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2021
Godspeed You! Black Emperor G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!4.5

2020
Fleet Foxes Shore4.0
Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters4.5

2019
Hundreds of AU Mission Priorities on Launch3.5

2018
Cursive Vitriola3.0
mewithoutYou [Untitled]4.5
Hundreds of AU Communications Link Re​-​established3.5

2017
Glassjaw Material Control4.5
Converge The Dusk in Us4.0
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Luciferian Towers3.5
Grizzly Bear Painted Ruins4.5
Brand New Science Fiction4.5
Converge I Can Tell You About Pain4.5
Manchester Orchestra A Black Mile to the Surface5.0

2016
The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation2.5
The Hotelier Goodness3.5
Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere4.0

2015
The Mountain Goats Beat the Champ3.5
Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress'3.5
Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell5.0
Lightning Bolt Fantasy Empire4.5
Modest Mouse Strangers to Ourselves3.5

2014
Rx Bandits Gemini, Her Majesty2.5
The spunk that Rx Bandits usually show is not present in "Gemini, Her Majesty." Perhaps they should have quit while they were on top, rather than forcing a mundane album that is best fit next to a 311 album in Hot Topic.
Joyce Manor Never Hungover Again4.5
Boris Noise3.5
Mac DeMarco Salad Days2.0
Future Islands Singles4.5
Tycho Awake4.0
The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There4.5

2013
Arcade Fire Reflektor4.5
Melt-Banana Fetch4.5
Kayo Dot Hubardo4.5
Fuck Buttons Slow Focus4.0
Kanye West Yeezus2.5
Sigur Ros Kveikur4.5
Deafheaven Sunbather4.5
Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest4.5
Portugal. The Man Evil Friends4.5
Baths Obsidian4.0
The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer4.0
Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City4.5
Deerhunter Monomania3.5
Savages Silence Yourself3.0
Ghostface Killah Twelve Reasons to Die4.0
James Blake Overgrown4.5
KEN mode Entrench3.5
My Bloody Valentine m b v4.0
Mountains Centralia4.5
2012
Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city5.0
Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!4.5
Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension3.0
Converge All We Love We Leave Behind4.5
Lightning Bolt Oblivion Hunter3.5
Grizzly Bear Shields4.5
Grizzly Bear have outdone themselves again with Shields, sticking to what they know best, yet rehashing their sound to not sound outdated. This may be the best indie rock album of 2012, and with that, they are proving to be one of the most consistent bands in the genre.
Animal Collective Centipede Hz3.5
Swans The Seer4.5
The Antlers Undersea2.5
Beach House Bloom4.0
The Mars Volta Noctourniquet2.0
Cursive I Am Gemini3.5

2011
Tycho Dive4.0
Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After4.0
Tom Waits Bad As Me4.0
M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming4.5
Feist Metals3.5
The Darcys The Darcys4.5
Thrice Major/Minor4.0
Circle Takes the Square Rites of Initiation4.5
Portugal. The Man In The Mountain In The Cloud4.0
Kendrick Lamar Section.804.0
Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver4.5
WU LYF Go Tell Fire to the Mountain4.5
Battles Gloss Drop3.0
Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me4.0
Ampere Like Shadows4.0
Cave In White Silence4.0
The Antlers Burst Apart4.0
Manchester Orchestra Simple Math4.5
Thursday No Devolucion4.0
TV on the Radio Nine Types of Light4.5
Panda Bear Tomboy4.5
The Weeknd House of Balloons4.5
The World/Inferno Friendship Society The Anarchy and the Ecstasy2.5
The Dodos No Color4.5
Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights4.0
Raekwon Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang4.5
Radiohead The King of Limbs3.5
Bright Eyes The People's Key4.0
Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 19724.0
Glassjaw Coloring Book4.5
James Blake James Blake3.5
The Get Up Kids There Are Rules3.5
Destroyer Kaputt4.0
Joyce Manor Joyce Manor4.5
Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles)4.5

2010
Deadmau5 4x4=123.5
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy4.5
Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz4.5
Women Public Strain3.0
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross The Social Network OST4.0
No Age Everything In Between3.5
Tera Melos Patagonian Rats4.0
Sufjan Stevens All Delighted People4.5
Arcade Fire The Suburbs3.5
Touche Amore/La Dispute Searching for a Pulse/The Worth of the World4.0
M.I.A. Maya3.0
Defiance, Ohio Midwestern Minutes3.5
Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot4.0
Maps and Atlases Perch Patchwork4.0
United Nations Never Mind the Bombings, Here's Your Six Figures4.0
Ben Koller is a dirty, dirty man on drums and he alone makes "Never Mind the Bombings, Here's Your Six Figures" worth it.
Eminem Recovery3.0
Drake Thank Me Later2.5
Far At Night We Live4.0
LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening3.5
Nas and Damian Marley Distant Relatives4.0
Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid4.5
The National High Violet3.0
Deftones Diamond Eyes4.0
Broken Social Scene Forgiveness Rock Record4.0
Future Islands In Evening Air4.5
Flying Lotus Cosmogramma4.5
Parades Foreign Tapes4.0
Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise3.5
Kayo Dot Coyote4.0
Dark Time Sunshine Vessel4.0
MGMT Congratulations2.0
Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow2.5
The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt4.0
letlive. Fake History4.0
Murder by Death Good Morning, Magpie2.5
The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis4.5
Liars Sisterworld3.5
Titus Andronicus The Monitor4.0
Daughters Daughters4.0
Fang Island Fang Island4.0
Joanna Newsom Have One on Me4.5
Daniel Bjarnason Processions4.0
Four Tet There is Love in You3.5
Beach House Teen Dream4.5
Sigh Scenes from Hell2.5
Surfer Blood Astro Coast4.0
Vampire Weekend Contra3.5
Dangers Messy, Isn't It?4.0

2009
Animal Collective Fall Be Kind4.0
Local Natives Gorilla Manor4.5
Do Make Say Think Other Truths4.0
Fuck Buttons Tarot Sport4.0
Ben Frost By the Throat4.0
Thrice Beggars3.0
Baroness Blue Record3.0
Dear John Baizley,
Among your repetitive artwork, your band's ripping of Mastodon, and your beard, can you or your band do anything original?
Sincerely,
Concerned Listener
Lightning Bolt Earthly Delights4.0
The Fall of Troy In the Unlikely Event2.0
The Mountain Goats The Life of the World to Come3.5
A Place to Bury Strangers Exploding Head4.5
Converge Axe to Fall4.5
Girls Album3.5
Brand New Daisy4.0
HEALTH Get Color2.5
Fink Sort Of Revolution2.5
Polvo In Prism3.5
Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II4.5
The Dodos Time to Die3.5
fun. Aim and Ignite3.5
The xx xx4.0
Modest Mouse No One's First, and You're Next4.0
Rx Bandits Mandala4.5
Kiss Kiss The Meek Shall Inherit What's Left3.5
jj jj n° 23.0
Tortoise Beacons of Ancestorship2.5
Regina Spektor Far3.5
The Mars Volta Octahedron3.5
Major Lazer Guns Dont Kill People... Lazers Do3.0
Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca4.5
Grizzly Bear Veckatimest4.5
Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix4.0
mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright!3.0
Passion Pit Manners4.0
maudlin of the Well Part the Second4.0
Sunn O))) Monoliths and Dimensions3.5
St. Vincent Actor4.0
Pink Mountain Pink Mountain3.5
Japandroids Post-Nothing4.5
If Post-Nothing doesn't melt your heart with its jubilant youthful charm, then I really don't know what to say. This two-piece garage/punk band out of Vancouver are bringing the energy of such acclaimed acts like At The Drive-In and Cap'n Jazz, but never over thinking their next hook; rather letting the album flow with a gracious, warm smile. Roll the windows down and raise the volume because Japandroids is here to stay this summer.
ISIS Wavering Radiant4.0
Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing4.5
Silversun Pickups Swoon3.5
Micachu and the Shapes Jewellery3.5
Bat For Lashes Two Suns4.0
Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind4.0
Dan Deacon Bromst4.0
The Decemberists The Hazards of Love4.0
Mastodon Crack the Skye4.0
Fever Ray Fever Ray4.0
Kylesa Static Tensions3.5
Trophy Scars Bad Luck4.0
From Monument To Masses On Little Known Frequencies2.0
Cursive Mama, I'm Swollen3.5
The Number Twelve Looks Like You Worse Than Alone3.5
Propagandhi Supporting Caste4.0
BLK JKS Mystery EP4.0
BLK JKS have been lurking since 2000 in the depths of South Africa. Only now, with their major label released album, Mystery EP, have they been able to broadcast their enjoyably smooth, avant rock/afrobeat sound. "Lakeside" pulses listeners as the quartet create a giddy, hymnal trance of bliss.
The Antlers Hospice5.0
Thursday Common Existence4.0
The Appleseed Cast Sagarmatha4.0
Various Artists (Indie) Dark Was The Night4.5
Gavin Castleton Home2.5
Dalek Gutter Tactics2.5
Andrew Bird Noble Beast3.5
Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains4.0
With Cymbals Eat Guitars debut release Why There Are Mountains lies raw passion and unnoticed brilliance. Every word and riff appears delicately planned as their unrefined indie rock, with a post rock edge, entices listeners repeatedly. Upon the first listen unravels their spontaneous, yet cohesive foundation. Every listen after is simply a bonus, whether it be dancing to the charming hit Some Trees or feeling that rush of euphoria sliver down your spine during Wind Phoenix. These guys know how to shred, and hardly show any form of inexperience. Gritty and soulful, Why There Are Mountains shouts a million-and-one reasons why Cymbals Eat Guitars should be playing right now; give it a spin and you too will know the reasons.
Bon Iver Blood Bank3.5
Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion5.0
Zu Carboniferous4.0
Brother/Ghost Black Ice4.0

2008
The Fall of Troy Phantom on the Horizon3.5
Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak4.0
Thursday/Envy Thursday/Envy3.5
Fear Before Fear Before3.5
Deerhunter Weird Era Cont.3.5
Cynic Traced in Air4.5
TTNG Animals3.5
Fucked Up The Chemistry of Common Life3.5
Minus the Bear Acoustics3.5
Mount Eerie Lost Wisdom3.5
Department of Eagles In Ear Park3.5
The Mountain Goats Satanic Messiah3.5
DJ/rupture Uproot4.0
TV on the Radio Dear Science4.5
TV On The Radio followed up 'Return To Cookie Mountain' with an absolutely enticing, breathtaking, and brilliant album found in 'Dear Science.' Every weakness found in their previous works have been resolved. The output of 'Dear Science' is on another level and simply beyond comprehension. Tracks like "Halfway Home," "Family Tree," "DLZ," and "Golden Age" are only a few indie-rock masterpieces among the entire album. 'Dear Science' has the intangibles that is something to get excited about. Seriously, just get it already.
Young Widows Old Wounds3.5
The Sound of Animals Fighting The Ocean and the Sun4.0
United Nations United Nations4.5
The hardcore/emo style of the early 90s went missing, so Geoff Rickly and company (possibly members of GlassJAw and Converge) decided to revive the sound they once cherished under the name United Nations. Containing the technicality and rawness that defined 90s emo, United Nations recaptures the sound with incredible vigor and liveliness. The album is riddled with on-and-off melodic/coarse vocals countered with dense power-chord riffs and the occasional finger tapping, most notably on No Sympathy For A Sinking Ship, Subliminal Testing, and Model UN. I would say that sound has been revivified.
Into Eternity The Incurable Tragedy1.5
Shugo Tokumaru Exit4.0
Jaguar Love Take Me to the Sea2.5
Lights Out Asia Eyes Like Brontide3.0
Deerhunter Microcastle4.0
The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound3.5
Ceremony (USA-CA) Still Nothing Moves You3.5
Past Lives Strange Symmetry4.0
Mesa Verde The Old Road3.5
The Baltic Sea Through Scenic Heights and Days Regrets3.0
Loma Prieta Last City3.5
Brendan Canning Something For All of Us...3.5
Dr. Dog Fate4.0
Maps and Atlases You and Me and the Mountain4.0
Have Heart Songs to Scream at the Sun3.5
Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust4.5
Girl Talk Feed the Animals3.5
Verse Aggression4.0
My Morning Jacket Evil Urges2.0
Nachtmystium Assassins: Black Meddle Pt.12.0
Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill3.0
Lil Wayne Tha Carter III3.5
Flying Lotus Los Angeles4.0
Weezer The Red Album2.5
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes4.0
Harvey Milk Life... The Best Game in Town4.0
Snowman The Horse, the Rat and the Swan3.5
Islands Arm's Way4.0
Transistor Transistor Ruined Lives3.5
Subtle ExitingARM3.5
Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs3.0
Animal Collective Water Curses2.5
Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward2.5
No Age Nouns4.0
Blue Sky Black Death Late Night Cinema3.5
Portishead Third4.5
Flight of the Conchords Flight of the Conchords3.5
Metaform Standing on the Shoulders of Giants3.0
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV4.0
The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 (Re-release)5.0
Anti-Flag The Bright Lights of America2.0
Los Campesinos! Hold On Now, Youngster...3.5
Blacklisted Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God4.0
Sun Kil Moon April4.0
Sunset Bright Blue Dream3.0
Fuck Buttons Street Horrrsing4.0
The Dodos Visiter4.5
This year, The Dodos have caught on like a wildfire. Not often do I really say music has intangibles, but Vister is an exception to that rule. From "Walking" to "God," the ride twists and turns with eloquent vocals and a stripped down sound that is irresistible to deny. With the exception of "It's That Time Again," this album is incredible. The lyrics are beautiful and painful; going through a tumultuous love journey within a personal life experience. So many nooks and crannies to discover and explore with each listen between the little hints of electric guitar in "Fools" to the complete directional change in "Joe's Waltz," Vister is simply stunning. It's time to catch on.
Why? Alopecia3.0
Son Lux At War With Walls And Mazes3.0
Meshuggah obZen3.5
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons2.5
Boris Smile3.5
The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave4.0
Murder by Death Red Of Tooth And Claw3.5
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks Real Emotional Trash3.5
Mount Eerie Black Wooden Ceiling Opening4.0
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!4.0
Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IV3.0
El Guincho Alegranza!3.5
Steinski What Does It All Mean?4.5
Atlas Sound Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See...2.5
The Mountain Goats Heretic Pride3.5
Ocrilim Annwn3.0
Ocrilim's Annwn is one giant guitar riff, seriously. There are tones to accompany the guitars, but otherwise it's a shredfest. So if you like tremolo picking, noodling, and scales for an hour and twenty-ish minutes, have a blast.
Protest the Hero Fortress2.0
The Flashbulb Soundtrack to a Vacant Life2.5
Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend3.0
The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath4.0
Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness3.0
Times New Viking Rip It Off3.5
Daitro/Sed Non Satiata Split4.5
RoxXn Digital Waves + Tonight2.5
So the Story Goes As We March With Victims1.0
Shangrala This Is How We Communicate3.5
Off Minor Some Blood4.5

2007
Wu-Tang Clan 8 Diagrams4.0
Ghostface Killah The Big Doe Rehab3.5
Burton Wagner 212.5
Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between4.0
The Antlers In the Attic of the Universe3.5
The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works3.0
Grizzly Bear Friend3.0
Burial Untrue4.0
By The End Of Tonight/Tera Melos Complex Full of Phantoms3.5
Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow2.5
The fourth of five installments of Coheed and Cambria's enormous concept series has finally arrived with what seems more fitting for a book club than something included in a musical discussion. The reason is simple; Coheed and Cambria's once brilliant song writing, musically, has completely lost steam and regained a majority of the attention towards the storyline. "Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV - Volume 2: No World For Tomorrow" features songs that are reminiscent of eighties progressive metal, more or less, and ripped solos reminiscent of something from Eddie Van Halen's playbook. They abandon the simplistic elegance they once had with songs, and overwork them into a wrought collection of songs.

In addition, Coheed and Cambria try to recreate the progressive greatness that was 'The Willing Well I, II, III, IV,' four epic songs, with semi-epic songs in 'The End Chapter I, II, III, IV, V.' Beyond that, the inconsistencies are scattered between catchy and complex songs like 'No World For Tomorrow' and 'The End Chapter- III- The End Complete,' but is overshadowed by bland tracks that are flat-out bad like 'Feathers' and 'Mother Superior.' Hopefully, the final installment with this saga will reconnect with what once made Coheed and Cambria unique and not something recycled.
Yeasayer All Hour Cymbals4.0
Say Anything In Defense of the Genre4.5
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II4.0
Radiohead In Rainbows4.0
Beirut The Flying Club Cup3.5
MGMT Oracular Spectacular2.5
These Arms Are Snakes Tail Swallower and Dove3.5
The Weakerthans Reunion Tour4.0
Iron And Wine The Shepherd's Dog4.0
The Bled Silent Treatment4.0
Jonah Matranga And2.5
HEALTH Health3.5
Dirty Projectors Rise Above3.0
Flobots Fight with Tools3.0
Kanye West Graduation3.5
Animal Collective Strawberry Jam4.0
Vic Chesnutt North Star Deserter4.0
No Age Weirdo Rippers4.0
Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I4.0
Minus the Bear Planet of Ice4.0
M.I.A. Kala4.0
Okkervil River The Stage Names3.5
Ghastly City Sleep Ghastly City Sleep4.0
Tegan and Sara The Con3.0
Ampere/Daitro Split4.5
St. Vincent Marry Me3.5
Justice 4.0
Kidcrash Jokes4.0
Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago4.5
Tomahawk Anonymous3.0
The Number Twelve Looks Like You Mongrel4.0
Pig Destroyer Phantom Limb4.0
Aussitot Mort 6 Songs3.5
Circa Survive On Letting Go2.5
Neurosis Given to the Rising3.0
The National Boxer4.0
Battles Mirrored4.5
The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds3.5
Dan Deacon Spiderman of the Rings4.0
The Fall of Troy Manipulator2.5
The Fall of Troy provide a lackluster effort with their latest release "Manipulator." The unenthusiastic start to the album, (first six songs) are essentially the downfall. In contrast, the last six songs are filled with energy and creative songwriting. In fact, it may be some of their best work, but the production quality fails as a whole to showcase these talents. The last key problem is their sound is nothing new in comparison to their previous releases. While they do try to incorporate new sounds, it is all fairly similar. If you can manage to get through the first six songs, you may enjoy this release as a whole. Otherwise, it is a snoozefest that struggles to regain composure after it's painful start.
Feist The Reminder4.0
The Sound of Animals Fighting We Must Become the Change We Want to See4.5
Shining (SWE) V - Halmstad4.0
Bright Eyes Cassadaga3.5
Cease Upon the Capitol Untitled3.5
Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline4.5
Stars of the Lid produced a soundtrack of elegance. 'And Their Refinement Of The Decline' is a breathtaking, beautiful journey through ambient landscapes all packed within a double disc album. The overall atmosphere is nothing short of incredible. Whether it is the soft, brood cello tones in "Tippy's Demise" or the haunting piano strokes in "Humectez La Mouture," the mood is captured in a flash of brilliance. 'And Their Refinement Of The Decline' is intriguing, lush, captivating, and most importantly, unforgettable.
Blacklisted Peace On Earth, War On Stage3.5
LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver3.5
Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank4.0
Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha4.0
The Locust New Erections4.0
Panda Bear Person Pitch4.5
Bright Eyes Four Winds3.0
Arcade Fire Neon Bible4.0
Dalek Abandoned Language4.0
Hot Cross Risk Revival3.0
Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone3.5
They say everything is bigger in Texas. Well if you are talking about the sound resonating from Texas natives, Explosions in the Sky, then you are right. Their new album entitled, All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone, takes listeners from tranquility to glistening roars throughout with perfectly placed crescendos and decrescendos. They build off their previous release, The Rescue, that took an astonishing eight days to write and record. Like The Rescue, they incorporate a piano and an auxiliary of different instruments for added layers of effect. Be certain to check out the stunningly beautiful single, Welcome, Ghosts, to get an inside glimpse of the contents within.
Eluvium Copia3.5
Do Make Say Think You, You're a History in Rust4.5
Kiss Kiss Reality Vs. The Optimist4.0
Deerhunter Cryptograms4.5
Moving Mountains Pneuma4.0
Pantha Du Prince This Bliss4.0
Animal Collective People3.0
Ghost (JPN) In Stormy Nights3.0
Menomena Friend And Foe4.0
Tera Melos Drugs to the Dear Youth3.5
Maps and Atlases Tree, Swallows, Houses4.0
Cloud Archive Left The Bright Opening...3.0
Armchairpolitician Seven Segment Decoder4.0

2006
Boris With Michio Kurihara Rainbow4.0
Beirut Lon Gisland4.0
In a medley of instruments, Beirut's 'Lon Gisland' creates a fantasy-type atmosphere. The EP follows "Gulag
Orkestar" with a more exuberant and lively collection of songs. With beautiful melodies and trumpet-lines,
it leaves your ears dancing. "Scenic World" is redone and it blows away the original with a much bolder
sound. "Lon Gisland" ends with the fantastic 'Carousels' which is sure to leave you spinning in a cheerful
mood. A truly fantastic record.
Sufjan Stevens Songs For Christmas4.0
Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me4.5
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead So Divided2.0
Joanna Newsom Ys4.5
ISIS In the Absence of Truth3.5
Converge No Heroes4.0
The best way to describe this album: Misrepresented. There are certain genres that people should know they will not like, and Metalcore is one of them. With Converge's lastest release "No Heroes" people have gone based off of popularity on whether to pick it up or not. Simply because it was voted the top album by 15ish people does not mean they represent the entire world for what the top album of 2006 is. This album has plenty to offer and is a gem in the Converge collection with breaktaking riffs and menacing drumming. From the sludge-metal "Plagues" to the 58 second "Vengeance" Converge provides a relentless experience. It's a shame that it got in the wrong hands of the wrong people. We have been learning thoughout our lifetimes to adapt to certain things and Converge may be one of them.
The Blood Brothers Young Machetes2.5
Red Sparowes Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red...3.5
Fucked Up Hidden World3.5
These Arms Are Snakes Easter4.0
Rx Bandits ...And the Battle Begun4.5
Suis La Lune Quiet, Pull the Strings!3.0
The Decemberists The Crane Wife4.0
Saosin Saosin3.0
mewithoutYou Brother, Sister4.0
Fear Before The Always Open Mouth4.0
Mastodon Blood Mountain3.0
Envy Insomniac Doze3.5
TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain4.0
Say Anything ...Is A Real Boy (re-release)4.5
The Mars Volta Amputechture2.5
HORSE the band Pizza2.5
Grizzly Bear Yellow House4.5
Cursive Happy Hollow3.5
The Mountain Goats Get Lonely3.5
Tortoise A Lazarus Taxon3.5
Unearth III: In the Eyes of Fire4.0
Daughters Hell Songs4.0
Gatsby's American Dream Gatsby's American Dream3.5
Thom Yorke The Eraser3.0
Sufjan Stevens The Avalanche: Outtakes and Extras3.5
Catch 22 Permanent Revolution1.0
Between the Buried and Me The Anatomy Of2.0
Final Fantasy He Poos Clouds4.0
Regina Spektor Begin To Hope4.5
As Blood Runs Black Allegiance1.0
Head Automatica Popaganda2.0
Genghis Tron Dead Mountain Mouth3.5
This Will Destroy You Young Mountain3.5
The Blood Brothers Love Rhymes with Hideous Car Wreck EP3.0
Murder by Death In Bocca Al Lupo4.0
Less Than Jake In with the Out Crowd1.5
The Sound of Animals Fighting Lover, the Lord Has Left Us...2.5
Don Caballero World Class Listening Problem3.5
Venetian Snares Cavalcade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Pom Poms3.5
Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium3.5
Beirut Gulag Orkestar4.0
Girl Talk Night Ripper4.0
Thursday A City By the Light Divided3.5
Tool 10,000 Days3.5
Tokyo Police Club A Lesson in Crime3.5
Taking Back Sunday Louder Now3.0
Defiance, Ohio The Great Depression3.5
Refused Refused Are Fucking Dead4.0
The Streets The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living2.5
Ghostface Killah Fishscale3.5
Folly Resist Convenience3.5
Mogwai Mr. Beast3.5
Daitro Laisser Vivre Les Squelettes4.0
Man Man Six Demon Bag3.0
Belle and Sebastian The Life Pursuit4.0
J Dilla Donuts4.5
Brand New Fight Off Your Demons (The Demos)4.0
Cat Power The Greatest3.5
Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue4.0
Some Girls Heaven's Pregnant Teens2.5
Rock Plaza Central Are We Not Horses3.5

2005
The Chariot Unsung1.5
System of a Down Hypnotize2.5
Chamillionaire The Sound of Revenge3.5
Boris Pink4.0
The Mars Volta Scab Dates2.0
Head Wound City Head Wound City 4.0
Ed Gein Judas Goats & Dieseleaters2.5
Lightning Bolt Hypermagic Mountain4.0
Thrice Vheissu4.5
Animal Collective Feels4.5
Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase4.0
Explosions in the Sky The Rescue3.0
Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene4.5
Tera Melos Untitled4.0
Gogol Bordello Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike4.0
Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary4.0
Mount Eerie No Flashlight4.0
Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness3.5
HORSE the band The Mechanical Hand3.5
Sigur Ros Takk...4.0
Between the Buried and Me Alaska3.0
Opeth Ghost Reveries2.5
From Autumn to Ashes Abandon Your Friends2.5
Kanye West Late Registration4.0
Bob Dylan No Direction Home: The Soundtrack4.0
Minus the Bear Menos El Oso4.0
Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon2.5
The Bled Found in the Flood3.5
The Fall of Troy Doppelganger3.5
Soundtrack (Film) Garden State4.0
Cursive The Difference Between Houses and Homes2.0
The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza3.0
Chiodos All's Well That Ends Well1.5
Sufjan Stevens Illinois4.5
See You Next Tuesday Sampler '051.0
The Aquabats Charge!!1.0
The Number Twelve Looks Like You Nuclear. Sad. Nuclear.4.0
Coldplay X&Y2.0
Finch Say Hello to Sunshine4.0
Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon...3.0
Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree3.0
Bucket Full Of Teeth IV4.0
At the Drive-In This Station Is Non-Operational3.5
Venetian Snares Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett4.5
System of a Down Mezmerize3.0
Weezer Make Believe1.0
Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World4.0
In Pieces Lions Write History4.0
Nine Inch Nails With Teeth3.0
Ampere All Our Tomorrows End Today3.5
Jaga Jazzist What We Must4.0
Circa Survive Juturna4.0
Pelican March Into the Sea3.5
The National Alligator4.0
Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze2.5
Coheed and Cambria Live at the Starland Ballroom3.5
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Horses in the Sky3.5
The Decemberists Picaresque3.5
The Locust Safety Second, Body Last4.0
The Flashbulb Kirlian Selections4.0
Daft Punk Human After All2.5
The Mountain Goats The Sunset Tree4.0
Behold... The Arctopus Nano-Nucleonic Cyborg Summoning EP3.5
Norma Jean O' God, the Aftermath2.5
Iron And Wine Woman King3.0
The Mars Volta Frances the Mute4.0
Genghis Tron Cloak of Love3.5
The Sound of Animals Fighting Tiger and the Duke4.0
The Academy Is... Almost Here2.5
Andrew Bird The Mysterious Production Of Eggs4.5
M83 Before The Dawn Heals Us3.5
The Number Twelve Looks Like You An Inch of Gold for An Inch of Time3.5
Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning4.0
Maps and Atlases Bird Barnyard2.5
Glassjaw El Mark3.5
Modern Life Is War Witness4.0

2004
A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe1.0
Kidcrash New Ruins3.0
Grizzly Bear Horn of Plenty3.5
ISIS Panopticon4.5
Some Girls All My Friends Are Going Death3.0
The Blood Brothers Crimes3.5
Pig Destroyer Terrifyer3.5
Mare Mare4.0
Panda Bear Young Prayer3.0
These Arms Are Snakes Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home4.0
Converge You Fail Me4.5
Arcade Fire Funeral4.0
Battles B EP4.0
Fear Before Art Damage4.0
Mastodon Leviathan4.0
Leftover Crack Fuсk World Trade3.0
Head Automatica Decadence3.0
Regina Spektor Soviet Kitsch3.5
Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy4.5
I had lost faith, faith in the genre that was once called pop punk. It slowly transcended downward in the past couple of years but then their was a light, a light known as Say Anything. Their album "...Is A Real Boy" is what this genre should be about. Elegant songwriting and more fun than you could ever imagine. Highlights include the gem making fun of music scenes known as "Admit It!!!" along with "Alive With The Glory of Love" and "Spider Song." My faith is rekindled with this album, and I couldn't be happier.
The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine3.5
The album cover sort of describes "Miss Machine." The reason is that the songs are all there, but the order is horrendous for the most part. To switch from Setting Fire To Sleeping Giants to Baby's First Coffin to Unretrofied to The Perfect Design is beyond me. While their are great songs on this album, no song really would be considered their best that they have released by any means. If there were a "starter Dillinger CD," this would be ideal due to the accessibility factor. A decent release from the Dillinger Escape Plan.
Meshuggah I4.0
Unearth The Oncoming Storm2.5
My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge2.0
Battles EP C3.5
Feist Let It Die4.0
Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News4.0
Folly Insanity Later4.0
Shugo Tokumaru Night Piece4.0
Soulfly Prophecy1.5
Iron And Wine Our Endless Numbered Days3.0
Onelinedrawing The Volunteers4.0
Psyopus Ideas of Reference3.5
Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans4.0
Kid Kilowatt Guitar Method 1996-19994.0
90 Day Men Panda Park4.0
Incubus (USA-CA) A Crow Left of the Murder...3.0
Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo5.0
From A Second Story Window Not One Word Has Been Omitted2.0
TV on the Radio Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes3.0
Animal Collective Sung Tongs3.5
Kanye West The College Dropout3.5
The Fall of Troy Ghostship Demos4.0
The Mountain Goats We Shall All Be Healed4.0

2003
The Fall of Troy The Fall of Troy3.0
Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place4.5
Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye4.5
Murder by Death Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them?4.5
Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 34.0
Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism4.5
Do Make Say Think Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn4.5
Oceansize Effloresce3.5
HORSE the band R. Borlax3.5
A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step3.0
Thursday War All the Time4.5
The Decemberists Her Majesty the Decemberists4.0
The Wrens The Meadowlands4.0
Envy A Dead Sinking Story4.5
Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance4.0
Daughters Canada Songs3.0
Rx Bandits The Resignation4.0
Poison the Well You Come Before You3.0
Gatsby's American Dream Ribbons and Sugar3.5
The Appleseed Cast Two Conversations3.5
Sufjan Stevens Michigan4.0
The Locust Plague Soundscapes4.0
The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium5.0
Mogwai Happy Songs for Happy People4.0
Brand New Deja Entendu4.5
Radiohead Hail to the Thief4.0
Less Than Jake Anthem1.5
From Autumn to Ashes The Fiction We Live2.0
The Decemberists 5 Songs3.0
pg.99 Document #14: Singles4.0
The Number Twelve Looks Like You Put On Your Rosy Red Glasses3.0
Cursive The Ugly Organ4.5
Bucket Full Of Teeth I, II, III4.0
The Postal Service Give Up3.5
Cat Power You Are Free3.5
Converge Unloved and Weeded Out3.0
The Microphones Mount Eerie4.0
Trophy Scars Hospital Music for the Aesthetics of Language4.0
Catch 22 Dinosaur Sounds1.5
Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn2.5
Andrew Bird Weather Systems2.5
Primus Animals Should Not Try To Act Like People3.5
The Bled Pass the Flask4.0
Ed Gein It's A Shame That A Family Can Be Torn Apart By...4.0
The Weakerthans Reconstruction Site4.0
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra This Is Our Punk-Rock, Thee Rusted Satellites Gather and Sing4.0
Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe4.0
Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb4.5
The Blood Brothers ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn4.5
William Basinski The Disintegration Loops II4.5
Sam Cooke Portrait Of A Legend 1951-19644.5

2002
Botch An Anthology of Dead Ends4.0
Audioslave Audioslave2.5
Opeth Deliverance3.5
Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates4.0
The Mountain Goats Tallahassee4.5
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O.3.5
Sigur Ros ( )4.5
Pavement Slanted and Enchanted: Luxe and Reduxe3.5
Taproot Welcome1.5
Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People4.0
Botch Unifying Themes Redux2.5
Thursday Five Stories Falling3.0
Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf4.5
The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene4.5
Glassjaw Worship and Tribute4.5
Murder by Death Like the Exorcist, but More Breakdancing4.5
Norma Jean Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child2.0
Bright Eyes Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground 3.5
My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love2.5
The Seatbelts Cowboy Bebop Boxed Set4.5
The Decemberists Castaways and Cutouts3.5
Tom Waits Alice3.0
City of Caterpillar City of Caterpillar4.0
Blackalicious Blazing Arrow4.5
Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends3.5
Hella Hold Your Horse Is3.5
Do Make Say Think & Yet & Yet3.5
Finch What It Is to Burn3.0
dredg El Cielo3.0
The Mars Volta Tremulant4.0
Onelinedrawing Visitor4.0
Poison the Well Tear From the Red3.5
The Mountain Goats All Hail West Texas4.5
Thrice The Illusion of Safety4.5
The Streets Original Pirate Material3.0
Boris Heavy Rocks3.0
William Basinski The Disintegration Loops I3.5
ISIS Oceanic4.0
The World/Inferno Friendship Society Just the Best Party4.0
Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade5.0

2001
Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution A Call To Arms4.0
Venetian Snares Doll Doll Doll4.0
The Appleseed Cast Low Level Owl, Vol. 23.0
Aphex Twin Drukqs3.5
Thursday Full Collapse4.5
Brand New Your Favorite Weapon4.0
The Locust Flight of the Wounded Locust2.5
New End Original Thriller3.5
Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View3.5
P.O.D. Satellite2.0
Leftover Crack Mediocre Generica3.5
The Microphones The Glow Pt. 25.0
System of a Down Toxicity4.0
Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die...4.0
Converge Jane Doe5.0
From Autumn to Ashes Too Bad You're Beautiful3.5
Cursive Burst and Bloom4.0
Rx Bandits Progress3.5
maudlin of the Well Bath3.5
Regina Spektor 11:113.5
Pennywise Land Of The Free?3.0
pg.99 Document #84.5
Drowning Pool Sinner1.5
Cannibal Ox The Cold Vein4.0
Tool Lateralus4.5
Saetia A Retrospective3.5
cLOUDDEAD cLOUDDEAD3.5
Autechre Confield3.5
Daft Punk Discovery4.5
Opeth Blackwater Park3.5
Lightning Bolt Ride The Skies3.5
Unearth The Stings of Conscience3.0
Circle Takes the Square Circle Takes the Square3.5
Fugazi The Argument4.0
pg.99 Document #74.0

2000
The Avalanches Since I Left You4.0
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven4.5
Nonpoint Statement2.0
Don Caballero American Don4.0
Radiohead Kid A4.5
Soulfly Primitive2.5
Clint Mansell and Kronos Quartet Requiem for a Dream4.0
At the Drive-In Relationship of Command5.0
Old Man Gloom Meditations in B3.5
Mudvayne L.D. 504.0
Animal Collective Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished3.5
Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence5.0
The Weakerthans Left and Leaving4.0
Sunny Day Real Estate The Rising Tide3.0
Deftones White Pony4.5
Cursive Domestica4.5
ISIS Celestial3.0
Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica4.5
Rage Against the Machine Renegades1.5
Do Make Say Think Goodbye Enemy Airship the Landlord is Dead4.0
Modest Mouse Building Nothing Out of Something4.0
The (International) Noise Conspiracy Survival Sickness2.5
pg.99 Document #53.5
Explosions in the Sky How Strange, Innocence4.0
Shellac 1000 Hurts4.0
Jurassic 5 Quality Control4.0
Bright Eyes Fevers & Mirrors4.0
Orchid Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow!4.0

1999
Botch We Are the Romans4.5
ISIS The Red Sea3.0
The Dismemberment Plan Emergency & I4.5
Onelinedrawing Sketchy EP #14.0
The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity5.0
This album shattered the limits of technicality, erased anyone's thought of a standard time signature, and broke a few metronomes. Calculating Infinity was the first significant release in the genre it is presented in. The lyrics are meaningful, the musicianship is ridiculous and blended together, it creates an utter masterpiece. This album will not be for everyone, but everyone should at least appreciate the edge at which they took music to. "What pawns we have become in this bland little play" no more, for it is no longer bland thanks to Dillinger's groundbreaking release Calculating Infinity.
American Football American Football4.0
Mr. Bungle California4.5
Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun4.0
Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication3.0
blink-182 Enema Of The State3.5
The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin3.0
Choking Victim No Gods, No Managers4.5
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada5.0
Aphex Twin Windowlicker3.5
Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret4.5
Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles3.5
Poison the Well The Opposite of December4.0
Orchid Chaos is Me4.0
P.O.D. Fundamental Elements of Southtown2.0
1998
Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come5.0
The Dillinger Escape Plan Under the Running Board3.5
American Football American Football EP4.0
Sunny Day Real Estate How It Feels To Be Something On4.5
The Locust The Locust3.5
At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out4.0
Far Water & Solutions4.0
System of a Down System of a Down4.0
Boredoms Super Ae4.5
Converge When Forever Comes Crashing3.5
Massive Attack Mezzanine4.5
Catch 22 Keasbey Nights4.5
Botch American Nervoso3.5
Tortoise TNT4.0
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea5.0
Cap'n Jazz Analphabetapolothology4.5
Converge Caring and Killing2.5
Poison the Well Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder3.0
Boris Amplifier Worship3.5

1997
Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West4.5
Deftones Around the Fur4.0
Aphex Twin Come to Daddy3.5
Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E.4.0
Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞4.5
blink-182 Dude Ranch4.0
Radiohead OK Computer5.0
Lifetime Jersey's Best Dancers4.0
Mogwai Ten Rapid (Collected Recordings 1996-1997)3.5
Built to Spill Perfect from Now On4.5
Pavement Brighten the Corners3.0
Daft Punk Homework3.5
Glassjaw Kiss Kiss Bang Bang3.5
Mogwai Young Team4.0

1996
Belle and Sebastian If You're Feeling Sinister4.5
Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album4.0
Ghostface Killah Ironman3.5
Korn Life Is Peachy3.0
Swans Soundtracks for the Blind4.5
Tool Ænima5.0
Weezer Pinkerton4.5
Modest Mouse Interstate 83.5
The Aquabats The Return of the Aquabats2.0
Refused Songs To Fan The Flames Of Discontent3.5
Texas Is the Reason Do You Know Who You Are?3.5
Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About4.5
Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire4.0
DJ Shadow Endtroducing.....5.0
Tortoise Millions Now Living Will Never Die4.5
Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky4.0
Dr. Octagon Dr. Octagonecologyst4.0
Harvey Milk Courtesy and Good Will Toward Men4.0
At the Drive-In Acrobatic Tenement4.5

1995
GZA Liquid Swords4.5
Incubus (USA-CA) Fungus Amongus4.0
Deftones Adrenaline4.0
Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...4.5
Pavement Wowee Zowee3.5
Radiohead The Bends4.0

1994
Today Is the Day Willpower4.5
Method Man Tical3.5
Korn Korn4.0
Dream Theater Awake3.0
Weezer Weezer4.5
Nas Illmatic4.5
Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral4.5
Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II3.5
Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain4.0
Green Day Dookie4.0
The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die4.5
Neutral Milk Hotel Everything Is2.0
Sunny Day Real Estate Diary4.5

1993
Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)4.5
Tool Undertow4.0
Eric's Trip Love Tara4.0

1992
Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine4.5
Tool Opiate3.0
Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-924.5

1991
Talk Talk Laughing Stock3.5
Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik3.5
Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese4.0
Rites of Spring End on End4.0
Pixies Trompe Le Monde3.0
Slint Spiderland4.5

1990
Fugazi Repeater4.0

1989
The Cure Disintegration4.5
Pixies Doolittle4.0
Fugazi 13 Songs4.0

1988
Sonic Youth Daydream Nation4.5
Pixies Surfer Rosa4.0

1986
Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill3.0

1985
Red Hot Chili Peppers Freaky Styley2.5
Tom Waits Rain Dogs4.5

1980
Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables4.0

1976
Steve Miller Band Fly Like an Eagle4.0

1975
Tom Waits Nighthawks At The Diner3.0

1970
Miles Davis Bitches Brew4.5

1969
King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King4.0

1967
Leonard Cohen Songs of Leonard Cohen4.5
The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band3.5

1966
The Beatles Revolver4.0
Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde4.0

1963
Bob Dylan The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan4.0

1959
Miles Davis Kind of Blue4.0
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