75. Between the Buried and Me - "The Blue Nowhere"

Between the Buried and Me are a jazz outfit that just so happen to make heavy metal albums. The freeform non-linear jazz style comes first in their creation process and the heaviness follows. Their albums are easily identifiable, quite simply by sounding like nobody else. At first, it can feel like a directionless mess with each subsequent passage bearing no resemblance or conceivable connection to the last. But there is a beauty in the chaos. Each listen reveals further that there is indeed a linear connection that bonds it all together, it's subtle and buried, but it is there, driving the album forward. Astonishing in stream of consciousness narrative format, this is an album that both astounds with its non-conventional ambition but also proves alluring as you get sucked further into spiralling madness.