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2023
List Aggregate
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Critic Ratings
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Best Albums
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Top Artists
Free Improvisation
Critics' Highest Rated Free Improvisation Albums of All Time
Supersilent
6
87
critic score
(5)
Jeff Parker
Forfolks
83
critic score
(8)
Oren Ambarchi / Keiji Haino / Jim O'Rourke
いみくずし (Imikuzushi)
80
critic score
(5)
The Necks
Body
80
critic score
(8)
The Necks
Vertigo
78
critic score
(6)
Keiji Haino & Sumac
American Dollar Bill - Keep Facing Sideways, You're Too Hideous To Look At Face On
77
critic score
(9)
Laurence Pike
Holy Spring
76
critic score
(5)
Supersilent
10
74
critic score
(6)
Bill Orcutt
Bill Orcutt
74
critic score
(5)
The Necks
Unfold
74
critic score
(5)
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Users' Highest Rated Free Improvisation Albums of All Time
Anthony Braxton
Quartet (Santa Cruz) 1993
86
user score
(52)
不失者 [Fushitsusha]
Nothing Changes No One Can Change Anything, I Am Ever-Changing Only You Can Change Yourself
86
user score
(35)
Keith Rowe & John Tilbury
Duos for Doris
85
user score
(92)
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Aus den sieben Tagen
85
user score
(57)
Ground-Zero
Consume Red
84
user score
(265)
MIMEO & John Tilbury
The Hands of Caravaggio
84
user score
(42)
AMM
Before Driving to the Chapel We Took Coffee With Rick and Jennifer Reed
83
user score
(59)
Keith Rowe, Sachiko M, Toshimaru Nakamura & Otomo Yoshihide
ErstLive 005
83
user score
(25)
Keiji Haino
わたしだけ？
82
user score
(38)
The Red Krayola
The Parable Of Arable Land
82
user score
(156)
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Recent Free Improvisation Albums
Derek Bailey & Paul Motian
Duo in Concert
79
critic score
(2)
Sandy Ewen
Solo
Zach Hill & Lucas Abela
NEVER
Giant Enemy Cancer Cult
5 Rahoche Lane
Gunn Truscinski Nace
Glass Band
75
critic score
(2)
Death Grips
Electronic Drum Solo Dub Mix (Single Take)
b__u_ck
Human Animal
b__u_ck
A Million EP
Selvhenter
Mesmerizer
Iosonouncane & Paolo Angeli
Jalitah
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Critics' Top Free Improvisation Artists
The Necks
Supersilent
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