| 808 State Ninety | 4.5 |
| A Wilhelm Scream Partycrasher | 3.4 |
| A Winged Victory for the Sullen A Winged Victory for the Sullen | 4.5 |
| Abyssic Hate Suicidal Emotions | 3.5 |
| Actress Ghettoville | 2.8 |
| Actress Hazyville | 3.5 |
| Actress Splazsh | 3.5 |
| Adventures Supersonic Home | 2.3 |
| AFI Burials | 3.6 |
| Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues | 4.5 |
| Agalloch The Serpent and the Sphere | 2.0 |
| Never before has an Agalloch record sounded so Agallochy. |
| AJJ Christmas Island | 2.2 |
| The most disappointing record of the year. |
| Akufen My Way | 3.0 |
| Albert Ayler Spiritual Unity | 4.0 |
| Alcest Shelter | 4.5 |
| Alfred Schnittke String Quartet No. 3 | 4.0 |
| American Nightmare We're Down Til We're Underground | 4.5 |
| love it so much I took my band name from it. album slays |
| Amon Tobin Permutation | 4.0 |
| Amon Tobin Supermodified | 4.0 |
| Andrew Hill Point of Departure | 4.0 |
| Angel Olsen Burn Your Fire for No Witness | 3.5 |
| Answer Code Request Code | 4.0 |
| Antarctigo Vespucci Soulmate Stuff | 3.0 |
| Anti The Insignificance of Life | 4.0 |
| Anton Webern Complete Webern | 4.5 |
| Apathean Eve | 4.0 |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album | 4.0 |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 4.0 |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II | 4.0 |
| Aphex Twin ...I Care Because You Do | 4.0 |
| Arcade Fire Reflektor | 2.3 |
Sometimes I wish that one half of Funeral that was worth giving a shit over never happened so that these guys
would stop being fellated by the press as something valid. |
| Arnold Schoenberg String Quartet No. 2, Op. 10 | 4.5 |
| Arnold Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 | 4.0 |
| Arnold Schoenberg String Quartet No. 3, Op. 30 | 4.5 |
| Ash Borer Ash Borer | 4.0 |
| At the Gates At War with Reality | 2.5 |
| Remember when Carcass put out Surgical Steel? That was cool. |
| Ataraxie L'être et la Nausée | 4.0 |
| Austere To Lay Like Old Ashes | 4.0 |
| Autechre Tri Repetae | 3.5 |
| Azari & III Azari & III | 3.3 |
| Balam Acab Wander/Wonder | 4.5 |
| Balance and Composure The Things We Think We're Missing | 4.0 |
| Personally, I think this is by far the best thing they've ever done. |
| Bane Give Blood | 4.0 |
| Baroness Yellow and Green | 4.0 |
| The idea of a double album from Baroness was somewhat off putting at first, as each of their albums are so full of twists, turns, build ups and just plain old booming mischief that 18 tracks of it would be like running a marathon after finishing a triathlon. Yet thankfully Yellow and Green works. If one had been following the band it wouldn't be that much of a surprise that it does. Baizley has stated not only that the records would lack "edge", so to speak, but also would be much more straightforward. The songwriting is direct and to the point and Baizley's vocals are no longer burly mountain man shouts, but instead he shows off his clean vocal skills throughout. The sound is not only more "rock" oriented, but at times shows flashes of bands such as Cave In during their Perfect Pitch Black era in both mood and approach. It is definitely an interesting outing that is propelled by equal parts 70's influence and modern swagger. Fans of the riff oriented Baroness of old might be off put and understandably so, but for those looking for a quality rock and roll record look no further. |
| Bathory Blood on Ice | 3.0 |
| Bathory Blood Fire Death | 4.5 |
| Bathory Octagon | 1.0 |
| Behemoth The Satanist | 3.7 |
| Bela Bartok Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sz 71 | 4.0 |
| Bela Bartok Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Sz. 83 | 4.0 |
| Ben Frost A U R O R A | 4.0 |
| Black Flag My War | 4.0 |
| Black Flag Damaged | 4.5 |
| Blonde Redhead Misery is a Butterfly | 4.0 |
| Blood Of The Black Owl Light the Fires! | 3.5 |
| Blu and Exile Give Me My Flowers While I Can Still Smell Them | 4.3 |
| Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase | 3.5 |
| Boards of Canada Geogaddi | 3.5 |
| Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children | 3.5 |
| Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest | 2.5 |
| I applaud what Boards of Canada are doing on this record. It brims with the eerie sounds of low budget films and documentaries that any one born in the 1980's should remember from when your grade school teacher used to wheel out the TV and VCR when he/she felt like not doing their job for an afternoon. The moods and textures that they're able to pull off while working in the austere confines of their obvious influences is quite astounding. That being said it really is a mood record. For a few tracks at a time it is wondrously trance inducing, but absorbed all at once it is furiously tedious. I think one's enjoyment of Tomorrow's Harvest comes not only from one's overall appreciation of the genre, but also to how much concentration one puts into finding and appreciating the small shifts in mood with each new layer in the tracks. Overall it's a good album, but not something I am an any rush to revisit any time soon unless as I prefer my zone outs to be more ethereal than adderall. |
| Boris Noise | 2.3 |
| Botch An Anthology of Dead Ends | 5.0 |
| Botch Unifying Themes Redux | 2.0 |
| Botch American Nervoso | 4.0 |
| Brave Bird Maybe You, No One Else Worth It | 2.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen High Hopes | 3.0 |
| Burial Untrue | 5.0 |
| Burial Kindred | 4.5 |
| This is ridiculously good. Not sure what I'm rating it quite yet, but god damn, color me impressed. |
| Burial Rival Dealer | 4.1 |
| Rival Dealer is a change of moods for Burial. While he has always been at his best in the past when channeling distance and longing, the songs on Rival Dealer are finally at peace with their surroundings. For the first time we finally get the Hollywood ending for Untrue's beautiful emptiness and Kindred's overwhelming confusion that we've been waiting for. |
| Burzum Filosofem | 4.5 |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss | 4.0 |
| Busta Rhymes and Q-Tip The Abstract & The Dragon | 3.4 |
| At this point in time I don't think anyone here expects greatness from either Busta or Q-Tip anymore (I mean shit, did you hear Arab Money? What a fucking shit stain that was) but what The Abstract and The Dragon brings us is two former greats 20 years removed from their primes taking an enjoyable look back on the style that made them famous. It's a fun little nostalgia trip, nothing more nothing less. |
| calculator This Will Come To Pass | 4.0 |
| Candlemass Epicus Doomicus Metallicus | 4.0 |
| Candlemass Chapter VI | 2.0 |
| Candlemass Nightfall | 4.5 |
| Cap'n Jazz Shmap'n Shmazz | 5.0 |
| Captain, We're Sinking The Future Is Cancelled | 3.5 |
| The Future Is Canceled is equal parts The Menzingers immediacy, The Sidekicks emotive yelping, and Brand New circa 2003's punk rawk. I can dig it. |
| Carcass Surgical Steel | 4.0 |
| Caribou Our Love | 4.0 |
| Caribou Swim | 3.5 |
| Caribou Andorra | 3.5 |
| Cathedral The Ethereal Mirror | 2.5 |
| Cathedral The Garden Of Unearthly Delights | 2.0 |
| Cecil Taylor Unit Structures | 4.5 |
| Celtic Frost Monotheist | 2.5 |
| Charles Bronson Complete Discocrappy | 4.0 |
| Charles Mingus Let My Children Hear Music | 4.5 |
| Charles Mingus The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady | 4.5 |
| Charles Mingus Mingus Ah Um | 3.5 |
| Christian Loffler Young Alaska | 4.0 |
| Church of Misery Houses of the Unholy | 4.0 |
| CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe | 4.0 |
| I feel pretty when I listen to this. |
| CityCop / Les Doux Family Ties/Labors of Love | 3.0 |
| Cloakroom Further Out | 3.0 |
| Cloud Nothings Here and Nowhere Else | 4.2 |
| Cobblestone Jazz 23 Seconds | 3.7 |
| Cocteau Twins Heaven or Las Vegas | 4.5 |
| Codeine The White Birch | 5.0 |
| Cold Body Radiation A Clear Path | 2.3 |
| If I went to a barbecue and there was no meat, I would say 'Yo Goober! Where's the meat!?? I?m trying to impress people here Lisa. You don't win friends with salad. |
| Coldworld Melancholie² | 4.0 |
| Comadre Comadre | 4.5 |
| Comeback Kid Die Knowing | 3.5 |
| Corrupted Garten Der Unbewusstheit | 4.5 |
| Garten Der Unbewusstheit gives Deafheaven's Roads to Judah a run for its money for the title of metal AOTY and the album's final track, the 30 minute "Gekkou No Daichi", is easily the single most powerful metal track of 2011. |
| Corrupted El Mundo Frio | 4.5 |
| Count Raven Mammons War | 2.0 |
| Crossed Out 1990-1993 | 3.5 |
| Cult Leader Nothing for Us Here | 3.5 |
| Cursed II | 4.5 |
| Cymbals Eat Guitars LOSE | 2.8 |
| Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us | 2.8 |
| Dalhous Will to be Well | 3.5 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Acceptance Speech | 2.9 |
| Dangers 5 O'Clock Shadows At The Edge Of The Western World | 2.8 |
| Daphni Jiaolong | 2.3 |
| Darkside Psychic | 4.0 |
| Darkthrone The Underground Resistance | 4.0 |
| Darkthrone Circle the Wagons | 3.5 |
| No One Circles the Wagons Like the Buffalo Bills |
| Darkthrone A Blaze in the Northern Sky | 4.5 |
| Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger | 4.0 |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 5.0 |
| I haven't been this floored by a record on my first play through since High Violet. It is the perfect microcosm of all my musical tastes elegantly placed together in a tightly wound, hour long ball of time that seems to pass effortlessly in an all too short instant. |
| Deafheaven New Bermuda | 3.5 |
| 3.5ish sounds about right, I guess. Maybe a little lower. Maybe a little higher. *shrugs* |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist | 4.5 |
| Demdike Stare Liberation Through Hearing | 3.5 |
| Desperate Living I Think I'm Losing Touch | 3.0 |
| Diarrhea Planet Loose Jewels | 4.0 |
| the epitome of wonderful, stupid, lovely drunken fun. |
| Die Kreuzen Die Kreuzen | 4.1 |
| DJ Sprinkles Midtown 120 Blues | 4.0 |
| Do Make Say Think You, You're a History in Rust | 5.0 |
| Don Cherry Eternal Rhythm | 4.0 |
| Don Cherry Symphony for Improvisers | 4.0 |
| Don Cherry "mu" Second Part | 2.5 |
| Drake Nothing Was the Same | 4.0 |
| Dropdead 1st LP | 3.5 |
| Dropdead 2nd LP | 3.0 |
| Drudkh Autumn Aurora | 4.0 |
| Drudkh Microcosmos | 3.5 |
| Dum Dum Girls Too True | 3.3 |
| Earthless Meets Heavy Blanket In A Dutch Haze | 2.2 |
| Eels Electro-Shock Blues | 4.5 |
| Eels Blinking Lights & Other Revelations | 4.5 |
| Efdemin Decay | 3.5 |
| Efdemin Chicago | 3.5 |
| Electric Masada At the Mountains of Madness | 4.0 |
| Electric Wizard Dopethrone | 4.5 |
| Electric Wizard Come My Fanatics... | 4.0 |
| Eluvium Copia | 4.0 |
| Elysian Blaze Blood Geometry | 4.5 |
| Elysian Blaze Levitating the Carnal | 3.5 |
| Esoteric The Maniacal Vale | 4.0 |
| FaltyDL In The Wild | 3.5 |
| Fen Dustwalker | 3.0 |
| Fennesz Endless Summer | 3.8 |
| Fennesz Black Sea | 4.0 |
| Fennesz Becs | 3.7 |
| Finch Back to Oblivion | 2.5 |
| Finch What It Is to Burn | 2.5 |
| What It Is To Burn is one of those albums that tests just how important nostalgia is to its listener. If you had a deep connection with it when the album first came out, chances are you'll love it. If you liked it, but weren't exactly enthralled with it, chances are you'll think it has aged horribly. I happen to be in that latter camp. When I was 15 this was great. Now at 26 it's nothing more than slightly less annoying bro-rock. It's not without its moments, but you might want to stick with how you remember it sounding rather than taking the time to give it another spin with an older set of ears. |
| Fire! Orchestra Exit! | 3.0 |
| Fleetwood Mac Rumours | 4.5 |
| Flying Lotus You're Dead! | 4.7 |
| Yes. |
| Forgotten Tomb Songs to Leave | 4.0 |
| Forgotten Tomb Springtime Depression | 3.5 |
| Four Tet Rounds | 4.0 |
| Four Tet There is Love in You | 3.5 |
| Francis Harris Minutes of Sleep | 4.0 |
| Freddie Gibbs and Madlib Pinata | 4.0 |
Pinata is everything a good collaboration should be. Freddie Gibbs returns to his role as
the last hard ass motherfucker in a mainstream rap universe that's about as threatening as
the bear in the Snuggle fabric softener commercials. His laid back drawl bounces in and out
of Madlib's chopped soul samples and Motown breaks with a streetwise nonchalance that is
reminiscent of Guru -- if only he came of age on a grizzled street corner instead of in
graduate classes. Madlib is in full on soul-jam mode. The jazzy experiments of his slew of
recent solo tapes is put on the back burner for a reprise of the chopped and sultry sounds
of mid-60's Detroit a la his collaborations with MF DOOM and Guilty Simpson. The final
result is somewhere between those two projects but no less immediate. |
| Friendzone DX | 2.0 |
| Really? REALLY?! smh |
| Fucked Up David Comes to Life | 4.7 |
| did somebody just call American Idiot the best concept album ever? jeez, it's like anyone can get an account at sputnikmusic these days... |
| G.L.O.S.S. Demo | 4.0 |
| Gas Pop | 3.5 |
| Gas Zauberberg | 4.0 |
| Gaza No Absolutes in Human Suffering | 4.5 |
| Album of the year. Album of the year. Album of the year. Album of the year. Album of the year. Album of the year. Album of the year. Album of the year. Album of the year. Album of the year. Album of the year. Album of the year. Album of the year. Album of the year. Album of the year. Album of the year. Album of the year. Album of the year. Album of the year. Album of the year. Album of the year. Album of the year. Album of the year. Album of the year. Album of the year. Album of the year. Album of the year. Album of the year. Album of the year. Album of the year. Album of the year. Album of the year. Album of the year. Album of the year. Album of the year. Album of the year. Album of the year. Album of the year. Album of the year. Album of the year. Album of the year. Album of the year. Album of the year. Album of the year. Album of the year. |
| Gesaffelstein Aleph | 4.0 |
| Ghostface Killah Ironman | 4.5 |
| Ghostface Killah Supreme Clientele | 4.5 |
| Ghostface Killah Fishscale | 4.0 |
| Ghostface Killah Twelve Reasons to Die | 4.0 |
| Glass Bones Loner | 4.0 |
| Where the split with Les Doux felt more like a stop gap than a complete project, Loner is the true follow up to Seasons that we've all been waiting for. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada | 5.0 |
Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada is the ultimate Godspeed You! Black Emperor release. It
takes everything the band has ever accomplished and condenses it into a half hour. It has
the intensity of Yanqui, the despair of F#A#, and the beauty of Lift Your
Skinny Fists. It is the perfect example of the power that music can wield. |
| Gorguts Colored Sands | 4.5 |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World | 5.0 |
| Gram Parsons GP | 3.9 |
| GridLink Longhena | 4.7 |
| Gris À L'Âme Enflammée, L'Âme Constellée... | 4.0 |
| Gris Il Était Une Forêt... | 4.5 |
| Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill | 4.5 |
| GZA Liquid Swords | 5.0 |
| Hate Forest Purity | 3.5 |
| Hatred Surge Human Overdose | 2.5 |
| Hatred Surge Deconstruct | 4.0 |
| Haymaker Let Them Rot | 3.9 |
| His Hero Is Gone Monuments To Thieves | 4.5 |
| Hop Along Get Disowned | 4.5 |
| Igor Stravinsky L'Oiseau de feu "The Firebird" | 4.6 |
| Igor Stravinsky Le Sacre du Printemps | 5.0 |
| In My Eyes The Difference Between | 2.5 |
| In My Eyes Nothing To Hide | 4.0 |
| Infest No Man's Slave | 4.5 |
| Infest Slave | 3.5 |
| Infest Mankind | 4.0 |
| Inigo Kennedy Vaudeville | 4.5 |
| Insomnium Shadows of the Dying Sun | 2.5 |
| Into It. Over It. Proper | 3.5 |
| Iron Lung White Glove Test | 4.0 |
| Iron Lung Sexless // No Sex | 4.0 |
| James Blake Overgrown | 3.5 |
| Japandroids Celebration Rock | 5.0 |
| Japandroids Near To The Wild Heart Of Life | 2.5 |
| Near To The Wild Heart Of Life is the sound going from being a cool kid hanging out in the sketchy part of downtown to being 35 and wanting the new condo built right over where the DIY spot used to be because it's close to the Whole Foods. |
| Jeff Mills Sleeper Wakes | 3.7 |
| Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op.90 | 4.1 |
| John Coltrane A Love Supreme | 5.0 |
| John Coltrane Ascension | 5.0 |
| Ascension is the sound of two dueling quartets playing opposite of each other in a maddening crescendo of adventurous rhythms. |
| John Roberts Glass Eights | 3.0 |
| John Talabot Fin | 4.0 |
| John Zorn From Silence to Sorcery | 1.0 |
| John Zorn Duras: Duchamp | 2.0 |
| John-Allison Weiss Say What You Mean | 4.0 |
| John-Allison Weiss Say What You Mean (Sideways Sessions) | 3.3 |
| Jon Hopkins Immunity | 4.0 |
| Joyce Manor Never Hungover Again | 3.7 |
| It's cool. Like, you know, whatever. |
| Judas Iscariot The Cold Earth Slept Below | 3.5 |
| Judas Iscariot To Embrace the Corpses Bleeding | 4.0 |
| Judge What It Meant: The Complete Discography | 3.5 |
| Julia Holter Loud City Song | 4.4 |
| Julianna Barwick Nepenthe | 4.3 |
| Jungbluth Part Ache | 4.0 |
| Jungbluth/Callow Split | 4.0 |
| Kanye West Yeezus | 4.1 |
| Karen O Crush Songs | 3.5 |
| Karlheinz Stockhausen Mantra | 3.8 |
| Kreator Pleasure to Kill | 4.0 |
| Kreator Endorama | 1.0 |
| Kreator Coma of Souls | 3.5 |
| Kreator Cause for Conflict | 2.0 |
| Krieg The Isolationist | 4.0 |
| Krieg Destruction Ritual | 4.0 |
| La Dispute Rooms of the House | 2.5 |
| Laura Stevenson Wheel | 3.0 |
| While nowhere near as endearing as Sit, Resist and more refined than A Record, Wheel is a good album. Not bad, not great, but good. |
| LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver | 5.0 |
| Sound of Silver I love you and you're not bringing me down. |
| LCD Soundsystem The Long Goodbye | 5.0 |
A perfect document in sound, style, and substance from the most important band of the last
decade. |
| Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy | 5.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV | 3.5 |
| Lee Gamble Dutch Tvashar Plumes | 3.5 |
| Lee Gamble Koch | 3.5 |
| Leviathan Massive Conspiracy Against All Life | 4.5 |
| Lil B 05 Fuck Em | 4.1 |
| Lil B is cool an all, but it's Keke The Adopted Tabby Cat who steals the show on "Hadouken". #MERRYBASEDMAS |
| Lindstrom Where You Go I Go Too | 4.0 |
| Listener Time Is A Machine | 1.5 |
| Lone Reality Testing | 3.5 |
| Lorde Pure Heroine | 2.3 |
Credit to Joel Little for knowing how to produce the piss out of a solid hook until it sharpens itself into a point that
lodges itself into your brain, but far too often nothing substantial hits and Ella's trying-oh-so-hard-to-be-clever
lyrics stumble in the three sizes too big shoes she wears in her game of electro-pop dress up. |
| Low I Could Live in Hope | 4.5 |
| Low Things We Lost in the Fire | 4.5 |
| Low The Invisible Way | 1.0 |
| Low C'Mon | 2.0 |
| Lunar Aurora Andacht | 4.0 |
| Luomo Vocalcity | 4.0 |
| Lusine Arterial | 3.5 |
| Machinedrum Vapor City | 4.5 |
| Macintosh Plus Floral Shoppe | 1.5 |
| Main Attrakionz 808s and Dark Grapes II | 2.5 |
| Marissa Nadler July | 4.3 |
| Masked Intruder Masked Intruder | 3.5 |
| Matana Roberts COIN COIN Chapter Three: river run thee | 4.2 |
| Matter Teraphim | 3.3 |
| Max Richter The Blue Notebooks | 4.5 |
| Max Richter Recomposed: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons | 4.2 |
| I love orchestral music, but I've never been the biggest fan of Vivaldi, especially his most well known piece Four Seasons. There's a level of pomp and bombast in Baroque music that has never really set well with me. Max Richter's "recomposition" completely discards everything baroque in his own Four Seasons. The end result isn't a celebration of the time of year like the original, but an introspective look at the feeling each season elicits. The melodies are all culled from Vivaldi's 1725 composition, but that's where the similarities end. If you're looking for something that follows the past to the tee, get Swoboda or Molinari's. If you're looking for something oh so familiar yet strikingly different, Richter has you covered. |
| Miles Davis In a Silent Way | 5.0 |
| Minilogue Animals | 3.5 |
| Minor Threat Out of Step | 4.0 |
| Misery Signals Absent Light | 2.0 |
| Modern Baseball You’re Gonna Miss It All | 2.3 |
| Modern Life Is War Fever Hunting | 2.5 |
| I was saying Boo-urns. |
| Moodymann Forevernevermore | 3.0 |
| Moodymann Silentintroduction | 4.0 |
| Morbid Angel Altars of Madness | 4.0 |
| Morbus Chron Sweven | 2.0 |
| Horse shit. |
| Mournful Congregation The June Frost | 4.5 |
| Moving Mountains Moving Mountains | 2.0 |
| I liked these guys better when they played poppy, emotive, post-rock influenced music. Not this adult contemporary snooze fest. |
| Murcof Martes | 4.0 |
| My Dying Bride A Map of All Our Failures | 3.0 |
| My Dying Bride The Dreadful Hours | 4.0 |
| My Dying Bride Turn Loose the Swans | 4.0 |
| Nadja Dagdrøm | 3.5 |
| Nadja Radiance of Shadows | 4.0 |
| Nadja Thaumogenesis | 4.0 |
| Nadja Touched | 4.5 |
| Nails Abandon All Life | 4.0 |
| Native Orthodox | 4.5 |
| Newworldaquarium The Dead Bears | 3.5 |
| Nicolas Jaar Space Is Only Noise | 4.0 |
| Nothing Guilty of Everything | 3.6 |
| Okkervil River The Silver Gymnasium | 2.5 |
| That feeling when you go to an old person's house and the only soda they have in the fridge is TAB. You know better but you grab a can anyways. It's still warm. Obviously it was sitting in the pantry up until a few minutes ago but they put it in the refrigerator because company was coming over. You crack it open and drink it. All you can think is, "Fuck this shitty aftertaste," but you're thirsty and drink the whole thing. Then you remember that TAB is sweetened with saccharine, not aspartame or Splenda, and that saccharine has been known to cause cancer in lab rats. Fucking saccharine. |
| Olivier Messiaen Quatuor Pour la Fin du Temps | 4.6 |
| Olivier Messiaen Des canyons aux etoiles | 4.0 |
| Olivier Messiaen Turangalîla-Symphonie | 4.0 |
| Om Conference of the Birds | 4.5 |
| Om Advaitic Songs | 4.0 |
| Om God Is Good | 4.0 |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Valonielu | 4.1 |
| Orbital In Sides | 3.5 |
| Ordo Obsidium Orbis Tertius | 3.5 |
| Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come | 4.5 |
| Ornette Coleman Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation | 4.5 |
| Owls Two | 4.0 |
| Pallbearer Sorrow And Extinction | 4.0 |
| Pantha Du Prince Black Noise | 4.0 |
| Pantha Du Prince This Bliss | 4.0 |
| Paysage d'Hiver Das Tor | 4.5 |
| Perfect Pussy I have lost all desire for feeling | 4.6 |
| Hey Alex, how does it feel to miss everything awesome and die alone? |
| Perfect Pussy Say Yes to Love | 3.7 |
| Perfume Genius Too Bright | 4.0 |
| Peter Brotzmann Machine Gun | 4.0 |
| Phantogram Voices | 3.9 |
| Pharoah Sanders Karma | 4.5 |
| "The Creator Has a Master Plan" might just be the pinnacle of jazz as a medium of emotional art. |
| Poison the Well The Tropic Rot | 2.8 |
| Preoccupations Viet Cong | 4.0 |
| Propagandhi Failed States | 4.5 |
| Propagandhi Supporting Caste | 4.5 |
| Propagandhi Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes | 4.5 |
| Protest the Hero Volition | 3.5 |
| Prurient And Still, Wanting | 3.5 |
| Prurient The History of AIDS | 3.5 |
| Pusha T My Name Is My Name | 4.0 |
| Pyrrhon The Mother of Virtues | 4.0 |
| holy shit this rules. It's like Converge, Demilich, and Bastard Noise all rolled into one. |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork | 2.5 |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... | 4.5 |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II | 4.0 |
| Cuban Linx II is the best Wu joint in years. Not only does it show off Rae and Co. at the top of their game, it features a wide range of A-List producers (J-Dilla, Dre, RZA, Necro, BT, and more) showing off their best beats. |
| Rapeman Two Nuns and a Pack Mule | 4.0 |
| Real Estate Atlas | 3.0 |
| Recondite On Acid | 4.0 |
| Recondite Hinterland | 3.5 |
| Red City Radio Titles | 3.0 |
| Tiles has its moments, but the hooks aren't anywhere near as infectious as their debut and the production is bizarrely thick. |
| Red House Painters Songs for a Blue Guitar | 4.0 |
| Red House Painters Red House Painters II | 2.5 |
| Red House Painters Red House Painters | 4.0 |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come | 5.0 |
| The single most important album of the last 20 years. |
| Rick Ross Mastermind | 4.0 |
| Rick Ross finally has an album that lives up to all of his show stealing guest spots. |
| Ritual Mess Ritual Mess | 3.5 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels | 2.5 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 | 3.0 |
| Rx Bandits Gemini, Her Majesty | 2.3 |
| This album cover confirms that RXB are now Phish for punk kids. |
| Saint Vitus Saint Vitus | 4.5 |
| Saint Vitus Born Too Late | 4.0 |
| Saint Vitus Die Healing | 2.5 |
| Saint Vitus C.O.D. | 2.5 |
| Saintseneca Dark Arc | 3.0 |
| So what separates this from the rest of the world of bland alt-folk other than it has the singer of The Sidekicks in it? |
| Saosin Translating the Name | 4.7 |
| Sara Bareilles The Blessed Unrest | 4.0 |
| Sargeist Feeding the Crawling Shadows | 2.0 |
| Saves the Day Saves the Day | 2.0 |
| Saves the Day In Reverie | 4.5 |
| SBTRKT Wonder Where We Land | 3.2 |
| ScHoolboy Q Oxymoron | 2.0 |
| Seahaven Silhouette (Latin Skin) | 2.5 |
| Sed Non Satiata Mappo | 3.0 |
| Seizures The Sanity Universal | 4.8 |
| Self Defense Family Try Me | 4.5 |
| The first must have record of 2014 is here and it's still 2013. |
| Sharon Van Etten Tramp | 4.0 |
| Sharon Van Etten Are We There | 4.6 |
| Siege Drop Dead | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Kveikur | 3.0 |
| Sisyphus Sisyphus | 2.0 |
| Skepticism Alloy | 3.5 |
| Sleater-Kinney No Cities to Love | 4.2 |
| Sleep Dopesmoker | 5.0 |
| Sleep Sleep's Holy Mountain | 4.0 |
| Sleeping Village Fragments | 4.0 |
| Slough Feg Digital Resistance | 3.6 |
| Sombres Forets La Mort du Soleil | 4.0 |
| Sparta Wiretap Scars | 4.5 |
| Spazz Crush Kill Destroy | 4.5 |
| Spazz La Revancha | 2.5 |
| St. Vincent St. Vincent | 4.0 |
| On one hand, St. Vincent is quite a good art-pop record. On the other, it sounds exactly like what you would expect a quite good art-pop record to sound like. I don't know if that says more about the creative strength and collective influences of Annie's contemporaries, or if it's that she's settled into a sound that she's comfortable with. Either way, it is quite a good art-pop record even if it lacks any real surprises. |
| Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline | 4.0 |
| State Faults Resonate/Desperate | 4.4 |
| Summoning Old Mornings Dawn | 3.0 |
| Sun Kil Moon Benji | 2.5 |
| edit: after three play throughs this has gone from tough but good to insufferable. |
| Sun Ra The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra | 2.5 |
| Sun Ra The Nubians of Plutonia | 3.0 |
| Sunn O))) Dømkirke | 3.5 |
| Superchunk I Hate Music | 4.6 |
| I'm going to go out on a limb here and declare this the best thing Superchunk have ever done. |
| Superheaven Jar | 2.0 |
| Swarms Old Raves End | 4.5 |
| Sylvan Esso Sylvan Esso | 4.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Happiness Is | 3.2 |
| Teebs Ardour | 3.5 |
| Teebs E S T A R A | 4.5 |
| The Angelic Process Weighing Souls With Sand | 4.5 |
| The Body I Shall Die Here | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Migrant | 2.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading | 3.0 |
| The Decemberists What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World | 2.5 |
| The Average White Band |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer | 3.0 |
| The Field From Here We Go Sublime | 4.0 |
| The Field Yesterday and Today | 4.0 |
| The Haxan Cloak Excavation | 4.0 |
| The Hope Conspiracy Endnote | 3.0 |
| On the shortlist of best hardcore albums of the last decade |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There | 4.6 |
The first great pop punk record of the 2010's.
edit: dude above me makes the assumption The Story So Far aren't shit. |
| The Menzingers Rented World | 3.3 |
| Lisa and I are going out for a gelato. We'd ask you to come, but...you know. |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me | 4.0 |
| The New Tony Williams Lifetime Believe It | 4.0 |
| The Obsessed The Church Within | 4.0 |
| The Ocean Pelagial | 2.5 |
| The Orb Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld | 3.5 |
| The Orb Orbus Terrarum | 3.5 |
| The Rival Mob Mob Justice | 4.1 |
| The Smiths Complete | 5.0 |
| The Story So Far What You Don't See | 1.5 |
| The Suicide File Some Mistakes You Never Stop Paying For | 4.0 |
| The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream | 4.5 |
| And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. |
| The Weakerthans Left and Leaving | 5.0 |
| The Weakerthans Reconstruction Site | 4.5 |
| The Weeknd Kiss Land | 2.0 |
| Even before Kiss Land was a topic on message boards, before Abel unsuccessfully tried to out jackass Kanye West, it was obvious that whatever he did next was going to be a slick and lifeless affair. His reworking of his near flawless Trilogy to make it uninteresting, clean, and safe enough for pop-rap radio play was the clarion call that it wasn't about the art, it wasn't about the sex, and it wasn't about the drugs; it was about how much of his art he could sacrifice to get more sex and more drugs. The answer on Kiss Land gives us is most of it. It's boring, it's bloated, and worst of all, it's comfortable. Mind-numbingly so. |
| The Weeknd Trilogy | 3.0 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Whenever, If Ever | 3.0 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything | 4.5 |
| Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind | 4.5 |
| Thou Peasant | 4.0 |
| Thou Heathen | 4.5 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 2.5 |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 3.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 2.5 |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 3.0 |
| Throwdown Haymaker | 4.5 |
| Throwdown Intolerance | 3.9 |
| Thundercat Apocalypse | 4.0 |
| Thy Light No Morrow Shall Dawn | 4.0 |
| Tim Hecker Harmony in Ultraviolet | 4.0 |
| Tim Hecker An Imaginary Country | 4.0 |
| Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 | 4.0 |
| Tim Hecker Virgins | 3.5 |
| Tiny Moving Parts This Couch Is Long & Full of Friendship | 2.5 |
| Tipper Surrounded | 3.5 |
| Tipper Forward Escape | 3.0 |
| Tipper Broken Soul Jamboree | 3.5 |
| Title Fight Spring Songs | 2.7 |
| I think Title Fight are one of those bands where I would rather listen to the sum of their influences than what they end up condensing them in to. |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor | 5.0 |
| Todd Terje It's Album Time | 3.0 |
| Torres Torres | 4.0 |
| TotalSelfHatred TotalSelfHatred | 4.0 |
| Touche Amore Is Survived By | 4.2 |
| That guitar tone is just too good ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh *cum everywhere* |
| Touche Amore/Pianos Become the Teeth Split | 3.0 |
| Townes Van Zandt Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas | 4.2 |
| Tragedy Darker Days Ahead | 1.5 |
| Tragedy Vengeance | 4.0 |
| Trist (CZ) Nostalgie | 3.5 |
| Trist (CZ) Zrcadlení melancholie | 4.0 |
| Trophy Scars Holy Vacants | 4.0 |
| Darkness, Oh Hell still sits atop the Trophy Scars pantheon for me, but this is pretty darn close. |
| Turnstile Nonstop Feeling | 1.0 |
| Twilight Monument To Time End | 4.0 |
| So far this is my metal aoty for 2010. Ditching Malefic and picking up Aaron Turner and Sanford Parker was the best thing that ever happened to this black/post metal behemoth. |
| Twilight Twilight | 3.5 |
| Tycho Dive | 3.0 |
| Underworld dubnobasswithmyheadman | 3.5 |
| United Nations The Next Four Years | 3.8 |
| Van Morrison Moondance | 5.0 |
| Venetian Snares Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett | 4.5 |
| Venetian Snares My Love Is A Bulldozer | 2.5 |
| Venetian Snares Detrimentalist | 3.0 |
| Virgo Four Virgo | 4.0 |
| Voices From The Lake Voices From The Lake | 4.0 |
| Warpaint Warpaint | 4.0 |
| Weezer Everything Will Be Alright in the End | 4.0 |
| Wheels Within Wheels The Six Months of the Northern Course of the Sun | 4.5 |
| William Parker The Peach Orchard | 3.5 |
| Woods of Desolation Torn Beyond Reason | 4.0 |
| Woods of Desolation As the Stars | 4.2 |
| Worship Terranean Wake | 3.5 |
| Worship Dooom | 5.0 |
| YG My Krazy Life | 2.0 |
| Since I stopped smoking weed this kind of shit is dead to me. |
| YOB Clearing The Path To Ascend | 2.8 |
| You Blew It! Keep Doing What You’re Doing | 2.3 |
| Youth of Today We're Not In This Alone | 3.0 |
| Yung Lean Unknown Memory | 2.0 |
| Zomby With Love | 3.7 |
