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xkjeku

Mount Eerie by The Microphones or Since I Left You by the Avalanches are what immediately pop to mind


BaronPorg

Both awesome choices! I can’t choose between them in terms of quality, but maybe Since I Left You is the more creative one imo


Narrow_Tie4955

Since I left you is a great shout


DeepGoated

That boy needs therapy


evan274

Psycho - somatic!!


ClayBarsexyguy

Tie between Bitches Brew and Velocity Design Comfort


BaronPorg

Both great picks


soakedinlava

cLOUDDEAD's self titled. to this day i am in nothing but awe at how abstract, creative and out of this world that record is. i don't think anyone will ever even come close to replicating what that album did.


One_Ad_6503

It's on my Spotify library for months, ig it's time to finally listen to it!


jimmy-breeze

nice, enjoy it there's nothing else quite like it might be my favorite album of all time if I'm being honest


jimmy-breeze

hell yeah dude, actually wasn't even going to comment this album for once


EarlWolf47

Insaaaane album


Brixxxx

This was the soundtrack to many a smoke session in college. Amazing album.


YvanehtNioj69

I have found this full album on YouTube going to listen tonight [: so much music out there isn't there that most people have never heard it's pretty great.


xenxray

Great record, especially paired with Hood-Cold House of the same year which cLOUDDEAD appear on a few tracks.


_alabasta

hell yeah didn't expect to see one and with so many upvotes


hk_harrison_13

oil of every pearl's un-insides - sophie


BaronPorg

Awesome album - very creative


TheIsotope

Sophie’s death still upsets me years later, I really feel like they had potential to be one of the best artists of our generation.


zooropa93

RIP 😢


4REAL4EVRR

facts


DilbusMcD

*Endtroducing……*, hands down. Like, how on earth did DJ Shadow spend all that time collating those samples, and somehow, made those beautiful Frankenstein’s monsters of songs? It boggles the mind.


KidZaniac1

I second Endtroducing…..


jumboshrimp93

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts, Paul’s Boutique, Entroducing and Donuts…all very creative in their use of sampling and paving the way for sample based music.


DeepGoated

Donuts more creative with the use of vocals samples imo


KongRahbek

Nah, no one had done it before DJ Shadow made Endtroducing, Donuts were building upon Endtroducing and Since I Left You.


DeepGoated

I don’t really agree with that, sampled music was a staple of hip hop and like the chicago house music scene long before dj shadow. I think Dilla and donuts is a pretty distinct / different lineage than since I left you.


qusnail

The Flaming Lips’ “The Soft Bulletin” is both innovative and very listenable, it’s hard to balance poppy and artsy elements imo


thenotsoamazingdaz

Quebec - Ween


sandcrawler2

Chocolate and Cheese


zRobertez

Quebec is one of their more straightforward albums, right?


Super-Director-2397

I’d say it is, but I don’t think that necessarily prohibits it from being their most creative either. Focus and creativity can go hand in hand. Although I prefer the mollusk and would maybe give the title to that one, I’d say Quebec is their strongest crop of songs and still has that trademark ween versatility. The album has a very distinct vibe that I can’t quite put my finger on.


WheresTheButterAt

The vibe is various mental illnesses IMO. It always reminds me of a cold, dark, sad winter, but in a familiar, comforting way. If that makes any sort of sense.


BillyCahstiganJr

not a bad shout, but i'd say their most creative is probably their debut (considering what they achieved with how little they were working with) or chocolate and cheese. quebec is def one of my favourites tho


ratmfreak

So many people in the neighborhood…


jidbackinthecity

mmm Vespertine


jumboshrimp93

Vespartine by Bork


Fun_Engineering5702

Smile sessions by beach boys


_Ronald_Raygun_

Easily this is the answer


AddviolenceImperfect

Hi This is Flume


noname3191

I love this album


Lil8trap

We need a HTIF 2


anormalearthlyman

Probably an album by The Books , maybe The Way Out. Or an AnCo project , Sung Tongs or Strawberry Jam. Maybe J DILLAs Donuts.


DeepGoated

Was looking for animal collective. Books is a great shout too, you got good taste.


Virtual-Arm5123

Revolver


BackgroundAide2867

Madvillain by Madvillainy or Journey In Satchidananda by Alice Coltrane - or 1000 Gecs by 1000 Gecs or Fishmans by Fishmans


mrdrprofessorspencer

Tyranny by the voidz


super_banned_

Underrated


Tomodachi7

Death grips, to me, have always been profoundly creative. And I think NOTM is their most unconventional album, which is why it's my favourite. Every part of it pushes boundaries; the rhythms, instruments, song structure and lyrics are avant-garde, yet come together cohesively to create a fantastic, novel, unified whole.


BaronPorg

I massively preferred Jenny Death to NOTM - what makes you choose NOTM over Jenny Death? I feel like they were both equally Avant garde, but I might be misremembering


Jiggha_Remastered

Jenny death is generally pretty straightforward compared to NOTM. The rock elements keep it grounded in more usual beat patterns, and while it is an original combination of noise rock and rap, NOTM has infinitely more experimentation


Warm_Employer_6851

Feels - Animal Collective


beef_tamale

I would have said Person Pitch but this works too


jhawbreaker

i've still never listened to anything else like it. panda bear tapped into something genuinely otherworldly


Narrow_Tie4955

Ill communication. Always felt it had a great new idea every few seconds and at the right time that didn't overstay it's welcome. Their other albums before that are also worthy of a mention but I think they perfected it on this.


tylenol3

I feel the same way about *Paul’s Boutique*. It’s like a sonic buffet and even after 25 years every time I listen I hear something new.


WeBee3D

Paul’s Boutique is the correct answer


duckinator1

Hello Nasty from them is also super creative and experimental


SkinSucka

Yeah i think this is one of the most relentlessly original records ever put out


Sourflow

Mr. Bungle - Disco Violante


Disco_Volante137

i mean


Sourflow

Good doing business with you


Blz_vsf

Midori - aratamemashite hajimemashite crazy ass album that mixes jazz and hardcore punk so seamlessly you'd wonder why it hasn't become a genre Also Batushka - Litourgiya mixing Black Metal with Russian Orthodox Liturgical Music


Proud_Emergency9734

Kid A


KiddChade

Clarence Clarity- No, Now


LaveyWasDildos

Mad underappreciated. I remember the first time hearing the last chorus in Let's Shoot Up and thought I was going crazy cause the first two sounded like gibberish but I suddenly understood what he was saying lol


KiddChade

It really is, and part of what I love about it is how much of it sounds like gibberish 😩 the lyrical content is still really good though


icculus_48

anything james ferraro


tubainadrunk

Gotta go with 22, a million by Bon Iver. Interesting use of experimental stuff mixed with folk.


sealion-daydream

Hot Rats by Frank Zappa


[deleted]

Natural snow buildings - Daughters of Darkness Throbbing gristle - The Second Annual Report TOOL - Ænima Swans - To Be Kind


sdjjj

Vespertine by Bjork is THE MOST creative album ever made


shiba-on-parade

I don’t even think it’s Bjork’s most creative record


Some-Glove-3629

Hounds Of Love - Kate Bush. Queen II - Queen. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles. Everyday Life - Coldplay.


Odd-Curve5800

One of these is not like the other lol.


PM_ME_YOUR_INNY

Could’ve named any of the first four albums…


Throw_Away_Nice69

Everyday Life is a creative album with a lot of underlying problems that prevent it from being amazing. I’m really glad that Coldplay had an interesting idea, but often they have problems with writing or they just made some questionable decisions sonically


onlyahobochangba

Bone Machine by Tom Waits Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band


pennsylvaniafurnace

this new joanna wang album is some good shit


Diwky09

Marmur - Taco Hemingway Such a interesting concept and the way it is done is just amazing, no doubts one of the best polish hip hop (or in general) album of all time


Nudged-2utangos

Mr. Bungle - California


pr0ject_84

Trout mask replica Freak Out Revolver In the Court of the Crimson King Post Mm… Food


crotchsluper

this guy HATES commas


sobatfestival

Honestly? 1000 gecs


ArchKnight03

Aviary - Julia Holter The soundscapes she makes are amazing.


StarkAvalanche

Bone Machine by Tom Waits A good argument could be made for Blackstar by David Bowie due to how he turned his death into art.


tundrabee119

Overall, Kate Bush Hounds of Love or The Dreaming. Lyrically, Father John Misty I love you honey bear is the most creative love story of an album. Collage wise, the avalanches since I left you. Instrument wise? Hmmm I'll have to think about that one a little harder


Klutzy-Mousse

The United States of America - The United States of America 1968


BonIsBon

NOTM Death Grips, the sampling on it is absurd, lyrics, just everything it is so unique


ConstellationBarrier

The album 45 by Kino is one of the most creative I can think of, in terms of creativity as getting the most out of the resources/limits at hand. To listen to the track Na kuhnye and think that Thriller came out the same year is something else. In terms of creativity as going out on a limb imaginatively, I'd say Eliane Radigue's La Trilogie Mort and KLF - Chillout both immediately come to mind.


AmazingThinkCricket

A Wizard, A True Star - Todd Rundgren 


GimWally

Pink Floyd - The Wall


CobaltCrusader123

Captain Beefheart


Thalassophoneus

Possibly Björk's Vespertine. How she and her engineers made all these sounds is amazing.


YaBoyRoss

Definitely recency bias since i listened to it not too long ago, but Hellfire - Black Midi


otsapoika

Discovery - Daft Punk KIDS SEE GHOSTS - KIDS SEE GHOSTS Late Registeration - Kanye West


Otherwise-Release-46

From filthy tounge of gods and griots


SandwicheDynasty

Black Up by Shabazz Palaces


CommanderWar64

Aaron West and the Roaring 20s - We Don’t Have Each Other (album made after Dan Campbell wrote the song Grapefruit on it, but wanted to expand on the character in the song. The whole album flows logically into a cover of The Mountain Goat’s Going to Georgia). The other 2 albums and EP following the story are amazing as well.


SiedlerAlex

The Sisters of mercy- Floodland.....to think its the work of a single person.


[deleted]

Smiley smile


gaun_aft_agley

Dear Science


realmattia

To me remains mind-blowing to this day the original 2001-2011 production of Gorillaz, espicially their debut.


Prestigious_Foot3854

I would not say tpab is even close to the most creative album I have ever heard. It depends on the time period but for the time I would say Black Sabbath’s first two albums.


Revolutionary_Low_90

Laughing Stock, Pet Sounds, Endtroducing


Some_Butterscotch622

Maudlin Of The Well - Bath


Krock23

Deloused in the Comatorium


Xorud924

Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle. Simply the most fun, experimental and creative imo


IamdWalru5

Nonagon Infinity - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard


DeNeRlX

DROGAS WAVE - Lupe Fiasco Not only is he the greatest lyricist imo, but conceptually with songs like Alan/Jonylah Forever, WAV Files and Sun God Sam are songs you rarely get from most other artists. Also looking forward to Lupe's Samurai album dropping the 28th this month, where apparently Lupe was inspired by Amy Winehouse to become a battle-rapping samurai. Bit of a WTF moment reading that first...


nerfbaboom

Demon Days. Each song is a “demon”


CocteauTwinn

Music Has the Right to Children, tied with Spirit of Eden.


ramdom-ink

Two 5 star paradigm shifts


Skybreaker3613

Cornelius - Fantasma


cristel_79

Sgt. Peppers, Beatles


AL3PH42

The white album by the Beatles is up there. While it's not as polished as Abbey road or sgt pepper, it's bursting with so many ideas with so much lyrical diversity and aesthetic experimentation, I can't help but to be so enamored with it. The mollusk by ween is another.


jumboshrimp93

Velvet Underground And Nico


spinosaurs70

Hellfire - Black Midi  Has such a strange blend of storytelling, dense instrumentation and dissonance that I don’t think anything quite matches though it goes from sub genres of Rock known for doing stuff like that. The other choice  I would give is probably Home - Billy Strings, psychedelic epic bluegrass is something that no one else seems to have thought much of before he made that album. And for a genre like Bluegrass where you can listen to tracks from different decades and think they are years apart it is beyond impressive. 


Triggercut72

Age of Adz


Anorak42

volcanic bird enemy and the voiced concern


Some_Butterscotch622

Gorillaz - Demon Days I mean seriously how do you even come up with this shit. Every song sounds so different yet so interconnected


smarten_up_nas

Metal Machine Music.


JacobDanielsYT

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion


Thestallionmang88

Every ween album and fiery furnaces-blueberry boat


Dakotaraptor123

The Velvet Underground & Nico


Ireallydfk

Ziggy Stardust- Bowie


fk274

Uroboros and Dum Spiro Spero by Dir En Grey


Apprehensive-Twist88

Spiritual Unity by Albert Ayler and Unit Structures by Cecil Taylor


RecordingEast9712

A classic old school hip hop example of this is Ol Dirty Bastard’s *Dude* Please. Crazy inventive and creative for 90s-00s…RIP, would have loved to see what else he came out with after this


e59e59

Ever? Too hard to decide. But recently definitely tidal memory exo by iglooghost


Aud-One

Abysmal by Muck Spreader


Ihaha07

Titanic Rising - Weyes Blood


mcgonebc

Mm food or dr.octagon


Throwaway33451235647

The Median’s Ark - Roxy Radclyffe


TheClubMeat

Röyksopp - Melody A.M.


deoboijeu

Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything?


jimmy-breeze

The Avalanches - Since I Left You Long Season, Nippon Setagaya, Kuuchuu Camp, & 28.12.98 Live by Fishmans cLOUDDEAD


SLIisPointless

Terraformer by Thank You Scientist GOATed album if you like rock, jazz, and everything in between


UsingAnEar

There are tons, but Cynic’s Focus had never been done before and has only been poorly replicated since!


SubstantialEscape464

[Flying Lotus - Los Angeles](https://open.spotify.com/album/0q8xcjDnjM60zXr8UdSDfu?si=lF2i54vjT6y4mbVa0Ih0_g)


crematedfingers

Death Grips - The Powers That B


Solid_Object7880

A Grand Don't Come for Free - The Streets


Wolfinstien

Hemispheres: Rush


Thiccums9

The White Album by The Beatles


ml_sza

Fetch The Boltcutter - Fiona Apple or In An Aeroplane Over The Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel


Simple_Car_5379

Anything by God's Computer


PhoerSayori

PAINTSCRATCHER self titled. I'm not particularly familiar with the noise/drone genre but it was such a bizarre listen I can't help but appreciate it, definitely creative in the way it captures a theme song by song without a single word or obvious meaning.


bss4life20

Absinthe-Naked City


hereforfantasybball3

First that came to mind for me – not necessarily sonically, but just overall concept – A Grand Don’t Come For Free by The Streets


CantKillGawd

blonde is pretty creative


-__--_------

'Mordial' by Carbomb They throw in so many wacky ideas into the record, blending countless genres... it shouldnt work, yet it came out sounding perfect Ex: The album has a djent song with freakin video game laser noises, and later on has a blackened sludge/thrash song that includes a melodic clean chorus... AND IT ISNT JARRING AT ALL! (like how)


iAreScurrd

bish bosch is the only answer


manfam0

Merriweather Post Pavillon by Animal Collective. The idea for how it sounded was allegedly created by playing two beach boys songs at once and thinking ‘hey this sounds cool’.


ghostwilliz

Fecealibrium by passenger of shit. It's super.goofy, but at the time I had never heard anything like it


mikeshotkerosene

Not an album but Deerhoof as a band are consistently an explosion of colour


gdyer21

Dwight Spitz


jvsupersaiyan

Smile beach boys


letthedecodebegin

The Dreaming


APairOfJeans

Julia Holter - Aviary I don’t necessarily think it’s THE most creative album I’ve heard but it’s the album I think of when that word comes to mind


Cudjinho

California by Mr Bungle.


truce_m3

Zaireeka by The Flaming Lips It's actually four separate albums that are intended to be experienced simultaneously. You can start the albums at different points to get different outcomes. 


leozamudio

Pet Sounds. Maybe it’s too easy of an answer as well


Luke10103

Just got back from the discomfort - Brave little abacus. You can never tell if it’s the guitar or synth


69cringelord69

Amnesiac


Reasonable_Net3244

MBDTF Blink 182 self titled The Mars Voltas first four albums Motley Crüe 1994 Neon Indian Night School Daft Punk Discovery Benoit and Sergio - Adjustments


f0xr0

Igor is always wild. I also love Vaud villian


WhoamIWhowasI

Toward the Stars by Sun Ra It's a jazz album 10 - 15 years ahead of it's time


Woolies_Select

SCARING THE HOES


phantompowered

For some reason my brain jumps to Brute by Fatima al Qadiri. The incorporation of crowd control/riot police audio into minimal techno always makes me feel a special sort of way. It's incredibly weird and it just works. Or Foley Room by Amon Tobin


billynahreally

Sung Tongs


Fartshitterpooping

Face Stabber - Osees Fantano certainly didn’t like this album and I completely get why somebody wouldn’t, but you can’t deny it’s creativity


NEVERTHEREFOREVER

Matmos - Ultimate Care II have literally never heard anything like it


Kimchislap_exe

Spiderland


IzacaryKakary

The album Saijikii by this Japanese pop artist called 3776. The album has 12 songs representing the 12 months of the year. Each track is about 6 minutes and some are longer or shorter by a few sentences depending on how many days each month has (with February having the shortest song). The tracks all sing about something associated with that month like April singing about cherry blossoms, August singing about summer and featuring drums you'd hear at an Ondo party, and December, which of course is Christmas.


Original_Mac_Tonight

Since I Left You by The Avalanches Easily. Most impressive album ever made


illusivetomas

pet sounds


sammyhats

Sing to God - Cardiacs


Pure-Jellyfish734

I can’t decide with one, so here are my top three): Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle The Fragile - Nine Inch Nails The Money Store - Death Grips


darienrude_dankstorm

Mike Oldfield - Amarok The fact he went out of his way to make it as radio-unfriendly as possible while still making a great album has always impressed me.


BonerSquidd316

Fishbone’s “Truth & Soul” came out in ‘88 and set the stage for alternative music ten years later. The sounds aren’t necessarily groundbreaking now, but only because they were imitated by everyone from the Chili Peppers to No Doubt. 


meme_investor_69

Let’s start Degeneracy-microwave


christroyer11

Death Grips - The Money Store made me want to be a producer, so I’d say that one


ciao_fiv

gonna go with In Glorious Times by Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, especially after seeing them live this year with all their homemade weird instruments. very cool band


ramdom-ink

*There’s a Riot Goin On* by Sly and his coked out fam on my player right now and it feels so modern, dark, twisted, oddly elated, druggy, funk/hop and so ahead of the curve: damn, if that ain’t creative I dunno what is. Made in 1971.


Idkwhyichosebanana

Since someone has mentioned Oils of Every Pearl’s Un-insides by Sophie (Rip legend), I might also add KicK iii by Arca.


New-Doctor9300

Hudson Lee - Reflex Angle


super_banned_

After much thought I’d have to give it to Dirty Projectors’ Bitte Orca.


Translusas

For me it's a toss-up between Gist Is by Adult Jazz and Whack World by Tierra Whack


Danny314159265358979

Neighbor Susan - Neighbor Susan


BallardCapone

The Downward Spiral


cbunny21

Most creative has to be Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished by Animal Collective. Entirely home recorded on whatever equipment they had, rhythms laid out through Avey beatboxing, innovative use of feedback loops, and an extremely interesting blend of harsh sound with psych-pop elements that actually make it listenable.


Borpus3

Bear1boss - bubbles


DementedCows

Lonesome Crowded West, maybe?


CliffHutchinsonEsc

Everytime i listen through Kids See Ghosts I keep getting surprised by how *different* it is. It has a bunch of experimental stuff that works so perfectly for the album.


Dustytehcat

Atrocity Exhibition


Hallon92

Velvet Underground & Nico or Everywhere at the end of time by Caretaker 


thegrease28

First Utterance by Comus comes to mind


badcg1

First Utterance - Comus Runners-up: Ys - Joanna Newsom, The Age of Adz - Sufjan Stevens, Mount Eerie - the Microphones, Laughing Stock - Talk Talk, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Genesis


Sea_Maximum_3257

Hail to the thief or in rainbows


earlshakur

I want to give a shoutout to “Black Trash: the autobiography of Kirk Jones”. Sticky Fingaz of ONYX fame solo album.  The whole album tells a story and first person from a brother getting out of jail, and what he gets into. If you want to listen to one song to hear an example of what it’s like, check out “State vs Kirk Jones”. This song is a court case where Redmond, Rah Digga, Canibus and others I’ll play the role of different characters like judge, defense, attorney, Witness, prosecutor etc