| 4.0 excellent |
| American Football American Football (LP3) |
| Anathema Distant Satellites |
| Anathema Judgement |
| Anathema Hindsight |
| Balmorhea Clear Language |
Not as boisterous or expansive as incredible Stranger, but considering Balmorhea's long history of
beautiful introspective music, this feels like a very effortless product. There's less folk here
than in their early releases, but the melodies are still haunting and quiet. Piano glides through
most songs, occasionally bouncing along to a soft beat, as in album highlight Behind the World.
Some songs give full stage to the guitars, whether it's one dripping with distortion in Ecco, or a
playful acoustic/blues mix in 55. Whatever the instrumentation, all songs have space to breathe.
Stranger was a sprint to the top of the mountain, and Clear Language is the rest at the summit.
Slow down, breathe in the fresh air, and just listen. |
| Boysetsfire The Misery Index: Notes From The Plague |
| Boysetsfire After The Eulogy |
| Caspian On Circles |
| Chevelle Hats Off To The Bull |
| Chevelle La Gárgola |
| Cloudkicker Let Yourself Be Huge |
| Cloudkicker Subsume |
| Cult of Luna Eternal Kingdom |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal |
| Demians Mute |
| Dream Theater Dream Theater |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings |
| dredg El Cielo |
| dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion |
| Emancipator Dusk to Dawn |
| Emancipator Soon It Will Be Cold Enough |
| Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True |
| If These Trees Could Talk Red Forest |
| Intervals The Way Forward |
| Intronaut Fluid Existential Inversions |
| ISIS Oceanic |
| Jimmy Eat World Futures |
| Kerretta Exiscens |
| Right up there with Pirohia, might be better. Chroma Queens is a banger. |
| Kerretta Pirohia |
| Long Distance Calling The Flood Inside |
| Long Distance Calling Eraser |
| Sputnik needs to wake up to this band. Kamilah, Blood Honey, and Landless King are really good jams. This band has been consistent for 15 years, other than How We Want to Live. They ditched the weird spoken word bits too. |
| Long Distance Calling Satellite Bay |
| Another deliriously slept-on band by Sputnik. Jungfernflug and The Very Last Day are two certified post-metal bangers. Please indulge. |
| Pelican Forever Becoming |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet |
| Riverside Rapid Eye Movement |
| Riverside Second Life Syndrome |
| Riverside Out of Myself |
| Scale the Summit Carving Desert Canyons |
| Tauk Collisions |
| The Ocean Pelagial |
| Thrice Beggars |
| Thrice Deeper Wells |
| Thrice Horizons/East |
| Tori Amos Little Earthquakes |
| Toundra IV |
| We Lost the Sea Triumph and Disaster |
