18. Benthos - "From Nothing"

There is nothing else on this list that sounds like this album. Heck, I don’t think I have heard anything this year that sounds like this. If I am completely honest, I don’t think I have EVER heard an album this varied, this eclectic and this knowingly random. It's hard to describe because it doesn’t stay in one place or vague musical construct long enough to be describable. It's Prog, if prog was a hyperactive four-year-old off their head on Haribo. It bounces from genre to genre with a swig of attention disorder. At the heart of it and what manages to give it any sense of a linear structure is Gabriele Landillo’s voice. It is astounding and just makes the album come alive. His style is reminiscent of Mike Patton in the way that it morphs and adapts to the storytelling and the musical output. “From Nothing” is not just strange; it is mindboggling and bending. An extraordinary oddity that is fantastically unexplainable.