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5.0 classic
311 Music
311 Transistor
Built to Spill Perfect from Now On
Built to Spill When The Wind Forgets Your Name
O'Brother Garden Window
Pile Green and Gray
PUP The Dream Is Over
Thrice Vheissu
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV
Thrice Beggars
Thrice Major/Minor

4.5 superb
311 Live In New Orleans
311 311 Day 2004 - Live In New Orleans
Chevelle NIRATIAS
Pile A Hairshirt of Purpose
Pile All Fiction
PUP PUP
Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance
Thrice Horizons/East
Thrice have demonstrated once again that having their own studio space to experiment and branch out (without the creative input of an outside producer) is where they thrive. Horizons/East at its most inventive moments is unlike anything else being made right now, and make for sublime listening. The album is weighed down by some of the more conventional elements they sometimes lean on (namely the more power chord-driven singles) but the great far outweighs the tame. The production and mixing is on point; this is the best-sounding record they've released. The diversity of their palette, tones familiar and new, is on full display, and it makes for a breathtaking experience.

4.0 excellent
311 Grassroots
311 Uplifter
311 Mosaic
A really great smattering of the many versatile styles 311 is capable of. The album is marred somewhat by some collaborations with John Feldmann which mixes like oil with the water of the rest of the songs, but the musicianship and songwriting on display is truly remarkable. 'Stereolithic' was hailed by some as a return to form but after Mosaic it's clear it was more of a sign of things to come.
Built to Spill You in Reverse
O'Brother Endless Light
Pile Magic Isn't Real
Sum 41 Does This Look Infected?
Sum 41 Chuck
Thrice The Illusion of Safety
Trust Company Dreaming In Black and White

3.5 great
311 From Chaos
311 311
311 Soundsystem
Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret
Built to Spill There Is No Enemy
Built to Spill Untethered Moon
Pile Jerk Routine
Pile Dripping

3.0 good
311 Evolver
311 Omaha Sessions
311 Don't Tread On Me
Built to Spill Ancient Melodies of the Future
Elder (USA-MA) Innate Passage
Menomena The Insulation EP
It's exciting that Menomena might be back in the game, however the first two songs here, while solid, are B-sides from Mines, and the third track (the only new one) is really pretty weak.
Pile You're Better Than This
PUP Morbid Stuff
PUP The Unraveling of PUPTheBand
PUP goes all in on gang vocals and really intricate guitar work, which is all unfortunately muddled by really awful engineering and production.
Queens of the Stone Age In Times New Roman...
The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound
Thrice Identity Crisis

2.0 poor
311 Voyager
With both Mosaic and, to a lesser extent, Stereolithic, 311 has teetered on the edge between bland generic poppy bullshit and some truly brilliant songwriting and musicianship, so it's disappointing that they've slidden down the hill of the generic side of things a bit with this release. There are a few glimpses of that same brilliance but they are fewer, further between, and less radiant that they were on their other two releases. Here's hoping for the next one they drop Feldman and focus on what they're actually good at -- groovy jams that meld equal parts reggae and rock and funk, with percussive (not melodic) lyrics and, punchy drums, spacey guitar tones.
Queens of the Stone Age Villains
Spoon Lucifer on the Sofa
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