| The National High Violet | 4.5 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt | 5.0 |
| The Kills Keep On Your Mean Side | 4.0 |
| The Kills No Wow | 4.0 |
| Feist The Reminder | 4.0 |
| The Morning Benders Big Echo | 4.0 |
| The National Boxer | 4.0 |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles II | 4.0 |
This will take a LOT of time to grow; I hated it for the first three or four times through, until it set in what they're trying to do. At first it sounds boring and complacent compared to the debut, but eventually this becomes much more even and settled, more mature and fully-formed. Album #2 is less concerned with the novelty of the sound and more with the tracks themselves.
Right now this stands at least equal to the previous album and I expect it to shake out better over the next few weeks. |
| Caribou Swim | 4.0 |
| Celine Dion Falling into You | 4.0 |
| Justin Bieber My World 2.0 | 3.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Contra | 4.0 |
| The Clash The Clash | 4.5 |
| Gang of Four Entertainment! | 5.0 |
| Girls Album | 5.0 |
| White Lies To Lose My Life | 2.5 |
| Joanna Newsom Ys | 3.0 |
| Sleater-Kinney The Woods | 4.0 |
| The Who Who's Next | 4.5 |
| The Who Tommy | 3.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not | 4.5 |
| Portishead Third | 4.0 |
| The Stooges Raw Power | 4.0 |
| The Stooges Fun House | 4.0 |
| The Stooges The Stooges | 4.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire | 4.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 4.0 |
| Dead Kennedys Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death | 4.0 |
| Dead Kennedys Plastic Surgery Disasters | 4.0 |
| Dead Kennedys In God We Trust, Inc. | 3.0 |
| Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables | 4.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | 3.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Pisces Iscariot | 2.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream | 4.5 |
| Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Trout Mask Replica | 3.0 |
| Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Safe As Milk | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn | 4.0 |
| Gnarls Barkley The Odd Couple | 3.5 |
| Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols | 5.0 |
| Black Flag Damaged | 3.5 |
| Black Flag Jealous Again | 3.0 |
| Black Flag Nervous Breakdown | 4.5 |
| Bruce Springsteen Born in the U.S.A. | 4.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen Nebraska | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 4.5 |
| Keyshia Cole Just Like You | 3.5 |
| The-Dream Love vs. Money | 3.5 |
| OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below | 3.5 |
| X (USA) Wild Gift | 3.5 |
| X (USA) Los Angeles | 4.0 |
| Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Let It Be | 3.5 |
| The Beatles The Beatles | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Revolver | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Help! | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Beatles for Sale | 3.5 |
| The Beatles A Hard Day's Night | 4.0 |
| The Beatles With the Beatles | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Please Please Me | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin In Through the Out Door | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Presence | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV | 5.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin | 5.0 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Is Is | 3.5 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Show Your Bones | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 5.0 |
| Pearl Jam Vitalogy | 4.0 |
| Pearl Jam Vs. | 4.5 |
| Pearl Jam Ten | 4.5 |
| Pearl Jam No Code | 3.5 |
| Pearl Jam Yield | 3.0 |
| Pearl Jam Binaural | 3.0 |
| Pearl Jam Riot Act | 3.0 |
| Pearl Jam Live: New York, New York (7/8/03) | 3.5 |
| Pearl Jam Live: 07-11-03 Mansfield, MA | 4.0 |
| Pearl Jam Lost Dogs | 3.5 |
| Pearl Jam Pearl Jam | 3.5 |
| Nirvana With the Lights Out | 4.0 |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York | 4.5 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 4.0 |
| Nirvana Incesticide | 3.5 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 4.5 |
| Nirvana Bleach | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 4.0 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 3.0 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 4.0 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 3.5 |
| Hercules and Love Affair Hercules and Love Affair | 3.5 |
| R.E.M. Automatic for the People | 4.0 |
| R.E.M. Eponymous | 4.0 |
| R.E.M. Out of Time | 3.0 |
| R.E.M. Green | 3.0 |
| R.E.M. Reckoning | 4.5 |
| R.E.M. Murmur | 5.0 |
| R.E.M. Chronic Town | 4.0 |
| Fleet Foxes Sun Giant | 3.5 |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes | 4.5 |
| Girl Talk Feed the Animals | 4.5 |
| Rush Signals | 3.0 |
| Rush Moving Pictures | 3.5 |
| Rush Permanent Waves | 3.5 |
| Rush Hemispheres | 3.5 |
| Rush A Farewell to Kings | 4.5 |
| Rush 2112 | 4.5 |
| Rush Caress of Steel | 3.0 |
| Rush Fly by Night | 3.5 |
| Rush Rush | 4.0 |
| Sonic Youth Rather Ripped | 3.0 |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation | 5.0 |
| Melvins Bullhead | 3.0 |
| Living Things Ahead of the Lions | 3.5 |
| TV on the Radio Dear Science | 2.5 |
| Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains | 3.0 |
| Bob Dylan John Wesley Harding | 4.0 |
| Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde | 4.0 |
| Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited | 5.0 |
| Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home | 4.0 |
| Bob Dylan The Times They Are A-Changin' | 4.0 |
| Bob Dylan Another Side of Bob Dylan | 3.5 |
| Bob Dylan The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan | 4.0 |
| Bob Dylan Bob Dylan | 3.5 |
| Pixies Bossanova | 3.0 |
| Pixies Doolittle | 5.0 |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa | 3.5 |
| Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca | 4.0 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland | 5.0 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold as Love | 4.5 |
| Johnny Cash American IV: The Man Comes Around | 3.5 |
| Jay-Z American Gangster | 3.5 |
| The White Stripes Icky Thump | 3.5 |
| The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan | 4.5 |
| The White Stripes Elephant | 3.5 |
| The White Stripes De Stijl | 3.5 |
| The White Stripes White Blood Cells | 4.0 |
| The White Stripes The White Stripes | 3.5 |
| Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks | 4.5 |
| Bruce Springsteen Born to Run | 5.0 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever To Tell | 3.5 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz! | 3.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend | 4.5 |
| Sleater-Kinney One Beat | 3.0 |
| Patti Smith Horses | 4.5 |
| Pixies Come On Pilgrim | 4.0 |
| Panda Bear Person Pitch | 4.0 |
| No Age Nouns | 3.0 |
| Neil Young After the Gold Rush | 4.0 |
| Neil Young On the Beach | 4.5 |
| Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind | 4.0 |
| Mission of Burma Signals, Calls, and Marches | 4.0 |
| Maybeshewill Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony | 4.0 |
| M83 Saturdays=Youth | 3.5 |
| The Kills Midnight Boom | 4.0 |
| Joy Division Closer | 4.0 |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest | 4.5 |
| Deerhunter Microcastle | 3.5 |
| Cut Copy In Ghost Colours | 4.0 |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles | 4.0 |
| Can Future Days | 4.0 |
| Can Soon Over Babaluma | 4.0 |
| Can Monster Movie | 3.5 |
| Bruce Springsteen The River | 4.0 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 3.0 |
| Bad Religion How Could Hell Be Any Worse? | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Abbey Road | 5.0 |
| The B-52s The B-52's | 4.0 |
| Art Brut Art Brut vs. Satan | 3.0 |
| Art Brut Bang Bang Rock & Roll | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Strawberry Jam | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Prospect Hummer | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Campfire Songs | 3.0 |
| Animal Collective Danse Manatee | 3.0 |
| Animal Collective Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished | 4.0 |
| Air France No Way Down | 3.0 |
