| 3.5 great |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Source Tags and Codes |
| 2562 Unbalance |
| A Lot Like Birds Plan B |
| Acid Mothers Temple Crystal Rainbow Pyramid Under the Stars |
| Acid Mothers Temple New Geocentric World of Acid Mothers Temple |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain |
| AJJ People Who Can Eat People are the Luckiest People |
| Akron/Family Meek Warrior |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune |
| Algernon Cadwallader Parrot Flies |
| American Football American Football |
| Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession |
| Anamanaguchi Power Supply |
| Animal Collective Strawberry Jam |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion |
| Animal Collective Fall Be Kind |
| Armchairpolitician Seven Segment Decoder |
| At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out |
| Atmosphere Seven's Travels |
| Bardo Pond Lapsed |
| Bastro Sing the Troubled Beast |
| Beardfish Mammoth |
| Beau Navire Hours |
| Beirut Gulag Orkestar |
| Beirut Lon Gisland |
| Beirut Elephant Gun |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect |
| Black Tusk Set The Dial |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Black Earth |
| Boom Boom Satellites Out Loud |
| Boredoms Super Ae |
| Boris Amplifier Worship |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning |
| Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People |
| Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret |
| Cake Fashion Nugget |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo |
| Cities Aviv Digital Lows |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow |
| Converge You Fail Me |
| Converge No Heroes |
| Corey Wilkes Drop It |
| Cynic Focus |
| Cynic Traced in Air |
| Dark Time Sunshine Vessel |
| Das Racist Shut Up, Dude |
| Daytrader Last Days of Rome |
| Dead Kennedys Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death |
| Death From Above 1979 You're a Woman, I'm a Machine |
| Deerhunter Microcastle |
| Defiance, Ohio The Fear, The Fear, The Fear |
| Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca |
| Dispatch Bang Bang |
| Don Caballero For Respect |
| Earth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II |
| Earthless Sonic Prayer |
| Earthless Rhythms from a Cosmic Sky |
| Edan Beauty and the Beat |
| Elvis Perkins Ash Wednesday |
| Envy Abyssal |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place |
| Fago.Sepia The Resume |
| Faraquet The View From This Tower |
| Fishbone Fishbone |
| Flobots Fight with Tools |
| Florence and the Machine Lungs |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma |
| Foals Antidotes |
| Fucked Up Hidden World |
| Fucked Up David Comes to Life |
| Fugazi The Argument |
| Girl Talk All Day |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh |
| Gong Camembert Electrique |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz |
| Gorillaz Demon Days |
| Green Day International Superhits |
| Gym Class Heroes The Papercut Chronicles |
| Hella Hold Your Horse Is |
| Helmet Meantime |
| Herbie Hancock Mwandishi |
| Hot Cross Cryonics |
| Hot Cross Risk Revival |
| Hungry For Hands I Was Hungry For Hands |
| Hypnos 69 Legacy |
| Innerpartysystem The Download EP |
| Integrity To Die For |
| Intronaut Valley of Smoke |
| Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid |
| Jay-Z The Black Album |
| Jesu Jesu |
| Jesu Opiate Sun |
| Jesu Christmas |
| Joanna Newsom Ys |
| Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Orange |
| Karate Unsolved |
| Karate 595 (Live) |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye |
| Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward |
| Kidcrash Jokes |
| King Crimson Lizard |
| Kodan Armada A Collection Of Songs |
| Krallice Diotima |
| Kylesa Static Tensions |
| Kylesa Spiral Shadow |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair |
| If you're loath to admit the fact that you were once a fan of My Chemical Romance, but are still looking for similar music La Dispute will fit the bill. Imaginative concepts and an enthusiastic frontman are a plus, but the rest of the band's uninspired performance that pulls from the same old bag of post-hardcore tricks makes the album drag. Despite this just like MCR they manage to be surprisingly listenable, worthy of a 3.5 rating. |
| Lagwagon Trashed |
| Last Exit Last Exit |
| Laura Stevenson A Record |
| Les Savy Fav Let's Stay Friends |
| Les Savy Fav Inches |
| Lifter Puller Fiestas and Fiascos |
| Lo-Pan Salvador |
| Los Campesinos! Hold On Now, Youngster... |
| Lucero 1372 Overton Park |
| M. Ward Transistor Radio |
| M. Ward Post-War |
| M83 Before The Dawn Heals Us |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming |
| Masada Beit |
| Mass of the Fermenting Dregs MASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGS |
| Mastodon The Hunter |
| maudlin of the Well Part the Second |
| Menomena Friend And Foe |
| MGMT Oracular Spectacular |
| Modern Life Is War Witness |
| Mogwai Mr. Beast |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry |
| My Winter Nerve Leave it to Science to Solve All Your Problems |
| Naked City Naked City |
| Nujabes Spiritual State |
| Off Minor Some Blood |
| Okkervil River Don't Fall In Love With Everyone You See |
| Okkervil River Black Sheep Boy Appendix |
| Okkervil River Mermaid |
| Okkervil River Sleep and Wake-Up Songs |
| Om Pilgrimage |
| Oneida The Wedding |
| Oneida Secret Wars |
| Oneida Preteen Weaponry |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Opeth Heritage |
| Owen Pallett Heartland |
| Past Lives Strange Symmetry |
| Pearl Jam Ten |
| pg.99 Document #8 |
| Phish Live In Brooklyn |
| Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix |
| Pinebender Working Nine to Wolf |
| Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn |
| Pink Floyd Animals |
| Pissed Jeans King of Jeans |
| Polvo Today's Active Lifestyles |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet |
| Q and Not U No Kill No Beep Beep |
| Racebannon Satan's Kickin' Yr Dick In |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey |
| Ratatat Ratatat |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication |
| Reel Big Fish Cheer Up! |
| Reel Big Fish Turn the Radio Off |
| Ride Nowhere |
| Royal Headache Royal Headache |
| Ruins Tzomborgha |
| Ruins Mandala 2000 |
| SBTRKT SBTRKT |
| Sebadoh III |
| Skeletonwitch Forever Abomination |
| Sleepytime Trio Memory Minus |
| Sonny Sharrock Ask the Ages |
| Spacemen 3 Playing With Fire |
| Spacemen 3 Dreamweapon |
| Squeamish Hammerhead |
| Sunn O))) Black One |
| Swervedriver Mezcal Head |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| System of a Down Mezmerize |
| System of a Down Hypnotize |
| Taint The Ruin of Nova Roma |
| Ted Leo and the Pharmacists Hearts of Oak |
| Ted Leo and the Pharmacists The Tyranny of Distance |
| Tera Melos Patagonian Rats |
| The American Analog Set Know By Heart |
| The Cancer Conspiracy The Audio Medium |
| The Decemberists Castaways and Cutouts |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger |
| The Flaming Lips Clouds Taste Metallic |
| The Flaming Lips Embryonic |
| The Flower Kings Space Revolver |
| The Gaslight Anthem American Slang |
| The Killers Hot Fuss |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet |
| The Men Open Your Heart |
| The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Let's Face It |
| The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Ska-Core, The Devil, and More |
| The National Alligator |
| The National High Violet |
| The Replacements Let It Be |
| The Roots Rising Down |
| The Sight Below It All Falls Apart |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream |
| The Walkmen Bows + Arrows |
| The White Stripes Elephant |
| They Might Be Giants Flood |
| Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 |
| Titus Andronicus The Airing of Grievances |
| Trampled By Turtles Palomino |
| Ufomammut Snailking |
| Underworld dubnobasswithmyheadman |
| Velella Velella The Bay of Biscay |
| Weather Report Heavy Weather |
| Weekend Nachos Worthless |
| Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot |
| Witch Witch |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage |
| Wugazi 13 Chambers |
| Yo La Tengo And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside... |
| Yo La Tengo I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One |
| Yo La Tengo I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass |
| Yuck Yuck |
| Zu Carboniferous |
| 3.0 good |
| Aesop Rock Bazooka Tooth |
| Against Me! Reinventing Axl Rose |
| AJJ Knife Man |
| Akron/Family Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free |
| At the Drive-In Acrobatic Tenement |
| Aussitot Mort Montuenga |
| Baroness Second |
| Baroness First |
| Bat For Lashes Two Suns |
| Battles Gloss Drop |
| Beau Navire Life Moves |
| Beirut The Rip Tide |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues |
| Black Mountain Black Mountain |
| Blakroc Blakroc |
| Bluetip Polymer |
| Boredoms Pop Tatari |
| Boris New Album |
| I was all set to hate this album. I mean, let's be honest, who wants j-pop from Boris? However as soon as I heard Takeshi's giddy vocals on the first track I couldn't help but smile. From then out Boris pull out every cliched trick in the book, from corny synths to club friendly drum machines. But they sincerely sound like they're having such a good time that I can't fault them for it. |
| Boris With Merzbow Klatter |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow |
| Cynic Re-Traced |
| Dave Matthews Band Under The Table And Dreaming |
| Daytrader Twelve Years |
| De Magia Veterum The Divine Antithesis |
| Decahedron Disconnection Imminent |
| Defeater Lost Ground |
| Dinosaur Jr. Without a Sound |
| Don Caballero American Don |
| Don Caballero Don Caballero II |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought |
| Dub Pistols Point Blank |
| Edan Primitive Plus |
| Envy Recitation |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues |
| Followed By Ghosts Still, Here |
| Foxy Shazam Foxy Shazam |
| Frodus And We Washed Our Weapons In The Sea |
| Fu Manchu The Action is Go |
| Fugazi Furniture |
| Fugazi Repeater |
| Girl Talk Feed the Animals |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence |
| Grails Black Tar Prophecies, Vols. I, II & III |
| Grails Deep Politics |
| Green Day American Idiot |
| Hella There's No 666 In Outer Space |
| Hot Snakes Audit in Progress |
| Hot Snakes Automatic Midnight |
| Icarus the Owl Love Always, Leviathan |
| Iselia Adaptations |
| Iselia Life From Dead Limbs |
| James Blake James Blake |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint |
| Jay-Z American Gangster |
| Jesu Infinity |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| Karmakanic Who's the Boss in the Factory? |
| Kayo Dot Coyote |
| Kehlvin The Orchard of Forking Paths |
| King Crimson Discipline |
| Kno Death Is Silent |
| Koenji Hyakkei Nivraym |
| LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening |
| Liars Sisterworld |
| Lifter Puller Half Dead and Dynamite |
| Light Bearer Lapsus |
| Liturgy Aesthethica |
| Maps and Atlases Beware and Be Grateful |
| Mariachi El Bronx El Bronx |
| Massive Attack Heligoland |
| Mastodon Remission |
| Melt-Banana Scratch or Stitch |
| Mihai Edrisch Un Jour Sans Lendemain |
| Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates |
| Mogwai The Hawk Is Howling |
| More Than Life Love Let Me Go |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge |
| NOFX Wolves in Wolves' Clothing |
| Nujabes Modal Soul |
| Okkervil River Stars Too Small To Use |
| Orchid Orchid |
| Pavement Slanted and Enchanted |
| Pop. 1280 The Horror |
| Propellerheads Decksandrumsandrockandroll |
| Racebannon First There Was the Emptiness |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Ratatat Ratatat Remixes Vol.1 |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture |
| Rocket From The Crypt Circa: Now! |
| Rocket From The Crypt RFTC |
| Sea Power Do You Like Rock Music? |
| Grandiose, anthemic stadium rock. It would be hard to deny its ability to rouse a crowd of fans. The band often goes all out - guitars blaring and drums crashing while the lead singer... whispers. The glaring contrast between the band's impassioned efforts and the front man's restrained, almost bored performance is as compelling as it is frustrating. Fans of Arcade Fire, Coldplay, and U2 will probably eat this up, but others will find it only fairly decent. |
| Sed Non Satiata Sed Non Satiata |
| Shabazz Palaces Black Up |
| Sigur Ros Takk... |
| Sleep Sleep's Holy Mountain |
| Sonic Youth The Eternal |
| Spank Rock YoYoYoYoYo |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb |
| Sufjan Stevens All Delighted People |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz |
| Sunn O))) Oracle |
| Symphony X Paradise Lost |
| System of a Down System of a Down |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! |
| Texas Is the Reason Do You Know Who You Are? |
| The Afghan Whigs Gentlemen |
| The Aquabats The Fury of the Aquabats! |
| The Avett Brothers Emotionalism |
| The Cancer Conspiracy Omega |
| The Felix Culpa Sever Your Roots |
| The Fertility Cult Eschatology |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron |
| The Offspring Greatest Hits |
| The Pax Cecilia Nouveau |
| The Psychic Paramount II |
| The Roots undun |
| The State Lottery When the Night Comes |
| The Strokes First Impressions of Earth |
| The War On Drugs Wagonwheel Blues |
| Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures |
| TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain |
| Ufomammut Eve |
| Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You |
| Yes Relayer |
