| 5.0 classic |
| A Fine Frenzy One Cell in the Sea |
| Almost Lover and Near To You are such great songs. |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs |
| Automatic Loveletter The Kids Will Take Their Monsters On |
| The Kids Will Take Their Monsters On is a lovely acoustic album that is driven by Juliet Simms' unique voice and solid guitar playing. Black Ink Revenge, Trade Places, and The Curtain Close are the standout songs for me. |
| Banks Goddess |
| Brand New Deja Entendu |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Chelsea Wolfe Pain Is Beauty |
| Daughter If You Leave |
| Ef Give Me Beauty... Or Give Me Death! |
| Ef I Am Responsible |
This album is gorgeous from start to finish, and A tailpiece is one of my favorite songs across all music
genres. |
| Feist Pleasure |
| Fiona Apple When The Pawn... |
| Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel... |
| Joanna Newsom Have One on Me |
| Julien Baker Turn Out The Lights |
| Laura Marling Alas, I Cannot Swim |
| A brilliant debut from one of my favorite artists. I particularly enjoy "Your Only Doll (Dora)" and "Tap At My Window", and "(Interlude) Crawled Out Of The Sea" may be my favorite song under two minutes. |
| Laura Marling Once I Was an Eagle |
A very well-crafted album that drove me to look into Laura Marling's discography. The "Take The Night Off/I
Was An Eagle/You Know/Breathe" suite is lovely and makes me wish more albums had such passages,
while the set of songs from "Master Hunter" to "Once" successfully takes "Once I Was An Eagle" in a different
direction. The instrumentation in the last third of the album is excellent, and "Saved These Words" is the
perfect ending track to an album that further confirms Marling's musical talent. |
| Lights Midnight Machines |
| Lorde Melodrama |
| Mono You Are There |
| A lovely album that combines soft, classical tones with loud dynamics incredibly well. The closer "Moonlight" is a perfect example. |
| Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind |
The album that sparked my love for MONO. Each track is well-composed, and the song transitions
(particularly between "Burial At Sea" and "Silent Flight, Sleeping Dawn") are lovely. "Ashes in the Snow" and
"Everlasting Light" deserve the praise they get, while "Silent Flight, Sleeping Dawn" and "The Battle To
Heaven" are the underrated classics on "Hymn to the Immortal Wind". |
| Mono Holy Ground: NYC Live |
| Phoebe Bridgers Stranger in the Alps |
| PJ Harvey Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea |
| PJ Harvey Let England Shake |
| Sara Bareilles Little Voice |
| Sara Bareilles Kaleidoscope Heart |
| St. Vincent Strange Mercy |
| Tegan and Sara So Jealous |
| Incredibly engaging each time I listen to it. I know a lot of people rate The Con as the best Tegan and Sara album, but So Jealous will always be my favorite. |
| There Will Be Fireworks The Dark, Dark Bright |
| Tori Amos Under the Pink |
| Tori Amos From the Choirgirl Hotel |
| 4.5 superb |
| A Fine Frenzy Bomb In A Birdcage |
| Arcade Fire Funeral |
| Arcade Fire Her |
| Audrey Visible Forms |
| Banks The Altar |
| Billie Marten Writing of Blues and Yellows |
| Birdy Fire Within |
| Bjork Homogenic |
| Bjork Vespertine |
| Bjork Vulnicura |
| Brand New Science Fiction |
| Chelsea Wolfe Apokalypsis |
| Chelsea Wolfe Abyss |
| Daughter Not to Disappear |
| Eisley Room Noises |
| Eisley The Valley |
| Emma Ruth Rundle Some Heavy Ocean |
| Emma Ruth Rundle Marked for Death |
| Feist The Reminder |
| Fiona Apple Extraordinary Machine |
| Fiona Apple Tidal |
| FKA Twigs LP1 |
| Florence and the Machine High as Hope |
| Flower Face Homesick |
| Flower Face Funeral Kid |
| Flower Face Fever Dreams |
| Flower Face Baby Teeth |
| Gabrielle Aplin English Rain |
| Gabrielle Aplin English Rain EP |
| Gabrielle Aplin Light Up The Dark |
| Ingrid Michaelson Everybody |
| Joanna Newsom The Milk-Eyed Mender |
| Joanna Newsom Ys |
| Julien Baker Sprained Ankle |
| Lady Gaga Red and Blue (as Stefani) |
| Laura Marling I Speak Because I Can |
| An enchanting album that showcases Laura Marling's musical and vocal abilities. "Blackberry Stone" is one of the most aesthetically pleasing songs I've ever heard. |
| Laura Marling A Creature I Don't Know |
| Laura Marling Semper Femina |
| Laura Stevenson Sit Resist |
| Laura Stevenson Wheel |
| Lights Acoustic |
| Lights Siberia Acoustic |
| Lights Little Machines |
| Lights iTunes Session |
| Lights Skin and Earth |
| Lights Scorpion Side B (Covers) |
| Lights Skin And Earth Acoustic |
| Lorde Pure Heroine |
| Manchester Orchestra A Black Mile to the Surface |
| Marissa Nadler July |
| Mono Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined |
| Mono One Step More and You Die |
The only low points for me are "Mopish Morning, Halation Wiper" and "Giant Me on the Other Side", and
fortunately, they take up only 4.5 minutes of the album. "Sabbath" and "A Speeding Car" are absolutely
gorgeous. |
| Paramore Brand New Eyes |
| pg.lost Yes I Am EP |
| pg.lost It's Not Me, It's You! |
| PJ Harvey White Chalk |
| PVRIS Acoustic |
| PVRIS White Noise |
| PVRIS All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell |
| Regina Spektor Begin To Hope |
| Regina Spektor Far |
| Regina Spektor What We Saw from the Cheap Seats |
| Sara Bareilles Once Upon Another Time |
| An incredibly relaxing EP that fully showcases Bareilles' vocal abilities. |
| Sara Bareilles The Blessed Unrest |
| "Manhattan" is Sara Bareilles at her traditional best, while "Satellite Call" and "Islands" (my personal favorites off of this album) are incredible "synth pop" songs that help to distinguish "The Blessed Unrest" from Bareilles' previous work. |
| Sara Bareilles Brave Enough Live at the Variety |
| Sara Bareilles Between the Lines: Live at the Fillmore |
| Sara Bareilles What's Inside: Songs From Waitress |
| Sara Bareilles Amidst the Chaos |
| St. Vincent Marry Me |
| St. Vincent Actor |
| St. Vincent St. Vincent |
| Tegan and Sara If It Was You |
| Tegan and Sara Sainthood |
| The Best Pessimist To Whom It May Concern |
| The first post-rock album that I truly enjoyed. Lights of Your Innocence, Cold Eye Color, and The Sea, The Night, The Stars, The Light are the standout tracks for me. |
| The Best Pessimist Love Is... |
| Tori Amos Little Earthquakes |
| Tori Amos Boys for Pele |
| Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss |
| 3.0 good |
| 65daysofstatic Wild Light |
| Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion |
| Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare |
| Arctic Monkeys Suck It and See |
| Arctic Monkeys AM |
| Ariana Grande Yours Truly |
| Automatic Loveletter Automatic Loveletter |
| Avril Lavigne Avril Lavigne |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Bon Iver Blood Bank |
| Circa Survive On Letting Go |
| Citizen Youth |
| Coldplay Parachutes |
| Coldplay X&Y |
| Coldplay Mylo Xyloto |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism |
| Death Cab for Cutie Plans |
| Demi Lovato Demi |
| El Ten Eleven Transitions |
| Ellie Goulding Lights |
| Explosions in the Sky The Rescue |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
| Maybe my rating is a little harsh, but after seeing the average rating, I was expecting 1.5 hours of truly amazing music. There are moments of brilliance throughout this album, but they are too infrequent for me to give "Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven" a higher rating. |
| Hammock Kenotic |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness |
| Imagine Dragons Night Visions |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights |
| Iron And Wine Our Endless Numbered Days |
| ISIS Oceanic |
| Julia Holter Loud City Song |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I |
| So many of the superfluous electronic noises disrupt the gorgeous music that comes up throughout the album. "Enjoy Eternal Bliss" is not subjected to unnecessary sounds and still sounds incredible, which makes me think of how good "Program Music I" could have been. However, the electronic sounds do represent one of Daisuke's trademarks, and I can understand their purpose. I just don't think the classical music works well with the electronics in this album. |
| Kate Bush The Dreaming |
| Kate Bush Never for Ever |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King |
| Leech Instarmental |
| Liz Phair Exile In Guyville |
| Matchbox Twenty Yourself or Someone Like You |
| Message to Bears Departures |
| Metric Fantasies |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister |
| Michael Nyman Gattaca OST |
| The Morrow and The Departure are absolutely gorgeous songs. Unsurprisingly, I also love The Arrival, although I'm not the biggest fan of the added piano playing in the second half of the song. |
| Michelle Branch Everything Comes and Goes |
| Moby Play |
| Mogwai Come On Die Young |
| Mogwai Rave Tapes |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| Norah Jones Come Away with Me |
| OneRepublic Dreaming Out Loud |
| Orianthi Violet Journey |
| Paramore Riot! |
| Passenger (UK) All The Little Lights |
| Pelican Australasia |
| Pelican What We All Come to Need |
| Phoenix (FRA) Bankrupt! |
| Phosphorescent Muchacho |
| Pink Floyd Meddle |
| Pink Floyd The Division Bell |
| Pink Floyd The Final Cut |
| Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse Of Reason |
| Radical Face The Family Tree: The Roots |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine |
| Rilo Kiley The Execution of All Things |
| SafetySuit These Times |
| Saosin Saosin |
| Savage Garden Savage Garden |
| Saxon Shore Four Months of Darkness |
| Saxon Shore The Exquisite Death of Saxon Shore |
| Saxon Shore Luck Will Not Save Us From A Jackpot Of Nothing |
| Sia Colour the Small One |
| Slint Spiderland |
| Taylor Swift Reputation |
| The Antlers Hospice |
| The Beatles Let It Be |
| The Beatles Abbey Road |
| The Best Pessimist Autumn Leaves |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There |
| The Lumineers The Lumineers |
| The National High Violet |
| The Pretty Reckless Hit Me Like A Man |
| The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed |
| The Shins Oh, Inverted World |
| The Six Parts Seven Lost Notes From Forgotten Songs |
| The Story So Far Under Soil and Dirt |
| Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind |
| Tonight Alive The Other Side |
| Tool Undertow |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City |
| World's End Girlfriend Dream's End Come True |
| World's End Girlfriend Seven Idiots |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever To Tell |
