The Best Albums of 2001

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    8/10
  1. Solex: Low Kick And Hard Bop (Matador)
  2. Vladislav Delay: Anima (Mille Plateaux)
  3. Lofty Pillars: Amsterdam (Truckstop)
  4. Tool: Lateralus (Volcano Entertainment)
    7.5/10
  5. Toby Dammit: Top Dollar (Omplatten)
  6. Scott Tuma: Hard Again (Truckstop)
  7. James Plotkin: Atomsmasher (Hydrahead)
  8. Pelt: Ayahuasca (VHF)
  9. Death Comes Along: Psychedelic Inferno (self)
  10. Jonathan Coleclough: Period (Anomalous)
  11. Robert Rich: Somnium (Hypnos)
  12. Stars Of The Lid: The Tired Sounds Of (Kranky)
  13. DJ Logic: Anomaly (Atlantic)
  14. cLOUDDEAD: cLOUDDEAD (Mush)
  15. Cannibal Ox: The Cold Vein (Def Jux)
  16. Electrelane: Rock It To The Moon (Let's Rock)
  17. Anaal Nathrakh: The Codex Necro (Mordgrimm)
  18. Necks: Aether (ReR)
  19. Crooked Fingers: Bring on the Snakes (Warm)
    7/10
  20. Roy Montgomery: Silver Wheel Of Prayer (VHF)
  21. Supersilent: 5 (Rune Grammofon)
  22. Fennesz: Endless Summer (Mego)
  23. Neotropic: La Prochaine Fois (Ntone)
  24. Primordial Undermind: Beings Of Game P-U (Camera Obscura)
  25. No-Neck Blues Band: Sticks And Stones May Break My Bones But Names Will Never Hurt Me (Revenant)
  26. Surface of Eceon: The King Beneath the Mountain (Strange Attractors)
  27. Four Tet: Pause (Domino)
  28. Old Time Relijun: Witchcraft Rebellion (K)
  29. Boxhead Ensemble: Two Brothers (Truckstop)
  30. Radiohead: Amnesiac (Capitol)
  31. Low: Things We Lost In The Fire (Kranky)
  32. Lightning Bolt: Ride The Skies (Load)
  33. Manitoba: Start Breaking My Heart (Leaf)
  34. Irr. App. (Ext.): Ozeanische Gefuhle (Errata in Excelsis)
  35. Ex Models: Other Mathematics (Ace Fu)
  36. Seconds: Y (5 Rue Christine)
  37. Troum: Tjukurrpa - Harmonies (Transgredient)
  38. Thomas Brinkmann: Klick (Max Ernst)
  39. Tara Jane O'Neil: In The Sun Lines (Quarterstick)
  40. Shannon Wright: Dyed In The Wool (Touch & Go)
  41. Simon Joyner: Hotel Lives (Truckstop)
  42. Rollerball: Trail Of The Butter Yeti (Road Cone)
  43. Motion Picture: A Paper Gift (Words On Music)
  44. Animal Collective: Danse Manatee (Catsup Plate)
  45. Matmos: A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure (Matador)
  46. Keiji Haino: Abandon All Words (Alien 8)
  47. Cult of Luna: Cult of Luna (Rage Of Achilles)
  48. White Stripes: White Blood Cells (Sympathy)
  49. Zen Guerrilla: Shadows On The Sun (Subpop)
  50. Kit Clayton: Lateral Forces - Surface Fault (Vertical Form)
  51. Jan Jelinek: Loop Finding Jazz Records (Scape)
  52. Hood: Cold House (Aesthetics)
  53. Califone Roomsound (Glitterhouse)
  54. Coastal: Coastal (Words On Music)
  55. Beachwood Sparks: Once We Were Trees (Subpop)
  56. Mouse On Mars: Idiology (Thrill Jockey)
  57. Squarepusher: Go Plastic (Warp)
  58. Puppetina: Piewacket (PNT)
  59. Merzbow: Dharma (Hydrahead)
  60. System Of A Down: Toxicity (Sony)
  61. Sparklehorse: It's A Wonderful Life (Capitol)
  62. Blood Brothers: March on Electric Children (Three One G)
  63. Steve Wynn: Here Come The Miracles (Blue Rose)
  64. Solefald: Pills Against the Ageless Ills (Century Media)
  65. Giardini di Miro`: Rise and Fall of Academic Drifting (Homesleep)
  66. Herbert: Bodily Functions (K7)
  67. Richard Chartier: Decisive Forms (Trente Oiseaux)
  68. Avenged Sevenfold: Sounding the Seventh Trumpet (Goodlife)
  69. Oren Ambarchi: Suspension (Touch)
  70. Unwound: Leaves Turn Inside You (Kill Rock Stars)
  71. Ed Harcourt Here Be Monsters (Heavenly)
  72. Appleseed Cast: Low Level Owl - Volume 1 (Deep Elm)
  73. As One: 21st Century Soul (Ubiquity)
  74. Caretaker: A Stairway To The Stars (V/Vm Test)
  75. Drive-by Truckers: The Southern Rock Opera (Lost Highway)
  76. Angels of Light: How I Loved You (Young God)
  77. Venetian Snares: Doll Doll Doll (Hymen)
  78. M Ward: End Of Amnesia (Merge)
  79. Jack Rose: Red Horse White Mule (Eclipse)
  80. Converge: Jane Doe (Equal Vision)
  81. Hope Sandoval: Bavarian Fruit Bread (Rough Trade)
  82. Strokes: Is This It (RCA)
  83. Envy: All The Footprints You've Ever Left (HG Fact)
  84. Frodus: And We Washed Our Weapons in the Sea (Fueled by Ramen)
  85. Czars: The Ugly People Vs The Beautiful People (Manifesto)
  86. Lamp Of The Universe: The Cosmic Union (Cranium)
  87. Sunburned Hand of the Man: Jaybird (Qbico)
  88. Regina Spektor: 11:11 (self)
  89. Atmosphere: Lucy Ford (Rhymesayers)
  90. Prefuse 73: Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives (Warp)
  91. Alicia Keys: Songs in A Minor (J)
Songs
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  1. Anaal Nathrakh: Pandemonic Hyperblast
  2. Lofty Pillars: Amsterdam
  3. Solex: Low Kick And Hard Bop
  4. Old Time Relijun: Vampire Sushi
  5. Liars: Mr Your On Fire Mr
  6. Muse: Newborn
  7. Hood: You're Worth The Whole World
  8. Edith Frost: Cars and Parties
  9. Notwist: Neon Golden
  10. Herbert: The Audience
  11. Stereolab: Captain Easychord
  12. Radiohead: Life in a Glasshouse
  13. Trumans Water: Limping Towards Oblivion
  14. Lofty Pillars: Field Of Honor
  15. Neotropic: The Man Who Catches Clouds
  16. Sparklehorse: Dog Door
  17. Lucky Boys Confusion: Dumb Pop Song
  18. Shannon Wright: Vessel For A Minor Malady
  19. Four Tet: You Could Ruin My Day
  20. Low: July
  21. Joe Henry: Richard Pryor
  22. Cannibal Ox: Iron Galaxy
  23. Janet Feder: Shouting Valley
  24. Hope Sandoval: On the Low
  25. Nebula: Do It Now
  26. Angels of Light: My True Body
  27. Squarepusher: Go! Spastic
  28. Mark Lanegan: One Way Street
  29. Calexico: Crystal Frontier
  30. Steve Fisk: Amateur European
  31. Andrew Bird: Two Way Action
  32. Nick Cave: No More Shall We Part
  33. Strokes: The Modern Age
  34. Simon Joyner: Hotel Lives
  35. Motion Picture: Winter 1988
  36. Angels of Light: My Suicide
  37. Squarepusher: I Wish You Could Talk
  38. Tool: Triad
  39. Bjork: Undo
  40. Steve Wynn: There Will Come A Day
  41. Manitoba: Mammals Vs Reptiles
  42. Edith Frost: Cars And Parties
  43. White Stripes: I Can't Wait
  44. Zen Guerrilla: 5th & Cecil B
  45. Tara Jane O'Neil: Your Rate Are
  46. Manitoba: Paul's Birthday
  47. Anaal Nathrakh: The Technogoat
  48. Coastal: Northern
  49. M Ward: Color Of Water
  50. Drive-by Truckers: Shut Up And Get On The Plane
  51. Emperor: Thorns on My Grave
  52. Giardini di Miro`: Pet Life Saver
  53. Matt Marque: Here We Are
  54. Varnaline: Green Eyed Stars
  55. Butthole Surfers: Dracula From Houston
  56. White Stripes: Hotel Yorba
  57. Strokes: Someday
  58. Tim Hecker: Boreal Kiss
  59. Suicide Machines: All My People
  60. Beachwood Sparks: The Sun Surrounds Me
  61. Emperor: Empty
  62. Camera Obscura: Happy New Year
  63. Peaches: Suck And Let Go
  64. Vitalic: Poney Part 1
  65. Weezer: Island In The Sun
  66. Chris Clark: Lord Of The Dance
  67. Erase Errata: C Rex
  68. Circle: Suopea
  69. Jeezy: Bottom of the Map
  70. Strokes: Last Nite
  71. Stereo Total: Je Suis Une Poupee
  72. Skygreen Leopards: The Stars Go To Sleep
  73. Appleseed Cast: On Reflection
  74. Apparat: 7.5t
  75. Kammerflimmer Kollektief: Du Siehst Hoch Du Siehst Wolken
  76. Ed Harcourt: Shanghai
  77. Jaga Jazzist: Cinematic
  78. Atmosphere: Guns And Cigarettes
  79. Arab on Radar: My Mind Is A Muffler
  80. Belle And Sebastian: Jonathan David
  81. Nicolai Dunger: Something New
  82. Tujiko Noriko: Tokyo Tower
  83. Alicia Keys: Rock Wit U
  84. Jay-Z: Takeover
Extended compositions
  1. Robert Rich: Somnium
  2. Death Comes Along: Psychedelic Inferno
  3. Acid Mothers Temple: Psycho Buddha
  4. Irr. App. (Ext.): Ozeanische Gef”le
  5. Roy Montgomery: For A Small Blue Orb
  6. Electrelane: Mother
  7. Supersilent: 1
  8. Toby Dammit: Escape From Fire Island
  9. Surface of Eceon: The Grasshopper King
  10. Jonathan Coleclough: Periodicity
  11. Primordial Undermind: Filament
  12. Jack Rose: Red Horse
  13. Electrelane: Long Dark
  14. Breaking Pangaea: Turning
  15. Stars Of the Lid: Requiem For Dying Mothers
  16. Neurosis: Stones From the Sky
  17. Roy Montgomery: For A Small Blue Orb
  18. Boxhead Ensemble: Requiem
  19. Keiji Haino: Whereto Can I Cast Away
  20. Mogwai: My Father My King
  21. Mice Parade: Open Air Dance
  22. Pelt: A Raga Called John
  23. No-Neck Blues Band: Assignment Subud
  24. Acid Mothers Temple: Occie Lady
  25. Steven Smith: Tableland
  26. Surface Of Eceon: Ascension to the Second Tier
  27. Jonathan Coleclough: Periodic
  28. Guapo: El Topo
  29. Keith Fullerton Whitman: For Acoustic Guitar
  30. Pharoah Chromium: Feral
  31. Nels Cline: As In Life
  32. Tool: Lateralus
  33. Mono: Karelia
  34. Tom Carter: Monument 2
  35. Lightwave: Pierre J
  36. Neurosis: The Title
  37. Ed Harcourt: Beneath The Heart Of Darkness
  38. Foetus: Kreibabe
  39. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum: Sunflower
  40. Alan Licht: The Old Victrola
  41. Matmos: Lipostudio
  42. Merzbow: Frozen Guitars and Sunloop/7E 802
  43. Bardo Pond: Inside
  44. Jan Jelinek: Rock In The Video Age
  45. Sunburned Hand of the Man: The Jaybird
  46. Rollerball: Butter Fairy
  47. Vladislav Delay: Anima
  48. Jonathan Coleclough: Period
  49. Appendix Out: Fortified Jackdaw Grove
  50. Tara Jane O'Neil: This Morning
  51. Red House Painters: River
  52. Nels Cline: Blood Drawing
  53. Gary Lucas: Sh'ma
  54. Techno Animal: Hypertension
  55. Labradford: Twenty
  56. Tool: Lateralus
  57. Slipknot: Iowa
  58. Opeth: Blackwater Park
  59. Cult of Luna: The Sacrifice
  60. Djam Karet: Alone With The River Man
  61. Liars: This Dust Makes That Mud
  62. Stars Of the Lid: Piano Aquieu
  63. Tarentel: Death In The Mind Of The Living
  64. Oren Ambarchi: As Far As The Eye Can See
  65. Venetian Snares: All The Children Are Dead
  66. Mogwai: 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong
  67. My Dying Bride: The Return To The Beautiful
  68. Green Milk From The Planet Orange: In The Space Far Away From This Planet
  69. Angels of Light: New City In The Future
  70. Pleasure Forever: Any Port In A Storm
  71. Cult of Luna: Hollow
  72. Love As Laughter: E.H.
  73. Merzbow: Frozen Guitars and Sunloop/7E 802
  74. Acid Mothers Temple: Mercurical Megatronic Meninx
  75. Lupine Howl: Carnival
  76. If Thousands: Kasio
  77. Lamp Of The Universe: Lotus of a Thousand Petals
  78. Volcano the Bear: The Tallest People In The World
  79. Giardini di Miro`: Rise and Fall of Academic Drifting
  80. Richard Chartier: Decisive Forms
  81. Appleseed Cast: Confession
  82. Animal Collective: Ahhh Good Country
  83. Regina Spektor: Pavlov's Daughter
  84. Japancakes: Vinyl Fever
  85. Mnortham: Rotunda
  86. Frank Bretschneider : Tag
 		Jazz

    7.5/10
  1. John Butcher: Fixations
    7/10
  2. Paul Dunmall: The Great Divide (Cuneiform)
  3. Ken Vandermark Territory Band: Atlas (2001)
  4. Supersilent: 5 (Rune Grammofon)
  5. Steve Lehman: Structural Fire (2001)
  6. Wynton Marsalis: All Rise
  7. Jason Moran: Black Stars
  8. Bob Belden: Black Dahlia
  9. Sven Ake Johansson: Six Little Pieces for Quintet
  10. Matthew Shipp: New Orbit (2001)
  11. Repeat: Select Dialect
  12. Roy Campbell: Ethnic Stew
  13. Henry Threadgill: Everybody's Mouth's A Book
  14. Brad Mehldau: Art of the Trio: Progression
  15. Triangles: Triangles
  16. Peter Broetzmann: Fuck DeBoere
  17. William Parker: O'Neal's Porch
  18. Crispell, Peacock, Motian: Amaryllis
  19. Tom Harrell: Paradise
  20. Fred Hersch: Songs Without Words
  21. Dave Douglas: Witness
  22. David Ware: Corridors & Parallels
  23. Keith Jarrett: Whisper Not
Classical
  1. Bach: Art Of The Fugue (Labadie, Dorian)
  2. Schoenberg: Piano Concerto (Uchida, Philips)
  3. Lutoslawski: Symphony 3 (Lutoslawski, Accord)
  4. Messiaen: Turangalila (Nagano, Teldec)
  5. Schubert: Winterreise (Fisher-Dieskau, Philips)
  6. Penderechi: Seven Gates Of Jerusalem (Kord, Accord)
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