| 2010 |
| Susan Boyle The Gift | 1.5 |
| Taylor Swift Speak Now | 3.5 |
| Monogrim / Slow Dreams 1300+ Miles of Sound | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz | 4.0 |
| Caleb McAlpine Science Fiction | 4.0 |
| The Jezabels Dark Storm | 3.5 |
| Eels Tomorrow Morning | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens All Delighted People | 3.5 |
| The Atlas Room, I Woke Up In Moscow JOS | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden The Final Frontier | 4.0 |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs | 3.5 |
| Birds Of Tokyo Birds Of Tokyo | 3.5 |
| Unfathoms Sounds of an Islander's City... | 2.0 |
| Grating, meandering noise, "Sounds of an Islander's City, Touch of a Medieval Faerie" gets swallowed up by its own bloated concept. The tracks meld together into 9 minutes of mindless shrieking and static, occasionally twisting and turning into something worth listening to but never for long enough. |
| InApril Fields | 2.5 |
| The Cat Empire Cinema | 3.0 |
| Eminem Recovery | 3.5 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Scream | 2.5 |
| Wye Oak My Neighbor / My Creator | 4.0 |
| Nothing Rhymes With David Beard Logic Riddles | 3.5 |
| Rosetta A Determinism of Morality | 4.0 |
| Bad Religion 30 Years Live | 4.0 |
| Dead Letter Circus This Is The Warning | 4.0 |
| Cloud Control Bliss Release | 4.0 |
| The National High Violet | 4.5 |
| British India Avalanche | 3.0 |
| Broken Social Scene Lo-Fi for the Dividing Nights | 3.0 |
| 10 half-baked ideas. Its as simple as that. They're good ideas, in some cases they're really good, but that's all they are: ideas. These songs were concocted on a whim during the recording of "World Sick" and no thought has been put into them past that. |
| Broken Social Scene Forgiveness Rock Record | 4.0 |
| Parades Foreign Tapes | 4.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt | 4.0 |
| Laura Marling I Speak Because I Can | 4.5 |
| John Butler Trio April Uprising | 3.5 |
| April Uprising is a conundrum in music form. On the one hand you have The John Butler Trio's back catalogue when considering how to approach it. If the only reason you got into JBT was because of John Butler's guitar, then avoid this album. If you like alternative rock music, or a little bit of folk (Iron and Wine sound familiar?) then this is your thing. The reason is this: John Butler has decided that, rather then using his usual finger-picking style, he's going to use rock riffs and chord progressions that wouldn't be out of a place on an Eskimo Joe album. You've probably guessed this by now but April Uprising is very commercial. The choruses are catchy to the point of stupidity and the riffs revolved more around being "fun" then showing any kind of technical skill. |
| Justin Bieber My World 2.0 | 2.0 |
| Calling All Cars Hold, Hold, Fire | 3.5 |
| Angus and Julia Stone Down the Way | 3.5 |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor | 4.5 |
| Vampire Weekend Contra | 3.5 |
| Cults Cults 7" | 3.0 |
| Atlas Weights Atlas Weights | 3.5 |
