| 4.0 excellent |
| 40 Watt Sun Perfect Light |
| 65daysofstatic One Time for All Time |
| Aesop Rock Integrated Tech Solutions |
| AFI Crash Love |
| AFI Sing the Sorrow |
| AFI Black Sails in the Sunset |
| AFI AFI (The Blood Album) |
| AFI Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes |
| AFI All Hallow's E.P. |
| AFI The Missing Man |
| AFI Bodies |
| Alcest Kodama |
| Alcest Shelter |
| Alcest Spiritual Instinct |
| Alex Banks Tephra EP |
| Alfa Mist Antiphon |
| Alkaline Trio Crimson |
| Alvvays Blue Rev |
| American Football American Football (LP3) |
| Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession |
| Anberlin Cities |
| Anberlin Lowborn |
| Anberlin Vital |
| Anberlin Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place |
| Andrew Peterson Resurrection Letters: Vol.1 |
| Andy Stott Luxury Problems |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion |
| Animals As Leaders Parrhesia |
| First impressions: lower on the headache scale than their previous record. |
| Anthony Green Would You Still Be In Love |
| Antiguo Joy |
| Arcane Roots Melancholia Hymns |
| Arcane Roots Blood and Chemistry |
| Arcane Roots Landslide EP |
| As Cities Burn Hell or High Water |
| As Real Marveless |
| This really nails it for me on a number of levels. Firstly, the shoegaze elements bring a depth of texture. But when it comes to heavy music, I also really value rhythmic complexity. I was thinking how this album reminds me of Lantlos - Melting Sun, particularly in the vocal department. I like that album but find that the simplistic rhythm section puts a cap on how I can gush about it. This album, by contrast, keeps me on my toes, rhythmically. That's partly due to a djent element here but the accompanying guitar tone is more rooted in shoegaze fuzz than in... whatever obnoxious tone djent is typically associated with. So yes, the rhythms are choppy. Yet unlike Car Bomb, the songs retain a sense of cohesion, and the rhythms have a sense of feel and groove rather than mathematically generated randomness. To top it off, the vocals bring a melodic release that makes the abrasive nature of the music less fatiguing. The vocals are also perfectly placed in the mix and avoid being too washed out - something I can struggle with in some shoegaze. Great stuff. |
| Astronoid Astronoid |
| Astronoid Air |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| At the Drive-In in•ter a•li•a |
| Autechre Tri Repetae |
| Autechre SIGN |
| Autechre PLUS |
| Autechre Oversteps |
| Azusa Heavy Yoke |
| Baroness Purple |
| Bathe Alone Last Looks |
| Beach House 7 |
| Beach House Bloom |
| Bella Wolf Bella Wolf |
| Gorgeous jazz with light elements of prog rock. A well developed sense of feel carries organic grooves through the length of the record. |
| Ben Howard Noonday Dream |
| Ben Lukas Boysen Mirage |
| Beyonce Lemonade |
| Beyonce Renaissance |
| Beyonce Cowboy Carter |
| Binker Golding Abstractions of Reality Past and Incredible... |
| Bisk Vacation Package |
| Black Peaks Statues |
| Black Thought Streams of Thought, Vol. 1 |
| Black Thought Streams Of Thought, Vol. 2 |
| Black Thought Streams of Thought, Vol. 3: Cane and Abel |
| Blaqk Audio Material |
| Blaqk Audio Only Things We Love |
| Blaqk Audio Trop d'amour |
| Blocks and Escher Something Blue |
| Bo Burnham Inside (The Songs) |
| Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver |
| Brandi Carlile By the Way, I Forgive You |
| Brandi Carlile In These Silent Days |
| C.A.R. (GER) Look Behind You |
| Caligula's Horse In Contact |
| Caligula's Horse Rise Radiant |
| Carly Rae Jepsen The Loneliest Time |
| Caroline Polachek Desire, I Want To Turn Into You |
| Causa Sui Szabodelico |
| Cave In Jupiter |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise |
| Circa Survive The Amulet |
| Circa Survive Descensus |
| Circa Survive A Dream About Love |
| Cloudkicker Solitude |
| Coast Coast |
| Cocteau Twins Heaven or Las Vegas |
| Conjurer (UK) Mire |
| Copeland Ixora |
| Copeland Blushing |
| Count to Altek Movements In Synthetic Rhythm |
| Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear |
| Cult of Luna Salvation |
| Cult of Luna The Raging River |
| Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway |
| Cult of Luna The Long Road North |
| Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas Mariner |
| Cykada Cykada |
| Blistering jazz-rock with spacey tones and grooves aplenty. |
| Cynic Traced In Air Remixed |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars |
| David Bowie Blackstar |
| David Bowie Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) |
| David Bowie Young Americans |
| David Bowie "Heroes" |
| David Douglas Escapism |
| Dawnwalker House of Sand |
| Deftones White Pony |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
| Deftones Gore |
| Deftones Ohms |
| Deserta Black Aura My Sun |
| Deserta Every Moment, Everything You Need |
| Dirge (FR) Lost Empyrean |
| Dirge (FR) Hyperion |
| downy Mudai (7) |
| downy Mudai (3) |
| Dreamcar DREAMCAR |
| dredg El Cielo |
| dredg Catch Without Arms |
| dredg Chuckles and Mr. Squeezy |
| Duran Duran Rio |
| Dustin Kensrue Desert Dreaming |
| Dvne Asheran |
| Dvne Omega Severer |
| Dvne Etemen Ænka |
| Dvne Voidkind |
| Ego Ella May Honey For Wounds |
| Elder (USA-MA) Innate Passage |
| Elder (USA-MA) Omens |
| Elephant Tree Habits |
| Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road |
| Emarosa 131 |
| Emarosa Peach Club |
| Emarosa Sting |
| Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail |
| Emery You Were Never Alone |
| Emery We Do What We Want |
| Emery Eve |
| Emery Revival: Emery Classics Reimagined |
| Emery White Line Fever |
| Empty Country Empty Country II |
| Ethel Cain Preacher's Daughter |
| Failure Wild Type Droid |
| Fire! Orchestra Arrival |
| Fleet Foxes Shore |
| Floating Points Crush |
| Floex Zorya |
| Frank Ocean channel ORANGE |
| From Indian Lakes Everything Feels Better Now |
| From Indian Lakes Dimly Lit |
| Future of Forestry Twilight |
| Future of Forestry Travel |
| Genesis Owusu Smiling with No Teeth |
| Genghis Tron Dream Weapon |
| Gidge New Light |
| God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
| GoGo Penguin v2.0 |
| Gojira Fortitude |
| Gorillaz Demon Days |
| Gorillaz Plastic Beach |
| Gorillaz Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez |
| Gospel The Loser |
| Harry Styles Harry's House |
| Hashshashin nihsahshsaH |
| Hashshashin Badakhshan |
Carefully executed prog/psychedelia that
thematically and melodically draws from middle
eastern culture and spiritually. The auditory
equivalents of desert sand and temple incense
float through the listener's senses as jolty
prog riffs and loose, almost jazzy drumming
take one on a trip to transcendence. |
| Hatchie Keepsake |
| Hatchie Giving the World Away |
| Hayden Thorpe Diviner |
| Hayden Thorpe Moondust for My Diamond |
| Honey Harper Starmaker |
| Hopesfall Arbiter |
| Humanotone A Flourishing Fall in a Grain of Sand |
| Indigo Jam Unit Pirates |
| Intronaut The Direction of Last Things |
| Intronaut Fluid Existential Inversions |
| Intronaut Habitual Levitations |
| Intronaut Valley of Smoke |
| Intronaut Prehistoricisms |
| Intronaut Void |
| INVSN Let the Night Love You |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant |
| ISIS Panopticon |
| ISIS In the Absence of Truth |
| Ital Tek Hollowed |
| Ital Tek Dream Boundary |
| Jakub Zytecki Nothing Lasts, Nothing's Lost |
| James Blake Overgrown |
| Jardin de la Croix Circadia |
| Jeff Buckley Grace (Legacy Edition) |
| Jessie Ware What's Your Pleasure? |
| Joe Armon-Jones Turn To Clear View |
| Joe Armon-Jones and Maxwell Owin Idiom |
| Jon Hopkins Immunity |
| Jon Hopkins Singularity |
| Josh Johnson Freedom Exercise |
| Kate Bush Hounds of Love |
| Kauan Sorni Nai |
| Kauan Kaiho |
| Kauan Ice Fleet |
| Kauan Aava Tuulen Maa |
| Kinkajous Being Waves |
| L.S. Dunes Past Lives |
| La Dispute Wildlife |
| La Dispute Rooms of the House |
| La Dispute Panorama |
| Lantlos Melting Sun |
| Lantlos Wildhund |
| Lapalux Amnioverse |
| Laura Mvula Pink Noise |
| Leon III Antlers in Velvet |
| Leprous Pitfalls |
| Leprous Aphelion |
| Let Spin Steal The Light |
| Lin-Manuel Miranda Hamilton - Original Broadway Cast |
| Little Simz Grey Area |
| Little Simz Sometimes I Might Be Introvert |
| Lo Moon Lo Moon |
| Lorde Melodrama |
| Lost Horizons In Quiet Moments |
| LowCityRain LowCityRain |
| Lunch Money Life Immersion Chamber |
| Mac Miller Circles |
| Magdalena Bay Mercurial World |
| Mammal Hands Shadow Work |
| Mammal Hands Becoming |
| Mammal Hands Captured Spirits |
| Manchester Orchestra The Million Masks of God |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine |
| Mastodon Hushed and Grim |
| Max Cooper Emergence |
| Max Cooper Yearning for the Infinite |
| Max Cooper One Hundred Billion Sparks |
| Max Cooper World Passing By |
| Max Cooper Unspoken Words |
| mewithoutYou A to B: Life |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister |
| mewithoutYou Ten Stories |
| mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright! |
| mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes |
| mewithoutYou Pale Horses |
| mewithoutYou [untitled] e.p. |
| mewithoutYou [Untitled] |
| Michael Diamond Third Culture LP |
| Miley Cyrus Endless Summer Vacation |
| Milio (NL) Nachtzon |
| Moses Sumney grae |
| Moster! Dust Breathing |
| Mouse On The Keys An Anxious Object |
| Mutemath Reset |
| Nerija NÉRIJA EP |
| Nerija Blume |
| Groovy, upbeat jazz jams. Nothing too abrasive or jarringly experimental, just musicians in the flow. |
| Neurosis Fires Within Fires |
| Night Verses From the Gallery of Sleep |
| Nine Inch Nails Year Zero |
| Nine Inch Nails Ghosts V: Together |
| Nothing The Great Dismal |
| Noya Rao Icaros |
| Noya Rao Owls |
| Nu:Tone Little Spaces |
Hard-hitting, glossy drum and bass. Tasteful features throughout. Replay value is holding up.
Worth a check, Sput. 'Shelter' is a good song to sample. |
| O'Brother Endless Light |
| O'Brother You and I |
| Olivia Rodrigo Sour |
| Bop after bop. Wanna hurt whoever broke this girl's heart. Man up, lad. |
| Our Oceans Our Oceans |
| Our Oceans While Time Disappears |
| Pain of Salvation The Perfect Element, Part 1 |
| Pain of Salvation Remedy Lane |
| Pain of Salvation Be |
| Pain of Salvation Scarsick |
| Pain of Salvation BE Live (DVD) |
| Pain of Salvation One Hour by the Concrete Lake |
| Pain of Salvation Linoleum |
| Pain of Salvation Road Salt Two |
| Pain of Salvation Panther |
| Palm Reader Braille |
| Paper Route Absence |
| Parannoul To See the Next Part of the Dream |
| Parannoul After The Magic |
| Pelican Nighttime Stories |
| Pelican City of Echoes |
| Pelican Australasia |
| Pendulum Hold Your Colour |
| Pendulum Immersion |
| Perry Blake California |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Wait For Love |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Drift |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Keep You |
| Pijn and Conjurer Curse These Metal Hands |
| Rips. Brutal, beautiful. Check this even if you're not a metalhead (I'm not). |
| Plaid Polymer |
| Polyenso Pure In The Plastic |
| Protomartyr Formal Growth in the Desert |
| R.A.P. Ferreira purple moonlight pages |
| Radio Supernova Takaisin |
| RAYE My 21st Century Blues |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication |
| Relient K Forget and Not Slow Down |
| Relient K The Bird and the Bee Sides |
| Rival Consoles Persona |
| Rival Consoles Articulation |
| Rival Consoles Now Is |
| Riverside Love, Fear and the Time Machine |
| Rob Clouth Zero Point |
| Rosetta Terra Sola |
| Rosetta Utopioid |
| Rubio Mango Negro |
| RUFUS DU SOL Solace |
| I'm sure that anyone actually into electronic music would shudder at this. But damn if my basic taste doesn't dig these poppy, ethereal dance tracks. |
| Russian Circles Memorial |
| Russian Circles Blood Year |
| Saint DX SDX |
Shazam'd a track from this while in H&M buying jeans. If that
backstory doesn't put you off, give this sweet EP a go. Turns out it
wasn't just that one track that was great. Smooth, 80s vibe with
poppin' bass lines. |
| Saosin Along the Shadow |
| Saosin Translating the Name |
| Screamarts Endless Journey Inwards |
| Sharon Van Etten We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong |
| Shy, low Snake Behind The Sun |
| Sia 1000 Forms Of Fear |
| Sigur Ros Takk... |
| Slowdive Slowdive (LP) |
| Slowdive Everything is Alive |
| Snarky Puppy Culcha Vulcha |
| Solstafir Endless Twilight of Codependent Love |
| Sophia Loizou Untold |
| Submotile Sonic Day Codas |
| Sweet Trip A Tiny House, In Secret Speeches, Polar Equals |
| Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends |
| Tame Impala Currents |
| Tame Impala The Slow Rush |
| Taylor Swift 1989 |
| Taylor Swift Lover |
| Taylor Swift Folklore |
| Taylor Swift Evermore |
| Taylor Swift Midnights |
| Taylor Swift The Tortured Poets Department |
| Taylor Swift The Tortured Poets Department (Anthology) |
| Tears for Fears Songs from the Big Chair |
| Tears for Fears The Tipping Point |
| The Antlers Green to Gold |
| The Armed Only Love |
| The Contortionist Clairvoyant |
| The Contortionist Our Bones |
| The Contortionist Language |
| The Cure Pornography |
| The Cure Wish |
| The Dangerous Summer Mother Nature |
| The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum |
| The Dear Hunter Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise |
| The Dear Hunter Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional |
| The Dear Hunter Act III: Life and Death |
| The Dear Hunter Migrant |
| The Dear Hunter All Is As All Should Be |
| The Dear Hunter Act I: The Lake South, the River North |
| The Dear Hunter Antimai |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture |
| The Menzingers Hello Exile |
| The National I Am Easy to Find |
| The National High Violet |
| The National Boxer |
| The National Sleep Well Beast |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me |
| The Ocean Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic |
| The Ocean Fogdiver |
| The Ocean Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic |
| The Ocean Holocene |
| The Receiving End of Sirens Between the Heart and the Synapse |
| The Receiving End of Sirens The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream |
| The Smiths Hatful of Hollow |
| The Weather Station Ignorance |
| Thrice Vheissu |
| Thrice Beggars |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance |
| Thrice Live At The House Of Blues |
| Thrice Major/Minor |
| Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere |
| Thrice Palms |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety |
| Thrice Identity Crisis |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance (Revisited) |
| Thrice Deeper Wells |
| Thrice Horizons/East |
| Thursday No Devolucion |
| Toby Driver They Are the Shield |
| Tom Misch and Yussef Dayes What Kinda Music |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Tool Undertow |
| Tool Fear Inoculum |
| Town Portal Of Violence |
| Don't know why I was so dismissive of this on first go. This is excellent instrumental post-metal. Much better than both the Pelican and Russian Circles releases from 2019. Groovy, mathy, with surprise touches like sax! |
| Triforce 5ive |
| Trophy Scars Astral Pariah |
| Trudge No More Motivation |
| True Peak Limit Carriages |
| Turnover Altogether |
| Turnstile Glow On |
| Two People First Body |
| Two People Second Body |
| Ulver Perdition City |
| Ulver Flowers of Evil |
| Until The Ribbon Breaks A Taste of Silver |
| Until The Ribbon Breaks A Lesson Unlearnt |
| Vennart In The Dead, Dead Wood |
| VOLA Applause of a Distant Crowd |
| VOLA Witness |
| We Never Learned To Live The Sleepwalk Transmissions |
| Well worth a listen for anyone that still hopes for good post hardcore in 2019. Excellent harsh vocals that channel Chino from Deftones, but with enough song-writing sense to not over-rely on them. Good cleans with interesting song structures and sci-fi themed lyricism make this an under-the-radar gem from this year. Their two singles, Android Anaesthetist and Luma Non Luma are good places to start. |
| White Lies Five |
| Year of No Light Consolamentum |
| YOB Atma |
| Young Jesus Welcome to Conceptual Beach |
| Yussef Kamaal Black Focus |
