| 5.0 classic |
| A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders |
| Alcest Ecailles De Lune |
| American Football American Football |
| Author and Punisher Drone Machines |
| Bohren & Der Club of Gore Sunset Mission |
| Have A Nice Life Deathconsciousness |
| Helios Eingya |
| Hell (USA) I |
| Hellogoodbye Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs! |
| i don't care what anyone says, this is the best synthpop/powerpop album of ALL-TIME. EVER. this album is going to raise my children, and children are going to have a life of fun making friends and being nice to everyone they know. |
| Jeniferever Spring Tides |
| John Coltrane A Love Supreme |
| k-os Atlantis: Hymns For Disco |
| Kaizers Orchestra Violeta Violeta, Volume I |
| why doesn't this have a review yet? easily the most memorable rock album of 2011 already |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak |
| Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Pamyu Pamyu Revolution |
| Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Fashion Monster |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine |
| Modest Mouse Good News For People Who Love Bad News |
| i still find myself belting out lines from every single track on this album on a weekly basis, and it's been over six years since i first put this one into my CD changer. dann gallucci pulls out all the stops to make this one danceable and respectable as a musical creation, and isaac brock, as usual, write like one of those bad dreams that are actually really great to talk about once you wake up from them. unfortunately, it is almost too perfect and i find myself missing the dirty, disgruntled modest mouse, complete with isaac brock's lisp. |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica |
| oOoOO oOoOO |
| i'm assuming you're all familiar with the first generation of pokemon, correct? this is drowzee... if that ugly thing no one ever wanted to catch faded into an obscure life of being a creepy chillwave DJ. i didn't want to further my pokemon analogy to avoid sounding like a fucking dork but this EP has all drowzee's attacks. seriously: POUND, HYPNOSIS, DISABLE, CONFUSION. it's all there. it's all ominous as hell. i'm also waiting for someone to make dubstep out of this. it would be amazing and haunting. someone make this happen. please. |
| Pink Floyd Animals |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia |
| Portugal. The Man The Satanic Satanist |
| portugal. the man did everything right on this record, from the oldschool sounding guitars to the soulful organ chords. the satanic satanist is without a doubt the grooviest album to come out in 2009, and perfectly in time for summer. if i'm with someone who's heard this album, it's imperative that we belt out one of these catchy-ass tracks. upon first listen, this album sounds like you've heard it before, or like something you've heard your parents spin on vinyl when you were a little kid. fucking fantastic and charming. |
| Portugal. The Man American Ghetto |
| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6. in B-Minor, Op. 74 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Refused The Shape of Punk to Come |
| Russian Circles Geneva |
| Sed Non Satiata Sed Non Satiata |
| the best skramz album to come out this year really capitalizes on the growing trend of post-rock/screamo hybrids and manages to not skimp us out on the energy of either genre. fantastic, meaningful work on the captivating atmospheric breaks, completely void of the flowery, guitar-noodling filler that invades most albums like this come out this year. the vocals are emotive and convincing and lend well to the harsh, hardcore sound they've preserved from their early releases. further proof that french people know what the fuck they're doing and are unabashedly romantic while doing it. |
| Shane Koyczan A Pretty Decent Cape In My Closet |
| Sigur Ros Ágætis Byrjun |
| Sigur Ros Heima (DVD) |
| Slint Spiderland |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois |
| Sunn O))) Monoliths and Dimensions |
| Sunn O))) and Boris Altar |
| The Avalanches Since I Left You |
| The Beatles 1 |
| The Beatles Abbey Road |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting The Ocean and the Sun |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Sometimes The Blues Is Just A Passing Bird |
| one of the best releases of the year. absolutely beautiful trademark guitar work, gut-wrenching songwriting, and while his voice might take a little time to grow on you, after a few listens, it strikes as the most endearing sound you've ever heard. the fact that he's been experimenting with electric guitar and accompaniment adds a whole new dimension to the tallest man on earth's already well-loved sound. it's going to be a hell of a year for this guy. |
| Tim Hecker Harmony in Ultraviolet |
| toe For Long Tomorrow |
| Trophy Scars Alphabet Alphabets |
| alphabet. alphabets is grossly under-appreciated, to say the least. i fail to understand why this album isn't at the top of everyone's list of favorite albums ever. jerry jones is a beautiful man. this LP plays off like a mature post-hardcore album at first, until we hear a dose of some hip-hop flavored beats and later, some eerie baroque-ish influence. all in all, it is cohesive and memorable. even if you think jerry and the gang's sound is an acquired taste, give their lyrics a chance, because if all else fails, those strike at the hearts of anyone listening. |
| Trophy Scars Bad Luck |
| this is the second trophy scars album to make my '5' list and i'm not even the least bit ashamed of praising them so hard. the band kills it again and this time manages to make us dance to the tune of romantic murder and betrayal. it is hard to compose an album that keeps both their old fanbase excited and attracts people who wouldn't have gotten into their old stuff otherwise. trophy scars has fucking done it. everything flows perfectly (literally, who doesn't love gapless albums?) and you'll find yourself mesmerized by not only the strings, brass and illusory guitar play, but also by that grisly plot line that'll stick in the back of your head for days. |
| Trophy Scars Never Born, Never Dead |
| Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You |
| Utada Hikaru DEEP RIVER |
| Vampillia Alchemic Heart |
| Yes Fragile |
| 4.5 superb |
| Ganja White Night Mystic Herbalist |
| Giles Corey Giles Corey |
| Hammock Departure Songs |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast |
| Jacaszek Treny |
| Jaga Jazzist What We Must |
| Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid (Suites II and III of IV) |
| Jethro Tull Aqualung |
| Junichi Masuda Pokemon Gameboy Sound Collection |
| Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground |
| Kilimanjaro EP TWO |
| Kno Death Is Silent |
| Koji Kondo The Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary Symphony |
| Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Moshi Moshi Harajuku |
| Kylesa Spiral Shadow |
| kylesa are a bunch of bad-asses, doing their bad-ass activities in the most bad-assedly delicate way that bad-assery can be done. it's sludge metal in the least sludgiest way possible, often bordering on post-metal or heavy progressive rock. if you're a prog-metal type who's lost faith in anything that doesn't wank around on a fretboard track after track, or that says sludge metal is just another overtried genre that'll eventually all consolidate into one boring track and dry-swallow us whole (you know who you are), please listen to this. spiral shadow grabs you by the wrists, blindfolds you, and hoists you onto some monstrous horse-creature for some desert night-riding. if you are an infant, this will give you shaken baby syndrome... you'll probably like it.rdid i mention this band has dual vocals (female/male) and two drummers? bad ass. |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River... |
| La Dispute Here, Hear. III |
| Lauryn Hill The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill |
| Lights Out Asia Eyes Like Brontide |
| Look Mexico This Is Animal Music |
| Maserati Pyramid of the Sun |
| aside from sounding so spacey and stereotypically electronic that it might actually have been made to be the backing track to an educational biology video (or... the weather channel, kekekekeke)... this LP is fucking awesome. i tend to be pretty rude to any post-rock outfit that puts out something new and expects people to regard them as talented or original, because let's be honest here, haven't mogwai, explosions in the sky, a silver mt. zion and GY!BE done everything that can be done? apparently not, actually, because damn. pyramid of the sun is an album of epic proportions. whoever had the idea of using more hard-hitting electronic noises and drawn out atmospheric sounds and putting them in the context of 'post-rock' (though i wouldn't put this album in that category) is a genius. i hope this sends a message to every other post-rock band out there to stop boring us to tears year after year. |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye |
| mastodon's made an astonishingly focused record. no overblown sludge metal gimmick, no progressive rock fretboard wankery. it's a ton more concise than blood mountain and it's pretty clear that a good chunk of their energy was put into getting all their key elements to click perfectly (oh, it worked alright). it is the stuff of legend. crack the skye get increasingly more appealing as it progresses and continually shows us that mastodon is not just the world's passing sludge metal phase, but is definately going to cement itself as the stuff that influences future bands of the genre. |
| maudlin of the Well Part the Second |
| Melvins Bullhead |
| Memory Tapes Seek Magic |
| Mew Frengers |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge |
| Naked City Naked City |
| NEGOTO ex-Negoto |
| Ninjaspy Pi Nature |
| No Doubt Tragic Kingdom |
| Oceansize Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up |
| Olafur Arnalds Living Room Songs |
| Olafur Arnalds For Now I am Winter |
| Om Advaitic Songs |
| Panic! At the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out |
| Porcupine Tree Voyage 34: The Complete Trip |
| Protest the Hero Kezia |
| Protest the Hero Fortress |
| Purity Ring Shrines |
| Queen Greatest Hits |
| Rhys Chatham A Crimson Grail (For 200 Electric Guitars) |
| Shiina Ringo Kalk Samen Kuri no Hana |
| Shining (NOR) Blackjazz |
| SikTh The Trees Are Dead and Dried Out |
| as the first sikTh album i dived into, right off the bat, i noticed the gorgeous dual vocals. if those weren't enough to give this album atleast a 3, the transitions, structures and instrumentation are tightened up to perfection. it's a fast-paced, aggressive record that catches your attention over and over again as the energy changes from ruthless, to triumphant, to anguished. the tiny details like the spoken word, and odd moments that aren't typical to a metal album are fantastic and add so much to the listening experience. the only regret on this album is when it takes that impressive musicianship for a loop of wankery and ends up sounding like cheesy power metal every now and then. |
| Six Gallery Breakthroughs in Modern Art |
| first off, let me say that six gallery is better at guitar than you are, and they're going to tell you about it. not to worry, they're not going to put you down and make you feel bad about your skills, instead they're going to pump you full of feel-good math rock juice and get you stoked about the fact that these guitar-diddling powers are in the hands of such heroes. breakthroughs in modern art is a beautiful LP. it will make your dreams come true, it will make your food taste better, it will clean your room and it will probably get you laid. |
| SORNE House of Stone |
| State Faults Head in the Clouds |
| Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing |
| Sublime Sublime |
| Supertramp Crime of the Century |
| Swarms Old Raves End |
| Tartar Lamb Sixty Metonymies |
| Tempest (Can) Passages |
| Ten Grand The Comprehensive List of Everyone Who H |
| The Angelic Process Weighing Souls with Sand |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet |
| The Get Up Kids Something To Write Home About |
| The Glitch Mob Drink the Sea |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet |
| The Ocean Anthropocentric |
| The Psychic Paramount Gamelan Into the Mink Supernatural |
| The Roots How I Got Over |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting We Must Become the Change We Want to See |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Trespassers William Different Stars |
| Trespassers William Having |
| Trophy Scars Hospital Music |
| Trophy Scars Darkness, Oh Hell |
| Trophy Scars Goodnight Alchemy |
| Tyler Brown The Hollows |
| Ulver Perdition City |
| United Nations United Nations |
| Vampillia and Nadja The Primitive World |
| Warpaint The Fool |
| Zechs Marquise Getting Paid |
| 4.0 excellent |
| Gang Gang Dance Eye Contact |
| Gaza I Don't Care Where I Go When I Die |
| Giles Corey Deconstructionist |
| Giles Corey Hinterkaifeck |
| Glassjaw El Mark |
| Gnaw Their Tongues L Arrivee De La Terne Mort Triomphante |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage |
| Gonjasufi A Sufi and a Killer |
| Good Old War Only Way To Be Alone |
| it's one of those albums that you'll want to spin on days where everything's gone right so far. sun's shining, birds are singing- hell, you may as well have springs attached to your feet. good old war's vocal harmonies are warm and dan and keith's jovial guitar play trifles around and makes you want to head out for a roadtrip to somewhere sunny and woodsy. just ignore the overly simple lyrics and take in anthony green's vocal guest solo. |
| Good Old War Come Back As Rain |
| Grails Deep Politics |
| Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill |
| Havok Time Is Up |
| Hawkwind Warrior on the Edge of Time |
| Heems Nehru Jackets |
| - After being disappointed with Kool A.D.?s solo release, Himanshu brings us a proper mixtape from the other mind behind Das Racist. Showcasing basically what we already knew DR could do, in case you?d forgotten; humor, satire , social commentary and typical hip-hop non-sequitors, all in a flow that rolls off the tongue as casual wordfire. Despite not usually really being one for erratic mixtapes in the hip-hop scene, this release caught my attention for its frequent incorporation of desi flavor and indian bhangra samples contributing to a myriad of generally attractive beats. Only flaw here is having not released it as formidable summer jams. |
| Hella There's No 666 In Outer Space |
| Hetfield & Hetfield Tidal Wave Dreams |
| High on Fire De Vermis Mysteriis |
| Hugh Laurie Let Them Talk |
| Hungry Ghosts Alone, Alone |
| I Am Alaska To Elude The Architect |
| Idiot Pilot Strange We Should Meet Here |
| In Vacuo IN VACUO |
| Incubus Make Yourself |
| Incubus Morning View |
| Indian Handcrafts Civil Disobedience For Losers |
| Into It. Over It. 52 Weeks |
| Jacaszek Glimmer |
| Jacobi Wichita Bonez Malone |
| James Blake The Bells Sketch |
| James Blake Enough Thunder |
| Japandroids Celebration Rock |
| Jenny Hval Viscera |
| John K. Samson Provincial |
| John Mayer Battle Studies |
| Jonsi Go |
| Jonsi and Alex Riceboy Sleeps |
| Julie Christmas The Bad Wife |
| Justice Cross |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience |
| k-os Joyful Rebellion |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| after one listen of this, it's easy to see the reason why so many people hate kanye west; he is ridiculously talented and versatile. this record is all sorts of things that i will now enumerate: classic, massive, legendary, original and maniacally beautiful (oh and dark and twisted and fantastic). damn, i don't even know what else to say. i'm thoroughly glad i've never dissed mr. west in my life because i would be choking down those words now. every beat is better than the last. every verse kicks you in the face and makes you shut the fuck up and listen (atleast until you can jam along, anyway). there is nothing on this album that was implanted as 'just filler' in order to make the tracks come up to 3:00. wow, just... wow. |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye |
| this is certainly a stunning album, to say the least. as a much needed transition from maudlin of the well's tired ways, choirs of the eye is an atmospheric approach to kayo dot's distinct avant-garde post-metal style that makes excellent use of both minimalist and symphonic production. while it might not turn some ears at first, being a record that can sink seamlessly into the background, kayo dot's first is definately notable as a haunting, thought-provoking record. though sometimes off on a tangent with the layers upon layers of instruments, choirs of the eye is an exemplar experimental album. |
| KEN mode Venerable |
| Kendrick Lamar Section.80 |
| Kids and Explosions Shit Computer |
| Kilimanjaro EP ONE |
| Klaus Schulze Irrlicht |
| Kurt Vile Constant Hitmaker |
| Kyte Dead Waves |
| La Dispute Here, Hear |
| La Dispute Untitled 7" |
| La Monte Young Black Album |
| Late Night Alumni Empty Streets |
| Lee Noble No Becoming |
| Lemaitre Relativity 3 |
| Leucosis Pulling Down the Sky |
| Lifelover Erotik |
| Lifelover Pulver |
| Light Bearer Lapsus |
| Lights Out Asia Hy-Brasil |
| Lion of the North The Compass Calls |
| Listener Wooden Heart |
| Little Women Throat |
| a rash, noisy clusterfuck of clusterfucks. picture a bunch of horrifyingly anthropomorphized saxophones viciously devouring the corpses of a pride of poor, but equally horrifying-looking lions. how the fuck did all these lions die at the hands of a couple saxophones? was there a motive? or this is just a sport for these seemingly murderous saxophones? after a while, the discovery channel effect sets in; you'll forget how terrifying throat is as a piece of music. as the record appears to slowly organize itself, it'll brainwash you into thinking it has some sort of structure and harmony and by the end you'll have convinced yourself that this natural and fine and organic... until that last track, at which point you will be utterly confused about what you just listened to and whether or not you are sane. |
| Loma Prieta I.V. |
| Lovedrug Pretend You're Alive |
| Marianas Trench Fix Me |
| Master Musicians Of Bukkake Totem One |
| Master Musicians Of Bukkake Totem Three |
| Matana Roberts Coin Coin Chapter One - Gens de couleur libres |
| Mathias Eick The Door |
| Matthew Herbert One Pig |
| maudlin of the Well Bath |
| Merzbow Annihiloscillator |
| mewithoutYou A to B: Life |
| MGMT Oracular Spectacular |
| Midori Aratame Hajime Mashite Midori Desu |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice |
| Misery Signals Controller |
| miss A Touch |
| Mr. Bungle California |
| Mumford and Sons Sigh No More |
| Nadja The Bungled & the Botched |
| Nadja Radiance of Shadows |
| Natural Snow Buildings The Dance of the Moon and the Sun |
| Nicolas Jaar Space Is Only Noise |
| Noisear Subvert the Dominant Paradigm |
| Nujabes Modal Soul |
| Nujabes Spiritual State |
| Nujabes Metaphorical Music |
| O! The Joy Zen Mode |
| Oceansize Home & Minor |
| Omnium Gatherum New World Shadows |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Returnal |
| Owen At Home With Owen |
| Owls Owls |
| Pelican Ataraxia/Taraxis |
| Perfume Genius Put Your Back N 2 It |
| Peter Gabriel Peter Gabriel (Car) |
| Polyenso One Big Particular Loop |
| Portugal. The Man The Majestic Majesty |
| Portugal. The Man Waiter: ''You Vultures!'' |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous |
| Psychic Babble My Brother's Ears, My Sister's Eyes |
| Pyramids with Nadja Pyramids with Nadja |
| Queen Queen II |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Raein Sulla linea d'orizzonte tra questa mia vita e que |
| Ram Hoss PrixQuills |
| Reptilian Mambo Reptilian Mambo |
| Riverside Second Life Syndrome |
| Russian Circles Enter |
| s / s / s Beak & Claw |
| Say Anything In Defense of the Genre |
| SBTRKT SBTRKT |
| Seabear Singing Arc EP |
| Shabazz Palaces Black Up |
| Sharks Keep Moving Sharks Keep Moving |
| SHINee Sherlock |
| Showbread No Sir, Nihilism Is Not Practical |
| Shugo Tokumaru In Focus? |
| Sigur Ros Takk... |
| Sigur Ros Inni |
| Sioum I Am Mortal, But Was Fiend |
| Sithu Aye Isles |
| Skrillex Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites |
| without a doubt, an EP containing a few of the edgiest dubstep tracks of this year. i cannot get enough of this release; top-notch melody work, jaw-dropping bass and no originality spared in spreading perfection over this multi-genre gem. who knew sonny moore was more than just a floppy-haired screaming monkey? |
| Sky Eats Airplane Everything Perfect on the Wrong Day |
| Sleep Dopesmoker |
| Sleep In Pyramid |
| Sleep In Twins |
| Sleepy Sun Fever |
| Slowdive Souvlaki |
| Solar Bear Captains Of Industry |
| Something Corporate Leaving Through The Window |
| Stairs to Nowhere Hymns from the Blazing Flesh |
| Stars of the Lid The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid |
| Stomacher Sentimental Education |
| Strand of Oaks Pope Killdragon |
| Sublime 40 Oz. to Freedom |
| Sunn O))) Meets Nurse With Wound The Iron Soul of Nothing |
| Super Snake Summer Girls |
| Swans Soundtracks for the Blind |
| Swans The Seer |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock |
| Tartar Lamb Polyimage of Known Exits |
| Tera Melos Tera Melos |
| The Album Leaf One Day I'll Be On Time |
| The American Dollar Atlas |
| The Beatles The Beatles |
| The Blood Brothers Crimes |
| The Cure Disintegration |
| The Decemberists Castaways and Cutouts |
| The Dudes Barbers, Thieves and Bartenders |
| The Dudes Blood Guts Bruises Cuts |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger |
| The Fall of Troy Phantom on the Horizon |
| The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble Mutations |
| The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble |
| The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble From the Stairwell |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| the humblest and best series of tracks ever to come out of the brains of the mars volta. this was before they'd become pretentious art rocknuggets and their obliviousness to this future gives us a very pleasant adventure in psychedelic prog rock. it doesn't help that this sukka is a concept album. man, do those boys ever know how to stimulate a plot line. |
| The Mercury Program A Data Learn the Language |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 (Re-release) |
| The Middle East The Recordings of the Middle East |
| The Most Serene Republic Population |
| The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation Egor |
| The Mountain Goats All Eternals Deck |
| The Postal Service Give Up |
| The Psychic Paramount II |
| The Republic of Wolves Varuna |
| The Roots undun |
| The Rural Alberta Advantage Hometowns |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting Lover, the Lord Has Left Us... |
| The Speed of Sound in Seawater Underwater Tell Each Other Secrets |
| The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now |
| The Used In Love and Death |
| The Used The Used |
| The Weakerthans Left and Leaving |
| The Weakerthans Reunion Tour |
| The Weeknd Thursday |
| The Weeknd House of Balloons |
| The Weeknd Echoes of Silence |
| Thundercat The Golden Age Of Apocalypse |
| Thursday No Devolucion |
| Todos Caeran Todos Caerán |
| toe New Sentimentality |
| Toro Y Moi Causers of This |
| as much as the sudden influx of lo-fi, chillwave shenanigans has recently made me want to pull my hair out in lieu of most of it being boring, hazy background junk that will be forgotten fairly quickly, toro y moi is quite the breath of fresh air. unlike other albums of the genre, it's dreamy yet draws attention to itself instead of letting the listener drift off in the fuzzy lo-fi swamp. if you feel like you're suffocating under the weight of too much mediocre chillwave, hit this up. |
| Tortoise TNT |
| Trash Talk Awake |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross The Social Network |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo |
| Trophy Scars Darts to the Sea |
| TTNG This Town Needs Guns |
| TTNG Adventure, Stamina & Anger |
| tUnE-yArDs w h o k i l l |
| Ulver Shadows of the Sun |
| this is obvious a very personal record for the band, so it's not something anyone's likely to rip apart for being 'different' from the rest of ulver's repertoire (hell, nothing by ulver is the same, ever). this album is a beautifully reflective work that incites us to respect ulver further as serious musicians who need not stick to one genre to please their fans. i hope other experimental artists take a page out of their book and try not to be so overly flashy all the time. |
| Vales Clarity |
| Waster Thunder Pit |
| Waxahatchee American Weekend |
| Why? Alopecia |
| Wilco Sky Blue Sky |
| Wild Orchid Children The Wild Orchid Children Are Alexander Supertramp |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters |
| Woven Hand Mosaic |
| Wugazi Wugazi: The 13th Chamber |
| Yamantaka // Sonic Titan YT//ST |
| Yasushi Yoshida Little Grace |
| YOB The Illusion Of Motion |
| Yuck Yuck |
| Zee Avi Ghostbird |
| Zee Avi Zee Avi |
| Zu Carboniferous |
| 3.5 great |
| Gaza He Is Never Coming Back |
| Giraffes? Giraffes! Pink Magick |
| giranice giranice |
| Glasser Ring |
| Goose Hut throw it at your dads house |
| Gotye Making Mirrors |
| Grieves Together/Apart |
| Grouper A I A |
| Grouper The Man Who Died in His Boat |
| Gwen Stefani The Sweet Escape |
| Gwen Stefani Love. Angel. Music. Baby. |
| Harbours Harbours EP |
| Harbours Branches |
| Hell/Thou Resurrection Bay |
| Hella Hold Your Horse Is |
| Hella Church Gone Wild/Chirpin' Hard |
| How To Destroy Angels Welcome Oblivion |
| Hunab Ku The Rewiring Process |
| I Mother Earth Scenery & Fish |
| I'm Not A Gun Everything At Once |
| Innerpartysystem Never Be Content |
| Innerpartysystem Innerpartysystem |
| Iron & Wine Our Endless Numbered Days |
| Jacaszek Pentral |
| James Blake Klavierwerke |
| Jan Johansson Jazz pa Svenska |
| Jeniferever Choose a Bright Morning |
| Johann Johannsson Fordlandia |
| Journal Unlorja |
| Joyce Manor Joyce Manor |
| Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds |
| Kaizers Orchestra Ompa Til Du Dor |
| Kaizers Orchestra Evig Pint |
| Kanye West Graduation |
| Karen Dalton 1966 |
| Kashiwa Daisuke 88 |
| Kayo Dot Gamma Knife |
| Kerouac Cold and Distant, Not Loving |
| Kyte Love To Be Lost |
| La Dispute Here, Hear. II |
| La Dispute Wildlife |
| deserves an oscar for best drama. featuring nicolas cage |
| Lights Siberia |
| Lights Out Asia Tanks And Recognizers |
| Love American Love American |
| M83 Saturdays=Youth |
| M83 Before The Dawn Heals Us |
| Madvillain Madvillainy |
| Mamiffer, House of Low Culture & Merzbow Lou Lou... In Tokyo |
| Man Overboard Noise From Upstairs |
| Maps & Atlases You and Me and the Mountain |
| Maps & Atlases Beware and Be Grateful |
| Massive Attack Heligoland |
| Master Musicians Of Bukkake Totem Two |
| Mastodon The Hunter |
| Memory Tapes Grace/Confusion |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree |
| Mew And the Glass Handed Kites |
| mewithoutYou Ten Stories |
| miaou Happiness |
| Million Dead A Song to Ruin |
| Milo Things That Happen At Night |
| Milo Things That Happen At Day |
| Mimosa Silver Lining |
| Minus the Bear Menos El Oso |
| Minus the Bear Omni |
| Modern Life Is War Witness |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank |
| Mogwai Les Revenants OST |
| Mogwai Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will |
| Mono Hymn To The Immortal Wind |
| Mount Eerie Clear Moon |
| Nadja Touched |
| Nails Unsilent Death |
| Napalm Death Utilitarian |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I |
| Neon Indian Psychic chasms |
| Neutral Bling Hotel In My G4 Over Da Sea |
| Noisia Split The Atom |
| Nosaj Thing Drift |
| Nosaj Thing Home |
| Oceansize A Very Still Movement |
| Oceansize Music for Nurses |
| Oceansize Frames |
| Oceansize Effloresce |
| Oceansize Everyone Into Position |
| Oceansize Feed to Feed |
| OFWGKTA Radical |
| Olafur Arnalds Eulogy For Evolution |
| Old Man Gloom NO |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Replica |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Opeth Heritage |
| Oren Ambarchi In The Pendulum's Embrace |
| P.S. Eliot Introverted Romance In Our Troubled Minds |
| Panic! At the Disco Pretty. Odd. |
| Pg. 99 Document #8 |
| Poldoore Dreamworks |
| Portugal. The Man Censored Colors |
| Portugal. The Man Church Mouth |
| Portugal. The Man In The Mountain In The Cloud |
| Pulling Teeth Funerary |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs |
| Rape Revenge Rape Revenge |
| Return to Forever Light as a Feather |
| Rush Clockwork Angels |
| Russian Circles Empros |
| Sabrepulse Turbo City |
| Sabrepulse First Crush |
| DO YOU LIKE SKRILLEX BUT DON'T WANT TO LIE AND SAY YOU DON'T LIKE SKRILLEX? THEN JUST SAY YOU'RE INTO SABREPULSE |
| Secede Tryshasla |
| Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun |
| Shearwater Animal Joy |
| Sigur Ros med sud i eyrum vio spilum endalaust |
| Sigur Ros Valtari |
| SMILETRON SOLSTICE |
| Snowing I Could Do Whatever I Wanted If I Wanted |
| So Many Dynamos Flashlights |
| Soundtrack Garden State |
| Stan Rogers Fogarty's Cove |
| Steve Roach Structures from Silence |
| Storm Corrosion Storm Corrosion |
| Strand of Oaks Dark Shores |
| Subrosa No Help for the Mighty Ones |
| Sufjan Stevens Enjoy Your Rabbit |
| Suis La Lune Riala |
| Surfer Blood Astro Coast |
| The Academy Is... Almost Here |
| The Album Leaf A Chorus of Storytellers |
| The American Dollar A Memory Stream |
| The American Dollar Awake In The City |
| The Beatles Help! |
| The Beatles Yellow Submarine |
| The Blood Brothers Young Machetes |
| The Blood Brothers ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn |
| The Bloody Beetroots Romborama |
| The Caretaker An Empty Bliss Beyond This World |
| The Dear Hunter Indigo |
| The Flashbulb Arboreal |
| The Gaslamp Killer I Spit On Your Grave |
| The Glitch Mob We Can Make The World Stop |
| The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble Here Be Dragons |
| The King Blues Punk & Poetry |
| The KLF Chill Out |
| The Locust The Locust |
| The Mercury Program Chez Viking |
| The Most Serene Republic Underwater Cinematographer |
| The Mountain Goats Transcendental Youth |
| The Ocean Heliocentric |
| The Red Light Sting Hands Up, Tiger |
| The Republic of Wolves His Old Branches |
| The Rural Alberta Advantage Departing |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Oceania |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting Tiger and the Duke |
| i don't know why TSOAF fans give this album so much attention. yes, the layers of angular guitars and chaotic, directional playing are a pretty refreshing mix, but seriously? the interludes could be so much better, and as much as every intro to every track is incredibly solid, it always seems to fall apart within 30 seconds. the record shows off a supergroup that has an incredible amount of potential, but can't seem to compose it. |
| The Spill Canvas Gestalt |
| The Streets A Grand Don't Come For Free |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt |
| The Used Vulnerable |
| The Weir everything blaowder than everything else |
| The Wonder Years The Upsides |
| The Wonder Years Suburbia: I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing |
| The World is a Beautiful Place And... Formlessness |
| The xx xx |
| This Will Destroy You Tunnel Blanket |
| Tim Kasher The Game of Monogamy |
| Toby Driver In the L..L..Library Loft |
| Todos Caeran After Dark |
| toe The Future Is Now |
| Tokyo Police Club Elephant Shell |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me |
| Tricky Maxinquaye |
| Trophywife Hold Onto Your Luck |
| TTNG 13.0.0.0.0 |
| Twin Shadow Confess |
| Two Door Cinema Club Tourist History |
| this is what tokyo police club's newest album was supposed to sound like, minus the all-too-familiar vocals, of course. other than that this is an upbeat indie rock jam that's hard to dislike. do you like bloc party? how about franz ferdinand? foals? phoenix? we are scientists? vampire weekend? surely you can't hate them. shit. you'll probably like this |
| Tycho Past is Prologue |
| Tycho Dive |
| Vektor Black Future |
| Vessels Helioscope |
| Washed Out Life of Leisure |
| Washed Out Within and Without |
| Weather Report I Sing The Body Electric |
| Ween The Mollusk |
| Why? Eskimo Snow |
| Why? Sod In The Seed |
| Why? Mumps, Etc. |
| Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot |
| Windmills By the Ocean Windmills By the Ocean II |
| Witchstone EP |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage |
| YOB Atma |
| You Slut! Medium Bastard |
| Yume Bitsu Yume Bitsu |
| Zammuto Zammuto |
| 3.0 good |
| Ghost Factory Hello, My Name Is Ghost Factory |
| Gigan Quasi-Hallucinogenic Sonic Landscapes |
| Girl Talk All Day |
| Girlfriends Girlfriends |
| Goatwhore Blood For The Master |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada |
| Gonjasufi MU.ZZ.LE |
| Hella The Devil Isn't Red |
| Hood The Cycle Of Days And Seasons |
| Hop Along Get Disowned |
| HRVRD From The Bird's Cage |
| Hunab Ku The Gaze Inward |
| Hungry For Hands I Was Hungry For Hands |
| Impatient Outpatient Remnants of a Paradise Lost |
| In Every Breath Awakening |
| Iselia Life From Dead Limbs |
| Jacobi Wichita Lambsie.Divey |
| Jaguar Love Hologram Jams |
| if you don't atleast think this is a fun record, you're probably ashamed of the way you dance. |
| James Blake James Blake |
| Jamie Woon Wayfaring Stranger |
| Jay Rock Follow Me Home |
| Jean Leloup Le Dôme |
| Jeniferever Silesia |
| John Mayer Born and Raised |
| Jonsi Go Out |
| Joyce Manor Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired |
| Justice Helix |
| the gesaffelstein vision remix of helix is the track where industrial goth bar meets gay bar |
| Ke$ha Deconstructed |
| Khoma The Second Wave |
| Killer Mike R.A.P. Music |
| King Creosote and Jon Hopkins Diamond Mine |
| Knapsack Day Three Of My New Life |
| Knapsack This Conversation Is Ending Starting Right Now |
| Kreng Grimoire |
| La Dispute/Koji Never Come Undone |
| Lamb of God Resolution |
| Last Chance to Reason Level 2 |
| Late Night Alumni Haunted |
| Laura Stevenson Sit Resist |
| Laurel Halo Quarantine |
| Lee Noble Horrorism |
| Leech [US] Ten Black Hymns |
| Leonard Cohen Old Ideas |
| Les Doux Dialects |
| Lifelover Dekadens |
| Light Bearer Silver Tongue |
| Lil B God's Father |
| Liturgy Renihilation |
| Lizards Have Personalities In All Honesty |
| Local Natives Gorilla Manor |
| Local Natives Hummingbird |
| Love American Disquiet |
| Lovedrug Wild Blood |
| Lycus Demo MMXI |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming |
| Maeror Tri The Beauty of Sadness |
| Malajube La caverne |
| Mamaleek Kurdaitcha |
| Mamaleek Fever Dream |
| Man Man Life Fantastic |
| Manchester Orchestra Simple Math |
| Marnie Stern Marnie Stern |
| Master Musicians Of Bukkake The Visible Sign Of The Invisible Order |
| Maybeshewill I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was Gone |
| Memphis May Fire The Hollow |
| Miike Snow Happy to You |
| Mika Life in Cartoon Motion |
| Minus the Bear They Make Beer Commercials Like This |
| Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates |
| Mogwai Young Team |
| Moist Creature |
| Moonface With Siinai: Heartbreaking Bravery |
| Mother Mother Eureka |
| Mountains Centralia |
| Mum Finally We Are No One |
| My Morning Jacket Z |
| My Morning Jacket It Still Moves |
| myGRAIN myGRAIN |
| Nachtmystium Addicts: Black Meddle Pt. 2 |
| Nadja Thaumogenesis |
| Nadja Bodycage |
| Nameless Coyote Devoured by the Swirling Night |
| Oasis (What's The Story) Morning Glory? |
| Oceansize Remember Where You Are |
| Oceansize One Day All This Could Be Yours |
| Oceansize Heaven Alive |
| Oceansize Relapse |
| Olafur Arnalds Another Happy Day |
| Omega Impure Fixation of Love and It's Undoing |
| Owen Ghost Town |
| Passion Pit Manners |
| Pg. 99 Document #5 |
| Piles and Piles Premonitions Say |
| Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother |
| Pomegranate Tiger Entities |
| Pro Era Peep the Aprocalypse |
| Psycroptic The Scepter of the Ancients |
| Puscifer Conditions of My Parole |
| R. Kelly Trapped in the Closet (Chapters 1-12) |
| Raekwon Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers I'm with You |
| Red House Painters Red House Painters I |
| Rika How to Draw a River, Step by Step |
| Ruins Mandala 2000 |
| Ruins Pallaschtom |
| School of Seven Bells Ghostory |
| SebastiAn Total |
| Shai Hulud That Within Blood Ill-Tempered |
| Sleepmakeswaves ...and so we destroyed everything |
| So Many Dynamos When I Explode |
| So Many Dynamos The Loud Wars |
| Solterra Soul, Earth, Sun |
| not bad for a band that seems desperate to sell me beach property. instrumentation goes very well with an emotional slideshow i made of picture of my hawaiian family vacation. |
| Spokes Everyone I Ever Met |
| St. Vincent Strange Mercy |
| Starfucker Starfucker |
| Starfucker Miracle Mile |
| State Faults Desolate Peaks |
| Steven Wilson Grace for Drowning |
| Strapping Young Lad City |
| Submotion Orchestra Finest Hour |
| Sudatsuga Blue Moon Saiyeed |
| Sufjan Stevens All Delighted People |
| Suns The Engine Room |
| Sutekh Hexen Larvae |
| Tame Impala Lonerism |
| Tech N9ne All 6's and 7's |
| Tera Melos Zoo Weather |
| The Album Leaf In a Safe Place |
| The Antlers Undersea |
| The Appleseed Cast Middle States |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul |
| The Beatles Revolver |
| The Beatles Let It Be |
| The Bronx The Bronx (IV) |
| The Crinn Dreaming Saturn |
| The Cure Galore |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection) |
| The Dear Hunter Black |
| The Dear Hunter White |
| The Dear Hunter Act III: Life and Death |
| The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading |
| The Dear Hunter Act I: The Lake South, the River North |
| The Dear Hunter Branches |
| The Dear Hunter Red |
| The Dear Hunter Orange |
| The Dear Hunter Yellow |
| The Dear Hunter Green |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum |
| The Dear Hunter Violet |
| The Dear Hunter Blue |
| The Devin Townsend Band Accelerated Evolution |
| The Devin Townsend Project Ghost |
| devin townsend does enya. a surefire hit for liberated yuppie soccer moms everywhere |
| The Fall of Troy Manipulator |
| The Fall of Troy The Fall of Troy |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots |
| The Last of Lucy Euphoric Obsession |
| The Menzingers On the Impossible Past |
| The Republic of Wolves The Cartographer |
| The Saddest Landscape You Will Not Survive |
| The Saddest Landscape After The Lights |
| The War on Drugs Slave Ambient |
| The Weakerthans Reconstruction Site |
| The Wonder Years Sleeping on Trash |
| Thomas Giles Pulse |
| Thou Peasant |
| Thrice Major/Minor |
| Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 |
| Time To Burn Is.Land |
| Tokyo Police Club Champ |
| there is no progression in TPC's sound here, nor is there any evolution. they've put out an album for those who essentially wanted to hear something similar to elephant shell and might i say, a little watered down. we've got some grand, 'get-stuck-in-your-head'-type singles here like 'favorite colour' and 'bambi', but other than that, this sounds like every other generic indie 'bro band. |
| Tomahawk Tomahawk |
| Tomahawk Mit Gas |
| Toro Y Moi June 2009 |
| Toro Y Moi Anything In Return |
| Touche Amore/La Dispute Searching for a Pulse/The Worth of the World |
| Trap Them Darker Handcraft |
| Trioscapes Separate Realities |
| Trophywife An Innocent Orphan In The Post-Modern World |
| Trophywife Innocent Orphan Reissue |
| Twin Brother Best Frenzy |
| Ulver Wars of the Roses |
| Ulver Bergtatt |
| Unexpect Fables of the Sleepless Empire |
| Unknown Mortal Orchestra Unknown Mortal Orchestra |
| Unsane Wreck |
| Until Your Heart Stops Errors |
| Usher Looking 4 Myself |
| Vildhjarta Omnislash |
| Vreid V |
| Wavves Afraid of Heights |
| Weedeater Jason the Dragon |
| What's Left Of Her Perceptions |
| Wilco The Whole Love |
| Wire Pink Flag |
| Women Public Strain |
as organically pleasant as a listen this is, i very much think women could have benefited from a less hazy
production and more actual direction. this starts out as a promising shoegazey lo-fi shindig and then slowly
digresses and sprawls out into a million different places and spreads itself too thin into the record. i get pretty
frustrated with how distant and indistinct it sounds. |
| Woodkid Iron |
| Woodkid The Golden Age |
| Woodpigeon Thumbtacks + Glue |
| Wormrot Dirge |
| Wreck and Reference Black Cassette |
| Wreck and Reference No Youth |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) |
| Yanni Truth of Touch |
| one part sexy, stoic grooves, always with a tinged of mystery, one part fancy adult contemporary cheese. if yanni had cut the vocals and corny 90s atmosphere, this would've been near perfect. |
| Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss |
| YOB The Unreal Never Lived |
| You May Die In The Desert International Waters |
| Young Galaxy Shapeshifting |
| Yppah Eighty One |
| Zodiak Sermons |
| 2.5 average |
| Ghost B.C. Opus Eponymous |
| Gideon Costs |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book |
| Go Radio Lucky Street |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F#A# (Infinity) |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas... |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! |
| Goes Cube Another Day Has Passed |
| Good Old War Good Old War |
| Grimes Visions |
| Hands Like Houses Ground Dweller |
| Helios Moiety |
| Hellogoodbye Would It Kill You? |
| i don't care how much anyone wants to push the claim that this band has "matured" since their last release. if it's at the cost of their infectious, quirky synth shenanigans and grossly cute-but-relatable lyrics, with surprises at every turn, i don't want to hear any of it. none of this is bad, hell, i'll probably be singing "when we first met" in the shower tomorrow morning, but goddamn, is it ever predictable and boring. this band has suffered the same fate as weezer. |
| Hexes White Noise/Black Sound |
| Hodgy Beats Untitled |
| Hollywood Undead Notes From the Underground |
| iamerror Trout Yogurt |
| If I Die Today Liars |
| Irepress Sol Eye Sea I |
| Iwrestledabearonce It's All Dubstep |
| Jaga Jazzist One-Armed Bandit |
| James Blake Love What Happened Here |
| Jamie Woon Mirrorwriting |
| a cute work of adult contemporary, i'll definitely pass this one on to my aging mother. |
| Jay-Z and Kanye West Watch the Throne |
| Jesu Opiate Sun |
| Jesuit Discography |
| John Frusciante The Empyrean |
| Justin Bieber Believe |
| k-os Yes! |
| Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground Introducing Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground |
| Ke$ha Warrior |
| Keith Merrow Awaken the Stone King |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city |
| Kyte Kyte |
| Last Days The Safety of the North |
| Lee Noble Our Star, The Sun |
| Liars WIXIW |
| Life in Your Way Waking Giants |
| Liturgy Aesthethica |
| Lizards Have Personalities Snows of Kilimanjaro |
| Low The Invisible Way |
| Lower Definition The Infinite Et Cetera |
| Made Out of Babies The Ruiner |
| Make Do and Mend Everything You Ever Loved |
| Mamaleek Mamaleek |
| Man Overboard The Absolute Worst |
| Mares Of Thrace The Moulting |
| Mascara Silver Knight Gothic |
| Mastodon Live at the Aragon |
| Maths Ascent |
| Memory Tapes Player Piano |
| MGMT Congratulations |
| Middle Brother Middle Brother |
| Midi And The Modern Dance Make It Easy On Yourself |
| Minus the Bear Acoustics |
| Minus the Bear Into the Mirror |
| Minus the Bear This is What I Know About Being Gigantic |
| Minus the Bear Infinity Overhead |
| Moonsorrow Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa |
| More Than Life Brave Enough To Fail |
| Mos Def Black On Both Sides |
| Mr. Bungle Disco Volante |
| Mr. Bungle Mr Bungle |
| My America is Watching Tigers Die Stone Age |
| My Bloody Valentine m b v |
| my dad vs. yours Little Symphonies |
| My Morning Jacket Circuital |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| Night Birds Midnight Movies |
| Oasis Definitely Maybe |
| Of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? |
| OFWGKTA The OF Tape Vol. 2 |
| Oupa Forget |
| Panic! At the Disco Vices & Virtues |
| Panopticon On the Subject of Mortality |
| Passion Pit Gossamer |
| Paul Wardingham Assimilate Regenerate |
| Peter Bjorn and John Gimme Some |
| pg.lost Key |
| Portugal. The Man It's Complicated Being a Wizard |
| i don't even know man. it sounds like portugal. the man messing around with a computer accompanied with some fucking great beer and then forgetting about it the next morning, uncovering it a few weeks later and deciding to release the thing. it's a fun listen, but the entire time a general though of 'what the hell?' goes through your mind. this album had a smooth feel but doesn't seem to have any specific intention other than to entertain a little. |
| Pyramids (USA) Pyramids |
| Rooftop Access Reals and Dreamity |
| Scale The Summit The Collective |
| Shearwater The Golden Archipelago |
| Sims Bad Time Zoo |
| Skrillex More Monsters and Sprites |
| Sky Eats Airplane The Sound of Symmetry |
| Small Black New Chain |
| Smith Westerns Dye It Blonde |
| Spiritualized Sweet Heart Sweet Light |
| Starfucker Reptilians |
| Starkey Ear Drums and Black Holes |
| Sun Ra Space is the Place |
| Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky |
| Sylosis Edge of the Earth |
| Taylor Swift Red |
| Teebs Ardour |
| Temple of the Dog Temple of the Dog |
| TesseracT One |
| The Alchemist Russian Roulette |
| The American Dollar Ambient One |
| The Anniversary Designing For a Nervous Breakdown |
| The Antlers Hospice |
| The Beatles With The Beatles |
| The Beatles A Hard Day's Night |
| The Coma Recovery Drown That Holy End in Wine |
| The Contortionist Intrinsic |
| The Dodos No Color |
| The Dodos Visiter |
| The Get Up Kids There Are Rules |
| The Jet Age Of Tomorrow Journey to the 5th Echelon |
| The Jet Age Of Tomorrow Voyager |
| The Knife Silent Shout |
| The Lonely Island Turtleneck and Chain |
| The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation Succubus |
| The Nation of Ulysses 13-Point Program To Destroy America |
| The Omega Experiment The Omega Experiment |
| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Belong |
| The Red Light Sting Our Love is Soaking In It |
| The Red Light Sting Rub Em Down, Rub Em Out |
| The Reign Of Kindo This Is What Happens |
| The Sheepdogs The Sheepdogs |
| The Shins Port of Morrow |
| The Streets Computers And Blues |
| The Sword Warp Riders |
| The Twilight Singers Dynamite Steps |
| Timber Timbre Creep On Creepin' On |
| Titus Andronicus Local Business |
| Tomahawk Oddfellows |
| Tool Aenima |
| Tweak Bird Reservations |
| Two Door Cinema Club Beacon |
| Ulcerate The Destroyers of All |
| Unknown Mortal Orchestra II |
| White Ring Black Earth That Made Me |
| Worrytrain Fog Dance, My Moth Kingdom |
| WU LYF Go Tell Fire to the Mountain |
| Youth Lagoon The Year of Hibernation |
| 2.0 poor |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest |
| Gym Class Heroes The Papercut Chronicles II |
| Hella Tripper |
| I'm Happiest When Sleepy Feet |
| Incubus If Not Now, When? |
| Iron & Wine Kiss Each Other Clean |
| Jonny Craig A Dream Is A Question You Don't Know How To Answer |
| k-os BLack on BLonde |
| k-os, wat r u doin. k-os. stop that. K-OS STAHP DAT |
| KiD CuDi Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager |
| Lady Radiator Bounce Energy Hear Me Out |
| this band sounds stuck somewhere between radio rock, pop punk and an actually decent progressive band. i feel like if they'd experiment more and pace themselves, realizing prog is not about constantly blasting out every noodly riff they can think of, lady radiator could fuck shit up good. until then, they just strike me as a cheesy post-hardcore band with secret potential. |
| Lee Noble Infinity Bore |
| HAHAHAHA. more like INFINITELY BORED |
| Look Mexico To Bed to Battle |
| Lupe Fiasco Lasers |
| M.I.A. VICKI LEEKX |
| Man Overboard Real Talk |
| Manners Apparitions |
| Maps & Atlases Perch Patchwork |
| Meshuggah Koloss |
| Metric Fantasies |
| i'm pretty sure emily haines has a solo project but i'm also pretty sure it isn't called metric. where yo band members go girl |
| Metric Synthetica |
| Moby Be The One |
| Modest Mouse No One's First And You're Next |
| Mumford and Sons Babel |
| My America is Watching Tigers Die Narratives |
| My Bloody Valentine Tremolo |
| My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything |
| Nadja Under The Jaguar Sun |
| Nurse With Wound Soliloquy for Lilith |
| the concept of the album is very fascinating, the end product is not |
| Patrick Stump Truant Wave |
| PJ Harvey Let England Shake |
| Scarface The Diary |
| Showbread The Fear of God |
| Skrillex Bangarang |
| Skrillex Leaving |
| Sky Eats Airplane Sky Eats Airplane |
| Stafraenn Hakon Sanitas |
| while being nicely devoid of lots of pretentious post-rock bullshit, this pleasant LP lacks a lot of force; as post-rock typically makes you feel, usually either moved by the lush soundscapes or in awe of their ferocity, stafraenn hakon does neither. it unfortunately comes off as a piece of uninspired indifference in their discography. on the bright side, if you're looking for something 'nice' and 'unabrasive' to recommend to your grandmother, here is it. |
| Tera Melos Patagonian Rats |
| The Beatles Please Please Me |
| The Beatles Beatles for Sale |
| The Devin Townsend Project Epicloud |
| The Felix Culpa Sever Your Roots |
| The Flaming Lips The Terror |
| The Flaming Lips and Neon Indian The Flaming Lips and Neon Indian |
| The Human Abstract Digital Veil |
| The National High Violet |
| zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz |
| The Octopus Project Hexadecagon |
| The Tontos The Tontos |
| Toro Y Moi Underneath The Pine |
| Victor! Fix the Sun Person Place Or Thing |
| Wavves King of the Beach |
| Windmills By the Ocean Windmills By the Ocean |
| Worrytrain Stuck In A Bad Place |
| 1.5 very poor |
| Kayo Dot Stained Glass |
| Kayo Dot Coyote |
| Lantlos .neon |
| are you all serious? this is mediocre at best - dull screams forcibly put into every track, monotonous instrumentation... too much all at once with no hope of comprehension. this is a real let-down from what i know these guys can do, and if they tried to go for a wall-of-sound type deal, they forgot the quintessential ingredient: texture. there is none of interest here. i mean, i love neige in alcest, but what the fuck happened to this release? |
| Madball Rebellion |
| MellowHype Numbers |
| Minus the Bear Interpretaciones Del Oso |
| i don't even consider this to be part of MtB's discography. the entire thing is almost irrecognizable from the original tracks and some are just plain annoying to tolerate. minus the bear is grooving enough, remixing their tracks was just a bad idea waiting to happen. |
| Muse The 2nd Law |
| My Chemical Romance Danger Days: The True Lives of... |
| i'm not sure i was expecting when i initially decided to listen to Danger Days. a part of me longed for the band that had put out Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge six years ago after The Black Parade let me down immensely in 2006. My Chemical Romance has completely lost it. Danger Days plays like a condensed version of all the pop rock hits from 2003-2006 and doesn't have anything in the way of dynamics. it's essentially a mix full of nondescript teeny-bopper anthems with some added electronic noise to appeal to the mass. the whole thing is bland, and as much as i'd like to give it some points for the fun guitar solos at various points throughout the album, the overdone and tired lyrics overtop of those cheesy riffs just make me want to curl up in a corner and forget this band ever kept making music after 2004. |
| My Own Private Alaska Amen |
| the thing is too fucking long, the entire i'm sitting being all 'YO U DUN YET LOL'. these guys have one song, it's a pretty cool song, what with its neoclassical influences and skramz style drumming and vocals, but they've decided to play that song 11 times and call it an LP. no, guys. come on, bring something new to the table. |
| Panda Bear Tomboy |
| Porygon Mind Fortress Dream Interpretations |
| Salem (US) King Night |
| The Decemberists The King Is Dead |
| it seems as if the decemberists have succumbed to a bad case of dad rock flu this year. do your part to save the band and send them a get-well card. |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron |
| the mars volta should issue a public apology. |
| The Streets Cyberspace and Reds |
| The Strokes Angles |
| Wilco Wilco (The Album) |
