| 5.0 classic |
| Animals As Leaders The Madness of Many |
| Avishai Cohen Continuo |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence |
BTBAM continues to solidify their place among the elite metal bands in the world today. This album is
representative of their entire discography, bringing bits and pieces from each together in to one epic album. |
| Between the Buried and Me Automata I |
| Bokanté What Heat |
| Michael League (of Grammy-winning instrumental jazz collective, Snarky Puppy) is proving himself to be one of the greatest songwriters, musicians, and producers of the modern age. He has a golden touch, and this new record from Bokante is yet another example. This album brilliantly mixes a full orchestra (The Metropole Orkest) along with a myriad of talented acoustic instrumentalists. This album is full of nuance and detail and yet has much power and beauty. This is music that begs to be listened to over and over. |
| Chris Thile Sonatas and Partitas, Vol. I |
| Chris Thile Thanks For Listening |
| Thile is one of the most talented musicians on the planet. This is a refreshing look at the creativity of Thile individually, as this record is a collection of songs he wrote for his new role as host of the Prairie Home Companion Radio Show. This collection of songs showcases not only Thile's renowned virtuosity on the mandolin but also his penchant for writing very memorable melodies. This is another welcome addition to the fast-growing discography of this musical genius, for whom the sky holds no limit for his talents. |
| Chris Thile and Brad Mehldau Chris Thile and Brad Mehldau |
| Chris Thile is easily one of the most talented musicians alive today. He can step in with any group of musicians, including some of the most world-renowned artists like Yo-Yo (Ma/Goat Rodeo Sessions), and make beautiful music. This particular album showcases these two talents and their ability to make music that strikes a balance between complexity and listenability, melody and virtuosity. It stretches each musician into a realm that is outside of their home a bit (bluegrass/jazz), and the result is fantastic. I highly recommend Elliott Smith's Independence Day cover! |
| Chris Thile and Michael Daves Sleep With One Eye Open |
Two absolute masters of their instruments and craft team up, along with producer Jack White, to pay
homage to their bluegrass roots. This is raw, traditional American music, that comes straight from the soul.
One microphone, a guitar, mandolin and two voices were all that were needed to create this beautiful music.
In the age of over produced and over compresed music, listening to the genious arrangements that these
two guys and their instruments can come up with is a much welcomed breath of fresh air. |
| Claude Debussy Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, L. 86 |
| Cynic Ascension Codes |
| Deftones Ohms |
| Devin Townsend Empath |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson |
| Elliott Smith Figure 8 |
| Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini |
| Forq Thrēq |
| Frederic Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21 |
| Frederic Chopin Nocturne No. 20 in C♯ minor, Op. posth |
| Gustav Holst The Planets, Op. 32 |
| Haken Affinity |
| Haken Visions |
| Haken Aquarius |
| Haken Vector |
| Haken Virus |
| Igor Stravinsky L'Oiseau de feu "The Firebird" |
| Igor Stravinsky Petrushka |
| Igor Stravinsky Le Sacre du Printemps |
| Jacob Collier In My Room |
| Jacob is a once in a lifetime musician. He can play any instrument he touches at a world class level. His vocal range is absolutely enormous. His creative production skills showcased in his self-made YouTube videos are impressive. All this and he is only 20 years old. How does all this raw talent translate on to Jacob's debut ralbum? His debut album demonstrates not only his virtuosic apptitude, but also his incredible ear for melody and his advanced grasp of songwriting. This is a monster of a debut album, and it is incredibly exciting to be able to know that we get to watch this young savant unfold his musical talents before our eyes for many years to come.r |
| Jacob Collier Djesse Vol. 2 |
| There isn't much else to say: the most talented musician/composer on the planet just doing his thing. |
| Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 6 in D minor, Op. 104 |
| Jean Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 |
| Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 105 |
| Johann Sebastian Bach Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007 |
| Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050 |
| Johann Sebastian Bach The Musical Offering, BWV 1079 |
| Johann Sebastian Bach Mass in B minor, BWV 232 |
| Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 |
| Karnivool Asymmetry |
| Subtle, abrasive, beautiful, dissonant, challenging, just a few adjectives that only scratch at the surface of Karnivools new record Asymmetry. With this new record Karnivool has made the leap from a band that simply emulated their musical heros on Sound Awake, to a band with something truly unique to say, that is just begging to be emulated by their peers for many years to come. This band deserves your time and patience as they have created a masterpiece that, upon repeated listen, will divulge its many secrets: complicated polymeters, atmosphere through subtle mixing, abnormal song structure, and all the while directed by the beautiful and memorable melodies of Ian Kenny. |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV |
| Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No14 C-sharp minor,Op.27No2 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven "Pathétique" Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in E♭ “Eroica” Op. 55 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye |
| I like this. You might not. But I do. Just my opinion. Don't worry, yours is valid too! |
| Meshuggah Alive |
| Meshuggah The Violent Sleep Of Reason |
| Meshuggah Immutable |
| Native Construct Quiet World |
| Nickel Creek A Dotted Line |
| Nova Collective The Further Side |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Periphery Periphery IV: Hail Stan |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Pink Floyd Animals |
| Plini Handmade Cities |
| Plini Impulse Voices |
| Punch Brothers Who's Feeling Young Now? |
| How did I miss this release? This is one of the most unique bands that is playing around today. Absolute rmasters of their instruments, collectively continue to make music that completely pushes all musical rboundaries. Reminiscent of 20th century classical music juxtaposed with, more modern rhythmic qualities, all rrealized through the lens of bluegrass music. This is a band that will be rcriminally under appreciated until they decide to make a more mainstream style album. |
| Punch Brothers The Phosphorescent Blues |
One of the most criminally overlooked bands on Sputnik; this record showcases some of the most inventive
and virtuosic composition of music in the world today. The Punch Brothers make the seemingly improbable
seamlessly work; somehow covering the distance from Debussy and Scriabin to Radiohead, and all realized
within a bluegrass lens. In our modern, ever-connected digital age, this group represents some of the best
ideals of the American melting-pot musical culture; and Chris Thile leads it all as the rare, once in a century
musician, that he should be revered for. |
| Punch Brothers Hell On Church Street |
| Pyotr Tchaikovsky "Pathétique" Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 |
| Pyotr Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. post. 75 |
| Pyotr Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker, Op. 71 |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication |
| Rishloo Feathergun |
| Rishloo Living as Ghosts with Buildings as Teeth |
| Sigur Ros Heima (DVD) |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun |
| Sigur Ros Brennisteinn |
| Snarky Puppy Culcha Vulcha |
| Snarky Puppy Immigrance |
| Snarky Puppy Empire Central |
| Sorne House of Stone |
| Sorne is one of the purist "artists" that I have ever come across. By artist, I mean that it is impossible to separate the artwork, performance, and story from the music. It all encompasses something incredibly original, both in its beauty and its unsettling nature. An absolutely amazing work of art. r |
| Stevens/Dessner/Muhly/McAlister Planetarium |
| Sublime 40 Oz. to Freedom |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz |
| I like this. You might not. But I do. Just my opinion. Don't worry, yours is valid too! |
| Thank You Scientist Stranger Heads Prevail |
| The Beatles Abbey Road |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection) |
| Thrice Vheissu |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance (Revisited) |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II |
| Tigran Hamasyan Mockroot |
Tigran is simply a genius. He seamlessly combines elements of Jazz, Armenian folk music, and other
modern rock sounds, including the polymetric rhythms of Animals as Leaders. |
| Tigran Hamasyan The Call Within |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Tool Ænima |
| Tool Fear Inoculum |
| Vulfpeck Fugue State |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550 |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Jupiter" Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551 |
| 4.5 superb |
| Aaron Parks Invisible Cinema |
| Alkaloid The Malkuth Grimoire |
| Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession |
| Ana Kefr The Burial Tree (II) |
| Andres Segovia Master Of The Classical Guitar |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors_Live |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues |
| We are watching one of the most influential metal bands of our generation unfold before our eyes. Every album they continue to grow, adding new influences while building on their previous unique songwriting craft. This is metal at its finest, completely unapologetic, and all the while blazing a path into uncharted metal territory. |
| Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic |
Genre hopping the progosphere - more Tommy, more melody, and more mid-tempo groove, but definitely still
BTBAM. |
| Bill Laurance Flint |
| Bill Laurance Swift |
| Bill Laurance Live at Union Chapel |
| Blotted Science The Machinations of Dementia |
| Bright Eyes Cassadaga |
| Claude Debussy Nocturnes, L. 91 |
| Claude Debussy La mer (The Sea), L. 109 |
| Cynic Traced in Air |
| Cynic Carbon-Based Anatomy |
| Cynic continue to simply be one of the best and most innovative songwriters in modern metal. |
| Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us |
| Cynic ReFocus |
| Destrage Are You Kidding Me? No. |
| Destrage The Chosen One |
| Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction |
| Devin Townsend Project Z2 |
| Diablo Swing Orchestra Pandora's Pinata |
| This band has morphed in to something truly special. In mixing the unlikely combination of classical, swing and metal, this band in the past had teetered on the edge of sounding absurd or gimmicky, leaving you to wonder if this was to be taken seriously or not. With this new album they leave no room to question. They have truly refined their craft and perfected their niche. The songwriting is so intricate and disturbingly beautiful. This shines through so well on the amazingly orchestrated songs "Aurora" and "Justice for Saint Mary". Either of these songs could pass as wonderful contemporary classical pieces of music. This is a band that deserves your attention. |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson II |
| Elliott Smith XO |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or |
| Enslaved RIITIIR |
| Exivious Liminal |
| Fallujah Nomadic |
| Forq Forq |
| Forq Batch |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book |
| Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles) |
| GoGo Penguin Man Made Object |
| Gong Linna & Bang on a Can All-Stars Cloud River Mountain |
| In an age of anything goes music, this is something truly unique. Most songs are rhythmically challenging and harmonically complex. Linna displays an incredible command of the human voice. With an interesting collection of instruments this all somehow coalesces into something hypnotic and beautiful. |
| Haken The Mountain |
| Haken Restoration |
| Haken Fauna |
| Haunted Shores Viscera |
| Intronaut The Direction of Last Things |
| Iron Thrones The Wretched Sun |
| I like this. You might not. But I do. Just my opinion. Don't worry, yours is valid too! |
| Jacob Collier Djesse (Vol. 1) |
| Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Op. 39 |
| Johann Sebastian Bach Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 |
| Johannes Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 83 |
| Johannes Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin [DVD] |
| Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven "Pastoral" Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun |
| maudlin of the Well Bath |
| Meshuggah obZen |
| Meshuggah I |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve |
| Meshuggah None |
| Meshuggah Koloss |
Meshuggah is back, and they are heavier than ever. Glad to hear for the first time their isn't a song or two
that I would skip rather than listen to. Their most coherent album to date. |
| Metallica Master of Puppets |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue |
| Miles Davis Bitches Brew |
| Modest Mussorgsky A Night on Bald Mountain |
| Muse Simulation Theory |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations |
| Nickel Creek This Side |
| Nickel Creek Celebrants |
| Nine Inch Nails And All That Could've Been [DVD] |
| Nine Inch Nails And All That Could Have Been |
| Opeth Watershed |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries |
| Opeth Pale Communion |
| Oz Noy Booga Looga Loo |
| Pantera The Great Southern Trendkill |
| Plini Sunhead |
| Protest the Hero Fortress |
| Protest the Hero Volition |
| Punch Brothers Punch |
| Punch Brothers Antifogmatic |
| Punch Brothers All Ashore |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik |
| Richard Henshall The Cocoon |
| Richard Wagner Die Walkure |
| Richard Wagner Tristan und Isolde |
| Russian Circles Empros |
| Rx Bandits Mandala |
| Rx Bandits Gemini, Her Majesty |
| Sarah Jarosz Song Up In Her Head |
| Sergei Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet Suite No. 2, Op. 64ter |
| Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 |
| Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 |
| Shakey Graves Can't Wake Up |
| Sigh Scenes from Hell |
| Sigur Ros ( ) |
| Sigur Ros Inni |
| Sigur Ros ÁTTA |
| Skittish The Perfect Shade of Green |
| Snarky Puppy We Like It Here |
| Snarky Puppy Sylva |
| Sublime Sublime |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| Thank You Scientist Terraformer |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| The Beatles The Beatles |
| The Beatles Revolver |
| The Beatles 1967 – 1970 |
| The Human Abstract Digital Veil |
| I like this. You might not. But I do. Just my opinion. Don't worry, yours is valid too! |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| The Ocean Fluxion |
| The Ocean Precambrian |
| The Ocean Pelagial |
| The Ocean Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic |
| The Strokes Is This It |
| Thelonious Monk Monk's Dream |
| Thrice Horizons/East |
| Thrice Major/Minor |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV |
| Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere |
| Tigran Hamasyan Shadow Theater |
| Tigran Hamasyan Luys i Luso |
| Tigran Hamasyan A Fable |
| Tigran Hamasyan An Ancient Observer |
| Vulfpeck Hill Climber |
| Vulfpeck The Joy Of Music. The Job Of Real Estate. |
| Vulfpeck Thrill of the Arts |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Requiem in D minor, K. 626 |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Die Zauberflote, 'The Magic Flute', K. 620 |
| 4.0 excellent |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms |
| Animals As Leaders Weightless |
This album is a perfect representation of the state of modern music. The line is being blurred between
computer manipulation and human performance. Tosin's incredible two handed tapping, bass like slapping,
and multi voice playing only further confuses the listener, as we try and discern on the record what is digital
editing and what is his amazing virtuosic playing. While the record is a lot heavier than expected, the
songwriting has also become more complex. Its incredible to listen to Tosin further develop his unique
approach to playing the guitar, while also mastering his abilities as a jazz/progressive metal composer. He is
truly one of the great guitarists of the modern age. |
| At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul |
| Baroness Blue Record |
| Between the Buried and Me Future Sequence: Live at the Fidelitorium |
| Bill Laurance Aftersun |
| Chris Thile How to Grow A Woman From the Ground |
| CiLiCe Deranged Headtrip |
| Cynic Re-Traced |
| Deftones White Pony |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| DeVotchKa Curse Your Little Heart |
| DeVotchKa How It Ends |
| Dimmu Borgir Spiritual Black Dimensions |
| Dimmu Borgir Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia |
| Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane |
| Edge of Sanity Purgatory Afterglow |
| Edge of Sanity When All Is Said |
| Elliott Smith From a Basement on the Hill |
| Elliott Smith Elliott Smith |
| Elliott Smith Roman Candle |
| Field Music Field Music (Measure) |
| Gavin Castleton Home |
| Hypocrisy Virus |
| Hypocrisy Catch 22 |
| Hypocrisy Hypocrisy |
| Hypocrisy The Final Chapter |
| Hypocrisy Abducted |
| Ihsahn After |
| In Flames Colony |
| In Flames Clayman |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself |
| Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E. |
| Incubus (USA-CA) If Not Now, When? |
| Iron Thrones Visions of Light |
| Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 4 in A minor, Op. 63 |
| Jonsi Go |
| Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti |
| Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II |
| Led Zeppelin BBC Sessions |
| Leprous Bilateral |
| Mantric The Descent |
| I like this. You might not. But I do. Just my opinion. Don't worry, yours is valid too! |
| Mastodon Leviathan |
| maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map |
| maudlin of the Well Part the Second |
| Meshuggah Nothing |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning |
| Modest Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition |
| Muse Drones |
| Muse The Resistance |
| Mutual Admiration Society Mutual Admiration Society |
| If you like Nickel Creek you probably will like this. |
| Nickel Creek Why Should the Fire Die? |
| Nickel Creek Nickel Creek |
| Opeth Damnation |
| Opeth Deliverance |
| Opeth Heritage |
| Pantera Far Beyond Driven |
| Pantera Vulgar Display of Power |
| Pantera Cowboys from Hell |
| Periphery Periphery |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon |
| Pink Floyd The Wall |
| Pink Floyd Meddle |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool |
Is Radiohead playing a joke on the world? It sounds like they purposely tried to take a set of probably good
songs and arrange them in a way as to maximize the feelings of boredom and apathy. I feel about this music
how I feel about postmodern art; I can't tell if it was made by a two year old just messing around or an "artist"
trying to push some limits of what counts as art, effectively making the classification meaningless. I wish iTunes
had refunds. |
| Sigur Ros Takk... |
| Sigur Ros Hvarf/Heim |
| Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust |
| Sigur Ros Valtari |
Where are the drums? They only make faint appearances on a couple of songs. Where are the main vocal
lines? Only the first 5 songs have straight forward singing parts that have words. The last three songs are
essentially instrumental pieces. This is a very atmospheric and moody album. I like what I have heard, but I
still think that, even for Sigur Ros, it is very unexpected in its amount of experimentation. |
| Snarky Puppy Ground UP |
| Snarky Puppy Family Dinner, Vol. 2 |
| Snarky Puppy The World is Getting Smaller |
| Sparta Wiretap Scars |
| Storm Corrosion Storm Corrosion |
| Sufjan Stevens All Delighted People |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! |
| T.R.A.M. Lingua Franca |
| The Beatles 1 |
| The Beatles Let It Be |
| The Bird And The Bee The Bird and the Bee |
| The Dear Hunter Act III: Life and Death |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality |
| The Faceless Akeldama |
| The Kovenant Nexus Polaris |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture |
| The Ocean Aeolian |
| The Ocean Heliocentric |
| The Ocean Anthropocentric |
| The Strokes First Impressions of Earth |
| The Strokes Room on Fire |
| The Strokes Angles |
| Thelonious Monk Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane |
| Thom Yorke The Eraser |
| Thomas Giles Pulse |
This album was quite a surprise. I have to admit that I initially thought that Tommy was the weakest link in
a band of master musicians. After listening to this album though, I have quickly realized the scope of
Tommy's musical vision. His attention to detail shines on every song. Also he has an amazing ability to
create such a diverse set of songs, each unique, and yet together making a beautiful and cohesive
monster of an ablum.
Bravo! |
| Thrice Beggars |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety |
| Thrice Palms |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Tool Salival |
| Unexpect In a Flesh Aquarium |
| Verneri Pohjola Pekka |
| Vildhjarta Måsstaden |
| So this is what "evil" djent sounds like. While they use the same overdone ambient delay/reverb laden clean rguitars that we have heard on countless releases this year, it seems that this type of ambient metal was made rfor this dark, unsettling sound. This is some of the creepiest music I have ever heard. |
| Vildhjarta Thousands Of Evils |
| Winds Prominence and Demise |
| Zac Brown Band Uncaged |
| Zac Brown Band The Grohl Sessions, Vol. I |
