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5.0 classic
Blindside Silence
Brand New Deja Entendu
Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory
Linkin Park Meteora
Underoath Define the Great Line

4.5 superb
Architects Holy Hell
August Burns Red Rescue & Restore
August Burns Red Found in Far Away Places
August Burns Red Phantom Anthem
Being as an Ocean Being As An Ocean
Bo Burnham Inside (The Songs)
Brand New Science Fiction
Childish Gambino 03.15.20
Invent Animate Heavener
Kings Kaleidoscope Becoming Who We Are
Kings Kaleidoscope Beyond Control
Kings Kaleidoscope The Rush
La Dispute Wildlife
Lecrae Church Clothes
Lecrae Anomaly
Memphis May Fire Sleepwalking
Memphis May Fire Between the Lies
Noah Gundersen Family
Noah Gundersen Brand New World
Noah Gundersen Saints & Liars
Phoebe Bridgers Punisher
This will be at least a 4. Go to youtube and listen to I Know The End
Taylor Swift Speak Now
Taylor Swift 1989
Taylor Swift Folklore
The 1975 A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships
The Devil Wears Prada Transit Blues
This is the best TDWP have ever sounded. There is maturity in almost every aspect of the music, from vocals (both clean/unclean) and instrumentation. Totally blown away.
The Fray How to Save a Life
The Maine Lovely Little Lonely
Probably the Maine's best album, and could go down as their opus. Almost every song is a 5/5, with at least 3 songs being the best they've ever done. Those three being, 1) Black Butterflies... 2) Don't Come Down and 3) Taxi. So good!
The Wonder Years The Greatest Generation
Thrice Vheissu
Valleyheart Everyone I've Ever Loved

4.0 excellent
Adele 21
Andre 3000 New Blue Sun
he's not rapping, but it almost doesn't matter. immaculate sounds
Andy Mineo Heroes For Sale
Andy Mineo Never Land
Andy kills it on this album. His flow is impressive, fun to listen to, and honestly better than so many mainstream rappers these days. He does it all with positive messages, without explicit language, and without being corny. Bars everywhere.
Architects All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us
As Cities Burn Come Now Sleep
August Burns Red Constellations
August Burns Red Leveler (Anniversary)
Holy crap. This is far better than the original Leveler. Not sure who mixed this, but it
sounds PRISTINE. The fact that they re-recorded essentially (almost) all the instruments
for this is already insane, then there is JAKE. Dude is a decade older and sounds BETTER
than he did in 2011. His highs are higher, his lows are lower, this is how I wish he
sounded on Guardians. And they way they are mixed makes for a far clearer and impactful
sound. Like holy crap. This is all without mentioning an added intro track, features by
Misha Mansoor from Periphery (solo slays), Ryan Kirby on Poor Millionaire, and actual
Matthew Heafy from Trivium. Nuts. Good show boys, Leveler is my least favorite ABR album
ever, but still, 4.0. Album rips.
Avril Lavigne Love Sux
beabadoobee Fake It Flowers
Boygenius the record
Brand New Daisy
Childish Gambino "Awaken, My Love!"
Childish Gambino Summer Pack
Coldplay Everyday Life
Counterparts Nothing Left to Love
Dance Gavin Dance Mothership
Dayglow Fuzzybrain
Emarosa Versus
ERRA Drift
ERRA ERRA
ERRA Cure
Foxes 2011 Demo
Foxes Organic Vessels
HalfNoise Volcano Crowe
HalfNoise Sudden Feeling
Hayley Williams FLOWERS for VASES / descansos
Better than PFA, and all instruments performed by Hayley, good god this is good
Hillsong United Zion
Hillsong United Empires
Hillsong Worship Awake
Hot Mulligan You'll Be Fine
John Givez Soul Rebel
John Mark McMillan Borderland
John Mark McMillan You Are the Avalanche (feat. Sarah McMillan)
John Mark McMillan Live at the Knight
John Mark McMillan Mercury and Lightning
John Van Deusen (I Am) Origami, Pt. 1 - The Universal Sigh
John Van Deusen (I Am) Origami Pt. 2 Every Power Wide Awake
John Van Deusen D-Sides
Justin Bieber Purpose
Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour
Kings Kaleidoscope Live In Color
Kings Kaleidoscope Asaph's Arrows
Kings Kaleidoscope The Beauty Between
Kings Kaleidoscope Zeal
Knuckle Puck Copacetic
Knuckle Puck Shapeshifter
Lecrae Church Clothes 3
Levi The Poet Cataracts
Lizzy McAlpine Older
Memphis May Fire The Hollow
Movements Feel Something
Moving Mountains Moving Mountains
Northlane Alien
Novo Amor Cannot Be, Whatsoever
OneRepublic Native
Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
PinkPantheress Heaven Knows
album's great. couple of the features fall a little flat (nice to meet you has a great chorus but that feature...ehhh) but aside from that one of my fav records this year. solid first outing by PinkPantheress. 4/5
Plastic Tree Ink
Portugal. The Man The Satanic Satanist
PVRIS All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell
PVRIS Hallucinations
Sent By Ravens Mean What You Say
Snail Mail Lush
Snail Mail Audiotree Live
Mix on this is actually great, all the songs from Habit sound way better and you actually can get a grasp on their live sound. Solid!
Soccer Mommy Clean
Spiritbox Spiritbox
Spiritbox Eternal Blue
Switchfoot Fading West
SZA S.O.S.
album slays, SZA's never sounded better. Top 10 albums this year easily
Taking Back Sunday Louder Now
Taylor Swift Evermore
The 1975 Notes on a Conditional Form
The 1975 Being Funny In A Foreign Language
Rating may change but for now Ill just say this may be my favorite 1975 opener out of all them. Its immaculate imo
The Devil Wears Prada Zombie
The Devil Wears Prada 8:18
The Devil Wears Prada ZII
The Overseer Rest and Let Go
The Story So Far What You Don't See
Tides of Man Empire Theory
Tides of Man Dreamhouse
Tides of Man Young and Courageous
To Speak Of Wolves Find Your Worth, Come Home
Tori Kelly Unbreakable Smile
Treebeard Stars Over Somber Skies
Turnover Peripheral Vision
Twenty One Pilots Blurryface
Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety
Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation
Wolves at the Gate VxV
Yellowcard Southern Air

3.5 great
Adele 19
Alicia Keys Alicia
August Burns Red Messengers
August Burns Red Leveler
August Burns Red Guardians
August Burns Red Death Below
Wow; Im rather surprised because the singles didnt really interest me at all, but they are BY far the weakest on the
album.



The Cleansing, Revival, and Dark Divide are some of their best songs in a while. There’s a little prog, the

deathcore moments shine, spoken word is back, and even some electronic elements we haven’t heard much of on ABR
records. Dub
Beartooth Sick
Bo Burnham what.
Childish Gambino EP
Childish Gambino Camp
Dayglow People In Motion
Driveways Skeptic
Dustin Kensrue Carry the Fire
Girl In Red if i could make it go quiet
Girl In Red DOING IT AGAIN BABY
Halsey If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power
Hayley Williams Petals For Armor I
Hayley Williams Petals For Armor: Self Serenades
Hillsong Worship OPEN HEAVEN / River Wild
Holly Humberstone Falling Asleep At The Wheel
Into The Flood Vices
J. Cole Born Sinner
J. Cole 2014 Forest Hills Drive
J. Cole The Off-Season
Mixtape vibes, but feels like a return to form after KOD. Cole clearly has been working on his craft, this is definitely a record for actual fans of hip hop. Each song demonstrates not only different flows, with Cole rapping on the off beat or casually doing flow change ups, but also pays homage to previous hip hop eras on essentially every song here. Casual fans won't really catch what he's doing but there are a lot of gems here for those that love the genre and know the history. Solid, dare I say great, but not quite amazing. Here's to hoping The Fall Off will live up to the hype.
Japanese Breakfast Jubilee
Joe Vann Found in the Smoke
John Mark McMillan People With Dreams
Julien Baker Little Oblivions
I feel like this grows as it goes, I actually like the non singles much better here. Hardline-Bloodshot I found less
interesting, i’d probably give them all 2.5-3. But everything from Ringside till the end rules. She’s evolving, but
doesn’t quite feel like final form yet. Good nonetheless. 3.7 imo
Justin Bieber Justice
Solid album from Beiber after Changes. Second half is decidedly more interesting to me than the
first, Hold On, Unstable, and Somebody sound really reminiscent to the Purpose era in the
production and even melody choice departments. Makes sense since Skrillex returned to help on
production on this. Not bad!
Kacey Musgraves Same Trailer Different Park
Kacey Musgraves Star-Crossed
This is excellent. production choices are pristine. lots of non-traditional song-rstructures. same honest kacey songwriting. a few choruses burn themselves into your brain r(breadwinner, what doesn't kill me). album oscillates between mexicana-inspired rromantic tragedy and synthwave at times. highlights: good wife, justified, breadwinner, rhookup scene, WDKM. pretty damn good.
Kanye West Jesus Is King
KJ-52 It's Pronounced Five Two
Lecrae Rehab
Lecrae All Things Work Together
Logic The Incredible True Story
Machine Gun Kelly Tickets to My Downfall
Maggie Rogers Don’t Forget Me
Its great for what it is. Not her best album but doesn't need to be really. Opener It Was Coming Along is sonically beautiful. Highlights: So Sick of Dreaming, The Kill, If Now Was Then, and Don't Forget Me are top tier Maggie songs. Feel like the ballads don't hit as hard as she hoped but the highs are pretty high so evens out. solid 3.5
Memphis May Fire Memphis May Fire
Memphis May Fire Challenger
Movements No Good Left to Give
Moving Mountains Waves
Noah Gundersen Carry the Ghost
nothing,nowhere. Void Eternal
love letter to alt music. heavily hybrid theory inspired, in a good way. nothing doing his thing pretty much but with more features and better production.
Paramore This Is Why
Polaris The Mortal Coil
Polaris The Death of Me
Portugal. The Man Church Mouth
PVRIS White Noise
PVRIS White Noise (Deluxe Version)
Silent Planet Superbloom
Snail Mail Valentine
Received pre-ordered vinyl a day early. We see some more of the same kind of fair from Lush,
but it's so damn good it almost doesn't matter. There's also a "groove" here that wasn't in
Lush (see Ben Franklin, Forever/Sailing). Just the right amount of experimentation (both
vocally on Lindsey's part, and instrumentally) to push slightly forward while maintaining
the standard of her first. Impressive she doesn't slump here. Also its a bit more tender
than I expected (see Light Blue and c. et. al.). Standout tracks: Glory, Ben Franklin,
Forever (Sailing), Valentine. Solid, 3.5 that will probably evolve into a 4 over time imo.
Soccer Mommy Color Theory
Switchfoot interrobang
The 1975 I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
The Band CAMINO The Band Camino
The Devil Wears Prada Space
The Devil Wears Prada The Act
The Japanese House Saw You In A Dream
The Japanese House Good At Falling
The Japanese House Chewing Cotton Wool
So good. Something Has To Change is musical cocaine.
The Maine Pioneer
The Maine Forever Halloween
The Ongoing Concept Again
The Overseer We Search, We Dig
The Story So Far The Story So Far
The Wonder Years No Closer to Heaven
Thousand Below The Love You Let Too Close
Underoath The Changing of Times
Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety Special Edit
Underoath Ø (Disambiguation)
We Came As Romans Cold Like War
William Fitzsimmons Lions

3.0 good
Architects The Here and Now
Architects The Classic Symptoms of a Broken Spirit
Childish Gambino Because the Internet
clairo Sling
I do not know how I feel about this. loved her debut and this is quite a sonic shift. Might be a grower, but can't tell even after 3 listens. Its not BAD, I just dont know if its good yet. We shall see
Coldplay Ghost Stories
Dayglow Harmony House
ERRA Neon
Hayley Williams Petals for Armor
Hillsong Worship Let There Be Light
J. Cole Cole World: The Sideline Story
J. Cole 4 Your Eyez Only
Justin Bieber Changes
After 3 full listens, would give it a 3.2 if I could. Not quite great, but this is a solid Justin album.
Slightly more "stripped down" in a sense, more subdued, less "dramatic" than Purpose was (I
loved Purpose), but is still a progression for him. The first third of the album contains primo
Justin, and feels like the natural progression from Purpose. Habitual, Come Around Me, Intentions,
and Available are all fantastic. The middle section is full of features, and brings down the album
imo. He would've been better to keep what he was doing straight through, but I get from a
commercial sense why they're here. The last third of the album goes back to the more subdued
Justin from the beginning, but with more of a "personal love songs" vibe. ETA and especially
"Changes" are standout tracks here. Justin's vocals on Changes are probably some of the best
he's ever done. 3.2, solid album. Dude seems like he's grown up a lot, good for him.
Kid Cudi Man on the Moon III: The Chosen
Kings Kaleidoscope Power Perfect.
Lecrae Church Clothes 2
Memphis May Fire Unconditional (Deluxe)
Taylor Swift Fearless
Taylor Swift Red
Taylor Swift Reputation
The Devil Wears Prada Plagues
The Devil Wears Prada With Roots Above and Branches Below
Twenty One Pilots Scaled and Icy
Seems to be a grower, did not really care for this first and second times through. After a bit with it today the bottom half is better than I first thought, No Chances has that dark energy TOP is so good at (though not as dark as the best of Blurry or TRENCH) and Redecorate has a groove that grows on you. Other than that Saturday has sort of a 80's pop/1975 inspired vibe, I almost wish they went with this sound more here. If this was a bunch of songs that sounded like Saturday and Level of concern this probably would've been stellar. Anyway. 3.0 from me
Yours Truly Self Care

2.5 average
Architects For Those That Wish to Exist
J. Cole K.O.D.
Logic Bobby Tarantino III
Memphis May Fire Unconditional
Memphis May Fire This Light I Hold
MMF seem to be having an identity crisis whether they know it or not. I get why from their perspective they feel like they have to write to the stereotypical "struggling teen girl" since that's most of who comes out to shows and talks to them about their struggles. It would probably shape my music too and make me feel like I had to turn what I was doing into a Ministry to help them. That and the fact that Matty sees himself as "the voice of a generation" lol. What's ironic is that it was the honest songs on Sleepwalking and the Hollow that those typical struggling teen girls (we all too)related with in the first place because it was honest! They weren't made up stories written to sound relatable. I literally can't count how many times I've sat in my car, weeping while belting "these bones are only temporary, we are not alone, the destination lies ahead and we are not alone" from "The Redeemed" on the Hollow. Love that song so much. What I'm trying to say is....when you make honest music about things that actually happened from your own lives something special happens. These songs are ok...better than Unconditional, but just feel the same as songs I hear on most Contemporary Christian radio: manufactured for a specific audience. No life. No real experiences. Good intentions but feels empty. Just ok.
Of Mice and Men Tether
its fine. not nearly as bad as everyones making it out to be. warpaint, castaway and indigo
are all solid. but its just fine, which is unfortunate. echo was great, this could maybe be
its sister in terms of sound. the problem is i believed aaron on echo, i dont believe him
here for the most part. in writing and delivery agin, its "fine," but he doesn't convince me
he cares here lilke he did in echo. also production is a little off. anyway. 2.5
Taylor Swift Lover
The Devil Wears Prada Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord
Underoath Erase Me

1.5 very poor
Hollywood Undead New Empire Vol. 2

1.0 awful
Underoath Act of Depression
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