| Album Title | Artist Name | Critic Rating | User Rating | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ten Freedom Summers | Wadada Leo Smith | 99 | 4.6 | May 22, 2012 |
| Fetch the Bolt Cutters | Fiona Apple | 98 | 8.6 | Apr 17, 2020 |
| SMiLE | Brian Wilson | 97 | 7.9 | Sep 28, 2004 |
| Van Lear Rose | Loretta Lynn | 97 | 8.4 | Apr 27, 2004 |
| To Pimp A Butterfly | Kendrick Lamar | 96 | 8.8 | Mar 16, 2015 |
| Ghosteen | Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds | 96 | 8.7 | Oct 4, 2019 |
| Histoire de Melody Nelson | Serge Gainsbourg | 96 | 8.7 | Mar 24, 2009 |
| DAMN. | Kendrick Lamar | 95 | 8.4 | Apr 14, 2017 |
| Stankonia | Outkast | 95 | 8.8 | Oct 31, 2000 |
| Black Messiah | D'Angelo | 95 | 8.8 | Dec 15, 2014 |
| Skeleton Tree | Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds | 95 | 8.3 | Sep 9, 2016 |
| My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | Kanye West | 94 | 8.4 | Nov 22, 2010 |
| Savane | Ali Farka Toure | 94 | 8.4 | Jul 25, 2006 |
| Madvillainy | Madvillain | 93 | 8.7 | Mar 23, 2004 |
| A Crow Looked at Me | Mount Eerie | 93 | 8.0 | Mar 24, 2017 |
| Room 25 | Noname | 93 | 8.4 | Sep 14, 2018 |
| Live At Reading | Nirvana | 93 | 8.8 | Nov 3, 2009 |
| Love And Theft | Bob Dylan | 93 | 8.7 | Sep 11, 2001 |
| My Dusty Road | Woody Guthrie | 93 | 6.7 | Aug 25, 2009 |
| On the Impossible Past | The Menzingers | 93 | 7.9 | Feb 21, 2012 |
| Lemonade | Beyoncé | 92 | 7.8 | Apr 23, 2016 |
| Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down | Ry Cooder | 92 | 6.9 | Aug 29, 2011 |
| Sunbather | Deafheaven | 92 | 8.5 | Jun 11, 2013 |
| Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards | Tom Waits | 92 | 8.8 | Nov 21, 2006 |
| Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It | Rolo Tomassi | 92 | 7.1 | Mar 2, 2018 |
| Boy In Da Corner | Dizzee Rascal | 92 | 8.8 | Jan 20, 2004 |
| You Want It Darker | Leonard Cohen | 92 | 8.3 | Oct 21, 2016 |
| Set My Heart on Fire Immediately | Perfume Genius | 92 | 8.8 | May 15, 2020 |
| Channel Orange | Frank Ocean | 92 | 8.9 | Jul 17, 2012 |
| The Satanist | Behemoth | 92 | 8.5 | Feb 4, 2014 |
| Elephant | The White Stripes | 92 | 8.6 | Apr 1, 2003 |
| Titanic Rising | Weyes Blood | 91 | 9.0 | Apr 5, 2019 |
| Melodrama | Lorde | 91 | 8.8 | Jun 16, 2017 |
| Speakerboxxx/The Love Below | Outkast | 91 | 8.7 | Sep 23, 2003 |
| Home, Like Noplace Is There | The Hotelier | 91 | 8.4 | Feb 25, 2014 |
| Good Kid, M.A.A.D City | Kendrick Lamar | 91 | 8.8 | Oct 22, 2012 |
| A Grand Don't Come For Free | The Streets | 91 | 7.9 | May 18, 2004 |
| Canto | Los Super Seven | 91 | 7.4 | Mar 13, 2001 |
| Grey Area | Little Simz | 91 | 8.3 | Mar 1, 2019 |
| The ArchAndroid | Janelle Monáe | 91 | 8.9 | May 18, 2010 |
| Gold & Grey | Baroness | 91 | 7.4 | Jun 14, 2019 |
| The Guitar Song | Jamey Johnson | 91 | 8.0 | Sep 14, 2010 |
| Is This It? | The Strokes | 91 | 9.0 | Oct 9, 2001 |
| We Got It From Here...Thank You 4 Your Service | A Tribe Called Quest | 91 | 8.7 | Nov 11, 2016 |
| græ | Moses Sumney | 90 | 8.9 | May 15, 2020 |
| From Here We Go Sublime | The Field | 90 | 6.7 | Apr 3, 2007 |
| Illinois | Sufjan Stevens | 90 | 8.9 | Jul 5, 2005 |
| Carrie & Lowell | Sufjan Stevens | 90 | 8.9 | Mar 31, 2015 |
| Jimmy Lee | Raphael Saadiq | 90 | 5.8 | Aug 23, 2019 |
| No Cities to Love | Sleater-Kinney | 90 | 8.2 | Jan 20, 2015 |
| Eve | Rapsody | 90 | 8.0 | Aug 23, 2019 |
| Original Pirate Material | The Streets | 90 | 8.7 | Oct 22, 2002 |
| Candi Staton | Candi Staton | 90 | 8.6 | Feb 24, 2004 |
| Alice | Tom Waits | 90 | 8.5 | May 7, 2002 |
| Funeral | Arcade Fire | 90 | 8.9 | Sep 14, 2004 |
| Holy Hell | Architects | 90 | 8.9 | Nov 9, 2018 |
| London Zoo | The Bug | 90 | 6.5 | Aug 12, 2008 |
| Jama Ko | Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba | 90 | 6.3 | Apr 2, 2013 |
| Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty | Big Boi | 90 | 8.7 | Jul 6, 2010 |
| Psychodrama | Dave | 90 | 7.9 | Mar 8, 2019 |
| Untrue | Burial | 90 | 8.0 | Nov 6, 2007 |
| XTRMNTR | Primal Scream | 90 | 8.7 | May 2, 2000 |
| Spaces | Nils Frahm | 90 | 8.5 | Nov 19, 2013 |
| Z | My Morning Jacket | 90 | 8.4 | Oct 4, 2005 |
| St. Vincent | St. Vincent | 89 | 8.6 | Feb 25, 2014 |
| The Dusk in Us | Converge | 89 | 7.6 | Nov 3, 2017 |
| Like a Rose | Ashley Monroe | 89 | 7.1 | Mar 5, 2013 |
| RTJ2 | Run the Jewels | 89 | 8.8 | Oct 27, 2014 |
| Rounds | Four Tet | 89 | 8.4 | May 6, 2003 |
| Neon Golden | The Notwist | 89 | 8.8 | Feb 25, 2003 |
| Since I Left You | The Avalanches | 89 | 8.9 | Nov 6, 2001 |
| Honey | Robyn | 89 | 8.5 | Oct 26, 2018 |
| Eternity, In Your Arms | Creeper | 89 | 7.6 | Mar 24, 2017 |
| Kiwanuka | Michael Kiwanuka | 89 | 8.2 | Nov 1, 2019 |
| Modern Times | Bob Dylan | 89 | 8.5 | Aug 29, 2006 |
| LEGACY! LEGACY! | Jamila Woods | 89 | 8.0 | May 10, 2019 |
| Apex Predator - Easy Meat | Napalm Death | 89 | 7.2 | Jan 27, 2015 |
| HoboSapiens | John Cale | 89 | 8.2 | Sep 7, 2004 |
| Miss E... So Addictive | Missy Elliott | 89 | 8.6 | May 15, 2001 |
| Sawayama | Rina Sawayama | 89 | 9.1 | Apr 17, 2020 |
| Black Origami | Jlin | 89 | 7.1 | May 19, 2017 |
| Bachelor No. 2 (or, the last remains of the dodo) | Aimee Mann | 89 | 8.6 | May 2, 2000 |
| All Mirrors | Angel Olsen | 89 | 7.6 | Oct 4, 2019 |
| Shortly After Takeoff | BC Camplight | 89 | 8.6 | Apr 24, 2020 |
| Safe In The Hands Of Love | Yves Tumor | 89 | 7.9 | Sep 5, 2018 |
| The Fade in Time | Sam Lee | 89 | 5.6 | Mar 16, 2015 |
| Hand.Cannot.Erase. | Steven Wilson | 89 | 8.7 | Mar 3, 2015 |
| Coloring Book [Mixtape] | Chance the Rapper | 89 | 8.3 | May 13, 2016 |
| Big Fish Theory | Vince Staples | 89 | 8.3 | Jun 23, 2017 |
| The Order of Time | Valerie June | 89 | 7.9 | Mar 10, 2017 |
| Fed | Plush | 89 | 7.5 | Aug 25, 2008 |
| Chris | Christine and the Queens | 89 | 7.9 | Sep 21, 2018 |
| Golden Hour | Kacey Musgraves | 89 | 8.6 | Mar 30, 2018 |
| A Seat at the Table | Solange | 89 | 8.4 | Sep 30, 2016 |
| Last Exit | Junior Boys | 89 | 8.2 | Sep 21, 2004 |
| When I Get Home | Solange | 89 | 7.5 | Mar 1, 2019 |
| We Are Not Your Kind | Slipknot | 89 | 8.5 | Aug 9, 2019 |
| The Idler Wheel Is Wiser than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More than Ropes Will Ever Do | Fiona Apple | 89 | 8.9 | Jun 19, 2012 |
| Merriweather Post Pavilion | Animal Collective | 89 | 8.5 | Jan 20, 2009 |
| Songs For The Deaf | Queens of the Stone Age | 89 | 8.9 | Aug 27, 2002 |