| ...Who Calls So Loud ...Who Calls So Loud | 3.5 |
| A Dozen Furies Rip The Stars Down | 2.0 |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step | 3.0 |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms | 3.0 |
| A Secret Death A Secret Death | 4.5 |
| A Skylit Drive She Watched The Sky | 2.0 |
| A Thorn For Every Heart Things Aren't So Beautiful Now | 3.5 |
| Adebisi Shank This Is The Album Of A Band Called Adebisi Shank | 4.0 |
| Adebisi Shank This Is The EP Of A Band Called Adebisi Shank | 4.0 |
| Aiden Our Gangs Dark Oath | 1.0 |
| Alesana On Frail Wings Of Vanity And Wax | 3.5 |
| Alexisonfire Alexisonfire | 3.5 |
| Alexisonfire Crisis | 4.0 |
| Alexisonfire Watch Out! | 4.5 |
| Alkaline Trio From Here To Infirmary | 2.5 |
| Amanda Woodward La Decadence de la Decadence | 3.5 |
| American Football American Football | 4.0 |
The moment the soft, sweet sounds of the opening track 'Never Meant' on their self titled album hits your ears till the final moments of 'The one with the Wurlitzer', you will find yourself immersed in a happy place and it will most likely end with you in tears....well maybe not but either way this music is truly emotional stuff. Every note rings clearly with all our favourite human emotions love, heartache and regret.
The songs are full of space, i don't mean that the songs feel empty but that the band tends to lean towards a minimalist approach in the presentation of the songs, this space allows the vocal melodies to weave their magic in your head. All the while the guitars drum and bass each provide their own supporting or counter-melody with the occasional mixing of odd time signatures and rhythms, leaving the listener in a diverse landscape of aural pleasure.
That being said they're not as lofty as bands like explosions in the sky as the songs have just enough weight in them to keep them grounded, not just floating up around your head. This band is for anyone mildly interested in ambient chillout indie and jazz type stuff |
| American Football American Football EP | 4.0 |
| Ampere All Our Tomorrows End Today | 4.5 |
| Anathallo Hymns | 3.0 |
| Anathallo Canopy Glow | 4.0 |
| Anathallo Floating World | 4.5 |
| Anberlin Blueprints For The Black Market | 3.5 |
| Anberlin Cities | 3.5 |
| Anberlin Never Take Friendship Personal | 4.0 |
| Angels and Airwaves We Don't Need to Whisper | 2.5 |
| Animal Collective Water Curses | 3.5 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 3.5 |
| Aphex Twin ...I Care Because You Do | 4.0 |
| Architecture In Helsinki In Case We Die | 3.0 |
| Architecture In Helsinki Fingers Crossed | 3.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am... | 3.0 |
| Armchairpolitician Seven Segment Decoder | 4.5 |
Armchairpolitician manage to find innovative ways to stick out above the rest of the emerging european melodic hardcore bands.
Seven segment decoder' is built around prog rock-esque structures and a charming sense of artistic overindulgence, the album as a whole is a very moody piece of art, quite sombre and almost foreboding (imagine the apocalypse on a overcast day) i would not be surprised if i learn that it is in fact a concept album.
On the surface its a fairly easy listen, your ears can quite easily follow along with the mostly soft vocal melodies and with 9/13 of the tracks clocking in over 4 and a half minutes there are alot of ambient musical interlude type sections where you can easily get drawn into place of complete satisfaction.
But at the same time, the guitars continually add a very complex and/or unique layer to the songs that upon further listening can draw you in for a interesting ride. The entire album is drenched with a feeling of experimentation the band showcases their attention to detail by mixing in a wide palette of sounds tones and effects into the overall sound scape leaving you with a very well produced album |
| Armor For Sleep Smile For Them | 2.5 |
| Armor For Sleep Dream To Make Believe | 3.5 |
| Armor For Sleep What To Do When You Are Dead | 4.0 |
| Arrows Modern Art & Politics | 4.0 |
| As Cities Burn Hell Or High Water | 3.0 |
| As Cities Burn Come Now Sleep | 4.5 |
| As Cities Burn Son, I Loved You At Your Darkest | 5.0 |
| As Tall As Lions As Tall As Lions | 4.0 |
| At the Drive-In Vaya | 3.0 |
| At the Drive-In This Station Is Non-Operational | 3.5 |
| At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out | 3.5 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 4.0 |
| Atlas Sound Logos | 3.5 |
| Atreyu The Curse | 2.0 |
| August Burns Red Messengers | 2.5 |
| August Burns Red Thrill Seeker | 3.5 |
| Aussitot Mort Montuenga | 4.0 |
| Autechre Confield | 3.0 |
| Autechre Draft 7.30 | 3.0 |
| Autechre Quaristice | 3.0 |
| Autechre Oversteps | 3.0 |
| Autechre Untilted | 4.0 |
| Autechre Gantz Graf | 4.0 |
| Autechre Move Of Ten | 4.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Sounding the Seventh Trumpet | 1.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Warmness on the Soul | 1.5 |
| Baroness Red Album | 3.5 |
| Bear vs. Shark Terrorhawk | 2.5 |
| Belle Epoque A La Derive | 3.5 |
| Beloved Failure On | 4.0 |
| Benea Reach Monument Bineothan | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus | 2.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 2.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 3.5 |
| Billy Talent Billy Talent | 3.5 |
| Bleed The Dream Built By Blood | 2.5 |
| Bleed The Dream Asleep/No Apologies | 3.5 |
| Blindside Silence | 3.5 |
| Blindside About A Burning Fire | 3.5 |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm | 3.0 |
| Bloc Party A Weekend In The City | 3.0 |
| Bloc Party Intimacy | 3.0 |
| Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase | 2.5 |
| Boards of Canada Geogaddi | 3.0 |
| Boards of Canada Music Has The Right To Children | 3.5 |
| Bon Iver Blood Bank | 3.0 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 4.0 |
| Botch American Nervoso | 3.5 |
| Botch We Are the Romans | 4.0 |
| Bowerbirds Hymns for a Dark Horse | 4.0 |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon | 3.0 |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 4.0 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 4.5 |
| Brazil A Hostage and the Meaning of Life | 3.5 |
| Breaking Benjamin Saturate | 1.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin We Are Not Alone | 2.0 |
| Bright Eyes Lifted or the Story is in the Soil... | 3.5 |
| Bright Eyes Digital Ash in a Digital Urn | 3.5 |
| Bright Eyes Cassadaga | 3.5 |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning | 4.0 |
| Bright Eyes Fevers & Mirrors | 4.5 |
| Brighten King Vs. Queen | 3.0 |
| Britney Spears Greatest Hits: My Prerogative | 1.0 |
| Burial Untrue | 3.0 |
| Burial Burial | 3.5 |
| Cap'n Jazz Analphabetapolothology | 2.5 |
| Cartel Cartel | 2.5 |
| Cartel Chroma | 3.5 |
| Cartel The Ransom EP | 3.5 |
| Caspian The Four Trees | 3.0 |
| Caspian You Are The Conductor | 3.5 |
| Catherine Rumour Has It | 2.0 |
| Chasing Victory I Call This Abandonment | 2.5 |
| Chevelle Point #1 | 2.0 |
| Chevelle Wonder What's Next | 2.5 |
| Chiodos Bone Palace Ballet | 2.0 |
| Chiodos All's Well That Ends Well | 3.5 |
| Circa Survive On Letting Go | 3.0 |
| Circa Survive Juturna | 4.0 |
| Circle Takes The Square Circle Takes the Square | 3.5 |
| Circle Takes The Square As the Roots Undo | 4.0 |
| Circle Takes The Square/Pg. 99 Document # 13 | 3.5 |
| City and Colour Sometimes | 4.5 |
| City of Caterpillar City of Caterpillar | 4.5 |
| Closure in Moscow The Penance and the Patience | 4.0 |
| Closure in Moscow First Temple | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria Live at the Starland Ballroom | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 | 4.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 4.5 |
| Cold War Kids Mulberry Street | 3.5 |
| Cold War Kids Loyalty to Loyalty | 4.0 |
| Coma Lies NC The Great Western Basin | 2.5 |
| Coma Lies NC 2008 EP | 3.0 |
| Coma Lies NC A Churchwell Killing | 3.5 |
| Converge You Fail Me | 3.5 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 4.0 |
| Converge No Heroes | 4.0 |
| Copeland Eat, Sleep, Repeat | 4.0 |
| Copeland You Are My Sunshine | 4.0 |
| Copeland Beneath Medicine Tree | 4.5 |
| Copeland In Motion | 5.0 |
| Curl Up and Die The One of Above All, The End of All | 3.5 |
| Curl Up and Die Unfortunately We're Not Robots | 4.0 |
| Cursive Such Blinding Stars for Starving Eyes | 2.5 |
| Cursive Happy Hollow | 3.0 |
| Cursive Domestica | 3.5 |
| Cursive The Ugly Organ | 4.0 |
| Cursive Burst and Bloom | 4.0 |
| Cute Is What We Aim For Same Old Blood Rush With A New Touch | 2.0 |
| Daitro Des Cendres, Je Me Consume | 3.0 |
| Daitro Laisser Vivre Les Squelettes | 4.5 |
| Daitro / Sed Non Satiata Split | 4.0 |
| Damiera Quite Mouth Loud Hands | 2.5 |
| Damiera M(US)IC | 4.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin Dance | 3.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain | 4.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Whatever I Say Is Royal Ocean | 4.5 |
| Dashboard Confessional MTV Unplugged | 3.0 |
| Dashboard Confessional Dusk and Summer | 3.5 |
| Dashboard Confessional A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar | 4.0 |
| Dashboard Confessional The Swiss Army Romance | 4.0 |
| Dashboard Confessional The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most | 4.5 |
| Daughters Hell Songs | 4.0 |
| Days Away Mapping An Invisible World | 4.0 |
| Dead Poetic New Medicines | 3.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie You Can Play These Songs With Chords | 3.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes | 3.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie The Photo Album | 4.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Plans | 4.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs | 4.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism | 4.5 |
| Deerhunter Weird Era Cont. | 3.5 |
| Deerhunter Microcastle | 4.0 |
| Deerhunter Cryptograms | 4.5 |
| Deftones Around the Fur | 3.5 |
| Deftones Deftones | 3.5 |
| Deftones White Pony | 4.0 |
| Dimmu Borgir Enthrone Darkness Triumphant | 1.0 |
| Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca | 3.0 |
| Disturbed The Sickness | 1.5 |
| Disturbed Believe | 1.5 |
| dredg El Cielo | 3.0 |
| dredg Catch Without Arms | 4.0 |
| Drive Like Jehu Yank Crime | 3.5 |
| Editors An End Has A Start | 3.0 |
| Eleventh He Reaches London Hollow Be My Name | 3.0 |
| Eleventh He Reaches London The Good Fight For Harmony | 4.5 |
| Ellington More Like a Movie, Less Like Real Life | 2.5 |
| Elliott False Cathedrals | 3.5 |
| Emery I'm Only A Man | 3.0 |
| Emery The Question | 3.5 |
| Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail | 4.0 |
| Emery The Weak's End | 4.5 |
| Emmure Goodbye to the Gallows | 2.5 |
| Emmure The Respect Issue | 2.5 |
| Envy Insomniac Doze | 3.5 |
| Escape the Fate Dying Is Your Latest Fashion | 1.5 |
| Escape the Fate This War Is Ours | 1.5 |
| Eskimo Joe Girl | 3.0 |
| Every Time I Die Hot Damn! | 2.5 |
| Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon | 3.5 |
| Every Time I Die The Big Dirty | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky How Strange, Innocence | 3.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Rescue | 3.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone | 4.0 |
| Facing New York Get Hot | 2.5 |
| Facing New York Facing New York | 4.0 |
| Fall Out Boy From Under The Cork Tree | 2.5 |
| Fall Out Boy My Heart Will Always Be The B-Side... | 2.5 |
| Fall Out Boy Take This To Your Grave | 3.5 |
| Fear Before Art Damage | 3.5 |
| Fear Before Odd How People Shake | 4.0 |
| Fear Before Fear Before | 4.0 |
| Fear Before The Always Open Mouth | 5.0 |
| Firekites The Bowery | 4.5 |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes | 3.5 |
| Flying Lotus Los Angeles | 3.5 |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma | 4.5 |
| Foals Antidotes | 3.5 |
| Foals Total Life Forever | 4.5 |
| Four Tet There is Love in You | 4.5 |
| From Autumn To Ashes Too Bad You're Beautiful | 2.5 |
| From First To Last Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body... | 3.0 |
| Fugazi 13 Songs | 2.5 |
| Fugazi In on the Kill Taker | 3.5 |
| Fugazi Repeater | 3.5 |
| Funeral Diner The Underdark | 3.0 |
| Funeral Diner Difference Of Potential | 4.0 |
| Furcurve We Grew Legs To Flea The Water | 3.0 |
| Further Seems Forever Hide Nothing | 3.5 |
| Further Seems Forever How to Start a Fire | 4.0 |
| Further Seems Forever The Moon Is Down | 4.5 |
| Gatsbys American Dream Gatsby's American Dream | 3.0 |
| Gatsbys American Dream Volcano | 3.5 |
| Gatsbys American Dream Ribbons and Sugar | 4.0 |
| Gatsbys American Dream In The Land of Lost Monsters | 4.0 |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About | 3.5 |
| God Is An Astronaut The End of the Beginning | 2.5 |
| God Is An Astronaut A Moment of Stillness | 3.0 |
| God Is An Astronaut Far from Refuge | 3.0 |
| God Is An Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright | 3.5 |
| Gyroscope Are You Involved? | 3.0 |
| Gyroscope Sound Shattering Sound | 3.5 |
| Hawthorne Heights Fragile Future | 1.5 |
| Hawthorne Heights The Silence In Black And White | 2.5 |
| HEALTH Get Color | 4.0 |
| Heavy Heavy Low Low Everything's Watched, Everyone's Watchin | 3.0 |
| Hiromi Time Control | 4.0 |
| Hopesfall No Wings To Speak Of | 3.0 |
| Hopesfall The Satellite Years | 4.0 |
| Hopesfall A Types | 4.0 |
| Hopesfall Magnetic North | 4.5 |
| Hot Cross Cryonics | 3.5 |
| Hot Cross Risk Revival | 3.5 |
| Hot Cross A New Set of Lungs | 4.0 |
| Hot Hot Heat Elevator | 3.0 |
| House Vs. Hurricane Forfeiture | 3.0 |
| I Killed The Prom Queen Music for the Recently Deceased | 2.0 |
| I Killed The Prom Queen When Goodbye Means Forever | 3.0 |
| I Killed The Prom Queen Your Past Comes Back To Haunt You | 3.5 |
| Incubus A Crow Left of the Murder... | 2.5 |
| Incubus S.C.I.E.N.C.E. | 3.0 |
| Incubus Make Yourself | 3.5 |
| Incubus Morning View | 3.5 |
| Indian Summer Hidden Arithmetic | 3.0 |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 3.5 |
| Interpol Antics | 4.0 |
| Interpol Our Love to Admire | 4.0 |
| Isis Oceanic | 3.0 |
| Isis In the Absence of Truth | 4.0 |
| Ivoryline There Came A Lion | 3.0 |
| Jack's Mannequin Everything In Transit | 3.5 |
| James Dean James Dean CDR | 4.5 |
| Jet Get Born | 1.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Clarity | 3.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Futures | 3.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Bleed American | 4.0 |
| Joan of Arc A Portable Model Of | 3.0 |
| Joan of Arc How Memory Works | 4.0 |
| Joan of Arc Eventually, All at Once | 4.5 |
| Joshua Fit For Battle To Bring Our Own End | 4.0 |
| Just Surrender We're in Like Sin | 3.0 |
| Just Surrender If These Streets Could Talk | 3.5 |
| Kaddisfly Buy Our Intention; We'll Buy You a Unicorn | 3.5 |
| Kaddisfly Set Sail The Prairie | 3.5 |
| Kaddisfly Do You Know People Can Fly? | 4.0 |
| Kings of Leon Only By The Night | 2.5 |
| Kings of Leon Because Of The Times | 3.0 |
| Kisschasy United Paper People | 2.5 |
| Korn See You on the Other Side | 1.0 |
| Korn Issues | 1.5 |
| Korn Follow The Leader | 2.0 |
| La Quiete La Fine Non È La Fine | 4.0 |
| Laura Gibson Beasts of Seasons | 3.5 |
| Liars Sisterworld | 3.5 |
| Life in Your Way The Sun Rises and the Sun Sets | 2.5 |
| Life in Your Way Ignite and Rebuild | 3.0 |
| Life in Your Way Waking Giants | 4.5 |
| Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish... | 1.5 |
| Limp Bizkit Significant Other | 2.0 |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 1.5 |
| Linkin Park Reanimation | 1.5 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 2.0 |
| Loma Prieta Last City | 4.0 |
| Loma Prieta Dark Mountain | 4.0 |
| Look Mexico This Is Animal Music | 3.5 |
| Look Mexico The Crucial Collection | 4.0 |
| Love Like... Electrocution Love Like... Electrocution | 4.5 |
| Love Lost But Not Forgotten Upon the Right, I Saw a New Misery | 3.5 |
| Lydia This December; It's One More and I'm Fre | 3.0 |
| Lydia Illuminate | 4.0 |
| Mae Destination: B-Sides | 2.5 |
| Mae Singularity | 2.5 |
| Mae Destination: Beautiful | 3.0 |
| Mae The Everglow | 4.5 |
| Maps & Atlases Perch Patchwork | 4.0 |
| Maps & Atlases Tree, Swallows, Houses | 4.5 |
What do you get when you cross the smoothness and sweetness of Dave knudson's unique approach to two handed tapping (listen to any minus the bear song and youll know what i mean) with the spastic moments that make bands like the fall of troy or the mars volta sound unique and then wrap them nicely with the catchyness of any good pop song? maps & atlases are pretty much exactly what you get.
The polyrhythmic nature of the two handed tapping technique they employ as well as the matching but somewhat counter rhythms provided by the drums and bass provide a complex foundation upon which their unique brand of 'indie-pop' songs are grounded.
This complex foundation is composed of tightly executed angular guitar riffs mixed with asymmetric but almost dancey rhythms and voice that could sit between conor oberst and geoff rickley. The heavy use of clean guitar and frantic but rhythmic nature of the music in general make room for melody, the unique vocal approach, while not presenting the most complex of melodies does do the job perfectly it doesn't overpower the songs and allows the music to shine as a whole. |
| Maps & Atlases You and Me and the Mountain | 4.5 |
| Marilyn Manson The High End of Low | 1.5 |
| Maylene and the Sons of Disaster II | 3.0 |
| Maylene and the Sons of Disaster Maylene and the Sons of Disaster | 3.5 |
| Men Women And Children Men, Women And Children | 3.5 |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All | 1.5 |
| Mew Frengers | 4.0 |
| Mew And the Glass Handed Kites | 4.5 |
| Mew No More Stories | 4.5 |
| mewithoutYou A to B: Life | 3.5 |
| mewithoutYou Catch For Us The Foxes | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's all | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister | 4.5 |
| Minus the Bear Bands Like It When You Yell YAR at Them | 3.0 |
| Minus the Bear Interpretaciones Del Oso | 3.0 |
| Minus the Bear This is What I Know About Being Gigantic | 3.0 |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice | 4.0 |
| Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates | 4.5 |
| Minus the Bear Menos El Oso | 4.5 |
| Minus the Bear They Make Beer Commercials Like This | 4.5 |
| Misery Signals Controller | 3.5 |
| Misery Signals Of Malice and the Magnum Heart | 4.0 |
| Misery Signals Mirrors | 4.0 |
| Moneen The Red Tree | 3.5 |
| Moving Mountains Foreword EP | 4.0 |
| Moving Mountains Pneuma | 4.5 |
| Muse Absolution | 2.5 |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry | 3.0 |
| My Disco Cancer | 3.5 |
| My Disco Collapse of an Erratic Lung | 4.0 |
| My Disco Paradise | 4.5 |
| Neil Perry Lineage Situation | 3.5 |
| Neon Blonde Chandeliers in the Savannah | 3.0 |
| Newsboys Shine: The Hits | 2.0 |
| No Age Nouns | 3.0 |
| Norma Jean Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child | 2.5 |
| Norma Jean The Anti Mother | 2.5 |
| Norma Jean Redeemer | 3.0 |
| Norma Jean O' God The Aftermath | 4.0 |
| Northstar Is This Thing Loaded? | 2.0 |
| Northstar Pollyanna | 3.5 |
| Oh, Sleeper The Armored March | 3.5 |
| Oh, Sleeper When I Am God | 4.0 |
| Ohana Dead Beat | 4.5 |
| Onelinedrawing Visitor | 3.0 |
| Onelinedrawing The Volunteers | 4.0 |
| Orchid Chaos Is Me | 3.0 |
| Over It Timing is everything | 2.5 |
| Over It Silverstrand | 3.5 |
| P!nk Can't Take Me Home | 2.5 |
| Papa Roach Infest | 2.0 |
| Papa Roach Lovehatetragedy | 2.5 |
| Parades Foreign Tapes | 3.5 |
| Park It Won't Snow Where You're Going | 4.0 |
| Park Building a Better ________. | 4.5 |
| Parkway Drive Killing With A Smile | 2.5 |
| Pedro the Lion Winners Never Quit | 3.5 |
| Pedro the Lion The Only Reason I Feel Secure | 3.5 |
| Pedro the Lion Whole | 3.5 |
| Pedro the Lion Achilles Heel | 4.0 |
| Pedro the Lion Control | 4.0 |
| Phantom Planet Phantom Planet | 2.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Wall | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 3.5 |
| Poison the Well Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder | 3.0 |
| Poison the Well Versions | 3.5 |
| Poison the Well You Come Before You | 4.0 |
| Poison the Well Tear From the Red | 4.0 |
| Portugal. The Man It's Complicated Being a Wizard | 3.0 |
| Portugal. The Man Church Mouth | 3.5 |
| Portugal. The Man Waiter: ''You Vultures!'' | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 2.5 |
| Protest the Hero A Calculated Use of Sound | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Kezia | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R | 2.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 2.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze | 2.5 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 2.5 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 3.0 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 3.5 |
| Raein Il n'y Pas de Orchestre | 3.5 |
| Refused Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent | 3.0 |
| Refused The EP Compilation | 3.0 |
| Refused The Shape of Punk to Come | 4.0 |
| robotosaurus Sayra Bahk Volume 1 : Last Refuge Of The Exiled Ma | 3.5 |
| robotosaurus Sayra Bahk Volume 2: Trifornais | 4.0 |
| Russian Circles Enter | 4.0 |
| Russian Circles Geneva | 4.0 |
| Saetia A Retrospective | 4.0 |
| Safe Hands Against The Wrecking Ball | 4.0 |
| Saosin Saosin | 2.5 |
| Saosin Translating the Name | 4.0 |
| Sarah Blasko The Overture & The Underscore | 4.0 |
| Sarah Blasko As Day Follows Night | 4.0 |
| Sarah Blasko What the Sea Wants, the Sea Will Have | 4.5 |
| Saves the Day Through Being Cool | 2.5 |
| Saves the Day Can't Slow Down | 2.5 |
| Saves the Day Ups & Downs Early Recordings and B-Sides | 2.5 |
| Saves the Day I'm Sorry I'm Leaving | 3.0 |
| Saves the Day Under the Boards | 3.0 |
| Saves the Day Sound The Alarm | 3.5 |
| Saves the Day In Reverie | 4.0 |
| Saves the Day Stay What You Are | 4.5 |
| Secret And Whisper Great White Whale | 2.5 |
| Sed Non Satiata Le Ciel De Notre Enfance | 4.0 |
| Sevendust Seasons | 1.5 |
| Sevendust Home | 2.0 |
| Sevendust Animosity | 3.0 |
| Silverstein When Broken Is Easily Fixed | 2.5 |
| Silverstein Discovering the Waterfront | 3.0 |
| Slipknot Slipknot | 1.5 |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses) | 1.5 |
| Something Corporate Ready...Break | 2.0 |
| Something Corporate Leaving Through The Window | 2.5 |
| Something Corporate North | 3.0 |
| Sparta Threes | 3.0 |
| Sparta Porcelain | 3.5 |
| Sparta Wiretap Scars | 4.0 |
| Spitalfield Better Than Knowing Where You Are | 3.5 |
| Spitalfield Stop Doing Bad Things | 4.0 |
| Spitalfield Remember Right Now | 4.0 |
| Spitfire (USA-VA) Self-Help | 3.0 |
| Starflyer 59 Old | 3.5 |
| Starflyer 59 My Island | 4.0 |
| Starflyer 59 Dial M | 4.0 |
| Starflyer 59 Talking Voice vs. Singing Voice | 4.5 |
| Straylight Run The Needles, The Space | 3.5 |
| Straylight Run Straylight Run | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens A Sun Came | 3.5 |
| Sullivan Hey, I'm a Ghost | 3.5 |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Diary | 3.5 |
| Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends | 4.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Louder Now | 4.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Where You Want To Be | 4.5 |
| Tera Melos Tera Melos | 3.0 |
| Tera Melos Drugs to the Dear Youth | 3.0 |
| Tera Melos Split: Complex Full of Phantoms | 3.5 |
| Terminal How the Lonely Keep | 3.5 |
| The Amity Affliction High Hopes | 2.5 |
| The Amity Affliction The Amity Affliction | 3.0 |
| The Antlers Hospice | 4.5 |
| The Appleseed Cast Sagarmatha | 3.0 |
| The Appleseed Cast Two Conversations | 3.5 |
| The Appleseed Cast Peregrine | 3.5 |
| The Appleseed Cast Low Level Owl, Volume I | 3.5 |
| The Appleseed Cast Low Level Owl, Vol. 2 | 4.0 |
| The Appleseed Cast Mare Vitalis | 4.0 |
| The Avett Brothers Emotionalism | 3.5 |
| The Bled Found In The Flood | 3.5 |
| The Bled Pass The Flask | 4.0 |
| The Bled Silent Treatment | 4.0 |
| The Blood Brothers This Adultery Is Ripe | 3.5 |
| The Blood Brothers Young Machetes | 3.5 |
| The Blood Brothers Crimes | 4.0 |
| The Blood Brothers ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn | 4.5 |
| The Chariot Unsung | 2.5 |
| The Chariot The Fiancee | 3.5 |
| The Chariot Everything Is Alive, Everything Is... | 4.0 |
| The Classic Crime Albatross | 2.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of... | 3.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Act I: The Lake South, the River North | 4.0 |
| The Decemberists The Crane Wife | 2.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Plagues | 2.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord | 2.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity | 3.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine | 3.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works | 3.5 |
| The Early November The Mother, The Mechanic, and The Path | 3.0 |
| The Early November For All of This EP | 3.5 |
| The Early November Acoustic EP | 3.5 |
| The Early November The Room's Too Cold | 4.0 |
| The Fall of Troy The Fall of Troy | 3.5 |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger | 4.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Manipulator | 4.0 |
| The Format Interventions and Lullabies | 3.0 |
| The Fray How to Save a Life | 2.0 |
| The Future Sound of London Lifeforms | 4.0 |
| The Get Up Kids Something To Write Home About | 3.0 |
| The Get Up Kids Eudora | 3.5 |
| The Getaway Plan Other Voices, Other Rooms | 2.5 |
The getaway plan release one of the most amazingly underachieving albums of the year, with the loss of one of their guitarists and as is evident, a large part of their musical inspiration, they manage to release an album lacking any substance.
The album rolls from one song to another with very limited differences, the moments of musical creativity come so few and far between that its a wonder if these are the same individuals who featured on 'hold conversation'. Vocally there has been some growth, but as overall songwriters, it seems to be fairly sedated, with each musician holding back from their best performance.
With nothing more than a wateredown version of the saosin self titled album, the getaway plan have managed to take a major step back musically while making leaps and bounds in popularity. Time will tell if this sacrifice will benefit or ultimately harm the band. |
| The Getaway Plan Hold Conversations: special edition | 3.0 |
| The Good Life Help Wanted Nights | 3.5 |
| The Good Life Album of the Year | 4.0 |
| The Junior Varsity Wide Eyed | 3.5 |
| The Kinison What Are You Listening To? | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta Tremulant | 2.5 |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture | 2.5 |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath | 2.5 |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 4.5 |
| The Middle East The Recordings of the Middle East | 4.0 |
| The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Let's Face It | 2.5 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You An Inch of Gold for An Inch of Time | 3.0 |
| The Offspring Splinter | 1.5 |
| The Offspring Americana | 2.0 |
| The Offspring Smash | 2.5 |
| The Offspring Conspiracy of One | 3.0 |
| The Police Synchronicity | 4.0 |
| The Police Greatest Hits | 4.0 |
| The Postal Service Give Up | 3.5 |
| The Presets Apocalypso | 3.0 |
| The Prize Fighter Inferno My Brother's Blood Machine | 3.5 |
| The Promise Ring 30 Degrees Everywhere | 3.0 |
| The Promise Ring Wood/Water | 3.5 |
| The Promise Ring Very Emergency | 4.0 |
| The Receiving End of Sirens The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi | 4.0 |
| The Receiving End of Sirens Between the Heart and the Synapse | 5.0 |
| The Red Chord Prey for Eyes | 2.5 |
| The Reign Of Kindo The Reign Of Kindo | 3.5 |
| The Reign Of Kindo Rhythm, Chord & Melody | 4.0 |
| The Reign Of Kindo This Is What Happens | 4.0 |
| The Rivalry No Face for the Mentor | 4.0 |
| The Rocket Summer Hello, Good Friend | 3.0 |
| The Spill Canvas One Fell Swoop | 4.0 |
| The Spill Canvas Sunsets and Car Crashes | 4.5 |
| The Strokes Is This It | 2.5 |
| The Strokes Room on Fire | 3.0 |
| The Temper Trap Conditions | 3.5 |
| The Used Maybe Memories | 1.5 |
| The Used In Love and Death | 2.0 |
| The Used The Used | 2.5 |
| These Arms Are Snakes This Is Meant To Hurt You | 3.5 |
| These Arms Are Snakes Easter | 3.5 |
| These Arms Are Snakes Tail Swallower and Dove | 4.0 |
| These Arms Are Snakes Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home | 4.5 |
| This Will Destroy You Young Mountain | 4.0 |
| This Will Destroy You This Will Destroy You | 4.0 |
| Thrice Identity Crisis | 2.5 |
| Thrice The Illusion Of Safety | 4.0 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Artist In The Ambulance | 4.5 |
| Thursday Waiting | 2.0 |
| Thursday Five Stories Falling | 2.5 |
| Thursday Kill the House Lights | 3.5 |
| Thursday Common Existence | 3.5 |
| Thursday A City By the Light Divided | 4.0 |
| Thursday Full Collapse | 4.5 |
| Thursday War All the Time | 5.0 |
| Trophy Scars Goodnight Alchemy | 2.5 |
| Trophy Scars Darts to the Sea | 3.0 |
| Trophy Scars Hospital Music | 3.5 |
| Trophy Scars Alphabet Alphabets | 4.0 |
| TTNG This Town Needs Guns | 4.0 |
| TTNG Animals | 4.0 |
| Underminded Eleven:Eleven | 3.5 |
| Underminded Hail Unamerican! | 4.0 |
| Underoath The Changing of Times | 3.0 |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety | 4.0 |
| Underoath Define the Great Line | 4.0 |
| United Nations United Nations | 3.5 |
| Versus The Mirror Home | 3.5 |
| Waking Ashland Composure | 4.0 |
| Waking Ashland I Am For You | 4.0 |
| Waking Ashland Telescopes | 4.0 |
| We Butter The Bread With Butter Das Monster Aus Dem Schrank | 1.5 |
| Welcome the Plague Year Welcome the Plague Year | 3.0 |
| Yellowcard One for the Kids | 2.0 |
| Yellowcard The Underdog EP | 2.5 |
| Yellowcard Ocean Avenue | 3.0 |
