| Flying Horseman Rooms/Ruins | 4.0 |
| ASC Imagine The Future | 4.0 |
| Titus Andronicus The Most Lamentable Tragedy | 4.0 |
| Kurt Vile b'lieve i'm goin' down... | 3.5 |
| Szare Lost Shapes | 4.0 |
| Visionist Safe | 3.5 |
| LHF For The Thrown | 4.0 |
| Laura Marling Short Movie | 4.0 |
| Courtney Barnett sometimes i sit and think, and sometimes i just sit | 3.5 |
| Kamasi Washington The Epic | 4.0 |
| Objekt Flatland | 4.5 |
| Lakker Tundra | 4.5 |
| Recondite Iffy | 3.5 |
| Woof |
| Peverelist Roll With The Punches / Die Brücke | 4.5 |
| ASC Nothing Is Certain | 4.5 |
| Andy Stott Faith in Strangers | 4.5 |
| Allah-Las Worship The Sun | 4.0 |
| Voices From The Lake Velo Di Maya | 4.0 |
| Recondite PSY | 4.0 |
| Shackleton Deliverance Series No. 1 | 4.0 |
| Amatorski From Clay To Figures | 4.0 |
| Answer Code Request Code | 4.0 |
| Parquet Courts Sunbathing Animal | 4.0 |
| The Hold Steady Teeth Dreams | 4.0 |
| BADBADNOTGOOD III | 4.0 |
| LCD Soundsystem The Long Goodbye | 4.5 |
| Trophy Scars Holy Vacants | 4.5 |
| Ben Frost A U R O R A | 4.5 |
| The Notwist Close to the Glass | 3.5 |
| The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream | 5.0 |
| Marissa Nadler July | 4.0 |
| The Jezabels The Brink | 3.0 |
| The Men Tomorrow's Hits | 4.0 |
| Valentin Stip Sigh | 3.0 |
| Laura Marling A Creature I Don't Know | 4.0 |
| Shackleton Freezing Opening Thawing | 4.0 |
| Shack killing it as usual. |
| Actress Grey Over Blue | 4.0 |
| Actress Ghettoville | 4.0 |
| Akkord Akkord | 3.5 |
| Amon Tobin Chaos Theory - Splinter Cell 3 Soundtrack | 4.0 |
| Digital Mystikz 2 Much Chat/Coral Reef | 3.5 |
| On the A-side, you get one of Mala's eeriest dubplates - that horn sample! - which is already reason enough to get this. As a bonus, Coki isn't flat out horrible this time around too. After a couple of disappointing releases, DMZ is back on track! |
| Autechre Untilted | 4.0 |
| V.I.V.E.K Mantra | 3.5 |
| Parquet Courts Light Up Gold | 4.0 |
| Hop Along Get Disowned | 4.0 |
| FIS Preparations | 3.5 |
| Burial Rival Dealer | 2.5 |
| Texas Is the Reason Do You Know Who You Are? | 4.0 |
| The Heliocentrics 13 Degrees Of Reality | 4.0 |
| Conforce Kinetic Image | 4.0 |
| Dawn of Midi Dysnomia | 4.0 |
| The War On Drugs Wagonwheel Blues | 4.0 |
| Kurt Vile Smoke Ring For My Halo | 4.0 |
| Kurt Vile Childish Prodigy | 4.0 |
| Logos Cold Mission | 3.5 |
| iNTRiKeT Lost | 4.0 |
| His best release to date imo. |
| Husker Du Metal Circus | 4.0 |
| Phase (UK) Frames Of Reference | 3.5 |
| Sorrow (UK) Warring | 3.5 |
| Blood Orange Cupid Deluxe | 3.5 |
| Flying Horseman City Same City | 3.5 |
| Recondite Hinterland | 4.0 |
| Booka Shade Eve | 3.0 |
| Submotion Orchestra 1968 | 3.5 |
| Madensuyu Stabat Mater | 3.5 |
| Laurel Halo Chance of Rain | 3.5 |
| Daniel Avery Drone Logic | 4.0 |
| Arcade Fire Reflektor | 4.0 |
| Livity Sound Livity Sound | 4.0 |
| Beneath Duty/Texers | 4.0 |
| Four Tet Beautiful Rewind | 3.0 |
| Allah-Las Allah-Las | 4.0 |
| Claro Intelecto Warehouse Sessions | 3.0 |
| Warehouse Sessions collects ten of the best club bangers Claro Intelecto has produced to date; 'Thieves' and 'Momento' being particularly notable. However, lumped together, things start to get a bit too samey over the course of one hour of playing length. This makes these tracks much more suited for the clubs, then, than for intricate home listening sessions. |
| Fugazi In on the Kill Taker | 4.0 |
| Fugazi End Hits | 4.5 |
| Fuzz Fuzz | 3.5 |
| Darkside Psychic | 4.0 |
| Marcel Dettmann II | 3.5 |
| Vuurwerk ME + ONE | 4.0 |
What happens when Mount Kimbie and Aphex Twin meet? You get fireworks, or rather: Vuurwerk, a Belgian trio of electronic musicians who created an immaticulate debut album sprawling with carefully constructed atmospheres and crisp beats. Opening track 'Naomi' is one of the most gorgeous tracks of 2013, and with what follows, ME + ONE proves itself yet another contender for the top spot of electronic album of the year. Don't miss out on this!
Album streaming here: http://dandelionlotus.bandcamp.com/album/me-one-12 |
| Appleblim and Peverelist Soundboy's Ashes Get Hacked Up.... | 4.0 |
| Shackleton Soundboy's Nuts Get Ground Up Proper | 4.5 |
| Shackleton Soundboy's Suicide Note | 4.0 |
| Trentemoller Lost | 3.5 |
| Yuck Glow and Behold | 3.5 |
| iNTRiKeT Shut Your Eyes/Underneath | 4.0 |
| Factory Floor Factory Floor | 3.5 |
| Kaiju Unity Dub/Rudebwoi | 4.5 |
| If you still had any doubt that J Kenzo's Lion Charge Records is THE best new label for dubstep nowadays, then prepare to have those doubts washed away. Kaiju's latest EP has both the best tunes on the label so far and contains some of the most exciting dubstep tracks of the decade yet. Huuuuge release. |
| Beneath Illusions | 4.0 |
| E.M.M.A. Blue Gardens | 4.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys AM | 4.5 |
| Digital Mystikz Urban Ethics | 3.5 |
| Depth Connection Different Waves | 4.0 |
| King Krule 6 Feet Beneath the Moon | 3.5 |
| Slint Spiderland | 4.5 |
| Benga Crunked Up | 3.5 |
| Distance Replicant | 4.5 |
| Franz Ferdinand Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action | 3.5 |
| They're back baby!!! |
| Digital Mystikz Return II Space | 4.0 |
| Recondite EC10 | 3.5 |
| Recondite Waldluft | 4.0 |
| Phaeleh Tides | 4.0 |
| James Holden The Inheritors | 3.5 |
| Forest Swords Engravings | 4.0 |
| Fuck me this is too good. Dagger Paths had promise but this is killing that EP a thousand times over. Stunning album. |
| The Yearning Still In Love | 4.0 |
| Parassela Home Alone | 4.0 |
| Oathbreaker Eros|Anteros | 4.0 |
| Titus Andronicus Record Store Day | 4.0 |
| Soulwax Part of the Weekend Never Dies | 3.5 |
| Midnight City Records After Midnight | 4.0 |
| Daftside Random Access Memories Memories | 4.0 |
| Skalpel Skalpel | 4.0 |
| Bonobo Animal Magic | 4.0 |
| Sithu Aye 26 | 3.5 |
| oOoOO Without Your Love | 3.5 |
| Jacques Greene On Your Side | 3.5 |
| Author Forward Forever | 3.5 |
| bansheebeat Spiral Power | 4.0 |
| 74milesaway Gear Change | 4.0 |
| 74milesaway 74 Miles Away | 3.5 |
| Kanye West Yeezus | 2.0 |
| Airhead For Years | 2.5 |
| Swindle Long Live The Jazz | 1.5 |
| Emika DVA | 2.5 |
| Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest | 3.5 |
| Gold Panda Half of Where You Live | 4.0 |
| Kings of Leon Aha Shake Heartbreak | 3.0 |
| Amon Tobin Taxidermia | 4.0 |
| Jafu Box Jelly | 4.0 |
| Jafu No More | 4.0 |
| Chord Marauders Groove Booty | 4.0 |
| Jon Hopkins Immunity | 4.0 |
| At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out | 4.0 |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 4.0 |
| Disclosure Settle | 4.0 |
| Yeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh!!!! |
| Waxahatchee Cerulean Salt | 3.5 |
| Chris Cappello Could Be Bitter Forever | 3.5 |
| Oh Chris, where have you been all my life? |
| Grade Separate The Magnets | 4.0 |
| Laura Marling Once I Was an Eagle | 4.0 |
| Dr. Quandary Wayfarers | 3.5 |
| Gramatik Street Bangerz Vol. 2 | 3.5 |
| Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun | 2.5 |
| Sorrow (UK) Dreamstone | 4.0 |
| Thomas Bangalter Trax on da Rocks Vol. 2 | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork | 3.5 |
| Mount Kimbie Cold Spring Fault Less Youth | 4.0 |
| Autechre Draft 7.30 | 3.5 |
| Savages Silence Yourself | 3.5 |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories | 2.5 |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me | 4.0 |
| Old Man Markley Guts N' Teeth | 4.0 |
| Primal Scream More Light | 3.5 |
| Hessian Manegarmr | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer | 3.5 |
| Bibio Silver Wilkinson | 3.5 |
| Brian Eno x Nicolas Jaar x Grizzly Bear Brian Eno x Nicolas Jaar x Grizzly Bear | 4.0 |
| The xx Jamie XX Edits | 4.0 |
| Locked Groove Heritage | 3.5 |
| Laura Stevenson Wheel | 4.0 |
| Kahn Kahn | 3.5 |
| Thriftworks Terry - D | 3.5 |
| It's like FlyLo actually finished his tracks for a change. |
| Naibu Fall | 3.5 |
| Emptyset Material | 3.0 |
| Frightened Rabbit Pedestrian Verse | 3.5 |
| SP:MC Declassified | 3.5 |
| Frank Turner Tape Deck Heart | 3.5 |
| Streetlight Manifesto The Hands That Thieve | 4.0 |
| The Appleseed Cast Illumination Ritual | 4.0 |
| Cosmin TRG Gordian | 3.5 |
| Black Flag The First Four Years | 4.0 |
| Black Flag My War | 4.0 |
| Sepalcure Make You | 3.5 |
| Old Man Markley Down Side Up | 4.5 |
| Tera Melos X'ed Out | 3.0 |
| Jawbreaker Unfun | 4.5 |
| Benga and Coki Night | 4.0 |
| The Flaming Lips The Terror | 4.0 |
| The last track kinda ruins what's otherwise the best record in ages from these guys. |
| DJ Sprinkles Where Dancefloors Stand Still | 4.0 |
| Gorgeous tracklist. |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Mosquito | 2.0 |
| The Doppelgangaz HARK | 3.0 |
| Ganja White Night Mystic Herbalist | 3.0 |
| James Blake Overgrown | 3.0 |
| V.I.V.E.K Asteroids/Over My Head | 4.0 |
| Kurt Vile Wakin on a Pretty Daze | 4.5 |
| Boxcutter Oneiric | 4.0 |
| The Knife Shaking the Habitual | 2.5 |
| Wen Commotion | 3.0 |
| Perverse Equinox | 3.5 |
| Keysound Recordings This Is How We Roll | 4.0 |
| Remember that LHF monolith of last year? Yeah, well then good news for you: this is the successor, and it gives Keepers Of The Light a serious run for its money. Dubstep compilation of the year, hands down. |
| Jake Bugg Jake Bugg | 3.0 |
| The Strokes Comedown Machine | 2.0 |
| Lapalux Nostalchic | 3.0 |
| Disclosure Tenderly/Flow | 3.5 |
| Omar S Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself | 3.5 |
| Kryptic Minds Namaste | 4.0 |
| Bonobo The North Borders | 4.5 |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience | 4.0 |
| David Bowie The Next Day | 3.0 |
| Boris Präparat | 4.0 |
| Nonplus+ Records Think And Change | 3.5 |
| Autechre Exai | 4.5 |
| The Haxan Cloak Excavation | 3.5 |
| Damn, Tri-Angle is on fire! |
| Galerie Stratique Horizzzons | 3.5 |
| White Lung Sorry | 3.5 |
| Pissed Jeans Honeys | 3.5 |
| The Men New Moon | 4.0 |
| Again a departure from their other albums, but play it loud and realise it doesn't matter at all. |
| Youth Lagoon Wondrous Bughouse | 2.5 |
| Blockhead Music By Cavelight | 4.0 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Push The Sky Away | 3.5 |
| Nails Abandon All Life | 3.5 |
| Iceage You're Nothing | 3.0 |
| Trade Sheworks005 | 4.0 |
| Foals Holy Fire | 3.0 |
| Diamond Rugs Diamond Rugs | 3.5 |
| My Bloody Valentine m b v | 3.5 |
| Ital Tek Hyper Real | 2.5 |
| Gozu The Fury Of A Patient Man | 2.5 |
| Tegan and Sara Heartthrob | 2.5 |
| Wil Wagner Laika | 3.0 |
| Ducktails The Flower Lane | 3.0 |
| Unknown Mortal Orchestra II | 3.0 |
| FIDLAR FIDLAR | 3.0 |
| Cult of Luna Salvation | 3.5 |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal | 4.0 |
| The Bronx The Bronx (IV) | 3.0 |
| Bad Religion True North | 3.0 |
| Emancipator Soon It Will Be Cold Enough | 3.5 |
| Emancipator Dusk to Dawn | 4.0 |
| TTNG 13.0.0.0.0 | 3.5 |
| Madteo Noi No | 3.5 |
| Bonobo Dial 'M' For Monkey | 4.5 |
| Bonobo Days To Come | 3.5 |
| Bonobo Black Sands | 4.0 |
| Local Natives Hummingbird | 3.0 |
| Toro Y Moi Anything In Return | 3.0 |
| This Heat This Heat | 4.0 |
| The Chariot One Wing | 3.0 |
| Blawan Bohla | 4.0 |
| Yo La Tengo Fade | 3.5 |
| Four Tet 0181 | 3.5 |
| The Black Heart Rebellion Monologue | 4.0 |
| The Black Heart Rebellion Har Nevo | 4.0 |
| Pantha du Prince and The Bell Laboratory Elements Of Light | 3.5 |
| Elements Of Light is obviously a really good record, but it's missing the undefinable spark that his other releases had. Still very much recommended, but at the same time a small disappointment. |
| Nosaj Thing Home | 3.5 |
| Oathbreaker Maelstrom | 4.0 |
| Witchcraft Legend | 3.5 |
| EPROM Metahuman | 3.5 |
| Classics of Love Classics of Love | 4.0 |
| Oddisee People Hear What They See | 4.0 |
| Blawan Peaches | 4.0 |
| Burial Truant/Rough Sleeper | 3.5 |
| Joy Orbison Hyph Mngo/Wet Look | 4.0 |
| The Jesus Lizard Goat | 4.0 |
| Jacques Greene Greene 01 | 4.0 |
| Phon.o Black Boulder | 3.5 |
| Terrence Dixon From The Far Future - Part 2 | 3.5 |
| L'Orange Old Soul | 3.5 |
| L'Orange The Mad Writer | 4.0 |
| Rad production, love me some jazzy hip-hop. |
| Mac DeMarco 2 | 3.5 |
| iNTRiKeT The Woods | 3.5 |
| Planas The Long Game | 2.5 |
| Karenn Sheworks004 | 4.0 |
| Fugazi Repeater | 4.5 |
| Fugazi 13 Songs | 4.0 |
| Fugazi Fugazi | 4.0 |
| Fugazi Red Medicine | 4.5 |
| Marcel Dettmann Range | 3.5 |
| Perc Wicker And Steel | 3.5 |
| Robert Hood Nighttime World Volume 1 | 3.5 |
| Sigha Living With Ghosts | 3.5 |
| Stumbleine Spiderwebbed | 3.5 |
| Mala Stand Against War | 4.5 |
| Yeah boiiii!! |
| Roman Flugel Fatty Folders | 4.0 |
| Green Day iDOS! | 2.0 |
| Vitalic Rave Age | 1.5 |
| Shackleton Three EPs | 4.0 |
| Fake Blood Cells | 4.0 |
| Dance record of the year!!! |
| 120 Days 120 Days II | 3.5 |
| Deadbeat Drawn and Quartered | 4.0 |
| Deadbeat Eight | 3.5 |
| Hidden Orchestra Night Walks | 4.0 |
| Hidden Orchestra Archipelago | 4.5 |
| Paul Banks Banks | 3.0 |
| Winther Winther | 3.0 |
| Joris Voorn Future History | 4.0 |
| These Arms Are Snakes Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home | 4.0 |
| Spider Bags Shake My Head | 3.0 |
| Metz Metz | 3.5 |
| The Mountain Goats Transcendental Youth | 3.5 |
| Andy Stott Luxury Problems | 4.5 |
| The Gaslight Anthem Señor and the Queen | 4.0 |
| BATS The Sleep of Reason | 3.5 |
| Two Gallants The Bloom and the Blight | 3.0 |
| Sithu Aye Invent the Universe | 3.0 |
| Koreless 4D / MTI | 3.5 |
| U.K. Subs Another Kind of Blues | 4.0 |
| Robert Hood Motor: Nighttime World 3 | 3.5 |
| Holograms Holograms | 3.0 |
| Daphni Jiaolong | 4.0 |
| Paws Cokefloat! | 4.0 |
| Balthazar (BE) Rats | 4.0 |
| Vessel Order Of Noise | 4.0 |
| Abel (NY) Make It Right | 2.5 |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind | 3.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 4.5 |
| Converge You Fail Me | 4.5 |
| Submotion Orchestra Fragments | 3.5 |
| Titus Andronicus Local Business | 4.5 |
| Boys Noize Out Of The Black | 3.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! | 3.5 |
| Raketkanon RKTKN#1 | 3.5 |
| Machinedrum Room(s) | 2.5 |
| Squarepusher Hello Everything | 3.0 |
| Boys Noize The Remixes: 2004-2011 | 3.0 |
| Ricardo Villalobos Dependent And Happy | 3.5 |
| Dirty Projectors Swing Lo Magellan | 3.0 |
| Two Fingers Two Fingers | 2.0 |
| Flying Lotus Until the Quiet Comes | 4.0 |
| Efterklang Piramida | 3.5 |
| Osees Putrifiers II | 3.0 |
| Believo! Hard To Find | 3.5 |
| The Belgian Cloud Nothings. A wonderful little half hour of listening joy. |
| The Van Jets Halo | 2.0 |
| Great rockband starts to use synths, with predictably anoying and boring results. |
| Deadmau5 >album title goes here< | 1.0 |
| Green Day ¡UNO! | 2.5 |
| Faith/Void Split | 4.0 |
| How to Dress Well Total Loss | 4.0 |
| Paws Misled Youth | 4.0 |
| It's distributed on a friggin' cassette! |
| Fugazi The Argument | 4.5 |
| Holy Other With U | 3.5 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 4.0 |
| Christian Loffler A Forest | 3.5 |
| Modeselektor Monkeytown | 3.5 |
| Recondite On Acid | 4.5 |
| Mala Mala In Cuba | 4.5 |
| Holy fuck, this record! |
| Big Black Atomizer | 4.0 |
| Shellac At Action Park | 3.5 |
| You Blew It! Grow Up, Dude | 3.5 |
| BRNS Wounded | 3.5 |
| A very impressive debut with lots of imagination. Like a perfect mix between the best aspects of Battles and Alt-J, Wounded is one of more relaxing and playful albums you'll hear all year. That's not to say that BRNS' (pronounce "brains") debut is whithout its flaws - a little bit of extra attention would've done songs like "Our Lights" or "Here Dead He Lies" good - but don't let that stop you from checking out this wonderful piece of alternative pop music. |
| Blawan His He She And She | 3.5 |
| Blawan doing what Blawan does best. And I'm loving it. |
| Gallows (UK) Gallows | 3.5 |
| Gallows (UK) Orchestra Of Wolves | 3.0 |
| Title Fight Shed | 4.0 |
| Title Fight Floral Green | 4.0 |
| Absolutely awesome at first listen. I hope it'll last but so far it's the best straight up punk album of the year. |
| Amon Tobin Amon Tobin | 4.5 |
| Lol, a 2 |
| Swans The Seer | 4.5 |
| Frozen Border Minutes In Ice | 4.5 |
| Karenn Sheworks001 | 4.0 |
| Goat World Music | 4.0 |
| Lotus Plaza Spooky Action At A Distance | 3.0 |
| King Tuff King Tuff | 3.5 |
| Minus the Bear Omni | 3.5 |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice | 4.0 |
| The xx Coexist | 2.5 |
| Jessie Ware Devotion | 3.0 |
| NOISIA Split The Atom | 2.5 |
| Holy Other Held | 3.5 |
| Streaming here: http://soundcloud.com/tri_angle_records/sets/holyotherheld/ |
| Andy Stott Merciless | 3.5 |
| Four Tet Pink | 3.5 |
| This is pure dancefloor gold! But the fact that the album is practically a couple of single releases lumped together marks it a bit down. |
| Mount Eerie Clear Moon | 3.5 |
| Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates | 3.5 |
| Minus the Bear Menos El Oso | 4.0 |
| Minus the Bear Infinity Overhead | 4.0 |
| Mount Eerie Ocean Roar | 4.0 |
| Sorrow (UK) Shinigami | 3.5 |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock | 4.5 |
| Disclosure The Face | 3.5 |
| Matthew Dear Beams | 2.5 |
| The Samuel Jackson Five The Samuel Jackson Five | 3.5 |
| Marcel Dettmann Dettmann | 3.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! To Leave or Die in Long Island | 3.5 |
| Bloc Party Four | 2.5 |
| Never before have I been so dissapointed in an album. |
| Porter Ricks Biokinetics | 4.0 |
| Basic Channel BCD-2 | 4.5 |
| Analogue Monsta Boom | 3.0 |
| The Vaccines Come of Age | 3.5 |
| The content of The Vaccines' second album is exactly what you would expect from looking at the title of the record: a step up in almost every way. The songs on Come Of Age are more interesting musically, better lyrically and more fleshed out than the ones on the debut from last year. The album is not flawless however, as filler tracks do detract from the quality of the (soon to be) singles. Nevertheless, Come Of Age is a very enjoyable half hour listen and a sign that we may expect some great things from these young fellas. |
| TNGHT TNGHT | 4.0 |
| Peverelist Jarvik Mindstate | 3.0 |
| Peverelist Dance Til The Police Come | 3.5 |
| Snoop Dogg R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta) - The Masterpiece | 3.0 |
| Husker Du New Day Rising | 4.5 |
| Purity Ring Shrines | 2.5 |
| Ben Klock One | 4.0 |
| Pariah (UK) Rift | 3.0 |
| BADBADNOTGOOD BBNG2 | 4.0 |
| TTNG Animals | 3.5 |
| American Football American Football | 3.5 |
| Sorrow (UK) Existence | 3.5 |
| Jacques Greene Ready | 3.5 |
| Alabama Shakes Boys & Girls | 3.0 |
| Stumbleine The Night Before | 3.0 |
| Another EP with little to no change in direction for the artist. It's his third already, this year. 'The Night Before' is still quite enjoyable, but he'd better slow down or no-one will be interested anymore. |
| Voices From The Lake Voices From The Lake | 4.5 |
| Royksopp The Understanding | 3.0 |
| alt-J An Awesome Wave | 4.0 |
| Asa Sweeter Things | 3.5 |
| The Gaslight Anthem Handwritten | 4.0 |
| Royksopp Junior | 3.0 |
| Shed The Killer | 3.5 |
| Royksopp Melody A.M. | 4.0 |
| Netsky 2 | 1.5 |
| Fuck this shiiiit, maaaang!!! |
| The Creature Cocoa Don't Explain It | 2.5 |
| DJ Food The Search Engine | 3.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child | 3.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing | 4.0 |
| Dday One Heavy Migration | 3.5 |
| Nosaj Thing Drift | 4.0 |
| Liars WIXIW | 4.0 |
| Future of the Left The Plot Against Common Sense | 3.5 |
| The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Let's Face It | 3.5 |
| House Boat The Thorns of Life | 3.5 |
| House Boat 21st Century Breakroom | 3.5 |
| Madness One Step Beyond | 3.5 |
| Nope Revision | 3.5 |
| dEUS Following Sea | 4.0 |
| The Hives Lex Hives | 3.5 |
| Kubrick's Cube Odissey | 2.5 |
| Love American Disquiet | 3.0 |
| Trophy Scars Darts to the Sea | 3.5 |
| Trophy Scars Alphabet Alphabets | 4.0 |
| Amatorski RE:TBC | 2.0 |
| If there's anything Amatorski shouldn't have released, it's a fucking remix album with club tracks. |
| The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now | 3.5 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt | 4.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave | 3.5 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Tallest Man on Earth | 3.5 |
| Appleblim and Shackleton Soundboy's Gravestone Gets Desecrated By Vandals | 3.5 |
| Shackleton Music For The Quiet Hour/The Drawbar Organ EPs | 4.0 |
| Richard Hawley Standing At The Sky's Edge | 2.5 |
| Beach House Bloom | 2.5 |
| Isbells Stoalin' | 4.0 |
| Isbells Isbells | 4.0 |
| Amon Tobin Out From Out Where | 4.0 |
| Simian Mobile Disco Unpatterns | 2.5 |
| The Flashbulb Opus At The End Of Everything | 3.5 |
| Ghost Mice All We Got Is Each Other | 3.5 |
| Santigold Master of My Make-Believe | 3.0 |
| Swarms Low Sun | 3.5 |
| It has nothing on 'Old Raves End', and even the 'Stumbleine EP' was better, but 'Low Sun' shows that Swarms is still THE dubstep project to follow these days. And I looove the vocal samples on here. |
| Squarepusher Ufabulum | 2.5 |
| Hot Water Music Exister | 3.5 |
| Japandroids Celebration Rock | 4.0 |
| Liquid Stranger The Arcane Terrain | 2.5 |
| pg.lost Key | 3.0 |
| OFF! OFF! | 3.5 |
| TOKiMONSTA Midnight Menu | 3.5 |
| Teebs Ardour | 4.0 |
| Reel Big Fish Turn the Radio Off | 4.0 |
| Operation Ivy Energy | 4.5 |
| The Arrogant Sons of Bitches Three Cheers For Disappointment | 3.5 |
| Japandroids Post-Nothing | 3.5 |
| Verse Aggression | 4.0 |
| Hot Water Music No Division | 3.5 |
| The Bronx The Bronx (III) | 3.5 |
| Hot Water Music Fuel for the Hate Game | 3.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity | 3.5 |
| Huoratron Cryptocracy | 2.5 |
| Gallows (UK) Grey Britain | 3.5 |
| The Wonder Years The Upsides | 3.5 |
| The Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing | 4.0 |
| The Bronx The Bronx (II) | 3.5 |
| The Bronx The Bronx | 4.0 |
| Hot Water Music Caution | 4.0 |
| Rancid Let's Go | 4.0 |
| Rancid ...And Out Come the Wolves | 4.0 |
| Claro Intelecto Reform Club | 3.5 |
| Pulled Apart By Horses Pulled Apart By Horses | 3.0 |
| Claro Intelecto Metanarrative | 3.5 |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 3.5 |
| Holy Esque Holy Esque | 3.5 |
| Clubroot III - MMXII | 4.0 |
| LHF Keepers Of The Light | 4.5 |
| Sigur Ros Valtari | 3.0 |
| Bersarin Quartett II | 3.5 |
| Actress R.I.P | 4.0 |
| Bersarin Quartett Bersarin Quartett | 3.5 |
| Flying Lotus Los Angeles | 4.5 |
| BT Ima | 4.0 |
| You Slut! Medium Bastard | 3.0 |
| Monolake Hong Kong | 3.5 |
| RJD2 Deadringer | 4.0 |
| Clark Iradelphic | 3.0 |
| Graham Coxon A+E | 2.0 |
| Rise and Fall Faith | 3.0 |
| Jack White Blunderbuss | 3.5 |
| Blunderbuss doesn't provide a shockingly new direction for White, but it doesn't really have to either. Fans of his other work may pick this up blindly and newcomers will find a quasi-complete overview of his different music styles and influences. And as always, the blues is all up in this bitch. |
| Xploding Plastix Amateur Girlfriends Go Proskirt Agents | 4.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine | 3.5 |
| Stake All Is Chaos | 3.5 |
| Wires Shadows EP | 3.0 |
| Anoice The Black Rain | 4.0 |
| Joyce Manor Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired | 3.0 |
| The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation Egor | 3.5 |
| Pelican Ataraxia/Taraxis | 3.5 |
| Miike Snow Happy to You | 3.0 |
| Clubroot Clubroot | 3.5 |
| Clubroot Scars/Hellion | 4.0 |
| Orbital Wonky | 3.5 |
| Gorilla Biscuits Start Today | 3.5 |
| Miike Snow Miike Snow | 3.0 |
| Blood Red Shoes In Time To Voices | 2.0 |
| Sithu Aye Isles | 4.0 |
| Orbital Orbital | 3.5 |
| OST Invisible Ink For Sketching Ghosts | 4.0 |
| Shed Shedding The Past | 4.0 |
| Arandel In D | 3.5 |
| Ricardo Villalobos Alcachofa | 4.0 |
| Paul Weller Sonik Kicks | 3.0 |
| Yppah Eighty One | 3.5 |
| ASC The Astral Traveller | 4.0 |
| Photek Form And Function | 4.0 |
| Sharks No Gods | 2.5 |
| Pantha Du Prince Black Noise | 4.0 |
| High Contrast The Agony And The Ecstasy | 2.0 |
| What the hell happened? C'mon mr. Barrett, you can do so much better than this... |
| Pantha Du Prince This Bliss | 4.5 |
| Monolake Polygon Cities | 4.5 |
| Tricky Maxinquaye | 4.0 |
| Thrupence Voyages | 3.5 |
| Aphex Twin Windowlicker | 4.0 |
| Monolake Silence | 4.0 |
| Monolake Ghosts | 4.5 |
| Actress Splazsh | 4.0 |
| The Shins Port of Morrow | 2.5 |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo OST | 3.5 |
| Say Anything Say Anything | 3.5 |
| Last Dinosaurs In A Million Years | 3.0 |
| Big Black Songs About Fucking | 4.0 |
| St. Lucia St. Lucia | 4.0 |
| St. Lucia marks the nearing of winter's end. Across the six unashamedly euphoric pop songs, bucket-loads of angel-like voices and extremely sunny synthesizer sounds are layered on top of each other. The end result is a delightfully happy-go-lucky and warm-hearted affair. Recommended if you like: fun. |
| Bob Dylan The Times They Are A-Changin' | 3.5 |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet | 2.5 |
| The Men Open Your Heart | 4.0 |
| The Men Leave Home | 4.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen Wrecking Ball | 3.5 |
| This is a good album, but in the case of Springsteen, "Good' just doesn't cut it. |
| Demdike Stare Elemental | 3.0 |
| Leftfield Rhythm And Stealth | 4.0 |
| Leftfield Leftism | 4.5 |
| Shigeto Lineage | 3.0 |
| School of Seven Bells Ghostory | 3.5 |
| Stumbleine Drifting Youth | 4.0 |
| Scuba Personality | 3.5 |
| King Krule King Krule | 3.5 |
| Lanterns on the Lake The Starlight | 3.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Bleed American | 3.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Futures | 4.0 |
| Cheap Girls Giant Orange | 3.0 |
| Diagrams Black Light | 2.5 |
| Fucked Up Year of the Tiger | 3.5 |
| Memoryhouse The Slideshow Effect | 3.0 |
| Cursive I Am Gemini | 3.0 |
| Islands A Sleep and a Forgetting | 3.0 |
| The Menzingers Chamberlain Waits | 4.0 |
| Field Music Plumb | 3.5 |
| Scuba Triangulation | 4.0 |
| fun. Some Nights | 3.0 |
| Sleigh Bells Reign of Terror | 2.0 |
| Steve Reich Music for 18 Musicians | 4.0 |
| AJJ Can't Maintain | 4.0 |
| AJJ People Who Can Eat People are the Luckiest People | 4.5 |
| Latterman Turn Up The Punk, We'll Be Singing | 3.5 |
| Burial Kindred | 4.0 |
| The Hickey Underworld I'm Under The House, I'm Dying | 3.0 |
| The second effort by The Hickey Underworld is in some ways a step forward (more thought out and focused), but at the same time it loses the appealling rawness of the debut. Ultimately, the boys are still developing their sound which results in 'I'm Under The House, I'm Dying' being a slightly underdeveloped and not completely satisfying album. |
| Kanye West Late Registration | 3.5 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 3.5 |
| Joyce Manor Joyce Manor | 3.0 |
| of Montreal Paralytic Stalks | 2.5 |
| Sharon Van Etten Tramp | 3.0 |
| Shlohmo Vacation | 3.5 |
| bansheebeat Wutai | 3.5 |
| John Talabot Fin | 4.0 |
| Tennis Young And Old | 3.0 |
| Air Le Voyage Dans La Lune | 3.5 |
| Shearwater Animal Joy | 2.5 |
| Golden Axe Liquid Bacon | 3.5 |
| Extremely catchy and energetic synthpop. It's like Suicide, but then without all the despair. Download for free here: http://goldenaxe.bandcamp.com/ |
| Gonjasufi A Sufi and a Killer | 3.5 |
| Therapy? A Brief Crack of Light | 2.5 |
| Portico Quartet Portico Quartet | 3.5 |
| Pulled Apart By Horses Tough Love | 3.5 |
| Mark Lanegan Blues Funeral | 3.0 |
| Portico Quartet Isla | 3.5 |
| Portico Quartet Knee Deep in the North Sea | 4.0 |
| The Ting Tings Sounds from Nowheresville | 3.0 |
| Jacques Greene Concealer | 3.0 |
| Caribou Andorra | 3.0 |
| Caribou Up in Flames (as Manitoba) | 3.5 |
| Jacques Greene The Look | 4.0 |
| Caribou Swim | 3.5 |
| Hit the Lights Invicta | 2.5 |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma | 3.0 |
| Bibio Ambivalence Avenue | 3.5 |
| Beefcake Coincidentia Oppositorum | 4.0 |
| Beefcake Drei | 4.0 |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Heaven Up Here | 3.5 |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Porcupine | 3.5 |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Ocean Rain | 3.5 |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Echo and The Bunnymen | 3.5 |
| Thursday No Devolucion | 3.5 |
| Thursday Full Collapse | 2.5 |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 4.0 |
| Maybeshewill Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony | 4.0 |
| Maybeshewill I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was Gone | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis | 4.0 |
| Perfume Genius Learning | 4.0 |
| Perfume Genius Put Your Back N 2 It | 4.0 |
| Gonjasufi MU.ZZ.LE | 3.5 |
| The Menzingers On the Impossible Past | 3.5 |
| Lana Del Rey Born to Die | 2.0 |
| Porcelain Raft Strange Weekend | 3.0 |
| Kapitan Korsakov Stuff and Such | 3.5 |
| Foxy Shazam The Church of Rock and Roll | 4.0 |
| Enter Shikari A Flash Flood of Colour | 1.0 |
| Grimes Visions | 3.5 |
| Anti-Flag The General Strike | 2.5 |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... | 3.5 |
| Tribes Baby | 2.5 |
| sleepmakeswaves sleepmakeswaves (US) | 3.5 |
| sleepmakeswaves ...and so we destroyed everything | 3.5 |
| Refused Songs To Fan The Flames Of Discontent | 3.0 |
| Russian Circles Empros | 3.5 |
| Craig Finn Clear Heart Full Eyes | 4.0 |
| Digital Mystikz Haunted/Anti War Dub | 4.5 |
| The Orb Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld | 4.0 |
| The Future Sound of London Lifeforms | 4.0 |
| Wipers Youth of America | 3.5 |
| Wipers Is This Real? | 4.0 |
| Trailer Trash Tracys Ester | 2.5 |
| Thrice Beggars | 4.0 |
| Thrice Major/Minor | 4.0 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 3.5 |
| Destroyer Kaputt | 3.5 |
| John K. Samson Provincial | 3.5 |
| Nada Surf The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy | 2.5 |
| Say Anything Anarchy, My Dear | 2.0 |
| Cloud Nothings Attack on Memory | 4.0 |
| Omar S It Can Be Done But Only I Can Do It | 3.0 |
| The Maccabees Given to the Wild | 3.5 |
| Howler America Give Up | 3.5 |
| Trentemoller Reworked / Remixed | 3.5 |
| Venetian Snares Affectionate | 2.5 |
| Anthony Green Beautiful Things | 2.5 |
| Liquid Stranger Cryogenic Encounters | 3.5 |
| The Big Pink Future This | 2.5 |
| Swarms Swarms | 3.5 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 3.0 |
| Swarms I Gave You Everything | 3.5 |
| Kele The Boxer | 1.5 |
| Beth Ditto EP | 2.5 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 4.0 |
| ISIS Oceanic | 3.5 |
| Descendents Milo Goes to College | 4.0 |
| The Replacements Let It Be | 4.5 |
| Bloodhound Gang Hefty Fine | 2.5 |
| The Replacements Tim | 3.5 |
| The Replacements Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash | 4.0 |
| Latterman No Matter Where We Go...! | 4.0 |
| Shapeshifter Soulstice | 4.0 |
| Broken Note Terminal Static | 2.5 |
| Goldie Timeless | 4.0 |
| Consequence (NZ) Test Dream | 3.5 |
| The War On Drugs Slave Ambient | 4.5 |
| Phaeleh Within The Emptiness | 4.0 |
| The Subways Money and Celebrity | 3.5 |
| The Subways All or Nothing | 3.0 |
| The Subways Young For Eternity | 3.0 |
| Bibio Mind Bokeh | 3.5 |
| Youth Lagoon The Year of Hibernation | 4.0 |
| School Is Cool Entropology | 3.0 |
| The Sedan Vault Vanguard | 3.5 |
| The Sedan Vault Mardi Gras Of The Sisypha | 4.0 |
| Orbital Snivilisation | 4.0 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Goodbye Cool World! | 4.0 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Get Warmer | 4.5 |
| Red City Radio The Dangers of Standing Still | 3.5 |
| House Boat The Delaware Octopus | 3.5 |
| Northstar Pollyanna | 3.0 |
| The Jezabels The Man Is Dead | 4.0 |
| The Jezabels She's So Hard | 4.0 |
| The Jezabels Dark Storm | 4.5 |
| The Lawrence Arms The Greatest Story Ever Told | 3.5 |
| Brand New Daisy | 4.5 |
| The Lawrence Arms Oh! Calcutta! | 4.5 |
| The World/Inferno Friendship Society Red-Eyed Soul | 3.5 |
| Say Anything In Defense of the Genre | 3.5 |
| Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy | 4.0 |
| Jaga Jazzist What We Must | 2.5 |
| Apparat Duplex | 4.0 |
| Nujabes Spiritual State | 3.5 |
| Nujabes Metaphorical Music | 3.5 |
| Minutemen Double Nickels on the Dime | 3.5 |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon | 3.0 |
| The Black Keys El Camino | 4.0 |
| Triptides Psychic Summer | 3.0 |
| Orbital Orbital 2 | 4.5 |
| ZZT Partys Over Earth | 2.5 |
| Orbital In Sides | 4.5 |
| WU LYF Go Tell Fire to the Mountain | 3.0 |
| The Jezabels Prisoner | 4.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra Simple Math | 4.0 |
| Sepalcure Sepalcure | 3.5 |
"These ratings are fucking disappointing"
I smell a 5 coming |
| Moderat Moderat | 4.0 |
| Author Author | 4.0 |
| The Kills Blood Pressures | 3.5 |
| Darkside Darkside | 4.0 |
| Joe Henry Reverie | 3.0 |
| The Hold Steady Heaven Is Whenever | 3.5 |
| The Hold Steady Separation Sunday | 4.0 |
| Jacuzzi Boys Glazin' | 3.0 |
| Venetian Snares Detrimentalist | 4.0 |
| Real Estate Days | 3.5 |
| Pinch Underwater Dancehall | 3.5 |
| Don't bother with the (somewhat disappointing) first disc and skip straight to the uniformally excellent instrumentals. |
| Pinch and Shackleton Pinch and Shackleton | 4.0 |
| AJJ Knife Man | 4.5 |
| Stendeck Scintilla | 4.0 |
| The Notwist Neon Golden | 4.0 |
| Laura Stevenson Sit Resist | 4.0 |
| Low C'Mon | 3.0 |
| Nicolas Jaar Don't Break My Love | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works | 3.5 |
| Sepalcure Fleur | 3.0 |
| Sepalcure Love Pressure | 2.5 |
| Son Lux We Are Rising | 3.0 |
| Son Lux At War With Walls And Mazes | 2.5 |
| Beirut The Rip Tide | 3.5 |
| The Decemberists The King Is Dead | 3.5 |
| The Decemberists The Crane Wife | 3.5 |
| Mr. Oizo Stade 2 | 4.0 |
| Goose (BEL) Synrise | 2.5 |
| Trophy Scars Bad Luck | 4.5 |
| Trophy Scars Darkness, Oh Hell | 4.5 |
| The Decemberists Long Live the King | 3.5 |
| Lights Siberia | 3.5 |
| The Horrible Crowes Elsie | 4.0 |
| Geike For The Beauty Of Confusion | 3.0 |
| Massive Attack vs. Burial Four Walls/Paradise Circus | 2.5 |
| Mr. Oizo Analog Worms Attack | 3.5 |
| Fatboy Slim Better Living Through Chemistry | 3.5 |
| Fatboy Slim You've Come a Long Way, Baby | 4.0 |
| The Velvet Underground White Light/White Heat | 3.5 |
| Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros Global A Go-Go | 4.0 |
| Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros Rock Art And The X-Ray Style | 4.0 |
| The Beach Boys Pet Sounds | 4.0 |
| Vex'd Degenerate | 3.5 |
| Rustie Glass Swords | 3.5 |
| Yuck Yuck | 4.0 |
| Justice Audio, Video, Disco | 1.5 |
| God, when will this 80's revival stuff stop? Newsflash: it never spawned a good album! |
| The Avalanches Since I Left You | 4.0 |
| Night Birds The Other Side Of Darkness | 3.0 |
| Vitalic Ok Cowboy | 3.5 |
| Vitalic Flashmob | 3.5 |
| The Prodigy Music for the Jilted Generation | 3.0 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Remix EP) | 3.0 |
| Zombie Nation Zombielicious | 3.5 |
| Hadouken! Music For An Accelerated Culture | 2.5 |
| Trophy Scars Never Born, Never Dead | 4.0 |
| Scuba A Mutual Antipathy | 4.0 |
| Radiohead TKOL RMX 1234567 | 3.5 |
| Emika Emika | 3.5 |
| Fucked Up David's Town | 3.0 |
| The Clash Cut the Crap | 1.5 |
| Frank Turner Love, Ire & Song | 4.0 |
| James Blake Enough Thunder | 2.5 |
| Nas Illmatic | 3.5 |
| Apparat Walls | 4.0 |
| Black Box Revelation My Perception | 2.5 |
| Apparat The Devil's Walk | 3.5 |
| A Wilhelm Scream Ruiner | 4.0 |
| A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide | 4.0 |
| Steely Dan Countdown to Ecstasy | 4.0 |
| Steely Dan Pretzel Logic | 4.5 |
| Steely Dan Can't Buy a Thrill | 4.5 |
| blink-182 Neighborhoods | 2.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Adults!!!: Smart!!! Shithammered!!! And Excited By Nothing!!!!!!! | 4.0 |
| Black Box Revelation Shiver Of Joy | 3.0 |
| This EP is the first American release for The Black Box Revelation. It contains six tracks, but only the first and the last one are worth your time, as the rest of the songs can be found on their European albums. Nevertheless, the EP is a solid introduction to the band and the title track gives high hopes for their upcoming third album, scheduled for release on October 3. |
| Lou Reed Berlin | 4.0 |
| Autechre Gantz Graf | 4.0 |
| Wolfgang Gartner Weekend In America | 3.5 |
| Shlohmo Bad Vibes | 3.0 |
| Phaeleh Fallen Light | 4.5 |
| Phaeleh The Cold In You | 4.0 |
| Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison | 4.5 |
| Steely Dan Aja | 4.5 |
| Lisa Hannigan Passenger | 3.0 |
| Eleven Tigers 111 | 3.0 |
| Mogwai Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will | 3.5 |
| Daft Punk Tron: Legacy | 2.5 |
| The Afghan Whigs Gentlemen | 2.5 |
| Kryptic Minds Can't Sleep | 4.0 |
| Kryptic Minds One of Us | 3.5 |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come | 4.0 |
| Battles Gloss Drop | 4.0 |
| Battles Mirrored | 3.5 |
| Gui Boratto III | 4.0 |
| With III, Gui Boratto has released his darkest work to date and simultaneously his best. The album picks up where Trentemoller's The Last Resort left off, thereby creating one of the most interesting minimal techno albums in a long while. |
| Gui Boratto Take My Breath Away | 3.5 |
| Pariah (UK) Safehouses | 4.0 |
| Tom Waits Closing Time | 4.5 |
| dEUS Keep You Close | 4.5 |
| Looks like they've done it again: Keep You Close, dEUS' 6th, is a magnificent album (it could very well be called a true masterpiece), and one that should be heard by as many people as possible. Perhaps the best alternative rock album to have come out in 2011, it's also another highlight for a 20 year old band of experienced professionals, who keep coming up with absolutely splendid material. 36 listens in and it keeps getting better and better. |
| Suicide Suicide: Alan Vega and Martin Rev | 3.0 |
| Suicide Suicide | 3.0 |
| Iceage New Brigade | 2.0 |
| Balam Acab Wander/Wonder | 3.5 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 4.5 |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 4.0 |
| The Stranglers Black And White | 3.0 |
| SBTRKT SBTRKT | 3.0 |
| Fake Blood Fix Your Accent | 4.0 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 3.0 |
| Thundercat The Golden Age Of Apocalypse | 2.5 |
| bansheebeat Galactics | 3.5 |
| Nicolas Jaar Space Is Only Noise | 4.5 |
| Zomby Dedication | 3.0 |
| Machines Don't Care Machines Don't Care | 3.5 |
| Herve Party Bombs! | 3.0 |
| Herve Ghetto Bass 2 | 3.5 |
| Lady Linn and her Magnificent Seven Here We Go Again | 3.5 |
| Lady Linn and her Magnificent Seven No Goodbye At All | 3.5 |
| Frank Turner England Keep My Bones | 4.0 |
| Zomby Where Were U In '92? | 3.0 |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures | 4.5 |
| Evol Intent Era of Diversion | 3.5 |
| Kromestar My Sound | 3.5 |
| Spor Supernova | 3.0 |
| The Black Pacific The Black Pacific | 3.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone | 3.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take Care | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 4.0 |
| Grouper A I A | 2.5 |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I | 4.5 |
| Kashiwa Daisuke 88 | 4.0 |
| Submotion Orchestra Submotion Orchestra | 4.0 |
| Submotion Orchestra Finest Hour | 4.5 |
| Blondie Parallel Lines | 3.5 |
| Radiohead I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings | 4.0 |
| dEUS No More Loud Music | 4.5 |
| This compilation contains all the early 90's singles from Belgian superstars dEUS. From the chaotic rock of "Suds 'n Soda" and "Via", over the experimental In a Bar, Under the Sea singles, to arguably the most beautiful ballad ever written ("Nothing Really Ends"), No More Loud Music gives a chronological overview of dEUS' early career and it serves as a superb starting point for anyone interested in the band. |
| Gwen Stefani The Sweet Escape | 2.0 |
| Gwen Stefani Love. Angel. Music. Baby. | 3.0 |
| OFF! First Four EPs | 3.5 |
| Burial Street Halo | 3.0 |
| Simple Plan Still Not Getting Any... | 2.5 |
| Vampire Weekend Contra | 3.5 |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend | 3.5 |
| The Police Ghost in the Machine | 3.5 |
| The Subs Decontrol | 2.0 |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor | 5.0 |
| Titus Andronicus The Airing of Grievances | 4.5 |
| Triggerfinger All this dancin' around | 3.0 |
| De La Soul 3 Feet High and Rising | 3.5 |
| GusGus Arabian Horse | 3.5 |
| A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders | 4.0 |
| A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory | 4.5 |
| The Vaccines What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? | 3.5 |
| David Bowie Station to Station | 4.5 |
| Amatorski Same Stars We Shared | 4.0 |
| Amatorski TBC | 4.5 |
| Probably the most beautiful and fragile sounding record of the year. From the Portishead-like "Soldier" to the dreary soundscapes of "8 November" and "The Cheapest Soundtrack", the album is a musical trip that doesn't last a second too long. Like Bon Iver's "For Emma", this album is best consumed during a rainy afternoon, while enjoying the gentle warmth coming from the fireplace. |
| Soundtrack (Film) South Park (Original Soundtrack) | 3.5 |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars | 4.5 |
| Fucked Up Epics in Minutes | 4.0 |
| High Contrast High Society | 3.5 |
| High Contrast Tough Guys Dont Dance | 4.0 |
| High Contrast Confidential | 4.0 |
| Richard Cheese Aperitif for Destruction | 3.0 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Vacation | 5.0 |
| Cobblestone Jazz The Modern Deep Left Quartet | 3.5 |
| Cobblestone Jazz 23 Seconds | 4.0 |
| Fucked Up Hidden World | 4.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Scrambles | 4.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Album Minus Band | 4.0 |
| Soulwax Much Against Everyone's Advice | 3.5 |
| C.W. Stoneking Jungle Blues | 3.5 |
| A wonderful modern take on Jazz and Blues music. Very refreshing when tired of all the beats and bombast of modern-day rock, pop or dance music. |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade | 3.0 |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me | 2.5 |
| Dada Life Just Do The Dada | 2.0 |
| Soulwax Most Of The Remixes... | 4.0 |
| This compilation contains some of the best remixes made ever. The first disc is utterly essential for any serious house DJ and the second disc could be a strong contender for the title of 'Best Mix Of All Time', if it weren't for the fact that the As Heard On Radio Soulwax series is still slightly better. Trivia: it has the world record for longest album title ever, also. |
| Swarms Old Raves End | 4.5 |
| Fucked Up The Chemistry of Common Life | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 4.0 |
| Fucked Up David Comes to Life | 5.0 |
| Simian Mobile Disco Temporary Pleasure | 3.5 |
| Simian Mobile Disco Attack Decay Sustain Release | 3.5 |
| The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America | 5.0 |
| Pixies Doolittle | 4.0 |
| Pixies Come On Pilgrim | 3.0 |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa | 4.5 |
| Bruce Springsteen The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle | 4.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen Tunnel of Love | 3.5 |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm Remixed | 3.0 |
| Bloc Party Intimacy Remixed | 2.5 |
| The Who Quadrophenia | 3.5 |
| The Who Who's Next | 4.0 |
| The Who Tommy | 3.5 |
| The Who A Quick One | 3.0 |
| The Who My Generation | 3.5 |
| The Who Live at Leeds | 4.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen The Promise | 3.0 |
| James Blake James Blake | 3.0 |
| This is a rather enjoyable debut, but Blakes' voice doesn't have the emotional impact of a Justin Vernon or Nebraska-era Springsteen (my 2 favorite singer-songwriters) and the beats miss the warmth of the compositions of a Four Tet. In fact, the album comes off as rather cold and emotionless and it's this that keeps me from really embracing it. |
| Kings of Leon Only By The Night | 2.5 |
| Kings of Leon Because Of The Times | 3.5 |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross The Social Network OST | 3.5 |
| Placebo Meds | 3.5 |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 3.0 |
| Muse Absolution | 3.5 |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry | 3.5 |
| Muse Showbiz | 3.0 |
| Two Door Cinema Club Tourist History | 3.5 |
| Kaiser Chiefs The Future is Medieval | 1.0 |
| After Off With Their Heads, I thought the Chiefs couldn't sink any lower, but they've proven me wrong. 20 songs you can choose from, but none is even slightly entertaining or mildly creative in any way. One simple advice: AVOID! |
| New Order Power, Corruption and Lies | 3.5 |
| Bob Dylan Desire | 4.0 |
| Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks | 4.0 |
| Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde | 4.0 |
| Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited | 4.0 |
| Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home | 4.5 |
| Bob Dylan The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan | 4.0 |
| Husker Du Zen Arcade | 4.0 |
| The Futureheads The Futureheads | 3.5 |
| The Rolling Stones A Bigger Bang | 2.5 |
| Venetian Snares Winter In The Belly Of A Snake | 3.0 |
| Venetian Snares The Chocolate Wheelchair Album | 3.0 |
| Venetian Snares Hospitality | 3.0 |
| Venetian Snares Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding | 4.0 |
| Venetian Snares Winnipeg Is A Frozen Shithole | 3.5 |
| The Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones, Now! | 4.0 |
| The Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones | 3.5 |
| The Rolling Stones Out of Our Heads | 3.5 |
| The Rolling Stones Aftermath | 4.0 |
| The Rolling Stones Tattoo You | 3.0 |
| The Rolling Stones Voodoo Lounge | 2.5 |
| The Rolling Stones It's Only Rock 'n' Roll | 3.0 |
| The Rolling Stones Between the Buttons | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey | 3.0 |
| Portishead Dummy | 4.5 |
| Portishead Third | 3.5 |
| The Black Eyed Peas Monkey Business | 2.5 |
| The Black Eyed Peas Elephunk | 2.5 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 5.0 |
| Wow. Just wow. The first time I heard this, it ripped my heart straight out of my chest. And it keeps doing it every time I let it out for another spin. For Emma, Forever Ago (even the title makes me want to cry because of its beauty) is possibly the most intimate and fragile piece of work ever recorded. Let it overwhelm you, because it's really worth it. |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 4.5 |
| The Antlers Hospice | 4.0 |
| The Antlers Burst Apart | 3.5 |
| Yasushi Yoshida Grateful Goodbye | 4.0 |
| Yasushi Yoshida Little Grace | 4.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys Suck It and See | 4.5 |
| The Specials Specials | 4.5 |
| Gui Boratto Chromophobia | 3.5 |
| Deadmau5 Get Scraped | 2.5 |
| Kraftwerk Electric Cafe | 3.0 |
| Kraftwerk Computer World | 3.0 |
| Kraftwerk Tour De France Soundtracks | 3.0 |
| Kraftwerk Autobahn | 3.5 |
| Kraftwerk Radio-Activity | 3.0 |
| Kraftwerk Trans-Europe Express | 3.5 |
| Kraftwerk The Man-Machine | 4.0 |
| Foo Fighters In Your Honor | 3.5 |
| Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace | 2.5 |
| Seasick Steve I Started Out With Nothin' | 3.5 |
| Seasick Steve Dog House Music | 3.5 |
| Shameboy At The Pyramid Marquee | 3.0 |
| Solid release. But as someone who was there when this was recorded, I can safely say that this live album doesn't contain at all the energy and atmosphere of the performance or audience. |
| Shameboy 808 State of Mind | 2.0 |
| Shameboy Heartcore | 4.0 |
| Shameboy Hi, Lo and in Between | 3.5 |
| Autechre Quaristice | 3.5 |
| Autechre Oversteps | 3.5 |
| The Hold Steady Stay Positive | 4.0 |
| Plastikman Kompilation | 4.5 |
| The definition of minimalist techno. As his alter-ego Plastikman, Richie Hawtin has released some of the most jaw-dropping dance music known to man, and it really shines through in this excellent compilation album. |
| Chuck Berry Chuck Berry Is on Top | 4.0 |
| Trentemoller Harbour Boat Trips 01 - Copenhagen | 4.0 |
| Don't expect the same Trentemoller as on his minimalist masterpiece The Last Resort. This mixtape collects a great deal of Trentemoller's musical heroes, combined with relaxing, melancholic pop or electronica. And the resulting journey is absolutely breathtaking. His best outing to date, and the start of a very promising series. |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Is Is | 4.5 |
| Television Marquee Moon | 4.0 |
| Maroon 5 Songs About Jane | 3.5 |
| The Clash Black Market Clash | 4.0 |
| Paul Weller Wake Up The Nation | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Jackie Brown | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Pulp Fiction | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) O Brother, Where Art Thou? | 4.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Reservoir Dogs: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Death Proof | 3.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Inglourious Basterds Motion Picture Soundtrack | 3.5 |
| Boys Noize I Love Techno 2008 | 3.5 |
| Boys Noize Oi Oi Oi: Remixed | 3.0 |
| dEUS My Sister = My Clock | 3.5 |
| The Hickey Underworld The Hickey Underworld | 3.5 |
| The Van Jets Cat Fit Fury! | 4.0 |
| The Van Jets Electric Soldiers | 3.5 |
| Trentemoller Into the Great Wide Yonder | 4.5 |
| Amon Tobin Permutation | 5.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age | 3.5 |
| New Order Movement | 3.5 |
| The Jam Sound Affects | 4.5 |
| The Jam Setting Sons | 4.0 |
| The Jam This Is The Modern World | 2.5 |
| 2 Many DJs As Heard On Radio Soulwax, Part 2 | 4.0 |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation | 4.5 |
| Sonic Youth Goo | 3.5 |
| Squarepusher Big Loada | 3.5 |
| Squarepusher Music Is Rotted One Note | 4.0 |
| Squarepusher Feed Me Weird Things | 3.5 |
| Squarepusher Go Plastic | 4.0 |
| Squarepusher Hard Normal Daddy | 4.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen The River | 4.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen Born in the U.S.A. | 4.5 |
| Bruce Springsteen Devils & Dust | 3.5 |
| Bruce Springsteen The Rising | 4.0 |
| Lindstrom and Christabelle Real Life Is No Cool | 3.5 |
| The Members At The Chelsea Nightclub | 4.0 |
| The Kids Naughty Kids | 3.5 |
| The Kids The Kids | 4.0 |
| Stars of the Belgian punk scene during the '70s. The Kids formed after seeing The Sex Pistols and Ramones live, so that's exactly what you can expect: songs going 100mph and lyrics criticizing the Belgium politics and society at the time - which hasn't changed THAT much to be honest. |
| Herve Ghetto Bass | 3.5 |
| Herve drops a double party mix, one for the rave and fidget people and one for the dub minded. The first is basically a promo mix for his own tracks as Herve operates under about 20 other different aliases. They are not very distinguishable from one another however. This lack in diversity is made up for on the second disc, thankfully. All-in-all ideal party material. |
| Major Lazer Guns Dont Kill People... Lazers Do | 2.0 |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 2.5 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 2.5 |
| Sub Focus Sub Focus | 2.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Mothership | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin | 4.5 |
| X-Ecutioners Revolutions | 2.0 |
| Tiga Ciao! | 3.5 |
| Tiga Sexor | 3.5 |
| The Bloody Beetroots Romborama | 3.0 |
| Santigold Santogold | 3.5 |
| Pendulum Hold Your Colour | 3.5 |
| Pendulum In Silico | 2.0 |
| Mount Kimbie Crooks & Lovers | 3.5 |
| Mr. Oizo Lambs Anger | 3.5 |
| Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds | 2.5 |
| Hot Chip Made in the Dark | 4.0 |
| Hot Chip One Life Stand | 3.5 |
| Hot Chip The Warning | 3.5 |
| Trentemoller The Trentemoller Chronicles | 4.5 |
| The Chronicles presented are a package consisting of two discs. The first is a continuous mix in the typical Trentemoller style, which means he takes you on a musical journey, packed with emotional highlights ('Forest', a live version of 'Snowflake' and his remix of his own tune 'Moan'). The second disc, on the other hand, is a collection of the various remixes he has done over the years, of which his reworking of Royksopp's 'What Else is There?' is obviously his best. Esssential for Scandinavian techno and ambient enthousiasts. |
| Trentemoller The Last Resort | 5.0 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VII: Original Soundtrack | 4.0 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VIII: Original Soundtrack | 5.0 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy IX: Original Soundtrack | 4.5 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VIII: Piano Collections | 4.5 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy X: Original Soundtrack | 4.0 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Distant Worlds II | 4.0 |
| Appleblim and Shackleton Soundboy Punishments | 5.0 |
| Skream Skream! | 3.5 |
| Does It Offend You, Yeah? You Have No Idea... | 4.0 |
| The Subs Subculture | 3.5 |
| Photek Modus Operandi | 4.5 |
| Goose (BEL) Bring It On | 3.5 |
| A rock group who decides to turn their attention to electronica, where have we heard that before? But the result is an at times wonderful nu-rave (Goose would hate this term) album. Tracks like 'Black Gloves', 'British Mode', 'Check' and especially the title track should tear a filled dancefloor apart. Insanely catchy also. |
| Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere | 3.5 |
| Four Tet Rounds | 4.0 |
| Four Tet There is Love in You | 4.0 |
| Eminem Relapse | 1.5 |
| Eminem Encore | 2.5 |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP | 3.0 |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP | 4.0 |
| Eminem The Eminem Show | 3.5 |
| Distance My Demons | 4.0 |
| Clubroot II - MMX | 4.0 |
| Chromeo She's In Control | 2.5 |
| Chromeo Fancy Footwork | 3.0 |
| Chase and Status More Than Alot | 3.5 |
| Burial Untrue | 4.5 |
| Burial Burial | 4.0 |
| Bran Van 3000 Discosis | 2.0 |
| Two brilliant pop tracks ('Love Cliche' and 'Astounded') cannot hide the fact that this album lacks severely in the entertainment factor. And - as it's pretending to be a pop album - that's not a very appealing quality. |
| Boys Noize Power | 3.5 |
| Evolving from the electro/trash side of the musical spectrum to a more refined, techno sound, Boys Noize's second album is not as instantly accessible as his first. He can, however, still produce a great deal of bangers ('Starter', 'Jeffer', 'Nott') that will keep the club kids happy and energetic. |
| Boys Noize Oi Oi Oi | 4.5 |
| One of the best electronic albums of the last decade. Boys Noize creates a boiling musical atmosphere packed with electronic hooks, ferocious beats, and melodic interludes that serve as a resting point between the violent sounds. Even better, he did it using authentic analogue synthesisers instead of playing around with some computer program. Oh, and he can write a decent pop song too (his Feist remix). |
| Booka Shade Movements | 4.5 |
| Booka Shade The Sun And The Neon Light | 3.5 |
| Benga Diary Of An Afro Warrior | 3.5 |
| Basement Jaxx The Singles | 4.0 |
| Autechre Incunabula | 4.0 |
| Autechre Amber | 4.0 |
| Autechre Confield | 5.0 |
| Autechre Tri Repetae | 5.0 |
| Armand Van Helden Ghettoblaster | 3.0 |
| Straight-up club bangers and radio friendly tunes make up this album. It's absolutely nothing groundbreaking, but hear 'Touch Your Toes', 'I Want Your Soul' or 'Je t'Aime' and try not to move, shake along or nod your head to the beat. C'mon, I dare you. |
| Aphrodite Aftershock | 3.5 |
| Aphrodite Break In Reality | 3.0 |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 4.0 |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album | 3.5 |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II | 2.5 |
| Yellowcard Ocean Avenue | 3.0 |
| Wire Pink Flag | 4.5 |
| Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures | 3.0 |
| The xx xx | 3.5 |
| The Ting Tings We Started Nothing | 3.5 |
| The Stooges Fun House | 4.5 |
| The Stooges The Stooges | 3.5 |
| The Stooges Raw Power | 4.0 |
| Misfits Walk Among Us | 4.5 |
| Misfits Static Age | 3.0 |
| The Kooks Konk | 2.5 |
| The Kooks Inside In/Inside Out | 4.0 |
| The Hives Barely Legal | 3.5 |
| The Hives Black and White Album | 3.5 |
| The Hives Tyrannosaurus Hives | 4.0 |
| The Hives Veni Vidi Vicious | 4.0 |
| The Black Keys Thickfreakness | 4.0 |
| The Black Keys Rubber Factory | 4.5 |
| The Black Keys Brothers | 4.5 |
| Talking Heads Remain in Light | 4.0 |
| Sum 41 Does This Look Infected? | 3.5 |
| Sum 41 Underclass Hero | 2.0 |
| Sum 41 All Killer No Filler | 4.0 |
| Patti Smith Horses | 4.0 |
| Panic! at the Disco Pretty. Odd. | 2.0 |
| Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 4.0 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 3.5 |
| Millionaire Paradisiac | 3.5 |
| Mika Life in Cartoon Motion | 3.0 |
| Michael Jackson Off the Wall | 3.0 |
| Michael Jackson Thriller | 3.5 |
| Michael Jackson Bad | 3.0 |
| MGMT Oracular Spectacular | 3.0 |
| Massive Attack Collected | 4.0 |
| Massive Attack Blue Lines | 3.5 |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine | 4.5 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame | 2.5 |
| Klaxons Myths of the Near Future | 4.0 |
| Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros Streetcore | 5.0 |
| Jeff Buckley Grace | 4.0 |
| Grinderman Grinderman | 3.0 |
| Green Day Warning | 4.0 |
| Green Day 21st Century Breakdown | 3.0 |
| Green Day Nimrod | 3.5 |
| Green Day Insomniac | 3.5 |
| Green Day Dookie | 4.0 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 4.0 |
| Gossip Music For Men | 2.5 |
| Gossip Standing In The Way Of Control | 3.5 |
| Yes, Beth Ditto is fat! But she can sing, and how! Her voice, combined with the electro-punk music that's aggressive, groovy, funky and at times even soulful, is the recipe that makes this album an excellent one. You know, when you listen to a record in your CD-player or on your iPod, you don't actually see the artist, so it's rather ludicrous to write a singer down, just because she doesn't have a pretty face (or body). |
| Franz Ferdinand Blood | 3.0 |
| Probably more suited as background music than for actual attentive listening, but none of the tracks are bad. Each dub has a nice take on the original from Tonight and depending on your mood, you may feel that some reworkings here are actually the better versions of the songs. |
| Fall Out Boy Infinity on High | 3.5 |
| Fall Out Boy Take This to Your Grave | 3.0 |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree | 3.5 |
| Eagles Of Death Metal Peace Love Death Metal | 3.0 |
| Eagles Of Death Metal Death By Sexy | 3.5 |
| Eagles Of Death Metal Heart On | 3.0 |
| Dead Kennedys Bedtime for Democracy | 2.5 |
| Dead Kennedys Frankenchrist | 2.5 |
| Dead Kennedys Plastic Surgery Disasters | 2.5 |
| Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables | 3.5 |
| Dead Boys Young Loud and Snotty | 4.0 |
| Camo and Krooked Above & Beyond | 3.5 |
| Ranging from liquid funk to hard drumstep and everything in between, this debut from Austria's Camo & Krooked has everything to get the party going. They were recently signed to Hospital Records, so we can expect more earcandy from these guys pretty soon. |
| Netsky Netsky | 3.0 |
| Good debut album from drum & bass prodigy Netsky. Although his dubstep experiments are a bit off and some tunes sound a bit samey, plenty d&b anthems are to be found here. Not to mention that the production value is superb. All in all a great collection of party tracks. |
| Blur The Best Of | 3.5 |
| Blood Red Shoes Box Of Secrets | 3.5 |
| Blood Red Shoes Fire Like This | 3.0 |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State | 3.5 |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket | 4.0 |
| blink-182 Blink-182 | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid | 4.0 |
| Black Flag Damaged | 4.0 |
| Beirut The Flying Club Cup | 3.5 |
| Barenaked Ladies disc one: All Their Greatest Hits | 3.5 |
| Barenaked Ladies Barenaked Ladies Are Me | 3.0 |
| Barenaked Ladies Barenaked Ladies Are Men | 3.0 |
| Balthazar (BE) Applause | 4.0 |
| Autopilot Off Make A Sound | 3.5 |
| Ash 1977 | 3.0 |
| Ash Free All Angels | 3.5 |
| Ash Meltdown | 4.0 |
| Amy Winehouse Back to Black | 3.0 |
| AC/DC Let There Be Rock | 3.0 |
| AC/DC Highway To Hell | 4.0 |
| AC/DC Back In Black | 4.0 |
| AC/DC High Voltage | 3.0 |
| AC/DC Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap | 3.0 |
| The Streets Original Pirate Material | 4.5 |
| The Streets A Grand Don't Come For Free | 4.5 |
| Soulwax Nite Versions | 4.0 |
| After their third album, Any Minute Now, Soulwax decides to go full-electronic. And what better way to do this, than create a complete reworking of that album for the dancefloor? That's basically what this album is: a Soulwax remix of Any Minute Now. And it's brilliant. Soulwax has released some of the best remixes ever made (see also their Most of the Remixes album) and they don't let down here. Each track is mixed onto the others, to create a booming party set, which will have you jumping up and down in front of your stereo in no time. But although the major sounds on this record include "bleep" and "zwoing", after close listening you can still hear (and feel) the rock spirit in the tracks. |
| Soulwax Any Minute Now | 4.0 |
| A seamless blend of rock and electronica. After two straightforward rock albums, the Dewaele brothers started their 2ManyDJs project, which had a great influence on this third album. The tracks give equal showplay to the guitars and the synths, resulting in a somewhat chaotic mix at times. But then again, creating chaos is what the Dewaeles do best. Top tracks include the title track, 'NY Excuse', 'E Talking' and 'Miserable Girl'. |
| The Damned Damned Damned Damned | 3.5 |
| The Police Outlandos d'Amour | 4.0 |
| The Police Reggatta de Blanc | 3.5 |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico | 4.5 |
| The Strokes First Impressions of Earth | 3.5 |
| The Strokes Angles | 2.5 |
| The Strokes Is This It | 4.0 |
| London Elektricity Billion Dollar Gravy | 3.5 |
| London Elektricity Syncopated City | 4.0 |
| Probably the best album that Hospital Records has released so far (and that's saying a lot). The great thing about Tony Colman is that he doesn't rely on the same drum pattern over and over, and that he mixes sometimes about a dozen different styles into one track. Highlights include 'Bare Religion', 'All Hell is Breaking Loose', 'Attack Ships on Fire' and the single 'Just One Second'. |
| London Elektricity Yikes! | 3.5 |
| Justice A Cross the Universe | 3.5 |
| Justice † | 3.0 |
| Digitalism Idealism | 3.5 |
| Coming from Berlin, the modern capital of techno music, and owing a great deal to Daft Punk, obviously Digitalism has the right background to make a smashing club album. But instead of creating some shallow bangers (I'm looking at you, Justice), they produce an album with actual SONGS on it, albeit songs that are extremely danceable. This lifts Digitalism from their contemporaries, as you can enjoy this album equally while listening to it on the dancefloor or in your living room. |
| The Clash Live at Shea Stadium | 4.5 |
| The Clash The Singles | 4.5 |
| As a singles collection, you get the obvious stuff. But listening to this CD and hearing the progression from the first punk anthems, to the later reggae, rock, pop and even hip-hop ('The Magnificent Seven') experiments, you realise why The Clash was such an influential band. Also - and this is very rare among modern rock bands who start to experiment with different genres - it never sounds forced; you only hear 'the sound of The Clash' and that's a great part of why they were called 'The only band that matters'. |
| Oasis Time Flies | 3.5 |
| Oasis Definitely Maybe | 4.0 |
| Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? | 4.0 |
| Kaiser Chiefs Off With Their Heads | 2.5 |
| Kaiser Chiefs Yours Truly, Angry Mob | 3.5 |
| Kaiser Chiefs Employment | 3.0 |
| Ramones Road to Ruin | 4.0 |
| Ramones Rocket to Russia | 4.0 |
| Ramones Leave Home | 4.5 |
| Ramones Ramones | 4.5 |
| Ramones Weird Tales of the Ramones | 4.5 |
| The definite compilation/best of in the Ramones' catalogue. Especially the first CD (spanning the first four albums) is mind-blowing, and has aged very well. It seems that whether you're a fan of metal, punk, generic rock, 60's pop or any other genre, you will still like the Ramones. Or, to put it very simple: if you don't like the Ramones, you don't like rock music. |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze | 5.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R | 4.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris | 3.5 |
| The Last Shadow Puppets The Age Of The Understatement | 4.0 |
| Thom Yorke The Eraser | 4.5 |
| Stiff Little Fingers Nobody's Hero | 4.0 |
| Black Box Revelation Silver Threats | 4.0 |
| The follow up to Set Your Head On Fire. On this second album, The Black Box Revelation refines their sound, but the formula for succes stays the same: hard rockers ('High On A Wire', 'Better Get In Touch With The Devil', 'Run Wild',...) and sweet ballads ('Sleep While Moving' and 'Our Town Has Changed For Years Now') are the name of the game here. Rough around the edges, but the subtle progress in song structure and sound promises that we can expect a lot more to come from these lads. |
| Black Box Revelation Set Your Head On Fire | 4.0 |
| Jan Paternoster and Dries Van Dijck form The Black Box Revelation, a 2 piece consisting of guitar, vocals and drums. By the example of The White Stripes and The Black Keys, they play steaming blues rock with the uptempo, somewhat harder songs ('I Think I Like It', 'Love Is On My Mind', 'Set Your Head On Fire') alternating the more mellow and poppy songs (the brilliant 'Never Alone, Always Together'). Terrific as a live act, but on the album there are some experimental missteps ('Misery Box') that bring the whole down. Nevertheless, this is a more than solid debut from these youthful characters. |
| dEUS In a Bar, Under the Sea | 5.0 |
| dEUS The Ideal Crash | 4.5 |
| dEUS Pocket Revolution | 4.5 |
| dEUS Vantage Point | 4.5 |
| The fifth dEUS album is nothing more than a masterpiece. By focusing their sound, there is apparently no crazy mixing of different genres anymore. However, the arrangements of songs like 'Favourite Game', 'Slow' or 'When She Comes Down' are on par with the magic of The National - to take an almost universally loved band as an example. The record will not take you by storm on first listen; but after each consecutive listen, it's the little details that keep popping up (the voice of Karin Dreijer!) that will get you addicted. Just try it! |
| dEUS Worst Case Scenario | 4.0 |
| Daft Punk Alive 1997 | 4.0 |
| Daft Punk Alive 2007 | 4.0 |
| Daft Punk Homework | 4.5 |
| Daft Punk Discovery | 3.5 |
| Daft Punk Human After All | 3.0 |
| The White Stripes White Blood Cells | 4.0 |
| The White Stripes Icky Thump | 4.0 |
| The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan | 4.0 |
| The White Stripes Elephant | 4.5 |
| LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver | 4.5 |
| LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening | 3.5 |
| LCD Soundsystem LCD Soundsystem | 4.5 |
| LCD Soundsystem 45:33 | 4.0 |
| The Black Mages Darkness And Starlight | 4.0 |
| The Black Mages The Black Mages | 3.5 |
| The Black Mages The Skies Above | 3.5 |
| Bruce Springsteen We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions | 4.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen Nebraska | 4.5 |
| Bruce Springsteen Born to Run | 5.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen Darkness on the Edge of Town | 5.0 |
| The National Boxer | 5.0 |
| The National High Violet | 4.0 |
| The National Alligator | 4.5 |
| Interpol Antics | 4.5 |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 4.5 |
| Interpol Our Love to Admire | 4.5 |
| Interpol Interpol | 4.0 |
| The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound | 4.5 |
| The Gaslight Anthem American Slang | 4.5 |
| The Gaslight Anthem Sink or Swim | 4.0 |
| Gorillaz The Fall | 3.0 |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz | 3.5 |
| Gorillaz Demon Days | 4.5 |
| Gorillaz Plastic Beach | 4.0 |
| Venetian Snares Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett | 5.0 |
| Amon Tobin Supermodified | 4.5 |
| Amon Tobin Foley Room | 4.5 |
| Amon Tobin ISAM | 4.0 |
| Amon Tobin Bricolage | 5.0 |
| Deadmau5 For Lack of a Better Name | 4.0 |
| Deadmau5 Random Album Title | 4.5 |
| Deadmau5 4x4=12 | 3.0 |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs | 5.0 |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible | 4.5 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 5.0 |
| Franz Ferdinand Tonight: Franz Ferdinand | 3.5 |
| Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better | 4.5 |
| Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand | 4.5 |
| Danny Byrd Rave Digger | 3.5 |
| Danny Byrd Supersized | 3.5 |
| Buzzcocks Singles Going Steady | 4.5 |
| X-Ray Spex Germfree Adolescents | 4.0 |
| The Jam In The City | 4.5 |
| The first album of mod legends The Jam. Here, you hear the trio in their rawest form, as the album was recorded during the '77 punk era. Just listening to the 1-2-3-4 intro of 'Art School', you know you're in for a hell of a ride. Each track comes at you at a blistering speed; the lyrics are fun but also intelligent. Top tracks include the title track, 'Art School', 'I've Changed My Address', the Batman-tune (which they did as a hommage to The Who), and just about everything else. The only thing that makes album not as good as their third 'All Mod Cons' is that the songs are not so coherent on this record at times. But don't let this fact fool you that this doesn't deserve the five-out-of-five threatment, as punk music rarely comes better than this. |
| The Jam All Mod Cons | 4.5 |
| Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols | 4.5 |
| The Undertones The Undertones | 4.0 |
| Easily one the best - if not THE best - pop-punk records. Each track gets you in a great mood to party or to smash things up (for the more delinquent among us). They also prove that using a synthesizer as a prominent instrument doens't make the tracks weaker as a result (see 'I Gotta Getta' or the brilliant single 'Here Comes The Summer'). Oh, the remastered CD-version gives you the original 14-track LP and 17 (!) bonus tracks, including the punk anthems 'Teenage Kicks' and 'Get Over You' and a funny song about a Mars candy bar, named 'Mars Bars' (appropriate).In other words, if you are a punk or pop fan, get this ASAP! |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Show Your Bones | 4.5 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever To Tell | 4.0 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz! | 4.5 |
| Bloc Party Intimacy | 5.0 |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm | 5.0 |
| Bloc Party A Weekend in the City | 4.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys Humbug | 4.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare | 4.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not | 5.0 |
| Stiff Little Fingers Inflammable Material | 4.5 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 5.0 |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 5.0 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 5.0 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 4.5 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 4.0 |
| The Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet | 4.5 |
| The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed | 5.0 |
| The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers | 4.5 |
| The Rolling Stones Exile on Main St. | 5.0 |
| We all know the backstory to Exile on Main St.: the Stones were practically banned from the UK and took refuge in the mansion of Keith and his girlfriend, located in Villefranche-sur-Mer, France. Here, what's probably the biggest jam session in history took place and the result is this absolute mammoth of a double album. Now, while the backstory really helped Exile to reach mythical proportions, it wouldn't have reached this mythical status if the album itself wasn't any less than a masterpiece. But rest assured: it is. Exile is a true Keith album; little experimentation in the - then - hip genres, but it's the culmination of all great "roots genres": fast paced rock'n'roll, danceable boogiewoogie, steaming blues, chill-out jazz and religious soul. Even though the hits are found on other Stones albums, every song here is a stone-cold classic. Furthermore, it hasn't aged one tiny bit. Simply put, Exile on Main St. is the wildest, most adventurous ride you can experience in one measely hour. |
| The Rolling Stones Some Girls | 4.5 |
| The Clash Combat Rock | 4.0 |
| The Clash The Clash (US version) | 4.5 |
| The Clash Sandinista! | 4.5 |
| The Clash London Calling | 5.0 |
| My favorite album of all time. Both musically and lyrically perfect in every way. It's a glorious mess of punk, rock 'n roll, ska, reggae, jazz, pop and everything else, while still undoubtedly sounding only like The Clash. After all, they're the only guys who could ever have pulled this off. London Calling is the ultimate victory of music lovers and enthusiasts all over the world, represented by The Only Band That Matters. |
| The Clash Give 'Em Enough Rope | 4.5 |
| The Clash The Clash | 5.0 |
