71. Hippotraktor - "Stasis"

This is a simultaneously complex but also wonderfully accessible album that brims with ideas. It is inventive and sumptuously forward-thinking. It weaves a tapestry of off-kilter sonic ideas that convene together to create a post-rock sound that has both heft and grand melodicnness. It is an album that feels as if oceans of thought went into its creation. Every note is meticulously placed and every shift in tone precision engineered. Gloriously dense but also astonishingly rendered.