| After the Burial Rareform | 4.5 |
| Andrew Bird The Mysterious Production Of Eggs | 4.5 |
| Animosity Shut It Down | 3.5 |
| Animosity Animal | 4.0 |
| Animosity Empires | 4.5 |
| Anthony Green Avalon | 3.5 |
| As Cities Burn Son, I Loved You at Your Darkest | 4.0 |
| As Cities Burn Come Now Sleep | 5.0 |
| Born of Osiris The New Reign | 2.5 |
| Born of Osiris A Higher Place | 3.5 |
| Bright Eyes Digital Ash in a Digital Urn | 4.5 |
| Bright Eyes Cassadaga | 4.5 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Scream Aim Fire | 1.5 |
| Carnifex Dead in My Arms | 3.5 |
| Cephalic Carnage Exploiting Dysfunction | 2.5 |
| Cephalic Carnage Lucid Interval | 3.0 |
| Cephalic Carnage Anomalies | 4.0 |
| Cephalic Carnage Xenosapien | 4.5 |
| Circa Survive The Inuit Sessions | 3.5 |
| Circa Survive Juturna | 4.0 |
| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | 4.0 |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | 4.5 |
| Conducting from the Grave When Legends Become Dust | 4.0 |
| Confide Shout the Truth | 4.0 |
| Copeland Beneath Medicine Tree | 4.0 |
| Copeland In Motion | 4.0 |
| Copeland Eat, Sleep, Repeat | 4.0 |
| Copeland You Are My Sunshine | 4.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Happiness | 3.5 |
| Deerhoof Friend Opportunity | 4.0 |
| Destroyer Destroyer Littered With Arrows | 4.5 |
| Edison Glass A Burn or a Shiver | 4.0 |
| Electrelane The Power Out | 3.0 |
| Embrace The End Ley Lines | 4.0 |
i was really surprised by this album. i saw this band play a month or two ago at a show, and was drawn in by their technicallity and amazing guitar work. Still, i wasnt completely sold.
then i found their cd for a good price the other day, and thought why not...
once again, it really surprised me. i didnt expect to like it this much. the guitars are great, the drumming is very modest and well done (by modest i mean that he doesnt show off too much like lots of metalcore and deathcore drummers do these days). i really dont mind the vocals at all. darkest hour, for example, doesnt have the greatest vocals (at least i dont like them), but the musicianship really shows. embrace the end is the same way. personally, i dont think the album is particularly front heavy... two of my favorite songs are "ley lines" and "the god switch" are the last two songs on the album.
it's no masterpiece, but embrace the end has a lot of potential, and i look forward to see what they come up with in the future.
4 out of 5. |
| Emmure The Respect Issue | 3.0 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 5.0 |
| Haste the Day Dreamer | 3.5 |
| In Flames A Sense of Purpose | 2.5 |
| Ivoryline There Came A Lion | 3.5 |
| Malamute Breathe Deeply, Horse | 4.0 |
| Margot and the Nuclear So and So's The Dust of Retreat | 4.0 |
| My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love | 4.0 |
| Norma Jean Redeemer | 3.0 |
| Norma Jean Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child | 3.5 |
| Norma Jean O' God, the Aftermath | 4.0 |
| Norma Jean The Anti Mother | 4.5 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 4.5 |
| Opeth Watershed | 4.5 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 5.0 |
| Parkway Drive Killing with a Smile | 4.0 |
| Pattern is Movement All Together | 4.0 |
| Pig Destroyer Natasha | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 4.5 |
| Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy | 3.0 |
| T.I. Paper Trail | 3.0 |
| Tegan and Sara So Jealous | 4.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord | 1.5 |
| The Flaming Lips Embryonic | 5.0 |
| The Get Up Kids Something to Write Home About | 4.5 |
| The Irish Front Universe | 2.5 |
| Thursday Waiting | 3.0 |
| Thursday Full Collapse | 4.0 |
| Thursday Five Stories Falling | 4.0 |
| Thursday War All the Time | 4.5 |
| Thursday A City By the Light Divided | 4.5 |
| Thursday Common Existence | 4.5 |
| Thursday/Envy Thursday/Envy | 4.5 |
| Tokyo Police Club Elephant Shell | 4.0 |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation | 4.0 |
| Underoath Define the Great Line | 4.5 |
| Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot | 4.0 |
| Winds of Plague Decimate the Weak | 2.5 |
| Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary | 4.0 |
