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The Best Art Rock Albums of All Time - Album of The Year. Decade. All Time. Source. All. Genre. Art Rock. 1. Patti Smith - Horses. November 10, 1975. Proto-punk, Art Rock, Singer-Songwriter. Critic Score. 100. 5 reviews. Amazon. Music. Spotify. 2. The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico. March 12, 1967.
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1. Eno - Another Green World. September 1, 1975. Art Rock,...
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King Crimson. 4.32 65,810 986. 10 October 1969. Progressive Rock Art Rock. Symphonic Prog Jazz-Rock Free Improvisation Psychedelic Rock. fantasy epic progressive complex poetic philosophical surreal technical. Kid A. Radiohead. 4.26 85,538 916. 3 October 2000. Art Rock Electronic Experimental Rock.
- Radiohead – in Rainbows
- Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
- Roxy Music – For Your Pleasure
- The Velvet Underground & Nico – The Velvet Underground & Nico
- Talking Heads – Remain in Light
- Kate Bush – Hounds of Love
- Tom Waits – Swordfishfrombones
- Björk – Post
- Gorillaz – Demon Days
- Radiohead – Kid A
The approach of minimalism here is what drives Radiohead’s 2007 masterwork. In Rainbows still feels like an incredibly modern album with colourful production and a scientific approach to layering that is awe-inspiring. From the electronic, skipping beats of 15 Step to the structured ambient soundscapes of Wierd Fishes, Radiohead defined a new era o...
Undoubtedly one of the best albums of the last decade, Arcade Firemade an unapologetically grand statement on their third album. The rich production, creative escapism, and classical instrumentation make it an uplifting record to behold. The haunting ghosts of sound that whip around over martial beats create a blazing experience from start to finis...
Roxy Music’s second album is an art-pop, glam-rock masterpiece. The last entry before Eno set out on his solo career and eternal sound quest, Roxy Music sketched out blueprints for the future of trance, experimental pop and Brian Eno. With plenty of space for Eno’s deviations, tracks like Bogus Man and bookend, For Your Pleasure,meld R&B with high ...
A progenitor to the modern art-rock movement, The Velvet Underground’sdebut is an album worthy of the hype. It’s primal and artistic. It’s simple and it’s avant-garde. Nico’s songs are poppy yet dark. Her voice is strange but beautiful. This approach of minimalism is still a lodestone for attempts at art-rock today. John Cale’sviolin playing is a g...
An unreputed art-rock masterpiece, David Byrne combined afrobeat and funk-jazz to craft a challenging yet overwhelmingly enjoyable listen. Experimenting with polyrhythms, obtuse lyrics, and general strangeness, Remain In Lighthas been able to retain a sense of unfamiliarity throughout the years. Talking Headsredefined the scope of art-rock and toed...
With her self-produced fifth album, Kate Bushembraced the possibilities of digital sampling synthesizers and studio technique becoming a total auteur. Despite navigating this new territory Bush never lost lyrical potency of her words, becoming one of the most musically serious artists of her time. Hounds Of Love was Bush’s big push into American ch...
In 1982, Tom Waits met his future wife Kathleen Brennanwho quickly convinced him to embrace his desires for more outsider musical excursions. Waits’ went a little deeper down the rabbit hole than expected however, abandoning his beat poet persona for something a whole lot stranger. The beginning of an album trilogy, this transformation produced som...
Björk’ssophomore album leaned more heavily into art-rock and further away from her gothy post-punk origins in KUKL. Here Björk expresses an affinity with the vast nature of glaciers of Iceland and a deep love of music. Her uncanny expression of sound and explosive wails sail through the currents till they hit your ears like a confusing puzzle of jo...
Far more than just a rock star’s novelty side project, Gorillazwas a triumph of incredible proportions and cemented Damon Albarn as one of modern music’s most creative minds. Albarn more or less faded into obscurity after blur and the uncovering of his identity as the spearhead of Gorillaz was one of the biggest reveals in music. Thought Feel Good ...
Radiohead’sfamous diversion from generic rock aesthetic after the gigantically successful OK Computer is a high mark for the genre and capabilities of art-rock. Is it overrated? Yes. However, it’s still an extremely bold move for the outfit and it paid off in spades, instantly making them the most important and hard to define rock band in the world...
1. Low. (1977) Low is the eleventh studio album by British musician David Bowie, co-produced by Bowie and Tony Visconti. Low was the first of the "Berlin Trilogy", a series of collaborations with Brian Eno (though the album was mainly recorded i... 10. [ graph] from 2 votes. Discuss [-] 2. Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (1980)
Pink Floyd. 4.34 70,733 1,003. 12 September 1975. Progressive Rock Art Rock. Space Rock Psychedelic Rock. melancholic atmospheric progressive concept album serious longing introspective alienation. In the Court of the Crimson King. King Crimson. 4.32 64,960 981. 10 October 1969. Progressive Rock Art Rock.
I f you look at any list of best art rock albums around, you just might find anybody who would end up on the best rock albums of all time. From Frank Zappa and Pink Floyd to The Velvet Underground ...
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