| 5.0 classic |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral |
| Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger Total Body Workout |
| Arvo Part Tabula Rasa |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| Biffy Clyro Blackened Sky |
| Bjork Homogenic |
| blink-182 Blink-182 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Brand New Daisy |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles |
| David Bowie "Heroes" |
| David Hasselhoff The Very Best Of David Hasselhoff |
| Death Grips Exmilitary |
| Death Grips The Money Store |
| Depeche Mode Songs of Faith and Devotion |
| Die Antwoord $O$ |
| Dinosaur Jr. Bug |
| Dir En Grey Uroboros |
| Dir En Grey completely outdid themselves here. This is an album beyond comparison. One can simply see this when looking at (proper) opening track Vinushka, a NINE-MINUTE opus that takes in every genre the band has played thus far, and transforms it into an outburst of excellent musicianship and emotion. The band have also finally worked out how to mix their Western and Eastern influences perfectly; notice how the band frequently go from brutal metacore freakouts to heavily Visual Kei-esque choruses. That's one thing to also note; how utterly brutal the band have become, not only in terms of heaviness, but in emotional power. The main reason for this is Kyo; even in the tracks he sings in English (Glass Skin and Dozing Green), he is still completely unintelligible. But either when he's singing at a range so high it seems impossible, or freakishly shrieking like a caged animal, every single note that pours out of his mouth sounds utterly devastating. To put it simply, Kyo is one of the most talented singers in ANY genre of ALL time. From it's perfect musicianship, dark atmosphere, wide influences and sheer diversity, I can safely say Uroboros is one of THE finest metal albums of the decade. And I am saying that as one uneducated in metal, with utter confidence. Hats off to you, Dir En Grey. Hats off to you. |
| Enter Shikari Take to the Skies |
| Enter Shikari Common Dreads |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place |
| Faith No More Angel Dust |
| Frankie Goes To Hollywood Welcome to the Pleasuredome |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ |
| Gustav Holst The Planets, Op. 32 |
| Hans Zimmer Inception |
| Husker Du Zen Arcade |
| Iggy Pop The Idiot |
| James Blake James Blake |
| Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid |
| Jeff Buckley Grace |
| Jimmy Eat World Clarity |
| John Coltrane A Love Supreme |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| Kate Bush Hounds of Love |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King |
| Klaxons Myths of the Near Future |
| Lady Gaga Born This Way |
| So, Lady Gaga just released the pop album of the next decade already. Few albums are full of THIS much life, soul and confidence. Both accessible and inaccessible, experimentation is abound, but Lady Gaga's version of pop is still in-your-face, loud and heartfelt. The album of the year. |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin |
| Lil B God's Father |
| Luciano Pavarotti Pavarotti's Greatest Hits |
| Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible |
| Manic Street Preachers Journal For Plague Lovers |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue |
| Miles Davis Bitches Brew |
| Moby Play |
| Moby Destroyed |
| Sprawling and diverse, Destroyed is a work of fragile, tender beauty. Utterly essential |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry |
| Bombastic and over-the-top it might be, but few have made rock music so naturally epic and powerful. Technically brilliant and sizzling with energy |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| New Order Substance |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral |
| Nine Inch Nails The Fragile |
| Nirvana In Utero |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries |
| Philip Glass Glassworks |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon |
| Pink Floyd Animals |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Pixies Doolittle |
| Portishead Third |
| Protest the Hero Kezia |
| Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back |
| Pulp His 'n' Hers |
| Post-punk insired pop about deflowering and sneaking into promiscuous teenage girl's bedrooms that manages to be both sinister and uplifting at the same time. Jarvis is one of the most enigmatic, charismatic, unique and just BRILLIANT singers and frontmen in modern music. No one else is like him. |
| Pulp Different Class |
| Pulp This is Hardcore |
| Queen A Night at the Opera |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf |
| R.E.M. New Adventures in Hi-Fi |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| So powerful it really does hit you at your core. If this is what it feels like in 2011, imagine what the world thought listening to this in 1997. It's almost terrifying |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun |
| Sigur Ros Takk... |
| Slint Spiderland |
| Snow Patrol Eyes Open |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation |
| Sonic Youth Goo |
| Soundgarden Superunknown |
| Sufjan Stevens Michigan |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz |
| Sounds like Amnesiac and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy at the same time. That's an instant classic right there. Incredible on an oh-my-fucking-god level |
| Swans The Seer |
| Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends |
| The Avalanches Since I Left You |
| The Beach Boys Pet Sounds |
| The Beatles Revolver |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| The Clash London Calling |
| The Cure Pornography |
| The Cure Disintegration |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold as Love |
| The King Blues Punk & Poetry |
| The Knife Silent Shout |
| The Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs |
| The Postal Service Give Up |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead |
| The Smiths Hatful of Hollow |
| The Stooges Raw Power |
| The Strokes Is This It |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Underoath Define the Great Line |
| Weezer Pinkerton |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) |
| Yuki Kajiura Puella Magi Madoka Magica Vol 1. |
| Yuki Kajiura Puella Magi Madoka Magica Vol 2 |
| Yuki Kajiura Puella Magi Madoka Magica Vol 3. |
| 4.5 superb |
| A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart |
| AFI Sing the Sorrow |
| Alexisonfire Watch Out! |
| Alexisonfire Crisis |
| Alice in Chains Jar of Flies |
| Alice in Chains Dirt |
| Allo Darlin' Allo Darlin' |
| Mr. Rains is the Media technician in my school, and is one of the few members of staff that can safely be described as a “legend”. His status increased when, one time, we were told he was away because he was “touring with his band”. About a year later and I’m listening to his band’s debut self-titled LP, “Allo Darlin’”. It’s not the most original thing in the world (hell, two lyrics are lifted straight from songs by Weezer and Johnny Cash), but that’s not important. What is important is that it’s some of the cutest, sweetest twee pop you’ll have heard in a long time. Listening to it creates images in my heard of rolling through cornfields in a warm summer day with some cute indie chick in a floral dress, blowing dandelions and kissing in the sunset. One of the best albums of 2010. |
| alt-J An Awesome Wave |
| American Football American Football |
| Andrew W.K. I Get Wet |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album |
| Aphex Twin ...I Care Because You Do |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not |
| At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out |
| Atari Teenage Riot The Future Of War |
| BADBADNOTGOOD BBNG2 |
| Bat For Lashes Fur and Gold |
| Bat For Lashes Two Suns |
| Bat For Lashes The Haunted Man |
| Battles Mirrored |
| Bauhaus In the Flat Field |
| Beastie Boys Check Your Head |
| Beastie Boys Hot Sauce Committee Part Two |
| Beck Odelay |
| Biffy Clyro Infinity Land |
| Bjork Medulla |
| Bjork Debut |
| Black Flag My War |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality |
| Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm |
| Blur Parklife |
| Blur 13 |
| Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase |
| Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Legend |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Vacation |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Brand New Deja Entendu |
| Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It... |
| Burial Untrue |
| Burial Kindred |
| Cap'n Jazz Shmap'n Shmazz |
| Charles Mingus The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady |
| Clint Mansell and Kronos Quartet Requiem for a Dream |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Cream Disraeli Gears |
| Cream Fresh Cream |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles II |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles III |
| Cynic Traced in Air |
| Daft Punk Discovery |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars |
| David Bowie Hunky Dory |
| Deer Leap/The World Is A Beautiful Place... Are Here To Help You |
| Deerhunter Halcyon Digest |
| Deftones White Pony |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist |
| Depeche Mode Violator |
| Depeche Mode Black Celebration |
| Destroyer Kaputt |
| Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me |
| Dinosaur Jr. Farm |
| Dir En Grey Macabre |
| Tricky one this. Quite a radical change from a very radical album. On Macabre, DEG take the experimentations found on Gauze and crank it up tenfold. Every single song is pure experimental metal, be it trippy sludge dirges, creepy sampling, or five-minute vocal choir freakouts that wouldn't be out of place on an anime adaptation of Lord Of The Rings. The songs still possess the same power they did on Gauze, but unfortunately are generally less memorable, not to mention everything after the title track is mostly forgettable (and Taiyou no Ao may be the gayest thing the band has done). However, the sheer experimentalism and dark power of the album still makes it required listening. A flawed masterpiece that could have been a classic |
| Dir En Grey Dum Spiro Spero |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP |
| Faith No More The Real Thing |
| Fall Out Boy Take This to Your Grave |
| Fall Out Boy Infinity on High |
| Fightstar One Day Son This Will All Be Yours |
| Finch Say Hello to Sunshine |
| Foals Antidotes |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape |
| Foo Fighters There Is Nothing Left to Lose |
| Foo Fighters One by One |
| Four Tet Rounds |
| Frank Ocean channel ORANGE |
| Frank Turner Love, Ire & Song |
| Frank Turner England Keep My Bones |
| Fucked Up The Chemistry of Common Life |
| Fucked Up David Comes to Life |
| Fugazi Repeater |
| fun. Aim and Ignite |
| Funeral for a Friend Hours |
| Gallows (UK) Orchestra Of Wolves |
| Gallows (UK) Grey Britain |
| Garbage Garbage |
| Girls Father, Son, Holy Ghost |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute |
| Glasvegas Euphoric Heartbreak |
| Vital. Absolutely vital. Cavernous, unique, heartbreaking and dark, yet absolutely full of life. I can't help but think that this album will be a landmark in British rock |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! |
| Gorillaz Demon Days |
| Green Day Dookie |
| Green Day American Idiot |
| Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard The Dark Knight |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint |
| Jimmy Eat World Bleed American |
| Joanna Newsom Have One on Me |
| Joe Hisaishi Spirited Away |
| Joe Hisaishi Princess Mononoke |
| John Lennon John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band |
| Johnny Cash American IV: The Man Comes Around |
| Joy Division Closer |
| Jun Senoue Sonic Adventure Original Soundtrack |
| Jun Senoue Sonic Adventure 2: Multi-Dimensional Soundtrack |
| Kanye West The College Dropout |
| Kate Bush 50 Words for Snow |
| Koji Kondo The Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary Symphony |
| Kyuss Blues for the Red Sun |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair |
| Lady Gaga The Fame Monster |
| LCD Soundsystem LCD Soundsystem |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II |
| Linkin Park A Thousand Suns |
| Lou Reed Transformer |
| Lou Reed Berlin |
| M83 Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts |
| M83 Before The Dawn Heals Us |
| Malice Mizer Bara no Seidou |
| Bara no Seidou completely demolishes the sound of their previous albums. This is music to be played at Halloween. This is music you'd expect to hear in abandoned churches. THIS is gothic. |
| Manchester Orchestra I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child |
| Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing |
| Manic Street Preachers Everything Must Go |
| Massive Attack Protection |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye |
| Matana Roberts COIN COIN Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres |
| Maximum the Hormone Bu-ikikaesu |
| Few albums are this unique and diverse. The actual music featured isn't terrifically original. What's fantastic is how they manage to smash everything from death metal to cheese-pop into such a chaotic yet controlled frenzy and make it seem so effortless. It's also fun as FUCK. You can tell the band are having a ball; the speed doesn't halt for a second, and the three vocalists go from stupidly fast rapping to death growls within a few seconds.rPure. Fucking. Fun. |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace |
| Metronomy The English Riviera |
| mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes |
| mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright! |
| mewithoutYou Ten Stories |
| Million Dead Harmony No Harmony |
| Mineral The Power of Failing |
| Minor Threat Complete Discography |
| Minor Threat Out of Step |
| Minutemen Double Nickels on the Dime |
| Moby Animal Rights |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West |
| Morrissey Bona Drag |
| Mr. Bungle Mr. Bungle |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade |
| Napalm Death Scum |
| New Order Power, Corruption and Lies |
| New Order Technique |
| Nightwish Dark Passion Play |
| Nightwish Imaginaerum |
| Nine Inch Nails Still |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds |
| Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? |
| Opeth Still Life |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Opeth Heritage |
| OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below |
| OutKast Aquemini |
| Paramore Riot! |
| Patti Smith Horses |
| Pavement Wowee Zowee |
| Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain |
| Pearl Jam Ten |
| Peter Gabriel So |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Old Pride |
| Pierce the Veil A Flair for the Dramatic |
| Pierce the Veil Collide with the Sky |
| Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn |
| Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother |
| PJ Harvey Let England Shake |
| Placebo Without You I'm Nothing |
| Placebo Sleeping with Ghosts |
| Placebo Meds |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet |
| Protest the Hero Fortress |
| Public Image Ltd. Flowers Of Romance |
| Queen Innuendo |
| R.E.M. Automatic for the People |
| Rammstein Mutter |
| Rites of Spring End on End |
| Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy |
| Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols |
| Sigur Ros ( ) |
| Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust |
| Sigur Ros Valtari |
| Siouxsie and the Banshees Juju |
| Skunk Anansie Stoosh |
| Sonic Youth Washing Machine |
| Sonic Youth A Thousand Leaves |
| Soundtrack (Anime) The End Of Evangelion |
| Soundtrack (Film) Pulp Fiction |
| Soundtrack (Film) Trainspotting: Music from the Motion Picture |
| St. Vincent Actor |
| Steven Wilson Insurgentes |
| Steven Wilson Grace for Drowning |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb |
| Sublime Sublime |
| Suede Dog Man Star |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois |
| Sufjan Stevens Silver & Gold |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Diary |
| Taking Back Sunday Louder Now |
| Tears for Fears Songs from the Big Chair |
| Television Marquee Moon |
| Texas Is the Reason Do You Know Who You Are? |
| The Antlers Hospice |
| The Beach Boys Smiley Smile |
| The Beach Boys Surf's Up |
| The Beach Boys The Smile Sessions |
| The Beatles Abbey Road |
| The Beatles The Beatles |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour |
| The Blood Brothers ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn |
| The Clash The Clash (US version) |
| The Clash Sandinista! |
| The Clash The Clash |
| The Cure Bloodflowers |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis |
| The Doors Strange Days |
| The Doors The Doors |
| The Doors Morrison Hotel |
| The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound |
| The Get Up Kids Something to Write Home About |
| The Horrors Primary Colours |
| The Jam Setting Sons |
| The King Blues Save the World, Get the Girl |
| The Kinks The Village Green Preservation Society |
| The Kinks Face to Face |
| The Libertines The Libertines |
| The Rolling Stones Exile on Main St. |
| The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers |
| The Saddest Landscape You Will Not Survive |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
| The Smiths Meat Is Murder |
| The Stooges Fun House |
| The Strokes Angles |
| The Velvet Underground White Light/White Heat |
| The Weeknd House of Balloons |
| The White Stripes Elephant |
| The White Stripes White Blood Cells |
| The Who Tommy |
| The Who Quadrophenia |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Formlessness |
| Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind |
| Thom Yorke The Eraser |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance |
| Thrice Vheissu |
| Thursday A City By the Light Divided |
| Titus Andronicus The Airing of Grievances |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Tori Amos Little Earthquakes |
| Tori Amos From the Choirgirl Hotel |
| TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain |
| Tyler, the Creator Bastard |
| Tyler, the Creator Goblin |
| Tyler is one fucked up kid. This album is dark. Really fucking dark. Fucked up lyrics, a dense, heavy atmosphere, and a plodding beat that somehow works to an amazing extent. Album of the year. Free Earl. Swag swag swag. |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation |
| Weezer Weezer |
| Wire Pink Flag |
| WU LYF Go Tell Fire to the Mountain |
| X Japan Art of Life |
| Yoshihisa Hirano & Hideki Taniuchi Death Note Original Soundtrack |
| Yuck Yuck |
| 4.0 excellent |
| Adele 21 |
| AFI Black Sails in the Sunset |
| AJJ Knife Man |
| Alesana Where Myth Fades to Legend |
| Alexisonfire Alexisonfire |
| Alexisonfire Dog's Blood |
| Alkaline Trio Crimson |
| Anohni and the Johnsons I Am A Bird Now |
| Anohni and the Johnsons The Crying Light |
| Anohni and the Johnsons Swanlights |
| Aphex Twin Come to Daddy |
| Aphex Twin Drukqs |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs |
| Architects Hollow Crown |
| Architects The Here and Now |
| Arctic Monkeys Suck It and See |
| Atari Teenage Riot Is This Hyperreal? |
| Battles Gloss Drop |
| Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique |
| Beastie Boys Ill Communication |
| Biffy Clyro The Vertigo of Bliss |
| Biffy Clyro Puzzle |
| Bjork Post |
| Bjork Vespertine |
| Bjork Volta |
| Bjork Biophilia |
| THIS HAS BEEN RELEASED?! WHY WASN'T I TOLD ORGEDHJOREJHO |
| Black Flag Damaged |
| Black Flag Nervous Breakdown |
| Black Rebel Motorcycle Club B.R.M.C. |
| Black Sabbath Vol. 4 |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State |
| Bloc Party Intimacy |
| Bloc Party Four |
| Blur Modern Life Is Rubbish |
| Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children |
| Boards of Canada Geogaddi |
| Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home |
| Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde |
| Bon Iver Blood Bank |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon |
| Breaking Benjamin Phobia |
| Bright Eyes Fevers & Mirrors |
| Buddy Holly The Chirping Crickets |
| Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret |
| Built to Spill Perfect from Now On |
| Captain Murphy Duality |
| Chasing Victory Fiends |
| Childish Gambino Camp |
| Chiodos Illuminaudio |
| Chumbawamba Anarchy |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise |
| Circa Survive Violent Waves |
| Circle Takes the Square Rites of Initiation |
| Cloud Nothings Attack on Memory |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow |
| Coldplay Parachutes |
| Converge When Forever Comes Crashing |
| Converge No Heroes |
| Converge Axe to Fall |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind |
| Cursive Domestica |
| Cursive The Ugly Organ |
| Cynic Carbon-Based Anatomy |
| Daft Punk Homework |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain |
| Dance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin Dance |
| Dance Gavin Dance Happiness |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain II |
| Danny Brown XXX |
| David Bowie The Man Who Sold the World |
| David Bowie Low |
| David Byrne and St. Vincent Love This Giant |
| Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables |
| Deaf Havana Meet Me Halfway, At Least |
| Deaf Havana Fools And Worthless Liars |
| Deaf Havana's debut album caused quite a stir in the Britrock scene, and for a good reason, their youthful and melodic take on Alexisonfire-meets-Every Time I Die post-hardcore being a joy to listen to. But after the departure of screamer Ryan Mellor, the band have toned their sound to something surprisingly unique and mature. James Veck-Gilodi's soulful croon brings to mind Jonny Craig from Dance Gavin Dance, yearning out passionate lyrics drenched in a cynicism Morrissey would be proud of, to the tune of guitar lines that sound like You Me At Six covering U2. Lacking in filler, this album should bring Deaf Havana up into the big leagues. Until then, this is testament to the talents of one of the UK's most promising bands. |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism |
| Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs |
| Death From Above 1979 You're a Woman, I'm a Machine |
| Death Grips No Love Deep Web |
| Deer Leap Here. Home. |
| Defeater Travels |
| Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
| Depeche Mode Playing The Angel |
| Depeche Mode Music for the Masses |
| Depeche Mode Some Great Reward |
| Depeche Mode The Best Of - Volume I |
| Destroyer Destroyer's Rubies |
| Die Antwoord Ten$ion |
| Dir En Grey Vulgar |
| Vulgar marked another change of direction for Dir En Grey's style, as this is a much more Westernised album. Vulgar sees the band pursuing a more metalcore/nu-metal style. This means there is much less emotional power to be found in the music; it is appealing more in its general musicianship. There is still a dark, creepy atmosphere to be had, but the sheer diversity the band once had to offer is now almost vanished; a lot of the songs blend too much into each other, and there are a lot less memorable moments. However, there is still the dark, creepy atmosphere commonplace in the band's music, and Obscure and Child Prey rank among the band's best songs. It is also nice to know that even when the band is following Western trends, they still manage to do it far better than those they are copying. |
| Dir En Grey Withering to Death |
| With Withering To Death, Dir En Grey took the Western style found on Vulgar, and add a style more reminiscent of their Visual Kei beginnings. The heaviness is still here, but what's nice is that Dir En Grey have found their own sound in this, with their own unique guitar tunings that add a creepy, emotional edge. The emotional edge is increased with the more melodic choruses that are much more influenced by their native country's style (The Final is a good example). Add in Kyo's best vocals yet, and Withering To Death is the band's best album since Gauze. |
| Dir En Grey Kisou |
| For the band, Kisou is a bit of a regression from Macabre. It shows less of the skill the band possesses in terms of instrumentation and there is a lot less experimentalism around; some would say Kisou is their most "straightforward" album. Kisou makes up for this by making it the most personal album the band has recorded. The songs carry more emotional power than before, and you can tell from the delicate, discomforting melodies, electronic tinges and, of course, Kyo's voice. Kisou may be the band's most generic album, but it carries a deadlier emotional punch than ever before. |
| Dir En Grey Gauze |
| Gauze, Dir En Grey's debut, is easily the most "poppy", glam-influenced album the band have made, and still manages to be inaccessible. While there's no doubt every album they have made is diverse in the music, Gauze is extremely unpredictable, ranging from extreme metal freakouts (Zan), to Visual Kei perfection (Yuramakei), to epic hard rock (Akura No Oka). Yet one thing is consistent, as with all of their albums; their sheer power of the music on offer. Even the cheesiest of songs on here (Yokan) still has a lot to offer in terms of emotional weight, skill and, of course, the beauty that is Kyo's voice. As a band, Dir En Grey are almost flawless |
| Dir En Grey The Marrow of a Bone |
| The Marrow Of A Bone is easily the most controversial album Dir En Grey has released yet, and it's easy to see why. It's the most Westernised, and heavily influenced by modern metal acts that don't exactly recieve the same acclaim Dir En Grey recieves. But the band play this Western music with a passion that is commonly unheard of in the genre. This album is indeed a step back from Withering To Death, in that almost all of the Japanese influences have disappeared (except for the language of course), but they play the genre better than any of their Western contemporaries. Generic it may be; unpassionate it certainly is not. |
| Dizzee Rascal Boy In Da Corner |
| Drake Take Care |
| Earl Sweatshirt EARL |
| Eels Beautiful Freak |
| Elliott Smith Figure 8 |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP |
| Eminem The Eminem Show |
| Eminem Recovery |
| Guess who's back? Back again? Shady's back! Tell a friend! |
| Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) What It Takes to Move Forward |
| Enter Shikari A Flash Flood of Colour |
| Esben and the Witch Violet Cries |
| Eurythmics Touch |
| Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives |
| Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True |
| Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors |
| Faith No More King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree |
| Far Water & Solutions |
| Feeder Polythene |
| Fightstar They Liked You Better When You Were Dead |
| Fightstar Grand Unification |
| Fightstar Be Human |
| Finch What It Is to Burn |
| Florence and the Machine Lungs |
| Florence and the Machine Ceremonials |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma |
| Flying Lotus Until the Quiet Comes |
| Foals Total Life Forever |
| Foo Fighters Foo Fighters |
| Four Tet There is Love in You |
| Frank Ocean Nostalgia, Ultra. |
| Frankie and The Heartstrings Hunger |
| Fucked Up Hidden World |
| Fucked Up Year of the Ox |
| Fucked Up Year of the Pig |
| Fucked Up Year of the Tiger |
| Fugazi The Argument |
| Fugazi 13 Songs |
| Fugazi Red Medicine |
| Funeral for a Friend Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation |
| Funeral for a Friend Seven Ways To Scream Your Name |
| Funeral for a Friend Tales Don't Tell Themselves |
| Gary Numan The Pleasure Principle |
| Girls Album |
| Girls' Generation Girls' Generation (JP Release) |
| Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles) |
| Glasvegas Glasvegas |
| Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere |
| GOOD Music Cruel Summer |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz |
| Gorillaz Plastic Beach |
| Grace Jones Nightclubbing |
| Green Day Insomniac |
| Grey Daze No Sun Today |
| Grimes Visions |
| HEALTH Get Color |
| Hercules and Love Affair Blue Songs |
| Hikaru Utada Exodus |
| Hikaru Utada Deep River |
| Hikaru Utada Ultra Blue |
| Hikaru Utada Heart Station |
| How to Destroy Angels How To Destroy Angels |
| How to Destroy Angels An Omen |
| How to Dress Well Total Loss |
| HyunA Bubble Pop! |
| iamamiwhoami Kin |
| Iggy Pop Lust For Life |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself |
| Interpol Antics |
| Interpol Our Love to Admire |
| Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death |
| James Vincent McMorrow Early In The Morning |
| James Vincent McMorrow took the Bon Iver route on recording his debut album, by locking himself away in a log cabin. The result, Early In The Morning, is a brooding, sparse record of frankly wonderful folk music. His voice is remarkable, sometimes sounding close to Antony And The Johnsons, as it trembles and wavers across the dark, lush instrumentation, which creates powerful, lonely soundscapes. What's better is that this only shows the potential McMorrow has. He's definitely one to watch. |
| Jamie Woon Mirrorwriting |
| Jamie xx Far Nearer / Beat For |
| Japandroids Post-Nothing |
| Japandroids Celebration Rock |
| Jay-Z The Black Album |
| Jay-Z Reasonable Doubt |
| Jay-Z and Kanye West Watch the Throne |
| Jeff Rosenstock I Look Like Shit |
| Jessie Ware Devotion |
| Jimmy Eat World Futures |
| Jimmy Eat World Chase This Light |
| Jimmy Eat World Invented |
| John Lennon Imagine |
| Johnny Cash The Essential Johnny Cash |
| Johnny Cash American V: A Hundred Highways |
| Johnny Cash American III: Solitary Man |
| Johnny Cash American VI: Ain't No Grave |
| Joy Division Substance |
| Jun Senoue Shadow the Hedgehog Soundtrax |
| Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds |
| Kanye West Late Registration |
| Kendrick Lamar Section.80 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city |
| Kid Cudi Man on the Moon: The End of Day |
| Kids in Glass Houses Smart Casual |
| Kitty Ha Ha, I'm Sorry |
| Klaxons Surfing the Void |
| Korn Korn |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak |
| Kyuss Welcome to Sky Valley |
| L'arc-en-Ciel True |
| L'arc-en-Ciel Ray |
| L'arc-en-Ciel Real |
| L'arc-en-Ciel Smile |
| La Dispute Wildlife |
| Lana Del Rey Born to Die |
| Lana Del Rey Paradise |
| LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver |
| LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV |
| letlive. Fake History |
| Lil B Rain In England |
| Lil B I'm Gay (I'm Happy) |
| Lil B The Basedprint 2 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory EP |
| Linkin Park Living Things |
| Lou Reed Rock 'n' Roll Animal |
| M83 Saturdays=Youth |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming |
| Madina Lake From Them, Through Us, To You |
| Madness Complete Madness |
| Madvillain Madvillainy |
| Magazine Real Life |
| Malice Mizer Merveilles |
| Merveilles improves on Voyage by slowly removing the pop sheen to add much darker elements. A must for anyone interested in Visual Kei, or Japanese rock in general |
| Man Overboard Real Talk |
| Manchester Orchestra Simple Math |
| Manic Street Preachers Forever Delayed |
| Manic Street Preachers Gold Against The Soul |
| Manic Street Preachers Know Your Enemy |
| Manic Street Preachers Generation Terrorists |
| Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar |
| Marilyn Manson Mechanical Animals |
| Marvin Gaye What's Going On |
| Massive Attack Blue Lines |
| Massive Attack Heligoland |
| Massive Attack vs. Burial Four Walls/Paradise Circus |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain |
| Metronomy Nights Out |
| mewithoutYou A to B: Life |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister |
| MGMT Congratulations |
| Michael Andrews Donnie Darko |
| Michael Jackson Thriller |
| Middle Class Rut No Name No Color |
| Million Dead A Song to Ruin |
| Mineral EndSerenading |
| Minor Threat Minor Threat |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica |
| Modest Mouse Sad Sappy Sucker |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About |
| Modest Mouse No One's First, and You're Next |
| Morrissey Viva Hate |
| Morrissey Southpaw Grammar |
| Morrissey You Are the Quarry |
| Morrissey Your Arsenal |
| Morrissey Vauxhall and I |
| Motion City Soundtrack Commit This to Memory |
| Mount Kimbie Crooks & Lovers |
| Muse Absolution |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations |
| Napalm Death From Enslavement to Obliteration |
| Nas Illmatic |
| New Order Low-Life |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Let Love In |
| Niechec Smierc w Miekkim Futerku |
| Nightwish Once |
| Nightwish Century Child |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth |
| Nine Inch Nails Year Zero |
| Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IV |
| Nirvana Bleach |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York |
| Nirvana Nirvana |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York (DVD) |
| Oasis Definitely Maybe |
| OFWGKTA The OF Tape Vol. 2 |
| Orgy Candyass |
| Paramore All We Know Is Falling |
| Paramore Brand New Eyes |
| Patti Smith Easter |
| Perfume Genius Learning |
| Perfume Genius Put Your Back N 2 It |
| Philip Glass Solo Piano |
| Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After |
| Pierce the Veil Selfish Machines |
| Pink Floyd The Division Bell |
| Pink Floyd The Wall |
| Pity Sex Dark World |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa |
| Placebo Placebo |
| Placebo Once More with Feeling |
| Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun |
| Portishead Dummy |
| Portishead Portishead |
| Public Image Ltd. First Issue |
| Pulp Separations |
| Purity Ring Shrines |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris |
| R.E.M. Murmur |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs |
| Real Estate Days |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik |
| Refused The New Noise Theology EP |
| Ryan Adams Love is Hell |
| S.C.U.M. Again Into Eyes |
| Say Anything In Defense of the Genre |
| Siouxsie and the Banshees Kaleidoscope |
| Skrillex Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites |
| Skunk Anansie Paranoid And Sunburnt |
| Skunk Anansie Post Orgasmic Chill |
| Sky Ferreira Ghost |
| Snow Patrol Fallen Empires |
| Soap and Skin Narrow |
| Sonic Youth Sister |
| Sonic Youth Evol |
| Sonic Youth Murray Street |
| Sonic Youth The Eternal |
| Soundgarden Badmotorfinger |
| Soundtrack (Anime) Neon Genesis Evangelion |
| Soundtrack (Film) 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| St. Vincent Strange Mercy |
| Starsailor Love Is Here |
| Still Remains Of Love and Lunacy |
| Still Remains The Serpent |
| Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between |
| Suede Suede |
| Supergrass I Should Coco |
| Swans White Light From the Mouth of Infinity |
| Swans Soundtracks for the Blind |
| System of a Down System of a Down |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| Taking Back Sunday New Again |
| Talking Heads Remain in Light |
| Team Sleep Team Sleep |
| The Beach Boys Sunflower |
| The Beach Boys Wild Honey |
| The Beach Boys All Summer Long |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul |
| The Beatles Help! |
| The Beatles Love |
| The Blood Brothers Crimes |
| The Blood Brothers Young Machetes |
| The Clash Combat Rock |
| The Clash Give 'Em Enough Rope |
| The Cribs Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever |
| The Cribs Ignore The Ignorant |
| The Cribs In the Belly of the Brazen Bull |
| The Cure Greatest Hits |
| The Cure The Cure |
| The Cure Boys Don't Cry |
| The Cure Three Imaginary Boys |
| The Cure Seventeen Seconds |
| The Cure Wish |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works |
| The Doors L.A. Woman |
| The Drums The Drums |
| The Feelies Crazy Rhythms |
| The Front Bottoms The Front Bottoms |
| The Hives Veni Vidi Vicious |
| The Hives Barely Legal |
| The Hives Your New Favourite Band |
| The Horrors Skying |
| The Jam All Mod Cons |
| The Jesus Lizard Goat |
| The Jet Age Of Tomorrow Journey to the 5th Echelon |
| The Killers Hot Fuss |
| The Kinks Lola vs. Powerman and the Moneygoround |
| The Kinks Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) |
| The Knife Deep Cuts |
| The Libertines Up The Bracket |
| The Maccabees Given to the Wild |
| The Maine Can't Stop, Won't Stop |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| The National Alligator |
| The National Boxer |
| The Offspring Ixnay on the Hombre |
| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart The Pains of Being Pure at Heart |
| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Belong |
| Nowhere near as fun as their debut, it is still pleasant to listen to. Unfortunately, it just passes you by, unlike Yuck, who manage to add individuality to each song. That said, the Siamese Dream-esque title track will end up one of the songs of the year |
| The Prodigy The Fat of the Land |
| The Promise Ring Nothing Feels Good |
| The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Don't You Fake It |
| The Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet |
| The Roots Game Theory |
| The Roots How I Got Over |
| The Roots undun |
| The Shins Oh, Inverted World |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Rotten Apples |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Oceania |
| The Smiths Louder Than Bombs |
| The Smiths The Smiths |
| The Smiths Strangeways, Here We Come |
| The Stone Roses The Stone Roses |
| The Strokes Room on Fire |
| The Strokes First Impressions of Earth |
| The Swell Season Once: Music From The Motion Picture |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt |
| The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now |
| The Used The Used |
| The Used In Love and Death |
| The Used Lies for the Liars |
| The Used Artwork |
| The Used Vulnerable |
| The Vaccines What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? |
| The Verve Urban Hymns |
| The Weeknd Thursday |
| The Who The Who Sell Out |
| The Who Who's Next |
| The Who My Generation |
| The Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Josh Is Dead |
| The xx xx |
| Therapy? Troublegum |
| These New Puritans Hidden |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars This Is War |
| Thrice Major/Minor |
| Thrice drift further away from the earlier experimentalism, and instead release go for straight up rock & roll. And boy, does it rock hard... |
| Thursday No Devolucion |
| Title Fight Floral Green |
| Titus Andronicus Local Business |
| Tom Waits Rain Dogs |
| Tom Waits Bone Machine |
| Tool Ænima |
| Touche Amore ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me |
| Transit Listen and Forgive |
| Trivium Shogun |
| Trophy Scars Bad Luck |
| Trophy Scars Never Born, Never Dead |
| TV on the Radio Dear Science |
| TV on the Radio Nine Types of Light |
| U2 The Joshua Tree |
| U2 War |
| U2 The Unforgettable Fire |
| Underoath Cries of the Past |
| We Are The Ocean Cutting Our Teeth |
| We Made God As We Sleep |
| Weezer The Red Album |
| Weezer Raditude |
| Wire Chairs Missing |
| Xiu Xiu A Promise |
| Xiu Xiu Fabulous Muscles |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever To Tell |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Show Your Bones |
| You Blew It! Grow Up, Dude |
| Young Guns All Our Kings Are Dead |
| Young Guns Bones |
