| 4.5 superb |
| *shels Plains Of The Purple Buffalo |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect |
| Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot |
| Big Boi may not be widely considered the star of Outkast, but his first ever (official) solo recording shines an unmistakeable spotlight nonetheless. Sir Lucious Leftfoot: The Son of Chico Dusty will by no means leave you pensive with overwhelming metaphysical conflicts post-listen, but be prepared to nod your head to some of the best southern hip-hop since, well, the last Outkast offering. |
| Big L Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous |
| Black Moon Enta Da Stage |
| Black Star Black Star |
| Blackalicious Blazing Arrow |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver |
| Boredoms Vision Creation Newsun |
| Camel Mirage |
| Charles Mingus Mingus Ah Um |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Dark Time Sunshine Vessel |
| going to be hard to beat this for aoty. |
| Dark Time Sunshine ANX |
| Continues to establish 2012 as the best year for hip-hop in over a decade |
| Dave Weckl Band Synergy |
| David Bowie Low |
| De La Soul De La Soul Is Dead |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| Deathspell Omega Paracletus |
| Deep Puddle Dynamics The Taste of Rain...Why Kneel |
| Deftones Adrenaline |
| Deftones White Pony |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
| Once upon a time there was a man who as a child had heard that beautiful story of how God tempted Abraham and of how Abraham withstood the temptation, kept the faith, and, contrary to expectation, got a son a second time. When he grew older, he read the same story with even greater admiration, for life had fractured what had been united in the pious simplicity of the child. The older he became, the more often his thoughts turned to that story; his enthusiasm for it became greater and greater, and yet he could understand the story less and less. Finally, he forgot every thing else because of it; his soul had but one wish, to see Abraham, but one longing, to have witnessed that event. His craving was not to see the beautiful regions of the East, not the earthly glory of the promised land, not that God-fearing couple whose old age God had blessed, not the venerable figure of the aged patriarch, not the vigorous adolescence God bestowed upon Isaac-the same thing could just as well have occurred on a barren heath. His craving was to go along on the three-day journey when Abraham rode with sorrow before him and Isaac beside him. His wish was to be present in that hour when Abraham raised his eyes and saw Mount Moriah in the distance, the hour when he left the asses behind and went up the mountain alone with Isaac- for what occupied him was not the beautiful tapestry of imagination but the shudder of the idea. |
| Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech |
| Digable Planets Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... |
| Dr. Dre The Chronic |
| Dr. Octagon Dr. Octagonecologyst |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory |
| Elliott Smith From a Basement on the Hill |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP |
| Failure Magnified |
| Fantomas The Directors Cut |
| Flying Lotus 1983 |
| Funkadelic Free Your Mind...And Your Ass Will Follow |
| Ghostface Killah Ironman |
| Ghostface Killah Supreme Clientele |
| Ghostface Killah Twelve Reasons to Die |
| Twelve Reasons To Die is essentially the audible recording of reasons to die, in all of their beauty and rage, and one could not ask for anything more. |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute |
| GZA Liquid Swords |
| Have A Nice Life Deathconsciousness |
| His Hero is Gone Fifteen Counts of Arson |
| How to Dress Well Total Loss |
| Hum Downward Is Heavenward |
| Hum You'd Prefer An Astronaut |
| Intestine Baalism Ultimate Instinct |
| Iron Maiden Brave New World |
| Isis Oceanic |
| Isis Celestial |
| J Dilla Donuts |
| Janelle Monae Metropolis Suite I of IV: The Chase |
| Jay-Z Reasonable Doubt |
| Jay-Z The Black Album |
| Kamelot The Black Halo |
| King Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic |
| Kool G Rap and DJ Polo Wanted: Dead Or Alive |
| Kool G Rap and DJ Polo Live and Let Die |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak |
| Lauryn Hill The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill |
| Maps & Atlases You and Me and the Mountain |
| Marijuana Deathsquads Tamper, Disable, Destroy |
| Mastodon Leviathan |
| Maxwell Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite |
| one of the best soul albums of all time has less than 30 ratings here not surprised come on guys wtf |
| Mobb Deep The Infamous |
| Modern Life Is War Witness |
| Mono You Are There |
| Mos Def Black on Both Sides |
| Mount Eerie Clear Moon |
| Mount Eerie No Flashlight |
| Mount Eerie Ocean Roar |
| Ocean Roar is essentially the audible recording of the ocean's roar, in all of its beauty and rage, and one could not ask for anything more. |
| Nails Abandon All Life |
| holy shit;kasjdfl;kasjdf; |
| Nas Illmatic |
| Neurosis Enemy of the Sun |
| Nevermore Dreaming Neon Black |
| Niechec Smierc w miekkim futerku |
| Album is so good it demotes you for even rating it. |
| Oceansize Effloresce |
| Old Man Gloom Christmas |
| Opeth Still Life |
| Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come |
| Outkast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below |
| Outkast ATLiens |
| Pain Of Salvation The Perfect Element, Part 1 |
| Pink Floyd The Wall |
| Porcupine Tree The Sky Moves Sideways |
| Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun |
| Prince 1999 |
| Quasimoto The Unseen |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine |
| Refused The Shape of Punk to Come |
| Scarface The Diary |
| Sebadoh Bakesale |
| Secret Chiefs 3 Book of Horizons |
| Sigh Imaginary Sonicscape |
| Slint Spiderland |
| Sole and the Skyrider Band Plastique |
| This is easily one of the year's finest hip-hop ventures - if only Raekwon delayed his newest another year, Plastique would be sitting on top of all of 2009's releases defecating. |
| Stateless Matilda |
| i dont think the people with less than a 3.5 rating are listening to the same album even. this is incredible music, period. |
| Stevie Wonder Songs in the Key of Life |
| Strapping Young Lad Alien |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz |
| Team Sleep Team Sleep |
| The Beatles Abbey Road |
| The Drones I See Seaweed |
| holy shit this destroys havilah |
| The Flaming Lips Zaireeka |
| The Flaming Lips Clouds Taste Metallic |
| The Microphones Mount Eerie |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die |
| The Ocean Precambrian |
| The Prodigy The Fat of the Land |
| The Roots Game Theory |
| The Roots Do You Want More?!!!??! |
| The Samuel Jackson Five Easily Misunderstood |
| The-Dream Love Hate |
| Three 6 Mafia Mystic Stylez |
| TiRon & Ayomari A Sucker For Pumps |
| Tool Lateralus |
| TV on the Radio Dear Science |
| TV On The Radio strays from alchemical-mixture pseudo-science with a perfect array of solutes. Strong components of electronic-soaked hiphop and rock yield an accessible, danceable, genius solution. Never cliched in its indie-pop-rock sensibilities, Dear Science achieves its own unique concoction... and is easily one of the best albums of 2008. This is one reviewer that absolutely never expected this. |
| Vektor Outer Isolation |
| Vektor are inkredible. Future science and tekhnology and metal. |
| Vektor Black Future |
| Viktor Vaughn Vaudeville Villain |
| 4.0 excellent |
| *shels Sea of the Dying Dhow |
| Abel (NY) Make It Right |
| Aesop Rock Labor Days |
| Aesop Rock Daylight |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore |
| Amenra Mass V |
| Amorphis Tuonela |
| Amorphis Tales From the Thousand Lakes |
| Amplifier Amplifier |
| Amplifier The Astronaut Dismantles HAL |
| Andrew Bird Break It Yourself |
| Arctic Monkeys Suck It And See |
| As Tall As Lions You Can't Take It With You |
| Astronote Weapon Of The Future |
| Atmosphere Lucy Ford: The Atmosphere EPs |
| Atmosphere Overcast! |
| BADBADNOTGOOD BBNG2 |
| what the f this is so good |
| Battles Mirrored |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues |
| chugga chugga doo doo bliddle bliddle brawrrrrr lalala |
| Big Boi Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors |
| Big Business Head for the Shallow |
| Bilal A Love Surreal |
| Bilal Airtight's Revenge |
| Billy Woods History Will Absolve Me |
| This is the easiest 4/5 I've ever given. Billy Woods is so good lyrically it's ridiculous, and the beats are consistently great - somewhat glitchy, heavy electronic influence. Only downside is the seriously excessive length. Just plain impossible to focus on a 20 track record. |
| Binary Star Masters of the Universe |
| Birds in Row You, Me, and the Violence |
| Black Breath Sentenced To Life |
| Black Milk Tronic |
| Blue Sky Black Death A Heap Of Broken Images |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Broken Bells Broken Bells |
| Best record of the year so far. |
| BT This Binary Universe |
| Buke and Gase General Dome |
| Burst Origo |
| Cage [Hip-Hop] Hell's Winter |
| Cave In Planets of Old |
| Cave In Antenna |
| Charles Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus |
| Charles Mingus The Clown |
| Choking Victim No Gods, No Managers |
| Circle Takes The Square Decompositions: Volume Number One |
| Clipse Hell Hath No Fury |
| Cloud Nothings Attack On Memory |
| cLOUDDEAD cLOUDDEAD |
| Coalesce 0:12 Revolution in Just Listening |
| Cobalt Gin |
| Cult of Luna Salvation |
| CunninLynguists A Piece Of Strange |
| Cynic Focus |
| Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse Dark Night of the Soul |
| further emphasizes you must kill yourself to earn indie cred. |
| Danny Brown XXX |
| Daughters Daughters |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust... |
| De La Soul 3 Feet High and Rising |
| De La Soul Stakes Is High |
| Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables |
| Death Symbolic |
| Deathspell Omega Drought |
| Decapitated Winds of Creation |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Del tha Funkee Homosapien Both Sides of the Brain |
| Depeche Mode Black Celebration |
| Depeche Mode Music for the Masses |
| Devin Townsend Terria |
| Digable Planets Blowout Comb |
| Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca |
| Right now, this is the best album of the year. Almost every tune is crafted precisely and beautifully. Excellent musicians, interesting lyrics, and my girlfriend likes this. Any album my girlfriend likes is usually the next internet indie smash hit. |
| Disillusion Back To Times Of Splendor |
| Dr. Dre 2001 |
| Dream Theater Live Scenes From New York |
| dredg Leitmotif |
| Ducktails Ducktails |
| Dyzlectic Octo The Epee |
| excellent rapping and solid production for the early 2000s. v solid. |
| East of the Wall The Apologist |
| El-Creepo! El-Creepo! |
| El-P Weareallgoingtoburninhellmegamixxx3 |
| El-P High Water |
| Elzhi The Preface |
| Eminem Recovery |
| Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini |
| EPMD Strictly Business |
| Eric Dolphy Out To Lunch |
| Ernie Watts Reaching Up |
| Ernie Watts To The Point |
| Erykah Badu New Amerykah Pt. 1 (4th World War) |
| Estradasphere Palace Of Mirrors |
| Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly |
| Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors |
| Fates Warning Parallels |
| Finale A Pipe Dream and a Promise |
| Finger Eleven The Greyest of Blue Skies |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma |
| Flying Lotus Los Angeles |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light |
| Frank Ocean Channel Orange |
| Frank Sinatra Come Fly With Me |
| From Ashes Rise Nightmares |
| Georgia Anne Muldrow Umsindo |
| Georgia Anne Muldrow Seeds |
| Madlib is awesome 100% of the time, it only matters to what degree of awesome. And this is probably one of his lower awesome levels unfortunately... which still equates to Muldrow's finest (tied with Umsindo). This time around, Muldrow does a great job condensing her LP - where Umsindo had eleventy billion songs, Seeds takes 11 songs and puts them into a nice, continuous package. Interestingly enough, I find myself missing Muldrow's production - while similar to the Beat Konducta, it is a bit less Fantastic Planet if that makes any sense. Madlib really does a great job emulating 70's funk, and in classic fashion shines a spotlight on Muldrow's performance. But this is the main detractor to Seeds; her preachy, blunted out philosophy takes center stage when it likely shouldn't. Georgia Anne Muldrow is easily one of the most talented musicians around today and is definitely due for a classic one of these days. Seeds isn't it, but is a great record that shows she hasn't yet lost focus since Umsindo. |
| Ghostface Killah Fishscale |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About |
| God Is An Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright |
| God Is An Astronaut Far from Refuge |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World |
| Guilty Simpson O.J. Simpson |
| Heltah Skeltah Nocturnal |
| High on Fire Blessed Black Wings |
| High on Fire Snakes For The Divine |
| High on Fire Death Is This Communion |
| In Pieces Lions Write History |
| Iron Lung Sexless //No Sex |
| Isis Wavering Radiant |
| Isis The Red Sea |
| Isis and Aereogramme In The Fishtank 14 |
| Island Orakel |
| J Dilla The Shining |
| J Dilla Dillanthology |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint |
| Jaylib Champion Sound |
| Jeremiah Jae Raw Money Raps |
very influenced by blu's no york!... kind of like what shabazz palaces would sound like if they didn't suck :]
this is growing on me, might 4 it |
| Jerusalem in my Heart Mo7it Al-Mo7it |
| wow this record is incredible !! ! ! r |
| JJ DOOM Key To The Kuffs |
| Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds |
| Kamelot The Fourth Legacy |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| Karriem Riggins Alone Together |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I |
| Kenna New Sacred Cow |
| Keyshia Cole Just Like You |
| KiD CuDi Indicud |
| not sure how you could dislike this at all really experimental |
| Kidcrash Jokes |
| Killer Mike I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind II |
| King Crimson Red |
| King Geedorah Take Me to Your Leader |
| Kiss Kiss The Meek Shall Inherit What's Left |
| KMD Bl-ck B-st-rds |
| Kylesa Spiral Shadow |
| Lady Gaga The Fame Monster |
| Latitudes Individuation |
| Little Scream The Golden Record |
| M. Ward Post-War |
| M. Ward Transistor Radio |
| M. Ward Transfiguration of Vincent |
| Madlib Shades of Blue |
| Madlib Beat Konducta Vol 1-2: Movie Scenes |
| Maps & Atlases Tree, Swallows, Houses |
| Maps & Atlases Perch Patchwork |
| Maps & Atlases Beware and Be Grateful |
| Mark Ronson Record Collection |
| this has nothing to do with hipsters and is incredible |
| Mastodon Remission |
| Matana Roberts Coin Coin Chapter One - Gens de couleur libres |
| Maxwell Embrya |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve |
| Method Man Tical |
| Mew Frengers |
| MF DOOM MM.. Food |
| MF DOOM Operation: Doomsday |
| Michio Kurihara Sunset Notes |
| Miguel Kaleidoscope Dream |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice |
| Modern Life Is War My Love. My Way |
| Mono Hymn To The Immortal Wind |
| Mono Walking Cloud And Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered.... |
| Mos Def The Ecstatic |
| Mount Eerie Lost Wisdom |
| Mr. Bungle California |
| Mr. Lif I Phantom |
| Nails Unsilent Death |
| Naked City Naked City |
| Napalm Death From Enslavement to Obliteration |
| Nas STILLmatic |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I |
| Neurosis Souls at Zero |
| Neurosis Given to the Rising |
| Nevermore This Godless Endeavor |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral |
| Nine Inch Nails The Fragile |
| Obsidian Kingdom Mantiis |
| Oceansize Everyone Into Position |
| Oceansize Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up |
| Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe |
| Oh No Exodus Into Unheard Rhythms |
| Oh No Ohnomite |
| Old Man Gloom Seminar III: Zozobra |
| Old Man Gloom NO |
| omg this is like awesome |
| Opeth Deliverance |
| Opeth Damnation |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse |
| Organized Konfusion Organized Konfusion |
| Orphans of Cush White Noize |
| Outkast Stankonia |
| P.O.S. Never Better |
| Pain Of Salvation Remedy Lane |
| Panda Bear Tomboy |
| Everything that didn't suck about MPP expanded into an entire album. |
| Passion Pit Gossamer |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... |
| Pelican Ataraxia/Taraxis |
| Pharoahe Monch Internal Affairs |
| Platinum Pied Pipers Abundance |
| By now, the consonant "D" undoubtedly inspires euphoria in underground hip-hop heads: unemployment drives its stake deeper into the D daily, yet through this hardship and pain therein lies true beauty and revolution. From the layman rhymes of Guilty Simpson's Ode To The Ghetto, to the break-out release of Elzhi's The Preface, and closing out the year in grand style with Black Milk's epic Tronic... Detroit is the hip-hop epicenter of the millenium. If Waajeed and Saadiq's Platinum Pied Pipers project promises anything, it's that the D isn't done; Abundance kicks off 2009 and the new regime with no ifs or maybes. |
| Poison the Well The Tropic Rot |
| Porcupine Tree Up the Downstair |
| Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream |
| Porcupine Tree Nil Recurring |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing |
| Portugal. The Man Waiter: ''You Vultures!'' |
| Pulse Ultra Headspace |
| Pygmy Lush Old Friends |
| Pygmy Lush Mount Hope |
| Quadron Quadron |
| Quasimoto The Further Adventures of Lord Quas |
| R. Kelly Chocolate Factory |
| R. Kelly Love Letter |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles |
| Random Axe Random Axe |
| The easiest rating you could ever give. |
| Raphael Saadiq The Way I See It |
| Red Sparowes At The Soundless Dawn |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness |
| Rise And Fall Faith |
| very impressed with this. best metalcore i've heard in a while |
| RJD2 Deadringer |
| Royce da 5'9 Death is Certain |
| Rufus Wainwright Poses |
| Rush Exit...Stage Left |
| Rush Moving Pictures |
| Rush Hemispheres |
| Rush 2112 |
| Sannhet Known Flood |
| Santigold Santogold |
| Scarface The Fix |
| Scarface Emeritus |
| Scarface Mr. Scarface Is Back |
| Scientist Rids the World of the Curse of the Vampires |
| Sean Price Monkey Barz |
| Secret Chiefs 3 Book M |
| Secret Chiefs 3 Xaphan |
| Secret Chiefs 3 Traditionalists |
Out of the ashes of circus-metal pioneers Mr. Bungle, Trey Spruance took something unique and wonderful, steeped it in a pressure cooker of middle eastern lore and scales, and morphed it into his own entity. Being only one of the dimensions introduced on the Book of Horizons record, this is a welcome explanation of the "Traditionalists" tracks it presented. Heavily Morricone, spaghetti western, and general bombast-influenced, the Secret Chiefs 3 give their interpretation of the cinematic soundtrack genre with an epic theme deconstructed and reanimated over the course of 33 tracks. Don't let the high track count discourage you, this is meant to be a continuous listen, likely only separated out for the sake of listener sanity (or lack thereof). Traditionalists calls life, love, suspense, and chaos to the fore in any given section with dissonant chimes, lush horns and violin, and ominous Italian guitar atmospheres. A very strong (and eccentric) attempt at a soundtrack, the combining factor remains Spruance's trademark surf-rock tendencies and noise experimentation - a boon when implemented properly, these techniques have evolved much from SC3's early Grand Constitution days. Initially immature and largely directionless in their chaotic meanderings, it's very refreshing to see a group grow and come full circle artistically in such grand fashion. Traditionalists is a challenging journey and will not find constant rotation as such - just know that it's a ride well worth the effort.
Here's to further expansion of the Book of Horizons personalities; with five chapters remaining, Secret Chiefs 3 have a bright future ahead of them. |
| Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun |
| Sholi Sholi |
| Shugo Tokumaru In Focus? |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas |
| Sol.Illaquists Of Sound No More Heroes |
| shiiiit's tiiiight son |
| Sole and the Skyrider Band Sole and the Skyrider Band |
| Souls of Mischief 93 'til Infinity |
| Spawn of Possession Incurso |
| Spires (USA) Flowers And Fireworks |
| Kind of similar to the Mesa Verde record from last year, but heavier. John Hanson says this is skramz isis. this will definitely be on my year end top 10. |
| St. Vincent Strange Mercy |
| Strapping Young Lad Strapping Young Lad |
| Strapping Young Lad The New Black |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois |
| Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans |
| Sufjan Stevens All Delighted People |
| Symphony X V: The New Mythology Suite |
| T.I. Paper Trail |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock |
| Textures Drawing Circles |
| The Beatles Revolver |
| The Decemberists The Crane Wife |
| The Devin Townsend Project Addicted |
| The Drones Havilah |
| The Flaming Lips The Terror |
| The Gaslamp Killer I Spit On Your Grave |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute |
| The Pharcyde Labcabincalifornia |
| The Poor Nobodys The Poor Nobodys [EP] |
| The Roots Rising Down |
| The Roots Phrenology |
| The Roots Illadelph Halflife |
| The Samuel Jackson Five Goodbye Melody Mountain |
| The-Dream 1977 |
| The-Dream Love vs. Money |
| The-Dream Love King |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV |
| Thrice Vheissu |
| Thundercat The Golden Age Of Apocalypse |
| Thursday Full Collapse |
| Thursday War All the Time |
| Thursday Common Existence |
| Thy Catafalque Róka Hasa Rádió |
| Tomahawk Mit Gas |
| Tool Undertow |
| Trap Them Darker Handcraft |
| TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain |
| Twin Shadow Forget |
| UGK Ridin' Dirty |
| Usher Confessions |
| Vanden Plas Far Off Grace |
| Yo La Tengo I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One |
| Young Widows Old Wounds |
| Zelienople The World Is A House On Fire |
| 3.5 great |
| 2Pac Me Against the World |
| 311 Music |
| 311 Grassroots |
| 50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin' |
| 65daysofstatic The Fall of Math |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms |
| Aesop Rock None Shall Pass |
| Aesop Rock Float |
| Aesop Rock Skelethon |
| not sure if i like this at all |
| Agalloch The Mantle |
| Alcest Ecailles De Lune |
| Alexander Spit A Breathtaking Trip to That Otherside |
| Alice in Chains Dirt |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue |
| Amanda Palmer Who Killed Amanda Palmer? |
| Amesoeurs Amesoeurs |
| Amorphis Elegy |
| Amplifier Insider |
| Ana Kefr The Burial Tree (II) |
| Anaal Nathrakh In the Constellation of the Black Widow |
| Corpses raping animals then fighting other reanimated corpses after being burned alive by fire rain and death angels. Destruction on a colossal scale. |
| Anberlin New Surrender |
| Ancestors In Dreams And Time |
| Andromeda Extension of the Wish |
| Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra Take Off! |
| Animal Kingdom The Looking Away |
| Antigua y Barbuda Try Future |
| ASAP Rocky Live.Love.A$AP. |
| Asobi Seksu Citrus |
| Astronautalis This Is Our Science |
| Atmosphere God Loves Ugly |
| Atomship The Crash of `47 |
| August Burns Red Constellations |
| Autre Ne Veut Anxiety |
| B. Dolan Fallen House Sunken City |
| straight up hiphop and more entertaining than The Failure. probably as deep too. awesome beats. |
| Baptists Bushcraft |
| Baroness Blue Record |
| Ok so I finally decided that this isn't as good as the Red Album. I don't know, maybe it's "more mainstream", but Blue Album nearly sheds all sense of identity developed on its forebear. |
| Baroness Red Album |
| Barren Earth The Devil's Resolve |
| Baths Obsidian |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus |
| Bibio Mind Bokeh |
| Big K.R.I.T. ReturnOf4eva |
| Big K.R.I.T. K.R.I.T Wuz Here |
| Bigg Jus Machines That Make Civilization Fun |
| Black Milk Popular Demand |
| Black Milk Album Of The Year |
| Black Mountain In the Future |
| Blindside Silence |
| Blu and Exile Below the Heavens |
| Blu and Mainframe Johnson and Jonson |
| Blue Sky Black Death Late Night Cinema |
| Blue Sky Black Death Jean Grae: The Evil Jeanius |
| Blue Sky Black Death Razah's Ladder |
| Blue Sky Black Death NOIR |
| Bonobo The North Borders |
| Britney Spears Circus |
| Brother Ali Shadows on the Sun |
| Brother/Ghost Black Ice |
| BT These Hopeful Machines |
| This Binary Universe was not only a defining electronic record of 2006, but it may even be remembered centuries from now - and with good reason, as it far exceeded all expectations fans and colleagues alike had for Brian Transeau (aka "BT"). Mastered in 5.1 surround sound, it was a sprawling, cross-genre piece of epic proportions - jazz, downbeat, house, ambient, and even classical-bent soundtrack influence, it was all there. This alone is the primary detractor from These Hopeful Machines. It's not that BT fails in any sense of the word - quite the contrary actually. His latest machination is bound to have lasting appeal on top of the electronic charts, in the clubs, and all over the globe in places where people actually care about their house music.rRecommended Tracks:r"Suddenly"r"The Emergency"r"Rose of Jericho"r"Love Can Kill You"r"Le Nocturne De Lumiere" |
| Buried Inside Spoils Of Failure |
| Cam'ron Purple Haze |
| Cassie Cassie |
| Cave In Tides of Tomorrow |
| Cave In Until Your Heart Stops |
| Cave In Perfect Pitch Black |
| Cave In Creative Eclipses |
| Cave In White Silence |
| Charles Mingus Blues & Roots |
| Charles Mingus Pithecanthropus Erectus |
| Charles Mingus Tijuana Moods |
| Chromatics Kill For Love |
| Circa Survive Juturna |
| Circle Takes The Square As the Roots Undo |
| Clams Casino Instrumental Mixtape |
| Clipse Lord Willin' |
| Coalesce OX |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness |
| Common One Day It'll All Make Sense |
| Common Like Water for Chocolate |
| Common Be |
| Converge Axe to Fall |
| There are some really solid tunes here, but unfortunately way too much filler. Sorry dudes.rBetter than No More Heroes for sure and a step in the right direction. |
| Crash of Rhinos Distal |
| Creed My Own Prison |
| Crooked I Mr. Pig Face Weapon Waist |
| CunninLynguists Dirty Acres |
| CunninLynguists Southernunderground |
| CunninLynguists Oneirology |
| I keep trying to see what everyone else sees in this, but can't. Sure, Kno's beats are probably his best since Dirty Acres, but he doesn't really do anything that hasn't been done in the past 10 years. That said, this is a solid record; every track is indeed listenable. If you like this, try out A Piece of Strange... far and away their best. |
| Cynic Traced in Air |
| d'Eon LP |
| Dalek Abandoned Language |
| Dalek Absence |
| Dalek Deadverse Massive Vol. 1: Dälek Rarities 1999-2006 |
| Dan Deacon Bromst |
| Dan Deacon America |
| Danny Brown The Hybrid |
| Das Racist Relax |
| De La Soul Are You In? |
| Deafheaven Roads To Judah |
| Deftones Deftones |
| Dela Changes of Atmosphere |
| Denali The Instinct |
| Depeche Mode Playing The Angel |
| Depeche Mode Songs of Faith and Devotion |
| Devin Townsend Infinity |
| DJ Muggs Vs GZA Grandmasters |
| Dj Muggs Vs. Ill Bill Kill Devil Hills |
| DJ Sprinkles Midtown 120 Blues |
| Dog Fashion Disco Anarchists of Good Taste |
| Dog Fashion Disco Committed to a Bright Future |
| Doldrums Lesser Evil |
| Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence |
| Dream Theater Awake |
| dredg Catch Without Arms |
| Ducktails Ducktails III: Arcade Dynamics |
| Ducktails Landscapes |
| Dynospectrum Dynospectrum |
| Earl Sweatshirt EARL |
| Earth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I |
| Earth The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull |
| El-P Weareallgoingtoburninhell Megamixx 2 |
| Awesome material from El-P as usual... One of the main highlights here is the last track, beginning with a unique El-P reinterpretation of Jay-Z's "99 Problems" and segueing into a nearly industrial remix of The Mars Volta's "The Widow". This mixtape is available for free from defjux. |
| El-P Collecting The Kid |
| Electric President The Violent Blue |
| Eligh Grey Crow |
| Eminem Infinite |
| EPMD Unfinished Business |
| EPMD Business as Usual |
| EPMD Business Never Personal |
| EPMD We Mean Business |
| Estradasphere Quadropus |
| Exotic Animal Petting Zoo I Have Made My Bed in Darkness |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place |
| Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth... |
| Eyedea & Abilities E&A |
| Faith No More King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime |
| Faith No More The Real Thing |
| Fantomas Fantomas |
| Felt Felt 3: A Tribute to Rosie Perez |
| To any of my regular readers, it's probably no secret that I despise Slug (of overrated Atmosphere fame) almost as much as I do Murs (of also overrated, 9th Wonder-produced 3:16 fame). And with that, I had a real bias going into listening to a record produced entirely by an emcee instrumental in my hip-hop development. Like any aspiring backpacking blogger-come-critic, Aesop Rock was one of my first forays into progressively produced and lyrically existential hip-hop. But while my days as a purely conscious-bent subject matter proponent are over, a sentimentality still lingers over my time spent with Aes. When I saw he would be responsible for the production on Felt's third installment, A Tribute to Rosie Perez, I was excited and apprehensive simultaneously. |
| Finger Eleven Tip |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes |
| Frank Ocean Nostalgia, Ultra |
| fun. Some Nights |
| G-Side Starshipz and Rocketz |
| Gallows Grey Britain |
| Gaza No Absolutes In Human Suffering |
| GETEYE Above the Clouds |
| Ghostface Killah Apollo Kids |
| Giles Corey Giles Corey |
| Girls Father, Son, Holy Ghost |
| Glassjaw El Mark |
| God Is An Astronaut The End of the Beginning |
| Gojira From Mars To Sirius |
| Goldfinger Stomping Ground |
| Goldfinger Hang-ups |
| Gordian Knot Gordian Knot |
| Grails Doomsdayer's Holiday |
| Grayceon Pearl & The End of Days |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest |
| GZA Legend of the Liquid Sword |
| GZA Beneath the Surface |
| Half Moon Run Dark Eyes |
| Heaven and Hell The Devil You Know |
| Pretty good for a bunch of really old people. Not that old folks can't rock; I'm just surprised. Dio still sounds like Dio, and Sabbath is still Sabbath... but this is more novelty for me than anything. |
| Heaven Shall Burn Veto |
| Heems Nehru Jackets |
| Heiress Early Frost |
| Ill Bill The Hour of Reprisal |
| Immortal Technique Revolutionary Volume 2 |
| Incubus Morning View |
| Incubus S.C.I.E.N.C.E. |
| Into Eternity Buried In Oblivion |
| Iron Braydz Devil May Cry |
| Iron Lung White Glove Test |
| Iron Maiden Dance of Death |
| Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death |
| Isis In the Absence of Truth |
| J Dilla Jay Stay Paid |
| J Dilla Welcome 2 Detroit |
| J Dilla Ruff Draft |
| J. Cole The Warm Up |
| Jake One White Van Music |
| Probably one of the most overlooked releases this year, Jake One tears it up on White Van Music and is easily one of the best producers in hip hop today. With an all star guest list, more than half the tracks (of a 20+ track release) are bangers. While not a progressive production genius, he is a brilliant composer, and Rhymesayers made a great move by putting this on their label. |
| Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid (Suites II and III of IV) |
| Jay Rock Follow Me Home |
| Jay-Z American Gangster |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Violent By Design |
| Jeremiah Jae and Oliver the 2nd RawHyde Mixtape |
| Jerry Cantrell Degradation Trip |
| Jessie Ware Devotion |
| JMSN †Priscilla†|
| John Zorn Moonchild |
| I highly reccommend this to any fan of Mike Patton or John Zorn... the premise is that Zorn wrote this for Patton and a couple others (Trevor Dunn is on bass I think). There are no lyrics; it is nearly a more structured Fantomas. |
| John Zorn Six Litanies for Heliogabalus |
| John Zorn The Crucible |
| Karnivool Themata |
| Keyshia Cole The Way It Is |
| KiD CuDi A KiD Named CuDi |
| Kid Dynamite Kid Dynamite |
| Killer Mike Pl3dge |
| King Crimson The Power to Believe |
| King Crimson The ConstruKction of Light |
| King Crimson Three of a Perfect Pair |
| King Crimson Islands |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King |
| Kreng L'Autopsie Phenomenale De Dieu |
| Kylesa Static Tensions |
| Latitudes Agonist |
| Liars Sisterworld |
| Lily Allen It's Not Me, It's You |
| Lo-Pan Salvador |
| Long Distance Calling Avoid The Light |
| Long Distance Calling Satellite Bay |
| Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor |
| M. Ward Hold Time |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming |
| Madlib Sujinho |
| Always consistent, madlib put out an interesting album in 2008 that largely flew under everyone's radar. Collaborating with Mamao Conti (the drummer of Brazillian jazz group Azymuth), Sujinho is an energetic romp into redefinition of classic Brazillian standards. |
| Madlib Beat Konucta Vol. 6: Dil Withers Suite |
| Madlib Beat Konducta Vol. 5: Dil Cosby Suite |
| Madvillain Madvillainy 2: The Madlib Remix |
| Magrudergrind Magrudergrind |
| Main Attrakionz 808s and Dark Grapes II |
| Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything To Nothing |
| Mastodon The Hunter |
| Maxwell BLACKsummers'night |
| Maybeshewill Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony |
| Menomena Moms |
| Mesa Verde The Old Road |
| Meshuggah obZen |
| MF DOOM Born Like This |
| Mike Mictlan Snaxxx |
| Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates |
| Minus the Bear Menos El Oso |
| Minus the Bear They Make Beer Commercials Like This |
| Mobb Deep Hell on Earth |
| Modern Life Is War Midnight in America |
| Mono One Step More and You Die |
| Mono Under The Pipal Tree |
| Moodie Black Sana Sana |
| Moodie Black Moodie Black |
| Mutemath Mute Math |
| My Vitriol Finelines |
| Nacho Picasso For The Glory |
| Napalm Death Scum |
| Napalm Death Time Waits For No Slave |
| Napalm Death The Code Is Red...Long Live the Code |
| Nappy Roots The Humdinger |
| Nas Life Is Good |
| Ne-Yo Year of the Gentleman |
| Necro Death Rap |
| Neon Indian Psychic chasms |
this is the kind of record you would think lewis would like, tell him so, and then he would probably say it sucks b/c he's hipsterish :[
oh who called it.
adam downer is a downer. |
| Nevermore Enemies Of Reality |
| Oceansize Frames |
| Oceansize Music for Nurses |
| Off Minor Some Blood |
| Oh No Dr. No's Oxperiment |
| Oh No Oh No Vs. Now Again |
| Oh No The Disrupt |
| Okkervil River The Stand Ins |
| Old Man Gloom Seminar II: The Holy Rites of Primitivism Regressi |
| Onry Ozzborn Hold On for Dear Life |
| whoops forgot to review this one.rpsych i didn't forget just too lazy |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries |
| Opeth Lamentations |
| Outerspace Blood Brothers |
| P.O.S. Audition |
| P.O.S. We Don't Even Live Here |
| Pain Of Salvation One Hour by the Concrete Lake |
| Parades Foreign Tapes |
| Pax and Pry A Day Off |
| Pelican March Into the Sea |
| Pelican Australasia |
| Pharoahe Monch Desire |
| Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Pink Floyd Animals |
| Poison the Well The Opposite of December |
| Poison the Well You Come Before You |
| Porcupine Tree Signify |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet |
| Protest the Hero Kezia |
| Pure Reason Revolution The Dark Third |
| Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime |
| R. Kelly Write Me Back |
| Racing Heart To Walk Beside That Ghost |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Raekwon Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang |
| Real Estate Days |
| Red Sparowes Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red... |
| Reef The Lost Cauze A Vicious Cycle |
| Rosetta A Determinism of Morality |
| Royce da 5'9 The Album |
| One of the most talent Detroit MCs for years, Royce da 5'9" puts forth a solid, well produced effort on 'The Album'. Fuck Ice Cube, this is a real pyroclastic flow. Detroit is inarguably the hotbed of 21st centry hip-hop... look out for his scheduled March 2009 release. |
| Rush Grace Under Pressure |
| Rush Signals |
| Rush Permanent Waves |
| Rush Rush |
| Russian Circles Enter |
| Rx Bandits Mandala |
| Sa-Ra Nuclear Evolution: The Age of Love |
| Sadistik The Balancing Act |
| Santigold Master of My Make-Believe |
| Saosin Translating the Name |
| Saxon Shore The Exquisite Death of Saxon Shore |
| SBTRKT SBTRKT |
| Scarface The World Is Yours |
| Scarface Made |
| ScHoolboy Q Habits and Contradictions |
My initial infatuation wore off slightly (dropped rating from 4 to 3.5)... I can't bring myself to listen continuously to this record, as it's a bit inconsistent. When both Q and the producer are in sync, it bangs, but some of the tracks are just boring/ borderline obnoxious. I really wish Q took his time and released a joint that took the best of H&C and Setbacks; that would have been an excellent record, worthy of top 2012 hip-hop accolades.
My favorite tracks in no particular order:
Sacrilegious
Druggys Wit Hoes Again
Nightmare on Figg St
There He Go
Hands on the Wheel
Grooveline Pt. 1
Blessed
As it stands it seems we'll have to wait for Lamar to best Section.80 to get that Black Hippy dopeness we've been waiting for this year. |
| ScHoolboy Q Setbacks |
| this is pretty great. too bad i missed it last year. black hippy is probably the most interesting hiphop collective right now. Light Years AHead is such a ridiculous track |
| Sean Price Jesus Price Supastar |
| Secret Chiefs 3 Second Grand Constitution and Bylaws |
| Sevendust Home |
| Shadow Gallery Tyranny |
| She and Him Volume One |
| Shining (NOR) Blackjazz |
| Shugo Tokumaru Exit |
| Silversun Pickups Neck of the Woods |
| Sinch Clearing the Channel |
| Sir Sly Ghost |
| Sleigh Bells Reign of Terror |
| Sol.Illaquists Of Sound As If We Existed |
| Sole No Wising Up No Settling Down |
| Sole and the Skyrider Band Hello Cruel World |
| Souls of Mischief Montezuma's Revenge |
| Strapping Young Lad Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing |
| Sufjan Stevens Michigan |
| T.I. Trouble Man: Heavy Is the Head |
| Talib Kweli Quality |
| Talk Talk Spirit of Eden |
| Talk Talk The Colour of Spring |
| Textures Polars |
| The Bad Plus Prog |
| The Chasm Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm |
| The Decemberists Picaresque |
| The Decemberists The Hazards Of Love |
| The Delfonics Adrian Younge Presents The Delfonics |
| The Devin Townsend Band Accelerated Evolution |
| The Dodos Visiter |
| The Dodos No Color |
| The Eastern Wave All Covet, All Lose |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger |
| The Foreign Exchange Leave It All Behind |
| The Game The Documentary |
| The Game Jesus Piece |
| The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble From the Stairwell |
| The Knife Silent Shout |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath |
| The National High Violet |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Life After Death |
| The Ocean Aeolian |
| The Pharcyde Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde |
| The Postmarks Memoirs At The End Of The World |
| Some truly remarkable songs, but unfortunately a lot of filler too. What a grand opener... I love the movie soundtrack/ spaghetti western qualities here. |
| The Republic of Wolves Varuna |
| The Roots The Tipping Point |
| The Roots Organix |
| The Roots How I Got Over |
| probably about time i posted my review for this |
| The Samuel Jackson Five The Samuel Jackson Five |
| The Sword Warp Riders |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt |
| The Velvet Teen Elysium |
| THEESatisfaction awE naturalE |
| pretty cool overall, pretty impressed with the production. the vocals are a bit lacking, but solid enough. |
| This Will Destroy You Young Mountain |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II |
| Thrice The Illusion Of Safety |
| Thrice Beggars |
| Thursday A City By the Light Divided |
| Thursday Waiting |
| Thy Catafalque Rengeteg |
| Tobacco Fucked Up Friends |
| One of the few interesting anticon projects. Tobacco makes an electronic come industrial trip-hop atmosphere on Fucked Up Friends. Beautiful at times, mediocre at others, it almost feels as if most of this has been done before. This sneaking suspicion keeps FUF from getting a 4, whereas Aesop Rock's verses on "Dirt" solidy its 3.5. Definitely recommended. |
| toe New Sentimentality |
| TOKiMONSTA Midnight Menu |
| Tomahawk Tomahawk |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Tool Opiate |
| Tortoise TNT |
| True Widow As High As The Highest Heavens And From The Center |
| TV on the Radio Nine Types of Light |
| Twin Shadow Confess |
| Tyler The Creator Bastard |
| UGK UGK 4 Life |
| Ulcerate The Destroyers of All |
| Ulcerate Everything Is Fire |
| United Nations United Nations |
| Usher Looking 4 Myself |
| Volcano Choir Unmap |
Well, this is better than For Emma after half a listen. Really interesting record that combines the intricacies of post-rock and math with Vernon's standard folk fare; he turns out to be an excellent indie rockstar/frontman. Some might call this "mindless experimentation", but a more accurate descriptor would be "highly dynamic math rock". Much of the more eccentric passages are placed well throughout - doing wonders for the album's pacing; half an hour goes by, yet it feels like merely minutes passed, leaving one with something new each time. This is an excellent outing for Vernon and company that will unfortunately go unnoticed due to Bon Iver fans feeling betrayed. Read: this is not for those that like their music vanilla. Strikey is crazy.
Coincidentally, my lady and I decided that Bon Iver's "Creature Fear" will be our first dance as a married couple. Sue me, that song rules. |
| Wale Attention Deficit |
| Wave Machines Pollen |
| We Lost The Sea The Quietest Place on Earth |
| i dont know how you could even suggest the heresy of this being in the same vein of panopticon what a ridiculous statement :[ |
| Willie Isz Georgiavania |
| World's End Girlfriend Hurtbreak Wonderland |
| Wu-Tang Clan Wu-Tang Forever |
| Yo La Tengo I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass |
| Yuck Yuck |
| Zero Hour The Towers of Avarice |
| Zoroaster The Voice of Saturn |
| Zu Carboniferous |
| 3.0 good |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead The Century of Self |
| 30 Seconds to Mars 30 Seconds to Mars |
| 311 311 |
| 311 Transistor |
| 311 Soundsystem |
| 50 Cent War Angel LP |
| 50 Cent Before I Self Destruct |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step |
| A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory |
| Adebisi Shank This Is The Album Of A Band Called Adebisi Shank |
| Air Love 2 |
| Akron/Family Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free |
| Amorphis The Karelian Isthmus |
| Amplifier The Octopus |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion |
| Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra Antibalas |
| Antipop Consortium Fluorescent Black |
| Arghoslent Hornets of the Pogrom |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us |
| Atmosphere When Life Gives You Lemons... |
| Atmosphere Seven's Travels |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen |
| Bad Religion True North |
| Baptists Baptists |
| Baroness Yellow and Green |
| Barren Earth Curse of the Red River |
| Bat For Lashes Two Suns |
| Baths Cerulean |
| BATS Red In Tooth and Claw |
| Beach House Teen Dream |
| Believer Gabriel |
| Between the Buried and Me The Anatomy Of |
| Big K.R.I.T. 4Eva N A Day |
| Big K.R.I.T. Live From The Underground |
| Black Mountain Black Mountain |
| Bohren & Der Club of Gore Beileid |
| Bonobo Black Sands |
| Boris New Album |
| Brand New Deja Entendu |
| Britney Spears Greatest Hits: My Prerogative |
| Brother Ali The Undisputed Truth |
| Brother Ali The Truth Is Here |
| Burial Untrue |
| Burst Lazarus Bird |
| Cage [Hip-Hop] Depart From Me |
this is what it would sound like if cage performed the Queen of the Damned soundtrack.
aaliyah RIP |
| Cam'ron Crime Pays |
| Camera Obscura My Maudlin Career |
| Cannibal Ox Gotham |
| Cars & Trains The Roots, The Leaves |
| Cars AND Trains... |
| Cassie RockaByeBaby |
| Cave In Beyond Hypothermia |
| Circa Survive On Letting Go |
| Clipping Midcity |
| this is way better than death grips |
| Clipse Til the Casket Drops |
Easily the worst Clipse record as a whole. Some cool single-quality tracks here and there, but so many cases where either the vocal component or production side is spot on - and not at the same time, unfortunately.
This isn't even close to the level of HHNF. |
| Closure in Moscow First Temple |
| Code Orange Kids Love Is Love // Return To Dust |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow |
| Common Electric Circus |
| Common Resurrection |
| Common Market Tobacco Road |
| Converge No Heroes |
| Creed Human Clay |
| CunninLynguists Strange Journey Volume One |
| CunninLynguists Will Rap For Food |
| Currensy Covert Coup |
| Cursive Mama, I'm Swollen |
| Cyrus Malachi Ancient Future |
| Czarface Czarface |
| Dawn Richard Goldenheart |
| Dead Letter Circus This Is The Warning |
| Deerhunter Microcastle |
| An interesting exercise in atmospheric indie-rock, Deerhunter attempts to maintain a creative focus on Microcastle. At times they are truly genuine, yet this also seems to conceal the simplistic nature of their compositions. While not glaringly obvious, Deerhunter would be better for maturation of a creative process. Make no mistake, there is potential for greatness here; it only needs proper channeling. |
| Del tha Funkee Homosapien Funk Man (The Stimulus Package) |
| Devin Townsend Ziltoid the Omniscient |
| Devin Townsend Physicist |
| DIIV Oshin |
| DJ Food The Search Engine |
| Doomtree Doomtree |
| Doomtree No Kings |
| Downfall of Gaia Suffocating in the Swarm of Cranes |
| Drake Take Care |
| Dream Theater Octavarium |
| Dream Theater Falling into Infinity |
| Dream Theater A Change of Seasons |
| Dream Theater Images and Words |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds & Silver Linings |
| dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion |
| It's like if they tried to be even more poppy/mainstream than CWA, but reverted back to the epic-come-concept ideas of El Cielo. If you're a dredg fan, you'll like this. If you're a butt rock fan, you might like this. Overall, I'm really surprised; their new tracks sucked so bad live (cough Ireland cough), but in the context of the album, they work so much better. |
| Earth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II |
| El Da Sensei & The Returners GT2: Nu World |
| El-P Weareallgoingtoburninhell Megamix |
| Emancipator Safe In The Steep Cliffs |
| Eminem The Eminem Show |
| Eminem Relapse |
| EPMD Back in Business |
| Ernie Watts Unity |
| Exotic Animal Petting Zoo Tree of Tongues |
| not as good as the last record. kind of a poor man's screamo deftones |
| Explosions in the Sky How Strange, Innocence |
| Explosions in the Sky The Rescue |
| Eyedea & Abilities First Born |
| Failure Comfort |
| Faith No More Album of the Year |
| Fantomas Suspended Animation |
| Felt Felt 2: A Tribute to Lisa Bonet |
| Finger Eleven Finger Eleven |
| First Aid Kit The Lion's Roar |
| Fliptrix Third Eye of the Storm |
| Foals Holy Fire |
| Fort Minor The Rising Tied |
| Freeway & Jake One The Stimulus Package |
| Frightened Rabbit Pedestrian Verse |
| G-Side Huntsville International |
| Galaxie 500 On Fire |
| Gangrene Gutter Water |
| Gaza He Is Never Coming Back |
| Georgia Anne Muldrow Kings Ballad |
| Ghostface Killah The Big Doe Rehab |
| Ghostface Killah Ghostdini: The Wizard of Poetry in Emerald City |
Tony Starks likes two things, or so it seems according to the subject matter of his rhymes: bitches and blow. Abandoning the latter for a whole record (seriously), he dedicates his trademark crazed flow entirely to the fairer sex with mixed results. Not completely a club-oriented record, The Wizard of Poetry in Emerald City dons a multi-faceted mantle of sentimentality, jealousy, and sorrow; this emotional gamut really doesn't click in certain situations (namely the off-target affair that is "Baby"), but there are some incredibly catchy moments here. When the record was initially announced as Ghostface's foray into R&B, it was greeted with disdain and an overall air of negativity - and while fears of 90s radio-soul surmounted, this reaction is largely unwarranted with modern production standards and a collection of excellent featured vocalists. "Not Your Average Girl" and "Do Over" kick things off brilliantly with catchy hooks from Shareefa and Raheem DeVaughn, respectively. Quickly setting Ghost's intended tone amidst updated, soul-laden beats, this one-two punch unfortunately sets the bar quite high for the remainder. Follow-up "Baby" was seemingly written for an audience of peers and not a younger crowd with sappy generalizations for parents to be. As is typical of Mr. Starks, each and every track is mired in the misogynist musings of a man that loves "running trains" and "threesomes every other weekend"; "Stapleton Sex" runs these assertions to a head in what could possibly be a recording of the Wizard actually fornicating. TMI Ghostface, TMI.
Ghostdeini is at his absolute best on the more modern iterations on the radio soul/rap formula, especially on the John Legend assisted "Let's Stop Playing" and a killer trio of album closers. The crooning tenor of Lloyd over a clinic on funk in "Goner" stands out with a particularly absorbing chorus; as a good measuring stick, many ladies in this household have been caught recently with their heads bobbing. Interestingly enough, the two closing bonus tracks are some of the best - Ne-yo and Kanye collabo "Back Like That" may be familiar to some, and the heavily dynamic, autotune-tastic "She's a Killah" brings a unique spin to your typical club tune.
While difficult to expect another killer Wu joint immediately following the brilliant Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II, The Wizard of Poetry is definitely enjoyable even if it is sporadic in its appeal. It's hard not to inflate the rating of a record with some truly incredible joints, yet it's difficult to ignore the two-thirds filler combined with Ghostface's least complicated rhymes in years. Nice try Tony, but let's shoot for a Supreme Clientele II next time around. |
| God Is An Astronaut God Is an Astronaut |
| God Is An Astronaut Age of the Fifth Sun |
| Gojira The Link |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh |
| Gordian Knot Emergent |
| Grails Deep Politics |
| Grand Magus The Hunt |
| Grieves The Confessions Of Mr. Modest |
| Grieves 88 Keys & Counting |
| Grimes Visions |
| GZA Pro Tools |
| Handwrist All flesh is grass... |
| Holy Other Held |
| Hop Along Get Disowned |
| Hot Water Music Exister |
| House Of Heroes Cold Hard Want |
| Ice Cube Raw Footage |
The only thing that keeps this album above average are Ice Cube's pyroclastic flows, obviously. On a more serious note, although his anti-ghetto preachiness does become frustrating at times... Ice Cube remains a bastion of lyrical honor in the hip hop game. The beats are very average, but his flow makes up for that.
Most likely reviewing this soon. |
| If These Trees Could Talk Above the Earth, Below the Sky |
| IMAKEMADBEATS IMAKEMADBEATS |
| Immolation Majesty and Decay |
| Immortal Technique Revolutionary Volume 1 |
| Incubus Enjoy Incubus |
| Incubus Make Yourself |
| Intronaut Void |
| J. Cole Born Sinner |
| J. Cole Cole World: The Sideline Story |
| Jack White Blunderbuss |
| Jaga Jazzist The Stix |
| James Blake James Blake |
| Japandroids Post-Nothing |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint 3 |
| Not even as cool as American Gangster, let alone the original Blueprint |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Legacy of Blood |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Servants In Heaven, Kings In Hell |
| Jerry Cantrell Boggy Depot |
| Joey Bada$$ 1999 |
| kid is very talented with much potential. excited to hear an LP with beats from 2012, not 1999 |
| John Zorn Astronome |
| Jubala Jubala |
| Jurassic 5 Power in Numbers |
| Justin Timberlake Justified |
| K'naan The Dusty Foot Philosopher |
| K-X-P II |
| Kanye West The College Dropout |
| Kanye West Late Registration |
| Kanye West Graduation |
| Kanye West 808s & Heartbreak |
| Karnivool Sound Awake |
| Khoma The Second Wave |
| KiD CuDi Man On The Moon: The End Of Day |
| Kidz in the Hall The In Crowd |
| Killah Priest The Psychic World of Walter Reed |
| Kings of Leon Only By The Night |
| Kurt Vile Wakin on a Pretty Daze |
| no matter how many chances i give it, i just cant get into a kurt vile record beyond "oh hey this is cool" |
| Kylesa Time Will Fuse Its Worth |
| Lady Gaga The Fame |
| Laurel Halo Quarantine |
| Long Distance Calling The Flood Inside |
| Lowkey Soundtrack to the Struggle |
| Ludacris Theater of the Mind |
| Lupe Fiasco The Cool |
| Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor 2: The Great American Rap Album Pt.1 |
| Magic Wands Aloha Moon |
| Mark Lanegan Blues Funeral |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain |
| Mastodon Call of the Mastodon |
| Maxwell Now |
| MellowHype BLACKENEDWHITE |
| Menomena Mines |
| Mercenary The Hours That Remain |
| Meshuggah Koloss |
| Messiah J & The Expert From The Word Go |
| Meth, Ghost and Rae Wu-Massacre |
| i wrote an entire review for this and it got lost. fuck it this album isn't that great. |
| Metric Synthetica |
| Mew No More Stories |
| Mgla With Hearts Toward None |
| Mighty Joseph Empire State |
| An intriguing, yet ultimately unbalanced effort. Although one of the most unique rappers of the 2000s, Vast Aire is unable to save the album from the mediocre production over a majority of its length. Regardless, "The Uprising" is one of the best tracks of 2008; it's a tragedy the rest of the album doesn't live up to this standard. |
| Mikal Cronin MCII |
| Moodie Black The Responsive Chord |
| Mos Def True Magic |
| Mr. Lif I Heard It Today |
| Mr. Lif Mo' Mega |
| Murs Murs 3:16: the 9th Edition |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge |
| Napalm Death Smear Campaign |
| Napalm Death Noise For Music's Sake |
| Napalm Death Harmony Corruption |
| Napalm Death Enemy of the Music Business |
| Napalm Death Order of the Leech |
| Narrows Painted |
| Nas Untitled |
| Nas It Was Written |
| Nas & Damian Marley Distant Relatives |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Push The Sky Away |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine |
| Nine Inch Nails Year Zero |
| O.C. and Apollo Brown Trophies |
| Obits Moody, Standard, and Poor |
| Oceans of Sadness The Arrogance Of Ignorance |
| Oh No Dr No's Ethiopium |
| Open Mike Eagle 4NML HSPTL |
| Opeth Orchid |
| Orphaned Land Mabool (The Story of the Three Sons...) |
| Outkast Idlewild |
| Oysterhead The Grand Pecking Order |
| P.O.S. Ipecac Neat |
| PackFM I F*cking Hate Rappers |
| Pain Of Salvation Entropia |
| Pariso Nothing Beyond, Everything After |
| Pax and Pry A Day at the Office |
| Paysage d'Hiver Das Tor |
| Peeping Tom Peeping Tom |
| Pelican City of Echoes |
| Pelican What We All Come To Need |
| Pepper In With The Old |
| Peter Evans Zebulon |
| Pharoahe Monch W.A.R. |
| beats more dated than internal affairs ??? some good stuff, but some of the beats are really boring.r |
| Polkadot Cadaver Purgatory Dance Party |
| Porcupine Tree The Incident |
| Port St. Willow Holiday |
| Portugal. The Man Church Mouth |
| Prolyphic & Reanimator The Ugly Truth |
| Psycroptic The Inherited Repression |
| Pure Reason Revolution Amor Vincit Omnia |
| Ra From One |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs |
| Rescuer With Time Comes the Comfort |
| Rick Ross God Forgives, I Don't |
| Rita Ora ORA |
| troll ratings in the house |
| RJD2 The Third Hand |
| RJD2 The Colossus |
| Firstly, hip-hop doesn't mean rap...ummm? |
| Rodrigo y Gabriela 11:11 |
| Rotting Christ Kata Ton Daimona Eaytoy |
| Royce da 5'9 The Revival EP |
| Royce da 5'9 Street Hop |
| Rufus Wainwright Out of the Game |
| Rush Roll the Bones |
| Rush Presto |
| Rush Hold Your Fire |
| Rush Power Windows |
| Rush Caress of Steel |
| Russian Circles Station |
| Russian Circles Geneva |
it's like this:
.........---------^^^^^CRASH BOOM CRASH^^^^^----------......... |
| Sabac Red Ritual |
| At his best, Sabac Red is merely serviceable; at his worst, his content is pseudo-intelligent, oozing with lame inspiration and socio-political generalities. The production here is extremely hit or miss... Skammadix is terrible, but Blue Sky Black Death and Sick Nature pull off some swell beats. Ill Bill has an uninspired guest appearance that's barely worth even noting in this sentence. |
| Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside Untamed Beast |
| Scarface The Untouchable |
| Secret Chiefs 3 First Grand Constitution and Bylaws |
| Sevendust Sevendust |
| Shad When This Is Over |
| Shadow Gallery Carved In Stone |
| Shifted Crossed Paths |
| Shining (NOR) One One One |
| Shlohmo Bad Vibes |
| Sims Bad Time Zoo |
| Sinch Sinch |
| Sleep Dopesmoker |
| Slim Guerilla & DJ Smokey Guerilla Warfare |
| Snowgoons Black Snow |
This is German hiphop production-team Snowgoons' second album, featuring a ton of talent in or associated with the Army of the Pharoahs. The beats are unique from the underground flavor most typified by that Philadelphia scene; that is, the serious/apocalyptic flavor is still there, yet with a distinct European surface coating. Make no mistake, this isn't fluffy electropop; this is full-fledged hiphop that leaves the listener thirsty for more.
It would be interesting to hear a different set up of less aggressive MCs next time around... One can only take so much anger over the course of a 22 track album. |
| Soen Cognitive |
| Soilwork Natural Born Chaos |
| Soulsavers The Light The Dead See |
| State Faults Desolate Peaks |
| hard to listen to the vocals without cringing |
| Steven Wilson Insurgentes |
| Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing |
| Steven Wilson Grace for Drowning |
| Sudatsuga Blue Moon Saiyeed |
| Sulphur Aeon Swallowed By The Ocean's Tide |
| Sun Kil Moon April |
| Talib Kweli Eardrum |
| Terra Tenebrosa The Tunnels |
| The Antlers Hospice |
| The Appleseed Cast Sagarmatha |
| The Black Heart Rebellion Har Nevo |
| The Bloody Beetroots Romborama |
| The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading |
| This is far too long to maintain any shred of interest I had in this album. Builds at far too slow of a pace... and not in an interesting, dynamic fashion. It would be okay if the music was revolutionary, but it's more-so just lame acoustic doodling surrounded by punk-tinged arena c*ck rock. |
| The Dear Hunter Migrant |
| The Decemberists The King Is Dead |
| The Decemberists Her Majesty the Decemberists |
| The Devin Townsend Band Synchestra |
| The Devin Townsend Project Ki |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis |
| The Dodos Time to Die |
| The Doppelgangaz HARK |
| The Doppelgangaz Lone Sharks |
| The Exies Inertia |
| The Fall of Troy Phantom on the Horizon |
| The Flaming Lips At War With The Mystics |
| The Game LAX |
| The Human Abstract Nocturne |
| The Knife Shaking the Habitual |
| The Knux Remind Me In Three Days |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron |
| Okay it's a Mars Volta record. They need to break up and form 2 new bands with one of the bands playing generic prog rock and the other one playing experimental insect noises. That would shake things up. |
| The Ocean Heliocentric |
| The Psychic Paramount II |
| The Roots undun |
I've been using this term a lot lately, but this is easy listening music. Not nearly as creative as How I Got Over was in incorporating a less hard-hitting, indie approach to their craft. Their time on Jimmy Fallon's show is unfortunately rubbing off on their compositions.
This is the worst Roots record ever made. |
| The Shins Port of Morrow |
| The Walkmen Heaven |
| Thrice The Artist In The Ambulance |
| Tomahawk Anonymous |
| Torae and Marco Polo Double Barrel |
| Torche Meanderthal |
| Toro Y Moi Anything In Return |
| Tortoise Standards |
| Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs Trouble |
| Trophy Scars Bad Luck |
| TTNG 13.0.0.0.0 |
| Tusk The Resisting Dreamer |
| Ty Segall Band Slaughterhouse |
| Ulcerate Of Fracture and Failure |
| Unknown Mortal Orchestra II |
| VAST NUDE |
| Volbeat Beyond Hell/Above Heaven |
| Wale Mixtape About Nothing |
| Wale Back To The Feature |
| i'm going to stick to my guns here and say "9th wonder is pretty stale" |
| Woodkid The Golden Age |
| Wu-Tang Clan The W |
| XXYYXX XXYYXX |
| Yo La Tengo Fade |
| Yo La Tengo Popular Songs |
| Young Widows In and Out of Youth and Lightness |
| Zechs Marquise Our Delicate Stranded Nightmare |
Earth to the Rodriguez-Lopez family: you're 35 years too late.
It's a commonplace occurrence these days: guy finds guitar, guy discovers 70s prog, guy imitates said prog. More and more frequently, this process flow delineates the creative process of Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, friends, family, and affiliates; if Cryptomnesia, Octahedron, and other recent pursuits weren't enough, here comes the extended jam interpretation a-la Zechs Marquise's Our Delicate Stranded Nightmare. With an all-too-familiar formula mixing equal parts funk, fuzzed out rock, and just enough atmospheric experimentation, one would be hard pressed to find a more faithful era-specific recreation. Blistering instrumental work keeps the group out of the realm of mediocrity; this is definitely a piece made by musicians, for musicians. A certain haphazard flair presents guitar-work analogous to a certain Rodriguez-Lopez brood compatriot - and while obviously not as much of a technician, there is just enough variety to maintain some kind of individual identity. However, the cardinal difference between Zechs Marquise and Omar's solo work lies within the carefully orchestrated ambient passages; they lack the random noodling of Cryptomnesia, the oft-overbearing noisy textures of A Manual Dexterity, and are even reminiscent of Mars Volta atmospherics on a good day. The whirling synths and feedback amalgamate into a kind of darkness that works as an acceptable juxtaposition with the more traditional rock sections.
While derivative to an extent, the Zechs Marquise sub-collective is successful in their aim of contrasting sounds. With more focus, this could be the side-project Mars Volta fans have been expecting - of which Omar has yet to deliver. |
| 2.5 average |
| 311 From Chaos |
| 50 Cent Curtis |
| A Storm Of Light As The Valley Of Death Becomes Us... |
| Ab-Soul Longterm Mentality |
| I never realized how bad the beats on this record truly were until I listened to the marginally better Control System |
| Abstract Rude Rejuvenation |
| Alice Smith She |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals |
| Anathema We're Here Because We're Here |
| Anathema Weather Systems |
| Andromeda II=I |
| As Cities Burn Hell Or High Water |
| As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security |
| Asobi Seksu Hush |
| Astronautalis Pomegranate |
| Atmosphere You Can't Imagine How Much Fun... |
| Atmosphere The Family Sign |
| Atmosphere To All My Friends, Blood Makes The Blade Holy |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil |
| B-Real Smoke N Mirrors |
| Be'lakor Of Breath And Bone |
| Beach Fossils Clash the Truth |
| Beach House Bloom |
| Becoming the Archetype Dichotomy |
| Brand New Daisy |
| Brand New, Thrice, these names can do no wrong here, predictably. This is probably slightly above average, and all this ridiculous praise is just as unwarranted as that for Beggars. |
| Brotha Lynch Hung Mannibalector |
| Brother Ali Us |
| Caribou Swim |
| Chevelle Sci-Fi Crimes |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise |
| Common The Dreamer/The Believer |
| CunninLynguists Strange Journey Volume Two |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories |
| Dangers Messy, Isn't It? |
| Death Grips Exmilitary |
| Depeche Mode Ultra |
| Digital Daggers The Devil Within |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought |
| Dream Theater When Dream and Day Unite |
| DRGN KING Paragraph Nights |
| Emancipator Dusk to Dawn |
| Eminem Encore |
| EPMD Out of Business |
| Ernie Watts Classic Moods |
| Esham KKKill the Fetus |
| Evergreen Terrace Wolfbiker |
| Expire Pendulum Swings |
| Felt A Tribute to Christina Ricci |
| Four Tet There is Love in You |
| Full Devil Jacket Full Devil Jacket |
| Future Of The Left The Plot Against Common Sense |
| G-Side The One...Cohesive |
| Gangrene Vodka & Ayahuasca |
| Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere |
| Godsticks The Envisage Conundrum |
| Grieves Together/Apart |
Together/Apart is a manifestation of Rhymesayers Entertainment's marketing department and their seemingly neverending quest to homogenize hip-hop. Their understanding of the 20-something white male psyche is unrivaled in this industry. It is unfortunate; Grieves has the makings of a multi-dimensional vocalist with a pleasant voice and something of substance to say with it. There aren't technically complex mult-syllabics to be had here, just pure introspection. "On The Rocks" hearkens backs to previous releases and almost recalls what could have been amidst a catcy hook and Budo's (previously) typical electro-funk.
But Grieves presses forward almost too awkwardly with a poorly executed spoken word vibe-come-Brother Ali posturing/preaching made more obvious by their phoned in duet on "Tragic". The production suffers more, taking [mis]cues from nearly every Rhymesayers Entertainment release over the past 5 years. Most of the tracks emulate what could be B-Sides of a post-Lemons Ant, doing nothing so groundbreaking as regurgitating mid-90's soul. Budo was never an incredible producer in the past, but did just enough to shine a spotlight on Grieves' strong personal narrative. It is in that regard that Together/Apart reeks of compromise and mimicry. |
| Gutta Heads Will Roll |
| Gym Class Heroes The Quilt |
| Hands Like Houses Ground Dweller |
| Heltah Skeltah D.I.R.T. (Da Incredible Rap Team) |
Basically, everyone is gay except Sean Price.
Seriously, sexism, homophobia, and a ton of other gangsta cliches galore... this is pretty unnecessary in 2008. Regardless, Jesus Price rocks the mic, and the beats are cool at times (less often than they should be). Roc is really just a bad rapper. |
| How To Destroy Angels Welcome Oblivion |
| Immortal Technique The 3rd World |
| In Mourning The Weight of Oceans |
| In Vain Mantra |
| Incubus Light Grenades |
| Incubus When Incubus Attacks, Vol. 1 |
| Indian Handcrafts Civil Disobedience For Losers |
| Insane Clown Posse Riddle Box |
| Into Eternity The Scattering of Ashes |
| Jay-Z Kingdom Come |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint²: The Gift & the Curse |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Visions of Gandhi |
| John Robinson Who Is This Man? |
Dear John Robinson, stop imitating Nas.
Dear MF Doom, release a new album already.
Seriously, this comes off as a phoned-in waste of time on Doom's part... thoroughly decent, but never excellent. Dude needs to stop sending impersonators to shows and pick up the mic. |
| Jurassic 5 Quality Control |
| Kashiwa Daisuke 5 Dec. |
| KiD CuDi Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager |
| Kno Death Is Silent |
| Kool A.D. 51 |
| Long Distance Calling Long Distance Calling |
| Main Attrakionz Bossalinis & Fooliyones |
| Maudlin Ionesco |
| Mechina Empyrean |
| Mellow Bravo Mellow Bravo |
| Method Man and Redman Blackout! 2 |
| Mew And the Glass Handed Kites |
| mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's all |
| Mike Jones Who Is Mike Jones? |
| Monolake Ghosts |
| Monsters of Folk Monsters of Folk |
| Murs Murs For President |
| My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought... |
| Napalm Death Utopia Banished |
| Napalm Death Fear, Emptiness, Despair |
| Napalm Death Diatribes |
| Necro The Sexorcist |
| Neurosis and Jarboe Neurosis and Jarboe |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth |
| Noah and the Whale The First Days of Spring |
| Oceansize Home & Minor |
| Octaves Greener Pastures |
| Omnium Gatherum Beyond |
| Opeth Morningrise |
| Opeth Watershed |
| Opeth Heritage |
| Pain Of Salvation Be |
| Passion Pit Manners |
| Planes Mistaken For Stars Mercy |
| Polyenso Birth.Eater |
| Portugal. The Man Censored Colors |
| Prefuse 73 Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian |
| Propagandhi Supporting Caste |
| Protest the Hero Fortress |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous |
| Ra Duality |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Regina Spektor Far |
| Her next album I will definitively be able to describe as "more overrated psuedo-intellectual pop". |
| Reka Renaissance |
| Reks Grey Hairs |
| RPWL World Through My Eyes |
| Rush Vapor Trails |
| Rush Test for Echo |
| Sage Francis Personal Journals |
| Saigon The Greatest Story Never Told |
| Sarah Fimm White Birds |
| Sax Ruins Yawiquo |
| Scale The Summit The Collective |
| Scarface My Homies |
| Scarface The Last Of A Dying Breed |
| Senses Fail Renacer |
| Sevendust Black Out the Sun |
| Shabazz Palaces Black Up |
| Shad TSOL |
| Shearwater Animal Joy |
| Shone Heat Thing |
| Skyzoo The Salvation |
| Slaughterhouse Slaughterhouse |
| This is not very good. |
| Soilwork A Predator's Portrait |
| Soilwork The Living Infinite |
| Sol.Illaquists Of Sound The 4th Wall Part I |
| stellastarr* Civilized |
| Stolas Living Creatures |
| Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends |
| Talib Kweli Gutter Rainbows |
| Talib Kweli Prisoner of Conscious |
| The Alchemist Chemical Warfare |
| The Devil Wears Prada With Roots Above and Branches Below |
| The Flaming Lips Embryonic |
| This record is so stupid. |
| The Game The R.E.D. Album |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet |
| The Mayan Factor Yesterday's Son |
| An art rock group from Baltimore, The Mayan Factor have an ethnic sound, using atmospheric percussion (kongas and drums), acoustic guitars, various keyboard samples and tribal bass to an melodic, intense effect. The Mayan Factor could equally be called progressive rock as they could be lumped into the space rock category, one thing setting them apart from most artists in these genres is that the vocalist raps on occasion. Don't let this deter you, because it's an altogether interesting and one of a kind experience. |
| The Mayan Factor 44 |
| An art rock group from Baltimore, The Mayan Factor have an ethnic sound, using atmospheric percussion (kongas and drums), acoustic guitars, various keyboard samples and tribal bass to an melodic, intense effect. The Mayan Factor could equally be called progressive rock as they could be lumped into the space rock category, one thing setting them apart from most artists in these genres is that the vocalist raps on occasion. Don't let this deter you, because it's an altogether interesting and one of a kind experience. |
| The Mayan Factor In Lake 'CH |
| An art rock group from Baltimore, The Mayan Factor have an ethnic sound, using atmospheric percussion (kongas and drums), acoustic guitars, various keyboard samples and tribal bass to an melodic, intense effect. The Mayan Factor could equally be called progressive rock as they could be lumped into the space rock category, one thing setting them apart from most artists in these genres is that the vocalist raps on occasion. Don't let this deter you, because it's an altogether interesting and one of a kind experience. |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting The Ocean and the Sun |
| The Streets Original Pirate Material |
| The Sword Age of Winters |
| The Weeknd Trilogy |
| what a shit heap of over-production. also the new tracks are fucking garbage. fuck you abel you fuking douche |
| Themselves CrownsDown |
| This Will Destroy You This Will Destroy You |
| Thrice Identity Crisis |
| tUnE-yArDs w h o k i l l |
| Tyler The Creator Goblin |
| Tyondai Braxton Central Market |
| Vast Aire Dueces Wild |
| Waxahatchee Cerulean Salt |
| Widowspeak Almanac |
| Wolfmother Wolfmother |
| Wu-Tang Clan Iron Flag |
| Wu-Tang Clan 8 Diagrams |
| Yonlu A Society In Which No Tear is Shed... |
| Young Widows Settle Down City |
| Zozobra Savage Masters |
| 1.5 very poor |
| 9th Prince Prince Of New York |
| Copy GZA's flow to a tee, the subdued production style of Pro Tools, then rap about dumb sh*t. Hey look, you're 9th Prince. |
| Amorphis Eclipse |
| Asher Roth Asleep In The Bread Aisle |
| Mario Kart, munchies, Madden, suburbs, Sublime-posturing, pre-pubescent socio-political musings… Asleep in the Bread Aisle has all the ingredients for anthemic frat-party bro-hop. Raised in the suburbs (the far-outlying suburbs to be precise) of Philadelphia, Asher Roth paints a picture one would expect from homogeneous experiences and a biblically allusive name. And there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that, especially when delving into the metaphysical or even the mildly interesting. Even then, some artists excel at making light, care-free party music – see pre-808’s/ Louis Vitton Kanye for a good example. The thing is, Roth tries to do both here – but is by no means a renaissance man; instead, he recreates the very essence of Wonderbread through music. |
| Common Universal Mind Control |
| Depeche Mode Speak And Spell |
| Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand |
| Green City Brand New Money |
This isn't the absolute worst album ever; there are maybe 20 albums below this benchmark on the craptacular scale. Mixing equal parts southern cliches and mainstream hiphop yields Green City. All of the lyrics are contrived and sound as if they looked up "gangster" (yes, with the "er") on wikipedia and copied what they saw. Even then, half of the lyrics don't even make sense. The beats are digustingly repetitive, redefining the term unimaginative, and include plenty of high BPM closed-hi-hat passages typical of the genre. Stay away from this album; it's horrible, and the .5 extra points above 1.0 are only given for Scarface's introduction. Speaking of Scarface, he should be quite ashamed to associate his name with presenting this record.
A more in depth review to come, just using this as a forum for my thoughts at work. |
| Hurt Goodbye To The Machine |
| In Every Breath Distrust |
| Incubus A Crow Left of the Murder... |
| Insane Clown Posse The Great Milenko |
| Insane Clown Posse The Amazing Jeckel Brothers |
| Insane Clown Posse Bizaar |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights |
| Kevin Rudolf In The City |
| Terribly generic dance rock. I don't know how this album has anything to do with being "In The City", except that it has Nas and Weezy on it. Don't even bother. |
| Mike Mictlan False Hopes VIII: Deity For Re-Hire |
| R. Kelly Trapped in the Closet (Chapters 1-12) |
| Soilwork Sworn to a Great Divide |
| Sonata Arctica Ecliptica |
| Spiral Architect A Sceptic's Universe |
This album sounds like this:
blibble blib blib doodle doodle blib blib blib blib crack crack boom bloob bloob. |
| The Receiving End of Sirens Between the Heart and the Synapse |
| Trapt Trapt |
| Wiz Khalifa Rolling Papers |
| "Ayo 1...this nigga whole style is straight baby thighs son. Straight up. He might got some songs that yall might enjoy n shit but he a straight glitter blooded nigga wit a bullshit ass rhyme book when it come down to it nahmean. The nigga got yall fooled tho so I aint gon step on the nigga toes too much n shit but if you got male genitalia n shit n you listen to this nigga music you a vic nahmean. This nigga done flashed his wand on you. Or you mighta caught a contact off that fairy dust the niggas smokin" -- http://bigghostnahmean.blogspot.com |
