Genre
Experimental
Experimental music deliberately breaks genre convention — unconventional structures, extended techniques, noise, and process-driven composition. It is less a style than a stance: sound treated as open territory rather than inherited form.
Experimental on Riffiter: 47 albums from artists including Tom Waits, Brian Eno, Animal Collective, ranked by popularity and community ratings.
Key artists
Albums
Merriweather Post Pavilion
Animal Collective · 2009
Ambient 1: Music for Airports
Brian Eno · 1978
Homogenic
Björk · 1997
Before and After Science
Brian Eno · 1977
Post
Björk · 1995
Ambient 4: On Land
Brian Eno · 1982
Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror
Brian Eno · 1980
The Pearl
Brian Eno · 1984
Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years
Tom Waits · 1998
Music for Films
Brian Eno · 1978
Discreet Music
Brian Eno · 1975
Asylum Years
Tom Waits · 1984
Used Songs: 1973–1980
Tom Waits · 2001
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Brian Eno · 1981
The Shutov Assembly
Brian Eno · 1992
Thursday Afternoon
Brian Eno · 1985
Isn't It Now?
Animal Collective · 2023
Wrong Way Up
Brian Eno · 1990
Cluster & Eno
Brian Eno · 1977
Tangerine Reef
Animal Collective · 2018
Fall Be Kind
Animal Collective · 2009
The Drop
Brian Eno · 1997
After the Heat
Brian Eno · 1978
fossora
Björk · 2022
LUX
Brian Eno · 2012
Reflection
Brian Eno · 2017
Spinner
Brian Eno · 1995
Nerve Net
Brian Eno · 1992
The Ship
Brian Eno · 2016
Someday World
Brian Eno · 2014
Nighthawks on the Radio
Tom Waits · 2014
Headcandy
Brian Eno · 1994
The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets: Demo Recordings 1990-1992
Tom Waits · 1993
Neroli
Brian Eno · 1993
Downtown Blues
Tom Waits · 1992
TV Dinner
Tom Waits · 1992
The Early Years, Volume 2
Tom Waits · 1992
The Early Years, Volume 1
Tom Waits · 1991
My Squelchy Life
Brian Eno · 1991
Textures
Brian Eno · 1989
Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks
Brian Eno · 1983
Fourth World, Volume 1: Possible Musics
Brian Eno · 1980
In a Land of Clear Colours
Brian Eno · 1979
Every Time I Hear This Melody... Live in Hamburg '77
Tom Waits · 1977
Another Green World
Brian Eno · 1975
Taking Tiger Mountain (by Strategy)
Brian Eno · 1974
Here Come the Warm Jets
Brian Eno · 1973
