| 4.0 excellent |
| Aesop Rock Labor Days |
| Aesop Rock Skelethon |
| AFI Sing the Sorrow |
| Andrew Bird The Mysterious Production Of Eggs |
| Andrew Bird Break It Yourself |
| Angelo Badalamenti Twin Peaks |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs |
| As Cities Burn Hell or High Water |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil |
| Bad Astronaut Houston: We Have a Drinking Problem |
| Band of Horses Everything All the Time |
| Baroness Red Album |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors_Live |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality |
| blink-182 Blink-182 |
| Blue Sky Black Death Late Night Cinema |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Scrambles |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Vacation |
| Bon Iver Blood Bank |
| Bon Iver Daytrotter Session |
| Bon Iver 22, A Million |
| Buried Beds In Spirit |
| Circa Survive On Letting Go |
| Clint Mansell and Kronos Quartet Requiem for a Dream |
| Cloudkicker Fade |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 |
| Colin Stetson New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind |
| Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains |
| Cynic Traced in Air |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories |
| Darkest Hour Undoing Ruin |
| Davy Mooney Astoriano |
I discovered Davy Mooney at Bar 55 in NYC's own Greenwich Village when my girlfriend and I were going out for drinks one Sunday evening. I had never visited the famous prohibition-era jazz bar, but the sound of some lively jazz from the street was all it took to draw us in. Once we got inside, we were treated to a wonderful performance from Mooney and his backing band, which lead me to purchase this CD. As far as guitar goes, Mooney is extremely subdued and refined in his playing; don't expect John McLaughlin here. However, he is able to create some extremely good jazz tunes over the course of this 11-track disc. The tracks range from lively and fun (Countdown) to slow and deliberate (Moon Song) to the majestically flowing (The Hills of Earth). There is no real weak spots on this disc, except for the fact that some of the songs can drag on for a bit too long. Overall, if you enjoy rather traditional jazz guitar playing in the vein of Wes Montgomery, I would recommend Astoriano.
Recommended Tracks: Countdown, The Hills of Earth (Charybdis Slope), Wrinkles |
| Deerhunter Monomania |
| Deerhunter Microcastle |
| Destroyer Kaputt |
| Dream Theater Awake |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory |
| dredg El Cielo |
| Dustin Kensrue Please Come Home |
| Elliott Smith XO |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues |
| Frank Ocean Nostalgia, Ultra. |
| fun. Aim and Ignite |
| Girl Talk Feed the Animals |
| Girls Father, Son, Holy Ghost |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest |
| Grizzly Bear Yellow House |
| Grizzly Bear Painted Ruins |
| He Is Legend I Am Hollywood |
| Hopesfall Magnetic North |
| HORSE the band Desperate Living |
| Hot Water Music Fuel for the Hate Game |
| Hum Downward Is Heavenward |
| Iron And Wine The Shepherd's Dog |
| ISIS Oceanic |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant |
| Joanna Newsom Divers |
| Kamasi Washington Heaven And Earth |
| Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing |
| Kurt Vile Wakin on a Pretty Daze |
| Laura Stevenson Wheel |
| Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing |
| Manchester Orchestra Simple Math |
| Mastodon Remission |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain |
| Matisyahu Live At Stubb's |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning |
| Mew No More Stories |
| mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright! |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice |
| Misery Signals Controller |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations |
| Neil Young Harvest |
| Parkway Drive Killing with a Smile |
| Pelican Forever Becoming |
| Pigeon Big Survival |
| Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn |
| Protest the Hero Kezia |
| Protest the Hero Fortress |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Rx Bandits ...And the Battle Begun |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun |
| Sleep The Sciences |
| Slightly Stoopid Chronchitis |
| Sole and the Skyrider Band Plastique |
| Steel Train Trampoline |
| Strike Anywhere Change Is a Sound |
| Sublime Sublime |
| Sufjan Stevens All Delighted People |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz |
| The Antlers Hospice |
| The Black Keys Brothers |
| The Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Out |
| The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading |
| The Decemberists The King Is Dead |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity |
| The Dodos Visiter |
| The Gentlemen's Club Call it What You Will |
| The Handsome Family Through the Trees |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute |
| The Menzingers On the Impossible Past |
| The Mountain Goats Transcendental Youth |
| The National Alligator |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me |
| Somewhere between a 4-4.5 for me right now. The atmosphere created by second half of this album is absolutely stunning. |
| The National Sleep Well Beast |
| The National Think You Can Wait/Exile Vilify |
| The Strokes Is This It |
| The Sword Age of Winters |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Sometimes The Blues Is Just A Passing Bird |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt |
| The Used The Used |
| The War On Drugs Slave Ambient |
| The Weeknd House of Balloons |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance |
| Thrice Red Sky |
| Thrice Live At The House Of Blues |
| Thrice Beggars |
| Thursday War All the Time |
| Thursday No Devolucion |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor |
| Touche Amore/La Dispute Searching for a Pulse/The Worth of the World |
| Underoath Define the Great Line |
| Various Artists (Indie) Dark Was The Night |
| WU LYF Go Tell Fire to the Mountain |
| 3.5 great |
| AFI The Art of Drowning |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals |
| Anchor and Braille Felt |
| Andrew Bird Noble Beast |
| Andrew Bird Hands of Glory |
| Arcade Fire Reflektor |
| Arthur Russell Calling Out of Context |
| As Cities Burn Come Now Sleep |
| As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security |
| As Tall As Lions As Tall As Lions |
| Bad Brains Bad Brains |
| Band of Horses Cease to Begin |
| Baroness Yellow and Green |
| Bars of Gold Of Gold |
| Battle Of Mice A Day of Nights |
| Beach House Teen Dream |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence |
| Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic |
| Between the Buried and Me Automata II |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket |
| Bon Iver i,i |
| C-Money & The Players Inc. The Rebirth of Hip Hop |
| Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll |
| Chiodos All's Well That Ends Well |
| Circa Survive Juturna |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise |
| Cloud Nothings Attack on Memory |
| Cloudkicker Let Yourself Be Huge |
| Clutch Robot Hive/Exodus |
| Coconut Records Davy |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness |
| Colour Revolt Colour Revolt |
| Cults Cults |
| Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse Dark Night of the Soul |
| Darkest Hour Deliver Us |
| Darkest Hour The Eternal Return |
| Deerhunter Fading Frontier |
| Deerhunter Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? |
| Deerhunter Weird Era Cont. |
| Destroyer Destroyer's Rubies |
| Dream Theater Images and Words |
| Dream Theater Octavarium |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought |
| Dream Theater Systematic Chaos |
| dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion |
| Earth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I |
| Every Time I Die The Big Dirty |
| Finch Say Hello to Sunshine |
| Fleet Foxes Sun Giant |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma |
| G. Love and Special Sauce G. Love and Special Sauce |
| This albums was a solid debut for G. Love and Special Sauce. Combining the elements of traditional blues with hip-hop, G. Love was able to create some fresh sounding tunes that he would build off of to become an underground legend in the alternative music scene. Though not entirely focused and somewhat immature, one can't argue that this is a solid, and fun, debut. |
| Girl Talk All Day |
| Hovering between a 3.5 and 4.0 presently, but I'll go higher for now because of the fun factor. Not as immediately infectious as his past work but the focus on a more expansive and cohesive mash-up should do really well with repeat listenings. |
| Girl Talk Night Ripper |
| Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles) |
| He Is Legend It Hates You |
| Hopesfall No Wings To Speak Of |
| Hopesfall The Satellite Years |
| ISIS In the Absence of Truth |
| Julian Casablancas Phrazes for the Young |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache |
| Kurt Vile Smoke Ring For My Halo |
| Local Natives Hummingbird |
| Local Natives Gorilla Manor |
| Manchester Orchestra I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye |
| Mastodon Leviathan |
| Mastodon The Hunter |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All |
| Metallica Metallica |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister |
| mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes |
| Minus the Bear Omni |
| Minus the Bear Infinity Overhead |
| Misery Signals Mirrors |
| Mr. Bungle Mr. Bungle |
| Murder by Death Good Morning, Magpie |
| Muse Absolution |
| My Morning Jacket Circuital |
| Om God Is Good |
| Title alone is worth 6/5. Albini produces yet again, and first album with new drummer. Very pumped for this. |
| Pantera Cowboys from Hell |
| Pantera Vulgar Display of Power |
| Parkway Drive Horizons |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Old Pride |
| Pink Floyd The Division Bell |
| Poison the Well The Opposite of December |
| Poison the Well Versions |
| PSY/OPSogist Suffused With Static |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| S. Carey All We Grow |
| Sigur Ros Valtari |
| Slightly Stoopid Everything You Need |
| Slightly Stoopid Closer To The Sun |
| Sublime Robbin' the Hood |
| Sufjan Stevens Songs For Christmas |
| Television Adventure |
| The Appleseed Cast Low Level Owl, Volume I |
| The Bled Pass the Flask |
| The Dear Hunter Act I: The Lake South, the River North |
| The Decemberists The Hazards of Love |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works |
| The Dodos No Color |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger |
| The Gaslight Anthem American Slang |
| The Gaslight Anthem Handwritten |
| The Gentlemen's Club Black Light Sex Rock |
| The Human Abstract Nocturne |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron |
| The Mountain Goats All Eternals Deck |
| The National I Am Easy to Find |
| The Receiving End of Sirens The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi |
| The Shouting Matches Grownass Man |
| The State Lottery When the Night Comes |
| The Sword Gods of the Earth |
| The Sword Warp Riders |
| The xx xx |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV |
| Thrice If We Could Only See Us Now |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II |
| Thrice Major/Minor |
| Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere |
| Thrice Deeper Wells |
| Thursday A City By the Light Divided |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation |
| Why? Alopecia |
