| ...Who Calls So Loud ...Who Calls So Loud | 3.5 |
| 40 Watt Sun The Inside Room | 3.5 |
| A Bunny's Caravan Draining Puddles, Retrieving Treasures | 4.5 |
| After having listened to this countless times I can still put this on any time and enjoy it rjust as much.rEdit: guess I outgrew it a little. |
| A Red Season Shade The Outcome Fosters Detachment | 3.5 |
| A Winged Victory for the Sullen A Winged Victory for the Sullen | 4.5 |
| Aereogramme My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go | 3.5 |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain | 3.5 |
| All Human Catholic Guilt or the Queerest of Thoughts | 3.5 |
| Amateur Love It's All Aquatic | 3.5 |
| Amesoeurs Ruines Humaines | 4.0 |
| Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession | 4.0 |
| Ana Kefr The Burial Tree (II) | 3.0 |
| Antarctica 23:03 | 3.0 |
| Arrosa Stickgirl | 3.5 |
| Arrows Modern Art & Politics | 4.0 |
| What nightstars said, might be top 5 in modern emo, surpassing both e!e! and twiabp in sheer musicianship (undecided about the vocals). |
| Arrows Try and Stay Upright | 4.0 |
| Arrows In Her Leaving. | 3.0 |
| Art Of Fighting Empty Nights | 3.0 |
| I should've bought their LP 'Wires'. All the missed opportunities in this one got really frustrating. |
| Art Of Fighting Wires | 4.0 |
| Arvo Part Alina | 4.0 |
| As Cities Burn Son, I Loved You at Your Darkest | 3.5 |
| As Cities Burn Come Now Sleep | 4.5 |
| Ashen Pull And Repel | 4.0 |
| Audio Learning Center Friendships Often Fade Away | 4.0 |
| Aurore Rien Telesthesia | 3.5 |
| Aurore Rien Sedative for the Celestial Blue | 4.0 |
| Barrow Though I'm Alone | 3.0 |
| Bat For Lashes Two Suns | 3.0 |
| Batushka Litourgiya | 4.0 |
| Benton Falls Fighting Starlight | 4.0 |
| Benton Falls Guilt Beats Hate | 4.0 |
| Beyonce Lemonade | 1.5 |
Later generations' history students will, after being asked to provide a major example for
the downfall of morality and culture in the twentieth/ 21st century, in large numbers cite
this album's title and culprit for the making of it. In this regard, it is invaluable to
future historians. |
| Black Veil Brides Set the World on Fire | 1.5 |
| Blien Vesne Esperar Eternity | 4.0 |
| Bluetile Lounge Lowercase | 4.5 |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 3.5 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 4.0 |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 4.5 |
| Brandtson Fallen Star Collection | 4.0 |
| Buried Inside Chronoclast | 3.5 |
| Calamine Flicker | 3.5 |
| Carissa's Wierd Tucson | 3.0 |
| Carissa's Wierd Scrap Book | 3.5 |
| Carissa's Wierd You Should Be At Home Here | 4.0 |
| Carissa's Wierd Songs About Leaving | 4.5 |
| Carissa's Wierd Ugly But Honest: 1996-1999 | 5.0 |
| Carissa's Wierd They'll Only Miss You When...: Songs 1996-2003 | 5.0 |
Well, I gave a compilation album a 5-star rating. Normally this wouldn't be justified
because well this compilation album just takes the best songs from several other albums and
puts it all together. The members of Carissa's Wierd were faultless, selecting all the fans'
favourites and adding up to 16 songs. rThough I haven't got this album in my library, I have
all the other records which the songs are taken from.rFor people who want to explore the
beauty that is CW but need to be eased into the quite lengthy tracks this is a perfect place
to start. |
| Caspian Hymn For The Greatest Generation | 3.5 |
| Circle Takes the Square Decompositions: Volume Number One | 3.0 |
| City of Caterpillar City of Caterpillar | 3.0 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 4.0 |
| Cool Hand Luke The Fires of Life | 3.5 |
| Copeland In Motion | 3.0 |
| Cross My Heart Temporary Contemporary | 4.0 |
| Cross My Heart Cross My Heart | 4.0 |
| Cru Jones Roadside View | 3.5 |
| CSTVT Summer Fences | 4.0 |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories | 2.0 |
| Daitro/Sed Non Satiata Split | 3.5 |
| Daniel Land and The Modern Painters Voss EP | 4.0 |
| Dating Please Be Quiet, I'm Very Interesting | 4.0 |
| Dating Outminded | 4.0 |
| Denison Witmer Are You a Dreamer? | 3.0 |
| Devil Sold His Soul A Fragile Hope | 4.0 |
| Devil Sold His Soul Blessed & Cursed | 4.0 |
| DieRadioDie Headstocks And Heart Attacks | 3.5 |
| Raw production makes for passionate sound. Shame these guys sort of vanished. This would've been a 4,5 if not for the superfluous U2 cover and the track 'as soon as beauty dies' which is just an alternative version of 'one life to live'. |
| East Highland In My Darkest Hours I Will Release My Light | 3.0 |
| Ef Give Me Beauty... Or Give Me Death! | 4.0 |
| Elliott Song in the Air | 4.0 |
| 'Beijing (too many people)' and 'Song in the air' are some of the best songs ever brought out by Elliott. Too bad the rest of this album isn't quite on par, not even close actually. |
| Elliott False Cathedrals | 4.5 |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or | 3.5 |
| Eluvium Talk Amongst the Trees | 3.5 |
| Eluvium Copia | 4.0 |
| Elvis Depressedly Holo Pleasures | 3.0 |
| I sense this is one of those albums with the potential to become more widespread than originally intended. |
| Embraced (US) An Orchestrated Failure | 4.0 |
| I'm just an average maaaaaaaaaan reaching out my haaaaaaaand! |
| Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) You Will Eventually Be Forgotten | 3.0 |
| Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) On Time Spent Waiting | 3.5 |
| Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) What It Takes to Move Forward | 4.0 |
| Empyrium Songs of Moors and Misty Fields | 3.0 |
| Escape the Day Ghostless | 4.0 |
| Evans Blue The Pursuit Begins When This Portrayal of Life Ends | 3.5 |
| Eversor September | 2.5 |
| Got tired of it real quick. The songs aren't very distinctive of one another, disappointed. |
| Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors | 3.0 |
| Far Apart Hazel | 3.5 |
| Fear Before The Always Open Mouth | 4.5 |
| Few And Far Between Three | 3.5 |
| Fight Like Apes ...And The Mystery Of The Golden Medallion | 2.5 |
| They really sound like they fight with apes lol.rA little too chaotic for my like. |
| Flashpapr Do What You Must Do | 3.5 |
| White Flowers is one of the best romantic songs I've ever heard. |
| Friends Unseen Friends Unseen | 3.0 |
| Only two songs on this EP. Get this for 'Drowning Act' |
| Frightened Rabbit The Midnight Organ Fight | 4.0 |
| From First to Last Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count | 2.5 |
| Funeral Diner The Underdark | 3.5 |
| Why only 3,5? Because there are too much interludes.I expect my screamo to maintain a high tempo, that's not the case. |
| Funeral for a Friend Hours | 3.5 |
| Further Seems Forever The Moon Is Down | 3.5 |
| Gates (USA-NJ) You Are All You Have Left to Fear | 3.0 |
| Giants Old Stories | 3.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 3.0 |
| Grace Cathedral Park In The Evenings Of Regret | 4.5 |
| Green Grass For Miles More Than Months | 3.5 |
| Gregor Samsa 27:36 | 3.5 |
| Gregor Samsa 55:12 | 4.0 |
| Hammock Kenotic | 3.0 |
| Happy Particles Under Sleeping Waves | 3.0 |
| Have Mercy (Indie) The Earth Pushed Back | 2.5 |
| Hightide Hotel Nothing Was Missing, Except Me | 3.5 |
| Homesick for Space Homesick For Space | 3.0 |
| Hopesfall The Satellite Years | 4.0 |
| Hopesfall No Wings To Speak Of | 4.5 |
| Hurts Happiness | 2.0 |
| I Called Nine Times If They Could | 3.5 |
| I Hate Myself 4 Songs | 3.5 |
| IAMX The Alternative | 3.0 |
| Ida I Know About You | 3.5 |
| Imbroco Are You My Lionkiller? | 4.0 |
| Immanu El They'll Come, They Come | 4.0 |
| Indian Summer Science 1994 | 3.0 |
| Inside My Funeral | 3.0 |
| January I Heard Myself In You | 4.0 |
| Jejune This Afternoon's Malady | 3.0 |
| Jen Wood Getting Past the Static | 4.0 |
| Jenn Champion Cool Choices | 2.5 |
| Jenn Champion Sadstyle | 4.0 |
| Jeremy Enigk Return of the Frog Queen | 3.0 |
| Jettie Heading For Mornings | 4.0 |
| Jettie Goodmorning Russia | 4.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Clarity | 4.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Static Prevails | 4.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Jimmy Eat World [EP] | 4.0 |
This EP is almost perfect if not for Lucky Denver Mint. God, I hate that track... Together
with For Me This Is Heaven they represent the tracks that got leaped in with their following
LP Clarity. However, the tracks that didn't make it are worthy as well, if not more. The
demo of Your New Aesthetic leans more towards JEW's emo side. (Yes, they were very much emo
in the right definition of the genre before the new millennium) It's more heartfelt than the
Clarity version, whereas the other version features a more straightforward punk sound. Other
exclusive tracks are Softer, an upbeat gritty track that shows Jimmy in cynical way, and
Roller Queen. Now, let me tell you, this EP is worth getting for Roller Queen alone. It has
an almost ambient feel to it due to lots of feedback and a slow stretched song structure. We
hear Jim Adkins ponder about a lost love, it's hard not to get moved by it. It's unique in a
way that JEW never evoked that feeling to a song again after that. But it probably has a
whole lot to do with Adkins being the sole performer for vocals and instruments altogether. |
| Jude No One Is Really Beautiful | 3.0 |
| June Paik June Paik | 3.5 |
| Juno This Is the Way It Goes and Goes and Goes | 3.0 |
| Kanye West The Life of Pablo | 2.0 |
| It's always great when something like this comes out, to adjust my objectivity rating |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly | 2.0 |
| Kepler Missionless Days | 3.5 |
| Kittyhawk Hello, Again | 3.5 |
| Knife Party Haunted House | 1.0 |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair | 3.0 |
| Last Days of April Angel Youth | 4.5 |
| Lawn Backspace | 3.0 |
| Life Without Buildings Any Other City | 2.5 |
| Crazy indie rock tunes, guitar driven and with a female vocalist who seems to sing about everything in life in a lighthearted way. Sometimes she should do away the playfulness and use her voice in a more heartfelt way. That's the only thing that's keeping me from rating this 4 or higher.r |
| Lmfao Sorry For Party Rocking | 1.0 |
| Logh North | 3.5 |
| Love, Claire Love, Claire | 4.0 |
| Low I Could Live in Hope | 3.0 |
| Ludovico Einaudi Divenire | 3.5 |
| Lydia Illuminate | 3.5 |
| Max Richter The Blue Notebooks | 3.0 |
| Men As Trees Weltschmerz | 3.5 |
| Merchant Ships For Cameron | 3.0 |
| So 'Sleep Patterns' is an amazing track. The sort of track that makes you think you've possibly found your next 5-star rating. Unfortunately the rest of this EP is average, like so many emo bands these days are. |
| Midsummer Inside The Trees | 4.0 |
| Mimas The Worries | 3.0 |
| Mineral EndSerenading | 4.5 |
| Mineral The Power of Failing | 5.0 |
| Misery Signals Mirrors | 3.5 |
| Moneen The Red Tree | 3.5 |
| Moving Mountains Pneuma | 4.0 |
| mum Finally We Are No One | 3.0 |
| My Spacecoaster Heartstrings | 3.5 |
| My Winter Nerve Leave it to Science to Solve All Your Problems | 4.0 |
| Natural Snow Buildings The Winter Ray | 3.0 |
| From 'Mae Brussel' onwards you'll likely think about forgotten moments from your youth. |
| Natural Snow Buildings The Dance of the Moon and the Sun | 4.0 |
| I first listened through speakers one day, then twice in a row with headphones while reading rand walking through the house. As some sort of background music with flashes of brilliance rthis is perfect. However, while these flashes of brilliance do strike, there is too much rdroning going on. The drones are fascinating but last way too long so it seems this album rgoes nowhere. The album itself is way too long as well.rTherefore it was quite hard to rate rthis album, if you let your mind wander while listening to this it truly shines. But if you rpay close attention, there is just not enough going on.rRecommended tracks: Interstate Roads, rGary Webb, The Cursed Bell, John Carpenter, Lie ThererEdit 09/12/14: The fool above was a foolish fool. |
| Nicki Minaj Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded | 1.5 |
| Nim Perfect Chicken | 3.5 |
| Oceansize Frames | 3.0 |
| Olafur Arnalds Eulogy for Evolution | 3.5 |
| On The Might of Princes Sirens | 2.5 |
| 'Where you are and where you want to be' was superb. It was soothing yet agressive. Emo at its best. This one however is a post-hardcore album that would be very good if I only had not experienced the first album. |
| On The Might of Princes Where You Are and Where You Want to Be | 4.5 |
| Orchid Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow! + Chaos Is Me | 3.0 |
| Outsmarting Simon Silent, Sober and Sound | 4.0 |
| Owen At Home With Owen | 4.0 |
| Park No Signal | 4.0 |
| Park It Won't Snow Where You're Going | 4.5 |
| Patron Saint of Bridge Burners Sorry. | 3.5 |
| Pedro the Lion Control | 3.5 |
| Penfold Our First Taste of Escape | 4.0 |
| Penfold Amateurs and Professionals | 4.5 |
| Peter Broderick Float | 3.5 |
| pg.99 Document #8 | 3.5 |
| Pixies Doolittle | 3.0 |
| Doesn't quite click for me, maybe it'll grow. Sorry Trebor. |
| Placebo Battle for the Sun | 2.5 |
| Placebo Meds | 3.5 |
| Placebo Sleeping with Ghosts | 4.0 |
| Placebo Black Market Music | 4.0 |
| Placebo Placebo | 4.0 |
| Placebo Without You I'm Nothing | 5.0 |
| Pohgoh All Along | 3.0 |
| Polyenso One Big Particular Loop | 2.5 |
| Pompeii Assembly | 3.5 |
| Pop Unknown If Arsenic Fails, Try Algebra | 3.5 |
| Posture and The Grizzly Christians and Freemasons Will Kill Me | 3.5 |
| PS I Love You EP | 3.0 |
| Pygmy Lush Old Friends | 3.5 |
| Pygmy Lush Mount Hope | 4.0 |
| Raein Il n'y a pas de orchestre | 3.5 |
| Rainer Maria Look Now Look Again | 4.0 |
| Rammstein Reise, Reise | 3.5 |
| Red House Painters Songs for a Blue Guitar | 3.0 |
| Red Nightfall Red Nightfall | 3.0 |
| Reno Kid Sun You've Got To Hurry | 3.0 |
| Rihanna Unapologetic | 2.0 |
| Rika How to Draw a River, Step by Step | 3.5 |
| Rinoa An Age Among Them | 3.5 |
| Ryan Adams Heartbreaker | 4.0 |
| Savoy Grand Dirty Pillows | 3.5 |
| Say Hi Impeccable Blahs | 4.0 |
| Seigmen Total | 2.5 |
| Shape of Despair Angels of Distress | 2.5 |
| Ship Thieves Chris Wollard and the Ship Thieves | 3.5 |
| Silent Land Time Machine &Hope Still | 3.0 |
| Sky's The Limit Sky's The Limit | 3.5 |
| Sleeping at Last Ghosts | 2.5 |
| Slowblow Slowblow | 4.0 |
| Slowdive Souvlaki | 3.0 |
| Songs: Ohia The Lioness | 3.5 |
| Spitalfield Remember Right Now | 3.5 |
| Stars Heart | 3.5 |
| Stooma Against the World | 1.0 |
| Straylight Run Straylight Run | 3.0 |
| Suffocate For Fuck Sake Blazing Fires and Helicopters... | 4.5 |
| Sunday's Best Where You Are Now | 3.0 |
| Taken And They Slept | 3.5 |
| Taylor Swift Fearless | 3.0 |
| Texas Is the Reason Do You Know Who You Are? | 4.5 |
| Thalia Zedek Been Here And Gone | 4.0 |
| The Angelic Process Weighing Souls With Sand | 3.5 |
| The Antlers In the Attic of the Universe | 3.0 |
| The Antlers Uprooted | 3.5 |
| The Appleseed Cast Two Conversations | 4.0 |
| The Appleseed Cast Low Level Owl: Volumes I + II | 4.0 |
| The Ascent of Everest How Lonely Sits the City | 3.5 |
| The Beautiful Mistake Light a Match, for I Deserve To Burn | 3.5 |
| The Books Lost And Safe | 2.5 |
| The Burning Paris Half-Truths & Indiscretions: The Anthology | 3.0 |
| The Dangerous Summer Reach for the Sun | 3.0 |
| The December Drive Arrivals/Departures | 3.5 |
| The December Drive Handslikegunsandcrashingsounds | 4.0 |
| The Elijah I Loved I Hated I Destroyed I Created | 2.5 |
| The Evpatoria Report Golevka | 3.5 |
| The Fakes I Know You Are Smiling Because You Are Asleep | 4.0 |
| The Get Up Kids Something to Write Home About | 3.0 |
| The Gloria Record Start Here | 4.0 |
| The Gloria Record The Gloria Record EP | 4.0 |
| The Innocence Mission The birds of My Neighborhood | 3.5 |
| The Ivoryton Piano Factory Permagrin: The Music of Justin Veatch | 3.0 |
| The Jim Yoshii Pile-Up Picks Us Apart | 3.0 |
| The Jim Yoshii Pile-Up It's Winter Here | 4.0 |
| The Jim Yoshii Pile-Up Homemade Drugs | 4.5 |
| A knee in the gut, a boot in the eye. If this is compulsion I'm changing my mind. |
| The Man I Fell In Love With Dis Yourself | 2.5 |
| The New Amsterdams Never You Mind | 3.5 |
| The Newfound Interest in Connecticut Tell Me About the Long Dark Path Home | 3.5 |
| The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds | 3.5 |
| The Pine Don't Need Regret | 3.5 |
| The Pirate Ship Quintet The Pirate Ship Quintet EP | 4.0 |
| The Pirate Ship Quintet Rope for No-Hopers | 4.5 |
| The Player Piano Satellite | 4.0 |
| The Promise Ring Nothing Feels Good | 3.0 |
| The Red Racer No One Can Hurt You | 3.0 |
| The Secret Stars Geneologies | 3.0 |
| The Six Parts Seven Lost Notes From Forgotten Songs | 3.0 |
| The Six Parts Seven Things Shaped In Passing | 3.5 |
| The Six Parts Seven Everywhere And Right Here | 4.0 |
| The Smith Street Band Throw Me in the River | 4.0 |
| The Sons Of Saturn You'll Never Want To Do Anything Else Ever Again | 3.5 |
| The Van Pelt Sultans of Sentiment | 3.0 |
| The Weakerthans Left and Leaving | 4.0 |
| The Windup Bird The Wind-Up Bird | 4.0 |
| The Windup Bird Whips | 4.5 |
| Both of TWUB's fulll-lengths are a litany about life and death, connection and loss. With the latter ones always winning out. Shimmering bits of eternal hope only caress the dark void which keeps it locked in. As the paries get tested by radiance it's hard not to let a tear flow. For we know it is in vain but can't object. It is a sight to behold, proof that the course of the journey is worthwile, even when decay always wins out eventually. |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Between Bodies | 3.5 |
| The Wrens The Meadowlands | 4.5 |
| There Will Be Fireworks There Will Be Fireworks | 2.5 |
| There Will Be Fireworks The Dark, Dark Bright | 3.5 |
| This Day Forward The Transient Effects of Light on Water | 2.5 |
| Needed to force myself to keep listening until the album was finished. |
| Time Spent Driving Just Enough Bright | 3.0 |
| Tom Odell Long Way Down | 2.0 |
| Twothirtyeight Regulate the Chemicals | 3.0 |
| Uncle Tupelo March 16 to 20, 1992 | 3.5 |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety | 4.0 |
| Underoath Define the Great Line | 4.0 |
| Vulture Culture Cassette EP | 2.0 |
| I hate this now. Don't know why I liked it in the first place. Vocals are forced and very very whiney. |
| We All Inherit the Moon When We Finally Fall Asleep | 3.0 |
| Wheat Hope and Adams | 4.0 |
| William Fitzsimmons Goodnight | 2.5 |
| woodworkings we sit on floors we stand on chairs | 3.5 |
| Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss | 4.5 |
| Yo La Tengo And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside... | 3.0 |
| your ten mofo Things Change While Helium Listen to Everyone | 3.5 |
| Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson Unnoticeable In A Tiny Town, Invisible In The City | 4.0 |
| Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson | 4.0 |
