| 4.0 excellent |
| American Football American Football (LP3) |
| Anberlin Cities |
| Anberlin Vital |
| Arcade Fire Her |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| Bad Religion Against the Grain |
| Beach House 7 |
| Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique |
| Beck Odelay |
| Big Thief Masterpiece |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm |
| Blur Parklife |
| Bob Dylan Nashville Skyline |
| Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways |
| Bob Dylan Oh Mercy |
| Bob Dylan Triplicate |
| Bob Dylan Modern Times |
| Bob Dylan Time Out of Mind |
| Bob Dylan Desire |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Patchouli Blue |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver |
| Boygenius boygenius |
| Brand New Fight Off Your Demons (The Demos) |
| Brand New Science Fiction |
| Built to Spill Perfect from Now On |
| Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret |
| Canadian Softball Awkward and Depressed |
| Christine Fellows Paper Anniversary |
| Courtney Barnett Tell Me How You Really Feel |
| Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables |
| Deerhunter Halcyon Digest |
| Deftones White Pony |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Elliott Smith XO |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP |
| Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) What It Takes to Move Forward |
| Faith No More Angel Dust |
| Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear |
| Feist The Reminder |
| FIDLAR FIDLAR |
| Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters |
| Foals What Went Down |
| Foals Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost - Part 1 |
| Frank Ocean channel ORANGE |
| Frank Turner Tape Deck Heart |
| Future Islands Singles |
| Gang of Youths Go Farther in Lightness |
| Gil Scott-Heron and Makaya McCraven We're New Again - A Reimagining by Makaya McCraven |
| Great Northern Trading Twilight for Daylight |
| Hey Rosetta! Seeds |
| IDLES Joy as an Act of Resistance |
| Interpol Antics |
| Interpol Interpol |
| Interpol El Pintor |
| Japandroids Celebration Rock |
| Jeff Buckley Grace |
| John K. Samson Provincial |
| Julien Baker Sprained Ankle |
| Kanye West The College Dropout |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| Kanye West Late Registration |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly |
| Kids See Ghosts Kids See Ghosts |
| Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell! |
| Laura Stevenson Sit Resist |
| Leonard Cohen Songs From a Room |
| Leonard Cohen Songs of Love and Hate |
| Leonard Cohen New Skin for the Old Ceremony |
| Leonard Cohen Various Positions |
| Leonard Cohen I'm Your Man |
| Leonard Cohen You Want It Darker |
| Los Campesinos! No Blues |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming |
| Manchester Orchestra Simple Math |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News |
| Mr. Bungle California |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| Nils Frahm Spaces |
| of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? |
| Parquet Courts Light Up Gold |
| Parquet Courts Human Performance |
| Parquet Courts Wide Awake |
| Some of the political stuff is a bit wordy and on the nose, but Danger Mouse has definitely not ruined Parquet Courts. |
| Passion Pit Gossamer |
| Paul Banks Banks |
| Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain |
| Phoebe Bridgers Stranger in the Alps |
| Pinegrove Skylight |
| Pinegrove Cardinal |
| Propagandhi Victory Lap |
Propagandhi can't write a bad album apparently. The riffs are a little more rudimentary this time
around, but the songwriting is also more diverse than ever. Not their best album for sure, but a
worthy and cathartic entry into a legendary catalogue. |
| Propagandhi Less Talk, More Rock |
| PUP The Dream Is Over |
| PUP Morbid Stuff |
| R.E.M. Murmur |
| One of the most impressive debut records ever, Murmur?s only real fault is that - with the exception of the unbelievable ?Radio Free Europe? - each of its tracks has a spectacular verse, chorus, or intro as opposed to all three. While that does mean that there are plenty of ?this isn?t one of my favorites ? oh wait I love this? moments, but on the other hand you can?t go wrong with any of these songs. |
| R.E.M. Reckoning |
| A solid progression from Murmur, Reckoning delivers more strong indie rock songs with a little bit more tonal and thematic variety. Very consistent, but without a personal attachment to these tracks this is unlikely to transcend ?enjoyable.? |
| R.E.M. Chronic Town |
| R.E.M. Fables of the Reconstruction |
| A welcome change-up from straightforward jangle-pop, Fables does have a few growing pains, sluggish moments, and unmemorable tracks, but three consecutive classics in ?Maps and Legends," "Driver 8," and "Life and How to Live It" and more interesting subject matter are hard to deny. |
| R.E.M. Monster |
| R.E.M. New Adventures in Hi-Fi |
| Radical Face The Family Tree: The Branches |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels |
| Rush Clockwork Angels |
| Sea Power The Decline of British Sea Power |
| Simon and Garfunkel Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme |
| Simon and Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water |
| Slaughter Beach, Dog Birdie |
| Sleater-Kinney No Cities to Love |
| Soundgarden Superunknown |
| Soundtrack (Film) Call Me By Your Name |
| Stella Donnelly Beware of the Dogs |
| Sturgill Simpson Sound and Fury |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz |
| Talking Heads Talking Heads: 77 |
| Talking Heads More Songs About Buildings and Food |
| Tears for Fears The Hurting |
| The 1975 Facedown |
| The 1975 The 1975 |
| Can't wait for this. Can I get first review dibs? |
| The Antlers Hospice |
| The Antlers Burst Apart |
| The Dangerous Summer War Paint |
| The Dangerous Summer Reach for the Sun |
| The Decemberists Picaresque |
| The Dismemberment Plan The Dismemberment Plan Is Terrified |
| The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 |
| The National Sleep Well Beast |
| The New Pornographers Twin Cinema |
| The Reign of Kindo Rhythm, Chord & Melody |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
| The Strokes The New Abnormal |
| The Strokes Room on Fire |
| The Tragically Hip Fully Completely |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico |
| The Voidz Virtue |
| The Weakerthans Reunion Tour |
| The Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor |
| Turnover Peripheral Vision |
| Turnstile Glow On |
| U2 War |
| U2 The Unforgettable Fire |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend |
| Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City |
| Weezer Pinkerton |
| Weyes Blood Titanic Rising |
| Wintersleep Welcome To The Night Sky |
| Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary |
| Women Public Strain |
| 3.5 great |
| Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties Routine Maintenance |
| Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues |
| Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill |
| Alex G Rocket |
| Alex Lahey I Love You Like A Brother |
| Fun, well-crafted, and undeniably likeable power pop. |
| Alvvays Antisocialites |
| Anberlin Never Take Friendship Personal |
| Anderson .Paak Ventura |
| Anti-Flag For Blood and Empire |
| Arcade Fire Reflektor |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not |
| Arctic Monkeys AM |
| Autopilot Off Make A Sound |
| Bad Religion True North |
| Bad Religion The Empire Strikes First |
| Beach House Bloom |
| Beck Morning Phase |
| Better Oblivion Community Center Better Oblivion Community Center |
| Big Thief Capacity |
| Big Thief U.F.O.F. |
| Big Thief Two Hands |
| i just don't get it I guess. This is pretty good but I'm done trying to force myself to get into this band |
| blink-182 Blink-182 |
| Bloc Party A Weekend in the City |
| Bob Dylan Shadows in the Night |
| Bob Dylan Tempest |
| Bob Dylan Slow Train Coming |
| Bob Dylan Planet Waves |
| Bob Dylan New Morning |
| Bon Iver i,i |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon |
| Broken Bells After The Disco |
| Broken Bells Broken Bells |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Dedicated |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion |
| Childish Gambino Culdesac |
| Childish Gambino Because the Internet |
| Chumbawamba Tubthumper |
| CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe |
| Courtney Barnett sometimes i sit and think, and sometimes i just sit |
| Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile Lotta Sea Lice |
| Death Cab for Cutie Plans |
| Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs |
| Deftones Deftones |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
| DIIV Oshin |
| Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca |
| Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail |
| Father John Misty God's Favorite Customer |
| Feels Post Earth |
| Feist Let It Die |
| Foals Holy Fire |
| Foals Antidotes |
| Foals Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost - Part 2 |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape |
| Frank Turner Positive Songs for Negative People |
| fun. Aim and Ignite |
| Green Day American Idiot |
| Green Day Nimrod |
| Green Day Insomniac |
| HEALTH VOL. 4 :: SLAVES OF FEAR |
| Interpol Our Love to Admire |
| Interpol The Black EP |
| Jay Som Anak Ko |
| Jeff Rosenstock POST- |
| Jennifer Castle Pink City |
| Jessica Pratt Quiet Signs |
| Jimmy Eat World Bleed American |
| Johnny Marr The Messenger |
| Julien Baker Turn Out The Lights |
| Kanye West Yeezus |
| Kanye West ye |
| Kendrick Lamar DAMN. |
| Kevin Devine Bubblegum |
| Kurt Vile Wakin on a Pretty Daze |
| Laura Stevenson The Big Freeze |
| Leonard Cohen Death of a Ladies' Man |
| Leonard Cohen The Future |
| Leonard Cohen Ten New Songs |
| Leonard Cohen Old Ideas |
| Lorde Pure Heroine |
| Los Campesinos! Romance Is Boring |
| Manchester Orchestra I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child |
| Manchester Orchestra Cope |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West |
| Modest Mouse Strangers to Ourselves |
| Mutual Benefit Love's Crushing Diamond |
| Nine Inch Nails Hesitation Marks |
| Nirvana Bleach |
| No Age Snares Like A Haircut |
| Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? |
| Oso Oso Basking in the glow |
| Oso Oso The Yunahon Mixtape |
| Owen At Home With Owen |
| Parquet Courts Sunbathing Animal |
| Pearl Jam Ten |
| Pearl Jam Backspacer |
| PEARS Pears |
| Phoenix (FRA) Bankrupt! |
| Pond (AUS) Tasmania |
| Preoccupations Preoccupations |
| Propagandhi Failed States |
| Propagandhi How to Clean Everything |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork |
| R.E.M. Out of Time |
| Out of Time crosses the line from ?variation? to ?mess? a few times, counterpunching the poppiest songs of their career with unwieldy dirges (?Low?), spoken word, and instrumental filler. Many songs have brilliant sections nested within more questionable content (?Radio Song,? ?Belong?). As an album it does not hang together or flow, but four classic tracks including possibly their best ever in ?Country Feedback? keep this one afloat. |
| R.E.M. Document |
| The fervent but obscure political elements of Pageant are amplified and lose a lot of their resonance (and tolerability). The metallic sheen of these tracks buoys ?Finest Worksong? and the two hit singles but grates otherwise, and the second half drags with dirges, stadium-sized over-reaches, and Stipe's nasal excesses with the exception of the beautiful ?King of Birds.? |
| R.E.M. Green |
| R.E.M.?s poppiest record swings back and forth between bouncy obvious pop-rock, stadium rock, and mandolin ballads with decidedly mixed results. While the cheerfulness is a welcome respite from the cynicism of Document, the record?s best song (?Orange Crush?) is a stylistic holdover from that record. |
| R.E.M. Accelerate |
| R.E.M. Reveal |
| R.E.M. Up |
| R.E.M. Collapse Into Now |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs |
| Real Estate Days |
| Real Estate Atlas |
| Rostam Half-Light |
| The Vampire Weekend keyboardist's debut shows promise and the diversity of sound and worldliness one would expect from the guy who made the band sound interesting in the first place. Some tracks really do sound like his former band; unfortunately, those are often the better ones. If you can get past his sung-through-a-grin voice, there's some cool stuff in here. |
| Rozwell Kid Precious Art |
| Rush Snakes & Arrows |
| Savages Silence Yourself |
| Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy |
| Shame (UK) Songs of Praise |
| Shame (UK) Drunk Tank Pink |
| Sunrise Skater Kids Friendville |
| Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends |
| Tears for Fears Songs from the Big Chair |
| The 1975 IV |
| The 1975 Sex |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul |
| The Beatles Please Please Me |
| The Cars The Cars |
| The Classic Crime Phoenix |
| The Dangerous Summer Golden Record |
| This will need a couple listens to sink in, not as immediate as War Paint. |
| The Decemberists The King Is Dead |
| The Decemberists The Hazards of Love |
| The Decemberists What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World |
| nice to hear the decemberists put out an album without a real concept behind. just cool sometimes amusingly self-aware decemberists-sounding songs. |
| The Gaslight Anthem Handwritten |
| The Get Up Kids Something to Write Home About |
| The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America |
| The Killers Hot Fuss |
| The Main Drag Yours As Fast As Mine |
| The Men Tomorrow's Hits |
| The Menzingers After the Party |
| The Menzingers On the Impossible Past |
| The Milk Carton Kids Prologue |
| The National Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers |
| The New Pornographers Electric Version |
| The Postal Service Give Up |
| The Rural Alberta Advantage Departing |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Oceania |
| The Story So Far What You Don't See |
| The Strokes Angles |
| The Strokes First Impressions of Earth |
| The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now |
| The Weakerthans Fallow |
| The Weeknd House of Balloons |
| The Wonder Years No Closer to Heaven |
| The Wrens The Meadowlands |
| The xx I See You |
| Tigers on Trains Grandfather |
| Turnstile Time and Space |
| Two Door Cinema Club Tourist History |
| Tyler, the Creator IGOR |
| U2 Achtung Baby |
| Vampire Weekend Contra |
| Vampire Weekend Father Of The Bride |
| Volcano Choir Repave |
| Wavves King of the Beach |
| Weezer Everything Will Be Alright in the End |
| Whitney Forever Turned Around |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever To Tell |
| 3.0 good |
| Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties We Don't Have Each Other |
| Albert Hammond Jr Francis Trouble |
| Algiers There Is No Year |
| Alkaline Trio My Shame Is True |
| Alkaline Trio Broken Wing |
| American Football American Football (LP2) |
| Anberlin New Surrender |
| Anberlin Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place |
| Anberlin Lowborn |
| Andrew Bird My Finest Work Yet |
| Andrew McMahon The Pop Underground |
| Andy Shauf The Party |
| I respect the songwriting and lyricism here but lyrics can only get you so far when your voice is so annoying and affected that you can't actually make out any of them. And the music behind them isn't exceptional either. |
| Andy Shauf The Neon Skyline |
| Arctic Monkeys Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino |
| Maybe I'm not approaching this properly because this is one of the most boring, samey thing I've heard all year. I mean it's well-crafted and everything but change the tempo once in a while guys? |
| Bayside The Walking Wounded |
| Benjamin Gibbard Former Lives |
| Big Noble First Light |
| Billie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? |
| Black Belt Eagle Scout At The Party With My Brown Friends |
| Bloc Party Four |
| Chance the Rapper Coloring Book |
| Charli XCX Charli |
| Childish Gambino Camp |
| clairo Immunity |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends |
| Copeland Blushing |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories |
| Death Cab for Cutie Codes and Keys |
| Death Cab for Cutie Kintsugi |
| Death Cab for Cutie The Blue EP |
| Destroyer Kaputt |
| Destroyer Have We Met |
| Dustin Kensrue The Water and the Blood |
| Earl Sweatshirt Doris |
| Editors The Back Room |
| Editors The Weight of Your Love |
| Emery We Do What We Want |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP 2 |
| Father John Misty Pure Comedy |
| FIDLAR Too |
| Foxing Nearer My God |
| Frank Turner FTHC |
| Franz Ferdinand Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action |
| Free Throw What's Past Is Prologue |
| fun. Some Nights |
| Glass Beach The First Glass Beach Album |
| Green Day Warning |
| Hockey Dad Boronia |
| HUNNY Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. |
| Interpol Marauder |
| Interpol A Fine Mess |
| Interpol The Other Side of Make-Believe |
| It's Just Vanity Here's What You Remember From A Coma |
| Jack's Mannequin People and Things |
| Jack's Mannequin The Glass Passenger |
| Joy Division Closer |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures |
| Julia Jacklin Crushing |
| Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour |
| Karen O and Danger Mouse Lux Prima |
| Lana Del Rey Born to Die |
| Leonard Cohen Recent Songs |
| Leonard Cohen Popular Problems |
| Of Monsters and Men My Head is an Animal |
| OK Go Oh No |
| Omni Networker |
| Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out |
| Pinegrove Marigold |
| Preoccupations New Material |
| Real Estate In Mind |
| Slaughter Beach, Dog Safe And Also No Fear |
| if they would just suck it up and do a weakerthans album they'd be good but this is so unmemorable |
| Snail Mail Lush |
| Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks Wig Out At Jagbags |
| Strange Ranger Remembering the Rockets |
| Taylor Swift Lover |
| respect to taylor for just releasing a carly rae jepsen album.rAlso "Cruel Summer" is the obvious 1st single what a goof |
| The 1975 Music For Cars |
| The 1975 A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships |
| The 1975 I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It |
| The Ataris So Long, Astoria |
| The Beatles With the Beatles |
| The Rural Alberta Advantage Mended With Gold |
| Mended with Gold drags the RAA even further away from the energy that made their debut so memorable. It's a fine indie-folk album but never anything more than that. |
| The Wonder Years Sister Cities |
| The xx Coexist |
| Tobias Jesso Jr. Goon |
| Next up in 2015's lineup of by-the-books, overrated, unremarkable throwback pop-rock, Goon is the kind of record that would be collecting dust in a crate if it came out forty years ago. |
| U2 Songs of Innocence |
| U2 All That You Can't Leave Behind |
| U2 Rattle and Hum |
| U2 Pop |
| U2 Songs of Experience |
| Wavves V |
| Yellowcard Ocean Avenue |
