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Jan 27
Natural Snow Buildings
Daughter of Darkness
86
user score
(282)
Mar 10
Tim Hecker
An Imaginary Country
75
critic score
(10)
74
user score
(153)
Nov 9
Oneohtrix Point Never
Russian Mind
70
critic score
(1)
74
user score
(123)
Aug 6
Oneohtrix Point Never
Zones Without People
80
critic score
(2)
70
user score
(119)
Nov 10
Ben Frost
By The Throat
81
critic score
(11)
81
user score
(87)
Nov 16
Oneohtrix Point Never
Rifts
85
critic score
(8)
81
user score
(59)
Oct 15
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble
Here Be Dragons
76
user score
(56)
May 10
Gnaw Their Tongues
All the Dread Magnificence of Perversity
70
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(55)
Jan 1
William Basinski
92982
81
critic score
(3)
75
user score
(49)
Jul 21
Jónsi & Alex
Riceboy Sleeps
64
critic score
(19)
76
user score
(44)
Jan 19
Wardruna
Runaljod – Gap Var Ginnunga
76
user score
(34)
Oct 31
Black Mountain Transmitter
Black Goat of the Woods
80
user score
(31)
Dec 7
Nils Frahm
Wintermusik
69
user score
(29)
Apr 17
Celer
Engaged Touches
74
user score
(27)
Feb 17
Bull of Heaven
056: Return of Ghost Sheriff (Werewolves Are Chasing Me)
79
user score
(25)
Jun 1
Oneohtrix Point Never
Memory Vague
83
user score
(20)
Mar 30
Hildur Guðnadóttir
Without Sinking
80
critic score
(5)
84
user score
(18)
Sep 15
Sparklehorse & Fennesz
In The Fishtank 15
60
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(17)
Oct 11
Demdike Stare
Symbiosis
77
critic score
(4)
74
user score
(17)
Jan 26
Alva Noto
Xerrox, Vol. 2
78
critic score
(4)
79
user score
(16)
Mar 4
坂本龍一 [Ryuichi Sakamoto]
Out of Noise
60
critic score
(1)
74
user score
(15)
Apr
Jana Winderen
The Noisiest Guys on the Planet
64
user score
(15)
Sep 1
Leyland Kirby
Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What It Was
80
critic score
(5)
86
user score
(14)
Dec 8
山岡晃 [Akira Yamaoka]
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
60
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(14)
Jan 27
Emeralds
What Happened
76
critic score
(4)
71
user score
(13)
Dec
William Basinski
Vivian & Ondine
74
critic score
(2)
76
user score
(13)
Oct
KGB Man / Oneohtrix Point Never
KGB Nights / Blue Drive
71
user score
(13)
Jul 7
Message To Bears
Departures
75
user score
(12)
Apr 12
James Ferraro
Jarvid 9: Flushpipe
72
user score
(12)
Sep
Emeralds
Emeralds
80
user score
(11)
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May 19
Solar Fields
Mirror's Edge
86
user score
(10)
Feb 1
James Ferraro
Heaven's Gate
65
user score
(9)
Jan 24
Outer Space / Oneohtrix Point Never
Outer Space / Oneohtrix Point Never
65
user score
(9)
Jan 20
Elegi
Varde
82
critic score
(5)
77
user score
(9)
Oct 26
Black to Comm
Alphabet 1968
75
critic score
(4)
71
user score
(8)
Jan 6
Intrusion
The Seduction of Silence
80
critic score
(4)
76
user score
(8)
Jan 29
Natural Snow Buildings
Daughter of Darkness V
80
user score
(8)
Nov 10
Supersilent
9
66
critic score
(6)
54
user score
(7)
May 25
Kreng
L'Autopsie Phénoménale De Dieu
81
critic score
(5)
74
user score
(7)
2009
Cat Torso
Fuck Strangler
61
user score
(7)
Feb 17
Mountains
Choral
77
critic score
(12)
87
user score
(6)
May 21
Cluster
Qua
69
critic score
(3)
63
user score
(6)
Jun
Caboladies / Oneohtrix Point Never
Caboladies / Oneohtrix Point Never
67
user score
(6)
Dec 10
Cell
Hanging Masses
75
user score
(6)
Oct 27
Kevin Drumm
Imperial Horizon
75
user score
(5)
Feb 2
James Ferraro
Star Digital Theatre: Movies for P.T. Cruisers
68
user score
(5)
2009
Xiphiidae
Pass Hidingly Seek
62
user score
(5)
Aug
Yoga
Megafauna
84
user score
(5)
May 5
Steve Roach
Dynamic Stillness
80
critic score
(1)
70
user score
(5)
May 16
Gnaw Their Tongues
To Rend Each Other like Wild Beasts, till Earth Shall Reek with Midnight Massacre
80
user score
(5)
Jun 3
Aes Dana
Leylines
86
user score
(4)
Nov 1
Josh Heinemann
Time
54
user score
(4)
2009
Leyland Kirby
Sadly, The Future is No Longer What it Was
90
critic score
(1)
85
user score
(4)
2009
Dolphins Into The Future
...On Seafaring Isolation
70
critic score
(3)
70
user score
(3)
Oct 30
Peter McConnell
Brütal Legend: Original Soundtrack
73
user score
(3)
Sep
Steve Roach
Afterlight
71
user score
(3)
Jul 7
Nudge
As Good As Gone
70
critic score
(5)
53
user score
(2)
Jun 22
The Gentleman Losers
Dustland
70
critic score
(1)
72
user score
(2)
Sep 20
Bull of Heaven
Aleph-Three (ℵ₃)
99
user score
(2)
Dec
Xiphiidae
Sewn Within a Circle
68
user score
(2)
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