| 2019 |
| Sunday Service Choir Jesus Is Born | 3.5 |
| Kaytranada Bubba | 3.5 |
| Harry Styles Fine Line | 3.5 |
| XXXTENTACION Bad Vibes Forever | 1.5 |
| The Who Who | 3.5 |
| Burial Tunes 2011 to 2019 | 5.0 |
| Camila Cabello Romance | 2.5 |
| Liam Payne LP1 | 1.5 |
| Cattle Decapitation Death Atlas | 4.0 |
| Coldplay Everyday Life | 3.5 |
| Beck Hyperspace | 2.5 |
| Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race | 4.5 |
| Lindemann F and M | 3.5 |
| Sleep Token Sundowning | 3.5 |
| DJ Shadow Our Pathetic Age | 3.0 |
| Abigail Williams Walk Beyond The Dark | 4.5 |
| Liturgy H.A.Q.Q. | 4.0 |
| FKA Twigs Magdalene | 4.0 |
| Miranda Lambert Wildcard | 3.5 |
| Gang Starr One Of The Best Yet | 3.5 |
| Voyager Colours in the Sun | 3.5 |
| Highly Suspect MCID | 2.0 |
| Earl Sweatshirt Feet of Clay | 3.5 |
| Underworld DRIFT Series 1 Sampler Edition | 4.0 |
| Underworld DRIFT Series 1 | 4.5 |
| Thornhill The Dark Pool | 4.0 |
| Leprous Pitfalls | 4.0 |
| Norma Jean All Hail | 4.5 |
| Kanye West Jesus Is King | 2.0 |
| Swans Leaving Meaning | 3.5 |
| Alcest Spiritual Instinct | 4.0 |
| Foals Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost - Part 2 | 3.5 |
| Refused War Music | 3.5 |
| clipping. There Existed an Addiction to Blood | 4.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Surviving | 4.0 |
| Alter Bridge Walk The Sky | 3.5 |
| BABYMETAL Metal Galaxy | 3.5 |
| Lightning Bolt Sonic Citadel | 4.0 |
| Lacuna Coil Black Anima | 3.5 |
| Big Thief Two Hands | 4.0 |
| Kim Gordon No Home Record | 3.5 |
| Danny Brown uknowhatimsayin¿ | 4.0 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Ghosteen | 4.5 |
| Lagwagon Railer | 4.5 |
| The Darkness Easter Is Cancelled | 3.0 |
| Wilco Ode to Joy | 4.0 |
| Gatecreeper Deserted | 4.0 |
| Bayside Interrobang | 4.0 |
| Angel Olsen All Mirrors | 4.0 |
| DaBaby KIRK | 3.0 |
| Opeth In Cauda Venenum | 4.0 |
| 65daysofstatic replicr, 2019 | 3.5 |
| Sturgill Simpson Sound and Fury | 4.0 |
| Borknagar True North | 4.5 |
| Hellyeah Welcome Home | 2.5 |
| Of Mice and Men EARTHANDSKY | 3.5 |
| Tegan and Sara Hey, I'm Just Like You | 3.5 |
| M83 DSVII | 3.0 |
| As I Lay Dying Shaped by Fire | 3.5 |
| blink-182 Nine | 3.5 |
| Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear | 5.0 |
| Tove Lo Sunshine Kitty | 2.5 |
| Zac Brown Band The Owl | 1.5 |
| Exhorder Mourn the Southern Skies | 4.0 |
| Liam Gallagher Why Me? Why Not. | 3.5 |
| Slayyyter Slayyyter | 3.5 |
| Ameer Vann EMMANUEL | 2.0 |
| Nostalgia Critic The Wall | 1.0 |
| Starset Divisions | 3.0 |
| JPEGMAFIA All My Heroes Are Cornballs | 4.5 |
| Pixies Beneath the Eyrie | 3.0 |
| Their strongest one since they came back but still a massive far cry from their best work. |
| Korn The Nothing | 3.5 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Birth of Violence | 4.0 |
| Sampa the Great The Return | 4.0 |
| Charli XCX Charli | 4.0 |
| Hobo Johnson The Fall of Hobo Johnson | 3.5 |
| Infant Annihilator The Battle of Yaldabaoth | 4.0 |
| Kayo Dot Blasphemy | 3.5 |
| Sleeping With Sirens How It Feels to Be Lost | 3.0 |
| Bat For Lashes Lost Girls | 3.5 |
| Post Malone Hollywood's Bleeding | 3.0 |
| Melanie Martinez K-12 | 3.0 |
| Vitriol (USA) To Bathe from the Throat of Cowardice | 4.5 |
| The Highwomen The Highwomen | 4.0 |
| Lindsey Stirling Artemis | 3.5 |
| Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell! | 4.5 |
| Tool Fear Inoculum | 4.0 |
| Wage War Pressure | 2.0 |
| Sacred Reich Awakening | 3.5 |
| Taylor Swift Lover | 3.5 |
| Brockhampton Ginger | 3.5 |
| WRVTH No Rising Sun | 4.5 |
| Tropical Fuck Storm Braindrops | 3.5 |
| Killswitch Engage Atonement | 3.5 |
| Frank Turner No Man's Land | 3.0 |
| Young Thug So Much Fun | 3.5 |
| Blanck Mass Animated Violence Mild | 3.5 |
| Osees Face Stabber | 3.5 |
| Ride This Is Not a Safe Place | 3.5 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Infest the Rats' Nest | 4.0 |
| Destruction Born to Perish | 3.0 |
| Strung Out Songs Of Armor And Devotion | 4.0 |
| Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind | 4.5 |
| Bon Iver i,i | 3.5 |
| Marika Hackman Any Human Friend | 4.0 |
| Trippie Redd ! | 2.0 |
| Russian Circles Blood Year | 3.5 |
| Northlane Alien | 4.0 |
| I get why some guys are pissed off a bit at the whole sound shift going on, but for me it?s their most interesting and my fav album of theirs since Singularity, def their best one with Marcus so far. 4D?s one of their best jams in a while. |
| Volbeat Rewind, Replay, Rebound | 3.5 |
| Skillet Victorious | 2.0 |
| Carnifex World War X | 3.5 |
| Ty Segall First Taste | 3.5 |
| Drake Care Package | 3.5 |
| Of Monsters and Men Fever Dream | 3.5 |
| Chance the Rapper The Big Day | 3.5 |
| Kaiser Chiefs Duck | 2.0 |
| Thy Art Is Murder Human Target | 3.0 |
| Cordae The Lost Boy | 3.5 |
| Violent Femmes Hotel Last Resort | 3.0 |
| Rosalie Cunningham Rosalie Cunningham | 4.0 |
| Sum 41 Order In Decline | 4.0 |
| Tomb Mold Planetary Clairvoyance | 4.0 |
| The Flaming Lips King's Mouth | 3.5 |
| Sabaton The Great War | 3.5 |
| Good Riddance Thoughts And Prayers | 4.0 |
| Iggy Azalea In My Defense | 2.0 |
| Maxo Kream Brandon Banks | 3.5 |
| Lingua Ignota Caligula | 4.0 |
| Gravemind Conduit | 4.0 |
| Crown the Empire Sudden Sky | 2.5 |
| Ed Sheeran No. 6 Collaborations Project | 2.5 |
| Banks III | 3.5 |
| Torche Admission | 3.5 |
| Elder (USA-MA) The Gold and Silver Sessions | 3.5 |
| Purple Mountains Purple Mountains | 4.5 |
| Best album from David Berman in a long time, maybe since Bright Flight or even American Water, and a hell of a way to close out his career. RIP |
| Big K.R.I.T. K.R.I.T. Iz Here | 3.0 |
| Abbath Outstrider | 3.0 |
| 3TEETH Metawar | 3.0 |
| Machine Gun Kelly Hotel Diablo | 3.0 |
| The Haxan Cloak Midsommar (Original Score) | 4.0 |
| Falls of Rauros Patterns in Mythology | 4.0 |
| Mustard Perfect Ten | 3.0 |
| Freddie Gibbs and Madlib Bandana | 4.5 |
| The Black Keys Let's Rock | 3.5 |
| Thom Yorke Anima | 4.0 |
| The Raconteurs Help Us Stranger | 3.5 |
| Hot Chip A Bath Full of Ecstasy | 3.5 |
| Hollywood Vampires Rise | 2.5 |
| Black Midi Schlagenheim | 4.0 |
| Titus Andronicus An Obelisk | 3.0 |
| Baroness Gold and Grey | 4.0 |
| Thank You Scientist Terraformer | 4.5 |
| Bruce Springsteen Western Stars | 3.5 |
| Madonna Madame X | 3.0 |
| Bill Callahan Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest | 3.5 |
| Jonas Brothers Happiness Begins | 2.5 |
| Silversun Pickups Widow's Weeds | 3.0 |
| Cave In Final Transmission | 4.0 |
| Motionless in White Disguise | 2.5 |
| Prince Originals | 4.0 |
| Avicii Tim | 3.0 |
| Jai Paul Leak 04-13 (Bait Ones) | 4.5 |
| Death Angel Humanicide | 4.5 |
| Darkthrone Old Star | 3.5 |
| Denzel Curry Zuu | 4.0 |
| Miley Cyrus She Is Coming | 3.0 |
| Psychedelic Porn Crumpets And Now for the Whatchamacallit | 4.0 |
| Deathspell Omega The Furnaces of Palingenesia | 4.5 |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Veleno | 4.0 |
| Flying Lotus Flamagra | 3.5 |
| Earth Full Upon Her Burning Lips | 3.5 |
| Rammstein Untitled | 4.0 |
| Interpol A Fine Mess | 2.5 |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Dedicated | 3.5 |
| The National I Am Easy to Find | 4.0 |
| Tyler, the Creator IGOR | 4.0 |
| Injury Reserve Injury Reserve | 4.0 |
| Full of Hell Weeping Choir | 4.0 |
| Saint Vitus Saint Vitus (2019) | 3.0 |
| slowthai Nothing Great About Britain | 4.0 |
| DJ Khaled Father of Asahd | 2.0 |
| Com Truise Persuasion System | 3.0 |
| Megan Thee Stallion Fever | 3.5 |
| Mac DeMarco Here Comes the Cowboy | 3.0 |
| Possessed Revelations of Oblivion | 4.0 |
| Jamila Woods Legacy! Legacy! | 4.0 |
| Logic Confessions of a Dangerous Mind | 2.0 |
| Tim Hecker Anoyo | 4.0 |
| Spirit Adrift Divided by Darkness | 4.5 |
| Arch/Matheos Winter Ethereal | 4.5 |
| Amon Amarth Berserker | 3.5 |
| Bad Religion Age of Unreason | 3.5 |
| Big Thief U.F.O.F. | 4.5 |
| Vampire Weekend Father Of The Bride | 3.5 |
| Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes End of Suffering | 3.0 |
| AJR Neotheater | 1.5 |
| New Years Day Unbreakable | 2.5 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Fishing For Fishies | 3.5 |
| Sunn O))) Life Metal | 4.5 |
| Catfish and the Bottlemen The Balance | 2.5 |
| ScHoolboy Q CrasH Talk | 3.0 |
| Cokie The Clown You're Welcome | 4.0 |
| The Damned Things High Crimes | 3.5 |
| Pink Hurts 2B Human | 3.0 |
| Kevin Abstract ARIZONA BABY | 3.5 |
| Sadistik Haunted Gardens | 4.0 |
| Allegaeon Apoptosis | 4.5 |
| Cage The Elephant Social Cues | 3.5 |
| Lizzo Cuz I Love You | 3.5 |
| Grand Magus Wolf God | 3.5 |
| After the Burial Evergreen | 3.5 |
| Thrice Deeper Wells | 3.5 |
| The Chemical Brothers No Geography | 4.0 |
| Anderson .Paak Ventura | 4.0 |
| Andy Black The Ghost of Ohio | 2.5 |
| Periphery Periphery IV: Hail Stan | 4.0 |
| Weyes Blood Titanic Rising | 4.5 |
| Eluveitie Ategnatos | 3.5 |
| Simple Creatures Strange Love | 2.5 |
| Billie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? | 3.5 |
| Devin Townsend Empath | 4.5 |
| Whitechapel The Valley | 3.5 |
| Yelawolf Trunk Muzik 3 | 3.5 |
| Epic Beard Men This Was Supposed To Be Fun | 4.0 |
| Logic Supermarket (Soundtrack) | 1.5 |
| Avey Tare Cows On Hourglass Pond | 4.0 |
| American Football American Football (LP3) | 4.0 |
| Nav (CAN) Bad Habits | 1.0 |
| La Dispute Panorama | 4.5 |
| Flume Hi This is Flume | 4.0 |
| Buckcherry Warpaint | 1.5 |
| Children of Bodom Hexed | 4.0 |
| Tyr Hel | 4.0 |
| Foals Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost - Part 1 | 4.0 |
| Dave Psychodrama | 4.5 |
| Juice WRLD Death Race For Love | 2.5 |
| Gesaffelstein Hyperion | 2.5 |
| Stella Donnelly Beware of the Dogs | 4.0 |
| In Flames I, the Mask | 3.0 |
| Queensryche The Verdict | 4.0 |
| Weezer The Black Album | 3.0 |
| Pond (AUS) Tasmania | 3.5 |
| Mark Morton Anesthetic | 3.5 |
| Pissgrave Posthumous Humiliation | 4.5 |
| Hozier Wasteland, Baby! | 3.0 |
| Little Simz Grey Area | 4.5 |
| Marianas Trench Phantoms | 3.0 |
| 2 Chainz Rap Or Go To The League | 3.5 |
| Solange When I Get Home | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Distance Over Time | 4.0 |
| Overkill The Wings of War | 3.5 |
| Gunna Drip or Drown 2 | 1.5 |
| Lil Pump Harverd Dropout | 2.0 |
| Gary Clark Jr. This Land | 4.0 |
| Florida Georgia Line Can't Say I Ain't Country | 2.0 |
| Saor Forgotten Paths | 4.5 |
| Avril Lavigne Head Above Water | 2.0 |
| Czarface and Ghostface Killah Czarface Meets Ghostface | 3.5 |
| Millencolin SOS | 4.0 |
| Rotting Christ The Heretics | 3.5 |
| Insane Clown Posse Fearless Fred Fury | 3.0 |
| Copeland Blushing | 4.5 |
| Panda Bear Buoys | 3.0 |
| Ariana Grande Thank U, Next | 4.0 |
| Jessica Pratt Quiet Signs | 3.5 |
| HEALTH VOL. 4 :: SLAVES OF FEAR | 4.0 |
| Beirut Gallipoli | 3.0 |
| Within Temptation Resist | 3.0 |
| Avantasia Moonglow | 4.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Amo | 3.5 |
| Westside Boogie Everything’s For Sale | 3.5 |
| Backstreet Boys DNA | 3.0 |
| Swallow the Sun When a Shadow Is Forced into the Light | 3.5 |
| Weezer The Teal Album | 3.0 |
It's pretty damn safe as far as covers albums go and it's nothing that special in the long run, but I'm def taking it
over Pacific Daydream at least. |
| Papa Roach Who Do You Trust? | 1.5 |
| James Blake Assume Form | 4.5 |
| Malibu Ken Malibu Ken | 4.0 |
| Deerhunter Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? | 3.0 |
| A Pale Horse Named Death When The World Becomes Undone | 2.5 |
| Sharon Van Etten Remind Me Tomorrow | 4.0 |
| Future Future Hndrxx Presents: The WIZRD | 3.0 |
| FEVER 333 Strength In Numb333rs | 3.5 |
| Flotsam and Jetsam The End of Chaos | 4.0 |
| Switchfoot Native Tongue | 2.5 |
| Two People First Body | 4.0 |
| Soilwork Verkligheten | 4.0 |
| Born of Osiris The Simulation | 3.5 |
| While She Sleeps So What? | 3.0 |
| 2016 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3 | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Not the Actual Events | 4.0 |
| Kid Cudi Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin’ | 3.5 |
| J. Cole 4 Your Eyez Only | 3.0 |
| Childish Gambino "Awaken, My Love!" | 4.0 |
| The Weeknd Starboy | 3.0 |
| Icon For Hire You Can't Kill Us | 3.0 |
| Kate Bush Before the Dawn | 4.5 |
| Flume Skin Companion | 3.5 |
| Riverside Eye of the Soundscape | 4.0 |
| Highly Suspect The Boy Who Died Wolf | 4.0 |
| Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct | 3.5 |
| Bruno Mars 24K Magic | 3.5 |
| Sixx:A.M. Prayers For The Blessed (Vol. 2) | 3.5 |
| Miranda Lambert The Weight of These Wings | 3.5 |
| Animals As Leaders The Madness of Many | 4.0 |
| A Tribe Called Quest We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service | 4.0 |
| In Flames Battles | 2.0 |
| Saor Guardians | 4.5 |
| Okilly Dokilly Howdilly Doodilly | 1.5 |
| Deathspell Omega The Synarchy of Molten Bones | 4.0 |
| CZARFACE A Fistful of Peril | 3.5 |
| Common Black America Again | 4.0 |
| Attila Chaos | 2.0 |
| Bon Jovi This House Is Not for Sale | 2.5 |
| Birds Of Tokyo BRACE | 4.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity Atoma | 3.5 |
| Lambchop FLOTUS | 4.5 |
| The Chainsmokers Collage | 2.0 |
| Vader The Empire | 3.5 |
| Tinashe Nightride | 3.5 |
| Testament Brotherhood of the Snake | 4.0 |
| Tove Lo Lady Wood | 2.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold The Stage | 3.5 |
| Ulcerate Shrines of Paralysis | 4.5 |
| Korn The Serenity of Suffering | 4.0 |
| American Football American Football (LP2) | 3.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Integrity Blues | 3.5 |
| The Pretenders Alone | 3.5 |
| The Pretty Reckless Who You Selling For | 3.5 |
| Kings of Leon Walls | 2.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation | 4.5 |
| Moby These Systems Are Failing | 4.0 |
| Sonic Syndicate Confessions | 1.5 |
| NOFX First Ditch Effort | 3.5 |
| Sonata Arctica The Ninth Hour | 3.0 |
| Norah Jones Day Breaks | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah The Violent Sleep Of Reason | 4.5 |
| Green Day Revolution Radio | 3.0 |
| Sum 41 13 Voices | 3.5 |
| Alter Bridge The Last Hero | 4.0 |
| OneRepublic Oh My My | 2.5 |
| The Game 1992 | 3.0 |
| D.D Dumbo Utopia Defeated | 3.5 |
| Leonard Cohen You Want It Darker | 4.0 |
| Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition | 4.5 |
| Opeth Sorceress | 3.5 |
| Yellowcard Yellowcard | 4.0 |
| Bon Iver 22, A Million | 4.5 |
| Suicidal Tendencies World Gone Mad | 3.5 |
| Banks The Altar | 3.5 |
| Soft Play Take Control | 3.0 |
| Sticky Fingers Westway (The Glitter & The Slums) | 4.0 |
| Epica The Holographic Principle | 4.0 |
| Brant Bjork Tao of the Devil | 4.0 |
| Pixies Head Carrier | 2.5 |
| Solange A Seat at the Table | 4.0 |
| Neurosis Fires Within Fires | 4.5 |
| Every Time I Die Low Teens | 4.5 |
| Mick Jenkins The Healing Component | 4.5 |
| Operation: Mindcrime Resurrection | 2.5 |
| Shawn Mendes Illuminate | 2.0 |
| Airbourne Breakin' Outta Hell | 3.5 |
| Usher Hard II Love | 3.5 |
| Against Me! Shape Shift With Me | 3.5 |
| In the Woods... Pure | 4.0 |
| AlunaGeorge I Remember | 3.0 |
| Preoccupations Preoccupations | 3.5 |
| Mac Miller The Divine Feminine | 3.0 |
| Die Antwoord Mount Ninji and Da Nice Time Kid | 2.5 |
| Bastille Wild World | 2.5 |
| clipping. Splendor and Misery | 3.5 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree | 5.0 |
| Of Mice and Men Cold World | 2.0 |
| M.I.A. AIM | 3.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional | 4.0 |
| Wilco Schmilco | 3.5 |
| Travis Scott Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight | 3.0 |
| Angel Olsen My Woman | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Transcendence | 3.5 |
| A Day To Remember Bad Vibrations | 3.5 |
| Isaiah Rashad The Sun's Tirade | 3.5 |
| Sodom Decision Day | 3.5 |
| Florida Georgia Line Dig Your Roots | 2.0 |
| De La Soul and the Anonymous Nobody... | 3.5 |
| Prophets of Rage The Party's Over | 2.5 |
| Glass Animals How To Be A Human Being | 3.5 |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion: Side B | 3.5 |
| Britney Spears Glory | 2.5 |
| Frank Ocean Blonde | 4.5 |
| Sabaton The Last Stand | 3.5 |
| Soilwork Death Resonance | 3.5 |
| Blood on the Dance Floor Scissors | 1.0 |
| Rae Sremmurd SremmLife 2 | 3.0 |
| The Amity Affliction This Could Be Heartbreak | 2.5 |
| Dinosaur Jr. Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not | 3.5 |
| Russian Circles Guidance | 4.0 |
| DJ Snake Encore | 3.0 |
| Skillet Unleashed | 2.0 |
| Tarja Turunen The Shadow Self | 4.0 |
| Carnifex Slow Death | 3.5 |
| Bernard Fanning Civil Dusk | 3.5 |
| DJ Khaled Major Key | 3.0 |
| Descendents Hypercaffium Spazzinate | 3.5 |
| Infant Annihilator The Elysian Grandeval Galèriarch | 4.0 |
| Billy Talent Afraid of Heights | 3.5 |
| Hellions Opera Oblivia | 4.0 |
| Thank You Scientist Stranger Heads Prevail | 4.5 |
| Periphery Periphery III: Select Difficulty | 3.5 |
| Relient K Air For Free | 4.0 |
| Revocation Great Is Our Sin | 4.0 |
| Good Charlotte Youth Authority | 3.0 |
| Steven Tyler We're All Somebody From Somewhere | 2.5 |
| Shura Nothing's Real | 3.5 |
| Chevelle The North Corridor | 4.0 |
| Biffy Clyro Ellipsis | 3.0 |
| Gone Is Gone Gone Is Gone | 3.0 |
| The Avalanches Wildflower | 4.0 |
| Switchfoot Where the Light Shines Through | 3.0 |
| Aphex Twin Cheetah EP | 3.5 |
| Ian William Craig Centres | 4.5 |
| ScHoolboy Q Blank Face LP | 4.0 |
| Fates Warning Theories of Flight | 4.0 |
| blink-182 California | 3.0 |
| Chelsea Grin Self Inflicted | 2.5 |
| Snoop Dogg Coolaid | 3.0 |
| Desiigner New English | 2.0 |
| Riff Raff Peach Panther | 2.0 |
| Kayo Dot Plastic House on Base of Sky | 3.5 |
| Whitechapel Mark of the Blade | 3.0 |
| Corey Feldman Angelic 2 The Core | 1.0 |
If I was ever gonna hear an album worse than BOTDF or Graveyard Classics this year--
Oh wait, just found it. |
| Nails You Will Never Be One of Us | 4.5 |
| Gojira Magma | 4.0 |
| Swans The Glowing Man | 4.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Getaway | 3.5 |
| Mitski Puberty 2 | 4.0 |
| YG Still Brazy | 3.5 |
| Case/Lang/Veirs Case/Lang/Veirs | 4.0 |
| 65daysofstatic No Man's Sky: Music for an Infinite... | 4.0 |
| Garbage Strange Little Birds | 3.5 |
| Nick Jonas Last Year Was Complicated | 3.0 |
| Band of Horses Why Are You OK | 3.0 |
| Melvins Basses Loaded | 3.5 |
| Tarja Turunen The Brightest Void | 3.5 |
| Paul Simon Stranger to Stranger | 4.0 |
| Six Feet Under Graveyard Classics IV: The Number Of The Priest | 1.0 |
| Lacuna Coil Delirium | 3.5 |
| Considering the last few albums from these guys have been pretty average at best...this is probably my favourite album from them in about a decade. Seriously, this is some damn good shit right here. |
| Death Angel The Evil Divide | 4.5 |
| The Hotelier Goodness | 4.0 |
| Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere | 4.0 |
| Katatonia The Fall of Hearts | 4.0 |
| Ariana Grande Dangerous Woman | 3.5 |
| Car Seat Headrest Teens of Denial | 4.0 |
| Fifth Harmony 7/27 | 2.5 |
| Meghan Trainor Thank You | 2.0 |
| American Authors What We Live For | 2.5 |
| Grand Magus Sword Songs | 3.5 |
| Chance the Rapper Coloring Book | 4.0 |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool | 4.5 |
| Vektor Terminal Redux | 5.0 |
| Keith Urban Ripcord | 2.5 |
| I ain't got no problem if Keith Urban wants to end up going full pop at some point. The thing is there could've been a way less messier way of doing it. And it's not by cutting out Pitbull. |
| James Blake The Colour in Anything | 4.0 |
| Death Grips Bottomless Pit | 4.0 |
| ANOHNI HOPELESSNESS | 3.5 |
| Sixx:A.M. Prayers For The Damned (Vol. 1) | 3.5 |
| Tremonti Dust | 4.0 |
| Haken Affinity | 4.0 |
| Not as flatout stellar as The Mountain was, but then again, I don't reckon they even needed to top it in the first place. |
| Drake Views | 2.5 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Nonagon Infinity | 4.5 |
| Beyonce Lemonade | 4.5 |
| PJ Harvey The Hope Six Demolition Project | 3.5 |
| Deftones Gore | 4.0 |
| I wouldn't say it's as rock solid as Koi No Yokan was, but it's still a great album in its own right & one of the best places Chino & the boys could go after Chi Cheng's death. Probably on par with Diamond Eyes for me. |
| M83 Junk | 2.5 |
| I'm getting the feeling Dead Cities is always gonna be the high point of M83 for me. That being said, this is kind of a step back from Hurry Up, We're Dreaming & probably more on par with Saturdays=Youth for me at its best. It's still alright, but it's one of the group's weaker moments in a while & not the best sign coming from an album 5 years after the last. Hardcore M83 fans might get their fix just fine, but everyone else should just spin the new Underworld instead. |
| BABYMETAL Metal Resistance | 4.0 |
| Yeah, I like these girls. No one's gonna be changing up that anytime soon as far as this album goes. I reckon this kicks ass, what can I say? |
| Weezer The White Album | 4.0 |
| Moonsorrow Jumalten aika | 4.5 |
| Mogwai Atomic | 3.5 |
| Metal Church XI | 3.5 |
| Zayn Mind of Mine | 3.0 |
| Amon Amarth Jomsviking | 4.0 |
| Azealia Banks Slay-Z | 2.0 |
| Underworld Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future | 4.0 |
| The strongest stuff I've heard from the Underworld camp since at least Beaucomp Sea. A great breath of fresh air, especially considering their last couple albums sounded pretty tired. But I'll tell you what, I reckon it was worth waiting 6 goddamn years for this thing. |
| Violent Soho WACO | 3.5 |
| Gwen Stefani This Is What the Truth Feels Like | 3.0 |
| Various Artists (Country) Southern Family | 5.0 |
| Iggy Pop Post Pop Depression | 3.5 |
| Killswitch Engage Incarnate | 3.5 |
| 3 Doors Down Us and the Night | 2.0 |
I'm gonna say it's better than Time of My Life, but it's only by a little step or two. And that ain't really a
compliment, considering that last album was one of the most generic post grunge stuff I heard outside of a late
period Theory of a Deadman record, for me at least.
Pretty similar case here, still not really all that good. |
| Lil Yachty Lil Boat | 3.5 |
| Ihsahn Arktis. | 4.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar untitled unmastered. | 4.0 |
| The Cat Empire Rising With the Sun | 3.5 |
I think this album's got more of their reggae/ska flavour pushed closer to the forefront than some of their last few
records. Doesn't mean it ain't still got flavour, and in my books, The Cat Empire's still got it. |
| Tonight Alive Limitless | 2.0 |
| This one kinda hurts, mostly because I really liked their last album a fair bit. Not exactly the case here. Brett Tharp said it best; these guys have pretty much all but gone towards the mainstream crowds. That wouldn't have really been a bad thing, except that Bring Me The Horizon did it a hell of a lot better a few months ago. Tonight Alive might call themselves limitless, but this album's got a pretty short limit with me. |
| Hacktivist Outside The Box | 3.0 |
| I had my eye on these guys since the EP dropped. Their debut's kinda generic in some spots, but still pretty decent, just not as good as the EP, which I enjoyed the shit out of. Still hoping they're gonna amp up their sound Tesseract style next time round, but as it stands, decent enough start, even though Hacktivist have dropped better stuff before. |
| Violent Femmes We Can Do Anything | 3.0 |
| Asking Alexandria The Black | 3.0 |
| Flume Skin | 4.0 |
| Anthrax For All Kings | 4.0 |
| Macklemore and Ryan Lewis This Unruly Mess I've Made | 3.0 |
| Moby Long Ambients 1: Calm. Sleep. | 3.5 |
| Animal Collective Painting With | 3.0 |
| This is probably gonna be one of the more disappointing albums of the year for me, considering how awesome Animal Collective were at their peak with stuff like Merriweather Post Pavilion & Sung Tongs. FloriDada & Golden Gal still kick ass, though, so I guess there's that. |
| Simple Plan Taking One for the Team | 2.0 |
| LMNO Motherboard | 4.0 |
| Kanye West The Life of Pablo | 3.5 |
| The Jezabels Synthia | 4.5 |
| Foxes (UK) All I Need | 3.5 |
| The 1975 I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It | 4.0 |
Yeah, it's probably way too long for its own damn good, but who cares when the bulk of it's this much fun to listen
to? Easily a couple steps up from their debut, which I also liked. |
| Obscura Akróasis | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater The Astonishing | 3.0 |
| Bloc Party Hymns | 2.5 |
I like these guys quite a bit, and I like they're trying some different stuff with their sound and all that, but the
album's still got some of the weakest stuff I've heard from the Bloc yet. Still decent for the most part, but I'm
probably gonna be coming back to this album the least out of their catalog, and that ain't cool. |
| Charlie Puth Nine Track Mind | 1.5 |
Easily the worst album of the year so far for me. Even Meghan Trainor's album last year wasn't this embarrassing
& delusional, and that one had Dear Future Husband on it. Still not as bad as Thomas Rhett's last, though. |
| Massive Attack Ritual Spirit | 4.0 |
| Megadeth Dystopia | 3.5 |
| Daughter Not to Disappear | 2.5 |
| David Bowie Blackstar | 4.5 |
| Damn. Rachel Platten ain't got nothin' on this stuff. Even counting The Next Day, this is some of the best stuff I've heard from Ziggy in quite a bit, probably decades. rEdit: Yeah, this album still kicks all kinds of ass, and it's got a completely different meaning to it coming after Bowie's death. Blackstar ain't gonna be an easy listen for everyone, but youre doing yourself a massive disservice if you don't at least try it a couple times. |
| 2015 |
| Cage The Elephant Tell Me I'm Pretty | 2.5 |
| Bloodhound Gang Hard-Off | 3.5 |
| Coldplay A Head Full of Dreams | 3.0 |
| Kid Cudi Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven | 2.0 |
| Well, I liked it more than WZRD & Indicud, at least. Not his best, and I didn't like as much as his first two albums, ror even Satellite Flight, but for what it's worth, it's not bad. I know he can do better, though. rI'm being generous here 'cause it's an experiment, kinda like WZRD was. I get why some people here aren't the rbiggest fans of him, it's cool. For what it's worth, I've heard worse this year. rEdit: Every listen to this thing, it's been getting worse, actually. It's not really all that good. |
| Adele 25 | 3.5 |
| Not too sure I get some of the hate for this one, besides expectations at least. For me, it hasn't quite got the highest highs of 21, but I'd say it's on par, if not a little bit better than 19. I am gonna say swapping out Rick Rubin for Max Martin & Shellback was kind of a downgrade, though. |
| One Direction Made In The A.M. | 2.5 |
| Well, talk about a group that's pretty much on the edge of burnout at this point. I've never really liked these guys, but at least they're trying nowadays. Too bad Syco had to drop one of these every bloody year. |
| Logic The Incredible True Story | 3.5 |
| 5 Seconds of Summer Sounds Good Feels Good | 3.0 |
| They're getting better in my books...but they still got a ways to go before they get anywhere close to Green Day or Sum 41 status, which means these guys have gotta find some way to get above their influences. But as it stands, this was pretty decent. It's not exactly The Wonder Years, but still, not every band's gotta be on their level. |
| Trivium Silence in the Snow | 3.5 |
| Run the Jewels Meow the Jewels | 4.0 |
| CHVRCHES Every Open Eye | 4.5 |
| Thomas Rhett Tangled Up | 1.5 |
| This makes Sam Hunt's Montevallo look respectable by comparison. Easily one of the most embarrassing records related to bro-country & pop country in the last couple years. |
| Parkway Drive Ire | 4.0 |
| Shinedown Threat to Survival | 2.5 |
| Slayer Repentless | 3.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon That's the Spirit | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden The Book of Souls | 4.5 |
| Five Finger Death Punch Got Your Six | 1.5 |
| The Weeknd Beauty Behind the Madness | 3.5 |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion | 4.0 |
| Ghost (SWE) Meliora | 4.5 |
| Neck Deep Life's Not Out To Get You | 4.0 |
| Dr. Dre Compton | 4.0 |
| Owl City Mobile Orchestra | 2.0 |
| Refused Freedom | 3.0 |
| Algiers Algiers | 4.0 |
| Twenty One Pilots Blurryface | 4.0 |
| Mumford and Sons Wilder Mind | 2.0 |
| Gang of Youths The Positions | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell | 4.5 |
| Toto Toto XIV | 4.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly | 5.0 |
| Steven Wilson Hand. Cannot. Erase. | 4.5 |
| Big Sean Dark Sky Paradise | 3.0 |
| Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear | 5.0 |
| Fall Out Boy American Beauty/American Psycho | 3.0 |
| Lupe Fiasco Tetsuo and Youth | 4.0 |
| Bjork Vulnicura | 4.5 |
| Rae Sremmurd SremmLife | 2.5 |
