| 4.0 excellent |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms |
| Alice in Chains Jar of Flies |
| Catch 22 Keasbey Nights |
| Converge Axe to Fall |
| Fall Out Boy Take This to Your Grave |
| Fall Out Boy Infinity on High |
| Feist Metals |
| Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac |
| Fleetwood Mac Tusk |
| In Flames Come Clarity |
| Jeff Buckley Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk |
| John Talabot Fin |
| Mansun Six |
| Marina Electra Heart |
| Oh the wasted years! The wasted youth! Marina's new album is destined to be huge in the realm of pop, even though it doesn't really step outside of the genre's conventions. Vocally, Marina harnesses a lot of sentimentality via meticulous production and beats so infectious they'll nestle in and get stuck in your head for weeks on end. Marina's commentary on the many subjects covered on Electra Heart is apt, conscientious, and refreshing. From the psychoanalysis on "Fear and Loathing" to the devilishly clever play-on-words-title of "Teen Idle," a song revealing an adolescent life as wasted on idle fancies, Electra Heart is an album imbued with honesty, passion, and whimsy, and I'm all ears. |
| Metric Fantasies |
| mewithoutYou Ten Stories |
| I'm really not understanding the low ratings for this, especially from those who thought that It's All Crazy! It's All False was a bad album but liked the band's earlier works. This is an exciting remould of elements from Catch For Us the Foxes (admittedly one of their least talked about albums (although I don't know why)). Forgetting about "February 1878," Ten Stories is a pop album at first, and then a splash into the post-hardcore chemists' edgier sound. "Grist For The Malady Mill" is the band's best "pop" song to date, and "Fox's Dream of the Log Flume" rivals some of Catch For Us the Foxes' best moments. Highly recommended for those seeking some of the story-telling whimsy of their previous album mixed with elements that we've all come to adore from the band. |
| Muse Absolution |
| Of Monsters and Men My Head is an Animal |
| Outlaws Outlaws |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik |
| Regina Spektor Far |
| Rush Permanent Waves |
| Snow Patrol Eyes Open |
| Soulsavers The Light The Dead See |
| State Faults Desolate Peaks |
| The Beach Boys Smiley Smile |
| The Beach Boys The Smile Sessions |
| The Beatles A Hard Day's Night |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger |
| The Shins Chutes Too Narrow |
| The Smiths Meat Is Murder |
| The Tea Party Tangents: The Tea Party Collection |
| The Who Who's Next |
| Yann Tiersen Dust Lane |
