| Deafheaven Sunbather | 4.5 |
| Anberlin Devotion | 5.0 |
| Dustin Kensrue The Water and the Blood | 4.0 |
| Dustin Kensrue Please Come Home | 3.5 |
| O'Brother Disillusion | 5.0 |
| I've been waiting for new O'Brother since I first saw them live on the Thrice farewell tour. Their debut album Garden Window was phenomenal, but Disillusion is simply better in every single possible way, especially songs like Come Into The Divide and Perilous Love. The notion that Disillusion is a sophomore record unbelievable, when taking into account the maturity and skill and musicianship evident in this album. While listening, I couldn't stop grinning ear to ear. This is what I've been waiting for. |
| Tanner Merritt Doubt | 3.0 |
| Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun | 3.0 |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience | 4.0 |
| Gotic Escenes | 3.0 |
| Crooks Nevermore | 4.0 |
| Igorrr Hallelujah | 4.0 |
| Children of God Coup De Grace | 3.5 |
| Children of God We Set Fire to the Sky | 4.0 |
| Cerce Cerce | 3.0 |
| Giles Corey Deconstructionist | 3.0 |
| Laying in bed while listening to this on a pair of good headphones reminds of having an MRI done. |
| Iceage You're Nothing | 3.0 |
| Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 | 4.0 |
| The Dissociatives The Dissociatives | 4.0 |
| Psychothermia Fall To The Rising Sun | 3.0 |
| Filter Title Of Record | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension | 2.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension | 2.5 |
| Shone Heat Thing | 3.0 |
| Wil Wagner Laika | 4.5 |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak | 4.0 |
| Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor, Op. 40 | 5.0 |
| Sergei Rachmaninoff Preludes, Op. 32 | 5.0 |
| Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 | 5.0 |
| Sergei Rachmaninoff Preludes, Op. 23 | 5.0 |
| Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 | 5.0 |
| Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 1 in F♯ minor, Op. 1 | 5.0 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Worse Than Alone | 5.0 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Mongrel | 5.0 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Nuclear. Sad. Nuclear. | 5.0 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Put On Your Rosy Red Glasses | 5.0 |
| Pomegranate Tiger Entities | 3.5 |
| Ducktails The Flower Lane | 2.5 |
| Greeley Estates Outside of This | 2.0 |
| Sparta Threes | 3.0 |
| Sparta Wiretap Scars | 3.5 |
| Sparta Porcelain | 3.5 |
| An Arrow to the Knee Getting Over Thunderdome | 1.0 |
| Air Review Low Wishes | 4.0 |
| Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Howl | 3.5 |
| Diamond Rings Free Dimensional | 3.0 |
| Circle Takes the Square Decompositions: Volume Number One | 3.0 |
| Andrew W.K. I Get Wet | 3.5 |
| The Weeknd Trilogy | 4.0 |
| Aaron Lewis The Road | 1.5 |
| Green Day iDOS! | 1.0 |
| Underoath Define the Great Line | 5.0 |
| Creed Weathered | 3.5 |
| Neurosis Times of Grace | 4.5 |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 3.5 |
| Colin Stetson New History Warfare Vol 2: Judges | 4.0 |
| Deftones White Pony | 4.0 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 4.5 |
| As Tall As Lions As Tall As Lions | 5.0 |
| Neurosis Honor Found in Decay | 3.5 |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 5.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 5.0 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 4.5 |
| Converge You Fail Me | 3.5 |
| Converge No Heroes | 3.0 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 3.5 |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind | 4.0 |
| Anberlin Vital | 5.0 |
| This album is so good. Most definitely my album of the year, of the past two years, maybe five years. |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 2.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Shields | 4.5 |
| Ash Borer Cold of Ages | 4.0 |
| White Arms of Athena Astrodrama | 4.0 |
| The Classic Crime Phoenix | 4.5 |
| Circa Survive On Letting Go | 3.5 |
| Circa Survive Violent Waves | 3.5 |
| Swans Children of God | 5.0 |
| Fuel Natural Selection | 4.0 |
| Fuel Sunburn | 4.5 |
| Fuel Something Like Human | 5.0 |
| Super Snake Summer Girls | 3.5 |
| Eminem Recovery | 3.0 |
| Eminem The Eminem Show | 3.5 |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP | 5.0 |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP | 4.0 |
| Eminem Infinite | 3.0 |
| Childish Gambino Camp | 3.5 |
| Frank Ocean channel ORANGE | 4.5 |
| The Gaslight Anthem Handwritten | 4.5 |
| The Gaslight Anthem Sink or Swim | 4.0 |
| The Gaslight Anthem American Slang | 4.0 |
| The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound | 5.0 |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise | 4.0 |
| Circa Survive Juturna | 4.0 |
| Eleventh He Reaches London Hollow Be My Name | 4.0 |
| State Faults Desolate Peaks | 4.0 |
| Zelliack Noir Tone | 4.0 |
| Crevice Peering | 3.5 |
| Masterful guitar playing and serviceable vocals make this acoustic death album an entertaining listening. |
| Rush Clockwork Angels | 4.0 |
| Grizzly Bear Horn of Plenty | 4.0 |
| Grizzly Bear Yellow House | 4.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest | 5.0 |
| Crevice In Between | 3.5 |
| Hoobastank Hoobastank | 3.0 |
| Only a 3 because of certain memories that have to do with certain things that I don't want to sound off about. Thank you. |
| Art By Numbers Reticence: The Musical | 3.5 |
| Art By Numbers' vocalist sounding a lot like Stephen Christian of Anberlin = win |
| mewithoutYou A to B: Life | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes | 4.5 |
| mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright! | 3.5 |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister | 5.0 |
| mewithoutYou Ten Stories | 4.0 |
| O'Brother Garden Window | 5.0 |
| O'Brother The Death of Day | 5.0 |
| Fear Before The Always Open Mouth | 4.5 |
| Torture Chain Time is but a Doorway to the Incinerator | 4.0 |
| Fantastimo Fantastimo Journey | 5.0 |
The myriad sounds heard here--sometimes
delightfully optimistic, sometimes as dark as a
cavern, always deeply moving and hypnotic--serve to
make the songs seem much shorter than they really
are: this magnificent EP will be over before you know
it and you will feel compelled to press play again,
immersing yourself in the sonic voyage anew. This
will be played, end to end, ad infinitum, for the rest
of your life. Such is the power of Fantastimo. |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow | 4.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade | 3.5 |
| Brie Larson Finally Out of P.E. | 5.0 |
| Coma Cinema Blue Suicide | 3.5 |
| Death Grips The Money Store | 4.0 |
| The Mayan Factor In Lake 'CH | 3.5 |
| The Mayan Factor 44 | 4.0 |
| Ashes Divide Keep Telling Myself It's Alright | 3.5 |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step | 4.0 |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms | 4.5 |
| Hellyeah Stampede | 2.0 |
| Hellyeah Hellyeah | 2.5 |
| Mudvayne Mudvayne | 3.5 |
| Mudvayne The New Game | 3.0 |
| Mudvayne Lost and Found | 4.0 |
| Mudvayne The End of All Things to Come | 5.0 |
| Mudvayne L.D. 50 | 4.5 |
| Rush 2112 | 4.5 |
| We are the Priests of the Temples of SyrinxrOur great computers fill the hallowed hallsrWe are the Priests of the Temples of SyrinxrAll the gifts of life are held within our walls |
| Rush A Farewell to Kings | 4.0 |
| Cities full of hatred, fear, and liesrWithered hearts and cruel tormented eyesrScheming demons dressed in kingly guiserBeating down the multitude and scoffing at the wiserCan't we raise our eyes and make a start?rCan't we find the minds to lead us closer to the heart? |
| Rush Hemispheres | 4.5 |
| Rush Moving Pictures | 5.0 |
| Rush Snakes & Arrows | 3.5 |
| Neurosis Through Silver in Blood | 5.0 |
| Loma Prieta I.V. | 4.5 |
| M. Ward Post-War | 4.0 |
| Jacobi Wichita Bonez Malone | 4.0 |
| Bear in Heaven Beast Rest Forth Mouth | 4.0 |
| Shinedown Amaryllis | 2.5 |
| Shinedown The Sound of Madness | 3.5 |
| Shinedown Us and Them | 3.0 |
| Shinedown Leave a Whisper | 3.5 |
| Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession | 3.5 |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor | 5.0 |
| Tau Tau Eyelids | 5.0 |
| Brand New Daisy | 4.0 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 4.5 |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 3.5 |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon | 3.0 |
| The Used Maybe Memories | 3.0 |
| The Used Berth | 3.5 |
| The Used Artwork | 2.5 |
| The Used Lies for the Liars | 3.0 |
| The Used In Love and Death | 3.5 |
| The Used The Used | 4.0 |
| Love Through Cannibalism Metapodestroyer | 5.0 |
| Design the Skyline Nevaeh | 2.0 |
| Hollow Leg Instinct | 3.0 |
| Slices Still Cruising | 4.0 |
| Pyramids Pyramids | 3.0 |
| The Wooden Sky City Of Light | 3.5 |
| Nice folk band from Canada whose vocalist sounds a lot like Dustin Kensrue |
| Liberteer Better to Die on Your Feet... | 3.5 |
| Fire In The Cave Fire In the Cave | 4.0 |
| Tool Lateralus | 4.5 |
| The Bled Heat Fetish | 3.0 |
| Heat Fetish lacks the youthful exuberance of Pass The Flask and the progressive creativity of Found In The Flood, though it shares the same mediocrity as Silent Treatment. |
| Trophy Scars Bad Luck | 4.0 |
| Trophy Scars Alphabet Alphabets | 4.5 |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives | 3.0 |
| Lol the average rating is too high, we need more threes |
| The Zutons Who Killed The Zutons | 3.5 |
| Nickelback Dark Horse | 1.5 |
| Nickelback Here and Now | 1.0 |
| Nickelback All the Right Reasons | 2.0 |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book | 3.5 |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence | 4.5 |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute | 5.0 |
| letlive. Fake History | 4.5 |
| Everything in moderation; often the brilliance is swept away in a whirlwind. |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Saltwater | 3.5 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Old Pride | 4.0 |
| fun. Aim and Ignite | 5.0 |
| fun. Some Nights | 4.0 |
| dredg Orph | 3.0 |
| dredg Conscious | 2.5 |
| dredg Chuckles and Mr. Squeezy | 3.0 |
| dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion | 4.0 |
| dredg Catch Without Arms | 4.5 |
| dredg El Cielo | 5.0 |
| dredg Leitmotif | 3.5 |
| The Bled Found in the Flood | 5.0 |
| The Bled Pass the Flask | 5.0 |
| Thomas Giles Pulse | 3.5 |
| Draughts of ineffective experimentation are mitigated by such poignant odes as "Scared" and "Mr. Bird," whose soft palettes reverberate like chromatic pulses in the dark. |
| Courtships The Feral Sound | 3.5 |
| Thrice First Impressions | 2.5 |
| Thrice Daytrotter Sessions | 3.5 |
| The Weeknd Echoes of Silence | 4.5 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 3.0 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 5.0 |
| Korn Untouchables | 2.5 |
| Daniel Striped Tiger Condition | 4.0 |
| Yaphet Kotto We Bury Our Dead Alive | 3.5 |
| Yaphet Kotto The Killer Was in the Government Blankets | 4.0 |
| Wow, Owls! Pee Sout | 3.5 |
| Wow, Owls! Pick Your Patterns | 3.5 |
| Majority Rule Emergency Numbers | 3.5 |
| Maximillian Colby Discography | 4.0 |
| Korn The Path of Totality | 2.0 |
| It's not the worst thing ever made. There, that's the best I can say about it. |
| Ash Borer Ash Borer | 4.0 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After | 5.0 |
| Shabazz Palaces Black Up | 4.0 |
| Jonny Craig A Dream Is A Question You Don't Know How To Answer | 2.5 |
| James Blake James Blake | 4.0 |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma | 3.0 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 4.0 |
| Mumford and Sons Sigh No More | 3.0 |
| Cage The Elephant Thank You Happy Birthday | 2.5 |
| Nickelback Silver Side Up | 2.5 |
| Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe | 5.0 |
| Caleb McAlpine Science Fiction | 3.0 |
| BATS Red In Tooth and Claw | 4.0 |
| Johnny Cash American IV: The Man Comes Around | 4.5 |
| The Antlers Uprooted | 3.5 |
| Coldplay LeftRightLeftRightLeft | 3.5 |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | 4.0 |
| Augustana Can't Love, Can't Hurt | 3.5 |
| Augustana All the Stars and Boulevards | 3.0 |
| Anberlin Blueprints for the Black Market | 2.5 |
| Anberlin Never Take Friendship Personal | 3.0 |
| Thrice Identity Crisis | 2.5 |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 4.0 |
| Thrice Major/Minor | 5.0 |
| I don't think anyone expected this album to be so good. In truth, it's flawless. |
| From First to Last Heroine | 3.5 |
| From First to Last Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count | 5.0 |
| Howard Shore The Return of the King | 5.0 |
| Howard Shore The Fellowship of the Ring | 5.0 |
| Howard Shore The Two Towers | 5.0 |
| The Weeknd Thursday | 4.0 |
| Grouper A I A | 5.0 |
| Trophy Scars Darkness, Oh Hell | 5.0 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 4.5 |
| Blackwater Park begins excellently but grows decidedly weaker as the album progresses. Rating the first few songs alone, I would give it a perfect five. |
| Opeth Still Life | 5.0 |
| Trophy Scars Never Born, Never Dead | 5.0 |
| Flaw Through the Eyes | 3.5 |
| The Weeknd House of Balloons | 5.0 |
| The Human Abstract Digital Veil | 4.0 |
| Initially I rated this a four. Perhaps I had succumbed to the 'everything is relative' phenomenon. Digital Veil is infinitely superior to Midheaven. Travis Richter is infinitely better than Nathan Ells. Digital Veil is the Mona Lisa to Midheaven's Crayola scribbles. Digital Veil is a masterpiece when compared to the garbage that is Midheaven. But, ultimately, Digital Veil is only good. |
| The Human Abstract Nocturne | 3.5 |
| The Human Abstract Midheaven | 3.0 |
| This is funny, I don't care who you are! Up there with the best comedic performances! |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors_Live | 3.5 |
| Colors_Live is only as good as Colors will ever be, which begs the question: Why does Colors_Live exist? Other than Tommy Rogers addressing the crowd a couple times, there are no real differences between this and Colors. |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues | 3.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus | 5.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 5.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 3.5 |
| Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True | 3.5 |
| Bon Iver Blood Bank | 4.0 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 4.5 |
| The Antlers Burst Apart | 3.0 |
| The Antlers Hospice | 5.0 |
| The Antlers In the Attic of the Universe | 3.0 |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 4.5 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 3.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 4.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV | 3.5 |
| Thrice Beggars | 4.0 |
| Silverchair The Best Of: Vol. 1 | 3.0 |
| Silverchair Frogstomp | 3.0 |
| Silverchair Freak Show | 3.0 |
| Silverchair Neon Ballroom | 5.0 |
| Silverchair Diorama | 4.5 |
| Silverchair Young Modern | 3.5 |
| Anberlin Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place | 4.0 |
| Anberlin New Surrender | 3.5 |
| Anberlin Cities | 4.5 |
| Defeater Lost Ground | 5.0 |
| Pearl Jam Vs. | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 5.0 |
Although Leviathan was inspired by Herman
Melville's great American novel Moby-Dick and not
the biblical tale of Jonah and the whale, the album
envelopes you much in the same way as the whale
swallows the man: you cannot escape its clutch, but
you will emerge as a changed man. |
