| 5.0 classic |
| Against Me! Against Me! |
| Atmosphere When Life Gives You Lemons... |
| What I think makes this stand out in front of other Atmosphere albums is the sure focus on the music. There's a nice and very fitting range of instruments used throughout, which always suit the songs they're used in so well. But also lyrically, this album is outstanding, and I've never found another record as engaging as this is. I made the effort to go into town to buy this one, which I never regretted as there are very few albums I've enjoyed more. |
| Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution A Call To Arms |
| Blockhead The Music Scene |
| Dillinger Four Situationist Comedy |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or |
| Elliott Smith XO |
| Elliott Smith From a Basement on the Hill |
| Elliott Smith Elliott Smith |
| Enya Paint The Sky With Stars |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VII: Original Soundtrack |
I loved playing the game, and the music was a lot to do with that. Uematsu captures certain moods perfectly, and the soundtrack as a whole is subsequently pleasantly well-balanced. Even on the softer tracks he still manages to add an edge to them, and even typical 'town-like' tracks you get in rpg's are very ever rarely cliche here.
I couldn't give this soundtrack any less than a 5. |
| NOFX The Decline |
| NOFX So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes |
| Nujabes Metaphorical Music |
| Pixies Doolittle |
| RJD2 Deadringer |
| Most of the time when I listen to music, I'm walking around to some place, so one thing I really look for in an album is a soundtrack to my day. And I think 'Deadringer' hits that. It's great to hear trip-hop that isn't so overly bleak, from the massive trumpets in 'Ghostwriter', to the sweet sound of optimism and balance in 'Smokes and Mirrors', this is an album you can really listen to. I'll stick out my neck and say this is better than any of DJ Shadow's works, and probably my favourite trip-hop album ever. |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb |
| Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between |
| Thursday War All the Time |
| Thursday are one of those bands where it'll probably take a few listens to truly appreciate what you're listenening to, and it was actually a couple of years after I bought the CD that I decided to pick it up again and give it some patience. I'm glad I did. The guitar-work is often intricate and very intuitive, and in songs like 'Steps Ascending', you find such a mix of loud and soft playing, but it always feels necessary. Superb album. |
| 4.0 excellent |
| 65daysofstatic The Fall of Math |
| 65daysofstatic We Were Exploding Anyway |
| Allister Last Stop Suburbia |
| Anti-Flag The Terror State |
| Anti-Flag For Blood and Empire |
| Atmosphere Seven's Travels |
| Atmosphere You Can't Imagine How Much Fun... |
| Atmosphere Lucy Ford: The Atmosphere EPs |
| Atmosphere The Family Sign |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil |
| Bedouin Soundclash Sounding a Mosaic |
| Belle and Sebastian If You're Feeling Sinister |
| Billy Talent Billy Talent III |
| I did enjoy this album, even if it isn't quite the feat that I and II were. There's less catchy songs here than in the other two, and you'd be forgiven for listening through the whole thing without being able sing any back. 'Saint Veronika' and 'White Sparrows' are where I think this peaks, but the guitar can become a little repetitive in parts, and there's far less diversity than its predecessors. Still, it's a solid album. |
| Blockhead Uncle Tony's Colouring Book |
| Blur Midlife: A Beginner's Guide To Blur |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver |
| Brand New Deja Entendu |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning |
| Dillinger Four Versus God |
| Dillinger Four C I V I L W A R |
| Dirty Elegance Finding Beauty in the Wretched |
| Finch What It Is to Burn |
| Finch Say Hello to Sunshine |
| Finch Finch |
| Flobots Fight with Tools |
| Florence and the Machine Lungs |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz |
| Marmaduke Duke Duke Pandemonium |
| Max Tannone Jaydiohead |
| Mr Cooper Amongst Strangers |
| P.O.S Never Better |
| RJD2 The Third Hand |
| RJD2 The Colossus |
| Shugo Tokumaru Exit |
| Swingin' Utters Dead Flowers, Bottles, Bluegrass, and Bones |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| The Bouncing Souls The Gold Record |
| The Cinematic Orchestra Ma Fleur |
| The Offspring Smash |
| The Strokes Room on Fire |
| Toh Kay & Dan P. You By Me: Vol. 1 |
| Ugly Duckling Bang for the Buck |
| Ugly Duckling Taste the Secret |
| Ugly Duckling Journey to Anywhere |
