| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Tao of the Dead | 3.0 |
| 65daysofstatic We Were Exploding Anyway | 3.5 |
| A Skylit Drive Wires...and the Concept of Breathing | 2.0 |
| A Skylit Drive She Watched the Sky | 2.5 |
| A Wilhelm Scream A Wilhelm Scream | 4.0 |
| Act As One No Looking Back | 2.0 |
| Adebisi Shank This is the Second Album | 4.0 |
| Akron/Family S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT | 4.5 |
| Alesana Where Myth Fades to Legend | 1.5 |
| Alesana On Frail Wings of Vanity and Wax | 2.5 |
| Alexisonfire Crisis | 3.5 |
| Alexisonfire Old Crows / Young Cardinals | 3.5 |
| Alexisonfire Alexisonfire | 4.0 |
| Alexisonfire Watch Out! | 4.0 |
| Araabmuzik Electronic Dream | 4.5 |
| As Cities Burn Hell or High Water | 3.5 |
| As Tall As Lions You Can't Take It With You | 4.0 |
| Atmosphere The Family Sign | 3.0 |
| Atmosphere To All My Friends, Blood Makes The Blade Holy | 3.5 |
| Atmosphere God Loves Ugly | 4.5 |
| Atmosphere When Life Gives You Lemons... | 4.5 |
| Avi Buffalo Avi Buffalo | 3.5 |
| Azure Ray Drawing Down the Moon | 3.5 |
| The duo create beautiful, haunting melodies, though this is not very memorable. Great for a few listens. |
| B.o.B The Adventures of Bobby Ray | 3.0 |
| BADBADNOTGOOD BBNG2 | 4.0 |
| Balance and Composure Only Boundaries | 3.5 |
| Bars of Gold Of Gold | 4.0 |
| Bear vs. Shark Right Now You're in the Best of Hands | 4.0 |
| Bear vs. Shark Terrorhawk | 4.0 |
| Beau Navire Life Moves | 4.0 |
| Beau Navire Hours | 4.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 4.0 |
| Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot | 4.0 |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 4.0 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 3.5 |
| Brand New Daisy | 3.5 |
| Bravestation 2010 EP | 3.5 |
| Breaking Benjamin Saturate | 2.5 |
| Bright Eyes The People's Key | 3.0 |
| Broken Bells Broken Bells | 4.0 |
| By Surprise Mountain Smashers | 2.5 |
| Cake Motorcade Of Generosity | 3.5 |
| Cake Pressure Chief | 3.5 |
| Cake Prolonging The Magic | 3.5 |
| Cake Fashion Nugget | 4.0 |
| Cake Comfort Eagle | 4.0 |
| calculator These Roots Grow Deep... | 3.5 |
| Cannibal Ox The Cold Vein | 4.0 |
| Carrion Spring A Short History of Decay | 3.5 |
| Celeste Morte(s) Nee(s) | 4.0 |
| Ceremony (USA-CA) Zoo | 3.0 |
| Ceremony (USA-CA) 6 Cover Songs | 3.5 |
| Ceremony (USA-CA) Rohnert Park | 4.0 |
| Childish Gambino Culdesac | 4.0 |
| Childish Gambino EP | 4.0 |
This EP is Glover's best release yet, as his flow, emotion, and confidence are better than
ever. The beats and instrumentation continue to be outstanding. |
| Circa Survive On Letting Go | 3.5 |
| Circa Survive Juturna | 4.0 |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise | 4.0 |
| City and Colour Bring Me Your Love | 3.5 |
| City of Caterpillar City of Caterpillar | 4.5 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 4.0 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 4.0 |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles II | 3.5 |
| Cursive The Ugly Organ | 4.5 |
| Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi Rome | 4.0 |
| Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse Dark Night of the Soul | 4.5 |
| Danielson Best of Gloucester County | 3.0 |
| Daughters Daughters | 4.0 |
| Deadmau5 4x4=12 | 3.5 |
| Deadmau5 For Lack of a Better Name | 4.0 |
| Deerhoof Deerhoof vs. Evil | 3.5 |
| Drop Dead, Gorgeous Worse Than A Fairy Tale | 3.0 |
| Duck Duck Goose Noise, Noise and More Noise | 3.0 |
| Eels Tomorrow Morning | 4.0 |
| Elliott Smith XO | 4.5 |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or | 5.0 |
| Elliott Smith Elliott Smith | 5.0 |
| Emblems EP | 3.5 |
| Eminem Recovery | 2.5 |
| Eminem The Eminem Show | 3.0 |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP | 4.0 |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP | 5.0 |
| Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) Home After Three Months Away | 4.0 |
| Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) What It Takes to Move Forward | 5.0 |
| Escape the Fate This War Is Ours | 1.0 |
| Escape the Fate Dying Is Your Latest Fashion | 2.0 |
| Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon | 3.0 |
| Every Time I Die The Big Dirty | 3.5 |
| Every Time I Die Hot Damn! | 4.0 |
| Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic | 4.0 |
| Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True | 4.0 |
| Fang Island Fang Island | 4.0 |
| Fear Before Fear Before | 3.5 |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues | 4.0 |
| Football, etc. The Draft | 3.5 |
| Football, etc. Away Game 7" | 4.0 |
| Frightened Rabbit The Winter of Mixed Drinks | 4.0 |
| Frodus And We Washed Our Weapons In The Sea | 4.5 |
| Frodus Soundlab 1 | 4.5 |
| From Autumn to Ashes Holding A Wolf By The Ears | 4.0 |
| Fucked Up Litany | 3.0 |
| Fucked Up Epics in Minutes | 3.5 |
| Fucked Up Year of the Pig | 3.5 |
| Fucked Up Year of the Dog | 3.5 |
| Fucked Up David's Town | 3.5 |
| Fucked Up Hidden World | 4.0 |
| Fucked Up Couple Tracks: Singles 2002-2009 | 4.0 |
| Fucked Up Year of the Rat | 4.0 |
| Fucked Up Year of the Tiger | 4.0 |
| Fucked Up The Chemistry of Common Life | 4.5 |
| Fucked Up Year of the Ox | 4.5 |
| Two songs, twenty four minutes, Zola Jesus, saxophone... a clusterfuck of excellence. |
| Fucked Up David Comes to Life | 5.0 |
| This album has more going on than most discogs. Just an absolute song-writing masterpiece. Cohesive, thrilling, butt-kicking, genre-surpassing, best album of the first half of 2011. |
| Gang Starr Step in the Arena | 4.0 |
| Gang Starr Hard to Earn | 4.0 |
| Ghostkeeper Ghostkeeper | 4.0 |
| Givers In Light | 4.0 |
| Grass Widow Past Time | 3.5 |
| Hail Archer Hail Archer EP | 3.5 |
| Hail Archer Leave Your Body Behind | 4.0 |
| Heaven In Her Arms Paraselene | 3.0 |
| Iceage New Brigade | 3.5 |
| Immortal Technique The 3rd World | 3.5 |
| Immortal Technique Revolutionary Volume 1 | 4.0 |
| Immortal Technique Revolutionary Volume 2 | 4.0 |
| Interpol Interpol | 3.0 |
| Iron And Wine Kiss Each Other Clean | 2.5 |
| Janelle Monae Metropolis: The Chase Suite | 4.5 |
| Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid | 5.0 |
An impressive display of Monae's incredible music ability. With each track comes a new style, and yet the album is cohesive and smooth, if a bit long. She impresses throughout with her skill, passion, and the trippy story she has created.
With this album, Monae has seized the title of queen of pop. Forget about Lady Gaga and any other lesser artist; Janelle Monae is the most talented artist in pop. She has crafted the best pop album of 2010, and if she keeps her head in the right place she will become one of the best artists we have ever seen. |
| Jenny and Johnny I'm Having Fun Now | 3.5 |
| Jesu Ascension | 4.0 |
| Joan of Arc Oh Brother | 3.5 |
| Joan of Arc Life Like | 4.0 |
| Julia Holter Tragedy | 4.0 |
| Julia Holter Ekstasis | 5.0 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 4.0 |
| KEN mode Venerable | 4.0 |
| Kid Cudi Man on the Moon: The End of Day | 2.5 |
| Kid Cudi Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager | 2.5 |
| Killing The Dream Lucky Me | 3.0 |
| Killing The Dream Fractures | 3.5 |
| La Dispute Here, Hear. | 3.5 |
| La Dispute Vancouver | 4.0 |
| La Dispute Here, Hear. II | 4.0 |
| La Dispute Here, Hear. III | 4.0 |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair | 4.5 |
| La Dispute/Koji Never Come Undone | 2.5 |
| Le Pre Ou Je Suis Mort Le Pre Ou Je Suis Mort | 4.5 |
| Lemuria (USA-NY) Pebble | 2.5 |
| letlive. Fake History | 4.0 |
| Loscil Endless Falls | 4.0 |
| Love American Love American | 3.5 |
| M.I.A. Maya | 3.0 |
| M.I.A. Kala | 4.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child | 4.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing | 4.5 |
| Maserati Pyramid of the Sun | 4.5 |
Pyramid of the Sun is not just a dedication to late drummer Jerry Fuchs. It is a monument, a monolith, an absolute monster of an album. Painstakingly perfected over the last year, it spans psychedelic rock, post-rock, space-rock, trance, and many other genres in creating an almost flawless album with wide appeal.
Fuchs final recordings behind the kit are absolutely spot-on, driving an album that is a non-stop masterpiece; an instrumental album that is succinct, yet enthralling. It is impossible to pick out a single standout track, as the passion and skill encompassed in one is equally as present in the next. From the sludgy "Ruins" to the never-ending memento "Bye M'Friend, Goodbye," the quality never slips. This is one of the best albums of 2010. |
| Menomena Friend And Foe | 4.0 |
| Menomena Mines | 4.5 |
| mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright! | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou Ten Stories | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou A to B: Life | 4.5 |
| mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes | 5.0 |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister | 5.0 |
| Minus the Bear Omni | 2.5 |
| Modest Mouse Sad Sappy Sucker | 3.0 |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank | 3.0 |
While Good News did an excellent job of combining the new Modest Mouse accessibilty with the old Modest Mouse grate and charm, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank is too much accessibility and not enough wit and charm.
The album has most of the things that should make it work, but they don't work like they used to. The craziness of the music and the vocals falls flat rather than impressing more than ever before, and some songs just have little value at all (We've Got Everything, Fire It Up).
Fortunately, Modest Mouse is too talented to mess things up too much. Parting of the Sensory succeeds where Spitting Venom fails, with length and emotion that completely enrapture the listener. March to the Sea and Little Motel also provide a good amount of redeeming value.
Overall, the album is much more hit-or-miss than any previous full lenght, and very disappointing coming from a band of Modest Mouse's pedigree. Most fans will enjoy some of the songs on this album, but hopefully we will see another style change in the next album, and this time for the better. |
| Modest Mouse No One's First, and You're Next | 3.0 |
| Modest Mouse The Fruit That Ate Itself | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse Interstate 8 | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse Baron von Bullshit Rides Again | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse Tube-Fruit, All Smiles and Chocolate | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse Uncle Bunny Faces | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse Building Nothing Out of Something | 4.5 |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About | 4.5 |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica | 5.0 |
| There is no way for me to completely capture my feelings for this album, for the personal meaning it has with me is immeasurable. While The Lonesome Crowded West may be somehow better, this more melodic turn has created an even stronger, deeper emotional attachment. This is a true masterpiece. This is true beauty. |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West | 5.0 |
| Mogwai Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will | 4.0 |
| Mount Eerie Clear Moon | 4.0 |
| Mountains for Clouds Some People Buy Scenery Like This | 4.0 |
| Moving Mountains Waves | 2.5 |
| Mugstar Lime | 4.5 |
| Mugstar ...Sun, Broken... | 4.5 |
| Muse The Resistance | 2.5 |
| Muse Absolution | 4.0 |
| Mutemath Armistice | 3.5 |
| Nas Illmatic | 4.5 |
| No Trigger Be Honest | 3.5 |
| Norma Jean Redeemer | 3.5 |
| Norma Jean The Anti Mother | 4.0 |
| OFF! 1st EP | 4.0 |
| OFF! First Four EPs | 4.5 |
| Oh, Sleeper Son of the Morning | 2.5 |
| Okkervil River I Am Very Far | 3.0 |
| Pinback Summer in Abaddon | 4.5 |
| Portrait Discography | 4.5 |
| Portugal. The Man The Satanic Satanist | 4.0 |
| Portugal. The Man American Ghetto | 4.0 |
| Propagandhi How to Clean Everything | 4.0 |
| Propagandhi The Recovered EP | 4.0 |
| Propagandhi Potemkin City Limits | 4.5 |
| Propagandhi Less Talk, More Rock | 4.5 |
| Propagandhi Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes | 5.0 |
| Propagandhi Supporting Caste | 5.0 |
| Protest the Hero Kezia | 4.0 |
| Raein Ah, As If... | 3.5 |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come | 5.0 |
| Rinoa An Age Among Them | 3.5 |
| Rx Bandits Mandala | 4.0 |
| Say Anything In Defense of the Genre | 3.5 |
| Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy | 4.0 |
| Say Anything ...Is A Real Boy (re-release) | 4.0 |
| SBTRKT SBTRKT | 3.5 |
| Sed Non Satiata Sed Non Satiata | 4.5 |
| Self Defense Family More Songs About Transportation and Intercourse | 2.5 |
| Self Defense Family You Are Beneath Me | 3.5 |
| Self Defense Family The Sorrowful And Immaculate Heart Of Emanuela... | 3.5 |
| Serj Tankian Elect the Dead | 3.0 |
| Set Your Goals Mutiny! | 3.5 |
| Set Your Goals This Will Be the Death of Us | 3.5 |
| Shabazz Palaces Black Up | 4.5 |
| Shugo Tokumaru Port Entropy | 4.0 |
| Silverstein Arrivals and Departures | 2.5 |
| Silverstein A Shipwreck in the Sand | 3.5 |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon | 4.0 |
| Six Gallery Breakthroughs in Modern Art | 4.0 |
| Skrillex Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites | 4.0 |
| Sky Eats Airplane Everything Perfect on the Wrong Day | 2.0 |
| Sky Eats Airplane Sky Eats Airplane | 2.5 |
| Sleigh Bells Treats | 4.5 |
| Slint Spiderland | 4.5 |
| Sparklehorse Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot | 4.5 |
| Sparklehorse Good Morning Spider | 4.5 |
| Sparklehorse Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain | 4.5 |
| Sparklehorse It's a Wonderful Life | 5.0 |
| I miss Mark so much. The music of Sparklehorse is all beautiful. |
| Spokes Everyone I Ever Met | 4.5 |
| Spoon Kill the Moonlight | 4.5 |
| State Faults Head in the Clouds | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 3.0 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 3.0 |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! | 3.5 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 4.5 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 4.5 |
| Take One Car When The Ceiling Meets The Floor | 3.0 |
| Talons Hollow Realm | 3.5 |
| Ten Grand The Comprehensive List | 4.5 |
| Tephra Tempel | 3.5 |
| Tera Melos Patagonian Rats | 3.5 |
| The 1900's Return of the Century | 3.0 |
| The Berg Sans Nipple Build With Erosion | 4.0 |
| The Bridgeheads Foreigners | 4.0 |
| The Chariot Wars and Rumors of Wars | 2.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Act III: Life and Death | 4.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord | 2.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Plagues | 2.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada With Roots Above and Branches Below | 2.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity | 4.5 |
| The Ex Catch My Shoe | 3.5 |
| The Fall of Troy In the Unlikely Event | 2.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Manipulator | 2.5 |
| The Fall of Troy The Fall of Troy | 4.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger | 4.0 |
| The Flaming Lips Embryonic | 3.5 |
| The Gaslight Anthem American Slang | 4.0 |
| The Jonbenet Ugly/Heartless | 4.0 |
| The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation Anthropomorphic | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats All Eternals Deck | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats The Sunset Tree | 4.5 |
| The National Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers | 3.5 |
| The National Boxer | 4.5 |
| The National High Violet | 4.5 |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die | 4.5 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Here at the End of All Things | 3.0 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Nuclear. Sad. Nuclear. | 3.5 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You An Inch of Gold for An Inch of Time | 3.5 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Put On Your Rosy Red Glasses | 4.0 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Mongrel | 4.5 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Worse Than Alone | 4.5 |
| The Roots How I Got Over | 4.0 |
| The Sawtooth Grin Cuddlemonster | 3.5 |
| The Sea And Cake The Moonlight Butterfly | 3.5 |
| The Shins Wincing the Night Away | 4.0 |
| The Swan King Eyes Like Knives | 4.0 |
| The Thermals Personal Life | 3.5 |
| The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza II: The Electric Boogaloo | 3.5 |
| The White Stripes Icky Thump | 4.0 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Formlessness | 3.5 |
| Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures | 4.0 |
| These Arms Are Snakes Easter | 4.5 |
| Thousands The Sound of Everything | 3.0 |
| Thrice Beggars | 3.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV | 4.0 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 4.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 4.5 |
| Thursday Waiting | 3.0 |
| Thursday War All the Time | 4.0 |
| Thursday Common Existence | 4.0 |
| Thursday Full Collapse | 4.5 |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor | 5.0 |
| Touche Amore/La Dispute Searching for a Pulse/The Worth of the World | 4.0 |
| Trash Talk Eyes & Nines | 4.0 |
| Trophy Scars Alphabet Alphabets | 2.5 |
| True Widow As High As The Highest Heavens And From The Center | 4.5 |
| tUnE-yArDs w h o k i l l | 4.5 |
| TV on the Radio Dear Science | 4.5 |
| TV on the Radio Nine Types of Light | 4.5 |
| Tyler, the Creator Goblin | 2.5 |
| Tyler, the Creator Bastard | 3.5 |
| Ugly Casanova Sharpen Your Teeth | 4.0 |
| Ugly Casanova 180 Degrees South | 4.0 |
| Just some great music by some great artists. My only comment: if you're checking this out for the Ugly Casanova tracks, don't expect something like Sharpen Your Teeth. |
| United Nations Never Mind the Bombings, Here's Your Six Figures | 4.0 |
| Wolf Parade Expo 86 | 3.5 |
| WU LYF Go Tell Fire to the Mountain | 4.0 |
| Wye Oak Civilian | 4.0 |
| YACHT Shangri-La | 3.5 |
| Young Widows Settle Down City | 3.5 |
| Young Widows Old Wounds | 4.0 |
| Young Widows In and Out of Youth and Lightness | 4.0 |
| Youth Lagoon The Year of Hibernation | 4.5 |
| Yuck Yuck | 3.5 |
| Zomby Dedication | 4.0 |
