Singular Masterpiece Albums

Albums that not only created genres and built their own distinctive worlds, but are also 10/10

Inspired by his then-recent marriage, foray into fatherho... more
Distorted, overdriven pop music pushed firmly into the re... more
Os Mutantes' self titled debut is an extraordinary split ... more
James Blake capped his run of three unreal EPs released i... more
Noise rock isn't for everyone but if you can handle the c... more
A second, sequential masterclass in reinvention from indi... more

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Björk's appropriated titled 'Debut' was critically herald... more
HEY WHAT is best described as a weird album, not only bec... more
The first masterpiece of post-rock, is a universe unto it... more
A landmark achievement in two niche electronic genres, pl... more
Forever Changes brilliantly encapsulated the growing disi... more
Battles came out of the gate swinging on their debut, wit... more
Floating on an extremely unique fusion of space rock, sho... more
Made with just an Akai MPC60 sampler and two years time, ... more
Tokyo's Fishmans came up with the idea in 1996 to create ... more
Absolute legend Brian Eno's first foray into a genre he l... more
One of the greatest guitar albums ever, The Ascension pla... more
Taking heavy inspiration from the artwork of schizophreni... more
Easily the most cohesive outing by the genre-bending, end... more
If I only knew it was a concept album with a narrative ab... more
Named after the mythical Brenton city and consistently of... more
During a stint of writer's block, David Byrne took on a s... more
Released on September 11th 2001, Phil Elverum's hushed, l... more
An album built from a long-distance collaboration betwee... more
A concept album that details the evolution of the band's ... more
Based on a short story written by their lead singer, in w... more
Incredibly goofy and yet incredibly confident, Montreal's... more
Industrial, feral, and fractured are not often words to d... more
This equally brutal and stunning album samples pre-WW2 ba... more
After Jamie's debut album with the xx, that he produced u... more

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