Drones, buzzing synths, and pitch-shifted vocals feature on this electronic album by Leila.
Read moreOdessey and Oracle
Sunny timbres and baroque sensibilities fill this psychedelic pop album by The Zombies.
Read moreAny Other City
Sentences are shredded and scattered as a verbal collage on this indie album by Life Without Buildings.
Read moreDots and Loops
Art pop, jazz, and bossa nova inform the sparing riffs and laidback grooves on this album by Stereolab.
Read moreTransgender Dysphoria Blues
Against Me! chronicle the trials and tribulations of a transgender sex worker on their sixth studio album.
Read moreCut
Football, television, and FM radio are skewered on this dub-inflected punk album by The Slits.
Read moreThe Disintegration Loops
Cloudy electronic tones billow and deteriorate on this plaintive ambient album by William Basinski.
Read moreRoom to Roam
Fiddles, tin whistles, and digeridoos are smelted together in a Celtic fire on this album by The Waterboys.
Read moreSymphony No. 6
Valentin Silvestrov's sixth symphony is a chthonic showstopper and an hour-long exploration of memory.
Read moreThe ArchAndroid
Clones, the campaign for equality, and Clair de Lune all feature on this manifold album by Janelle Monáe.
Read moreSpace is the Place
Sun Ra composed this futuristic jazz album to accompany the blaxploitation film of the same name.
Read moreHejira
Tyres turn on sandy highways and jazz inflections abound in this road trip album by Joni Mitchell.
Read moreMerrily We Roll Along
We watch the life of a promising composer play out in reverse in this musical by Stephen Sondheim.
Read moreEye in the Sky
Majesty, mystery, and mythology pervade every track of this prog rock album by The Alan Parsons Project.
Read moreFever Ray
A tangle of timbres, from whistling synths to pattered percussion, emerge on Fever Ray's ghostly debut album.
Read moreRadio-Activity
Kraftwerk act as self-styled scientists on this album, and their electronic experiments crackle with energy.
Read moreRace the Loser
Accordion, fiddle, and acoustic guitar lines are expertly laced together in this inventive folk album by Lau.
Read moreTracy Chapman
Romantic ballads sit next to perceptive social commentary on Tracy Chapman's debut album.
Read moreAn Empty Bliss
Fifties music hall songs are dusted down and distorted in this poignant ambient album by The Caretaker.
Read moreBegin to Hope
Regina Spektor ponders orcas and owls, cigarettes and cocaine, floods and frotteurism on her fourth album.
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