| Allah Las Allah Las | 3.5 |
| Allo Darlin' Europe | 2.5 |
| alt-j An Awesome Wave | 2.5 |
| Amy Winehouse Back To Black | 4.5 |
| Angel Olsen Half Way Home | 4.5 |
| Animal Collective Feels | 3.0 |
| Animal Collective Strawberry Jam | 1.0 |
| Animal Collective Centipede Hz | 1.5 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 3.5 |
| I really wanted to like this more, but I got annoyed that they kept using the same tricks over and over again (repetitive tinkling noises and layered vocals). It got real old by the 5th or 6th song. Still pretty good though. |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 3.5 |
| Atlas Sound Logos | 2.0 |
| I mean this in the best way possible, but PLEASE stick with Deerhunter from now on. |
| AU Both Lights | 2.5 |
| Band of Horses Everything All the Time | 1.5 |
| Barn Owl V | 1.5 |
| Bat For Lashes Two Suns | 2.0 |
| I want to like it... but I don't. A couple of the songs are great, but the rest are just throw-away. |
| Bat For Lashes The Haunted Man | 1.5 |
| She always manages to disappoint me... Laura is one of my favorite singles of the year, but there isn't a single other song on this album worth listening to. Love ya, but this sucks. |
| Baths Cerulean | 2.5 |
| Baths Obsidian | 4.0 |
| Beach Fossils Clash the Truth | 3.5 |
| Beach Fossils Beach Fossils | 3.5 |
| It has definitely grown on me. After the first few listens I thought that all of the songs sounded too similar; over time, though, it's really climbed my list. |
| Beach Fossils What A Pleasure | 2.5 |
| Uuummm... I have to admit that this is EXACTLY what I would classify as 'my type of music' (aka hazy/lazy vocals and fuzzy guitars)... but it was just missing something. I wasn't bored when listening, but I didn't feel the need to listen to it (ever) again. Lots of potential... but maybe next time. |
| Beach House Bloom | 3.0 |
| Beach House Devotion | 5.0 |
| One of my favorite albums of all time. Every song is great and flows smoothly into the next... definitely an 'album' and not a collection of songs. |
| Beach House Teen Dream | 4.0 |
| I want to like this more because 'Silver Soul' and 'Used To Be' are two of my favorite songs, but there are just so many blah tracks on here. Too bad. |
| Beach House Beach House | 5.0 |
| Bear in Heaven I Love You, It's Cool | 2.0 |
| Benoit Pioulard Hymnal | 4.0 |
| Best Coast Crazy For You | 4.5 |
| This is the perfect example of an album that people want to hate so bad that they can't possibly look past its surface. Whatever. |
| Best Coast The Only Place | 3.0 |
| Bibio Silver Wilkinson | 2.5 |
| Big Deal Lights Out | 3.5 |
| Bjork Homogenic | 3.5 |
| Just average. Nothing more. I've never understood her hype... so much potential but her lyrics are SOOOO CORRNNNYYYY. |
| Bjork Post | 2.0 |
| Black Moth Super Rainbow Dandelion Gum | 3.0 |
| The robot voice was kind of cute, but a little overdone. It needed a little more cohesiveness and variation. |
| Bloc Party Four | 3.5 |
| Blonde Redhead Misery is a Butterfly | 3.0 |
| Blouse Blouse | 1.5 |
| Completely and utterly forgettable. Not a single track that I wanted to listen to again. |
| Blue Hawaii Untogether | 4.0 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 2.0 |
| I was unpleasantly bored. I just don't get the hype. |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning | 2.5 |
| Britney Spears Blackout | 4.0 |
| Definitely her best album (not to mention the introduction of dub step into mainstream music). |
| Britney Spears In The Zone | 5.0 |
| Britney Spears Circus | 3.0 |
| Britney Spears Femme Fatale | 2.5 |
| Britney Spears Britney | 2.0 |
| Britney Spears Oops!...I Did It Again | 3.0 |
| Broadcast HaHa Sound | 2.5 |
| Broken Social Scene You Forgot It In People | 3.0 |
| Burial Kindred | 2.5 |
| Camera Obscura My Maudlin Career | 3.5 |
| Camera Obscura Let's Get Out of This Country | 3.0 |
| It was just okay. I LOVE her voice... but something is missing. There isn't really an 'amazing' song on the album to bring it all together. |
| Camera Obscura Desire Lines | 3.0 |
| Caribou Swim | 1.0 |
| Carmen Villain Sleeper | 2.5 |
| Cat Power The Greatest | 2.5 |
| Cat's Eyes Cat's Eyes | 3.0 |
| Chairlift Something | 3.0 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Ἀποκάλυψις | 5.0 |
| Hated it first listen, loved it second. Beautiful, haunting perfection. Every song is a unique and stand-alone statement.rA classic. |
| Chelsea Wolfe Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs | 4.0 |
| I LOVE The Way We Used To... but a lot of the other songs just blended in. Maybe I'll listen to it again and change my rating... but for now this is about a 3.7. |
| Chelsea Wolfe The Grime and the Glow | 3.0 |
| Chromatics Kill For Love | 3.0 |
| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | 2.0 |
| Clinic Free Reign | 3.5 |
| Clinic Internal Wrangler | 4.0 |
| Clinic Walking With Thee | 3.0 |
| Cloud Nothings Attack On Memory | 2.5 |
| It's certainly interesting, but nothing that sticks out of the crowd for me. it sounds like just about every other angst-y indie band out there right now. rHave to say I love the cover art, though. |
| Cocteau Twins Heaven Or Las Vegas | 3.0 |
| Cocteau Twins Treasure | 4.5 |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles III | 2.5 |
| Crystal Stilts Alight of Night | 2.5 |
| Good, but not amazing; the voice gets a little annoying after a couple of songs, and the lyrics aren't anything mind-blowing... but it works for a little while. |
| Cut Off Your Hands Hollow | 2.0 |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 2.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie The Photo Album | 4.5 |
| People can hate on them all they want... but they can never take away this masterpiece of barely-suppressed anger. Perfect. |
| Death Cab for Cutie Plans | 2.0 |
| It's a strained comparison, but this is (to me) Death Cab's 'Out Of Time': Two of their best songs (Soul Meets Body and I Will Follow You Into The Dark), and the rest is just forgettable. Nothing truly offensive, but just too inconsistent for me. |
| Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs | 3.0 |
| I THOUGHT I loved this album... but the more that I listen to it... the more I have to conclude that most of the songs are corny or forgettable. Cath... and Bixby Canyon Bridge are great, but the album is dragged down by the middle and end. |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism | 4.0 |
| I was originally (admittedly) a hater... but it's certainly grown on me. Their best after 'Photo Album'. |
| Death Cab for Cutie Codes and Keys | 2.0 |
| Death Grips The Money Store | 3.0 |
| The lyrics are almost unintelligible and the production is nothing to gawk at, but it definitely kept my attention. I'm reluctant to give it this high of an album because of their real-life antics, but what can you do? |
| Deerhunter Halcyon Digest | 4.0 |
| Deerhunter Monomania | 3.0 |
| Diamond Rings Special Affections | 2.0 |
| I really wanted to like it because it looked like it was going to sound kind of like The Drums... but I was really disappointed. His voice is interesting, but the beats and lyrics are tired. Sorry 'bout it. |
| DIIV Oshin | 2.5 |
| Dirty Beaches Badlands | 3.0 |
| Dirty Beaches Drifters/Love Is The Devil | 3.5 |
| Dirty Projectors Swing Lo Magellan | 3.0 |
| Divine Fits A Thing Called Divine Fits | 2.5 |
| Django Django Django Django | 3.0 |
| Dog Bite Velvet Changes | 2.5 |
| Doldrums Lesser Evil | 4.0 |
| Dum Dum Girls Only in Dreams | 4.0 |
| Dum Dum Girls I Will Be | 2.0 |
| Earlimart Everyone Down Here | 3.0 |
| Echo Lake Wild Peace | 3.0 |
| Ellie Goulding Halcyon | 3.5 |
| Emeralds Just To Feel Anything | 2.5 |
| Feist The Reminder | 3.5 |
| Fiona Apple Tidal | 3.5 |
| Fiona Apple When the Pawn... | 3.0 |
| Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel... | 3.5 |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes | 1.5 |
| Foals Total Life Forever | 3.0 |
| Foe Bad Dream Hotline | 4.0 |
| Love her voice; love their lyrics; love this band. I'm getting a 'Cults' vibe with maybe a little 'Polica'. |
| Foxygen Take The Kids Off Broadway | 1.5 |
| Frank Ocean Channel Orange | 2.5 |
| Frankie Rose Interstellar | 2.0 |
| Frou Frou Details | 3.0 |
| Future Islands In Evening Air | 2.5 |
| Glass Candy B/E/A/T/B/O/X | 2.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! | 2.5 |
| Gold Motel Summer House | 2.5 |
| Gold Panda Lucky Shiner | 3.0 |
| Grimes Visions | 3.0 |
| Grimes Halfaxa | 3.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest | 5.0 |
| Grizzly Bear Yellow House | 4.5 |
| Atmospheric, baroque perfection. Definitely an album that must be played BEGINNING to END... no skipping... no starting at the best song... just playing. |
| Grizzly Bear Shields | 1.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Horn of Plenty | 2.0 |
| Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill | 5.0 |
| In short: I love it. Am listening to it constantly. A masterpiece of murky folk rock. |
| Grouper A I A | 1.5 |
| There just wasn't enough going on. DADDUAH is one of my favorite albums of all time, but this one bored me to tears. Pretty tinkling isn't enough to make an album. |
| Grouper Violet Replacement | 2.5 |
| Grouper The Man Who Died in His Boat | 4.0 |
| Guided By Voices Propeller | 3.0 |
| High Places High Places | 3.5 |
| High Places 03/07 - 09/07 | 2.0 |
| Hop Along Get Disowned | 3.0 |
| Hot Chip In Our Heads | 3.0 |
| Hot Snakes Suicide Invoice | 2.0 |
| All I heard was noise. I don't get any of the hype... lyrics were nothing to gawk at, his voice is maybe average, and the instruments are pretty unremarkable. Sounds like half a dozen other 'punk' albums out there. |
| Houses A Quiet Darkness | 4.0 |
| Houses All Night | 3.0 |
| How to Dress Well Total Loss | 2.5 |
| Iceage You're Nothing | 1.0 |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 5.0 |
| Interpol Antics | 3.0 |
| Iron & Wine Ghost on Ghost | 2.5 |
| Iron & Wine Our Endless Numbered Days | 4.0 |
| Isbells Isbells | 2.5 |
| Islands Return To The Sea | 1.5 |
| I love The Unicorns (so I'll admit that i had high expectations) but this was just underwhelming. Where's the cheek? Where's the originality? This sounds like every other run-of-the-mill folk/pop act out there. |
| James Blake James Blake | 3.5 |
| James Blake Overgrown | 4.0 |
| Janis Joplin Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits | 4.5 |
| Japandroids Celebration Rock | 2.5 |
| Noisy, escapist, and pretty much just 'ok'. Nothing too original or groundbreaking, but nothing particularly offensive, either. |
| Jessica Bailiff At the Down-turned Jagged Rim of the Sky | 2.5 |
| Kind of reminds me of a more electronic-oriented Grouper. Still good, not great, though. |
| Joanna Newsom The Milk-Eyed Mender | 4.5 |
| John Grant Pale Green Ghosts | 4.0 |
| Julia Holter Ekstasis | 3.5 |
| Julia Holter Tragedy | 2.5 |
| Julianna Barwick The Magic Place | 2.0 |
| Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds | 3.0 |
| Kanye West Yeezus | 4.0 |
| Karen Elson The Ghost Who Walks | 2.0 |
| Kate Bush 50 Words for Snow | 2.0 |
| Ke$ha Cannibal | 4.5 |
| Ke$ha Animal | 3.5 |
| Ke$ha Warrior | 1.0 |
| Ke$ha I Am the Dance Commander + I Command You to Dance: | 2.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city | 2.5 |
| I JUST DON'T GET IT. Why? Why this album? Is hip-hop in such a sad spot where ANY album that is even REMOTELY introspective is hailed as great? This is so average it hurts. |
| La Roux La Roux | 4.5 |
| La Sera Sees The Light | 3.5 |
| I was initially a little nervous about it until I got to 'Over Now'... which may be one of my favorite break-up songs of all time. Loved. Second half is definitely much better than the first, but there is a lot of great potential here. I bet the next album will be a solid 4-4.5. |
| La Sera La Sera | 2.5 |
| Lady Gaga Born This Way | 2.0 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame | 3.0 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame Monster | 4.0 |
| Lana Del Rey Born to Die | 5.0 |
| Haters are always gonna hate, but this is a MASTERPIECE. Nobody can listen to Blue Jeans, Off To The Races and Born To Die and not just GET IT. |
| Lana Del Rey Lana Del Rey a.k.a Lizzy Grant | 4.0 |
| Stunning. I bet half of these negative reviews are people that haven't even listened to it. You can't sit through Pawn Shop Blues, Mermaid Motel, and Kill Kill without giving this (at least) a 3.5. |
| Lana Del Rey Paradise | 3.5 |
| I like her new direction, but there are too many disposable tracks. The next album is going to take over the world. |
| Land Of Talk Some Are Lakes | 3.0 |
| It was okay. Her voice is pretty but there wasn't enough variation for this to be truly remarkable. |
| Laurel Halo Quarantine | 2.0 |
| Lavender Diamond Incorruptible Heart | 3.0 |
| I'll be honest: it was absurdly happy (not usually my cup of tea) and REALLY long... but I loved it. |
| Lemuria Get Better | 3.5 |
| Liars WIXIW | 4.0 |
| Linda Perhacs Parallelograms | 4.5 |
| Listener Not Waving, Drowning | 3.5 |
| Little Boots Nocturnes | 2.0 |
| Liz Phair Exile In Guyville | 4.5 |
| Maybe A LITTLE overrated... but still very (very) good. |
| Liz Phair Whip-Smart | 4.0 |
| An amazing sophomore after a CLASSIC debut. Couldn't ask for more. |
| Liz Phair Whitechocolatespaceegg | 3.0 |
| Lord Huron Lonesome Dreams | 3.0 |
| Lost In The Trees A Church That Fits Our Needs | 4.5 |
| Lost In The Trees All Alone In An Empty House | 3.5 |
| Lotus Plaza Spooky Action At A Distance | 2.5 |
| Low Things We Lost in the Fire | 3.0 |
| It runs a little long to keep me interested... I wanted to love it but I just liked it. |
| Lush Gala | 1.5 |
| It was okay... I just kept thinking "Cocteau Twins knock-off". |
| Lust For Youth Perfect View | 2.5 |
| Mac DeMarco 2 | 1.5 |
| I'll admit that this isn't really my genre, but it's been getting good reviews so I gave it a listen. Not impressed. Sounds like half a million other acoustic albums out there. |
| Madonna MDNA | 1.0 |
| Madonna Ray of Light | 4.0 |
| Majical Cloudz Impersonator | 3.0 |
| Marcy Playground Marcy Playground | 3.5 |
| Marilyn Manson Mechanical Animals | 3.0 |
| Marina and The Diamonds The Family Jewels | 3.0 |
| Maroon 5 Songs About Jane | 3.5 |
| Maroon 5 It Won't Be Soon Before Long | 1.5 |
| Maroon 5 Hands All Over | 2.5 |
| Maroon 5 Overexposed | 1.0 |
| Mazes Ores & Minerals | 2.5 |
| Melody's Echo Chamber Melody's Echo Chamber | 3.5 |
| Mercury Rev Deserter's Songs | 3.0 |
| Metric Fantasies | 4.0 |
| Mice Parade Bem-Vinda Vontade | 2.5 |
| Miguel Kaleidoscope Dream | 3.5 |
| Mikal Cronin Mikal Cronin | 2.0 |
| Mikal Cronin MCII | 3.0 |
| Mint Julep Save Your Season | 2.0 |
| Mono Hymn To The Immortal Wind | 4.0 |
| Mount Eerie Clear Moon | 3.5 |
| Mount Eerie Ocean Roar | 1.5 |
| Mount Kimbie Cold Spring Fault Less Youth | 2.0 |
| Mountain Man Made The Harbor | 3.5 |
| MS MR Secondhand Rapture | 2.5 |
| Muse The 2nd Law | 3.0 |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry | 3.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 2.5 |
| My Brightest Diamond Bring Me the Workhorse | 4.0 |
| Neon Neon Praxis Makes Perfect | 2.0 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 5.0 |
| It took a couple of listens... but when you get it you get it. Brings out the abused child in all of us... |
| Nicki Minaj Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded | 3.5 |
| Nicki Minaj Pink Friday | 3.0 |
| Nico Desertshore | 4.5 |
| Dark. Mysterious. Sexy. Perfect. Her untouchable masterpiece. |
| Nico Chelsea Girl | 2.0 |
| Nico The Marble Index | 1.5 |
| Nico The End | 5.0 |
| From the opening line you KNOW that it's going to be amazing (and it is). The darkest piece of her career, and her best. A harmonium has never been put to better use. |
| Niki And The Dove Instinct | 3.0 |
| Worth listening to, but nothing particularly special. |
| Nirvana Bleach | 1.5 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 3.5 |
| No Joy Wait to Pleasure | 3.5 |
| Of Monsters and Men My Head is an Animal | 2.5 |
| Of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? | 3.5 |
| Ohbijou Metal Meets | 2.0 |
| Okkervil River Down the River of Golden Dreams | 3.5 |
| Okkervil River The Stage Names | 2.5 |
| I was pretty disappointed. 'Down The River Of Golden Dreams' is one of my favorite albums, but I really had trouble focusing for more than one or two songs with this one. Too bad. Still a great band, though. |
| Paavoharju Laulu Laakson Kukista | 4.0 |
| Passion Pit Gossamer | 1.5 |
| Peaking Lights Lucifer | 2.0 |
| Perfume Genius Put Your Back N 2 It | 4.5 |
| Perfume Genius Learning (Bonus Track Edition) | 5.0 |
| Phosphorescent Muchacho | 3.0 |
| Pixies Doolittle | 2.5 |
| Polica Give You The Ghost | 3.0 |
| It was okay... but not anything I feel like listening to again. |
| Pomplamoose Pomplamoose VideoSongs | 2.5 |
| Her voice is pretty and nothing was necessarily OFFENSIVE... but I don't really feel the need to listen to them (ever) again. |
| Purity Ring Shrines | 5.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork | 3.0 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 3.0 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 3.0 |
| Ride Nowhere | 2.5 |
| Rihanna Rated R | 1.5 |
| Rihanna Talk That Talk | 3.5 |
| Rilo Kiley The Execution of All Things | 3.5 |
| The great was great, but the filler was definitely filler. Love her voice, though. |
| Rilo Kiley Take-Offs & Landings | 3.5 |
| Rilo Kiley More Adventurous | 1.5 |
| Sally Shapiro Disco Romance | 3.0 |
| Sam Amidon Bright Sunny South | 2.5 |
| Savages Silence Yourself | 3.5 |
| Scarlett Johansson Anywhere I Lay My Head | 4.0 |
I don't understand a lot of the flack that this album is getting... Falling Down is actually one of my favorite
songs. Her voice is definitely throaty, but I'm into that. The production is beautiful and I like her spin on the
lyrics. I'm admittedly not a huge Tom Waits fan, but it sounds like she did her best to give him credit and she
obviously admires him. Idk. Maybe I'm just an amateur and everybody else has better eardrums. It seems like
she walked into this and there was nothing she could do BUT get hate. |
| Scout Niblett Sweet Heart Fever | 3.5 |
| Screaming Females Ugly | 3.0 |
| Sera Cahoone Deer Creek Canyon | 1.0 |
| Sharon Van Etten Tramp | 4.0 |
| Shearwater Rook | 3.5 |
| Shearwater Animal Joy | 3.0 |
| Shiny Toy Guns We Are Pilots | 1.5 |
| Sigur Ros Kveikur | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros Valtari | 2.0 |
| Gosh I wanted to like this... the first time I listened to Ekki M?kk I was overwhelmed. It just has no staying power! By the second revisiting I couldn't make it past the 20 minute mark. They'll always have their early releases, but this is a miss. |
| Simon and Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water | 5.0 |
| 'Classic' is, really, the only word for it. Not a single bad track to be found, and some of the greatest songs of all time (I'm talking to you 'Boxer' and 'Bridge Over Troubled Waters'). Perfect. |
| Sister Crayon Bellow | 1.5 |
| I listened to this because it was recommended for Chelsea Wolfe fans... but it was uninspiring. |
| Sleeping at Last Storyboards | 3.0 |
| Sleigh Bells Reign of Terror | 1.5 |
| Sleigh Bells Treats | 4.0 |
| Small Black Limits Of Desire | 1.5 |
| Small Black New Chain | 2.5 |
| Solange True | 2.0 |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation | 3.5 |
| Sparklehorse Good Morning Spider | 3.0 |
| Spoon Kill The Moonlight | 3.5 |
| St. Vincent Strange Mercy | 3.5 |
| Still Corners Don't Fall In Love | 4.0 |
| Simple and haunting; one of their best songs (including I Wrote In Blood, Cuckoo, and Demons) |
| Still Corners Creatures of an Hour | 4.5 |
| Love. You know it's going to be 'good' after listening to Cuckoo, but then it smoothly transitions to 'great' after I Wrote In Blood, and 'excellent' after Demons. |
| Still Corners Strange Pleasures | 4.0 |
| Sun Kil Moon Ghosts of the Great Highway | 3.0 |
| Super Water Sympathy Hydrogen Child | 3.0 |
| Suuns Images Du Futur | 3.0 |
| Swan Lake Beast Moans | 4.0 |
| Swans The Seer | 4.0 |
| Taken By Trees East of Eden | 3.0 |
| Taken By Trees Other Worlds | 1.5 |
| I just was bored. Nothing (i.e. lyrics, production, mood) very exciting except (of course) her voice. Too bad. |
| Talk Normal Sunshine | 3.5 |
| Tamaryn The Waves | 1.5 |
| Tamaryn Tender New Signs | 2.0 |
| Tame Impala Innerspeaker | 1.5 |
| Tame Impala Lonerism | 2.0 |
| Team Ghost Rituals | 3.0 |
| Tennis Young And Old | 4.5 |
| I, for one, don't understand all the flack that this album is getting. It's cute, airy, melodic, and catchy. No, it's not asking for the wall to get torn down, and no, it's not going to win the Pulitzer any time soon, but that's not the point. It's an early-fall romance; beautiful in its simplicity. |
| Tera Melos X'ed Out | 3.0 |
| The Album Leaf In a Safe Place | 3.0 |
| The Antlers Hospice | 5.0 |
| Absolutely devastating. You can't listen to Kettering, Bear, and Epilogue without dying. |
| The Antlers Burst Apart | 2.5 |
| The Books The Lemon Of Pink | 1.0 |
| The Boy Least Likely To Best Party Ever | 2.5 |
| Listened to it on Pitchfork's recommendation (I know, right) and was pretty disappointed. They don't stick out from the (rather large) crowd of child-like artists. |
| The Brother Kite Isolation | 1.5 |
| The Cardigans Gran Turismo | 3.5 |
| The Concretes The Concretes | 4.0 |
| The Concretes In Colour | 1.0 |
| I bought this on a whim because their debut is pretty amazing, but this sucks. Her voice is toned down and the entire orchestration is pretty uninspiring. |
| The Cranberries Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? | 4.0 |
| Definitely a 90s standout. It has the same great voice and melodies as their later albums without falling victim to their sometimes corny lyrics. Love. |
| The Cranberries No Need to Argue | 4.5 |
| Either their best or their worst. Best: Zombie, Disappointment, Everything I Said, No Need To Argue, Daffodil Lament, Dreaming My Dreams, Ridiculous Thoughts. Absolute worst thing they've put out: Ode To My Family, Twenty One, I Can't Be With You, Yeat's Grave, The Icicle Melts, Empty. Overall, though, the strong easily overpower the weak and make their most ambitious and entertaining album. |
| The Cranberries To the Faithful Departed | 3.0 |
| Just OK. A little too pop-y for my taste... not to mention that a lot of the lyrics are corny as hell. There are definitely some standouts, though. |
| The Cure Pornography | 2.0 |
| The Decemberists The King Is Dead | 3.5 |
| The Drums Portamento | 3.5 |
| Definitely unique and cheeky... and I do love some good cheek. |
| The Drums The Drums | 4.0 |
| The Evens Get Evens | 4.0 |
| The Joy Formidable Wolf's Law | 1.5 |
| The Joy Formidable The Big Roar | 3.0 |
| The Kills No Wow | 3.0 |
| The Knife Shaking the Habitual | 3.5 |
| The Knife Silent Shout | 3.0 |
| The Maccabees Given to the Wild | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 4.0 |
| The Men New Moon | 3.0 |
| The Microphones The Glow pt.2 | 3.5 |
| The National High Violet | 3.5 |
| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Belong | 2.5 |
| The Paper Chase Someday This Could All Be Yours Vol.1 | 3.0 |
| The Postmarks By The Numbers | 2.0 |
| I wanted to like it... I really did... but I found myself fading in and out of interest. Her voice is definitely pretty; the production is definitely cutesy; but it didn't sum up to much. Three Little Birds was an exception, but not enough of one to bring the rest of the album up. |
| The Postmarks The Postmarks | 3.0 |
| The Rosebuds Life Like | 4.0 |
| The Ruby Suns Sea Lion | 1.5 |
| The Ruby Suns Fight Softly | 3.5 |
| The Ruby Suns Christopher | 2.0 |
| The Shins Wincing the Night Away | 3.5 |
| The Shins Port of Morrow | 1.0 |
| The Shins Oh, Inverted World | 1.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Oceania | 2.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream | 2.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | 2.0 |
| The Smiths The Smiths | 3.0 |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead | 2.5 |
| The Stone Roses The Stone Roses | 3.5 |
| The Strokes Comedown Machine | 2.5 |
| The Sundays Static and Silence | 2.0 |
| The Sundays Reading, Writing and Arithmetic | 1.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now | 1.5 |
| The Thermals Now We Can See | 1.5 |
| The Thermals Desperate Ground | 3.5 |
| The Thermals The Body, The Blood, The Machine | 5.0 |
| The Twilight Sad No One Can Ever Know | 2.5 |
| The Unicorns Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? | 4.0 |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico | 4.0 |
| I'll admit that I like this primarily for Nico on 'I'll Be Your Mirror' and 'Femme Fatale' (which, I'm sure, isn't a very popular statement), but the rest is quite good as well. Lou's voice is a little grating (not to my taste) but he makes up for it with his lyrics. |
| The Walkmen Heaven | 4.0 |
| The xx Coexist | 2.0 |
| The xx xx | 4.5 |
| The Zombies Odessey and Oracle | 3.0 |
| Thee Oh Sees Putrifiers II | 2.0 |
| These New Puritans Field of Reeds | 4.0 |
| Tindersticks The Something Rain | 3.0 |
| Titus Andronicus Local Business | 3.0 |
| Tops Tender Opposites | 2.5 |
| Tori Amos Little Earthquakes | 4.0 |
| Trailer Trash Tracys Ester | 2.0 |
| I don't MIND the album (it's probably more like an 'average') but I have to give a lower rating because there was the POTENTIAL for a 4-4.5. If they could have done the entire album like 'Candy Girl' and 'Wish You Were Red' (i.e. strong bass melody with moody lyrics) then this would have been one of the best of the year. Instead its a hazy mess. Her voice is so unique and they buried under noise. |
| True Widow As High As The Highest Heavens And From The Center | 2.0 |
| The instrumentals are SO LONG and boring I could barely sit through the first couple songs. You know I love some fuzzy guitars... but this was too much. |
| Tyler The Creator Wolf | 1.0 |
| I'll admit that I actually would have enjoyed listening to this if I didn't speak English... or even if I just didn't know the meaning of a couple words (I'm sure you can guess which ones).rBut I do. I fully understand the argument that 'those words' are supposed to provoke emotions and are not targeted at any group, but that doesn't change the fact that they ARE targeted at a group. rToo bad. He's obviously got talent, but he's behind the curve on this one. |
| Ultraista Ultraista | 2.0 |
| Completely unremarkable and average. It sounds just like half a dozen other synth-y bands out there (although I must admit I love the cover art). |
| Unknown Mortal Orchestra II | 3.5 |
| Violens True | 2.5 |
| Vivian Girls Vivian Girls | 1.5 |
| I was just bored. I don't really have anything else to say. |
| volcano! Piñata | 2.5 |
| Waxahatchee Cerulean Salt | 3.0 |
| White Rabbits It's Frightening | 2.0 |
| Widowspeak Widowspeak | 2.0 |
| Good for a listen, but not particularly memorable. |
| Widowspeak Almanac | 2.5 |
| Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot | 3.0 |
| Wild Nothing Gemini | 3.5 |
| Wild Nothing Nocturne | 3.0 |
| Woods Sun and Shade | 3.5 |
| Totally bizarre, but totally lovable. The main criticism is probably going to be that there is too much instrumental, but I barely noticed. Loved. |
| Woods Bend Beyond | 2.0 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever To Tell | 3.5 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Mosquito | 4.0 |
| Yo La Tengo I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One | 1.0 |
| Yo La Tengo Fade | 4.0 |
| Young Dreams Between Places | 3.0 |
| Young Galaxy Ultramarine | 4.5 |
| Young Galaxy Shapeshifting | 3.5 |
| Youth Lagoon The Year of Hibernation | 4.0 |
| Good not great. I wears you down about 2/3 of the way through. |
| Youth Lagoon Wondrous Bughouse | 4.0 |
