World: Savane (2006) / Ali Farka Touré This is the record that cemented Ali Farka Toure as a giant in the world of contemporary African...

Experimental Hip-Hop: Third Side Of Tape (2015) / Lil Ugly Mane Accept the fact that with Third Side Of Tape you aren’t given a...

Alternative Hip-Hop: Madvillainy (2004) / Madvillain The most celebrated abstract hip-hop album ever. Underground hip-hop icons rapper MF...

World: Graceland (1986) / Paul Simon Taking influence from a myriad of South African musical styles, Graceland is unlike any other Paul...

Folk: Pink Moon (1972) / Nick Drake Pink Moon’s bleak, calm, and focused sort of anguish was a final attempt for Nick Drake to rouse...

Third Stream (The Synthesis of Jazz and Classical Music): Ten Freedom Summers (2012) / Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith Composed intermittently...

East Coast Rap/Golden Age: It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back (1988) / Public Enemy The production is dense, the beats are...

Dream Pop Hounds Of Love (1985) / Kate Bush Hounds Of Love is made up of two contrasting sides. The tracklisting is divided up into...

Electronica/Hip-Hop/Rap: One Word Extinguisher (2003) / Prefuse 73 One Word Extinguisher is simultaneously as challenging as Autechre’s...

Ambient: Ambient 1: Music For Airports (1978) / Brian Eno More than simply aesthetic white noise, Ambient 1: Music For Airports is as...

Vaporwave: Floral Shoppe (2011) / Macintosh Plus Commonly ridiculed as a soulless take on muzak, Floral Shoppe’s release sparked much...

Electronica: Sylvan Esso (2014) / Sylvan Esso Although I could see this record being sold to oblivious teenage girls at Urban Outfitters...

Dance: Since I Left You (2000) / The Avalanches A prime example of plunderphonics, Since I Left You is Australian music group’s “The...

Blues: Complete Recordings (1936) / Robert Johnson No blues album recommendation list would be complete without Robert Johnson’s Complete...

Ambient: The Disintegration Loops (2002) / William Basinski On The Disintegration Loops, William Basinski presents us listeners to the...

Over the next couple of days until school ends, I plan on intermittently releasing album reviews as a series of articles for the Ad Verum...

I recently decided to watch the three original Indiana Jones movies. I have been a big fan of Lucas’s previous original trilogies, so I...

Alternative/Experimental Rock: In Rainbows (2007) / Radiohead Liberated from their self-imposed desire to innovate, for the first time a...

After months of debate between the U.S. and China, the UN has placed sanctions on North Korea. There are some of the strictest sanctions...

Elena Unger is a graduating student known for her exceptional talent in the fine arts. Elena’s masterful techniques and portrayal in her...