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Average Rating: 3.91
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Objectivity Score: 61%
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5.0 classic
Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha
Avi Buffalo Avi Buffalo
Beck Sea Change
Crystal Stilts Alight of Night
DeVotchKa How It Ends
Editors In This Light and On This Evening
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros Up From Below
Gorillaz Demon Days
Josh Ritter So Runs The World Away
Josh Ritter The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter
Loch Lomond Little Me Will Start a Storm
When I heard this album I just instantly fell in love. Better yet is that after being in heavy rotation my enjoyment has not wavered once. The overall album is amazing from the production to songwriting, and I just love the unique vocals (not to mention beautiful vocal harmonies). This is just a near perfect album for me.
Loch Lomond Paper The Walls
Moby Wait for Me
Moby 18
My Morning Jacket Z
My Morning Jacket It Still Moves
Nick Drake Bryter Layter
Nick Drake Pink Moon
Nick Drake Five Leaves Left
Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun
The Bats Daddy's Highway
The New Pornographers Together
The New Pornographers Challengers
The Shins Oh, Inverted World
The Verve Urban Hymns

4.5 superb
Andrew Bird The Mysterious Production Of Eggs
Asobi Seksu Citrus
Beck Modern Guilt
Bowerbirds Hymns for a Dark Horse
Breathe Owl Breathe Magic Central
Brett Dennen Hope for the Hopeless
Buffalo Springfield Buffalo Springfield Again
Cat Stevens Tea for the Tillerman
Cat Stevens Teaser and the Firecat
Coconut Records Nighttiming
Counting Crows This Desert Life
Counting Crows Recovering The Satellites
Counting Crows August And Everything After
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young Crosby, Stills and Nash
Crystal Stilts In Love With Oblivion
Damien Jurado Saint Bartlett
Destroyer Kaputt
DeVotchKa 100 Lovers
DeVotchKa A Mad & Faithful Telling
Digable Planets Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space)
Dr. Octagon Dr. Octagonecologyst
Fever Ray Fever Ray
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes
Guru Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1
Holy Ghost! Holy Ghost!
Jefferson Airplane Surrealistic Pillow
Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick
Jethro Tull Aqualung
Joanna Newsom The Milk-Eyed Mender
Josh Ritter The Animal Years
Junip Fields
Matt Costa Mobile Chateau
Moby Hotel
Moby Play
Moby Grape Moby Grape
Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica
My Morning Jacket Evil Urges
Neil Young On the Beach
Neil Young Zuma
Neil Young Harvest
Paul Simon The Rhythm of the Saints
PJ Harvey Let England Shake
R.E.M. Automatic for the People
Ray LaMontagne Till the Sun Turns Black
Ride Nowhere
Simon and Garfunkel Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
Simon and Garfunkel Bookends
Slowdive Souvlaki
Suckers Wild Smile
The Acorn Glory Hope Mountain
The Cranberries Bury the Hatchet
The Cranberries Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?
The Great Lakes Myth Society The Great Lakes Myth Society
The Left Banke Walk Away Renee/Pretty Ballerina
The Moody Blues Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
The Moody Blues A Question of Balance
The Moody Blues Days of Future Passed
The National Boxer
The National Alligator
The New Pornographers Twin Cinema
The Shins Wincing the Night Away
The Verve A Storm in Heaven
The Verve A Northern Soul
The Verve Verve
Tunng Comments Of The Inner Chorus
Tunng ...And Then We Saw Land
Vashti Bunyan Just Another Diamond Day
World Party Goodbye Jumbo

4.0 excellent
A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory
Aesop Rock None Shall Pass
Andrew Bird Noble Beast
Asobi Seksu Fluorescence
Badly Drawn Boy The Hour Of Bewilderbeast
Band of Horses Cease to Begin
Band of Horses Everything All the Time
Beach House Teen Dream
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club B.R.M.C.
Bowerbirds Upper Air
Braids Native Speaker
Broken Bells Broken Bells
Broken Bells Meyrin Fields
Busdriver Jhelli Beam
Busdriver RoadKillOvercoat
Busdriver Fear Of A Black Tangent
Cat Stevens Mona Bone Jakon
Coconut Records Davy
Colin Hay Going Somewhere
David Gray White Ladder
Destroyer Destroyer's Rubies
Devendra Banhart Cripple Crow
Digable Planets Blowout Comb
Galaxie 500 Today
Gnarls Barkley The Odd Couple
Great Lake Swimmers Lost Channels
Great Lake Swimmers Ongiara
Gruff Rhys Hotel Shampoo
Highspire Your Everything
Interpol Interpol
Iron And Wine Our Endless Numbered Days
Jimi Hendrix Valleys of Neptune
Joanna Newsom Ys
Joe Pug Nation of Heat
John Vanderslice White Wilderness
Jose Gonzalez Veneer
Josh Ritter Hello Starling
Kings of Convenience Riot on an Empty Street
Kings of Convenience Quiet is the New Loud
MF DOOM MM.. Food
Moby Last Night
Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News
Neil Young Harvest Moon
Neil Young Tonight's the Night
Nujabes Metaphorical Music
Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
Paul Simon You're the One
Peter Bjorn and John Writer's Block
Peter Broderick Home
R.E.M. Collapse Into Now
R.E.M. Monster
R.E.M. Out of Time
Raphael Saadiq Stone Rollin'
Ray LaMontagne Gossip In The Grain
Ray LaMontagne Trouble
Ride Going Blank Again
She and Him Volume Two
Shugo Tokumaru Port Entropy
Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Spoon Gimme Fiction
Sufjan Stevens Illinois
Tears Run Rings Always, Sometimes, Seldom, Never
The Acorn The Pink Ghosts
The Chills Kaleidoscope World
The Daysleepers Drowned in a Sea of Sound
The Essex Green Everything Is Green
The Good, The Bad and The Queen The Good, The Bad & The Queen
The La's The La's
The National High Violet
The New Pornographers Electric Version
The New Pornographers Mass Romantic
The Shins Chutes Too Narrow
The Verve Forth
The Wallflowers Bringing Down the Horse
The Whitest Boy Alive Dreams
The Whitest Boy Alive Rules
Thurston Moore Demolished Thoughts
Timber Timbre Timber Timbre
Vashti Bunyan Lookaftering

3.5 great
Badly Drawn Boy Is There Nothing We Could Do?
Beirut The Rip Tide
Blur The Great Escape
Blur 13
Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago
Brett Dennen Loverboy
Counting Crows Hard Candy
Devendra Banhart What Will We Be
The reviewer must be basing his review only on Devendra Banharts discography. If he was being objective he would have given it a 2.5 or 3, because this album is still better than a lot of the monotonous Indie Folk that is being beaten to death these days. For me it was actually a little better than that. Definitely not one of Devendra's better albums but this album certainly has enough in it to do well more than hold my attention. I think the reviewer should revisit this album when he's in a better state of mind. Sleeping through the album and then listening to the album buzzed does not put you in the right state of mind to pick up on all of the details Mr. Banhart puts into his work.
Doves (UK) Some Cities
Editors An End Has A Start
Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere
Jackson C. Frank Jackson C. Frank
Johann Johannsson Fordlandia
Justice
Kurt Vile Smoke Ring For My Halo
Local Natives Gorilla Manor
Matt Costa Unfamiliar Faces
Neko Case Middle Cyclone
Norah Jones Feels Like Home
Ray LaMontagne God Willin' & The Creek Don't Rise
Richard Ashcroft Alone with Everybody
Spoon Transference
The Beta Band The Three EPs
The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt
The Youngbloods Elephant Mountain
UNKLE Psyence Fiction
Willy Mason Where the Humans Eat
Wye Oak Civilian

3.0 good
Alexi Murdoch Time Without Consequence
Asobi Seksu Hush
Badly Drawn Boy It's What I'm Thinking - Photographing Snowflakes
Camper Van Beethoven Key Lime Pie
Coldplay X&Y
Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head
Coldplay Parachutes
Cut Copy Zonoscope
Dawes Nothing Is Wrong
Its like I want to like this album more but I don't. A lot of their songs start off well but then don't develop into anything special. They've essentialy taken the Classic Folk Rock sound and converted it into generic Indie Pop. Then could have been an amazing Indie Folk album, but instead you get something simplistic and contrived. These should be great songs but they just aren't.
Destroyer Your Blues
Dr. Dog Fate
Dr. Dog We All Belong
Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues
Foster the People Torches
Gorillaz Plastic Beach
Grizzly Bear Veckatimest
J. Tillman Vacilando Territory Blues
Jakob Dylan Women + Country
Joe Pug Messenger
Kings of Convenience Versus
Kula Shaker K
Marissa Nadler Marissa Nadler
Massive Attack Heligoland
Morning Teleportation Expanding Anyway
Mumford and Sons Sigh No More
Paul Simon So Beautiful or So What
Richard Ashcroft Keys To The World
St. Vincent Strange Mercy
Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans
Sufjan Stevens Michigan
Tame Impala Innerspeaker
The Acorn No Ghost
The Album Leaf A Chorus Of Storytellers
The Dodos No Color
The Essex Green The Long Goodbye
The Horrors Skying
The Killers Hot Fuss
The Wallflowers Breach
The War On Drugs Slave Ambient
The Weepies Be My Thrill
Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend
Volcano Choir Unmap

2.5 average
Adele 21
Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
David Gray Draw the Line
Eleanor Friedberger Last Summer
My Morning Jacket Circuital
Richard Ashcroft Human Conditions
Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz
The Killers Day & Age
The Killers Sam's Town
U2 No Line on the Horizon
Vampire Weekend Contra
Viva Brother Famous First Words
One word to describe this bands debut album is generic. With as much hype as them album has gotten I was looking forward to an homage to Britpop but it was nothing more than a cheap rip off. I think that with a little innovation and creativity they could transform their sound into something worthwhile but as of right now they just aren't there yet.

2.0 poor
Moby Destroyed
RPA & The United Nations Of Sound RPA & The United Nations of Sound
The Weeknd House of Balloons
Tyler, the Creator Goblin
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