| Baths Obsidian | 4.0 |
| Kanye West Yeezus | 4.0 |
| Lust For Youth Perfect View | 2.5 |
| Sigur Ros Kveikur | 3.5 |
| These New Puritans Field of Reeds | 4.0 |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 2.5 |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning | 2.5 |
| Julia Holter Tragedy | 2.5 |
| Grouper Violet Replacement | 2.5 |
| Grouper The Man Who Died in His Boat | 4.0 |
| Camera Obscura Desire Lines | 3.0 |
| The Cardigans Gran Turismo | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork | 3.0 |
| Swans The Seer | 4.0 |
| Scout Niblett Sweet Heart Fever | 3.5 |
| Majical Cloudz Impersonator | 3.0 |
| Perfume Genius Learning (Bonus Track Edition) | 5.0 |
| Mount Kimbie Cold Spring Fault Less Youth | 2.0 |
| MS MR Secondhand Rapture | 2.5 |
| Dirty Beaches Drifters/Love Is The Devil | 3.5 |
| Super Water Sympathy Hydrogen Child | 3.0 |
| Sam Amidon Bright Sunny South | 2.5 |
| The National High Violet | 3.5 |
| John Grant Pale Green Ghosts | 4.0 |
| Bibio Silver Wilkinson | 2.5 |
| Gold Panda Lucky Shiner | 3.0 |
| Tera Melos X'ed Out | 3.0 |
| The Strokes Comedown Machine | 2.5 |
| Tyler The Creator Wolf | 1.0 |
| I'll admit that I actually would have enjoyed listening to this if I didn't speak English... or even if I just didn't know the meaning of a couple words (I'm sure you can guess which ones).rBut I do. I fully understand the argument that 'those words' are supposed to provoke emotions and are not targeted at any group, but that doesn't change the fact that they ARE targeted at a group. rToo bad. He's obviously got talent, but he's behind the curve on this one. |
| Linda Perhacs Parallelograms | 4.5 |
| Savages Silence Yourself | 3.5 |
| Mikal Cronin MCII | 3.0 |
| Little Boots Nocturnes | 2.0 |
| Small Black Limits Of Desire | 1.5 |
| Neon Neon Praxis Makes Perfect | 2.0 |
| Still Corners Strange Pleasures | 4.0 |
| Deerhunter Monomania | 3.0 |
| Grimes Halfaxa | 3.5 |
| Mint Julep Save Your Season | 2.0 |
| Mikal Cronin Mikal Cronin | 2.0 |
| Swan Lake Beast Moans | 4.0 |
| Shiny Toy Guns We Are Pilots | 1.5 |
| St. Vincent Strange Mercy | 3.5 |
| Lost In The Trees All Alone In An Empty House | 3.5 |
| Young Galaxy Shapeshifting | 3.5 |
| The Album Leaf In a Safe Place | 3.0 |
| Sun Kil Moon Ghosts of the Great Highway | 3.0 |
| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Belong | 2.5 |
| Suuns Images Du Futur | 3.0 |
| Young Galaxy Ultramarine | 4.5 |
| No Joy Wait to Pleasure | 3.5 |
| The Brother Kite Isolation | 1.5 |
| Metric Fantasies | 4.0 |
| Iron & Wine Ghost on Ghost | 2.5 |
| Barn Owl V | 1.5 |
| Houses A Quiet Darkness | 4.0 |
| Houses All Night | 3.0 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Mosquito | 4.0 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame Monster | 4.0 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame | 3.0 |
| Lady Gaga Born This Way | 2.0 |
| Team Ghost Rituals | 3.0 |
| The Knife Shaking the Habitual | 3.5 |
| The Thermals Now We Can See | 1.5 |
| The Thermals Desperate Ground | 3.5 |
| Rilo Kiley More Adventurous | 1.5 |
| Listener Not Waving, Drowning | 3.5 |
| Mono Hymn To The Immortal Wind | 4.0 |
| The Paper Chase Someday This Could All Be Yours Vol.1 | 3.0 |
| Sleeping at Last Storyboards | 3.0 |
| James Blake Overgrown | 4.0 |
| James Blake James Blake | 3.5 |
| Young Dreams Between Places | 3.0 |
| Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds | 3.0 |
| Phosphorescent Muchacho | 3.0 |
| Carmen Villain Sleeper | 2.5 |
| Cat's Eyes Cat's Eyes | 3.0 |
| Chelsea Wolfe The Grime and the Glow | 3.0 |
| Isbells Isbells | 2.5 |
| Baths Cerulean | 2.5 |
| Mazes Ores & Minerals | 2.5 |
| Waxahatchee Cerulean Salt | 3.0 |
| Blue Hawaii Untogether | 4.0 |
| Youth Lagoon Wondrous Bughouse | 4.0 |
| Iceage You're Nothing | 1.0 |
| The Men New Moon | 3.0 |
| Kate Bush 50 Words for Snow | 2.0 |
| Benoit Pioulard Hymnal | 4.0 |
| Sally Shapiro Disco Romance | 3.0 |
| Doldrums Lesser Evil | 4.0 |
| Widowspeak Almanac | 2.5 |
| Dog Bite Velvet Changes | 2.5 |
| Beach Fossils Clash the Truth | 3.5 |
| Screaming Females Ugly | 3.0 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 3.5 |
| My Brightest Diamond Bring Me the Workhorse | 4.0 |
| The Knife Silent Shout | 3.0 |
| Broken Social Scene You Forgot It In People | 3.0 |
| Feist The Reminder | 3.5 |
| Unknown Mortal Orchestra II | 3.5 |
| Of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? | 3.5 |
| Mice Parade Bem-Vinda Vontade | 2.5 |
| The Joy Formidable The Big Roar | 3.0 |
| The Joy Formidable Wolf's Law | 1.5 |
| High Places High Places | 3.5 |
| Emeralds Just To Feel Anything | 2.5 |
| The Microphones The Glow pt.2 | 3.5 |
| Cocteau Twins Treasure | 4.5 |
| The Ruby Suns Christopher | 2.0 |
| Tindersticks The Something Rain | 3.0 |
| Yo La Tengo Fade | 4.0 |
| Yo La Tengo I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One | 1.0 |
| Shearwater Animal Joy | 3.0 |
| Lord Huron Lonesome Dreams | 3.0 |
| volcano! Piñata | 2.5 |
| Animal Collective Centipede Hz | 1.5 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now | 1.5 |
| Dirty Projectors Swing Lo Magellan | 3.0 |
| Burial Kindred | 2.5 |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry | 3.0 |
| Muse The 2nd Law | 3.0 |
| Bear in Heaven I Love You, It's Cool | 2.0 |
| Melody's Echo Chamber Melody's Echo Chamber | 3.5 |
| Foxygen Take The Kids Off Broadway | 1.5 |
| Miguel Kaleidoscope Dream | 3.5 |
| Tame Impala Lonerism | 2.0 |
| Talk Normal Sunshine | 3.5 |
| Lost In The Trees A Church That Fits Our Needs | 4.5 |
| Thee Oh Sees Putrifiers II | 2.0 |
| Woods Bend Beyond | 2.0 |
| Clinic Free Reign | 3.5 |
| The Walkmen Heaven | 4.0 |
| Violens True | 2.5 |
| Divine Fits A Thing Called Divine Fits | 2.5 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever To Tell | 3.5 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 3.5 |
| I really wanted to like this more, but I got annoyed that they kept using the same tricks over and over again (repetitive tinkling noises and layered vocals). It got real old by the 5th or 6th song. Still pretty good though. |
| The Shins Oh, Inverted World | 1.5 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 4.0 |
| Sharon Van Etten Tramp | 4.0 |
| Peaking Lights Lucifer | 2.0 |
| Hot Chip In Our Heads | 3.0 |
| Julianna Barwick The Magic Place | 2.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city | 2.5 |
| I JUST DON'T GET IT. Why? Why this album? Is hip-hop in such a sad spot where ANY album that is even REMOTELY introspective is hailed as great? This is so average it hurts. |
| alt-j An Awesome Wave | 2.5 |
| Solange True | 2.0 |
| Allo Darlin' Europe | 2.5 |
| The Twilight Sad No One Can Ever Know | 2.5 |
| Hop Along Get Disowned | 3.0 |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation | 3.5 |
| Janis Joplin Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits | 4.5 |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 2.5 |
| Tops Tender Opposites | 2.5 |
| Sigur Ros Valtari | 2.0 |
| Gosh I wanted to like this... the first time I listened to Ekki M?kk I was overwhelmed. It just has no staying power! By the second revisiting I couldn't make it past the 20 minute mark. They'll always have their early releases, but this is a miss. |
| Wild Nothing Nocturne | 3.0 |
| Wild Nothing Gemini | 3.5 |
| Chairlift Something | 3.0 |
| Ultraista Ultraista | 2.0 |
| Completely unremarkable and average. It sounds just like half a dozen other synth-y bands out there (although I must admit I love the cover art). |
| Death Grips The Money Store | 3.0 |
| The lyrics are almost unintelligible and the production is nothing to gawk at, but it definitely kept my attention. I'm reluctant to give it this high of an album because of their real-life antics, but what can you do? |
| Bloc Party Four | 3.5 |
| The Maccabees Given to the Wild | 4.0 |
| How to Dress Well Total Loss | 2.5 |
| Angel Olsen Half Way Home | 4.5 |
| Django Django Django Django | 3.0 |
| Foe Bad Dream Hotline | 4.0 |
| Love her voice; love their lyrics; love this band. I'm getting a 'Cults' vibe with maybe a little 'Polica'. |
| Echo Lake Wild Peace | 3.0 |
| Liars WIXIW | 4.0 |
| Titus Andronicus Local Business | 3.0 |
| Japandroids Celebration Rock | 2.5 |
| Noisy, escapist, and pretty much just 'ok'. Nothing too original or groundbreaking, but nothing particularly offensive, either. |
| Cloud Nothings Attack On Memory | 2.5 |
| It's certainly interesting, but nothing that sticks out of the crowd for me. it sounds like just about every other angst-y indie band out there right now. rHave to say I love the cover art, though. |
| Karen Elson The Ghost Who Walks | 2.0 |
| La Roux La Roux | 4.5 |
| The Rosebuds Life Like | 4.0 |
| The Stone Roses The Stone Roses | 3.5 |
| Ellie Goulding Halcyon | 3.5 |
| Marina and The Diamonds The Family Jewels | 3.0 |
| Mercury Rev Deserter's Songs | 3.0 |
| Ke$ha I Am the Dance Commander + I Command You to Dance: | 2.0 |
| Ke$ha Warrior | 1.0 |
| Ke$ha Animal | 3.5 |
| Ke$ha Cannibal | 4.5 |
| Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot | 3.0 |
| Ride Nowhere | 2.5 |
| AU Both Lights | 2.5 |
| Foals Total Life Forever | 3.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! | 2.5 |
| The Drums The Drums | 4.0 |
| The Ruby Suns Fight Softly | 3.5 |
| The Ruby Suns Sea Lion | 1.5 |
| Future Islands In Evening Air | 2.5 |
| Paavoharju Laulu Laakson Kukista | 4.0 |
| Broadcast HaHa Sound | 2.5 |
| Interpol Antics | 3.0 |
| Scarlett Johansson Anywhere I Lay My Head | 4.0 |
I don't understand a lot of the flack that this album is getting... Falling Down is actually one of my favorite
songs. Her voice is definitely throaty, but I'm into that. The production is beautiful and I like her spin on the
lyrics. I'm admittedly not a huge Tom Waits fan, but it sounds like she did her best to give him credit and she
obviously admires him. Idk. Maybe I'm just an amateur and everybody else has better eardrums. It seems like
she walked into this and there was nothing she could do BUT get hate. |
| Lotus Plaza Spooky Action At A Distance | 2.5 |
| Julia Holter Ekstasis | 3.5 |
| Glass Candy B/E/A/T/B/O/X | 2.0 |
| Frankie Rose Interstellar | 2.0 |
| Chromatics Kill For Love | 3.0 |
| The Zombies Odessey and Oracle | 3.0 |
| Allah Las Allah Las | 3.5 |
| The Decemberists The King Is Dead | 3.5 |
| Nicki Minaj Pink Friday | 3.0 |
| Nicki Minaj Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded | 3.5 |
| Lemuria Get Better | 3.5 |
| Big Deal Lights Out | 3.5 |
| Spoon Kill The Moonlight | 3.5 |
| White Rabbits It's Frightening | 2.0 |
| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | 2.0 |
| The Boy Least Likely To Best Party Ever | 2.5 |
| Listened to it on Pitchfork's recommendation (I know, right) and was pretty disappointed. They don't stick out from the (rather large) crowd of child-like artists. |
| The Evens Get Evens | 4.0 |
| The Concretes In Colour | 1.0 |
| I bought this on a whim because their debut is pretty amazing, but this sucks. Her voice is toned down and the entire orchestration is pretty uninspiring. |
| Okkervil River The Stage Names | 2.5 |
| I was pretty disappointed. 'Down The River Of Golden Dreams' is one of my favorite albums, but I really had trouble focusing for more than one or two songs with this one. Too bad. Still a great band, though. |
| Lavender Diamond Incorruptible Heart | 3.0 |
| I'll be honest: it was absurdly happy (not usually my cup of tea) and REALLY long... but I loved it. |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico | 4.0 |
| I'll admit that I like this primarily for Nico on 'I'll Be Your Mirror' and 'Femme Fatale' (which, I'm sure, isn't a very popular statement), but the rest is quite good as well. Lou's voice is a little grating (not to my taste) but he makes up for it with his lyrics. |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles III | 2.5 |
| Islands Return To The Sea | 1.5 |
| I love The Unicorns (so I'll admit that i had high expectations) but this was just underwhelming. Where's the cheek? Where's the originality? This sounds like every other run-of-the-mill folk/pop act out there. |
| Clinic Walking With Thee | 3.0 |
| Lana Del Rey Paradise | 3.5 |
| I like her new direction, but there are too many disposable tracks. The next album is going to take over the world. |
| Guided By Voices Propeller | 3.0 |
| Jessica Bailiff At the Down-turned Jagged Rim of the Sky | 2.5 |
| Kind of reminds me of a more electronic-oriented Grouper. Still good, not great, though. |
| Clinic Internal Wrangler | 4.0 |
| The Unicorns Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? | 4.0 |
| Grizzly Bear Horn of Plenty | 2.0 |
| Pomplamoose Pomplamoose VideoSongs | 2.5 |
| Her voice is pretty and nothing was necessarily OFFENSIVE... but I don't really feel the need to listen to them (ever) again. |
| Rilo Kiley Take-Offs & Landings | 3.5 |
| Lush Gala | 1.5 |
| It was okay... I just kept thinking "Cocteau Twins knock-off". |
| Rihanna Talk That Talk | 3.5 |
| Rihanna Rated R | 1.5 |
| Madonna Ray of Light | 4.0 |
| Madonna MDNA | 1.0 |
| Rilo Kiley The Execution of All Things | 3.5 |
| The great was great, but the filler was definitely filler. Love her voice, though. |
| Mac DeMarco 2 | 1.5 |
| I'll admit that this isn't really my genre, but it's been getting good reviews so I gave it a listen. Not impressed. Sounds like half a million other acoustic albums out there. |
| Diamond Rings Special Affections | 2.0 |
| I really wanted to like it because it looked like it was going to sound kind of like The Drums... but I was really disappointed. His voice is interesting, but the beats and lyrics are tired. Sorry 'bout it. |
| Land Of Talk Some Are Lakes | 3.0 |
| It was okay. Her voice is pretty but there wasn't enough variation for this to be truly remarkable. |
| Gold Motel Summer House | 2.5 |
| The Thermals The Body, The Blood, The Machine | 5.0 |
| Iron & Wine Our Endless Numbered Days | 4.0 |
| Hot Snakes Suicide Invoice | 2.0 |
| All I heard was noise. I don't get any of the hype... lyrics were nothing to gawk at, his voice is maybe average, and the instruments are pretty unremarkable. Sounds like half a dozen other 'punk' albums out there. |
| Bat For Lashes The Haunted Man | 1.5 |
| She always manages to disappoint me... Laura is one of my favorite singles of the year, but there isn't a single other song on this album worth listening to. Love ya, but this sucks. |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 5.0 |
| Grouper A I A | 1.5 |
| There just wasn't enough going on. DADDUAH is one of my favorite albums of all time, but this one bored me to tears. Pretty tinkling isn't enough to make an album. |
| Low Things We Lost in the Fire | 3.0 |
| It runs a little long to keep me interested... I wanted to love it but I just liked it. |
| True Widow As High As The Highest Heavens And From The Center | 2.0 |
| The instrumentals are SO LONG and boring I could barely sit through the first couple songs. You know I love some fuzzy guitars... but this was too much. |
| Sister Crayon Bellow | 1.5 |
| I listened to this because it was recommended for Chelsea Wolfe fans... but it was uninspiring. |
| Okkervil River Down the River of Golden Dreams | 3.5 |
| Camera Obscura Let's Get Out of This Country | 3.0 |
| It was just okay. I LOVE her voice... but something is missing. There isn't really an 'amazing' song on the album to bring it all together. |
| Chelsea Wolfe Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs | 4.0 |
| I LOVE The Way We Used To... but a lot of the other songs just blended in. Maybe I'll listen to it again and change my rating... but for now this is about a 3.7. |
| La Sera La Sera | 2.5 |
| The Concretes The Concretes | 4.0 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Ἀποκάλυψις | 5.0 |
| Hated it first listen, loved it second. Beautiful, haunting perfection. Every song is a unique and stand-alone statement.rA classic. |
| The Cure Pornography | 2.0 |
| Earlimart Everyone Down Here | 3.0 |
| Tamaryn Tender New Signs | 2.0 |
| Tamaryn The Waves | 1.5 |
| La Sera Sees The Light | 3.5 |
| I was initially a little nervous about it until I got to 'Over Now'... which may be one of my favorite break-up songs of all time. Loved. Second half is definitely much better than the first, but there is a lot of great potential here. I bet the next album will be a solid 4-4.5. |
| Atlas Sound Logos | 2.0 |
| I mean this in the best way possible, but PLEASE stick with Deerhunter from now on. |
| Tori Amos Little Earthquakes | 4.0 |
| Nico The End | 5.0 |
| From the opening line you KNOW that it's going to be amazing (and it is). The darkest piece of her career, and her best. A harmonium has never been put to better use. |
| Cat Power The Greatest | 2.5 |
| Polica Give You The Ghost | 3.0 |
| It was okay... but not anything I feel like listening to again. |
| Ohbijou Metal Meets | 2.0 |
| Mount Eerie Ocean Roar | 1.5 |
| Tennis Young And Old | 4.5 |
| I, for one, don't understand all the flack that this album is getting. It's cute, airy, melodic, and catchy. No, it's not asking for the wall to get torn down, and no, it's not going to win the Pulitzer any time soon, but that's not the point. It's an early-fall romance; beautiful in its simplicity. |
| Tame Impala Innerspeaker | 1.5 |
| Sera Cahoone Deer Creek Canyon | 1.0 |
| The Postmarks The Postmarks | 3.0 |
| The Postmarks By The Numbers | 2.0 |
| I wanted to like it... I really did... but I found myself fading in and out of interest. Her voice is definitely pretty; the production is definitely cutesy; but it didn't sum up to much. Three Little Birds was an exception, but not enough of one to bring the rest of the album up. |
| Taken By Trees Other Worlds | 1.5 |
| I just was bored. Nothing (i.e. lyrics, production, mood) very exciting except (of course) her voice. Too bad. |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes | 1.5 |
| Mountain Man Made The Harbor | 3.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs | 3.0 |
| I THOUGHT I loved this album... but the more that I listen to it... the more I have to conclude that most of the songs are corny or forgettable. Cath... and Bixby Canyon Bridge are great, but the album is dragged down by the middle and end. |
| Simon and Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water | 5.0 |
| 'Classic' is, really, the only word for it. Not a single bad track to be found, and some of the greatest songs of all time (I'm talking to you 'Boxer' and 'Bridge Over Troubled Waters'). Perfect. |
| Dum Dum Girls Only in Dreams | 4.0 |
| Dum Dum Girls I Will Be | 2.0 |
| Shearwater Rook | 3.5 |
| Camera Obscura My Maudlin Career | 3.5 |
| Taken By Trees East of Eden | 3.0 |
| Woods Sun and Shade | 3.5 |
| Totally bizarre, but totally lovable. The main criticism is probably going to be that there is too much instrumental, but I barely noticed. Loved. |
| Band of Horses Everything All the Time | 1.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Shields | 1.5 |
| Deerhunter Halcyon Digest | 4.0 |
| Beach Fossils Beach Fossils | 3.5 |
| It has definitely grown on me. After the first few listens I thought that all of the songs sounded too similar; over time, though, it's really climbed my list. |
| The xx Coexist | 2.0 |
| The xx xx | 4.5 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 2.0 |
| I was unpleasantly bored. I just don't get the hype. |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 5.0 |
| It took a couple of listens... but when you get it you get it. Brings out the abused child in all of us... |
| Grimes Visions | 3.0 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 3.0 |
| Amy Winehouse Back To Black | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 3.0 |
| Frank Ocean Channel Orange | 2.5 |
| Vivian Girls Vivian Girls | 1.5 |
| I was just bored. I don't really have anything else to say. |
| Crystal Stilts Alight of Night | 2.5 |
| Good, but not amazing; the voice gets a little annoying after a couple of songs, and the lyrics aren't anything mind-blowing... but it works for a little while. |
| The Books The Lemon Of Pink | 1.0 |
| The Kills No Wow | 3.0 |
| Small Black New Chain | 2.5 |
| Beach Fossils What A Pleasure | 2.5 |
| Uuummm... I have to admit that this is EXACTLY what I would classify as 'my type of music' (aka hazy/lazy vocals and fuzzy guitars)... but it was just missing something. I wasn't bored when listening, but I didn't feel the need to listen to it (ever) again. Lots of potential... but maybe next time. |
| Niki And The Dove Instinct | 3.0 |
| Worth listening to, but nothing particularly special. |
| Blonde Redhead Misery is a Butterfly | 3.0 |
| Sparklehorse Good Morning Spider | 3.0 |
| Caribou Swim | 1.0 |
| Widowspeak Widowspeak | 2.0 |
| Good for a listen, but not particularly memorable. |
| Still Corners Don't Fall In Love | 4.0 |
| Simple and haunting; one of their best songs (including I Wrote In Blood, Cuckoo, and Demons) |
| Maroon 5 Overexposed | 1.0 |
| Maroon 5 Hands All Over | 2.5 |
| Maroon 5 It Won't Be Soon Before Long | 1.5 |
| Maroon 5 Songs About Jane | 3.5 |
| High Places 03/07 - 09/07 | 2.0 |
| Purity Ring Shrines | 5.0 |
| Perfume Genius Put Your Back N 2 It | 4.5 |
| Blouse Blouse | 1.5 |
| Completely and utterly forgettable. Not a single track that I wanted to listen to again. |
| Still Corners Creatures of an Hour | 4.5 |
| Love. You know it's going to be 'good' after listening to Cuckoo, but then it smoothly transitions to 'great' after I Wrote In Blood, and 'excellent' after Demons. |
| Cut Off Your Hands Hollow | 2.0 |
| Bjork Homogenic | 3.5 |
| Just average. Nothing more. I've never understood her hype... so much potential but her lyrics are SOOOO CORRNNNYYYY. |
| Bjork Post | 2.0 |
| Dirty Beaches Badlands | 3.0 |
| Cocteau Twins Heaven Or Las Vegas | 3.0 |
| Sleigh Bells Reign of Terror | 1.5 |
| Passion Pit Gossamer | 1.5 |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead | 2.5 |
| The Smiths The Smiths | 3.0 |
| Trailer Trash Tracys Ester | 2.0 |
| I don't MIND the album (it's probably more like an 'average') but I have to give a lower rating because there was the POTENTIAL for a 4-4.5. If they could have done the entire album like 'Candy Girl' and 'Wish You Were Red' (i.e. strong bass melody with moody lyrics) then this would have been one of the best of the year. Instead its a hazy mess. Her voice is so unique and they buried under noise. |
| Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel... | 3.5 |
| Fiona Apple When the Pawn... | 3.0 |
| Fiona Apple Tidal | 3.5 |
| The Sundays Reading, Writing and Arithmetic | 1.0 |
| The Sundays Static and Silence | 2.0 |
| Of Monsters and Men My Head is an Animal | 2.5 |
| Pixies Doolittle | 2.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | 2.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream | 2.0 |
| Sleigh Bells Treats | 4.0 |
| Bat For Lashes Two Suns | 2.0 |
| I want to like it... but I don't. A couple of the songs are great, but the rest are just throw-away. |
| Liz Phair Whitechocolatespaceegg | 3.0 |
| Lana Del Rey Lana Del Rey a.k.a Lizzy Grant | 4.0 |
| Stunning. I bet half of these negative reviews are people that haven't even listened to it. You can't sit through Pawn Shop Blues, Mermaid Motel, and Kill Kill without giving this (at least) a 3.5. |
| Lana Del Rey Born to Die | 5.0 |
| Haters are always gonna hate, but this is a MASTERPIECE. Nobody can listen to Blue Jeans, Off To The Races and Born To Die and not just GET IT. |
| Laurel Halo Quarantine | 2.0 |
| Animal Collective Strawberry Jam | 1.0 |
| Animal Collective Feels | 3.0 |
| Black Moth Super Rainbow Dandelion Gum | 3.0 |
| The robot voice was kind of cute, but a little overdone. It needed a little more cohesiveness and variation. |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Oceania | 2.5 |
| DIIV Oshin | 2.5 |
| Mount Eerie Clear Moon | 3.5 |
| Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill | 5.0 |
| In short: I love it. Am listening to it constantly. A masterpiece of murky folk rock. |
| Nirvana In Utero | 3.5 |
| Nirvana Bleach | 1.5 |
| Marcy Playground Marcy Playground | 3.5 |
| Marilyn Manson Mechanical Animals | 3.0 |
| Joanna Newsom The Milk-Eyed Mender | 4.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Yellow House | 4.5 |
| Atmospheric, baroque perfection. Definitely an album that must be played BEGINNING to END... no skipping... no starting at the best song... just playing. |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest | 5.0 |
| Youth Lagoon The Year of Hibernation | 4.0 |
| Good not great. I wears you down about 2/3 of the way through. |
| Frou Frou Details | 3.0 |
| Liz Phair Whip-Smart | 4.0 |
| An amazing sophomore after a CLASSIC debut. Couldn't ask for more. |
| Liz Phair Exile In Guyville | 4.5 |
| Maybe A LITTLE overrated... but still very (very) good. |
| The Drums Portamento | 3.5 |
| Definitely unique and cheeky... and I do love some good cheek. |
| The Cranberries To the Faithful Departed | 3.0 |
| Just OK. A little too pop-y for my taste... not to mention that a lot of the lyrics are corny as hell. There are definitely some standouts, though. |
| The Cranberries No Need to Argue | 4.5 |
| Either their best or their worst. Best: Zombie, Disappointment, Everything I Said, No Need To Argue, Daffodil Lament, Dreaming My Dreams, Ridiculous Thoughts. Absolute worst thing they've put out: Ode To My Family, Twenty One, I Can't Be With You, Yeat's Grave, The Icicle Melts, Empty. Overall, though, the strong easily overpower the weak and make their most ambitious and entertaining album. |
| The Cranberries Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? | 4.0 |
| Definitely a 90s standout. It has the same great voice and melodies as their later albums without falling victim to their sometimes corny lyrics. Love. |
| Nico The Marble Index | 1.5 |
| Nico Chelsea Girl | 2.0 |
| Nico Desertshore | 4.5 |
| Dark. Mysterious. Sexy. Perfect. Her untouchable masterpiece. |
| Britney Spears Oops!...I Did It Again | 3.0 |
| Britney Spears Britney | 2.0 |
| Britney Spears Femme Fatale | 2.5 |
| Britney Spears Circus | 3.0 |
| Britney Spears In The Zone | 5.0 |
| Britney Spears Blackout | 4.0 |
| Definitely her best album (not to mention the introduction of dub step into mainstream music). |
| The Shins Port of Morrow | 1.0 |
| The Shins Wincing the Night Away | 3.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Codes and Keys | 2.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism | 4.0 |
| I was originally (admittedly) a hater... but it's certainly grown on me. Their best after 'Photo Album'. |
| Death Cab for Cutie Plans | 2.0 |
| It's a strained comparison, but this is (to me) Death Cab's 'Out Of Time': Two of their best songs (Soul Meets Body and I Will Follow You Into The Dark), and the rest is just forgettable. Nothing truly offensive, but just too inconsistent for me. |
| Death Cab for Cutie The Photo Album | 4.5 |
| People can hate on them all they want... but they can never take away this masterpiece of barely-suppressed anger. Perfect. |
| The Antlers Burst Apart | 2.5 |
| The Antlers Hospice | 5.0 |
| Absolutely devastating. You can't listen to Kettering, Bear, and Epilogue without dying. |
| Best Coast The Only Place | 3.0 |
| Best Coast Crazy For You | 4.5 |
| This is the perfect example of an album that people want to hate so bad that they can't possibly look past its surface. Whatever. |
| Beach House Beach House | 5.0 |
| Beach House Teen Dream | 4.0 |
| I want to like this more because 'Silver Soul' and 'Used To Be' are two of my favorite songs, but there are just so many blah tracks on here. Too bad. |
| Beach House Devotion | 5.0 |
| One of my favorite albums of all time. Every song is great and flows smoothly into the next... definitely an 'album' and not a collection of songs. |
| Beach House Bloom | 3.0 |
