The Best Rock 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)
    7.5/10
  4. Toby Dammit: Top Dollar (Omplatten)
  5. Scott Tuma: Hard Again (Truckstop)
  6. James Plotkin: Atomsmasher (Hydrahead)
  7. Pelt: Ayahuasca (VHF)
  8. Tool: Lateralus (Volcano Entertainment)
  9. Robert Rich: Somnium (Hypnos)
  10. Stars Of The Lid: The Tired Sounds Of (Kranky)
  11. DJ Logic: Anomaly (Atlantic)
  12. cLOUDDEAD: cLOUDDEAD (Mush)
  13. Cannibal Ox: The Cold Vein (Def Jux)
  14. Electrelane: Rock It To The Moon (Let's Rock)
    7/10
  15. Supersilent: 5 (Rune Grammofon)
  16. Jonathan Coleclough: Period (Anomalous)
  17. Notwist: Neon Golden (City Slang)
  18. Fennesz: Endless Summer (Mego)
  19. Neotropic: La Prochaine Foix (Ntone)
  20. Primordial Undermind: Beings Of Game P-U (Camera Obscura)
  21. No-Neck Blues Band: Sticks And Stones May Break My Bones But Names Will Never Hurt Me (Revenant)
  22. Surface of Eceon: The King Beneath the Mountain (Strange Attractors)
  23. Old Time Relijun: Witchcraft Rebellion (K)
  24. Boxhead Ensemble: Two Brothers (Truckstop)
  25. Radiohead: Amnesiac (Capitol)
  26. Low: Things We Lost In The Fire (Kranky)
  27. Andrew Bird: The Swimming Hour (Rykodisc)
  28. Nicolai Dunger: Soul Rush (Dolores)
  29. Lightning Bolt: Ride The Skies (Load)
  30. Manitoba: Start Breaking My Heart (Leaf)
  31. Ex Models: Other Mathematics (Ace Fu)
  32. Seconds: Y (5 Rue Christine)
  33. Kammerflimmer Kollektief: Hysteria (Temporary Residence Limited)
  34. Thomas Brinkmann: Klick
  35. Tara Jane O'Neil: In The Sun Lines (Quarterstick)
  36. Shannon Wright: Dyed In The Wool (Touch & Go)
  37. Simon Joyner: Hotel Lives (Truckstop)
  38. Rollerball: Trait Of The Butter Yeti (Road Cone)
  39. Motion Picture: A Paper Gift (Words On Music)
  40. Animal Collective: Danse Manatee (Catsup Plate)
  41. Matmos: A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure (Matador)
  42. Keiji Haino: Abandon All Words (Alien 8)
  43. Jaga Jazzist: A Livingroom Hush (Warner)
  44. White Stripes: White Blood Cells (Sympathy)
  45. Zen Guerrilla: Shadows On The Sun (Subpop)
  46. Kit Clayton: Lateral Forces - Surface Fault (Vertical Form)
  47. Janet Feder: Speak Puppet (ReR)
  48. Jan Jelinek: Loop Finding Jazz Records (Scape)
  49. Hope Sandoval: Bavarian Fruit Bread (Rough Trade, 2001),
  50. Hood: Cold House (Aesthetics, 2001)
  51. Califone Roomsound (Glitterhouse)
  52. Coastal: Coastal (Words On Music)
  53. Beachwood Sparks: Once We Were Trees (Subpop)
  54. Mouse On Mars: Idiology (Thrill Jockey)
  55. Squarepusher: Go Plastic (Warp)
  56. Prefuse 73: Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives (2001)
  57. System Of A Down: Toxicity (Sony)
  58. Sparklehorse: It's A Wonderful Life (Capitol)
  59. Blood Brothers: March on Electric Children (Three One G)
  60. Steve Wynn: Here Come The Miracles (Blue Rose)
  61. Appliance: Imperial Metric (Mute)
  62. Solefald: Pills Against the Ageless Ills (Century Media)
  63. Giardini di Miro`: Rise and Fall of Academic Drifting (Homesleep)
  64. Herbert: Bodily Functions (K7)
  65. Avenged Sevenfold: Sounding the Seventh Trumpet (Goodlife) (7)
  66. Ed Harcourt Here Be Monsters (Heavenly)
  67. As One 21st Century Soul (Ubiquity)
  68. Drive-by Truckers: The Southern Rock Opera (Lost Highway)
  69. Angels of Light: How I Loved You (Young God)
  70. Wolf Eyes: Dread (Hanson)
  71. Venetian Snares: Doll Doll Doll (Hymen)
Playlist
  1. Lofty Pillars: Amsterdam
  2. Solex: Low Kick And Hard Bop
  3. Old Time Relijun: Vampire Sushi
  4. Liars: Mr Your On Fire Mr
  5. Hood: You're Worth The Whole World
  6. Edith Frost: Cars and Parties
  7. Notwist: Neon Golden
  8. Herbert: The Audience
  9. Stereolab: Captain Easychord
  10. Radiohead: Life in a Glasshouse
  11. Trumans Water: Limping Towards Oblivion
  12. Lofty Pillars: Field Of Honor
  13. Neotropic: The Man Who Catches Clouds
  14. Sparklehorse: Dog Door
  15. Lucky Boys Confusion: Dumb Pop Song
  16. Shannon Wright: Vessel For A Minor Malady
  17. Low: July
  18. Joe Henry: Richard Pryor
  19. Janet Feder: Shouting Valley
  20. Hope Sandoval: On the Low
  21. Nebula: Do It Now
  22. Angels of Light: My True Body
  23. Squarepusher: Go! Spastic
  24. Mark Lanegan: One Way Street
  25. Calexico: Crystal Frontier
  26. Steve Fisk: Amateur European
  27. Andrew Bird: Two Way Action
  28. Nick Cave: No More Shall We Part
  29. Strokes: The Modern Age
  30. Simon Joyner: Hotel Lives
  31. Motion Picture: Winter 1988
  32. Angels of Light: My Suicide
  33. Squarepusher: I Wish You Could Talk
  34. Tool: Triad
  35. Bjork: Undo
  36. Steve Wynn: There Will Come A Day
  37. Manitoba: Mammals Vs Reptiles
  38. Edith Frost: Cars And Parties
  39. White Stripes: I Can't Wait
  40. Zen Guerrilla: 5th & Cecil B
  41. Tara Jane O'Neil: Your Rate Are
  42. Manitoba: Paul's Birthday
  43. Coastal: Northern
  44. M Ward: Color Of Water
  45. Drive-by Truckers: Shut Up And Get On The Plane
  46. Emperor: Thorns on My Grave
  47. Giardini di Miro`: Pet Life Saver
  48. Matt Marque: Here We Are
  49. Varnaline: Green Eyed Stars
  50. Butthole Surfers: Dracula From Houston
  51. White Stripes: Hotel Yorba
  52. Strokes: Someday
  53. Suicide Machines: All My People
  54. Beachwood Sparks: The Sun Surrounds Me
  55. Emperor: Empty
Extended tracks
  1. Robert Rich: Somnium
  2. Electrelane: Mother
  3. Supersilent: 1
  4. Toby Dammit: Escape From Fire Island
  5. Jonathan Coleclough: Period
  6. No-Neck Blues Band: Assignment Subud
  7. Surface of Eceon: The Grasshopper King
  8. Primordial Undermind: Filament
  9. Jack Rose: Red Horse
  10. Electrelane: Long Dark
  11. Breaking Pangaea: Turning
  12. Stars Of the Lid: Requiem For Dying Mothers
  13. Neurosis: Stones From the Sky
  14. Roy Montgomery: For A Small Blue Orb
  15. Boxhead Ensemble: Requiem
  16. Keiji Haino: Whereto Can I Cast Away
  17. Mice Parade: Open Air Dance
  18. Pelt: A Raga Called John
  19. No-Neck Blues Band: Assignment Subud
  20. Steven Smith: Tableland
  21. Surface Of Eceon: Ascension to the Second Tier
  22. Guapo: El Topo
  23. Nels Cline: As In Life
  24. Tool: Lateralus
  25. Mono: Karelia
  26. Tom Carter: Monument 2
  27. Lightwave: Pierre J
  28. Neurosis: The Title
  29. Ed Harcourt: Beneath The Heart Of Darkness
  30. Foetus: Kreibabe
  31. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum: Sunflower
  32. Alan Licht: The Old Victrola
  33. Matmos: Lipostudio
  34. Merzbow: Frozen Guitars and Sunloop/7E 802
  35. Bardo Pond: Inside
  36. Jan Jelinek: Rock In The Video Age
  37. Rollerball: Butter Fairy
  38. Vladislav Delay: Anima
  39. Appendix Out: Fortified Jackdaw Grove
  40. Tara Jane O'Neil: This Morning
  41. Red House Painters: River
  42. Gary Lucas: Sh'ma
  43. Techno Animal: Hypertension
  44. Labradford: Twenty
  45. Tool: Lateralus
  46. Slipknot: Iowa
  47. Opeth: Blackwater Park
  48. Djam Karet: Alone With The River Man
  49. Liars: This Dust Makes That Mud
  50. Stars Of the Lid: Piano Aquieu
  51. Tarentel: Death In The Mind Of The Living
  52. Mogwai: 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong
  53. Angels of Light: New City In The Future
  54. Pleasure Forever: Any Port In A Storm
  55. Love As Laughter: E.H.
  56. Lupine Howl: Carnival
Other critics
Aquarius
Metacritic
Metamedia
Spin
Rolling Stone
Billboard
Jazz
  1. Supersilent: 5 (Rune Grammofon)
  2. Paul Dunmall: The Great Divide (Cuneiform)
  3. John Butcher: Fixations
  4. Ken Vandermark Territory Band: Atlas (2001)
  5. Wynton Marsalis: All Rise
  6. Jason Moran: Black Stars
  7. Bob Belden: Black Dahlia
  8. Sven Ake Johansson: Six Little Pieces for Quintet
  9. Matthew Shipp: New Orbit (2001)
  10. Repeat: Select Dialect
  11. Roy Campbell: Ethnic Stew
  12. Henry Threadgill: Everybody's Mouth's A Book
  13. Sonny Sharrock: Monkey-Pockie-Boo
  14. Brad Mehldau: Art of the Trio: Progression
  15. Triangles: Triangles
  16. Pillow: Three Henries
  17. Evan Parker/ Keith Rowe: Dark Rags
  18. Peter Broetzmann: Fuck DeBoere
  19. Matthew Shipp: New Orbit
  20. William Parker: O'Neal's Porch
  21. Crispell, Peacock, Motian: Amaryllis
  22. Tom Harrell: Paradise
  23. Fred Hersch: Songs Without Words
  24. Dave Douglas: Witness
  25. David Ware: Corridors & Parallels
  26. 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)

By genre:

Songwriters
  1. Tara Jane O'Neil's In The Sun Lines (Quarterstick)
  2. Simon Joyner: Hotel Lives (Truckstop)
  3. Shannon Wright: Dyed In The Wool (Touch & Go)
  4. Papa M: Whatever Mortal (Drag City)
  5. Janet Feder: Speak Puppet (ReR)
  6. TW Walsh: Blue Laws (Truckstop)
  7. Ron Sexsmith: Blue Boy (Spinart)
Post-rock
  1. US Maple: Acre Thrills (Drag City)
Psychedelia
  1. Primordial Undermind: Beings Of Game P-U
Electronica
  1. Steve Roach: Early Man (Projekt)
  2. Robert Rich: Somnium (Hypnos)
  3. Lightwave: Caryotype (Signature)
  4. Matmos: A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure (Matador)
  5. Vladislav Delay: Anima (Mille Plateaux)
Progressive
  1. Boxhead Ensemble: Two Brothers (Truckstop)
Punk/hardcore
  1. Rockets From The Crypt: Group Sounds (Vagrant)
  2. Zen Guerrilla: Shadows On The Sun (Subpop)
  3. Lucky Boys Confusion: Throwing The Game (Elektra)
Dance
  1. Daft Punk: Discovery (Virgin)
Heavy rock
  1. Tool: Lateralus (Volcano Entertainment)
  2. Nebula: Charged (Subpop)
Instrumental
  1. Stars Of The Lid: The Tired Sounds Of (Kranky)
  2. Boxhead Ensemble: Two Brothers (Truckstop)
  3. Pelt: Ayahuasca (VHF)
  4. Scott Tuma: 1
  5. Lightwave: Caryotype (Signature)
  6. Matmos: A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure (Matador)
  7. Janet Feder: Speak Puppet (ReR)

By country:

Britain
  1. Radiohead: Amnesiac (Capitol)
  2. Appendix Out: The Night Is Advancing (Drag City)
Germany
  1. Mouse On Mars: Idiology (Thrill Jockey)
Japan
  1. Keiji Haino: Abandon All Words (Alien 8)
Rest of Europe
  1. Solex: Low Kick And Hard Bop (Matador)
  2. Daft Punk: Discovery (Virgin)
  3. Vladislav Delay: Anima (Mille Plateaux)
Australia
Canada
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