Originally released alongside the more marketable Blonde, with Endless, Frank Ocean takes a confounding plunge into the avant-garde.

Eight years into his career, Chi-town’s activistic gospel-rapper finally drops his first studio album.

Four Tet sees dance music under the scope of post-rock and jazz, and captures a muted but fluorescent style of electronica that is perfect for introspection.

The sheer oneness of Iceland has made it a very fertile land for creatives, and few individual pieces of work have proven this more successfully than Sigur Rós’ Ágætis byrjun.

In what is his first proper album without A$AP Yams, Rocky demonstrates why he has risen in the same trajectory as his boxer namesake.

Slint’s second and final album just so happens to be a defining touchstone for any post-rock, math-rock and post-hardcore band that follows them.

A night that aims to provide an answer to a long-standing question: “how can an artist obtain complete interaction from its audience?“

Memphis horrorcore clique Three 6 Mafia put the city on the map using low-grade studio equipment to create grimy, haunted hip-hop.

Tyler’s new record has a bewitching sense of mystery and alternative-dimensionality to it all, and finally shows that he’s not a rapper - he’s a creator.

In order to effectively channel his emotions after 2007’s Graduation, Kanye West abandoned rap altogether, instead grabbing autotune by both hands, and twisting it to create sublime but mechanised despair.

In the wake of Oxnard’s unexpected middling reception, Ventura is its low-key counterpart.

When Kevin Shields spent 2 years exploring the science of noise, he would end up building the scaffolding for one of the most revered subcultures in alternative rock - shoegazing.

OutKast’s third studio album, and captures them during the process of refining their sound while the rest of the world adjusts.

A tribute to one of modern music’s most outward-thinking figures, looking at his 1969 baroque pop masterclass.

Out of the flourishing New York post-punk revival scene of the mid-2000s, LCD Soundsystem became known as one of its most off-the-wall outfits.

The world of post-punk in the early 80s was bleak.