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Average Rating: 3.70
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Objectivity Score: 74%
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5.0 classic
Mark Hollis Mark Hollis
Scott Walker The Drift
Regarding Nick Butler's claim that this is "Tilt, part 2" and that it doesn't really cover any new ground - I don't really understand how he came to that conclusion. The Drift does pick up on elements introduced on Tilt (Mostly in the track The Cockfighter, which was the darkest and harshest track on the album) but takes them to new levels of extremity. The album Tilt had a sense of unease and harshness under the surface that felt like it could burst out at any time, only really doing so in the Cockfighter and very briefly in "Face on Breast"; "The Drift" puts it on full display.
Talk Talk Laughing Stock

4.5 superb
Bark Psychosis Codename: Dustsucker
Bark Psychosis Hex
Dead Can Dance Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
Kate Bush Hounds of Love
Kate Bush The Dreaming
Massive Attack Mezzanine
Scott Walker Tilt
Scott Walker and Sunn O))) Soused
Lakes stole his Soundoff from me. I have enlisted the best lawyer I could find and will be pursuing this in court.
Swans The Seer
Swans Swans Are Dead
Talk Talk Spirit of Eden
This Heat Deceit
Thomas Feiner and Anywhen The Opiates Revised

4.0 excellent
.O.rang Herd of Instinct
Bon Iver 22, A Million
Can Tago Mago
David Sylvian Secrets of the Beehive
Death Grips The Money Store
Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
Julia Holter Loud City Song
Kate Bush Never for Ever
Low Things We Lost in the Fire
Mew And the Glass Handed Kites
Scott Walker Bish Bosch
Swans Children of God
Swans Soundtracks for the Blind
Talk Talk The Colour of Spring
The Blue Nile A Walk Across the Rooftops
The Cure Disintegration
This Heat This Heat
Tom Waits Bone Machine

3.5 great
David Sylvian Gone to Earth
Dead Can Dance Anastasis
Dirty Beaches Drifters/Love Is The Devil
Massive Attack 100th Window
Scott Walker Climate of Hunter
These New Puritans Field of Reeds
Tom Waits Alice
Towering Inferno Kaddish
Zelienople The World Is A House On Fire

3.0 good
Scarnella Scarnella

2.5 average
Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction
Opeth Heritage
Opeth make an unnecessary tribute album. As if the majority of the post 70s "progressive rock" scene wasn't already referential and steeped in enough cliche. The last thing we need is another throwback.

2.0 poor
Blut Aus Nord 777 - Cosmosophy
There's nothing noteworthy about this album whatsoever. Bland guitar, dull fake drums and forgettable emotionless cleans. It isn't challenging, it isn't experimental; it's just dull.
Converge Jane Doe
The Mars Volta Frances the Mute
White Lies To Lose My Life

1.5 very poor
Hacktivist Hacktivist
1. Take cliched music 2. slap rap vocals on top for novelty 3. ???? 4. PROFIT

1.0 awful
brokeNCYDE I'm Not a Fan, but the Kids Like It!
Zombie Testicles Zombie Testicles
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