| 4.5 superb |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Source Tags and Codes |
| Animal Collective Feels |
| Animal Collective Centipede Hz |
| Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique |
| Beck Sea Change |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors |
| Bjork Vespertine |
| I want to rate this album a 5, but much of the second half is markedly less successful at conveying what everything in the first half does remarkably. "Unison" is one of my favorite songs ever, though. |
| Bjork Homogenic |
| Black Moth Super Rainbow Dandelion Gum |
| Boards of Canada Geogaddi |
| Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children |
| Bob Dylan The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan |
| Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited |
| Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver |
| Boris Pink |
| Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene |
| Broken Social Scene Forgiveness Rock Record |
| Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People |
| I'll admit, this rating has quite a bit of nostalgic padding, but nevertheless, I think this album is perfect. The progression of sound and sensitivity from song to song is unparalleled. I love hearing this album shift from ambient bliss to joyous rock-storms to some of the catchiest pop tunes in indie rock history. This album is so rich in diversity and passion. Nothing else can make me feel 16 again while still feeling like a real life grown up record made by and for adults. I wish my farts came out sounding like Almost Crimes. |
| Burial Kindred |
| Cloud Nothings Attack on Memory |
| Colin Stetson New History Warfare Vol 2: Judges |
| Daft Punk Discovery |
| David Bowie Hunky Dory |
| David Bowie "Heroes" |
| Destroyer Kaputt |
| Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada |
| This is basically my favorite EP ever. Moya is such an ideal soundtrack for the violent climax of everything ever going to shit for everybody, and BBF3 is probably the most fun a track this long has ever been with its leviathan intensity and volcanic badassery. Those are WORDS, son. |
| Gorillaz Demon Days |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest |
| Guided by Voices Bee Thousand |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness |
| Japandroids Post-Nothing |
| Japandroids Celebration Rock |
| Joanna Newsom Ys |
| LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver |
| "Someone Great" is my favorite song ever composed. |
| LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening |
| Lone Galaxy Garden |
| Lovesliescrushing Bloweyelashwish |
| LSD and the Search for God LSD and the Search for God |
| Lush Scar |
| Maps and Atlases You and Me and the Mountain |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine |
| Modest Mouse Building Nothing Out of Something |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West |
| "Hey Jim what's this album all about?" "READ THE FUCKING COVER, TANNER." |
| Mogwai Rock Action |
| Mogwai Come On Die Young |
| Mogwai Young Team |
| Mogwai Mogwai EP+2 |
| My Bloody Valentine Tremolo |
| Neon Indian Psychic Chasms |
| Nicolas Jaar Don't Break My Love |
| Nicolas Jaar Space Is Only Noise |
| No Age Nouns |
| Nujabes Metaphorical Music |
| Panda Bear Person Pitch |
| Pavement Slanted and Enchanted |
| Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain |
| Pavement Wowee Zowee |
| Pavement Brighten the Corners |
| Pavement Terror Twilight |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Pixies Doolittle |
| PJ Harvey Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea |
| Portico Quartet Portico Quartet |
| St. Vincent Strange Mercy |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois |
| The Beatles Abbey Road |
| The Beatles Revolver |
| The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin |
| The Flaming Lips Embryonic |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain Psychocandy |
| The Knife Silent Shout |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 |
| The National High Violet |
| The National Alligator |
| The New Pornographers Twin Cinema |
| The Notwist Neon Golden |
| The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now |
| The Who Who's Next |
| The Who My Generation |
| The xx xx |
| Tom Waits Rain Dogs |
| TV on the Radio Dear Science |
| Weezer Pinkerton |
| Weezer Weezer |
| Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot |
| Wilco A Ghost Is Born |
| Wire 154 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) |
| 4.0 excellent |
| 65daysofstatic One Time for All Time |
| A Sunny Day in Glasgow Ashes Grammar |
| AJJ People Who Can Eat People are the Luckiest People |
| AJJ Knife Man |
| Animal Collective Fall Be Kind |
| Animal Collective Strawberry Jam |
| Animal Collective Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 |
| Aphex Twin Windowlicker |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs |
| Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti Before Today |
| Art Brut Bang Bang Rock & Roll |
| Atlas Sound Logos |
| Atlas Sound Parallax |
| Austra Feel It Break |
| Autolux Future Perfect |
| Bark Psychosis Hex |
| In a sonic sense this album is pretty much everything I love. |
| Battles Mirrored |
| Beach House Teen Dream |
| Beach House Bloom |
| Beirut March of the Zapotec/Holland |
| Beirut can never really hold my attention, so March of the Zapotec being as short as it is allows me to appreciate everything he's doing without losing focus. Holland is more my speed - My Wife Lost in the Wild shatters my comically large glasses. |
| Bjork Medulla |
| Bjork Biophilia |
| Blondie Parallel Lines |
| Blue Sky Black Death Late Night Cinema |
| Blur Parklife |
| Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase |
| Boards of Canada Twoism |
| Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Bonobo Black Sands |
| Boris Flood |
| Broken Social Scene Feel Good Lost |
| Built to Spill Perfect from Now On |
| Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret |
| Burial Untrue |
| Burial Street Halo |
| Caribou Swim |
| Caribou Andorra |
| Chapterhouse Whirlpool |
| Cocteau Twins Heaven or Las Vegas |
| Cocteau Twins Treasure |
| Cut Copy Zonoscope |
| David Bowie The Man Who Sold the World |
| David Bowie Diamond Dogs |
| David Bowie Station to Station |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism |
| Death Grips Exmilitary |
| Deerhunter Microcastle |
| Deerhunter Halcyon Digest |
| Deerhunter Fluorescent Grey |
| Destroyer Destroyer's Rubies |
| Destroyer Streethawk: A Seduction |
| Do Make Say Think & Yet & Yet |
| Do Make Say Think Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn |
| Do Make Say Think You, You're a History in Rust |
| Do Make Say Think Other Truths |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or |
| Eluvium Talk Amongst the Trees |
| Fever Ray Fever Ray |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes |
| Flying Lotus Los Angeles |
| Fort Romeau Kingdoms |
| Four Tet Rounds |
| Four Tet There is Love in You |
| Fucked Up The Chemistry of Common Life |
| Fugazi The Argument |
| Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie XX We're New Here |
| Girls Father, Son, Holy Ghost |
| Grimes Visions |
| Grizzly Bear Yellow House |
| HEALTH Get Color |
| Hood Cold House |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights |
| Iron And Wine The Shepherd's Dog |
| John Talabot Fin |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures |
| Joy Division Closer |
| Joy Division Substance |
| Kate Bush Aerial |
| Kate Bush The Dreaming |
| Kate Bush The Sensual World |
| Kate Bush The Kick Inside |
| Kate Bush 50 Words for Snow |
| Kendrick Lamar Section.80 |
| Kurt Vile Smoke Ring For My Halo |
| Leonard Cohen Songs of Leonard Cohen |
| Los Campesinos! Romance Is Boring |
| Los Campesinos! Hold On Now, Youngster... |
| Los Campesinos! We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed |
| Low C'Mon |
| M83 Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts |
| M83 Before The Dawn Heals Us |
| M83 Saturdays=Youth |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain |
| Memoryhouse The Years |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About |
| Modest Mouse Interstate 8 |
| Mogwai Happy Songs for Happy People |
| Mr Twin Sister Color Your Life |
| Neutral Milk Hotel On Avery Island |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Let Love In |
| Nujabes Spiritual State |
| Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? |
| of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Replica |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Orbital Wonky |
| Osees Carrion Crawler/The Dream |
| Panda Bear Tomboy |
| Pink Floyd Meddle |
| Pink Floyd Animals |
| Musically, I think it's their peak. Gilmour has his best solos, and from my perspective, Waters delivers on his mission statement in terms of songwriting more than any other Pink Floyd record. It seems blasphemous for me to say, considering the number of years that this album predates ME with, but it just feels like it doesn't have anywhere near as much of the heart as earlier Pink Floyd recordings. Besides, it's a theme I've heard countless times before - in other media, as well. I fully appreciate this as a 5/5 release, but it'll always be less enjoyable, and less Pink Floyd for me than, say, Meddle or Wish You Were Here. |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa |
| PJ Harvey Let England Shake |
| PJ Harvey Rid of Me |
| PJ Harvey To Bring You My Love |
| PJ Harvey Is This Desire? |
| Portishead Dummy |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Real Estate Real Estate |
| Real Estate Days |
| Ride Nowhere |
| Sepalcure Sepalcure |
| Shugo Tokumaru Night Piece |
| Sigur Ros Takk... |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun |
| Sigur Ros ( ) |
| Sigur Ros Valtari |
| Silver Jews American Water |
| Slint Spiderland |
| Slowdive Souvlaki |
| Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space |
| St. Vincent Actor |
| St. Vincent Marry Me |
| Sufjan Stevens Michigan |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Diary |
| Swervedriver Mezcal Head |
| Television Marquee Moon |
| The Antlers Hospice |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour |
| The Books The Lemon Of Pink |
| The Decemberists Castaways and Cutouts |
| The Decemberists Picaresque |
| The Decemberists The Crane Wife |
| The Decemberists The Hazards of Love |
| The Decemberists The King Is Dead |
| The Field Looping State of Mind |
| The Field Yesterday and Today |
| The Field From Here We Go Sublime |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots |
| The Go! Team Thunder, Lightning, Strike |
| The Hold Steady Separation Sunday |
| The Men Immaculada |
| The Microphones Mount Eerie |
| The Mountain Goats All Eternals Deck |
| The Mountain Goats We Shall All Be Healed |
| The Mountain Goats Tallahassee |
| The Mountain Goats All Hail West Texas |
| The Mountain Goats The Sunset Tree |
| The National Boxer |
| The Olivia Tremor Control Music From The Unrealized Film Script |
| The Postal Service Give Up |
| The Roots undun |
| The Roots How I Got Over |
| The Strokes Is This It |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground |
| The War On Drugs Slave Ambient |
| This Will Destroy You Young Mountain |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor |
| toe For Long Tomorrow |
| toe The Book About My Idle Plot on a Vague Anxiety |
| Tortoise TNT |
| Tortoise Millions Now Living Will Never Die |
| TV on the Radio Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes |
| TV on the Radio Nine Types of Light |
| Twin Shadow Forget |
| Washed Out Life of Leisure |
| Wavves King of the Beach |
| Wild Beasts Smother |
| Wire Chairs Missing |
| Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters |
| Wye Oak Civilian |
| Yo La Tengo Painful |
| Yo La Tengo Electr-O-Pura |
| Yo La Tengo I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One |
| Zammuto Zammuto |
| Zola Jesus Valusia |
| Zola Jesus Stridulum |
| Zola Jesus Conatus |
| Zola Jesus Stridulum II |
| 3.5 great |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Tao of the Dead |
| 13 and God 13 & God |
| 65daysofstatic The Fall of Math |
| 65daysofstatic We Were Exploding Anyway |
| 65daysofstatic The Distant and Mechanised Glow of Eastern Euro... |
| A Place to Bury Strangers Exploding Head |
| Aesop Rock Labor Days |
| Aesop Rock Float |
| Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde |
| Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God |
| Andrew Bird The Mysterious Production Of Eggs |
| Andrew Bird Break It Yourself |
| Animal Collective Campfire Songs |
| Animal Collective Ark |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album |
| ASAP Rocky Live.Love.A$AP. |
| Asobi Seksu Citrus |
| Atlas Sound Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See... |
| Avey Tare Down There |
| Battles Gloss Drop |
| Beach House Beach House |
| Beck Modern Guilt |
| Belle and Sebastian Dear Catastrophe Waitress |
| Best Coast Crazy For You |
| Best Coast The Only Place |
| Big Black Songs About Fucking |
| Big K.R.I.T. ReturnOf4eva |
| Bjork Post |
| Bjork Debut |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath |
| Boris Boris At Last -Feedbacker- |
| Boris Heavy Rocks |
| Cass McCombs Wit's End |
| Childish Gambino Camp |
| Crystal Stilts Alight of Night |
| Crystal Stilts In Love With Oblivion |
| David Bowie Aladdin Sane |
| David Bowie Lodger |
| David Bowie Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) |
| Death Grips The Money Store |
| Deerhunter Weird Era Cont. |
| Deerhunter Cryptograms |
| Dinosaur Jr. Bug |
| Dirty Beaches Badlands |
| Eluvium Lambent Material |
| Eluvium An Accidental Memory in the Case of Death |
| Eluvium Copia |
| EMA Past Life Martyred Saints |
| Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place |
| Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die... |
| Explosions in the Sky How Strange, Innocence |
| Florence and the Machine Ceremonials |
| Four Tet Pause |
| Four Tet Everything Ecstatic |
| Frank Ocean Nostalgia, Ultra. |
| Frog Eyes Tears of the Valedictorian |
| Fucked Up David Comes to Life |
| I want to love this thing so much, but it's just so goddamn long and not even remotely diverse. It's over an hour of astounding lovemaking guitar war, without a single misstep, but the fact that it all sort of blurs together and ultimately ends up being just "loud" in this format completely kills my desire to call this thing perfect. It does have some incredible tracks regardless, though. "The Other Shoe" is one of my favorites of 2011, easily. |
| Fucked Up Hidden World |
| Gang of Four Entertainment! |
| Giraffes? Giraffes! More Skin With Milk-Mouth |
| Girls Broken Dreams Club |
| Girls Album |
| God Is an Astronaut God Is an Astronaut |
| God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright |
| God Is an Astronaut The End of the Beginning |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz |
| Grandaddy The Sophtware Slump |
| Hermitude HyperParadise |
| Holy Fuck Latin |
| Holy Ghost! Holy Ghost! |
| Hood Outside Closer |
| Interpol Antics |
| Jaga Jazzist What We Must |
| James Blake James Blake |
| James Blake CMYK |
| James Blake Klavierwerke |
| James Blake The Bells Sketch |
| James Blake Enough Thunder |
| James Blake Love What Happened Here |
| Japandroids No Singles |
| Johnny Foreigner Waited Up 'til It Was Light |
| Kate Bush Never for Ever |
| Kevin Drew Spirit If... |
| LCD Soundsystem LCD Soundsystem |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II |
| Liars They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top |
| Liturgy Aesthethica |
| Los Campesinos! Hello Sadness |
| Lower Dens Twin-Hand Movement |
| Lush Gala |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming |
| Mastodon The Hunter |
| Mastodon Leviathan |
| Maybeshewill Not For Want Of Trying |
| MC Lars This Gigantic Robot Kills |
| Mogwai Mr. Beast |
| Mother Mother Eureka |
| New Order Power, Corruption and Lies |
| New Order 1981-1982 |
| New Order Low-Life |
| New Order Movement |
| New Order Brotherhood |
| New Order Technique |
| No Age Everything In Between |
| Nujabes Modal Soul |
| Passion Pit Manners |
| Perfume Genius Put Your Back N 2 It |
| Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix |
| Pink Floyd The Wall |
| Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn |
| Pixies Trompe Le Monde |
| PJ Harvey Dry |
| PJ Harvey Uh Huh Her |
| Sigur Ros Von |
| Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust |
| Sleigh Bells Reign of Terror |
| Smog The Doctor Came at Dawn |
| Smog Knock Knock |
| Stars Set Yourself On Fire |
| Stars In Our Bedroom After The War |
| STRFKR Reptilians |
| Syd Barrett The Madcap Laughs |
| Talking Heads Talking Heads: 77 |
| The Album Leaf In A Safe Place |
| The Album Leaf Into The Blue Again |
| The Aquabats Myths, Legends and Other. . . Adventures |
| The Black Keys El Camino |
| The Flaming Lips At War with the Mystics |
| The Go! Team Rolling Blackouts |
| The Men Open Your Heart |
| The Men Leave Home |
| The Microphones It Was Hot, We Stayed In The Water |
| The National Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers |
| The Notwist The Devil, You + Me |
| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Belong |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead |
| The Strokes Room on Fire |
| The Strokes First Impressions of Earth |
| The Strokes Angles |
| The Velvet Underground White Light/White Heat |
| The Weakerthans Left and Leaving |
| THEESatisfaction awE naturalE |
| Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind |
| This Will Destroy You This Will Destroy You |
| Tindersticks The Something Rain |
| Titus Andronicus The Airing of Grievances |
| U2 War |
| Washed Out Within and Without |
| Wilco Sky Blue Sky |
| Women Public Strain |
| Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss |
| Yo La Tengo New Wave Hot Dogs |
| Yo La Tengo Fakebook |
| Yo La Tengo May I Sing With Me |
| Yuck Yuck |
