SPIN's 20 Best Avant Albums of 2015

Hard and fast boundaries don't mean much these days. M.I.A. would tell you as much, offering a big ol' "what's up with that?" at the very concept and

Published: December 09, 2015 17:01 Source

# 1

The Ark Work by Liturgy

Album • Mar 24 / 2015 Experimental Rock Avant-Garde Metal

# 2

Garden Of Delete by Oneohtrix Point Never

Album • Nov 13 / 2015 Post-Industrial Progressive Electronic

# 3

A Readymade Ceremony by Felicia Atkinson

Album • Mar 06 / 2015 Electroacoustic Ambient Musique concrète

# 4

Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee by Matana Roberts

Album • Feb 03 / 2015 Experimental Modern Creative

# 6

Where All Is Fled by Steve Hauschildt

Album • Sep 25 / 2015 Progressive Electronic Ambient

# 7

River by Daniel Bachman

Album • May 19 / 2015 American Primitivism

# 8

American Drift by Elysia Crampton

Album • Aug 07 / 2015 Latin Electronic Epic Collage Deconstructed Club

# 9

Frozen Niagara Falls by Prurient

Album • May 12 / 2015 Noise Industrial Post-Industrial

# 10

Olympic Mess by Helm

Album • Jun 19 / 2015 Ambient Electroacoustic

# 11

Platform by Holly Herndon

Album • May 15 / 2015 Glitch Glitch Pop

# 12

Vertigo by The Necks

Album • Oct 30 / 2015 Free Improvisation

# 13

No. 3 by Christina Vantzou

Album • Oct 16 / 2015

# 15

I Am A Problem: Mind in Pieces by Wolf Eyes

Album • Oct 30 / 2015 Noise Rock

# 16

Hackers All of Them Hackers by Dreamcrusher

EP • Oct 30 / 2015 Power Noise

# 17

The Female Form by Loke Rahbek + Puce Mary

Album • Feb 26 / 2015 Industrial Dark Ambient

# 18

Music for Snowdrifts by Jenks Miller + Rose Cross, NC

Single • May 04 / 2015

# 19

Perfect World by Uniform

Album • Jun 08 / 2015 Noise Rock Industrial Rock

# 20

Automaginary by Bitchin Bajas + Natural Information Society

Album • Aug 28 / 2015 Free Improvisation