| 2012 |
| Random (Mega Ran) River City Random | 2.5 |
| Igorrr Hallelujah | 4.0 |
| Circle Takes The Square Decompositions: Volume Number One | 3.5 |
| blink-182 Dogs Eating Dogs | 3.5 |
| Kanye West High Society | 4.0 |
| Based on how good MBDTF did, I'm gonna guess this is gonna be rated poorly. |
| Boys Like Girls Crazy World | 1.5 |
| I Am Abomination Let The Future Tell The Truth | 3.5 |
| Hotel of the Laughing Tree Mammoth Skin | 3.5 |
| Krizz Kaliko Neh'Mind | 4.0 |
| Lo' There Do I See My Brother With Eyes Open, We Fall On Our Swords | 3.5 |
| L'Orange The Mad Writer | 4.5 |
| Obsidian Kingdom Mantiis | 3.5 |
| Captain Murphy Duality | 4.0 |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan | 3.5 |
| El-Creepo! Aloha | 4.0 |
| From Indian Lakes Able Bodies | 4.0 |
| Motion City Soundtrack Making Moves | 3.5 |
| Twelve Foot Ninja Silent Machine | 4.5 |
| Follow The White Rabbit Endorphinia | 4.0 |
| Solterra Umbra | 4.0 |
| Peace'd Out Peace'd Out | 4.5 |
| Neurosis Honor Found in Decay | 3.0 |
| The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza IIII: The Alpha - The Omega | 4.0 |
| Black Moth Super Rainbow Cobra Juicy | 3.5 |
| Egyptian Hip Hop Good Don't Sleep | 3.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city | 3.5 |
| BATS The Sleep of Reason | 4.0 |
| Adobe Homes Pinata | 3.5 |
| Anberlin Vital | 3.5 |
| This guy and Eric Nally from Foxy Shazam sound EXACTLY the same. That's my soundoff |
| Travis & Fripp Follow | 4.0 |
| Sithu Aye Invent the Universe | 4.0 |
| Say what you want about djent, these DIY artists like Sithu Aye and David Maxim Micic are tearing shit up |
| Earthbound Ghost For Demonstration & Disposal | 3.0 |
| The Prize Fighter Inferno Half Measures | 4.0 |
| Awful lot of musical talent for one man to possess.... I just hope the new C&C holds up to this beauty |
| Texas In July Texas In July | 2.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence | 4.0 |
| All Time Low Don't Panic | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension | 3.5 |
| Sylosis Monolith | 3.0 |
| Metz Metz | 3.0 |
| Heart To Heart Heart To Heart | 4.0 |
| Inhale Exhale Movement | 2.5 |
| Water's Edge An Abstract Collapse | 4.5 |
| Lar Kaye EP | 4.0 |
| Flying Lotus Until the Quiet Comes | 4.0 |
| This or the Apocalypse Dead Years | 4.0 |
| Car Bomb w^w^^w^w | 4.0 |
| Submotion Orchestra Fragments | 4.0 |
| Not surprising how amazing this is seeing as how they released their last work of art only a year ago. |
| The Devin Townsend Project Epicloud | 3.5 |
| Cold Night For Alligators Singular Patterns | 3.5 |
| Seth Sentry This Was Tomorrow | 3.5 |
| Jon Mess Defying Gravity | 1.5 |
| Perhaps Volume One | 4.0 |
| Billy Talent Dead Silence | 3.5 |
| Circa Survive Violent Waves | 3.5 |
| One of the most progressive, consistently evolving bands in the game. In just 2 two records they have changed my opinion from utter hate into one of my favorites. |
| Just Like Vinyl Black Mass | 4.0 |
| The Chariot One Wing | 4.0 |
| Wot Gorilla? Kebnekaise | 4.0 |
| Swans The Seer | 3.5 |
| Yellowcard Southern Air | 3.0 |
| Cloudkicker Fade | 3.5 |
| I Am War Outlive You All | 1.5 |
| Joint Chiefs Of Math Wires | 3.5 |
| Dark Time Sunshine ANX | 4.0 |
| Pierce the Veil Collide With the Sky | 3.5 |
| Serj Tankian Harakiri | 3.0 |
| Aesop Rock Skelethon | 4.5 |
| Though his flow gets a little same-y in the beginning of the album, the lyrics, beats, and the actual music is excellent. Another high quality release in hip-hop this year |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal | 4.0 |
| Glass Cloud The Royal Thousand | 3.5 |
| Hail The Sun Elephantitis | 4.5 |
| Memphis May Fire Challenger | 2.5 |
| Very well executed but releasing essentially the same album in consecutive releases never sat well with me in the past and doesn't sit well now. |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage | 4.0 |
| Icarus the Owl Love Always, Leviathan | 3.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Oceania | 3.5 |
| The Ghost Inside Get What You Give | 2.5 |
| Rush Clockwork Angels | 4.0 |
| Thank You Scientist Maps of Non-Existent Places | 4.5 |
| Oh No Ohnomite | 4.0 |
| I am the Ocean Overhead | 3.5 |
| Art By Numbers Reticence: The Musical | 4.0 |
| David Maxim Micic Bilo 2.0 | 5.0 |
| Obvious comparisons to AAL aside, this is some of the most well written, engaging music I've ever heard. |
| Kubrick's Cube Odissey | 3.5 |
| El-P Cancer 4 Cure | 4.0 |
| Diablo Swing Orchestra Pandora's Pinata | 4.0 |
| Killer Mike R.A.P. Music | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou Ten Stories | 3.5 |
| Trioscapes Separate Realities | 4.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Neck of the Woods | 3.5 |
| Exotic Animal Petting Zoo Tree of Tongues | 5.0 |
| Only one other time in my life (The Dear Hunter) has a band completely drawn me in through their music. Every detail, from the vocal melodies, to the screams, the guitar play, the effects is perfectly executed. Big things await these guys. |
| Reptar Body Faucet | 2.5 |
| In Mourning The Weight of Oceans | 3.5 |
| Miroist The Pledge | 4.0 |
| Electric Jesus Desert Mouth | 4.0 |
| The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation Egor | 3.5 |
| Niechec Smierc w miekkim futerku | 4.5 |
| The Used Vulnerable | 3.0 |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet | 2.5 |
| Meshuggah Koloss | 3.0 |
| Say Anything Anarchy, My Dear | 2.0 |
| Hands Like Houses Ground Dweller | 3.0 |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives | 4.0 |
| Solterra Soul, Earth, Sun | 4.0 |
| T.R.A.M. Lingua Franca | 3.5 |
| fun. Some Nights | 3.5 |
| Milo Milo Takes Baths | 3.5 |
| Sithu Aye Isles | 4.5 |
| The Human Abstract Moonlight Sonata | 3.5 |
| Virtual Boy Virtual Boy | 3.5 |
| Zelliack Noir Tone | 4.0 |
| Portico Quartet Portico Quartet | 4.0 |
| Foxy Shazam The Church of Rock and Roll | 2.5 |
| Take One Car It's Going To Be A Nice Day | 4.0 |
| First Place Science Project Really Experiment | 4.0 |
| Chimp Spanner All Roads Lead Here | 4.0 |
