| 4.0 excellent |
| 3 The Ghost You Gave To Me |
| A.A. Bondy Believers |
| A.A. Bondy When the Devil's Loose |
| Aerosmith Toys In The Attic |
| Al Di Meola Cielo e Terra |
| Al Di Meola Splendido Hotel |
| Anathema A Natural Disaster |
| Ane Brun Changing of the Seasons |
| Atheist Jupiter |
| Autechre Exai |
| Black Mountain Wilderness Heart |
| Black Mountain In the Future |
| Blackfilm Blackfilm |
| Bob Dylan Time Out Of Mind |
| Bob Dylan Love and Theft |
| Bohren & Der Club of Gore Black Earth |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Bonobo Black Sands |
| Bonobo Days To Come |
| Bonobo The North Borders |
| Unsurprisingly, Bonobo releases yet another excellent album. |
| Causa Sui Summer Sessions Vol. 2 |
| Clutch Earth Rocker |
Following the subdued, bluesy Strange Cousins, Clutch deliver their most rollicking, heavy,
full-throttled set of songs yet. From the furious assault of "Earth Rocker" to the
commanding groove of "Book, Saddle, And Go" there's not a dull moment to be found. Rest
assured - you will be rocking. |
| Darkthrone The Underground Resistance |
| David and David Boomtown |
| One of the 80's most overlooked records - this is some seriously tight songcraft. |
| Dead Can Dance Anastasis |
| Dead Meadow Feathers |
| Dead Meadow Shivering King and Others |
| Deathspell Omega Paracletus |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... |
| dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion |
| Perfect blending of the previous two records. This album truly feels like a consistent, cohesive whole. Now, if only Saviour wasn't on it. |
| Earthless Rhythms From a Cosmic Sky |
| Earthless Sonic Prayer |
| Earthless Live at Roadburn |
| Emancipator Safe In The Steep Cliffs |
| Failure Fantastic Planet |
| Fink Perfect Darkness |
| Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel... |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues |
| "Helplessness Blues" is much more varied--albeit less immediate and catchy--than the previous album, and it is the better album for it. This is a natural next step for the band, and a graceful one at that. |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma |
| Flying Lotus Until the Quiet Comes |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light |
| Gazpacho Tick Tock |
| Graveyard (SWE) Hisingen Blues |
| Graveyard (SWE) Lights Out |
While less raucous than Hisingen Blues, Graveyard's moodier Lights Out is their finest hour
- an excellent combination of rock energy, emotional blues, and retro worship. |
| Intronaut Valley of Smoke |
| INXS Kick |
| Iron & Wine The Shepherd's Dog |
| Jacaszek Treny |
| Joe Bonamassa Dust Bowl |
| Joe Bonamassa Had To Cry Today |
| Joni Mitchell Court and Spark |
| Lamb Lamb |
| Leaf Hound Growers of Mushroom |
| Led Zeppelin Presence |
| Local Natives Gorilla Manor |
| Long Arm The Branches |
| Massive Attack Blue Lines |
| Miles Davis Sketches of Spain |
| Miles Davis Miles Smiles |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Tender Prey |
| Niechec Smierc w miekkim futerku |
| Opeth Deliverance |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries |
| Paco de Lucia Fuente y caudal |
| Phideaux Snowtorch |
| Easily Phideaux's best album yet. This is expertly crafted progressive rock--paying tribute to the greats of the seventies while sounding modern and invigorating. I highly recommend this. |
| PJ Harvey Let England Shake |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing |
| Portishead Dummy |
| Riverside Shrine Of New Generation Slaves |
| Saltillo Monocyte |
| Darker and less immediate than Ganglion, but Saltillo created another winner here. Excellent. |
| Sigur Ros Takk... |
| Sigur Ros Ágætis Byrjun |
| Sigur Ros Valtari |
| Skalpel Skalpel |
| Steely Dan Two Against Nature |
| Steven Wilson Grace for Drowning |
| With Grace for Drowning, Wilson has created his best album in five years; the clever song-writing, infusion of jazz fusion, and top-notch performances leave little left to be desired. An album-of-the-year contender to be reckoned with. |
| Steven Wilson Get All You Deserve |
| Steven Wilson Insurgentes |
| Tame Impala Innerspeaker |
| The Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound Manzanita |
| The Beatles The Beatles |
| The Decemberists The Hazards Of Love |
| The Decemberists Picaresque |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots |
| The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin |
| The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet |
| The Roots Game Theory |
| The Roots How I Got Over |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Sometimes The Blues Is Just A Passing Bird |
| Thee Oh Sees Floating Coffin |
| Thievery Corporation The Mirror Conspiracy |
| Ulver Svidd Neger |
| Ulver Blood Inside |
| Ulver A Quick Fix of Melancholy |
| Ulver The Norwegian National Opera |
| Weather Report Heavy Weather |
| Windir Arntor |
| Woven Hand Consider the Birds |
| Woven Hand Mosaic |
| Yann Tiersen Le fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain |
| Zodiac A Bit of Devil |
| Zodiac's debut, A Bit of Devil, is an accomplished slab of 70's style hard rock. Featuring Long Distance Calling's drummer on percussion duties, and a guitarist who can pull off ZZ Top's Blue Jean Blues, this is not one to be missed by fans of the 70's rock revival. |
| 3.0 good |
| Al Di Meola Christmas: Winter Nights |
| Al Di Meola Consequence of Chaos |
| Al Di Meola Orange and Blue |
| Anathema A Fine Day To Exit |
| Ane Brun It All Starts With One |
| Animals as Leaders Animals as Leaders |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album |
| Battles Gloss Drop |
| Bob Dylan Street Legal |
| Bonobo Black Sands Remixed |
| Bonobo It Came From The Sea |
| Breaking Benjamin Phobia |
| Built To Spill There Is No Enemy |
| Christopher Owens Lysandre |
| Dave Matthews Band Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King |
| Deftones B-Sides and Rarities |
| Deftones Deftones |
| DJ Shadow The Less You Know, the Better |
| Dream Theater Octavarium |
| dredg Catch Without Arms |
| Emancipator Dusk to Dawn |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place |
| First Aid Kit The Lion's Roar |
| Gazpacho Missa Atropos |
| Howlin Rain The Russian Wilds |
| John Coltrane Coltrane (1962, Impulse) |
| John Mayer Born and Raised |
| Josh Garrels Love and War and The Sea In Between |
| Kaki King Dreaming Of Revenge |
| Kaki King Junior |
| Led Zeppelin In Through The Out Door |
| Leonard Cohen Old Ideas |
| Massive Attack Heligoland |
| Mastodon Remission |
| Mastodon The Hunter |
| Mogwai Happy Songs for Happy People |
| Mumford and Sons Sigh No More |
| Oceansize Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up |
| Opeth Watershed |
| Pearl Jam Backspacer |
| Pearl Jam is as Pearl Jam does - a good album, but not spectacular. |
| Pink Floyd The Final Cut |
| Pink Floyd The Division Bell |
| Portishead Third |
| Quest for Fire Quest for Fire |
| Quest for Fire's debut isn't a special affair, but does show some promise that would later come to be realized on their sophomore effort Lights from Paradise. Still, this is a decent album worth the listen. |
| Raekwon Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang |
| Rush Power Windows |
| Rush Hold Your Fire |
| Rush Rush |
| Sigur Ros med sud i eyrum vio spilum endalaust |
| Soundgarden King Animal |
| Soundtrack Mass Effect 3 Soundtrack |
| Soundtrack Mass Effect 2 Original Sountrack |
| Sting Sacred Love |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois |
| Swans The Seer |
| The Black Keys El Camino |
| The Flower Kings The Sum of No Evil |
| The Pineapple Thief Tightly Unwound |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream |
| Thievery Corporation Culture of Fear |
| Tomahawk Mit Gas |
| Tomahawk Anonymous |
| Tori Amos Night of Hunters |
| Tyler The Creator Goblin |
| An inconsistent mix of great tracks, forgettable songs, and horribly failed experiments. When it's good, it's phenomenal--see the word-work on "Tron Cat," but songs such as "Radicals" prevent this from being a great album, which is a shame, because if Tyler could trim the fat and keep the "Yonkers" he'd make one hell of an album. |
| Tyler The Creator Wolf |
| Tyler The Creator Goblin (Deluxe Edition) |
| Witch Witch |
| Woodkid The Golden Age |
| 1.0 awful |
| dredg Chuckles & Mr. Squeezy |
| It's a shame--tragic, even. El Cielo was a magnificent album, and it seemed that this band was destined for great things. Unfortunately, the only great thing this band has acheived since then is a great, embarassing fall into mediocrity. All creativity, integrity, and inspiration this band once had has been effectively snuffed out of existence. The lyrics to "Sanzen" now have a bitter irony to them: "The pen ink is running dry, it's been thrown to paper and wasted, creavity has been blocked and over tasted." Maybe in time dredg will re-appreciate it. |
| Limp Bizkit Gold Cobra |
| R.A.E.D. World Wide Phenomenon |
| While it's not the most annoying music ever conceived, it certainly makes a case for being the worst. The "artist's" career can best be summped up by the infamous YouTuibe video "You Gotta Love This City Babe." |
| Skrillex More Monsters and Sprites |
