| 2013 |
| Deicide In the Minds of Evil | 3.5 |
| There Will Be Fireworks The Dark, Dark Bright | 3.5 |
| Obliteration Black Death Horizon | 4.5 |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP 2 | 3.0 |
| Action Bronson and Party Supplies Blue Chips 2 | 4.0 |
| Arcade Fire Reflektor | 3.5 |
| Blut Aus Nord What Once Was...Liber III | 3.5 |
| are we listening to the same album? not understanding the hate for this... reminds The Work Which Transforms God with its tinge of Godflesh influences. This is easily better than the last two parts in the 777 series. |
| Black Milk No Poison No Paradise | 4.0 |
| Doomriders Grand Blood | 4.0 |
| Monster Magnet Last Patrol | 4.0 |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Valonielu | 4.0 |
| Pearl Jam Lightning Bolt | 3.5 |
| Danny Brown Old | 4.5 |
| Pusha T My Name Is My Name | 3.5 |
| Deltron 3030 Event II | 3.0 |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience - 2 of 2 | 2.5 |
| Yuck Glow and Behold | 3.0 |
| Ulcerate Vermis | 4.5 |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal II | 3.5 |
| SubRosa (US) More Constant Than The Gods | 3.5 |
| Carcass Surgical Steel | 4.0 |
| wow this is actually fucking great. sounds like where i would've expected them to go after Heartwork (not that Swangsong was bad by any means, this just feels like the natural progression of their early 90s sound). rock on 2013 death metal, it's been a fantastic year so far. |
| Grave Miasma Odori Sepulcrorum | 4.0 |
| Janelle Monae The Electric Lady | 4.0 |
| Ranger Knights of Darkness | 4.0 |
| Gorguts Colored Sands | 4.0 |
| Mitochondrion Antinumerology | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Hesitation Marks | 3.5 |
| Vasaeleth All Uproarious Darkness | 3.5 |
| Earl Sweatshirt Doris | 3.5 |
| Thundercat Apocalypse | 4.0 |
| Jay-Z Magna Carta... Holy Grail | 2.5 |
| Autopsy The Headless Ritual | 3.5 |
| Joey Badass Summer Knights | 3.5 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels | 4.5 |
| Palms Palms | 3.5 |
| Mouth Of The Architect Dawning | 2.5 |
| August Burns Red Rescue & Restore | 3.0 |
| Freddie Gibbs ESGN | 4.0 |
| J. Cole Born Sinner | 4.0 |
| Kanye West Yeezus | 3.5 |
| Action Bronson Saaab Stories | 3.5 |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 2.5 |
| Power Trip Manifest Decimation | 3.5 |
| Black Sabbath 13 | 3.5 |
| Church of Misery Thy Kingdom Scum | 4.0 |
| I have no idea how this band remains so consistent without much in the way of recognition but this is easily one of the best stoner/doom/sludge records of the year |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork | 4.0 |
| Iron Tongue The Dogs Have Barked, The Birds Have Flown | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here | 3.5 |
| Lantern (FIN) Below | 4.0 |
| Monster Truck Furiosity | 4.5 |
| Satan Life Sentence | 4.0 |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me | 4.0 |
| Uncle Acid and The Deadbeats Mind Control | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer | 3.5 |
| Bolzer Aura | 4.0 |
| Immolation Kingdom of Conspiracy | 2.0 |
| Deerhunter Monomania | 3.0 |
| Cerekloth In the Midst of Life We Are In Death | 4.0 |
| Chance the Rapper Acid Rap | 4.5 |
| Altar of Plagues Teethed Glory and Injury | 4.0 |
| Woe Withdrawal | 3.0 |
| Ghostface Killah 12 Reasons To Die: The Brown Tape | 3.0 |
| Ghostface Killah Twelve Reasons to Die | 2.5 |
| I've listened to this twice now... can't say it got better on second listen. There's just not much that gets my blood flowing here -- every single beat sounds slightly subdued and down-tempo. Maybe it will be a grower, and it's clearly successful at what it set out to accomplish (the story is well told, the atmosphere/mood is very solid, there's no real filler), but there's just something missing -- there's nothing here that makes me want to listen to it again. rThe Czarface album might be better... |
| Zealotry The Charnel Expanse | 4.0 |
| god this rules fucking hard, sounds like classic finnish dm only with a bit more melody and atmosphere. 2013 has been an incredible year for death metal, and I think it's only going to get better. |
| Vhol Vhol | 4.0 |
| Big K.R.I.T. King Remembered In Time | 3.5 |
| Trvth Black Horse Plague | 3.5 |
| James Blake Overgrown | 4.0 |
| Killswitch Engage Disarm the Descent | 3.5 |
| Tyler, the Creator Wolf | 2.0 |
| Ash Borer Bloodlands | 4.0 |
| Nails Abandon All Life | 3.0 |
| Kvelertak Meir | 3.5 |
| Clutch Earth Rocker | 4.0 |
| KEN mode Entrench | 3.5 |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience | 4.5 |
| Boris Präparat | 3.5 |
| Soilwork The Living Infinite | 3.5 |
| Enforcer Death By Fire | 4.0 |
| Fell Voices Regnum Saturni | 3.0 |
| Tribulation The Formulas of Death | 3.5 |
| Deathfix Deathfix | 3.5 |
| This could really use more love. Great indie rock record that sounds like the love child of The Magnetic Fields, Destroyer and mid-90s Wallflowers. Ok maybe that was a shit comparison but seriously check it out. |
| Brutality Ruins of Humans | 3.5 |
| Darkthrone The Underground Resistance | 3.5 |
| Paysage d'Hiver Das Tor | 4.0 |
| Krypts Unending Degradation | 4.0 |
| Portal Vexovoid | 4.0 |
| CZARFACE CZARFACE | 4.0 |
| Sacriphyx The Western Front | 4.0 |
| The Flight of Sleipnir Saga | 4.0 |
| Symptom Opulent Atrocity | 4.0 |
| Foals Holy Fire | 3.5 |
| Currensy New Jet City | 3.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine m b v | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal | 3.5 |
| Buke and Gase General Dome | 3.5 |
| TTNG 13.0.0.0.0 | 4.0 |
| Raekwon Lost Jewlry | 3.5 |
| ASAP Rocky LONG.LIVE.A$AP | 4.0 |
| Antediluvian λόγος | 3.0 |
| Abyssal (UK) Novit Enim Dominus Qui Sunt Eius | 3.5 |
| 2012 |
| Perturbator I Am The Night | 3.0 |
| Desolate Shrine The Sanctum of Human Darkness | 4.5 |
| hmmmm yep this is what the best death metal album of 2012 sounds like |
| Big Boi Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors | 3.5 |
| Boris/Joe Volk Cosmos | 4.0 |
| basically everything Boris touches is fucking golden |
| Wu-Block Wu-Block | 4.0 |
| worthy continuation of the Wu Renaissance |
| Amenra Mass V | 4.0 |
| Captain Murphy Duality | 3.5 |
| Action Bronson Rare Chandeliers | 3.5 |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan | 4.5 |
| Soundgarden King Animal | 4.0 |
| Flourishing Intersubjectivity | 3.5 |
| Corrosion of Conformity Megalodon | 3.5 |
| Apollo Brown and Guilty Simpson Dice Game | 3.5 |
| Currensy Priest Andretti | 3.0 |
| Sean Price Mic Tyson | 3.5 |
| Indian Handcrafts Civil Disobedience For Losers | 3.5 |
| Neurosis Honor Found in Decay | 4.0 |
| RZA The Man With The Iron Fists | 4.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city | 5.0 |
| P.O.S We Don't Even Live Here | 3.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! | 4.0 |
| Kawir Isotheos | 3.5 |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind | 4.0 |
| Skyzoo A Dream Deferred | 3.5 |
| Flying Lotus Until the Quiet Comes | 4.0 |
| Worship Terranean Wake | 3.5 |
| Enslaved RIITIIR | 3.0 |
| Mike Mictlan Snaxxx | 3.5 |
| Ataraxy Revelations of the Ethereal | 3.5 |
| Murder by Death Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon | 4.0 |
| Submotion Orchestra Fragments | 4.0 |
| Down Down IV - Part I | 3.0 |
| Menomena Moms | 4.0 |
| Brother Ali Mourning In America Dreaming In Color | 3.5 |
| How to Dress Well Total Loss | 4.0 |
| Grizzly Bear Shields | 4.0 |
| Ufomammut ORO: Opus Alter | 3.5 |
| GOOD Music Cruel Summer | 3.0 |
| Dinosaur Jr. I Bet on Sky | 3.5 |
| Serpentine Path Serpentine Path | 3.0 |
| Nothing overly original or groundbreaking, but still a great death/doom album. Featuring members of Ramesses, Unearthly Trance and Electric Wizard. |
| Hooded Menace Effigies of Evil | 3.5 |
| Propagandhi Failed States | 3.5 |
| Mount Eerie Ocean Roar | 4.0 |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - Cosmosophy | 3.0 |
| Minus the Bear Infinity Overhead | 3.0 |
| Swans The Seer | 3.5 |
| The Heavy The Glorious Dead | 4.0 |
| JJ DOOM Key To The Kuffs | 4.0 |
| Bloc Party Four | 2.5 |
| Ash Borer Cold of Ages | 4.0 |
| Domo Genesis No Idols | 3.0 |
| Rick Ross God Forgives, I Don't | 3.0 |
| Gaza No Absolutes in Human Suffering | 3.5 |
| Evoken Atra Mors | 4.0 |
| Testament Dark Roots of Earth | 4.0 |
| The Gaslight Anthem Handwritten | 3.5 |
| Dark Time Sunshine ANX | 4.0 |
| Om Advaitic Songs | 4.0 |
| The Antlers Undersea | 4.0 |
| Frank Ocean channel ORANGE | 4.0 |
| Nas Life Is Good | 4.0 |
| Baroness Yellow and Green | 3.0 |
| Aesop Rock Skelethon | 3.5 |
| this record's not a bitch it's a female dog's skeleton you only call her a bitch cause she wouldn't let you bone |
| Currensy Cigarette Boats | 3.5 |
| this is kind of incredible... if only it had more songs and a more expensive mix/master. |
| Old Man Gloom NO | 4.0 |
| Nymfo Characters | 4.5 |
| Deathspell Omega Drought | 4.0 |
| Joey Badass 1999 | 3.5 |
| Big K.R.I.T. Live From The Underground | 3.5 |
| Currensy The Stoned Immaculate | 3.5 |
| Oh No Ohnomite | 3.5 |
| Japandroids Celebration Rock | 4.5 |
| Panopticon Kentucky | 4.0 |
| Be'lakor Of Breath and Bone | 2.0 |
| Dawnbringer Into the Lair of the Sun God | 3.0 |
| El-P Cancer 4 Cure | 4.0 |
| Killer Mike R.A.P. Music | 4.5 |
| Ab-Soul Control System | 3.0 |
| Horseback Half Blood | 3.5 |
| Cattle Decapitation Monolith of Inhumanity | 4.0 |
| Billy Woods History Will Absolve Me | 4.0 |
| Perturbator Terror 404 | 3.0 |
| Torche Harmonicraft | 4.0 |
| Death Grips The Money Store | 2.0 |
| Maps and Atlases Beware and Be Grateful | 3.5 |
| Pelican Ataraxia/Taraxis | 3.0 |
| Inverloch Dusk|Subside | 4.0 |
| Irreversible Ashes | 4.0 |
| High on Fire De Vermis Mysteriis | 5.0 |
| Obie Trice Bottoms Up | 3.5 |
| BADBADNOTGOOD BBNG2 | 3.0 |
| Conan Monnos | 3.5 |
| Ufomammut ORO: Opus Primum | 3.5 |
| most underrated sludge band around releases another awesome album and remains the most underrated sludge band around |
| Ignivomous Contragenesis | 3.5 |
| Electric Wizard Legalise Drugs & Murder | 3.5 |
| Binary Star Light Years Apart | 3.5 |
| Black Breath Sentenced To Life | 3.5 |
| Notebook Noise Strange Tongue | 3.5 |
| dope album from one of my fav dudes in the local scene here, more ppl need to check this out. review coming soon... |
| Mayday (USA-FL, Hip-Hop) Take Me To Your Leader | 3.0 |
| Georgia Anne Muldrow Seeds | 4.0 |
| Perturbator Night Driving Avenger | 3.0 |
| OFWGKTA The OF Tape Vol. 2 | 2.5 |
| Unsane Wreck | 3.5 |
| Action Bronson and Party Supplies Blue Chips | 4.0 |
| Lord Mantis Pervertor | 4.0 |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives | 3.5 |
| The Men Open Your Heart | 3.5 |
| Big K.R.I.T. 4Eva N A Day | 3.5 |
| Corrosion of Conformity Corrosion of Conformity | 3.5 |
| Hodgy Untitled | 3.5 |
| Lute West1996 | 2.5 |
| fun. Some Nights | 3.5 |
| Pallbearer Sorrow And Extinction | 4.0 |
| went into with really high expectations, it delivered on all of them. easily the best thing I've heard this year. |
| Currensy Muscle Car Chronicles | 3.0 |
| Burial Kindred | 4.0 |
| Earth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II | 3.5 |
| Orange Goblin A Eulogy for the Damned | 3.5 |
| Currensy Here | 3.0 |
| Undergang Til Doden Os Skiller | 3.5 |
| Grimes Visions | 4.0 |
| Dyscarnate And So It Came To Pass | 3.0 |
| Rivet Amid The Roar | 4.0 |
| Crosses EP II | 3.5 |
| Lamb of God Resolution | 3.0 |
| Desecravity Implicit Obedience | 2.5 |
| ScHoolboy Q Habits and Contradictions | 3.5 |
| Nekromantheon Rise, Vulcan Spectre | 3.0 |
| Alcest Les Voyages De L'Âme | 3.0 |
| Horrendous The Chills | 3.5 |
| Abyssal (UK) Denouement | 3.5 |
| Raekwon Unexpected Victory | 3.0 |
| Fire In The Cave Fire In the Cave | 4.0 |
| Incantation Vanquish in Vengeance | 3.5 |
| 2011 |
| Mac Lethal Irish Goodbye | 3.5 |
| The Weeknd Echoes of Silence | 4.0 |
| Common The Dreamer/The Believer | 3.0 |
| Metallica Beyond Magnetic | 2.5 |
| The Black Keys El Camino | 4.0 |
| The Roots undun | 3.0 |
| Lionize Superczar and the Vulture | 4.0 |
| Nujabes Spiritual State | 3.5 |
| High Spirits Another Night | 3.5 |
| riffs riffs riffs riffs riffs riffs riffsrmore riffs |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - The Desanctification | 3.0 |
| Cruciamentum Engulfed In Desolation | 3.5 |
| Action Bronson and Statik Selektah Well-Done | 3.0 |
| Doomtree No Kings | 3.5 |
| Vektor Outer Isolation | 3.5 |
| Drake Take Care | 3.0 |
| Esoteric Paragon of Dissonance | 4.0 |
| Midnight Satanic Royalty | 4.0 |
| Panopticon Social Disservices | 3.5 |
| Megadeth Th1rt3en | 3.5 |
| Black Milk and Danny Brown Black and Brown! | 3.5 |
| of course this is tight |
| Lou Reed and Metallica Lulu | 1.5 |
if you say i'm not the table one more god damn time i swear i'm going to explode I AM THE
FUCKING TABLE |
| Lonely Kamel Dust Devil | 3.5 |
| Freddie Gibbs Cold Day in Hell | 3.5 |
| ASAP Rocky Live.Love.A$AP. | 3.5 |
| Florence and the Machine Ceremonials | 4.0 |
| Giant Squid Cenotes | 3.5 |
| only listened to this once and it's pretty good and all but I don't get get all the 4.5 and 5 ratings tbh. it's not as good as their first two... at least not on first listen. |
| Counterparts The Current Will Carry Us | 3.0 |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming | 4.0 |
| Will Haven Voir Dire | 3.0 |
| Immolation Providence | 4.0 |
| this is just killer... on par with M&D quality-wise. Illumination is fucking evil. |
| Hull Beyond the Lightless Sky | 3.5 |
| Earth From Water is definitely one of the best metal songs of the year. The rest of this is pretty good too. |
| James Blake Enough Thunder | 3.5 |
| Murs Love And Rockets Vol.1 | 3.5 |
| Sims Wildlife | 3.0 |
| Rwake Rest | 4.0 |
| Phonte Charity Starts at Home | 4.5 |
| 9th Wonder The Wonder Years | 3.5 |
| J. Cole Cole World: The Sideline Story | 3.5 |
| Mastodon The Hunter | 4.5 |
| The Atlas Moth An Ache for the Distance | 4.0 |
| Domo Genesis Under The Influence | 3.5 |
| Z-Ro Meth | 4.5 |
| Opeth Heritage | 3.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage | 3.0 |
| Anthrax Worship Music | 3.5 |
| whoa Anthrax quote Biggie and throw a breakdown into the same song and it doesn't suck |
| Astronautalis This Is Our Science | 2.5 |
| Wolves Like Us Late Love | 3.0 |
| Thrice Major/Minor | 3.0 |
| The Horrible Crowes Elsie | 4.5 |
| Elder (USA-MA) Dead Roots Stirring | 4.0 |
| more people need to hear this, especially if you're into stone/doom/groove metal |
| The Wounded Kings In the Chapel of the Black Hand | 3.0 |
| JK1 The Supernova 1st Come 1st Served Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
| so this is freaking amazing, thanks Maniac. thought it would wear off but it really hasn't. sounds like def jux meets detroit. |
| Thundercat The Golden Age Of Apocalypse | 4.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers I'm With You | 2.5 |
| Blu No York! | 4.0 |
| The Game The R.E.D. Album | 3.5 |
| this is so much better than LAX ralso Martians vs. Goblins and Speakers on Blast are two of the best rap songs I've heard in a minute |
| Currensy Verde Terrace | 3.5 |
| Backwoods Payback Momantha | 3.0 |
| Corrupted Garten Der Unbewusstheit | 4.0 |
| The Weeknd Thursday | 3.5 |
| Main Attrakionz 808s and Dark Grapes II | 3.0 |
| i bet sam feldman has a lot of black friends |
| YOB Atma | 4.0 |
| The War On Drugs Slave Ambient | 4.0 |
| Revocation Chaos of Forms | 2.5 |
| Today Is the Day Pain Is a Warning | 3.0 |
| Jay-Z and Kanye West Watch the Throne | 3.0 |
| Flourishing The Sum of All Fossils | 4.5 |
| it takes a few listens but holy fuck is this good. it's difficult to describe the sound because there's a clusterfuck of influences inside the atmospheric death metal but this is possibly the metal album of the year... |
| Crosses EP | 3.0 |
| Thou The Archer and the Owle | 3.5 |
| Unkind Harhakuvat | 3.5 |
| Danny Brown XXX | 4.0 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Legendary Weapons | 3.0 |
| Little Dragon Ritual Union | 3.5 |
| Toxic Holocaust Conjure and Command | 3.0 |
| Trophy Scars Never Born, Never Dead | 3.5 |
| Disma Towards the Megalith | 4.0 |
| Sole and the Skyrider Band Hello Cruel World | 3.0 |
| Cianide Gods of Death | 3.0 |
| Wugazi 13 Chambers | 3.5 |
| Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors | 3.5 |
| The Cool Kids When Fish Ride Bicycles | 3.5 |
| Easily the best thing Cool Kids have ever done, regardless of whether or not they've lost some of their "signature sound." |
| Zomby Dedication | 3.5 |
| Unearth Darkness in the Light | 3.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar Section.80 | 4.0 |
| Lil B I'm Gay (I'm Happy) | 2.0 |
| Azarath Blasphemers' Maledictions | 3.5 |
| Limp Bizkit Gold Cobra | 2.5 |
| Currensy Weekend at Burnie's | 3.5 |
| Shabazz Palaces Black Up | 3.5 |
| Execration (NOR) Odes Of The Occult | 3.5 |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Leveler | 2.5 |
| Helms Alee Weatherhead | 3.5 |
| The Atomic Bitchwax The Local Fuzz | 3.5 |
| Random Axe Random Axe | 3.5 |
| WU LYF Go Tell Fire to the Mountain | 4.0 |
| Submotion Orchestra Finest Hour | 4.0 |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me | 3.5 |
| Tombs Path of Totality | 4.0 |
| Tech N9ne All 6's and 7's | 3.0 |
| Klatu Mutual | 3.5 |
| Fucked Up David Comes to Life | 3.5 |
| Morbid Angel Illud Divinum Insanus | 1.5 |
| Frank Turner England Keep My Bones | 3.0 |
| Thou To The Chaos Wizard Youth | 3.5 |
| Departures When Losing Everything Is Everything You Wanted | 3.5 |
| Astronote Weapon Of The Future | 3.5 |
| Loss Despond | 4.0 |
| Autopsy Macabre Eternal | 3.0 |
| Desolate Shrine Tenebrous Towers | 4.0 |
| Uncle Acid and The Deadbeats Blood Lust | 4.0 |
| Lo-Pan Salvador | 3.0 |
| Boris Heavy Rocks (2011) | 4.5 |
| Boris Attention Please | 3.5 |
| The Men Leave Home | 3.5 |
| Cave In White Silence | 4.0 |
| Peste Noire L'Ordure a l'etat Pur | 3.5 |
| Killer Mike Pl3dge | 4.0 |
| Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi Rome | 3.5 |
| The Flight of Sleipnir Essence of Nine | 4.0 |
| Tyler, the Creator Goblin | 2.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra Simple Math | 3.5 |
| Elzhi Elmatic | 3.0 |
| The Antlers Burst Apart | 4.0 |
| Matana Roberts COIN COIN Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres | 3.0 |
| Horseback The Gorgon Tongue | 3.5 |
| Mac Lethal North Korean BBQ | 4.0 |
| Hail Mary Mallon Are You Gonna Eat That? | 3.5 |
| Ramesses Possessed by the Rise of Magik | 4.0 |
| Arizmenda Without Circumference Nor Center | 3.0 |
| Death Grips Exmilitary | 2.0 |
| Deafheaven Roads to Judah | 3.0 |
| Laura Stevenson Sit Resist | 3.5 |
| Primordial Redemption at the Puritan's Hand | 3.5 |
| Currensy Covert Coup | 3.5 |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - Sect(s) | 3.5 |
| tUnE-yArDs w h o k i l l | 4.0 |
| Deftones Covers | 3.0 |
| Indian Guiltless | 4.0 |
| TV on the Radio Nine Types of Light | 3.5 |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light | 3.5 |
| Atmosphere The Family Sign | 2.0 |
| Red Fang Murder the Mountains | 3.5 |
| The Gates Of Slumber The Wretch | 4.0 |
| Dela Translation Lost | 4.0 |
| yeah this is really good. jazzy, smooth, dope. |
| Big K.R.I.T. ReturnOf4eva | 5.0 |
| Burial Street Halo | 3.0 |
| Swarms Old Raves End | 3.5 |
| Fell Voices Untitled | 4.0 |
| Pharoahe Monch W.A.R. | 2.5 |
| CunninLynguists Oneirology | 3.0 |
| Ash Borer Ash Borer | 4.0 |
| The Weeknd House of Balloons | 4.0 |
| Ravencult Morbid Blood | 3.0 |
| Boris New Album | 3.5 |
| Burial and Four Tet Ego/Mirror | 3.0 |
| KEN mode Venerable | 4.5 |
| Action Bronson Dr. Lecter | 4.0 |
| Lil B Illusions of Grandeur | 1.0 |
| Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights | 3.5 |
| Raekwon Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang | 5.0 |
| I just have no desire to listen to anything else right now |
| Lupe Fiasco Lasers | 2.5 |
| Meth Drinker Meth Drinker | 3.5 |
| Until Your Heart Stops Errors | 3.5 |
| SubRosa (US) No Help for the Mighty Ones | 3.5 |
| Suplecs Mad Oak Redoux | 3.5 |
| Kerouac/The Long Haul Split | 3.5 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 3.5 |
| Frank Ocean Nostalgia, Ultra. | 4.0 |
| Sims Bad Time Zoo | 4.0 |
| Murs & Terrace Martin Melrose | 1.5 |
| MountainMan Grief | 3.0 |
| Yuck Yuck | 4.0 |
| Cauldron Burning Fortune | 4.5 |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book | 3.5 |
| Fen Epoch | 3.5 |
| Defeater Dear Father | 3.0 |
| Crowbar Sever The Wicked Hand | 3.5 |
| Blaspherian Infernal Warriors of Death | 3.5 |
| Earth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I | 4.0 |
| James Blake James Blake | 3.5 |
| Coolroy (Lite) Charlie | 2.5 |
| Ulcerate The Destroyers of All | 4.5 |
| Destroyer Kaputt | 3.5 |
| Onry Ozzborn Hold On for Dear Life | 4.0 |
| Talib Kweli Gutter Rainbows | 2.5 |
| Times of Grace The Hymn of a Broken Man | 2.0 |
| IMAKEMADBEATS IMAKEMADBEATS | 3.0 |
| Lil B Angels Exodus | 3.0 |
| Mitochondrion Parasignosis | 4.0 |
| Love Axe Phenomenomenons | 3.0 |
| The Jet Age Of Tomorrow Journey to the 5th Echelon | 3.0 |
| Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles) | 3.0 |
| Polar Infinite Decorum | 3.0 |
| Thou Big City | 3.5 |
| 2010 |
| Gorillaz The Fall | 3.0 |
| Ghostface Killah Apollo Kids | 3.5 |
| pretty sure there are a lot of people rating this album highly that are fans of vintage wu beats, just sayin |
| Johnny Polygon Wolf in Cheap Clothing | 3.5 |
| The Damned Things Ironiclast | 3.5 |
| Ok, maybe I'm overrating this just a tad, but god damn this album makes me want to chug beers and rawk the fuck out. |
| Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession | 3.5 |
| The Republic of Wolves Varuna | 3.0 |
| Blindead Affliction XXIX II MCMXCVI | 4.0 |
| The Chariot Long Live | 3.5 |
| Currensy Pilot Talk II | 3.5 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 4.5 |
| Sodom In War and Pieces | 3.5 |
| Hopsin Raw | 3.0 |
| Inquisition Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical... | 4.0 |
| Girl Talk All Day | 3.5 |
| J. Cole Friday Night Lights | 3.5 |
| Underoath Ø (Disambiguation) | 2.5 |
| Deathspell Omega Paracletus | 5.0 |
| Cee Lo Green The Lady Killer | 3.5 |
| Kid Cudi Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager | 2.5 |
| This is actually really impressive on a musical level, especially the first half of the record. Unfortunately, CuDi still sucks. Yeah yeah, this is him opening up and making an "introspective" statement; the problem is that he's like the 100th rapper to do that in the past 10 years and he's really not all that good at it. He can't decide whether he wants to impersonate Damian Marley's flow, rap about weed like Devin the Dude (except Devin the Dude's actually a clever lyricist) or be the hip hop everyman like Kanye West, but no matter what he does it's still a copy of something else and CuDi just can't provide enough polish to make it interesting. It's a shame too, because the record has really intriguing potential based purely on the beats, but KiD CuDi still seems like an overhyped image that's all form, no content. |
| Hollow Leg Instinct | 3.0 |
| Atheist Jupiter | 3.5 |
| Weezer Death to False Metal | 3.5 |
| Electric Wizard Black Masses | 4.0 |
| This is some of Electric Wizard's tightest songwriting yet; complete with monster grooves, walls of sound, clouds of smoke, (insert additional cliche EW description) etc. -- but what really sets this apart is that it's catchy as fuck. Maybe my rating will drop after the new-album high, but this is an easy contender for metal album of the year. |
| Joy Orbison BB/Ladywell | 3.5 |
| MellowHype BLACKENEDWHITE | 4.0 |
| Trophy Scars Darkness, Oh Hell | 3.0 |
| Kylesa Spiral Shadow | 3.5 |
still not sure about a rating for this, but it's damn good. Kylesa are consistent as hell, and Spiral Shadow continues with the progression they hinted at on last year's Static Tensions while retaining the hardcore edge that's separated them from contemporaries Mastodon and Baroness in recent years. Definitely on par with High On Fire's latest, and maybe even a bit better.
edit: ok, 3.5 it is. probably would be closer to a 4 if "Don't Look Back" wasn't on here. That song sucks balls. |
| Warpaint The Fool | 3.5 |
| Phaeleh Fallen Light | 4.0 |
| Danny Brown The Hybrid | 3.5 |
| Kings of Leon Come Around Sundown | 3.5 |
| Teebs Ardour | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz | 3.5 |
| All That Remains ...For We Are Many | 3.0 |
| Kno Death Is Silent | 2.5 |
| Intronaut Valley of Smoke | 3.5 |
| Woe Quietly, Undramatically | 3.5 |
| Gold Panda Lucky Shiner | 3.0 |
| Slough Feg The Animal Spirits | 3.5 |
| Diocletian War of All Against All | 4.0 |
| Mac Lethal The Love Potion Collection 6: Keep It Irish | 3.0 |
| This would probably get a higher rating if the tracks were mixed, but considering that and the fact that these are the cuts that didn't make it onto Irish Goodbyes -- this is an impressive disc. Probably not up to the lofty standards set by some of the other Love Potion releases, but a lot of strong material here nonetheless. Irish Funeral, Delusional, King of the Psycho Flow and Rattlesnake vs. Mongoose are definite highlights. |
| Deerhunter Halcyon Digest | 4.0 |
| Women Public Strain | 4.0 |
| Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini | 3.5 |
| James Blake Klavierwerke | 3.0 |
| How to Dress Well Love Remains | 4.0 |
| Dawnbringer Nucleus | 3.5 |
| Torche Songs for Singles | 3.5 |
| Flying Lotus Pattern+Grid World | 3.5 |
| Chromeo Business Casual | 3.0 |
| Black Milk Album Of The Year | 4.0 |
| Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky | 3.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar Overly Dedicated | 3.5 |
| Lil B Blue Flame | 2.5 |
| Autopsy The Tomb Within | 3.0 |
| Volbeat Beyond Hell/Above Heaven | 4.0 |
| Dark Time Sunshine Cornucopia | 3.5 |
| Atmosphere To All My Friends, Blood Makes The Blade Holy | 3.0 |
| Interpol Interpol | 3.0 |
| Iron Chic Not Like This | 3.5 |
| Cephalic Carnage Misled by Certainty | 3.5 |
| The Graduate Only Every Time | 3.5 |
| Within the Ruins Invade | 2.0 |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet | 3.5 |
| Domo Genesis Rolling Papers | 3.5 |
| The Sword Warp Riders | 4.0 |
| Bongripper Satan Worshipping Doom | 3.0 |
| Black Label Society Order Of The Black | 3.5 |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs | 4.0 |
| Fleshwrought Dementia/Dyslexia | 3.0 |
| Kerouac Cold and Distant, Not Loving | 4.0 |
| Touche Amore/La Dispute Searching for a Pulse/The Worth of the World | 3.5 |
| Madlib Madlib Medicine Show No. 7: High Jazz | 3.5 |
| Menomena Mines | 4.0 |
| Paper Tiger Made Like Us | 3.5 |
| Zoroaster Matador | 2.5 |
| Currensy Pilot Talk | 4.5 |
| Norma Jean Meridional | 3.5 |
If We Are the Romans and Option Paralysis had a baby...
Norma Jean would sue it for plagiarism. Meridional draws heavily (and when I say heavily, I mean those literally seem to be the only influences) from both of those albums; but unfortunately isn't quite the sum of its parts. However, it's an extremely well-executed homage, full of bone-crushing and technical riffing and improved vocals from Cory Brandan. In a year with very few truly good metalcore releases, it won't be surprising if Meridional receives quite a bit of praise and attention. |
| Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse Dark Night of the Soul | 4.0 |
| F Stokes Baked Goods Mixtape | 3.0 |
| Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot | 5.0 |
| Soilwork The Panic Broadcast | 2.0 |
| Ash Borer and Fell Voices Split | 4.0 |
| Parkway Drive Deep Blue | 2.5 |
| The-Dream Love King | 3.5 |
| Maps and Atlases Perch Patchwork | 3.5 |
| Thou Summit | 4.0 |
| The Roots How I Got Over | 3.0 |
| Danzig Deth Red Sabaoth | 3.5 |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak | 4.0 |
| Eminem Recovery | 2.0 |
| The Gaslight Anthem American Slang | 3.5 |
As much as I would like to rate this higher I just can't shake the feeling that this is simply a collection of mid-tempo b-sides from The '59 Sound with some extra studio polish thrown on to make them seem fresh. What happened to the hooks and level of sincerity I've come to expect from this band? Where the Springsteen and Billy Joel influenced lyrics on previous outings sounded genuinely grounded in experience, this time it just comes off as a forced Americana schtick. There's still plenty to enjoy, and there's nothing here that you could label "bad" per se, it's just not the magical experience of an album I was hoping for.
edit: this grew a bit, but still a disappointment considering how good the first two albums were |
| Foals Total Life Forever | 4.0 |
| Drake Thank Me Later | 2.0 |
| Lil B Roses Exodus | 1.5 |
| The Ghost Inside Returners | 2.5 |
| Whitechapel A New Era of Corruption | 2.5 |
| Ceremony (USA-CA) Rohnert Park | 3.5 |
| Tokyo Police Club Champ | 3.0 |
| The State Lottery When the Night Comes | 4.0 |
| This has a criminally low average rating. It's better than American Slang in my opinion, and one of the best rock albums of the year. |
| Melvins The Bride Screamed Murder | 3.5 |
| The Cool Kids Tacklebox | 3.0 |
| Submotion Orchestra Submotion Orchestra | 3.0 |
| James Blake CMYK | 3.5 |
| Rosetta A Determinism of Morality | 4.0 |
| Far At Night We Live | 3.0 |
| Integrity The Blackest Curse | 3.5 |
| Shad TSOL | 2.5 |
| PackFM I F*cking Hate Rappers | 3.5 |
| The Black Keys Brothers | 4.0 |
| Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid | 4.5 |
| Nas and Damian Marley Distant Relatives | 3.0 |
| Lone Wolf The Devil and I | 3.0 |
| Guilty Simpson O.J. Simpson | 3.0 |
| Reflection Eternal Revolutions Per Minute | 4.0 |
| Guido Anidea | 4.0 |
| Dead Letter Circus This Is The Warning | 3.0 |
| Sage Francis Li(f)e | 2.0 |
| Taproot Plead the Fifth | 2.5 |
| As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise | 2.5 |
| The National High Violet | 4.5 |
| Sleigh Bells Treats | 3.0 |
| OFWGKTA Radical | 4.0 |
| Ufomammut Eve | 4.0 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 4.0 |
| The Hold Steady Heaven Is Whenever | 3.5 |
| Minus the Bear Omni | 4.0 |
| Future Islands In Evening Air | 3.0 |
| Mike Patton Mondo Cane | 3.5 |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma | 4.0 |
| Big K.R.I.T. K.R.I.T Wuz Here | 3.5 |
| Fluid Minds Gamma Wave | 3.5 |
| Lesra The Green Rage | 3.5 |
| Twilight Monument To Time End | 4.0 |
| B.o.B The Adventures of Bobby Ray | 1.5 |
| The Abominable Iron Sloth The ID Will Overcome | 3.5 |
| Mouth Of The Architect The Violence Beneath | 3.0 |
| Parades Foreign Tapes | 4.0 |
| Dark Time Sunshine Vessel | 4.0 |
| Sevendust Cold Day Memory | 2.0 |
| Ugh, Sevendust why do you continually give me a glimmer of hope and then suddenly fade right back into mediocrity? Chapter VII was ball-suckingly bad, and this one starts off with a couple promising tracks before quickly devolving into the mindless radio-rock b.s. that has been plaguing their albums since 2003's Seasons. Next showed potential, Alpha built on that potential and then these last two records have simply sucked most of my interest out of this band that once stood as a fine example of somewhat respectable nu-metal. Only hardcore fans need apply. |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise | 3.0 |
| Cypress Hill Rise Up | 2.0 |
| Periphery Periphery | 3.0 |
| MGMT Congratulations | 2.0 |
| Bleeding Through Bleeding Through | 2.0 |
| Murs Fornever | 2.5 |
| letlive. Fake History | 3.5 |
| Bison Dark Ages | 3.5 |
| The Menzingers Chamberlain Waits | 4.0 |
| Mike G ALI | 3.5 |
| Murder by Death Good Morning, Magpie | 3.5 |
| Thou Baton Rouge, You Have Much to Answer For | 3.5 |
| NOISIA Split The Atom | 4.0 |
| Hell (USA) II | 3.5 |
| Earl Sweatshirt EARL | 4.0 |
| Flourishing A Momentary Sense of the Immediate World | 3.5 |
| Meth, Ghost and Rae Wu-Massacre | 3.5 |
| Thou Oakland | 4.0 |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune | 3.5 |
| Hooded Menace Never Cross the Dead | 4.0 |
| Inspectah Deck The Manifesto | 3.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis | 4.0 |
| Triptykon Eparistera Daimones | 4.0 |
| Mac Lethal Blood In The Water Mixtape | 3.0 |
| Deceptikon Mythology Of The Metropolis | 3.5 |
| Flobots Survival Story | 1.0 |
| Breakage Foundation | 3.5 |
| Black Breath Heavy Breathing | 3.5 |
| Immolation Majesty and Decay | 4.5 |
| Gorillaz Plastic Beach | 3.5 |
| Broken Bells Broken Bells | 3.0 |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor | 3.0 |
| Daughters Daughters | 3.0 |
| B. Dolan Fallen House Sunken City | 3.0 |
| Grieves 88 Keys & Counting | 3.0 |
| The Bled Heat Fetish | 3.5 |
| Kalmah 12 Gauge | 3.0 |
| Frightened Rabbit The Winter of Mixed Drinks | 3.0 |
| Joy Orbison The Shrew Would Have Cushioned The Blow | 3.5 |
| The Men Immaculada | 4.0 |
| M-Phazes Good Gracious | 3.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity We Are the Void | 2.5 |
| MellowHype Yellowhite | 3.5 |
| High on Fire Snakes for the Divine | 3.5 |
| Fang Island Fang Island | 3.0 |
| Shearwater The Golden Archipelago | 3.0 |
| Veil Veil Vanish Change in the Neon Light | 3.5 |
| Ash Borer 2009 Demo | 3.5 |
| Freeway & Jake One The Stimulus Package | 2.5 |
| Nails Unsilent Death | 3.5 |
| In Mourning Monolith | 3.5 |
| Peter Gabriel Scratch My Back | 3.0 |
| Uncle Acid and The Deadbeats Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
| Fear Factory Mechanize | 3.0 |
| Currensy Smokee Robinson | 4.0 |
| Throats Throats | 3.5 |
| Vasaeleth Crypt Born & Tethered To Ruin | 4.0 |
| Beach House Teen Dream | 3.5 |
| The Felix Culpa Sever Your Roots | 3.5 |
| Cold War Kids Behave Yourself | 3.0 |
| Dessa A Badly Broken Code | 3.0 |
| Just got the preorder in the mail today and from the first listen it's pretty dope -- fanboy bias (mostly) put aside. Dessa opts for more of the soul/R&B/jazz influence and slighty eschews her hip hop flavor (although only slightly) but the result is a cohesive, enjoyable listen. Not too many flaws to point out after one go-round, so the 4 rating my go up or down with repeated listens.rEDIT: Still really enjoyable (especially musically), but there's just not enough substance to warrant the 4 rating in my opinion. This is a great disc to have playing while you're doing something else, like driving or socializing, but there's not enough there to hold my interest if I'm in the mood to just listen to music. |
| Spoon Transference | 3.5 |
| In Vain (NO) Mantra | 3.0 |
| Axeman Arrive | 3.5 |
| Vampire Weekend Contra | 2.5 |
| The Wounded Kings The Shadow Over Atlantis | 3.5 |
| Grimes Geidi Primes | 3.5 |
| really interesting, ethereal indie. this girl can create atmospheres pretty effortlessly (or so it seems). wonder if she's hot. |
| Raekwon Coke Up In Da Dollar Bill | 3.5 |
| More Than Life Love Let Me Go | 4.0 |
| Dangers Messy, Isn't It? | 4.0 |
| Departures Escaping | 3.5 |
| Ramesses Take the Curse | 4.0 |
| 2005 |
| Ceremony (USA-CA) Ruined | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Thrill Seeker | 3.0 |
| Darkspace Dark Space II | 4.0 |
| Boris Pink | 4.5 |
| Bleeding Through Wolves Among Sheep | 1.0 |
| Unearth Our Days of Eulogy | 2.5 |
| Shadows Fall The Art Of Touring (Drunk and S**ty in Every City) | 1.0 |
| Dozer Through The Eyes Of Heathens | 3.5 |
| Bolt Thrower Those Once Loyal | 4.0 |
| Job for a Cowboy Doom | 2.5 |
| Robbie Williams Intensive Care | 3.5 |
| Propagandhi Potemkin City Limits | 3.5 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 4.0 |
| Rosetta The Galilean Satellites | 4.0 |
| Sevendust Next | 2.5 |
| DangerDoom The Mouse And The Mask | 4.0 |
| Roadrunner United The All-Star Sessions | 2.5 |
| Deftones B-Sides and Rarities | 4.0 |
| Atmosphere You Can't Imagine How Much Fun... | 4.0 |
| Deathspell Omega Kenose | 4.0 |
| Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out | 1.5 |
| God Forbid IV: Constitution of Treason | 4.0 |
| Damian Marley Welcome To Jamrock | 3.5 |
| Baroness Second | 3.5 |
| Little Brother The Minstrel Show | 4.0 |
| Cave In Perfect Pitch Black | 4.0 |
| Parkway Drive Killing with a Smile | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 3.0 |
| Earth Hex: Or Printing In the Infernal Method | 4.0 |
| The Rolling Stones A Bigger Bang | 2.0 |
| Cecil Otter False Hopes | 3.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Plans | 3.5 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 3.5 |
| Kanye West Late Registration | 3.5 |
| Minus the Bear Menos El Oso | 4.0 |
| The Classic Struggle Feel Like Hell | 2.5 |
| Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon | 4.0 |
| The Bled Found in the Flood | 2.5 |
| YOB The Unreal Never Lived | 4.5 |
| 10 Years The Autumn Effect | 3.0 |
| Taproot Blue-Sky Research | 2.5 |
| Chimaira Chimaira | 3.0 |
| Staind Chapter V | 1.0 |
| Doomriders BLACK THUNDER | 4.0 |
| Latterman No Matter Where We Go...! | 3.5 |
| Felt (USA-MN) Felt 2: A Tribute to Lisa Bonet | 4.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma | 3.0 |
| Obituary Frozen in Time | 3.5 |
| Boris Soundtrack from the Film Mabuta no Ura | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois | 4.0 |
| Cool Calm Pete Lost | 3.5 |
| Leech [US] Ten Black Hymns | 3.5 |
| Sims Lights Out Paris | 4.0 |
| How am I really the only one who's rated this?! The album's great -- a perfect blend of social commentary with personal reflection. Beats are provided mainly by the Doomtree peeps (you know, Lazerbeak, Paper Tiger, MK Larada, the usual suspects) and each emcee from Doomtree shows up at one point or another. Do yourself a favor -- if you're looking for some unique hip hop at least check out some songs on YouTube. Highlights include 15 Blocks, So It Goes, May 1st, Key Grip (Fax) and Spinal Tap (hidden track). His flow might take a few minutes to get used to, but let this album sink in and it might not leave your ears for weeks. |
| A Life Once Lost Hunter | 3.5 |
| Judge What It Meant: The Complete Discography | 4.0 |
| As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security | 3.5 |
| Foo Fighters In Your Honor | 2.5 |
| Static-X Start A War | 3.0 |
| Sean Price Monkey Barz | 4.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil | 2.0 |
| Coldplay X&Y | 1.5 |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... | 4.0 |
| Gorillaz Demon Days | 4.0 |
| The Agony Scene The Darkest Red | 3.0 |
| Common Be | 4.0 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 3.5 |
| Bane The Note | 3.0 |
| Light This City Remains Of The Gods | 3.0 |
| The Red Chord Clients | 2.5 |
| Weezer Make Believe | 1.0 |
| Team Sleep Team Sleep | 4.0 |
| Spoon Gimme Fiction | 4.0 |
| Still Remains Of Love and Lunacy | 1.5 |
| Limp Bizkit The Unquestionable Truth - Part I | 2.5 |
| The Hold Steady Separation Sunday | 4.0 |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree | 2.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth | 2.0 |
| Amenra Mass III | 3.5 |
| Cobalt War Metal | 4.0 |
| Sinai Beach Immersed | 1.0 |
| Bleed the Sky Paradigm In Entropy | 2.0 |
| Mudvayne Lost and Found | 2.5 |
| The National Alligator | 5.0 |
| Z-Ro Let the Truth Be Told | 4.0 |
| Okkervil River Black Sheep Boy | 4.0 |
| Clutch Robot Hive/Exodus | 4.5 |
| Corrosion of Conformity In the Arms of God | 4.5 |
| Bloodsimple A Cruel World | 1.5 |
| Champion Promises Kept | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze | 3.5 |
| Cephalic Carnage Anomalies | 3.5 |
| Trivium Ascendancy | 2.5 |
| Drudkh The Swan Road | 3.5 |
| Soilwork Stabbing the Drama | 3.0 |
| Black Label Society Mafia | 3.5 |
| Immolation Harnessing Ruin | 3.5 |
| 50 Cent The Massacre | 1.5 |
| Norma Jean O' God, the Aftermath | 2.5 |
| Mike Mictlan False Hopes VIII: Deity For Re-Hire | 3.5 |
| Dessa False Hopes | 3.0 |
| Boris Dronevil | 3.0 |
| Gym Class Heroes The Papercut Chronicles | 2.0 |
| Comeback Kid Wake the Dead | 2.5 |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 2.5 |
| Grayskul Deadlivers | 3.5 |
| Crowbar Life's Blood For The Downtrodden | 3.5 |
| Truckfighters Gravity X | 4.0 |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm | 3.5 |
| Aesop Rock Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives | 3.5 |
| High on Fire Blessed Black Wings | 4.5 |
| Seemless Seemless | 3.0 |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning | 3.0 |
| The Game The Documentary | 3.5 |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius | 4.0 |
| Champion Time Slips Away | 3.5 |
| Sage Francis A Healthy Distrust | 2.5 |
| Volbeat The Strength/The Sound/The Songs | 3.5 |
| William Fitzsimmons Until When We Are Ghosts | 3.5 |
| Slough Feg Atavism | 3.5 |
| Macklemore The Language of My World | 3.5 |
| Maps and Atlases Bird Barnyard | 3.0 |
| Amenra Mass II: Sermons | 3.0 |
| Ufomammut Lucifer Songs | 4.0 |
| Mouth Of The Architect Time and Withering | 3.0 |
| Modern Life Is War Witness | 4.0 |
