| Air France No Way Down | 3.0 |
| Animal Collective Danse Manatee | 3.0 |
| Animal Collective Campfire Songs | 3.0 |
| Animal Collective Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Prospect Hummer | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Strawberry Jam | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 4.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not | 4.5 |
| Art Brut Art Brut vs. Satan | 3.0 |
| Art Brut Bang Bang Rock & Roll | 4.0 |
| Bad Religion How Could Hell Be Any Worse? | 4.5 |
| Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill | 3.5 |
| Black Flag Jealous Again | 3.0 |
| Black Flag Damaged | 3.5 |
| Black Flag Nervous Breakdown | 4.5 |
| Bob Dylan Another Side of Bob Dylan | 3.5 |
| Bob Dylan Bob Dylan | 3.5 |
| Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home | 4.0 |
| Bob Dylan The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan | 4.0 |
| Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde | 4.0 |
| Bob Dylan The Times They Are A-Changin' | 4.0 |
| Bob Dylan John Wesley Harding | 4.0 |
| Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks | 4.5 |
| Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited | 5.0 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 3.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen Born in the U.S.A. | 4.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen Nebraska | 4.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen The River | 4.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen Born to Run | 5.0 |
| Can Monster Movie | 3.5 |
| Can Future Days | 4.0 |
| Can Soon Over Babaluma | 4.0 |
| Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Trout Mask Replica | 3.0 |
| Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Safe As Milk | 4.5 |
| Caribou Swim | 4.0 |
| Celine Dion Falling into You | 4.0 |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles | 4.0 |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles II | 4.0 |
This will take a LOT of time to grow; I hated it for the first three or four times through, until it set in what they're trying to do. At first it sounds boring and complacent compared to the debut, but eventually this becomes much more even and settled, more mature and fully-formed. Album #2 is less concerned with the novelty of the sound and more with the tracks themselves.
Right now this stands at least equal to the previous album and I expect it to shake out better over the next few weeks. |
| Cut Copy In Ghost Colours | 4.0 |
| Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains | 3.0 |
| Dead Kennedys In God We Trust, Inc. | 3.0 |
| Dead Kennedys Plastic Surgery Disasters | 4.0 |
| Dead Kennedys Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death | 4.0 |
| Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables | 4.5 |
| Deerhunter Microcastle | 3.5 |
| Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca | 4.0 |
| Feist The Reminder | 4.0 |
| Fleet Foxes Sun Giant | 3.5 |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes | 4.5 |
| Gang of Four Entertainment! | 5.0 |
| Girl Talk Feed the Animals | 4.5 |
| Girls Album | 5.0 |
| Gnarls Barkley The Odd Couple | 3.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 5.0 |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest | 4.5 |
| Hercules and Love Affair Hercules and Love Affair | 3.5 |
| Jay-Z American Gangster | 3.5 |
| Joanna Newsom Ys | 3.0 |
| Johnny Cash American IV: The Man Comes Around | 3.5 |
| Joy Division Closer | 4.0 |
| Justin Bieber My World 2.0 | 3.0 |
| Keyshia Cole Just Like You | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Presence | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin In Through the Out Door | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin | 5.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV | 5.0 |
| Living Things Ahead of the Lions | 3.5 |
| M83 Saturdays=Youth | 3.5 |
| Maybeshewill Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony | 4.0 |
| Melvins Bullhead | 3.0 |
| Mission of Burma Signals, Calls, and Marches | 4.0 |
| Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind | 4.0 |
| Neil Young After the Gold Rush | 4.0 |
| Neil Young On the Beach | 4.5 |
| Nirvana Bleach | 3.5 |
| Nirvana Incesticide | 3.5 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 4.0 |
| Nirvana With the Lights Out | 4.0 |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York | 4.5 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 4.5 |
| No Age Nouns | 3.0 |
| OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below | 3.5 |
| Panda Bear Person Pitch | 4.0 |
| Patti Smith Horses | 4.5 |
| Pearl Jam Binaural | 3.0 |
| Pearl Jam Riot Act | 3.0 |
| Pearl Jam Yield | 3.0 |
| Pearl Jam No Code | 3.5 |
| Pearl Jam Lost Dogs | 3.5 |
| Pearl Jam Pearl Jam | 3.5 |
| Pearl Jam Live: New York, New York (7/8/03) | 3.5 |
| Pearl Jam Vitalogy | 4.0 |
| Pearl Jam Live: 07-11-03 Mansfield, MA | 4.0 |
| Pearl Jam Ten | 4.5 |
| Pearl Jam Vs. | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 4.5 |
| Pixies Bossanova | 3.0 |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa | 3.5 |
| Pixies Come On Pilgrim | 4.0 |
| Pixies Doolittle | 5.0 |
| Portishead Third | 4.0 |
| R.E.M. Green | 3.0 |
| R.E.M. Out of Time | 3.0 |
| R.E.M. Automatic for the People | 4.0 |
| R.E.M. Chronic Town | 4.0 |
| R.E.M. Eponymous | 4.0 |
| R.E.M. Reckoning | 4.5 |
| R.E.M. Murmur | 5.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire | 4.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 4.0 |
| Rush Caress of Steel | 3.0 |
| Rush Signals | 3.0 |
| Rush Moving Pictures | 3.5 |
| Rush Permanent Waves | 3.5 |
| Rush Fly by Night | 3.5 |
| Rush Hemispheres | 3.5 |
| Rush Rush | 4.0 |
| Rush 2112 | 4.5 |
| Rush A Farewell to Kings | 4.5 |
| Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols | 5.0 |
| Sleater-Kinney One Beat | 3.0 |
| Sleater-Kinney The Woods | 4.0 |
| Sonic Youth Rather Ripped | 3.0 |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation | 5.0 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 3.0 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 4.0 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 4.0 |
| The B-52s The B-52's | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Let It Be | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Help! | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Beatles for Sale | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul | 4.0 |
| The Beatles A Hard Day's Night | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Please Please Me | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour | 4.0 |
| The Beatles With the Beatles | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Revolver | 4.5 |
| The Beatles The Beatles | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Abbey Road | 5.0 |
| The Clash The Clash | 4.5 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold as Love | 4.5 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland | 5.0 |
| The Kills No Wow | 4.0 |
| The Kills Midnight Boom | 4.0 |
| The Kills Keep On Your Mean Side | 4.0 |
| The Morning Benders Big Echo | 4.0 |
| The National Boxer | 4.0 |
| The National High Violet | 4.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Pisces Iscariot | 2.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | 3.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream | 4.5 |
| The Stooges Fun House | 4.0 |
| The Stooges Raw Power | 4.0 |
| The Stooges The Stooges | 4.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt | 5.0 |
| The White Stripes Elephant | 3.5 |
| The White Stripes The White Stripes | 3.5 |
| The White Stripes De Stijl | 3.5 |
| The White Stripes Icky Thump | 3.5 |
| The White Stripes White Blood Cells | 4.0 |
| The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan | 4.5 |
| The Who Tommy | 3.5 |
| The Who Who's Next | 4.5 |
| The-Dream Love vs. Money | 3.5 |
| TV on the Radio Dear Science | 2.5 |
| Vampire Weekend Contra | 4.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend | 4.5 |
| White Lies To Lose My Life | 2.5 |
| X (USA) Wild Gift | 3.5 |
| X (USA) Los Angeles | 4.0 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz! | 3.0 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever To Tell | 3.5 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Is Is | 3.5 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Show Your Bones | 4.0 |
