| 2014 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 | 4.5 |
| Flying Lotus You're Dead! | 4.0 |
| Rustie Green Language | 2.5 |
| Kimbra The Golden Echo | 4.5 |
| Buckcherry Fuck | 1.0 |
| i thought this was some kind of joke but i guess the joke's on me for being surprised that a group whose most famous song is about fucking a crazy bitch would title an album like this |
| Sophie Lemonade/Hard | 3.5 |
| Joyce Manor Never Hungover Again | 3.0 |
| Alvvays Alvvays | 3.0 |
| Fallujah The Flesh Prevails | 3.0 |
| Chelsea Grin Ashes To Ashes | 2.0 |
lawl Chelsea Grin
also what kind of queer uses "lawl" unironically? |
| Braid No Coast | 3.0 |
| '68 In Humor and Sadness | 3.5 |
There are some really killer tracks, and Josh is shockingly good at signing as well as his harsh vocals, but the album feels a bit disjointed and just doesn't hit like I hoped it would. It's still a great album, but it needs some work.
Also the song titles are kind of dumb.
EDIT: And just like with The Chariot, a lot of this works better in a live setting. |
| Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun | 4.0 |
| The Antlers Familiars | 2.5 |
| Homogenous and boring. |
| clipping. CLPPNG | 3.0 |
| Body and Blood is amazing, Tonight is fucking horrible, and the rest ranges from painfully boring to decent. |
| Death Grips The Powers That B - Part I: Niggas on the Moon | 4.0 |
I love Death Grips. I love what they do, I love that they truly could not give a single solitary shit about what people think about them, and I love that every album they drop is out of the blue with little to no warning. That being said, this album almost seems abrasive and "out there" simply for the sake of being so. While their earlier albums were chaotic, there was at least a semblance of structure and coherence, and even a bit of melody within the noise. But this just sounds like an absolute mess at times and though the inclusion of Bjork is nice, she doesn't save this from being very poorly executed at times. And the lyricism is completely foolish for the most part. "Tame and cashmere go together. Cashmere makes perfect better." Seriously?
I will always listen to a new DG album, but these last two efforts do not leave me hopeful for the future.
EDIT: Okay maybe I was a bit harsh at first. Still disjointed as fuck, but it's decent. |
| Agalloch The Serpent and the Sphere | 3.0 |
| Swans To Be Kind | 4.5 |
| SPACE CUNT |
| Killer Be Killed Killer Be Killed | 3.5 |
| Some of these tracks are great and hard hitting, and others just sound like a poor mishmash of ideas. And I wish Puciato had handled most of the vocal duties. |
| AJJ Christmas Island | 2.5 |
| This just isn't good. Couldn't even make it through the album it was so damn boring. |
| tUnE-yArDs Nikki Nack | 3.0 |
| what the fuck is this "why do we dine on the tots?" shit |
| The Horrors Luminous | 3.5 |
| Trophy Scars Holy Vacants | 5.0 |
| "Everything Disappearing" might just be the best thing they've ever done |
| Foxy Shazam Gonzo | 3.0 |
| Pretty boring, and that's one thing this band should never have become. |
| Chiodos Devil | 1.5 |
I'm not even going to try to finish this. 3 AM is probably the worst thing I've heard in a while. God awful, cheesy as fuck pop-punk complete with a piano and violin interlude because "we're oh so sensitive!"? No thanks.
It's become the Craig Owens show again, and the presence of Thomas Erak does little if anything to distract from his inability to carry the band. |
| Fairweather Fairweather | 3.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra Cope | 3.5 |
| Chevelle La Gárgola | 4.0 |
| Plebeian Grandstand Lowgazers | 4.0 |
| IDYLLS Prayer for Terrene | 4.0 |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion | 4.0 |
| La Dispute Rooms of the House | 2.5 |
| sputnik drinking game: take a shot for every time "darling" comes up in a la dispute review, soundoff, or comment. stomach pump on hand is recommended |
| The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream | 3.0 |
| It ain't bad but it gets pretty snooze-worthy towards the end. |
| Tycho Awake | 4.0 |
| Freddie Gibbs and Madlib Pinata | 4.0 |
" about as threatening as the bear in the Snuggle fabric softener commercials."
I don't know, that fucker is kind of terrifying. |
| Nothing Guilty of Everything | 3.0 |
| The Men Tomorrow's Hits | 4.0 |
| Morbus Chron Sweven | 4.0 |
| ScHoolboy Q Oxymoron | 3.5 |
"yeah nigga, uh, yeah niggaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, yeah nigga"
-Tyler, the Creator |
| St. Vincent St. Vincent | 4.0 |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There | 4.5 |
| Lost In The Trees Past Life | 3.5 |
| The Jezabels The Brink | 3.5 |
| Papermoons No Love | 3.0 |
| Crosses Crosses | 3.5 |
| XO Heart | 2.5 |
| zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz |
| Xiu Xiu Angel Guts: Red Classroom | 2.5 |
| Marissa Nadler July | 4.5 |
| Have a Nice Life The Unnatural World | 4.0 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything | 3.5 |
| Alcest Shelter | 3.5 |
| Warpaint Warpaint | 3.0 |
| Iron Mind Iron Mind | 3.5 |
| 2013 |
| Angel Haze Dirty Gold | 4.0 |
| Burial Rival Dealer | 3.5 |
| It's still good and it's still Burial, but it lacks the luster and punch of Truant/Rough Sleeper and Kindred |
| Childish Gambino Because the Internet | 3.0 |
| Hammock Oblivion Hymns | 4.5 |
| Death Grips Government Plates | 3.5 |
| Foxing The Albatross | 4.0 |
| State Faults Resonate/Desperate | 5.0 |
| Obliteration Black Death Horizon | 4.5 |
| Oddisee Tangible Dream | 4.0 |
| This needs a whole lot more love. Mind blowing that this only has one rating. |
| Son Lux Lanterns | 2.5 |
| A Lot Like Birds No Place | 3.5 |
| Russian Circles Memorial | 4.5 |
| Protest the Hero Volition | 4.5 |
| Arcade Fire Reflektor | 4.0 |
| Marietta Summer Death | 3.5 |
| Friendzone DX | 4.0 |
| Tim Hecker Virgins | 4.0 |
| A Day To Remember Common Courtesy | 2.5 |
| This is an album by A Day To Remember. It sounds like an album by A Day To Remember. If you like them, you will like this. If you don't, you won't. |
| Dance Gavin Dance Acceptance Speech | 3.5 |
| Pusha T My Name Is My Name | 4.0 |
| Darkside Psychic | 4.0 |
| Danny Brown Old | 4.5 |
| OPEN WIDE HO |
| Blue Sky Black Death Glaciers | 4.0 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never R Plus Seven | 3.0 |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience - 2 of 2 | 3.0 |
| Lorde Pure Heroine | 4.0 |
| Lord Snow Solitude | 4.0 |
| Touche Amore Is Survived By | 3.5 |
| skramgaze |
| Dream Theater Dream Theater | 2.5 |
| CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe | 4.0 |
| Stray from the Path Anonymous | 3.0 |
| Balance and Composure The Things We Think We're Missing | 3.0 |
| Balance and Composure go for a more straightforward rock oriented sound, and as a result churn out a far less moving album that starts to blend together as it progresses. The Things We Think We're Missing is by no means bad, but it lacks the punch that Separation had. |
| The Weeknd Kiss Land | 3.0 |
| Holy Ghost! Dynamics | 3.5 |
| Janelle Monae The Electric Lady | 4.0 |
| The first half of this album is absolutely stunning. It starts to fall off towards the end but The Electric Lady is another stellar release from one of the best pop artists out there. |
| Blood on the Dance Floor Bad Blood | 1.0 |
| lol |
| Modern Life Is War Fever Hunting | 3.5 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Pain Is Beauty | 4.0 |
| Gorguts Colored Sands | 4.0 |
| Kayo Dot Hubardo | 4.5 |
| this is one of those albums that, despite how dense it is, you kind of forget that you're listening to it because it's just so enveloping as a listen. |
| Juicy J Stay Trippy | 2.5 |
| Forest Swords Engravings | 4.0 |
| Born of Osiris Tomorrow We Die Alive | 2.0 |
| i can't stand it when bands name their tracks with psuedo-intellectual titles and then the lyrics have nil to do with it. |
| ASAP Ferg Trap Lord | 3.0 |
| it's a shame because there are some really really great tracks and some really really bad ones. i mean 4:20 is terrible wow but cocaine castle damn. |
| Destruction Unit Deep Trip | 3.0 |
| O'Brother Disillusion | 3.5 |
| Earl Sweatshirt Doris | 3.5 |
| Native Orthodox | 4.5 |
| Woe, Is Me American Dream | 1.5 |
| i mean let's face it, this is going to suck. |
| Washed Out Paracosm | 3.0 |
| It sounds pretty, but that's about it. Good for background listening, but not really an enveloping listen. |
| Trinidad James 10 Pc. Mild | 3.5 |
| Zola Jesus Versions | 4.5 |
| Lil Ugly Mane THREE SIDED TAPE VOLUME TWO | 3.5 |
| Valley Maker Yes I Know I've Loved This World | 4.5 |
| Lil Ugly Mane THREE SIDED TAPE VOLUME ONE | 4.5 |
| Norma Jean Wrongdoers | 4.0 |
| Norma Jean's Wrongdoers takes all the band's best elements and fuses them into a cohesive and focused effort, and it pays off in dividends. While perhaps not their best effort, as it would be hard for them to touch Bless the Martyr... or O'God the Aftermath, their newest release sends a message that the band can still churn out pummeling and fantastic tunes even this late into their career. |
| Dads Pretty Good | 4.0 |
| I had high expectations for this after American Radass. They exceeded every single one of them and by a large margin. This is absolutely superb, in ever way. |
| Julia Holter Loud City Song | 4.0 |
| Geology North | 3.5 |
| Paul White Watch the Ants | 3.5 |
| Hail To The King Dynasties | 2.0 |
| wow, another fucking deathcore band from Dayton, Ohio, and big surprise, it's just like every other deathcore band ever. man, it'd be nice to see some originality. |
| Misery Signals Absent Light | 3.0 |
| I guess I just don't fully understand why this band is so great. |
| Counterparts The Difference Between Hell and Home | 3.5 |
| Fuck Buttons Slow Focus | 2.5 |
| With the exception of the closer, this bored me to tears. |
| Defeater Letters Home | 3.0 |
| letlive. The Blackest Beautiful | 2.5 |
| what should have been a great album marred by some awful production. seriously, who the fuck thought this sounded good should be fired and banned from production privileges. |
| Gris À L'Âme Enflammée, L'Âme Constellée... | 4.0 |
| Hester Prynne Black Heart Market | 2.5 |
| Autopsy The Headless Ritual | 3.0 |
| A Great Big Pile of Leaves You're Always on My Mind | 3.5 |
| Billy Woods Dour Candy | 3.5 |
| Snow Ghosts A Small Murmuration | 2.5 |
| All Pigs Must Die Nothing Violates This Nature | 3.5 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels | 4.5 |
| it's truly scary how fucking good this is. my word |
| Pity Sex Feast of Love | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Rescue & Restore | 3.5 |
| don't get me wrong, i like this band and they release some solid tunes, but i can't help but laugh at the non-ironic 5s |
| Candy Claws Ceres And Calypso In The Deep Time | 3.5 |
| Palms Palms | 4.0 |
| Cheyenne Marie Mize Among the Grey | 4.0 |
| Sophie Bipp/Elle | 3.5 |
| Falling in Reverse Fashionably Late | 1.0 |
| Sigur Ros Kveikur | 3.5 |
| i just can't help but think about how much more i would like this band if they just abandoned vocals entirely. |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Whenever, If Ever | 3.5 |
| Quasimoto Yessir Whatever | 4.0 |
| Listener Time Is A Machine | 4.0 |
| Kanye West Yeezus | 4.0 |
"i still have yet to figure out how anyone can justify (lie) to themselves that anything this man does isnt complete and total shit"
it's called an "opinion" |
| Motionless in White Infamous | 2.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Everblack | 3.5 |
| Scale the Summit The Migration | 3.5 |
| CHON Newborn Sun | 3.5 |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 4.0 |
| These New Puritans Field of Reeds | 3.5 |
| Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest | 4.0 |
" People who say this is boring clearly don't get it and so please do not rate."
you're the worst kind of person |
| Jizue Journal | 3.0 |
| Sleeping With Sirens Feel | 1.5 |
| Jon Hopkins Immunity | 4.0 |
| Disclosure Settle | 4.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork | 4.5 |
| Young Fathers TAPE TWO | 4.0 |
| Baths Obsidian | 4.0 |
| Misser Distancing | 4.0 |
| TesseracT Altered State | 3.0 |
| Laura Marling Once I Was an Eagle | 4.5 |
| The second Laura to release a fucking bombshell of an album this year. |
| Frustrator Anther | 2.5 |
| Have Mercy (Indie) The Earth Pushed Back | 4.0 |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me | 4.5 |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories | 2.0 |
"the musical snobs rip hyped albums and then say random bands they find in williamsburg or band camp are "classics" definition=hipster that knows nothing"
you're right we should just act like we like things we don't like to fit in instead that makes much more sense wow you're genius thanks!
EDIT: well that was fucking boring |
| Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City | 2.5 |
| The Wonder Years The Greatest Generation | 3.0 |
"Hey a good pop punk album from The Wonder Years better 5 it"
and lol at people comparing this to The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me.
3.3 at best |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer | 4.0 |
| Deerhunter Monomania | 3.5 |
| Still Corners Strange Pleasures | 4.0 |
| Savages Silence Yourself | 4.0 |
| Sharks Selfhood | 3.5 |
| Altar of Plagues Teethed Glory and Injury | 3.5 |
| Streetlight Manifesto The Hands That Thieve | 4.0 |
| It's still a fantastic album, but, it's like, the same as their other albums. There really isn't anything different. Obviously this isn't really a bad thing but I would have liked to have seen them do something a little different. |
| Chance the Rapper Acid Rap | 4.0 |
| The Ocean Pelagial | 4.5 |
| No Joy Wait to Pleasure | 3.5 |
| Laura Stevenson Wheel | 5.0 |
| Their / They're / There Their / They're / There | 4.0 |
| Loma Prieta/Raein Split | 4.0 |
| Loma Prieta writes 4 minutes of gritty, balls to the wall skramz, while Raein writes three minutes of....well disappointment when compared with the Loma tracks. Perhaps not the best combination of tracks, but the Loma snippets are more than worth your time. |
| will.i.am #Willpower | 1.0 |
| Jenny Hval Innocence Is Kinky | 3.0 |
| Ghostface Killah Twelve Reasons to Die | 3.0 |
| Tera Melos X'ed Out | 3.5 |
| There are some awesome moments on this, but it's a bit too inconsistent for my tastes. |
| The Flaming Lips The Terror | 4.0 |
| The Haxan Cloak Excavation | 4.0 |
| Donovan Wolfington Stop Breathing | 3.5 |
| Swain Howl | 3.0 |
| Trvth Black Horse Plague | 3.5 |
| Paramore Paramore | 2.0 |
| lol at that actually being the cover. |
| The Knife Shaking the Habitual | 4.0 |
| A fantastic album, but "Fracking Fluid Injection" is about 4 minutes too long. It's a neat little experiment but fuck does it draaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag ooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnn aaaaaaaaaaaaand ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnn |
| James Blake Overgrown | 4.5 |
| Death Grips DxDG | 3.0 |
| For Today Prevailer | 1.5 |
| this is seriously so terrible. everything here is absolutely ridden of rehashed and boring ideas. any fun and flair that they had on their first couple efforts is completely gone at this point, and now anytime they do actually deviate from those godforsaken chugs, the riffs just sound like other riffs they've already used on previous albums. and the acoustic is just embarrassing. maybe for today was never really a great group, they never did anything new, but dammit at least they had a certain entertaining spark to them. now it's just trite, annoying run-of-the-mill metalcore shit. |
| Tyler, the Creator Wolf | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Migrant | 4.0 |
| Fallujah Nomadic | 4.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal | 3.0 |
So they dressed a bland metalcore sound in some ambience and electronics. Whoop-de-fucking-do. Kudos to them for trying something new, but there's a saying that applies to a situation such as this: You can dress a duck in a suit, but it's still a duck.
If it weren't for Oli's suddenly finding himself as a (pretty good) vocalist, this would be a 2.5. |
| Bonobo The North Borders | 4.0 |
| Nails Abandon All Life | 4.5 |
| The Color Morale Know Hope | 3.0 |
| An ever so slightly above average album marred by over reliance on breakdowns and an overall step down in musicianship from My Devil In Your Eyes. That being said, it's not as bad as I thought it would be, and the vocals are actually pretty decent once you get used to them. They bear a lot of similarities to Drew York, sometimes almost scarily so. The Color Morale haven't yet written a bad album per se, but now they're just a hair above their numerous peers, and if they aren't careful, they'll be just another core band. |
| Kvelertak Meir | 3.5 |
| The Story So Far What You Don't See | 4.0 |
| I can't really decide if this is a 4 or a 4.5. Basically, this is still really, really fucking good, but it isn't USAD good. But really, who expected them to live up to such an outrageously great debut album? |
| Barrow Though I'm Alone | 4.5 |
| Senses Fail Renacer | 4.5 |
| For better or worse, this is a Senses Fail we haven't yet seen. This is Senses Fail at their heaviest and most aggressive. Buddy Nielsen puts forth one of his most impressive vocal performances yet, spewing forth some damn surprising borderline growls. The musicianship has been upped as well, with a much more abrasive edge than before. In terms of quality, it might not necessarily be their best album, but it's definitely a refreshing change of pace for the group. rAlso, "Holy Mountain" is one of the best songs they've ever written. |
| CHVRCHES Recover | 4.0 |
| Northlane Singularity | 2.5 |
| KEN mode Entrench | 3.5 |
| Kacey Musgraves Same Trailer Different Park | 3.5 |
| Rustie Triadzz/Slasherr | 4.0 |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience | 4.5 |
When you write something off as probably being bad or way overrated, it's sometimes hard to admit that you're wrong. Such a scenario is happening as we speak with me and Justin Timberlake's The 20/20 Experience.
I was fucking wrong, so wrong. In virtually every aspect, The 20/20 Experience delivers a pop album that has absolutely no right being this immediate, this enjoyable, and this goddamn smooth and sexy. Hyperbolic claims and long extended paragraphs about creative barriers being destroyed and the capacity of human intelligence aside, this album is beyond anything I anticipated. If nothing else, give it a chance, you just might find yourself in my postion; beyond surprised. |
| Soilwork The Living Infinite | 3.5 |
| Blue Hawaii Untogether | 3.5 |
| Youth Lagoon Wondrous Bughouse | 3.5 |
| The Men New Moon | 4.0 |
| Waxahatchee Cerulean Salt | 4.0 |
| Autechre Exai | 3.5 |
| The Drones I See Seaweed | 3.5 |
| K Sera Collisions and Near Misses | 4.0 |
| Darkthrone The Underground Resistance | 3.5 |
| Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) | 4.0 |
| Keaton Henson Birthdays | 4.0 |
| Paysage d'Hiver Das Tor | 4.5 |
| lo-fi as fvck |
| Iceage You're Nothing | 3.0 |
| CZARFACE CZARFACE | 3.5 |
| Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun | 4.0 |
| I was never big into Misanthropy so I was pretty skeptical of this. rMind = blown. I can't even handle this. |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Push The Sky Away | 4.0 |
| HRVRD From the Bird's Cage | 4.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Temper Temper | 1.5 |
| Jacco Gardner Cabinet of Curiosities | 4.0 |
| The album is almost as awesome as the cover. |
| Julia Brown to be close to you | 3.0 |
| Light Bearer Silver Tongue | 3.5 |
| Overall, this is another great release. However, it suffers from being too long for its own good. The album can drag on, especially in the middle section. At the end of the day, Lapsus>Silver Tongue |
| Unknown Mortal Orchestra II | 2.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension | 3.0 |
| meh |
| clipping. Midcity | 3.5 |
| GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY GET MONEY |
| Silverstein This Is How the Wind Shifts | 4.0 |
| It's their best since Discovering the Waterfront. Silverstein being Silverstein, and that's good enough for me. |
| Frightened Rabbit Pedestrian Verse | 3.5 |
| Grouper The Man Who Died in His Boat | 3.5 |
| Lil B Pink Flame | 3.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine m b v | 4.0 |
| All these 5s goddamn people keep it in your pants. |
| Kitty D.A.I.S.Y. Rage | 4.0 |
| Ducktails The Flower Lane | 3.0 |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal | 4.0 |
| Tegan and Sara Heartthrob | 4.0 |
| 9.3/10 best new lesbian synthpop duo |
| Local Natives Hummingbird | 4.5 |
| TTNG 13.0.0.0.0 | 3.0 |
| Polyenso One Big Particular Loop | 3.0 |
| Foxygen We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors... | 3.5 |
| The Black Heart Rebellion Har Nevo | 3.5 |
| The Plot In You Could You Watch Your Children Burn | 2.0 |
| Dreariness My Mind is Too Weak to Forget | 2.0 |
| oh god the vocals are HORRIBLE |
| Yo La Tengo Fade | 3.0 |
| Four Tet 0181 | 4.0 |
| Fire! Orchestra Exit! | 3.5 |
| Brave Bird Maybe You, No One Else Worth It | 3.5 |
| Comadre Comadre | 4.0 |
| Touche Amore/Pianos Become the Teeth Split | 4.0 |
It's nice to finally hear a song from Touche that's longer than 2 and a half minutes. Too bad it sounds enormously shitty compared to Pianos' "Hiding" which is, as per usual, nothing short of a spectacular and emotional ride.
"And its two fucking songs.TWO. If someone gives this over a 4 imma finna cock the hammer." It's a goddamn 7" split, if you want to be "immersed" then don't listen to it. |
| Skrillex Leaving | 1.5 |
| Octaves Greener Pastures | 4.0 |
| 2012 |
| Circle Takes the Square Decompositions: Volume Number One | 4.5 |
| here's a soundoff about how awesome this is and how it's undisputed aoty even though we've literally only had time to hear it once. |
| Capture Til Death | 1.0 |
| Burial Truant/Rough Sleeper | 3.5 |
| Green Day iTRE! | 2.0 |
| iNTRiKeT The Woods | 4.5 |
| Scott Walker Bish Bosch | 3.5 |
| Joan of Arc Joan of Arc | 3.0 |
| brokeNCYDE The Best of BrokeNCYDE | 1.0 |
| so this is a blank cd, right? |
| Code Orange Love Is Love // Return To Dust | 3.5 |
| Woe, Is Me Genesi[s] | 1.0 |
Thanks for the objectivity boost Woe is Me!!
And if anybody was wondering, this is a pile of shit. |
| Captain Murphy Duality | 4.5 |
| I was pretty skeptical about this at first but this shit is off the hook. Hot damn. |
| Green Day iDOS! | 1.5 |
| It takes effort to release not one, but three of the worst album covers of all time in the span of 6 months. rGreen Day are upping their game guys. |
| Issues Black Diamonds | 1.5 |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan | 4.0 |
| IT'S ALMOST WORTH THE MOUNDS OF HYPERBOLIC CLAIMS IT RECEIVES IT'S ALMOST WORTH THE MOUNDS OF HYPERBOLIC CLAIMS IT RECEIVES IT'S ALMOST WORTH THE MOUNDS OF HYPERBOLIC CLAIMS IT RECEIVES IT'S ALMOST WORTH THE MOUNDS OF HYPERBOLIC CLAIMS IT RECEIVES IT'S ALMOST WORTH THE MOUNDS OF HYPERBOLIC CLAIMS IT RECEIVES IT'S ALMOST WORTH THE MOUNDS OF HYPERBOLIC CLAIMS IT RECEIVES |
| One Direction Take Me Home | 1.5 |
| War from a Harlots Mouth Voyeur | 2.5 |
| Huge step down from MMX. This is a chug fest. |
| El Ten Eleven Transitions | 4.0 |
| Underoath Anthology: 1999-2013 | 4.0 |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles III | 4.0 |
| Alice Glass is ugly as fuck. |
| Follow The White Rabbit Endorphinia | 3.0 |
| Annabel Youth In Youth | 3.5 |
| Neurosis Honor Found in Decay | 2.0 |
| It's just so fucking boring. |
| Andy Stott Luxury Problems | 3.5 |
| Titus Andronicus Local Business | 3.0 |
| The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza IIII: The Alpha - The Omega | 3.5 |
| Okay this gets really old really fast. |
| Upon This Dawning To Keep Us Safe | 2.0 |
| It's shit. As I expected it to be. |
| Taylor Swift Red | 3.0 |
| Taylor presents to us a fantastic example of a frustratingly inconsistent record. |
| We Were Skeletons Blame And Aging | 3.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city | 4.5 |
| BATS The Sleep of Reason | 4.0 |
| The Haarp Machine Disclosure | 2.5 |
| LOOK AT ALL MY SWEEPS GUISE GUISE YOU AREN'T LOOKING AT MY SWEEPS OH LOOK I CAN PROG A LITTLE TOO |
| Chelsea Wolfe Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs | 4.0 |
| Something about this is just so gentle and soothing. Dark, but soothing and gentle. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! | 4.5 |
| Quite simply, this shits all over Yanqui. Everything is so much more interesting and well executed, and the drone songs are creepy as hell. GY!BE are back. |
| Bat For Lashes The Haunted Man | 4.5 |
| Texas in July Texas in July | 2.0 |
| "Bed of Nails" is the only track that's worth a damn on this. Everything else is your everyday generic run of the mill metalcore. At least they don't try to do clean choruses. |
| August Burns Red Sleddin' Hill | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension | 3.5 |
| Downfall of Gaia Suffocating in the Swarm of Cranes | 3.5 |
| Little People We Are But Hunks Of Wood | 3.5 |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind | 4.5 |
| Another fantastic record from one of the strongest, most consistent groups around today. Is anybody really surprised? |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence | 4.5 |
| "the fact this retarded statement has 16 bumps shows how retarded btbam fans really are, delusional fucks."rAnd "gay" having 23 bumps is somehow better? At least the other soundoff actually required thought and articulation. rThis album is easily the most cohesive thing they've ever written. There are still moments where they change it up seemingly for the sake of changing it up, but as a whole, everything flows together fairly well. Whether or not this matches up to Alaska and Colors, it's too early to tell, but rest assured that this far outshines The Great Misdirect and Hypersleep Dialogues |
| Tame Impala Lonerism | 3.5 |
| Macklemore and Ryan Lewis The Heist | 2.5 |
| Flying Lotus Until the Quiet Comes | 3.0 |
| Matt and Kim Lightning | 3.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Transcendental Youth | 3.5 |
| Danny Brown OD | 3.5 |
| Hammock Departure Songs | 4.5 |
| A mesmerizing slab of ambient and post rock that is sure to stay with you for quite a long time. |
| Death Grips No Love Deep Web | 4.5 |
| If you look beyond the super edgy dick cover, there's actually an extremely good album. Harsh, dark beats and the divisive yells/raps of MC Ride twisting their way into your skull all the while. Not quite as harsh and abrasive as previous efforts, and not as many meme-worthy mantras to type in all caps, but believe me when I say this album still goes. r#NOIDED |
| Green Day ¡UNO! | 2.0 |
| As I Lay Dying Awakened | 3.0 |
| This or the Apocalypse Dead Years | 3.5 |
| Some of the riffs on this are absolutely fantastic, however, I feel some of the genre cliches hold this back from being a really great release. |
| Murder by Death Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon | 3.5 |
| Ringo Deathstarr Mauve | 4.0 |
| Grizzly Bear Shields | 3.0 |
| Lindsey Stirling Lindsey Stirling | 3.5 |
| Sorrow (UK) Art Is Dead | 4.0 |
| The xx Coexist | 3.5 |
| It's not near as immediate, and is still way overshadowed by their debut, but Coexist can grow on you if given the opportunity. |
| Amanda Palmer Theatre Is Evil | 4.0 |
| David Byrne and St. Vincent Love This Giant | 4.0 |
| David Byrne and Annie Clark feed off of each other's creativity, throw in some infectious brass sections, and release an incredibly catchy and memorable album. |
| The Amity Affliction Chasing Ghosts | 3.5 |
| Like other people have already mentioned, this album has its stupendous moments where the passion they put into making this record bleeds through. But there are many other moments, particularly towards the end of the album, that are just bland and forgettable. rAlso of note is the increasing amount of breakdowns. While they were prevalent before, they stick out more on this album and are utilized to a much higher degree. rOverall, a great concept with a bit of lack in the execution department. |
| Animal Collective Centipede Hz | 3.0 |
| Moonjock is fucking awesome, and Today's Supernatural is pretty good too, but from there the album gets progressively more sloppy and less enjoyable. |
| Propagandhi Failed States | 4.0 |
| Deerhoof Breakup Song | 4.0 |
| Skrillex Make It Bun Dem After Hours | 1.0 |
| Minus the Bear Infinity Overhead | 3.5 |
| Circa Survive Violent Waves | 4.0 |
| Their most experimental and atmospheric album to date, Violent Waves is 55 minutes filled with spacey riffs, awesome bass lines and Anthony Green's trademark vocals soaring above it all. Definitely on par to be one of their best albums yet, and one of the better albums of the year so far. |
| The Chariot One Wing | 4.5 |
| If The Chariot's 2010 album Long Live is a tidal wave, consider 2012's One Wing to be a fucking tsunami. More varied, more experimental, more focused, and their most devastatingly powerful album yet. |
| Wild Nothing Nocturne | 3.0 |
| Swans The Seer | 5.0 |
| I'm not going to bullshit you, this is album of the year. |
| Darthy Mann I Hate It When My Internet Icon On My... | 1.0 |
| Jessie Ware Devotion | 4.5 |
| The Faceless Autotheism | 3.5 |
| Ultimately, Autotheism is a record that just tries way too hard to be progressive. The Faceless should stick to their tech death style. |
| Cloudkicker Fade | 4.0 |
| A Bullet for Pretty Boy Symbiosis | 2.0 |
| Gaza No Absolutes in Human Suffering | 4.0 |
| The Gaslight Anthem Handwritten | 3.0 |
| Fang Island Major | 3.5 |
| Dark Time Sunshine ANX | 4.0 |
| Om Advaitic Songs | 4.0 |
| Passion Pit Gossamer | 4.0 |
| Purity Ring Shrines | 4.5 |
| The Antlers Undersea | 4.5 |
| TNGHT TNGHT | 4.5 |
| For the Fallen Dreams Wasted Youth | 1.5 |
| The singles were fucking embarrassing. Album should be called Wasted Effort |
| Woe, Is Me Number[s] (Deluxe) | 2.0 |
| Bury Tomorrow The Union of Crowns | 3.0 |
| Verse Bitter Clarity, Uncommon Grace | 3.5 |
| Baroness Yellow and Green | 3.5 |
| The Contortionist Intrinsic | 3.5 |
| The Contortionist drop a lot of their core influences, and in doing so craft a very enticing album full of atmosphere and crushing heaviness they're known for. However, with each subsequent listen, the issues with the album become more apparent. While everything sounds nice, the transitions from heavy to soft and back again are quite awkward most times, and take away from what could have been an astounding album. As it stands now, it's merely an album with great heaviness and fantastic, spacey atmospheres with very poor transitioning in between. |
| Tigers on Trains Foundry | 3.5 |
| JEFF the Brotherhood Hypnotic Nights | 3.5 |
| Belle Histoire Dreamers | 3.5 |
| Pierce the Veil Collide with the Sky | 4.0 |
| Dirty Projectors Swing Lo Magellan | 3.5 |
| House Of Heroes Cold Hard Want | 3.5 |
| Trophywife Hold Onto Your Luck | 4.5 |
| Abandon All Ships Infamous | 1.0 |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal | 2.5 |
| Has a few decent tracks and some cool moments, but this is way too fucking long and overbearing for its own good. Maybe if they trimmed it down to, I dunno, half the length, it wouldn't be such a chore to get through. |
| Wolves at the Gate Captors | 2.5 |
| Pretty bland and forgettable to be totally honest. Not sure what all the hype is about. |
| The Word Alive Life Cycles | 2.5 |
| It lacks some of the punch that Deceiver had. Lots of chugging, lots of generic breakdowns. There's the occasional moment where it shines, but all in all a pretty disappointing album. |
| The Early November In Currents | 4.0 |
| Absolutely gorgeous through and through |
| Dads American Radass (This Is Important) | 4.5 |
| The Elijah I Loved I Hated I Destroyed I Created | 3.5 |
| Post-hardcore with a lot of post-rock influences. There are a lot of neat ideas here, but it drags towards the end, and there are quite a few moments that feel very samey. All in all, pretty good, and I look forward to hearing more from this group. |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage | 3.0 |
| Memphis May Fire Challenger | 3.5 |
| If you didn't like The Hollow, you won't like this. It is, in every aspect, The Hollow Part 2. Although in some parts the formula wears a little thin, they change it up just enough to prevent the album from slipping into dull monotony. rSimply put, it's nothing new, but still done well enough to be an entertaining listen. |
| Agalloch Faustian Echoes | 3.5 |
| DIIV Oshin | 4.0 |
| A splendid album that is slightly held back by songs that begin to bleed together towards the end of the album. |
| Tawny Peaks Tawny Peaks | 4.0 |
| The Taxpayers God, Forgive These Bastards | 4.0 |
| Well goddamn, ain't this shit fun. |
| Blood on the Dance Floor Evolution | 1.0 |
| Whitechapel Whitechapel | 2.0 |
| lol what a shitty album cover 0/10 album will probably suck pretty bad |
| Justin Bieber Believe | 2.0 |
| The Ghost Inside Get What You Give | 2.5 |
| For every awesome moment, there is a dull, monotonous, and generic as fuck moment. Both album and band are vastly overrated. |
| Chelsea Grin Evolve | 2.5 |
I could see people enjoying this, but a 5? Really?
Terrible EP is terrible. |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Oceania | 3.5 |
| Make Do and Mend Everything You Ever Loved | 4.0 |
| Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel... | 4.0 |
| The last song is kind of annoying, but otherwise this is fantastic. |
| Motion City Soundtrack Go | 3.0 |
| It's still good, but it lacks some of the cooky charm the albums before it had. |
| The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now | 4.0 |
| Rush Clockwork Angels | 4.0 |
| Stepdad Wildlife Pop | 4.0 |
| Right Away, Great Captain! The Church of the Good Thief | 4.5 |
| Going into this with absolutely no expectations (not even knowing that this was an Andy Hull side project) was the best thing I could have done. A truly spectacular and grabbing slab of lo-fi acoustic greatness from a musician that never fails to impress. Will likely become a contender for AOTY. |
| Kitty Ha Ha, I'm Sorry | 3.5 |
| I was not expecting this to actually be good. but it is. Something about her flow is intriguing. |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I | 4.0 |
| iamamiwhoami Kin | 4.0 |
| Japandroids Celebration Rock | 3.0 |
| It's just plain not as good as a lot of people on here would have you think. Sure, it has some great moments, but it's just too samey and repetitive to really go anywhere. |
| Vampires Everywhere Hellbound And Heartless | 1.5 |
| Be'lakor Of Breath and Bone | 4.0 |
| Miss May I At Heart | 1.5 |
| This is really, really terrible. Not that everybody didn't already know that. |
| For Today Immortal | 2.0 |
| This album sets the bar for painfully predictable and boring. Stand Defiant was kind of cool though. |
| Regina Spektor What We Saw from the Cheap Seats | 3.5 |
| Art By Numbers Reticence: The Musical | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Valtari | 3.5 |
| alt-J An Awesome Wave | 4.0 |
| Mount Eerie Clear Moon | 3.5 |
| El-P Cancer 4 Cure | 4.0 |
| Diablo Swing Orchestra Pandora's Pinata | 4.0 |
| Suis La Lune Riala | 4.0 |
| TesseracT Perspective | 3.0 |
| Ghost Cat Cave Sounds | 4.0 |
| This group has some mad potential and this short but sweet album exemplifies that perfectly. |
| Hot Water Music Exister | 3.0 |
| Killer Mike R.A.P. Music | 3.0 |
| Misser Every Day I Tell Myself... | 3.5 |
| Hey Ocean! Is | 3.5 |
| Beach House Bloom | 4.5 |
| mewithoutYou Ten Stories | 4.5 |
| Jizue Novel | 4.5 |
| Exotic Animal Petting Zoo Tree of Tongues | 3.5 |
| Silversun Pickups Neck of the Woods | 3.5 |
| Trioscapes Separate Realities | 4.0 |
| Hop Along Get Disowned | 4.0 |
| Ghost Mice All We Got Is Each Other | 4.0 |
| Marina Electra Heart | 3.5 |
| You Blew It! Grow Up, Dude | 3.0 |
| Torche Harmonicraft | 4.0 |
| At first I didn't like this but I changed my mind this fuckin rules m/ |
| Death Grips The Money Store | 4.5 |
| Skyharbor Blinding White Noise: Illusion & Chaos | 4.0 |
| The Flaming Lips The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends | 3.5 |
| Glocca Morra Just Married | 3.5 |
| St. Vincent Krokodil | 4.0 |
| In Mourning The Weight of Oceans | 3.5 |
| Maps and Atlases Beware and Be Grateful | 2.0 |
| Joyce Manor Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired | 3.0 |
| meh/5 |
| Clubroot III - MMXII | 4.0 |
| Mrs. Magician Strange Heaven | 4.0 |
| summer jamz |
| You Slut! Medium Bastard | 4.0 |
| Emmure Slave To The Game | 2.0 |
| It could be worse. Much, much worse. |
| Kishi Bashi 151a | 4.0 |
| State Faults Desolate Peaks | 4.0 |
| Elsiane Mechanics of Emotion | 4.0 |
| BADBADNOTGOOD BBNG2 | 3.5 |
| High on Fire De Vermis Mysteriis | 4.0 |
| The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation Egor | 3.0 |
| Keaton Henson Dear... | 4.0 |
| This album is sad |
| Make Me Famous It's Now or Never | 1.5 |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet | 3.5 |
| Chromatics Kill for Love | 3.5 |
| A great listen, but the album is about 20-30 minutes too long. |
| Meshuggah Koloss | 4.0 |
| Electric Callboy Bury Me in Fucking Vegas | 1.5 |
| If These Trees Could Talk Red Forest | 4.0 |
| Lost In The Trees A Church That Fits Our Needs | 4.0 |
| Spiritualized Sweet Heart Sweet Light | 3.0 |
| I feel about this about the same as I did Ladies and Gentlemen...: it starts off great and gets really boring really fast. |
| Sharks No Gods | 4.0 |
| brokeNCYDE Guilty Pleasurez | 1.0 |
| Say Anything Anarchy, My Dear | 2.0 |
| Hands Like Houses Ground Dweller | 2.0 |
| Rise and Fall Faith | 3.5 |
| Julia Holter Ekstasis | 3.5 |
| Crywank Narcissist on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | 3.5 |
| One of the most honest and heartfelt albums I've heard in a long long time. |
| Lil B God's Father | 4.0 |
| Andrew Bird Break It Yourself | 3.5 |
| The Men Open Your Heart | 3.5 |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives | 4.5 |
| The Magnetic Fields Love At The Bottom Of The Sea | 3.5 |
| EAT ME RAW Mushroom | 1.0 |
| Anoice The Black Rain | 3.5 |
| I, the Breather Truth and Purpose | 2.0 |
| T.R.A.M. Lingua Franca | 3.0 |
| Veil of Maya Eclipse | 3.5 |
| Napalm Death Utilitarian | 3.5 |
| fun. Some Nights | 3.0 |
| Sleigh Bells Reign of Terror | 3.5 |
| The Menzingers On the Impossible Past | 4.0 |
| Revenge (CAN) Scum.Collapse.Eradication | 2.0 |
| Balance and Composure Acoustic | 3.5 |
| The Saddest Landscape After The Lights | 3.5 |
| Burial Kindred | 4.0 |
| John Talabot Fin | 4.0 |
| Lil Ugly Mane Mista Thug Isolation | 3.5 |
| of Montreal Paralytic Stalks | 3.5 |
| Silverstein Short Songs | 3.5 |
| Grimes Visions | 2.0 |
| Portico Quartet Portico Quartet | 4.0 |
| Lana Del Rey Born to Die | 3.5 |
| Cloud Nothings Attack on Memory | 3.5 |
| Foxy Shazam The Church of Rock and Roll | 3.5 |
| Pulled Apart By Horses Tough Love | 3.5 |
| Attack Attack! This Means War | 2.0 |
| Loma Prieta I.V. | 4.5 |
| Alcest Les Voyages De L'Âme | 3.5 |
| Kayo Dot Gamma Knife | 3.5 |
| Duality and the Republic Uno | 3.5 |
| Literature Arab Spring | 4.0 |
