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The 20 Best Experimental Albums of 2025

Chris Ingalls, J. Simpson / 2 December 2025

This year has been particularly exciting for experimental music, ranging from free-form guitar freak-outs to lush, ambient, always pushing boundaries.

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Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet Wrest Melody Out of Noise

Chris Ingalls / 14 May 2025

Noise rock fans who yearn for the sound of a quartet at the absolute peak of their powers will gain much by scooping up guitar wizard Bill Orcutt’s new album.

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Bill Orcutt’s ‘Music for Four Guitars’ Is a Masterpiece of Mantra-like Precision

Bruce Miller / 14 September 2022

Bill Orcutt’s Music for Four Guitars is at once unlike anything he has ever released and a logical distillation of whatever has come before.

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‘Odds Against Tomorrow’ Is Bill Orcutt’s Fascinating Return to Original Compositions

Chris Ingalls / 8 October 2019

With Bill Orcutt's new album, Odds Against Tomorrow, the uniquely gifted experimental guitarist gets back to basics with a collection of bracing, angular solo music.

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Bill Orcutt: Bill Orcutt

John Paul / 29 June 2017

Beautifully messy, fractured and fragmented and utterly inimitable, guitarist Bill Orcutt lays gentle waste to the canon of American song on his self-titled release.