| 4.0 excellent |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms |
| Alanis Morissette Under Rug Swept |
| Arcade Fire Funeral |
| Bad Religion 30 Years Live |
| Bernard Carney No Time Like The Future |
| Sometimes touching (Cassandra's Lullaby), sometimes funny (The Bronchiodilated Blues), but always beautiful. Bernard Carney and Peter Grayling's seemless mixing of guitar and Cello create some truly wondeful sounds. There are a few rehashes of old songs, as well as a few lovely covers of old jazz tunes, to go along with the original tracks that are present. I highly recommend this to anyone who likes folk music, old dance tunes (Fred Astaire's "Cheek To Cheek"), or simply a classy mix of songs everyone can pick something out of. |
| Birds Of Tokyo Universes |
| Bluejuice Head of The Hawk |
| Bob Evans Goodnight, Bull Creek! |
| A stepup from his debut solo effort, Goodnight Bull Creek shows Bob Evans (A.K.A Kevin Mitchell) saying "goodbye to the suburbs" (Bull Creek is the suburb of Perth where he grew up) and creating a more rock orientated album. His sophomore effort is noticably less generic then "Suburban Songbook", which I felt was too frighteningly close to the work of Badly Drawn Boy to be worth anything more than the price of admission. It appears turning his back on the suburbs has been a good move for Mitchell, as GBC is a much more enjoyable album. |
| Brand New Deja Entendu |
| Brand New Daisy |
| Broken Social Scene Forgiveness Rock Record |
| Caleb McAlpine Science Fiction |
| Cloud Control Bliss Release |
| Cloud Control Cloud Control |
| Clutch Blast Tyrant |
| Coalesce OX EP |
| Dead Letter Circus This Is The Warning |
| DevilDriver The Fury of Our Maker's Hand |
| DevilDriver Pray for Villains |
| Dido Life For Rent |
| Eels Tomorrow Morning |
| Eleventh He Reaches London Hollow Be My Name |
| Enya The Memory of Trees |
| Eskimo Joe A Song Is A City |
| Ezekiel Ox Winter In Suburbia |
| Faker Be The Twilight |
| Fatboy Slim Why Try Harder |
| Halfway To Forth Treasure For Memories |
| HIM Venus Doom |
| Iron Maiden The Final Frontier |
| Jimmy Eat World Bleed American |
| John Butler Trio Grand National |
| Definitely not his best (three tracks on his wife? Come on Butler, its sweet, but two would have been enough) but nevertheless outstanding. |
| Jose Gonzalez Veneer |
| Karnivool Themata |
| Kim Churchill With Sword & Shield |
| Lisa Mitchell Wonder |
| Machine Head The Blackening |
| Mammal Mammal |
| Mammal The Majority |
| Matchbox Twenty Exile on Mainstream |
| Metallica Metallica |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News |
| Mos Def Black on Both Sides |
| Nothing Rhymes With David Double Negative, All The Way! |
| Parades Foreign Tapes |
| Powderfinger Golden Rule |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Radiohead The Best Of |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness |
| Roadrunner United The All-Star Sessions |
| Rosetta A Determinism of Morality |
| Sarah Blasko The Overture & The Underscore |
| Seether One Cold Night |
| Silverchair Neon Ballroom |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses |
| Something For Kate The Official Fiction |
| Something For Kate Echolalia |
| Something For Kate Leave Your Soul To Science |
| Stone Sour Come What(ever) May |
| Sufjan Stevens Michigan |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz |
| System of a Down Mezmerize |
| The Mayan Factor In Lake 'CH |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt |
| Tom Waits Bad As Me |
| Toni Collette and The Finish Beautiful Awkward Pictures |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Tool Undertow |
| Weezer Pinkerton |
| Wye Oak My Neighbor / My Creator |
| 3.5 great |
| Angus and Julia Stone Down the Way |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs |
| Arch Enemy Anthems of Rebellion |
| Atlas Weights Atlas Weights |
| Ben Folds Way To Normal |
| Birds Of Tokyo Birds Of Tokyo |
| Bob Evans Suburban Songbook |
| Calling All Cars Hold, Hold, Fire |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness |
| Creed Human Clay |
| Cut Copy Zonoscope |
| David Gray White Ladder |
| Eminem Recovery |
| Florence and the Machine Ceremonials |
| Green Day American Idiot |
| Hilltop Hoods The Calling |
| Hilltop Hoods The Hard Road |
| Hilltop Hoods The Hard Road Restrung |
| James Morrison Undiscovered |
| John Butler Trio April Uprising |
| April Uprising is a conundrum in music form. On the one hand you have The John Butler Trio's back catalogue when considering how to approach it. If the only reason you got into JBT was because of John Butler's guitar, then avoid this album. If you like alternative rock music, or a little bit of folk (Iron and Wine sound familiar?) then this is your thing. The reason is this: John Butler has decided that, rather then using his usual finger-picking style, he's going to use rock riffs and chord progressions that wouldn't be out of a place on an Eskimo Joe album. You've probably guessed this by now but April Uprising is very commercial. The choruses are catchy to the point of stupidity and the riffs revolved more around being "fun" then showing any kind of technical skill. |
| Josh Groban Awake Live |
| He's actually not that bad a musician, he's just generic as hell. Every year they pump the same shit out for mother's day. He is nothing more then a passing fad for middle-aged women. I almost gave this a 4, then I realized that that implies that I actually want to watch this again. |
| Joss Stone The Soul Sessions |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak |
| Linkin Park Meteora |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight |
| Lisa Mitchell Said One to the Other |
| Megadeth Endgame |
| Moby Play |
| Monogrim / Slow Dreams 1300+ Miles of Sound |
| Mumford and Sons Sigh No More |
| Murderdolls Beyond The Valley of the Murderdolls |
| Nickelback The State |
| Nightwish Dark Passion Play |
| Nothing Rhymes With David Beard Logic Riddles |
| Nothing Rhymes With David = |
| Opeth Watershed |
| Powderfinger Dream Days At The Hotel Existence |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey |
| Rise Against Appeal to Reason |
| Santana Supernatural |
| Silverchair Freak Show |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone |
| Staind Break The Cycle |
| Static Colours Sun Swells |
| Sufjan Stevens All Delighted People |
| Taylor Swift Speak Now |
| The Atlas Room, I Woke Up In Moscow JOS |
| The Dresden Dolls Yes, Virginia... |
| The Jezabels Dark Storm |
| The Killers Hot Fuss |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| The National Alligator |
| The Strokes Is This It |
| The Vines Winning Days |
| The Weakerthans Reconstruction Site |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV |
| Tool Ænima |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend |
| Vampire Weekend Contra |
