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Average Rating: 3.60
Rating Variance: 0.71
Objectivity Score: 75%
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5.0 classic
Mae The Everglow
Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun

4.5 superb
A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms
Cinematic Sunrise A Coloring Story Book And A Long-Playing
Side projects tend to usually rock. In Chiodos? case they do more than that in that they take the aspect of the beautiful vampire?s 18 year old hot and sexy sister. Yeah, let?s just say i was blown away.
We?ve got more melodic, more happy, more poppy and more emotion with creative creations, like the pit-er pat-er on the rooftop, but mostly just that 18 year old beautiful hot sexy sister.
Cinematic Sunrise grows from melodies built on piano, to smashing drums and riffs that make that too early sunrise quite cinematic? but really, don?t wake up that early again, just listen to Cinematic Sunrise.
So go ahead, break out the crayons and color that emo vampire you?ve always thought was hot; but be careful, you just might get bitten at sunrise.
Dead Letter Circus Next In Line
Idiot Pilot Wolves
Lily Allen It's Not Me, It's You
Los Campesinos! Hold On Now, Youngster...
This is what music should sould like. It�s feisty, raw and emotional but yet melodic. It�s weird but very very creative. Los Campesinos! set a new level for creativity with many instruments and singers which culminate their musical dance like Tinkerbell on speed.
I love how both Gareth and Aleksandra get aggressive and it�s like we�re included into their discussions on life, love, happiness and of course hornyness (including everything else too).
Take Welsh singers from their mines throw in some Madison Greene and put them in 2010; Los Campesinos! (but of course you have to be accelerated readers and never leave the house.)
Even the lyrical construction is raw and emotion and that�s how LC! will flipping blow your socks off, so c�mon, get up, shake those socks off; It�s You! Me! Dancing!
M83 Saturdays=Youth
Mates of State Re-Arrange Us
From the Wicker Park Soundtrack these guys arrived kicking and swinging and became instant hits in my world, like most everything else on that album.
With Re-Arrange Us there’s completely a grown up cleaner and more full sound, though no loss of experimentation. They use effective piano, egg shakers, violin guitars orange juice and vodka which they then shake and consume creating fantastic mind explosions. Mix Imogen Heap with some Jimmy Eat World if you want to get technical on me.
It seems that Male/Female vocal duos are becoming more and more amazing these days, then again maybe they’re mates from MY state. HA! Yeah right! Whatever their deal is, they should be rocking the apostrophe.
Mutemath Mutemath
Portishead Dummy
Shiny Toy Guns We Are Pilots
Shiny Toy Guns Season of Poison
Shugo Tokumaru Exit
Sigur Ros Takk...
Sunny Day Real Estate The Rising Tide
The Classic Crime Seattle Sessions
The Classic Crime The Silver Cord

4.0 excellent
1997 On The Run
A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step
Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha
Bat For Lashes Fur and Gold
Bedouin Soundclash Street Gospels
Crystal Castles Crystal Castles
Emiliana Torrini Me and Armini
Leeland Opposite Way
Los Campesinos! Sticking fingers Into Sockets
Moby Play
PlayRadioPlay! Texas
Being from Texas is already climbing out of a hole, though i guess it’s more of a step for the fantastic playradioplay! With electroinic mixes, divy in some mixes and loops and grab some wonderful vocals and second year senior lyrics from Danny Hunter (the brain of prp!), you’ll be on the thursday night bull ride at the club till 2am. Don’t get me wrong, if that’s not a brain thrill for you then take a sit back, listen to, “i’m a pirate you’re a princess…” [if you're quick enough to notice they switch from 3/4 time to 4/4 mid song], you’ll be pretty much lulled into the idea that even courtney would love us, orr that you’re a real princess and i’m arrrg.
With their sophomore release, there’s hearty lyrics like a good delicious soup your mother made that one time back on that glorious sunday afternoon, as you stared into the evening fire you built with your boyscout skillz. yadda yadda.
Ratatat LP3
Sufjan Stevens Michigan
Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans
Switchfoot Learning To Breathe
The Morning Of The World As We Know It
Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend
Here?s something out of a cult classic vampire movie, though you knew that was coming.
Basically if you took Bob Marley, grew him up in San Diego in the middle of a MxPx concert and told him to record his thoughts and musical tastes he most likely would produce something along the lines of Vampire Weekend, though then again, maybe not, but you can surely tell that these guys have grown up on Marley, weed and classic movies.
You would think they suck from this review and that the genre is too mixed up, but these kids do for music what Che Guevara did for Latin America. Viva a Bloody Vampire weekend!! yum.

3.5 great
Black Moth Super Rainbow Dandelion Gum
Breathe Carolina It's Classy Not Classic
Cobra Starship ¡Viva La Cobra!
Cute Is What We Aim For Rotation
Dntel Dumb Luck
Imogen Heap Speak For Yourself
Jem Down to Earth
Katy Perry One of the Boys
Radiohead In Rainbows
Soundtrack (Film) Across the Universe
Thursday/Envy Thursday/Envy

3.0 good
Charlotte Sometimes Charlotte Sometimes
I’m reminded of Jefferson Cross emo pre-businessman, road trip 2005 across New Zealand, with Ashley Simpson blaring, and there he “sits,” completely rocking out and singing every word at the top of his lungs with her.
Okay Charlotte Sometimes isn’t Ashley, but she’s for sure a rocker with sweet mature lyrics and yeah i gave her a listen and was drawn in cause she’s pretty hot.
It’s a quick listen with only three tracks, however she’s sure to release a full record soon. Despite the shortness we get some fast kisses and even run around the bases before we’re threw and already getting jealous.
Maybe Charlotte, maybe sometimes, maybe the 16 year old girl in all of us. Maybe not. Whatever the case, this one here’s for you Jeffy.
Days of the New Days of the New II
Joy Electric Grandfather, The Cubist
LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver
Lights Out Asia Eyes Like Brontide
Maps We Can Create
mum Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy
Nirvana In Utero
Panda Bear Person Pitch
Panic! at the Disco Pretty. Odd.
Stone Temple Pilots Thank You
Sufjan Stevens Songs For Christmas

2.5 average
Bjork Volta
Family Force 5 Dance or Die
MGMT Oracular Spectacular
The New Pornographers Mass Romantic
The Smashing Pumpkins Zeitgeist
The Verve Pipe The Verve Pipe

2.0 poor
Anberlin New Surrender
Candlebox Into the Sun
Haste the Day Dreamer
Ra Black Sun
Rise Against Appeal to Reason
Stone Temple Pilots Shangri-La-Dee-Da

1.5 very poor
Collective Soul Blender
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