| 5.0 classic |
| (The) Slowest Runner (In All The World) We, Burning Giraffes |
I like how the band registered on sputnik and 5'd
their own album. Get back into the studio and
continue making amazing music! |
| Black Moth Super Rainbow Dandelion Gum |
| Blue Scholars Bayani |
A combination of lyrical poetry, social issues, and innovated beats to create THE hip hop
album of 2007. |
| Brightblack Morning Light Motion to Rejoin |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King |
| Nicolas Jaar Space Is Only Noise |
This is electronic music yes, but as said previously, it has a very organic feel to it. Jaar
uses lots of samples, even in certain parts it includes odd clacking noises (sounds like
they were made with his mouth), pages being flipped through in a book, and of course, live
instrumentation. But even though there are a lot of natural sounds, Jaar washes over them
with other sounds and dissonance to the point where it feels degraded. This album almost
feels ancient at times, yet it is clearly not. This album really stresses what is in between
the notes; you get lost in the music and it pushes the boundaries of your imagination. |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Pink Floyd The Wall |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun |
| Sigur Ros ( ) |
| Sigur Ros Takk... |
| Sigur Ros Heima (DVD) |
| Sigur Ros Valtari |
When you begin to live in the own shadow of your band, things become dark. Sigur Ros stripped themselves
nude on this one and returned to their emotional roots. |
| Tame Impala Lonerism |
| The Aliens Luna |
| The Beatles Abbey Road |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots |
| "Do You Realize??" is all I need to justify giving this a 5. |
| 4.5 superb |
| *shels Plains Of The Purple Buffalo |
| Adebisi Shank This is the Second Album |
| Aloe Blacc Good Things |
| Avi Buffalo Avi Buffalo |
| Beach House Teen Dream |
| Beach House Bloom |
| Beach House have realized the trance like aura behind their sound and have truly embraced it. And for those rpeople who say there isn't a standout track like Norway, did you listen to Other People or New Year? |
| Beastie Boys Hot Sauce Committee Part Two |
| This has the perfect amount of cowbell. Glad someone finally got it right... |
| Black Moth Super Rainbow Eating Us |
| What seems to be a extension of the same old rainbow reveals to truly be a polished and well refined version. |
| Caribou Andorra |
| Charles Bradley No Time For Dreaming |
| A powerful soul debut for mr. charles bradley. This album grabs you and doesn't let go. Possibly the Best album of 2011 so far. |
| Colin Stetson New History Warfare Vol 2: Judges |
| Simple and haunting. The man Colin Stetson can sure play the sh*t out of the sax. |
| Coma Cinema Blue Suicide |
| CunninLynguists Oneirology |
| Danny Brown XXX |
| Alter egos, varying styles of delivery, fantastic one liners, impeccable production, insightful parody of the genre, personal and original feel - this will come off initially jarring but will reward with each subsequent listen. |
| Danny Brown Old |
| Everyones favorites rapper with two distinct personalities, Danny Brown aka "The Hybrid", shows his schizophrenic genius in a mature light on "Old". Best listened to on drugs. |
| Demdike Stare Tryptych |
| Destroyer Kaputt |
| Earth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I |
| El-P Cancer 4 Cure |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place |
| Explosions in the Sky The Rescue |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues |
| Frank Turner England Keep My Bones |
| Future Islands On the Water |
| Gorillaz Plastic Beach |
| Gotye Making Mirrors |
| Grizzly Bear Shields |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city |
| Killer Mike R.A.P. Music |
| Little Comets In Search of Elusive Little Comets |
| Lute West1996 |
| Lute loves 90's rap and jazz, so throw your dubs up high. |
| Macklemore The Language of My World |
| A reason to have faith that Hip-Hop is not only still alive but alive and fighting strong. |
| Macklemore and Ryan Lewis The Heist |
| Middle Brother Middle Brother |
| Genuine honesty blended with elements of southern rock and folk. This album is heartbreak presented as resolve. |
| Mobb Deep The Infamous |
| Natural Snow Buildings Waves of the Random Sea |
| Nicolas Jaar Don't Break My Love |
| "Why Didn't You Save Me" will surely seduce you into a massive ego-masturbatory trance and is certainly one of the top tracks this year. |
| Pink Floyd Animals |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Raphael Saadiq Stone Rollin' |
| Shabazz Palaces Black Up |
The production borders on masterful and insane - unconventional song structure and
transitions place this album way ahead of its time. The lyrics are certainly thought
provoking as well, providing lines such as:-"Time I understand it, but I never choose it. I
can't explain it with words, I have to do it."-"I run on feelings, fuck your facts.
Deception is the truest act."-"I'm free to chain my will on the wings my instinct and wander
around this box I'm inextricably linked."-"The lies are getting truer, and the truth is
getting brighter. Things are looking blacker, but black is looking whiter." |
| Spokes Everyone I Ever Met |
| Sublime Sublime |
| Sublime 40 Oz. to Freedom |
| The Angelic Process Weighing Souls With Sand |
| The Avalanches Since I Left You |
| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Belong |
| The Redwalls De Nova |
| The Redwalls have created a gem influenced heavily by the beatles. A must for any fans of 60's pop. |
| The Roots undun |
Hip hop with funk-soul dimensions. The instrumentals on this are a non stop groove and
lyrically the album delivers two fold. This is a concept album about Stephens, a poor kid
from Philadelphia who eventually surrenders himself to the morally corrupt ways of the
streets. These gritty and funky yet soulful tunes are certainly masterful and this album
feels like a grand statement. These melodies are a life lost, embodied by The Roots. |
| The Sheepdogs Learn and Burn |
| The UV Race Homo |
| A blissfully flawed punk masterpiece. What more could you ask for? |
| The War On Drugs Slave Ambient |
| The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream |
| Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind |
| This Will Destroy You Tunnel Blanket |
| New Tim Hecker can suck it. This is the ambient album of 2011. |
| Trophy Scars Never Born, Never Dead |
| Tycho Past is Prologue |
| Wild Nothing Nocturne |
| WU LYF Go Tell Fire to the Mountain |
| howling snarls, chanting organs, stumbling rhythms, and heroic melodies; I am WU LYF. |
| 4.0 excellent |
| Aerosmith Toys in the Attic |
| Alex Turner Submarine OST |
| Arctic Monkeys Suck It and See |
| Asobi Seksu Fluorescence |
| Bark Psychosis Hex |
| Beardfish Mammoth |
| Beirut The Rip Tide |
| Billy Woods Dour Candy |
| Yall trippin this album is damn solid. So many layers |
| Black Milk and Danny Brown Black and Brown! |
| Blitzen Trapper Furr |
Their music video for "Black River Killer" is epicrcheck it:rhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7zyfArxibk
Blitzen Trapper might be producing some of the best lyrics I have heard in a long time. |
| Blitzen Trapper Destroyer Of The Void |
| Blonde Redhead Misery is a Butterfly |
| Blue Oyster Cult Don't Fear The Reaper: The Best Of |
| Blur Think Tank |
| Blur Blur |
| Blur 13 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Boris Heavy Rocks (2011) |
| Braids Native Speaker |
| Brightblack Morning Light Brightblack Morning Light |
| whispering clouds fused with psychedelic blues. ethereal fluttering instrumentation with heavy rhythmic heart beats. completely surreal. |
| Bryant Dope Queens Kids |
| Caribou The Milk Of Human Kindness |
| Caribou Swim |
| Cities Aviv Come To Life |
| Cold War Kids Robbers and Cowards |
| Crystal Stilts In Love With Oblivion |
| Daft Punk Discovery |
| Darc Mind Symptomatic of a Greater Ill |
| Destined to be instant hip-hop vintage. Very laid back vibes throughout the whole album. |
| Dark Time Sunshine ANX |
| Demon Queen Exorcise Tape (Esorcizzare Nastro) |
| Devin The Dude Waitin' to Inhale |
| DIIV Oshin |
| Dr. Dog Fate |
| Dr. Dog Be The Void |
| What does it take to be lonesome? Nothing at all. Nothing at all. |
| Dr. Dog B-Room |
| Dr. Dre The Chronic |
| Dr. Dre 2001 |
| Dumbo Gets Mad Elephants At The Door |
| Eazy-E Eazy-Duz-It |
| Eels Electro-Shock Blues |
| Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) Home After Three Months Away |
| Florence and the Machine Ceremonials |
| Foals Total Life Forever |
| Frankie and The Heartstrings Hunger |
| Woah, woah oh oh, wooooaaaahhh oh. It's about time. |
| Ghostface Killah Twelve Reasons to Die |
The DeLucas pressed Tony's remains into 12 vinyl records, one for each member of the family,
but little did they know he would return... |
| Gifted A Star Is Born |
| Girls Father, Son, Holy Ghost |
| Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ [Vinyl] |
| Gorillaz Demon Days |
| Gotye Like Drawing Blood |
| Grouper A I A |
| Grouplove Never Trust A Happy Song |
| Harlem Hippies |
| Hassaan Mackey and Apollo Brown Daily Bread |
| Awesome use of samples - the lyricism is top notch too. Not the most unique hip hop album but certainly polished enough to hide the fact. |
| Havok Time Is Up |
| The sonic equivalent to downing a double shot of warm whiskey then being roundhouse kicked in the face by Chuck Norris.rhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGk1pnuD_qw |
| James Blake James Blake |
| Joey Badass 1999 |
| "It's been a minute since they seen a style with no gimmicks" - Joey Bada$$r--says the guy with two $$ in his name |
| Joy Wants Eternity You Who Pretend to Sleep |
| Joyce Manor Joyce Manor |
| Julianna Barwick The Magic Place |
| Kanye West The College Dropout |
| King Creosote and Jon Hopkins Diamond Mine |
| La Dispute Wildlife |
| Light Bearer Lapsus |
| Mac Lethal North Korean BBQ |
| I very mature, and cynical, rap album. Very, very well produced too. |
| Macklemore and Ryan Lewis VS. |
| Mayer Hawthorne A Strange Arrangement |
| MGMT Oracular Spectacular |
| Miami Horror Illumination |
| Midnight Juggernauts The Crystal Axis |
| Moby Play |
| This album is like honeydews buttsexing mountain bears as you watch from a hot air balloon. |
| Murder by Death Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them? |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless |
| my dad vs. yours Little Symphonies |
| Nas Illmatic |
| of Montreal thecontrollersphere |
| Old Man Markley Guts N' Teeth |
| OutKast Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik |
| Pink Floyd Meddle |
| Portugal. The Man In The Mountain In The Cloud |
| Portugal. The Man Evil Friends |
| Purity Ring Shrines |
| Pygmy Lush Old Friends |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Raekwon Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang |
| Raphael Saadiq The Way I See It |
| Real Estate Days |
| Real Estate Atlas |
| Rival Sons Pressure And Time |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 |
| Saxon Shore It Doesn't Matter |
| Scale the Summit The Collective |
| Shlohmo Bad Vibes |
| this album gives me the meat sweats, the good kind |
| sleepmakeswaves ...and so we destroyed everything |
| Solar Bears She Was Coloured In |
| A truly superb album. A must for anyone who is a fan of Boards of Canada. |
| STRFKR Reptilians |
| Swarms Old Raves End |
| Tech N9ne All 6's and 7's |
| The Aliens Astronomy for Dogs |
| The Antlers Burst Apart |
| The Boxer Rebellion The Cold Still |
| The Budos Band The Budos Band II |
| The Field Looping State of Mind |
| The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin |
| The Jim Jones Revue Burning Your House Down |
| The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble From the Stairwell |
| The Raveonettes Raven in the Grave |
| The Sand Band All Through the Night |
| The Twilight Singers Dynamite Steps |
| The Who Who's Next |
| The xx xx |
| The Zombies Odessey and Oracle |
| Tigers on Trains Grandfather |
| Tim Fite Fair Ain't Fair |
| Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 |
| Once you peel back the layers you realize that there is nothing, NOTHING! |
| Timber Timbre Creep On Creepin' On |
| TV on the Radio Nine Types of Light |
| Twin Brother Best Frenzy |
| Tycho Dive |
| Tycho Awake |
| Tycho doesn't sound like Boards of Canada anymore.... |
| Tyler, the Creator Bastard |
| Typhoon (USA-OR) Hunger and Thirst |
| Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City |
| that's so indie featuring vampires on the weekend. stay tuned |
| Vessels Helioscope |
| Washed Out Within and Without |
| Wild Beasts Smother |
| Women Public Strain |
| Wye Oak Civilian |
| Zero 7 Simple Things |
| 3.5 great |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Tao of the Dead |
| Adam Green Minor Love |
| Amon Tobin ISAM |
| Apathy Honkey Kong |
| Sometimes the beats are little sub-par but a very, very solid hip hop offering here. 23 tracks on this giant and I wouldn't say one is bad. |
| BADBADNOTGOOD BBNG |
I was all alone in my flat, or whatever english pricks are privy to, eating a massive roast
turkey. Several hours into the face hole shovel-fest, I broke out into a epic meat sweat. At
that exact moment, I squeezed out a thick yet sweet aroma into the air. The vibrations were
so intense from doing so that I actually came multiple times. Sadly I was naked and the
affected area was my plastic bucket full of turkey. I wept, basting my chubby cheeks with
tears of gravy. It was a moment to remembered, or maybe not. |
| Balkans Balkans |
| Bark Psychosis Codename: Dustsucker |
| Beach Fossils Beach Fossils |
| Blonde Redhead Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons |
| Blue Scholars Cinemetropolis |
| I don't know what to think of this - it hardly compares to Bayani. Sabzi seems to have lost his touch for the beats and Geologic doesn't quite have the same passion behind his words. That said it's a different album for the scholars and isn't necessarily bad, just a surprise really. |
| Body Cheetah Long Distance Lover |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver |
| Broken Bells Broken Bells |
| BT This Binary Universe |
| Cake Comfort Eagle |
| Calez Kid With Raps |
| Cat's Eyes Cat's Eyes |
| Chelsea Wolfe Apokalypsis |
| Dark, dark, sexy, sexy moody jams right here. An overall ethereal sound that remains memorable because of ominous undertones. |
| Cotton Mather KONTIKI |
| Craft Spells Idle Labor |
| new wave bed pop forever. This album is wonderfully nostalgic. |
| Damon Albarn Dr. Dee |
| Daytrader Last Days of Rome |
| Death Grips Exmilitary |
| Death Grips The Money Store |
| The anger still lingers from Exmilitary but now it is buried underneath layers of production. Definite System Blower. |
| Dirty Projectors Swing Lo Magellan |
| Dr. Dog Shame, Shame |
| Eazy-E It's On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa |
| Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros Up From Below |
| Eisley The Valley |
| FM Belfast How to Make Friends |
| A fun electro-pop outfit from Iceland. This album doesn't take itself too seriously, neither should you. |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light |
| Ghostface Killah Fishscale |
| Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie XX We're New Here |
| Givers In Light |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest |
| Harvey Danger Where Have All The Merrymakers Gone? |
| Holy Ghost! Holy Ghost! |
| Iron And Wine Kiss Each Other Clean |
| Iron Maiden The Essential Iron Maiden |
| Jack Johnson In Between Dreams |
| Kashiwa Daisuke 88 |
| Laura Stevenson Sit Resist |
| Little Dragon Ritual Union |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming |
| Manchester Orchestra Simple Math |
| Mr. Muthafuckin eXquire Lost in Translation |
| Crude lyrics that mainly talk about eating, drinking, and fucking atop solid production. |
| My Morning Jacket Evil Urges |
| Nas Life Is Good |
| Neon Indian Era Extrana |
| Nirvana In Utero |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| Noah and the Whale Last Night On Earth |
| Not everything has to be profoundly deep or life changing. Sometimes its nice to have a light pop album for those care-free days. Last Night on Earth is a well polished piece of music that will certainly find it's way into many summer playlists. |
| Nujabes Spiritual State |
| Obie Trice Bottoms Up |
| Heavy hooks, guest emcees galore, and enough tracks to satisfy. Bottoms up is a great listen for those who long for early 2000's mainstream rap. The beats are funky and well produced, Obie is on par with his verses, and the choruses are very catchy. |
| Oh No Ono Eggs |
| OutKast Stankonia |
| Panda Bear Tomboy |
| Parades Foreign Tapes |
| Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn |
| Poor Lily Poor Lily |
| such awesome, energetic angry. Download the album free here http://poorlily.com/2011/06/03/download-our-album-for-free/ |
| Quakers Quakers |
| it would have done wonders if the producers cut out a few tracks to polish the album but still great none-the-less. |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs |
| Raphael Saadiq Instant Vintage |
| Rustie Glass Swords |
| Sarah Fimm Near Infinite Possibility |
| SBTRKT SBTRKT |
| everyone have some wuba wuba wub womps! wubawut wubawut |
| Sims Bad Time Zoo |
| SpaceGhostPurrp Gxx Xx Bxxxx Chopped By Dj Desperado |
| St. Vincent Strange Mercy |
| Submotion Orchestra Finest Hour |
| Tenacious D The Pick of Destiny |
| The Dead Weather Sea of Cowards |
| The Doppelgangaz Peace Kehd |
| A nice revisit to G-Funk. A little too silly though. |
| The Flaming Lips Embryonic |
| The Horrors Skying |
| The Knux Remind Me In Three Days |
| The Men Leave Home |
| The Republic of Wolves Varuna |
| The Rural Alberta Advantage Departing |
| This Will Destroy You This Will Destroy You |
| Tim Fite Gone Ain't Gone |
| Tim Fite Over the Counter Culture |
| Mr. Fite's zaney and off the wall lyrics make for an entertaining listen. Not your typical hip-hop album. Really more of an anti-hip-hop album than anything. |
| TNGHT TNGHT |
| Toro Y Moi Underneath The Pine |
| tUnE-yArDs w h o k i l l |
| Wilco The Whole Love |
| Windmills By the Ocean Windmills By the Ocean II |
| Youth Lagoon The Year of Hibernation |
