Dstrath
Daniel Strathdee
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Last Active 10-23-22 8:59 pm
Joined 05-29-20

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Average Rating: 3.82
Rating Variance: 0.41
Objectivity Score: 62%
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5.0 classic
Altar of Plagues Teethed Glory and Injury
Daughters You Won't Get What You Want
Death Symbolic
Greet Death New Hell
Soul-crushing blend of shoegaze, emo and slowcore; It feels like this album was made just rfor me
Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness
Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights
maudlin of the Well Bath
Pixies Doolittle
Slint Spiderland
Women Public Strain

4.5 superb
Arcade Fire The Suburbs
Arcade Fire Her
Bark Psychosis Hex
Bauhaus In the Flat Field
Big Black Songs About Fucking
Blonde Redhead Fake Can Be Just As Good
Blonde Redhead Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons
Blut Aus Nord The Work Which Transforms God
Blut Aus Nord 777 - Cosmosophy
Bossk Audio Noir
Botch We Are the Romans
Bowery Electric Beat
Catherine Wheel Chrome
Chat Pile Remove Your Skin Please
Chat Pile God's Country
Converge Jane Doe
Deafheaven Roads to Judah
Death Human
Drop Nineteens Delaware
Duster Stratosphere
Elizabeth Colour Wheel Nocebo
Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou May Our Chambers Be Full
Everything Everything A Fever Dream
Failure Fantastic Planet
Fear Before The Always Open Mouth
Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel...
Gaza No Absolutes in Human Suffering
Giles Corey Giles Corey
Godflesh Streetcleaner
Gojira From Mars to Sirius
Gorguts Obscura
Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World
Have a Nice Life The Unnatural World
Holy Fawn Death Spells
Horrendous Idol
Hum Downward Is Heavenward
Hum Inlet
i hate sex Circle Thinking
Interpol Our Love to Admire
ISIS Panopticon
Japanese Breakfast Soft Sounds From Another Planet
Jesu Jesu
Leviathan The Tenth Sub Level of Suicide
Leviathan Massive Conspiracy Against All Life
Low Hey What
Mamaleek Come and See
maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map
Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About
My Bloody Valentine Loveless
Neurosis Souls at Zero
Nothing The Great Dismal
Ovlov am
Planning for Burial Below the House
Plebeian Grandstand Rien ne suffit
Protomartyr The Agent Intellect
Pylon (USA-GA) Chomp
Radiohead Kid A
Radiohead OK Computer
Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool
Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It
Serpent Column Mirror In Darkness
Slowdive Souvlaki
Sonic Youth Confusion Is Sex
Street Sects End Position
Suffering Hour The Cyclic Reckoning
Sunrise Patriot Motion Black Fellflower Stream
Swans Filth
Swans White Light From the Mouth of Infinity
The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity
The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works
The Jesus Lizard Goat
This Heat Deceit
Thou Tyrant
Uboa The Origin Of My Depression
Vektor Terminal Redux
Wild Beasts Two Dancers

4.0 excellent
Ad Nauseam Imperative Imperceptible Impulse
Arcade Fire Funeral
Arcade Fire Neon Bible
Autopsy Mental Funeral
Bambara Stray
Black Country, New Road Ants From Up There
Black Midi Schlagenheim
Black Wing No Moon
Blonde Redhead La Mia Vita Violenta
Blonde Redhead 23
Blut Aus Nord Ultima Thulee
Blut Aus Nord 777 - Sect(s)
Blut Aus Nord 777 - The Desanctification
Body Void Bury Me Beneath This Rotting Earth
Carissa's Wierd Songs About Leaving
Chapterhouse Whirlpool
Chat Pile This Dungeon Earth
Cocteau Twins Heaven or Las Vegas
Converge Axe to Fall
Cult Leader A Patient Man
Death The Sound of Perseverance
Death Leprosy
Death Individual Thought Patterns
DIIV Oshin
DIIV Deceiver
Dream Unending Tide Turns Eternal
Duster Together
The warm hug I was so desperately needing, a blanket of fuzzy guitars and warm reverb in which to drench my sorrows
Everything Everything Get to Heaven
Everything Everything RE-ANIMATOR
Failure Wild Type Droid
Foxtails Fawn
Frontierer Oxidized
Full of Hell Trumpeting Ecstasy
Full of Hell Weeping Choir
Geese Projector
Hardly the most original post-punk album to come out this year, but this thing is so incredibly infectious and some of the most fun I've had listening to an album in a ages.
Gilla Band Holding Hands With Jamie
Gojira The Way of All Flesh
Gospel The Loser
Greet Death Dixieland
Have a Nice Life Sea of Worry
Horrendous Ecdysis
Horrendous Anareta
Hum You'd Prefer an Astronaut
IDLES Brutalism
IDYLLS Prayer for Terrene
Inter Arma Paradise Gallows
Interpol Antics
ISIS Oceanic
Japanese Breakfast Jubilee
Jawbox For Your Own Special Sweetheart
Kairon IRSE! Ujubasajuba
Kayo Dot Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike
Kekht Arakh Pale Swordsman
LSD and the Search for God LSD and the Search for God
Lush Spooky
Mamaleek Kurdaitcha
Mamaleek Diner Coffee
Metz Atlas Vending
Modern Color From The Leaves Of Your Garden
My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything
Nothing Guilty of Everything
Nothing Tired of Tomorrow
Orchid Chaos is Me
Ovlov Buds
Pixies Surfer Rosa
Portrayal of Guilt Let Pain Be Your Guide
Preoccupations Viet Cong
Protomartyr Relatives in Descent
Puce Mary The Drought
Pylon (USA-GA) Gyrate
Pyrithe Monuments to Impermanence
Everything you could ask for from a sludge record, might bump this up to a 4.5 later, this
is already one of my favourites of 2022.
Radiohead In Rainbows
Ride Nowhere
Rolo Tomassi Astraea
Rolo Tomassi Grievances
Shame (UK) Drunk Tank Pink
Show Me The Body Dog Whistle
Slowdive Pygmalion
Sonic Youth Daydream Nation
Sonic Youth Sister
Sprain As Lost Through Collision
Squid Bright Green Field
Swervedriver Mezcal Head
Talking Heads More Songs About Buildings and Food
The Armed Only Love
The Armed Ultrapop
The Body I have fought against it, But I can’t any longer
The Body I’ve Seen All I Need To See
The Body and OAA Enemy of Love
The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer
The Jesus and Mary Chain Psychocandy
The Silver (US) Ward of Roses
The Spirit Of The Beehive Entertainment, Death
The The Soul Mining
Thou Magus
Twenty One Pilots Twenty One Pilots
Twenty One Pilots Trench
U.S. Girls Half Free
U.S. Girls In A Poem Unlimited
Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still
Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler
Uniform and The Body Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back
Unwound Repetition
Unwound New Plastic Ideas
Wire Pink Flag
Yellow Eyes Rare Field Ceiling
Yellow Swans Going Places

3.5 great
Arcade Fire Reflektor
Author and Punisher Kruller
Big Black Atomizer
Blonde Redhead Misery is a Butterfly
Blonde Redhead Blonde Redhead
Blonde Redhead In an Expression of the Inexpressible
Blut Aus Nord MoRT
Blut Aus Nord Odinist: The Destruction of Reason by Illumination
Boris Pink
Bowery Electric Bowery Electric
Candy Claws Ceres And Calypso In The Deep Time
Circuit Des Yeux -io
Cloakroom Dissolution Wave
Converge Bloodmoon: I
Cult Leader Lightless Walk
Cynic Ascension Codes
Death Scream Bloody Gore
Death Spiritual Healing
Everything Everything Man Alive
Everything Everything Raw Data Feel
Fontaines D.C. Skinty Fia
Godflesh Pure
Gojira The Link
Gojira Terra Incognita
Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage
Gojira Magma
Goon (USA-CA) Hour Of Green Evening
Gorguts Considered Dead
Haunter (USA-TX) Discarnate Ails
Horrendous The Chills
Iceage Plowing into the Field of Love
IDLES Joy as an Act of Resistance
Inferno (CZ) PARADEIGMA (Phosphenes of Aphotic Eternity)
KEN mode Null
King Woman Celestial Blues
Mamaleek Out of Time
Midwife (USA) Luminol
Misotheist For the Glory of Your Redeemer
Mitski Be the Cowboy
Mizmor and Thou Myopia
Pixies Bossanova
Polvo Today's Active Lifestyles
Portrayal of Guilt Christfucker
Protomartyr Under Color of Official Right
Radiohead Amnesiac
Radiohead Hail to the Thief
Really From Really From
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever Endless Rooms
Rolo Tomassi Hysterics
Rolo Tomassi Cosmology
Slowdive Just for a Day
Sonic Youth Evol
Sonic Youth Bad Moon Rising
Sorry Anywhere But Here
Spoon Lucifer on the Sofa
Street Sects The Kicking Mule
Succumb XXI
Swans Children of God
Swans Cop
Swans Love of Life
Talking Heads Talking Heads: 77
The Body and Big|Brave Leaving None But Small Birds
The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine
The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis
The Jesus Lizard Liar
The Jesus Lizard Head
The Verve A Storm in Heaven
Twenty One Pilots Vessel
Unwound Fake Train
Ustalost Before The Glinting Spell Unvests
Vertebra Atlantis Lustral Purge in Cerulean Bliss
Voivod Synchro Anarchy
I'll be damned if this isn't incredibly fun to listen to, but the album's lack of dynamism
and sense of tension and relief leave it sounding a little out of breath by the end of its
runtime.
Wiegedood There's Always Blood at the End of the Road
Xiu Xiu OH NO

3.0 good
Black Country, New Road For the first time
Black Midi Hellfire
Blut Aus Nord The Mystical Beast of Rebellion
Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta I - Fathers Of The Icy Ages
Boris W
Bosse-de-Nage Further Still
Brutus (BE) Unison Life
What is it with Belgian bands creating the most sterile sounding post-whatever music? Enticing for a few songs but has essentially no momentum after the first 3/4 tracks.
Cadaveric Fumes Echoing Chambers Of Soul
Car Bomb Centralia
Catherine Wheel Adam and Eve
Deafheaven Infinite Granite
Der Weg Einer Freiheit Noktvrn
Dry Cleaning New Long Leg
Full of Hell Garden of Burning Apparitions
Goat Girl On All Fours
Gojira Fortitude
Gorguts The Erosion of Sanity
IDLES Crawler
Kowloon Walled City Piecework
Mitski Laurel Hell
Pharmakon Contact
Radiohead The King of Limbs
So Hideous None But a Pure Heart Can Sing
Swans Greed
Swans Holy Money
The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation
Twenty One Pilots Blurryface
U.S. Girls Heavy Light
Unwound Unwound
Viagra Boys Welfare Jazz

2.5 average
Bent Knee Frosting
Between the Buried and Me Colors II
Black Midi Cavalcade
Conjurer (UK) Pathos
Devil Master Ecstasies of Never Ending Night
Hail Spirit Noir Mayhem In Blue
IDLES Ultra Mono
Manchester Orchestra The Million Masks of God
Parannoul To See the Next Part of the Dream
Rolo Tomassi Where Myth Becomes Memory
In which the aesthetic of musical ideas takes precedence over the ideas themselves. As if someone listened to Time Will Die and thought that simply merging elements of disparate genres comprises compelling musicianship. Not a complete failure, but a completely frictionless 50 minutes of a band struggling to find a cohesive identity which just isn't there. This is not the band that I fell in love with years ago, and the grating, flavourless metalcore guitar tones in tandem with baffling production choices hardly help in that regard.
The Callous Daoboys Celebrity Therapist
Baby's first mathcore album
The KVB Unity
The War On Drugs I Don't Live Here Anymore
Undeath It's Time...To Rise From the Grave
Wet Leg Wet Leg
Not even particularly terrible, in fact there's a few songs on here I genuinely like, but the atmosphere surrounding this band is insufferable. This is post-punk for people who don't listen to post-punk, music for people who don't listen to music. Whatever the reality of this band's quick trajectory to stardom really is, it's just depressing to see people label them as something truly special, amidst an already thriving music scene that people clearly cannot be bothered to search for. Neither committing to emotional potency or sarcastic disinterest, this is just the veneer of "post-punk" filtered through the inoffensive sensibilities of indie-pop. I just wish people would stop pretending this is more than it is.

2.0 poor
Arcade Fire WE
I'm just sitting here asking myself what this even is? Like this doesn't even feel like an
actual album, just some vague misguided musings vomited out by Win and co. with little
thought to musical coherence or cohesive direction. It's better than the musical toilet
slurry that was "Everything Now" so I guess it has that going for it if nothing else.
Interpol The Other Side of Make-Believe
Twenty One Pilots Scaled and Icy
Zeal and Ardor Zeal and Ardor
Anyone who actually labels this cobbled together mess of genre-work experimental or avant-garde doesn't understand the meaning of those terms.

1.5 very poor
Arcade Fire Everything Now
Vildhjarta Måsstaden Under Vatten
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