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5.0 classic
Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
Brand New Daisy
Breather Resist Only in the Morning
Coldplay Parachutes
Converge Jane Doe
An utterly perfect metalcore record, start to finish.
Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights
Crushing, heartfelt, intelligent, literate, fascinating, immersive, technically impressive - it's not often a hardcore record can lay claim to even some, let alone all, of these descriptions. Empty Days and Sleepless nights pulls it off and makes it sound easy. Destined to be a classic for sure.
Deftones White Pony
Deftones Around the Fur
Deftones Diamond Eyes
Easily their best since White Pony, and certainly their most consistent.
Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape
Glassjaw Worship and Tribute
Glassjaw Coloring Book
Beautiful collection of tunes. Dark, mature, oppressive, gorgeous, textured. So glad to have them back.
ISIS Oceanic
ISIS Panopticon
Jacobs Stories Undisciplined Art
Stunning record from the UK's most underappreciated singer/songwriter. £50 Guarantee will strike a chord with any musician who has fruitlessly toured the toilet circuit, while The Christian and the Queer is a skewed take on a non-traditional case of unrequited love. Highlights of the album for me though are God's Rottweiler, a damning indictment of the hypocrisy of the church with regards to homosexuality and closing track Carol White, in which JS creative force Stuart Lee draws comparison between himself and the damaged heroine of Todd Hayne's 1995 film Safe. Combining the fragile piano-and-electronics of Amnesiac-era Radiohead with Cold House-era Hood, this is an underrated gem.
Jacobs Stories Fledgling
Gorgeous collection of piano, synth and beat-lead confessionals from the most underrated singer-songwriter in the UK.
Jimmy Eat World Clarity
Mare Mare
One of the best heavy records of all time. Puts pretty much all other "post-metal" to shame.
Michael Giacchino Lost: Season 4
Michael Giacchino Lost: Season 5
Michael Giacchino Lost: Season 1
O'Brother Garden Window
Oceansize Music for Nurses
Oceansize's best, most cohesive release. Paper Champion is one of my favourite tracks of all time.
Pearl Jam Ten
Pearl Jam Vs.
Radiohead Kid A
Radiohead OK Computer
Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come
Self Defense Family Try Me
The Chariot One Wing
Thrice Vheissu
Thrice Major/Minor
Thursday War All the Time
Thursday No Devolucion
Tool Lateralus
Tool Ænima
Vessels Helioscope
Such a step up from their (excellent) debut it's almost unbelievable, Helioscope takes everything that was great about White Fields & Open Devices and ramps it up - more synth, more beats, more riffs - and finely tunes the stock stuff to perfection (you'll find nary a delayed post-rock crescendo here, but when they go big, you won't forget it). This is the sound of one of the UKs finest realising their full potential and it's stunning.

4.5 superb
A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step
A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms
Biffy Clyro Blackened Sky
Breach Kollapse
Breather Resist Charmer
So unbelievably good. Also, much better than the BR offshoots (Young Widows, Brain Banger).
Cave In Jupiter
Cursive Domestica
Departures When Losing Everything Is Everything You Wanted
Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence
While I don't listen to it as much as I did when I was 17, it's still a total game-changer of an album for me. The passion, the soul - never equalled. Worship & Tribute has the musicality but this has the catharsis.
Hop Along Get Disowned
Jairus Build My Gallows High
The best post-hardcore band in the UK just now. BMGH is a short, sharp burst of intelligent, progressive hardcore.
Jimmy Eat World Bleed American
Jonathan Snee Good Blood
Khoma The Second Wave
letlive. Fake History
Million Dead Harmony No Harmony
Moving Mountains Pneuma
Nirvana In Utero
Norma Jean Redeemer
Almost everything about this record is an improvement on O'God - the production, the vocals, the songwriting. So much gets said about their faith, however if I didn't know beforehand that they were Christians, I'd certainly not find out from their music.
It's a noisy, aggressive, passionate and well-made post-hardcore record, and should be appreciated on this basis, not on what god they believe in. Plus, they stopped ripping off Botch.
Oceansize Effloresce
Oceansize Everyone Into Position
Oceansize Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up
On listen number 4 and I'm still being blown away. As it stands I'm thinking this might be better than Frames. Favourite tracks so far are Build Us a Rocket Then, Oscar Acceptance Speech (wow) and It's My Tail.
Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After
Radiohead The Bends
Radiohead In Rainbows
Secondsmile Walk Into The Light And Reach For The Sk
One of my favourite UK post-hardcore albums of all time. Amazing guitar work, impassioned vocals and intricate compositions.
St. Vincent St. Vincent
Stone Temple Pilots Purple
Stuart Warwick The Ordeal
Sunny Day Real Estate Diary
The Chariot Long Live
The Twilight Sad Forget The Night Ahead
Thursday Common Existence

4.0 excellent
Archers of Loaf Icky Mettle
Balance and Composure Separation
Biffy Clyro Infinity Land
Brand New Deja Entendu
Bush The Science of Things
Circa Survive On Letting Go
Circa's drummer is awesome, particularly on this album. He's no "weak link". Anyway, album's great.
Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow
Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head
Coldplay Live 2003
Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
Coldplay Prospekt's March
Coldplay Mylo Xyloto
Constants If Tomorrow the War
A big improvement on their last record. It's good to hear that the early promise of the band (based on their demos and their split with Caspian) is finally being delivered on, helped in part by the presence of post-metal legend Justin K. Broaderick (Jesu, Godflesh) at the desk. A ferocious, expansive record.
Crime In Stereo Crime In Stereo Is Dead
Much like the leap from Your Favourite Weapon to Deja Entendu, this is where Crime In Stereo made the jump from a great-at-what-they-do pop-hardcore band to rapidly maturing alt-rock.
Cursive The Ugly Organ
Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism
Beautiful record, probably my favourite Death Cab album.
Deftones Adrenaline
Deftones Saturday Night Wrist
Some absolutely amazing tracks - Kimdracula may be one of the most arresting songs Deftones have written. However the heavy-heavy moments sound forced and insincere, and two words: Pink Cellphone. Still a great album, and much better than it's given credit for.
Departures Escaping
Eaststrikewest Wolvves
Genre-bending debut from ex-threemovements boys. Fans of Dredg, Circa Survive and intelligent, expansive rock music should check this out.
Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon
Really catchy, groovy and fun album. Lyrically, Keith Buckley's at his peak, every song crammed full of literate, wordy and intelligent soundbites - just a shame that the band felt the need to turn everything else down a notch so he could be heard. In fact, it's only the thin, poppy production and token single "The New Black" that let this album down. Party metalcore.
Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic
A return to form after the weak Big Dirty. Heavy, catchy, fun and with an aggression not seen since Hot Damn!, hopefully this signifies a second wind for ETID.
Foo Fighters Foo Fighters
Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles)
ISIS SGNL>05
Jeniferever Spring Tides
While it meanders a little too much in the middle, this is a beautiful record, that stands head and shoulders above it's "DELAYED CRESCENDO" post-rock peers.
Jimmy Eat World Futures
Jimmy Eat World Stay on My Side Tonight
Jonathan Snee Two Seasons
Jonathan Snee Too Bad
Million Dead A Song to Ruin
Moving Mountains Foreword
Not quite up to the standard of their debut full-length "Pneuma", but an emotive, progressive and inspiring collection of post-rock inspired post-hardcore gems. This bodes well for the band's future.
Nirvana Nevermind
Norma Jean Meridional
Not as good as the wonderful Redeemer, much better than The Anti-Mother, less plagiaristic than O' God and more consistent than Bless the Martyr. Thoroughly enjoyable chaotic metalcore.
O'Brother The Death of Day
Oceansize Frames
Queens of the Stone Age Rated R
Seahaven Ghost
The Chariot The Fiancee
The Chariot Wars and Rumors of Wars
The Get Up Kids Something to Write Home About
The Twilight Sad Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters
Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV
Thrice Beggars
Thursday Full Collapse
Young Legionnaire Colossus/Iron Dream 7"
Young Legionnaire Crisis Works

3.5 great
Anthony Green Avalon Remix
Far superior to the source material - where Avalon was boring and repetetive, the remixes are interesting, quirky and, in some cases, very beautiful. Anthony's voice still stays front-and-centre, but the periphery is much improved upon.
Biffy Clyro The Vertigo of Bliss
Brand New Fight Off Your Demons (The Demos)
Bush Razorblade Suitcase
Deftones Deftones
Deftones B-Sides and Rarities
Foo Fighters There Is Nothing Left to Lose
ISIS Celestial
Jairus The Need To Change the Mapmaker
Bump this. Some excellent songs (Ara Pacis, Caligula, Wilomena) marred by some questionable production - the drum sound is pretty terrible, due to overuse of triggers on the kick. In my opinion, this record was only a hint of how great this band could become - check out their S/T EP and newest EP "Build Your Gallows High". Progressive UK post-hardcore at it's finest.
Jimmy Eat World Chase This Light
Jimmy Eat World Invented
Norma Jean Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child
Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf
Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age
Radiohead Amnesiac
Radiohead Hail to the Thief
Stone Temple Pilots Core
Stone Temple Pilots Tiny Music... Songs From the Vatican Gift Shop
Sunny Day Real Estate The Rising Tide
The Chariot Everything Is Alive, Everything Is...
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II
Thursday Waiting
Thursday Five Stories Falling
Tool Salival

3.0 good
Biffy Clyro Puzzle
Brand New Your Favorite Weapon
Bush Sixteen Stone
Coldplay X&Y
Deftones Live
Far At Night We Live
Very much a mixed bag - the good sounds are wonderful, but the bad pretty terrible. On the plus side, If You Cared Enough, When I Could See and At Night We Live throb and hum with enough energy, emotion and bite to hold their own against the Far back catalogue. However, when the band try to "rawk", things get a little embarrassing. Deafening, Fight Song and Dear Enemy are full of stock radio-rock riffs and lame lyrics, but the choruses still soar (Dear Enemy in particular boasting one of Matranga's finest ever choruses). Verdict - not a disaster, but not the return to form expected.
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Foo Fighters One by One
Glassjaw Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Good-not-great. Flashes of the genius to come (especially in Vermont Connection, Chapter 7 Test or The Ephesians Were Right After All), but very rough round the edges. And the version of Star Above My Bed is nothing compared to the Don Fury version, Star Under My Bed.
ISIS In the Absence of Truth
ISIS Wavering Radiant
Jimmy Eat World Static Prevails
Nirvana Bleach
Norma Jean O' God, the Aftermath
Oceansize Home & Minor
Stone Temple Pilots No. 4
Thursday A City By the Light Divided
Thursday Kill the House Lights
Tool Undertow

2.5 average
Biffy Clyro Singles: 2001 - 2005
Biffy Clyro Only Revolutions
Constants The Foundation The Machine The Ascension
Good ideas undermined by awful production, unmemorable melodies and a focus on noise over craft. A disappointment.
Deftones Back to School (Mini Maggit)
Every Time I Die The Big Dirty
The weakest ETID record, mainly because of the focus on "southern" and not enough "metal". Still a few standout tracks (dancefloor filler We'rewolf, Cities and Years with it's insanely heavy, Pantera-esque outro), but alot of fluff, filler and poor retreads of past glories.
Norma Jean The Anti Mother
Stone Temple Pilots Shangri-La-Dee-Da
Tool Opiate
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