The Shark continues to rank the tip of the iceberg of his massive library

The Shark introduces artists whose prolificness, talent, creativity, and trajectory stand out among the rest.

The Legendary Pink Dots' vast catalog blends psychedelic rock, synth-pop, and industrial noise into dark, whimsical, and poetic tales.

The Shark ranks the tip of the iceberg of his colossal library (100,00+ songs) while unveiling top-notch and under-the-radar recommendations.

With Understanding Comes Appreciation Once upon a time there was the story of the greatest irony of all-time in music, known as The Velvet Underground. A bohemian group of avant-garde artists and thinkers that no one calculated at the time, really no one. Over time, they went from being a group of enlightened artists to one of the most important and influential bands in the history of music, not by a simple change of heart or by a click, they always had it in them but nobody

With Understanding Comes Appreciation Through the trials and tribulations that life has to offer, a vast wealth of inspiration and karmic balance surge; it was the case for the members of Amon Düül II, who were collecting the honey of triumph while having a series of setbacks. One of the most terrifying events was at the Keks Club in Cologne, Germany in 1971, when a fire not only destroyed all of their musical gear, but snuffed out four youths in attendance, and then soon the

A pioneering krautrock masterpiece that blends hypnotic jazz-funk grooves, avant-garde tape splices, and Damo Suzuki's surreal vocal improvisations into a dark, psychedelic sonic landscape.

With understanding comes appreciation First things first since no many people are familiarized with the Dots. The Legendary Pink Dots are an influential, staggeringly prolific group led by enigmatic frontman Edward Ka-Spel. Emerging from the early-'80s post-punk underground and sometimes categorized as industrial due to associations with bands like Skinny Puppy, the group's music is nearly impossible to pin down, drawing from Krautrock, ambient, folk, synth pop, and numerous

With Understanding Comes Appreciation While it is focused on rarefied, intellectualized, long-form composition in an era when abstraction and complexity really meant something in the rock milieu, these diverse pieces have a direct emotional power, linger and replay themselves in the mind long after their most recent hearing. This is a sophisticated and beautifully crafted recording. This is probably one of the most, if not the most, accessible and digestible Rock-in-Oppositio

Masterpiece of dark blues, cabaret, and avant-garde rock, using scrap-iron percussion and surreal lyrics.