Lovely Thunder (1986) and By The Dawn's Early Light (1991) Toop suggests reveal Budd's Mojave Desert upbringing ("desertbound silence, spooked by shrieks and crosstalk from other worlds," 144)
Dark Star (1984) and Abandoned Cities (also 1984) are "cold slabs of opaque color [...] ominous drift" [edit: "Dark Star" is a track on Abandoned Cities, they are not two separate albums]
The Pavilion of Dreams (1978), on Eno's Obscure label
"reminds us of a forgotten dimension of free jazz, the meditational point of temporary rest where sorrow, battered optimism, devotion and spiritual ecstasy melted together"
contrast against John Coltrane's "Expression," Albert Ayler 's "Going Home" (1964), or Pharoah Sanders' "Virgin Beauty"
[biographical sidenote: Budd played jazz in his teenage years, and he Ayler performed together in a regimental Army band]