| 65daysofstatic One Time for All Time | 4.0 |
| 65daysofstatic We Were Exploding Anyway | 4.0 |
| Aidan Knight Small Reveal | 3.5 |
| Aidan Knight Versicolour | 4.0 |
| AJJ People Who Can Eat People are the Luckiest People | 3.5 |
| AJJ Can't Maintain | 4.0 |
| AJJ Knife Man | 4.0 |
| Algernon Cadwallader Some Kind Of Cadwallader | 4.0 |
| alt-J An Awesome Wave | 4.0 |
| American Football American Football | 4.0 |
| Anamanaguchi Dawn Metropolis | 3.5 |
| Anamanaguchi Endless Fantasy | 3.5 |
| Incomparably greater in size and scope than its predecessor Dawn Metropolis, and even though it can get exhausting listening to an album over an hour and fifteen minutes long of the same style of super sugary electropop over twenty-two tracks, this is as good as serious chiptune music gets. |
| And So I Watch You From Afar All Hail Bright Futures | 3.0 |
| Animal Collective Ark | 3.0 |
| Animal Collective Campfire Songs | 3.0 |
| Animal Collective Centipede Hz | 3.0 |
| Sometimes it sounds like a fantastic blend of the colourful fun from Strawberry Jam and the shapeless noise from Here Come the Indian, but often it sounds too much of a muddy clusterfuck of an album to be compared to anything between Sung Tongs and Merriweather Post Pavilion. |
| Animal Collective Sung Tongs | 3.5 |
| Animal Collective Feels | 4.0 |
| Slower, more still, lyrical and ambient compared to AC's other stuff. Has what are easily some of the band's most heart-stoppingly beautiful material on it. |
| Animal Collective Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Strawberry Jam | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 4.5 |
| Animal Collective's most accessible, most lush, most varied, and most fun album to date. A perfect culmination of all the brilliant sounds AC has been responsible for bestowing upon us in the past. |
| Anti-Flag The Terror State | 4.0 |
| Arcade Fire The Arcade Fire | 3.5 |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible | 4.0 |
| Arcade Fire Reflektor | 4.0 |
| Shockingly dense and by no means an easy listen, Reflektor can be forbidding with its existentialist themes, daunting length, and epic scope, even by Arcade Fire's standards. Will probably take many listens to fully understand, but this is the band's most intricate and meticulously planned album yet. |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs | 4.5 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 5.0 |
| I woke up in the darkest night, neighbours all shouting that they found the light. (WE FOUND THE LIGHT) |
| Arctic Monkeys AM | 2.5 |
| Arstidir Svefns og vöku skil | 3.5 |
| Arstidir Arstidir | 4.0 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 4.0 |
| Atoms for Peace Amok | 3.0 |
| Bad Religion Christmas Songs | 2.5 |
| Bad Religion Stranger Than Fiction | 3.5 |
| Balance and Composure Separation | 3.0 |
| Balance and Composure The Things We Think We're Missing | 3.0 |
| Band of Horses Everything All the Time | 3.0 |
| Band of Horses Cease to Begin | 3.5 |
| Baths Cerulean | 3.5 |
| Baths Obsidian | 3.5 |
| Battles Mirrored | 3.0 |
| Battles Gloss Drop | 4.0 |
| Beach House Teen Dream | 4.0 |
| Beach House Bloom | 4.0 |
| Beirut The Rip Tide | 3.5 |
| Beirut Gulag Orkestar | 4.0 |
| Beirut's Gulag Orkestar has so much nostalgic beauty and earnestness and love in it it brought me to tears rupon first listen. |
| Beirut The Flying Club Cup | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence | 4.0 |
| Bibio Silver Wilkinson | 3.5 |
| Big Black Delta Big Black Delta | 3.0 |
| Black Flag Damaged | 3.5 |
| Blur The Great Escape | 3.0 |
| Blur Parklife | 4.0 |
| Blur Blur | 4.0 |
| Blur 13 | 4.0 |
| Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children | 3.0 |
| Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase | 3.0 |
| Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest | 3.5 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 3.0 |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 4.0 |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 4.0 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 4.0 |
| Bright Eyes A Christmas Album | 2.5 |
| Bright Eyes Digital Ash in a Digital Urn | 3.5 |
| Absolutely nothing wrong with this album; I actually really enjoyed it. However, Bright Eyes's music is really better suited for a more sentimental, acoustic sound rather than the stuff on this darker, melodrama-soaked, mostly electronic album. Often reminded me of a less refined Postal Service (in a good way). |
| Bright Eyes Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground | 4.0 |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning | 4.0 |
| Bright Eyes Cassadaga | 4.0 |
| Broken Bells Broken Bells | 1.5 |
| Broken Bells's appeal is one of the great mysteries of music in my opinion. Go back to The Shins, James. You're drunk. |
| Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People | 3.5 |
| Burial Rival Dealer | 3.0 |
| Burial Untrue | 4.5 |
| Camera Obscura Desire Lines | 3.0 |
| Capital Cities In A Tidal Wave of Mystery | 1.5 |
| "Support for Capital Cities comes from lazy hooks." You got that fucking right. |
| Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Trout Mask Replica | 4.0 |
| Caspian Waking Season | 4.0 |
| Caspian Hymn For The Greatest Generation | 4.0 |
| Can't say I was exactly in love with either the demo or the remixes on this album, but the original material on here was so fantastic this just might end up being my favourite EP of the year. |
| Chance the Rapper Acid Rap | 3.5 |
| Childish Gambino Camp | 2.0 |
| Childish Gambino Because the Internet | 2.5 |
| CHVRCHES Recover | 4.0 |
| CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe | 4.0 |
| "Purity Ring lite". Melody-loving, hooky synthpop that knows almost no equal when it comes to writing electronic pop songs that penetrate even the most cynical, elitist hearts. |
| City and Colour Little Hell | 3.5 |
| Classixx Hanging Gardens | 3.0 |
| Coldplay X&Y | 3.0 |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | 4.0 |
| Not exactly as much of an album of fiery anthems for the revolution as the cover art and title would have you think, but a surprisingly great album of catchy, well-written, radio-ready pop-rock singles. |
| Colin Stetson New History Warfare Vol 2: Judges | 4.0 |
| Colin Stetson New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light | 4.0 |
| Crash of Rhinos Knots | 3.5 |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories | 4.0 |
| Dan Mangan Postcards and Daydreaming | 3.5 |
| Dan Mangan Oh Fortune | 4.0 |
| Dan Mangan Nice, Nice, Very Nice | 4.5 |
| Darkside Psychic | 3.5 |
| Dashboard Confessional The Swiss Army Romance | 1.0 |
| Maybe the single most unenjoyable album I own. Unbearable from start to finish. Not a single redeeming quality or aspect in the songwriting, lyricism, vocals, instrumentation, structure, etc. |
| Dashboard Confessional A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar | 2.5 |
| Dead Kennedys In God We Trust, Inc. | 3.0 |
| Dead Kennedys Plastic Surgery Disasters | 4.5 |
| Deafheaven Roads to Judah | 3.0 |
| What keeps Roads to Judah from being really great is definitely no shortcoming in the capacities for talent any of Deafheaven's band members might have, but really in the somewhat messy production and a sound that is big but could be so much bigger. |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 4.5 |
| Impeccably produced, accessible yet genuine black metal. Overlaps the genres of black metal, shoegaze, post-rock, and screamo seamlessly to make an uplifting, triumphal, larger-than-life album to knock your socks off, especially if you're new to extreme metal. |
| Death (USA-MI) ...For the Whole World to See | 4.5 |
| Maybe I'm the only one around here who thinks this album sounds fucking revolutionary. |
| Death Cab for Cutie We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes | 2.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Something About Airplanes | 2.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie The Photo Album | 3.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs | 3.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Plans | 3.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Codes and Keys | 3.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism | 4.5 |
| Death Cab really outdo themselves on Transatlanticism, making what is by far their most emotional, most fluid, most cohesive, and most rocking album. Ben Gibbard really got his shit together for this. |
| Death Grips Exmilitary | 4.0 |
| Death Grips Government Plates | 4.0 |
| Death Grips The Money Store | 4.5 |
| Endless abrasive, aggressive, experimental, and unforgivingly noisy fun. The hip hop equivalent of listening to a Battles LP. |
| Deer Leap Here. Home. | 3.5 |
| Deer Leap/The World Is A Beautiful Place... Are Here To Help You | 4.0 |
| Deerhunter Monomania | 3.5 |
| Destroyer Kaputt | 3.0 |
| It was alright, I guess. My score is subject to change in the future, though, as it's definitely possible that I'll discover why everyone loves the hell out of it. |
| Diamond Dancer Will You? | 4.0 |
| Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me | 4.0 |
| Dinosaur Jr. Farm | 4.0 |
| Dinosaur Jr. I Bet on Sky | 4.0 |
| Disclosure Settle | 3.0 |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... | 4.0 |
| Earl Sweatshirt Doris | 3.0 |
| Earth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II | 3.0 |
| Earth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I | 3.5 |
| Earth The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull | 4.0 |
| Echosmith Talking Dreams | 1.5 |
| Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros Here | 3.0 |
| Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) What It Takes to Move Forward | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die... | 3.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone | 3.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take Care | 3.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 4.0 |
| Failure Fantastic Planet | 4.0 |
| Fall Out Boy Infinity on High | 3.5 |
| Father John Misty Fear Fun | 3.0 |
| Feist Metals | 3.0 |
| Strangely primal and ethereally beautiful, but often the album really does seem to drag and leaves the listener wanting a lot more to grab their attention. |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes EP | 3.5 |
| Fleet Foxes Sun Giant | 4.0 |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes | 4.0 |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues | 4.5 |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma | 4.0 |
| Foo Fighters Foo Fighters | 3.0 |
| Foster the People Torches | 2.5 |
| I was under the impression that the purpose of pop music was to create infectious, catchy music that is instantly memorable, but I guess I could be wrong... |
| Frank Ocean channel ORANGE | 3.5 |
| Franz Ferdinand Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action | 3.0 |
| Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better | 4.0 |
| Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand | 4.5 |
| Frightened Rabbit Pedestrian Verse | 3.5 |
| Frightened Rabbit The Midnight Organ Fight | 4.0 |
| Now THIS is what folk-rock/folk-pop should sound like. |
| fun. Some Nights | 2.0 |
| There is no way Nate Ruess doesn't know this album is bad. The dude's made really, really great pop music before, whether it be fun.'s first album or the stuff he did with The Format. That was good pop music. This is an album of party-rock anthems for pre-pubescent tweens. |
| fun. Aim and Ignite | 4.0 |
| Future of the Left How To Stop Your Brain In An Accident | 3.5 |
| The musical equivalent of being repeatedly punched in the face by a Welshman angry about the recent decline of popular post-hardcore. |
| Ghost Atlas Gold Soul Coma | 3.0 |
| Even though it kinda follows the style of bands that represent everything I hate about the direction post-hardcore has taken in the past several years, this is actually slightly impressive. |
| Giraffes? Giraffes! Superbass!!! | 3.5 |
| God Is an Astronaut Origins | 3.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 5.0 |
| And when you penetrate to the most high God,ryou will believe you are mad. You will believe you've gone insane. |
| Grateful Dead American Beauty | 4.0 |
| Green Day 21st Century Breakdown | 3.0 |
| It's actually pretty fun, just as long as you don't take it seriously. At all. Also, although I really dislike musical purist movements, especially in punk rock, calling this anything other than pop-punk (with a big emphasis on the "pop" part) would be a stretch. |
| Green Day Dookie | 3.5 |
| If Green Day ever really were punk, this is when they were. |
| Grizzly Bear Yellow House | 3.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Shields | 3.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest | 4.0 |
| HAIM Days Are Gone | 4.0 |
| A very impressive debut album from a group that may be one of the most promising indie pop acts I've heard this year. |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness | 4.0 |
| Holy Ghost! Dynamics | 3.5 |
| Iceage New Brigade | 3.5 |
| Iceage You're Nothing | 3.5 |
| Imagine Dragons Night Visions | 3.5 |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 3.5 |
| Into It. Over It. Proper | 4.0 |
| Into It. Over It. Intersections | 4.0 |
| Iron Chic The Constant One | 4.0 |
| James Blake Overgrown | 3.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Damage | 3.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Bleed American | 4.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Clarity | 4.0 |
| Joie de Vivre We're All Better Than This | 3.5 |
| Jonsi Go | 4.0 |
| Jordan Klassen Repentance | 3.0 |
| Definitely not without its fair share of weak tracks, but overall an enjoyable and decently solid folk pop album. I am impressed with this dude and intend to see him live. |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures | 2.5 |
| I'm not as enthralled with this as everyone else is for the same reason that I've never been too into Interpol or Bloc Party or The National: this persuasion of post-punk just really isn't for me. |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience | 3.5 |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak | 2.5 |
| Kanye West Yeezus | 3.0 |
| Sounds like a much less gritty and much less edgy Death Grips album. Even though only a couple of tracks on the album really entertained me at all, I see how it could serve as a good, accessible entry point to the more sludgy, industrial side of hip hop. |
| Kanye West Graduation | 3.5 |
| Kanye West The College Dropout | 4.0 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 4.0 |
| Katy Perry Prism | 3.0 |
| As repetitive and formulaic and lacking in any surprises whatsoever as it may be, there's actually not a lot on here that would be offensive to those who listen to music on a "deeper" level. Sometimes (actually, almost throughout the entirety of the album) the lyrics are vapid, but Ms. Perry is still a good vocalist on this album of infectious, foot-stomping, radio-friendly pop anthems. |
| Kayo Dot Hubardo | 4.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar Section.80 | 4.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city | 4.5 |
| This'll probably be the album that'll be remembered by my future self as the album that got me into hip-hop; the LP that really made me realize how relevant, deep, and sobering music of this genre really can be. |
| Kodaline In a Perfect World | 2.0 |
| Krallice Years Past Matter | 4.0 |
| Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Nandacollection | 3.5 |
| Kyte Dead Waves | 3.5 |
| La Dispute Wildlife | 4.0 |
| Lady Gaga Artpop | 2.0 |
| LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver | 3.5 |
| LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening | 4.0 |
| Lit A Place In The Sun | 3.0 |
| Liturgy Aesthethica | 3.5 |
| Logos Cold Mission | 2.5 |
| Lorde Pure Heroine | 4.0 |
| M83 Saturdays=Youth | 2.5 |
| Saturdays = Youth occupies a pretty average and underwhelming spot in the middle of the road between the more lo-fi, shoegazy drama of Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts, and the epic, arena-ready synthpop jubilation of Hurry Up, We're Dreaming. |
| M83 Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts | 3.5 |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming | 3.5 |
| Margot and the Nuclear So and So's The Dust of Retreat | 4.0 |
| Marianas Trench Masterpiece Theatre | 4.0 |
| Maritime Human Hearts | 2.5 |
| Melt-Banana Fetch | 3.5 |
| Metronomy The English Riviera | 2.5 |
| Nothing really badly made on here, just thoroughly unentertaining and forgettable. |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister | 4.0 |
| MGMT Oracular Spectacular | 3.0 |
| MGMT MGMT | 3.0 |
| Dense, claustrophobic, psychedelic, and weird, and all in a good way, but sometimes I think MGMT are trying a little too hard to hammer the final nail in Electric Feel's, Time to Pretend's, and Kids' family-sized coffin. Nevertheless, anyone who still wasn't convinced by Congratulations that these guys deserve to be taken a little more seriously has probably changed their minds after listening through this record. |
| MGMT Congratulations | 4.0 |
| I can understand how this album would disappoint some of the fans MGMT made with the pop single-heavy Oracular Spectacular, but really I wasn't expecting the band to prove themselves to be so well-read, self-aware, creative, and original. Props to these guys. |
| Mineral The Power of Failing | 4.0 |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice | 2.5 |
| Smart and intricate, but sometimes the most notable merits this album has also make it (and really everything else Minus the Bear have made) seem cold, calculated, and soulless. |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About | 3.0 |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News | 3.5 |
| Though it has some of what is undeniably some of Modest Mouse's best material on it, sometimes the album's seemingly deliberate messiness and sudden, total shifts in genre and tone detract from the experience. |
| Modest Mouse No One's First, and You're Next | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse's most accessible release so far, and much more cohesive and focused that its predecessor. While they have their strong points and their weak points, Modest Mouse are as edgy, raw, and idiosyncratically weird as ever, despite what hipsters will say. |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica | 4.5 |
| Solemn, desolate, and lonely, but so earnest and beautiful too. Modest Mouse's finest record and an indie rock landmark of the 2000s. |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West | 4.5 |
| Mogwai Come On Die Young | 3.5 |
| Mogwai Rock Action | 3.5 |
| Mogwai Happy Songs for Happy People | 4.0 |
| Mogwai Mr. Beast | 4.0 |
| Probably a good introduction album for Mogwai (and post-rock in general) newcomers. Neither as introspective or as cosmic as their earlier work, but that's not the point of this record. The point is to rock, and they really succeed on that front. |
| Mogwai Young Team | 4.5 |
| Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind | 3.5 |
| Mount Eerie Pre-Human Ideas | 3.0 |
| Mount Eerie Clear Moon | 3.5 |
| Mount Eerie Dawn | 4.0 |
| Mr. Bungle California | 4.0 |
| Mumford and Sons Babel | 2.0 |
| Mumford and Sons Sigh No More | 2.5 |
| Muse The 2nd Law | 2.0 |
| There's not really too much musically offensive material on most of the tracks on The 2nd Law for those familiar with Muse's sound, unless you count being remarkably formulaic and predictable as musically offensive. I actually like Panic Station and Explorers, despite them being practically made of cheese, and I kinda dig the dubstep influence on Follow Me. What makes this album amazing is how spectacularly it derails itself and completely falls apart so unforgettably in it's last several tracks. |
| Muse Showbiz | 3.5 |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 3.5 |
| Muse The Resistance | 3.5 |
| Muse Absolution | 4.0 |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry | 4.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine m b v | 4.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 4.5 |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge | 4.0 |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade | 4.0 |
| Nathan Fake Drowning in a Sea of Love | 3.0 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel On Avery Island | 4.0 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 5.0 |
| When you were young, you were the king of carrot flowers... |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 4.0 |
| No Age An Object | 2.5 |
| No Age Nouns | 4.0 |
| Noah and the Whale The First Days of Spring | 2.5 |
| Noah and the Whale Heart Of Nowhere | 3.0 |
| Oasis The Masterplan | 3.5 |
| Oasis Definitely Maybe | 4.0 |
| Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? | 4.5 |
| Of Monsters and Men My Head is an Animal | 4.0 |
| of Montreal Satanic Panic in the Attic | 4.0 |
| of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? | 4.0 |
| of Montreal Lousy With Sylvianbriar | 4.0 |
| of Montreal The Gay Parade | 4.5 |
| On An On Give In | 3.5 |
| One Direction Midnight Memories | 1.5 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Replica | 3.5 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never R Plus Seven | 3.5 |
| OneRepublic Waking Up | 2.5 |
| OneRepublic Native | 3.5 |
| Pacific Air Stop Talking | 3.5 |
| Panic! at the Disco Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die! | 3.0 |
| Passion Pit Manners | 3.0 |
| Passion Pit Gossamer | 4.0 |
| Super sugary pop music paired with lyrics about depression, loneliness, exclusion, economic disparity, and disillusionment with the very ideas of love and happiness. Though some tracks might initially be annoying at first, it really becomes a great album when you listen past the sounds on top and really get to the meaning behind the songs. |
| Phoenix (FRA) Bankrupt! | 2.5 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | 3.5 |
| Pity Sex Dark World | 3.0 |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa | 4.0 |
| Pixies Doolittle | 4.5 |
| Prawn You Can Just Leave It All | 3.5 |
| Propagandhi Failed States | 3.5 |
| Propagandhi Potemkin City Limits | 4.0 |
| Propagandhi Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes | 4.0 |
| Pulp Different Class | 3.5 |
| Purity Ring Shrines | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 4.5 |
| Radical Face Ghost | 3.0 |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey | 3.0 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 3.0 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 4.0 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 4.5 |
| An almost perfect rock record. Cryptic lyricism and great production with tons of variance throughout Radiohead's most grungy, badass album. |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 5.0 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 5.0 |
| Claustrophobic, paranoid, unsettling music that is disturbing yet familiar. The perfect soundtrack for the disconnected coldness of life in the 21st century. |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness | 4.0 |
| Rise Against Appeal to Reason | 4.0 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels | 4.0 |
| Russian Circles Empros | 3.5 |
| Russian Circles Memorial | 4.0 |
| Ryan Adams Ashes And Fire | 3.5 |
| Said the Whale Islands Disappear | 2.0 |
| Say Anything In Defense of the Genre | 3.5 |
| Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy | 4.5 |
| Self Defense Family Try Me | 4.0 |
| Shabazz Palaces Black Up | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros Kveikur | 2.5 |
| Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Takk... | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros ( ) | 4.5 |
| Sigur Ros Valtari | 4.5 |
| Sky Ferreira Night Time, My Time | 2.5 |
| Even though it's a fairly enjoyable experience, Sky Ferreira's debut album really doesn't have anything on it that would set it apart from a run-of-the-mill album from a mainstream pop artist in terms of depth, colour, or originality. I honestly believe that people wouldn't be raving about her if she were more popular and well-known to the general public than she is. |
| Sleeping With Sirens Feel | 1.0 |
| Oh my fucking god. I'm usually open to more cheesy or melodramatic genres of music but I honestly didn't know things this bad existed. |
| Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space | 4.0 |
| Stars Set Yourself On Fire | 4.0 |
| Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) | 4.0 |
| Streetlight Manifesto The Hands That Thieve | 3.5 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between | 4.0 |
| Sunn O))) Monoliths and Dimensions | 4.0 |
| Ominous and dolorous, but strangely beautiful and uplifting as it progresses. Good entry point into the genre for those new to drone music and doom metal. |
| Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky | 3.0 |
| Swans The Seer | 4.0 |
| Swans Soundtracks for the Blind | 4.5 |
| Swans Children of God | 4.5 |
| Music from the most horrifying recesses of the abyss. Absolutely bone-chilling. |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock | 4.0 |
| Talk Talk Spirit of Eden | 4.0 |
| Tame Impala Lonerism | 3.5 |
| The Academy Is... Almost Here | 4.0 |
| The Album Leaf In A Safe Place | 3.0 |
| The Antlers Burst Apart | 2.5 |
| The Antlers In the Attic of the Universe | 4.0 |
| The Antlers Hospice | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Revolver | 4.5 |
| The Black Keys Rubber Factory | 3.5 |
| The Decemberists The King Is Dead | 3.0 |
| Easy and somewhat likeable but mostly forgettable. Listening to this thing gives me the impression that it's probably intended to be a "cool down record" for The Decemberists after the two sprawling and ambitious albums that preceded it. Too bad it couldn't be more entertaining while serving that purpose. |
| The Decemberists Castaways and Cutouts | 3.5 |
| The Decemberists Picaresque | 4.0 |
| The Decemberists Her Majesty the Decemberists | 4.0 |
| The Decemberists The Hazards of Love | 4.0 |
| The Decemberists The Crane Wife | 4.5 |
| Colin Meloy has an exceptional talent for storytelling, and what I believe to be the finest Decemberists record to date allows him to really shine in that aspect, writing a fluid and creatively structured album made of short, catchy pop tracks to make us sing and dance, and longer, quasi-prog-rock ballads that really are surprisingly deep, moving, heartfelt, and extraordinarily well-written. |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer | 4.0 |
| The Dismemberment Plan Uncanney Valley | 2.5 |
| Occasionally catchy, sometimes even danceable, but The Dismemberment Plan's idiosyncratic, relatable neuroticism and inimitable ironic and introspective genius that made Emergency & I so special to me will be sorely missed. |
| The Dismemberment Plan Change | 3.5 |
| The Dismemberment Plan The Dismemberment Plan Is Terrified | 4.0 |
| The Dismemberment Plan Emergency & I | 5.0 |
| If I play this album enough then maybe the broken pieces of my heart will stay together, but ain't no turntable can spin forever. |
| The Flaming Lips The Terror | 3.0 |
| The Flaming Lips Transmissions From the Satellite Heart | 3.5 |
| The Flaming Lips Embryonic | 4.0 |
| The Flaming Lips Peace Sword | 4.0 |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots | 4.5 |
| Filled with awe and wonderment at our beautiful world, but also with melancholy and sorrow. So sad it makes you laugh, and so happy it makes you cry. |
| The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin | 4.5 |
| The Format Interventions and Lullabies | 3.5 |
| The Format Dog Problems | 4.5 |
| The Front Bottoms Talon of the Hawk | 4.0 |
| The Gaslight Anthem Handwritten | 3.0 |
| The Killers Day & Age | 3.0 |
| The Killers Hot Fuss | 4.0 |
| The Knife Silent Shout | 3.0 |
| The Knife Deep Cuts | 3.5 |
| It's just a pretty solid synthpop album. Kinda weird too. In a good way, anyway. |
| The Knife Shaking the Habitual | 3.5 |
| This is a primal, visceral, and raw album, totally stripped of any inhibitions or obligation to musical convention. It's so weird and so crazy in such a good way, even if some parts like the fleetingly short primeval songs or the forbiddingly long ambient tracks could use a little more work to keep them interesting. |
| The Libertines Up The Bracket | 4.0 |
| The Libertines The Libertines | 4.0 |
| The Libertines Don't Look Back Into the Sun | 4.0 |
| The Lumineers The Lumineers | 3.0 |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet | 3.5 |
| The Microphones It Was Hot, We Stayed In The Water | 4.0 |
| The Microphones Mount Eerie | 4.5 |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 | 4.5 |
| Full of an almost incomparably honest, heartfelt, and sincere love of nature and the world. |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me | 2.0 |
| The National High Violet | 2.5 |
| The Neighbourhood I Love You. | 1.5 |
| Depressingly meritless. Cringeworthy lyricism and annoying vocals. Not a single song on here that's worth returning to again. |
| The New Pornographers Electric Version | 3.5 |
| The New Pornographers Challengers | 3.5 |
| The New Pornographers Together | 3.5 |
| The New Pornographers Twin Cinema | 4.0 |
| The New Pornographers Mass Romantic | 4.0 |
| The Postal Service Give Up | 4.0 |
| The Shins Oh, Inverted World | 2.5 |
| The Shins Chutes Too Narrow | 3.0 |
| The Shins Port of Morrow | 3.5 |
| The Shins Wincing the Night Away | 4.0 |
| It knows it can't change the world, but its greatness is in the fact that it doesn't try. |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Oceania | 3.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | 4.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream | 4.5 |
| The Stone Roses The Stone Roses | 4.5 |
| The Strokes First Impressions of Earth | 2.0 |
| Starts off decent, but quickly deteriorates after the fourth track and becomes what's easily The Strokes' most bloated, boring, confused record. |
| The Strokes Angles | 3.0 |
| Nice to see The Strokes' new sound is starting to materialize, but at this point it does seem a little forced and difficult to swallow. |
| The Strokes Room on Fire | 3.5 |
| The Strokes Comedown Machine | 4.0 |
| The Strokes Is This It | 4.5 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt | 4.0 |
| The Weakerthans Left and Leaving | 4.0 |
| Sweet, straight-from-the-heart indie rock. I'd definitely recommend this album to any fans of Bright Eyes's I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning or Death Cab for Cutie's Transatlanticism. |
| The White Stripes White Blood Cells | 4.0 |
| The White Stripes Elephant | 4.5 |
| The White Stripes De Stijl | 4.5 |
| The Wooden Sky Every Child a Daughter, Every Moon a Sun | 3.5 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Josh Is Dead | 3.5 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Formlessness | 4.0 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Whenever, If Ever | 4.5 |
| The xx Coexist | 3.0 |
| The xx xx | 3.5 |
| The Zolas Ancient Mars | 2.0 |
| To me, a spectacular from grace for the Zolas. Was not expecting something so mediocre and commercial. |
| The Zolas Tic Toc Tic | 4.5 |
| If "prog-pop" is a genre, these guys definitely put a catchy, campy, unique spin on it. |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Born Into Trouble As the Sparks Fly Upward | 3.5 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our | 4.5 |
| Thom Yorke The Eraser | 3.5 |
| I've never really been crazy about the stuff Thom's been doing recently on The King of Limbs and Amok so I went into this pretty sceptical, but I was actually pretty impressed, and it's safe to say I enjoy this more than either Radiohead or Atoms for Peace's most recent albums. |
| Thursday Full Collapse | 4.0 |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me | 3.5 |
| Touche Amore Is Survived By | 4.0 |
| Few modern screamo bands are really able to tug at your heartstrings like these guys are able to while still holding your attention and being able to have comprehensible lyrics. |
| Tycho Dive | 4.0 |
| Vali Skogslandskap | 4.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend | 3.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City | 3.5 |
| Vampire Weekend Contra | 4.0 |
| Violent Femmes Violent Femmes | 4.5 |
| Volcano Choir Repave | 3.5 |
| Warpaint The Fool | 3.0 |
| Warpaint Exquisite Corpse | 3.5 |
| Washed Out Life of Leisure | 3.0 |
| Washed Out Paracosm | 3.5 |
| Weezer Weezer | 4.0 |
| Weezer Pinkerton | 4.5 |
| Wilco Sky Blue Sky | 3.5 |
| Wilco A Ghost Is Born | 4.0 |
| Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot | 4.5 |
| Wilco Summerteeth | 4.5 |
| Wilco The Whole Love | 4.5 |
| More pleasantness in a single album than most artists can fit into an entire discography. Almost rivals Yankee Hotel Foxtrot for me. |
| Wildlife On the Heart | 3.5 |
| Wintersleep Welcome To The Night Sky | 4.0 |
| Wolf Parade Expo 86 | 3.5 |
| Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary | 4.0 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz! | 4.0 |
| Young the Giant Young the Giant | 3.0 |
