The Odyssey: two thousand and one albums, EPs, and singles from 2001

In honour of Arthur C. Clarke's famous science fiction novel, Stanley Kubrick's film version, the first year of the new century, in anticipation of many wonderful things turning 25, and to flex both my eclectic musical tastes and obsession with music. These albums are not ordered in any hierarchical fashion. This is to celebrate the absolute preponderance

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Albums

  • 001

    The Other People Place - Lifestyles of the Laptop Cafe@#

  • 007

    Jan Jelinek - loop-finding-jazz-records@?

  • 008

    The Shins - Oh, Inverted World#

  • 016

    Telefon Tel Aviv - Fahrenheit Far Enough

  • 020

    Bardo Pond - Dilate

  • Further Seems Forever - The Moon Is Down

    March 2001
    Quantic - The 5th Exotic
    May 31, 2001

    EPs

    Singles

    Synopsis/Thoughts

  • 001

    The Other People Place - Lifestyles of the Laptop Cafe

  • 002

  • 003

  • 004

  • 005

  • 006

  • 007

    Jan Jelinek - loop-finding-jazz-records

  • 008

    The Shins - Oh, Inverted World

  • 009

  • 010

  • 011

  • 012

  • 013

  • 014

  • Basement Jaxx - Rooty

  • 015

  • 016

    Telefon Tel Aviv - Fahrenheit Far Enough

  • 017

  • 018

  • 019

  • 020

    Bardo Pond - Dilate

  • 021

  • 022

  • 023

  • 024

  • 025

  • 026

  • 027

    Transllusion - Opening of the Cerebral Gate

  • 028

  • 029

  • 030

  • 030

    • Windy & Carl - Consciousness Wife and husband team Windy Weber and Carl Huntgren's eponymous duet have released eleven albums as of my writing this in early September 2024. Hailing from Dearborn, Michigan, USA, the couple are one group of many who purvey lush slabs that bridge the by now completely sealed gaps between dream pop, post rock, drone, and revivalist space rock. Starting their collaboration in 1993, this album, wose cover art is a deliberate nod to that Archie Shepp's The Way Ahead Aaliyah - Aaliyah Oneida - Anthem of the Moon September 17, 2001 Jaga Jazzist - A Livingroom Hush May 3, 2001 CAKE - Fashion Nugget

    July 24, 2001
    Regarded by some as their finest hour, Camera Obscura - Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi November 12, 2001 Susumu Yokota - Grinning Cat Hood - Cold House Akira Yamaoka - Silent Hill 2 October 3, 2001 Howard Shore - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring November 20, 2001 Joe Hisaishi - Spirited Away July 18, 2001 Zero 7 - Simple Things
    June 12, 2001
    Brand New - Your Favorite Weapon
    October 9, 2001
    Bob Drake - The Skull Mailbox (And Other Horrors) Matthew Good Band - The Audio of Being
    October 30, 2001
    Fred Frith - Clearing
    June 26, 2001
    M83 - M83
    April 18, 2001
    Marilyn Crispell, Gary Peacock & Paul Motian - Amaryllis
    March 19, 2001
    Murder Squad - Unsane, Insane and Mentally Deranged Angelo Badalementi & David Lynch - Mulholland Dr. October 9, 2001 Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet - Flutter
    May 22, 2001
    Incredibly prolific multi-instrumentalist and composer Otomo Yoshihide Otomo Yoshihide (electric guitar, electronics, sampler), Kenta Tsugami (alto sax), Hiroaki Mizutani (bass), Yasuhiro Yoshigaki (drums & trumpet), Naruyoshi Kikuchi (tenor sax). Two Eric Dolphy compositions (Les / Drift) and (Serene) Gerry Mulligan compostion (Night Lights / Density). Sachiko Matsubara makes guest appearances on the title track, Flutter (Modulations for High Tone), Drift / Les, and Night Lights / Density. Masami Akita guest appearance on synthesizer on Serene Otomo Yoshihide - Anode
    November 20, 2001
    Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein Techno Animal - Brotherhood of the Bomb September 11, 2001 Miss Kittin & The Hacker - First Album
    October 2001
    Markus Guentner - In Moll
    August 29, 2001
    Labradford - Fixed::Context
    February 19, 2001
    Tortoise - Standards
    February 20, 2001
    Yura Yura Teikoku - III
    February 21, 2001
    Bola - Fyuti
    July 29, 2001
    Merzbow - Dharma
    August 14, 2001
    Sunburned Hand of the Man - Jaybird Cyclo - Cyclo
    April 2001
    Mouse on Mars -
    Autoditacker
    April 23, 2001
    MONO - Under the Pipal Tree
    November 20, 2001
    Fat Jon the Ample Soul Physician - Wave Motion
    October 26, 2001
    Liars - They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top
    October 30, 2001
    Plaid - Double Figure
    May 29, 2001
    Rilo Kiley - Take Offs and Landings
    July 31, 2001
    Yesterday's New Quintet - Angles Without Edges
    September 11, 2001
    Mercury Rev - All Is Dream September 11, 2001 Three years after Deserters Songs Jackie-O Motherfucker - Liberation The seventh (eighth if you count their split in the same year with Vibracathedral Orchestra) album by Portland, Oregon's cult psychedelic rock/free folk act, Jackie-O Motherfucker. Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American Although this album was not the debut by the much beloved emo-pop behemoths, t Ryan Adams - Gold Ozric Tentacles - Pyramidion Eyedea & Abilities - First Born
    October 1, 2001
    Pan Sonic - Aaltopiiri
    January 16, 2001
    Meaning "wave circuit" Toshimaru Nakamura & Sachiko M - Do
    February 28, 2001
    Erstwhile Toshimaru Nakamura - No-Input Mixing Board 2 Toshimaru Nakamura & Andrea Neumann - Atøn
    June 2001
    The first release on the great but largely obscure Italian record label Rossbin is this collaboration Toshimaru Nakamura & Keith Rowe - Weather Sky Three pieces, first almost 41 minutes, second is five, third is almost 28 Matmos - A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure
    March 13, 2001
    Kuusumun Profeetta - Kukin kaappiaan selässään kantaa Electrelane - Rock It to the Moon April 30, 2001 Axel Dörner - Trumpet Shipping News - Very Soon, and in Pleasant Company February 26, 2001 of Montreal - Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies: A Variety of Whimsical Verse April 23, 2001 Wolf Eyes - Dread The Detroit Escalator Co. - Black Buildings
    April 28, 2001
    Dilated Peoples - Expansion Team
    October 23, 2001
    Rafael Toral - Violence of Discovery and Calm of Acceptance Alva Noto - Transform
    September 4, 2001
    India.Arie - Acoustic Soul
    March 27, 2001
    Susumu Yokota - Will
    September 6, 2001
    David Byrne - Look Into the Eyeball
    May 8, 2001
    Dungen - Dungen Gotan Project - La revancha del tango October 22, 2001 Fridge - Happiness
    September 24, 2001
    Acid Mothers Temple & Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - New Geocentric World of Acid Mothers Temple Acid Mothers Temple & Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Absolutely Freak Out (Zap Your Mind!!) Acid Mothers Temple & Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - In C Mainliner - Imaginative Plain
    April 25, 2001
    Present - High Infidelity Phoenecia - Brownout
    August 20, 2001
    Jetone - Ultramarin
    August 21, 2001
    Tim Hecker's dub techno Fennesz - Endless Summer
    June 26, 2001
    Alicia Keys - Songs in A Minor
    June 26, 2001
    Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most
    March 20, 2001
    Broken Social Scene - Feel Good Lost
    March 6, 2001
    The Crystal Method - Tweekend
    July 31, 2001
    Mortiis - The Smell of Rain
    October 22, 2001
    Typical Cats - Typical Cats
    February 6, 2001
    Cranes - Future Songs
    May 27, 2001
    Jah Wobble & Bill Laswell - Radioaxiom: A Dub Transmission
    September 18, 2001
    They Might Be Giants - Mink Car
    September 11, 2001
    Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2
    September 11, 2001
    Steve Roden - Forms of Paper
    October 2001
    Steve Roden - Schindler House Iva Bittová & Čikori - Iva Bittová & Čikori Jack Johnson - Brushfire Fairytales
    February 6, 2001
    Grant-Lee Phillips - Mobilize
    August 14, 2001
    The Flying Luttenbachers - Infection and Decline
    August 27, 2001
    Donnacha Costello - Together Is the New Alone
    September 26, 2001
    De Facto - Megaton Shotblast Mary J. Blige - No More Drama
    August 28, 2001
    Fischerspooner - #1
    August 6, 2001
    Otomo Yoshihide - Anode
    November 20, 2001
    Don't call it a comeback! More than a spiritual successor to 1999's Cathode Redhead - Humanized EP and Redhead - Icelandic Two lovely EPs of five minute techno excellence--almost at its tooliest--from Belgian producer Steve "Redhead" Vangilbergen on Sweden's Zync (an imprint of Diode Music). Despite how relentless these eight tracks are, it never gets obnoxious. While they could scarcely be said to bring much new to the dancefloor, any of these would likely rank fairly highly for this side of techno.
    Weezer - Green Album
    May 15, 2001
    Felix da Housecat - Kittenz and Thee Glitz
    Fat Jon as Maurice Galactica - Humanoid Erotica
    October 29, 2001
    C.S.S.O. - Are You Excrements?
    April 2, 2001
    Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Read My Lips
    August 24, 2001
    Owls - Owls
    July 31, 2001
    Old Time Relijun - Witchcraft Rebellion
    June 12, 2001
    Machine Drum - Now You Know
    September 25, 2001
    Blink-182 - Take Off Your Pants and Jacket
    June 12, 2001
    Jasmine Star - Jasmine Star
    January 31, 2001
    Vladislav Delay - Anima
    January 23, 2001
    Alien Ant Farm - ANThology
    March 6, 2001
    Built to Spill - Ancient Memories of the Future
    Miki Yui - Lupe Luep Peul Epul
    March 1, 2001
    R.E.M. - Reveal
    May 15, 2001
    Sweet Female Attitude - In Person
    2001
    The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band - "Born Into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward."
    October 23, 2001
    Sloan - Pretty Together
    October 16, 2001
    Lucinda Williams - Essence
    Sugar Ray - Sugar Ray
    June 12, 2001
    Jewel - This Way
    November 13, 2001
    The Ex - Dizzy Spells
    April 24, 2001
    Stars - Nightsongs
    February 27, 2001
    Faun Fables - Mother Twilight Gel: - -1>
    June 2001
    311 - From Chaos
    June 19, 2001
    Baaba Maal - Missing You (Mi Yeewnii)
    April 2, 2001
    The Clean - Getaway Garbage - Beautifulgarbage
    October 2, 2001
    Erase Errata - Other Animals
    October 2, 2001
    Idaho - Levitate
    October 2, 2001
    Bill Frisell - With Dave Holland and Elvin Jones
    October 2, 2001
    irr. app (ext.) - Radiant Black Future: Step Forward and Address the Present Amidst the Wreckage of the Past Dabrye - One/Three
    June 11, 2001
    Likely one of the earliest releases in the glitch hop genre is this offering from Detroit's Tad Mullinix. While this style would grow in prominence in part due to Prefuse 73 (a future Dabrye collaborator who released his first album on the same exact day as this one) as well as Flying Lotus Prefuse 73 - Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives
    June 11, 2001
    William Basinski - Watermusic
    :wumpscut: - Wreath of Barbs
    October 2001
    Richard Chartier - Decisive Forms
    March 1, 2001
    Bernhard Günter - Crossing the River (Night Music) Reinhold Friedl & Michael Vorfeld - Au défaut du silence Bernhard Günter / Steve Roden - Japan
    November 2001
    An Albatross - Eat Lightning, Shit Thunder
    May 2001
    Phill Niblock - Touch Works, for Hurdy Gurdy and Voice
    April 2, 2001
    Ex Models - Other Mathematics
    May 7, 2001
    Soul Whirling Somewhere - Please Sennd Help
    September 4, 2001
    Robert Pollard and His Soft Rock Renegades - Choreographed Man of War
    July 24, 2001
    Roland Orzabal - Tomcats Screaming
    April 2001
    Arab on Radar - Yahweh or the Highway
    August 21, 2001
    The Locust -
    Flight of the Wounded Locust
    August 2001
    Jakob - Subsets of Sets
    August 17, 2001
    Transllusion - Opening of the Cerebral Gate
    November 13, 2001
    Incubus - Morning View
    October 22, 2001
    The Appleseed Cast - Low Level Owl: Volume I
    August 21, 2001
    The Appleseed Cast - Low Level Owl: Volume II
    October 23, 2001
    Basement Jaxx - Rooty
    June 25, 2001
    Usher - 8701
    August 7, 2001
    Greg Kelley & Jason Lescalleet - Forlorn Green
    Sissy Spacek - Sissy Spacek
    June 2001
    Kristen Hersh - Sunny Border Blue
    March 6, 2001
    Freescha - Kids Fill the Floor
    April 2001
    Brothomstates - Claro.
    September 17, 2001
    John Mayer - Room for Squares
    June 5, 2001
    Psycroptic - The Isle of Disenchantment
    January 2001
    The No-Neck Blues Band - Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones but Names Will Never Hurt Me Regina Spektor - 11:11
    July 9, 2001
    Depeche Mode - Exciter
    May 15, 2001
    Deerhoof - Halfbird (Smog) - Rain on Lens
    September 18, 2001
    Bilal - 1st Born Second
    July 31, 2001
    Loren MazzaCane Connors - Lullaby John Coltrane - The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording
    September 25, 2001
    Recorded April 23, 1967, just a little less than three months before Coltrane's untimely passing is this John Coltrane (tenor sax, soprano sax), Alice Coltrane (piano), Jimmy Garrison (bass), Rashied Ali (drums), Algie DeWitt (bata), Pharaoh Sanders (tenor saxophone), Jumma Santos (percussion) Tim Hecker - Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again
    November 20, 2001
    Mogwai - Rock Action
    April 24, 2001