| 2009 |
| Animal Collective Fall Be Kind | 4.5 |
| Atlas Sound Logos | 4.0 |
| Thrice Beggars | 4.5 |
| The Flaming Lips Embryonic | 5.0 |
| I'm basically in love with this album, and just about everything on it. I personally feel The Flaming Lips have never done better, and I'm hard pressed to think they will ever do better again. This is easily the best $8 I've ever spent. I think this is what music should be; an album that builds on itself and gives you a full sonic experience. The gorgeous melodies, the booming distorted bass, the thundering, yet somewhat subtle drums, the spacey keyboard interludes all interweave to create something I've never even come close to hearing. The Lips have made some astoundingly good music in the past and that is what fascinates me about this album is how ridiculously good it is, considering their very strong discography prior to this. I can't recommend this enough to everyone out there, even though I know it's not everyone's cup of tea. An album in every sense of the word, and a throw back to the Pink Floyd structured albums of the 70's. |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 4.0 |
| I am not a fan of metal really at all, but this album is so brutally brilliant that it cannot be ignored. Definitely a good chance of my review going up as well, as it is a lot to swallow upon first listen. I love the non-stop pace of the first 11 tracks with the last two slowing things down ever so appropriately. "Worms Will Feed" is so epic and may serve as one of my favorite songs of the year. Thank you Prophet for sending me this gem |
| Paramore Brand New Eyes | 2.0 |
| Brand New Daisy | 4.5 |
Only gone through this once (just couldn't help myself, but definitely will be purchasing it 9/22). I was blown away. It's an album that has a lot going on. Each song is dense and layered, often with distorted guitar and Jesse Lacey's frightful scream drifting in the background, but a part like this is often followed with a soft chilling lyrical melody. Way too soon to begin comparing this to the rest of the discography, seeing as TDAGARIM is possibly my favorite album ever made, this has/had a lot to live up to. I'm glad I've already accepted the fact that it's different, and I loved every second. A very edgy early Nirvana/Modest Mouse approach, with a ton of their own genius of course. Great stuff, can't wait to fall in love with this.
I have now gone through countless times, in due time I can see this album meaning as much to me as the Devil & God...sooo good. |
| Honor Society Fashionably Late | 1.0 |
| Forgive me, but this looks to be the fruitiest thing I've come across in ages |
| Yo La Tengo Popular Songs | 4.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys Humbug | 2.5 |
| Modest Mouse No One's First, and You're Next | 4.5 |
| Wilco Wilco (The Album) | 4.5 |
| Dinosaur Jr. Farm | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron | 4.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Monuments and Melodies | 4.0 |
| Deerhunter Rainwater Cassette Exchange | 3.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest | 4.5 |
| mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright! | 3.5 |
| Green Day 21st Century Breakdown | 1.5 |
| Conor Oberst Outer South | 2.5 |
| Kevin Devine Brother's Blood | 3.5 |
| As Cities Burn Hell or High Water | 4.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing | 4.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra Fourteen Years Of Excellence | 3.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon | 3.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie The Open Door | 2.5 |
| The Decemberists The Hazards of Love | 4.0 |
| The Antlers Hospice | 4.0 |
| Various Artists (Indie) Dark Was The Night | 4.5 |
| Andrew Bird Noble Beast | 4.0 |
| Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains | 4.0 |
| Bon Iver Blood Bank | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 4.0 |
| 2005 |
| Korn See You on the Other Side | 2.0 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 2.5 |
| August Burns Red Thrill Seeker | 3.0 |
| The Mars Volta Scab Dates | 3.0 |
| Rogue Wave Descended Like Vultures | 4.5 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 4.5 |
| Animal Collective Feels | 5.0 |
| Deftones B-Sides and Rarities | 3.0 |
| Shinedown Us and Them | 1.5 |
| My Morning Jacket Z | 4.5 |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists | 1.5 |
| The Fray How to Save a Life | 2.0 |
| Justin Vernon Self Record | 4.5 |
| I was originally weary of the track list when I first got this, but after cruising through consistently amazing songs, my worries were rid. 'The Whippgrass' is honestly one of the best Bon Iver/Justin Vernon songs in his whole discography. 'Pier 39' is another contender for that very title, and it's only track two! The album does get a little long in points, and the falsetto background vocals in 'Above The Code' could be described in no other way, than annoying. But some of his most intense songs dwell on this album, as 'Sides' and 'Ring Out' for an amazing one-two punch late in the album, both revolving around religion and Justin's despair and confusion on the topic. Both songs find his voice mimicking a passionate yell by their end, and his vocals are with such melodic conviction that it could warm even the chilliest of hearts. Some of the recordings are sub-par, but that just adds to the intimacy of the record as a whole. 'How Many?' is another dizzying highlight worth mentioning, complete with a subtle, yet respectable guitar solo at the end. Overall an amazing listen, and definitely recommended for a snowy evening to cure those winter blues. Oh and the album's called 'Self Record', I feel like kind of a schmuck "digging" the wrong album title, but oh well, I'm too lazy to add the correct title in the database at the moment. Get this! |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie | 2.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Plans | 3.0 |
| Kanye West Late Registration | 4.5 |
| Minus the Bear Menos El Oso | 3.5 |
| The Bled Found in the Flood | 2.5 |
| Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon | 3.5 |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger | 4.5 |
| Fight Paris Paradise, Found | 1.5 |
| Deerhunter Carve Your Initials into the Walls of the Night | 2.0 |
| As Cities Burn Son, I Loved You at Your Darkest | 2.5 |
| Static-X Start A War | 1.5 |
| Foo Fighters In Your Honor | 3.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil | 1.0 |
| This is probably what would be playing on repeat for all eternity in hell, so ridiculously horrible |
| Finch Say Hello to Sunshine | 3.0 |
| The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan | 4.0 |
| Oasis Don't Believe the Truth | 3.0 |
| Audioslave Out of Exile | 2.5 |
| Gorillaz Demon Days | 5.0 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 3.0 |
| Animal Collective Prospect Hummer | 3.0 |
| Stretch Arm Strong Free At Last | 1.5 |
| Team Sleep Team Sleep | 4.0 |
| Spoon Gimme Fiction | 5.0 |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree | 1.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth | 4.0 |
| The National Alligator | 5.0 |
| Beck Guero | 4.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze | 4.0 |
| The Decemberists Picaresque | 4.5 |
| Norma Jean O' God, the Aftermath | 2.5 |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 5.0 |
| Andrew Bird The Mysterious Production Of Eggs | 3.5 |
| Bright Eyes Digital Ash in a Digital Urn | 3.0 |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning | 4.5 |
| Glassjaw El Mark | 4.0 |
