| 4.5 superb |
| A Lot Like Birds No Place |
| Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties Routine Maintenance |
| Aficionado Aficionado |
Very unique punk/indie, mixing pianos, flutes and organs with the typical punk sound. Neither the male or
female vocalist is technically stellar but their passion is extremely evident and more than makes up for the
flaws. Lyrics range from clever ("To go seven days without eating makes one weak") to introspective without
seeming heavy-handed. Highlights include "The Things You Like," "Stir Like Hell," "Permanent" and "Open
Doors." Very consistent, and a definite grower--one of 2011's best new artists, without a doubt. |
| All The Luck In The World A Blind Arcade |
| Anberlin Never Take Friendship Personal |
| As Cities Burn Come Now Sleep |
| As They Sleep Dynasty |
| August Burns Red Rescue & Restore |
| Blindside About A Burning Fire |
| Blindside Silence |
| Boston Boston |
| Brand New Daisy |
| Brand New Science Fiction |
| Burden of Life The Makeshift Conqueror |
| Chevelle This Type Of Thinking (Could Do Us In) |
| CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends |
| Dc Talk Jesus Freak |
| Dc Talk Supernatural |
| Dead Poetic New Medicines |
| Dvne Etemen Ænka |
| Emery Eve |
By far Emery's most personal album, and yet maybe their most lofty and ambitious. It's eclectic to
the point that it harms its own flow, and it's relatively light on screams if you care about that
sort of thing, but it's viscerally, unsettlingly emotional. A 4 at first glance, but I expect it
to grow. Highlights: Streets of Gold, Name Your God, Sins of Every Father
edit: it grew |
| Five Iron Frenzy Upbeats and Beatdowns |
| Five Iron Frenzy Quantity Is Job 1 |
| Gang of Youths Angel in Realtime |
| Hammock Oblivion Hymns |
| Hammock Everything and Nothing |
| He Is Legend I Am Hollywood |
| I'm Glad It's You Every Sun, Every Moon |
| Nothing here is groundbreaking, but heartfelt lyrics, tight songwriting, crystal-clear mixing and just the right amount of grandiosity give this an edge in a crowded scene. |
| Icarus the Owl Love Always, Leviathan |
| Icarus the Owl Rearm Circuits |
| Infinity Shred Forever, A Fast Life |
| They call themselves Infinity Shred because you'll listen to this forever and never get tired of it somehow |
| Jambinai ONDA |
| Jimmy Eat World Surviving |
| Jon Hopkins Immunity |
| Julien Baker Turn Out The Lights |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly |
| Kings Kaleidoscope Becoming Who We Are |
| Kings Kaleidoscope The Rush |
| La Dispute Panorama |
| letlive. Fake History (Re-Release) |
| Local Natives Violet Street |
| Production's just fuzzy enough for that summer vibe but clean enough to showcase the great rhythms on display. Songwriting is tight, and the hooks are so subtle that you don't notice how infectious they are until you realize you've been humming them all day. |
| Lupe Fiasco Tetsuo and Youth |
| Mae The Everglow |
| Manchester Orchestra Simple Math |
| Manchester Orchestra A Black Mile to the Surface |
| Mayday Parade A Lesson In Romantics |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister |
| mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes |
| mewithoutYou Ten Stories |
| mewithoutYou [Untitled] |
| Our Lost Infantry Interregnum |
| Owel Paris |
| Passion Pit Gossamer |
| Phoebe Bridgers Punisher |
| Pinegrove Marigold |
| The last album did nothing for me, but for some reason this is resonating, in particular the second half. Phase and Endless make for a great one-two punch. Songwriting is remarkable. |
| Project 86 ...And the Rest Will Follow |
| Protest the Hero Palimpsest |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture |
| Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It |
| Run the Jewels RTJ4 |
| Sleeping at Last Yearbook - January |
| Sleeping at Last Yearbook - December |
| Sleeping at Last Yearbook - November |
| State Faults Clairvoyant |
| The opener is gonna appear on a lot of SOTY lists. Album rips |
| Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between |
| The Dear Hunter Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional |
| The Decemberists What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There |
| The Hotelier Goodness |
| The Menzingers After the Party |
| The Myriad With Arrows, With Poise |
| The O.C. Supertones Chase the Sun |
| The Receiving End of Sirens The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi |
| The Receiving End of Sirens Between the Heart and the Synapse |
| The Reign of Kindo This Is What Happens |
| The Republic of Wolves shrine |
| The Wonder Years The Greatest Generation |
| The Wonder Years The Hum Goes on Forever |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Illusory Walls |
| There Will Be Fireworks Summer Moon |
| Thrice Vheissu |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance |
| Thrice Major/Minor |
| Thrice Anthology |
| Thursday No Devolucion |
| Touche Amore Is Survived By |
| Tourniquet Microscopic View of a Telescopic Realm |
| Twenty One Pilots Blurryface |
| Two People First Body |
| Typhoon (USA-OR) Offerings |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety |
| Yellowcard Southern Air |
| 4.0 excellent |
| A Lot Like Birds Conversation Piece |
| A.A.L. (Against All Logic) 2017-2019 |
| Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties In Lieu of Flowers |
| Adebisi Shank This is the Third Album |
| Adjy June Songs Vol. 1 |
| Air Review Low Wishes |
| Alkaline Trio Is This Thing Cursed? |
| American Football American Football (LP3) |
| Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession |
| Anathema The Optimist |
| Anberlin Lost Songs |
| Anberlin Vital |
| Anberlin Lowborn |
| Anberlin Silverline |
| Asking is a top-tier Anberlin song. Songs are as straightforward as you expect, but crisp production and a good mix of styles keep things fresh. This is far better than a comeback EP has any right being. |
| And So I Watch You From Afar The Endless Shimmering |
| And Then There Were None Who Speaks For Planet Earth? |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion |
| Antimatter Black Market Enlightenment |
| Arch Echo Arch Echo |
| Does it do anything new? No. Does it do what it does really, really well? Yes. |
| Ariana Grande Thank U, Next |
| August Burns Red Constellations |
| Aural Method When I Drifted I Heard a Faint Melody |
| Aurora (NOR) The Gods We Can Touch |
| Bad Books III |
| Barely Civil We Can Live Here Forever |
| Bartees Strange Live Forever |
| Better Oblivion Community Center Better Oblivion Community Center |
| Blanck Mass Animated Violence Mild |
| Blanck Mass World Eater |
| blink-182 Blink-182 |
| Braids Deep In The Iris |
| Brandi Carlile By the Way, I Forgive You |
| Brendan Rivera No Ocean In Ireland |
| Captain, We're Sinking The Future Is Cancelled |
| Caracara New Preoccupations |
| Caspian Dust and Disquiet |
| Caspian On Circles |
| Chevelle Wonder What's Next |
| Chevelle Vena Sera |
| Chevelle NIRATIAS |
| CHVRCHES Every Open Eye |
| CHVRCHES Screen Violence |
| Circa Survive The Amulet |
| Closure in Moscow Pink Lemonade |
| Cloudkicker Subsume |
| Cloudkicker Solitude |
| Cobra Starship ¡Viva La Cobra! |
| Coheed and Cambria Vaxis I: The Unheavenly Creatures |
| Coheed and Cambria Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind |
| dumb as rocks and fun as heck what do you mean i need 20 more characters |
| Coldplay Mylo Xyloto |
| Coldplay Ghost Stories |
| colourblind Move Like You |
| Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories |
| Dance Gavin Dance Instant Gratification |
| Dance Gavin Dance Artificial Selection |
| Dance Gavin Dance Acceptance Speech 2.0 |
| I don't know if it's the remix or the fact that I've listened to more DGD since Acceptance Speech came out, but this hits like a truck |
| Darren Korb Transistor OST |
| David Maxim Micic Bilo 3.0 |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights |
| Delta Sleep Ghost City |
| Delta Sleep Spring Island |
| Downfall of Gaia Ethic of Radical Finitude |
| Dustin Kensrue Thoughts That Float on a Different Blood |
| Emery While Broken Hearts Prevail |
| Emery You Were Never Alone |
| Emery Revival: Emery Classics Reimagined |
| Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou The Helm of Sorrow |
| Enemies Embark Embrace |
| Envy The Fallen Crimson |
| Etherwood Etherwood |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree |
| Fireworks Gospel |
| Fireworks Higher Lonely Power |
| Fleet Foxes Shore |
| Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The LSO Promises |
| Florence and the Machine High as Hope |
I wish the musical diversity and vastly improved lyrics didn't come at the expense of the manic
Florence energy, but there's a good bit to chew on here. Oh, and The End of Love belongs on
everyone's SOTY list.
edit: Oh boy it's a grower |
| Florence and the Machine How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light |
| Foxy Shazam Foxy Shazam |
| Frank Turner Tape Deck Heart |
| From Indian Lakes Able Bodies |
| From Indian Lakes Absent Sounds |
jeez someone is on top of their database-adding game
edit: surprised at the lack of Misery Signals-related puns |
| Gang of Youths The Positions |
| Glass Beach The First Glass Beach Album |
| God Is an Astronaut Age of the Fifth Sun |
| Good Tiger Raised in a Doomsday Cult |
| Lush post-hardcore that brings newer Circa Survive to mind. The first seven tracks are a fantastic opening run, though the album loses a little steam in the latter third. Ghost Vomit, 1252 and Redshift are solid highlights, and there's something very comforting about the mid-2000s post-hardcore melodies mixed with 2010s swancore technicality. |
| Hail the Sun New Age Filth |
| Half Waif Mythopoetics |
| Half Waif The Caretaker |
| Beautifully textured synth/artpop with gorgeous vocals. "In August" and "Blinking Light" are the standouts, but there's not really a bad track here. Starts to lose a little steam toward the end due to lack of variety, but holy wow, the best moments are fantastic (the key change in Sirens, the chorus of In August, the twangy riff of Blinking Light...) |
| half/cut Salt an Atlas |
| Hammock The Sleepover Series, Volume 2 |
| Hammock Elsewhere |
there are parts of this that really want to sound like Oblivion Hymns, but the songs lack the
dynamics that made that album special. it's still pretty because it's Hammock with more textures
and variety than their past few albums, but it could be so much more. that said, it is a grower,
like most of Hammock's work |
| He Is Legend 91025 |
| Holy Fawn Dimensional Bleed |
| Hop Along Bark Your Head Off, Dog |
| Hopesfall Arbiter |
| House Of Heroes Suburba |
| House Of Heroes Cold Hard Want |
| House Of Heroes The Knock-Down Drag-Outs |
| House Of Heroes Colors |
| Hundred Waters Communicating |
| Icarus the Owl Icarus the Owl |
| Icarus the Owl Pilot Waves |
| Illuminati Hotties Kiss Yr Frenemies |
| It's absolutely all over the place but somehow everything works, bouncing back and forth between raucous lo-fi indie-pop and dirges that wouldn't be out of place on a Phoebe Bridgers album. |
| Illuminati Hotties Let Me Do One More |
| Intervals Circadian |
| It's an injection of pure serotonin. It grooves hard, and all the soaring riffs don't get old. It's nothing new for the genre of instrumental prog metal, but it's executed brilliantly and doesn't overstay its welcome. Vantablack and D.O.S.E. are the first-impression highlights. |
| Intronaut The Direction of Last Things |
| Ithaca The Language of Injury |
| Jimmy Eat World Bleed American |
| Jimmy Eat World Invented |
| Jon Hopkins Singularity |
| Journey Greatest Hits |
| Julien Baker Sprained Ankle |
| Julien Baker Little Oblivions |
| K Sera Collisions and Near Misses |
| Kardashev The Almanac |
| Kardashev Liminal Rite |
| Kendrick Lamar Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers |
| Kings Kaleidoscope Beyond Control |
| Kings Kaleidoscope The Beauty Between |
| Kings Kaleidoscope Zeal |
| The fact that half of Oxygen is a dramatic rendition of "Jesus Loves Me" is a bit ... much. But there's still a good bit more substance than most worship albums, even though the flashes of "Becoming Who We Are"-era energy are few and far between. "The Rush" trilogy is still jaw-dropping. |
| KINNSHIP Commensality |
| Warm, soothing R&B-influenced electronica with airy melodies. It's very relaxing and gorgeously textured. Songs can run together a little bit but each one is well-executed. Christian themes are very prominent, but the album avoids cringey trappings of a lot of worship music. |
| KINNSHIP Community |
| Kishi Bashi Omoiyari |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair |
| La Dispute Rooms of the House |
| Lack the Low One Eye Closed |
| Lakes (UK) Elysian Skies |
| It's nothing you haven't heard before but the execution is absolutely stellar. Songwriting is a good mix of dynamic range and solid hooks |
| Lamb of God Resolution |
| Lantlos Wildhund |
| Lapalux Amnioverse |
| Lapsley Cautionary Tales of Youth |
| letlive. Fake History |
| letlive. The Blackest Beautiful |
| Liongeist Liongeist |
| Little Simz Grey Area |
| Little Simz Sometimes I Might Be Introvert |
| Living Sacrifice Conceived In Fire |
| Living Sacrifice The Infinite Order |
| Lorde Melodrama |
| Lupe Fiasco DROGAS Wave |
| Mae (e)vening |
| Mae (m)(a)(e) |
| Mae 3.0 |
| Mallrat In the Sky |
| Manchester Orchestra I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child |
| Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing |
| Manchester Orchestra The Million Masks of God |
| ManDancing The Good Sweat |
| Mare Cognitum Solar Paroxysm |
| Matt and Toby Matt And Toby |
| Mayday Parade Mayday Parade |
| Mechina Empyrean |
| mewithoutYou Pale Horses |
| mewithoutYou [untitled] e.p. |
| Midas Fall Evaporate |
| Midas Fall Cold Waves Divide Us |
| Minus the Bear Menos El Oso |
| MisterWives Connect the Dots |
| Moderat II |
| Moderat MORE D4TA |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank |
| Moon Tooth Crux |
| Moon Tooth Phototroph |
| Netsky Netsky |
| Night Verses From the Gallery of Sleep |
| Night Verses Every Sound Has a Color...: Part I |
| Night Verses Every Sound Has a Color...: Part II |
| Night Verses Every Sound Has a Color... |
| of Montreal False Priest |
| Oh, Sleeper Children of Fire |
| Oso Oso Basking in the glow |
| Owel Owel |
| P.O.D. Satellite |
| Panopticon The Rime of Memory |
| Paramore Brand New Eyes |
| Paramore Riot! |
| Parannoul Let's Walk on the Path of a Blue Cat |
| Parannoul After The Magic |
| Passenger (UK) Wicked Man's Rest |
| Passion Pit Tremendous Sea of Love |
| This is a return to form. TSOL has all the chipper electronic chaos and heartfelt lyrics you'd expect from Passion Pit, but now with added variety and dynamics that Kindred was sorely lacking. The mood swings from intimate ("For Sondra") to addictive pop bangers ("I'm Perfect") smoothly. "Somewhere Up There" is the most experimental song in Passion Pit's discography and one of the best, soaring to euphoric heights with no need for a chorus. It's a bit short at 35 minutes, and it leaves the listener wanting more. |
| Phoebe Bridgers Stranger in the Alps |
| Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix |
| Pijn and Conjurer Curse These Metal Hands |
| This is next to "soaring" in the dictionary. Some of the best metal of the year |
| Pinegrove 11:11 |
| Polar Bear Club Clash Battle Guilt Pride |
| Polynation Igneous |
| Porter Robinson Nurture |
| Project 86 Picket Fence Cartel |
| Project 86 Truthless Heroes |
| Project 86 Drawing Black Lines |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous |
| Protest the Hero Volition |
| Public Service Broadcasting Bright Magic |
| Punch Brothers Who's Feeling Young Now? |
| PUP Morbid Stuff |
| PUP The Unraveling of PUPTheBand |
| Rise Against Appeal to Reason |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness |
| Rival Consoles Night Melody |
| Rival Consoles Overflow |
Rival Consoles' mastery of texture and groove is no longer restricted by tight song lengths and
rigid structures. With a broader palette of textures to play with, songs breathe organically
without betraying the unsettling mechanical heart. "Monster" and "Overflow" are prominent
standouts. |
| Rival Consoles Now Is |
| Rolo Tomassi Where Myth Becomes Memory |
| Saba Care For Me |
| Sam Roberts Band Lo-Fantasy |
| Save Us From The Archon Thereafter |
| Save Us From The Archon Some Things We Carry, Always |
| Say Anything Hebrews |
| Showbread No Sir, Nihilism Is Not Practical |
| Showbread Cancer |
| Silent Drive Fairhaven |
| Skillet Collide |
| Sleeping at Last Enneagram |
| Slow Meadow Costero |
| One of the rare ambient albums where "subtle" and "heartwrenching" go hand in hand. "Hurricane" is one of the most powerful instrumental tracks of the year. |
| Soilwork The Living Infinite |
| Soilwork The Ride Majestic |
| Soilwork Verkligheten |
| Son Lux Brighter Wounds |
| Spanish Love Songs Losers |
| Spanish Love Songs Brave Faces Everyone |
| Spanish Love Songs, AKA The Menzinger Years. Equal parts After the Party and The Upsides |
| Special Explosion To Infinity |
| St. Vincent Masseduction |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb |
| Streetlight Manifesto The Hands That Thieve |
| Svalbard When I Die, Will I Get Better? |
| Switchfoot Oh! Gravity. |
| Switchfoot Nothing is Sound |
| The Classic Crime What Was Done, Vol. 1: A Decade Revisited |
| The Classic Crime Vagabonds |
| The Classic Crime Grim Age |
| The Dear Hunter Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise |
| The Decemberists The Crane Wife |
| The Japanese House Clean |
| The Lulls in Traffic Rabbit in the Snare |
| The National High Violet |
| The National Boxer |
| The O.C. Supertones Loud and Clear |
| The Raconteurs Consolers of the Lonely |
| The Reign of Kindo Rhythm, Chord & Melody |
| The Reign of Kindo This Is Also What Happens |
| The Reign of Kindo Happy However After |
| The Smith Street Band Don't Waste Your Anger |
| The Smith Street Band Throw Me in the River |
| The Story So Far Under Soil and Dirt |
| The Story So Far Proper Dose |
| The Visit Between Worlds |
| The Wonder Years The Upsides |
| The Wonder Years No Closer to Heaven |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Harmlessness |
| This Will Destroy You New Others Part One |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II |
| Thrice Beggars |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV |
| Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere |
| Touche Amore Stage Four |
| Travis Barker Give The Drummer Some |
| Trophy Eyes Chemical Miracle |
| Twenty One Pilots Twenty One Pilots |
| Twenty One Pilots Vessel |
| Two People Second Body |
| Typhoon (USA-OR) Sympathetic Magic |
| On first listen it doesn't have a bombastic gutpunch like Offerings did, but gosh it's still pretty. We're In It and Welcome to the Endgame are the early highlights. |
| Underoath Define the Great Line |
| Underoath Ø (Disambiguation) |
| Vestascension Breaching the Sound |
| VNV Nation Noire |
| VOLA Witness |
| Wang Wen Invisible City |
| William Ryan Key Thirteen |
| William Ryan Key Virtue |
| Wolf Alice Visions of a Life |
| Wolf Alice Blue Weekend |
| Xanthochroid Blessed He With Boils |
| Xanthochroid Of Erthe and Axen: Act I |
| Xanthochroid Of Erthe and Axen: Act II |
| Yellowcard Paper Walls |
| Yndi Halda Under Summer |
| 3.5 great |
| !!! Myth Takes |
| 65daysofstatic replicr, 2019 |
| A Hope For Home In Abstraction |
| A Lot Like Birds DIVISI |
| A Swarm of the Sun The Woods |
| A.A.L. (Against All Logic) 2012-2017 |
| Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties We Don't Have Each Other |
| Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties Bittersweet |
| Abel (NY) Make It Right |
| Adjy Prelude (.3333) |
| Air Review How We Got By |
| Alcest Spiritual Instinct |
| Alejandro Aranda The Act of Forgiveness |
| Alkaline Trio E.P. |
| All The Luck In The World All the Luck in the World |
| All The Luck In The World How The Ash Felt |
| The familiar lush indie-folk formula adds an emphasis on electronics for texture but misses the dynamic high points that really made A Blind Arcade shine. Still, it's a beautiful work that's easy to get lost in. |
| Allegaeon Apoptosis |
| Amon Tobin How Do You Live |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children As The Morning Dawns We Close Our Eyes |
| Anathema We're Here Because We're Here |
| Anchor and Braille Felt |
| And So I Watch You From Afar Heirs |
| And So I Watch You From Afar Jettison |
| The first third is remarkably groovy, and the final third is bright and dynamic. The middle third drags a tad, but the new sound suits ASIWYFA with only a tasteful amount of cheese. Title cut, Dive Pt 2, and the production (the bass in particular) are early highlights. |
| Andrea von Kampen That Spell |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion |
| Animals As Leaders Parrhesia |
| Arcane Roots Heaven and Earth |
| Arcane Roots Melancholia Hymns |
| Arch Echo You Won't Believe What Happens Next! |
| Their debut thrived on frenetic energy. This feels like a slightly mellower retread. Still a fun listen, but the debut outclasses this from beginning to end. |
| As Cities Burn Son, I Loved You at Your Darkest |
| Athletics Who You Are Is Not Enough |
| August Burns Red Leveler |
| August Burns Red Found in Far Away Places |
| August Burns Red Guardians |
A definite step up from Phantom Anthem, but mostly https://imgflip.com/i/3v8l9x
Empty Heaven slaps and the closer instantly belongs in their top 5 |
| August Burns Red All I Want For Christmas Is You |
| Balance and Composure Separation |
| Barely Civil I'll Figure This Out |
| Barely Civil I’d Say I’m Not Fine |
| Bartees Strange Farm To Table |
| Heavy Heart, Mulholland Dr. and Wretched are a fantastic opening trio. But the album seems to run out of energy halfway through, and while the slower songs are still well-crafted, the ordering leaves a lot to be desired. |
| Bayside Interrobang |
Pros: Really fun guitar riffs, massive choruses, "Tall" and "Medication"
Cons: Pretty homogeneous
It's a pretty fun ride overall |
| Beach Bunny Honeymoon |
| Not original in the slightest but there is some darn good songwriting here |
| Beast In Black From Hell With Love |
| Becoming The Archetype The Physics of Fire |
| Becoming The Archetype Terminate Damnation |
| Belle and Sebastian The Life Pursuit |
| Bibio Sleep on the Wing |
| Very pretty textured folk that passes by a little too quickly |
| Birds in Row We Already Lost The World |
| Black Country, New Road Ants From Up There |
| Black Crown Initiate Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape |
| Black Tide Post Mortem |
| It's not complex or substantial in any way (minus some impressive guitar and vocal work), but it's got a lot of energy, and it's a fun listen. Hooks are huge, and production is fantastic. If you're looking for complexity, look away fast, but if you want some good, simple, bombastic metal, check this out. Recommended tracks: That Fire, Honest Eyes, Lost In The Sound |
| Blanck Mass In Ferneaux |
| Bleachers Strange Desire |
| Blindside With Shivering Hearts We Wait |
| Blindside The Great Depression |
| blink-182 Neighborhoods |
| blink-182 One More Time... |
| Blue Sky Black Death NOIR |
| Bobby Barnett Little Wounds |
| Bodyjar New Rituals |
| Boneflower Armour |
| Boygenius boygenius |
| "Stay Down" and "Salt in the Wound" are two of the best back-to-back tracks of 2018. |
| Boygenius the record |
| Brand New Deja Entendu |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon |
| Brandi Carlile In These Silent Days |
| Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It... |
| Broken Social Scene Hug of Thunder |
| BRUIT The Machine Is Burning... |
| Camila Cabello Camila |
| Canterbury Dark Days |
| Captain, We're Sinking The King of No Man |
| Caribou Suddenly |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Dedicated |
| Carly Rae Jepsen The Loneliest Time |
| It grooves, Carly sings, it's fun. It's definitely not the most substantive record but it's a blast. It ends on a strong note, with Go Find Yourself or Whatever, a genuinely fantastic ballad, and the title cut, the peak of sentimental sweetness on an album full of it. |
| Caspian Live At Old South Church |
| Circle Takes the Square Decompositions: Volume Number One |
| Citizen As You Please |
| City of the Sun City of the Sun |
| Not a lot of variety but some pretty solid execution. The second half is a good bit stronger than the first, with more lively and memorable melodies. |
| Cloudkicker Little Histories |
| Cloudkicker Unending |
| Coldplay Everyday Life |
| Copeland Blushing |
| Courtney Barnett sometimes i sit and think, and sometimes i just sit |
| Covet technicolor |
| Crippled Black Phoenix Great Escape |
| Crippled Black Phoenix Banefyre |
| Cult of Luna The Long Road North |
| Dan Deacon Mystic Familiar |
| Dance Gavin Dance Acceptance Speech |
| Dance Gavin Dance Mothership |
| Dawn Fades Ode |
| Dead Poetic Vices |
| Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love |
| Deafheaven Infinite Granite |
| DJ Koze knock knock |
| Do Make Say Think Stubborn Persistent Illusions |
| Doldrums (CAN) The Air Conditioned Nightmare |
| downy Mudai (7) |
| Dreamwell Modern Grotesque |
| Dreamwell In My Saddest Dreams, I Am Beside You |
| Drudkh They Often See Dreams About The Spring |
| Dua Lipa Future Nostalgia |
| Dustin Kensrue The Water and the Blood |
| Dustin Kensrue Carry the Fire |
| Dvne Voidkind |
| El Buho Camino de Flores |
| El Ten Eleven Tautology I |
| Emery I'm Only A Man |
| Emery We Do What We Want |
| Emery Rub Some Dirt on It |
| Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou May Our Chambers Be Full |
| Enshine Origin |
| Enslaved Utgard |
| Eomac Cracks |
| Etherwood Blue Leaves |
| Exotic Animal Petting Zoo Tree of Tongues |
| Explosions in the Sky The Wilderness |
| fallfiftyfeet Twisted World Perspective |
| Falling Up Dawn Escapes |
| Falls of Rauros Patterns in Mythology |
| Falls of Rauros Key to a Vanishing Future |
| Fallujah The Flesh Prevails |
| Fallujah Dreamless |
| Fallujah Undying Light |
| Rumors of this band's demise have been greatly exaggerated. Slightly less atmosphere, but more fire. This is a fun ride. |
| Fallujah Empyrean |
| Flotsam and Jetsam The End of Chaos |
| Foals Total Life Forever |
| Foals Holy Fire |
| Foals Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost - Part 2 |
| Foals Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost - Part 1 |
| For Giants There, There |
| Four Tet New Energy |
| Four Tet Parallel |
| Foxing Nearer My God |
| Foxing Draw Down the Moon |
| Free Throw What's Past Is Prologue |
| fun. Some Nights |
| Geskia! Silent of Light |
| Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam |
| God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright |
| God Is an Astronaut Epitaph |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! |
| Greyhaven This Bright and Beautiful World |
| Hail the Sun Divine Inner Tension |
| Haken Vector |
| Haken Virus |
| Half Waif Lavender |
| Half Waif Sodium & Cigarettes |
| Hammock Love in the Void |
| Hammock Universalis |
| He Is Legend Endless Hallway |
| He Is Legend White Bat |
| If you're looking for the one that reminds you of the I Am Hollywood days, check the opener and Bent |
| Hespera In Absence |
| A dead ringer for Soilwork. Bjorn Strid's at the top of his game vocally, and the guitar work is as technical and meaty as you'd expect from definitely-not-Soilwork. If only the drums didn't sound so flimsy. |
| Hitorie Howls |
| Hookworms Microshift |
| HRVRD From the Bird's Cage |
| Hurry Up, Brothers All is Beautiful. I'm Okay to be Alive.. |
| Hypno5e Shores of the Abstract Line |
| In Vain (NO) Currents |
| Indigo De Souza Any Shape You Take |
| Inferi (USA) Revenant |
| Into It. Over It. Figure |
| Invalids Fulfillment EP |
| Ithaca They Fear Us |
| I miss the mix on The Language of Injury. This is a little too slickly polished. But the intensity remains, the songwriting is tight, and the back third is a wild ride |
| Jade Bird Jade Bird |
| Jakub Zytecki Wishful Lotus Proof |
| Jakub Zytecki Feather Bed |
| Jakub Zytecki Nothing Lasts, Nothing's Lost |
| Jamie xx In Colour |
| Janelle Monae The Electric Lady |
| Japandroids Celebration Rock |
| Japanese Breakfast Jubilee |
| Jessie Ware Glasshouse |
| Jon Foreman Departures |
| A mix of well-trod indie folk ideas and clever, diverse arrangements. Lyrics fluctuate between "pretty decent" and "as on-the-nose as you should expect from Foreman by now." The opener is a bombastic, cinematic banger that seems wildly out of place with the mostly calm songs that follow. An overall enjoyable listen. |
| Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour |
| Kauan Kaiho |
| Kauan Ice Fleet |
| Kendrick Lamar DAMN. |
| Kesha Rainbow |
| Kids in the Way Apparitions of Melody |
| Kings Kaleidoscope Baptized Imagination |
| KINNSHIP A Thousand Fibres |
| KINNSHIP Stones & Geysers |
| KINNSHIP Intenserenity |
| Could use a little more dynamic range, but the vocals and production are excellent as always. Kinnship's music continues to be chill to the point of soothing. |
| Klaxons Myths of the Near Future |
| Kurt Travis Everything Is Beautiful |
| Lack the Low God-Carrier |
| Leon Vynehall Rare, Forever |
| Liam Singer Finish Him |
| Lights and Motion Bloom |
| Living Sacrifice The Hammering Process |
| Lo Moon Lo Moon |
| Lord Huron Long Lost |
| Lorem Ipsum Vivre encore |
| Lupe Fiasco Drill Music in Zion |
| Mae Multisensory Aesthetic Experience |
| Mae (a)fternoon |
| Mae (m)orning |
| Mallrat Butterfly Blue |
| Man Overboard Man Overboard |
| Manchester Orchestra Christmas Songs Vol. 1 |
| Maybeshewill No Feeling Is Final |
| Mayday Parade Sunnyland |
| Imagine the self-titled album, but occasionally with the grit of Black Lines. ALIR this is not, but it's a good bit better than their last two. |
| Mayday Parade What It Means To Fall Apart |
| Meat Beat Manifesto Impossible Star |
| Meet Me @ The Altar Model Citizen |
| Megadeth The System Has Failed |
| Midwife (USA) Forever |
| Midwife (USA) Luminol |
| Minus the Bear Omni |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice |
| Misery Signals Absent Light |
| Misery Signals Ultraviolet |
| Modern Studies Welcome Strangers |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News |
| Modest Mouse Strangers to Ourselves |
| Mree The Middle |
| Muse The 2nd Law |
| Musk Ox Inheritance |
| Naked Flames Miracle in Transit |
| Nils Frahm All Melody |
| Norma Jean All Hail |
| Numenorean Adore |
| O'Brother Disillusion |
| Of Monsters and Men Fever Dream |
| Oh Hiroshima Myriad |
| Oh, Sleeper Bloodied/Unbowed |
| OK Goodnight The Fox and the Bird |
| One with the Riverbed Absence |
| Owel The Salt Water Well |
| Owl City Ocean Eyes |
| Palm Reader Braille |
| Papir 7 |
| Parachute for Gordo Best Understood By Children And Animals |
| Parachute Musical Everything Is Working Out Fine in Some Town |
| Parannoul To See the Next Part of the Dream |
| Passion Pit Manners |
| Patrick Stump Soul Punk |
| Lots of energy, well-written lyrics, and a ridiculously good vocal performance. It's a blast to listen to, even if it gets a bit homogenous and a few tracks with overly long endings reek of pretension. Don't worry about the ratings, this is absolutely worth investigating.rBest songs: Explode, Coast (It's Gonna Get Better), The I in Lie |
| Pelican Nighttime Stories |
| Perfect music for "I want to listen to music while I do work, but I don't want vocals to distract me, and I don't want it to be chill or I'll fall asleep" |
| Peregrine (USA-MA) the awful things we've done |
| Perfume Genius Set My Heart On Fire Immediately |
| Persefone Spiritual Migration |
| Persefone Metanoia |
| Petal Magic Gone |
| Petrol Girls Cut and Stitch |
| pg.lost Oscillate |
| Phoebe Bridgers Copycat Killer |
| Phoenix (FRA) Bankrupt! |
| Plini Handmade Cities |
| Plini The End of Everything |
| Poppy Ackroyd Resolve |
| Proper. I Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting Bet |
| PVRIS All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell |
| Rich People Harmony |
| Rival Consoles Articulation |
| Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name |
| Ryuichi Sakamoto Async |
| Sannhet So Numb |
| Saor Forgotten Paths |
| Save Us From The Archon Melancholia |
| More emotional than the relatively cold L'Eclisse. Still the same barrage of riffs and time signature changes every three seconds, but clearer production lets the guitar melodies shine through. Doesn't quite reach the highs of Thereafter, but a welcome entry in their discography nonetheless. |
| Scallops Hotel sovereign nose of (y)our arrogant face |
| Seahaven Halo of Hurt |
| Secret Circuit Cosmic Vibrations |
| Self Esteem Compliments Please |
| Serj Tankian Imperfect Harmonies |
| Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun |
| Showbread Showbread is Showdead |
| SikTh The Future In Whose Eyes? |
| Silversun Pickups Physical Thrills |
| Skillet Alien Youth |
| Skrillex Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites |
| Sleeping at Last Yearbook - October |
| sleepmakeswaves these are not your dreams |
| Slow Meadow Happy Occident |
| Sonata Arctica Winterheart's Guild |
| Spanish Love Songs Schmaltz |
| Spanish Love Songs No Joy |
| Static Dress Rouge Carpet Disaster |
| Steven Wilson To the Bone |
| Stortregn Impermanence |
| Stray (UK-LDN) Paradise |
| Strung Out Transmission.Alpha.Delta |
| Sufferer Sufferer |
| Superorganism Superorganism |
| Svalbard The Weight of the Mask |
| Switchfoot Learning To Breathe |
| Switchfoot The Beautiful Letdown |
| Switchfoot New Way to Be Human |
| Taylor Swift Folklore |
| Taylor Swift Midnights |
| Tera Melos X'ed Out |
| Thank You Scientist Terraformer |
| The Airborne Toxic Event Hollywood Park |
| The Avalanches We Will Always Love You |
| The Classic Crime Albatross |
| The Contortionist Clairvoyant |
| The Dangerous Summer Mother Nature |
| The Dangerous Summer The Dangerous Summer |
| The Dear Hunter The Indigo Child |
| The Decemberists I’ll Be Your Girl |
| The Dirty Nil Fuck Art |
| Every song is the same and they're all fun as heck |
| The Go! Team Semicircle |
| The Graduate Only Every Time |
| The Japanese House Good At Falling |
| The Menzingers Hello Exile |
| The Myriad You Can't Trust a Ladder |
| The National I Am Easy to Find |
| The Night Flight Orchestra Aeromantic |
| The Night Flight Orchestra Aeromantic II |
| every song is cheesy and openly apes various classic rock cliches but they are so absurdly fun and Bjorn is such a good singer that they all work for some wild reason |
| The O.C. Supertones Supertones Strike Back |
| The Ocean Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic |
| The Ocean Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic |
| The Reign of Kindo Play With Fire |
| The Republic of Wolves Varuna |
| The Sleep Design All That Is Not Music Is Silence |
| It's neither as long-winded as Explosions in the Sky nor as repetitive as God Is An Astronaut. Great production, but a little on the homogenous side -- the middle of the album is a drag. Still, definitely worth a listen for post-rock fans. Highlights: "& The Beast," "The Woman," "The Sound of War," "All That Is Not Music Is Silence."rOh yeah and it's a pay-what-you-want album. |
| The Soft Moon Criminal |
| The Soft Pink Truth Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase? |
| The Story So Far What You Don't See |
| The Twilight Sad It Won/t Be Like This All the Time |
| The Weather Station Ignorance |
| The Wonder Years Get Stoked on It! |
| The Wonder Years Burst & Decay |
| The Wonder Years Sister Cities |
| The Wonder Years Burst & Decay (Volume II) |
| Some of the reimaginings don't do too much (I Wanted So Badly to Be Brave), but the new Hoodie Weather and Washington Square Park are worth the price of admission. |
| There Will Be Fireworks There Will Be Fireworks |
| Thrice Red Sky |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety |
| Thrice Horizons/East |
| Thursday A City By the Light Divided |
| Tides of Man Every Nothing |
| Tigers Jaw I Won't Care How You Remember Me |
| Tiny Moving Parts Swell |
| Together to the Stars An Oblivion Above |
| Torres Three Futures |
| Touche Amore Lament |
| Tourniquet Where Moth and Rust Destroy |
| Trophy Eyes The American Dream |
| Trophy Scars Holy Vacants |
| Twenty One Pilots Trench |
| Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still |
| Underoath Voyeurist |
| Unwed Sailor Look Alive |
| Vampire Weekend Only God Was Above Us |
| Vessel Queen of Golden Dogs |
| Vi Som Alskade Varandra Sa Mycket Det Onda. Det Goda. Det Vackra. Det Fula. |
| Vimur Triumphant Master of Fates |
| Vince Staples Big Fish Theory |
| VOLA Applause of a Distant Crowd |
| Waldskin Clarity Before the Crash |
| Wang Wen 100,000 Whys |
| We Are The In Crowd Best Intentions |
| We Lost the Sea Triumph and Disaster |
| Wear Your Wounds Rust on the Gates of Heaven |
| It's really good when Bannon doesn't mumblesing, which is unfortunately far too often (and even then it's sometimes okay). Shrinking Violet is magnificent |
| Weatherbox Follow the Rattle of the Afghan Guitar |
| Weathered Everything All at Once |
| Weezer The White Album |
| White Ward Love Exchange Failure |
| Wild Pink A Billion Little Lights |
| Wilderun Epigone |
| Willow Smith The 1st |
| Wlots Paperking |
| An original blend of frantic skramz with moodier post-hardcore and melodic sections, a la old Pianos Become the Teeth mixed with La Dispute and Brand New. It's raw and some of the screams get grating, but the talent is clear and the dynamics go a long, long way. |
| Wolf Parade Cry Cry Cry |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Primordial Arcana |
| WRVTH No Rising Sun |
| Wythersake Antiquity |
| Yashira Fail To Be |
| Yellowcard When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes |
| Yellowcard Yellowcard |
| Yon order of violence |
| 3.0 good |
| !!! Wallop |
| Simple and straightforward, and definitely lacking the textures of Myth Takes, but far more fun than it has any right to be |
| 2 Chainz Rap Or Go To The League |
| A Winged Victory for the Sullen Invisible Cities |
| AFI Burials |
| Alkaline Trio Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs |
| Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God |
| Anberlin New Surrender |
| Anberlin Blueprints for the Black Market |
| Anchor and Braille The Quiet Life |
| Anchor and Braille Tension |
| It's the least substantive of A&B's albums, but it's a solid mellow pop record where just about every song is a base hit. No home runs, and none of the intriguing songwriting of Felt, but it's pleasant enough. |
| Anchor and Braille Songs for the Late Night Drive Home |
| And The Kids When This Life Is Over |
| Anderson .Paak Ventura |
| Andrew Judah Impossible Staircase |
| Arcade Fire Reflektor |
| Astronoid Astronoid |
| August Burns Red Phantom Anthem |
| Balance of Power Heathen Machine |
| BATS Alter Nature |
| Bayside Killing Time |
| Bayside Cult |
| Bayside There Are Worse Things Than Being Alive |
| Becoming The Archetype Children of the Great Extinction |
| Each song is individually fun and technically solid, but homogenous songwriting does the band no favors. The concept is fun but when it's all reduced to very similar-sounding metalcore tunes, BtA's talent for melody is wasted. |
| Bell Plaines Through Fog |
| Bicep Isles |
| Big Red Machine How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last? |
| Big Thief Capacity |
| Big Wild Superdream |
| Billie Eilish Happier Than Ever |
| Bleachers Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night |
| blink-182 Nine |
| It's not as bad as you feared (most of the good stuff is the non-singles) but it's also not the blink you're hoping for |
| Bobby Barnett Steady Ache |
| Boil aXiom |
| Chapel of Disease ...And as We Have Seen the Storm |
| Chasing Victory I Call This Abandonment |
| Chevelle Hats Off To The Bull |
| Chevelle Sci-Fi Crimes |
| Citizen Life In Your Glass World |
| Cloud Nothings Life Without Sound |
| Cloud Nothings Here and Nowhere Else |
| Cobra Starship Hot Mess |
| Codeseven Go Let it In |
| Corrosion of Conformity No Cross No Crown |
| Courtney Barnett Tell Me How You Really Feel |
| Crooks Are We All The Same Distance Apart |
| Crosses Crosses |
| Dance Gavin Dance Afterburner |
| It's every Tillian-era DGD album, but the high points aren't as high as Artificial Selection or Instant Gratification. Most songs are just "fine." Prisoner and One in a Million are winners, but most everything else just sounds like a typical DGD track. Solid 3.2 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Jackpot Juicer |
| Dayseeker Dreaming Is Sinking /// Waking Is Rising |
| Death Cab for Cutie Kintsugi |
| Death Cab for Cutie Thank You For Today |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
| Dream Theater Distance Over Time |
| Dream Wife Dream Wife |
| Eidola The Architect |
| like much of swancore, it's fun but more than a little homogeneous. there might be enough songwriting and instrumental prowess to elevate this a little |
| Elder (USA-MA) Reflections of a Floating World |
| Eluvium Virga II |
| Emarosa Peach Club |
| Emery The Weak's End |
| Emery White Line Fever |
Civil Wars is fantastic ? too bad very few songs come close to it. The lyrics are Emery's most
personal but somehow their least affecting. A steep drop from Eve, though I'm sure this will grow
on me as most Emery albums do.
edit: idk, it's actually growing off me |
| Empyrium Über den Sternen |
| Endling The Heavy Frigate |
| ERRA Augment |
| Etherwood In Stillness |
| A little too focused on vocal tracks that don't do much for me. "Fire Lit Sky" is a beautiful track in the vein of "Souls Apart" and "Souls Rejoined," and "In the Wind" is a gorgeous curveball of a closer. But overall this lacks the energy of past Etherwood releases. |
| Fall Out Boy So Much (For) Stardust |
| Fanfarlo Let's Go Extinct |
| Far-Less Everyone Is Out to Get Us |
| Fightstar Behind the Devil's Back |
| Finch Back to Oblivion |
| Fireworks Oh, Common Life |
| Five Iron Frenzy Until This Shakes Apart |
| Flobots Fight with Tools |
| Flobots Noenemies |
| Florence and the Machine Dance Fever |
| Foals What Went Down |
| Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace |
| Foo Fighters Sonic Highways |
| Foo Fighters Concrete and Gold |
| Franz Ferdinand Always Ascending |
| Frederic Robinson Mixed Signals |
| God Is an Astronaut Origins |
| God Is an Astronaut Ghost Tapes #10 |
| Every individual song is good, but they're all good in the exact same way. It's a little more high-energy and drum-forward than a lot of post-rock, but there's less dynamic range. The melodies are clear and vibrant, but the highly structured approach undermines attempts at atmosphere. |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage |
| Good Tiger We Will All be Gone |
| Green Day American Idiot |
| Gregor Barnett Don't Go Throwing Roses in My Grave |
| Gym Class Heroes The Papercut Chronicles II |
| Kid Nothing and the Never-Ending Naked Nightmare is a great song; the rest of this is pretty catchy, innocuous hip-hop/pop. And yes, Stereo Hearts is mad catchy. |
| Hail the Sun Mental Knife |
| HAIM Women In Music, Pt. III |
| Haley Heynderickx I Need to Start a Garden |
| Hammock Mysterium |
| Hayley Williams FLOWERS for VASES / descansos |
| He Is Legend It Hates You |
| Hit the Lights Invicta |
| Holding Absence Holding Absence |
| Hostage Calm Die On Stage |
| Hot Mulligan You'll Be Fine |
| Ever listened to Tiny Moving Parts but wished Soupy was the lead singer instead? Ever wish Soupy screamed instead of doing the dramatic voice quiver? Boy have I got a band for you |
| House Of Heroes Say No More |
| I Call Fives I Call Fives |
| idle threat Blurred Visions |
| Ihsahn Amr |
| Illyria The Carpathian Summit |
| In Mourning Garden of Storms |
| Interpol El Pintor |
| Invent Animate The Sun Sleeps, As If It Never Was |
| Janelle Monae Dirty Computer |
| Jessie Ware What's Your Pleasure? |
| Jimmy Eat World Integrity Blues |
| John Nolan Abendigo |
| Johnny Jewel Digital Rain |
| Jonathan Coulton Artificial Heart |
| Jukebox the Ghost Safe Travels |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience - 2 of 2 |
| Katatonia Dead End Kings |
| Kelly Lee Owens Inner Song |
| Kid You Not Never a Dull Moment |
| Kings Kaleidoscope Kings Kaleidoscope |
| The band clearly has a tremendous amount of talent, but the songs just aren't hitting like they used to. The lyrics don't have the same depth as past albums and the instrumentation is full of effects without actually being memorable. You can see glimmers of greatness throughout, but too few are fully developed. |
| Kurt Travis There's a Place I Want to Take You |
| Lagwagon Railer |
| Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell! |
| Lana Del Rey Chemtrails Over The Country Club |
| Le Grand Plastic Jazz |
| Less Art Strangled Light |
| Lights and Motion Dear Avalanche |
| Lights and Motion The Great Wide Open |
| Living Sacrifice Ghost Thief |
First impression: a predictable progression from The Infinite Order. Thrashier than Conceived/Hammering,
but I'm not sure it suits them.
also it's like 2:30 am and metal always sounds weird after 2 |
| Long Distance Calling Boundless |
| Madeline Kenney Perfect Shapes |
| Make Sure Ninjutsu |
| Manchester Orchestra Cope |
| Manchester Orchestra Hope |
| Maserati Enter the Mirror |
| Mayday Parade Black Lines |
| Mechina Xenon |
| mewithoutYou A to B: Life |
| MGMT Little Dark Age |
| Microwave Death is a Warm Blanket |
| MisterWives Superbloom |
| It's sunny, energetic, funky pop that belongs at all the beach/pool parties we can't have during COVID. But at 19 tracks with very little diversity, the album wears out its welcome. |
| Mitochondrial Sun Sju Pulsarer |
| Mitski Be the Cowboy |
| Moby All Visible Objects |
| Mono Pilgrimage Of The Soul |
| hi this is my first full mono album and it's pretty ok |
| Moonlit Sailor We Come from Exploding Stars |
| More Than Life What's Left of Me |
| Muse Simulation Theory |
| Neck of the Woods The Annex of Ire |
| Netsky Second Nature |
| NF Perception |
| Starts off strong but the songs are far too similar. It's very personal but thematically extremely repetitive, and One Hundred and Lie are pretty awful. |
| Nicolas Jaar Cenizas |
| Nightwish Imaginaerum |
| No Mana Secret Level |
| O'Brother You and I |
| Oceans of Slumber Oceans of Slumber |
| Oh, Sleeper When I Am God |
| Origami Angel Gami Gang |
| Oso Oso Sore Thumb |
| Owen The Avalanche |
| Gorgeous but aimless. Not enough variety to make the beautiful melodies stick. |
| P.O.D. Testify |
| Palm Reader Sleepless |
| Panic! at the Disco Pray for the Wicked |
| Paramore After Laughter |
| Passion Pit Kindred |
| Pemberton Maybe I'm a friend that stuck around too long. |
| Phinehas The Fire Itself |
| Phoenix (FRA) Ti Amo |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Wait For Love |
| Plini Sunhead |
| Plini Impulse Voices |
| Polaris The Death of Me |
| The comparisons to old Underoath would be more apt if Polaris wasn't such a slave to "screamed verse, clean chorus, repeat, breakdown, clean chorus" structures. It's the same over-polished metalcore you've heard a thousand times, but the execution is solid enough. The rough vox are a highlight. |
| Polyphia New Levels New Devils |
| Prawn Run |
| Rise Against Endgame |
| Roisin Murphy Roisin Machine |
| Royal Coda To Only a Few at First |
| Russian Circles Blood Year |
| Russkaja No One Is Illegal |
| Sacral Rage Beyond Celestial Echoes |
| Sainthood Reps Monoculture |
| Say Anything Oliver Appropriate |
| Senses Fail The Fire |
| Sepultura Quadra |
| Silent Planet When the End Began |
| Skee Mask Compro |
| So-Cal Rocket Dynamics Too Bad She Won't Live |
| Soccer Mommy Color Theory |
| Social Distortion Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes |
| Soilwork Overgivenheten |
Pros: Soilwork is really good at writing melodies. Bjorn is a remarkable vocalist. The opener and
Vultures are very good.Cons: Soilwork is really bad at dynamic contrast and varying song
structures which highlights the lack of variety in their instrumentation. Death I Hear You Calling
is their worst song in years. The production is pretty bad overall; it's too clean and polished,
particularly the drums (which makes the heavy parts weaker, which feeds into the 'lack of dynamic
contrast' thing). |
| SOWNBONES helpless |
| Spawn of Possession Incurso |
| Spirit Adrift Divided by Darkness |
| Staple Of Truth And Reconciliation |
| State Faults Resonate/Desperate |
| Suldusk Lunar Falls |
| Sulphur Aeon The Scythe of Cosmic Chaos |
| Switchfoot Legend of Chin |
| Switchfoot interrobang |
| Tapes 'n Tapes Outside |
| Taravana A Visible Chill |
| Taylor Swift Evermore |
| Taylor Swift The Tortured Poets Department |
| Ted Leo The Hanged Man |
| Termination Dust Growing Down |
| The Bell Jar I Infest, Therefore I Am |
| The Classic Crime Phoenix |
| The Classic Crime Patterns in the Static |
| The Dear Hunter Antimai |
| The Devil Wears Prada The Act |
| The Ghost Inside Get What You Give |
| The Hold Steady Open Door Policy |
| The Japanese House Swim Against the Tide |
| The Japanese House In the End It Always Does |
| The Killers Imploding the Mirage |
| The Killers Pressure Machine |
| The Paper Kites Roses |
| The Republic of Wolves No Matter How Narrow |
| The Used The Canyon |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything |
| Thomas Azier Love, Disorderly |
| Thy Catafalque Geometria |
| Tides of Man Young and Courageous |
| Tigers Jaw Charmer |
| Tiny Little Houses Idiot Proverbs |
| Tiny Moving Parts Breathe |
| Tonight Alive Underworld |
| Tool Fear Inoculum |
| Torche Admission |
| Tribulation Down Below |
| Trophy Scars Astral Pariah |
| Tuber Desert Overcrowded |
| tUnE-yArDs I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life |
| Tycho Awake |
| Vanum Ageless Fire |
| Vexes Ancient Geometry |
| Vexes Imagine What We Could Destroy / If Only Given Time |
| Waxahatchee Out in the Storm |
| Waxahatchee Great Thunder |
| Waxahatchee Saint Cloud |
| Wilderun Veil of Imagination |
| Wolf Parade Thin Mind |
| Wounds of Recollection You Were A Garden of Empyrean Light |
| Yellowcard Lights and Sounds |
| Yellowcard and Hammock A Hopeful Sign |
| 2.5 average |
| 10 Years Feeding the Wolves |
| A Day To Remember Common Courtesy |
| A Perfect Circle Eat the Elephant |
| All That Remains ...For We Are Many |
| Amorphis Queen of Time |
| Anberlin Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place |
| Anna Burch Quit The Curse |
| Antarctigo Vespucci Love in the Time of E-Mail |
| As Cities Burn Scream Through the Walls |
| As I Lay Dying Shaped by Fire |
| Avicii Tim |
| Azusa Heavy Yoke |
| Balance and Composure The Things We Think We're Missing |
| Tiny Raindrops is good, but nothing else stood out. And I really wanted to like this. Here's to hoping it grows. |
| Beck Colors |
| Billie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? |
| Bleach Blonde Starving Artist |
| Whiny vocals, completely insubstantial, and nary an original thought in sight, but it's catchy (particularly Pillow Talk) and ultimately listenable. |
| Bleachers Gone Now |
| blink-182 California |
| Body Thief Travel Glow |
| Braids Shadow Offering |
The first half would have been a solid EP full of texture and tight songwriting. "Eclipse
(Ashley)" is lovely, and the slow-burning "Just Let Me" does Hayley Williams' solo album better
than Hayley did. The second half is burdened by a lack of subtlety, strange vocal arrangements and
cringey lyrics. "Snow Angel"'s white-guilt melodrama is downright embarrassing. |
| Broadside Into the Raging Sea |
| Buke and Gase Scholars |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms Stochastic |
| CHVRCHES Love Is Dead |
| It's not the total disaster I feared, but there's a disappointing amount of filler. For every "Graffiti," which belongs in the upper pantheon of their discography, there's two "Miracle"s. Also, "Forever" should never have been recorded. |
| Clark Kiri Variations |
| Cloud Nothings Attack on Memory |
| Com Truise Persuasion System |
| Counterparts You're Not You Anymore |
| Currents The Way It Ends |
| Demon Hunter The Triptych |
| Demon Hunter War |
| I want to go war against the drum mastering on this album |
| Destrage The Chosen One |
| Destroyer Have We Met |
| Devil Sold His Soul Loss |
| Dizmas On A Search In America |
| Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events |
| Duster Duster |
| Dustin Kensrue Desert Dreaming |
| Ela Minus acts of rebellion |
| Elvis Costello Look Now |
| Endless Heights Vicious Pleasure |
| ERRA Neon |
| Evergrey The Atlantic |
| Explosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take Care |
| Fall Out Boy Save Rock and Roll |
| Feels Post Earth |
| Flobots Survival Story |
| Flux Pavilion .wav |
| Frank Iero and The Future Violents Heaven is a Place, This is a Place |
| Frank Turner Be More Kind |
Do you like on-the-nose lyrics that are topical without saying anything? Do you like people
telling you that every cloud has a silver lining? Do you like the music you hear in the background
on Toyota commercials? Well boy howdy are you gonna like this! There are a few genuinely
enjoyable songs (Blackout and Common Ground, which are strangely the least 'typical Frank' songs
here), but it's musically trite and lyrically almost entirely devoid of substance. Sincerity
doesn't mean much when you have nothing to say. |
| Friendly Fires Inflorescent |
| From Indian Lakes Dimly Lit |
| Remember when this guy wrote songs with passion and dynamics and didn't just do the same sleepy dreampop vibe for a whole album? |
| Hayley Williams Petals for Armor |
| I Am Empire Kings |
| I DON'T KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME Razzmatazz |
| Jack Johnson To the Sea |
| Jeff Rosenstock POST- |
| Jimmy Eat World Damage |
| Jon Hopkins Music for Psychedelic Therapy |
| a love of psychedelics is not an appropriate substitution for interesting music |
| Joyce Manor Million Dollars To Kill Me |
| Kanye West Jesus Is King |
| Lines In the Sky Beacon |
| Linkin Park Meteora |
| Lncstr All the Things That Lead Us Home |
| It's so good to hear Jason Lancaster's voice again. I just wish he was doing something more with it than rehashing contemporary Christian chart-toppers. Album is a mix of high-energy, polished-to-a-shine pop-punk that wouldn't be out of place on a Mayday Parade album (shocker!) and sparse piano ballads. Jason delivers a powerful vocal performance, and the band behind him delivers as well. But the devotion to the lyrical staleness and rigid song structures of CCM does this album in. In terms of 'punk darlings turned worship leaders,' you're better off with Dustin Kensrue/The Modern Post. |
| Lorde Solar Power |
| either write a folk album or write a pop album but quit it with this halfhearted coffeeshop dregs |
| Make Do and Mend Everything You Ever Loved |
| Mayday Parade Monsters in the Closet |
| It's a really bad sign when only one song is instantly memorable on a punk-pop album. Still in the early impressions stage, but it sounds like this band has fallen really hard, really fast. At least the self-titled had some genuine emotion. |
| Mayday Parade Anywhere But Here |
| Megadeth Th1rt3en |
| Megadeth United Abominations |
| Minus the Bear Infinity Overhead |
| Modest Mouse The Golden Casket |
| Muse The Resistance |
| Night Verses Lift Your Existence |
| Novelists C'est La Vie |
| for once can a djent band not cover everything in a layer of polish thick enough to drown in |
| Ovid's Withering Scryers of the Ibis |
| P.O.D. Payable on Death |
| Pinegrove Skylight |
| Pridelands Light Bends |
| Project 86 Knives to the Future |
| It's a sad, sad day when you realize one of your favorite childhood bands hit their peak years ago and is now running on fumes. Thanks for the memories, Project 86, but I don't know if you can write interesting music anymore. |
| Project 86 Wait for the Siren |
| Purity Ring Another Eternity |
| PVRIS Use Me |
| Ray Alder What The Water Wants |
| Rise Against The Black Market |
| Showbread Anorexia Nervosa |
| Shrezzers Relationships |
| A poor man's Dance Gavin Dance with less interesting songwriting, obnoxiously polished production and occasionally a saxophone. But every now and then they turn up something fun. |
| Silverstein This Is How the Wind Shifts |
| Simple Creatures Strange Love |
| Skillet Comatose |
| Skillet Invincible |
| Skillet Hey You, I Love Your Soul |
| Skrillex Bangarang |
| Skyforest A New Dawn |
| Spiritbox Eternal Blue |
| St. Vincent St. Vincent |
| St. Vincent Daddy's Home |
| Psychedelia and 'retro' influences are a terrible substitute for good songwriting |
| Switchfoot Vice Verses |
| Taking Back Sunday Taking Back Sunday |
| The Dear Hunter Act I: The Lake South, the River North |
| The Killers Day & Age |
| The Most Of What We Have |
| The O.C. Supertones Hi-Fi Revival |
| The Story So Far The Story So Far |
| The War On Drugs A Deeper Understanding |
| Thousand Foot Krutch The Art of Breaking |
| Thrice Palms |
| Thrice Deeper Wells |
| Thunder Dreamer Capture |
| Title Fight Shed |
| Too Close to Touch Nerve Endings |
| TTNG 13.0.0.0.0 |
| Turnstile Glow On |
| throws a bunch of spaghetti at the wall in the name of having fun but none of it sticks so now there's pasta on the floor AND i'm bored |
| Twenty One Pilots Scaled and Icy |
| It's Trench without the atmosphere plus Vessel without the energy. |
| Tycho Weather |
| Underoath The Changing of Times |
| Underoath Erase Me |
| We Are The In Crowd Weird Kids |
| It's punk-pop that's heavy on the pop, it's more than a little cheesy, but hey the first half has some good hooks. I was hoping for a bit a little more growth from this band, but I'm not bleeding from my ears or anything. |
| Yellowcard Lift a Sail |
| Yves Tumor Heaven To A Tortured Mind |
