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5.0 classic
Alcest Kodama
Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II
Aphex Twin Drukqs
Bad Religion The New America
Bibio Ribbons
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath
blink-182 Enema Of The State
Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children
Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest
Bobby McFerrin Circlesongs
Boris Flood
Brian Eno Ambient 4: On Land
Brian Eno Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks
CHON CHON
I've been playing music for over 30 years, and I am completely baffled at how poorly received this album has been among reviewers - and especially among talented reviewers who make an excellent case against it. Did everyone draw the "crappy review" straw for this record?? Or am I just listening to a different album than everyone else? On the surface, perhaps with only one listen, there's an argument that can be made that it sounds somewhat homogeneous. Closer, more careful listens reveal that the whole record represents SIGNIFICANT STRIDES FORWARD FOR THE BAND'S COMPOSITION STYLE. They have perfected a means of tightly playing beautiful, laid back, west-coast surf rock in a way that is as virtuous and creativity-infused as an endless Paganini violin solo. The end result is an true *album* that is a pleasure to listen to cover-to-cover. The expanded use of pedals results in all sorts of hidden gems when you turn the volume up. But most importantly: every second features a band that is "in the pocket," fully playing together as a group with a common musical vision in mind. It doesn't sound like the beautiful musings of one or two guitarists with cool ideas and a decent rhythm section backing them up. Rather, it sounds like the *absolute pinnacle* of instrumental rock at the turn of the decade. Don't let all the bad reviews fool you.
Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
Disasterpeace Fez OST
DJ Shadow Endtroducing.....
Don Caballero American Don
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues
Floral Floral LP
Four Tet Rounds
Frank Zappa Hot Rats
Frank Zappa Strictly Commercial
Giraffes? Giraffes! More Skin With Milk-Mouth
Goldfinger Hang-ups
Green Day Dookie
Green Day Insomniac
Hella Acoustics
John Coltrane Giant Steps
John Coltrane Coltrane's Sound
Keith Jarrett The Köln Concert
Less Than Jake Hello Rockview
Lustmord Rising
Magma K.A. (Köhntarkösz Anteria)
Mahavishnu Orchestra Birds of Fire
Mahavishnu Orchestra Visions of the Emerald Beyond
Meshuggah Chaosphere
Meshuggah obZen
Miles Davis Live Evil
Miles Davis Big Fun
Mogwai Rock Action
Nils Frahm Spaces
Nils Frahm Tripping with Nils Frahm
Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral
Nine Inch Nails The Fragile
Nirvana Bleach
Nirvana In Utero
Nirvana Incesticide
Nirvana Nevermind
Nirvana Live at the Paramount
NOFX The Decline
NOFX So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes
Oneohtrix Point Never Returnal
Pearl Jam Ten
Pearl Jam Vs.
Philip Glass North Star
Philip Glass Powaqqatsi
Pink Floyd The Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
Popol Vuh Einsjäger und Siebenjäger
Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf
Radiohead Amnesiac
Radiohead Kid A
Radiohead OK Computer
Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine
RJD2 Since We Last Spoke
Shakti Natural Elements
Sheila Chandra Weaving My Ancestor's Voices
Soundgarden Superunknown
Soundgarden Down on the Upside
Stars of the Lid The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid
Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline
Steve Reich Music for 18 Musicians
Steve Reich Different Trains/Electric Counterpoint
Steve Reich Music for 18 Musicians: Ensemble Modern
Steve Roach Dreamtime Return
Stone Temple Pilots Purple
Sufjan Stevens Illinois
The Beatles The Beatles
The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Breeders Last Splash
The Chemical Brothers Dig Your Own Hole
The Mothers of Invention We're Only in It for the Money
The Mothers of Invention Absolutely Free
The Presidents of the United States of America II
The Presidents of the United States of America The Presidents of the United States of America
The Prodigy The Fat Of The Land
The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream
The Who Who's Next
The Who The Who by Numbers
This Will Destroy You This Will Destroy You
Tim Hecker Harmony in Ultraviolet
Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972
Tool Lateralus
Tool Ænima
Veruca Salt American Thighs
Weezer Pinkerton
Weezer Weezer
Yusef Lateef Eastern Sounds
Zero 7 When It Falls
ZZ Top Degüello

4.5 superb
A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms
And So I Watch You From Afar Megafauna
Aphex Twin Come To Daddy
Aphex Twin Classics
Bad Religion All Ages
Bad Religion Stranger Than Fiction
Bad Religion Recipe for Hate
Bad Religion The Process of Belief
Bad Religion The Gray Race
Bibio A Mineral Love
Big Thief Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
Biosphere Man with a Movie Camera
Black Sabbath Master of Reality
blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket
Bobby McFerrin Vocabularies
Boris Boris At Last -Feedbacker-
Camel Mirage
Camel Echoes
Clogs The Creatures In the Garden of Lady Walton
David Hykes & The Harmonic Choir Hearing Solar Winds
Delta Sleep Ghost City
Disasterpeace Hyper Light Drifter OST
DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ Sorcery
Don Caballero What Burns Never Returns
Dropkick Murphys Sing Loud, Sing Proud!
Earth Hex: Or Printing In the Infernal Method
Earth The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
Fear Factory Obsolete
Fleet Foxes Sun Giant
Frank Zappa Waka/Jawaka
Frank Zappa Joe's Garage
Frank Zappa The Lost Episodes
Giraffes? Giraffes! Memory Lame
Giraffes? Giraffes! Death Breath
Goldfinger Goldfinger
Goldfinger Stomping Ground
Guzzlemug Away With The Wind & Noise
Hella Hold Your Horse Is
Hella The Devil Isn't Red
Hella Tripper
Hiroshi Yoshimura Soundscape 1: Surround
Koenji Hyakkei Ni (Viva Koenji!)
Le Grand Plastic Jazz
Less Than Jake Losing Streak
Lightning Bug No Paradise
Lustmord Heresy
Lustmord The Word As Power
Machinedrum Vapor City
Madeon Good Faith
Magma Les Voix Concert 1992
Mahavishnu Orchestra The Inner Mounting Flame
Mahavishnu Orchestra Between Nothingness & Eternity
Maynard Ferguson Conquistador
Meshuggah I
Meshuggah The Violent Sleep of Reason
Miles Davis Bitches Brew
Nils Frahm Solo
Nils Frahm All Melody
Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York
Nirvana Live at Reading
Nirvana Live and Loud
NOFX Heavy Petting Zoo
NOFX Punk in Drublic
NOFX Pump Up the Valuum
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Body and Soul
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Mustt Mustt
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Night Song
Oneohtrix Point Never Love in the Time of Lexapro
Pearl Jam Vitalogy
Philip Glass Music in Twelve Parts
Pink Floyd Animals
Pink Floyd The Wall
Popol Vuh Hosianna Mantra
Popol Vuh Nosferatu OST
Queens of the Stone Age Rated R
Radiohead COM LAG (2plus2isfive)
Radiohead In Rainbows
Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire
Return to Forever Romantic Warrior
Ruins Tzomborgha
Santana Caravanserai
Shakti A Handful of Beauty
Shakti Shakti
Squarepusher Hard Normal Daddy
Squarepusher Burningn'n Tree
Stars of the Lid Carte-De-Visite
Steve Roach Structures from Silence
Sufjan Stevens Michigan
Sun Kil Moon Benji
Sunn O))) and Boris Altar
Talvin Singh OK
The Haxan Cloak Excavation
The Mothers of Invention Weasels Ripped My Flesh
The Prodigy Music For The Jilted Generation
The Range Disk
The Range Nonfiction
The Roches The Roches
The Smashing Pumpkins Lull
The Who Tommy
The Who Live at Leeds (Deluxe Edition)
The Who Live at Hull 1970
Tim Hecker Konoyo
Tim Hecker Anoyo
Tim Hecker Shards
Tool Fear Inoculum
Ulrich Schnauss Far Away Trains Passing By
Vatican Shadow Remember Your Black Day
Vatican Shadow Ghosts of Chechnya
Venetian Snares Rossz Csillag Alatt Született
Venetian Snares My Love Is A Bulldozer
Veruca Salt Resolver
Veruca Salt Eight Arms to Hold You
Wendy Carlos The Shining
Yazz Ahmed Polyhymnia
Yusef Lateef The Blue Yusef Lateef
Zero 7 Simple Things

4.0 excellent
And So I Watch You From Afar And So I Watch You From Afar
And So I Watch You From Afar Heirs
Aphex Twin 26 Mixes For Cash
Aphex Twin Syro
Bad Religion Suffer
Bibio Ambivalence Avenue
Bibio Vignetting The Compost
Bibio The Serious (feat. Olivier St. Louis)
Bibio Sleep on the Wing
Big Thief U.F.O.F.
Big Thief Two Hands
Biosphere Dropsonde
Black Sabbath Paranoid
Boards of Canada Geogaddi
Boris Pink
Boris Akuma no Uta
Borknagar True North
Deafheaven Sunbather
Disasterpeace Rise of the Obsidian Interstellar
Disasterpeace It Follows OST
Disasterpeace Marcel the Shell with Shoes On OST
DJ Shadow The Private Press
Dosh Wolves and Wishes
Dosh Tommy
Dropkick Murphys Do or Die
Earth Pentastar: In The Style Of Demons
Earth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II
Earth Primitive and Deadly
Fleet Foxes Crack-Up
Floral Floral
Floral The Second Floral EP
Four Tet Beautiful Rewind
Frank Zappa The Grand Wazoo
Frank Zappa Guitar
Giraffes? Giraffes! Rite Of Summer
Green Day Nimrod
Green Day Kerplunk
John Coltrane Blue Train
Keith Jarrett Solo Concerts: Bremen/Lausanne
Koenji Hyakkei Dhorimviskha
Less Than Jake Anthem
Lightning Bug A Color of the Sky
Lustmord Much Unseen Is Also Here
Machinedrum 3FOR82
Mahavishnu Orchestra The Lost Trident Sessions
Mahavishnu Orchestra Inner Worlds
Mahavishnu Orchestra Unreleased Tracks from Between Nothingness & Etern
Miles Davis Kind of Blue
Miles Davis Porgy and Bess
Miles Davis The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions
Mogwai Come On Die Young
Mogwai Mr. Beast
Nils Frahm Felt
Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine
Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York (DVD)
NOFX 45 or 46 Songs That Weren't Good Enough
Oneohtrix Point Never R Plus Seven
Oneohtrix Point Never Garden of Delete
Philip Glass Glassworks
Philip Glass Einstein on the Beach
Philip Glass Koyaanisqatsi
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Death Hilarious
Pink Floyd The Division Bell
Popol Vuh In den Garten Pharaos
Popol Vuh Das Hohelied Salomos
Popol Vuh Coeur De Verre
Popol Vuh Sei Still Wisse Ich Bin
Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze
Radiohead Hail to the Thief
Radiohead The King of Limbs
Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool
RJD2 Deadringer
RJD2 The Horror
Santana Abraxas
Santana Santana
Sheila Chandra ABoneCroneDrone
Stars of the Lid Avec Laudenum
Stars of the Lid The Ballasted Orchestra
Steve Reich Octet/Music For a Large Ensemble/Violin Phase
Steve Roach New Life Dreaming
Steve Roach Skeleton Keys
Stone Temple Pilots Core
Stone Temple Pilots Tiny Music... Songs From The Vatican...
Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz
Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell
The Beatles Rubber Soul
The Beatles Abbey Road
The Chemical Brothers Come With Us
The Mothers of Invention Over-Nite Sensation
The Prodigy Experience
The Roches Keep On Doing
The Who Quadrophenia
The Who Greatest Hits Live
Tim Hecker Virgins
Venetian Snares Detrimentalist

3.5 great
A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step
Alcest Spiritual Instinct
And So I Watch You From Afar The Endless Shimmering
Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase
Boris Amplifier Worship
Boris Attention Please
Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports
Don Caballero For Respect
Ezra Feinberg Soft Power
Four Tet There is Love in You
Four Tet Three
Frank Zappa Lumpy Gravy
Goldfinger Open Your Eyes
Goldfinger The Knife
Green Day International Superhits
Green Day 39/Smooth
Hella Total Bugs Bunny On Wild Bass
Less Than Jake Silver Linings
Miles Davis Sketches of Spain
Miles Davis E.S.P
Miles Davis On the Corner
Mogwai Young Team
Pink Floyd More
Radiohead The Bends
Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles
Squarepusher Ultravisitor
Steve Reich You Are (Variations)
Steve Reich Daniel Variations
Sufjan Stevens Songs For Christmas
The Beatles Revolver
The Haxan Cloak The Haxan Cloak
The Mothers of Invention Burnt Weeny Sandwich
The Range Seneca
The Smashing Pumpkins Gish
The Smashing Pumpkins Adore
The Who Tommy: Original Film Soundtrack
This Will Destroy You Young Mountain
This Will Destroy You New Others Part One
Tim Hecker An Imaginary Country
Tim Hecker Radio Amor
Tim Hecker Dropped Pianos
Tim Hecker No Highs
Tool Undertow
Tool Opiate
Tool 10,000 Days
Ulrich Schnauss A Strangely Isolated Place

3.0 good
A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe
Aphex Twin ...I Care Because You Do
blink-182 Dude Ranch
Boris Noise
Boris Heavy Rocks (2022)
Brian Eno Another Green World
Brian Eno Music for Installations
DJ Shadow Our Pathetic Age
Four Tet Pink
Frank Zappa Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch
Frank Zappa Thing-Fish
Green Day American Idiot
Hella There's No 666 In Outer Space
Hella Church Gone Wild/Chirpin' Hard
Hiroshi Yoshimura Music For Nine Post Cards
Less Than Jake Borders and Boundaries
Madeon Adventure
Mahavishnu Orchestra Apocalypse
Nils Frahm Music for Animals
Oneohtrix Point Never Magic Oneohtrix Point Never
Oneohtrix Point Never Again
Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork
RJD2 Magnificent City Instrumentals
Stone Temple Pilots No. 4
The Mothers of Invention Playground Psychotics
The Prodigy Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned
The Prodigy The Dirtchamber Sessions: Volume One
The Prodigy Experience Expanded: Remixes & B-Sides
The Smashing Pumpkins Machina/The Machines Of God
The Smashing Pumpkins Oceania
Tim Hecker Love Streams
Tim Hecker Infinity Pool
Zero 7 The Garden

2.5 average
blink-182 Blink-182
blink-182 Buddha
Brian Eno Neroli
Green Day Warning
Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris
Radiohead In Rainbows Disk 2
RJD2 The Third Hand
RJD2 The Colossus
Steve Reich Drumming
This Will Destroy You New Others Part Two
This Will Destroy You Vespertine
Weezer The Green Album

2.0 poor
The Smashing Pumpkins Zeitgeist
Weezer Maladroit
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