Sun Ra and His Arkestra - Sleeping Beauty (1979)
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Massive spiritual jazz/funk with chants and spoken word.
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Gorgeous, lush math/post rock with masterful musicianship. Takashi Kashikura is my favorite drummer of all time. He's a technical, progressive, creative monster on the drums but he's also a song drummer at the same time that is able to come up with melodic drum hooks inside the chaos this band creates. I just can't believe some of the stuff he's able to do behind a drum kit.
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Folksy dream pop/post rock from Indonesia. Breathes new life into the old post rock crescendo.
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Brutally technical and dissonant death metal. Relentless and suffocating in the best way.
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Bizarre, ritualist black/doom metal from some ancient Pagan nightmare.
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MF DOOM's alter ego is somehow even more outrageous and villainous than the masked villain MC himself. This album is just so much pure fun from beginning to end.
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Perpetually slept-on indie rock/emo with a little soupçon of country sprinkled in. John K. Samson is one of my favorite lyricists. These songs are all so colorful and memorable.
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Compilation of all four Disintegration Loops. Simple little melodic tape loops stretched and deconstructed over time until they are destroyed and unrecognizable. As much of an art project as a musical album but it works exceedingly well as both. A thirty second sample of this is pretty useless but I'll include it anyway!
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The best example of American black metal. Naturalistic, woodsy. Long-form and atmospheric with production quality just high enough to be pretty without being gaudy. Some of the best riffs across all of black metal.
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Beautifully intense noise/drone. Some of the most immersive and visceral textures I've ever heard in music.
