Average Rating: 3.50 Rating Variance: 0.38 Objectivity Score: 73% (Fairly Balanced)
Sorted by Rating | Sort by Name5 classicBrand New The Devil And God Are Raging Inside MemewithoutYou Catch for Us the Foxes4.5 superbAnd So I Watch You From Afar And So I Watch You From AfarArctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am....British rock has spent most of the first decade of the 21st century desperately searching for its own classic album. Hopefully this will be the one that earns the historic crown because it deserves it. As Cities Burn Come Now SleepAs Cities Burn Hell Or High WaterAt the Drive-In Relationship of CommandHell Is For Heroes Transmit DisruptMoneen The Red TreeMuse AbsolutionThe Antlers HospiceThe Gaslight Anthem The '59 SoundThe Receiving End of Sirens Between the Heart and the Synapse4 excellentA Wilhelm Scream Career SuicideBayside The Walking WoundedBloc Party Silent AlarmBrand New DaisyBrigade LightsCirca Survive On Letting GoColour of Fire Pearl NecklaceDeath Cab For Cutie PlansDisco Ensemble First aid kitDo Make Say Think Other TruthsFightstar Grand UnificationFoals AntidotesHell Is For Heroes The Neon HandshakeHell Is For Heroes Hell is for HeroesHot Cross Risk RevivalHot Water Music CautionIdlewild The Remote PartIdlewild 100 Broken WindowsJetplane Landing Once Like A SparkLa Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River...mewithoutYou Brother, SistermewithoutYou It's all crazy! It's all false! It's allMoving Mountains Foreword EPOasis Stop The ClocksPolar Bear Club Chasing HamburgRise Against The Sufferer and the WitnessSay Anything In Defense of the GenreSay Anything ...Is A Real Boy (re-release)Say Anything Say AnythingSmall Leaks Sink Ships Until The World Is HappySo Many Dynamos The Loud WarsThe Receiving End of Sirens The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi3.5 greatA Verse Unsung Sleeping TigersAdebisi Shank This Is The Album Of A Band Called Adebisi ShankBayside ShudderBloc Party IntimacyBrand New Deja EntenduBrazil Philosophy of VelocityBrigade Come Morning We FightCirca Survive JuturnaCursive Happy HollowDeath Cab For Cutie TransatlanticismDropkick Murphys The Meanest of TimesEisley CombinationsFrank Turner Love, Ire & SongGifts From Enola From FathomsGod Is An Astronaut God Is An AstronautI am the Avalanche I am the AvalancheIf These Trees Could Talk Above the Earth, Below the SkyJimmy Eat World Bleed AmericanManchester Orchestra Mean Everything To NothingmewithoutYou A to B: LifeMinus The Bear Planet Of IceModest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even SankModest Mouse The Moon & AntarcticaMoving Mountains PneumaMuse Black Holes and RevelationsNorthstar PollyannaPolar Bear Club Sometimes Things Just DisappearRed Sparowes At The Soundless DawnTaking Back Sunday Louder NowThe Killers Hot FussThe Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The BondsThis Town Needs Guns AnimalsThrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III and IV...Thrice BeggarsThursday A City By the Light DividedYellowcard Ocean Avenue3 good...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead The Century of Self30 Seconds to Mars A Beautiful LieAlkaline Trio CrimsonAll-American Rejects Move AlongBayside BaysideBear vs. Shark TerrorhawkBiffy Clyro PuzzleBilly Talent Billy Talent IIBloc Party A Weekend in the CityEmery The QuestionEnter Shikari Take To The SkiesNot as original or groundbreaking as the hype machine suggested but it doesn't deserve the inevitable backlash it got designating it as utter crap. While it's not a real meld of genres and the synth plays an extremely basic role it does have a lot of experimentation in various other areas which curiously comes out to something completely average but in an interesting way. The energy of the album powers it through its bad moments but it never really transcends it. Doubt they'll ever be a great band but they'll probably never be a boring one either. Enter Shikari Common DreadsFeeder The SinglesFighting With Wire Man Vs MonsterFightstar One Day Son This Will All Be YoursGod Is An Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is BrightGreen Day American IdiotKinesis Handshakes For BulletsKings of Leon Only By The NightMoneen The World I Want To Leave BehindSaosin SaosinSparta PorcelainThe Out Circuit Pierce The Empire With A SoundThrice The Artist In The AmbulanceThrice The Alchemy Index: Vols. I and II...Yellowcard Lights And Sounds2.5 average...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead Source Tags and CodesAngels and Airwaves We Don't Need to WhisperChiodos Bone Palace BalletDance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin DanceDragonForce Inhuman RampageLostprophets Liberation TransmissionAn album apparently made on auto-pilot. The vast majority of the songs feel like the band has taken a serviceable musical element, be it a decent riff, some gang vocals, maybe a bit of screaming possibly chuck in a memorable chorus line or two and then chucked it into some kind of song machine which then turned out a song. Even the guitar solos are pretty interchangeable. These songs don't have their own atmospheres because they're built with the same elements and structures and though each one makes for a perfectly alright single track an entire album worth gets stale. A couple of songs (Everyday Combat, A Town Called Hypocrisy) benefit from conscious efforts to create a certain sound a little outside the norm but as for the rest, there's not a bad song on here (in fact there's not even a single bad moment, though occasionally the vocals dive into straight out nasal whine) but there's not a great one either. This problem was present on Start Something but to a lesser degree as the songs sounded fresher and heavier. Next time guys, please pay attention to what you're doing.New Found Glory CatalystNew Found Glory Sticks and StonesNorthstar Is This Thing Loaded?Plus 44 When Your Heart Stops BeatingSmall Brown Bike The River BedThe Faint Danse MacabreThe Killers Sam's TownThursday War All The TimeYellowcard Paper Walls2 poorTrophy Scars Alphabet Alphabets
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