| +44 When Your Heart Stops Beating | 3.0 |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Source Tags and Codes | 3.5 |
| ...Who Calls So Loud ...Who Calls So Loud | 3.5 |
| 1200 Micrograms 1200 Micrograms | 3.5 |
| 2Pac Me Against the World | 3.5 |
| 60 Watt Kid We Come From The Bright Side | 4.0 |
| 7 Angels 7 Plagues Jhazmyne's Lullaby | 3.5 |
| 90 Day Men To Everybody | 4.0 |
| A City Safe From Sea Throw Me Through Walls | 3.0 |
| A Fine Frenzy Bomb In A Birdcage | 3.0 |
| A Fine Frenzy One Cell in the Sea | 3.5 |
| A Lot Like Birds Conversation Piece | 3.0 |
| A Lot Like Birds lose everything that made them an interesting band and become another competent post-hardcore act who can do stuff and things and whatever. |
| A Lot Like Birds No Place | 3.5 |
| A Lot Like Birds Plan B | 4.0 |
| A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide | 3.5 |
| Absu Absu | 3.0 |
| Achilles (USA-NY) Hospice | 4.0 |
| Action Bronson Rare Chandeliers | 3.5 |
| Action Bronson Saaab Stories | 3.5 |
| Active Child You Are All I See | 3.5 |
| Actress Splazsh | 3.5 |
| Adebisi Shank This is the Second Album | 3.5 |
| Adebisi Shank This is the Album | 4.0 |
| "Hey ma hey ma hey ma! - look what I can do with a guitar!!!" is more or less the sentiment Adebisi Shank give off here on their insane debut. Far from fret blazing wankery though, the Shanks write their music with one foot in a puddle of math rock and the other in a bucket of fun, all while jumping up and down with frantic energy. With most of the songs here barely scratching the three-minute mark, This is literally packed so tight with awesomeness that its spewing from the seams. |
| Adolescents Adolescents | 4.5 |
| Adorno Said And Unsaid | 3.5 |
| Aeon Spoke Aeon Spoke | 3.0 |
| Aesop Rock Labor Days | 3.5 |
| Aesop Rock None Shall Pass | 3.5 |
| AFI The Art of Drowning | 3.5 |
| AFI Sing the Sorrow | 3.5 |
| After Forever Remagine | 3.5 |
| After Forever Invisible Circles | 4.5 |
| After Forever Decipher | 4.5 |
| After Forever After Forever | 4.5 |
| Against Me! Reinventing Axl Rose | 2.5 |
| Agalloch The Mantle | 3.0 |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain | 3.0 |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore | 3.5 |
| Aghora Formless | 3.0 |
| Aghora Aghora | 4.5 |
| Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde | 4.0 |
| Alexisonfire Alexisonfire | 2.5 |
| Alexisonfire Watch Out! | 2.5 |
| Alexisonfire Crisis | 3.0 |
| Algernon Cadwallader Some Kind Of Cadwallader | 3.5 |
| Algernon Cadwallader Parrot Flies | 3.5 |
There's this drinking game we used to play in high school that went something like this: Someone started out by screaming at the top of his lungs: "FINGERS IN THE MIDDLE!", to which everyone screamed it right back. This was followed by "FIDDLE WITH MY DIDDLE!!". Scream back. And then altogether: "OOOHHH FUCK ME YOU FAT BITCH!" and someone would open up with something like "Alex fuck Alex fuck how about a Downer fuck!". Downer would follow with the same, only with someone else's name instead of his. This would go around the party and get faster and faster and faster until someone eventually messed up and scoff something like "Alex fu- shi- go- ahhghghhgdfgdf DAMMIT" and down whatever they had left of their drink, no matter how full it was. Of course we had to make sure of it by chanting "DOWN! DOWN! DOWN!" every ugly gulp of the way. You've probably done that part before. Anyway, not only was this probably the best drinking game ever, but it's messy as fuck. And usually, even before the games got underway, some idiot somewhere would scream out "LETS GET FUCKIN' NAKED!!!" which was how we knew the party had really started.
Parrot Flies feels like this. |
| Algiers Algiers | 4.0 |
| All Pigs Must Die Nothing Violates This Nature | 4.0 |
| All Time Low So Wrong, It's Right | 4.0 |
| alt-J An Awesome Wave | 4.0 |
| Amanda Blank I Love You | 2.0 |
| Amanda Palmer Who Killed Amanda Palmer? | 3.5 |
| Amanda Woodward La Decadence de la Decadence | 3.5 |
| American Football American Football | 3.5 |
| Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession | 3.5 |
| Ampere All Our Tomorrows End Today | 3.5 |
| Ampere Like Shadows | 4.0 |
| Holy shit. The last album that had me on the edge of my seat like this was something out of pg.99's discography, and even then this is a ride like no other. Short, fast, brutal and passionate - everything Ampere ever had in them, distilled into the best 13 minutes of the year. |
| Amy Winehouse Back to Black | 4.0 |
| Anais Mitchell Hadestown | 3.5 |
| Anais Mitchell Hymns for the Exiled | 4.0 |
| Anamanaguchi Endless Fantasy | 4.0 |
| Anatomy of a Ghost Evanesce | 4.0 |
| Anberlin Cities | 3.5 |
| Anberlin New Surrender | 4.0 |
| Andy McKee Art of Motion | 4.5 |
| Andy Stott Faith in Strangers | 3.5 |
| Andy Stott Luxury Problems | 4.0 |
| Angel Olsen Burn Your Fire for No Witness | 4.5 |
| Angels and Airwaves I-Empire | 2.5 |
| Angus and Julia Stone A Book Like This | 3.5 |
| Angus and Julia Stone Down the Way | 3.5 |
| Angus and Julia Stone Chocolates & Cigarettes | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Strawberry Jam | 3.5 |
| Animal Collective Centipede Hz | 3.5 |
| Animal Collective Sung Tongs | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Fall Be Kind | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 4.5 |
| Animal Collective Feels | 5.0 |
| Animal Faces Anomie | 4.0 |
| Annie Don't Stop | 3.5 |
| Anohni and the Johnsons The Crying Light | 3.5 |
| Aphrodite Aftershock | 4.0 |
| Arcade Fire The Arcade Fire | 3.0 |
| Arcade Fire Reflektor | 3.0 |
| Arcade Fire Everything Now | 3.0 |
| New LCD Soundsystem, oh boy. |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible | 4.0 |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs | 4.0 |
| Arcade Fire Her | 4.0 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 5.0 |
| Archers of Loaf Icky Mettle | 4.0 |
| Architects Hollow Crown | 3.5 |
| Architects Nightmares | 4.0 |
| Arghoslent Hornets of the Pogrom | 3.5 |
| Armchairpolitician Seven Segment Decoder | 4.0 |
| Arrows Modern Art & Politics | 3.5 |
| Arsis United in Regret | 3.0 |
| Arsis Starve for the Devil | 3.0 |
| Arsis A Celebration of Guilt | 4.0 |
| Arsis A Diamond for Disease | 4.5 |
| Art Blakey Moanin' | 4.5 |
| Art By Numbers Reticence: The Musical | 3.5 |
| Arthur Russell Love is Overtaking Me | 3.5 |
| Arthur Russell Another Thought | 4.0 |
| As Tall As Lions As Tall As Lions | 3.5 |
| As Tall As Lions You Can't Take It With You | 3.5 |
| As We Draw Mirages | 4.0 |
| Asobi Seksu Fluorescence | 4.0 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 4.0 |
| At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul | 4.0 |
| At the Gates Terminal Spirit Disease | 4.0 |
| Atheist Piece of Time | 3.5 |
| Atheist Unquestionable Presence | 3.5 |
| Atlas Sound Logos | 3.5 |
| Atlas Sound Parallax | 4.5 |
| Atmosphere God Loves Ugly | 4.0 |
| Atoms for Peace Amok | 4.0 |
| AU Au | 4.0 |
| Au Revoir Simone Still Night, Still Light | 3.0 |
| Audioslave Out of Exile | 2.5 |
| Aussitot Mort Montuenga | 3.5 |
| Azealia Banks Broke With Expensive Taste | 3.5 |
| Azealia Banks 1991 | 4.0 |
| Baby Huey The Baby Huey Story: The Living Legend | 4.5 |
| Bad Astronaut Twelve Small Steps, One Giant Disappointment | 3.0 |
| Bad Astronaut Houston: We Have a Drinking Problem | 3.5 |
| Bad Religion Suffer | 3.5 |
| Balam Acab Wander/Wonder | 3.5 |
| Balance and Composure Separation | 3.0 |
| Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution A Call To Arms | 5.0 |
| Banks Goddess | 3.5 |
| Baroness Blue Record | 2.5 |
| Baroness Red Album | 4.0 |
| Barrow Though I'm Alone | 4.0 |
| Bat For Lashes The Haunted Man | 3.5 |
| Bat For Lashes Fur and Gold | 4.5 |
| Bat For Lashes Two Suns | 4.5 |
| Baths Cerulean | 3.0 |
| Baths Obsidian | 3.5 |
| BATS The Sleep of Reason | 3.0 |
| BATS Cruel Sea Scientist | 4.0 |
| BATS Red In Tooth and Claw | 4.0 |
| Battles Gloss Drop | 3.5 |
| Battles Mirrored | 4.0 |
| Bauhaus In the Flat Field | 4.0 |
| Be Your Own Pet Be Your Own Pet | 3.0 |
| Be Your Own Pet Get Awkward | 3.0 |
| Beach House Teen Dream | 3.0 |
| Beach House Depression Cherry | 3.0 |
| Beach House Bloom | 3.5 |
| Bear vs. Shark Right Now You're in the Best of Hands | 4.0 |
| Behemoth Evangelion | 3.5 |
| Behemoth Demigod | 4.0 |
| Beirut The Flying Club Cup | 3.5 |
| Belle and Sebastian If You're Feeling Sinister | 3.5 |
| Belle Epoque A La Derive | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 1.5 |
| Beyond The Embrace Against The Elements | 3.5 |
| Bibio Mind Bokeh | 3.5 |
| Bibio Ambivalence Avenue | 4.0 |
| Bibio Silver Wilkinson | 4.0 |
| Silver Wilkinson is incredible. Incredible what? Electronic? Folk? Ambient? Post-chillin'-out-while-strumming-light-chords-under-a-blossoming-tree-as-a-summer-breeze-goes-past-bleep-boop-core? Yeah, let's go with that. |
| Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot | 3.5 |
| Big Boi Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors | 3.5 |
| Big D and the Kids Table How it Goes | 3.5 |
| Bill Callahan Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle | 3.5 |
| Billy Woods History Will Absolve Me | 3.5 |
| Binary Star Masters of the Universe | 4.0 |
| Birds Of Tokyo Universes | 3.5 |
| Bjork Medulla | 3.5 |
| Bjork Biophilia | 3.5 |
| Bjork Vulnicura | 4.5 |
| Oh my. |
| Black Flag Damaged | 3.5 |
| Black Milk Tronic | 3.5 |
| Black Milk Album Of The Year | 3.5 |
| Black Milk If There's A Hell Below | 3.5 |
| Black Star Black Star | 4.0 |
| Black Swan (USA-NY) Black Swan (In 8 Movements) | 4.0 |
| Blackalicious Blazing Arrow | 3.5 |
| Blacklisted Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God | 4.0 |
| Blakfish Champions | 4.0 |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State | 3.0 |
| blink-182 Blink-182 | 3.5 |
| blink-182 Dude Ranch | 3.5 |
| blink-182 Neighborhoods | 3.5 |
| Oh my god I'm in high school again :D |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket | 4.5 |
| Bloc Party Intimacy | 2.5 |
| Bloc Party A Weekend in the City | 3.0 |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm | 3.5 |
| Blonde Redhead Misery is a Butterfly | 3.5 |
| Blonde Redhead Penny Sparkle | 3.5 |
| Blonde Redhead 23 | 4.0 |
| Blondes Blondes | 3.5 |
| Blondes Touched | 4.0 |
| Blu and Exile Below the Heavens | 4.0 |
| Blue Hawaii Untogether | 3.5 |
| Blue Man Group The Complex Rock Tour Live (DVD) | 4.5 |
| Blue Sky Black Death NOIR | 3.0 |
| Blue Sky Black Death A Heap Of Broken Images | 3.5 |
| Blue Sky Black Death Late Night Cinema | 4.0 |
| Bluetech Sines And Singularities | 3.0 |
| Blur Blur | 3.5 |
| Blur Parklife | 4.0 |
| Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children | 3.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Everybody That You Love | 3.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Vacation | 3.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Goodbye Cool World! | 4.0 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Scrambles | 4.0 |
| If punk rock had itself a barmy, mad professor to call its own, Bomb The Music Industry!s Jeff Rosenstock would be at the very top of the list of candidates. Taking a spin through Scrambles, it'd be easy enough to see him laughing maniacally around the album's wicked brew of attitude-fueled, messily composed DIY punk. While there's very little of what would be called a formula (Scrambles is far too interesting and varied to pin it down to any one recipe book, especially the loose "folk-punk" label the band is associated with), Rosenstock and co. assemble an alchemical mix of ingredients including a whirlwind set of piano driven backroom rockers, furious acoustic tirades and quirky but hard-edged forays of introspection all rolled into one. And as usual, sitting centre stage among it all is Rosenstock's biting lyrical scalpel, his powerful delivery underscored by the force of his playful irony, conjuring enough empathy to pluck ever so softly at the emotions while remaining irresistibly, absolutely and undeniably fun at the same time. And to top it all off? Well, the band is giving Scrambles away absolutely free online. Could you really ask for any more? |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Adults!!!: Smart!!! Shithammered!!! And Excited By Nothing!!!!!!! | 4.0 |
| Bon Iver Blood Bank | 3.5 |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 4.0 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 5.0 |
| I once subscribed to the idea that your favorite music was supposed to be the type of music you could listen to over and over again because it was, well, your favorite. In the dazzling light of the trail blazed by Bon Iver's For Emma, Forever Ago, I'm not sure I can hold on to that anymore. The simple truth is that I can't listen to this over and over again. There's just something about having your heartstrings pulled across every galaxy of emotion that begs for moderation - and that's exactly what this record represents: an intimacy carved into the deepest confines of the soul, skipping with bounds and strides across ears and into the chest with piercing clarity. And it hurts, a brilliant hurt. But maybe now I can subscribe to a new adage: that it's the pain that reminds us that we're all really alive in the first place. |
| Bonde Do Role With Lazers | 3.5 |
| Bonobo The North Borders | 3.5 |
| Booka Shade Movements | 4.0 |
| Botch An Anthology of Dead Ends | 4.0 |
| Botch We Are the Romans | 4.0 |
| Box Car Racer Box Car Racer | 4.0 |
| Boxcutter Oneiric | 4.0 |
| Braid Frame & Canvas | 4.0 |
| Braid No Coast | 4.0 |
| Braid return to remind everyone how to emotionally fucking rock. |
| Braids Native Speaker | 3.5 |
| Braids Flourish // Perish | 3.5 |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon | 3.5 |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 4.0 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 4.0 |
| Brand New Daisy | 4.0 |
| Breather Resist Charmer | 4.5 |
| Brendan Canning Something For All of Us... | 3.5 |
| Bridezilla The First Dance | 3.0 |
| Bridezilla Bridezilla EP | 3.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Amo | 2.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Count Your Blessings | 2.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season | 3.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It... | 3.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal | 3.0 |
| Britney Spears Circus | 3.5 |
| Broken Social Scene Feel Good Lost | 3.0 |
| Broken Social Scene Forgiveness Rock Record | 3.5 |
| Broken Social Scene Hug of Thunder | 3.5 |
| Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People | 4.5 |
| Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene | 4.5 |
| Brother/Ghost Black Ice | 3.5 |
| BT This Binary Universe | 3.5 |
| BT ESCM | 3.5 |
| Buena Vista Social Club Buena Vista Social Club | 4.0 |
| Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret | 4.0 |
| Built to Spill Perfect from Now On | 4.0 |
| Built to Spill There Is No Enemy | 4.0 |
| Buraka Som Sistema Black Diamond | 4.0 |
| Burial Burial | 4.0 |
| Burial Kindred | 4.0 |
| Burial Untrue | 4.5 |
| Burning Airlines Identikit | 4.0 |
| Burst Lazarus Bird | 3.5 |
| Cacophony Go Off! | 3.5 |
| Cacophony Speed Metal Symphony | 3.5 |
| calculator This Will Come To Pass | 3.5 |
| Cancer Bats Hail Destroyer | 2.5 |
| Cannibal Ox The Cold Vein | 3.5 |
| Cap'n Jazz Analphabetapolothology | 4.0 |
| Capacities The Unexamined Life | 4.0 |
| Capacities There Is No Neutral | 4.0 |
| Capsule (US) Blue | 3.5 |
| Captain Murphy Duality | 4.0 |
| Captain, We're Sinking The Future Is Cancelled | 3.5 |
| Caravels Lacuna | 3.5 |
| Carcass Heartwork | 4.0 |
| Caribou Andorra | 3.5 |
| Caribou Swim | 4.0 |
| Caribou Our Love | 4.0 |
| Caroline Polachek Pang | 3.0 |
| Caspian On Circles | 3.5 |
| Cassette Kids Nothing on TV | 3.5 |
| Cat Power Moon Pix | 3.5 |
| Cat Power Sun | 3.5 |
| Catch 22 Keasbey Nights | 4.5 |
| Cave In Jupiter | 3.5 |
| Caverns (DC) Kittens! | 3.5 |
| Cee Lo Green Cee-Lo Green Is The Soul Machine | 3.5 |
| Cee Lo Green The Lady Killer | 3.5 |
| ceo White Magic | 3.0 |
| Cerce Cerce | 3.5 |
| Ceremony (USA-CA) Violence Violence | 4.0 |
| Ceremony (USA-CA) Still Nothing Moves You | 4.0 |
| Ceremony (USA-CA) Rohnert Park | 4.0 |
| Chairlift Something | 3.5 |
| Chairlift Moth | 3.5 |
| Charlotte Gainsbourg IRM | 3.0 |
| Charlotte Gainsbourg Rest | 3.5 |
| Chat Pile God's Country | 4.5 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Apokalypsis | 3.0 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Birth of Violence | 3.0 |
| Cherry Glazerr Stuffed and Ready | 4.0 |
| Chick Corea The Ultimate Adventure | 4.5 |
| Children Collide The Long Now | 2.5 |
| Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Something Wild | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Hatebreeder | 4.0 |
| Christina Aguilera Back to Basics | 3.5 |
| Christopher O'Riley True Love Waits | 4.0 |
| Christopher O'Riley Hold Me To This | 4.0 |
| Chromatics Kill for Love | 3.5 |
| Chromatics Night Drive | 4.0 |
| CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe | 3.5 |
| CHVRCHES Every Open Eye | 3.5 |
| CHVRCHES Recover | 4.0 |
| Circa Survive On Letting Go | 3.5 |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise | 3.5 |
| Circle Jerks Group Sex | 3.5 |
| Circle Takes the Square Rites of Initiation | 4.0 |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 5.0 |
| City of Caterpillar Mystic Sisters | 4.0 |
| City of Caterpillar City of Caterpillar | 5.0 |
| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | 4.0 |
| Classics of Love Classics of Love | 4.0 |
| clipping. CLPPNG | 3.5 |
| Closure in Moscow Pink Lemonade | 3.0 |
| Closure in Moscow First Temple | 4.0 |
| Cloud Nothings Here and Nowhere Else | 3.5 |
| cLOUDDEAD cLOUDDEAD | 3.5 |
| Clown Core van | 3.5 |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | 3.5 |
| Face it, the only reason you liked Coldplay was to show your 'sensitive side' to help you get into the pants of that smokin' indie chick you never quite ended up hooking up with. "You know how I know you're gay?" - Yeah. Well, Viva La Vida showed everyone up didn't it? With Brian Eno on the production decks, Coldplay threw open their sound to capture a rocky edge that shot them into the untouchable realm of being liked that the smokin' preppy chick - now even the indie guys have a chance with them, if of course they aren't too busy being apathetically cool. And why not? With music this good, flourishing love can only be a good thing. |
| Colin Stetson New History Warfare Vol 2: Judges | 3.5 |
| Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld Never Were The Way She Was | 4.0 |
| Coma Regalia En Sperata | 4.0 |
| Comets on Fire Blue Cathedral | 4.0 |
| Concord Dawn Chaos By Design | 3.5 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 2.5 |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind | 3.0 |
| Converge You Fail Me | 3.5 |
| Converge When Forever Comes Crashing | 3.5 |
| Converge No Heroes | 4.0 |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky | 4.5 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 5.0 |
| Craig Armstrong Plunkett & MacLeane OST | 4.0 |
| Crash of Rhinos Distal | 3.5 |
| Crash of Rhinos Knots | 3.5 |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles | 4.0 |
| I realize that I'm going to lose a lot of indie points for this, but I'm too busy elegantly disheveling my hair to give a damn. Trailing on the bookends of the electrokidz craze of '07, Crystal Castles had just about everything going against them. If the gimmicky 8 bit gameboy samples didn't make this an album already marked for the bin of quick love, NME pretty much sounded the band's death knell by naming Alice Glass the coolest person of '08. And besides, nurave electro is sooo 2007. But I told you - I don't give a damn. There's more fun here than you'll find on a string of glowstick parties and more than enough surprises - from the manic "Xxzxcuzx Me" to the electropop of "Good Time" - to keep it interesting for a while to come. |
| CSS Cansei de Ser Sexy | 2.5 |
| Cult Leader Nothing for Us Here | 3.5 |
| CunninLynguists A Piece Of Strange | 4.0 |
| Cursive Domestica | 3.5 |
| Cut Chemist The Audience's Listening | 3.5 |
| Cut Copy Bright Like Neon Love | 3.0 |
| Cut Copy In Ghost Colours | 3.0 |
| Cut Copy Zonoscope | 3.5 |
| Cut Off Your Hands Shaky Hands | 3.5 |
| Cut Off Your Hands Hollow | 3.5 |
| Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains | 3.5 |
| Cyne Evolution Fight | 4.0 |
| Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us | 2.0 |
| Cynic Traced in Air | 4.0 |
| Cynic The Portal Tapes | 4.0 |
| Cynic Focus | 4.5 |
| Daft Punk Discovery | 3.5 |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories | 3.5 |
| Daft Punk Alive 2007 | 4.5 |
| Daitro Des Cendres, Je Me Consume | 3.5 |
| Daitro Y | 3.5 |
| Daitro Laisser Vivre Les Squelettes | 4.0 |
| Daitro/Sed Non Satiata Split | 4.0 |
| Damien Rice 9 | 3.5 |
| Damien Rice O | 4.0 |
| Dan Deacon Spiderman of the Rings | 3.5 |
| Dan Deacon Bromst | 3.5 |
| Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip Angles | 3.5 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Happiness | 3.5 |
| Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi Rome | 3.5 |
| Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse Dark Night of the Soul | 4.0 |
| Dangers Messy, Isn't It? | 4.0 |
| Dangers 5 O'Clock Shadows At The Edge Of The Western World | 4.0 |
| Dangers Anger | 4.5 |
| Daniel Striped Tiger Condition | 3.0 |
| Danny Brown XXX | 4.0 |
| Danny Brown Old | 4.5 |
| Dark Time Sunshine Vessel | 3.5 |
| Dark Tranquillity Character | 4.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity Fiction | 4.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity Damage Done | 4.5 |
| Dark Tranquillity The Gallery | 4.5 |
| Darkest Hour Deliver Us | 4.0 |
| datA (House) The Skywriter | 3.5 |
| Daughters Daughters | 3.5 |
| Dave Navarro Trust No One | 3.0 |
| David Bowie Blackstar | 4.0 |
| Davwuh Dystopia | 4.0 |
| De Lucia, McLaughlin, Di Meola Friday Night In San Francisco | 4.5 |
| Deadly Avenger Blossoms And Blood | 4.0 |
| Deadmau5 Random Album Title | 3.5 |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 3.5 |
| Deafheaven Roads to Judah | 4.0 |
| Deafheaven Black Brick | 4.5 |
| Death Scream Bloody Gore | 3.0 |
| Death Spiritual Healing | 3.5 |
| Death Leprosy | 3.5 |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance | 4.0 |
| Death Individual Thought Patterns | 4.5 |
| Death Symbolic | 4.5 |
| Death Human | 5.0 |
| Death From Above 1979 You're a Woman, I'm a Machine | 3.5 |
| Deathspell Omega Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum | 3.0 |
| Decahedron Disconnection Imminent | 4.0 |
| Deconstruction Deconstruction | 3.5 |
| Deep Purple Made in Japan | 4.5 |
| Deerhunter Monomania | 3.5 |
| Deerhunter Microcastle | 4.0 |
| Deerhunter Halcyon Digest | 4.0 |
| Defeater Travels | 3.5 |
| Defeater Lost Ground | 3.5 |
| Defiance, Ohio The Fear, The Fear, The Fear | 3.5 |
| Defiance, Ohio Share What Ya Got | 4.0 |
| Defiance, Ohio The Great Depression | 4.0 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 4.0 |
| Delerium Karma | 4.0 |
| Delorean Subiza | 3.5 |
| Delorean Ayrton Senna | 4.0 |
| Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 | 4.0 |
| Denzel Curry TA13OO | 4.0 |
| Denzel Curry Zuu | 4.5 |
| Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats Unlocked | 4.5 |
| Departures When Losing Everything Is Everything You Wanted | 3.5 |
| Departures Escaping | 4.0 |
| Descendents Milo Goes to College | 4.5 |
| Destroyer Kaputt | 4.0 |
| Okay so the whole time I'm listening to this, I'm imagining Sharon Stone (circa Sliver) walking up to me real slow like, in this awesome black leotard, real skimpy like, and they're these candles (red), burning, and rose petals too. We're in a hotel room, by the way. So like, I'm sitting on a chair and she comes up to me, climbs on top and wraps those long, 80s sex goddess legs are around me, and shes sorta dry humping me, real passionate like, and then I reach down and start to unzip the leotard from behind, and she stops me, looks me in the eye real seductive like, and starts to like make out with my neck and oh my god I jizzed my pants. |
| Devin Townsend Project Addicted | 3.5 |
| Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction | 3.5 |
| DeVotchKa A Mad & Faithful Telling | 3.5 |
| DFRNT Metafiction | 3.5 |
| Diablo Swing Orchestra The Butcher's Ballroom | 3.5 |
| Digitalism Idealism | 3.0 |
| Dillinger Four Midwestern Songs Of The Americas | 4.0 |
| Dillinger Four C I V I L W A R | 4.0 |
| Dio Holy Diver | 3.5 |
| Diplo Florida | 3.5 |
| Diplo FabricLive.24 | 3.5 |
| Dirty Projectors Rise Above | 3.5 |
| Dirty Projectors Swing Lo Magellan | 3.5 |
| Dirty Projectors Dirty Projectors | 4.0 |
| Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca | 4.5 |
| Disclosure The Face | 4.0 |
| Disclosure Settle | 4.0 |
| Discordance Axis The Inalienable Dreamless | 4.0 |
| Disillusion Back to Times of Splendor | 4.0 |
| Distance Repercussions | 3.5 |
| Dizzee Rascal The Fifth | 1.5 |
| Dizzee Rascal Tongue N' Cheek | 2.5 |
| Dizzee Rascal Boy In Da Corner | 4.0 |
| Dizzee Rascal Maths and English | 4.0 |
| Dizzee Rascal E3 AF | 4.0 |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... | 4.0 |
| DJ Shadow The Private Press | 4.0 |
| DJ Sprinkles Midtown 120 Blues | 4.5 |
| Do Make Say Think & Yet & Yet | 3.5 |
| Do Make Say Think Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn | 4.0 |
| Do Make Say Think You, You're a History in Rust | 4.0 |
| Do Make Say Think Other Truths | 4.0 |
| Ok, this is just ridiculous now, no band should be allowed to be this consistently awesome. Usually this is the bit where I rant about how saturated the post rock scene is, but Do Make Say Think's brand of jazz infused instrumental jams are so strikingly unique it's hard to even consider mentioning the band and the genre in the same breath for fear of lumping them in with 'everyone else'. While Other Truths isn't the band's most polished record, there's a distinct feeling here that 'polished' isn't exactly the point - with just four songs averaging about ten minutes each, Other Truths plays itself out as one giant, magical studio jam that just so happily got captured on tape. That they just also happen to all sound immaculately composed and free flowing at the same time is only a testament to the wonder of this Canadian collective. Oh, and "Do" just might be the greatest thing these guys have ever written. Get. Now. Feel. Good. |
| Do Make Say Think Stubborn Persistent Illusions | 4.5 |
| still shitting on everyone else 8 years later |
| Dodie Intertwined | 4.0 |
| Does It Offend You, Yeah? You Have No Idea... | 3.0 |
| Dr. Octagon Dr. Octagonecologyst | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought | 4.0 |
| Drei Affen Seguimos Ciegxs | 4.0 |
| Drive Like Jehu Yank Crime | 4.0 |
| Drive Like Jehu Drive Like Jehu | 4.5 |
| Edan Beauty and the Beat | 4.5 |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson | 4.0 |
| El Guincho Alegranza! | 2.5 |
| Eleventh He Reaches London Hollow Be My Name | 3.5 |
| Eluvium Copia | 4.0 |
| Elzhi and Georgia Anne Muldrow Zhigeist | 4.0 |
| Emancipator Soon It Will Be Cold Enough | 3.5 |
| Emancipator Safe In The Steep Cliffs | 3.5 |
| Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail | 3.5 |
| Eminem Recovery | 3.0 |
| Eminem Kamikaze | 3.5 |
| Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) What It Takes to Move Forward | 3.5 |
| Engineer The Dregs | 4.0 |
| Ensiferum Ensiferum | 3.0 |
| Envy Recitation | 2.5 |
| Envy get cute and decide to write Christmas carols. |
| Envy A Dead Sinking Story | 3.5 |
| Envy All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead | 3.5 |
| Eric B and Rakim Paid in Full | 3.5 |
| Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit The Very Best | 3.5 |
| Eternal Summers Correct Behavior | 3.0 |
| Eternal Tears of Sorrow Before the Bleeding Sun | 3.0 |
| Eucalypt Collection | 4.0 |
| Evanescence Fallen | 3.0 |
| Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic | 3.5 |
| Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown | 3.5 |
| Every Time I Die Low Teens | 4.0 |
| Evol Intent Era of Diversion | 4.0 |
| Exivious Exivious | 3.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 2.5 |
| Extra Life Secular Works | 3.5 |
| Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True | 4.0 |
| Fall Out Boy Folie a Deux | 3.5 |
| Fall Out Boy Infinity on High | 4.0 |
| Fang Island Fang Island | 3.5 |
| Fear Before The Always Open Mouth | 4.0 |
| Feist Let It Die | 3.5 |
| Feist Look At What The Light Did Now | 4.0 |
| Feist Metals | 4.0 |
| Feist The Reminder | 4.5 |
| Feral Children Second to the Last Frontier | 3.0 |
| Fever Ray Fever Ray | 4.0 |
| Fight Like Apes The Body Of Christ And The Legs Of Tina Turner | 3.0 |
| Fight Like Apes ...And The Mystery Of The Golden Medallion | 4.0 |
| Film School alwaysnever | 4.0 |
| Final Fantasy He Poos Clouds | 3.5 |
| Finale A Pipe Dream and a Promise | 3.5 |
| Finch What It Is to Burn | 3.0 |
| Finch Say Hello to Sunshine | 4.0 |
| Finch Epilogue | 4.0 |
| Firekites The Bowery | 3.5 |
| Fireworks Adventure, Nostalgia, and Robbery | 3.0 |
| Fireworks Bonfires | 3.0 |
| Fireworks Gospel | 3.0 |
| Fireworks Oh, Common Life | 3.0 |
| Fireworks We Are Everywhere | 4.0 |
| Fireworks All I Have To Offer Is My Own Confusion | 4.0 |
| If you're after the perfect album for a teenage summer, then there's not much better you could do than All I Have To Offer... Brimming with an energy untarnished by anything less than a rollicking set of feel-good pop punk anthems, Fireworks make it their sole mission to drag kids kicking and screaming out from whichever dark, angry hole they've dug themselves and into the sunlight of their wistful playground of emotionally aggressive fun. Infused with a hardcore ethos drawn from fellow bands like Set Your Goals and Four Year Strong, what is on offer here, title aside, is a slew of wispy, bouncing guitar lines that flail playfully around David Mackinder's poignantly innocent lyrics. There's a certain nostalgia here too, but only just enough to make All I Have To Offer... the album you'll look back on and say 'hey, now that - that was a good time' with a tinge of heartfelt warmth and memory. While it may not be on the cutting edge of the scene, with its constant tsunamis of catchy, Yeti-sized chorus and way-above-the-standard songwriting, its one of the most gloriously infectious albums to creep up from the sidelines of '09 - and to do anything but revel in its light would be a crime against all that is awesome. |
| First Aid Kit The Lion's Roar | 3.5 |
| First Aid Kit Stay Gold | 4.0 |
| FKA Twigs Magdalene | 4.0 |
| FKA Twigs Caprisongs | 4.0 |
| Flametal The Elder | 4.0 |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes | 3.5 |
| Flipper Album – Generic Flipper | 4.0 |
| Floex Pocustone | 4.0 |
| Floex Zorya | 4.0 |
| Flogging Molly Drunken Lullabies | 3.0 |
| Florence and the Machine How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful | 3.5 |
| Florence and the Machine Lungs | 4.0 |
| Florence and the Machine Ceremonials | 4.0 |
| Fluke Risotto | 4.0 |
| Fluke Puppy | 4.0 |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma | 3.5 |
| Flying Lotus Los Angeles | 4.5 |
| Foals Total Life Forever | 3.5 |
| Forest Swords Engravings | 4.0 |
| Forever Came Calling Contender | 4.0 |
| Forgive Durden Razia's Shadow: A Musical | 3.0 |
| Forgive Durden Wonderland | 3.5 |
| Four Tet There is Love in You | 3.5 |
| Fragments of Unbecoming Sterling Black Icon: Black But Shining | 3.5 |
| Frail Body A Brief Memoriam | 3.5 |
| Frank Ocean Nostalgia, Ultra. | 3.5 |
| Frank Turner Positive Songs for Negative People | 3.5 |
| Frank Turner Love, Ire & Song | 4.0 |
| Frankie Rose Interstellar | 3.5 |
| Frankie Rose Herein Wild | 4.0 |
| Friendly Fires Friendly Fires | 3.5 |
| Friendly Fires Pala | 3.5 |
| fun fun fun fun ... percussion! |
| Frightened Rabbit Tiny Changes | 3.5 |
| Frightened Rabbit The Midnight Organ Fight | 4.0 |
| Frodus And We Washed Our Weapons In The Sea | 4.0 |
| From Indian Lakes The Man With Wooden Legs | 3.5 |
| From Indian Lakes Able Bodies | 4.0 |
| Fuck Buttons Tarot Sport | 3.5 |
| fun. Aim and Ignite | 3.5 |
| Funeral Diner The Underdark | 4.0 |
| Funkadelic Maggot Brain | 3.5 |
| Future of the Left Travels With Myself And Another | 3.5 |
| Gallows (UK) Grey Britain | 3.5 |
| Gang Gang Dance Saint Dymphna | 3.5 |
| Gang Gang Dance Eye Contact | 3.5 |
| Garden of Shadows Oracle Moon | 3.5 |
| Gary Moore Still Got The Blues | 3.5 |
| Gatsby's American Dream Ribbons and Sugar | 4.0 |
| Gatsby's American Dream Volcano | 4.0 |
| Gayngs Relayted | 3.0 |
| Gaza He Is Never Coming Back | 4.0 |
| Germs (GI) | 4.0 |
| Ghost Cat Cave Sounds | 4.0 |
| Ghost Mice Europe | 3.5 |
| Ghostface Killah Twelve Reasons to Die | 3.5 |
| Ghostface Killah Ironman | 4.0 |
| Ghostface Killah Supreme Clientele | 4.0 |
| Ghostface Killah Apollo Kids | 4.0 |
| Ghostface Killah The Lost Tapes | 4.0 |
| Ghostface Killah Fishscale | 4.5 |
| Ghostlimb Bearing & Distance | 3.5 |
| Ghosts and Vodka Addicts and Drunks | 3.5 |
| Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie XX We're New Here | 3.0 |
| Girl Talk Night Ripper | 3.5 |
| Girl Talk Feed the Animals | 3.5 |
| Girl Talk All Day | 3.5 |
| Glasser Ring | 3.5 |
| Glasser Interiors | 3.5 |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute | 4.0 |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence | 4.0 |
| Glassjaw Material Control | 4.0 |
| Glen Check Haute Couture | 3.5 |
| Glocca Morra Just Married | 3.5 |
| Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere | 3.5 |
| God Is an Astronaut God Is an Astronaut | 3.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright | 3.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! | 4.0 |
| Gold Panda Lucky Shiner | 4.0 |
| Goldfinger Open Your Eyes | 2.0 |
| Goldfinger Stomping Ground | 3.5 |
| Goldie Timeless | 3.5 |
| Gordian Knot Gordian Knot | 4.0 |
| Gordian Knot Emergent | 4.0 |
| Gorod Leading Vision | 4.0 |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World | 4.5 |
| Gotye Making Mirrors | 3.0 |
| Gravediggaz 6 Feet Deep | 4.0 |
| Green Carnation Light of Day, Day of Darkness | 3.5 |
| Green Carnation The Acoustic Verses | 3.5 |
| Green Day Dookie | 2.5 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 2.5 |
| Grimes Geidi Primes | 3.0 |
| Grimes Visions | 3.5 |
| Grimes Miss Anthropocene | 3.5 |
| Grimes Art Angels | 4.0 |
| Grinderman Grinderman 2 | 3.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Yellow House | 3.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest | 4.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Shields | 4.5 |
| Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill | 3.5 |
| Grouper Ruins | 4.0 |
| Gui Boratto Chromophobia | 4.0 |
| Guided by Voices Bee Thousand | 4.0 |
| Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion I | 4.0 |
| Guns N' Roses Live Era '87-'93 | 4.0 |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction | 4.5 |
| Gustavo Santaolalla Ronroco | 4.0 |
| GZA Liquid Swords | 4.0 |
| Hadouken! Music For An Accelerated Culture | 3.0 |
| Hail the Sun Elephantitis | 3.5 |
| HAIM Days Are Gone | 3.5 |
| Hallucinogen In Dub | 3.0 |
| Hallucinogen The Lone Deranger | 3.5 |
| Hallucinogen Twisted | 4.5 |
| Hands Like Houses Ground Dweller | 3.0 |
| Hands Like Houses Dissonants | 3.5 |
| Hannah Diamond Reflections | 2.0 |
| Hans Zimmer The Rock | 3.5 |
| Haru Nemuri Haru to Shura | 4.5 |
| Harvest Living With A God Complex | 3.5 |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness | 3.5 |
| Hayley Mary The Piss, The Perfume | 3.0 |
| Hayley Williams Petals for Armor | 2.5 |
| HEALTH Health//Disco | 4.0 |
| HEALTH Death Magic | 4.0 |
| Her Name Is Calla The Quiet Lamb | 3.0 |
| Hercules and Love Affair Hercules and Love Affair | 3.5 |
| Hercules and Love Affair Blue Songs | 3.5 |
| Heroin Heroin | 4.0 |
| High Places High Places | 3.0 |
| Holler, Wild Rose! Our Little Hymnal | 3.0 |
| Holly Herndon Platform | 4.0 |
| Holy Fuck LP | 3.5 |
| Holy Fuck Latin | 3.5 |
| Hopesfall The Satellite Years | 3.5 |
| Hopesfall A Types | 3.5 |
| HORSE the band R. Borlax | 2.5 |
| Hot Cross Cryonics | 4.0 |
| Hot Snakes Automatic Midnight | 4.0 |
| Hot Water Music A Flight and a Crash | 3.5 |
| How to Dress Well Total Loss | 2.5 |
| How to Dress Well Just Once | 3.5 |
| How to Dress Well What Is This Heart? | 3.5 |
| How to Dress Well Love Remains | 4.5 |
| It's like Justin Vernon went up to Burial and was like yo make an album for me, and Burial was like sure bro and the shit was cash. Also, Justin Vernon is black. |
| Husker Du Zen Arcade | 4.0 |
| Hybrid (UK) Wide Angle | 4.0 |
| i hate sex Circle Thinking | 4.0 |
| Ice Cube AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted | 3.5 |
| Icona Pop This Is...Icona Pop | 3.0 |
| IDLES Brutalism | 3.5 |
| IDLES Joy as an Act of Resistance | 4.5 |
| Ignite Our Darkest Days | 3.5 |
| Immortal Sons of Northern Darkness | 3.5 |
| Imperial Triumphant Alphaville | 4.0 |
| In Pieces Lions Write History | 3.0 |
| Infinite Void Infinite Void | 3.5 |
| Insomnium Above the Weeping World | 4.0 |
| Insomnium Since the Day It All Came Down | 4.5 |
| Integrity Humanity is the Devil | 4.0 |
| Interpol Antics | 3.5 |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 4.0 |
| Interpol Our Love to Admire | 4.0 |
| Interpol El Pintor | 4.0 |
| Iron And Wine Kiss Each Other Clean | 3.5 |
| Iron And Wine The Shepherd's Dog | 4.0 |
| Iron Lung Life. Iron Lung. Death. | 4.0 |
| Iron Lung White Glove Test | 4.0 |
| Iron Lung Sexless // No Sex | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden Edward the Great | 3.5 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 2.5 |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant | 3.5 |
| Islands Return To The Sea | 3.0 |
| Islands Arm's Way | 3.0 |
| Isle Of Thieves Only Human | 3.0 |
| Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan Hawk | 3.5 |
| Ital Hive Mind | 2.5 |
| Jack White Blunderbuss | 3.5 |
| Jack's Mannequin The Glass Passenger | 3.5 |
| Jakob Solace | 3.5 |
| James Blake Assume Form | 3.5 |
| In which JB finally goes all-in on his hip-hop Janis Joplin vibe. |
| James Blake CMYK | 4.0 |
| James Blake Klavierwerke | 4.0 |
| James Blake James Blake | 4.5 |
| James Blake Overgrown | 4.5 |
| Jamie Woon Mirrorwriting | 3.5 |
| Jane's Addiction Strays | 3.0 |
| Jane's Addiction Kettle Whistle | 3.5 |
| Jane's Addiction Jane's Addiction | 4.0 |
| Jane's Addiction Nothing's Shocking | 4.5 |
| Jane's Addiction Ritual De Lo Habitual | 4.5 |
| Janelle Monae The Electric Lady | 4.0 |
| Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid | 4.5 |
| Japandroids Post-Nothing | 4.0 |
| Jaubi Nafs at Peace | 4.0 |
| Jawbreaker Dear You | 3.5 |
| Jawbreaker 24 Hour Revenge Therapy | 3.5 |
| Jay Reatard Watch Me Fall | 3.0 |
| Jay Som Everybody Works | 3.5 |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint | 3.5 |
| Jay-Z The Black Album | 3.5 |
| Jay-Z American Gangster | 3.5 |
| Jay-Z Reasonable Doubt | 4.0 |
| Jazzanova In Between | 3.0 |
| Jeff Buckley Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk | 3.5 |
| Jeff Buckley Grace | 4.5 |
| Jenny Hval Innocence Is Kinky | 4.0 |
| Jenny Hval Apocalypse, girl | 4.0 |
| Jenny Hval Viscera | 4.5 |
| Jenny Hval and Susanna Meshes Of Voice | 4.5 |
| Jenny Lewis On The Line | 3.5 |
| Jeromes Dream Completed | 3.5 |
| Jessie Ware Devotion | 3.5 |
| Jessie Ware Tough Love | 3.5 |
| Jessie Ware What's Your Pleasure? | 3.5 |
| Jesu Conqueror | 2.5 |
| Jesu Everyday I Get Closer to the Light from Which I Came | 3.0 |
| Jesu Silver | 3.5 |
| Jet Get Born | 3.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Chase This Light | 3.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Bleed American | 3.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Futures | 3.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Static Prevails | 3.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Clarity | 4.5 |
| Joan of Arc How Memory Works | 3.5 |
| Joanna Gruesome Weird Sister | 3.5 |
| Joanna Gruesome Peanut Butter | 3.5 |
| Joanna Newsom The Milk-Eyed Mender | 4.0 |
| Joanna Newsom Ys | 4.0 |
| Joanna Newsom Have One on Me | 4.0 |
| Joe Satriani Surfing With The Alien | 3.0 |
| Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros Global A Go-Go | 3.0 |
| Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros Streetcore | 3.5 |
| Joey Badass ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$ | 3.5 |
| Joey Badass 1999 | 4.0 |
| Joey Badass B4.DA.$$ | 4.0 |
| John 5 Vertigo | 3.5 |
| John 5 Songs For Sanity | 4.0 |
| John 5 The Devil Knows My Name | 4.0 |
| John Butler Trio Sunrise Over Sea | 4.0 |
| John Butler Trio Grand National | 4.0 |
| John Butler Trio Three | 4.5 |
| John Butler Trio John Butler | 4.5 |
| John Frusciante Smile from the Streets You Hold | 1.0 |
| John Frusciante Shadows Collide with People | 3.0 |
| John K. Samson Provincial | 3.5 |
| John Mayer Born and Raised | 2.0 |
| Music for bitches. |
| John Mayer Heavier Things | 3.5 |
| John Mayer Battle Studies | 3.5 |
| John Mayer Room for Squares | 4.0 |
| John Mayer Continuum | 4.5 |
| John Mayer Trio Try! | 4.0 |
| This one shut them allll up didn't it? No more pretty boy here, Mayer delves staright into his raw roots of aqua blues, playing like the best of them and using his soothing but oh-so-dirty voice to give us one of the purest and punchy records of his career. This was the album Mayer simply had to have - from him to us, a breath of awesomeness. |
| John Petrucci Suspended Animation | 3.5 |
| John Petrucci An Evening With John Petrucci & Jordan Rudess | 4.0 |
| John Talabot Fin | 3.5 |
| John-Allison Weiss New Love | 3.0 |
| John-Allison Weiss Say What You Mean | 4.0 |
| Johnny Foreigner Grace And The Bigger Picture | 3.5 |
| Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains Love Songs For The Apocalypse | 4.0 |
| Jon Hopkins Insides | 3.5 |
| Jon Hopkins Immunity | 3.5 |
| Jonathan Boulet Jonathan Boulet | 4.0 |
| Joshua Fit For Battle To Bring Our Own End | 4.0 |
| Joyce Manor Joyce Manor | 3.5 |
| Joyce Manor Never Hungover Again | 3.5 |
| Julia Holter Loud City Song | 3.5 |
| Julia Holter Ekstasis | 4.0 |
| Julia Jacklin Crushing | 3.5 |
| Julian Casablancas Phrazes for the Young | 3.0 |
| Julianna Barwick Nepenthe | 4.0 |
| Julien Baker Turn Out The Lights | 4.0 |
| Julien Baker Sprained Ankle | 4.5 |
| Juno Reactor Bible Of Dreams | 4.0 |
| Justice † | 4.5 |
| Justin King Le Bleu | 4.5 |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience | 3.5 |
| Kalisia Cybion | 3.5 |
| Kalmah For the Revolution | 3.0 |
| Kalmah The Black Waltz | 3.5 |
| Kalmah They Will Return | 3.5 |
| Kalmah Swamplord | 4.0 |
| Kalmah Swampsong | 4.0 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 3.5 |
| Kanye West The Life of Pablo | 4.0 |
| Kanye West Yeezus | 4.5 |
| Karoshi Karoshi | 4.0 |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I | 3.5 |
| Kate Bush Hounds of Love | 4.0 |
| Kate Bush The Dreaming | 4.0 |
| Kate Bush 50 Words for Snow | 4.0 |
| Kate Miller-Heidke Curiouser | 3.5 |
| Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue | 3.5 |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye | 4.0 |
| Kelly Lee Owens Kelly Lee Owens | 3.5 |
| Kelly Lee Owens Inner Song | 4.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar DAMN. | 4.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly | 4.5 |
| Kerouac Cold and Distant, Not Loving | 4.0 |
| Kevin Drew Spirit If... | 3.5 |
| Kid Dynamite Kid Dynamite | 3.5 |
| Kidcrash Snacks | 3.0 |
| Kidcrash Jokes | 4.0 |
| Kids and Explosions Shit Computer | 3.5 |
| Kimbra Primal Heart | 4.5 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Butterfly 3000 | 3.5 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard L. W. | 4.0 |
| Kings of Leon Because Of The Times | 3.0 |
| Kings of Leon Come Around Sundown | 3.0 |
| Kings of Leon Only By The Night | 3.5 |
| Kite Flying Society [FL] A Discography | 4.5 |
| Kitsuné Maison Vol. 3 | 4.0 |
| Klaxons Surfing the Void | 2.5 |
| Klaxons Myths of the Near Future | 4.0 |
| Klute The Emperors New Clothes | 3.5 |
| Kno Death Is Silent | 3.5 |
| Korn See You on the Other Side | 1.0 |
| Kylesa Spiral Shadow | 3.5 |
| Kylesa Static Tensions | 4.0 |
| Kyu キイチ | 3.5 |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair | 3.0 |
| La Dispute Wildlife | 4.0 |
| La Quiete La fine non è la fine | 4.0 |
| La Roux La Roux | 3.0 |
| Labyrinth Ear The Orchid Room | 3.5 |
| Labyrinth Ear Oak EP | 4.5 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame | 3.5 |
| Ladyhawke Ladyhawke | 3.5 |
| Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell! | 3.5 |
| Land Of Talk Indistinct Conversations | 3.0 |
| Land Of Talk Cloak and Cipher | 3.5 |
| Latterman No Matter Where We Go...! | 3.5 |
| Laura Jean Eden Land | 4.0 |
| Laura Marling I Speak Because I Can | 3.5 |
| Laura Marling Once I Was an Eagle | 3.5 |
| Laura Stevenson Sit Resist | 4.0 |
| Laurel Halo Quarantine | 3.5 |
| Laurel Halo Chance of Rain | 3.5 |
| Laurel Halo In Situ | 3.5 |
| LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver | 3.5 |
| LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin [DVD] | 4.5 |
| Leftfield Leftism | 3.5 |
| Leftover Crack Mediocre Generica | 2.5 |
| Leftover Crack Fuсk World Trade | 3.5 |
| Lene Marlin Twist the Truth | 3.0 |
| Lenka Lenka | 3.0 |
| Let's Eat Grandma I'm All Ears | 4.5 |
| letlive. Fake History | 2.0 |
| Liars Sisterworld | 3.5 |
| Liars WIXIW | 4.0 |
| Liars Mess | 4.0 |
| Lifetime Hello Bastards | 3.5 |
| Lifetime Jersey's Best Dancers | 4.5 |
| Lightning Bolt Wonderful Rainbow | 3.5 |
| Lights Out Asia Eyes Like Brontide | 3.5 |
| Lil Wayne Tha Carter II | 3.5 |
| Lily Allen It's Not Me, It's You | 3.0 |
| Lily Allen Alright, Still | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 2.0 |
| Linkin Park Live In Texas | 2.0 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 3.5 |
| Lion of the North The Compass Calls | 4.0 |
| Lisa Hannigan Sea Sew | 3.5 |
| Lisa Mitchell Wonder | 3.5 |
| Lisa Mitchell Bless This Mess | 3.5 |
| Little Dragon Ritual Union | 3.5 |
| Liz Phair Exile In Guyville | 4.0 |
| Local Natives Violet Street | 3.5 |
| Local Natives Gorilla Manor | 4.0 |
| Local Natives Hummingbird | 4.0 |
| Logos Cold Mission | 3.5 |
| Loma Prieta Last City | 3.5 |
| Loma Prieta Self Portrait | 4.0 |
| Loma Prieta I.V. | 4.5 |
| London Elektricity Yikes! | 3.5 |
| London Elektricity Pull The Plug | 4.0 |
| London Grammar If You Wait | 4.0 |
| Lone Wolf The Devil and I | 3.5 |
| Look What I Did Minuteman For The Moment | 3.5 |
| Lorde Pure Heroine | 3.5 |
| Lorde Melodrama | 3.5 |
| Los Campesinos! We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed | 3.5 |
| Los Campesinos! Romance Is Boring | 3.5 |
| Lost Valentinos Damn and Damn Again | 4.0 |
| Lotus Plaza The Floodlight Collective | 3.5 |
| Lotus Plaza Spooky Action At A Distance | 4.0 |
| Man, how's this for a step up? While The Floodlight Collective was a decent bunch of fuzzy wuzzy tunes, Spooky Action At A Distance takes the haze of the the previous album and puts it into sharp, diamond-sparkle relief: the melodies are better defined, the vocals more engaging, and the songwriting just miles beyond. Everything is just fucking better. With gems like these, any day now, it's going to be Deerhunter that's going to labeled the 'side-project'. And that's just fine. |
| Louis XIV The Best Little Secrets Are Kept | 2.5 |
| Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor | 3.5 |
| Lusine The Waiting Room | 3.5 |
| Lusine A Certain Distance | 4.0 |
| Lydia Assailants | 3.0 |
| Lydia Illuminate | 3.5 |
| Lydia Devil | 3.5 |
| Lykathea Aflame Elvenefris | 3.0 |
| Lykke Li Youth Novels | 3.0 |
| M.I.A. VICKI LEEKX | 3.5 |
| M.I.A. Kala | 4.0 |
| M.I.A. Piracy Funds Terrorism, Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
| M.I.A. Maya | 4.0 |
| M.I.A. Matangi | 4.5 |
| M83 Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts | 3.0 |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming | 4.0 |
| Mae (e)vening | 2.5 |
| Mae Destination: Beautiful | 3.5 |
| Magazine Real Life | 4.0 |
| Mahavishnu Orchestra Birds of Fire | 3.5 |
| Mahavishnu Orchestra The Inner Mounting Flame | 3.5 |
| Mahria Mahria | 3.5 |
| Majical Cloudz Impersonator | 4.0 |
| Major Lazer Guns Dont Kill People... Lazers Do | 3.5 |
| Majority Rule Interview With David Frost | 3.5 |
| Majority Rule Emergency Numbers | 4.0 |
| Make Do and Mend Everything You Ever Loved | 2.5 |
| Makthaverskan II | 4.0 |
| Malady Malady | 3.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing | 3.0 |
| Manic Street Preachers Journal For Plague Lovers | 2.0 |
| Manic Street Preachers This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours | 3.0 |
| Manic Street Preachers Gold Against The Soul | 3.5 |
| Manic Street Preachers Send Away The Tigers | 3.5 |
| Manic Street Preachers Everything Must Go | 4.0 |
| Manic Street Preachers Generation Terrorists | 4.0 |
| Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible | 5.0 |
| Manners Pale Blue Light | 4.0 |
| Marc Rizzo Colossal Myopia | 3.5 |
| Margot and the Nuclear So and So's The Dust of Retreat | 3.0 |
| Marina The Family Jewels | 3.5 |
| Marissa Nadler Marissa Nadler | 3.5 |
| Marissa Nadler July | 3.5 |
| Marissa Nadler Little Hells | 4.0 |
| Marissa Nadler Strangers | 4.0 |
| Marissa Nadler and Stephen Brodsky Droneflower | 2.5 |
| Marnero Il sopravvissuto | 4.0 |
| Marnie Stern This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It... | 2.5 |
| Marnie Stern Marnie Stern | 2.5 |
| Maroon 5 Songs About Jane | 4.0 |
| Marriages Salome | 3.5 |
| Masked Intruder Masked Intruder | 3.5 |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 2.5 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 3.0 |
| So come the 'saviours of modern metal' with their second studio release and, well, while the odd few would go so far as to coin a whole other genre of 'whalecore' (oh yes really) on account of it's awsomeness, the truth is, this just another run of the mill, albeit solid, metal record. So Dailor can drum pretty well, and Kelliher and Hinds can harmonize like choir boys on guitar and Sanders ain't no slouch either I suppose. But that's it. There's nothing new to hear here, but I suppose these nothing old either. Moving along.... |
| Matchbox Twenty Exile on Mainstream | 3.5 |
| Matchbox Twenty Mad Season | 4.5 |
| Matthew Good Lights of Endangered Species | 3.0 |
| Matthew Good Avalanche | 4.0 |
| Matthew Good Hospital Music | 4.0 |
| Matthew Good Band Beautiful Midnight | 4.0 |
| maudlin of the Well Part the Second | 4.0 |
| Max Bemis and The Painful Splits Max Bemis and The Painful Splits | 2.5 |
| Max Richter The Blue Notebooks | 3.5 |
| Max Richter Infra | 3.5 |
| Maximillian Colby Discography | 4.5 |
| Maxine Kauter Maxine Kauter EP | 4.0 |
| Maybeshewill Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony | 3.5 |
| Mayday Parade A Lesson In Romantics | 2.0 |
| Mazzy Star Seasons of Your Day | 3.0 |
| Mazzy Star So Tonight That I Might See | 3.5 |
| MC Lars The Graduate | 2.5 |
| mclusky McLusky Do Dallas | 4.0 |
| Meat Beat Manifesto Autoimmune | 3.5 |
| Following the vein of the heavy electrodub explosion that took place all throughout the year, Meat Beat Manifesto serve up an offering of grinding dub, ten ton bass drops and the occasional funk-to-the-max break. While it's not a combination that screams with originality - The Bug's London Zoo will make good company for Autoimmune - Meat Beat pull it off with damn fine precision. Be prepared though - for all of Autoimmune's delicate crafting, this is heavy, heavy s'hit that'll bang out from your speakers like a ton of raging bricks. |
| Meet Me in St. Louis Variations on Swing | 3.5 |
| Meg Myers Sorry | 3.5 |
| Megadeth Capitol Punishment | 3.0 |
| Melt-Banana Cell-Scape | 4.0 |
| Memphis May Fire The Hollow | 3.5 |
| Meniscus War of Currents | 3.5 |
| Meniscus Absence of I | 4.0 |
| Menomena Mines | 4.0 |
| Merchant Ships For Cameron | 4.0 |
| Mercy Arms Kept Low EP | 3.5 |
| Mercy Arms Mercy Arms | 4.0 |
| Mesa Verde The Old Road | 4.5 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 2.5 |
| Mew +- | 3.5 |
| Mew And the Glass Handed Kites | 4.0 |
| Mew Frengers | 4.5 |
| Mew No More Stories | 4.5 |
| Mew's biggest problem has simply been that they've been called, well... Mew. Maybe they realized this after the fact and have been striving to make up for it since, because following from the explosive brilliance of Frengers, Mew have threatened to become one of indie rock's most breathtakingly refreshing and innovative bands to ever press a record. While it's been almost four years since their last attempt, here on No More Stories Are Told, I'm Sorry, They Washed Away this Danish collective clearly haven't lost any of their steam, following through with a knockout punch of devastating beauty. With its rapturous mix of artfully composed progressive rock swirling amongst a thicket of richly textured shoegaze and dreampop inspired melodies, Mew have managed to redefine the musical landscape of 2009 with a single magisterial sweep. Drawing on Jonas Bjerre's delicately misty vocals and a haze of shimmering guitar lines, songs like the tension-racked rock out of "Repeater Beater" and the stunningly evocative "Cartoons and Macreme Wounds" never lose sight of Mew's ability to bring together both subtlety and intensity with immaculate ease. Did I mention that "Sometimes Life Isn't Easy" may just be most uplifting and heartfelt song ever written? For anyone who ever thought Minus The Bear had the monopoly on intricate but soulful indie rock, Mew have got a thing or two to say - and it's about time to sit up and listen. |
| mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright! | 3.5 |
| mewithoutYou Ten Stories | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou Pale Horses | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou [Untitled] | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou A to B: Life | 4.5 |
| mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes | 5.0 |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister | 5.0 |
| MF DOOM MM.. Food | 4.0 |
| Mgla Exercises in Futility | 4.0 |
| MGMT Oracular Spectacular | 3.0 |
| Michael Jackson Thriller | 4.0 |
| Mid-Air Thief Crumbling | 3.5 |
| Midnight Juggernauts Dystopia | 3.0 |
| Midwest Pen Pals Inside Jokes | 3.5 |
| Mihai Edrisch Un Jour Sans Lendemain | 3.0 |
| Mika Life in Cartoon Motion | 3.0 |
| Miles Davis Bitches Brew | 4.0 |
| Miles Davis In a Silent Way | 4.0 |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue | 4.5 |
| Millencolin Pennybridge Pioneers | 4.0 |
| Millencolin Same Old Tunes | 4.0 |
| Million Dead A Song to Ruin | 4.0 |
| Milo Who Told You To Think??!!?!?!?! | 4.0 |
| Mindless Self Indulgence Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy | 3.5 |
| Mineral The Power of Failing | 3.5 |
| Mineral EndSerenading | 3.5 |
| Minor Threat Complete Discography | 4.0 |
| Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates | 4.0 |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice | 4.0 |
| Minutemen Double Nickels on the Dime | 4.5 |
| Mirrorring Foreign Body | 3.5 |
| Misery Signals Controller | 3.0 |
| Misser Every Day I Tell Myself... | 4.0 |
| Mobb Deep The Infamous | 4.0 |
| Moderat Moderat | 3.5 |
| Moderat III | 3.5 |
| Moderat II | 4.0 |
| Modern Baseball Holy Ghost | 3.5 |
| Modern Baseball Sports | 4.0 |
| Modern Baseball You’re Gonna Miss It All | 4.0 |
| Modern Baseball The Perfect Cast | 4.0 |
| Modern Life Is War Fever Hunting | 4.0 |
| Modern Life Is War Witness | 4.5 |
| Modest Mouse Strangers to Ourselves | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West | 4.0 |
| Mohinder Everything | 4.0 |
| Mono You Are There | 3.5 |
| Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind | 3.5 |
| Moonsorrow Viides luku - Hävitetty | 4.5 |
| Morbid Angel Altars of Madness | 4.0 |
| More Than Life Love Let Me Go | 4.0 |
| Morning Glory This is No Time Ta Sleep | 3.5 |
| Morning Glory The Whole World is Watching | 4.0 |
| Mos Def The Ecstatic | 4.0 |
| Moss Icon Lyburnum Wits End Liberation Fly | 4.5 |
| Mostly Autumn The Spirit of Autumn Past | 3.5 |
| Mount Kimbie Crooks & Lovers | 3.5 |
| Moving Mountains Foreword | 3.5 |
| MSTRKRFT Fist of God | 3.0 |
| MSTRKRFT The Looks | 3.5 |
| Mudvayne The New Game | 2.5 |
| Mudvayne Lost and Found | 3.5 |
| Mudvayne L.D. 50 | 4.0 |
| mum Finally We Are No One | 3.0 |
| Murder by Death Like the Exorcist, but More Breakdancing | 2.0 |
| Murderdolls Beyond The Valley of the Murderdolls | 3.0 |
| Muse Will of the People | 2.0 |
| Muse The Resistance | 2.5 |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry | 4.0 |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 4.0 |
| Muse Absolution | 4.5 |
| Mutyumu Il y a | 3.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 4.5 |
| My Disco Little Joy | 3.5 |
| My Heart To Joy Seasons In Verse | 3.5 |
| My Own Private Alaska MOPA | 2.0 |
| N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton | 3.5 |
| Nails Abandon All Life | 4.0 |
| Nas Illmatic | 3.0 |
| Necrophagist Onset of Putrefaction | 3.0 |
| Neil Perry Lineage Situation | 4.0 |
| Neko Case Fox Confessor Brings The Flood | 4.0 |
| Neko Case Blacklisted | 4.0 |
| Neko Case Middle Cyclone | 4.0 |
| Neko Case The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight... | 4.0 |
| Neon Blonde Chandeliers in the Savannah | 4.0 |
| Nerves Nerves | 4.0 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 4.0 |
| New Young Pony Club Fantastic Playroom | 2.5 |
| Nick Drake Pink Moon | 3.5 |
| Nile Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka | 3.5 |
| Nils Frahm Felt | 4.0 |
| Nils Frahm Spaces | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 3.5 |
| No Age Nouns | 3.0 |
| No Age Everything In Between | 3.0 |
| NO MAN ERASE | 4.0 |
| No Trigger Canyoneer | 3.5 |
| NOFX Punk in Drublic | 4.0 |
| NOFX The Decline | 4.5 |
| NOISIA Split The Atom | 3.0 |
| NoMeansNo Wrong | 4.5 |
| Norma Jean O' God, the Aftermath | 3.0 |
| Northstar Pollyanna | 3.0 |
| Oasis Be Here Now | 3.0 |
| Oasis Don't Believe the Truth | 3.5 |
| Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? | 4.5 |
| Oasis Definitely Maybe | 4.5 |
| Oathbreaker Eros|Anteros | 4.0 |
| Oceans of Sadness The Arrogance Of Ignorance | 3.5 |
| Oceansize Effloresce | 3.0 |
| Oceansize Everyone Into Position | 3.0 |
| Oceansize Frames | 3.0 |
| Oceansize Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up | 3.5 |
| Of Monsters and Men Fever Dream | 3.5 |
| Off Minor Some Blood | 4.0 |
| Off Minor Innominate | 4.5 |
| Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe | 4.5 |
| OFF! First Four EPs | 4.0 |
| Ohana Dead Beat | 4.0 |
| OK Go Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky | 2.0 |
| Okkervil River The Stage Names | 3.5 |
| Okkervil River I Am Very Far | 3.5 |
| Okkervil River The Silver Gymnasium | 3.5 |
| Okkervil River Black Sheep Boy | 4.0 |
| Okkervil River The Stand Ins | 4.0 |
| Ol' Dirty Bastard Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version | 4.0 |
| Olafur Arnalds For Now I Am Winter | 3.5 |
| Olafur Arnalds Living Room Songs | 4.0 |
| Olivia Rodrigo Sour | 3.5 |
| Olivia Rodrigo Guts | 4.0 |
| On The Might of Princes Where You Are and Where You Want to Be | 4.0 |
| One Last Wish 1986 | 3.5 |
| Operation Ivy Energy | 4.5 |
| Operator Please Yes Yes Vindictive | 3.0 |
| Operator Please On the Prowl | 3.5 |
| Opeth Still Life | 3.0 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 3.0 |
| Optikatechniqua Sinister Dub | 4.0 |
| Orbs Asleep Next to Science | 3.0 |
| Orchid Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow! | 3.5 |
| Orchid Chaos is Me | 4.0 |
| Orchid Orchid | 4.0 |
| Organized Konfusion Stress: The Extinction Agenda | 4.5 |
| Organized Konfusion Organized Konfusion | 4.5 |
| Origin Echoes of Decimation | 2.5 |
| Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come | 4.5 |
| Orphaned Land El Norra Alila | 3.0 |
| Orphaned Land Mabool (The Story of the Three Sons...) | 4.5 |
| Orphans of Cush White Noize | 4.0 |
| Otis Redding Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul | 4.5 |
| OutKast Stankonia | 4.0 |
| OutKast Aquemini | 4.0 |
| Owen At Home With Owen | 3.5 |
| Owls Owls | 3.5 |
| P.O.S Never Better | 4.0 |
| Paint It Black Paradise | 3.5 |
| Pale Young Gentlemen Black Forest (tra la la) | 4.0 |
| Panda Bear Person Pitch | 4.5 |
| Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out | 3.5 |
| Pantha Du Prince This Bliss | 4.0 |
| Pantha Du Prince Black Noise | 4.0 |
| Parades Foreign Tapes | 4.0 |
| Parades, like their name, know how to celebrate in style. I'm thinking dinner jacket, skinny black tie and a pair of blue jeans. You know the one. A little sharp, a lot cool. And when you've released a debut as clean and crisp as Foreign Tapes, there's every reason in the world to party: drawing from constellation of biting post-punk, warm indie-pop and a dash of honey sickle post-rock, if the sheer amount of hyphenating didn't give it away, Foreign Tapes stands on the razor's edge of the musical universe, redefining and breaking out of every little box on the display shelf. How else to explain the way the record delicately threads a line between crystalline sharpness and gorgeous, cascading layers of harmony? Or the way songs like Lung Full Of Light sway with an easy breeze while hitting like a ton of bricks? Or the soothing warmth of the Marigold's thundering climax? Foreign Tapes isn't just a party, but a lesson in how to throw one: new without being weird, innovative without being overbearingly eclectic - in a word, the most refreshing album of 2010. |
| Paramore All We Know Is Falling | 3.0 |
| Paramore Riot! | 3.5 |
| Pariah (UK) Safehouses | 4.0 |
| Park It Won't Snow Where You're Going | 3.5 |
| Passion Pit Manners | 3.5 |
| Passion Pit Gossamer | 3.5 |
| Past Lives Strange Symmetry | 4.0 |
| Patrick Stump Soul Punk | 3.0 |
| Patrick Watson Wooden Arms | 3.0 |
| Patrick Wolf Lupercalia | 3.5 |
| Patrick Wolf Sundark and Riverlight | 3.5 |
| Patrick Wolf The Magic Position | 4.0 |
| Patrick Wolf Lycanthropy | 4.0 |
| Patrick Wolf The Bachelor | 4.0 |
| Patrick Wolf Wind in the Wires | 4.5 |
| Patti Smith Horses | 4.0 |
| Pavement Slanted and Enchanted | 3.5 |
| Pendulum Hold Your Colour | 3.0 |
| Pennywise Reason to Believe | 3.0 |
| Pennywise Pennywise | 3.5 |
| Pennywise Full Circle | 3.5 |
| Perfect Future Old Wounds: Warmth In The Winter Of 1914-1915 | 3.5 |
| Perfume Genius Put Your Back N 2 It | 4.0 |
| Periphery Periphery | 3.0 |
| Persefone Shin-Ken | 3.0 |
| Persefone Core | 4.0 |
| Persefone Truth Inside the Shades | 4.5 |
| Petrol Girls Cut and Stitch | 4.0 |
| Petrol Girls Baby | 4.0 |
| pg.99 Document #8 | 4.0 |
| pg.99 Document #7 | 4.0 |
| pg.99 Document #5 | 4.5 |
| pg.lost It's Not Me, It's You! | 3.5 |
| Phaeleh Fallen Light | 3.5 |
| Pharoahe Monch W.A.R. | 3.5 |
| Pharoahe Monch Internal Affairs | 4.0 |
| Pharoahe Monch PTSD: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder | 4.0 |
| We've got our Monch back! Lyrically dazzling and musically compelling, as he should be; as it is. |
| Pharoahe Monch Desire | 4.5 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | 3.5 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Old Pride | 3.0 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After | 3.5 |
| Pig Destroyer Book Burner | 3.5 |
| Pig Destroyer Terrifyer | 4.0 |
| Pig Destroyer Phantom Limb | 4.0 |
| Pig Heart Transplant Hope You Enjoy Heaven | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse of Reason | 2.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd Pulse | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd Pulse — The Film | 4.5 |
| Pixies Doolittle | 4.0 |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa | 4.0 |
| PJ Harvey Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea | 3.0 |
| Placebo Loud Like Love | 2.0 |
| Placebo Battle for the Sun | 3.0 |
| Placebo Meds | 3.5 |
| Placebo Without You I'm Nothing | 4.0 |
| Placebo Placebo | 4.0 |
| Plump DJs Eargasm | 3.5 |
| Poison the Well The Tropic Rot | 3.5 |
| Poison the Well The Opposite of December | 4.0 |
| Polvo In Prism | 3.5 |
| Pomegranates Everybody, Come Outside! | 3.5 |
| Portishead Third | 4.0 |
| Portrait Discography | 4.0 |
| Portraits Of Past Discography | 2.5 |
| Prawn Kingfisher | 3.5 |
| Prefuse 73 One Word Extinguisher | 3.5 |
| Primitive Weapons The Shadow Gallery | 4.0 |
| Primordial To the Nameless Dead | 4.0 |
| Propagandhi How to Clean Everything | 3.5 |
| Propagandhi Potemkin City Limits | 4.0 |
| Propagandhi Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes | 4.0 |
| Propagandhi Failed States | 4.0 |
| Propagandhi Supporting Caste | 4.5 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Kezia | 4.0 |
| PS I Love You Meet Me At The Muster Station | 4.0 |
| Psycroptic The Scepter of the Ancients | 4.0 |
| Psycroptic Symbols of Failure | 4.0 |
| Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back | 4.0 |
| Puig Destroyer Puig Destroyer EP | 4.0 |
| Pulling Teeth Funerary | 3.5 |
| Pulling Teeth Paranoid Delusions/Paradise Illusions | 4.0 |
| Pulp Different Class | 4.5 |
| Punchline Just Say Yes | 2.0 |
| PUP Morbid Stuff | 3.5 |
| Puracane Things You Should Leave Alone | 4.0 |
| Purity Ring Shrines | 3.5 |
| Purity Ring Another Eternity | 3.5 |
| PVT O Soundtrack My Heart | 3.5 |
| PVT Church With No Magic | 3.5 |
| Pyramids with Nadja Pyramids with Nadja | 3.5 |
| Q and Not U No Kill No Beep Beep | 4.0 |
| Q-Tip The Renaissance | 4.0 |
| A good friend described this album as the sound of Barry Manilow in 2008. He has a point. See, The Renaissance is smoother than the skin I'd be rubbing honey into as I undressed her in the dim lights of my pad and just about as cool as the club I picked her up from. After all, when you've gone so far from gangsta to have Norah Jones on guest vocals you may as well be compared to Barry Manilow. My sexytime music of '08. |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris | 3.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age | 3.5 |
| Quicksand Slip | 4.0 |
| Quo Vadis Defiant Imagination | 3.5 |
| Rachel's The Sea and the Bells | 3.5 |
| Rachid Taha Made in Medina | 3.5 |
| Rachid Taha Tekitoi | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey | 3.0 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 3.5 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 4.0 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 5.0 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 5.0 |
| Raein Ah, As If... | 2.5 |
| Raein Il n'y a pas de orchestre | 3.5 |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... | 4.0 |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II | 4.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 4.0 |
| Raison D'Etre The Empty Hollow Unfolds | 4.0 |
| Ramona Lisa Arcadia | 3.0 |
| Reagan Youth A Collection of Pop Classics | 4.0 |
| Real Friends Put Yourself Back Together | 3.5 |
| Real Friends Everyone That Dragged You Here | 4.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication | 3.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers One Hot Minute | 3.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Mother's Milk | 4.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik | 4.0 |
| Red Snapper Prince Blimey | 2.0 |
| Red Sparowes Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red... | 3.0 |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come | 4.5 |
| Regina Spektor What We Saw from the Cheap Seats | 3.0 |
| Regina Spektor Far | 4.0 |
| Regulator Watts The Aesthetics of No Drag | 4.0 |
| Reuben Racecar Is Racecar Backwards | 4.0 |
| Reverend Bizarre In The Rectory Of The Bizarre Reverend | 4.0 |
| Ricardo Villalobos Fabric 36 | 2.5 |
| Richard Youngs Sapphie | 4.0 |
| Ringworm The Promise | 3.0 |
| Rites of Spring End on End | 4.0 |
| RJD2 Deadringer | 3.5 |
| Rob Dougan Furious Angels | 3.5 |
| Robert Plant and the Strange Sensation Mighty Rearranger | 2.5 |
| Robyn Body Talk Pt. 1 | 3.5 |
| Rockets and Bluelights A Smashed City with Flames and Music in the Air | 4.0 |
| Rodan Rusty | 4.0 |
| Rodrigo y Gabriela Rodrigo y Gabriela | 3.0 |
| Roisin Murphy Overpowered | 3.5 |
| Rolo Tomassi Cosmology | 2.5 |
| Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It | 4.0 |
| Rory Gallagher Irish Tour '74 | 4.0 |
| Royal Headache Royal Headache | 4.0 |
| Royal Headache High | 4.0 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 | 3.5 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels | 4.0 |
| Runaway Brother Mother | 4.0 |
| Running Wild Black Hand Inn | 3.0 |
| RVIVR The Beauty Between | 4.0 |
| Rx Bandits Mandala | 3.5 |
| Saetia A Retrospective | 3.5 |
| Saint Pepsi Hit Vibes | 4.0 |
| Saintseneca Dark Arc | 3.0 |
| Sally Shapiro My Guilty Pleasure | 3.0 |
| Saltillo Ganglion | 4.0 |
| Sampha Process | 4.5 |
| Santigold Santogold | 3.5 |
| Santigold Top Ranking - A Diplo Dub | 4.0 |
| Saosin Saosin | 3.5 |
| Sarah Blasko As Day Follows Night | 3.5 |
| Sarah Blasko What the Sea Wants, the Sea Will Have | 4.5 |
| This album absolutely pulses with gut wrenching beauty - Blasko's hauntingly vulnerable vocal performance is only matched by the immensity of her songwriting skills and the freshness she brings to a pop scene on defibrillators. For fans of singer/songwriters everywhere, this release is up there among the best of the year. |
| Save Ferris Modified | 2.5 |
| Save Ferris It Means Everything | 3.5 |
| Say Anything In Defense of the Genre | 4.5 |
| Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy | 5.0 |
| Say Anything Say Anything | 5.0 |
| SBTRKT SBTRKT | 3.5 |
| Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe | 3.5 |
| Scarface Emeritus | 3.5 |
| ScHoolboy Q Habits and Contradictions | 4.0 |
| Secret Arms New Colonies | 4.5 |
| Secret Band Secret Band | 4.0 |
| Secret Pyramid Movements of Night | 3.5 |
| Sed Non Satiata Mappo | 3.5 |
| Sed Non Satiata Sed Non Satiata | 4.0 |
| Sed Non Satiata Le Ciel De Notre Enfance | 5.0 |
| Seizures The Sanity Universal | 4.5 |
| Self Defense Family Try Me | 3.0 |
| Self Defense Family Sincerely | 3.5 |
| Self Defense Family You Are Beneath Me | 3.5 |
| Sepalcure Love Pressure | 4.0 |
| Sepalcure Sepalcure | 4.0 |
| Sepultura A-Lex | 2.0 |
| Serena Joy Ours Will Be A Lonely Battle EP | 4.0 |
| Serge Gainsbourg Histoire de Melody Nelson | 4.0 |
| Set Your Goals This Will Be the Death of Us | 3.5 |
| Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols | 4.5 |
| sgt. Stylus Fantasticus | 3.5 |
| Shabazz Palaces Lese Majesty | 3.5 |
| Shabazz Palaces Black Up | 4.0 |
| Shai Hulud Misanthropy Pure | 3.0 |
| Shai Hulud That Within Blood Ill-Tempered | 3.5 |
| Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun | 3.5 |
| Shame (UK) Songs of Praise | 4.0 |
| Sharon Van Etten Remind Me Tomorrow | 3.5 |
| Sharon Van Etten Are We There | 4.0 |
| Shellac At Action Park | 4.0 |
| Sholi Sholi | 3.5 |
| Shotmaker The Complete Discography 1993-1996 | 4.0 |
| Shpongle Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost | 4.0 |
| Shpongle Tales of the Inexpressible | 4.5 |
| Shpongle Ineffable Mysteries from Shpongleland | 4.5 |
Nothing Lasts hey? Oh, but I'll tell you what does: the divine bloody brilliance of Simon Posford and Raja Ram. If Shpongle weren't already the most forward thinking and boundary shattering act on the electronic compass, the duo's latest, Ineffable Mysteries From Shpongleland would be as much of an album as it would be a veritable psychoelectromagnetic nuclear device. Hell, this isn't an album any more than Alice In Wonderland is a story - where Alice had her madly grinning Cheshire Cat, Shpongle have the Goa warped landscape of "Electroplasm"; where the bottle said 'drink me', Shpongle provide their own journey though wild-eyed explorations of acoustic tinged flamenco solos, dub riddled basslines and the most wicked effort at beat stringing ever on "Shpongolese Spoken Here".
In fact, I suspect it would take no less than the psydripped rave of "Ineffable Mysteries" (complete with woodwind straight from the Andes), to convince Shiva the Destroyer to take a holiday from her macabre life of death to indulge in a night of full moon partying down at whichever mystic beach she'd choose. But the kicker? When Benn Jordan gets out-Flashbulb'd by "Nothing Is Something Worth Doing" - A track that stretches Shpongle's template of earthy percussion and electronic wrangling to the edges of the sonic horizon, obscured by the vorpal rays of trance gripped experimentation. And no, by the way, there's no rhyme or reason here, not in this place, this dimension, not where Comic Gods and Carrolleqse absurdity dwell in Unsane harmony, but I'll stand by my Brahman and bask in this light, oh gods, what light. |
| Shugo Tokumaru Exit | 3.5 |
| Shugo Tokumaru Port Entropy | 3.5 |
| Shulman Soundscapes and Modern Tales | 3.5 |
| Sigh Hangman's Hymn | 3.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Neck of the Woods | 3.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Pikul | 3.5 |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon | 3.5 |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas | 4.0 |
| Simian Mobile Disco Temporary Pleasure | 3.5 |
| Simian Mobile Disco Attack Decay Sustain Release | 4.0 |
| Simian Mobile Disco Delicacies | 4.0 |
| Sinergy Beware The Heavens | 3.0 |
| Sinergy Suicide By My Side | 3.5 |
| Skycamefalling 10.21 | 4.0 |
| Slapstick Slapstick | 3.0 |
| Slash's Snakepit It's Five O'Clock Somewhere | 4.0 |
| Slash's Snakepit Ain't Life Grand | 4.0 |
| sleepmakeswaves ...and so we destroyed everything | 3.5 |
| sleepmakeswaves these are not your dreams | 3.5 |
| sleepmakeswaves In Today Already Walks Tomorrow | 4.0 |
| sleepmakeswaves/Tangled Thoughts of Leaving Split | 4.0 |
| Sleepy Sun Fever | 3.5 |
| Sleigh Bells Treats | 3.5 |
| Sleigh Bells Reign of Terror | 3.5 |
| Sleigh Bells Bitter Rivals | 4.0 |
| Slint Spiderland | 5.0 |
| Slowdive Souvlaki | 3.5 |
| Smog Knock Knock | 4.0 |
| Snow Patrol Eyes Open | 3.0 |
| So Hideous To Clasp a Fallen Wish With Broken Fingers | 3.5 |
| So Hideous None But a Pure Heart Can Sing | 3.5 |
| So Many Ways Seer | 4.0 |
| Sol (DK) Let There Be A Massacre | 4.0 |
| Solar Fields Extended | 3.0 |
| Solomon Burke Don't Give Up On Me | 4.0 |
| Son Lux At War With Walls And Mazes | 2.5 |
| Sonic Youth Sister | 3.0 |
| Sonic Youth Murray Street | 3.5 |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation | 4.0 |
| Sonic Youth Evol | 4.0 |
| Sonic Youth The Eternal | 4.0 |
| Sonic Youth Confusion Is Sex | 4.5 |
| Sorrow (UK) Dreamstone | 3.5 |
| Souls of Mischief 93 'til Infinity | 4.5 |
| Soulwax Any Minute Now | 3.5 |
| Spanish Love Songs Brave Faces Everyone | 3.0 |
| the medioczingers |
| Spank Rock Everything Is Boring & Everyone Is A Fucking Liar | 1.5 |
| Spank Rock YoYoYoYoYo | 4.0 |
| Spank Rock FabricLive.33 | 4.0 |
| Sparta Porcelain | 3.0 |
| Spires (USA) Flowers And Fireworks | 3.5 |
| Squarepusher Music Is Rotted One Note | 3.5 |
| St Germain Tourist | 4.0 |
| St. Vincent Actor | 3.5 |
| St. Vincent Strange Mercy | 3.5 |
| Stars The Five Ghosts | 3.5 |
| Stars Set Yourself On Fire | 4.0 |
| Stars of the Lid The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid | 4.0 |
| Stateless Stateless | 3.5 |
| Stay Gold Pills & Advice | 3.5 |
| Stella Donnelly Beware of the Dogs | 4.0 |
| Stendeck Scintilla | 3.0 |
| Stiff Little Fingers Inflammable Material | 4.0 |
| Still Life Still Girls Come Too | 3.5 |
| Stone Temple Pilots Core | 3.5 |
| Stone Temple Pilots Purple | 3.5 |
| Stone Temple Pilots Thank You | 4.0 |
| Streetlight Manifesto 99 Songs of Revolution: Volume I | 3.5 |
| Streetlight Manifesto The Hands That Thieve | 3.5 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Keasbey Nights | 4.0 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between | 4.5 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb | 5.0 |
| Strung Out Twisted By Design | 4.0 |
| Strung Out Suburban Teenage Wasteland Blues | 4.0 |
| Sublime Sublime | 4.0 |
| Sublime 40 Oz. to Freedom | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens The BQE | 3.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz | 3.0 |
| Here is what you need to know about Sufjan Stevens. He lives in a room. This room has no windows, but it is a magic room. It responds to Sufjan's every thought, warping and twisting with every leap of Sufjan's wild imagination. But the real magic is that this is also a musical room - every twist a note, every warp a harmony. This all sounds pretty awesome, but the downside is that poor Sufjan is stuck in this bloody room. He hasn't seen daylight for years, which means he has to conjure it all in the form of music. And let's give the man credit where credit is due: his imagination is wild, colorful as the brightest day and vivid as the greatest portraits could ever convey. But he has also lost grip on reality. Just... gone, completely: it's a windlowless room. Which means that every ray of gorgeous musical sun is refracted through a prism of unfocused spectral madness, sweeping - left, right, everywhere - but no where in particular. If you alive back then, you'd have seen this same thing before, except that time, the man in question was Dustin Hoffman, and the movie was, well, Rain Man. |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Michigan | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens All Delighted People | 3.5 |
| Sugarcult Start Static | 3.0 |
| Suis La Lune Quiet, Pull the Strings! | 3.5 |
| Sundowner We Chase the Waves | 3.0 |
| Sundowner Four One Five Two | 3.5 |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Diary | 4.0 |
| Sunset Rubdown Shut Up I Am Dreaming | 3.0 |
| Sunset Rubdown Dragonslayer | 3.0 |
| Super Furry Animals Rings Around the World | 3.0 |
| Swarms Old Raves End | 4.0 |
| Swing Kids Discography | 4.0 |
| Sylvan Esso What Now | 3.5 |
| Sylvan Esso Free Love | 3.5 |
| Sylvan Esso Sylvan Esso | 4.0 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 2.0 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 2.0 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 3.5 |
| T.I. Paper Trail | 3.5 |
| Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends | 3.5 |
| Tale Of Us Endless | 3.5 |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock | 3.5 |
| Tame Impala Innerspeaker | 3.5 |
| Television Marquee Moon | 3.0 |
| Tenacious D Tenacious D | 4.0 |
| Tera Melos Untitled | 3.5 |
| Tera Melos Patagonian Rats | 3.5 |
| Hi! We're Tera Melos and we like noodles! So many fucking noodles. |
| Textbook Traitors You Pull the Strings That Make Us Dance | 4.0 |
| The Amenta Occasus | 2.5 |
| The Angelic Process Weighing Souls With Sand | 3.5 |
| The Antlers Hospice | 3.5 |
| The Appleseed Cast Peregrine | 3.5 |
| The Appleseed Cast Low Level Owl, Vol. 2 | 3.5 |
| The Appleseed Cast Sagarmatha | 3.5 |
| The Appleseed Cast Low Level Owl, Volume I | 4.5 |
| The Aquabats Hi-Five Soup! | 2.0 |
| What the hell Aquabats |
| The Aquabats The Fury of the Aquabats! | 3.5 |
| The Aquabats Charge!! | 4.0 |
| The Arrogant Sons of Bitches Three Cheers For Disappointment | 5.0 |
| The Beths Expert in a Dying Field | 4.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Unhallowed | 3.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma | 3.0 |
| The Black Keys Brothers | 3.5 |
| The Blood Brothers This Adultery Is Ripe | 3.5 |
| The Blood Brothers Crimes | 3.5 |
| The Blood Brothers ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn | 4.0 |
| The Blood Brothers Young Machetes | 5.0 |
| The Bloody Beetroots Romborama | 3.5 |
| The Bloody Beetroots Hide | 3.5 |
| Don't you mean... decadance? *cue David Ca.... |
| The Books The Way Out | 3.5 |
| The Boxer Rebellion Union | 3.5 |
| The Carrier No Love Can Save Me | 4.0 |
| The Chemical Brothers Brotherhood | 3.5 |
| The Chemical Brothers Further | 3.5 |
| The Chinese Stars Heaven On Speed Dial | 2.0 |
| Poor man's Blood Brothers |
| The Clash The Essential Clash | 4.0 |
| The Clash London Calling | 4.5 |
| The Crystal Method Tweekend | 3.5 |
| The Crystal Method Vegas | 3.5 |
| The Cure Pornography | 3.5 |
| The Cure Boys Don't Cry | 3.5 |
| The Cure Disintegration | 4.0 |
| The Darcys Warring | 5.0 |
| The Dead Weather Horehound | 3.0 |
| The Dead Weather Sea of Cowards | 3.5 |
| The Decemberists Picaresque | 3.5 |
| The Decemberists The Hazards of Love | 3.5 |
| The Decemberists The King Is Dead | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis | 4.0 |
| The Dismemberment Plan Uncanney Valley | 3.0 |
| The Dodos Visiter | 4.0 |
| At first glance, Visiter seems to be just there, its brand of breezy folk lying naked in the open with all on display. From Meric Long's seemingly frank, no-frills delivery to Logan Kroeber's "rainfall of rocks" percussion style, Visiter's unfaltering solidness makes it a strange offering in a genre so usually bound to intimacy. But it compels the listener to weave in and out of Visiter's musical tapestry, letting the songs fall around in the spaces in between. And when, as so often happens, the occasional musical idea strikes, it strikes deep, as beautiful lyrics swim over frenzied percussion and hurried, twangy guitar lines. And that, of course, is Visiter's strength- it's an album so at ease with itself that it's hard not to be taken into the folds of its fatherly arms: serious, but in the end, always there for you. |
| The Dodos Carrier | 4.0 |
| The Dodos No Color | 4.5 |
| Devastatingly good. |
| The Ergs! Dorkrockcorkrod | 4.0 |
| The Fall of Troy In the Unlikely Event | 2.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Phantom on the Horizon | 2.5 |
| The Fall of Troy The Fall of Troy | 3.5 |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger | 3.5 |
| The Fall of Troy Ghostship Demos | 4.0 |
| The Felix Culpa Sever Your Roots | 3.5 |
| The Field From Here We Go Sublime | 4.0 |
| The Filaments Skull And Trombones | 4.0 |
| The Filaments ...Whats Next? | 4.0 |
| The Flaming Lips With A Little Help From My Fwends | 3.5 |
| Yes but my god is it fun! |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots | 4.0 |
| The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin | 4.0 |
| The Flaming Lips Embryonic | 4.0 |
| The Flaming Lips The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends | 4.0 |
| The Flashbulb Soundtrack to a Vacant Life | 3.5 |
| The Format Dog Problems | 3.5 |
| The Front Bottoms Talon of the Hawk | 3.0 |
| The Front Bottoms The Front Bottoms | 3.5 |
| The Future Sound of London Lifeforms | 4.5 |
| The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound | 3.5 |
| The Gathering The West Pole | 3.5 |
| The Gathering if_then_else | 4.0 |
| The Gathering Nighttime Birds | 4.0 |
| The Gathering Souvenirs | 4.0 |
| The Gathering Sleepy Buildings:A Semi-Acoustic Evening | 4.0 |
| The Gathering Mandylion | 4.0 |
| The Gathering How to Measure a Planet? | 4.5 |
| The Get Up Kids There Are Rules | 2.5 |
| The Get Up Kids Something to Write Home About | 4.0 |
| The Ghost Inside Returners | 3.0 |
| The Go! Team Thunder, Lightning, Strike | 3.0 |
| The Go! Team Proof of Youth | 3.5 |
| The Herd The Herd | 4.0 |
| The Herd Summerland | 4.0 |
| The Herd Sun Never Sets | 4.5 |
| The Herd An Elefant Never Forgets | 4.5 |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There | 4.0 |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain Psychocandy | 4.0 |
| The Jezabels Dark Storm | 3.5 |
| The Jezabels She's So Hard | 3.5 |
| The Jezabels The Brink | 3.5 |
| The Jezabels The Man Is Dead | 4.0 |
| The Jezabels Prisoner | 4.0 |
| The Jonbenet The Plot Thickens | 3.5 |
| The Khayembii Communique The Khayembii Communiqué | 3.0 |
| The Killers Hot Fuss | 3.5 |
| The Knife Tomorrow, In a Year | 3.5 |
| The Knife Silent Shout | 4.0 |
| The Knife Shaking the Habitual | 4.5 |
| The Knife, Unchained |
| The Knux Fuck You EP | 3.5 |
| The Lawrence Arms The Greatest Story Ever Told | 3.5 |
| The Lawrence Arms Cocktails and Dreams | 3.5 |
| The Lawrence Arms Buttsweat and Tears | 4.0 |
| The Lawrence Arms Oh! Calcutta! | 4.5 |
| The Living End White Noise | 3.5 |
| The Mae Shi HLLLYH | 3.5 |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 2.5 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 3.0 |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron | 3.0 |
| The Menzingers Hello Exile | 3.0 |
| The Menzingers Chamberlain Waits | 3.5 |
| The Menzingers Rented World | 3.5 |
| The Menzingers On the Impossible Past | 4.0 |
| The Menzingers After the Party | 4.5 |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 (Re-release) | 3.5 |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 | 4.0 |
| The Middle East The Recordings of the Middle East | 4.0 |
| The Modern Lovers The Modern Lovers | 3.5 |
| The Naked and Famous Passive Me, Aggressive You | 3.5 |
| The Nation of Ulysses Plays Pretty for Baby | 4.0 |
| The National I Am Easy to Find | 3.0 |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me | 3.5 |
| The National Sleep Well Beast | 3.5 |
| The National Alligator | 4.0 |
| The National High Violet | 4.0 |
| The National Boxer | 5.0 |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die | 4.5 |
| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart The Pains of Being Pure at Heart | 3.5 |
| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Days of Abandon | 3.5 |
| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Belong | 4.0 |
| The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds | 3.5 |
| The Pine Days Slipping By | 3.5 |
| The Pine The Pine | 3.5 |
| The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower Love in the Fascist Brothel | 3.5 |
| The Pogues If I Should Fall from Grace with God | 4.5 |
| The Pogues Rum Sodomy & the Lash | 4.5 |
| The Postal Service Give Up | 3.5 |
| The Presets Apocalypso | 3.5 |
| The Presets Pacifica | 3.5 |
| The Presets Beams | 4.0 |
| The Presets Hi Viz | 4.0 |
| I will never stop raving to Until the Dark. Ever. |
| The Prodigy Music for the Jilted Generation | 3.5 |
| The Prodigy The Fat of the Land | 4.0 |
| The Red Chord Fused Together in Revolving Doors | 3.5 |
| The Replacements Let It Be | 4.0 |
| The Roots How I Got Over | 3.5 |
| The Roots Rising Down | 4.0 |
| The Saddest Landscape Lift Your Burdens High For This is Where We Cross | 3.5 |
| The Saddest Landscape The Sound Of The Spectacle | 3.5 |
| The Saddest Landscape After The Lights | 3.5 |
| The Saddest Landscape You Will Not Survive | 4.0 |
| The Sawtooth Grin Cuddlemonster | 3.5 |
| The Shins Oh, Inverted World | 3.5 |
| The Shins Heartworms | 3.5 |
| A Shins album in twentyseventeen |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream | 3.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | 4.0 |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting The Ocean and the Sun | 3.5 |
| The Spill Canvas Sunsets and Car Crashes | 2.0 |
| The Story So Far What You Don't See | 3.5 |
| The Strokes Is This It | 4.5 |
| The Suicide File Twilight | 4.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now | 3.5 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt | 4.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Dark Bird Is Home | 4.0 |
| The Thermals The Body, The Blood, The Machine | 3.5 |
| The Used The Used | 2.5 |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico | 3.0 |
| The Velvet Underground White Light/White Heat | 3.5 |
| The Veronicas The Secret Life Of... | 3.5 |
| The Verve A Northern Soul | 3.5 |
| The Verve Urban Hymns | 4.0 |
| The Walkmen You & Me | 3.0 |
| The War On Drugs Slave Ambient | 3.5 |
| The Weakerthans Left and Leaving | 4.5 |
| The Weeknd Thursday | 2.0 |
| This is what happens when you stick your balls in a vice and compensate by fucking the drum machine and cranking the reverb. |
| The Weeknd House of Balloons | 3.5 |
| The Weepies Say I Am You | 3.0 |
| The White Stripes De Stijl | 3.0 |
| The White Stripes Icky Thump | 3.5 |
| The White Stripes The White Stripes | 4.0 |
| The Whitest Boy Alive Rules | 3.5 |
| The Wombats A Guide to Love, Loss and Desperation | 3.5 |
| The Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing | 3.5 |
| The Word Alive Deceiver | 3.0 |
| The Wrens The Meadowlands | 4.5 |
| The xx Coexist | 3.0 |
| The xx xx | 4.0 |
| The Zombies Odessey and Oracle | 4.5 |
| Theatre Of Tragedy Storm | 2.0 |
| Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures | 3.0 |
| There Will Be Fireworks There Will Be Fireworks | 3.0 |
| There Will Be Fireworks The Dark, Dark Bright | 3.5 |
| These Arms Are Snakes Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home | 3.0 |
| Thom Yorke The Eraser | 3.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 3.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV | 3.5 |
| Thrice Beggars | 3.5 |
| Thrice Major/Minor | 3.5 |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 4.0 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 4.0 |
| Thursday A City By the Light Divided | 3.0 |
| Thursday War All the Time | 3.5 |
| Thursday Waiting | 3.5 |
| Thursday Full Collapse | 4.0 |
| Thursday Common Existence | 4.0 |
| Thursday No Devolucion | 4.5 |
| Thursday/Envy Thursday/Envy | 3.5 |
| Tim Hecker Harmony in Ultraviolet | 4.0 |
| Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 | 4.0 |
| Tim Hecker Dropped Pianos | 4.0 |
| Tim Hecker Virgins | 4.0 |
| Hey just fyi if you keep the song titles in mind while listening to each song this is even better |
| Timbaland Timbaland Presents Shock Value | 3.0 |
| Time To Burn Is.Land | 4.5 |
| Tiny Moving Parts Swell | 4.0 |
| Tiny Vipers Life on Earth | 4.0 |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor | 3.0 |
| Toh Kay Streetlight Lullabies | 2.5 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 3.0 |
| Tool Fear Inoculum | 3.0 |
| Tool Ænima | 3.5 |
| Tool Lateralus | 4.5 |
| Touche Amore ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse | 3.5 |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me | 3.5 |
| Touche Amore Is Survived By | 3.5 |
| Towers Full Circle | 4.5 |
| Towers Bel Air Highrise Plantation | 4.5 |
| Tragedy Vengeance | 4.0 |
| Trial Kennedy New Manic Art | 3.5 |
| Tricky Nearly God | 3.0 |
| Tricky Maxinquaye | 4.5 |
| Trophy Scars Alphabet Alphabets | 2.5 |
| Trophy Scars Bad Luck | 3.0 |
| Trophy Scars Darkness, Oh Hell | 3.0 |
| Trophy Scars Goodnight Alchemy | 3.5 |
| Trophy Scars Darts to the Sea | 3.5 |
| Trophy Scars Holy Vacants | 3.5 |
| Trophy Scars Hospital Music for the Aesthetics of Language | 4.5 |
| TV on the Radio Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes | 3.0 |
| TV on the Radio Dear Science | 3.5 |
| Twin Shadow Forget | 3.0 |
| Two Door Cinema Club Tourist History | 4.5 |
| Two Fingers Two Fingers | 4.0 |
| Two People First Body | 4.5 |
| Two Tongues Two Tongues | 3.0 |
| Tyler, the Creator Goblin | 3.0 |
| Tzusing 東方不敗 | 3.5 |
| Uffie Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans | 2.5 |
| UGK Ridin' Dirty | 4.5 |
| Ultramagnetic MCs Critical Beatdown | 3.5 |
| Ulver Perdition City | 2.0 |
| Ulver Kveldssanger | 3.5 |
| Unbroken Life. Love. Regret. | 4.0 |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety | 2.5 |
| Underoath Define the Great Line | 4.0 |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation | 4.0 |
| Underoath Ø (Disambiguation) | 4.0 |
| Underworld dubnobasswithmyheadman | 4.0 |
| Unexpect Fables of the Sleepless Empire | 3.0 |
| Unexpect Utopia | 3.5 |
| Unexpect In a Flesh Aquarium | 4.0 |
| Unexpect _We, Invaders | 4.5 |
| United Nations The Next Four Years | 3.5 |
| United Nations United Nations | 4.0 |
| UNKLE Psyence Fiction | 3.5 |
| Unkle Ho Circus Maximus | 3.0 |
| Unn Exit | 3.0 |
| Up-C Down-C Left-C Right-C ABC + Start Embers | 3.5 |
| Urthboy The Signal | 3.5 |
| Urthboy Spitshine | 3.5 |
| Usurp Synapse Disinformation Fix | 3.5 |
| Uzi And Ari Headworms | 3.5 |
| Vales Clarity | 3.5 |
| Vales Wilt And Rise | 4.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend | 3.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Contra | 4.0 |
| Van She Van She | 3.0 |
| Van She V | 3.5 |
| Various Artists Dirty Edits Vol. 1 | 4.5 |
| Various Artists (Indie) Dark Was The Night | 4.5 |
| Velvet Revolver Contraband | 3.0 |
| Velvet Revolver Libertad | 3.0 |
| Venetian Snares Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett | 4.0 |
| Verse En Coma Rialto | 4.0 |
| Vex'd Degenerate | 4.0 |
| Vic Chesnutt North Star Deserter | 4.0 |
| Vic Chesnutt West of Rome | 4.0 |
| Vic Chesnutt At The Cut | 4.0 |
| Vince Staples Big Fish Theory | 4.0 |
| Violent Femmes Violent Femmes | 3.5 |
| Virgin Black Elegant and Dying | 2.5 |
| Vitalic Ok Cowboy | 3.5 |
| Vitalic Flashmob | 3.5 |
| VOICEsVOICEs Origins EP | 5.0 |
| Volcano Choir Unmap | 3.0 |
| Volcano Choir Repave | 3.5 |
| Volor Flex My Story | 3.5 |
| Volor Flex Unlit | 4.0 |
| Vowel All the Sad Songs | 4.0 |
| Warpaint The Fool | 3.5 |
| Washington I Believe You Liar | 3.5 |
| Weatherday Come In | 4.5 |
| Weekend Nachos Unforgivable | 3.5 |
| Weekend Nachos Punish and Destroy | 3.5 |
| Weezer Weezer | 4.0 |
| Weird Al Yankovic Running With Scissors | 4.0 |
| White Lung It's The Evil | 4.0 |
| White Lung Sorry | 4.0 |
| White Lung Deep Fantasy | 4.0 |
| White Lung; Best Lung. |
| Why? Alopecia | 4.0 |
| Wilco The Whole Love | 3.5 |
| Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot | 4.5 |
| Wild Beasts Present Tense | 3.5 |
| Wild Beasts Two Dancers | 4.0 |
| Wild Beasts Smother | 4.5 |
| Wintersun Wintersun | 3.5 |
| Wire Pink Flag | 4.0 |
| Wolf Parade At Mount Zoomer | 2.5 |
| Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary | 3.0 |
| Wolfmother Wolfmother | 3.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars | 3.5 |
| Wretched (USA-NC) Beyond the Gate | 3.5 |
| WU LYF Go Tell Fire to the Mountain | 3.5 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 5.0 |
| X Japan Art of Life | 4.5 |
| YACHT Shangri-La | 3.0 |
| YACHT I Believe In You, Your Magic Is Real | 3.5 |
| YACHT See Mystery Lights | 4.0 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Show Your Bones | 3.5 |
| Yeasayer Odd Blood | 3.0 |
| Yeasayer All Hour Cymbals | 3.5 |
| Yelle Pop-Up | 3.5 |
| Yellowcard Paper Walls | 3.5 |
| Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss | 3.5 |
| Yo La Tengo I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass | 3.5 |
| Yo La Tengo Popular Songs | 3.5 |
| You and I The Curtain Falls | 4.5 |
| You and I Discography | 4.5 |
| Young Heart Attack Mouthful of Love | 4.0 |
| Younger Brother The Last Days of Gravity | 3.5 |
| Younger Brother A Flock of Bleeps | 4.0 |
| Youth Lagoon Wondrous Bughouse | 3.0 |
| Youth Lagoon The Year of Hibernation | 3.5 |
| Yuck Yuck | 4.5 |
| Zella Day Kicker | 3.5 |
| Zella Day Zella Day | 4.0 |
| Zoe Keating One Cello x 16: Natoma | 4.0 |
| Zola Jesus Valusia | 3.5 |
| Zola Jesus Stridulum | 4.0 |
| Zola Jesus Conatus | 4.0 |
| Zozobra Savage Masters | 3.5 |
