| 3.0 good |
| Accept Blind Rage |
| One would expect a new album from a relatively overlooked metal band from the 80s to be at best average and at worst embarrassing. However, Accept manages to deliver a classic, well designed metal sound while still avoiding sounding dated. While there are a few duds when it comes to the slower tracks, the overall experience is amazing and a true standout among the metal releases this year. |
| Aeternam Ruins of Empires |
| Agalloch The Serpent and the Sphere |
| Aloe Blacc Lift Your Spirit |
| While it's poppier than his first album, Aloe Blacc retains much of what made him great to begin with. |
| Aloe Blacc Good Things |
| Anderson .Paak Malibu |
| Andrew W.K. I Get Wet |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion |
| An album that is difficult to take in on first listen, but becomes more rewarding when fully sat down with and digested. |
| Ashland Wildfire |
| Azealia Banks Broke With Expensive Taste |
| BADBADNOTGOOD III |
| Bayside Cult |
| Be'lakor Vessels |
| Beach House Teen Dream |
| Beach House Depression Cherry |
| Beastwars The Death of All Things |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus |
| Black Anvil As Was |
| Black Sabbath 13 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Scrambles |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Broken Bells Broken Bells |
| Bruce Springsteen Born in the U.S.A. |
| Bruce Springsteen High Hopes |
| Cage The Elephant Melophobia |
| Caligula's Horse In Contact |
| Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Trout Mask Replica |
| Cattle Decapitation Monolith of Inhumanity |
| Coldplay Parachutes |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky |
| Courtney Barnett sometimes i sit and think, and sometimes i just sit |
| Dance Gavin Dance Instant Gratification |
| Daniel Johnston Hi, How Are You |
| Death Grips The Money Store |
| Death Grips The Powers That B - Part I: Niggas on the Moon |
| Defeater Lost Ground |
| Disclosure Caracal |
| Drake Nothing Was the Same |
| Dream Theater Awake |
| Dream Theater Systematic Chaos |
| Duskmourn Of Shadow and Flame |
| Dying Fetus Destroy the Opposition |
| Dying Fetus Wrong One to Fuck With |
| Eels The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett |
| Enslaved Below the Lights |
| Enslaved Frost |
| Enslaved Ruun |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place |
| FKA Twigs M3LL155X |
| Flatbush Zombies 3001: A Laced Odyssey |
| Flying Lotus You're Dead! |
| Get The Shot Infinite Punishment |
| Ghost (SWE) Meliora |
| Ghost Bath Moonlover |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. |
| Gorillaz Humanz |
| HAIM Days Are Gone |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness |
| Holy Ghost! Dynamics |
| Ian Anderson Thick as a Brick 2 |
| Iced Earth The Dark Saga |
| Intronaut Valley of Smoke |
| Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death |
| Iron Maiden Iron Maiden |
| James Blake The Colour in Anything |
| Jeff Rosenstock WORRY. |
| Joey Badass B4.DA.$$ |
| Khmer Larga Sombra |
| La Dispute Rooms of the House |
| Laura Mvula Sing To The Moon |
| Leviathan Scar Sighted |
| Linkin Park Meteora |
| Little Dragon Ritual Union |
| Lorde Pure Heroine |
| A pop album that's head and shoulders above many of it's competition. Lorde's unique voice is enhanced by both a wonderful and minimal production style. Probably one of the best that the Top 40 has to offer. |
| Lou Reed New Sensations |
| Macklemore and Ryan Lewis The Heist |
| Major Lazer Peace Is The Mission |
| Marina Froot |
| Marissa Nadler July |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve |
| Metallica Death Magnetic |
| Migos Culture |
| Mogwai Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will |
| Moonsorrow Suden uni |
| Motley Crue Dr. Feelgood |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade |
| Napalm Death Scum |
| Neil Cicierega Mouth Moods |
| Neko Case The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight... |
| Neurosis The Word as Law |
| Neutral Milk Hotel On Avery Island |
| Neutral Milk Hotel Everything Is |
| Nirvana In Utero |
| Nokturnal Mortum Verity |
| Of Monsters and Men My Head is an Animal |
| Periphery Juggernaut: Alpha |
| Phurpa Trowo Phurnag Ceremony |
| Pinch and Shackleton Pinch and Shackleton |
| Porcupine Tree The Sky Moves Sideways |
| Preoccupations Viet Cong |
| Preservation Hall Jazz Band That's It! |
| Purity Ring Shrines |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way |
| Refused Songs To Fan The Flames Of Discontent |
| Robert Rich Nest |
| Royal Headache High |
| Rush 2112 |
| Sabaton The Last Stand |
| Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy |
| Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between |
| Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans |
| Symphony X Iconoclast |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| System of a Down Mezmerize |
| The Black Keys El Camino |
| The Cult Love |
| The Dismemberment Plan Uncanney Valley |
| The Flower Kings Flower Power |
| The Halluci Nation Nation II Nation |
| The Internet Feel Good |
| The Knife Deep Cuts |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| The Mars Volta Scab Dates |
| The Mire Glass Cathedrals |
| The Preatures Is This How You Feel |
| The Pretenders Pretenders |
| The Stone Roses Second Coming |
| The Weeknd Beauty Behind the Madness |
| The Who Tommy |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Harmlessness |
| Tigran Hamasyan Mockroot |
| Todd Terje It's Album Time |
| Totem Skin Weltschmerz |
| Travis Scott Rodeo |
| TV on the Radio New Health Rock |
| Twelve Foot Ninja Silent Machine |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend |
| Venetian Snares Traditional Synthesizer Music |
| Walk the Moon Talking is Hard |
| Weezer Everything Will Be Alright in the End |
| Weird Al Yankovic Mandatory Fun |
| Whispered Shogunate Macabre |
| White Suns Totem |
| This album is an exercise in exactly how noisy you can make a song while still making it music. White Suns deliver blistering, chaotic songs that sound well put together while at the same time completely messy and broken. However, they are not all about one song and delve into nightmarish, downtempo noise collages that keep things fresh and interesting. This music is not for the feint of ears, as it can produce an almost trance like effect as every single bit of cacophony rages on. But for those willing to listen, it can be a rewarding experience. |
| Wildernessking Mystical Future |
| Wilderun Sleep at the Edge of the Earth |
| William Basinski The Disintegration Loops III |
| Witchery In His Infernal Majesty's Service |
| Woods With Light And With Love |
| Yeasayer Odd Blood |
| Young Thug Slime Season 3 |
| ZZ Ward Til The Casket Drops |
| 2.5 average |
| Adele 25 |
| Anal Trump To All the Broads I've Nailed Before |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold |
| BABYMETAL BABYMETAL |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence |
| Beyonce I Am... Sasha Fierce |
| Broken Bells After The Disco |
| Cage The Elephant Tell Me I'm Pretty |
| Capital Cities In A Tidal Wave of Mystery |
| Chevelle La Gárgola |
| A rather poor effort that can be summed up in one word: formulaic. Every single song with very few exceptions relies on a heavy, headache inducing riff and half sung, half shouted vocals that overall create a bland and lifeless package that's not heavy enough to stack up with good metal and not light enough to stack up with good alternative. The highest points are "Take Out the Gunman" which is a catchy jam with a very enjoyable chorus and "One Ocean" where the band actually dials it to deliver an interesting sounding ballad. Everything else though, is sorely lacking. |
| Childish Gambino Because the Internet |
| Chromeo White Women |
| clipping. CLPPNG |
| Cormorant Earth Diver |
| Counting Crows Recovering The Satellites |
| Daft Punk Human After All |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| DJ Khaled Major Key |
| Dot Hacker How's Your Process? (Work) |
| Draconian Sovran |
| Drake If You're Reading This It's Too Late |
| Drake Views |
| Drake and Future What a Time to Be Alive |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought |
| Dream Theater Octavarium |
| Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events |
| Dropkick Murphys 11 Short Stories of Pain and Glory |
| Ethereal Riffian Aeonian |
| Explosions in the Sky The Wilderness |
| Factory Floor Factory Floor |
| Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear |
| Fennesz Becs |
| Florence and the Machine How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful |
| Foo Fighters Sonic Highways |
| G Herbo Humble Beast |
| Gas Königsforst |
| Gazpacho Demon |
| While the music and lyrics are very strong, the album suffers from a huge issue of homogenization. Every single song blends right into the other without anything that distinguishes them from one another. I understand that most of the tracks are parts of greater songs, but those parts are arbitrary, only distinguished by lyrical content, which is not enough to sustain the album on its own. The only major difference between tracks was Death Room (Part 3) to the previous two tracks. While the parts on their own are good, they do not come together very well. |
| Goat It's Time For Fun |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World |
| Grand Magus Triumph and Power |
| Green Day iTRE! |
| Grimes Art Angels |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction |
| HAIM Something To Tell You |
| Hinds Leave Me Alone |
| Hop Along Painted Shut |
| Iced Earth Plagues of Babylon |
| Iron Maiden The Final Frontier |
| Irreversible Mechanism Infinite Fields |
| Iwrestledabearonce It's All Happening |
| Jethro Tull This Was |
| Jethro Tull A Passion Play |
| Kanye West Yeezus |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Murder Of The Universe |
| Latitudes Old Sunlight |
| Lil Yachty Teenage Emotions |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory |
| Little Dragon Nabuma Rubberband |
| This album is good, but it lacks the energy that their previous releases had. It really could have used less slow songs. |
| Meshuggah The Violent Sleep Of Reason |
| Metallica Metallica |
| Minsk The Crash and the Draw |
| Mogwai Rave Tapes |
| Moon Tooth Chromaparagon |
| Moonsorrow Varjoina kuljemme kuolleiden maassa |
| Motorpsycho Behind the Sun |
| Mount Eerie Sauna |
| Muse The Resistance |
| Musk Ox Woodfall |
| Neneh Cherry Blank Project |
| Neurosis Pain of Mind |
| Nicki Minaj Pink Friday |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| Noah and the Whale Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down |
| Noah Gundersen Ledges |
| Nothing More Nothing More |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers I'm With You |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Getaway |
| Rihanna ANTI |
| Ritual Chamber Obscurations (To Feast On The Seraphim) |
| Sage Francis Copper Gone |
| Seven Sisters Of Sleep Opium Morals |
| Sigur Ros ( ) |
| Sithu Aye Senpai EP II: The Noticing |
| Sleigh Bells Reign of Terror |
| Snow Patrol Eyes Open |
| Soundgarden King Animal |
| Soundtrack (Disney) Frozen: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack |
| Sugary Sweet Machines Tours of the Bleak |
| SUMAC What One Becomes |
| Summoning Stronghold |
| Sun Kil Moon Common As Light and Love Are Red Valleys of Blood |
| Sunn O))) Black One |
| Surfer Blood Pythons |
| SZA Z |
| Taylor Swift 1989 |
| Taylor Swift Reputation |
| The Arrogant Sons of Bitches Three Cheers For Disappointment |
| The Black Eyed Peas Elephunk |
| The Crinn Shadowbreather |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality |
| The Hotelier Goodness |
| The Lumineers The Lumineers |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt |
| The Wonder Years No Closer to Heaven |
| Throwing Snow Embers |
| Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 |
| Titus Andronicus Local Business |
| Travis Scott Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight |
| tUnE-yArDs Nikki Nack |
| TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain |
| Ungfell Tôtbringære |
| Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City |
| Van Halen A Different Kind of Truth |
| Viper the Rapper You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack |
| Voices from the Fuselage Odyssey: The Destroyer of Worlds |
| Weezer Pacific Daydream |
| While She Sleeps This Is the Six |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestite |
| YG My Krazy Life |
| Young Thug I'm Up |
| Zeta (UK) Zeta |
| 1.0 awful |
| American Authors Oh, What a Life |
| Utterly unremarkable indie pop trash that makes American Authors' contemporaries in the genre look positively unique by comparison. The album features 11 tracks of songs in the same key, same tempo, and sung in the same style that there's almost nothing that distinguishes them from each other other than the shameless ripoff of Imagine Dragon "Best Day of My Life" and the shameless ripoff of "Best Day of My Life" in "Love." |
| Black Veil Brides Wretched and Divine |
| A complete trainwreck of an album from beginning to end that tries so hard yet fails so utterly. Each song is desperately trying to be some big, epic, rousing anthem yet every single lyric, melody, solo, and rhythm is so paint by the numbers, it's embarrassing. That's what Black Veil Brides do on this album, embarrass themselves. |
| Brain I'm Brain |
| Chris Brown Heartbreak on a Full Moon |
| Emmure Eternal Enemies |
| fail better, heal faster fail better, heal faster |
| Green Day iDOS! |
| Jethro Tull Under Wraps |
| Kid Cudi Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven |
| Lil Wayne Rebirth |
| Linkin Park One More Light |
| Lou Reed Metal Machine Music |
| Macklemore and Ryan Lewis This Unruly Mess I've Made |
| Metallica St. Anger |
| Morbid Angel Illud Divinum Insanus |
| Nickelback The Best of Nickelback Volume 1 |
| Owl City Mobile Orchestra |
| Sachiko M Bar Sachiko |
| Sleeping With Sirens Madness |
| Soulja Boy Souljaboytellem.com |
| Squarepusher Music for Robots |
| An absolute waste of time for any listener, there is nothing in this EP other than a bunch of random melodies. If Squarepusher is looking to prove anything, he ends up proving that robots are incapable of playing interesting music. Every single track sounds like a rejected theme from the first Civilization game and the robots play their instruments as horrifically as possible, just wanking away at instruments with no regard for melody or any musical construction. There is nothing salvageable other than the notion that robots would never be able to make humans obsolete with garbage music like this. |
| Sufjan Stevens Enjoy Your Rabbit |
| The Black Eyed Peas The Beginning |
| The Chainsmokers Memories...Do Not Open |
| The Killers Don't Waste Your Wishes |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet |
| xSPONGEXCOREx How Tough Are Yah? |
| As someone who is a huge fan of Spongebob, this is an absolute waste of time. The music is not very good, being on the low end of the generic metalcore side. That leaves the samples of clips from Spongebob and that's all it is. There is no joke, it's just simply "hey remember that time from Spongebob?" which only makes me want to watch Spongebob instead of listen to this useless waste of an album. There is simply nothing substantial musically for this album to be a little bit enjoyable. |
