Rock
Known for the "band's" extensive list of features, as well as its wacky characters, this album was promoted across various multimedia, including interactive websites and animated music videos.
What is Demon Days by Gorillaz?
Released in 2024, this album is best known to have its own season and a jarringly simple album cover.
What is BRAT by Charli XCX?
Released by Interscope Records and featuring guest appearances from fellow rappers Offset, Rich Homie Quan, Rich the Kid, and Stunna 4 Vegas, this album was discussed on July 22, 2024, marking Album of the Week's all-time lowest rated album.
What is Baby on Baby by DaBaby?
Kidnapped, butchered, and cannibalized, this concept album talks about the dangers of life and the obtaining of an impossible American dream.
What is Preacher's Daughter by Ethel Cain?
Influenced by 70s rock, this band's fourth studio album released in 2008 only gained popularity years later on TikTok during the COVID-19 lockdown. When asked about this, the band's guitarist stated it was because their music perfectly encapsulated the COVID-19 lifestyle at the time.
What is ランプ幻想 by Lamp?
No sense of geography, a NutriBullet on the breakfast island, and an entire track dedicated to a wet dream about Charli XCX. This album has it all.
What is For the first time by Black Country, New Road?
Initially starting as a fight between siblings, and containing a song first written at the age of 14, this album would become what this artist considers to be their most honest and personable work to date.
What is HIT ME HARD AND SOFT by Billie Eilish?
Containing a hit track originally meant for Justin Bieber and Rihanna, but turned down by both, this album has been featured twice in Album of the Week history
What is Igor by Tyler, the Creator?
Containing a cover of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah, this album marks the only studio release by the artist, released under Columbia records just three years prior to the artist's death.
What is Grace by Jeff Buckley?
This album featured a music video for one of the tracks, which showed the singer's face, marking their first ever proper public appearance.
What is OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES by SOPHIE?
Recorded independently by the band members on a budget of just $1,000, this album finally got its recognition years after its 2008 release through internet meme culture.
What is Deathconsciousness by Have A Nice Life?
During the height of this album's success, the artist relocated to Spain in order to deal with the aftermath of an infamous public assault case, as well as a stalker who attempted to murder the singer.
What is Post by Bjork?
With an extended poem that builds throughout the track list, this critically acclaimed album was originally titled after late rapper Tupac Shakur.
What is To Pimp a Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar?
Marking the singer's eighth studio release, the sepia-toned selfie used for its cover art garnered a lot of negative reception for being "lazy and unprofessional."
This composition represented flowing creeks, singing birds, a shepherd and his barking dog, buzzing flies, storms, drunken dancers, hunting parties, frozen landscapes, and warm winter fires.
What is The Four Seasons by Vivaldi?
After the underwhelming reception to their previous album, this 2013 release saw a #1 debut in the UK, Australia, Belgium, Croatia, Slovenia, Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Portugal.
What is AM by Arctic Monkeys?
With its album cover being a photo taken at Mexico City International Airport, the artist explains the body of work as being written "between countless sound checks and myriad experiences during two years of tour."
What is Bloom by Beach House?
The title of this album is split into two meanings; one part referring to the tendency to avoid facing difficult topics, and the other part acting as motivation for moving on from one's past.
What is Melt My Eyez See Your Future by Denzel Curry?
Recorded in isolation in a cabin in Massachusetts, this 2020 album was released alongside another album that would mark the artist's fourth and fifth solo album releases respectively.
What is Songs by Adrianne Lenker?
This 1978 album won a Grammy Award, a Golden Globe, and two Academy Awards, as well as peaked at 25 on Billboard's Hot 100.
What is The Muppet Movie Original Soundtrack Recording?
Influenced by Pink Floyd and David Bowie, this album revitalized a specific flavor of concept albums that saw its peak in the seventies and eighties, all while becoming the posterchild for an entirely different subgenre… much to the artist's dismay.
What is The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance?
The recording process for this album was described as "plugging and re-plugging" wires to get a desired sound, with all fourteen tracks being co-wrote and entirely freestyled by the artist.
What is Ctrl by SZA?
The original release of this previous AOTW winner contained an unlicensed sample from Sesame Street, requiring one of its tracks to be edited in all future physical and digital releases.
What is MM..FOOD by MF DOOM?
Released as a double album in 1966 and marking the completion of a rock trilogy, this album peaked at number nine on Billboard and went certified double platinum.
What is Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan?
An entirely ambient soundtrack released in 2011, this album was selected in 2025 to the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, and/or aesthetically significant", making it the second piece of its kind to do so.
What is Minecraft - Volume Alpha by C418?