| 2011 |
| Les Doux Dialects | 4.0 |
| Glass Bones Seasons | 4.5 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel Ferris Wheel on Fire | 3.0 |
| Korn The Path of Totality | 1.0 |
| Caravan Palace Clash | 4.0 |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon (Deluxe Edition) | 4.0 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel Neutral Milk Hotel Box Set | 4.5 |
| Los Campesinos! Hello Sadness | 3.5 |
| Tycho Dive | 4.0 |
| Justice Audio, Video, Disco | 2.5 |
| Arc (Witch House) Ʌ | 5.0 |
| Jowls Jowls/The Reptilian Split 7" | 3.0 |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming | 4.0 |
| Rustie Glass Swords | 3.5 |
| TTNG Adventure, Stamina and Anger | 4.0 |
| A Lot Like Birds Conversation Piece | 3.5 |
| Good, but a step back from Plan B. The vocals could have been an awesome addition, but instead they used them to replace the instruments. This would have been alright, but the way Kurt is trying to emulate DGD isn't getting it right. Overall I think the album had too much DGD influence in the vocals, too much La Dispute influence in the guitar, and not nearly enough experimentation. It also lacked the La Dispute/Circle Takes The Square/The Mars Volta style storytelling in the lyrics that it could have had (I felt like I could see them writing lyrics similar to those bands from what I heard on the first album) and the classic ALLB instrumental craziness it could have had.rIn short, they have descended into a lower form of Post-Harcore, and I for one am slightly disappointed. |
| La Dispute Wildlife | 4.0 |
| Whirr June | 4.0 |
| Giraffes? Giraffes! Pink Magick | 5.0 |
| Megafaun Megafaun | 4.0 |
| AJJ Knife Man | 4.0 |
| BADBADNOTGOOD BBNG | 4.0 |
| Das Racist Relax | 4.5 |
| Deer Leap/The World Is A Beautiful Place... Are Here To Help You | 4.5 |
| The Rapture In the Grace of Your Love | 4.0 |
| Thrice Major/Minor | 3.5 |
| Thundercat The Golden Age Of Apocalypse | 4.0 |
| Circle Takes the Square Rites of Initiation | 3.5 |
| I'd give it a 4.5 but because of the large amount of trolls I'm giving it a 5. I think ATRU deserves it's five, although I actually like the general sound of this EP more, it's very incomplete... Therefore if there were less trolls it'd be getting a 4.5. |
| The War On Drugs Slave Ambient | 4.0 |
| Danny Brown XXX | 4.5 |
| Iselia Life From Dead Limbs | 5.0 |
| Sailing On Hinterland | 3.5 |
| Darker than their S/T EP. It's still a bit heavy handed lyrically, although a lot of their thoughts are in the right place. rVery enjoyable for me, would give it a 4 based on how much I like it but objectively it's not really quite a 4. |
| Sleep Party People Sleep Party People | 5.0 |
| Shabazz Palaces Black Up | 4.5 |
| SBTRKT SBTRKT | 4.0 |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 2.5 |
| Unknown Mortal Orchestra Unknown Mortal Orchestra | 4.0 |
| Sleestak The Fall Of Altrusia | 5.0 |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me | 3.5 |
| Mux Mool Drum EP 2 | 3.5 |
| Chilly Gonzales The Unspeakable Chilly Gonzales | 4.5 |
| Pearl and the Beard Killing the Darlings | 3.5 |
| Tyler, the Creator Goblin | 3.0 |
| Moving Mountains Waves | 3.5 |
| Starscream Future, Towards the Edge of Forever | 5.0 |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues | 4.0 |
| James Pants James Pants | 4.0 |
| Snowmine Laminate Pet Animal | 4.0 |
| William Bonney Good Vibes | 4.5 |
| Death Grips Exmilitary | 5.0 |
| Zammuto Zammuto | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Keep + Animal Collective | 3.5 |
| Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights | 4.0 |
| Grails Deep Politics | 4.5 |
| STRFKR Reptilians | 3.5 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 3.0 |
| I Am This Big Black Cloud Double Phantasm | 4.0 |
| Joseph Andreoli and his wife are FINALLY making original songs as I Am This Big Black Cloud. I liked the covers on CVRS because I love Andreoli's production and his wife's voice fits in with the music very well; however, hearing these I can say his song writing is much better than any of the other groups they covered. Definitely worth a listen. |
| Does It Offend You, Yeah? Don't Say We Didn't Warn You | 3.5 |
| James Blake James Blake | 4.0 |
| Glass Bones The Hope In Forgiving & Giving Up Hope | 4.0 |
| The Reptilian Jowls/The Reptilian Split 7" | 3.0 |
| The instrumentation was great as usual, but it lacked good production (much like the Reptilian's We Have Become EP) and Jon's screaming/singing seemed... off.rJowl's side was actually better than the Reptilians side, but while I love both bands I generally like the Reptilian better. |
| Jowls Cunt Punch | 3.5 |
| 2006 |
| Emancipator Soon It Will Be Cold Enough | 4.0 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 4.5 |
| Comadre More Songs About The Man | 4.0 |
| Converge No Heroes | 3.0 |
| Venetian Snares Hospitality | 4.0 |
| These Arms Are Snakes Easter | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Act I: The Lake South, the River North | 3.5 |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister | 4.0 |
| The Rapture Pieces Of The People We Love | 4.0 |
| Say Anything ...Is A Real Boy (re-release) | 5.0 |
| Alexisonfire Crisis | 3.0 |
| Anamanaguchi Power Supply | 4.0 |
| Ratatat Classics | 3.5 |
| Comadre Burn Your Bones | 5.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin Phobia | 2.5 |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 3.5 |
| Shugo Tokumaru L.S.T. | 4.5 |
| Three Days Grace One-X | 2.5 |
| I Would Set Myself On Fire For You Believes In Patterns | 5.0 |
| Venetian Snares Cavalcade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Pom Poms | 4.0 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 2.5 |
| Weed is awesome, right? Well, when your bud buddies get into OMG ILLUMINATI SYMBOLISM and WOW THE FIBBONACCI SEQUENCE SO DEEP it's going to get a bit tiring. So when Tool decided to base their entire aesthetic around this kind of person's ideal, I was a bit skeptical. Turns out, Tool is exactly what they look like; the generic, proto-typical Nu-Metal kids who just SMOKED THEIR FIRST WEED and became "enlightened." Except they make music. For the same kind of person I just described. It's all pretty much Nu-Metal with a psychedelic twist, or from my perspective, a stupid gimmick. |
| Thrice Red Sky | 3.5 |
| Islands Return To The Sea | 3.5 |
| La Dispute Vancouver | 4.0 |
| Short and sweet. It's like Somewhere At The Bottom but less... lengthy, and without the larger concept behind it. |
| Katatonia The Great Cold Distance | 2.5 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Keasbey Nights | 3.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not | 3.5 |
| 1905 Voice | 4.5 |
Lyrics are reminiscent of System of a Down or La Dispute, seeing as they range between extremely obvious socio-political messages and much deeper, more personal lyrics that often come across as a sociological message anyway. So kind of in between Sunny Day Real Estate, Touche Amore or Brand New and Circle Takes the Square or King Crimson.
Sounds like CTTS with the screams at times, while other times they sound like I Would Set Myself On Fire For You (and CTTS's slightly more melodic segments) when they sing, especially in unison. On the other hand, they manage to mix in songs with guitars that sound almost like Folk music (Folk Punk especially, obviously) and the song A Conversation sounds like something from La Dispute's early work on Hear, Hear.
It's a shame they didn't put out anything more, because in my eyes Voice is a near-perfect album. Unlike so many bands that try to be "intelligent" or "deep," (think Tool and Mastodon) 1905 has the courage to be slightly inventive without lauding their ingenuity as if they're kings of the universe while also focusing on the passion and meanings they put into the music, unlike the plethora of bands that make "honest" music about things that they don't actually care about or that are simply immature and sophomoric (think Taking Back Sunday and post-Pinkerton Weezer). |
