| The Republic of Wolves shrine | 4.0 |
| Dustin Kensrue Desert Dreaming | 4.0 |
| Crippling Alcoholism With Love From a Padded Room | 3.5 |
| As someone with crippling alcoholism I enjoy this very much. |
| Devin Townsend Project Sky Blue | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Transcendence | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Epicloud | 4.5 |
| Devin Townsend Empath | 4.5 |
| Florence Foster Jenkins The Glory (????) of the Human Voice | 1.0 |
| Soccer Mommy Sometimes, Forever | 3.5 |
| Cave Sermon Divine Laughter | 1.0 |
| Rhun (USA-ME) Conveyance In Death | 1.0 |
| Valleyheart Everyone I've Ever Loved | 4.5 |
| Valleyheart Heal My Head | 4.5 |
| Holding Absence The Noble Art of Self-Destruction | 4.5 |
| Chevelle Wonder What's Next | 4.0 |
| Novelists Noir | 4.0 |
| Red Velvet Chill Kill | 3.5 |
| Regina Spektor Home, Before and After | 4.0 |
| Jeff Rosenstock HELLMODE | 3.0 |
| Pentimento I, No Longer | 3.5 |
| Dad Hats Spill | 4.0 |
| Olivia Rodrigo Guts | 3.5 |
| The Contortionist Clairvoyant | 4.5 |
| Moving Mountains Moving Mountains | 4.0 |
| Hot Mulligan Why Would I Watch | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains Alice in Chains | 4.0 |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 1.0 |
| Boygenius the record | 4.0 |
| Spiritbox The Fear of Fear | 4.5 |
| clairo Immunity | 3.5 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard The Silver Cord | 3.0 |
| This band is giving Ryan Adams a run for his money in not understanding the meaning of quality control. |
| The Gaslight Anthem History Books | 3.5 |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion | 4.5 |
| Alexisonfire Crisis | 4.0 |
| Tegan and Sara Heartthrob | 4.5 |
| Taylor Swift 1989 (Taylor’s Version) | 2.5 |
| Headlights Kill Them With Kindness | 4.0 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 4.5 |
| blink-182 One More Time... | 4.0 |
| Beloved Failure On | 4.5 |
| Svalbard When I Die, Will I Get Better? | 4.0 |
| Hayley Williams FLOWERS for VASES / descansos | 4.0 |
| Anberlin Lowborn | 4.5 |
| Steven Wilson The Harmony Codex | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here | 4.0 |
| VOLA Witness | 4.5 |
| Of Mice and Men Tether | 1.0 |
| Blonde Redhead Sit Down for Dinner | 3.5 |
| Svalbard The Weight of the Mask | 4.5 |
| Moonlight Sorcery Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle | 1.0 |
| Wings of Steel Gates of Twilight | 3.5 |
| Fiona Apple When the Pawn... | 5.0 |
| Demi Lovato Holy Fvck | 3.5 |
| Casualties of Cool Casualties of Cool | 4.5 |
| Blood Command World Domination | 2.5 |
This album is a fucking mess. Decades, Losing
Faith, Tetragram and
World Domination are fantastic and if they
leaned further into the sound of those 4
tracks they might be onto something but, just
like the previous album, I feel like their
vocalist is trying way too hard to imitate the
sound of the previous vocalist and it comes
across as kind of... obnoxious and forced? It
just doesn't hit the same as Cult Drugs which
was where they peaked. |
| The Civil Wars Barton Hollow | 4.0 |
| Charli XCX How I'm Feeling Now | 5.0 |
| Neko Case Hell-On | 2.5 |
| Endless, Nameless Living Without | 4.0 |
| The National Laugh Track | 3.5 |
| Gojira The Link | 3.5 |
| Gojira Terra Incognita | 4.0 |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh | 4.0 |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage | 4.0 |
| Gojira Magma | 4.0 |
| TesseracT War of Being | 4.0 |
| lowheaven collapse | 4.5 |
| Taylor Swift Lover | 4.5 |
| Noah Cyrus The Hardest Part | 4.5 |
| Shovels and Rope O' Be Joyful | 4.0 |
| Spiritbox Spiritbox | 4.0 |
| Laura Stevenson Wheel | 4.5 |
| Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell! | 4.0 |
| Anberlin Convinced | 4.0 |
| Adjy June Songs Vol. 1 | 4.5 |
| Ithaca They Fear Us | 4.0 |
| Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It | 4.0 |
| Rolo Tomassi Where Myth Becomes Memory | 3.5 |
| Pupil Slicer Mirrors | 3.0 |
| Pupil Slicer Blossom | 3.5 |
| Phoxjaw notverynicecream | 3.5 |
| Thrice Deeper Wells | 4.0 |
| Thrice Major/Minor | 4.5 |
| Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere | 4.0 |
| Thrice Palms | 3.0 |
| Taylor Swift Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) | 4.5 |
| Taylor Swift 1989 | 4.0 |
| Taylor Swift Reputation | 2.0 |
| Taylor Swift Folklore | 4.5 |
| Alexisonfire Otherness | 4.5 |
| Foo Fighters But Here We Are | 3.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Life Is But a Dream... | 2.5 |
| Iress Solace | 4.0 |
| Sleep Token Take Me Back to Eden | 3.5 |
| Blood Command Funeral Beach | 4.0 |
| Blood Command Cult Drugs | 4.5 |
| I See Stars Anomaly / Drift | 3.0 |
| TEETH (CAN) A Biblical Worship Of Violence | 4.0 |
| Rebecca Black Let Her Burn | 3.5 |
| Unearth The Wretched; The Ruinous | 3.0 |
| It's 2007 again baby. This would hit harder if I had a 2007 version of Four Loko in my hands. |
| Ed Sheeran – | 1.5 |
| My wife is a ginger too but I still don't trust them. |
| Glacier Veins Lunar Reflection | 4.0 |
| Bilmuri Eggy Pocket | 4.5 |
| Bilmuri Goblin Hours | 4.0 |
| The National First Two Pages of Frankenstein | 3.5 |
Look. I get it. This band has obviously become
complacent with their sound over the years. I
have been on this site for over 20 years. I
haven't changed my avatar since like 2006.I'm
old and depressed and this is comfort food. As
people grow older, sometimes boring is good.
I'm 36 now. I am boring. I know what I am and
clearly the National know what they are to.
I'm ok with that. |
| Taylor Swift Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions | 4.5 |
| Taylor Swift Red (Taylor’s Version) | 4.0 |
| Taylor Swift 1989 (Deluxe Edition) | 4.0 |
| Paramore This Is Why | 3.5 |
| Paramore After Laughter | 4.0 |
| Paramore Paramore | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Lightwork | 4.0 |
| Taylor Swift Midnights | 3.5 |
| Poppy I Disagree (more) | 4.0 |
| Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes Sticky | 1.0 |
| Bilmuri 400LB Back Squat | 4.0 |
| Poppy Flux | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 4.5 |
| Spiritbox Eternal Blue | 3.5 |
| Thrice Horizons/East | 4.5 |
| Best thing they have put pit in over a decade. Manages to feel a lot like Beggars and Major/Minor slapped together. |
| Port O'Brien Threadbare | 4.0 |
| Gojira Fortitude | 3.5 |
| Genghis Tron Dream Weapon | 4.5 |
| Low C'Mon | 3.5 |
| One thing you have to admire about this band, is that they consistently put out solid albums every few years, and largely...it will go almost completely unnoticed. But they've done exactly what anyone could hope they could do. They've kept the same fanbase intact, and they've kept them pleased for the last 20 years. This album is no exception. It might not rank up there with their best, but it's still very good. |
| Death Cab for Cutie Codes and Keys | 3.5 |
| Pssh, this is so much better than Narrow Stairs, and moderately better than Plans. I played this album not expecting it to really grab my attention and was supposed to serve merely as some mundane but relaxing background music, and yet I found it actually making me take notice on numerous occasions. And now I've grown quite fond of it. It's a very solid album, even if doesn't really bring anything new to the table. |
| The Jezabels Dark Storm | 4.5 |
| Jessica Lea Mayfield Tell Me | 4.0 |
| The Dodos No Color | 4.0 |
| The Kills Blood Pressures | 4.0 |
| Wye Oak Civilian | 4.0 |
| Sara Bareilles Kaleidoscope Heart | 4.5 |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs | 4.5 |
| The Besnard Lakes The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night | 4.0 |
| Stars The Five Ghosts | 4.0 |
| Peter Wolf Crier Inter-Be | 4.0 |
| The Middle East The Recordings of the Middle East | 4.5 |
| The Dead Weather Sea of Cowards | 3.5 |
| Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros Up From Below | 4.5 |
| Freelance Whales Weathervanes | 4.0 |
| The New Pornographers Challengers | 4.0 |
| Kate Nash My Best Friend Is You | 3.5 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame | 2.5 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame Monster | 3.5 |
| Goldfrapp Felt Mountain | 4.0 |
| Goldfrapp Black Cherry | 3.5 |
| Goldfrapp Supernature | 4.0 |
| MGMT Oracular Spectacular | 3.5 |
| MGMT Congratulations | 2.0 |
| Horse Feathers House With No Home | 4.0 |
| The National The Virginia EP | 3.5 |
| The National High Violet | 4.5 |
| Goldfrapp Head First | 3.5 |
| Wye Oak If Children | 4.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon | 4.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas | 3.5 |
| Silversun Pickups Pikul | 4.5 |
| Great Northern Trading Twilight for Daylight | 4.0 |
| Peter Broderick Home | 4.0 |
| Norah Jones The Fall | 4.0 |
| Tegan and Sara Sainthood | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 3.0 |
| Devendra Banhart What Will We Be | 2.0 |
| The Kills Midnight Boom | 3.5 |
| The Kills No Wow | 3.5 |
| The Kills Keep On Your Mean Side | 4.0 |
| Idaho Hearts of Palm | 3.5 |
| An Horse Rearrange Beds | 3.5 |
| The Swell Season Strict Joy | 4.5 |
| Against Me! Against Me! | 4.0 |
| Against Me! Reinventing Axl Rose | 3.5 |
| Against Me! Searching for a Former Clarity | 3.5 |
| Against Me! New Wave | 3.5 |
| Adele 19 | 2.5 |
| Aereogramme Sleep and Release | 4.0 |
| 65daysofstatic The Fall of Math | 3.0 |
| 65daysofstatic The Destruction of Small Ideas | 3.0 |
| Kanye West Graduation | 3.0 |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak | 4.0 |
| 13 and God 13 & God | 3.5 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Yeah Yeah Yeahs | 2.5 |
| Winds Prominence and Demise | 1.0 |
| William Fitzsimmons Goodnight | 3.5 |
| William Fitzsimmons The Sparrow and the Crow | 4.0 |
| William Fitzsimmons Until When We Are Ghosts | 4.0 |
| William Elliott Whitmore Animals in the Dark | 3.5 |
| Wilco Wilco (The Album) | 3.0 |
| Why? Eskimo Snow | 2.5 |
| We Are Scientists Brain Thrust Mastery | 3.0 |
| Vetiver Vetiver | 3.0 |
| Vetiver To Find Me Gone | 3.0 |
| Vetiver Thing Of The Past | 2.5 |
| The Velvet Underground The Best of the Velvet Underground | 4.0 |
| TV on the Radio Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes | 3.5 |
| TV on the Radio Dear Science | 3.5 |
| Trespassers William Anchor | 2.5 |
| Trespassers William Having | 4.5 |
| Trespassers William Different Stars | 4.5 |
| Trespassers William The Natural Order of Things | 3.5 |
| Tori Amos Abnormally Attracted To Sin | 3.0 |
| Tokyo Police Club Elephant Shell | 2.5 |
| To-Mera Transcendental | 2.0 |
| Tiny Vipers Life on Earth | 3.5 |
| Tilly and the Wall O | 2.5 |
| Thrice Identity Crisis | 3.0 |
| Thrice First Impressions | 2.5 |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 3.5 |
| Thrice Come All You Weary | 3.5 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 4.0 |
| Thrice Beggars | 3.5 |
| Thom Yorke The Eraser | 2.5 |
| This Ending Dead Harvest | 1.5 |
| Textures Silhouettes | 2.5 |
| Tegan and Sara This Business of Art | 2.0 |
| Tegan and Sara If It Was You | 2.0 |
| Tegan and Sara So Jealous | 4.0 |
| Tegan and Sara The Con | 3.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave | 4.5 |
| Taken By Trees East of Eden | 3.0 |
| The Sword Age of Winters | 2.0 |
| The Sword Gods of the Earth | 1.5 |
| Sun Kil Moon April | 3.5 |
| Sun Kil Moon Tiny Cities | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens A Sun Came | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Enjoy Your Rabbit | 2.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois | 4.5 |
| The Subways Young For Eternity | 3.0 |
| The Subways All or Nothing | 3.5 |
| The Submarines Declare A New State | 3.5 |
| The Submarines Honeysuckle Weeks | 3.5 |
| Steven Wilson Unreleased Electronic Music Vol. 1 | 3.0 |
| Steven Wilson Insurgentes | 3.0 |
| Stars In Our Bedroom After The War | 3.5 |
| Stars Set Yourself On Fire | 4.0 |
| St. Vincent Marry Me | 4.0 |
| St. Vincent Actor | 3.5 |
| The Sounds Dying to Say This to You | 3.0 |
| The Sounds Crossing the Rubicon | 1.5 |
| Sophie Hunger Monday's Ghost | 2.0 |
| Yo La Tengo I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One | 3.5 |
| Yo La Tengo Popular Songs | 4.0 |
| Sonic Youth Washing Machine | 4.0 |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation | 4.0 |
| Sonic Youth The Eternal | 4.0 |
| Jaymay Autumn Fallin' | 3.0 |
| Soap and Skin Lovetune for Vacuum | 3.0 |
| The Notwist Neon Golden | 4.0 |
| The Notwist The Devil, You + Me | 3.0 |
| Bon Iver Myspace Transmissions | 4.0 |
| Bon Iver Blood Bank | 3.5 |
| Bob Dylan Christmas in the Heart | 2.0 |
| Bob Dylan Nashville Skyline | 4.5 |
| Bob Dylan Modern Times | 2.5 |
| Nick Drake Pink Moon | 4.0 |
| Nada Surf The Weight Is a Gift | 3.5 |
| Nada Surf Lucky | 3.5 |
| Ryan Adams Cardinology | 3.5 |
| Kevin Devine Circle Gets the Square | 3.5 |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots | 4.0 |
| The Flaming Lips Embryonic | 3.5 |
| Phosphorescent Pride | 4.5 |
| Metric Fantasies | 4.0 |
| Liz Durrett Outside Our Gates | 4.0 |
| Logh A Sunset Panorama | 4.0 |
| Logh Every Time A Bell Rings an Angel Gets His Wings | 4.5 |
| This is one of the most beautiful and overlooked albums of the decade. I'm actually rather shocked this band hasn't gotten more attention from the Sputnik community, as they have consistently released down-tempo modern rock/post rock for nearly a decade now. |
| Logh North | 4.0 |
| Jenny Owen Youngs Batten The Hatches | 2.0 |
| Jenny Lewis Acid Tongue | 4.0 |
| Japandroids Post-Nothing | 4.0 |
| Jana Hunter There's No Home | 3.0 |
| Iron And Wine The Creek Drank the Cradle | 4.5 |
| Iron And Wine Our Endless Numbered Days | 4.5 |
| Calexico and Iron and Wine In the Reins | 4.0 |
| Iron And Wine The Shepherd's Dog | 3.0 |
| Ingrid Michaelson Girls And Boys | 4.0 |
| Ingrid Michaelson Be OK | 3.5 |
| Ingrid Michaelson Everybody | 3.0 |
| In Mourning Shrouded Divine | 4.0 |
| The Honorary Title Anything Else But The Truth | 2.0 |
| Heartless Bastards All This Time | 4.5 |
| Heartless Bastards Stairs and Elevators | 2.5 |
| Heartless Bastards The Mountain | 4.0 |
| Noah and the Whale Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down | 2.0 |
| Headlights Some Racing, Some Stopping | 3.0 |
| Great Lake Swimmers Lost Channels | 2.5 |
| Daath The Hinderers | 3.0 |
| The Antlers In the Attic of the Universe | 4.0 |
| The Antlers Hospice | 3.5 |
| Grand Archives The Grand Archives | 4.0 |
| Alela Diane To Be Still | 3.0 |
| Ghost Mice Debt of the Dead | 3.5 |
| Heathers Here, Not There | 3.5 |
| Alexi Murdoch Time Without Consequence | 3.5 |
| Scale the Summit Carving Desert Canyons | 4.0 |
| Editors In This Light and On This Evening | 1.5 |
| Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones | 4.0 |
| Tom Waits Rain Dogs | 4.5 |
| Tom Waits Bone Machine | 4.5 |
| Tom Waits Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards | 3.5 |
| Howling Bells Howling Bells | 3.5 |
| Horse Feathers Words Are Dead | 4.0 |
| Rosetta The Galilean Satellites | 3.0 |
| Ida Maria Fortress Round My Heart | 4.0 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 2.5 |
Am I listening to the same album as everyone else? I listened to the entire album on repeat over and over again at work, and time after time the only tracks that stood out to me were "Dark Horse" and "Cruel Bloom". The latter track gets originality points to me because it has a very Tom Waits on acid vibe to it.
The rest of the album is a snooze fest. Maybe it's my recent inability to get into heavy music. Maybe it's the fact that every song follows the same relative formula of being short, spastic, and intentionally painful on the ears.
As for being better than Jane Doe, Jane Doe was overrated to begin with, hardly deserving of the classic status it's been crowned. So I'd put this roughly on par with that album. Average. Painfully average.
Everyone, get off of Converges nuts. They are little more than disorganized noise with occasional moments of glory hidden amongst the mess. |
| Laura Gibson Beasts of Seasons | 4.0 |
| Brand New Daisy | 3.0 |
| Monsters of Folk Monsters of Folk | 3.0 |
| Paramore Brand New Eyes | 4.5 |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue | 4.0 |
| VERY surprised at how good this is. I'd put this ahead of the self-titled album, and maybe even their debut. William Duvall never tries too hard to sound like Layne, and brings his own vocal stylings to the table, while Jerry Cantrell's vocal performance gives it that classic AIC sound. And, some of the riffs on this album are the heaviest you'll find in the AIC discography. Cantrell really brought his A game, and this album proves to be one of the few instances where a band can lose an iconic vocalist and not miss a step in the process. |
| Porcupine Tree The Incident | 4.5 |
| Noah and the Whale The First Days of Spring | 4.0 |
| Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson Break Up | 4.0 |
| Pati Yang Silent Treatment | 3.5 |
| Our Broken Garden When Your Blackening Shows | 4.0 |
| Ida Lovers Prayer | 3.5 |
| Dear Reader Replace why with funny | 4.5 |
| Witchbreed Heretic Rapture | 3.5 |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius | 5.0 |
| Regina Spektor Far | 4.5 |
| It's everything I had hoped for, and then some. It's the perfect balance of beauty and the quirky pop she's always been known for. My only gripe is the recorded version of "One More Time With Feeling" got a more upbeat twist to it, when I thought the sultry and sad version she played live was much more emotional and suiting. But overall it's better than "Begin to Hope" and about at the level of "Soviet Kitsch". She's done it again! |
| Theory of a Deadman Scars and Souvenirs | 1.0 |
| Drive-By Truckers A Blessing and a Curse | 3.5 |
| Blonde Redhead 23 | 4.5 |
| Bat For Lashes Two Suns | 4.0 |
| The Gathering The West Pole | 4.0 |
| After I heard of the departure of Anneke, I was a tad bit devastated. I thought there was no way the band could possibly go on without their front-woman of the past decade... I thought it was the end of the Gathering as I knew them. rI was right, it was. But it wasn't so much and end as it was a dramatic rebirth. Silje Wergeland is the worthiest replacement they could have possibly found. Her voice, while more conventional than that of Anneke, fits the style of the album. While the first few tracks are a return to IF_THEN_ELSE territory, with a more guitar oriented hard rock sound, the album really picks up with "The West Pole", a dreamy, slow-paced atmospheric track. And then with "No Bird Call", the band returns to a sound similar to HTMAP, with dreamy snyth, distant drowned out drumming, haunting vocals, and a dramatic buildup into string swelling climax with swooning vocals not far off from something you'd hear from Sigur Ros. rIn fact, from that point on the album contains some of the best material they've ever written. The beautifully crafted beauty "Capitol of Nowhere", the beautiful piano ballad "You Promised me a Symphony", and the bass driven progressive masterpiece "Pale Traces". I thought the Gathering had peaked...turns out I have no idea just where the roof is on the potential of this incredible band. |
| Octavia Sperati Grace Submerged | 3.5 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz! | 3.5 |
| The Agonist Lullabies for the Dormant Mind | 2.0 |
| Neko Case Middle Cyclone | 4.5 |
| Rachael Yamagata Elephants... Teeth Sinking Into Heart | 4.5 |
| Peter Broderick Float | 4.0 |
| Unearth The Oncoming Storm | 3.0 |
| Unearth The March | 2.5 |
| In This Moment The Dream | 4.0 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 2.5 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever To Tell | 3.5 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Show Your Bones | 4.0 |
| Amanda Palmer Who Killed Amanda Palmer? | 3.5 |
| Kings of Leon Only By The Night | 3.0 |
| Lisa Hannigan Sea Sew | 4.0 |
| Moonspell Night Eternal | 4.5 |
| Norma Jean The Anti Mother | 1.0 |
| Shearwater Rook | 4.5 |
| Matt Sweeney and Bonnie Prince Billy Superwolf | 3.5 |
| Devendra Banhart Nino Rojo | 4.0 |
| Devendra Banhart Cripple Crow | 3.5 |
| Devendra Banhart Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon | 4.0 |
| Devendra Banhart Rejoicing in the Hands | 4.0 |
| The Swell Season Once: Music From The Motion Picture | 4.5 |
| Dethklok The Dethalbum | 3.5 |
| The Gathering A Noise Severe | 5.0 |
| Katy Perry One of the Boys | 2.5 |
| Portishead Third | 4.5 |
| My Morning Jacket Evil Urges | 3.5 |
| Opeth Watershed | 4.0 |
| The Cardigans Gran Turismo | 3.0 |
| Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust | 4.0 |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | 3.5 |
| The Cardigans Long Gone Before Daylight | 4.5 |
| Zero 7 Simple Things | 3.5 |
| Scarlett Johansson Anywhere I Lay My Head | 2.0 |
| Whiskeytown Stranger's Almanac | 4.0 |
| Uncle Tupelo No Depression | 4.0 |
| Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot | 3.0 |
| Circa Survive Juturna | 2.5 |
| Circa Survive On Letting Go | 3.0 |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 4.0 |
| Interpol Antics | 2.5 |
| Interpol Our Love to Admire | 2.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris | 3.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze | 2.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes | 2.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie You Can Play These Songs With Chords | 3.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs | 3.5 |
| Lydia Illuminate | 3.0 |
| Cherry Ghost Thirst For Romance | 3.5 |
| Drive-By Truckers Brighter Than Creation's Dark | 4.5 |
| Emilie Simon Vegetal | 3.0 |
| Hannah Montana Hannah Montana | 1.5 |
| Coldplay X&Y | 3.0 |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head | 3.5 |
| Coldplay Parachutes | 3.5 |
| Los Campesinos! Sticking fingers Into Sockets | 3.0 |
| Los Campesinos! Hold On Now, Youngster... | 3.5 |
| Garbage Bleed Like Me | 3.0 |
| Garbage Beautiful Garbage | 2.5 |
| Garbage Version 2.0 | 2.0 |
| Garbage Garbage | 3.0 |
| Kate Havnevik Melankton | 4.0 |
| Yael Naim Yael Naim | 3.5 |
| Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward | 3.0 |
| Sara Bareilles Little Voice | 3.0 |
| Russian Circles Enter | 3.5 |
| Ryan Adams Gold | 3.5 |
| Ryan Adams Demolition | 3.0 |
| Ryan Adams Cold Roses | 3.5 |
| Sage Francis A Healthy Distrust | 4.0 |
| Sage Francis Human The Death Dance | 3.5 |
| *shels Sea of the Dying Dhow | 4.0 |
| Snow Patrol Eyes Open | 3.5 |
| Black Mountain Black Mountain | 3.5 |
| Black Mountain In the Future | 4.0 |
| Battle Of Mice A Day of Nights | 4.0 |
| Bat For Lashes Fur and Gold | 3.5 |
| Aqualung Strange and Beautiful | 3.5 |
| Antimatter Leaving Eden | 4.0 |
| Amy Winehouse Back to Black | 3.5 |
| Daniel Johnston Fun | 2.5 |
| Yo La Tengo I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass | 3.5 |
| Sonic Youth SYR 7: J'accuse Ted Hughes/Agnes B Musique | 3.0 |
| Katatonia The Great Cold Distance | 4.0 |
| Korpiklaani Tales Along This Road | 3.0 |
| Korpiklaani Spirit Of The Forest | 3.0 |
| Korpiklaani Voice Of Wilderness | 3.5 |
| M.I.A. Arular | 3.0 |
| M.I.A. Kala | 4.0 |
| Mors Principium Est The Unborn | 3.5 |
| Murder by Death Like the Exorcist, but More Breakdancing | 3.5 |
| Murder by Death Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them? | 3.5 |
| Murder by Death Red Of Tooth And Claw | 3.0 |
| My Morning Jacket Z | 3.5 |
| The National The National | 2.0 |
| The National Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers | 4.0 |
| The National Cherry Tree | 3.5 |
| The National Alligator | 4.0 |
| The National Boxer | 5.0 |
| Neko Case Furnace Room Lullaby | 4.5 |
| Nellie McKay Pretty Little Head | 3.5 |
| Nightwish Oceanborn | 3.5 |
| Nightwish Angels Fall First | 3.0 |
| Nightwish Wishmaster | 3.5 |
| Nightwish Century Child | 3.5 |
| Nightwish Dark Passion Play | 3.5 |
| Oceansize One Day All This Could Be Yours | 3.0 |
| Oceansize Effloresce | 3.5 |
| Oceansize Everyone Into Position | 3.0 |
| Oceansize Frames | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia | 4.5 |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing | 4.5 |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey | 2.0 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 3.0 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 3.0 |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 3.5 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 4.0 |
| Pilate Caught By The Window | 3.0 |
| The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds | 4.5 |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye | 4.5 |
| Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue | 3.0 |
| Dokken Breaking the Chains | 2.0 |
| Dokken Tooth and Nail | 1.5 |
| Dokken Under Lock and Key | 2.0 |
| Dokken Beast from the East | 1.5 |
| Dokken Back in the Streets | 1.0 |
| Dokken Back for the Attack | 1.5 |
| Sia Some People Have Real Problems | 2.5 |
| Sia Colour the Small One | 4.0 |
| Sigh Hangman's Hymn | 2.0 |
| Spoon Gimme Fiction | 2.5 |
| Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga | 2.5 |
| Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline | 4.5 |
| Swallow the Sun Hope | 4.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend | 2.0 |
| The Weepies Say I Am You | 3.5 |
| Weezer Make Believe | 2.0 |
| Why? Alopecia | 3.5 |
| Wilco Being There | 4.0 |
| Wilco A Ghost Is Born | 3.5 |
| Wilco Sky Blue Sky | 4.0 |
| Tool Lateralus | 3.0 |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York | 3.0 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 2.5 |
| Soundgarden Superunknown | 4.0 |
| Soundgarden A-Sides | 3.5 |
| Backstreet Boys Millennium | 2.5 |
| Backstreet Boys Black and Blue | 2.5 |
| Britney Spears ...Baby One More Time | 2.0 |
| Britney Spears Britney | 2.0 |
| Britney Spears Blackout | 2.0 |
| Christina Aguilera Christina Aguilera | 2.5 |
| Christina Aguilera Stripped | 2.5 |
| Mariah Carey The Emancipation of Mimi | 2.0 |
| Xiu Xiu Women As Lovers | 2.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Sounding the Seventh Trumpet | 2.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold | 1.0 |
| Metric Old World Underground, Where Are You Now | 2.5 |
| Metric Grow Up and Blow Away | 2.5 |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 3.5 |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture | 2.5 |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath | 2.5 |
| Mandy Moore So Real | 2.5 |
| Mandy Moore I Wanna Be With You | 2.0 |
| Mandy Moore Mandy Moore | 2.0 |
| Mandy Moore Wild Hope | 3.0 |
| Mindless Self Indulgence Tight | 2.0 |
| Mindless Self Indulgence Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy | 1.5 |
| Mindless Self Indulgence Alienating Our Audience | 2.0 |
| Mindless Self Indulgence You'll Rebel To Anything | 1.5 |
| Mindless Self Indulgence Another Mindless Rip Off | 2.0 |
| Low Things We Lost in the Fire | 4.5 |
| Lacuna Coil In a Reverie | 3.5 |
| Insomnium Since the Day It All Came Down | 3.0 |
| Insomnium Above the Weeping World | 4.0 |
| Great Lake Swimmers Ongiara | 3.5 |
| Goldfrapp Seventh Tree | 4.0 |
| The Swell Season The Swell Season | 4.0 |
| Ghastly City Sleep Ghastly City Sleep | 3.5 |
| Fionn Regan The End of History | 3.5 |
| A Fine Frenzy One Cell in the Sea | 3.5 |
| Feist Let It Die | 3.5 |
| Feist The Reminder | 4.0 |
| Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True | 2.0 |
| Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton Knives Don't Have Your Back | 4.0 |
| Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton What Is Free To A Good Home? | 4.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity Character | 3.5 |
| Dark Tranquillity Fiction | 4.0 |
| Caspian The Four Trees | 4.0 |
| This Will Destroy You Young Mountain | 3.5 |
| This Will Destroy You This Will Destroy You | 3.5 |
| Cat Power Moon Pix | 4.0 |
| Cat Power You Are Free | 3.5 |
| Cat Power The Greatest | 3.5 |
| Cat Power Jukebox | 3.0 |
| Cult of Luna Salvation | 3.5 |
| Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway | 3.5 |
| The Go! Team Proof of Youth | 3.0 |
| The Duke Spirit Neptune | 3.5 |
| Aereogramme My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros ( ) | 4.5 |
| Sigur Ros Hvarf/Heim | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros Heima (DVD) | 5.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Plans | 3.0 |
| The Gathering Almost a Dance | 2.0 |
| The Gathering Mandylion | 4.5 |
| The Gathering Souvenirs | 4.5 |
| The Gathering Sleepy Buildings:A Semi-Acoustic Evening | 4.0 |
| In Flames Clayman | 3.5 |
| In Flames Reroute to Remain | 2.0 |
| In Flames Come Clarity | 3.5 |
| Opeth Orchid | 2.5 |
| Opeth Morningrise | 3.0 |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse | 3.5 |
| Opeth Still Life | 3.0 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 4.0 |
| Opeth Deliverance | 3.5 |
| Opeth Damnation | 5.0 |
| Opeth The Roundhouse Tapes | 3.5 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 4.0 |
| Elbow Leaders of the Free World | 3.5 |
| Elbow The Seldom Seen Kid | 4.0 |
| Destroy the Runner I, Lucifer | 2.0 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 5.0 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 3.0 |
| In Flames A Sense of Purpose | 3.0 |
| Kate Nash Made of Bricks | 3.5 |
| Low The Great Destroyer | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV | 4.5 |
| Travis The Boy With No Name | 4.0 |
| Ryan Adams Follow The Lights | 4.0 |
| The Album Leaf In A Safe Place | 4.0 |
| Fuck Buttons Street Horrrsing | 2.5 |
| KT Tunstall Drastic Fantastic | 3.5 |
| Agua de Annique Air | 4.0 |
| The Gathering Nighttime Birds | 4.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 3.5 |
| Moving Mountains Pneuma | 4.0 |
| 3 (USA) The End is Begun | 4.0 |
| Rilo Kiley More Adventurous | 4.0 |
| Rilo Kiley Under the Blacklight | 4.5 |
| Yakuza Transmutations | 4.0 |
| Paramore Riot! | 3.5 |
| Stolen Babies There Be Squabbles Ahead | 3.5 |
| Rosie Thomas These Friends of Mine | 4.0 |
| Neko Case Blacklisted | 4.5 |
| Regina Spektor Songs | 3.5 |
| Christina Aguilera Back to Basics | 3.0 |
| Neko Case Fox Confessor Brings The Flood | 4.0 |
| Regina Spektor Begin To Hope | 4.5 |
| Kelly Clarkson Thankful | 3.0 |
| Shawn McDonald Ripen | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Thrill Seeker | 3.0 |
| The Little Willies The Little Willies | 3.0 |
| The Gathering Home | 4.0 |
| Fiona Apple Tidal | 4.0 |
| Fiona Apple Extraordinary Machine | 4.0 |
| Lacuna Coil Karmacode | 2.0 |
| Dream It Was All a Dream | 3.0 |
| Ryan Adams Jacksonville City Nights | 3.5 |
| Ryan Adams 29 | 4.0 |
| Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins Rabbit Fur Coat | 3.5 |
| The Gathering How to Measure a Planet? | 5.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil | 3.0 |
| Metallica St. Anger | 1.0 |
| A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe | 1.0 |
| Atreyu Fractures in the Facade of your Porcelain Beauty | 1.0 |
| Hawthorne Heights If Only You Were Lonely | 1.0 |
| Atreyu The Curse | 1.5 |
| Aiden Nightmare Anatomy | 1.5 |
| The Chariot Unsung | 1.5 |
| Gwen Stefani The Sweet Escape | 1.5 |
| Atreyu Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses | 2.0 |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket | 2.0 |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 2.0 |
| Bleeding Through The Truth | 2.0 |
| Atreyu A Death-Grip on Yesterday | 2.0 |
| Himsa Hail Horror | 2.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Anatomy Of | 2.0 |
| The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Don't You Fake It | 2.0 |
| Norma Jean Redeemer | 2.0 |
| ISIS In the Absence of Truth | 2.0 |
| Lady Sovereign Public Warning | 2.0 |
| Weezer Maladroit | 2.5 |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge | 2.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me | 2.5 |
| Underoath The Changing of Times | 2.5 |
| Lacuna Coil Comalies | 2.5 |
| Atreyu Visions | 2.5 |
| Ayreon The Human Equation | 2.5 |
| Underoath Act of Depression | 2.5 |
| ISIS Oceanic: Remixes and Reinterpretations | 2.5 |
| AFI Decemberunderground | 2.5 |
| Unearth III: In the Eyes of Fire | 2.5 |
| Lamb of God Sacrament | 2.5 |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 3.0 |
| Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing | 3.0 |
| Weezer The Green Album | 3.0 |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache | 3.0 |
| Alexisonfire Watch Out! | 3.0 |
| Nightwish Once | 3.0 |
| From First to Last Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count | 3.0 |
| Caliban The Opposite From Within | 3.0 |
| Jack Johnson In Between Dreams | 3.0 |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree | 3.0 |
| Shpongle Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost | 3.0 |
| Trivium Ascendancy | 3.0 |
| ISIS Celestial | 3.0 |
| Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine | 3.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 3.0 |
| Natalie Imbruglia Left of the Middle | 3.0 |
| As Cities Burn Son, I Loved You at Your Darkest | 3.0 |
| Stutterfly And We Are Bled Of Color | 3.0 |
| Within Temptation Mother Earth | 3.0 |
| James Blunt Back To Bedlam | 3.0 |
| Paramore All We Know Is Falling | 3.0 |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist | 3.0 |
| Evanescence The Open Door | 3.0 |
| Ryan Adams Easy Tiger | 3.0 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 3.5 |
| Radiohead's trance-inducing transformation from the masterpiece that is "Ok Computer" to "Kid A" is quite remarkable. Stripping their music to the bone, then adding layers of ambience, drump loops, and electronics...and giving the music a much darker feel in the process. The beauty of a band like Radiohead is they can pull off change all while keeping the same general core sound intact. Deep at the core this is still Radiohead. It's generally Radiohead progressing, transforming, trying new things. A lot of bands are generally afraid of trying something new for fear of losing their fan base, but thankfully Radiohead is one that likes to expand their musical horizons. While this album doesn't quite match up to the epic beauty of Ok Computer, the new sound still holds its own and is an enjoyable listen, especially on a long nighttime drive. |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen | 3.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 3.5 |
| Jeff Buckley Grace (Legacy Edition) | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Please Please Me | 3.5 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 3.5 |
| The Beatles The Beatles | 3.5 |
| As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security | 3.5 |
| Sarah McLachlan Surfacing | 3.5 |
| Lovedrug Pretend You're Alive | 3.5 |
| Evanescence Fallen | 3.5 |
| The Fray How to Save a Life | 3.5 |
| Still Remains Of Love and Lunacy | 3.5 |
| Stream Of Passion Embrace The Storm | 3.5 |
| Matchbook Romance Voices | 3.5 |
| Found Dead Hanging Dulling Occam's Razor | 3.5 |
| Norah Jones Come Away with Me | 3.5 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 3.5 |
| The amount of hype and acclaim this album has gotten is insane, but it's what to expect from a Tool album. Personally, I don't see it as a big step up from Lateralus, and in fact may be a bit of a step back for the band. Tracks like Jambi and Rosetta Stoned are horrible in representing Tool as a band, and are just not very enjoyable. Right In Two is an awesome song but sounds more like something A Perfect Circle would write rather than Tool. However, dissappointments aside, Wings For Marie Part 1 and 2 are alone worth the purchase of the album, for they are two of the greatest songs ever written by the band and take a step further for the band, it's a shame the rest of the album is a step back. That being said, it's still leagues above most other bands out there, and surely Tool will keep their cult following...and will still hold my interest until the next album. |
| Norah Jones Feels Like Home | 3.5 |
| The Format Dog Problems | 3.5 |
| Damien Rice 9 | 3.5 |
| Dustin Kensrue Please Come Home | 3.5 |
| Regina Spektor 11:11 | 3.5 |
| Norah Jones Not Too Late | 3.5 |
| Peter Bjorn and John Writer's Block | 3.5 |
| Muse Absolution | 4.0 |
| Finch What It Is to Burn | 4.0 |
| The Gathering if_then_else | 4.0 |
| Finch Say Hello to Sunshine | 4.0 |
| Ryan Adams Heartbreaker | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Takk... | 4.0 |
| If beauty itself, in it's most pure form, were to take shape as a music, this is what it would sound like. Sigur Ros have a way of taking my breath away, and now with a return to a more string-oriented sound with "Takk", the cascading strings and simple yet gorgeous guitar make for one of the most remarkable mellow music experiences you can find these days. A truly great album. |
| Lacuna Coil Unleashed Memories | 4.0 |
| This album was Lacuna Coil at their finest, and an essential album to any gothic metal fan's collection. The opening three songs alone are enough to warrant a purchase. The beauty of Christina Scabbia's vocals coupled with the harshness of Andrea's and the simple yet effective guitar attack, haunting atmospheres, and catchy melodicism. Truly an album that brought Lacuna Coil to the forefront of the gothic rock scene. |
| The Dresden Dolls The Dresden Dolls | 4.0 |
| Kelly Clarkson Breakaway | 4.0 |
| Joseph Arthur Redemption's Son | 4.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Something About Airplanes | 4.0 |
| The Dresden Dolls Yes, Virginia... | 4.0 |
| Unexpect In a Flesh Aquarium | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 4.0 |
| Lily Allen Alright, Still | 4.0 |
| Within Temptation The Heart of Everything | 4.0 |
| Lovedrug Everything Starts Where It Ends | 4.0 |
| Regina Spektor Begin To Hope EP | 4.0 |
| Damien Rice O | 4.5 |
| This album is as close to a classic is any singer/songwriter has written in recent history. Damien Rice has a gift, and that gift is writing some of the most lovely and hearfelt music that can be found. Songs like "The Blower's Daughter", "Cannonball", "Older Chests", and "I Remember" are hard to listen to without shedding at least a single tear from the eye. This isn't just music to listen to, this is music to get lost in, music to become, music to let filter into your soul and carry it with you for all of time. |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism | 4.5 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 4.5 |
| Rilo Kiley Take-Offs and Landings | 4.5 |
| Regina Spektor Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers | 4.5 |
| Ryan Adams Love is Hell | 5.0 |
| Rilo Kiley The Execution of All Things | 5.0 |
| Regina Spektor Soviet Kitsch | 5.0 |
