| 2017 |
| Story of the Year Wolves | 3.0 |
| Project 86 Sheep Among Wolves | 2.0 |
| Intervals The Way Forward | 2.5 |
| Fabolous and Jadakiss Friday On Elm Street | 2.0 |
| Erai S/T | 2.5 |
| Hypergiant Father Sky | 3.5 |
| Yung Lean Stranger | 2.5 |
| Sorcerer The Crowning of the Fire King | 2.5 |
| Bell Witch Mirror Reaper | 3.5 |
| Wu-Tang Clan The Saga Continues | 2.5 |
| Spectral Voice Eroded Corridors of Unbeing | 3.0 |
| August Burns Red Phantom Anthem | 2.0 |
| CunninLynguists Rose Azura Njano | 3.5 |
| 36 Crazyfists Lanterns | 2.5 |
| Circa Survive The Amulet | 3.5 |
| this band can get really samey while going through their discog, but goddamn if they're not consistently pushing out 3.5-4.5 type of albums |
| Mastodon Cold Dark Place | 3.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Thrice Woven | 4.5 |
| The Flying Eyes Burning the Season | 2.5 |
| The Contortionist Clairvoyant | 3.0 |
| This sits somewhere between 3.5 and 4.0 to me, but will round up, because it feels like more of a grower than Language. Language started off so strong with "Intuition" (dat bass-line) and had a more cohesive theme, imo, even if the whole "ebb&flow" meme gets thrown around a lot. There was a more ?spacey,? ethereal and otherworldly feel to that album as a whole that doesn?t really feel present here. Clairvoyant is good, but for me it lacks that overall cohesiveness. For me the stand-out moment is "Absolve? and ?Relapse.? I would've liked for the band to channel that more often. Overall, however, this is a solid addition and while I might consider this more of a lateral step than any kind of progression, I?ll gladly take this over what could?ve been a regression. |
| The National Sleep Well Beast | 3.0 |
| Akercocke Renaissance in Extremis | 2.5 |
| Widek Hidden Dimensions | 3.5 |
| Thy Art Is Murder Dear Desolation | 3.0 |
| Cormorant Diaspora | 3.5 |
| The Wise Man's Fear The Lost City | 3.0 |
| Dvne Asheran | 3.0 |
| Decapitated Anticult | 2.5 |
| Currents The Place I Feel Safest | 2.5 |
| Wide Eyes Paradoxica | 3.5 |
| Space Witch Arcanum | 2.5 |
| Anathema The Optimist | 3.5 |
| Byzantine The Cicada Tree | 2.0 |
| Elder (USA-MA) Reflections of a Floating World | 3.0 |
| Bryson Tiller True To Self | 3.5 |
| Voyager Ghost Mile | 2.5 |
| Shadow Of Intent Reclaimer | 3.0 |
| Saturndust RLC | 3.0 |
| Royal Thunder WICK | 2.5 |
| Mastodon Emperor of Sand | 3.0 |
| Memoriam For the Fallen | 2.5 |
| Drake More Life | 2.5 |
| Venenum Trance of Death | 4.0 |
| Havok Conformicide | 2.5 |
| Mothership High Strangeness | 2.5 |
| Planning for Burial Below the House | 3.0 |
| Power Trip Nightmare Logic | 3.0 |
| Stinking Lizaveta Journey to the Underworld | 3.0 |
| Aeternam Ruins of Empires | 4.0 |
| Drab Majesty The Demonstration | 3.5 |
| Mechina As Embers Turn To Dust | 3.5 |
