Average Rating: 3.57 Rating Variance: 0.58 Objectivity Score: 74% (Fairly Balanced)
Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name2010 Kula Shaker Pilgrim's Progress3.02009 The Rakes Klang3.5DM Stith Heavy Ghost4.5Neko Case Middle Cyclone4.5Asobi Seksu Hush3.5...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead The Century of Self3.5M. Ward Hold Time4.5Dan Auerbach Keep it Hid4.0Lily Allen It's Not Me, It's You3.0Franz Ferdinand Tonight: Franz Ferdinand2.5Coconut Records Davy4.0Actor Jason Schwartzman's band shows up with a sophomore release full of simple indie pop tunes that get stuck in the humming part of your head. Schwartzman's plaintive tenor channels the likes of many smart indie pop vocalists of the last two decades, and lyrical topics remain interesting enough to justify their minimalist production setting. Those in the know will enjoy the reference to Schwartzman's stint as the drummer for underrated power pop outfit Phantom Planet.Andrew Bird Noble Beast4.0Bon Iver Blood Bank4.0Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion4.52008 Los Campesinos! We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed4.0The Dears Missiles3.5Juana Molina Un Dia3.5Cold War Kids Loyalty to Loyalty3.5Calexico Carried To Dust3.5The Verve Forth3.5Bloc Party Intimacy2.5Brendan Canning Something For All of Us...3.5Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill4.0Jakob Dylan Seeing Things3.5N.E.R.D. Seeing Sounds2.5Weezer The Red Album2.5Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Lie Down in the Light3.5Santigold Santogold3.5Cut Copy In Ghost Colours3.5Los Campesinos! Hold On Now, Youngster...4.0Sera Cahoone Only as the Day Is Long3.5Crystal Castles Crystal Castles3.5Retribution Gospel Choir Retribution Gospel Choir3.5Evangelista Hello, Voyager3.5The Gutter Twins Saturnalia3.5The Black Crowes Warpaint3.5Kathleen Edwards Asking for Flowers3.5Howlin Rain Magnificent Fiend3.0Black Tide Light From Above3.5Born Ruffians Red, Yellow and Blue4.0Janet Jackson Discipline3.0Goldfrapp Seventh Tree3.5Say Hi The Wishes And The Glitch3.5Grand Archives The Grand Archives3.5City and Colour Bring Me Your Love3.5Yip-Yip Two Kings of the Same Kingdom3.0Bob Mould District Line3.0Jack Johnson Sleep Through the Static2.5Dead Meadow Old Growth3.5The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath3.5Black Mountain In the Future4.0moe. Sticks and Stones3.5The Whigs Mission Control3.0Matt Costa Unfamiliar Faces3.0Cat Power Jukebox3.5Lightspeed Champion Falling Off The Lavender Bridge3.5Louis XIV Slick Dogs and Ponies1.02007 Wyclef Jean The Carnival Volume II (Memoirs of an Immigrant)2.5The idea of a sequel to the carnival was a great idea, on paper. But about the time it becomes an over-collaborated behemoth, it gets a but clunky. Overproduced, under-impressive. Sure, there's some decent rapping on here, with some interesting world music arrangements, but that doesn't make up for the lack of cleverness. His duet with Shakira is not an answer to their previous collaborations. Norah Jones' vox is always beautiful, but this isn't a Norah album, and she feels like an afterthought, much like Paul Simon. Add Serj Tankian and an even less justified visit from overrated will.i.am, and we wonder whether Wyclef needs as much help as Sanatana does on his albums. He shouldn't; he wouldn't if there were any songs on here like "Gone Till November," or adaptations the caliber of "Guantanamera," or "We Be Tryin' To Stay Alive." The aftertaste: I feel like I just listened to Counting Crows collaborating with POD covering a collection of reggae and island music.Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Ask Forgiveness3.0Radiohead In Rainbows3.5Band of Horses Cease to Begin3.5Beirut The Flying Club Cup4.5Enon Grass Geysers... Carbon Clouds3.0Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings 100 Days, 100 Nights3.5Dethklok The Dethalbum 3.5The Cave Singers Invitation Songs4.0Listening to a lot of new music, this spooky throwback really becomes like an island of goodness amidst the dangerously swirling rapids of mediocrity represented in a lot of other crap.Devendra Banhart Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon3.5Animal Collective Strawberry Jam4.0Dirty Projectors Rise Above3.5Bald Eagle Hot Shoulders3.5Josh Ritter The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter4.5Caribou Andorra4.0Justice †3.5St. Vincent Marry Me4.0Maroon 5 It Won't Be Soon Before Long2.0The National Boxer4.5The Angels of Light We Are Him3.5Frog Eyes Tears of the Valedictorian4.0Pale Young Gentlemen Pale Young Gentlemen4.0Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank3.5Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha4.0Arcade Fire Neon Bible4.0The Besnard Lakes The Besnard Lakes Are the Dark Horse4.5The Frames The Cost3.0Barenaked Ladies Barenaked Ladies Are Men3.5The Apples in Stereo New Magnetic Wonder4.5Bowerbirds Hymns for a Dark Horse3.52006 Tom Waits Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards4.5Sufjan Stevens Songs For Christmas3.5Annuals Be He Me4.0Califone Roots and Crowns3.5Medeski, Martin and Wood Out Louder (w/ John Scofield)3.5Barenaked Ladies Barenaked Ladies Are Me4.0The Black Keys Magic Potion4.0Yo La Tengo I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass4.5Jars Of Clay Good Monsters3.0The Roots Game Theory4.0M. Ward Post-War4.5The Casanovas All Night Long3.0It's hard to play big-stage rock on the smalltime. The Casanovas carefully pack as much classic rock n' roll punch as possible into each song, with buzz-saw guitars and boot-heel stomping, driving rhythms. The problem is that the album plays like a lot of pretty good rock songs with very little to distinguish them. There's so much rock posturing, such sterilized stories of generic shame and running away to California, as to make the Casanovas seem like students in the school of rock, rather than profs. Generic rock vocals, generic rock guitar, generic rock drumming, all carefully classic and irrefutable, are surprisingly unexciting, forcing listeners to judge a rock reality show instead of melting their faces off. It's not bad - if you're looking for a solid album full of great rock sound, this is worth the purchase. But it's not any more awesome than that. It's a lot like a collection of Aerosmith, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Kiss B-side rejects played by a proficient cover band.Midlake The Trials of Van Occupanther4.5Say Hi Impeccable Blahs4.0Sufjan Stevens The Avalanche: Outtakes and Extras3.5AFI Decemberunderground1.5The Futureheads News and Tributes3.5Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium3.5Danielson Ships4.0The Black Keys Chulahoma4.0Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere3.5Cities Cities3.5Josh Ritter The Animal Years4.5Calexico Garden Ruin2.5Built to Spill You in Reverse4.5Band of Horses Everything All the Time4.0The Appleseed Cast Peregrine3.5Bell X1 Flock3.0Neko Case Fox Confessor Brings The Flood5.0Anathallo Floating World3.5She Wants Revenge She Wants Revenge1.5These two guys clearly spent forever burying themselves deep in the dramatic mindset that typified goth music in the early 80's. While they've definitely caricatured that genre well, I think they meant this to be a tribute to it and executed it rather poorly. Those who like Joy Division are probably going to listen to Joy Division, and are probably not going to listen to this. Either way, this is perfect fare for wide-eyed adolescents who feel sorry for themselves, are unjustifiably obsessed with social drama, and want to have mindless sex immediately because they've just hit puberty and don't know what else to do. For the rest of us, it was nice to imagine another Interpol on the scene, but after listening to the disc, most of us feel like putting this album on someone else's shelf, having a stiff drink, and going to bed. Get over it, yeah? We have work in the morning. I say friends don't let friends wallow in myspace-era self-pity and isolationist sensuality.Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins Rabbit Fur Coat3.0Cat Power The Greatest4.0Bonnie 'Prince' Billy The Letting Go4.52005 Apollo Sunshine Apollo Sunshine3.0Sufjan Stevens Illinois4.5Hard-Fi Stars Of CCTV2.0OK, this is gonna sound harsh, but bear with me. If the packaging hadn't been so faddish, everyone might have noticed that these guys aren't half a notch above the recently attempted comeback albums of 90's adult alternative bands like Smashmouth or Matchbox 20. Cash machine is such an annoying song, I've often felt deejays were merely playing it as filler while waiting for the real next sound to show up. Seriously, people, it's barely better than boy band music. The fact that someone compared this to Arctic Monkeys is not fair to the cleverness of said chilled primates. Go buy an Arctic Monkeys, Futureheads or Rapture album and forget this.Nadja Bliss Torn From Emptiness3.0Motion City Soundtrack Commit This to Memory2.5Caribou The Milk Of Human Kindness4.5Figurines Skeleton4.0Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze3.5M. Ward Transistor Radio3.5Andrew Bird The Mysterious Production Of Eggs3.5Bloc Party Silent Alarm4.52004 DeVotchKa How It Ends4.5Devendra Banhart Nino Rojo4.5Arcade Fire Funeral5.0The Black Keys Rubber Factory4.5The Snake The Cross The Crown Mander Salis4.0The Futureheads The Futureheads3.5Comets on Fire Blue Cathedral4.0Danielson Brother Is To Son4.0Midlake Bamnan and Slivercork3.5Devendra Banhart Rejoicing in the Hands4.0Modest Mouse Baron von Bullshit Rides Again2.5Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News5.02003 Al Green I Can't Stop3.5Stone Temple Pilots Thank You4.5P.O.D. Payable on Death1.5The Shins Chutes Too Narrow5.0Sufjan Stevens Michigan4.0The Black Keys Thickfreakness5.0Bathory Nordland II1.5Deerhoof Apple O'3.5Andrew Bird Weather Systems3.5Calexico Feast of Wire4.52002 Bathory Nordland I1.5Neko Case Blacklisted4.0The Black Keys The Big Come Up3.5Anathallo Sparrows3.52001 Midlake Milkmaid Grand Army3.0P.O.D. Satellite2.0The Shins Oh, Inverted World4.5Angra Rebirth2.5Iced Earth Horror Show2.52000 Switchfoot Learning To Breathe1.5Sufjan Stevens A Sun Came3.5Queens of the Stone Age Rated R2.5Yo La Tengo And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside...4.0Comets on Fire Comets on Fire4.01999 Jars Of Clay If I Left The Zoo2.5Medeski, Martin and Wood Last Chance to Dance Trance(perhaps) Best of 91-964.0Switchfoot New Way to Be Human1.5Bush The Science of Things2.5P.O.D. Fundamental Elements of Southtown3.0Jamiroquai Synkronized3.01998 MxPx Let It Happen4.0Calexico The Black Light4.51997 Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West4.0Wyclef Jean The Carnival4.0Live Secret Samadhi3.5Danielson Tell Another Joke At The Ol' Chopping Block3.5Switchfoot Legend of Chin3.01996 Bush Razorblade Suitcase3.5P.O.D. Brown3.0Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About4.5MxPx Life in General3.01995 Jars Of Clay Jars Of Clay3.5Red Hot Chili Peppers One Hot Minute1.5Yo La Tengo Electr-O-Pura4.01994 Bush Sixteen Stone3.0R.E.M. Monster3.5Weezer Weezer4.5Built to Spill There's Nothing Wrong with Love3.51992 R.E.M. Automatic for the People3.51991 R.E.M. Out of Time3.51987 R.E.M. Document3.51986 R.E.M. Lifes Rich Pageant4.51985 Accept Metal Heart4.01984 R.E.M. Reckoning4.51979 Thin Lizzy Black Rose: A Rock Legend4.01977 Thin Lizzy Bad Reputation4.01976 Thin Lizzy Johnny the Fox4.0Thin Lizzy Jailbreak4.51971 Leonard Cohen Songs of Love and Hate4.01970 B.B. King Indianola Mississippi Seeds4.01969 B.B. King Completely Well4.01967 Cream Disraeli Gears5.0
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