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Average Rating: 3.91
Rating Variance: 0.49
Objectivity Score: 61%
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5.0 classic
Daft Punk Random Access Memories
I've only listened to it once so far, and currently in the second listen, but I fully expect my rating to raise to a 5. rEdit: Yep. Upped to a five.
Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork
They've managed to mix in the old with the new in ways that I never expected. Maybe I'll even write a legitimate review for it for shits and gigs.
Rx Bandits Mandala
The Knife Silent Shout
Trentemoller The Last Resort

4.5 superb
Battles Mirrored
Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect
Danger July 2013
It's certainly not as danceable as his prior work, but it's a solid 17 minutes of huge, relentlessly powerful sound design with subtleties too difficult to ignore.
Deftones Koi No Yokan
Fang Island Fang Island
Fever Ray Fever Ray
Piglet lava land
Rx Bandits Gemini, Her Majesty
The Knife Shaking the Habitual
I'm not sure if I could love this album any more than I have been, but I'll report back the next time I can get my hands on some LSD.

4.0 excellent
Battles Gloss Drop
Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence
Between the Buried and Me Colors
Brendon Small Galaktikon
CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe
Deadmau5 While(1<2)
Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown
Gonjasufi A Sufi and a Killer
HAIM Forever
High on Fire Snakes For The Divine
This album seems to find the band making the leap from stoner sludge metal to stoner heavy metal. There is much more happening here than what is found in their previous albums and that is definitely a good thing.
Kelis Food
I'm digging this so much that I may even write a legit review for it. I *might*.
Minus the Bear Infinity Overhead
Protest the Hero Fortress
The Fall of Troy Phantom on the Horizon
The Knife Tomorrow, In a Year
I want to explain that the number rating I have given this album is only the average over the two or so years
since I first listened to it. I was already a big fan of Olof and Karin well before this album was released and in
retrospect I feel like my mind wasn't entirely open to the idea of this existing outside of its visual
counterpart. I loved the concept but as soon as I started listening for the first time I couldn't help but feel as
if that visual component was missing in the most hindering of ways... But a year or so later is when I would
prove myself entirely correct. What I had wrong, however, was where these visuals had to come from. This is
an album -- and I *very* rarely make this connection in any significant way -- that benefits greatly from the
consumption of psychedelic hallucinogens. Sure in most people partial to those activities in the first place
they almost always make music "better," but this is one of the rare occasions in my life (so far, at least) that
sitting in a dark room, cuddling up with Lucy, putting on a pair solid headphones and closing my eyes was
accompanied not by frenzied thoughts but by the absurd visual component I felt this album needed most.
Normally this is nothing I would care to mention in a music review and perhaps I am not conveying my
experience in an illuminating enough way, but there is something about imagining one of the most important
breakthroughs in human understanding illustrated before you with only your imagination accompanied by
The Knife's music that I simply cannot seem to recreate any other way.
The Knife Silent Shout-An Audio Visual Experience (Live)
The Sword Apocryphon
Trentemoller Lost
How could anyone possibly give this a 2.5? That's total shenanigans.

3.5 great
Bassnectar VAVA VOOM
Don Broco Priorities
Lights Siberia
Paramore Paramore
Regal Safari R G L S F R
Some righteous post-modern electronica that deserves some listening. It's the sort of artist you run across accidentally while randomly following YouTube video suggestions but that is in the best way possible.
The Knife Deep Cuts
The xx Coexist
Trentemoller Reworked / Remixed
Tyler, the Creator Wolf

3.0 good
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis The Heist
The Knife The Knife
Trentemoller Into the Great Wide Yonder

2.5 average
Skrillex Leaving
The Knife Hanna Med H Soundtrack

1.5 very poor
Lil B Task Force
Anyone that thinks this is good probably has a brain tumor.
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