| Failure Fantastic Planet | 5.0 |
| The Aloof Seeking Pleasure | 4.0 |
| Boris Pink | 3.5 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 4.0 |
| Melvins A Senile Animal | 3.5 |
| Soundgarden Superunknown | 4.0 |
| Melvins Houdini | 4.0 |
| The Black Keys Brothers | 4.0 |
| The Black Keys El Camino | 4.0 |
| The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers | 3.0 |
| The White Stripes Icky Thump | 3.5 |
| The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan | 3.5 |
| The White Stripes White Blood Cells | 4.0 |
| The White Stripes Elephant | 4.0 |
| The Strokes Room on Fire | 3.0 |
| The Strokes Is This It | 3.5 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz! | 3.0 |
| Bright Eyes The People's Key | 2.5 |
| Bloc Party Four | 2.0 |
| Bloc Party A Weekend in the City | 3.0 |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm | 3.5 |
| Phoenix (FRA) It's Never Been Like That | 3.5 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Bankrupt! | 3.5 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | 4.0 |
| Foals Holy Fire | 4.0 |
| Two Door Cinema Club Tourist History | 3.5 |
| Bright Eyes Cassadaga | 3.5 |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning | 4.5 |
| Tokyo Police Club Champ | 3.0 |
| Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca | 3.5 |
| Ra Ra Riot The Rhumb Line | 3.5 |
| Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City | 4.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Contra | 2.5 |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend | 3.0 |
| Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News | 3.0 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 4.0 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 4.0 |
| The National Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers | 3.5 |
| The National The National | 2.5 |
| The Twilight Sad Nobody Wants To Be Here And Nobody Wants To Leave | 4.0 |
| Mystery Skulls Forever | 3.0 |
| Mystery Skulls Mystery Skulls | 3.5 |
| The Get Up Kids Something to Write Home About | 2.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Bleed American | 3.0 |
| Kings of Leon Only By The Night | 3.5 |
| Kings of Leon Aha Shake Heartbreak | 3.0 |
| Kings of Leon Youth and Young Manhood | 3.0 |
| Brand New Daisy | 3.5 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 3.5 |
| Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere | 4.0 |
| Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water | 1.5 |
| Limp Bizkit Results May Vary | 1.0 |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State | 3.5 |
| blink-182 Cheshire Cat | 2.5 |
| Spiritual Beggars Ad Astra | 3.5 |
| Mark Lanegan Whiskey For the Holy Ghost | 4.5 |
| Jeff Rosenstock We Cool? | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation | 4.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer | 4.5 |
| Norma Jean Polar Similar | 3.5 |
| Birds in Row You, Me, and the Violence | 4.0 |
| Defeater Travels | 3.0 |
| The Killers Hot Fuss | 3.5 |
| The Killers Day & Age | 2.5 |
| Passion Pit Gossamer | 4.0 |
| Imagine Dragons Night Visions | 3.0 |
| Imagine Dragons Smoke + Mirrors | 2.0 |
| Cold Year Of The Spider | 3.0 |
| Nirvana Bleach | 3.5 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 4.5 |
| Seether Poison The Parish | 3.0 |
| Mr. Bungle Mr. Bungle | 4.0 |
| Mr. Bungle California | 5.0 |
| The Killing Tree The Romance of Helen Trent | 4.5 |
| Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane | 3.5 |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico | 3.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 3.5 |
| Nick Drake Pink Moon | 3.5 |
| This Heat Deceit | 5.0 |
| Elliott Smith Elliott Smith | 5.0 |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or | 5.0 |
| Alice in Chains Dirt | 4.5 |
| Stone Sour Come What(ever) May | 2.0 |
| Stone Sour Stone Sour | 2.5 |
| Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 2 | 3.5 |
| Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 1 | 3.5 |
| Tame Impala Lonerism | 2.5 |
| Rag and Bones When Can Your Glory Fade? | 4.0 |
| One of the best free releases of last year. Really, really good. Get it on Jamendo. |
| Saron Gas Fragile | 3.0 |
| Mudvayne L.D. 50 | 3.0 |
| Die Antwoord Ten$ion | 1.0 |
| South Africa, my homeland, has a couple of exports that I believe are of note. Though Dave Matthews is an American fellow, he was born in SA. Trevor Rabin played in Yes from 1983 to 1994, across four of their albums, and went on to compose for film and build a healthy solo career. Bands like Kongos and Seether have done extremely well in mainstream rock, occupying the airwaves ad nauseam with tracks like "Come With Me Now" and "Remedy" respectively. We've had a good track record... well, at least, 'til these withering numb fucks spasmed on to the scene like two jack russels suffering from acute Parkinsons'. Appalling. |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell | 4.5 |
| The Antlers Hospice | 5.0 |
| Interpol El Pintor | 3.0 |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 4.0 |
| Interpol Antics | 3.0 |
| In Love With A Ghost Healing | 4.0 |
| Heathen Victims of Deception | 5.0 |
| Hum You'd Prefer an Astronaut | 3.5 |
| The National Boxer | 5.0 |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me | 5.0 |
| Sharon Van Etten Are We There | 4.5 |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone | 2.0 |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 3.5 |
| Slipknot Iowa | 2.5 |
| Disturbed Indestructible | 3.5 |
| Drowning Pool Sinner | 2.0 |
| HAIM Days Are Gone | 2.5 |
| The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin | 3.5 |
| Fleetwood Mac Rumours | 5.0 |
| Love Forever Changes | 4.5 |
| Norma Jean O' God, the Aftermath | 3.5 |
| Every Time I Die Hot Damn! | 4.0 |
| Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic | 4.0 |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives | 4.0 |
| Every Time I Die Low Teens | 3.5 |
| Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown | 4.0 |
| Every Time I Die The Big Dirty | 3.0 |
| Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon | 2.5 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight | 2.5 |
| Linkin Park One More Light | 1.0 |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible | 3.0 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 4.5 |
| Laura Stevenson A Record | 5.0 |
| This is one of my all-time favourites, and a definite classic. Honest, heartwarming, harrowing. Just beautiful. If you've never heard it, go get it now. It's available for free on the donation-based label Quote/Unqoute records. |
| Loma Prieta Self Portrait | 2.0 |
| New Order Low-Life | 4.0 |
| Nails You Will Never Be One of Us | 3.5 |
| Nails Unsilent Death | 3.5 |
| Nails Abandon All Life | 4.0 |
| Oathbreaker Rheia | 4.0 |
| Oathbreaker Maelstrom | 2.5 |
| Petal Shame | 2.5 |
| Pinegrove Cardinal | 4.0 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 4.0 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 4.0 |
| Trap Them Darker Handcraft | 2.5 |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There | 3.0 |
| This album is excessively - EXCESSIVELY - gay but I still like it well enough. 3.2/5 |
| The Weakerthans Left and Leaving | 4.0 |
| The Weakerthans Reconstruction Site | 4.5 |
| Hawthorne Heights The Silence in Black and White | 1.0 |
| Hawthorne Heights If Only You Were Lonely | 1.0 |
| Marilyn Manson Portrait of an American Family | 3.0 |
| Lou Reed Berlin | 5.0 |
| Low I Could Live in Hope | 5.0 |
| Julien Baker Sprained Ankle | 3.5 |
| Jeff Rosenstock WORRY. | 4.5 |
| What do you get when you take Jeff Rosenstock and lock him up in a room with Beach Boys albums and a pervasive feeling of maturity and growth (that actively flirts and plays with the adolescent nature of ska- and pop-punk)? You get WORRY. I love this album. |
| Immolation Close to a World Below | 5.0 |
| i hate sex Circle Thinking | 3.0 |
| Foxing The Albatross | 3.5 |
| While Foxing does venture into the overly dramatic territory of other emo/indie bands, they do it in a way that is honest, tasteful and commendably theirs. The songs feel confessional in nature and they are delivered in a powerful manner. But the downfall of The Albatross lies in the fact that there is not much beyond the emotive bones of the album; it feels incomplete, somehow. 3.7/5 |
| Deftones Gore | 3.0 |
| Deftones White Pony | 4.5 |
| Coroner No More Color | 4.5 |
| Coroner Mental Vortex | 5.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen Nebraska | 5.0 |
| Avatarium Avatarium | 4.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys Suck It and See | 3.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not | 3.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare | 3.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys AM | 3.5 |
| The Afghan Whigs Congregation | 4.0 |
| The Afghan Whigs Black Love | 4.5 |
| The Afghan Whigs Gentlemen | 5.0 |
| Slayer Repentless | 2.0 |
| Slayer Reign in Blood | 4.0 |
| Sepultura Beneath the Remains | 4.0 |
| Sepultura Roots | 2.0 |
