| Swans To Be Kind | 5.0 |
| Andy Stott Luxury Problems | 5.0 |
| Raime Quarter Turns Over a Living Line | 4.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine m b v | 5.0 |
| Flying Lotus Until the Quiet Comes | 5.0 |
| Swans Filth | 4.5 |
| Swans The Great Annihilator | 4.5 |
| Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky | 4.5 |
| Swans The Seer | 5.0 |
| So after a 14 year hiatus, Swans have now released two albums that not only live up to their classic material, but in my opinion, surpass it. This isn't supposed to happen. |
| The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now | 4.5 |
| El-P Cancer 4 Cure | 5.0 |
| This is El-p fully realizing every good idea he's ever had, culminating in one of the greatest hip hop albums I've listened to. He perfects his flow, lyrics, and creates more accessible yet more atmospheric and mood building beats than anything he's done. The album is a moving trip through one of the most well crafted concepts recorded. He's really just showing off at this point. |
| Shpongle Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost | 5.0 |
| Clint Mansell, Kronos Quartet and Mogwai The Fountain | 5.0 |
| Viktor Vaughn Vaudeville Villain | 4.5 |
| Tyler, the Creator Bastard | 2.5 |
| Tyler, the Creator Goblin | 2.5 |
| Team Sleep Team Sleep | 3.5 |
| Swarms Old Raves End | 4.0 |
| Pixies Doolittle | 4.0 |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa | 4.5 |
| MF DOOM Special Herbs: The Box Set | 4.0 |
| Massive Attack vs. Burial Four Walls/Paradise Circus | 4.5 |
| James Blake Enough Thunder | 3.0 |
| Grouper A I A | 4.5 |
| Emika Emika | 3.5 |
| Das Racist Relax | 2.5 |
| Das Racist Sit Down, Man | 4.0 |
| Das Racist Shut Up, Dude | 3.0 |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 4.0 |
| Clubroot II - MMX | 4.0 |
| Death Grips Exmilitary | 1.5 |
| I like a couple of songs a little bit...most of it is truly unlistenable in my book. |
| Death Grips The Money Store | 3.0 |
For a few days, I thought this was THE new shit. Then my ears just hurt. It's interesting and
novel, but ultimately the beats are subpar, especially when they aren't heavy or "raw" enough
to achieve that aggressiveness that seems a worthy goal in itself. The lyrics are generally
good, and I personally dig Ride's delivery. Especially when he sounds genuinely angry, which
is unfortunately lost for a fair portion of the record. Much better than Exmilitary, but that
wasn't hard. |
| Clubroot III - MMXII | 5.0 |
| Converge You Fail Me | 4.0 |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky | 4.5 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 4.5 |
| Burial Kindred | 5.0 |
| Just in case you thought his imitators could someday come close. |
| The Weeknd Echoes of Silence | 4.5 |
| Burial Street Halo | 4.5 |
| Flying Lotus Los Angeles | 5.0 |
| The Weeknd House of Balloons | 4.0 |
| The Weeknd Thursday | 4.5 |
| Tricky Maxinquaye | 4.5 |
| Tom Waits Bone Machine | 4.5 |
| Swans Soundtracks for the Blind | 5.0 |
| Though I'm in love with the newest incarnation of Swans, listening to this album will probably remain the most intense musical experience for me. Regardless of my surroundings listening to it takes all of my attention, I find it difficult to read on even the minimal ambient tracks. From the lofi voice samples to the post-rock opuses and folk the entire thing works to create the most disturbing and strange world in music, and the sequencing is so well done, it would be a shame to skip a track of this 2.5 hour album. |
| Zomby Dedication | 4.5 |
| Skrillex Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites | 3.0 |
| Shabazz Palaces Black Up | 4.5 |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia | 4.5 |
| P.O.S Audition | 4.5 |
| P.O.S Never Better | 4.0 |
| Okkervil River Black Sheep Boy | 3.5 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 4.5 |
| Nas STILLmatic | 4.0 |
| Nas Illmatic | 4.5 |
| Miles Davis Bitches Brew | 4.5 |
| Madvillain Madvillainy | 5.0 |
| BEST RAP ALBUM OF ALL TIME...well my favorite at least |
| maudlin of the Well Bath | 4.5 |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye | 4.5 |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I | 5.0 |
| Jay-Z and Kanye West Watch the Throne | 4.0 |
| Kanye West The College Dropout | 4.0 |
| Kanye West Late Registration | 4.0 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 4.5 |
| James Blake Klavierwerke | 4.0 |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute | 4.0 |
| Eminem Encore | 1.0 |
| Eminem Recovery | 1.5 |
| Eminem Relapse | 1.5 |
| Eminem The Eminem Show | 3.0 |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP | 4.0 |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP | 4.0 |
| Element Eighty Element Eighty | 4.0 |
| El-P I'll Sleep When You're Dead | 4.0 |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... | 4.5 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 4.5 |
| Deftones White Pony | 5.0 |
| Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse Dark Night of the Soul | 3.5 |
| Built to Spill Perfect from Now On | 4.0 |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Sunset Mission | 4.5 |
| DJ Krush Kaku-Sei | 4.5 |
| I don't know if this is an objective rating, but I absolutely never get tired of this album. The beats are diverse, but always haunting and heavy. My favorite thing to freestyle to. |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News | 4.0 |
| Anyone who says this is modest mouse "selling out" is looking at it the wrong way. This is Isaac Brock finding a degree of happiness in the world. These catchy melodies reflect that. Earlier works (especially the first two lp's) were works of depression and turmoil. The raw emotion of those albums is a large part of what made them great. This is simply a different kind of emotion. Everything in this album is genuine, and is in no way selling out. That said, it isn't as complete an album as their first three, and feels more like a collection of songs than a furnished record, and is not perfect. |
| Clubroot Clubroot | 4.5 |
| Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister | 4.5 |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book | 4.5 |
| Ugly Casanova Sharpen Your Teeth | 5.0 |
| Burial Burial | 4.5 |
| Burial Untrue | 5.0 |
| James Blake James Blake | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 4.5 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 4.0 |
| HIM Dark Light | 2.0 |
| Underoath Ø (Disambiguation) | 4.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season | 2.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Count Your Blessings | 2.0 |
| Why? Alopecia | 4.0 |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake | 4.0 |
| Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True | 4.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold | 2.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil | 4.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen | 4.0 |
| Korn Untitled | 3.5 |
| Brand New Daisy | 4.5 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 5.0 |
| The most emotionally affecting album I've ever listened to...period |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 2.0 |
| No matter how I look at this album, the majority seems to be boring filler with three songs that I can honestly enjoy (Vicarious, Jambi, The Pot), and all of those tracks are quite repetitive and overstay their welcome. Tool has often lived up to their pretentiousness, but failed miserably with this release. |
| Rishloo Feathergun | 4.0 |
| Rishloo Eidolon | 4.5 |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II | 4.0 |
| Linkin Park A Thousand Suns | 1.5 |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West | 4.5 |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica | 4.5 |
| Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe | 4.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 4.5 |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning | 4.0 |
| Eleventh He Reaches London The Good Fight For Harmony | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 5.0 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 5.0 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 3.5 |
| Converge When Forever Comes Crashing | 5.0 |
| DM Stith Heavy Ghost | 5.0 |
| Strange, innovative, pretty, terrifying. DM Stith takes 'freak folk' to such freakish place I can't help but love it. |
| Hurt Vol. II | 4.5 |
| Hurt Vol. 1 | 5.0 |
| Hurt Goodbye To The Machine | 2.0 |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About | 5.0 |
