JERRY EWING (Editor)
1 MARILLION An Hour Before It’s Dark (EARMUSIC)
2 PORCUPINE TREE Closure/Continuation (MUSIC FOR NATIONS)
3 TEARS FOR FEARS The Tipping Point (CONCORD)
4 ARENA The Theory Of Molecular Inheritance (VERGLAS)
5 SEL BALAMIR () rphans (ROCKOSMOS)
6 VON HERTZEN BROTHERS Red Alert In The Blue Forest (DOING BEING MUSIC)
7 BIRTH Born (OMEN)
8 DEVIN TOWNSEND Lightwork (INSIDEOUT)
9 JO QUAIL The Cartographer (BY NORSE MUSIC)
10 KLAUS SCHULZE Deus Arrakis (SPV)
11 THE UTOPIA STRONG International Treasure (ROCKET RECORDINGS)
12 GORDON GILTRAP & PAUL WARD Scattered Chapters (PSYCHOTRON)
13 MOTORPSYCHO Ancient Astronauts (RUNE GRAMMOFON)
14 ROSALIE CUNNINGHAM Two Piece Puzzle (ESOTERIC)
15 LONELY ROBOT A Model Life (INSIDEOUT)
16 VOIVOD Synchro Anarchy (CENTURY MEDIA)
17 CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX Banefyre (SEASON OF MIST)
18 ELDER Innate Passage (STICKMAN RECORDS)
19 DIM GRAY Firmament (ENGLISH ELECTRIC RECORDINGS)
20 EARTHLESS Night Parade Of One Hundred Demons (NUCLEAR BLAST)
NATASHA SCHARF (Deputy Editor)
1 MARILLION AN HOUR BEFORE IT’S DARK (EARMUSIC)
2 PORCUPINE TREE Closure/Continuation (MUSIC FOR NATIONS)
3 CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX Banefyre (SEASON OF MIST)
4 AA WILLIAMS As The Moon Rests (BELLA UNION)
5 BIG BIG TRAIN Welcome To The Planet (ENGLISH ELECTRIC RECORDINGS)
6 TEARS FOR FEARS The Tipping Point (CONCORD)
7 OCEANS OF SLUMBER Starlight And Ash (CENTURY MEDIA)
8 AMORPHIS Halo (ATOMIC FIRE)
9 VON HERTZEN BROTHERS Red Alert In The Blue Forest (DOING BEING MUSIC)
10 KING’S X Three Sides Of One (INSIDEOUT)
11 MARATON Unseen Color (INDIE RECORDINGS)
12 BILLY HOWERDEL Poison Flowers (BMG/ALCHEMY RECORDINGS)
13 ARENA The Theory Of Molecular Inheritance (VERGLAS)
14 DIM GRAY Firmament (ENGLISH ELECTRIC RECORDINGS)
15 ENVY OF NONE Envy Of None (KSCOPE)
16 LONELY ROBOT A Model Life (INSIDEOUT)
17 HEILUNG Drif (SEASON OF MIST)
18 OH HIROSHIMA Myriad (NAPALM)
19 TOUNDRA Hex (INSIDEOUT)
20 LILI REFRAIN Mana (SUBSOUND)
RUSSELL FAIRBROTHER (Art Editor)
1 HEDVIG MOLLESTAD & TRONDHEIM JAZZ ORCHESTRA Maternity Beat (RUNE GRAMMOFON)
2 BLACK MIDI Hellfire (ROUGH TRADE)
3 MAJOR PARKINSON Valesa – Chapter 1: Velvet Prison (APOLLON)
4 …AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD XI: Bleed Here Now (INSIDEOUT)
5 IANAI Sunir (SVART)
6 JO QUAIL The Cartographer (BY NORSE MUSIC)
7 COSMOGRAF Heroic Materials (GRAVITY DREAM MUSIC)
8 SOFT FFOG Soft Ffog (IS IT JAZZ? RECORDS)
9 O.R.K Screamnasium (KSCOPE)
10 MARILLION An Hour Before It’s Dark (EARMUSIC)
11 DAVID LONGDON Door One (ENGLISH ELECTRIC RECORDINGS)
12 ROSALIE CUNNINGHAM Two Piece Puzzle (ESOTERIC)
13 JENNY HVAL Classic Objects (4AD)
14 BJØRN RIIS Everything To Everyone (KARISMA)
15 COHEED AND CAMBRIA Vaxis II: A Window Of The Waking Mind (ROADRUNNER)
16 J PETER SCHWALM & STEPHAN THELEN Transneptunian Planets (RARENOISE)
17 HATS OFF The Confidence Trick
