29. The Flaming Lips: 'Embryonic' (Warner Bros.) - For some commentators, the defiantly strange 'Embryonic' was nothing short of a full-blown self-indulgent catastrophe, a career suicide carved of free-form freak-outs. In fact, the album’s the electrifying sound of the Flaming Lips reborn, reconnecting with the far-out fearlessness of their earliest incarnations. One more lacklustre attempt to capture past glories ala 2006’s 'At War with Mystics' would've been disastrous. It's a cause for considerable celebration, then, that Oklahoma's leading cosmic pop mystics had enough guts to dive headfirst into the outer reaches of distorted weirdness, unveiling a psych-prog-jazz-funk racket not unlike Can jamming with electric-era Miles Davis, with moments of calming beauty sandwiched between disorientating grooves, compensating generously for the odd detour into aimless noodling. (Janne Oinonen)
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- Moderat, Memory Tapes and Vitalic?!! Great list for including those alone
- The Blueprint 3? That is one rubbish album. Shame that Jay Z hasn't made a good album for 8 years.
- Tune-Yards should have been on this list.
- Gotta be the best album list I've read so far!
- bunch of marginally talented hipster douches ruined this list.
YYY and Muse are the only ones worth buying.
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