| 4.5 superb |
| A Tribe Called Quest We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service |
| Aceyalone A Book of Human Language |
| Alice in Chains Dirt |
| American Football American Football |
| Andy Stott Passed Me By |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II |
| Aspid кровоизлияние (Extravasation) |
| Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children |
| Boards of Canada Geogaddi |
| Botch We Are the Romans |
| Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports |
| Burial Kindred |
| Car Bomb Meta |
There are just no words... How anyone can rate this below a 3 is beyond me. This is FAR from an average record
in every sense. Been jamming this almost every single day since it was released. This is the best metal record of
2016, and "The Oppressor" is a contender for top metal tracks of the decade. Soul-shaterringly heavy.
4.9999999...../5 |
| Car Bomb Mordial |
| Will get a 3.8 average because yeah, but this is the metal album of the year. Edit: 3.6 |
| Cleric Regressions |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Daughters You Won't Get What You Want |
| This had to grow on me a bit, but I'm glad it did. I was turned off initially by the lack of traditional heaviness that they had in the past, but the shift into more meditative, tension-building, "mature" songwriting goes over very well for Daughters and has become quite exciting to me. There's a lot of sour guitar dissonance , as expected, but there are far more beautiful passages and textures here as well. I got what I wanted, but didn't know I wanted it until I got it. Favorite tracks: Long Road No Turns, Satan in the Wait, The Flammable Man, The Reason They Hate Me, Guest House |
| Death Grips The Money Store |
| This is a very polarizing album. Some will love it to death, and some will hate it with a passion. And it should just be left at that. No one should be attacked as being a pseudo-intellectual asshole who doesn't know the first thing about music and/or is trying to be cool by liking something different from the norm, and no one should be stamped as someone who doesn't get or appreciate the genius that they do not see in the music. Either take it or leave it, and don't judge based on who is listening. |
| Death Grips The Powers That B |
| Death Grips Bottomless Pit |
| Deftones White Pony |
| I choose to ignore that "Back to School" exists |
| Dilute Grape Blueprints Pour Spinach Olive Grape |
| Don Caballero American Don |
| Don Caballero Don Caballero II |
| Dope Body Natural History |
| Electric Wizard Dopethrone |
| Failure Fantastic Planet |
| Frank Zappa Hot Rats |
| Gang Starr Moment of Truth |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World |
| Hella Hold Your Horse Is |
| Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E. |
| James Blake James Blake |
| Jeromes Dream Completed |
| Jute Gyte Ship of Theseus |
| If it weren't for the bedroom-y rough sound of the recording and lack of a full band playing these songs on record, this would be the fiviest of fives, along with the other two records that follow this. This is truly horrifying and unsettling music that is made just familiar sounding enough to keep ones attention for the length of a very challenging listen. These songs are not only skronky and full of skin crawling microtonal harmony, but also heavy and sludgy at many well placed moments. The microtonality is used in a really effective way often, and it doesn't normally feel like it's there just for the sake of it. I hope this project gets a full band treatment sometime in the future. it desperately needs it... Favorite Tracks: All of them, but mainly the last two tracks if I had to pick an absolute favorite or two. |
| KEN mode Entrench |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly |
| Khanate Khanate |
| King Crimson Discipline |
| Laurie Anderson Big Science |
| Lil B White Flame |
| Liturgy Aesthethica |
| How to like this album:r1) Ignore Hunter Hunt Hendrix.r2.) Enjoy for what it is. An awesome, blasty, mathy, harmonious firework of a black metal album. |
| Loma Prieta I.V. |
| Lord Mantis Death Mask |
| Madvillain Madvillainy |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine |
| Mastodon Remission |
| Melvins Houdini |
| Melvins Bullhead |
| Metallica ...And Justice For All |
| The best release by the band, it holds it own not just because of legacy, but because it emerges as an actual contender in the world of significantly more interesting albums in the genre. Rich tones, fast and technical playing, heaviness: all qualities that seemed to be lack luster or even missing on their previous releases which are so greatly overrated. |
| Mike Patton The Place Beyond the Pines |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice |
| Misfits Static Age |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica |
| Mongoloid Village Folly |
| Mr. Bungle Mr. Bungle |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless |
| NAILS Unsilent Death |
| Nas Illmatic |
| Neurosis Through Silver In Blood |
| Neurosis Times Of Grace |
| Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Replica |
| One of the best ambient albums I've heard in a while. Seams together so perfectly after having listened to it so many times. It takes what most will see as imperfections/blemishes and centers it's motives around them, making them the reason the album is so beautifuly unique. It feels like someone put disco tunes and infomercials into Madlib's meatgrinder. |
| OutKast Aquemini |
| Pantera Vulgar Display of Power |
| Pig Destroyer Terrifyer |
| Public Enemy It Takes A Nation (...) To Hold Us Back |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Ringo Deathstarr Pure Mood |
| Rush Moving Pictures |
| Rush 2112 |
| Russian Circles Geneva |
| Saetia A Retrospective |
| Screaming Headless Torsos 1995 |
| Sea of Bones The Earth Wants Us Dead |
| Shabazz Palaces Black Up |
| Slint Spiderland |
| Soundgarden Badmotorfinger |
| Stevie Wonder Innervisions |
| Sun Kil Moon Ghosts of the Great Highway |
| Swans The Seer |
| Swans To Be Kind |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| Tera Melos Drugs to the Dear Youth |
| Tera Melos Patagonian Rats |
| The Bad Plus These Are the Vistas |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene |
| The Field Yesterday and Today |
| The Locust Safety Second, Body Last |
| The Mothers of Invention One Size Fits All |
| The Residents Duck Stab |
| Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind |
| This Heat Deceit |
| This Heat This Heat |
| Three Trapped Tigers Route One or Die |
| Three Trapped Tigers Silent Earthling |
| Thundercat The Golden Age Of Apocalypse |
| Tim Hecker Virgins |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Unsane Visqueen |
| Wake Devouring Ruin |
| White Suns Psychic Drift |
| Yes Close to the Edge |
| A classic, for sure, though some sections are fairly cheesy in their execution. However, the goodness outweighs the cheesiness. Very catchy and clean. I also love the Simon and Garfunkel cover of America on the delux version. |
| Yes Fragile |
| YOB The Illusion Of Motion |
| YOB The Unreal Never Lived |
| 3.5 great |
| Adebisi Shank This is the Second Album |
| Alarum Eventuality |
| Alice in Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here |
| alt-J An Awesome Wave |
| An Albatross We Are The Lazer Viking |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album |
| Aphex Twin ...I Care Because You Do |
| BADBADNOTGOOD BBNG2 |
| Baths Cerulean |
| Beach House Bloom |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska |
| Buke and Gase General Dome |
| Car Bomb Centralia |
| Chevelle Wonder What's Next |
| Chevelle La Gárgola |
| Cloud Nothings Attack on Memory |
| Cloudkicker The Discovery |
| Courtney Barnett sometimes i sit and think, and sometimes i just sit |
| Cult Leader A Patient Man |
| In short, Cult Leader come through with what I can only describe as another solid addition to their discography. It?s not anything more or less than that, but I wouldn?t say it?s disappointing. The riffs overall are a bit more complex and Gaza-esque, and the record is a slightly bigger flex in the dynamics department than it?s predecessor. I can?t say I?m loving their more expansive tracks (much like the last record), but the heavier side of things is done very well. Thought it?s a bit padded out and not as immediate as their debut, it?s still worth your time if you want some seriously pissed sludgey hardcore. Favorites: I Am Healed, Curse of Satisfaction, Craft of Mourning, A World of Joy, Aurum Reclusa. |
| Das Racist Sit Down, Man |
| Daughters Canada Songs |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| Death Grips No Love Deep Web |
| Death Grips Death Grips |
| Death Grips Government Plates |
| If this album was like the first 3-4 songs throughout the whole thing, it'd have been a 5. |
| Death Grips The Powers That B - Part I: Niggas on the Moon |
A lot of the lyrical content on here is some of their most cryptic and enjoyable yet. The
music on here is great for the most part, but some of the instrumental elements feel sort of
thrown together/cheaply produced. There's definitely a step down quality wise as far as
mixing and instrumental quality. Taking into account that this was all played by Zach makes
this album all the more impressive and makes up for any blemishes. It's certainly better
within the context of the entire double album as a polar opposite to JD, and it stands as
their most mind-bending piece of work by far. |
| Defeated Sanity The Sanguinary Impetus |
| Deftones Around the Fur |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
| Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech |
| Don Caballero For Respect |
| Earl Sweatshirt EARL |
| Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown |
| Faith No More The Real Thing |
| Flying Lotus Until the Quiet Comes |
| Frank Ocean channel ORANGE |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! |
| Gorguts Considered Dead |
| Gorguts The Erosion of Sanity |
| Green Day Dookie |
| GridLink Longhena |
| Hum Inlet |
| Incubus (USA-CA) A Crow Left of the Murder... |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Fungus Amongus |
| James Blake Overgrown |
| Japandroids Celebration Rock |
| Karnivool Sound Awake |
| KEN mode Success |
| Killer Mike R.A.P. Music |
| King Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic |
| King Crimson In the Wake of Poseidon |
| Kylesa Kylesa |
| Loathe (UK) I Let It In And It Took Everything |
| Want to like this more, but there are still some fairly predictable/corny moments and a lack of cohesion vocally throughout the record. Still, can?t deny they have a massive sound and bring plenty of syrup-coated moodiness with their heaviness a la Deftones, but with more spite and gloom than any recent Deftones material. 3.7 |
| Mastodon Lifesblood |
| Megadeth Rust In Peace |
| Easily the most overrated thing on this site. What the fuck, people? |
| Melvins Hostile Ambient Takeover |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All |
| NECK Should My Fist Eye |
| Neurosis Given To The Rising |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Pelican Ephemeral |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing |
| Porcupine Tree The Incident |
| Protest the Hero Fortress |
| Sleep Dopesmoker |
| Soundgarden Ultramega OK |
| Sun Kil Moon Benji |
| Tera Melos X'ed Out |
| The Brave Little Abacus Just Got Back from the Discomfort... |
| The Caretaker An Empty Bliss Beyond This World |
| The Chariot One Wing |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan The Dillinger Escape Plan |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation |
| The Field Cupid's Head |
| Thou Magus |
| Tortoise Tortoise |
| Trioscapes Separate Realities |
| TTNG This Town Needs Guns |
| TTNG Adventure, Stamina and Anger |
| VOLA Inmazes |
| Xibalba Hasta La Muerte |
| YOB Catharsis |
| YOB Atma |
| 3.0 good |
| Alice in Chains Facelift |
| Altar of Plagues Teethed Glory and Injury |
| Animals As Leaders Weightless |
| ASAP Rocky Live.Love.A$AP. |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors |
| Well sure the playing is excellent, and the occasional riff stands out, but all the non-sequitur riffage and switching back and forth between breakdowns and melodic passages with barely any dynamic change doesn't do much for me. The screamed vocals are goddamn terrible too. 3.2/5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect |
| Chance the Rapper Acid Rap |
| Clubroot III - MMXII |
| Code Orange Love Is Love // Return To Dust |
| Code Orange I Am King |
| Code Orange Forever |
| Would be an excellent record if these fuckers knew how to write a song. I mean, come on. They've had Kurt Ballou at the helm for 3 records, they've got plenty of energy and dynamics, but I just can't stand the lazy transitions and unashamedly repetitive riffs that have almost nothing to do with each other. Also what's with all the discount Trent Reznor worship? |
| Converge You Fail Me |
| Danny Brown Old |
| Das Racist Shut Up, Dude |
| Deadmau5 Random Album Title |
| Death Grips Fashion Week |
| Death Grips Year of the Snitch |
| Deftones Deftones |
| Down NOLA |
| Earl Sweatshirt Some Rap Songs |
| Fightstar Behind the Devil's Back |
| Flying Lotus Flamagra |
| Green Day American Idiot |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Light Grenades |
| Kanye West Yeezus |
| Kayo Dot Coffins on Io |
| Killer Be Killed Killer Be Killed |
| Great band dynamic, not so great songs. |
| Liturgy Renihilation |
| Massive Attack Danny the Dog |
| Mastodon The Hunter |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun |
| Meshuggah The Violent Sleep of Reason |
| Metallica Metallica |
| Metallica Death Magnetic |
| Opeth Still Life |
| Periphery Periphery |
| Periphery Clear |
| Periphery Periphery IV: Hail Stan |
| Protest the Hero Kezia |
| Purity Ring Shrines |
| Royal Blood Royal Blood |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 |
| Russian Circles Station |
| Scale the Summit The Migration |
| Shabazz Palaces Lese Majesty |
| St. Vincent St. Vincent |
| Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) |
| Sun Kil Moon Universal Themes |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! |
| The Machine The Machine And Sungrazer Split |
| The Shins Port of Morrow |
| Tool Undertow |
| Tool Opiate |
| Tool Fear Inoculum |
| Tortoise Millions Now Living Will Never Die |
| Trash Talk Awake |
| Tricky Pre-Millenium Tension |
| TTNG Disappointment Island |
| Tyler, the Creator Wolf |
| Unsane Wreck |
| VOLA Applause of a Distant Crowd |
I really wanted to love this, but I only find it to be okay overall. I don't mind the more simplistic, pop-proggier, less
djenty direction on a lot of these tracks, but it seems like everything could have been so much more than it is,
especially the closer. The guitar and bass sound absolutely killer, but the vocal performances underwhelmed me
in comparison to the stuff on Inmazes. Also, the drumming on this record is great, but the low level mixing on the
record does it a serious disservice. I'm still rooting for these guys; very unique band, can't wait to see what they
do next. Favorite tracks: Smartfriend, Ruby Pool, Still, Whaler |
