| Alkaline Trio Maybe I'll Catch Fire | 4.5 |
| Closure in Moscow Soft Hell | 4.0 |
| Combines the best of everything the band's done before, while keeping with the experimentation of Pink Lemonade without all the excess |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket | 4.5 |
| blink-182 One More Time... | 2.0 |
| The Lawrence Arms Metropole | 4.0 |
| Wolfie's Just Fine Everyone Is Dead Except Us | 4.0 |
| Thank You Scientist Plague Accommodations | 4.0 |
| City and Colour A Pill For Loneliness | 3.5 |
| City and Colour The Love Still Held Me Near | 4.0 |
| The Menzingers After the Party | 4.5 |
| Arch Echo Final Pitch | 4.0 |
| Jason Isbell Weathervanes | 4.0 |
| Foo Fighters But Here We Are | 3.0 |
| Balance and Composure Separation | 4.5 |
| Balance and Composure Too Quick to Forgive | 4.0 |
| uponbrokenapologies Demonstration of Pain and Sadness | 4.0 |
| Gorillaz Cracker Island | 3.5 |
| Uneven Structure Februus | 4.5 |
| Somewhere South of Here Leave Me for the Crows | 4.0 |
| Angels and Airwaves The Dream Walker | 4.0 |
| Michael Kiwanuka Love and Hate | 4.5 |
| Soft Blue Shimmer Love Lives in the Body | 4.0 |
| blink-182 Blink-182 | 5.0 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 5.0 |
| No Devotion No Oblivion | 4.5 |
| blink-182 Neighborhoods | 3.5 |
| Fleshwater We're Not Here To Be Loved | 4.0 |
| Davenport Cabinet Damned Renegades | 4.0 |
| Davenport Cabinet Our Machine | 4.0 |
| Polyphia Remember That You Will Die | 3.0 |
| Fallujah Empyrean | 4.5 |
| SOUL GLO Diaspora Problems | 4.5 |
| The Wonder Years The Greatest Generation | 4.5 |
| The Wonder Years No Closer to Heaven | 4.0 |
| The Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing | 4.0 |
| The Lawrence Arms Skeleton Coast | 4.0 |
| The Lawrence Arms Apathy and Exhaustion | 4.5 |
| The Lawrence Arms Oh! Calcutta! | 4.5 |
| The Lawrence Arms The Greatest Story Ever Told | 5.0 |
| The Lawrence Arms Buttsweat and Tears | 4.0 |
| Gin Blossoms New Miserable Experience | 4.0 |
| The Lawrence Arms Cocktails and Dreams | 4.5 |
| Silversun Pickups Neck of the Woods | 3.5 |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas | 5.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon | 4.0 |
| Royal Coda To Only a Few at First | 3.5 |
| Goo Goo Dolls Chaos in Bloom | 3.0 |
| Danger Mouse and Black Thought Cheat Codes | 4.0 |
| Sweet Pill Where the Heart Is | 4.0 |
| Pool Kids Pool Kids | 3.5 |
| Silversun Pickups Widow's Weeds | 3.0 |
| Lupe Fiasco Drill Music in Zion | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind | 3.0 |
| Kardashev Liminal Rite | 4.0 |
| The Black Keys Dropout Boogie | 3.0 |
More like 3.2–3.3, but still very good. Sounds like a love child of Delta Kream and
Brothers, though doesn't quite achieve the same highs. The track with Billy F. Gibbons is a
banger. |
| The Contortionist Our Bones | 3.5 |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet | 4.5 |
| Monuments (UK) In Stasis | 3.0 |
| 'Seems they've outgrown their "sis" complex'rBut "stasis" ends in "sis" :big think: |
| Denzel Curry Melt My Eyez See Your Future | 4.5 |
| Good Tiger Raised in a Doomsday Cult | 4.0 |
| Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better | 4.5 |
| Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand | 4.0 |
| Allt Dark Waters | 3.0 |
| Atmospheric instrumental djent post-metal. Nothing groundbreaking, but enjoyable. |
| Porter Robinson Nurture | 4.5 |
| Lord Huron Long Lost | 5.0 |
| The Black Keys Delta Kream | 4.0 |
Finally, more of what I originally liked about the Black Keys, their take on old blues
rock. If you liked all their albums up to and including Brothers–especially the EP
'Chulahoma'–you'll enjoy this. |
| Submotile Sonic Day Codas | 4.5 |
| IDLES Brutalism | 4.5 |
| ERRA ERRA | 4.0 |
| Foo Fighters Medicine at Midnight | 2.0 |
| Akhlys Melinoe | 4.0 |
| Deftones Ohms | 4.0 |
| Kansas The Absence Οf Presence | 4.0 |
| Good prog rock album, from a band I had no idea was still making music. Carry on, wayward sons. |
| Svalbard When I Die, Will I Get Better? | 4.0 |
| Corelia New Wilderness | 4.0 |
| Tennis Swimmer | 4.0 |
| Franz Ferdinand Tonight: Franz Ferdinand | 4.0 |
| The Artificials Parables of the Human Spirit | 4.0 |
| The Reign of Kindo This Is What Happens | 4.0 |
| Ludvig Forssell Death Stranding | 4.5 |
| Thank You Scientist Terraformer | 4.5 |
| Tool Fear Inoculum | 3.0 |
| Despite how long this album took to release, it sounds incomplete. |
| Polyenso Pure In The Plastic | 4.5 |
| Jack The Joker Mors Volta | 4.5 |
| Frontside (US) Essentially, Eventually | 4.0 |
Like a mathy version of early Coheed & Cambria, with elements of Closure In Moscow, The
Fall of Troy and vocals interestingly similar to Fall Out Boy. Perhaps a little repetitive
at times, but the music is high-quality and recommended for fans of the aforementioned
bands. |
| The Reign of Kindo Rhythm, Chord & Melody | 5.0 |
| Michelle Branch The Spirit Room | 4.0 |
| The Story So Far Under Soil and Dirt | 4.5 |
| Spanish Love Songs Schmaltz | 4.5 |
| Voices from the Fuselage Odyssey: The Destroyer of Worlds | 4.0 |
| Voices from the Fuselage Odyssey: The Founder of Dreams | 4.5 |
| Timecop1983 Night Drive | 4.0 |
| Polyenso One Big Particular Loop | 4.5 |
| Tides of Man Young and Courageous | 4.0 |
| VOLA Applause of a Distant Crowd | 4.5 |
| Monuments (UK) Phronesis | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria Vaxis I: The Unheavenly Creatures | 2.5 |
| Lupe Fiasco DROGAS Wave | 4.5 |
| Monuments (UK) The Amanuensis | 4.0 |
| Skyharbor Sunshine Dust | 3.0 |
| Has more of an alternative rock vibe than prog; Eric sounds great on vocals. Previously released rsingles have been reworked, some for the better (Synthetic Hands). |
| ERRA ERRA (EP) | 3.5 |
| ERRA Andromeda | 4.0 |
| ERRA Neon | 3.5 |
Although it doesn't reach the highs of the pre-lineup change albums, 'Neon' has plenty of
atmosphere and is a definite improvement from 'Drift'. I'm finding no skippable tracks
even after 6 full listens. However, if you didn't like Drift, this may not change your mind about the
new direction the band has been taking. |
| Tides of Man Every Nothing | 4.5 |
| Mestis Polysemy | 3.5 |
| The Contortionist Clairvoyant | 4.0 |
| UVERworld TYCOON | 3.5 |
This is a very fun album. Long yet varied in sound, and moves pretty quickly despite the length.
You'll hear quite a mix of genres here: heavy rock and metal, DnB, hip-hop/rap, electronic, pop,
jazz, funk, pop, industrial- and yet it's all blended very well. |
| Folder (Italy) Keep The Flow | 3.0 |
| A rap-rock record from Italy, as good as this genre can be. |
| The Rembrandts L.P. | 3.5 |
| Great pop-rock/adult contemporary album from 90s. Could stand to be a little heavier sounding or more creative lyrically to push it into the alternative category, but then that probably wasn't the aim of the album anyways.rPut it on when you want some chill, guitar-driven easy listening. |
| Gasoline Journey Into Abstract Hip Hop | 4.5 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Urn | 4.0 |
| Wu-Tang Clan The Saga Continues | 4.0 |
| Milo Who Told You To Think??!!?!?!?! | 4.5 |
| Kesha Rainbow | 3.5 |
| Celldweller Offworld | 2.5 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 5.0 |
| Arch Echo Arch Echo | 4.0 |
| Though nothing necessarily new for the genre, the musicianship is excellent and the songs are quality. Can't see how this is lower than a 4, objectively. |
| Matt Uelmen Diablo II | 5.0 |
| Balance and Composure Slowheart | 4.0 |
| Hope this is the next direction the band takes, these songs are great. |
| Norma Jean Polar Similar | 4.0 |
| The Artificials Heart | 4.0 |
| Band just lost two of their members and they aren't signed to Tragic Hero anymore, according to a facebook post. |
| Frank Turner Tape Deck Heart | 4.5 |
| Frank Turner Positive Songs for Negative People | 3.5 |
| Frank Turner England Keep My Bones | 4.0 |
| Frank Turner Love, Ire & Song | 4.5 |
| The Artificials The Artificials | 4.0 |
| Code I Phosphenia | 4.0 |
| An excellent mix of heavy and soft soundscapes with influences that range from hardcore bands such as 'Being as an Ocean', 'August Burns Red' and 'Counterparts' to post rock classics like 'Red Sparrowes' and 'God is an Astronaut'. |
| BADBADNOTGOOD IV | 4.0 |
| BADBADNOTGOOD BBNG2 | 3.5 |
| BADBADNOTGOOD BBNG | 4.0 |
| BADBADNOTGOOD III | 4.5 |
| Tom Caruana Enter the Magical Mystery Chambers | 4.0 |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion | 4.5 |
| Animals As Leaders Weightless | 3.5 |
| Animals As Leaders The Madness of Many | 4.0 |
| Got my pre-order early and leaving a neutral 3 rating for now as I'm currently listening to it: Sounds like a mix rof Weightless and Joy Of Motion but with more riffing, and electronics are replaced with poly-djunz. |
| Be'lakor Vessels | 4.5 |
| Eldamar The Force of the Ancient Land | 3.0 |
| Shylmagoghnar Emergence | 4.5 |
| Found this via Be'Lakor on Youtube. Gooooooooood shit. |
| Tides of Man Dreamhouse | 4.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Mothership | 4.0 |
| Balance and Composure Light We Made | 3.0 |
| Objectively this is between a 3-3.5 but my favorite tracks bump this up to a solid 3.5 for me. Anyone looking rfor the edgier alt-rock aspects from their first two LPs might be turned away. The vibe here is best described ras coming off a buzz after a night of partying and reflection. Recommended tracks: Midnight Zone, rSpinning, For A Walk, rPostcard, Fame, Loam |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders | 4.5 |
| Echo Tail Drowning the Pacific | 4.0 |
| De La Soul and the Anonymous Nobody... | 4.5 |
| Experimental and may not be as "rap-heavy" as some would expect, but still high-quality material from De La and guest artists. |
| American Wrestlers American Wrestlers | 3.5 |
| Thank You Scientist Stranger Heads Prevail | 4.5 |
| Belle Noire What It Means To Be | 3.5 |
Debut LP from a relatively new band out of San Jose. Their lead singer was a guest vocalist on the Strawberry
Girls track "Gospel".
Stream can be found here: https://bellenoire.bandcamp.com/album/what-it-means-to-be |
| Rush Grace Under Pressure | 4.0 |
| Rush Signals | 4.5 |
| Rush Moving Pictures | 5.0 |
| Rush Permanent Waves | 4.5 |
| Rush 2112 | 4.5 |
| ERRA Drift | 3.5 |
| New song's here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M89t4Wge_b4&feature=youtu.be |
| Haken Affinity | 3.5 |
"One thing that I love about ?Affinity? is that the band merge their current heavier sound with a mix of 80s
prog. Yes really. The song ?1985? is my favorite track on the album because it is that perfect mix. Imagine the
Alan Parsons Project circa ?Stereotomy? (the album, not just the song) mixed with TesseracT djent-ish riffs.
The band do such an incredible job transitioning back and forth. 80s drums and synths yield to thick modern
prog metal riffs."
http://progressivemusicplanet.com/2016/03/02/haken-affinity/ |
| Echo Tail Fields of Vision | 4.5 |
| The Menzingers On the Impossible Past | 4.5 |
| Aisles 4:45 AM | 4.0 |
| The best way to describe these guys is "Latin Rush," maybe a little Coheed in there. |
| Redemption The Art of Loss | 4.5 |
| Dream Theater The Astonishing | 3.0 |
| Thank You Scientist The Perils of Time Travel | 4.0 |
| Thank You Scientist Maps of Non-Existent Places | 4.5 |
| Rush Hemispheres | 5.0 |
| Rush A Farewell to Kings | 4.5 |
| Goodbye to Gravity Mantras of War | 3.5 |
| Foo Fighters Saint Cecilia | 3.5 |
| No love for track 3 "Savior Breath"? Hotdamn that song... Track 4 is the weakest, but it's still great quality because Foos, of course. And it's free!r |
| Skyharbor Guiding Lights | 4.5 |
| Skyharbor Blinding White Noise: Illusion & Chaos | 4.5 |
| City and Colour Bring Me Your Love | 4.5 |
| City and Colour Live at the Orange Lounge | 4.5 |
| City and Colour Sometimes | 3.5 |
| City and Colour Little Hell | 4.5 |
| City and Colour The Hurry and the Harm | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Color Before The Sun | 2.5 |
| City and Colour If I Should Go Before You | 4.0 |
It's up there with Little Hell for sure, and definitely a better follow up to that album than Hurry & the Harm,
imo. This will probably be my Winter 2015 album and get bumped to a 4.5 eventually.
Them mellow bluesy songs... |
| Lupe Fiasco Tetsuo and Youth | 4.5 |
| Silversun Pickups Better Nature | 3.5 |
| Riverside Love, Fear and the Time Machine | 4.5 |
| Became my AOTY for 2015 but keeps growing stronger each listen. |
| Balance and Composure The Things We Think We're Missing | 4.0 |
| CHON Grow | 4.0 |
| It takes a few listens to digest all the details, but when you do you'll see how complex and fun this album is. |
| ERRA Impulse | 5.0 |
| Rush Clockwork Angels | 4.5 |
| The Ocean Pelagial | 4.0 |
| Haken Restoration | 4.0 |
| It's Haken, but more concise as prog-metal can be. rI agree with others above (below?) that you can hear some DT *influence*, but to my ears Haken manage to sound different to their forefathers. |
| Foo Fighters Sonic Highways | 2.5 |
| ERRA Moments of Clarity | 4.0 |
| This band may be the first and only metalcore band I'll listen to. |
| ERRA Augment | 5.0 |
| xSPONGEXCOREx Don't Mess With TexXxas | 4.0 |
| Vestascension Breaching the Sound | 4.0 |
| xSPONGEXCOREx How Tough Are Yah? | 5.0 |
| Vanden Plas Chronicles of the Immortals: Netherworld (Path 1) | 4.0 |
| Anubis Gate Horizons | 4.0 |
| It takes a few listen throughs to let it sink in, but the Danish gentlemen have done a solid job following up their self-titled and blending their signature sound with some new. |
| Closure in Moscow Pink Lemonade | 5.0 |
Straight 4.5 for being probably the funky-freshiest thang out there now. New track streaming here:
http://www.underthegunreview.net/2014/04/11/utg-premiere-closure-in-moscow-neoprene-byzantine/ |
| Tesla The Great Radio Controversy | 4.0 |
| Failure Fantastic Planet | 4.5 |
| Aviations A Declaration of Sound | 4.0 |
| Anubis Gate The Detached | 3.5 |
| Anubis Gate Sheep | 4.5 |
| It's only 3 tracks, two of which are covers, but damn, it's got me pumped for the new album! |
| Faith No More Album of the Year | 3.5 |
| Faith No More Angel Dust | 5.0 |
| Fates Warning Darkness in a Different Light | 4.0 |
| Sound of Contact Dimensionaut | 4.0 |
| Simon Collins (son of Phil Collins) and Dave Kerzner (Sonic Reality) unleash an atmospheric album that takes you on a journey through space and time that borders on post-rock riffing. |
| Dream Theater Dream Theater | 3.5 |
| Really it's like a 3.8... it wants to be a 4 but they've done better. |
| Franz Ferdinand Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action | 3.5 |
| Haken The Mountain | 5.0 |
| Whole thing is being streamed here:rhttp://www.progrockmag.com/news/haken-album-premiere-the-mountain/ |
| Gary Clark Jr. Blak and Blu | 4.0 |
| A great mix of retro and modern. It's good to see blues/rock coming back to mainstream, it's so refreshing. |
| Audioslave Audioslave | 3.5 |
| 10 Years The Autumn Effect | 4.0 |
| Closure in Moscow The Penance and the Patience | 4.0 |
| Closure in Moscow First Temple | 4.5 |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater Octavarium | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater Systematic Chaos | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings | 3.0 |
| Can't make up my mind on this thing... High moments are high, but low moments are "WTF..." |
| Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Falling into Infinity | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory | 4.5 |
| Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events | 3.5 |
| Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light | 4.0 |
| Foo Fighters In Your Honor | 3.5 |
| Foo Fighters One by One | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters Foo Fighters | 4.0 |
| Foo Fighters There Is Nothing Left to Lose | 4.5 |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape | 5.0 |
| Goo Goo Dolls A Boy Named Goo | 4.0 |
| Goo Goo Dolls Superstar Car Wash | 3.5 |
| Goo Goo Dolls Hold Me Up | 3.0 |
| DJ Krush Meiso | 4.0 |
| DJ Krush Zen | 4.0 |
| DJ Shadow The Private Press | 4.0 |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... | 5.0 |
| De La Soul 3 Feet High and Rising | 4.0 |
| De La Soul Stakes Is High | 5.0 |
| De La Soul AOI: Bionix | 3.0 |
| De La Soul The Grind Date | 3.5 |
| Anubis Gate Anubis Gate | 4.0 |
| Anubis Gate Andromeda Unchained | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree The Incident | 3.5 |
| Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun | 4.5 |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia | 5.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow | 2.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 4.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 | 5.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension | 3.5 |
| This album is a grower and still > than Descension. |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension | 2.5 |
| Haken Visions | 4.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 4.5 |
| The Roots How I Got Over | 4.5 |
| Dream Theater A Change of Seasons | 5.0 |
| Dream Theater Awake | 5.0 |
| Dream Theater Images and Words | 4.5 |
