| 5.0 classic |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Would love to be able to put this on without having to skip Untitled each time |
| Closure in Moscow Pink Lemonade |
| Copeland Ixora |
| Daughters You Won't Get What You Want |
| Deftones Ohms |
| Elvis Depressedly New Alhambra |
| There's no such thing as a rock and roll, bless my reptilian soul |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute |
| Greet Death New Hell |
| Cigarettes After Sex just got stoner rock pedalboards. Greet Death sound so massive when they want to be, but a lot of the album time is spent meandering through slower, quieter passages. This would be an easy 5 if they leaned into the heavier side like on Do You Feel Nothing. Edit: it's been over a year and I can't get this out of my head. |
| Joliette Principia |
| La Dispute Wildlife |
| Night Verses Lift Your Existence |
| O'Brother Garden Window |
| O'brother is a growing musical behemoth, and this album is a perfect example of that. |
| O'Brother Endless Light |
| Tanner's vocals have gotten a lot better and the music as powerful as its ever been. This is exceptional. I thought the singles were good but they might be the weakest songs on the album. |
| Parabelle A Summit Borderline/A Drop Oceanic |
| Excessively ambitious and lamentably produced are two ways to accurately describe Parabelle's initial double album, but the songwriting somehow shines through because of it. "Blur" deserves a separate mention for being Kevin Matisyn's outright best song. |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Gets better with every listen. From the first 5 notes of Everything in Its Right Place to the final sweeps in Motion Picture Soundtrack, an emotional trek takes place over slowly devolving wasteland imagined through music that only Radiohead could produce. |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell Live |
| The Cure Disintegration |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There |
| Took a few listens but there is a lot of emotional depth here and the music is woven together to match it perfectly |
| The Menzingers On the Impossible Past |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead |
| Took me a while to get into this, but it deserves the 5 |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance |
| I found Thrice through the title track. Impressive songwriting, impressive instrumentation, very impressive vocals and lyrics. Love the guitar tone on this album, it has a real unique flavor |
| Thrice Vheissu |
| This is Thrice's equivalent of Radiohead's Kid A. |
| Thrice Beggars |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II |
| Thrice Live At The House Of Blues |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance (Revisited) |
| Unironically Thrice's best post-hiatus release thus far. I think this could have done without the guest features, but it's otherwise a perfect reimagining of the original album. They succeeded at capturing the impeccable live sound that they've been using for the past 15 years. Seriously, every single track is noticeably improved over its original. |
| Thursday No Devolucion |
| It took me a couple of listens to realize how good this album is. It's perfect for sleeping to, but not in a bad way. Every song is captivating and ends up producing a visual image in my mind that I only experience when listening to bands like Tool and Radiohead. |
| Turnstile Glow On |
| We're gonna all look back at this album as one of the highlights of the decade |
| xSPONGEXCOREx How Tough Are Yah? |
| 4.5 superb |
| Alexisonfire Alexisonfire |
| Alexisonfire Watch Out! |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors |
| Big Thief Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You |
| Blue October Any Man in America |
| Lyrically hit and miss, musically here and there, and emotionally overwhelming |
| Blue October Argue With A Tree... |
| Brand New Deja Entendu |
| This is a 3.5 at best if you take the lyrics out of the equation. But the lyrics are where most of the album is at. Both youthful and deep in thought |
| Brand New Daisy |
| Breaking Benjamin Saturate |
| Carissa's Wierd Songs About Leaving |
| Chamillionaire Ultimate Victory |
| Chevelle La Gárgola |
| My go-to riff album from 2014 so far. I liked HOTTB but this feels like a stronger effort in every aspect |
| Chevelle Sci-Fi Crimes |
| Choking Victim No Gods, No Managers |
| Circa Survive The Amulet |
| Closure in Moscow First Temple |
| Cloudkicker Solitude |
| Clutch Earth Rocker |
| What's this about limits? Sorry, I don't know none. |
| Clutch Blast Tyrant |
| Copeland You Are My Sunshine |
| Copeland In Motion |
| Corelia Nostalgia |
| Counterparts The Current Will Carry Us |
| This is how you do screaming vocals. Counterparts puts their best foot forward and it's a great listen |
| Dangers Anger |
| David Bowie Blackstar |
| Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables |
| Death Grips The Money Store |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
| This is the slickest Deftones album to date. Flows beautifully from start to finish |
| Deftones White Pony |
| Deftones Around the Fur |
| Dyne Side Immigrant |
| Well, this is wicked cool. The Glassjaw and Fugazi comparisons are unavoidable, but there's more going on here. The production bounces between lo-fi hardcore, standard metalcore, and newer techno sounds to provide for a lot of variety, but more memorable is the vocal performance. I'm a sucker for the passionate, barely-on-key vocals in old post-hardcore and emo. Dyne Side's Emmanuel Costa-Maya nails it. |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or |
| Elliott Smith Elliott Smith |
| Evans Blue The Pursuit Begins When This Portrayal of Life Ends |
| This isn't an exceptional album in any objective way, but I'm attached to it regardless. Kevin Matisyn's vocals rand lyrics are something special, and this album is him and Evans Blue's musicians at their best. |
| Evans Blue The Melody and the Energetic Nature of Volume |
| This was my favorite album for a good while. Why? Because it captures the emotions of falling in and out of love and moving on in such a way that you can remember that first love as if you were there. There are so many different melodies in this song, and each member shines in his own. Kevin Matisyn's unique voice is the most earnest I've ever heard in music. A Girl and a Cross, Eclipsed, and Dark that Follows are perfect. |
| Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die... |
| Facing New York Get Hot |
| This is what indie music is supposed to be. What happened to these guys? |
| Fleetwood Mac Rumours |
| Fleshwater We're Not Here To Be Loved |
| Foxing Nearer My God |
| Frightened Rabbit The Midnight Organ Fight |
| Gang of Youths Go Farther in Lightness |
| Gatherers We Are Alive Beyond Repair |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence |
| I like the first 5 tracks the best. The rest of the album is good, but them first 5 tracks are unbeatable |
| Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles) |
| 5 amazing songs, start to finish. This is Glassjaw at their most innovative and rhythmic moments |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book |
| As a opposed to Glassjaw first two LP's, which were all about rhythm and melody and energy and such, Coloring Book is all about texture. |
| Glassjaw Material Control |
| Gospel The Loser |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World |
| Hurt Vol. 1 |
| IDLES Brutalism |
| In The Arms of Providence Lost My Voicebox in a Seaside Town |
| ISIS Oceanic |
| This was the first post-metal album I really got into, but it made me want to get in a band and just jam to this kind of sound for hours. |
| Jessie Ware What's Your Pleasure? |
| Jimmy Eat World Futures |
| Joliette Luz Devora |
| Karnivool Themata |
| Karnivool Sound Awake |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair |
| letlive. Fake History |
| letlive. The Blackest Beautiful |
| Weak production but still some of the best post-hardcore of the year |
| Lizzo Cuz I Love You |
| Not sure how you make an album both intensely personal and incredibly fun but this manages to pull it off and it slaps all the way through |
| Loathe I Let It In And It Took Everything |
| Look What I Did Atlas Drugged |
| Look What I Did Minuteman For The Moment |
| Manchester Orchestra I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child |
| Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing |
| Manchester Orchestra Simple Math |
| I don't think I've been enamored with Manchester Orchestra, but boy is this a solid indie rock album with memorable songs front to back. |
| Manchester Orchestra The Million Masks of God |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine |
| Matthew Good Hospital Music |
| Matthew Good? More like Matthew Superb! I wrote a review, check it out. Beware, puns |
| Matthew Good Avalanche |
| Matthew Good Band Beautiful Midnight |
| Neurosis Through Silver in Blood |
| Night Verses From the Gallery of Sleep |
| Nothing The Great Dismal |
| Nothing Tired of Tomorrow |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Pompeii Nothing Happens for a Reason |
| Pool Kids Pool Kids |
| "I DON'T THINK I HAVE THE ENERGY TO MAKE IT OUT OF MY BED TODAY it's not even a bed I've been sleeping on an air mattress with a hole for almost 3 months" I really hope this album gets the attention it deserves. |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing |
| Pretty Girls Make Graves Good Health |
| Protest the Hero Kezia |
| Protomartyr Relatives in Descent |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles |
| Regina Spektor Live in London |
| Regina Spektor is both quirky and original, two traits most songwriters don't have. She's also a phenomenal singer. Her live show is not to be missed. |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels |
| Run the Jewels RTJ4 |
| Senses Fail Let It Enfold You |
| Slipknot 9.0: Live |
| This album helped me get through my senior essay in high school. The album is mostly texture over anything musical, but it definitely succeeds in that aspect. |
| SOUL GLO Diaspora Problems |
| Spanish Love Songs Schmaltz |
| Spanish Love Songs Brave Faces Everyone |
| I really liked Schmaltz and this just blows it out of the water. The writing, the hooks, the vocals, the production... everything is so much tighter and powerful. Yes, the lyrics are all thematically similar, and yes, the vocals do walk the line between shouting and lamenting. That's the point. For me, those have always been the band's strengths. With Brave Faces Everyone, they have added that compelling musical element that was lacking at times in Schmaltz. This thing is straight fire front to back. |
| State Faults Clairvoyant |
| Static Dress Rouge Carpet Disaster |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb |
| Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between |
| Stuck Out Here Until We're Each Someone Else |
| Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends |
| Tame Impala Currents |
| Tenemos Explosivos La Virgen de los Mataderos |
| Tenemos Explosivos Cortacalles |
| Through a single listen, I want to say this is their best work. It's on the longer side but it's more interesting than their previous albums. |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| The Beatles Abbey Road |
| The Callous Daoboys Celebrity Therapist |
| A lot of people with way higher music cred are going to tell you this metalcore wankery is better than the Daoboys' previous album of metalcore wankery, and those people would be |
| The Cambiata Into the Night |
| Shards of Pornography so damn good. Chris Moulton has the best vocals and it's a shame the band never got big like Glassjaw or Letlive |
| The Cure Pornography |
| The Cure The Head on the Door |
| The Hirsch Effekt Holon: Anamnesis |
| The Hirsch Effekt Eskapist |
| The Menzingers After the Party |
| The Menzingers Chamberlain Waits |
| The National Boxer |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me |
| The Paper Chase Someday This Could All Be Yours Vol.1 |
| The Story So Far What You Don't See |
| The Story So Far Under Soil and Dirt |
| The Velvet Underground Loaded |
| The Xcerts There Is Only You |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety |
| Thrice Major/Minor |
| Probably the best example I've ever seen of straight up brilliant songwriting. No two verses sound alike, and Dustin's voice and lyrics have only gotten better. Seeing these songs live made me realize just how good this album is. Thrice is just one of those bands that can work their instruments to create a unique and magical sound that only a select few bands are capable of. |
| Thursday War All the Time |
| Thursday Full Collapse |
| Thursday Common Existence |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor |
| Tom Waits Small Change |
| Tori Amos Little Earthquakes |
| I like this album, but there's something more than that to it. It's infectious, it's emotional, and it's so well-done that I have to question why this album doesn't get more attention. So many powerful lyrics throughout the album, matched by Tori Amos' incredible voice and a decent band behind her, make this quite the album. |
| Tropical Fuck Storm A Laughing Death in Meatspace |
| While She Sleeps Brainwashed |
| I put this album to the side for a while but when I finally listened to it... wow. It's well-crafted and gets heavy and quiet in all the right places. |
| 4.0 excellent |
| 10 Years Feeding the Wolves |
| A bit more radio friendly than usual from 10 Years, but that's not necessarily bad. After another listen or two, Feeding the Wolves really grew on me. |
| 10 Years Division |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step |
| A Silent Film Sand & Snow |
| A Thorn For Every Heart Things Aren't So Beautiful Now |
| A Tribe Called Quest We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service |
| AFI All Hallow's E.P. |
| Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues |
| Alexisonfire Crisis |
| Alexisonfire Otherness |
| All Get Out No Bouquet |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals |
| All Them Witches Nothing as the Ideal |
| American Football American Football |
| American Football American Football (LP3) |
| Anathema Judgement |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion |
| Arab Strap As Days Get Dark |
| Arcane Roots Heaven and Earth |
| Arcane Roots Melancholia Hymns |
| Ariana Grande Dangerous Woman |
| Ariana Grande positions |
| This feels like a return to the gorgeous polished production of Dangerous Woman, and I really think it suits Ariana best. Any of the folks who loved the experimentation in Sweetener and in parts of Thank U, Next will probably feel let down, but I'm in the opposite camp where those albums didn't stick with me quite as well. |
| Armor For Sleep What To Do When You Are Dead |
| Atomship The Crash of `47 |
| Balance and Composure The Things We Think We're Missing |
| Banks The Altar |
| Baroness Purple |
| Baths Obsidian |
| BATS Red In Tooth and Claw |
| Bay Faction Bay Faction |
| I think this is the first emo album in a while to actually have an emotional impact on me. Well done |
| Be Well The Weight And The Cost |
| Big Thief U.F.O.F. |
| Big Wreck Ghosts |
| Everything about this album at first glance bores me. It doesn't have an exciting sound. There's no angst or edge. It's not confessional or deeply personal. And in spite of all of that, it's incredibly well crafted and a very pleasurable listen. |
| Birds in Row We Already Lost The World |
| Birds in Row Gris Klein |
| blink-182 Blink-182 |
| Blue October Foiled |
| Beautiful album, though maybe a little self-indulgent. Justin's vocals are phenomenal |
| Blue October Consent to Treatment |
| Blue October History for Sale |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| A very passionate album, which is odd given how mellow all of the music is. I haven't bothered to pay much attention to the lyrics, but the music definitely a pleasure to listen to |
| Boston Manor Glue |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon |
| What can I say? This is one the most fun albums ever. "Is that what you call getaway? Tell me what you got away with / cause I've seen more spine in jellyfish / I've seen more guts in eleven year old kids" |
| Brand New Science Fiction |
| So it's a good album but Jesse Lacey is also a creepy guy so... |
| Breaking Benjamin We Are Not Alone |
| Brontide Artery |
| Cage Grind Noir Pilots |
| I don't normally enjoying grindcore, but this is very well done. I expected it to be a joke about the glorious Nic Cage, but the music is surprisingly great |
| Caligula's Horse Bloom |
| Caligula's Horse In Contact |
| Cave In Jupiter |
| Chelsea Wolfe Abyss |
| Chelsea Wolfe Hiss Spun |
| Chevelle Hats Off To The Bull |
| Chevelle Wonder What's Next |
| Chevelle The North Corridor |
| Chevelle This Type Of Thinking (Could Do Us In) |
| Cigarettes After Sex Cigarettes After Sex |
| Circa Survive On Letting Go |
| Claw The Thin Ice Colour Phase |
| Cloud Nothings Attack on Memory |
| Clutch Psychic Warfare |
| Clutch Robot Hive/Exodus |
| Cold Moon (USA-CA) Rising |
| Coma Cinema Posthumous Release |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Converge You Fail Me |
| Counterparts The Difference Between Hell and Home |
| Counterparts Tragedy Will Find Us |
| Counterparts You're Not You Anymore |
| Counterparts Nothing Left to Love |
| Counterparts A Eulogy for Those Still Here |
| Crash of Rhinos Distal |
| Crossfade We All Bleed |
| Very dark and emotional (with the exception of a song or two). The instrumentation is great (especially the drumming on Lay Me Down). Personally, I just love the sound of the album. It's so dark and different from every other rock band. There are couple radio-friendly songs, but the chord progressions and lyrics touch a darker place that most bands can't reach.rThe range of the album is also great. There's some heavy metallic songs as well as some slower acoustic songs. I wish they could've used fewer electronic elements and brought in some screaming vocals, but for a band that was off for half a decade, it's definitely more than I ever expected. |
| Cult Leader Lightless Walk |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal II |
| Cursed II |
| Curtis Mayfield Superfly |
| Danny Brown Old |
| Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition |
| Daytrader Twelve Years |
| Deaf Havana Old Souls |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| Deafheaven New Bermuda |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism |
| Death From Above 1979 The Physical World |
| Death From Above 1979 Outrage! Is Now |
| Death Grips Exmilitary |
| YUH............ IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES GUILLOTIIIIIIINE |
| Death Grips The Powers That B - Part II: Jenny Death |
| Death Grips Bottomless Pit |
| Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights |
| Deniro Farrar Rebirth |
| Denzel Curry Imperial |
| Denzel Curry TA13OO |
| Denzel Curry Zuu |
| Denzel Curry Melt My Eyez See Your Future |
| Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats Unlocked |
| Diabolic The Disconnect |
| Dreamwell In My Saddest Dreams, I Am Beside You |
| dredg El Cielo |
| Dvne Etemen Ænka |
| Eisley I'm Only Dreaming |
| Elder (USA-MA) Reflections of a Floating World |
| Elvis Costello This Year's Model |
| Elvis Depressedly Depressedelica |
| Elvis Depressedly Hotter Sadness |
| Elvis Depressedly Holo Pleasures |
| Emarosa 131 |
| Embrace (US) Embrace |
| END (USA-NJ) Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face |
| Endless Heights Vicious Pleasure |
| Exhorder Mourn the Southern Skies |
| Explosions in the Sky How Strange, Innocence |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree |
| Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear |
| Finch What It Is to Burn |
| Pop punk and post-hardcore working together. Nothing here is really new, but it's just such a fun and upbeat album to listen to, with surprising depth in a couple of the songs (Project Mayhem for instance). |
| Finch What It Is to Burn X |
| Finch Say Hello to Sunshine |
| Fitz and the Tantrums Pickin' Up the Pieces |
| FJORT Couleur |
| Flaw Through the Eyes |
| This is the best nu metal that I've ever heard, and although that isn't saying much, it really is good. |
| Foo Fighters But Here We Are |
| Forever Came Calling Contender |
| Foxing The Albatross |
| Frail Body A Brief Memoriam |
| Frank Ocean channel ORANGE |
| Frau Potz lehnt dankend ab |
| From First to Last Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count |
| Funeral for a Friend Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation |
| Gates (USA-NJ) Bloom and Breathe |
| Get Dead Dancing with the Curse |
| WE DON'T GOT NO GOD DAMN BAND. WE DON'T NEED NO FUCKIN' PRACTICE, RANDY. WE DON'T NEED A SHITTY ASS MANAGER NEITHER. |
| Ghost Bath Moonlover |
| "AARRRRGGH URRRRGGGH" this is one hell of a quotable album |
| Ghostface Killah Twelve Reasons to Die |
| Glass Bones Seasons |
| Glass Bones Loner |
"Are we so spoiled as human beings that we can actually be 'bored' with something as beautiful and
extraordinary as life? Maybe we aren't pushing ourselves hard enough to change this fact. Because, I'm not
bored, I'm busy. Oh what i would give to be 'bored'" |
| Glass Bones Nesh |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. |
| Gospel MVDM: Magick Volumes Of Dark Madder |
| Greyhaven This Bright and Beautiful World |
| Hail the Sun Elephantitis |
| Hail the Sun Divine Inner Tension |
| Hands Like Houses Dissonants |
| Hans Zimmer Rush OST |
| Happy Diving Big World |
| Have Mercy (Indie) The Earth Pushed Back |
| He Is Legend Endless Hallway |
| Helms Alee Noctiluca |
| Heroes del Silencio Senderos de Traicion |
| High on Fire Luminiferous |
| Hopesfall A Types |
| Everything I've ever wanted in an alternative rock album. |
| Hopesfall The Satellite Years |
| Hot Mulligan Pilot |
| Cute Without the E by Michelle Branch! No actually I kinda dig this. It's solid pop punk/emo but rthey wear their influences so hard that it's difficult to tell if the band even has the potential rto come into their own. Otherwise they're just feeding off my nostalgia. |
| Hot Mulligan You'll Be Fine |
| Hot Mulligan Why Would I Watch |
| Hot Water Music Caution |
| HRVRD From the Bird's Cage |
| Hum You'd Prefer an Astronaut |
| Hum Inlet |
| Hurt Vol. II |
| IDLES Joy as an Act of Resistance |
| IDLES A Beautiful Thing: Idles Live At Le Bataclan |
| IDLES Ultra Mono |
| In This Moment Black Widow |
In This Moment finally gets the "pop metal" formula right. It's sure to offend a lot purists, but I see that as a
strength, not a weakness. |
| Incendiary Change The Way You Think About Pain |
| This is much better than the album art would have you think |
| Intronaut The Direction of Last Things |
| Iron Chic Not Like This |
| ISIS Panopticon |
| Islander Violence and Destruction |
| This clicked from the first time I heard it. Writing is top notch and the little nod to Thrice in "Kingdom" is the kind appeal I can't resist. This sort of post-hardcore seems to have largely gone out of style, and it's nice to find a band still continuing it |
| Ithaca The Language of Injury |
| Jack White Blunderbuss |
| Jack White being Jack White with a little more piano than expected. The guitar work and songwriting, as always, shines like a candle in a blackout (not sure if that really means anything). |
| Janus Nox Aeris |
| Jeff Buckley Grace |
| Jeff Rosenstock SKA DREAM |
| Jeff Rosenstock We Cool? |
| Jessie Ware That! Feels Good! |
| Jesus Piece ...So Unknown |
| Jimmy Eat World Bleed American |
| Jimmy Eat World Integrity Blues |
| Jimmy Eat World Surviving |
| Joan Red Side Effects Of You |
| RIP Anthony Basurto, and thank you for this great album |
| Joliette Convertirse En Agua |
| Who would have expected one of the best hardcore acts in recent years to be a Spanish-singing band from Mexico? |
| Joliette Voltean/Están Felices |
| July Talk July Talk |
| Kali Uchis Sin Miedo (del Amor y Otros Demonios) |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| Katatonia The Great Cold Distance |
| KEN mode Null |
| KEN mode Void |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard The Silver Cord |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of... |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Omnium Gatherum |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Nonagon Infinity |
| Knuckle Puck Copacetic |
| Korine The Night We Raise |
| Kvelertak Meir |
| Laura Stevenson The Big Freeze |
| Left Behind No One Goes To Heaven |
| Less Art Strangled Light |
| Linkin Park A Thousand Suns |
| Linkin Park Road to Revolution |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory |
| Linkin Park Meteora |
| Lionize Jetpack Soundtrack |
| Little Feat Waiting For Columbus |
| Local Natives Violet Street |
| Lord Mantis Death Mask |
| Lorde Pure Heroine |
| Lorde Melodrama |
| Apt title but a great album. It's much more ambitious and personal than Pure Heroine, and while it doesn't always work, it's impressive when it does. |
| Mammal Hands Captured Spirits |
| Manchester Orchestra A Black Mile to the Surface |
| Manchester Orchestra The Valley of Vision |
| Marilyn Manson Mechanical Animals |
| Marissa Nadler The Sister |
| Marissa Nadler July |
| Mass of the Fermenting Dregs MASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGS |
| Matthew Good Vancouver |
| Mayday Parade A Lesson In Romantics |
| mclusky McLusky Do Dallas |
| mewithoutYou Ten Stories |
| mewithoutYou Pale Horses |
| mewithoutYou [Untitled] |
| Microwave Death is a Warm Blanket |
| Mingle Harde Mongol Horde |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice |
| Misery Signals Controller |
| Misery Signals Absent Light |
| This is how you do heavy vocals. This is how you metal |
| Mission of Burma Signals, Calls, and Marches |
| Modern Life Is War Witness |
| Mortality Rate You Were the Gasoline |
| This is the best 10 minute stretch of metalcore I've heard in a long time. Gimme more |
| Movements No Good Left to Give |
| Mrs. Piss Self-Surgery |
| Muse The 2nd Law |
| Bash this all you want, this is a fun album. It's not stellar musically or lyrically, but it's crazy and a mess and just a hint of m-m-m-m-ma-mad-ness. |
| Muse Showbiz |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge |
| My Ticket Home Strangers Only |
| Narrow Head 12th House Rock |
| Native Tongue Driftwood Head |
| I don't care for comparing anything to Brand New. It's cliche. This is actually really gone its own and deserves attention for that. |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| Nickelback The State |
| Sad what happened to the band after Silver Side Up, but I love this album. Unlike every Nickelback album that followed, this does get better the more you listen to it. |
| Nickelback Silver Side Up |
| I'm convinced the back half of this album is the best thing in Nickelback's discography. Sure beats a lot of the music that it inspired |
| Night Verses Into the Vanishing Light |
| Night Verses Copper Wasp |
| Night Verses Every Sound Has a Color...: Part I |
| Nightlife new low |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York |
| Norma Jean Polar Similar |
| Norma Jean All Hail |
| Norma Jean Deathrattle Sing for Me |
| Numenorean Adore |
| O'Brother The Death of Day |
| O'Brother Disillusion |
| Oedipus Vicious Little Smile |
| Off With Their Heads Home |
| Origami Angel Somewhere City |
| Palm Reader Sleepless |
| Parabelle Reassembling the Icons |
| Parabelle Your Starry Eyes Will Never Make Us Even |
| Pentimento Pentimento |
| Periphery Periphery IV: Hail Stan |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Keep You |
| Pierce the Veil Collide with the Sky |
| Pixel Grip ARENA |
| Planet Of Zeus Vigilante |
| Policewomanwithfangs. policewomanwithfangs. |
| A lot calmer than In the Arms of Providence or The Cambiata, but it really feels right. |
| Pomegranate Tiger Entities |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet |
| Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun |
| Prince and Beggar Surfacing at Zero |
| Propagandhi Victory Lap |
| Pupil Slicer Mirrors |
| Quicksand Distant Populations |
| Ramones Ramones |
| Red (USA) Of Beauty and Rage |
| Red Animal War Black Phantom Crusades |
| Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name |
| Roanoke Beautiful People |
| Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It |
| Royal Blood Out of the Black |
| This one EP is better than anything The Black Keys have done in years |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 |
| Russian Circles Memorial |
| Russian Circles Geneva |
| Russian Circles Empros |
| Russian Circles Enter |
| Russian Circles Guidance |
| Russian Girlfriends In The Parlance of Our Times |
| Saosin Saosin |
| Sarin (CAN) You Can’t Go Back |
| Sasquatch Maneuvers |
| SeeYouSpaceCowboy Songs for the Firing Squad |
| Senses Fail The Fire |
| Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun |
| Silent Planet When the End Began |
| Silversun Pickups Physical Thrills |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon |
| Sixx:A.M. Heroin Diaries Soundtrack |
| Very memorable and emotional album. It has a little of everything: acoustic ballads, intense rock songs, some radio hits, and commentary throughout. The lyrics fit extremely well and blow most contemporary rock bands out of the water in that category. Van Nuys never gets old. |
| Slipknot Slipknot |
| Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind |
| Slowdive Everything is Alive |
| Slugdge Esoteric Malacology |
| Snarls Burst |
| Snowing Fuck Your Emotional Bullshit |
| Soundtrack (Disney) Mulan |
| Spellling The Turning Wheel |
| Stella Donnelly Beware of the Dogs |
| Stone Sour Stone Sour |
| Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 1 |
| Streetlight Manifesto The Hands That Thieve |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell |
| SUMAC What One Becomes |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Diary |
| SZA Ctrl |
| Tame Impala The Slow Rush |
| Telepathy Burn Embrace |
| I think I like this more than the last Russian Circles album |
| Tenemos Explosivos Derrumbe y Celebracion |
| Thank You Scientist Maps of Non-Existent Places |
| That Handsome Devil The Heart Goes to Heaven, The Head Goes to Hell |
| The Antlers Hospice |
| The Apex Theory Topsy-Turvy |
| The Beatles 1 |
| The Beatles Revolver |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul |
| The Black Heart Procession 1 |
| The Black Heart Rebellion Har Nevo |
| The Black Queen Fever Daydream |
| The Callous Daoboys God Smiles Upon the Callous Daoboys |
| The Chariot One Wing |
| The Cure Faith |
| The Cure Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me |
| The Dead Weather Horehound |
| Jack White's playing drums and singing here and there. By default, you're gonna have a good time listening. |
| The Dear Hunter Green |
| The Dear Hunter Indigo |
| The Dear Hunter Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise |
| The Drones Feelin Kinda Free |
| The Garden Kiss My Super Bowl Ring |
| The Gaslight Anthem Handwritten |
| The Harmaleighs She Won't Make Sense |
| The Hyena Kill A Disconnect |
| Gotta be completely honest, I like this more than the new Chevelle album. |
| The Jesus Lizard Goat |
| The Lulls in Traffic Rabbit in the Snare |
| The Menzingers Rented World |
| Like I expected, this album grew on me a lot. Short but sweet running time. A well-rounded album in general. |
| The Menzingers A Lesson in the Abuse of Information Technology |
| The National Alligator |
| The National Sleep Well Beast |
| Can't help but feel like this is a slight misstep. The National needed to play around with their sound, but Sleep Well Beast feels like a transition rather than a completion. The songs with more electronic elements don't grab me at all, but there's still a few classic tracks on here that make it worthwhile listen regardless. |
| The National High Violet |
| The Ongoing Concept Handmade |
| The Republic of Wolves His Old Branches |
| The Sidekicks Runners in the Nerved World |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt |
| The Tubes The Tubes |
| The Used The Canyon |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico |
| The Weeknd After Hours |
| The Western Den A Light Left On |
| This is the chillest thing I've heard since Carrie & Lowell. The Western Den mixes carefully crafted instrumental passages and haunting melodies in their debut LP. Not sure if comparing this to Sufjan Stevens is accurate in anyway but it's having a similar impact on me. As someone who isn't drawn to slower acoustic jams, this is surprisingly captivating. |
| The Wonder Years The Greatest Generation |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Whenever, If Ever |
| The Zeta Magia Infinita |
| There Will Be Fireworks The Dark, Dark Bright |
| Thrice Anthology |
| Pretty much all you can hope for in a live album. The performance feels distant at times, especially with the early songs. Under a Killing Moon and Of Dust and Nations are highlights |
| Thrice Red Sky |
| Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere |
| I think some of Dustin's lyrics here might lag behind the band's music, but the music is sublime. Thrice have done something really special here by coming back from a hiatus to deliver possibly their best musical album to date. They kept talking about their equipment and search for a great guitar tone in interviews, and it's easy to see what they're talking about. They absolutely nail it there. |
| Thrice Horizons/East |
| Tiny Moving Parts This Couch Is Long & Full of Friendship |
| Tom Waits Nighthawks At The Diner |
| Too Close to Touch Nerve Endings |
| Too Close to Touch Haven't Been Myself |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Tool Ænima |
| Tool Undertow |
| Touche Amore Is Survived By |
| Touche Amore Lament |
| Trade Wind You Make Everything Disappear |
| Trivium In the Court of the Dragon |
| Trophy Scars Alphabet Alphabets |
| Tropical Fuck Storm Deep States |
| Troubled Coast Awake and Empty |
| Feels a bit monotonous at a couple points, but a couple dynamic points show Troubled Coast's great potential here. "Missoula/Big Sur" is the stand out track for me |
| Turnstile Turnstile Love Connection |
| Twenty One Pilots Blurryface |
| I wasn't expecting this to be so good. It has all the energy that an alternative pop album should have. |
| U.S. Girls In A Poem Unlimited |
| Ulver The Assassination of Julius Caesar |
| underscores fishmonger |
| This probably isn't a 4 but I can't stop listening to it. Too many catchy, goofy, sincere moments that I keep coming back to. |
| United Nations The Next Four Years |
| Unwound Repetition |
| Unwound Challenge For a Civilized Society |
| Varials In Darkness |
| This as good as you all seem to think Knocked Loose is |
| Venom Prison Erebos |
| Viagra Boys Cave World |
| Vientre Las Huellas Que Dejamos |
| Violent Soho Hungry Ghost |
| We Never Learned To Live The Sleepwalk Transmissions |
| While She Sleeps This Is the Six |
| Yellowcard Southern Air |
| If you're going to listen to pop punk, Yellowcard is essential |
| Yellowcard Ocean Avenue |
| 3.5 great |
| 10 Years Minus the Machine |
| 10 Years The Autumn Effect |
| 10 Years (How to Live) As Ghosts |
| 100 Gecs 1000 gecs |
| 100 Gecs 10,000 gecs |
| I'm just here for the ska-infused ballad on the topic of existential dread caused by dental pain |
| 36 Crazyfists A Snow Capped Romance |
| A Lot Like Birds Conversation Piece |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms |
| ABBA ABBA Gold |
| Abel (NY) Make It Right |
| Acid Mammoth Under Acid Hoof |
| Adebisi Shank This is the Album |
| Adele 21 |
| After the Burial Evergreen |
| Against The Current Fever |
| AJJ People Who Can Eat People are the Luckiest People |
| Alabama Shakes Sound & Color |
| Alexisonfire Old Crows / Young Cardinals |
| Alice in Chains Live |
| Alice in Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here |
| Considering how repetitive and generic the grunge genre gets, Alice in Chains reaches as far as they can into the murky abyss and pulls out an album that combines the dirtiest of guitar tones with the most polished production available. Not groundbreaking, but quite enjoyable. |
| All Get Out The Season |
| 'Me and My Lovers' stands out as great track. Everyone who says this sounds like Manchester Orchestra is right. Looking forward to seeing what they do in the future |
| Alter Bridge Fortress |
| Amorphis Halo |
| Anarbor The Words You Don't Swallow |
| Anberlin Cities |
| Antarctigo Vespucci Love in the Time of E-Mail |
| Anthony Green Boom. Done. |
| Anti-Flag For Blood and Empire |
| Aranda Aranda |
| Arc & Stones Arc & Stones |
| Arch/Matheos Winter Ethereal |
| Architects All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not |
| Ariana Grande My Everything |
| Ariana Grande Thank U, Next |
| Astronoid Astronoid |
| Atreyu Long Live |
| Avenged Sevenfold The Stage |
| Bala Maleza |
| Bane Don't Wait Up |
| Basement Promise Everything |
| What year is this? I don't care I like this. Pretty standard emo grunge rock but that's okay |
| BATS Alter Nature |
| Bayside Interrobang |
| Beach Bunny Honeymoon |
| Beach House 7 |
| Beach Slang The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel |
| Even if there's nothing new and I feel like I've heard it all before, this is still a fun listen |
| Beach Slang Who Would Ever Want Anything So Broken? |
| Beach Slang Cheap Thrills On A Dead End Street |
| Ben Quad I'm Scared That's All There Is |
| Better Off Reap What You Sow |
| Big Thief Capacity |
| Birds Of Tokyo BRACE |
| Black Mirrors Look Into The Black Mirror |
| blis. No One Loves You |
| Blue October The Answers |
| Bob Dylan The Bootleg Series Vol.13: Trouble No More |
| Bodega (USA-NY) Broken Equipment |
| Born Ruffians SQUEEZE |
| Boysetsfire Tomorrow Come Today |
| Boysetsfire After The Eulogy |
| Breaking Benjamin Phobia |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning |
| Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal |
| Bruno Mars 24K Magic |
| 24K Magic is a fun and superficial experience with great funky music and some fairly cringeworthy lyrics. "You need to activate your sexy," and, "Fellas grab your ladies if your lady fine," probably aren't the greatest lines ever written |
| Brutus (BE) Nest |
| Bullet for My Valentine Hand of Blood |
| Bush Sixteen Stone |
| Caligula's Horse Rise Radiant |
| Can't Swim This Too Won't Pass |
| Car Seat Headrest Teens of Denial |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Dedicated |
| Carly Rae Jepsen The Loneliest Time |
| Caroline Polachek Desire, I Want To Turn Into You |
| Casper Hinterland |
| Caspian Dust and Disquiet |
| Caspian On Circles |
| Catfish and the Bottlemen The Balcony |
| Cave In Perfect Pitch Black |
| Cave In Final Transmission |
| Cave In Heavy Pendulum |
| Ceres We Are A Team |
| Charli XCX Charli |
| Charmer ivy |
| Cheekface Too Much to Ask |
| You always wanna bomb the Middle East when we could be learning Portuguese or Korean |
| Chevelle NIRATIAS |
| Childish Gambino Because the Internet |
| Childish Gambino "Awaken, My Love!" |
| CHON CHON |
| CHVRCHES Every Open Eye |
| Cigarettes After Sex Cry |
| I get that they've done basically the same song for two entire records now, but they do it so well that I don't really mind. The compositions are decent, the production is terrific, I personally love the vocals. I'd like to see a bit more experimentation, but I can't say I'm disappointed with this one overall. |
| Circa Survive Juturna |
| Circa Survive Descensus |
| Circle Takes the Square Decompositions: Volume Number One |
| City Lights In It To Win It |
| City of Caterpillar Mystic Sisters |
| Cleopatrick the boys |
| Cloakroom Further Out |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade |
| Copeland Blushing |
| Strange vocal effects, awkward transitions, always-stumbling drum beats, and a distracting hodgepodge of different instruments keep Blushing from ever feeling comfortable. It's powerful, memorable, but it's not exactly beautiful the way Copeland's other work is. |
| Covet technicolor |
| Covet catharsis |
| Crossfade Crossfade |
| Cult of Luna The Long Road North |
| Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear |
| Cursive Vitriola |
| Cursive Domestica |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain |
| Dance Gavin Dance Afterburner |
| Danko Jones Below The Belt |
| Daughters Hell Songs |
| Dear Seattle Don't Let Go |
| Death Cab for Cutie Plans |
| Death Grips Government Plates |
| Deftones Adrenaline |
| Deniro Farrar Red Book, Vol. 1 |
| Dogleg Melee |
| Doves (UK) The Universal Want |
| Elder (USA-MA) Omens |
| Elder (USA-MA) Innate Passage |
| Ellie Goulding Halcyon |
| Elvis Depressedly Who Owns The Graveyard? |
| The latest "final" album from Elvis Depressedly has a lot of good material, mixed in with a few too many tracks and the borderline unlistenable title track. What I wouldn't give to get an entire album in the style of On Earth. |
| Emarosa Versus |
| Emarosa Peach Club |
| Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail |
| Equipment Madrigal |
| Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown |
| Every Time I Die Low Teens |
| Exhalants Atonement |
| Facing New York Dogtown |
| Fightstar Behind the Devil's Back |
| Filter The Sun Comes Out Tonight |
| Filter Crazy Eyes |
| Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters |
| Fitz and the Tantrums More Than Just A Dream |
| This deserves a higher average. Fitz and the Tantrums is one of the best indie pop bands out there right now. While this is a step down from their debut album, it's still loaded with hits. |
| Fleet Foxes Crack-Up |
| Flipturn Shadowglow |
| Floral Tattoo You Can Never Have a Long Enough Head Start |
| Fontaines D.C. Skinty Fia |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light |
| Framing Hanley The Moment |
| Frightened Rabbit Painting of a Panic Attack |
| Frog Whatever We Probably Already Had It |
| Frog Count Bateman |
| From Indian Lakes Dimly Lit |
| Frontierer Oxidized |
| Fugazi Red Medicine |
| Funeral for a Friend Hours |
| Ghais Guevara BlackBolshevik |
| Harry Haywood is a true American hero and we should be teaching about him in schools |
| Glacier Veins The World You Want to See |
| Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! |
| Great Grandpa Four of Arrows |
| Greywind Afterthoughts |
| Haken Vector |
| Halestorm The Strange Case Of... |
| Halestorm Live in Philly 2010 |
| Their live show is great. Arejay is one of the flashiest drummers I've seen, so fun to watch |
| Hammock Silencia |
| Harm's Way (USA-IL) Common Suffering |
| Heads. PUSH |
| Heavy Hearts Bliss |
| Straightforward but consistently good radio rock. The final track, Rust, is absolutely worth checking out |
| High on Fire Cometh the Storm |
| Highly Suspect Mister Asylum |
| Highs HIGHS EP |
| Hinds The Prettiest Curse |
| Holding Absence The Greatest Mistake of My Life |
| Holy Fawn Death Spells |
| Holy Fawn Dimensional Bleed |
| Hopesfall Arbiter |
| Hot Water Music A Flight and a Crash |
| Hugh Laurie Let Them Talk |
| Hurt Goodbye To The Machine |
| Hurt The Re-Consumation |
| i hate sex Circle Thinking |
| Icarus the Owl Icarus the Owl |
| If These Trees Could Talk If These Trees Could Talk |
| In Her Own Words Steady Glow |
| In:Aviate 1985 |
| Iron Chic You Can't Stay Here |
| ISIS Live 3 |
| Jack White Lazaretto |
| Jack White Boarding House Reach |
| Jack White Fear of the Dawn |
| Japandroids Celebration Rock |
| Here's a band that deserves the hype and recognition that The Black Keys get |
| Jeff Rosenstock WORRY. |
| Jeff Rosenstock NO DREAM |
| Jetty Bones Push Back |
| Jimmy Eat World Chase This Light |
| Jimmy Eat World Clarity |
| Jimmy Eat World Damage |
| Joey Badass ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$ |
| Joliette Atáxico |
| Jon Lajoie I Kill People |
| Jon Lajoie You Want Some Of This? |
| JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown Scaring the Hoes |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience |
| Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour |
| Kali Uchis Isolation |
| Kasabian Velociraptor! |
| Katatonia Sky Void of Stars |
| Kayak Jones You Swear It's Getting Better Every Day |
| Kelly Clarkson Breakaway |
| Kelsea Ballerini SUBJECT TO CHANGE |
| I don't ask for much with pop country, just give me good hooks and fun lyrics. This totally delivers. |
| KEN mode Loved |
| Knocked Loose A Tear in the Fabric of Life |
| Knuckle Puck Losing What We Love |
| Korine Tear |
| Koyo (US) Painting Words Into Lines |
| Kvelertak Splid |
| Kvelertak Endling |
| L.S. Dunes Past Lives |
| La Dispute Rooms of the House |
| They kept the powerful storytelling of Wildlife but lost the edgy sound. Oh well. It's still pretty good |
| Lagwagon Railer |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV |
| Some great songs and some songs that are boring and fall flat. But it's legendary |
| Leprous Malina |
| Lisa Miskovsky Umea |
| Loma Don't Shy Away |
| Makari Elegies |
| Marika Hackman Any Human Friend |
| Marilyn Manson The Pale Emperor |
| Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar |
| Marilyn Manson We Are Chaos |
| Maroon 5 Songs About Jane |
| Mastodon Emperor of Sand |
| Mastodon Hushed and Grim |
| Matthew Good White Light Rock & Roll Review |
| Matthew Good Chaotic Neutral |
It's all great but nothing particularly stands out to me, sadly. It could be the production. This
is one of those albums that feels just a bit overproduced. I think Matthew Good is at his best
when imperfections, especially in his voice, are noticeable. I personally love that and it seems
to be lacking on Chaotic Neutral. |
| Maya Hawke Blush |
| Mayday Parade Black Lines |
| mclusky The Difference Between Me and You Is That I'm Not on Fire |
| Meat Wave The Incessant |
| Meg Myers Sorry |
| Melissa Etheridge Greatest Hits: The Road Less Traveled |
| Melissa Etheridge Fearless Love |
| Melissa Etheridge The Awakening |
| Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct |
| Minority Of One GLORY DAYS |
| Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates |
| Misery Signals Ultraviolet |
| Modern Life Is War Fever Hunting |
| Mogwai Every Country's Sun |
| Moon Tooth Phototroph |
| Moon Tooth Crux |
| Mothership High Strangeness |
| Mumford and Sons Sigh No More |
| I imagine listening to this album on a sunny winter day with a light breeze would be very nice. |
| Muse HAARP |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade |
| Nas Illmatic |
| Necrot Mortal |
| Neurosis Fires Within Fires |
| Nick Murphy (fka Chet Faker) Built on Glass |
| Nickelback Feed the Machine |
| Half of the tracks are well within Nickelback's normal mediocrity, but the other half are frankly solid rock songs that warrant a bit of praise. This is definitely the best album they've put out in a decade. |
| No Knife Fire In The City Of Automatons |
| No Knife Riot For Romance! |
| Nonpoint Nonpoint |
| Nonpoint The Return |
| Nonpoint doing basically what they've always done - and that's great |
| Norma Jean Wrongdoers |
| Nothing More Nothing More |
Even though they're relatively young in the alt rock scene, they WILL be one of the biggest bands
in five years' time |
| O'Brother You and I |
| Of Monsters and Men Fever Dream |
| One Less Reason Everydaylife |
| Only Sibling Get Well Soon |
| Opeth Still Life |
| orchards Lovecore |
| Overgrow The Name We Share |
| Oxbow Thin Black Duke |
| Palm Reader Braille |
| Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out |
| Papa Roach Infest |
| Papa Roach lovehatetragedy |
| Parabelle Air |
| Good stuff, though some of the songs don't translate as well on acoustic as others. |
| Parabelle The Kill Plan |
| This is Parabelle's most predictable album to date. They do what they do rather well, and it's fairly catchy. I wish it were a bit more innovative and varied from song to song but the release of the rerecorded A Summit Borderline & A Drop in the Ocean songs make up for it. |
| Parabelle The Rose Avail |
| On first listen this seems like improvement over The Kill Plan, but there's a few too many dull songs on this for me to get really excited. |
| Paramore After Laughter |
| Paramore This Is Why |
| Parquet Courts Wide Awake |
| Pekin Bike Разминка |
| Pekin Bike Не хочу забывать |
| Pelican Nighttime Stories |
| Pentimento I, No Longer |
| Periphery Juggernaut: Alpha |
| Periphery Juggernaut: Omega |
| Periphery Periphery V: Djent is Not a Genre |
| Pet Symmetry Two Songs About Cars. Two Songs With Long Titles. |
| Phoebe Bridgers Punisher |
| Pig Destroyer The Octagonal Stairway |
| Placebo Never Let Me Go |
| Planes Mistaken for Stars Prey |
| Polaris The Death of Me |
| Polaris Fatalism |
| Pretty Sick Come Down |
| It's not reinventing the wheel but come on that average is way too low |
| Protest the Hero Volition |
| Protomartyr Consolation |
| Protomartyr Ultimate Success Today |
| Puig Destroyer Puig Destroyer EP |
| Baseball, in my humble opinion, is one of the most boring sports. I don't understand the attraction. The (ex?)-drummer from my favorite band, Riley Breckenridge, seems to enjoy it though. He manages to make baseball interesting on this EP.rProtip: don't bunt |
| PUP Morbid Stuff |
| Puppy The Goat |
| Pusha T King Push – Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude |
| PVRIS White Noise |
| Queen Of Jeans If you’re not afraid, I’m not afraid |
| Quicksand Interiors |
| Ra From One |
| Rains Stories |
| Red (USA) Declaration |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come |
| Regina Spektor What We Saw from the Cheap Seats |
| Regina Spektor Remember Us To Life |
| Rise Against Appeal to Reason |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture |
| Roly Porter Kistvaen |
| Royal Blood Royal Blood |
| Rural Internet BREAKING UP |
| Rush Clockwork Angels |
| Russian Circles Blood Year |
| RVIVR The Beauty Between |
| Sadistik Flowers for My Father |
| Saosin Along the Shadow |
| Sasquatch Fever Fantasy |
| Say Lou Lou Lucid Dreaming |
| Screaming Females Desire Pathway |
| Senses Fail Life Is Not a Waiting Room |
| Senses Fail Renacer |
| Seratones POWER |
| Seth Glier Things I Should Let You Know |
| Sevdaliza Shabrang |
| Sevendust Home |
| Sharon Van Etten Remind Me Tomorrow |
| Short Fictions Fates Worse Than Death |
| Silent Planet Iridescent |
| Silverstein This Is How the Wind Shifts |
| Silverstein I Am Alive In Everything I Touch |
| Silverstein Discovering the Waterfront |
| Silversun Pickups Widow's Weeds |
| Silversun Pickups Neck of the Woods |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas |
| Single Mothers Single Mothers |
| Single Mothers Through A Wall |
| Slipknot Iowa |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses |
| Slow Crush Aurora |
| Slow Crush Hush |
| Smoulder Times of Obscene Evil and Wild Daring |
| Soilwork The Ride Majestic |
| Soilwork The Living Infinite |
| Sorry 925 |
| Soul Blind Feel It All Around |
| SOUL GLO The Nigga In Me Is Me |
| Sparrows Let the Silence Stay Where It Was |
| St. Vincent Masseduction |
| Staind Staind |
| Staind Break The Cycle |
| Starset Transmissions |
| Steven Wilson Hand. Cannot. Erase. |
| Stone Sour Come What(ever) May |
| Stone Temple Pilots Core |
| Storm{O} Finis Terrae |
| Strata Strata |
| Stray from the Path Subliminal Criminals |
| Stray from the Path Internal Atomics |
| Strung Out Transmission.Alpha.Delta |
| SUMAC Love In Shadow |
| Sunny Day Real Estate How It Feels To Be Something On |
| Supertramp Breakfast in America |
| Svalbard When I Die, Will I Get Better? |
| Swans The Seer |
| Swans Children of God |
| Tears for Fears Songs from the Big Chair |
| Teenage Wrist Chrome Neon Jesus |
| Teenage Wrist Still Love |
| Teenage Wrist Earth Is A Black Hole |
| Tenemos Explosivos Victoria |
| Thanks! I Hate It Lovers Lane |
| The Afghan Whigs In Spades |
| The Armed Ultrapop |
| The Blood Brothers This Adultery Is Ripe |
| The Blood Brothers Crimes |
| The Callous Daoboys Die on Mars |
| The Clash London Calling |
| The Comet Is Coming Trust in the Lifeforce of Deep Mystery |
Tried playing this for my girlfriend in the car, halfway for the first track she turns to me and
asks "is this whole album just going to be one self-important horn?"
Oh well. She likes Kanye and as far as self-important horns go... |
| The Cure Seventeen Seconds |
| The Cure The Top |
| The Dear Hunter Migrant |
| The Dear Hunter Red |
| The Dear Hunter Orange |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer |
| The Drones I See Seaweed |
| The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound |
| The Gaslight Anthem has a big rock sound that is so familiar to everyone, yet makes it contemporary. Well done |
| The Goin' Nowheres Curse Rotted Record |
| The Gracious Few The Gracious Few |
| The Hirsch Effekt Urian |
| The Hotelier Goodness |
| The Jezabels Synthia |
| The Juliana Theory Emotion is Dead |
| The Killers Hot Fuss |
| The Menzingers No Penance/ Cemetery's Garden |
| The Menzingers Hello Exile |
| The Receiving End of Sirens Between the Heart and the Synapse |
| The Republic of Wolves shrine |
| The Smith Street Band Don't Waste Your Anger |
| The Story So Far The Story So Far |
| Overall a more mature outing for The Story So Far. The production lets the album down quite a bit though. The instruments feel muddier than ever, whereas the production on What You Don't See really made it stand out. "Heavy Gloom" is going to stay a jam though |
| The Strokes Is This It |
| The Weeknd Beauty Behind the Madness |
| The White Stripes Icky Thump |
| The Wonder Years No Closer to Heaven |
| The Zeta L'Antiteoria del Todo |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie |
| thoughtcrimes Tap Night |
| Three Days Grace Three Days Grace |
| Thrice Identity Crisis |
| Thrice's first full album is a fun listen even if it doesn't get remotely close to the greatness of the rest of their career. Phoenix Ignition and T&C will always be jams |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV |
| Thrice If We Could Only See Us Now |
| Thursday A City By the Light Divided |
| Tiny Moving Parts Pleasant Living |
| Tiny Moving Parts Swell |
| Tiny Moving Parts Breathe |
| Tired Lion Breakfast for Pathetics |
| Title Fight Floral Green |
| Todd Terje It's Album Time |
| Together to the Stars An Oblivion Above |
| Tom Waits Rain Dogs |
| Tove Lo Sunshine Kitty |
| Track Fighter Band Aids for Bullet Wounds |
| Tremonti All I Was |
All I was expecting was a fun hard rock album with some excellent guitar work, and I was
very satisfied. Great drums too. Wait did I just make an unintentional pun? Fuuuuu... |
| Tremonti Cauterize |
| Trivium What the Dead Men Say |
| Trust Company The Lonely Position of Neutral |
| Trust Company Dreaming In Black and White |
| Turnover Peripheral Vision |
| Turnstile Time and Space |
| Two People First Body |
| Tycho Past is Prologue |
| Tyler, the Creator IGOR |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation |
| United Nations Never Mind the Bombings, Here's Your Six Figures |
| Vein.fm Errorzone |
| Vein.fm This World Is Going to Ruin You |
| Viagra Boys Welfare Jazz |
| VIS No Waves |
| There's lots of potential shown in this debut EP. Songwriting is great, but the overall sound is just a little too generic in my opinion. "Static in the Air" is cool |
| We Lost the Sea Departure Songs |
| Weyes Blood Titanic Rising |
| While She Sleeps You Are We |
It's catchy and fun but doesn't stand out quite like it should. Certain parts can get a bit annoying like the
"hooOoOo" in the chorus of Silence Speaks, an otherwise great song.
I preferred the darker tone of Brainwashed. You Are We gets there a couple times, but not nearly as often or as
powerfully. |
| While She Sleeps So What? |
| Within the Ruins Phenomena |
| Without Waves Lunar |
| Wolf Parade Thin Mind |
| Xiu Xiu Girl with Basket of Fruit |
| xSPONGEXCOREx Don't Mess With TexXxas |
| 3.0 good |
| 10 Years From Birth to Burial |
| 40 Watt Sun Perfect Light |
| A.A.L. (Against All Logic) 2012-2017 |
| Algiers Shook |
| Alter Bridge AB III |
| Anberlin Vital |
| Aranda Stop the World |
| Architects Holy Hell |
| Architects For Those That Wish to Exist |
| Asking Alexandria The Black |
| Astral Display Prometheus |
| Atreyu Lead Sails Paper Anchor |
| I think this is the first metal album I ever got into, so I'm still attached to some of the songs. I don't care what people say, "Blow" is fun to listen to, especially if you don't like the band. For Lead Sails Paper Anchors, it really comes down to what you're expecting. This is basically a pop-punk meets nu-metal album. The pitch correction can get very annoying though. |
| Atticus Chimps Space Exploitation |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold |
| Bad Rabbits American Love |
| American Love is fun, pleasant, and upbeat. Not necessarily immediately catchy, but that makes it feel more mature than it is at first glance. |
| Banks III |
| Be Well Hello Sun |
| Beach House Once Twice Melody |
| Beach Slang A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings |
| Beartooth Disgusting |
| Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic |
| Big Nothing Chris |
| Big Wreck Grace Street |
| Black Veil Brides Black Veil Brides |
| blink-182 Neighborhoods |
| Bloc Party Alpha Games |
| Traps is fantastic, outside of that it's very standard British indie rock. Not bad but not exceptionally memorable |
| Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race |
| Blue October Approaching Normal |
| Blue October Sway |
| Another good album from Blue October. Some catchy songs, some emotional songs, Ryan Delahoussaye bringing everything together... pretty much everything you'd expect from the band. My only criticisms are that the album lacks any particular focus, and that Justin Furstenfeld's lyrics seem unusually vague. |
| Bob Dylan Shadows in the Night |
| Boston Manor Welcome to the Neighbourhood |
| Boys Like Girls Boys Like Girls |
| Breaking Benjamin Dear Agony |
| Breaking Benjamin Dark Before Dawn |
| Bring Me the Horizon That's the Spirit |
| This isn't good and I can't stop listening to it. So come rain on my paraaaaaaade |
| Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It... |
| Bullet for My Valentine The Poison |
| Bullet for My Valentine Fever |
| Cafe Tacuba Jei Beibi |
| Catbite Nice One |
| Charli XCX Sucker |
| Cheerleader (USA) The Sunshine of Your Youth |
| Chiodos Illuminaudio |
| CHVRCHES Screen Violence |
| clairo Immunity |
| Cloudkicker Unending |
| Colbie Caillat All of You |
| Coldplay Mylo Xyloto |
| Color Film Living Arrangements |
| I was really excited for this but I don't think it quite lives up to its singles. "I Need a Parasite" is easily the worst song I've ever heard from Daryl. |
| Cosmonauts Star 69 |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories |
| Dance Gavin Dance Instant Gratification |
| Dance Gavin Dance Jackpot Juicer |
| dangerkids Blacklist_ |
| Dayseeker Origin |
| Slightly above average metalcore. The clean vocals are solid |
| Death Cab for Cutie Kintsugi |
| Death Grips Year of the Snitch |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist |
| Deftones Gore |
| Gore is a bit of a disappointment when I was expecting greatness from Deftones. It's not a bad album, but it really fails to stand out in any meaningful way. |
| Deniro Farrar Sole Food |
| Depeche Mode Spirit |
| Digital Summer Breaking Point |
| Dinosaur Pile-Up Celebrity Mansions |
| Disheveled Cuss Disheveled Cuss |
| dne These Semi Feelings, They Are Everywhere |
| Dream Wife So When You Gonna... |
| Duran Duran Rio |
| Нервы (Nervy) Всё что вокруг |
| Earl Sweatshirt I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside |
| Evans Blue Graveyard of Empires |
| Evans Blue Evans Blue |
| Ex Friends Twisted Around |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place |
| FACS Void Moments |
| Fall Out Boy Folie a Deux |
| Finch Back to Oblivion |
| Just like in Elder Scrolls IV, Finch produces an Oblivion that seems edgy and chaotic, but becomes boring and repetitive before its end. |
| Fireworks Higher Lonely Power |
| Flaw Divided We Fall |
| This was a trip straight back to nu metal territory. Flaw doesn't bring anything new with their reunion album, but it was fun to listen to regardless. The moments when they revisit the Through the Eyes style (Fed Up, Bleed Red, Heal) stand above the rest. |
| Foals What Went Down |
| Foo Fighters Concrete and Gold |
| Foxing Draw Down the Moon |
| Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand |
| Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist Alfredo |
| Further Seems Forever The Moon Is Down |
| Genghis Tron Dream Weapon |
| Ghais Guevara There Will Be No Super-Slave |
| Ghost (SWE) Meliora |
| Green Day Dookie |
| Halestorm Halestorm |
| Happyness Floatr |
| Hayley Williams Petals for Armor |
| Heavenward (USA) Pyrophonics |
| Helms Alee Sleepwalking Sailors |
| Holding Absence The Noble Art of Self-Destruction |
| Home Is Where I Became Birds |
| Hot Water Music Feel the Void |
| Hurt The Crux |
| I wanted this album to be better than it really is... half of it is just so forgettable and the other half, while good, doesn't quite compare to either Vol. 1 or 2. |
| I the Mighty Where the Mind Wants to Go / Where You Let it Go |
| IAMDYNAMITE Supermegafantastic |
| If I Die First My Poison Arms |
| Stumbled across this on Spotify and thought it was from 2004. It's unapologetic post-hardcore nostalgia. |
| In This Moment A Star-Crossed Wasteland |
| Issues Black Diamonds |
| Kasabian Kasabian |
| Kendrick Lamar DAMN. |
| Kevin Matisyn Alice Ofelia Kira |
| Sounds good so far. I might end up reviewing it, if I get through some of the other reviews that I've been meaning to do. |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard L. W. |
| Knocked Loose A Different Shade of Blue |
| Land Of Talk Indistinct Conversations |
| Less Than Jake Sound the Alarm |
| letlive. If I'm the Devil... |
| Lifehouse Who We Are |
| Lifehouse Smoke and Mirrors |
| Limp Bizkit Still Sucks |
| Lin-Manuel Miranda Hamilton - Original Broadway Cast |
| Marmozets Knowing What You Know Now |
| Pretty standard rock album by all accounts. The band showed on their debut that they're capable of more, but the riffs are still here. I just wish they experimented more. |
| Mars Red Sky The Task Eternal |
| Mathew Lee Cothran Judas Hung Himself in America |
| Mathew Lee Cothran My First Love Mends My Final Days |
| Metallica Master of Puppets |
| Here's the thing about this album. There's a reason it's called Master of Puppets. Everything in that song is basically expanded in other songs in the album.rI heard the song Master of Puppets before listening to the album, and my initial reaction was, "So Metallica found a way to increase the length of one song into a full album."rMaybe it's only fair to say that because the song has so much in it, but it really seems like there's not much reason to listen to the whole album if you only have to listen to one song to experience the whole thing. |
| Mindforce New Lords |
| Minus the Bear Menos El Oso |
| Moaning Uneasy Laughter |
| Mudvayne Lost and Found |
| Muse Drones |
| Nails Abandon All Life |
| Nickelback No Fixed Address |
Kings of radio rock doing what they've always done: adapting current pop trends to the easiest and most
digestible format possible. At least they decided to take a couple risks, and they are easily the best songs on
the album. Check out "Got Me Runnin Round" for proof |
| Nickelback The Long Road |
| Nickelback All the Right Reasons |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| No Devotion Permanence |
| Those last four tracks are something special. Expect this to get some repeated listens in the coming months |
| No Devotion No Oblivion |
| O'Brother In Comparison To Me |
| Overgrow This All Will End |
| Pain of Salvation Panther |
| Papa Roach Time For Annihilation |
| Papa Roach The Paramour Sessions |
| Papa Roach Getting Away With Murder |
| Paramore Riot! |
| Pill Friends Blessed Suffering |
| Pinegrove Marigold |
| Pompeii Loom |
| Portrayal of Guilt Let Pain Be Your Guide |
| Post Animal Forward Motion Godyssey |
| pulses. It Wasn't Supposed To Be Like This |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf |
| Queens of the Stone Age In Times New Roman... |
| Ranges Babel |
| Redd Kross Beyond The Door |
| Rise Against Nowhere Generation |
| Rob Thomas ...Something to Be |
| Rolo Tomassi Where Myth Becomes Memory |
| San Cisco San Cisco |
| San Cisco Gracetown |
| Saving Abel Bringing Down the Giant |
| Saving Abel Saving Abel |
| Secret Band LP2 |
| Sevendust Blood and Stone |
| Shinedown The Sound of Madness |
| I don't really like Shinedown, but there are some good songs on here if you can skip the radio hits. Call Me is excellent. |
| Skillet Awake |
| Skillet Comatose |
| Slipknot Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone |
| Slipknot The End, So Far |
| First track had me thinking this was actually Porcupine Tree. Would have been way more interesting |
| Soft Kill Dead Kids R.I.P. City |
| Sorority Noise Joy, Departed |
| Staind The Singles: 1996-2006 |
| A good collection of Staind hits. Epiphany and Price to Play always get me. The bonus tracks are great too. The Sober cover is excellent, Aaron matches Maynard's emotion very well. |
| State Champs Around the World and Back |
| Stella Donnelly Flood |
| Steven Wilson The Harmony Codex |
| Stone Sour Audio Secrecy |
| Only a couple of songs I liked here. Most were just too forgettable |
| Taylor Swift 1989 |
| 1989 reminds me of the most painful fact that Taylor Swift is 5 years older than me. If only this were named 1994 |
| Taylor Swift Folklore |
| Taylor Swift Midnights |
| The Black Keys Brothers |
| The Black Keys Attack & Release |
| The Bombpops Death in Venice Beach |
| The Bronx The Bronx VI |
| The Casket Lottery Short Songs For End Times |
| The Cure Three Imaginary Boys |
| The Dear Hunter Blue |
| The Front Bottoms Back On Top |
| The Mysterines Reeling |
| The Neighbourhood I Love You. |
| The Script Science & Faith |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Oceania |
| The Tubes Young And Rich |
| The Used Heartwork |
| The Voidz Virtue |
| This is eclectic alright, but feels a lot more like listening to an indie rock mixtape of a dozen bands that don't really have anything unique to them. |
| The Weakerthans Left and Leaving |
| The Weeknd Starboy |
| The xx xx |
| The Zeta No Somos Marineros / Zeta split |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything |
| Not sure what the deal with this album is. There are a couple of good parts but they don't justify the monotony of the rest of the album |
| Three Days Grace Live at the Palace (DVD) |
| Thrice First Impressions |
| Thrice Palms |
| Half of this is a generic mess, half of this is Thrice's usual brilliance. I'll never understand how Hold Up a Light got past everyone and onto this album. It might just be the worst song they've put out since Identity Crisis. |
| Thursday/Envy Thursday/Envy |
| Tiny Little Houses Idiot Proverbs |
| Toh Kay The Hand That Thieves |
| Tool Fear Inoculum |
| Track Fighter Revenge |
| Trapt No Apologies |
| I like a couple of the songs on here, especially the title track, but I can't even get through the rest of the songs. |
| Trapt Only Through the Pain |
| Radio rock that I'll openly admit to liking... Black Rose is amazing. |
| Tropical Fuck Storm Braindrops |
There's the same frayed wires guitar tone but so much of the explosive edge that I loved on A
Laughing Death in Meatspace is absent here. They do get loud on occasion and it's awesome when
they do, but there's also a lot of drawn-out quiet instrumental mush in there that doesn't feel
like it's building into anything. At least the backup vocals are abundant. They're the best part
about this album. |
| Tycho Awake |
| Various Artists (Punk) Punk Goes 90s Vol. 2 |
| Vennart The Demon Joke |
| Violent Soho Everything Is A-OK |
| Weezer The White Album |
| Weezer The Teal Album |
| Wolves at the Gate Eclipse |
| Woods of Desolation As the Stars |
| Yours Truly Self Care |
| 2.5 average |
| All Get Out All Get Out |
| All That Remains ...For We Are Many |
| Anti-Flag Lies They Tell Our Children |
| Ariana Grande Sweetener |
| The two Max Martin songs (Everytime and No Tears Left to Cry) are fantastic. The rest are extremely hit or miss. |
| Art Of Dying Vices and Virtues |
| Atreyu Congregation of the Damned |
| Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare |
| There are only a couple moments in Nightmare where I really enjoy listening. The rest feels like a chore. God Hates Us and Natural Born Killer are good |
| Blues Pills Holy Moly! |
| Buckcherry Fifteen |
| Bullet for My Valentine Scream Aim Fire |
| Cavo Bright Nights Dark Days |
| CHVRCHES Love Is Dead |
| Dead To A Dying World Elegy |
| Dead! The Golden Age of Not Even Trying |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists |
| Dustin Kensrue Carry the Fire |
| Maybe I'm just stuck in the past because this doesn't even compare to anything Thrice has done. Boring production, boring songwriting. It sounds like Switchfoot, Matchbox Twenty, Three Doors Down, or any of those other bands that continue to put out absurdly generic music |
| Elder Brother Heavy Head |
| Saw these guys live. Absolutely nothing to stand out. The guitars and vocals sound okay on the recording, but they're still so dull |
| Fall Out Boy American Beauty/American Psycho |
| Do you like Fall Out Boy? Their early work was a little too 'pop punk' for my taste, but when Folie a Deux came rout in '08, I think they really came into their own - both commercially and artistically. The whole album has a rclear, crisp sound, and a fresh varnish of pop culture idealism that really gives the songs a big boost. They've rbeen compared to My Chemical Romance, but I think Fall Out Boy has a far more comprehensive, satirical rsense of humor. In '15, Fall Out Boy released this, American Beauty/American Psycho, their most raccomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Centuries", a song so catchy most people rprobably don't listen to the lyrics - but they should! Because it's not just about the pleasures of being famous, rand the importance of trends, it's also a personal statement about the band itself! Hey Futures!r |
| FEVER 333 Strength In Numb333rs |
| FEVER 333 Wrong Generation |
| Five Finger Death Punch War Is The Answer |
| Foo Fighters Sonic Highways |
| Framing Hanley A Promise to Burn |
| Good Charlotte Good Morning Revival |
| Hands Like Houses -Anon. |
| Hinder Extreme Behavior |
| Hoobastank Push Pull |
| Hour Cast Dystopia |
| Imagine Dragons Night Visions |
| In This Moment Godmode |
| James Durbin Memories of a Beautiful Disaster |
| Lacuna Coil Broken Crown Halo |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight |
| Macklemore and Ryan Lewis The Heist |
| Marilyn Manson The High End of Low |
| Maroon 5 It Won't Be Soon Before Long |
| Nickelback Curb |
| Nothing More The Stories We Tell Ourselves |
| Papa Roach Metamorphosis |
| Papa Roach F.E.A.R. |
| Mediocre nu metal music combined with popular overdone metalcore production. Still has some catchy moments |
| Pop Evil Onyx |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork |
| Homme's vocals are boring. The guitars are boring. The drums are boring. The whole band is pretty boring. |
| Red (USA) Release the Panic |
| Rev Theory Light It Up |
| There are some catchy songs here, but all around, it's a fairly hollow album. Album art is pretty cool though |
| Rev Theory Justice |
| Rise Against The Black Market |
| Rise Against has been at it for a while and they sound exactly the same. Their complete refusal to take risks makes for a frustrating listen. It's not a bad album, but there's simply nothing there to differentiate it from everything else they've done |
| Santana Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics |
| Senses Fail If There Is Light, It Will Find You |
| Senses Fail made an album of 2004-era pop punk with pretty mixed results. There's a few catchy moments, a few embarrassingly bad cliches, and quite a bit of forgettable in between. I can't shake the feeling that I've heard this album before. |
| Silverstein A Beautiful Place to Drown |
| Simple Plan Simple Plan |
| Sixx:A.M. This Is Gonna Hurt |
| There's a couple songs I'm going to skip and there's a couple songs that I can't stop listening to... seems to be the case with most mainstream rock albums these days.rSure Feels Right, Deadlihood, and Help Is On the Way are my favorites, and Skin is beautiful |
| Sophie Lemonade/Hard |
| Sound City Players Sound City: Real To Reel |
| Sunn O))) Pyroclasts |
| Taylor Swift Reputation |
| Reputation is much longer and much less interesting than I was hoping for. That cover art is fantastic though. |
| The Black Keys El Camino |
| I don't understand why The Black Keys are so highly praised. Their music is fairly bland, and they sell themselves at duo but can't play half their songs without two extra players.rEvery live video of them I've seen is the same way. Mediocre energy, mediocre music. There's better music in the genre, so I'm not sure why people are settling for this stuff. |
| The Menzingers Some of it Was True |
| The Veer Against the Grain |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars This Is War |
| Three Days Grace Life Starts Now |
| Three Days Grace Transit of Venus |
| Interesting album, although it falls victim of a common issue in this genre, where the promise of sincere and emotional lyrics just reveal how hollow and emotionless they are. Thank god for that opening track, Sign of the Times, which is the only track worth mentioning. |
| Thrice Deeper Wells |
| I'm not sure what I should have expected with a group of songs that didn't make the cut on Thrice's worst album. Outside of Stumbling West, these are instantly forgettable tracks marred by awful production and even worse lyricism. |
| Tricky Maxinquaye |
| Void Of Sleep Metaphora |
| War Charge New World Justice |
| While She Sleeps Sleeps Society |
| Young Guns Bones |
| 2.0 poor |
| 3 Doors Down Away from the Sun |
| 3 Doors Down The Better Life |
| All That Remains A War You Cannot Win |
| Avenged Sevenfold Hail to the King |
| Black Veil Brides We Stitch These Wounds |
| Bring Me the Horizon Amo |
| Buckcherry All Night Long |
| Buckcherry Black Butterfly |
| Bullet for My Valentine Temper Temper |
| Daughtry Leave This Town |
| Daughtry Daughtry |
| Deuce Nine Lives |
| Embarrassingly fun to listen to at some points, though ultimately still quite embarrassing. |
| Dustin Kensrue The Water and the Blood |
| As nice as it is to hear Dustin's voice, that's all there is on this record. This doesn't feel like real music. |
| Egypt Central White Rabbit |
| If you're listening to album with a song titled "Kick Ass", you're gonna have a bad time.rMotley Crue would be able to get off with something like this, but Egypt Central can't and doesn't. There are a couple good songs, but overall, the album is disappointing. |
| FEVER 333 Made An America |
| Fight Or Flight A Life By Design? |
| Painfully average. Given the people creating the album, I had some doubts but was also optimistic. Unfortunately, every doubt was realized. It's yet another mediocre mainstream rock album, with only a few interesting moments that give it a 2. |
| Fitz and the Tantrums All The Feels |
| It's not without a few catchy moments but most of its 17 tracks are the same uninspired electronic-infused pop rock that you can find in a dozen other identical bands. |
| Flaw Vol IV: Because of the Brave |
| Green Day 21st Century Breakdown |
| Green Day Bullet In A Bible |
| Green Day Awesome As Fuck |
| Greta Van Fleet From the Fires |
| Hell or Highwater Begin Again |
| I really wanted to like this, but I just couldn't. The songs seem extremely overproduced and devoid of any real emotion. It's very dry and the only thing keeping it from being 3 Doors Down is Brandon Saller's voice, which seems like the only focus this album ends up with. Even "Find the Time to Breathe", which Saller made a demo of and released on Youtube, ends up being a boring mainstream rock song. |
| Hinder Take It to the Limit |
| Hinder All American Nightmare |
| John Mayer Battle Studies |
| Kanye West Jesus Is King |
| Linkin Park Living Things |
| Nickelback Dark Horse |
| Nickelback Here and Now |
| Nickelback Get Rollin' |
| Just imagine if they actually leaned into the country rock tunes like High Time and Steel Still Rusts, that would least have the potential to be interesting. A couple early tracks have some decent riffs and the production is impeccable as always. A solid 2 |
| Papa Roach The Connection |
| Pedro the Lion Phoenix |
| Rains From the Ashes |
| Sloppy and uninspired follow up record. I'm really disappointed with it since I know the band is capable of more |
| Rise Against Endgame |
| Saint Asonia Saint Asonia |
| It's like One X and 14 Shades of Grey had a child. A couple good tracks but outside of the nostalgia, there's nothing of substance here. |
| Shinedown Amaryllis |
| Staind Confessions Of The Fallen |
| Starset Divisions |
| Sun Kil Moon Benji |
| Pretty sure I never want to listen to this album again. Once was enough |
| The Fray How to Save a Life |
| The Menzingers From Exile |
| Maybe it's that I didn't love Hello Exile, but these versions are mostly miss for me. For stripped-down renditions, they feel overproduced and lifeless. There's way too much echo, the drums might as well be a drum machine, and the acoustic strumming on some tracks is aggressively high in the mix that it's grating. |
| Theory of a Deadman Scars and Souvenirs |
| Theory of a Deadman Savages |
| The songwriting is pretty bad, but this is one of the most overproduced albums I've ever heard. Every single song has some unnecessary effects on the vocals to make Connolly sound even more ridiculous than he normally does |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars Love Lust Faith + Dreams |
| Three Days Grace One-X |
| Remember TDG's self-titled released had a song called Overrated? It's an excellent example of foreshadowing. |
