| 4.5 superb |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms |
| Agalloch The Mantle |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain |
| Alice in Chains Dirt |
| Alice in Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here |
| Animal Collective Feels |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion |
| Anna von Hausswolff Dead Magic |
| Arcade Fire Funeral |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible |
| ASC Imagine The Future |
| Astronauts Hollow Ponds |
| At the Drive-In Vaya |
| Autechre Tri Repetae |
| Autechre Oversteps |
| Autechre Garbage |
| Autechre Exai |
| Autechre elseq 1-5 |
| Autechre elseq 2 |
| Autechre elseq 3 |
| Autechre elseq 4 |
| Autechre NTS Sessions 1-4 |
| bansheebeat Lumine |
| Big Ups Eighteen Hours of Static |
| Bjork Homogenic |
| Blur 13 |
| Boards of Canada Geogaddi |
| Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest |
| Bon Iver 22, A Million |
| Boris Flood |
| Boris Pink |
| Boris Akuma no Uta |
| Boris Noise |
| Braid Frame & Canvas |
| BRUIT The Machine Is Burning... |
| Buckethead Racks |
| This is the first in the Pikes series that seems like a truly great album- everything up to this just kind of seemed like a fun/wacky little indulgence. There are some killer tracks here. I love The Patrolman. |
| Buckethead March of the Slunks |
| Another great Pike with very minimal filler. A bit funkier than most of the other pikes, it's a pretty sexy album with a lot of great riffs. One I will come back to. |
| Buckethead The Silent Picture Book |
| Buckethead Pike 13 |
| Buckethead View Master |
| Buckethead The Astrodome |
| Buckethead Worms for the Garden |
| There are some seriously gnarly riffs on here. It's cohesive, well assembled, and just downright awesome. One of the best pikes |
| Buckethead Wishes |
| Buckethead Monument Valley |
| Buckethead Buckethead Pikes #43 |
| Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret |
| Built to Spill There's Nothing Wrong with Love |
| Carcass Heartwork |
| Cave In Jupiter |
| Cave In White Silence |
| Chelsea Wolfe Pain Is Beauty |
| Chevelle Point #1 |
| Chevelle La Gárgola |
| Chevelle NIRATIAS |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise |
| Circa Survive Descensus |
| This is quite good- the songwriting and melodies aren't as instantly rewarding as Blue Sky Noise but it feels a lot more dynamic than Violent Waves did. They do a lot of different things here! The longer tracks really stand out IMO. |
| Circuit Des Yeux In Plain Speech |
| Cloakroom Time Well |
| Cloakroom Dissolution Wave |
| Clutch Robot Hive / Exodus |
| Clutch From Beale Street To Oblivion |
| Clutch Earth Rocker |
| Clutch Psychic Warfare |
| Coalesce OX |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade |
| Converge You Fail Me |
| Converge Axe to Fall |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind |
| Counting Crows Recovering The Satellites |
| Crowbar Sonic Excess in Its Purest Form |
| Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal |
| Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas Mariner |
| Dance Gavin Dance Instant Gratification |
| Darkthrone The Underground Resistance |
| Daughters You Won't Get What You Want |
| David Bowie Low |
| David Bowie Station to Station |
| David Bowie Blackstar |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| Deafheaven New Bermuda |
| Deafheaven Infinite Granite |
| Deafheaven Lonely People With Power |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism |
| Deerhunter Halcyon Digest |
| Deftones White Pony |
| Deftones Around the Fur |
| Deftones Deftones |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
| Deftones Gore |
| Deftones Ohms |
| Deftones private music |
| Easily the most lean and cohesive record Deftones have released. It's hard to pick rstandouts because every track is good, but the second half of the album is so wonderful. The rlast five tracks all flow together in such a seamless way and contain moments that feel, rrespectively, like the best of their newer sound, compelling throwbacks to their earliest rmaterial, and emotional and expansive new territory. AotY contender for sure. |
| Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech |
| Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction |
| Devin Townsend Project Ghost |
| DIIV Frog In Boiling Water |
| Dinosaur Jr. Green Mind |
| Dinosaur Jr. Farm |
| Disasterpeace It Follows OST |
| Dope Body Lifer |
| dredg El Cielo |
| dredg Catch Without Arms |
| Dvne Voidkind |
| Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini |
| Envy The Fallen Crimson |
| Failure In The Future Your Body Will Be The Furthest Thing From Your Mind |
| This came together super well. The third ep is especially good, and the fourth has this sound of finality to it that really ties it all together. |
| Failure Wild Type Droid |
| I see this album as more of a throwback to their first two albums, albeit with a far more delicate touch. It's a bit strange comparing it to their last three, because those albums are all pretty wide in scope. This can't be better than something like Fantastic Planet, which is nearly twice as long and of a similar quality throughout. But this is a subtle change in direction that comes across more in the pace of the music than the stylings or overall sounds. It's exciting to have a Failure album that feels more brisk, urgent, and rawly melancholic. This is such a mature release that adds something genuinely new to their discography. I can't ask for much more. About half the album sticks out as being among their best (Long Division made me feel like I was listening to Disintegration!) and there isn't a bad track whatsoever. |
| Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True |
| Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors |
| Filter Title Of Record |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues |
| Foxing Dealer |
| Full of Hell Weeping Choir |
| Future of the Left How To Stop Your Brain In An Accident |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute |
| God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright |
| Godflesh Hymns |
| Godflesh Selfless |
| Godflesh Songs of Love and Hate |
| Godflesh Us and Them |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! |
| Gorod Aethra |
| Grizzly Bear Shields |
| Haken Virus |
| Hammock Departure Songs |
| Hammock Everything and Nothing |
| HEALTH RAT WARS |
| Helmet Meantime |
| Helmet Betty |
| Hum Inlet |
| Imperial Triumphant Alphaville |
| Imperial Triumphant Goldstar |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself |
| Incubus (USA-CA) A Crow Left of the Murder... |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View |
| Inter Arma Sky Burial |
| Into It. Over It. Proper |
| Intronaut The Direction Of Last Things |
| Iron And Wine Woman King |
| ISIS Oceanic |
| ISIS In the Absence of Truth |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant |
| Jane's Addiction Ritual De Lo Habitual |
| Jaye Jayle No Trail and Other Unholy Paths |
| Jeremy Enigk World Waits |
| Jerry Cantrell Degradation Trip Volumes 1 & 2 |
| Jesu Silver |
| Joliette Principia |
| Joseph Arthur Redemption's Son |
| Joseph Arthur Come To Where I'm From |
| Kamasi Washington The Epic |
| Kanye West Yeezus |
| Katatonia Night Is the New Day |
| Katatonia Dead End Kings |
| Kayo Dot Coffins on Io |
| Ken Andrews Secrets of the Lost Satellite |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly |
| Killing Joke Hosannas From The Basements Of Hell |
| Killing Joke Killing Joke (2003) |
| Kind of Like Spitting Nothing Makes Sense Without It |
| King Crimson Discipline |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King |
| King Crimson Red |
| King Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic |
| Kyuss Blues For The Red Sun |
| Lantlos Melting Sun |
| Low Things We Lost in the Fire |
| Low Double Negative |
| LVL UP Return To Love |
| Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar |
| Mastodon Leviathan |
| Mastodon Emperor of Sand |
| Me And That Man Songs of Love and Death |
| Meat Beat Manifesto 99% |
| Meat Puppets Meat Puppets II |
| Melvins Houdini |
| Melvins Bullhead |
| Melvins The Maggot |
| Mew Frengers |
| Mogwai Young Team |
| Motorpsycho Motorpsycho |
| This is outstanding and my first impression tells me it's among their best (but they have so many albums, and so many great ones, that I'm basically saying it's a top 10 Motorpsycho album). Neotzar is the standout for me right now. |
| Mountaineer Bloodletting |
| My Bloody Valentine m b v |
| Thinking about doing a full review of this once I get done with my schoolwork for the week... rI think the album is great. Everything I wanted it to be. I never expected them to surpass Loveless, and this definitely doesnt, but its a phenomenal album nonetheless. First three tracks echo Loveless so well, and then the band decides to move on into much more experimental territory. "New You" and "Nothing Is" are amazing. |
| Neil Young Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere |
| Neil Young Zuma |
| Neurosis A Sun That Never Sets |
| Neurosis Times Of Grace |
| Neurosis Fires Within Fires |
| Nine Inch Nails Broken |
| Nine Inch Nails Still |
| Nine Inch Nails Beside You in Time |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine: 2010 Remaster |
| Nine Inch Nails Not The Actual Events |
| Nine Inch Nails Add Violence |
| Nine Inch Nails Bad Witch |
| Nirvana In Utero |
| nouns Still |
| Oceansize Frames |
| Okkervil River Away |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Opeth Deliverance |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries |
| Palms Palms |
| Panopticon Roads to the North |
| Pearl Jam Ten |
| Pearl Jam Vs. |
| Pearl Jam No Code |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa |
| Pixies EP1 |
| I gave this a higher score than it deserves because Pitchfork should go to hell. I could understand them giving this a 6 or even a 5.5, but a one? what a fucking outrage. Pretentious dickbags. |
| Placebo Without You I'm Nothing |
| Planning for Burial Leaving |
| Polvo Exploded Drawing |
| Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream |
| Portishead Dummy |
| Portishead Portishead |
| Portishead Third |
| Puscifer Money Shot |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze |
| Quicksand Slip |
| R.E.M. Document |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool |
| Red House Painters Red House Painters |
| Red House Painters Down Colorful Hill |
| Red House Painters Songs for a Blue Guitar |
| Rishloo Living as Ghosts with Buildings as Teeth |
| Rodan Rusty |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels |
| Senses Fail Pull the Thorns from Your Heart |
| Shiner The Egg |
| Shining (SWE) V - Halmstad |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun |
| Sigur Ros ( ) |
| Siouxsie and the Banshees Juju |
| Skinny Puppy VIVIsectVI |
| Skinny Puppy Bites |
| Skinny Puppy Last Rights |
| Sleep Dopesmoker |
| Slowdive Souvlaki |
| Small Wonder Wendy |
| Very well done, well produced album. 'Patron Saint of Pretty Faces' , 'Lost at Highway' and 'Until I Open My Wings' are standouts for someone looking to get a quick glimpse at the band, but really the album is so short and good as a whole that you should listen to the whole thing. |
| Sonic Youth Washing Machine |
| Sonic Youth Murray Street |
| Soundgarden Louder Than Love |
| Spotlights Alchemy for the Dead |
| State Faults Resonate/Desperate |
| Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) |
| Steven Wilson To the Bone |
| Stimming Alpe Lusia |
| Stone Temple Pilots Purple |
| SubRosa (US) More Constant Than The Gods |
| Sun Kil Moon Benji |
| This is pretty brilliant, hard to listen to at times given the themes and unflinching lyrics but I thought it was an incredibly heartfelt record, the most focused Kozelek has sounded since April |
| Sun Kil Moon Universal Themes |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Diary |
| Sunny Day Real Estate How It Feels To Be Something On |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Sunny Day Real Estate |
| Swans White Light From the Mouth of Infinity |
| Swans Soundtracks for the Blind |
| Swans Children of God |
| Swans To Be Kind |
| Team Sleep Team Sleep |
| The Afghan Whigs Congregation |
| The Afghan Whigs Do to the Beast |
| The Afghan Whigs In Spades |
| The Angels of Light How I Loved You |
| The Chariot One Wing |
| The Cure Pornography |
| The Cure Seventeen Seconds |
| The Cure Faith |
| The Cure Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me |
| The Dear Hunter Violet |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation |
| The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin |
| The Flaming Lips Oczy Mlody |
| Totally fucking love this record. The singles seemed underwhelming, but are much better in the context of the album. |
| The Gathering How to Measure a Planet? |
| The Glove Blue Sunshine |
| The Jesus Lizard Goat |
| The Knife Tomorrow, In a Year |
| The Knife Shaking the Habitual |
| The Life and Times Tragic Boogie |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet |
| The Men Immaculada |
| The Menzingers Rented World |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 |
| The National Alligator |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me |
| The Necks Silverwater |
| The Ocean Precambrian |
| The Ocean Pelagial |
| The Roots Game Theory |
| The Smashing Pumpkins The Aeroplane Flies High |
| The Wedding Present Seamonsters |
| The Wonder Years No Closer to Heaven |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything |
| Therapy? Troublegum |
| Thou Peasant |
| Thou Tyrant |
| Thrice Vheissu |
| Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 |
| Tool Fear Inoculum |
| Tortoise Millions Now Living Will Never Die |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me |
| Touche Amore Stage Four |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross The Social Network OST |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo OST |
| TV on the Radio Dear Science |
| Type O Negative October Rust |
| Ulver Perdition City |
| Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You |
| Unwound New Plastic Ideas |
| VOLA Inmazes |
| VOLA Applause of a Distant Crowd |
| Weezer Weezer |
| Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot |
| Wintersleep Untitled |
| Wire Pink Flag |
| Wovenhand Refractory Obdurate |
| Xiu Xiu Plays the Music of |
| Yes Close to the Edge |
| YOB Our Raw Heart |
| 4.0 excellent |
| 10 Years From Birth to Burial |
| A Forest of Stars Beware the Sword You Cannot See |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step |
| A Perfect Circle Eat the Elephant |
| A Sunny Day in Glasgow Sea When Absent |
| A Tribe Called Quest We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service |
| Absofacto Sinking Islands |
| Akhlys Melinoe |
| Alejandro Aranda The Act of Forgiveness |
| Algiers Algiers |
| Alice in Chains Alice In Chains |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue |
| Alice in Chains Rainier Fog |
| All Them Witches Nothing as the Ideal |
| Animal Collective Centipede Hz |
| Antemasque Antemasque |
| Arcade Fire Reflektor |
| ASC Time Heals All |
| At the Drive-In Acrobatic Tenement |
| At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out |
| Autechre Incunabula |
| Autechre Amber |
| Autechre Confield |
| Autechre Draft 7.30 |
| Autechre Chiastic Slide |
| Autechre Untilted |
| Autechre Quaristice |
| Autechre Move Of Ten |
| Autechre Anvil Vapre |
| Autechre Quaristice.Quadrange.ep.ae |
| Autechre elseq 1 |
| Autechre elseq 5 |
| Autolux Pussy's Dead |
| Bane Don't Wait Up |
| Baroness Yellow And Green |
| Baroness Purple |
| Beach House Depression Cherry |
| Ben Frost A U R O R A |
| Big Ups Before a Million Universes |
| Big Wreck Grace Street |
| Bjork Post |
| Bjork Medulla |
| Black Light Burns The Moment You Realize You're Going To Fall |
| Black Light Burns Lotus Island |
| Black Midi Schlagenheim |
| Black Sabbath 13 |
| Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase |
| Body Sculptures A Body Turns to Eden |
| Boris Heavy Rocks |
| Bosnian Rainbows Bosnian Rainbows |
| This album is pretty fuckin awesome and for a second it made me not so sad that the mars volta broke up. but only for a second. |
| Braid No Coast |
| Brontide Artery |
| Buckethead Shadows Between The Sky |
| Buckethead Balloon Cement |
| Off the wall and completely unapologetic for it, there are some absolutely killer moments here that make it one of the better "experimental" pike albums. |
| Buckethead The Shores of Molokai |
| Buckethead The Spirit Winds |
| Fantastic mellow Buckethead. It's a very soothing, very calming album. One of the more worthy pikes. |
| Buckethead Telescape |
| Buckethead Halls of Dimension |
| Buckethead Pearson's Square |
| Buckethead Thank you Ohlinger's |
| Buckethead The Pit |
| Buckethead Twisterlend |
| Buckethead Coat Of Charms |
| Buckethead Backwards Chimney |
| Buckethead Footsteps |
| Buckethead Hold Me Forever (In memory of my mom) |
| Catherine Wheel Chrome |
| Catherine Wheel Ferment |
| Chelsea Wolfe Apokalypsis |
| Chelsea Wolfe Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs |
| Chelsea Wolfe Abyss |
| Chevelle This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In) |
| Chevelle Wonder What's Next |
| Chevelle Vena Sera |
| Chevelle Sci-Fi Crimes |
| Chevelle Hats Off to the Bull |
| Chevelle The North Corridor |
| Circa Survive Violent Waves |
| Closure in Moscow Pink Lemonade |
| Cloud Nothings Attack on Memory |
| Cloud Nothings Here and Nowhere Else |
| Clutch Strange Cousins From The West |
| Cobalt Slow Forever |
| Coevality Multiple Personalities |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension |
| Counting Crows This Desert Life |
| Counting Crows Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings |
| Counting Crows Somewhere Under Wonderland |
| Crippled Black Phoenix I, Vigilante |
| Crosses Crosses |
| David Bowie Aladdin Sane |
| Deakin Sleep Cycle |
| Death Grips The Money Store |
| Death Grips The Powers That B - Part II: Jenny Death |
| Death Grips Bottomless Pit |
| Deerhunter Cryptograms |
| Deerhunter Microcastle |
| Deerhunter Weird Era Cont. |
| Deerhunter Monomania |
| Deerhunter Fading Frontier |
| Devin Townsend Infinity |
| Devin Townsend Project Ki |
| Devin Townsend Project Addicted |
| Dinosaur Jr. Bug |
| Dinosaur Jr. Where You Been |
| Dinosaur Jr. Hand It Over |
| Dinosaur Jr. Whatever's Cool with Me |
| Dinosaur Jr. Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not |
| Dirty Three Horse Stories |
| Dirty Three Ocean Songs |
| dne These Semi Feelings, They Are Everywhere |
| Do Make Say Think You, You're a History in Rust |
| Dot Hacker How's Your Process? (Work) |
| Dot Hacker How's Your Process? (Play) |
| Down I Go You're Lucky God, That I Cannot Reach You |
| dredg Leitmotif |
| dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion |
| Drug Church Paul Walker |
| Earl Sweatshirt I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside |
| Echo Tail Fields of Vision |
| Eels Electro-Shock Blues |
| Emma Ruth Rundle Electric Guitar 1 |
| Enslaved Below the Lights |
| Enslaved In Times |
| Everything Everything A Fever Dream |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place |
| Explosions in the Sky The Wilderness |
| Failure Magnified |
| Failure The Heart Is a Monster |
| Failure In the Future |
| Failure The Furthest Thing |
| best of the Ep's so far for sure. 'Distorted Fields' is such a great track. |
| Faith No More The Real Thing |
| Faith No More Sol Invictus |
| Fallujah Dreamless |
| This one took a lot of listening to really grow on me, and I still sort of feel like I am ranking it a bit highly, but I just really love the headspace this album puts me in. It's strange, because the individual songs here are really not all that great; none of them hold a candle to any individual track on The Flesh Prevails, and that honestly probably goes for Empyrean, too. But Dreamless has this remarkable flow to it; all the songs really do sound the same, but when I treat the album as giant song, I find a really enveloping and strangely soothing atmosphere. It is a very listenable album in a way that sets it apart within its genre. |
| Far Water & Solutions |
| Filter Short Bus |
| Filter The Trouble With Angels |
| Filter Crazy Eyes |
| This is probably my favorite Filter album, and I really love Title of Record. The thing about this one is that it's extremely fast paced. The songs are varied and every track here has something to offer. The first 6 songs all tap into a different sort of appeal, and they typically pull it off really well. This makes for an album that is enjoyable throughout its entirety even if few individual tracks blow anyone away. While it does eventually revert to something more similar to the standard hard rock they've been doing for an album or two, the overall feel of the album is a lot more ferociously scrappy than they've been in some time. Favorite tracks: Mother E, Nothing in my Hands, Kid Blue. |
| Fleet Foxes Crack-Up |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape |
| Foo Fighters One by One |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light |
| Foxing The Albatross |
| Frightened Rabbit Pedestrian Verse |
| George Clanton 100% Electronica |
| Ghost (SWE) Opus Eponymous |
| Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam |
| After one listen, I really dig the album as a whole. Might even consider moving it up to 4.5. Opening two songs are incredible, as are Secular Haze, Zombie Queen, and Monstrance Clock. Every song seems to have at least a section in it that kicks major ass, though a couple have choruses that rub me the wrong way. |
| Ghost (SWE) Meliora |
| Ghostface Killah and BADBADNOTGOOD Sour Soul |
| Godflesh Pure |
| Godflesh A World Lit Only by Fire |
| Godflesh Post Self |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress' |
| Gorod A Maze of Recycled Creeds |
| Greg Puciato Child Soldier: Creator of God |
| Haken The Mountain |
| HEALTH Death Magic |
| Helmet Strap It On |
| Helmet Aftertaste |
| Helmet Dead To The World |
| High on Fire Luminiferous |
| Holy Fawn Death Spells |
| Horrendous Anareta |
| How to Destroy Angels An Omen |
| Hundred Waters The Moon Rang Like a Bell |
| Imperial Triumphant Abyssal Gods |
| Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E. |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Light Grenades |
| Into It. Over It. Standards |
| Intronaut Valley Of Smoke |
| Iosonouncane Ira |
| Iron And Wine Our Endless Numbered Days |
| Iron And Wine The Shepherd's Dog |
| ISIS Celestial |
| Izah Sistere |
| Jane's Addiction Nothing's Shocking |
| Jenny Hval Blood Bitch |
| Jeremy Enigk Return of the Frog Queen |
| Jesu Jesu |
| Jesu Conqueror |
| Jesu/Sun Kil Moon Jesu/Sun Kil Moon |
| Jesu/Sun Kil Moon 30 Seconds to the Decline of Planet Earth |
| Katatonia The Great Cold Distance |
| Katatonia Last Fair Deal Gone Down |
| Katatonia The Fall of Hearts |
| Khemmis Absolution |
| KMFDM Nihil |
| KMFDM Symbols |
| KMFDM Naïve |
| KMFDM Angst |
| KMFDM XTORT |
| KMFDM Hau Ruck |
| KMFDM WTF?! |
| Krallice Go Be Forgotten |
| Kvelertak Meir |
| La Dispute Rooms of the House |
| Leviathan Scar Sighted |
| Liars WIXIW |
| Linkin Park The Hunting Party |
| Local H As Good as Dead |
| Local H Whatever Happened to P.J. Soles? |
| Local H 12 Angry Months |
| Low The Great Destroyer |
| Low I Could Live in Hope |
| Low Drums and Guns |
| Low C'Mon |
| Low Hey What |
| Marilyn Manson Holy Wood |
| Marilyn Manson We Are Chaos |
| Mark Kozelek Mark Kozelek |
| Marriages Kitsune |
| Marriages Salome |
| Maserati Inventions for the New Season |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye |
| Mastodon The Hunter |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun |
| Meat Beat Manifesto Satyricon |
| Meat Beat Manifesto Actual Sounds + Voices |
| Melvins Stoner Witch |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree |
| Meshuggah obZen |
| Meshuggah Koloss |
| Meshuggah The Violent Sleep of Reason |
| Mew No More Stories |
| mewithoutYou Pale Horses |
| Minsk The Crash and the Draw |
| Moddi Set the House on Fire |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News |
| Mogwai Happy Songs for Happy People |
| Mogwai Rock Action |
| Motorpsycho The All Is One |
| Mouth Of The Architect Dawning |
| My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything |
| Neil Young Psychedelic Pill |
| Neurosis Honor Found In Decay |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Push The Sky Away |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth |
| Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IV |
| Nine Inch Nails The Slip |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| Nothing Guilty of Everything |
| Nothing The Great Dismal B-Sides |
| Amber Gambler is a really excellent song. Glad they are giving these the light of day; it's obvious that the reason these tracks didn't make the cut is because they didn't match the mood of the main record. They certainly are not of lower quality. |
| Oceansize Effloresce |
| Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Sworn Virgins |
| Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Corazones |
| Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Weekly Mansions |
| Oneohtrix Point Never R Plus Seven |
| Opeth Pale Communion |
| Boring as hell. If I want to listen to 70s prog, I'm going to listen to 70's prog. |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Mestarin Kynsi |
| Other Lives For Their Love |
| Panopticon Autumn Eternal |
| Pantera Far Beyond Driven |
| Paradise Lost The Plague Within |
| Pavement Slanted and Enchanted |
| Paysage d'Hiver Im Wald |
| Pearl Jam Yield |
| Pearl Jam Dark Matter |
| Pinkish Black Bottom of the Morning |
| Placebo Placebo |
| Planning for Burial Desideratum |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet |
| Preoccupations Viet Cong |
| Primal Scream More Light |
| Primus Frizzle Fry |
| Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese |
| Primus Green Naugahyde |
| Protest the Hero Palimpsest |
| Puscifer Conditions of My Parole |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris |
| R.E.M. Reckoning |
| R.E.M. New Adventures in Hi-Fi |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Red House Painters Ocean Beach |
| Red House Painters Old Ramon |
| Refused Freedom |
| Neither single overly impressive thus far. Bracing for a 3 |
| Rival Schools United By Fate |
| Riverside Shrine Of New Generation Slaves |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 |
| Run the Jewels RTJ4 |
| Russian Circles Empros |
| Russian Circles Memorial |
| Saintseneca Such Things |
| Sampha Process |
| Samsara Blues Experiment Waiting For The Flood |
| Saul Williams MartyrLoserKing |
| Say Anything Hebrews |
Rating subject to change.... I imagine it will fade to a 3.0. I like it a lot though. Maxy
has some heart (and venom) again. Keep in mind I'm one of the many who couldn't even make it
through Anarchy My Dear. |
| ScHoolboy Q Blank Face LP |
| Seizures The Sanity Universal |
| Sigur Ros Takk... |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon |
| Silversun Pickups Neck of the Woods |
| Skinny Puppy Rabies |
| Sleep The Sciences |
| Slift Ummon |
| Soen Lykaia |
| Sonic Youth Dirty |
| Sonic Youth Goo |
| Sonic Youth Sister |
| Sonic Youth Evol |
| Sonic Youth Sonic Nurse |
| Sonic Youth The Eternal |
| Soundgarden Down on the Upside |
| Soundgarden King Animal |
| Spoon Girls Can Tell |
| Spoon Hot Thoughts |
| Squid Bright Green Field |
| Steve Von Till A Life Unto Itself |
| Steven Wilson Insurgentes |
| Steven Wilson Grace for Drowning |
| Stone Temple Pilots Core |
| Stone Temple Pilots Tiny Music... Songs From The Vatican... |
| Strapping Young Lad Alien |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell |
| SUMAC What One Becomes |
| Sun Kil Moon Ghosts of the Great Highway |
| Sun Kil Moon Tiny Cities |
| Sun Kil Moon Common As Light and Love Are Red Valleys of Blood |
If you hated Universal Themes, this probably won't win you over. But you should know it is essentially useless
to hope Mark goes back to his old style-- as he says here, "the world's changed and he's not that songwriter
anymore." My first impressions of this were that it was needlessly bloated and some of the beats were a bit
same-y, but as I listen more and more, tracks that I wrote off on the first listen or two are starting to grow on
me. "God Bless Ohio", "The Highway Song", "Lone Star" and "70s TV Show Theme" are my early favorites. "Butch
Lullaby" and "Stranger than Paradise" are growing on me. I love seeing Mark's evolution, even if it might seem
unreasonable to imagine this new style yielding a song that means as much to me as, say, "Duk Koo Kim." He's
an interesting figure and I'm glad he shows no signs of slowing down. |
| Super Snake Leap of Love |
| Swans Filth |
| Swans The Great Annihilator |
| Swans Birthing |
| Talking Heads Fear of Music |
| The Antlers Undersea |
| The Appleseed Cast Low Level Owl, Volume I |
| The Avalanches Since I Left You |
| The Black Dog Spanners |
| The Black Heart Rebellion Har Nevo |
| The Body and Thou You, Whom I Have Always Hated |
| The Cure The Head on the Door |
| The Darcys The Darcys |
| The Darcys Warring |
| The Decemberists The Hazards of Love |
| The Devin Townsend Band Synchestra |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer |
| The Flaming Lips The Terror |
| The Horrors Primary Colours |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute |
| The Mars Volta Scab Dates |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron |
| The Mars Volta Lucro Sucio; Los Ojos Del Vacío |
In many ways, this feels like a "return to form" for the band, but not a "return to sound."
In other words, I can't say that this sounds like the first three or four Volta records, but
for the first time since the band's early days, they feel fully tapped into the experimental
weirdness that made them stand out among their peers. Jazz, trip-hop, and pop are more
fitting genre tags for this than metal or even rock; those looking for wild bursts of
spastic guitars will be left scratching their heads. But if you give these songs some time
to breathe, you'll notice that there is a creative intensity at play that is so purely The
Mars Volta. While I'm left wanting a few more moments that stand out and grab me,
particularly in the second half, paying attention to the smaller sonic details opens up an
intoxicating and unique vibe that is simply unlike anything else I have heard, and it is
very much worth revisiting. I like every Volta album, but this is the most uninhibited
they've been since Bedlam, and therefore their best since that time. |
| The Men New Moon |
| The National High Violet |
| The Necks Aether |
| The Necks Open |
| The Necks Body |
| The Ocean Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic |
| The Ongoing Concept Handmade |
| The Roots Phrenology |
| The Sea And Cake One Bedroom |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Gish |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Machina/The Machines Of God |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Pisces Iscariot |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Aghori Mhori Mei |
| I take it as a great sign that they are dropping this more or less as a surprise out of nowhere. There's usually such pretentious promotion and build up for SP albums. I am hoping the raw, off the cuff nature of it translates to the music. |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Harmlessness |
| Therapy? Disquiet |
| This Will Destroy You Another Language |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety |
| Thrice Beggars |
| Thrice Major/Minor |
| Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere |
| Thursday Full Collapse |
| Thursday Common Existence |
| Toby Driver Madonnawhore |
| Tool Undertow |
| Tortoise The Catastrophist |
Honestly don't understand the low ratings, this is most definitely better than a 3.1 It's not
groundbreaking or anything, but I can't say it's that much less enjoyable than their classic
records.... The only track I don't really like is Gopher Island, but it's like a minute long, so
who cares... |
| Toundra IV |
| Truckfighters Mania |
| True Widow Avvolgere |
| Turnover Peripheral Vision |
| TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain |
| TV on the Radio Nine Types of Light |
| Ufomammut 8 |
| Ulcerate Shrines of Paralysis |
| Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still |
| Ulver The Assassination of Julius Caesar |
| Uncle Acid and The Deadbeats Mind Control |
| Unwound Fake Train |
| Unwound The Future of What |
| Unwound Challenge For a Civilized Society |
| Vennart The Demon Joke |
| Vince Staples Big Fish Theory |
| Weezer Everything Will Be Alright in the End |
| Weezer The White Album |
| Wilco A Ghost Is Born |
| Wilco Being There |
| William Patrick Corgan Ogilala |
| Windhand Soma |
| YOB Clearing The Path To Ascend |
| 3.5 great |
| A City Sorrow Built Ai |
| A Tribe Called Quest People's Instinctive Travels & The Paths of Rhythm |
| A Winged Victory for the Sullen Atomos |
| Alcest Kodama |
| Alice in Chains Facelift |
| Angel Du$t Rock The Fuck On Forever |
| Animal Collective Sung Tongs |
| Animal Collective Painting With |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs |
| Ashes Divide Keep Telling Myself It's Alright |
| Autechre L-event |
| Black Light Burns Cruel Melody |
| Blur The Magic Whip |
| Bring Me The Horizon Sempiternal |
| Buckethead Giant Robot |
| Buckethead 3 Foot Clearance |
| Buckethead The Boiling Pond |
| I can totally dig this riff fest. There's not much else here, but these riffs have some gravity. |
| Buckethead Teeter Slaughter |
| Buckethead Spiral Trackway |
| Buckethead Rise of the Blue Lotus |
| Buckethead Hide In The Pickling Jar |
| Buckethead Pitch Dark |
| Buckethead Rainy Days |
| Buckethead Factory |
| Buckethead Claymation Courtyard |
| Buckethead The Miskatonic Scale |
| Caligula's Horse Bloom |
| Chelsea Light Moving Chelsea Light Moving |
| CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe |
| Circa Survive Juturna |
| Cloakroom Last Leg of the Human Table |
Pretty solid release overall, but feels like a step down from Dissolution, which I loved a
lot. Overall, it's more lightweight than anything else they have done, which is not
necessarily a bad thing; but my first impression is that they are just doing the same thing
they've been doing for a while, but with less. The stripping down only occasionally seems to
reveal something new, but it's great when it does (like with "Bad Larry", which sounds oddly
like middle-era REM to me). It's great if you're already into space rock, but doesn't add
much for those that are less into the genre, or feel it becoming a bit oversaturated/stale. |
| Converge When Forever Comes Crashing |
| Converge No Heroes |
| Counting Crows Hard Candy |
| Crosses EP |
| Dinosaur Jr. Beyond |
| Dinosaur Jr. I Bet on Sky |
| Drive-By Truckers The Unraveling |
| Eels The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett |
| Elder (USA-MA) Lore |
| Failure Comfort |
| Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear |
| Filter The Amalgamut |
| Filter The Algorithm |
| Godflesh Streetcleaner |
| Gorod The Orb |
| Handsome Handsome |
| Helmet Monochrome |
| Helmet Seeing Eye Dog |
| Highly Suspect Mister Asylum |
| How to Destroy Angels Welcome Oblivion |
| Hum You'd Prefer an Astronaut |
| Hundredth Rare |
| Jane's Addiction Strays |
| Jeff Rosenstock We Cool? |
| Jesu Opiate Sun |
| John Mayer Continuum |
| Junius Days of the Fallen Sun |
| Kanye West Graduation |
| KEN mode Success |
| Some really good tracks and a few that wind up feeling a little too same-y. Love the Slint worship on the last track. |
| Killing Joke Pylon |
| Kishi Bashi Sonderlust |
| Kontinuum Kyrr |
| Local H Pack Up the Cats |
| Local H Here Comes the Zoo |
| Local H Hallelujah! I’m A Bum |
| Local H Hey, Killer |
| Low Trust |
| Lupe Fiasco Tetsuo and Youth |
| Marilyn Manson Mechanical Animals |
| Marilyn Manson Born Villain |
| Massive Attack Ritual Spirit |
| Matthew J Van Howe Transmogrify |
| Megadeth Dystopia |
| Melvins Tres Cabrones |
| Melvins Basses Loaded |
| Probably my favorite thing they've done in a few years. Some really good riffs, and really solid throughout, but nothing truly classic. Sometimes I really want this band to stop fooling around with various lineups and just slow down and craft one long, really great LP, but their more unconventional approach to making music and recording is a big part of what makes them special. Like most of their albums, I'll take the best bits and add them to a really good playlist. |
| Mew +- |
| Ministry Filth Pig |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank |
| Mogwai Come On Die Young |
| Mogwai Mr. Beast |
| Mogwai Music Industry 3. Fitness Industry 1. |
| Muse Absolution |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations |
| NAILS You Will Never Be One Of Us |
| Neil Young Homegrown |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Let Love In |
| Nine Inch Nails Things Falling Apart |
| O'Brother Endless Light |
| Opeth Damnation |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse |
| Opeth Watershed |
| Opeth In Cauda Venenum |
| Pearl Jam Binaural |
| Pearl Jam Pearl Jam |
| Pearl Jam Gigaton |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Keep You |
| Pinkshinyultrablast Everything Else Matters |
| Pixies Trompe Le Monde |
| Placebo Sleeping with Ghosts |
| Placebo Black Market Music |
| Placebo Meds |
| Porcupine Tree The Sky Moves Sideways |
| Porcupine Tree The Incident |
| PUP The Dream Is Over |
| Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age |
| R.E.M. Green |
| R.E.M. Out of Time |
| R.E.M. Fables of the Reconstruction |
| R.E.M. Accelerate |
| R.E.M. Collapse Into Now |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Red House Painters Red House Painters II |
| Rogue Valley Crater Lake |
| Russian Circles Station |
| Saintseneca Dark Arc |
| Skinny Puppy Weapon |
| Son Lux Bones |
| Soundgarden Badmotorfinger |
| Steven Wilson Hand. Cannot. Erase. |
Finally, SW has emerged out of his prog tribute band stage into being a brilliant and vital artist
within modern prog and music as a whole. Ancestral stood out in particular. Home. Fucking. Run. |
| Steven Wilson 4 1/2 |
| Stone Temple Pilots No. 4 |
| Strawberry Girls American Graffiti |
| SubRosa (US) For This We Fought the Battle of Ages |
| Sun Kil Moon Among the Leaves |
| Sunny Day Real Estate The Rising Tide |
| Swans Cop |
| Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky |
| Thank You Scientist Stranger Heads Prevail |
| The Afghan Whigs Black Love |
| The Antlers Familiars |
| The Cure Bloodflowers |
| The Cure The Top |
| The Cure Wish |
| The Cure 4:13 Dream |
| The Devin Townsend Band Accelerated Evolution |
| The Dodos Carrier |
| The Fire Theft The Fire Theft |
| The Jesus Lizard Head |
| The Jesus Lizard Down |
| The Men Leave Home |
| The National Boxer |
| The National Sleep Well Beast |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Oceania |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Cyr |
| Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV |
| Tigran Hamasyan Mockroot |
| Tombs Savage Gold |
| Trophy Scars Astral Pariah |
| Weary Eyes WWGBBYW |
| While She Sleeps Brainwashed |
| Wilco The Whole Love |
| Wintersleep Welcome To The Night Sky |
| Yndi Halda Under Summer |
| Zwan Mary Star Of The Sea |
| 3.0 good |
| A Perfect Circle aMOTION |
| Agent Fresco Destrier |
| Buckethead Bucketheadland |
| Buckethead It's Alive |
| Buckethead Empty Space |
| Buckethead Underground Chamber |
| Buckethead Look Up There |
| Buckethead Forgotten Library |
| Buckethead Sphere Facade |
| Buckethead Hollowed Out |
| Buckethead It Smells Like Frogs |
| Buckethead You Can't Triple Stamp A Double Stamp |
| Buckethead The Coats of Claude |
| Counting Crows Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets! |
| Deftones Adrenaline |
| Saw some of this material live, and it really changed my opinion about it. This is still their worst album by a fair margin, but there's a bit more going for these tracks than I first imagined. |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP 2 |
| Exit_International Our Science Is Golden |
| Filter Anthems for the Damned |
| Filter The Sun Comes Out Tonight |
| "yo everyone this is the best filter album yet" - Dick Patrick |
| Ghost Atlas Immortal Youth |
| Disappointing... not as good as the debut by any stretch. This band sounds just like Circa Survive |
| Helmet Size Matters |
| Incubus (USA-CA) If Not Now, When? |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak |
| Katatonia Viva Emptiness |
| Katatonia Sky Void of Stars |
| KMFDM Blitz |
| KMFDM Kunst |
| Modest Mouse Strangers to Ourselves |
| Mogwai The Hawk Is Howling |
| Muse The Resistance |
| Muse Drones |
| Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Blind Worm Pious Swine |
| Easily the worst of the recent deluge of albums from Omar Rodriguez-Lopes. Starts and ends well enough- the opening tracks are slow burners with memorable vocals and the ending four are really just one long, enjoyable and blistering instrumental song- but the middle section feels ill advised, with only "Mariposa" worthy of being salvaged. |
| Opeth Heritage |
| Opeth Sorceress |
| Pearl Jam Riot Act |
| Pearl Jam Backspacer |
| Pearl Jam Lightning Bolt |
| Album is very good. Probably their best since Yield actually. They sound very comfortable in their skin, which is great since on the self-titled they seemed to be trying too hard to capture their former grungy-ness at times, and Backspacer was overly upbeat- and upbeat is fine, it just seemed a little awkward at times. This though... it's very balanced. "My Father's Son" "Pendulum" "Sleeping By Myself" and "Yellow Moon" immediately stood out to me. "Getaway" is a great opener and "Mind Your Manors" sucked as a single but works quite as a simple burst of energy on the album. |
| Pixies Bossanova |
| Placebo Battle for the Sun |
| Porcupine Tree Signify |
| Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun |
| R.E.M. Monster |
| R.E.M. Lifes Rich Pageant |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs |
| Royal Thunder Crooked Doors |
| Sonic Youth Rather Ripped |
| Stone Temple Pilots Shangri-La-Dee-Da |
| Susanne Sundfor Ten Love Songs |
| Swans Leaving Meaning |
| Tempel (USA-AZ) The Moon Lit Our Path |
| The Cure The Cure |
| The Jesus Lizard Blue |
| The Mars Volta Tremulant |
| The Ocean Heliocentric |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music |
| The Smashing Pumpkins American Gothic |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins ATUM: Act II |
| The Smashing Pumpkins ATUM: Act III |
| Tim Hecker Virgins |
| Tool Opiate |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| TV on the Radio Seeds |
| Unwound Unwound |
| Weezer Hurley |
| Wilco Star Wars |
| 2.0 poor |
| Buckethead Pancake Heater |
| Buckethead Roller Coaster Track Repair |
| Not the worst Pike, but one of the ones the feels mindless and directionless. It doesn't illicit any emotion from me, which is a big problem. |
| Dream State Primrose Path |
| Ghost (SWE) Skeletá |
In my youth, I always wondered what it would be
like to see a small band blow up and become
legendary. I felt envy for the dads I knew that got
to see Black Sabbath or Led Zeppelin at
a dive bar. My chance for this experience seemed to
emerge when I saw Ghost perform an
uncrowded 2pm set at Lollapalooza; now I see them
daily, on billboards over my city during
my dismal morning commute-- I suppose being
plastered on a billboard counts as reaching
legendary status? Rather than said advertisement
triggering excitement, as I might once have
expected, it felt more like a nagging reminder that
I might as well try and sit through
their new music. Obviously, Ghost has always been a
novelty act, but the whole concoction
was, at one time, interesting, fresh, and good
enough to believe they might evolve into
something really special. But, since Meliora, the
returns have diminished exponentially from
album to album. Skeleta sees the schtick wear
precariously thin. This is unchallenging
music, completely lacking any element of subversion
that might make such an act interesting.
I didn't need to listen to this to have already
heard it, and it will satisfy the hordes
that find this aspect to be a positive quality
rather than an utterly disqualifying sign of
sub-mediocrity. |
| Pixies Indie Cindy |
| Porcupine Tree On the Sunday of Life |
| R.E.M. Around the Sun |
| R.E.M. Reveal |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey |
| Sun Kil Moon This Is My Dinner |
| The Cure Wild Mood Swings |
| The Shins Heartworms |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Teargarden by Kaleidyscope, Vol. 1 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Teargarden by Kaleidyscope, Vol. 2 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Monuments to an Elegy |
| Pure Pumpkins pop, but with some guts, energy, and passion behind it musically. Though I think I rlike 2012's Oceania better as a whole, there are some single cuts from this one that top any rsingle track from Oceania's grander scale. Will be interesting to see how this pairs with next ryear's Day for Night. Tiberius is probably the best thing Corgan has done since MCIS. |
| The Smashing Pumpkins ATUM: Act I |
| Todd Terje It's Album Time |
| Weezer The Red Album |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Mosquito |
