The Alan Parsons Project turn Edgar Allan Poe into gothic rock theater. Vocoders, storms, and vintage horror across a fog-drenched debut that still knows how to conjure a mood.

The Alan Parsons Project trade Poe's ghosts for Asimov's gears. A sleek, cinematic concept record about a machine waking up, and one that only sounds more relevant with age.

The Alan Parsons Project's most socially aware record, a 1979 concept album about womanhood and the roles women are made to play. Bold, polished, and still relevant.

The Alan Parsons Project's slickest, most commercial record, a gambling concept album about the risks we all take. Home to Games People Play and the ballad Time, and their first 5-star.

The Alan Parsons Project's commercial peak and maybe their magnum opus. Surveillance, isolation, and the Sirius-into-title-track run that everyone knows even if they don't know it.

Urban decay, societal decline, and one of the greatest songs ever written. The Alan Parsons Project's 1984 record deserves far more respect than it gets.

Greed, corruption, and the hunger for power, set to mid-80s polish. The Alan Parsons Project's most underrated record, and one that deserves way more credit than it gets.

The streak ends here. A transitional, scattered ninth record with a killer title track and not much holding the rest together.

The Alan Parsons Project's swan song, built around the architect Antoni Gaudí. Grand, cinematic, and a graceful way to close out one of prog's great runs.

Alan Parsons steps out on his own for the first time. A polished, versatile solo debut that proves the man behind the board is an artist in his own right.

Hard to find but worth the hunt. Alan Parsons' dreamy second solo record floats somewhere between a tribute to radio and a meditation on flight.

Alan Parsons returns to full-blown concept territory with an H.G. Wells-flavored ride through time. Ambitious, hard to find, and one of his strongest solo records.

Alan Parsons goes full electronica, and it works far better than it has any right to. A late-career swerve with David Gilmour on the opener and two clever self-remixes.

A tale of two halves. Alan Parsons' first record in fifteen years opens rough and then turns, somewhere around track six, into some of the best work of his solo career.

Alan Parsons' latest opens with a knowing farewell to the Project and keeps the studio sheen intact. Uneven, but the highs still land.