| 2016 |
| Vein.fm Self-Destruct | 3.5 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3 | 4.0 |
| Death Worship Extermination Mass | 4.0 |
| The Limbos The Limbos | 4.0 |
| Zao The Well-Intentioned Virus | 4.0 |
| Gnaw Their Tongues Hymns For the Broken, Swollen and Silent | 4.0 |
| Muscle Before Paradise Bellycrawl | 4.0 |
| Childish Gambino "Awaken, My Love!" | 4.0 |
| Nails/Full of Hell Split | 3.5 |
| Pouya Underground Underdog | 3.5 |
| Convulsing Errata | 4.0 |
| The Weeknd Starboy | 3.0 |
| Nicholas Britell Moonlight: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | 4.0 |
| Drool (USA-GA) Demo | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Pacific Myth | 3.0 |
| Anonymuz Vice City | 4.0 |
| Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct | 2.5 |
| Rapsody Crown | 3.5 |
| A Tribe Called Quest We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service | 4.0 |
| Deathspell Omega The Synarchy of Molten Bones | 4.5 |
| The Bug (IL) Humbug; or, So Many Awful Things | 4.0 |
| Anal Trump That Makes Me Smart! | 2.5 |
| Noise Trail Immersion Womb | 4.0 |
| Anaal Nathrakh The Whole of the Law | 3.0 |
| Car Bomb Meta | 3.0 |
| Vermin Womb Decline | 3.5 |
| The production on this is just really cacophonous and abrasive, but the song writing needs some variation to really push it over into the realm of excellence. |
| Marching Church Telling It Like It Is | 4.0 |
| Ulcerate Shrines of Paralysis | 5.0 |
| Trash Talk Tangle | 3.0 |
| My first impression is that this still doesn't touch their powerviolence era, but is a good deal better than the painful genericism of No Peace. |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation | 5.0 |
| Wormrot Voices | 4.0 |
| Super Unison Auto | 3.5 |
| Gatecreeper Sonoran Depravation | 3.5 |
| Bib Pop | 4.0 |
| Leonard Cohen You Want It Darker | 4.0 |
| Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition | 5.0 |
| Oathbreaker Rheia | 4.0 |
| Brain Tentacles Brain Tentacles | 3.0 |
| This starts off pretty boring-ish, but it really picks up in the second half. It feels like there's some filler to be cut. |
| Pixies Head Carrier | 2.0 |
| Solange A Seat at the Table | 4.0 |
| Bon Iver 22, A Million | 3.5 |
| Emma Ruth Rundle Marked for Death | 4.0 |
| Moses Sumney Lamentations | 4.5 |
| Every Time I Die Low Teens | 4.5 |
| Mommy Songs About Children | 3.5 |
| The Caretaker Everywhere at the End of Time - Stage 1 | 3.5 |
| Pisse Kohlrübenwinter #1 | 4.0 |
| Pisse Kohlrübenwinter #2 | 4.0 |
| Devil Master Devil Master (demo) | 3.0 |
| Street Sects End Position | 3.5 |
| Preoccupations Preoccupations | 4.0 |
| Touche Amore Stage Four | 4.0 |
| Knocked Loose Laugh Tracks | 3.0 |
| Norma Jean Polar Similar | 3.0 |
| Swain The Long Dark Blue | 4.0 |
| Of Mice and Men Cold World | 1.5 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree | 4.5 |
| Travis Scott Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight | 3.0 |
| Isaiah Rashad The Sun's Tirade | 3.5 |
| Warthog Warthog | 4.0 |
| Vince Staples Prima Donna | 3.5 |
| Frank Ocean Blonde | 4.0 |
| Blood Incantation Starspawn | 4.5 |
| Ka Honor Killed The Samurai | 3.5 |
| Mizmor Yodh | 4.0 |
| Young Nudy Slime Ball | 3.5 |
| Skillet Unleashed | 1.5 |
| Dinosaur Jr. Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not | 3.5 |
| Forest Of Harambe Under The Sign Of Harambe | 1.5 |
| Protomartyr Born to Be Wine | 4.0 |
| Pure Disgust Pure Disgust LP | 3.0 |
| Noname Telefone | 4.0 |
| Deny The Cross Alpha Ghoul | 3.0 |
| Big Hoodoo Asylum | 3.5 |
| Bones (USA-CA) PaidProgramming2 | 3.5 |
| Numenorean Home | 3.5 |
| Gucci Mane Everybody Looking | 3.5 |
| Revocation Great Is Our Sin | 4.0 |
| 21 Savage Savage Mode | 3.0 |
| ScHoolboy Q Blank Face LP | 4.0 |
| Full of Hell Live At Roadburn 2016 | 4.0 |
| BADBADNOTGOOD IV | 3.5 |
| Conjurer (UK) I | 4.0 |
| Omni Deluxe | 4.0 |
| Roisin Murphy Take Her Up to Monto | 3.5 |
| Mom Jeans. best buds | 3.0 |
| Cadaver Dog Blunt Force Trauma | 4.0 |
| blink-182 California | 2.0 |
| Deerhoof The Magic | 4.0 |
| DJ Shadow The Mountain Will Fall | 3.0 |
| Merzbow, Keiji Haino, and Balazs Pandi An Untroublesome Defencelessness | 3.5 |
| Merzbow, Haino, Pandi An Untroublesome Defencelessness | 3.5 |
| Corey Feldman Angelic 2 The Core | 1.5 |
| Joanne Robertson Wildflower | 5.0 |
| Boy Harsher Yr Body Is Nothing | 3.5 |
| Converge You Fail Me Redux | 5.0 |
| Nails You Will Never Be One of Us | 3.5 |
| Swans The Glowing Man | 4.0 |
| Unlocking the Truth Chaos | 2.5 |
| Show Me The Body Body War | 4.0 |
| YG Still Brazy | 3.5 |
| Misfits Friday The 13th | 1.0 |
| Drei Affen Drei Affen | 4.0 |
| G.L.O.S.S. Trans Day Of Revenge | 3.0 |
| letlive. If I'm the Devil... | 2.5 |
| SUMAC What One Becomes | 4.0 |
| Sea of Shit 2nd EP | 3.5 |
| Jute Gyte Perdurance | 3.5 |
| Fat Nick When the Lean Runs Out | 3.5 |
| Jesus Piece Summer '16 Promo | 2.5 |
| The Underachievers It Happened In Flatbush | 4.0 |
| Gorguts Pleiades' Dust | 4.5 |
| Kvelertak Nattesferd | 3.5 |
| Chance the Rapper Coloring Book | 3.0 |
| SOUL GLO Untitled EP | 3.5 |
| Lumpy and The Dumpers Huff My Sack | 4.0 |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool | 4.5 |
| Vektor Terminal Redux | 5.0 |
| So fucking excited about this. I heard these guys years ago, but it didn't click for some reason. Now I think they're probably the best modern thrash I've heard. |
| Death Grips Bottomless Pit | 4.5 |
| White Lung Paradise | 3.5 |
| Sissy Spacek Disfathom | 3.5 |
| Vile Intent Machine Into Flesh | 4.0 |
| Weekend Nachos Apology | 3.0 |
| Sex Prisoner Tannhauser Gate | 4.0 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Nonagon Infinity | 4.0 |
| Aesop Rock The Impossible Kid | 4.0 |
| Drake Views | 2.5 |
| Dalek Asphalt For Eden | 4.0 |
| Priapus Depressant | 4.0 |
| The Fall of Troy OK | 3.0 |
| The Gerogerigegege Moenai Hai | 3.5 |
| Gland Neurotica | 4.0 |
| Dark Thoughts Dark Thoughts | 4.0 |
| The Coathangers Nosebleed Weekend | 3.0 |
| Zeal and Ardor Devil is Fine | 4.0 |
| Really cool fucking album. The catch is that you have to have an ear for exceptionally weird music and you have to look past the sloppiness and haphazardness of the styles put together. If you're like me, sloppiness might even be a plus for you. This work crams together elements of black spirituals, black metal, and various forms of electronic music, among other sounds, with little care for the consequences. This results in an exceptionally diverse and oddly satisfying, somehow cohesive listening experience. The songs are pretty well put together and the vocal performances deserve special mention. Manuel Gagnuex really manages to conjure a massive amount of authentic feeling soul. So authentic that you wouldn't be remiss in thinking the croons could've been sampled from Alan Lomax's library. Some of the metal riffs and electronic parts can wind up sounding pretty cheesy, but that's forgivable. The recording could be better, but in true lo-fi/black metal spirit, it isn't. It's an interesting project to say the least. Also, I feel an odd connection to this because I'm a black guy that happens to actually be into black metal. This is a record for music lovers that are comfortable outside of their comfort zones. It's also probably a hipster's wet dream. |
| Deftones Gore | 4.0 |
| Terrace Martin Velvet Portraits | 3.5 |
| Hamburger Helper Watch the Stove | 3.5 |
| Weezer The White Album | 4.0 |
| Autolux Pussy's Dead | 3.5 |
| Polyenso Pure In The Plastic | 4.0 |
| Entheos (USA) The Infinite Nothing | 3.0 |
| Westside Gunn Flygod | 5.0 |
| Bambara Swarm | 3.5 |
| The Body and Full Of Hell One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache | 4.0 |
| O'Brother Endless Light | 3.5 |
| Rotten Sound Abuse to Suffer | 3.0 |
| Fero Lux No Rest | 3.0 |
| Domo Genesis Genesis | 2.5 |
| Death Grips Interview 2016 | 3.5 |
| The Body No One Deserves Happiness | 4.0 |
| Hans Zimmer and Junkie XL Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | 3.5 |
| The Drones Feelin Kinda Free | 4.0 |
| Flatbush Zombies 3001: A Laced Odyssey | 3.5 |
| Denzel Curry Imperial | 4.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar untitled unmastered. | 4.5 |
| Plebeian Grandstand False Highs, True Lows | 3.5 |
| Tanpopo Crisis Nobody Knows | 4.0 |
| Death Index Death Index | 3.5 |
| Holy Esque At Hope's Ravine | 3.5 |
| Marching Church Coming Down: Sessions In April | 3.5 |
| JPEGMAFIA Black Ben Carson | 3.5 |
| Kanye West The Life of Pablo | 2.5 |
| brokeNCYDE All Grown Up | 1.0 |
| Gouge Away , Dies | 4.0 |
| Magrudergrind II | 3.5 |
| Beta Boys Real Rockers | 4.5 |
| Bones (USA-CA) Useless | 3.5 |
| Future EVOL | 2.5 |
| Bea5t Empathy Is a Gift | 2.0 |
| Tanpopo Crisis Love in Hell | 3.0 |
| Arms (FL) Blackout | 3.5 |
| PeeWee Longway Mr. Blue Benjamin | 4.0 |
| Massive Attack Ritual Spirit | 4.0 |
| Ty Segall Emotional Mugger | 3.5 |
| Agoraphobic Nosebleed Arc | 3.5 |
| Savages Adore Life | 3.5 |
| Jesu/Sun Kil Moon Jesu/Sun Kil Moon | 3.0 |
| Chris Travis The Ruined | 4.0 |
| Julien Baker Audiotree Live Session | 4.5 |
| Anderson .Paak Malibu | 4.0 |
| Sensory Deprivation SNSRY DPRVTN | 5.0 |
| Full of Hell Amber Mote In The Black Vault | 4.0 |
| This is a very interesting progression after the Merzbow collaboration. The crushing grind elements of that aforementioned release are still in full effect, but the more hardcore/punk sensibilities of the group seem to take a backseat to more overt death metal influences this time around. The drums are clear, and Dave Bland's playing is both technical and pummeling. The guitar tone can sound outright monolithic at times and the riffs maintain heaviness and variety. The vocals are consistently monstrous. If there is a qualm, I believe the bass is a bit too distorted here, as it struggles to be heard in the mix. The sounds here are certainly extreme and largely amazing. I'll definitely be coming back to this to hold me over until a new LP from the group. |
| David Bowie Blackstar | 5.0 |
| Crazy Spirit Crazy Spirit EP II | 4.0 |
| Vein.fm Demo 2016 | 3.0 |
| Chromatics Cherry | 4.0 |
