| 16 Horsepower Folklore | 4.0 |
| 16 Horsepower Low Estate | 4.0 |
| 16 Horsepower Sackcloth 'n' Ashes | 4.0 |
| Arguably their roughest collection of songs, and lacking the craftsmanship of, say, Secret South or Folklore, or perhaps all of the later albums, this one nevertheless keeps me coming back. There is a certain charm and soul to its twangy, dusty desperation. And as a Colorado native, I can attest that Horse Head, one of my favorite tracks, is the true sound of the dusty southern San Juan mountains, a personal association I'll leave to the non-natives to debate amongst themselves. I would rate this album higher, but certain tracks such as Ruthie Lingle just leave far too much to be desired. |
| 16 Horsepower Secret South | 4.0 |
| A Bunny's Caravan Draining Puddles, Retrieving Treasures | 5.0 |
| A Cosmic Trail The Outer Planes | 4.5 |
| Abadion Majestic Mountain | 2.0 |
| Active Child You Are All I See | 4.0 |
| Against Me! White Crosses | 4.0 |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain | 5.0 |
| Agalloch The Mantle | 4.5 |
| Agalloch The White | 4.0 |
| Agalloch Of Stone, Wind and Pillor | 3.5 |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore | 4.5 |
| Agalloch Tomorrow Will Never Come | 3.0 |
| Agalloch The Grey | 3.0 |
| Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit | 3.5 |
| This not Pale Folklore. It is not The Mantle. It is not Ashes Against The Grain. It is not rThe White or The Grey for that matter (if anything, it's The Black). It's Agalloch, through rand through. There are moments of warm nostalgia and there moments that blow the roof off of reverything they've done before. Darker and less hospitable than prior journeys, but well rworth the risk. |
| Agalloch Faustian Echoes | 4.0 |
| Excellent, it wanders here and there but is much more solid than most if not all tracks on Marrow. |
| Agalloch and Nest Split | 4.0 |
| Aglarond Embraced by Darkness | 3.0 |
| Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde | 4.0 |
| Alcest Le Secret | 4.0 |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune | 5.0 |
| Allegaeon Formshifter | 2.5 |
| Altoriu Seseliai Margi Sakalai | 4.0 |
| Amesoeurs Amesoeurs | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth Versus the World | 4.0 |
| Anathema Serenades | 3.0 |
| Anathema Hindsight | 4.5 |
| Anathema A Natural Disaster | 4.0 |
| Anathema A Fine Day to Exit | 3.5 |
| Anathema Judgement | 4.0 |
| Anathema Alternative 4 | 3.5 |
| Anathema The Crestfallen | 2.0 |
| Anathema We're Here Because We're Here | 4.0 |
| Anathema Falling Deeper | 3.0 |
| Angelspit Hideous and Perfect | 2.0 |
| Apodiablosis Spiral | 4.0 |
| Apodiablosis Tardigrade | 4.0 |
| Appalachian Winter I Become The Frozen Land | 4.0 |
| Appalachian Winter Silence Before the Great Mountain Wind | 4.0 |
| Arafel For Battles Once Fought | 4.0 |
| Arcana Coelestia Le Mirage de L’idéal | 4.0 |
| Arvo Part Tabula Rasa | 4.5 |
| As Cities Burn Hell or High Water | 3.5 |
| As Cities Burn Come Now Sleep | 3.5 |
| Assemblage 23 Defiance | 3.0 |
| Autumn Leaves As Night Conquers Day | 4.0 |
| Averse The Endesque Chants | 4.0 |
| One of the most beautiful and impressive progressive albums of the decade. |
| Aves Aves | 3.5 |
| Bark Psychosis Codename: Dustsucker | 4.0 |
| Bat For Lashes Two Suns | 3.5 |
| Be'lakor The Frail Tide | 3.5 |
| Bifrost (AT) Heidenmetal | 3.0 |
| Black Math Horseman Wyllt | 4.0 |
| Black Veil Brides Wretched and Divine | 1.0 |
| Blood Of The Black Owl Blood of the Black Owl | 4.0 |
| Blood Of The Black Owl A Feral Spirit | 3.5 |
| Blue Hawaii Blooming Summer | 3.5 |
| Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta II - Dialogue With The Stars | 4.0 |
| Blutmond Thirteen Urban Ways 4 Groovy Bohemian Days | 3.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Adults!!!: Smart!!! Shithammered!!! And Excited By Nothing!!!!!!! | 4.0 |
| Boreal The Battle of Vosad | 2.0 |
| Boris New Album | 4.0 |
| I've played this album 6 times today. That never happens. I recommend Luna Sea to anyone who likes this album. Different, but good. |
| Boxbomb My Obsession | 4.0 |
| Boysetsfire After The Eulogy | 4.5 |
| Brand New Daisy | 3.0 |
| Brandt Brauer Frick You Make Me Real | 4.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin Dear Agony | 2.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin We Are Not Alone | 1.5 |
| Breaking Benjamin Phobia | 1.5 |
| brokeNCYDE I'm Not a Fan, but the Kids Like It! | 1.0 |
| brokeNCYDE BC 13 | 1.0 |
| brokeNCYDE The Broken | 1.0 |
| BT This Binary Universe | 5.0 |
| Buried at Sea Ghost | 3.0 |
| Camera Obscura My Maudlin Career | 3.0 |
| Cepia Cepia | 3.5 |
| Chevelle Sci-Fi Crimes | 2.0 |
| City of Ships Look What God Did To Us | 3.5 |
| CKY Infiltrate Destroy Rebuild | 2.0 |
| CKY Carver City | 2.5 |
| Clive Tanaka y Su Orquesta Jet Set Siempre No. 1 | 4.0 |
| Cloudkicker Let Yourself Be Huge | 4.5 |
| Cobalt Gin | 4.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow | 3.5 |
| Cold Body Radiation The Great White Emptiness | 4.5 |
| Cop Shoot Cop White Noise | 4.0 |
| Corrupted Garten Der Unbewusstheit | 5.0 |
| Crippled Black Phoenix I, Vigilante | 4.5 |
| Current 93 Aleph At Hallucinatory Mountain | 3.0 |
| Cynic Traced in Air | 3.0 |
| Dagoba Poseidon | 4.0 |
| Damien Rice 9 | 3.0 |
| Damien Rice O | 4.5 |
| Damned Spirits' Dance Weird Constellations | 3.5 |
| Most hilarious album cover I've ever seen, but I quite enjoy what's on the disc. "TSS" is a great song. |
| Daniel Bjarnason Processions | 3.5 |
| Dark Forest Land of the Evening Star | 4.0 |
| David Sylvian Secrets of the Beehive | 4.5 |
| David Sylvian Dead Bees on a Cake | 4.5 |
| Dawn of Tears Dark Chamber Litanies | 3.0 |
| Daylight Dies Dismantling Devotion | 4.0 |
| Dead Prez Let's Get Free | 4.0 |
| Dead Prez Information Age | 4.0 |
| Information Age will be received well by anyone feeling disillusioned by the status quo of today's society. This is largely due to Buddhist, Pan-African and socialist influences in the lyrics. Though rife with references to all manner of conflict and calamity and true to Dead Prez form with an unrelenting distrust of government, capitalism, industry and institution, the album's strength and freshness lies in its ability to draw a hopeful message out of their otherwise bleak vision of a world in turmoil, highlighting solutions and alternative lifestyles with an emphasis on healthy habits ("Dirty White Girl"), fitness ("Time Travel"), atheism/Buddhism ("No Way As The Way"), among other messages ranging from hints of the militant social stances that Dead Prez fans have come to expect and uplifting new-age concepts of spiritual evolution, embracing change and rejecting false realities. |
| Deconstruction Deconstruction | 3.5 |
| Deep Mountains Deep Mountains | 4.5 |
| The most overlooked gem of 2010. Exquisite atmospheric black metal of the highest caliber. |
| Deepset The Lights We Shed Shall Burn Your Eyes | 4.0 |
| Defeater Travels | 3.5 |
| Deftones Around the Fur | 4.0 |
| Deftones White Pony | 4.5 |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist | 4.0 |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan | 3.5 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 3.5 |
| Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Terria | 3.5 |
| Devin Townsend Devlab | 2.5 |
| Devin Townsend Project Ki | 3.5 |
| Die Antwoord $O$ | 4.0 |
| Dir En Grey Uroboros | 4.0 |
| Discordance Axis The Inalienable Dreamless | 2.5 |
| Disillusion Back to Times of Splendor | 4.5 |
| Disillusion Gloria | 3.0 |
| Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane | 4.0 |
| Dolorian When All The Laughter Has Gone | 3.0 |
| DoomThrone Skeleton Veiled in Flesh | 1.0 |
| DorDeDuh Valea Omului | 3.5 |
| Dot Dot Curve Til the Wheels Fall Off | 1.0 |
| Draconian Turning Season Within | 4.0 |
| dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion | 3.5 |
| dredg Orph | 3.0 |
| dredg Leitmotif | 4.0 |
| dredg El Cielo | 4.0 |
| dredg Catch Without Arms | 3.5 |
| Drudkh Microcosmos | 4.5 |
| Drudkh Handful of Stars | 2.5 |
| Ea Ea II | 4.5 |
| Ea Au Ellai | 4.5 |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson | 4.5 |
| Elliott Smith XO | 4.5 |
| Eluveitie Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion | 3.5 |
| Eluveitie Slania | 4.5 |
| Eluveitie Spirit | 4.0 |
| Eluveitie Everything Remains As It Never Was | 3.5 |
| Eluveitie Helvetios | 3.0 |
| Eluvium Copia | 3.5 |
| Empyrium Weiland | 4.5 |
| Empyrium Where at Night the Wood Grouse Plays | 4.0 |
| Empyrium Songs of Moors and Misty Fields | 3.5 |
| Enforcer Diamonds | 2.5 |
| Enslaved Vertebrae | 4.0 |
| Envy On The Coast Lowcountry | 3.0 |
| Equilibrium Sagas | 4.5 |
| ERRA Andromeda | 2.5 |
| Eternal Deformity Frozen Circus | 4.0 |
| Ethereal Beauty/Shyy/Heretoir/Soliness The World Comes To An End In The End Of A Journey | 3.5 |
| Exilym No More Freedom | 4.0 |
| Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True | 2.5 |
| Fauna Rain | 3.5 |
| Faunts Feel.Love.Thinking.Of. | 4.0 |
| Fear Factory Hatefiles | 2.0 |
| Fear Factory Transgression | 2.5 |
| Fear Factory Remanufacture | 2.0 |
| Fear Factory Digimortal | 3.0 |
| Fear Factory Obsolete | 3.5 |
| Fear Factory Concrete | 2.5 |
| Fear Factory Mechanize | 4.0 |
| Fen The Malediction Fields | 3.5 |
| Fen Epoch | 3.5 |
| Fferyllt Dance of Druids | 2.0 |
| Fields of the Nephilim Elizium | 4.5 |
| Foals Antidotes | 4.0 |
| Foals Total Life Forever | 4.5 |
| Followed By Ghosts Still, Here | 4.0 |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light | 4.0 |
| Forest of Shadows Where Dreams Turn to Dust EP | 4.5 |
| Forest of Shadows Six Waves Of Woe | 3.5 |
| Freelance Whales Weathervanes | 4.5 |
| Fuel Sunburn | 4.0 |
| Fuel Something Like Human | 2.5 |
| Geist Galeere | 4.5 |
| Gevolt Sidur | 3.5 |
| Giles Corey Giles Corey | 4.5 |
| Rage against the hipster anti-hype machine! Album is too cool for cool kids as usual. |
| Gill Landry The Ballad of Lawless Soirez | 3.0 |
| Glee Cast The Rocky Horror Glee Show | 1.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 4.0 |
| Goldmund The Malady Of Elegance | 4.0 |
| Gontyna Kry Krew Naszych Ojcow | 2.0 |
| Goo Goo Dolls Dizzy Up The Girl | 4.0 |
| Grandaddy Sumday | 3.5 |
| Grandaddy The Sophtware Slump | 3.5 |
| Grey Waters Below The Ever Setting Sun | 3.5 |
| Groundation We Free Again | 5.0 |
| Guniw Tools Other Goose | 4.5 |
| Guster Goldfly | 4.0 |
| Gwynbleidd Nostalgia | 3.5 |
| Hacksaw to the Throat Wastelands | 4.0 |
| Halves Haunt Me When I'm Drowsy | 4.5 |
| A toned down blend of Jeremy Enigk, Ryan O'Neal and Thom Yorke in a delicious post-rock broth. |
| Hanging Garden Inherit the Eden | 4.0 |
| Hanging Garden TEOTWAWKI | 3.5 |
| Hauschka Ferndorf | 4.0 |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness | 4.5 |
| Have a Nice Life Time of Land | 4.0 |
| Hawksley Workman Lover/Fighter | 3.0 |
| Hawksley Workman Treeful of Starling | 4.0 |
| Hawksley Workman Between the Beautifuls | 3.0 |
| Hawksley Workman (Last Night We Were) The Delicious Wolves | 3.5 |
| Hawksley Workman For Him And The Girls | 4.5 |
| Heinali And Matt Finney Town Line EP | 4.0 |
| Helevorn Forthcoming Displeasures | 4.0 |
| Herrschaft Tesla | 2.5 |
| Hinder All American Nightmare | 1.0 |
| Hood Cold House | 4.0 |
| HORSE the band The Mechanical Hand | 4.0 |
| If These Trees Could Talk Above the Earth, Below the Sky | 3.0 |
| Ihsahn The Adversary | 3.0 |
| In Flames Colony | 4.0 |
| In Flames Reroute to Remain | 3.0 |
| In Flames Soundtrack to Your Escape | 3.0 |
| In Flames Come Clarity | 3.0 |
| In Flames A Sense of Purpose | 1.5 |
| In Flames The Jester Race | 4.0 |
| In Flames Clayman | 3.5 |
| In Flames Whoracle | 4.0 |
| In Mourning Monolith | 3.5 |
| In Mourning Shrouded Divine | 3.5 |
| In Vain (NO) The Latter Rain | 4.5 |
| Insomnium In the Halls of Awaiting | 3.0 |
| Insomnium Since the Day It All Came Down | 3.5 |
| Insomnium Above the Weeping World | 4.0 |
| Insomnium Across the Dark | 3.0 |
| Insomnium One for Sorrow | 4.0 |
| iNTRiKeT The Woods | 4.0 |
| Istapp Blekinge | 4.0 |
| Jacaszek Treny | 4.5 |
| With Treny, Polish composer and electronic musician Michal Jacaszek has created a modern masterpiece of subtlety that fills the acoustic cathedral in the mind with patient melody, melancholy, and contemplation. A lone, often distant voice wordlessly guides us through this place. An underlying drone helps us keep our balance. Throughout, instruments blend seamlessly into the ambient background without becoming the background itself. The electronic elements of this album are the most subtle, only taking a dramatic role in one or two tracks, and they shine in their superb composition as well, Jacaszek using reverb, glitches, electronic drone and other such manipulations to meaningfully shape the atmosphere. |
| Jakob Cale:Drew | 4.5 |
| Jakob Solace | 4.0 |
| Jakob Dominion | 4.0 |
| Jaldaboath Hark the Herald | 2.0 |
| Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid | 4.0 |
| Jeremy Soule The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Soundtrack | 4.5 |
| Beautiful. I'm going to go listen to this while playing Skyrim... oh wait. |
| Jesu Christmas | 4.0 |
| Joanna Newsom Have One on Me | 4.5 |
| Joe McElderry Wide Awake | 1.0 |
| Johann Johannsson Fordlandia | 4.5 |
| John Frusciante The Empyrean | 4.0 |
| John Frusciante Shadows Collide with People | 4.5 |
| Jon Anderson Olias Of Sunhillow | 4.0 |
| Junius The Martyrdom of a Catastrophist | 4.5 |
| Kalmah The Black Waltz | 4.0 |
| Kalmah 12 Gauge | 4.5 |
| Katatonia Night Is the New Day | 4.5 |
| Katatonia Dead End Kings | 4.0 |
| Kauan Lumikuuro | 4.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city | 3.5 |
| Kesha Animal | 1.0 |
| Killing Joke Night Time | 4.5 |
| Killing Joke Absolute Dissent | 4.0 |
| At times reminiscent of the early days ("Absolute Dissent," "Here Comes The Singularity") at times a direct continuation of the charging anti-establishment doomsday scenarios that made up a great deal of their first two 21st century releases ("This World Hell"), and thankfully on a couple of tracks, a new twist ("European Super State".) The album succeeds in its ability to balance these three aspects well enough, though the singularly bad track "Depthcharge" feels like a cheap knockoff of almost all of their mosh-pit inducing war-themed anthems of yesteryear. The standout tracks are "The Great Cull", "European Super State" (a track that makes KJ as an industrial band seem like a frighteningly good idea), "Endgame", "Here Comes The Singularity", and the groove-laden closer "Ghost Of Ladbroke Grove" but nothing on this album caught my attention more than "The Raven King" - a stunning and simple anthem that breaks down the walls of anger and cynicism built by the preceding tracks (and albums) and gives us a look at the genuinely emotional force behind it. This album is deceptive and may take some getting used to for old and new fans alike, it's easy to dismiss a band this exceedingly far into a career, but if Killing Joke are anything, they're dedicated to their musical journey and to their fans. They are the band that won't die. After a few solid listens it's an easy 4/5 with the potential to grow even further. |
| Killing Joke MMXII | 4.5 |
| Kwoon When The Flowers Were Singing... | 3.5 |
| Landing Passages Through | 4.0 |
| Les Discrets Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées | 4.5 |
| Library Tapes A Summer Beneath The Trees | 4.5 |
| Light Bearer Lapsus | 3.5 |
| Lisa Hannigan Sea Sew | 4.0 |
| Liturgy Aesthethica | 2.5 |
| Longing For Dawn Between Elation And Despair | 3.5 |
| Love On The Lips of A Whore Asylum | 1.0 |
| Luna Sea Style | 4.0 |
| Luna Sea SHINE | 3.5 |
| Luna Sea Eden | 3.5 |
| Lykathea Aflame Elvenefris | 4.5 |
| Mar De Grises Draining The Waterheart | 5.0 |
| Mar De Grises The Tatterdemalion Express | 5.0 |
| The Tatterdemalion Express has no set destination but always seems to take me to exactly where I want to go. Last time I talked to this stellar band they were expressing difficulties with promotion in North America. I guess I could have simply told them, "In North America, most people do not recognize metal as an art form but rather a juvenile display of wasted machismo." But if they remain Chile's best kept secret, so be it. I'd rather see them one day in a small cafe in Chile than in a tour alongside grunting North American "tough guys." |
| Mar De Grises Streams Inwards | 4.5 |
| Martriden The Unsettling Dark | 4.0 |
| Martriden Encounter The Monolith | 3.5 |
| Matisyahu Live At Stubb's | 4.0 |
| Matisyahu Light | 4.0 |
| Matisyahu Youth | 3.5 |
| Matisyahu Spark Seeker | 2.5 |
| If you're going to go the route of hiring Ke$ha's producer to crank out an album appealing to the new generation of top 40 pop/hip hop/club listeners, one would hope your goal is to spread a positive message that might be otherwise unattainable for said audience. But that isn't what you did. You made an album of generic, auto-tuned hits with repetitive hooks that at best are temporarily entertaining but carry no real weight and offer nothing new to anyone. I feel this way about all related music, I'm not singling him out. I thought Light did a great balancing act in offering up meaningful lyrics with hooks and beats palatable to the masses. Spark Seeker fails in that department and thus is average at best. |
| maudlin of the Well Part the Second | 4.0 |
| maudlin of the Well Bath | 3.5 |
| maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map | 4.0 |
| Melechesh Emissaries | 3.5 |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice | 4.5 |
| Modest Mouse The Fruit That Ate Itself | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse No One's First, and You're Next | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse Sad Sappy Sucker | 3.0 |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse Building Nothing Out of Something | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica | 5.0 |
| Modest Mouse Interstate 8 | 3.0 |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West | 4.0 |
| Mono One Step More and You Die | 3.0 |
| Mono Under the Pipal Tree | 3.5 |
| Mono Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined | 3.5 |
| Mono You Are There | 4.0 |
| Monolithe Monolithe I | 4.0 |
| Monolithe Monolithe II | 4.0 |
| Monolithe Interlude Premier EP | 3.5 |
| Moonloop Deeply From the Earth | 2.0 |
| Mortemia Misere Mortem | 3.0 |
Mortemia sees Mort minus band, and it is a solid if uninspired effort. Misere
Mortem is a testament to Veland's compositional aptitude, though not his most
engaged work by far. It contains the elements of what made Beyond The Veil
and (most of) At Sixes and Sevens the defining albums they were but
unfortunately lacks the fluidity of those albums, as well as the full, rich sound,
and Veland may never choose to return to the poetic, gothic lyrics that helped
set BTV apart from the rest - the theme of inner demons here is conveyed in a
straightforward and unoriginal manner, but it's a notable album regardless. |
| Mortiis The Smell Of Rain | 2.5 |
| Motek Dragons | 4.5 |
| Motek Port Sunshine | 4.5 |
| Mount Eerie Wind's Poem | 3.5 |
| Mount Eerie Lost Wisdom | 3.5 |
| Mountains Choral | 3.5 |
| Mouth Of The Architect Quietly | 4.0 |
| Mouth Of The Architect The Violence Beneath | 4.0 |
| Moving Mountains Pneuma | 3.5 |
| Negura Bunget OM | 4.0 |
| Neon Indian Era Extrana | 4.0 |
| Nest (FIN) Trail of the Unwary | 4.0 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 2.5 |
| Nimbatus Cyclus One | 4.0 |
| NOFX The Decline | 4.5 |
| Nokturnal Mortum Goat Horns | 3.5 |
| Novembre Classica | 4.0 |
| Novembre The Blue | 4.5 |
| O. Children Apnea | 3.5 |
| Obscura Cosmogenesis | 3.0 |
| Of the Wand and the Moon The Lone Descent | 4.5 |
| Okkervil River Black Sheep Boy | 4.5 |
| Okkervil River Don't Fall In Love With Everyone You See | 4.5 |
| Okkervil River Down the River of Golden Dreams | 4.5 |
| Okkervil River The Stand Ins | 4.0 |
| Opeth Heritage | 4.0 |
| Orphaned Land El Norra Alila | 3.0 |
| Orphaned Land Mabool (The Story of the Three Sons...) | 5.0 |
| Orphaned Land Sahara | 3.0 |
| Orphaned Land The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR | 3.5 |
| Panopticon Collapse | 4.0 |
| Panopticon Panopticon | 4.0 |
| Panopticon On the Subject of Mortality | 4.0 |
| This is not a 2011 release, it was released in 2010... |
| Pathfinder Beyond the Space, Beyond the Time | 3.5 |
| Pelican City of Echoes | 2.5 |
| Perry Farrell Song Yet To Be Sung | 4.0 |
| Peter Broderick 4 Track Songs | 5.0 |
| A truly inspiring collection of Peter's early works which he had submitted to Type Records on two CD-R's prior to releasing "Float." This album combines two things I love: Peter Broderick's mastery of emotional composition with the chilling lo-fi magic of a cassette recorder. If you liked either of his two full length releases, this is worth checking out. Its melancholy and sweet sincerity create a truly humbling listening experience. There is simply more substance in this collection of pre-success gems than in many labored over, polished full-lengths within the same or similar genres. |
| Peter Broderick Home | 4.5 |
| Phish The Story of the Ghost | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Division Bell | 2.5 |
| Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse of Reason | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd Animals | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd Meddle | 4.0 |
| PJ Harvey Let England Shake | 4.5 |
| Plain White T's Wonders of the Younger | 1.5 |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet | 3.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Up the Downstair | 2.5 |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing | 3.0 |
| Prey For Nothing Violence Divine | 4.0 |
| Propagandhi Supporting Caste | 4.5 |
| Propagandhi Potemkin City Limits | 4.5 |
| Propagandhi Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes | 4.0 |
| Propagandhi Where Quantity Is Job #1 | 2.5 |
| Propagandhi How to Clean Everything | 3.0 |
| Propagandhi Less Talk, More Rock | 3.0 |
| Propagandhi Failed States | 3.5 |
| Rauelsson & Peter Broderick Replica | 4.0 |
| I'm do not speak Spanish and Rauelsson is a new voice to me, but fans of Peter Broderick will find this album warm and familiar. Split up into two long tracks, this is a true rainy day album perfect for daydreaming. |
| Raven Woods ...And Emotions Are Spilled | 4.0 |
| Red Snapper Making Bones | 3.0 |
| Rishloo Eidolon | 3.0 |
| Rosetta A Determinism of Morality | 3.5 |
| Rosetta The Galilean Satellites | 4.5 |
| Ruhr Hunter Moss & Memory | 4.0 |
| Ruhr Hunter Torn Of This | 4.0 |
| Sabaton Primo Victoria | 3.5 |
| Sabaton Attero Dominatus | 3.5 |
| Sabaton The Art of War | 3.5 |
| Sabaton Coat of Arms | 4.0 |
| Samael Above | 3.5 |
| Samael Ceremony Of Opposites | 3.5 |
| Samael Passage | 4.0 |
| Saturnus Martyre | 4.0 |
| Just came here to say that saying "the songs need the tempo turned up" about a doom metal band just... fails. |
| Savoir Adore Our Nature | 3.5 |
| Scale the Summit Carving Desert Canyons | 4.0 |
| Scale the Summit The Collective | 4.5 |
| Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe | 3.5 |
| Sculptured Embodiment | 3.5 |
| Secret Chiefs 3 Book of Horizons | 4.5 |
| Shearwater The Golden Archipelago | 4.5 |
| Shearwater Rook | 4.0 |
| Shearwater Animal Joy | 4.5 |
| Six Organs Of Admittance Luminous Night | 4.0 |
| Six Organs Of Admittance Shelter from the Ash | 3.5 |
| Six Organs Of Admittance The Sun Awakens | 3.5 |
| Skinny Puppy Rabies | 3.0 |
| Skinny Puppy The Greater Wrong of the Right | 3.0 |
| Skinny Puppy Last Rights | 4.0 |
| Sleeping at Last Keep No Score | 3.0 |
| Sleeping at Last Storyboards | 4.5 |
| Sleeping Gods New Sensation | 3.0 |
| Sleepytime Gorilla Museum In Glorious Times | 3.0 |
| Snowing I Could Do Whatever I Wanted If I Wanted | 3.5 |
| Soap and Skin Lovetune for Vacuum | 3.0 |
| Solanaceae Solanaceae | 4.0 |
| Solstafir Köld | 4.0 |
| Solstafir Svartir Sandar | 3.0 |
| Soul Cycle Soul Cycle | 3.5 |
| Soulja Boy The DeAndre Way | 1.5 |
| Soup (US) Children of E.L.B. | 4.5 |
| It should be noted that this isn't the same Soup as the one from the 70s... eventually I'll stop being lazy and add a Soup (Norway) or something. This album is amazing. |
| Squarepusher Shobaleader One - D'demonstrator | 2.0 |
| Stielas Storhett Vandrer... | 2.5 |
| Sulphur Aeon Swallowed by the Ocean's Tide | 3.0 |
| Sun Kil Moon Ghosts of the Great Highway | 3.0 |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Diary | 5.0 |
| Surface Of Eceon The King Beneath The Mountain | 4.0 |
| Susan Boyle The Gift | 1.0 |
| Sylvain Chauveau Le Livre noir du capitalisme | 4.5 |
| To those who may be looking for this, it was re-released though limited to 400 copies by Type, titled in English as The Black Book of Capitalism. |
| Talking Heads Talking Heads: 77 | 4.0 |
| Talking Heads Remain in Light | 4.5 |
| Talking Heads True Stories | 3.5 |
| Talking Heads Little Creatures | 3.5 |
| Talking Heads The Name of this Band Is Talking Heads | 4.5 |
| Talking Heads Naked | 4.0 |
| Talking Heads Sand in the Vaseline: Popular Favorites | 5.0 |
| Talking Heads Fear of Music | 4.0 |
| Talking Heads More Songs About Buildings and Food | 4.0 |
| Tangerine Dream Summer In Nagasaki | 4.0 |
| Opening with a throwback to an older era when layered synth patterns were a staple in any TD album, Summer In Nagasaki proves to be a surprise in a massive and never-slowing discography. Summer expands thematically upon Spring of the same series but feels more experimental and daring. |
| The Absence Riders of the Plague | 3.0 |
| The American Dollar Atlas | 4.0 |
| The Birthday Massacre Violet | 4.5 |
| The Birthday Massacre Pins and Needles | 4.0 |
| The Black Eyed Peas The Beginning | 1.0 |
| The Duskfall The Dying Wonders of the World | 3.0 |
| The Elemental Chrysalis The Dark Path To Spiritual Expansion | 4.0 |
| The Faceless Akeldama | 2.5 |
| The Flaming Lips Clouds Taste Metallic | 4.0 |
| The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin | 4.5 |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots | 4.0 |
| The Flaming Lips Embryonic | 4.0 |
| The For Carnation The For Carnation | 4.0 |
| The Gathering Disclosure | 4.0 |
| The Gathering How to Measure a Planet? | 4.5 |
| The Gentleman Losers The Gentleman Losers | 4.0 |
| The Howling Void Shadows Over The Cosmos | 2.5 |
| The Jezabels Prisoner | 4.0 |
| The Kindred Lore | 3.5 |
| This album is borderline exhausting. The music is good, almost too good. The production is thick and shiny. There's no doubting this band's capabilities and there are numerous highlights from the soaring riffs to the shouted gang vocals throughout, I'm just a little off-put by the mechanical precision of the record as a whole. The vocalist at times reminds me a bit too much of Fair To Midland, though I personally feel he delivers a tighter performance. |
| The Knife Deep Cuts | 4.0 |
| The Knife Silent Shout | 4.0 |
| The Middle East The Recordings of the Middle East | 4.5 |
| The Morningside The Wind, The Trees And The Shadows... | 4.5 |
| The Morningside Moving Crosscurrent of Time | 4.5 |
| Moving Crosscurrent of Time revisits the themes of The Morningside's debut in a more substantial but generally less atmospheric setting. "The Outcome (Admit One)" is the most impressive track on the album with soaring guitar solos, rich bass, and a beautiful lead-out into the final track (kind of a double outro really.) |
| The North Sea Exquisite Idols | 3.0 |
| An interesting listen, Brad Rose occasionally manages to stir up a feeling of solitude or even of jubilation in his oftentimes busy free-folk meanderings on Exquisite Idols, but ultimately nothing here extends far beyond the comfort zone of what similar artists (or even Rose under different monikers) have to offer. |
| The Notwist Neon Golden | 4.5 |
| The Old Dead Tree The Nameless Disease | 4.5 |
| The Plot In You Could You Watch Your Children Burn | 1.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Oceania | 3.0 |
| The Twilight Singers Dynamite Steps | 4.0 |
| The Used Artwork | 2.0 |
| The War On Drugs Slave Ambient | 4.0 |
| The Waters Deep Here Sunden | 3.0 |
| Theatre Of Tragedy Aégis | 4.0 |
| Theatre Of Tragedy Musique | 2.0 |
| Thievery Corporation The Mirror Conspiracy | 4.5 |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars This Is War | 1.5 |
| This Will Destroy You This Will Destroy You | 2.5 |
| This Will Destroy You Young Mountain | 3.0 |
| Three Steps To The Ocean Until Today Becomes Yesterday | 3.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 4.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV | 3.5 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 4.5 |
| Thursday Common Existence | 3.0 |
| Thy Catafalque Rengeteg | 4.0 |
| Tiamat Wildhoney | 4.5 |
| Tim Hecker Harmony in Ultraviolet | 4.5 |
| Todtgelichter Angst | 4.0 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 2.5 |
| Tool Lateralus | 4.0 |
| Torsofuck Erotic Diarrhea Fantasy | 1.0 |
| Tortoise TNT | 4.0 |
| Trampled By Turtles Palomino | 3.5 |
| Tristania Beyond the Veil | 4.5 |
| Tristania World of Glass | 3.5 |
| Tristania Rubicon | 2.0 |
| Trivium The Crusade | 1.5 |
| Twilight Monument To Time End | 2.5 |
| Ugly Casanova Sharpen Your Teeth | 4.0 |
| Ulver Shadows of the Sun | 4.5 |
| Ulver Svidd Neger OST | 4.0 |
| Ulver Blood Inside | 4.0 |
| Ulver Lyckantropen Themes OST | 3.0 |
| Ulver Kveldssanger | 3.5 |
| Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler | 4.0 |
| Ulver Nattens Madrigal | 3.5 |
| Ulver Perdition City | 3.5 |
| Uncle Tupelo Anodyne | 3.5 |
| Verwustung Tunnel Ghosts | 2.0 |
| VNV Nation Of Faith, Power and Glory | 3.0 |
| VNV Nation Matter and Form | 4.0 |
| VNV Nation Futureperfect | 3.5 |
| VNV Nation Empires | 4.0 |
| Waka Flocka Flame Flockaveli | 1.5 |
| Walknut Graveforests And Their Shadows | 3.0 |
| Winterfylleth The Threnody of Triumph | 3.5 |
| Winterhorde Underwatermoon | 4.5 |
| Wintersleep Welcome To The Night Sky | 3.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade | 3.5 |
| Woods of Desolation Torn Beyond Reason | 4.0 |
| Woods of Ypres Woods 5: Grey Skies and Electric Light | 4.5 |
| World's End Girlfriend The Lie Lay Land | 4.0 |
| World's End Girlfriend Hurtbreak Wonderland | 3.5 |
| World's End Girlfriend Dream's End Come True | 3.5 |
| Wormfood Posthume | 3.0 |
| Wovenhand Ten Stones | 4.5 |
| Wovenhand Mosaic | 4.0 |
| Wovenhand Consider the Birds | 4.0 |
| Wovenhand The Threshing Floor | 4.5 |
| Yanni Live at the Acropolis | 4.5 |
| Yanni Truth of Touch | 4.0 |
| Yes Union | 3.0 |
| Yes Fragile | 4.5 |
| Yes Big Generator | 2.5 |
| Yes The Ladder | 3.5 |
| Yonlu A Society In Which No Tear is Shed... | 3.5 |
