| 4.0 excellent |
| 10 Years The Autumn Effect |
| Aisles 4:45 AM |
| The best way to describe these guys is "Latin Rush," maybe a little Coheed in there. |
| Akhlys Melinoe |
| Angels and Airwaves The Dream Walker |
| Animals As Leaders The Madness of Many |
| Got my pre-order early and leaving a neutral 3 rating for now as I'm currently listening to it: Sounds like a mix rof Weightless and Joy Of Motion but with more riffing, and electronics are replaced with poly-djunz. |
| Anubis Gate Anubis Gate |
| Anubis Gate Andromeda Unchained |
| Anubis Gate Horizons |
| It takes a few listen throughs to let it sink in, but the Danish gentlemen have done a solid job following up their self-titled and blending their signature sound with some new. |
| Arch Echo Arch Echo |
| Though nothing necessarily new for the genre, the musicianship is excellent and the songs are quality. Can't see how this is lower than a 4, objectively. |
| Arch Echo Final Pitch |
| Aviations A Declaration of Sound |
| BADBADNOTGOOD BBNG |
| BADBADNOTGOOD IV |
| Balance and Composure The Things We Think We're Missing |
| Balance and Composure Slowheart |
| Hope this is the next direction the band takes, these songs are great. |
| Balance and Composure Too Quick to Forgive |
| CHON Grow |
| It takes a few listens to digest all the details, but when you do you'll see how complex and fun this album is. |
| City and Colour If I Should Go Before You |
It's up there with Little Hell for sure, and definitely a better follow up to that album than Hurry & the Harm,
imo. This will probably be my Winter 2015 album and get bumped to a 4.5 eventually.
Them mellow bluesy songs... |
| City and Colour The Love Still Held Me Near |
| Closure in Moscow The Penance and the Patience |
| Closure in Moscow Soft Hell |
| Combines the best of everything the band's done before, while keeping with the experimentation of Pink Lemonade without all the excess |
| Code I Phosphenia |
| An excellent mix of heavy and soft soundscapes with influences that range from hardcore bands such as 'Being as an Ocean', 'August Burns Red' and 'Counterparts' to post rock classics like 'Red Sparrowes' and 'God is an Astronaut'. |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow |
| Corelia New Wilderness |
| Dance Gavin Dance Mothership |
| Danger Mouse and Black Thought Cheat Codes |
| Davenport Cabinet Our Machine |
| Davenport Cabinet Damned Renegades |
| De La Soul 3 Feet High And Rising |
| Deftones Ohms |
| DJ Krush Meiso |
| DJ Krush Zen |
| DJ Shadow The Private Press |
| Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence |
| Echo Tail Drowning the Pacific |
| ERRA Moments of Clarity |
| This band may be the first and only metalcore band I'll listen to. |
| ERRA Andromeda |
| ERRA ERRA |
| Fates Warning Darkness in a Different Light |
| Fleshwater We're Not Here To Be Loved |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light |
| Foo Fighters Foo Fighters |
| Frank Turner England Keep My Bones |
| Franz Ferdinand Tonight: Franz Ferdinand |
| Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand |
| Frontside (US) Essentially, Eventually |
Like a mathy version of early Coheed & Cambria, with elements of Closure In Moscow, The
Fall of Troy and vocals interestingly similar to Fall Out Boy. Perhaps a little repetitive
at times, but the music is high-quality and recommended for fans of the aforementioned
bands. |
| Gary Clark Jr. Blak and Blu |
| A great mix of retro and modern. It's good to see blues/rock coming back to mainstream, it's so refreshing. |
| Gin Blossoms New Miserable Experience |
| Goo Goo Dolls A Boy Named Goo |
| Good Tiger Raised in a Doomsday Cult |
| Haken Restoration |
| It's Haken, but more concise as prog-metal can be. rI agree with others above (below?) that you can hear some DT *influence*, but to my ears Haken manage to sound different to their forefathers. |
| Jason Isbell Weathervanes |
| Kansas The Absence Οf Presence |
| Good prog rock album, from a band I had no idea was still making music. Carry on, wayward sons. |
| Kardashev Liminal Rite |
| Michelle Branch The Spirit Room |
| Monuments (UK) The Amanuensis |
| Ne Obliviscaris Urn |
| Norma Jean Polar Similar |
| Rush Grace Under Pressure |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon |
| Soft Blue Shimmer Love Lives in the Body |
| Somewhere South of Here Leave Me for the Crows |
| Sound of Contact Dimensionaut |
| Simon Collins (son of Phil Collins) and Dave Kerzner (Sonic Reality) unleash an atmospheric album that takes you on a journey through space and time that borders on post-rock riffing. |
| Svalbard When I Die, Will I Get Better? |
| Sweet Pill Where the Heart Is |
| Tennis Swimmer |
| Tesla The Great Radio Controversy |
| Thank You Scientist The Perils of Time Travel |
| Thank You Scientist Plague Accommodations |
| The Artificials The Artificials |
| The Artificials Heart |
| Band just lost two of their members and they aren't signed to Tragic Hero anymore, according to a facebook post. |
| The Artificials Parables of the Human Spirit |
| The Black Keys Delta Kream |
Finally, more of what I originally liked about the Black Keys, their take on old blues
rock. If you liked all their albums up to and including Brothers–especially the EP
'Chulahoma'–you'll enjoy this. |
| The Contortionist Clairvoyant |
| The Lawrence Arms Buttsweat and Tears |
| The Lawrence Arms Skeleton Coast |
| The Lawrence Arms Metropole |
| The Ocean Pelagial |
| The Reign of Kindo This Is What Happens |
| The Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing |
| The Wonder Years No Closer to Heaven |
| Tides of Man Dreamhouse |
| Tides of Man Young and Courageous |
| Timecop1983 Night Drive |
| Tom Caruana Enter the Magical Mystery Chambers |
| uponbrokenapologies Demonstration of Pain and Sadness |
| Vanden Plas Chronicles of the Immortals: Netherworld (Path 1) |
| Vestascension Breaching the Sound |
| Voices from the Fuselage Odyssey: The Destroyer of Worlds |
| Wolfie's Just Fine Everyone Is Dead Except Us |
| Wu-Tang Clan The Saga Continues |
| xSPONGEXCOREx Don't Mess With TexXxas |
| 3.5 great |
| American Wrestlers American Wrestlers |
| Animals As Leaders Weightless |
| Anubis Gate The Detached |
| Audioslave Audioslave |
| BADBADNOTGOOD BBNG2 |
| Belle Noire What It Means To Be |
Debut LP from a relatively new band out of San Jose. Their lead singer was a guest vocalist on the Strawberry
Girls track "Gospel".
Stream can be found here: https://bellenoire.bandcamp.com/album/what-it-means-to-be |
| blink-182 Neighborhoods |
| City and Colour Sometimes |
| City and Colour A Pill For Loneliness |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension |
| This album is a grower and still > than Descension. |
| De La Soul The Grind Date |
| Dream Theater Falling Into Infinity |
| Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events |
| Dream Theater Dream Theater |
| Really it's like a 3.8... it wants to be a 4 but they've done better. |
| ERRA Drift |
| New song's here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M89t4Wge_b4&feature=youtu.be |
| ERRA Neon |
Although it doesn't reach the highs of the pre-lineup change albums, 'Neon' has plenty of
atmosphere and is a definite improvement from 'Drift'. I'm finding no skippable tracks
even after 6 full listens. However, if you didn't like Drift, this may not change your mind about the
new direction the band has been taking. |
| ERRA ERRA (EP) |
| Faith No More Album of the Year |
| Foo Fighters In Your Honor |
| Foo Fighters Saint Cecilia |
| No love for track 3 "Savior Breath"? Hotdamn that song... Track 4 is the weakest, but it's still great quality because Foos, of course. And it's free!r |
| Frank Turner Positive Songs for Negative People |
| Franz Ferdinand Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action |
| Goo Goo Dolls Superstar Car Wash |
| Goodbye to Gravity Mantras of War |
| Gorillaz Cracker Island |
| Haken Affinity |
"One thing that I love about ?Affinity? is that the band merge their current heavier sound with a mix of 80s
prog. Yes really. The song ?1985? is my favorite track on the album because it is that perfect mix. Imagine the
Alan Parsons Project circa ?Stereotomy? (the album, not just the song) mixed with TesseracT djent-ish riffs.
The band do such an incredible job transitioning back and forth. 80s drums and synths yield to thick modern
prog metal riffs."
http://progressivemusicplanet.com/2016/03/02/haken-affinity/ |
| Kesha Rainbow |
| Lupe Fiasco Drill Music in Zion |
| Mestis Polysemy |
| Monuments (UK) Phronesis |
| Pool Kids Pool Kids |
| Porcupine Tree The Incident |
| Royal Coda To Only a Few at First |
| Silversun Pickups Better Nature |
| Silversun Pickups Neck of the Woods |
| The Contortionist Our Bones |
| The Rembrandts L.P. |
| Great pop-rock/adult contemporary album from 90s. Could stand to be a little heavier sounding or more creative lyrically to push it into the alternative category, but then that probably wasn't the aim of the album anyways.rPut it on when you want some chill, guitar-driven easy listening. |
| UVERworld TYCOON |
This is a very fun album. Long yet varied in sound, and moves pretty quickly despite the length.
You'll hear quite a mix of genres here: heavy rock and metal, DnB, hip-hop/rap, electronic, pop,
jazz, funk, pop, industrial- and yet it's all blended very well. |
| 3.0 good |
| Allt Dark Waters |
| Atmospheric instrumental djent post-metal. Nothing groundbreaking, but enjoyable. |
| Balance and Composure Light We Made |
| Objectively this is between a 3-3.5 but my favorite tracks bump this up to a solid 3.5 for me. Anyone looking rfor the edgier alt-rock aspects from their first two LPs might be turned away. The vibe here is best described ras coming off a buzz after a night of partying and reflection. Recommended tracks: Midnight Zone, rSpinning, For A Walk, rPostcard, Fame, Loam |
| City and Colour The Hurry and the Harm |
| Coheed and Cambria Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind |
| De La Soul AOI: Bionix |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought |
| Dream Theater Octavarium |
| Dream Theater Systematic Chaos |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings |
| Can't make up my mind on this thing... High moments are high, but low moments are "WTF..." |
| Dream Theater The Astonishing |
| Eldamar The Force of the Ancient Land |
| Folder (Italy) Keep the Flow |
| A rap-rock record from Italy, as good as this genre can be. |
| Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace |
| Foo Fighters One by One |
| Foo Fighters But Here We Are |
| Goo Goo Dolls Hold Me Up |
| Goo Goo Dolls Chaos in Bloom |
| Monuments (UK) In Stasis |
| 'Seems they've outgrown their "sis" complex'rBut "stasis" ends in "sis" :big think: |
| Polyphia Remember That You Will Die |
| Silversun Pickups Widow's Weeds |
| Skyharbor Sunshine Dust |
| Has more of an alternative rock vibe than prog; Eric sounds great on vocals. Previously released rsingles have been reworked, some for the better (Synthetic Hands). |
| The Black Keys Dropout Boogie |
More like 3.2–3.3, but still very good. Sounds like a love child of Delta Kream and
Brothers, though doesn't quite achieve the same highs. The track with Billy F. Gibbons is a
banger. |
| Tool Fear Inoculum |
| Despite how long this album took to release, it sounds incomplete. |
