah Sanders – Love in Us All (8.5/10)
- Ann Peebles – I Can’t Stand the Rain (8.5/10)
- Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (8/10)
- Shuggie Otis – Inspiration Information (8/10)
1973
- Stevie Wonder – Innervisions (10/10)
- Herbie Hancock – Headhunters (9.5/10)
- Can – Future Days (9.5/10)
- Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon (9.5/10)
- Marvin Gaye – Let’s Get It On (9.5/10)
- Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (9.5/10)
- Al Green – Call Me (9.5/10)
- Roxy Music – For Your Pleasure (9/10)
- Bob Marley and the Wailers – Catch a Fire (9/10)
- Toots & the Maytals – Funky Kingston (9/10)
- James Brown – The Payback (9/10)
- Judee Sill – Heart Food (9/10)
- Faust – Faust IV (9/10)
- Led Zeppelin – Houses of the Holy (9/10)
- Iggy and the Stooges – Raw Power (9/10)
- John Fahey – Fare Forward Voyagers (Soldier’s Choice) (9/10)
- The Isley Brothers – 3 + 3 (9/10)
- Lou Reed – Berlin (8.5/10)
- Betty Davis – Betty Davis (8.5/10)
- Paul McCartney & Wings – Band on the Run (8.5/10)
- Willie Hutch – The Mack (8.5/10)
- Tom Zé – Todos os Olhos (8.5/10)
- David Bowie – Aladdin Sane (8.5/10)
- Gal Costa – índia (8/10)
- Bruce Springsteen – The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle (8/10)
1972
- The Rolling Stones – Exile on Main St. (10/10)
- Can – Ege Bamyasi (10/10)
- Miles Davis – On the Corner (9.5/10)
- David Bowie – The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (9.5/10)
- Nick Drake – Pink Moon (9.5/10)
- Lou Reed – Transformer (9.5/10)
- Curtis Mayfield – Superfly (9.5/10)
- Aretha Franklin – Amazing Grace (9.5/10)
- Caetano Veloso – Transa (9/10)
- Pharoah Sanders – Black Unity (9/10)
- Milton Nascimento & Lô Borges – Clube da Esquina (9/10)
- Jimmy Cliff & Various Artists – The Harder They Come (9/10)
- Al Green – I’m Still in Love With You (9/10)
- Stevie Wonder – Talking Book (9/10)
- Aretha Franklin – Young, Gifted and Black (9/10)
- Bill Withers – Still Bill (9/10)
- Randy Newman – Sail Away (9/10)
- Charles Mingus – Let My Children Hear Music (9/10)
- Neu! – Neu! (9/10)
- Big Star – #1 Record (8.5/10)
- Neil Young – Harvest (8.5/10)
- Terry Riley – Persian Surgery Dervishes (8.5/10)
- Ornette Coleman – Science Fiction (8.5/10)
- The O’Jays – Back Stabbers (8.5/10)
- Grateful Dead – Europe ’72 (8.5/10)
1971
- Joni Mitchell – Blue (10/10)
- Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On (10/10)
- Funkadelic – Maggot Brain (10/10)
- Alice Coltrane – Journey in Satchidananda (10/10)
- Sly & the Family Stone – There’s a Riot Goin’ On (10/10)
- Can – Tago Mago (9.5/10)
- David Bowie – Hunky Dory (9.5/10)
- Serge Gainsbourg – Histoire de Melody Nelson (9.5/10)
- Leonard Cohen – Songs of Love and Hate (9.5/10)
- Bill Withers – Just As I Am (9.5/10)
- Carole King – Tapestry (9.5/10)
- The Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers (9.5/10)
- Gil Scott-Heron – Pieces of a Man (9.5/10)
- Miles Davis – A Tribute to Jack Johnson (9/10)
- T. Rex – Electric Warrior (9/10)
- Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin IV (9/10)
- Paul & Linda McCartney – Ram (9/10)
- Karen Dalton – In My Own Time (9/10)
- Janis Joplin – Pearl (9/10)
- Baby Huey – The Baby Huey Story: The Living Legend (9/10)
- The Who – Who’s Next (9/10)
- John Prine – John Prine (9/10)
- Isaac Hayes – Black Moses (9/10)
- Judee Sill – Judee Sill (8.5/10)
- Black Sabbath – Master of Reality (8.5/10)
1970
- Miles Davis – Bitches Brew (10/10)
- The Stooges – Fun House (10/10)
- Neil Young – After the Gold Rush (9.5/10)
- Black Sabbath – Paranoid (9.5/10)
- The Velvet Underground – Loaded (9.5/10)
- Curtis Mayfield – Curtis (9.5/10)
- George Harrison – All Things Must Pass (9.5/10)
- Jimi Hendrix – Band of Gypsys (9.5/10)
- Minnie Riperton – Come to My Garden (9/10)
- James Brown – Sex Machine (9/10)
- Creedence Clearwater Revival – Cosmo’s Factory (9/10)
- Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water (9/10)
- Van Morrison – Moondance (9/10)
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Deja Vu (8.5/10)
- Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin III (8.5/10)
- Yoko Ono – Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band (8.5/10)
- Alice Coltrane – Ptah, the El Daoud (8.5/10)
- Laura Nyro – Christmas and the Beads of Sweat (8.5/10)
- Aretha Franklin – Spirit in the Dark (8.5/10)
- Kris Kristofferson – Kristofferson (8.5/10)
- The Delfonics – The Delfonics (8.5/10)
- Loretta Lynn – Coal Miner’s Daughter (8.5/10)
- The Kinks – Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround (Part One) (8.5/10)
- Art Ensemble of Chicago – Les Stances a Sophie (8.5/10)
- Mutantes – A divina comédia ou ando meio desligado (8/10)
