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5.0 classic
A Winged Victory for the Sullen A Winged Victory for the Sullen
Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Beefcake Drei
Bersarin Quartett II
Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children
Failure Fantastic Planet
Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞
Jan Amit Around & Above
Jimmy Eat World Futures
Natural Snow Buildings The Dance of the Moon and the Sun
New Order Blue Monday
the only song you will ever need for anything. About to go out? Blue Monday. Just broken up with the girl? Blue Monday. Want to be forced to the ground by the weight of sheer audio majesty? Blue Monday.
Night Shift Trespassers Guide to Nowhere
Okkervil River Down the River of Golden Dreams
Oh hell yes
Plinth (UK) Music For Smalls Lighthouse
Radiohead OK Computer
Radiohead In Rainbows
Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz
Sun Kil Moon Benji
The Antlers Hospice
The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2
The National Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers
The Romanovs ...and the Moon Was Hungry...
The Smiths The Queen Is Dead
The Smiths Hatful of Hollow
William Basinski The Disintegration Loops III

4.6 superb
Bill Seaman f (noir)

4.5 superb
(The) Slowest Runner (In All The World) We, Burning Giraffes
0edit Neotokyo
A Bunny's Caravan Draining Puddles, Retrieving Treasures
AFX Chosen Lords
Aglaia Three Organic Experiences
Amon Tobin ISAM
Amon Tobin Amon Tobin
I don't know if it's possible to even just look at the tracklist without collapsing in a pool of your own saliva.
Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II
Aphex Twin Drukqs
Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Arvo Part Tabula Rasa
Autechre EP7
Ben Frost Music for Sad Children
Ben Frost The Centre Cannot Hold
Black Tape for a Blue Girl Remnants of a Deeper Purity
Bob Dylan The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Bombay Bicycle Club I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose
Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago
Booka Shade Eve
Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People
BT This Binary Universe
Burial Untrue
Burial Kindred
Bvdub and Loscil Erebus
Carbon Based Lifeforms World Of Sleepers
Clint Mansell, Kronos Quartet and Mogwai The Fountain
Colin Stetson New History Warfare Vol 2: Judges
Desolate (DE) Celestial Light Beings
DJ Food The Search Engine
DJ Shadow Endtroducing.....
Do Make Say Think You, You're a History in Rust
edIT Crying Over Pros For No Reason
Eels Electro-Shock Blues
Elliott Smith Either/Or
Eluvium Copia
Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) What It Takes to Move Forward
Evening Hymns Spectral Dusk
Foals Antidotes
Fredrik Trilogi
Fredrik Flora
Geskia! Silent of Light
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ [Vinyl]
Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
Grum Heartbeats
Gustav Holst The Planets, Op. 32
Harlem Shakes Technicolor Health
Henryk Gorecki Symphony No. 3, Op. 36
I Monster Neveroddoreven
John Maus We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
Jonsi Go
Joy Division Closer
Kettel and Secede When Can
Klaus Schulze Timewind
Klaus Schulze Irrlicht
Kubrick's Cube Odissey
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No14 C-sharp minor,Op.27No2
Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing
Mark Banning Journey to the Light
Max Richter The Blue Notebooks
Maybeshewill I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was Gone
Metronomy The English Riviera
MGMT Oracular Spectacular
Miles Davis Kind of Blue
Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West
Mono / World's End Girlfriend Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain
My Bloody Valentine Loveless
Natural Snow Buildings Daughter of Darkness
I stared at myself in the mirror after listening to this twice in one day thinking, "that was incredibly enjoyable". I'm not going to lie, this is pretty much like embarking on "The Odyssey": it has a few not-so-good parts, but I think that's kind of the point. You can't treat it like a regular album, it deserves a less passive response. Overall, it's top notch if you have the stomach for it.
Natural Snow Buildings Ghost Folks
Natural Snow Buildings The Night Country
Nicolas Jaar Space Is Only Noise
NOISIA Split The Atom
Okkervil River Don't Fall In Love With Everyone You See
Olan Mill Hiraeth
Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Pepe Deluxe Queen of the Wave
Petrels Onkalo
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
Portico Quartet Portico Quartet
Portishead Dummy
R.E.M. Automatic for the People
Radiohead Kid A
Radiohead Hail to the Thief
Richard Skelton Landings
Robert Rich Echo Of Small Things
Secede Bye Bye Gridlock Traffic
Solar Fields Leaving Home
Stars of the Lid The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid
Sunny Day Real Estate Diary
Sunset Rubdown Shut Up I Am Dreaming
The Antlers In the Attic of the Universe
The Avalanches Since I Left You
The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Cure Disintegration
The Dear Hunter Indigo
The Decemberists The Crane Wife
The Dismemberment Plan Emergency & I
The Dodos Visiter
The Dodos Carrier
The Flashbulb Soundtrack to a Vacant Life
The Future Sound of London Dead Cities
The Maccabees Wall of Arms
The National Alligator
The New Law The Fifty Year Storm
The Roots undun
The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream
The Smiths The Smiths
The Specials Specials
Tim Hecker Harmony in Ultraviolet
Venetian Snares Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett
Void Pedal Void Pedal
Wendy Carlos Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange
Wild Beasts Smother
William Basinski The Disintegration Loops I
William Basinski Melancholia
William Basinski The Disintegration Loops IV
Zero 7 Simple Things

4.4 superb
Frederic D Oberland Peregrinus Ubique

4.3 superb
Woob Adaption

4.1 excellent
Christina Vantzou No. 3
Gorillaz Demon Days
Hidden Spheres Waiting

4.0 excellent
*AR Succession
17f The Boy Who Cried Wolf
A Winged Victory for the Sullen Atomos VII
A/T/O/S A/T/O/S
Actress Ghettoville
AFX Analord 08
Alio Die Aura Seminalis
Alio Die Under an Holy Ritual
Amon Tobin Foley Room
Anathema A Natural Disaster
Ancient History Tracks
Aperture Science Psychoacoustics Lab... Portal 2: Songs to Test By
Aphex Twin Analord 10
Arcade Fire Funeral
Arcade Fire The Suburbs
Arctic Monkeys Humbug
ASC The Astral Traveller
ASC No Secrets/Zenith
Atoms for Peace Amok
It's Kid B time, baby.
Autechre Tri Repetae
Autechre Amber
Autechre Oversteps
Autistic Daughters Uneasy Flowers
Some flashes of absolute brilliance here, but a few areas leave a lot to be desired.
BADBADNOTGOOD BBNG2
Balam Acab Wander/Wonder
bansheebeat Galactics
Beach House Teen Dream
Beefcake Coincidentia Oppositorum
Benjamin Clementine At Least For Now
Benn Jordan Pale Blue Dot
Benoit Pioulard Hymnal
Benoit Pioulard Sonnet
Bill Wells and Aidan Moffat Everything's Getting Older
Bloc Party Silent Alarm
Bloc Party Intimacy
Bluetech Sines And Singularities
Blur 13
Boards of Canada Geogaddi
Boards of Canada Boc Maxima
Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest
Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks
Bombay Bicycle Club A Different Kind of Fix
Boy Friend Egyptian Wrinkle
Brand New Deja Entendu
Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports
Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene
Burial Burial
Burial Street Halo
Burial Truant/Rough Sleeper
C418 Volume Alpha
California Wives Affair
Carbon Based Lifeforms Hydroponic Garden
Chad Valley Equatorial Ultravox
Christina Vantzou No. 2
Clark Iradelphic
Clubroot II - MMX
Cold War Kids Robbers and Cowards
Coldplay Parachutes
Colin Stetson New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light
Daedelus Drown Out
Darkside Psychic
Fresh from remixing the entire of Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories, Nicholas Jaar and Dave Harrington return with an album ambitious enough to fill the void between the dancefloor and Django Unchained’s soundtrack. Long-time Jaar fans will be on familiar turf here, though will struggle not to notice the heavier blues and rock influence and Harringtons efforts to lure him towards some late-night club bliss.

Harrington wasn’t entirely unsuccessful in this, as “Freak, Go Home” is the closest Jaar has come to rectifying his own uneasiness at his tracks’ previous lack of danceability. The tempo is pushed up, murky basslines join infectious one-two percussion and it’s all topped off with a recurring melody catchy enough to move even the most miserable of bar lurkers. However, while the dead ends, smothering vocal samples and industrial guitar finish make it more interesting, it doesn’t half result in a confusing first listen.

Elsewhere Darkside are much more chilled out, with the guitar-based, soulful bluesyness of “Heart” and overall seductive, genre-hopping instrumentation, Psychic becomes more of a come-down record than anything else. They seem to enjoy experimenting too much to be immediately accessible - “Greek Light” and “Golden Arrow” show just how far Darkside are willing to go - but Psychic still oozes the essence of cool necessary to make it a fantastic and, hopefully, successful album.
Daughter The Wild Youth
David Newlyn The Misspelled Numbers
Deadmau5 For Lack of a Better Name
Deaf Center Pale Ravine
Death Cab for Cutie We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes
Death Cab for Cutie You Can Play These Songs With Chords
Digitalism Blitz
Djrum The Miracle
After tripping a little bit with an LP attempt, DjRum's straight back to making some of the best music out there.
Elbow The Seldom Seen Kid
Elias Fossils
Eluvium Nightmare Ending
Enter Shikari Take to the Skies
Fanfarlo Reservoir
Fanfarlo The Sea
Fennesz Endless Summer
Flight of the Conchords Flight of the Conchords
Flying Lotus Cosmogramma
Flying Saucer Attack Further
Fo//ic/e Nidificating
Dark, shambling, experimental electronic music - it's a tad patchy but that's more than made up for by the ambition of the whole thing.
Foals Total Life Forever
Four Tet Rounds
Frank Turner Love, Ire & Song
Gang Gang Dance Eye Contact
Giles Corey Giles Corey
Goldie Timeless
Gorillaz Gorillaz
Green Day Insomniac
Grouper A I A
Grouper Ruins
Gui Boratto III
Guilt Machine On This Perfect Day
Hammock Chasing After Shadows...Living with the Ghosts
Helios Eingya
Hermitude HyperParadise
Holy Other With U
Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights
Iron And Wine The Shepherd's Dog
Ital Tek Midnight Colour
Jacaszek Treny
Jacaszek Glimmer
James Blake Overgrown
Jamie xx In Colour
Pretty much a victory lap for the best single of 2014 (Girl) - the rest is warm-up when it isn't noise.
Jimmy Eat World Clarity
Jimmy Eat World Stay on My Side Tonight
John Talabot Fin
Joy Division Unknown Pleasures
Julia Holter Loud City Song
Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I
Kassem Mosse Workshop 19
Keane Hopes & Fears
Kettel Whisper Me Wishes
Kettel Myam James - Part 2
Killer Mike R.A.P. Music
Kira Kira Feathermagnetik
kj wake
Kreng The Summoner
Lemaitre The Friendly Sound
Listening Mirror Resting in Aspic
Long Arm The Branches
Lorn Ask The Dust
M83 Saturdays=Youth
Machinedrum Vapor City
Madness One Step Beyond
Magic Man Real Life Color
Mala Mala In Cuba
Manchester Orchestra I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child
Mark Aubert Fake Island
Massive Attack Mezzanine
Massive Attack Blue Lines
Massive Attack Heligoland
Max Richter Memoryhouse
Max Richter Infra
Metric Fantasies
Milo I Wish My Brother Rob Was Here
mmpsuf Retina
Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica
Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News
Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind
Monolake Polygon Cities
Mr. Scruff Keep It Unreal
Murcof Remembranza
Muse Origin of Symmetry
My Cats A Stargazer Solstice Celebration
My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Nicholas Szczepanik Not Knowing
Nicolas Jaar Don't Break My Love
http://www.clownandsunset.com/cs/november1st.html if anyone didn't know where the stream
was.
Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
Okkervil River Black Sheep Boy
Okkervil River The Stand Ins
Olafur Arnalds ...And They Have Escaped The Weight Of Darkness
Olafur Arnalds Living Room Songs
Opeth Damnation
Orbital In Sides
Ott Skylon
Owen At Home With Owen
Paco Sala Ro-Me-Ro
Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
Paper Tiger Made Like Us
Pausal Sky Margin
Pausal Along the Mantic Spring
Pavement Terror Twilight
Piano Magic Disaffected
Pink Floyd The Wall
Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet
Port O'Brien All We Could Do Was Sing
Prefuse 73 One Word Extinguisher
Preoccupations Viet Cong
Pye Corner Audio Black Mill Tapes Volume 3
R.E.M. In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003
Radiohead Amnesiac
Radiohead The Bends
Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine
Ratatat Classics
Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication
Red Light Company Fine Fascination
Robag Wruhme Thora Vukk
Robert Rich Somnium
Rokkurro Í Annan Heim
Saltillo Monocyte
Sam Mumford Scatter
Say Hi Um, Uh Oh
Secede Tryshasla
Secede Mommylove and Daddypride
Secede Silent Flower Observers
At first I agreed with the general consensus that this album was a bit of a dud. It always remained at the top of my library with all the other unsorted stuff because the file-type wouldn't let me tuck it away somewhere else. It was read only or some shit like that - I don't know...rSo whenever I let a new album play too long, it would silently turn to this. I'd get really excited and think "oh god, this is good, what song is this?" before opening the music library and seeing "Spend" or "Digital Doves" or any track from this album, really. I never really paid it too much attention: just reset it on the other album and carried on.rAnd you know what, this final time I've come to terms with the fact this album is actually fucking good. It's lovely- just fucking god darn lovely.
Shiina Ringo Kalk Samen Kuri no Hana
Shlohmo Vacation
Sigur Ros ( )
Sigur Ros Takk...
Silversun Pickups Carnavas
Silversun Pickups Swoon
Snow Patrol Eyes Open
Snowmine Laminate Pet Animal
Something Corporate Leaving Through The Window
Son Lux At War With Walls And Mazes
Son Lux TEAR
Sonic Youth Daydream Nation
Sparklehorse It's a Wonderful Life
Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
Squarepusher Hello Everything
St. Vincent St. Vincent
Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline
Stendeck Scintilla
STRFKR Reptilians
Submotion Orchestra Finest Hour
Submotion Orchestra Submotion Orchestra
Sufjan Stevens Illinois
Sunset Rubdown Dragonslayer
Swarms Old Raves End
Symphony X The Odyssey
Talking Heads Remain in Light
Tangerine Dream Rubycon
Tape Loop Orchestra Yesterday This Would've Meant So Much To Us
Tape Loop Orchestra Go Straight Towards the Light of All That You Love
Tenhi Maaaet
Tenhi Saivo
The Antlers Uprooted
The Antlers Cold War
The Appleseed Cast Two Conversations
The Beatles Revolver
The Beatles The Beatles
The Caretaker An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
The Dead Texan The Dead Texan
The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum
The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection)
The Dear Hunter Green
The Dear Hunter White
The Decemberists Picaresque
The Faint Fasciinatiion
The Flashbulb Kirlian Selections
The Flashbulb Arboreal
The Frozen Vaults 1816
The Future Sound of London Lifeforms
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble Here Be Dragons
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble From the Stairwell
The Killers Hot Fuss
The Log.Os λόγος
The Maccabees Colour It In
The Microphones Mount Eerie
The Middle East I Want That You Are Always Happy
The National Boxer
The National High Violet
The Post Riot Era Schism
The Range Nonfiction
The Rural Alberta Advantage Hometowns
The Shins Oh, Inverted World
The Smiths Meat Is Murder
The Specials More Specials
The Temper Trap Conditions
The Tumbled Sea Songs By The Tumbled Sea
The Tumbled Sea melody/summer
The War On Drugs Slave Ambient
These New Puritans Hidden
This Will Destroy You Young Mountain
Throwing Snow Mosaic
Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972
Timber Timbre Creep On Creepin' On
Titus Andronicus The Monitor
Trentemoller Lost
Tycho Dive
u-Ziq Lunatic Harness
u-Ziq Tango N' Vectif
U2 The Joshua Tree
Ulrich Schnauss A Strangely Isolated Place
Walls Coracle
Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wild Beasts Present Tense
Don't confuse me with someone who gives a fuck, I'm all over this shit like a sputnik user on an over-hyped flavour of the month release.r
William Basinski The Disintegration Loops II
Wisp NRTHNDR
Wisp A Thousand Tomorrows
Yppah You Are Beautiful At All Times
Zero 7 When It Falls

3.9 excellent
Rrose Waterfall Variations

3.8 excellent
Earl Sweatshirt I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside
Sun Kil Moon Universal Themes

3.7 great
Raime Tooth
Ruhe Patriarchs

3.6 great
17f Two Cowboy Songs
Benjamin Finger Pleasurably Lost

3.5 great
*shels Plains Of The Purple Buffalo
Addison Groove Presents James Grieve
AFX Analord 04
Air Talkie Walkie
Anathema A Fine Day to Exit
Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare
Arrange Their Bodies in a Fog
ASC Out Of Sync
ASC Proton/Electron
ASC Time Heals All
ASC Programme 02
ASC, Sam KDC and Synth Sense AUXWL001-003
BADBADNOTGOOD BBNG
Band of Horses Everything All the Time
Belong October Language
Ben Frost Theory of Machines
Between the Buried and Me Colors
Bibio Ambivalence Avenue
Bibio Silver Wilkinson
Biffy Clyro Infinity Land
Biffy Clyro Puzzle
Bloc Party A Weekend in the City
Bloc Party Another Weekend in the City
Bloc Party Four
Blur Parklife
Blur Blur
Bohren und der Club of Gore Black Earth
Borealis (ROU) Voidness
Brambles Charcoal
Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Cajun Dance Party This Colourful Life
Carlos Cipa and Sophia Jani Relive
Cassette Organ Dream House Study
Chromatics Kill for Love
Clint Mansell Moon
Clubroot III - MMXII
Cluster Cluster
Coldair Far South
Coldplay X&Y
Craft Spells Idle Labor
cssc The Lonely Robot
Daedelus Denies the Day's Demise
Dakent Banger
Danny Norbury Bluebeard
De La Soul Smell The DA.I.S.Y.
Deaf Center Owl Splinters
Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism
Death Cab for Cutie Something About Airplanes
dEUS Keep You Close
DJ Madd The Real & The Shadow
Djrum Seven Lies
Dntel Life is Full of Possibilities
Douglas Dare Whelm
Editors An End Has A Start
Eels The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett
El-P Cancer 4 Cure
Elliott Smith Figure 8
Enter Shikari The Zone
Fake Blood Fix Your Accent
Fang Island Fang Island
Fever Ray Fever Ray
Flying Lotus L.A. EP 3 X 3
Flying Lotus A Decade of Flying Lotus
Flying Lotus Until the Quiet Comes
Followed By Ghosts Still, Here
Fourcolor Air Curtain
Frightened Rabbit The Midnight Organ Fight
Fuck Buttons Street Horrrsing
Fuck Buttons Tarot Sport
Funeral for a Friend Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation
Funeral for a Friend Hours
Girls Album
Gold Panda Companion
Goo Goo Dolls Dizzy Up The Girl
Grasscut Unearth
Green Day American Idiot
Harold Budd The White Arcades
Hilary Hahn and Hauschka Silfra
Ifan Dafydd No Goo/Miranda
Ital Tek The Planet
Ital Tek Hyper Real
Jack's Mannequin Everything in Transit
James Blake James Blake
Jamie Woon Mirrorwriting
Jason Urick I Love You
Jets to Brazil Perfecting Loneliness
Jimmy Eat World Bleed American
JMSN †Pllajë†
John K. Samson Provincial
Julia Holter Have You In My Wilderness
Julianna Barwick The Magic Place
Julianna Barwick Will
Just Jack All Night Cinema
Kahn Kahn
Kaiser Chiefs Employment
Keep Shelly in Athens Our Own Dream
Kings of Leon Only By The Night
Korallreven An Album By Korallreven
Kraftwerk Autobahn
Lapalux When You're Gone
Laura Stevenson Sit Resist
Lemaitre Relativity 2
Lemaitre Relativity 3
Leyland Kirby Eager To Tear Apart The Stars
Liar Strange Love
London Elektricity Yikes!
Lostprophets Start Something
Lostprophets The Fake Sound Of Progress
M83 Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts
M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
Macintosh Plus Floral Shoppe
Manic Street Preachers Generation Terrorists
Manic Street Preachers Postcards from a Young Man
Marissa Nadler The Sister
Mark Harris The Angry Child
Mark Kozelek and Desertshore Mark Kozelek and Desertshore
matthewdavid Jewelry
Max Richter Disconnect
Maximo Park Our Earthly Pleasures
Metronomy Love Letters
Mirrorring Foreign Body
Modest Mouse No One's First, and You're Next
Monolake Ghosts
Motion City Soundtrack I Am the Movie
Motion Sickness Of Time Travel Luminaries & Synastry
Mount Kimbie Sketch On Glass
Mount Kimbie Cold Spring Fault Less Youth
Mr. Mitch Don't Leave
Muse Absolution
Muse Black Holes & Revelations
New Century Classics Natural Process
Niva Feverish Dreams
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
Of Monsters and Men My Head is an Animal
OK Go Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky
Okkervil River The Stage Names
Okkervil River I Am Very Far
Olafur Arnalds Another Happy Day
Olkin Donder Oben Glex
Omar S It Can Be Done But Only I Can Do It
Oneohtrix Point Never Returnal
Oneohtrix Point Never Replica
Oneohtrix Point Never Commissions I
Owen I do perceive.
Owen New Leaves
Paramore Riot!
Patten ESTOILE NAIANT
Piano Magic Ovations
Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon
Porcupine Tree In Absentia
Porcupine Tree The Incident
Powder! Go Away Laika Still Wants Go Home
Preoccupations Cassette
Pulse Emitter Aeons
Purity Ring Shrines
R.E.M. Document
Radiohead The King of Limbs
Radiohead TKOL RMX 1234567
Ratatat LP4
Ricky Eat Acid Three Love Songs
Rogue Wave Permalight
Ronald Jenkees Disorganized Fun
S. Carey Hoyas
Sam Roberts Band Love at the End of the World
San Fermin San Fermin
Secret Cities Strange Hearts
Shlohmo Bad Vibes
Sigur Ros Inni
Slow Dancing Society The Sound of Lights When Dim
Sluggart Languish
Small Engine Repair Serve Yourself
Something Corporate North
Son Lux We Are Rising
Son Lux Lanterns
Son Lux Alternate Worlds
an dey bootiful
Squarepusher Feed Me Weird Things
Stray Ghost Those Who Know Darkness See The Light
STRFKR Starfucker
Stuart Warwick The Butcher's Voice
Stumbleine Spiderwebbed
Submerse They Always Come Back
Submerse Tears
Sun Glitters Everything Could Be Fine
Sunset Rubdown Random Spirit Lover
Taking Back Sunday Taking Back Sunday EP
Tensnake Glow
The Airborne Toxic Event The Airborne Toxic Event
The Antlers Undersea
The Caretaker Patience (After Sebald)
The Correspondents Puppet Loosely Strung
The Dear Hunter Red
The Dodos No Color
The Flashbulb Red Extensions of Me
The Format Interventions and Lullabies
The Killers Sam's Town
The Killers Day & Age
The Kooks Inside In/Inside Out
The Luyas Too Beautiful to Work
The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation Anthropomorphic
The National Cherry Tree
The National Trouble Will Find Me
But is it a shower or a grower?
The Rifles Great Escape
The Shins Chutes Too Narrow
The Smiths The Very Best of The Smiths
The Strokes Angles
The Unicorns Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream
my forth AOTY so far!
This Will Destroy You This Will Destroy You
Thrupence Voyages
Tim Hecker Dropped Pianos
Two Door Cinema Club Tourist History
Ulrich Schnauss and Mark Peters Underrated Silence
Unexpect Fables of the Sleepless Empire
Valentin Stip Anytime Will Do
VNV Nation Of Faith, Power and Glory
Void Pedal Pair of L
Volor Flex Unlit
Warpaint The Fool
Waxahatchee American Weekend
White Lies To Lose My Life
Wilco The Whole Love
William Basinski Vivian & Ondine
William Ryan Fritch Revisionist
Wisp Honor Beats
Wisp The Shimmering Hour
Woob 1194
Woodkid Iron
Young Fathers White Men Are Black Men Too
Yppah Eighty One
Zero 7 The Garden
Zomby Dedication

3.4 great
Benoit Pioulard Stanza

3.3 great
Gidge Lulin
Phaeleh All That Remains

3.0 good
A.M. Architect Pattern Language
Air Le Voyage Dans La Lune
Angels and Airwaves We Don't Need to Whisper
Animal Collective Transverse Temporal Gyrus
Arcade Fire Reflektor
Arctic Monkeys AM
ASC Solenoid
ASC Sonic Assault
Band of Horses Cease to Begin
Beefcake Polycontrale Contra Punkte
Beirut The Rip Tide
Benoit Pioulard Roanoke
Bibio Green
Biffy Clyro Only Revolutions
Black Swan (USA-NY) The Quiet Divide
Black Swan (USA-NY) Aeterna
Blue Foundation Life Of A Ghost
Blue Foundation In My Mind I Am Free
Brand New Daisy
Burial Rival Dealer
Caribou Up in Flames (as Manitoba)
Cate Le Bon CYRK
Clonki Seize The Smoke
Cloud Nothings Attack on Memory
Cloudkicker Beacons
Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
Creepoid Horse Heaven
Crosses Crosses
Dakent Matahari
Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi Rome
Death Cab for Cutie The Photo Album
Death Cab for Cutie Plans
Demdike Stare Elemental
Dweller On The Threshold Dweller On The Threshold
Eagulls Eagulls
Not really my kind of thing, but it's good to see guitar music with credibility getting its time in the spotlight.rAlso, my friend stage-dived when they played the Louisiana in Bristol, apparently they're (quote) "off the fucking chain."
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros Up From Below
Elbow Build A Rocket Boys!
Elliott Smith From a Basement on the Hill
Evanescence Fallen
Fall Out Boy Folie a Deux
Fanfarlo Rooms Filled With Light
While certainly enjoyable, Rooms Filled With Light sees Fanfarlo abandon many of the things
which made Reservoir so memorable. What's left seems borrowed from the more popular indie
outfits. Again, it's good, just uninspired.
Fear Factory Demanufacture
Fennesz Becs
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes
Foals Holy Fire
Foo Fighters In Your Honor
Frank Turner England Keep My Bones
Funeral for a Friend The Great Wide Open
Girls Broken Dreams Club
Godspeed You! Black Emperor G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!
Green Day Dookie
Horsepower Productions Justify
Hot Chip The Warning
Hot Chip One Life Stand
James Blake Enough Thunder
James Blake Love What Happened Here
Jimmy Eat World Static Prevails
Jimmy Eat World Invented
Josh Ritter Bringing in the Darlings
Julia Holter Ekstasis
Kele The Boxer
Korn Follow the Leader
Leyland Kirby Breaks My Heart Each Time
Lightspeed Champion Falling Off The Lavender Bridge
Los Campesinos! Hello Sadness
Loscil City Hospital
Lykke Li Wounded Rhymes
Manchester Orchestra Simple Math
Manic Street Preachers Gold Against The Soul
Master Musicians of Bukkake Totem Three
Maximo Park Quicken The Heart
Mayday Parade A Lesson In Romantics
MGMT Congratulations
Million Dead A Song to Ruin
Milo Milo Takes Baths
Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Mogwai Young Team
Motion City Soundtrack Commit This to Memory
Motion City Soundtrack Even If It Kills Me
Mumm-Ra These Things Move In Threes
My Chemical Romance The Black Parade
Nils Frahm Spaces
OK Go Oh No
Olafur Arnalds For Now I Am Winter
Orbital Wonky
OSI Blood
Paramore All We Know Is Falling
Paramore Brand New Eyes
Passion Pit Manners
Perfume Genius Put Your Back N 2 It
Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Pogo Wonderpuff
Public Service Broadcasting The Race For Space
Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way
Rudimental Home
Rustie Glass Swords
Senpai They Say Just Wait Till Morning
Shabazz Palaces Black Up
Snow Patrol Final Straw
SOHN Tremors
it's like if The Weeknd wasn't the kind of person who'd try and sleep with your sister.
Something Corporate Songs for Silent Movies
Soundtrack (Film) Sucker Punch
Squarepusher Ufabulum
Stars In Our Bedroom After The War
Stars of the Lid Music For Nitrous Oxide
Sun Glitters High
Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends
Telekinesis (USA-WA, Indie Rock) 12 Desperate Straight Lines
The Antlers New York Hospitals
The Antlers Burst Apart
The Antlers (together)
The Black Keys El Camino
The Body I Shall Die Here
It would be really, really, really good if it didn't have to be so fucking melodramatic. Krlic should have been more brutal in showing how it's actually done.
The Decemberists The King Is Dead
The Horrors Skying
The Maccabees Given to the Wild
The Postal Service Give Up
The Shins Port of Morrow
The Used In Love and Death
The Weeknd House of Balloons
The Weeknd Echoes of Silence
The xx xx
Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie
This Providence This Providence
Throw Me The Statue Creaturesque
Valentin Stip Sigh
Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend
Venetian Snares Affectionate
Venetian Snares Fool the Detector
White Lies Ritual
Widowspeak Widowspeak
Windy and Carl Songs For The Broken Hearted
Witxes A Fabric of Beliefs
Woodsman Woodsman
WU LYF Go Tell Fire to the Mountain
Yuck Yuck

2.9 good
Rival Consoles Howl

2.7 average
John Bence Disquiet

2.5 average
ANOHNI HOPELESSNESS
Arctic Monkeys Suck It and See
ASC Flood Tide Rising
Atlas Sound Parallax
Baths Ocean Death
Beach House Bloom
Bear in Heaven I Love You, It's Cool
blink-182 Blink-182
Bloc Party Bloc Party
Bvdub Serenity
Deadmau5 4x4=12
Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs
Death Cab for Cutie Codes and Keys
Delphic Acolyte
Enter Shikari Common Dreads
Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree
Fall Out Boy Infinity on High
Flight of the Conchords I Told You I Was Freaky
Flying Lotus L.A. EP 2 X 3
Friendly Fires Friendly Fires
Friendly Fires Pala
Funeral for a Friend Memory and Humanity
Gorillaz Plastic Beach
Green Day Warning
Hawthorne Heights The Silence in Black and White
Hawthorne Heights If Only You Were Lonely
Helios Moiety
Hidden In Plain View Life in Dreaming
Jack's Mannequin The Glass Passenger
Jimmy Eat World Chase This Light
Joker The Vision
Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience
Kids and Explosions Shit Computer
Lostprophets Liberation Transmission
Madina Lake From Them, Through Us, To You
Matt Pond PA Last Light
Micol Cazzell Broken Things
Motion City Soundtrack My Dinosaur Life
Muse The Resistance
My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
Nero Welcome Reality
Nicholas Szczepanik Please Stop Loving Me
Nickelback Silver Side Up
Owl City Maybe I'm Dreaming
Owl City Ocean Eyes
Panic! at the Disco Pretty. Odd.
Red Hot Chili Peppers I'm With You
Sigur Ros Valtari
So insubstantial that if the hype train rattles it might just fall apart.
Skrillex Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites
Snow Patrol A Hundred Million Suns
Something Corporate Ready...Break
Straylight Run Prepare To Be Wrong
Taking Back Sunday Louder Now
Tame Impala Currents
The Flashbulb Opus At The End Of Everything
The Glitch Mob Drink the Sea
The Horrors Luminous
are you all high?
The Used Lies for the Liars
Thirty Seconds to Mars This Is War
Tired Pony The Place We Ran From
Tycho Awake
man should open a shop with all this cheese, but I guess he's making enough money filling albums with 8 versions of the same song as it is.
U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
U2 No Line on the Horizon
Yellowcard Ocean Avenue

2.2 poor
Ta-Ku Songs to Make Up To

2.0 poor
Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion
Bombay Bicycle Club Flaws
Brian Eno The Ship
Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season
Coldplay Mylo Xyloto
Crystal Castles Crystal Castles II
Drake Take Care
Editors In This Light and On This Evening
Empire Of The Sun Walking On A Dream
Fischerspooner Entertainment
Funeral for a Friend Tales Don't Tell Themselves
Green Day Kerplunk
Ian Brown My Way
Knife Party 100% No Modern Talking
Lana Del Rey Born to Die
Lostprophets The Betrayed
Major Lazer Apocalypse Soon
Mayday Parade Anywhere But Here
Mayday Parade Mayday Parade
My Chemical Romance Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys
Nickelback The State
Nirvana Nevermind
oOoOO Our Loving Is Hurting Us
Snow Patrol Fallen Empires
Swarms Low Sun
Taking Back Sunday New Again
The Lonely Island Incredibad
Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures
Tom Odell Long Way Down
Vampire Weekend Contra

1.5 very poor
3 Doors Down Seventeen Days
Bvdub All Is Forgiven
Enter Shikari A Flash Flood of Colour
Hawthorne Heights Fragile Future
Mike Posner One Foot Out the Door
Mono For My Parents
Couldn't help but cringe during some of those crescendos. The title suggests this album might have some personality, but it's utterly lifeless and dry. blegh.
Mumford and Sons Sigh No More
Nickelback All the Right Reasons
Owl City All Things Bright And Beautiful
Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium
Skrillex Bangarang
Squarepusher Music for Robots
The Lonely Island Turtleneck and Chain
The xx Coexist

1.0 awful
3 Doors Down Time of My Life
David Guetta Nothing but the Beat
Deuce Nine Lives
Lou Reed and Metallica Lulu
Nickelback Dark Horse
The Weeknd Beauty Behind the Madness
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