| 4.5 superb |
| Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders |
| Arcade Fire Funeral |
| Arcade Fire Reflektor |
| The Suburbs warned me about people like you. fkn pozers |
| As Cities Burn Hell or High Water |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| Benjamin Clementine At Least For Now |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence |
| Between the Buried and Me Automata I |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Born of Osiris The Discovery |
| Botch We Are the Romans |
| Brand New Daisy |
| Burial Untrue |
| Chelsea Wolfe She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends |
| Converge You Fail Me |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Converge Axe to Fall |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind |
| Dangers Anger |
| Deftones White Pony |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Duke Ellington The Far East Suite |
| Electric Light Orchestra Time |
| Electric Light Orchestra Out of the Blue |
| Emma Ruth Rundle Some Heavy Ocean |
| Emma Ruth Rundle Engine of Hell |
| Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou May Our Chambers Be Full |
| Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou The Helm of Sorrow |
| Fear Before The Always Open Mouth |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes |
| Fleet Foxes Shore |
| Gang of Youths The Positions |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book |
| Glassjaw Material Control |
| Haley Heynderickx I Need to Start a Garden |
| Hall and Oates The Very Best of Daryl Hall & John Oates |
| Hop Along Bark Your Head Off, Dog |
| Intronaut Valley Of Smoke |
| Irepress Sol Eye Sea I |
| Jon Hopkins Singularity |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience - 2 of 2 |
| Karnivool Sound Awake |
| Keane Under The Iron Sea |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair |
| Teenage nostalgia - maybe? It's just really cohesive start to finish. |
| La Dispute Wildlife |
| La Dispute Panorama |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming |
| Machinae Supremacy A View from the End of the World |
| Mae (e)vening |
| Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing |
| Manchester Orchestra Simple Math |
| maudlin of the Well Part the Second |
| Miles Davis Bitches Brew |
| Misery Signals Mirrors |
| Misery Signals Controller |
| Moses Sumney Aromanticism |
| Moving Mountains Pruning of the Lower Limbs |
| Muse Absolution |
| My Epic Yet |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I |
| Nine Inch Nails Year Zero |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine: 2010 Remaster |
| NOISIA Split The Atom |
| Nujabes Modal Soul |
| Nujabes Metaphorical Music |
| Obscure Sphinx Emovere |
| Our Lady Peace Spiritual Machines |
| Paledusk Palehell |
| Parades Foreign Tapes |
| Pat Metheny Question and Answer |
| Pat Metheny Group Imaginary Day |
| Pat Metheny Group We Live Here |
| Pat Metheny Group Letter From Home |
| Periphery Periphery |
| Poison the Well You Come Before You |
| Protest the Hero Fortress |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous |
| Protest the Hero Volition |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 |
| Sarah McLachlan Fumbling Towards Ecstasy |
| Sarah McLachlan Rarities, B-Sides & Other Stuff |
| Saya Gray Saya |
| Scale the Summit The Collective |
| Scale the Summit The Migration |
| Shugo Tokumaru Port Entropy |
| Shugo Tokumaru L.S.T. |
| Shugo Tokumaru In Focus? |
| Sigur Ros ( ) |
| SikTh Death of a Dead Day |
| Slift Ilion |
| Solange A Seat at the Table |
| St. Vincent Strange Mercy |
| St. Vincent St. Vincent |
| St. Vincent Masseduction |
| Steely Dan Pretzel Logic |
| Steely Dan The Royal Scam |
| Steely Dan Katy Lied |
| Straight Reads The Line The Author |
| Submotion Orchestra Finest Hour |
| Submotion Orchestra Fragments |
| 4.5 on initial listen and there's no way this is going to lose it's charm. This band manages consistency while still evolving. They push every element from the first album to the limit here and still manage to maintain focus. I've heard Submotion and The Cinematic Orchestra mentioned a lot together, and while I think they both do something very different, the goal they both achieve is quite similar; especially in that they manage to combine great melodies, harmonies, and hooks with complex rhythms, thick atmosphere, and varying tones. True to the former's namesake, both bands are also amazing at creating rich imagery. Submotion successfully takes the most complimentary elements of multiple genres and matches them perfectly to achieve not only an interesting and engaging sound, but to immerse you in extremely vivid soundscapes that can range from beautiful to eerie. There is no better example to this than Times Strange and Eyeline one after the other. |
| Swarms Old Raves End |
| Taking Back Sunday New Again |
| Tears for Fears The Seeds of Love |
| Tears for Fears The Hurting |
| Tech N9ne Absolute Power |
| The Cat Empire The Cat Empire |
| The Cinematic Orchestra Motion |
| The Contortionist Language |
| The Contortionist Clairvoyant |
| The Decemberists The Crane Wife |
| The Decemberists The Hazards of Love |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer |
| The Lemon Twigs Everything Harmony |
| The Lemon Twigs A Dream Is All We Know |
| The Mire Volume: II |
| The Reign of Kindo Happy However After |
| The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream |
| Thelonious Monk Solo Monk |
| Total Blue Total Blue |
| Typhoon (USA-OR) White Lighter |
| Typhoon (USA-OR) Sympathetic Magic |
| Underoath Define The Great Line |
| Underoath Lost In The Sound Of Separation |
| Uneven Structure Februus |
| Uneven Structure La Partition |
| Vildhjarta + där sjunger under evighetens granar + |
| Their best work by far. Works very well as a record, but not very good for casual listening. It's still a bit too messy to be a classic, but the hooks and melodies are stronger and more distinct than they've ever been without losing the beautiful textures and atmosphere that frames them. If it had a few more strong tracks that stood out, it would be perfect. These guys definitely zeroed in on what works. |
| Winterfylleth The Hallowing Of Heirdom |
| Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss |
| 4.0 excellent |
| Adjy June Songs Vol. 1 |
| After the Burial Rareform (Re-release) |
| Anathema A Natural Disaster |
| Anathema A Fine Day to Exit |
| Anberlin Never Take Friendship Personal |
| Anberlin New Surrender |
| Anberlin Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place |
| Anberlin Vital |
| Architect Ghost Of The Saltwater Machines |
| As Cities Burn Son, I Loved You at Your Darkest |
| As Tall As Lions As Tall As Lions |
| As Tall As Lions You Can't Take It With You |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver |
| Brand New Deja Entendu |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Bruno Mars 24K Magic |
| Circa Survive Violent Waves |
| Cloudkicker Let Yourself Be Huge |
| Cloudkicker Subsume |
| Coldplay X&Y |
| Coldplay Kaleidoscope |
| Converge No Heroes |
| Counterparts Prophets |
| Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains |
| Daft Punk Discovery |
| Dance Gavin Dance Happiness |
| Dance Gavin Dance Acceptance Speech |
| Darko (US) Dethmask, Pt. 3 |
| Defeater Lost Ground |
| Deftones Around the Fur |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
| Eisley The Valley |
| Elder (USA-MA) Dead Roots Stirring |
| Elder (USA-MA) Lore |
| Elder (USA-MA) Reflections of a Floating World |
| Elder (USA-MA) Omens |
| Elder (USA-MA) Innate Passage |
| Emery The Question |
| Emery We Do What We Want |
| Emma Ruth Rundle On Dark Horses |
| Empty Country Empty Country |
| END (USA-NJ) The Sin of Human Frailty |
| Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic |
| Faetooth Labyrinthine |
| Fear Before Art Damage |
| Four Year Strong Rise Or Die Trying |
| fun. Aim and Ignite |
| Fuubutsushi Meridians |
| Goonies Never Say Die In a Forest Without Trees |
| Graywave Dancing in the Dust |
| Grimes Art Angels |
| Half Waif See You at the Maypole |
| Hall and Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates |
| Hall and Oates Private Eyes |
| Hall and Oates Abandoned Luncheonette |
| Hall and Oates Voices |
| I Am Legion I Am Legion |
| I the Mighty Satori |
| Intronaut Habitual Levitations |
| Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid |
| Janelle Monae The Electric Lady |
| Janelle Monae Dirty Computer |
| Johnny Booth Moments Elsewhere |
| Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains Love Songs For The Apocalypse |
| Jon Hopkins Immunity |
| Jonsi Go |
| JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown Scaring the Hoes |
| Kamelot The Black Halo |
| Kamelot Epica |
| Karnivool Themata |
| Kendrick Lamar DAMN. |
| Kuedo Severant |
| L.S. Dunes Violet |
| Los Campesinos! All Hell |
| Machinae Supremacy Deus Ex Machinae |
| Machinae Supremacy Jets'n'Guns Soundtrack |
| Machinae Supremacy Overworld |
| Mae The Everglow |
| Manchester Orchestra The Million Masks of God |
| Meek Is Murder Algorithms |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree |
| Meshuggah obZen |
| Meshuggah Koloss |
| Miike Snow Miike Snow |
| Misery Signals Absent Light |
| Misery Signals is certainly adapting to popular trends but they definitely maintain what made them unique; they masterfully release an album with both versatility and consistency in both atmosphere, and quality songwriting. You're going to find fast, "off timey" rhythms, dissonant melodies, soaring, catchy hooks. You'll also find driving punk beats, good old metal riffing, and bone crushing breakdowns. None of it however, gets in the way of the overall feel of the album. Misery Signals have managed to get a little more eccentric while maturing in amazing ways. I truly feel this is the metal album of the year that will please both longtime fans, newcomers, and past skeptics alike. |
| Mother Mother O My Heart |
| Moving Mountains Pneuma |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations |
| My Epic I Am Undone |
| Ne Obliviscaris Citadel |
| Ne Obliviscaris Urn |
| Ne Obliviscaris Exul |
| Night Verses Every Sound Has a Color...: Part I |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth |
| Nine Inch Nails The Slip |
| Nujabes Spiritual State |
| Oceana Birth.Eater |
| Oceana Clean Head |
| Our Lady Peace Clumsy |
| Paledusk HAPPY TALK |
| Paradise Lost Obsidian |
| Pat Metheny New Chautauqua |
| Pat Metheny From This Place |
| Pat Metheny Dream Box |
| Pat Metheny MoonDial |
| Probably one of the best examples of this style, or any solo jazz guitar. One of the greatest to ever play. |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal |
| Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix |
| Poison the Well The Opposite of December |
| Poison the Well Versions |
| Protest the Hero Kezia |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Raine Maida The Hunters Lullaby |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3 |
| Sarah McLachlan Surfacing |
| Saya Gray 19 Masters |
| Saya Gray Qwerty II |
| Shugo Tokumaru Exit |
| Shugo Tokumaru Night Piece |
| Sky Eats Airplane Sky Eats Airplane |
| Sleep The Sciences |
| In space no one can hear you green. Can't believe this came out right as a quit smoking weed. |
| Slift Ummon |
| Steely Dan Gaucho |
| Submotion Orchestra Finest Hour - The Remixes |
| Substructure Monolith |
| Sufjan Stevens Javelin |
| Talk Talk The Party's Over |
| Tears for Fears Elemental |
| Tech N9ne Everready (The Religion) |
| Tech N9ne All 6's and 7's |
| The Boxer Rebellion The Cold Still |
| The Cat Empire Two Shoes |
| The Chariot Long Live |
| The Chariot One Wing |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet |
| The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading |
| The Dear Hunter Act III: Life and Death |
| The Decemberists Picaresque |
| The Decemberists Her Majesty the Decemberists |
| The Decemberists Castaways and Cutouts |
| The Decemberists What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World |
| The Decemberists As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again |
| The Devil Wears Prada 8:18 |
| MARRRRRRRRRRRRRR TYRRRRRSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works |
| The Red Chord Fed Through the Teeth Machine |
| The Reign of Kindo Rhythm, Chord & Melody |
| The Reign of Kindo This Is What Happens |
| The Reign of Kindo Play With Fire |
| The Squirrel Nut Zippers Hot |
| The Squirrel Nut Zippers Perennial Favorites |
| The War On Drugs A Deeper Understanding |
| Thrice Major/Minor |
| Toby Driver Madonnawhore |
| Toby Driver Raven, I Know That You Can Give Me Anything |
| Typhoon (USA-OR) Offerings |
| Underoath Ø (Disambiguation) |
| Unearth III: In the Eyes of Fire |
| Whitechapel Hymns in Dissonance |
| Yazz Ahmed A Paradise In The Hold |
| 3.5 great |
| After the Burial In Dreams |
| Anathema Distant Satellites |
| Anathema The Optimist |
| Anberlin Blueprints for the Black Market |
| Animals As Leaders Weightless |
| August Burns Red Messengers |
| August Burns Red Constellations |
| August Burns Red Rescue & Restore |
| Born of Osiris A Higher Place |
| Brian D’Addario Till The Morning |
| Burial Street Halo |
| Charli XCX Brat |
| Circa Survive Juturna |
| Circa Survive On Letting Go |
| Circa Survive Appendage |
| Cloudkicker The Discovery |
| Cloudkicker ]]][[[ |
| Cloudkicker Beacons |
| Cloudkicker Fade |
| Coldplay Mylo Xyloto |
| Coldplay Ghost Stories |
| Coldplay A Head Full of Dreams |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles II |
| Daft Punk Human After All |
| Daft Punk Homework |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain |
| Dance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin Dance |
| Defeater Travels |
| Defeater Empty Days & Sleepless Nights |
| Deftones Adrenaline |
| Emma Ruth Rundle Orpheus Looking Back |
| Nice little release - feels weird to rate it. It doesn't even really feel like an EP, but just a few singles thrown together. It's neat. Pump Organ Song is the standout. Forever simping. |
| Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon |
| Every Time I Die The Big Dirty |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light |
| Grimes Visions |
| Hall and Oates H2O |
| How to Destroy Angels How To Destroy Angels |
| Ihsahn Ihsahn |
| Job For A Cowboy Ruination |
| Kamelot Ghost Opera |
| Keane Hopes & Fears |
| Killer Mike R.A.P. Music |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory |
| Linkin Park Meteora |
| Lostprophets Start Something |
| Lostprophets The Fake Sound Of Progress |
| Manchester Orchestra Cope |
| Manchester Orchestra The Valley of Vision |
| Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar |
| Marilyn Manson Mechanical Animals |
| Marilyn Manson Holy Wood |
| Marilyn Manson The Golden Age of Grotesque |
| Memphis May Fire The Hollow |
| Miike Snow Happy to You |
| Muse Showbiz |
| Nicole Saboune Kismet |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine |
| Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IV |
| Oceana The Tide |
| Our Lady Peace Gravity |
| Our Lady Peace Healthy In Paranoid Times |
| Parkway Drive Killing With A Smile |
| Pat Metheny Road to the Sun |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris |
| Rebecca Black SALVATION |
| Ruby Haunt Between Heavens |
| Rustie Glass Swords |
| Scale the Summit Carving Desert Canyons |
| Sigur Ros Von |
| Slowdive Everything is Alive |
| St. Vincent Marry Me |
| St. Vincent Actor |
| Tears for Fears Raoul and the Kings of Spain |
| Tears for Fears The Tipping Point |
| The Cat Empire So Many Nights |
| The Dear Hunter Act I: The Lake South, the River North |
| The Decemberists The King Is Dead |
| The Devil Wears Prada Zombie |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dead Throne |
| Sitting atop the dead throne of metalcore, TDWP is dominating the now established metalcore rsound with some more experience and maturity this time around. They have more restraint, ractually showing a whole song devoid of breakdowns, and are consistent from start to finish rwith a dark atmosphere, driving drum beats, and subtle transitions. As the for the rbreakdowns that ARE in fact present, -there are many of them- they do a better job at rmaintaining the melody of the song, and actually pushing forward, or acting as actual rtransitions rather than simple filler. The use of synth is the hugest improvement, the sharp rand swift use of string riffs still exist, but they are the only practice in excess left to rbe seen around it, as the synth has evolved into an excellent tool of atmosphere and rframework for the overall tone of the album. I know many people can't view them in any other rway, but TDWP are clearly growing up. Above all, this album is FUN enough to warrant a 3.5 ralone, the expansion in songwriting skill pushes it to a solid 3.8-4. rOh yeah, the guest vocals on Constance are earth shattering. |
| The Lemon Twigs Do Hollywood |
| The Lemon Twigs What We Know |
| The Lemon Twigs Go To School |
| The Lemon Twigs Songs for the General Public |
| The Supervillains Grow Yer Own |
| The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza II: The Electric Boogaloo |
| Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures |
| There Will Be Fireworks Summer Moon |
| Tiny Skulls Songs From Some Depressing Movie |
| Tycho Dive |
| Typhoon (USA-OR) Hunger and Thirst |
| Typhoon (USA-OR) Underground Complex No. 1 |
| Vildhjarta Måsstaden |
| Whitechapel This Is Exile |
| Wishy Triple Seven |
