Avant-Garde
Avant-garde names music at the experimental frontier: radical form, noise, chance operations, and ideas borrowed from contemporary art and new music. It exists to move the boundary, not to sit inside one.
Avant-Garde on Riffiter: 2,210 albums, 31 rated by the community, averaging 3.9/5, spanning 1950 to 2026, from 69 artists including Leprous, Krallice, Ulver.
Key artists
Albums
Satyricon
Satyricon · 2013
★ 3.8 · 6
Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
SOPHIE · 2018
★ 3.8 · 5
Killing Technology
Voivod · 1987
★ 4.3 · 5
Laughing Stock
Talk Talk · 1991
★ 4.3 · 3
Symphonie pour le jour où brûleront les cités
Art Zoyd · 2007
★ 3.8 · 3
Esja
Hania Rani · 2019
★ 5.0 · 1
All Melody
Nils Frahm · 2018
★ 4.5 · 1
EURINGER
Jimmy Urine · 2018
★ 4.5 · 1
The Ascension
Glenn Branca · 2008
★ 3.5 · 1
Trout Mask Replica
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band · 1969
★ 5.0 · 1
We're Only In It For The Money
The Mothers of Invention · 2012
★ 5.0 · 1
Doppelgänger
The Fall of Troy · 2005
★ 4.0 · 1
FAQ
- Who is the most popular avant-garde artist?
- The most popular avant-garde artist on Riffiter is Leprous, rated by 35 listeners.
- What is the best avant-garde album?
- Ranked by community ratings, the best avant-garde album on Riffiter is Killing Technology by Voivod (4.3/5 from 5 ratings). See the full best avant-garde albums ranking.
- How many avant-garde albums are on Riffiter?
- Riffiter has 2,210 albums, 31 rated by the community, averaging 3.9/5. Browse them all on the avant-garde albums page.
- When was avant-garde's most active era?
- By community ratings, the most active era for avant-garde on Riffiter is the 2010s. Its catalogue here spans 1950 to 2026.
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