| Alice in Chains Dirt | 4.5 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 4.5 |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible | 3.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys AM | 3.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare | 3.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not | 3.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys Suck It and See | 3.5 |
| Avatarium Avatarium | 4.5 |
| Birds in Row You, Me, and the Violence | 4.0 |
| blink-182 Cheshire Cat | 2.5 |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State | 3.5 |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm | 3.5 |
| Bloc Party A Weekend in the City | 3.0 |
| Bloc Party Four | 2.0 |
| Boris Pink | 3.5 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 3.5 |
| Brand New Daisy | 3.5 |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning | 4.5 |
| Bright Eyes Cassadaga | 3.5 |
| Bright Eyes The People's Key | 2.5 |
| Bruce Springsteen Nebraska | 5.0 |
| Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret | 4.0 |
| Cold Year Of The Spider | 3.0 |
| Coroner Mental Vortex | 5.0 |
| Coroner No More Color | 4.5 |
| Defeater Travels | 3.0 |
| Deftones White Pony | 4.5 |
| Deftones Gore | 3.0 |
| Die Antwoord Ten$ion | 1.0 |
| South Africa, my homeland, has a couple of exports that I believe are of note. Though Dave Matthews is an American fellow, he was born in SA. Trevor Rabin played in Yes from 1983 to 1994, across four of their albums, and went on to compose for film and build a healthy solo career. Bands like Kongos and Seether have done extremely well in mainstream rock, occupying the airwaves ad nauseam with tracks like "Come With Me Now" and "Remedy" respectively. We've had a good track record... well, at least, 'til these withering numb fucks spasmed on to the scene like two jack russels suffering from acute Parkinsons'. Appalling. |
| Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca | 3.5 |
| Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane | 3.5 |
| Disturbed Indestructible | 3.5 |
| Drowning Pool Sinner | 2.0 |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or | 5.0 |
| Elliott Smith Elliott Smith | 5.0 |
| Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon | 2.5 |
| Every Time I Die The Big Dirty | 3.0 |
| Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown | 4.0 |
| Every Time I Die Low Teens | 3.5 |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives | 4.0 |
| Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic | 4.0 |
| Every Time I Die Hot Damn! | 4.0 |
| Failure Fantastic Planet | 5.0 |
| Fleetwood Mac Rumours | 5.0 |
| Foals Holy Fire | 4.0 |
| Foxing The Albatross | 3.5 |
| While Foxing does venture into the overly dramatic territory of other emo/indie bands, they do it in a way that is honest, tasteful and commendably theirs. The songs feel confessional in nature and they are delivered in a powerful manner. But the downfall of The Albatross lies in the fact that there is not much beyond the emotive bones of the album; it feels incomplete, somehow. 3.7/5 |
| HAIM Days Are Gone | 2.5 |
| Hawthorne Heights If Only You Were Lonely | 1.0 |
| Hawthorne Heights The Silence in Black and White | 1.0 |
| Heathen Victims of Deception | 5.0 |
| Hum You'd Prefer an Astronaut | 3.5 |
| i hate sex Circle Thinking | 3.0 |
| Imagine Dragons Smoke + Mirrors | 2.0 |
| Imagine Dragons Night Visions | 3.0 |
| Immolation Close to a World Below | 5.0 |
| In Love With A Ghost Healing | 4.0 |
| Interpol Antics | 3.0 |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 4.0 |
| Interpol El Pintor | 3.0 |
| Jeff Rosenstock WORRY. | 4.5 |
| What do you get when you take Jeff Rosenstock and lock him up in a room with Beach Boys albums and a pervasive feeling of maturity and growth (that actively flirts and plays with the adolescent nature of ska- and pop-punk)? You get WORRY. I love this album. |
| Jeff Rosenstock We Cool? | 3.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Bleed American | 3.0 |
| Julien Baker Sprained Ankle | 3.5 |
| Kings of Leon Youth and Young Manhood | 3.0 |
| Kings of Leon Aha Shake Heartbreak | 3.0 |
| Kings of Leon Only By The Night | 3.5 |
| Laura Stevenson A Record | 5.0 |
| This is one of my all-time favourites, and a definite classic. Honest, heartwarming, harrowing. Just beautiful. If you've never heard it, go get it now. It's available for free on the donation-based label Quote/Unqoute records. |
| Limp Bizkit Results May Vary | 1.0 |
| Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water | 1.5 |
| Linkin Park One More Light | 1.0 |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight | 2.5 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 3.5 |
| Loma Prieta Self Portrait | 2.0 |
| Lou Reed Berlin | 5.0 |
| Love Forever Changes | 4.5 |
| Low I Could Live in Hope | 5.0 |
| Marilyn Manson Portrait of an American Family | 3.0 |
| Mark Lanegan Whiskey For the Holy Ghost | 4.5 |
| Melvins Houdini | 4.0 |
| Melvins A Senile Animal | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News | 3.0 |
| Mr. Bungle California | 5.0 |
| Mr. Bungle Mr. Bungle | 4.0 |
| Mudvayne L.D. 50 | 3.0 |
| Mystery Skulls Mystery Skulls | 3.5 |
| Mystery Skulls Forever | 3.0 |
| Nails Abandon All Life | 4.0 |
| Nails Unsilent Death | 3.5 |
| Nails You Will Never Be One of Us | 3.5 |
| New Order Low-Life | 4.0 |
| Nick Drake Pink Moon | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 3.5 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 4.5 |
| Nirvana Bleach | 3.5 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 4.0 |
| Norma Jean O' God, the Aftermath | 3.5 |
| Norma Jean Polar Similar | 3.5 |
| Oathbreaker Maelstrom | 2.5 |
| Oathbreaker Rheia | 4.0 |
| Passion Pit Gossamer | 4.0 |
| Petal Shame | 2.5 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | 4.0 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Bankrupt! | 3.5 |
| Phoenix (FRA) It's Never Been Like That | 3.5 |
| Pinegrove Cardinal | 4.0 |
| Ra Ra Riot The Rhumb Line | 3.5 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 4.0 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 4.0 |
| Rag and Bones When Can Your Glory Fade? | 4.0 |
| One of the best free releases of last year. Really, really good. Get it on Jamendo. |
| Saron Gas Fragile | 3.0 |
| Seether Poison The Parish | 3.0 |
| Sepultura Roots | 2.0 |
| Sepultura Beneath the Remains | 4.0 |
| Sharon Van Etten Are We There | 4.5 |
| Slayer Reign in Blood | 4.0 |
| Slayer Repentless | 2.0 |
| Slipknot Iowa | 2.5 |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 3.5 |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone | 2.0 |
| Soundgarden Superunknown | 4.0 |
| Spiritual Beggars Ad Astra | 3.5 |
| Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 1 | 3.5 |
| Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 2 | 3.5 |
| Stone Sour Stone Sour | 2.5 |
| Stone Sour Come What(ever) May | 2.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell | 4.5 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 4.0 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 4.0 |
| Tame Impala Lonerism | 2.5 |
| The Afghan Whigs Gentlemen | 5.0 |
| The Afghan Whigs Black Love | 4.5 |
| The Afghan Whigs Congregation | 4.0 |
| The Aloof Seeking Pleasure | 4.0 |
| The Antlers Hospice | 5.0 |
| The Black Keys El Camino | 4.0 |
| The Black Keys Brothers | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer | 4.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation | 4.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine | 4.0 |
| The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin | 3.5 |
| The Get Up Kids Something to Write Home About | 2.5 |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There | 3.0 |
| This album is excessively - EXCESSIVELY - gay but I still like it well enough. 3.2/5 |
| The Killers Day & Age | 2.5 |
| The Killers Hot Fuss | 3.5 |
| The Killing Tree The Romance of Helen Trent | 4.5 |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me | 5.0 |
| The National Boxer | 5.0 |
| The National The National | 2.5 |
| The National Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers | 3.5 |
| The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers | 3.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream | 3.5 |
| The Strokes Is This It | 3.5 |
| The Strokes Room on Fire | 3.0 |
| The Twilight Sad Nobody Wants To Be Here And Nobody Wants To Leave | 4.0 |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico | 3.0 |
| The Weakerthans Reconstruction Site | 4.5 |
| The Weakerthans Left and Leaving | 4.0 |
| The White Stripes Elephant | 4.0 |
| The White Stripes White Blood Cells | 4.0 |
| The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan | 3.5 |
| The White Stripes Icky Thump | 3.5 |
| This Heat Deceit | 5.0 |
| Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere | 4.0 |
| Tokyo Police Club Champ | 3.0 |
| Trap Them Darker Handcraft | 2.5 |
| Two Door Cinema Club Tourist History | 3.5 |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend | 3.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Contra | 2.5 |
| Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City | 4.0 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz! | 3.0 |
