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5.0 classic
Anberlin Cities
Closure in Moscow First Temple
Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain
Emilie Nicolas Tranquille Emile
Absolute Masterclass in production, finesse & authenticity
Emilie Nicolas Let Her Breathe
FKA Twigs LP1
Frank Ocean channel ORANGE
Frank Ocean Blonde
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
James Blake The Colour in Anything
Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city
La Dispute Wildlife
I loved it on first listen. And I know there is so much more to explore in this album, the lyrics, the narratives, the notes. rHow can it not be a classic?
Modern Life Is War Witness
Radiohead Kid A
Tame Impala Currents
The National Alligator
Why The National is so great Part 1: Matt Berninger could quite possibly be the greatest lyricist of all time. Its not that his lyrics are cryptic, or have a great amount of depth, its that they do, in a completely different sense. His lyrics, throughout each album are poignant, stream of consciousness like, and monologue(istic), and somehow posses the depth to cater to all of our emotions and to different circumstances. Whats even more remarkable, and part of the reason Berninger never prints his lyrics, is that his mumbling, world-weary tone has the tendency to produce phrases which are often misheard or misinterpreted, but still manage to be just as affecting. And this is why, in my opinion, Berninger is perhaps the most inventive and best lyricist around today, and if not all time. Oh, and the rest of the bands great too.
The National Boxer
Why The National is so great Part 2: The way the nationals discography is structured into a cohesive whole representing what its like to be human, to feel misery, sorrow, to love, to feel a stalker, to obsess over someone, to feel lonely and whatever other melancholy emotion you can think of, but also as lame as it sounds, each album actually sounds like growing up. Another thing is the slow-burning nature of each album, it may be a bit different at first, but youll soon warm to it and once you fully realise you love it, you wont even think about not giving it a 5/5.
The National High Violet
Why The National is so great Part 3: The actual sound of the National firstly is one that is so different, so indie, but so inviting and enjoyable. The national have the capacity to create a dichotomy between Berringers baritone and the light, airy guitars, complemented by the remarkable drumming that can be found on any National song. The National also compose songs in which every little element of their sound is so well thought out, so neatly placed, that is a wonder to think that such a band could create such things, but here they are, 10 or 11 songs on a disc, the equivalent of a symphony orchestra.

4.5 superb
Alexisonfire Watch Out!
American Football American Football
Ben Howard I Forget Where We Were
It's strange to see an artist progress so perfectly between albums. Hpward's sophomore is just ... neat. Here I see music becoming art; while Every Kingdom was a decent collection of songs, this effort seems to say more and expresses more. It's like the music is the means, rather than the end. If End of the Affair isn't considered as a possible song of the year I don't want to be a music critic anymore.
Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago
City and Colour The MySpace Transmissions
Clairo Immunity
Dance Gavin Dance Happiness
I've never seen an album cover that perfectly depicts what it feels like listening to an album. Its cute, weird, sexy, daring and yes, has the capacity to make you feel, well, happy. This record really belongs to Will Swan, his screams are a huge step forward from the raspy screams (Jon Mess) heard on previous records, but its his guitarwork that continues to impress. It manages to merge technicality with guitar effect prowess that could rival Minus the bears (yes, i just said that). Amazing record.
Dance Gavin Dance Mothership
Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism
Defeater Travels
Drake More Life
dredg El Cielo
Elora Danan In The Room Up There
Elora Danan, manage to write a record that reeks with technical progression and ambience without it becoming overbearing or too ambitious. The guitars seem to float on endlessly around a tight rhythm section which allows the band to create some really interesting and unique soundscapes. Each song has the feeling it could go on forever and that wouldn't be such a bad thing. A new riff is brought in, vocalist george green does something different with each new section, it just works.
Foals Total Life Forever
Frank Ocean Endless
Hiatus Kaiyote Choose Your Weapon
Highasakite Silent Treatment
James Blake James Blake
James Blake Overgrown
James Vincent McMorrow Post Tropical
Jeff Buckley Grace
Jhene Aiko Trip
Aiko's drug opus circuits expressions of pain, joy, love, euphoria, horror and fantasy while being consistently compelling and sonically fresh. Taking into account its contextual inferences (namely the death of Aiko's brother and the raising of daughter, Namiko), Trip has a heightened polish that synchronises Aiko's realities and fantasies with ease. The gaiety of 'While We're Young' and 'Sing to Me' are often paralleled by the grimly indulgent 'Overstimulated' and 'Bad Trip.' The breadth of emotional terrain on this record is a feat in itself and it's all the better funnelled through it's hypnotic production. Recommended.
JPEGMAFIA All My Heroes Are Cornballs
Julia Holter Loud City Song
Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience
Kendrick Lamar Section.80
King Krule 6 Feet Beneath the Moon
Laura Stevenson Sit Resist
Lauryn Hill The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Lorde Pure Heroine
The more I listen to this, the more I like it; which is strange for something so drenched in hook-driven pop music. It's just so different - a sixteen yr old with a unique voice and such a self-assured, yet jaded, personality.
mewithoutYou Brother, Sister
Misery Signals Controller
Every progression, riff and fill is seamlessly blended together over Controller's 10 tracks to create one of the genres heaviest, meatiest and downright impressive releases. Finally, a metalcore band who gets it right.
Paramore Brand New Eyes
Parkway Drive Killing With A Smile
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets High Visceral Pt. 1
Audacious, brazen, spirited. High Visceral is a celebration of the hostility of youth, the joys of post adolescence
world trumping and the fun in just not giving a fuck. There are too many highlights to count, and these boys
have a deft hand for touch even amidst all the balls to the walls fuzz riffin that happens basically on every
track. I really enjoyed the call back Nirvana drumming on 'Cubensis Lenses', the all out psych jam at the back
of 'found god in a tomato' and the impressive blues riff at the start of 'Surf's Up'. Basically the love child of
Closure in Moscow and Tame Impala.
RY X Dawn
Submotion Orchestra Finest Hour
SZA Z
Really surprised by the low ratings for this. Both smoothly palatable and lyrically challenging, 'Z' is a wonder of haze and cast-out childhood memories. Rowe's melodies rarely ever fall flat, and her lyrics are oft-times cutting and intimidating ('I can't remember the last time I took love from anyone called daddy / who's got one anyway? / Not me) SZA, like the best of vocalists, is easily distinguishable with her voice, and pitchfork's remark of a lack of personality is really, really off the mark. Also love how songs split into whole other jams at their former's conclusion. Just impressive all around.
Tame Impala Innerspeaker
The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading
The Weeknd Thursday
The Weeknd Echoes of Silence
The Weeknd House of Balloons
TTNG Animals
Two People First Body
Tyler, the Creator Goblin
Underoath Define The Great Line

4.0 excellent
Air The Virgin Suicides
Alexisonfire Crisis
Anberlin New Surrender
I dont see why people have a problem with this album. A great follow on from cities, whilst never reaching the heights of cities its still a great release and fun to listen to. Retrace, Breaking, The resistance are all great songs and worth a listen. Heck, with a voice like Stephen Cristians, they could pull anything off.
Anberlin Never Take Friendship Personal
Anna von Hausswolff Ceremony
Arcade Fire Her
Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Ariana Grande Dangerous Woman
August Burns Red Messengers
August Burns Red Constellations
the standard for the metalcore genre, these guys raise the bar with each release.
August Burns Red Rescue & Restore
B.o.B The Adventures of Bobby Ray
Banks London
If 'London' sounds familiar, it's because it should. BANKS gorges on the crystal-production, minor-key flourishes and haunting bass lines that has become a bit of a zeitgeist for this decades R&B. It's morally heavy, it's weighted, it's that blurred dnm talk post inebriation. This is what herion-chic actually sounds like. And it sounds bloody good.
Banks Goddess
Baths Obsidian
Beatrice Dillon Workaround
Everything is so cleannnnn. Fantastic sound design and sense of arrangement.
Beyonce 4
Big Japan Music For Dummies
blink-182 Blink-182
Blood Orange Cupid Deluxe
Sure, we've seen this stylistic refurbishment of 80s tropes in other art before (think:
Drive, GTA Vice City, M83). But Cupid Deluxe is an album that takes these styles and blends
in them into something more with an identity - or rather, Blood Orange's identity. Here
slightly distorted guitars sparkle through out, but never outstay their welcome; sax solos
are often the go to refrain for a lot of songs, and the synths are used to great effect
(listen to the dark opening to 'High Street'). A very well polished album.
Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver
Botch We Are the Romans
Break Even The Bright Side
while i dont think break even are a truly talented band, this record is really, really good. 'The Bright Side' is full of purpose, grit, sincercity, honesty and above all, it has alot of heart. It stands as a work from a group muscians who whilst honouring their late friend, manage to couple purpose and hope effectivly into a neat 12 tracks.
Burial Kindred
Choker Honeybloom
Choker Mono No Moto
CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe
Call back 80s synth pop that has a lot of character and depth to it. Not a song is skippable. 'Science/Visions' sounds like it would fit in nicely on the 'Night at the Roxbury' soundtrack. 'Tether''s alternating sides are also a highlight (a beautiful reverb-tinged chord pattern diving into an epileptic synth jam). Lauren Mayberry is also a delight - aggressive in her lyrics, but innocent in her delivery. Absolute gem.
City and Colour Sometimes
City and Colour Little Hell
City Escape Avalanches EP
Closure in Moscow The Penance and the Patience
Closure in Moscow Pink Lemonade
Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
Coheed and Cambria Neverender
Well, you certainly can?t fault Coheed on their ambition. 4 concept albums played over 4 nights, all wrapped up in a narrative that is the Amory Wars in front of thousands of die-hard Coheed fans? This is some serious stuff, and is done justice by an extremely well executed live DVD. The un-dubbed sound is perfectly reciprocated from the live setting, the camera shots varied and focused, and the show itself? Awe-inspiring. Coheed truly out-do themselves here, perfectly notching themselves into a league of their own prog-rock-concept driven-live-opus. Epic.
Converge Jane Doe
you sputnik fellows are right, this shit is br00tal. Apart from concubine, i find the first half a little underwhelming, however repeated listens ensure this album as a masterpiece of emotion, brutality and absolute anarchy. I love it.
Craig David Born to Do It
Dance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin Dance
Dance Gavin Dance Whatever I Say Is Royal Ocean
Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain II
Deafheaven Sunbather
Deerhunter Halcyon Digest
so whats with the tranvestite midget on the cover? anyways need to give this a few more spins, sounding pretty dope.
Deftones White Pony
Deftones Diamond Eyes
Deftones Saturday Night Wrist
DIIV Oshin
Like slow dancing in a diner from a Coppola movie (Sofia that is). It's all aesthetics. The mastering is great - its sequencing from track to track allows it's "background-ness" to further enhance its dreaminess. This has always been dream-pop's intent and if Beach House hadn't already mastered it I'd say we'd have a new heir to the throne. The albums crowning achievement however is it's ability to make guitar relevant again- its hooks are purely guitar based, all plucky and echoed. Would definitely recommend to intense dream-pop fans.
Drake Take Care
Drake Views
An argument could be made that Views is simply retreading old ideas, and it'd be hard not to - after all Drake is an extremely prolific artist. But Views to me seems more along the lines of muscling out his niche sound, and at over 80 minutes it's kinda of impressive how it does so. Here Drake extends and even liberates the throes of his sound - his embarrassing self-abasement, faux-braggadocio and notoriety for really poor lines. Does Drake really have anything important to say? Probably not. But the magnetism of celebrity successfully pervades this record so much that, along with those gorgeous beats, its too fascinating not to listen.
Dream Theater Octavarium
Elizabeth Rose Elizabeth Rose
Addictive pop music. Her voice has a character that is a little different, a little refreshing. The first song is about moving out of home, which is funny.
Elora Danan We All Have Secrets
Emarosa Relativity
Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues
Fleet Foxes beautifully paint Yeats' 'Lake Of Innisfree' in musical form, with the same simple yearning for a simple life in a natural sanctuary transposed expertly into Peckner's words. The album wonderfully rolls from one highlight to another; the screamed frustration of 'The Shrine/ An Argument' to the saxophone of that same song, all backed by the wonderful arrangements in vocal harmonies and gentle picked acoustics. For an album completely removed from its context, Fleet Foxes somehow construct the folk album of 2011.
Florence and the Machine Lungs
Foals Antidotes
Glassjaw Worship and Tribute
Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World
Grimes Visions
I Killed the Prom Queen When Goodbye Means Forever
Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights
James Blake Enough Thunder
Jarryd James Thirty One
JMSN Priscilla
JMSN The Blue Album
Jonny Craig A Dream Is A Question You Don't Know How To Answer
Jordan Rakei Cloak
Julia Holter Have You In My Wilderness
Holter's music weaves and side-steps at every turn; just as you manage to get a sense of its tact it fizzles into smoke. At first I thought its playfulness punched holes right through its cloud-like plateau, but I am beginning to respect its tenacity and verve.
Kavinsky Nightcall
Kehlani While We Wait
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly
Kings of Leon Only By The Night
Kings of Leon Because Of The Times
La Dispute Untitled
La Dispute Here, Hear. II
La Dispute Here, Hear.
La Dispute Here, Hear. III
Lana Del Rey Born to Die
Laura Stevenson Wheel
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV
letlive. Fake History
What some post-hardcore bands out there really need; some damn character. This record has it
in spades, largely due to vocalist Jason Butler's uncanny ability to switch dynamics and
pitches on top of a brawling crunchy sound - and pull it off consistently.
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory
Local Natives Hummingbird
M.I.A. Kala
Majid Jordan A Place Like This
Matt Corby Made of Stone
Matt Corby Telluric
Miguel Kaleidoscope Dream
Minus the Bear Menos El Oso
Perhaps Minus the Bear's greatest achievement is writing an album that seemlessly combines technical progressive effects pedal prowess with catchy, infectious hooks. Perhaps its Menos el Oso's greatest trick is its creative depth and its rewarding subsequent listens. Perhaps this album just RULES and Minus the Bear are FRIGGIN GENIUS. nuff said.
Minus the Bear Planet of Ice
Misery Signals Mirrors
Misery Signals Of Malice and the Magnum Heart
Misery Signals Absent Light
Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica
Muse Absolution
Muse Black Holes & Revelations
Muse Origin of Symmetry
Nirvana Nevermind
Northlane Discoveries
Building upon an improved misery signal-esque formula, Northlane arrives as Australia's
newest metalcore export. 'Discoveries' is quite the debut; containing some interesting ideas
and enough variation to keep it delving into repetitive metalcore we've all witnessed in the
past. The guitar lines are thick and fast, the vocalist has an impressive screaming range,
and the production and general musicianship remains tight throughout. Here's to hoping
Discoveries lays a firm grounding for better metalcore releases to come.
Opeth Blackwater Park
Opeth Ghost Reveries
Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
Paramore Riot!
Pink Floyd The Wall
Poison the Well You Come Before You
Radiohead OK Computer
Radiohead In Rainbows
Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication
Regina Spektor Far
Rhye Woman
Rise Against Appeal to Reason
Sabrina Claudio About Time
Sam Gellaitry Escapism III
Skrillex Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites
Sufjan Stevens Illinois
System of a Down Mezmerize
System of a Down Hypnotize
SZA Ctrl
Ta-Ku Songs to Break Up To
Tame Impala Lonerism
The Amity Affliction Severed Ties
The Amity Affliction Youngbloods
The Antlers Hospice
The Dear Hunter Act I: The Lake South, the River North
The Dear Hunter Act III: Life and Death
The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis
The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity
The Getaway Plan Hold Conversations: special edition
The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium
The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2
The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt
Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance
Thrice Vheissu
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV
Thursday No Devolucion
Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972
Tim Hecker Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again
Tinashe Songs for You
Turnover Peripheral Vision
Underoath Lost In The Sound Of Separation
On this record Underoath consoliadate the raw, southern feel hinted at on Define the Great Line. Some great riffs are on here (the one in the middle of Anyone can dig a hole.. really just hits you) and Underoath use feedback quite well, not in an annoying way. Chamberlins screams are given more priority on here, and they sound more desperate than ever. great record.
Underoath Ø (Disambiguation)
We Are The Emergency Seizure (EP)

3.5 great
6LACK East Atlanta Love Letter
It sounds like something emerging from the dustiest corners of a Drake record; sonically palatable and his delivery idiosyncratic. The album really dives after the first few tracks and it's possibly too long.
A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart
A Day To Remember And Their Name Was Treason
AFI Sing the Sorrow
Alexisonfire Alexisonfire
Alexisonfire Old Crows / Young Cardinals
Anberlin Blueprints for the Black Market
Anberlin Lost Songs
Anberlin Lowborn
Angus and Julia Stone Chocolates & Cigarettes
Arcade Fire Funeral
At the Drive-In Relationship of Command
August Burns Red Leveler
Leveler is August Burns Red trading song writing contemptency for an improvement in technical ability. Sure, the solos, breakdowns, and Luhrs ever improving scream are more monstrous and better on this album, but it doesn't manage to quench most critics desire for a more innovative approach. Leveler is the sound of August Burns Red failing to recognise the room for innovation, and rather, stepping up instrumental prowess.
Basement Promise Everything
Being as an Ocean How We Both Wondrously Perish
Ben Howard Every Kingdom
Beyonce Beyonce
Bloc Party A Weekend in the City
Bloc Party hit the mark in delivering some of the best indie-pop singles of the decade. The themes are superb; sexual confusion, political commentary and social paranoia battle for the lyrical foreground on top of interesting guitar arrangements and engaging electronic textures. In the scope of the album however, these count for little as at 57 minutes, it's extremely tedious to listen to. Best left listening to just the singles; nothing more.
Bon Iver Blood Bank
Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
Brand New Deja Entendu
Bullet For My Valentine Hand of Blood
Burial Untrue
Chet Baker The Best of Chet Baker Sings
Childish Gambino Camp
Children of Nova The Complexity of Light
CHON Homey
Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise
Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
D'Angelo Voodoo
Damien Rice O
This is simulataneously boring and interesting at the same time. It gets a bit tedious listening to Rice's lovesick croon through some songs, however when the music opens up in I Remember and Eskimo, this becomes so much more than a straightforward acoustic-balladry. I would suggest listening to the more ambitious pieces such as 'The Blowers Daughter', 'Eskimo' and 'I Remember'.
Deftones Gore
DIIV Is the Is Are
Pleasant guitar-based surf rock. So many songs for repeat listens. Refreshing sound.
Elizabeth Rose Intra
Emarosa Versus
Emilie Nicolas Like I'm a Warrior
Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP
Flight of the Conchords Flight of the Conchords
Flume Flume
Flying Lotus Until the Quiet Comes
Flying Lotus Cosmogramma
Foals Holy Fire
Foster the People Torches
Frank Ocean Nostalgia, Ultra.
Gallant Ology
With its waves of throbbing synths and rafts of vocal acrobatics, Ology is built like the colossal giant walls of ancient greek architecture. Introvert or no, in its boldness Gallant shows off just how comfortable he is with throwing down one of 2016's most confident records. While at times it can feel a little wearisome, this is still worth checking out even for the most casual R+B fan.
How to Dress Well What Is This Heart?
How to Dress Well The Anteroom
Krell's attention to detail is immense. This record is less immediate than his past work but it's rich and rewarding for a focused listen.
Hozier Hozier
I Killed the Prom Queen Music for the Recently Deceased
James Blake Love What Happened Here
JMSN †Pllajë†
JMSN It Is.
John Mayer Room for Squares
Johnny Rain 11
Rain is the chameleon of the new frontier of RnB. Here he cycles through R. Kelly, Craig David, Drake, The Weeknd, Chris Brown. I don't think he has his own sound quite yet, but damn he has the voice for it.
Justin Bieber Purpose
Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak
Kanye West Graduation
Kanye West Late Registration
Kehlani Sweet Sexy Savage
There are some absolute bangers on this, and the production is superb, but really. Does anyone want to listen to Kehlani for over an hour?
Kehlani It Was Good Until It Wasn't
.................................Reminds me of McDonalds................................
Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache
King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King
La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair
For all thats been said on this album, no one can really agree on what they think of it. In my view it has some amazing moments, and the first track 'such small hands' will always bring back the nostalgia of listening to it the first time, and being completely drawn into it. However, after listening to the full record a few times its hard to ignore the faults it so promotes (for example its long length). Anyways, ill keep on listening to 'such small hands' and wait for the next record.
Lady Gaga The Fame
Listener Wooden Heart
Lolo Zouai High Highs To Low Lows
Lostprophets Start Something
M.I.A. Maya
M.I.A. Matangi
M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
Mac DeMarco Salad Days
mewithoutYou A to B: Life
mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes
More Than Life Love Let Me Go
My Bloody Valentine Loveless
My Bloody Valentine m b v
Northlane Singularity
Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
Pantera Cowboys from Hell
Paramore The Final Riot!
Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After
Pink Floyd The Dark Side Of The Moon
Protest the Hero Kezia
Radiohead The Bends
i love the feel on this album, that radiohead are just discovering how good they are. 'The Bends is a very coherent album, has great flow, and some great songs.
Radiohead The King of Limbs
Regina Spektor Begin To Hope
Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness
Saosin Translating the Name
Saosin Along the Shadow
Along the Shadow proves oddly compelling - it's a 13 year reunion of a sound that is so ... adolescent. It's consistent on all fronts yet cloyingly unmemorable. For such an abounding sound this sounds so... unfulfilling. Would recommend but only a few tracks at a time.
Saviour Once We Were Lions
SBTRKT SBTRKT
Snakadaktal Snakadaktal
Snakadaktal Sleep in the Water
Stevie Wonder Songs in the Key of Life
Swarms Old Raves End
System of a Down Toxicity
System of a Down System of a Down
Ta-Ku Songs to Make Up To
The Kooks Konk
The Lonely Island Turtleneck and Chain
The Police Every Breath You Take: The Classics
The Reign of Kindo Rhythm, Chord & Melody
The Roots undun
Tides of Man Empire Theory
Tigers Jaw Charmer
Touche Amore Is Survived By
Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me
Usher Confessions
We Are The Emergency Whispers and Fragments
We Butter The Bread With Butter Das Monster Aus Dem Schrank
We Still Dream Chapters

3.0 good
A Day To Remember Homesick
Acceptance Phantoms
Accesible and easy to listen to, however there isnt much there to keep me coming back for more listens.
Actress Splazsh
AFI Decemberunderground
Alexisonfire Dog's Blood
Anberlin Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place
I have mixed feelings for this record. For one, this album proves Anberlin are incapable of writing a bad song, each one here has some merit to it. However, this album lacks character, falling into a lackluster complancy with every listen.
Andrew Bird Break It Yourself
Architects Hollow Crown
Early Grave and Follow the Water rule. The rest of the album, not so much.
Ariana Grande Sweetener
Arin Ray Platinum Fire
Avenged Sevenfold City Of Evil
Banks The Altar
Black Sabbath Paranoid
blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket
Bloc Party Silent Alarm
Bon Iver 22, A Million
Bring Me The Horizon Suicide Season
Bring Me The Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It...
its a messy affair on bring me the horizons third release, a collection of songs caught between finding their own sound and the tediuos chug-a-chug 'itsallbeendonebefore' riffs that are just intended to please hordes of scene kids at shows (why else would a band dare to include lyrics such as 'this is an anthem, so fucking siiinggg!). Netherless, it still remains an interesting release, where Bring Me the Horizon plays around with featuring guest vocalists (Lights and Josh Franceschi), production gimmicks, slowing down the pace all while creating a sound they can call theirs. Heres to hoping they expand on it on future records.
Bryson Tiller T R A P S O U L
Bullet For My Valentine The Poison
Choker Forever & A Few
Choker Dog Candy
Circa Survive Juturna
City and Colour If I Should Go Before You
Converge You Fail Me
Dance Gavin Dance Acceptance Speech
Dance Gavin Dance Instant Gratification
Tillian's vox really bring this down for me. It's cool that the band finally feel settled into a sound, but it's not that progressive balls-to-the-wall sound they used to have. I just...I just miss Jonny.
Daniel Caesar Freudian
It's good but the beats are a little samey and there isn't much of a variation thematically.
Dead Letter Circus This Is The Warning
Death Cab for Cutie Plans
Deftones Deftones
Drake Nothing Was the Same
Earl Sweatshirt EARL
Emarosa Emarosa
Emarosa 131
Empress Of Us
Fall Out Boy Infinity on High
Foals What Went Down
Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
Funeral for a Friend Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation
Green Day International Superhits
Green Day American Idiot
Hiatus Kaiyote Tawk Tomahawk
How to Dress Well Total Loss
How to Dress Well Care
I Killed the Prom Queen Beloved
James Blake Air & Lack Thereof
Jamie xx In Colour
Janelle Monae The Electric Lady
Japandroids Post-Nothing
Jessie Ware Tough Love
JMSN Whatever Makes U Happy
John Mayer Continuum
Jordan Rakei Wallflower
Jordan Rakei Origin
Jorja Smith Lost & Found
Jose Gonzalez Veneer
Kanye West Yeezus
Korn Life Is Peachy
La Dispute Rooms of the House
Lights The Listening
London Grammar If You Wait
Hannah Reid has explained their sound as verging towards singer-songwriter territory, and it definitely feels that way; I feel as if Reid is carrying the other two, as their parts never grab attention as a full band would. That being said, there is a definite aim for texture and aesthetic in terms of guitar lines and piano chords; and they do succeed in this realm. Solid debut.
Low Roar Low Roar
Low Roar 0
Majid Jordan Majid Jordan
mewithoutYou Ten Stories
mewithoutYou Pale Horses
Miguel Wildheart
Missy Elliott Under Construction
Moonchild Voyager
Mount Kimbie Love What Survives
Nick Murphy (fka Chet Faker) Thinking in Textures
OFWGKTA Radical
Orange Juice, Drop, Alright and Splatter are good songs, but don't bother with the rest. There are some redeeming beats and some decent raps, but most of the time the collective get too obtuse and play for weirdness that it mostly falls flat.
OFWGKTA The OF Tape Vol. 2
pageninetynine Document #8
Panic! at the Disco Pretty. Odd.
Prince Purple Rain
R. Kelly 12 Play
Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Sabrina Claudio No Rain, No Flowers
Saosin Saosin
Sigur Ros ( )
Perhaps the problem for me is that I don't have any words to hang my emotions off, as with other albums. ( ) is brilliant at times, and i can see where the acclaim comes from, yet it's one of those albums I've never been able to connect on a deeper level. For me, the extended ( ) metaphor, in which the listener fills in their own emotion and imagery, doesn't work as what I assumed it would, and perhaps that's the biggest draw of this album for other people. To me it sounds boringly ethereal, and as a whole acts as film-music - to be played in the background for more striking moments.
Sleeping With Sirens With Ears to See and Eyes to Hear
save for the awkward breakdowns and god-awful lyrics, this is a really catchy and interesting album. At some points I think Sleeping with Sirens are trying to please too many fans - the breakdowns, the auto-tune that makes an appearance and the almost cliche acoustic ballad. If I'm James Dean... is defiantly worth the listen, however the other songs are everything you'd expect of a modern post-harcore band.
Solange When I Get Home
This album feels like sleeping in. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
System of a Down Steal This Album!
Teen Daze Bioluminescence
Teen Daze Themes for a New Earth
The Getaway Plan Other Voices, Other Rooms
The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Don't You Fake It
The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream
The xx xx
The-Dream IV Play
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II
Tides of Man Young and Courageous
Tinashe Joyride
Titus Andronicus The Monitor
Tool Opiate
Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety
Usher Looking 4 Myself
Volcano Choir Repave
We Came As Romans To Plant a Seed

2.5 average
A Day To Remember What Separates Me From You
AFI The Art of Drowning
Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion
Avenged Sevenfold Diamonds In The Rough
Billie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
Brand New Daisy
Well, it certainly is interesting. To me a mark of a good album is one thats memorable, different, and can be discussed at quite a length (heck look at all the sound-offs for this!). But see, even that statement can be debatable in regards to Daisy, where some songs are repetitive and dull (hardly memorable) and it does sound like a rip-off of a Nirvana song (hardly different). But Daisy simultaneously Is good and bad. Its like Brand New has turned around said fuck expectations and written whatever they felt like, which is this. On another note, I feel this album is Brand New stretching their musical limits, but I somehow get the feeling theyre running out of ideas, and thrown this together. In my opinion, Ive never really been a fan of grunge or abrasive/rough textures (the muddy lyrics and titles, the fuzzy bass and weak guitar tones) and by no means is this a bad album, but it just doesnt work for me.
Bring Me The Horizon Count Your Blessings
Bryson Tiller Anniversary
Such a frustrating record - it's obvious that the guy can clearly sing, yet the subject matter is mindlessly derivative and the production is really papery and cluttered, like a collection of washed out samples they haven't bothered to clear.
Bullet For My Valentine Bullet For My Valentine EP
Choker Peak
This is too scattered and inconsistent to rate but the dude has mad talent
Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo
Can never really recapture that point in which it finally clicked. It's still abrasive and raucous, but I can see every valley, every jarring riff, that once again, it's become as redundant as when I first listened to it. So then, what's the point? Yes rewarding, but all the same; might as well listen to something immediately like-able then spend weeks getting through torturous repeated listens.
City and Colour Bring Me Your Love
dallas goes a little too folk-sy and cutesy with this record, with the excellent songwriting of songs such as 'what makes a man' and 'body in a box' being brushed aside for the variety and feel of the record. the album genrally coasts along, through rollicking rhythms and folk-sy instrumentation (such as a harmonica and tambourines), however, this in my opinion buries dallas' nack for his creative songwiritng skills. thankfully, he has since realeased the 'myspace transmissions' which focuses more upon the actual songs themselves, and IS what this should have been, in a shorter length.
Deafheaven New Bermuda
Cheesy solos, riffs rehashed from a Metallica b-side, and somewhere in the middle an obvious aching loss of the vivacity that made Sunbather incredible. By drawing back upon the tropes of the genre, Deafheaven find themselves in a somewhat precarious position. It's as if they've climbed Everest and are now delivering a second hand re-telling to everyone. It's just not the same.
Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs
Drake Thank Me Later
Drake Scorpion
Emarosa This Is Your Way Out
Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown
FKJ French Kiwi Juice
Foals Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost - Part 1
Yannis just needs to start rocking Bono's shades and Foals' transformation into U2 will be complete. Also this is nothing like Antidotes.
Grimes Miss Anthropocene
If you look past the sci-fi vibes and the post-apocalyptic sonics you can almost hear a greenday song just dying to be heard
James Blake Assume Form
To your left, third cabinet, last draw. Filed under: 'When Good Artists Make Bad Albums'.
Lido Everything
Miguel War and Leisure
Muse Showbiz
Parkway Drive Deep Blue
Being a parkway fan, i found this album quite underwhelming. Whilst Unrest, Karma and Levianthan I are standout tracks, the rest of the albums is dare i say it; boring. I find myself going back and listening to previous parkway albums when i start listening to this.
Polica United Crushers
Just doesn't hold attention enough. The skewed synths in Lately are awesome but, and Lose You is a decent song.
Radiohead Hail to the Thief
Radiohead Amnesiac
Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way
Sango In the Comfort Of
Submotion Orchestra Colour Theory
The 1975 The 1975
The Dear Hunter White
The Weeknd Kiss Land
The Weeknd Beauty Behind the Madness

2.0 poor
Bullet For My Valentine Scream Aim Fire
Circa Survive On Letting Go
On Letting Go really out-does Juturna here in everything that is sterile and dry; everything is too safe and drenched in a white that you know from hospital waiting rooms. Agonizingly slow (take the opening lead from the albums best song 'The Difference Between...' ) and too overtly palatable, On Letting Go fails do anything remarkable or note-worthy.
Defeater Abandoned
Dua Lipa Dua Lipa
dvsn Sept. 5th
Earl Sweatshirt Doris
FKA Twigs Magdalene
From First to Last Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count
From First to Last Heroine
Grimes Art Angels
A lot of these songs are built around (to my ear) overly trite country or guitar licks, while Boucher throws sample after sample at it to make it interesting. There's too many samples clashing with each other and it makes for really scrambled pop music. It's exhausting to listen to, and a step backwards for her as a producer.
House Vs. Hurricane Forfeiture
Issues Issues
Jhene Aiko Chilombo
Jhene really likes to f*** and she reaalllllyyyy wants you to know that
Jonny Craig Find What You Love And Let It Kill You
well, at least it's still listenable .............................
Lana Del Rey Ultraviolence
And lo, women worldwide cringe even harder. I'd feel more at ease if it wasn't for how good the songwriting on Born to Die was; this is probably the most disappointed I've been with an album for a long time. It's not just within the music itself, while the beats are more lifeless and lazily put together in a haze of reverb, but with Lana's character. I could indulge in the character of the debut because I submitted to an idea that there was a smarter, more intelligent women behind it, coyly playing up to male fantasies with a sense of intrigue. But here the character is revealed to be more vacuous, more air-headed than it's predecessor. It's the lyrics that frustrate the most - "he hit me and it felt like a kiss" - yeah, you're really not all that bright are you Lana .
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis The Heist
I really had to stop listening when he started victimizing himself for being white. I mean Thrift Shop and Make the Money are okay, but Same Love's awful nursery-rhyme like piano is enough to sabotage its good message into ridicule and the rest of the songs seem to follow along Macklemore in his crusade to be the voice of change. Delivering intellectual proverbs in a half-assed cocky swagger really isn't appealing.
Paramore Paramore
There is no bad music. Only lazy music. Damn 50 characters.
Protest the Hero Fortress
Sure, Bloodmeat's awesome, but Fortress doesn't expand on anything that was displayed on Kezia. The novelty has worn off, and here we have simply a basic continuation of the sound constructed on Kezia, with very little variation. The riffs grow old after a few tracks, and the samples a laughable attempt to keep it interesting. A poor mans Between the Buried and Me? Yep, you said it.
Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses
The Getaway Plan Requiem
This would be a triumphant return for The Getaway Plan, had the music held up to the amount of self-produced hype the band induced the album with. Sadly, it falls on its face, with the album being a more sedated, watered-down version of Other Voices, Other Rooms. Lyrically abstract, Musically lackluster, 'Requiem' fails to get out of the blocks in any sort of poignancy or memorability. Avoid.
The Weeknd My Dear Melancholy,
Travis Scott Astroworld
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Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still
Women Public Strain

1.5 very poor
Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet?
Chiodos Bone Palace Ballet
Hey Monday Hold On Tight
Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight
Northlane Node

1.0 awful
Asking Alexandria Stand Up and Scream
One Direction Up All Night
Short Stack Stack is the New Black
The Devil Wears Prada Plagues
worst. album. ever.
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