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5.0 classic
Bossk .2
Chevelle This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In)
Chevelle Vena Sera
Converge Jane Doe
Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear
Deftones Diamond Eyes
Irreversible Surface
The crown jewel of an incredibly overlooked and underrated discography.
ISIS Panopticon
ISIS Oceanic
ISIS Wavering Radiant
ISIS In the Absence of Truth
Karnivool Sound Awake
Leprous Bilateral
Linkin Park Meteora
O'Brother Garden Window
Red (USA) Innocence and Instinct
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2
Sarin (CAN) Darker Lakes
System of a Down Toxicity
The Mire Volume: II
Tool Ænima
Yanni Live at the Acropolis

4.5 superb
070 Shake Petrichor
ABBA ABBA Gold
Agalloch The Mantle
Not being a real fan of black metal, I used to look upon this album as an unreachable hurdle that I just assumed I would never understand the love for. Now here I am, like all the other Agalloch fanboys/masturbators slapping a 4.5 on this beast of an album. Some powerful shit, and even those who cringe at black metal vocals like myself can find something to like here as those are kept to a tolerable level.
Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue
alt-J An Awesome Wave
Anberlin Never Take Friendship Personal
Anberlin Vital
Anberlin Devotion
Anderson .Paak Venice
Anderson .Paak Malibu
Arcane Roots Heaven and Earth
Arcane Roots Melancholia Hymns
Ariana Grande Thank U, Next
Beach House Bloom
Birds Of Tokyo Universes
Bossk Audio Noir
Chevelle Wonder What's Next
Chevelle Sci-Fi Crimes
Chevelle The North Corridor
Chevelle La Gárgola
Chevelle 12 Bloody Spies: B-Sides and Rarities
These guys have been cranking out some of the most underrated bonus tracks in rock for over a decade. Now those who haven't heard can finally share the love. It's missing their cover for "It's No Good" and also a song called "(High) Visibility" but the highlights are still mainly here.
Clutch Blast Tyrant
Clutch Earth Rocker
Cog The New Normal
Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
Converge Axe to Fall
Converge All We Love We Leave Behind
Crib45 Marching Through the Borderlines
Crippled Black Phoenix Sceaduhelm
Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway
Cult of Luna Vertikal
Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition
Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
Deftones Around the Fur
Deftones private music
We are in the year 2025, and Deftones are still as tight a band as ever churning out aoty material like it's nothing. Do something about it!
Elder (USA-MA) Innate Passage
Emma Ruth Rundle Marked for Death
Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou May Our Chambers Be Full
Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors
Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True
Filter Title Of Record
Foals What Went Down
Frank Ocean Blonde
Ghost (SWE) Meliora
Gorillaz Demon Days
Greyhaven Keep It Quiet
We are SO BACK. Most consistent and funnest album they've made since Empty Black.
Heretoir Wastelands
Howard Shore The Return of the King
Ingrina Etter Lys
Intronaut The Direction Of Last Things
Irreversible Sins
Seriously, one of the best post-metal albums to come out during its "heyday" in the mid-2000's. It showcases in various forms all the different sides of post-metal in one big wonderful mish-mash (heavy, atmospheric, acoustic, progressive, harsh/soft vocals), making it one of the most multi-faceted releases to ever come out of the genre. Must-listen and a great starting point for this type of music.
Irreversible Light
ISIS Mosquito Control
JPEGMAFIA All My Heroes Are Cornballs
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
I don't think a single person who's heard of Kanye West (love him or hate him) can say that his heart wasn't 120% in this album. It's difficult for me to rate rap because the music to me is usually a short-lived fad. Kanye West has made something here that will be held as a benchmark for any future modern rap albums. It brings us back to the time when these artists were still emerging and dishing out those legendary historic albums we still hold in high-esteem. It's a celebration featuring countless artists and music styles here to support Kanye through his transition back into sanity. Recommended Songs: Gorgeous, POWER, So Appalled, Hell Of A Life
Karnivool Asymmetry
Kauan Wayhome
Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city
Kendrick Lamar DAMN.
Kids See Ghosts Kids See Ghosts
Cudi kills it and Ye sounds like he's been listening to too much Michael Gira. How can I NOT get on this?
Kosatka Colossus
Let's Eat Grandma I'm All Ears
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory
Linkin Park Meteora (20th Anniversary Edition)
Lupe Fiasco Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor
Lupe Fiasco Tetsuo and Youth
Mastodon Leviathan
Max Richter The Blue Notebooks
Meshuggah Koloss
Metric Fantasies
Moanaa Torches
Trying not to get ahead of myself (especially over a shorter EP), but I think this is some of their best work yet, especially the closing 13-min track. Brings me back to that older sound Rosetta used to have, so much power.
Neurosis Through Silver in Blood
Northlane Obsidian
Nothing But Thieves Broken Machine
Nug Alter Ego
Obscure Sphinx Void Mother
Obscure Sphinx Epitaphs
Oceansize Frames
Oceansize Everyone Into Position
P.O.D. Satellite
P.O.S Audition
P.O.S.'s lesser-known crowning achievement that unfortunately was overshadowed by Never Better but marked the first time he truly fused the sounds of punk rock and electronic with rap in perfect fashion. The album glides by effortlessly with hit-after-hit and the ideal blend of anger, passion, and sensitivity in his delivery. Very few songs feel out of place, each unique and powerful enough to standout. This is the ideal starting point for the rock/metal fans who need a gateway into hip-hop. Recommended Songs: De la Souls, Safety in Speed (Heavy Metal), P.O.S. Is Ruining My Life
Periphery Juggernaut: Omega
Aside from the song "Priestess" (which base case people will either tolerate or despise)...it's all peaks on this. Periphery is playing out of their goddamn minds here, and batting above their weight class. If it weren't for this album in their catalog, I don't think I'd even have expectations of them anymore. But because they wrote this, I still care a bit.
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
Porcupine Tree Deadwing
Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet
PSOTY Fragments Of Uniforms
Rihanna ANTI
Nothing Rihanna released since Good Girl Gone Bad almost a decade ago has been anything more than overblown messes of albums with maybe 2 hits each and that's it. Nothing, that is...until this album. With ANTI, Rihanna has finally given us an album with enough consistency that it can be listened to the whole way through. One can only hope this remains the trend for future releases. Recommended Songs: Kiss It Better, Desperado, Yeah I Said It
Riverside Second Life Syndrome
Riverside Shrine Of New Generation Slaves
Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It
Single Mothers Wild Party
Soundtrack (Video Game) The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess OST
Spotlights Alchemy for the Dead
Swans To Be Kind
System of a Down Mezmerize
The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis
The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works
The Moth Gatherer Esoteric Oppression
The Ocean Precambrian
An album that, if you let it, unfolds itself to you little by little over time. Even the clearly inferior Disc 1 still consistently nails its mission of straighter-forward hardcore punk. But folks, it's the second disc where the band digs deep and unleashes a lethal power nobody thought possible in the realms of post-metal. Every song plays out like a nuclear bomb, quietly ticking away and building to a catastrophic explosion, each in its own unique way. This is what it's all about, the reason I listen to post-metal in the first place, for experiences like this.
The Roots undun
Three Steps To The Ocean Del Fuoco
Songs 3-5 on this album are a hell of a stretch. Some of the better post-metal I?ve heard.
Tinashe BB/ANG3L
Tinashe Quantum Baby
Travis Scott Astroworld
Twelve Foot Ninja New Dawn
Vince Staples Big Fish Theory
Finally a rap album comes out this year to contend against DAMN. for the throne. Staples' best beats to date (hands down) mixed with his vintage flow and lyricism. Quintessential shit.
Wolf Alice Blue Weekend

4.0 excellent
070 Shake Modus Vivendi
COMMMROUND WITH YOUR LOVE OH BABY I?M IN NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDD
Addison Rae Addison
Aesop Rock Spirit World Field Guide
Alcest Kodama
Alcest Les Chants de L'Aurore
Alexisonfire Watch Out!
Alexisonfire Old Crows / Young Cardinals
Alexisonfire Dog's Blood
Alice in Chains Dirt
Alice in Chains Jar Of Flies
AlphaWhores I
AlphaWhores You Can Come Out Now
Altar of Plagues Teethed Glory and Injury
Amplifier Mystoria
Amplifier Gargantuan
Anberlin Cities
Anberlin New Surrender
Angine de Poitrine Vol. II
Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion
Arcane Roots Blood and Chemistry
ASAP Rocky At.Long.Last.A$AP
Ashes and Iron The Wind Takes a Side
Au-Dessus End of Chapter
Baby Keem Casino
Backstreet Boys The Hits: Chapter One
Really the only BB album you need in your life. A nice, condensed version of everything they did well. Stop being a manly man and get your "90's boy-band craze" on.
Bad Bunny Un Verano Sin Ti
Baltic By The Light Of The Hidden Sun
Banks Goddess
Be'lakor Vessels
Beach House Teen Dream
Becoming The Lion Ghosts of a Fallen Soldier (Reissue) - EP
Beautiful vocals and harmonies have been mixed over the original 2010 instrumental tracks. It's hard to imagine this music without the vocals now. Stellar piece of work here.
Birds Of Tokyo Birds Of Tokyo
Not reaching the caliber of its predecessor "Universes" but still so catchy and intriguing. There is a lack of hits, but the overall record is easy to run through without wanting to skip any particularly bad songs. Ian Kenny is still outstanding and one of the best vocalists I've ever had the pleasure of listening to. As of now though, I'm definitely waiting more avidly for the next Karnivool album than the next from this band. Recommended Songs: In the Veins of Death Valley, The Gap, Murmurs, Waiting for the Wolves
Birds Of Tokyo This Fire
Black Sabbath Master of Reality
Black Sabbath Paranoid
Blut Aus Nord 777 - Cosmosophy
Botch We Are the Romans
Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
Brand New Daisy
Brand New Science Fiction
Bring Me The Horizon POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR
Brockhampton SATURATION
Brockhampton Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine
Broken Bells Into the Blue
Cairo Knife Fight Seven
Callisto Noir
Car Bomb Tiles Whisper Dreams
Chevelle Point #1
Chevelle Hats Off to the Bull
Cigarettes After Sex X's
Circa Survive The Amulet
Clipse Let God Sort Em Out
Coalesce Functioning on Impatience
Converge Love Is Not Enough
Converge Hum of Hurt
Cranial Dark Towers, Bright Lights
This is some crushing and lethal post/sludge metal. "Towers" will quite literally stomp on and devour your soul.
Crib45 The Ghosts Among Me
A little smoother and more melodic than the colossal sound that makes up their 2014 album Marching Through the Borderlines. It brings with it both more consistency but also less variety in tracks. However, a solid display of post-metal out of Finland nonetheless and some pretty decent ghost boobs on the front cover too as an added bonus. Recommended Songs: As I, Beyond the Reach of Repair.
Crippled Black Phoenix Banefyre
Crossfade We All Bleed
Crystal Castles Crystal Castles III
Cult of Luna Salvation
Cult of Luna Eternal Kingdom
Cult of Luna Vertikal II
Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas Mariner
Cyanotic The Medication Generation
Daft Punk Alive 2007
Danny Brown uknowhatimsayin¿
Dark Tranquillity Fiction
Dark Tranquillity Character
Dayshell Nexus
Dead Letter Circus This Is The Warning
Dead Letter Circus The Catalyst Fire
Deafheaven Lonely People With Power
The first truly great album of 2025 has arrived. Only took till basically April.
Deftones White Pony
Deftones Koi No Yokan
Deftones Gore
Degraey Reveries
Denzel Curry TA13OO
Denzel Curry Zuu
Dirge (FR) Hyperion
Disasterpeace It Follows OST
DJ Shadow Endtroducing.....
Doechii Alligator Bites Never Heal
Dog Fashion Disco Sweet Nothings
Downfall of Gaia Ethic of Radical Finitude
Dr. Dre Compton
Dr. Dre 2001
It's basically Dre coming back to address the haters after having been low-key for 7 years and saying: "Fuck y'all, Imma do me" in various different styles over 70 gorgeous minutes of top-tier beats. He may be historically one of the angriest, most chauvinistic assholes to ever grace hip-hop, but his talent as a producer is undisputable and on display here in dividends.
Dragonette Fixin to Thrill
Drake If You're Reading This It's Too Late
Things I learned about Drake by listening to this: 1.) He has a very negative opinion of Facebook, which he claims is not "real" enough for him and often distracts women he is trying to hit on, taking time away from what he'd rather do with them. 2.) He does not like to assist in police investigations even when said investigation does not involve him even in the slightest. 3.) He has a lot of enemies. Like...a LOT.
Drake More Life
Dua Lipa Future Nostalgia
El-P Cancer 4 Cure
Elder (USA-MA) Reflections of a Floating World
Elder (USA-MA) Liminality/Dream State Return
Elder (USA-MA) Through Zero
Electric Wizard Dopethrone
Elton John Greatest Hits 1970-2002
Eminem The Eminem Show
Emma Ruth Rundle On Dark Horses
Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini
Erdve Vaitojimas
Erdve Savigaila
Jfc what an absolutely delicious direction to take their sound after their debut. Get fucked listeners.
Fallujah The Flesh Prevails
Fever Ray Radical Romantics
Filter The Trouble With Angels
Filter The Amalgamut
Filter The Sun Comes Out Tonight
Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues
Foals Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost - Part 1
Foo Fighters Wasting Light
First truly great rock album of 2011. It's been a rough first quarter of the year, but this makes it so much sweeter. I cannot believe there is absolutely no filler here, it's insane. And can you hear just how much Dave Grohl learned from Them Crooked Vultures? Recommended Songs: Bridge Burning, Dear Rosemary, These Days, I Should Have Known
Frank Ocean channel ORANGE
Genesis Owusu Redstar Wu and the Worldwide Scourge
Ghost (SWE) Prequelle
Ghosts of Glaciers The Greatest Burden
Godflesh Streetcleaner
Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞
Godspeed You! Black Emperor G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!
Gorillaz The Mountain
Greyhaven Empty Black
Grimes Miss Anthropocene
Haken Virus
Hammock Love in the Void
Helioscope Noir
Helm (AU) Vol 3… Panthalassa
High on Fire De Vermis Mysteriis
Holy Fawn Death Spells
Humanfly Awesome Science
IDK Is He Real?
IDLES TANGK
Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View
Ingrina Siste Lys
Interpol This Mirror Weighs a Ton
Intronaut Habitual Levitations
Intronaut Valley Of Smoke
Intronaut Prehistoricisms
Irreversible Irreversible
Irreversible Vessel
Really nice to see these guys make music again. I got excited when I saw them interview and throw it out there at the
end that new music was a possibility. While "Vessel" isn't exactly pushing sonic boundaries for them, this is amongst
their more ambitious releases. They really let these songs reach unheard of lengths (for them) and get the songs to
breathe and transform into some interesting moments. While "Esus" is a bit more relentless, experimental and abstract,
"Thoth" is a more traditional but no less amazing post-metal buildup. Hope there's more left in the tank.
ISIS Celestial
Izah Sistere
Izah Izah/Fire Walk With Us Split
Izah's half (4.5/5): expertly paced and ferocious post metal from Izah as always. They balance the heavier
and ambient sections well and the final minute of the song is quite rewarding and spectacular. FWWU's half
(3.5/5): not as impressive but still solid instrumental metal. Some of the spastic heavier sections stand out as
on "Bygones" but musically it's just outbeaten by Izah overall.
Jack White No Name
Jakob Solace
Janus Nox Aeris
Japanese Breakfast Jubilee
Jesu Ascension
JID DiCaprio 2
Jolly Forty-six Minutes, Twelve Seconds of Music
Jolly The Audio Guide to Happiness (Part 1)
Jolly The Audio Guide to Happiness (Part 2)
JPEGMAFIA LP! (online)
JPEGMAFIA I Lay Down My Life For You
JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown Scaring the Hoes
Jungle Jungle
Kanye West Graduation
Kanye West The College Dropout
Karnivool Themata
Kauan Kaiho
An album for those who need that temporary relief from the chaotic, mundane routine we all tend to find ourselves in as adults. It's atmospheres let your mind wander back to those simpler times when the world didn't quite seem so chartered on a downward spiral. Beautiful, patient and rewarding music.
Kelela New Avatar
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly
Kendrick Lamar Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers
Kendrick Lamar GNX
Kid Cudi Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager
Kolm Yūgen
Closest thing we'll get to a Tool album in 2026, but unique and fun in it's own way.
Lacuna Coil Sleepless Empire
Lady Gaga The Fame Monster
Lana Del Rey Paradise
Well honeybun you outdid yourself on this one. How did you know I liked Pepsi-Cola and cherry pies? I mean gawddamn!
Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell!
Lantlos Melting Sun
Leprous Coal
Leprous The Congregation
Limp Bizkit Still Sucks
Lingua Ignota Sinner Get Ready
Little Simz Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
Little Simz Sugar Girl
Loathe (UK) I Let It In And It Took Everything
London Grammar If You Wait
London Grammar The Greatest Love
In this case, I'm not sure what more potential they need to show. Moreover, what would that potential even sound like, I doubt someone could properly describe that. This is their wheelhouse, it's the music they want to make and it sounds about as tight as ever (maybe the 1-2 duds being Fakest B*#ch and Rescue). Too much tinkering and outside opinion is what made their sophomore album so damn boring. It's pop...sure, but it's good.
Lost in Kyiv We're All Going to Be Fine
Lupe Fiasco DROGAS Wave
Lupe Fiasco Drill Music in Zion
Majid Jordan Violet - Single
This is almost like a completely different band from their earlier stuff, more a mix of alternative and R&B here. I hear shades of modern day Radiohead in the beginning sections of "Hands Tied", then the song moves into something sounding like The Police? Ridiculous. Title track is a hazy, funky, chill longer piece that is very ambitious and works. Blown away by this after never really liking them.
Mastodon The Hunter
Megadeth Endgame
Melvins Bullhead
Messa The Spin
Middle Class Rut Pick Up Your Head
Miley Cyrus Something Beautiful
Moanaa Embers
Somewhere in the past 3 years or so this band found their stride, what makes them THEM and now they cannot write a bad song.
Mol Jord
Mother Mother O My Heart
Mountaineer Bloodletting
Mudvayne L.D. 50
A very solid nu-metal album that's only real flaw is the sheer length of the record. On their own, almost every song is strong. However, when listening in full, my interest fades by track 11-12 due to the fact that the sound is similar in every track and the album becomes basically one 1.2 hr meshed song. It is still excellent and one of the stronger albums of its genre and era. Recommended Songs: Dig, -1, Nothing to Gein, (K)now F(orvever)
Nas Illmatic
Neander neander
Neurosis Enemy of the Sun
Neurosis An Undying Love for a Burning World
Night Verses From the Gallery of Sleep
No Cure It Is Going To Get Dark
Noorvik Noorvik
Norma Jean Polar Similar
Nothing The Great Dismal
Nothing But Thieves Dead Club City
Nothing But Thieves Moral Panic
Nothing More Nothing More
A bastard child of Emery and Fair to Midland for all those who miss the latter band and the days of high-adrenaline and all-around FUN rock.
Novarupta Disillusioned Fire
O'Brother Disillusion
O'Brother Endless Light
It's O'Brother stripping their sound down to a rough slow-burn rooted in weighty distortion. It's no where close to Garden Window but still thrilling and shows the band is still writing interesting music. I also hear a lot of neat influences at work I didn't hear from them before like Deftones (Your Move) and even a bit of Muse (title track). And Tanner's voice isn't weird any more. Now newcomers might have an easier time liking it! Recommended Songs: Your Move, Deconstruct, I Am (Become Death)
Oceansize Effloresce
Oceansize Music for Nurses
Opeth Blackwater Park
Our Last Night Selective Hearing
Some really strong song-writing here. The middle section has maybe 1-2 average tracks, but the first and last pair of tracks are great. It's poppy metalcore so I mean you have to go into it with as little bias as possible, but those who can put that aside will find something to love here. Recommended Songs: Broken Lives, Tongue Tied, Common Ground
OutKast Stankonia
P.O.D. Fundamental Elements of Southtown
P.O.S Never Better
Pain of Salvation In the Passing Light of Day
Palms Opening Titles / End Credits
pg.lost Oscillate
Pink Floyd The Dark Side Of The Moon
PJ Harvey Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
Poppy Negative Spaces
Portugal. The Man Woodstock
Post Malone beerbongs and bentleys
PSOTY Sunless
PVRIS Hallucinations
Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf
Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork
Ra From One
Rabbit Junk Project Nonagon
Rabbit Junk Pop That Pretty Thirty
Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles
Ahhhhhh, the album that could've been up there with my favorite albums of all time. It's flawless, literally gorgeous music and some of the best stuff RATM has ever written...for the first 75% of the album. The last few songs are depressingly average and a buzzkill. RATM had a slump with "Evil Empire", a very average album living in the shadow of its predecessor. "Battle of Los Angeles" kicks the living shit of that album as well. Recommended Songs: Guerilla Radio, Mic Check, Sleep Now in the Fire, Born as Ghosts, No Shelter (Bonus Song)
Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine
Red (USA) Of Beauty and Rage
A stupendous return to form for the boys from Red. I don't think these guys have ever made an album where the second half outclasses the first half, yet here we are. Absolutely epic songs, you can really hear the quality is back in their sound. Recommended Songs: Fight to Forget, Gravity Lies, The Ever
Riverside Out Of Myself
Rolo Tomassi Where Myth Becomes Memory
Rosalia Motomami
Rosetta The Galilean Satellites
Rosetta Utopioid
Roy Woods Flower City Heartbreak
Royal Blood Royal Blood
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3
Run the Jewels RTJ4
Russian Circles Empros
Russian Circles Memorial
Russian Circles Nine
Interesting they would make a concept album about young NFL player JJ McCarthy and his known alias on their ninth studio effort anyways it sounds great
Saba Care For Me
Saba Few Good Things
SAINt JHN Collection One
Sam Roberts Band We Were Born In A Flame
Sam Roberts Band Chemical City
This time around, Sam Roberts starts the album off again with a bang, but it becomes much more mellow than his debut LP. The good thing is that he makes his softer songs felt a bit more and they end up being stronger than the softer songs on "We Were Born...". It's a quiet album, but very rewarding once it clicks. Still don't understand why his music is so catchy. Recommended Songs: Bridge to Nowhere, With A Bullet, The Bootleg Saint.
Sam Roberts Band Lo-Fantasy
Sarin (CAN) Burial Dream
Sarin (CAN) You Can’t Go Back
ScHoolboy Q Blank Face LP
Shaboozey Cowboys Live Forever, Outlaws Never Die
Silent Vice When Does It End
Silversun Pickups Swoon
Silversun Pickups Neck of the Woods
Silversun Pickups Physical Thrills
Single Mothers Negative Qualities
Skillet Comatose
Skyharbor Guiding Lights
Sleestak The Fall Of Altrusia
Sleigh Bells Treats
Sleigh Bells Texis
Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind
Slowdive Everything is Alive
Soccer Mommy Sometimes, Forever
Soilwork Verkligheten
SubRosa (US) More Constant Than The Gods
Suldusk Lunar Falls
Swans The Seer
Swans Children of God
Sylvaine Nova
System of a Down System of a Down
SZA S.O.S.
Tame Impala Lonerism
The Afghan Whigs In Spades
The Avalanches We Will Always Love You
The Beatles Abbey Road
The Dead Weather Sea of Cowards
The Dead Weather Horehound
The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine
The Dillinger Escape Plan Under the Running Board
The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer
The Ever Living HEREPHEMINE
The Marias Submarine
The Mire Glass Cathedrals
The Moth Gatherer A Bright Celestial Light
The Moth Gatherer The Earth is the Sky
The Ocean Pelagial
The Ocean Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic
The Ocean Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic
The Offspring Smash
The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream
The Smile A Light for Attracting Attention
The Weeknd Beauty Behind the Madness
The Weeknd House of Balloons
The Weeknd After Hours
The Weeknd Dawn FM
Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures
There are just so many different songs to enjoy in this album made by a super team of music artists including the singers from both Foo Fighters and Queens of the Stone Age. Them Crooked Vulture's sound is addicting, it sounds crisp and new while at the same time celebrating that old classic rock sound. The songs are cheeky and quirky with unexpected turns and twists in rhythm and riffs. There are also many highlights in the album, particularly the first 1.5 minutes of "Elephants" where the band breaks down into one of the most enjoyable lead-ins to a song I've ever heard. Each song is unique and the songs don't ever really blend much, so you truly see how flexible the band can be. A solid debut album. Recommended Songs: No One Loves Me & Neither Do I, Elephants, Reptiles, Caligulove, Gunman
Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind
Thornhill Bodies
Thousand Foot Krutch Welcome to the Masquerade
Thousand Foot Krutch Phenomenon
Pretty awkward on the first listen, but TFK's sound and cocky pump-up lyrics eventually sneak inside your head. The problem is at some points Trevor McNevan sounds likes he's impersonating a British person and failing miserably. But the music is meant to blow your ears by how wild it is, and it's a great time, finished off by one of their catchiest choruses to date (Break the Silence). Recommended Songs: Step to Me; Faith, Love, and Happiness; New Design; Break the Silence
Three Steps To The Ocean Migration Light
Tides From Nebula From Voodoo to Zen
Tides From Nebula Instant Rewards
Hot damn, they've done it again! 5 years worth the wait.
Tiesto Drive
Tool 10,000 Days
Tool Lateralus
Tool Fear Inoculum
Torche Admission
Tove Lo Estrus
Out of practically no where, this emerges as one of the strongest dance pop albums of the year so far. Not on my bingo card for 2026.
Trophy Scars Holy Vacants
Twelve Foot Ninja Silent Machine
Tyler, the Creator Flower Boy
Tyler, the Creator Igor
Vince Staples Hell Can Wait
Vince Staples FM!
When Icarus Falls Resilience
With Our Arms to the Sun Orenda
Really good blend of post-rock/metal with hints of Tool/Mastodon influence everywhere. Lyrics can be a little
cheesy but this album reaches even more soaring heights than its predecessor. The heavier inclusion of rougher
vocals is a plus too. Give it a few listens and it'll grow on you. Recommended Songs: Macrocosm:
Prometheus, Apex: 100 Year Dream, The War: Light the Shadows
Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Yanni Keys to Imagination
Yeat DANGEROUS SUMMER
Zao The Well-Intentioned Virus
Zao The Crimson Corridor

3.5 great
10 Years Feeding the Wolves
10 Years (How to Live) As Ghosts
10 Years The Autumn Effect
10 Years Inner Darkness
21 Savage Savage Mode II
21 Savage american dream
21 Savage, Offset and Metro Boomin Without Warning
6LACK East Atlanta Love Letter
6LACK 6pc Hot
6LACK Love Is The New Gangsta
A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step
Absent In Body Plague God
Adele 30
Aesop Rock The Impossible Kid
Aesop Rock Integrated Tech Solutions
Aesop Rock Black Hole Superette
Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain
Agnes Obel Myopia
Agriculture The Spiritual Sound
Alcest Écailles De Lune
Alcest Shelter
Alcest Spiritual Instinct
Alexisonfire Crisis
Alexisonfire Otherness
Punk and emo always just ends up in rock anyways. Deal with it.
Alice in Chains Alice In Chains
Alice in Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
Allie X Cape God
Alter Bridge Blackbird
Altin Gun Yol
Amenra Mass VI
Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession
Amine Limbo
Amplifier The Octopus
Amplifier Amplifier
Anathema Weather Systems
Anberlin Blueprints for the Black Market
Anberlin Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place
Anberlin Lowborn
Anberlin Convinced
Anderson .Paak Ventura
Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders
Anna von Hausswolff Iconoclasts
Arcane Known/Learned
First half: A solid 4-4.5/5 and an astounding piece of prog rock. Second half: 2-2.5/5, the acoustic side comes off as boring and diluted and would've maybe suited a shorter EP but really drags down the far superior first half.
Arcane Roots Left Fire
Arcane Roots Landslide EP
Archelon Tribe of Suns
Ariana Grande Dangerous Woman
Arlo Parks Ambiguous Desire
Arlo Parks Collapsed in Sunbeams
Astodan Ameretat
August Burns Red Rescue & Restore
Azusa Loop of Yesterdays
B.o.B The Adventures of Bobby Ray
Banks The Altar
An incredibly top-heavy album that will undoubtedly re-establish Banks as a top notch female pop artist in today's competitive and "hard-to-please" music industry but falls just a bit short of her debut as the back half lacks the standouts. Still solid work and the first half is vintage Banks at her finest. Recommended Songs: Fuck With Myself, Lovesick, Mind Games
Banks Off With Her Head
She's had some great songs over the years no doubt. But frankly, this is the first time since her debut in 2014 that I feel as though her career has upwards instead of downwards momentum.
Baroness Blue Record
Baroness Yellow And Green
Baroness Purple
Baulta Deeply Sorry to Interrupt Your Megalomania
Bayonne Temporary Time
Beach Bunny Emotional Creature
Beach House Once Twice Melody
Beach House Depression Cherry
Beastie Boys Hot Sauce Committee Part Two
Beck Colors
Behemoth The Satanist
Behemoth I Loved You at Your Darkest
Beneath a Steel Sky Cleave
Besra Anhedonia
Beyonce Renaissance
Beyonce Cowboy Carter
Biffy Clyro The Myth of the Happily Ever After
Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot
Big K.R.I.T. 4eva Is a Mighty Long Time
Big K.R.I.T. K.R.I.T. Iz Here
Big Sean Dark Sky Paradise
Big Sean Detroit 2
Billy Woods Golliwog
Birds Of Tokyo March Fires
Black Midi Cavalcade
Black Midi Schlagenheim
Black Peaks All That Divides
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club B.R.M.C.
Black Thought Streams of Thought, Vol. 1
BLACKPINK The Album
BLACKPINK Square Two
Blut Aus Nord Ethereal Horizons
Boards of Canada Inferno
BOG Unshriven
BOG Remission
Bon Iver i,i
Born of Osiris The Discovery
Born of Osiris The Eternal Reign
Bossk .1
Bossk Migration
Album cover is like if the apartment from New Girl survived a nuclear Holocaust and was left uninhabited.
Bossk .4
Botch An Anthology of Dead Ends
Breaking Benjamin Phobia
Breaking Benjamin Ember
Briqueville IIII
Brockhampton Iridescence
Brockhampton SATURATION III
Brockhampton Ginger
Broken Bells After The Disco
Bullet For My Valentine Fever
Burial Kindred
Buried Inside Chronoclast
Cairo Knife Fight Cairo Knife Fight II
Cardi B Invasion of Privacy
Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion
Caroline Polachek Desire, I Want To Turn Into You
Carved Into The Sun Carved Into The Sun
Cave In Heavy Pendulum
Cecil Otter Rebel Yellow
Cecil Otter Dear Echo
Chagall Locust Spitter
Extremely groovy and punishing metal from Canada with a slight sludge edge to the sound. Vocals can switch between death and black metal growls at the snap of a finger and the instrumentation is on point. Recommended Songs: Ghosts, Healing Ground
Charli XCX Brat
Charli XCX Charli
Charli XCX How I'm Feeling Now
Charlie Puth Voicenotes
Chat Pile God's Country
Chat Pile Cool World
Chat Pile Who Loves the Sun
Chelsea Wolfe She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She
Chevelle Bright as Blasphemy
Chevelle NIRATIAS
Childish Gambino Atavista
Cigarettes After Sex Cigarettes After Sex
CKY Volume 1
clipping. There Existed an Addiction to Blood
clipping. Visions of Bodies Being Burned
Clipse Hell Hath No Fury
Cloudkicker The Discovery
Cloudkicker Solitude
Clutch Robot Hive / Exodus
Clutch Book Of Bad Decisions
Coalesce OX
Cold Year Of The Spider
Coldbones The Cataclysm
Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head
Coldplay Kaleidoscope
Coldplay Everyday Life
Conjurer Pathos
Conquer Divide Slow Burn
Constantines Constantines
Converge You Fail Me
Converge I Can Tell You About Pain
Converge The Dusk in Us
Converge/Dropdead Split
Cranial Dead Ends
Crib45 Metamorphosis
Crosses EP
Crystal Castles Crystal Castles II
Crystal Castles Amnesty (I)
Cult Leader Nothing for Us Here
Cult Leader Lightless Walk
Cult Leader A Patient Man
Cult of Luna The Beyond
Cult of Luna The Raging River
Cult of Luna The Long Road North
Cults Host
Cyanotic Worst Case Scenario Vol. 1
Daft Punk Random Access Memories
Daisy Jones & The Six AURORA
Dan Black ((Un))
Daniel Caesar Son of Spergy
Dead Letter Circus Aesthesis
Deafheaven Sunbather
Death From Above 1979 The Physical World
Death From Above 1979 Outrage! Is Now
Death From Above 1979 You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
Death Grips Bottomless Pit
Death Grips The Money Store
Defeater Lost Ground
Deftones Deftones
Deftones Saturday Night Wrist
Deftones Ohms
Denzel Curry Melt My Eyez See Your Future
Denzel Curry Imperial
Denzel Curry King of the Mischievous South Vol. 2
Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats Unlocked
Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats II
Dirge (FR) Elysian Magnetic Fields
Dirge (FR) And Shall The Sky Descend
Dirty Projectors Flight Tower
Dog Fashion Disco Ad Nauseam
Drake Take Care
Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
Dream Theater Distance Over Time
E-L-R Mænad
Earl Sweatshirt Doris
Earl Sweatshirt Sick!
Elder (USA-MA) The Gold and Silver Sessions
Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail
Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP 2
Eminem The Slim Shady LP
Emma Ruth Rundle These Killing Times
Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou The Helm of Sorrow
Certainly feels like B-sides which is fine. Crone Dance and the Hollywood cover are worth the listen though.
Empress Of I'm Your Empress Of
Erdve Epigrama
ERRA ERRA
ERRA Silence Outlives the Earth
Ethel Cain Preacher's Daughter
Evanescence Fallen
Evanescence Sanctuary
Evergrey Escape Of The Phoenix
Eyrth Fracture
If you can get over the horribly mixed vocals (not sure if they intended them to sound this muffled and weak?), then there's a perfectly enjoyable post/doom-metal record waiting for you full of groovy and chunky riffs galore.
Failure The Heart Is a Monster
Fall of Efrafa Inle
Fall of Messiah EMPTY COLORS
Fall Out Boy So Much (For) Stardust
Fallujah Dreamless
Fates Warning Theories of Flight
Fates Warning Darkness in a Different Light
Father John Misty Mahashmashana
Feist/Mastodon Feistodon
Fever Ray Fever Ray
Filter The Algorithm
Finger Eleven The Greyest of Blue Skies
FKA Twigs Eusexua
Fleet Foxes Shore
Foals Holy Fire
Foals Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost - Part 2
Fontaines D.C. Romance
Foo Fighters Greatest Hits
Freddie Gibbs You Only Live 2wice
Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist Alfredo II
Future DS2
Gaza No Absolutes in Human Suffering
Genesis Owusu Struggler
Genghis Tron Dream Weapon
Ghost (SWE) Popestar
Ghost (SWE) Seven Inches Of Satanic Panic
Ghosts of Glaciers Eternal
Glare Of The Sun TAL
Gloson Grimen
Gloson The Rift
Godflesh Post Self
Godflesh A World Lit Only by Fire
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Luciferian Towers
Godspeed You! Black Emperor No Title as of 13 Feb 2024 28,340 Dead
Gojira Fortitude
Gorillaz Plastic Beach
Gorillaz Humanz
Green Day American Idiot
Green Day Saviors
grouptherapy. I Was Mature for My Age, But I Was Still a Child
HAIM Women In Music, Pt. III
Haken Vector
Haken Fauna
Haken In a Fever Dream
Halsey If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power
Harakiri for the Sky Maere
Hayley Williams Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party
Hayley Williams FLOWERS for VASES / descansos
He Is Legend White Bat
Helmet Meantime
Helmet Betty
Helms Alee Noctiluca
Hemelbestormer Aether
Hemelbestormer A Ring Of Blue Light
Hemelbestormer The Radiant Veil
Heretoir The Circle
Hetfield and Hetfield Tidal Wave Dreams
High on Fire Cometh The Storm
Hippotraktor Stasis
Holy Fawn The Black Moon
Hurt Vol. 1
Hyborian I
IDK IWASVERYBAD
IDK E.T.D.S.
If These Trees Could Talk The Bones of a Dying World
If These Trees Could Talk The Hidden Hand
Ikarass Relapse into Desolation
Incubus (USA-CA) Trust Fall (Side A)
Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
Intronaut Fluid Existential Inversions
Iress Sleep Now, In Reverse
Irreversible Ashes
Irreversible Plucked Up by the Root
Isaiah Rashad Cilvia Demo
Isaiah Rashad The House Is Burning
Isaiah Rashad It's Been Awful
ISIS Temporal
J. Cole The Off-Season
J. Cole The Fall-Off
Jack White Fear of the Dawn
Jackboys Jackboys
Jamie xx In Colour
Janelle Monae The Age of Pleasure
Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid
Janus Red Right Return
Jay-Z The Blueprint 3
Jay-Z and Kanye West Watch the Throne
JID God Does Like Ugly
JID The Forever Story
JID GDLU: The Preluxe
Jolly Family
Jorja Smith What Are The Odds
JPEGMAFIA EP2!
Just Mustard Heart Under
Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds
Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour
Kacey Musgraves Star-Crossed
Kacey Musgraves Deeper Well
Kacey Musgraves Middle Of Nowhere
Kanye West Late Registration
Kanye West The Life of Pablo
Just as much of a mess as Yeezus was, albeit slightly better this time. I still expect him to deliver another MBDTF one of these days and when it hits it's going to be earth-shattering and we're all going to look like fools for not believing in him. Recommended Songs: Famous, Feedback, FML
Karen O and Danger Mouse Lux Prima
Karnivool In Verses
Kauan Ice Fleet
Kehlani Crash
Kehlani It Was Good Until It Wasn't
Kendrick Lamar Section.80
Kendrick Lamar untitled unmastered.
Kerretta Exiscens
Khalid Sincere
Khoma The Second Wave
Kid Cudi Man on the Moon: The End of Day
Kid Cudi Man on the Moon III: The Chosen
Knocked Loose You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To
Korn The Serenity of Suffering
Korn Korn
Korn The Nothing
Lacuna Coil Dark Adrenaline
This album is like a random hookup, fun in the moment but you feel like shit afterwards for listening to it. This band knows how to write a good hook though, I just wish the Dave Grohl look-alike would stop singing. Recommended Songs: Trip the Darkness, Against You, End of Time
Lacuna Coil Karmacode
Lady Gaga Chromatica
Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper A Star is Born
Lamb of God Into Oblivion
Lana Del Rey Ultraviolence
Lana Del Rey Lust For Life
Lana Del Rey Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
Leprous Tall Poppy Syndrome
Leprous Malina
Leprous Melodies Of Atonement
Lesser Glow Nullity
Let's Eat Grandma Two Ribbons
Lights A6
Lil Nas X Montero
Lily Allen West End Girl
Limp Bizkit Gold Cobra
Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water
Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight
Linkin Park Living Things
Now that the fanboy jitters and adrenaline rush have settled, I can try and sit back and seriously look at this new LP album from an unbiased perspective.

...I'll take it, it's not perfect, but I'll fucking gladly take this energetic bit of fun that brightened my year up a bit from the depressing shit I usually listen to. "Burn It Down" is arguably the catchiest thing they've made in ages...fuck yo couch all of you!
Linkin Park The Hunting Party
Little Simz Grey Area
Little Simz Lotus
Lodz Time Doesn't Heal Anything
London Grammar Californian Soil
Lorde Melodrama
Lorde Pure Heroine
Lou The Human Humaniac
lowheaven Ritual Decay
Lupe Fiasco The Cool
Lupe Fiasco Samurai
Mac Miller Swimming
Machine Head Unto The Locust
Machine Head Through The Ashes Of Empires
Madison Beer Locket
Madonna Confessions II
Majid Jordan Good People
Manchester Orchestra The Million Masks of God
Mandy, Indiana URGH
Mannequin Pussy Patience
Mannequin Pussy I Got Heaven
Mare Mare
Mariah the Scientist Hearts Sold Separately
This album kinda falls off after track 5 but it's got the hits you're looking for in the top half.
Mastodon Emperor of Sand
A very solid return to form from the lackluster album they came out with in 2014. However, it fails to match their landmark record Leviathan in terms of sheer fury and power while also not surpassing The Hunter in terms of their newer more mainstream approach as both those albums did what this does better. Recommended Songs: Show Yourself, Steambreather, Scorpion's Breath
Mastodon Marrow Deep
Matt Berninger Serpentine Prison
Megadeth Rust in Peace
Megadeth Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
Meshuggah Immutable
Metric Synthetica
Metric Art of Doubt
Metric Formentera
Metz Atlas Vending
Miley Cyrus Endless Summer Vacation
Minsk The Crash and the Draw
Minus the Bear Omni
Misery Signals Controller
Mitski The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
Moanaa Descent
Modest Mouse Strangers to Ourselves
Mol Dreamcrush
Moses Sumney grae
Mother Mother Eureka
Mother Tongues Love In A Vicious Way
Mother Tongues Everything You Wanted - EP
Mountaineer Giving Up the Ghost
Mouth Of The Architect Quietly
Mudvayne Mudvayne
Murs, 9th Wonder, and The Soul Council The Iliad is Dead and The Odyssey is Over
Muse Absolution
Muse The Wow! Signal
NAILS You Will Never Be One Of Us
NAILS Every Bridge Burning
Naomi Sharon The Only Love We Know
Neander Eremit
Neander III
Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm
Neurosis Times of Grace
Neurosis Fires Within Fires
Nia Archives Emotional Junglist
Night Verses Every Sound Has a Color...: Part I
Nine Inch Nails Not The Actual Events
Nirvana Nevermind
Noorvik Omission
"Hidden" is the gem to be found in here. Stellar track! Another solid outing by these German post-rock/metal beauties. A little less dynamic/exciting than their debut and certainly nothing new for the genre but solid.
Norma Jean Wrongdoers
Norma Jean Deathrattle Sing for Me
Northlane Alien
Northlane Mirror's Edge
Northlane Node: Reloaded
Nothing But Thieves Nothing But Thieves
Nothing But Thieves Moral Panic II
Nothing But Thieves Stray Dogs
Novarupta Marine Snow
Oasis Definitely Maybe
Obscure Sphinx Anaesthetic Inhalation Ritual
Obscure Sphinx Emovere
Oceansize Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up
Of Mice and Men Timeless
OHHMS Close
Old Man Gloom Seminar IX: Darkness of Being
Omen Astra The End of Everything
One Day as a Lion One Day as a Lion
OneRepublic Native
Onrust Van Woede Tot Wanhoop
Opium Eater ENNUI
Our Earth Is A Tomb Moth.
Our Last Night Oak Island
P.O.D. Testify
P.O.D. Murdered Love
Git in mah iP.O.D. right meooowwwwww
P.O.S We Don't Even Live Here
P.O.S Chill, Dummy
PARTYNEXTDOOR PARTYNEXTDOOR FOUR
PARTYNEXTDOOR PARTYNEXTDOOR 3 (P3)
Pearl Jam Ten
Pelican Nighttime Stories
Pelican Ascending
Pelican Flickering Resonance
Perfume Genius Ugly Season
This is the sexiest Swans have ever sounded, good for them!
Periphery Periphery
Periphery Juggernaut: Alpha
Periphery Periphery IV: Hail Stan
Persefone Aathma
Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Pijn and Conjurer Curse These Metal Hands
This is basically Baroness if they had stayed metal and didn't suck ass like they do now.
Pink Floyd The Wall
PinkPantheress Fancy That
Pivot Gang You Can't Sit With Us
Playboi Carti Die Lit
Poison the Well Peace In Place
Polaris Fatalism
Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream
Porcupine Tree In Absentia
Porcupine Tree The Incident
Portrayal of Guilt ...Beginning of the End
Portrayal of Guilt We Are Always Alone
Portugal. The Man Chris Black Changed My Life
Post Malone Hollywood's Bleeding
Psychonaut World Maker
Pull Down the Sun Of Valleys and Mountains
PUP Morbid Stuff
PUP This Place Sucks Ass
Pusha T King Push – Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude
Pusha T DAYTONA
Pusha T It's Almost Dry
The most 3.5 artist in hip-hop returns with an album that lives up to that standard once again
PVRIS All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell
PVRIS Use Me
Pyres Year Of Sleep
Queens of the Stone Age Rated R
Queens of the Stone Age Villains
Ra Critical Mass
Rad Horror Anti Teenage Sensation - Part 1
Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool
Rage Against the Machine Renegades
Rammstein Mutter
Rammstein Untitled
Red (USA) End of Silence
Red (USA) Until We Have Faces
You knew it would be difficult to top Innocence & Instinct, but this album somehow stands it's ground. It's a grower. Red has definitely softened up enough to hit radio and generate some new fans, but some moments on here are some of the best of their career. It's just a mature and tight album from a band that knows it's strengths. I honestly got what I wanted, which was another song from them I can play 50+ times without tiring of it (in the form of "The Outside" - such an epic intro). They have to learn to end on a strong note though...none of this 5-minute long piano soft bullshit anymore. They finish every album like this, do something nuts for once geez! Recommended Songs: Feed the Machine, Buried Beneath, The Outside, Best is Yet to Come.
Redlight King Something For The Pain
Remote Viewing State Violence
Rihanna Good Girl Gone Bad
Rise Against Appeal to Reason
A more mainstream album from the band that has always produced the same level of music in all the years they've been together. I have the same goddamn opinion of this as I do with everything they make: solid, a good listen, but just not good enough to cross that line into epic. Recommended Songs: Long Forgotten Sons, Re-Education (Through Labor), Kotov Syndrome, The Strength to Go On
Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness
Riverside Rapid Eye Movement
Riverside Love, Fear And The Time Machine
Riverside Wasteland
Robot Process EP
Soul-crushing hardcore from Canada with hints of sludge that will hand you your balls on a platter and make no apologies.
Rolo Tomassi In the Echoes of All Dreams
Root Zero Dark Rainbow
Rosalia Lux
Rosetta Wake/Lift
Rosetta A Determinism of Morality
Rosetta Quintessential Ephemera
Rosetta The Anaesthete
Rosetta Terra Sola
Rush Clockwork Angels
Russian Circles Guidance
Russian Circles Gnosis
Saba Bucket List
Sam Roberts Band Collider
Sampha LAHAI
Saosin Saosin
Saosin Along the Shadow
Sarin (CAN) House of Leaves
Saver They Came with Sunlight
Saver From Ember and Rust
ScHoolboy Q Habits and Contradictions
ScHoolboy Q Blue Lips
Secrets of the Sky To Sail Black Waters
Sevendust All I See Is War
Shaboozey Where I've Been, isn't Where I'm Going
Shad TSOL
Show Me A Dinosaur Plantgazer
Silk Sonic An Evening with Silk Sonic
Silversun Pickups Better Nature
Silversun Pickups Widow's Weeds
Single Mothers Single Mothers
Single Mothers Through A Wall
Clearly these animals having been listening to a lot of post-2009 Converge lately. It kinda works actually!
Skepta Konnichiwa
Ring ring pussy, it's SHUT DOWN.
Skepticism Alloy
Skillet Collide
Skyharbor Blinding White Noise: Illusion & Chaos
Slayyyter Wor$t Girl In America
Sleestak Aeon
Slipknot Iowa
Slow Crush Thirst
Slow Pulp Yard
Slowcut In Death Is Relief
slowthai TYRON
slowthai UGLY
Snail Mail Valentine
Snail Mail Ricochet
Soilwork The Living Infinite
Soilwork The Ride Majestic
SOM Let The Light In
Soundgarden Badmotorfinger
Soundtrack (Film) Black Panther The Album
Spotlights Seismic
Spotlights Tidals
Spotlights Love and Decay
Spotlights We Are All Atomic
Spotlights Seance
Spotlights Rarities
Squid Bright Green Field
St. Vincent St. Vincent
St. Vincent Masseduction
Starset Vessels
Uggh....why am I such a sucker for this shit?
Static Dress Injury Episode
Steven Wilson Insurgentes
Steven Wilson's songwriting has always been stellar, and it's nice to see his solo work follows suit. Many of the songs here are actually beautifully sung and written. He has a knack for pacing his songs perfectly. But, here he falls victim to the same issues his recent work with Porcupine Tree had. The last three songs sound stale and boring, and his longer songs here struggle a bit too, just like The Incident did in spots. As side projects go though (often experimental and hit-or-miss), "Insurgentes" is a wonderful listen and it'll be interesting to see what he comes out with next. Recommended Songs: Harmony Korine, Veneno Para Las Hadas, Only Child
Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)
Steven Wilson The Harmony Codex
still motions Mirrors
Strata Strata Presents The End Of The World
SubRosa (US) No Help for the Mighty Ones
Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz
Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell
SUMAC What One Becomes
SUMAC The Healer
Sunnata Burning In Heaven, Melting On Earth
Sunpocrisy Eyegasm, Hallelujah!
Swans Soundtracks for the Blind
I have put myself through this album non-stop for three weeks. I listened to it at work, while I studied, even before I went to bed. It's intriguing, daring, and terrifying. But I can't possibly give it more than this rating. This double album strives to literally do everything. Unfortunately, such an eclectic mix of genres and ideas more often than not crumbles under its own weight. For every gem like "Helpless Child", there is a song like "I Was A Prisoner In Your Skull" or "Empathy" that goes literally no where over the course of its entirety. For every terrifying experience like "Her Mouth Is Filled With Honey", there is a pointless filler track like "Fan's Lament" that makes you wonder why the song exists. And then, there are songs so good they almost standout TOO much. "The Sound" could stand alongside some of the greatest musical achievements in history, it's that good. It's so good, I get impatient while listening to the first disc of the album because all I want is to just cut the crap and get to hear "The Sound" again. Soundtracks For The Blind is quite the musical achievement and Swans should be commended for what they've done here, but the harsh reality is that THIS style was not perfected until the group reformed in the late 2000's. Their later stuff makes this look like an unfinished idea and unrefined.
Swans The Glowing Man
Swans The Great Annihilator
Swans Birthing
Swarms Old Raves End
Sylvaine Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone
System of a Down Steal This Album!
Tame Impala The Slow Rush
Tash Sultana Notion
Taylor Swift 1989
Taylor Swift Folklore
Telepathy 12 Areas
Telepathy Burn Embrace
TesseracT Altered State
TesseracT One
TesseracT Polaris
TesseracT War of Being
The Afghan Whigs Soft Control
The Almost Monster, Monster
The Armed Ultrapop
The Basement Paintings Antipodes
Technically if they?re antipodes, then the right one should be pointed southeast not northeast.
The Black Keys El Camino
The Black Keys Ohio Players
The Black Keys No Rain, No Flowers
The Butterfly Effect Imago
The Callous Daoboys I Don't Want to See You in Heaven
The Chariot One Wing
The Dead Weather Dodge & Burn
The Dear Hunter Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise
The Devil Wears Prada Zombie
The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene
The Ever Living The Ever Living - EP
The Fray Reason EP
This EP started out like it could be what I was waiting for my whole life. Unfortunately, after "Without Reason" it simply becomes mediocre. Definitely check it out if "How to Save a Life" grabbed your attention, you may find this even better. Recommended Songs: Together, Some Trust, Without Reason
The Game The Documentary 2
The Gathering Disclosure
The Great Old Ones EOD: A Tale of Dark Legacy
The Knife Silent Shout
The Last Dinner Party Prelude to Ecstasy
The Marias Cinema
The Mars Volta Noctourniquet
The Mire Vice Regalia
The Mire/Chronos Split
The National Alligator
The National I Am Easy to Find
The National First Two Pages of Frankenstein
The Ocean Aeolian
The Ocean Holocene
The Pineapple Thief Dissolution
The Raconteurs Help Us Stranger
The Republic of Wolves shrine
The Roots How I Got Over
The Safety Fire Grind the Ocean
The Shins Port of Morrow
The Smile Wall of Eyes
The Waters Deep Here Sunden
The Weather Station Ignorance
The Weeknd Starboy
The Weeknd Hurry Up Tomorrow
The White Stripes Elephant
Thornley Come Again
Thou Umbilical
Threat Signal Under Reprisal
Thrice Major/Minor
Tides From Nebula Aura
Time To Burn Is.Land
Tinashe 333
Tinashe Popstar
Tool Undertow
Torche Restarter
Torpor (UK) Rhetoric of the Image
Toundra Vortex
Toundra Hex
The opening three-part suite is where it's at on this. Couple other songs but not much really new otherwise.
Transmission0 Memory of a Dream
Travis Scott Utopia
Travis Scott Days Before Rodeo
Trophy Scars Astral Pariah
True Widow As High As The Highest Heavens And From The Center
Twenty One Pilots Trench
Tyler, the Creator Wolf
Tyler, the Creator Cherry Bomb
Tyler, the Creator Call Me If You Get Lost
Tyler, the Creator Don't Tap The Glass
Uboa The Origin of My Depression
Unfurl The Waking Void
Urne A Feast On Sorrow
Valerinne Desire
Vennart The Demon Joke
Vennart In The Dead, Dead Wood
Vennart Forgiveness and The Grain
The steep drop off in energy and momentum after Track 3 is...confusing and questionable to say the least. But it's salvaged by an epic and sprawling closer thank goodness. Look I don't mean he needs to only be heavy in his songwriting, but the back half before that closer really overstays it's welcome and gets sleepy pretty fast. There's a way to pace this next time where that doesn't happen.
VESSL Goddess
Viagra Boys Viagr Aboys
Vic Mensa There's Alot Going On
Very good, but not all songs are as tight as that stretch of Tracks 2-5.
Vince Staples Summertime '06
Vince Staples Vince Staples
Vince Staples Dark Times
Vince Staples Cry Baby
Void of Light Asymmetries
Warpaint Warpaint
We Came As Romans To Plant a Seed
Wear Your Wounds Rust on the Gates of Heaven
FAR more enjoyable than his first two solo endeavours. This is more like it!
Weezer Weezer
Weezer Everything Will Be Alright in the End
Weezer The White Album
Weyes Blood Titanic Rising
Weyes Blood And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow
When Icarus Falls Circles
Whitechapel Hymns in Dissonance
Witchrot Soul Cellar
With Our Arms to the Sun A Far Away Wonder
With Our Arms to the Sun Ep001
With Our Arms to the Sun The Mogollon Monster
Wolves Like Us Late Love
Yanos Omega
Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz!
Probably the best album they've released to date (that includes EPs). However, this band has yet to release an album I can listen to without wanting to skip over tracks here and there. Some songs are just not worth being shown the light of day (ex. Skeletons, Dragon Queen). Recommended Songs: Heads Will Roll, Soft Shock, Shame and Fortune
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Cool It Down
Wolf and Burning now sit near the top of YYY's greatest hits, welcome to the club. This is a very good comeback album that does a whole lot of everything.
Year of No Light Mneme
Young the Giant Mind Over Matter
Yves Tumor The Asymptotical World
Yves Tumor Praise a Lord Who Chews, But Does Not Consume...
Zao Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest
Zao Pyrrhic Victory
Zao Pillars

3.0 good
*shels Plains Of The Purple Buffalo
070 Shake You Can't Kill Me
10 Years Minus the Machine
100 Gecs 10,000 gecs
21 Savage Savage Mode
21 Savage i am > i was
A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms
A Perfect Circle Eat the Elephant
A Secret Revealed Sacrifices
A Storm Of Light Anthroscene
Music is competent and slightly punchy by post/sludge-metal standards. Someone needs to tell the lead singer to write less gimmicky lyrics though. We get it man...you don't like where America is headed right now; get in line!
Ab-Soul Herbert
Abraham Look, Here Comes The Dark!
Music's ok, lot of neat black metal influence on it. But did it need to be 19 songs and close in on 2 hours? No way.
Adele 21
Adestria Chapters
Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues
Agnes Obel Aventine
Alice in Chains Rainier Fog
Allie X Girl With No Face
Commendable 80s synthpop but I just can never shake the feeling that this artist is trying way too hard
alt-J This Is All Yours
alt-J Relaxer
Alter Bridge Alter Bridge
Amaarae Fountain Baby
Amplifier Trippin' with Dr. Faustus
Amplifier Echo Street
Anberlin Silverline
Ancestors Suspended in Reflections
Anciients Heart of Oak
And So I Watch You From Afar All Hail Bright Futures
And So I Watch You From Afar Gangs
Animals As Leaders The Madness of Many
Anna von Hausswolff Dead Magic
Antimatter Black Market Enlightenment
Aortes Have You Found Peace?
Arcade Fire The Suburbs
Architects Holy Hell
Architects The Sky, the Earth & All Between
Ariana Grande petal
Ariana Grande Sweetener
Ariana Grande Positions
Ariana Grande Eternal Sunshine
Artificial waves Heavy. Deep. Sad. Ironic.
ASAP Mob Cozy Tapes, Vol. 1: Friends
ASAP Rocky LONG.LIVE.A$AP
ASAP Rocky Don't Be Dumb
ASAP Rocky Live.Love.A$AP.
Astronoid Air
At the Drive-In in•ter a•li•a
Atlases Between The Day & I
Atoma Skylight
Au-Dessus Au-Dessus
August Burns Red Found in Far Away Places
August Burns Red Phantom Anthem
Like most of ABR's recent releases, this plays nicely all the way through. Some stuff sticks with you along the way, nothing really flat out blows...but the experience overall is quickly forgotten once it's done. "King of Sorrow" is the one exception, that song is a blast. This is perfect for music you can play in the background at the gym without needing to sing along. It's "lasting appeal" once outside that kind of scenario would be in question though. Recommended Songs: King of Sorrow, Float, Dangerous
AWOLNATION Angel Miners and the Lightning Riders
Baby Nova Shhugar
Backstreet Boys Backstreet Boys
Backstreet Boys Millennium
Bad Bunny Debi Tirar Más Fotos
Banks III
Banks Serpentina
Beach Bunny Tunnel Vision
Beach House 7
Beach House Thank Your Lucky Stars
Behemoth I, Scvlptor
Between the Buried and Me Automata I
Between the Buried and Me Automata II
Big Boi BOOMIVERSE
Big K.R.I.T. TDT
Big Sean I Decided.
Big Sean Better Me Than You
He really wants so bad to be like Drake and Kendrick but isn't. His flow and lyrical substance borders juvenile and even a bit naive. But time and time again there's something oddly down to earth and real in what Sean puts on display that makes him likeable. Detroit 2 was the best example of this but this isn't too far off.
Big|Brave Vital
Billie Eilish Don't Smile at Me
Billie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
Billie Eilish Happier Than Ever
Billie Eilish Guitar Songs
Billie Eilish Hit Me Hard and Soft
Birds Of Tokyo BRACE
A very different offering that blends the poppier leanings they've been going for recently with an electronic industrial sound and a bit of their old alternative rock sound too. Even if the lyrics are some of their corniest and phoned-in to date, it still feels refreshing. Recommended Songs: Harlequins, Gods, Mercy Arms
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Wrong Creatures
Black Thought Streams Of Thought, Vol. 2
BLACKPINK DEADLINE
Blindead Absence
Blindead 23 Deuterium
Blur The Magic Whip
Bon Iver SABLE,
Bon Iver SABLE, fABLE
Boygenius the record
Brand New Your Favorite Weapon
Brockhampton SATURATION II
Brockhampton TM
Broken Bells Broken Bells
Cage The Elephant Thank You Happy Birthday
Cage The Elephant Neon Pill
Cairo Knife Fight The Colossus
Callisto True Nature Unfolds
Camila Cabello Romance
Car Bomb Mordial
Caspian Dust and Disquiet
Caspian On Circles
Catsclaw Human Fission
Chance the Rapper Acid Rap
Chance the Rapper Star Line
Charli XCX Crash
Charli XCX Wuthering Heights
Charli XCX Music, Fashion, Film
Chelsea Wolfe Hiss Spun
Chevelle Any Last Words
Childish Gambino Because the Internet
Childish Gambino "Awaken, My Love!"
Childish Gambino Bando Stone and the New World
Choker Honeybloom
Cigarettes After Sex Cry
Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise
Cloudkicker Little Histories
Cloudkicker Unending
Clutch Psychic Warfare
Coalesce 0:12 Revolution in Just Listening
Coastlands Coastlands
Code Orange Underneath
Cog Just Visiting - Part 2
Cog Just Visiting - Part 1
"Moo" is my fucking jam. Best song name in history, fuckin Moo!
Coldplay Mylo Xyloto
Coldplay X&Y
Coldplay Ghost Stories
Coltaine Forgotten Ways
Conjurer Mire
Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky
This gets a 3 simply because "The Saddest Day' is without a doubt one of the best songs in Converge's discography. As has been mentioned in other soundoffs, the other songs on here come off as mere leftovers compared to the opener. They mostly just sound unpolished and some a bit immature, something the band thankfully fixes in later records.
Converge When Forever Comes Crashing
Cranial Alternate Endings
Crystal Castles Crystal Castles
Cult of Luna Cult of Luna
Damascus When Last We Met
Danger Mouse and Black Thought Cheat Codes
Daniel Caesar Freudian
Daniel Caesar Case Study 01
Danny Brown XXX
Danny Brown Old
Danny Brown Quaranta
If you were thinking his last album was a bit too mellow and down, get ready to hear even more of that this round.
Dark Tranquillity Endtime Signals
Daughters You Won't Get What You Want
Dave Psychodrama
Dayshell Dayshell
De La Soul and the Anonymous Nobody...
Dead Letter Circus Dead Letter Circus
Dead Letter Circus Dead Letter Circus (2018)
Dead To A Dying World Elegy
Deadmau5 While(1<2)
Deafheaven Infinite Granite
Death From Above 1979 Is 4 Lovers
Death Grips The Powers That B - Part II: Jenny Death
Death Grips Year of the Snitch
Degraey Chrysalis
Denzel Curry 32 Zel / Planet Shrooms
Devon Tracy Dream Chase
Dinosaur Bones My Divider
Dirge (FR) Alma Baltica
Dirge (FR) Lost Empyrean
Dirty Projectors Earth Crisis
Doja Cat Planet Her
Don Toliver Hardstone Psycho
Don Toliver Octane
Dr. Dre The Chronic
Drake Thank Me Later
Oh Drake, how I wanted to hate this album on the basis of how much I dislike you and your cockiness. You would've loved to see my reaction when I started having some songs from here stuck in my head. I still wouldn't consider this a great album, but some songs on here (really just tracks 4-7) are just really good songs. Sneaky bastard. Recommended Songs: Over, Find Your Love, Show Me A Good Time, Up All Night
Drake Nothing Was the Same
A bit of a step down from Take Care. There are some strong songs here, but his sophomore release somehow felt tighter with very few chinks in its armor despite having 18 songs. Nothing Was The Same will keep Drake relevant, but doesn't offer much to prove to us that there's a whole lot left in him. I love the Toronto shout-outs though, I'm from there! Recommended Songs: Started From The Bottom, From Time, Hold On We're Going Home, Pound Cake.
Drake Views
Drake Scary Hours
Drake The Best In The World Pack
Drake Care Package
Drake Scary Hours 2
Drake Iceman
Dream Theater Parasomnia
Dreamville Revenge Of The Dreamers III
dredg Catch Without Arms
dredg El Cielo
An alright album with a few sparks of genius here and there. Gavin Hayes' voice is remarkably soothing. As a full album though, it contains a few chinks in its armor. It also reeks of pretentiousness, this band clearly thinks very highly of themselves (little 1-2 minute "Brushstrokes" all over the place...get over yourselves). It is very over-hyped in my opinion, but still worth a look. Recommended Songs: Same Ol' Road, Sanzen, Sorry But It's Over, Of The Room.
Dua Lipa Future Nostalgia: The Moonlight Edition
Agreed on terriblekonrad's comment. She's milking the success of that album a bit. Remix album and then a deluxe? If we're going to go this route, the new songs on the deluxe better walk the talk and stand out and lead single "We're Good" just isn't on the same level and neither are the others.
Dua Lipa Radical Optimism
E-L-R Vexier
Earl Sweatshirt I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside
Earl Sweatshirt Some Rap Songs
Earl Sweatshirt Live Laugh Love
Earthside Let The Truth Speak
Elder (USA-MA) Lore
Elder (USA-MA) Omens
Electric Wizard Time to Die
Eminem Recovery
Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP
Eminem Kamikaze
Emma Ruth Rundle Engine of Hell
Empress Of For Your Consideration
Enslaved Utgard
ERRA Cure
Ethel Cain Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You
Evanescence Evanescence
Eyrth Meridian
Fall of Efrafa Owsla
Fall of Efrafa Elil
Fallujah Nomadic
Father John Misty Fear Fun
Fight the Fade Masks
FKA Twigs Magdalene
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes Crack-Up
Flying Lotus Flamagra
Foals Antidotes
Foo Fighters Concrete and Gold
Foo Fighters But Here We Are
Forth Wanderers The Longer This Goes On
Freddie Gibbs Soul Sold Separately
Freddie Gibbs Freddie
Freddie Gibbs You Only Die 1nce
Freddie Gibbs and Madlib Bandana
Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist Alfredo
Funeral for a Friend Welcome Home Armageddon
Future FUTURE
Future High Off Life
Ganon As Above, So Below
Genghis Tron Signal Fire
Ghost (SWE) Opus Eponymous
Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam
Ghost (SWE) Impera
Ghost (SWE) Skeletá
Glacier (USA-MA) A Distant, Violent Shudder
Gloson Mara
Godflesh Purge
Godflesh Decay
GoldLink Diaspora
Gorillaz Gorillaz
Grey Skies Ahead Panacea
Greyhaven Cult America
Greyhaven This Bright and Beautiful World
Greyhaven Stereo Grief
Hacride Lazarus
Haester (BE) All Anchors No Sails
Haken Affinity
Hammock The Second Coming Was A Moonrise
Harakiri for the Sky Scorched Earth
Harry Styles Harry's House
Harry Styles Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally
Hayley Williams Petals for Armor
Helms Alee Sleepwalking Sailors
Helms Alee Stillicide
Helms Alee Keep This Be the Way
Hemelbestormer Collide & Merge
Heretoir Nightsphere
Heretoir Solastalgia
Hieroglyphics Full Circle
High on Fire Electric Messiah
Holy Fawn Dimensional Bleed
Howling Giant Glass Future
Huldra Signals From the Void
Huldra Monuments, Monoliths
Hum Inlet
Hurt The Crux
Hurt Vol. II
Hyborian Volume II
Very by-the-book Mastodon and High on Fire workship. Decent if that's what you're craving at the moment.
Hypno5e Sheol
I Built the Sky Promise Me You'll Thrive
Ice Spice Like..?
IDK IDK and Friends 2
IDK USee4Yourself
If These Trees Could Talk Above the Earth, Below the Sky
If These Trees Could Talk Red Forest
Imagine Dragons Night Visions
Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself
Injury Reserve Injury Reserve
Injury Reserve By the Time I Get to Phoenix
Intronaut Void
Intronaut Null
Irreversible Age
Isaiah Rashad The Sun's Tirade
ISIS SGNL>05
J. Cole 2014 Forest Hills Drive
Jack White Blunderbuss
Jack White Boarding House Reach
Jakob Sines
James Holden and The Animal Spirits The Animal Spirits
Janelle Monae Dirty Computer
Jay-Z The Black Album
Jazmine Sullivan Heaux Tales
JID The Never Story
Jidenna The Chief
Joji BALLADS 1
JPEGMAFIA Veteran
JPEGMAFIA Experimental Rap
Juice WRLD Death Race For Love
Julia Wolf PRESSURE
Jungle Volcano
Justin Bieber Purpose
Justin Bieber Justice
Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience
Justin Timberlake Everything I Thought It Was
Kacey Musgraves Deeper Well Deeper Into The Well
Kali Uchis Sin Miedo (del Amor y Otros Demonios)
Kanye West Yeezus
Kanye West ye
Katatonia City Burials
Katy Perry Teenage Dream
Kauan Sorni Nai
Kauan Pirut
KAYTRAMINE Kaytraminé
Kelela Raven
KEN mode Loved
Kevin Abstract ARIZONA BABY
Khoma Tsunami
Kid Cudi Indicud
Kid Cudi Entergalactic
Kid Cudi Insano
Killer Be Killed Killer Be Killed
Killer Be Killed Reluctant Hero
Kingdom of Giants Passenger
Klimt 1918 Àmor
Lady Gaga Artpop
Lady Gaga Joanne
Lady Gaga Mayhem
Lana Del Rey Born to Die
Lana Del Rey Chemtrails Over The Country Club
Lantlos Wildhund
Latitudes Part Island
Leonov Wake
Leonov Procession
Leprous Pitfalls
Leprous Aphelion
Linkin Park A Thousand Suns
Linkin Park From Zero
Little Simz No Thank You
Little Simz Drop 7
LLNN Deads
LLNN / Wovoka Marks / Traces
Lo Moon Lo Moon
Loathe (UK) A Stranger to You
Local Natives Sour Lemon
Logic No Pressure
London Grammar Truth is a Beautiful Thing
Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor 2: The Great American Rap Album Pt.1
Mac Miller Circles
Mac Miller The Divine Feminine
Majid Jordan Wildest Dreams
Majid Jordan Two Roads
Malibu Ken Malibu Ken
Mandy, Indiana I've Seen a Way
Mariah the Scientist To Be Eaten Alive
Maroon 5 It Won't Be Soon Before Long
Mastodon Crack the Skye
Matt Berninger Get Sunk
Megan Thee Stallion Megan
Melvins Tarantula Heart
Meshuggah obZen
Metric Old World Underground, Where Are You Now
Metric Pagans In Vegas
Metric Formentera II
Mick Jenkins The Patience
Mick Jenkins and GreenSllime Black Ass Kung Fu Flick
Middle Class Rut No Name No Color
Middle Class Rut Gutters
Migos Culture
Milo Who Told You To Think?​?​!​!​?​!​?​!​?​!
Misery Signals Absent Light
Misery Signals Ultraviolet
Mitski Be the Cowboy
Moloken Our Astral Circle
Mother Mother Very Good Bad Thing
Mother Mother No Culture
Mouth Of The Architect Dawning
Mouth Of The Architect The Ties That Blind
Muse Black Holes & Revelations
Muse Origin of Symmetry
Nas NASIR
Neurosis Honor Found in Decay
Nickelback Feed the Machine
Nicki Minaj Pink Friday 2
Night Verses Every Sound Has a Color...: Part II
Nirvana In Utero
Noah Cyrus I Want My Loved Ones to Go With Me
Noname Room 25
Norma Jean All Hail
Northlane Node
Nothing A Short History of Decay
Nothing More The Stories We Tell Ourselves
Consistently good for what it is (alt rock with a dose of nu-metal flavor this time). But they had such a good sound on the S/T three years ago and this not only feels like a step backwards instrumentally but also in terms of maturity. Recommended Songs: Go To War, Ripping Me Apart
Numenorean Adore
NxWorries Yes Lawd!
NxWorries Why Lawd?
O'Brother The Death of Day
O'Brother You and I
Oceans Ate Alaska Disparity
Oceans of Slumber Winter
Oceans of Slumber The Banished Heart
Just like their last release, Oceans of Slumber are adding in a lot of interesting elements and building a fairly strong foundation for their sound. It's in the execution of these ideas where they offer mixed results and once again there are a few songs that work and a few that clock in at overly-bloated run lengths but never really offer up any rewards along the way. It makes the entire listen a bit of a chore. Luckily, their sound is one that can appeal to fans of many genres (namely progressive-,doom-, and even some post-metal) so there is at least something to discover here for most. Recommended Songs: The Decay of Disregard, Etiolation, No Color No Light
Of Mice and Men EARTHANDSKY
OFWGKTA The OF Tape Vol. 2
OHHMS The Fool
Pretty decent stoner metal with some progressive metal and sludge tendencies. Songs are long but paced well so they don't outstay their welcome. Music is fairly simple and standard for the genre, but some of the heavier sections jam very hard despite their simplicity. Was pleasantly surprised to see that the ~22 minute closer actually wasn't a bore, band pulls off a strong performance. The Bossk comparisons are a little incorrect, this is more Electric Wizard meets Anciients in my opinion, but definitely open to interpretation there.
Old Man Gloom The Ape of God II
Olivia Rodrigo Guts
Olivia Rodrigo You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love
Omega Massif Karpatia
Oneohtrix Point Never Magic Oneohtrix Point Never
oOoOO oOoOO
Opeth Damnation
Opeth The Last Will and Testament
Our Last Night Summer Of Covers
P.O.D. When Angels and Serpents Dance
P.O.S Ipecac Neat
Pain of Salvation Panther
Panda Bear Sinister Grift
Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon...
Periphery Periphery III: Select Difficulty
Periphery A Pale White Dot
Phoebe Bridgers Punisher
Phoebe Bridgers Lost Weekend
Pijn From Low Beams Of Hope
Pillars (USA-IN) Cavum
Playboi Carti Whole Lotta Red
Playboi Carti Playboi Carti
Playboi Carti Music
Polaris The Death of Me
Porcupine Tree Closure/Continuation
Portrayal of Guilt Devil Music
Portugal. The Man SHISH
Post Malone Stoney
Post Malone F-1 Trillion
Protest the Hero Scurrilous
Protest the Hero Palimpsest
Psychonaut Unfold the God Man
PUP The Unraveling of PUPTheBand
PUP Who Will Look After the Dogs?
Pusha T My Name Is My Name
PVRIS Evergreen
Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris
Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze
Queens of the Stone Age In Times New Roman...
Ra Duality
Rabbit Junk Invasion
Radiohead The Bends
Rain City Drive Beautiful Death
Rain City Drive To Better Days
Rammstein Sehnsucht
Rammstein Zeit
Red (USA) Release the Panic: Recalibrated
Red (USA) Declaration
Red Hot Chili Peppers The Getaway
Reflection Eternal Revolutions Per Minute
If only the whole album was as strong as tracks 3-7. Kweli is epic in each of those songs.
Rema Rave & Roses
Remi Wolf Big Ideas
Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter Saved!
Rina Sawayama Sawayama
Rise Against Endgame
Rishloo Eidolon
Rishloo Feathergun
Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name
Fallujah is more interesting. *proceeds to put on bulletproof vest*
Riverside Anno Domini High Definition
Riverside ID.Entity
Riviere Heal
Roisin Murphy Hit Parade
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever Endless Rooms
Rolo Tomassi Grievances
Rosetta Flies to Flame
Rosetta Sower of Wind
Royal Blood How Did We Get So Dark?
Royal Blood Back to the Water Below
Russian Circles Enter
Russian Circles Blood Year
SAINt JHN Ghetto Lenny's Love Songs
SAINt JHN Festival Season
SAINt JHN If Tomorrow Never Comes
Sam Roberts Band Love at the End of the World
Sam Roberts needs to learn that when you intend to have 12+ tracks on an album, you need to ensure listener's attention is kept the whole way through. "We Were Born..." did that, "Chemical City" was short and sweet, yet here he trudges along with a few bursts of speed scattered throughout, but trails off near the end. I also want to see him progress more for the next album, he is becoming stale and predictable even though his music maintains its gracefulness and hooks. Recommended Tracks: Love at the End of the World, Lions of the Kalahari, Sundance (one of his strongest to date).
Sampha Process
Saosin Translating the Name
ScHoolboy Q Oxymoron
ScHoolboy Q CrasH Talk
OKAY LETS GIT IIIIIIIIITTr[insert blast beats]r*TINGTINGTINGTINGTINGTINGTING*r...Bitch lets git it, WOO!
serpentwithfeet Deacon
Shad When This Is Over
Shad is definitely a threatening force in the modern rap scene. It's even more awesome that he's Canadian. Honestly, he starts out this album with some of the freshest and most easy-listening hip-hop I've heard in a while, but it trails out at the end and becomes a little too dull. "I Get Down" is bright and cheery and shows how confident Shad is. "I'll Never Understand" is on the opposite spectrum, one of the saddest songs I've ever sat through and so powerful. Recommended Songs: I Get Down, Out of Love, I'll Never Understand
Shad Start Anew
SikTh The Future In Whose Eyes?
Silversun Pickups Carnavas
Silversun Pickups Seasick
Silversun Pickups Tenterhooks
Single Mothers Everything You Need
Single Mothers Roy
Skepta Ignorance Is Bliss
Skyharbor Sunshine Dust
Sleep The Sciences
Sleep Token Take Me Back to Eden
Sleepwave Broken Compass
Sleigh Bells Bunky Becky Birthday Boy
Slift Ilion
Smino Luv 4 Rent
Soen Lykaia
Soen Lotus
Soen Imperial
Soilwork Death Resonance
Soilwork A Whisp of the Atlantic
SOM The Shape of Everything
sombr I Barely Know Her
Spiritbox Tsunami Sea
St. Vincent Strange Mercy
St. Vincent All Born Screaming
Starset Transmissions
Starset Divisions
State Faults Head in the Clouds
State Faults Clairvoyant
Steven Wilson Grace for Drowning
Steven Wilson Hand. Cannot. Erase.
Steven Wilson To the Bone
Steven Wilson The Future Bites
Subnoir A Long Way From Home
SubRosa (US) For This We Fought the Battle of Ages
Sufjan Stevens The Ascension
Suldusk Anthesis
SUMAC The Deal
SUMAC Love In Shadow
Sunpocrisy Samaroid Dioramas
Swans Leaving Meaning
Swans The Beggar
Sylvaine / Unreqvited Time Without End
SZA Ctrl
SZA S.O.S. Deluxe: LANA
Tame Impala Currents
Tame Impala Deadbeat
Tate McRae Think Later
Tate McRae So Close to What
Taylor Swift Reputation
Taylor Swift Evermore
Taylor Swift Midnights
Telepathy Transmissions
Tennis Pollen
Tennis Face Down In The Garden
Tephra Tempel
TesseracT Sonder
Teyana Taylor K.T.S.E.
Thank You Scientist Terraformer
The Atlas Moth An Ache for the Distance
The Atlas Moth Coma Noir
The Black Keys Let's Rock
The Black Keys Peaches!
The Browning OMNI
The Carters Everything Is Love
The Dear Hunter Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional
The Depth Beneath Us The Depth Beneath Us
The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity
This is a rating I wish wasn't what it is. I get why the album is so highly praised. Really, they are the pioneers. But compared to the newer albums, this album didn't have highlights. How can I appreciate the music when it doesn't give me a reason to return to it? It all sounds like one 40 minute mess. Some good parts, but nothing standout.
The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation
The Ever Living Artificial Devices
The Great Old Ones Cosmicism
The Great Yawn Blue Lawns
The HIRS Collective We're Still Here
The Holly Springs Disaster Motion Sickness Love
The Moth Gatherer The Comfortable Low
The Named The Named
The Number Twelve Looks Like You Wild Gods
The Ocean Fluxion
The Ocean Heliocentric
The Ocean Anthropocentric
The Pineapple Thief Your Wilderness
The Pineapple Thief It Leads To This
The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers
The Roots Phrenology
The Roots ...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin
The Smile Cutouts
Thornhill Heroine
Thousand Foot Krutch The Art of Breaking
Thousand Foot Krutch The End Is Where We Begin
Thundercat Distracted
Thundercat Drunk
Thursday Common Existence
Tinashe Songs for You
Toby Driver They Are the Shield
Tool Opiate
Toundra Toundra (II)
Toundra III
Towkio WWW
Town Portal Of Violence
Trapt Trapt
Troye Sivan Something to Give Each Other
Twelve Foot Ninja Outlier
The issue here isn't that it's a bad album, it's that it feels too much like TFN running through the motions. Every song, at its core, is structured much the same as each other. The sudden shifts in tempo and genre no longer feel fresh and exciting, they feel instead like something TFN puts into the song because "that's what they do". And in the end you have a product that feels more like attending a class of "How to Write a Twelve Foot Ninja Song 101" rather than the passionate and energetic album we know they can write. For this listener, the novelty has long worn off. Recommended Songs: Invincible, Point of You
Twelve Foot Ninja Vengeance
Two Door Cinema Club Beacon
Tyler, the Creator Bastard
Tyler, the Creator Goblin
Tyler, the Creator Chromakopia
Underoath Ø (Disambiguation)
Veil of Maya [m]other
Vennart To Cure A Blizzard Upon A Plastic Sea
Not powerful enough to match Oceansize's work. But also not adventurous enough to match the wacky experimentation and variety of his first solo release. I'll always continue to follow Vennart's work, but releases like this will keep my expectations grounded.
Vince Staples Prima Donna
Vince Staples Ramona Park Broke My Heart
VOLA Witness
We Lost the Sea Triumph and Disaster
Weezer Pacific Daydream
Wet Leg Moisturizer
When Icarus Falls Aegean
Whitechapel Kin
WILLOW Empathogen
Wolf Alice My Love Is Cool
Wolf Alice The Clearing
Wovoka Saros
Wren (UK) Black Rain Falls
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Mosquito
Year of No Light Ausserwelt
Year of No Light Nord
Year of No Light Consolamentum
Yeat Cocoon
Yellowcard Ocean Avenue
Yeule softscars
Young Thug JEFFERY
Yuxa Yuxa
Zodiak Sermons

2.5 average
10 Years From Birth to Burial
12 Stones Potter's Field
21 Savage What Happened to the Streets?
6LACK Since I Have A Lover
Adele 25
While the instrumentation and vocals succeed in most respects, they never really encroach on any new territory for her. But what really brings the album down are the lyrics themselves, which feel more like a regression from "21" where it felt easier to buy into what she was singing about. Her lyrics four years later ironically seem to take a step back in maturity, making her seem more like a mid-20s drama queen who never grew out of her boy-crazy days rather than the powerful and emotionally-stable woman she is striving to be. The album is also incredibly top-heavy, with maybe a couple gems later on in the album amidst a ton a dreary, somber mediocrity along the way. Nothing ever really comes close to the impact of opener "Hello" either. Recommended Songs: Hello (of course...), I Miss You, River Lea
alt-J The Dream
Alvvays Blue Rev
Amaarae Black Star
Amplifier The Astronaut Dismantles HAL
Amplifier Insider
Amplifier Hologram
Anathema We're Here Because We're Here
Anathema Distant Satellites
Anathema The Optimist
Anderson .Paak Oxnard
Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion
Arcade Fire Funeral
Architects All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us
Architects For Those That Wish to Exist
Arctic Monkeys AM
ASAP Rocky TESTING
Don't expect too much here. His work leading up to this has been spotty at best, with a lot of his standalone singles over the past year or so not making much of a splash. His work with ASAP Mob (especially Vol. 2) was also very hit-or-miss and no where near the quality of his first two studio albums. Rocky's fallen off the cliff a bit whether via a lack of passion in what he's doing or lack of content to rap about so it mostly comes off as stale. Despite this, there are some standouts mainly in the first half and the instrumentation has a very Yeezus feel to it which could work for some. AT.LONG.LAST will remain his best for now.
Astronoid Astronoid
August Burns Red Season of Surrender
AWOLNATION Here Come The Runts
AWOLNATION The Phantom Five
Backstreet Boys Black and Blue
Bad Bunny Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana
Baroness Gold And Grey
Baroness Stone
Battle Of Mice A Day of Nights
Battles Gloss Drop
Baulta That's My House You're Living In
Baulta Any Fool Can Regret Yesterday
Deeply Sorry... was a fun debut release. You can tell the band were excited and while their music invoked moodier atmospheres in certain parts, it felt adventurous and exciting nonetheless. Then the band kind of just got...sad (for lack of a better word). Any Fool Can Regret Yesterday is the darkest and bleakest release yet for Baulta. Maybe their debut was the wrong first impression to get but to me this music isn't very fun anymore and hard to vibe with. As with any post-rock release, I'm sure there will be a certain group that gets something out of this, but I really miss their emotionally lighter material. This makes me want to cry and I have other bands that already do that for me...thank you VERY much.
Beach House Become
Bear's Den Red Earth & Pouring Rain
Behemoth A Forest
Behemoth The Shit Ov God
Big|Brave nature morte
Big|Brave A Chaos of Flowers
Big|Brave in grief or in hope
Black Midi Hellfire
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Specter At The Feast
Blakroc Blakroc
Bleachers Bleachers
Blindead Ascension
blink-182 blink-182
Bloc Party Silent Alarm
Brand New Deja Entendu
Breaking Benjamin Dark Before Dawn
Brockhampton The Family
Cage The Elephant Cage the Elephant
Callisto Secret Youth
I get it had been six years since their previous album. I get that they don't feel obligated to sound like their older selves. I get that they may even want to distance themselves from post-metal altogether (which this album definitely tries to do). But this heavier incorporation of alt-rock and almost complete doing away with harsh vocals has resulted in something that lacks impact. If you stack this against their earlier stuff it wilts quite fast. The band definitely has some work to do in order to make something big out of this newer direction.
Camila Cabello Familia
Cardi B Am I The Drama?
Carly Rae Jepsen The Loneliest Time
Chance the Rapper Coloring Book
Chelsea Wolfe Birth of Violence
Circa Survive Violent Waves
Songs 1-3: "Holy shit, this is gold, keep it up! AOTY baby!". Songs 4-11: "Zzzzzzz...oh wut the album's done? Cool...". Typical. Goddammit Circa, here's someone who wants so badly to enjoy your music and you let them down every time with this inconsistency.
City and Colour Little Hell
Coldplay Moon Music
Converge No Heroes
Converge Beautiful Ruin
Converge Bloodmoon: I
Copeland Blushing
Crumb (USA-NY) Ice Melt
Crumb (USA-NY) Jinx
Cult Leader Useless Animal
Cults To the Ghosts
Well, that was an absolute chore. Sleepy and very disappointing.
Cyanotic MedPack Vol. 1
DaBaby Baby On Baby
Dan Auerbach Waiting On A Song
David Guetta One Love
Deadmau5 Stuff I Used To Do
Deftones Adrenaline
Dijon Baby
Dirty Projectors Windows Open
Dirty Projectors 5EPs
Doja Cat Hot Pink
Domo Genesis Genesis
Drake Scorpion
Drake Dark Lane Demo Tapes
Drake For All The Dogs
Drake Habibti
Drake and 21 Savage Her Loss
Drake and Future What a Time to Be Alive
DRAM Big Baby D.R.A.M.
Dvne Voidkind
Earl Sweatshirt Feet of Clay
Eidola Eviscerate
Electric Wizard Wizard Bloody Wizard
Eminem Relapse: Refill
Eminem Music To Be Murdered By
Eminem The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce)
Emma Ruth Rundle Some Heavy Ocean
Emmy Meli Hello Stranger
Ethel Cain Perverts
Fallujah Undying Light
Fallujah Xenotaph
Filter Short Bus
Filter Crazy Eyes
Floating Me Floating Me
Flume and JPEGMAFIA We Live in a Society
Foals Total Life Forever
Foals Life Is Yours
Foo Fighters Sonic Highways
Foo Fighters Saint Cecilia
Foo Fighters Your Favorite Toy
Future Future Hndrxx Presents: The WIZRD
Genghis Tron Dead Mountain Mouth
Ghost (SWE) If You Have Ghost
Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress'
Gorillaz Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez
Greeley Estates The Death of Greeley Estates
Green Day Father of All Motherfuckers
Green Day Revolution Radio
Gunna Wunna
Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy
HAIM I Quit
Hoodie Allen All American
Hotline TNT Cartwheel
Hotline TNT Raspberry Moon
Incubus (USA-CA) 8
Irreversible Thorn
ISIS The Red Sea
J. Cole K.O.D.
Jackboys JackBoys 2
James Blake Assume Form
Janelle Monae The Electric Lady
Japanese Breakfast For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women)
Jay-Z Magna Carta... Holy Grail
Jay-Z 4:44
Jay-Z actually comes up with better lyrics and more interesting things to say this time around. He just forgot to also bring interesting beats and any energy to his music whatsoever. Some rappers can pull it off, but Jay-Z needs some level of hype and urgency to his music and it's just not here.
Jessie Ware What's Your Pleasure?
Sometimes it's hard to critique albums that are doing nothing more than merely celebrating a past era/genre. This one is done well, but what personality of her own is really coming through the tracks? What new ideas are offered? I can't think of many examples. So the album gets high praise for copying an old musical period? At least Future Nostalgia felt like Dua Lipa's own creation. This could well have been any artist from the 70s/80s singing on these tracks.
Jesu Everyday I Get Closer to the Light from Which I Came
Jesu Never
Jesu Terminus
Jimmy Eat World Bleed American
John Michel and Anthony James Egotrip
Jonas Brothers Happiness Begins
JPEGMAFIA EP!
Julien Baker Little Oblivions
Jungle Sunshine
Justin Bieber Changes
Justin Timberlake Man of the Woods
K'naan Troubadour
Kali Uchis Isolation
Kali Uchis To Feel Alive
Kali Uchis Red Moon in Venus
Kali Uchis Sincerely
I guess her music will forever just remain pleasant and inoffensive background music till the end of time.
Kanye West Jesus Is King
Kanye West Donda
Karnivool Persona
Katy Perry Prism
Kehlani Blue Water Road
Kehlani Kehlani
So here we found out that when Kehlani tries to gather up all these veterans to feature on an album so fixated on sounding ripped straight out of 90s R&B...that we now have an album lacking any sort of personality whatsoever that made her previous material sound so fresh. Surprise surprise....
Khoma A Final Storm
Kid Cudi Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin’
Kid Cudi Insano (Nitro Mega)
Killer Mike Michael
Kygo Kids in Love
Lacuna Coil Delirium
Lacuna Coil Black Anima
Lady Gaga The Fame
Unfortunately, like most major pop releases, Lady Gaga may be fantastic for those first few listens, but this CD is, in the end, utterly forgettable. The slightly higher than than average mark is more due to the above average success she had on music charts and sales, because she undeniably topped 2009 sales and even had my ear for a good month before I came to this sad realization.
Lana Del Rey Honeymoon
Bleak, depressing, and self-loathing in the most boring way imaginable. This music has no energy and coasts along for an unfair amount of time with little to no reward.
Lana Del Rey Blue Banisters
Lantlos Nowhere In Between Forever
Legend of the Seagullmen Legend of the Seagullmen
Let's Eat Grandma I, Gemini
MY CAT IS DEAD. MY FOTHA HIT ME. I RAN AWAY. I'M REALLY HUNGRY. (Maybe working my way backwards with this band wasn't the best idea. There is such a thing as TOO experimental and wacky, of which they struck the perfect balance on their sophomore album.)
Lil Wayne Tha Carter VI
Little Dragon Little Dragon
Lorde Solar Power
Lorde Virgin
Lucy Dacus Home Video
Lupe Fiasco Lasers
Lupe Fiasco DROGAS Light
Mac Miller GO:OD AM
Mac Miller Balloonerism
Magdalena Bay Imaginal Disk
Majid Jordan The Space Between
Majid Jordan Majid Jordan
Man Mountain Threads of Another Life
Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun
Mastodon Cold Dark Place
Mastodon Hushed and Grim
Megadeth Th1rt3en
Meshuggah I
Meshuggah Nothing
Metallica 72 Seasons
Metric Live It Out
Metric Romanticize the Dive
They have been very consistent for a long-running band and yes their greatest hits would span like 2 albums at this
point...but this just felt so phoned in and flavourless I can't get past how uninspired this sounds.
MGMT Little Dark Age
MGMT Loss of Life
Migos Culture II
Miley Cyrus She Is Coming
Miley Cyrus Younger Now
Miley Cyrus Bass Persuades
Minus the Bear Planet of Ice
Minus the Bear Infinity Overhead
Mitski Laurel Hell
Mitski Nothing's About to Happen to Me
Moanaa Passage
Model/Actriz Dogsbody
Daughters-lite. And I mean that in the most derivative and boring way possible.
Mol Diorama
Mother Mother The Sticks
Mouth Of The Architect Path of Eight
Mudvayne Lost and Found
Muse Will of the People
Naomi Sharon No Sleep In Paradise
Nero di Marte Immoto
Noname Sundial
Noorvik Hamartia
Nothing But Thieves What Did You Think When You Made Me This Way?
Nothing More The Few Not Fleeting
Oceans of Slumber Oceans of Slumber
Opeth Sorceress
Our Last Night Age Of Ignorance
P.O.D. Veritas
Palms Palms
Panda Bear Tomboy
Parannoul After the Magic
Pelican Forever Becoming
I'm going to say about Pelican the same thing Paul Pierce said about the Toronto Raptors' disappointing 2015 playoff run: Pelican don't have the 'it' factor. They make mildly enjoyable instrumental post-metal that is by no means unlistenable but is also not in any way memorable.
Pelican Adrift / Tending the Embers
Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal
Phoenix (FRA) Ti Amo
Pig Destroyer Head Cage
Poppy I Disagree
Post Malone Austin
Rabbit Junk This Life Is Where You Get Fucked
Rad Horror The Part Where Julia Dies
Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire
Red (USA) Gone
Red (USA) The Evening Hate
Red (USA) Rated R
Redlight King Irons in the Fire
Rina Sawayama Hold the Girl
Roddy Ricch Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial
Royal Blood Typhoons
Russian Circles Geneva
Sabrina Carpenter Man's Best Friend
Sabrina Carpenter Short n' Sweet
Sam Roberts Band Terraform
This is really the sound of Sam Roberts getting a little too comfortable with the pop sound he's drenched his recent offerings in. It helps that it's nice and short (barring the snoozefest opener). The singles are strong and fit what he's trying to go for. But the album does get lost in its own conservativeness, especially towards the end. Maybe not his weakest effort, but close. Recommended Songs: FIEND, If You Want It, Black Spark
Sam Roberts Band All of Us
Sam Roberts Band The Adventures of Ben Blank
Selena Gomez Rare
Nothing about what she does here is unique at all. Hard to distinguish her from everyone else, despite it sounding plesant and consistent.
Single Mothers Our Pleasure
Sinistro Sangue Cassia
Obscure Sphinx is a better version of this band. Their female singer offers decent harsh vocals to mix things up and their songs don't feel as overly long as these ones do.
Sleep Token Even in Arcadia
Sleigh Bells Reign of Terror
There is something underwhelming about this album. At some point, I noticed that Sleigh Bells was using that same rapid thrashy drum injection in over 50% of the songs. Yes, it's a nice progression from their earlier subtle percussions, but it shouldn't reach the point of overkill. Reign of Terror succeeded by not being a re-hash of Treats. It did NOT succeed in leaving anywhere near as much of an impression as the 2010 effort. That felt fresh and alive. Here, only a few songs manage to do that, and the last 5 songs pass by like they're invisible. I miss the in-your-face Sleigh Bells I guess. If this album becomes popular, it will be nothing more than a short-lived fad and everyone will forget about Sleigh Bells for 2012. Recommended Songs: Crush, Comeback Kid
Slowdive Slowdive
Sol (USA) Upheaval
Squid O Monolith
Squid Cowards
St. Vincent Daddy's Home
Starset Horizons
Summer Walker Finally Over It
Summoner Beyond The Realm Of Light
Sylvan Esso Free Love
System of a Down Hypnotize
Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster Exegesis
Taylor Swift Lover
Thank You Scientist Stranger Heads Prevail
These guys sound like The Dear Hunter except even MORE full of themselves.
The 1975 Notes on a Conditional Form
The Armed The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be...
The Beaches (CAN) Blame My Ex
The Beaches (CAN) The Professional
The Black Keys Brothers
The Black Keys Dropout Boogie
The Game The Documentary 2.5
The Great Old Ones Tekeli-Li
The Knux Eraser
The Lonely Island Turtleneck and Chain
Honestly it has some hilarious songs, but for the most part it's pretty bland compared to "Incredibad". The second Shy Ronnie is just crap, even with Rihanna looking as fine as she does. On the other hand, "Threw It on the Ground" is funnier than anything we heard before, Andy Samberg nails that song. Recommended Songs: Motherlover, Threw it on the Ground, Great Day
The National Laugh Track
The Pineapple Thief Versions of the Truth
The Safety Fire Mouth of Swords
The Salt Pale Collective ...And God Said Nothing
The Shins Heartworms
The Weather Station Humanhood
The Weeknd Echoes of Silence
The Weeknd My Dear Melancholy,
Their Methlab The Last Second
Thousand Foot Krutch Exhale
Travis Scott Rodeo
Twelve Foot Ninja Smoke Bomb
Twenty One Pilots Breach
Twenty One Pilots Scaled and Icy
Twenty One Pilots Clancy
Still not enough to really mark this much higher than Scaled & Icy. Trench is so much better than this. Good opener and then maybe a couple more keeps in the trackless other than that. Oh well...
Tyla A*Pop
underscores U
Usher Raymond v. Raymond
Usher Versus
Vaura Sables
We Came As Romans Understanding What We've Grown to Be
We Came As Romans Tracing Back Roots
We Lost the Sea A Single Flower
Wear Your Wounds Dunedevil
Wear Your Wounds WYW
Weezer The Black Album
Weezer OK Human
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Show Your Bones
Yeat ADL

2.0 poor
A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe
Amenra De Doorn
Arcade Fire Everything Now
ASAP Mob Cozy Tapes, Vol. 2: Too Cozy
Bastille Bad Blood
Birds Of Tokyo Day One
Birds of Tokyo have definitely improved from this mediocre crap. There are some great songs here, but you can definitely tell the band is in the experimenting stage. What drove me crazy was how annoying Ian Kenny gets when he repeats the same lines 10 times over like in "Violet" or "Get Out", just sounds effortless. The follow-up album a year later makes this album look almost disgraceful and negligible. Recommended Songs: Black Sheets, Minor War.
BLACKPINK Born Pink
Blindead Niewiosna
Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver
Bon Iver 22, A Million
Boygenius the rest
Broken Bells Meyrin Fields
Charlie Puth Charlie
Circa Survive Descensus
Closure in Moscow First Temple
Cog Sharing Space
Quite possibly one of the most disappointing albums I've ever listened to. It's not the worst album ever, but to follow up 2005's gorgeous Aussie rock anthem "The New Normal" with this is really depressing. Where is the energy, the blast of riffs that sound like fog horns signaling shit's about to go down? They even gave us mediocre proggier songs which seemed to be their strength from before and what I was expecting they would lean towards. I can't think of a standout song that will make want to listen to it again, but I also can't think of one I despised. Even the song "Silence is Violence" with it's corny repetitive chorus somehow feels less corny alongside song other songs here that attack governments in some weird attempt at revolution. Before they made their repetitive choruses and harmonies the hooks of the songs, literally begging you to sing a long. Here there's none of that. Iunno, will try it in the future again but I've given it enough tries to sink in already.
Coldplay A Head Full of Dreams
Coldplay Music of the Spheres
We should all know by now that when Coldplay decides to have a rainbow colour scheme on their album art, it always translates to mediocre music.
Deftones Covers
Doja Cat Vie
Dragonette Royal Blues
Dragonette Bodyparts
Drake So Far Gone
Drake Maid of Honour
Drake and Partynextdoor $ome $exy $ongs For You
Eminem Relapse
Eminem Encore
Fair to Midland The Carbon Copy Silver Lining
Fever Ray Plunge
Foo Fighters Medicine at Midnight
Future HNDRXX
Future BEASTMODE 2
Future and Metro Boomin We Still Don't Trust You
GOOD Music Cruel Summer
Gorillaz The Now Now
Gorillaz Cracker Island
Ice Spice Y2K!
Imagine Dragons ƎVOLVE
ISIS Sawblade
J. Cole 4 Your Eyez Only
J. Cole tries to be Drake at a time when Drake is on the decline and still can't even manage to match that. This guy is up there with the most overrated rappers there are.
Jack White Lazaretto
Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak
Kanye West and Ty Dolla Sign Vultures 1
Karmin Hello
Katy Perry One of the Boys
Katy Perry Witness
Khalid after the sun goes down
King Krule Man Alive!
Lacuna Coil Broken Crown Halo
Lil Uzi Vert Eternal Atake
Maroon 5 Overexposed
Maroon 5 V
Maroon 5 Red Pill Blues
Maroon 5 tries to emulate Drake? As expected, it's largely full of "misses". However, I always have a hard time slapping 1's on anything, there's typically at least one good song buried deep enough on any album. Here it's "Lips on You". But people seem to be neglecting the ambitious 11-minute funk/jazz jam to close the album out ("Closure"). It's been years since the band has tried anything this sprawling and well thought-out and it's most certainly NOT indicative of a band going through the motions like many on here would have you think. Grow some balls and give the WHOLE album a try, yeesh. Pistol out.
Megadeth Megadeth
Megan Thee Stallion Good News
Meshuggah The Violent Sleep of Reason
Migos Culture III
Mike Shinoda Post Traumatic EP
Mumford and Sons Sigh No More
Muse The Resistance
Muse Simulation Theory
Nickelback Dark Horse
Nickelback Here and Now
Nicki Minaj Queen
Cardi B wins 2018, not Ms. Minaj unfortunately. Maybe next time.
Old Man Gloom Seminar VIII: Light Of Meaning
Olivia Rodrigo Sour
Opeth Heritage
Our Last Night Let Light Overcome
Not sure what they were thinking here. Whole thing is all over the place with incredibly cringe lyrics. Sounds like
"We Came As Romans"-lite. Keep in mind this is coming from someone who adored their 2017 EP.
P.O.D. The Awakening
P.O.D. Circles
Periphery Icarus
Periphery Clear
Periphery Periphery V: Djent Is Not a Genre
Phoenix (FRA) Alpha Zulu
Pillar Where Do We Go from Here
Poppy Empty Hands
What a massive drop in quality versus her previous album damn actually thought for a second she had figured it out
Post Malone Twelve Carat Toothache
Prophets of Rage The Party's Over
Puff Daddy Last Train to Paris
Red (USA) Release the Panic
Rhye Home
Rihanna Loud
Rise Against The Black Market
Sam Smith Love Goes
Sam Smith Gloria
Saosin In Search Of Solid Ground
Silversun Pickups Pikul
Sleigh Bells Jessica Rabbit
Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter
Slipknot The End, So Far
Snoop Dogg Neva Left
SOB x RBE Gangin
Loved their song "Paramedic!" off of the Black Panther soundtrack. Good beat, energetic lyrics and great dynamic between the members. This album tries to recapture that in 15 lesser songs following the exact same blueprint. By the second third of the album, the idea is beaten into the ground and comes off as try-hard. It says nothing new, it does nothing new.
Soundgarden Superunknown
Soundtrack (Film) Barbie: The Album
Steven Wilson 4 1/2
SUMAC May You Be Held
Taylor Swift The Life of a Showgirl
Taylor Swift The Tortured Poets Department
Taylor Swift The Tortured Poets Department (Anthology)
The Almost Southern Weather
The Fray Scars and Stories
The Killers Wonderful Wonderful
The Strokes Room on Fire
The Weeknd Thursday
Thursday No Devolucion
Tokyo Police Club Champ
WuW Rien ne nous sera épargné
Young Thug Slime Season 3

1.5 very poor
Birds Of Tokyo Anchor
Birds Of Tokyo Human Design
Bullet For My Valentine Temper Temper
Design the Skyline Nevaeh
Dirty Projectors Super João
Drake Certified Lover Boy
dredg Chuckles and Mr. Squeezy
Father John Misty Pure Comedy
What a chore to sit through. This is like if Elton John decided to become a cynical curmudgeon who shakes his fist at the clouds all day and sings about whatever the fuck is on his mind at a given time instead of just saying it normally.
Gorillaz The Fall
Gracie Abrams Daughter from Hell
J. Cole Might Delete Later
Juice WRLD Legends Never Die
Justin Bieber Believe
Justin Bieber Swag
Karnivool Karnivool
Ahhhh heellllppp pleeeeassseee it's agony!!! *plays Simple Boy* "I'm highhhhhhh above the world, why should I feel pain, or feel alooonnneeeee...." whew all better : )
Katy Perry Smile
Kesha Rainbow
Kid Cudi Satellite Flight: The Journey to Mother Moon
Lady Gaga Born This Way
Linkin Park One More Light
Paramore After Laughter
This shit sucks. I mean the band was barely tolerable before as it was. And now they come galloping into the scene with this newer '80s beachy/funky sound like it's revolutionary and just play it into the ground for 12 songs until it's beyond overdone. And the hooks are normal indie pop hooks, nothing more nothing less.
Rihanna Talk That Talk
Rihanna Unapologetic
Sleigh Bells Bitter Rivals
This band has inexplicably forgotten how to make a good song. I can't even find one song on here that sticks out. They need to cool their jets and take their time on the next album, because this was one colossal waste of everyone's time.
The Black Eyed Peas The Beginning
Thousand Foot Krutch Oxygen: Inhale
Thousand Foot Krutch has been teetering on the edge between decent melodic hard rock and face-smacking awkward nu-metal for years. However, up until now they had somehow managed to elude the inevitable collapse that happens to bands like that by having each album deliver at least a few gems and a tolerable level of consistency. Oxygen:Inhale is the first time I can tell you that TFK has fallen off the wrong side of the wall and is lost in a place that only they understand. Let's hope Oxygen:Exhale redeems them.
Year of No Light Les Maîtres Fous

1.0 awful
Bruno Mars Doo-Wops & Hooligans
Chance the Rapper The Big Day
Chris Brown Heartbreak on a Full Moon
DJ Khaled Father of Asahd
Drake Honestly, Nevermind
Eminem Revival
Hard to believe but it's the worst album Eminem has ever released, worse than even Encore and Relapse.
Kesha Animal
Kid Cudi Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven
Lou Reed and Metallica Lulu
Maroon 5 Jordi
Meghan Trainor Thank You
Poppy Music to Scream To
The Black Eyed Peas The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies)
Train California 37
Train A Girl A Bottle A Boat
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