Average Rating: 4.13 Rating Variance: 0.65 Objectivity Score: 55% (Somewhat Balanced)
Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name5.0 classiccLOUDDEAD cLOUDDEADGod Is an Astronaut Far from RefugeGodspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero KanadaSoft Machine The Soft Machine4.5 superbDeerhoof Friend OpportunityFriend Opportunity was curious, exciting, and punched me in the face more times than I can even remember. Surprisingly clever, enigmatic and jovial all at once, making an exhilerating, orgasmic and violent smoothie of an album. Thick, choppy distorted guitar driven tracks like "Perfect Me" and "Cast Off Crown" pushed me out of my chair and spit on me, while the cascading, resonance of "The Galaxist" and "Look Away" scared and lulled me. This is a good one. Imagine it as going to an S&M parlor for a haircut. Doesn't make sense, but the outrageousness of it is brilliant.Estradasphere Palace Of MirrorsThis group, in my mind, summarizes the word "eclectic" better than many, MANY bands are capable of. This is one of the most versatile bands in my library, incorporating musical themes from a brilliant array of facets; classical, to almost polka, to surf rock, to heavy rock, to ambient, to post-rock. It's difficult to put a pin on Estradasphere because they're so many places at once.Minus the Bear Planet of IceSoft Machine ThirdThe Mars Volta De-Loused in the ComatoriumThee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our This Heat DeceitIncredible post-punk album. They aimed for a nuclear-fallout sound, and they did an amazing job achieving that.Tortoise A Lazarus TaxonTortoise astounds me at every turn; their sound changing sometimes drastically from song to song on a single album. A Lazarus Taxon is no exception. You find gentle, fluid and almost ambient tracks like "Adverse Camber", "Blue Station", and "Autumn Sweater", then you move on through the CD and are blown away by lengthy jazz driven breakdowns, such as in "Didjeridoo" and "Cliff Dweller Society", on to fuzzy, earthy electronica sequences like "A Grape Dope", "Sexual For Elizabeth", and "Blackbird". This album has something for everyone on it, incorporating jazz, electronica, and elements of post-rock and progressive. Despite the large amount of remixed tracks on the multiple CDs, the sound stays true to Tortoise's roots, eclectic, bipolar, extreme; lulling you into security, then yanking you back out at neck-breaking speed. This album is a must have for any Tortoise fan, and a must hear for anybody who hasn't heard of this group. They push it to the limit with whatever musical strength they can muster, and surprise you with the simple change of a track, and sometimes, mid-song. Overall, a charismatic and juicy addition to the Tortoise collection.4.0 excellentEminem InfiniteSquarepusher Feed Me Weird Things3.5 greatMetric Grow Up and Blow Away3.0 goodDownload EffectorDecent album, although it far from tore my face off. The sound only differed with track change, and the lengthy electric explosions became slightly repetetive and easy to see coming. I really would have liked this album to surprise me more, but it just left me feeling like it was missing something. Fun, but not terrific.The Unicorns Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?2.5 averagePorcupine Tree DeadwingPorcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet
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