| 4.0 excellent |
| '68 Two Parts Viper |
| 7 Angels 7 Plagues Jhazmyne's Lullaby |
| Acid Bath Paegan Terrorism Tactics |
| Adebisi Shank This is the Album |
| Adolescents Adolescents |
| Adrift Black Heart Bleeds Black |
| Adrift Pure |
| Affinity Trio Hindsight |
| Aglaia Three Organic Experiences |
| Ai Kuwabara Trio Project The Sixth Sense |
| Alan Hovhaness Symphonies Nos. 4, 20 and 53; Prayer of St Gregory |
| Albert Ayler Love Cry |
| Alcest Kodama |
| Alexisonfire Alexisonfire |
| Alexisonfire Watch Out! |
| Alora Crucible Thymiamatascension |
| Alora Crucible Oak Lace Apparition |
| Alvvays Blue Rev |
| Amon Duul II Yeti |
| Amon Duul II Phallus Dei |
| Angel Olsen Big Time |
| Antarctic Antarctic |
| Anthony Davis Under the Double Moon |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II |
| Aphex Twin Syro |
| Arktida Сквозь Столетия |
| Grand choruses, sweeping emotional verses, cheesy orchestral accompaniment; Skvoz' stoletiya is certainly a generic power metal album, but it's a generic power metal album delivered in Russian. 9 years later and Arktida still tug at my heartstrings |
| Armand Hammer and The Alchemist Haram |
| Arnold Rosner The Masses |
| Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, and Shahzad Ismaily Love In Exile |
| Art Blakey The Jazz Messengers |
| Arvo Part Passio |
| As Cities Burn Hell or High Water |
| Astral Projection The Astral Files |
| Athletics Who You Are Is Not Enough |
| AURORA (NOR) The Gods We Can Touch |
| AURORA (NOR) What Happened to the Heart |
| Autechre LP5 |
| Basic Channel Q 1.1 |
| Basic Channel Quadrant Dub |
| Basic Channel Inversion |
| like Steve reich on a smidge of monkey dust. Pulsating, kosmisch, jittering |
| Battles Mirrored |
| Beach House Once Twice Melody: Chapter One |
| Beach House Once Twice Melody |
| Bear vs. Shark Right Now You're in the Best of Hands |
| Bear vs. Shark Terrorhawk |
| Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill |
| Bent Knee Say So |
| Bent Knee Bent Knee |
| Bent Knee You Know What They Mean |
| Big Thief Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You |
| Billy Woods Aethiopes |
| Birds in Row You, Me, and the Violence |
| Birds in Row Personal War |
| Birds in Row We Already Lost the World |
| Birds in Row Gris Klein |
| Bjork Medulla |
| Bjork Debut |
| Bjork Biophilia |
| Bjork Fossora |
| Black Country, New Road Ants from Up There |
| Black Dog Productions Bytes |
| Black Eyes Cough |
| BLACKSHAPE BLACKSHAPE |
| Blue Planet Corporation Blue Planet |
| Blue Planet Corporation Aquaquest |
| Blue Planet Corporation A Blueprint for Survival |
| Blue Whale Process |
| Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase |
| Boards of Canada Hi Scores |
| Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Sunset Mission |
| Bokassa Divide and Conquer |
| Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Creepin On Ah Come Up |
| Bonobo Animal Magic |
| Botch An Anthology of Dead Ends |
| Botch American Nervoso |
| Breach Kollapse |
| Breach Venom |
| Breach It's Me God |
| Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports |
| Brian Eno Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) |
| Brian Eno Another Green World |
| Brian Eno Here Come the Warm Jets |
| Brian Eno Discreet Music |
| Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene |
| BRUIT The Machine Is Burning... |
| Brutus (BE) Burst |
| BUCK-TICK Kurutta Taiyou |
| Buckethead Colma |
| Built to Spill There's Nothing Wrong with Love |
| Built to Spill Ancient Melodies of the Future |
| Built to Spill When The Wind Forgets Your Name |
| Burial Untrue |
| Burial Kindred |
| Butthole Surfers Locust Abortion Technician |
| Calexico Convict Pool |
| Calligram The Eye Is the First Circle |
| Cardinal Cardinal |
| Caribou Swim |
| Caspian Dust and Disquiet |
| Caterina Barbieri Spirit Exit |
| Chain Gang Grave When Your Friends Become Cops |
| Chaostar Threnody |
| Charles A.D. West Pontoon Bridge |
| Charles Mingus Pithecanthropus Erectus |
| Charles Mingus Mingus Dynasty |
| Charles Mingus The Clown |
| Charles Mingus East Coasting |
| Charles Mingus Tonight at Noon |
| Charles Mingus "Pithecanthropus Erectus" 1955-1957 |
| Charlotte Adigery and Bolis Pupul Topical Dancer |
| Chat Pile Cool World |
| Chelsea Wolfe She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She |
| Chet Baker Chet |
| Chiasm Reform |
| Cluster Sowiesoso |
| Cluster and Eno Cluster & Eno |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness |
| Coil Love's Secret Domain |
| Colossal Welcome the Problems |
| Comadre Comadre |
| Conway the Machine God Don't Make Mistakes |
| Crystal Lake The Voyages |
| Culprate Deliverance |
| Cursive The Ugly Organ |
| D'Angelo Black Messiah |
| Daitro Laisser Vivre Les Squelettes |
| Dance Gavin Dance Acceptance Speech 2.0 |
| Daughters Daughters |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Deftones Ohms |
| Delta Sleep Ghost City |
| Destroyer Trouble In Dreams |
| Destroyer Labyrinthitis |
| Diamanda Galas The Litanies of Satan |
| Dinosaur Jr. Bug |
| Dinosaur Jr. Beyond |
| Dionaea Still |
| dios trio High on Bikes |
| Dispirited Spirits The Redshift Blues |
| Dissidente The War on Two Fronts |
| Dog Fashion Disco Cult Classic |
| Domestic Terminal All The Stories Left To Tell |
| Duke Ellington Ellington Uptown |
| Duke Ellington The Far East Suite |
| Duke Ellington and John Coltrane Duke Ellington and John Coltrane |
| Duma Duma |
| Earth Moves The Truth In Our Bodies |
| Einsturzende Neubauten Haus Der Lüge |
| Elia y Elizabeth The Original Recordings |
| Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail |
| Emma Ruth Rundle Engine of Hell |
| Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou May Our Chambers Be Full |
| Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou The Helm of Sorrow |
| Enter Shikari Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible |
| I'm gonna stray away from too long of a soundoff here because I'm wading into uncharted waters. But Enter Shikari's latest release is both a delightful amalgam of ear-pleasing electronics and a sharp social commentary. It's almost too preachy and perhaps a bit artificial sounding, but it's accessible yet challenging. |
| Envy Abyssal |
| Abyssal is a landmark EP for envy. Though they truly began to adopt post-rock themes and sounds in Insomniac Doze, Abyssal represents envy owning and conquering what would become a hallmark of their sonic palate. The atmospheric quality so characteristic of envy's work is most apparent in the 10 minute long opening track, where harsh vocals reminiscent of the band's earlier days mesh with shimmery, distorted guitars. These are followed by gentle cleans delivered in the almost-spoken word style that came to define Tetsuya Fukagawa's singing when he wasn't pummeling the listener. A keystone of everyone's favorite screamo band's discography. |
| Ephel Duath The Painter's Palette |
| Eric Dolphy Out There |
| Erik K Skodvin Flare |
| Everything Everything Mountainhead |
| Faith No More Angel Dust |
| False Confession False Confession |
| Faraquet The View From This Tower |
| Fear Before Art Damage |
| Fire On Fire The Orchard |
| Fire On Fire 5 Song EP |
| Fishmans Kuuchuu Camp |
| Flourishing The Sum of All Fossils |
| Despite having listened to this the whole way through at least half a dozen times, I always expect TSoAF to be a crush-fest befitting of a group sput tags as dm/industrial. Then as T1 rumbles into T2 and Flourishing's unique take on TDM betrays its prog, doom, and punk influences, I marvel at the unassuming depth of sound on this record. It's this blend of genres that makes TSoAF such a rewarding listen, and one that makes the Ulcerate comparisons seem a tad forced. Flourishing have their own sound and they execute it cleverly here. Or, if you prefer, just listen to Fossil Records instead of reading my pointless soundoff. |
| FM-84 Atlas |
| Food Veggie |
| Four Tet Rounds |
| Four Tet There is Love in You |
| Frail Body Artificial Bouquet |
| Frank Zappa Apostrophe |
| Freddie Hubbard The Body & The Soul |
| Frenzal Rhomb Sans Souci |
| Fugazi Red Medicine |
| Gang of Youths Angel in Realtime |
| Gatvey Matvelev Гримерка |
| Gatvey Matvelev Completely |
| George Otsuka Quintet Loving You George |
| Gerry Mulligan Night Lights |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! |
| GoGo Penguin v2.0 |
| A lovely exponent of modern jazz a la Mammal Hands: complex rhythms and interweaving melodies with a splash of easy-to-listen-to paint on the surface. This record definitely falls into the oft-targeted "works well in the background or as a close listen" category. |
| Gonemage Sudden Deluge |
| Goreshit semantic compositions on death and its meaning |
| Goreshit Semantics: The Benzo Chronicles |
| Guillaume Perret Open Me |
| Hakushi Hasegawa Air Ni Ni |
| Hammock Kenotic |
| Hammock Elsewhere |
| Hammok Look How Long Lasting Everything Is Moving Forward |
| Harkonen Shake Harder Boy |
| Haruomi Hosono/Shigeru Suzuki/Tatsuro Yamashita Pacific |
| hawak Nuoc |
| Heaven In Her Arms White Halo |
| Herbie Hancock Empyrean Isles |
| Hiatus Kaiyote Mood Valiant |
| His Hero Is Gone The Plot Sickens: Enslavement Redefined |
| Huerco S Colonial Patterns |
| Huerco S Plonk |
| This is, largely (but for plonk ix), a vibe and a half. Tumbleweed-thick rhythms, tattooed-on synth beats, expansive auroras of sound. But i am not gonna elevate this higher than a 4 for that rapping. |
| Ice Cube Kill at Will |
| Ichiko Aoba Adan no Kaze |
| Igorrr Spirituality and Distortion |
| Ill Repute What Happens Next |
| Imperial Triumphant An Evening with Imperial Triumphant |
| Imperial Triumphant Spirit of Ecstasy |
| Imperial Triumphant Goldstar |
| Impure Wilhelmina Antidote |
| Ingrina Etter Lys |
| Interpersonal The Long Bright Dark |
| Invalids Strengths |
| Iosonouncane Ira |
| Japanese Breakfast Jubilee |
| Jason Moran The Sound Will Tell You |
| Jean-Michel Jarre Equinoxe |
| Jean-Michel Jarre Oxygene |
| Jega Phlax |
| Jerkcurb Air Con Eden |
| Jeromes Dream Completed |
| Jeromes Dream The Gray In Between |
| Jessie Ware That! Feels Good! |
| Jizue Bookshelf |
| Joey Beltram Classics |
| Johann Sebastian Bach The Masterpiece Collection: Bach, Vol. 1 |
| This hour-plus jaunt through some of Bach's most well-known works captures that which etched his name into the halls of perpetuity. Among the globally excellent performances, Dubravka Tomsic's performance of the Italian Concerto is a highlight: Tomsic's graceful playing and sense for drama plays up Bach's baroque sensitivities and sets a high standard for other pianists to follow. This record would measure up higher, but the canned production drains just enough vitality to constrain Bach's compositions a tad. |
| John Coltrane Soultrane |
| Joliette Principia |
| Joliette Atáxico |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures |
| JPEGMAFIA LP! (online) |
| Kamasi Washington Harmony of Difference |
| Karen Dalton It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You Best |
| Karen Dalton In My Own Time |
| Kauan Ice Fleet |
| Kelly Moran Moves in the Field |
| Kendrick Lamar Section.80 |
| Keygen Church Nel Nome Del Codice |
| Kilgore Trout Immemorial |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Polygondwanaland |
| Kinkajous Being Waves |
| KOAN Sound Led by Ancient Light |
| Kole?anka Place Is |
| KRS-One Keep Right |
| KRZTA ŻÓŁĆ.NISZCZENIE.ZGLISZCZE |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak |
| La Quiete La fine non è la fine |
| La Quiete 2006 / 2009 |
| Landlady Landlady |
| Laufey Everything I Know About Love |
| Laurel Halo Quarantine |
| Lee Morgan Tom Cat |
| Les McCann Layers |
| Les Rallizes Denudes The OZ Tapes |
| Lianne La Havas Lianne La Havas |
| Lightning Bug A Color of the Sky |
| Ling Tosite Sigure Feeling Your UFO |
| Little Simz Sometimes I Might Be Introvert |
| Liturgy H.A.Q.Q. |
| In terms of experimentation, creativity, and fusion, H.A.Q.Q. is an absolute masterpiece. In terms of being enjoyable and fun to listen to, it's often wonderful but occasionally grating. On balance, it's a wonderful piece of art, nerdiness be damned. |
| Liturgy 93696 |
| Locktender Friedrich |
| Lord Huron Long Lost |
| Lord Snow Solitude |
| I play this record when I am feeling like any of the following, in combination or solo: lesbian, vegan, feminist, hard, core. |
| Los Jaivas Alturas de Machu Picchu |
| Love Spirals Downwards Flux |
| Low Roar Maybe Tomorrow... |
| Ludus The Visit |
| Ludus The Seduction |
| Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor |
| Lupe Fiasco Drill Music in Zion |
| Lupe Fiasco Samurai |
| Lynyn Lexicon |
| M83 Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts |
| Magnetophonique Une Cartographie Idéale |
| Mahlathini & the Mahotella Queens Music Inferno: The Indestructible Beat Tour 1988- |
| Makaya McCraven In These Times |
| Mamaleek Out of Time |
| Mammal Hands Shadow Work |
| Mammal Hands' strongest effort, in my opinion. Their sound is more captivating, more ethereal, and smoother than before. The record grips an active listener and soothes a passive one; i.e., I spin it when I'm working, before I sleep, or just as much on a long drive when little else occupies my mind. |
| Mammal Hands Becoming |
| Becoming is a superb example of Mammal Hands' trademark avant-garde yet smooth jazz. Instrumentation is tight yet flowing, compositions are harmonious and precise, and production creates a well-rounded and full-bodied sound. At a greater length, Mammal Hands could craft an even more remarkable album, but they do earn their 4 well. |
| Mammal Hands Captured Spirits |
| Mare Cognitum Solar Paroxysm |
| Maria BC Spike Field |
| Marillion Script For A Jester's Tear |
| Mary Halvorson Amaryllis |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine |
| Master Boot Record Personal Computer |
| Matthew Halsall Fletcher Moss Park |
| maudlin of the Well The Secret Song |
| Mazzy Star Among My Swan |
| Mdou Moctar Afrique Victime |
| Me and Him Call It Us Loss |
| Melanie De Biasio Blackened Cities |
| Meshell Ndegeocello Peace Beyond Passion |
| Midori Shimizu |
| Miles Davis Miles Smiles |
| Miles Davis Sketches of Spain |
| Miles Davis Birth of the Cool |
| Miles Davis Get Up with It |
| Misha Panfilov Sound Combo Days As Echoes |
| Modest Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition |
| Monobody Raytracing |
| Monobody Comma |
| Moss Icon Lyburnum Wits End Liberation Fly |
| Motorpsycho Ancient Astronauts |
| Mouse On The Keys NHK Special Drama ''Phone Fraud Children'' Origina |
| Musk Ox Inheritance |
| Myriam Alter Where Is There |
| Naedr Past is Prologue |
| Nala Sinephro Endlessness |
relentlessly gorgeous. this will certainly receive Floating Points comparisons, unfavorably
so in most cases, but it's a different beast altogether. The unexpected burl of the synths
and attitude of Sinephro's harp develop a secondary layer of anxiety that lends this album's
sound much more depth than what a first, distracted listen might reveal |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Let Love In |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds From Her To Eternity |
| Night Verses Every Sound Has a Color...: Part I |
| Nik Bartsch's Ronin Awase |
| No Note if this is the future then I'm in the dark |
| Nonfiktion Creative Differences |
| Nord (FRA) And Now There's Only A River Left Behind |
| Nord (FRA) Monsters |
| Nowherer Victory Over the Sun |
| Nujabes Metaphorical Music |
| Nujabes Spiritual State |
| Nuvolascura As We Suffer From Memory and Imagination |
| The Envy comparisons are inevitable yet somewhat needless. Nuvolascura offer a package that is both more bruising and more bruised than their Japanese counterparts. The record is paced perfectly for its desired emotional effect, pelting the listener with a hectic mishmash of noise, math, and skramz. |
| Oceansize Everyone Into Position |
| of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? |
| Old Nick A New Generation Of Vampiric Conspiracies |
| Oliver Nelson The Blues and the Abstract Truth |
| Otoboke Beaver SUPER CHAMPON |
| OU One |
| Overo Waiting For The End To Begin |
| Oxbow The Narcotic Story |
| Oxbow Let Me Be A Woman |
| Oxbow Thin Black Duke |
| pageninetynine Document #7 |
| pageninetynine Document #5 |
| Pal Hwang Dan 2013-2021 Seoul |
| Panopticon ...And Again into the Light |
| Park Jiha The Gleam |
| Park Jiha All Living Things |
| Parliament Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome |
| Patrick Shiroishi Hidemi |
| Peach Pit Sweet FA |
| Pere Ubu The Modern Dance |
| Pere Ubu Dub Housing |
| Peregrine (USA-MA) the awful things we've done |
| Perfume Genius Ugly Season |
| Petrol Girls Baby |
| pg.99 / Majority Rule Document #12 |
| Phoebe Bridgers Punisher |
| Pilori (FRA) À Nos Morts |
| Piri Reis Ritma |
| Pledge Haunted Visions |
| Pool Kids Pool Kids |
| Poppy EAT (NXT Soundtrack) |
| Portico Quartet Isla |
| Purplefox Town Purplefox Town |
| Quicksand Manic Compression |
| Rabbit Rabbit Radio Rabbit Rabbit Radio, Vol. 1 |
| Rachika Nayar Heaven Come Crashing |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Randolph's Leap Spirit Level |
| Really From Really From |
| Red Harvest Cold Dark Matter |
| Regis Gymnastics |
| Respire Black Line |
| Respire Hiraeth |
| Return to Forever Return to Forever |
| Rolo Tomassi Cosmology |
| Rolo Tomassi Where Myth Becomes Memory |
| Royal Coda To Only a Few at First |
| Rudresh Mahanthappa Hero Trio |
| A finely performed tribute to Rudresh's self-proclaimed masters. Hero Trio is a lovely piece of throwback jazz and a fitting interpretation of many titanic voices from Ornette Coleman to Coltrane, with some less jazzy influences thrown in as well such as Stevie Wonder and Johnny Cash. A purely enjoyable, easily listenable, overall super fun record from beginning to end |
| Rx Bandits Mandala |
| Rx Bandits Gemini, Her Majesty |
| Sad Lovers and Giants Epic Garden Music |
| Sade Promise |
| Sade Diamond Life |
| Sade Love Deluxe |
| Sam Rivers Fuchsia Swing Song |
| Sangre de Muerdago Xuntas |
| Sangre de Muerdago O Vento que Lambe as miñas Feridas |
| Sea Mosquito Fire, Magic & Venom |
| Sed Non Satiata Sed Non Satiata |
| Haunting and beautiful, powered by strong vocals and solidly standard BM instrumentation. No tracks stand head and shoulders above the others, but this is fairly engaging, which says a lot. |
| Shibusashirazu Shibuboshi |
| Shibusashirazu Shibuki |
| Shiina Ringo Sanmon Gossip |
| Shiina Ringo Muzai Moratorium |
| Shiina Ringo Reimport Vol. 2: Civil Aviation Bureau |
| Shiina Ringo Ze-Chyou Shuu (絶頂集) |
| Shitmat One Foot in the Rave |
| Shum Levegő |
| Siege Drop Dead |
| Sights and Sounds Monolith |
| Since By Man We Sing The Body Electric |
| Skaphe Skáphe³ |
| Are you kidding me? You're telling me you're gonna hear those drums at 2+ minutes in to Track 2 and not instantly give these dudes $7 on Bandcamp? Since it's a soundoff, I'll close with a lasy comparison: halfway between Imperial Triumphant and Wormlust on the mindfucky, atmospheric, death-inspiring black metal wizardry, and the love child of Ulcerate's and Deathspell Omega's hazy vortex of death. |
| Skee Mask Compro |
| Slift Ummon |
| Y'all know that recent list a user made about seducing women with progressive rock? This is the record you play to seduce your homies |
| Slift Ilion |
| Smog Red Apple Falls |
| So Hideous None But a Pure Heart Can Sing |
| Soko ni Naru 一閃 (ISSEN) |
| Sonny Rollins Saxophone Colossus |
| SOUL GLO Songs To Yeet At The Sun |
| Space Art Trip in the Center Head |
| Spellling The Turning Wheel |
| Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga |
| Spoon Lucifer on the Sofa |
| Springtime (AUS) Night Raver |
| Squarepusher Hard Normal Daddy |
| Starterra Celestial |
| Starterra Transformation Cycles |
| State Faults Clairvoyant |
| Static Dress Rouge Carpet Disaster |
| Steel Pulse Handsworth Revolution |
| Steel Pulse Tribute To The Martyrs |
| Steve Reich Different Trains/Electric Counterpoint |
| String Noise, Greg Saunier, and International Contemporary E Eric Lyon: Giga Concerto |
| Sudan Archives Natural Brown Prom Queen |
| Suede Autofiction |
| Suffering Hour The Cyclic Reckoning |
| Suis La Lune Quiet, Pull the Strings! |
| Suis La Lune Heir |
| Sunken Livslede |
| Susumu Yokota Symbol |
| Svalbard One Day All This Will End |
| Svalbard It's Hard to Have Hope |
| Svalbard When I Die, Will I Get Better? |
| Svalbard The Weight of the Mask |
| Sweet Trip A Tiny House, In Secret Speeches, Polar Equals |
| Sylvaine Nova |
| Takako Mamiya Love Trip |
| Talk Talk Spirit of Eden |
| Teenage Jesus and the Jerks Live 1977-1979 |
| Telos Delude |
| Tenhi Valkama |
| Tera Melos X'ed Out |
| The Algorithm Brute Force |
| Brute Force is pure fun. It's chaotic yet calculated, ferocious yet tentative, and in your face yet by your side. There's something comforting to me about the Algorithm's blend of electronic music and prog metal, perhaps because Brute Force is so contemporary as to only work in the mid-2010s. To throw another juxtaposition into the mix, this whole record both seems effortless and tortuously complicated. Won't stop banging this one till the cows come home |
| The Armed Untitled |
| The Armed Only Love |
| Dissonant and distorted, a vision of punk and hardcore for the future. I admire the Armed for their ability to push the scene forward; the album pushes the envelope and is still a fantastic listen. |
| The Armed Ultrapop |
| The Breathing Effect Mars Is a Very Bad Place for Love |
| The Chameleons Script of the Bridge |
| The Chariot One Wing |
| Unbelievable, undeniable riffage. I don't believe One Wing deserves the most dazzling praise. Its ideas, while executed quite well and performed cohesively, aren't entirely groundbreaking. It's certainly a wild, joyful, ecstatic ride, but what the Chariot's final album possessed in creating a few supreme tracks it lacked in consummate consistency. |
| The Death Particle Chapter I |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation |
| The Fall of Troy The Fall of Troy |
| The Field Yesterday and Today |
| The Field Looping State of Mind |
| The Future Sound of London Lifeforms |
| The Future Sound of London Dead Cities |
| The Jesus Lizard Head |
| The Knife Silent Shout |
| The Letters Organize Dead Rhythm Machine |
| The Motion Mosaic Avant-Garbage |
| Hearkens back to older metalcore in the most refreshing way. The diversity of sounds on this album makes it a challenging, rewarding ride e.g. the appropriately placed interludes giving the listener a much-needed breather. that seems to be one of the common denominators across the album. Personal highlight is DMT Daydream, with Cancer and Cure a close second. Hoping these guys get the attention they deserve. |
| The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation Succubus |
| The National Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Mongrel |
| The Orb Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld |
| The Physics House Band Horizons / Rapture |
| The Physics House Band Incident on 3rd |
| The Pretty Things Parachute |
| The Reds, Pinks and Purples Uncommon Weather |
| The Reds, Pinks and Purples The Town That Cursed Your Name |
| The Ruins of Beverast The Thule Grimoires |
| The Sound Jeopardy |
| The Stooges Fun House |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Illusory Walls |
| This Heat Deceit |
| This Heat This Heat |
| Tired Lion Breakfast for Pathetics |
| Toluca Act I |
| Don't you love when you stumble across an EP that gets you absolutely psyched about a band, and then you realize it's their first release and there's much more of their catalog to enjoy? Toluca's Act I |
| Toluca Memoria |
| Toluca's first full length release has them firing on their selected cylinders. This is an emotionally charged, atmospheric, melodic, and even well produced hodgepodge with the Russian blackened screamo group at their best. Fans of envy looking for something with a harsher edge should check this out. |
| Tom Waits Closing Time |
| Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones |
| Tom Waits Nighthawks At The Diner |
| TOMÁ Atom |
| Tomoko Omura Branches Vol. 2 |
| Tomoko Omura Branches Vol. 1 |
| Tortoise Tortoise |
| Totem Skin Still Waters Run Deep |
| Blackened hardcore is my jam at the moment, and Totem Skin are one of the most underappreciated artists in the genre. This album is a full-on emotive assault, with the blackened vocals and atmosphere underscoring the raw power of the hxcore-influenced instrumentals. The Silent Hill sample don't hurt either |
| Totem Skin Weltschmerz |
| Touche Amore Stage Four |
| I really hate that I miss harsher vox on this album. Stage Four is an undeniably moving experience - as it should be, given the fact that it's a dedication to lead singer Bolm's mother in the throes of cancer. Each song positively drips with emotion, and for the studious follower of my soundoffs one could gather that I tend to find emotion in my favorite musical pieces. I do feel, though, that Jeremy Bolm held back a little here, and that prevents me from ascribing legendary status to Stage Four. All in all, though, it's a fantastic listen and work of art. |
| Touche Amore Lament |
| Trachimbrod A Collection of Hidden Sketches |
| Tricot 10 |
| Trioscapes Digital Dream Sequence |
| Tubelord Our First American Friends |
| Tuscoma Arkhitecturenominus |
| A full, rambunctious sound populated by galloping riffage, harsh growls that aren't buried in reverb, and solid rhythm. Tuscoma is a fascinating project and the artists deserve all the attention they can get. |
| Two People First Body |
| Unwound Fake Train |
| Valleyheart Everyone I've Ever Loved |
| Valleyheart Heal My Head |
| Van Morrison Saint Dominic's Preview |
| Vansire Angel Youth |
| Vansire The Modern Western World |
| Various Artists The Shape Of Punk To Come Obliterated |
| Venetian Snares Moonglow/This Bitter Earth |
| Verse Aggression |
| Viva Belgrado Flores, Carne |
| Volto! Incitare |
| Wake Thought Form Descent |
| Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan Your Community Hub |
| We Lost the Sea The Quietest Place on Earth |
| Wednesday Rat Saw God |
| Weyes Blood And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow |
| Whitey NOTHING IN MY POCKET BUT A HOLE |
| Wild Nothing Nocturne |
| World's End Girlfriend Hurtbreak Wonderland |
| Wormlust The Feral Wisdom |
| Wynton Marsalis Think of One |
| yaya bey Remember Your North Star |
| YAYA KIM a.k.a YAYA |
| Yellow Magic Orchestra Solid State Survivor |
| Yo La Tengo Electr-O-Pura |
| Youssou N'Dour Immigres / Bitim Rew |
| Youssou N'Dour Set |
| Zapruder Fall In Line |
| 3.5 great |
| !!! Louden Up Now |
| '68 In Humor and Sadness |
| (SOMA) If you See Me... (Let Me Be) |
| (waning) Still Hours |
| 2Pac 2Pacalypse Now |
| 36 Crazyfists A Snow Capped Romance |
| 40 Watt Sun Perfect Light |
| 72-HOUR POST FIGHT NON-BACKGROUND MUSIC |
| A Great Big Pile of Leaves Pono |
| A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory |
| Abnormality Contaminating the Hive Mind |
| Abyzou Aeternum |
| Adam Pits Synthetic Serenity |
| Adebisi Shank This is the Second Album |
| Aduanten Sullen Cadence |
| Adult Books Grecian Urn |
| Adult Oriented Pop 06:15 AM |
| Agonanist The Cynicism of Solitude |
| Air Talkie Walkie |
| Air The Virgin Suicides |
| Airport People From Nine Mornings |
| Akala Freedom Lasso |
| Al Wootton Callers Spring |
| Alabaster DePlume Come with Fierce Grace |
| Alfie Templeman Forever Isn't Long Enough |
| Alfie Templeman Mellow Moon |
| Ali Farka Toure Ali Farka Touré |
| Alice Phoebe Lou Paper Castles |
| Allan Holdsworth Road Games |
| Almog Sharvit Get Up or Cry |
| Aloft Far |
| Alphabet Holds Hostage held hostage |
| Alphabet Holds Hostage truth in habitual |
| Amyl and the Sniffers Comfort To Me |
| Anaal Nathrakh Endarkenment |
| Anchoress Stay Positive |
| Angry Son Pranks for the Memories |
| Anika Change |
| Animal Collective Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished |
| Anti-God Hand Wretch |
| Aphex Twin Come To Daddy |
| Aphex Twin ...I Care Because You Do |
| Aphex Twin Drukqs |
| Aphex Twin Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / In A Room7 F760 |
| Arch Echo Story I |
| Archspire Relentless Mutation |
| Archspire Bleed the Future |
| Arovane Reihen |
| Artificial Brain Artificial Brain |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us |
| As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise |
| ASAP Rocky LONG.LIVE.A$AP |
| ASC Open Spaces |
| Asian Glow Stalled Flutes, means |
| ASIDEFROMADAY Divine Proportion |
| ASIDEFROMADAY Chasing Shadows |
| Athletics Why Aren't I Home? |
| Autumn's Grey Solace Within the Depths of a Darkened Forest |
| Avon Terror Corps Wish You Were Avon |
| オオハシ (Ohashi) 波のはじまり (Nami no Hajimari) |
| Baby Keem The Melodic Blue |
| Bachelor Doomin' Sun |
| Bark Psychosis Scum |
| Basic Channel Radiance |
| Basic Channel Enforcement |
| Bathe Alone Last Looks |
| Battles Gloss Drop |
| Be Well The Weight And The Cost |
| beabadoobee Beatopia |
| Beach House Depression Cherry |
| Beach House Once Twice Melody: Chapter Two |
| Ben Lukas Boysen Clarion |
| Ben Varian One Hundred Breakfasts with the Book |
| Beth Orton Weather Alive |
| Beyonce Renaissance |
| Beyonce Cowboy Carter |
| Bicurious (re)constructed |
| Bjork Volta |
| Bjork Utopia |
| Black Country, New Road For the First Time |
| Black Midi Cavalcade |
| Black Midi Hellfire |
| Blood Command Cult Drugs |
| Blue Whale Last Immediate Images |
| Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet |
| Bonobo Dial 'M' For Monkey |
| Boris Absolutego |
| Born (IS) Drottningar Dauðans |
| Boygenius the record |
| Bremer and McCoy Natten |
| Brian Eno Before and After Science |
| Brian Eno Music For Films |
| Broken Social Scene Forgiveness Rock Record |
| Brutus (BE) Unison Life |
| BUCK-TICK Hurry Up Mode |
| Buckethead Enter the Chicken |
| Buckethead Day of the Robot |
| Buckethead Enter The Chicken (Reissue) |
| Buckethead Jordan |
| Built to Spill Ultimate Alternative Wavers |
| Burial Ghost Hardware |
| Burial South London Boroughs |
| Burial Street Halo |
| Burial Distant Lights |
| Butthole Surfers Hairway to Steven |
| Butthole Surfers Psychic... Powerless... Another Man's Sac |
| Butthole Surfers Rembrandt Pussyhorse |
| Caffa Mental Enslavement |
| Calligram Position | Momentum |
| Canal Irreal Canal Irreal |
| Capstan Restless Heart, Keep Running |
| Carmen Villain Only Love From Now On |
| Caroline Loveglow Strawberry |
| Caroline Polachek Desire, I Want To Turn Into You |
| Caspian On Circles |
| Castle Rat Into the Realm |
| Cate Le Bon Pompeii |
| Causa Sui Szabodelico |
| Cautious Clay Blood Type |
| Central (RUS) Время |
| Chain Gang Grave Cement Mind |
| Chalk Hands Don't Think About Death |
| Charles A.D. Cyclone foraging |
| Charles Mingus A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry |
| Charles Mingus Mingus Three |
| Charles Rumback Seven Bridges |
| Charli XCX Charli |
| Charli XCX How I'm Feeling Now |
| Chastity Belt Fake/Fear |
| Chat Pile God's Country |
| Ches Smith and We All Break Path of Seven Colors |
| Chet Baker Chet Baker & Strings |
| Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll |
| Chime School Chime School |
| chivàla EP II |
| Chiyoda Ku Selecta Perspective |
| Christian Death Catastrophe Ballet |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise |
| Circuit Circuit Circuit Circuit - EP |
| Circuit Circuit Body Songs |
| Clairo Immunity |
| Clairo Sling |
| Claud Super Monster |
| Claud Supermodels |
| Cloak (USA-CA) Succumb |
| Closer (US) within one stem |
| Cloud Rat Threshold |
| Cluster Cluster |
| Codex Orzhova Baja Blasted |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension |
| Coheed and Cambria Vaxis I: The Unheavenly Creatures |
| Cohort B 1001 Lukewarm USA |
| Couch Slut My Life as a Woman |
| Couch Slut Contempt |
| Couch Slut Take A Chance On Rock 'n' Roll |
| Couch Slut You Could Do It Tonight |
| Crass The Feeding of the 5000 |
| Crippled Black Phoenix Ellengaest |
| Crippled Black Phoenix Banefyre |
| Cuco Wannabewithu |
| Cyanic Litanies of Lust Unholy |
| Daniel Rossen You Belong There |
| Darkside Spiral |
| Darkthrone Eternal Hails |
| Dave Brubeck Live with the LSO |
| Dave Harvey Get Mental |
| Dave Pell's Jazz Octet A Pell of a Time |
| De Lyckliga Kompisarna Tomat |
| Dear Anyone Roulette |
| death's dynamic shroud Darklife |
| Deathprod Treetop Drive |
| Delta Sleep Spring Island |
| Demoniac (CHL) Nube Negra |
| Denzel Curry Melt My Eyez See Your Future |
| Deserta Every Moment, Everything You Need |
| Destroyer Poison Season |
| Destroyer Dan’s Boogie |
| Devil Sold His Soul Loss |
| Devil's Den Barbed New Religion |
| Digital Underground This is an EP Release |
| Dinosaur Jr. Dinosaur |
| Dio Holy Diver |
| Domestic Terminal The Flooded Basement EP |
| Domestic Terminal Sanctuary |
| Don Martin Three Transistor b/w Orchestra |
| Donald Byrd Byrd In Hand |
| Donald Byrd The Cat Walk |
| Donald Byrd Slow Drag |
| DOTGIFFROMGOD approximation_of_a_human |
| Drames Rurals drames rurals |
| Dream Unending Tide Turns Eternal |
| Drip-Fed Kill the Buzz |
| Driving Slow Motion Adrift:Abyss |
| Drop Nineteens Delaware |
| Dukla Honza |
| E U X "et les autres" |
| Ebi Soda Bedroom Tapes |
| Ebi Soda Ugh |
| Ebi Soda Honk If You're Sad |
| Echo Tail A Brief Escape From Life |
| Echodrone The Sun Rose in a Different Place |
| Echodrone Resurgence |
| Ed Jacobs Addressing Wonder: The Music of Ed Jacobs |
| Eden Maine The Treachery Pact |
| Einsturzende Neubauten Rampen |
| Elbow Flying Dream 1 |
| Elder (USA-MA) Omens |
| Elena Steri Chaotic Energy |
| Emil de Waal Vente |
| Emily Wells Regards to the End |
| Emma-Jean Thackray Yellow |
| End It Unpleasant Living |
| Envy The Eyes Of A Single-Eared Prophet |
| Envy Alnair in August |
| Eric Dolphy Caribe |
| Erika de Casier Sensational |
| Etran de L'Air Agadez |
| Everything Everything Raw Data Feel |
| Evilyn Inside Shells |
| Ex Olympic XO |
| Exhumation (IDN) Opus Death |
| Expander Neuropunk Boostergang |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place |
| Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone |
| fallfiftyfeet Twisted World Perspective |
| Fatboy Slim Better Living Through Chemistry |
| Faust Faust IV |
| Faye Webster I Know I'm Funny haha |
| Faye Webster Car Therapy Sessions |
| Fear Before Odd How People Shake |
| Federico Aubele Gran Hotel Buenos Aires |
| Finch Say Hello to Sunshine |
| Fire! Orchestra Arrival |
| First Fragment Gloire Eternelle |
| FKA Twigs Caprisongs |
| Fleet Foxes Shore |
| Flipturn Burnout Days |
| Flocks You Were Probably Younger Then |
| Florist Florist |
| Flying Lotus Flamagra |
| Food Last Supper |
| FOSCØ Puro |
| Fracture and Sam Binga Omura |
| Freddie Gibbs ESGN |
| Frog Whatever We Probably Already Had It |
| From Autumn to Ashes Too Bad You're Beautiful |
| From Autumn to Ashes The Fiction We Live |
| Fugazi End Hits |
| Fugazi In on the Kill Taker |
| G Calvin Weston and Jim Kost Stone Church |
| Gallows (UK) Orchestra Of Wolves |
| Gates (USA-NJ) Here and Now |
| Genghis Tron Board Up the House |
| Genghis Tron Dream Weapon |
| Georgia Harmer Stay in Touch |
| Gi Gi Lumino Pleco |
| Ginger Root Nisemono |
| Giuseppe Ottaviani Horizons [Part 1] |
| Glass Kites Glass Kites II |
| Glass Museum Reflet |
| Gloria (FRA) Sabbat Matters |
| GoGo Penguin Fanfares |
| GoGo Penguin Everything Is Going to Be OK |
| Gold Necklace Gold Necklace |
| Gonemage Spell Piercings |
| Good Willsmith HausLive 2: Good Willsmith at Sleeping Village, 4 |
| Gouge Out Introspection Rundown |
| Grace Ives Janky Star |
| Green Day American Idiot |
| Greg Spero The Chicago Experiment |
| Grima Rotten Garden |
| Guided by Voices Bee Thousand |
| Gulfer Gulfer |
| GusGus Arabian Horse |
| Gutbucket Sludge Test |
| Gynoid The Hunger Artist Show |
| Hail Spirit Noir Fossil Gardens |
| Hakushi Hasegawa Mahōgakkō |
| Hands Like Houses Dissonants |
| Hania Rani On Giacometti |
| Hank Roberts Sextet Science of Love |
| Hatis Noit Aura |
| Havukruunu Uinuos Syömein Sota |
| Helena Celle's Imaginal Designs Copy Music |
| Hella Tripper |
| Hella fuse mathy technicality with noise sensibilities to create a persistent cacophony. The drumming is a wonder to behold, but Hella do unfortunately stray a bit too close for comfort into the wank category, and their noisiness doesn't exactly pull things back like they may have intended. To backtrack a little, though, the injection of noise elevates a Tero Melos-esque soundscape into something akin to the lovechild of TDEP and Covet. Plus, there's plenty of NorCal love to be had. |
| Herbie Hancock Sextant |
| Herbie Hancock Takin' Off |
| Here's to Now Mindfulness |
| Heriot Profound Morality |
| Herzel Le Dernier Rempart |
| Hiatus Kaiyote Tawk Tomahawk |
| Hiatus Kaiyote Recalibrations Vol. 1 |
| Hinako Omori a journey... |
| Holy Tongue meets Shackleton The Tumbling Psychic Joy of Now |
| Home Is Where I Became Birds |
| Home Is Where The Whaler |
| Homeshake Midnight Snack |
| Homeskin Subverse Siphoning of Suburbia |
| Homeskin Integument Crystallization |
| Homeskin Cries Methodically |
| Homeskin Each Day Orbital |
| Honningbarna Animorphs |
| Horsey Debonair |
| Hubris. Metempsychosis |
| Huerco S A Verdigris Reader |
| Huerco S For Those of You Who Have Never... |
| Hum Electra 2000 |
| Hundreds of AU Acting from Remote Satellites |
| Hungry Ghosts Alone, Alone |
| Hungry Ghosts Hungry Ghosts |
| I the Mighty Oil In Water |
| i-sef u-sef consistency |
| Ibrahim Maalouf S3NS |
| Icarus the Owl Icarus the Owl |
| Icarus the Owl Pilot Waves |
| Ice Nine Kills The Silver Scream |
| This is the type of Americana we truly need - wrapped up in a metalcore package, cheese factor turned up to 11, cultural touchstones on a track by track basis. Most fun you can have. Thank god I didn't have to use the word 'atmosphere' |
| ichika He Never Fades |
| Ichika's distinctive, masterful picking is on full display here. He employs his technical prowess in a variety of ways to communicate atmosphere and emotion; the sparse soundscapes are ripe for his playing style. Though a brief and not-bombastic record, he never fades is a fine listen. |
| IDER shame |
| Imarhan Aboogi |
| Imperial Triumphant Abyssal Gods |
| In Flames Come Clarity |
| Infant Island Beneath |
| Injury Reserve By The Time I Get To Phoenix |
| Inside The Beehive Drink Bleach; Live Forever |
| Inter Arma Paradise Gallows |
| Intercepting Pattern The Encounter |
| Iotunn Access All Worlds |
| Iris (NO) love and other disasters |
| Isao Tomita Clair de Lune |
| Ithaca They Fear Us |
| Izy Irene |
| Jack Prest The Risk Of Hyperbole - Vol.2 - Object |
| Jack The Joker Mors Volta |
| Jaga Jazzist A Livingroom Hush |
| James Brandon Lewis Jesup Wagon |
| Jane Weaver Flock |
| Japan Adolescent Sex |
| Japanese Breakfast Soft Sounds From Another Planet |
| Japanese Heart Software SOFT |
| Jazz Spastiks Camera of Sound |
| JFDR Museum |
| Jizue Story |
| Job For A Cowboy Sun Eater |
| Joe Satriani Surfing With The Alien |
| John Cage In a Landscape |
| John Carroll Kirby Septet |
| John Coltrane Coltrane (Prestige, 1957) |
| the word 'farty' has been used twice to describe this record by the legend bedex and that alone deems it worth a listen |
| John Coltrane Coltrane Time |
| John Pope Quintet Mixed with Glass |
| John Sharkey III Shoot Out the Cameras |
| John Zorn The Big Gundown |
| Johnny Marr Fever Dreams Pts I-IV |
| Joy Division Closer |
| Julia Holter Have You In My Wilderness |
| Julia Kwamya Feel Good About Feeling Bad |
| Julia Shapiro Zorked |
| Julien Baker Sprained Ankle |
| Julien Baker Little Oblivions |
| Julius Hemphill and Peter Kowald Live at Kassiopeia |
| Juno Reactor Transmissions |
| Kabbalah The Omen |
| Kai Whiston Quiet as Kept, F.O.G. |
| KALI Trio Loom |
| Kali Uchis Por Vida |
| Kanonenfieber Menschenmühle |
| Kareem Ali Star-Crossed |
| Katatonia City Burials |
| Kaze (FRA) Unwritten |
| Kekht Arakh Pale Swordsman |
| KEN mode Null |
| Kendrick Lamar Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers |
| Kendrick Lamar GNX |
| Kenny Dorham Afro-Cuban |
| Maybe it's not the most innovative, complex, or even consistent jazz records out there, but Kenny Dorham's Afro-Cuban is a fun piece with enough energy and groove to placate the rabid r/jazzcj Neanderthal. |
| Kenta Shimakawa Glimpse |
| Keygen Church ░█░█░░█░█░█░ |
| Keygen Church Bullug Gegbug... |
| Kill Alters Armed To The Teeth L.M.O.M.M. |
| King Crimson VROOOM |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard L. W. |
| King Woman Celestial Blues |
| Koenji Hyakkei Dhorimviskha |
| Kokoko! Fongola |
| Kollapse Sult |
| Kolya Kolya |
| Korn Korn |
| Korn Follow the Leader |
| Krypteria Bloodangel's Cry |
| La Colonie de Vacances ECHT |
| ECHT is eclectic, dizzying, and nervous, just as one would expect from an 11-piece comprising members of four French math-adjacent groups. The compositions are wonderfully free-flowing at the intersection of improvised frenzy and calculated experimentation. A cohesive narrative would propel this record to greater heights, but it's a fun, challenging listen. |
| La Femme Mystère |
| Lack the Low God-Carrier |
| Lady Wray Piece Of Me |
| Lakes (UK) Elysian Skies |
| Lasciate ogne Sperenza Abandon All Hope |
| Laufey Bewitched |
| Laura Stevenson The Big Freeze |
| The Big Freeze brims with melancholy and downtempo guitar playing, yet Laura Stevenson's voice comforts the listener as it shimmers. There's soul and a shy confidence about Laura Stevenson that convinces the listener, and this overshadows any shortcomings due to songwriting. |
| Lava La Rue BUTTER-FLY |
| Led Zeppelin Houses Of The Holy |
| Lee Konitz Motion |
| Leitha Sispyhus |
| Let's Talk Daggers Fantastic Contraption |
| Liam Kazar Due North |
| Light Dweller Hominal |
| Like Lovers Syntax |
| Lil Ugly Mane Volcanic Bird Enemy and the Voiced Concern |
| Ling Tosite Sigure Telecastic fake show |
| Ling Tosite Sigure Enigmatic Feeling |
| Lingua Ignota Sinner Get Ready |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory |
| Liquid Tension Experiment Liquid Tension Experiment |
| Los Males Del Mundo Descent Towards Death |
| Lost Horizons In Quiet Moments |
| Low Hey What |
| Lower Automation Lower Automation |
| Lucinda Chua Antidotes 2 |
| Lunarette Clair de Lunarette |
| Mac DeMarco This Old Dog |
| Mall Girl Pure Love |
| Malthusian/Suffering Hour Time's Withering Shadow |
| Mamaleek Come and See |
| Mammal Hands Animalia |
| Avant-garde and yet accessible, Animalia is a decent first full record from Mammal Hands. Ethereal piano and captivating sax are on full display here; definitely worth a spin, but nothing remarkable. |
| Mammal Hands Gift From the Trees |
| Man or Astro-Man? Defcon 5...4...3...2...1 |
| Manbryne Heilsweg: O Udręce Ciała I Tułaczce Duszy |
| Manchester Orchestra I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child |
| Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing |
| Manchester Orchestra Simple Math |
| Mandalay Empathy |
| Mandy, Indiana ... EP |
| Manes Vilosophe |
| Pleasant, experimental, innovative. I can only imagine the confounded shock upon the countenances of Manes' (kvltily Nordic) fanbase when this record came out all those years ago. Whatever the BM equivalent of a monocle is (eyebrow stud?), I'm sure it popped off each one of their faces. |
| Manticora To Live to Kill to Live |
| Maple Glider To Enjoy Is The Only Thing |
| Maraudeur Puissance 4 |
| Maria BC Hyaline |
| Mariah Utakata no Hibi |
| Marika Hackman Deaf Heat |
| Marika Hackman Big Sigh |
| Marillion Market Square Heroes |
| Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar |
| Marmozets The Weird and Wonderful Marmozets |
| Martin Glass The Pacific Visions of Martin Glass |
| Mary Halvorson Cloudward |
| Masayoshi Takanaka Seychelles |
| Massa Nera/Quiet Fear Quatro vientos // Cinco soles |
| Massive Attack Blue Lines |
| Maston and L'clair Souvenir |
| Materic Between Stone Slabs |
| Mathan Darkroot Tzantza |
| Matthew Halsall The Temple Within |
| McCoy Tyner & Jackie McLean It's About Time |
| Medeski, Martin and Wood Friday Afternoon in the Universe |
| Meer Playing House |
| Melt Yourself Down Pray for Me I Don't Fit In |
| Melvins Gluey Porch Treatments |
| Men I Trust Untourable Album |
| Mesarthim CLG J02182–05102 |
| Mestis Eikasia |
| Javier Reyes crafts a beautiful, jazzy work here to exercise some of his non-AAL energy. It's a shame that any of his projects will be compared to his work in AAL, but the contrast between the work serves to highlight Reyes' songwriting and compositional prowess. |
| Miguel Angelo DANÇA DOS DESASTRADOS |
| Miles Davis Blue Haze |
| Milton Nascimento Courage |
| Milton Nascimento Milton Nascimento (1969) |
| Minoru Fushimi Thanatos of Funk |
| Minutemen The Punch Line |
| Minutemen What Makes a Man Start Fires? |
| Mitch Murder Then Again |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News |
| Molly Tuttle Crooked Tree |
| Moon Kissed I’d Like to Tell You Something Important |
| Motel Radio The Garden |
| Mother Mother Inside |
| Motorists Surrounded |
| Motorpsycho Kingdom of Oblivion |
| mt.ida mt.ida |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations |
| Mutoid Man War Moans |
| Mvltifission Decomposition in the Painful Metamorphosis |
| NAILS Abandon All Life |
| Nala Sinephro Space 1.8 |
| Nature's Neighbor O t h e r s i d e |
| Naughtskeid Ultimate Infernal Nightscape |
| NEØV Picture of a Good Life |
| Neck of the Woods The Annex of Ire |
| Nothing groundbreaking here, but Neck of the Woods craft a hard-hitting record with a just-right runtime that hits all the notes. They pack energy, riffs, and some melodies into a tight little package, and the hints of atmosphere lend enough of a prog metal tinge to the record to keep The Annex of Ire from being too crushingly generic. |
| Necrophobic Dawn Of The Damned |
| Neptunian Maximalism Eons |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Push The Sky Away |
| Night Verses Every Sound Has a Color...: Part II |
| Niklas Paschburg Svalbard |
| Nirvana Bleach |
| Nneka Love Supreme |
| NO MAN ERASE |
| No Suits In Miami Nothing Ever Happens |
| Noda Yuki Soda Sickness |
| Noda Yuki ddbb |
| Noltem Illusions In The Wake |
| Noveliss Vagabond |
| NSYNC No Strings Attached |
| Nursing Self Care |
| o'summer vacation Wicked Heart |
| Odal Welten Mutter |
| Office Culture Big Time Things |
| Oh No Noh where one begins and the other stops |
| Old Nick The Vanitous Specter |
| Old Nick and Hex Clock Split |
| Olivia Dean Growth |
| Onsegen Ensemble Fear |
| Orchid Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow! |
| Organ Freeman Organ Freeman |
| Organ Freeman Respect My Art |
| Orisaka Yuta Heisei |
| Our Future is an Absolute Shadow LP |
| Our Place of Worship is Silence Disavowed, and Left Hopeless |
| Outrun the Sunlight A Vast Field of Silence |
| Oxbow Fuckfest |
| Oxbow King of the Jews |
| Oxbow Serenade In Red |
| Oxbow Songs for the French |
| Oxbow Love's Holiday |
| Ozzy Osbourne The Essential Ozzy Osbourne |
| Pacmanthemovie Pacmanthemovie 2: Eat Lives |
| Painted Shrines Heaven and Holy |
| Palm Ghosts Lifeboat Candidate |
| Palm Reader Sleepless |
| Pan American The Patience Fader |
| Pan-Amerikan Native Front Little Turtle's War |
| Panache! Paradis |
| Papa M Live from a Shark Cage |
| Parannoul To See the Next Part of the Dream |
| Parannoul After the Magic |
| Parannoul / Asian Glow / sonhos tomam conta Downfall of the Neon Youth |
| Pardoner Came Down Different |
| Park Jiha Philos |
| Parquet Courts Wide Awake |
| Peace'd Out Feelings Blade |
| 2020 HC in a nutshell. Emotive, powerful vox, twisty-turny riffage, tempo changes, and dissonant production combine to communicate pleasingly slapdash snack for the listener. |
| Peach Pit From 2 to 3 |
| perfect blue unto souls whose wellsprings fail |
| perfect blue you breed like stars |
| perfect blue crystalline in gorgeous imperfection |
| Perihelion Gnosis Syzygial Summoning |
| Philip Glass North Star |
| Phoebe Bridgers Stranger in the Alps |
| Pickle Darling Cosmonaut |
| Piebald When Life Hands You Lemons |
| Piet Verbist Secret Exit To Another Dimension |
| Pixies Come On Pilgrim |
| Plosivs Plosivs |
| Polaris The Death of Me |
| Poppy Negative Spaces |
| Porter Robinson Nurture |
| Portico Quartet Knee Deep in the North Sea |
| Portico Quartet Portico Quartet |
| Portico Quartet Memory Streams |
| Portico Quartet Monument |
| Portishead Portishead |
| Portrayal of Guilt Christfucker |
| Portrayal of Guilt Devil Music |
| Postvorta Porrima |
| Power Trip Manifest Decimation |
| Powerglove Metal Kombat for the Mortal Man |
| Praam Luminance |
| Praise the Plague The Obsidian Gate |
| Protest the Hero Pacific Myth |
| Prototype Continuum |
| Psychic TV Dreams Less Sweet |
| Pure Reason Revolution Eupnea |
| This album is a showcase in fluidity, melody, and poise. Production highlights the electronic influences, heightens the record's characteristic twin vocal harmonics, and makes accessible the distinct prog rock climaxes dotting Eupnea's soundscapes. Each track is its own being yet the sound is extremely cohesive and represents Eupnea both 10 years removed from their last record and yet terrifically cognizant of where they left off sonically. I probably would have liked a bit more heaviness to balance out the light beauty, but Eupnea is still a wonderful listen. |
| Pylon (USA-GA) Chomp |
| Pyrrhon Abscess Time |
| Qrixkuor Poison Palinopsia |
| Rabbit Rabbit Radio Rabbit Rabbit Radio, Volume 4 - The Animal I Am |
| Raccoon City For Nobody, Nowhere |
| Rachel Chinouriri Four° in Winter |
| Rachel Lime A.U. |
| Raein Ah, As If... |
| Rainbow Kitten Surprise Rks |
| Raum Daughter |
| Really From Verse |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication |
| Regional Justice Center Crime and Punishment |
| Reveries, Chalk Hands, and Oknt 3-way Split |
| Revulsion (FIN) Revulsion |
| Robert Stillman What Does It Mean to Be American |
| Ronnie Martin From The Womb Of The Morning... |
| Roosevelt Roosevelt |
| Rosali No Medium |
| Rosalia Motomami |
| Rotting Christ Theogonia |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels |
| Ryley Walker Course In Fable |
| Sad Lovers and Giants Les Annees Vertes |
| Sam Burton I Can Go With You |
| Santi Debriano Flash of the Spirit |
| Sasquatch Fever Fantasy |
| Scarred Gaia - Medea |
| Scenario. Sounds in Sequence |
| SCHKAF Часть I |
| ScHoolboy Q Oxymoron |
| Secret Band LP2 |
| Seefeel Quique |
| Senza Even a Worm Will Turn |
| Seputus Phantom Indigo |
| Seth La Morsure du Christ |
| Severed Heads Lamborghini/Petrol EP |
| Shai Maestro Human |
| Shaking Chains Overvalued Ideas |
| Shannen Moser The Sun Still Seems to Move |
| Shiina Ringo Watashi to Hōden |
| Shiina Ringo Hi Izuru Tokoro |
| Shiina Ringo Utaite Myōri ~Sono Ichi~ |
| Shiina Ringo Hōjōya (Carnival) |
| Shpongle Carnival of Peculiarities |
| Shygirl Club Shy |
| Sia 1000 Forms Of Fear |
| Sianvar Stay Lost |
| Silent Drive Love is Worth It |
| Silk Sonic An Evening with Silk Sonic |
| Silvana Estrada Marchita |
| Silver Apples Silver Apples |
| Sitka Sun All The Way West |
| Skeletal Remains The Entombment Of Chaos |
| Skeleton Skeleton |
| Energetic blackened punk for all y'all ripped denim shorts crusty sk8ers |
| Skullcrusher Quiet the Room |
| Skycamefalling 10.21 |
| Skycamefalling are persistently overlooked, but this album is a testament to the musical potential they never fully realized. Though 10.21 may be hampered by some poor production value and almost-tediously repetitive structure from song to song, there are flashes of brilliance throughout. Christopher's harsh vocals surge across each track with a potent, raspy vehemence, often linking up with the punky power chords Cameron employs and the punchy fills Brian uses to punctuate each track. Cameron's addition of piano invites a welcome complexity to seep into each track, but on the theme of poor production I do believe Skycamefalling hampered themselves a bit here. I feel more experimentation with song structures, more distinct fretwork, and less inhibition from Brian on drums would have opened this album up much more and allowed it to ascend into early 2000s metalcore royalty. That all being said, this is a consistently strong record with a few standout tracks and a worthwhile listen for any 'core fan. |
| Sleepwalker (JPN) Noč Na Krayu Sveta |
| Slowly Building Weapons Sunbirds |
| Talk about a gem that deserves more praise! The raw production values are kind of a downside, but the merciless vocals, intensifying chord progressions, and groovy drums are highlights. SBW's mix of black metal, hxcore, and mxcore is promising, and I hope a major label picks them up and amps up the production. |
| Sly and Robbie Raiders of the Lost Dub |
| Snooze Familiaris |
| Snooze create a thematically consistent, not-too-silly work about the life cycle of a dog. Points for executing that well, but they also execute true math rock with no real frills. Vox are standout here, the songs are catchy, and the album is pretty solid. I'd like to see Snooze get a bit more adventurous with song structures in the future, but I'd be okay if they do something like this again as well. |
| Soleil Bleu Félins pour l’autre |
| sonhos tomam conta insolação |
| Sonic Youth Bad Moon Rising |
| SOUL GLO DisNigga, Vol. 2 |
| Spectral Lore Ετερόφωτος |
| Spinebreaker Ice Grave |
| Spiritbox Eternal Blue |
| Squarepusher Go Plastic |
| Squid Bright Green Field |
| Squirrel Flower Planet (i) |
| Stargazer (AUS) Psychic Secretions |
| Stars Hollow I Want To Live My Life |
| State Faults Desolate Peaks |
| Stegosauro Stegosauro |
| Stortregn Uncreation |
| Stortregn Emptiness Fills the Void |
| Stortregn Singularity |
| Stortregn Impermanence |
| Strawberry Girls French Ghetto |
| Strawberry Girls American Graffiti |
| Strike Anywhere Iron Front |
| Stromae Multitude |
| STUFF. T(h)reats |
| Sugar Wounds Calico Dreams |
| Sun Ra Jazz by Sun Ra |
| Sun-El Musician Africa to the World |
| Sunami/Gulch Split |
| Sunflo'er All These Darlings and Now Me |
| Sunless Dawn Timeweaver |
| Sunrise Patriot Motion Black Fellflower Stream |
| Supine No Altar for the Company Man |
| Susie Ibarra / Claire Chase / Alex Peh Talking Gong |
| Swans Filth |
| Sweet Trip Walkers Beware! We Drive Into The Sun / Stab/Slow |
| Sylosis The Supreme Oppressor |
| Synovial Songs of Silver |
| System of a Down System of a Down |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! |
| System of a Down Mezmerize |
| Talk Talk The Colour of Spring |
| Taylor Swift Folklore |
| Taylor Swift 1989 (Taylor’s Version) |
| Teamonade Borderline |
| TEETH (CAN) A Biblical Worship Of Violence |
| Temple Nightside Pillars of Damnation |
| Tenace Des marques sur nos mains |
| Tennyson Rot |
| Tenue Territorios |
| Tera Melos Drugs to the Dear Youth |
| Short and sweet, a readily accessible yet impressively complex cauldron of mathy experimentation. Those drums make me frisky. |
| Tera Melos Trash Generator |
| Terra Tenebrosa The Tunnels |
| Thank You Scientist The Perils of Time Travel |
| The Allman Brothers Band The Allman Brothers Band |
| The Altogether Silo |
| The Antikaroshi Extract.Transform.Debase |
| The Bad Plus Activate Infinity |
| The Best of the Worst Better Medicine |
| The Breathing Effect Eli & Harry |
| The Callous Daoboys Audiotree Live |
| The Clientele Music for the Age of Miracles |
| The Cure Three Imaginary Boys |
| The Daysleepers Drowned in a Sea of Sound |
| The Devil Wears Prada ZII |
| The Faceplant Inward |
| The Fahrenheit Drill Install Me Into The Cloud |
| The Field Cupid's Head |
| The Field The Follower |
| The Field Infinite Moment |
| The Ghost Inside The Ghost Inside |
| It's not generic melodic hardcore if it's executed to the T generic melodic hardcore! |
| The Jesus Lizard Down |
| The Jesus Lizard Rack |
| The Marias Cinema |
| The Marshall Tucker Band The Marshall Tucker Band |
| The Most Of What We Have |
| The Mothers of Invention Freak Out! |
| The Motion Mosaic Bed Sores//Domino Effect |
| The Necks Unfold |
| The Physics House Band Mercury Fountain |
| The Raging Nathans Waste My Heart |
| The Reds, Pinks and Purples You Might Be Happy Someday |
| The Reds, Pinks and Purples Summer at Land's End |
| The Reds, Pinks and Purples Slow Torture of an Hourly Wage |
| The Reds, Pinks and Purples Murder, Oral Sex & Cigarettes |
| The Reds, Pinks and Purples They Only Wanted Your Soul |
| The Rolling Stones Out of Our Heads |
| The Seatbelts Cowboy Bebop |
| The Slow Readers Club The Joy of the Return |
| The Stooges The Stooges |
| The Suicide Machines Destruction By Definition |
| The Trip (UK) Fantasy Traxx |
| Thelonious Monk Monk |
| Thin (USA-NY) Respite_apology (demo) |
| Thione Seck Yow |
| thoughtcrimes Tap Night |
| Only 4ing this for length as Tap Night is the best EP I've heard in a long while. Compact, ferocious energy meets a variegated guitar sound, rumbling bass and kitwork, and solid production. This clocks in at less than a quarter of an hour but whets my hardcore tastebuds so hard. |
| Thrice Horizons/East |
| Throwing Snow Dragons |
| thus:owls Who Would Hold You If The Sky Betrayed Us? |
| Tigercub As Blue As Indigo |
| Tingvall Trio Dance |
| Tiny Habits Tiny Things |
| toe The Book About My Idle Plot on a Vague Anxiety |
| toe For Long Tomorrow |
| For as much as the vox do not jibe at all with the rest of the music. For as much as the tracks rblend together a bit too well. For as much as I totally zone out when I listen to FLT. Drums. |
| toe Hear You |
| toe NOW I SEE THE LIGHT |
| Toluca Darvo |
| Towers Bel Air Highrise Plantation |
| Trenches Reckoner |
| Trentemoller Memoria |
| Tribulation Where The Gloom Becomes Sound |
| Tricot The |
| Tricot Makkuro |
| A standard sunny release from Tricot belying the album cover, Makkuro is a solid showcase of the group's defining characteristics. Tricot excel at infusing harmony and melody with Japanese math rock drumming and guitar noodling, but you get the sense they're slightly living below their potential here. |
| Trippers & Askers Acorn |
| Turnover Magnolia |
| Tuscoma Gu-cci |
| Two People Second Body |
| Uli Kempendorff Someone Talked |
| Ulver Perdition City |
| Unexpect _We, Invaders |
| Unexpect In a Flesh Aquarium |
| Unreqvited Beautiful Ghosts |
| Valdrin Effigy Of Nightmares |
| Effigy of Nightmares is a pleasant surprise. Full disclosure, I was expecting this record to be a reasonably well done if completely non-memorable slab of gloomy black metal. Valdrin do check off quite a few of those boxes - BBs, tremolos, etc. But the riffs impart a great deal of melody, the shrieks are mixed at a proper volume, and the atmosphere is both present and dissonant. |
| Van Morrison His Band and the Street Choir |
| Vexes Imagine What We Could Destroy / If Only Given Time |
| Victory Over The Sun Nowherer |
| Violet Cold Empire of Love |
| Virginie B Insula |
| Vision of Disorder Imprint |
| Vorvan Awakened |
| Votto Quindi noi sbagliando facemmo giusto |
| Vredehammer Viperous |
| Wake Devouring Ruin |
| Wake Confluence |
| Walt McClements A Hole in the Fence |
| Water Nymph Heroic Pond of Love |
| Wayfarer A Romance with Violence |
| Weather Report Sweetnighter |
| Wednesday I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone |
| Weed (CAN) Deserve |
| Weston Super Maim 180-Degree Murder |
| Weyes Blood The Innocents |
| Wharflurch Psychedelic Realms ov Hell |
| Willzyx I Don't Feel Anything |
| Winterfylleth The Reckoning Dawn |
| The Reckoning Dawn is atmospheric and pretty, yet it rarely backs off from heavy riffage, powerful shrieks, and the requisite BBs. Checking out the rest of Winterfylleth's discog reveals their latest release is pretty much par for the course for one of the more prominent bands in the English BM scene. That's not to say this record is trite - far from it, as the passages are lush and packed with plenty of interesting lyrical twists and melodies to engage the listener. Halfway through May I'd say it's my album of the month, despite the lack of experimentation on the part of the artist. Title track is a beast. |
| Wo Fat The Singularity |
| Worn Human Work |
| WOWOD Yarost’ I Proshchenie |
| Wrecking Crew Sedale Threat |
| yaya bey The Things I Can't Take With Me |
| Yearning (CAN) MMXXII |
| Yellow Ostrich Soft |
| Yeule Glitch Princess |
| Yngwie Malmsteen Odyssey |
| Yngwie Malmsteen Rising Force |
| Yo La Tengo Autumn Sweater |
| Yon order of violence |
| Young Mountain Lost Tree |
| everybody say 3.5 keep it going. solid skramzz but idk if it's worth many revisits |
| Young Pilgrims We're Young Pilgrims |
| Youth Lagoon Heaven Is a Junkyard |
| Yukihiro Takahashi Neuromantic |
| Yung Ongoing Dispute |
| Yuri Gagarin At The Center Of All Infinity |
| Yvette Young Acoustics EP 2 |
| Yvette Young Piano EP |
| Some gorgeous mathematic wankery on the piano. Yvette Young flexes her non-guitar proficiency in a pretty outstanding way; one wonders if technical showboating comes at the expense of tight composition, but nonetheless this is a gorgeous listen on the whole. |
| Zeal and Ardor Stranger Fruit |
| Zeta (VEN) Todo Bailarlo |
| Zhmach Euphoria Never Leaves |
| Zmar Zmar |
| 3.0 good |
| '68 Yes, and... |
| A-Tota-So Lights Out |
| Abiotic Ikigai |
| Abnormality Mechanisms of Omniscience |
| AC/DC Highway To Hell |
| AC/DC Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap |
| AC/DC Back In Black |
| AC/DC High Voltage |
| AC/DC T.N.T. |
| Acausal Intrusion Nulitas |
| Achim Jaroschek & Peter Brötzmann Neurotransmitter |
| Acrimony Tumuli Shroomaroom |
| Adios Cometa La Isla Que Somos |
| Aenigmatum Deconsecrate |
| Aeternam Al Qassam |
| After Altamont An Animal Orchestra Remixed |
| Akshara Absolution |
| Alchemy of Flesh Ageless Abominations |
| Alexander Hawkins Mirror Canon Break A Vase |
| Alexisonfire Otherness |
| Alice Phoebe Lou Child’s Play |
| Alice Phoebe Lou Shelter |
| Alicia Clara Outsider/Unusual |
| Alien Ant Farm ANThology |
| Aloa Input Devil's Diamond Memory Collection |
| Amorphis Queen of Time |
| Anberlin Blueprints for the Black Market |
| Animal Collective Time Skiffs |
| Animals As Leaders Weightless |
| As much of an AAL stan as I was for many years, I can't heap praise onto the all-important sophomore effort the 'group' launched way back when. Weightless is even more of an exercise in Tosin's individuality as a performer than the excellent self-titled debut as he is the only member to demonstrate any sort of vitality - and even that might be overstatement. Besides an uninspired, half-digital rhythm section, Tosin's leads are occasionally gorgeous but mostly soulless. We're fortunate that AAL picked it up with their next release. |
| Animals As Leaders Parrhesia |
| The reactionary grown-up ex-Djentist in me wants to take a big giant crap all over this but it's actually..better than expected. The record does bog and the wank is obscene, but the tunes are nice and there's way more ear candy than on their last record. Plus, Red Miso is one of their best tracks in ages. |
| Anja Lechner and Agnes Vesterman Silvestrov: Hieroglyphen der Nacht |
| Another Sky Music For Winter Vol. 1 |
| Antre Dark Spectrum |
| Arch Echo You Won't Believe What Happens Next! |
| Arch Echo are pure fun. Unpretentious, lovely hooks and rhythms, some surprisingly heavy riffage playing off carnival synths. This record doesn't quite live up to their debut album, but it has plenty to offer. |
| Ariana Grande Thank U, Next |
| Ariana Grande Eternal Sunshine |
| Arktida Не Стоит Слёз |
| Arlo Parks My Soft Machine |
| Arminda K It's Nearly Night Time |
| Aronious Perspicacity |
| Aronious flex a little too hard with this one. It's one thing to pack your album to the brim with technically accomplished riffage in the name of prog tech death; it's another to straight up overwhelm the listener with riffs on track after track. Far too often do Aronious leave the listener in the dust on Perspicacity, which is a darn shame as there is a lot of good stuff lurking below the surface here. Aronious should have cut the record in 1/2, saved some ideas for later, and polished what's left. They do have the tools to create an astonishingly brilliant tech death record, they just need to exercise restraint to get there. |
| Ars Magna Umbrae Throne Between Worlds |
| Arve Henriksen / Terje Isungset / Karl Seglem Daa |
| Arya For Ever |
| There are flashes of promise from Arya's Oct. 2020 release. The production is generally spotless, the clean vocals are wide-ranging and mostly powerful, and the instrumentals, when firing on all cylinders, are complex and well-executed. Sadly, though, this record falls short of its grand ambitions. Long, uninteresting ambient sections serve as bridges between tracks that try earnestly to stand on their own as prog metal opuses - Arya look to achieve some sort of Ephel Duath-experimental brilliance, but their meandering compositions look disingenuously haphazard. The variation across tracks is calculated, yes, but not cohesive and not part of a broader story. Overall, For Ever shows a high degree of promise, but Arya could benefit from more time at the drawing board. Oh, and the male harshes suck. |
| As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse |
| As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security |
| ASAP Ferg Trap Lord |
| ASAP Ferg Still Striving |
| ASC Heights Of Perception |
| ASIDEFROMADAY Manufactured Landscape |
| Athletic Progression Athletic Progression |
| Atlases Woe Portrait |
| Auragraph Opacity Field |
| Autechre Incunabula |
| Autumn's Grey Solace Over The Ocean |
| Avenged Sevenfold Sounding The Seventh Trumpet |
| Not the worst album a young A7X could put out by any means, but a pretty forgettable slice of early 2000s hard/metalcore. If Syn featured on more than just the opener, this album could have been a little bit better or a lot worse, depending on how much Zacky V got him under control. Regardless, the Rev is the highlight of this album, for better or for worse. |
| Avenged Sevenfold All Excess |
| Babehoven Sunk |
| Badlands (SWE) Djinn |
| bar italia Tracey Denim |
| bar italia The Tw*ts |
| Baroness Yellow And Green |
| Baroness Gold And Grey |
| Barrie Barbara |
| Basil's Kite Shooting Tsars |
| Bastions Majestic Desolation |
| Beach House Devotion |
| Beachwood Sparks Beachwood Deluxe |
| Beast Mode Pound of Flesh |
| Belmont Belmont |
| Binary Code Moonsblood |
| Black Button I Want To Be In Control |
| Black Matter Device Hostile Architecture |
| Blumen Mangata |
| Bon Iver SABLE, fABLE |
| Bon Jovi Bon Jovi |
| Bon Jovi 7800° Fahrenheit |
| Bonobo Fragments |
| Bossk Migration |
| Bowery Electric Bowery Electric |
| Brijean Angelo |
| Broken Social Scene Feel Good Lost |
| Broken Social Scene To Be You and Me |
| Brood of Hatred The Golden Age |
| Bruno Mars Unorthodox Jukebox |
| BUCK-TICK Sexual XXXXX! |
| Buckethead Bucketheadland |
| Buckethead Kaleidoscalp |
| Buffalo Daughter We Are the Times |
| Bullet For My Valentine The Poison |
| Bullet For My Valentine Scream Aim Fire |
| Bunuel Killers Like Us |
| Burial Burial |
| Burning Spear Marcus Garvey |
| C.D.M. C.D.M. |
| Capsule (US) Blue |
| I hate to say it, but the post-rock/sludgy passages permeating much of the second half of this LP really turn me off. Capsule's more active hardcore sound is pummeling and persuasively powerful. The presence of melody and even a tinge of mathcore felt in the riffage (when it actually appears) distinguish Capsule's sound from other late 2000s HC pretenders. I get that the long dissonant stretches are meant to accentuate the intensity of the HC-driven passages, but they are far more effective in turning me off as a listener. That said, there are enough rewarding spans of HC goodness to save this album. |
| Caustic Wound Death Posture |
| Celeste Morte(s) Nee(s) |
| Celeste Animale(s) |
| Celeste Infidele(s) |
| Celeste Legaspi Bagong Plaka Lumang Kanta Vol. 2 |
| Chain Gang Grave We Fight Entropy/Suffer For Your Art |
| Chain Gang Grave Bury Them and Keep Quiet |
| Chappell Roan The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess |
| Charli XCX Sucker |
| Cheem Downhill |
| Chet Baker Chet Baker Sings |
| Chet Baker Chet Baker Sings: It Could Happen to You |
| Children of Bodom Hatebreeder |
| Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet? |
| City of Caterpillar Mystic Sisters |
| CityCop Seasons |
| Clairo Charm |
| Clever Girl No Drum And Bass in the Jazz Room |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow |
| Cohol Rigen |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends |
| Converge No Heroes |
| Converge Bloodmoon: I |
| Corpsegrinder Corpsegrinder |
| Courting Guitar Music |
| Covet acoustics |
| Crow Killer Enslaved to One |
| Crying Beyond The Fleeting Gales |
| Cryptodira The Angel of History |
| Cuco Chiquito |
| Currents The Way It Ends |
| I don't like to be too precise with ratings given that my perceptions of album tend to fluctuate over time (like most people's do). This record, however, seems like it'll earn its trade in the middle 3s. The record is decently executed modern metalcore, but doesn't balance its clear strengths (harsher passages) with weaker areas (cleans). I'm not excited. |
| Cyanic Cyanic |
| Dan Nicholls Mattering and Meaning |
| Dance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin Dance |
| Dance Gavin Dance Acceptance Speech |
| This is probably DGD's low point for me. They're trying to cohere between Tilian's pop sensibilities and the rest of the group's PH chops, and Acceptance Speech fused the two into a bit of a malformed entity. There are certainly tracks that I quite enjoy here, but most of the record is poorly mixed, lyrically choppy, and unfocused overall. Still, the pieces are clearly there, and, luckily for us, DGD eventually figured out how to best pair Jon and Tilian and how not to mix Will out. |
| Dance Gavin Dance Mothership |
| Dance Gavin Dance Artificial Selection |
| Daniel Herskedal Harbour |
| Dark Tranquillity Moment |
| Dave Easley Byways of the Moon |
| DØSSI bluebirds |
| Dead Soma Faces Which No Mask Could Ever Conceal |
| Decoherence Unitarity |
| Demon Hunter Summer of Darkness |
| Descend The Deviant |
| Scoot and Evngelancer's soundoffs characterize this album perfectly, though I must further emphasize how derivative this album sounds. It's certainly performed well, produced well, and packaged well. The rhythmic pacing, the soaring vocals, the extended chord stays, the underlying melodies: The Deviant produce an Opeth-Akerfeldt tribute if I ever saw one. This group clearly has tons of talent and lots of love for their scene. Let's see them throw some more creativity into their next release. |
| Destroyer This Night |
| Dinosaur Jr. Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not |
| Dionaea Grounds |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists |
| Dogleg Melee |
| Donald Byrd Off to the races |
| DOWRR Into Decrepitude |
| DragonForce Sonic Firestorm |
| Drain (USA-CA) California Cursed |
| Drain (USA-CA) Living Proof |
| Drake Nothing Was the Same |
| Drowning Pool Sinner |
| Drumcorps For the Living |
| Dua Lipa Radical Optimism |
| Dudu Pukwana Diamond Express |
| Duhkha Duhkha |
| Dukla Z dálky píseň |
| Dylan Henner You Always Will Be |
| Ebonivory The Long Dream I |
| I was really psyched for this album. Ebonivory released a few intriguing singles over the course of a long while leading up to this record's release and my interest was more than piqued by their blend of catchy choruses and standard late 2010s prog metal tropes. This album appeared to play both to Ebonivory's strengths and my own musical tastes, but I've been let down. The transitions are rough, the new material is pretty weak, and the elongation of the singles in their album form detracts from the pure joy they communicated previously. This album's blunted impact is a darn shame, because Ebonivory had an awfully high ceiling. |
| Ehsan Gelsi Ephemera |
| Elena Korzhenevich Pure |
| Ellis Born Again |
| Despite a lack of variation in sound from track to track, Siggelkow's angelic voice saves the day. While there may not be a lot of boundary-pushing going on, the lilting vocal caresses entwining each track still make Born Again a rewarding listen. Perhaps she could have been a bit more emotive or separated more from her artistic influences, but Siggelkow's talent is on display and I have hopes she claims more of her own space on her next release. |
| Elvis Costello Almost Blue |
| Emeka Ogboh Beyond the Yellow Haze |
| Emiliana Torrini Love In the Time of Science |
| Empyrium Über den Sternen |
| Endless, Nameless Living Without |
| Endzweck The Naked and the Dead |
| Entropy Created Consciousness Impressions of the Morning Star |
| Envy From Here To Eternity |
| Envy Eunoia |
| Epica The Holographic Principle |
| ERRA Neon |
| ERRA ERRA |
| Eugene Chadbourne Strings |
| Evisbeats and Nagipan On Rei / Furoject A |
| Exek Advertise Here |
| Exhumation (IDN) Eleventh Formulae |
| Explosions in the Sky How Strange, Innocence |
| Explosions in the Sky Friday Night Lights |
| Eyelashes! Venus' Flower Basket IV |
| Fabrizio De Andre La buona novella |
| Fake Fruit Fake Fruit |
| Fever Dolls The Phantasm at Lake Wallenpaupack |
| Fiddlehead Between the Richness |
| Fievel Is Glauque Flaming Swords |
| Film School We Weren't Here |
| Fireboy DML Laughter, Tears and Goosebumps |
| Floating Points Crush |
| Flower Crown Heat |
| Foetus Nail |
| Folly and The Best of the Worst Wavebreaker 3 |
| Frank Zappa Lumpy Gravy |
| Fuckin Whatever Fuckin Whatever |
| Fugazi Repeater |
| Fugazi Steady Diet of Nothing |
| Fugitive Wizard Obscuri Æternum |
| Fuvk twentytwenty |
| Gabo Bicicleta Sem Rodinha |
| Glass Kites Glass Kites |
| God's Hate God's Hate |
| Gojira Terra Incognita |
| Gonemage Handheld Demise |
| Gonemage Astral Corridors |
| Graveolence Anthropomancy |
| Greg Puciato Child Soldier: Creator of God |
| Gum Country Somewhere |
| GusGus DanceOrama |
| Hakushi Hasegawa Bones of Dreams Attacked! |
| Haru Nemuri Shunka Ryougen |
| Hatebreed Rise of Brutality |
| Havana Swim Club Havana Swim Club |
| Helium Horse Fly Hollowed |
| Henry Grant Sensations |
| Hexis Aeternum |
| Hiatus Kaiyote Love Heart Cheat Code |
| Homeskin Life's Wishes to Tears |
| Horte Maa Antaa Yön Vaientaa |
| Hostile Takedown Demonstration |
| How I Left Birds in the City |
| How to Be Dead Lights at the Ends of Tunnels |
| Hulder Godslastering: Hymns of a Forlorn Peasantry |
| Human Impact EP01 |
| Humanity's Last Breath Välde |
| Hungry Lights Heavy Is The Crown |
| ichika She Waits Patiently |
| Imperialist Zenith |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Enjoy Incubus |
| Infant Island Obsidian Wreath |
| Inferno (CZ) PARADEIGMA (Phosphenes of Aphotic Eternity) |
| Inoculation Celestial Putridity |
| Inter Arma Sky Burial |
| Intronaut Fluid Existential Inversions |
| Iwrestledabearonce Hail Mary |
| Jade Bird Different Kinds of Light |
| Jamiroquai Synkronized |
| Jan Garbarek In Praise Of Dreams |
| Japan Tin Drum |
| Jeff Tobias Recurring Dream |
| Jivebomb Primitive Desires |
| Job For A Cowboy Ruination |
| Job For A Cowboy Demonocracy |
| Jockstrap I Love You Jennifer B |
| Jun Fukamachi Quark |
| Juniore Ouh là là |
| KAMA Kollektiv Toivo |
| Kamasi Washington The Choice |
| Karkara Nowhere Land |
| Kehlani Sweet Sexy Savage |
| Kehlani It Was Good Until It Wasn't |
| Kehlvin Holistic Dreams |
| Kendrick Lamar DAMN. |
| Keygen Church ░ ▒ ▓ █ |
| Khemmis Deceiver |
| Kim Gordon The Collective |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard K.G. |
| King Krule The OOZ |
| Kississippi Mood Ring |
| Korn Life Is Peachy |
| Kosmodemonic Liminal Light |
| Kourosh Zolani Memoirs of Sangesar |
| Krallice Demonic Wealth |
| Kyuss Wretch |
| La Quiete Tenpeun 01.05 |
| LANY Make Out |
| LAPP Selvacava |
| Laura Stevenson Laura Stevenson |
| Lee Konitz You and Lee |
| Lee Ritenour A Twist of Jobim |
| Ling Tosite Sigure #4 |
| Linkin Park Meteora |
| Lip Talk Laughing and Eating Cake |
| Lisel Angels on the Slope |
| Lisel Patterns For Auto-Tuned Voices And Delay |
| Little Simz Drop 7 |
| Liturgy Origin of the Alimonies |
| LLNN Unmaker |
| Logic The Incredible True Story |
| Madi Sipes and the Painted Blue Privacy |
| Mammoth Deviations |
| Marasmus Necrotic Overlord |
| Maria BC Devil's Rain |
| Marilyn Manson The Golden Age of Grotesque |
| Mark Freedman One Man Posse |
| Maroon 5 It Won't Be Soon Before Long |
| Master Boot Record C:\>DEFRAG |
| Megadeth Endgame |
| Merda Mundi Hatred |
| A calming and soothing mix of lullabies perfect for a kindergartner's ear. |
| Metal Mike Ted Nugent Is Not My Dad |
| Toothless, medium tempo, and shivering cold in the shadow of the Ramones. That said, there are some fine riffs on this early 90s punk EP. Mr. Loser's drum tone is mighty ace, Julia Allstatt's bass is plenty audible, and Metal Mike himself croons like an undead Ian Curtis when at his best. So yeah, it's a mixed bag. |
| Metallica Master Of Puppets |
| I can't say much that hasn't been said by others in the camp of "Extremely Overrated Metallica record." From a standpoint of sheer influence, this album would deserve a higher rating; unfortunately, the musical appeal of Master of Puppets wears away pretty quickly. Aside from Battery, which remains one of my favorite Metallica cuts, I find a lot of this record not gripping nor all that innovative. The title track is extremely overblown IMO, and there aren't many highlights from the tracks I haven't named (except, perhaps, Orion). |
| Michael Peter Olsen Yearning Flow |
| Midlake For the Sake Of Bethel Woods |
| MIKE Burning Desire |
| Miles Davis Star People |
| Miles Davis Directions |
| Milton Nascimento Milton |
| Mirror (CYP) The Day Bastards Leaders Die |
| Misery Signals Ultraviolet |
| Unfortunately, this is contemporary Misery Signals. Monotonous vocals and uninspired fretwork cannot compensate for a stellar rhythm section and occasional spots of emotional outpouring. Misery Signals are at their best when they inject their music with feeling, and much of this record feels phoned in. |
| Mitski Laurel Hell |
| Modern Rites Monuments |
| Molested Divinity Unearthing The Void |
| Mono My Story, The Buraku Story (An Original Soundtrack |
| Montagne Black Waterfall |
| Moon Tooth Chromaparagon |
| MouthBreather (USA-MA) I'm Sorry Mr. Salesman |
| This had massive potential, but without Kurt Ballou in the studio I think these guys were far too loosey-goosey on this effort. Short tracks feel like unrealized ideas that didn't sit all the way; pinch harmonics and guitar tones are mixture of Car Bomb ripoffs and gratuitous nu metal callbacks. There's some good fun on this album but what with the release drama and inevitably too-high expectations this LP is a disappointment. |
| Mudvayne L.D. 50 |
| Mumford and Sons Rushmere |
| My Lonely Sea Havoc |
| Mystic Priestess Mystic Priestess |
| N.I.N.A. (BRA) PELE |
| Neon Empire Distorted Reality |
| Netherbird Arete |
| netra Sørbyen |
| Niklas Paschburg Panta Rhei |
| Niklas Paschburg Post-Svalbard |
| Niklas Paschburg Panta Rhei Remixes |
| Nils Wulker Go |
| nimino Creek |
| Nordjevel Fenriir |
| nouns While of Unsound Mind |
| Nyu. Flux |
| Odalie Derrière l'Écran |
| Of Monsters and Men Beneath the Skin |
| Old Nick Witch Lymph |
| Olec Mun Vögel |
| Olivia Kaplan Tonight Turns to Nothing |
| Olivia Rodrigo Guts |
| Olivier Messiaen Les Offrandes oubliées |
| Omegavortex Black Abomination Spawn |
| Operentzia Tribalkan |
| Osaki Seiichi The Tale Of A Long Forgotten Sunken City |
| Oscar Lang Chew the Scenery |
| Ox en Mayo Alto Mot, the Valuator, Incredible God |
| Ozzy Osbourne No More Tears |
| Paralydium Worlds Beyond |
| Paranoid Void Travels In My Universe |
| Paul Jacobs (CAN) Pink Dogs on the Green Grass |
| PDP III Pilled Up on a Couple of Doves |
| Peach Pit Magpie |
| Pearl Jam Backspacer |
| Penelope Trappes Penelope Three |
| perfect blue a week of fires |
| perfect blue digging a hole into hell |
| Periphery Periphery III: Select Difficulty |
| Philip Glass Itaipú; The Canyon |
| Pier Piras A Wizard's Perspective |
| Pink I'm Not Dead |
| Pink M!ssundaztood |
| Plini Sweet Nothings |
| Polyphia Inspire |
| Polyphia Muse |
| Popol Vuh Affenstunde |
| Poppy I Disagree |
| Poppy Flux |
| Portico Quartet We Welcome Tomorrow |
| Post Malone beerbongs and bentleys |
| Prof Powderhorn Suites |
| Pupil Slicer Blossom |
| Purplefox Town Who Is Malkallam? |
| Pyramaze Epitaph |
| Quadraphonnes + Andrew Durkin Five-Pointed Star |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris |
| Rafael Anton Irisarri Agitas Al Sol |
| Raw Grip Kaleidoscope |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium |
| Replicant Malignant Reality |
| Roamer Lost Bees |
| Robohands Shapes |
| Rolo Tomassi Hysterics |
| Rooftops A Forest Of Polarity |
| Rx Bandits Progress |
| Rx Bandits Halfway Between Here and There |
| SCHKAF Часть II |
| Scott Hamilton The Right Time |
| Sebadoh The Freed Man |
| Senyawa Alkisah |
| Sevendust Seasons |
| Shanique Marie Gigis' House |
| Shell of a Shell Away Team |
| Shibusashirazu Shibuzen |
| Shiina Ringo Gyakuyunyū: Kōwankyoku |
| Shiina Ringo Sandokushi |
| Shrinkwrap Killers Parents + FBI = Cahoots |
| Sia We Are Born |
| Siderean Lost on Void's Horizon |
| Silver Jews Starlite Walker |
| Sithu Aye Senpai III |
| Ska-P Que Corra La Voz |
| Ska-P El Vals Del Obrero |
| Ska-P Lágrimas y Gozos |
I bumped this quite a bit back in high school, partially out of my nearly blind devotion to ska at
the time and partially to flex on my compatriots who couldn't speak Spanish. The album is front-
loaded with some absolute bangers, and if the whole album were like the first five tracks I'd
probably still listen to Lagrimas y Gozos even though I've outgrown my ska phase. Unfortunately,
there's a steep decline in quality once La Colmena crashes to an end, and no matter how great
Crimen Sollicitationis or El Libertador are I can't excuse the inconsistency in quality. |
| Ska-P 99% |
| Ska-P Incontrolable |
| Skrillex Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites |
| Sleep Moscow Of the Sun |
| Slipknot Slipknot |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses |
| Slipknot Iowa |
| Slipknot Demo |
| Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind |
| slowthai UGLY |
| Smoothboi Ezra Stuck |
| Soccer Mommy Color Theory |
| Soccer Mommy Sometimes, Forever |
| Solitary Vice No One Asks for Anyone |
| Solstafir Endless Twilight of Codependent Love |
| Sonic Youth Confusion Is Sex |
| Sonic Youth Kill Yr Idols |
| Sordid Pink Sordid Pink |
| Space360 Daily Rituals |
| Spoon Memory Dust |
| Spud Cannon Good Kids Make Bad Apples |
| Static-X Shadow Zone |
| Steel Toe Steel Toe |
| Stella (GR) Up and Away |
| Stepping Stone Escape From the Junkyard |
| Stimulator Jones La Mano |
| Stone Sour Stone Sour |
| Stortregn Evocation of Light |
| Strawberry Girls Tasmanian Glow |
| Struggling Harsh Immortals 4 Death |
| Suicidal Tendencies Freedumb |
| Suicide Suicide |
| Summoning Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame |
| Sunami Sunami EP |
| Sunstrife SOL |
| Surmoi Bipolarität |
| Swamp Witch Dead Rituals |
| Sylosis Dormant Heart |
| System of a Down Hypnotize |
| System of a Down Protect The Land/Genocidal Humanoidz |
| Taiko Super Kicks Nami |
| Talk Talk It's My Life |
| Taylor Swift Speak Now |
| Taylor Swift Red |
| Taylor Swift 1989 |
| Taylor Swift Evermore |
| Technotronic Pump Up the Jam: the Album |
| Tenacious D The Pick of Destiny |
| Terminalist The Great Acceleration |
| Terror Trapped In A World |
| TesseracT One |
| TesseracT Polaris |
| Tevin Campbell T.E.V.I.N. |
| Thantifaxath Hive Mind Narcosis |
| Thanya Iyer rest |
| The 1975 Notes on a Conditional Form |
| The Algorithm Data Renaissance |
| The Bats The Deep Set |
| The Circle Metamorphosis |
| The Devil Wears Prada With Roots Above and Branches Below |
| The God Awful Truth Memory Palace |
| The Jesus Lizard Shot |
| The Jesus Lizard Blue |
| The Killers Hot Fuss |
| The Lucid Dream The Deep End |
| The Monolith Deathcult V3 - Vernedering: Connect the Goddamn Dots |
| The Motion Mosaic Samsara |
| The Necks Three |
| The New York Renaissance Band Arbeau: Orchesographie |
| The Reds, Pinks and Purples Build Love |
| The Reds, Pinks and Purples Dull Panic & Sunday Gloom |
| The Reds, Pinks and Purples Unwishing Well |
| The Reds, Pinks and Purples The World Doesn't Need Another Band |
| The Reds, Pinks and Purples This Is Adult Art School |
| The Residents Not Available |
| The Secret Disintoxication |
| The Sick Boy Method For Karyn |
| The Trip (UK) Perfect Moderation |
| The Trip (UK) Pacific Vision |
| Thirdface Do It With A Smile |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie |
| Thy Catafalque Alföld |
| Tobacco Maniac Meat |
| Toby Driver In the L..L..Library Loft |
| toe Songs, Ideas We Forgot |
| Tom Sochas You could hear the bird sing |
| Tom Waits The Heart of Saturday Night |
| Tomberlin i don’t know who needs to hear this... |
| Tricot Repeat |
| Tricot craft a typically pretty EP with their signature vocal harmonies but skimp on the instrumental heft that makes their other records great. The songs are easy listens, but I miss the virtuosity that defined their previous releases. |
| Trivium Ascendancy |
| Trivium Shogun |
| Trivium In Waves |
| Trivium The Sin and the Sentence |
| Trophy Hunt Katabasis |
| Ulver Kveldssanger |
| Under Old Trees Kelo |
| under.his.eye under.his.eye |
| Ushangvagush Mntu |
| Various Artists (Electronic) Doom Mix, Vol. V |
| Vasudeva Generator |
| Venetian Snares Infolepsy E.P. |
| Vincent Vallires Toute beauté n'est pas perdue |
| Vous Autres Sel de Pierre |
| Weald and Woe The Fate of Kings and Men |
| Wednesday Twin Plagues |
| Whimsical Melt |
| Wide Eyes Oneironaut |
| I'm oneiroNOT happy with how much the teenager inside me is having a field day with this. The tones are gorgeous and the sheer volume of ear candy on display is staggering. However, gratuitous wankery has a ceiling, and Wide Eyes brush way too hard against this ceiling on this record and it can only be recognized as such. Less is so often more it hurts |
| Without Waves Comedian |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Primordial Arcana |
| Xerath III |
| Xythlia Immortality Through Quantum Suicide |
| Yaeji What We Drew |
| Yautja The Lurch |
| Yerin Baek Love, Yerin |
| Yngwie Malmsteen Trilogy |
| Yngwie Malmsteen Perpetual Flame |
| Yngwie Malmsteen 20th Century Masters |
| Yukihiro Takahashi Saravah! |
| Zeal and Ardor Zeal and Ardor |
| Zella Day Where Does The Devil Hide |
| 2.5 average |
| /A\ /A\ |
| 21 Savage Issa Album |
| 23 Skidoo The Culling Is Coming |
| 23 Skidoo Seven Songs |
| Abnormality Sociopathic Constructs |
| AC/DC For Those About To Rock We Salute You |
| Adult Mom Driver |
| Albert Ayler New Grass |
| All That Remains Behind Silence and Solitude |
| All That Remains Overcome |
| Annie Hart Everything Pale Blue |
| Annihilus (US-CHI) Follow A Song from the Sky |
| Anthrax Volume 8: The Threat Is Real |
| Arc De Soleil Arc de Soleil |
| Arcing Wires Prime |
| Ariana Grande Positions |
| Arktida На Горизонте |
| My recollections of listening to Na Gorizonte > 10 years ago parallel my recollections of middle school. At the time I was fully engrossed, imagining that I was graced with the pinnacle of human experience, and all too convinced that what lay before me would define my life. When these memories surface, I feel a little silly, but it's okay to indulge your inner preteen at times. Arktida's first major release does not hold up for its combination of cliches and poor production choices, but it serves as a benchmark for my taste evolution, if nothing else. |
| Arlo Parks Collapsed in Sunbeams |
| Arrowounds The Rise and Fall of the Melting World |
| As I Lay Dying Awakened |
| ASAP Ferg Always Strive and Prosper |
| Athar Aghanon Fidelitas |
| Au bout de mes levres Malgré la nuit |
| Au bout de mes levres / Yubari Gogo split |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking The Fallen |
| Not sure if I can reconcile my own conscience with the fact that I absolutely adored this band as teenager. Returning to it these days leaves me confounded - M Shadows is a godawful vocalist, Syn is a Hammett ripoff, The Rev (RIP) is not nearly the technician I remember him being. There are definitely redeemable qualities about this album - "Second Heartbeat", to some extent "Chapter Four" - but aside from that, I'll be doing my best to absolve myself of my young sins. |
| Avenged Sevenfold Diamonds In The Rough |
| Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare |
| Avenged Sevenfold Hail To The King |
| Avenged Sevenfold The Stage |
| Avenged Sevenfold Diamonds In The Rough (Remastered) |
| Axial Conflict of Mortals |
| Azath Through a Warren of Shadow |
| Battles Juice B Crypts |
| Baum Sae Communication |
| Beach House Thank Your Lucky Stars |
| Beecher Resention Is a Big Word in a Small Town |
| Flashes of promise, but the ideas sound unfinished. There's a striking resemblance to the lesser qualities of From Autumn to Ashes here - whiny, hometown oriented lyrics; muddy production; simplistic, overcooked riffage. There are some redeeming qualities though, with a strong sense of youthful energy and a few bright instrumental passages, particularly from the rhythm section. Later Beecher fixes a lot of the mistakes from this record while maintaining the good qualities of their early work. |
| Bellows Next of Kin |
| Belmont Aftermath |
| Ben Frost Scope Neglect |
| Bent Knee Frosting |
| Black Knife Murder Season |
| Bon Jovi The Circle |
| Boss Keloid Family the Smiling Thrush |
| Bowling for Soup Let's Do It For Johnny! |
| boylife gelato |
| Broken English Club White Rats III |
| Broken Social Scene Beehives |
| Brother Ah Key to Nowhere |
| Brume (USA-CA) Donkey |
| Bruno Mars Doo-Wops & Hooligans |
| BUCK-TICK Romanesque |
| Bxnjamin FOLKLAW |
| C R O W N The End of All Things |
| Calvin Harris 18 Months |
| Cara Neir Phantasmal |
| Catbamboo Fervor |
| Charli Adams Bullseye |
| Charli XCX Crash |
| Children of Bodom Relentless Reckless Forever |
| Children of Bodom Hellhounds On My Trail |
| Children with Dog Feet Curb Your Anarchy |
| CHON Woohoo! |
| CHON Homey |
| I can't say I love this album, and I can't quite say it's a complete turnoff either. I get where Chon thought they were going with this - Polyphia churned out some impressive work that mixed their trademark mathy structures with some pop and hip hop beats, and Chon wanted to cash in on the action. Unfortunately, despite being a musical evolution for the group and one chock full of summary rhythms and melodies at that, this record does not do it for me, for the most part. Songs are easy listens, but there isn't a whole lot of depth. This sounds so much like Chon's attempt to conform to where they must have imagined the prog scene was headed that it makes my head hurt. |
| CHON CHON |
| God, this was a hard rating. I was really hyped for this album, despite Chon's weak outing the last go around. I imagined their self-titled effort would become a perennial summer anthem for me; the strength of their early releases combined with continued musical growth from close buds Polyphia set my expectations sky high. Needless to say, I was pretty shocked when, even after at least a dozen playthroughs within a couple of days, I could barely list three tracks I enjoyed to a decent degree. Though Petal is perhaps one of my favorite Chon songs of all time, the rest of the album largely falls flat due to unmemorable hooks, some uninspired playing, and, most importantly, a lack of fresh ideas. Chon regressed with the self-titled. I hope my boys are okay, and that their next release proves me wrong. |
| City & i.o Chaos is God Neighbour |
| Codex of the Gods untitled |
| Coexistence Collateral Dimension |
| Coheed and Cambria The Color Before The Sun |
| Colbie Caillat Breakthrough |
| Colbie Caillat All of You |
| Coldplay Mylo Xyloto |
| Contour Love Suite |
| Crushing the Scepter Echoing Screams of Madness and Delusion |
| Daniel Bachman Axacan |
| Danilo Gallo Dark Dry Tears A View Through a Slot |
| Deiquisitor Humanoid |
| Deluge Ægo Templo |
| Denki Groove A |
| Disposal Disposal |
| Disturbed The Sickness |
| Disturbed Believe |
| Disturbed Asylum |
| Doors in the Labyrinth In the Shadow of the Monolith |
| DragonForce Inhuman Rampage |
| It's a fun album with some notable highs, but DragonForce remain a band catapulted to stardom via GH3 who subsequently failed to hold the spotlight. There are plenty of other PM bands worth your time. Herman Li and Sam Totman could probably find excellent work in a different project unburdened by the legacy of TTFaF hyperspeed FCs. |
| Drake Views |
| Drake Scorpion |
| Dreamwell Modern Grotesque |
| E. Town Concrete The Renaissance |
| Echodrone The Curvature of Sound |
| Ed Sheeran + |
| Ed Sheeran x |
| Ed Sheeran ÷ |
| El Chombo A Mover el Culo Con el Chombo |
| Eminem Kamikaze |
| Envy Angel's Curse Whispered in the Edge of Despair |
| Ephemeral Echoes Ascension |
| Eric Chenaux Say Laura |
| Erick The Architect Future Proof |
| Fallujah Undying Light |
| Fax Gang Aethernet |
| Faye Webster Underdressed At The Symphony |
| Fifth Harmony Reflection |
| Fifth Harmony 7/27 |
| Fifth Harmony Fifth Harmony |
| Flea Helen Burns |
| Focusrights Intercontinental Split |
| Folamour The Journey |
| Fossilization He Whose Name Was Long Forgotten |
| Fox Strikes Breath of Air |
| Fragment Soul Axiom Of Choice |
| Funeral Parlour Funeral Parlour |
| Genghis Tron Dead Mountain Mouth |
| Gillian Welch Revival |
| Gillian Welch's music is simultaneously instrumentally rich but spiritually vacant. Revival is easy as you please on the ear but Welch's lived experience is so far removed from the subject matter she caricatures lyrically that it sucks the heart and soul from the entire project. |
| Glass Animals Dreamland |
| Goreshit watashi wa baka yaro desu |
| Goreshit Paranoia EP |
| Goreshit Blue Girl on Sunday |
| Goreshit my love feels all wrong. digipak |
| Green Carnation Leaves Of Yesteryear |
| Green Day 21st Century Breakdown |
| Green Day Saviors |
| Greta Van Fleet The Battle at Garden's Gate |
| Grizzly Bear Horn of Plenty |
| Gwen Stefani Love. Angel. Music. Baby. |
| Gwen Stefani The Sweet Escape |
| Haku Sungho The Farthest Creole |
| Harry Nilsson A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night |
| Heliocentric Ishmael |
| Helvetia Essential Aliens |
| Herbie Hancock My Point of View |
| Herbie Hancock Death Wish |
| Himsa Ground Breaking Ceremony |
| Howling Giant Alteration |
| Humavoid Lidless |
| Hungry Ghosts Hungry Ghosts EP |
| Hungry Lights The Awry Ascent |
| Hungry Lights Three Gods & Me |
| HYLA Caravel |
| i-sef u-sef shaghara lemoune |
| Ice Spice Like..? |
| In Angles Cardinal |
| In Chasms Deep The Wind and Her Lament |
| Ingested Where Only Gods May Tread |
| Iwrestledabearonce It's All Happening |
| Iwrestledabearonce Late for Nothing |
| J. Cole Might Delete Later |
| Jack Harlow That's What They All Say |
| Jaco Pastorius and Brian Melvin Jazz Street |
| Jaga Jazzist Pyramid |
| Jakub Zytecki Nothing Lasts, Nothing's Lost |
| Jelly Roll Whitsitt Chapel |
| Job For A Cowboy Genesis |
| Jockstrap I<3UQTINVU |
| John Thayer Supermundane |
| Juan Bond Womb |
| Kaiser Chiefs Off With Their Heads |
| Kaiser Chiefs The Future is Medieval |
| Kakofonium Krucjata Dziecięca |
| Kaonashi Dear Lemon House, You Ruined Me: Senior Year |
| Kaonashi The 3 Faces of Beauty |
| Katy Perry One of the Boys |
| Katy Perry Teenage Dream |
| Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward |
| Kelly Clarkson Breakaway |
| Kelly Clarkson All I Ever Wanted |
| Kelly Clarkson When Christmas Comes Around… |
| Kesha Gag Order |
| King Krule Man Alive! |
| KOAN Sound Forgotten Myths |
| Kylie Minogue Let's Get to It |
| Lamb of God New American Gospel |
| Lau (UK) Believer |
| Les Chants de Nihil Le Tyran Et L'esthète |
| Light Field Reverie Another World |
| Lil Wayne Tha Block Is Hot |
| Limina Hidden Spaces |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight |
| Linkin Park A Thousand Suns |
| Logic Everybody |
| Mabe Fratti Será que ahora podremos entendernos |
| Mac DeMarco Here Comes the Cowboy |
| Mac DeMarco Five Easy Hot Dogs |
| Mark Ronson Late Night Feelings |
| Maroon 5 Hands All Over |
| Matchess Sonescent |
| Mathieu Fiset RoboJazz |
| Maxime Denuc Nachthorn |
| Megadeth Th1rt3en |
| Megan Thee Stallion Good News |
| Metallica Load |
| Metallica Death Magnetic |
| This is definitely, definitely better than any album Metallica has released since the self titled, and I will stand and die on that statement. Of course, this isn't saying a whole lot, but props to Metallica for trying yet again. |
| Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct |
| I mean, it was a hell of a lot better than it could have been. HtSD truly sounds like a vintage Metallica album, and given their track record that's rare praise. There are definitely some certified hits on this baby, and I find a hell of a lot more redeeming qualities to this than most of their work since the 90s. Still, though, it's a bloated effort straight from a money machine. There's not much fresh here, though there's a reasonable quantity of energy for a group of old farts. I'm not exactly disappointed overall, really, just a bit bored. |
| Metallica S&M2 |
| Metallica 72 Seasons |
| truly, who else deserves the 66th Annual Grammy Awards trophy for Best Metal Performance other than the boys in black? |
| Metaphobic Demo 2021 |
| Methyl Ethel Are You Haunted? |
| Michael Cormier More Light!!! |
| MIKE Black Soap |
| Mike Posner The Truth |
| Miles Davis Decoy |
| Miles Davis Aura |
| Mitsume A Long Day |
| Mndsgn Rare Pleasure |
| Modha Through the Cycle |
| Motley Crue Girls, Girls, Girls |
| Motorpsycho Lobotomizer |
| Mouse On The Keys Midnight |
| Mudvayne The End of All Things to Come |
| Mudvayne Mudvayne |
| Murderdolls Beyond The Valley of the Murderdolls |
| Muse The Resistance |
| Muse Drones |
| Mystic Storm From the Ancient Chaos |
| Natalie Evans Movements |
| Natasha Bedingfield Unwritten |
| Neon Hiss Volume IV |
| Nervosa Perpetual Chaos |
| Nickelback All the Right Reasons |
| Night Beats Outlaw R&B |
| Niklas Paschburg Oceanic |
| Niklas Paschburg Tuur mang Welten |
| No Ceremony in anticipation of an ending |
| Nord (FRA) The Implosion of Everything that Matters |
| Noxantes Never Seen |
| NSYNC NSYNC |
| Nyck Caution Anywhere But Here |
| Nyctophagia Terrified of Tomorrow |
| Ocean Alley Yellow Mellow |
| Of Mice and Men Defy |
| Of Mice and Men EARTHANDSKY |
| Of Mice and Men Echo |
| Okvsho Traphouse Jazz |
| Olivia Rodrigo Sour |
| Our Friend the Sun Let Me Out of History |
| Ozzy Osbourne No Rest For The Wicked |
| Ozzy Osbourne Ozzmosis |
| Ozzy Osbourne Down To Earth |
| Ozzy Osbourne Black Rain |
| Ozzy Osbourne Ordinary Man |
| Paranorm Empyrean |
| Pauline Oliveros/Francisco López/Doug Van Nort/Jonas Braasc Quartet for the End of Space |
| Paysage d'Hiver Im Wald |
| Okay folks, I must draw the line here. There are some superb, beautiful, positively chilling moments on this record. Pd'H excel at their craft - there's no doubt they can whisk the listener to an Arctic place filled with shimmering dark chords and ambience. But like...it's two hours. And they play approximately 3 notes per song. |
| Phantasmagore Insurrection or Submission |
| Pink Try This |
| Pink Funhouse |
| Plasmodium Towers of Silence |
| Plum Green Somnambulistic |
| Polly Fae Earthlight |
| Polyphia Resurrect |
| Poppy Zig |
| Possession1981 Somnambulism |
| Post Malone Stoney |
| Post Malone Hollywood's Bleeding |
| Post Malone Austin |
| Post Malone F-1 Trillion |
| Profane Desecration Abysmal Stillness |
| Psychostick Sandwich |
| Rannoch Reflections Upon Darkness |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Freaky Styley |
| Red Ribbon Planet X |
| Reel Big Fish Candy Coated Fury |
| Revenant Marquis Youth In Ribbons |
| ria Mono No Aware |
| Rusty Cooley Rusty Cooley |
| Rx Bandits Those Damn Bandits |
| Sam Cooke Cooke's Tour |
| Sarcasm (UK) Creeping Life |
| Scree Jasmine on a Night in July |
| Scribble Selected Works 1983–86 |
| Sentinel (USA-NY) Sense Of Dread |
| Septage Septisk Eradikasyon |
| Sequelae Systemic Epilepsis |
| Sheer Mag Playing Favorites |
| Sia This Is Acting |
| Ska-P Planeta Eskoria |
| Ski Mask The Slump God 11th Dimension |
| Skrillex More Monsters and Sprites |
| Skrillex Recess |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone |
| Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter |
| Snarky Puppy Ground UP |
| SOiL Redefine |
| Sonic Youth Sonic Youth |
| SOUL GLO DisNigga Vol. 1 |
| Sour Widows Crossing Over |
| Steve Reich Four Organs/Phase Patterns |
| Still Corners The Last Exit |
| Stygian Crown Stygian Crown |
| Suho Meso An Important Message to Every Man and Woman in Ame |
| Swamp Witch The Slithering Bog |
| Sylosis Monolith |
| Takatak Acrophase |
| Talk Talk The Party's Over |
| Tanukichan Sundays |
| Tate McRae I Used to Think I Could Fly |
| Taulard Dans La Plaine |
| Taylor Swift Taylor Swift |
| Taylor Swift Fearless |
| Taylor Swift Reputation |
| Taylor Swift Lover |
| Taylor Swift Midnights |
| Taylor Swift The Tortured Poets Department |
| Taylor Swift The Tortured Poets Department (Anthology) |
| Tchornobog Tchornobog |
| Telefon Tel Aviv Map of What Is Effortless |
| Tenacious D Rize of the Fenix |
| Teresa Russell and Cocobilli The Blues is Real |
| Terminal Nation Holocene Extinction |
| Terzij de Horde Self |
| The Armed Perfect Saviors |
| The Black Eyed Peas Elephunk |
| The Black Eyed Peas Monkey Business |
| The Killers Sam's Town |
| The Killers Day & Age |
| The National The National |
| The Offspring Conspiracy of One |
| The Orb Pomme Fritz |
| The Prodigy Invaders Must Die |
| The Reds, Pinks and Purples Inner Richmond |
| The Reds, Pinks and Purples Still Clouds at Noon |
| The Reds, Pinks and Purples Mountain Lake Park |
| The Sound That Ends Creation Memes, Dreams, And Flying Machines |
| They Hate Change Wish You Were Here... |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Phenomenon |
| Three Knee Deep Three Knee Deep |
| toe That's Another Story |
| Tony Jay Hey There Flower |
| Totally Unicorn High Spirits//Low Life |
| Train Train |
| Train Drops of Jupiter |
| Train My Private Nation |
| Train AM Gold |
| Trivium What the Dead Men Say |
| Turnover Good Nature |
| Turnover Altogether |
| Turnover Myself in the Way |
| Umbra Vitae Shadow of Life |
| Van Morrison Blowin' Your Mind |
| Violet Cold Noir Kid |
| Voices An Audience of Mannequins |
| Water Nymph Water Nymph |
| Weston Super Maim The Neglected Works |
| Xor Xor |
| Yasuaki Shimizu Music for Commercials |
| Yngwie Malmsteen Magnum Opus |
| Yngwie Malmsteen High Impact |
| Zeal and Ardor Zeal and Ardor |
| Zeal and Ardor Wake of a Nation |
| Zeta (VEN) Was It Medicine To You? |
| Some good ideas here and there but this record is far too much of a mess, both conceptually and sonically, to stick the landing |
| Zyanose Why There Grieve? |
