| *shels Sea of the Dying Dhow | 4.0 |
| 10 Years The Autumn Effect | 2.5 |
| 16Volt FullBlackHabit | 3.5 |
| 16Volt SuperCoolNothing | 2.5 |
| 16Volt Skin | 3.0 |
| 16Volt LetDownCrush | 3.0 |
| 16Volt Wisdom | 3.5 |
| 23 Skidoo Seven Songs | 4.0 |
| 23 Skidoo Urban Gamelan | 3.5 |
| 3TEETH EndEx | 2.0 |
| 65daysofstatic One Time for All Time | 4.5 |
| 65daysofstatic The Fall of Math | 4.0 |
| A Certain Ratio Sextet | 3.5 |
| A Flock of Seagulls Listen | 4.0 |
| A Static Lullaby A Static Lullaby | 4.0 |
| A Static Lullaby ...And Don't Forget to Breathe | 4.0 |
| A Thorn For Every Heart Things Aren't So Beautiful Now | 4.0 |
| a-ha Hunting High and Low | 2.5 |
| Absurd Minds The Focus | 4.5 |
| Absurd Minds Noumenon | 4.0 |
| Absurd Minds Serve or Suffer | 4.0 |
| Absurd Minds Damn The Lie | 4.5 |
| Absurd Minds The Cycle | 4.0 |
| Absurd Minds Tempus Fugit | 3.5 |
| Absurd Minds Sapta | 4.0 |
| Absurd Minds Deception | 4.0 |
| Access to Arasaka Oppidan | 4.5 |
| Access to Arasaka Void(); | 4.0 |
| Access to Arasaka METAX | 4.0 |
| Access to Arasaka Geosynchron | 4.0 |
| Accessory More Than Machinery | 1.5 |
| Acumen Nation The 5ifth Column | 3.5 |
| Acumen Nation Anticore | 4.5 |
I always like those heavily distorted e-guitars (which were usually used in the mid 90's by many
us-coldwave (you can also call it "machine rock") bands where Acumen Nation also came from).
This album isn't less great than The 5ifth Column, just less accessible and less catchy, also only
4 of 15 songs have the 3rd chorus, it helps keep the songs fresh.
Also I love the small little details the electronic sounds create and the way the vocalist sings.
It's industrial metal, but it sounds different from "normal" industrial metal bands. |
| Acumen Nation Lord of the Cynics | 2.5 |
| Acumen Nation Psycho the Rapist | 4.5 |
| Acylum The Enemy | 3.5 |
| Acylum Mental Disorder | 4.0 |
I'm thankful this album proved as a grower, now I really like 9 or maybe 10 songs on it (and maybe
the last
song Fatal Conclusion, but it's more like an outro).
And most songs with vocals only have 2 choruses, only the song "Rape" is a bit too repetitive,
they could have cut off a minute and the song would be absolutely fine.
I like the dark and hopeless atmosphere, I like it a bit more than the album
The Enemy.
I wanted to like this album because it is released in 2007 and that was a great year for futurepop
and dark electro / aggrotech. From 2008 on there were less and less great albums coming out of
those 2 genres (with some exceptions). |
| Aesthesys Alignments | 4.0 |
| Aesthesys Achromata | 4.0 |
| Aesthetic Perfection Close to Human | 4.5 |
| Aesthetic Perfection A Violent Emotion | 3.5 |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain | 4.5 |
| Agalloch The Mantle | 4.5 |
| Aghast View Phaseknox | 4.0 |
| Agitation Free Malesch | 4.0 |
| Agitation Free 2nd | 4.0 |
| Agonoize Assimilation: Chapter One | 2.5 |
| Agonoize Sieben | 4.0 |
Very good effort, didn't expect it to be honest. Assimilation Chapter One 3 years ago (2004) was a
big flop in my music world. Crappy songwriting, only few songs avoiding the 3rd chorus, lackluster
songs everywhere. On "Sieben" it's different. From song 2 to 11 there are 10 songs (!) with only 2
choruses.
Also the sound and production is very good. Typical autumnal atmosphere as well.
Lyrics sometimes well...if you are german like me and know what they sing about they can be a bit
off putting.
Of course you don't expect well thought out or clever lyrics from a typical aggrotech band now do
you?
What was it in 2007 that so many futurepop & dark electro / aggrotech artists released great
albums? It's as if they knew that their scene was beginning to die and had to put out just one
more good album. From 2008 on there were still very good albums of both genres, but they got fewer
with every year. 2007 was the last very good year for futurepop & dark electro / aggrotech. |
| Ahab The Call of the Wretched Sea | 4.0 |
| Al Corley Square Rooms | 4.0 |
| Alesana On Frail Wings Of Vanity And Wax Re-issue | 3.0 |
| Alex Skolnick Trio Transformation | 4.0 |
| Alexisonfire Watch Out! | 4.0 |
| Alexisonfire Crisis | 4.0 |
| Alien Sex Fiend Acid Bath | 3.5 |
| Allan Holdsworth Sand | 4.0 |
| Allan Holdsworth Metal Fatigue | 4.0 |
| Allan Holdsworth Wardenclyffe Tower | 4.0 |
| Allelic The Smoke of Atavistic Fires | 2.5 |
| Alphaville Forever Young | 4.0 |
| Alva Noto Xerrox Vol. 2 | 4.5 |
Another nice ambient album. My first of this artist. I like all songs, only "Xerrox Meta Phaser"
needs to grow on me, that song is very noisy.
Often I have that feeling that I just can't discover enough great atmospheric electronic artists
and albums.rThis album takes me to a sheltered and isolated place where no one can find me.
Favourite songs:
1. Xerrox Phaser Acat 1
2. Xerrox Sora
3. Xerrox Teion & Xerrox Teion Acat
4. Xerrox Monophaser 2
5. Xerrox Soma
6. Xerrox Tek Part 1 / Xerrox Monophaser 1
8. Xerrox Monophaser 3
9. Xerrox Meta Phaser |
| Alva Noto Univrs | 4.5 |
| Alva Noto Unitxt | 4.5 |
| Alva Noto Unieqav | 4.0 |
| Alva Noto Xerrox Vol. 4 | 4.0 |
| Amon Duul II Wolf City | 4.0 |
| Amon Duul II Phallus Dei | 4.0 |
| Amon Tobin Supermodified | 4.5 |
| Amon Tobin Bricolage | 4.0 |
| Amon Tobin Permutation | 2.0 |
| I love Bricolage and especially Supermodified but I can't get into this album. The jazz drums are great as always but so far the songs don't give me anything. This album makes me tired. |
| And Also The Trees Born Into The Waves | 4.5 |
| And Also The Trees Hunter not the Hunted | 4.5 |
| And Also The Trees (Listen for) the Rag and Bone Man | 5.0 |
| And Also The Trees Further from the Truth | 5.0 |
| And Also The Trees Silver Soul | 4.5 |
| Like The Klaxon and Angelfish this album is completely different from all other albums they did. Still for me this is still a very strong album. This time it has a certain atmosphere, it makes me think I'm visiting the Jones brothers (vocalist and guitarist of this band), they live in a house somewhere on the hill and it's like a time travel, they have a real Amiga 500 and other things from the 90s and a bed where I can sleep. I wish it was real. |
| And Also The Trees Angelfish | 4.0 |
| And Also The Trees Green Is The Sea | 5.0 |
This album feels and sounds like you are in the most wonderful dream possible and you don't want
to wake up. Sometimes it's hard to think how this album can exist. Sometimes it makes me feel as
if the songs on this album can only exist in it, but not outside that beautiful world.
It also has an atmosphere that makes me imagine I am in a big cemetery at 1pm on a sunny day with
colourful flowers everywhere between the graves.
It is more keyboard heavy than the other 4 albums of their first era. |
| And Also The Trees Virus Meadow | 5.0 |
Every time I listen to Virus Meadow I feel happy I can visit the imaginary places and people which
all appear in this album again. Lyrically they're my all-time favourite band. |
| And Also The Trees And Also the Trees | 4.0 |
| And Also The Trees The Millpond Years | 4.5 |
| And Also The Trees Farewell to the Shade | 5.0 |
| And Also The Trees When the Rains come | 3.5 |
| And Also The Trees The Klaxon | 4.5 |
Favourite songs on it:
1. Wooden Leg
2. The Flatlands / The Soul Driver
4. Dialogue / Sunrise / Jonny Lexington / The Dutchman
8. Sickness Divine
9. Bullet Head |
| And Also The Trees Nailed | 4.0 |
| And Also The Trees Malvern Demos (1980-1981) | 3.5 |
| And Also The Trees The Bone Carver | 4.5 |
| And Also The Trees Mother-of-pearl Moon | 4.5 |
| Androcell Emotivision | 4.0 |
| Androcell Entheomythic | 2.5 |
| Androcell Efflorescence | 4.0 |
| Angels and Agony Unison | 4.0 |
| Angels and Agony Avatar | 4.0 |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders | 4.0 |
| Antic Clay Hilarious Death Blues | 4.0 |
| Aphorism (idm) Surge | 4.0 |
| Apogean Cyberstrictive | 4.5 |
| Arcana Inner Pale Sun | 4.0 |
| Arcana Cantar De Procella | 3.5 |
| Architect (DE) Lower Lip Interface | 4.0 |
| Architect (DE) Consume Adapt Create | 4.5 |
| Architect (DE) Mine | 3.5 |
| Architect (DE) The Analysis Of Noise Trading | 4.0 |
| Architrav Arctic Museum | 4.5 |
| All 11 songs are great, although I think that the first 4 and song 6 are my favourites.rThis album is on the icy cold side of ambient (even if not "arctic" ambient like Biosphere sometimes). It has an atmosphere that sends me to an isolated frozen place with no one else around. Also, because of the very cold electronic sounds it sometimes helps against hot summer days. It's unfortunate that this artist is so unknown but it makes me feel happy that I discovered this album 10 years ago. |
| Arcturus The Sham Mirrors | 4.5 |
| Armor For Sleep What To Do When You Are Dead | 4.0 |
| As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security | 4.0 |
| ASP Zaubererbruder - Der Krabat-Liederzyklus | 3.5 |
| Asphyx Asphyx | 3.5 |
| Asphyxia Sense Of Decay | 4.0 |
| Assemblage 23 Defiance | 2.5 |
| Assemblage 23 Meta | 3.5 |
| Asylum Party Borderline | 4.0 |
| Atoma Skylight | 4.5 |
I'm glad someone recommended me this album after I loved the icy / frosty atmosphere in "Antares"
by Sybreed. This album is even colder. Everything is coated in ice, the keyboards and synths, even
the drums and the guitar.
I can never get enough of icy cold music, no matter which genre (ambient, some early 80's post-
punk and new wave or metal). For over 14 days already does this album rule my music world together
with Sybreed - Antares. This is why I love discovering bands and albums. |
| AudioVent Dirty Sexy Knights in Paris | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Rescue & Restore | 4.5 |
| Augustus Pablo King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown | 4.0 |
| Augustus Pablo East of the Nile River | 4.0 |
| Augustus Pablo King David's Melody | 4.0 |
| Ausgang Manipulate | 4.0 |
| Autechre Amber | 4.0 |
| Autistici Complex Tone Test | 4.0 |
| Autistici Volume Objects | 3.5 |
| Autistici Amplified Presence | 4.5 |
| Autistici Beneath Peaks | 4.0 |
| This album deserves a 4.0 rating because it makes you use your imagination and every song has something different to offer. Some songs are perfect to listen to on sunny and warm summer days like Asleep Beneath Nests, Edge Over Millstone View and Peveril's Open Door. Like the other 3 albums it just needs time to unfold, it's hard to love it after only one listen. |
| Autoclav1.1 Love No Longer Lives Here | 4.0 |
| Autumn's Grey Solace Within the Depths of a Darkened Forest | 4.5 |
| Avril Lavigne Love Sux | 3.0 |
| Babyland You Suck Crap | 4.0 |
| Bark Psychosis Hex | 4.5 |
| Bauhaus The Sky's Gone Out | 4.0 |
| Bauhaus In the Flat Field | 4.5 |
| Bauhaus Mask | 4.5 |
| Bauhaus Burning from the Inside | 3.5 |
| Bauhaus Lagartija Nick | 4.0 |
| Bauhaus Bela Lugosi's Dead | 4.5 |
| Ben Woods Moments | 3.5 |
| Ben Woods Nymh: Realms of Detachment | 3.5 |
| Ben Woods Liaise In Silence EP | 4.0 |
| Billy Cobham Spectrum | 4.0 |
| Billy Cobham Total Eclipse | 4.0 |
| Billy Talent Billy Talent II | 1.5 |
| Biosphere Substrata | 4.5 |
| Biosphere Patashnik | 4.0 |
| Bitcrush Epilogue in Waves | 4.0 |
| I really dislike music haters like this Trey / Willie, I wish he would give albums more than just one listen, many albums only unfold after a while.rAt least I always try to be positive as possible about newly discovered albums. |
| Black Heaven Dystopia | 3.5 |
| Black Pyramid II | 3.5 |
| Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath | 4.5 |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality | 4.5 |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid | 4.5 |
| Black Uhuru Red | 3.5 |
| Blancmange Mange Tout | 4.0 |
| Bloodbath Resurrection Through Carnage | 4.0 |
| Blue Sky Black Death A Heap Of Broken Images | 3.5 |
| Bluetech Sines And Singularities | 3.5 |
| Blutengel Seelnschmerz | 2.5 |
| Bob Dylan The Times They Are A-Changin' | 4.0 |
| Bob Dylan Desire | 4.0 |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Natty Dread | 4.5 |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Exodus | 4.0 |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Rastaman Vibration | 4.0 |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Catch A Fire | 4.0 |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Kaya | 4.0 |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Survival | 4.0 |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Uprising | 4.0 |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Burnin' | 4.5 |
| Bong-Ra Full Metal Racket | 4.0 |
| Bong-Ra Stereohype Heroin Hooker | 3.5 |
| Boysetsfire The Misery Index: Notes From The Plague | 3.5 |
| Boytronic The Working Model | 3.5 |
| Brian Eno Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks | 3.0 |
| Bronski Beat The Age of Consent | 4.0 |
| Bruno Pernadas Private Reasons | 4.0 |
| Buckethead Cycle | 4.0 |
| I like to listen to this when I play the ice world in Sonic 3 (with the sega emulator), it fits very well. |
| Buckethead Thank you Ohlinger's | 4.0 |
| Buckethead Electric Tears | 4.0 |
| Buckethead Population Override | 4.5 |
| Buckethead A Real Diamond In The Rough | 3.5 |
| Bullet for My Valentine The Poison | 2.5 |
| Burzum Daudi Baldrs | 3.0 |
| Burzum Hlidskjalf | 3.0 |
| Byetone Symeta | 4.0 |
Will definitely check this out. I love Alva Noto and Robert Lippok's Redsuperstructure. Both were
from the raster noton label which doesn't exist anymore, but the website still does and I'm
looking through the releases right now. Neuschnee and Helix sound promising so far!
edit:
Favourite songs:
1. Neuschnee
2. Helix
3. Golden Elegy
4. Black Peace
5. Opal
6. Topas
7. Telegramm |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms World Of Sleepers | 4.5 |
This is like Water Ambient for me. All the songs are excellent and I usually listen to the first 10 of them in a row. Whenever something gets too much for me to bear this album is perfect to listen to as it helps me to calm down and feel better again. Most songs sound like as if you're underwater and I love the atmosphere. This is one of my most favourite ambient albums.
And yes, the album artwork fits perfectly, as if the artists were thinking the same as me, it makes you feel as if you were underwater. |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms Hydroponic Garden | 4.5 |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms Interloper | 4.0 |
| Celldweller End of an Empire | 4.0 |
| Celldweller Wish Upon a Blackstar | 4.0 |
| Celldweller Celldweller | 3.5 |
| Celldweller End of an Empire - Chapter 02: Love | 4.0 |
| Celtic Frost Monotheist | 4.0 |
| Cesium_137 Proof Of Life | 2.0 |
| cEvin Key Music for Cats | 4.0 |
A very crazy and abstract album, with many very juicy sounds. This album demands multiple listens
because it's hard to understand it after few listens, with all the things going on and the small
little details everywhere.
Favourite songs:
1. Herbalist Rule / Greenhouse Gasses
3. Blotter / Inside Jam World / Grah Statikcat (Electrodes)
6. Full Circle / Go Go Boots
8. Meteorite / Beauty Is The Enemy
10. Have You Ever Felt Like This / Wind On Small Paws |
| Chandeen Shaded By The Leaves | 4.0 |
It's a very nice, sometimes melancholic darkwave album. In the early to mid 90's germany was
darkwave's mainland. I'm glad I also have the bonus track Mysterious Clouds.rThe songs usually
have nice song structures, songs like Scottish Hills always makes me cry. I'm thankful I found
this album and other hidden gems of the darkwave genre.
Favourite songs:
1. Scottish Hills
2. Red Letter Days
3. Recall Me
4. Darkness
5. Journey To The Land Of Wisdom
6. Silent Gods Part II
7. Mysterious Clouds
8. Lumis
9. The Loss Of Summer |
| Chemlab Oxidizer | 4.0 |
| Chemlab Burnout at the Hydrogen Bar | 4.0 |
| Chemlab East Side Militia | 4.0 |
| Chemlab Suture | 3.5 |
| Chimaira Chimaira | 2.5 |
| China Crisis Working With Fire And Steel | 4.0 |
| Chris de Burgh Man on the Line | 4.0 |
| Christ Analogue The Texture Ov Despise | 3.5 |
| Christ Analogue In Radiant Decay | 3.5 |
| Christian Death Only Theatre of Pain | 4.0 |
| Christian Death Catastrophe Ballet | 3.5 |
| Chronos (RUS) Steps To The Great Knowledge | 4.0 |
| Clan of Xymox Medusa | 4.5 |
| Clan of Xymox Clan of Xymox | 4.0 |
| Clan of Xymox Creatures | 3.5 |
| Clan of Xymox Breaking Point | 3.5 |
| Cloudkicker Fade | 4.0 |
| Cloudkicker The Discovery | 3.5 |
| Cluster Cluster II | 3.5 |
| Cocteau Twins Victorialand | 4.0 |
| Cocteau Twins Garlands | 2.0 |
| Cocteau Twins Head Over Heels | 3.0 |
| Cold Sun Dark Shadows | 4.0 |
| Coldworld Melancholie² | 4.5 |
| Colour Haze In Her Garden | 4.0 |
| Colour Haze CO2 | 4.5 |
| Colour Haze Periscope | 4.0 |
| Coma Alliance Weapon Of Choice | 4.0 |
| Controlled Collapse Injection | 4.0 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 2.0 |
| Covenant Dreams Of A Cryotank | 4.0 |
| This is too underrated on here. What's not to like? The most songs have clever song structures, take Shipwreck for example, when you expect the 2nd chorus to come, the song just goes somewhere else for a whole minute before the 2nd chorus appears. Or Hardware Requiem, it builds and builds, gets really tense until the chorus finally appears.rAnd of course the 25 minute Cryotank Expansion, I love the icy cold ambient sounds, it never gets boring to me. |
| Covenant Skyshaper | 4.0 |
| Covenant Europa | 4.5 |
| Crispy Ambulance The Plateau Phase | 3.5 |
| Crowbar Sonic Excess in Its Purest Form | 4.5 |
| Crowbar Life's Blood For The Downtrodden | 4.0 |
| Crowbar Broken Glass | 4.0 |
| Crowbar Time Heals Nothing | 4.0 |
| Crowbar Odd Fellows Rest | 4.5 |
| Crowbar Symmetry in Black | 4.0 |
| Crowbar Crowbar | 4.0 |
| Crowbar Equilibrium | 4.0 |
| Crowbar Obedience Thru Suffering | 4.0 |
| Crowbar Sever The Wicked Hand | 4.0 |
| Crowbar The Serpent Only Lies | 4.0 |
| Crowbar Zero And Below | 4.5 |
| What a great return! When you get a new album of Crowbar, of course you know what you'll get. They just can't disappoint. Also, it's their first album since their deubt album from 1991 where no single song has the 3rd chorus.rNext thing I really like is the album artwork, my favourite of them so far in that aspect. |
| Cue to Recall Polarity | 4.0 |
This album really has some great songs on it that takes me back to autumn 2007 (An Endless Case,
Consuming Hearts, In Affect, Strip The Light, Pure Addiction and Pieces). I loved to listen to
them (and other futurepop & dark electro albums) when I got home after 4pm when it already got
dark outside. I love that melancholic feeling.
The cold vocals strongly remind me of Covenant, they're very similar. |
| Cue to Recall Mainland | 3.5 |
| Cult of Luna The Beyond | 2.0 |
| Cult of Luna Salvation | 2.0 |
| Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear | 2.0 |
| Cyanotic MedPack Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
| Cyanotic Worst Case Scenario Vol. 1 | 3.5 |
| Cyanotic Prehab 25mg-EP | 4.0 |
| Cyanotic Transhuman 2.0 | 4.5 |
| Cyanotic The Medication Generation | 4.0 |
| Cyndi Lauper She's So Unusual | 4.0 |
| Cypecore Identity | 2.0 |
| Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger | 4.5 |
| Das Ich Anti'christ | 4.0 |
| Das Ich Cabaret | 4.0 |
| Das Ich Staub | 4.0 |
| Das Ich Satanische Verse | 4.0 |
| Das Ich Die Propheten | 4.0 |
| Das Ich Egodram | 4.0 |
| Das Ich Lava | 4.0 |
| David Bowie Low | 4.5 |
| David Bowie "Heroes" | 4.0 |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars | 4.0 |
| David Sylvian Brilliant Trees | 4.0 |
| Dawn Of Ashes In The Acts of Violence | 3.5 |
Well at least this album has nice autumnal atmosphere. The song structures aren't very clever but
I can deal with it, it's still enjoyable because some of the songs are very long.rFavourite songs:
1. Nightmare
2. Abyss
3. In The Acts Of Violence
4. Diagnosis
5. Dark Reality
6. Killer Instinct |
| Daylight Dies A Frail Becoming | 4.0 |
| Daylight Dies Dismantling Devotion | 4.5 |
Amazing discovery. I really feel the atmosphere and the guitar melodies and riffs add a lot to it.
Atmosphere wise the album feels different from other doom metal albums.
It has a mystic and futuristic touch that brings me to the positive and
progressive sleepmakeswaves planet.
Also all 8 songs are very nicely structured with interesting twists thrown in. |
| Déclassé Silos | 4.0 |
| Dead Can Dance Within the Realm of a Dying Sun | 4.5 |
| Dead Can Dance Spleen and Ideal | 4.0 |
| Dead Poetic Vices | 4.0 |
| Dead Poetic New Medicines | 4.0 |
| Dead Poetic Four Wall Blackmail | 3.5 |
| Deadchovsky Spiritus Sancti Bizarre | 4.0 |
| Deadjump Scare Mix | 3.5 |
| Deadline Paranoia Parakromantie | 4.0 |
| Deadstar Assembly Deadstar Assembly | 3.5 |
| Deadstar Assembly Unsaved | 4.0 |
| Deadstar Assembly Coat Of Arms | 3.5 |
| Death Leprosy | 4.0 |
| Death Spiritual Healing | 4.0 |
| Death Human | 4.5 |
| Deathspell Omega Paracletus | 4.5 |
| Deathstars Synthetic Generation | 2.0 |
| Decoded Feedback Shockwave | 2.0 |
Much too repetitive even by electro-industrial standards. Other rather obscure bands like Run
Level Zero, Dementia Simplex and Flesh Field are doing this much better.
I like the sound and atmosphere but it means nothing if the songs have no development. It's
absolutely unacceptable for me. They have 0 songwriting ability and are, in every song, chorus-
whoring. |
| Decrepit Birth Diminishing Between Worlds | 3.0 |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan | 4.5 |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist | 4.0 |
| Deftones White Pony | 4.5 |
| Deftones Ohms | 4.5 |
| Deine Lakaien Forest Enter Exit | 4.0 |
| Deine Lakaien Dark Star | 3.0 |
| Deine Lakaien April Skies | 4.0 |
| Deine Lakaien Winter Fish Testosterone | 4.0 |
| Deine Lakaien Kasmodiah | 3.5 |
| Deine Lakaien Deine Lakaien | 4.0 |
| Dementia Simplex Yeah, I Killed My Mama... | 4.0 |
| Dementia Simplex Prediction | 4.0 |
An obscure band and I'm thankful I have both albums. The songs are surprisingly well structured
for a band of this genre (electro-industrial rock).
I know many obscure bands and albums and it's like a miracle to me that I found them and still
love them after 10 or more years. Means it is irrelevant how popular they are out there, when in
my music world they're important.
1. First Things (3.6)
2. Trauma (4.0)
3. Die Down (4.4)
4. Beast Within (4.4)
5. Eaten Alive (4.1)
6. Hell On Earth (4.2)
7. Tortured Animal (4.4)
8. Candlelight (4.1)
9. Cinderchild (4.1)
10. Xenophobia (3.9)
11. Mentally Disturbed (4.0)
12. Last Things (3.9)
4.09 rating |
| Dementia Simplex Olfactory Nerve | 3.5 |
| Demi Lovato Here We Go Again | 3.5 |
| Depeche Mode Construction Time Again | 4.0 |
| Der Blaue Reiter Le paradise funebre, l'envers du tristesse | 3.5 |
| Desert Dwellers Muladhara Yoga Dub | 4.0 |
| Destroid Future Prophecies | 4.0 |
| Destroid Loudspeaker | 4.5 |
| Detritus (Wales) Everyday Explanations | 4.0 |
| Devo Freedom of Choice | 4.0 |
| Diary of Dreams Psychoma | 5.0 |
I will never understand some of the ratings here. This is for me DoD at their finest. Whenever I
listen to this album the atmosphere always gets me. It's one of those cases, where the album cover
fits perfectly with the music. Most songs have a deep blue dreamy atmosphere and for me personally
this album is a classic. Even the worst song "Methusalem" is very good.
favourite songs:
1. TranceFormation Baby / never'Freeze
3. (ver)gift(et) / Wild / Luna(-tic)
6. You(-das) / E.-dead-Motion / Never!Land / End(Giftet) / Drop Dead
11. Methusalem / Touch |
| Diary of Dreams End Of Flowers | 5.0 |
I really can't understand some ratings here. Psychoma and End Of Flowers to me are by far DoD's
best albums and deserve 4.0-4.5 ratings. I love the different atmospheres of both albums.
This is also one of the most melancholic and maybe even romantic albums they did.
This is a perfect october album.
People like this idiot Willie shouldn't rate darkwave albums. If this was an european site and not
american, DoD and others like Diorama for example would have a much higher rating. Genres like
darkwave, EBM, futurepop, ambient, british post-punk would also get much more attention on an
european site because they have much more fans everywhere in europe be it germany, serbia,
netherlands, poland, russia, italy, belgium and so on. |
| Diary of Dreams Bird Without Wings | 4.0 |
| By far their longest album (but with only 10 songs) and more epic than the other albums. 4 songs over 8 minutes and two more with 7 minutes. My 4th most favourite album by them. |
| Diary of Dreams Cholymelan | 4.5 |
| Diary of Dreams One of 18 Angels | 2.5 |
Some good songs here but nowhere near the 4 great 90's albums they made, other albums are also
better like Nigredo, (if) and the Menschfeind EP. This album here was the beginning of making more
predictable songs. |
| Diary of Dreams Freak Perfume | 2.5 |
| Diary of Dreams Nigredo | 3.5 |
| Diary of Dreams Nekrolog 43 | 3.5 |
| Diary of Dreams (if) | 3.5 |
| Diary of Dreams MenschFeind | 4.0 |
| Diary of Dreams Moments Of Bloom | 3.5 |
| Die Sektor Applied Structure In A Void | 4.0 |
| My first album of them. Had to check it out because I love the album cover. I like how every song has many small little details and sounds, sometimes even glitch influenced. In some of the more introverted sounding songs the atmosphere can be even dreamy and melancholic. Finally another great harsh electro album (my last one, Maldire by Velvet Acid Christ is an almost-classic to me). |
| Die Sektor To Be Fed Upon | 4.5 |
Great discovery for me! Only knew Applied Structure In A Void from them, which is very different,
with many great small little details and nice atmospheres.
This one here has very nice structured songs, almost always avoid the 3rd chorus and the shortest
vocal song is 5:37, all others are over 6 minutes and one almost 6 minutes.
It's typical dark electro / aggrotech but I still love the autumnal atmosphere, and as often the
trance influences are important there.
I also really like the 3 instrumental songs, they fit nice with the overall atmosphere. Should
have discovered this album years ago. Never grow tired of dark electro or others like futurepop
and EBM.
Favourite songs:
1. Follow The Screams
2. Through Glass / The Beating Of Broken Wings
4. Deathkill / Mother Hunger / In The Arms Of Eternity
7. When Porcelain Bleeds / To Be Fed Upon / Revelation None
10. Prey To The Razor / All Turns White
All 11 songs are of course great! |
| Die Sektor (-)Existence(+) | 4.5 |
| Die Verbannten Kinder Evas Die Verbannten Kinder Evas | 4.5 |
While neoclassical darkwave isn't normally one of my favourite kinds of darkwave, there are
exceptions. Especially Dead Can Dance, Arcana and this band.
It's always great to get lost into this album, and I love it that it's a very long one.
It's always a nice feeling when I dig this album out again once or twice in a few months. I'm
thankful that mp3 files can't break so the sound quality can't suddenly decrease even after 14
years.rMusic is like a miracle to me and I'm glad everything'S still there after I wake up the
next day. |
| Die Warzau Big Electric Metal Bass Face | 3.5 |
| Din a Testbild Programm 1 | 4.0 |
| Din a Testbild Programm 3 | 4.0 |
| Diorama Amaroid | 4.5 |
| Diorama A Different Life | 4.5 |
My #3 all time favourite band. I always loved their darkwave / synthpop hybrid. Nice dreamy sounds
and atmosphere and Torben Wendt is a great vocalist and lyricist especially when compared to other
darkwave, futurepop and EBM bands.rThis album grew on me over the years and now it's up there with
their best albums.
Also, as great as Synthesize Me is, there are even stronger songs on the album like 10.000 Meter
Waves and Blessed and some on the same high level like Colder, Kein Mord, No Tears, Sands. The
rest is very good too. |
| Diorama Cubed | 4.5 |
| Diorama Zero Soldier Army | 4.0 |
| Diorama Her Liquid Arms | 4.5 |
| Diorama The Art Of Creating Confusing Spirits | 4.5 |
| Diorama Pale | 4.0 |
| Diorama Even The Devil Doesn't Care | 4.0 |
| Diorama Synthesize Me | 4.0 |
| Diorama RePale | 4.0 |
Favourite songs: Pale (Above The Arctic Circle Version), even better than the original song from
their 1st album. Dreamy, very atmospheric, nicely structured. Also great are most of the original
songs on this EP, especially Exploitation, Drowned, World Of Ice, and also Handoutdrugs has many
fine moments.
Only song I'm having problems with is The Rich Are All Perverted.
There are some nice remixes on this as well. |
| Diorama Tiny Missing Fragments | 4.5 |
| Dioxyde Social Phobia | 3.5 |
| Dismantled Standard Issue | 4.0 |
| Dismantled When I'm Dead | 4.0 |
| Dismantled PostNuclear | 4.5 |
| Dismantled The War Inside Me | 3.5 |
| Dismantled Dismantled | 4.5 |
I just can't get enough of those futuristic atmospheres...Many albums in genres like electro-
industrial, futurepop and aggrotech / dark electro have them, same with other wonderful genres
like IDM & glitch (especially those) and some metal (not only industrial metal like Cyanotic,
Acumen Nation and Fear Factory, even Daylight Dies - Dismantling Devotion at least to me has it).
It is always great to get lost in this kind of atmosphere. Watching sci-fi movies and then
imagining Dismantled or VNV Nation or IDM songs in them, it's fascinating.
The songs on this album here are also wonderfully structured, always avoiding normal 3 chorus
routines (Extirpation being the exception but even that song is great). |
| Displacer Moon_Phase | 4.5 |
I'm extremely thankful I found another 2 amazing idm & glitch albums!! Aphorism (idm) - Surge and
this one.
The atmosphere takes me to an abandoned spaceship where I am with few other people I know from
work, many things are broken but the ship is very big and there are many wonderful places and
rooms on it! It's a coincidence that both albums have very similar atmosphere fitting for this
adventure.
Also A coincidence: a week ago I downloaded the game System Shock 2 (1999) from steam, a game
playing on a spaceship.
There are no bad songs on Moon_Phase, it's great to listen to all songs in a row, all the small
details that suddenly appear are fascinating and once again I can get lost in an album like this
very easy (I have over 100 great atmospheric electronic albums (I mean those without permanent
vocals, still loving others like EBM, industrial, futurepop, trip-hop with vocals etc) I listen to
from time to time. Especially at work, but also at home when I'm just browsing
pictures on google for example. |
| Distorted Memory Burning Heaven | 4.0 |
| song-structure wise it's one of the better harsh electro albums, because all songs always avoid the sometimes dreaded 3rd chorus.rI wish every harsh electro album has good song structures but some luckily have more atmosphere, so it's not that bad. |
| Dive Vs. Diskonnekted Frozen | 3.5 |
| Doctor Flake Paradis Dirtyficiels | 4.0 |
| Donovan Sunshine Superman | 4.0 |
| Download Furnace | 3.5 |
| Draconian Arcane Rain Fell | 4.5 |
| Dream Theater Awake | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory | 4.5 |
| Drowning Pool Sinner | 1.5 |
| Dry Cell Dry Cell | 3.0 |
| Dry Kill Logic Of Vengeance and Violence | 4.0 |
| Duran Duran Rio | 4.0 |
| Duran Duran Seven and the Ragged Tiger | 4.0 |
| Earth The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull | 4.0 |
| Eat Static Science of the Gods | 4.0 |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Heaven Up Here | 5.0 |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Porcupine | 3.0 |
| Edge Of Dawn Enjoy The Fall | 3.0 |
| Edge Of Dawn Anything That Gets You Through The Night | 4.0 |
| edIT Crying Over Pros For No Reason | 3.5 |
| edIT Certified Air Raid Material | 3.5 |
| Editors In This Light and On This Evening | 3.5 |
| Editors An End Has A Start | 4.0 |
| Editors The Back Room | 3.5 |
| Electric Orange Morbus | 4.5 |
| Electric Orange Volume 10 | 4.0 |
| Electric Orange Electric Orange | 4.0 |
| Electric Wizard Dopethrone | 4.5 |
| Electric Wizard Electric Wizard | 4.0 |
| Elif Endlich Tut Es Wieder Weh | 2.0 |
| Emancipator Safe In The Steep Cliffs | 4.0 |
I am glad I dug this album out after years. Most songs have an ethereal feeling, a nice album to
draw something while sitting next to a window, or to listen to while daydreaming. It's an album
that might need multiple listens so that one song after another can unfold itself.
That other user calling this elevator music just has no imagination left in him. I love to let my
imagination run wild while listening to atmospheric electronic albums.r |
| Emancipator Soon It Will Be Cold Enough | 4.0 |
| Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail | 4.5 |
| Emery The Question | 4.0 |
| Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse | 4.5 |
| Emptyset Recur | 4.0 |
| Enshine Singularity | 4.5 |
| Enter Shikari The Mindsweep | 4.0 |
| Entheogenic Entheogenic | 4.5 |
| Entheogenic Spontaneous Illumination | 4.5 |
| Entheogenic Dreamtime Physics | 4.0 |
| Entheogenic Flight of the Urubus | 3.5 |
| Entheogenic Enthymesis | 5.0 |
| So far I had their self-titled first album, Spontaneous Illumination and Dreamtime Physics. I wanted a 4th great album of them. Alas Flight Of The Urubus still has not convinced me enough. Then I checked out this album here two days ago. I was very surprised, everything sounds great and on its right place. The acoustic guitar, the voices and especially all the electronic sounds.rThis is by far their most spacey sounding album, but still psychedelic. I did not expect this to be that overwhelming but it is. Sometimes it is hard to hold the tears back because I can't believe this album exists. |
| Entombed Left Hand Path | 4.5 |
| Entombed Clandestine | 4.5 |
| Entombed Wolverine Blues | 3.5 |
| Entombed Morning Star | 4.0 |
| Eric B and Rakim Paid in Full | 4.0 |
| ESC (Eden Synthetic Corps) Enhancer | 4.5 |
Even after over 10 years this album this holds up well, and it's different from many other harsh
electro albums, it has more a spring-like atmosphere than an autumnal one.
And the yellow album artwork looks great and fits perfect with the sounds on the album. More
melodic than other albums of the genre most songs also have nice twists to avoid standard 3 chorus
routines.
Favourite songs:
1. Waste Of Ammo
2. Needle Catwalk / Architecture / Alpha Male
5. Deathtrap Circus / Despise / Heartware 2.0 / 0.26 Bladefucked
9. Attention Whore / Wrong Way / Totes Licht / Reptile |
| ESC (Eden Synthetic Corps) Eight Thousand Square Feet | 4.0 |
This album is on a similar high level as Enhancer. Almost every song enjoyable. Most songs are
well structured, most only 2 choruses. The song with X-Fusion is really good, only disappointment
is the song with [:SITD:]. Too predictable and lazy songwriting. [:SITD:] can do much better with
their own albums.
It can be frustrating sometimes when you look for good dark electro / aggrotech albums, but after
so many years I have amassed many very good albums from this genre.
With futurepop it's a bit easier, because there are bands who don't just make music for clubs but
also songs that are more introspective. f-pop is also more melodic which means they don't have to
rely on choruses that much. |
| ESC (Eden Synthetic Corps) Matte | 4.0 |
| ESC (Eden Synthetic Corps) Gold | 2.0 |
Much worse than their first 3 albums (which range from very good (Matte and Eight Thousand Square Feet) to wonderful (Enhancer).
Don't know what happened to them on "Gold", song structures are much lighter more pop-like, I don't like it. A shame because I like the album artwork, especially the golden half.
Well I still am thankful this is another dark electro / aggrotech band with 2 or more great albums I have. |
| Escape the Fate Dying Is Your Latest Fashion | 3.5 |
| Etched In Red Dylate | 4.0 |
| Eurythmics In The Garden | 4.0 |
| This album deserves a much higher rating. At least an average of 3.6 or so. I like how ethereal Annie's voice was back then and the atmosphere in general. |
| Eurythmics Touch | 3.5 |
| Evanescence Fallen | 1.5 |
| Exivious Exivious | 3.5 |
| Explizit Einsam Erben Des Vergessens | 3.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 4.0 |
| Eyehategod Take as Needed for Pain | 2.0 |
| Eyeless In Gaza (UK) Pale Hands I Loved So Well | 4.5 |
| Eyeless In Gaza (UK) Caught in Flux | 3.5 |
| Eyeless In Gaza (UK) Drumming the Beating Heart | 4.0 |
| Eyeless In Gaza (UK) Rust Red September | 4.5 |
This is one of 9 albums I have of this amazing band.
When I listen to this album, I can smell the colourful leaves when they fall to the ground,
because it's a nice early autumn album. They have a pleasant scent.
They might have been called a post-punk band, but same as And Also The Trees, both never really
were close to typical bands of that genre, and also didn't care about that, both have their own
unique sound and somehow it felt like both were in their own musical world. It's incredible both
are still active and releasing amazing albums! The Trees started in 1979, EiG in early 1980. |
| Eyeless In Gaza (UK) Everyone Feels Like A Stranger | 4.0 |
| Eyeless In Gaza (UK) Bitter Apples | 4.0 |
| Eyeless In Gaza (UK) Song Of The Beautiful Wanton | 4.5 |
This is one of their best since they came back in the mid 90's. I'm thankful I have 9 albums of
them now, they're my #4 band of all time.rFavourite songs:
1. Sorrow Loves Yr Laughter
2. Staring
3. Dearsong
4. Old And Cold And Full Of Ghosts
5. One Light Then
6. Lullay My Liking
7. Mysterious Traffic
8. Less Sky, The Lovely Wanton
10. Among The Blue Flower And The Yellow |
| Eyeless In Gaza (UK) Butterfly Attitude | 3.5 |
| Eyeless In Gaza (UK) Sun Blues | 4.5 |
I'm really glad I downloaded this album for 9,99 euro on amazon after I thought about it for a few
days. Eyeless In Gaza are one of my all time top 4 bands and so far I had 8 albums of them. After
the second listen Sun Blues exploded, suddenly I love all the songs on it.
All the small details like the electronic sounds, the bass guitar, the sax which in one song
sounds like a seagull, add to the atmosphere that I really feel.
The first releases were in 1980, this is 36 years later and this album can easily hold its own
against their best albums. I didn't expect that, and it proves that good albums are worth much
more than 9 euro (I'm from germany) because they can stay with you for the rest of your life. |
| Eyeless In Gaza (UK) All Under the Leaves, the Leaves of Life | 4.5 |
| Eyeless In Gaza (UK) Ink Horn / One Star | 4.0 |
| Eyeless In Gaza (UK) Winter Sang | 4.0 |
| Family Fodder Monkey Banana Kitchen | 4.0 |
| I am thankful I discovered this album years ago. I love post-punk and now have over 100 albums of that genre. I love the weird songs on this album. |
| Farflung A Wound In Eternity | 4.5 |
| Fear Factory Demanufacture | 3.5 |
| Fear Factory Obsolete | 4.0 |
| Fear Factory Genexus | 4.5 |
| Fear Factory Mechanize | 2.5 |
| Fennesz Venice | 4.0 |
| Fiction Factory Throw The Warped Wheel Out | 4.0 |
| Fictional Fictitious | 3.5 |
| Finch Say Hello to Sunshine | 4.0 |
| Five or Six Polar Exposure | 4.0 |
| I'm really glad someone helped me getting this album. Searched it for years, needed it because I love post-punk and the year 1981 where there were many great albums of that genre.rFive Or Six mixes post-punk music with ambient music, nice, cold and atmospheric. |
| Flesh Field Strain | 4.0 |
| Flooting Grooves Upsyde Downe | 4.0 |
| Florence and the Machine How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful | 4.0 |
| Florence and the Machine Ceremonials | 3.5 |
| Foetus Love | 4.0 |
| Foetus Hole | 3.0 |
| Foetus Thaw | 4.0 |
| For Against Echelons | 3.5 |
| Fractured Only Human Remains | 5.0 |
It was my first EBM album ever in december 2005 (next to Matter + Form by VNV Nation) and it changed everything. It brought me away from listening only to 80s, alternative rock and nu metal. Thanks to it I discovered more and more EBM & other electro bands and albums. It was excellent back then and it still is one of my most favourite electronic albums. Every song has its own life and atmosphere. This is one of those albums that never lost anything of its magic.
And no, there's no weak song or filler on it. I love every song for what it is.
If there is something to criticize, it's the track order. I listen to them in a different order. But that is really only a small thing. |
| Fractured Beneath The Ashes | 4.5 |
| Frank Bretschneider Rhythm | 4.0 |
| Fred Again.. Actual Life (April 14 – December 17, 2020) | 2.5 |
| Frightened Rabbit The Midnight Organ Fight | 3.0 |
| From Zero One Nation Under | 4.0 |
| From Zero From Zero (The Green Album) | 3.5 |
| Front Line Assembly Tactical Neural Implant | 3.0 |
| Frost* Milliontown | 4.0 |
| Frozen Plasma Monumentum | 4.0 |
| Funeral for a Friend Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation | 4.5 |
| Funeral for a Friend Welcome Home Armageddon | 3.5 |
| Gang of Four Entertainment! | 3.0 |
| Gang of Four Solid Gold | 3.5 |
| Gazebo Gazebo | 4.0 |
| Gel-Sol 1104 | 4.0 |
| Gel-Sol Unifactor | 4.5 |
This album is like as if the artist had an epic and very long dream at night about visiting a
strange but wonderful world where everything is colourful, with weird inhabitants (like orange
scissor people or cube goblins for example) of that world
and highly imaginative places and stuff to visit and use everywhere. Telekinesis, levitation and
other things are possibe there too.
And after waking up he was able to put this dream into sound and made a whole album of it. Of
course I only imagine it but the album indeed has a wonderful atmosphere which makes me visit that
world for the duration of the album.
I'm glad I dug this album out after many years. It's december now, it feels much more like a sunny
spring / summer album. |
| Gene Loves Jezebel Promise | 4.0 |
| Gene Loves Jezebel Immigrant | 2.0 |
| Geomatic 64 Light Years Away | 4.5 |
Really great stuff! I'm thankful I dug out this artist after 10 years, all the time I had this
album but never took the time for it.
Amazing sound design, interesting atmospheres, and the tribal elements are still there. Often a
spacey feeling, sometimes futuristic, mixed with middle eastern elements.
Genres: dark ambient, tribal industrial, IDM & glitch (although quite a bit different from most
IDM artists). |
| Girls Under Glass Darius | 4.0 |
| Globular Colours Of The Brainbow | 4.0 |
| Globular A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy | 4.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut Age of the Fifth Sun | 3.5 |
| God Is an Astronaut Far from Refuge | 3.5 |
| God Is an Astronaut God Is an Astronaut | 4.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright | 3.5 |
| Godflesh Selfless | 4.0 |
| Godflesh Streetcleaner | 4.5 |
| Godflesh Godflesh | 4.5 |
| Goethes Erben Der Traum An Die Erinnerung | 3.5 |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius | 4.5 |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh | 4.5 |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage | 4.5 |
| Gong Zero to Infinity | 4.0 |
| Gong Gazeuse! (Expresso) | 4.5 |
| Gong Expresso II | 4.0 |
| Gong Shamal | 3.0 |
| Gong Flying Teapot | 4.0 |
| Gong You | 5.0 |
| Gong Angel's Egg | 5.0 |
| Gong Camembert Electrique | 4.5 |
| Gorgoroth Under the Sign of Hell | 4.0 |
| Grade 8 Grade 8 | 3.0 |
| Graphic Nature A Mind Waiting to Die | 4.0 |
| Grendel (NL) Harsh Generation | 2.5 |
Apart from B.A.A.L. (Deliver Me) Grendel (NL) is known by me as the 3-chorus-man. This is a very
lightweight harsh electro album, meaning never longer than 4 minute songs, almost always a 3
chorus routine that gets old very fast.rAt least it's not a boring album, there are some solid
songs, but there are at least 16 other "aggrotech" artists that are much better. |
| Gridlock The Synthetic Form | 3.5 |
| Gridlock Formless | 5.0 |
This will forever be one of my all time favourite electronic albums. Of electronic music I like
ambient, psybient & psychill, darkwave, EBM, industrial, futurepop, IDM, trip-hop, field
recordings and a few others. Formless has a certain atmosphere that will always suck me in.
Atmosphere is one of the most important things in music for me and it lets my imagination run
wild. |
| Gridlock Trace | 4.0 |
| Gridlock Further | 4.0 |
| Grizzly Bear Yellow House | 4.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest | 4.0 |
| Grizzly Bear Painted Ruins | 4.0 |
| Guru Guru UFO | 3.0 |
| gyrofield A Faint Glow of Bravery | 4.0 |
| Hallucinogen Twisted | 3.5 |
| Haloblack >Tension Filter< | 4.0 |
| Haloblack Funkyhell | 3.5 |
| Haloblack Throb | 4.5 |
| Haloblack >Raw Tension< | 3.5 |
| Hammock Kenotic | 4.5 |
| Hammock Raising Your Voice... Trying to Stop an Echo | 4.5 |
| Hanging Garden Inherit the Eden | 4.0 |
| Hank Mobley Roll Call | 4.5 |
| Harmonia Musik von Harmonia | 4.0 |
| Haujobb Polarity | 4.5 |
| Hawkwind In Search of Space | 3.5 |
| Hawkwind Doremi Fasol Latido | 3.5 |
| Hecq Bad Karma | 4.0 |
| Hecq Scatterheart | 4.5 |
Great to listen to when it's still dark and early at work.
Favourite songs:
1. Coup De Lune
2. Suck
3. Trivia / Iso
5. Fdk
6. Field / Doraccle
8. Holler
9. Flood Me / Road North
11. Midnight Generator |
| Hecq 0000 | 4.0 |
| Hecq Night Falls | 4.5 |
| Hecq A Dried Youth | 4.0 |
| Hecq Steeltongued | 3.5 |
| Hecq Avenger | 3.5 |
| Heimataerde Gotteskrieger | 4.0 |
| Heimataerde Kadavergehorsam | 4.0 |
| Hidden In Plain View Life in Dreaming | 4.0 |
| Hidden Orchestra Night Walks | 3.5 |
| Hocico Scars | 4.0 |
I still haven't heard a Hocico song yet that is better than the song Scars and maybe Not Like You
(apestas version). Both are awesome and I like to remember summer 2006 when I discovered it.
edit: But the albums Memorias Atras and Wrack And Ruin really did grow on me, most songs on both
are amazing. They almost always avoid the 3rd chorus, means the songs often have very good song
structures. |
| Hocico Wrack and Ruin | 4.0 |
| A nice album which has an interesting atmosphere. The genre they're in is usually aggressive and trying to be dark, but somehow the whole album has a slightly dreamy feeling as well. It's different from Memorias Atras for example which's also amazing but is less atmospheric in my opinion.rI will always have a heart for genres like harsh electro, electro-industrial and futurepop. There are times when I need this kind of music. |
| Hocico Memorias Atras | 4.5 |
| Hocico Artificial Extinction | 3.5 |
| Holon Some Kind Of Order | 4.0 |
| Holon Connect - Isolate | 4.0 |
| HORSE the band Desperate Living | 4.5 |
| Howard Jones Human's Lib | 4.0 |
| Howard Jones Dream Into Action | 3.5 |
| Hudson Mohawke Butter | 3.5 |
| Hypocrisy Hypocrisy | 4.0 |
| I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness Fear Is on Our Side | 4.0 |
| I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness | 4.0 |
| Icehouse Sidewalk | 3.5 |
| Immortal Sons of Northern Darkness | 4.5 |
| Immortal Pure Holocaust | 4.5 |
| In Flames Colony | 4.5 |
| In Mitra Medusa Inri Long Forgotten World | 4.0 |
| In Search Of Beauty The Arise | 4.0 |
| In Strict Confidence Holy | 4.0 |
Much less atmosphere than Love Kills (icy, frosty masterpiece) and Exile Paradise (warm, fruity
like a passion fruit and nice sounds in the background).
edit: But this album did finally grow after I gave it another chance. Nice atmospheres as always
with this band.
Favourite songs on Holy:
1. Heal Me / Eye Of Heaven / Sleepless / Emergency
5. Alpha Centauri
6. The Darkest Corridors / Closing Eyes
8. Babylon / Seven Lives / Another Night / No Love Will Heal |
| In Strict Confidence Seven Lives | 3.5 |
| In Strict Confidence Love Kills! | 4.5 |
| I am always fascinated by music with icy cold sounds and atmosphere. Songs like "Heaven Is The Place To Be" are perfect examples of that. I can never get enough of frosty electronic stuff. |
| In Strict Confidence Exile Paradise | 4.5 |
| In Strict Confidence La Parade Monstrueuse | 3.5 |
| In Strict Confidence Face the Fear | 4.5 |
| In Strict Confidence Cryogenix | 3.5 |
| In Strict Confidence Where Sun And Moon Unite | 4.0 |
| In Strict Confidence Mistrust the Angels | 4.0 |
| In Strict Confidence Zauberschloss | 4.5 |
| Informatik Arena | 3.5 |
| Informatik Syntax | 3.5 |
| Inquisition Into the Infernal Regions of the Ancient | 4.5 |
| Integral Rise | 4.5 |
| Integral The Past Is My Shadow | 4.5 |
This is amazing stuff! Loving their first one "Rise" for over a year and 9 months already, this
one here has a different, darker atmosphere, and an immense sound palette compared to Rise.
It's over 2 hours long, but it never gets boring, every of the 18 songs has something that makes
it stand out. It is a whole new world for me to explore, vast futuristic landscapes everywhere,
fascinating adventures I will have with this album. This is why I love discovering IDM, psybient &
ambient albums, just when you think you have heard everything, there is something new around the
corner.
Also, it's not electronic-only, some organic instruments do appear too in many songs. |
| Integral Sercosa | 3.5 |
| Iron Lung Corporation Big Shiny Spears | 4.0 |
| Iron Lung Corporation Ditch the Attitude, Pally | 3.5 |
| ISIS Oceanic | 4.5 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 4.5 |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant | 4.5 |
| IWR Ground Zero | 4.0 |
| Jakob Cale:Drew | 4.0 |
| Jan Jelinek Kosmischer Pitch | 3.0 |
Much too repetitive and it doesn't do it for me. Boring and annoying, when I really tried to get
into an album but it won't ever happen it can get very frustrating.
Music of Loscil and Monolake can be very repetitive too but they're much more interesting to me
atmosphere-wise and more clever, with small changes throughout each song.
Also I love futuristic soundscapes and atmospheres like the albums Cinemascope and Momentum by
Monolake for example. |
| Jean-Michel Jarre Zoolook | 4.0 |
| Jesu Terminus | 4.5 |
| Joe Satriani Crystal Planet | 3.5 |
| Joe Satriani Engines of Creation | 4.0 |
| John Foxx Metamatic | 3.5 |
| John McLaughlin Extrapolation | 3.5 |
| John McLaughlin Devotion | 4.0 |
| John McLaughlin My Goal's Beyond | 3.5 |
| John McLaughlin Electric Guitarist | 4.0 |
| John Petrucci Suspended Animation | 4.0 |
| Jonathan Fitoussi Plein Soleil | 4.0 |
| Jonn Serrie And the Stars Go with You | 4.0 |
| Jordan Rudess Feeding the Wheel | 4.5 |
I'm thankful I discovered that he releases solo albums, Feeding The Wheel is my first of him and I
love all the electronic sounds on it. I always like keyboard & synthesizer in rock & metal music.
Of course John Petrucci is in 4 songs but that's a great thing.
Favourite songs:
1. Ucan Icon
2. Crack The Meter
3. Quantum Soup
4. Revolving Door, Dreaming In Titanium
6. Feed The Wheel
7. Interstices, Shifting Sands
9. Headspace |
| Josef K The Only Fun in Town | 4.0 |
| Joy Division Substance | 4.5 |
| Joy Division Closer | 4.5 |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures | 4.0 |
| Joy Division Still | 3.5 |
I don't get how someone could call "Glass" boring or uninspired. It's in my top 10 songs of the
compilation "Substance". And Ice Age is strong too. But about the other songs I agree, Substance
is much stronger as a compilation. |
| Joy Division Love Will Tear Us Apart | 4.0 |
| Judas Iscariot Thy Dying Light | 4.0 |
| Judas Iscariot To Embrace the Corpses Bleeding | 4.5 |
| Kajagoogoo Islands | 4.0 |
| Kaminanda Gateways Of Consciousness | 4.0 |
| Kammarheit Asleep and Well Hidden | 3.0 |
| Kangding Ray Stabil | 4.0 |
Favourite songs:
1. Status+Light
2. Sub.Res
3. Stabil
4. NN/Peaks / Mai
6. Cyan
7. Isoline / Interrompu Court
9. Nine
10. Wellen |
| Kangding Ray Automne Fold | 4.0 |
| Katatonia Viva Emptiness | 3.5 |
| Katatonia Brave Murder Day | 4.5 |
| Katatonia For Funerals to Come... | 4.0 |
| Kenny Burrell Guitar Forms | 3.5 |
| Kenny Burrell Midnight Blue | 4.0 |
| Kenny Burrell Blues - The Common Ground | 3.5 |
| Kevorkian Death Cycle Collection For Injection | 3.5 |
| Kick Bong Flower Power | 4.5 |
| Kick Bong A Cup Of Tea? | 3.5 |
| Killing Joke Night Time | 3.5 |
| Killing Joke Killing Joke | 3.5 |
| Killing Joke What's THIS For...! | 4.5 |
| Kim Wilde Select | 4.5 |
I'm glad I checked this album out, as all 10 songs are very enjoyable after first listen. I like
the sound more than on the first album, it's much more electronic (but still has that new wave
feeling that I love), and everything sounds icy and frosty, the atmosphere, the sound, the
instruments, even Kim's voice often sounds chilly. It feels almost like as if it's snowing in my
earphones.
That's what I love about this album and at least 4 songs don't even have the 3rd chorus and I also
like the very fast songs that are on it. Also as always it's great that the bass guitar is usually
audible. |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Polygondwanaland | 4.0 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Flying Microtonal Banana | 3.5 |
| KMFDM XTORT | 2.5 |
| KMFDM Angst | 3.5 |
| KMFDM Attak | 3.0 |
| KMFDM Let Go | 2.0 |
| Kool Keith Black Elvis/Lost in Space | 4.0 |
| Korn Follow the Leader | 2.5 |
| Kuba Through a Lense | 4.0 |
Another psybient & psydub gem I checked out today morning at work after Kick Bong - Flower Power.
Both are amazing, once more I'm happy that there are still countless great psybient albums I
didn't know yet.
The album songs of both albums are considerably shorter than on the average psybient album but
they're dynamic, don't need too much time to develop or to start and once again it's a great
adventure to listen to them.
In psybient music it is irrelevant to me how original or innovative an album is, many artists can
sound similar yet they still all sound different, it's a different adventure every time I discover
another album of this genre and
it always helps me feel more positive. |
| L'Ame Immortelle Wenn Der Letzte Schatten Fällt | 3.5 |
| Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn | 4.0 |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake | 4.0 |
| Lapsed Twilight | 4.0 |
| Laura Branigan Self Control | 3.5 |
| Lee Morgan Tom Cat | 4.0 |
| Lena Andersson Söder Mälarstrand | 4.0 |
| Lento Earthen | 4.0 |
Very nice album, very atmospheric, many years ago I discovered them on last.fm as similar artists
from Ufomammut, one of my all time favourite metal bands.
favourite songs:
1. Hadrons
2. Emersion of the islands
3. Currents
4. Leave
5. Need
6. Subterrestrial
7. Earth |
| Level Level | 4.0 |
| Leviathan The Tenth Sub Level of Suicide | 4.5 |
| Leviathan Tentacles of Whorror | 4.0 |
| Life Cried Drawn and Quartered | 4.5 |
Very nice album, nice sounds and atmosphere! Having another harsh / dark electro phase right now,
reminds me of 2007 and 2008 where that and futrepop were two of my main genres on last.fm.
Favourite songs:
1. Guardian
2. Sacrilege
3. Living Hell
4. Rage (Dying Existence)
5. Hallowed Be Thy Name
6. As We Decay, Stale, Darkest Eyes
9. Burnt To Ashes
10. Waiting For An End |
| Life Cried Banished Psalms | 4.0 |
| Lifelover Konkurs | 4.5 |
| Lightning Bolt Wonderful Rainbow | 4.0 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 2.5 |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 3.0 |
| Loma Prieta Last | 4.0 |
| London After Midnight Selected Scenes from the End of the World | 4.0 |
| Just another very nice 90's goth album. I love the darkwave feeling on it, it's still one of my favourite genres although most of the great darkwave bands are from germany and other european countries.rSongs like Spider And The Fly, Your Best Nightmare, The Black Cat and Sacrifice are just wonderful. |
| London After Midnight Psycho Magnet | 3.5 |
| Loscil Submers | 4.0 |
| Great underwater ambient. Other underwater ambient album I know is "World Of Sleepers" by Carbon Based Lifeforms but "Submers" is a little bit darker and dark blue, not light blue and psychedelic like WoS. Great atmospheres. |
| Loscil Endless Falls | 4.5 |
| just another great ambient album. There are too many amazing atmospheric electronic albums I know. This one takes me far away. While I'm listening to this album nothing can harm or touch me, In my mind I'm in a different place, wonderful and isolated, no one can find me there.rI like that in every song there are sounds that are with me for the whole song, I don't want them to leave me. I wish I could get the vinyl only songs Graupel and Kinematics. |
| Lost Area Dare To Dream | 4.0 |
| Love Is Colder Than Death Teignmouth | 4.0 |
| Love Like Blood An Irony of Fate | 3.5 |
| Lowlife Permanent Sleep | 3.5 |
| Lowlife Godhead | 3.5 |
| Lowlife Diminuendo | 4.0 |
| Lowlife Rain | 3.5 |
| Lunatic Soul Walking on a Flashlight Beam | 5.0 |
Excellent album for november and even more for december, it's now 9 years since I discovered it and it still hasn't lost any of its magic. I just completely feel the atmosphere in every of the 9 songs. If only Stars Sellotaped was 3-4 minutes longer, it's wonderful but too short. That's the only negative thing I can say about this album.
As always I don't care about other people's opinions (I don't even look at their lists), this album is a classic in my music world. This is just a wonderful album to get lost in.
Of course it's not a perfect album, but "classic" albums don't need to be perfect to be "classic". |
| Lunatic Soul Impressions | 3.5 |
| I really can't understand some people. I am always one for atmosphere and this is not boring to me. Maybe some people just don't have imagination. |
| Lunatic Soul Lunatic Soul | 4.0 |
| Lurker Of Chalice Lurker Of Chalice | 4.0 |
| Lycia A Day in the Stark Corner | 4.5 |
| Lycia Ionia | 4.0 |
| Lycia Cold | 4.5 |
| Lycia Quiet Moments | 4.5 |
Great atmosphere, takes me to a barren wasteland where it is always foggy and no one can reach me
there.
I wish I can visit that place whenever I want. |
| Lycia Estrella | 4.5 |
| Mad Essence Rehumanization | 4.0 |
| Mad Essence Transmission | 4.0 |
| Magazine No Thyself | 4.5 |
This deserves a better rating than 3.3. Maybe 3.8 or 3.9 would be more fair. This album isn't less
great than their first two albums. I still love the clever song structures in most songs.
For me it is better than "The Correct Use Of Soap" because that album was too light for me
sometimes, but it still had great lyrics. |
| Magazine The Correct Use Of Soap | 3.5 |
| Magazine Secondhand Daylight | 4.5 |
| Magazine Real Life | 4.5 |
| Mahavishnu Orchestra The Inner Mounting Flame | 4.5 |
| Maps and Diagrams Antennas And Signals | 4.5 |
I'm really glad and thankful that I found this album. Didn't know the artist before. This is
one
of those cases, where the album cover fits perfectly with the music and the atmosphere in it.
It's very dreamy and peaceful. The songs tend to sound similar but still, every song has
something
that keeps it interesting. It's perfect to listen to while watching stars at night or with the
pale moonlight coming into the room.
This album makes me think of Monkey Island 1, especially Meathook's house and his bed on the
second floor directly under and next to the window.
I love it when an idm album is ambient-like so that it's rich on atmosphere.
Favourite songs:
1. Man In The Moon & People Of The Valley (listened in a row)
2. We All Felt Seasick
3. Suisai
4. Lumen Landscapes
5. Just Beyond Träskmossen
6. The Same Day, Yesterday
7. Footprints And Secrets
8. The Machine That Changed The World
9. Meet Me At Slussen
10. Fiberbundles |
| Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar | 2.0 |
| Mass (UK) Labour of Love | 4.0 |
| Maybeshewill I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was Gone | 4.0 |
| Mechanical Moth The Sad Machina | 3.0 |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah Nothing | 5.0 |
| Meshuggah obZen | 4.5 |
| Meshuggah Koloss | 4.5 |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree | 3.0 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 4.0 |
| Michael Jackson Dangerous | 4.0 |
| Michael Jackson Bad | 4.0 |
| Michael Jackson Thriller | 4.0 |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue | 4.5 |
| Miles Davis 'Round About Midnight | 4.0 |
| mind.in.a.box Dreamweb | 4.0 |
| mind.in.a.box Crossroads | 4.0 |
| Mindless Faith Medication For The Misinformed | 4.0 |
| Ministry Filth Pig | 3.5 |
| Ministry Psalm 69 | 4.0 |
| Ministry The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste | 4.0 |
| Mist of Misery Severance | 4.5 |
| Mnemic Mechanical Spin Phenomena | 4.0 |
| Mnemic The Audio Injected Soul | 3.5 |
| Mnemonic (GER) Monokultur | 4.5 |
| Modern English Mesh & Lace | 4.0 |
| It is a good post-punk album from a great year (1981) so it should have a higher rating (maybe 3.6). |
| Modern English After the Snow | 2.0 |
| Modern Eon Fiction Tales | 4.0 |
| Monolake Momentum | 4.0 |
| Monolake Gravity | 4.0 |
I never can enough of icy cold and frosty electronic stuff as thankfully plenty of albums have to
offer like this one. This album will never get boring and old even after multiple listens.
Song ratings:
1. Mobile (4.3)
2. Ice (4.6)
3. Frost (4.1)
4. Static (4.3)
5. Zero Gravity (4.4)
6. Fragile (4.1)
7. Aviation (4.4)
8. Nucleus (4.0) |
| Monolake Ghosts | 4.5 |
| Monolake Cinemascope | 4.0 |
| Morgion Solinari | 4.0 |
| Morgion Cloaked By Ages, Crowned In Earth | 3.5 |
| Mothboy Deviance | 3.5 |
| Mr. Mister I Wear The Face | 4.0 |
| Muslimgauze Buddhist on Fire | 4.0 |
| Muslimgauze Vote Hezbollah | 4.0 |
| Muslimgauze Flajelata | 4.0 |
| Mutiilation Black Millenium (Grimly Reborn) | 4.0 |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge | 3.5 |
| My Dad Is Dead The Taller You Are, the Shorter You Get | 4.0 |
| My Dying Bride The Dreadful Hours | 4.5 |
| Myssouri Malamerica | 4.0 |
| Myssouri War/Love Blues | 3.0 |
| Mystical Sun Deeperworlds | 4.0 |
| Mystical Sun Primordial Atmospheres | 4.0 |
| Mystical Sun Energy Mind Consciousness | 4.5 |
| Mystical Sun 26000 | 5.0 |
| a well deserved 4.5 from me. This album is like a big adventure, a journey into a jungle. "Whirlpool" is when you get there, "Place Of Refuge" when you discover a sea in there, "Immersion" when you swim and wash yourself in there and the waterfall nearby. "Canopy" is when you discover a great view at a cliff. |
| Mystical Sun Overview Effect | 3.5 |
| Namnambulu Distances | 3.5 |
The songs themselves are good. The lyrics often weak, too often he sings about love, to get
someone back. The vocals are technically good, but often the singer is over-singing. Futurepop
doesn't need to be extremely emotional vocals-wise, it doesn't really fit. I know maybe 20
futurepop artists I like more, but the album will grow, at least many of the songs.
Favourite songs: Pause (I like how he sings on that song), Deception |
| Necessary Response Blood Spills Not Far From the Wound | 4.0 |
| Nena Fragezeichen | 4.0 |
| Neon Cage Experiment Materials And Methods | 4.0 |
| Neuroticfish Antidoron | 5.0 |
what a great discovery and this album will accompany me through my favourite season autumn / fall.
A futurepop artist who releases his best album ever in 2018, after existing for over 20 years is
very rare, and I really love Les Chansons Neurotiques (2002) and Gelb (2005) is solid.rBut the
grey november-like atmosphere on Antidoron is something I really enjoy and I love to get lost into
this album. One of my favourite discovered albums of 2019.
edit from september the 28th: Congratulations to Antidoron! It's number 4 in my new list and I
hope this album will be honoured many more times. Looking forward to late december there will be a
top discoveries list from 2019!! |
| Neuroticfish Les Chansons Neurotiques | 4.0 |
| Neuroticfish Gelb | 3.5 |
songwriting-wise much much weaker than Antidoron and also Les Chansons Neurotiques. Too many songs
do follow the same tired and predictable 3 chorus routine, which makes the listening experience
very frustrating to me. Most songs are good, but this is what holds them back.
Antidoron for example only has few 3 chorus songs, but those are very fun to listen to and have
amazing atmosphere in them (Fluchtreflex, Hysteria and the slightly repetitive Fail To Disagree). |
| New Mind Forge | 3.5 |
| New Mind Fractured | 4.0 |
| New Model Army Vengeance | 3.5 |
| New Model Army No Rest For The Wicked | 3.5 |
| New Model Army Thunder and Consolation | 4.0 |
| New Order Movement | 4.5 |
| Niacin High Bias | 3.5 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds The Firstborn Is Dead | 4.0 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree | 4.5 |
| Nik Kershaw You've Got to Laugh | 3.5 |
| Nik Kershaw Human Racing | 4.5 |
He will always be one of my mainstream-80's heroes. His face and voice somehow remind me of Gadget
of Chip & Dale rescue rangers (the female mouse), I don't know why. His first 2 albums (both from
1984) are really good, all 20 songs very listenable and the lyrics are really clever sometimes
compared to other mainstream artists of the mid 80's. I wish I try his later albums some day.
Also I like his name, "Nik Kershaw" is a perfect name for the year 1984. |
| Nik Kershaw The Riddle | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine | 2.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 4.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Further Down the Spiral (US) | 4.0 |
| Noise Therapy Tension | 4.0 |
Whenever I listen to this it takes me back to nov & dec 2005.
Favourite songs:
1. In My World
2. Star 69 (Wait For Nothing)
3. Inside / Far Away
5. Ride / Monkeys / Yesterday
8. G-Hole
9. Standing In The Dark
10. Get Up |
| Nothingface Violence | 4.0 |
| Novembers Doom To Welcome the Fade | 4.0 |
| Definitely much better than the overrated Novella Reservoir, which has too many 3 chorus songs which gets old and tired very quickly. To Welcome The Fade has only Not The Strong but from the 2nd song on it becomes much better. |
| Novembers Doom The Pale Haunt Departure | 3.5 |
| Novembers Doom The Novella Reservoir | 2.5 |
| Numb Death on the Installment Plan | 4.0 |
| Nurzery (Rhymes) Thorns | 4.0 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Returnal | 4.0 |
Why should I care about when someone says this album doesn't sound original or Daniel uses too
many influences like sounds of Klaus Schulze for example, or that it sounds too similar to other
artists. Listening to this album again right now and after many years it's still as great as after
the first listen. Nice colours everywhere, great atmosphere to get lost in.
I enjoy it for what it is, a very good atmospheric electronic album. People should stop caring
about what sounds unoriginal and just enjoy the music and using their imagination to it. |
| Oneohtrix Point Never R Plus Seven | 3.5 |
| Opposition Intimacy | 4.0 |
| Opposition Breaking The Silence | 5.0 |
| An absolute post-punk classic. Already in 1981 on this album they had a sound and a very thick november-atmosphere that The Chameleons would be known for too, 2 years later (with a classic album of their own, and similarly 1986 Strange Times).rI'm thankful and lucky to have the remastered version of Breaking The Silence, the production is incredible and makes the rainy / foggy atmosphere stand out even more. |
| Opposition Promises | 4.0 |
| Orange Goblin Time Travelling Blues | 4.0 |
| Orange Goblin Frequencies from Planet Ten | 3.5 |
| Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Junk Culture | 4.0 |
| Oresund Space Collective The Black Tomato | 4.5 |
What an amazing psychedelic album and adventure!
And I am glad both songs before Viking Cleaner are cut into 5 and 3 parts, it's easier for me to
listen to the whole album that way.
I'm extremely thankful I discovered many great psychedelic bands & artists (rock and electronic
like psybient & psydub). Many are hard to find but the ones I have will stay with me for the rest
of my life. |
| Oresund Space Collective Oresund Space Collective | 3.5 |
| Oresund Space Collective Kybalion | 4.0 |
| Ott Blumenkraft | 4.0 |
| Ott Skylon | 4.5 |
| Out Out Finched | 4.0 |
| Out Out Nisus | 3.5 |
| Overkill Horrorscope | 4.0 |
| Overkill The Years of Decay | 4.0 |
| Ozric Tentacles The Yumyum Tree | 4.0 |
The Ozrics over the years became my second most favourite band (after And Also The Trees and
before Diorama, Eyeless In Gaza, Radian, Gong, The Chameleons, Shpongle etc.).
From 1988 to 2000 I found 11 amazing albums. Tried many albums from after 2000 but they're
frustrating to listen to because the magic seems to be gone.
Then I checked out The Yum Yum Tree days ago. Maybe THIS is the 12th great album of the Ozrics I
was looking for for years. The songs have more imagination, nice sounds and atmosphere. |
| Ozric Tentacles Curious Corn | 4.0 |
| Ozric Tentacles Pungent Effulgent | 4.0 |
@GhandhiLion: What I don't like is that you and other people just can't simply enjoy certain songs
and albums for what they are, I wish you would stop comparing bands and just enjoy the music. When
someone likes / loves a band / album it shouldn't matter how original and influential a band was.
Pungent Effulgent is another gem and the 1988-2000 Ozrics era was and is incredible, they were
almost invincible back then. How great it is to get lost in space and in their music. |
| Ozric Tentacles There Is Nothing | 3.0 |
| Ozric Tentacles Erpland | 4.5 |
| Ozric Tentacles Strangeitude | 4.5 |
| Ozric Tentacles Jurassic Shift | 5.0 |
| Ozric Tentacles Arborescence | 5.0 |
| Ozric Tentacles Become the Other | 4.5 |
Favourite songs ranking:
1. Vibuthi
2. Wob Glass / Plurnstyle / Ahu Belahu
5. Neurochasm / Cat DNA
7. Ghedengi / Become The Other
But as with every album of them from 1989 to 2000 there is no weak song, I always love every song
on every album from that timeline. |
| Ozric Tentacles Waterfall Cities | 4.5 |
| Ozric Tentacles The Hidden Step | 4.5 |
| Ozric Tentacles Swirly Termination | 4.0 |
| Ozric Tentacles Pyramidion | 4.0 |
| Ozric Tentacles Spirals in Hyperspace | 2.5 |
| Ozric Tentacles Technicians of the Sacred | 2.0 |
| Ozric Tentacles Sliding Gliding Worlds | 4.0 |
| Ozric Tentacles Floating Seeds | 3.5 |
| P. Lion Springtime | 4.0 |
| Pain (SWE) Rebirth | 3.0 |
| Pain of Salvation The Perfect Element, Part 1 | 4.5 |
| Pain of Salvation Remedy Lane | 4.0 |
| Parade Ground Moan On The Sly | 4.0 |
| Paradise Lost Paradise Lost | 4.0 |
| Paradise Lost Lost Paradise | 2.0 |
| Paradise Lost In Requiem | 3.5 |
| Paradise Lost Draconian Times | 3.0 |
| Paradise Lost Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us | 4.0 |
| Paradise Lost Obsidian | 3.0 |
| Paradise Lost Tragic Idol | 4.0 |
| Paralysed Age Christened Child | 3.5 |
| Parkway Drive Killing with a Smile | 4.0 |
| Paul Young No Parlez | 4.0 |
| Pelican City of Echoes | 3.5 |
| Pelican Ataraxia/Taraxis | 3.5 |
| Penal Colony Put Your Hands Down | 4.0 |
| Penal Colony Unfinished Business | 4.0 |
| Penal Colony Multicoloured Shades | 3.5 |
| Pere Ubu The Art Of Walking | 4.5 |
Finally got time to check this album out after years of only having Dub Housing and New Picnic
Time (both amazing, NPT even one of my top 10 all time favourite post-punk albums).
This one here is even more strange and experimental. And I'm glad Allan Ravenstine (synths) gets
even more spotlight on The Art Of Walking. After some listens the album unfolds more and more.
Song ratings:
1. Go (4.1)
2. Rhapsody In Pink (4.3)
3. Arabia (4.2)
4. Young Miles In The Basement (4.0)
5. Misery Goats (4.7)
6. Loop (4.4)
7. Rounder (3.9)
8. Birdies (4.7)
9. Lost In Art (4.6)
10. Horses (3.9)
11. Crush This Horn (4.3)
Rating: 4.28. I still rate the album 4.5 because I love to listen the whole album, it brings me to
nice colourful and weird places in my mind (also the sound and atmosphere reminds me somehow of
the graphics in James Pond 2 Robocod, an Amiga 500 game).
I also found the song Arabian Knights, it's very similar to Arabia, just with David's vocals.
(4.2) |
| Pere Ubu Dub Housing | 4.0 |
| Pere Ubu New Picnic Time | 4.5 |
| Can't someone make a review about this album? Well I can't believe New Picnic Time now is one of my most played albums. Was hard to get into it but now that I love all 10 songs it's almost easy listening for me. I love every single sound and everything about how David sings no matter how weird he does it. The synthesizer and guitar are also very well used together. It even entered my all time top 10 post-punk albums list on sputnikmusic and there's no end in sight! |
| Pere Ubu Song Of The Bailing Man | 4.0 |
| Pere Ubu The Modern Dance | 4.0 |
| Pere Ubu Worlds in Collision | 3.0 |
| Periphery Periphery | 4.0 |
| Peter Schilling Fehler Im System | 3.5 |
| Phil Collins ...But Seriously | 4.0 |
| PIG Praise The Lard | 4.5 |
A wonderful album perfect for spring (like Revolting Cocks - Beers Steers & Queers for example).
You can clearly hear the influences of J. G. Thirlwell (Foetus), especially the lyrics but also
the sound. I really like the clever lyrics here and the song structures.
It doesn't matter who does what better, just stop comparing you idiots and just enjoy the albums
for what they are or you will end up only liking maybe 50-60 albums instead of 900 albums like me. |
| PIG The Swining | 3.5 |
| PIG A Poke in the Eye... With a Sharp Stick | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd Meddle | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets | 4.0 |
| Pink Turns Blue Meta | 4.0 |
| Pink Turns Blue If Two Worlds Kiss | 3.0 |
| Pink Turns Blue Aerdt | 4.0 |
I'm thankful I have this hard to find album. Songs like Seven Years, Andy, Aerdt, Genuine and Dec.
24 are so dreamy, perfect for watching the stars and moon at night, also perfect for cold autumn
days.
Must be great when you have to get up after 6am, but you wake up at 1am deciding to enjoy the look
out of the window while listening to this album. |
| Pitchshifter Desensitized | 3.5 |
| Pitchshifter Industrial | 3.5 |
| pizzamachine Sorry Haterz | 2.0 |
| Plaid Rest Proof Clockwork | 4.0 |
| Play Dead (ENG) From The Promised Land | 3.5 |
| Play Dead (ENG) The First Flower | 3.0 |
| Pneumatic Detach [vis·cer·a] | 4.0 |
Very good industrial noise album. More experimental than for example SAM, Soman, Xotox, Noisuf-X
etc. Also with some breakcore influences and some complex rhythm sections not far from idm &
glitch.
I love the album cover it fits nicely with the meaty, industrial sounds on the album. Next to
S.K.E.T. - Baikonur this is a rhythmic noise album I love to come back to from time to time (even
if I also like SAM, Soman and Xotox).
Favourite songs:
1. Patternerase
2. Domination (Short Mix) / Putrescence
4. Holowh / Sona / Embers
7. Separator / Relentless / Dischordant
10. Mindless Brutal Apparatus / Moment Of Comprehension |
| Pneumatic Detach [pa·re·ses] | 3.5 |
| Pneumatic Detach Irreversible | 4.0 |
| Pneumatic Detach [re·vis·cer·a] | 3.5 |
| Poison the Well The Opposite of December | 4.0 |
| Portico Quartet Isla | 4.0 |
| Portishead Dummy | 3.0 |
| Powerman 5000 Tonight the Stars Revolt | 3.5 |
| Pride and Fall In My Time of Dying | 4.5 |
| Pride and Fall Elements of Silence | 4.0 |
| Pride and Fall Of Lust And Desire | 4.0 |
| Procol Harum Procol Harum | 4.0 |
| Proem Socially Inept | 4.5 |
| Proem You Shall Have Ever Been | 4.0 |
| Proem Among Others | 4.0 |
| Project Pitchfork Kaskade | 4.0 |
| Project Pitchfork Daimonion | 4.0 |
| Project Pitchfork Eon:Eon | 3.5 |
| Project Pitchfork IO | 4.5 |
| Project Pitchfork Lam-'bras | 4.0 |
| Project Pitchfork View From A Throne | 4.0 |
| Project Pitchfork Alpha Omega | 4.0 |
| Project Pitchfork Corps D'amour | 4.0 |
| Project Pitchfork Inferno | 4.5 |
| Project Pitchfork Dream, Tiresias! | 4.0 |
| Promethean Misery Tied Up With Strings | 4.0 |
| Psyclon Nine Divine Infekt | 4.0 |
| Public Image Ltd. Metal Box | 4.5 |
| Pulse State With A Single Step | 4.0 |
| qebrus ⊶⊑∷⌊∴⊹∵⌉∷⊒⊷ | 4.0 |
| Quantic Apricot Morning | 3.5 |
| Quantum Fantay Agapanthusterra | 3.5 |
| Quantum Fantay Ugisiunsi | 4.5 |
| I am absolutely thankful this exists and that I have it. Not many people seem to have it so it's great I can listen to it whenever I need it.rI am thankful in general about every psychedelic band and album that exists (both rock & electronic). |
| Quantum Fantay Kaleidothrope | 4.0 |
| Quintessence (UK) In Blissful Company | 4.0 |
| Radian Radian | 4.0 |
| Radian Chimeric | 4.5 |
| Radian Rec.Extern | 4.0 |
| Radian Juxtaposition | 4.5 |
| Radian On Dark Silent Off | 4.5 |
Like all the releases before this album Radian once more proved they're worthy to be one of my top
6 all time favourite bands. Their mix of post-rock & IDM is amazing and all 48 songs I have of
them so far are great.
I like that they have their own unique way of how they make music. It's great to get lost into
their albums. |
| Radian TG11 | 4.0 |
| Radian Distorted Rooms | 4.0 |
| Radian & Howe Gelb Radian verses Howe Gelb | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 4.5 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 4.5 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 4.5 |
| Rag'n'Bone Man Human | 2.0 |
| Rahsaan Roland Kirk Domino | 4.0 |
| Rapture Silent Stage | 4.5 |
| Rapture Songs for the Withering | 4.0 |
| Raunchy Confusion Bay | 3.0 |
| Re:Legion 13 Seconds | 4.0 |
I didn't know or expect this band was already on here. Was preparing to add them to the database.
Today I finally dug out this album after more than 10 years. Bought it in 2007 but only listened
to few songs then. Another nice futurepop album with almost all songs avoiding the standard 3
chorus routine. |
| Real Life Heartland | 4.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Freaky Styley | 3.5 |
| Red Lorry Yellow Lorry Talk About the Weather | 3.5 |
| Reverend Glasseye Our Lady of the Broken Spine | 2.0 |
| Reverend Glasseye Black River Falls | 3.0 |
| Revolting Cocks Beers, Steers + Queers | 4.0 |
| Robert Lippok Redsuperstructure | 4.0 |
| Rosalie Cunningham Rosalie Cunningham | 3.0 |
| Rotersand Welcome to Goodbye | 4.5 |
| Rotersand Truth is Fanatic | 3.5 |
| Rotersand 1023 | 4.0 |
This album did grow on me years after release. Now I understand it much better. Welcome To Goodbye
is untouchable and still one of the best futurepop albums of all time but I like how they
experiment on 1023. There's an acoustic guitar, trip-hop and ambient influences, the songs are
often slower but I like how they unfold. Songs like I Am With You have nice song structures, after
the 2nd chorus the song takes off and never returns, I love that kind of creativity. |
| Rotersand Random is Resistance | 4.0 |
| Rotersand Capitalism TM | 2.0 |
It started good with the first 2 songs, then of course all went downhill with the songs after it
which are too predictable for Rotersand's standards. This was the first album in 7 years after the
great Random Is Resistance (the 3 before were also amazing) and I wasn't mentally able to get
through this piece of garbage.
It's the same as it was with VNV Nation - Noire, both began very well but the following songs
destroy everything. I will always love Rotersand's first 4 albums but this one here, I will never
listen to it again. |
| Roxy Music For Your Pleasure | 4.5 |
| Ruby Haunt Watching the Grass Grow | 4.0 |
| Run Level Zero Walk The Psycho[Path] | 4.5 |
| Run Level Zero Arctic Noise | 4.0 |
| Run Level Zero Symbol Of Submission | 3.5 |
| Run Level Zero And Thus We Walked | 4.0 |
| Run Level Zero Swaerm | 3.5 |
| S.K.E.T. Baikonur | 4.0 |
| Sabrepulse Famicom Connection | 3.5 |
| Sad Lovers and Giants The Mirror Test | 4.5 |
| Sad Lovers and Giants Feeding the Flame | 5.0 |
| Sad Lovers and Giants Epic Garden Music | 4.0 |
| Sad Lovers and Giants Treehouse Poetry | 4.0 |
I wish there is a review of this album, it's almost unknown compared to their first 3 albums. One
of my all time favourite post-punk bands. Years ago I even had to add this album because it wasn't
on sputnikmusic.
This album is perfect for early september days when it still can be sunny and warm but you realize
summer will not stay too long. It's a very easy album, easy to like and get lost into it. |
| Sad Lovers and Giants Headland | 3.0 |
| Saltillo Monocyte | 4.0 |
| Saltillo Ganglion | 4.0 |
| SAM SYNTHETIC ADRENALINE MUSIC | 4.0 |
Still very nice industrial-techno, nice mix of rhythmic noise and hardstyle (not normally my genre
but it sounds great here), also nice atmospheres. And the album cover fits nice.
1. Hard Technology / Compactor
3. Epic / 24 Stunden
5. Black Rubber Dance / Rorschachtest / Ascent
8. Enemy List / Sex und Gewalt
10. Time Envelope
11. Chaos and Confusion / Filter / Syntax Error
14. Synthetic Vision / Trapperfieber / Therapie
I'm glad I have all 3 albums. |
| SAM Destruction Unit | 4.0 |
| SAM Brainwasher | 3.5 |
| Santa Hates You You're On The Naughty List | 4.0 |
| Saosin Saosin | 3.0 |
| Saturate The Point of No Return | 4.0 |
| Saturate Soul Element | 4.0 |
| Saturnus Martyre | 3.5 |
| Savage Republic Ceremonial | 3.5 |
| Savage Republic Tragic Figures | 4.0 |
| Saves the Day Through Being Cool | 4.0 |
| Scar Symmetry Pitch Black Progress | 2.0 |
| Scars (SCO) Author! Author! | 4.0 |
| Scary Kids Scaring Kids The City Sleeps In Flames | 3.5 |
| Schaft Switchblade | 2.5 |
| Scott Walker The Drift | 4.5 |
| Scott Walker Tilt | 4.0 |
| Scott Walker Bish Bosch | 4.0 |
| Seabound Double-Crosser | 4.5 |
| Seabound No Sleep Demon V2.0 | 4.5 |
| a very fine futurepop album, this time with a vocal version of Avalost, which's much better than the instrumental one.rI know what futurepop is about, too many people on this site always want highly emotional music, this is NOT what futurepop (or EBM, industrial etc) is about.rMany futurepop albums are perfect for autumn, some good for spring and summer.rI like the atmosphere in songs like Point Break, Avalost, Smoke and Travelling. Many electronic genres are good for me to use my imagination and let it run wild. |
| Seabound Speak In Storms | 4.0 |
| Secede Tryshasla | 3.5 |
| Section 25 Always Now | 3.0 |
| Seether Karma And Effect | 3.5 |
| Senking Capsize Recovery | 4.0 |
| Senses Fail Let It Enfold You | 3.5 |
| Sero.Overdose Heading For Tomorrow | 4.0 |
The other user clearly has bad ears. There are songs I like like Tiny Snail, Wut and The Chamber.
Edit:
I'm glad I dug this album out again after years, Like the 3 mentioned songs I also really like
Tears In Rain, Lost Alone, Fire, Your Road and Two Faces. Well none of the songs on the album is
bad, they're all listenable, also: 8 of 12 songs only have 2 choruses, means it is a typical
futurepop album, I like how many albums of the genre have well structured songs. |
| Sero.Overdose No Time For Silence | 3.5 |
| Shakti A Handful of Beauty | 4.5 |
| Shpongle Are You Shpongled? | 4.0 |
| Shpongle Ineffable Mysteries from Shpongleland | 4.5 |
| Shpongle Tales of the Inexpressible | 4.5 |
| Shpongle Museum of Consciousness | 3.5 |
| Shpongle Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost | 4.0 |
| Sigh Imaginary Sonicscape | 4.5 |
| Silverstein Discovering the Waterfront | 4.0 |
| Silverstein A Shipwreck in the Sand | 3.5 |
| Simple Minds Reel to Real Cacophony | 4.0 |
| Siouxsie and the Banshees Juju | 4.0 |
| Siouxsie and the Banshees A Kiss in the Dreamhouse | 4.0 |
| Siouxsie and the Banshees Join Hands | 2.0 |
| Siouxsie and the Banshees Tinderbox | 3.5 |
| Skeletal Family Burning Oil | 4.0 |
| Skeletal Family Futile Combat | 3.5 |
| Skinny Puppy Cleanse Fold and Manipulate | 4.0 |
| Skinny Puppy VIVIsectVI | 5.0 |
| Skinny Puppy Too Dark Park | 4.5 |
| Skinny Puppy Last Rights | 4.0 |
| Skinny Puppy Rabies | 2.5 |
| Skinny Puppy Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse | 4.0 |
| Skrape New Killer America | 2.5 |
| Slackbaba And The Beat Goes Om | 4.5 |
| Slackbaba Perverting Mankind | 4.0 |
| Slayer Seasons in the Abyss | 4.0 |
| Slayer Reign in Blood | 4.5 |
| Sleep Sleep's Holy Mountain | 4.5 |
| Sleep Volume One | 3.5 |
| sleepmakeswaves Love of Cartography | 5.0 |
After only 5 days of listening this album has made it to "classic" and I feel it will never
change. The magic will never fade. This brings me to another planet where this album is legendary,
sold millions and the first 2 songs on it were number one singles.
The planet is more progressive, peaceful and optimistic, and the night sky always is a mix of
black, purple and dark blue, it's also roughly 24 hours a day but
there it's always cold, late autumn-like with only 6 hours of daylight
Here a song rating (only the 8 main songs):
1. Perfect Detonator 5.0
2. Traced In Constellations 5.0
3. Emergent 4.9
4. Great Northern 5.0
5. The Stars Are Stigmata 4.7
6. How We Built The Ocean 4.9
7. Something Like Avalanches 4.8
8. Your Time Will Come Again 5.0
I can't believe it myself but that's really how I rate the songs, might be one of my highest rated
albums ever (9.8 of 10) |
| sleepmakeswaves Made Of Breath Only | 5.0 |
It's really incredible that they managed to follow up the immense Love Of Cartography with an
album like this. I tried to go into this album with as little expectation as possible, only
checked it out after more than half a year after LoC.
While LoC ruled everything in 2020 when I discovered it (And I discovered many amazing albums btw)
this year Made Of Breath Only did the same and is on first place in my 2021 list, followed by
bands like Daylight Dies (Dismantling Devotion) etc.
I love the glacial and frosty atmosphere on the album. What a journey this album is!
edit:
yes while of course it's not a perfect album by any means I had to bump it up from 4.5 to 5.0
(Love Of Cartography has the same rating since 5 days after I discovered it in 2020) because the
world it takes me to is just too immense and beautiful. I still just can't get over those 2
albums, at least in my world they're classics. Now I need to check out their 1st one at some
point. |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 2.0 |
| Slipknot Iowa | 2.0 |
| SMP Stalemate | 3.5 |
| SMP Terminal | 4.0 |
Discovered it today. Only knew Stalemate, listened to that years ago.
Terminal is a nice hybrid of industrial, rock and hip-hop, many songs are nicely crafted and often
avoid normal 3 chorus routines.
I also like how the vocals sound, reminds me of good old us-coldwave days.
Discovered some very nice industrial albums lately, this one here and Flesh Field - Strain. |
| SND Atavism | 3.5 |
| Sodom Persecution Mania | 2.5 |
| Soft Cell Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret | 3.0 |
| Solar Fields Reflective Frequencies | 4.0 |
| Solar Fields Blue Moon Station | 4.5 |
| Solar Fields Leaving Home | 4.5 |
| Solitary Experiments Mind Over Matter | 4.0 |
Atmosphere-wise it's one of the best albums with november atmosphere and one of the best of
futurepop & modern EBM. Not really perfect as an album but there are many great songs that stand
on their own and are beautiful.
Favourite songs:
1. Homesick / Downfall / Pale Candle-Light
4. Delight
5. Still Alive
6. War & Peace / Odyssey Of Mind / Apologize
9. Counterpart
10. Self-Deception |
| SPK Auto Da Fé | 3.5 |
| SPK Information Overload Unit | 4.0 |
| SPK Leichenschrei | 4.0 |
| Stairway Maze Hollow Spaces | 4.0 |
| Static-X Shadow Zone | 2.0 |
| Staubkind Zu Weit | 2.0 |
Tried this album, no thanks. Every song follows the same tired 3 chorus routine with lazy and
lackluster songwriting. The songs sound like they could have been made within a few hours, there's
nothing interesting to be found.
Don't get how someone could call this dark wave or gothic rock, this sounds more like a poppy nu
metal album, nothing more. Kinda similar to Unheilig, ASP, Eisbrecher, Oomph and so on, can't
stand any of them because of weakly and too predictably structured songs.
this is just wannabe goth for girlies. completely dull and meaningless. |
| Stellardrone Invent the Universe | 4.5 |
| Stellardrone On A Beam Of Light | 3.0 |
| Stendeck Folgor | 4.0 |
| Stendeck Sonnambula | 4.5 |
| Just another electronic gem (there are hundreds of them), great atmosphere kind of cold, perfect for october. it starts on an amazing way with the first 2 songs.rlike I often said there are many great electronic genres it's great to get lost in them. In electronic music everything is possible. |
| Stendeck Scintilla | 4.5 |
| Stendeck Faces | 4.5 |
| Stendeck Can You Hear My Call? | 4.0 |
| Steve Hauschildt Strands | 3.0 |
| Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 1 | 2.5 |
| Stone The Crow (GER) Reduce To The Max | 4.0 |
| Stone The Crow (GER) Year Of The Crow | 4.0 |
| Stone The Crow (GER) Daylight | 3.0 |
| Stone The Crow (GER) Fitting The Pieces | 3.5 |
| Strapping Young Lad City | 4.5 |
| Subheim Approach | 4.0 |
| Subheim No Land Called Home | 4.0 |
| Subheim Foray | 3.5 |
| Suffocation Pierced from Within | 4.5 |
| Suffocation Suffocation | 3.5 |
| Suicide Commando Bind, Torture, Kill | 4.0 |
| Suicide Commando Stored Images | 4.0 |
| Suicide Commando Axis of Evil | 3.5 |
| Sunny Day Real Estate How It Feels To Be Something On | 4.5 |
| Suzi Quatro Suzi Quatro | 3.0 |
| Swallow the Sun The Morning Never Came | 4.5 |
| Swamp Terrorists Grim - Stroke - Disease | 4.0 |
| Swamp Terrorists Grow-Speed-Injection | 4.0 |
| Swamp Terrorists Combat Shock | 3.5 |
| Swamp Terrorists Wreck | 3.5 |
| Swans Cop | 4.0 |
| Swans Filth | 4.0 |
| Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky | 3.5 |
| Swans Soundtracks for the Blind | 2.5 |
This one just doesn't do it for me. I get a lot of experimental albums after first listen (or
second) like The Drift by Scott Walker, both This Heat albums, The Art Of Walking by Pere Ubu (and
the other earlier ones) and all albums by Radian for example, and Pale Hands I Loved So Well by
Eyeless In Gaza (one of my all time favourite bands). I absolutely adore those albums I mentioned.
But I just can't give this one more than 2.5 because I just don't feel anything. Maybe Swans just
aren't my cup of tea. Only my own music world is important for me and Swans are playing only a
small role in it. |
| Switched Subject to Change | 4.0 |
| Switched Ghosts in the Machine | 3.5 |
| Sybreed Antares | 4.5 |
| Synnack V2 | 3.5 |
| Syrian Alien Nation | 2.0 |
| System Syn Strangers | 2.0 |
| T3chn0ph0b1a Grave New World | 2.0 |
| Taake Over Bjoergvin Graater Himmerik | 4.5 |
| Taake Hordalands Doedskvad | 4.5 |
| Tactical Sekt Syncope | 4.0 |
| Tactical Sekt Burn Process | 4.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends | 4.0 |
| Talk Talk It's My Life | 4.0 |
| Talk Talk Dum Dum Girl | 4.0 |
| Talking Heads Remain in Light | 4.0 |
| Tame Impala Innerspeaker | 4.0 |
| Tame Impala Lonerism | 4.5 |
| Taproot Blue-Sky Research | 3.5 |
| Tears for Fears The Hurting | 4.0 |
| Technoir Deliberately Fragile | 4.0 |
| Testament The New Order | 4.0 |
| Textures Silhouettes | 4.5 |
| Textures Drawing Circles | 4.0 |
| The Associates The Affectionate Punch | 4.5 |
| The Associates Sulk | 4.0 |
| The Azoic Illuminate | 3.5 |
| The Band Stage Fright | 4.0 |
| The Catch Balance On Wires | 3.5 |
| The Chameleons Strange Times | 4.5 |
| The Chameleons What Does Anything Mean? Basically | 4.0 |
| The Chameleons Script of the Bridge | 5.0 |
| The Clay People Firetribe | 3.5 |
| The Clay People The Clay People | 2.0 |
| The Coffinshakers The Coffinshakers | 3.5 |
| The Comsat Angels Fiction | 4.0 |
favourite songs are clearly What Else!? and Not A Word, those even belong to my all time favourite
Comsat Angels songs, are up there with the best on Sleep No More (a post-punk classic). Birdman,
Now I Know and Zinger are also very good, others are decent to average. Still a nice post-punk
album, on a good 34th rank in my post-punk albums list.
Once more Andy Peake shows why he is one of my personal keyboard heroes of post-punk (next to
others like Dave Formula of Magazine). |
| The Comsat Angels Sleep No More | 5.0 |
| The Comsat Angels Waiting for a Miracle | 4.0 |
| The Comsat Angels My Mind's Eye | 3.0 |
| The Cosmic Jokers Galactic Supermarket | 4.5 |
This album deserves a rating above 4. Kinder Des Alls is a great song, and then Galactic
Supermarket. It really takes me to a real galactic supermarket somewhere in the exosphere of the
earth (far above the ISS).
It's a wonderful place where you can buy everything you ever dreamed of.rWith glowing yellow tiles
(and blue-red lines between them) you walk on. Why the hell does that place not exist in reality. |
| The Cosmic Jokers The Cosmic Jokers | 4.0 |
| The Crooked Fiddle Band The Crooked Fiddle Band | 4.0 |
| The Crooked Fiddle Band Rise | 3.5 |
| The Crooked Fiddle Band Overgrown Tales | 3.5 |
| The Crooked Fiddle Band Moving Pieces Of The Sea | 4.0 |
| The Cruxshadows Ethernaut | 4.0 |
| The Cruxshadows ...Night Crawls In | 4.0 |
| The Cure The Top | 3.5 |
| The Cure Pornography | 4.5 |
| The Cure Faith | 4.5 |
| The Cure Seventeen Seconds | 3.5 |
| The Cure Charlotte Sometimes (Single) | 4.0 |
| The Cure Disintegration | 4.5 |
| The Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Out | 4.0 |
| The Electric Hellfire Club Electronomicon | 3.5 |
| The Essence Purity | 3.5 |
| The Fair Sex Demented Forms | 4.0 |
| The Fair Sex Bite Release Bite | 4.0 |
| The Fall Extricate | 3.0 |
| The Fall The Wonderful And Frightening World Of The Fall | 3.5 |
| The Fall Hex Enduction Hour | 4.5 |
| The Fall Dragnet | 3.5 |
| The Flaming Lips The Terror | 4.5 |
| The Flashbulb Arboreal | 4.0 |
| The Flashbulb These Open Fields | 4.0 |
| The Flashbulb Kirlian Selections | 3.5 |
| The Foreshadowing Days of Nothing | 4.0 |
| The Frozen Autumn Pale Awakening | 4.5 |
| What a wonderful darkwave-album. Perfect for autumn. The sound is often icy cold, but the vocalist's voice is very warm.rTypical melancholic stuff but all 10 songs are very enjoyable. |
| The Frozen Autumn Chirality | 3.5 |
| The Frozen Autumn Fragments of Memories | 3.5 |
| The Infinity Project Mystical Experiences | 4.5 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold as Love | 4.5 |
| The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble | 4.0 |
| The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble Here Be Dragons | 4.0 |
| The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble From the Stairwell | 4.5 |
| The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble Mutations | 3.0 |
| The Kings Of Frog Island II | 2.0 |
| The Lucy Show ...Undone | 3.5 |
| The Mission God's Own Medicine | 3.5 |
| The Monochrome Set Love Zombies | 4.0 |
| The Names Swimming | 3.5 |
| The Peaking Goddess Collective Organika | 4.5 |
| The Rasmus Dead Letters | 2.0 |
| The Sisters of Mercy First and Last and Always | 4.0 |
| The Sisters of Mercy Floodland | 4.0 |
| The Sound From The Lion's Mouth | 4.0 |
| The Sound Jeopardy | 3.0 |
| The Sound Shock of Daylight | 4.0 |
| The Sound All Fall Down | 4.0 |
| The Stranglers Aural Sculpture | 3.5 |
| The Teardrop Explodes Wilder | 4.0 |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico | 4.0 |
| The Wake Harmony | 3.5 |
| The Weeknd After Hours | 1.5 |
| The Wolfgang Press The Burden of Mules | 3.0 |
| The Wolfgang Press Standing Up Straight | 4.0 |
| Theatre of Hate Westworld | 4.0 |
| Theatre Of Tragedy Velvet Darkness They Fear | 4.5 |
| This Ascension Light And Shade | 4.5 |
| This Ascension Tears In Rain | 4.5 |
| This Ascension Walk Softly, A Dream Lies Here | 4.5 |
| This Heat This Heat | 4.5 |
| This Heat Deceit | 4.5 |
| Thompson Twins Into the Gap | 4.0 |
| Threat Signal Under Reprisal | 4.5 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 4.0 |
| Thursday Full Collapse | 4.5 |
| Tiamat A Deeper Kind of Slumber | 3.5 |
| Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 | 4.5 |
| Tineidae Shadows | 4.5 |
| Tinfed Tried + True | 1.5 |
| Tinfed Hypersonic Hyperphonic | 4.0 |
| Tinfed Synaptic Hardware | 4.0 |
| Tonikom Seeking the Lost Mind | 4.0 |
It's always a great feeling when I just discovered another nice IDM album from an artist I didn't
know until then.
Atmosphere-wise it's another futuristic subway station IDM album, like for example Subheim -
Approach, Integral - Rise, Totakeke - The Things That Disappear... and Architect - Consume Adapt
Create, I adore those.
This one by Tonikom was quite easy to get into and it's a journey of slightly over 1 hour.
Just as with those 4 mentioned albums there is not a single song on it I don't like or that I
would usually skip. I love coming back to IDM albums from time to time just to get sucked into its
atmosphere and leave reality for hours. |
| Tool Undertow | 3.5 |
| Tool Ænima | 4.0 |
| Tool Lateralus | 4.5 |
| Tool Fear Inoculum | 4.5 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 4.0 |
| Tor Lundvall Ice | 4.5 |
| Tor Lundvall Empty City | 4.0 |
| Tor Lundvall Yule | 4.0 |
| Tor Lundvall The Shipyard | 4.5 |
Really a wonderful album. Lovely atmosphere. Sometimes rainy sometimes foggy but never sunny.
I really like his other album "Sleeping And Hiding" where he sings on all the songs (but without
choruses thankfully, the lyrics fit nicely) but albums like The Shipyard are nice places / worlds
to dive into and get lost in them.
Next to the 9 songs from this album I also found 2 bonus songs which are excellent as well,
especially "The Shipyard In Winter" is adorable
(they're on his bandcamp for example).
It's always great when you can visit all kinds of places and worlds without leaving your room. |
| Tor Lundvall Sleeping and Hiding | 4.0 |
| Tor Lundvall Last Light | 4.5 |
| Tor Lundvall A Dark Place | 4.0 |
| Tor Lundvall The Mist | 4.0 |
| Tortoise TNT | 2.0 |
| Totakeke The Things That Disappear When I Close My Eyes | 4.0 |
| Totakeke eLekatota - The Other Side Of The Tracks | 4.0 |
| Trance To The Sun Ghost Forest | 4.0 |
| Trapt Someone in Control | 3.5 |
| Tricky Maxinquaye | 4.0 |
| Tricky Pre-Millenium Tension | 4.0 |
| Tripswitch Circuit Breaker | 4.0 |
| Trisomie 21 Passions divisees | 4.0 |
| Tuxedomoon Half-Mute | 2.5 |
| I loved the album "Desire" from the first listen but I never got into this album. Sounded unfinished and uninteresting sometimes. Some songs on it could have been much longer with more time to unfold. |
| Tuxedomoon Desire | 4.0 |
| Twisted Method Escape From Cape Coma | 3.0 |
| Type O Negative October Rust | 4.0 |
| Type O Negative Bloody Kisses | 4.0 |
| Udo Lindenberg Götterhämmerung | 4.0 |
| Udo Lindenberg Stark Wie Zwei | 3.5 |
| Ufomammut Snailking | 5.0 |
| It's just wonderful space doom, and the perfect starting point for people new to this band. I also love the production. What I also always appreciate is the electronic sounds that add a lot to the atmosphere. |
| Ufomammut Idolum | 4.5 |
| Ufomammut Eve | 4.0 |
| Ufomammut Godlike Snake | 3.0 |
| Ufomammut ORO: Opus Primum | 3.5 |
| Ufomammut ORO: Opus Alter | 4.0 |
| Ufomammut Ecate | 4.0 |
| Ufomammut 8 | 4.0 |
| UK Decay New Hope for the Dead | 2.0 |
| UK Decay Rising From the Dread | 4.0 |
| This deserves 4.0 for the song Werewolf alone. The other 3 songs are solid and still quite listenable but never come close to the quality that Werewolf has. |
| UK Decay For Madmen Only | 4.0 |
| Ulaan Khol I | 4.0 |
| Ulaan Khol La Catacomb | 3.0 |
| Ultravox Quartet | 3.5 |
| Ultravox Rage In Eden | 4.0 |
| Ultravox Lament | 4.0 |
| Ulver Shadows of the Sun | 4.5 |
| Ulver Perdition City | 4.0 |
| Ulver Blood Inside | 4.0 |
| UNKLE Never, Never, Land | 4.0 |
| UNKLE Psyence Fiction | 4.0 |
| Unter Null The Failure Epiphany | 4.0 |
| Uriah Letters In Blood | 3.0 |
| Valley MAYBE | 2.0 |
| Van Halen 1984 | 4.0 |
| Velvet Acid Christ Maldire | 4.5 |
| Velvet Acid Christ Hex Angel: Utopia/Dystopia | 4.5 |
| Vendemmian Treacherous | 4.0 |
| Venetian Snares Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding | 4.0 |
| Venetian Snares The Chocolate Wheelchair Album | 4.0 |
| Venetian Snares Detrimentalist | 4.0 |
| Venom Black Metal | 2.5 |
| Vibravoid 2001 Love Is Freedom | 4.0 |
| Vibravoid Gravity Zero | 4.0 |
| Virgin Prunes ...If I Die, I Die | 4.0 |
| Vladislav Delay Kuopio | 4.0 |
| VNV Nation Matter and Form | 5.0 |
| Had to change this album from 4.5 to 5.0. It IS a classic to me and in december 2005 it was one of my personal landmark albums (next to Only Human Remains by Fractured) and both album changed everything in my music world back then.rAll songs are great, the weakest song is Colours Of Rain but all other are amazing and the album never lost anything of its magic. |
| VNV Nation Futureperfect | 4.5 |
| VNV Nation Empires | 4.0 |
| VNV Nation Judgement | 2.5 |
| VNV Nation Of Faith, Power and Glory | 3.0 |
| VNV Nation Noire | 2.0 |
This album started very promising with nice song structures, but what happened from Immersed on
really got me extremely angry. All songs from that song on suddenly got weaker and weaker, as if
Ronan just didn't care anymore and he throws everything that had potential away.
Predictable as hell with a lame and tired 3 chorus routine.
I want this album to get out of my face. There are at least around 40 futurepop albums that are
much better structured than this. Matter + Form, Futureperfect and Empires will always be the big
3 of VNV to me. Especially the first two mentioned are still among the best of the genre. |
| W.A.S.T.E. This Is What We Seek | 4.0 |
| Waclaw Zimpel Massive Oscillations | 4.0 |
| Waclaw Zimpel Train Spotter | 4.0 |
| Wang Chung Points On the Curve | 4.0 |
| Waterdown All Riot | 3.5 |
| We Came As Romans To Plant a Seed | 4.0 |
| White Rose Movement Kick | 3.5 |
| Wire The Drill | 4.5 |
For me this is a perfect album for december and when I'm playing Sonic 3 with the Sega emulator.
Then I can listen to all 9 songs in a row and they're all enjoyable to me. Still this is a very
strange album for a band like Wire. But I'm thankful that I discovered it years ago. They're all
remixes of one song and it's a positive surprise that no song sounds like the other.
Also people who give a bad rating just don't have imagination, that's what you need when you
listen to this album. |
| Wire 154 | 5.0 |
| Wire Chairs Missing | 4.0 |
| Wire Change Becomes Us | 4.0 |
| Wire A Bell Is A Cup Until It Is Struck | 2.0 |
| I listened to it years ago but most songs sound boring and repetitive. I gave it a chance but it just isn't for me. |
| Wire Send | 3.0 |
| Wolfsheim No Happy View | 4.0 |
| Worrytrain Worrytrain | 4.5 |
What an excellent ambient album, it's great to get lost into it, especially songs 2, 3, 4 (look in
the tracklist to see which ones I mean) have a great atmosphere that takes me far away from this
world into another. Songs 8 and 9 also belong to my favourites. I like all 10 songs, even the few
weaker ones are enjoyable. It's mostly beatless ambient with a cold, sometimes droney sound. It is
a real "hidden" gem that not many know about, and I listen to it very regularly.
Favourite songs:
1. Today I Saw An Angel..Today I Saw A Satellite
2. Cold Sleepwarm Sound
3. London's Fog & Burning / Flying High On Wounded Wings
5. Heaven's Ice Spread Downward / Goodbye Northern Lights
7. Via Madoline Ralley
8. Waking Up In The Marsh
9. Terminal Sunlight / Downism |
| Worrytrain Fog Dance, My Moth Kingdom | 3.5 |
| This is good but I love the self-titled album much more. The s-t has a wonderful dreamy atmosphere that makes me wish I am Guybrush Threepwood in Monkey Island 1, there are many amazing night landscapes with stars, or I wish I am Meathook who lives reclusive, and has his bed directly under a window. good for star watching while listenign to the self-titled Worrytrain album. |
| Worrytrain Sleeping Through The Endtimes | 3.5 |
| Wuthering Heights The Shadow Cabinet | 4.0 |
I really like the album cover, my favourite album cover of this band so it's no surprise I chose
this album be my first of them. Sounds very nice, normally I'm not a fan of power metal but it's
very good! I also like the year 2006 (same with 2005 and 2007) so I had to check it out. |
| Wynardtage Evil Mind | 4.0 |
| Wynardtage Praise The Fallen | 4.5 |
| Wynardtage A Flicker Of Hope | 4.5 |
A really underrated album by Wyn. Deserves a 4.0 from me because there are many enjoyable songs on
it. A Flicker Of Hope, White Frost, We Can Carry A Lot and the haunting Closer are up there with
his best songs he ever did.
Some harsh electro artists will always play an important role in my music world, for example
Fractured, Wynardtage, earlier Aesthetic Perfection, IWR, Some X-Fusion, Hocico, Die Sektor, ESC
(Eden Synthetic Corps), First 3 Heimataerde albums and Velvet Acid Christ, also Tactical Sekt,
Life Cried, Asphyxia, Distatix, Unter Null, Distorted Memory, Dawn Of Ashes, Suicide Commando,
Deadjump
Favourite songs on this album:
1. White Frost / Closer
3. We Can Carry A Lot / A Flicker Of Hope
5. Solitude
6. The Fall (feat. Unter Null)
7. Deep Red (feat. Damian Dior) / Taste This Rush
9. Blindfold (feat. Mel) / Alive / Slow The Tide
No Hurricane Age because that song was always on Praise The Fallen album (2007) but it's a great
song there. |
| Wynardtage The Grey Line | 4.0 |
| X-Fusion Demons Of Hate | 4.0 |
| X-Fusion Ultima Ratio | 3.5 |
| X-Fusion Rotten To The Core | 3.5 |
| X-Fusion Beyond The Pale | 3.0 |
| xanopticon Liminal Space | 4.5 |
| Xasthur Telepathic With The Deceased | 3.5 |
| Xasthur Nocturnal Poisoning | 3.5 |
| Xasthur A Gate Through Bloodstained Mirrors | 4.0 |
| Xela For Frosty Mornings and Summer Nights | 4.0 |
| Xhin Sword | 4.0 |
| Xhol Caravan Electrip | 4.0 |
| Xotox Psi | 4.0 |
| Yellowcard Southern Air | 2.5 |
Too pop-like for me. Always the same predictable 3 chorus routine on every song. It would have
been much better balanced if every second song would be less predictable with more unexpected
twists thrown in.
But it seems they're doing the same over and over again. The way this album is it just gets
tedious too quickly. The lyrics can be amazing all they want, it's not enough to save it for me. |
| Yendri Broken World | 4.0 |
| Yendri Malfunction | 4.0 |
| Younger Brother A Flock of Bleeps | 4.0 |
| Zeller Turbulences | 4.0 |
| Zeromancer Clone Your Lover | 2.0 |
| Zevious Passing Through The Wall | 4.0 |
| [:SITD:] Coded Message: 12 | 4.5 |
| [:SITD:] Stronghold | 4.0 |
| [:SITD:] Rot | 4.0 |
| [:SITD:] Icon:Koru | 4.0 |
| [:SITD:] Bestie:Mensch | 4.0 |
| [:SITD:] Odyssey: 13 | 4.0 |
| [:SITD:] Dunkelziffer | 4.0 |
| [:SITD:] Richtfest | 3.5 |
| [:SITD:] Trauma: Ritual | 3.5 |
| [:SITD:] Stunde X | 4.5 |
[:SITD:] are back to great form with this album after the mediocre last album.
Favourite songs:
1. Grenzenlos
2. Greater Heights / Miscreed
4. Sturmlicht / Benediction
6. Revelation / Olymp
8. Orbiter
9. Symptom / Drowning In The Flame
11. God's Blessing |
| [distatix] Medication | 4.0 |
