| 2021 |
| Fleet Foxes A Very Lonely Solstice | 3.5 |
| Neil Young Barn | 3.0 |
| Alice Phoebe Lou Child’s Play | 3.0 |
| Margo Cilker Pohorylle | 3.5 |
| Sofia Campos Lugares Imaginarios | 4.0 |
| Beach Fossils The Other Side of Life: Piano Ballads | 3.5 |
| The Antlers Losing Light | 3.5 |
| Courtney Barnett Things Take Time, Take Time | 3.0 |
| Damon Albarn The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows | 3.0 |
| Sloppy Jane Madison | 3.0 |
| Snail Mail Valentine | 3.5 |
| Aimee Mann Queens of the Summer Hotel | 3.0 |
| Springtime (AUS) Springtime | 3.5 |
| Nation of Language A Way Forward | 3.5 |
| Emma Ruth Rundle Engine of Hell | 3.0 |
| Marissa Nadler The Path of the Clouds | 4.0 |
| The War On Drugs I Don't Live Here Anymore | 3.0 |
| Emily Scott Robinson American Siren | 4.0 |
| Grouper Shade | 3.0 |
| Lana Del Rey Blue Banisters | 2.5 |
| My Morning Jacket My Morning Jacket | 3.5 |
| Stephen Sanchez What Was, Not Now | 3.5 |
| Hayden Thorpe Moondust for My Diamond | 3.5 |
| Xenia Rubinos Una Rosa | 3.5 |
| Bedouine Waysides | 3.0 |
| Remi Wolf Juno | 4.5 |
| PinkPantheress To Hell With It | 3.0 |
| Kacy Hill Simple, Sweet, and Smiling | 3.0 |
| Anna Leone I've Felt All These Things | 3.5 |
| James Blake Friends That Break Your Heart | 3.5 |
| Karen Peris A Song is Way Above the Lawn | 3.5 |
| Efterklang Windflowers | 3.5 |
| Noah Gundersen A Pillar of Salt | 3.5 |
| Neil Young Carnegie Hall 1970 | 4.0 |
| Hovvdy True Love | 3.0 |
| Brandi Carlile In These Silent Days | 3.5 |
| Joni? |
| Boy Scouts Wayfinder | 3.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine A Beginner's Mind | 3.0 |
| Various Artists I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute To... | 2.5 |
| Am I appalled by the mediocrity of this VU tribute album? Yeah, I think so. |
| Anna B Savage These Dreams | 3.5 |
| Andy Shauf Wilds | 3.5 |
| The Felice Brothers From Dreams to Dust | 4.5 |
| Mild High Club Going Going Gone | 3.5 |
| Uplifting elevator jazz fusion with psych pop leanings. Let’s get gone already. |
| Jose Gonzalez Local Valley | 3.5 |
| Lindsey Buckingham Lindsey Buckingham | 3.5 |
| Art School Girlfriend Is It Light Where You Are | 3.0 |
| Kacey Musgraves Star-Crossed | 3.5 |
| Low Hey What | 4.0 |
| Ruby Haunt Watching the Grass Grow | 4.0 |
| Water From Your Eyes Structure | 3.5 |
| Big Red Machine How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last? | 3.5 |
| Yann Tiersen Kerber | 4.0 |
| Halsey If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power | 3.5 |
| Madi Diaz History of a Feeling | 3.0 |
| CHVRCHES Screen Violence | 3.5 |
| Men I Trust Untourable Album | 3.5 |
| Zelma Stone The Best | 3.5 |
| James McMurtry The Horses and the Hounds | 4.0 |
Now this is some good ol’ country rock.
Dude even pulls off a song about missing his glasses and it’s all grand.
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| Jade Bird Different Kinds of Light | 3.0 |
| Watchhouse Watchhouse | 4.0 |
| The Killers Pressure Machine | 3.5 |
| Cots Disturbing Body | 3.5 |
| Andrea von Kampen That Spell | 3.5 |
| LUMP (UK) Animal | 3.5 |
| Darkside Spiral | 4.5 |
| clairo Sling | 3.0 |
| Midwife (USA) Luminol | 3.5 |
| Megan Wyler Upside Now | 3.5 |
| Molly Lewis The Forgotten Edge | 3.5 |
| Spellling The Turning Wheel | 3.5 |
| Ellis Nothing is Sacred Anymore | 3.0 |
| Lucy Dacus Home Video | 3.5 |
| Lightning Bug A Color of the Sky | 3.5 |
| Kings of Convenience Peace or Love | 3.0 |
| Dean Blunt Black Metal 2 | 3.5 |
| Joana Serrat Hardcore from the Heart | 4.0 |
| Quivers Golden Doubt | 3.0 |
| Japanese Breakfast Jubilee | 4.0 |
| Wolf Alice Blue Weekend | 3.0 |
| Blood Cultures LUNO | 4.0 |
| Swiss Portrait Familiar Patterns | 3.0 |
| Bachelor Doomin' Sun | 4.0 |
| Cereus Bright Give Me Time | 4.0 |
| Lambchop Showtunes | 3.5 |
| Erika de Casier Sensational | 4.0 |
| Lord Huron Long Lost | 4.0 |
| Damien Jurado The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania | 3.0 |
| Pushed softly down the stairwell of modest uncertainty: this is another album with some songs released by the artist known as Damien Jurado. |
| St. Vincent Daddy's Home | 3.0 |
| Frokedal Flora | 3.5 |
| Squid Bright Green Field | 3.5 |
| Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall The Marfa Tapes | 3.5 |
| Sophia Kennedy Monsters | 3.5 |
| Will Stratton The Changing Wilderness | 4.0 |
| Timber Timbre I Am Coming to Paris | 3.5 |
JUST TELL HIM HIS NAME MY SWEET DARLIN OR YOU BETTER RUN FOR YOUR LIFE BECAUSE HE IS
COMING TO PARIS (TO KILL YOU) (RUN) (RUN) (RUN) (RUN) OH YOU BETTER RUN FOR YOUR LIFE. |
| Birdy Young Heart | 3.0 |
| Matt Sweeney and Bonnie Prince Billy Superwolves | 3.5 |
| Phantom Handshakes No More Summer Songs | 3.0 |
| Neptunian Maximalism Solar Drone Ceremony | 3.5 |
| Monobody Comma | 3.5 |
| Bruno Pernadas Private Reasons | 5.0 |
| Ethel Cain Inbred | 3.0 |
| Field Music Flat White Moon | 3.0 |
| Cory Hanson Pale Horse Rider | 3.5 |
| Flyte This Is Really Going To Hurt | 4.0 |
| Saccades Flowing Fades | 3.0 |
| Skullcrusher Storm in Summer | 3.0 |
| Ryley Walker Course In Fable | 3.5 |
| Flock of Dimes Head of Roses | 3.5 |
| BRUIT The Machine Is Burning... | 4.0 |
| Julia Kwamya Feel Good About Feeling Bad | 4.0 |
| tUnE-yArDs sketchy. | 2.0 |
| For Those I Love For Those I Love | 3.5 |
| The Antlers Green to Gold | 4.0 |
| Ben Howard Collections from the Whiteout | 3.5 |
| Real Estate Half A Human | 2.5 |
| Yet another prove that they peaked two and a half albums ago and now they?ve gotta keep up the charade that they?re still very much an active, productive and relevant band. Hey, let?s use that carefree summery vibe formula again, boys. |
| Neil Young Young Shakespeare | 4.0 |
“Yeah that was really gross folks”
Shhhh |
| underscores fishmonger | 2.5 |
| Chad VanGaalen World's Most Stressed Out Gardener | 3.5 |
| Alice Phoebe Lou Glow | 4.0 |
| Hayden Casey Calamities | 3.0 |
| Lana Del Rey Chemtrails Over The Country Club | 2.5 |
| Middle Kids Today We're the Greatest | 3.5 |
| Feu! Chatterton Palais d'Argile | 3.5 |
| Israel Nash Topaz | 3.5 |
| Valerie June The Moon And Stars: Prescriptions for Dreamers | 3.0 |
| Arab Strap As Days Get Dark | 4.0 |
| Fruit Bats The Pet Parade | 3.5 |
| Waldskin Clarity Before the Crash | 3.5 |
| Leon III Antlers in Velvet | 4.0 |
| Jungstotter Massifs Of Me | 4.0 |
| Lost Horizons In Quiet Moments | 4.5 |
| Julien Baker Little Oblivions | 3.0 |
| A Winged Victory for the Sullen Invisible Cities | 3.5 |
| Bathe Alone Last Looks | 4.0 |
| Altin Gun Yol | 3.5 |
| Tindersticks Distractions | 3.0 |
| Cassandra Jenkins An Overview on Phenomenal Nature | 4.0 |
| Katy Kirby Cool Dry Place | 3.5 |
| Gabriel Rios Flore | 3.5 |
| Fawning Illusions of Control | 3.0 |
| The Weather Station Ignorance | 4.0 |
| Black Country, New Road For the first time | 3.5 |
| Sun June Somewhere | 3.5 |
| Maria BC Devil's Rain | 3.5 |
| Luna Li jams | 3.5 |
| The Notwist Vertigo Days | 4.0 |
| Arlo Parks Collapsed in Sunbeams | 3.5 |
| Yasmin Williams Urban Driftwood | 3.5 |
| Anna B Savage A Common Turn | 4.0 |
| Puma Blue In Praise Of Shadows | 3.5 |
| Ruby Haunt Snow Angel/Reverse Creek | 4.0 |
| Indigo Sparke Echo | 3.5 |
| Elori Saxl The Blue of Distance | 3.0 |
| Widowspeak Honeychurch | 3.0 |
| Midnight Sister Painting the Roses | 3.0 |
| Buck Meek Two Saviors | 2.5 |
| Daniel Knox Won't You Take Me With You | 3.0 |
| Radio Supernova Takaisin | 3.5 |
| Shame (UK) Drunk Tank Pink | 3.5 |
| Pom Poko Cheater | 3.0 |
| Patrick Watson A Mermaid in Lisbon | 4.0 |
| 2015 |
| Cindy Lee Act of Tenderness | 4.0 |
| Coldplay A Head Full of Dreams | 2.0 |
| Many Rooms Hollow Body | 3.5 |
| Beat Happening Look Around | 5.0 |
| All that's good about beat happening. |
| Parquet Courts Monastic Living | 3.0 |
| pure wank. |
| Kate Boy One | 4.0 |
| Bill Ryder-Jones West Kirby County Primary | 3.5 |
| EL VY Return to the Moon | 3.5 |
| Guy Garvey Courting The Squall | 3.5 |
| Bendigo Fletcher Consensual Wisdom | 3.5 |
| Julien Baker Sprained Ankle | 4.0 |
| Deerhunter Fading Frontier | 4.0 |
| Beach House Thank Your Lucky Stars | 4.0 |
| Neon Indian Vega Intl. Night School | 4.5 |
| Majical Cloudz Are You Alone? | 4.5 |
| oh yes |
| Julia Holter Have You In My Wilderness | 4.0 |
| CHVRCHES Every Open Eye | 3.0 |
| U.S. Girls Half Free | 4.0 |
| Empress Of Me | 4.0 |
| Meg Myers Sorry | 2.5 |
| Ought Sun Coming Down | 4.0 |
| Mild High Club Timeline | 3.0 |
It is alright
You can skip this. |
| Astronauts, etc. Mind Out Wandering | 3.5 |
| Beirut No No No | 3.0 |
| Craig Finn Faith in the Future | 3.5 |
| Low Ones and Sixes | 4.0 |
| Youth Lagoon Savage Hills Ballroom | 3.5 |
| Television drone soundtracks. |
| Beach House Depression Cherry | 4.0 |
| Destroyer Poison Season | 3.5 |
| Foals What Went Down | 3.0 |
| Yo La Tengo Stuff Like That There | 3.5 |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion | 3.5 |
| FKA Twigs M3LL155X | 3.5 |
| Mac DeMarco Another One | 3.5 |
| Lianne La Havas Blood | 4.0 |
| Flo Morrissey Tomorrow Will Be Beautiful | 4.0 |
| Tame Impala Currents | 4.0 |
| Jason Isbell Something More Than Free | 3.5 |
| C Duncan Architect | 3.5 |
| Meg Baird Don't Weigh Down the Light | 3.5 |
| Son Lux Bones | 4.0 |
| Everything Everything Get to Heaven | 4.0 |
| Craig Finn Newmyer's Roof | 3.5 |
| Jenny Hval Apocalypse, girl | 4.0 |
| Sharon Van Etten I Don't Want To Let You Down | 3.0 |
| expected to love this, but i just like it. |
| Arthur Russell Corn | 3.5 |
| Of Monsters and Men Beneath the Skin | 2.5 |
| Muse Drones | 2.0 |
| Jamie xx In Colour | 4.0 |
| Florence and the Machine How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful | 3.0 |
| Unknown Mortal Orchestra Multi-Love | 3.5 |
| Siv Jakobsen The Lingering | 3.5 |
| Jim O'Rourke Simple Songs | 3.5 |
| The Milk Carton Kids Monterey | 3.5 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Dark Bird Is Home | 3.5 |
| Patrick Watson Love Songs for Robots | 4.0 |
| Torres Sprinter | 3.5 |
| Hop Along Painted Shut | 3.0 |
| Mumford and Sons Wilder Mind | 2.0 |
| Mew +- | 3.0 |
| Passion Pit Kindred | 2.0 |
| Alabama Shakes Sound & Color | 4.0 |
| Speedy Ortiz Foil Deer | 3.5 |
| John Moreland High on Tulsa Heat | 3.5 |
| The Apartments No Song, No Spell, No Madrigal | 3.5 |
| Waxahatchee Ivy Tripp | 3.5 |
| Lord Huron Strange Trails | 3.5 |
| Colleen Captain of None | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell | 4.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Kintsugi | 3.0 |
| Nils Frahm Solo | 3.5 |
| Courtney Barnett sometimes i sit and think, and sometimes i just sit | 3.5 |
| Them Are Us Too Remain | 4.0 |
| Errors Lease of Life | 4.0 |
| Laura Marling Short Movie | 3.0 |
how does joni mitchell stay so young? she has so many great albums
this is just boring |
| Modest Mouse Strangers to Ourselves | 3.0 |
| Sleeping With Sirens Madness | 2.0 |
| Tobias Jesso Jr. Goon | 3.0 |
| Natalia Lafourcade Hasta la Raiz | 4.0 |
| Purity Ring Another Eternity | 2.5 |
| Clarence Clarity No Now | 4.5 |
| Ryley Walker Primrose Green | 4.0 |
| Daniel Knox Daniel Knox | 3.0 |
| James McMurtry Complicated Game | 3.5 |
| Moderator The World Within | 4.5 |
| Imagine Dragons Smoke + Mirrors | 2.0 |
| Jose Gonzalez Vestiges and Claws | 4.0 |
| S. Carey Supermoon | 3.5 |
| Susanne Sundfor Ten Love Songs | 3.5 |
| Marika Hackman We Slept at Last | 4.5 |
| Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear | 3.5 |
| Mount Eerie Sauna | 4.5 |
| Andy Shauf The Bearer of Bad News | 3.0 |
| Jessica Pratt On Your Own Love Again | 4.5 |
| whatever |
| The Lone Bellow Then Came The Morning | 3.0 |
| Jake Xerxes Fussell Jake Xerxes Fussell | 3.0 |
| Kathryn Joseph Bones You Have Thrown Me and Blood I've Spilled | 4.5 |
| Sleater-Kinney No Cities to Love | 4.0 |
| Preoccupations Viet Cong | 4.5 |
| The Decemberists What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World | 3.0 |
| Belle and Sebastian Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance | 3.0 |
| Bjork Vulnicura | 3.5 |
| Panda Bear Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper | 3.0 |
| Benjamin Clementine At Least For Now | 4.5 |
| Asaf Avidan Gold Shadow | 4.0 |
| Phoebe Bridgers Killer | 4.0 |
| 1978 |
| The Police Outlandos d'Amour | 4.5 |
| Dire Straits Dire Straits | 4.0 |
| Blondie Parallel Lines | 3.0 |
| Wire Chairs Missing | 4.5 |
| Talking Heads More Songs About Buildings and Food | 4.0 |
| Kraftwerk The Man-Machine | 4.5 |
| Elvis Costello This Year's Model | 3.5 |
| The Cars The Cars | 2.5 |
| Magazine Real Life | 3.0 |
| Television Adventure | 4.0 |
| Patti Smith Easter | 3.5 |
| Big Star Third/Sister Lovers | 5.0 |
| Perfect. |
| Kate Bush The Kick Inside | 4.5 |
| Bruce Springsteen Darkness on the Edge of Town | 5.0 |
| Townes Van Zandt Flyin' Shoes | 3.5 |
| Big Star 3rd | 4.5 |
| this album shouldn't work, it's almost schizo how it jumps from classic big star power pop with emphasis on good melodies and childish naivety to well i don't know something in the vein of Nick Drake's Parasite (Holocaust says it all). There is a lovely cover of VU's Femme Fatale, a religious christmas song, bleak brooding songs (Big Black Car, Holocaust, Kangaroo) which at first sound a little unsettling, that's because they are fucking scary. There was nothing the matter on the first part, so why is the singer suddenly falling apart in despair. I don't know that story, but i know that although it sounds jarring at first, it is an unusual collection of songs and if you liked either #1 record (Nighttime, Blue moon, Big Black Car) or Radio City (Kizza me, Take Care, O, Dana) you will love a bunch of these songs. I know I do. |
| Tom Waits Blue Valentine | 4.0 |
| Warren Zevon Excitable Boy | 5.0 |
| Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports | 4.5 |
| Robbie Basho Visions of The Country | 4.5 |
| Harold Budd The Pavilion of Dreams | 4.0 |
