| 4.5 superb |
| A Tribe Called Quest People's Instinctive Travels & The Paths of Rhythm |
| Aara Eiger |
| Aerosmith Toys In The Attic |
| AFI Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes |
| AFI 336 |
| Alice Cooper Love It To Death |
| Alice Cooper Welcome to My Nightmare |
| Alkaline Trio Good Mourning |
| Alkaline Trio Crimson |
| Anna von Hausswolff Dead Magic |
| Bane Don't Wait Up |
| Basement I Wish I Could Stay Here |
| Basement Colourmeinkindness |
| Bathory Bathory |
| Bathory The Return of the Darkness and Evil |
| Bathory Blood Fire Death |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors II |
| Billy Strings Turmoil and Tinfoil |
| Billy Strings Renewal |
| Billy Strings Home |
| Bjork Post |
| Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath |
| Black Sabbath Vol. 4 |
| Blacklisted When People Grow, People Go |
| Blasphemy Fallen Angel of Doom |
| Blind Melon Blind Melon |
| Blind Melon Soup |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket |
| blink-182 Dude Ranch |
| Blood Incantation Hidden History Of The Human Race |
| Blood Incantation Absolute Elsewhere |
| Box Car Racer Box Car Racer |
| Brown Bird The Devil Dancing |
| Bruce Springsteen Nebraska |
| Bruce Springsteen Born in the U.S.A. |
| Built to Spill There's Nothing Wrong with Love |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss |
| Camel Moonmadness |
| Carry On It's All Our Blood |
| Catherine Wheel Chrome |
| Catherine Wheel Ferment |
| Ceremony (USA-CA) Violence Violence |
| Chain of Strength True til Death |
| Childish Gambino "Awaken, My Love!" |
| Citizen Youth |
| Converge You Fail Me |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind |
| Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young Crosby, Stills and Nash |
| Crowbar Time Heals Nothing |
| Daft Punk Discovery |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories |
| Dan Fogelberg The Innocent Age |
| Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition |
| Danny Brown XXX |
| Dark Angel Darkness Descends |
| Das EFX Dead Serious |
| Dashboard Confessional A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar |
| Dave Matthews Band Busted Stuff |
| De La Soul 3 Feet High And Rising |
| De La Soul De La Soul Is Dead |
| Dead Boys Young Loud and Snotty |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance |
| Death Human |
| Defeater Travels |
| Defeater Lost Ground |
| Deicide Deicide |
| Demolition Hammer Tortured Existence |
| Demolition Hammer Epidemic of Violence |
| Dialogue Everyone Is Waiting For You |
| Digable Planets Blowout Comb |
| Digable Planets Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) |
| Dinosaur Jr. Without a Sound |
| Dinosaur Jr. Where You Been |
| Dinosaur Jr. Bug |
| Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me |
| Dio The Last In Line |
| El-P Fantastic Damage |
| El-P I'll Sleep When You're Dead |
| Electric Light Orchestra Face the Music |
| Electric Light Orchestra Out of the Blue |
| END (USA-NJ) From the Unforgiving Arms of God |
| END (USA-NJ) Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face |
| Entombed Clandestine |
| Erykah Badu Baduizm |
| Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic |
| Exhorder Slaughter in the Vatican |
| Failure Magnified |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree |
| Fear Before The Always Open Mouth |
| Fennesz Venice |
| Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac |
| Foundation Turncoat |
| Foundation When The Smoke Clears |
| Freddie Gibbs and Madlib Pinata |
| Freddie Gibbs and Madlib Bandana |
| From Indian Lakes The Man With Wooden Legs |
| Ghost (SWE) Meliora |
| Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles) |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book |
| Goodie Mob Still Standing |
| Gorguts Colored Sands |
| Gorguts From Wisdom to Hate |
| Gorguts The Erosion of Sanity |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz |
| Haste the Day Burning Bridges |
| Hatebreed Perseverance |
| Hieroglyphics 3rd Eye Vision |
| Hum Downward Is Heavenward |
| Immortal Pure Holocaust |
| Immortal Sons of Northern Darkness |
| In My Eyes Nothing To Hide |
| In Solitude Sister |
| Interpersonal The Long Bright Dark |
| Iron Maiden Iron Maiden |
| Iron Maiden Piece Of Mind |
| Ivy League Ivy League |
| Ivy League Summer Sessions |
| Jack White Fear of the Dawn |
| James Blake James Blake |
| Jason Isbell The Nashville Sound |
| Jason Isbell Southeastern |
| Jason Isbell Reunions |
| Jawbreaker Dear You |
| Jay-Z Vol. 2: Hard Knock Life |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint |
| Jeremy Soule Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Soundtrack |
| Jerry Jeff Walker Ridin' High |
| JID The Never Story |
| JID The Forever Story |
| Johnny Cash American IV: The Man Comes Around |
| Johnny Cash American Recordings |
| Johnny Cash At San Quentin |
| Joyce Manor Joyce Manor |
| Judas Iscariot To Embrace the Corpses Bleeding |
| Judas Priest Stained Class |
| Judas Priest Defenders Of The Faith |
| Judas Priest Painkiller |
| Judge Bringin' It Down |
| Juggaknots Re:Release |
| Kanye West Late Registration |
| Kanye West The College Dropout |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city |
| King Diamond ''Them'' |
| King Diamond Fatal Portrait |
| KISS Love Gun |
| Kris Kristofferson The Silver Tongued Devil and I |
| Leeway Born to Expire |
| Lords of the Underground Here Come the Lords |
| Manchester Orchestra A Black Mile to the Surface |
| Marduk Opus Nocturne |
| Marilyn Manson Mechanical Animals |
| Mastodon Remission |
| Mazzy Star She Hangs Brightly |
| Merle Haggard Swinging Doors and the Bottle Let Me Down |
| Metallica ...And Justice For All |
| mewithoutYou [Untitled] |
| mewithoutYou A to B: Life |
| Mineral EndSerenading |
| Misfits Static Age |
| Misfits Earth A.D./Wolf's Blood |
| Misfits Die, Die My Darling |
| Misfits Beware |
| Misfits Night of the Living Dead |
| Misfits Bullet |
| Mobb Deep Hell on Earth |
| Morbid Saint Spectrum of Death |
| Morphine Cure for Pain |
| Movements Feel Something |
| Moving Mountains Pneuma |
| Murder by Death Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them? |
| Murder by Death The Other Shore |
| NAILS Unsilent Death |
| Negative Approach Tied Down |
| Neil Young Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere |
| Neil Young Rust Never Sleeps |
| Neurosis A Sun That Never Sets |
| Neurosis The Eye Of Every Storm |
| New Found Glory Catalyst |
| New Found Glory Tip Of The Iceberg EP and Takin' It Ova! |
| New York Dolls New York Dolls |
| O'Brother Garden Window |
| O'Brother The Death of Day |
| Obituary Slowly We Rot |
| One Step Closer All You Embrace |
| Orchid Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow! |
| OutKast Stankonia |
| OutKast Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik |
| Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard Of Ozz |
| Paradise Lost Obsidian |
| Park No Signal |
| Paw Dragline |
| Pink Floyd Animals |
| Pink Floyd Meddle |
| Poison the Well Tear From the Red |
| Poison the Well You Come Before You |
| Poor Righteous Teachers Holy Intellect |
| Power Trip Nightmare Logic |
| Quasimoto The Unseen |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Rammstein Mutter |
| Ride Nowhere |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 |
| Run the Jewels RTJ4 |
| Sade Diamond Life |
| Sade Promise |
| Sade Stronger Than Pride |
| Saetia Saetia |
| Saves the Day Can't Slow Down |
| Slayer Show No Mercy |
| Slayer Hell Awaits |
| Slayer South Of Heaven |
| Sodom Persecution Mania |
| Sodom M-16 |
| State Faults Children of the Moon |
| Steely Dan Can't Buy a Thrill |
| Steely Dan Pretzel Logic |
| Steely Dan Katy Lied |
| Steely Dan Gaucho |
| Stoned Jesus Seven Thunders Roar |
| Sturgill Simpson A Sailor's Guide To Earth |
| Sturgill Simpson Metamodern Sounds In Country Music |
| Suffocation Human Waste |
| Sufjan Stevens Michigan |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell |
| Sunny Day Real Estate How It Feels To Be Something On |
| Superheaven Jar |
| System of a Down System of a Down |
| Terror Pain Into Power |
| The Avalanches Since I Left You |
| The Band Stage Fright |
| The Beach Boys Smiley Smile |
| The Beach Boys Sunflower |
| The Beach Boys Surf's Up |
| The Cure Songs of a Lost World |
| The Damned The Black Album |
| The Damned Machine Gun Etiquette |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection) |
| The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading |
| The Dear Hunter Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise |
| The Dear Hunter Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional |
| The Decemberists Castaways and Cutouts |
| The Doobie Brothers The Captain and Me |
| The Jesus Lizard Liar |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Life After Death |
| The Pharcyde Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde |
| The Receiving End of Sirens Between the Heart and the Synapse |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Gish |
| The Sound From The Lion's Mouth |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting Tiger and the Duke |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting Tiger and the Duke (Re-Issue) |
| The Wonder Years The Greatest Generation |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety |
| Thursday War All the Time |
| Thursday No Devolucion |
| Tigers Jaw Tigers Jaw |
| Tim Hecker Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again |
| Tim Hecker Virgins |
| Title Fight Floral Green |
| toe The Book About My Idle Plot on a Vague Anxiety |
| Touche Amore ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse |
| Touche Amore Dead Horse X |
| Traveler (MO) Something Blue |
| Ulver Perdition City |
| Ulver Shadows of the Sun |
| Ulver Kveldssanger |
| Ulver Nattens Madrigal |
| Van Halen Fair Warning |
| Van Morrison Astral Weeks |
| W.A.S.P. The Headless Children |
| W.A.S.P. The Crimson Idol |
| Waylon Jennings Wanted! The Outlaws |
| Waylon Jennings The Ramblin' Man |
| White Ward Love Exchange Failure |
| White Ward Futility Report |
| White Ward False Light |
| I have been following the Ukrainian experimental/atmospheric black metal outfit White Ward since the release of their 2017 albumFutility Report. The band have continued to wow me with every release, adding new colors and sounds to their rich auditory landscape. However, with this year?s False Light, I believe White Ward has supplied us with the full package. From the album art and supplemental visual materials, the record seems to reflect upon suburban decay and forgotten structures, a very possible meditation on their war-torn native country. All of this can be surmised before even hearing a single note of music.rThe music perfectly reflects the dystopian nature of first impressions. The band have kept the foundation of their powerful and sprawling black metal assault with loads of atmosphere and jazz noir saxophone inflections, but this time adding in influence of spacious, dark, and gothic neofolk akin to something like Current 93, Death In June, or King Dude. This inclusion adds unexpected dour clean vocals and dreary melodies accompanied by acoustic guitars. There is even a trumpet that sits somewhere between Miles Davis?s smoky fusion and Ennio Morricone?s masterful Spaghetti Western film scores. In summation, this album is not something I can truly describe in words. My best recommendation would be to pick it up on vinyl, sit down with it on the stereo, pour over the breathtaking photography by Lucas Deshazer, and get lost in the sonic journey. |
| Willie Nelson Shotgun Willie |
| Willie Nelson Phases and Stages |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Primordial Arcana |
| Woods of Desolation Torn Beyond Reason |
| Yes The Yes Album |
| Yes Relayer |
| Youth of Today Can't Close My Eyes |
| Youth of Today We're Not In This Alone |
| Youth of Today Break Down The Walls |
