| 4.5 superb |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore |
| Agalloch The White |
| Alcest Kodama |
| The atmosphere of Japanese folklore and Neige's dreamworld collide in this euphoric odyssey, continuing from where Voyages... left off, yet sounding more focused overall. While Shelter was an enjoyable diversion from the band's sound, Kodama follows swiftly in the footsteps of Le Secret and Ecailles...: sweeping post-rock atmospheres colliding with intense metal soundscapes. It frequently convalesces into a swirling blend of chaotic beauty, going for a more sophisticated sound than the typical dynamic motifs one hears in post-black metal. While it could have been a bit longer, the first forty minutes stands as among Niege's most stunning creations yet. Note: It helps to think of the enjoyable yet meandering final 10 minutes (including the bonus track, "Notre sang et nos pens?es") as the falling action of Kodama, being much more ambient overall. |
| Alice in Chains Dirt |
| Alice in Chains Jar of Flies |
| Amon Tobin Permutation |
| Amon Tobin Bricolage |
| Amon Tobin Supermodified |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders |
| Arcade Fire Funeral |
| Atheist Piece of Time |
| Atheist Unquestionable Presence |
| Bark Psychosis Codename: Dustsucker |
| Bathory Blood Fire Death |
| Bjork Vespertine |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath |
| Black Sabbath Sabotage |
| Blue Oyster Cult Secret Treaties |
| Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Exodus |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Legend |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports |
| Brian Eno Before and After Science |
| Brian Eno and David Byrne My Life in the Bush of Ghosts |
| Brian Wilson Smile |
| Built to Spill Perfect from Now On |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss |
| Can Tago Mago |
| Can Future Days |
| Candlemass Epicus Doomicus Metallicus |
| Cocteau Twins Treasure |
| Coil The Ape Of Naples |
| Cradle of Filth Dusk... and Her Embrace |
| Cradle of Filth Cruelty and the Beast |
| Cradle of Filth Vempire or Dark Faerytales in Phalluste |
| Cynic Focus |
| Cynic Traced in Air |
| Cynic The Portal Tapes |
| Darkthrone A Blaze in the Northern Sky |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars |
| David Bowie Station to Station |
| David Bowie "Heroes" |
| David Bowie Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) |
| David Bowie Blackstar |
| Blackstar sees David Bowie's music at its most profound, bewildering, and emotional. There's hardly any semblance of traditional rock n' roll on here, with a purposeful move to stray from that style. It instead draws influences from more contemporary music, and makes use of avant-garde musical styles like industrial, jazz, art rock, and electronica. "Blackstar" is a monolith, being a 10 minute exercise in occultish atmospheres and haunting melodies. The bridge is a beautiful soundscape however, with other gorgeous moments being plentiful in the morose "Lazarus" and emotionally resonant album closer "I Can't Give Everything Away." Bowie passed away two days after this was released, and much of the lyrical themes seem to hauntingly explore his impending passing. This only adds to the poignancy of Blackstar, being not only Bowie's strongest record in decades, but one of the best finale albums of all time. |
| David Sylvian Brilliant Trees |
| David Sylvian Dead Bees on a Cake |
| David Sylvian and Robert Fripp The First Day |
| Dead Can Dance Spleen and Ideal |
| Deafheaven Infinite Granite |
| Deafheaven continue evolving and release their most consistently impressive and impactful record yet. Gorgeous musical passages and walls of sound are abound, with the band taking more inspiration from shoegaze and post-rock while still sounding uniquely like themselves. George Clark's clean singing voice has a wonderful, haunting goth rock quality to it, perhaps due to the reverb and vocal effects. Much of the production is dense and various instrumental elements blend together beautifully. It's not easy to pick favorites, but a few would be "In Blur," "Great Mass of Color," "Other Language," and "Mombasa." |
| Death Symbolic |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance |
| Death Human |
| Deep Purple Machine Head |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
| Depeche Mode Violator |
| Destroyer Kaputt |
| Dimmu Borgir Enthrone Darkness Triumphant |
| Dimmu Borgir Spiritual Black Dimensions |
| Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... |
| Dream Theater Images and Words |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory |
| Drudkh Autumn Aurora |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson |
| Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse |
| Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk |
| Ennio Morricone The Good, the Bad and the Ugly |
| Ennio Morricone The Thing |
| Enslaved Below the Lights |
| Enslaved Vertebrae |
| Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place |
| Felt (UK) The Splendour of Fear |
| A beautiful, nocturnal, magical work of art that sounds decades ahead of its time. I hear influences on neofolk music, post-rock, and the band Agalloch. |
| Fields of the Nephilim Elizium |
| Fleetwood Mac Rumours |
| Fripp and Eno Evening Star |
| Gazpacho Night |
| Genesis Foxtrot |
| Genesis The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada |
| Goldfrapp Felt Mountain |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction |
| Gustavo Santaolalla The Last of Us OST |
| Hammock Kenotic |
| Hammock Raising Your Voice... Trying to Stop an Echo |
| Harold Budd and Brian Eno Ambient 2 - The Plateaux of Mirror |
| Harold Budd and Brian Eno The Pearl |
| Howard Shore The Fellowship of the Ring |
| Howard Shore The Two Towers |
| Howard Shore The Return of the King |
| Howard Shore The Fellowship of the Ring: The Complete Recording |
| Howard Shore The Two Towers: The Complete Recordings |
| Howard Shore The Return of the King: The Complete Recordings |
| Insomnium Above the Weeping World |
| Insomnium Since the Day It All Came Down |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights |
| Intronaut Valley of Smoke |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast |
| Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave |
| Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son |
| Iron Maiden Live After Death |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant |
| ISIS Oceanic |
| Jakob Solace |
| Jeremy Soule Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Soundtrack |
| Jeremy Soule The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Soundtrack |
| Jethro Tull Aqualung |
| Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick |
| Joe Hisaishi Princess Mononoke |
| Joe Hisaishi Spirited Away |
| John Williams Star Wars, Episode IV: A New Hope |
| John Williams Star Wars, Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back |
| John Williams Raiders of the Lost Ark |
| Judas Priest Sad Wings of Destiny |
| Kate Bush The Dreaming |
| Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue |
| Kayo Dot Hubardo |
| Kayo Dot Coffins on Io |
| King Crimson Lizard |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King |
| King Crimson Live in Chicago |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II |
| Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy |
| Led Zeppelin Mothership |
| maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace |
| Metallica Master of Puppets |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West |
| Mogwai Young Team |
| Morbus Chron Sweven |
| Moving Mountains Pneuma |
| Moving Mountains Foreword |
| My Bloody Valentine You Made Me Realise |
| My Bloody Valentine EPs 1988-1991 |
| My Morning Jacket Okonokos |
| Neu! Neu! '75 |
| Neurosis A Sun That Never Sets |
| Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Murder Ballads |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Ghosteen |
| The band follow their masterpiece Skeleton Tree with a less dark direction, even more sparse and ethereal than their previous work has been this past decade. This is practically a full on ambient album, often being not much more than synths and piano alongside Cave's voice. His lyrics continue to be wonderfully impressionistic, ranging from the surreal and fantastical to some very intimate and personal musings as well. It's not quite as consistently engaging as Abattoir Blues, ...Sky, or Skeleton Tree but is another triumph and one of the finest albums of the year. Highlights include "Bright Horses" "Sun Forest" "Galleon Ship" "Leviathan". |
| Nick Drake Five Leaves Left |
| Nick Drake Pink Moon |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral |
| No-Man Returning Jesus |
| No-Man Speak |
| No-Man Schoolyard Ghosts |
| Novembre Classica |
| Novembre Materia |
| Oceansize Effloresce |
| Oceansize Frames |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse |
| Opeth Damnation |
| Paradise Lost Icon |
| Paradise Lost Draconian Times |
| Pearl Jam Ten |
| Peter Gabriel Melt |
| Peter Gabriel So |
| Pink Floyd Meddle |
| Pink Floyd The Wall |
| Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii |
| Pixies Doolittle |
| Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet |
| Porcupine Tree Anesthetize |
| Prefab Sprout Steve McQueen |
| Prince Purple Rain |
| Prince Sign o' the Times |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool |
| Radiohead take another surprising direction by emphasizing Jonny Greenwood's sublime string arrangements. The band craft beautiful, spacey atmospheres and engaging compositions like "Present Tense," "Decks Dark," and "Daydreaming." Each song is memorable in its own right, be it the layered, midtempo indie rock song "The Numbers" or the anxious "Ful Stop" that ends with a propulsive guitar-centered outro similar to "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi." A Moon Shaped Pool recalls the warm, melancholic qualities of In Rainbows along with the colder, more elusive nature of The King of Limbs and Kid A, but this is very much its own incarnation. Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood are masters of their craft, always seeking new ways to explore and reinvent their sound. In the context of Radiohead's career thus far, A Moon Shaped Pool isn't their most experimental or challenging record. It's not simplistic, straightforward, or predictable either, but has an emotional core more open and fragile than what we're used to hearing. On top of that, there's an elegance to the songwriting and even if it's not as innovative as their past classics, A Moon Shaped Pool is always engrossing and Radiohead's most subtle offering yet. The band offer an immersive and spaced out journey with some of their most emotionally poignant moments to date. |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs: From the Basement |
| Radiohead In Rainbows: From the Basement |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine |
| Rainbow Rising |
| Renaissance Ashes Are Burning |
| Rush 2112 |
| Rush Permanent Waves |
| Rush Signals |
| Rush Grace Under Pressure |
| Rush Power Windows |
| Rush Hold Your Fire |
| Rush Clockwork Angels |
| Sade Love Deluxe |
| Shpongle Tales of the Inexpressible |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun |
| Sigur Ros Kveikur |
| Slint Spiderland |
| Slowdive Pygmalion |
| Soundgarden Superunknown |
| Soundtrack (Film) Blade Runner |
| Stereolab Dots and Loops |
| Steven Wilson To the Bone |
| Steven Wilson strays further from progressive rock with his most forward thinking album yet. To The Bone is a colorful, accessible yet diverse rock album that explores the modern age of distorted truths and volatile nature of world affairs in 2017. Steven Wilson doesn't just revel in doom and gloom as one might anticipate him doing, but phases in and out of joyful moments ("Nowhere Now" and "Permanating"), being the most surprising here, and more progressive songs like the title track and "Detonation." Much of To The Bone follows a more straightforward rock pacing, but not without wide shifts in tone and mood. All in all, this is a hugely impressive statement from Wilson. It's an album that hearkens to Porcupine Tree's Stupid Dream in that it has the potential to be enjoyed by anyone, riding the line impressively between going very accessible (at times), and furthering artistry. |
| Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (Instrumentals) |
| Stevie Wonder Innervisions |
| Stevie Wonder Songs in the Key of Life |
| Storm Corrosion Storm Corrosion |
| Submotion Orchestra Finest Hour |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell Live |
| Swallow the Sun The Morning Never Came |
| Swallow the Sun Hope |
| Swans White Light From the Mouth of Infinity |
| Sweet Trip Velocity : Design : Comfort |
| Talk Talk The Colour of Spring |
| Talking Heads Fear of Music |
| Tame Impala Lonerism |
| Tangerine Dream Phaedra |
| Tangerine Dream Rubycon |
| Tears for Fears Songs from the Big Chair |
| Testament The New Order |
| The Beach Boys The Smile Sessions |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour |
| The Beatles The Beatles |
| The Blue Nile Hats |
| The Chameleons Strange Times |
| The Chameleons Script of the Bridge |
| The Contortionist Language |
| The Contortionist Language (Rediscovered Edition) |
| The Cure Pornography |
| The Future Sound of London Lifeforms |
| The Future Sound of London Dead Cities |
| The Jezabels Synthia |
| Synthia contains elements from all kinds of musical styles like dance and electronica, providing interesting results behind the anthemic indie rock sound. This certainly is a gripping listen, with a lot of dimensions to it including vulnerability, love, loss, and triumph. It's not quite as straightforward as the band's previous two albums, and feels more urgent overall. Everything comes together and feels strange yet beautiful, with moments of irony lending to the personality the band have shown to possess. Synthia shows an alternative band continuing to grow into themselves, delivering an impassioned exercise in social issues, heartbreak, and naked emotion. |
| The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed |
| The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers |
| The Smiths Meat Is Murder |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground |
| The Who Quadrophenia |
| The Who Who's Next |
| Thomas Newman Shawshank Redemption |
| Thrice Vheissu |
| Thrice Beggars |
| Toby Driver They Are the Shield |
| Toby Driver continues where his solo album from last year, Madonnawhore, left off for the most ambitious and consistently beautiful album of his solo career. Violins, guitars, and keyboards drift in and out of playing solo or layered together in a uniquely beautiful way throughout the whole album, at times recalling Part the Second by Driver's earlier band maudlin of the Well. Some moments on the first half sound faintly influenced by early Godspeed You! Black Emperor and later-day Talk Talk. The opener "Anamnesis Park" embodies what it means to be cinematic. Five minutes go by before the singing and main groove of the song even begins, but this intro is so captivating and well-made that it could've gone on even longer. The gorgeous outro of "Glyph" has a similar effect, and the song also has some of Driver's best singing. They Are the Shield is full of surprises and unique moments, being another ambitious and wholly original release that recalls '90's post-rock and maudlin of the Well while embodying the ghostly, wistful atmospheres introduced in Madonnawhore. |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Tool Fear Inoculum |
| Worth the wait, being a massive, compelling album that balances their unique style with new elements. |
| Trespassers William Different Stars |
| U2 War |
| U2 The Unforgettable Fire |
| Ulver Wars of the Roses |
| Ulver Nattens Madrigal |
| Ulver Trolsk Sortmetall 1993-1997 |
| Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You |
| Vangelis Blade Runner Soundtrack |
| Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters |
| Yes The Yes Album |
| Yes Relayer |
| Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss |
| 4.3 superb |
| .O.rang Herd of Instinct |
| Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit |
| Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde |
| Anathema Judgement |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II |
| Arcturus The Sham Mirrors |
| Boards of Canada Geogaddi |
| Brand New Science Fiction |
| Brand New unceremoniously drop their long-waited fifth album, Science Fiction, yet another rewarding new direction. Jesse & co. stray even farther from their roots, resembling the latest Thrice in some ways. The scattershot direction of Daisy comes to mind here, though the angst, fire, and rage is replaced with exciting, mature songwriting and a confident new direction. Whether it's superior to Daisy, or even The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me is not yet clear. What matters is that Brand New have exceeded expectations yet again, providing some of the most emotional and mature music of the year. |
| Coldworld Autumn |
| After a lengthy eight years of inactivity, Coldworld returns with one of the best metal albums of 2016. Autumn features a plethora of added instrumentation and melodic vocals not heard before from the one-man black metal project. It's reminiscent of last year's Autumn Eternal by Panopticon in this way, even featuring folk instrumentation and female vocals. This makes for a large departure from Coldworld's rawer debut, with Autumn embodying a full range of sounds for a more polished, superior offering that even has moments of optimism, particularly within the post-rock influenced "Womb of Emptiness" and the folkish "The Wind and the Leaves." Coldworld have once again released a masterful modern metal record, one that was well worth the nearly decade long wait. |
| Cradle of Filth Midian |
| Damien Rice O |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| An expansion of the style presented in their debut Roads to Judah, Sunbather defies genre boundaries. The hour blurs by in multi-faceted textures that blend shoegazing, black metal, and post-rock into an incredible whirlwind of sonic power and beauty. Crashing drums and tremolo picked guitars alternate with dreamy guitar ambience, with beautiful melodies abundant throughout. This magnificent powerhouse demands multiple listens to allow the sheer intensity and emotional power it exudes to fully sink in. As the album cover and title suggest, a perfect album to jam in the summer. |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson II |
| Electric Wizard Dopethrone |
| Enslaved Ruun |
| Enslaved RIITIIR |
| Everything But the Girl Amplified Heart |
| Felt (UK) Poem of the River |
| Fleet Foxes Crack-Up |
| If Crack-Up is any indication, the members of Fleet Foxes have spent the past six years since Helplessness Blues maturing their songwriting skills and overcoming that albums' themes of inner anxiety. Crack-Up is the other side of that coin, a freeing and surprisingly eclectic work of art. Diverse instrumentation, classical influences, and grand arrangements make for some of the group's finest compositions yet. "Third of May," the two-part "Cassius," and the gorgeous "On Another Ocean" encompass these ideas in spectacular fashion. The beauty of Fleet Foxes' music is just as apparent as it ever was, with an abundance of musical flourishes and progressive song structures that make for some of the band's finest achievements thus far. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. |
| Goldfrapp Tales Of Us |
| Gorguts Obscura |
| Hammock Stranded Under Endless Sky |
| Hammock Departure Songs |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness |
| Jakob Sines |
| Jimmy Eat World Clarity |
| Julien Baker Sprained Ankle |
| Kayo Dot Plastic House on Base of Sky |
| Kayo Dot take the sci-fi aspects of Coffins on Io and funnels them into a surreal amalgamation of progressive rock and synthwave. The music is dense and unrelenting at times, but also lush and with plenty of beautiful moments. Avant-garde and electronic musical styles, along with the lyrics, conjures forth strange imagery of a neo-noir future reminiscent of Blade Runner. Plastic House on Base of Sky embodies an identity of its own with electrifying energy and incredible musicianship. |
| King Crimson Islands |
| Lantlos .neon |
| Martin O'Donnell Halo Original Soundtrack |
| Martin O'Donnell Halo 3 OST |
| Massive Attack 100th Window |
| Mastodon Leviathan |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About |
| Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind |
| My Morning Jacket Z |
| Neurosis Souls at Zero |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Tender Prey |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds The Boatman's Call |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| No-Man Together We're Stranger |
| Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? |
| Old Man's Child In Defiance of Existence |
| Opeth Watershed |
| Paddy McAloon I Trawl The Megahertz |
| Pain of Salvation The Perfect Element, Part 1 |
| Paradise Lost Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us |
| Phoebe Bridgers Stranger in the Alps |
| Porcupine Tree Up the Downstair |
| Prefab Sprout Jordan: The Comeback |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles |
| Saor Aura |
| Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space |
| Steven Wilson Grace for Drowning |
| Sufjan Stevens Michigan |
| Tame Impala Innerspeaker |
| The Durutti Column Another Setting |
| The Gathering How to Measure a Planet? |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream |
| The Verve A Storm in Heaven |
| The Verve Verve |
| Tortoise Millions Now Living Will Never Die |
| Ulcerate Everything Is Fire |
| Ulver The Assassination of Julius Caesar |
| Ghostly atmospheres are abound in Ulver's latest. Being their "pop" album, there are electro-pop melodies, dark synth passages, and even a few bass drops scattered throughout the run time. The lyrics traverse all times of history and mythology, while the music recalls a strange blend of their turn of the millennium records and Wars of the Roses. Garm's vocals are back in full force as well, all making for a resounding meditation on the dark side of history, mythology, and human nature. |
| Yo La Tengo I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One |
| 4.0 excellent |
| 10 Years The Autumn Effect |
| 2814 新しい日の誕生 |
| 2Pac Me Against the World |
| 2Pac All Eyez on Me |
| 65daysofstatic The Fall of Math |
| 65daysofstatic One Time for All Time |
| 65daysofstatic The Destruction of Small Ideas |
| 801 801 Live |
| A Bunny's Caravan Draining Puddles, Retrieving Treasures |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms |
| A Perfect Circle A Perfect Circle Live: Featuring Stone and Echo |
| AC/DC Highway To Hell |
| Adramelech Psychostasia |
| Aeon Spoke Aeon Spoke |
| Aerosmith Get Your Wings |
| Aerosmith Toys in the Attic |
| AES Dana Pollen |
| Agalloch Faustian Echoes |
| Agalloch From Which of This Oak |
| Agalloch Of Stone, Wind and Pillor |
| Agalloch Alpha Serpentis |
| Aghora Aghora |
| Aghora Formless |
| Agnes Obel Aventine |
| Aimee Mann Magnolia [OST] |
| Ainulindale Nevrast |
| Air Moon Safari |
| Alcest Shelter |
| Alcest Le Secret (2011 Version) |
| Alexandre Desplat Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part.1 |
| Alexandre Desplat Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt. 2 |
| Alexandre Desplat The Grand Budapest Hotel |
| Alexandre Desplat Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio |
| Alice in Chains Facelift |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue |
| Alice in Chains MTV Unplugged |
| Altar of Plagues Teethed Glory and Injury |
| Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto The Revenant |
| Alvvays Blue Rev |
| American Football Rare Symmetry / Fade into You |
| Amesoeurs Amesoeurs |
| Amesoeurs Ruines Humaines |
| Amethystium Odonata |
| Amon Tobin Out From Out Where |
| Amon Tobin Foley Room |
| Amon Tobin Amon Tobin |
| Amon Tobin Chomp Samba |
| Amon Tobin Fear In A Handful Of Dust |
| Amon Tobin Long Stories |
| Amorphous Androgynous The Isness |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Try Not To Destroy Everything You Love |
| Anathema Alternative 4 |
| Anathema A Fine Day to Exit |
| Anathema A Natural Disaster |
| Anathema Weather Systems |
| Anathema The Optimist |
| An interesting direction to go in, mainly darker and with less accessible songwriting than the previous three albums. The middle few songs are the highlights. |
| Anathema Hindsight |
| And So I Watch You From Afar And So I Watch You From Afar |
| Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha |
| Andrew Lloyd Webber Highlights from The Phantom of the Opera |
| Andy Summers and Robert Fripp I Advance Masked |
| Angelo Badalamenti Twin Peaks: Music from the Limited Event Series |
| Angelo Badalamenti Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me |
| Angelo Badalamenti Mulholland Drive |
| Angelo Badalamenti Twin Peaks: Music From Season 2 And More |
| Angelo Badalamenti Blue Velvet |
| Animals As Leaders The Madness of Many |
| Animals As Leaders shake up their formula a bit with increased technical playing (if that were even possible) and less hooks overall. The result could be described as mixed, but there are simply too many great moments on here to be considered a disappointment. The opener is one of their most fascinating tracks, beginning the first run of more dissonant, darker sounding compositions than on the debut or The Joy of Motion. This trend only lasts for about the first 1/3 of the album however, as it veers back into more melodic and rewarding territory in the middle. The last three songs are the highlights, with less metal elements making for jazzy, syncopated musical madness to be the focus. The Madness of Many isn't the strongest album from AAL, but takes enough risks and remains fascinating enough to warrant plenty of close listens, as plenty of rewarding details can flicker by quickly. |
| Animals As Leaders Weightless |
| Animals As Leaders Wave of Babies |
| Anna von Hausswolff Dead Magic |
| Antonio Sanchez Birdman |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible |
| Arcade Fire Her |
| Arch Enemy Wages of Sin |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not |
| Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare |
| Arcturus Aspera Hiems Symfonia |
| Arcturus La Masquerade Infernale |
| Arcturus Arcturian |
| Astronauts Hollow Ponds |
| Astronauts End Codes |
| Astronauts are an underappreciated indie band that deserve more attention, and will probably make it big some day. End Codes has a very gentle feel to many of the compositions, but the quirky songwriting is enough to stand out from the rest. While being quirky, much of this band?s music is subtle and restrained. Very much their own sound, the band does a great job of making thoughtful and poignant music while not getting too melancholic, which suits them. |
| Astronoid Air |
| One of the better blackgaze albums with hardly any actual black metal elements at all. The songwriting is fairly triumphant and bombastic throughout, being a good example of hard-hitting music that can sound happy and upbeat without getting cheesy. It's a fine line to ride, but select bands can do it, and the results are always fascinating. Astronoid have the songwriting chops to back up such genre-bending decisions as combining thrash metal, dream pop, and whatever else this is. Air almost resembles Melting Sun by Lantlos, if the tempos were three times faster and had catchier sensibilities. |
| Asya Sergeeva Heart of Winter |
| At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul |
| Austin Wintory Journey OST |
| Autopsy Mental Funeral |
| Autopsy Severed Survival |
| Autumn's Grey Solace Riverine |
| Bang On A Can All-Stars Music for Airports |
| Bark Psychosis Independency |
| Bass Communion Bass Communion II |
| Bass Communion Litany |
| Bathory Bathory |
| Beach House Once Twice Melody: Chapter One |
| Beach House Teen Dream |
| Beach House Bloom |
| Beach House 7 |
| Beach House Once Twice Melody |
| Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique |
| Beck Midnite Vultures |
| Beck Odelay |
| Behavior Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent |
| Bela Fleck and The Flecktones Live at the Quick |
| Bela Fleck and The Flecktones Flight Of The Cosmic Hippo |
| Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow Devs |
| Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow Ex Machina |
| Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow Annihilation |
| Bernard Herrmann Vertigo |
| Bernard Herrmann Psycho |
| Bernard Herrmann Taxi Driver: Original Soundtrack Recording |
| Bibio fi |
| Beautiful stuff, like Boards of Canada's The Campfire Headphase meets The Durutti Column. |
| Big Red Machine Big Red Machine |
| A lovely combination of electronic, pop, folk, and indie rock from Aaron Dessner of The National and Justin Vernon of Bon Iver. A highlight of the year. |
| Big Red Machine How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last? |
| Plenty more expansive than the debut, with a longer track list than either The National or Bon Iver have done before. I wish there was more Justin singing as opposed to having so many features akin to a Gorillaz album. Maybe not a very interesting take, but I like this about the same as the debut from 2018. The ratio of forgettable filler to greatness is around the same for both, this just has more of everything. Might slightly prefer this just for the sheer variety, whereas the debut was more uniform. Like with that one, I heard the whole album at once without having listened to any pre-release singles before, which are among the highlights. Favs are "Latter Days," "Phoenix," "Ghost of Cincinnati," "Mimi," "Magnolia," and "Brycie." |
| Big Thief Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You |
| Biosphere Substrata |
| Bjork Post |
| Bjork Debut |
| Black Sabbath Vol. 4 |
| Black Sabbath Mob Rules |
| Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell |
| Black Wizard New Waste |
| Blackfield Blackfield |
| Blackfield Blackfield II |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm |
| Bloodbath Nightmares Made Flesh |
| Blotted Science The Machinations of Dementia |
| Blotted Science The Animation of Entomology |
| Blue Oyster Cult Tyranny and Mutation |
| Blue Oyster Cult Agents of Fortune |
| Blue Oyster Cult Fire of Unknown Origin |
| Blue Sky Black Death The Holocaust Instrumentals |
| Blur 13 |
| Blur Think Tank |
| Boards of Canada Twoism |
| Boards of Canada Hi Scores |
| Boards of Canada In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Black Earth |
| Bon Iver 22, A Million |
| Bon Iver Blood Bank |
| Bonobo Black Sands |
| Boring Bathtimes An Otherwise Clouded Mind |
| Boris Flood |
| Boris Blenn Berlin Future Lounge |
| Brand New Deja Entendu |
| Brand New Fight Off Your Demons (The Demos) |
| Brand New Leaked Demos 2006 |
| Brian Eno Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) |
| Brian Eno Discreet Music |
| Brian Eno Ambient 4: On Land |
| Brian Eno Music For Films |
| Brian Eno Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks |
| Brian Eno Here Come the Warm Jets |
| Brian Eno Lux |
| LUX is one of the finest modern ambient albums you can find. Follows in the legacy of Discreet Music and Ambient 1: Music for Airports in the best ways. |
| Brian Eno and Jon Hassell Fourth World, Vol 1: Possible Musics |
| Broken Social Scene Feel Good Lost |
| Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People |
| BRUIT The Machine Is Burning... |
| BT Movement In Still Life |
| BT This Binary Universe |
| Budgie Never Turn Your Back on a Friend |
| Built to Spill There's Nothing Wrong with Love |
| Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret |
| Bulb The Best Of Misha Mansoor |
| Caladan Brood Echoes Of Battle |
| Can Ege Bamyasi |
| Candlemass Ancient Dreams |
| Cannibal Corpse Kill |
| Cannibal Corpse Torture |
| Cannibal Corpse A Skeletal Domain |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms Hydroponic Garden |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms World Of Sleepers |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms Interloper |
| Carter Burwell Fargo/Barton Fink |
| Carter Burwell The Ballad of Buster Scruggs |
| Casualties of Cool Casualties of Cool |
| Catapilla Changes |
| Catherine Wheel Chrome |
| Cell Hanging Masses |
| Cheap Trick Heaven Tonight |
| Chelsea Wolfe Apokalypsis |
| Chelsea Wolfe Pain Is Beauty |
| Chelsea Wolfe Abyss |
| Chelsea Wolfe Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs |
| Chelsea Wolfe Birth of Violence |
| Children of Bodom Hatebreeder |
| Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper |
| CHON Demo 2008 |
| CHON Newborn Sun |
| Chris Remo Gone Home: Original Soundtrack |
| Cliff Martinez Drive |
| Cliff Martinez The Neon Demon (OST) |
| Cliff Martinez Solaris |
| Clint Mansell Moon |
| Clint Mansell Black Swan |
| Clint Mansell, Kronos Quartet and Mogwai The Fountain |
| Cluster Zuckerzeit |
| Cluster Sowiesoso |
| Cluster Grosses Wasser |
| Cluster and Eno Cluster & Eno |
| Cocteau Twins Head Over Heels |
| Cocteau Twins Blue Bell Knoll |
| Cocteau Twins Lullabies to Violaine |
| Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd The Moon and the Melodies |
| Codeine Barely Real |
| Coil Musick To Play In The Dark |
| Coil Musick To Play In The Dark 2 |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends |
| Colin Stetson Hereditary |
| Colin Stetson The Menu |
| Comus First Utterance |
| Confessor Condemned |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind |
| Cradle of Filth The Principle of Evil Made Flesh |
| Cradle of Filth Hammer of the Witches |
| This is their most fun and seamless release in quite a while. The line-up changes yield their most focused songwriting in years, especially given the centerpiece of twin guitar riffs, harmonies, and soloing throughout. |
| Cruciamentum Charnel Passages |
| Cult of Luna Salvation |
| Cynic Carbon-Based Anatomy |
| Cynic Traced In Air Remixed |
| Daniel Hart A Ghost Story (Original Soundtrack Album) |
| Daniel Hart The Green Knight |
| Danny Elfman Beetlejuice |
| Danny Elfman Batman |
| Danny Elfman Edward Scissorhands |
| Danny Elfman Batman Returns |
| Danny Elfman Men in Black |
| Danny Elfman Spider-Man 2 |
| Dario Marianelli Pride & Prejudice |
| Dario Marianelli Jane Eyre |
| Dark Millennium Ashore the Celestial Burden |
| Dark Tranquillity Damage Done |
| Darkthrone Soulside Journey |
| Darzamat Solfernus' Path |
| Dave Porter Breaking Bad |
| Dave Porter Breaking Bad, Vol. 2 |
| David Bowie Aladdin Sane |
| David Bowie Lodger |
| David Bowie Outside |
| David Bowie The Next Day |
| David Bowie No Plan |
| David Bowie Hunky Dory |
| David Bowie Best of Bowie |
| David Bowie Legacy |
| David Bowie Diamond Dogs |
| David Gilmour On An Island |
| David Julyan The Prestige: Original Score |
| David Lynch Eraserhead OST |
| David Sylvian Alchemy - An Index of Possibilities |
| David Sylvian Blemish |
| David Sylvian Do You Know Me Now? |
| David Sylvian Everything and Nothing |
| David Sylvian Sleepwalkers |
| David Sylvian and Holger Czukay Plight and Premonition |
| David Sylvian and Holger Czukay Flux and Mutability |
| David Sylvian and Robert Fripp Damage |
| Daylight Dies Dismantling Devotion |
| Dead Can Dance The Serpent's Egg |
| Dead Can Dance Into the Labyrinth |
| Dead Can Dance Anastasis |
| Dead Can Dance Toward the Within |
| Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love |
| More sophisticated than New Bermuda, Deafheaven's latest veers closer to Sunbather while continuing to introduce new ideas into their dense blend of black metal, dream pop/shoegaze, and post-rock. The opener, "Near", and "Worthless Animal" are highlights. |
| Death Individual Thought Patterns |
| Death Spiritual Healing |
| Death Leprosy |
| Death Scream Bloody Gore |
| Death Angel The Ultra-Violence |
| Death Cab for Cutie The Photo Album |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism |
| Deep Purple Fireball |
| Deftones White Pony |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Deftones Gore |
| Deftones keep getting better and better, with Gore expertly infusing their crushing metal with tranquil, blissful soundscapes. |
| Demilich Nespithe |
| Depeche Mode Songs of Faith and Devotion |
| Depeche Mode Black Celebration |
| Desert Sessions Volumes 1 and 2 |
| Destiny Potato Lun |
| Destroyer Poison Season |
| Destroyer Destroyer's Rubies |
| Destroyer Bay of Pigs |
| Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech |
| Devin Townsend Project Ghost |
| Diamond Head Lightning to the Nations |
| Dimmu Borgir For All Tid |
| Dimmu Borgir Stormblåst |
| Dio Holy Diver |
| Dir En Grey Gauze |
| Dir En Grey Macabre |
| Dir En Grey Kisou |
| Dir En Grey Vulgar |
| Dir En Grey Withering to Death |
| Disasterpeace It Follows OST |
| Disasterpeace Marcel the Shell with Shoes On OST |
| Disemballerina Undertaker |
| Dissection The Somberlain |
| DJ Shadow The Private Press |
| DJ Shadow What Does Your Soul Look Like? |
| DJ Shadow Preemptive Strike |
| DJ Spooky Songs Of A Dead Dreamer |
| Dr. Dre The Chronic |
| Drab Majesty Modern Mirror |
| Drab Majesty An Object In Motion |
| Dream Theater Awake |
| Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence |
| Dream Theater A Change of Seasons |
| dredg El Cielo |
| Drudkh Forgotten Legends |
| Dungen Skit I Allt |
| Earthside A Dream In Static |
| Edge of Sanity The Spectral Sorrows |
| EL VY Return to the Moon |
| Electric Wizard Witchcult Today |
| Elvis Perkins The Blackcoat's Daughter |
| Emancipator Soon It Will Be Cold Enough |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP |
| Emma Ruth Rundle Some Heavy Ocean |
| Emma Ruth Rundle Marked for Death |
| Emperor Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire... |
| Empyrium Weiland |
| Ennio Morricone A Fistful of Dollars |
| Ennio Morricone For a Few Dollars More |
| Ennio Morricone The Hateful Eight |
| Ennio Morricone Once Upon a Time in the West |
| Eno, Moebius and Roedelius After the Heat |
| Enslaved Monumension |
| Enslaved Isa |
| Enslaved In Times |
| An incredible and diverse listen from start to finish, as usual the opener and closer are among the very best. It's difficult to believe, but even thirteen albums in they pushed their experimentation even further. |
| Enslaved Frost |
| Erykah Badu Baduizm |
| Ethereal Shroud They Became the Falling Ash |
| Everything But the Girl Eden |
| Everything But the Girl The Language of Life |
| Exivious Exivious |
| Explosions in the Sky How Strange, Innocence |
| Explosions in the Sky The Wilderness |
| The Wilderness signifies important changes for Explosions: most notably, an absence of sonic clutter and a willingness to fearlessly explore new sonic terrain. The band utilizes shorter track lengths lending to a more easily digestible listening experience, while taking their sound into bold new directions. Their musical style welcomes emphases of low end and electronica featured throughout. "Disintegration Anxiety" has stunning bass guitar and "Tangle Formations" is a moment of meditative beauty. "Landing Cliffs" is the real highlight, being one of the most blissful songs of the year. Overall The Wilderness is a diverse and heady post-rock release that should not be missed by fans of the genre, and especially if you thought Explosions were becoming too comfortable repeating past successes. |
| Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone |
| Failure Fantastic Planet |
| Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors |
| Falls of Rauros The Light That Dwells in Rotten Wood |
| Faust Faust IV |
| Felt (UK) Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty |
| Felt (UK) The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories |
| Felt (UK) Ignite The Seven Cannons |
| Felt (UK) Me and a Monkey on the Moon |
| Fen Winter |
| Fever Ray Fever Ray |
| Fishmans Long Season |
| Fishmans Uchuu Nippon Setagaya |
| Fleet Foxes Sun Giant |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes |
| Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac |
| Foals Antidotes |
| Foals Holy Fire |
| Foo Fighters Foo Fighters |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape |
| Four Tet New Energy |
| Four Tet Sixteen Oceans |
| Fripp and Eno The Equatorial Stars |
| Fripp and Eno No Pussyfooting |
| Gang of Youths Go Farther in Lightness |
| Garry Schyman Bioshock Score |
| Garry Schyman Sounds from the Lighthouse (BioShock 2) |
| Garry Schyman Bioshock Infinite Score |
| Gazpacho Missa Atropos |
| Gazpacho Demon |
| Genesis Trespass |
| George Harrison All Things Must Pass |
| Geto Boys The Resurrection |
| Ghost Brigade Isolation Songs |
| Ghost Brigade Until Fear No Longer Defines Us |
| Giles Corey Giles Corey |
| Goblin Suspiria |
| Goblin Zombi (Dawn of the Dead) |
| God Is an Astronaut Far from Refuge |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress' |
| Goldfrapp Silver Eye |
| Gordian Knot Gordian Knot |
| Gordian Knot Emergent |
| Gorguts Pleiades' Dust |
| Picking up where Colored Sands left off, this release sees Gorguts showcase ominous ambient soundscapes juxtaposed with their off kilter brand of death metal wonderfully. The bass tone is also sharp and tasty, a wonderful addition as practically a lead instrument. |
| Gorguts From Wisdom to Hate |
| Gorguts The Erosion of Sanity |
| Gorguts Considered Dead |
| Gorillaz Plastic Beach |
| Gorillaz Demon Days |
| Graveworm As the Angels Reach the Beauty |
| Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill |
| Grouper A I A |
| Grouper Water People |
| Grouper Paradise Valley |
| Grouper Grid of Points |
| Grouper A I A: Dream Loss |
| Guitar Sunkissed |
| Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion I |
| Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion II |
| Gustavo Santaolalla The Last of Us, Volume 2 OST |
| Gustavo Santaolalla The Last of Us Part II OST |
| Haavard Haavard |
| Hammock Love in the Void |
| Hammock Chasing After Shadows...Living with the Ghosts |
| Hammock Oblivion Hymns |
| Hammock The Night You Caught on Fire |
| Hammock Floating World |
| Hans Zimmer Inception |
| Hans Zimmer Interstellar |
| Hans Zimmer Dunkirk |
| Hans Zimmer Dune |
| Hans Zimmer The Dark Knight: Original Motion Picture Soundtrac |
| Hans Zimmer Gladiator: Music from the Motion Picture |
| Hans Zimmer The Lion King |
| Hans Zimmer Thin Red Line |
| Hans Zimmer Dune: Part Two |
| Harmonia Deluxe |
| Harmonium L'heptade |
| Harmonium Harmonium |
| Harold Budd The Pavilion of Dreams |
| Harold Budd Lovely Thunder |
| Harold Budd The White Arcades |
| Haruka Nakamura Twilight |
| Haruomi Hosono/Shigeru Suzuki/Tatsuro Yamashita Pacific |
| Heaven and Hell The Devil You Know |
| Helios Eingya |
| Helios Caesura |
| Heretoir The Circle |
| High on Fire Blessed Black Wings |
| High on Fire Death Is This Communion |
| Hildur Gudnadottir Mary Madgalene |
| Holy Fawn Dimensional Bleed |
| Holy Fawn Death Spells |
| Horrendous Anareta |
| Horseback Piedmont Apocrypha |
| Howard Shore The Departed |
| Howard Shore The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey |
| Howard Shore Hugo |
| Howls of Ebb Vigils of the 3rd Eye |
| Ice Cube AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted |
| Ice Cube Death Certificate |
| In the Woods... Strange in Stereo |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View |
| Insomnium In the Halls of Awaiting |
| Interpol Antics |
| Intronaut Prehistoricisms |
| Iron Maiden Iron Maiden |
| Iron Maiden Killers |
| Iron Maiden Piece of Mind |
| Iron Maiden Brave New World |
| ISIS Celestial |
| Isis and Aereogramme In The Fishtank 14 |
| Iwan Rheon Dinard |
| J Dilla Donuts |
| Jaco Pastorius Jaco Pastorius |
| Jakob Cale:Drew |
| Jakszyk, Fripp and Collins A Scarcity Of Miracles |
| Jay-Z Reasonable Doubt |
| Jay-Z The Black Album |
| Jeremy Soule Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Soundtrack |
| Jerry Goldsmith Chinatown |
| Jerry Goldsmith The Omen |
| Jerry Goldsmith Alien |
| Jessica Curry Dear Esther |
| Job for a Cowboy Sun Eater |
| That bass is so delicious, this band really stepped up their game. |
| Joe Hisaishi Howl's Moving Castle |
| Joe Hisaishi Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind |
| Joe Hisaishi Castle In The Sky |
| Joe Hisaishi My Neighbor Totoro |
| Joe Hisaishi Porco Rosso |
| Joe Hisaishi The Wind Rises |
| Joe Hisaishi Kaguya-Hime no Monogatari Soundtrack |
| Joe Satriani Surfing With The Alien |
| Johann Johannsson Arrival OST |
| John Carpenter Assault on Precinct 13 |
| John Carpenter Halloween (2018) |
| John Carpenter Halloween 20th Anniversary Edition |
| John Carpenter Escape From New York |
| John Carpenter The Fog |
| John Carpenter Anthology: Movie Themes 1974-1998 |
| John Frusciante Shadows Collide with People |
| John Frusciante Curtains |
| John Frusciante The Empyrean |
| John Lennon Imagine |
| John Lennon John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band |
| John Murphy Sunshine (Soundtrack) |
| John Murphy 28 Days Later Soundtrack |
| John Williams Star Wars: The Force Awakens |
| John Williams Jaws |
| John Williams Superman |
| John Williams Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
| John Williams Star Wars, Episode VI: Return of the Jedi |
| John Williams Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom |
| John Williams E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial |
| John Williams Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade |
| John Williams Jurassic Park |
| John Williams Schindler's List |
| John Williams Jurassic Park: The Lost World |
| John Williams Saving Private Ryan |
| John Williams Star Wars OST |
| John Williams Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone |
| John Williams A.I.: Artificial Intelligence |
| John Williams Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban |
| John Williams Lincoln |
| John Williams Home Alone |
| Jon Brion Punch-Drunk Love OST |
| Jon Brion Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind OS |
| Jon Brion Synecdoche, New York OST |
| Jon Brion Lady Bird OST |
| Jon Hassell Dream Theory in Malaya |
| Jon Hopkins Immunity |
| Jon Hopkins Singularity |
| Joni Mitchell Blue |
| Jonny Greenwood There Will Be Blood OST |
| Jonny Greenwood The Master OST |
| Jonsi and Alex Riceboy Sleeps |
| Joy Division Love Will Tear Us Apart |
| Judas Priest Sin After Sin |
| Judas Priest Screaming for Vengeance |
| Judas Priest Painkiller |
| Julee Cruise Floating into the Night |
| Junkie XL Mad Max: Fury Road |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I |
| Katatonia The Great Cold Distance |
| Katatonia Dead End Kings |
| Katatonia The Fall of Hearts |
| Kate Bush Never for Ever |
| Kate Bush 50 Words for Snow |
| Kate Bush Aerial |
| Kate Bush The Sensual World |
| Kauan Kaiho |
| Kauan ATM Revised |
| Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward |
| Kayo Dot Kraków |
| Keith Emerson Inferno OST |
| Kelly Bailey Half-Life 2 |
| Kelly Bailey Half-Life 2: Episode One |
| Kelly Bailey Half-Life 2: Episode Two |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly |
| King Crimson In the Wake of Poseidon |
| King Crimson Starless and Bible Black |
| King Crimson The Condensed 21st Century Guide |
| King Crimson Radical Action To Unseat The Hold Of Monkey Mind |
| King Crimson Sailors’ Tales (1970 – 1972) |
| Koop Waltz for Koop |
| Kraftwerk Autobahn |
| Kraftwerk Trans-Europe Express |
| Kraftwerk The Man-Machine |
| Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein Stranger Things, Volume One |
| Kyuss Blues for the Red Sun |
| Lantlos Agape |
| Lapalux Amnioverse |
| Laraaji Ambient 3: Day of Radiance |
| LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver |
| LCD Soundsystem American Dream |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III |
| Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti |
| Leonard Cohen Songs of Leonard Cohen |
| Leonard Cohen Songs of Love and Hate |
| Les Discrets Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées |
| Leviathan Scar Sighted |
| Lights Out Asia Eyes Like Brontide |
| Lights Out Asia Hy-Brasil |
| Liquid Tension Experiment Liquid Tension Experiment |
| Liquid Tension Experiment Liquid Tension Experiment 2 |
| Local Natives Hummingbird |
| Loom (CAN) epyllion |
| Lost Ubikyst in Apeiron Abstruse Imbeciles Nailed on Slavery |
| Lotte Kestner China Mountain |
| LSD and the Search for God LSD and the Search for God |
| Ludwig Goransson Tenet |
| Ludwig Goransson Oppenheimer |
| Lush Spooky |
| Lush Mad Love |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming |
| M83 Saturdays=Youth |
| Mahavishnu Orchestra The Inner Mounting Flame |
| Mahavishnu Orchestra Birds of Fire |
| Makoto Matsushita First Light |
| Mamiffer Hirror Enniffer |
| Mansions Dig Up the Dead |
| Many Rooms Hollow Body |
| Many Rooms There is a Presence Here |
| Marco Beltrami 3:10 to Yuma |
| Marco Beltrami Logan |
| Mark Korven The Witch (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) |
| Mark Snow The Truth and the Light: Music From the X-Files |
| Martin O'Donnell Halo 2 OST & New Music Volume One |
| Martin O'Donnell Halo 2, Vol. 2 OST |
| Marvin Gaye What's Going On |
| Massive Attack Blue Lines |
| Massive Attack Protection |
| Massive Attack Collected |
| Massive Attack The Spoils |
| Mastodon Remission |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain |
| maudlin of the Well Odes To Darksome Spring |
| Max Richter The Blue Notebooks |
| Max Richter Recomposed: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons |
| Max Richter Black Mirror: Nosedive |
| Maybeshewill Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony |
| Mazzy Star So Tonight That I Might See |
| Megadeth Endgame |
| Megadeth Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! |
| Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What! |
| Megadeth Countdown to Extinction |
| Megadeth Youthanasia |
| Melvins Bullhead |
| Melvins Houdini |
| Melvins Stoner Witch |
| Meshuggah Nothing |
| Meshuggah I |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All |
| Mew Frengers |
| MGMT Little Dark Age |
| Mica Levi Under The Skin OST |
| Michael Giacchino Lost: Season 1 |
| Michael Giacchino Ratatouille |
| Michael Giacchino Up |
| Michael Giacchino The Batman |
| Michael Jackson Off the Wall |
| Michael Jackson Thriller |
| Michael Jackson Bad |
| Michael Jackson The Essential Michael Jackson |
| Mikael Akerfeldt Clark (Soundtrack from the Netflix series) |
| The best thing Akerfeldt has been part of in the decade since Storm Corrosion, one reason being that he finally shuts up with the oversinging and made a wonderful instrumental soundtrack traversing all manner of musical styles like symphonic/psych/progressive rock, jazz, funk, chamber, and ambient. Some parts remind me of Opeth's Pale Communion. All in all an excellent album that signifies great things for a hopefully continuing solo career. |
| Millicent Waffles Under Dark Blue Blanket |
| Minus the Bear They Make Beer Commercials Like This |
| Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates |
| Minus the Bear Menos El Oso |
| Misthyrming Söngvar elds og óreiðu |
| Modest Mouse No One's First, and You're Next |
| Modest Mouse Interstate 8 |
| Modest Mouse ナイト・オン・ザ・サン (Night on the Sun) |
| Mogwai Come On Die Young |
| Mogwai Happy Songs for Happy People |
| Mojave 3 Ask Me Tomorrow |
| Mono You Are There |
| Morbus Chron A Saunter Through The Shroud |
| Morrissey Viva Hate |
| Motorhead Motörhead |
| Motorhead Ace of Spades |
| Mount Eerie A Crow Looked At Me |
| Mouse On The Keys The Flowers of Romance |
| My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything |
| My Bloody Valentine m b v |
| My Bloody Valentine Tremolo |
| My Bloody Valentine Glider |
| My Morning Jacket At Dawn |
| My Morning Jacket The Waterfall |
| N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton |
| Nas Illmatic |
| Nature and Organisation Beauty Reaps the Blood of Solitude |
| Nature and Organisation Death in a Snow Leopard Winter |
| Nature and Organisation Snow Leopard Messiah |
| Nero di Marte Derivae |
| Nest (FIN) Trail of the Unwary |
| Neu! Neu! |
| Neun Welten Vergessene Pfade |
| Neun Welten Destrunken |
| Neurosis Honor Found in Decay |
| Neurosis Fires Within Fires |
| Fires Within Fires takes on a more purposeful feel than previous Neurosis albums, being the shortest and most easily digestible from them in many years. This demands a close listen more than anything else, as the subtleties in each track flicker by quickly. Tempos are largely increased here, making for a refreshing groove feel present in many of the heavier moments. The songwriting is top notch as always, feeling massive in scope and is consistently engrossing, with enough new tricks to keep it interesting. Faster songs and a willingness to further explore their calmer odysseys make for their most rewarding release in over a decade. "Reach" is their best song in 10 years. |
| Neurosis Enemy of the Sun |
| Neurosis Through Silver in Blood |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds B-Sides and Rarities (Part II) |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Henry's Dream |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds The Best Of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds B-Sides & Rarities |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Distant Sky (Live in Copenhagen) |
| Nick Cave and Warren Ellis Hell Or High Water |
| Nick Cave and Warren Ellis The Road |
| Nick Cave and Warren Ellis The Proposition |
| Nick Cave and Warren Ellis The Assasination of Jesse James |
| Nick Cave and Warren Ellis Carnage |
| Nick Cave and Warren Ellis Blonde (Soundtrack from the Netflix film) |
| Nick Drake Bryter Layter |
| Nile Annihilation of the Wicked |
| Nine Horses Snow Borne Sorrow |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine |
| Ninet Tayeb Paper Parachute |
| "Child" is one of the best rock songs of the year. |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York |
| No-Man Days in the Trees |
| No-Man Wild Opera |
| No-Man Flowermouth |
| No-Man All The Blue Changes - An Anthology 1988-2003 |
| No-Man Wherever There Is Light |
| Nosound Sol29 |
| Nosound Lightdark |
| Nosound Afterthoughts |
| Nothing Guilty of Everything |
| Nothing The Great Dismal |
| Novembre Dreams D'Azur |
| Oado Life Era |
| Oceansize Everyone Into Position |
| Oceansize Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up |
| Oceansize Music for Nurses |
| Oceansize Home & Minor |
| October Falls Marras |
| Of Machines As If Everything Was Held In Place |
| Okkervil River Away |
| Olafur Arnalds ...And They Have Escaped The Weight Of Darkness |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Rifts |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Garden of Delete |
| Opeth The Throat Of Winter |
| Opeth Orchid |
| Opeth Deliverance |
| Opeth Deliverance & Damnation Remixed |
| Opeth Lamentations |
| Opeth The Roundhouse Tapes |
| Opeth Still Day Beneath The Sun |
| Opeth Garden of the Titans |
| Orange Juice You Can't Hide Your Love Forever |
| Our Oceans Our Oceans |
| Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard of Ozz |
| Ozzy Osbourne No More Tears |
| Palms Palms |
| Panopticon Panopticon |
| Panopticon Collapse |
| Pantera Cowboys from Hell |
| Paradise Lost Shades of God |
| Paradise Lost Gothic |
| Paradise Lost Tragic Idol |
| Paramore After Laughter |
| Pat Metheny Bright Size Life |
| Paul Buchanan Mid Air |
| Paul Leonard-Morgan Dredd: Original Film Soundtrack |
| Paul McCartney Wingspan: Hits and History |
| Paul McCartney Ram |
| Pearl Jam Vs. |
| Pearl Jam Vitalogy |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... |
| Periphery Periphery (Instrumental) |
| Perry Blake California |
| Pestilence Consuming Impulse |
| Peter Gabriel Car |
| Peter Gabriel Security |
| Peter Gabriel Passion OST |
| Peter Gabriel i/o |
| pg.lost It's Not Me, It's You! |
| Phoebe Bridgers Killer |
| Phoebe Bridgers Punisher |
| Simultaneously more subdued and adventurous than Stranger in the Alps, Phoebe Bridgers expands her songwriting talents and continued excellent lyrics for a sublime sophomore effort brimming with nocturnal atmosphere. Just look at that gorgeous album cover. |
| Piggy Black Cross Always Just Out of R.E.A.C.H. |
| A surreal, engrossing debut from another band of maudlin of the Well/Kayo Dot frontman Toby Driver with his girlfriend, Brd, on vocals that sounds reminiscent to industrial groups like Nine Inch Nails and Skinny Puppy mixed with the styles from Plastic House on Base of Sky by Toby Driver's main band, Kayo Dot. |
| Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn |
| Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets |
| Pink Floyd Obscured by Clouds |
| Pink Floyd Pulse |
| Pink Floyd The Early Singles |
| Pink Floyd Cre/ation: The Early Years 1965–1972 |
| Pinkshinyultrablast Everything Else Matters |
| Pixies Come On Pilgrim |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa |
| Pompeii Loom |
| Popol Vuh Einsjäger und Siebenjäger |
| Popol Vuh Aguirre |
| Popol Vuh Nosferatu OST |
| Porcupine Tree The Incident |
| Porcupine Tree Voyage 34: The Complete Trip |
| Porcupine Tree Stars Die: The Delerium Years |
| Porcupine Tree Moonloop |
| Porcupine Tree Nil Recurring |
| Porcupine Tree Transmission IV |
| Porcupine Tree Futile |
| Porcupine Tree Octane Twisted |
| Porcupine Tree Lazarus |
| Porcupine Tree We Lost the Skyline |
| Porcupine Tree Closure/Continuation |
| The long awaited return of Porcupine Tree has finally come, and the band haven't missed a step during their long hiatus. This isn't to say there's anything quite as mind-blowing as their best work however; C/C essentially comes across like seven random new songs in the vein of Nil Recurring and The Incident without much of a change. There is virtually no influence of frontman Steven Wilson's solo career, even his latest work (thankfully), and sounds like it could have easily been released a decade ago. The standout players are Gavin Harrison on drums, one of the all time greats, and Richard Barbieri's keyboard work. No surprise that the longest and most complex pieces, "Harridan," "Dignity," and "Chimera's Wreck" happened to be the standout tracks. C/C isn't groundbreaking, but it sees one of the finest British rock bands return in solid form and show their influences how it's done. |
| Portishead Third |
| Pram The Museum of Imaginary Animals |
| Pram Dark Island |
| Prefab Sprout Swoon |
| Pretend Tapestry'd Life |
| Prince 1999 |
| Prince Parade |
| Public Enemy Power to the People and the Beats |
| Pulp Different Class |
| Queen Queen II |
| Queen A Night at the Opera |
| Radiohead The Daily Mail/Staircase |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs |
| Radiohead Supercollider/The Butcher |
| Radiohead Airbag/How Am I Driving? |
| Radiohead Knives Out |
| Radiohead I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Radiohead 8 Outtakes From Amnesiac |
| Radiohead OKNOTOK 1997-2017 |
| Radiohead Pyramid Song |
| Radiohead Spectre |
| Radiohead KID A MNESIA |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire |
| Rain Tree Crow Rain Tree Crow |
| Ramin Djawadi Game of Thrones: Season 4 |
| Ramin Djawadi Game of Thrones: Season 5 |
| Ramin Djawadi Game of Thrones: Season 6 |
| Ramin Djawadi Game of Thrones: Season 7 |
| Ramin Djawadi Westworld: Season 1 |
| Ramin Djawadi Game of Thrones: Season 8 |
| Ramin Djawadi Westworld: Season 2 |
| Ramin Djawadi Westworld: Season 3 |
| Real Estate Days |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik |
| Red Sparowes At The Soundless Dawn |
| Reflux The Illusion Of Democracy |
| Renaissance Prologue |
| Renaissance Turn of the Cards |
| Ride Going Blank Again |
| Rishloo Eidolon |
| Riverside Out of Myself |
| Riverside Love, Fear and the Time Machine |
| Riverside Shrine Of New Generation Slaves |
| Riverside Voices In My Head |
| Riverside Eye of the Soundscape |
| Riverside emerge from the ashes of tragedy with a compilation double-album of instrumental explorations: some old, some new. Past successes "Rapid Eye Movement" and "Rainbow Box" are treated with remixes, and arguably surpass the originals. Ambient bonus tracks of the previous two albums are included as well. As if all of this content wasn't enough for a tantalizing compilation, four new tracks are also present. Two of them, "Where The River Flows" and the t/t, bookend the album, all four comprised of atmospheric textures with a notable absence of progressive rock or metal flourishes the band have become known for. Overall, the minimal showcasing of guitars here will surprise many fans, but Piotr Grudzi?ski is still honored, just in a different way than one would assume. His contributions possess a subtle, dreamy quality that recall the more thoughtful Riverside compositions. All in all, this serves as a fitting, loving sendoff for Grudzi?ski, as well as an intriguing reminder of the ever-shifting musical qualities of one of the finest modern progressive rock bands. |
| Robert Fripp A Blessing of Tears: 1995 Soundscapes Vol. 2 |
| Robert Fripp The League of Gentlemen |
| Robert Fripp Exposure |
| Robert Fripp The Gates of Paradise |
| Robert Fripp God Save the King |
| Robin Carolan and Sebastian Gainsborough The Northman |
| Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It |
| Rosetta Wake/Lift |
| Roxy Music Avalon |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3 |
| Run-D.M.C. Run DMC |
| Run-D.M.C. Raising Hell |
| Rush Fly by Night |
| Rush Caress of Steel |
| Rush Presto |
| Rush Roll the Bones |
| Rush Counterparts |
| Rush Snakes & Arrows |
| Rush Vapor Trails Remixed |
| Rush Vapor Trails |
| S. Carey Hundred Acres |
| Sade The Best Of Sade |
| Sade Diamond Life |
| Sand (UK) The Dynamic Curve |
| Scale the Summit The Migration |
| Seal Seal |
| Seefeel Starethrough EP |
| Seefeel Quique |
| An evocative, dreamy listen from Seefeel and their best work to date. Each track proceeds like a different musical texture, not unlike Selected Ambient Works 2 or Another Green World. Structure is not part of this album's playbook, instead being fairly laid back focused on transporting the listener with diverse soundscapes. Lots of wonderful bass lines too. |
| Seefeel Polyfusia |
| Seefeel More Like Space |
| Sepultura Arise |
| Shpongle Are You Shpongled? |
| Shpongle Ineffable Mysteries from Shpongleland |
| Sia Colour the Small One |
| Breathe Me is one of the best pop songs of this century, and was used in Six Feet Under amazingly. |
| Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust |
| Sigur Ros Valtari |
| Sigur Ros Hvarf/Heim |
| Sigur Ros Sæglópur |
| Sigur Ros Brennisteinn |
| Sigur Ros Svefn-g-englar |
| Sigur Ros Ny Batteri |
| Sigur Ros Untitled 1 |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas |
| Simply Red Picture Book |
| Sinmara Aphotic Womb |
| Skullcrusher Skullcrusher |
| Skullcrusher Quiet the Room |
| Slayer Reign in Blood |
| Slayer South of Heaven |
| Slayer Seasons in the Abyss |
| Slayer Decade of Aggression |
| Sleep Sleep's Holy Mountain |
| Sleep Dopesmoker |
| sleepmakeswaves In Today Already Walks Tomorrow |
| sleepmakeswaves Love of Cartography |
| sleepmakeswaves ...and so we destroyed everything |
| sleepmakeswaves Made Of Breath Only |
| Sleepmakeswaves go in a proggier direction here, blending technical instrumental prowess with lush guitar work. The standout track "Midnight Sun" encapsulates these ideas stunningly, being an early contender for post-rock song of the year. |
| Slint Slint |
| Slowdive Slowdive |
| Slowdive Morningrise |
| Slowdive Holding Our Breath |
| Slowdive Outside Your Room |
| Slowdive 5 |
| Slowdive Blue Day |
| Slowdive Everything is Alive |
| Snoop Dogg Doggystyle |
| Social Distortion Social Distortion |
| Solar Fields Blue Moon Station |
| Solar Fields Leaving Home |
| Solar Fields Movements |
| Solar Fields Mirror's Edge Original Soundtrack |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation |
| Soulstice (USA-CA) Illusion |
| Soundtrack (Film) Kill Bill Vol. 1 Original Soundtrack |
| Soundtrack (Film) Donnie Darko |
| Soundtrack (Film) Pulp Fiction |
| Soundtrack (Film) 28 Days Later |
| Soundtrack (Film) The Matrix |
| Soundtrack (Film) Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Garden State |
| Soundtrack (Film) The Guest |
| Soundtrack (Film) 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| Soundtrack (Film) The Terminator |
| Soundtrack (Film) Rosemary's Baby |
| Soundtrack (Film) Reservoir Dogs: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack |
| Soundtrack (Film) Lost Highway |
| Soundtrack (Film) Jackie Brown |
| Soundtrack (Film) The Big Lebowski |
| Soundtrack (Film) The Royal Tenenbaums |
| Soundtrack (Film) Kill Bill Vol. 2 Original Soundtrack |
| Soundtrack (Film) Nightmare Before Christmas: 2-Disc Special Edition |
| Soundtrack (Film) Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street |
| Soundtrack (Film) Inglourious Basterds Motion Picture Soundtrack |
| Soundtrack (Film) Drive OST |
| Soundtrack (Film) Licorice Pizza |
| Soundtrack (Film) Inside Llewyn Davis |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) The Orange Box |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) Fallout 3 |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) Mass Effect 2 |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) Bioshock Infinite |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) Mass Effect 3 |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) The Music of Red Dead Redemption 2 |
| Spastic Ink Ink Complete |
| Spiritualized Pure Phase |
| Spiritualized Lazer Guided Melodies |
| Stargazer (AUS) A Merging to the Boundless |
| Stereolab Sound-Dust |
| Steve Reich Music for 18 Musicians |
| Steve Roach Structures from Silence |
| Steve Roach Dreamtime Return |
| Steven Wilson Insurgentes |
| Steven Wilson Drive Home |
| Steven Wilson Cover Version |
| Steven Wilson Transience |
| Steven Wilson Last Day of June Soundtrack |
| A beautiful extension of Wilson's music re-interpreted for the purposes of a video game soundtrack. Many of the finest moments of his work is tinkered with and made instrumental for an atmospheric and engrossing listening experience. |
| Steven Wilson Get All You Deserve |
| Steven Wilson Catalogue / Preserve / Amass |
| Steven Wilson Home Invasion: In Concert At The Royal Albert Hall |
| Steven Wilson The Harmony Codex (instrumentals) |
| Sting ...Nothing Like the Sun |
| Sting The Soul Cages |
| Stiu Nu Stiu Ultra Silvam |
| Stone Temple Pilots Core |
| Submotion Orchestra Fragments |
| Suede Dog Man Star |
| Suffocation Effigy of the Forgotten |
| Suffocation Pierced from Within |
| Sufjan Stevens Silver & Gold |
| Sufjan Stevens Mystery of Love |
| Susumu Yokota Sakura |
| Swallow the Sun New Moon |
| Swallow the Sun Plague of Butterflies |
| Swallow the Sun Moonflowers |
| Swans To Be Kind |
| Swans The Great Annihilator |
| Swans Love of Life |
| Swans Children of God |
| Swans Various Failures |
| Swarms Old Raves End |
| Sweet Trip Alura |
| Sweet Trip Fish |
| Sweet Trip Seen/Unseen |
| Sweet Trip 4-track |
| Sweet Trip You Will Never Know Why Outtakes |
| Sweven (SWE) The Eternal Resonance |
| Sylvaine Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone |
| T2 It'll All Work Out in Boomland |
| Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues |
| Talking Heads Talking Heads: 77 |
| Talking Heads Stop Making Sense |
| Tame Impala Currents B-Sides and Remixes |
| Tangerine Dream Alpha Centauri |
| Tangerine Dream Zeit |
| Tangerine Dream Atem |
| Tangerine Dream Ricochet |
| Tangerine Dream Force Majeure |
| Tangerine Dream Tangram |
| Tangerine Dream Quichotte |
| Tangerine Dream Pergamon |
| Tangerine Dream Underwater Sunlight |
| Tartar Lamb Sixty Metonymies |
| Tears for Fears The Hurting |
| Tears for Fears Elemental |
| Technicolor One Touch Test Strip |
| Tenhi Folk Aesthetic 1996-2006 |
| Tenhi Vare |
| Tenhi Maaaet |
| Tenhi Airut : Ciwi |
| Tenhi Airut: Aamujen |
| TesseracT Concealing Fate |
| Testament The Legacy |
| Testament Practice What You Preach |
| The 3rd and the Mortal Painting on Glass |
| The Agonist Prisoners |
| The Angels of Light New Mother |
| The Angels of Light How I Loved You |
| The Avalanches We Will Always Love You |
| The Avalanches Since I Left You |
| The Beach Boys Sunflower |
| The Beach Boys Wild Honey |
| The Beach Boys Smiley Smile |
| The Beatles Help! |
| The Beatles Let It Be |
| The Beatles A Hard Day's Night |
| The Beatles 1 |
| The Blue Nile High |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet |
| The Contortionist Clairvoyant |
| A solid and enjoyable follow-up to Language, if a bit less compelling overall. The middle section of songs are the most adventurous and memorable. There is plenty of excellent songwriting and soaring melodies here, but the song structures themselves don't quite develop with as much punch or impact as I feel like they could. A couple tracks are also almost too straightforward, but everything still works well. |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet (Redux) |
| The Cure Seventeen Seconds |
| The Cure Faith |
| The Cure Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me |
| The Cure Wish |
| The Cure The Head on the Door |
| The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum |
| The Durutti Column The Return of the Durutti Column |
| The Durutti Column Without Mercy |
| The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots |
| The Future Sound of London Cascade |
| The Future Sound of London Lifeforms (Paths) |
| The Future Sound of London ISDN |
| The Future Sound of London My Kingdom |
| The Gathering Mandylion |
| The Great Old Ones Al Azif |
| The Killers Hot Fuss |
| The National Cherry Tree |
| The National Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers |
| The National Think You Can Wait/Exile Vilify |
| The National Laugh Track |
| The National quickly release a follow-up to what is widely considered their weakest album since the debut, First Two Pages of Frankenstein from earlier this year. Laugh Track is a far more inspired, ambitious, and instrumentally layered record that proves they haven't lost it after all, their best since Sleep Well Beast. They even learned how to handle features on here, I guess third time's the charm. Highlights are Alphabet City, Weird Goodbyes, Laugh Track, Space Invader, and Smoke Detector. |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Life After Death |
| The Ocean Precambrian |
| The Orb Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld |
| The Pineapple Thief Abducting the Unicorn |
| The Pineapple Thief 137 |
| The Pineapple Thief Someone Here Is Missing |
| The Police The Police |
| The Police Synchronicity |
| The Rolling Stones Exile on Main St. |
| The Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet |
| The Rolling Stones Aftermath |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
| The Smile A Light For Attracting Attention |
| Sounds to me like another Radiohead album essentially, most similar to HTTT than any others with a little AMSP and Thom Yorke's Anima thrown in there. The slower songs in the middle of the track list are the highlights. |
| The Smiths Hatful of Hollow |
| The Smiths The Smiths |
| The Smiths Strangeways, Here We Come |
| The Smiths The World Won't Listen |
| The Smiths Louder Than Bombs |
| The Stone Roses The Stone Roses |
| The Strokes Is This It |
| The Sugarhill Gang Rapper's Delight |
| The Verve A Northern Soul |
| The War On Drugs Slave Ambient |
| The War On Drugs Future Weather |
| The War On Drugs A Deeper Understanding |
| Another excellent The War on Drugs album, despite some familiar elements. I can't help but think at times that this style is going to run out of steam soon, but for now it's still going strong with some of the band's best cuts to date including "Thinking of a Place," "Strangest Thing," "Pain," and "In Chains." |
| The Who The Who Sell Out |
| The Who My Generation |
| The Who Tommy |
| Theatre Of Tragedy Aégis |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything |
| Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures |
| There Will Be Fireworks The Dark, Dark Bright |
| Thom Yorke Suspiria |
| Thom Yorke follows in the footsteps of fellow Radiohead band member Jonny Greenwood by composing a soundtrack. Suspiria is a sprawling double album of dark ambiance, neo-psychedelia, and beautiful piano ballads. The noisy interludes aren't as enjoyable to listen to in absence of the film I'd imagine, but all in all this is an excellent soundtrack and Yorke's most ambitious solo project yet. |
| Thomas Newman American Beauty |
| Thrice Major/Minor |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety |
| Thrice Anthology |
| Throes of Dawn Quicksilver Clouds |
| Tiamat Wildhoney |
| Tim Bowness Lost in the Ghost Light |
| Very enjoyable, atmospheric prog rock album for fans of Pink Floyd and Porcupine Tree. |
| Tim Bowness Flowers At The Scene |
| Tim Bowness Abandoned Dancehall Dreams |
| Tim Hecker Konoyo |
| Toby Driver Madonnawhore |
| A dreamy collection of ambient guitar pieces, making for Toby Driver's most intimate (and accessible) offering yet. Everything about Madonnawhore feels loose and fleeting. Sparse drumming comes in at times to support the floaty guitars and vocals, and the sounds create a beautiful ambience fully realized from the quieter moments of Driver's bands Maudlin of the Well and Kayo Dot. |
| Toby Driver Live at Roulette, March 2017 |
| Tom Rogerson with Brian Eno Finding Shore |
| Tom Tom Club Tom Tom Club |
| Tool Undertow |
| Tool Salival |
| Tortoise Standards |
| Tortoise Its All Around You |
| Tortoise Tortoise |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross The Social Network OST |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo OST |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Gone Girl OST |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Soul OST |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Bones and All OST |
| Trespassers William Noble House |
| Trespassers William The Natural Order of Things |
| Turnover Peripheral Vision |
| Tycho Sunrise Projector |
| Tycho Past is Prologue |
| Tycho Dive |
| U2 Achtung Baby |
| U2 Boy |
| U2 The Best Of 1980-1990 |
| U2 Medium, Rare & Remastered |
| U2 360° at the Rose Bowl |
| Ulcerate The Destroyers of All |
| Ulver Themes From William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell |
| Ulver A Quick Fix of Melancholy |
| Ulver Lyckantropen Themes OST |
| Ulver Blood Inside |
| Ulver Silence Teaches You How to Sing EP |
| Ulver Silencing the Singing |
| Ulver Svidd Neger OST |
| Ulver The Norwegian National Opera |
| Ulver Sic Transit Gloria Mundi |
| Ulvesang Ulvesang |
| Ulvesang The Hunt |
| Unwound New Plastic Ideas |
| Vali Forlatt |
| Vali Skogslandskap |
| Van Halen Van Halen |
| Van Halen The Best of Both Worlds |
| Vangelis 1492: Conquest of Paradise |
| Vangelis L'Apocalypse Des Animaux |
| Various Artists Whom The Moon A Nightsong Sings |
| Various Artists Der Wanderer über Dem Nebelmeer |
| Various Artists (Indie) Dark Was The Night |
| Vaura Sables |
| Vennart To Cure A Blizzard Upon A Plastic Sea |
| Vennart Copeland EP |
| Vinterland Welcome My Last Chapter |
| Vladislav Delay Whistleblower |
| Vuvr Pilgrimage |
| Warpaint The Fool |
| Watchtower Energetic Disassembly |
| Watchtower Control and Resistance |
| We Lost the Sea The Quietest Place on Earth |
| Weakling Dead as Dreams |
| Weezer Weezer |
| Weezer Pinkerton |
| White Zombie La Sexorcisto-Devil Music Vol. 1 |
| White Zombie Astro Creep: 2000 |
| Wilco A Ghost Is Born |
| Wings Band on the Run |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage |
| Woods City Sun Eater In The River Of Light |
| One of the more fun records of a depressing yet musically brilliant year, Woods put out one of the best indie rock records of the year. This has psychedelia, personality, and varied instrumentation aplenty to keep things interesting. It's different enough from other bands that make it very replayable as well, with the music serving a variety of functions, be it a cookout, study music, or a drive through the sweltering desert. |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) |
| X Japan Art of Life |
| XTC Skylarking |
| Yes Drama |
| Yes Classic Yes |
| Yes Tales from Topographic Oceans |
| Yndi Halda Under Summer |
| After ten years, Yndi Halda return with a beautiful debut album perfect for the month of summer. While some musical passages might go on longer than they need to, the build-ups are handled well, crescendoing into gorgeous soundscapes and bursts of energy. There just enough vocals to add color without overpowering the instrumental focus. Overall they are used rarely and effectively, especially adding to the beauty of the album's first few minutes. Violins and other strings give a classical feel reminiscent of Sigur Ros. While not quite reaching the heights of Enjoy Eternal Bliss from a decade before, Under Summer can be counted among the essential post-rock albums of the year. |
| Yo La Tengo And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside... |
| Yo La Tengo Painful |
| Younger Brother The Last Days of Gravity |
| Yuri Gagarin At The Center Of All Infinity |
| 3.5 great |
| 10 Years Minus the Machine |
| 65daysofstatic We Were Exploding Anyway |
| 65daysofstatic Wild Light |
| 65daysofstatic No Man's Sky: Music for an Infinite... |
| 65daysofstatic No Man's Sky: Soundscapes |
| A Perfect Circle Three Sixty |
| Abigail Williams Becoming |
| AC/DC Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap |
| AC/DC Let There Be Rock |
| AC/DC Back In Black |
| AC/DC For Those About To Rock We Salute You |
| Adam F Colours |
| Adrian Belew Side One |
| Aeon Spoke Above the Buried Cry |
| Aerosmith Permanent Vacation |
| AES Dana Inks |
| After the Burial Forging a Future Self |
| After the Burial Rareform |
| After the Burial In Dreams |
| Alan Silvestri Avengers: Endgame |
| Alan Silvestri Avengers: Infinity War |
| Alestorm Captain Morgan's Revenge |
| Alestorm Sunset on the Golden Age |
| Alexandre Desplat The Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
| Alexandre Desplat The Tree of Life Original Soundtrack |
| Alexandre Desplat Godzilla |
| Alexandre Desplat The Shape of Water |
| Alexandre Desplat Little Women |
| Alexandre Desplat The Midnight Sky |
| Alice Cooper Killer |
| Alice Cooper School's Out |
| Alice in Chains Sap |
| Alice in Chains Alice in Chains |
| Alice in Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here |
| All Shall Perish The Price of Existence |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals |
| Alvvays Antisocialites |
| American Football American Football (LP2) |
| Amethystium Aphelion |
| Amethystium Isabliss |
| Amon Tobin Adventures In Foam |
| Amon Tobin How Do You Live |
| Amorphous Androgynous Alice in Ultraland |
| Anathema Distant Satellites |
| Anathema The Silent Enigma |
| Anathema Falling Deeper |
| Andrew Bayer If It Were You, We'd Never Leave |
| Andrew Bird The Mysterious Production Of Eggs |
| Andrew Bird Noble Beast |
| Andrew Bird Break It Yourself |
| Andy Summers and Robert Fripp Bewitched |
| Anna von Hausswolff All Thoughts Fly |
| Antimatter Leaving Eden |
| Anubis Hitchhiking to Byzantium |
| Anvil Metal on Metal |
| Aperture Science Psychoacoustics Lab... Portal 2: Songs to Test By |
| Aphex Twin On |
| Aphex Twin ...I Care Because You Do |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album |
| Aphex Twin Collapse |
| Arcade Fire Reflektor |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us |
| As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise |
| Ashbringer Yūgen |
| Astronoid Stargazer |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| At the Gates Gardens of Grief |
| At the Gates The Red in the Sky Is Ours |
| Atticus Ross The Book Of Eli OST |
| Audioslave Audioslave |
| August Burns Red Constellations |
| August Burns Red Rescue & Restore |
| August Burns Red Found in Far Away Places |
| The melodic sections are a welcome break from August Burns Red's trademark sound. Overall, this is just as good as R&R, with some longer tracks and a welcome guest appearance from A Day To Remember vocalist Jeremy McKinnon. |
| Bambara Stray |
| Banks Goddess |
| Bass Communion Bass Communion |
| Bass Communion Ghosts on Magnetic Tape |
| Bass Communion Cenotaph |
| Bathory The Return of the Darkness and Evil |
| Baths Ocean Death |
| Battle Tapes Polygon |
| Beastie Boys Ill Communication |
| Beastie Boys Check Your Head |
| Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill |
| Beck Mellow Gold |
| Beck Guero |
| Beck Modern Guilt |
| Behemoth Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic) |
| Behemoth Grom |
| Behemoth Satanica |
| Behemoth Evangelion |
| Behemoth Demigod |
| Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow Black Mirror: Men Against Fire |
| Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow Men |
| Benjamin Wallfisch The Invisible Man |
| Better Oblivion Community Center Better Oblivion Community Center |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues |
| Bibio Hand Cranked |
| Big Bud Late Night Blues |
| Big Thief Masterpiece |
| Big Thief U.F.O.F. |
| Bjork Selmasongs |
| Black Country, New Road Ants From Up There |
| Black Label Society The Blessed Hellride |
| Black Label Society Skullage |
| Black Sabbath The End |
| Black Sabbath Dehumanizer |
| Black Wing ...Is Doomed |
| Blackmill Miracle |
| Blondie Blondie |
| Bloodbath Resurrection Through Carnage |
| Bloodbath The Fathomless Mastery |
| Blue Oyster Cult Blue Öyster Cult |
| Blue Oyster Cult Spectres |
| Blue Oyster Cult Cultösaurus Erectus |
| Blue Sky Black Death NOIR |
| Blue Sky Black Death Glaciers |
| Blur Modern Life Is Rubbish |
| Blur Blur |
| Blur The Magic Whip |
| Blur The Ballad of Darren |
| Boards of Canada Aquarius |
| Boards of Canada Boc Maxima |
| Boards of Canada Trans Canada Highway |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Patchouli Blue |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Dolores |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Piano Nights |
| Bonobo The North Borders |
| Bonobo Migration |
| Bonobo Dial 'M' For Monkey |
| Born of Osiris The New Reign |
| Boston Boston |
| Botanist Hammer of Botany |
| Boygenius boygenius |
| Boygenius the record |
| Brian Eno Reflection |
| Brian Eno Music for Films Volume 2 |
| Brian Eno More Music for Films |
| Brian Eno The Shutov Assembly |
| Brian Eno Neroli |
| Brian Eno and Roger Eno Mixing Colours |
| Brian Eno with Kevin Shields The Weight Of History/Only Once Away My Son |
| Brian Wilson Brian Wilson |
| Bruce Soord with Jonas Renkse Wisdom of Crowds |
| BT ESCM |
| BT Ima |
| Burial, Four Tet and Thom Yorke Her Revolution/His Rope |
| Can Soundtracks |
| Can Monster Movie |
| Can Soon Over Babaluma |
| Candlemass Candlemass |
| Candlemass King of the Grey Islands |
| Cannibal Corpse Bloodthirst |
| Cannibal Corpse Gore Obsessed |
| Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Trout Mask Replica |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms Twentythree |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms Derelicts |
| Carter Burwell The Tragedy of Macbeth |
| Carter Burwell Carol |
| Carter Burwell The Banshees of Inisherin |
| Catherine Wheel Ferment |
| Celtic Frost Monotheist |
| Ceterum Fathom |
| Cheatahs Cheatahs |
| Chelsea Wolfe Hiss Spun |
| Children of Bodom Something Wild |
| Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll |
| Children of Bodom Halo of Blood |
| CHON Woohoo! |
| Christopher Lee Charlemagne: The Omens of Death |
| Christopher Lee A Heavy Metal Christmas |
| Circle of Contempt Artifacts in Motion |
| Circle of Contempt Entwine the Threads |
| Circle of Contempt Structures for Creation |
| Cliff Martinez Too Old to Die Young |
| Cliff Martinez Copenhagen Cowboy |
| Clint Mansell π |
| Cloudkicker Beacons |
| Cloudkicker Let Yourself Be Huge |
| Cloudkicker Live with Intronaut |
| Cluster Cluster II |
| Cluster Cluster |
| Cluster Curiosum |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 |
| Coil Black Antlers |
| Coldplay Ghost Stories (Instrumentals) |
| Coldplay The Blue Room |
| Coldplay Prospekt's March |
| Count to Altek Path Kethona |
| Count to Altek She Will Fly With You Forever |
| Covenant Northern Light |
| Cradle of Filth Damnation and a Day |
| Cradle of Filth Nymphetamine |
| Cradle of Filth Thornography |
| Cradle of Filth The Manticore and Other Horrors |
| Cradle of Filth Lovecraft & Witch Hearts |
| Cradle of Filth Bitter Suites to Succubi |
| Creepers Lush |
| Cult of Luna Cult of Luna |
| Cynic Ascension Codes |
| Cynic Re-Traced |
| Cynic ReFocus |
| Daft Punk Tron: Legacy |
| Damon Albarn Everyday Robots |
| Daniel Hart Peter Pan and Wendy |
| Danny Elfman Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness |
| Danny Elfman Darkman |
| Danny Elfman Mission Impossible |
| Danny Elfman Mars Attacks! |
| Danny Elfman Spider-Man |
| Danny Elfman Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
| Danny Elfman The Corpse Bride |
| Dark Fortress Seance |
| Dark Fortress Eidolon |
| Dark Fortress Ylem |
| David Bowie Let's Dance |
| David Bowie Hours |
| David Bowie Reality |
| David Bowie The Man Who Sold the World |
| David Bowie Space Oddity |
| David Bowie The Buddha of Suburbia |
| David Bowie The Next Day Extra |
| David Bowie Young Americans |
| David Sylvian Manafon |
| David Sylvian Pop Song |
| David Sylvian Approaching Silence |
| David Sylvian There's a Light that Enters Houses... |
| Daylight Dies No Reply |
| Dead Can Dance Aion |
| Dead Can Dance Spiritchaser |
| Dead Can Dance Dionysus |
| Dead Can Dance follow the style of Spiritchaser while also going in a new direction by creating a multi-layered sound collage of various world music traditions. The talent of the duo assures that it sounds natural as they incorporate Middle Eastern folk music and traverse ritualistic soundscapes. Dionysus sounds ancient and mysterious, being more celebratory than most other Dead Can Dance releases and having the characteristics of the Greek god. This is a more fluid and succinct release that sounds truly alive. It could have been even longer and featured more of Lisa's vocals, but it's still a rewarding and unique listening experience that lives up to their adventurous musical past. |
| Deafheaven Roads to Judah |
| Deafheaven Demo |
| Death Cab for Cutie Something About Airplanes |
| Deftones Around the Fur |
| Deftones Deftones |
| Deicide Deicide |
| Deru 1979 |
| Destroyer Streethawk: A Seduction |
| Destroyer Archer on the Beach |
| Destroyer Ken |
| Destroyer Trouble In Dreams |
| Destroyer Have We Met |
| Destroyer LABYRINTHITIS |
| Devo Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! |
| Devo Duty Now for the Future |
| Devo Freedom of Choice |
| Dimmu Borgir Death Cult Armageddon |
| Dir En Grey The Marrow of a Bone |
| Disasterpeace Under the Silver Lake OST |
| Divine Ratio Split By Unity |
| Dr. Dre 2001 |
| Dr. Dre Compton |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought |
| Dream Theater Octavarium |
| Dream Theater Greatest Hit |
| Duster Stratosphere |
| Effigy (FRC) Black Is Now the Sun |
| Electric Wizard Let Us Prey |
| Electric Wizard Black Masses |
| Electric Wizard Electric Wizard |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or |
| Elvis Presley Elvis: 30 #1 Hits |
| Emancipator Safe In The Steep Cliffs |
| Emperor IX Equilibrium |
| Enslaved Mardraum - Beyond the Within |
| Enslaved Vikingligr Veldi |
| Enya Watermark |
| EOB Earth |
| Ethel Cain Preacher's Daughter |
| Evan Brewer Your Itinerary |
| Everything But the Girl Worldwide |
| Everything But the Girl Like the Deserts Miss the Rain |
| Exodus Exhibit B: The Human Condition |
| Explosions in the Sky Friday Night Lights |
| Explosions in the Sky The Rescue |
| Explosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take Care |
| Explosions In The Sky and David Wingo Prince Avalanche |
| Failure The Heart Is a Monster |
| Falseta Thought Process |
| Fennesz Becs |
| Figueroa The World As We Know It |
| Fishmans Kuuchuu Camp |
| Fishmans 98.12.28 Otokotachi no Wakare |
| Fit for an Autopsy Hellbound |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Mafia |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Oracles |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Agony |
| Flying Lotus Los Angeles |
| Flying Lotus You're Dead! |
| Foals Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost - Part 1 |
| A short, dense, high-energy first half of an ambitious two-part album cycle. It's far from their most cinematic or engrossing work, but keeps things dynamic and has enough detail to be a solid listen overall. |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light |
| Four Tet Three |
| Fuath I |
| Gang of Youths Total Serene |
| Gazpacho Molok |
| As if this band couldn't get any quirkier. Molok plays out as a bombastic musical journey, with swelling instrumentation and dreamy, ethereal soundscapes throughout. Despite being very much a Gazpacho album, it manages to sound largely different from everything else they've done. The concept is interesting and ambitious as always, which is up to the listener to follow and experience for themselves. A charming and diverse listen, as always from the Norwegian rockers. |
| Gazpacho Soyuz |
| Gazpacho Bravo |
| Gazpacho Firebird |
| Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam |
| Ghost (SWE) Prequelle |
| Ghost Brigade Guided By Fire |
| Giles Corey Hinterkaifeck |
| God Is an Astronaut A Moment of Stillness |
| God Is an Astronaut God Is an Astronaut |
| God Is an Astronaut Age of the Fifth Sun |
| Goldfrapp Supernature |
| Gorillaz D-Sides |
| Gorillaz The Now Now |
| The Now Now is a focused, very satisfying summer pop record, which after Humanz is all it needed to be. The songwriting is a bit tepid and one-note at times, but the strengths of Albarn's songwriting and a laid back atmosphere makes it a success. |
| Gorillaz Cracker Island |
| Graeme Revell The Crow Original Score |
| Graeme Revell Sin City Soundtrack |
| Grimes Art Angels |
| Grouper The Man Who Died in His Boat |
| Grouper Shade |
| Guns N' Roses G N' R Lies |
| Haken The Mountain |
| Half Moon Run Dark Eyes |
| Hammock Repeat/Texture |
| Hammock Universalis |
| Hammock Elsewhere |
| Hans Zimmer The Dark Knight Rises |
| Hans Zimmer Sherlock Holmes |
| Hans Zimmer The Simpsons Movie: The Music |
| Hans Zimmer Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End |
| Hans Zimmer Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest |
| Hans Zimmer Matchstick Men |
| Hans Zimmer No Time to Die |
| Harold Budd Abandoned Cities |
| Harold Budd The Room |
| Hashshashin Badakhshan |
| Have a Nice Life The Unnatural World |
| Hayley Williams Petals for Armor |
| Heart Little Queen |
| Helios Unleft |
| Helios Moiety |
| Heretoir Heretoir |
| Holy Fawn The Black Moon |
| Howard Shore A History of Violence |
| Howard Shore The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Soundtrack |
| Howard Shore The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies |
| Howard Shore Spotlight |
| Ice Cube The Predator |
| Ichiko Aoba Adan no Kaze |
| Iggy Pop Post Pop Depression |
| In the Woods... Heart of the Ages |
| Insomnium One for Sorrow |
| Iosonouncane Ira |
| Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death |
| Iron Maiden Dance of Death |
| Iron Maiden The Final Frontier |
| ISIS SGNL>05 |
| ISIS The Red Sea |
| ISIS Mosquito Control |
| James Newton Howard Nightcrawler |
| James Newton Howard King Kong |
| James Newton Howard A Hidden Life |
| Jarboe Sacrificial Cake |
| Jay-Z In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 |
| Jay-Z Vol. 2: Hard Knock Life |
| Jeff Beck There and Back |
| Jerry Goldsmith Poltergeist |
| Jerry Goldsmith Gremlins |
| Jerry Goldsmith Mulan |
| Jim James Eternally Even |
| Jim James Regions of Light and Sound of God |
| Joan Jett and the Blackhearts Bad Reputation |
| Joe Hisaishi Kiki's Delivery Service |
| Joe Hisaishi Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea |
| John Carpenter Prince of Darkness |
| John Carpenter Lost Themes |
| John Carpenter Lost Themes II |
| John Carpenter Halloween Kills |
| John Carpenter Halloween Ends |
| John Frusciante To Record Only Water for Ten Days |
| John Frusciante Inside of Emptiness |
| John Frusciante Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt |
| John Frusciante and Josh Klinghoffer A Sphere in the Heart of Silence |
| John Haughm +46° 17' 36.30", -124° 4' 20.13" |
| John Murphy 28 Weeks Later Soundtrack |
| John Ottman X2 |
| John Ottman X-Men: Days of Future Past |
| John Williams Empire of the Sun (Soundtrack) |
| John Williams Star Wars, Episode I: The Phantom Menace |
| John Williams Minority Report |
| John Williams Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets |
| John Williams Star Wars, Episode II: Attack of the Clones |
| John Williams Catch Me If You Can (Soundtrack) |
| John Williams Star Wars, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith |
| John Williams The War of the Worlds |
| John Williams Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull |
| John Williams Star Wars: The Last Jedi |
| John Williams The Post |
| John Williams Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker |
| Jon Hopkins Monsters (Soundtrack) |
| Jon Hopkins Opalescent |
| Jonny Greenwood Inherent Vice OST |
| Jonny Greenwood The Power of the Dog |
| Jonsi Obsidian |
| Jonsi and Alex All Animals |
| Joris de Man Horizon Zero Dawn (Original Soundtrack) |
| Julien Baker Little Oblivions |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| Karl Sanders Saurian Meditation |
| Karnivool Sound Awake |
| Kate Bush Lionheart |
| Kaura That Which Defines Us |
| Kayo Dot Gamma Knife |
| Kayo Dot Stained Glass |
| Kendrick Lamar Section.80 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city |
| Kevin Morby Singing Saw |
| Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing |
| King Crimson Beat |
| King Crimson Three of a Perfect Pair |
| King Crimson THRAK |
| King Crimson The Power to Believe |
| King Green Alexander Desjardins |
| Kitchie Kitchie Ki Me O Are You Land Or Water |
| Korn Korn |
| Korn Life Is Peachy |
| Korn Follow the Leader |
| Korn Issues |
| Lacuna Coil Comalies |
| Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper A Star is Born |
| Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake |
| Lamb of God Sacrament |
| Lamb of God VII: Sturm und Drang |
| Lantlos Lantlos |
| Lantlos Wildhund |
| Lapalux When You're Gone |
| Lapalux Ruinism |
| Lapalux Lustmore |
| Lapalux Many Faces Out of Focus |
| Lapalux Some Other Time |
| LCD Soundsystem LCD Soundsystem |
| LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening |
| Led Zeppelin Presence |
| Leonard Cohen You Want It Darker |
| Leprous Bilateral |
| Lights Out Asia Tanks And Recognizers |
| Lights Out Asia In The Days Of Jupiter |
| Liturgy Renihilation |
| Local Natives Sour Lemon |
| Local Natives Violet Street |
| Lotte Kestner The Bluebird of Happiness |
| Love Da Capo |
| Love, Robot Rebuild | Rebirth |
| Ludwig Goransson Black Panther (Original Score) |
| Lunatic Soul Lunatic Soul |
| Lush Scar |
| M83 Oblivion (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) |
| Machine Head Burn My Eyes |
| Machine Head The More Things Change... |
| Machine Head The Blackening |
| Machine Head Unto the Locust |
| Machine Head Bloodstone and Diamonds |
| Mammoth Deviations |
| Marco Beltrami A Quiet Place |
| Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar |
| Marilyn Manson Holy Wood |
| Marilyn Manson Mechanical Animals |
| Marilyn Manson Lest We Forget |
| Mark Korven The Lighthouse - OST |
| Mark Mothersbaugh Thor: Ragnarok |
| Martin O'Donnell Halo: Reach OST |
| Martin O'Donnell Destiny OST |
| Massive Attack Splitting the Atom |
| Mastodon Call of the Mastodon |
| Mastodon Cold Dark Place |
| Mastodon Emperor of Sand |
| Emperor of Sand signifies more excellent, mind-bending metal from prog giants Mastodon. There's not a whole lot that's new to be said for the band in 2017, as they continue down the path that really began with The Hunter. Some moments hearken to Crack the Skye and Blood Mountain, but this is mostly a further excursion into what they've been doing in a more classic metal sounding approach. |
| Matt Berninger Serpentine Prison |
| Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas |
| Megadeth United Abominations |
| Melody's Echo Chamber Melody's Echo Chamber |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere |
| Meshuggah Rare Trax |
| Meshuggah Pitch Black |
| Metallica Metallica |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister |
| MGMT Loss of Life |
| Michael Giacchino Incredibles 2 |
| Michael Giacchino War for the Planet of the Apes |
| Michael Giacchino Rogue One: A Star Wars Story |
| Michael Giacchino Star Trek |
| Michael Giacchino Inside Out |
| Michael Giacchino Coco |
| Michael Giacchino Spider-Man: No Way Home |
| Michael Jackson Dangerous |
| Mick Gordon Doom OST |
| Minus the Bear Bands Like It When You Yell YAR at Them |
| Minus the Bear This is What I Know About Being Gigantic |
| Minus the Bear Lost Loves |
| Moby Play |
| Moby 18 |
| Modest Mouse Sad Sappy Sucker |
| Mogwai Rock Action |
| Mogwai Mr. Beast |
| Morbid Angel Altars of Madness |
| Morbus Chron Sleepers in the Rift |
| Mree The Middle |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry |
| Muse Absolution |
| Mushroomhead XIII |
| My Bloody Valentine Feed Me with Your Kiss |
| My Bloody Valentine Ecstasy and Wine |
| My Morning Jacket The Tennessee Fire |
| Myles Oliver Geosinect & Methods of Its Growth |
| Myles Oliver Find Me Tomorrow |
| Myles Oliver New Sounds |
| Myrkur Folkesange |
| N.W.A. Niggaz4Life |
| Napalm Death Time Waits for No Slave |
| Napalm Death Utilitarian |
| Native Construct Quiet World |
| Neil Davidge Halo 4 Original Soundtrack |
| Nero di Marte Nero di Marte |
| Nest (FIN) Fabled Lore |
| Nest (FIN) Hidden Stream |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Nocturama |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds The Firstborn Is Dead |
| Nick Cave and Warren Ellis La Panthere Des Neiges |
| Nile Black Seeds of Vengeance |
| Nirvana Incesticide |
| No-Man Loveblows & Lovecries |
| No-Man Lovesighs - An Entertainment |
| No-Man Heaven Taste |
| No-Man Dry Cleaning Ray |
| No-Man Love You to Bits |
| A whole embrace of synthpop hinted at by "Permanating," Love You to Bits harnesses a high concept approach to psychedelic electronic music that sounds like an evolution of their early '90s releases, a gift to fans who love that that era, as the albums beginning with Wild Opera and culminating with the Schoolyard Ghosts project pursued new directions. For fans of new Tame Impala. |
| No-Man Love You To Bits EP |
| Love You to Shreds is wonderful; essentially the acknowledgement of their 1999-2008 albums, while the main Love You to Bits album is the celebration of their early '90s work. |
| Nosound A Sense of Loss |
| Nosound Scintilla |
| Okkervil River In The Rainbow Rain |
| A diverse and feel-good indie pop album with spring-time vibes and plenty of '80s and contemporary influences alike, including The War on Drugs, The Killers, even a little Blackstar by David Bowie too. Despite some cliche'd ideas that pop up from time to time, In The Rainbow Rain succeeds due to the earnestness of the songwriting and enough adventurous musical ideas to justify multiple listens. Not quite as deep and compelling as predecessor Away, but a finely crafted, breezy, very enjoyable record in its own right. |
| Olafur Arnalds Broadchurch |
| Old Man's Child Revelation 666 |
| Old Man's Child Vermin |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Betrayed in the Octagon |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Age Of |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Good Time |
| Oneohtrix Point Never The Fall Into Time |
| Oneohtrix Point Never A Pact Between Strangers |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Ruined Lives |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Zones Without People |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Magic Oneohtrix Point Never |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Commissions I |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Commissions II |
| Oneohtrix Point Never The Station |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Love in the Time of Lexapro |
| Opeth Apostle in Triumph |
| Opeth Pale Communion |
| Diverse, emotional, and at times heavy, this is Heritage taken in a new and interesting direction, but manages to sound completely different. Very proggy and wonderful. |
| Opeth Book of Opeth EP |
| Orange Juice Rip It Up |
| Oriya Light To Dark |
| Ozzy Osbourne Diary of a Madman |
| Ozzy Osbourne Bark at the Moon |
| Ozzy Osbourne No Rest for the Wicked |
| Palms Opening Titles / End Credits |
| Panopticon On the Subject of Mortality |
| Pantera Vulgar Display of Power |
| Pantera Far Beyond Driven |
| Pantera The Great Southern Trendkill |
| Paradise Lost One Second |
| Paradise Lost Obsidian |
| Paradise Lost Paradise Lost |
| Paramore Singles Club |
| Paramore All We Know Is Falling |
| Paramore Brand New Eyes |
| Paramore The Summer Tic |
| Parkway Drive Killing with a Smile |
| Parkway Drive Horizons |
| Pearl Jam Yield |
| Peter Gabriel Scratch |
| Peter Gabriel Us |
| Peter Kyed and Peter Hughes Valhalla Rising |
| Phoebe Bridgers If We Make It Through December |
| Photek Solaris |
| Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother |
| Pink Floyd The Final Cut |
| Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse of Reason |
| Pink Floyd The Division Bell |
| Pinkshinyultrablast Happy Songs For Happy Zombies |
| Pity Sex Dark World |
| Pond (AUS) Frond |
| Pond (AUS) Man, It Feels like Space Again |
| Popol Vuh In den Garten Pharaos |
| Popol Vuh Das Hohelied Salomos |
| Porcupine Tree On the Sunday of Life |
| Porcupine Tree Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape |
| Porcupine Tree Metanoia |
| Porcupine Tree Insignificance |
| Pram North Pole Radio Station |
| Pram Across the Meridian |
| Prefab Sprout Let's Change the World With Music |
| Prince Dirty Mind |
| Prisma Collusion |
| Puscifer Conditions of My Parole |
| Puscifer Money Shot |
| Queens of the Stone Age Villains |
| Queens of the Stone Age decide to take a left turn, which isn't a surprise for the shape-shifting rock band, but results in some regression. Villains too often feels like they took the ideas of "Smooth Sailing," a very good song, and stretched them out to an entire album. This results in guitar riff-centered dance rock songs with witty lyrics, some of which work and some don't. Queens... shouldn't need to repeat what worked in the past to make excellent music, but the brief moments that remind of ...Like Clockwork in Fortress and Hideaway are the most rewarding qualities this has. There are plenty of other enjoyable moments, like most of The Evil has Landed and the middle few songs. Doesn't hold a candle to ...Like Clockwork, but still a very good listen overall. |
| Radiohead My Iron Lung |
| Radiohead Street Spirit (Fade Out) |
| Radiohead Go to Sleep |
| Radiohead COM LAG (2plus2isfive) |
| Radiohead TKOL RMX 1234567 |
| Ramin Djawadi Game of Thrones: Season 1 |
| Ramin Djawadi Game of Thrones: Season 2 |
| Ramin Djawadi Game of Thrones: Season 3 |
| Ramones Greatest Hits |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Uplift Mofo Party Plan |
| Riverside O2 Panic Room |
| Riverside Rapid Eye Movement |
| Riverside Memories In My Head |
| Rob Zombie Hellbilly Deluxe |
| Rob Zombie The Sinister Urge |
| Robert Fripp God Save the Queen/Under Heavy Manners |
| Robert Fripp Let The Power Fall |
| Robert Plant and Alison Krauss Raising Sand |
| Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd Mysterious Skin: Music From The Film |
| Roger Waters Is This The Life We Really Want? |
| Pink Floyd legend Roger Waters joins with Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich for an impassioned expression of the current state of affairs in the world. There are some beautiful arrangements on here, but the album suffers from a bit of an identity crisis in the middle run of songs. Lyrically you definitely feel the passion and message Waters is projecting throughout, for whoever is in the mood for outcry about modern times and global conflict. This isn't just complaining about world affairs, it is a call to respond, and for that function it accomplishes that goal well. |
| Roger Waters The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking |
| Run-D.M.C. King Of Rock |
| Rush Rush |
| Rush Test for Echo |
| Ryuichi Sakamoto Async |
| Ryuichi Sakamoto 12 |
| S. Carey Hoyas |
| S. Carey Supermoon |
| Sand Snowman Two Way Mirror |
| Scale the Summit Carving Desert Canyons |
| Seefeel Succour |
| Shpongle Museum of Consciousness |
| Sigur Ros Von |
| Sigur Ros Route One |
| Sigur Ros Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do |
| Sigur Ros ÁTTA |
| Essentially continuing from the orchestral and ambient qualities of Valtari and frontman Jonsi's recent solo album Obsidian instead of exploring new territory. Skel is my favorite, such a beautiful piece of music that sounds like something from a movie score. |
| Skullcrusher Storm in Summer |
| Slayer Christ Illusion |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses |
| Snoop Dogg Tha Doggfather |
| Soen Cognitive |
| Soen Lotus |
| Soundtrack (Film) The Crow |
| Soundtrack (Film) Run Lola Run |
| Soundtrack (Film) Django Unchained |
| Soundtrack (Film) Juno |
| Soundtrack (Film) Baby Driver |
| Soundtrack (Film) The Graduate Soundtrack |
| Soundtrack (Film) Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 2 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Halloween III - Season of the Witch |
| Soundtrack (Film) Forrest Gump |
| Soundtrack (Film) O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
| Soundtrack (Film) Silent Hill The Movie Soundtrack |
| Soundtrack (Film) Nightmare Revisited |
| Soundtrack (Film) Scott Pilgrim vs. The World |
| Soundtrack (Film) Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood |
| Soundtrack (Film) Pacific Rim |
| Soundtrack (Television) Songs in the Key of X |
| Soundtrack (Television) The Legend of Korra: Book One |
| Soundtrack (Television) True Detective (Season 2) |
| Soundtrack (Television) Wednesday |
| Soundtrack (Theatre) Phantom of the Opera [Highlights] |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) The Music of Grand Theft Auto V |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) Mass Effect |
| Spiral Architect A Sceptic's Universe |
| Squeeze Greatest Hits |
| Static-X Wisconsin Death Trip |
| Stereolab Emperor Tomato Ketchup |
| Stereolab Chemical Chords |
| Steven Wilson Unreleased Electronic Music Vol. 1 |
| Steven Wilson The Future Bites (Instrumentals) |
| Steven Wilson The Harmony Codex |
| I have to respect how different The Harmony Codex is once again, which finds Steven Wilson continuing to evolve and experiment with new ideas beyond progressive rock with (mostly) great outcomes. If nothing else its noticeably more successful than the drastic change of The Future Bites, which I was pretty mixed on. THC is truly captivating throughout, sounding a bit similar to TFB but less poppy and a little more loose and sonically diverse. Theres a Jon Hassell sounding trumpet in the first track and just an odd structure overall there, and in Beautiful Scarecrow too that both emphasize electronic instrumentation in unconventional song structures. Then the following tracks are like slow Blackfield ballads meets Pink Floyd, and some prog stuff in Impossible Tightrope, all of which is great. The second half is a bit less consistent but still very good. The Harmony Codex is this nice droney ambient electronic epic and then kind of an art rock feel to the lush 10-minute album closer, Staircase, which is also great. I dont have much to say about the two songs in between those, like the Massive Attack inspired Actual Facts, or the pretty good one with Ninet Tayeb, Rock Bottom either. The clear highlights are What Life Brings, Economies of Scale, Impossible Tightrope, Harmony Codex, and Staircase. Overall not as excellent as anything he released before this decade, but a big improvement on TFB. 7.5 out of 10. |
| Sting The Dream of the Blue Turtles |
| Stray (UK-LDN) Paradise |
| Submotion Orchestra Kites |
| Sufjan Stevens The Greatest Gift |
| Sufjan Stevens All Delighted People |
| Sufjan Stevens Songs For Christmas |
| Sufjan Stevens Javelin |
| Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine A Beginner's Mind |
| Sugar Plant Happy/Trance Mellow |
| Sugar Plant Dryfruit |
| Supercell Today is a Beautiful Day |
| Susumu Yokota Symbol |
| Swallow the Sun When a Shadow Is Forced into the Light |
| Swans The Glowing Man |
| Meditative and hypnotic, The Glowing Man possesses even less traditional song structures than the band's previous efforts. It contains more serene soundscapes than To Be Kind, with no bangers in the form of "Oxygen" to be found. Some nods toward their gothic past take the form of the shorter tracks, while longer epics require the listener's full patience to completely absorb. It bears a few too many similarities to To Be Kind, but The Glowing Man stands as a fantastic outing nonetheless, and one of the highlights of the year. |
| Swans The Burning World |
| Sweet Trip,Technicolor, Flowchart, Color Filter... Drum & Bliss Vol. 2 |
| Swervedriver Mezcal Head |
| Sylvaine Wistful |
| Wistful is an album that develops beautifully throughout. The angelic vocal layers are a huge strength, making for a meditative listening experience despite some of the bombast. Neige from Alcest is behind the instrumentation, lending this to feel almost like a companion album to his band. Highly recommended for fans of Alcest, and of atmospheric music in general. |
| Sylvaine Nova |
| System of a Down System of a Down |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| Talk Talk It's My Life |
| Talk Talk Missing Pieces |
| Tame Impala The Slow Rush B-Sides and Remixes |
| Tangerine Dream Electronic Meditation |
| Tangerine Dream Thief OST |
| Tangerine Dream Sorcerer OST |
| Tangerine Dream Exit |
| Tangerine Dream Hyperborea |
| Tangerine Dream Canyon Dreams OST |
| Tangerine Dream The Seven Letters From Tibet |
| Tartar Lamb Polyimage of Known Exits |
| Team Sleep Team Sleep |
| Technicolor Normal Control Range (Bliss Out Vol. 16) |
| Temple of Thieves Passing Through the Zer0s |
| Tenacious D Tenacious D |
| Tenacious D The Pick of Destiny |
| Tenacious D Rize of the Fenix |
| Tenhi Saivo |
| Tenhi Valkama |
| As ambitious and musically diverse as any of their other releases, a welcome return! Its a bit long-winded and could have used more instrumental passages, but a melancholic and beautiful listen from beginning to end. |
| Tennis Swimmer |
| Testament Souls of Black |
| Testament The Formation of Damnation |
| The 3rd and the Mortal Tears Laid in Earth |
| The 69 Eyes Back In Blood |
| The Agonist Lullabies for the Dormant Mind |
| The Album Leaf In A Safe Place |
| The Album Leaf Into The Blue Again |
| The Avalanches Wildflower |
| The B-52s The B-52's |
| The B-52s Cosmic Thing |
| The Beatles Beatles for Sale |
| The Beatles Please Please Me |
| The Beatles With the Beatles |
| The Blue Nile Peace at Last |
| The Clash The Clash (US version) |
| The Contortionist Intrinsic |
| The Cure Bloodflowers |
| The Dear Hunter Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise |
| The Dear Hunter Act I: The Lake South, the River North |
| The Drones Feelin Kinda Free |
| The Future Sound of London Environments 4 |
| The Future Sound of London Environments 3 |
| The Future Sound of London Accelerator |
| The Future Sound of London Yage 2019 |
| The Gathering if_then_else |
| The Haxan Cloak Beef |
| The Haxan Cloak Beau is Afraid |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| The National I Am Easy to Find |
| Like Trouble Will Find Me meets EL VY, The National pursue a much lighter direction with upbeat rhythms and a plethora of guest musicians, including numerous female vocalists. This new style magnifies the holes of light in the darker atmospheres of Boxer, Trouble..., and Sleep Well Beast, being just as sprawling as those but more scattershot. I Am Easy to Find is by no means as magnificent as The National's classics, but it's clear the band's music is still elegant and passionate with some rewarding new dimensions. |
| The Night Watch The Night Watch |
| The Orb U.F.Orb |
| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Belong |
| The Pineapple Thief Magnolia |
| The Pineapple Thief Dissolution |
| The Runaways The Runaways |
| The Shins Chutes Too Narrow |
| The Shins Wincing the Night Away |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Oceania |
| The Smile Wall of Eyes |
| The Style Council Café Bleu |
| The Sword Apocryphon |
| The War On Drugs I Don't Live Here Anymore |
| The White Stripes White Blood Cells |
| The Winery Dogs The Winery Dogs |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Illusory Walls |
| Theatre Of Tragedy Velvet Darkness They Fear |
| This Mortal Coil It'll End in Tears |
| Thom Yorke The Eraser |
| Thom Yorke Tomorrow's Modern Boxes |
| Thomas Newman Skyfall |
| Thomas Newman Bridge of Spies |
| Thulcandra Fallen Angel's Dominion |
| Thulcandra Under a Frozen Sun |
| Thulcandra Ascension Lost |
| Tim Bowness Songs From The Ghost Light |
| Tim Bowness Stupid Things That Mean The World |
| Tim Bowness Late Night Laments |
| Toby Driver In the L..L..Library Loft |
| Toby Driver Ichneumonidae |
| Tom Waits Rain Dogs |
| Tool Opiate |
| Tool 72826 |
| Tortoise Beacons of Ancestorship |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Mank OST |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Bird Box OST |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Patriots Day OST |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Waves OST |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Empire of Light OST |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross The Killer |
| Trentemoller The Last Resort |
| Trespassers William Cast |
| Trigger the Bloodshed Degenerate |
| Turnover Good Nature |
| Twisted Sister Stay Hungry |
| Tycho The Science of Patterns |
| U2 Zooropa |
| U2 Pop |
| U2 All That You Can't Leave Behind |
| U2 October |
| U2 The Best Of 1990-2000 |
| U2 U218 Singles |
| Ulver Metamorphosis |
| Ulver Childhood's End |
| Ulver Oddities and Rarities #1 |
| Ulver Riverhead OST |
| Ulver Drone Activity |
| Ulver Grieghallen 20180528 |
| Ulver Scary Muzak |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation |
| Underworld dubnobasswithmyheadman |
| Underworld Second Toughest in the Infants |
| Venom Welcome to Hell |
| Vladislav Delay Anima |
| Vladislav Delay Entain |
| Vladislav Delay Multila |
| Votum :KTONIK: |
| Warpaint Warpaint |
| Warpaint Heads Up |
| We Lost the Sea Triumph and Disaster |
| We the Wild From The Cities We Fled |
| Weezer Everything Will Be Alright in the End |
| Whirr Pipe Dreams |
| Whitechapel Whitechapel |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestite |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Malevolent Grain |
| Yndi Halda A Sun-Coloured Shaker |
| Yngwie Malmsteen Rising Force |
| yodaka yodaka |
| Young the Giant Mind Over Matter |
| Young the Giant Home Of The Strange |
| ZZ Top Eliminator |
| 3.0 good |
| 50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin' |
| A Guy Called Gerald Black Secret Technology |
| Abigail Williams The Accuser |
| Abigail Williams In the Absence of Light |
| Abigail Williams In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns |
| AC/DC Black Ice |
| Adrian Belew Lone Rhino |
| Adrian Belew Young Lions |
| Aeon Spoke Nothing |
| Alan Silvestri Ready Player One |
| Alesana On Frail Wings of Vanity and Wax |
| Alestorm Black Sails at Midnight |
| Alestorm Back Through Time |
| Alestorm Leviathan |
| Alice Cooper Along Came a Spider |
| Alice in Chains Rainier Fog |
| All That Remains This Darkened Heart |
| All That Remains Overcome |
| Anarchy Club A Single Drop of Red |
| Anathema Serenades |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion |
| Aphex Twin Digeridoo |
| Aphex Twin Xylem Tube |
| Aphex Twin Girl/Boy EP |
| Aphex Twin Come to Daddy |
| Arctic Monkeys Suck It and See |
| Arctic Monkeys The Car |
| Arma Gathas Dead To This World |
| As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse |
| As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security |
| Audioslave Out of Exile |
| Audioslave Revelations |
| August Burns Red Messengers |
| August Burns Red Leveler |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen: Resurrected |
| Avril Lavigne Under My Skin |
| Bass Communion Molotov And Haze |
| Bass Communion Bass Communion III |
| Bass Communion Sisters Oregon |
| Bass Communion Chiaroscuro |
| Beach House Become |
| Beck Colors |
| Upbeat almost to a fault, Colors finds Beck return to writing pop rock hits for the first time in nearly a decade. This is yet another new direction however, with glossy, modern production and pop hooks galore. While a bit one dimensional in this way, the songs are diverse enough to keep attention for the 40 minute run time. |
| Behemoth The Apostasy |
| Beneath The Sky In Loving Memory |
| Benjamin Wallfisch The Flash |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus |
| Between the Buried and Me Automata II |
| Black Sabbath Technical Ecstasy |
| Black Sabbath Tyr |
| Black Sabbath Cross Purposes |
| Blackfield Welcome To My DNA |
| Blackfield Blackfield IV |
| Blessthefall Witness |
| Blessthefall Awakening |
| Bloodbath Grand Morbid Funeral |
| Blue Oyster Cult Mirrors |
| Born of Osiris A Higher Place |
| Boygenius the rest |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon |
| Brian Eno The Ship |
| Brian Eno Another Day On Earth |
| Brian Eno Foreverandevernomore |
| Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal |
| Bullet for My Valentine The Poison |
| Burn the Priest Burn the Priest |
| Can Landed |
| Can Flow Motion |
| Candlemass Lucifer Rising |
| Cannibal Corpse Vile |
| Cannibal Corpse Tomb of the Mutilated |
| Carnifex Hell Chose Me |
| Carnifex Until I Feel Nothing |
| Chelsea Grin Evolve |
| Chelsea Grin Ashes To Ashes |
| Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet? |
| Christophe Beck Ant-Man |
| Christopher Lee Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross |
| Cliff Martinez Only God Forgives |
| Cloudkicker Subsume |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow |
| Coil Love's Secret Domain |
| Coldplay Everyday Life |
| Coldplay Kaleidoscope |
| Cradle of Filth Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder |
| Cradle of Filth Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa |
| Cradle of Filth From the Cradle to Enslave |
| Crooked X Crooked X |
| Danny Elfman Alice in Wonderland |
| Darkthrone Hate Them |
| David Bowie Black Tie White Noise |
| David Lynch Inland Empire OST |
| David Sylvian When Loud Weather Buffeted Naoshima |
| David Sylvian Died in the Wool: Manafon Variations |
| Death Cab for Cutie Kintsugi |
| Death Cab for Cutie Codes and Keys |
| Death Cab for Cutie Thank You For Today |
| A very pleasant, inoffensive listening experience which is essentially what Death Cab have gone for in the 2010s. Highlights are the first three songs, "Northern Lights," and "60 & Punk." |
| Deftones Adrenaline |
| Deftones B-Sides and Rarities |
| DevilDriver The Fury of Our Maker's Hand |
| DevilDriver The Last Kind Words |
| DevilDriver Beast |
| Disasterpeace Bodies Bodies Bodies OST |
| Dissection Reinkaos |
| Disturbed Believe |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists |
| Disturbed Indestructible |
| Divine Heresy Bringer of Plagues |
| Dream Theater When Dream and Day Unite |
| Dream Theater Systematic Chaos |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings |
| ERRA Impulse |
| Escape the Fate There's No Sympathy for the Dead |
| Escape the Fate Dying Is Your Latest Fashion |
| Evanescence Evanescence |
| Evanescence The Open Door |
| Everything But the Girl Fuse |
| Okay but kind of forgettable. Nothing Left to Lose and Caution to the Wind are my favorite songs. Doesn't touch any of their past releases and not really sure what the point is. Overproduced too, especially Tracey Thorn's vocals. |
| Exodus The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A |
| Exodus Shovel Headed Kill Machine |
| Eyes Set to Kill Reach |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Process of Human Extermination |
| Foals Life Is Yours |
| Foo Fighters Saint Cecilia |
| Foo Fighters Sonic Highways |
| Foo Fighters One by One |
| Galaxie 500 Today |
| Gazpacho Fireworker |
| Ghost (SWE) If You Have Ghost |
| Ghost (SWE) Popestar |
| Ghoulgotha The Deathmass Cloak |
| Goldfrapp Head First |
| Goo Goo Dolls A Boy Named Goo |
| Goo Goo Dolls Greatest Hits Volume One: The Singles |
| Gorillaz Humanz |
| The biggest problem with Humanz lies in how underdeveloped so much of the material sounds. Half-baked trip-hop ideas aplenty, and too many of the songs fly by, hardly leaving much of an impression. "Ascension" and "Carnival" are listenable, but don't really go anywhere beyond what you hear in their first 15-30 seconds. "Charger" is good and sees an appropriate use of a collaboration, and "Busted and Blue" is slower and more atmospheric than the rest, an album highlight, along with the banger "Andromeda." Unfortunately though, most of the tracks lack enough interesting elements that made much of their first three albums so rewarding to listen to. There are many guest appearances, which makes the underwhelming nature of this even more disappointing. Some of them are even the worst and most grating moments of the album, like the screeching vocals in "Momentz" and Danny Brown's appearance in "Submission." I've never been a fan of breaking up an average length album like Humanz (40-50 minutes) with a 10 second interlude every two songs, and the real songs being short much of the time all makes for a pretty underwhelming experience. Still, there is some enjoyable sounds throughout, especially the deluxe bonus tracks. You just have to get past a good amount of filler and interludes to find them. |
| Gorillaz G-Sides |
| Green Day Dookie |
| Grimes Miss Anthropocene |
| Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy |
| HAIM Days Are Gone |
| Haken Visions |
| Haken Affinity |
| Hans Zimmer Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides |
| Hans Zimmer Wonder Woman 1984 |
| Have a Nice Life Sea of Worry |
| Henry Jackman Captain America: Civil War |
| Himsa Summon In Thunder |
| Horseback Dead Ringers |
| In This Moment Beautiful Tragedy |
| In This Moment The Dream |
| In This Moment A Star-Crossed Wasteland |
| Iron Butterfly In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida |
| ISIS Oceanic: Remixes and Reinterpretations |
| Jamie xx In Colour |
| Job for a Cowboy Demonocracy |
| Job for a Cowboy Ruination |
| Job for a Cowboy Gloom |
| John Carpenter Firestarter (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) |
| John Carpenter Vampires |
| John Frusciante Smile from the Streets You Hold |
| John Powell Solo: A Star Wars Story |
| John Williams The Fabelmans |
| John Williams Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny |
| Jonny Greenwood Bodysong |
| Jonsi and Alex Lost and Found |
| Judas Priest British Steel |
| Judas Priest Ram It Down |
| Julien Face of God |
| Junkie XL Godzilla vs. Kong |
| Kataklysm In the Arms of Devastation |
| Kate Bush The Red Shoes |
| Kayo Dot Coyote |
| Kayo Dot Blasphemy |
| An approachable prog rock album with a lot of strengths, Blasphemy unfortunately contains too many annoying qualities to live up to their classics. Toby Driver has some of the best singing moments of his career, and the band's continued embrace of avant-garde synth rock or whatever you'd want to call it produces moments of greatness, despite not reaching the heights of Coffins on Io or Plastic House on Base of Sky. |
| Kayo Dot Purity |
| Kelly Lee Owens Inner Song |
| Kendrick Lamar DAMN. |
| Kendrick Lamar untitled unmastered. |
| Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache |
| King Crimson VROOOM |
| King Crimson The ConstruKction of Light |
| Korn Untouchables |
| Korn The Paradigm Shift |
| Lacuna Coil Karmacode |
| Lacuna Coil Dark Adrenaline |
| Lamb of God New American Gospel |
| Lamb of God Wrath |
| Lamb of God Resolution |
| Lewis Hawaiian Breeze |
| Lights The Listening |
| Lin-Manuel Miranda Hamilton - Original Broadway Cast |
| Liturgy Aesthethica |
| Local Natives Time Will Wait For No One |
| Logic No Pressure |
| Lucy Dacus No Burden |
| Machine Head Through the Ashes of Empires |
| Manntis Sleep In Your Grave |
| Marco Beltrami The Hurt Locker |
| Marilyn Manson Born Villain |
| Marilyn Manson The Golden Age of Grotesque |
| Megadeth Dystopia |
| Megadeth The System Has Failed |
| Megadeth Th1rt3en |
| Megadeth Hidden Treasures |
| Meshuggah The True Human Design |
| Meshuggah Selfcaged |
| Meshuggah Psykisk Testbild |
| Metallica Death Magnetic |
| Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct |
| Metallica Garage Inc. |
| MGMT Time to Pretend |
| Michael Giacchino Doctor Strange |
| Michael Giacchino Spider-Man: Far From Home |
| Michael Giacchino Spider-Man: Homecoming |
| Michael Giacchino Star Trek Into Darkness |
| Michael Giacchino Star Trek Beyond |
| Michael Gira Drainland |
| Michael Jackson This Is It |
| Moving Mountains Moving Mountains |
| Murderdolls Beyond The Valley of the Murderdolls |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations |
| My Morning Jacket Circuital |
| My Morning Jacket My Morning Jacket |
| Myrkur Myrkur |
| Natalie Holt Obi-Wan Kenobi |
| Nest (FIN) Mietteitä |
| Nick Cave and Warren Ellis Dahmer (Soundtrack) |
| Nile At The Gate of Sethu |
| Nile Ithyphallic |
| Nosound Allow Yourself |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Transmat Memories |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Again |
| Opeth Burden |
| Our Oceans While Time Disappears |
| Ozzy Osbourne The Ultimate Sin |
| Ozzy Osbourne Ozzmosis |
| Pale Waves All the Things I Never Said |
| Pantera Power Metal |
| Pantera Reinventing the Steel |
| Paradise Lost Lost Paradise |
| Paradise Lost Medusa |
| Paradise Lost Symbol Of Life |
| Paramore Riot! |
| Paramore Paramore |
| Paramore This Is Why |
| Parkway Drive Deep Blue |
| Passion Pit Manners |
| Passion Pit Gossamer |
| Peeping Tom Peeping Tom |
| Periphery Juggernaut: Omega |
| Periphery Icarus |
| Periphery Clear |
| Phoebe Bridgers Copycat Killer |
| Photek Modus Operandi |
| Pink Floyd The Endless River |
| Pink Floyd More |
| Pink Floyd Ummagumma |
| Pity Sex Feast of Love |
| Popol Vuh Affenstunde |
| Powerman 5000 True Force |
| Prince Batman |
| Queens of the Stone Age In Times New Roman... |
| Their first dud in my opinion, with better production/mixing than Villains but sounding muddled and uninspired to me. No standouts or songs I loved, just a consistently fine rock album from beginning to end. |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey |
| Ramones Ramones |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers One Hot Minute |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Getaway |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Freaky Styley |
| Riverside Wasteland |
| Rob Zombie Educated Horses |
| Rob Zombie Hellbilly Deluxe 2 |
| Robbie Robertson Killers of the Flower Moon OST |
| Run-D.M.C. Down With The King |
| Scale the Summit Monument |
| Scale the Summit V |
| Seefeel (Ch-Vox) |
| Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols |
| Shpongle Codex VI |
| Sigur Ros Sigur Ros Presents Liminal Sleep |
| Sigur Ros Odin’s Raven Magic |
| Silverstein Transitions |
| Silverstein A Shipwreck in the Sand |
| Silverstein When Broken Is Easily Fixed |
| Six Feet Under Undead |
| Six Feet Under Maximum Violence |
| SKATERS Manhattan |
| Slayer Divine Intervention |
| Slayer World Painted Blood |
| Slayer Eternal Pyre |
| Slipknot Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. |
| Slipknot Slipknot |
| Slipknot Iowa |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone |
| Slipknot Vol.3: The Subliminal Verses [Reissue] |
| Slipknot 9.0: Live |
| Snoop Dogg Paid tha Cost to Be da Bo$$ |
| Snoop Dogg Tha Blue Carpet Treatment |
| Soundgarden King Animal |
| Soundtrack (Film) Watchmen: Music from the Motion Picture |
| Soundtrack (Film) Avengers Assemble |
| Soundtrack (Film) Elvis |
| Stereolab Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements |
| Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 1 |
| Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 2 |
| Submotion Orchestra Colour Theory |
| Sufjan Stevens and Lowell Brams Aporia |
| Suicide Silence The Cleansing |
| Swing Out Sister It's Better to Travel |
| Swing Out Sister Kaleidoscope World |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! |
| Talk Talk The Party's Over |
| Tangerine Dream Legend - OST |
| Tangerine Dream Firestarter OST |
| Tangerine Dream Cyclone |
| Tangerine Dream Tyger |
| Taylor Swift 1989 |
| Telefon Tel Aviv Fahrenheit Fair Enough |
| Testament The Ritual |
| The Agonist Once Only Imagined |
| The Beatles Yellow Submarine |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Unhallowed |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal |
| The Black Keys El Camino |
| The Contortionist Our Bones |
| The Cure Wild Mood Swings |
| The Devil Wears Prada With Roots Above and Branches Below |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality |
| The Letter Black Hanging On By A Thread |
| The National The National |
| The National First Two Pages of Frankenstein |
| Even with tempered expectations after I Am Easy to Find, this foray into milquetoast indie folk was still pretty disappointing to hear from one of my top favorite bands for the past decade at least. ...Easy to Find for all its faults at least had a few great tracks that lived up to their classic period. This just sounds tepid and unimaginative too much of the time, and those features are a joke with what wastes they are. I thought Berninger's lyrics were lower quality on the last one but this album takes it another level lower. Sticksman Devendorf also gets very little to do that's impressive. Favs are T-Shirt, This Isn't Helping, Tropic Morning News, Ice Machines, and Your Mind is Not Your Friend, three of which were singles. |
| The Zombies Begin Here |
| Thom Yorke Spitting Feathers |
| Thom Yorke Suspiria: Unreleased Material |
| Thomas Newman Spectre |
| Thrice Identity Crisis |
| Thrice Palms |
| A well made but somewhat disappointing release from Thrice, half of which contains mainstream radio rock and the other half their more innovative side. The best tracks include "The Grey," an effective, high energy track, "Everything Belongs" and "My Soul" being rewarding, atmospheric ballads, and "Blood on Blood" contains some beautiful acoustic guitar and harp sections. This is definitely worth a listen, but unfortunately is pretty inconsistent overall. |
| Thrice Deeper Wells |
| Thrice Horizons/East |
| Toby Driver The Slowly Self-Coalescing Album of Vagrant... |
| Toby Driver N.G.H.4.M. |
| Toby Driver and Nick Hudson Black Feather Under Your Tongue |
| Tom Waits Night on Earth |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Watchmen: Volume 1 OST |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Watchmen: Volume 2 OST |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Watchmen: Volume 3 OST |
| Trickfinger Trickfinger |
| Trophy Scars Astral Pariah |
| U2 Songs of Experience |
| Songs of Experience is no different from most modern U2: accessible and maybe a bit safe, but this embodies a more triumphant and resilient tone than predecessors Songs of Innocence and No Line... It won't convert detractors of the band, but U2's latest is a diverse collection of effective, inspirational pop rock anthems that are worth hearing. Summer of Love, Red Flag Day, and 13 (There is a Light) are the album highlights. |
| U2 Songs of Innocence |
| U2 Rattle and Hum |
| U2 Original Soundtracks 1 (As Passengers) |
| Underoath The Changing of Times |
| Underworld Beaucoup Fish |
| Underworld A Hundred Days Off |
| UNKLE Psyence Fiction |
| Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City |
| Veil of Maya The Common Man's Collapse |
| Veil of Maya [id] |
| Vladislav Delay The Four Quarters |
| Volumes Via |
| Walk the Moon Walk the Moon |
| Warpaint Radiate Like This |
| We Lost the Sea Crimea |
| Weezer The Green Album |
| Weezer Maladroit |
| Weezer Hurley |
| White Zombie Make Them Die Slowly |
| Whitechapel This Is Exile |
| Whitechapel A New Era of Corruption |
| Wild Nothing Life of Pause |
| While Life of Pause perhaps lacks as much depth as Wild Nothing's previous releases, this is still a fairly enjoyable and blissfully nostalgic sounding record. The songwriting and lush production job channels the likes of Slowdive and The Cure in the best ways. "Life of Pause," "Alien," and "To Know You" is perhaps the band's finest trifecta of songs yet. Overall this is a fun, diverse dream pop record that deserves multiple listens to fully sink in and appreciate. |
| Will Smith Willennium |
| Will Smith Lost and Found |
| Will Smith Greatest Hits |
