Talking Heads - Fear of Music (1979)

Peter Gabriel - II (1978)

Eno, Moebius, Roedelius - After the Heat (1978)

Cluster & Eno - s/t (1977)

Brian Eno - Before & After Science (1977)

Robert Fripp - Exposure (1977-1978, released 1979)

Daryl Hall - Sacred Songs (1977, released 1980)

Iggy Pop - The Idiot (1977)

David Bowie - Heroes (1977)

Besides the vibes, another thing these LPs had in common was that at least 1 person in the above photo participated in the recording of at least 3 of the LPs:

David Bowie - Low (1977)

There were 10 unusual LPs created between 1977 and 1979 that shared an eerily similar atmosphere: bleakly intense, raw, angular, neurotic, art-damaged, sometimes ethereally minimalistic, sometimes wildly unhinged, always anti-rock.