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Sep 28
Tim Hecker
Konoyo
78
critic score
(21)
76
user score
(418)
Oct 26
Thom Yorke
Suspiria (Music for the Luca Guadagnino Film)
80
critic score
(27)
77
user score
(391)
Jan 26
Nils Frahm
All Melody
80
critic score
(21)
75
user score
(358)
Aug 17
Animal Collective
Tangerine Reef
59
critic score
(21)
51
user score
(356)
Apr 5
The Caretaker
Everywhere at the End of Time: Stage 4
76
critic score
(3)
81
user score
(245)
Sep 20
The Caretaker
Everywhere at the End of Time: Stage 5
70
critic score
(1)
77
user score
(224)
Jul 13
Laurel Halo
Raw Silk Uncut Wood
81
critic score
(7)
75
user score
(179)
Jun 15
Leon Vynehall
Nothing Is Still
78
critic score
(20)
77
user score
(166)
May 18
Gas
Rausch
79
critic score
(12)
74
user score
(157)
Oct 5
Puce Mary
The Drought
79
critic score
(3)
75
user score
(140)
Nov 2
Dead Can Dance
DIONYSUS
79
critic score
(15)
74
user score
(135)
Jun 28
Infinity Frequencies
Between Two Worlds
76
user score
(115)
Sep 7
C418
Excursions
79
user score
(110)
Jan 19
輕描淡寫 [Understatement]
小圈子
76
user score
(106)
Sep 8
Heaven's Emperor
Teenage Poetry
81
user score
(90)
Aug 24
Ólafur Arnalds
re:member
76
critic score
(8)
75
user score
(84)
Apr 27
Sigur Rós
Route One
68
user score
(84)
Mar 9
Jonny Greenwood
You Were Never Really Here
89
critic score
(3)
79
user score
(80)
Jun 22
Kate NV
для FOR
72
critic score
(4)
70
user score
(69)
Jun 8
Colin Stetson
Hereditary
78
critic score
(7)
83
user score
(69)
May 18
Mary Lattimore
Hundreds of Days
76
critic score
(9)
76
user score
(68)
Apr 1
DJ Healer
Nothing 2 Loose
86
critic score
(4)
75
user score
(67)
Feb 23
Dedekind Cut
Tahoe
78
critic score
(6)
71
user score
(65)
Nov 23
Hallmark '87
A T R I U M
81
user score
(63)
Aug 31
Szun Waves
New Hymn to Freedom
81
critic score
(7)
73
user score
(63)
Apr 25
Various Artists
The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild
88
user score
(61)
Apr 26
Autechre
NTS Session 4
80
critic score
(1)
77
user score
(59)
Feb 16
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto
Glass
81
critic score
(7)
73
user score
(58)
Nov 2
Ian William Craig
Thresholder
83
critic score
(6)
75
user score
(57)
Feb 9
Anenon
Tongue
76
critic score
(4)
72
user score
(50)
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Oct 17
Uboa
The Sky May Be
78
user score
(48)
Apr 13
Sarah Davachi
Let Night Come On Bells End The Day
79
critic score
(5)
75
user score
(48)
Oct 12
William Basinski + Lawrence English
Selva Oscura
73
critic score
(3)
72
user score
(47)
Jun 8
Jon Hassell
Listening to Pictures (Pentimento Volume One)
82
critic score
(11)
75
user score
(47)
Mar 12
B E G O T T E N 自杀
(life cycle) - 生命週期
71
user score
(45)
Mar 23
Mark Pritchard
The Four Worlds
66
critic score
(7)
61
user score
(45)
Nov 9
Félicia Atkinson & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
Limpid As The Solitudes
76
critic score
(2)
76
user score
(43)
Jan 26
Johnny Jewel
Digital Rain
70
critic score
(5)
68
user score
(42)
Jan 19
Pendant
Make Me Know You Sweet
78
critic score
(5)
75
user score
(42)
Sep 14
Sarah Davachi
Gave In Rest
78
critic score
(8)
71
user score
(41)
Sep 14
Jóhann Jóhannsson
Mandy
80
critic score
(4)
80
user score
(40)
Jun 11
B E G O T T E N 自杀
(hushwave) - 治愈它
76
user score
(40)
Jun 29
Alex Zhang Hungtai
Divine Weight
71
critic score
(4)
70
user score
(39)
Aug 3
felicita
hej!
72
critic score
(7)
69
user score
(38)
Dec 17
Daniel Pemberton
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Original Score)
84
user score
(36)
Oct 4
Agv
Crawl
13
user score
(34)
Jun 22
Arp
Zebra
72
critic score
(8)
71
user score
(32)
Jul 6
Khotin
Beautiful You
82
critic score
(1)
75
user score
(32)
Feb 2
Poppy Ackroyd
Resolve
75
critic score
(8)
71
user score
(31)
Oct 19
John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies
Halloween: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
77
critic score
(8)
75
user score
(30)
Feb 16
坂本龍一 [Ryuichi Sakamoto]
async remodels
75
critic score
(9)
78
user score
(28)
Jul 13
Pariah
Here From Where We Are
76
critic score
(5)
78
user score
(27)
Nov 16
Joseph Shabason
Anne
72
critic score
(7)
76
user score
(25)
Feb 28
Terekke
Improvisational Loops
69
user score
(25)
Mar 9
Geoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury
Annihilation (Music From The Motion Picture)
70
critic score
(1)
78
user score
(24)
Feb 27
Rafael Anton Irisarri
Midnight Colours
76
user score
(23)
May 21
Johnny Jewel
Themes for Television
66
critic score
(5)
70
user score
(23)
Aug 31
Helios
Veriditas
75
critic score
(2)
74
user score
(23)
Sep 4
Adventure Time
Adventure Time: Come Along with Me (Music from the Original TV Series)
76
user score
(23)
Jul 23
B E G O T T E N 自杀
(phantom psalms) - 幻影诗篇
66
user score
(21)
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