Sonic Atlas

Find albums by sound, mood, era, and artistic phase.

964 albums 183 artists 23 groups

Featured Similarity

sound 81% mood 0% era 69%

Artists

Miles Davis David Bowie Radiohead Bjork Kanye West The Cure Gorillaz Massive Attack Tame Impala Nine Inch Nails Robert Glasper Kamasi Washington Herbie Hancock Red Hot Chili Peppers Blur Shabaka Jaco Pastorius Drake Kendrick Lamar TOOL Aphex Twin D'Angelo Talking Heads Sigur Ros Flying Lotus PJ Harvey Erykah Badu Kate Bush Portishead FKA twigs Brian Eno Burial Prince Frank Ocean Pink Floyd My Bloody Valentine Joni Mitchell John Coltrane Joy Division / New Order OutKast Tyler, the Creator Lauryn Hill A Tribe Called Quest Sonic Youth Jeff Buckley Depeche Mode Siouxsie and the Banshees Cocteau Twins Boards of Canada Kraftwerk Autechre Thelonious Monk Charles Mingus Alice Coltrane Stevie Wonder James Brown Marvin Gaye Nina Simone Solange St. Vincent Fela Kuti Ryuichi Sakamoto Caetano Veloso Mulatu Astatke Rosalía Bad Bunny Arca Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Ali Farka Touré Yellow Magic Orchestra Tinariwen Seu Jorge Nujabes Stromae Oumou Sangaré Arvo Pärt Black Sabbath Claude Debussy Death Grips Deftones Max Richter Meshuggah Nils Frahm Philip Glass Slint Steve Reich Karlheinz Stockhausen Igor Stravinsky Swans The Beatles The Velvet Underground Jimi Hendrix Bob Marley Thom Yorke Childish Gambino The Clash AC/DC The Who Led Zeppelin The Rolling Stones Bob Dylan Elton John Queen Elvis Presley Madonna Michael Jackson The Strokes Jamiroquai Suede Sly & The Family Stone JPEGMAFIA Travis Scott J. Cole Nirvana Bill Evans Public Enemy The Prodigy DJ Premier Pete Rock Madlib RZA The Alchemist Timbaland Pharrell Williams Metro Boomin DJ Shadow No I.D. J Dilla Rakim KRS-One Big L Mobb Deep Ice Cube De La Soul EPMD Missy Elliott Chuck Berry Bruce Springsteen Aretha Franklin Ray Charles Sam Cooke Otis Redding Whitney Houston Al Green Diana Ross Chic Curtis Mayfield Donna Summer Earth, Wind & Fire Isaac Hayes Kool & The Gang Parliament-Funkadelic Rick James The Isley Brothers 2Pac The Notorious B.I.G. Nas Wu-Tang Clan Dr. Dre Snoop Dogg Run-D.M.C. JAY-Z Charlie Parker Duke Ellington Louis Armstrong Ella Fitzgerald Neil Young Carole King Paul Simon Leonard Cohen James Taylor Lou Reed Tom Waits Tracy Chapman Van Morrison The Smiths R.E.M. Pixies Daft Punk Giorgio Moroder Frankie Knuckles The Chemical Brothers B.B. King

Album Groups

23 total

Sample-Based Hip-Hop

Hip-hop albums shaped by loops, breaks, collage, crate-digging, and producer-led architecture.

88 albums · studio-as-instrument, rhythmic-innovation

Pop Reinvention & Mainstream Craft

Mainstream-facing albums where hooks, persona, production choices, and reinvention do serious work.

86 albums · commercial-accessibility-meets-depth, radical-reinvention

Funk, Disco & Dancefloor

Dance-minded albums built from pocket, repetition, club pressure, studio sheen, and bodily momentum.

82 albums · rhythmic-innovation, commercial-accessibility-meets-depth

Dark Alternative Rock

Guitar-centered records where distortion, heaviness, alienation, grief, and pressure define the shape.

82 albums · Noise as Expression, vulnerability-as-weapon

Psychedelic Rock & Studio Pop

Albums where guitar music turns colorful, immersive, surreal, and studio-built.

82 albums · Psychedelic Consciousness, studio-as-instrument

Post-Punk, Goth & Synth

Albums where angular guitars, cold electronics, bass-forward writing, and urban unease intersect.

80 albums · urban-isolation, technological-anxiety

Electronic Art Pop

Albums where pop form is bent through electronics, studio texture, and art-rock restlessness.

78 albums · studio-as-instrument, textural-exploration

Soul, R&B & Vocal Intimacy

Albums where voice, groove, vulnerability, and close-up emotional detail carry the center of gravity.

78 albums · voice-as-instrument, vulnerability-as-weapon

Industrial, Noise & Heavy

Dense, abrasive, heavy albums where texture, machinery, volume, and impact become the main language.

78 albums · Noise as Expression, Industrial Machinery

Indie, Jangle & Guitar Pop

Compact guitar albums where melody, nervous energy, scene identity, and bittersweet directness matter.

78 albums · personal-confession, Punk Energy

Jazz-Funk & Groove

Albums where jazz language, electric rhythm sections, funk motion, and groove logic meet.

76 albums · rhythmic-innovation, improvisational-freedom

Experimental & Avant-Garde

Albums that foreground process, rupture, unstable form, noise, abstraction, or unfamiliar listening rules.

74 albums · sonic-experimentation, genre-destruction

Modal, Post-Bop & Spiritual Jazz

Jazz records centered on improvisation, harmonic exploration, ensemble tension, and searching atmosphere.

73 albums · improvisational-freedom, spiritual-seeking

Ambient, Minimal & Spacious

Low-pressure records built around space, repetition, quiet detail, and slowly changing atmosphere.

70 albums · minimalist-reduction, textural-exploration

Singer-Songwriter Confessionals

Albums centered on writing, voice, narrative intimacy, personal weather, and lived-in arrangements.

67 albums · personal-confession, voice-as-instrument

Classic Rock & Blues Foundation

Foundational rock, blues, and R&B albums where riff, band feel, swing, and electric directness matter most.

67 albums · voice-as-instrument, Cultural Synthesis

Southern, Trap & Psychedelic Rap

Rap records where atmosphere, low-end design, melodic drift, and regional sound systems drive the experience.

62 albums · Sensory Overload, Hip-Hop Soul Fusion

Political Protest & Fire

Albums where resistance, social critique, community memory, and rhythmic force sit near the surface.

60 albums · political-rage, Cultural Synthesis

Global Groove & Afro-Latin

Albums shaped by African, Latin, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and diasporic rhythmic vocabularies.

56 albums · Cultural Synthesis, rhythmic-innovation

Trip-Hop & Nocturnal Beats

Shadowy, slow-burning beat music with dub space, urban unease, and late-night texture.

56 albums · late-night-atmosphere, urban-isolation

Orchestral, Chamber & Modern Classical

Orchestral, chamber, minimalist, and modern-classical albums where composition and space lead the experience.

31 albums · minimalist-reduction, electronic-orchestral-fusion

Vocal Jazz & Songbook

Albums where interpretation, phrasing, swing, standards, and the human voice are the main instrument.

30 albums · voice-as-instrument, personal-confession

Reggae, Dub & Island Roots

Records built from reggae pulse, dub space, political patience, and warm low-end movement.

9 albums · Dub Consciousness, political-rage