| !!! Louden Up Now | 3.5 |
| +44 When Your Heart Stops Beating | 3.0 |
| 3 (USA) Wake Pig | 2.5 |
| 311 From Chaos | 5.0 |
| 311 Evolver | 4.5 |
| 311 Grassroots | 3.5 |
| 311 311 | 4.0 |
| 311 Music | 4.5 |
| 311 Soundsystem | 4.0 |
| 311 Transistor | 3.5 |
| 311 Live | 3.5 |
| 311 Don't Tread On Me | 3.5 |
| 65daysofstatic One Time for All Time | 3.0 |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step | 3.5 |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms | 3.0 |
| A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe | 2.0 |
| A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide | 3.5 |
| A Wilhelm Scream Mute Print | 3.0 |
| A Wilhelm Scream Ruiner | 3.5 |
| Acceptance Phantoms | 3.0 |
| Adema Adema | 1.5 |
| Against Me! Reinventing Axl Rose | 2.0 |
| Alesana On Frail Wings of Vanity and Wax | 2.0 |
| Alexisonfire Crisis | 3.0 |
| Alice in Chains MTV Unplugged | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains Dirt | 4.0 |
| Alien Ant Farm TruANT | 4.0 |
| Alien Ant Farm ANThology | 3.5 |
| American Nightmare We're Down Til We're Underground | 3.5 |
| American Steel Jagged Thoughts | 3.5 |
| Ampere All Our Tomorrows End Today | 3.5 |
| An Albatross Blessphemy (Of The Peace-Beast Feastgive | 3.0 |
| Angels and Airwaves We Don't Need to Whisper | 2.0 |
| Aphex Twin ...I Care Because You Do | 2.5 |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible | 2.0 |
| Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine | 4.0 |
| Arch Enemy Rise of the Tyrant | 2.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not | 2.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare | 3.0 |
| Arsis United in Regret | 3.0 |
| Arsis A Celebration of Guilt | 4.0 |
| As Blood Runs Black Allegiance | 2.5 |
| As Fast As Open Letter To The Damned | 3.5 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 3.5 |
| At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul | 3.5 |
| Atmosphere Seven's Travels | 4.5 |
| Atmosphere God Loves Ugly | 3.0 |
| Atreyu The Curse | 1.0 |
| Atreyu A Death-Grip on Yesterday | 2.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil | 3.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Sounding the Seventh Trumpet | 2.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen | 4.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold | 2.5 |
| Bad Astronaut Twelve Small Steps, One Giant Disappointment | 3.0 |
| Bad Brains I Against I | 3.5 |
| Battles Mirrored | 3.0 |
| Becoming The Archetype Terminate Damnation | 3.0 |
| Bedouin Soundclash Sounding a Mosaic | 3.0 |
| Beecher This Elegy, His Autopsy | 3.5 |
| Behemoth Demigod | 2.0 |
| Ben Folds Rockin' The Suburbs | 4.0 |
| Ben Folds Songs for Silverman | 2.5 |
| Ben Frost Theory of Machines | 4.5 |
| Benighted Identisick | 4.0 |
| Best Interest Camera Shy But Still The Star | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 2.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 2.5 |
| Blackfield Blackfield | 2.0 |
| Blaqk Audio CexCells | 3.0 |
| blink-182 Blink-182 | 4.0 |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket | 3.0 |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State | 3.0 |
| Botch An Anthology of Dead Ends | 4.0 |
| Botch We Are the Romans | 4.5 |
| Botch American Nervoso | 3.0 |
| Boys Like Girls Boys Like Girls | 2.0 |
| Boysetsfire The Misery Index: Notes From The Plague | 3.5 |
| Brad Paisley Mud On The Tires | 3.5 |
| Brad Paisley Time Well Wasted | 3.0 |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 3.0 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 3.5 |
| Breaking Benjamin We Are Not Alone | 3.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin Phobia | 2.5 |
| Breaking Benjamin Saturate | 2.5 |
| Brian Eno Another Green World | 4.0 |
| Bush Sixteen Stone | 3.5 |
| Butch Walker Letters | 3.5 |
| Butch Walker The Rise and Fall of Butch Walker... | 4.0 |
| Butch Walker Cover Me Badd | 3.0 |
| By The End Of Tonight/Tera Melos Complex Full of Phantoms | 4.0 |
| Cassino Sounds of Salvation | 4.5 |
| Catch 22 Keasbey Nights | 2.5 |
| Charles Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet? | 3.0 |
| Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper | 3.5 |
| Chiodos All's Well That Ends Well | 1.5 |
| Chiodos Bone Palace Ballet | 2.0 |
| Circa Survive Juturna | 3.0 |
| Circa Survive On Letting Go | 4.0 |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise | 3.5 |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 5.0 |
| Circle Takes the Square Circle Takes the Square | 2.0 |
| City of Caterpillar City of Caterpillar | 3.5 |
| Classic Case Losing At Life | 3.5 |
Packed with both pop and post-hardcore overtones, Classic Case delivers a great mainstream rock album that's not really that mainstream. Opener 'Into a Nightmare' is the kind of radio-ready single that most Nickelbacks and Breaking Benjamins could only hope for, with great vocal interplay between the members. The title track is simply a solid pop ballad, while the dark and brooding melodies of 'Vampires' recall 80's post-punk.
The only big downside to the album are the horribly cliche and average lyrics, something the band could put a little more effort into the next time around. |
| Clipse Hell Hath No Fury | 2.0 |
| cLOUDDEAD cLOUDDEAD | 3.5 |
| Coldplay Parachutes | 2.5 |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head | 2.5 |
| Converge You Fail Me | 4.5 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 4.0 |
| Converge No Heroes | 3.5 |
| With No Heroes, Converge continue their audible onslaught in their own signature style. Guitarist Kurt Ballou and bassist Nate Newton still manage to create some of the most face-melting, slaying riffs heard in extreme music, yet being able to slow down for more moody passages when needed. Ben Koller retains his status as one of the best drummers around -- period. Jacob Bannon however seems to be suffering from a mild writer's block. While his lyrics had been extremely solid on Converge's past two releases, on No Heroes Bannon doesn't seem to be able to channel his anger with the same finesse in his writing as he did before. Let's hope that, after 17 years, Bannon's (and with that, Converge's) fire isn't slowly burning out. |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 3.0 |
| Cult of Luna The Beyond | 3.0 |
| Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway | 3.5 |
| Cursive Domestica | 3.0 |
| Cynic Traced in Air | 4.5 |
| Daath The Hinderers | 3.0 |
| Daft Punk Discovery | 4.0 |
| Daft Punk Human After All | 3.0 |
| Daitro Laisser Vivre Les Squelettes | 3.5 |
| Damien Rice O | 3.0 |
| Damien Rice 9 | 3.5 |
| Danny Elfman The Nightmare Before Christmas | 4.5 |
| Daphne Loves Derby On the Strength of All Convinced | 2.5 |
| Dead Poetic Vices | 2.5 |
| Deftones White Pony | 4.0 |
| Deftones Around the Fur | 3.0 |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist | 4.5 |
| Deftones Deftones | 4.5 |
| Deftones Adrenaline | 2.0 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 4.5 |
| Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 | 2.5 |
| Demon Hunter The Triptych | 4.0 |
| Die Trying Die Trying | 3.0 |
| Dimmu Borgir In Sorte Diaboli | 2.5 |
| Disturbed Believe | 1.5 |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... | 2.5 |
| Do Make Say Think You, You're a History in Rust | 3.0 |
| Dog Fashion Disco Adultery | 3.0 |
| Doves (UK) The Last Broadcast | 3.5 |
| DragonForce Inhuman Rampage | 1.5 |
| Dream Theater Octavarium | 2.0 |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought | 2.5 |
| Dream Theater Falling into Infinity | 2.0 |
| dredg Leitmotif | 5.0 |
| dredg El Cielo | 4.0 |
| dredg Catch Without Arms | 3.5 |
| Duke Special Songs From The Deep Forest | 3.5 |
| Dustin Kensrue Please Come Home | 3.0 |
| Elliott Smith XO | 5.0 |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or | 3.5 |
| Elvis Costello Armed Forces | 4.0 |
| Elvis Costello Kojak Variety | 3.0 |
| Elvis Costello My Aim Is True | 4.5 |
| Elvis Costello This Year's Model | 4.0 |
| Elvis Presley Elvis Presley | 4.5 |
| Emery The Question | 4.0 |
| Emery The Weak's End | 3.0 |
| Endwell Homeland Insecurity | 1.5 |
| Envy Insomniac Doze | 3.0 |
| Ephel Duath Pain Necessary to Know | 4.0 |
| Ephel Duath The Painter's Palette | 4.5 |
| EPMD Strictly Business | 4.0 |
| Estradasphere Palace Of Mirrors | 4.0 |
| Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon | 2.5 |
| Everybody Else Everybody Else | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 3.5 |
| Facing New York Facing New York | 4.0 |
| Faith No More Angel Dust | 4.5 |
| Faith No More King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime | 3.5 |
| Faith No More The Real Thing | 4.0 |
| Faith No More Album of the Year | 4.0 |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree | 3.0 |
| Fall Out Boy Infinity on High | 2.5 |
| Far Water & Solutions | 4.0 |
| Far At Night We Live | 3.5 |
| Fear Before The Always Open Mouth | 3.0 |
| Fennesz Endless Summer | 3.5 |
| Flying Lotus 1983 | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters In Your Honor | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape | 3.5 |
| Foo Fighters One by One | 3.5 |
| Forgive Durden Wonderland | 4.5 |
| From Autumn to Ashes Holding A Wolf By The Ears | 2.5 |
| Fugazi The Argument | 4.5 |
| Fugazi End Hits | 4.0 |
| Fugazi Red Medicine | 4.0 |
| Funeral Diner The Underdark | 4.0 |
| Gallows (UK) Orchestra Of Wolves | 2.5 |
| Gatsby's American Dream Ribbons and Sugar | 4.5 |
| Gatsby's American Dream Volcano | 5.0 |
| Gatsby's American Dream Gatsby's American Dream | 3.5 |
| Gatsby's American Dream In The Land of Lost Monsters | 4.0 |
| Gatsby's American Dream Why We Fight | 3.5 |
| General Patton vs. The X-Ecutioners General Patton vs. The X-Ecutioners | 3.5 |
| Genghis Tron Cloak of Love | 4.0 |
| Genghis Tron Dead Mountain Mouth | 2.0 |
| George Michael Faith | 4.0 |
| Ghastly City Sleep Ghastly City Sleep | 4.0 |
| Ginger Yoni | 3.5 |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute | 3.5 |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book | 3.5 |
| Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere | 2.5 |
| God Forbid IV: Constitution of Treason | 3.0 |
| Goose (BEL) Bring It On | 3.0 |
| Gorguts Obscura | 4.0 |
| Gorod Leading Vision | 3.0 |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World | 3.5 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 2.0 |
| Grizzly Bear Yellow House | 4.0 |
| Guster Lost And Gone Forever | 3.0 |
| Gwen Stefani The Sweet Escape | 2.5 |
| Gwen Stefani Love. Angel. Music. Baby. | 3.0 |
| Gym Class Heroes The Papercut Chronicles | 4.0 |
| GZA Liquid Swords | 3.5 |
| He Is Legend Suck Out the Poison | 3.0 |
| Head Automatica Decadence | 3.0 |
| Head Automatica Popaganda | 3.0 |
| Helmet Betty | 4.0 |
| Helmet Meantime | 3.5 |
| Hopesfall Magnetic North | 2.5 |
| HORSE the band The Mechanical Hand | 2.5 |
| Hot Cross Fair Trades and Farewells | 3.0 |
| Hot Cross Cryonics | 3.0 |
| Hot Cross Risk Revival | 3.0 |
| Hurt Vol. II | 2.5 |
| Hurt Vol. 1 | 3.5 |
| Hypocrisy Virus | 3.0 |
| I Am Ghost Lovers' Requiem | 2.5 |
| I Heart Hiroshima Cut in Colour | 4.0 |
| In Pieces Lions Write History | 4.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself | 3.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View | 3.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) A Crow Left of the Murder... | 4.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E. | 3.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Light Grenades | 3.0 |
| Insomnium Above the Weeping World | 2.0 |
| Into Eternity The Scattering of Ashes | 2.0 |
| Iron And Wine Woman King | 4.0 |
| Iron And Wine Our Endless Numbered Days | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Dance of Death | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Brave New World | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death | 2.0 |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast | 3.5 |
| ISIS Oceanic | 4.5 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 3.5 |
| ISIS In the Absence of Truth | 4.0 |
| Jack Johnson In Between Dreams | 4.0 |
| Jack's Mannequin Everything in Transit | 1.5 |
| Jaga Jazzist What We Must | 4.0 |
| James Blunt Back To Bedlam | 1.5 |
| Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid | 4.5 |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Violent by Design | 2.0 |
| Jeff Buckley Grace (Legacy Edition) | 4.5 |
| Job For A Cowboy Genesis | 2.5 |
| John 5 The Devil Knows My Name | 4.0 |
| John 5 Songs For Sanity | 3.5 |
| John Abercrombie The Third Quartet | 4.5 |
| John Petrucci Suspended Animation | 2.5 |
| Jon Brion Meaningless | 4.5 |
Already a household name in the producing world, (having worked with names such as Kanye West, Fiona Apple and Rufus Wrainwright), as well as doing several critically acclaimed filmscores(Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Magnolia) is it in any wonder that Meaningless is an Indie gem? Also the first release to show Brion as a lead vocalist, which can only leave the listener to wonder as to why that is the case.
Crafty tunes that will make fans of The Beatles and the like rejoice, Meaningless would make it into anyone's top 3 of 2001. |
| Jose Gonzalez Veneer | 3.0 |
| Joshua Fit For Battle To Bring Our Own End | 4.0 |
| Just Jack Overtones | 3.0 |
| Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds | 3.5 |
| Kalmah The Black Waltz | 2.0 |
| Kamelot The Black Halo | 3.5 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 3.0 |
| Katatonia The Great Cold Distance | 2.5 |
| Katharine McPhee Katharine McPhee | 2.0 |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye | 5.0 |
| Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue | 5.0 |
| Khoma The Second Wave | 3.5 |
| Kidcrash Jokes | 2.5 |
| Kill Sadie Half Cocked Concepts | 3.0 |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache | 2.5 |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies | 2.5 |
| King Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic | 3.5 |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King | 5.0 |
| King Crimson Starless and Bible Black | 4.0 |
| King Crimson Red | 4.0 |
| L Holy Letters | 4.0 |
| Ladytron Witching Hour | 2.5 |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake | 4.0 |
| Lamb of God New American Gospel | 3.0 |
| Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn | 2.5 |
| Lamb of God Sacrament | 3.0 |
| Lazy Rock Against Rock | 4.0 |
| LCD Soundsystem LCD Soundsystem | 2.0 |
| Liars Drum's Not Dead | 3.0 |
| Life at These Speeds To Your Health | 4.5 |
| Light This City Facing The Thousand | 2.5 |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight | 2.0 |
| Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor | 3.5 |
| Lydia This December; It's One More and I'm Free | 2.5 |
| Machine Head The Blackening | 2.0 |
| Mae The Everglow | 4.5 |
| Mae Destination: Beautiful | 3.0 |
| Mae Destination: B-Sides | 3.5 |
| Maps and Atlases Tree, Swallows, Houses | 3.0 |
| Maps and Atlases Perch Patchwork | 4.0 |
| Mare Mare | 4.5 |
| Maroon 5 It Won't Be Soon Before Long | 2.5 |
| Marvelous 3 ReadySexGo! | 3.0 |
| Marvelous 3 Hey! Album | 4.0 |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 3.0 |
| maudlin of the Well Bath | 3.5 |
| Maximo Park Our Earthly Pleasures | 3.5 |
| Men Women And Children Men, Women And Children | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree | 3.5 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 3.5 |
| Metallica St. Anger | 2.5 |
| Mika Life in Cartoon Motion | 1.5 |
| Minus the Bear Menos El Oso | 4.0 |
| Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates | 3.5 |
| Minus the Bear They Make Beer Commercials Like This | 4.0 |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice | 4.0 |
| Mirrorthrone Carriers of Dust | 4.5 |
I've been moving somewhat away from metal recently, but this album sticks out like no other. With its incredible (though programmed) keyboard work, which is both extremely melodic and gives the album an ambiance all of its own. Next to that stands neo-classical influenced guitar which works a lot better rather than mindless shred, and one incredible vocalist. clean singing, screaming, growling, you name it, this guy can do it nearly unmatched.
I'm not a big fan of black metal, but this album has all the ingredients to make for a winning combination. |
| Misery Signals Mirrors | 2.5 |
| Mock Orange The Record Play | 3.5 |
| Mock Orange Mind Is Not Brain | 4.0 |
| Modern Life Is War Witness | 3.5 |
| Modern Life Is War Midnight in America | 3.0 |
| Moneen The Red Tree | 3.5 |
| Monty Are I Wall Of People | 2.5 |
| Morrissey Ringleader of the Tormentors | 3.5 |
| Morrissey You Are the Quarry | 4.0 |
| Morrissey Viva Hate | 3.5 |
| Morrissey Vauxhall and I | 4.0 |
| Mortal Treason Sunrise Over A Sea Of Blood | 4.0 |
| Moving Mountains Pneuma | 3.0 |
| Mr. Bungle California | 5.0 |
| Much the Same Survive | 3.5 |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 4.0 |
| N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton | 3.5 |
| Narrows New Distances | 4.0 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 2.0 |
| Nevermore This Godless Endeavor | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 5.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Broken | 3.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Fragile | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Year Zero | 4.0 |
| No Doubt Tragic Kingdom | 4.0 |
| Oasis Definitely Maybe | 2.5 |
| Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? | 3.0 |
| Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe | 5.0 |
| Off Minor Innominate | 4.5 |
| Off Minor Problematic Courtship | 3.5 |
| Off Minor Some Blood | 4.0 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 4.5 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 3.5 |
| Opeth Still Life | 3.0 |
| Opeth Damnation | 3.0 |
| Opeth Deliverance | 4.0 |
| Panda Bear Person Pitch | 2.0 |
| Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out | 2.5 |
| Pantera Cowboys from Hell | 3.5 |
| Pantera Reinventing the Steel | 4.0 |
| Pantera Vulgar Display of Power | 3.5 |
| Papa Roach Infest | 3.5 |
| Parades Foreign Tapes | 4.0 |
| Parkway Drive Killing with a Smile | 2.5 |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... | 4.0 |
| Pendulum Hold Your Colour | 3.5 |
| Peter Gabriel So | 3.5 |
| pg.99 Document #8 | 4.5 |
| pg.99 Document #5 | 3.0 |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa | 3.5 |
| Pixies Come On Pilgrim | 3.0 |
| Placebo Meds | 2.5 |
| Plain White T's All That We Needed | 3.5 |
| Plain White T's Every Second Counts | 2.5 |
| Poison the Well You Come Before You | 3.5 |
| Poison the Well Versions | 2.5 |
| Polar Bear Held On The Tips Of Fingers | 3.5 |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia | 3.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun | 3.5 |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet | 2.5 |
| Portugal. The Man Waiter: ''You Vultures!'' | 3.0 |
| Portugal. The Man Church Mouth | 2.0 |
| Prince Musicology | 3.0 |
| Prince 3121 | 3.5 |
| Prince Purple Rain | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Kezia | 2.5 |
| Psyopus Ideas of Reference | 3.5 |
| Psyopus Our Puzzling Encounters Considered | 3.0 |
| Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back | 4.0 |
| Public Enemy Fear of a Black Planet | 3.5 |
| Pulp Different Class | 4.5 |
| Pulp This is Hardcore | 3.5 |
| Pygmy Lush Bitter River | 4.0 |
| Pyramids (PA) Through the Hourglass | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze | 3.0 |
| Quicksand Slip | 3.0 |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 5.0 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey | 4.0 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 3.0 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 2.5 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 3.0 |
| Ray LaMontagne Till the Sun Turns Black | 4.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication | 4.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium | 3.5 |
| Reel Big Fish Cheer Up! | 4.0 |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come | 4.0 |
| Regina Spektor Begin To Hope | 3.0 |
| Rilo Kiley The Execution of All Things | 3.0 |
| RJD2 Deadringer | 4.0 |
| RJD2 The Third Hand | 3.0 |
| Rodrigo y Gabriela Rodrigo y Gabriela | 3.0 |
| Rosetta The Galilean Satellites | 4.5 |
| Run-D.M.C. Raising Hell | 4.5 |
| Saliva Back Into Your System | 1.5 |
| Saosin Translating the Name | 3.0 |
| Saosin Saosin | 2.5 |
| Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy | 3.5 |
| Search/Rescue The Compound | 2.5 |
| Sed Non Satiata Le Ciel De Notre Enfance | 4.0 |
| Set Your Goals Mutiny! | 3.0 |
| Sevendust Next | 2.5 |
| Shpongle Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost | 4.5 |
| Shpongle Tales of the Inexpressible | 4.0 |
| Shpongle Are You Shpongled? | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros Takk... | 3.5 |
| SikTh Death of a Dead Day | 3.0 |
| Silverstein Discovering the Waterfront | 1.5 |
| Sir Richard Bishop Salvador Kali | 4.0 |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 3.5 |
| Smile Empty Soul Smile Empty Soul | 1.5 |
| Smile Empty Soul Vultures | 1.0 |
| Spandau Ballet True | 3.0 |
| Spank Rock YoYoYoYoYo | 4.0 |
While electronic beats and music are the prominent backing music in most hip-hop, it's rare to see it play such an important role as on this album. Rather than merely creating a simple backing beat, this album manages to create a true fusion of electronica and hip-hop, where the music and rapping are equally important, making it fresh-sounding.
Next to that, songs like 'Rick Rubin' and 'Bump' are extremely catchy and memorable, Bump featuring some of the most smooth and flowing raps of 2006. An overlooked gem, highly recommended.
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| Sparta Threes | 2.0 |
| Staind Chapter V | 2.5 |
| Steve Vai Real Illusions: Reflections | 4.0 |
| Story of the Year In The Wake Of Determination | 2.0 |
| Strapping Young Lad The New Black | 3.0 |
| Sum 41 All Killer No Filler | 3.5 |
| Switchfoot The Beautiful Letdown | 4.5 |
| Switchfoot Nothing is Sound | 2.5 |
| Switchfoot Oh! Gravity. | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 3.0 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 3.0 |
| T.I. Paper Trail | 3.5 |
| Talking Heads Remain in Light | 4.5 |
| Talking Heads Fear of Music | 3.0 |
| Tangerine Dream Phaedra | 4.5 |
| Tangerine Dream Stratosfear | 3.0 |
| Taproot Blue-Sky Research | 2.0 |
| Tartar Lamb Sixty Metonymies | 4.0 |
| Team Sleep Team Sleep | 3.0 |
| Tegan and Sara The Con | 3.0 |
| Ten Grand This Is The Way To Rule | 4.0 |
| Tera Melos Untitled | 4.0 |
| Tera Melos Drugs to the Dear Youth | 4.5 |
| Tera Melos Patagonian Rats | 4.0 |
| The Ataris So Long, Astoria | 4.0 |
| The Ataris Welcome the Night | 2.0 |
| The Audition Controversy Loves Company | 2.0 |
| The Beach Boys Pet Sounds | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Abbey Road | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Revolver | 5.0 |
| The Beatles The Beatles | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 2.5 |
| The Blood Brothers Young Machetes | 3.0 |
| The Bronx The Bronx (II) | 3.5 |
| The Clash London Calling | 4.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Act I: The Lake South, the River North | 3.5 |
| The Decemberists Picaresque | 2.5 |
| The Devin Townsend Band Synchestra | 4.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine | 4.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Plagiarism | 3.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis | 4.5 |
| The Dismemberment Plan Emergency & I | 4.0 |
| The End (CAN) Elementary | 2.5 |
| The Exploding Hearts Guitar Romantic | 4.0 |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality | 3.5 |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger | 3.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Manipulator | 3.5 |
| The Get Up Kids Something to Write Home About | 4.5 |
| The Get Up Kids There Are Rules | 4.0 |
| The Guitar Trio Friday Night In San Francisco | 3.0 |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain Psychocandy | 3.5 |
| The Knife Silent Shout | 2.0 |
| The Kooks Inside In/Inside Out | 2.5 |
| The Locust Safety Second, Body Last | 4.0 |
| The Locust Plague Soundscapes | 3.5 |
| The Locust New Erections | 4.0 |
| The Magic Numbers The Magic Numbers | 2.5 |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 5.0 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture | 3.5 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Put On Your Rosy Red Glasses | 3.5 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You An Inch of Gold for An Inch of Time | 3.5 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Mongrel | 3.0 |
| The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds | 3.0 |
| The Receiving End of Sirens Between the Heart and the Synapse | 2.0 |
| The Red Chord Fused Together in Revolving Doors | 3.5 |
| The Red Chord Clients | 2.5 |
| The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Don't You Fake It | 1.0 |
| The Roots Game Theory | 3.5 |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead | 4.5 |
| The Smiths Louder Than Bombs | 3.5 |
| The Smiths Hatful of Hollow | 4.0 |
| The Smiths The Smiths | 3.5 |
| The Smiths Strangeways, Here We Come | 2.5 |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting Tiger and the Duke | 4.0 |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting Lover, the Lord Has Left Us... | 3.0 |
| The Sundays Reading, Writing and Arithmetic | 2.0 |
| The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Thank You, Jason Dietz | 2.0 |
| Thelonious Monk Brilliant Corners | 4.0 |
| These Arms Are Snakes Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home | 3.5 |
| These Arms Are Snakes Easter | 2.5 |
| Three Days Grace One-X | 1.5 |
| Three Days Grace Three Days Grace | 1.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 3.5 |
| Thursday A City By the Light Divided | 2.5 |
| Thursday Full Collapse | 2.5 |
| Time of Orchids Namesake Caution | 4.5 |
| Tobias Lilja Time Is On My Side | 4.5 |
| Tool Ænima | 5.0 |
| Tool Undertow | 3.5 |
| Tool Lateralus | 4.5 |
| Tool Opiate | 4.0 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 3.5 |
| Trivium Ascendancy | 2.0 |
| Trivium The Crusade | 1.5 |
| Trophy Scars Alphabet Alphabets | 3.0 |
| Trophy Scars Hospital Music for the Aesthetics of Language | 4.0 |
| TV on the Radio Dear Science | 3.0 |
| Two Gallants What the Toll Tells | 4.0 |
| Ultra Dolphins Mar | 3.5 |
| Unearth III: In the Eyes of Fire | 1.5 |
| Unexpect In a Flesh Aquarium | 3.0 |
| Venetian Snares Cavalcade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Pom Poms | 3.5 |
| Wham! Make It Big | 3.5 |
| Wham! Fantastic | 1.5 |
| Wintersun Wintersun | 3.5 |
| Wolfmother Wolfmother | 2.0 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 4.0 |
| XTC Apple Venus Volume 1 | 4.0 |
| Yo La Tengo I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass | 2.5 |
| Zao The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here | 3.5 |
| Zebrahead MFZB | 3.5 |
