| 4.5 superb |
| Adele 30 |
| Air Moon Safari |
| Air Talkie Walkie |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album |
| Aphex Twin Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments Pt 2 |
| Beach House Thank Your Lucky Stars |
| Bear in Heaven I Love You, It's Cool |
| Ben Frost A U R O R A |
| Biffy Clyro Puzzle |
| Bjork Post |
| Bjork Debut |
| Bjork Vulnicura |
| Black Midi Hellfire |
| Blur The Ballad of Darren |
| Brand New Science Fiction |
| Common Like Water for Chocolate |
| Crosses permanent.radiant |
| Crosses Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete. |
| Daft Punk Homework |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories |
| Darren Hayes The Tension And The Spark |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| Deftones Around the Fur |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist |
| Deftones Gore |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory |
| Everything Everything Get to Heaven |
| Everything Everything Mountainhead |
| Faith No More Angel Dust |
| Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear |
| Father John Misty Pure Comedy |
| Foals Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost - Part 2 |
| Future Islands Singles |
| George Michael Faith |
| Glassjaw Material Control |
| Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E. |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights |
| Interpol Antics |
| Jamiroquai Travelling Without Moving |
| Jamiroquai Dynamite |
| Jenny Lewis The Voyager |
| Justice † |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| Kanye West Yeezus |
| Kate Bush The Sensual World |
| A severely underrated album, Kate Bush expresses her more intimate side which marks a departure from her previous release 'Hounds Of Love'. With its dreamy, otherworldly soundscapes, this is Bush's most delicate and introspect work to date. |
| Kate Bush Before the Dawn |
| Kendrick Lamar Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers |
| Kesha Gag Order |
| LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver |
| LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening |
Insultingly good. While it draws obvious inspiration from Talking Heads, Murphy's latest (and apparently last) is a meticulously crafted body of work that is fresh, vibrant and consistent. 'Pow Pow' raises the roof with its sick, tribal-oriented grooves while 'One Touch', albeit slightly reminiscent of Get Innocuous, offers a thumping synth driven beat that refuses to let go.
An essential purchase. |
| Lorde Melodrama |
| M.I.A. Arular |
| M.I.A. Kala |
| M83 Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts |
| Madonna Like a Prayer |
| Madonna Ray of Light |
| Manic Street Preachers Everything Must Go |
| Mansun Six |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain |
| Matmos A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure |
| Metronomy The English Riviera |
| Mew And the Glass Handed Kites |
| Mew Frengers |
| Mount Eerie A Crow Looked At Me |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry |
| Muse Hullabaloo Soundtrack |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral |
| Ninja Sex Party Attitude City |
| Peter Gabriel i/o |
| PJ Harvey The Hope Six Demolition Project |
| Portugal. The Man Church Mouth |
| Portugal. The Man Censored Colors |
| Portugal. The Man Evil Friends |
| Prince Dirty Mind |
| Prince Parade |
| Prince Love Symbol Album |
| Queens of the Stone Age In Times New Roman... |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs |
| Rammstein Mutter |
| Rufus Wainwright Poses |
| Sampha LAHAI |
| Sinead O'Connor Gospel Oak EP |
| Spoon Lucifer on the Sofa |
| St. Vincent Actor |
| Sufjan Stevens The Ascension |
| System of a Down System of a Down |
| System of a Down Mezmerize |
| Tame Impala Currents |
| Tame Impala The Slow Rush |
| Taylor Swift Folklore |
| The 1975 Being Funny In A Foreign Language |
| The Avalanches Since I Left You |
| The Avalanches We Will Always Love You |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots |
| The Flaming Lips Clouds Taste Metallic |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath |
| The Sea And Cake Oui |
| The Streets Original Pirate Material |
| The Streets A Grand Don't Come For Free |
| The Strokes Is This It |
| Twenty One Pilots Scaled and Icy |
| U2 The Joshua Tree |
| Weezer The White Album |
| Yes Tales from Topographic Oceans |
| 3.5 great |
| Arcade Fire WE |
| Arctic Monkeys The Car |
| Bloc Party A Weekend in the City |
| Blur The Great Escape |
| Britney Spears Circus |
| Caribou Suddenly |
| Chromeo Business Casual |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow |
| Coldplay Ghost Stories |
| Daft Punk Tron: Legacy |
| Damien Rice 9 |
| Darren Hayes Homosexual |
| Deftones Adrenaline |
| Destroyer Poison Season |
| Disclosure Caracal |
| Dr. Dog Shame, Shame |
| Eminem Music to Be Murdered By |
| Faith No More King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence |
| Gossip Standing In The Way Of Control |
| Gossip Music For Men |
| Green Day iTRE! |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Light Grenades |
| Julie Byrne Not Even Happiness |
| Kate Bush Lionheart |
| Kate Bush Director's Cut |
| Kesha High Road |
| Limp Bizkit Significant Other |
| Linkin Park Meteora |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight |
| Madonna Bedtime Stories |
| Madonna Music |
| Madonna Rebel Heart |
| Manic Street Preachers This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours |
| Manic Street Preachers Postcards from a Young Man |
| Moses Sumney grae |
| Muse Will of the People |
| Mystery Jets Serotonin |
| Nelly Furtado The Spirit Indestructible |
| Ninja Sex Party Under the Covers |
| No Doubt Tragic Kingdom |
| No Doubt Rock Steady |
| Oh Land Wish Bone |
| Panic! at the Disco Death of a Bachelor |
| Perfume Genius Too Bright |
| Phoenix (FRA) Bankrupt! |
| Portugal. The Man Chris Black Changed My Life |
Definitely digging the psychedelic funk approach here - some of the songs are up there with their very best (Grim
Generation, Summer of Luv, Dummy, Plastic Island) and it has a real rapid consistency until Ghost Town slows everything
down to a grinding halt. What we have here is a great party record infused with a message much bigger, the idea of
having a figure so influential to you that you fall into a black hole when they’re gone. It’s a weird juxtaposition that
doesn’t quite work and the second half suffers greatly from it. The final track tries to bring what the intro did back with a
gospel esque finale that is grandiose musically but sadly backed up with lyricism stating ‘the present has a past, no
you’re fucked up forever’. It just doesn’t resonate the same way Modern Jesus, Sleep Forever or So Young does.
It also has to be noted that John Gourley’s vocals are strangely underwhelming throughout - he did break his jaw which
would have been absolute hell and I somewhat feel there’s a resistance with the vocal delivery. Again, listen to
Woodstock and he’s the lead man there, something that he despised.
It won’t be a hit album. There’s no hits on it sadly. But it’s a colourful interplay with the band’s musicianship and for first
half gets it right. It’s a strange misnomer in their catalogue as yet again, they’ve created an album that sounds nothing
like Woodstock or Evil Friends, and that must also be commended. But it just feels like a concept record that should
have gone all the way with its message rather than giving us a side B version of it. Double album next time, boys? |
| Prince Prince |
| Sleep Token Take Me Back to Eden |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses |
| Spiritualized Let It Come Down |
| St. Vincent St. Vincent |
| St. Vincent Daddy's Home |
| Stone Temple Pilots Purple |
| Sunset Rubdown Dragonslayer |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! |
| Taylor Swift Red |
| The 1975 Notes on a Conditional Form |
| The Darkness Pinewood Smile |
| The Flaming Lips Embryonic |
| The Flaming Lips The Terror |
| The Futureheads News and Tributes |
| The Futureheads This Is Not the World |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Oceania |
| The Streets Computers And Blues |
| The Weeknd Starboy |
| Toro Y Moi Causers of This |
| Twenty One Pilots Blurryface |
| Twin Shadow Eclipse |
| U2 Songs of Experience |
| Weezer The Green Album |
| Weezer The Red Album |
| Wilco Sky Blue Sky |
| Wilco Wilco (The Album) |
| Wilco The Whole Love |
| William Patrick Corgan TheFutureEmbrace |
| Yeasayer Odd Blood |
| 1.5 very poor |
| Hoobastank The Reason |
| Imagine Dragons Night Visions |
| Maroon 5 Overexposed |
| Maroon 5 V |
| Placebo Sleeping with Ghosts |
| Sam Smith Gloria |
| Staind Dysfunction |
| The Smashing Pumpkins ATUM: Act I |
| I?m stunned. Genuinely cannot believe how shockingly quantised and weak the production is alongside with some of Billy?s worst riffs and guitar interplay. I was skeptical about the concept, the dreadful spelling of the word ?Autumn?, the plodding, meandering nonsense that was Cyr and I am so devastated to report that all of my fears have come true. Zero grit, zero sense of urgency and thrill that made Siamese Dream and, yes, even Machina such phenomenal records. The synth pop influences is so disparate from Billy?s vocals and everything just sounds so sanitised and bland. The song ?Hooray!? may very well be Billy?s worst song yet. Jimmy Chamberlain is totally wasted on this record, so is James, so is Billy?s songwriting ability. It begs the question: why? Where is the quality control? I?ve defended the Pumpkins many times and still declare them my favourite band?up until Oh So Shiny. I?ve officially jumped the bandwagon and it crushes me to see a truly incredible band fall so hard. |
| Tom Morello The Atlas Underground Flood |
Dreadful. Has all the idiosyncrasies and personality of flour. Also, to sound like Imagine Dragons nearly right off
the bat? It’s a desperate sounding record. Stay away. |
| Uffie Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans |
