| 120 Days 120 Days II | 3.5 |
| 2 Many DJs As Heard On Radio Soulwax, Part 2 | 4.0 |
| 74milesaway 74 Miles Away | 3.5 |
| 74milesaway Gear Change | 4.0 |
| A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory | 4.5 |
| A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders | 4.0 |
| A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide | 4.0 |
| A Wilhelm Scream Ruiner | 4.0 |
| Abel (NY) Make It Right | 2.5 |
| AC/DC Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap | 3.0 |
| AC/DC High Voltage | 3.0 |
| AC/DC Back In Black | 4.0 |
| AC/DC Highway To Hell | 4.0 |
| AC/DC Let There Be Rock | 3.0 |
| Actress R.I.P | 4.0 |
| Actress Splazsh | 4.0 |
| Actress Ghettoville | 4.0 |
| Actress Grey Over Blue | 4.0 |
| Air Le Voyage Dans La Lune | 3.5 |
| Airhead For Years | 2.5 |
| AJJ Knife Man | 4.5 |
| AJJ People Who Can Eat People are the Luckiest People | 4.5 |
| AJJ Can't Maintain | 4.0 |
| Akkord Akkord | 3.5 |
| Alabama Shakes Boys & Girls | 3.0 |
| Allah-Las Worship The Sun | 4.0 |
| Allah-Las Allah-Las | 4.0 |
| alt-J An Awesome Wave | 4.0 |
| Amatorski TBC | 4.5 |
| Probably the most beautiful and fragile sounding record of the year. From the Portishead-like "Soldier" to the dreary soundscapes of "8 November" and "The Cheapest Soundtrack", the album is a musical trip that doesn't last a second too long. Like Bon Iver's "For Emma", this album is best consumed during a rainy afternoon, while enjoying the gentle warmth coming from the fireplace. |
| Amatorski Same Stars We Shared | 4.0 |
| Amatorski RE:TBC | 2.0 |
| If there's anything Amatorski shouldn't have released, it's a fucking remix album with club tracks. |
| Amatorski From Clay To Figures | 4.0 |
| American Football American Football | 3.5 |
| Amon Tobin Permutation | 5.0 |
| Amon Tobin Bricolage | 5.0 |
| Amon Tobin ISAM | 4.0 |
| Amon Tobin Foley Room | 4.5 |
| Amon Tobin Supermodified | 4.5 |
| Amon Tobin Out From Out Where | 4.0 |
| Amon Tobin Amon Tobin | 4.5 |
| Lol, a 2 |
| Amon Tobin Taxidermia | 4.0 |
| Amon Tobin Chaos Theory - Splinter Cell 3 Soundtrack | 4.0 |
| Amy Winehouse Back to Black | 3.0 |
| Analogue Monsta Boom | 3.0 |
| Andy Stott Merciless | 3.5 |
| Andy Stott Luxury Problems | 4.5 |
| Andy Stott Faith in Strangers | 4.5 |
| Anoice The Black Rain | 4.0 |
| Answer Code Request Code | 4.0 |
| Anthony Green Beautiful Things | 2.5 |
| Anti-Flag The General Strike | 2.5 |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II | 2.5 |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album | 3.5 |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 4.0 |
| Aphex Twin Windowlicker | 4.0 |
| Aphrodite Break In Reality | 3.0 |
| Aphrodite Aftershock | 3.5 |
| Apparat The Devil's Walk | 3.5 |
| Apparat Walls | 4.0 |
| Apparat Duplex | 4.0 |
| Appleblim and Peverelist Soundboy's Ashes Get Hacked Up.... | 4.0 |
| Appleblim and Shackleton Soundboy's Gravestone Gets Desecrated By Vandals | 3.5 |
| Appleblim and Shackleton Soundboy Punishments | 5.0 |
| Arandel In D | 3.5 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 5.0 |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible | 4.5 |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs | 5.0 |
| Arcade Fire Reflektor | 4.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys AM | 4.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not | 5.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare | 4.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys Humbug | 4.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys Suck It and See | 4.5 |
| Armand Van Helden Ghettoblaster | 3.0 |
| Straight-up club bangers and radio friendly tunes make up this album. It's absolutely nothing groundbreaking, but hear 'Touch Your Toes', 'I Want Your Soul' or 'Je t'Aime' and try not to move, shake along or nod your head to the beat. C'mon, I dare you. |
| Asa Sweeter Things | 3.5 |
| ASC The Astral Traveller | 4.0 |
| ASC Nothing Is Certain | 4.5 |
| ASC Imagine The Future | 4.0 |
| Ash Meltdown | 4.0 |
| Ash Free All Angels | 3.5 |
| Ash 1977 | 3.0 |
| At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out | 4.0 |
| Autechre Exai | 4.5 |
| Autechre Tri Repetae | 5.0 |
| Autechre Confield | 5.0 |
| Autechre Amber | 4.0 |
| Autechre Incunabula | 4.0 |
| Autechre Gantz Graf | 4.0 |
| Autechre Oversteps | 3.5 |
| Autechre Quaristice | 3.5 |
| Autechre Draft 7.30 | 3.5 |
| Autechre Untilted | 4.0 |
| Author Author | 4.0 |
| Author Forward Forever | 3.5 |
| Autopilot Off Make A Sound | 3.5 |
| Bad Religion True North | 3.0 |
| BADBADNOTGOOD BBNG2 | 4.0 |
| BADBADNOTGOOD III | 4.0 |
| Balam Acab Wander/Wonder | 3.5 |
| Balthazar (BE) Applause | 4.0 |
| Balthazar (BE) Rats | 4.0 |
| bansheebeat Spiral Power | 4.0 |
| bansheebeat Galactics | 3.5 |
| bansheebeat Wutai | 3.5 |
| Barenaked Ladies Barenaked Ladies Are Men | 3.0 |
| Barenaked Ladies Barenaked Ladies Are Me | 3.0 |
| Barenaked Ladies disc one: All Their Greatest Hits | 3.5 |
| Basement Jaxx The Singles | 4.0 |
| Basic Channel BCD-2 | 4.5 |
| BATS The Sleep of Reason | 3.5 |
| Battles Gloss Drop | 4.0 |
| Battles Mirrored | 3.5 |
| Beach House Bloom | 2.5 |
| Beefcake Drei | 4.0 |
| Beefcake Coincidentia Oppositorum | 4.0 |
| Beirut The Flying Club Cup | 3.5 |
| Beirut The Rip Tide | 3.5 |
| Believo! Hard To Find | 3.5 |
| The Belgian Cloud Nothings. A wonderful little half hour of listening joy. |
| Ben Frost A U R O R A | 4.5 |
| Ben Klock One | 4.0 |
| Beneath Illusions | 4.0 |
| Beneath Duty/Texers | 4.0 |
| Benga Diary Of An Afro Warrior | 3.5 |
| Benga Crunked Up | 3.5 |
| Benga and Coki Night | 4.0 |
| Bersarin Quartett II | 3.5 |
| Bersarin Quartett Bersarin Quartett | 3.5 |
| Beth Ditto EP | 2.5 |
| Bibio Mind Bokeh | 3.5 |
| Bibio Ambivalence Avenue | 3.5 |
| Bibio Silver Wilkinson | 3.5 |
| Big Black Songs About Fucking | 4.0 |
| Big Black Atomizer | 4.0 |
| Black Box Revelation My Perception | 2.5 |
| Black Box Revelation Set Your Head On Fire | 4.0 |
| Jan Paternoster and Dries Van Dijck form The Black Box Revelation, a 2 piece consisting of guitar, vocals and drums. By the example of The White Stripes and The Black Keys, they play steaming blues rock with the uptempo, somewhat harder songs ('I Think I Like It', 'Love Is On My Mind', 'Set Your Head On Fire') alternating the more mellow and poppy songs (the brilliant 'Never Alone, Always Together'). Terrific as a live act, but on the album there are some experimental missteps ('Misery Box') that bring the whole down. Nevertheless, this is a more than solid debut from these youthful characters. |
| Black Box Revelation Silver Threats | 4.0 |
| The follow up to Set Your Head On Fire. On this second album, The Black Box Revelation refines their sound, but the formula for succes stays the same: hard rockers ('High On A Wire', 'Better Get In Touch With The Devil', 'Run Wild',...) and sweet ballads ('Sleep While Moving' and 'Our Town Has Changed For Years Now') are the name of the game here. Rough around the edges, but the subtle progress in song structure and sound promises that we can expect a lot more to come from these lads. |
| Black Box Revelation Shiver Of Joy | 3.0 |
| This EP is the first American release for The Black Box Revelation. It contains six tracks, but only the first and the last one are worth your time, as the rest of the songs can be found on their European albums. Nevertheless, the EP is a solid introduction to the band and the title track gives high hopes for their upcoming third album, scheduled for release on October 3. |
| Black Flag Damaged | 4.0 |
| Black Flag My War | 4.0 |
| Black Flag The First Four Years | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid | 4.0 |
| Blawan His He She And She | 3.5 |
| Blawan doing what Blawan does best. And I'm loving it. |
| Blawan Peaches | 4.0 |
| Blawan Bohla | 4.0 |
| blink-182 Neighborhoods | 2.5 |
| blink-182 Blink-182 | 4.0 |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket | 4.0 |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State | 3.5 |
| Bloc Party A Weekend in the City | 4.5 |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm | 5.0 |
| Bloc Party Intimacy | 5.0 |
| Bloc Party Intimacy Remixed | 2.5 |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm Remixed | 3.0 |
| Bloc Party Four | 2.5 |
| Never before have I been so dissapointed in an album. |
| Blockhead Music By Cavelight | 4.0 |
| Blondie Parallel Lines | 3.5 |
| Blood Orange Cupid Deluxe | 3.5 |
| Blood Red Shoes Fire Like This | 3.0 |
| Blood Red Shoes Box Of Secrets | 3.5 |
| Blood Red Shoes In Time To Voices | 2.0 |
| Bloodhound Gang Hefty Fine | 2.5 |
| Blur The Best Of | 3.5 |
| Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest | 3.5 |
| Bob Dylan The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan | 4.0 |
| Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home | 4.5 |
| Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited | 4.0 |
| Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde | 4.0 |
| Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks | 4.0 |
| Bob Dylan Desire | 4.0 |
| Bob Dylan The Times They Are A-Changin' | 3.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Album Minus Band | 4.0 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Scrambles | 4.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Vacation | 5.0 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Adults!!!: Smart!!! Shithammered!!! And Excited By Nothing!!!!!!! | 4.0 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Get Warmer | 4.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Goodbye Cool World! | 4.0 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! To Leave or Die in Long Island | 3.5 |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 4.5 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 5.0 |
| Wow. Just wow. The first time I heard this, it ripped my heart straight out of my chest. And it keeps doing it every time I let it out for another spin. For Emma, Forever Ago (even the title makes me want to cry because of its beauty) is possibly the most intimate and fragile piece of work ever recorded. Let it overwhelm you, because it's really worth it. |
| Bonobo Black Sands | 4.0 |
| Bonobo Days To Come | 3.5 |
| Bonobo Dial 'M' For Monkey | 4.5 |
| Bonobo The North Borders | 4.5 |
| Bonobo Animal Magic | 4.0 |
| Booka Shade The Sun And The Neon Light | 3.5 |
| Booka Shade Movements | 4.5 |
| Booka Shade Eve | 3.0 |
| Boris PrƤparat | 4.0 |
| Boxcutter Oneiric | 4.0 |
| Boys Noize Oi Oi Oi | 4.5 |
| One of the best electronic albums of the last decade. Boys Noize creates a boiling musical atmosphere packed with electronic hooks, ferocious beats, and melodic interludes that serve as a resting point between the violent sounds. Even better, he did it using authentic analogue synthesisers instead of playing around with some computer program. Oh, and he can write a decent pop song too (his Feist remix). |
| Boys Noize Power | 3.5 |
| Evolving from the electro/trash side of the musical spectrum to a more refined, techno sound, Boys Noize's second album is not as instantly accessible as his first. He can, however, still produce a great deal of bangers ('Starter', 'Jeffer', 'Nott') that will keep the club kids happy and energetic. |
| Boys Noize Oi Oi Oi: Remixed | 3.0 |
| Boys Noize I Love Techno 2008 | 3.5 |
| Boys Noize The Remixes: 2004-2011 | 3.0 |
| Boys Noize Out Of The Black | 3.5 |
| Bran Van 3000 Discosis | 2.0 |
| Two brilliant pop tracks ('Love Cliche' and 'Astounded') cannot hide the fact that this album lacks severely in the entertainment factor. And - as it's pretending to be a pop album - that's not a very appealing quality. |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 4.0 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 4.5 |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon | 3.0 |
| Brand New Daisy | 4.5 |
| Brian Eno x Nicolas Jaar x Grizzly Bear Brian Eno x Nicolas Jaar x Grizzly Bear | 4.0 |
| BRNS Wounded | 3.5 |
| A very impressive debut with lots of imagination. Like a perfect mix between the best aspects of Battles and Alt-J, Wounded is one of more relaxing and playful albums you'll hear all year. That's not to say that BRNS' (pronounce "brains") debut is whithout its flaws - a little bit of extra attention would've done songs like "Our Lights" or "Here Dead He Lies" good - but don't let that stop you from checking out this wonderful piece of alternative pop music. |
| Broken Note Terminal Static | 2.5 |
| Bruce Springsteen Darkness on the Edge of Town | 5.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen Born to Run | 5.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen Nebraska | 4.5 |
| Bruce Springsteen We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions | 4.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen The Rising | 4.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen Devils & Dust | 3.5 |
| Bruce Springsteen Born in the U.S.A. | 4.5 |
| Bruce Springsteen The River | 4.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen The Promise | 3.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen Tunnel of Love | 3.5 |
| Bruce Springsteen The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle | 4.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen Wrecking Ball | 3.5 |
| This is a good album, but in the case of Springsteen, "Good' just doesn't cut it. |
| BT Ima | 4.0 |
| Burial Street Halo | 3.0 |
| Burial Burial | 4.0 |
| Burial Untrue | 4.5 |
| Burial Kindred | 4.0 |
| Burial Truant/Rough Sleeper | 3.5 |
| Burial Rival Dealer | 2.5 |
| Buzzcocks Singles Going Steady | 4.5 |
| C.W. Stoneking Jungle Blues | 3.5 |
| A wonderful modern take on Jazz and Blues music. Very refreshing when tired of all the beats and bombast of modern-day rock, pop or dance music. |
| Camo and Krooked Above & Beyond | 3.5 |
| Ranging from liquid funk to hard drumstep and everything in between, this debut from Austria's Camo & Krooked has everything to get the party going. They were recently signed to Hospital Records, so we can expect more earcandy from these guys pretty soon. |
| Caribou Swim | 3.5 |
| Caribou Up in Flames (as Manitoba) | 3.5 |
| Caribou Andorra | 3.0 |
| Chase and Status More Than Alot | 3.5 |
| Cheap Girls Giant Orange | 3.0 |
| Chord Marauders Groove Booty | 4.0 |
| Chris Cappello Could Be Bitter Forever | 3.5 |
| Oh Chris, where have you been all my life? |
| Christian Loffler A Forest | 3.5 |
| Chromeo Fancy Footwork | 3.0 |
| Chromeo She's In Control | 2.5 |
| Chuck Berry Chuck Berry Is on Top | 4.0 |
| Clark Iradelphic | 3.0 |
| Claro Intelecto Metanarrative | 3.5 |
| Claro Intelecto Reform Club | 3.5 |
| Claro Intelecto Warehouse Sessions | 3.0 |
| Warehouse Sessions collects ten of the best club bangers Claro Intelecto has produced to date; 'Thieves' and 'Momento' being particularly notable. However, lumped together, things start to get a bit too samey over the course of one hour of playing length. This makes these tracks much more suited for the clubs, then, than for intricate home listening sessions. |
| Classics of Love Classics of Love | 4.0 |
| Cloud Nothings Attack on Memory | 4.0 |
| Clubroot II - MMX | 4.0 |
| Clubroot III - MMXII | 4.0 |
| Clubroot Scars/Hellion | 4.0 |
| Clubroot Clubroot | 3.5 |
| Cobblestone Jazz 23 Seconds | 4.0 |
| Cobblestone Jazz The Modern Deep Left Quartet | 3.5 |
| Conforce Kinetic Image | 4.0 |
| Consequence (NZ) Test Dream | 3.5 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 4.0 |
| Converge You Fail Me | 4.5 |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind | 3.5 |
| Cosmin TRG Gordian | 3.5 |
| Courtney Barnett sometimes i sit and think, and sometimes i just sit | 3.5 |
| Craig Finn Clear Heart Full Eyes | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna Salvation | 3.5 |
| Cursive I Am Gemini | 3.0 |
| Dada Life Just Do The Dada | 2.0 |
| Daft Punk Human After All | 3.0 |
| Daft Punk Discovery | 3.5 |
| Daft Punk Homework | 4.5 |
| Daft Punk Alive 2007 | 4.0 |
| Daft Punk Alive 1997 | 4.0 |
| Daft Punk Tron: Legacy | 2.5 |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories | 2.5 |
| Daftside Random Access Memories Memories | 4.0 |
| Daniel Avery Drone Logic | 4.0 |
| Danny Byrd Supersized | 3.5 |
| Danny Byrd Rave Digger | 3.5 |
| Daphni Jiaolong | 4.0 |
| Darkside Darkside | 4.0 |
| Darkside Psychic | 4.0 |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars | 4.5 |
| David Bowie Station to Station | 4.5 |
| David Bowie The Next Day | 3.0 |
| Dawn of Midi Dysnomia | 4.0 |
| Dday One Heavy Migration | 3.5 |
| De La Soul 3 Feet High and Rising | 3.5 |
| Dead Boys Young Loud and Snotty | 4.0 |
| Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables | 3.5 |
| Dead Kennedys Plastic Surgery Disasters | 2.5 |
| Dead Kennedys Frankenchrist | 2.5 |
| Dead Kennedys Bedtime for Democracy | 2.5 |
| Deadbeat Eight | 3.5 |
| Deadbeat Drawn and Quartered | 4.0 |
| Deadmau5 Get Scraped | 2.5 |
| Deadmau5 4x4=12 | 3.0 |
| Deadmau5 Random Album Title | 4.5 |
| Deadmau5 For Lack of a Better Name | 4.0 |
| Deadmau5 >album title goes here< | 1.0 |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 4.0 |
| Demdike Stare Elemental | 3.0 |
| Depth Connection Different Waves | 4.0 |
| Descendents Milo Goes to College | 4.0 |
| Destroyer Kaputt | 3.5 |
| dEUS Worst Case Scenario | 4.0 |
| dEUS Vantage Point | 4.5 |
| The fifth dEUS album is nothing more than a masterpiece. By focusing their sound, there is apparently no crazy mixing of different genres anymore. However, the arrangements of songs like 'Favourite Game', 'Slow' or 'When She Comes Down' are on par with the magic of The National - to take an almost universally loved band as an example. The record will not take you by storm on first listen; but after each consecutive listen, it's the little details that keep popping up (the voice of Karin Dreijer!) that will get you addicted. Just try it! |
| dEUS Pocket Revolution | 4.5 |
| dEUS The Ideal Crash | 4.5 |
| dEUS In a Bar, Under the Sea | 5.0 |
| dEUS My Sister = My Clock | 3.5 |
| dEUS Following Sea | 4.0 |
| dEUS No More Loud Music | 4.5 |
| This compilation contains all the early 90's singles from Belgian superstars dEUS. From the chaotic rock of "Suds 'n Soda" and "Via", over the experimental In a Bar, Under the Sea singles, to arguably the most beautiful ballad ever written ("Nothing Really Ends"), No More Loud Music gives a chronological overview of dEUS' early career and it serves as a superb starting point for anyone interested in the band. |
| dEUS Keep You Close | 4.5 |
| Looks like they've done it again: Keep You Close, dEUS' 6th, is a magnificent album (it could very well be called a true masterpiece), and one that should be heard by as many people as possible. Perhaps the best alternative rock album to have come out in 2011, it's also another highlight for a 20 year old band of experienced professionals, who keep coming up with absolutely splendid material. 36 listens in and it keeps getting better and better. |
| Diagrams Black Light | 2.5 |
| Diamond Rugs Diamond Rugs | 3.5 |
| Digital Mystikz Haunted/Anti War Dub | 4.5 |
| Digital Mystikz Return II Space | 4.0 |
| Digital Mystikz Urban Ethics | 3.5 |
| Digital Mystikz 2 Much Chat/Coral Reef | 3.5 |
| On the A-side, you get one of Mala's eeriest dubplates - that horn sample! - which is already reason enough to get this. As a bonus, Coki isn't flat out horrible this time around too. After a couple of disappointing releases, DMZ is back on track! |
| Digitalism Idealism | 3.5 |
| Coming from Berlin, the modern capital of techno music, and owing a great deal to Daft Punk, obviously Digitalism has the right background to make a smashing club album. But instead of creating some shallow bangers (I'm looking at you, Justice), they produce an album with actual SONGS on it, albeit songs that are extremely danceable. This lifts Digitalism from their contemporaries, as you can enjoy this album equally while listening to it on the dancefloor or in your living room. |
| Dirty Projectors Swing Lo Magellan | 3.0 |
| Disclosure The Face | 3.5 |
| Disclosure Tenderly/Flow | 3.5 |
| Disclosure Settle | 4.0 |
| Yeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh!!!! |
| Distance My Demons | 4.0 |
| Distance Replicant | 4.5 |
| DJ Food The Search Engine | 3.5 |
| DJ Sprinkles Where Dancefloors Stand Still | 4.0 |
| Gorgeous tracklist. |
| Does It Offend You, Yeah? You Have No Idea... | 4.0 |
| Dr. Quandary Wayfarers | 3.5 |
| Ducktails The Flower Lane | 3.0 |
| E.M.M.A. Blue Gardens | 4.0 |
| Eagles Of Death Metal Heart On | 3.0 |
| Eagles Of Death Metal Death By Sexy | 3.5 |
| Eagles Of Death Metal Peace Love Death Metal | 3.0 |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Heaven Up Here | 3.5 |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Porcupine | 3.5 |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Ocean Rain | 3.5 |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Echo and The Bunnymen | 3.5 |
| Efterklang Piramida | 3.5 |
| Eleven Tigers 111 | 3.0 |
| Emancipator Dusk to Dawn | 4.0 |
| Emancipator Soon It Will Be Cold Enough | 3.5 |
| Emika Emika | 3.5 |
| Emika DVA | 2.5 |
| Eminem The Eminem Show | 3.5 |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP | 4.0 |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP | 3.0 |
| Eminem Encore | 2.5 |
| Eminem Relapse | 1.5 |
| Emptyset Material | 3.0 |
| Enter Shikari A Flash Flood of Colour | 1.0 |
| EPROM Metahuman | 3.5 |
| Evol Intent Era of Diversion | 3.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone | 3.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take Care | 4.0 |
| Factory Floor Factory Floor | 3.5 |
| Faith/Void Split | 4.0 |
| Fake Blood Fix Your Accent | 4.0 |
| Fake Blood Cells | 4.0 |
| Dance record of the year!!! |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree | 3.5 |
| Fall Out Boy Take This to Your Grave | 3.0 |
| Fall Out Boy Infinity on High | 3.5 |
| Fatboy Slim You've Come a Long Way, Baby | 4.0 |
| Fatboy Slim Better Living Through Chemistry | 3.5 |
| FIDLAR FIDLAR | 3.0 |
| Field Music Plumb | 3.5 |
| FIS Preparations | 3.5 |
| Flying Horseman City Same City | 3.5 |
| Flying Horseman Rooms/Ruins | 4.0 |
| Flying Lotus Los Angeles | 4.5 |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma | 3.0 |
| Flying Lotus Until the Quiet Comes | 4.0 |
| Foals Holy Fire | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace | 2.5 |
| Foo Fighters In Your Honor | 3.5 |
| Forest Swords Engravings | 4.0 |
| Fuck me this is too good. Dagger Paths had promise but this is killing that EP a thousand times over. Stunning album. |
| Four Tet Pink | 3.5 |
| This is pure dancefloor gold! But the fact that the album is practically a couple of single releases lumped together marks it a bit down. |
| Four Tet 0181 | 3.5 |
| Four Tet There is Love in You | 4.0 |
| Four Tet Rounds | 4.0 |
| Four Tet Beautiful Rewind | 3.0 |
| Foxy Shazam The Church of Rock and Roll | 4.0 |
| Frank Turner England Keep My Bones | 4.0 |
| Frank Turner Love, Ire & Song | 4.0 |
| Frank Turner Tape Deck Heart | 3.5 |
| Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand | 4.5 |
| Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better | 4.5 |
| Franz Ferdinand Tonight: Franz Ferdinand | 3.5 |
| Franz Ferdinand Blood | 3.0 |
| Probably more suited as background music than for actual attentive listening, but none of the tracks are bad. Each dub has a nice take on the original from Tonight and depending on your mood, you may feel that some reworkings here are actually the better versions of the songs. |
| Franz Ferdinand Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action | 3.5 |
| They're back baby!!! |
| Frightened Rabbit Pedestrian Verse | 3.5 |
| Frozen Border Minutes In Ice | 4.5 |
| Fucked Up The Chemistry of Common Life | 4.0 |
| Fucked Up David Comes to Life | 5.0 |
| Fucked Up Hidden World | 4.5 |
| Fucked Up Epics in Minutes | 4.0 |
| Fucked Up David's Town | 3.0 |
| Fucked Up Year of the Tiger | 3.5 |
| Fugazi The Argument | 4.5 |
| Fugazi Red Medicine | 4.5 |
| Fugazi Fugazi | 4.0 |
| Fugazi 13 Songs | 4.0 |
| Fugazi Repeater | 4.5 |
| Fugazi End Hits | 4.5 |
| Fugazi In on the Kill Taker | 4.0 |
| fun. Some Nights | 3.0 |
| Future of the Left The Plot Against Common Sense | 3.5 |
| Fuzz Fuzz | 3.5 |
| Galerie Stratique Horizzzons | 3.5 |
| Gallows (UK) Grey Britain | 3.5 |
| Gallows (UK) Orchestra Of Wolves | 3.0 |
| Gallows (UK) Gallows | 3.5 |
| Ganja White Night Mystic Herbalist | 3.0 |
| Geike For The Beauty Of Confusion | 3.0 |
| Ghost Mice All We Got Is Each Other | 3.5 |
| Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere | 3.5 |
| Goat World Music | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! | 3.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor FāÆ AāÆ ā | 4.5 |
| Gold Panda Half of Where You Live | 4.0 |
| Golden Axe Liquid Bacon | 3.5 |
| Extremely catchy and energetic synthpop. It's like Suicide, but then without all the despair. Download for free here: http://goldenaxe.bandcamp.com/ |
| Goldie Timeless | 4.0 |
| Gonjasufi MU.ZZ.LE | 3.5 |
| Gonjasufi A Sufi and a Killer | 3.5 |
| Goose (BEL) Bring It On | 3.5 |
| A rock group who decides to turn their attention to electronica, where have we heard that before? But the result is an at times wonderful nu-rave (Goose would hate this term) album. Tracks like 'Black Gloves', 'British Mode', 'Check' and especially the title track should tear a filled dancefloor apart. Insanely catchy also. |
| Goose (BEL) Synrise | 2.5 |
| Gorilla Biscuits Start Today | 3.5 |
| Gorillaz Plastic Beach | 4.0 |
| Gorillaz Demon Days | 4.5 |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz | 3.5 |
| Gorillaz The Fall | 3.0 |
| Gossip Standing In The Way Of Control | 3.5 |
| Yes, Beth Ditto is fat! But she can sing, and how! Her voice, combined with the electro-punk music that's aggressive, groovy, funky and at times even soulful, is the recipe that makes this album an excellent one. You know, when you listen to a record in your CD-player or on your iPod, you don't actually see the artist, so it's rather ludicrous to write a singer down, just because she doesn't have a pretty face (or body). |
| Gossip Music For Men | 2.5 |
| Gozu The Fury Of A Patient Man | 2.5 |
| Grade Separate The Magnets | 4.0 |
| Graham Coxon A+E | 2.0 |
| Gramatik Street Bangerz Vol. 2 | 3.5 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 4.0 |
| Green Day Dookie | 4.0 |
| Green Day Insomniac | 3.5 |
| Green Day Nimrod | 3.5 |
| Green Day 21st Century Breakdown | 3.0 |
| Green Day Warning | 4.0 |
| Green Day iDOS! | 2.0 |
| Green Day Ā”UNO! | 2.5 |
| Grimes Visions | 3.5 |
| Grinderman Grinderman | 3.0 |
| Grouper A I A | 2.5 |
| Gui Boratto Chromophobia | 3.5 |
| Gui Boratto Take My Breath Away | 3.5 |
| Gui Boratto III | 4.0 |
| With III, Gui Boratto has released his darkest work to date and simultaneously his best. The album picks up where Trentemoller's The Last Resort left off, thereby creating one of the most interesting minimal techno albums in a long while. |
| GusGus Arabian Horse | 3.5 |
| Gwen Stefani Love. Angel. Music. Baby. | 3.0 |
| Gwen Stefani The Sweet Escape | 2.0 |
| Hadouken! Music For An Accelerated Culture | 2.5 |
| Herve Ghetto Bass | 3.5 |
| Herve drops a double party mix, one for the rave and fidget people and one for the dub minded. The first is basically a promo mix for his own tracks as Herve operates under about 20 other different aliases. They are not very distinguishable from one another however. This lack in diversity is made up for on the second disc, thankfully. All-in-all ideal party material. |
| Herve Ghetto Bass 2 | 3.5 |
| Herve Party Bombs! | 3.0 |
| Hessian Manegarmr | 3.5 |
| Hidden Orchestra Archipelago | 4.5 |
| Hidden Orchestra Night Walks | 4.0 |
| High Contrast Confidential | 4.0 |
| High Contrast Tough Guys Dont Dance | 4.0 |
| High Contrast High Society | 3.5 |
| High Contrast The Agony And The Ecstasy | 2.0 |
| What the hell happened? C'mon mr. Barrett, you can do so much better than this... |
| Hit the Lights Invicta | 2.5 |
| Holograms Holograms | 3.0 |
| Holy Esque Holy Esque | 3.5 |
| Holy Other Held | 3.5 |
| Streaming here: http://soundcloud.com/tri_angle_records/sets/holyotherheld/ |
| Holy Other With U | 3.5 |
| Hop Along Get Disowned | 4.0 |
| Hot Chip The Warning | 3.5 |
| Hot Chip One Life Stand | 3.5 |
| Hot Chip Made in the Dark | 4.0 |
| Hot Water Music Caution | 4.0 |
| Hot Water Music Fuel for the Hate Game | 3.0 |
| Hot Water Music No Division | 3.5 |
| Hot Water Music Exister | 3.5 |
| House Boat The Delaware Octopus | 3.5 |
| House Boat 21st Century Breakroom | 3.5 |
| House Boat The Thorns of Life | 3.5 |
| How to Dress Well Total Loss | 4.0 |
| Howler America Give Up | 3.5 |
| Huoratron Cryptocracy | 2.5 |
| Husker Du Zen Arcade | 4.0 |
| Husker Du New Day Rising | 4.5 |
| Husker Du Metal Circus | 4.0 |
| Iceage New Brigade | 2.0 |
| Iceage You're Nothing | 3.0 |
| Interpol Interpol | 4.0 |
| Interpol Our Love to Admire | 4.5 |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 4.5 |
| Interpol Antics | 4.5 |
| iNTRiKeT The Woods | 3.5 |
| iNTRiKeT Shut Your Eyes/Underneath | 4.0 |
| iNTRiKeT Lost | 4.0 |
| His best release to date imo. |
| Isbells Isbells | 4.0 |
| Isbells Stoalin' | 4.0 |
| ISIS Oceanic | 3.5 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 4.0 |
| Islands A Sleep and a Forgetting | 3.0 |
| Ital Tek Hyper Real | 2.5 |
| Jack White Blunderbuss | 3.5 |
| Blunderbuss doesn't provide a shockingly new direction for White, but it doesn't really have to either. Fans of his other work may pick this up blindly and newcomers will find a quasi-complete overview of his different music styles and influences. And as always, the blues is all up in this bitch. |
| Jacques Greene The Look | 4.0 |
| Jacques Greene Concealer | 3.0 |
| Jacques Greene Ready | 3.5 |
| Jacques Greene Greene 01 | 4.0 |
| Jacques Greene On Your Side | 3.5 |
| Jacuzzi Boys Glazin' | 3.0 |
| Jafu No More | 4.0 |
| Jafu Box Jelly | 4.0 |
| Jaga Jazzist What We Must | 2.5 |
| Jake Bugg Jake Bugg | 3.0 |
| James Blake James Blake | 3.0 |
| This is a rather enjoyable debut, but Blakes' voice doesn't have the emotional impact of a Justin Vernon or Nebraska-era Springsteen (my 2 favorite singer-songwriters) and the beats miss the warmth of the compositions of a Four Tet. In fact, the album comes off as rather cold and emotionless and it's this that keeps me from really embracing it. |
| James Blake Enough Thunder | 2.5 |
| James Blake Overgrown | 3.0 |
| James Holden The Inheritors | 3.5 |
| Japandroids Post-Nothing | 3.5 |
| Japandroids Celebration Rock | 4.0 |
| Jawbreaker Unfun | 4.5 |
| Jeff Buckley Grace | 4.0 |
| Jessie Ware Devotion | 3.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Futures | 4.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Bleed American | 3.0 |
| Joe Henry Reverie | 3.0 |
| Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros Streetcore | 5.0 |
| Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros Rock Art And The X-Ray Style | 4.0 |
| Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros Global A Go-Go | 4.0 |
| John K. Samson Provincial | 3.5 |
| John Talabot Fin | 4.0 |
| Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison | 4.5 |
| Jon Hopkins Immunity | 4.0 |
| Joris Voorn Future History | 4.0 |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures | 4.5 |
| Joy Orbison Hyph Mngo/Wet Look | 4.0 |
| Joyce Manor Joyce Manor | 3.0 |
| Joyce Manor Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired | 3.0 |
| Justice Audio, Video, Disco | 1.5 |
| God, when will this 80's revival stuff stop? Newsflash: it never spawned a good album! |
| Justice ā | 3.0 |
| Justice A Cross the Universe | 3.5 |
| Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds | 2.5 |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience | 4.0 |
| Kahn Kahn | 3.5 |
| Kaiju Unity Dub/Rudebwoi | 4.5 |
| If you still had any doubt that J Kenzo's Lion Charge Records is THE best new label for dubstep nowadays, then prepare to have those doubts washed away. Kaiju's latest EP has both the best tunes on the label so far and contains some of the most exciting dubstep tracks of the decade yet. Huuuuge release. |
| Kaiser Chiefs Employment | 3.0 |
| Kaiser Chiefs Yours Truly, Angry Mob | 3.5 |
| Kaiser Chiefs Off With Their Heads | 2.5 |
| Kaiser Chiefs The Future is Medieval | 1.0 |
| After Off With Their Heads, I thought the Chiefs couldn't sink any lower, but they've proven me wrong. 20 songs you can choose from, but none is even slightly entertaining or mildly creative in any way. One simple advice: AVOID! |
| Kamasi Washington The Epic | 4.0 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 3.5 |
| Kanye West Late Registration | 3.5 |
| Kanye West Yeezus | 2.0 |
| Kapitan Korsakov Stuff and Such | 3.5 |
| Karenn Sheworks001 | 4.0 |
| Karenn Sheworks004 | 4.0 |
| Kashiwa Daisuke 88 | 4.0 |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I | 4.5 |
| Kele The Boxer | 1.5 |
| Keysound Recordings This Is How We Roll | 4.0 |
| Remember that LHF monolith of last year? Yeah, well then good news for you: this is the successor, and it gives Keepers Of The Light a serious run for its money. Dubstep compilation of the year, hands down. |
| King Krule King Krule | 3.5 |
| King Krule 6 Feet Beneath the Moon | 3.5 |
| King Tuff King Tuff | 3.5 |
| Kings of Leon Because Of The Times | 3.5 |
| Kings of Leon Only By The Night | 2.5 |
| Kings of Leon Aha Shake Heartbreak | 3.0 |
| Klaxons Myths of the Near Future | 4.0 |
| Koreless 4D / MTI | 3.5 |
| Kraftwerk The Man-Machine | 4.0 |
| Kraftwerk Trans-Europe Express | 3.5 |
| Kraftwerk Radio-Activity | 3.0 |
| Kraftwerk Autobahn | 3.5 |
| Kraftwerk Tour De France Soundtracks | 3.0 |
| Kraftwerk Computer World | 3.0 |
| Kraftwerk Electric Cafe | 3.0 |
| Kromestar My Sound | 3.5 |
| Kryptic Minds One of Us | 3.5 |
| Kryptic Minds Can't Sleep | 4.0 |
| Kryptic Minds Namaste | 4.0 |
| Kubrick's Cube Odissey | 2.5 |
| Kurt Vile Wakin on a Pretty Daze | 4.5 |
| Kurt Vile Childish Prodigy | 4.0 |
| Kurt Vile Smoke Ring For My Halo | 4.0 |
| Kurt Vile b'lieve i'm goin' down... | 3.5 |
| L'Orange The Mad Writer | 4.0 |
| Rad production, love me some jazzy hip-hop. |
| L'Orange Old Soul | 3.5 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame | 2.5 |
| Lady Linn and her Magnificent Seven Here We Go Again | 3.5 |
| Lady Linn and her Magnificent Seven No Goodbye At All | 3.5 |
| Lakker Tundra | 4.5 |
| Lana Del Rey Born to Die | 2.0 |
| Lanterns on the Lake The Starlight | 3.0 |
| Lapalux Nostalchic | 3.0 |
| Last Dinosaurs In A Million Years | 3.0 |
| Latterman No Matter Where We Go...! | 4.0 |
| Latterman Turn Up The Punk, We'll Be Singing | 3.5 |
| Laura Marling A Creature I Don't Know | 4.0 |
| Laura Marling Once I Was an Eagle | 4.0 |
| Laura Marling Short Movie | 4.0 |
| Laura Stevenson Sit Resist | 4.0 |
| Laura Stevenson Wheel | 4.0 |
| Laurel Halo Chance of Rain | 3.5 |
| LCD Soundsystem The Long Goodbye | 4.5 |
| LCD Soundsystem 45:33 | 4.0 |
| LCD Soundsystem LCD Soundsystem | 4.5 |
| LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening | 3.5 |
| LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Mothership | 4.0 |
| Leftfield Leftism | 4.5 |
| Leftfield Rhythm And Stealth | 4.0 |
| LHF Keepers Of The Light | 4.5 |
| LHF For The Thrown | 4.0 |
| Liars WIXIW | 4.0 |
| Lights Siberia | 3.5 |
| Lindstrom and Christabelle Real Life Is No Cool | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 2.5 |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 2.5 |
| Liquid Stranger The Arcane Terrain | 2.5 |
| Liquid Stranger Cryogenic Encounters | 3.5 |
| Lisa Hannigan Passenger | 3.0 |
| Livity Sound Livity Sound | 4.0 |
| Local Natives Hummingbird | 3.0 |
| Locked Groove Heritage | 3.5 |
| Logos Cold Mission | 3.5 |
| London Elektricity Yikes! | 3.5 |
| London Elektricity Syncopated City | 4.0 |
| Probably the best album that Hospital Records has released so far (and that's saying a lot). The great thing about Tony Colman is that he doesn't rely on the same drum pattern over and over, and that he mixes sometimes about a dozen different styles into one track. Highlights include 'Bare Religion', 'All Hell is Breaking Loose', 'Attack Ships on Fire' and the single 'Just One Second'. |
| London Elektricity Billion Dollar Gravy | 3.5 |
| Lotus Plaza Spooky Action At A Distance | 3.0 |
| Lou Reed Berlin | 4.0 |
| Love American Disquiet | 3.0 |
| Low C'Mon | 3.0 |
| Mac DeMarco 2 | 3.5 |
| Machinedrum Room(s) | 2.5 |
| Machines Don't Care Machines Don't Care | 3.5 |
| Madensuyu Stabat Mater | 3.5 |
| Madness One Step Beyond | 3.5 |
| Madteo Noi No | 3.5 |
| Major Lazer Guns Dont Kill People... Lazers Do | 2.0 |
| Mala Stand Against War | 4.5 |
| Yeah boiiii!! |
| Mala Mala In Cuba | 4.5 |
| Holy fuck, this record! |
| Manchester Orchestra Simple Math | 4.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child | 3.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing | 4.0 |
| Marcel Dettmann Dettmann | 3.5 |
| Marcel Dettmann Range | 3.5 |
| Marcel Dettmann II | 3.5 |
| Marissa Nadler July | 4.0 |
| Mark Lanegan Blues Funeral | 3.0 |
| Maroon 5 Songs About Jane | 3.5 |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine | 4.5 |
| Massive Attack Blue Lines | 3.5 |
| Massive Attack Collected | 4.0 |
| Massive Attack vs. Burial Four Walls/Paradise Circus | 2.5 |
| Matthew Dear Beams | 2.5 |
| Maybeshewill Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony | 4.0 |
| Maybeshewill I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was Gone | 3.5 |
| Memoryhouse The Slideshow Effect | 3.0 |
| Metz Metz | 3.5 |
| MGMT Oracular Spectacular | 3.0 |
| Michael Jackson Bad | 3.0 |
| Michael Jackson Thriller | 3.5 |
| Michael Jackson Off the Wall | 3.0 |
| Midnight City Records After Midnight | 4.0 |
| Miike Snow Miike Snow | 3.0 |
| Miike Snow Happy to You | 3.0 |
| Mika Life in Cartoon Motion | 3.0 |
| Millionaire Paradisiac | 3.5 |
| Minus the Bear Omni | 3.5 |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice | 4.0 |
| Minus the Bear Infinity Overhead | 4.0 |
| Minus the Bear Menos El Oso | 4.0 |
| Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates | 3.5 |
| Minutemen Double Nickels on the Dime | 3.5 |
| Misfits Static Age | 3.0 |
| Misfits Walk Among Us | 4.5 |
| Moderat Moderat | 4.0 |
| Modeselektor Monkeytown | 3.5 |
| Mogwai Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will | 3.5 |
| Monolake Ghosts | 4.5 |
| Monolake Silence | 4.0 |
| Monolake Polygon Cities | 4.5 |
| Monolake Hong Kong | 3.5 |
| Mount Eerie Clear Moon | 3.5 |
| Mount Eerie Ocean Roar | 4.0 |
| Mount Kimbie Crooks & Lovers | 3.5 |
| Mount Kimbie Cold Spring Fault Less Youth | 4.0 |
| Mr. Oizo Lambs Anger | 3.5 |
| Mr. Oizo Analog Worms Attack | 3.5 |
| Mr. Oizo Stade 2 | 4.0 |
| Muse Showbiz | 3.0 |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry | 3.5 |
| Muse Absolution | 3.5 |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 3.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine m b v | 3.5 |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade | 3.0 |
| Nada Surf The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy | 2.5 |
| Naibu Fall | 3.5 |
| Nails Abandon All Life | 3.5 |
| Nas Illmatic | 3.5 |
| Netsky Netsky | 3.0 |
| Good debut album from drum & bass prodigy Netsky. Although his dubstep experiments are a bit off and some tunes sound a bit samey, plenty d&b anthems are to be found here. Not to mention that the production value is superb. All in all a great collection of party tracks. |
| Netsky 2 | 1.5 |
| Fuck this shiiiit, maaaang!!! |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 3.0 |
| New Order Movement | 3.5 |
| New Order Power, Corruption and Lies | 3.5 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Push The Sky Away | 3.5 |
| Nicolas Jaar Space Is Only Noise | 4.5 |
| Nicolas Jaar Don't Break My Love | 3.5 |
| Night Birds The Other Side Of Darkness | 3.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 4.0 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 3.5 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Distant Worlds II | 4.0 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy X: Original Soundtrack | 4.0 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VIII: Piano Collections | 4.5 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy IX: Original Soundtrack | 4.5 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VIII: Original Soundtrack | 5.0 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VII: Original Soundtrack | 4.0 |
| NOISIA Split The Atom | 2.5 |
| Nonplus+ Records Think And Change | 3.5 |
| Nope Revision | 3.5 |
| Northstar Pollyanna | 3.0 |
| Nosaj Thing Drift | 4.0 |
| Nosaj Thing Home | 3.5 |
| Nujabes Spiritual State | 3.5 |
| Nujabes Metaphorical Music | 3.5 |
| Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? | 4.0 |
| Oasis Definitely Maybe | 4.0 |
| Oasis Time Flies | 3.5 |
| Oathbreaker Maelstrom | 4.0 |
| Oathbreaker Eros|Anteros | 4.0 |
| Objekt Flatland | 4.5 |
| Oddisee People Hear What They See | 4.0 |
| of Montreal Paralytic Stalks | 2.5 |
| OFF! First Four EPs | 3.5 |
| OFF! OFF! | 3.5 |
| Old Man Markley Down Side Up | 4.5 |
| Old Man Markley Guts N' Teeth | 4.0 |
| Omar S It Can Be Done But Only I Can Do It | 3.0 |
| Omar S Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself | 3.5 |
| oOoOO Without Your Love | 3.5 |
| Operation Ivy Energy | 4.5 |
| Orbital Orbital 2 | 4.5 |
| Orbital In Sides | 4.5 |
| Orbital Snivilisation | 4.0 |
| Orbital Orbital | 3.5 |
| Orbital Wonky | 3.5 |
| Osees Putrifiers II | 3.0 |
| OST Invisible Ink For Sketching Ghosts | 4.0 |
| Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out | 4.0 |
| Panic! at the Disco Pretty. Odd. | 2.0 |
| Pantha Du Prince This Bliss | 4.5 |
| Pantha Du Prince Black Noise | 4.0 |
| Pantha du Prince and The Bell Laboratory Elements Of Light | 3.5 |
| Elements Of Light is obviously a really good record, but it's missing the undefinable spark that his other releases had. Still very much recommended, but at the same time a small disappointment. |
| Parassela Home Alone | 4.0 |
| Pariah (UK) Safehouses | 4.0 |
| Pariah (UK) Rift | 3.0 |
| Parquet Courts Light Up Gold | 4.0 |
| Parquet Courts Sunbathing Animal | 4.0 |
| Patti Smith Horses | 4.0 |
| Paul Banks Banks | 3.0 |
| Paul Weller Sonik Kicks | 3.0 |
| Paul Weller Wake Up The Nation | 3.5 |
| Paws Misled Youth | 4.0 |
| It's distributed on a friggin' cassette! |
| Paws Cokefloat! | 4.0 |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... | 3.5 |
| Pelican Ataraxia/Taraxis | 3.5 |
| Pendulum In Silico | 2.0 |
| Pendulum Hold Your Colour | 3.5 |
| Perc Wicker And Steel | 3.5 |
| Perfume Genius Learning | 4.0 |
| Perfume Genius Put Your Back N 2 It | 4.0 |
| Perverse Equinox | 3.5 |
| Peverelist Dance Til The Police Come | 3.5 |
| Peverelist Jarvik Mindstate | 3.0 |
| Peverelist Roll With The Punches / Die BrĆ¼cke | 4.5 |
| pg.lost Key | 3.0 |
| Phaeleh Tides | 4.0 |
| Phaeleh Fallen Light | 4.5 |
| Phaeleh The Cold In You | 4.0 |
| Phaeleh Within The Emptiness | 4.0 |
| Phase (UK) Frames Of Reference | 3.5 |
| Phon.o Black Boulder | 3.5 |
| Photek Modus Operandi | 4.5 |
| Photek Form And Function | 4.0 |
| Pinch Underwater Dancehall | 3.5 |
| Don't bother with the (somewhat disappointing) first disc and skip straight to the uniformally excellent instrumentals. |
| Pinch and Shackleton Pinch and Shackleton | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 4.0 |
| Pissed Jeans Honeys | 3.5 |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa | 4.5 |
| Pixies Come On Pilgrim | 3.0 |
| Pixies Doolittle | 4.0 |
| Placebo Meds | 3.5 |
| Planas The Long Game | 2.5 |
| Plastikman Kompilation | 4.5 |
| The definition of minimalist techno. As his alter-ego Plastikman, Richie Hawtin has released some of the most jaw-dropping dance music known to man, and it really shines through in this excellent compilation album. |
| Porcelain Raft Strange Weekend | 3.0 |
| Porter Ricks Biokinetics | 4.0 |
| Portico Quartet Portico Quartet | 3.5 |
| Portico Quartet Knee Deep in the North Sea | 4.0 |
| Portico Quartet Isla | 3.5 |
| Portishead Third | 3.5 |
| Portishead Dummy | 4.5 |
| Primal Scream More Light | 3.5 |
| Pulled Apart By Horses Tough Love | 3.5 |
| Pulled Apart By Horses Pulled Apart By Horses | 3.0 |
| Purity Ring Shrines | 2.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R | 4.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze | 5.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork | 3.5 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 4.0 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 4.5 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 5.0 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 5.0 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 4.5 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 5.0 |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey | 3.0 |
| Radiohead I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings | 4.0 |
| Radiohead TKOL RMX 1234567 | 3.5 |
| Raketkanon RKTKN#1 | 3.5 |
| Ramones Weird Tales of the Ramones | 4.5 |
| The definite compilation/best of in the Ramones' catalogue. Especially the first CD (spanning the first four albums) is mind-blowing, and has aged very well. It seems that whether you're a fan of metal, punk, generic rock, 60's pop or any other genre, you will still like the Ramones. Or, to put it very simple: if you don't like the Ramones, you don't like rock music. |
| Ramones Ramones | 4.5 |
| Ramones Leave Home | 4.5 |
| Ramones Rocket to Russia | 4.0 |
| Ramones Road to Ruin | 4.0 |
| Rancid Let's Go | 4.0 |
| Rancid ...And Out Come the Wolves | 4.0 |
| Real Estate Days | 3.5 |
| Recondite Hinterland | 4.0 |
| Recondite On Acid | 4.5 |
| Recondite Waldluft | 4.0 |
| Recondite EC10 | 3.5 |
| Recondite PSY | 4.0 |
| Recondite Iffy | 3.5 |
| Woof |
| Red City Radio The Dangers of Standing Still | 3.5 |
| Reel Big Fish Turn the Radio Off | 4.0 |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come | 4.0 |
| Refused Songs To Fan The Flames Of Discontent | 3.0 |
| Ricardo Villalobos Alcachofa | 4.0 |
| Ricardo Villalobos Dependent And Happy | 3.5 |
| Richard Cheese Aperitif for Destruction | 3.0 |
| Richard Hawley Standing At The Sky's Edge | 2.5 |
| Rise and Fall Faith | 3.0 |
| RJD2 Deadringer | 4.0 |
| Robert Hood Motor: Nighttime World 3 | 3.5 |
| Robert Hood Nighttime World Volume 1 | 3.5 |
| Roman Flugel Fatty Folders | 4.0 |
| Royksopp Junior | 3.0 |
| Royksopp Melody A.M. | 4.0 |
| Royksopp The Understanding | 3.0 |
| Russian Circles Empros | 3.5 |
| Rustie Glass Swords | 3.5 |
| Santigold Santogold | 3.5 |
| Santigold Master of My Make-Believe | 3.0 |
| Savages Silence Yourself | 3.5 |
| Say Anything In Defense of the Genre | 3.5 |
| Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy | 4.0 |
| Say Anything Anarchy, My Dear | 2.0 |
| Say Anything Say Anything | 3.5 |
| SBTRKT SBTRKT | 3.0 |
| School Is Cool Entropology | 3.0 |
| School of Seven Bells Ghostory | 3.5 |
| Scuba A Mutual Antipathy | 4.0 |
| Scuba Triangulation | 4.0 |
| Scuba Personality | 3.5 |
| Seasick Steve Dog House Music | 3.5 |
| Seasick Steve I Started Out With Nothin' | 3.5 |
| Sepalcure Sepalcure | 3.5 |
"These ratings are fucking disappointing"
I smell a 5 coming |
| Sepalcure Love Pressure | 2.5 |
| Sepalcure Fleur | 3.0 |
| Sepalcure Make You | 3.5 |
| Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols | 4.5 |
| Shackleton Music For The Quiet Hour/The Drawbar Organ EPs | 4.0 |
| Shackleton Three EPs | 4.0 |
| Shackleton Soundboy's Suicide Note | 4.0 |
| Shackleton Soundboy's Nuts Get Ground Up Proper | 4.5 |
| Shackleton Freezing Opening Thawing | 4.0 |
| Shack killing it as usual. |
| Shackleton Deliverance Series No. 1 | 4.0 |
| Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun | 2.5 |
| Shameboy 808 State of Mind | 2.0 |
| Shameboy Hi, Lo and in Between | 3.5 |
| Shameboy Heartcore | 4.0 |
| Shameboy At The Pyramid Marquee | 3.0 |
| Solid release. But as someone who was there when this was recorded, I can safely say that this live album doesn't contain at all the energy and atmosphere of the performance or audience. |
| Shapeshifter Soulstice | 4.0 |
| Sharks No Gods | 2.5 |
| Sharon Van Etten Tramp | 3.0 |
| Shearwater Animal Joy | 2.5 |
| Shed The Killer | 3.5 |
| Shed Shedding The Past | 4.0 |
| Shellac At Action Park | 3.5 |
| Shigeto Lineage | 3.0 |
| Shlohmo Bad Vibes | 3.0 |
| Shlohmo Vacation | 3.5 |
| Sigha Living With Ghosts | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros Valtari | 3.0 |
| Simian Mobile Disco Attack Decay Sustain Release | 3.5 |
| Simian Mobile Disco Temporary Pleasure | 3.5 |
| Simian Mobile Disco Unpatterns | 2.5 |
| Simple Plan Still Not Getting Any... | 2.5 |
| Sithu Aye Isles | 4.0 |
| Sithu Aye 26 | 3.5 |
| Sithu Aye Invent the Universe | 3.0 |
| Skalpel Skalpel | 4.0 |
| Skream Skream! | 3.5 |
| sleepmakeswaves ...and so we destroyed everything | 3.5 |
| sleepmakeswaves sleepmakeswaves (US) | 3.5 |
| Sleigh Bells Reign of Terror | 2.0 |
| Slint Spiderland | 4.5 |
| Snoop Dogg R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta) - The Masterpiece | 3.0 |
| Son Lux At War With Walls And Mazes | 2.5 |
| Son Lux We Are Rising | 3.0 |
| Sonic Youth Goo | 3.5 |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation | 4.5 |
| Sorrow (UK) Existence | 3.5 |
| Sorrow (UK) Shinigami | 3.5 |
| Sorrow (UK) Dreamstone | 4.0 |
| Sorrow (UK) Warring | 3.5 |
| Soulwax Much Against Everyone's Advice | 3.5 |
| Soulwax Any Minute Now | 4.0 |
| A seamless blend of rock and electronica. After two straightforward rock albums, the Dewaele brothers started their 2ManyDJs project, which had a great influence on this third album. The tracks give equal showplay to the guitars and the synths, resulting in a somewhat chaotic mix at times. But then again, creating chaos is what the Dewaeles do best. Top tracks include the title track, 'NY Excuse', 'E Talking' and 'Miserable Girl'. |
| Soulwax Nite Versions | 4.0 |
| After their third album, Any Minute Now, Soulwax decides to go full-electronic. And what better way to do this, than create a complete reworking of that album for the dancefloor? That's basically what this album is: a Soulwax remix of Any Minute Now. And it's brilliant. Soulwax has released some of the best remixes ever made (see also their Most of the Remixes album) and they don't let down here. Each track is mixed onto the others, to create a booming party set, which will have you jumping up and down in front of your stereo in no time. But although the major sounds on this record include "bleep" and "zwoing", after close listening you can still hear (and feel) the rock spirit in the tracks. |
| Soulwax Most Of The Remixes... | 4.0 |
| This compilation contains some of the best remixes made ever. The first disc is utterly essential for any serious house DJ and the second disc could be a strong contender for the title of 'Best Mix Of All Time', if it weren't for the fact that the As Heard On Radio Soulwax series is still slightly better. Trivia: it has the world record for longest album title ever, also. |
| Soulwax Part of the Weekend Never Dies | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Inglourious Basterds Motion Picture Soundtrack | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Death Proof | 3.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Reservoir Dogs: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) O Brother, Where Art Thou? | 4.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Pulp Fiction | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Jackie Brown | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) South Park (Original Soundtrack) | 3.5 |
| SP:MC Declassified | 3.5 |
| Spider Bags Shake My Head | 3.0 |
| Spor Supernova | 3.0 |
| Squarepusher Hard Normal Daddy | 4.0 |
| Squarepusher Go Plastic | 4.0 |
| Squarepusher Feed Me Weird Things | 3.5 |
| Squarepusher Music Is Rotted One Note | 4.0 |
| Squarepusher Big Loada | 3.5 |
| Squarepusher Hello Everything | 3.0 |
| Squarepusher Ufabulum | 2.5 |
| St. Lucia St. Lucia | 4.0 |
| St. Lucia marks the nearing of winter's end. Across the six unashamedly euphoric pop songs, bucket-loads of angel-like voices and extremely sunny synthesizer sounds are layered on top of each other. The end result is a delightfully happy-go-lucky and warm-hearted affair. Recommended if you like: fun. |
| Stake All Is Chaos | 3.5 |
| Steely Dan Countdown to Ecstasy | 4.0 |
| Steely Dan Aja | 4.5 |
| Steely Dan Can't Buy a Thrill | 4.5 |
| Steely Dan Pretzel Logic | 4.5 |
| Stendeck Scintilla | 4.0 |
| Steve Reich Music for 18 Musicians | 4.0 |
| Stiff Little Fingers Inflammable Material | 4.5 |
| Stiff Little Fingers Nobody's Hero | 4.0 |
| Streetlight Manifesto The Hands That Thieve | 4.0 |
| Stumbleine Spiderwebbed | 3.5 |
| Stumbleine Drifting Youth | 4.0 |
| Stumbleine The Night Before | 3.0 |
| Another EP with little to no change in direction for the artist. It's his third already, this year. 'The Night Before' is still quite enjoyable, but he'd better slow down or no-one will be interested anymore. |
| Sub Focus Sub Focus | 2.5 |
| Submotion Orchestra Submotion Orchestra | 4.0 |
| Submotion Orchestra Finest Hour | 4.5 |
| Submotion Orchestra Fragments | 3.5 |
| Submotion Orchestra 1968 | 3.5 |
| Suicide Suicide: Alan Vega and Martin Rev | 3.0 |
| Suicide Suicide | 3.0 |
| Sum 41 All Killer No Filler | 4.0 |
| Sum 41 Underclass Hero | 2.0 |
| Sum 41 Does This Look Infected? | 3.5 |
| Swans The Seer | 4.5 |
| Swarms Old Raves End | 4.5 |
| Swarms Swarms | 3.5 |
| Swarms I Gave You Everything | 3.5 |
| Swarms Low Sun | 3.5 |
| It has nothing on 'Old Raves End', and even the 'Stumbleine EP' was better, but 'Low Sun' shows that Swarms is still THE dubstep project to follow these days. And I looove the vocal samples on here. |
| Swindle Long Live The Jazz | 1.5 |
| Szare Lost Shapes | 4.0 |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock | 4.5 |
| Talking Heads Remain in Light | 4.0 |
| Teebs Ardour | 4.0 |
| Tegan and Sara Heartthrob | 2.5 |
| Television Marquee Moon | 4.0 |
| Tennis Young And Old | 3.0 |
| Tera Melos X'ed Out | 3.0 |
| Terrence Dixon From The Far Future - Part 2 | 3.5 |
| Texas Is the Reason Do You Know Who You Are? | 4.0 |
| The Afghan Whigs Gentlemen | 2.5 |
| The Antlers Burst Apart | 3.5 |
| The Antlers Hospice | 4.0 |
| The Appleseed Cast Illumination Ritual | 4.0 |
| The Arrogant Sons of Bitches Three Cheers For Disappointment | 3.5 |
| The Avalanches Since I Left You | 4.0 |
| The Beach Boys Pet Sounds | 4.0 |
| The Big Pink Future This | 2.5 |
| The Black Eyed Peas Monkey Business | 2.5 |
| The Black Eyed Peas Elephunk | 2.5 |
| The Black Heart Rebellion Har Nevo | 4.0 |
| The Black Heart Rebellion Monologue | 4.0 |
| The Black Keys Brothers | 4.5 |
| The Black Keys Rubber Factory | 4.5 |
| The Black Keys Thickfreakness | 4.0 |
| The Black Keys El Camino | 4.0 |
| The Black Mages The Skies Above | 3.5 |
| The Black Mages The Black Mages | 3.5 |
| The Black Mages Darkness And Starlight | 4.0 |
| The Black Pacific The Black Pacific | 3.5 |
| The Bloody Beetroots Romborama | 3.0 |
| The Bronx The Bronx | 4.0 |
| The Bronx The Bronx (II) | 3.5 |
| The Bronx The Bronx (III) | 3.5 |
| The Bronx The Bronx (IV) | 3.0 |
| The Chariot One Wing | 3.0 |
| The Clash The Clash | 5.0 |
| The Clash Give 'Em Enough Rope | 4.5 |
| The Clash London Calling | 5.0 |
| My favorite album of all time. Both musically and lyrically perfect in every way. It's a glorious mess of punk, rock 'n roll, ska, reggae, jazz, pop and everything else, while still undoubtedly sounding only like The Clash. After all, they're the only guys who could ever have pulled this off. London Calling is the ultimate victory of music lovers and enthusiasts all over the world, represented by The Only Band That Matters. |
| The Clash Sandinista! | 4.5 |
| The Clash The Clash (US version) | 4.5 |
| The Clash Combat Rock | 4.0 |
| The Clash The Singles | 4.5 |
| As a singles collection, you get the obvious stuff. But listening to this CD and hearing the progression from the first punk anthems, to the later reggae, rock, pop and even hip-hop ('The Magnificent Seven') experiments, you realise why The Clash was such an influential band. Also - and this is very rare among modern rock bands who start to experiment with different genres - it never sounds forced; you only hear 'the sound of The Clash' and that's a great part of why they were called 'The only band that matters'. |
| The Clash Live at Shea Stadium | 4.5 |
| The Clash Black Market Clash | 4.0 |
| The Clash Cut the Crap | 1.5 |
| The Creature Cocoa Don't Explain It | 2.5 |
| The Damned Damned Damned Damned | 3.5 |
| The Decemberists Long Live the King | 3.5 |
| The Decemberists The Crane Wife | 3.5 |
| The Decemberists The King Is Dead | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer | 3.5 |
| The Doppelgangaz HARK | 3.0 |
| The Flaming Lips The Terror | 4.0 |
| The last track kinda ruins what's otherwise the best record in ages from these guys. |
| The Flashbulb Opus At The End Of Everything | 3.5 |
| The Future Sound of London Lifeforms | 4.0 |
| The Futureheads The Futureheads | 3.5 |
| The Gaslight Anthem Sink or Swim | 4.0 |
| The Gaslight Anthem American Slang | 4.5 |
| The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound | 4.5 |
| The Gaslight Anthem Handwritten | 4.0 |
| The Gaslight Anthem SeƱor and the Queen | 4.0 |
| The Haxan Cloak Excavation | 3.5 |
| Damn, Tri-Angle is on fire! |
| The Heliocentrics 13 Degrees Of Reality | 4.0 |
| The Hickey Underworld The Hickey Underworld | 3.5 |
| The Hickey Underworld I'm Under The House, I'm Dying | 3.0 |
| The second effort by The Hickey Underworld is in some ways a step forward (more thought out and focused), but at the same time it loses the appealling rawness of the debut. Ultimately, the boys are still developing their sound which results in 'I'm Under The House, I'm Dying' being a slightly underdeveloped and not completely satisfying album. |
| The Hives Veni Vidi Vicious | 4.0 |
| The Hives Tyrannosaurus Hives | 4.0 |
| The Hives Black and White Album | 3.5 |
| The Hives Barely Legal | 3.5 |
| The Hives Lex Hives | 3.5 |
| The Hold Steady Stay Positive | 4.0 |
| The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America | 5.0 |
| The Hold Steady Separation Sunday | 4.0 |
| The Hold Steady Heaven Is Whenever | 3.5 |
| The Hold Steady Teeth Dreams | 4.0 |
| The Horrible Crowes Elsie | 4.0 |
| The Jam This Is The Modern World | 2.5 |
| The Jam Setting Sons | 4.0 |
| The Jam Sound Affects | 4.5 |
| The Jam All Mod Cons | 4.5 |
| The Jam In The City | 4.5 |
| The first album of mod legends The Jam. Here, you hear the trio in their rawest form, as the album was recorded during the '77 punk era. Just listening to the 1-2-3-4 intro of 'Art School', you know you're in for a hell of a ride. Each track comes at you at a blistering speed; the lyrics are fun but also intelligent. Top tracks include the title track, 'Art School', 'I've Changed My Address', the Batman-tune (which they did as a hommage to The Who), and just about everything else. The only thing that makes album not as good as their third 'All Mod Cons' is that the songs are not so coherent on this record at times. But don't let this fact fool you that this doesn't deserve the five-out-of-five threatment, as punk music rarely comes better than this. |
| The Jesus Lizard Goat | 4.0 |
| The Jezabels Prisoner | 4.5 |
| The Jezabels Dark Storm | 4.5 |
| The Jezabels She's So Hard | 4.0 |
| The Jezabels The Man Is Dead | 4.0 |
| The Jezabels The Brink | 3.0 |
| The Kids The Kids | 4.0 |
| Stars of the Belgian punk scene during the '70s. The Kids formed after seeing The Sex Pistols and Ramones live, so that's exactly what you can expect: songs going 100mph and lyrics criticizing the Belgium politics and society at the time - which hasn't changed THAT much to be honest. |
| The Kids Naughty Kids | 3.5 |
| The Kills Blood Pressures | 3.5 |
| The Knife Shaking the Habitual | 2.5 |
| The Kooks Inside In/Inside Out | 4.0 |
| The Kooks Konk | 2.5 |
| The Last Shadow Puppets The Age Of The Understatement | 4.0 |
| The Lawrence Arms The Greatest Story Ever Told | 3.5 |
| The Lawrence Arms Oh! Calcutta! | 4.5 |
| The Maccabees Given to the Wild | 3.5 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 3.0 |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet | 2.5 |
| The Members At The Chelsea Nightclub | 4.0 |
| The Men Leave Home | 4.0 |
| The Men Open Your Heart | 4.0 |
| The Men New Moon | 4.0 |
| Again a departure from their other albums, but play it loud and realise it doesn't matter at all. |
| The Men Tomorrow's Hits | 4.0 |
| The Menzingers On the Impossible Past | 3.5 |
| The Menzingers Chamberlain Waits | 4.0 |
| The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Let's Face It | 3.5 |
| The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation Egor | 3.5 |
| The Mountain Goats Transcendental Youth | 3.5 |
| The National Alligator | 4.5 |
| The National High Violet | 4.0 |
| The National Boxer | 5.0 |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me | 4.0 |
| The Notwist Neon Golden | 4.0 |
| The Notwist Close to the Glass | 3.5 |
| The Orb Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld | 4.0 |
| The Police Ghost in the Machine | 3.5 |
| The Police Reggatta de Blanc | 3.5 |
| The Police Outlandos d'Amour | 4.0 |
| The Prodigy Music for the Jilted Generation | 3.0 |
| The Replacements Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash | 4.0 |
| The Replacements Tim | 3.5 |
| The Replacements Let It Be | 4.5 |
| The Rolling Stones It's Only Rock 'n' Roll | 3.0 |
| The Rolling Stones Aftermath | 4.0 |
| The Rolling Stones Some Girls | 4.5 |
| The Rolling Stones Exile on Main St. | 5.0 |
| We all know the backstory to Exile on Main St.: the Stones were practically banned from the UK and took refuge in the mansion of Keith and his girlfriend, located in Villefranche-sur-Mer, France. Here, what's probably the biggest jam session in history took place and the result is this absolute mammoth of a double album. Now, while the backstory really helped Exile to reach mythical proportions, it wouldn't have reached this mythical status if the album itself wasn't any less than a masterpiece. But rest assured: it is. Exile is a true Keith album; little experimentation in the - then - hip genres, but it's the culmination of all great "roots genres": fast paced rock'n'roll, danceable boogiewoogie, steaming blues, chill-out jazz and religious soul. Even though the hits are found on other Stones albums, every song here is a stone-cold classic. Furthermore, it hasn't aged one tiny bit. Simply put, Exile on Main St. is the wildest, most adventurous ride you can experience in one measely hour. |
| The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers | 4.5 |
| The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed | 5.0 |
| The Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet | 4.5 |
| The Rolling Stones Between the Buttons | 4.0 |
| The Rolling Stones Voodoo Lounge | 2.5 |
| The Rolling Stones Tattoo You | 3.0 |
| The Rolling Stones Out of Our Heads | 3.5 |
| The Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones | 3.5 |
| The Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones, Now! | 4.0 |
| The Rolling Stones A Bigger Bang | 2.5 |
| The Samuel Jackson Five The Samuel Jackson Five | 3.5 |
| The Sedan Vault Mardi Gras Of The Sisypha | 4.0 |
| The Sedan Vault Vanguard | 3.5 |
| The Shins Port of Morrow | 2.5 |
| The Specials Specials | 4.5 |
| The Stooges Raw Power | 4.0 |
| The Stooges The Stooges | 3.5 |
| The Stooges Fun House | 4.5 |
| The Stranglers Black And White | 3.0 |
| The Streets A Grand Don't Come For Free | 4.5 |
| The Streets Original Pirate Material | 4.5 |
| The Strokes Is This It | 4.0 |
| The Strokes Angles | 2.5 |
| The Strokes First Impressions of Earth | 3.5 |
| The Strokes Comedown Machine | 2.0 |
| The Subs Subculture | 3.5 |
| The Subs Decontrol | 2.0 |
| The Subways Young For Eternity | 3.0 |
| The Subways All or Nothing | 3.0 |
| The Subways Money and Celebrity | 3.5 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Tallest Man on Earth | 3.5 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave | 3.5 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt | 4.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now | 3.5 |
| The Ting Tings We Started Nothing | 3.5 |
| The Ting Tings Sounds from Nowheresville | 3.0 |
| The Undertones The Undertones | 4.0 |
| Easily one the best - if not THE best - pop-punk records. Each track gets you in a great mood to party or to smash things up (for the more delinquent among us). They also prove that using a synthesizer as a prominent instrument doens't make the tracks weaker as a result (see 'I Gotta Getta' or the brilliant single 'Here Comes The Summer'). Oh, the remastered CD-version gives you the original 14-track LP and 17 (!) bonus tracks, including the punk anthems 'Teenage Kicks' and 'Get Over You' and a funny song about a Mars candy bar, named 'Mars Bars' (appropriate).In other words, if you are a punk or pop fan, get this ASAP! |
| The Vaccines What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? | 3.5 |
| The Vaccines Come of Age | 3.5 |
| The content of The Vaccines' second album is exactly what you would expect from looking at the title of the record: a step up in almost every way. The songs on Come Of Age are more interesting musically, better lyrically and more fleshed out than the ones on the debut from last year. The album is not flawless however, as filler tracks do detract from the quality of the (soon to be) singles. Nevertheless, Come Of Age is a very enjoyable half hour listen and a sign that we may expect some great things from these young fellas. |
| The Van Jets Electric Soldiers | 3.5 |
| The Van Jets Cat Fit Fury! | 4.0 |
| The Van Jets Halo | 2.0 |
| Great rockband starts to use synths, with predictably anoying and boring results. |
| The Velvet Underground White Light/White Heat | 3.5 |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico | 4.5 |
| The War On Drugs Slave Ambient | 4.5 |
| The War On Drugs Wagonwheel Blues | 4.0 |
| The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream | 5.0 |
| The White Stripes Elephant | 4.5 |
| The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan | 4.0 |
| The White Stripes Icky Thump | 4.0 |
| The White Stripes White Blood Cells | 4.0 |
| The Who Live at Leeds | 4.0 |
| The Who My Generation | 3.5 |
| The Who A Quick One | 3.0 |
| The Who Tommy | 3.5 |
| The Who Who's Next | 4.0 |
| The Who Quadrophenia | 3.5 |
| The Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing | 4.0 |
| The Wonder Years The Upsides | 3.5 |
| The World/Inferno Friendship Society Red-Eyed Soul | 3.5 |
| The xx xx | 3.5 |
| The xx Coexist | 2.5 |
| The xx Jamie XX Edits | 4.0 |
| The Yearning Still In Love | 4.0 |
| Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures | 3.0 |
| Therapy? A Brief Crack of Light | 2.5 |
| These Arms Are Snakes Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home | 4.0 |
| This Heat This Heat | 4.0 |
| Thom Yorke The Eraser | 4.5 |
| Thomas Bangalter Trax on da Rocks Vol. 2 | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 4.0 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 3.5 |
| Thrice Major/Minor | 4.0 |
| Thrice Beggars | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 3.5 |
| Thriftworks Terry - D | 3.5 |
| It's like FlyLo actually finished his tracks for a change. |
| Thrupence Voyages | 3.5 |
| Thundercat The Golden Age Of Apocalypse | 2.5 |
| Thursday No Devolucion | 3.5 |
| Thursday Full Collapse | 2.5 |
| Tiga Sexor | 3.5 |
| Tiga Ciao! | 3.5 |
| Title Fight Floral Green | 4.0 |
| Absolutely awesome at first listen. I hope it'll last but so far it's the best straight up punk album of the year. |
| Title Fight Shed | 4.0 |
| Titus Andronicus The Airing of Grievances | 4.5 |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor | 5.0 |
| Titus Andronicus Local Business | 4.5 |
| Titus Andronicus Record Store Day | 4.0 |
| Titus Andronicus The Most Lamentable Tragedy | 4.0 |
| TNGHT TNGHT | 4.0 |
| TOKiMONSTA Midnight Menu | 3.5 |
| Tom Waits Closing Time | 4.5 |
| Toro Y Moi Anything In Return | 3.0 |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me | 2.5 |
| Trade Sheworks005 | 4.0 |
| Trailer Trash Tracys Ester | 2.5 |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross The Social Network OST | 3.5 |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo OST | 3.5 |
| Trentemoller The Last Resort | 5.0 |
| Trentemoller The Trentemoller Chronicles | 4.5 |
| The Chronicles presented are a package consisting of two discs. The first is a continuous mix in the typical Trentemoller style, which means he takes you on a musical journey, packed with emotional highlights ('Forest', a live version of 'Snowflake' and his remix of his own tune 'Moan'). The second disc, on the other hand, is a collection of the various remixes he has done over the years, of which his reworking of Royksopp's 'What Else is There?' is obviously his best. Esssential for Scandinavian techno and ambient enthousiasts. |
| Trentemoller Into the Great Wide Yonder | 4.5 |
| Trentemoller Harbour Boat Trips 01 - Copenhagen | 4.0 |
| Don't expect the same Trentemoller as on his minimalist masterpiece The Last Resort. This mixtape collects a great deal of Trentemoller's musical heroes, combined with relaxing, melancholic pop or electronica. And the resulting journey is absolutely breathtaking. His best outing to date, and the start of a very promising series. |
| Trentemoller Reworked / Remixed | 3.5 |
| Trentemoller Lost | 3.5 |
| Tribes Baby | 2.5 |
| Tricky Maxinquaye | 4.0 |
| Triggerfinger All this dancin' around | 3.0 |
| Triptides Psychic Summer | 3.0 |
| Trophy Scars Bad Luck | 4.5 |
| Trophy Scars Never Born, Never Dead | 4.0 |
| Trophy Scars Darkness, Oh Hell | 4.5 |
| Trophy Scars Alphabet Alphabets | 4.0 |
| Trophy Scars Darts to the Sea | 3.5 |
| Trophy Scars Holy Vacants | 4.5 |
| TTNG Animals | 3.5 |
| TTNG 13.0.0.0.0 | 3.5 |
| Two Door Cinema Club Tourist History | 3.5 |
| Two Fingers Two Fingers | 2.0 |
| Two Gallants The Bloom and the Blight | 3.0 |
| U.K. Subs Another Kind of Blues | 4.0 |
| Unknown Mortal Orchestra II | 3.0 |
| V.I.V.E.K Asteroids/Over My Head | 4.0 |
| V.I.V.E.K Mantra | 3.5 |
| Valentin Stip Sigh | 3.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend | 3.5 |
| Vampire Weekend Contra | 3.5 |
| Venetian Snares The Chocolate Wheelchair Album | 3.0 |
| Venetian Snares Winter In The Belly Of A Snake | 3.0 |
| Venetian Snares Hospitality | 3.0 |
| Venetian Snares Winnipeg Is A Frozen Shithole | 3.5 |
| Venetian Snares Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett | 5.0 |
| Venetian Snares Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding | 4.0 |
| Venetian Snares Detrimentalist | 4.0 |
| Venetian Snares Affectionate | 2.5 |
| Verse Aggression | 4.0 |
| Vessel Order Of Noise | 4.0 |
| Vex'd Degenerate | 3.5 |
| Visionist Safe | 3.5 |
| Vitalic Ok Cowboy | 3.5 |
| Vitalic Flashmob | 3.5 |
| Vitalic Rave Age | 1.5 |
| Voices From The Lake Voices From The Lake | 4.5 |
| Voices From The Lake Velo Di Maya | 4.0 |
| Vuurwerk ME + ONE | 4.0 |
What happens when Mount Kimbie and Aphex Twin meet? You get fireworks, or rather: Vuurwerk, a Belgian trio of electronic musicians who created an immaticulate debut album sprawling with carefully constructed atmospheres and crisp beats. Opening track 'Naomi' is one of the most gorgeous tracks of 2013, and with what follows, ME + ONE proves itself yet another contender for the top spot of electronic album of the year. Don't miss out on this!
Album streaming here: http://dandelionlotus.bandcamp.com/album/me-one-12 |
| Waxahatchee Cerulean Salt | 3.5 |
| Wen Commotion | 3.0 |
| White Lung Sorry | 3.5 |
| Wil Wagner Laika | 3.0 |
| Winther Winther | 3.0 |
| Wipers Is This Real? | 4.0 |
| Wipers Youth of America | 3.5 |
| Wire Pink Flag | 4.5 |
| Wires Shadows EP | 3.0 |
| Witchcraft Legend | 3.5 |
| Wolfgang Gartner Weekend In America | 3.5 |
| WU LYF Go Tell Fire to the Mountain | 3.0 |
| X-Ecutioners Revolutions | 2.0 |
| X-Ray Spex Germfree Adolescents | 4.0 |
| Xploding Plastix Amateur Girlfriends Go Proskirt Agents | 4.5 |
| Yasushi Yoshida Little Grace | 4.0 |
| Yasushi Yoshida Grateful Goodbye | 4.0 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz! | 4.5 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever To Tell | 4.0 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Show Your Bones | 4.5 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Is Is | 4.5 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Remix EP) | 3.0 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Mosquito | 2.0 |
| Yellowcard Ocean Avenue | 3.0 |
| Yo La Tengo Fade | 3.5 |
| You Blew It! Grow Up, Dude | 3.5 |
| You Slut! Medium Bastard | 3.0 |
| Youth Lagoon The Year of Hibernation | 4.0 |
| Youth Lagoon Wondrous Bughouse | 2.5 |
| Yppah Eighty One | 3.5 |
| Yuck Yuck | 4.0 |
| Yuck Glow and Behold | 3.5 |
| Zombie Nation Zombielicious | 3.5 |
| Zomby Where Were U In '92? | 3.0 |
| Zomby Dedication | 3.0 |
| ZZT Partys Over Earth | 2.5 |
