| 4.5 superb |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step |
| Agalloch The Mantle |
| Ancestors Of Sound Mind |
I've only listened to this once, but I already want to give it a 5. Holy fuck this is a good album, it is a huge piece of musical art. It would be hard to pinpoint exactly what this album is, but a mixture of Pink Floyd, Stoner Metal, Doom Metal, 70s Psychedelic and post-metal wouldn't even begin to describe the aural bliss this album is.
Potentially one of the best albums, and certainly biggest surprises, of 2009, Ancestor's Of Sound Mind is not an album to miss. |
| Aphrodite's Child 666 |
| At the Drive-In Vaya EP |
| Bright Eyes Fevers & Mirrors |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Converge Axe To Fall |
| Death From Above 1979 Heads Up |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or |
| Emily Wells The Symphonies: Dreams, Memories & Parties |
| Emily Wells The Symphonies: Dreams, Memories & Parti |
| Emily Wells is anything but your typical singer/songwriter. Emily combines classical violin with hip hop beats and a mess of added instruments to create a unique piece of music that is above excellent. Samples and looping is used very often, but the production is clean and modern. Any fan of downtempo trip hop or unique music should check out Emily immediately. |
| Faith No More King For A Day, Fool For A Lifetime |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To |
| Isis Wavering Radiant |
| Lvmen Mondo |
| Lvmen Heron |
| Margins Margins |
| Margins creates one of the best debuts in post rock. Setting out to make post rock without the epic build ups and crescendos, what comes out is a beautiful display of atmosphere and imagery. An absolute must get for any fan of post-rock. |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye |
| Minus The Bear Planet Of Ice |
| Mr. Bungle California |
| Mr. Bungle Mr Bungle |
| Murder by Death Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them? |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| Nine Inch Nails The Fragile |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral |
| Off Minor Some Blood |
| Opeth Still Life |
| Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Rodrigo y Gabriela 11:11 |
| Russian Circles Geneva |
| WOW!! I wasn't expecting this to be this good. Geneva combines the post-metal abrasiveness of Enter with the calm post-rock atmospherics of Station seamlessly. The first half hits you in the face with pounding heaviness, while the second half grounds you with long progressive compositions. Easily Russian Circles strongest release to date. Pelican will have a lot to compete with this year. |
| The Fall Of Troy Phantom on the Horizon |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam In Goliath |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute |
| The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Tool Lateralus |
| 4 excellent |
| 3 Wake Pig |
| A Beautiful Machine Solar Winds, White Noise, Antigravity |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms |
| Adebisi Shank This Is The Album Of A Band Called Adebisi Shank |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain |
| Al Di Meola Elegant Gypsy |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals |
| Altar of Plagues White Tomb |
| An Endless Sporadic Ameliorate EP |
| And So I Watch You From Afar And So I Watch You From Afar |
| Animal Collective Strawberry Jam |
| Animal Collective Sung Tongs |
| Animal Collective Fall Be Kind |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works, Vol. II |
| Arstidir Arstidir |
| As Tall As Lions As Tall As Lions |
| As Tall As Lions craft a beautiful piece of alternative/indie rock that is packed with emotion and big choruses that anyone can enjoy. The vocals are smooth and easy to listen to, while the music is fun and memorable. Anyone who is a fan of rock music, or any good music, needs to check this album out. |
| At the Drive-In In / Casino / Out |
| Atlas of ID Cataclysm EP |
| For those who like The Mars Volta will love this EP, the singer sounds EXACTLY like Cedric, and the music is very progressive and experimental like the Volta. |
| Aussitot Mort 6 Songs |
| Bat For Lashes Two Suns |
| BATS Red In Tooth & Claw |
| Battles Mirrored |
| Between The Buried And Me Colors_LIVE |
| Between The Buried And Me Colors |
| Between The Buried And Me The Silent Circus |
| Black Light Burns Cruel Melody |
| BLK JKS Mystery EP |
| Bloodbath Nightmares Made Flesh |
| Boredoms Vision Creation Newsun |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning |
| Bright Eyes Lifted or the Story is in the Soil... |
| Buckethead The Elephant Man's Alarm Clock |
| Can Tago Mago |
| Circle Takes The Square As The Roots Undo |
| Converge No Heroes |
| Converge When Forever Comes Crashing (Remastered) |
| Converge You Fail Me |
| Cut Copy In Ghost Colours |
| Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains |
| Cynic Traced In Air |
| Daft Punk Discovery |
| Dan Swano Moontower |
| Daturah Daturah |
| Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca |
| Disappearer The Clearing |
| Disillusion Back To Times Of Splendor |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing |
| Do Make Say Think You, You're a History in Rust |
| Do Make Say Think Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn |
| Do Make Say Think Other Truths |
| Don Caballero What Burns Never Returns |
| DOOMRIDERS BLACK THUNDER |
| DOOMRIDERS Darkness Come Alive |
| dredg El Cielo |
| ebu gogo Worlds |
| Edge Of Sanity Crimson II |
| Edge Of Sanity Crimson |
| Elliott Smith Elliott Smith |
| Elliott Smith XO |
| Elliott Smith Figure 8 |
| Emily Wells The Symphonies: Dreams, Memories & Parti |
| Envy A Dead Sinking Story |
| Ephel Duath The Painter's Palette |
| Exotic Animal Petting Zoo I Have Made My Bed in Darkness |
| Faith No More Angel Dust |
| Fantomas Suspended Animation |
| Fantomas The Directors Cut |
| Faunts Feel.Love.Thinking.Of. |
| Femme Fatale From the Abundance of the Heart, the Mouth Speaks |
| Fontan Wintherwila |
| Forget Cassettes Salt |
| Fugazi Repeater |
| Future of Forestry Travel II |
| Gavin Castleton Home |
| Giraffes? Giraffes! More Skin With Milk-Mouth |
| Girl Talk Feed the Animals |
| Girl Talk Night Ripper |
| Goon Moon Licker's Last Leg |
| Gregor Samsa 27:36 |
| Group Inerane Guitars from Agadez (Music of Niger) |
| Gwynbleidd Nostalgia |
| Hammock Raising Your Voice... Trying to Stop an Echo |
| Homesick for Space Unison |
| I Am Ghost Lovers' Requiem |
| Ikuinen Kaamos Closure |
| In First Person Lost Between Hands Held Tight |
| Iron Lung Sexless //No Sex |
| Isis In the Absence of Truth |
| Isis Panopticon |
| Isis Oceanic |
| Jakob Solace |
| Jawbox For Your Own Special Sweetheart |
| Jeff Buckley Grace |
| John Zorn Naked City |
| Karnivool Sound Awake |
| Katatonia The Great Cold Distance |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King |
| Kyte Kyte |
| Lightning Bolt Earthly Delights |
| LITE Phantasia |
| Lovage Music To Make Love To Your Old Lady By |
| Lullabye Arkestra Ampgrave |
| Lvmen Raison D'Etre |
| Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible |
| Margot and the Nuclear So and So's The Dust of Retreat |
| Marilyn Manson Holy Wood (In The Shadow Of The Valley Of Death) |
| Marilyn Manson Mechanical Animals |
| Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar |
| Marilyn Manson The High End of Low |
| Marnie Stern This Is It and I Am It and You Are It... |
| Looking at the album cover you may expect another female singer song writer. But Marnie Stern is far from the norm. Creating a chaotic blend of math rock a la Hella and Don Caballero, but with more emotion than technical skill, This Is It... proves to be one of the most original and fun listens you will have the pleasure of listening to. |
| Maserati Inventions for the New Season |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain |
| Mastodon Leviathan |
| maudlin of the Well Bath |
| Megadeth Endgame |
| Mew No More Stories |
| Mew Frengers |
| Mike Patton A Perfect Place |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West |
| Moving Mountains Pneuma |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry |
| Muse Absolution |
| Native Wresting Moves |
| Ever wonder what would happen if Minus the Bear, BATS, and These Arms are Snakes fought each other in the Thunderdome, but instead of fighting to the death they formed a band? Yeah, that's Native. |
| Nine Inch Nails Year Zero |
| Nine Inch Nails Beside You In Time |
| Nine Inch Nails And All That Could've Been VHS/DVD |
| Nine Inch Nails And All That Could Have Been |
| Nordic Nomadic Nordic Nomadic |
| Nordic Nomadic is a solo project of a Toronto based musician that creates psychedelic folk music similar to Black Mountain. The songs are laid back and slow, focusing on calming vocals and acoustic guitar mastery. An excellent debut from a lesser known artist that can be appreciated by anyone who likes folk or indie music. |
| Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Los Sueños De Un Higado |
| Opeth Watershed |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries |
| Opeth Lamentations (Live at Shepherd's Bush Em |
| Opeth Damnation |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse |
| pageninetynine Document #8 |
| Panda Bear Person Pitch |
| PANTyRAiD The Sauce |
| Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain |
| Pavement Brighten The Corners: Nicene Creedence Edition |
| Pavement Brighten the Corners |
| Pelican Ephemeral EP |
| Pelican crafts their best work yet with this short 20 minute EP, featuring two original songs and one cover. The two songs are Pelican's best, hard hitting riffs mixed with soft atmosphere, this is the sound Pelican has been search for for years. |
| Pelican Australasia |
| Pg. 99 Document # 8 |
| Pg. 99 Document #5 |
| Pink Floyd Animals |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia |
| Portugal. The Man The Satanic Satanist |
| This album started out as a 3 for me, but the more I listened to it the better it got. From the upbeat opener to the slow and somber closer, "The Satanic Satanist" brings 11 tracks filled with emotion. Not quite perfect, but definitely an excellent album that is well worth letting grow on you. |
| Portugal. The Man Waiter, \"You Vultures!\" |
| Protest the Hero Fortress |
| Protest the Hero Fortress (Instrumental) |
| Protest the Hero Kezia |
| Puscifer "C" Is for (Please Insert Sophomoric Gen |
| Puscifer "C" Is for (Please Insert Sophomoric Genitalia Ref |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Ramona Falls Intuit |
| Red Animal War Black Phantom Crusades |
| Regina Spektor Far |
| Rolo Tomassi Rolo Tomassi |
| Russian Circles Enter |
| Rx Bandits ...And the Battle Begun |
| Rx Bandits Mandala |
| Sick jams from a great band. The logical progression form 2006's ...And the Battle Begun. RX sticks with what they do best and bring some rocking music that will surely bring you back for more. Even with the loss of their horn section, the music stays interesting and fresh, definitely worth a listen, this is good music. |
| Shels Sea of the Dying Dhow |
| Sigur Ros með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust |
| Sigur Ros Heima |
| Sigur Ros Takk |
| Sigur Ros Ágætis Byrjun |
| Sleeping in Gethsemane The Great White North |
| Slint Spiderland |
| Stars Of The Lid The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid |
| Subterranean Masquerade Suspended Animation Dreams |
| The best Opeth tribute band ever. |
| Swans The Great Annihilator |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock |
| Talking Heads Remain In Light |
| Tera Melos Drugs to the Dear Youth |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul |
| The Beatles Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| The Big Sleep Sleep Forever |
| The Birthday Massacre Violet |
| The Books The Lemon of Pink |
| The Cinematic Orchestra Man with a Movie Camera |
| The Coma Lillies Laughing Gas Opera |
| The Coma Recovery Drown That Holy End in Wine |
| The Decemberists The Hazards Of Love |
| The Evpatoria Report Golevka |
| The Flaming Lips Embryonic |
| The Flashbulb Soundtrack to a Vacant Life |
| The Flashbulb Flexing Habitual |
| The Halifax Pier The Halifax Pier |
| The Mercury Program Confines Of Heat Split |
| The National Alligator |
| The Shins Chutes Too Narrow |
| The XX xx |
| The XX have created a debut album suitable for some dirty indie sex and all around enjoyable listening. They have been said to combine modern R&B with indie, but a better comparison would be Massive Attack like trip-hop, but stripped down and indie-fyed. Pretty much essential listening to anyone who likes indie or pop music. |
| These Arms Are Snakes Tail Swallower and Dove |
| Thrice Vheissu |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety |
| Thrice The Artist In The Ambulance |
| Tiger Lou A Partial Print |
| Time To Burn Is.Land |
| Tin Hat Trio The Rodeo Eroded |
| Tool Salival |
| Tyondai Braxton Central Market |
| UNKLE Psyence Fiction |
| Valina A Tempo! A Tempo! |
| Various Artists (Indie) Dark Was The Night |
| Venetian Snares Detrimentalist |
| We Are Knives We Have Become Like Knives |
| We Followed Tigers And Then We Were Killed... |
| When Day Descends Ascension |
| Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot |
| Year of No Light Nord |
| Yes Close To The Edge |
| Yes Fragile |
| Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss |
| 3.5 great |
| !!! Myth Takes |
| ...Who Calls So Loud ...Who Calls So Loud |
| 5ive Hesperus |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore |
| Air Love 2 |
| Android Lust Devour, Rise and Take Flight |
| Animal Collective Feels |
| Animal Collective Spirit They've Gone, Spirit They've Vanished |
| Animals as Leaders Animals as Leaders |
| Apparat Walls |
| Apres Vous Old Songs EP |
| Apsci Thanks For Asking |
| Arcade Fire Funeral |
| Arch Enemy Burning Bridges |
| As Tall As Lions Lafcadio |
| At the Drive-In El Gran Orgo |
| Back When We Sang As Ghosts |
| Baroness Blue Record |
| BATS Cruel Sea Scientist |
| Belong October Language |
| Between The Buried And Me Alaska |
| Blackmail Tempo Tempo |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm |
| Bloodbath The Fathomless Mastery |
| Bloodbath Breeding Death EP |
| Boards of Canada Geogaddi |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Book of Knots The Book of Knots |
| Botch We Are The Romans |
| Brand New Deja Entendu |
| Brand New Daisy |
Okay, serious rating now..... It's no Devil & God thats for sure. Or even Deja
Entendu part 2. Daisy is Brand New stepping out of their comfort zones and
exploring new ideas. Unfortunately, those new ideas don't work very well most of the time.
Highlights would be "Vices" (Screamo Brand New? More of this would've been amazing!), "At
The Bottom" (lead single), and "Noro" (Brand New waving goodbye?). Not the worst record in
their discography, but no where near the best either. |
| Calexico Carried To Dust |
| Caverns Kittens! |
| Children Of Bodom Hatebreeder |
| Cinephile Sampler: Volume 1 |
| Closure in Moscow First Temple |
| Consider the Thief Signs and Wonders |
| Crash Kings Crash Kings |
| Daitro Laisser Vivre Les Squelettes |
| Dead Man's Bones Dead Man's Bones |
| Dear Reader Replace why with funny |
| Death From Above 1979 Romantic Rights EP |
| Death From Above 1979 Live Session (iTunes Exclusive) |
| Deerhunter Microcastle |
| Dethklok The Dethalbum II |
| Devin Townsend Project Addicted |
| Do Make Say Think Goodbye Enemy Airship the Landlord Is De |
| Do Make Say Think & Yet & Yet |
| Elysian Fields The Afterlife |
| Explosions In The Sky The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place |
| Exxasens Polaris |
| Exxasens Beyond the Universe |
| Facing New York Facing New York |
| Fair To Midland Fables From a Mayfly |
| Faith No More The Real Thing |
| Flying Lotus Los Angeles |
| Future of Forestry Travel |
| Gallows Grey Britain |
| Gang Gang Dance Saint Dymphna |
| God's Revolver Little Black Horse... |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O |
| Gojira The Way Of All Flesh |
| Gojira From Mars To Sirius |
| Gordon's Tsunami Week Dropped By Branches [EP] |
| Gospel The Moon is A Dead World |
| Guizado Punx |
| Have A Nice Life Voids |
| Hella Hold Your Horse Is |
| Human Bell Human Bell |
| Iron Thrones Visions of Light |
| Japandroids Post-Nothing |
| Jesus Lizard Goat |
| John 5 REQUIEM |
| John 5 The Devil Knows My Name |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures |
| Kaki King Dreaming Of Revenge |
| Kaospilot Shadows |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye |
| King Crimson Red |
| Lamb of God Killadelphia |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake |
| Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn |
| Lamb of God New American Gospel |
| Lightning Bolt Wonderful Rainbow |
| Love You Moon Waxwane |
| LoveLikeFire Tear Ourselves Away |
| Lullabye Arkestra Threat/Worship |
| Magik Markers BOSS |
| Majority Rule Interview With David Frost |
| Marilyn Manson Guns, God and Government (DVD) |
| Marnie Stern In Advance of the Broken Arm |
| Massive Attack Blue Lines |
| maudlin of the Well Part the Second |
| maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map |
| Maybeshewill Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony |
| Maybeshewill Not For Want Of Trying |
| Men In Search of Perfect Weapon Men In Search of Perfect Weapon |
| Mew And the Glass Handed Kites |
| Mike Patton Crank: High Voltage |
| Minus The Bear Acoustics |
| Modwheelmood Pearls to Pigs, Vol. 1 |
| Modwheelmood Pearls to Pigs, Vol. 2 |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless |
| Naked City Torture Garden |
| Native We Delete; Erase |
| Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm |
| Nine Inch Nails The Slip |
| Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IV |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine |
| Oceansize Frames |
| Opeth The Roundhouse Tapes |
| Opeth Deliverance |
| Opeth Morningrise |
| Orchid Chaos Is Me |
| Past Lives Strange Symmetry |
| Pavement Wowee Zowee |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... |
| Pelican What We All Come To Need |
| Phantogram Eyelid Movies |
| Pink Floyd Meddle |
| Porcupine Tree Fear Of A Blank Planet |
| Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream |
| Portugal. The Man The Majestic Majesty |
| Prefuse 73 One Word Extinguisher |
| Propagandhi Supporting Caste |
| Pulling Teeth Paranoid Delusions/Paradise Illusions |
| Pure Reason Revolution Amor Vincit Omnia |
| Q and Not U No Kill No Beep Beep |
| Quest for Fire Quest for Fire |
| Radiohead Go to Sleep EP |
| Radiohead Hail To The Thief |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Rishloo Eidolon |
| Rolo Tomassi Hysterics |
| Rosetta Wake/Lift |
| Rosetta The Galilean Satellites |
| Russian Circles Station |
| Rx Bandits The Resignation |
| Screaming Females Power Move |
| Sholi Sholi |
| Sigur Ros Hvarf-Heim |
| Six Organs Of Admittance Luminous Night |
| Slint Slint EP |
| Spoon Kill The Moonlight |
| Squarepusher Ultravisitor |
| Squarepusher Go Plastic |
| Squarepusher Solo Electric Bass 1 |
| Just as the title says, this is a solo bass album from highly praised electronic artist Squarepusher. There are many grooves to be had in this album, but there is also atmosphere and soul in each of the 4 songs. Not just an album for bass players, this is a beautiful album that anyone can appreciate. |
| St. Vincent Actor |
| Stanley Clarke School Days |
| Stars Of The Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline |
| Swans Soundtracks For The Blind |
| Sweet Trip You Will Never Know Why |
| Taken By Trees East of Eden |
| The Beatles Abbey Road |
| The Beatles Revolver |
| The Big Pink A Brief History of Love |
| The Birthday Massacre Show and Tell |
| The Books Thought for Food |
| The Cancer Conspiracy Omega |
| The Deep Dark Woods HearYa Live Session |
| The Faint Danse Macabre |
| The Fall Of Troy Ghostship Demos |
| The Flashbulb Kirlian Selections |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron |
| The Mercury Program Chez Viking |
| The National Boxer |
| The Observatory A Far Cry From Here |
| The Shins Oh, Inverted World |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead |
| The Twilight Sad Forget The Night Ahead |
| This Is Your Captain Speaking Storyboard |
| Thrice Live at the House of Blues |
| Thrice Beggars |
| Tomahawk Mit Gas |
| Tomahawk Tomahawk |
| Tool Undertow |
| Torche Meanderthal |
| TV on the Radio Dear Science |
| Unearth III: In the Eyes of Fire |
| Unearth The Oncoming Storm |
| UUVVWWZ UUVVWWZ |
| A promising debut from an up and coming indie band. The album starts out great with the first 3 tracks, but unfortunately drags on in the middle which brings the whole album down. The rhythm section of the band keeps everything tight and groovy, almost dancable. You can't listen to most of the songs without nodding your head and tapping your foot. This is worth checking out if you like female vocals over heavy drum-n-bass music. I will be eagerly awaiting their next release, because I think they can, and will, do better. |
| Venetian Snares Winnipeg Is A Frozen Shithole |
| Venetian Snares Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett |
| We Vs. Death A Black House, A Coloured Home |
| Yonlu A Society In Which No Tear is Shed... |
| Zodiak Sermons |
