- 1989 Acadie – ***** (classic)
- 1993 For the Beauty of Wynona – **** (rough brilliance)
- 1996 Sling Blade (soundtrack) – ** 1/2 (a little letdown)
- 2003 Shine – ***** (overseen treasure)
- 2004 Rockets – ** (has its moments)
- 2005 Belladonna – **** 1/2 – (excellent ambient noir)
- 2007 Here Is What Is – ****1/2 (firing on all cylinders)
- 2008 The Omni Series: Steel etc. (dan’s music for films) – *** (good)
- 2014 Flesh and Machine – **** 1/2 (a brilliant return to form, darkness prevails!)
- 2016 Goodbye To Language – ****1/2 (his most disturbing instrumental album, his pedall steel guitar once called his church in a suitcase is now handling with ghosts and apparitions, everything’s broken apart, memory work of a still hungry mind)
The name of Daniel Lanois is mainly quoted as the producer of some of the good, in parts great albums of Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris („Wreckin‘ Ball“), Willie Nelson („Teatro“), Peter Gabriel, U2, Jon Hassell, The Neville Brothers („Yellow Moon“) et al. In fact, after a long working period in the hinterland of Hamilton, Ontario, his encounter with Brian Eno had been a „game-changer“, as Brian opened him some decent doors into the rock’n’roll circus. More than that, Lanois contributed to some legendary, some nearly forgotten gems of ambient music’s history. The classics: Apollo, Plateaux of Mirror, The Pearl. The buried treasures: Voices (by Roger Eno), Hybrid (by Michael Brook). I always like returning to his solo albums, and, apart from his ways of treating guitars and creating atmospheres, I do love his hoarse, grey, passionate, reluctant voice. I still wait for his Cajun-goes-Gospel-album! (me)