Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery (1960) - "Most of its tracks exemplify two of Montgomery's distinguishing techniques: "thumb picking" and the use of octaves."
Wayne Shorter - Juju (1964) - "the first great showcase for both his performance and compositional gifts."
Elis Regina - Elis (1972) - "listed by Rolling Stone Brazil as one of the 100 best Brazilian albums in history"
Denim - Novelty Rock (1997) - "a compilation of previously released B-sides alongside bizarre new tracks like 'The New Potatoes' and 'Tampax Advert' "
Mark Kozelek with Ben Boye and Jim White - s-t (2017) - "Another release from Mark Kozelek which begs the question: where’s this all leading??"
Miles Davis Quintet - Miles Smiles (1967) - "... shows a group of brilliant musicians as they mesh their skills into a cohesive and tight unit and then interacting, stretching and challenging each other."
Bobby Hutcherson - Dialogue (1965) - "masterpiece of avant-garde jazz ... bursting with ideas that still sound fresh today."
Herbie Hancock - Sextant (1973) - "sees the composer treading where few men have gone before, leading to some of the most challenging yet rewarding sounds to come out of (let’s say) the autumnal years of jazz."
Lifetones - For a Reason (1983) - "a strange amalgam of post-punk’s desolation set to dub reggae’s sunny lilt."
Les Rallizes Denudes - ‘77 Live (1991) - "noisy, raw, psychedelic, hypnotic, lo-fi, dissonant, heavy, repetitive, avant-garde, male vocals, chaotic, nihilistic, passionate"
Gaz Coombes - World’s Strongest Man (2018) - "A bold, brisk, rather beautiful zip through multiple pop genres."
Tangerine Dream - Electronic Meditation (1970) - "unidentified sound effects and a hard-line approach to free improvisation"
Miranda July - 10 Million Hours A Mile (1997) - "The entirety of 10 Million Hours a Mile is disturbing, with no letup in its onslaught of faceless children on tricycles, creepy peep-show customers, and unhappy family members who want to kill each other."
Elliott Smith - An Introduction to… (2010) - "Kill Rock Stars assembles a very solid single-disc overview of Smith's best work from his entire career."
Tangerine Dream - Alpha Centauri (1971) - "jam session made by a psychedelic rock band interested in improvisation and unusual unconventional sound experimentation"
Melody's Echo Chamber - Bon Voyage (2018) - "album of gleefully overstuffed psych-pop."
Golden Dawn Arkestra - Children Of The Sun (2018) - "Golden Dawn Arkestra continues to experiment with a myriad of musical styles & genres, all the while remaining true to their expansive cinematic sound."
Catapilla - s-t (1971) - "consists of four tracks with extended, instrumental passages where guitar, saxophone, and keyboards get lots of solo space"
Catapilla - Changes (1972) - "more ethereal and spacey, but still a terrific blend of jazz rock/brass rock with an occasional psychedelic edge"
Heavens To Betsy - Calculated (1994) - "brimming over with passion and the kind of power of which many bands in the hardcore scene aren't even capable"
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Ears (2016) - "In her hands, acoustic instruments sound like electronic ones, synthetic sounds reference nature, and human voices sound like the creation of machines."
Jean-Claude Vannier - Des coups de poing dans la gueule (1976) - "His voice isn't wonderful, and as a musical work this also lacks the strange and dreamlike musique concrete-inspired madness of his debut"
Expo ‘70 - Exquisite Lust (2016) - "Gorgeous drifting ethereal krautrocky ambience"
Bridget St John - Ask Me No Questions (1968) - "St. John sang low-key, reflective, slightly sad songs that were unsurpassed, really, in their extraordinary level of containment."
Junior Kimbrough - All Night Long (1992) - "a big, scruffy racket of an electric blues album"
Tangerine Dream - Zeit (1972) - "German synth explorers’ third goes beyond space-rock to ponder the nature of eternity itself..."
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