| 4.5 superb |
| Agalloch The Mantle |
| alt-J An Awesome Wave |
| Anberlin Never Take Friendship Personal |
| Anberlin Vital |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| August Burns Red Messengers |
| This album is not typical to metalcore. ABR are known for their many breakdowns, intense guitar riffs, many squeals, dynamic changes throughout songs, and Jake Luhrs' growling vocals. This album has all that, but the technicality of the band has skyrocketed from Thrill Seeker. The lyrics are very powerful to people of faith and the album flows extremely well. This album is an essential metalcore release and is really fantastic. |
| August Burns Red Constellations |
| Band of Horses Everything All the Time |
| Band of Horses Cease to Begin |
| Battles Mirrored |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Cartel Cycles |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise |
| Circa Survive Juturna |
| Circa Survive Appendage |
| Closure in Moscow First Temple |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension |
| Fucking wonderful. Number City is nuts. Probably the best intro track Coheed's ever done for an album. As a whole, the double album wins. |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends |
| Dear and the Headlights Small Steps Heavy Hooves |
| Dir En Grey Uroboros |
| Dizzy Wright Smokeout Conversations |
| Drake Take Care |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP |
| Eminem Recovery |
| Frank Ocean channel ORANGE |
| Freddie Gibbs midwestgangstaboxframecadillacmuzik |
| Freddie Gibbs Cold Day in Hell |
| Freddie Gibbs Baby Face Killa |
| fun. Some Nights |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute |
| Grimes Visions |
| Imogen Heap Speak For Yourself |
| James Blake Overgrown |
| Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid |
| Jay-Z The Black Album |
| John Mayer Room for Squares |
| Katatonia Viva Emptiness |
| Kid Cudi Man on the Moon: The End of Day |
| Lil Wayne No Ceilings |
| Lil Wayne Dedication 2 |
| Lil Wayne Da Drought 3 |
| Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor |
| Mae The Everglow |
| Mariah Carey The Emancipation of Mimi |
| Maroon 5 Songs About Jane |
| Mat Kearney City Of Black & White |
| Mayday Parade A Lesson In Romantics |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice |
| Minus the Bear Menos El Oso |
| Mos Def The Ecstatic |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations |
| Mutemath Mutemath |
| Mutemath Reset |
| Mutemath Odd Soul |
| of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? |
| On An On Give In |
| Opeth Watershed |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Opeth Morningrise |
| Passion Pit Gossamer |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing |
| Portugal. The Man Evil Friends |
| Purity Ring Shrines |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication |
| Sigur Ros Kveikur |
| The Audition Self-Titled Album |
| I loved Champion and this improves on Champion tenfold. Imagine taking all of the lovable pop-punk melody from Controversy Loves Company and infusing it with everything they improved on talent-wise as a band in Champion and you have this album. One of the catchiest albums I have heard this year, certainly a shining star and a perfect piece of my summer playlist. |
| The Dear Hunter Act III: Life and Death |
| Supreme fanboy, but holy crap, this album absolutely rules. |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum |
| The Dear Hunter Migrant |
| The Dear Hunter Violet |
| The Dear Hunter Green |
| The Fall of Troy Manipulator |
| The Fall of Troy Phantom on the Horizon |
| The Fall of Troy Ghostship Demos |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting The Ocean and the Sun |
| The Sword Gods of the Earth |
| The Sword Apocryphon |
| The Weeknd Thursday |
| Thrice Beggars |
| Thrice Vheissu |
| Tripwires Spacehopper |
| Twenty One Pilots Vessel |
| Usher Confessions |
| 4.0 excellent |
| Agalloch The White |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain |
| Anberlin Cities |
| Anberlin Blueprints for the Black Market |
| Autre Ne Veut Anxiety |
| Band of Horses Infinite Arms |
| Beck Guero |
| Beck Sea Change |
| Beck Odelay |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska |
| Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me |
| Birds Of Tokyo Universes |
| Catchy. Very, very catchy. If you like 'Themata' by Karnivool, you will love this album. Gets better with time. Recommended songs "White Witch" and "Broken Bones" |
| Brand New Deja Entendu |
| Brand New Daisy |
| Cartel Chroma |
| Charli XCX True Romance |
| Chris Brown Chris Brown |
| Circa Survive On Letting Go |
| Circa Survive Violent Waves |
| Classixx Hanging Gardens |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow |
| Coheed and Cambria The Last Supper: Live At Hammerstein Ballroom |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension |
| Coldplay Prospekt's March |
| Common Be |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind |
| Copeland You Are My Sunshine |
| Dear and the Headlights Drunk Like Bible Times |
| Death Cab for Cutie Plans |
| Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism |
| Dillinger Four C I V I L W A R |
| Dir En Grey Vulgar |
| Dizzy Wright The First Agreement |
| Every Avenue Shh. Just Go With It |
| Every Time I Die Hot Damn! |
| Fabolous Loso's Way |
| Fabolous From Nothin' To Somethin' |
| Frank Ocean Nostalgia, Ultra. |
| Freelance Whales Weathervanes |
| Girl Talk Night Ripper |
| House Of Heroes The End Is Not the End |
| Inc. No World |
| Jack Johnson Sleep Through the Static |
| John Mayer Heavier Things |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak |
| Kanye West The College Dropout |
| Kanye West Late Registration |
| Kid Cudi A Kid Named Cudi |
| Kings of Leon Only By The Night |
| Lil Wayne Sorry 4 The Wait |
| Lil Wayne Tha Carter III |
| Lil Wayne Tha Carter IV |
| Local Natives Hummingbird |
| Local Natives Gorilla Manor |
| Lupe Fiasco The Cool |
| Mac Miller K.I.D.S. |
| Maroon 5 Hands All Over |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye |
| Mat Kearney Nothing Left to Lose |
| Mayday Parade Anywhere But Here |
| MGMT Oracular Spectacular |
| This album is funky, has tons of pizazz and will make you shake uncontrollably if you like this kind of stuff. It's catchy, fresh, and alive. Totally shocked me. |
| Mikal Cronin MCII |
| Minus the Bear Omni |
| Muse HAARP |
| My Bloody Valentine m b v |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth |
| Nine Inch Nails Year Zero |
| Opeth Orchid |
| Passion Pit Manners |
| The music inside the album art is so different from what you may expect. One of the more poppy and dancey albums released this year. My friend says: "Sounds like fruit juice to me, sweet and tart at the same time, delicious." |
| Protest the Hero Fortress |
| Honestly, I wasn't into Kezia. I wasn't into Protest's punk style either with their debut EP. Fortress changed my mind about them. Insanely technical, another HUGE progression from album to album, gets better and better with every listen, even after owning a copy since the release. |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Refused Songs To Fan The Flames Of Discontent |
| Rilo Kiley Under the Blacklight |
| Rilo Kiley More Adventurous |
| Savoir Adore In The Wooded Forest |
| Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe |
| Search The City A Fire So Big The Heavens Can See It |
| Could be the best act bar Anberlin on Tooth & Nail Records. This album is full of catchy hooks, powerful guitars, driving snare and emotional vocals. Search The City have a very bright future. This album is very, very good. |
| The Apples in Stereo Velocity Of Sound |
| The Apples in Stereo New Magnetic Wonder |
| The Audition Champion |
| I'm completely shocked more people aren't in love with this album. Controversy Loves Company was terrible! This album is easily a 4 and is arguably the best pop punk album released this year. Emotionally driving, sexual lyrics, great solos from Seth Johnson and fantastic tenor vocals from Danny Stevens. If you like pop punk, get this album. |
| The Dear Hunter Act I: The Lake South, the River North |
| The Dear Hunter Black |
| The Dear Hunter White |
| The Dear Hunter Blue |
| The Dear Hunter Yellow |
| The Dear Hunter Orange |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger |
| The Lonely Island Incredibad |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting Tiger and the Duke (Re-Issue) |
| The Sword Age of Winters |
| The Sword Warp Riders |
| The Weeknd House of Balloons |
| The Weeknd Echoes of Silence |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV |
| Thrice Major/Minor |
| Tyler, the Creator Bastard |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend |
| Wiz Khalifa Kush & Orange Juice |
| Wiz Khalifa Deal or No Deal |
| Wiz Khalifa Prince of The City 2 |
| Wiz Khalifa Taylor Allderdice |
