| 4.5 superb |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver |
| Converge You Fail Me |
| Counterparts Tragedy Will Find Us |
| Defeater Travels |
| The lyrical expertise of Travels somewhat eclipses it's musical quality, which not a gripe by any means because this is some of the best lyrical story telling one could ever encounter. An astoundingly emotional album that cuts down to its foundation of sorrow, pain, bitterness and anger within the defining first word: "Unwanted." |
| Defeater Lost Ground |
| Disperse Foreword |
| END (USA-NJ) From the Unforgiving Arms of God |
| ISIS Panopticon |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge |
| Norma Jean Wrongdoers |
| Norma Jean Polar Similar |
| Norma Jean All Hail |
| Haven't been absolutely floored by an album like this in years. It's exactly what I wanted to hear rfrom them; a continuation of the sound they mastered on Polar Similar that turns into a full-on revolution of that sound as the album goes. The last four tracks are some of the weirdest, rcatchiest, most beautiful-yet-haunting material they've ever written. |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool |
| This is shockingly excellent, especially after TKOL, which had its moments but never felt like it had much life in it. Almost every song takes a turn at some point and evolves, which makes for a wonderfully dynamic Radiohead album - the likes of which we haven't heard since 2007. This is pure Radiohead, in the best way. |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance |
| Underoath Define The Great Line |
| 4.0 excellent |
| A. Armada Anam Cara |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion |
| August Burns Red Constellations |
| Azusa Heavy Yoke |
| Riffs for days, and flawless vocals to boot. |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors_Live |
| Boygenius boygenius |
| Conjurer Mire |
| Converge Axe to Fall |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind |
| Counterparts The Current Will Carry Us |
| Counterparts The Difference Between Hell and Home |
| Counterparts You're Not You Anymore |
| Counterparts Private Room |
| Darkest Hour Deliver Us |
| Darkest Hour Godless Prophets and the Migrant Flora |
| Defeater Empty Days & Sleepless Nights |
| Somewhat disappointing. I can't help but feel like this story line has had one too many miles put on it. Not nearly as memorable or volatile as Travels. Still, it's an incredibly enjoyable album that's worth the journey. |
| END (USA-NJ) Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face |
| Tentative 4.5 but this could totally grow to a 5. Not a bad track here, just solid fucking songwriting and absolutely mind-blowing production. As someone else said, it's like Nails, just minus the meathead lyrics. They also really cranked up the black metal influences (blast beats EVERYWHERE) and there are parts here that get kind of mathy in in the best way. God, I'm so happy this album is finally here. |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Great Collapse |
| From A Second Story Window Delenda |
| Ghost (SWE) Impera |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute |
| Greyhaven Empty Black |
| Hopesfall Magnetic North |
| Insomnium Above the Weeping World |
| Insomnium Shadows of the Dying Sun |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant |
| Julien Baker Turn Out The Lights |
| Knocked Loose A Tear in the Fabric of Life |
| letlive. Fake History |
| Misery Signals Absent Light |
| NAILS You Will Never Be One Of Us |
| Night Verses From the Gallery of Sleep |
| Oceana Clean Head |
| P.O.S Never Better |
| Pedro the Lion It's Hard To Find A Friend |
| Pedro the Lion Winners Never Quit |
| Phoebe Bridgers Punisher |
| Poison the Well You Come Before You |
| Polyenso One Big Particular Loop |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come |
| Revocation Netherheaven |
| Rosalia Lux |
| Scale the Summit The Migration |
| Seizures Reverie of the Revolving Diamond |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois |
| Sufjan Stevens Songs For Christmas |
| The Armed The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be... |
| The Chariot Long Live |
| Dang. Just bought this with my friend and we drove around aimlessly and let it play through twice. Freaking incredible. Heavier, more technical, more unpredictable, more memorable, more epic... Can't wait to listen more. |
| The Chariot One Wing |
| The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer |
| The Victor Ship In Somnis Veritas |
| Thrice Vheissu |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance (Revisited) |
| Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still |
| WRVTH No Rising Sun |
| 3.5 great |
| A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide |
| Andy McKee Art of Motion |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs |
| As Cities Burn Come Now Sleep |
| August Burns Red Thrill Seeker |
| August Burns Red Messengers |
| August Burns Red Rescue & Restore |
| August Burns Red Found in Far Away Places |
| August Burns Red Phantom Anthem |
| Azusa Loop of Yesterdays |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors II |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Boygenius the record |
| Brand New Deja Entendu |
| Coldplay Prospekt's March |
| Counterparts Prophets |
| Counterparts Nothing Left to Love |
| As solid as anyone would expect. Tracks 2-9 are all excellent and live up to the level of quality that Counterparts has set for themselves. Sadly the opener does basically nothing for me because I don't really come to Counterparts for tracks that are literally just 00--0000--0-0-00 chugs. It seriously sounds like the opening to every metalcore album ever made. The closer is certainly a decent song but it leaves something to be desired, especially since their previous three records have had such colossal, satisfying finales. It's still a thoroughly listenable record, though, and it maintains Counterparts' high caliber song writing. |
| Counterparts N.L.T.L. B-Sides |
| Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway |
| Darkest Hour Undoing Ruin |
| Darkest Hour Perpetual | Terminal |
| Dashboard Confessional The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most |
| Dead Poetic New Medicines |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism |
| Death Cab for Cutie Plans |
| Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Sea of Tragic Beasts |
| Fleshkiller Awaken |
The main thing holding this back is the vocals. The cleans are cringe af and the screams are
varied enough but completely basic and don't have any real character to them. That said, this
album is held up almost exclusively by the riffs. Oh god the riffs. |
| Four Year Strong Enemy Of The World |
| Future of Forestry Twilight |
| Greyhaven This Bright and Beautiful World |
| He Is Legend I Am Hollywood |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself |
| Incubus (USA-CA) A Crow Left of the Murder... |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View |
| Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E. |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Alive at Red Rocks |
| Insomnium Across the Dark |
| Insomnium One for Sorrow |
| Insomnium Winter's Gate |
| Insomnium Heart Like a Grave |
| James Blake James Blake |
| Jon Foreman Fall and Winter |
| Jon Foreman Spring and Summer |
| Knocked Loose Upon Loss Singles |
| Lucy Dacus Historian |
| Lucy Dacus Home Video |
| Matter Teraphim |
| Memphis May Fire Sleepwalking |
| Misery Signals Controller |
| Misery Signals Ultraviolet |
| Muse Absolution |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry |
| Muse HAARP |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade |
| Norma Jean O' God, the Aftermath |
| Norma Jean Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child |
| Norma Jean Redeemer |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Papertowns With You in Mind |
| Periphery Periphery (Instrumental) |
| Phoebe Bridgers Stranger in the Alps |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture |
| Scale the Summit Carving Desert Canyons |
| Scale the Summit The Collective |
| An impressive, epic album. I'm not into this kind of stuff much anymore so listening to this is sort of like watching Avatar for me; enjoyable and technically admirable yet totally inconsequential at the same time. Love these guys live and in person so I do my best to support their stuff. |
| Sigur Ros Takk... |
| Sleeping Giant Dread Champions of the Last Days |
| Straight Reads The Line The Author |
| Sufjan Stevens Michigan |
| Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans |
| The Chariot Everything Is Alive, Everything Is... |
| The Chariot Wars and Rumors of Wars |
| The Faceless Akeldama |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality |
| The Hush Sound Like Vines |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety |
| Thrice If We Could Only See Us Now |
| Thrice Red Sky |
| Thrice Live At The House Of Blues |
| Thrice Beggars |
| Thrice Major/Minor |
| Without Dustin's lyrics this would definitely be a 3.5 for me. His writing on this album is jaw-droppingly good. Understanding the meanings and context behind each song makes everything so powerful. Blur is ten times better when you realize it's all about the bands' reactions to all of the crazy stuff going on in their lives during the making of the album (Riley and Eddy's Dad dying, Teppei's mom dying, Dustin's dad getting diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, the band's stuff getting stolen TWICE...). Such an amazingly angry/frustrated/painful/sad song, which is then followed up by the triumphantly uplifting tracks like Words In the Water, Anthology and Disarmed, giving the album a sense of finality and victory over adversity that is so tangible. |
| Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere |
| What seemed to be shaping up as a much edgier album actually flaunts its best during the moments rof positivity and warmth. "The Long Defeat" serves as an affecting and much needed anthem of hope rwhile the gorgeous "Stay With Me" nearly brought me to tears with a beautifully simple story of lovers rin wartime. There's still a lot of skepticism and scathing rebukes of corrupt leadership, islamophobia, retc... but the best of TBEITBN is found in its brightest moments. Except for Hurricane... which is one rof the best damn songs Thrice has ever written. |
| Touche Amore Is Survived By |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross The Social Network OST |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety Special Edit |
| Underoath Lost In The Sound Of Separation |
| Underoath Ø (Disambiguation) |
