13 and God 13 & God | 3.5 |
Aesop Rock None Shall Pass | 4.5 |
Aesop Rock Labor Days | 4.5 |
Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not | 3.5 |
Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare | 4.5 |
Arctic Monkeys Humbug | 4.0 |
Baths Cerulean | 4.0 |
Beirut The Flying Club Cup | 5.0 |
Beirut Elephant Gun | 4.0 |
Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot | 4.0 |
Bjork Vespertine | 4.5 |
Bloc Party Silent Alarm | 4.5 |
Bloc Party Silent Alarm Remixed | 2.5 |
Bloc Party Intimacy | 4.0 |
Bloc Party A Weekend in the City | 4.0 |
Cannibal Ox The Cold Vein | 4.0 |
cLOUDDEAD Ten | 4.0 |
Common Be | 2.5 |
Cool Calm Pete Lost | 3.5 |
Currensy Pilot Talk | 3.5 |
Currensy Pilot Talk II | 3.5 |
Currensy Covert Coup | 3.0 |
In an age of independent artists progressively outreaching to one another, this collaboration is not at all unlikely. In fact, a number of the tracks are remarkably successful, despite Curren$y boasting some of his weakest verses yet. Tracks such as "Full Metal" and "Ventilation" are the cream of the crop here - instances where the creativity between Alchemist and Curren$y were wholly aligned. Were the album to have consisted of verses and instrumentals as poignant as the aforementioned tracks, this free marijuana inspired mixtape would have been nothing short of excellent. |
Cut Off Your Hands You and I | 3.0 |
DangerDoom The Mouse And The Mask | 3.5 |
Death From Above 1979 You're a Woman, I'm a Machine | 4.0 |
Death From Above 1979 Heads Up | 2.5 |
Death From Above 1979 Romance Bloody Romance | 2.5 |
DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... | 5.0 |
DJ Shadow The Outsider | 2.0 |
Doseone Hemispheres | 3.5 |
Earl Sweatshirt EARL | 3.5 |
Editors The Back Room | 2.5 |
Feist The Reminder | 4.0 |
Feist Let It Die | 4.5 |
Florence and the Machine Lungs | 4.0 |
Flying Lotus Cosmogramma | 4.0 |
Flying Lotus Los Angeles | 4.0 |
Flying Lotus Reset | 3.5 |
Girls Album | 4.0 |
Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere | 4.0 |
Gnarls Barkley The Odd Couple | 3.5 |
Gonjasufi A Sufi and a Killer | 3.5 |
Gorillaz Plastic Beach | 3.0 |
Gorillaz Demon Days | 5.0 |
Gorillaz The Fall | 2.5 |
Green Day American Idiot | 2.0 |
Hot Chip Made in the Dark | 3.5 |
Hudson Mohawke Butter | 3.0 |
Hudson Mohawke Polyfolk Dance | 4.0 |
J Dilla The Shining | 3.0 |
A decent conglomeration of J Dilla's instrumentals but, with mostly lackluster emcees as no particularly cohesive thematic to hold together what are individually enjoyable songs, the album is unable to leave a lasting impression. It is undoubtedly J Dilla's excellent to superb instrumentals that rescue this album from being nothing more than an average, even slightly below average amalgam of uninspired verses. |
Joanna Newsom Ys | 4.5 |
Jurassic 5 Power in Numbers | 4.0 |
Jurassic 5 Feedback | 2.5 |
k-os Atlantis: Hymns For Disco | 3.5 |
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 3.0 |
Kanye West Graduation | 2.5 |
Kanye West Late Registration | 4.0 |
King Geedorah Take Me to Your Leader | 3.5 |
Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor | 4.0 |
Lupe Fiasco The Cool | 2.5 |
Lupe Fiasco Lasers | 1.0 |
This is quite possibly the most unfortunate record I have heard in 2011. Not just for contrived content, but also because Lupe Fiasco released "Food and Liquor". How did he miss this in his contract. And, to top matters off: "All right, all ready, the show goes on..." is abhorrently a rip-off of "All right, all ready, we'll all float on." Atlantic Records, get off my Isaac Brock's dick and take your corporate vice off of Lupe's. |
Madvillain Madvillainy | 4.5 |
Man Man Six Demon Bag | 4.0 |
Man Man Rabbit Habits | 3.5 |
Mayer Hawthorne A Strange Arrangement | 3.5 |
MF DOOM MM.. Food | 3.5 |
Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank | 3.5 |
Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News | 3.5 |
Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica | 5.0 |
Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West | 4.5 |
Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About | 4.0 |
Modest Mouse The Fruit That Ate Itself | 3.0 |
Modest Mouse Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks | 3.5 |
Modest Mouse Baron von Bullshit Rides Again | 2.5 |
Modest Mouse Sad Sappy Sucker | 2.5 |
Modest Mouse Building Nothing Out of Something | 4.0 |
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 4.5 |
Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 4.5 |
Nujabes Hydeout Productions 2nd Collection | 4.5 |
Nujabes Metaphorical Music | 4.5 |
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Xenophanes | 3.5 |
OutKast Stankonia | 4.0 |
OutKast Aquemini | 4.0 |
People In Planes Beyond the Horizon | 4.0 |
People In Planes As Far As the Eye Can See | 4.5 |
Radiohead The King of Limbs | 4.5 |
Radiohead In Rainbows | 4.5 |
Sigur Ros Takk... | 4.0 |
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin Broom | 3.5 |
Subtle For Hero: For Fool | 4.5 |
Subtle A New White | 3.5 |
Sufjan Stevens Illinois | 4.5 |
Sufjan Stevens Michigan | 4.0 |
T.I. Trap Muzik | 3.0 |
T.I. Urban Legend | 3.5 |
T.I. King | 3.0 |
T.I. No Mercy | 2.0 |
The Killers Hot Fuss | 4.5 |
The Killers Sam's Town | 2.5 |
The Killers Day & Age | 2.0 |
The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 5.0 |
The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath | 3.5 |
Themselves CrownsDown | 3.0 |
Trentemoller The Last Resort | 4.5 |
TV on the Radio Dear Science | 4.0 |
TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain | 3.5 |
Ugly Casanova Sharpen Your Teeth | 5.0 |
Uyama Hiroto A Son of the Sun | 4.5 |
Why? Alopecia | 5.0 |
Why? Eskimo Snow | 3.5 |
Wolf Parade At Mount Zoomer | 3.5 |
Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary | 5.0 |
Wolfmother Wolfmother | 2.5 |