| *shels Sea of the Dying Dhow | 4.0 |
| 13 and God 13 & God | 3.5 |
| 3 (USA) The End is Begun | 4.0 |
| 65daysofstatic The Fall of Math | 3.0 |
| 65daysofstatic The Destruction of Small Ideas | 3.0 |
| A Fine Frenzy One Cell in the Sea | 3.5 |
| A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe | 1.0 |
| Adele 19 | 2.5 |
| Adjy June Songs Vol. 1 | 4.5 |
| Aereogramme My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go | 4.0 |
| Aereogramme Sleep and Release | 4.0 |
| AFI Decemberunderground | 2.5 |
| Against Me! Reinventing Axl Rose | 3.5 |
| Against Me! Searching for a Former Clarity | 3.5 |
| Against Me! New Wave | 3.5 |
| Against Me! Against Me! | 4.0 |
| Agua de Annique Air | 4.0 |
| Aiden Nightmare Anatomy | 1.5 |
| Alela Diane To Be Still | 3.0 |
| Alexi Murdoch Time Without Consequence | 3.5 |
| Alexisonfire Watch Out! | 3.0 |
| Alexisonfire Crisis | 4.0 |
| Alexisonfire Otherness | 4.5 |
| Alice in Chains Alice in Chains | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue | 4.0 |
| VERY surprised at how good this is. I'd put this ahead of the self-titled album, and maybe even their debut. William Duvall never tries too hard to sound like Layne, and brings his own vocal stylings to the table, while Jerry Cantrell's vocal performance gives it that classic AIC sound. And, some of the riffs on this album are the heaviest you'll find in the AIC discography. Cantrell really brought his A game, and this album proves to be one of the few instances where a band can lose an iconic vocalist and not miss a step in the process. |
| Alice in Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here | 4.0 |
| Amanda Palmer Who Killed Amanda Palmer? | 3.5 |
| Amy Winehouse Back to Black | 3.5 |
| An Horse Rearrange Beds | 3.5 |
| Anberlin Convinced | 4.0 |
| Anberlin Lowborn | 4.5 |
| Antimatter Leaving Eden | 4.0 |
| Aqualung Strange and Beautiful | 3.5 |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs | 4.5 |
| Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine | 3.0 |
| As Cities Burn Son, I Loved You at Your Darkest | 3.0 |
| As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security | 3.5 |
| Atreyu Fractures in the Facade of your Porcelain Beauty | 1.0 |
| Atreyu The Curse | 1.5 |
| Atreyu Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses | 2.0 |
| Atreyu A Death-Grip on Yesterday | 2.0 |
| Atreyu Visions | 2.5 |
| August Burns Red Thrill Seeker | 3.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold | 1.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Sounding the Seventh Trumpet | 2.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Life Is But a Dream... | 2.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil | 3.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen | 3.5 |
| Ayreon The Human Equation | 2.5 |
| Backstreet Boys Millennium | 2.5 |
| Backstreet Boys Black and Blue | 2.5 |
| Bat For Lashes Fur and Gold | 3.5 |
| Bat For Lashes Two Suns | 4.0 |
| Battle Of Mice A Day of Nights | 4.0 |
| Beloved Failure On | 4.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Anatomy Of | 2.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me | 2.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 3.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 3.0 |
| Bilmuri 400LB Back Squat | 4.0 |
| Bilmuri Goblin Hours | 4.0 |
| Bilmuri Eggy Pocket | 4.5 |
| Black Mountain Black Mountain | 3.5 |
| Black Mountain In the Future | 4.0 |
| Bleeding Through The Truth | 2.0 |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket | 2.0 |
| blink-182 One More Time... | 4.0 |
| Blonde Redhead Sit Down for Dinner | 3.5 |
| Blonde Redhead 23 | 4.5 |
| Blood Command World Domination | 2.5 |
This album is a fucking mess. Decades, Losing
Faith, Tetragram and
World Domination are fantastic and if they
leaned further into the sound of those 4
tracks they might be onto something but, just
like the previous album, I feel like their
vocalist is trying way too hard to imitate the
sound of the previous vocalist and it comes
across as kind of... obnoxious and forced? It
just doesn't hit the same as Cult Drugs which
was where they peaked. |
| Blood Command Funeral Beach | 4.0 |
| Blood Command Cult Drugs | 4.5 |
| Bob Dylan Christmas in the Heart | 2.0 |
| Bob Dylan Modern Times | 2.5 |
| Bob Dylan Nashville Skyline | 4.5 |
| Bon Iver Blood Bank | 3.5 |
| Bon Iver Myspace Transmissions | 4.0 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 5.0 |
| Boygenius the record | 4.0 |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 3.0 |
| Brand New Daisy | 3.0 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 4.5 |
| Britney Spears ...Baby One More Time | 2.0 |
| Britney Spears Britney | 2.0 |
| Britney Spears Blackout | 2.0 |
| Calexico and Iron and Wine In the Reins | 4.0 |
| Caliban The Opposite From Within | 3.0 |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion | 4.5 |
| Caspian The Four Trees | 4.0 |
| Casualties of Cool Casualties of Cool | 4.5 |
| Cat Power Jukebox | 3.0 |
| Cat Power You Are Free | 3.5 |
| Cat Power The Greatest | 3.5 |
| Cat Power Moon Pix | 4.0 |
| Cave Sermon Divine Laughter | 1.0 |
| Charli XCX How I'm Feeling Now | 5.0 |
| Cherry Ghost Thirst For Romance | 3.5 |
| Chevelle Wonder What's Next | 4.0 |
| Christina Aguilera Christina Aguilera | 2.5 |
| Christina Aguilera Stripped | 2.5 |
| Christina Aguilera Back to Basics | 3.0 |
| Circa Survive Juturna | 2.5 |
| Circa Survive On Letting Go | 3.0 |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 1.0 |
| clairo Immunity | 3.5 |
| Coldplay X&Y | 3.0 |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head | 3.5 |
| Coldplay Parachutes | 3.5 |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | 3.5 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 2.5 |
Am I listening to the same album as everyone else? I listened to the entire album on repeat over and over again at work, and time after time the only tracks that stood out to me were "Dark Horse" and "Cruel Bloom". The latter track gets originality points to me because it has a very Tom Waits on acid vibe to it.
The rest of the album is a snooze fest. Maybe it's my recent inability to get into heavy music. Maybe it's the fact that every song follows the same relative formula of being short, spastic, and intentionally painful on the ears.
As for being better than Jane Doe, Jane Doe was overrated to begin with, hardly deserving of the classic status it's been crowned. So I'd put this roughly on par with that album. Average. Painfully average.
Everyone, get off of Converges nuts. They are little more than disorganized noise with occasional moments of glory hidden amongst the mess. |
| Crippling Alcoholism With Love From a Padded Room | 3.5 |
| As someone with crippling alcoholism I enjoy this very much. |
| Cult of Luna Salvation | 3.5 |
| Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway | 3.5 |
| Daath The Hinderers | 3.0 |
| Dad Hats Spill | 4.0 |
| Damien Rice 9 | 3.5 |
| Damien Rice O | 4.5 |
| This album is as close to a classic is any singer/songwriter has written in recent history. Damien Rice has a gift, and that gift is writing some of the most lovely and hearfelt music that can be found. Songs like "The Blower's Daughter", "Cannonball", "Older Chests", and "I Remember" are hard to listen to without shedding at least a single tear from the eye. This isn't just music to listen to, this is music to get lost in, music to become, music to let filter into your soul and carry it with you for all of time. |
| Daniel Johnston Fun | 2.5 |
| Dark Tranquillity Character | 3.5 |
| Dark Tranquillity Fiction | 4.0 |
| Dear Reader Replace why with funny | 4.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes | 2.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Plans | 3.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie You Can Play These Songs With Chords | 3.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs | 3.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Codes and Keys | 3.5 |
| Pssh, this is so much better than Narrow Stairs, and moderately better than Plans. I played this album not expecting it to really grab my attention and was supposed to serve merely as some mundane but relaxing background music, and yet I found it actually making me take notice on numerous occasions. And now I've grown quite fond of it. It's a very solid album, even if doesn't really bring anything new to the table. |
| Death Cab for Cutie Something About Airplanes | 4.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism | 4.5 |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist | 3.0 |
| Demi Lovato Holy Fvck | 3.5 |
| Destroy the Runner I, Lucifer | 2.0 |
| Dethklok The Dethalbum | 3.5 |
| Devendra Banhart What Will We Be | 2.0 |
| Devendra Banhart Cripple Crow | 3.5 |
| Devendra Banhart Rejoicing in the Hands | 4.0 |
| Devendra Banhart Nino Rojo | 4.0 |
| Devendra Banhart Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Lightwork | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Empath | 4.5 |
| Devin Townsend Project Transcendence | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Sky Blue | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Epicloud | 4.5 |
| Dokken Back in the Streets | 1.0 |
| Dokken Tooth and Nail | 1.5 |
| Dokken Back for the Attack | 1.5 |
| Dokken Beast from the East | 1.5 |
| Dokken Breaking the Chains | 2.0 |
| Dokken Under Lock and Key | 2.0 |
| Dream It Was All a Dream | 3.0 |
| Drive-By Truckers A Blessing and a Curse | 3.5 |
| Drive-By Truckers Brighter Than Creation's Dark | 4.5 |
| Dustin Kensrue Please Come Home | 3.5 |
| Dustin Kensrue Desert Dreaming | 4.0 |
| Ed Sheeran – | 1.5 |
| My wife is a ginger too but I still don't trust them. |
| Editors In This Light and On This Evening | 1.5 |
| Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros Up From Below | 4.5 |
| Elbow Leaders of the Free World | 3.5 |
| Elbow The Seldom Seen Kid | 4.0 |
| Emilie Simon Vegetal | 3.0 |
| Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton Knives Don't Have Your Back | 4.0 |
| Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton What Is Free To A Good Home? | 4.0 |
| Endless, Nameless Living Without | 4.0 |
| Evanescence The Open Door | 3.0 |
| Evanescence Fallen | 3.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 3.5 |
| Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True | 2.0 |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree | 3.0 |
| Feist Let It Die | 3.5 |
| Feist The Reminder | 4.0 |
| Finch What It Is to Burn | 4.0 |
| Finch Say Hello to Sunshine | 4.0 |
| Fiona Apple Extraordinary Machine | 4.0 |
| Fiona Apple Tidal | 4.0 |
| Fiona Apple When the Pawn... | 5.0 |
| Fionn Regan The End of History | 3.5 |
| Florence Foster Jenkins The Glory (????) of the Human Voice | 1.0 |
| Foo Fighters But Here We Are | 3.0 |
| Found Dead Hanging Dulling Occam's Razor | 3.5 |
| Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes Sticky | 1.0 |
| Freelance Whales Weathervanes | 4.0 |
| From First to Last Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count | 3.0 |
| Fuck Buttons Street Horrrsing | 2.5 |
| Garbage Version 2.0 | 2.0 |
| Garbage Beautiful Garbage | 2.5 |
| Garbage Garbage | 3.0 |
| Garbage Bleed Like Me | 3.0 |
| Genghis Tron Dream Weapon | 4.5 |
| Ghastly City Sleep Ghastly City Sleep | 3.5 |
| Ghost Mice Debt of the Dead | 3.5 |
| Glacier Veins Lunar Reflection | 4.0 |
| Gojira The Link | 3.5 |
| Gojira Fortitude | 3.5 |
| Gojira Terra Incognita | 4.0 |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh | 4.0 |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage | 4.0 |
| Gojira Magma | 4.0 |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius | 5.0 |
| Goldfrapp Black Cherry | 3.5 |
| Goldfrapp Head First | 3.5 |
| Goldfrapp Supernature | 4.0 |
| Goldfrapp Felt Mountain | 4.0 |
| Goldfrapp Seventh Tree | 4.0 |
| Grand Archives The Grand Archives | 4.0 |
| Great Lake Swimmers Lost Channels | 2.5 |
| Great Lake Swimmers Ongiara | 3.5 |
| Great Northern Trading Twilight for Daylight | 4.0 |
| Gwen Stefani The Sweet Escape | 1.5 |
| Hannah Montana Hannah Montana | 1.5 |
| Hawthorne Heights If Only You Were Lonely | 1.0 |
| Hayley Williams FLOWERS for VASES / descansos | 4.0 |
| Headlights Some Racing, Some Stopping | 3.0 |
| Headlights Kill Them With Kindness | 4.0 |
| Heartless Bastards Stairs and Elevators | 2.5 |
| Heartless Bastards The Mountain | 4.0 |
| Heartless Bastards All This Time | 4.5 |
| Heathers Here, Not There | 3.5 |
| Himsa Hail Horror | 2.0 |
| Holding Absence The Noble Art of Self-Destruction | 4.5 |
| Horse Feathers House With No Home | 4.0 |
| Horse Feathers Words Are Dead | 4.0 |
| Hot Mulligan Why Would I Watch | 4.0 |
| Howling Bells Howling Bells | 3.5 |
| I See Stars Anomaly / Drift | 3.0 |
| Ida Lovers Prayer | 3.5 |
| Ida Maria Fortress Round My Heart | 4.0 |
| Idaho Hearts of Palm | 3.5 |
| In Flames Reroute to Remain | 2.0 |
| In Flames A Sense of Purpose | 3.0 |
| In Flames Clayman | 3.5 |
| In Flames Come Clarity | 3.5 |
| In Mourning Shrouded Divine | 4.0 |
| In This Moment The Dream | 4.0 |
| Ingrid Michaelson Everybody | 3.0 |
| Ingrid Michaelson Be OK | 3.5 |
| Ingrid Michaelson Girls And Boys | 4.0 |
| Insomnium Since the Day It All Came Down | 3.0 |
| Insomnium Above the Weeping World | 4.0 |
| Interpol Antics | 2.5 |
| Interpol Our Love to Admire | 2.5 |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 4.0 |
| Iress Solace | 4.0 |
| Iron And Wine The Shepherd's Dog | 3.0 |
| Iron And Wine Our Endless Numbered Days | 4.5 |
| Iron And Wine The Creek Drank the Cradle | 4.5 |
| ISIS In the Absence of Truth | 2.0 |
| ISIS Oceanic: Remixes and Reinterpretations | 2.5 |
| ISIS Celestial | 3.0 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 4.5 |
| Ithaca They Fear Us | 4.0 |
| Jack Johnson In Between Dreams | 3.0 |
| James Blunt Back To Bedlam | 3.0 |
| Jana Hunter There's No Home | 3.0 |
| Japandroids Post-Nothing | 4.0 |
| Jaymay Autumn Fallin' | 3.0 |
| Jeff Buckley Grace (Legacy Edition) | 3.5 |
| Jeff Rosenstock HELLMODE | 3.0 |
| Jenny Lewis Acid Tongue | 4.0 |
| Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins Rabbit Fur Coat | 3.5 |
| Jenny Owen Youngs Batten The Hatches | 2.0 |
| Jessica Lea Mayfield Tell Me | 4.0 |
| Joseph Arthur Redemption's Son | 4.0 |
| Kanye West Graduation | 3.0 |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak | 4.0 |
| Katatonia The Great Cold Distance | 4.0 |
| Kate Havnevik Melankton | 4.0 |
| Kate Nash Made of Bricks | 3.5 |
| Kate Nash My Best Friend Is You | 3.5 |
| Katy Perry One of the Boys | 2.5 |
| Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue | 3.0 |
| Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward | 3.0 |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye | 4.5 |
| Kelly Clarkson Thankful | 3.0 |
| Kelly Clarkson Breakaway | 4.0 |
| Kevin Devine Circle Gets the Square | 3.5 |
| Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing | 3.0 |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache | 3.0 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard The Silver Cord | 3.0 |
| This band is giving Ryan Adams a run for his money in not understanding the meaning of quality control. |
| Kings of Leon Only By The Night | 3.0 |
| Korpiklaani Tales Along This Road | 3.0 |
| Korpiklaani Spirit Of The Forest | 3.0 |
| Korpiklaani Voice Of Wilderness | 3.5 |
| KT Tunstall Drastic Fantastic | 3.5 |
| Lacuna Coil Karmacode | 2.0 |
| Lacuna Coil Comalies | 2.5 |
| Lacuna Coil In a Reverie | 3.5 |
| Lacuna Coil Unleashed Memories | 4.0 |
| This album was Lacuna Coil at their finest, and an essential album to any gothic metal fan's collection. The opening three songs alone are enough to warrant a purchase. The beauty of Christina Scabbia's vocals coupled with the harshness of Andrea's and the simple yet effective guitar attack, haunting atmospheres, and catchy melodicism. Truly an album that brought Lacuna Coil to the forefront of the gothic rock scene. |
| Lady Gaga The Fame | 2.5 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame Monster | 3.5 |
| Lady Sovereign Public Warning | 2.0 |
| Lamb of God Sacrament | 2.5 |
| Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell! | 4.0 |
| Laura Gibson Beasts of Seasons | 4.0 |
| Laura Stevenson Wheel | 4.5 |
| Lily Allen Alright, Still | 4.0 |
| Lisa Hannigan Sea Sew | 4.0 |
| Liz Durrett Outside Our Gates | 4.0 |
| Logh North | 4.0 |
| Logh A Sunset Panorama | 4.0 |
| Logh Every Time A Bell Rings an Angel Gets His Wings | 4.5 |
| This is one of the most beautiful and overlooked albums of the decade. I'm actually rather shocked this band hasn't gotten more attention from the Sputnik community, as they have consistently released down-tempo modern rock/post rock for nearly a decade now. |
| Los Campesinos! Sticking fingers Into Sockets | 3.0 |
| Los Campesinos! Hold On Now, Youngster... | 3.5 |
| Lovedrug Pretend You're Alive | 3.5 |
| Lovedrug Everything Starts Where It Ends | 4.0 |
| Low C'Mon | 3.5 |
| One thing you have to admire about this band, is that they consistently put out solid albums every few years, and largely...it will go almost completely unnoticed. But they've done exactly what anyone could hope they could do. They've kept the same fanbase intact, and they've kept them pleased for the last 20 years. This album is no exception. It might not rank up there with their best, but it's still very good. |
| Low The Great Destroyer | 4.0 |
| Low Things We Lost in the Fire | 4.5 |
| lowheaven collapse | 4.5 |
| Lydia Illuminate | 3.0 |
| M.I.A. Arular | 3.0 |
| M.I.A. Kala | 4.0 |
| Mandy Moore Mandy Moore | 2.0 |
| Mandy Moore I Wanna Be With You | 2.0 |
| Mandy Moore So Real | 2.5 |
| Mandy Moore Wild Hope | 3.0 |
| Mariah Carey The Emancipation of Mimi | 2.0 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 4.0 |
| Matchbook Romance Voices | 3.5 |
| Matt Sweeney and Bonnie Prince Billy Superwolf | 3.5 |
| Metallica St. Anger | 1.0 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 2.5 |
| Metric Old World Underground, Where Are You Now | 2.5 |
| Metric Grow Up and Blow Away | 2.5 |
| Metric Fantasies | 4.0 |
| MGMT Congratulations | 2.0 |
| MGMT Oracular Spectacular | 3.5 |
| Mindless Self Indulgence You'll Rebel To Anything | 1.5 |
| Mindless Self Indulgence Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy | 1.5 |
| Mindless Self Indulgence Tight | 2.0 |
| Mindless Self Indulgence Alienating Our Audience | 2.0 |
| Mindless Self Indulgence Another Mindless Rip Off | 2.0 |
| Monsters of Folk Monsters of Folk | 3.0 |
| Moonlight Sorcery Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle | 1.0 |
| Moonspell Night Eternal | 4.5 |
| Mors Principium Est The Unborn | 3.5 |
| Moving Mountains Pneuma | 4.0 |
| Moving Mountains Moving Mountains | 4.0 |
| Murder by Death Red Of Tooth And Claw | 3.0 |
| Murder by Death Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them? | 3.5 |
| Murder by Death Like the Exorcist, but More Breakdancing | 3.5 |
| Muse Absolution | 4.0 |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge | 2.5 |
| My Morning Jacket Z | 3.5 |
| My Morning Jacket Evil Urges | 3.5 |
| Nada Surf The Weight Is a Gift | 3.5 |
| Nada Surf Lucky | 3.5 |
| Natalie Imbruglia Left of the Middle | 3.0 |
| Neko Case Hell-On | 2.5 |
| Neko Case Fox Confessor Brings The Flood | 4.0 |
| Neko Case Blacklisted | 4.5 |
| Neko Case Furnace Room Lullaby | 4.5 |
| Neko Case Middle Cyclone | 4.5 |
| Nellie McKay Pretty Little Head | 3.5 |
| Nick Drake Pink Moon | 4.0 |
| Nightwish Once | 3.0 |
| Nightwish Angels Fall First | 3.0 |
| Nightwish Century Child | 3.5 |
| Nightwish Wishmaster | 3.5 |
| Nightwish Oceanborn | 3.5 |
| Nightwish Dark Passion Play | 3.5 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 2.5 |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York | 3.0 |
| Noah and the Whale Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down | 2.0 |
| Noah and the Whale The First Days of Spring | 4.0 |
| Noah Cyrus The Hardest Part | 4.5 |
| Norah Jones Come Away with Me | 3.5 |
| Norah Jones Feels Like Home | 3.5 |
| Norah Jones Not Too Late | 3.5 |
| Norah Jones The Fall | 4.0 |
| Norma Jean The Anti Mother | 1.0 |
| Norma Jean Redeemer | 2.0 |
| Novelists Noir | 4.0 |
| Oceansize Everyone Into Position | 3.0 |
| Oceansize One Day All This Could Be Yours | 3.0 |
| Oceansize Effloresce | 3.5 |
| Oceansize Frames | 4.0 |
| Octavia Sperati Grace Submerged | 3.5 |
| Of Mice and Men Tether | 1.0 |
| Olivia Rodrigo Guts | 3.5 |
| Opeth Orchid | 2.5 |
| Opeth Still Life | 3.0 |
| Opeth Morningrise | 3.0 |
| Opeth Deliverance | 3.5 |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse | 3.5 |
| Opeth The Roundhouse Tapes | 3.5 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 4.0 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 4.0 |
| Opeth Watershed | 4.0 |
| Opeth Damnation | 5.0 |
| Our Broken Garden When Your Blackening Shows | 4.0 |
| Paramore All We Know Is Falling | 3.0 |
| Paramore Riot! | 3.5 |
| Paramore This Is Why | 3.5 |
| Paramore Paramore | 4.0 |
| Paramore After Laughter | 4.0 |
| Paramore Brand New Eyes | 4.5 |
| Pati Yang Silent Treatment | 3.5 |
| Pentimento I, No Longer | 3.5 |
| Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson Break Up | 4.0 |
| Peter Bjorn and John Writer's Block | 3.5 |
| Peter Broderick Float | 4.0 |
| Peter Broderick Home | 4.0 |
| Peter Wolf Crier Inter-Be | 4.0 |
| Phosphorescent Pride | 4.5 |
| Phoxjaw notverynicecream | 3.5 |
| Pilate Caught By The Window | 3.0 |
| Poppy I Disagree (more) | 4.0 |
| Poppy Flux | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet | 3.5 |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia | 4.5 |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing | 4.5 |
| Porcupine Tree The Incident | 4.5 |
| Port O'Brien Threadbare | 4.0 |
| Portishead Third | 4.5 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 3.0 |
| Pupil Slicer Mirrors | 3.0 |
| Pupil Slicer Blossom | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze | 2.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris | 3.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 4.0 |
| Rachael Yamagata Elephants... Teeth Sinking Into Heart | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey | 2.0 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 3.0 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 3.0 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 3.5 |
| Radiohead's trance-inducing transformation from the masterpiece that is "Ok Computer" to "Kid A" is quite remarkable. Stripping their music to the bone, then adding layers of ambience, drump loops, and electronics...and giving the music a much darker feel in the process. The beauty of a band like Radiohead is they can pull off change all while keeping the same general core sound intact. Deep at the core this is still Radiohead. It's generally Radiohead progressing, transforming, trying new things. A lot of bands are generally afraid of trying something new for fear of losing their fan base, but thankfully Radiohead is one that likes to expand their musical horizons. While this album doesn't quite match up to the epic beauty of Ok Computer, the new sound still holds its own and is an enjoyable listen, especially on a long nighttime drive. |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 3.5 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 4.0 |
| Rebecca Black Let Her Burn | 3.5 |
| Red Velvet Chill Kill | 3.5 |
| Regina Spektor Songs | 3.5 |
| Regina Spektor 11:11 | 3.5 |
| Regina Spektor Begin To Hope EP | 4.0 |
| Regina Spektor Home, Before and After | 4.0 |
| Regina Spektor Begin To Hope | 4.5 |
| Regina Spektor Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers | 4.5 |
| Regina Spektor Far | 4.5 |
| It's everything I had hoped for, and then some. It's the perfect balance of beauty and the quirky pop she's always been known for. My only gripe is the recorded version of "One More Time With Feeling" got a more upbeat twist to it, when I thought the sultry and sad version she played live was much more emotional and suiting. But overall it's better than "Begin to Hope" and about at the level of "Soviet Kitsch". She's done it again! |
| Regina Spektor Soviet Kitsch | 5.0 |
| Rhun (USA-ME) Conveyance In Death | 1.0 |
| Rilo Kiley More Adventurous | 4.0 |
| Rilo Kiley Take-Offs and Landings | 4.5 |
| Rilo Kiley Under the Blacklight | 4.5 |
| Rilo Kiley The Execution of All Things | 5.0 |
| Rolo Tomassi Where Myth Becomes Memory | 3.5 |
| Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It | 4.0 |
| Rosetta The Galilean Satellites | 3.0 |
| Rosie Thomas These Friends of Mine | 4.0 |
| Russian Circles Enter | 3.5 |
| Ryan Adams Demolition | 3.0 |
| Ryan Adams Easy Tiger | 3.0 |
| Ryan Adams Gold | 3.5 |
| Ryan Adams Cold Roses | 3.5 |
| Ryan Adams Jacksonville City Nights | 3.5 |
| Ryan Adams Cardinology | 3.5 |
| Ryan Adams Heartbreaker | 4.0 |
| Ryan Adams 29 | 4.0 |
| Ryan Adams Follow The Lights | 4.0 |
| Ryan Adams Love is Hell | 5.0 |
| Sage Francis Human The Death Dance | 3.5 |
| Sage Francis A Healthy Distrust | 4.0 |
| Sara Bareilles Little Voice | 3.0 |
| Sara Bareilles Kaleidoscope Heart | 4.5 |
| Sarah McLachlan Surfacing | 3.5 |
| Scale the Summit Carving Desert Canyons | 4.0 |
| Scarlett Johansson Anywhere I Lay My Head | 2.0 |
| Shawn McDonald Ripen | 4.0 |
| Shearwater Rook | 4.5 |
| Shovels and Rope O' Be Joyful | 4.0 |
| Shpongle Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost | 3.0 |
| Sia Some People Have Real Problems | 2.5 |
| Sia Colour the Small One | 4.0 |
| Sigh Hangman's Hymn | 2.0 |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros Hvarf/Heim | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros Takk... | 4.0 |
| If beauty itself, in it's most pure form, were to take shape as a music, this is what it would sound like. Sigur Ros have a way of taking my breath away, and now with a return to a more string-oriented sound with "Takk", the cascading strings and simple yet gorgeous guitar make for one of the most remarkable mellow music experiences you can find these days. A truly great album. |
| Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros ( ) | 4.5 |
| Sigur Ros Heima (DVD) | 5.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas | 3.5 |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon | 4.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Pikul | 4.5 |
| Sleep Token Take Me Back to Eden | 3.5 |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 2.0 |
| Snow Patrol Eyes Open | 3.5 |
| Soap and Skin Lovetune for Vacuum | 3.0 |
| Soccer Mommy Sometimes, Forever | 3.5 |
| Sonic Youth SYR 7: J'accuse Ted Hughes/Agnes B Musique | 3.0 |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation | 4.0 |
| Sonic Youth Washing Machine | 4.0 |
| Sonic Youth The Eternal | 4.0 |
| Sophie Hunger Monday's Ghost | 2.0 |
| Soundgarden A-Sides | 3.5 |
| Soundgarden Superunknown | 4.0 |
| Spiritbox Eternal Blue | 3.5 |
| Spiritbox Spiritbox | 4.0 |
| Spiritbox The Fear of Fear | 4.5 |
| Spoon Gimme Fiction | 2.5 |
| Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga | 2.5 |
| St. Vincent Actor | 3.5 |
| St. Vincent Marry Me | 4.0 |
| Stars In Our Bedroom After The War | 3.5 |
| Stars Set Yourself On Fire | 4.0 |
| Stars The Five Ghosts | 4.0 |
| Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline | 4.5 |
| Steven Wilson Unreleased Electronic Music Vol. 1 | 3.0 |
| Steven Wilson Insurgentes | 3.0 |
| Steven Wilson The Harmony Codex | 3.5 |
| Still Remains Of Love and Lunacy | 3.5 |
| Stolen Babies There Be Squabbles Ahead | 3.5 |
| Stream Of Passion Embrace The Storm | 3.5 |
| Stutterfly And We Are Bled Of Color | 3.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Enjoy Your Rabbit | 2.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens A Sun Came | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois | 4.5 |
| Sun Kil Moon Tiny Cities | 3.5 |
| Sun Kil Moon April | 3.5 |
| Svalbard When I Die, Will I Get Better? | 4.0 |
| Svalbard The Weight of the Mask | 4.5 |
| Swallow the Sun Hope | 4.0 |
| Taken By Trees East of Eden | 3.0 |
| Taylor Swift Reputation | 2.0 |
| Taylor Swift 1989 (Taylor’s Version) | 2.5 |
| Taylor Swift Midnights | 3.5 |
| Taylor Swift 1989 | 4.0 |
| Taylor Swift Red (Taylor’s Version) | 4.0 |
| Taylor Swift 1989 (Deluxe Edition) | 4.0 |
| Taylor Swift Lover | 4.5 |
| Taylor Swift Folklore | 4.5 |
| Taylor Swift Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions | 4.5 |
| Taylor Swift Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) | 4.5 |
| TEETH (CAN) A Biblical Worship Of Violence | 4.0 |
| Tegan and Sara This Business of Art | 2.0 |
| Tegan and Sara If It Was You | 2.0 |
| Tegan and Sara The Con | 3.0 |
| Tegan and Sara So Jealous | 4.0 |
| Tegan and Sara Sainthood | 4.0 |
| Tegan and Sara Heartthrob | 4.5 |
| TesseracT War of Being | 4.0 |
| Textures Silhouettes | 2.5 |
| The Agonist Lullabies for the Dormant Mind | 2.0 |
| The Album Leaf In A Safe Place | 4.0 |
| The Antlers Hospice | 3.5 |
| The Antlers In the Attic of the Universe | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Please Please Me | 3.5 |
| The Beatles The Beatles | 3.5 |
| The Besnard Lakes The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night | 4.0 |
| The Cardigans Gran Turismo | 3.0 |
| The Cardigans Long Gone Before Daylight | 4.5 |
| The Chariot Unsung | 1.5 |
| The Civil Wars Barton Hollow | 4.0 |
| The Contortionist Clairvoyant | 4.5 |
| The Dead Weather Sea of Cowards | 3.5 |
| The Dodos No Color | 4.0 |
| The Dresden Dolls The Dresden Dolls | 4.0 |
| The Dresden Dolls Yes, Virginia... | 4.0 |
| The Duke Spirit Neptune | 3.5 |
| The Flaming Lips Embryonic | 3.5 |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots | 4.0 |
| The Format Dog Problems | 3.5 |
| The Fray How to Save a Life | 3.5 |
| The Gaslight Anthem History Books | 3.5 |
| The Gathering Almost a Dance | 2.0 |
| The Gathering if_then_else | 4.0 |
| The Gathering Home | 4.0 |
| The Gathering Sleepy Buildings:A Semi-Acoustic Evening | 4.0 |
| The Gathering The West Pole | 4.0 |
| After I heard of the departure of Anneke, I was a tad bit devastated. I thought there was no way the band could possibly go on without their front-woman of the past decade... I thought it was the end of the Gathering as I knew them. rI was right, it was. But it wasn't so much and end as it was a dramatic rebirth. Silje Wergeland is the worthiest replacement they could have possibly found. Her voice, while more conventional than that of Anneke, fits the style of the album. While the first few tracks are a return to IF_THEN_ELSE territory, with a more guitar oriented hard rock sound, the album really picks up with "The West Pole", a dreamy, slow-paced atmospheric track. And then with "No Bird Call", the band returns to a sound similar to HTMAP, with dreamy snyth, distant drowned out drumming, haunting vocals, and a dramatic buildup into string swelling climax with swooning vocals not far off from something you'd hear from Sigur Ros. rIn fact, from that point on the album contains some of the best material they've ever written. The beautifully crafted beauty "Capitol of Nowhere", the beautiful piano ballad "You Promised me a Symphony", and the bass driven progressive masterpiece "Pale Traces". I thought the Gathering had peaked...turns out I have no idea just where the roof is on the potential of this incredible band. |
| The Gathering Nighttime Birds | 4.5 |
| The Gathering Souvenirs | 4.5 |
| The Gathering Mandylion | 4.5 |
| The Gathering How to Measure a Planet? | 5.0 |
| The Gathering A Noise Severe | 5.0 |
| The Go! Team Proof of Youth | 3.0 |
| The Honorary Title Anything Else But The Truth | 2.0 |
| The Jezabels Dark Storm | 4.5 |
| The Kills No Wow | 3.5 |
| The Kills Midnight Boom | 3.5 |
| The Kills Keep On Your Mean Side | 4.0 |
| The Kills Blood Pressures | 4.0 |
| The Little Willies The Little Willies | 3.0 |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture | 2.5 |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath | 2.5 |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 3.5 |
| The Middle East The Recordings of the Middle East | 4.5 |
| The National The National | 2.0 |
| The National Cherry Tree | 3.5 |
| The National The Virginia EP | 3.5 |
| The National First Two Pages of Frankenstein | 3.5 |
Look. I get it. This band has obviously become
complacent with their sound over the years. I
have been on this site for over 20 years. I
haven't changed my avatar since like 2006.I'm
old and depressed and this is comfort food. As
people grow older, sometimes boring is good.
I'm 36 now. I am boring. I know what I am and
clearly the National know what they are to.
I'm ok with that. |
| The National Laugh Track | 3.5 |
| The National Alligator | 4.0 |
| The National Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers | 4.0 |
| The National High Violet | 4.5 |
| The National Boxer | 5.0 |
| The New Pornographers Challengers | 4.0 |
| The Notwist The Devil, You + Me | 3.0 |
| The Notwist Neon Golden | 4.0 |
| The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds | 4.5 |
| The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Don't You Fake It | 2.0 |
| The Sounds Crossing the Rubicon | 1.5 |
| The Sounds Dying to Say This to You | 3.0 |
| The Submarines Declare A New State | 3.5 |
| The Submarines Honeysuckle Weeks | 3.5 |
| The Subways Young For Eternity | 3.0 |
| The Subways All or Nothing | 3.5 |
| The Swell Season The Swell Season | 4.0 |
| The Swell Season Once: Music From The Motion Picture | 4.5 |
| The Swell Season Strict Joy | 4.5 |
| The Sword Gods of the Earth | 1.5 |
| The Sword Age of Winters | 2.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave | 4.5 |
| The Velvet Underground The Best of the Velvet Underground | 4.0 |
| The Weepies Say I Am You | 3.5 |
| Theory of a Deadman Scars and Souvenirs | 1.0 |
| This Ending Dead Harvest | 1.5 |
| This Will Destroy You Young Mountain | 3.5 |
| This Will Destroy You This Will Destroy You | 3.5 |
| Thom Yorke The Eraser | 2.5 |
| Thrice First Impressions | 2.5 |
| Thrice Identity Crisis | 3.0 |
| Thrice Palms | 3.0 |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 3.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 3.5 |
| Thrice Come All You Weary | 3.5 |
| Thrice Beggars | 3.5 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 4.0 |
| Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere | 4.0 |
| Thrice Deeper Wells | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 4.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV | 4.5 |
| Thrice Major/Minor | 4.5 |
| Thrice Horizons/East | 4.5 |
| Best thing they have put pit in over a decade. Manages to feel a lot like Beggars and Major/Minor slapped together. |
| Tilly and the Wall O | 2.5 |
| Tiny Vipers Life on Earth | 3.5 |
| To-Mera Transcendental | 2.0 |
| Tokyo Police Club Elephant Shell | 2.5 |
| Tom Waits Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards | 3.5 |
| Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones | 4.0 |
| Tom Waits Rain Dogs | 4.5 |
| Tom Waits Bone Machine | 4.5 |
| Tool Lateralus | 3.0 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 3.5 |
| The amount of hype and acclaim this album has gotten is insane, but it's what to expect from a Tool album. Personally, I don't see it as a big step up from Lateralus, and in fact may be a bit of a step back for the band. Tracks like Jambi and Rosetta Stoned are horrible in representing Tool as a band, and are just not very enjoyable. Right In Two is an awesome song but sounds more like something A Perfect Circle would write rather than Tool. However, dissappointments aside, Wings For Marie Part 1 and 2 are alone worth the purchase of the album, for they are two of the greatest songs ever written by the band and take a step further for the band, it's a shame the rest of the album is a step back. That being said, it's still leagues above most other bands out there, and surely Tool will keep their cult following...and will still hold my interest until the next album. |
| Tori Amos Abnormally Attracted To Sin | 3.0 |
| Travis The Boy With No Name | 4.0 |
| Trespassers William Anchor | 2.5 |
| Trespassers William The Natural Order of Things | 3.5 |
| Trespassers William Different Stars | 4.5 |
| Trespassers William Having | 4.5 |
| Trivium Ascendancy | 3.0 |
| TV on the Radio Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes | 3.5 |
| TV on the Radio Dear Science | 3.5 |
| Uncle Tupelo No Depression | 4.0 |
| Underoath The Changing of Times | 2.5 |
| Underoath Act of Depression | 2.5 |
| Unearth III: In the Eyes of Fire | 2.5 |
| Unearth The March | 2.5 |
| Unearth The Oncoming Storm | 3.0 |
| Unearth The Wretched; The Ruinous | 3.0 |
| It's 2007 again baby. This would hit harder if I had a 2007 version of Four Loko in my hands. |
| Unexpect In a Flesh Aquarium | 4.0 |
| Valleyheart Everyone I've Ever Loved | 4.5 |
| Valleyheart Heal My Head | 4.5 |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend | 2.0 |
| Vetiver Thing Of The Past | 2.5 |
| Vetiver To Find Me Gone | 3.0 |
| Vetiver Vetiver | 3.0 |
| VOLA Witness | 4.5 |
| We Are Scientists Brain Thrust Mastery | 3.0 |
| Weezer Make Believe | 2.0 |
| Weezer Maladroit | 2.5 |
| Weezer The Green Album | 3.0 |
| Whiskeytown Stranger's Almanac | 4.0 |
| Why? Eskimo Snow | 2.5 |
| Why? Alopecia | 3.5 |
| Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot | 3.0 |
| Wilco Wilco (The Album) | 3.0 |
| Wilco A Ghost Is Born | 3.5 |
| Wilco Being There | 4.0 |
| Wilco Sky Blue Sky | 4.0 |
| William Elliott Whitmore Animals in the Dark | 3.5 |
| William Fitzsimmons Goodnight | 3.5 |
| William Fitzsimmons Until When We Are Ghosts | 4.0 |
| William Fitzsimmons The Sparrow and the Crow | 4.0 |
| Winds Prominence and Demise | 1.0 |
| Wings of Steel Gates of Twilight | 3.5 |
| Witchbreed Heretic Rapture | 3.5 |
| Within Temptation Mother Earth | 3.0 |
| Within Temptation The Heart of Everything | 4.0 |
| Wye Oak If Children | 4.0 |
| Wye Oak Civilian | 4.0 |
| Xiu Xiu Women As Lovers | 2.0 |
| Yael Naim Yael Naim | 3.5 |
| Yakuza Transmutations | 4.0 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Yeah Yeah Yeahs | 2.5 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever To Tell | 3.5 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz! | 3.5 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Show Your Bones | 4.0 |
| Yo La Tengo I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One | 3.5 |
| Yo La Tengo I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass | 3.5 |
| Yo La Tengo Popular Songs | 4.0 |
| Zero 7 Simple Things | 3.5 |
