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5.0 classic
Bon Iver 22, A Million
David Bazan Curse Your Branches
Iron And Wine The Shepherd's Dog
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly
Radiohead OK Computer
Radiohead In Rainbows
Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell

4.5 superb
Ben Howard I Forget Where We Were
Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver
Bon Iver i,i
Dan Mangan Club Meds
Moses Sumney Aromanticism
Moses Sumney grae
Perfume Genius Set My Heart On Fire Immediately
Radiohead Amnesiac
I have come up with an infallibly wise and completely objective slogan for Radiohead's "Kid B" - "Amnesiac: better than Kid A." That, my friends, is called honest advertising.
Radiohead Kid A
Ray LaMontagne Ouroboros
The Decemberists The Crane Wife
The Decemberists The Hazards of Love
The Decemberists. I truly wonder how they manage to pull it off. They make a harpsichord sound right at home with a children?s choir, they make a 3/4 waltz of a song transition seamlessly into a classic rocker and, most importantly, they make an album with as ridiculous of a concept as The Hazards of Love absolutely incredible. An experience only made possible by listening to the album itself and taking the time to articulate the lyrics, The Hazards of Love is an impeccably crafted work of art that manages to transcend its own pretentiousness and ambitions in order to wed narrative and melody. I don?t know how you did it, Colin Meloy, but the world is surely a better place because of it. Good luck topping this one.
The National High Violet
Tiny Ruins Olympic Girls
Westerman Your Hero Is Not Dead

4.0 excellent
Alexisonfire Crisis
Andrew Bird The Mysterious Production Of Eggs
Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha
Andy Shauf The Bearer of Bad News
Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion
Ben Howard Noonday Dream
Blake Mills Mutable Set
Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago
Bright Eyes Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was
Childish Gambino 03.15.20
Christian Lee Hutson Beginners
Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head
Coldplay X&Y
Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
I owe part of my adoration for Viva La Vida to the experiences I associate with listening to the album (which of there are many), but I do not revere the album solely psychologically - Viva La Vida is a potpourri of terrifically produced and composed pop music that succeeds brilliantly on its own even before you even add emotional attachment to the mix. Expanding in every direction possible from 2005's lackluster X & Y, Chris Martin and gang's willingness to deviate and explore new territories (world music, more Radiohead, weird shoegazey, oriental-esque instrumentals) ultimately succeeds in creating what will likely stand as Coldplay's chef-d'oeuvre for many years to come.
Copeland You Are My Sunshine
You Are My Sunshine is unremarkable, but 100% sincere and evocative -- something that is painfully missing from a handful of Copeland's indie-pop contemporaries. An absolute pleasure to listen to.
Crumb (USA-NY) Jinx
Dan Mangan Oh Fortune
Danny Brown uknowhatimsayin¿
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes Shore
Four Tet Pause
Four Tet Dialogue
Hey Rosetta! Seeds
Hey Rosetta! Second Sight
Horse Feathers Words Are Dead
HRVRD From the Bird's Cage
Iron And Wine Our Endless Numbered Days
Iron And Wine Woman King
ISIS Wavering Radiant
Kendrick Lamar DAMN.
Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell!
mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright!
Minus the Bear Planet of Ice
Tranquil and frantic all at once, Planet Of Ice utilizes every trick in the Minus the Bear book of awesome - it has outlandish freakout guitar solos, ambient and soothing interludes and plenty of sex (no euphemisms here, I mean that quite literally). All of Minus the Bear's earlier work hinted that a classic album was not a novel concept for the Seattle band - but now, the concept has been realized, Planet of Ice is absolutely perfect.
Noah Gundersen White Noise
Opeth Watershed
A friend once diagnosed me with "firstalbumitis", a terribly paralyzing condition that renders a listener incapable of loving anything more than the first album he/she heard from any given artist. In my case, this rings true with Opeth. I've heard all the Akerfeldt-glorifying testimonies on Blackwater Park, I've trodded through the murky waters in which Opethian devotees leech on to Still Life and I've even frequented the remote mountain ranges of which where Ghost Reveries-enthusiasts reside, scared of rejection from their peers. But even if Still Life or Blackwater Park are "objectively" the best albums ever - I heard Watershed first and, in my generally irrelevant opinion, it is Opeth's best album. It expands on the melodic side presented on Damnation with 'Burden' and 'Porcelain Heart', it continues the proggy rode taken in Ghost Reveries with 'Hex Omega' and 'The Lotus Eater' and it certainly makes good on the heavy promises made on Deliverance with the absolutely gut-churning 'Heir Apparent.' I honestly believe that Watershed is the sound of Opeth coming full circle with their sound and creating a masterpiece. Then again, it's also the first Opeth album I heard - the symptoms of firstalbumitis may have simply made me delusional.
Phoebe Bridgers Punisher
Polyenso Pure In The Plastic
Radiohead Hail to the Thief
Ray LaMontagne God Willin' & The Creek Don't Rise
Sufjan Stevens Illinois
Sufjan Stevens Michigan
Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans
The Decemberists Picaresque
The Decemberists Castaways and Cutouts
The Decemberists The Tain
The Decemberists The King Is Dead
Colin Meloy! Watch him detoxing from a hazardous album of the yesteryear! See him write a celtic song! A country song! An REM song! Hear him and his fabulous Decemberists play sexy tunes on The King is Dead (with 100% less pretense) before you let 2011 get off to a poor start! rAlso, rate the album higher than a four and win the automatic approval of anybody dapper enough to recognise brilliance.
The Decemberists What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World
The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave
The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream
Thom Yorke The Eraser
Thundercat Drunk
Tim Baker Forever Overhead
Tim Baker Survivors
Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation
Yes We Mystic Ten Seated Figures

3.5 great
Alexisonfire Old Crows / Young Cardinals
Anberlin Vital
best birthday present ever
Andrew Bird Music Of Hair
Angel Olsen All Mirrors
As Cities Burn Hell or High Water
As Tall As Lions As Tall As Lions
As Tall As Lions You Can't Take It With You
Billie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
City and Colour Bring Me Your Love
City and Colour Little Hell
As Alexisonfire steadily declines in quality, Dallas Green's solo work simply can't help but be more and more delightful with each release. Little Hell is certainly no exception.
Damien Jurado What's New, Tomboy?
Dan Mangan Nice, Nice, Very Nice
Dan Mangan More or Less
Ellie Goulding Lights
Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
Father John Misty God's Favorite Customer
Field Report Marigolden
Four Tet Rounds
fun. Aim and Ignite
Great Lake Swimmers Lost Channels
Lost Channels will be the same for you the first time you hear and every time after that. It will not grow on you and it probably won't lose any points with repeated listens. What you hear is what you get; banjos, nostalgic production, folk-y Fleet Foxes mimicking. The question for you is, then: will it be love at first sight or will it be be merely a 'like'-affair?
Hayley Williams Petals For Armor I
He Is Legend I Am Hollywood
Horse Feathers House With No Home
Jordan Klassen Tell Me What to Do
Lorde Melodrama
Moses Sumney grae: Part 1
My Brightest Diamond This Is My Hand
Noah Gundersen Lover
Opeth Ghost Reveries
Sharon Van Etten Remind Me Tomorrow
Silversun Pickups Swoon
Silversun Pickups Neck of the Woods
Sufjan Stevens The Ascension
Tame Impala Currents B-Sides and Remixes
Tame Impala The Slow Rush
The Dear Hunter Act III: Life and Death
The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum
The War On Drugs A Deeper Understanding
Thrice Beggars
Tove Lo Queen of the Clouds
Tove Lo Lady Wood
Trespassers William Different Stars
Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety
Vampire Weekend Father Of The Bride

3.0 good
3 (USA) The End is Begun
Anberlin Cities
Finding Anberlin on a creative high, Cities is comfortably precise and exacting. The band's unique combination of soaring vocal melodies, engaging riffs and clever songwriting make up the bulk of what is one of the most stylistically diverse and experimental albums in their niche. But despite Cities tugging on all of the right heartstrings, a cluster of lackluster tracks keep it from being the masterpiece Anberlin record we'd all pretend it is.
Anberlin Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place
It'll be easy for a lot of Anberlin fans who weren't head-over-heels for New Surrender to dismiss
Dark Is the Way, Light is the Place as another mid-tempo'd, half-hearted exercise in sold out pop-rock
balladry but, really, they'd be missing the entire point. See, New Surrender suffered from a suffocating
laziness on the band's behalf; Dark Is the Way does not. By leaving space and truly working together as
a functioning band, Anberlin both accentuate their mid-tempo'd compositions and make the rockin'
numbers even more impressive. I'd reckon, with Dark Is the Way, Anberlin's blown New Surrender
out of the water and jostled the throne Cities sits on a little more convincingly than I would've
expected.
August Burns Red Constellations
Ah, it's a beautiful thing to witness potential finally being realized -- and that's exactly what August Burns Red do with Constellations. Carrying over the positive qualities and disposing of most of the discrepancies on Messengers, August Burns Red manages to make a varied, relatively technical and generally consistent metalcore album. Color me surprised.
Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus
Between the Buried and Me Colors_Live
Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect
Butch Walker Sycamore Meadows
Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion
Carly Rae Jepsen Dedicated
Ellie Goulding Halcyon
Faye Webster Atlanta Millionaires Club
Florence and the Machine Lungs
Four Tet Everything Ecstatic
Four Tet LateNightTales: Four Tet
Four Tet Ringer
Minus the Bear Menos El Oso
Noah Gundersen Carry the Ghost
Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet
Steven Wilson, as whiny and pretentious as ever, tells the sad story of an oversaturated, commercialized American youth broken up by media influence and ultimate boredom - and as immature as the lyrics and concept seemingly get, Wilson gets his "teenaged society in a coma" message across very clearly on Fear of a Blank Planet. Employing a handful of guest musicians, the incredible girth and dynamic of the 17-minute Anesthetize and an array of surprisingly heavy riffs/patterns, Fear of a Blank Planet paints upon an eery canvas an incredibly bleak but ultimately captivating collection of songs that eclipses all of Porcupine Tree's earlier efforts. Oh, and did I mention the positively explosive drumming a la Gavin Harrison? Fan-freaking-tastic.
The Chariot Wars and Rumors of Wars
A pleasantly short brain-beating of a record that provides lots of raw and rough riffs, but little to no differentiation. Not bad at all, Scogin, but a little variation never hurt anybody.
The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading
The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection)
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV
Thrice Major/Minor
A very pleasant surprise. During the infrequent moments on Beggars where I felt there was a little punch missing, this more than makes up for it.
Underoath Define the Great Line
Young the Giant Young the Giant

2.5 average
Anchor and Braille Felt
Becoming The Archetype Terminate Damnation
Underoath Ø (Disambiguation)
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