| 55 Deltic You Could Own An American Home | 4.0 |
| A Place to Bury Strangers Transfixiation | 2.5 |
| A Place to Bury Strangers Worship | 3.5 |
| Adjy Grammatology | 4.0 |
| Adjy Prelude (.3333) | 4.0 |
| Adjy The Idyll Opus (I-VI) | 4.5 |
| AJR I'm Ready | 1.0 |
| AJR The Click | 1.0 |
| AJR Neotheater | 1.0 |
| Alex Lahey I Love You Like A Brother | 4.0 |
| australian surf rock. it's surf rock, but with a bigger bite! y'know, like a shark attack. also alex is australian |
| Alice Glass Prey//IV | 3.0 |
| All Natural Lemon and Lime Flavors All Natural Lemon and Lime Flavors | 3.5 |
| Allie X CollXtion II | 3.5 |
| this album is stupidly fun, though "lifted" is easily one of my least favorite tracks from this year. the reggae-inspired chorus falls pretty flat. otherwise, definitely check this one out if you're tangentially interested in pop music. |
| alt-J Relaxer | 2.0 |
| alt-J This Is All Yours | 2.5 |
| alt-J An Awesome Wave | 4.0 |
| Alvvays Alvvays | 3.5 |
| Alvvays Antisocialites | 4.0 |
| American Football American Football (LP2) | 3.0 |
| American Football American Football (LP3) | 4.5 |
| American Football American Football | 5.0 |
| Anathallo Sparrows | 4.0 |
| Anathallo Hymns | 4.0 |
| Anathallo Luminous Luminescence in the Atlas Position | 4.5 |
| Anathallo Floating World | 5.0 |
| Anathallo Canopy Glow | 5.0 |
| Anathallo A Holiday At The Sea | 5.0 |
| Angel Olsen My Woman | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Painting With | 2.0 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 4.0 |
| Anna McClellan I Saw First Light | 2.5 |
| Anna Meredith Varmints | 3.5 |
| Anxious Little Green House | 4.0 |
| Arcade Fire Everything Now | 1.5 |
| i had a radio show in college called "content with content" (read as "happy with things") and i am outraged that i did not receive songwriting credit on "infinite content." |
| Arcade Fire The Reflektor Tapes | 2.5 |
| Arcade Fire WE | 2.5 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 4.0 |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs | 4.0 |
| Arcade Fire Reflektor | 4.0 |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible | 4.5 |
| Ariana Grande My Everything | 1.5 |
| Arm's Length Never Before Seen, Never Again Found | 3.5 |
| Arm's Length Everything Nice | 4.5 |
| Atlanter Vidde | 2.5 |
| Ava Max Diamonds and Dancefloors | 2.5 |
| awakebutstillinbed what people call low self-esteem is really... | 3.5 |
| Babehoven Sunk | 3.5 |
| Banks Goddess | 2.0 |
| I really don't understand the appeal of this type of music. She's got an interesting voice, but the tunes are pretty blah. This one got really stale really quick. |
| Barely Civil I'll Figure This Out | 3.5 |
| Bartees Strange Farm To Table | 2.5 |
| this album wasn't the leap forward i was hoping/expecting from him. i'm hopeful that LP3 will deliver on the potential of LP1. "cosigns" is one of the worst songs i heard in 2022 and it was single they dropped when the album was announced. why. |
| Bartees Strange Live Forever | 3.5 |
| Bastille Bad Blood | 2.0 |
| beabadoobee Fake It Flowers | 2.5 |
| beabadoobee Beatopia | 3.0 |
| beabadoobee Space Cadet | 3.5 |
| Beach Bunny Blame Game | 3.0 |
| Beach Bunny Emotional Creature | 3.0 |
| Beach Bunny Prom Queen | 3.5 |
| Beach Bunny Honeymoon | 3.5 |
| Beach Fossils What a Pleasure | 2.5 |
| Beach Fossils Clash the Truth | 3.0 |
| Beach House Beach House | 3.0 |
| Beach House Thank Your Lucky Stars | 3.0 |
| Beach House Once Twice Melody | 3.0 |
| Beach House Devotion | 3.5 |
| Beach House 7 | 3.5 |
| Beach House Depression Cherry | 4.0 |
| Beach House Teen Dream | 4.5 |
| Beach House Bloom | 5.0 |
| Beck Modern Guilt | 3.0 |
| Being as an Ocean Waiting For Morning To Come | 2.5 |
| Ben Howard I Forget Where We Were | 4.0 |
| Ben Quad I'm Scared That's All There Is | 3.5 |
| Best Coast Crazy For You | 2.5 |
| Beth Orton Central Reservation | 3.5 |
| Better Oblivion Community Center Better Oblivion Community Center | 2.5 |
| Beyonce Lemonade | 3.5 |
| Bibio Silver Wilkinson | 3.5 |
| Big Thief Two Hands | 2.5 |
| Big Thief U.F.O.F. | 3.0 |
| Big Thief Masterpiece | 3.5 |
| Big Thief Capacity | 3.5 |
| Big Thief Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You | 3.5 |
| Billie Eilish dont smile at me | 2.0 |
| kinda blah. bellyache is fun. other songs not as much. also, why does it look like she's gonna throw up in almost every photo of her? |
| Birds in Row Gris Klein | 4.0 |
| Black Country, New Road For the first time | 3.5 |
| Black Marble It's Immaterial | 3.0 |
| Bleachers Strange Desire | 2.5 |
| Blood Orange Cupid Deluxe | 2.0 |
| Blood Orange Coastal Grooves | 2.5 |
| Blur The Magic Whip | 2.5 |
| Bon Iver i,i | 3.0 |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 4.0 |
| Bon Iver 22, A Million | 4.0 |
| Born Ruffians Birthmarks | 2.5 |
| Boy Pablo Soy Pablo | 2.5 |
| boyband alone in a boyband | 2.0 |
| Boygenius boygenius | 3.0 |
| genius move marketing this release as a new supergroup/band. really paved the way for them moving forward. LP1 feels more like a cohesive album, but this is a glorified split. and it's fine. |
| Braids Shadow Offering | 3.0 |
| Brand New Science Fiction | 3.5 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 4.5 |
| Broken Record Nothing Moves Me | 3.5 |
| brokeNCYDE I'm Not a Fan, but the Kids Like It! | 1.0 |
| Buggin Concrete Cowboys | 3.5 |
| Bully Feels Like | 2.5 |
| Burial Burial | 3.0 |
| Burial Untrue | 4.5 |
| Cake Comfort Eagle | 4.0 |
| Camp Cope Running With The Hurricane | 3.0 |
| Camp Trash The Long Way, The Slow Way | 3.5 |
| Capital Cities Capital Cities EP | 1.0 |
| i remember hearing that "safe and sound" song somewhere in 2012, and then immediately wondering when it was going to get popular because of that awful horn melody. |
| Capital Cities In A Tidal Wave of Mystery | 1.5 |
| Car Seat Headrest Teens of Style | 2.5 |
| Caracara New Preoccupations | 4.0 |
| Carissa's Wierd You Should Be At Home Here | 4.5 |
| more than willing to die on the hill of this being the best carissa's wierd release. |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Kiss | 3.0 |
| Carly Rae Jepsen The Loneliest Time | 3.0 |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion: Side B | 3.5 |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Dedicated | 3.5 |
| Carly Rae Jepsen The Loveliest Time | 3.5 |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Dedicated Side B | 4.0 |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion | 4.5 |
| Carol (USA-NY) Soiled | 3.5 |
| Carol (USA-NY) More Than A Goodbye | 4.0 |
| Caroline (UK) Caroline | 2.5 |
| if the rest of the album were like "dark blue," "good morning (red)," and "IWR," i could see it being my favorite album from this year. but i just don't really have the patience for the rest of the album. |
| Caroline Polachek Pang | 3.0 |
| Caroline Rose Loner | 2.5 |
| Cat Power Sun | 3.0 |
| Cate Le Bon Pompeii | 2.5 |
| Caterpillars The Other Side | 2.0 |
| Chairlift Something | 3.0 |
| Chamberlain Fate's Got A Driver | 2.5 |
| Chance the Rapper The Big Day | 1.0 |
| "hot shower" came on during the dancing at a wedding i was at and i was reminded of how bad this album is. the song completely killed the mood, it's so bad, and it's the one that gets played the most. rthe thing i appreciate the most about this album is that it made me feel vindicated in my dislike of chance the rapper's music. |
| Chance the Rapper Coloring Book | 1.5 |
| Chance the Rapper Acid Rap | 2.0 |
| Charli XCX Sucker | 1.5 |
| Same crop of blah pop tunes, except this time without the killer singles. No need to dive into her discography, just stick with her radio hits. |
| Charli XCX True Romance | 2.0 |
| Incredible singles on this one, but the project as a whole lacks the same kind of punch. It's amazing that "You (Ha Ha Ha)" and "Cloud Aura" were written by the same person. "You" is an unbelievably catchy track, while "Cloud Aura" is quite honestly one of my least favorite songs I'd heard in 2013. |
| Charli XCX Crash | 2.0 |
| Charli XCX Number 1 Angel | 3.0 |
| Charli XCX Vroom Vroom | 3.5 |
| Charli XCX Pop 2 | 3.5 |
| Charli XCX Charli | 3.5 |
| Charli XCX Focus / No Angel | 4.0 |
| justice for no angel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Charli XCX How I'm Feeling Now | 4.5 |
| Charlie Puth Nine Track Mind | 1.0 |
| Charlie Puth Voicenotes | 3.0 |
| Charly Bliss Guppy | 4.0 |
| Charly Bliss Young Enough | 4.5 |
| *extremely mr. krabs voice* the hooks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Chastity Belt I Used To Spend So Much Time Alone | 2.5 |
| i found this album to be unbelievably pedestrian. can't remember any low points, but i also can't remember any highlights. |
| Chat Pile God's Country | 4.5 |
| Cheekface Too Much to Ask | 1.0 |
| no more music from los angeles. we have moved past the need for music from los angeles. |
| Chester Watson 1997 | 2.5 |
| CHON Grow | 3.5 |
| Chris Cohen Overgrown Path | 4.0 |
| Chris Cohen As If Apart | 4.0 |
| CHVRCHES Love Is Dead | 2.0 |
| CHVRCHES Every Open Eye | 3.0 |
| CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe | 3.5 |
| CHVRCHES Screen Violence | 3.5 |
| CHVRCHES Recover | 4.0 |
| Citizen Life In Your Glass World | 3.0 |
| Citizen As You Please | 4.0 |
| clipping. dba118 | 3.5 |
| clipping. Midcity | 3.5 |
| clipping. Chain/Jump | 3.5 |
| clipping. Wriggle | 3.5 |
| clipping. Splendor and Misery | 3.5 |
| clipping. Visions of Bodies Being Burned | 3.5 |
| clipping. Something They Don't Know/Mouth | 4.0 |
| clipping. There Existed an Addiction to Blood | 4.0 |
| clipping. CLPPNG | 4.5 |
| Cloakroom Dissolution Wave | 3.0 |
| Cloakroom Time Well | 4.0 |
| Closer (US) within one stem | 3.5 |
| Cloud Nothings Here and Nowhere Else | 3.5 |
| Cocteau Twins Heaven or Las Vegas | 4.5 |
| Colleen Green Sock It To Me | 2.5 |
| Colleen Green Colleen Green - EP | 3.0 |
| Colleen Green Cool | 3.0 |
| Colleen Green I Want to Grow Up | 4.0 |
| Corey Feldman Angelic 2 The Core | 1.0 |
| Creed Human Clay | 3.0 |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles III | 3.0 |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles | 3.5 |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles II | 3.5 |
| Cults Cults | 2.5 |
| Cults Static | 2.5 |
| D'Angelo Black Messiah | 4.0 |
| Dad Thighs The Ghosts That I Fear | 5.0 |
| Dads I’ll Be The Tornado | 2.0 |
| Dads American Radass (This Is Important) | 2.5 |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories | 3.5 |
| Darkside Spiral | 3.0 |
| Darkside Psychic | 4.0 |
| Daughter Not to Disappear | 2.5 |
| Daughter If You Leave | 3.5 |
| David Bazan Care | 3.0 |
| David Bazan Blanco | 3.5 |
| One of the most honest songwriters I can think of. |
| David Bazan Fewer Moving Parts | 4.0 |
| David Bazan Curse Your Branches | 4.0 |
| Deafheaven New Bermuda | 3.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Plans | 3.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism | 4.0 |
| Death Grips The Powers That B - Part I: Niggas on the Moon | 2.5 |
| Death Grips The Powers That B - Part II: Jenny Death | 3.5 |
| Death Grips The Money Store | 4.0 |
| deathcrash Return | 4.0 |
| deathcrash Less | 4.0 |
| Default Genders main pop girl 2019 | 4.0 |
| Delorean Subiza | 2.5 |
| Delorean Apar | 2.5 |
| Deptford Goth Life after Defo | 2.5 |
| Destroyer Kaputt | 4.0 |
| Diet Cig I Swear I'm Good At This | 2.5 |
| DIIV Oshin | 3.0 |
| Disclosure Settle | 3.0 |
| Discovery LP | 2.5 |
| lol this was one of the first albums i torrented. glad i didn't pay for it, it's really weh. also, hearing anything off of this instantly transports me back to first semester of college. |
| Dogleg Melee | 4.0 |
| dreamTX living in memory of something sweet | 2.5 |
| Drop Nineteens Hard Light | 3.0 |
| Drug Church Hygiene | 3.5 |
| this album is frontloaded as hell, but man that first half is extremely good. |
| Drug Church CHEER | 4.5 |
| Ducktails St. Catherine | 2.0 |
| Ducktails The Flower Lane | 3.0 |
| Duster Contemporary Movement | 4.0 |
| Duster Stratosphere | 4.5 |
| Emma Ruth Rundle Marked for Death | 4.0 |
| Emma Ruth Rundle On Dark Horses | 4.0 |
| Empress Of Us | 2.5 |
| Empress Of Me | 3.0 |
| Ethel Cain Preacher's Daughter | 4.5 |
| Eve 6 hyper relevisation | 2.0 |
| Everest On Approach | 1.5 |
| Uninspired and unremarkable indie rock. Nothing new here, and none of it's done particularly well. |
| Fall Out Boy American Beauty/American Psycho | 1.5 |
| Father John Misty Pure Comedy | 1.5 |
| Father John Misty Fear Fun | 2.0 |
| Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear | 2.0 |
| Feist Pleasure | 4.0 |
| Field Mouse Meaning | 3.5 |
| Five Iron Frenzy Five Iron Frenzy 2: Electric Boogaloo | 3.5 |
| Five Iron Frenzy Engine of a Million Plots | 3.5 |
| Five Iron Frenzy Quantity Is Job 1 | 4.0 |
| Five Iron Frenzy Our Newest Album Ever! | 4.0 |
| Fleshwater We're Not Here To Be Loved | 3.5 |
| Flight Mode TX, '98 | 3.5 |
| Flobots Survival Story | 2.0 |
| Flower Face Fever Dreams | 3.0 |
| Flume Flume | 2.5 |
| Foxing Dealer | 2.5 |
| Foxing Draw Down the Moon | 3.5 |
| Foxing The Albatross | 4.0 |
| Foxing Nearer My God | 4.5 |
| Foxtails Fawn | 3.5 |
| Foxygen ...And Star Power | 1.0 |
| Foxygen We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors... | 2.5 |
| Frank Ocean Blonde | 3.0 |
| someone please help me understand why this album is so beloved because i just don't get it. |
| Free Throw What's Past Is Prologue | 3.0 |
| fun. Some Nights | 1.5 |
| Gallant Zebra | 2.0 |
Gallant's wonderful voice isn't enough to save this collection of bland, uninspired alt. R&B
tunes. With some proper instrumentation, he could be very good.
Favorite Tracks: Jupiter Grayscale |
| Gallant Ology | 2.5 |
The comparisons to Frank Ocean feel inevitable but ultimately unwarranted. Gallant expands his
sound from his EP with live drums and overall better instrumentation. Some of the songs are
similarly structured, but there's enough variety to keep it fresh. I hear shades of 90's R&B acts
like Boys II Men and Seal, with a little bit of boom bap hip-hop at points. Much better production
than the EP. However, at 16 songs (with 2 interludes, 3 if you count "Oh, Universe"), it does
overstay its welcome at points, namely Counting and Open Up. Still, I would recommend this album
to anyone who is a fan of silky smooth falsettos.
Favorite Tracks: Oh Universe, Weight In Gold, Miyazaki, Jupiter, Chandra |
| Gang of Youths Angel in Realtime | 3.5 |
| Gang of Youths Go Farther in Lightness | 4.0 |
| Gel (USA-NJ) Violent Closure | 3.5 |
| Gel (USA-NJ) Only Constant | 4.0 |
| George Harrison All Things Must Pass | 4.5 |
| GFOTY GFOTYBUCKS | 3.0 |
| Glass Beach The First Glass Beach Album | 4.0 |
| Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere | 3.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor All Lights Fucked On the Hairy Amp Drooling | 1.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress' | 3.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! | 3.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 4.5 |
| GoldLink And After That, We Didn't Talk | 1.5 |
| Great Grandpa Four of Arrows | 4.0 |
| Greet Death New Hell | 4.0 |
| Gridiron No Good At Goodbyes | 3.5 |
| Grimes Visions | 3.0 |
| Grimes Art Angels | 3.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Yellow House | 3.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Painted Ruins | 3.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest | 4.0 |
| Grizzly Bear Shields | 4.5 |
| Gulfer Dog Bless | 3.5 |
| HAIM Days Are Gone | 3.0 |
| Harmony Woods Nothing Special | 4.0 |
| Harmony Woods Graceful Rage | 4.0 |
| Harmony Woods Make Yourself At Home | 4.5 |
| Hayley Williams FLOWERS for VASES / descansos | 2.5 |
| Hayley Williams Petals for Armor | 3.0 |
| Hazel English Just Give In / Never Going Home | 3.5 |
| extremely inoffensive jangle pop. it's pleasant to listen to, but i can't think too hard about it or else i get frustrated with how unoriginal and samey it is. |
| Heart Attack Man Freak Of Nature | 2.5 |
| i was hoping for more nu metal like on "puke," but this is fun enough. |
| Heart Attack Man Fake Blood | 3.5 |
| Heart Attack Man Thoughtz and Prayerz | 3.5 |
| Heavenly Beat Prominence | 3.5 |
| Helado Negro Private Energy | 3.0 |
| Hey Ocean! It's Easier To Be Somebody Else | 1.5 |
| Hey Ocean! Stop Looking Like Music | 1.5 |
| Hippo Campus landmark | 2.5 |
| HOLYCHILD The Shape of Brat Pop to Come | 2.5 |
| Home Is Where The Whaler | 3.5 |
| Home Is Where I Became Birds | 4.0 |
| Home Is Where/Record Setter dissection lesson | 4.5 |
| Hoops Routines | 3.5 |
| Hoops Hoops | 4.0 |
| Bloomington, IN rockers HOOPS have been making waves this past summer through extensive touring and their indie label debut with Fat Possum Records. Infectious guitar leads, wonderful lo-fi production, and sticky-sweet grooves are all over this fantastic, albeit short, EP. The concise nature of the songs allows the boys of HOOPS to focus on making tight, catchy pop songs. Recommended for fans of Tops, Real Estate, Porches, or Ducktails. - FAVORITE TRACKS: Cool 2, Going Strong, Give It Time |
| Hoops Tape #3 | 4.0 |
| Hoops Halo | 4.0 |
| Horsegirl Versions of Modern Performance | 2.5 |
| Hospital Bracelet South Loop Summer | 2.5 |
| Hot Mulligan You'll Be Fine | 2.5 |
| Hot Mulligan I Won't Reach Out to You | 2.5 |
| Hum You'd Prefer an Astronaut | 4.0 |
| Hum Inlet | 4.0 |
| i hate sex World of Grief | 3.0 |
| i feel like the difference between this and "circle thinking" illustrates that great screamo needs to have terrible production. |
| i hate sex Circle Thinking | 4.5 |
| I Love Your Lifestyle No Driver | 3.5 |
| I'm Glad It's You Every Sun, Every Moon | 3.5 |
| Ian Sweet Show Me How You Disappear | 3.0 |
| IDLES Joy as an Act of Resistance | 2.5 |
| Illuminati Hotties Kiss Yr Frenemies | 3.0 |
| Illuminati Hotties Let Me Do One More | 3.5 |
| Illuminati Hotties FREE I.H: This Is Not the One... | 4.0 |
| Imagine Dragons Night Visions | 2.0 |
| Initiate Lavender | 3.5 |
| Initiate Cerebral Circus | 3.5 |
| Injury Reserve Floss | 3.5 |
| Interpol Interpol | 1.5 |
| Interpol A Fine Mess | 2.0 |
| Interpol Marauder | 2.5 |
| Interpol The Other Side of Make-Believe | 2.5 |
| so it turns out the song title "always malaise" on the self titled album has actually a warning as to what interpol's future albums would sound like. |
| Interpol El Pintor | 3.0 |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 3.5 |
| Interpol Our Love to Admire | 4.0 |
| i think my nostalgia towards this album bumps it up a couple of points. |
| Interpol Antics | 4.5 |
| Isaiah Rashad The House Is Burning | 2.5 |
| Islands Ski Mask | 2.5 |
| i remember listening to this freshman year of college because the promo video for the album had michael cera in it. pretty generic. "becoming the gunship" is great, though. |
| Jai Paul Do You Love Her Now / He | 3.5 |
| Jai Paul Jai Paul | 4.0 |
| James Blake Assume Form | 2.0 |
| James Blake The Colour in Anything | 2.5 |
| holy smokes this record is bloooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaated. |
| James Blake Friends That Break Your Heart | 2.5 |
| James Blake Enough Thunder | 3.0 |
| James Blake James Blake | 4.0 |
| James Blake Overgrown | 4.0 |
| Jamie Lidell Jamie Lidell | 3.0 |
| YOU NAAAAAKED. YOU NAAAAAKED. |
| Jane Remover Frailty | 4.5 |
| album falls off a cliff after the emotional centerpiece of "kodak moment," but still really, really strong. the album's a bit overlong and could do without "can you tell?" and "eyes off the wheel, i'm a star." but those first 8 songs are almost all bulletproof. this is a really special album. |
| Jane Remover Census Designated | 4.5 |
| Japanese Breakfast Soft Sounds From Another Planet | 3.5 |
| Japanese Breakfast Psychopomp | 4.0 |
| Japanese Breakfast Jubilee | 4.0 |
| Jawbreaker Dear You | 4.5 |
| Jay Som Anak Ko | 3.5 |
| Jay Som Everybody Works | 4.0 |
| Jay-Z Magna Carta... Holy Grail | 2.0 |
| Jeff Rosenstock WORRY. | 4.0 |
| Jetty Bones Crucial States | 2.5 |
| Jetty Bones - | 3.0 |
| Jetty Bones Old Women | 3.5 |
| Jetty Bones Push Back | 3.5 |
| Jim Guthrie Sword and Sworcery | 4.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Static Prevails | 3.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Surviving | 3.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Stay on My Side Tonight | 4.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Bleed American | 4.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Futures | 4.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Jimmy Eat World [EP] | 4.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Clarity | 5.0 |
| John Davey Living is Trying | 4.0 |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures | 4.0 |
| Joyce Manor Cody | 3.5 |
| Judah and the Lion Pep Talks | 1.0 |
| Julia Holter Have You In My Wilderness | 4.0 |
| Juliana Daugherty Light | 4.0 |
| Julie Byrne Not Even Happiness | 3.0 |
| Julie Byrne The Greater Wings | 4.0 |
| Julien Baker Turn Out The Lights | 2.5 |
| gosh, what an exhausting album to listen to. the first half is so dreary, and not in a good way. feels a bit overwrought at times. second half is much better. |
| Julien Baker Little Oblivions | 3.0 |
| Julien Baker Sprained Ankle | 4.5 |
If there's one album from 2015 I would force everyone to listen to, it'd be this one. It's an
incredibly intimate and emotionally hard-hitting record due to the sparseness in the soundscapes
and the vulnerability in the lyrics. The songs are mostly just Baker and her guitar, gently
plucking away at the strings and using a looper pedal to layer melodies on top of the rhythms. The
songs sound empty and lonely, matching perfectly with the albums lyrical content touching on
death, depression, substance abuse, and suicide. It's an incredibly personal album to the point
that, similar to Carrie & Lowell, it almost feels as if the listener really shouldn't be hearing
these songs.
In the midst of all this is Baker's relationship with God. It's a complicated one, with her asking
questions like, "I wrote you love letters, and sung them in my house...the broken strings and
amplifiers scream with holy noise / in hopes to draw you out, but if no one sings along are you
still proud of when I open my mouth?" on the opener "Blacktop." On "Vessels," Baker reflects on
the brokenness and blackness of her own body and soul, and how her broken body is just a "house
for [her] eyes purchased with a bleeding side." She ends the album with an instrumental of "In
Christ Alone" at the end of "Go Home." During recording, her preamp picked up a radio transmission
of a nearby church, sort of as an answer to Baker's constant cries to him throughout the album.
Seriously. Listen to this album. It's incredible.
FAVORITE TRACKS: Blacktop, Sprained Ankle, Good News, Something, Vessels, Go Home
LEAST FAVORITE TRACKS: None |
| Julien Baker Funeral Pyre / Distant Solar Systems | 5.0 |
| i'm afraid that these will be the best songs she ever releases. |
| Justice Audio, Video, Disco | 2.5 |
| Kacy Hill Like A Woman | 2.5 |
| Kacy Hill Simple, Sweet, and Smiling | 3.0 |
| Kanye West Jesus Is King | 1.5 |
| Kanye West The Life of Pablo | 2.0 |
| One of the top ten most frustrating albums for me to listen to for many reasons. |
| Kanye West ye | 2.0 |
| Kanye West Yeezus | 3.5 |
| Kanye West The College Dropout | 4.0 |
| Kanye West Graduation | 4.0 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 4.5 |
| Kate Bush The Kick Inside | 4.0 |
| Kate Bush The Dreaming | 4.5 |
| Katie Malco Failures | 3.5 |
| Katy Kirby Cool Dry Place | 3.0 |
| Keeps Brief Spirit | 3.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar DAMN. Collector's Edition | 1.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar DAMN. | 2.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar untitled unmastered. | 3.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers | 3.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city | 4.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly | 4.5 |
| Kero Kero Bonito Time 'n' Place | 3.5 |
| Kevin Krauter Magnolia | 3.5 |
| Kevin Krauter Full Hand | 3.5 |
| Kevin Krauter Changes | 4.0 |
| Kevin Krauter Toss Up | 4.0 |
| Kimbra The Golden Echo | 2.0 |
| Kimbra Vows | 2.5 |
| King Krule 6 Feet Beneath the Moon | 3.5 |
| Kinoko Teikoku Uzu Ni Naru | 4.5 |
| Knifeplay Animal Drowning | 4.0 |
| KUNZITE VISUALS | 3.0 |
| Kurt Vile b'lieve i'm goin' down... | 3.0 |
| L.S. Dunes Past Lives | 2.5 |
| La Sera La Sera | 3.0 |
| Lady Lamb Even in the Tremor | 3.0 |
| Lady Lamb Ripely Pine | 4.0 |
| Lala Lala The Lamb | 3.5 |
| Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell! | 2.5 |
| Land Of Talk Indistinct Conversations | 3.0 |
| Land Of Talk Life After Youth | 3.5 |
| LANY LANY | 2.0 |
| Late Night Cardigan Life Is Bleak and It's My Cheat Day | 4.5 |
| Laura Gibson Empire Builder | 3.0 |
| Laura Stevenson Laura Stevenson | 4.0 |
| Less Than Jake Losing Streak | 3.5 |
| Less Than Jake Hello Rockview | 4.0 |
| Let's Eat Grandma Two Ribbons | 3.0 |
| Let's Eat Grandma I'm All Ears | 3.5 |
| Liars Mess | 3.5 |
| Lil Ugly Mane Volcanic Bird Enemy and the Voiced Concern | 2.5 |
| Lil Yachty Let's Start Here. | 2.0 |
| this album feels like an "important" album, or one that wants to be seen as "important." it's cluttered. kinda boring. feels like it's pandering to a certain kind of guy, and it looks like it's working. |
| Lily and Madeleine Keep It Together | 3.0 |
| Lily and Madeleine Fumes | 3.5 |
| Lin-Manuel Miranda Hamilton - Original Broadway Cast | 4.0 |
| Lina Tullgren Wishlist EP | 4.5 |
Tullgren's lo-fi singer-songwriter sound isn't anything groundbreaking. However, much like Julien
Baker's fantastic self-titled 2015 release, Tullgren exhibits excellent songwriting and lyricism.
Perhaps the most interesting part of this EP is Tullgren's vocals, which are twangy at times and
incredibly evocative and emotional at others. I highly recommend this EP.
FAVORITE TRACKS: All five tracks are wonderful |
| Lina Tullgren Won | 4.5 |
| Lina Tullgren Free Cell | 4.5 |
| Lingua Ignota SINNER GET READY | 2.0 |
| Little Dragon Ritual Union | 3.0 |
| Little Dragon Nabuma Rubberband | 3.0 |
| Little Scream Cult Following | 2.5 |
| lobsterfight pink, black, and orange in the corners. | 2.5 |
| Local Natives Hummingbird | 3.0 |
| Locate S,1 Personalia | 2.5 |
| Long Beard Sleepwalker | 3.5 |
| Long Beard Means To Me | 4.0 |
| Lord Snow Solitude | 5.0 |
| Lorde Solar Power | 2.0 |
| Lorde Pure Heroine | 4.0 |
| Lorde Melodrama | 4.0 |
| Low Hey What | 4.0 |
| Lucius Nudes | 2.0 |
| Lucius Good Grief | 2.5 |
| Lucius Second Nature | 3.5 |
| this is what LP2 should have been. welcome back, lucius. |
| Lucius Wildewoman | 4.5 |
| Lucy Dacus No Burden | 2.5 |
| Lucy Dacus Historian | 3.0 |
| Lucy Dacus Home Video | 3.0 |
| Mac DeMarco Another One | 2.5 |
| Mac DeMarco Rock and Roll Night Club | 3.5 |
| Mac DeMarco 2 | 4.0 |
| Mac DeMarco Salad Days | 4.0 |
| Mae Multisensory Aesthetic Experience | 3.0 |
| Mae (m)(a)(e) | 4.0 |
| mae is (and i say this with absolute sincerity) the Only Great American Band. |
| Mae The Everglow | 5.0 |
| Magdalena Bay Mercurial World | 4.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra The Valley of Vision | 2.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra Cope | 3.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra The Million Masks of God | 3.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing | 4.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra A Black Mile to the Surface | 4.5 |
| Mandy, Indiana I've Seen a Way | 2.5 |
| Maps and Atlases Perch Patchwork | 2.5 |
| Margaret Glaspy Emotions And Math | 3.0 |
| Glaspy's vocals are the best part of this album for me. Some catchy tunes here and there. Biggest complaint is that the production is a little too clean/crisp. The drums sound kinda weird because of it on a couple of tracks. |
| Marianas Trench Astoria | 2.0 |
| Marvin Gaye What's Going On | 4.5 |
| Matt and Kim Sidewalks | 2.5 |
| Melody's Echo Chamber Melody's Echo Chamber | 4.0 |
| Menomena Mines | 3.0 |
| Metronomy Summer 08 | 2.0 |
| Metronomy Nights Out | 3.0 |
| Metronomy Love Letters | 3.0 |
| Metronomy The English Riviera | 3.5 |
| Miami Horror All Possible Futures | 2.0 |
| Mineral February/ M.D. | 4.5 |
| Mineral One Day When We Are Young | 4.5 |
| Mineral The Power of Failing | 5.0 |
| Mineral EndSerenading | 5.0 |
| Minor Victories Minor Victories | 3.0 |
| Mitski Laurel Hell | 2.5 |
| Mitski Be the Cowboy | 3.0 |
| Mitski bury me at makeout creek | 4.0 |
| Mitski Puberty 2 | 4.0 |
| Mitksi Miyawaki's newest album is a sequel of sorts to her 2014 release "Bury Me at Makeout Creek." While her DIY punk/garage rock sound hasn't changed much, "Puberty 2" digs even deeper emotionally, with Mitski searching for what happiness is to her at this point in her life. She isn't sure if it's to be found in relationships, what others think of her, or somewhere else entirely. The songs on the album range from quiet slow burners like "Once More to See You" to the abrasive and in-your-face "My Body's Made of Crushed Stars." Lead single "Your Best American Girl" captures the feeling and sentiment of this album perfectly. - FAVORITE TRACKS: Happy, Dan the Dancer, Your Best American Girl, Thursday Girl, Crack Baby |
| MJ Lenderman Boat Songs | 3.5 |
| Modern Baseball Sports | 2.5 |
| Molly Burch Please Be Mine | 3.0 |
| Molly Burch First Flower | 3.0 |
| Momma Household Name | 4.5 |
| Mount Kimbie Cold Spring Fault Less Youth | 3.0 |
| Mountain Time Music For Looking Animals | 3.0 |
| MSPAINT Post-American | 3.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine m b v | 4.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 5.0 |
| My Brightest Diamond A Million and One | 3.0 |
| very different from her previous work. "champagne" is a bop, tho. |
| My Brightest Diamond This Is My Hand | 4.0 |
| Every song is enjoyable in some way. This is by far her most consistent work, and easily my favorite album of her's. |
| Narrow Head Moments of Clarity | 3.0 |
| Nas Illmatic | 4.5 |
| Natalie Prass The Future and the Past | 3.0 |
| Natalie Prass Natalie Prass | 3.5 |
Prass exhibits beautiful songwriting that's reminiscent of musical theatre, baroque pop, and 70's
era singer-songwriter on perhaps the best break-up album of 2015. Perhaps the biggest standout is
Prass's vocal work. Her thin, wavering vocals add a tinge of helplessness and weariness to songs
about heartbreak and infidelity.
FAVORITE TRACKS: My Baby Don't Understand Me, Bird of Prey, Your Fool, Why Don't You Believe In
Me, Violently
LEAST FAVORITE TRACKS: It Is You |
| Native Nod Bread | 4.0 |
| Neon Indian Era Extrana | 3.0 |
| Neon Indian Vega Intl. Night School | 3.5 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 4.0 |
| Nicolas Jaar Space Is Only Noise | 4.0 |
| niiice. internet friends | 3.5 |
| a couple of rippers on here, but i'm kinda done with excessive references to weed in emo. let's leave weedmo in 4th wave. |
| No Thank You Embroidered Foliage | 3.5 |
| Noname Telefone | 3.5 |
| This mixtape wins the award for the most warm fuzzy feelings given to me this year. I can't really explain it, but there's just something about this tape that I absolutely adore. The jazzy instrumentals and beats immediately calm and soothe the listener, with the xylophone-like synths evoking images of childhood toys. Noname's rapping has an air of optimism to it, even when discussing difficult topics like drug abuse, funerals, and abortion. She addresses the guilt of past sins she carries, and how she's learned and grown in the face of them. - FAVORITE TRACKS: Yesterday, Diddy Bop, Reality Check, Freedom, Bye Bye Baby |
| Nothing Tired of Tomorrow | 3.0 |
| Nothing Guilty of Everything | 3.5 |
| Of Monsters and Men My Head is an Animal | 2.5 |
| of Montreal The Bird Who Continues to Eat the Rabbit's Flower | 3.5 |
| of Montreal The Sunlandic Twins | 4.0 |
| of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? | 4.0 |
| Oliver Tree Cowboy Tears | 1.0 |
| i heard "cowboys don't cry" at the grocery yesterday, this is one of the worst songs i've heard in a while. |
| Olivia Rodrigo Sour | 2.5 |
| Olivia Rodrigo Guts | 3.0 |
| Origami Angel Origami Angel Broke Minecraft | 2.5 |
| Origami Angel Quiet Hours | 3.0 |
| Origami Angel DEPART | 3.0 |
| gami gang pivot to powerviolence and grindcore when |
| Origami Angel re: turn | 3.5 |
| Origami Angel The Brightest Days | 3.5 |
| Origami Angel Gami Gang | 4.0 |
| Origami Angel Doing the Most | 4.5 |
| Origami Angel Somewhere City | 4.5 |
| Oso Oso Sore Thumb | 3.0 |
| Oso Oso The Yunahon Mixtape | 3.5 |
| Oso Oso Basking in the glow | 3.5 |
| Overcoats Young | 3.0 |
| it's all pretty same-y. a pleasant same-y, but same-y nonetheless. "smaller than my mother" is great, though. |
| Palette Knife New Game+ | 3.0 |
| Parannoul To See the Next Part of the Dream | 4.0 |
| Parannoul After The Magic | 4.5 |
| a level up in the biggest sense. i think my favorite part is just how much happier/optimistic this album sounds compared to "to see the next part of the dream." parannoul is in a much better place mentally, and it really comes through on this album. it's neat to see/hear the progress. |
| Parquet Courts Human Performance | 3.5 |
| Passion Pit Gossamer | 2.5 |
| Patrice Rushen Straight From The Heart | 3.5 |
| Paul McCartney Ram | 4.5 |
| Peach Pit Being So Normal | 3.0 |
| Pedro the Lion Havasu | 3.5 |
| Pedro the Lion Control | 4.0 |
| Pedro the Lion Winners Never Quit | 4.0 |
| Penfold Amateurs and Professionals | 4.0 |
| Peregrine (USA-MA) the awful things we've done | 4.0 |
| Perfume Genius Too Bright | 3.5 |
| Petal Magic Gone | 4.0 |
| everything kiley writes gets better with each listen for me. |
| Petal Shame | 4.5 |
| it's difficult to explain, but there's an air of tenderness and kindness throughout this album. songs like "shame" and "photobooth" are unbelievably provoking and feel like a hug from a familiar friend. it's this connection that kiley lotz makes with the listener that elevates this album above its similar sounding counterparts. i love this album an unhealthy amount. |
| Phantogram Ceremony | 2.0 |
| Phantogram Three | 2.5 |
| Phantogram Voices | 3.5 |
| Phoebe Bridgers Stranger in the Alps | 4.0 |
| Pictoria Vark The Parts I Dread | 2.5 |
| Pillow Queens Leave The Light On | 3.5 |
| Pinegrove Marigold | 3.0 |
| Pinegrove Cardinal | 4.0 |
| Pinegrove Skylight | 4.5 |
| Pinkshift Saccharine | 3.5 |
| Piri Reis Ritma | 4.0 |
| Planning for Burial Leaving | 3.0 |
| Pledge Haunted Visions | 4.0 |
| PONY Velveteen | 4.0 |
| Pool Kids Music to Practice Safe Sex To | 3.0 |
| Pool Kids Pool Kids | 4.0 |
| Pop Unknown If Arsenic Fails, Try Algebra | 4.0 |
| "hanging on a thread" is the most mineral-y song never written by mineral |
| Poppy Poppy.Computer | 2.5 |
| Porches Pool | 2.0 |
| Powderfinger Odyssey Number Five | 2.5 |
| .......i don't think i care much for this era of rock music. |
| Preoccupations New Material | 2.0 |
| Preoccupations Preoccupations | 3.5 |
| Preoccupations Viet Cong | 4.5 |
It's an amazing roller coaster ride in post-punk/noise rock/industrial music. Though it's only 7
songs, it works to the benefit of the album. Each song is an all-out assault against the senses,
and I'm not sure the listener would be able to take much more after the album's conclusion
(especially after the fantastic closer, "Death"). Offensive name aside (the band said they would
be changing it for their next album), this is one heck of an album and is definitely worth
checking out if you like more experimental music.
FAVORITE TRACKS: Newspaper Spoons, Pointless Experience, March of Progress, Bunker Buster,
Continental Shelf, Silhouettes, Death
LEAST FAVORITE TRACKS: None |
| Prince Daddy and The Hyena Cosmic Thrill Seekers | 2.5 |
| Prince Daddy and The Hyena Prince Daddy And The Hyena | 2.5 |
| pronoun i'll show you stronger | 3.5 |
| PUP The Unraveling of PUPTheBand | 3.0 |
| PUP Morbid Stuff | 4.0 |
| Purity Ring Another Eternity | 3.0 |
| Purity Ring Shrines | 4.0 |
| Ra Ra Riot Beta Love | 1.0 |
(heads up, incoming extremely biased opinion)
Oh gosh I don't know where to begin. They had something going on their first two albums, and then
they scrapped everything that was good about them for their least interesting and least unique
quality: the synthesizer. Even if I weren't so betrayed by this change, I still wouldn't like this
album. The hooks are annoying, the production and song writing is lazy, and the melodies and
instrumentation are nonexistent. None of the songs come close to hitting 4 minutes in length,
which I suppose is merciful, given that the lot of them are crap. Tracks like "Angel, Please,"
"What I Do For U," "For Once," and "Is It Too Much" sound half finished. You cannot convince me
that those songs are not demos. They're so lifeless and directionless. Honestly, fewer albums
frustrate me as much as this one does.
Favorite Tracks (in the context of the album, which isn't saying much): When I Dream, I Shut Off |
| Ra Ra Riot Need Your Light | 3.0 |
| Ra Ra Riot The Orchard | 4.0 |
| Ra Ra Riot The Rhumb Line | 4.5 |
| Radiator Hospital Torch Song | 2.5 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 3.0 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows Disk 2 | 4.0 |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 4.5 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 4.5 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 5.0 |
| Rat Tally In My Car | 3.5 |
| Real Estate Atlas | 3.0 |
| Real Estate Days | 3.5 |
| Really From Really From | 3.5 |
| Reciprocate Yeah Well | 2.0 |
| Record Setter I Owe You Nothing | 4.0 |
| Red Hearse Red Hearse | 2.0 |
| a boring version of that young fathers album from last year. |
| Relient K Two Lefts Dont Make a Right But Three Do | 3.5 |
| Relient K Forget and Not Slow Down | 4.5 |
| Remember Sports Slow Buzz | 2.5 |
| i had high hopes for this after "all of something," but i was pretty disappointed by it. album closer "unwell" is one of the best songs they've ever written, which is a nice pick-me-up at the end but makes me wish that the rest of the album was just as good. the mix is a bit too quiet for a good portion of the album, too. |
| Remember Sports Like a Stone | 3.0 |
| Remember Sports All Of Something | 4.0 |
| Remo Drive Natural, Everyday Degradation | 2.5 |
| Remo Drive Pop Music | 3.0 |
| i think i like the original version of "heartstrings" better than this rerecording, but man oh man "song of the summer" is SCATHING. great song. |
| Remo Drive Greatest Hits | 4.5 |
| this is the most fun i've had with any release this year. "eat shit," "trying 2 fool u," and "yer killing me" is my favorite stretch of songs on any album this year. |
| Retirement Party Runaway Dog | 3.5 |
| Retirement Party Somewhat Literate | 4.0 |
| Rina Sawayama Hold The Girl | 2.0 |
| Rina Sawayama Sawayama | 4.0 |
| Royal Trux Accelerator | 2.0 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3 | 3.0 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels | 3.5 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 | 4.0 |
| Runnner Always Repeating | 2.5 |
| Rustie Glass Swords | 2.5 |
| S. Carey All We Grow | 3.5 |
| S. Carey Range Of Light | 3.5 |
| S. Carey Hundred Acres | 4.0 |
| i think this is my favorite album by him. he just keeps getting better and better. |
| Samia Honey | 2.5 |
| samia's lyrics are so hyperspecific that it it horseshoes around into being extremely unrelatable. "do you want to go to baby's? / ... / besides porches is playing." my midwestern bones just turned to dust. |
| Samia The Baby | 4.0 |
| Sampha Dual | 3.5 |
| San Fermin Belong | 2.0 |
I've listened to this album so many times and I still don't know what to think of it. I'd like to
echo the sentiments of TwigTW, though—this is an okay pop record, but it lacks the risks and
experimentation of the previous two records. "Dead" is about as risky as the album gets, and it
still feels pretty safe. "Open" and "No Promises" are probably the only two tracks from here I'll
feel the need to revisit. Allen Tate's performance feels pretty weak on this album too, which is a
bummer. We need more baritones in pop music. |
| San Fermin Jackrabbit | 3.5 |
| San Fermin San Fermin | 4.0 |
| SBTRKT Save Yourself | 1.5 |
| SBTRKT Wonder Where We Land | 2.0 |
| SBTRKT SBTRKT | 4.0 |
| Scene Queen Bimbocore | 2.0 |
| Scrawl Plus, Also, Too | 3.5 |
| Sea Wolf Old World Romance | 2.0 |
| the switch to drum machines over live drums is a poor one. the strings on "blue stockings" sound very artificial. disappointing album. |
| Sea Wolf Leaves in the River | 3.0 |
| Sea Wolf White Water, White Bloom | 3.5 |
| Shortly Richmond | 3.5 |
| Shortly Dancer | 3.5 |
| Shura Nothing's Real | 4.5 |
| Sign Language (USA-OH) Madison and Floral | 3.5 |
| Sigrid Sucker Punch | 2.5 |
| Sisyphus Sisyphus | 3.0 |
| Skullcrusher Quiet the Room | 3.5 |
| Sky Ferreira Night Time, My Time | 3.5 |
| Sleigh Bells Treats | 3.5 |
| Slint Spiderland | 4.5 |
| Slowdive Everything is Alive | 3.0 |
| Slowdive Slowdive (LP) | 3.5 |
| Slowdive I Saw the Sun | 3.5 |
| Slowdive Souvlaki | 4.5 |
| Smith Westerns Soft Will | 2.5 |
| Snail Mail Valentine | 3.0 |
| Snail Mail Lush | 4.0 |
| Snow Strippers The Snow Strippers | 4.0 |
| Sobs Air Guitar | 4.0 |
| Soccer Mommy Color Theory | 2.5 |
| Soccer Mommy Clean | 3.0 |
| Soccer Mommy for young hearts | 3.5 |
| Soccer Mommy Collection | 3.5 |
| Soccer Mommy Sometimes, Forever | 3.5 |
| SOHN Tremors | 2.5 |
| Son Lux Remedy | 2.5 |
| "dangerous" and "remedy" are great, "part of this" and "stolen" are forgettable. |
| Son Lux At War With Walls And Mazes | 3.5 |
| Son Lux Bones | 3.5 |
| Son Lux Brighter Wounds | 3.5 |
| Son Lux Lanterns | 4.5 |
| Sonic Youth Bad Moon Rising | 2.0 |
| Soul Blind Third Chain | 3.5 |
| Soul Coughing Ruby Vroom | 2.0 |
| this cartoon weasel music is absolutely not for me |
| SOUL GLO Diaspora Problems | 3.5 |
| Sound of Ceres The Twin | 4.0 |
| While The Twin may not be as immediately accessible or beautiful as the previous one, it?s just as rewarding if you take the time to sink into it. On the surface, it seems as though Sound of Ceres?s sound hasn?t changed much between the two records. The icy synths and weightless vocals are still very much present, but The Twin feels more mechanical and colder than Nostalgia. The album feels more vast, more open, which is fitting as the theme of the album is one of planetary exploration. Sound of Ceres doesn?t make music and songs so much as they make different worlds and experiences to immerse yourself in and explore every nook and cranny of.rFAVORITE TRACKS: Gemini Scenic, Outer Century, Solar Mirror 9, Eden V |
| Sound of Ceres Nostalgia for Infinity | 4.5 |
| Spaced Spaced Jams | 3.5 |
| Spanish Love Songs Brave Faces Everyone | 4.5 |
| Spellling The Turning Wheel | 2.5 |
| Spoon Transference | 3.0 |
| Spoon They Want My Soul | 3.5 |
| Spoon Hot Thoughts | 3.5 |
| Spoon Gimme Fiction | 4.0 |
| Spoon Kill the Moonlight | 4.0 |
| Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga | 4.0 |
| Spoon Lucifer on the Sofa | 4.0 |
| Squirrel Flower Planet (i) | 3.5 |
| Squirrel Flower Tomorrow's Fire | 3.5 |
| Squirrel Flower I Was Born Swimming | 4.0 |
| Staind Break The Cycle | 3.5 |
| Starflyer 59 Americana | 4.0 |
| Starflyer 59 She's The Queen | 4.0 |
| Stereolab Dots and Loops | 4.5 |
| Strange Ranger Remembering the Rockets | 2.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Enjoy Your Rabbit | 3.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens A Sun Came | 3.0 |
| this is a slowcore album, no i will not be taking any questions at the moment. |
| Sufjan Stevens Michigan | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens All Delighted People | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens The Ascension | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Javelin | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois | 4.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell | 4.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz | 5.0 |
| Superheaven Jar | 4.0 |
| Surfer Blood Snowdonia | 2.5 |
| Surfer Blood 1000 Palms | 3.0 |
| Sweet Pill Where the Heart Is | 4.0 |
| Sydney Sprague maybe i will see you at the end of the world | 3.5 |
| Sylvan Esso Sylvan Esso | 2.5 |
| I guess I can see the appeal of this album, but I just find it incredibly boring. There are a couple fun tracks here and there, but even the fun ones are kind of snoozers. |
| Talking Heads Remain in Light | 3.5 |
| Tame Impala Innerspeaker | 3.0 |
| Tame Impala Currents | 3.0 |
| Tame Impala Lonerism | 4.5 |
| Tanukichan Sundays | 3.0 |
| "lazy love" is extremely good, but i can't remember much about the rest of the album. |
| Temples Sun Structures | 2.0 |
| Tennis Young And Old | 2.5 |
| Texas Is the Reason Do You Know Who You Are? | 4.5 |
| Thank You, I'm Sorry Growing In Strange Places | 3.0 |
| The 1975 I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It | 2.0 |
| The 1975 Being Funny In A Foreign Language | 3.5 |
| The Antlers Hospice | 4.0 |
| The Aquabats Charge!! | 2.5 |
| The Aquabats Hi-Five Soup! | 3.0 |
| The Aquabats . . . Vs. the Floating Eye of Death! | 3.5 |
| The Aquabats The Return of the Aquabats | 3.5 |
| The Aquabats Kooky Spooky...In Stereo | 3.5 |
| welcome back, aquabats. the new album rules. i might be wrong, but there are some songs on here that song kinda new wave-ish? |
| The Aquabats Myths, Legends and Other. . . Adventures | 4.0 |
| i can't believe that these are the b-sides from the "floating eye" sessions........this is clearly the superior album. |
| The Aquabats The Fury of the Aquabats! | 4.5 |
| The Armed Ultrapop | 3.5 |
| The Assistant The Assistant | 4.0 |
| The Beach Boys Pet Sounds | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Let It Be | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Abbey Road | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 4.5 |
| The Beths Expert in a Dying Field | 4.0 |
| The Black Keys Turn Blue | 2.0 |
| The Callous Daoboys Celebrity Therapist | 4.0 |
| The Chainsmokers Memories...Do Not Open | 1.0 |
| The Decemberists The Crane Wife | 4.0 |
| The Dismemberment Plan Emergency & I | 4.0 |
| The Gloria Record A Lull in Traffic | 4.5 |
| The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick Ways of Hearing | 4.5 |
| The Hotelier Goodness | 4.5 |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There | 5.0 |
| The Jezabels Synthia | 4.5 |
| The Juliana Theory Emotion is Dead | 3.0 |
| The Lemon Twigs Do Hollywood | 2.5 |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 | 4.5 |
| The Mountain Goats Beat the Champ | 3.0 |
| The Mowgli's Waiting for the Dawn | 1.5 |
| The National Sleep Well Beast | 2.5 |
| i listened to this album 5 or 6 times and i can't remember any of the songs from it. |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me | 3.5 |
| The National High Violet | 4.0 |
| The Radio Dept. Clinging to a Scheme | 3.0 |
| The Rapture In the Grace of Your Love | 3.0 |
| The Shins Port of Morrow | 2.5 |
| The Shyness Clinic Sea of Redlights | 3.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | 4.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream | 4.5 |
| an absolutely perfect album that is completely derailed by "spaceboy." this is a horrible song. why does it exist. someone justify the existence of this song to me. |
| The Spirit Of The Beehive Entertainment, Death | 2.5 |
| The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream | 4.0 |
| The Wonder Years The Upsides | 3.0 |
| The Wonder Years Sister Cities | 3.5 |
| The Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing | 4.0 |
| The Wonder Years The Greatest Generation | 4.5 |
| why does the song "madeleine" exist, can someone defend it's existence to me |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Illusory Walls | 4.0 |
| The xx xx | 3.0 |
| The xx Coexist | 3.0 |
| Tigers Jaw spin | 3.5 |
| Timber Timbre Hot Dreams | 4.0 |
| Tiny Moving Parts Celebrate | 4.0 |
| Tobias Jesso Jr. Goon | 2.5 |
| Tokyo Police Club TPC | 2.0 |
| Tokyo Police Club Melon Collie and the Infinite Radness: Part Two | 2.5 |
| Tokyo Police Club Forcefield | 3.0 |
| argentina (pt. i, ii, and iii) is the thing keeping this album from being a 2.5. |
| Tokyo Police Club Melon Collie and the Infinite Radness, Pt. 1 | 3.0 |
| Tokyo Police Club Elephant Shell | 3.5 |
| Tokyo Police Club Champ | 4.0 |
| Told Slant Going By | 2.0 |
| Tomberlin At Weddings | 3.5 |
| Tomberlin i don’t know who needs to hear this... | 3.5 |
| Tones and I Welcome to the Madhouse | 1.0 |
| Tops Sugar at the Gate | 2.0 |
| Tops Picture You Staring | 3.5 |
| Toro Y Moi What For? | 2.0 |
| Toro Y Moi Anything In Return | 2.5 |
| Torres Three Futures | 2.5 |
| Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs Trouble | 3.0 |
| Toth Practice Magic and Seek Professional Help | 2.5 |
| Touche Amore Lament | 3.5 |
| Touche Amore Stage Four | 4.0 |
| Trapped Under Ice Big Kiss Goodnight | 4.5 |
| Trembler Folding | 3.5 |
| tUnE-yArDs Nikki Nack | 2.0 |
| Turnover Peripheral Vision | 2.5 |
| i don't get it, isn't this the same thing as the first diiv album three years prior? someone explain this to me. |
| Turnstile Time and Space | 3.5 |
| Turnstile Glow On | 4.0 |
| Twin Peaks Down in Heaven | 2.5 |
| U.S. Girls Half Free | 3.0 |
| U.S. Girls In A Poem Unlimited | 3.0 |
| U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb | 2.0 |
| U2 No Line on the Horizon | 2.0 |
| U2 Zooropa | 3.0 |
| U2 War | 4.0 |
| U2 The Joshua Tree | 4.5 |
| underscores Wallsocket | 3.0 |
| the album teeters on a knife's edge between really good and catchy and extremely obnoxious and embarrassing. more often than not, it's great, but the not so great moments.......hoo boy; i don't think i ever need to hear "you don't even know who i am" ever again, even in the context of the whole album. jane remover's "frailty" is gonna be a massive influence on a generation of musicians like this, but i'm not sure any of them will come close to touching that album. |
| Unknown Mortal Orchestra Multi-Love | 3.5 |
| Until The Ribbon Breaks Until the Ribbon Breaks | 2.0 |
| welcome back, pete. i'm glad you're doing well in terms of physical and mental health. your new album's not great, though. |
| Until The Ribbon Breaks A Lesson Unlearnt | 3.0 |
| I feel like I would have enjoyed this a lot more if they hadn't released 7 to 8 songs ahead of time. The entirety of The Other Ones EP shows up here, and 3 more from A Taste of Silver EP. Along with those, they released the track "Revolution Indifference" as a single as well, so there's 8 tracks before the album's even out. Then of the 3 new ones on here, one's only an intro, so we essentially only get 2 new tracks. Don't get me wrong, this is a fantastic album; I was just very disappointed they reused a bunch of old material for their first full length album, and it definitely took away from my enjoyment of the album. |
| Until The Ribbon Breaks The Other Ones | 3.5 |
| Until The Ribbon Breaks A Taste of Silver | 4.0 |
| Vaadat Charigim Sinking as a Stone | 4.0 |
2015 was filled with albums I was highly anticipating, and the sophomore effort from Israeli
shoegazers was among the top of that list. Very little details were known about the album to begin
with, but they slowly started releasing new tracks, beginning with "Badeshe Mul Gilman" (which
ultimately did not appear on the album) and "Ein Li Makom." The singles that appeared on the album
didn't present much change in sound from their first album, which wasn't a bad thing in the
slightest. The tracks were still hazy, grating, and incredibly punchy; "Hadavhar" is almost dance-
able, in a weird way. The guitars are still chunky and meaty sounding, the drums still have that
booming sound, and Yuval Haring's vocals are still as powerful as ever. The moodier tracks are
still there too, with "Klum" and "At Chavera," but with mixed results compared to The World Is
Well Lost. That being said, it's still a very good sophomore record, and I look forward to seeing
what they continue to do.
FAVORITE TRACKS: Neshel, Hadavhar, Ein Li Makom, At Chavera
LEAST FAVORITE TRACKS: None |
| Vaadat Charigim The World Is Well Lost | 4.5 |
| Vagabon Infinite Worlds | 3.0 |
| Valium Aggelein Black Moon | 2.5 |
| Valleyheart Heal My Head | 4.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Contra | 2.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend | 3.5 |
| Vince Staples Prima Donna | 3.0 |
| Vince Staples Summertime '06 | 4.0 |
| Vince Staples Big Fish Theory | 4.0 |
| Volcano Choir Repave | 3.0 |
| Washed Out Paracosm | 3.5 |
| Wavves V | 2.0 |
| Wavves King of the Beach | 2.5 |
| Waxahatchee Saint Cloud | 2.5 |
| Waxahatchee Ivy Tripp | 3.0 |
| We Set Sail Feel Nothing | 3.5 |
| weave The Sound II | 4.0 |
| Webbed Wing What's So Fucking Funny? | 3.0 |
| Wednesday Twin Plagues | 3.5 |
| Wednesday Rat Saw God | 4.0 |
| Weezer Make Believe | 1.5 |
| Weezer The Red Album | 2.0 |
| Weezer The White Album | 3.5 |
| Weezer Weezer | 5.0 |
| Welcome to Berlin ...And It's Blinding | 4.0 |
| Wet Leg Wet Leg | 3.0 |
| Weyes Blood Front Row Seat to Earth | 3.5 |
| Whitney Light Upon the Lake | 2.0 |
| Wild Belle Isles | 2.0 |
| Wild Nothing Life of Pause | 2.0 |
| Wild Nothing Nocturne | 2.5 |
| Wild Pink Yolk in the Fur | 3.5 |
| Wild Pink ILYSM | 4.0 |
| Wild Pink A Billion Little Lights | 4.5 |
| Wings Band on the Run | 4.5 |
| Women Women | 3.5 |
| XXYYXX XXYYXX | 2.0 |
| I remember listening to this freshman year of college when I was really into this sort of music (you know, soundcloud-alt-rnb-trap-influenced-the-xx cover bands) and I didn't really care for it. Honestly, I think this is one of the albums that got me out of that phase. I went back and listened to it recently, and holy crap is it boring. I really don't care for this style of music at all. |
| Yeule softscars | 3.5 |
| Young Fathers Cocoa Sugar | 3.0 |
| Young Jesus Welcome to Conceptual Beach | 3.5 |
| Your Arms Are My Cocoon Your Arms Are My Cocoon | 2.5 |
| Youth Lagoon The Year of Hibernation | 2.5 |
| Youth Lagoon Wondrous Bughouse | 3.0 |
| Youth Lagoon Savage Hills Ballroom | 3.0 |
