| 4.5 superb |
| *shels Sea of the Dying Dhow |
I really love this band and all that they have compiled into this album. From the soft Indian (1 and 2) to the harder Sea
of the Dying Dhow it is a real change from the more chaotic Tera Melos and Mars Volta i am digging right now. The
bonus track (i guess it is bonus) In Dead Palm Fields really makes my day when I listen to it, it's easily one of the most
climactic songs I've ever heard. |
| 65daysofstatic One Time for All Time |
| All the Empires of the World Blessings |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| This album really shows how far they could have gone if they stayed together. Cedric probably would have moved to the King Crimson singing and Omar would have started more psychadelia so they would have broken in to TMV and Sparta. This album actually sounds like it would break up a band because of its amount of diversity from their other albums. Let's give a last hurrah for At the Drive-in! |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors |
| Blue Sky Black Death Late Night Cinema |
| Boysetsfire The Misery Index: Notes From The Plague |
| Brian Wilson Smile |
| Choke There's A Story To This Moral |
| Choke Slow Fade Or: How I Learned To Question Infinity |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness |
| Disillusion Back to Times of Splendor |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... |
| Extra Life Secular Works |
| Hawksley Workman Lover/Fighter |
This album made 2001 for me really (excluding De-loused in the Comatorium.) It is perfectly performed and mixed. This album gives you a band that has an edge and kanck for Alternative, the next highlight in rock history. With the up and coming demise of Rap and Hip Hop, Lover/fighter will hopefully shine through and be pumped around North America. Good job, guys!
Gbacic |
| Jaga Jazzist What We Must |
| Johnny Truant In the Library of Horrific Events |
| maudlin of the Well Part the Second |
| Primus Frizzle Fry |
| Protest the Hero Kezia |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| This album really is as good Kid A, and better than OK Computer, but not as good as Hail to the Thief. That did not come as a surprise because HttT is one of the best albums out there. The way the album starts out is a big step for Radiohead, they mastered the heavy rhythm based song. The rest of the album mirrors HttT in a prominently different way. Being more up tempo and consistent than it, it starts and flows well to the end. The best song on the album is either Bodysnatchers or Jigsaw Falling Into Place. Pick this up if you like Radiohead! It's free! |
| Sam Roberts Band Chemical City |
Coming at you with full throttle is Sam and the gang to give an influential and thought provoking album. Throwing walls of sound and music this band gave more than 100% for this, we all see the talent they posses and this shows just the little they have claimed. The next albums will be more powerful and more emotional in an extended and open way.
Gbacic |
| SikTh The Trees Are Dead and Dried Out, Wait for Something Wild |
| System of a Down System of a Down |
| Tera Melos Untitled |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| The Mars Volta Tremulant |
| Wax On Radio Exposition |
| 4.0 excellent |
| AFX Chosen Lords |
| All the Empires of the World ...Will Be Laid To Waste |
| All the Empires of the World Last Rites |
| At the Drive-In Vaya |
| Blue Sky Black Death Slow Burning Lights |
| Coheed and Cambria Live at the Starland Ballroom |
| Flying Lotus Los Angeles |
| John Frusciante Shadows Collide with People |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV |
| Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti |
| Madvillain Madvillainy |
| Maps and Atlases Tree, Swallows, Houses |
| Maps and Atlases You and Me and the Mountain |
| Maps and Atlases have sure polished up their song writing and their vocal melodies. I love the quirkiness of this band and their instruments are still excellent. I do miss the guitar wankery and all their over technicality, they did it really well. This is an excellent EP and a step up from Trees, Swallows, Houses. Get this if you like them, this will not make you like them if you didn't like their other EP. |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain |
| maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map |
| Mew No More Stories |
| Omar Rodriguez-Lopez A Manual Dexterity: Soundtrack Vol. 1 |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia |
| Primus Antipop |
| Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese |
| Protest the Hero Fortress |
| PSY/OPSogist Suffused With Static |
| PSY/OPSogist Kings Of Sleep |
| Pure Reason Revolution The Dark Third |
The harmonies in this album are a real breath of fresh air, the use of different instruments and atmospherics really give a wall of sound feel and a beautiful album a monstrous sense of emotion. There is nothing really offensive to the ear but they could have cut some of the song lengths down and made them jump into it faster like "Asleep Under Eiderdown" which is my favourite song. And even better, this is their DEBUT!
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| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf |
| Radio Vago Radio Vago |
| Radiohead I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings |
| Son Lux At War With Walls And Mazes |
| This is like a very well thought out version of De Facto, but better. Emotional and catchy. The tempos and time signatures really give it a feeling of either happy, sad, jumpy etc. Every song has a very unique face and it is all very pleasing to the ear. Excellent. |
| Thao And The Get Down Stay Down We Brave Bee Stings And All |
| The Chronicles of Israfel Starborn, Tome I |
| The Faceless Akeldama |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron |
| A surprisingly good effort after a long streak of unimpressive garbage. This album returns to The Mars Volta's musician ship and story telling but without any stand out songs and weak lyrics (Omar needs to write the lyrics again) it brings the rating down. |
| The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
| toe The Book About My Idle Plot on a Vague Anxiety |
| toe For Long Tomorrow |
| Trophy Scars Hospital Music for the Aesthetics of Language |
| Van Halen 1984 |
| Venetian Snares Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding |
| Yonlu A Society In Which No Tear is Shed... |
| 3.5 great |
| Adebisi Shank This is the Album |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus |
| Bibio Ambivalence Avenue |
| Burst Lazarus Bird |
| By The End Of Tonight/Tera Melos Complex Full of Phantoms |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow |
| De Facto Megaton Shotblast |
| DJ Shadow The Private Press |
| Flying Lotus 1983 |
| Genghis Tron Board Up the House |
| Korn Issues |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II |
| Led Zeppelin Presence |
| Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy |
| Lukid Onandon |
| Matthew Good White Light Rock & Roll Review |
| MGMT Oracular Spectacular |
| Pilate Caught By The Window |
| Primus The Brown Album |
| Primus Pork Soda |
| Primus Hallucino-Genetics (DVD) |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way |
| System of a Down Mezmerize |
| Tera Melos Drugs to the Dear Youth |
| The Arusha Accord Nightmares of the Ocean |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath |
| The Strokes Is This It |
| Thom Yorke The Eraser |
With a type of Kid A and Hail to the Thief feel, but more sweet and sour, he incorperates textures and volume into this album making it seem a lot more sophisticated than O.K., Computer but just the same direction -- different. If he had made something that sounds just like Radiohead, it wouldn't really be solo, just a cover, per se. But he made his experiance as a DJ very clear and his vocal talents also very clear. As his experimentation shows, electronica can be a lot more than techno *cough* repeatitive! *cough*.
This album deserves more credit than a lot of people are giving it, with its experimentation, it stands out in the music field where Rap is dying, and punk/emo is an uprising. Bravo... better yet, encore!
Goran B.
**** 1/2 |
| Van Halen Van Halen |
