| Grace Ives Really Hot | 4.5 |
| Grace Ives 2nd | 4.5 |
| Grace Ives Janky Star | 4.5 |
| Sylvan Esso Sylvan Esso | 4.5 |
| Sylvan Esso No Rules Sandy | 4.5 |
| Mr Twin Sister Al Mundo Azul | 4.5 |
| Eliane Radigue Trilogie de la Mort | 5.0 |
| Yoko Ono Warzone | 5.0 |
| Yoko Ono Starpeace | 5.0 |
| Ornette Coleman The Art of the Improvisers | 5.0 |
| Solange When I Get Home | 5.0 |
| Eluvium Pedals / Petals | 5.0 |
| John Prine The Tree Of Forgiveness | 5.0 |
| The KLF Chill Out | 5.0 |
| William Basinski Cascade | 4.5 |
| William Basinski The Disintegration Loops | 5.0 |
| William Basinski and Richard Chartier Divertissement | 5.0 |
| William Basinski A Shadow in Time | 4.5 |
| William Basinski The Disintegration Loops I | 5.0 |
| Jeff Rosenstock POST- | 5.0 |
| Typhoon (USA-OR) Offerings | 4.0 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Gumboot Soup | 4.5 |
| Arthur Russell World of Echo | 5.0 |
| The Caretaker An Empty Bliss Beyond This World | 5.0 |
| The Caretaker Everywhere at the End of Time - Stage 1 | 5.0 |
| Lykke Li Youth Novels | 4.5 |
| Broken Social Scene Hug of Thunder | 4.5 |
| Shabazz Palaces Quazarz vs. The Jealous Machines | 5.0 |
| Sun Ra Thunder of the Gods | 5.0 |
| Shabazz Palaces Black Up | 5.0 |
| Shabazz Palaces Lese Majesty | 5.0 |
| Wolf Eyes Undertow | 5.0 |
| Moondog Moondog 2 | 5.0 |
| Moondog More Moondog | 5.0 |
| Moondog Moondog | 5.0 |
| Fela Kuti Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense | 4.5 |
| Sun Ra Super-Sonic Jazz | 4.5 |
| Sun Ra The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol 2 | 4.5 |
| Fela Kuti Afrodisiac | 4.5 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels | 4.5 |
| Telefon Tel Aviv Remixes Compiled | 4.5 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 | 4.5 |
| Wolf Eyes No Answer : Lower Floors | 4.5 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3 | 4.5 |
| Telefon Tel Aviv Fahrenheit Fair Enough | 5.0 |
| El-P Cancer 4 Cure | 4.0 |
| Telefon Tel Aviv Map of What Is Effortless | 5.0 |
| Ab-Soul Longterm Mentality | 3.5 |
| Childish Gambino "Awaken, My Love!" | 3.5 |
| Childish Gambino Camp | 3.5 |
| Kid Cudi Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin’ | 4.0 |
| Ab-Soul Do What Thou Wilt. | 3.5 |
| Kid Cudi Man on the Moon: The End of Day | 3.5 |
| Telefon Tel Aviv Immolate Yourself | 5.0 |
| ASAP Rocky At.Long.Last.A$AP | 4.5 |
| ASAP Ferg Trap Lord | 5.0 |
| ASAP Rocky LONG.LIVE.A$AP | 5.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar DAMN. | 3.5 |
| Chance the Rapper Coloring Book | 4.0 |
| Chance the Rapper Acid Rap | 4.0 |
| Mac Miller GO:OD AM | 3.5 |
| Mac Miller The Divine Feminine | 4.0 |
| Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Bone 4 Life | 5.0 |
| Bone Thugs-N-Harmony The Art of War | 5.0 |
| Bone Thugs-N-Harmony E 1999 Eternal | 5.0 |
| Tyler, the Creator Flower Boy | 4.5 |
| Tyler, the Creator Wolf | 4.5 |
| Aborted Tortoise An Beach | 3.5 |
| Jay-Z 4:44 | 4.0 |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! | 4.0 |
| Bella's Bartok At The Kingmakers Ball | 4.0 |
| A Tribe Called Quest We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service | 5.0 |
| Mr. Bungle OU818 | 5.0 |
| Mr. Bungle Goddammit I Love America!!!$ɫ!! | 5.0 |
| Mr. Bungle The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny | 5.0 |
| Mr. Bungle Bowel Of Chiley | 5.0 |
| Fantomas Delìrium Còrdia | 4.5 |
| Mr. Bungle Disco Volante | 5.0 |
| Ornette Coleman Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation | 5.0 |
| Sun Ra Atlantis | 4.5 |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Requiem in D minor, K. 626 | 4.0 |
| Sun Ra My Brother The Wind | 5.0 |
| Igor Stravinsky Le Sacre du Printemps | 4.0 |
| Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 | 4.0 |
| Neil Young After the Gold Rush | 4.0 |
| maudlin of the Well Bath | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 4.5 |
| Miles Davis Bitches Brew | 3.5 |
| John Williams Star Wars, Episode IV: A New Hope | 5.0 |
| Koji Kondo The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time OST | 5.0 |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast | 3.5 |
| Deftones White Pony | 4.5 |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue | 5.0 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No14 C-sharp minor,Op.27No2 | 4.5 |
| Stevie Wonder Innervisions | 5.0 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 | 5.0 |
| Henryk Gorecki Symphony No. 3, Op. 36 | 5.0 |
| Joy Division Closer | 4.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city | 4.0 |
| Leonard Cohen Songs of Leonard Cohen | 5.0 |
| Antonin Dvorak Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, B. 178 | 5.0 |
| Van Morrison Moondance | 5.0 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 3.0 |
| Nick Drake Pink Moon | 4.0 |
| Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde | 3.5 |
| John Williams Star Wars, Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back | 5.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II | 3.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly | 3.5 |
| A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory | 5.0 |
| Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited | 3.5 |
| Tom Waits Rain Dogs | 5.0 |
| The Cure Disintegration | 5.0 |
| Pink Floyd Animals | 4.5 |
| Sun Ra The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol 1 | 4.5 |
| Sun Ra Space is the Place | 5.0 |
| Sun Ra Lanquidity | 4.5 |
| Sun Ra God Is More Than Love Can Ever Be | 4.5 |
| Sun Ra A Fireside Chat with Lucifer | 4.5 |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles III | 5.0 |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles II | 5.0 |
| Belong Colorloss Record | 4.5 |
| Brian Eno Another Green World | 5.0 |
| Brian Eno Here Come the Warm Jets | 4.5 |
| Marion Brown Porto Novo | 5.0 |
| Deathprod Morals and Dogma | 4.5 |
| Grouper Ruins | 5.0 |
| Soft Machine Third | 5.0 |
| Roger Waters Is This The Life We Really Want? | 3.0 |
| Palm (USA-PA) Shadow Expert | 4.0 |
| Fleet Foxes Crack-Up | 3.5 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything | 4.5 |
| The Flashbulb Hardscrabble | 4.5 |
| Human Action Network Welcome To Chicago: The Acid Anthology | 4.5 |
| Enter Shikari A Flash Flood of Colour | 2.5 |
| Skrillex Bangarang | 3.5 |
| Nicolas Jaar Space Is Only Noise | 4.5 |
| St. Vincent Strange Mercy | 4.5 |
| Tyler, the Creator Goblin | 3.5 |
| Vektor Outer Isolation | 3.0 |
| Chad VanGaalen Diaper Island | 4.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take Care | 3.0 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Replica | 4.5 |
| Klaus Tusk | 4.5 |
| 2562 Fever | 5.0 |
| Stag Hare Spirit Canoes | 4.5 |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 4.5 |
| Sepalcure Sepalcure | 4.0 |
| Future Islands On the Water | 4.5 |
| Swarms Old Raves End | 4.5 |
| Colin Stetson New History Warfare Vol 2: Judges | 4.5 |
| The Antlers Burst Apart | 5.0 |
| Built to Spill Perfect from Now On | 4.5 |
| Gold Panda DJ-Kicks: Gold Panda | 4.5 |
| Animals As Leaders Weightless | 4.0 |
| Son Lux We Are Rising | 4.0 |
| Araabmuzik Electronic Dream | 3.5 |
| Feist Metals | 4.5 |
| White Suns Waking in the Reservoir | 3.0 |
| Emika Emika | 4.5 |
| Tori Amos Night of Hunters | 4.5 |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming | 4.0 |
| Active Child You Are All I See | 4.0 |
| Bjork Biophilia | 5.0 |
| Skrillex More Monsters and Sprites | 3.5 |
| Skrillex My Name Is Skrillex | 3.5 |
| Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd Bordeaux | 4.0 |
| The Weeknd House of Balloons | 4.5 |
| James Blake Enough Thunder | 4.5 |
| Danny Brown XXX | 4.5 |
| Apparat The Devil's Walk | 2.5 |
| Growing All The Way | 3.0 |
| Four Tet Pause | 4.5 |
| Four Tet FabricLive.59 | 4.0 |
| Four Tet Rounds | 5.0 |
| Desolate (DE) The Invisible Insurrection | 4.5 |
| Harold Budd In The Mist | 4.5 |
| Blue Sky Black Death NOIR | 3.5 |
| Pretty Lights Glowing in the Darkest Night | 4.0 |
| The Last Ten Seconds Of Life Justice | 3.0 |
| Kashiwa Daisuke 88 | 3.0 |
| Murmuure Murmuure | 3.5 |
| Youth Lagoon The Year of Hibernation | 5.0 |
| SebastiAn Total | 3.0 |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me | 3.5 |
| Sleeping People Sleeping People | 4.0 |
| The Omar Rodriguez Lopez Quartet Sepulcros De Miel | 4.0 |
| Bibio Mind Bokeh | 4.5 |
| NOISIA Split The Atom | 4.5 |
| Mono/Poly Paramatma | 4.0 |
| Clubroot Clubroot | 4.5 |
| Burial Street Halo | 4.0 |
| Burial and Four Tet Moth/Wolf Cub | 4.0 |
| Emmy Rossum Inside Out | 5.0 |
THE NOISE OF THE WORLD IS GETTING ME CAUGHT UP CHASING THE CLOCK AND I WISH I COULD
STOP IT JUST NEED TO BREATHE, SOMEBODY PLEASE SLOW ME DOWN |
| Bad Brains Rock For Light | 3.5 |
| Labradford E Luxo So | 4.0 |
| Nitin Sawhney Beyond Skin | 3.5 |
| November Coming Fire Dungeness | 3.5 |
| Esperanza Spalding Chamber Music Society | 4.0 |
| David Doruzka Silently Dawning | 5.0 |
| Marcus Miller M² | 4.0 |
| Woods of Desolation Toward the Depths | 4.5 |
| The Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Out | 4.5 |
| Thomas Giles Pulse | 2.5 |
| Mumford and Sons Sigh No More | 2.5 |
| Tyler, the Creator Bastard | 3.5 |
| Defeater Dear Father | 3.5 |
| Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 | 4.5 |
| Deerhoof Deerhoof vs. Evil | 3.5 |
| Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights | 3.0 |
| This is prrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrittttttty boring stuff. |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 3.5 |
| G-Side The One...Cohesive | 3.0 |
| Blutmond Thirteen Urban Ways 4 Groovy Bohemian Days | 4.0 |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book | 4.0 |
| James Blake James Blake | 4.5 |
| IMAKEMADBEATS IMAKEMADBEATS | 3.5 |
| Bright Eyes The People's Key | 3.0 |
| Destroyer Streethawk: A Seduction | 4.0 |
| Deadmau5 For Lack of a Better Name | 3.0 |
| Yuck Yuck | 3.0 |
| Destroyer Kaputt | 5.0 |
| Mogwai Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will | 2.5 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Returnal | 4.0 |
| Frank Turner Rock & Roll | 2.5 |
| The Republic of Wolves The Cartographer | 3.5 |
| Mr Twin Sister Vampires With Dreaming Kids | 4.0 |
| Eminem Recovery | 2.0 |
| Deadmau5 4x4=12 | 3.0 |
| Miniature Tigers Fortress | 3.5 |
| Skream Skream! | 3.5 |
| Atlas Sound Bedroom Databank, Vols. 1-4 | 4.0 |
| Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid | 3.0 |
| Kids and Explosions Shit Computer | 3.0 |
| Four Tet There is Love in You | 5.0 |
| Animal Collective ODDSAC | 3.5 |
| Daedelus Righteous Fists of Harmony | 3.5 |
| Gold Panda Lucky Shiner | 4.0 |
| Casiotone For The Painfully Alone Etiquette | 4.5 |
| Fly Pan Am Fly Pan Am | 2.5 |
| No Age Everything In Between | 3.5 |
| Modern American Theatre We Could Make A House | 2.5 |
| OFWGKTA Radical | 2.0 |
| Avey Tare Down There | 4.0 |
| Gonjasufi A Sufi and a Killer | 4.5 |
| The Knife Tomorrow, In a Year | 5.0 |
| Norma Jean Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child | 3.0 |
| Low Christmas | 3.5 |
| Star Wars Christmas in the Stars | 4.0 |
| Woe, Is Me Number[s] | 2.0 |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders | 2.5 |
| Torsofuck As Semen Blends with Rot | 1.0 |
| Snowing I Could Do Whatever I Wanted If I Wanted | 3.0 |
| Grinderman Grinderman 2 | 3.0 |
| Stag Hare Sandpaintings | 5.0 |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma | 4.5 |
| Pantha Du Prince Black Noise | 3.0 |
| Kerouac Cold and Distant, Not Loving | 2.5 |
| Trespassers William Different Stars | 4.5 |
| Taylor Swift Speak Now | 3.5 |
| Akala Doublethink | 4.5 |
| The Republic of Wolves Varuna | 4.0 |
| Daughters Daughters | 3.5 |
| Dangers Anger | 3.5 |
| A Lot Like Birds Plan B | 3.5 |
| Lupe Fiasco The Cool | 2.5 |
| Women Public Strain | 5.0 |
| Nadia Ali Embers | 3.0 |
| The Head And The Heart The Head And The Heart | 3.0 |
| Damien Jurado Ghost of David | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 3.5 |
| Azure Ray Drawing Down the Moon | 3.5 |
| Azure Ray Azure Ray | 3.5 |
| Low Things We Lost in the Fire | 4.5 |
| M83 Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts | 3.5 |
| M83 Saturdays=Youth | 3.0 |
| Girls Broken Dreams Club | 3.5 |
| Okay Huggable Dust | 3.0 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Murder Ballads | 3.0 |
| Tim Hecker Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again | 4.5 |
| Quiet Steps Think Aloud | 3.5 |
| Hauschka Foreign Landscapes | 4.0 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds The Boatman's Call | 5.0 |
| Daft Punk Tron: Legacy | 3.0 |
| Regina Spektor Live in London | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park A Thousand Suns | 3.0 |
| Boris Boris At Last -Feedbacker- | 3.0 |
| Girl Talk All Day | 2.5 |
| Giants Old Stories | 3.0 |
| Caribou Up in Flames (as Manitoba) | 3.0 |
| The Menzingers Chamberlain Waits | 3.5 |
| Kno Death Is Silent | 2.5 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Kollaps Tradixionales | 3.0 |
| Ghastly City Sleep Moondrifts | 2.5 |
| Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky | 4.5 |
| Menomena Mines | 3.5 |
| Menomena Friend And Foe | 3.0 |
| L'Homme Puma On Remplace les Yeux Casses | 2.5 |
| Tycho Past is Prologue | 2.5 |
| Underoath Ø (Disambiguation) | 3.0 |
| Lone Wolf The Devil and I | 3.0 |
| The Flashbulb Arboreal | 3.5 |
| Celeste Morte(s) Nee(s) | 3.0 |
| Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot | 3.5 |
| Slow Dancing Society The Sound of Lights When Dim | 4.0 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Old Pride | 4.0 |
| There Will Be Fireworks There Will Be Fireworks | 3.0 |
| Caribou Swim | 4.5 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 4.5 |
| N.E.R.D. Nothing | 2.5 |
| Concert Silence Rain Furniture | 2.5 |
| Eluvium Static Nocturne | 4.0 |
| Brian Eno Small Craft on a Milk Sea | 4.0 |
| Glenn Gould Bach: Goldberg Variations | 5.0 |
| Harold Budd and Brian Eno The Pearl | 3.5 |
| Karlheinz Stockhausen Gesang der Junglinge | 2.5 |
| Tim Hecker Atlas | 3.5 |
| Oval 94 Diskont | 3.5 |
| Fennesz Endless Summer | 3.0 |
| Trophy Scars Darkness, Oh Hell | 3.5 |
| Harold Budd Lovely Thunder | 3.5 |
| Biosphere Substrata | 3.0 |
| Deerhunter Halcyon Digest | 4.5 |
| Owen Pallett Heartland | 3.0 |
| The State Lottery When the Night Comes | 3.0 |
| So Hideous I Balance Daydreams On The Tip Of A Knife | 2.0 |
| Sleepercar West Texas | 3.0 |
| Laura Veirs July Flame | 4.5 |
| Her Name Is Calla The Quiet Lamb | 3.5 |
| The Calm Blue Sea The Calm Blue Sea | 2.5 |
| Wolf Parade Expo 86 | 3.0 |
| How to Dress Well Love Remains | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz | 3.0 |
| Philip Selway Familial | 2.5 |
| Max Richter Infra | 3.5 |
| Jakob Dominion | 3.5 |
| Devil Sold His Soul Blessed & Cursed | 3.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Michigan | 4.0 |
| Dc Talk Intermission | 2.5 |
| Eels Tomorrow Morning | 2.5 |
| Wavves Wavvves | 3.0 |
| Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm | 3.5 |
| S. Carey All We Grow | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens All Delighted People | 4.0 |
| Touche Amore/La Dispute Searching for a Pulse/The Worth of the World | 4.5 |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs | 4.0 |
| Static Colours Sun Swells | 2.0 |
| Dark Time Sunshine Vessel | 4.0 |
| Roky Erickson with Okkervil River True Love Cast Out All Evil | 4.0 |
| Whitechapel A New Era of Corruption | 1.5 |
| still don't like this gay band: sounds too much like a drunken octopus banging on an electric drumset. |
| Rosetta A Determinism of Morality | 4.5 |
| Okkervil River Down the River of Golden Dreams | 5.0 |
| Liars Sisterworld | 4.5 |
| Minus the Bear Omni | 4.0 |
| The National High Violet | 5.0 |
| Envy On The Coast Lucy Gray | 3.0 |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise | 3.0 |
| LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening | 4.0 |
| Wait What the notorious xx | 4.5 |
| MGMT Congratulations | 3.0 |
| P.O.S Audition | 4.5 |
| John Butler Trio Sunrise Over Sea | 3.5 |
| Touche Amore ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse | 4.0 |
| Jonsi Go | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis | 4.0 |
| Gorillaz Plastic Beach | 2.5 |
| La Dispute Here, Hear. | 3.5 |
| La Dispute Here, Hear. II | 4.5 |
| Suicide Silence No Time to Bleed | 3.0 |
| Steve Reich Music for 18 Musicians | 4.0 |
| Veil Veil Vanish Change in the Neon Light | 2.0 |
| Iron Braydz Devil May Cry | 2.5 |
| Beach House Teen Dream | 4.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt | 4.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine | 2.5 |
| Dangers Messy, Isn't It? | 4.5 |
| fun. Aim and Ignite | 3.5 |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor | 4.0 |
| Two Door Cinema Club Tourist History | 2.5 |
| Efterklang Magic Chairs | 2.5 |
| The Aquabats Charge!! | 3.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 3.0 |
| Joanna Newsom Have One on Me | 3.5 |
| Prawn False Institutions | 2.5 |
| Fang Island Fang Island | 2.5 |
| Eluvium Similes | 5.0 |
| Frightened Rabbit The Winter of Mixed Drinks | 3.5 |
| Justin Bieber My World | 1.0 |
| Oh No Ono Eggs | 2.5 |
| The Ascent of Everest/We All Inherit The Moon Split | 4.0 |
| HORSE the band Desperate Living | 2.5 |
| Jaga Jazzist One-Armed Bandit | 3.0 |
| Nana Grizol Love It Love It | 3.5 |
| Aaron Parks Invisible Cinema | 3.0 |
| RJD2 The Colossus | 2.5 |
| Max Richter The Blue Notebooks | 3.5 |
| We Butter The Bread With Butter Das Monster Aus Dem Schrank | 1.0 |
| La Dispute Here, Hear. III | 4.5 |
| Local Natives Gorilla Manor | 3.0 |
| Derek Webb Stockholm Syndrome | 3.0 |
| Derek Webb listened to some Radiohead and then made this record. Toss in some token profanity to create buzz in the CCM scene and the album should make lots of money considering the billion different expensive ways it is for sale on Webb's webpage. Still, the closing song is amazing. |
| Film School alwaysnever | 3.5 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame Monster | 4.0 |
| Elder (USA-PA) Reflect | 2.5 |
| Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail | 3.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra Fourteen Years Of Excellence | 4.0 |
| Do Make Say Think Other Truths | 4.0 |
| Relient K Forget and Not Slow Down | 3.0 |
| Redjetson Other Arms | 3.0 |
| Disbanding in July 2008, Redjetson released their second record posthumously in May of 2009. Gizeh Record's labelmates of worriedaboutsatan, Glissando, and Her Name is Calla, they make post-rock in the vein of Vessels and other mathy, vocal post-rock bands with a "heavenly" tinge (whateverthehellthatmeans). There is not a lot of variation here as the group focuses on repeated patterns and ideas to create hazy atmospheres. Other Arms is a good record but it isn't that good. The singers voice and more-than-occasional blandness can make this record feel like a royal bore. |
| Animal Collective Fall Be Kind | 3.5 |
| Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson Summer Of Fear | 4.5 |
| Johnny Foreigner Grace And The Bigger Picture | 2.5 |
| Brother/Ghost Black Ice | 4.5 |
| Fuck Buttons Tarot Sport | 5.0 |
| "Olympians" is a pretty monster track. Someone write a review of this so we can talk about it. |
| Maybeshewill Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony | 4.0 |
| Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) What It Takes to Move Forward | 4.0 |
| A City Safe From Sea Throw Me Through Walls | 4.0 |
| 2Pac 2Pacalypse Now | 2.0 |
| A Place to Bury Strangers Exploding Head | 3.0 |
| Brand New Daisy | 4.0 |
| Volcano Choir Unmap | 3.5 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 3.5 |
| The Fall of Troy In the Unlikely Event | 3.0 |
| David Bazan Curse Your Branches | 5.0 |
| Kiss Kiss The Meek Shall Inherit What's Left | 3.0 |
| Thrice Beggars | 2.5 |
| Owl City Ocean Eyes | 3.0 |
| Mew No More Stories | 4.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada With Roots Above and Branches Below | 3.5 |
| The Cardigans Long Gone Before Daylight | 3.5 |
CAUSE YOU'RE THE STORM THAT I'VE BEEN NEEDING
AND ALL THIS PEACE HAS BEEN DECEIVING
I LIKE THE SWEET LIFE AND THE SILENCE
BUT IT'S THE STORM THAT I BELIEVE IN |
| The Paper Chase Someday This Could All Be Yours Vol.1 | 5.0 |
| Patrick Wolf The Magic Position | 4.5 |
| Port Blue The Albatross | 4.0 |
| Regina Spektor Far | 4.5 |
| Jon Lajoie You Want Some Of This? | 3.0 |
| Gaza I Don't Care Where I Go When I Die | 4.5 |
| Gaza East | 4.0 |
| Metric Fantasies | 4.0 |
| Port Blue The Airship | 4.0 |
| Sunset Rubdown Dragonslayer | 4.0 |
| Eels Hombre Lobo | 2.5 |
| Gavin Castleton Home | 2.5 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | 3.0 |
| Passion Pit Manners | 3.0 |
| Small Leaks Sink Ships Until The World Is Happy | 2.5 |
| Patrick Wolf The Bachelor | 4.5 |
| William Fitzsimmons Until When We Are Ghosts | 3.0 |
| Badly Drawn Boy Born In The U.K. | 1.0 |
| At the Drive-In This Station Is Non-Operational | 3.5 |
| I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness Fear Is on Our Side | 3.0 |
| Grizzly Bear Yellow House | 2.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest | 3.0 |
| Oh, Sleeper When I Am God | 3.0 |
| The Pirate Ship Quintet The Pirate Ship Quintet EP | 3.5 |
| Boards of Canada Hi Scores | 2.5 |
| Benoit Pioulard Precis | 3.0 |
| Bjork Post | 3.0 |
| Bjork Medulla | 5.0 |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 3.0 |
| The Notwist Neon Golden | 3.5 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Happiness | 2.5 |
| maudlin of the Well Part the Second | 4.5 |
| 90 Day Men 1975-1977-1998 | 2.5 |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock | 4.5 |
| The Almost Southern Weather | 2.5 |
| The Weakerthans Left and Leaving | 5.0 |
| Eminem Relapse | 1.5 |
| Spoon Series of Sneaks | 3.0 |
| Closure in Moscow First Temple | 2.5 |
| dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion | 2.5 |
| Arsonists Get All the Girls The Game Of Life | 1.5 |
| Sense Field Living Outside | 2.5 |
| Up-C Down-C Left-C Right-C ABC + Start The Jangling Dischords of Our Nation | 2.5 |
| This Is Your Captain Speaking Storyboard | 3.0 |
| Micachu and the Shapes Jewellery | 3.0 |
| Johnnytwentythree JXXIII | 3.5 |
| New Order Brotherhood | 2.5 |
| Native Nod Today Puberty, Tomorrow the World | 3.5 |
| Moly It Rained But We Cherred | 3.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing | 4.5 |
| I could feel a hot one taking me downrFor a moment, I could feel the forcerFainted to the point of tearsrAnd you were holding on to make a pointrWhat's the point? |
| Gallows (UK) Grey Britain | 3.5 |
| Dispatch Bang Bang | 2.5 |
| Japandroids Post-Nothing | 3.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child | 4.5 |
| Passion Pit Chunk of Change | 4.5 |
| I've heard "Live to Tell the Tale" played at the GAP Outlet I work at all summer long. I heard other Passion Pit songs there and was happy, but did not realize it was a Passion Pit song. Long story short, today (two days before my contract at GAP is terminated) I was finally able to discern more lyrics then "whatever happens to you" (due to a particularly strong lull in back-to-school frenzy) and successfully googled the lyrics, discovering the name of the song! I'm so fucking pleased. |
| The Winter Sounds Porcelain Empire | 2.5 |
| Spires (USA) Flowers And Fireworks | 3.5 |
| Lichens Omns | 3.0 |
| Kate Nash Made of Bricks | 2.5 |
| Junius Blood is Bright | 3.5 |
| Joy Division Still | 2.5 |
| Long Distance Calling Avoid The Light | 2.5 |
| Ida Lovers Prayer | 3.0 |
| The Icarus Line Black Presents | 2.0 |
| Heartless Bastards Stairs and Elevators | 3.5 |
| Headlights Some Racing, Some Stopping | 3.0 |
| Hawksley Workman Lover/Fighter | 3.0 |
| Johann Johannsson Fordlandia | 5.0 |
| This album is fucking brilliant. Opener "Fordlandia" is one of the most glorious tracks I've ever heard, working a simple repeated phrase into a masterpiece. That masterpiece segues into a complex yet simply stunning album filled with the beauty we come to expect from Iceland. Jóhann Jóhannsson is one of the most fascinating composers of the 21st century. |
| Hafdis Huld Dirty Paper Cup | 3.5 |
| Fear Before The Always Open Mouth | 3.5 |
| Depeche Mode Sounds Of The Universe | 1.0 |
| Pulling Teeth Paranoid Delusions/Paradise Illusions | 3.5 |
| Bridge and Tunnel East/West | 3.0 |
| The Twilight Sad Here It Never Snowed. Afterwards It Did | 4.0 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 3.0 |
| The New Pornographers Challengers | 2.5 |
| The Greyboy Allstars What Happened to Television | 1.0 |
| As Cities Burn Hell or High Water | 4.0 |
| Project Brooklyn | 1.0 |
| Broken Social Scene Feel Good Lost | 3.0 |
| EAT ME RAW All My Friends | 2.5 |
| Colour Revolt Plunder, Beg, and Curse | 3.0 |
| Mew And the Glass Handed Kites | 2.5 |
| Arab Strap The Last Romance | 2.5 |
| Cap'n Jazz Analphabetapolothology | 3.0 |
| Olafur Arnalds Eulogy for Evolution | 4.0 |
| Owen I do perceive. | 3.0 |
| Gavin DeGraw FREE | 2.5 |
| Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Old Money | 2.0 |
| Mogwai Young Team | 3.0 |
| mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright! | 4.5 |
| Biblical references and a sing-a-long feel can give this album a falsely childish mask, but are you forgetting what band we're talking about? The lyrics are unsurprisingly passionate, potent and clever as ever; the instrumentation has continued to grow in diversity, but electric guitars and drum set have not exited the picture, nor has Weiss' voice lost all of its grit. Most importantly the songwriting is consistently ace, resulting in beautiful chord progressions and glorious melodies. I'm happy to say I've never heard a mewithoutYou song I didn't like. |
| The Reign of Kindo Rhythm, Chord & Melody | 3.0 |
| Friendly Fires Friendly Fires | 3.5 |
| Mimas The Worries | 4.5 |
| William Fitzsimmons The Sparrow and the Crow | 3.0 |
| Black Dice Cold Hands | 3.5 |
| Black Dice Repo | 3.0 |
| Beirut March of the Zapotec/Holland | 4.0 |
| Kylesa Static Tensions | 1.5 |
| Fightstar Grand Unification | 2.5 |
| Flee the Seen Doubt Becomes the New Addiction | 2.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon | 3.0 |
| Zu Carboniferous | 3.0 |
| Bon Iver Blood Bank | 4.5 |
| Our Brother The Native Sacred Psalms | 3.0 |
| Newsboys Shine: The Hits | 2.5 |
| Anal Cunt It Just Gets Worse | 2.0 |
| Junius Junius | 2.5 |
| Solstafir Köld | 3.0 |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 1.5 |
| Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains | 4.0 |
| Tim Hecker An Imaginary Country | 4.5 |
| The Mountain Goats The Sunset Tree | 4.0 |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 | 3.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade | 3.5 |
| the music on this album makes me fly like Kirby around the planet of Pop Star |
| MGMT Time to Pretend | 4.5 |
| Trophy Scars Hospital Music for the Aesthetics of Language | 4.5 |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead The Century of Self | 3.5 |
| Trophy Scars Bad Luck | 3.0 |
| Murder by Death In Bocca Al Lupo | 2.5 |
| Various Artists (Electronic) Johnny Cash Remixed | 1.0 |
| Tyler Bates 300 | 3.0 |
| Howard Shore The Fellowship of the Ring | 4.5 |
| Asheru and Blue Black Soon Come... | 3.0 |
| mum Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy | 3.5 |
| Wovenhand Woven Hand | 4.0 |
| Panthers Please Rise Against Our National Anathema | 3.5 |
| Blacklisted comedians bring the lulz with satirical wizardry. At work since 1978, Panthers are Vermont's eldest comedy outfit. This, the group's third album, includes opinions on depleted uranium, rape, reasons "Bush Isn't Hitler", and discussion of "Christian Terrorists". |
| James Horner Braveheart | 3.5 |
| Mark Northfield Ascendant | 3.5 |
| The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin | 3.0 |
| Jonas Brothers A Little Bit Longer | 2.5 |
| Hikaru Utada Heart Station | 3.5 |
| James Ehnes Barber, Korngold, Walton Violin Concertos | 3.5 |
| Strung Out Exile In Oblivion | 2.5 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Worse Than Alone | 4.5 |
| The All-American Rejects The All-American Rejects | 3.0 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz! | 2.0 |
| Gold lion better tell me where the good songs are at. This album blows. |
| The Antlers Hospice | 4.5 |
| Dark Captain Miracle Kicker | 3.0 |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World | 3.0 |
| Patrick Wolf Wind in the Wires | 3.5 |
| Various Artists (Indie) Dark Was The Night | 4.5 |
| The Decemberists The Hazards of Love | 4.0 |
| Trap Them Seizures In Barren Praise | 4.0 |
| The Future Sound of London Lifeforms | 3.0 |
| The Lawrence Arms Oh! Calcutta! | 3.0 |
| Thursday Common Existence | 2.5 |
| Cursive Such Blinding Stars for Starving Eyes | 3.0 |
| Cursive The Ugly Organ | 2.5 |
| Cursive Mama, I'm Swollen | 4.0 |
| The Gaslight Anthem Sink or Swim | 2.5 |
| Cursive Happy Hollow | 3.0 |
| Asobi Seksu Hush | 5.0 |
| Canibus For Whom The Beat Tolls | 2.5 |
| Canibus C True Hollywood Stories | 1.0 |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album | 4.0 |
| Aphex Twin Come to Daddy | 3.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading | 3.5 |
| Reverend Bizarre In The Rectory Of The Bizarre Reverend | 2.5 |
| Funeral Diner The Underdark | 2.5 |
| Japanther Tut Tut, Now Shake Ya Butt | 3.5 |
| Lady Gaga The Cherrytree Sessions | 3.0 |
| Casiotone For The Painfully Alone Bobby Malone EP | 4.0 |
| VersaEmerge Perceptions | 2.5 |
| Dan Deacon Spiderman of the Rings | 3.5 |
| Dan Deacon Bromst | 4.5 |
| Laura Yes Maybe No | 2.0 |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone | 2.0 |
| U2 No Line on the Horizon | 2.5 |
| Sholi Sholi | 4.0 |
| Girl Talk Feed the Animals | 3.0 |
| The Appleseed Cast Sagarmatha | 3.0 |
| Adele 19 | 2.5 |
| Kings of Leon Only By The Night | 2.0 |
| Andrew Bird Noble Beast | 3.0 |
| brokeNCYDE BC 13 | 1.0 |
| House Of Heroes The End Is Not the End | 3.0 |
| Volbeat Rock The Rebel/Metal The Devil | 2.0 |
| Lily Allen Alright, Still | 3.5 |
| Lily Allen It's Not Me, It's You | 3.0 |
| The New Pornographers Twin Cinema | 3.5 |
| John Williams Star Wars OST | 3.0 |
| Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind | 3.5 |
| P.O.S Never Better | 3.5 |
| The Lonely Island Incredibad | 3.0 |
| Salaciously melodic while brilliantly hysterical, this is comedy music done right. Did someone mention Tenacious D? Those losers wish they were on a motherfucking boat. |
| Placebo Meds | 2.5 |
| VersaEmerge VersaEmerge | 1.5 |
| The National The National | 3.5 |
| The National Cherry Tree | 3.5 |
| The National Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers | 3.0 |
| Jack's Mannequin Everything in Transit | 3.0 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress (Instrumental) | 2.5 |
| North What You Were | 3.5 |
| A Day To Remember Homesick | 1.5 |
| Fire in the Attic Crush/Rebuild | 2.5 |
| Fruit Bats Spelled in Bones | 2.5 |
| Titus Andronicus The Airing of Grievances | 3.5 |
| Stars Heart | 3.0 |
| Empire Of The Sun Walking On A Dream | 2.0 |
| blink-182 Blink-182 | 3.0 |
| Coconut Records Nighttiming | 3.0 |
| Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks | 3.5 |
| Elvis Costello This Year's Model | 3.0 |
| Mouth Of The Architect The Ties That Blind | 3.0 |
| Boredoms Vision Creation Newsun | 3.0 |
| Marnie Stern In Advance of the Broken Arm | 2.0 |
| Xiu Xiu Fabulous Muscles | 3.5 |
| Xiu Xiu A Promise | 3.0 |
| Franz Ferdinand Tonight: Franz Ferdinand | 2.5 |
| Jeniferever Choose a Bright Morning | 2.0 |
| She and Him Volume One | 2.5 |
| The Besnard Lakes The Besnard Lakes Are the Dark Horse | 3.0 |
| Moving Mountains Foreword | 3.5 |
| Wintersun Wintersun | 2.5 |
| Krallice Krallice | 2.5 |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak | 4.5 |
| Why? Elephant Eyelash | 4.5 |
| Battles EP C | 3.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen Born to Run | 4.0 |
| Tobacco Fucked Up Friends | 3.0 |
| Maroon 5 It Won't Be Soon Before Long | 2.5 |
| mclusky McLusky Do Dallas | 2.0 |
| The Breeders Pod | 2.0 |
| Rolo Tomassi Hysterics | 3.0 |
| Exotic Animal Petting Zoo I Have Made My Bed in Darkness | 3.0 |
| The Killers Day & Age | 1.5 |
| The Dead Texan The Dead Texan | 3.0 |
| Aix Em Klemm Aix Em Klemm | 2.5 |
| Avey Tare and Kria Brekkan Pullhair Rubeye | 2.0 |
| Scott Walker The Drift | 2.0 |
| Belong October Language | 5.0 |
| The Fiery Furnaces Bitter Tea | 3.0 |
| La Dispute Vancouver | 4.0 |
| The Thirty Years War Martyrs Among the Casualties | 2.0 |
| Warning Watching from a Distance | 4.5 |
| Watain Sworn to The Dark | 2.0 |
| Modern Life Is War Witness | 4.0 |
| Matthew Robert Cooper Miniatures | 3.5 |
| Peter Broderick Home | 2.5 |
| Max Richter Waltz With Bashir | 3.5 |
| Neil on Impression L'oceano Delle onde che Restano onde per Sempre | 3.5 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 3.0 |
| The Ruby Suns Sea Lion | 2.5 |
| Glasvegas Glasvegas | 2.5 |
| Little Joy Little Joy | 3.0 |
| 5ive Hesperus | 3.0 |
| Fucked Up The Chemistry of Common Life | 2.5 |
| The Loved Ones (USA-PA) Build & Burn | 2.5 |
| The Roots Rising Down | 3.0 |
| Capsule (US) Blue | 3.5 |
| Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson | 3.0 |
| Prolyphic & Reanimator The Ugly Truth | 4.0 |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair | 4.5 |
| The Postal Service Give Up | 3.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Phantom on the Horizon | 3.5 |
| The Samuel Jackson Five Goodbye Melody Mountain | 3.0 |
| Akimbo Jersey Shores | 3.0 |
| Clair De Lune Marionettes | 2.5 |
| Summer Lawns First We Waited Then It Started | 3.0 |
| Stereolab Fab Four Suture | 2.0 |
| St. Vincent Marry Me | 3.0 |
| Stereolab Peng! | 2.0 |
| Eisley Room Noises | 3.0 |
| The Divine Comedy Regeneration | 3.0 |
| Animosity Empires | 2.5 |
| Yat-kha Dalai Beldiri | 1.0 |
| Mount Eerie Dawn | 3.0 |
| A Day To Remember Old Record | 2.5 |
| Brad Paisley Play | 1.0 |
| The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound | 5.0 |
| Elbow The Seldom Seen Kid | 3.5 |
| Have Heart Songs to Scream at the Sun | 3.0 |
| Linda Thompson Versatile Heart | 3.0 |
| Blacklisted Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God | 3.5 |
| Butch Walker Sycamore Meadows | 4.5 |
| Envy Abyssal | 4.0 |
| The Week That Was The Week That Was | 4.0 |
| Envy/Jesu Split | 3.5 |
| Jubala Jubala | 2.5 |
| Lindsey Boullt Composition | 3.0 |
| Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground | 3.0 |
| Parts and Labor Receivers | 3.0 |
| Women Women | 5.0 |
| Paper Rival Dialog | 3.0 |
| Adebisi Shank This is the Album | 3.0 |
| BATS Cruel Sea Scientist | 2.0 |
| Annuals Such Fun | 3.0 |
| Grand Pocket Orchestra Odd Socks EP | 3.0 |
| Doomtree Doomtree | 3.5 |
| Los Campesinos! We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed | 3.5 |
| Sons And Daughters This Gift | 3.0 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame | 4.5 |
| Stefani Germanotta is an artist. "Pop culture is art" the starlet says, and she invests a lot in the fashion and culture associated with being a pop diva. Yet her artistry extends beyond fashion and glitz: stagename Lady Gaga writes her songs and the shit is good. On The Fame, an album written over a two-year period, Gaga draws from several influences to make a number of knockout singles comprising a shockingly solid album. So she's artsy, a talented and educated musician, a gifted singer-songwriter and a hermaphrodite(!) on top of it. A striking combination if there ever was one, it's resulted in a killer debut. She certainly ain't no paper gangsta. |
| Conor Oberst Conor Oberst | 3.0 |
| Cynic Traced in Air | 3.0 |
| Lights Out Asia Eyes Like Brontide | 4.0 |
| American Music Club The Golden Age | 3.0 |
| Johnny Berlin Find What You Love and Let It Kill You | 2.5 |
| Aussitot Mort Montuenga | 4.0 |
| Anathallo Canopy Glow | 3.0 |
| Mutyumu Il y a | 2.0 |
| Forgive Durden Razia's Shadow: A Musical | 3.5 |
| Atheist Unquestionable Presence | 2.5 |
| Augustana All the Stars and Boulevards | 2.5 |
| Arch Enemy Wages of Sin | 2.5 |
| Subtle ExitingARM | 3.0 |
| Skycamefalling 10.21 | 3.5 |
| Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution A Call To Arms | 3.5 |
| Dillinger Four C I V I L W A R | 2.5 |
| The American Dollar A Memory Stream | 3.5 |
| 3 (USA) Wake Pig | 2.0 |
| Adolescents Adolescents | 2.5 |
| Skepticism Alloy | 2.5 |
| of Montreal Skeletal Lamping | 2.0 |
| Grizzly Bear Sorry For the Delay | 3.0 |
| Eluvium Talk Amongst the Trees | 3.5 |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist | 3.5 |
| X (USA) Los Angeles | 3.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars | 4.0 |
| Blood for Blood Outlaw Anthems | 3.0 |
| Blood for Blood Livin' In Exile | 3.0 |
| Akron/Family Love Is Simple | 3.5 |
| Akercocke Words That Go Unspoken... | 3.0 |
| Simple Plan No Pads, No Helmets... Just Balls | 2.0 |
| Fight Like Apes ...And The Mystery Of The Golden Medallion | 2.0 |
| sgt. Stylus Fantasticus | 3.5 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave | 5.0 |
| The Specials Specials | 2.5 |
| Throbbing Gristle The First Annual Report | 1.0 |
| Robert Fripp Exposure | 2.5 |
| Mesa Verde The Old Road | 4.5 |
| Mihai Edrisch Un Jour Sans Lendemain | 3.5 |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King | 3.0 |
| Malady Malady | 3.0 |
| Razorlight Up All Night | 2.5 |
| Razorlight Razorlight | 2.0 |
| The Receiving End of Sirens The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi | 2.0 |
| The Receiving End of Sirens Between the Heart and the Synapse | 1.5 |
| Verse En Coma Rialto | 3.0 |
| Jardin de la Croix Pomeroy | 3.0 |
| Lightning Bolt Hypermagic Mountain | 1.0 |
| The Ascent of Everest How Lonely Sits the City | 3.5 |
| Anberlin Blueprints for the Black Market | 3.0 |
| Metavari Ambling EP | 4.5 |
| Seamlessly intertwines laptop electronics with the natural beauty of traditional post-rock. Short but sweet EP exudes simple warmth. |
| Ben Folds Way To Normal | 2.0 |
| Suffocate For Fuck Sake Blazing Fires and Helicopters... | 2.0 |
| Rise Against Appeal to Reason | 2.5 |
| Poison the Well The Opposite of December | 2.0 |
| Unearth The March | 2.0 |
| Bloc Party Intimacy | 3.0 |
| Head Wound City Head Wound City | 3.0 |
| Misery Signals Of Malice and the Magnum Heart | 4.0 |
| 3OH!3 Want | 1.5 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 2.5 |
| Son Lux At War With Walls And Mazes | 4.5 |
| The Magic Numbers The Magic Numbers | 3.0 |
| Extra Life Secular Works | 2.0 |
| Hot Water Music A Flight and a Crash | 3.0 |
| The Agony Scene The Agony Scene | 1.5 |
| Do Make Say Think Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn | 3.0 |
| Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler | 4.0 |
| The Evpatoria Report Maar | 3.0 |
| The Psyke Project Apnea | 3.0 |
| Pedro the Lion The Only Reason I Feel Secure | 2.5 |
| Pedro the Lion It's Hard To Find A Friend | 2.5 |
| Pedro the Lion Whole | 3.5 |
| Pedro the Lion Winners Never Quit | 2.5 |
| Pedro the Lion Control | 3.0 |
| Pedro the Lion Achilles Heel | 2.5 |
| Deerhunter Fluorescent Grey | 2.5 |
| Mahavishnu Orchestra Birds of Fire | 3.5 |
| Mogwai The Hawk Is Howling | 4.5 |
| Charles Mingus The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady | 5.0 |
| Math the Band Banned the Math | 2.0 |
| Harry and the Potters Voldemort Can't Stop The Rock! | 2.5 |
| Harry and the Potters Harry and the Potters | 2.5 |
| Vessels White Fields and Open Devices | 3.0 |
| TV on the Radio Dear Science | 2.5 |
| Death From Above 1979 Romance Bloody Romance | 2.0 |
| The Books Lost And Safe | 3.0 |
| The Books Thought For Food | 3.0 |
| The Books The Lemon Of Pink | 3.0 |
| Shawn Lane The Tri-Tone Fascination | 1.5 |
| Circa Survive On Letting Go | 3.5 |
| Killing The Dream Fractures | 4.0 |
| Andrew W.K. I Get Wet | 2.0 |
| Future of the Left Curses | 3.0 |
| Anberlin New Surrender | 3.0 |
| The December Drive Handslikegunsandcrashingsounds | 2.5 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Tallest Man on Earth | 4.0 |
| Kenny Garrett Triology | 3.5 |
| Verse Aggression | 4.0 |
| Emilie Simon March of the Empress | 3.0 |
| The Reign of Kindo The Reign Of Kindo | 2.5 |
| 7 Angels 7 Plagues Jhazmyne's Lullaby | 3.5 |
| You and I The Curtain Falls | 4.0 |
| Six Organs Of Admittance Dark Noontide | 3.5 |
| Phil Keaggy Acoustic Sketches | 3.0 |
| Aimee Mann @#%&! Smilers | 4.0 |
| Robert Plant and Alison Krauss Raising Sand | 3.5 |
| Raein Il n'y a pas de orchestre | 3.5 |
| GZA Liquid Swords | 3.5 |
| Tera Melos Untitled | 2.5 |
| Burst Lazarus Bird | 3.5 |
| Sense Field Building | 3.0 |
| Natasha Bedingfield Pocketful of Sunshine | 3.0 |
| Sense Field Tonight and Forever | 2.5 |
| Miley Cyrus Breakout | 2.5 |
| Sed Non Satiata Le Ciel De Notre Enfance | 3.5 |
| Opeth Still Life | 3.0 |
| Jaga Jazzist A Livingroom Hush | 3.0 |
| Wovenhand Ten Stones | 4.5 |
| Thrice Red Sky | 3.0 |
| Assuck Misery Index | 3.0 |
| Envy All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead | 4.0 |
| The Kindred Ms. Mary Mallon | 3.0 |
| Okkervil River The Stand Ins | 4.5 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Nuclear. Sad. Nuclear. | 3.5 |
| Hopesfall No Wings To Speak Of | 4.0 |
| Hopesfall Magnetic North | 3.0 |
| Minus the Bear Menos El Oso | 3.5 |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting The Ocean and the Sun | 3.0 |
| These Arms Are Snakes Tail Swallower and Dove | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 3.0 |
| Thrice Identity Crisis | 2.0 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 4.0 |
| No Knife Riot For Romance! | 2.5 |
| Albert Hammond Jr ¿Cómo Te Llama? | 2.5 |
| Copeland Beneath Medicine Tree | 3.0 |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky | 2.5 |
| Engine Down Engine Down | 2.5 |
| United Nations United Nations | 2.5 |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation | 4.5 |
| Final Fantasy He Poos Clouds | 4.0 |
| Frightened Rabbit Sing The Greys | 3.5 |
| Modern Life Is War Midnight in America | 3.0 |
| Neon Blonde Chandeliers in the Savannah | 3.5 |
| John Frusciante Smile from the Streets You Hold | 4.0 |
| Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga | 1.0 |
| The Blood Brothers Young Machetes | 4.0 |
| Jaguar Love Take Me to the Sea | 3.5 |
| Ted Leo and the Pharmacists Living With the Living | 2.5 |
| The Cool Kids The Bake Sale | 1.5 |
| Hans Zimmer The Lion King | 3.5 |
| Hans Zimmer Gladiator: Music from the Motion Picture | 3.0 |
| Hans Zimmer The Last Samurai | 2.0 |
| Hans Zimmer King Arthur | 2.5 |
| Hans Zimmer Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | 2.0 |
| The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds | 4.0 |
| sleepmakeswaves In Today Already Walks Tomorrow | 3.0 |
| Rumah Sakit Obscured by Clowns | 5.0 |
| Anthony Green Avalon | 3.0 |
| After the Burial Rareform | 2.5 |
| Tera Melos Drugs to the Dear Youth | 2.5 |
| By The End Of Tonight/Tera Melos Complex Full of Phantoms | 3.0 |
| Hella There's No 666 In Outer Space | 2.0 |
| Look Mexico This Is Animal Music | 2.5 |
| Chick Corea The Elektric Band | 3.0 |
| The Rakes Ten New Messages | 2.5 |
| Return to Forever Return to Forever | 3.0 |
| Ours Mercy (Dancing for the Death of an Imaginary Enemy | 2.5 |
| Rufio Perhaps, I Suppose... | 2.5 |
| Angels and Airwaves I-Empire | 3.0 |
| Owl City Maybe I'm Dreaming | 3.5 |
| The Fall of Troy Ghostship Demos | 3.0 |
| Owl City Of June | 3.0 |
| Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe | 3.5 |
| Peter Bjorn and John Writer's Block | 3.5 |
| Blue Sky Black Death Late Night Cinema | 3.0 |
| Ratatat Classics | 3.0 |
| Fugazi 3 Songs | 2.5 |
| Fugazi In on the Kill Taker | 3.0 |
| Fugazi Repeater | 2.5 |
| MGMT Oracular Spectacular | 3.0 |
| Yeasayer All Hour Cymbals | 4.0 |
| Ceremony (USA-CA) Still Nothing Moves You | 2.5 |
| Akissforjersey Victims | 2.0 |
| Yip-Yip Two Kings of the Same Kingdom | 2.0 |
| Overmars Affliction, Endocrine...Vertigo | 3.0 |
| fordirelifesake Dance.Pretend.Forget.Defend | 3.5 |
| All Shall Perish The Price of Existence | 3.0 |
| Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 | 5.0 |
| Battle Of Mice A Day of Nights | 2.5 |
| Glissando With Our Arms Wide Open We March Towards... | 3.0 |
| Job for a Cowboy Genesis | 1.5 |
| Gazpacho Night | 1.5 |
| Dr. Manhattan Dr. Manhattan | 3.0 |
| The Samuel Jackson Five Easily Misunderstood | 3.5 |
| Blotted Science The Machinations of Dementia | 3.5 |
| Exxasens Polaris | 2.5 |
| Bersarin Quartett Bersarin Quartett | 3.0 |
| Off Minor Some Blood | 3.0 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 2.5 |
| Mono Gone | 3.0 |
| These Arms Are Snakes Easter | 3.5 |
| She Wants Revenge She Wants Revenge | 2.0 |
| Showbread Age of Reptiles | 2.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma | 3.0 |
| Spokes People Like People Like You | 4.0 |
| Sonic Syndicate Eden Fire | 1.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Count Your Blessings | 3.0 |
| Norma Jean O' God, the Aftermath | 3.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon This Is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For | 3.0 |
| Dr. Dog Fate | 3.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Futures | 3.5 |
| Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill | 5.0 |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm | 3.5 |
| Devendra Banhart Cripple Crow | 2.5 |
| The Dodos Visiter | 3.5 |
| Irepress Samus Octology | 2.5 |
| Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports | 5.0 |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting Tiger and the Duke | 3.0 |
| N.E.R.D. Seeing Sounds | 2.5 |
| Blackfilm Blackfilm | 2.5 |
| These Arms Are Snakes Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home | 3.5 |
| Black Kids Partie Traumatic | 3.0 |
| Loma Prieta Last City | 2.5 |
| The Fratellis Costello Music | 2.5 |
| The Fratellis Here We Stand | 2.0 |
| In Vain (NO) The Latter Rain | 2.5 |
| John Butler Trio Three | 3.5 |
| Misery Signals Controller | 3.5 |
| Iwrestledabearonce Iwrestledabearonce | 2.0 |
| Chiodos Bone Palace Ballet | 3.0 |
| Shearwater Rook | 2.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not | 3.5 |
| Parabstruse Old Sentimental | 3.0 |
| Parabstruse is the name of Garry Brents solo project, established in 2004. Old Sentimental is his debut album. Self-released, for he is entirely independent, Old Sentimental shows Brents developing as an artist, prone to improvisation and post-rock textures. "Everywhere We Go" and much of the record contain the typical crescendos to waves of sonic bliss. Some like "Don't Worry Friend, The Wind Will Blow Once Again" instead explode from the start, tapering towards the end. Still, this album isn't that conventional, and is almost hindered by its eccentricities. The drumming sounds more like a drum machine then a talented drummer, and the instrumentation of the album is a little awkward. No masterpiece, Brents uncovers enough strong melodies to make this worth a listen, but not much more. |
| Burial Untrue | 3.5 |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath | 4.0 |
| pg.lost It's Not Me, It's You! | 4.5 |
| The Acorn Glory Hope Mountain | 3.5 |
| Valet Naked Acid | 2.5 |
| Her Name Is Calla The Heritage | 3.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Plagues | 3.0 |
| Against Me! As the Eternal Cowboy | 3.0 |
| Meshuggah obZen | 2.0 |
| The Banner Frailty | 4.0 |
| Beware Of Safety It Is Curtains | 3.0 |
| Followed By Ghosts Dear Monsters, Be Patient | 2.5 |
| Katy Perry One of the Boys | 3.0 |
| Converge No Heroes | 2.0 |
| The Acacia Strain ...And Life Is Very Long | 2.0 |
| All the Empires of the World ...Will Be Laid To Waste | 3.0 |
| Whitechapel This Is Exile | 2.0 |
| Emmure The Respect Issue | 3.0 |
| Shai Hulud Misanthropy Pure | 2.0 |
| Earth The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull | 1.5 |
| Ghostlimb Bearing & Distance | 3.5 |
| LITE Phantasia | 3.0 |
| Daturah Reverie | 2.5 |
| See You Next Tuesday Parasite | 1.0 |
| Ratatat LP3 | 2.5 |
| Kaki King Dreaming Of Revenge | 4.0 |
| G-Unit Terminate On Sight | 2.0 |
| Less Than Jake GNV FLA | 2.5 |
| Textbook Traitors You Pull the Strings That Make Us Dance | 4.0 |
| Vanessa Hudgens Identified | 3.0 |
| Harvey Milk Life... The Best Game in Town | 2.0 |
| Able Baker Fox Voices | 2.5 |
| No Use for a Name The Feel Good Record of the Year | 3.0 |
| Jack Johnson Sing-A-Longs and Lullabies for Curious George | 3.0 |
| Damiera Quiet Mouth Loud Hands | 2.5 |
| Foals Antidotes | 3.0 |
| Joy Wants Eternity You Who Pretend to Sleep | 3.5 |
| Ayreon 01011001 | 2.5 |
| Liquid Tension Experiment Liquid Tension Experiment 2 | 3.5 |
| Maps and Atlases You and Me and the Mountain | 3.5 |
| No Age Nouns | 3.5 |
| My Morning Jacket Evil Urges | 1.5 |
| 1997 On The Run | 2.0 |
| Lil Wayne Tha Carter III | 2.0 |
| Robyn Robyn | 3.0 |
| Bjork Homogenic | 3.0 |
| Japanther Skuffed Up My Huffy | 3.5 |
| Lil Wayne Tha Carter II | 2.5 |
| Duffy Rockferry | 2.0 |
| Tegan and Sara The Con | 3.0 |
| Wolf Parade At Mount Zoomer | 3.0 |
| Always the Runner An August Golf | 2.0 |
| Wintersleep Untitled | 3.0 |
| Psyopus Our Puzzling Encounters Considered | 3.0 |
| Shining (SWE) V - Halmstad | 2.5 |
| As Cities Burn Come Now Sleep | 4.0 |
| My Education Bad Vibrations | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater A Change of Seasons | 3.0 |
| Can Tago Mago | 2.5 |
| Atlas Sound Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See... | 1.5 |
| The Drift Memory Drawings | 3.5 |
| Can Future Days | 2.5 |
| Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust | 4.5 |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | 3.5 |
| Grand Archives The Grand Archives | 2.5 |
| Weezer The Red Album | 2.0 |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes | 3.0 |
| Frightened Rabbit The Midnight Organ Fight | 5.0 |
| Rachel's The Sea and the Bells | 3.5 |
| 65daysofstatic The Fall of Math | 3.0 |
| 65daysofstatic One Time for All Time | 2.5 |
| Cake Comfort Eagle | 4.0 |
| Mates of State Re-Arrange Us | 4.5 |
| Transmission0 Memory of a Dream | 2.5 |
| Giant Squid Metridium Fields | 2.0 |
| Windmills By the Ocean Windmills By the Ocean | 3.0 |
| Lift to Experience The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads | 4.0 |
| Eluveitie Slania | 2.0 |
| Goldfrapp Seventh Tree | 3.0 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 3.0 |
| Shout Out Louds Howl Howl Gaff Gaff | 2.5 |
| The Envy Corps Dwell | 3.0 |
| Over The Rhine The Trumpet Child | 3.5 |
| Mobius Band Heaven | 2.0 |
| Lucky Soul The Great Unwanted | 3.0 |
| Growing Vision Swim | 5.0 |
| Calla Collisions | 3.0 |
| Balmorhea Balmorhea | 3.5 |
| A Fine Frenzy One Cell in the Sea | 2.5 |
| Beach House Devotion | 3.5 |
| Santigold Santogold | 2.5 |
| Rodrigo y Gabriela Rodrigo y Gabriela | 2.5 |
| Jakob Solace | 4.0 |
| Jakob Cale:Drew | 4.0 |
| Gifts From Enola Loyal Eyes Betrayed The Mind | 3.0 |
| Amy Winehouse Back to Black | 3.0 |
| In Mourning Shrouded Divine | 3.0 |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die | 4.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs | 3.5 |
| Winds of Plague Decimate the Weak | 1.5 |
| Keane Under The Iron Sea | 2.0 |
| The Flashbulb Soundtrack to a Vacant Life | 3.5 |
| Hercules and Love Affair Hercules and Love Affair | 2.5 |
| Boris Pink | 2.5 |
| Under Byen Samme Stof Som Stof | 4.0 |
| Veruca Salt Resolver | 2.5 |
| mewithoutYou A to B: Life | 4.0 |
| Rosetta The Galilean Satellites | 2.5 |
| Slowdive Souvlaki | 3.5 |
| All Time Low So Wrong, It's Right | 3.0 |
| All Time Low Put Up or Shut Up | 3.0 |
| Russian Circles Station | 2.0 |
| Head Automatica Popaganda | 2.5 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Mongrel | 3.5 |
| Times New Viking Rip It Off | 4.0 |
| World's End Girlfriend Hurtbreak Wonderland | 2.5 |
| Say Anything In Defense of the Genre | 3.5 |
| Impending Doom Nailed. Dead. Risen. | 1.5 |
| Stevie Wonder Songs in the Key of Life | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Sung Tongs | 3.5 |
| Animal Collective Water Curses | 3.5 |
| Portishead Third | 3.0 |
| Underoath Define the Great Line | 4.0 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! | 4.5 |
| Our Brother The Native Make Amends, For We Are Merely Vessels | 4.5 |
| Violent Femmes Violent Femmes | 2.5 |
| Meniscus Absence of I | 3.5 |
| Devil Sold His Soul A Fragile Hope | 3.0 |
| VHS or Beta Night on Fire | 2.5 |
| The Violet Burning Drop-dead | 2.0 |
| Unwed Sailor The White Ox | 2.5 |
| The Twilight Sad Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters | 4.0 |
| VNV Nation Praise the Fallen | 2.5 |
| Voxtrot Voxtrot | 2.0 |
| Vue Vue | 2.0 |
| The Walkmen Bows + Arrows | 3.0 |
| Cease Upon the Capitol Cease Upon the Capitol | 2.5 |
| Gregor Samsa Rest | 3.5 |
| Shangrala This Is How We Communicate | 3.5 |
| Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward | 3.0 |
| Hammock Raising Your Voice... Trying to Stop an Echo | 3.5 |
| Atmosphere When Life Gives You Lemons... | 2.5 |
| Balmorhea Rivers Arms | 3.5 |
| Shalabi Effect Pink Abyss | 3.0 |
| Fly Pan Am N'écoutez pas | 2.0 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons | 2.0 |
| John Coltrane A Love Supreme | 4.5 |
| Dire Straits Dire Straits | 3.5 |
| Dire Straits Brothers in Arms | 3.5 |
| John Mayer Heavier Things | 2.5 |
| Flight of the Conchords Flight of the Conchords | 3.0 |
| Brooke Waggoner Fresh Pair of Eyes | 4.0 |
| Tokyo Police Club Elephant Shell | 2.5 |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice | 3.5 |
| Wolf Eyes Burned Mind | 4.5 |
| The Wrens The Meadowlands | 3.0 |
| Iron And Wine The Shepherd's Dog | 2.5 |
| Caspian The Four Trees | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 4.5 |
| Maps and Atlases Tree, Swallows, Houses | 4.5 |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness | 3.5 |
| Joanna Newsom Yarn and Glue | 3.5 |
| Trophy Scars Darts to the Sea | 3.5 |
| Joanna Newsom The Milk-Eyed Mender | 5.0 |
| Do Make Say Think Do Make Say Think | 4.0 |
| HORSE the band The Mechanical Hand | 3.0 |
| HORSE the band R. Borlax | 3.5 |
| An Albatross Blessphemy (Of The Peace-Beast Feastgive | 2.0 |
| An Albatross We Are The Lazer Viking | 1.0 |
| Joanna Newsom Joanna Newsom and the Ys Street Band | 4.5 |
| Giraffes? Giraffes! More Skin With Milk-Mouth | 4.0 |
| Collections Of Colonies Of Bees Birds | 2.5 |
| Roper Brace Yourself For The Mediocre | 2.5 |
| Morphine Cure for Pain | 2.5 |
| Falling Up Crashings | 3.0 |
| Falling Up Dawn Escapes | 1.5 |
| The O.C. Supertones Supertones Strike Back | 2.5 |
| The O.C. Supertones Loud and Clear | 2.0 |
| Newsboys Adoration: The Worship Album | 2.0 |
| Newsboys Take Me To Your Leader | 2.0 |
| Newsboys Step up to the Microphone | 1.5 |
| Newsboys Love Liberty Disco | 1.5 |
| Newsboys Thrive | 2.5 |
| Kutless Kutless | 1.0 |
| Demon Hunter Summer of Darkness | 3.0 |
| Demon Hunter The Triptych | 2.5 |
| Cross Movement Holy Culture | 3.0 |
| KJ-52 Collaborations | 1.0 |
| KJ-52 It's Pronounced Five Two | 1.0 |
| John Reuben Hindsight | 2.0 |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Set It Off (Remastered) | 1.0 |
| Thousand Foot Krutch The Art of Breaking | 2.0 |
| Project 86 Drawing Black Lines | 3.0 |
| Project 86 ...And the Rest Will Follow | 2.0 |
| Pillar Above | 2.5 |
| Skillet Hey You, I Love Your Soul | 1.0 |
| Skillet Invincible | 1.5 |
| Skillet Alien Youth | 1.5 |
| Skillet Collide | 2.5 |
| Skillet Comatose | 2.0 |
| Pillar Fireproof | 3.0 |
| Hawk Nelson Letters To The President | 1.0 |
| Sanctus Real Say it Loud | 2.0 |
| Relient K Two Lefts Dont Make a Right But Three Do | 2.5 |
| Relient K Relient K | 2.0 |
| Relient K Mmhmm | 2.5 |
| Relient K The Anatomy of Tongue In Cheek | 3.5 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 1.5 |
| Switchfoot Legend of Chin | 4.0 |
| Switchfoot Oh! Gravity. | 2.5 |
| Trilok Gurtu and the Frikyiwa Family Farakala | 2.5 |
| Thom Yorke Harrowdown Hill | 2.5 |
| From First to Last Heroine | 2.5 |
| Flyleaf Flyleaf | 3.0 |
| Skalpel Skalpel | 2.5 |
| Skalpel Konfusion | 2.5 |
| Mae Destination: Beautiful | 2.5 |
| Copeland Eat, Sleep, Repeat | 1.5 |
| Laura Radio Swan is Down | 3.5 |
| Gwen Stacy The Life I Know | 2.0 |
| !!! !!! | 2.5 |
| Belle and Sebastian Dear Catastrophe Waitress | 3.5 |
| Kidcrash Jokes | 2.0 |
| Efterklang Parades | 3.0 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 4.0 |
| The Cinematic Orchestra Ma Fleur | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV | 3.5 |
| The Raconteurs Consolers of the Lonely | 2.5 |
| Bark Psychosis Hex | 2.5 |
| Elliott Smith XO | 3.5 |
| Red Sparowes Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red... | 3.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Light Grenades | 3.0 |
| Oceansize Everyone Into Position | 3.0 |
| Belle and Sebastian If You're Feeling Sinister | 3.5 |
| Migala La Increible Aventura | 3.0 |
| Moving Mountains Pneuma | 4.5 |
| pg.99 Document #8 | 3.0 |
| Born of Osiris The New Reign | 3.0 |
| R.E.M. Accelerate | 2.0 |
| Something Corporate Leaving Through The Window | 3.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes | 3.5 |
| Jason Collett Here's to Being Here | 2.0 |
| P.O.D. Satellite | 3.0 |
| P.O.D. Fundamental Elements of Southtown | 1.5 |
| P.O.D. Brown | 1.5 |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence | 4.5 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Keasbey Nights | 3.0 |
| Catch 22 Keasbey Nights | 3.5 |
| Gatsby's American Dream Gatsby's American Dream | 2.0 |
| Reel Big Fish Turn the Radio Off | 3.0 |
| Gatsby's American Dream Volcano | 2.0 |
| Clogs Lantern | 3.0 |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 3.0 |
| City of Caterpillar City of Caterpillar | 3.5 |
| Madina Lake From Them, Through Us, To You | 2.5 |
| Mogwai Happy Songs for Happy People | 2.5 |
| Naked City Naked City | 5.0 |
| Jaga Jazzist What We Must | 4.5 |
| Kiss Kiss Reality Vs. The Optimist | 3.5 |
| Mono You Are There | 4.5 |
| Neko Case Fox Confessor Brings The Flood | 2.5 |
| Wovenhand Consider the Birds | 4.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Plans | 3.5 |
| Monsters Are Waiting Fascination | 2.5 |
| Regina Spektor Soviet Kitsch | 3.5 |
| Swans Filth | 2.5 |
| Slint Spiderland | 3.5 |
| Tori Amos From the Choirgirl Hotel | 4.0 |
| Rosie Thomas If Songs Could Be Held | 3.5 |
| Tartar Lamb Sixty Metonymies | 3.0 |
| Jars Of Clay Redemption Songs | 3.0 |
| Portishead Roseland NYC Live | 2.5 |
| Swan Lake Beast Moans | 3.5 |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain Psychocandy | 3.5 |
| Band of Horses Everything All the Time | 4.0 |
| Band of Horses Cease to Begin | 2.5 |
| Mogwai Rock Action | 3.0 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our | 3.0 |
| A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide | 3.0 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra This Is Our Punk-Rock, Thee Rusted Satellites Gather and Sing | 3.5 |
| Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline | 5.0 |
| Blonde Redhead Misery is a Butterfly | 3.0 |
| Jets to Brazil Four Cornered Night | 3.0 |
| A Place to Bury Strangers A Place to Bury Strangers | 2.5 |
| Ambulance LTD. New English EP | 2.0 |
| Mineral EndSerenading | 3.0 |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Worlds Apart | 3.5 |
| Russian Circles Enter | 4.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik | 3.0 |
| House Of Heroes House of Heroes | 4.0 |
| Texas Is the Reason Do You Know Who You Are? | 3.0 |
| Texas Is the Reason Texas is the Reason | 3.0 |
| Stars of Track and Field Centuries Before Love and War | 4.0 |
| Panic! at the Disco Pretty. Odd. | 2.0 |
| Jens Lekman Night Falls Over Kortedala | 2.5 |
| Sun Kil Moon April | 4.0 |
| Deerhunter Cryptograms | 2.5 |
| Dirty Projectors Rise Above | 3.0 |
| Espers Espers | 3.0 |
| Guided by Voices Bee Thousand | 3.5 |
| Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You | 4.5 |
| God Is an Astronaut Far from Refuge | 2.5 |
| A Wilhelm Scream Ruiner | 3.5 |
| Liz Phair Liz Phair | 2.0 |
| Mogwai Come On Die Young | 3.5 |
| God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright | 3.5 |
| Counting Crows August And Everything After | 3.5 |
| Gregor Samsa 55:12 | 3.0 |
| The Decemberists Picaresque | 2.5 |
| The Swell Season Once: Music From The Motion Picture | 4.0 |
| Crowpath Son of Sulphur | 2.5 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 3.5 |
| Deftones Deftones | 3.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend | 3.0 |
| The Blood Brothers This Adultery Is Ripe | 2.0 |
| Saves the Day Through Being Cool | 3.0 |
| Saves the Day Stay What You Are | 3.0 |
| The Beatles The Beatles | 3.5 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 3.5 |
| Yo La Tengo I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One | 4.0 |
| Mare Mare | 2.0 |
| Low Long Division | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity | 2.5 |
| Fuck Buttons Street Horrrsing | 4.0 |
| Low Drums and Guns | 4.0 |
| Mission of Burma The Obliterati | 2.5 |
| ISIS In the Absence of Truth | 3.0 |
| Yo La Tengo Fakebook | 3.0 |
| ISIS The Red Sea | 2.5 |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... | 3.0 |
| ISIS Oceanic | 3.0 |
| 12 Stones 12 Stones | 3.0 |
| Anberlin Never Take Friendship Personal | 3.0 |
| 12 Stones Potter's Field | 2.5 |
| Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come | 5.0 |
| Rush Permanent Waves | 2.0 |
| Rush Presto | 2.0 |
| Rush 2112 | 3.0 |
| Rush Fly by Night | 2.0 |
| Rush Counterparts | 2.0 |
| Rush Hemispheres | 3.5 |
| Hot Hot Heat Make Up the Breakdown | 2.5 |
| Gnarls Barkley The Odd Couple | 3.0 |
| Les Savy Fav Let's Stay Friends | 2.5 |
| The Kills Midnight Boom | 2.5 |
| My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love | 1.0 |
| Bush Sixteen Stone | 2.0 |
| U2 The Joshua Tree | 3.5 |
| The Killers Hot Fuss | 3.5 |
| U2 All That You Can't Leave Behind | 3.0 |
| U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb | 2.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium | 3.5 |
| Coldplay Parachutes | 3.5 |
| DeVotchKa How It Ends | 5.0 |
| Jethro Tull Stand Up | 3.0 |
| Jethro Tull Benefit | 3.0 |
| Jethro Tull Aqualung | 2.5 |
| The Fall of Troy Manipulator | 4.0 |
| The Fall of Troy The Fall of Troy | 4.5 |
| Underoath The Changing of Times | 3.0 |
| Hot Hot Heat Elevator | 3.0 |
| Yes Fragile | 2.0 |
| Yes Relayer | 2.0 |
| Liars They Were Wrong, So We Drowned | 3.5 |
| Liars They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top | 2.5 |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 2.5 |
| Slayer Reign in Blood | 2.0 |
| Fridge The Sun | 3.0 |
| Fridge Happiness | 3.0 |
| Liars Liars | 3.5 |
| The Kills No Wow | 2.5 |
| Beck Odelay | 2.5 |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 3.5 |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico | 3.5 |
| Yes Union | 2.0 |
| Tom Waits Nighthawks At The Diner | 3.5 |
| Tom Waits The Heart of Saturday Night | 3.0 |
| Tom Waits Closing Time | 3.0 |
| Tom Waits Blue Valentine | 3.5 |
| Tom Waits Heartattack and Vine | 3.0 |
| SikTh Death of a Dead Day | 4.5 |
| Tom Waits Small Change | 3.0 |
| Cloud Cult The Meaning of 8 | 3.5 |
| Ra Ra Riot Ra Ra Riot EP | 3.0 |
| R.E.M. Dead Letter Office | 2.0 |
| R.E.M. Fables of the Reconstruction | 2.5 |
| R.E.M. Monster | 1.5 |
| R.E.M. Green | 2.0 |
| R.E.M. Murmur | 2.5 |
| R.E.M. Reckoning | 2.5 |
| R.E.M. Document | 2.5 |
| R.E.M. Around the Sun | 1.5 |
| Dinosaur Jr. Beyond | 2.5 |
| The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America | 3.5 |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles | 5.0 |
| Chris Walla Field Manual | 1.5 |
| Via Audio saysomethingsaysomethingsaysomething | 3.0 |
| Minus the Bear They Make Beer Commercials Like This | 3.5 |
| Four Tet Everything Ecstatic | 4.5 |
| Dntel Dumb Luck | 2.5 |
| Don Caballero World Class Listening Problem | 3.0 |
| DJ Shadow The Private Press | 2.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans | 4.0 |
| Unearth III: In the Eyes of Fire | 3.0 |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... | 2.5 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between | 3.5 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 2.0 |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West | 3.0 |
| dredg Orph | 2.5 |
| Shellac At Action Park | 2.5 |
| Supersilent 8 | 3.0 |
| dredg Leitmotif | 2.5 |
| Thursday A City By the Light Divided | 3.0 |
| Red Sparowes At The Soundless Dawn | 3.5 |
| The Chariot The Fiancee | 2.0 |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake | 2.0 |
| Becoming The Archetype Terminate Damnation | 3.0 |
| Korn Untitled | 1.0 |
| Dirty Three Horse Stories | 3.5 |
| Botch We Are the Romans | 3.0 |
| Gogol Bordello Super Taranta | 2.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends | 3.5 |
| Paramore All We Know Is Falling | 2.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication | 3.5 |
| As Blood Runs Black Allegiance | 2.0 |
| August Burns Red Messengers | 3.0 |
| Job for a Cowboy Doom | 3.5 |
| Blessthefall His Last Walk | 2.5 |
| Silverstein Discovering the Waterfront | 3.5 |
| Saosin Saosin EP | 3.0 |
| Yellowcard Ocean Avenue | 3.0 |
| Saosin Saosin | 2.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois | 4.0 |
| Switchfoot Nothing is Sound | 2.5 |
| Avril Lavigne Let Go | 3.0 |
| Paramore Riot! | 2.5 |
| This album is decent, but has little to no replay value featuring only a few single-worthy tracks. Misery Business is of course one of them; That's What You Get and crushcrushcrush are also enjoyable. Riot flirts with being danceable but never really makes the cut as being all that fun. On the flip-side Haley sings maturely on some tracks but I just don't feel enough passion. Haley does have a great voice, and the band does back her up well, but the songs are just way too boring. This passes only as a fair pop-punk record. |
| Good Charlotte The Young And The Hopeless | 2.5 |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree | 2.0 |
| Boys Like Girls Boys Like Girls | 1.5 |
| This album has a few enjoyable tracks, "Hero/Heroine" and "The Great Escape" for example, but it lacks any real quality or consistency otherwise. Basically the band discovered a few catchy progressions and one or two golden melodies and thought they had something special. Well, aside from having possibly the worst band name ever this is nothing but below average pop-punk. Sometimes I feel like maybe pop-punk or pop-rock is just a below-average genre to me, but bands like Mew show me catchiness can be done in a quality manner. These guys don't have anything to offer except a musically hollow record with shoddy lyrics. Don't buy this. |
| From First to Last Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count | 2.5 |
| The Used The Used | 4.0 |
| The Used In Love and Death | 2.5 |
| The Used Lies for the Liars | 2.0 |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Phenomenon | 2.5 |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies | 2.0 |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals | 2.5 |
| Atreyu Lead Sails Paper Anchor | 1.0 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 3.5 |
| As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse | 2.0 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 4.5 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 4.5 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 4.5 |
| Animal Collective People | 3.0 |
| Animal Collective Prospect Hummer | 2.5 |
| Grade Under the Radar | 3.0 |
| Faith No More Angel Dust | 2.5 |
| Gay For Johnny Depp The Politics Of Cruelty | 3.0 |
| Girl Talk Night Ripper | 3.0 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 2.5 |
| Bullet for My Valentine The Poison | 2.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold | 1.0 |
| Occasionally I get concerned that my inner mocking of friends who obsess over the mainstream might be undeserved. I mean I love catchy music, maybe these mainstream bands aren't all that bad. However, I am encouraged by this record. Avenged Sevenfold has to be the worst album I've heard in a long time. Gone is any trace of the enjoyable Waking the Fallen, which they'd already basically forgotten on City of Evil. It's been replaced by whatever you call the crap on this record. All of the lyrics on the record are ridiculous, and the melodies on the record are alternately dreadful and silly. "Scream" is atrocious. "Brompton Cocktail" (I'm basically throwing out random tracks I remember; every track qualifies by being terrible) makes me want to eat bricks and stick scissors in my ears. I understand why 'emo' kids are so depressed if this is what they listen to. I'd be sad too. |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia | 3.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Scream Aim Fire | 2.0 |
| I'd heard songs by Bullet before, but this was the first album I'd listened to. It's basically pretty bland. The title track and Eye of the Storm are extremely mediocre, featuring no standout parts and feeling totally uninspired. The vocals sounds pretty terrible as well, as are the lyrics. The transition into Hearts Burst Into Fire is just silly, a poppy song which is obscenely unimpressive. And that's the story of the album; after hearing it once there's barely a track I want to go back to. There's a bit of variety on the album but it seems like everything they try sucks, except being mediocre. Tracks like End of Days have their rare moments, but the vocals and lyrics are so bad I can't help hating it. Altogether forgettable. |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing | 2.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen | 2.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil | 1.5 |
| Sun Kil Moon Ghosts of the Great Highway | 4.0 |
| Why? Alopecia | 4.0 |
| Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy | 3.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie The Photo Album | 3.5 |
| Wilco Being There | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica | 3.0 |
| Sonic Youth Sister | 3.5 |
| Sonic Youth Goo | 2.0 |
| This Will Destroy You Young Mountain | 3.0 |
| cLOUDDEAD cLOUDDEAD | 5.0 |
| Bjork Debut | 3.5 |
| Saxon Shore Four Months of Darkness | 3.5 |
| Saxon Shore Be a Bright Blue | 4.0 |
| Caspian You Are The Conductor | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 3.5 |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I | 4.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Nymphetamine | 3.0 |
| Creed Human Clay | 1.5 |
| Justice † | 3.5 |
| Daft Punk Discovery | 3.0 |
| Daft Punk Homework | 3.0 |
| Saxon Shore The Exquisite Death of Saxon Shore | 4.0 |
| dredg Catch Without Arms | 3.0 |
| dredg El Cielo | 4.0 |
| Grails Burning Off Impurities | 2.0 |
| Tim Hecker Harmony in Ultraviolet | 4.5 |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 3.0 |
| People For Audio The New Ancients | 4.0 |
| Pixies Doolittle | 3.0 |
| Weezer Weezer | 3.0 |
| Weezer Pinkerton | 3.0 |
| Minutemen Double Nickels on the Dime | 3.5 |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness | 3.5 |
| Pavement Slanted and Enchanted | 2.5 |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Abbey Road | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul | 4.0 |
| Wolf Eyes Human Animal | 4.5 |
| Panda Bear Person Pitch | 5.0 |
| Hawthorne Heights The Silence in Black and White | 1.5 |
| Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out | 2.5 |
| Switchfoot The Beautiful Letdown | 3.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 3.5 |
| Maroon 5 Songs About Jane | 3.0 |
| The Beatles Revolver | 4.0 |
| Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain | 2.5 |
| The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Don't You Fake It | 1.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 3.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine Renegades | 3.5 |
| Anberlin Cities | 4.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire | 2.5 |
| James Newton Howard Lady in the Water | 4.5 |
| Pax217 Engage | 2.5 |
| Coldplay X&Y | 3.5 |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head | 3.0 |
| Project 86 Songs to Burn Your Bridges By | 3.5 |
| Project 86 Truthless Heroes | 3.5 |
| Andrew Schwab is a genius, maybe. More to the point, Truthless Heroes kicks ass. One of the edgier bands of my deprived childhood I fear that this album really sucks and I was just raised to like it by being a sucky pre-teen leeching on anything controversial. Still, I defy anyone to mock "Salem's Suburbs", "Your Heroes Are Dead", "Last Meal" or "Soma". Seriously, these and every other track on this album fucking rock. bumpmi |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Rescue | 3.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die... | 3.0 |
| Imogen Heap Speak For Yourself | 3.0 |
| Five Iron Frenzy Quantity Is Job 1 | 2.5 |
| Five Iron Frenzy The End Is Near | 3.0 |
| Rogue Wave Descended Like Vultures | 3.0 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 4.0 |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Diary | 3.5 |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister | 5.0 |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon | 3.5 |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 4.0 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 4.5 |
| Jason Mraz Mr. A-Z | 2.0 |
| Bright Eyes Cassadaga | 3.0 |
| Bright Eyes Digital Ash in a Digital Urn | 2.5 |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning | 4.0 |
| Bright Eyes Fevers & Mirrors | 4.0 |
| Drive Like Jehu Yank Crime | 2.5 |
| Oceansize Effloresce | 3.0 |
| Yusef Lateef Eastern Sounds | 3.0 |
| Matchbox Twenty Mad Season | 3.0 |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute | 3.0 |
| The Beach Boys Pet Sounds | 4.0 |
| Chiodos All's Well That Ends Well | 3.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 3.5 |
| Handsome Boy Modeling School White People | 2.5 |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry | 3.5 |
| Yo La Tengo I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass | 3.5 |
| Muse Showbiz | 3.5 |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 3.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream | 3.0 |
| EPMD Strictly Business | 2.5 |
| Mr. Bungle California | 5.0 |
| Mr. Bungle Mr. Bungle | 5.0 |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge | 3.0 |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade | 2.0 |
| Ghastly City Sleep Ghastly City Sleep | 3.0 |
| Rites of Spring Rites of Spring | 3.0 |
| Jeff Buckley Grace | 3.0 |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety | 3.5 |
| Emery The Weak's End | 4.0 |
| Emery The Question | 2.5 |
| Jawbreaker 24 Hour Revenge Therapy | 2.5 |
| Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence | 2.5 |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory | 4.0 |
| Underoath Cries of the Past | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Octavarium | 2.5 |
| Black Moth Super Rainbow Dandelion Gum | 3.0 |
| Cursive Domestica | 3.5 |
| Meet Me in St. Louis Variations on Swing | 2.5 |
| Envy Insomniac Doze | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. | 3.5 |
| Time of Orchids Sarcast While | 2.5 |
| Portishead Portishead | 3.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada | 4.5 |
| Hot Cross Risk Revival | 3.5 |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine | 2.5 |
| I Would Set Myself On Fire For You Believes In Patterns | 2.5 |
| Holy Fuck LP | 2.5 |
| Orchid Chaos is Me | 3.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IV | 3.0 |
| Ephel Duath Pain Necessary to Know | 3.5 |
| Mew Frengers | 4.0 |
| of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? | 3.5 |
| Madvillain Madvillainy | 3.5 |
| Amiina Kurr | 5.0 |
| Do Make Say Think & Yet & Yet | 3.5 |
| Beirut Gulag Orkestar | 4.0 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel Everything Is | 3.5 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 3.5 |
| Okkervil River Don't Fall In Love With Everyone You See | 4.5 |
| Hot Chip The Warning | 3.0 |
| Ratatat Ratatat | 3.5 |
| Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus | 4.0 |
| Deerhoof Reveille | 2.5 |
| Sebadoh Bakesale | 3.5 |
| !!! Myth Takes | 2.0 |
| Ozomatli Don't Mess With the Dragon | 3.0 |
| Parts and Labor Mapmaker | 3.0 |
| Parts & Labor consists of Dan Friel, B.J. Warshaw, and Joe Wong. Formed in 2002, this noise-rock/experimental group from NYC has released three studio albums. "Mapmaker", their latest, released in 2007 is a sure step forward by the group. On "Mapmaker", Parts & Labor take all the things that made "Stay Afraid" what it was and balance it out with some space, a welcome improvement. There is still plenty of the experimental and wild nature the group is based on, however, now it is supported by a little more mature of a sound. The album begins like a rocket, with "Fractured Skies" a chaotic song that is at the same time very easy to listen to. Upbeat drumming, a strong vocal melody and surging guitars make for a strong start for the record, an enjoyable fun filled rock experience. |
| Nas Illmatic | 3.0 |
| Anohni and the Johnsons I Am A Bird Now | 4.0 |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye | 3.5 |
| The Shins Chutes Too Narrow | 2.5 |
| The Most Serene Republic Population | 3.5 |
| The Most Serene Republic Phages | 3.5 |
| Ampere All Our Tomorrows End Today | 2.0 |
| Saetia A Retrospective | 3.5 |
| The Locust Plague Soundscapes | 2.5 |
| The Locust The Locust | 3.0 |
| Hot Chip Made in the Dark | 3.0 |
| Sea Power Do You Like Rock Music? | 2.5 |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come | 3.0 |
| Showbread No Sir, Nihilism Is Not Practical | 3.5 |
| Sleep Sleep's Holy Mountain | 3.0 |
| Rosetta Wake/Lift | 2.5 |
| Melvins Stoner Witch | 2.5 |
| Baroness Red Album | 3.0 |
| Jesu Silver | 2.5 |
| Jesu Conqueror | 3.5 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 3.0 |
| The Human Abstract Nocturne | 2.5 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 4.0 |
| This is no Kezia. This isn't Pet Sounds either. What it is, is forty-five minutes of Arif and friends bringing the hizzy. Fortress can be obnoxious, dry, even carcinogenic, but in the end it's just too goddamn groovy for me to really be upset with it. I thought this was pretty mediocre for a while, but it has slowly nestled in my hippocampus. Basically this album is no objective masterpiece, but there's no reason why many won't find it supremely appealing. It has the ability to gloriously rape the ears of lusty fans. |
| The American Analog Set Know By Heart | 4.0 |
| Beirut The Flying Club Cup | 4.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Chase This Light | 3.0 |
| Sigur Ros Heima (DVD) | 4.5 |
| Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret | 3.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger | 4.0 |
| Blindside The Great Depression | 2.5 |
| Blindside Silence | 3.5 |
| Blindside About A Burning Fire | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun | 4.5 |
| Sigur Ros Takk... | 4.5 |
| Sigur Ros Hvarf/Heim | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News | 3.5 |
| LCD Soundsystem LCD Soundsystem | 3.0 |
| Stars Set Yourself On Fire | 3.5 |
| Cold War Kids Robbers and Cowards | 3.5 |
| The Album Leaf In A Safe Place | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 4.5 |
| The Blood Brothers ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn | 2.5 |
| The Clash London Calling | 3.5 |
| Ambulance LTD. LP | 3.0 |
| The Appleseed Cast The End of the Ring Wars | 4.0 |
| Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot | 4.0 |
| Wilco Sky Blue Sky | 3.5 |
| TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain | 3.0 |
| White Rabbits Fort Nightly | 3.0 |
| Trophy Scars Alphabet Alphabets | 3.0 |
| The Weepies Say I Am You | 3.5 |
| Red House Painters Ocean Beach | 3.0 |
| HORSE the band Pizza | 3.0 |
| M.I.A. Kala | 4.0 |
| Wu-Tang Clan 8 Diagrams | 2.5 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 3.0 |
| Ghostface Killah The Big Doe Rehab | 2.5 |
| William Shatner Has Been | 3.5 |
| Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss | 4.0 |
| Muse Absolution | 3.5 |
| The only real crime of this album in my opinion, is the weird amount of variety on it. That being said, each song is enjoyable without the rapport you might like to find on an album. Whether its the pounding drive of Stockholm Syndrome, the poppiness of The Small Print and Time is Running Out, or the emotion of Butterflies and Hurricanes, this album delivers. There's something about Absolution that makes me want to hate it, or keeps me from replaying it very often, but I don't think its very fair for me to fault it. Matt Bellamy's genius really comes through on this album. |
| M. Ward Post-War | 2.5 |
| The Mountain Goats Heretic Pride | 4.0 |
| Joanna Newsom Ys | 5.0 |
| This Will Destroy You This Will Destroy You | 4.0 |
| Lovedrug Pretend You're Alive | 4.0 |
| Bright Eyes Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground | 4.0 |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or | 3.0 |
| Feist The Reminder | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes | 5.0 |
| Deerhoof Friend Opportunity | 3.5 |
| Misery Signals Mirrors | 3.0 |
| Regina Spektor Begin To Hope | 4.5 |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 3.5 |
| Architecture In Helsinki Fingers Crossed | 3.5 |
| Stars In Our Bedroom After The War | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank | 3.5 |
| LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver | 3.5 |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation | 2.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | 3.5 |
| American Football American Football | 3.5 |
| Tilly and the Wall Bottoms of Barrels | 3.5 |
| Liars Drum's Not Dead | 5.0 |
| Laura Mapping Your Dreams | 4.5 |
| This whole album has an ethereal feel to it, possibly due to Laura's employment of synthesizers, but its effect on the listener is hardly contrived. "Jericho" is a little bland, but as soon as you get to "Levodopa" the album starts to gain momentum. There is a very simple quality to Mapping Your Dreams, but that doesn't diminish the climaxes or the prettiness of certain melodies or orchestrations on it. It's a fairly unique album that most post-rock lovers should enjoy. |
| Mogwai Mr. Beast | 3.0 |
| Battles Mirrored | 4.5 |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots | 3.0 |
| The Shins Wincing the Night Away | 3.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism | 5.0 |
| The Most Serene Republic Underwater Cinematographer | 3.0 |
| El-P I'll Sleep When You're Dead | 3.5 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 3.0 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 3.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Kezia | 5.0 |
| This album blows my mind every time I listen to it. Each song packs so much energy I can't sit still when I listen to it. It is extremely heavy but there's something so clean and beautiful about it; I can't compare it to any other album I've heard. "Turn Soonest to the Sea" might just be my favorite track, but then I hear pretty much any other song on the album and I'm ready to change my mind. The musicianship, technicality, and creativity on this album are unbridled, and it sounds pretty damn fine. |
| Blonde Redhead 23 | 4.0 |
| The Decemberists The Crane Wife | 3.0 |
| Anathallo Floating World | 4.5 |
| Eluvium An Accidental Memory in the Case of Death | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros ( ) | 5.0 |
| Eluvium Copia | 5.0 |
| mum Finally We Are No One | 4.5 |
| Belle and Sebastian The Life Pursuit | 4.0 |
| This record was my first exposure to Belle & Sebastian. The Life Pursuit is one of those albums I fell in love with on my first listen. The tracks are so cheerfully catchy they instantly engrave themselves in your memory. "Dress Up In You" might be my favorite track but its so hard to exclude the rest. The Life Pursuit is stuffed with great pop tunes which make it one of my favorite albums of all time; a criminally underrated album. |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 3.5 |
| Do Make Say Think You, You're a History in Rust | 4.5 |
| The Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs | 3.5 |
| The Magnetic Fields i | 4.5 |
| On this record, the NYC based group led by singer-songwriter Stephen Merritt venture outside their typical synth-pop domain, bringing in more strings and guitar for a finely produced and very enjoyable album. i is quite the concept record; each track begins with the letter "i", and the tracks appear in alphabetical order. Many tracks feature banjo, as well as piano and the aforementioned guitar and strings. The leading element of the record, however, is of course Merritt's deep voice. Whether its his heartbroken tone on "I Looked All Over Town" or his dry melody on the racing "I Thought You Were My Boyfriend", he delivers. On i, Merritt has crafted another batch of clever pop songs which will be caged in your memory weeks after listening. |
| The Magnetic Fields Distortion | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky How Strange, Innocence | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone | 3.5 |
| Epic, haunting, blissful, this album has it all. "The Birth And Death of the Day" contains one of my favorite climaxes of all time, and the gentleness of the rest of the album although depressing at times comforts the listener. It's hard to climax so often and yet still appear creative, thus, this album does feel a little limited. However, the album still immensely satisfied me, with its pretty melodies and beautiful orchestration. |
| Sunset Rubdown Random Spirit Lover | 4.5 |
| Animal Collective Feels | 5.0 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 5.0 |
| Animal Collective Strawberry Jam | 4.5 |
| Okkervil River Black Sheep Boy | 4.5 |
| Okkervil River The Stage Names | 4.5 |
| Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene | 3.0 |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible | 4.0 |
| Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary | 4.0 |
| The National Boxer | 5.0 |
| The National Alligator | 5.0 |
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| Japancakes Giving Machines | 2.0 |
