A (UK) Hi-Fi Serious | 3.0 |
A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe | 3.0 |
A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step | 4.0 |
A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms | 4.0 |
Alanis Morissette Under Rug Swept | 4.0 |
Angus and Julia Stone Down the Way | 3.5 |
Arcade Fire The Suburbs | 3.5 |
Arcade Fire Funeral | 4.0 |
Arch Enemy Anthems of Rebellion | 3.5 |
Atlas Weights Atlas Weights | 3.5 |
Bad Religion 30 Years Live | 4.0 |
Ben Folds Way To Normal | 3.5 |
Bernard Carney No Time Like The Future | 4.0 |
Sometimes touching (Cassandra's Lullaby), sometimes funny (The Bronchiodilated Blues), but always beautiful. Bernard Carney and Peter Grayling's seemless mixing of guitar and Cello create some truly wondeful sounds. There are a few rehashes of old songs, as well as a few lovely covers of old jazz tunes, to go along with the original tracks that are present. I highly recommend this to anyone who likes folk music, old dance tunes (Fred Astaire's "Cheek To Cheek"), or simply a classy mix of songs everyone can pick something out of. |
Birds Of Tokyo Birds Of Tokyo | 3.5 |
Birds Of Tokyo Universes | 4.0 |
Bluejuice Head of The Hawk | 4.0 |
Bob Evans Suburban Songbook | 3.5 |
Bob Evans Goodnight, Bull Creek! | 4.0 |
A stepup from his debut solo effort, Goodnight Bull Creek shows Bob Evans (A.K.A Kevin Mitchell) saying "goodbye to the suburbs" (Bull Creek is the suburb of Perth where he grew up) and creating a more rock orientated album. His sophomore effort is noticably less generic then "Suburban Songbook", which I felt was too frighteningly close to the work of Badly Drawn Boy to be worth anything more than the price of admission. It appears turning his back on the suburbs has been a good move for Mitchell, as GBC is a much more enjoyable album. |
Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 4.5 |
Brand New Deja Entendu | 4.0 |
Brand New Daisy | 4.0 |
Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 4.5 |
British India Avalanche | 3.0 |
Broken Social Scene Lo-Fi for the Dividing Nights | 3.0 |
10 half-baked ideas. Its as simple as that. They're good ideas, in some cases they're really good, but that's all they are: ideas. These songs were concocted on a whim during the recording of "World Sick" and no thought has been put into them past that. |
Broken Social Scene Forgiveness Rock Record | 4.0 |
Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People | 4.5 |
Caleb McAlpine Science Fiction | 4.0 |
Calling All Cars Hold, Hold, Fire | 3.5 |
Cirque Du Soleil Quidam | 4.5 |
Cloud Control Bliss Release | 4.0 |
Cloud Control Cloud Control | 4.0 |
Clutch Blast Tyrant | 4.0 |
Coalesce OX EP | 4.0 |
Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 3.5 |
Creed Human Clay | 3.5 |
Cults Cults 7" | 3.0 |
Cut Copy Zonoscope | 3.5 |
David Gray White Ladder | 3.5 |
Dead Letter Circus This Is The Warning | 4.0 |
DevilDriver The Fury of Our Maker's Hand | 4.0 |
DevilDriver Pray for Villains | 4.0 |
Dido Life For Rent | 4.0 |
Eels Tomorrow Morning | 4.0 |
Eleventh He Reaches London Hollow Be My Name | 4.0 |
Eminem Encore | 2.5 |
Eminem Recovery | 3.5 |
Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP | 4.5 |
Enya The Memory of Trees | 4.0 |
Eskimo Joe A Song Is A City | 4.0 |
Evanescence Fallen | 3.0 |
Ezekiel Ox Winter In Suburbia | 4.0 |
Faker Be The Twilight | 4.0 |
Fatboy Slim Why Try Harder | 4.0 |
Florence and the Machine Ceremonials | 3.5 |
Florence and the Machine Lungs | 4.5 |
Glassjaw Coloring Book | 4.5 |
Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 4.5 |
Green Day American Idiot | 3.5 |
Halfway To Forth Treasure For Memories | 4.0 |
Hilltop Hoods Left Foot, Right Foot | 3.0 |
Hilltop Hoods The Calling | 3.5 |
Hilltop Hoods The Hard Road | 3.5 |
Hilltop Hoods The Hard Road Restrung | 3.5 |
Hilltop Hoods State of the Art | 4.5 |
HIM Venus Doom | 4.0 |
InApril Fields | 2.5 |
Iron Maiden The Final Frontier | 4.0 |
Iron Maiden Flight 666 (DVD) | 4.5 |
James Morrison Undiscovered | 3.5 |
Jebediah Kosciuszko | 4.5 |
Jimmy Eat World Bleed American | 4.0 |
John Butler Trio April Uprising | 3.5 |
April Uprising is a conundrum in music form. On the one hand you have The John Butler Trio's back catalogue when considering how to approach it. If the only reason you got into JBT was because of John Butler's guitar, then avoid this album. If you like alternative rock music, or a little bit of folk (Iron and Wine sound familiar?) then this is your thing. The reason is this: John Butler has decided that, rather then using his usual finger-picking style, he's going to use rock riffs and chord progressions that wouldn't be out of a place on an Eskimo Joe album. You've probably guessed this by now but April Uprising is very commercial. The choruses are catchy to the point of stupidity and the riffs revolved more around being "fun" then showing any kind of technical skill. |
John Butler Trio Grand National | 4.0 |
Definitely not his best (three tracks on his wife? Come on Butler, its sweet, but two would have been enough) but nevertheless outstanding. |
John Butler Trio Three | 4.5 |
John Butler Trio John Butler | 4.5 |
John Butler Trio Sunrise Over Sea | 5.0 |
A new lineup proves to be the best thing for The John Butler Trio, as Sunrise Over Sea excels in all the right areas while still remaining accessible. |
Jose Gonzalez Veneer | 4.0 |
Josh Groban Awake Live | 3.5 |
He's actually not that bad a musician, he's just generic as hell. Every year they pump the same shit out for mother's day. He is nothing more then a passing fad for middle-aged women. I almost gave this a 4, then I realized that that implies that I actually want to watch this again. |
Joss Stone The Soul Sessions | 3.5 |
Justin Bieber My World 2.0 | 2.0 |
Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak | 3.5 |
Karnivool Themata | 4.0 |
Karnivool Sound Awake | 4.5 |
Kim Churchill With Sword & Shield | 4.0 |
Laura Marling I Speak Because I Can | 4.5 |
Linkin Park Meteora | 3.5 |
Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight | 3.5 |
Lisa Mitchell Said One to the Other | 3.5 |
Lisa Mitchell Wonder | 4.0 |
Machine Head The Blackening | 4.0 |
Mammal Mammal | 4.0 |
Mammal The Majority | 4.0 |
Matchbox Twenty Exile on Mainstream | 4.0 |
Megadeth Endgame | 3.5 |
Metallica Metallica | 4.0 |
Moby Play | 3.5 |
Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News | 4.0 |
Monogrim / Slow Dreams 1300+ Miles of Sound | 3.5 |
Mos Def Black on Both Sides | 4.0 |
Mumford and Sons Sigh No More | 3.5 |
Murderdolls Beyond The Valley of the Murderdolls | 3.5 |
Nas Illmatic | 4.5 |
Newton Faulkner Hand Built By Robots | 4.5 |
Nickelback Dark Horse | 2.5 |
Nickelback All the Right Reasons | 3.0 |
Nickelback Curb | 3.0 |
Nickelback The State | 3.5 |
Nightwish Dark Passion Play | 3.5 |
Nightwish Once | 4.5 |
Nothing Rhymes With David Beard Logic Riddles | 3.5 |
Nothing Rhymes With David = | 3.5 |
Nothing Rhymes With David Double Negative, All The Way! | 4.0 |
Obadiah Parker Obadiah Parker Live | 4.5 |
Opeth Watershed | 3.5 |
Opeth Still Life | 4.5 |
Opeth Blackwater Park | 4.5 |
Owl City Ocean Eyes | 2.0 |
Ozzy Osbourne Scream | 2.5 |
Paperprophets Paperprophets EP | 4.5 |
Parades Foreign Tapes | 4.0 |
Paul Dempsey Counterfeits and Forgeries | 3.0 |
Paul Dempsey Everything Is True | 5.0 |
Powderfinger Dream Days At The Hotel Existence | 3.5 |
Powderfinger Golden Rule | 4.0 |
Powderfinger Vulture Street | 4.5 |
Radiohead Pablo Honey | 3.5 |
Radiohead The Bends | 4.0 |
Radiohead Kid A | 4.0 |
Radiohead The Best Of | 4.0 |
Radiohead The King of Limbs | 4.0 |
Radiohead OK Computer | 4.5 |
Regina Spektor Far | 4.5 |
Rise Against Appeal to Reason | 3.5 |
Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness | 4.0 |
Roadrunner United The All-Star Sessions | 4.0 |
Rosetta A Determinism of Morality | 4.0 |
Santana Supernatural | 3.5 |
Sarah Blasko The Overture & The Underscore | 4.0 |
Sarah Blasko What the Sea Wants, the Sea Will Have | 4.5 |
Seether One Cold Night | 4.0 |
Silverchair Freak Show | 3.5 |
Silverchair Neon Ballroom | 4.0 |
Silversun Pickups Carnavas | 4.0 |
Simple Plan Still Not Getting Any... | 1.5 |
Slipknot All Hope Is Gone | 3.5 |
Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 4.0 |
Something For Kate The Official Fiction | 4.0 |
Something For Kate Echolalia | 4.0 |
Something For Kate Leave Your Soul To Science | 4.0 |
Staind Break The Cycle | 3.5 |
Static Colours Sun Swells | 3.5 |
Stone Sour Come What(ever) May | 4.0 |
Sufjan Stevens All Delighted People | 3.5 |
Sufjan Stevens Michigan | 4.0 |
Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz | 4.0 |
Susan Boyle The Gift | 1.5 |
System of a Down Mezmerize | 4.0 |
System of a Down Toxicity | 4.5 |
Taylor Swift Fearless | 3.0 |
Taylor Swift Speak Now | 3.5 |
The Atlas Room, I Woke Up In Moscow JOS | 3.5 |
The Black Eyed Peas Elephunk | 2.5 |
The Cat Empire Cinema | 3.0 |
The Dresden Dolls Yes, Virginia... | 3.5 |
The Idea Of North The Idea Of North | 4.5 |
The Jezabels Dark Storm | 3.5 |
The Killers Hot Fuss | 3.5 |
The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 3.5 |
The Mayan Factor In Lake 'CH | 4.0 |
The Middle East The Recordings of the Middle East | 4.5 |
The National Alligator | 3.5 |
The National Boxer | 4.5 |
The National High Violet | 4.5 |
The Screaming Jets All For One | 3.0 |
The Strokes Is This It | 3.5 |
The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt | 4.0 |
The Vines Winning Days | 3.5 |
The Weakerthans Fallow | 2.5 |
The Weakerthans Reconstruction Site | 3.5 |
Theory of a Deadman Gasoline | 3.0 |
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV | 3.5 |
Titus Andronicus The Monitor | 4.5 |
Tom Waits Bad As Me | 4.0 |
Tom Waits Small Change | 5.0 |
Toni Collette and The Finish Beautiful Awkward Pictures | 4.0 |
Tool Ænima | 3.5 |
Tool 10,000 Days | 3.5 |
Tool Lateralus | 4.0 |
Tool Undertow | 4.0 |
Trivium The Crusade | 2.5 |
Trophy Scars Hospital Music for the Aesthetics of Language | 5.0 |
Unfathoms Sounds of an Islander's City... | 2.0 |
Grating, meandering noise, "Sounds of an Islander's City, Touch of a Medieval Faerie" gets swallowed up by its own bloated concept. The tracks meld together into 9 minutes of mindless shrieking and static, occasionally twisting and turning into something worth listening to but never for long enough. |
Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend | 3.5 |
Vampire Weekend Contra | 3.5 |
Weezer Pinkerton | 4.0 |
Wye Oak My Neighbor / My Creator | 4.0 |
Yann Tiersen Le fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain | 5.0 |