| 5.0 classic |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| Circle Takes The Square As the Roots Undo |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About |
| Dear future girlfriends of Daryl Palumbo, don't fuck with him. Besides the fact that this album contains some of the best post-hardcore riffs and overall songwriting, Daryl Palumbo makes this record what it is with his lyrics and sheer intensity. Lyrical standouts such as "I don't give a f.uck about your dignity, that's the bastard in me," show you how much ruthless emotion when through Daryl while recording this album. This album did wonders for the post-hardcore genre, it in turn, influenced bands such as Finch among others. GlassJAw has changed my life for the better and I can't say that about many other bands. It's only a matter of time before it changes yours. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Refused The Shape of Punk to Come |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity |
| This album shattered the limits of technicality, erased anyone's thought of a standard time signature, and broke a few metronomes. Calculating Infinity was the first significant release in the genre it is presented in. The lyrics are meaningful, the musicianship is ridiculous and blended together, it creates an utter masterpiece. This album will not be for everyone, but everyone should at least appreciate the edge at which they took music to. "What pawns we have become in this bland little play" no more, for it is no longer bland thanks to Dillinger's groundbreaking release Calculating Infinity. |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| The Microphones The Glow pt.2 |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 (Re-release) |
| Tool Aenima |
| 4.5 superb |
| A Place to Bury Strangers Exploding Head |
| Ampere / Daitro Split |
| Andrew Bird The Mysterious Production Of Eggs |
| Animal Collective Feels |
| Battles Mirrored |
| Beach House Teen Dream |
| Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot |
| Blackalicious Blazing Arrow |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver |
| Boredoms Super Ae |
| Botch We Are the Romans |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene |
| Built To Spill Keep It Like A Secret |
| Built To Spill Perfect From Now On |
| Cannibal Ox The Cold Vein |
| Cap'n Jazz Analphabetapolothology |
| Catch 22 Keasbey Nights |
| Choking Victim No Gods, No Managers |
| Circle Takes The Square Rites of Initiation |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind |
| Cursive Domestica |
| Cursive The Ugly Organ |
| Cursive I Am Gemini |
| Daft Punk Discovery |
| Daitro / Sed Non Satiata Split |
| Dark Time Sunshine Vessel |
| Deadmau5 4x4=12 |
| Deerhunter Cryptograms |
| Deftones White Pony |
| Destroyer Kaputt |
| Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca |
| Do Make Say Think Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn |
| Do Make Say Think You, You're a History in Rust |
| Envy A Dead Sinking Story |
| I cannot comprehend the Japanese dialect, but I can comprehend good music when I hear it. The flow is seamless as the songs transition into their majestic ride of raging emotions. The guitar work is thick at times, strumming mercilessly into infinite chaos, but there are moments where it is serene and captivating. The drumming is incredibly effective and the bass provides a dense backbone. These guys love what they do and love to show their abilities. "A Dead Sinking Story" will be a record I hold onto for a long time simply because it is an incredible piece of music and art. |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma |
| Ghostface Killah Twelve Reasons to Die |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book |
| Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles) |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas... |
| GY!BE are the modern day composers of the past. They create an orchestra of sound just using modern day and older instruments clashing together to create one sound. Excellent homework music or music that can cater to focusing on a particular project. Who needs lyrics when you have beauty in the music itself. Superb. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F#A# (Infinity) |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! |
| Grizzly Bear Yellow House |
| Somewhere within the home recordings of Grizzly Bear lurks an untouched comfort zone. Enter Grizzly Bear's latest release, Yellow House, which is a complex, cohesive, and cozy lo-fi indie-rock album. With haunting vocal harmonies paving the way, acoustic and electric guitars meticulously create a challenging, jaw-dropping record. Songs like "The Knife" and "On a Neck, On a Split" are prime examples of Grizzly Bear's unique style, which is something so dark, yet so beautiful. This is an album to remember for a long, long time. |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest |
| Grizzly Bear Shields |
| Grizzly Bear have outdone themselves again with Shields, sticking to what they know best, yet rehashing their sound to not sound outdated. This may be the best indie rock album of 2012, and with that, they are proving to be one of the most consistent bands in the genre. |
| GZA Liquid Swords |
| Isis Panopticon |
| J Dilla Donuts |
| James Blake Overgrown |
| Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid (Suites II and III of IV) |
| Japandroids Post-Nothing |
| If Post-Nothing doesn't melt your heart with its jubilant youthful charm, then I really don't know what to say. This two-piece garage/punk band out of Vancouver are bringing the energy of such acclaimed acts like At The Drive-In and Cap'n Jazz, but never over thinking their next hook; rather letting the album flow with a gracious, warm smile. Roll the windows down and raise the volume because Japandroids is here to stay this summer. |
| Joanna Newsom Ys |
| Joanna Newsom Have One on Me |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city |
| Leonard Cohen Songs of Leonard Cohen |
| Local Natives Gorilla Manor |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming |
| Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything To Nothing |
| Manchester Orchestra Simple Math |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine |
| Miles Davis Bitches Brew |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West |
| Mountains Centralia |
| Mr. Bungle California |
| Murder by Death Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them? |
| Murder by Death Like the Exorcist, but More Breakdancing |
| Nas Illmatic |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral |
| Off Minor Some Blood |
| Panda Bear Person Pitch |
| Panda Bear Tomboy |
| Pg. 99 Document #8 |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II |
| Raekwon Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine |
| Regina Spektor Begin To Hope |
| Rx Bandits ...And the Battle Begun |
| Rx Bandits Mandala |
| Sam Cooke Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964 |
| Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy |
| I had lost faith, faith in the genre that was once called pop punk. It slowly transcended downward in the past couple of years but then their was a light, a light known as Say Anything. Their album "...Is A Real Boy" is what this genre should be about. Elegant songwriting and more fun than you could ever imagine. Highlights include the gem making fun of music scenes known as "Admit It!!!" along with "Alive With The Glory of Love" and "Spider Song." My faith is rekindled with this album, and I couldn't be happier. |
| Say Anything ...Is A Real Boy (re-release) |
| Say Anything In Defense of the Genre |
| Sigur Ros ( ) |
| Sigur Ros med sud i eyrum vio spilum endalaust |
| Slint Spiderland |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation |
| Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline |
| Stars of the Lid produced a soundtrack of elegance. 'And Their Refinement Of The Decline' is a breathtaking, beautiful journey through ambient landscapes all packed within a double disc album. The overall atmosphere is nothing short of incredible. Whether it is the soft, brood cello tones in "Tippy's Demise" or the haunting piano strokes in "Humectez La Mouture," the mood is captured in a flash of brilliance. 'And Their Refinement Of The Decline' is intriguing, lush, captivating, and most importantly, unforgettable. |
| Steinski What Does It All Mean? |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois |
| Sufjan Stevens All Delighted People |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Diary |
| Sunny Day Real Estate How It Feels To Be Something On |
| Swans The Seer |
| The Antlers Hospice |
| The Blood Brothers ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn |
| The Darcys The Darcys |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis |
| The Dismemberment Plan Emergency & I |
| The Dodos Visiter |
| This year, The Dodos have caught on like a wildfire. Not often do I really say music has intangibles, but Vister is an exception to that rule. From "Walking" to "God," the ride twists and turns with eloquent vocals and a stripped down sound that is irresistible to deny. With the exception of "It's That Time Again," this album is incredible. The lyrics are beautiful and painful; going through a tumultuous love journey within a personal life experience. So many nooks and crannies to discover and explore with each listen between the little hints of electric guitar in "Fools" to the complete directional change in "Joe's Waltz," Vister is simply stunning. It's time to catch on. |
| The Dodos No Color |
| The Mountain Goats Tallahassee |
| The Mountain Goats All Hail West Texas |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die |
| The Seatbelts Cowboy Bebop Boxed Set |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting We Must Become the Change We Want to See |
| The Weeknd House of Balloons |
| Thrice The Illusion Of Safety |
| Thursday War All the Time |
| Thursday Full Collapse |
| Today is the Day Willpower |
| Tom Waits Rain Dogs |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Tortoise Millions Now Living Will Never Die |
| TV on the Radio Dear Science |
| TV On The Radio followed up 'Return To Cookie Mountain' with an absolutely enticing, breathtaking, and brilliant album found in 'Dear Science.' Every weakness found in their previous works have been resolved. The output of 'Dear Science' is on another level and simply beyond comprehension. Tracks like "Halfway Home," "Family Tree," "DLZ," and "Golden Age" are only a few indie-rock masterpieces among the entire album. 'Dear Science' has the intangibles that is something to get excited about. Seriously, just get it already. |
| TV on the Radio Nine Types of Light |
| United Nations United Nations |
| The hardcore/emo style of the early 90s went missing, so Geoff Rickly and company (possibly members of GlassJAw and Converge) decided to revive the sound they once cherished under the name United Nations. Containing the technicality and rawness that defined 90s emo, United Nations recaptures the sound with incredible vigor and liveliness. The album is riddled with on-and-off melodic/coarse vocals countered with dense power-chord riffs and the occasional finger tapping, most notably on No Sympathy For A Sinking Ship, Subliminal Testing, and Model UN. I would say that sound has been revivified. |
| Various Artists (Indie) Dark Was The Night |
| Venetian Snares Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett |
| Weezer Pinkerton |
| Weezer The Blue Album |
| William Basinski The Disintegration Loops II |
| WU LYF Go Tell Fire to the Mountain |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) |
| 4.0 excellent |
| 90 Day Men Panda Park |
| American Football American Football |
| American Football American Football EP |
| Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha |
| Animal Collective Strawberry Jam |
| Animal Collective Fall Be Kind |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album |
| Arcade Fire Funeral |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible |
| Armchairpolitician Seven Segment Decoder |
| At the Drive-In Acrobatic Tenement |
| At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out |
| Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution A Call To Arms |
| Bat For Lashes Two Suns |
| Battles B EP |
| Beach House Bloom |
| Beirut Gulag Orkestar |
| Beirut Lon Gisland |
In a medley of instruments, Beirut's 'Lon Gisland' creates a fantasy-type atmosphere. The EP follows "Gulag
Orkestar" with a more exuberant and lively collection of songs. With beautiful melodies and trumpet-lines,
it leaves your ears dancing. "Scenic World" is redone and it blows away the original with a much bolder
sound. "Lon Gisland" ends with the fantastic 'Carousels' which is sure to leave you spinning in a cheerful
mood. A truly fantastic record.
|
| Belle and Sebastian If You're Feeling Sinister |
| Belle and Sebastian The Life Pursuit |
| Ben Frost By The Throat |
| Blacklisted Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God |
| blink-182 Dude Ranch |
| BLK JKS Mystery EP |
| BLK JKS have been lurking since 2000 in the depths of South Africa. Only now, with their major label released album, Mystery EP, have they been able to broadcast their enjoyably smooth, avant rock/afrobeat sound. "Lakeside" pulses listeners as the quartet create a giddy, hymnal trance of bliss. |
| Bob Dylan The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan |
| Bob Dylan Blonde On Blonde |
| Bob Dylan No Direction Home: The Soundtrack |
| Boris Pink |
| Boris With Michio Kurihara Rainbow |
| Botch An Anthology of Dead Ends |
| Brand New Deja Entendu |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon |
| Brand New Fight Off Your Demons (The Demos) |
| Brand New Daisy |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning |
| Bright Eyes Fevers & Mirrors |
| Bright Eyes The People's Key |
| Broken Social Scene You Forgot It In People |
| Broken Social Scene Forgiveness Rock Record |
| Brother/Ghost Black Ice |
| Bucket Full Of Teeth IV |
| Bucket Full Of Teeth I, II, III |
| Burial Untrue |
| Cave In White Silence |
| Circa Survive Juturna |
| City of Caterpillar City of Caterpillar |
| Clint Mansell & Kronos Quartet Requiem for a Dream |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 |
| Converge You Fail Me |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky |
| Converge No Heroes |
| The best way to describe this album: Misrepresented. There are certain genres that people should know they will not like, and Metalcore is one of them. With Converge's lastest release "No Heroes" people have gone based off of popularity on whether to pick it up or not. Simply because it was voted the top album by 15ish people does not mean they represent the entire world for what the top album of 2006 is. This album has plenty to offer and is a gem in the Converge collection with breaktaking riffs and menacing drumming. From the sludge-metal "Plagues" to the 58 second "Vengeance" Converge provides a relentless experience. It's a shame that it got in the wrong hands of the wrong people. We have been learning thoughout our lifetimes to adapt to certain things and Converge may be one of them. |
| Cursive Burst and Bloom |
| Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains |
| With Cymbals Eat Guitars debut release Why There Are Mountains lies raw passion and unnoticed brilliance. Every word and riff appears delicately planned as their unrefined indie rock, with a post rock edge, entices listeners repeatedly. Upon the first listen unravels their spontaneous, yet cohesive foundation. Every listen after is simply a bonus, whether it be dancing to the charming hit Some Trees or feeling that rush of euphoria sliver down your spine during Wind Phoenix. These guys know how to shred, and hardly show any form of inexperience. Gritty and soulful, Why There Are Mountains shouts a million-and-one reasons why Cymbals Eat Guitars should be playing right now; give it a spin and you too will know the reasons. |
| Cynic Traced in Air |
| Daitro Laisser Vivre Les Squelettes |
| Dalek Abandoned Language |
| Dan Deacon Spiderman of the Rings |
| Dan Deacon Bromst |
| Dangers Messy, Isn't It? |
| Daniel Bjarnason Processions |
| Daughters Hell Songs |
| Daughters Daughters |
| Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables |
| Deerhunter Microcastle |
| Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights |
| Deftones Around the Fur |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| DJ/rupture Uproot |
| Do Make Say Think Goodbye Enemy Airship the Landlord Is... |
| Do Make Say Think Other Truths |
| Don Caballero American Don |
| Dr. Dog Fate |
| Dr. Octagon Dr. Octagonecologyst |
| Ed Gein It's A Shame That A Family Can Be Torn Apart By... |
| Eric's Trip Love Tara |
| Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth... |
| Explosions in the Sky How Strange, Innocence |
| Fang Island Fang Island |
| Far Water & Solutions |
| Far At Night We Live |
| Fear Before Art Damage |
| Fear Before The Always Open Mouth |
| Feist Let It Die |
| Feist The Reminder |
| Finch Say Hello to Sunshine |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes |
| Flying Lotus Los Angeles |
| Folly Insanity Later |
| Fuck Buttons Street Horrrsing |
| Fuck Buttons Tarot Sport |
| Fugazi The Argument |
| Fugazi 13 Songs |
| Fugazi Repeater |
| Ghastly City Sleep Ghastly City Sleep |
| Girl Talk Night Ripper |
| Gogol Bordello Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World |
| Green Day Dookie |
| Harvey Milk Courtesy and Good Will Toward Men |
| Harvey Milk Life... The Best Game in Town |
| Head Wound City Head Wound City EP |
| In Pieces Lions Write History |
| Incubus S.C.I.E.N.C.E. |
| Incubus Fungus Amongus |
| Iron & Wine The Shepherd's Dog |
| Isis Oceanic |
| Isis Wavering Radiant |
| Islands Arm's Way |
| Jaga Jazzist What We Must |
| Jurassic 5 Quality Control |
| Justice Cross |
| Kanye West Late Registration |
| Kanye West 808s & Heartbreak |
| Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue |
| Kayo Dot Coyote |
| Kendrick Lamar Section.80 |
| Kid Kilowatt Guitar Method 1996-1999 |
| Kidcrash Jokes |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King |
| Kiss Kiss Reality Vs. The Optimist |
| Letlive. Fake History |
| Lifetime Jersey's Best Dancers |
| Lightning Bolt Hypermagic Mountain |
| Lightning Bolt Earthly Delights |
| M.I.A. Kala |
| Maps & Atlases Tree, Swallows, Houses |
| Maps & Atlases You and Me and the Mountain |
| Maps & Atlases Perch Patchwork |
| Mare Mare |
| Mastodon Leviathan |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye |
| maudlin of the Well Part the Second |
| Menomena Friend And Foe |
| Meshuggah I |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue |
| Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice |
| Modern Life Is War Witness |
| Modest Mouse Good News For People Who Love Bad News |
| Modest Mouse This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To.. |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank |
| Mogwai Happy Songs for Happy People |
| Mogwai Young Team |
| Mount Eerie Black Wooden Ceiling Opening |
| Mount Eerie No Flashlight |
| Moving Mountains Pneuma |
| Mudvayne L.D. 50 |
| Murder by Death In Bocca Al Lupo |
| My Bloody Valentine m b v |
| Nas & Damian Marley Distant Relatives |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! |
| No Age Weirdo Rippers |
| No Age Nouns |
| Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe |
| Onelinedrawing The Volunteers |
| Onelinedrawing Visitor |
| Onelinedrawing Sketchy EP #1 |
| Orchid Chaos Is Me |
| Orchid Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow! |
| Owen Pallett He Poos Clouds |
| Parades Foreign Tapes |
| Passion Pit Manners |
| Past Lives Strange Symmetry |
| Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain |
| Pg. 99 Document #7 |
| Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix |
| Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After |
| Pig Destroyer Phantom Limb |
| Pixies Doolittle |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa |
| Poison the Well The Opposite of December |
| Portishead Third |
| Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese |
| Propagandhi Supporting Caste |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire |
| Refused Refused Are Fucking Dead |
| Rites of Spring End on End |
| Rx Bandits The Resignation |
| Shellac 1000 Hurts |
| Shining (SWE) V - Halmstad |
| Shugo Tokumaru Exit |
| Shugo Tokumaru Night Piece |
| Sigur Ros Ágætis Byrjun |
| Sigur Ros Takk... |
| Soundtrack Garden State |
| St. Vincent Actor |
| Steve Miller Band Fly Like an Eagle |
| Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between |
| Sufjan Stevens Michigan |
| Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans |
| Sufjan Stevens Songs For Christmas |
| Sun Kil Moon April |
| Surfer Blood Astro Coast |
| System of a Down System of a Down |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| Tera Melos Tera Melos |
| Tera Melos Patagonian Rats |
| The Antlers Burst Apart |
| The Appleseed Cast Sagarmatha |
| The Avalanches Since I Left You |
| The Beatles Revolver |
| The Bled Pass The Flask |
| The Decemberists Her Majesty the Decemberists |
| The Decemberists The Crane Wife |
| The Decemberists The Hazards Of Love |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer |
| The Fall of Troy Ghostship |
| The Flashbulb Kirlian Selections |
| The Locust Plague Soundscapes |
| The Locust Safety Second, Body Last |
| The Locust New Erections |
| The Mars Volta Tremulant |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath |
| The Microphones Mount Eerie |
| The Mountain Goats We Shall All Be Healed |
| The Mountain Goats The Sunset Tree |
| The National Alligator |
| The National Boxer |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Nuclear, Sad, Nuclear |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Mongrel |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting Tiger and the Duke |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting The Ocean and the Sun |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt |
| The Weakerthans Reconstruction Site |
| The Weakerthans Left and Leaving |
| The Weakerthans Reunion Tour |
| The World/Inferno Friendship Society Just the Best Party |
| The Wrens Meadowlands |
| The xx xx |
| Thee Silver Mount Zion This Is Our Punk-Rock, Thee Rusted Satellites Gather and Sing |
| These Arms Are Snakes Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home |
| These Arms Are Snakes Easter |
| Thrice The Artist In The Ambulance |
| Thrice Vheissu |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV |
| Thrice Major/Minor |
| Thursday Common Existence |
| Thursday No Devolucion |
| Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor |
| Tom Waits Bad As Me |
| Tool Undertow |
| Tortoise TNT |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me |
| Touche Amore/La Dispute Searching for a Pulse/The Worth of the World |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross The Social Network |
| Trophy Scars Hospital Music |
| Trophy Scars Bad Luck |
| TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain |
| Unearth III: In the Eyes of Fire |
| United Nations Nevermind the Bombings, Here's Your Six Figures |
| Ben Koller is a dirty, dirty man on drums and he alone makes "Never Mind the Bombings, Here's Your Six Figures" worth it. |
| Venetian Snares Doll Doll Doll |
| Verse Aggression |
| Vic Chesnutt North Star Deserter |
| Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary |
| Wu-Tang Clan 8 Diagrams |
| Yeasayer All Hour Cymbals |
| Zu Carboniferous |
| 3.5 great |
| Ampere All Our Tomorrows End Today |
| Andrew Bird Noble Beast |
| Animal Collective Sung Tongs |
| Animal Collective Spirit They're Gone... |
| Animal Collective Centipede Hz |
| Aphex Twin Come To Daddy |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works, Vol. II |
| Aphex Twin Windowlicker |
| Aphex Twin Drukqs |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs |
| At the Drive-In This Station Is Non-Operational |
| Aussitot Mort 6 Songs |
| Autechre Confield |
| Battles EP C |
| Behold... The Arctopus Nano-Nucleonic Cyborg Summoning EP |
| Beirut The Flying Club Cup |
| Blacklisted Peace On Earth, War On Stage |
| blink-182 Enema of the State |
| Blue Sky Black Death Late Night Cinema |
| Bon Iver Blood Bank |
| Boris Amplifier Worship |
| Boris Smile |
| Botch American Nervoso |
| Brendan Canning Something For All of Us... |
| Bright Eyes Lifted or the Story is in the Soil... |
| Bright Eyes Cassadaga |
| Cat Power You Are Free |
| Cat Power The Greatest |
| Cease Upon the Capitol Untitled |
| Ceremony Still Nothing Moves You |
| Chamillionaire The Sound of Revenge |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise |
| Circle Takes The Square Circle Takes the Square |
| cLOUDDEAD cLOUDDEAD |
| Coheed and Cambria Live at the Starland Ballroom |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness |
| Converge When Forever Comes Crashing |
| Converge The Poacher Diaries |
| Converge Axe to Fall |
| Cursive Happy Hollow |
| Cursive Mama, I'm Swollen |
| Daft Punk Homework |
| Deerhunter Weird Era Cont. |
| Deerhunter Monomania |
| Defiance, Ohio The Great Depression |
| Defiance, Ohio Midwestern Minutes |
| Deftones Adrenaline |
| Department of Eagles In Ear Park |
| Do Make Say Think & Yet & Yet |
| Don Caballero World Class Listening Problem |
| El Guincho Alegranza! |
| Eluvium Copia |
| Envy Insomniac Doze |
| Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone |
| They say everything is bigger in Texas. Well if you are talking about the sound resonating from Texas natives, Explosions in the Sky, then you are right. Their new album entitled, All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone, takes listeners from tranquility to glistening roars throughout with perfectly placed crescendos and decrescendos. They build off their previous release, The Rescue, that took an astonishing eight days to write and record. Like The Rescue, they incorporate a piano and an auxiliary of different instruments for added layers of effect. Be certain to check out the stunningly beautiful single, Welcome, Ghosts, to get an inside glimpse of the contents within. |
| Fear Before Fear Before |
| Feist Metals |
| Flight of the Conchords Flight of the Conchords |
| Folly Resist Convenience |
| Four Tet There is Love in You |
| From Autumn To Ashes Too Bad You're Beautiful |
| Fucked Up Hidden World |
| Fucked Up The Chemistry of Common Life |
| fun. Aim and Ignite |
| Gatsbys American Dream Ribbons and Sugar |
| Gatsbys American Dream Gatsby's American Dream |
| Genghis Tron Cloak of Love |
| Genghis Tron Dead Mountain Mouth |
| Ghostface Killah Fishscale |
| Ghostface Killah Ironman |
| Ghostface Killah The Big Doe Rehab |
| Girl Talk Feed the Animals |
| Girls Album |
| Glassjaw El Mark |
| Glassjaw Kiss Kiss Bang Bang |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O |
| Grizzly Bear Horn of Plenty |
| Have Heart Songs to Scream at the Sun |
| HEALTH HEALTH |
| Hella Hold Your Horse Is |
| HORSE the band R. Borlax |
| HORSE the band The Mechanical Hand |
| Incubus Morning View |
| Isis In the Absence of Truth |
| James Blake James Blake |
| Kanye West The College Dropout |
| Kanye West Graduation |
| KEN mode Entrench |
| Kiss Kiss The Meek Shall Inherit What's Left |
| Kylesa Static Tensions |
| LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver |
| LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening |
| Leftover Crack Mediocre Generica |
| Liars Sisterworld |
| Lightning Bolt Ride The Skies |
| Lightning Bolt Oblivion Hunter |
| Lil Wayne Tha Carter III |
| Loma Prieta Last City |
| Los Campesinos! Hold On Now, Youngster... |
| M83 Before The Dawn Heals Us |
| maudlin of the Well Bath |
| Mesa Verde The Old Road |
| Meshuggah obZen |
| Method Man Tical |
| Micachu Jewellery |
| Minus the Bear Menos El Oso |
| Minus the Bear Acoustics |
| Mogwai Ten Rapid (Collected Recordings 1996-1997) |
| Mogwai Mr. Beast |
| Mount Eerie Lost Wisdom |
| Murder by Death Red Of Tooth And Claw |
| New End Original Thriller |
| No Age Everything In Between |
| Oceansize Effloresce |
| Okkervil River The Stage Names |
| Old Man Gloom Meditations in B |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Opeth Deliverance |
| Pavement Wowee Zowee |
| Pavement Slanted and Enchanted: Luxe and Reduxe |
| Pelican March Into the Sea |
| Pg. 99 Document #5 |
| Pig Destroyer Terrifyer |
| Pink Mountain Pink Mountain |
| Poison the Well Tear From the Red |
| Polvo In Prism |
| Primus Animals Should Not Try To Act Like People |
| Psyopus Ideas of Reference |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium |
| Red Sparowes Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red... |
| Refused Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent |
| Regina Spektor Soviet Kitsch |
| Regina Spektor 11:11 |
| Regina Spektor Far |
| Rock Plaza Central Are We Not Horses |
| Rx Bandits Progress |
| Saetia A Retrospective |
| Shangrala This Is How We Communicate |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon |
| Snowman The Horse, the Rat and the Swan |
| St. Vincent Marry Me |
| Stephen Malkmus Real Emotional Trash |
| Subtle ExitingARM |
| Sufjan Stevens The Avalanche: Outtakes and Extras |
| Sunn O))) Monoliths and Dimensions |
| Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock |
| Tera Melos Drugs to the Dear Youth |
| Tera Melos Split: Complex Full of Phantoms |
| Texas Is the Reason Do You Know Who You Are? |
| The Antlers In the Attic of the Universe |
| The Appleseed Cast Two Conversations |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| The Bled Found In The Flood |
| The Blood Brothers Crimes |
| The Decemberists Picaresque |
| The Decemberists Castaways and Cutouts |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine |
| The album cover sort of describes "Miss Machine." The reason is that the songs are all there, but the order is horrendous for the most part. To switch from Setting Fire To Sleeping Giants to Baby's First Coffin to Unretrofied to The Perfect Design is beyond me. While their are great songs on this album, no song really would be considered their best that they have released by any means. If there were a "starter Dillinger CD," this would be ideal due to the accessibility factor. A decent release from the Dillinger Escape Plan. |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Under the Running Board |
| The Dodos Time to Die |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger |
| The Fall of Troy Phantom on the Horizon |
| The Gaslight Anthem The 59 Sound |
| The Get Up Kids There Are Rules |
| The Locust The Locust |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron |
| The Mountain Goats Get Lonely |
| The Mountain Goats Heretic Pride |
| The Mountain Goats Satanic Messiah |
| The Mountain Goats The Life of the World to Come |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You An Inch of Gold for An Inch of Time |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Worse Than Alone |
| The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds |
| The Postal Service Give Up |
| Thee Silver Mount Zion Horses in the Sky |
| Thee Silver Mount Zion 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons |
| These Arms Are Snakes Tail Swallower and Dove |
| This Will Destroy You Young Mountain |
| Thursday A City By the Light Divided |
| Thursday/Envy Thursday/Envy |
| Times New Viking Rip It Off |
| Tokyo Police Club A Lesson in Crime |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Tortoise A Lazarus Taxon |
| Transistor Transistor Ruined Lives |
| TTNG Animals |
| Venetian Snares Cavalcade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Pom Poms |
| William Basinski The Disintegration Loops I |
| Young Widows Old Wounds |
| 2.5 average |
| Andrew Bird Weather Systems |
| Animal Collective Water Curses |
| Atlas Sound Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See... |
| Audioslave Audioslave |
| Botch Unifying Themes Redux |
| Burton Wagner 21 |
| Circa Survive On Letting Go |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow |
The fourth of five installments of Coheed and Cambria's enormous concept series has finally arrived with what seems more fitting for a book club than something included in a musical discussion. The reason is simple; Coheed and Cambria's once brilliant song writing, musically, has completely lost steam and regained a majority of the attention towards the storyline. "Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV - Volume 2: No World For Tomorrow" features songs that are reminiscent of eighties progressive metal, more or less, and ripped solos reminiscent of something from Eddie Van Halen's playbook. They abandon the simplistic elegance they once had with songs, and overwork them into a wrought collection of songs.
In addition, Coheed and Cambria try to recreate the progressive greatness that was 'The Willing Well I, II, III, IV,' four epic songs, with semi-epic songs in 'The End Chapter I, II, III, IV, V.' Beyond that, the inconsistencies are scattered between catchy and complex songs like 'No World For Tomorrow' and 'The End Chapter- III- The End Complete,' but is overshadowed by bland tracks that are flat-out bad like 'Feathers' and 'Mother Superior.' Hopefully, the final installment with this saga will reconnect with what once made Coheed and Cambria unique and not something recycled. |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow |
| Converge Caring and Killing |
| Daft Punk Human After All |
| Dalek Gutter Tactics |
| Drake Thank Me Later |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory |
| Ed Gein Judas Goats & Dieseleaters |
| Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon |
| Fink Sort Of Revolution |
| From Autumn To Ashes Abandon Your Friends |
| Gavin Castleton Home |
| HEALTH Get Color |
| HORSE the band Pizza |
| Jaguar Love Take Me to the Sea |
| Jonah Matranga And |
| Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward |
| Korn Follow The Leader |
| Lamb of God As The Palaces Burn |
| Maps & Atlases Bird Barnyard |
| MGMT Oracular Spectacular |
| Murder by Death Good Morning, Magpie |
| My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought... |
| Norma Jean O' God The Aftermath |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries |
| The enigmatic thing about Opeth is no matter how complex their songs may sound, they all sound the same. Whether it is a metal portion or a random soft acoustic portions (first 5 songs contain such), they do not advance their structuring of songs. They drag the songs out and add some marvelous progressive break or acoustic melody that makes the song calm for a bit and then builds up. Nothing new. Another problem encountered is they simply don't know when to end their song. They apparently cannot write a metal jam that is under 7 minutes, anything under that time is simply known as a "break" basically. A true disappointment for myself after Blackwater Park and a disappointment for a band that is quickly losing its flavor. |
| Pennywise Reason to Believe |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Freaky Styley |
| RoxXn Digital Waves + Tonight |
| Sigh Scenes from Hell |
| Some Girls Heaven's Pregnant Teens |
| Soulfly Primitive |
| System of a Down Hypnotize |
| The (International) Noise Conspiracy Survival Sickness |
| The Academy Is... Almost Here |
| The Antlers Undersea |
| The Bled Silent Treatment |
| The Blood Brothers Young Machetes |
| The Fall of Troy Manipulator |
| The Fall of Troy provide a lackluster effort with their latest release "Manipulator." The unenthusiastic start to the album, (first six songs) are essentially the downfall. In contrast, the last six songs are filled with energy and creative songwriting. In fact, it may be some of their best work, but the production quality fails as a whole to showcase these talents. The last key problem is their sound is nothing new in comparison to their previous releases. While they do try to incorporate new sounds, it is all fairly similar. If you can manage to get through the first six songs, you may enjoy this release as a whole. Otherwise, it is a snoozefest that struggles to regain composure after it's painful start. |
| The Flashbulb Soundtrack to a Vacant Life |
| The Locust Flight of the Wounded Locust |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting Lover, the Lord Has Left Us... |
This was one of the more anticipated releases for me this year, and this CD fell flat on it's face. Not only did I expect more than their last release, but less interludes considering I heard that were going to be 14 songs. I popped this CD in my friends car who did not know what to expect, and I am thinking it is going to knock our socks off and all I get are techno beats and opera singing/talking for the most part. The interlude trash that is randomly thrown in this album ruins the effect. This was one of the biggest disappointments in my CD purchasing history. There are some good songs that I can enjoy, but for the most part this is a postal service type CD rather than a sequel to "Tiger and the Duke." Sure this is experimental and such but they went in a direction that I don't think many were expecting. Horses in the Sky, The Heretic, My Horse Must Lose, and Skullflower are all enjoyable.
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| The Streets The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living |
| The World/Inferno Friendship Society The Anarchy and the Ecstasy |
| Tortoise Beacons of Ancestorship |
| Unearth The Oncoming Storm |
| Weezer The Red Album |
