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Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name5.0 classicArcade Fire FuneralI woke up in the darkest night, neighbours all shouting that they found the light. (WE FOUND THE LIGHT)Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to HeavenAnd when you penetrate to the most high God,ryou will believe you are mad. You will believe you've gone insane.Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the SeaWhen you were young, you were the king of carrot flowers...Radiohead Kid ARadiohead OK ComputerClaustrophobic, paranoid, unsettling music that is disturbing yet familiar. The perfect soundtrack for the disconnected coldness of life in the 21st century.The Dismemberment Plan Emergency & IIf I play this album enough then maybe the broken pieces of my heart will stay together, but ain't no turntable can spin forever.4.5 superbAnimal Collective Merriweather Post PavilionAnimal Collective's most accessible, most lush, most varied, and most fun album to date. A perfect culmination of all the brilliant sounds AC has been responsible for bestowing upon us in the past.Arcade Fire The SuburbsBurial UntrueDan Mangan Nice, Nice, Very NiceDead Kennedys Plastic Surgery DisastersDeafheaven SunbatherImpeccably produced, accessible yet genuine black metal. Overlaps the genres of black metal, shoegaze, post-rock, and screamo seamlessly to make an uplifting, triumphal, larger-than-life album to knock your socks off, especially if you're new to extreme metal.Death (USA-MI) ...For the Whole World to SeeMaybe I'm the only one around here who thinks this album sounds fucking revolutionary.Death Cab for Cutie TransatlanticismDeath Cab really outdo themselves on Transatlanticism, making what is by far their most emotional, most fluid, most cohesive, and most rocking album. Ben Gibbard really got his shit together for this.Death Grips The Money StoreEndless abrasive, aggressive, experimental, and unforgivingly noisy fun. The hip hop equivalent of listening to a Battles LP.Fleet Foxes Helplessness BluesFranz Ferdinand Franz FerdinandGod Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is BrightGodspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d cityThis'll probably be the album that'll be remembered by my future self as the album that got me into hip-hop; the LP that really made me realize how relevant, deep, and sobering music of this genre really can be.Modest Mouse The Moon & AntarcticaSolemn, desolate, and lonely, but so earnest and beautiful too. Modest Mouse's finest record and an indie rock landmark of the 2000s.Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded WestMogwai Young TeamMy Bloody Valentine LovelessOasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory?of Montreal The Gay ParadePixies DoolittleQueens of the Stone Age Songs for the DeafRadiohead The BendsAn almost perfect rock record. Cryptic lyricism and great production with tons of variance throughout Radiohead's most grungy, badass album.Radiohead In RainbowsSay Anything ...Is a Real BoySigur Ros ( )Sigur Ros ValtariSwans Soundtracks for the BlindSwans Children of GodMusic from the most horrifying recesses of the abyss. Absolutely bone-chilling.The Antlers HospiceThe Beatles RevolverThe Decemberists The Crane WifeColin Meloy has an exceptional talent for storytelling, and what I believe to be the finest Decemberists record to date allows him to really shine in that aspect, writing a fluid and creatively structured album made of short, catchy pop tracks to make us sing and dance, and longer, quasi-prog-rock ballads that really are surprisingly deep, moving, heartfelt, and extraordinarily well-written.The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink RobotsFilled with awe and wonderment at our beautiful world, but also with melancholy and sorrow. So sad it makes you laugh, and so happy it makes you cry.The Flaming Lips The Soft BulletinThe Format Dog ProblemsThe Microphones Mount EerieThe Microphones The Glow Pt. 2Full of an almost incomparably honest, heartfelt, and sincere love of nature and the world.The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite SadnessThe Smashing Pumpkins Siamese DreamThe Stone Roses The Stone RosesThe Strokes Is This ItThe White Stripes ElephantThe White Stripes De StijlThe World Is a Beautiful Place... Whenever, If EverThe Zolas Tic Toc TicIf "prog-pop" is a genre, these guys definitely put a catchy, campy, unique spin on it.Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Violent Femmes Violent FemmesWeezer PinkertonWilco Yankee Hotel FoxtrotWilco SummerteethWilco The Whole LoveMore pleasantness in a single album than most artists can fit into an entire discography. Almost rivals Yankee Hotel Foxtrot for me.4.0 excellent65daysofstatic One Time for All Time65daysofstatic We Were Exploding AnywayAidan Knight VersicolourAJJ Can't MaintainAJJ Knife ManAlgernon Cadwallader Some Kind Of Cadwalladeralt-J An Awesome WaveAmerican Football American FootballAnimal Collective FeelsSlower, more still, lyrical and ambient compared to AC's other stuff. Has what are easily some of the band's most heart-stoppingly beautiful material on it.Animal Collective Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've VanishedAnimal Collective Strawberry JamAnti-Flag The Terror StateArcade Fire Neon BibleArcade Fire ReflektorShockingly dense and by no means an easy listen, Reflektor can be forbidding with its existentialist themes, daunting length, and epic scope, even by Arcade Fire's standards. Will probably take many listens to fully understand, but this is the band's most intricate and meticulously planned album yet.Arstidir ArstidirAt the Drive-In Relationship of CommandBattles Gloss DropBeach House Teen DreamBeach House BloomBeirut Gulag OrkestarBeirut's Gulag Orkestar has so much nostalgic beauty and earnestness and love in it it brought me to tears rupon first listen.Beirut The Flying Club CupBetween the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future SequenceBlur ParklifeBlur BlurBlur 13Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon IverBrand New Deja EntenduBrand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside MeBright Eyes Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's MorningBright Eyes CassadagaCaptain Beefheart and His Magic Band Trout Mask ReplicaCaspian Waking SeasonCaspian Hymn For The Greatest GenerationCan't say I was exactly in love with either the demo or the remixes on this album, but the original material on here was so fantastic this just might end up being my favourite EP of the year.CHVRCHES RecoverCHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe"Purity Ring lite". Melody-loving, hooky synthpop that knows almost no equal when it comes to writing electronic pop songs that penetrate even the most cynical, elitist hearts.Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His FriendsNot exactly as much of an album of fiery anthems for the revolution as the cover art and title would have you think, but a surprisingly great album of catchy, well-written, radio-ready pop-rock singles.Colin Stetson New History Warfare Vol 2: JudgesColin Stetson New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More LightDaft Punk Random Access MemoriesDan Mangan Oh FortuneDeath Grips ExmilitaryDeath Grips Government PlatesDeer Leap/The World Is A Beautiful Place... Are Here To Help YouDiamond Dancer Will You?Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over MeDinosaur Jr. FarmDinosaur Jr. I Bet on SkyDJ Shadow Endtroducing.....Earth The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's SkullEmpire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) What It Takes to Move ForwardExplosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead PlaceFailure Fantastic PlanetFleet Foxes Sun GiantFleet Foxes Fleet FoxesFlying Lotus CosmogrammaFranz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much BetterFrightened Rabbit The Midnight Organ FightNow THIS is what folk-rock/folk-pop should sound like.fun. Aim and IgniteGodspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero KanadaGodspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O.Grateful Dead American BeautyGrizzly Bear VeckatimestHAIM Days Are GoneA very impressive debut album from a group that may be one of the most promising indie pop acts I've heard this year.Have a Nice Life DeathconsciousnessInto It. Over It. ProperInto It. Over It. IntersectionsIron Chic The Constant OneJimmy Eat World Bleed AmericanJimmy Eat World ClarityJonsi GoKanye West The College DropoutKanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted FantasyKayo Dot HubardoKendrick Lamar Section.80Krallice Years Past MatterLa Dispute WildlifeLCD Soundsystem This Is HappeningLorde Pure HeroineMargot and the Nuclear So and So's The Dust of RetreatMarianas Trench Masterpiece TheatremewithoutYou Brother, SisterMGMT CongratulationsI can understand how this album would disappoint some of the fans MGMT made with the pop single-heavy Oracular Spectacular, but really I wasn't expecting the band to prove themselves to be so well-read, self-aware, creative, and original. Props to these guys.Mineral The Power of FailingModest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even SankModest Mouse's most accessible release so far, and much more cohesive and focused that its predecessor. While they have their strong points and their weak points, Modest Mouse are as edgy, raw, and idiosyncratically weird as ever, despite what hipsters will say.Mogwai Happy Songs for Happy PeopleMogwai Mr. BeastProbably a good introduction album for Mogwai (and post-rock in general) newcomers. Neither as introspective or as cosmic as their earlier work, but that's not the point of this record. The point is to rock, and they really succeed on that front.Mount Eerie DawnMr. Bungle CaliforniaMuse AbsolutionMuse Origin of SymmetryMy Bloody Valentine m b vMy Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet RevengeMy Chemical Romance The Black ParadeNeutral Milk Hotel On Avery IslandNine Inch Nails The Downward SpiralNo Age NounsOasis Definitely MaybeOf Monsters and Men My Head is an Animalof Montreal Satanic Panic in the Atticof Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?of Montreal Lousy With SylvianbriarPassion Pit GossamerSuper sugary pop music paired with lyrics about depression, loneliness, exclusion, economic disparity, and disillusionment with the very ideas of love and happiness. Though some tracks might initially be annoying at first, it really becomes a great album when you listen past the sounds on top and really get to the meaning behind the songs.Pixies Surfer RosaPropagandhi Potemkin City LimitsPropagandhi Today's Empires, Tomorrow's AshesQueens of the Stone Age ...Like ClockworkRadiohead Hail to the ThiefRise Against The Sufferer and the WitnessRise Against Appeal to ReasonRun the Jewels Run the JewelsRussian Circles MemorialSelf Defense Family Try MeSigur Ros Agætis byrjunSigur Ros Takk...Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in SpaceStars Set Yourself On FireSteven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the BetweenSunn O))) Monoliths and DimensionsOminous and dolorous, but strangely beautiful and uplifting as it progresses. Good entry point into the genre for those new to drone music and doom metal.Swans The SeerTalk Talk Laughing StockTalk Talk Spirit of EdenThe Academy Is... Almost HereThe Antlers In the Attic of the UniverseThe Decemberists PicaresqueThe Decemberists Her Majesty the DecemberistsThe Decemberists The Hazards of LoveThe Dillinger Escape Plan Ire WorksThe Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the KillerThe Dismemberment Plan The Dismemberment Plan Is TerrifiedThe Flaming Lips EmbryonicThe Flaming Lips Peace SwordThe Front Bottoms Talon of the HawkThe Killers Hot FussThe Libertines Up The BracketThe Libertines The LibertinesThe Libertines Don't Look Back Into the SunThe Microphones It Was Hot, We Stayed In The WaterThe New Pornographers Twin CinemaThe New Pornographers Mass RomanticThe Postal Service Give UpThe Shins Wincing the Night AwayIt knows it can't change the world, but its greatness is in the fact that it doesn't try.The Strokes Comedown MachineThe Tallest Man on Earth The Wild HuntThe Weakerthans Left and LeavingSweet, straight-from-the-heart indie rock. I'd definitely recommend this album to any fans of Bright Eyes's I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning or Death Cab for Cutie's Transatlanticism.The White Stripes White Blood CellsThe World Is a Beautiful Place... FormlessnessThursday Full CollapseTouche Amore Is Survived ByFew modern screamo bands are really able to tug at your heartstrings like these guys are able to while still holding your attention and being able to have comprehensible lyrics.Tycho DiveVali SkogslandskapVampire Weekend ContraWeezer WeezerWilco A Ghost Is BornWintersleep Welcome To The Night SkyWolf Parade Apologies to the Queen MaryYeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz!3.5 greatAidan Knight Small RevealAJJ People Who Can Eat People are the Luckiest PeopleAnamanaguchi Dawn MetropolisAnamanaguchi Endless FantasyIncomparably greater in size and scope than its predecessor Dawn Metropolis, and even though it can get exhausting listening to an album over an hour and fifteen minutes long of the same style of super sugary electropop over twenty-two tracks, this is as good as serious chiptune music gets.Animal Collective Sung TongsArcade Fire The Arcade FireArstidir Svefns og vöku skilBad Religion Stranger Than FictionBand of Horses Cease to BeginBaths CeruleanBaths ObsidianBeirut The Rip TideBibio Silver WilkinsonBlack Flag DamagedBoards of Canada Tomorrow's HarvestBright Eyes Digital Ash in a Digital UrnAbsolutely nothing wrong with this album; I actually really enjoyed it. However, Bright Eyes's music is really better suited for a more sentimental, acoustic sound rather than the stuff on this darker, melodrama-soaked, mostly electronic album. Often reminded me of a less refined Postal Service (in a good way).Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in PeopleChance the Rapper Acid RapCity and Colour Little HellCrash of Rhinos KnotsDan Mangan Postcards and DaydreamingDarkside PsychicDeath Cab for Cutie PlansDeath Cab for Cutie Codes and KeysDeer Leap Here. Home.Deerhunter MonomaniaEarth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die...Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss EveryoneExplosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take CareFall Out Boy Infinity on HighFleet Foxes Fleet Foxes EPFrank Ocean channel ORANGEFrightened Rabbit Pedestrian VerseFuture of the Left How To Stop Your Brain In An AccidentThe musical equivalent of being repeatedly punched in the face by a Welshman angry about the recent decline of popular post-hardcore.Giraffes? Giraffes! Superbass!!!Green Day DookieIf Green Day ever really were punk, this is when they were.Grizzly Bear Yellow HouseGrizzly Bear ShieldsHoly Ghost! DynamicsIceage New BrigadeIceage You're NothingImagine Dragons Night VisionsInterpol Turn on the Bright LightsJoie de Vivre We're All Better Than ThisJustin Timberlake The 20/20 ExperienceKanye West GraduationKyary Pamyu Pamyu NandacollectionKyte Dead WavesLCD Soundsystem Sound of SilverLiturgy AesthethicaM83 Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost GhostsM83 Hurry Up, We're DreamingMelt-Banana FetchModest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad NewsThough it has some of what is undeniably some of Modest Mouse's best material on it, sometimes the album's seemingly deliberate messiness and sudden, total shifts in genre and tone detract from the experience.Modest Mouse No One's First, and You're NextMogwai Come On Die YoungMogwai Rock ActionMono Hymn to the Immortal WindMount Eerie Clear MoonMuse ShowbizMuse Black Holes & RevelationsMuse The ResistanceOasis The MasterplanOn An On Give InOneohtrix Point Never ReplicaOneohtrix Point Never R Plus SevenOneRepublic NativePacific Air Stop TalkingPhoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus PhoenixPrawn You Can Just Leave It AllPropagandhi Failed StatesPulp Different ClassPurity Ring ShrinesQueens of the Stone Age Rated RRadiohead AmnesiacRussian Circles EmprosRyan Adams Ashes And FireSay Anything In Defense of the GenreShabazz Palaces Black UpSigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum EndalaustStreetlight Manifesto The Hands That ThieveTame Impala LonerismThe Black Keys Rubber FactoryThe Decemberists Castaways and CutoutsThe Dismemberment Plan ChangeThe Flaming Lips Transmissions From the Satellite HeartThe Format Interventions and LullabiesThe Knife Deep CutsIt's just a pretty solid synthpop album. Kinda weird too. In a good way, anyway.The Knife Shaking the HabitualThis is a primal, visceral, and raw album, totally stripped of any inhibitions or obligation to musical convention. It's so weird and so crazy in such a good way, even if some parts like the fleetingly short primeval songs or the forbiddingly long ambient tracks could use a little more work to keep them interesting.The Mars Volta NoctourniquetThe New Pornographers Electric VersionThe New Pornographers ChallengersThe New Pornographers TogetherThe Shins Port of MorrowThe Smashing Pumpkins OceaniaThe Strokes Room on FireThe Wooden Sky Every Child a Daughter, Every Moon a SunThe World Is a Beautiful Place... Josh Is DeadThe xx xxThee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Born Into Trouble As the Sparks Fly UpwardThom Yorke The EraserI've never really been crazy about the stuff Thom's been doing recently on The King of Limbs and Amok so I went into this pretty sceptical, but I was actually pretty impressed, and it's safe to say I enjoy this more than either Radiohead or Atoms for Peace's most recent albums.Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And MeVampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the CityVolcano Choir RepaveWarpaint Exquisite CorpseWashed Out ParacosmWilco Sky Blue SkyWildlife On the HeartWolf Parade Expo 863.0 goodAnd So I Watch You From Afar All Hail Bright FuturesAnimal Collective ArkAnimal Collective Campfire SongsAnimal Collective Centipede HzSometimes it sounds like a fantastic blend of the colourful fun from Strawberry Jam and the shapeless noise from Here Come the Indian, but often it sounds too much of a muddy clusterfuck of an album to be compared to anything between Sung Tongs and Merriweather Post Pavilion.Atoms for Peace AmokBalance and Composure SeparationBalance and Composure The Things We Think We're MissingBand of Horses Everything All the TimeBattles MirroredBig Black Delta Big Black DeltaBlur The Great EscapeBoards of Canada Music Has the Right to ChildrenBoards of Canada The Campfire HeadphaseBon Iver For Emma, Forever AgoBurial Rival DealerCamera Obscura Desire LinesClassixx Hanging GardensColdplay X&YDead Kennedys In God We Trust, Inc.Deafheaven Roads to JudahWhat keeps Roads to Judah from being really great is definitely no shortcoming in the capacities for talent any of Deafheaven's band members might have, but really in the somewhat messy production and a sound that is big but could be so much bigger.Death Cab for Cutie The Photo AlbumDeath Cab for Cutie Narrow StairsDestroyer KaputtIt was alright, I guess. My score is subject to change in the future, though, as it's definitely possible that I'll discover why everyone loves the hell out of it.Disclosure SettleEarl Sweatshirt DorisEarth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light IIEdward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros HereFather John Misty Fear FunFeist MetalsStrangely primal and ethereally beautiful, but often the album really does seem to drag and leaves the listener wanting a lot more to grab their attention.Foo Fighters Foo FightersFranz Ferdinand Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right ActionGhost Atlas Gold Soul ComaEven though it kinda follows the style of bands that represent everything I hate about the direction post-hardcore has taken in the past several years, this is actually slightly impressive.God Is an Astronaut OriginsGreen Day 21st Century BreakdownIt's actually pretty fun, just as long as you don't take it seriously. At all. Also, although I really dislike musical purist movements, especially in punk rock, calling this anything other than pop-punk (with a big emphasis on the "pop" part) would be a stretch.James Blake OvergrownJimmy Eat World DamageJordan Klassen RepentanceDefinitely not without its fair share of weak tracks, but overall an enjoyable and decently solid folk pop album. I am impressed with this dude and intend to see him live.Kanye West YeezusSounds like a much less gritty and much less edgy Death Grips album. Even though only a couple of tracks on the album really entertained me at all, I see how it could serve as a good, accessible entry point to the more sludgy, industrial side of hip hop.Katy Perry PrismAs repetitive and formulaic and lacking in any surprises whatsoever as it may be, there's actually not a lot on here that would be offensive to those who listen to music on a "deeper" level. Sometimes (actually, almost throughout the entirety of the album) the lyrics are vapid, but Ms. Perry is still a good vocalist on this album of infectious, foot-stomping, radio-friendly pop anthems.Lit A Place In The SunMGMT Oracular SpectacularMGMT MGMTDense, claustrophobic, psychedelic, and weird, and all in a good way, but sometimes I think MGMT are trying a little too hard to hammer the final nail in Electric Feel's, Time to Pretend's, and Kids' family-sized coffin. Nevertheless, anyone who still wasn't convinced by Congratulations that these guys deserve to be taken a little more seriously has probably changed their minds after listening through this record.Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think AboutMount Eerie Pre-Human IdeasNathan Fake Drowning in a Sea of LoveNoah and the Whale Heart Of NowherePanic! at the Disco Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!Passion Pit MannersPity Sex Dark WorldRadical Face GhostRadiohead Pablo HoneyRadiohead The King of LimbsSwans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the SkyThe Album Leaf In A Safe PlaceThe Decemberists The King Is DeadEasy and somewhat likeable but mostly forgettable. Listening to this thing gives me the impression that it's probably intended to be a "cool down record" for The Decemberists after the two sprawling and ambitious albums that preceded it. Too bad it couldn't be more entertaining while serving that purpose.The Flaming Lips The TerrorThe Gaslight Anthem HandwrittenThe Killers Day & AgeThe Knife Silent ShoutThe Lumineers The LumineersThe Shins Chutes Too NarrowThe Strokes AnglesNice to see The Strokes' new sound is starting to materialize, but at this point it does seem a little forced and difficult to swallow.The xx CoexistVampire Weekend Vampire WeekendWarpaint The FoolWashed Out Life of LeisureYoung the Giant Young the Giant2.5 averageArctic Monkeys AMBad Religion Christmas SongsBright Eyes A Christmas AlbumChildish Gambino Because the InternetDashboard Confessional A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A ScarDeath Cab for Cutie We Have the Facts and We're Voting YesDeath Cab for Cutie Something About AirplanesFoster the People TorchesI was under the impression that the purpose of pop music was to create infectious, catchy music that is instantly memorable, but I guess I could be wrong...Joy Division Unknown PleasuresI'm not as enthralled with this as everyone else is for the same reason that I've never been too into Interpol or Bloc Party or The National: this persuasion of post-punk just really isn't for me.Kanye West 808s and HeartbreakLogos Cold MissionM83 Saturdays=YouthSaturdays = Youth occupies a pretty average and underwhelming spot in the middle of the road between the more lo-fi, shoegazy drama of Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts, and the epic, arena-ready synthpop jubilation of Hurry Up, We're Dreaming.Maritime Human HeartsMetronomy The English RivieraNothing really badly made on here, just thoroughly unentertaining and forgettable.Minus the Bear Planet of IceSmart and intricate, but sometimes the most notable merits this album has also make it (and really everything else Minus the Bear have made) seem cold, calculated, and soulless.Mumford and Sons Sigh No MoreNo Age An ObjectNoah and the Whale The First Days of SpringOneRepublic Waking UpPhoenix (FRA) Bankrupt!Sigur Ros KveikurSky Ferreira Night Time, My TimeEven though it's a fairly enjoyable experience, Sky Ferreira's debut album really doesn't have anything on it that would set it apart from a run-of-the-mill album from a mainstream pop artist in terms of depth, colour, or originality. I honestly believe that people wouldn't be raving about her if she were more popular and well-known to the general public than she is.The Antlers Burst ApartThe Dismemberment Plan Uncanney ValleyOccasionally catchy, sometimes even danceable, but The Dismemberment Plan's idiosyncratic, relatable neuroticism and inimitable ironic and introspective genius that made Emergency & I so special to me will be sorely missed.The National High VioletThe Shins Oh, Inverted World2.0 poorChildish Gambino Campfun. Some NightsThere is no way Nate Ruess doesn't know this album is bad. The dude's made really, really great pop music before, whether it be fun.'s first album or the stuff he did with The Format. That was good pop music. This is an album of party-rock anthems for pre-pubescent tweens.Kodaline In a Perfect WorldLady Gaga ArtpopMumford and Sons BabelMuse The 2nd LawThere's not really too much musically offensive material on most of the tracks on The 2nd Law for those familiar with Muse's sound, unless you count being remarkably formulaic and predictable as musically offensive. I actually like Panic Station and Explorers, despite them being practically made of cheese, and I kinda dig the dubstep influence on Follow Me. What makes this album amazing is how spectacularly it derails itself and completely falls apart so unforgettably in it's last several tracks.Said the Whale Islands DisappearThe National Trouble Will Find MeThe Strokes First Impressions of EarthStarts off decent, but quickly deteriorates after the fourth track and becomes what's easily The Strokes' most bloated, boring, confused record.The Zolas Ancient MarsTo me, a spectacular from grace for the Zolas. Was not expecting something so mediocre and commercial.1.5 very poorBroken Bells Broken BellsBroken Bells's appeal is one of the great mysteries of music in my opinion. Go back to The Shins, James. You're drunk.Capital Cities In A Tidal Wave of Mystery"Support for Capital Cities comes from lazy hooks." You got that fucking right.Echosmith Talking DreamsOne Direction Midnight MemoriesThe Neighbourhood I Love You.Depressingly meritless. Cringeworthy lyricism and annoying vocals. Not a single song on here that's worth returning to again.1.0 awfulDashboard Confessional The Swiss Army RomanceMaybe the single most unenjoyable album I own. Unbearable from start to finish. Not a single redeeming quality or aspect in the songwriting, lyricism, vocals, instrumentation, structure, etc.Sleeping With Sirens FeelOh my fucking god. I'm usually open to more cheesy or melodramatic genres of music but I honestly didn't know things this bad existed.
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