Lana Del Rey Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd | 4.0 |
Lana Del Rey Blue Banisters | 3.5 |
Lana Del Rey Lust For Life | 3.5 |
Lana Del Rey Honeymoon | 3.5 |
Lana Del Rey Born to Die | 3.5 |
Lana Del Rey Ultraviolence | 4.0 |
Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell! | 4.0 |
Lana Del Rey Chemtrails Over The Country Club | 4.0 |
Handsome Furs Sound Kapital | 4.0 |
Handsome Furs Face Control | 4.0 |
Handsome Furs Plague Park | 4.0 |
The Men Immaculada | 3.5 |
The Men New York City | 3.5 |
Merchandise A Corpse Wired For Sound | 3.5 |
Merchandise Totale Nite | 4.0 |
Metz Atlas Vending | 4.0 |
Metz Strange Peace | 4.0 |
Metz Metz II | 4.0 |
Metz Metz | 4.0 |
Califone villagers | 4.0 |
Grandaddy Last Place | 4.0 |
Grandaddy Sumday | 4.0 |
Grandaddy Just Like the Fambly Cat | 4.0 |
Grandaddy Under the Western Freeway | 4.0 |
MGMT MGMT | 3.5 |
Grandaddy The Sophtware Slump | 4.0 |
Grandaddy Blu Wav | 4.0 |
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Ease Down The Road | 4.0 |
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy I See a Darkness | 4.5 |
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Master And Everyone | 4.0 |
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Greatest Palace Music | 4.0 |
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy The Letting Go | 4.0 |
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Lie Down in the Light | 4.0 |
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Singer's Grave A Sea Of Tongues | 3.0 |
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Pond Scum | 3.0 |
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You | 4.0 |
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy I Made a Place | 4.0 |
Portugal. The Man Chris Black Changed My Life | 3.5 |
Portugal. The Man Woodstock | 3.5 |
Portugal. The Man Evil Friends | 4.0 |
Portugal. The Man In The Mountain In The Cloud | 4.0 |
The Microphones Don't Wake Me Up | 3.5 |
Mount Eerie Now Only | 3.5 |
Mount Eerie A Crow Looked At Me | 4.0 |
Mount Eerie No Flashlight | 3.5 |
Mount Eerie Dawn | 3.5 |
The Killers Sawdust | 4.0 |
Kurt Vile Back To Moon Beach | 4.0 |
Sufjan Stevens The Greatest Gift | 4.0 |
Devendra Banhart Flying Wig | 4.5 |
Empty Country Empty Country II | 5.0 |
So glad Joe is back again. This already sounds more ambitious than the EC debut and is more in tune with a CEG album. It's certainly still it's own thing and I don't wanna continually compare his output to his original band, but his voice and songwriting are so distinct that might be an impossibility. Either way, I am so grateful that he's still around pumping out this sort of cathartic indie, post-punk, emo whatever you wanna call it. This album sounds really special. |
Sufjan Stevens Javelin | 4.5 |
Animal Collective Isn’t It Now? | 4.0 |
I actually have enjoyed everything from Centipede Hz on, but it is really nice to have AnCo making great records again. Time Skiffs was great and this feels even more ambitious while retaining that album's catchy, live charm. A good companion to that album while easily standing as its own behemoth. Can't wait to peel back everything going on here over the course of repeat listens. |
Wilco Cousin | 4.0 |
The National Laugh Track | 4.0 |
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Tender Prey | 3.5 |
At the Drive-In in•ter a•li•a | 3.5 |
Sparta Trust the River | 3.0 |
Sparta Threes | 3.5 |
Sparta Porcelain | 4.0 |
Sparta Wiretap Scars | 4.0 |
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead XI: Bleed Here Now | 4.0 |
Woods Perennial | 4.0 |
Blur Leisure | 2.5 |
Blur Modern Life Is Rubbish | 3.5 |
Blur The Ballad of Darren | 4.0 |
Queens of the Stone Age In Times New Roman... | 4.0 |
Squid O Monolith | 4.0 |
Absolutely was blown away by their debut. This sounds super awesome so far. |
Foo Fighters But Here We Are | 4.0 |
Beach Fossils Bunny | 4.0 |
Protomartyr Formal Growth in the Desert | 4.0 |
The National First Two Pages of Frankenstein | 4.0 |
Gorillaz Cracker Island | 4.0 |
Yo La Tengo This Stupid World | 4.0 |
Kanye West Donda 2 | 1.0 |
Animal Collective Peacebone | 4.5 |
Animal Collective The Painters | 3.5 |
Arctic Monkeys The Car | 4.5 |
Bill Callahan YTI⅃AƎЯ | 4.0 |
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Cool It Down | 4.0 |
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Is Is | 4.0 |
The Mars Volta The Mars Volta | 4.0 |
Built to Spill When The Wind Forgets Your Name | 4.0 |
Tori Amos To Venus and Back | 3.5 |
Tori Amos Boys for Pele | 4.0 |
Tori Amos From the Choirgirl Hotel | 4.5 |
Tori Amos Under the Pink | 4.0 |
Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk | 4.5 |
Tori Amos Little Earthquakes | 4.0 |
The Weeknd Starboy | 4.0 |
Toro Y Moi Mahal | 4.0 |
All Get Out Kodak | 4.0 |
Damn this band always performs. It's so easy to write them off as a Manchester clone or lackey but they're so so much more. This is their 4th excellent record alongside two stellar EPs. This thing gets real cranky at points too - much heavier than Mr. Hull is mustering up. |
Wilco Cruel Country | 4.5 |
A slow burning, gorgeous album. Like a massive cozy blanket with a lot of depth. |
Kendrick Lamar DAMN. | 4.0 |
Kendrick Lamar Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers | 5.0 |
Arcade Fire WE | 4.0 |
Frog Eyes The Bees | 4.0 |
I was beyond excited when I found out Frog Eyes were reuniting to keep this carnival ship rocking on choppy waters. Carey Mercer is such an evocative songwriter and vocalist along the lines of Spencer Krug (bffs) or Aaron Weiss of mewithoutYou. This, their 9th (!) album, finds Carey going back for more guitar-centric sounding material. Seeing as I still think Paul's Tomb and Tears of the Valedictorian are their magnum opuses, and both are guitar records, I am really happy. I truly find joy in all of their material, as it is not something people grasp on a first or second listen (even seasoned listeners), but the payoff is immense. This album moves and grooves unlike anything released since Paul's Tomb and is arguably as rhythmic as I've ever heard them. Fantastic band that has always deserved far more attention, but that ship has sailed. Just blessed and pleased that these Canadian maniacs are back with another fantastic album. One of their best. |
Kurt Vile Watch My Moves | 4.0 |
The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers | 4.0 |
The Raconteurs Consolers of the Lonely | 4.0 |
Father John Misty Chloe and the Next 20th Century | 4.0 |
Kevin Devine Nothing's Real, So Nothing's Wrong | 4.5 |
I just really wish my guy KD could ever get some critical and fanatical momentum. He's had his blips, but the fact that he's so closely involved with Brand New and Manchester Orchestra, while sharing sonic DNA with both bands, but never getting nearly as popular, even on sites like this, makes me sad and confused. |
Destroyer LABYRINTHITIS | 4.0 |
Big Thief Masterpiece | 4.0 |
Big Thief Capacity | 4.0 |
Big Thief U.F.O.F. | 4.0 |
Big Thief Two Hands | 4.0 |
Big Thief Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You | 5.0 |
Spoon Lucifer on the Sofa | 4.0 |
Animal Collective Time Skiffs | 4.0 |
First off, this album is excellent. Avey/Panda/Deakin's melodies are as good as they've been since MPP. Additionally, I am really taken aback by how nostalgic a lot of this album sounds without sounding contrived. From Avey's melodies to the full band set up, there's call backs to OLD albums more than we've gotten in 13 years (and I like Painting With and Centipede HZ!) The albums this most closely shares DNA with is Spirt They've Vanished and Feels for sure with a small dash of Centipede while of course having its own sound. Well done, boys...well done! |
Kanye West Donda | 1.0 |
Brand New Leaked Demos 2006 | 4.0 |
Brand New The Holiday | 3.5 |
Brand New Mene | 4.5 |
The Weeknd House of Balloons | 4.0 |
The Weeknd Thursday | 3.5 |
The Weeknd My Dear Melancholy, | 3.5 |
The Weeknd Beauty Behind the Madness | 4.0 |
The Weeknd Kiss Land | 4.0 |
The Weeknd After Hours | 4.0 |
The Weeknd Dawn FM | 4.0 |
Iceage New Brigade | 4.0 |
Interpol Marauder | 3.5 |
Pearl Jam Lightning Bolt | 3.5 |
Pearl Jam Backspacer | 3.5 |
Animal Collective Tangerine Reef | 3.0 |
Animal Collective Bridge to Quiet | 4.0 |
Limp Bizkit Still Sucks | 4.0 |
My Morning Jacket My Morning Jacket | 4.0 |
The War On Drugs I Don't Live Here Anymore | 4.5 |
Parquet Courts Sympathy For Life | 4.5 |
After a few spins, I'm fairly sure this is my favorite Parquet Courts album. This is a move I pulled a lot say, ten years ago, but not anymore. I love PC, but this is doing a lot of things I've wanted from their albums and it's odd bends, melodic bends, and just frankly making me feel like I have er, the bends, is why I'm loving it so. That early 3.1 is bumming me out, but whatever, Sputnik will Sputnik. |
Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly, Bryce Dessner and James McAliste Planetarium | 3.5 |
Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine A Beginner's Mind | 4.0 |
Thrice Horizons/East | 4.0 |
Ty Segall First Taste | 3.5 |
Ty Segall Ty Segall (2017) | 3.5 |
Ty Segall Freedom's Goblin | 4.0 |
Ty Segall Harmonizer | 4.0 |
The Killers Day & Age | 3.5 |
The Killers Battle Born | 3.5 |
The Killers Wonderful Wonderful | 3.5 |
Big Red Machine How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last? | 3.5 |
The Killers Sam's Town | 4.0 |
The Killers Hot Fuss | 4.0 |
The Killers Imploding the Mirage | 4.0 |
The Killers Pressure Machine | 4.5 |
Wild Nothing Empty Estate | 4.0 |
Wild Nothing Indigo | 3.5 |
Wild Nothing Life of Pause | 3.5 |
Wild Nothing Gemini | 3.5 |
Tyler, the Creator Wolf | 3.5 |
Tyler, the Creator Cherry Bomb | 3.5 |
Tyler, the Creator Flower Boy | 4.0 |
Tyler, the Creator IGOR | 4.0 |
Tyler, the Creator Call Me If You Get Lost | 4.0 |
The Shins Heartworms | 3.5 |
The Shins Port of Morrow | 3.5 |
The Shins Wincing the Night Away | 4.0 |
The Shins Chutes Too Narrow | 3.5 |
The Shins Oh, Inverted World | 4.0 |
Modest Mouse The Golden Casket | 4.0 |
Black Midi Cavalcade | 3.5 |
Squid Bright Green Field | 4.5 |
Iceage You're Nothing | 4.0 |
Iceage Plowing into the Field of Love | 4.0 |
Iceage Beyondless | 4.0 |
Iceage Seek Shelter | 4.0 |
I'm a longtime wannabe fan, first time real fan. This album is such a fun ride and as I travel around their discography, I can't get over how good this band is. I knew it the whole time too and was constantly recommended them and still just didn't really do it outside of some quick listens. I am fully enthralled and blown away by the quality of...well, everything here and on the other 4 records. |
Built to Spill There's Nothing Wrong with Love | 3.5 |
Built to Spill Ultimate Alternative Wavers | 3.5 |
Weezer Van Weezer | 4.0 |
Surprised by how good this was. Fun album with some jams. |
Manchester Orchestra The Million Masks of God | 4.0 |
Dinosaur Jr. Green Mind | 3.0 |
Dinosaur Jr. Without a Sound | 3.5 |
Dinosaur Jr. Hand It Over | 4.0 |
Kurt Vile Speed, Sound, Lonely KV | 3.5 |
Dinosaur Jr. Sweep It Into Space | 4.0 |
Spencer Krug Fading Graffiti | 4.0 |
Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York | 5.0 |
Chevelle The North Corridor | 4.0 |
Chevelle NIRATIAS | 4.0 |
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds The Good Son | 3.5 |
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis Carnage | 4.5 |
Wow - this is so good. I selfishly wish it was a "Bad Seeds" release but that's beside the point. Such a gorgeous, poignant album. Sparsely arranged albums like this that still are diverse and fluid is another walk in the park for Nick and Warren. My expectations were certainly anything but low, but it is such an engaging beautifully arranged album and I'm so pleased. Definitely cut from the Push/Skeleton/Ghosteen trilogy cloth but its own beast altogether. |
Cloud Nothings The Shadow I Remember | 4.0 |
Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork | 4.0 |
Queens of the Stone Age Villains | 3.5 |
Foo Fighters Medicine at Midnight | 4.0 |
Foo Fighters Foo Fighters | 3.5 |
Foo Fighters Wasting Light | 4.0 |
Foo Fighters Sonic Highways | 4.0 |
Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace | 4.0 |
Foo Fighters There Is Nothing Left to Lose | 4.0 |
Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape | 4.5 |
Foo Fighters One by One | 4.0 |
Foo Fighters In Your Honor | 3.5 |
Foo Fighters Concrete and Gold | 4.0 |
Weezer OK Human | 4.0 |
Car Seat Headrest Making a Door Less Open | 3.5 |
Ween Shinola, Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
Mansions Best of the Bees | 3.5 |
Mansions Deserter | 3.5 |
Mansions New Best Friends | 3.5 |
Mansions Dig Up the Dead | 4.0 |
Mansions Doom Loop | 4.0 |
Yo La Tengo We Have Amnesia Sometimes | 2.5 |
Plants and Animals The End of That | 3.5 |
Plants and Animals The Jungle | 3.5 |
Jeff Tweedy Love Is The King | 4.5 |
Gorillaz Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez | 4.0 |
Fleet Foxes Shore | 4.0 |
Sufjan Stevens The Ascension | 3.5 |
Deftones Ohms | 5.0 |
The Flaming Lips American Head | 4.0 |
Smog Julius Caesar | 3.5 |
Smog Wild Love | 3.5 |
Bill Callahan Gold Record | 4.0 |
Bill delivers as always. He's getting more and more into his folk roots with each album and some artists who go this route don't necessarily have my full attention. But man, if he doesn't do it better than most. Such an enthralling, beautiful artist and album. |
Bright Eyes Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was | 4.5 |
Bright Eyes Letting Off the Happiness | 3.5 |
Protomartyr Ultimate Success Today | 4.0 |
My Morning Jacket The Waterfall II | 4.5 |
Mansions Big Bad | 4.0 |
Sufjan Stevens The BQE | 3.5 |
El Obo Reach Into the Dark and Pull It Closer | 4.0 |
El Obo Oxford Basement Collection | 3.5 |
Woods Strange To Explain | 4.0 |
The Black Keys Let's Rock | 4.0 |
The Black Keys Turn Blue | 3.5 |
Pink Floyd Ummagumma | 2.5 |
Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets | 3.5 |
Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn | 3.5 |
O'Brother You and I | 4.0 |
Car Seat Headrest Twin Fantasy (Face to Face) | 4.0 |
Car Seat Headrest Teens of Style | 3.5 |
Car Seat Headrest Teens of Denial | 4.0 |
Car Seat Headrest How To Leave Town | 4.0 |
Courtney Barnett sometimes i sit and think, and sometimes i just sit | 3.5 |
Hamilton Leithauser The Loves of Your Life | 3.5 |
Albert Hammond Jr Momentary Masters | 3.5 |
Albert Hammond Jr ¿Cómo Te Llama? | 4.0 |
The Strokes The New Abnormal | 4.5 |
Sun Kil Moon Common As Light and Love Are Red Valleys of Blood | 4.0 |
Radiohead The Daily Mail/Staircase | 4.0 |
Radiohead Spectre | 3.5 |
Devendra Banhart Ma | 4.0 |
Pearl Jam Lost Dogs | 4.0 |
Ween La Cucaracha | 3.5 |
Ween Quebec | 4.0 |
Ween White Pepper | 4.0 |
Ween The Mollusk | 4.0 |
Ween 12 Golden Country Greats | 3.5 |
Ween Chocolate and Cheese | 4.0 |
Ween Pure Guava | 3.5 |
Ween The Pod | 3.5 |
Ween GodWeenSatan: The Oneness | 3.5 |
Cloud Nothings Cloud Nothings | 3.5 |
Pearl Jam Gigaton | 4.0 |
Real Estate Real Estate | 3.5 |
Empty Country Empty Country | 4.0 |
It's such a shame that Cymbals Eat Guitars called it quits - one of my favorite bands. If this is any indication of what's to come from Joe D though, then not to worry. It honestly sounds like the 5th Cymbals album in a lot of ways. It's a very emotional record with a lot of CEG's feel and approach, so I'm excited to see what can come from this project. |
The Voidz Virtue | 4.0 |
The Voidz Tyranny | 4.0 |
Julian Casablancas Phrazes for the Young | 4.0 |
Real Estate The Main Thing | 4.0 |
I for one am enjoying the new direction Real Estate has taken since the departure of Matt Mondanile. They're in a weird place where their last two albums are not enough of a separation of their first three for some, while too much of a departure of their sound for others. I'm here for it because Real Estate's songwriting has always (deceptively) been the core of their sound, which I think holds up real well in a more dreary, psychedelic, proggy setting. Great album |
Albert Hammond Jr Francis Trouble | 4.0 |
DIIV Deceiver | 4.0 |
DIIV Is the Is Are | 4.0 |
DIIV Oshin | 3.5 |
Califone Sometimes Good Weather Follows Bad People | 3.5 |
Califone Echo Mine | 4.0 |
The Men Mercy | 4.0 |
The only album of The Men's I don't love is Devil Music and that even has its moments. I thought Drift and the few before that were awesome, and this album is a fuller continuation of Drift. I get frustrated at times like any other Men fan sometimes by a lack of consistency or what have you. Yet, I've found the best way to jam The Men is just blast them and ride whatever wave they want to take you on. They're a very simplistic, yet enigmatic band simultaneously, and I've always appreciated that about them. This is one of their stronger albums in years and I love that they're still mixing alt-country with post-rock with punk/hardcore touches mixed in with a decent psychedelic helping. The Men rawk. |
Tame Impala The Slow Rush | 4.0 |
Unknown Mortal Orchestra Multi-Love | 3.5 |
Unknown Mortal Orchestra Unknown Mortal Orchestra | 3.5 |
Destroyer Have We Met | 4.0 |
A couple spins through and I'm just again in love. Bejar just pumps out the goods always.
Can't wait to spend a lot more time with Have We Met. Has a little bit of Ken DNA, but
not as much as I thought it would. Kind of a darker, distant cousin of Kaputt, but that's
just a comparison for comparison's sake. Has traces of what Your Blues originated as 16
years ago too, but far less Vaudevillian. This could very easily climb from a 4, but I'll
let her nest in my brain for awhile. |
Wolf Parade Thin Mind | 4.0 |
Sunset Rubdown Shut Up I Am Dreaming | 4.0 |
Swan Lake Beast Moans | 3.5 |
Swan Lake Enemy Mine | 4.0 |
Frog Eyes The Bloody Hand | 3.0 |
Frog Eyes The Golden River | 3.5 |
Frog Eyes Violet Psalms | 4.0 |
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead X: The Godless Void and Other Stories | 4.0 |
Beck One Foot In The Grave | 3.5 |
Beck Morning Phase | 3.5 |
Beck Colors | 3.5 |
Beck Hyperspace | 3.5 |
Tame Impala Currents | 3.5 |
Kanye West Jesus Is King | 4.0 |
Wilco Ode to Joy | 4.5 |
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Ghosteen | 4.0 |
Jeff Tweedy Warmer | 4.0 |
Tool Fear Inoculum | 4.0 |
A Perfect Circle Eat the Elephant | 3.5 |
Osees Face Stabber | 4.0 |
Bon Iver i,i | 4.0 |
Purple Mountains Purple Mountains | 4.0 |
The Flaming Lips Oczy Mlody | 3.5 |
The Flaming Lips King's Mouth | 4.5 |
The Raconteurs Help Us Stranger | 3.5 |
Bad Books III | 4.0 |
Bill Callahan Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest | 5.0 |
Just like that, this has become my album of the year |
Cass McCombs Humor Risk | 4.0 |
Cass McCombs Tip of the Sphere | 4.0 |
The National I Am Easy to Find | 3.0 |
Mac DeMarco Here Comes the Cowboy | 4.5 |
Vampire Weekend Father Of The Bride | 4.0 |
Weezer The Black Album | 4.0 |
Panda Bear Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper | 4.0 |
Panda Bear Buoys | 4.0 |
Weezer The Teal Album | 3.5 |
Weezer Make Believe | 3.0 |
Weezer Weezer | 4.5 |
Weezer Hurley | 4.0 |
Weezer Everything Will Be Alright in the End | 4.0 |
Weezer The White Album | 4.0 |
Weezer Maladroit | 4.0 |
Weezer The Green Album | 3.5 |
Weezer Pinkerton | 4.5 |
Weezer The Red Album | 4.0 |
Weezer Raditude | 3.5 |
Weezer Pacific Daydream | 4.0 |
Dirty Projectors Dirty Projectors | 3.5 |
Dirty Projectors Lamp Lit Prose | 4.0 |
Broken Social Scene Feel Good Lost | 3.5 |
The Antlers Hospice | 4.0 |
Deerhunter Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? | 3.5 |
Califone Roomsound | 4.0 |
Moonface This One’s For The Dancer... | 4.0 |
Dave Matthews Band Stand Up | 3.0 |
Dave Matthews Band Everyday | 3.5 |
Dave Matthews Band Busted Stuff | 4.0 |
Dave Matthews Band Before These Crowded Streets | 4.5 |
Dave Matthews Band Crash | 4.0 |
Dave Matthews Band Under The Table And Dreaming | 4.5 |
Jeff Tweedy Warm | 4.0 |
The Strokes Future Present Past | 4.0 |
Thrice Palms | 3.5 |
Cloud Nothings Life Without Sound | 4.0 |
Cloud Nothings Attack on Memory | 4.0 |
Cloud Nothings Here and Nowhere Else | 4.0 |
All Get Out No Bouquet | 4.0 |
The first half is definitely a bit heavier/darker and what I thought the whole album was going to head towards.
But the second half has some awesome, huge hooks that I dig. Another really solid offering from a really solid
band. |
mewithoutYou [Untitled] | 4.0 |
Cloud Nothings Last Building Burning | 4.0 |
Album is heavy and awesome - now that I have this album, their last 4 on shuffle is an infinite treat. Band is a sneaky, awesome treat. |
Kurt Vile Bottle It In | 4.5 |
I absolutely can't wait for this album. Somehow just found out about it yesterday and now I'm counting down the days. |
Phosphorescent C'est La Vie | 4.5 |
Can't wait to spin this over the weekend. It may be a bit at odds with my jamming of the new
mewithoutYou album, but it's going to be a great weekend of tunes leading up to Kurt Vile's
new album next weekend.
EDIT: Have spun it several times now and am in love. Such a lush, expansive set of songs.
Nothing that will convert any naysayers (if there are any), but definitely an entry at this
point in my top 10 (or 5) of 2018. |
Phosphorescent To Willie | 4.0 |
Big Red Machine Big Red Machine | 4.0 |
mewithoutYou [untitled] e.p. | 4.0 |
Real Estate Days | 4.0 |
The Republic of Wolves No Matter How Narrow | 3.5 |
Courtney Barnett Tell Me How You Really Feel | 4.0 |
Gorillaz The Now Now | 4.0 |
Blur Parklife | 3.5 |
Blur The Great Escape | 4.0 |
Kanye West Yeezus | 4.0 |
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 3.5 |
Kanye West ye | 3.5 |
Kanye West The Life of Pablo | 4.0 |
Nas NASIR | 4.0 |
A. Savage Thawing Dawn | 4.0 |
Parquet Courts - one of the better indie/punk/psyche bands going these days, at least for my money. Not always as popular as I wish they were on this site, but that is what it is. This, the solo debut from co-singer/songwriter (but really the main one) of this NYC band, is really a wild ride. I for some reason went in with hesitance, and have been more than impressed. This is a ghostly, Americana ride, with prog explorations too. It's definitely more subdued than anything PC (or PQ) have done to this point, but it would still fit snugly into their varied, excellent discography just by their virtue of exploration. This is definitely recommended and here's to hoping Savage keeps releasing solo stuff on the side of his excellent main project. |
Damien Jurado Caught In the Trees | 3.5 |
Damien Jurado Visions of Us on the Land | 3.5 |
Damien Jurado The Horizon Just Laughed | 4.0 |
Just discovered this album's existence in my obsession with Father John Misty's newest work. The way J. Tillman crafts and exists almost always allows him complete autonomy in my musical forays when he releases something new. However, the heft and presence of Damien Jurado, and probably unfairly, a review of one of Jurado's newest Maraqopa trilogy albums by Tillman himself, allowed me to venture out and listen to this too. So delicate and beautiful, and I didn't really realize I needed DJ to lay off the psychadelic swell of his previous 3.5 albums, and just get back to basics. Can't wait for this to seep into my bones. |
Father John Misty God's Favorite Customer | 4.0 |
Parquet Courts Wide Awake | 4.0 |
Arctic Monkeys AM | 3.5 |
Arctic Monkeys Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino | 3.5 |
The Republic of Wolves shrine | 4.0 |
Parquet Courts Monastic Living | 2.5 |
Yo La Tengo There’s A Riot Going On | 4.0 |
The Men Devil Music | 3.5 |
The Men Drift | 4.0 |
The Men have always been an odd duck, and they've certainly continued that trend with these last two. I'm definitely still coming around to Devil Music but I'm diggin what I'm hearing here. They just give no damns and I always appreciate their ignorance to expectations or normal music constraints. Getting harsh reviews here - if nothing else, they're becoming an amazing shuffle band |
Interpol Our Love to Admire | 3.5 |
Interpol Interpol | 3.0 |
Interpol El Pintor | 4.0 |
Real Estate Atlas | 4.0 |
Ought Once More With Feeling | 4.0 |
Ought Room Inside The World | 4.0 |
Ought Sun Coming Down | 4.0 |
Ought More Than Any Other Day | 4.5 |
Mark Kozelek and Desertshore Mark Kozelek and Desertshore | 4.0 |
Sun Kil Moon Universal Themes | 3.5 |
Sun Kil Moon Benji | 4.0 |
Billy Bragg and Wilco Mermaid Avenue, Vol. 2 | 4.0 |
Billy Bragg and Wilco Mermaid Avenue | 4.0 |
Billy Bragg and Wilco Mermaid Avenue Vol. III | 4.0 |
Such a fruitful recording session these turned out to be. Probably not quite a four and not up to par with Vol. I & II, but some of my favorite jams from all 3 reside here. Plus, this was resting at an unfair 3 rating so I had to boost that up. Gimme a new Wilco album now please. |
Mount Eerie Lost Wisdom | 4.0 |
Mount Eerie Sauna | 4.0 |
Mount Eerie Clear Moon | 4.0 |
Mount Eerie Ocean Roar | 3.5 |
Mount Eerie Wind's Poem | 4.5 |
Protomartyr Relatives in Descent | 4.5 |
Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile Lotta Sea Lice | 4.5 |
Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic | 3.5 |
Every Time I Die The Big Dirty | 3.5 |
Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon | 3.5 |
Every Time I Die Hot Damn! | 5.0 |
Glassjaw Material Control | 4.5 |
Tim Darcy Saturday Night | 4.0 |
Destroyer Ken | 4.5 |
Wolf Parade Cry Cry Cry | 4.0 |
I am pretty damn stoked to hear this. Loved EP4 and have high expectations for this. Surprised at the lack of rattention Wolf Parade gets around these parts. One of my favorite bands. rHoping for a review of this is in the works, though judging from the general reception of WP on Sputnik, I'm rdoubting this. If I find a minute, I may concoct a review myself.rReally good to have the boys back - this is a Wolf Parade album through and through and definitely more of a rthrow back to earlier (Apologies, somewhat At Mount Zoomer) sound. It still retains a meatier sound that Expo r86 and EP4 solidified. I never doubted for a second that this would be great considering the company rinvolved. While not mind blowing, it's mind blowing in the sense of how seamless and awesome it does rsound. It loses some of the knottiness that dragged Expo 86 down at times; trimming song lengths and rambitions is often the right formula for such a band who's tendencies lean towards the epic. rStill, some of their heaviest moments, musically and lyrically, rest here and it's an awesome return from a rband that never lost their groove, in my mind. |
The War On Drugs A Deeper Understanding | 4.0 |
The War On Drugs Wagonwheel Blues | 3.5 |
The War On Drugs Slave Ambient | 4.0 |
The National Sleep Well Beast | 5.0 |
Grizzly Bear Painted Ruins | 4.0 |
Manchester Orchestra A Black Mile to the Surface | 4.0 |
Brand New Science Fiction | 5.0 |
TV on the Radio Young Liars | 4.0 |
Arcade Fire Everything Now | 3.5 |
Bad Books II | 4.0 |
Yo La Tengo Stuff Like That There | 3.0 |
Blur Think Tank | 4.0 |
Blur 13 | 4.5 |
Broken Social Scene Hug of Thunder | 4.5 |
Spoon Hot Thoughts | 4.0 |
Spoon They Want My Soul | 4.0 |
Fleet Foxes Crack-Up | 4.0 |
The Flaming Lips Christmas On Mars | 4.0 |
My Morning Jacket Chocolate and Ice | 4.0 |
Real Estate In Mind | 3.5 |
Mac DeMarco This Old Dog | 4.5 |
Feels too easy, and my early rating is more than likely, overzealous. But, this is more-or-less the Mac Demarco most of us have been waiting for. A very spacious, sad, spooky, warming, confusing, et al *most descriptors here* experience. An experience from a surface level *perhaps* snoozer of a musician. Calming slacker, island music still serves as the observing from too far away genre of what lead's the majority of Mac's tunes. There's an easy simplicity, still at play here - less frequently - that drives Mac's music at an ear glance. But, just like his previous works surprisingly demanded, "This Old Dog" begs of your time before writing it off as "boring" or "beach music". These lazy, recently created genre tags, only dissuade what your ears came here for: Mac makin' ya cry. |
Blur The Magic Whip | 4.0 |
Blur Blur | 4.0 |
Gorillaz Humanz | 3.5 |
Bon Iver Blood Bank | 4.0 |
Father John Misty Pure Comedy | 4.0 |
Pink Floyd More | 4.0 |
Loose Fur Loose Fur | 4.0 |
Dinosaur Jr. Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not | 4.5 |
Ducktails St. Catherine | 3.5 |
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead IX | 4.0 |
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Mosquito | 3.5 |
Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz! | 4.0 |
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Show Your Bones | 4.0 |
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever To Tell | 4.5 |
O'Brother Endless Light | 4.0 |
O'Brother Disillusion | 3.5 |
Plants and Animals La La Land | 4.0 |
Plants and Animals Waltzed in from the Rumbling | 4.0 |
Plants and Animals Parc Avenue | 4.5 |
Jim James Eternally Even | 4.5 |
I'm honestly a bit shocked at the quality of this album. I've been an MMJ fan since the era between It Still
Moves and Z, and have since watched one of my favorite bands hit on some serious peaks and valleys. I've, in
recent years, been able to wrap my head around what they were attempting on Evil Urges and found Circuital
to be at least a rebound after that divisive record. Essentially, I've watched an edgy band lose some of their
distinct edge over the course of years and experimentation. The Waterfall was a vastly surprising return to
form, in my opinion after not entirely loving JJ's debut solo record. This album came out of left field, as it as
an oddly erotic, confrontational blend of psychedelia, funk, R&B, and a lot in between. Jim sounds back to a
pivotal, mysterious point of view I haven't - really, honestly ever heard him sound like - and it's freaking
awesome. I wish this album gained a bit more traction, because as a companion piece to The Waterfall, I think
is a showcasing of a comeback happening before our eyes. |
All Get Out Nobody Likes A Quitter | 4.0 |
Damien Jurado Maraqopa | 3.5 |
Father John Misty Fear Fun | 4.0 |
Phosphorescent Muchacho | 4.0 |
Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear | 4.5 |
Dirty Projectors Rise Above | 3.5 |
Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca | 4.0 |
Dirty Projectors Swing Lo Magellan | 4.5 |
Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs | 3.5 |
Death Cab for Cutie Plans | 4.0 |
Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism | 4.5 |
Death Cab for Cutie The Photo Album | 4.0 |
Death Cab for Cutie We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes | 4.5 |
Death Cab for Cutie Something About Airplanes | 4.5 |
The Decemberists What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World | 4.0 |
The Decemberists The King Is Dead | 3.5 |
The Decemberists The Hazards of Love | 3.5 |
The Decemberists The Crane Wife | 4.0 |
The Decemberists Picaresque | 4.5 |
The Decemberists Her Majesty the Decemberists | 3.5 |
The Decemberists Castaways and Cutouts | 4.0 |
Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary | 4.0 |
Wolf Parade Expo 86 | 4.0 |
Kevin Devine Put Your Ghost To Rest | 4.0 |
Kevin Devine Split the Country, Split the Street | 4.0 |
Animal Collective Painting With | 3.5 |
Kevin Devine Instigator | 4.0 |
Another more than solid, consistent effort from KD. It always bums me out that he can't gain much traction in the popularity department, even being so close with acts like Brand New and Manchester Orchestra. Some day he'll get the recognition he deserves I hope. In the meantime, I hope he keeps pumping out great albums. |
Destroyer Poison Season | 4.0 |
Volcano Choir Repave | 4.0 |
Volcano Choir Unmap | 3.5 |
Justin Vernon Hazeltons | 4.0 |
Bon Iver 22, A Million | 5.0 |
Devendra Banhart Ape In Pink Marble | 4.0 |
Cymbals Eat Guitars Pretty Years | 4.5 |
This album is outstanding. They're now an easy 4 for 4 in my book as all 4 of their LP's are incredible. I was a bit worried when Wish was released as it was such a huge departure for them, but silly me; Cymbals Eat Guitars don't know how to fail. They are in desperate need of attention here and all over and you are probably in desperate need of a new favorite band. Well, my friend, here you have them. This may very well end up being their best album which is saying a lot considering how highly I regard their first 3, especially considering Lenses Alien is one of my all time favorites. Get this! |
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree | 4.5 |
Wilco Schmilco | 4.5 |
Protomartyr No Passion All Technique | 4.0 |
Album is killer. Band is killer. Needs more attention. |
Protomartyr The Agent Intellect | 4.0 |
This band kicks so much major ass - sounds like The National thrown through a greasy, bloody garage. rPerfect |
The Men Leave Home | 4.0 |
The Men Open Your Heart | 4.0 |
The Men New Moon | 4.0 |
The Men Tomorrow's Hits | 4.0 |
Osees Carrion Crawler/The Dream | 4.0 |
I can't believe this doesn't have a review. This band is criminally underrated on this site. I love every one of their albums and this is no exception. One of their heaviest through and through; Castlemania came out in the same year and is a bit softer/more experimental. Together, they kick major ass |
Osees Castlemania | 4.0 |
Osees The Master's Bedroom is Worth Spending a Night In | 4.0 |
Osees Warm Slime | 3.5 |
Osees Help | 4.0 |
Osees Dog Poison | 3.0 |
Osees Putrifiers II | 4.0 |
Osees Floating Coffin | 4.0 |
Osees Drop | 3.5 |
Osees Mutilator Defeated At Last | 4.0 |
Ty Segall Sleeper | 3.5 |
Ty Segall Manipulator | 3.5 |
Ty Segall Emotional Mugger | 3.0 |
Osees A Weird Exits | 4.5 |
Kevin Devine Bubblegum | 4.0 |
Kevin Devine Bulldozer | 4.0 |
All Get Out All Get Out EP | 4.0 |
All Get Out The Season | 4.0 |
All Get Out Movement | 4.0 |
Wild Nothing Nocturne | 4.0 |
Protomartyr Under Color of Official Right | 4.5 |
Devendra Banhart What Will We Be | 4.0 |
Mark Kozelek Finally | 4.0 |
Mark Kozelek Like Rats | 4.0 |
Red House Painters Ocean Beach | 3.5 |
Red House Painters Songs for a Blue Guitar | 4.5 |
Red House Painters Old Ramon | 4.0 |
Manchester Orchestra Fourteen Years Of Excellence | 4.0 |
Manchester Orchestra Cope | 3.5 |
Brand New 3 Demos, Reworked | 4.5 |
Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool | 4.5 |
Radiohead In Rainbows Disk 2 | 4.5 |
Mac DeMarco Another One | 4.0 |
Mac DeMarco Rock and Roll Night Club | 3.5 |
Mac DeMarco 2 | 4.0 |
Mac DeMarco Salad Days | 4.5 |
Califone Quicksand/Cradlesnakes | 4.5 |
Califone Roots and Crowns | 4.0 |
Califone Heron King Blues | 3.5 |
Califone All My Friends Are Funeral Singers | 4.5 |
Califone Stitches | 4.0 |
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 5.0 |
Silver Jews Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea | 3.5 |
Silver Jews The Natural Bridge | 4.0 |
Silver Jews Starlite Walker | 3.0 |
Silver Jews American Water | 4.5 |
Silver Jews Tanglewood Numbers | 4.0 |
Silver Jews Bright Flight | 4.5 |
The Flaming Lips Peace Sword | 4.0 |
Modest Mouse Strangers to Ourselves | 4.0 |
Deerhunter Fading Frontier | 4.0 |
Sufjan Stevens The Avalanche: Outtakes and Extras | 4.0 |
Sufjan Stevens A Sun Came | 2.5 |
Sufjan Stevens Enjoy Your Rabbit | 2.5 |
Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell | 4.5 |
Smog Accumulation: None | 4.0 |
Merchandise After The End | 4.0 |
Parquet Courts Content Nausea | 3.5 |
Parquet Courts Light Up Gold | 4.0 |
Parquet Courts Sunbathing Animal | 4.0 |
Moonface My Best Human Face | 4.5 |
So glad we got another new Moonface album; especially another one with Finnish rockers Sinaii. I love pretty much anything Spencer Krug puts his hands on - what a year 2016 has been |
My Morning Jacket The Waterfall | 4.0 |
Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere | 4.0 |
Cymbals Eat Guitars LOSE | 4.5 |
Wolf Parade EP 4 | 4.0 |
mewithoutYou Pale Horses | 4.0 |
Frog Eyes The Folded Palm | 4.0 |
Frog Eyes Tears of the Valedictorian | 4.5 |
Frog Eyes Carey's Cold Spring | 4.0 |
Frog Eyes Pickpocket's Locket | 3.5 |
Parquet Courts Human Performance | 4.0 |
Completely shocked that this does still not have a review. And, a 3.5? Yikes. Thought Sputnik was tuned into this scene a bit more. Great album, great band - can't wait for more. |
Deftones Koi No Yokan | 4.0 |
Deftones Gore | 4.0 |
Wilco Star Wars | 4.5 |
Smog Red Apple Falls | 4.0 |
I am a gradual Bill Callahan fanatic. It took me a few years, and admittedly with the aid of his solo billed 'Bill Callahan' records, I became this gradual fan. With that said, an album like 'Red Apple Falls' took more on the long side to grow. But just like what he was doing with Jeff Tweedy's transformation across the record sales with Wilco, Jim O'Rourke brought out greatness that already lied within Bill here first and foremost before the home-runs Callahan consistently knocked out of the park after this album. I love all Smog, before and after this, but this is nearly undoubtedly (sans a few distinct moments on 'A Doctor Came...') the moment where Smog(callahan) took off into his own unique, playbook of a musical future. |
Smog The Doctor Came at Dawn | 3.5 |
Smog Knock Knock | 4.5 |
Smog Dongs of Sevotion | 5.0 |
The only complaint that can be potentially justified for an album of 'Dongs of Sevotion' 's magnitude and
weight, is the sequencing. I stress "potentially" because one of the strong consistencies that remains prevalent
in Bill Callhan's songwriting is the utter disregard for classic tropes while still maintaining some semblance of
want of comfort and predictability intact. The sequencing - the formerly mentioned possible only plot-hole in
an otherwise perfectly created cinematic experience - again rests on Callahan's own unpredictable mind. I
could ramble from this point forward with an excessive use of superlatives and trophies, but my own excited
angst would defy this album's presence and purpose. An odd mix of everything Bill Callahan under the Smog
moniker had attempted to this point, 'Dongs of Sevotion' sits as an astounding (astoundingly underrated) gem
of Bill Callahan's entire discography that accumulated the sounds before it with a sharp prowess and curiosity
while setting the tone for Callahan's still comforting, discomforting future that we are still commiserating
alongside him with through. |
Smog A River Ain't Too Much To Love | 4.5 |
Smog Rain on Lens | 3.5 |
Smog Supper | 4.0 |
Kevin Devine Between the Concrete and Clouds | 4.0 |
Moonface Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I'd Hoped | 4.0 |
Moonface With Siinai: Heartbreaking Bravery | 4.0 |
Moonface Julia with Blue Jeans On | 4.0 |
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Push The Sky Away | 4.0 |
Kurt Vile it's a big world out there (and i am scared) | 2.5 |
Kurt Vile God is Saying This to You... | 3.0 |
Kurt Vile Constant Hitmaker | 3.0 |
Kurt Vile b'lieve i'm goin' down... | 5.0 |
Kevin Devine Brother's Blood | 4.0 |
Destroyer Five Spanish Songs | 4.0 |
Destroyer City Of Daughters | 4.0 |
Destroyer Thief | 4.0 |
Destroyer Streethawk: A Seduction | 4.5 |
Destroyer This Night | 3.5 |
Destroyer Your Blues | 4.0 |
Destroyer Trouble In Dreams | 4.5 |
Moonface City Wrecker | 4.5 |
Chevelle La Gárgola | 4.0 |
Damien Jurado Saint Bartlett | 4.0 |
Damien Jurado Brothers And Sisters Of The Eternal Son | 4.0 |
The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream | 4.0 |
This could get higher or lower as I've only spun this twice thus far but have really enjoyed it. A very, very paced, relaxing listen, that flows with ease, as I'm sure Granduciel and co. intended (he continues with his affinity for spacey segues and interludes). One thing I was surprised about was the average track length; this is no complaint, just an observation. I remember having a similarly surprising feeling when popping "Wakin' On A Pretty Daze" into my iTunes some 8 or 9 months ago. Not that TWOD didn't have long tracks before, but this album has a 6 minute average track length; maybe a bit of a response to his buddy Kurt Vile's recent track length extension? Who knows, or cares; but funny. Great album though, I'm glad War on Drugs are expanding their small but excellent catalog. |
Bill Callahan Woke On A Whaleheart | 3.5 |
Bill Callahan Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle | 4.0 |
Bill Callahan Dream River | 4.5 |
Bill Callahan Apocalypse | 4.0 |
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Wolfroy Goes To Town | 4.5 |
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Bonnie 'Prince' Billy | 4.0 |
Kurt Vile Childish Prodigy | 4.0 |
Kurt Vile Square Shells | 4.0 |
Kurt Vile So Outta Reach | 4.5 |
Frog Eyes Paul's Tomb: A Triumph | 4.5 |
Sunset Rubdown Random Spirit Lover | 4.5 |
Arcade Fire Reflektor | 4.5 |
Destroyer Destroyer's Rubies | 4.5 |
Wolf Parade At Mount Zoomer | 4.0 |
Sunset Rubdown Dragonslayer | 5.0 |
Unknown Mortal Orchestra II | 4.0 |
Liars Drum's Not Dead | 3.0 |
Liars Liars | 4.0 |
Liars Sisterworld | 4.0 |
Liars WIXIW | 4.0 |
Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City | 4.5 |
The National Trouble Will Find Me | 4.5 |
Deerhunter Monomania | 4.0 |
Kurt Vile Smoke Ring For My Halo | 4.0 |
Kurt Vile Wakin on a Pretty Daze | 4.5 |
Devendra Banhart Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon | 4.0 |
Devendra Banhart Cripple Crow | 3.5 |
Devendra Banhart Mala | 4.0 |
Atoms for Peace Amok | 3.0 |
The Flaming Lips The Terror | 4.0 |
I really, really enjoy this album. It's cathartic and dark much like Embryonic, but much more like the morning wreckage and haze (much like the album cover depicts) that that album left in its wake. All in all, a slow ambient cruise through a trippy mixture of keyboards, spaceship sounds, basslines, and Wayne Coyne's melodic, falsetto. He even sounds a bit like Angus Andrews here a bit, and a few of these songs really do give me a Liars vibe, which is certainly a good thing. Overall impressed, and excited with the Lips new darker choice of direction. |
The Strokes Comedown Machine | 4.0 |
Phosphorescent Here's To Taking It Easy | 3.5 |
Phosphorescent Pride | 4.0 |
Phosphorescent Aw Come Aw Wry | 3.5 |
Phosphorescent The Weight Of Flight | 4.5 |
Phosphorescent A Hundred Times Or More | 4.0 |
Destroyer Kaputt | 4.0 |
Wolfmother Cosmic Egg | 1.0 |
Wolfmother Wolfmother | 2.5 |
Tame Impala Lonerism | 4.0 |
Tame Impala Innerspeaker | 4.5 |
Animal Collective Honeycomb/Gotham | 4.0 |
Animal Collective Centipede Hz | 4.0 |
Pearl Jam Pearl Jam | 3.0 |
Pearl Jam Riot Act | 3.5 |
Pearl Jam No Code | 4.0 |
Moonhearts Moonhearts | 4.5 |
The Black Keys Chulahoma | 4.5 |
The Black Keys El Camino | 4.0 |
The Black Keys Brothers | 4.0 |
The Black Keys Attack & Release | 3.5 |
The Black Keys Magic Potion | 3.5 |
The Black Keys Rubber Factory | 3.5 |
The Black Keys Thickfreakness | 3.0 |
The Black Keys The Big Come Up | 2.0 |
The White Stripes Icky Thump | 4.0 |
The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan | 4.0 |
The White Stripes Elephant | 4.5 |
The White Stripes White Blood Cells | 4.0 |
The White Stripes De Stijl | 3.0 |
The White Stripes The White Stripes | 3.5 |
The Strokes Angles | 4.0 |
The Strokes First Impressions of Earth | 4.0 |
The Strokes Room on Fire | 4.0 |
The Strokes Is This It | 4.5 |
Bloc Party A Weekend in the City | 2.5 |
Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 4.5 |
Interpol Antics | 4.0 |
Grizzly Bear Horn of Plenty | 3.0 |
Grizzly Bear Veckatimest | 4.0 |
Grizzly Bear Yellow House | 4.0 |
Grizzly Bear Shields | 4.0 |
Gorillaz The Fall | 3.5 |
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Henry's Dream | 3.5 |
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! | 4.0 |
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus | 4.0 |
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Nocturama | 3.5 |
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds The Boatman's Call | 4.0 |
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds No More Shall We Part | 4.5 |
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Murder Ballads | 3.5 |
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Let Love In | 4.0 |
Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret | 3.5 |
Built to Spill Perfect from Now On | 4.0 |
Built to Spill You in Reverse | 3.5 |
Built to Spill There Is No Enemy | 4.0 |
Dinosaur Jr. Bug | 3.0 |
Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me | 4.0 |
Dinosaur Jr. Where You Been | 4.0 |
Dinosaur Jr. Farm | 4.0 |
Dinosaur Jr. Beyond | 4.5 |
Dinosaur Jr. I Bet on Sky | 4.0 |
Yo La Tengo Fade | 4.0 |
The Walkmen A Hundred Miles Off | 4.0 |
The Walkmen Heaven | 4.0 |
The Walkmen Lisbon | 4.0 |
The Walkmen Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone | 4.0 |
The Walkmen You & Me | 4.5 |
The Walkmen Bows + Arrows | 5.0 |
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Lost Songs | 4.5 |
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Madonna | 4.0 |
Limp Bizkit Gold Cobra | 3.5 |
Ty Segall Melted | 4.0 |
Ty Segall Goodbye Bread | 3.5 |
Ty Segall Twins | 4.0 |
Ty Segall Band Slaughterhouse | 4.5 |
Sun Kil Moon Among the Leaves | 4.5 |
Chevelle Hats Off To The Bull | 3.5 |
Chevelle Sci-Fi Crimes | 4.5 |
Incubus (USA-CA) Fungus Amongus | 2.5 |
Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself | 3.0 |
Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E. | 4.5 |
Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View | 4.0 |
Incubus (USA-CA) A Crow Left of the Murder... | 5.0 |
Incubus (USA-CA) Light Grenades | 4.0 |
Incubus (USA-CA) If Not Now, When? | 2.0 |
Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains | 4.5 |
mewithoutYou Ten Stories | 4.5 |
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead The Secret of Elena's Tomb | 4.0 |
Nirvana Incesticide | 4.0 |
Nirvana Bleach | 3.5 |
Nirvana Nevermind | 4.0 |
Nirvana In Utero | 5.0 |
One Day as a Lion One Day as a Lion | 4.0 |
At the Drive-In Acrobatic Tenement | 2.0 |
At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out | 4.0 |
At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 5.0 |
At the Drive-In Vaya | 4.5 |
Andrew Bird Break It Yourself | 4.5 |
The Mars Volta Noctourniquet | 3.5 |
Not to say that Bedlam and Octahedron were disappointments, but I'm surprised and delighted by how much of a rebound release this was, really great stuff |
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes | 4.0 |
Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues | 4.0 |
Deerhunter Rainwater Cassette Exchange | 4.0 |
Deerhunter Fluorescent Grey | 4.0 |
Maps and Atlases Perch Patchwork | 4.0 |
Atlas Sound Parallax | 3.5 |
Department of Eagles In Ear Park | 4.0 |
TV on the Radio Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes | 3.5 |
TV on the Radio Dear Science | 3.5 |
TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain | 4.0 |
TV on the Radio Nine Types of Light | 4.0 |
Rogue Wave Out Of The Shadow | 4.0 |
Rogue Wave Descended Like Vultures | 4.0 |
Rogue Wave Permalight | 4.0 |
Rogue Wave Asleep at Heaven's Gate | 4.0 |
Portugal. The Man It's Complicated Being a Wizard | 3.5 |
Portugal. The Man Devil Say I, I Say AIR | 4.0 |
Portugal. The Man The Satanic Satanist | 3.5 |
Tera Melos Patagonian Rats | 3.0 |
Norma Jean O' God, the Aftermath | 3.0 |
Norma Jean Redeemer | 3.5 |
Norma Jean Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child | 3.0 |
OutKast Aquemini | 4.5 |
OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below | 4.0 |
OutKast Idlewild | 3.5 |
OutKast Stankonia | 4.0 |
OutKast ATLiens | 4.0 |
Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris | 4.0 |
Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze | 4.0 |
Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 4.5 |
Queens of the Stone Age Rated R | 4.5 |
Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age | 3.5 |
Son Volt American Central Dust | 3.0 |
Wilco More Like The Moon EP | 3.5 |
Rx Bandits Mandala | 3.5 |
Stretch Arm Strong Free At Last | 1.5 |
System of a Down System of a Down | 4.0 |
System of a Down Toxicity | 4.0 |
System of a Down Steal This Album! | 3.5 |
System of a Down Mezmerize | 2.5 |
System of a Down Hypnotize | 2.0 |
The Fall of Troy Manipulator | 4.0 |
The Fall of Troy Doppelganger | 4.0 |
The Fall of Troy The Fall of Troy | 3.0 |
The Mars Volta Tremulant | 3.5 |
The Mars Volta Scab Dates | 2.0 |
Colour Revolt The Cradle | 4.0 |
Colour Revolt Plunder, Beg, and Curse | 4.0 |
Colour Revolt Colour Revolt | 4.5 |
Hawkboy Hawkboy | 4.0 |
Hawkboy King Folly | 4.5 |
mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright! | 3.5 |
mewithoutYou A to B: Life | 3.5 |
mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes | 5.0 |
mewithoutYou Brother, Sister | 4.5 |
As Cities Burn Son, I Loved You at Your Darkest | 2.0 |
As Cities Burn Come Now Sleep | 4.0 |
As Cities Burn Hell or High Water | 4.0 |
Oceana Clean Head | 5.0 |
The Republic of Wolves Varuna | 4.0 |
O'Brother Garden Window | 4.5 |
O'Brother The Death of Day | 4.5 |
Tigers on Trains Grandfather | 2.5 |
Bad Books Bad Books | 4.0 |
Sainthood Reps Monoculture | 4.0 |
The Microphones Song Islands | 3.5 |
Sun Kil Moon Admiral Fell Promises | 4.0 |
Panda Bear Young Prayer | 2.0 |
Panda Bear Person Pitch | 4.0 |
Modest Mouse Building Nothing Out of Something | 3.5 |
Modest Mouse Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks | 4.0 |
Modest Mouse No One's First, and You're Next | 4.5 |
Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News | 4.0 |
Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank | 4.0 |
Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica | 4.5 |
Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West | 4.5 |
Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About | 4.0 |
Manchester Orchestra Simple Math | 4.0 |
Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing | 4.0 |
Manchester Orchestra I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child | 4.0 |
The Microphones Mount Eerie | 4.0 |
The Microphones It Was Hot, We Stayed In The Water | 4.0 |
The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 | 4.5 |
Sun Kil Moon April | 4.0 |
Sun Kil Moon Tiny Cities | 3.0 |
Sun Kil Moon Ghosts of the Great Highway | 4.0 |
The Beatles Let It Be | 4.0 |
The Beatles Abbey Road | 4.5 |
The Beatles The Beatles | 4.5 |
The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour | 3.5 |
The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 3.5 |
The Beatles Revolver | 4.5 |
The Beatles Rubber Soul | 4.0 |
The Beatles Help! | 4.0 |
The Beatles Beatles for Sale | 3.0 |
The Beatles A Hard Day's Night | 2.5 |
The Beatles With the Beatles | 2.0 |
The Beatles Please Please Me | 2.5 |
Elliott Smith Either/Or | 3.5 |
Bright Eyes The People's Key | 3.0 |
Bright Eyes Cassadaga | 4.0 |
Bright Eyes Digital Ash in a Digital Urn | 3.5 |
Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning | 4.0 |
Bright Eyes Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground | 4.5 |
Bright Eyes Fevers & Mirrors | 4.0 |
M. Ward Transistor Radio | 3.5 |
M. Ward Post-War | 4.0 |
M. Ward Hold Time | 3.0 |
Neutral Milk Hotel On Avery Island | 4.0 |
Kevin Drew Spirit If... | 4.0 |
This is a (not so i guess) surprisingly excellent album. Kevin Drew is slowly becoming one of my favorite voices in rock music, and this record only further solidifies his stellar work in Broken Social Scene. It can be argued that the first half of album (tracks 1-8) is definitely the stronger half, but really with the exception of "Big Love", I enjoy every track here thoroughly. This is definitely recommended and may see itself changing to a 4.5 if I keep up my torrid listening pace |
Thrice Beggars | 4.5 |
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV | 4.0 |
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 4.0 |
Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 4.0 |
Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 3.0 |
Thrice Identity Crisis | 2.0 |
Thrice Vheissu | 4.0 |
Stone Temple Pilots Purple | 4.0 |
Stone Temple Pilots Core | 4.0 |
Stone Temple Pilots Stone Temple Pilots (2010) | 1.5 |
Thursday Common Existence | 4.0 |
Thursday A City By the Light Divided | 4.0 |
Thursday War All the Time | 3.0 |
Thursday Full Collapse | 4.0 |
Arctic Monkeys Suck It and See | 4.5 |
Arctic Monkeys Humbug | 4.0 |
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead The Century of Self | 4.0 |
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead So Divided | 3.0 |
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Worlds Apart | 3.5 |
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Source Tags and Codes | 4.5 |
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dea | 4.0 |
Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 5.0 |
Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 4.5 |
The Antlers Burst Apart | 3.5 |
Thursday No Devolucion | 5.0 |
Brand New Your Favorite Weapon | 4.0 |
Brand New Deja Entendu | 4.5 |
Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 5.0 |
Brand New Daisy | 5.0 |
Thrice Major/Minor | 4.5 |
Wilco The Whole Love | 4.0 |
Cymbals Eat Guitars Lenses Alien | 5.0 |
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Tao of the Dead | 4.0 |
Iron And Wine Our Endless Numbered Days | 3.0 |
Iron And Wine The Shepherd's Dog | 4.5 |
Iron And Wine Kiss Each Other Clean | 4.0 |
My Morning Jacket At Dawn | 4.5 |
My Morning Jacket The Tennessee Fire | 3.0 |
My Morning Jacket Z | 4.0 |
My Morning Jacket It Still Moves | 5.0 |
My Morning Jacket Evil Urges | 4.0 |
My Morning Jacket Circuital | 4.0 |
Enter Shikari Take to the Skies | 1.0 |
Panda Bear Tomboy | 4.0 |
Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not | 4.0 |
Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare | 4.0 |
Radiohead COM LAG (2plus2isfive) | 3.5 |
Radiohead Pablo Honey | 2.5 |
Radiohead The King of Limbs | 4.0 |
Glassjaw El Mark | 4.0 |
Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence | 4.5 |
Glassjaw Worship and Tribute | 4.5 |
Glassjaw Coloring Book | 4.5 |
The Sound of Animals Fighting The Ocean and the Sun | 4.5 |
Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles) | 5.0 |
Pearl Jam Binaural | 3.5 |
Sufjan Stevens All Delighted People | 4.5 |
Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans | 4.0 |
Sufjan Stevens Illinois | 4.5 |
Sufjan Stevens Michigan | 5.0 |
Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz | 4.0 |
Pearl Jam Yield | 4.0 |
Pearl Jam Vitalogy | 4.0 |
Pearl Jam Ten | 4.0 |
Pearl Jam Vs. | 5.0 |
Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare | 2.0 |
Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold | 1.5 |
Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil | 1.5 |
MGMT Oracular Spectacular | 3.5 |
MGMT Congratulations | 4.0 |
Grinderman Grinderman | 4.0 |
Grinderman Grinderman 2 | 4.0 |
Portugal. The Man Censored Colors | 4.0 |
Portugal. The Man Waiter: ''You Vultures!'' | 4.5 |
Portugal. The Man Church Mouth | 4.0 |
Portugal. The Man American Ghetto | 3.5 |
Vampire Weekend Contra | 3.5 |
Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend | 4.0 |
Minus the Bear Menos El Oso | 3.5 |
Minus the Bear Omni | 3.5 |
Minus the Bear Planet of Ice | 4.5 |
Arcade Fire Funeral | 4.5 |
Arcade Fire The Suburbs | 4.0 |
Arcade Fire Neon Bible | 5.0 |
Gorillaz D-Sides | 3.0 |
Gorillaz Gorillaz | 4.0 |
Gorillaz Demon Days | 4.5 |
Gorillaz Plastic Beach | 4.0 |
Spoon Soft Effects EP | 3.0 |
Spoon Love Ways | 4.0 |
Spoon Telephono | 2.5 |
Spoon Series of Sneaks | 3.5 |
Spoon Girls Can Tell | 5.0 |
Spoon Kill the Moonlight | 4.5 |
Spoon Gimme Fiction | 4.0 |
Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga | 4.0 |
Spoon Transference | 4.5 |
Kanye West Graduation | 3.5 |
Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak | 3.5 |
Kanye West Late Registration | 4.0 |
Kanye West The College Dropout | 3.5 |
Broken Social Scene Beehives | 3.5 |
Broken Social Scene To Be You and Me | 4.0 |
Broken Social Scene Forgiveness Rock Record | 4.0 |
Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene | 4.0 |
Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People | 5.0 |
Linkin Park A Thousand Suns | 2.0 |
Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight | 2.0 |
Linkin Park Meteora | 3.0 |
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 3.0 |
Limp Bizkit The Unquestionable Truth - Part I | 3.0 |
Limp Bizkit Results May Vary | 3.0 |
Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water | 4.0 |
Limp Bizkit Three Dollar Bill Y'all | 4.0 |
Limp Bizkit Significant Other | 4.0 |
A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe | 2.0 |
A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms | 4.0 |
A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step | 4.5 |
Tool Opiate | 4.0 |
Tool 10,000 Days | 4.0 |
Tool Lateralus | 5.0 |
Tool Undertow | 4.5 |
Tool Ænima | 5.0 |
Chevelle Point #1 | 4.0 |
Chevelle This Type Of Thinking (Could Do Us In) | 3.5 |
Chevelle Vena Sera | 4.0 |
Chevelle Wonder What's Next | 4.0 |
The Flaming Lips Clouds Taste Metallic | 3.5 |
The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin | 3.5 |
The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots | 4.0 |
The Flaming Lips At War with the Mystics | 3.5 |
The Flaming Lips Embryonic | 5.0 |
Beck Sea Change | 3.5 |
Beck Mellow Gold | 3.0 |
Beck Odelay | 3.5 |
Beck Mutations | 3.0 |
Beck Midnite Vultures | 3.5 |
Beck Guero | 3.5 |
Beck The Information | 4.0 |
Beck Modern Guilt | 4.0 |
Animal Collective Campfire Songs | 3.0 |
Animal Collective Prospect Hummer | 2.5 |
Animal Collective People | 3.5 |
Animal Collective Water Curses | 4.0 |
Animal Collective Fall Be Kind | 4.5 |
Animal Collective Danse Manatee | 2.0 |
Animal Collective Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished | 3.0 |
Animal Collective Ark | 3.0 |
Animal Collective Sung Tongs | 4.0 |
Animal Collective Feels | 5.0 |
Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 4.0 |
Animal Collective Strawberry Jam | 5.0 |
Atlas Sound Logos | 4.0 |
Atlas Sound Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See... | 3.5 |
Deerhunter Halcyon Digest | 5.0 |
Deerhunter Microcastle | 4.0 |
Deerhunter Weird Era Cont. | 4.0 |
Deerhunter Cryptograms | 3.5 |
Deerhunter Turn It Up Faggot | 2.5 |
Yo La Tengo Painful | 4.0 |
Yo La Tengo Today Is The Day! | 3.0 |
Yo La Tengo And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside... | 4.5 |
Yo La Tengo Electr-O-Pura | 4.0 |
Such an awesome, oddly underrated outing from La Tengo |
Yo La Tengo I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One | 4.0 |
Yo La Tengo The Sounds Of The Sounds Of Science | 2.5 |
Yo La Tengo Summer Sun | 4.0 |
Yo La Tengo I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass | 4.5 |
Yo La Tengo Popular Songs | 4.0 |
The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 5.0 |
The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 4.5 |
The Mars Volta Amputechture | 4.0 |
The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath | 3.5 |
The Mars Volta Octahedron | 3.0 |
Muse Showbiz | 3.5 |
Muse Absolution | 3.5 |
Muse Origin of Symmetry | 4.0 |
Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 2.5 |
Muse The Resistance | 1.5 |
Radiohead The Bends | 4.0 |
Radiohead OK Computer | 4.5 |
Radiohead Kid A | 4.5 |
Radiohead Amnesiac | 5.0 |
Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 4.5 |
Radiohead In Rainbows | 4.5 |
Deftones Around the Fur | 4.0 |
Deftones Adrenaline | 3.5 |
Deftones White Pony | 5.0 |
Deftones Deftones | 4.5 |
Deftones Saturday Night Wrist | 4.0 |
Deftones Diamond Eyes | 4.0 |
Wilco Being There | 4.5 |
Wilco Summerteeth | 4.0 |
Wilco A Ghost Is Born | 5.0 |
Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot | 5.0 |
Wilco A.M. | 3.5 |
Wilco Sky Blue Sky | 4.0 |
Wilco Wilco (The Album) | 3.5 |
The National The Virginia EP | 3.0 |
The National Cherry Tree | 4.5 |
The National The National | 3.0 |
The National Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers | 3.5 |
The National Alligator | 5.0 |
The National Boxer | 5.0 |
The National High Violet | 4.5 |