| Yo La Tengo I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One | 5.0 |
| R.E.M. Murmur | 3.5 |
| Waxahatchee Tigers Blood | 4.5 |
| Beyonce Lemonade | 3.0 |
| Big Thief Masterpiece | 4.0 |
| Waxahatchee Saint Cloud | 4.0 |
| Caroline Polachek Desire, I Want To Turn Into You | 4.5 |
| MIKE, Wiki, and The Alchemist Faith Is A Rock | 4.5 |
| Built to Spill There's Nothing Wrong with Love | 4.0 |
| Built to Spill Perfect from Now On | 4.5 |
| Joanna Newsom The Milk-Eyed Mender | 5.0 |
| Aesop Rock Bazooka Tooth | 3.5 |
| JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown Scaring the Hoes | 5.0 |
| Nicki Minaj Pink Friday | 2.5 |
| Doja Cat Planet Her | 3.5 |
| Doja Cat Hot Pink | 4.5 |
| Doja Cat Scarlet | 4.0 |
Lotta y'all legit dumb. This is so fucking good. "Indebted to Ice Spice".... yeah totally
the rapper whose first EP came out NINE years ago is indebted to the person whose first
music was released in January of this year. Good call. |
| Laura Stevenson The Big Freeze | 5.0 |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion | 4.5 |
| Childish Gambino "Awaken, My Love!" | 3.5 |
| Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour | 3.0 |
| This sounds like the sort of thing I would have pretended to like in 2011 |
| The Body No One Deserves Happiness | 3.5 |
| Hop Along Bark Your Head Off, Dog | 4.5 |
| Lorde Melodrama | 4.5 |
| Waxahatchee Out in the Storm | 4.0 |
| Julien Baker Turn Out The Lights | 4.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar DAMN. | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Goths | 4.0 |
| Mutual Benefit Skip a Sinking Stone | 4.5 |
| Vince Staples Prima Donna | 3.5 |
| Sarah Neufeld The Ridge | 3.5 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree | 4.0 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3 | 3.5 |
| Kurt Vile b'lieve i'm goin' down... | 2.5 |
| Coldplay A Head Full of Dreams | 1.5 |
| Aesop Rock Float | 4.0 |
| Aesop Rock The Impossible Kid | 4.5 |
| Bon Iver 22, A Million | 4.0 |
| John K. Samson Winter Wheat | 5.0 |
| Let it rest, all you can't change. Let it rest and be done. |
| Pinegrove Cardinal | 4.5 |
| clipping. Splendor and Misery | 4.0 |
| Regina Spektor Remember Us To Life | 3.0 |
| Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition | 4.5 |
| Angel Olsen My Woman | 4.0 |
| Anderson .Paak Venice | 4.5 |
| Woods City Sun Eater In The River Of Light | 4.0 |
| Isaiah Rashad The Sun's Tirade | 4.0 |
| Okkervil River Away | 4.0 |
| Mitski Puberty 2 | 4.5 |
| No reviews, the literal dumbest soundoff ever, and a bunch of silly ~3 ratings from users I used to think were mad cool. What the hell, website. We used to be pals. |
| Anderson .Paak Malibu | 4.5 |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool | 4.0 |
| Chance the Rapper Coloring Book | 4.5 |
| Jaga Jazzist Starfire | 4.0 |
| Suis La Lune Distance/Closure | 3.0 |
| Thundercat The Beyond/Where The Giants Roam | 3.5 |
| FKA Twigs M3LL155X | 4.0 |
| Jenny Hval Apocalypse, girl | 4.0 |
| Florence and the Machine How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful | 3.0 |
| Foals What Went Down | 3.5 |
| Earl Sweatshirt I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside | 4.0 |
| Des Ark Everything Dies | 3.5 |
| Tut Preacher's Son | 4.0 |
| Saintseneca Such Things | 4.0 |
| Joanna Newsom Divers | 4.5 |
| Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear | 3.0 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Garden of Delete | 4.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar untitled unmastered. | 4.5 |
| Hop Along Wretches | 4.0 |
| Adele 25 | 3.0 |
| Holly Herndon Platform | 4.5 |
| Kanye West The Life of Pablo | 3.0 |
| Julien Baker Sprained Ankle | 5.0 |
| Basia Bulat Good Advice | 4.0 |
| Grimes Art Angels | 4.0 |
| Humans (CAN) Noontide | 4.5 |
| Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld Never Were The Way She Was | 4.0 |
| Pusha T King Push – Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude | 3.5 |
| Ought Sun Coming Down | 4.0 |
| AJJ Candy Cigarettes and Cap Guns | 2.0 |
| Alright so listening to this album for the first time at the age of 26 is a really bad idea. |
| Doc Watson Doc Watson | 4.0 |
| Deerhunter Fading Frontier | 4.0 |
| Julia Holter Have You In My Wilderness | 4.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) O Brother, Where Art Thou? | 4.0 |
| The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Will the Circle Be Unbroken | 4.0 |
| Dan Mangan Club Meds | 4.5 |
| Laura Stevenson Cocksure | 5.0 |
| Duh |
| Vince Staples Summertime '06 | 4.0 |
| Who do I report for tagging this Indie Rock? |
| Run the Jewels Meow the Jewels | 3.0 |
| Fripp and Eno Evening Star | 4.5 |
| Mew +- | 4.0 |
| This is missing a little bit of the edge that their last album had, in my most humble of opinions. They ~almost~ recapture the absolute brilliance and magic of Frengers and Kites (masterpieces, both of them) but it's not quite all there. I'm surprised that, in hindsight, I end up wishing they had followed the direction they started to angle towards with Stories. Obviously this album is marvelous, and maybe it will grow on me more, but they've done better before, maybe three times. Let me end by saying that Mew is god damn phenomenal because that last sentence was too negative for the end of a rant about a band that is so indescribably special to me. |
| MO No Mythologies to Follow | 2.5 |
| Tame Impala Currents | 3.5 |
| Dr. Dre Compton | 3.5 |
| Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret | 4.5 |
| Torres Sprinter | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou Pale Horses | 3.5 |
| Jamie xx In Colour | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress' | 4.0 |
| Flume Flume | 3.0 |
| Sleater-Kinney No Cities to Love | 4.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Dark Bird Is Home | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) The Truman Show | 4.5 |
| Refused Freedom | 2.0 |
| Field Mouse Hold Still Life | 3.5 |
| Hop Along Painted Shut | 4.5 |
| Courtney Barnett sometimes i sit and think, and sometimes i just sit | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Beat the Champ | 4.5 |
| Sisyphus Sisyphus | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse Strangers to Ourselves | 3.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly | 5.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell | 4.5 |
| Eugene |
| RATKING 700 Fill | 4.0 |
| Joey Badass B4.DA.$$ | 3.5 |
| Jessica Pratt On Your Own Love Again | 3.5 |
| Angel Olsen Half Way Home | 4.0 |
| Robin Bacior Water Dreams | 4.0 |
| Waxahatchee Ivy Tripp | 4.5 |
| Bjork Vulnicura | 4.0 |
| The Offspring Days Go By | 1.0 |
| Tanya Tagaq Animism | 3.5 |
| Aesop Rock Coffee | 3.5 |
| Cloud Nothings Here and Nowhere Else | 3.0 |
| Preoccupations Viet Cong | 4.0 |
| Jim Head Zoetrope | 4.0 |
| Antarctigo Vespucci Soulmate Stuff | 3.5 |
| East India Youth Total Strife Forever | 4.0 |
| KETEV KETEV | 3.5 |
| ASC Truth Be Told | 4.0 |
| Ben Howard I Forget Where We Were | 3.5 |
| Angel Olsen Burn Your Fire for No Witness | 4.5 |
| Bonobo Flashlight | 4.0 |
| Grouper Ruins | 4.0 |
| The Flashbulb Nothing Is Real | 4.0 |
| J. Cole 2014 Forest Hills Drive | 3.5 |
| Cymbals Eat Guitars LOSE | 4.0 |
| Clark Clark | 3.5 |
| Radiator Hospital Torch Song | 4.0 |
| Loscil Sea Island | 4.5 |
| I think this might be my favourite of all his albums, something I definitely didn't think I would say about a new record from Loscil. It's so haunting and layered and keeps the listener on their toes. Often ambient records settle in to pretty predictable grooves but this one is always shifting. |
| Banks Goddess | 3.5 |
| Single Mothers Negative Qualities | 3.5 |
| Wen Signals | 4.0 |
| Ricky Eat Acid Three Love Songs | 4.0 |
| A Winged Victory for the Sullen Atomos | 4.0 |
| The Bug Angels and Devils | 3.5 |
| Iceage Plowing into the Field of Love | 4.0 |
| The Roots ...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin | 3.0 |
| D'Angelo Black Messiah | 4.0 |
| Beach Slang Cheap Thrills On A Dead End Street | 2.5 |
| Alvvays Alvvays | 4.0 |
| Arrange Their Bodies in a Fog | 3.5 |
| Arrange New Memory | 4.0 |
| The Pack A.D. Do Not Engage | 4.0 |
| Nmesh Dream Sequins | 3.5 |
| Rochelle Jordan 1021 | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans | 4.0 |
| Boris Noise | 4.0 |
| Snowday As We Travel | 4.0 |
| Meatbodies Meatbodies | 3.5 |
| Thou Heathen | 4.0 |
| Mitski bury me at makeout creek | 4.5 |
| sleepmakeswaves Love of Cartography | 3.0 |
| Hans Zimmer Interstellar | 3.5 |
| Jessie Ware Tough Love | 4.0 |
| Hamilton Leithauser Black Hours | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun | 2.5 |
| Kassem Mosse Workshop 19 | 4.0 |
| Lykke Li I Never Learn | 3.0 |
| TV on the Radio Seeds | 3.5 |
| FKA Twigs LP1 | 4.0 |
| Vancouver Sleep Clinic Winter | 3.5 |
| Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Pikapika Fantajin | 3.5 |
| Marketa Irglova Muna | 4.0 |
| Ariel Pink Pom Pom | 2.0 |
| Fuck this guy so hard. It's so obviously forced and unimaginative to the core. Imagine if Sgt. Peppers was actually somehow a steaming pile of shit and you've got a pretty good idea of what this album sounds like. Avoid this unless someone you like enjoys it, then pretend to be a fan. I'm convinced that every single "fan" this douche has followed this line of reasoning. Or is in a cult. Or both. |
| In Flames Siren Charms | 2.0 |
| Damien Rice My Favourite Faded Fantasy | 3.5 |
| Glass Bones Loner | 4.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare | 3.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys AM | 3.5 |
| Dean Blunt Black Metal | 4.0 |
| United Nations The Next Four Years | 4.0 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Keep You | 4.0 |
| Port St. Willow Holiday | 3.5 |
| Taylor Swift 1989 | 4.0 |
| The Black Keys Turn Blue | 2.5 |
| The Black Keys Rubber Factory | 4.0 |
| Jon Hopkins Insides | 4.0 |
| ripping off Coldplay smh that's Joe Satriani's game |
| The Rural Alberta Advantage Mended With Gold | 4.0 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 | 4.0 |
| Hey Rosetta! Second Sight | 3.5 |
| Phaeleh Somnus | 4.0 |
| Andy Stott Faith in Strangers | 4.5 |
| Caribou Our Love | 3.5 |
| Perfume Genius Too Bright | 4.0 |
| Aloe Blacc Good Things | 3.0 |
| Philip Selway Weatherhouse | 3.0 |
| Jonny Greenwood There Will Be Blood OST | 4.0 |
| Spoon They Want My Soul | 3.5 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels (Instrumentals) | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois | 4.5 |
| Philip Selway Familial | 3.0 |
| Chuck Ragan Till Midnight | 3.0 |
| Braid No Coast | 4.0 |
| Thom Yorke Tomorrow's Modern Boxes | 3.5 |
| Flying Lotus You're Dead! | 4.5 |
| Run-D.M.C. Down With The King | 2.0 |
| Rx Bandits Gemini, Her Majesty | 2.5 |
| what's the point of bringing the band back together if you've got nothing left in the tank? |
| NEEDS Rare Earths | 3.5 |
| Aphex Twin Syro | 3.5 |
| AJJ Christmas Island | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Wall — Music From The Film | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd A Nice Pair | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii | 4.5 |
| Missy Elliott The Cookbook | 2.5 |
| Joyce Manor Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired | 3.0 |
| Le Butcherettes Cry Is For The Flies | 4.0 |
| This band is something special and are absolutely not to be missed live. Even if you don't love this record (you will after you see them play 'Normal You Were'), their live show is captivating and exquisite. |
| Death From Above 1979 The Physical World | 3.5 |
| Jack White Lazaretto | 3.0 |
| Crippled Black Phoenix White Light Generator | 3.5 |
| Woods With Light And With Love | 4.0 |
| Maybeshewill Fair Youth | 3.5 |
| Hilltop Hoods Walking Under Stars | 2.5 |
| The New Pornographers Brill Bruisers | 3.5 |
| Jenny Lewis The Voyager | 3.5 |
| Beck Odelay | 4.0 |
| Joyce Manor Never Hungover Again | 4.0 |
| Frank Ocean channel ORANGE | 3.5 |
| Fiona Apple When the Pawn... | 4.5 |
| Fiona Apple Tidal | 4.0 |
| Fiona Apple Extraordinary Machine | 4.5 |
| Teebs E S T A R A | 4.0 |
| Blondie Parallel Lines | 4.0 |
| Jessie J Who You Are | 1.5 |
| Jeremih Late Nights With Jeremih | 1.5 |
| Jay Rock Follow Me Home | 2.5 |
| BADBADNOTGOOD III | 4.5 |
| First Aid Kit Stay Gold | 4.0 |
| clipping. CLPPNG | 4.0 |
| RATKING So It Goes | 4.0 |
| Ought More Than Any Other Day | 4.0 |
| White Lung Deep Fantasy | 4.0 |
| Sharon Van Etten Are We There | 4.5 |
| How to Dress Well What Is This Heart? | 3.5 |
| Camu Tao King Of Hearts | 2.0 |
| tUnE-yArDs Nikki Nack | 4.0 |
| Cold War Kids Dear Miss Lonelyhearts | 3.0 |
| You know an album is "just ok" when it can't even get even one rating above 4 on sputnik, home of the hyperbolic album ratings. |
| Portugal. The Man Evil Friends | 4.0 |
| Phantogram Voices | 4.5 |
| Elbow The Take Off And Landing Of Everything | 4.0 |
| The Parlor Mob Dogs | 2.5 |
| Coldplay Ghost Stories | 3.0 |
| Phosphorescent Muchacho | 3.5 |
| Kishi Bashi Lighght | 4.0 |
| Summer has officially begun. |
| Fennesz Becs | 4.0 |
| Portugal. The Man Waiter: ''You Vultures!'' | 4.0 |
| Portugal. The Man Censored Colors | 4.0 |
| Tensnake Glow | 3.5 |
| Portugal. The Man Church Mouth | 4.0 |
| The Roots Things Fall Apart | 4.5 |
| Todd Terje It's Album Time | 4.0 |
| Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks Enter the Slasher House | 3.0 |
| The Antlers Familiars | 4.0 |
| Vales Wilt And Rise | 3.5 |
| More Than Life What's Left of Me | 2.5 |
| Trophy Scars Holy Vacants | 4.5 |
| Xiu Xiu Angel Guts: Red Classroom | 2.0 |
| Young the Giant Mind Over Matter | 3.0 |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There | 4.0 |
| Patrick Watson Wooden Arms | 4.5 |
| Perfect Pussy Say Yes to Love | 4.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra Cope | 3.5 |
| I guess I'll just have to COPE with a less exciting sound from Manchester Orchestra. (God I'm good.) |
| Portugal. The Man The Majestic Majesty | 3.5 |
| Liars Drum's Not Dead | 4.0 |
| Liars Mess | 4.0 |
| The Menzingers Rented World | 4.0 |
| The Sidekicks Awkward Breeds | 4.0 |
| Opiuo Meraki | 3.5 |
| Childish Gambino Because the Internet | 2.5 |
| J. Cole Born Sinner | 3.0 |
| Saintseneca Dark Arc | 4.5 |
| AThom being AThom |
| YG My Krazy Life | 3.5 |
| Manners Pale Blue Light | 3.5 |
| Take The Earth Beneath Us Take The Earth Beneath Us EP | 3.0 |
| Austra Olympia | 2.0 |
| Nope, nuh uh, no way, nein. Album is bad. I am right and you are wrong. Good day. |
| The Jezabels The Brink | 3.5 |
| Arcade Fire Her | 4.0 |
| Mogwai Rave Tapes | 2.5 |
| Mac DeMarco Salad Days | 3.0 |
| Cursed III: Architects of Troubled Sleep | 4.0 |
| Hospitality Trouble | 4.0 |
| Freddie Gibbs and Madlib Pinata | 4.0 |
| ScHoolboy Q Oxymoron | 3.5 |
| Cursed II | 4.5 |
| Cursed Hell Comes Home | 3.5 |
| Cursed I | 4.0 |
| Sun Kil Moon Benji | 2.0 |
| La Dispute Rooms of the House | 4.0 |
| I will comment on ZERO sputnik music dot com threads for this album because of the sheer inanity of the discussion that is certainly contained within. I LIKE THIS BAND. Good day, fellow message board users. Good day. |
| Skrillex Recess | 2.0 |
| The year is 2014 |
| Wild Beasts Present Tense | 4.0 |
| Love American Hollow Crosses | 4.0 |
| Tycho Awake | 3.0 |
| P.S. Eliot Introverted Romance In Our Troubled Minds | 4.0 |
| Pharrell Williams G I R L | 2.5 |
| Real Estate Atlas | 4.0 |
| The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream | 4.5 |
| This is perfect "fuck off don't talk to me I'm on a bus and have my headphones in" music. I'm lost in the dream, bro. Quit harshin my mellow. |
| St. Vincent St. Vincent | 4.5 |
| Portugal. The Man American Ghetto | 3.5 |
| Isaiah Rashad Cilvia Demo | 4.0 |
| Liars Liars | 4.0 |
| First Aid Kit The Lion's Roar | 4.0 |
| Down With Webster Time To Win Vol. I | 1.0 |
| Warpaint Warpaint | 3.5 |
| Clipse Lord Willin' | 3.5 |
| Alcest Shelter | 3.0 |
| Clipse We Got It 4 Cheap Volume 1 | 3.5 |
| Patrick Watson Adventures in Your Own Backyard | 4.0 |
| Autre Ne Veut Anxiety | 3.5 |
| Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues | 4.0 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything | 5.0 |
| Iceage You're Nothing | 3.5 |
| Polyenso One Big Particular Loop | 3.5 |
| Bosnian Rainbows Bosnian Rainbows | 3.5 |
| Kokomo Kokomo | 3.5 |
| Big K.R.I.T. King Remembered In Time | 4.0 |
| Johnny Good Fear | 4.0 |
| Jake Bellows New Ocean | 4.0 |
| Blood Orange Cupid Deluxe | 3.5 |
| Dean Blunt The Redeemer | 4.5 |
| most of you are so silly, this album is astonishing |
| De La Soul 3 Feet High and Rising | 4.0 |
| Steve Roach Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces | 4.0 |
| Neko Case The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight... | 4.5 |
| Janelle Monae The Electric Lady | 3.5 |
| Yuck Glow and Behold | 3.0 |
| Gang Starr Step in the Arena | 3.5 |
| Marijuana Deathsquads Oh My Sexy Lord | 2.5 |
| kegel nailed it. pretty good sounding music which is occasionally completely ruined by dreadful vocals. this is nothing like Tamper, Disable, Destroy...which I loved. |
| Pretty Lights A Color Map of The Sun | 3.5 |
| Polica Shulamith | 3.5 |
| iNTRiKeT Lost | 4.0 |
| Killer Mike Pl3dge | 4.0 |
| Majical Cloudz Impersonator | 4.0 |
| Burial Rival Dealer | 4.0 |
| "I bet you thought Burial was going to become one of the pop-IDMers he once denounced. HAHA. Yea, right." - no one thought this and you are weird |
| Beyonce Beyonce | 4.0 |
| Black Milk No Poison No Paradise | 4.0 |
| Friendzone DX | 4.0 |
| Thundercat Apocalypse | 3.5 |
| Midnight City Records After Midnight | 4.0 |
| BNJMN Hummingbird | 3.5 |
| Abysss White | 2.5 |
| Daniel Avery Drone Logic | 3.0 |
| Tim Hecker Virgins | 4.0 |
| Pusha T My Name Is My Name | 4.0 |
| A Wilhelm Scream Partycrasher | 3.5 |
| Jon Hopkins Immunity | 4.5 |
| Wolf Thief Deprivation | 4.0 |
| http://vimeo.com/79438965 |
| Saint Pepsi Hit Vibes | 3.0 |
| Swearin' Surfing Strange | 4.0 |
| The Smith Street Band No One Gets Lost Anymore | 3.5 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never R Plus Seven | 4.5 |
| Bark Psychosis Hex | 4.0 |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP 2 | 3.5 |
| It's the album I've always wanted him to make. Any alleged "trash" is easily outweighed by the gold many times over. Different strokes for different folks n sht but I dunno guys this album is my peanutbutternJAM rite now. |
| Okkervil River The Stand Ins | 4.0 |
| Okkervil River I Am Very Far | 3.5 |
| Arcade Fire Reflektor | 3.5 |
| Bauhaus In the Flat Field | 4.5 |
| Charli XCX True Romance | 2.0 |
| Shad Flying Colours | 4.5 |
| Yamantaka // Sonic Titan Uzu | 4.0 |
| Miley Cyrus Bangerz | 2.0 |
| Action Bronson Rare Chandeliers | 3.0 |
| Four Tet Beautiful Rewind | 3.5 |
| CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe | 2.5 |
| HAIM Days Are Gone | 4.0 |
| Deltron 3030 Event II | 3.5 |
| Siouxsie and the Banshees The Scream | 4.0 |
| The Chameleons Script of the Bridge | 4.0 |
| The Dodos Carrier | 4.0 |
| Lou Reed The Blue Mask | 3.0 |
| Danny Brown Old | 4.5 |
| Danny Brown is unstoppable. Immense album. |
| Paul Simon Graceland | 4.5 |
| Moderat II | 4.0 |
| Lorde Pure Heroine | 5.0 |
| If you ask me, this is perfection in pop music. Dissenting opinions be damned!! |
| Basia Bulat Tall Tall Shadow | 4.5 |
| iNTRiKeT Shut Your Eyes/Underneath | 4.0 |
| Immortal Technique Revolutionary Volume 1 | 2.5 |
| Julia Holter Loud City Song | 4.5 |
| Maya Jane Coles Comfort | 4.0 |
| The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America | 4.0 |
| Modern Life Is War Fever Hunting | 3.5 |
| Eric B and Rakim Paid in Full | 4.0 |
| Depth Connection Different Waves | 3.5 |
| Organized Konfusion Organized Konfusion | 4.5 |
| Black Star Black Star | 4.0 |
| The Front Bottoms Talon of the Hawk | 4.0 |
| Earl Sweatshirt Doris | 3.5 |
| Okkervil River The Silver Gymnasium | 4.0 |
| Imagine Dragons Night Visions | 2.0 |
| Flo Rida Wild Ones | 2.0 |
| Clipse Hell Hath No Fury | 4.5 |
| Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 | 4.5 |
| Gwen Stefani Love. Angel. Music. Baby. | 3.0 |
| Gorguts Colored Sands | 3.5 |
| The Pharcyde Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde | 4.5 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 4.5 |
| Cage (USA-NY) Movies for the Blind | 4.0 |
| Chance the Rapper Acid Rap | 3.0 |
| Klub des Loosers La fin de l'espece | 3.5 |
| IAM L' Ecole du Micro D'Argent | 4.5 |
| Ice Cube AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted | 4.0 |
| Cloudkicker Beacons | 3.5 |
| Cannibal Ox The Cold Vein | 4.5 |
| Red Nightfall Late in the Fever | 3.5 |
| Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City | 3.5 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Push The Sky Away | 3.5 |
| bansheebeat Spiral Power | 4.0 |
| Shad When This Is Over | 4.0 |
| Defeater Letters Home | 3.5 |
| "I've been here since 05, respect me!! grrrrrr!!!!!" - hep kat |
| Mr. Muthafuckin eXquire Kismet | 4.0 |
| Shad TSOL | 4.0 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Whenever, If Ever | 4.0 |
| J Dilla Donuts | 4.0 |
| Dead Prez Let's Get Free | 4.5 |
| Mos Def Black on Both Sides | 4.0 |
| Sed Non Satiata Mappo | 4.0 |
| Ramy Almerie: a no-good phony. |
| El-P I'll Sleep When You're Dead | 4.5 |
| OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below | 3.0 |
| The Beach Boys Pet Sounds | 4.5 |
| Phaeleh Tides | 4.0 |
| OutKast ATLiens | 4.5 |
| Jay-Z Magna Carta... Holy Grail | 2.0 |
| El-P Fantastic Damage | 4.5 |
| Company Flow Funcrusher Plus | 4.0 |
| V.I.V.E.K Soundman/Diablo | 3.5 |
| Digital Mystikz Haunted/Anti War Dub | 4.5 |
| Commodo Buckwild/Axis | 3.5 |
| J:Kenzo Invaderz/Depth Charge | 3.0 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels | 4.5 |
| El-P and Killer Mike are honestly probably two of the biggest badasses of all time |
| Var No One Dances Quite Like My Brothers | 4.0 |
| Emika DVA | 4.0 |
| Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Nandacollection | 3.0 |
| TOKiMONSTA Half Shadows | 3.0 |
| Rudimental Home | 3.0 |
| California X California X | 3.0 |
| Lorde Tennis Court | 4.5 |
| Lorde The Love Club | 4.5 |
| Laura Marling Once I Was an Eagle | 3.5 |
| Disclosure Settle | 4.0 |
| Zomby With Love | 4.0 |
| Dirty Beaches Drifters/Love Is The Devil | 4.0 |
| Captain, We're Sinking The Future Is Cancelled | 4.5 |
| Sigur Ros Kveikur | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Brennisteinn | 4.0 |
| Kanye West Yeezus | 3.0 |
| Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest | 4.0 |
| Jacques Greene On Your Side | 4.0 |
| Sorrow (UK) Dreamstone | 4.5 |
| Headhunter (UK) Nomad | 4.0 |
| Baauer Harlem Shake | 2.5 |
| UGK Ridin' Dirty | 4.0 |
| OutKast Aquemini | 4.5 |
| OutKast Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik | 4.0 |
| Enemies Embark Embrace | 3.0 |
| Desolate (DE) Celestial Light Beings | 4.0 |
| Tricky Maxinquaye | 4.0 |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 4.0 |
| Bibio Silver Wilkinson | 3.5 |
| Ab-Soul Control System | 3.5 |
| Asa Arcane | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork | 4.0 |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories | 3.5 |
| " "So I listened to this Daft Punk album once while browsing the web. I will now unveil my critique" --the Internet, 5/13/13" a John Darnielle twitter classic |
| The Wonder Years The Greatest Generation | 3.5 |
| Kurt Vile Wakin on a Pretty Daze | 3.0 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Apokalypsis | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer | 3.5 |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me | 4.5 |
| This is exactly the album I wanted them to make after High Violet. Trouble Will Find Me makes it five spectacular LPs in a row, and further confirms that The National is the best indie-rock band currently making music. |
| Eluvium Nightmare Ending | 4.0 |
| Jenny Hval Innocence Is Kinky | 3.5 |
| 2562 Unbalance | 4.0 |
| Boards of Canada Boc Maxima | 3.5 |
| Zazen Boys Zazen Boys III | 3.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Palmcorder Yajna | 3.5 |
| The Mountain Goats Letter from Belgium | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Dilaudid | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Jam Eater Blues | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats See America Right | 3.5 |
| The Mountain Goats Songs For Peter Hughes | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Orange Raja | 3.5 |
| The Mountain Goats Chile De Arbol | 3.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Songs For Petronius | 3.5 |
| The Veils Nux Vomica | 5.0 |
| Capacities There Is No Neutral | 4.0 |
| Data Romance Other | 4.0 |
| "The xx, if the xx bumped" -- perfect |
| will.i.am #Willpower | 1.0 |
| Gwen Stefani The Sweet Escape | 2.5 |
| The Black Eyed Peas Monkey Business | 2.0 |
| The Black Eyed Peas Elephunk | 3.0 |
| Die Antwoord $O$ | 1.5 |
| Skream Midnight Request Line/I | 4.0 |
| Caravels Lacuna | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue | 3.5 |
| Clubroot Clubroot | 4.0 |
| DJ Sprinkles Where Dancefloors Stand Still | 4.0 |
| Tyler Brown The Hollows | 3.5 |
| Uriah Heep Demons and Wizards | 4.0 |
| Flatbush Zombies D.R.U.G.S. | 4.0 |
| The Veils The Runaway Found | 4.5 |
| Baths Obsidian | 3.0 |
| Metz Metz | 3.5 |
| Wes Montgomery Greatest Hits | 4.0 |
| Boards of Canada Geogaddi | 4.5 |
| Dizzee Rascal Boy In Da Corner | 3.5 |
| Phoenix (FRA) United | 3.0 |
| 'funky squaredance' for the god damn win |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced | 4.5 |
| Wiley Treddin' on Thin Ice | 4.0 |
| Ghostface Killah Twelve Reasons to Die | 3.5 |
| Quantum Soul Strong Root | 3.5 |
| DJ Madd The Life You Chose | 4.0 |
| Wil Wagner Laika | 3.0 |
| The Thermals Desperate Ground | 3.5 |
| Streetlight Manifesto The Hands That Thieve | 4.5 |
| Deerhunter Monomania | 3.5 |
| DJ Madd The Real & The Shadow | 4.5 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Mosquito | 3.5 |
| Iron And Wine Ghost on Ghost | 2.0 |
| Troubled Medium CAN U FEEL IT??? | 4.0 |
| SP:MC Declassified | 4.0 |
| Frank Turner Tape Deck Heart | 3.5 |
| Kahn Kahn | 4.0 |
| The Shouting Matches Grownass Man | 3.5 |
| Omar S Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself | 2.5 |
| Sudatsuga Hain-Ba Sun Hex | 2.0 |
| The Knife Shaking the Habitual | 4.0 |
| Geode Vie | 4.0 |
| Tera Melos X'ed Out | 3.5 |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP | 3.5 |
| Seven (UK) Evolution | 2.5 |
| James Blake Overgrown | 4.0 |
| so if my calculations are correct, this is the best post-post-dubstep album of 2013 |
| Danny Brown XXX | 4.5 |
| Youngsta Destruction/Poseidon | 4.0 |
| Thelem Tarnished | 4.0 |
| Biome The Prayer/Future Past | 3.5 |
| Seven (UK) Walter White | 3.0 |
| Kassem Mosse Workshop 12 | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Migrant | 3.0 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Live in Sydney | 3.5 |
| Jonas Brothers It's About Time | 1.5 |
| Tyler, the Creator Wolf | 3.0 |
| I hate you all....so, so much. |
| Gantz (TUR) No Faith/Catalyst | 3.5 |
| Perverse Tesla | 3.0 |
| Biome Light | 3.5 |
| Axon Level Up | 3.5 |
| Killawatt Press On/Tantra | 4.5 |
| Jafu No More | 4.0 |
| V.I.V.E.K Out Of Reach | 4.0 |
| V.I.V.E.K Against The Tide/Trinity | 4.0 |
| Lapalux Nostalchic | 3.5 |
| Kryptic Minds Namaste | 4.5 |
| V.I.V.E.K Pulse | 4.0 |
| Laura Stevenson Wheel | 5.0 |
| Laura Stevenson refines her skills as a lyricist (and also starts to branch out into more interesting, less cliche lyrical topics), The Cans display drastically improved songwriting and much more musical creativity - and the overall result is an absolutely breathtaking piece of indie-rock from one of the genre's rising stars. Did that 2011 hype-train get on your nerves? If so, start running now and don't look back: this one's gonna be off the chain. CHOO CHOOOOOOOO!!! All aboard!!! |
| Bonobo The North Borders | 4.5 |
| Buckcherry Confessions | 1.5 |
| Dr. Quandary Wayfarers | 4.0 |
| M8 |
| V.I.V.E.K Asteroids/Over My Head | 4.5 |
| All three versions of this tune are equally massive (though my personal favourite is definitely Over My Head). V.I.V.E.K. has finally realized his dream in full, now having a record label of his own to go with his personalized sound system in North London. Big things are surely on the horizon for System Music, and its first official release is an absolute stunner. Absolutely essential listening for fans of dubstep. |
| Geskia! Silent of Light | 4.0 |
| Amit Acid Trip/Don't Forget Your Roots | 4.0 |
| SP:MC Trust Nobody/Future | 4.0 |
| SP:MC Taiko Dub/Bad Dreams | 4.0 |
| Mister Lies Mowgli | 4.0 |
| Lapalux Without You | 4.0 |
| Amit Killer Driller/Color Blind | 3.0 |
| Rosie June Listening Post | 4.0 |
| Boris Präparat | 4.0 |
| Old Man Markley Down Side Up | 4.5 |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All | 4.0 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Bankrupt! | 3.5 |
| Man they were really onto something special with their last album, but this one just falls completely flat in comparison. On its own, it's a pretty enjoyable album for what it is, but I really thought that Phoenix had to potential to really move forward and create another undeniable masterpiece. This is certainly not that masterpiece. |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience | 4.5 |
| 2013's Dark Fantasy |
| Battles Gloss Drop | 3.5 |
| Kattoo Motu | 2.0 |
| Great Gray Buildings Teleglow | 3.5 |
| Things Fall Apart Things Fall Apart | 3.5 |
| Kevin Federline Playing with Fire | 1.0 |
| Gas Pop | 3.5 |
| The Clash London Calling | 2.5 |
| Boris Pink | 4.0 |
| Okkervil River The Stage Names | 4.0 |
| The Shins Wincing the Night Away | 4.0 |
| Quadrupede Quadrupede | 4.0 |
| Shugo Tokumaru Exit | 3.5 |
| Past Lives Tapestry of Webs | 3.5 |
| The Extra Lens Undercard | 4.0 |
| Swearin' Swearin' | 4.0 |
| Shugo Tokumaru Port Entropy | 4.0 |
| Nu Sensae Sundowning | 4.0 |
| White Lung It's The Evil | 3.5 |
| Killawatt 71 | 4.0 |
| Biome Spawned | 4.0 |
| Suuns Images Du Futur | 4.0 |
| U2 No Line on the Horizon | 1.5 |
| Coldplay Live 2012 | 3.5 |
| Coldplay Safety | 3.0 |
| Jet Get Born | 2.0 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Is Is | 3.0 |
| Kaospilot Shadows | 4.0 |
| The Men New Moon | 3.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal | 2.0 |
| Sam Roberts Band We Were Born In A Flame | 3.5 |
| Cake Showroom Of Compassion | 3.0 |
| Kishi Bashi Room For Dream | 4.5 |
| David Bowie Space Oddity | 3.0 |
| Youth Lagoon Wondrous Bughouse | 4.0 |
| Clint Mansell, Kronos Quartet and Mogwai The Fountain | 4.5 |
| Les Rallizes Denudes '67-'69 Studio et Live | 3.5 |
| Waxahatchee Cerulean Salt | 4.5 |
| Thriftworks Terry - D | 4.5 |
| The title track I mean come on how is something that good? |
| In Medias Res It Was Warm and Sunny When We First Set Out | 3.0 |
| Nomine Nomine's Sound/Searching | 4.0 |
| Nails Abandon All Life | 4.0 |
| Nails Unsilent Death | 4.0 |
| Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun | 3.0 |
| Rihanna Unapologetic | 2.0 |
| Tegan and Sara Heartthrob | 2.5 |
| Tegan and Sara Sainthood | 3.0 |
| The Flaming Lips The Terror | 4.5 |
| c'mon motherfuckers c'mon |
| The Flaming Lips Clouds Taste Metallic | 4.5 |
| Wipers Is This Real? | 4.5 |
| White Lies Ritual | 2.0 |
| Ween 12 Golden Country Greats | 3.0 |
| Wavves Wavvves | 2.0 |
| Wavves Wavves | 1.5 |
| Best Coast The Only Place | 1.5 |
| Sadistik Flowers for My Father | 3.5 |
| Bisk Strange Or Funny Ha-Ha? | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Honeycomb/Gotham | 3.5 |
| Monoliths. AS220 | 2.0 |
| Oddczar One Word | 3.5 |
| Suuns Zeroes QC | 4.0 |
| Biome Black Widow | 3.5 |
| Metric Synthetica | 4.0 |
| Neil Young Harvest | 3.5 |
| Lou Reed Rock 'n' Roll Animal | 4.0 |
| Wolf Thief Wolf Thief EP | 4.0 |
| Autechre Quaristice | 3.5 |
| Autechre Untilted | 4.0 |
| Queen Innuendo | 3.5 |
| Taylor Swift Speak Now World Tour | 2.0 |
| Barrow Though I'm Alone | 3.0 |
| Autechre Oversteps | 4.0 |
| Coil Horse Rotorvator | 4.0 |
| Autechre Exai | 4.5 |
| ...................................................................fuk |
| Raein Sulla linea d'orizzonte tra questa mia vita e que | 4.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine m b v | 4.0 |
| Funeral Advantage Demo | 3.5 |
| John Lithgoat Who Gives a Fuck Nowhere | 4.0 |
| "Middle" and "Distance" are two of the best sput-core songs ever. Eat your heart out Ghost Ship. |
| Foals Holy Fire | 4.0 |
| Kaki King Glow | 4.0 |
| Efterklang Piramida | 3.0 |
| Frightened Rabbit Pedestrian Verse | 4.5 |
| Benga Diary Of An Afro Warrior | 4.0 |
| Local Natives Hummingbird | 3.5 |
| Local Natives Gorilla Manor | 4.0 |
| AJJ Can't Maintain | 4.0 |
| Laura Stevenson Runner | 4.0 |
| TTNG 13.0.0.0.0 | 3.5 |
| 1902 Motsi | 3.0 |
| Bass Drum of Death GB City | 3.0 |
| Kytami Kytami | 4.0 |
| The Field Looping State of Mind | 4.5 |
| The New Pornographers Twin Cinema | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats/Kaki King Black Pear Tree | 4.0 |
| The Pop Group Y | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats/John Vanderslice Moon Colony Bloodbath | 3.5 |
| Low The Invisible Way | 3.0 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar All Hail Bright Futures | 4.5 |
| 2013 has arrived |
| And So I Watch You From Afar Straight Through The Sun Without A Scratch | 3.0 |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal | 3.5 |
so we're seriously gonna take that one 30 second oscillating bass-note and call it dubstep?
I know you're all dumb (especially when it comes to dubstep) but you guys, come on, surely
you're not all THAT dumb.
"POST-METAL/DUBSTEP CROSSOVER: BRILLIANT! 5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5" |
| Gold Panda Mountain/Financial District | 3.5 |
| Shugo Tokumaru In Focus? | 4.0 |
| Eluvium Talk Amongst the Trees | 3.5 |
| Saintseneca Last | 4.5 |
| Britney Spears In the Zone | 2.5 |
| Britney Spears Britney | 2.0 |
| Britney Spears Blackout | 1.0 |
| Skrillex Leaving | 2.0 |
| Lotus Plaza Spooky Action At A Distance | 3.5 |
| Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson Unnoticeable In A Tiny Town, Invisible In The City | 4.0 |
| Raein Il n'y a pas de orchestre | 4.0 |
| Nosaj Thing Home | 3.5 |
| How the hell would an Andy Stott album sound like this? |
| Touche Amore/Pianos Become the Teeth Split | 4.0 |
| Yo La Tengo I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass | 4.0 |
| Drowning Horse Drowning Horse | 4.0 |
| Yo La Tengo Fade | 4.0 |
| Sounds like something Rudy Klapper would like |
| Sorrow (UK) Art Is Dead | 4.0 |
| Low A Lifetime of Temporary Relief | 4.0 |
| Stars Set Yourself On Fire | 3.5 |
| toe The Future Is Now | 4.0 |
| Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson Small Changes We Hardly Notice | 4.5 |
| best EP of 2012 if not for Kindred |
| DIIV Oshin | 3.5 |
| Comadre Comadre | 3.5 |
| Xanthochroid Blessed He With Boils | 2.5 |
| some would go so far as to call this FALSE METAL but I am not one of those people |
| Fang Island Major | 3.5 |
| Beneficence Concrete Soul | 4.0 |
| Venn Rain Cymatic Cymbols | 4.0 |
| RiffOCore: a new sputnik subgenre - and it kind of rules |
| Basement Colourmeinkindness | 3.5 |
| Low Travels in Constants, Vol. 9: The Exit Papers | 3.5 |
| Night Shift Trespassers Guide to Nowhere | 4.0 |
| Burial Distant Lights | 4.0 |
| Burial Ghost Hardware | 4.0 |
| Jacques Greene Ready | 4.0 |
| Low Plays Nice Places | 3.0 |
| Burial South London Boroughs | 4.0 |
| Dot Hacker Dot Hacker | 3.0 |
| Dot Hacker Inhibition | 2.5 |
| Carissa's Wierd Songs About Leaving | 4.5 |
| Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Pamyu Pamyu Revolution | 4.5 |
| Tame Impala Lonerism | 4.0 |
| Low Trust | 4.5 |
| Burial Burial | 4.5 |
| Pop Winds Earth To Friend | 3.5 |
| Low Secret Name | 3.5 |
| Low The Great Destroyer | 4.0 |
| Low Drums and Guns | 3.0 |
| Low The Curtain Hits the Cast | 4.0 |
| Low Long Division | 4.0 |
| Low Christmas | 4.0 |
| OutKast Stankonia | 4.5 |
| Farrah Abraham My Teenage Dream Ended | 2.0 |
| Tenacious D The Pick of Destiny | 2.0 |
| Dark Time Sunshine ANX | 3.5 |
| ASAP Rocky LONG.LIVE.A$AP | 4.0 |
| Maya Jane Coles Easier To Hide | 4.0 |
| Oceansize Everyone Into Position | 4.0 |
| Burial Truant/Rough Sleeper | 4.0 |
| Why does anyone else even bother? |
| Queen Sheer Heart Attack | 4.0 |
| Queen Greatest Hits II | 3.5 |
| Panic! at the Disco Pretty. Odd. | 3.0 |
| Jeff Rosenstock I Look Like Shit | 4.0 |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All | 3.5 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 4.0 |
| Luv NY LUV NY | 4.0 |
| Passion Pit Gossamer | 3.0 |
| James Blake CMYK | 3.5 |
| Iron And Wine The Shepherd's Dog | 3.5 |
| Continents. ...and silence anchored our feet in granite | 4.0 |
| Bummer (CAN) Kids on the Run | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence | 3.0 |
| White Lung Sorry | 4.0 |
| Eminem Relapse | 2.0 |
| Eminem The Eminem Show | 2.5 |
| Dr. Dre The Chronic | 3.5 |
| Cryptopsy Blasphemy Made Flesh | 3.5 |
| Liars WIXIW | 3.5 |
| Neil Young Psychedelic Pill | 2.5 |
| Thriftworks Rainmaker | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Leveler | 2.5 |
| Adele 19 | 3.0 |
| Toys That Kill Fambly 42 | 4.5 |
| Yppah Eighty One | 4.0 |
| Dirty Three Toward The Low Sun | 4.0 |
| Niechec Smierc w Miekkim Futerku | 4.0 |
| Macklemore and Ryan Lewis The Heist | 2.5 |
"Is calling this 'album of the year' too ambitious?"
Yes, thanks for asking though! |
| Shrine Somnia | 4.0 |
| Jason Mraz Love Is a Four Letter Word | 2.0 |
| Dave Matthews Band Everyday | 2.0 |
| Dave Matthews Band Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King | 2.0 |
| Dinosaur Jr. I Bet on Sky | 3.5 |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Lost Songs | 4.0 |
| Autechre Draft 7.30 | 3.0 |
| The Menzingers On the Impossible Past | 4.0 |
| Neurosis Honor Found in Decay | 2.5 |
| Abel (NY) Make It Right | 3.5 |
| This band has the potential to be so great. They need to learn some quality control, maybe trim some of the fat, and their next LP could be something truly incredible. Certain moments on this album beg me to fall in love with it, but there are quite a few weak moments as well. They're almost there, but not quite. (all that being said, I still really really like this album - 3.5/5) |
| Minus the Bear Infinity Overhead | 2.5 |
| Amenra Mass V | 3.0 |
| Krallice Years Past Matter | 2.0 |
| Vladislav Delay Vantaa | 3.5 |
| John Frusciante PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone | 3.0 |
| fun. Daytrotter Session | 2.0 |
| The Offspring Americana | 3.0 |
| Green Day Insomniac | 3.0 |
| Green Day Nimrod | 3.5 |
| Yellowcard When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes | 2.0 |
| Yellowcard Southern Air | 2.5 |
| Killer Mike R.A.P. Music | 4.5 |
| Enslaved RIITIIR | 3.5 |
| Chromatics Kill for Love | 4.0 |
| Perverse Genocide | 3.5 |
| The State Lottery Fistfuls of Sand | 3.5 |
| Thriftworks Hydromancy | 4.5 |
| awwww yeee boi dis be muh bluebuerry JAM nigguh |
| Elliott Smith From a Basement on the Hill | 4.0 |
| Ludacris Word Of Mouf | 3.5 |
| Chamillionaire The Sound of Revenge | 3.0 |
| Yes The Yes Album | 4.0 |
| Elliott Smith Figure 8 | 4.5 |
| Mouse on Mars Parastrophics | 3.0 |
| Jaga Jazzist Jævla Jazzist Grete Stitz | 2.5 |
| Kishi Bashi 151a | 4.5 |
| Nautic Depths Submental Vol 1 | 3.5 |
| Captain Murphy Duality | 4.0 |
| Low Things We Lost in the Fire | 4.5 |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Re: | 3.5 |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan | 2.0 |
| There was a time when my tastes aligned with what was popular on sputnik a good 80% of the time. Those days are gone...... |
| Big Boi Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors | 4.5 |
| this album is so good that my Magikarp evolved |
| Capacities The Unexamined Life | 4.0 |
| Ulrich Schnauss and ASC 77 | 4.0 |
| Grizzly Bear Shields | 4.0 |
| ASC Out Of Sync | 4.0 |
| Mala Mala In Cuba | 3.5 |
| Deathprod Morals and Dogma | 4.0 |
| Des Ark Don't Rock the Boat, Sink the Fucker | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Remission | 3.0 |
| Hidden Orchestra Archipelago | 4.5 |
| Skream Skream! | 4.0 |
| Dropped Flyer Lowlife | 3.5 |
| Dropped Flyer Run Far, Now Stop | 2.5 |
| iNTRiKeT The Woods | 4.5 |
| make sure you turn the bass up nice and loud for this one boys and girls. your parents will tell you to turn those speakers down. tell your parents no. |
| Departures Green Turns To Red, Then Turns To Gold | 3.0 |
| The Antlers Uprooted | 4.0 |
| Oh No! Yoko Pau Pau | 4.0 |
| Brian Eno Lux | 3.5 |
| Saetia Eronel | 4.0 |
| Saetia Saetia | 4.5 |
| The Men Open Your Heart | 3.5 |
| Glocca Morra Just Married | 3.5 |
| Jung People Tenterhooks | 4.0 |
| Skrillex Make It Bun Dem After Hours | 1.0 |
| sucks about as many dicks as you could possibly imagine one Sonny Moore sucking |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Henry's Dream | 4.0 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Let Love In | 4.5 |
| Macintosh Plus Floral Shoppe | 2.0 |
| I hate 4chan so, so much. |
| Elliott Smith Roman Candle | 4.5 |
| Waxahatchee American Weekend | 4.5 |
| Jessie Ware Devotion | 4.0 |
| TNGHT TNGHT | 4.0 |
| makes me feel like i know how to dance |
| Autechre Confield | 2.5 |
| Stars of the Lid Carte-De-Visite | 4.0 |
| Biome Shaman | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey | 2.5 |
| Thrice Identity Crisis | 2.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Red Hot Chili Peppers | 2.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Freaky Styley | 3.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Uplift Mofo Party Plan | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Mother's Milk | 3.5 |
| Biome Propaganda/DMT | 4.0 |
| Stars of the Lid Music For Nitrous Oxide | 3.0 |
| Stars of the Lid Gravitational Pull vs the Desire for an Aquatic Li | 3.0 |
| Stars of the Lid Per Aspera Ad Astra | 4.0 |
| TV on the Radio OK Calculator | 2.5 |
| Stars of the Lid The Ballasted Orchestra | 4.5 |
| Stars of the Lid Avec Laudenum | 3.5 |
| The Weeknd Trilogy | 3.5 |
| Leech If We Get There One Day... | 4.5 |
| Trophywife Hold Onto Your Luck | 4.0 |
| Joni Mitchell Both Sides Now | 4.0 |
| Brian Eno Ambient 4: On Land | 4.0 |
| Emay Into It | 3.0 |
| Andy Stott Luxury Problems | 4.5 |
| Wire Pink Flag | 4.5 |
| Birds in Row You, Me, and the Violence | 4.0 |
| The Zombies Odessey and Oracle | 4.0 |
| Autechre Tri Repetae++ | 5.0 |
| Discovery LP | 2.0 |
| Dads American Radass (This Is Important) | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse No One's First, and You're Next | 3.5 |
| Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Old Money | 3.5 |
| King Crimson Islands | 3.0 |
| Teebs Ardour | 4.0 |
| Reso Tangram | 3.5 |
| Reso Check 1, 2 | 2.5 |
| Lapalux Some Other Time | 3.5 |
| J:Kenzo J:Kenzo | 3.5 |
| Solterra Umbra | 4.0 |
| I could bathe in that guitar tone all day errr day |
| Jaga Jazzist Airborne EP | 3.0 |
| Kryptic Minds Can't Sleep | 4.0 |
| Biome Two Way | 4.0 |
| Proxima Lie Detection/Brainstem | 4.5 |
| Killawatt Mantra/Schizophonia | 4.0 |
| Aereogramme My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go | 3.5 |
| Zelienople The World Is A House On Fire | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Protein Source of the Future...Now! | 4.0 |
| The Chariot One Wing | 3.0 |
| The Mountain Goats New Asian Cinema | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Beautiful Rat Sunset | 4.5 |
| Tim Hecker and Daniel Lopatin Instrumental Tourist | 3.5 |
| 2 Chainz Based On a T.R.U. Story | 1.5 |
| Suzanne Ciani Lixiviation | 2.5 |
| Coyote Clean Up Double Doom | 3.0 |
| Midnight Odyssey Funerals from the Astral Sphere | 3.0 |
| Mirror To Mirror Body Moving Slowly | 3.0 |
| Zazen Boys Stories | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Yam, The King of Crops | 3.5 |
| The Mountain Goats On Juhu Beach | 3.5 |
| John Mayer Trio Try! | 3.5 |
| The Mountain Goats Philyra | 3.5 |
| The Mountain Goats Taking The Dative | 3.5 |
| The Mountain Goats Transmissions to Horace | 4.0 |
| Jimi Hendrix Valleys of Neptune | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Babylon Springs | 4.0 |
| Deadmau5 The Veldt | 1.5 |
| Sublime Sublime | 4.0 |
| The Cinematic Orchestra In Motion #1 | 4.0 |
| Bassnectar Cozza Frenzy | 3.0 |
| Flying Lotus 1983 | 4.0 |
| Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel... | 4.5 |
| Taylor Swift Red | 3.5 |
| worst soundoff page ever, I hate you all so much |
| Steely Dan Can't Buy a Thrill | 3.5 |
| Steely Dan The Royal Scam | 3.5 |
| Submotion Orchestra Fragments | 4.0 |
| Camel Mirage | 4.0 |
| Taylor Swift Fearless | 3.5 |
| Mount Eerie Ocean Roar | 4.0 |
| Venetian Snares Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett | 4.5 |
| Okkervil River Black Sheep Boy | 4.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city | 4.5 |
| Direwolves Me From Myself, To Banish | 3.5 |
| Dan Mangan Roboteering | 4.0 |
| Mangan released this 5 song EP in March of 2009 as a warm-up to what would become his massively successful second LP, Nice, Nice, Very Nice. It contains three tracks which would later appear on the LP (Sold, The Indie Queens Are Waiting, and, of course, Robots) as well as Till I Fall, and Tragic Turn of Events/Move Pen Move, which is a very engaging, emotional, and unique song within Mangan's repertoire. This EP contains three of Mangan's strongest and most loved tracks, and two lesser known gems: a must-have for Dan Mangan fans. |
| Jens Lekman I Know What Love Isn't | 3.0 |
| Sudatsuga Blue Moon Saiyeed | 2.0 |
| Ani DiFranco Dilate | 4.5 |
| Swans The Seer | 3.5 |
| I'll suck my own dick |
| Corrupted Paso Inferior | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Ghana | 4.0 |
| Youngsta Dubstep Allstars Vol.2 | 4.0 |
| Slowdive Souvlaki | 4.0 |
| Leftfield Leftism | 5.0 |
| Yamantaka // Sonic Titan YT//ST | 4.5 |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind | 3.5 |
| Muse The 2nd Law | 1.5 |
| Muse are silly now |
| The Mountain Goats The Hound Chronicles | 3.5 |
| Death Grips No Love Deep Web | 1.0 |
| penis |
| Marijuana Deathsquads Tamper, Disable, Destroy | 4.0 |
| fun. Some Nights | 2.5 |
| This guy has a fucking huge mouth. |
| Ultraista Ultraista | 4.0 |
| Screaming Females Ugly | 3.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! | 5.0 |
| peace other music, it was nice knowing you! |
| Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand | 2.5 |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm | 4.0 |
| Deadmau5 >album title goes here< | 1.5 |
| Never before has an artist or band that I liked had such a dramatic drop in quality over one album. I wanted to like this so badly but it's absolutely awful with nearly no redeeming qualities. The album is choked with eight-minute tracks that have no business being longer than four, and the guest spots are absolutely dreadful (especially on the third track which might be the worst thing I've heard all year). This is the biggest disappointment of 2012, easily. |
| Deadmau5 For Lack of a Better Name | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Bitter Melon Farm | 4.0 |
| Noah and the Whale Last Night On Earth | 1.5 |
| Flying Lotus Until the Quiet Comes | 4.5 |
| Lupe Fiasco Lasers | 2.0 |
| Ireary Ramyu Ramyu Blazed In A Land of Lightbrites | 2.0 |
| a sad imitation of the Ramyhead and the Irefires' Psychedelic classic Welcome 2 Wagland |
| Swell Maps A Trip to Marineville | 3.5 |
| Mumford and Sons Babel | 3.0 |
| It sounds exactly like the first album. The reaction to it will be, predictably, exactly the same as for the first one. |
| Best Coast Crazy For You | 1.5 |
| Olga Bell Diamonite | 4.0 |
| How to Dress Well Total Loss | 4.0 |
| how do I even dress well what's going on here? |
| Loscil Sketches From New Brighton | 3.5 |
| This Heat This Heat | 4.0 |
| Deer Leap Here. Home. | 3.5 |
| John Frusciante Letur-Lefr | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Satanic Messiah | 4.5 |
| This Heat Deceit | 4.5 |
| Flying Lotus L.A. EP 1 X 3 | 3.5 |
| Okkervil River Down the River of Golden Dreams | 4.5 |
| The Mountain Goats Taboo VI: The Homecoming | 3.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Hot Garden Stomp | 2.5 |
| Austere To Lay Like Old Ashes | 3.5 |
| Hikari Todo Light Stays | 3.5 |
| Buffalo Blackfoot I Don't Mind | 3.5 |
| Four Tet Pink | 3.5 |
| GOOD Music Cruel Summer | 2.5 |
| Kanye is running out of (good) ideas at an alarming rate. |
| Frightened Rabbit State Hospital | 3.5 |
| Dan Mangan Postcards and Daydreaming | 4.5 |
| Wild Nothing Nocturne | 4.0 |
| Mother Mother The Sticks | 3.0 |
| Fucked Up The Chemistry of Common Life | 3.5 |
| The xx Coexist | 3.0 |
| Okkervil River Don't Fall In Love With Everyone You See | 5.0 |
| BADBADNOTGOOD BBNG2 | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Nine Black Poppies | 3.5 |
| The Mountain Goats Isopanisad Radio Hour | 4.0 |
| The Walkmen Heaven | 4.0 |
| Propagandhi Failed States | 4.0 |
| Menomena Moms | 4.5 |
| Definitely better than Mines, not sure yet if I like it more or less than Friend & Foe. |
| The Mountain Goats Nothing for Juice | 4.5 |
| The Mountain Goats Get Lonely | 4.5 |
| The Mountain Goats Transcendental Youth | 4.5 |
| John Darnielle > you |
| Proem Socially Inept | 4.0 |
| Elbow The Seldom Seen Kid | 3.0 |
| Mono For My Parents | 2.5 |
| Animal Collective Centipede Hz | 4.0 |
| lelelelelelelelelelele lettttttttt go |
| Baroness Yellow and Green | 3.0 |
| Big K.R.I.T. Live From The Underground | 3.0 |
| Ghost Mice All We Got Is Each Other | 3.0 |
| Paramore Riot! | 2.5 |
| Sum 41 Underclass Hero | 1.5 |
| Sum 41 Does This Look Infected? | 3.0 |
| Angels and Airwaves I-Empire | 2.0 |
| Right Away, Great Captain! The Eventually Home | 4.0 |
| One Direction Up All Night | 1.0 |
| Smoke Fairies Blood Speaks | 3.5 |
| LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening | 2.5 |
| Right Away, Great Captain! The Bitter End | 4.0 |
| Eminem Encore | 2.0 |
| The Antlers Undersea | 4.5 |
| Aesop Rock Skelethon | 4.0 |
| Trash Talk Plagues | 3.0 |
| Trash Talk Walking Disease | 3.5 |
| Right Away, Great Captain! The Church of the Good Thief | 4.5 |
| Jacob Groth Ørnen | 4.5 |
| Mount Eerie Clear Moon | 4.0 |
| Narrows Painted | 3.5 |
| Baroness Red Album | 3.5 |
| Lights Out Asia Hy-Brasil | 4.5 |
| The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan | 3.0 |
| Rush Clockwork Angels | 4.0 |
| Araabmuzik Electronic Dream | 3.0 |
| The Shins Chutes Too Narrow | 3.5 |
| Refused Songs To Fan The Flames Of Discontent | 4.0 |
| Nasum Shift | 4.5 |
| Perfume Genius Put Your Back N 2 It | 3.0 |
| Martyn Hello Darkness | 3.5 |
| Pretty Lights Passing By Behind Your Eyes | 4.0 |
| The Shins Port of Morrow | 2.5 |
| Madonna Like a Virgin | 2.0 |
| Jack White Blunderbuss | 3.5 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I | 2.5 |
| The Shins Oh, Inverted World | 4.5 |
| Entropy (USA-CA) Four Minds, Fourteen Perspectives | 3.0 |
| Love American Disquiet | 4.0 |
| hey look dimsim3478 posted a soundoff for an adam thomas album (adam this kid wants your cock, just throwing that out there) |
| Zazen Boys Zazen Boys II | 3.5 |
| Zazen Boys Zazen Boys 4 | 4.0 |
| Suis La Lune Riala | 4.0 |
| Regina Spektor What We Saw from the Cheap Seats | 4.0 |
| *demeaning comment about her being an attractive woman and therefore desperate for my cock* -- there you go, I just summed up 90% of the upcoming "discussion" for this album |
| The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now | 4.0 |
| El-P Cancer 4 Cure | 5.0 |
| Taio Cruz Rokstarr | 1.0 |
| Hot Chelle Rae Whatever | 1.5 |
| Swedish House Mafia Until One | 1.5 |
| Marina The Family Jewels | 3.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Neck of the Woods | 4.0 |
| Vales Clarity | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou Ten Stories | 3.5 |
| Wild Nothing Gemini | 4.0 |
| Phonte Charity Starts at Home | 3.5 |
| Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini | 3.5 |
| Monolake Ghosts | 4.0 |
| Death Grips The Money Store | 2.0 |
| does this even go? |
| The Beatles Hey Jude | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Beatles for Sale | 3.5 |
| Hop Along Get Disowned | 5.0 |
| Whether as a solo artist or as part of a band, Frances Quinlan can do no wrong. |
| Tau Tau Eyelids | 2.0 |
| Polica Give You The Ghost | 4.0 |
| Mr. Oizo Stade 3 | 3.5 |
| Mr. Oizo as Mr. Oizo, aka great stuff |
| Cerebral Ballzy Cerebral Ballzy | 3.5 |
| Clubroot III - MMXII | 4.5 |
| The Mountain Goats Zopilote Machine | 3.5 |
| Beach House Bloom | 3.0 |
| I listened to this less than twice and I think that'll be it. It's nice and all but not interesting or fresh or anything. I think I'm losing touch with sputnik's trends and tastes because all these high ratings are actually baffling to me. |
| 16Bit Chainsaw Calligraphy The Remixes | 2.5 |
| Japandroids Celebration Rock | 5.0 |
| rules |
| Solterra Soul, Earth, Sun | 4.0 |
| Lana Del Rey Born to Die | 2.0 |
| Cursive Burst and Bloom | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd Echoes | 3.0 |
| Fly Pan Am Ceux Qui Inventent N'ont Jamais Vécu (?) | 3.0 |
| Shlohmo Vacation | 4.0 |
| Emay Adam | 4.5 |
| fuck around, punch babies.......swagger of a lunch lady |
| The Who Who's Greatest Hits | 3.5 |
| Envy A Dead Sinking Story | 4.0 |
| Rush Gold | 3.5 |
| The Click Five Greetings from Imrie House | 1.5 |
| Faith No More Angel Dust | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros Valtari | 4.0 |
| pretty much the polar opposite of their last album. |
| Kate Bush Hounds of Love | 4.0 |
| Cursive Domestica | 3.0 |
| Cursive The Ugly Organ | 4.0 |
| Hey Ocean! It's Easier To Be Somebody Else | 4.0 |
| Thrice Daytrotter Sessions | 3.0 |
| Bon Iver Daytrotter Session | 2.0 |
| Meshuggah Koloss | 3.0 |
| State Faults Desolate Peaks | 3.0 |
| Baroness Blue Record | 3.5 |
| Colin Stetson New History Warfare Vol 2: Judges | 3.5 |
| The Lawrence Arms Oh! Calcutta! | 3.5 |
| Alvin Band Rainbow Road | 2.5 |
| oh come on |
| Kesha Animal | 1.0 |
| Bjork Vespertine | 4.0 |
| Hop Along Freshman Year | 4.5 |
| Foxy Shazam The Church of Rock and Roll | 2.5 |
| Laura Stevenson Daytrotter Session (June 22, 2011) | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath | 3.5 |
| Keane Under The Iron Sea | 2.0 |
| Tenacious D Tenacious D | 4.0 |
| Laura Stevenson A Record + 3 | 4.5 |
| James Blunt Some Kind of Trouble | 1.5 |
| BNJMN Plastic World | 4.0 |
| Danny Elfman The Nightmare Before Christmas | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet | 2.5 |
| I haven't had access to the internet for the past few days, so I wasn't able to see people's ratings for this start pouring in but I knew that as soon as I logged in to sputnik that this would be really high on the "popular albums" list and would have a rating above 4. Lo and behold: sputnik does not disappoint. If we're being serious though you guys, I mean, come on, this is not that good at all. Lazy instrumentation and below-average production (only the drums sound decent) along with straight up boring songwriting make this The Mars Volta's worst album yet. Silly sputnik with their silly overhyping. |
| The All-American Rejects When the World Comes Down | 2.0 |
| Arrange Five Years With The Sun | 4.0 |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives | 3.5 |
| John Talabot Fin | 4.0 |
| Islands A Sleep and a Forgetting | 3.5 |
| World's Strongest Man Every Woman Wishes To Wed | 4.0 |
| The Saddest Landscape/Pianos Become The Teeth Split | 3.0 |
| Omar S Just Ask the Lonely | 4.0 |
| Ghost Ship Golden Girls | 3.0 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Saltwater | 4.5 |
| Feist Metals | 3.5 |
| Omar S It Can Be Done But Only I Can Do It | 2.5 |
| NK Basement Tapes Vol. 2 | 3.5 |
| NK Basement Tapes Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
| Refused Refused Are Fucking Dead | 4.0 |
| Weird Al Yankovic Bad Hair Day | 3.0 |
| Crippled Black Phoenix (Mankind) The Crafty Ape | 3.5 |
| Sun Glitters High | 4.0 |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest | 3.5 |
| The Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs | 4.5 |
| Jay-Z and Kanye West Watch the Throne | 2.5 |
| Belle and Sebastian If You're Feeling Sinister | 4.0 |
| bansheebeat Wutai | 4.0 |
| yeah this is cool and all but I heard this guy was a salad-tossing pole-smoker, 1/5 |
| Pepe Deluxe Queen of the Wave | 3.0 |
| A really cool album, but it's just not working its magic on me. Musically, the album is very impressive, and the production is close to perfect. For me though, a lot of it comes off as way too cheesy, especially in the vocal department. I enjoy listening to this, especially the first two tracks, but in the end, I'm just not in love with it. Maybe I need some LSD or something, but to me this album is just alright. |
| Burial Street Halo | 3.5 |
| Red Nightfall Red Nightfall | 4.5 |
| Youth Lagoon The Year of Hibernation | 4.0 |
| Lmfao Sorry For Party Rocking | 2.5 |
| Skrillex Bangarang | 1.5 |
| Burial Kindred | 5.0 |
| The Men Leave Home | 4.0 |
| Combat Astronomy Flak Planet | 4.0 |
| Seekae +Dome | 3.5 |
| My Kappa Roots The House of St Colme Burnt Down | 4.0 |
| The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation Anthropomorphic | 3.5 |
| The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble From the Stairwell | 2.5 |
| The Prodigy The Fat of the Land | 4.0 |
| Brooks and Dunn Brand New Man | 1.0 |
| Justin Bieber My World 2.0 | 1.0 |
| The Drift Memory Drawings | 3.0 |
| Grimes Visions | 4.0 |
| The Weakerthans Fallow | 4.5 |
| Amon Tobin ISAM | 3.5 |
| Heems Nehru Jackets | 2.0 |
| The Streets A Grand Don't Come For Free | 2.5 |
| Death Grips Exmilitary | 1.5 |
| IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES GUILLOTIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE |
| *shels Sea of the Dying Dhow | 4.0 |
| Cage The Elephant Thank You Happy Birthday | 2.5 |
| Seekae The Sound of Trees Falling on People | 4.5 |
| Floating Points Shadows | 4.0 |
| Rusko Babylon: Volume 1 | 3.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not | 4.0 |
| London Elektricity Syncopated City | 4.0 |
| Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha | 3.5 |
| Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet | 2.0 |
| John K. Samson Provincial | 4.5 |
| Grows on you like crazy. John Samson can do no wrong. |
| of Montreal Paralytic Stalks | 1.5 |
| Looks like I'm the only one so far, but I really really hate this album. |
| The Saddest Landscape After The Lights | 4.0 |
| The ultimate 4/5 band. Album rules, another 4 from these guys. |
| Nicole Scherzinger Killer Love | 1.0 |
| The Cinematic Orchestra Every Day | 4.0 |
| The Cinematic Orchestra Motion | 4.5 |
| Motion City Soundtrack My Dinosaur Life | 2.5 |
| Les Doux Dialects | 3.5 |
| The Black Keys El Camino | 3.5 |
| Usher 8701 | 1.5 |
| Usher Confessions | 2.0 |
| R. Kelly Untitled | 1.5 |
| Hanson Middle of Nowhere | 2.0 |
| Beefcake Drei | 4.5 |
| This is basically everything I like about electronic music in one album. I feel a 5 coming in the very near future. |
| Loma Prieta I.V. | 4.0 |
| The Weeknd Echoes of Silence | 4.0 |
| Glass Bones Seasons | 4.0 |
| Pitbull Rebelution | 2.0 |
| Lauryn Hill The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill | 3.5 |
| The Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing | 4.5 |
| Nujabes Spiritual State | 4.0 |
| The Flashbulb Love As A Dark Hallway | 3.0 |
| The Roots undun | 3.5 |
| Shiina Ringo Shouso Strip | 4.5 |
| Red House Painters Red House Painters | 3.5 |
| White Ribs Darwinners and Losers | 4.0 |
| LIMB FROM LIMB FROM LIMB FROM LIMB FROM LIMB |
| Massive Attack vs. Burial Four Walls/Paradise Circus | 4.0 |
| FareWell Poetry Hoping for the Invisible to Ignite | 3.5 |
| Ampere All Our Tomorrows End Today | 4.5 |
| Gallows (UK) Grey Britain | 2.5 |
| Future Islands On the Water | 3.0 |
| Reso Ishimura | 4.0 |
| Kate Bush 50 Words for Snow | 4.0 |
| Dela Translation Lost | 4.0 |
| Owen Ghost Town | 3.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Devil In the Shortwave | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) The Matrix | 2.5 |
| Comadre Burn Your Bones | 4.5 |
| Monsters of Folk Monsters of Folk | 3.5 |
| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Belong | 4.0 |
| Bassnectar Divergent Spectrum | 2.5 |
| Hey Rosetta! Seeds | 4.5 |
| Desolate (DE) The Invisible Insurrection | 3.5 |
| June Paik June Paik II | 4.0 |
| Arrange Plantation | 4.0 |
| Gantz Les jours se suivent et ne se ressemblent plus | 4.0 |
| Gotye Making Mirrors | 3.0 |
| Bucket Full Of Teeth IV | 4.0 |
| Mesa Verde The Old Road | 4.5 |
| Tenhi Vare | 4.0 |
| Chickenfoot Chickenfoot | 1.5 |
| Wavves King of the Beach | 2.0 |
| Emay Mind Altering Dynamics | 4.0 |
| Les Doux Les Doux | 4.0 |
| Childish Gambino Camp | 2.5 |
| The individual songs on this album are actually quite good, but Glover can't seem to decide if he wants to be a hard thug from the hood or the innocent nice guy. He needs to pick one persona and stick with it, and then maybe I could get into his next album. As it stands now though, this album is just too all over the place. |
| Sepalcure Sepalcure | 4.0 |
| Tycho Dive | 4.0 |
| Los Campesinos! Romance Is Boring | 2.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Chase This Light | 3.5 |
| Orchid Chaos is Me | 4.0 |
| Real Estate Days | 3.5 |
| Fucked Up David Comes to Life | 3.0 |
| Orchid Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow! | 4.5 |
| Mahria Mahria | 4.5 |
| Yelawolf Radioactive | 1.5 |
| Yelawolf has potential; he's clearly a skilled rapper. But this album is a dreadful mess of cheesy production and gimmicky guest spots and interludes. 2011's biggest disappointment by a mile. |
| Sean Milo Elgin | 2.5 |
| Rihanna Talk That Talk | 2.5 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Replica | 4.0 |
| Frank Turner Sleep Is For The Week | 4.5 |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Sunny Day Real Estate | 4.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra Nobody Sings Anymore | 3.5 |
| A Lot Like Birds Conversation Piece | 2.5 |
| Million Dead A Song to Ruin | 4.0 |
| Paper Route Absence | 2.5 |
| Emika Emika | 4.0 |
| Sabrepulse First Crush | 2.0 |
| What is this bs? |
| Shugo Tokumaru Night Piece | 4.5 |
| Roman Flugel Fatty Folders | 4.0 |
| b4-4 b4-4 | 1.0 |
| If you get down on me I'll get down on you. I can do anything that you want me to. |
| Penguin Cafe Orchestra Signs of Life | 4.5 |
| Andy Stott Merciless | 4.0 |
| Andy Stott Passed Me By | 3.0 |
| Nacho Picasso For The Glory | 2.5 |
| Ash Borer and Fell Voices Split | 3.5 |
| Purplene Purplene | 4.0 |
| Demdike Stare Tryptych | 3.5 |
| Demdike Stare Liberation Through Hearing | 3.0 |
| Gold Panda DJ-Kicks: Gold Panda | 4.0 |
| Laura Stevenson A Record | 4.0 |
| Phantogram Eyelid Movies | 3.5 |
| Drake Take Care | 2.5 |
| I'm surprised: this isn't terrible. Still not my thing at all at all but a lot of the tracks are actually really good. Would be a solid 3 if it didn't drag a bit (the album is a little long and feels bloated) and if Lil' Wayne didn't ruin the two tracks he's featured on. Much better than 'Thank Me Later' (which isn't saying much coming from me: I hated that album). |
| Low I Could Live in Hope | 4.5 |
| Autechre LP5 | 3.5 |
| Shakira ¿Dónde Están los Ladrones? | 3.0 |
| Main Attrakionz 808s and Dark Grapes II | 3.0 |
| Green Day 21st Century Breakdown | 1.5 |
| Bust/Mother Grizzly/Love American Split | 3.0 |
| Shabazz Palaces Black Up | 3.0 |
| Demdike Stare Forest Of Evil | 3.5 |
| Low C'Mon | 4.0 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb | 5.0 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between | 4.5 |
| Teen Hearts The Heart Beat EP | 1.0 |
| Lou Reed and Metallica Lulu | 1.5 |
| "Metal, Post Rock" wtf? where's the post-rock? this album is awful but not as bad as you're all making it out to be. Without Lou Reed's dreadfully out of place vocals this would be a solid 2. |
| Nicolas Jaar Don't Break My Love | 4.0 |
| Demdike Stare Voices Of Dust | 4.5 |
| Florence and the Machine Ceremonials | 4.0 |
| Tool Lateralus | 4.0 |
| Autechre Chiastic Slide | 2.5 |
| ASAP Rocky Live.Love.A$AP. | 3.5 |
| Mr. Oizo Stade 2 | 4.0 |
| Discordance Axis The Inalienable Dreamless | 4.0 |
"its like an album of Concubines (although no individual song is as good as Concubine)"
-Ali Ashoor |
| Etienne Sin The Art of Stealing Hearts | 1.0 |
| legitimate contender for worst album of all time |
| House Boat The Delaware Octopus | 4.0 |
| This is actually a 3.5 for me but it gets +.5 for having the best track names ever. |
| Pink Floyd More | 3.0 |
| Sunset Rubdown Dragonslayer | 2.5 |
| The Mountain Goats Sweden | 4.0 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After | 4.5 |
| I'm feeling a little homesick/depressed right now and the last song on this "I'll Get By" was exactly what I needed to hear. Brilliant album. |
| Andrew W.K. I Get Wet | 3.5 |
| Russian Circles Geneva | 3.5 |
| Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! Something for Nothing | 1.5 |
| Frightened Rabbit A Frightened Rabbit EP | 4.0 |
| BNJMN Black Square | 4.5 |
| The Jezabels Prisoner | 4.0 |
| Sorne House of Stone | 4.0 |
| AC/DC High Voltage | 3.0 |
| Eloy Ocean | 3.5 |
| Divide Echelon | 3.0 |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles II | 3.0 |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles | 1.5 |
| To get to where I currently live, I have to walk down this street with two separate shops that play generic reggaeton at obnoxiously loud levels. Usually, this pisses me off as it momentarily stops me from enjoying what I have playing on my iPod. Today, it was a welcome distraction. The vast majority of this album sounds like a computer getting raped. And why, oh why does this need to be over an hour long? There's barely one iota of musical creativity to be found here and nearly every track abuses the same "readymade dance-party" beat. Shitty music for wannabe hipsters with terrible taste. |
| Miike Snow Miike Snow | 3.5 |
| Reso Valken | 4.0 |
| Kanye West Late Registration | 4.0 |
| AJJ Knife Man | 4.0 |
| Natureboy Flako The Mesektet | 4.0 |
| Pretty Lights Glowing in the Darkest Night | 4.0 |
| U2 All That You Can't Leave Behind | 2.5 |
| Coldplay Mylo Xyloto | 4.0 |
| COLDPLAY MOAR LIEK COLDGAY LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL (screw you all, this rules) |
| Bjork Biophilia | 3.5 |
| Tyrants Dream Songs | 4.0 |
| Yeasayer Odd Blood | 2.5 |
| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart The Pains of Being Pure at Heart | 4.5 |
| Tame Impala Innerspeaker | 4.0 |
| Defiler Pangaea | 1.5 |
| Asking Alexandria Stand Up and Scream | 1.5 |
| BADBADNOTGOOD BBNG | 4.0 |
| Fuzzy Lights Twin Feathers | 4.5 |
| Kidcrash Naps | 4.0 |
| Neil Young Zuma | 4.0 |
| Dystopia Human = Garbage | 4.0 |
| Mew A Triumph for Man | 4.0 |
| Wild Beasts Two Dancers | 4.5 |
| The National Cherry Tree | 4.0 |
| Kanye West Graduation | 3.5 |
| The middle of this album sucks hard. But the beginning and ending are really good. It's also too bad that the song with Mos Def is so dreadful because both these rappers are much, much better than that. |
| Mother of Mercy IV: Symptoms of Existence | 3.5 |
| Boris Boris At Last -Feedbacker- | 4.5 |
| Matt Pond PA The Dark Leaves | 3.5 |
| Beirut The Rip Tide | 4.0 |
| The Reign of Kindo This Is What Happens | 3.0 |
| Jeromes Dream Completed | 4.0 |
| Dan Mangan Oh Fortune | 4.5 |
| This man makes me proud to be from Vancouver. Top 5 of 2011, and that's saying quite a bit. I think I'm going to review this (we've heard that before...) |
| Yellowcard Ocean Avenue | 2.0 |
| Waking The Cadaver Perverse Recollections Of A Necromangler | 1.0 |
| Deerhunter Microcastle | 4.5 |
| Mew Half The World Is Watching Me | 3.5 |
| Gold Panda Companion | 4.0 |
| Jenny Hval Viscera | 3.5 |
| St. Vincent Strange Mercy | 4.5 |
| This is so much better than Actor it's ridiculous. |
| James Blake Enough Thunder | 4.0 |
| Cruel Hand Prying Eyes | 3.0 |
| Rescuer Some Things You Just Have To Let Go Of | 3.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Scott Pilgrim vs. The World | 4.0 |
| This. Movie. Fucking. Rules. Really cool soundtrack too. Kris' soundoff ftw. |
| Les Discrets Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées | 3.5 |
| How Do We Jump This High? Funny/Not Funny | 4.0 |
| Zola Jesus Conatus | 3.5 |
| Blue Rodeo Nowhere to Here | 2.5 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Old Pride | 4.5 |
| Priscilla Ahn A Good Day | 4.0 |
| Everyone Asked About You Everyone Asked About You | 4.0 |
| Bear vs. Shark Right Now You're in the Best of Hands | 4.5 |
| Seeing Means More Clouds Obscured To Hearts | 3.5 |
| Built to Spill There Is No Enemy | 4.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave | 4.5 |
| Kanye West The College Dropout | 4.0 |
| Wilco The Whole Love | 3.0 |
| a boring Wilco album, who saw that coming? also, this: http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lr2d9xh1aB1qd37u4o1_500.png |
| House Boat The Thorns of Life | 4.0 |
| "Bug Out" is too good of an album closer. |
| Radiohead TKOL RMX 1234567 | 4.0 |
| This just sounds like what The King of Limbs would have sounded like if they released it in the early 00's when Radiohead were still obsessed with making electronic music. |
| Conor Oberst Conor Oberst | 2.0 |
| ok you guys hold the phone. this is bogus, enough with the Conor Oberst fellatio, this album sucks mass dick. come on now. |
| blink-182 Neighborhoods | 3.5 |
| Aerosmith Nine Lives | 2.0 |
| Aerosmith Aerosmith | 3.0 |
| Aerosmith Permanent Vacation | 3.0 |
| The Rolling Stones Forty Licks | 3.0 |
| Boris Heavy Rocks (2011) | 4.0 |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak | 2.0 |
| dude, calm the fuck down with the autotune. I mean that shit is, fuckin ridikalus. |
| Mister Heavenly Out of Love | 3.5 |
| La Dispute Wildlife | 5.0 |
| Posting a soundoff for the new La Dispute album. Feels good man. |
| Mastodon The Hunter | 3.5 |
| When I saw the track names for this I was sure it would suck. But guess what? It doesn't. I mean it's still the same old Mastodon: the vocals suck ass, the drums are incredible, etc. etc. but god damn they've done it again. (Also this is one of the best soundoff pages of 2011 so far: Moredcai, ShadowRemains, Odal, BigHans and bloc's are all awesomely awesome). |
| Akercocke Words That Go Unspoken... | 4.0 |
| Ulcerate The Destroyers of All | 3.5 |
| A Winged Victory for the Sullen A Winged Victory for the Sullen | 4.0 |
| Mew And the Glass Handed Kites | 4.5 |
| Owl City All Things Bright And Beautiful | 1.5 |
| Frightened Rabbit The Winter of Mixed Drinks | 3.5 |
| The Radio Dept. Clinging to a Scheme | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna Salvation | 4.5 |
| The National Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers | 4.5 |
| The Boxer Rebellion Exits | 4.0 |
| Chuck Ragan Covering Ground | 4.0 |
| Four Tet There is Love in You | 4.0 |
| Souls of Mischief 93 'til Infinity | 4.5 |
| Clogs The Creatures In the Garden of Lady Walton | 3.5 |
| Clogs Lullaby For Sue | 4.0 |
| Chromeo Fancy Footwork | 2.0 |
| This album fucking sucks ass. The only reason I'm not scoring it lower is because their set at Sasquatch 2011 spurred the biggest and arguably best dance-party of the weekend. But yeah the music is.....not good. |
| Arvo Part Tabula Rasa | 4.5 |
| Wild Beasts Smother | 4.0 |
| oh man, once you get into the vocals this kicks major ass |
| The National The National | 3.0 |
| Clogs Thom's Night Out | 3.5 |
| The Roots How I Got Over | 4.0 |
| The Antlers In the Attic of the Universe | 4.0 |
| These Hearts Forever Ended Yesterday | 1.0 |
| this is probably the worst band ever. good job guys, you're worse than BrokeNCYDE and Design the Skyline. Wow, I didn't think that was possible. |
| Frank Turner England Keep My Bones | 3.5 |
| iNTRiKeT Songs For Sleepy | 3.5 |
| the songs I've heard from this kick serious amounts of ass. Jash is getting better at producing music at an alarming rate, listen to this now before he gets HUGE so you can be all "yeah i knew about this guy when he was still posting his music on retarded music review websites" |
| Laura Marling A Creature I Don't Know | 4.0 |
| BT This Binary Universe | 4.0 |
| BT Ima | 4.5 |
| Stray from the Path Rising Sun | 2.0 |
| wow this sucks. the vocalist is absolutely dreadful; does he think those "BLAAAH"s actually sound good? it sounds like he's puking, and not in a good way. also, most of the songs are all generic as hell and follow basically the same pattern. thanks for getting my hopes up sputnik (I'm looking at you Scoot). |
| Weezer Weezer | 4.0 |
| Planning for Burial Leaving | 3.5 |
| Into It. Over It. 52 Weeks | 4.0 |
| One of the most interesting concepts that I have ever listened to. I want to give this a 4.5 just for the pure scope and magnitude of this project, but it definitely starts to drag near the end (which is to be expected from a 52 track album, but a bit more variety would have helped). Still, this is an essential piece of listening for any fan of emo music. |
| Kid Rock Devil Without a Cause | 1.5 |
| Shpongle Ineffable Mysteries from Shpongleland | 3.5 |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders | 3.5 |
| Korn Untouchables | 2.0 |
| Kid Rock Kid Rock | 1.0 |
| Mouse On The Keys An Anxious Object | 4.5 |
| David Guetta Nothing but the Beat | 1.5 |
| Coldplay The Blue Room | 4.0 |
| Nickelback Three-Sided Coin | 1.0 |
| AWOLNATION Megalithic Symphony | 1.0 |
| Opeth Heritage | 3.0 |
| This album is in desperate need of some moar opeth. It's not bad but there's no way I'll be coming back to this when I could listen to the awesome death-metal stylings of their earlier, superior work like Ghost Reveries and Blackwater Park instead. |
| Frank Turner Love, Ire & Song | 5.0 |
| Let's begin at the beginning: we're lovers and we're losers, we're heroes and we're pioneers, we're beggars and we're choosers. |
| Massive Attack Heligoland | 4.0 |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming | 4.5 |
| The Middle East I Want That You Are Always Happy | 3.5 |
| Paul McCartney Tripping the Live Fantastic | 3.5 |
| Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) Home After Three Months Away | 3.0 |
| A very nice album musically but honestly, the vocals just kill this for me. I should like them but they just make me go "eeeeeeeew emo" and I LOVE emo. So yeah, these guys get a big "meh" from me. |
| Oceansize Frames | 4.0 |
| Dan Mangan Nice, Nice, Very Nice | 5.0 |
| Balam Acab Wander/Wonder | 4.0 |
| John Mayer Battle Studies | 3.0 |
| Thrice Major/Minor | 4.0 |
| Aerosmith Big Ones | 2.5 |
| Hollywood Undead Swan Songs | 1.5 |
| brokeNCYDE BC 13 | 1.0 |
| NiT GriT Pedro the Destroyer | 2.0 |
| Iron Maiden Rock in Rio | 4.0 |
| Benny Benassi Hypnotica | 2.5 |
| Balam Acab See Birds | 4.0 |
| Cave In White Silence | 4.0 |
| Gaza He Is Never Coming Back | 3.5 |
| Spoon Gimme Fiction | 3.0 |
| Jethro Tull Aqualung | 4.0 |
| The Raconteurs Consolers of the Lonely | 3.0 |
| Flogging Molly Drunken Lullabies | 3.5 |
| Corrupted Garten Der Unbewusstheit | 4.0 |
| The Rural Alberta Advantage Hometowns | 4.0 |
| Bar 9 Shaolin Style | 4.0 |
| Bonobo Days To Come | 4.0 |
| Foster the People Torches | 3.0 |
| The Cab Symphony Soldier | 2.0 |
| Lenny Kravitz Baptism | 1.5 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar Gangs | 4.0 |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible | 4.0 |
| Bonobo Dial 'M' For Monkey | 4.0 |
| Verse Aggression | 4.5 |
| Bonobo Animal Magic | 3.5 |
| bansheebeat Galactics | 4.0 |
| Nosaj Thing Drift | 4.0 |
| Slow Dreams Strange Voices | 3.0 |
| Attack Attack! Someday Came Suddenly | 1.0 |
| Dub FX Everythinks A Ripple | 4.0 |
| Foo Fighters Foo Fighters | 3.5 |
| Foo Fighters There Is Nothing Left to Lose | 3.5 |
| Foo Fighters One by One | 3.0 |
| Jaga Jazzist Animal Chin EP | 3.5 |
| The Fray How to Save a Life | 2.0 |
| Bar 9 Triple Drop | 3.5 |
| Cynic Focus | 3.0 |
| The Police Outlandos d'Amour | 3.0 |
| The Police The Very Best of Sting & The Police | 3.0 |
| Nick Drake Five Leaves Left | 4.0 |
| Love American / Harbours Split | 4.0 |
| Olde English Hearts, nuff said |
| Bon Jovi Lost Highway | 1.5 |
| Angels and Airwaves We Don't Need to Whisper | 3.0 |
| Jack Johnson Sing-A-Longs and Lullabies for Curious George | 2.0 |
| Kashiwa Daisuke 88 | 4.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Pisces Iscariot | 2.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Earphoria | 3.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins The Aeroplane Flies High | 3.5 |
| City and Colour Little Hell | 4.0 |
| Brian Eno Drums Between The Bells | 3.5 |
| Alice Cooper Killer | 3.5 |
| KISS Gold | 3.0 |
| Van Halen Fair Warning | 2.0 |
| Zeds Dead Rude Boy | 3.0 |
| TOKiMONSTA Midnight Menu | 4.0 |
| blink-182 Greatest Hits | 3.0 |
| Grouper A I A | 3.5 |
| Mika Life in Cartoon Motion | 2.5 |
| The Wrens The Meadowlands | 3.5 |
| Circle Takes the Square Rites of Initiation | 3.0 |
| The Get Up Kids Something to Write Home About | 4.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers I'm With You | 3.0 |
| I predict a 3.2 average |
| Ninjaspy Pi Nature | 4.0 |
| Ampere/Daitro Split | 4.0 |
| The Get Up Kids Four Minute Mile | 4.0 |
| Autechre Garbage | 4.5 |
| Autechre Anvil Vapre | 4.5 |
| The Killers Sam's Town | 3.0 |
| The Beatles Yellow Submarine | 2.0 |
| Portrait Discography | 4.0 |
| Weird Al Yankovic Straight Outta Lynwood | 3.0 |
| Weird Al Yankovic Running With Scissors | 3.5 |
| Flight of the Conchords I Told You I Was Freaky | 2.5 |
| Flight of the Conchords Flight of the Conchords | 3.5 |
| The Weeknd Thursday | 3.5 |
| Elliott Smith Elliott Smith | 4.5 |
| Daitro/Sed Non Satiata Split | 4.0 |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness | 3.5 |
| Tim and Eric Awesome Record, Great Songs | 3.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros Sæglópur | 4.0 |
| Dangers Anger | 4.5 |
| I Hate Myself 10 Songs | 4.0 |
| John Petrucci Suspended Animation | 3.0 |
| Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary | 3.5 |
| You and I The Curtain Falls | 4.5 |
| Madvillain Madvillainy | 4.0 |
| Quo Vadis Live In Montreal | 4.0 |
| Shpongle Tales of the Inexpressible | 4.5 |
| Our Lady Peace Happiness... | 4.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself | 3.5 |
| Koji Kondo Super Mario Galaxy 2 OST | 4.0 |
| Koji Kondo Super Mario Galaxy OST | 4.5 |
| Koji Kondo Super Mario 64 Original Soundtrack | 4.0 |
| Goodie Mob Soul Food | 4.0 |
| Green Day Warning | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater Awake | 3.5 |
| Green Day Dookie | 3.5 |
| Soundgarden Superunknown | 4.0 |
| Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible | 3.0 |
| Barenaked Ladies Stunt | 3.5 |
| R.E.M. Automatic for the People | 4.0 |
| Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain | 3.5 |
| Eric Johnson Ah Via Musicom | 3.5 |
| Jane's Addiction Ritual De Lo Habitual | 3.0 |
| Descendents Milo Goes to College | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) Katamari Damacy soundtrack | 4.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Ghost World | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Pokémon: The First Movie Soundtrack | 1.5 |
| Light Bearer Lapsus | 3.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) A Crow Left of the Murder... | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater Once in a LIVEtime | 3.5 |
| Lmfao Party Rock | 1.5 |
| Jaga Jazzist Day (EP) | 3.5 |
| Jaga Jazzist The Stix | 4.0 |
| Mogwai Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will | 3.0 |
| Heidi Montag Superficial | 1.0 |
| Marquette Waxing/Waning EP | 4.0 |
| Beyonce Dangerously in Love | 2.5 |
| The World/Inferno Friendship Society Red-Eyed Soul | 4.0 |
| The War On Drugs Slave Ambient | 4.5 |
| Film School alwaysnever | 4.0 |
| David Bowie "Heroes" | 3.5 |
| David Bowie Young Americans | 3.0 |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars | 4.0 |
| Suis La Lune Heir | 4.5 |
| Listener Wooden Heart | 3.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare | 2.5 |
| Ted Nugent Ted Nugent | 1.5 |
| Ted Nugent Cat Scratch Fever | 2.0 |
| Weezer The Green Album | 2.5 |
| Steppenwolf Slow Flux | 2.0 |
| Bob Dylan Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 | 3.5 |
| Weezer Make Believe | 2.0 |
| Alexisonfire Live At Manchester Academy | 4.5 |
| Bat For Lashes Two Suns | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero A Calculated Use of Sound | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Search for the Truth | 2.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues | 3.0 |
| Every Time I Die The Big Dirty | 3.0 |
| Silverstein A Shipwreck in the Sand | 2.5 |
| Silverstein Discovering the Waterfront | 2.5 |
| Alexisonfire Math Sheet Demos | 3.0 |
| Design the Skyline Nevaeh | 1.0 |
| so so happy that this exists |
| Thrice The MySpace Transmissions | 3.0 |
| Bon Iver Myspace Transmissions | 3.5 |
| Mount Eerie Lost Wisdom | 3.0 |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 (Re-release) | 3.0 |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 | 3.5 |
| Cryptopsy The Unspoken King | 1.0 |
| Muse Hullabaloo | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Live at the Aragon | 2.5 |
| OFWGKTA The Odd Future Tape | 2.0 |
| Insane Clown Posse Bang! Pow! Boom! | 1.0 |
| The Flaming Lips and Lightning Bolt The Flaming Lips and Lightning Bolt | 3.5 |
| mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes | 4.5 |
| Marnie Stern Marnie Stern | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze | 3.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris | 2.5 |
| Mother Mother Eureka | 4.0 |
| Buena Vista Social Club Buena Vista Social Club | 4.0 |
| Ampere Like Shadows | 4.0 |
| The All-American Rejects The All-American Rejects | 2.0 |
| Good Charlotte The Young And The Hopeless | 1.5 |
| Orchid Orchid | 4.0 |
| Loscil First Narrows | 4.0 |
| blink-182 The Mark, Tom and Travis Show | 3.5 |
| Beastie Boys Hot Sauce Committee Part Two | 3.5 |
| Our Lady Peace Clumsy | 3.5 |
| Reba McEntire All The Women I Am | 1.0 |
| pg.99 Document #5 | 4.0 |
| Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds | 3.5 |
| Christina Aguilera Back to Basics | 2.5 |
| Christina Aguilera My Kind of Christmas | 1.5 |
| Britney Spears Circus | 2.0 |
| Spice Girls Forever | 1.5 |
| Girls Aloud Out of Control | 1.0 |
| Dave Matthews Band Stand Up | 1.5 |
| Off Minor Innominate | 4.5 |
| Stringer Barksdale Strictly Business | 2.0 |
| Stringer Barksdale Dragonboy Vs. The Beatles | 2.5 |
| Pavement Slanted and Enchanted | 3.0 |
| AFI All Hallow's E.P. | 4.0 |
| King Crimson Lizard | 3.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Zeitgeist | 2.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Adore | 2.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music | 2.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Machina/The Machines of God | 2.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Under the Running Board | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan The Dillinger Escape Plan | 3.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene | 3.5 |
| Algernon Cadwallader Parrot Flies | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings | 2.5 |
| Dream Theater Systematic Chaos | 2.5 |
| Texas Is the Reason Do You Know Who You Are? | 4.0 |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Thief, Steal Me A Peach | 3.5 |
| The B-52s The B-52's | 3.0 |
| Drake Thank Me Later | 1.5 |
| Cymbals Eat Guitars Lenses Alien | 4.0 |
| Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy | 4.5 |
| Yngwie Malmsteen Rising Force | 2.5 |
| Velvet Revolver Contraband | 2.0 |
| The Angelic Process Weighing Souls With Sand | 4.0 |
| 90 Day Men To Everybody | 4.0 |
| Skrillex My Name Is Skrillex | 3.0 |
| Skrillex More Monsters and Sprites | 2.5 |
| Muse Showbiz | 3.0 |
| The Kills Blood Pressures | 3.5 |
| Frank Ocean Nostalgia, Ultra. | 3.0 |
| A Place to Bury Strangers A Place to Bury Strangers | 4.0 |
| Nirvana Bleach | 3.0 |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York (DVD) | 4.0 |
| Nirvana Incesticide | 2.5 |
| Braid Frame & Canvas | 4.0 |
| Tomas Dvorak Machinarium Soundtrack | 4.0 |
| Lady Gaga Born This Way | 2.0 |
| Lady Gaga The Remix | 2.0 |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I | 4.5 |
| Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children | 4.5 |
| William Basinski The Disintegration Loops I | 4.0 |
| Gustav Holst The Planets, Op. 32 | 4.0 |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson | 2.5 |
| Elton John Madman Across the Water | 4.0 |
| Drive Like Jehu Yank Crime | 3.5 |
| sleepmakeswaves ...and so we destroyed everything | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Von | 3.5 |
| Cody Simpson 4 U | 1.0 |
| Falling in Reverse The Drug in Me Is You | 1.5 |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree | 2.5 |
| Fall Out Boy Infinity on High | 3.0 |
| Zomby Dedication | 4.0 |
| Sole and the Skyrider Band Plastique | 3.0 |
| The Used The Used | 3.0 |
| Aesop Rock None Shall Pass | 4.0 |
| TTNG Animals | 3.5 |
| Nile Annihilation of the Wicked | 2.5 |
| Suicide Silence The Cleansing | 1.5 |
| Zeds Dead BBC Radio 1 Mini Mix | 4.0 |
| Stendeck Scintilla | 4.5 |
| My reaction to hearing this album confirms one thing for sure: I'm a sucker for pretty much all IDM |
| Loscil Coast/Range/Arc | 3.0 |
| Bright Eyes Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 3.5 |
| Black Sabbath The Best of Black Sabbath | 3.0 |
| SMV Thunder | 3.0 |
| Dethklok Dethalbum II | 3.5 |
| Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs Foggy Mountain Jamboree | 4.0 |
| Midnight Odyssey Forest Mourners | 3.5 |
| St. Vincent Actor | 3.5 |
| Atreyu Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses | 2.5 |
| 3OH!3 Streets of Gold | 1.0 |
| Menomena I Am The Fun Blame Monster! | 4.0 |
| Loscil Versions | 3.0 |
| Blue Foundation Life Of A Ghost | 3.5 |
| Grave Babies Deathface | 2.0 |
| Grave Babies Gouge Your Eyes Out 7" | 2.0 |
| Igor Stravinsky Le Sacre du Printemps | 4.5 |
| Tangled Thoughts of Leaving Deaden The Fields | 3.5 |
| some of this is so amazing, it's begging me to fall in love with it. but then a lot of it is really annoying and isn't as "clever" as I think the band thinks they are being. |
| TV on the Radio Young Liars | 4.5 |
| The Widdler Origin | 4.5 |
| Givers In Light | 3.0 |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune | 3.5 |
| Trophy Scars Never Born, Never Dead | 5.0 |
| Accuse me of overhyping this, overrating it, whatever, I don't care. This fucking RULES. I'm going to rate this a 5 and I'm about half way through it. I have never done that before. Trophy Scars, why are you so mindbogglingly good? STOP BOGGLING MY MIND. |
| Hugh Laurie Let Them Talk | 3.5 |
| "Is there anything this man can't do?" Get off the meds? |
| Iselia Life From Dead Limbs | 4.0 |
| Mr. Oizo & Gaspard Augé Rubber OST | 3.5 |
| TV on the Radio Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes | 4.0 |
| American Football American Football | 4.0 |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 4.0 |
| TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain | 4.0 |
| My Morning Jacket Circuital | 2.0 |
| Tigers on Trains Grandfather | 3.0 |
| Panda Bear Tomboy | 2.5 |
| Classified Self Explanatory | 2.5 |
| Rihanna Rated R | 3.0 |
| Rihanna Loud | 2.5 |
| Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse | 2.5 |
| A Bunny's Caravan Draining Puddles, Retrieving Treasures | 4.0 |
| 3 Doors Down 3 Doors Down | 2.0 |
| Sorrow (UK) Summer Of Love | 4.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar Section.80 | 4.5 |
| Ash Borer Ash Borer | 4.0 |
| +44 When Your Heart Stops Beating | 2.0 |
| Bad Brains Bad Brains | 4.0 |
| Arizmenda Within the Vacuum of Infinity... | 3.5 |
| Shipwreck A.D. Abyss | 3.5 |
| Hot Cross Cryonics | 3.5 |
| Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors | 4.0 |
| Winterfylleth The Mercian Sphere | 3.5 |
| The Rankin Family Fare Thee Well Love | 3.5 |
| Tell my ma when I go home, the boys won't leave the girls alone. They pulled my hair and stole my comb, but that's alright till I go home. She is handsome, she is pretty, she is the belle of Belfast city. She is courting one two three, please would you tell me: who is she? |
| Beau Navire Hours | 3.0 |
| Mr. Bungle Mr. Bungle | 2.5 |
| Deafheaven Roads to Judah | 3.5 |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain | 4.5 |
| Sarah Fimm Near Infinite Possibility | 4.0 |
| Bjork Homogenic | 4.0 |
| dredg Chuckles and Mr. Squeezy | 1.5 |
| Buckcherry Fifteen | 1.0 |
| Midnight Oil Diesel and Dust | 3.0 |
| Armchairpolitician Seven Segment Decoder | 4.5 |
http://i53.tinypic.com/30ksosi.png I'm like a modern day Nostradamus (edit: oh my god fail,
I used "there" instead of "their") |
| Psyopus Ideas of Reference | 3.5 |
| Sorrow (UK) Existence | 4.0 |
| Matthew Good Lights of Endangered Species | 3.0 |
| Matthew Good Vancouver | 4.0 |
| A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide | 4.5 |
| Pig Destroyer Phantom Limb | 4.0 |
| Iselia Adaptations | 3.5 |
| Crowded House Woodface | 3.0 |
| Glass Bones The Hope In Forgiving & Giving Up Hope | 3.5 |
| *shels Plains Of The Purple Buffalo | 4.0 |
| Lugubrious like a fox. |
| Submotion Orchestra Finest Hour | 4.0 |
| Jawbox For Your Own Special Sweetheart | 4.0 |
| Dot Dot Curve I'm Still Here | 1.0 |
| Dot Dot Curve Til the Wheels Fall Off | 1.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Orange | 4.0 |
| Cobra Starship Hot Mess | 1.0 |
| The Dear Hunter White | 4.5 |
| I just watched this sweet parkour video with "Home" playing, it went so well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIF_PUSCC4c |
| The Dear Hunter Violet | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Indigo | 4.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Black | 4.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Yellow | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Blue | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Green | 4.5 |
| Mammon Demiurge | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Red | 4.5 |
| Thursday No Devolucion | 4.0 |
| Coldplay Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall | 3.0 |
| On one listen I'm torn between a 3 or a 3.5, but I'm going with 3.5 because Viva la Vida was a 5 for me and I refuse to believe that they've fallen so far from that. I actually think the full LP will be good (probably in the 4 range), this EP is just a little boring is all. |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection) | 4.5 |
| Matt and Kim Sidewalks | 2.0 |
| Autechre Incunabula | 4.0 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 2.5 |
| Millionaires Just Got Paid, Let's Get Laid | 1.0 |
| Millionaires Bling Bling Bling! | 1.0 |
| Millionaires Rated Xmas | 1.0 |
| Boxcutter Oneiric | 4.5 |
| The Lonely Island Turtleneck and Chain | 3.5 |
| The All-American Rejects Move Along | 3.0 |
| Paris Hilton Paris | 1.0 |
| Waking The Cadaver Demo | 1.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Coda | 2.5 |
| S Club 7 The Greatest Hits Of S Club 7 | 2.0 |
| Atreyu Lead Sails Paper Anchor | 1.5 |
| Atreyu A Death-Grip on Yesterday | 2.5 |
| Atreyu The Curse | 2.5 |
| Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction | 2.5 |
| As Cities Burn Come Now Sleep | 4.5 |
| Living Legends Almost Famous | 3.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Scream Aim Fire | 2.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Full Force Galesburg | 4.5 |
| Grown Ups Hand Holder | 3.5 |
| Crash of Rhinos Distal | 4.5 |
| Abandon All Ships Geeving | 1.5 |
| The Mountain Goats Tallahassee | 5.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Heretic Pride | 4.5 |
| The Mountain Goats The Life of the World to Come | 3.5 |
| The Mountain Goats All Hail West Texas | 5.0 |
| Harvey Milk Life... The Best Game in Town | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum | 4.0 |
| WU LYF Go Tell Fire to the Mountain | 4.0 |
| who will be the first to 5 this? my money is on Jash. (edit: Chambered, ftw, as per usual) |
| Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot | 4.0 |
| Aqua Aquarium | 1.0 |
| Adele 21 | 3.5 |
| Nujabes Modal Soul | 4.0 |
| PJ Harvey Let England Shake | 2.0 |
| Emmure Speaker Of The Dead | 1.5 |
| The Word Alive Deceiver | 2.0 |
| The Rural Alberta Advantage Departing | 4.5 |
| Vessels Helioscope | 3.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Codes and Keys | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West | 4.5 |
| Guided by Voices Bee Thousand | 4.0 |
| Autechre Amber | 4.5 |
| k-os Joyful Rebellion | 4.0 |
| Heaven In Her Arms Paraselene | 2.5 |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me | 2.5 |
| Emeralds Does It Look Like I'm Here? | 4.0 |
| Loscil Endless Falls | 4.0 |
| Baton Rouge Fragments D'eux Memes | 3.5 |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 4.5 |
| Laura Stevenson Sit Resist | 5.0 |
| Archers of Loaf White Trash Heroes | 4.5 |
| Pinkshinyultrablast Happy Songs For Happy Zombies | 4.0 |
| Burial Untrue | 4.5 |
| Tyler, the Creator Goblin | 2.0 |
| Wiz Khalifa Rolling Papers | 2.0 |
| Stars of the Lid The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid | 4.5 |
| Autechre Tri Repetae | 5.0 |
| Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie XX We're New Here | 3.5 |
| Bar 9 Bar 9 In Da Mix | 4.0 |
| Clubroot II - MMX | 4.0 |
| Jason Derulo Jason Derulo | 1.0 |
| Maybeshewill I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was Gone | 4.0 |
| Departures When Losing Everything Is Everything You Wanted | 3.0 |
| Weekend Nachos Worthless | 4.0 |
| Twin Shadow Forget | 3.0 |
| The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin | 4.5 |
| La Dispute/Koji Never Come Undone | 3.5 |
| Strapping Young Lad City | 4.5 |
| Surfer Blood Astro Coast | 3.0 |
| The Subs Subculture | 2.5 |
| Generic, predictable, boring, cliche, but not really "bad" at all, just kind of forgettable. The perfect definition of "average." |
| The Mountain Goats The Coroner's Gambit | 5.0 |
| best Mountain Goats material, and one of the best albums of all time. |
| Amon Amarth Surtur Rising | 3.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra Simple Math | 5.0 |
| Epic, majestic, highly personal yet easy to relate to, Simple Math is Manchester Orchestra's potential realized in full. A brilliant album from a brilliant band, and a top contender for album of the year. |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and The Shape (Expanded) | 4.5 |
| The Antlers Burst Apart | 4.5 |
| let's all listen to the stream once and then rate the album right away. seriously guys, give it some time. |
| Jaga Jazzist A Livingroom Hush | 4.0 |
| Fugazi The Argument | 4.0 |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning | 3.5 |
| Beach House Teen Dream | 3.0 |
| Jenny and Johnny I'm Having Fun Now | 2.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child | 5.0 |
| Eleven Tigers Clouds Are Mountains | 3.5 |
| Smith Westerns Dye It Blonde | 2.5 |
| Bonobo Black Sands | 4.0 |
| Swarms Old Raves End | 4.0 |
| Biffy Clyro Only Revolutions | 2.5 |
| Major Lazer Guns Dont Kill People... Lazers Do | 2.0 |
| Boston Boston | 4.0 |
| The Middle East The Recordings of the Middle East | 4.5 |
| Washed Out Life of Leisure | 3.5 |
| Rival Schools Pedals | 3.5 |
| Young the Giant Young the Giant | 4.0 |
| Regina Spektor Live in London | 5.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take Care | 3.5 |
| Archers of Loaf Icky Mettle | 4.5 |
| Skrillex Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites | 3.0 |
| "Skrillex will never win any critical awards" -- Rudy Klapper, Staff |
| Sage Francis A Healthy Distrust | 2.5 |
| Pariso/Kerouac Split | 3.5 |
| tUnE-yArDs w h o k i l l | 3.5 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Josh Is Dead | 4.0 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Formlessness | 4.5 |
| Lion of the North The Compass Calls | 4.0 |
| Keep It Like A Secret Not With A Bang But A Whimper | 3.0 |
| TV on the Radio Nine Types of Light | 4.5 |
| Wax Scrublife | 4.0 |
| 2562 Fever | 4.0 |
| Frightened Rabbit The Midnight Organ Fight | 4.5 |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend | 3.0 |
| The Evpatoria Report Golevka | 4.0 |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light | 4.5 |
| Foo Fighters have been a great band for well over a decade now, and Wasting Light is further proof of that. However, this is more than just another passable album to get lost in their evergrowing discography. Wasting Light is surely a standout. The album is focussed and mature, but it still rocks like The Foos of old. And on that note, let it be said that it rocks hard, easily harder than anything they've done since 2002's One By One. To use an example, consider "White Limo." Grohl's vocals are nearly screams throughout and the guitar riffs are simple and dirty, yet manage to drive the song along in an effective, catchy manner. "White Limo," and the entire album in general, is an homage to the early days of The Foo Fighters, but with a new, fresh-sounding approach. All things considered, this is quite possibly their best album yet. |
| The Mountain Goats All Eternals Deck | 4.5 |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues | 3.5 |
| Emery We Do What We Want | 2.5 |
| The Sheepdogs Learn and Burn | 3.0 |
| The Jet Age Of Tomorrow Journey to the 5th Echelon | 2.5 |
| Trespassers William Different Stars | 4.5 |
| FaltyDL You Stand Uncertain | 3.5 |
| The Thermals The Body, The Blood, The Machine | 4.5 |
| The Thermals Personal Life | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats We Shall All Be Healed | 5.0 |
| Broken Bells Meyrin Fields | 4.0 |
| This is such a great little EP. I want moar! |
| The Weeknd House of Balloons | 4.0 |
| Late Night Alumni Haunted | 3.5 |
| Burial and Four Tet Ego/Mirror | 4.0 |
| Reso In Da Mix | 3.5 |
| Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill | 3.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism | 5.0 |
| maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map | 4.0 |
| Warpaint Exquisite Corpse | 4.0 |
| Warning Watching from a Distance | 3.0 |
| Pink Martini Splendor in the Grass | 3.0 |
| MSTRKRFT Fist of God | 1.5 |
| An absolutely shameful display of generic, uninspired electronic dance music. Every beat is the same, and the musical ideas are recycled over and over throughout the album. Not even the (mediocre) guest spots could save this album. What a piece of crap. I am disappoint. |
| Trapped Under Ice Stay Cold | 4.0 |
| Panic! at the Disco Vices & Virtues | 3.5 |
| CunninLynguists Oneirology | 4.0 |
| The National Alligator | 4.5 |
| Britney Spears Oops!...I Did It Again | 3.0 |
| Britney Spears ...Baby One More Time | 2.5 |
| The National Boxer | 5.0 |
| Wye Oak Civilian | 3.5 |
| Britney Spears Femme Fatale | 1.5 |
| Just awful. This is the sound of Britney Spears trying to become relevant again, and failing miserably. She's trying to sound all dubstep-y, and from a financial standpoint, I can understand why she would choose that route (and by "she" I mean Britney Spears the franchise, not the person). She's trying to get in on a trend that's about to explode and be the next big thing, which is a smart move. Unfortunately for Britney though, the album is pure crap. +.5 for at least trying to do something different from her other albums. Also some of it is kind of catchy in a good way, like I Wanna Go. Most of it is catchy in the "dear GOD please stop raping my brain" sense though. (Drop Dead) Beautiful is honestly one of the worst songs I've ever heard. Just, read this lyric: "You must be b-i-g/Because, you got me hypnotized/Whoever said that beauty's on the inside is a liar/'Cause, what I'm looking at right now/Would make a big girl cry/So fasten up your seatbelt/It's gon' be a bumpy ride." That's so revoltingly bad, I want to puke. Oh I almost forgot, someone needs to tell her that "if I said you had a nice body, would you hold it against me?" was maybe funny at one time, but that was in the early 90s and not for very long. |
| KISS Greatest KISS | 2.5 |
| Rise Against Endgame | 3.5 |
| The Black Keys Attack & Release | 4.0 |
| Scale the Summit The Collective | 4.0 |
| Deadmau5 4x4=12 | 4.0 |
| This is my first experience listening to house music not in a live setting. I saw Deadmau5 live and had a great time but the whole time I was thinking "I bet this shit sucks on the studio album." Yah well I was wrong, this album owns. |
| GZA Liquid Swords | 4.0 |
| Raekwon Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang | 3.0 |
| Until Your Heart Stops Errors | 4.0 |
| Hoobastank Hoobastank | 3.5 |
| Much Worse Absolute Nightmare | 3.0 |
| Star One Victims of the Modern Age | 1.5 |
| The Unicorns Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? | 2.0 |
| What the hell is this garbage? "Canada's best band" Excuse me? Even staying within the genre (GY!BE is just too easy), The Unicorns are easily beaten by The Weakerthans. This album isn't even good. I'm so angry at whichever of you it was that thought I would like this. Some OK songs, maybe three or four, but that's it. How does this have a 4.0 average? |
| (The) Slowest Runner (In All The World) We, Burning Giraffes | 4.0 |
| Atmosphere When Life Gives You Lemons... | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats The Sunset Tree | 5.0 |
| The Who Quadrophenia | 4.5 |
| Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains | 4.5 |
| DeVotchKa 100 Lovers | 2.5 |
| Damien Rice 9 | 3.5 |
| Loma Prieta Last City | 3.5 |
| King Guava Demo | 3.5 |
| Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 | 4.5 |
| Rodrigo y Gabriela 11:11 | 3.5 |
| Christina Aguilera Christina Aguilera | 2.0 |
| Christina Aguilera Stripped | 2.0 |
| Old Man Markley Guts N' Teeth | 4.5 |
| NSYNC NSYNC | 2.5 |
| Beau Navire Life Moves | 2.5 |
| Spice Girls Spice | 1.5 |
| Spice Girls Spiceworld | 2.0 |
| NSYNC Home for Christmas | 1.0 |
| NSYNC No Strings Attached | 2.5 |
| Backstreet Boys This Is Us | 1.5 |
| Backstreet Boys Unbreakable | 2.0 |
| Backstreet Boys Never Gone | 1.5 |
| Backstreet Boys Black and Blue | 2.0 |
| Backstreet Boys Backstreet's Back | 2.5 |
| Backstreet Boys Backstreet Boys | 3.0 |
| Backstreet Boys Millennium | 3.0 |
| Off Minor Problematic Courtship | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou A to B: Life | 3.5 |
| Kerouac/The Long Haul Split | 3.5 |
| Tyler, the Creator Bastard | 3.5 |
| The Weakerthans Reunion Tour | 4.5 |
| Honeywell Discography | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah obZen | 4.0 |
| Navio Forge As We Quietly Burn A Hole Into... | 4.0 |
| B.B. King Live at the Regal | 4.0 |
| B.B. King Live at the Apollo | 3.5 |
| Dag Nasty Can I Say (Reissue) | 3.0 |
| Off Minor Some Blood | 4.5 |
| Maximillian Colby Discography | 4.5 |
| Natural Snow Buildings Waves of the Random Sea | 4.0 |
| Angel Hair Pregnant With The Senior Class | 4.0 |
| Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights | 4.5 |
| Shotmaker/Maximillian Colby Split | 4.5 |
| Holy shit this is way to good of an emo release for 1995. How does this only have one rating? |
| Mudvayne L.D. 50 | 3.0 |
| Ital Tek Cyclical | 4.0 |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book | 4.5 |
| Pariah (UK) Safehouses | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous | 3.5 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 4.0 |
| Love American Love American | 3.5 |
| In a year full of highly anticipated releases (Radiohead, Thrice, Defeater etc.) it's funny that I actually found myself waiting for THIS to officially drop so I could hop on the hype train. Adam, my friend, your band legitimately rules, which is a relief, because I really didn't want to pretend it wasn't shitty just to spare your feelings. I feel weird saying this because getting a song sent to you via a mediafire link on fb chat makes it seem like the least legit thing ever, but Legendary Birds is one of the best hardcore songs I've heard in the past year. |
| Cold War Kids Mine is Yours | 3.0 |
| Robyn Body Talk | 3.0 |
| Ratatat LP4 | 3.5 |
| Andre Nickatina Conversation With a Devil | 2.5 |
| The Weakerthans Live at Burton Cummings Theatre | 4.5 |
| A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory | 4.0 |
| Defeater Dear Father | 3.0 |
| I gave this a 4.5 at first but I'm lowering it because I'll obviously never listen to it again; both songs are on the full length. This probably shouldn't even be in the database, it's a single, not an EP |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Diary | 5.0 |
| pg.99 Document #8 | 4.5 |
| Mobb Deep The Infamous | 4.0 |
| Misery Signals Controller | 3.0 |
| The White Stripes Elephant | 3.5 |
| Departures Escaping | 4.0 |
| Snowing I Could Do Whatever I Wanted If I Wanted | 2.5 |
| I know I'll catch hell for this rating probably but I don't know, I really can't get into this guys' voice. It's a good album musically though, for the most part. |
| More Than Life Brave Enough To Fail | 4.5 |
| NOISIA Split The Atom | 4.0 |
| Lavotchkin/Attack! Vipers! Split | 3.5 |
| Man this album cover owns so much. Almost as much as the new Amon Amarth artwork. |
| Spokes Everyone I Ever Met | 4.0 |
| Boysetsfire The Misery Index: Notes From The Plague | 3.5 |
| Yuck Yuck | 4.0 |
| The Walkmen Lisbon | 4.0 |
| Modern Life Is War Witness | 4.0 |
| Trentemoller The Last Resort | 4.5 |
| Baths Cerulean | 4.0 |
| Deerhunter Halcyon Digest | 4.5 |
| Kno Death Is Silent | 3.0 |
| Nas Illmatic | 4.5 |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... | 4.5 |
| Destroyer Kaputt | 2.5 |
| Ned Collette Future Suture | 4.0 |
| Portishead Dummy | 4.5 |
| Cap'n Jazz Shmap'n Shmazz | 4.5 |
| Sun Kil Moon Admiral Fell Promises | 2.5 |
| Daniel Bjarnason Processions | 4.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Plans | 3.0 |
| Clive Tanaka y Su Orquesta Jet Set Siempre No. 1 | 4.0 |
| The Dismemberment Plan Emergency & I | 4.5 |
What a horrible album cover. I was sitting here, listening to this album on iTunes for the
first time saying to myself "oh man why the hell didn't I listen to this earlier?" and then
I right-clicked and selected "Get Album Artwork" and I remembered. Seriously, my dog could
shit a better album cover than this. It's a shame because this album is so good it's scary;
it needs artwork to match. |
| Love Axe Phenomenomenons | 3.0 |
| Her Name Is Calla Live at Denovali Swingfest 2010 | 3.0 |
| The Flashbulb Arboreal | 4.0 |
| The State Lottery When the Night Comes | 4.5 |
| Jim Bryson and The Weakerthans The Falcon Lake Incident | 3.5 |
| Taylor Swift Speak Now | 4.0 |
| Holy ass I figured this wouldn't be awful but I was not expecting it to actually be awesome. |
| The Cinematic Orchestra Ma Fleur | 4.5 |
| The Decemberists Picaresque | 3.5 |
| The Decemberists The King Is Dead | 3.0 |
| Aesop Rock Labor Days | 5.0 |
| Foals Total Life Forever | 3.5 |
| Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse Dark Night of the Soul | 2.5 |
| toe For Long Tomorrow | 4.0 |
| Defeater Travels | 4.5 |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister | 4.5 |
| Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid | 4.0 |
| Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles) | 3.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) South Park (Original Soundtrack) | 4.0 |
| Dark Time Sunshine Vessel | 4.0 |
| Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession | 3.5 |
| Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God | 3.0 |
| More Than Life Love Let Me Go | 4.5 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt | 4.5 |
| Gorillaz The Fall | 3.0 |
| Black Mountain Wilderness Heart | 4.0 |
You know those friends (acquaintances) we all have that are adamant in their assertions of
"music today sucks!" and "rock is dead!"? Play them this record, from Vancouver rockers
Black Mountain, and they'll shut right up. This is great rock music that I would recommend
to probably everyone I know, even those who don't enjoy music nearly as much as I do. This
is just so easy to enjoy.Plus, I mean there's a fucking shark on the
cover. I don't know about you, but that earns immense amounts of instant respect from me. |
| Nick Drake Pink Moon | 4.5 |
| Amon Amarth With Oden on Our Side | 4.0 |
| James Blake James Blake | 4.0 |
| Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros Up From Below | 3.0 |
| 'Home' is one of the purest and sincerest songs about love I've ever heard. That's the standout highlight here though. Most of the rest of it is pretty mediocre. Man, your guys' recs surprise me sometimes. I don't remember who it was, but why did you think I'd love this? |
| Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot | 4.5 |
| Defeater Lost Ground | 4.5 |
| Ulcerate Everything Is Fire | 4.0 |
| The Knife Tomorrow, In a Year | 3.5 |
| DragonForce Sonic Firestorm | 2.0 |
| Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon | 2.5 |
| The Secret Solve Et Coagula | 2.5 |
| Touche Amore ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse | 3.5 |
| oOoOO oOoOO | 3.5 |
| The Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Out | 5.0 |
| Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young Deja Vu | 4.0 |
| Dead Letter Circus This Is The Warning | 3.5 |
| Every Time I Die Hot Damn! | 3.0 |
| Dark Dark Dark Bright Bright Bright | 3.5 |
| At The Soundawn Shifting | 4.0 |
| Kings of Leon Come Around Sundown | 3.5 |
| Laura Stevenson Holy Ghost! | 5.0 |
| Modern American Theatre We Could Make A House | 3.0 |
| Little Women Throat | 4.0 |
| Deerhunter Cryptograms | 3.5 |
| Touche Amore/La Dispute Searching for a Pulse/The Worth of the World | 4.5 |
| La Dispute Winter Tour Holiday CD-R | 2.0 |
| This is really really bad. It's like La Dispute minus all the awesome. Jesus must be rolling over in his grave.... |
| Sufjan Stevens All Delighted People | 4.0 |
| Avey Tare Down There | 3.0 |
| How to Dress Well Love Remains | 3.0 |
| The Republic of Wolves Varuna | 4.0 |
| Laura Marling I Speak Because I Can | 4.0 |
| Laura Marling Alas, I Cannot Swim | 4.0 |
| Quiet Steps Think Aloud | 3.5 |
| Joni Mitchell Blue | 4.5 |
| Joanna Newsom Have One on Me | 5.0 |
| The War On Drugs Future Weather | 3.5 |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 3.5 |
| John Mayer Heavier Things | 3.0 |
| John Mayer Room for Squares | 3.5 |
| Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson | 4.0 |
| Six Gallery Breakthroughs in Modern Art | 4.5 |
| Daughters Daughters | 4.0 |
| Kid Cudi Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager | 2.5 |
| Look What I Did Atlas Drugged | 4.0 |
| This album is what Minus The Bear would sound like if they were a post-hardcore band. Which is a good thing. |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 5.0 |
| Wolf Parade Expo 86 | 2.5 |
| Girls Broken Dreams Club | 3.0 |
| Kerouac Cold and Distant, Not Loving | 4.5 |
| God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright | 3.0 |
| One of the supremely overrated post-rock albums. It's really not bad, it's just all been do so much better so many more times. It really astonishes me that this album is consistently mentioned as one of the defining pieces in the genre. |
| Crippled Black Phoenix I, Vigilante | 4.0 |
| This is some wicked good post-rock with well done vocals and somewhat of a Godspeed vibe. |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Kollaps Tradixionales | 3.0 |
| Joshua Fit For Battle To Bring Our Own End | 4.0 |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma | 4.0 |
| Korn Follow the Leader | 2.5 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame | 3.0 |
| Delta Spirit History From Below | 4.0 |
| Gold Panda Lucky Shiner | 4.0 |
| Simon and Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water | 3.0 |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross The Social Network OST | 3.0 |
| The Flashbulb Soundtrack to a Vacant Life | 4.5 |
| Midlake The Trials of Van Occupanther | 3.5 |
| No Age Everything In Between | 2.5 |
| Jeff Mangum Live at Jittery Joe's | 4.0 |
| Escape the Fate Escape the Fate | 2.0 |
| Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill | 4.5 |
| Pantha Du Prince Black Noise | 4.0 |
| The Avalanches Since I Left You | 4.5 |
| Zach Hill Face Tat | 3.0 |
| James Blunt Back To Bedlam | 2.0 |
| Basia Bulat Oh, My Darling | 4.0 |
| Women Public Strain | 4.0 |
| Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind | 3.5 |
| Dark Dark Horse Centuries | 3.0 |
| Creed Human Clay | 1.5 |
| Matchbox Twenty Yourself or Someone Like You | 3.0 |
| City and Colour Sometimes | 3.0 |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 3.0 |
| Escape the Fate This War Is Ours | 2.5 |
| Atlas Sound Logos | 2.5 |
| Alexisonfire Dog's Blood | 4.0 |
| Alexisonfire are back baby! Most of the bs found on their latest LP seems to have been purged and what's left is vintage AOF. George's vocal tone is almost back to normal (except for 'Grey'), which is a great thing. A definite step in the right direction for Alexisonfire. |
| Warpaint The Fool | 4.5 |
| Brian Eno Small Craft on a Milk Sea | 4.0 |
| Jeff Beck Blow by Blow | 4.0 |
| Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsys | 4.5 |
| Cream Strange Brew — The Very Best Of Cream | 4.0 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar The Letters | 4.0 |
| Her Name Is Calla The Quiet Lamb | 3.5 |
| The Flaming Lips At War with the Mystics | 3.0 |
| Monomate Grand Battle | 1.5 |
| My God this album is awful. How does this have a 3.8 average rating? What is wrong with you guys? |
| Red Sparowes The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein... | 4.0 |
| Senses Fail The Fire | 2.5 |
| Trophy Scars Darkness, Oh Hell | 5.0 |
| Train Drops of Jupiter | 2.5 |
| TELL ME, DID YOU SAIL ACROSS THE SUN, DID YOU MAKE IT TO THE MILKY WAY TO SEE THE LIGHTS ALL FADED, AND THAT HEAVEN IS OVERRATEDrTELL MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE |
| The Hush Sound Like Vines | 3.0 |
| Sarah Fimm Karma Phala | 4.0 |
| Eluvium Static Nocturne | 5.0 |
| Justin Bieber My World | 1.0 |
| The Saddest Landscape Lift Your Burdens High For This is Where We Cross | 4.0 |
| The Ascent of Everest/We All Inherit The Moon Split | 3.0 |
It's a good album. Much of the We All Inherit The Moon side is boring, but there are enough
interesting bits to keep it going. The Ascent Of Everest's side is better: slightly more
dynamic and listenable. There are some pretty poor vocals that hinder their first track
however. I don't know, like I said, it's a good album. Both bands can do better though. |
| The Felix Culpa Sever Your Roots | 4.0 |
| Monogrim / Slow Dreams 1300+ Miles of Sound | 3.5 |
| Sed Non Satiata Sed Non Satiata | 4.5 |
| Matchbox Twenty Mad Season | 3.5 |
| John Frusciante Shadows Collide with People | 4.0 |
| Do Make Say Think Other Truths | 4.0 |
| Maroon 5 Songs About Jane | 2.0 |
| Caustic Resin The Medicine Is All Gone | 4.0 |
| Ashlee Simpson I Am Me | 1.5 |
| Ashlee Simpson Autobiography | 1.0 |
| Katy Perry Teenage Dream | 2.5 |
| Harbours Harbours EP | 3.0 |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon | 3.5 |
| Quo Vadis Defiant Imagination | 4.0 |
| Japandroids No Singles | 4.0 |
| Toro Y Moi Causers of This | 3.0 |
| Max Richter Infra | 4.5 |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Feels | 4.0 |
| Yo La Tengo And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside... | 4.0 |
| Xavier Rudd Food In The Belly | 3.0 |
| Xavier Rudd White Moth | 3.5 |
| James Blake Klavierwerke | 4.0 |
| Slipknot Iowa | 2.5 |
| The Saddest Landscape You Will Not Survive | 4.0 |
| Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks | 5.0 |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 3.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers One Hot Minute | 2.5 |
| Eric Clapton and B. B. King Riding With the King | 3.5 |
| Elton John Greatest Hits | 4.0 |
| Bela Fleck and The Flecktones Live at the Quick | 3.0 |
| Caleb McAlpine Science Fiction | 3.5 |
| He Is Legend I Am Hollywood | 2.5 |
| Maserati Passages | 3.0 |
| La Dispute Here, Hear. | 4.0 |
| This Is Your Captain Speaking Storyboard | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ [Vinyl] | 5.0 |
| Sparta Wiretap Scars | 4.0 |
| Dire Straits Brothers in Arms | 3.0 |
| Quicksand Slip | 4.5 |
| A Lot Like Birds Plan B | 3.5 |
| Thursday Full Collapse | 3.0 |
| Rush Rush | 3.0 |
| Rush Feedback | 3.0 |
| Rush Fly by Night | 3.0 |
| Genesis We Can't Dance | 2.5 |
| Yes Tales from Topographic Oceans | 2.5 |
| King Crimson Discipline | 4.0 |
| King Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture | 3.0 |
| Trophy Scars Hospital Music for the Aesthetics of Language | 4.5 |
| Foxy Shazam Foxy Shazam | 3.0 |
| David Gilmour Live in Gdansk | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd Obscured by Clouds | 3.5 |
| At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out | 3.5 |
| Le Pre Ou Je Suis Mort Le Pre Ou Je Suis Mort | 4.5 |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 3.5 |
| Opeth Still Life | 4.0 |
| Oasis Definitely Maybe | 3.0 |
| Oasis Be Here Now | 2.5 |
| Nirvana Nirvana | 3.0 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 4.0 |
| Jack Johnson To the Sea | 2.5 |
| holy man that is a huge soundoff. |
| Guns N' Roses The Spaghetti Incident? | 1.5 |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come | 4.0 |
| Syd Barrett Barrett | 3.0 |
| Trophy Scars Bad Luck | 4.0 |
| BATS Red In Tooth and Claw | 3.5 |
| Hopesfall The Satellite Years | 3.5 |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence | 4.5 |
| La Dispute Here, Hear. II | 4.5 |
| Suicide Silence No Time to Bleed | 1.0 |
| Miley Cyrus Breakout | 1.0 |
| Three Days Grace One-X | 2.0 |
| Hedley Hedley | 1.5 |
| Fefe Dobson Fefe Dobson | 1.5 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 2.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger | 3.0 |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety | 3.0 |
| La Dispute Vancouver | 4.0 |
| La Dispute Untitled | 4.5 |
| Protest the Hero Sequoia Throne: Remixed | 1.5 |
| La Dispute Here, Hear. III | 4.5 |
| The Swell Season Once: Music From The Motion Picture | 4.5 |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair | 5.0 |
| Irepress Sol Eye Sea I | 3.5 |
| Fleetwood Mac Rumours | 4.0 |
| Eleventh He Reaches London Hollow Be My Name | 3.0 |
| The Ascent of Everest From This Vantage | 2.5 |
| Very, very disappointing. This album lacks any of the inspired musicianship and aggressive approach of their brilliant album How Lonely Sits The City. I mean, I'll give it another couple of tries but there's no way this touches their earlier work. |
| Oceansize Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up | 4.0 |
| Slint Spiderland | 4.5 |
| Grown Ups Songs | 4.5 |
| Envy Recitation | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz | 4.5 |
| I've never listened to Sufjan before, but I had gathered that he was an indie-folky-singer/songwriter kinda guy. So that's what I was expecting, more or less, when I put on The Age of Ads.rWhat I got what the Merriwheather Post Pavilion of the year. Only better. At over 70 minutes long, the album never tires or begs you to hit the 'skip track' button. It's so layered and full of such an array of electronic wizardry and "fuck-it-all" lyricism. The album is immense; it floored me. I feel like listening to older Sufjan stuff (such as the critically acclaimed Come On Feel The Illinoise!) would only result in bitter disappointment. The Age of Adz is a strong contender for album of the year. P.S. What's with that 3.8 average rating? Silly Sputnik, go listen to Enslaved or whatever you crazy kids are digging these days. |
| Kings of Leon Live at the O2 London, England | 3.0 |
| Kyte Dead Waves | 4.0 |
| Good Charlotte The Chronicles of Life and Death | 1.5 |
| Daitro Laisser Vivre Les Squelettes | 4.5 |
| John Frusciante The Empyrean | 4.0 |
| Kidcrash Jokes | 4.0 |
| Dangers Messy, Isn't It? | 4.0 |
| Panda Bear Person Pitch | 3.5 |
| Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss | 4.5 |
| Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe | 5.0 |
| Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True | 4.0 |
| Funeral Diner The Underdark | 3.0 |
| Being one of the higher rated emo albums out there, and allegedly having a soothing blend of post-rock dynamics, I was hoping to really enjoy this album. And I did, sort of. I mean it was post-rock influenced emo, sure, but it all sounded recycled and derivate. Each song has approximately equal amounts of skramz-y sections and post-rock style breakdowns, resulting in very few standout moments. It's still a nice album, but not one I'll be putting on frequently while other, better emo exists. |
| Pokemon Pokemon 2.B.A. Master | 5.0 |
| Why are people rating this seriously? It's a fucking Pokemon Soundtrack, give it a 1 or a 5, not a 3. Come on. |
| Black Tide Light From Above | 2.0 |
| Rihanna Good Girl Gone Bad | 3.0 |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots | 4.5 |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World | 5.0 |
| Lights Out Asia In The Days Of Jupiter | 3.5 |
| Tera Melos Patagonian Rats | 4.0 |
| Slow Dreams Elska | 3.5 |
| Slow Dreams Einn Ár Seinna | 4.0 |
This EP is an excursion in soothing post-rock bordering on ambient at times. The guitar
passages are interesting and well-mixed, but they also go well with the several voice sample
scattered throughout. Tracks to try-out should include 1 a.m. Waterfront Station and
The Woods (What Scares You), an eerie track based around a vocal sample from the
movie "Antichrist"
It's been put up for free download by the artist here:
http://www.zshare.net/download/80183986238bfc89/ |
| Eluvium Similes | 3.5 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame Monster | 3.0 |
| Menomena Friend And Foe | 4.5 |
| Menomena Mines | 4.0 |
| Oceansize Music for Nurses | 4.5 |
| The Strokes Is This It | 2.5 |
| I'm so gonna get a heap o' shit for the rating but I really can't see what's so special here. There are some songs that are nice, but overall it's too much of mess for me to listen to. |
| My Morning Jacket Evil Urges | 2.5 |
| Metro Station Metro Station | 1.0 |
| Kim Churchill With Sword & Shield | 3.5 |
| Ill Mitch Punch While Rap | 4.0 |
| "I Will Win, Cannot Lose, Came to Here, Bought New Shoes"rPunch While Rap is 11 tracks of slick beats and lyrical genius from a man simply rknown as Ill Mitch. Most of the time, he's laying down brilliant lyrics like in Hey Ladies Fans: "Hey ladies fans, can we fall in love? You fit with me me me like a boxing glove" Other times, he's ranting about how in his homeland (Russia.....) raising your middle finger is not offensive but using said fingers to create a fake mustache on one's upper lip (a la Stalin) is seen as incredibly rude (from Fast and Danger, maybe the album's best track).rNo matter what it is, this album delivers pure comedic, not-to-be-taken-too-seriously, hip-hop gold. Ill Mitch is, well, ill. |
| The White Stripes Icky Thump | 3.0 |
| The White Stripes White Blood Cells | 4.5 |
| Mew Frengers | 4.5 |
| Girls Album | 2.5 |
| letlive. Fake History | 3.0 |
| Dr. Dre 2001 | 3.0 |
| The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound | 3.5 |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss | 4.0 |
| The Weakerthans Left and Leaving | 5.0 |
| Caribou Swim | 3.5 |
| My Epic Yet | 2.5 |
| Black Veil Brides We Stitch These Wounds | 1.5 |
| The Weakerthans Reconstruction Site | 5.0 |
| Lights Out Asia Eyes Like Brontide | 4.5 |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs | 4.5 |
| Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm | 4.5 |
| Emerson, Lake and Palmer Tarkus | 3.5 |
| King Crimson Starless and Bible Black | 3.0 |
| Katy Perry One of the Boys | 3.0 |
| New Young Pony Club Fantastic Playroom | 2.0 |
| pg.lost It's Not Me, It's You! | 4.0 |
| Mountain Man Made The Harbor | 4.5 |
| The Dead Texan The Dead Texan | 4.5 |
| Justice † | 4.0 |
| Pink Can't Take Me Home | 3.0 |
| The Black Keys Brothers | 4.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Happiness | 2.5 |
| Stars The Five Ghosts | 3.0 |
| U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb | 2.0 |
| Brian Eno Another Day On Earth | 3.5 |
| Slowdive Just for a Day | 3.5 |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II | 3.5 |
| Shad The Old Prince | 4.0 |
| Sleepingdog Polar Life | 3.0 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 4.0 |
| Parades Foreign Tapes | 4.5 |
| Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People | 4.5 |
| Charlotte Gainsbourg IRM | 3.0 |
| Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) What It Takes to Move Forward | 3.0 |
| Daitro Y | 4.0 |
| The Stills Oceans Will Rise | 3.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything | 4.0 |
| The Acorn No Ghost | 3.5 |
| Brian McBride When The Detail Lost Its Freedom | 3.5 |
| Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail | 3.5 |
| Broken Social Scene Forgiveness Rock Record | 4.5 |
| City of Caterpillar City of Caterpillar | 4.5 |
| The xx xx | 4.0 |
| Rosetta A Determinism of Morality | 4.5 |
| The National High Violet | 5.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Contra | 3.0 |
| Portugal. The Man The Satanic Satanist | 3.5 |
| Minus the Bear Omni | 3.0 |
| My Morning Jacket Z | 4.0 |
| Ween Chocolate and Cheese | 3.5 |
| John Lennon Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins | 1.5 |
| It's kinda hard to rate this album. I mean, the only reason it got produced in the first place is because anything Lennon and Ono touched in the late 60's was gold. Right, so what does it sound like? A bunch of pretentious contemporary bullshit with occasional actual music. I want to give this a 1 but I think it's worth a bump because there are some good ideas here even if they're poorly executed. Plus, they recorded this during the first night they had sex with each other. So that's pretty cool I guess....even though it's still a bunch of nonsensical bullshit. |
| Band of Horses Infinite Arms | 3.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet | 4.0 |
| Gorillaz Plastic Beach | 2.0 |
| Broken Bells Broken Bells | 4.0 |
| The Ascent of Everest How Lonely Sits the City | 4.5 |
| If they just took the first minute and a bit of the second track and put it on repeat for 45 minutes, this would probably be a 5. The rest of the album is almost as good as that violin riff. |
| MGMT Congratulations | 3.0 |
This is nothing spectacular but it's definitely not bad. Pretty catchy but overall just
kinda boring. Still, it's probably worth at least a few listens and I could see myself still
enjoying this years later, if only mildly. The last half of the album (from Siberian Breaks
on) is actually pretty rulesauce for the most part.
Oh, and probably one of the worst album covers I've ever seen. |
| Fang Island Fang Island | 4.0 |
| Jonsi Go | 4.0 |
| Did anybody here honestly expect this to be better than a 3.5? I know I didn't. Fantastic album. |
| Basia Bulat Heart of My Own | 4.5 |
| This woman has an absolutely beautiful voice. You'll find yourself getting lost in each of her songs. This album is criminally under-exposed. |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis | 4.5 |
| I wish I had a smaller penis so that I could make love to my copy of Option Paralysis. |
| Elliott Smith XO | 4.0 |
| Mumford and Sons Sigh No More | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros Heima (DVD) | 4.5 |
| Brian Eno Another Green World | 4.5 |
| Kyuss Blues for the Red Sun | 2.5 |
| Sleep Dopesmoker | 2.0 |
| Sigur Ros Untitled 1 | 4.0 |
| Wilco Wilco (The Album) | 2.5 |
| The Blood Brothers ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn | 3.0 |
| Fugazi 13 Songs | 4.0 |
| Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga | 3.0 |
| Metric Live It Out | 3.0 |
| The Red Chord Fed Through the Teeth Machine | 3.0 |
| Mew No More Stories | 4.5 |
| Fear Before The Always Open Mouth | 4.0 |
| Owls Owls | 3.0 |
| Botch We Are the Romans | 4.0 |
| Mono You Are There | 3.5 |
| Mono Gone | 3.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold | 2.0 |
| Against Me! Reinventing Axl Rose | 3.5 |
| Avril Lavigne The Best Damn Thing | 1.5 |
| Billy Talent Billy Talent III | 3.0 |
| Saetia A Retrospective | 4.5 |
| Henryk Gorecki Symphony No. 3, Op. 36 | 4.5 |
| Flying Lotus Los Angeles | 4.0 |
| Eluvium Copia | 5.0 |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or | 5.0 |
| Matthew Good Band In A Coma: 1995-2005 | 4.5 |
| Karnivool Sound Awake | 4.0 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar And So I Watch You From Afar | 4.5 |
| Christopher Arruda God Hates A Coward | 4.0 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 4.5 |
Before hearing this album, Blackwater Park was my favourite Opeth record, but I think this tops it. Ghost Reveries is as immediately gripping in the crucial opening track as BWP is, but the huge well-executed variety of sounds on this album set it apart from other progressive metal masterpieces.
I can't describe metal very well, so I went with a sound-off and not a review. This might be a 5 with more listens. |
| Closure in Moscow First Temple | 3.0 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our | 4.0 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Show Your Bones | 3.0 |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 4.0 |
| super FLORENCE jam super FLORENCE jam EP | 1.5 |
| Tortoise TNT | 4.5 |
| Set Fire to Flames Sings Reign Rebuilder | 4.0 |
| Yo La Tengo Popular Songs | 4.5 |
| Jonsi and Alex Riceboy Sleeps | 3.0 |
| Jaga Jazzist One-Armed Bandit | 4.0 |
How can a band possibly hope to follow an album as hauntingly beautiful and mesmerizing as
their 2005 release What We Must? Quite frankly, anything other than a
"disappointment" would be a very pleasant surprise.
So, while One-Armed Bandit lacks some of the ingenious flow and spontaneity of their
masterpiece, the staggering musicianship and thoughtful song-crafting techniques found here
are still stunning. This is a gripping listen with constantly shifting dynamics. And while
it's true that this can certainly be a challenging listen at times, when that's the worst
you can say about it, you know you've found something exceptional; and that's what this
record, and this band, are. |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 4.5 |
| "4.5 - Superb" Is how I would describe this album to someone if they asked me if it's any good. Maybe I should leave sputnik for a little while.... |
| Rise Against This Is Noise | 2.5 |
| Eagles Of Death Metal Peace Love Death Metal | 2.5 |
| This album passes by seamlessly because it's boring as fuck. That being said, the songs are mostly good. Still, I don't like hearing the same thing over and over. I don't get how this could be a side-project from QOTSA because they're anything but boring. |
| As Cities Burn Hell or High Water | 4.0 |
| Metric Fantasies | 4.5 |
| This has soooooooooooooooooooooo many good songs on it |
| The String Quartet The String Quartet Tribute to Coldplay: Volume 2 | 2.5 |
First the good: songs that can be played well by a string quartet are chosen and the
melodies are played very nicely.
Now the bad: the covers are too faithful and don't take any liberties with the songs which
can be a bad thing for a cover album. Also, these compositions lack the drive that is
provided by the consistent percussion work of Will Champion on the originals.
Overall, this is still a nice listen as the songs are still good (after all, Coldplay wrote
all but one) but a lack of distinction from the originals (other than the obvious
distinction of an entirely different type of musical performance) and the emptiness left by
the absence of any sort of percussion prevent this album from going anywhere too exciting. |
| The Flaming Lips Embryonic | 4.0 |
| maudlin of the Well Bath | 4.5 |
| Mogwai Happy Songs for Happy People | 3.0 |
| Mother Mother Touch Up | 3.5 |
| 54-40 Dear Dear | 3.5 |
A very good slice of early 90s Alternative Rock. I was surprised to not only find the album
not present in the database, but the band was not present either.
Anyway, Dear Dear is nothing shocking. It contains mostly straight-laced rock tunes which
have flairs of catchiness and sing-a-long accessibility. Despite the negative connotations
these qualities can entail, the album does not come across as shallow or monotonous but is
instead rather exciting at times and memorable at others. The album is also diverse to an
extent featuring off-beat, but still mainly rock centred, tracks such as Music Man
and Book
The lead track, the catchy She La, and the pleasingly off-putting Book are
highlights but there are several others that are not far behind. |
| Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | 4.5 |
| P.O.S Never Better | 3.0 |
| The Killers Day & Age | 2.5 |
| The Decemberists The Hazards of Love | 4.0 |
| Minus the Bear Into the Mirror | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine | 4.5 |
| I don't get what Grind is and I don't know when to apply 'core' to the end of the genre I'm using to describe a band whose genre I'm not sure of. So I won't give this album a genre; but I will say that it's aggressiveness and accessibility (compared at least to other DEP albums like Calculating Infinity) combine to form a sound that is ass-kicking but engaging simultaneously. Despite what suffix I may need to technically add here, this may just be my favourite metal album of all time. |
| Regina Spektor 11:11 | 4.0 |
| The Antlers Hospice | 4.5 |
| Rx Bandits Mandala | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Fall Be Kind | 3.5 |
| fun. Aim and Ignite | 3.0 |
| I've liked this less and less from the first listen until now. I had it as a 4 at first. After several listens, I can still say it's a good album but that's about as far as I'd go. |
| Thrice If We Could Only See Us Now | 3.0 |
| Iron And Wine Our Endless Numbered Days | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 4.0 |
| Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors_Live | 4.0 |
| Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me | 4.0 |
| Robert Johnson King of the Delta Blues Singers | 4.0 |
| Battles Mirrored | 3.5 |
| Jimi Hendrix Experience Hendrix: The Best of Hendrix | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden Edward the Great | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd Delicate Sound of Thunder | 3.0 |
| Eric Clapton Clapton Chronicles: The Best of Eric Clapton | 2.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Best Of, Vol. 2: Latter Days | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Best Of, Vol. 1: Early Days | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Early Days/Latter Days | 4.0 |
| A City Safe From Sea Throw Me Through Walls | 3.0 |
I'm torn on this album. On the one hand, the dynamics are great, the guitar hooks are wicked cool, and the songs each progress in really interesting ways. On the other hand, the drum patterns get pretty stale by the end of the album, and the vocals irritate the shit out of me most of the time. For the moment, I'll settle on a low 3.5.
Edit: down to a 3. |
| AFI Crash Love | 2.5 |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals | 3.0 |
| Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic | 4.0 |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie | 2.0 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 4.0 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 4.0 |
| dredg El Cielo | 4.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream | 4.5 |
| Oceansize Effloresce | 4.5 |
| Coldplay LeftRightLeftRightLeft | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Gallop Meets the Earth | 3.5 |
| Bon Iver Blood Bank | 3.5 |
| Noah and the Whale The First Days of Spring | 2.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing | 5.0 |
| Thursday Common Existence | 2.5 |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 4.0 |
| Opeth Watershed | 3.0 |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 3.5 |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 4.5 |
| Muse The Resistance | 2.5 |
| What, exactly, are Muse resisting with this record? Not a slow decline into the mediocracy of mainstream rock, that's for sure. This is an epic fail of an attempt to produce an epic record. |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus | 4.0 |
| Brand New Daisy | 4.5 |
| Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca | 3.5 |
| Do Make Say Think You, You're a History in Rust | 4.5 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever To Tell | 3.5 |
| Feist The Reminder | 4.0 |
| Fightstar Be Human | 4.0 |
| Fleet Foxes Sun Giant | 3.5 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz! | 4.0 |
| Enya A Day Without Rain | 2.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Team America: World Police | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Once | 4.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Juno | 3.5 |
| Maybeshewill Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony | 4.5 |
| Thrice Beggars | 4.0 |
| Someone needs to change the genre listings of Thrice to include Alt-rock, possibly even as the primary genre. Those looking for a post-hardcore record here in the same vein as Illusion of Safety will be dissapointed. Well, probably not dissapointed, but surprised. Pleasantly. This album rocks faces regardless of what you thought of their earlier work. |
| Dinosaur Jr. Farm | 3.5 |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Constellations | 3.0 |
| The Black Eyed Peas The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies) | 1.5 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 4.5 |
| Keane Hopes & Fears | 3.0 |
| Queen Queen on Fire: Live at the Bowl | 3.5 |
| brokeNCYDE I'm Not a Fan, but the Kids Like It! | 1.0 |
This is a joke, right? Right? I'm so embarrassed to be part of the generation that allowed garbage like this to be produced. Unlike other horrible, shitty music (Soulja Boy, Simple Plan etc.) I don't even understand the appeal of it: since when do fans of rap or hip-hop like screamo or hardcore or vice versa?
Al Gore lied, global warming isn't ruining the planet, it's these dreadful scene acts. Eww.
Truly unbelievable. |
| Thievery Corporation Radio Retaliation | 2.0 |
| The production was too perfect. It sounds like they spent months cleaning away every last little bit of any personality from the record. It's still got some good songs though and it's at least catchy. I want to get into this type of music but I think this was a bad start. It's not terrible though. |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 4.0 |
| The Beatles 1 | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Let It Be… Naked | 4.5 |
| Alexisonfire Old Crows / Young Cardinals | 3.5 |
| Don't you hate when bands change musical direction for the wrong reasons? Well, this album is the perfect example of that. Following their two monstrously awesome albums, their opus Watch Out!, and their experimental, genre-bridging Crisis, Old Crows / Young Cardinals is somewhat of a disappointment. Apparently, they wanted to get as far away from the "screamo" label as they could, which is stupid for two reasons. One, they weren't ever screamo (and that term is thrown around too much anyway), and two, George's excellent scream was perhaps the best sounding of all the vocalists to be found in the post-hardcore genre. So they compromised, wrote more straightforward radio-ready tunes, and George adopted a weird gruff kind of yell in lieu of his legendary scream. It's still a great album with some really excellent tracks (most notably, The Northern and Young Cardinals), but Alexisonfire were never a great band, they were a phenomenal band. Hopefully, they can learn to be true to themselves for the next record and not naively try to avoid getting labeled. |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 5.0 |
| Regina Spektor Far | 4.5 |
| Regina Spektor sure has come a long way from that quirky, crazy stuff that she used to do on her earlier records Songs and 11:11. While some hail her new record as a "safe pop record" I see it as a change in direction, and one done quite well. While it's true that this is her most produced and "normal" album to date, it also comes off as one of her best. Spektor has quite the knack for righting interesting, forward-thinking pop songs and this album is proof of that. There is not a bad song on here and that's why this album gets high marks. This is only a dissapointment if you've been waiting for Songs version 2 (or Soviet Kitsch version 2). |
| The Killers Hot Fuss | 3.5 |
| Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells | 4.5 |
| Lily Allen It's Not Me, It's You | 4.0 |
| Regina Spektor Begin To Hope | 4.0 |
| Deftones White Pony | 2.5 |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine | 4.5 |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant | 4.0 |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute | 4.0 |
Honestly, I was not expecting to like this album very much at all. Most other albums that I have listened to based off of praise from Sputnikmusic have been dissapointing. As The Roots Undo and Jane Doe, for example, are both surely great, even excellent albums, but based on the huge amounts of hyperbolic claim they receive, I was expecting jaw-dropping amazing-ness. Pair this with the fact that this site goes apeshit for anything vaguely post-hardcore (don't get me wrong, I love post-hardcore just probably not as much as the average user here), I was skeptical.
However, this album, to oversimplify, rocks. Hard. The musicianship on several of the tracks is nothing short of genious. All parts of the album mesh together so well and in the end, it all forms one coherent sound.
At times, I am annoyed by some of the cleaner vocals, on Pink Roses for example, but the fantastic tone set by the screams more than make up for the few vocal downfalls to be found here.
The interplay between the guitars and the drums is excellent and gives the album a certain "je ne sais quoi" (to get just a little bit pompous).
All in all, this album is put together so well and resonates with such a unique, solid sound, that it is hard to dislike. Probably, this is one of the most, if not the most, mature post-hardcore album that I've ever heard.
Thank you Sputnik for revealing to me this gem of an album. |
| The Decemberists The Crane Wife | 4.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 4.0 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 5.0 |
| Dido No Angel | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros Takk... | 4.0 |
| Sublime Greatest Hits | 4.0 |
| The Lonely Island Incredibad | 3.0 |
| AFI Decemberunderground | 2.5 |
| Japandroids Post-Nothing | 5.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust | 4.0 |
| The Icelandic title of this album translates into English as "With a renewed buzz in our ears, we play endlessy" (close enough). Originally, this title put me off of the album. What I had always like about Sigur Ros ( ( ), Agaetis Bryjun, etc.) was their relaxed, laid back sound. So the idea of a "playfull" album did not appeal to me at all. However, upon giving this album several listens, I warmed up to the less laid-back sound of Sigur Ros. Surely not as good as previous endeavours, this album still delivers. While the tracks are shorter, the same tried and tested methods of Sigur Ros show themselves and ultimately make this an excellent album. The third track in particular (I won't attempt to spell it) is a great mix of the new and old Sigur Ros. This is a highly soothing and enjoyable listen. It seems to be more accessable than previous Sigur Ros efforts, which is both a positive and a negative. I see this album as somewhat of a new direction for the Icelandic post-rock idols, but overall, it's well done. I'll be interested to hear the studio follow-up. |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun | 4.5 |
| Avril Lavigne Let Go | 2.0 |
| Kaiser Chiefs Yours Truly, Angry Mob | 2.0 |
| You know an album is less than great if it takes you three sittings to get all the way through it. This album annoys quickly and get old even more quickly. While it has some redeeming qualities (The Angry Mob is a good song, however unoriginal), they aren't enough to make up for the lackluster tone of the album as well as the blatant unoriginality. I agree with the reviewer when he says that Kaiser Chiefs seem like they're trying to create rock-anthems and that just don't fly. Rock-anthems aren't created by humans; they are given to us by the rock gods in the form of Queen songs. Too many shortcuts on this album to make this anything more than a 2 for me. |
| Kings of Leon Only By The Night | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 3.5 |
| AFI Sing the Sorrow | 3.5 |
| Minus the Bear Menos El Oso | 3.5 |
| Van Halen 1984 | 2.0 |
| This album gets awarded with the most overrated album of all-time in my books. It's good but Christ the mainstream musical community (especially the guitar-centred one) jizzes in their collective pants anytime Van Halen is mentioned. Personally, this album is too pop-y for me to take seriously as a rock record. I see it more as a hair-metal album. |
| Eels Daisies Of The Galaxy | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd Ummagumma | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 5.0 |
| Joe Satriani Surfing with the Alien | 3.0 |
| Barenaked Ladies Gordon | 3.0 |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast | 4.0 |
| Derek and the Dominos Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs | 3.5 |
| Jardin de la Croix Pomeroy | 3.0 |
| This album is highly energetic and well thought out. The musicanship by all members is staggering. What's keeps this album at 3/5 (for me) is a lack of originality (they really, really sound like Rush) and the album becomes a little stale near the end because it's so long. |
| The Doobie Brothers Toulouse Street | 3.5 |
| Eric Clapton 461 Ocean Boulevard | 3.0 |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock | 3.5 |
| Eagles Hotel California | 3.5 |
| Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited | 4.0 |
| Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene | 3.5 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 4.5 |
| Neil Young Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere | 4.0 |
| Cat Stevens Tea for the Tillerman | 4.0 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 3.5 |
| Moby Play | 3.5 |
| blink-182 Blink-182 | 4.0 |
| Jeff Buckley Grace | 4.0 |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape | 4.5 |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 4.0 |
| The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds | 4.0 |
| The Who Tommy | 2.0 |
| The Who The Who Sell Out | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Octavarium | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 4.0 |
I've now listened to this album three times. The first time, I was dissapointed at what I thought was a mediocre metal record. The second time, I was intrigued and persuaded to give it another chance. The third time, I loved it and was trying to understand how I ever passed it off as mediocre.
This is an awesome album with a few minor flaws. It is worth multiple listens especially because it seems to take a few to sink in. I'm still a couple listens away from rating this, but it's looking like it will fall into the "excellent to very-excellent" subcategory of awesomeness. |
| Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports | 5.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 3.5 |
| Regina Spektor Songs | 5.0 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Smash Hits | 3.5 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 4.5 |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye | 4.0 |
| Nickelback Dark Horse | 1.0 |
| Nickelback All the Right Reasons | 1.0 |
| If Sputnik ever needed a reason to allow user ratings of 0.5 and 0, this album is it. This is nothing more than terrible and generic radio rock from a band that doesn't know how to shut the fuck up. I thought that Simple Plan was Canada's greatest shame but now I'm not so sure... |
| Rush Moving Pictures | 4.0 |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | 5.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Best Of | 3.0 |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State | 4.0 |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 5.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Gish | 4.0 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 5.0 |
| Mogwai Young Team | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Revolver | 4.5 |
| Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline | 5.0 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 4.5 |
| Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind | 4.5 |
| R. Kelly Trapped In The Closet (Chapters 1-12) | 1.0 |
| Jaga Jazzist What We Must | 5.0 |
| What We Must is in a three-way tie (the other two being Kid A and Lift Your Skinny Fists) for the most stunning, beautiful, and, frankly, the best album of our modern era of music. In many ways, this is the perfect post-rock album, mainly because it isn't strictly a post-rock album. There are elements of jazz in this music which help to separate it from a genre which has become a little bit monotonous and predictable (sometimes). rEvery instrument on this record is played with palpable emotion and true talent; one almost feels as if the musicians are in the room playing live. What's more is that this band, more than most others I have ever listened to, sounds like one cohesive unit when they play. Whether that's a result of the various members' tight relationship or fantastic production doesn't really matter; the result speaks for itself. rAlso, the songs are all beautifully crafted. The first song in particular, All I Know Is Tonight, is a masterpiece of song-writing with several beautiful themes and a quite remarkable build-up. The interwoven musical passages and breath-taking use of quiet/loud juxtaposition make this song in particular (and the record in general) a truly moving musical experience. rI love everything about this album. Each time I give it a spin, the music demands my full attention. Sometimes, I might read or think about stuff while I listen to music, but not with What We Must. It is such an emotional piece of music and its subtle complexities demand the listeners' full attention. |
| Van Halen Van Halen | 2.5 |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP | 3.0 |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Born Again | 1.0 |
| MGMT Oracular Spectacular | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah I | 4.0 |
| Michael Jackson Number Ones | 3.5 |
| Queen Greatest Hits | 5.0 |
| The only "Greatest Hits" album that I have ever been able to justify a 5/5 rating for. These songs are all so good and not hearing them on their respective albums seems not to take away from their awesomeness in the least. Freddie Mercury and Brian May are (were) friggin' geniuses. Also, this is a party in a can. That's right, a can. It's so compact! Get this CD. Do it. |
| Rage Against the Machine Renegades | 3.5 |
| TV on the Radio Dear Science | 4.5 |
| Matt Costa Songs We Sing | 3.5 |
| Metallica Metallica | 3.0 |
| John Mayer Any Given Thursday | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity | 4.0 |
| Barenaked Ladies Maroon | 3.0 |
| Bang Camaro Bang Camaro | 2.0 |
| Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out | 3.5 |
| Silverstein When Broken Is Easily Fixed | 2.0 |
| Prussian Blue Fragment Of The Future | 1.0 |
| Soulja Boy Souljaboytellem.com | 1.0 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 4.0 |
| Neil Young Unplugged | 3.5 |
| Neil Young Greatest Hits | 4.0 |
| Dave Matthews Band The Central Park Concert | 1.5 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 4.5 |
| Dream Theater A Change of Seasons | 3.0 |
| Simple Plan Simple Plan | 1.0 |
| Simple Plan No Pads, No Helmets... Just Balls | 1.0 |
| Regina Spektor Soviet Kitsch | 4.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Across the Universe | 4.0 |
| Treble Charger Wide Awake Bored | 2.0 |
| The Offspring Conspiracy of One | 3.5 |
| Sum 41 Chuck | 3.0 |
| Sum 41 All Killer No Filler | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour | 3.5 |
| The Beatles A Hard Day's Night | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Help! | 4.0 |
| The Beatles With the Beatles | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Please Please Me | 3.5 |
| Damien Rice O | 4.5 |
| Dethklok The Dethalbum | 3.5 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 4.5 |
| This album is my first from Animal Collective and I have to say that it won't likely be my last. This is album is a refreshingly unique listen that mixes many different types of instrumentation and song structures together to produce a truly one-of-a-kind musical experience. While I can't compare this to other Animal Collective albums I can say that it is surely already one of the excellent albums of the year. Highly recommended. |
| Alexisonfire/Moneen The Switcheroo Series | 2.5 |
| Pussycat Dolls Doll Domination | 1.0 |
| Pussycat Dolls PCD | 1.0 |
| This album beautifully epitomizes everything I dislike about popular music in today's society. Recycled beats, lyrics meant to "empower" women sung by mindless barbie dolls with big boobs, and a general lack of any variety or ingenuity make this "band" the most atrocious thing to surface from the boy-band/girl-band trend. For the record, I don't wish my girlfriend was "hot like them." I like my girls non-skanky. |
| 50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin' | 1.0 |
| 3 Doors Down The Better Life | 3.0 |
| Wolfmother Wolfmother | 2.5 |
| The Who Who's Next | 4.5 |
| Supertramp Crime of the Century | 4.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | 3.5 |
| Pearl Jam Ten | 3.5 |
| Miracle Fortress Five Roses | 2.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Bleed American | 4.0 |
| Emerson, Lake and Palmer Trilogy | 4.0 |
| Emerson, Lake and Palmer Brain Salad Surgery | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd Pulse | 4.5 |
| Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road | 4.0 |
| Easy Star All Stars Dub Side of the Moon | 4.0 |
| Dire Straits Dire Straits | 3.5 |
| Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young So Far | 4.0 |
| Bedouin Soundclash Sounding a Mosaic | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 3.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil | 3.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen | 3.5 |
| Anti-Flag Die For the Government | 2.0 |
| AC/DC Highway To Hell | 2.5 |
| AC/DC The Razors Edge | 2.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth | 3.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 5.0 |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 4.5 |
| David Gilmour On An Island | 4.5 |
| This album is fantastic. Unlike earlier David Gilmour projects, On an Island showcases the sound of a man who has finally detached himself from his legacy (namely, Pink Floyd). This album is soothing and full of emotion from the beginning to the end. In classic Floyd style, most of the tracks seem to bleed into each other making for an uninterrupted listening experience. As expected, the album centres itself around Gilmour's guitar leads, and rightly so. This guitar work on this album can only be described as extraordinary and is yet another firm argument in favour of "David Gilmour is the greatest guitar player ever" (which I would totally argue for). I hear something new each time I listen to this album. No matter what mood I'm in, On an Island always hits the spot. Undoubtedly, this is one of the best albums of this decade, or at least the best guitar album of this decade. Highly, highly recommended. |
| Xavier Rudd Solace | 4.0 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 3.0 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 2.5 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 4.0 |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 4.5 |
| Steve Vai Passion and Warfare | 3.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas | 4.0 |
| Serj Tankian Elect the Dead | 3.0 |
| Rush 2112 | 4.0 |
| R.E.M. Out of Time | 3.0 |
| R.E.M. Monster | 3.5 |
| R.E.M. Accelerate | 4.0 |
| Our Lady Peace Healthy In Paranoid Times | 4.0 |
| Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? | 4.0 |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York | 3.5 |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 4.5 |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica | 4.5 |
| John Mayer Continuum | 4.5 |
| Jason Mraz We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things | 2.5 |
| Jack Johnson Sleep Through the Static | 2.5 |
| Jack Johnson In Between Dreams | 3.5 |
| Jack Johnson Brushfire Fairytales | 3.5 |
| Jack Johnson On and On | 4.0 |
| In Flames Come Clarity | 3.5 |
| Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion II | 2.5 |
| Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion I | 2.0 |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace | 4.0 |
| Foo Fighters In Your Honor | 4.0 |
| Eric Clapton Slowhand | 3.0 |
| Eric Clapton Unplugged | 4.5 |
| Eric Clapton Pilgrim | 1.5 |
| Dinosaur Jr. Beyond | 4.0 |
| Dinosaur Jr. Without a Sound | 2.0 |
| Death Symbolic | 3.5 |
| Billy Talent Billy Talent II | 4.0 |
| Billy Talent Billy Talent | 3.5 |
| AC/DC Back In Black | 3.0 |
| Propagandhi Supporting Caste | 4.5 |
| Muse HAARP | 4.0 |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry | 4.5 |
| Muse Absolution | 4.0 |
| Propagandhi Potemkin City Limits | 4.0 |
| Death From Above 1979 You're a Woman, I'm a Machine | 4.0 |
| Simple Plan Still Not Getting Any... | 1.0 |
| Sigur Ros ( ) | 4.5 |
| Mother Mother O My Heart | 4.5 |
| O My Heart, released in 2008, is the second release from the Vancouver based group Mother Mother. By combining indie-pop guitar hooks, excellent male/female vocal harmonization, and fun but sometimes evocative lyrics, O My Heart cements Mother Mother's unique sound. |
| Phish Lawn Boy | 3.5 |
| Phish A Picture of Nectar | 4.5 |
| Gorillaz Demon Days | 3.5 |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz | 4.0 |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada | 5.0 |
This album has to be a 5 for me. It was my very first "post-rock" experience and it hooked me on the genre as a whole. Both songs are absolutely incredible with BBF3 emerging as my favourite spoken word section (yes, beating even The Dead Flag Blues). Accessible, but unreachable, this is easily my favourite EP.
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| Queen A Night at the Opera | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin [DVD] | 5.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Presence | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin In Through the Out Door | 2.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti | 5.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin | 4.0 |
| Cream Live At The Royal Albert Hall | 4.0 |
| Cream Disraeli Gears | 4.0 |
| Cream Wheels of Fire | 4.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium (DVD) | 4.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire | 4.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 4.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles | 4.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Kezia | 4.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik | 4.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication | 5.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Greatest Hits | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Live in Hyde Park | 4.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Live at Slane Castle | 4.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium | 4.0 |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture | 5.0 |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness | 4.5 |
| Rise Against Appeal to Reason | 3.5 |
| King Crimson Earthbound | 3.0 |
| King Crimson In the Wake of Poseidon | 4.0 |
| King Crimson Red | 4.5 |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King | 5.0 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 5.0 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 4.5 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 4.5 |
| Coldplay Prospekt's March | 4.0 |
| Coldplay Live 2003 | 4.5 |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice | 5.0 |
I think I owe some of my intense love of this album to the circumstances under which I went through my first phase of listening to it. My love for music was growing at a rapid pace: I was exiting the "classic-rock purist" period of my life. I was hanging around with my first real "indie-kid" friend (ladys and gentlemen, jash13) and he was blowing my mind with tonnes of music recs (My Bloody Valentine, Modest Mouse, Radiohead, GY!BE, Neutral Milk Hotel to name but a few of the many essentials I was missing at the time). I was in my "get-stoned-listen-to-complete-albums" phase (who am I kidding, like I've left that). And lastly, I had just gotten the most bitchin', high-tech, expensive, noise-cancellation headphones as a Christmas present. All of these combined to form the perfect atmosphere to lisen to Minus the Bear. This album blew (and continues to blow...haha) my mind. It's catchy and pop-y in some respects, but musically diverse and intriguing. As a guitar-player who was boxed into the pentatonic mode of riffing and soloing, this album did wonders for my playing. Each time I listen to this album, I'm taken away to a better place. One where music is the wine that fills the empty cup of silence.
I love this album. And while I'm sure I've overblown it quite a bit (like I said, it may be that the circumstances made the music for me), this is a fantastic album and worthy of a full listen from anybody who is a fan of music, or for that matter, anybody alive. |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland | 4.5 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold as Love | 5.0 |
| Alexisonfire Crisis | 4.5 |
| Alexisonfire Watch Out! | 5.0 |
| This is Alexisonfire at their very best. On Watch Out, they hit a perfect balance between their more aggressive approach like on their self-titled debut and the more melodic and accessible sound like on later albums such as Crisis and 2009's Old Crows / Young Cardinals. This album, at least vocally, is what every good post-hardcore album should be. The interplay between George Petit's screams and Dallas Green's softer tones create a constant back and forth that sounds like a battle sometimes, but an agreement at other times. The drumming is superb, the guitars are distorted and played with attitude to fit the themes of the songs, and the bass playing, while a little lost in the mix (what else is new), is very good. Almost all of the songs on here are AOF classics. Listen to Accidents, Control, It Was Fear Of Myself That Made Me Odd [probably their greatest song to date], Hey It's Your Funeral Mama....(I've listed 4 of the first 5 tracks so far) screw this, just listen to all of it and tell me it isn't the most versatile and endearing post-hardcore record you've ever heardr |
| Alexisonfire Alexisonfire | 4.5 |
| SWEATER!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd Relics | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd Meddle | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 5.0 |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 5.0 |
| Pink Floyd Animals | 5.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Wall | 5.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Final Cut | 2.0 |
| Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse of Reason | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Division Bell | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd Pulse — The Film | 5.0 |
| The Beatles Let It Be | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Abbey Road | 5.0 |
| The Beatles The Beatles | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 5.0 |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul | 4.5 |
| Coldplay X&Y | 4.0 |
| Coldplay Parachutes | 4.5 |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head | 4.5 |
