| 4.5 superb |
| Ada Rook UGLY DEATH NO REDEMPTION ANGEL CURSE I LOVE YOU |
| AFI Sing the Sorrow |
| Akira Yamaoka Silent Hill 3 |
| Akira Yamaoka Silent Hill 4: The Room |
| Akira Yamaoka Silent Hill Homecoming |
| Alex G House Of Sugar |
| Alex G God Save The Animals |
| While not his most immediate album, God Save The Animals stands as perhaps Alex G's most cohesive effort to date. The singles were all big highlights and they sound even better within the context of the album. Despite a couple oddball choices, the connective tissue here is strong and gives us a more vulnerable-sounding Alex G. One of his ~prettiest~ and most life-affirming records. |
| alt-J An Awesome Wave |
| alt-J Relaxer |
| Andy Stott It Should Be Us |
| Angra Holy Land |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion |
| Bambara Stray |
| Baths Cerulean |
| Beach House Bloom |
| Ben Howard Is It? |
| Big Thief Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You |
| Bill Ryder-Jones Iechyd Da |
| Billy Talent Billy Talent |
| Biosphere Substrata |
| Bjork Post |
| Bjork Homogenic |
| Blind Guardian Nightfall In Middle-Earth |
| Blood Incantation Absolute Elsewhere |
| Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase |
| Boards of Canada In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country |
| Bonny Light Horseman Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| BT Ima |
| Burial Untrue |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion |
| Chat Pile God's Country |
| Chelsea Wolfe Abyss |
| Chelsea Wolfe She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She |
| Chepang Swatta |
| Childish Gambino Because the Internet |
| Circa Survive On Letting Go |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo |
| clipping. Visions of Bodies Being Burned |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness |
| Converge You Fail Me |
| Converge Axe to Fall |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles II |
| David Bowie Hunky Dory |
| David Bowie Low |
| David Bowie "Heroes" |
| David Bowie Heathen |
| David Bowie Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) |
| David Bowie Blackstar |
| Dead Can Dance Within the Realm of a Dying Sun |
| Deathspell Omega Paracletus |
| Depeche Mode Violator |
| DJ Metatron U'll Be The King of the Stars |
| Dora Jar No Way To Relax When You Are On Fire |
| Dream Dolphin Gaia: Selected Ambient & Downtempo Works (1996-2023) |
| Eiko Ishibashi Car and Freezer |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP |
| Everything Everything Arc |
| Floex Zorya |
| Foxing Nearer My God |
| Future Islands The Far Field |
| Glans Slow Tree |
| Gorguts Obscura |
| Gorguts Colored Sands |
| Gorillaz Demon Days |
| Gorillaz Plastic Beach |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World |
| Honey Harper Honey Harper and the Infinite Sky |
| HORSE the band Desperate Living |
| Hypnotic Brass Ensemble This is a Mindfulness Drill... |
| Injury Reserve By The Time I Get To Phoenix |
| James Blake James Blake |
| I miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiind |
| Kanye West The College Dropout |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| Obnoxious, chauvinistic, crude, arrogant, presumptuous, egotistical - they are all words pertaining to Kanye West's persona, but let's give credit where it's due: he's a god damn genius. Despite whatever your perspective of the man is, we can't deny that he's a marketing aficionado. Whether he's sampling Daft Punk's well-known, infectious electronica anthem 'Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger' or collaborating with any number of artists, he's done his part in making himself relevant in pop culture and has become the subject of much controversy (his proclamation of being the 'new Michael Jackson' and his recent notorious spiel at the Video Music Awards Ceremony during which he publicly embarrassed Taylor Swift.) Up until this point, his personality has been swiftly conveyed through his albums in such an in-your-face manner that it's off-putting and difficult to enjoy the music of a man who's so clearly riding a wave of vanity all the way to the top of the charts. However, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is a statement - something that could only derive from the psyche of someone as sporadic and odd as Kanye; distinguishing itself from anything the boisterous star has done in the past, while still feeling comfortable enough to retain old fans. |
| Kanye West Yeezus |
| I hate myself |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I |
| More people need to hear this, this is near musical perfection. Stella is simply put, one of the greatest songs ever made. The instrumentation is pure bliss, and never before has violin sounded so beautiful, uplifting, dark, and evoked so much emotion. The prodcution is perfect, crisp and clear. Don't let the length of the tracks put you off, you will slip into them as softly and willingly as you do your bed after a hard day's work. |
| Kate Bush Hounds of Love |
| Kate Bush Never for Ever |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city |
| Killing Joke Extremities, Dirt & Various Repressed Emotions |
| King Creosote I DES |
| King Crimson Red |
| Kishi Bashi Omoiyari |
| Lil Ugly Mane Oblivion Access |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory |
| Low Ones and Sixes |
| Low Double Negative |
| Low Roar 0 |
| Manchester Orchestra The Million Masks of God |
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| Material Girl i85mixx21-22 |
| Mew Frengers |
| mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes |
| I'm in the minority but I don't care! This is hands down the best mwY album |
| MF DOOM MM.. Food |
| MF DOOM Special Herbs: The Box Set |
| Midlake The Trials of Van Occupanther |
| Mr. Bungle Mr. Bungle |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Push The Sky Away |
| Nujabes Luv(sic) Hexalogy |
| Opeth Watershed |
| OutKast Aquemini |
| OutKast Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik |
| P.O.S Audition |
| Parades Foreign Tapes |
| Paul McCartney Ram |
| Peter Gabriel So |
| pg.99 Document #8 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix |
| Photay Onism |
| Pink Floyd Animals |
| Pink Floyd Meddle |
| Pink Floyd The Wall |
| Pixies Doolittle |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa |
| Prefab Sprout Jordan: The Comeback |
| Pure Reason Revolution The Dark Third |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Radiohead TKOL RMX 1234567 |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II |
| RAH Band Going Up |
| Robyn Honey |
| Rustie Glass Swords |
| Saya Gray 19 Masters |
| Saya Gray Saya |
| Slowdive Pygmalion |
| Son Lux At War With Walls And Mazes |
| Steely Dan Pretzel Logic |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois |
| Sun Kil Moon Ghosts of the Great Highway |
| T. Rex Electric Warrior |
| Talking Heads Fear of Music |
| The Birthday Massacre Violet |
| The Birthday Massacre Pins and Needles |
| The Cure Songs of a Lost World |
| The Field From Here We Go Sublime |
| The Field Yesterday and Today |
| The Field Looping State of Mind |
| The Flaming Lips Clouds Taste Metallic |
| The Knife Silent Shout |
| The National Alligator |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me |
| nvm, this is way better than i thought it'd be |
| The The Infected |
| The Twilight Sad Nobody Wants To Be Here And Nobody Wants To Leave |
| The Veils Nux Vomica |
| The Weeknd House of Balloons |
| The Wrens The Meadowlands |
| Thursday No Devolucion |
| Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 |
| Ravedeath, 1972 absolutely floored me upon first listen, and since then I've only come to adore it more with subsequent listens. To those not allowing themselves to get lost in it it's easily dismissible as ambient nonsense, but listen carefully to the static white noise and dissonance and you'll hear something much more organic; something hauntingly beautiful that's difficult to achieve in a genre where so many meander off and bore. It's an album that invites imagery and thought through the concept of destroying something beautiful; a notion that clearly grabbed Hecker. Some of the finest ambient songs ever recorded are here, especially the three part finale "In The Air" which ends the album in an emotionally devastating way. |
| Tindersticks Soft Tissue |
| Trophy Scars Bad Luck |
| Tujiko Noriko Crépuscule I & II |
| Underworld DRIFT Series 1 Sampler Edition |
| Viktor Vaughn Vaudeville Villain |
| Warning Watching from a Distance |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) |
| X Japan Art of Life |
| Yeule softscars |
| Yuka Kitamura Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (Soundtrack) |
| 4.0 excellent |
| A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory |
| Alvvays Blue Rev |
| Andy Stott Too Many Voices |
| Animal Collective Sung Tongs |
| Animal Collective Feels |
| Animal Collective Strawberry Jam |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs |
| oh shitrthis is AWESOME.ra 5 in the first listen, i ve never expect this can top any arcade fire release, i was sceptic about it but this is just godly. Holy shit!!!!!?!?!?!!!!!124'nnrw!!r |
| Arcana Inner Pale Sun |
| Archive Call To Arms and Angels |
| Arctic Monkeys AM |
| Artificial Brain Artificial Brain |
| Beach House Teen Dream |
| Beach House Depression Cherry |
| Yet another shockingly consistent Beach House album, equipped with just as many hooks and gorgeous melodies as ever to win you over. |
| Belle and Sebastian Dear Catastrophe Waitress |
| Billain Lands Unbreached |
| Birds in Row Gris Klein |
| Bjork Debut |
| Bjork Biophilia |
| Black Midi Hellfire |
| Boards of Canada Trans Canada Highway |
| Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest |
| Bob Dylan The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan |
| Bonnie 'Prince' Billy The Purple Bird |
| Brand New Daisy |
| I understand that Brand New reinvent themselves with each new album, and the same applies for Daisy. However, it feels more like a regression both lyrically and musically for Brand New. Certain songs are just clear duds: 'Bed' bores; 'You Stole' drags; 'Bought A Bride' is almost inaudible, and amongst these are some good- great songs. The extremely misleading opener 'Vices' ends up being a highlight, and 'At The Bottom' may be the best song of 2009. Despite its flaws, it's still an enjoyable listen with some great songs to be heard, but disappoints overall. |
| Charli XCX Brat |
| Childish Gambino Bando Stone and the New World |
| CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe |
| City of Caterpillar City of Caterpillar |
| clipping. Dead Channel Sky |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension |
| Coheed and Cambria Vaxis III: The Father of Make Believe |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Converge The Dusk in Us |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles III |
| David Bowie Diamond Dogs |
| David Bowie Aladdin Sane |
| David Bowie Let's Dance |
| David Bowie Outside |
| David Bowie Lodger |
| David Bowie The Next Day |
| Dead Can Dance Aion |
| Dead Can Dance The Serpent's Egg |
| Digitalism Mirage |
| Eartheater Powders |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP |
| Everything Everything Man Alive |
| Everything Everything Mountainhead |
| Fever Ray Fever Ray |
| Fever Ray Radical Romantics |
| Fontaines D.C. Skinty Fia |
| Frank Zappa Hot Rats |
| Goat Goat |
| Gorguts From Wisdom to Hate |
| Gospel The Loser |
| Grimes Visions |
| Visions is an atmospheric work of genius. Drawing from several genres such as: IDM, Industrial, New-Age, Pop, etc., young Canadian producer/vocalist Claire Boucher has created her most focused and impassioned work to date. Its sound invites comparisons that range from the textural, drugged out electronics of Aphex Twin to the soothing calm of Enya's delicate voice, all the while sounding like it's charting unexplored territory. With skilful production techniques and blissful vocals, Visions ends up being a record that far and away exceeded my impossibly high expectations after hearing "Oblivion", and given the right amount of time to set in, it may just very well end up as one of the year's best. |
| Honey Harper Starmaker |
| Hypocrisy Virus |
| Hypocrisy Hypocrisy |
| Imperial Triumphant Spirit of Ecstasy |
| Jakey Romcom |
| Jamie xx In Waves |
| Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid |
| Kanye West The Life of Pablo |
| Katatonia Night Is the New Day |
| Kate Bush The Dreaming |
| Kayo Dot Coffins on Io |
| Kettel Through Friendly Waters |
| Killing Joke Night Time |
| King Creosote and Jon Hopkins Diamond Mine |
| King Geedorah Take Me to Your Leader |
| King Krule The OOZ |
| Lack the Low God-Carrier |
| Lana Del Rey Born to Die |
| Little Dragon Nabuma Rubberband |
| Low Things We Lost in the Fire |
| Low Drums and Guns |
| Material Girl Tangram |
| Melt-Banana 3+5 |
| Mew No More Stories |
| mewithoutYou Ten Stories |
| mewithoutYou [Untitled] |
| MF DOOM Operation: Doomsday |
| Oneohtrix Point Never R Plus Seven |
| Opeth The Last Will and Testament |
| pg.99 Document #7 |
| pg.99 / Majority Rule Document #12 |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Wish Floyd were here.Your soundoff was too short, it has to be at least 50 characters |
| Pixies Trompe Le Monde |
| Placebo Without You I'm Nothing |
| Ryuichi Sakamoto 12 |
| Saba Few Good Things |
| Shylock Ile De Fievre |
| Sigur Ros ( ) |
| Undoubtedly Sigur Ros' magnum opus, and one of the greatest albums of all time. Vaka is gripping and sad, Samskeyti is fraught with emotion and would likely see its place in my top 10 greatest songs of all time, and Popplagio evokes a brooding frame of mind and features some of the best drumming to be heard in modern music. Hopelandic (a language spoken by only Jon Birgisson) is essentially meaningless syllables but it fits the context of the music so well that its pretension is excusable. There's not much I can say to do this album justice, it needs to be heard in its entirety; this is essential listening to anyone who appreciates meaningful music. |
| Slift Ilion |
| Snow Patrol Eyes Open |
| State Faults Children of the Moon |
| Steely Dan Aja |
| Steely Dan The Royal Scam |
| Steely Dan Countdown to Ecstasy |
| Stimming Ludwig |
| Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans |
| Sufjan Stevens All Delighted People |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz |
| Sufjan Stevens Javelin |
| Taake Et hav av avstand |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock |
| The Flaming Lips Transmissions From the Satellite Heart |
| The Knife Tomorrow, In a Year |
| The Locust New Erections |
| The National Boxer |
| The National High Violet |
| The Smith Street Band Life After Football |
| The Tallest Man on Earth I Love You. It's a Fever Dream. |
| The Used The Used |
| The Veils ...And Out of the Void Came Love |
| There Will Be Fireworks The Dark, Dark Bright |
| Thought Industry Songs for Insects |
| Thought Industry Short Wave on a Cold Day |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance |
| Turnstile Glow On |
| Uboa Impossible Light |
| Underworld Strawberry Hotel |
| Why? Alopecia |
| Wilco The Whole Love |
| Xiu Xiu Oh No |
| Xiu Xiu Ignore Grief |
| Young Fathers Heavy Heavy |
| Yuka Kitamura Elden Ring |
| 2.5 average |
| Adjy The Idyll Opus (I-VI) |
| Akira Yamaoka Silent Hill Origins |
| Alex G RACE |
| Alex G Winner |
| Alexisonfire Alexisonfire |
| Alexisonfire Otherness |
| Alkaline Trio Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs |
| Andy Stott Faith in Strangers |
| Andy Stott Never the Right Time |
| Animal Collective Ark |
| Animal Collective Time Skiffs |
| Avenged Sevenfold Life Is But A Dream... |
| Bjork Vulnicura |
| Bjork Utopia |
| Black Country, New Road For the first time |
| Black Country, New Road Live at Bush Hall |
| Blue October Spinning the Truth Around (Part I) |
| Blue October Spinning the Truth Around (Part II) |
| Bob Dylan Bob Dylan |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon |
| Broken Bells Into the Blue |
| Carly Rae Jepsen The Loneliest Time |
| Childish Gambino Camp |
| Childish Gambino "Awaken, My Love!" |
| Childish Gambino Atavista |
| Circa Survive Violent Waves |
| Are you all being serious here? Blue Sky Noise was really nothing to rave about, especially when comparing it to On Letting Go, which I thought was far and away their best album. I don't know how well I like this yet, but at least it's a return to form. |
| Circa Survive The Amulet |
| Converge Petitioning The Empty Sky |
| Converge When Forever Comes Crashing |
| Darkthrone Astral Fortress |
| David Bowie Earthling |
| David Bowie Pin Ups |
| David Bowie Tonight |
| David Bowie Black Tie White Noise |
| Deftones Ohms |
| dredg El Cielo |
| Fear Before Odd How People Shake |
| Gorguts Considered Dead |
| Grimes Miss Anthropocene |
| Hypocrisy The Final Chapter |
| James Blake Overgrown |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience |
| Kanye West ye |
| Kanye West and Ty Dolla Sign Vultures 1 |
| Katatonia Sky Void of Stars |
| Kendrick Lamar GNX |
| Killing Joke What's THIS For...! |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight |
| Linkin Park Living Things |
| You're all morons this is garbage that is going to be force fed to mindless idiots like those of you already thinking this album is a 4.5 or a 5.r^I've always found it funny how music can evoke such a strongly negative, hostile response from people. Tact - you have none of it. |
| Linkin Park The Hunting Party |
| Low Secret Name |
| Low The Invisible Way |
| Low Roar House in the Woods |
| Mew +- |
| Believe me, I'm one of the biggest Mew fanatics on this site, so I had every reason to be stoked for this release. Unfortunately, nothing is particularly memorable, with tracks like "Satellites" featuring some of the cheesiest and most boring choruses in Mew's discography. It's not a bad album though. It has its fair share of good tunes, and the rest is just kind of there as light, airy background music. Whereas Mew were capable of producing both insanely catchy and innovative songs on past releases, they've opted here to produce more straightforward pop tunes. Take it for what it is |
| Mew Visuals |
| Mew release their second mediocre album in a row. Like a far less palatable no more stories: mediocre hooks and formulaic songwriting |
| mewithoutYou A to B: Life |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Again |
| Peter Gabriel i/o |
| Placebo Never Let Me Go |
| Silverstein Discovering the Waterfront |
| slowthai UGLY |
| Spanish Love Songs No Joy |
| Steven Wilson The Harmony Codex |
| Sufjan Stevens Enjoy Your Rabbit |
| Sufjan Stevens A Sun Came |
| Sufjan Stevens The Ascension |
| Taylor Swift Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) |
| The Birthday Massacre Hide and Seek |
| The Flaming Lips Oh My Gawd!!! |
| The Flaming Lips Telepathic Surgery |
| The National Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers |
| The National Sleep Well Beast |
| The National I Am Easy to Find |
| The Necks Bleed |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Worse Than Alone |
| The Smile A Light For Attracting Attention |
| The Smile Wall of Eyes |
| There Will Be Fireworks Summer Moon |
| Thought Industry Mods Carve the Pig |
| Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere |
| Thrice Palms |
| Thrice Horizons/East |
| Toby Driver They Are the Shield |
| Vampire Weekend Only God Was Above Us |
