| 4.5 superb |
| A Winged Victory for the Sullen A Winged Victory for the Sullen |
| Anberlin Cities |
| As Cities Burn Come Now Sleep |
| As Tall As Lions As Tall As Lions |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| Atmosphere Sad Clown Bad Spring 12 |
| Atmosphere Lucy Ford: The Atmosphere EPs |
| Brand New Daisy |
| Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports |
| Clipse Hell Hath No Fury |
| Closure in Moscow First Temple |
| Closure in Moscow have created a near-perfect album here. Catchiness is not sacrificed for technicality, and there is a strong sense of experimentation that exists in song structures that still have an appearance of conventional. The album is a dichotomy in itself of a band that is unabashedly catchy and unafraid to chase different influences at the same time. |
| cLOUDDEAD cLOUDDEAD |
| Coalesce Functioning on Impatience |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Dead Poetic New Medicines |
| Deaf Havana Fools And Worthless Liars |
| Deas Vail All The Houses Look The Same |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist |
| Eluvium When I Live by the Garden and the Sea |
| Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail |
| Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth... |
| Eyedea & Abilities E&A |
| Fear Before The Always Open Mouth |
| One of my favorite bands, and their best release. A tad more structured than previous releases, it blends the manic cacophony that defined past albums and combined it with a more mature sound. They experiment, but not to the point where the songwriting suffers. They utilize everything from monstrous riffs to eerie keyboards, and it works better for them than most bands attempting to do the same. Atmosphere coincides with heaviness in the spirit of a truly experimental band. Recommended Songs: "Drowning the Old Hag", "Mouth", and "...As a Result of Signals Being Crossed" |
| Frank Ocean Channel Orange |
| Frank Ocean created something that transcended my disdain for the genre, which I didn't think possible. The variety in beats, guest appearances, and tone will appeal to most listeners. There are a few missteps here, as some songs are brilliant but awkwardly placed, with a few songs that should not have made the cut. This is dangerously close to an absolute masterpiece, and for the time that Ocean has been in the game, it has become obvious from this release that he will be a staple for critics and mainstream listeners alike. |
| Funeral Diner The Underdark |
| Giants Old Stories |
| Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles) |
| Hopesfall No Wings To Speak Of |
| Iron & Wine Our Endless Numbered Days |
| Macklemore and Ryan Lewis The Heist |
| Manchester Orchestra I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child |
| Matthew Robert Cooper Miniatures |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister |
| Minus the Bear This is What I Know About Being Gigantic |
| Misery Signals Controller |
| My Dying Bride The Dreadful Hours |
| My Epic Broken Voice |
| Non-Prophets Hope |
| Sole Selling Live Water |
| Stars of the Lid The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid |
| Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal |
| The Blood Brothers Crimes |
| The Candlepark Stars Shimmer and Gold |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene |
| The Honorary Title Scream And Light Up the Sky |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Worse Than Alone |
| The Receiving End of Sirens Between the Heart and the Synapse |
| Themselves TheFREEhoudini |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II |
| 3.5 great |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead The Secret of Elena's Tomb |
| Aesop Rock None Shall Pass |
| Alexisonfire Watch Out! |
| Alexisonfire Crisis |
| Anberlin Dark Is The Way, Light Is A Place |
| Anberlin Never Take Friendship Personal |
| One of my go-to listens for catchiness and content. I love this one, and this rating is obviously skewed; what do you want from me?! |
| Anchor & Braille Felt |
| Architecture In Helsinki In Case We Die |
| As Cities Burn Son, I Loved You At Your Darkest |
| At The Throne of Judgment The Arcanum Order |
| Atmosphere Sad Clown Bad Fall 10 |
| August Burns Red Leveler |
| August Burns Red Thrill Seeker |
| Bad Books Bad Books |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus |
| Blueprint 1988 |
| Brian Eno Small Craft on a Milk Sea |
| Built on Secrets Reflections |
| Chevelle Sci-Fi Crimes |
| Chevelle Vena Sera |
| Chevelle Hats Off to the Bull |
| Chiodos Illuminaudio |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky |
| Copeland Eat, Sleep, Repeat |
| Copeland Know Nothing Stays The Same |
| Dance Gavin Dance Whatever I Say Is Royal Ocean |
| Dead And Divine What Really Happened at Lover's Lane |
| Dead And Divine The Machines We Are |
| Dead Man In Reno Dead Man In Reno |
| Deaf Havana It's Called The Easy Life |
| Deas Vail Deas Vail |
| Deas Vail White Lights |
| Death Cab for Cutie We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes |
| Eighteen Visions Until the Ink Runs Out |
| Eluvium Lambent Material |
| Emarosa Relativity |
| Embrace The End Counting Hallways to the Left |
| Emery We Do What We Want |
| Emery I'm Only A Man |
| Engineers In Praise of More |
| Evergreen Terrace Burned Alive By Time |
| Explosions in the Sky How Strange, Innocence |
| Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone |
| Fear Before Art Damage |
| Finch What It is to Burn |
| Finch Finch |
| Four Year Strong Rise Or Die Trying |
| From Autumn To Ashes The Fiction We Live |
| From Graves of Valor Famine |
| Funeral for a Friend Seven Ways To Scream Your Name |
| Funeral for a Friend Hours |
| Grieves Together/Apart |
| Halifax The Inevitability of a Strange World |
| Haste the Day Dreamer |
| Haste the Day Burning Bridges |
| Haste the Day Pressure The Hinges |
| Hawkboy Hawkboy |
| As Cities Burn's frontman Cody Bonnette makes few missteps on Hawkboy's first EP. His passionate vocals overshadow the songwriting here, but this much is sure; if you enjoyed his last band, there is alot to love here. |
| Hester Prynne The Goswell Divorce |
| Hopesfall A Types |
| House Of Heroes Say No More |
| Ignominious Incarceration Of Winter Born |
| Invocation of Nehek Invocation of Nehek |
| Kevin Devine Split the Country, Split the Streets |
| Kevin Devine Brother's Blood |
| Light This City Facing The Thousand |
| Mirah You Think It's Like This But Really It's |
| Misery Signals Of Malice and the Magnum Heart |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West |
| New Found Glory Radiosurgery |
| New Found Glory Not Without A Fight |
| New Found Glory Sticks and Stones |
| Past Lives Tapestry of Webs |
| Red Sparowes The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein... |
| Russian Circles Station |
| Sage Francis Human The Death Dance |
| Search The City A Fire So Big The Heavens Can See It |
| Search This City present a perfect melding of pop punk and alt rock; the production is crisp and large-sounding. Incredibly catchy choruses dominate most of the tracks and make this a much more fun listen than it should be. Lyrics are generic, and despite the drums being somewhat post hardcore-inspired , the instrumentation is nothing new. For fans of: The Classic Crime, Anberlin, and My Epiphany. |
| Senses Fail Life Is Not A Waiting Room |
| Senses Fail continue to hone their craft on Life Is Not a Waiting Room. While the highlight songs don't match up to the last full length, it is a more consistent album. The screaming has matured quite a bit, and even if Buddy Nielsen isn't utilizing it as much on this album, it is incredibly effective. Ultimately, if you like Senses Fail, you will enjoy this album. If you didn't like them before this, you won't enjoy this one very much, either. |
| Senses Fail Still Searching |
| Senses Fail Renacer |
| Signal Hill Signal Hill EP |
| Signal Hill More After We're Gone |
| Sigur Ros Von |
| So Long Forgotten Beneath Our Noble Heads |
| Spitalfield Remember Right Now |
| Still Remains The Serpent |
| Still Remains Of Love And Lunacy |
| Straylight Run About Time EP |
| I'm a sucker for Nolan's vocals; I still hear the passion in his voice and the lyrics. All four songs are incredibly strong here imo. |
| The Bled Found In The Flood |
| The Bled Silent Treatment |
| The Classic Crime Albatross |
| The Color Morale My Devil In Your Eyes |
| The Color Morale seem to have everything it takes to be a prototypical Rise Records band; endless chugging, sing/scream dynamic, and a littany of breakdowns. With that being said, there are nuances that make this record stand out among many others in the genre. Passionate, incredible clean vocals and interesting guitar leads make for a great listen. It helps that the lyrics aren't the normal drivel about lost love and devotion to God; it is in the small details here that point to a good record and an even better one in the future. |
| The Fall of Troy The Fall of Troy |
| The Fall of Troy Manipulator |
| The Human Abstract Nocturne |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Mongrel |
| The Receiving End of Sirens The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi |
| These Arms Are Snakes Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home |
| This or the Apocalypse Dead Years |
| Thrice The Artist In The Ambulance |
| Through the Eyes of the Dead The Scars of Ages |
| Through the Eyes of the Dead Bloodlust |
| Thursday Full Collapse |
| Thursday Common Existence |
| TTNG Animals |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation |
| Underoath Define the Great Line |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety |
| With Dead Hands Rising The Horror Grows Near |
| Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary |
| Yesterdays Rising When We Speak, We Breathe [EP] |
