| Trophy Scars Goodnight Alchemy | 3.5 |
| Maps and Atlases Perch Patchwork | 3.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Live from Orensanz | 4.5 |
| Taking Back Sunday New Again | 3.0 |
| United Nations Never Mind the Bombings, Here's Your Six Figures | 3.0 |
| Moving Mountains Pneuma | 3.5 |
| Touche Amore/La Dispute Searching for a Pulse/The Worth of the World | 4.5 |
| letlive. Fake History | 4.5 |
| Secret And Whisper Teenage Fantasy | 3.5 |
| Faraquet The View From This Tower | 3.5 |
| Pierce the Veil Selfish Machines | 3.0 |
| Kaki King Junior | 3.5 |
| Native We Delete; Erase | 3.0 |
| Native Wrestling Moves | 4.0 |
| Colour Anthology | 5.0 |
| Data Select Party Hanging Out With Humans | 3.0 |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise | 2.5 |
| La Dispute Untitled | 3.5 |
| La Dispute Vancouver | 3.5 |
| Bear vs. Shark Right Now You're in the Best of Hands | 2.5 |
| John Mayer Battle Studies | 3.0 |
| Weezer The Red Album | 1.5 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 4.0 |
| Blakfish Champions | 4.0 |
| Jacobi Wichita Lambsie.Divey | 4.0 |
| Fall River Lights Out | 3.0 |
| Oh No Ono Eggs | 2.0 |
| Shoes And Socks Off To Where The Skyline Is Fortified | 3.0 |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair | 4.5 |
| I Am Alaska A Day In A Life | 3.5 |
| Good Old War Only Way To Be Alone | 3.5 |
| Adebisi Shank This is the Album | 4.0 |
| Story of the Year The Constant | 3.0 |
| Battles Mirrored | 3.0 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar And So I Watch You From Afar | 4.5 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Worse Than Alone | 4.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Contra | 3.5 |
| Kaki King Until We Felt Red | 3.5 |
| Brand New Fight Off Your Demons (The Demos) | 4.5 |
| Blakfish See You In Another City | 3.5 |
| The Cambiata to heal | 4.5 |
| Portugal. The Man Waiter: ''You Vultures!'' | 3.0 |
| Portugal. The Man The Satanic Satanist | 3.5 |
| Say Anything Say Anything | 3.0 |
| Minus the Bear Menos El Oso | 3.5 |
| Bad Rabbits Stick Up Kids | 4.0 |
| A City Safe From Sea Throw Me Through Walls | 3.5 |
| Discovery LP | 3.0 |
| Ra Ra Riot The Rhumb Line | 3.5 |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Act III: Life and Death | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading | 4.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Act I: The Lake South, the River North | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze | 2.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 3.5 |
| TTNG This Town Needs Guns | 3.0 |
| TTNG Animals | 4.0 |
| Chevelle Sci-Fi Crimes | 2.5 |
| Breaking Benjamin Breaking Benjamin | 3.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin We Are Not Alone | 2.5 |
| Seether Disclaimer | 2.5 |
| Papa Roach Infest | 3.0 |
| Ill Nino Confession | 2.0 |
| Scars on Broadway Scars on Broadway | 1.5 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 3.5 |
| Korn Korn | 3.0 |
| Korn Issues | 2.5 |
| Korn Take a Look in the Mirror | 1.0 |
| Korn Untouchables | 1.5 |
| Mudvayne L.D. 50 | 3.0 |
| Drowning Pool Sinner | 1.5 |
| Disturbed Believe | 2.5 |
| Disturbed The Sickness | 2.0 |
| Alice in Chains Dirt | 3.0 |
| Godsmack Awake | 2.5 |
| Godsmack Faceless | 2.5 |
| A Skylit Drive She Watched the Sky | 3.0 |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree | 2.0 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory EP | 2.0 |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 2.5 |
| DragonForce Inhuman Rampage | 2.0 |
| The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Don't You Fake It | 2.0 |
| Soulja Boy Souljaboytellem.com | 1.0 |
| The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds | 4.0 |
| Billy Talent Billy Talent | 3.0 |
| The Offspring Americana | 3.5 |
| Sum 41 Chuck | 3.0 |
| Lostprophets Start Something | 2.5 |
| New Found Glory Sticks and Stones | 2.5 |
| Tubelord Our First American Friends | 3.5 |
| Trophy Scars Hospital Music for the Aesthetics of Language | 3.5 |
| Meet Me in St. Louis And With The Right Kind Of Eyes... | 4.5 |
| Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic | 3.0 |
| Kiss Kiss Reality Vs. The Optimist | 4.0 |
| Kaki King Dreaming Of Revenge | 4.0 |
| Blindside About A Burning Fire | 2.5 |
| Blindside Silence | 3.5 |
| Brand New Daisy | 4.5 |
| enjoying this so much more than beggars. so much different than anything brand new has done and i for one dig it. will be a grower for most people |
| Kiss Kiss The Meek Shall Inherit What's Left | 4.0 |
| Linkin Park Reanimation | 1.0 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 3.0 |
| fun. Aim and Ignite | 4.0 |
| Thrice Beggars | 3.5 |
| Meet Me in St. Louis Variations on Swing | 5.0 |
| Reverie Sound Revue s/t EP | 3.5 |
| Regina Spektor 11:11 | 4.5 |
| Regina Spektor Soviet Kitsch | 4.5 |
| dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion | 3.5 |
| Foxy Shazam The Flamingo Trigger | 4.0 |
| Foxy Shazam Introducing | 3.5 |
| Closure in Moscow The Penance and the Patience | 3.5 |
| Closure in Moscow First Temple | 4.0 |
| Jacobi Wichita Bonez Malone | 5.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Happiness | 5.0 |
| Stone Temple Pilots Thank You | 3.5 |
| Foo Fighters In Your Honor | 2.5 |
| Nirvana Nirvana | 3.0 |
| Nirvana With the Lights Out | 3.0 |
| dredg Leitmotif | 3.0 |
| Thursday Five Stories Falling | 2.0 |
| Del Tha Funkee Homosapien Both Sides of the Brain | 3.5 |
| The Fall of Troy Phantom on the Horizon | 2.5 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 3.0 |
| Common Universal Mind Control | 1.0 |
| Kanye West Graduation | 2.0 |
| The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound | 3.5 |
| Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains | 4.0 |
| Maps and Atlases Tree, Swallows, Houses | 4.0 |
| The Almost Southern Weather | 2.5 |
| Zebrahead Broadcast To The World | 3.0 |
| Zebrahead Phoenix | 3.0 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Nuclear. Sad. Nuclear. | 3.0 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Mongrel | 3.5 |
| Senses Fail Life Is Not a Waiting Room | 2.5 |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation | 2.5 |
| Regina Spektor Begin To Hope | 3.5 |
| Tegan and Sara This Business of Art | 3.5 |
| Tegan and Sara The Con | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 3.5 |
| Saosin The Grey | 2.0 |
| Sum 41 Does This Look Infected? | 3.0 |
| Sum 41 All Killer No Filler | 4.0 |
| Maps and Atlases You and Me and the Mountain | 4.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season | 3.0 |
| This is very solid. Nothing amazing or remarkable but their are a lot of things that are enjoyable. Oli's new vocal style does take a while to adjust too and plus the "bass drop" is entirely overused. I think there is around five by the time you get to the second track. |
| Fall Out Boy Take This to Your Grave | 1.5 |
| Dead Poetic New Medicines | 3.0 |
| Haste the Day Pressure the Hinges | 1.5 |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News | 3.0 |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket | 4.5 |
| Hawthorne Heights The Silence in Black and White | 2.5 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 2.0 |
| Atreyu Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses | 3.0 |
| Atreyu The Curse | 3.0 |
| Atreyu A Death-Grip on Yesterday | 2.5 |
| Atreyu Lead Sails Paper Anchor | 1.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Hand of Blood | 2.5 |
| Bullet for My Valentine The Poison | 3.0 |
| A Skylit Drive Wires...and the Concept of Breathing | 1.5 |
| Pierce the Veil A Flair for the Dramatic | 3.0 |
| John Mayer Trio Try! | 4.0 |
| Muse Absolution | 3.5 |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 3.0 |
| Finch Say Hello to Sunshine | 4.5 |
| Finch What It Is to Burn | 2.0 |
| No Doubt Tragic Kingdom | 3.5 |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP | 2.0 |
| Eminem The Eminem Show | 2.5 |
| The Killers Hot Fuss | 3.5 |
| OutKast Stankonia | 3.5 |
| OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below | 4.0 |
| The Vines Highly Evolved | 3.5 |
| The Strokes Room on Fire | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape | 3.5 |
| Foo Fighters One by One | 2.5 |
| Chevelle Wonder What's Next | 3.5 |
| Chevelle This Type Of Thinking (Could Do Us In) | 3.0 |
| AFI Sing the Sorrow | 3.0 |
| The White Stripes Elephant | 3.0 |
| Audioslave Audioslave | 3.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles | 3.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium | 4.0 |
| Tenacious D Tenacious D | 4.5 |
| Tenacious D The Pick of Destiny | 3.5 |
| Green Day International Superhits | 3.5 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 1.5 |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute | 3.0 |
| The Police Every Breath You Take: The Classics | 4.0 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb | 3.5 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Keasbey Nights | 3.5 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between | 4.5 |
| Chiodos All's Well That Ends Well | 3.0 |
| Chiodos Bone Palace Ballet | 3.0 |
| Lady Radiator Bounce Energy Hear Me Out | 4.5 |
| Lil Wayne Tha Carter III | 1.5 |
| Nas Illmatic | 3.5 |
| Nas STILLmatic | 3.5 |
| Tool Ænima | 4.0 |
| Tool Lateralus | 4.0 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 3.0 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! | 2.5 |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms | 3.5 |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step | 4.0 |
| Deftones Adrenaline | 3.5 |
| Deftones Around the Fur | 4.0 |
| Deftones White Pony | 4.5 |
| Deftones Deftones | 2.5 |
| Deftones B-Sides and Rarities | 3.5 |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist | 3.0 |
| Escape the Fate Dying Is Your Latest Fashion | 2.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Sounding the Seventh Trumpet | 3.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen | 4.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil | 3.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold | 1.5 |
| Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends | 3.5 |
| Taking Back Sunday Where You Want To Be | 4.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Louder Now | 1.0 |
| Paramore All We Know Is Falling | 2.5 |
| Paramore Riot! | 2.0 |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache | 3.5 |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies | 3.0 |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals | 3.0 |
| Blessthefall His Last Walk | 2.5 |
| Sky Eats Airplane Everything Perfect on the Wrong Day | 4.0 |
| Sky Eats Airplane Sky Eats Airplane | 2.5 |
| Alesana Try This With Your Eyes Closed | 1.0 |
| Alesana On Frail Wings of Vanity and Wax | 3.0 |
| Alesana Where Myth Fades to Legend | 2.0 |
| The Early November For All of This EP | 3.0 |
| The Early November Acoustic EP | 3.5 |
| The Early November The Room's Too Cold | 3.5 |
| The Early November The Mother, The Mechanic, and The Path | 4.0 |
| John Mayer Room for Squares | 3.0 |
| John Mayer Heavier Things | 3.5 |
| John Mayer Continuum | 4.0 |
| John Mayer Where the Light Is | 4.5 |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon | 3.5 |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 4.5 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 5.0 |
| Saosin Translating the Name | 5.0 |
| Saosin Saosin EP | 2.5 |
| Saosin Saosin | 3.0 |
| As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security | 3.5 |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us | 3.0 |
| Every Time I Die Hot Damn! | 4.0 |
| Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon | 3.5 |
| Every Time I Die The Big Dirty | 2.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 3.5 |
| Darkest Hour Undoing Ruin | 3.5 |
| Darkest Hour Deliver Us | 3.5 |
| The Fall of Troy The Fall of Troy | 2.5 |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger | 4.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Manipulator | 4.0 |
| Emery I'm Only A Man | 3.0 |
| Nirvana Bleach | 3.0 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 4.0 |
| Nirvana Incesticide | 3.0 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 3.5 |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York | 5.0 |
| Nirvana From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah | 3.0 |
| Weezer Weezer | 4.5 |
| Weezer Pinkerton | 4.0 |
| Weezer The Green Album | 1.5 |
| Weezer Maladroit | 2.5 |
| Weezer Make Believe | 1.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Plans | 4.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs | 2.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Bleed American | 3.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Chase This Light | 2.5 |
| Angels and Airwaves We Don't Need to Whisper | 2.5 |
| Angels and Airwaves I-Empire | 1.5 |
| Box Car Racer Box Car Racer | 4.5 |
| +44 When Your Heart Stops Beating | 3.0 |
| Alien Ant Farm ANThology | 3.0 |
| Scary Kids Scaring Kids The City Sleeps In Flames | 3.0 |
| Scary Kids Scaring Kids Scary Kids Scaring Kids | 3.5 |
| blink-182 Buddha | 2.0 |
| blink-182 Cheshire Cat | 2.5 |
| blink-182 Dude Ranch | 2.5 |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State | 3.5 |
| blink-182 The Mark, Tom and Travis Show | 4.5 |
| blink-182 Blink-182 | 5.0 |
| Story of the Year Page Avenue | 3.0 |
| Story of the Year In The Wake Of Determination | 3.5 |
| Story of the Year The Black Swan | 3.5 |
| Silverstein Discovering the Waterfront | 3.0 |
| Silverstein Arrivals and Departures | 2.5 |
| Senses Fail From the Depths of Dreams | 4.0 |
| Senses Fail Let It Enfold You (Deluxe Edition) | 3.5 |
| Senses Fail Still Searching | 2.0 |
| Say Anything Baseball | 1.5 |
| Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy | 4.0 |
| Say Anything ...Is A Real Boy (re-release) | 3.5 |
| Say Anything In Defense of the Genre | 3.0 |
| From First to Last Aesthetic | 1.5 |
| From First to Last Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count | 4.0 |
| From First to Last Heroine | 3.5 |
| dredg El Cielo | 3.5 |
| dredg Catch Without Arms | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow | 2.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 2.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 | 4.0 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 2.5 |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 2.0 |
| United Nations United Nations | 4.0 |
| Circa Survive The Inuit Sessions | 2.5 |
| Circa Survive Juturna | 4.0 |
| Circa Survive On Letting Go | 3.5 |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting Tiger and the Duke | 4.0 |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting Lover, the Lord Has Left Us... | 2.5 |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 4.0 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 3.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 2.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV | 2.5 |
| Thursday Full Collapse | 3.0 |
| Thursday War All the Time | 3.5 |
| Thursday A City By the Light Divided | 2.5 |
| Underoath Define the Great Line | 4.0 |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety | 3.0 |
| Underoath The Changing of Times | 2.5 |
| Underoath Cries of the Past | 2.5 |
| Underoath Act of Depression | 2.0 |
| Haste the Day When Everything Falls | 3.0 |
| Haste the Day Burning Bridges | 3.5 |
| From Autumn to Ashes Too Bad You're Beautiful | 4.5 |
| From Autumn to Ashes The Fiction We Live | 4.0 |
| From Autumn to Ashes Abandon Your Friends | 3.0 |
| Job for a Cowboy Genesis | 1.5 |
| As Blood Runs Black Allegiance | 3.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon This Is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For | 3.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Count Your Blessings | 3.5 |
| Anthony Green Avalon | 2.5 |
| Emarosa This Is Your Way Out | 2.5 |
| Emarosa Relativity | 3.0 |
| The Streets The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living | 1.5 |
| The Streets Original Pirate Material | 5.0 |
| The Streets A Grand Don't Come For Free | 4.5 |
| The Streets Everything is Borrowed | 4.5 |
| the streets is back. ever since the abysmal Hardest way to make a living, i thought Skinner had lost it. But this is easily the best rap album of the year. His music and beat skills have improved yet again and his lyrics have a more personal and creative feel to them (no more rapping about how he can't do coke in public). overall the album has a more positive feel to it. |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting The Ocean and the Sun | 4.0 |
| Lower Definition The Greatest of All Lost Arts | 4.5 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin Dance | 4.5 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Whatever I Say Is Royal Ocean | 4.0 |
| From First to Last From First to Last | 2.5 |
| Mayday Parade A Lesson In Romantics | 2.0 |
| The Sleeping Question & Answers | 4.0 |
| From Autumn to Ashes Holding A Wolf By The Ears | 4.5 |
| The Cambiata Into the Night | 5.0 |
The Cambiata are an incredibly overlooked 5 piece from portland maine. This debut album is loaded with style, flair, creativity, and talent. The band has a huge following in New England as this album blends facets of hardcore, rock, pop, and jazz into one package that will be what those looking for something they’ve never heard before, something they want.
The lead vocals are handled by Chris Moulton. Moulton is everything a band could want in a frontman. As you are listen you can hear every ounce of emotion in his voice as he can soothe you and then in next verse belt out his all with his screams. His voice in a way sound like a more mature version of Daryl Palumbo mixed with lyrics so poetic they could be published. Just his dynamic range and ability to give his all is enough to easily push him up into the upper echelon of today’s vocalists.
The vocals are made better by the fact that the musicianship is remarkable. The dual guitar work is so well architected and creative that almost every song has that “wow” moment that has every guitarist will wish they came up with it. Though these guitarist by no means “shred” (which I for one am happy about), their is skill is impossible to not recognize. Also the guitar tone is incredible the cleans are sparkling and the distortion isn’t over saturated giving such a unique feel during heavier moments. The bassist has a great ability to groove. The bass is perfectly mixed as is never drowned out. The bass add the exact amount of texture that it is supposed too. The drums are on par with the rest of the band. None of beats are repetitive yet they never are too flashy. The drummer always adds some double bass or a great fill as exactly the right moment.
It’s amazing that a band that is unsigned and relatively unknown can release such an incredible album. This album is what an album should be. The songs, though different from each other, connect so well and take the listener on a journey. Reign of Apples the album’s opener simulates the feeling of a lounge act with it’s jazzy breaks then follow with a breakdown that would make all the metal kids happy. The closer Once in a Minor Manor, has an almost creepy verse, an epic chorus, and a superb ending riff that seamlessly leads the listener back into that lounge act feel. Then the song splits into a second part where Chris’ vocals really shine.
This album is epic, and should be experienced by everyone
Best Tracks
Reign of Apples, Shards of Pornography, The First Positivism, Once in a Minor Manor |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain | 5.0 |
