| '68 Yes, and... | 3.0 |
| '68 Two Parts Viper | 4.0 |
| (SOMA) If you See Me... (Let Me Be) | 3.5 |
| (waning) Still Hours | 3.5 |
| /A\ /A\ | 2.5 |
| 21 Savage american dream | 2.0 |
| 36 Crazyfists A Snow Capped Romance | 3.5 |
| 40 Watt Sun Perfect Light | 3.5 |
| 7 Angels 7 Plagues Jhazmyne's Lullaby | 4.0 |
| 72-HOUR POST FIGHT NON-BACKGROUND MUSIC | 3.5 |
| A Great Big Pile of Leaves Pono | 4.0 |
| A-Tota-So Lights Out | 3.0 |
| Abiotic Ikigai | 3.0 |
| Abnormality Mechanisms of Omniscience | 3.0 |
| Abnormality Contaminating the Hive Mind | 3.5 |
| Abyzou Aeternum | 3.5 |
| AC/DC Black Ice | 1.5 |
| AC/DC The Razors Edge | 2.0 |
| AC/DC For Those About To Rock We Salute You | 2.5 |
| AC/DC Highway To Hell | 3.0 |
| AC/DC Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap | 3.0 |
| AC/DC Back In Black | 3.0 |
| AC/DC High Voltage | 3.0 |
| AC/DC T.N.T. | 3.0 |
| Acausal Intrusion Nulitas | 3.0 |
| Acid Bath Paegan Terrorism Tactics | 4.0 |
| Acid Bath When the Kite String Pops | 4.5 |
| Acrimony Tumuli Shroomaroom | 3.0 |
| Adebisi Shank This is the Second Album | 3.5 |
| Adebisi Shank This is the Album | 4.0 |
| Adios Cometa La Isla Que Somos | 3.0 |
| Adolescents Adolescents | 4.0 |
| Adrift Black Heart Bleeds Black | 4.0 |
| Adrift Pure | 4.0 |
| Aduanten Sullen Cadence | 3.5 |
| Adult Books Grecian Urn | 3.5 |
| Adult Mom Driver | 2.5 |
| Adult Oriented Pop 06:15 AM | 3.5 |
| Aenigmatum Deconsecrate | 3.0 |
| Aeternam Al Qassam | 3.0 |
| Aeviterne The Ailing Facade | 4.0 |
| Affinity Trio Hindsight | 4.0 |
| After Altamont An Animal Orchestra Remixed | 3.0 |
| Agalloch The Mantle | 4.0 |
| Aglaia Three Organic Experiences | 4.0 |
| Agonanist The Cynicism of Solitude | 3.5 |
| Ai Kuwabara Trio Project The Sixth Sense | 4.0 |
| Air Talkie Walkie | 3.5 |
| Air The Virgin Suicides | 3.5 |
| Air Moon Safari | 4.5 |
| Airport People From Nine Mornings | 3.5 |
| AJR The Maybe Man | 1.5 |
| Akshara Absolution | 3.0 |
| Al Wootton Callers Spring | 3.5 |
| Alabaster DePlume Come with Fierce Grace | 3.5 |
| Alan Hovhaness Symphonies Nos. 4, 20 and 53; Prayer of St Gregory | 4.0 |
| Albert Ayler Love Cry | 4.0 |
| Albert Ayler Spiritual Unity | 5.0 |
| Alcest Kodama | 4.0 |
| Alchemy of Flesh Ageless Abominations | 3.0 |
| Alexander Hawkins Mirror Canon Break A Vase | 3.0 |
| Alexisonfire Otherness | 3.0 |
| Alexisonfire Alexisonfire | 4.0 |
| Alexisonfire Watch Out! | 4.0 |
| Alfie Templeman Forever Isn't Long Enough | 3.5 |
| Alfie Templeman Mellow Moon | 3.5 |
| Alice Phoebe Lou Shelter | 3.0 |
| Alice Phoebe Lou Paper Castles | 3.5 |
| Alicia Clara Outsider/Unusual | 3.0 |
| Alien Ant Farm ANThology | 3.0 |
| All That Remains Behind Silence and Solitude | 2.5 |
| All That Remains Overcome | 2.5 |
| Allan Holdsworth Road Games | 3.5 |
| Almog Sharvit Get Up or Cry | 4.0 |
| Aloa Input Devil's Diamond Memory Collection | 3.0 |
| Aloft Far | 3.5 |
| Alpha Hopper Alpha Hex Index | 2.0 |
| Alphabet Holds Hostage held hostage | 3.5 |
| Alphabet Holds Hostage truth in habitual | 3.5 |
| Alvvays Blue Rev | 4.0 |
| Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession | 4.5 |
| Amon Duul II Yeti | 4.0 |
| Amon Duul II Phallus Dei | 4.0 |
| Amon Tobin Permutation | 4.5 |
| Amorphis Queen of Time | 3.0 |
| Amyl and the Sniffers Comfort To Me | 3.5 |
| Anaal Nathrakh Endarkenment | 4.0 |
| Anchoress Stay Positive | 3.5 |
| Angel Olsen Big Time | 4.0 |
| Angry Son Pranks for the Memories | 3.5 |
| Anika Change | 3.5 |
| Animal Collective Time Skiffs | 3.0 |
| Animals As Leaders Weightless | 3.0 |
| As much of an AAL stan as I was for many years, I can't heap praise onto the all-important sophomore effort the 'group' launched way back when. Weightless is even more of an exercise in Tosin's individuality as a performer than the excellent self-titled debut as he is the only member to demonstrate any sort of vitality - and even that might be overstatement. Besides an uninspired, half-digital rhythm section, Tosin's leads are occasionally gorgeous but mostly soulless. We're fortunate that AAL picked it up with their next release. |
| Animals As Leaders Parrhesia | 3.0 |
| The reactionary grown-up ex-Djentist in me wants to take a big giant crap all over this but it's actually..better than expected. The record does bog and the wank is obscene, but the tunes are nice and there's way more ear candy than on their last record. Plus, Red Miso is one of their best tracks in ages. |
| Annie Hart Everything Pale Blue | 2.5 |
| Annihilus (US-CHI) Follow A Song from the Sky | 2.5 |
| Another Sky Music For Winter Vol. 1 | 3.0 |
| Antarctic Antarctic | 4.0 |
| Anti-God Hand Wretch | 3.5 |
| Antre Dark Spectrum | 3.0 |
| Aphex Twin Come to Daddy | 3.5 |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album | 4.0 |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II | 4.0 |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 4.5 |
| Arch Echo You Won't Believe What Happens Next! | 3.0 |
| Arch Echo are pure fun. Unpretentious, lovely hooks and rhythms, some surprisingly heavy riffage playing off carnival synths. This record doesn't quite live up to their debut album, but it has plenty to offer. |
| Arch Echo Story I | 3.5 |
| Archspire Relentless Mutation | 3.5 |
| Archspire Bleed the Future | 3.5 |
| Arcing Wires Prime | 2.5 |
| Aretha Franklin Young Gifted and Black | 4.5 |
| Ariana Grande Eternal Sunshine | 3.0 |
| Arktida На Горизонте | 2.5 |
| My recollections of listening to Na Gorizonte > 10 years ago parallel my recollections of middle school. At the time I was fully engrossed, imagining that I was graced with the pinnacle of human experience, and all too convinced that what lay before me would define my life. When these memories surface, I feel a little silly, but it's okay to indulge your inner preteen at times. Arktida's first major release does not hold up for its combination of cliches and poor production choices, but it serves as a benchmark for my taste evolution, if nothing else. |
| Arktida Не Стоит Слёз | 3.0 |
| Arktida Сквозь Столетия | 4.0 |
| Grand choruses, sweeping emotional verses, cheesy orchestral accompaniment; Skvoz' stoletiya is certainly a generic power metal album, but it's a generic power metal album delivered in Russian. 9 years later and Arktida still tug at my heartstrings |
| Arlo Parks Collapsed in Sunbeams | 2.5 |
| Arlo Parks My Soft Machine | 3.0 |
| Armand Hammer and The Alchemist Haram | 4.0 |
| Arminda K It's Nearly Night Time | 3.0 |
| Arnold Rosner Rosner: Requiem, Op. 59 | 5.0 |
| Aronious Perspicacity | 3.0 |
| Aronious flex a little too hard with this one. It's one thing to pack your album to the brim with technically accomplished riffage in the name of prog tech death; it's another to straight up overwhelm the listener with riffs on track after track. Far too often do Aronious leave the listener in the dust on Perspicacity, which is a darn shame as there is a lot of good stuff lurking below the surface here. Aronious should have cut the record in 1/2, saved some ideas for later, and polished what's left. They do have the tools to create an astonishingly brilliant tech death record, they just need to exercise restraint to get there. |
| Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, and Shahzad Ismaily Love In Exile | 4.0 |
| Arovane Reihen | 3.5 |
| Arrowounds The Rise and Fall of the Melting World | 2.5 |
| Ars Magna Umbrae Throne Between Worlds | 3.0 |
| Art Blakey Moanin' | 4.5 |
| Artificial Brain Artificial Brain | 3.5 |
| Arya For Ever | 3.0 |
| There are flashes of promise from Arya's Oct. 2020 release. The production is generally spotless, the clean vocals are wide-ranging and mostly powerful, and the instrumentals, when firing on all cylinders, are complex and well-executed. Sadly, though, this record falls short of its grand ambitions. Long, uninteresting ambient sections serve as bridges between tracks that try earnestly to stand on their own as prog metal opuses - Arya look to achieve some sort of Ephel Duath-experimental brilliance, but their meandering compositions look disingenuously haphazard. The variation across tracks is calculated, yes, but not cohesive and not part of a broader story. Overall, For Ever shows a high degree of promise, but Arya could benefit from more time at the drawing board. Oh, and the male harshes suck. |
| As Cities Burn Hell or High Water | 4.0 |
| As I Lay Dying Awakened | 2.5 |
| As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse | 3.0 |
| As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security | 3.0 |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us | 3.5 |
| As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise | 3.5 |
| Asian Glow Stalled Flutes, means | 3.5 |
| ASIDEFROMADAY Manufactured Landscape | 3.0 |
| ASIDEFROMADAY Divine Proportion | 4.0 |
| ASIDEFROMADAY Chasing Shadows | 4.0 |
| Asking Alexandria Where Do We Go from Here? | 1.5 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 4.0 |
| Athar Aghanon Fidelitas | 2.5 |
| Athletic Progression Athletic Progression | 3.0 |
| Atlases Woe Portrait | 3.0 |
| Atreyu Lead Sails Paper Anchor | 2.0 |
| Au bout de mes levres Malgré la nuit | 2.5 |
| Au bout de mes levres / Yubari Gogo split | 2.5 |
| Aura Noir Deep Tracts of Hell | 4.0 |
| Auragraph Opacity Field | 3.0 |
| Aurora (NOR) The Gods We Can Touch | 4.0 |
| Avatar Feathers and Flesh | 2.0 |
| I've tried so hard with this one, but I just can't get past the sugary melodies, hamfisted attempts at "fun" song structures, and dearth of heaviness/strength/any real emotion from a supposedly metal band. I don't usually like to dump on artists for their work, but I cannot wrap my head around Feathers and Flesh. |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold | 2.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen | 2.5 |
| Not sure if I can reconcile my own conscience with the fact that I absolutely adored this band as teenager. Returning to it these days leaves me confounded - M Shadows is a godawful vocalist, Syn is a Hammett ripoff, The Rev (RIP) is not nearly the technician I remember him being. There are definitely redeemable qualities about this album - "Second Heartbeat", to some extent "Chapter Four" - but aside from that, I'll be doing my best to absolve myself of my young sins. |
| Avenged Sevenfold Diamonds in the Rough | 2.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare | 2.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Hail to the King | 2.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold The Stage | 2.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Diamonds in the Rough (Remastered) | 2.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Sounding the Seventh Trumpet | 3.0 |
| Not the worst album a young A7X could put out by any means, but a pretty forgettable slice of early 2000s hard/metalcore. If Syn featured on more than just the opener, this album could have been a little bit better or a lot worse, depending on how much Zacky V got him under control. Regardless, the Rev is the highlight of this album, for better or for worse. |
| Avenged Sevenfold All Excess | 3.0 |
| Avon Terror Corps Wish You Were Avon | 3.5 |
| Axe (USA-CA) 1300 A.D. | 2.0 |
| Axial Conflict of Mortals | 2.5 |
| Azath Through a Warren of Shadow | 2.5 |
| オオハシ (Ohashi) 波のはじまり (Nami no Hajimari) | 3.5 |
| Babehoven Sunk | 3.0 |
| Baby Keem The Melodic Blue | 3.5 |
| Bachelor Doomin' Sun | 3.5 |
| Badlands (SWE) Djinn | 3.0 |
| Baroness Yellow and Green | 3.0 |
| Baroness Gold and Grey | 3.0 |
| Baroness/Unpersons A Grey Sigh in a Flower Husk split | 2.0 |
| Barrie Barbara | 3.0 |
| Basil's Kite Shooting Tsars | 3.0 |
| Bastions Majestic Desolation | 3.0 |
| Bathe Alone Last Looks | 4.0 |
| Battles Juice B Mixed | 1.5 |
| Battles Mirrored | 4.0 |
| Batushka Litourgiya | 4.0 |
| Baum Sae Communication | 2.5 |
| Be Well The Weight And The Cost | 3.5 |
| beabadoobee Beatopia | 3.5 |
| Beach House Once Twice Melody: Chapter Two | 3.5 |
| Beach House Once Twice Melody: Chapter One | 4.0 |
| Beach House Once Twice Melody | 4.0 |
| Beachwood Sparks Beachwood Deluxe | 3.0 |
| Bear vs. Shark Right Now You're in the Best of Hands | 4.0 |
| Bear vs. Shark Terrorhawk | 4.0 |
| Beast Mode Pound of Flesh | 3.0 |
| Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill | 4.0 |
| Beecher Resention Is a Big Word in a Small Town | 2.5 |
| Flashes of promise, but the ideas sound unfinished. There's a striking resemblance to the lesser qualities of From Autumn to Ashes here - whiny, hometown oriented lyrics; muddy production; simplistic, overcooked riffage. There are some redeeming qualities though, with a strong sense of youthful energy and a few bright instrumental passages, particularly from the rhythm section. Later Beecher fixes a lot of the mistakes from this record while maintaining the good qualities of their early work. |
| Beecher This Elegy, His Autopsy | 4.0 |
| Beecher Breaking the Fourth Wall | 4.0 |
| Bellows Next of Kin | 2.5 |
| Belmont Aftermath | 2.5 |
| Belmont Belmont | 3.0 |
| Ben Frost Scope Neglect | 2.5 |
| Ben Lukas Boysen Clarion | 3.5 |
| Ben Varian One Hundred Breakfasts with the Book | 3.5 |
| Bent Knee Frosting | 2.5 |
| Bent Knee Say So | 4.0 |
| Bent Knee Bent Knee | 4.0 |
| Bent Knee You Know What They Mean | 4.0 |
| Bent Knee Land Animal | 4.5 |
| Bent Knee Shiny Eyed Babies | 5.0 |
| Beth Orton Weather Alive | 3.5 |
| Beyonce Renaissance | 3.5 |
| Beyonce Cowboy Carter | 3.5 |
| Bicurious (re)constructed | 3.5 |
| Big Thief Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You | 4.0 |
| Bill Evans You Must Believe In Spring | 4.5 |
| Billy Woods Aethiopes | 4.0 |
| Binary Code Moonsblood | 3.0 |
| Birds in Row You, Me, and the Violence | 4.0 |
| Birds in Row Personal War | 4.0 |
| Birds in Row We Already Lost the World | 4.0 |
| Birds in Row Gris Klein | 4.0 |
| Bjork Volta | 3.5 |
| Bjork Utopia | 3.5 |
| Bjork Medulla | 4.0 |
| Bjork Debut | 4.0 |
| Bjork Biophilia | 4.0 |
| Bjork Fossora | 4.0 |
| Bjork Post | 4.5 |
| Bjork Homogenic | 4.5 |
| Bjork Vulnicura | 4.5 |
| Bjork Vespertine | 5.0 |
| Black Button I Want To Be In Control | 3.0 |
| Black Country, New Road For the first time | 3.5 |
| Black Country, New Road Ants From Up There | 4.0 |
| Black Eyes Cough | 4.0 |
| Black Eyes Black Eyes | 5.0 |
| Black Knife Murder Season | 2.5 |
| Black Matter Device Hostile Architecture | 3.0 |
| Black Matter Device Modern Frenetics | 4.0 |
| Black Matter Device AUTONOMOUS WEAPONS | 4.0 |
| Black Midi Cavalcade | 3.5 |
| Black Midi Hellfire | 3.5 |
| Black Tape for a Blue Girl Remnants of a Deeper Purity | 4.5 |
| BLACKSHAPE BLACKSHAPE | 4.0 |
| Blood Command Cult Drugs | 3.5 |
| Blue Whale Last Immediate Images | 3.5 |
| Blue Whale Process | 4.0 |
| Blumen Mangata | 3.0 |
| Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest | 4.0 |
| Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children | 4.5 |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Sunset Mission | 4.0 |
| Bokassa Divide and Conquer | 4.0 |
| Bokassa Crimson Riders | 4.0 |
| Bon Jovi Have a Nice Day | 2.0 |
| Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet | 3.5 |
| Bonobo Fragments | 3.0 |
| Born (IS) Drottningar Dauðans | 3.5 |
| Boss Keloid Family the Smiling Thrush | 2.5 |
| Bossk Migration | 3.0 |
| Botch An Anthology of Dead Ends | 4.0 |
| Botch American Nervoso | 4.0 |
| Botch We Are the Romans | 5.0 |
| Boygenius the record | 3.5 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 4.5 |
| Breach Kollapse | 4.0 |
| Breach Venom | 4.0 |
| Breach It's Me God | 4.0 |
| Bremer and McCoy Natten | 3.5 |
| Brijean Angelo | 3.0 |
| Broken English Club White Rats III | 2.5 |
| brokeNCYDE The Broken | 1.0 |
| brokeNCYDE I'm Not a Fan, but the Kids Like It! | 1.0 |
| brokeNCYDE Will Never Die | 1.0 |
| Brood of Hatred The Golden Age | 3.0 |
| Brother Ah Key to Nowhere | 2.5 |
| BRUIT The Machine Is Burning... | 4.0 |
| Brume (USA-CA) Donkey | 2.5 |
| Brutus (BE) Unison Life | 3.5 |
| Brutus (BE) Burst | 4.0 |
| Brutus (BE) Nest | 4.5 |
| BUCK-TICK Romanesque | 2.5 |
| BUCK-TICK Sexual XXXXX! | 3.0 |
| BUCK-TICK Hurry Up Mode | 3.5 |
| BUCK-TICK Kurutta Taiyou | 4.0 |
| BUCK-TICK Darker Than Darkness (Style 93) | 4.5 |
| Buckethead Bucketheadland | 3.0 |
| Buckethead Kaleidoscalp | 3.0 |
| Buckethead Enter the Chicken | 3.5 |
| Buckethead Day of the Robot | 3.5 |
| Buckethead Enter The Chicken (Reissue) | 3.5 |
| Buckethead Jordan | 3.5 |
| Buckethead Colma | 4.0 |
| Buffalo Daughter We Are the Times | 3.0 |
| Built to Spill When The Wind Forgets Your Name | 4.0 |
| Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret | 4.5 |
| Built to Spill Perfect from Now On | 5.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine The Poison | 3.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Scream Aim Fire | 3.0 |
| Bunuel Killers Like Us | 3.0 |
| Burial Untrue | 4.0 |
| Burial Kindred | 4.0 |
| Butthole Surfers Psychic... Powerless... Another Man's Sac | 3.5 |
| Bxnjamin FOLKLAW | 2.5 |
| C R O W N The End of All Things | 2.5 |
| C.D.M. C.D.M. | 3.0 |
| Caffa Mental Enslavement | 3.5 |
| Calexico Convict Pool | 4.0 |
| Calligram Position | Momentum | 3.5 |
| Calligram The Eye Is the First Circle | 4.0 |
| Calvin Harris Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2 | 1.5 |
| Calvin Harris Motion | 2.0 |
| Calvin Harris 18 Months | 2.5 |
| Canal Irreal Canal Irreal | 3.5 |
| Capstan Restless Heart, Keep Running | 3.5 |
| Capsule (US) Blue | 3.0 |
| I hate to say it, but the post-rock/sludgy passages permeating much of the second half of this LP really turn me off. Capsule's more active hardcore sound is pummeling and persuasively powerful. The presence of melody and even a tinge of mathcore felt in the riffage (when it actually appears) distinguish Capsule's sound from other late 2000s HC pretenders. I get that the long dissonant stretches are meant to accentuate the intensity of the HC-driven passages, but they are far more effective in turning me off as a listener. That said, there are enough rewarding spans of HC goodness to save this album. |
| Car Seat Headrest Twin Fantasy (Face to Face) | 4.5 |
| Cara Neir Phantasmal | 2.5 |
| Cara Neir Pain Gel of Purification | 3.5 |
| Cara Neir Portals to a Better, Dead World | 4.0 |
| Cara Neir Phase Out | 4.0 |
| Cara Neir Part III / Part IV | 4.5 |
| Caribou Swim | 4.0 |
| Carmen Villain Only Love From Now On | 3.5 |
| Caroline Loveglow Strawberry | 3.5 |
| Caroline Polachek Desire, I Want To Turn Into You | 3.5 |
| Carvento Felana Carvento Felana | 2.0 |
| Caspian On Circles | 3.5 |
| Caspian Dust and Disquiet | 4.0 |
| Castle Rat Into the Realm | 3.5 |
| Catbamboo Fervor | 2.5 |
| Catch 22 Keasbey Nights | 4.5 |
| Cate Le Bon Pompeii | 3.5 |
| Caterina Barbieri Spirit Exit | 4.0 |
| Causa Sui Szabodelico | 3.5 |
| Caustic Wound Death Posture | 3.0 |
| Cautious Clay Blood Type | 3.5 |
| Cave Sermon Divine Laughter | 4.0 |
| Celeste Morte(s) Nee(s) | 3.0 |
| Celeste Animale(s) | 3.0 |
| Celeste Infidele(s) | 3.0 |
| Celeste Legaspi Bagong Plaka Lumang Kanta Vol. 2 | 3.0 |
| Central (RUS) Время | 3.5 |
| Chain Gang Grave We Fight Entropy/Suffer For Your Art | 3.0 |
| Chain Gang Grave Bury Them and Keep Quiet | 3.0 |
| Chain Gang Grave Cement Mind | 3.5 |
| Chain Gang Grave When Your Friends Become Cops | 4.0 |
| Chalk Hands Don't Think About Death | 3.5 |
| Chaostar Threnody | 4.0 |
| Charles Mingus Pithecanthropus Erectus | 4.0 |
| Charles Mingus The Clown | 4.0 |
| Charles Mingus Tonight at Noon | 4.0 |
| Charles Mingus "Pithecanthropus Erectus" 1955-1957 | 4.0 |
| Charles Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus | 4.5 |
| Charles Mingus Blues & Roots | 4.5 |
| Charles Mingus Tijuana Moods | 4.5 |
| Charles Mingus The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady | 5.0 |
| Charles Mingus Mingus Ah Um | 5.0 |
| Charles Rumback Seven Bridges | 3.5 |
| Charli Adams Bullseye | 2.5 |
| Charlotte Adigery and Bolis Pupul Topical Dancer | 4.0 |
| Chastity Belt Fake/Fear | 3.5 |
| Chat Pile God's Country | 4.0 |
| Cheem Downhill | 3.0 |
| Chelsea Wolfe She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She | 4.0 |
| Ches Smith and We All Break Path of Seven Colors | 3.5 |
| Chet Baker Chet Baker Sings | 3.0 |
| Chet Baker Chet Baker Sings: It Could Happen to You | 3.0 |
| Chet Baker Chet Baker & Strings | 3.5 |
| Chet Baker Chet | 4.0 |
| Chiasm Reform | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Blooddrunk | 2.0 |
| Children of Bodom Relentless Reckless Forever | 2.5 |
| Children of Bodom Hellhounds On My Trail | 2.5 |
| Children of Bodom Hatebreeder | 3.0 |
| Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet? | 3.0 |
| Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll | 3.5 |
| Children with Dog Feet Curb Your Anarchy | 2.5 |
| Chime School Chime School | 3.5 |
| chivàla EP II | 3.5 |
| Chiyoda Ku Selecta Perspective | 3.5 |
| CHON Woohoo! | 2.5 |
| CHON Homey | 2.5 |
| I can't say I love this album, and I can't quite say it's a complete turnoff either. I get where Chon thought they were going with this - Polyphia churned out some impressive work that mixed their trademark mathy structures with some pop and hip hop beats, and Chon wanted to cash in on the action. Unfortunately, despite being a musical evolution for the group and one chock full of summary rhythms and melodies at that, this record does not do it for me, for the most part. Songs are easy listens, but there isn't a whole lot of depth. This sounds so much like Chon's attempt to conform to where they must have imagined the prog scene was headed that it makes my head hurt. |
| CHON CHON | 2.5 |
| God, this was a hard rating. I was really hyped for this album, despite Chon's weak outing the last go around. I imagined their self-titled effort would become a perennial summer anthem for me; the strength of their early releases combined with continued musical growth from close buds Polyphia set my expectations sky high. Needless to say, I was pretty shocked when, even after at least a dozen playthroughs within a couple of days, I could barely list three tracks I enjoyed to a decent degree. Though Petal is perhaps one of my favorite Chon songs of all time, the rest of the album largely falls flat due to unmemorable hooks, some uninspired playing, and, most importantly, a lack of fresh ideas. Chon regressed with the self-titled. I hope my boys are okay, and that their next release proves me wrong. |
| Christian Death Catastrophe Ballet | 3.5 |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise | 3.5 |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 4.5 |
| Circuit Circuit Circuit Circuit - EP | 3.5 |
| Circuit Circuit Body Songs | 4.0 |
| City & i.o Chaos is God Neighbour | 2.5 |
| City of Caterpillar Mystic Sisters | 3.0 |
| City of Caterpillar City of Caterpillar | 4.5 |
| CityCop Seasons | 3.0 |
| clairo Sling | 3.5 |
| Claud Super Monster | 3.5 |
| Claud Supermodels | 3.5 |
| Clever Girl No Drum And Bass in the Jazz Room | 3.0 |
| Cloak (USA-CA) Succumb | 3.5 |
| Closer (US) within one stem | 3.5 |
| Cloud Rat Threshold | 4.0 |
| Cluster Sowiesoso | 4.0 |
| Codex of the Gods untitled | 2.5 |
| Codex Orzhova Baja Blasted | 3.5 |
| Coexistence Collateral Dimension | 2.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Color Before The Sun | 2.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria Vaxis I: The Unheavenly Creatures | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 4.0 |
| Cohol Rigen | 3.0 |
| Cohort B 1001 Lukewarm USA | 4.0 |
| Coi Leray Coi | 1.0 |
| Coi Leray Trendsetter | 1.5 |
| Coil The Ape Of Naples | 4.5 |
| Colbie Caillat Breakthrough | 2.5 |
| Colbie Caillat All of You | 2.5 |
| Coldplay Music of the Spheres | 1.5 |
| Coldplay A Head Full of Dreams | 2.0 |
| Colossal Welcome the Problems | 4.0 |
| Comadre Comadre | 4.0 |
| Contour Love Suite | 2.5 |
| Converge No Heroes | 3.0 |
| Converge Bloodmoon: I | 3.0 |
| Converge You Fail Me | 4.0 |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky | 4.0 |
| Converge When Forever Comes Crashing | 4.0 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 4.0 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 4.5 |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind | 4.5 |
| Conway the Machine God Don't Make Mistakes | 4.0 |
| Corpsegrinder Corpsegrinder | 3.0 |
| Couch Slut My Life as a Woman | 3.5 |
| Couch Slut Contempt | 3.5 |
| Couch Slut Take A Chance On Rock 'n' Roll | 3.5 |
| Couch Slut You Could Do It Tonight | 3.5 |
| Courting Guitar Music | 3.0 |
| Covet acoustics | 3.0 |
| Crippled Black Phoenix Ellengaest | 3.5 |
| Crippled Black Phoenix Banefyre | 3.5 |
| Crow Killer Enslaved to One | 3.0 |
| Cruel Reflections Through Motions | 2.0 |
| Crushing the Scepter Echoing Screams of Madness and Delusion | 2.5 |
| Cryptodira The Angel of History | 3.0 |
| Crystal Lake The Voyages | 4.0 |
| Culprate Deliverance | 4.0 |
| Currents The Way It Ends | 3.0 |
| I don't like to be too precise with ratings given that my perceptions of album tend to fluctuate over time (like most people's do). This record, however, seems like it'll earn its trade in the middle 3s. The record is decently executed modern metalcore, but doesn't balance its clear strengths (harsher passages) with weaker areas (cleans). I'm not excited. |
| Cursive The Ugly Organ | 4.0 |
| Cyanic Cyanic | 3.0 |
| Cyanic Litanies of Lust Unholy | 3.5 |
| D'Angelo Black Messiah | 4.0 |
| Daitro Laisser Vivre Les Squelettes | 4.0 |
| Dan Nicholls Mattering and Meaning | 3.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin Dance | 3.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Acceptance Speech | 3.0 |
| This is probably DGD's low point for me. They're trying to cohere between Tilian's pop sensibilities and the rest of the group's PH chops, and Acceptance Speech fused the two into a bit of a malformed entity. There are certainly tracks that I quite enjoy here, but most of the record is poorly mixed, lyrically choppy, and unfocused overall. Still, the pieces are clearly there, and, luckily for us, DGD eventually figured out how to best pair Jon and Tilian and how not to mix Will out. |
| Dance Gavin Dance Mothership | 3.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Artificial Selection | 3.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain | 4.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Happiness | 4.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Acceptance Speech 2.0 | 4.0 |
| Daniel Bachman Axacan | 2.5 |
| Daniel Herskedal Harbour | 3.0 |
| Daniel Rossen You Belong There | 4.0 |
| Danilo Gallo Dark Dry Tears A View Through a Slot | 2.5 |
| Danny Lubin Laden Through Our Time | 2.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity Moment | 3.0 |
| Darkside Spiral | 3.5 |
| Darkthrone Eternal Hails | 3.5 |
| Daughters Daughters | 4.0 |
| Dave Easley Byways of the Moon | 3.0 |
| Dave Harvey Get Mental | 3.5 |
| David Bowie Station to Station | 4.5 |
| DØSSI bluebirds | 3.0 |
| De Lyckliga Kompisarna Tomat | 3.5 |
| Dead Soma Faces Which No Mask Could Ever Conceal | 3.0 |
| Dear Anyone Roulette | 3.5 |
| death's dynamic shroud Darklife | 3.5 |
| December The Lament Configuration | 4.0 |
| Decoherence Unitarity | 3.0 |
| Defeater Travels | 4.5 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 4.0 |
| Deftones Ohms | 4.0 |
| Deiquisitor Humanoid | 2.5 |
| Delta Sleep Spring Island | 3.5 |
| Delta Sleep Ghost City | 4.0 |
| Delta Sleep Twin Galaxies | 4.5 |
| Deluge Ægo Templo | 2.5 |
| Demon Hunter Summer of Darkness | 3.0 |
| Demoniac (CHL) Nube Negra | 3.5 |
| Denki Groove A | 2.5 |
| Denzel Curry Melt My Eyez See Your Future | 3.5 |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Noktvrn | 4.5 |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Finisterre | 5.0 |
| Descend The Deviant | 3.0 |
| Scoot and Evngelancer's soundoffs characterize this album perfectly, though I must further emphasize how derivative this album sounds. It's certainly performed well, produced well, and packaged well. The rhythmic pacing, the soaring vocals, the extended chord stays, the underlying melodies: The Deviant produce an Opeth-Akerfeldt tribute if I ever saw one. This group clearly has tons of talent and lots of love for their scene. Let's see them throw some more creativity into their next release. |
| Deserta Every Moment, Everything You Need | 3.5 |
| Destroyer LABYRINTHITIS | 4.0 |
| Destroyer Kaputt | 4.5 |
| Devil Sold His Soul Loss | 3.5 |
| Devil's Den Barbed New Religion | 4.0 |
| DevilDriver DevilDriver | 2.0 |
| Digital Underground This is an EP Release | 3.5 |
| Dinosaur Jr. Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not | 3.0 |
| Dinosaur Jr. Beyond | 4.0 |
| Dio Holy Diver | 3.5 |
| Dionaea Grounds | 3.0 |
| Dionaea Still | 4.0 |
| dios trio High on Bikes | 4.0 |
| Dir En Grey Uroboros | 4.5 |
| Dismembered Carnage Deranged Butchery | 2.0 |
| Dispirited Spirits The Redshift Blues | 4.0 |
| Disposal Disposal | 2.5 |
| Dissidente The War on Two Fronts | 4.0 |
| Disturbed Evolution | 1.0 |
| Disturbed Immortalized | 1.5 |
| Disturbed Indestructible | 2.0 |
| Disturbed The Sickness | 2.5 |
| Disturbed Believe | 2.5 |
| Disturbed Asylum | 2.5 |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists | 3.0 |
| Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No.15 in A major, Op.141 | 4.5 |
| Dog Fashion Disco Cult Classic | 4.0 |
| Dogleg Melee | 3.0 |
| Domestic Terminal The Flooded Basement EP | 3.5 |
| Domestic Terminal All The Stories Left To Tell | 4.0 |
| Don Caballero What Burns Never Returns | 4.5 |
| Don Caballero American Don | 4.5 |
| Donald Byrd Off to the races | 3.0 |
| Donald Byrd Byrd In Hand | 3.5 |
| Donald Byrd The Cat Walk | 3.5 |
| Donald Byrd Slow Drag | 3.5 |
| Donald Byrd Ethiopian Knights | 4.5 |
| Doors in the Labyrinth In the Shadow of the Monolith | 2.5 |
| DOTGIFFROMGOD approximation_of_a_human | 3.5 |
| DOWRR Into Decrepitude | 3.0 |
| DragonForce Inhuman Rampage | 2.5 |
| It's a fun album with some notable highs, but DragonForce remain a band catapulted to stardom via GH3 who subsequently failed to hold the spotlight. There are plenty of other PM bands worth your time. Herman Li and Sam Totman could probably find excellent work in a different project unburdened by the legacy of TTFaF hyperspeed FCs. |
| DragonForce Sonic Firestorm | 3.0 |
| Drain (USA-CA) California Cursed | 3.0 |
| Drain (USA-CA) Living Proof | 3.0 |
| Drames Rurals drames rurals | 3.5 |
| Dream Unending Tide Turns Eternal | 3.5 |
| Dreamwell Modern Grotesque | 2.5 |
| Drip-Fed Kill the Buzz | 3.5 |
| Driving Slow Motion Adrift:Abyss | 3.5 |
| Drop Nineteens Delaware | 3.5 |
| Drowning Pool Sinner | 3.0 |
| Drumcorps For the Living | 3.0 |
| Duhkha Duhkha | 3.0 |
| Duke Ellington and John Coltrane Duke Ellington and John Coltrane | 4.0 |
| Dukla Z dálky píseň | 3.0 |
| Dukla Honza | 4.0 |
| Duma Duma | 4.0 |
| Dylan Henner You Always Will Be | 3.0 |
| E U X "et les autres" | 3.5 |
| E. Town Concrete The Second Coming | 2.0 |
| E. Town Concrete Made For War | 2.0 |
| E. Town Concrete The Renaissance | 2.5 |
| Earth Moves The Truth In Our Bodies | 4.0 |
| Ebi Soda Bedroom Tapes | 3.5 |
| Ebi Soda Ugh | 3.5 |
| Ebi Soda Honk If You're Sad | 4.0 |
| Ebonivory The Long Dream I | 3.0 |
| I was really psyched for this album. Ebonivory released a few intriguing singles over the course of a long while leading up to this record's release and my interest was more than piqued by their blend of catchy choruses and standard late 2010s prog metal tropes. This album appeared to play both to Ebonivory's strengths and my own musical tastes, but I've been let down. The transitions are rough, the new material is pretty weak, and the elongation of the singles in their album form detracts from the pure joy they communicated previously. This album's blunted impact is a darn shame, because Ebonivory had an awfully high ceiling. |
| Echo Tail A Brief Escape From Life | 3.5 |
| Echodrone The Sun Rose in a Different Place | 3.5 |
| Echodrone Resurgence | 3.5 |
| Ed Jacobs Addressing Wonder: The Music of Ed Jacobs | 3.5 |
| Ed Sheeran No. 6 Collaborations Project | 2.0 |
| Ed Sheeran = | 2.0 |
| Ed Sheeran + | 2.5 |
| Ed Sheeran x | 2.5 |
| Ed Sheeran ÷ | 2.5 |
| Eden Maine The Treachery Pact | 3.5 |
| Ehsan Gelsi Ephemera | 3.0 |
| Einsturzende Neubauten Rampen | 3.5 |
| Einsturzende Neubauten Haus Der Lüge | 4.0 |
| Elbow Flying Dream 1 | 3.5 |
| Elder (USA-MA) Omens | 3.5 |
| Elena Korzhenevich Pure | 3.0 |
| Elena Steri Chaotic Energy | 3.5 |
| Elia y Elizabeth The Original Recordings | 4.0 |
| Ellis Born Again | 3.0 |
| Despite a lack of variation in sound from track to track, Siggelkow's angelic voice saves the day. While there may not be a lot of boundary-pushing going on, the lilting vocal caresses entwining each track still make Born Again a rewarding listen. Perhaps she could have been a bit more emotive or separated more from her artistic influences, but Siggelkow's talent is on display and I have hopes she claims more of her own space on her next release. |
| Elvis Costello Almost Blue | 3.0 |
| Emeka Ogboh Beyond the Yellow Haze | 3.0 |
| Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail | 4.0 |
| Emil de Waal Vente | 3.5 |
| Emily Wells Regards to the End | 3.5 |
| Eminem Revival | 1.5 |
| Eminem Music to Be Murdered By | 2.0 |
| Eminem Kamikaze | 2.5 |
| Emma Ruth Rundle Engine of Hell | 4.0 |
| Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou May Our Chambers Be Full | 4.0 |
| Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou The Helm of Sorrow | 4.0 |
| Emma-Jean Thackray Yellow | 3.5 |
| Empyrium Über den Sternen | 3.0 |
| End It Unpleasant Living | 3.5 |
| Endless, Nameless Living Without | 3.0 |
| Endzweck The Naked and the Dead | 3.0 |
| Enter Shikari Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible | 4.0 |
| I'm gonna stray away from too long of a soundoff here because I'm wading into uncharted waters. But Enter Shikari's latest release is both a delightful amalgam of ear-pleasing electronics and a sharp social commentary. It's almost too preachy and perhaps a bit artificial sounding, but it's accessible yet challenging. |
| Entropy Created Consciousness Impressions of the Morning Star | 3.0 |
| Envy Breathing and Dying in this Place | 2.0 |
| Envy Angel's Curse Whispered in the Edge of Despair | 2.5 |
| Envy From Here To Eternity | 3.0 |
| Envy The Eyes Of A Single-Eared Prophet | 3.5 |
| Envy Alnair in August | 3.5 |
| Envy Abyssal | 4.0 |
| Abyssal is a landmark EP for envy. Though they truly began to adopt post-rock themes and sounds in Insomniac Doze, Abyssal represents envy owning and conquering what would become a hallmark of their sonic palate. The atmospheric quality so characteristic of envy's work is most apparent in the 10 minute long opening track, where harsh vocals reminiscent of the band's earlier days mesh with shimmery, distorted guitars. These are followed by gentle cleans delivered in the almost-spoken word style that came to define Tetsuya Fukagawa's singing when he wasn't pummeling the listener. A keystone of everyone's favorite screamo band's discography. |
| Envy All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead | 4.5 |
| Envy The Fallen Crimson | 4.5 |
| Ephel Duath The Painter's Palette | 4.0 |
| Ephemeral Echoes Ascension | 2.5 |
| Epica The Holographic Principle | 3.0 |
| Epitimia Allusion | 2.0 |
| Eric Chenaux Say Laura | 2.5 |
| Eric Dolphy Out to Lunch! | 5.0 |
| Erick The Architect Future Proof | 2.5 |
| Erika de Casier Sensational | 3.5 |
| Ernst Reijseger Cave of Forgotten Dreams | 4.5 |
| ERRA Neon | 3.0 |
| ERRA ERRA | 3.0 |
| Etran de L'Air Agadez | 3.5 |
| Everything Everything Raw Data Feel | 3.5 |
| Everything Everything Mountainhead | 4.0 |
| Evilyn Inside Shells | 3.5 |
| Evisbeats and Nagipan On Rei / Furoject A | 3.0 |
| Ex Olympic XO | 3.5 |
| Exek Advertise Here | 3.0 |
| Exhumation (IDN) Eleventh Formulae | 3.0 |
| Exhumation (IDN) Opus Death | 3.5 |
| Exotic Animal Petting Zoo I Have Made My Bed in Darkness | 4.5 |
| Exotic Animal Petting Zoo Tree of Tongues | 4.5 |
| Expander Neuropunk Boostergang | 3.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky How Strange, Innocence | 3.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 3.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone | 3.5 |
| Eyelashes! Venus' Flower Basket IV | 3.0 |
| Fabrizio De Andre La buona novella | 3.0 |
| Faith No More Angel Dust | 4.0 |
| Fake Fruit Fake Fruit | 3.0 |
| Fall of Efrafa Owsla | 4.5 |
| fallfiftyfeet Twisted World Perspective | 3.5 |
| Fallujah Undying Light | 2.5 |
| False Confession False Confession | 4.0 |
| Faraquet The View From This Tower | 4.0 |
| Faust Faust IV | 3.5 |
| Fax Gang Aethernet | 2.5 |
| Faye Webster Underdressed At The Symphony | 2.5 |
| Faye Webster I Know I'm Funny haha | 3.5 |
| Faye Webster Car Therapy Sessions | 3.5 |
| Fear Before The Always Open Mouth | 5.0 |
| Federico Aubele Gran Hotel Buenos Aires | 3.5 |
| Fever Dolls The Phantasm at Lake Wallenpaupack | 3.0 |
| Fiddlehead Between the Richness | 3.0 |
| Fievel Is Glauque Flaming Swords | 3.0 |
| Film School We Weren't Here | 3.0 |
| Finch Say Hello to Sunshine | 3.5 |
| Fire On Fire The Orchard | 4.0 |
| Fire On Fire 5 Song EP | 4.0 |
| Fire! Orchestra Arrival | 3.5 |
| Fireboy DML Laughter, Tears and Goosebumps | 3.0 |
| First Fragment Gloire Eternelle | 3.5 |
| Fishmans Kuuchuu Camp | 4.0 |
| Fishmans Long Season | 4.5 |
| Fishmans Uchuu Nippon Setagaya | 4.5 |
| Five Finger Death Punch War Is The Answer | 1.5 |
| I rate this album poorly because 5FDP lose their souls on this album. Corporate chameleons with a hard-rock, pseudo-macho in-your-face plastic mask? I cannot abide by soulless music; at least A7X and Trivium made stuff that sounded good occasionally! |
| Five Finger Death Punch American Capitalist | 2.0 |
| FKA Twigs Caprisongs | 3.5 |
| Flea Helen Burns | 2.5 |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues | 4.5 |
| Flesh of Morning Here In Heaven | 2.0 |
| Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The LSO Promises | 4.5 |
| Flocks You Were Probably Younger Then | 3.5 |
| Florist Florist | 3.5 |
| Flourishing The Sum of All Fossils | 4.0 |
| Despite having listened to this the whole way through at least half a dozen times, I always expect TSoAF to be a crush-fest befitting of a group sput tags as dm/industrial. Then as T1 rumbles into T2 and Flourishing's unique take on TDM betrays its prog, doom, and punk influences, I marvel at the unassuming depth of sound on this record. It's this blend of genres that makes TSoAF such a rewarding listen, and one that makes the Ulcerate comparisons seem a tad forced. Flourishing have their own sound and they execute it cleverly here. Or, if you prefer, just listen to Fossil Records instead of reading my pointless soundoff. |
| Flower Crown Heat | 3.0 |
| Flying Lotus Flamagra | 3.5 |
| Flying Lotus You're Dead! | 4.5 |
| FM-84 Atlas | 4.0 |
| Focusrights Intercontinental Split | 2.5 |
| Foetus Nail | 3.0 |
| Folamour The Journey | 2.5 |
| Folly and The Best of the Worst Wavebreaker 3 | 3.0 |
| FOSCØ Puro | 3.5 |
| Fossilization He Whose Name Was Long Forgotten | 2.5 |
| Four Tet There is Love in You | 4.0 |
| Fox Strikes Breath of Air | 2.5 |
| Foxeagle Waves on Water | 2.0 |
| Fracture and Sam Binga Omura | 3.5 |
| Fragment Soul Axiom Of Choice | 2.5 |
| Frail Body Artificial Bouquet | 4.0 |
| Frank Zappa Apostrophe | 4.0 |
| Frank Zappa Hot Rats | 4.5 |
| Freddie Hubbard The Body & The Soul | 4.0 |
| Frog Whatever We Probably Already Had It | 3.5 |
| From Autumn to Ashes Too Bad You're Beautiful | 3.5 |
| From Autumn to Ashes The Fiction We Live | 3.5 |
| Fuckin Whatever Fuckin Whatever | 3.0 |
| Fugazi Repeater | 3.0 |
| Fugitive Wizard Obscuri Æternum | 3.0 |
| Funeral Diner The Underdark | 4.5 |
| Funeral Parlour Funeral Parlour | 2.5 |
| Fuvk twentytwenty | 3.0 |
| G Calvin Weston and Jim Kost Stone Church | 3.5 |
| Gabo Bicicleta Sem Rodinha | 3.0 |
| Gallows (UK) Orchestra Of Wolves | 3.5 |
| Gang of Youths Angel in Realtime | 4.0 |
| Gates (USA-NJ) Here and Now | 3.5 |
| Gatvey Matvelev Гримерка | 4.0 |
| Gatvey Matvelev Completely | 4.0 |
| Genghis Tron Dead Mountain Mouth | 2.5 |
| Genghis Tron Board Up the House | 3.5 |
| Genghis Tron Dream Weapon | 3.5 |
| George Otsuka Quintet Loving You George | 4.0 |
| Georgia Harmer Stay in Touch | 3.5 |
| Gerry Mulligan Night Lights | 4.0 |
| Gezan かつて うた といわれたそれ | 2.0 |
| Gi Gi Lumino Pleco | 3.5 |
| Ginger Root Nisemono | 3.5 |
| Giuseppe Ottaviani Horizons [Part 1] | 3.5 |
| Glass Kites Glass Kites | 3.0 |
| Glass Kites Glass Kites II | 3.5 |
| Glass Museum Reflet | 3.5 |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute | 4.5 |
| Gloria (FRA) Sabbat Matters | 3.5 |
| Go 4 It Freestyle Guitar Solos Volume 1 | 1.5 |
| God's Hate God's Hate | 3.0 |
| Godsmack Faceless | 2.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! | 4.0 |
| GoGo Penguin Everything Is Going to Be OK | 3.5 |
| GoGo Penguin v2.0 | 4.0 |
| A lovely exponent of modern jazz a la Mammal Hands: complex rhythms and interweaving melodies with a splash of easy-to-listen-to paint on the surface. This record definitely falls into the oft-targeted "works well in the background or as a close listen" category. |
| Gojira Fortitude | 2.0 |
| I hate this album because I am forever going to re-examine old Gojira albums ? records I trusted ? with more than a hint of suspicion. Fartitude indeed. |
| Gojira Terra Incognita | 3.0 |
| Gold Necklace Gold Necklace | 3.5 |
| Gonemage Handheld Demise | 3.0 |
| Gonemage Sudden Deluge | 4.0 |
| Good Willsmith HausLive 2: Good Willsmith at Sleeping Village, 4 | 3.5 |
| Goreshit watashi wa baka yaro desu | 2.5 |
| Goreshit Paranoia EP | 2.5 |
| Goreshit Blue Girl on Sunday | 2.5 |
| Goreshit my love feels all wrong. digipak | 2.5 |
| Goreshit semantic compositions on death and its meaning | 4.0 |
| Goreshit Semantics: The Benzo Chronicles | 4.0 |
| Gouge Out Introspection Rundown | 3.5 |
| Grace Ives Janky Star | 3.5 |
| Graveolence Anthropomancy | 3.0 |
| Green Carnation Leaves Of Yesteryear | 2.5 |
| Green Day Father of All Motherfuckers | 1.5 |
| Greg Puciato Child Soldier: Creator of God | 3.0 |
| Greg Spero The Chicago Experiment | 3.5 |
| Greta Van Fleet Starcatcher | 1.0 |
| Greta Van Fleet Anthem of the Peaceful Army | 2.0 |
| Greta Van Fleet The Battle at Garden's Gate | 2.5 |
| Grima Rotten Garden | 3.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest | 4.5 |
| Guided by Voices Bee Thousand | 3.5 |
| Guillaume Perret Open Me | 4.0 |
| Gulch Burning Desire to Draw Last Breath | 4.0 |
| Gulch Impenetrable Cerebral Fortress | 4.0 |
| Impenetrable Cerebral Fortress evokes exactly what it should: a disgusting, piss-laden, stray tooth-strewn pit in a dingy San Jose club. That's all Gulch needed to to succeed, and they achieve success in spades with this ferocious quarter of an hour release. |
| Gulfer Gulfer | 3.5 |
| GusGus DanceOrama | 3.0 |
| GusGus Arabian Horse | 3.5 |
| Gutbucket Sludge Test | 3.5 |
| Gwen Stefani The Sweet Escape | 2.5 |
| Gynoid The Hunger Artist Show | 3.5 |
| Hacksaw to the Throat Wastelands | 4.5 |
| Hail Spirit Noir Eden In Reverse | 4.0 |
| Hail Spirit Noir Oi Magoi | 4.5 |
| Haku Sungho The Farthest Creole | 2.5 |
| Hakushi Hasegawa Bones of Dreams Attacked! | 3.0 |
| Hakushi Hasegawa Air Ni Ni | 4.0 |
| Hali Palombo Cylinder Loops | 2.0 |
| Hallucinator (USA) Primeval Power | 2.0 |
| Hammock Kenotic | 4.0 |
| Hammock Elsewhere | 4.0 |
| Hammok Look How Long Lasting Everything Is Moving Forward | 4.0 |
| Hands Like Houses Dissonants | 3.5 |
| Hania Rani On Giacometti | 3.5 |
| Hank Roberts Sextet Science of Love | 3.5 |
| Harkonen Shake Harder Boy | 4.0 |
| Haru Nemuri Shunka Ryougen | 3.0 |
| Haruomi Hosono/Shigeru Suzuki/Tatsuro Yamashita Pacific | 4.0 |
| Hatebreed Rise of Brutality | 3.0 |
| Hatis Noit Aura | 3.5 |
| Havana Swim Club Havana Swim Club | 3.0 |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness | 4.5 |
| Havukruunu Uinuos Syömein Sota | 3.5 |
| hawak Nuoc | 4.0 |
| Heaven In Her Arms White Halo | 4.0 |
| Helena Celle's Imaginal Designs Copy Music | 3.5 |
| Heliocentric Ishmael | 2.5 |
| Helium Horse Fly Hollowed | 3.0 |
| Hella Tripper | 3.5 |
| Hella fuse mathy technicality with noise sensibilities to create a persistent cacophony. The drumming is a wonder to behold, but Hella do unfortunately stray a bit too close for comfort into the wank category, and their noisiness doesn't exactly pull things back like they may have intended. To backtrack a little, though, the injection of noise elevates a Tero Melos-esque soundscape into something akin to the lovechild of TDEP and Covet. Plus, there's plenty of NorCal love to be had. |
| Helvetia Essential Aliens | 2.5 |
| Henry Grant Sensations | 3.0 |
| Herbie Hancock My Point of View | 2.5 |
| Herbie Hancock Death Wish | 2.5 |
| Herbie Hancock Takin' Off | 3.5 |
| Herbie Hancock Empyrean Isles | 4.0 |
| Here's to Now Mindfulness | 3.5 |
| Heriot Profound Morality | 3.5 |
| Herzel Le Dernier Rempart | 3.5 |
| Hexis Aeternum | 3.0 |
| Hiatus Kaiyote Tawk Tomahawk | 3.5 |
| Hiatus Kaiyote Recalibrations Vol. 1 | 3.5 |
| Hiatus Kaiyote Mood Valiant | 4.0 |
| Himsa Ground Breaking Ceremony | 2.5 |
| Hinako Omori a journey... | 3.5 |
| His Hero Is Gone The Plot Sickens: Enslavement Redefined | 4.0 |
| Hiss Golden Messenger Quietly Blowing It | 2.0 |
| Home Is Where I Became Birds | 3.5 |
| Home Is Where The Whaler | 3.5 |
| Homeshake Midnight Snack | 3.5 |
| Homeskin Old Smeuse | 2.0 |
| Homeskin Life's Wishes to Tears | 3.0 |
| Homeskin Subverse Siphoning of Suburbia | 3.5 |
| Homeskin Integument Crystallization | 3.5 |
| Homeskin Cries Methodically | 3.5 |
| Homeskin Each Day Orbital | 3.5 |
| Honningbarna Animorphs | 3.5 |
| Horsey Debonair | 3.5 |
| Horte Maa Antaa Yön Vaientaa | 3.0 |
| Hostile Takedown Demonstration | 3.0 |
| How I Left Birds in the City | 3.0 |
| How to Be Dead Lights at the Ends of Tunnels | 3.0 |
| Howling Giant Alteration | 2.5 |
| Hubris. Metempsychosis | 3.5 |
| Huerco S Plonk | 4.0 |
| This is, largely (but for plonk ix), a vibe and a half. Tumbleweed-thick rhythms, tattooed-on synth beats, expansive auroras of sound. But i am not gonna elevate this higher than a 4 for that rapping. |
| Hulder Godslastering: Hymns of a Forlorn Peasantry | 3.0 |
| Human Impact EP01 | 3.0 |
| Humanity's Last Breath Välde | 3.0 |
| Humavoid Lidless | 2.5 |
| Hundreds of AU Acting from Remote Satellites | 3.5 |
| Hungry Lights Three Gods & Me | 2.5 |
| Hungry Lights Heavy Is The Crown | 3.0 |
| Hungry Lights The Awry Ascent | 3.5 |
| HYLA Caravel | 2.5 |
| I the Mighty Oil In Water | 3.5 |
| i-sef u-sef shaghara lemoune | 2.5 |
| i-sef u-sef consistency | 3.5 |
| Ibrahim Maalouf S3NS | 3.5 |
| Icarus the Owl Icarus the Owl | 3.5 |
| Icarus the Owl Pilot Waves | 3.5 |
| Ice Cube Kill at Will | 4.0 |
| Ice Howl Erhan's Quest | 2.0 |
| Ice Nine Kills The Silver Scream | 3.5 |
| This is the type of Americana we truly need - wrapped up in a metalcore package, cheese factor turned up to 11, cultural touchstones on a track by track basis. Most fun you can have. Thank god I didn't have to use the word 'atmosphere' |
| ichika She Waits Patiently | 3.0 |
| ichika He Never Fades | 3.5 |
| Ichika's distinctive, masterful picking is on full display here. He employs his technical prowess in a variety of ways to communicate atmosphere and emotion; the sparse soundscapes are ripe for his playing style. Though a brief and not-bombastic record, he never fades is a fine listen. |
| ichika Forn | 4.0 |
| ichika I | 4.0 |
| Ichiko Aoba Adan no Kaze | 4.0 |
| IDER shame | 3.5 |
| Igorrr Spirituality and Distortion | 4.0 |
| Ihsahn Amr | 3.5 |
| Ihsahn Arktis. | 4.0 |
| Ihsahn crafted a superbly experimental, beautiful, and sometimes unsettling record with Arktis. back in 2016. One of the most continuously surprising (and I mean this positively!) aspects about this record is its accessibility given Tveitan's clear intention of producing a disconcertingly conceptual album. This record is consistent in its inventiveness (for black/prog) and admirable for how many new ideas there are from song to song while still retaining a fundamental similarity. Ihsahn leaves his indelible creative mark on each song, and no one else could make an album like this work. |
| Ihsahn Ihsahn | 4.0 |
| Ill Nino Confession | 2.0 |
| Ill Repute What Happens Next | 4.0 |
| Imagine Dragons Origins | 1.0 |
| Imagine Dragons Smoke + Mirrors | 1.5 |
| Imagine Dragons ƎVOLVE | 1.5 |
| Imagine Dragons Mercury - Act 1 | 1.5 |
| Imagine Dragons Mercury - Acts 1 & 2 | 1.5 |
| Imarhan Aboogi | 3.5 |
| Imperial Triumphant An Evening with Imperial Triumphant | 4.0 |
| Imperial Triumphant Spirit of Ecstasy | 4.0 |
| Imperial Triumphant Vile Luxury | 4.5 |
| Imperial Triumphant Alphaville | 4.5 |
| Imperialist Zenith | 3.0 |
| Impure Wilhelmina Antidote | 4.0 |
| In Angles Cardinal | 2.5 |
| In Chasms Deep The Wind and Her Lament | 2.5 |
| In Flames Come Clarity | 3.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Enjoy Incubus | 3.0 |
| Infant Island Obsidian Wreath | 3.0 |
| Infant Island Beneath | 3.5 |
| Inferno (CZ) PARADEIGMA (Phosphenes of Aphotic Eternity) | 3.0 |
| Ingested Where Only Gods May Tread | 2.5 |
| Ingrina Etter Lys | 4.0 |
| Injury Reserve By The Time I Get To Phoenix | 3.5 |
| Inoculation Celestial Putridity | 3.0 |
| Inside The Beehive Drink Bleach; Live Forever | 3.5 |
| Inter Arma Sky Burial | 3.0 |
| Inter Arma Paradise Gallows | 3.5 |
| Intercepting Pattern The Encounter | 3.5 |
| Intronaut Fluid Existential Inversions | 3.0 |
| Invalids Strengths | 4.0 |
| Invent Animate The Sun Sleeps, As If It Never Was | 3.5 |
| Iosonouncane Ira | 4.0 |
| Iotunn Access All Worlds | 3.5 |
| Iris (NO) love and other disasters | 3.5 |
| Isao Tomita Clair de Lune | 3.5 |
| ISIS Oceanic | 4.5 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 4.5 |
| Ithaca They Fear Us | 3.5 |
| Iwrestledabearonce Ruining It for Everybody | 2.0 |
| Iwrestledabearonce It's All Happening | 2.5 |
| Iwrestledabearonce Late for Nothing | 2.5 |
| Iwrestledabearonce Hail Mary | 3.0 |
| Izy Irene | 3.5 |
| J Dilla Donuts | 4.5 |
| J. Cole Might Delete Later | 2.5 |
| Jack Harlow Jackman | 1.5 |
| Jack Harlow Come Home The Kids Miss You | 2.0 |
| Jack Harlow That's What They All Say | 2.5 |
| Jack Prest The Risk Of Hyperbole - Vol.2 - Object | 3.5 |
| Jack The Joker Mors Volta | 3.5 |
| Jaco Pastorius Jaco Pastorius | 4.5 |
| Jaco Pastorius and Brian Melvin Jazz Street | 2.5 |
| Jade Bird Different Kinds of Light | 3.0 |
| Jaga Jazzist Pyramid | 2.5 |
| Jakub Zytecki Nothing Lasts, Nothing's Lost | 2.5 |
| James Brandon Lewis Jesup Wagon | 3.5 |
| Jane Weaver Flock | 3.5 |
| Japan Tin Drum | 3.0 |
| Japanese Breakfast Soft Sounds From Another Planet | 3.5 |
| Japanese Breakfast Jubilee | 4.5 |
| Japanese Heart Software SOFT | 3.5 |
| Jason Aldean Georgia | 1.0 |
| Jason Aldean Highway Desperado | 1.0 |
| Jason Aldean Macon | 1.5 |
| Jason Moran The Sound Will Tell You | 4.0 |
| Jazz Spastiks Camera of Sound | 3.5 |
| Jean-Michel Jarre Oxygene | 4.0 |
| Jeff Tobias Recurring Dream | 3.0 |
| Jerkcurb Air Con Eden | 4.0 |
| Jeromes Dream Completed | 4.0 |
| Jeromes Dream The Gray In Between | 4.0 |
| Jessie Ware That! Feels Good! | 4.0 |
| Jessie Ware What's Your Pleasure? | 4.5 |
| JFDR Museum | 3.5 |
| Jivebomb Primitive Desires | 3.0 |
| Jizue Story | 3.5 |
| Jizue Bookshelf | 4.0 |
| Job For A Cowboy Genesis | 2.5 |
| Job For A Cowboy Ruination | 3.0 |
| Job For A Cowboy Demonocracy | 3.0 |
| Job For A Cowboy Sun Eater | 3.5 |
| Jockstrap I<3UQTINVU | 2.5 |
| Jockstrap I Love You Jennifer B | 3.0 |
| Joe Satriani Surfing with the Alien | 3.5 |
| Johann Sebastian Bach The Masterpiece Collection: Bach, Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
| This hour-plus jaunt through some of Bach's most well-known works captures that which etched his name into the halls of perpetuity. Among the globally excellent performances, Dubravka Tomsic's performance of the Italian Concerto is a highlight: Tomsic's graceful playing and sense for drama plays up Bach's baroque sensitivities and sets a high standard for other pianists to follow. This record would measure up higher, but the canned production drains just enough vitality to constrain Bach's compositions a tad. |
| John Carroll Kirby Septet | 3.5 |
| John Coltrane A Love Supreme | 5.0 |
| John Pope Quintet Mixed with Glass | 3.5 |
| John Sharkey III Shoot Out the Cameras | 3.5 |
| John Thayer Supermundane | 2.5 |
| John Zorn The Big Gundown | 3.5 |
| Johnny Booth Moments Elsewhere | 3.5 |
| Johnny Booth Connections | 4.0 |
| Johnny Booth Firsthand Accounts | 4.5 |
| Johnny Marr Fever Dreams Pts I-IV | 3.5 |
| Joliette Principia | 4.0 |
| Joliette Atáxico | 4.0 |
| Joliette Luz Devora | 4.5 |
| Joni Mitchell The Hissing of Summer Lawns | 4.5 |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures | 4.0 |
| JPEGMAFIA LP! (online) | 4.0 |
| Juan Bond Womb | 2.5 |
| Julia Holter Have You In My Wilderness | 3.5 |
| Julia Kwamya Feel Good About Feeling Bad | 3.5 |
| Julia Shapiro Zorked | 3.5 |
| Julien Baker Sprained Ankle | 3.5 |
| Julien Baker Little Oblivions | 3.5 |
| Julius Hemphill and Peter Kowald Live at Kassiopeia | 3.5 |
| Kabbalah The Omen | 3.5 |
| Kai Whiston Quiet as Kept, F.O.G. | 3.5 |
| Kakofonium Krucjata Dziecięca | 2.5 |
| KALI Trio Loom | 3.5 |
| KAMA Kollektiv Toivo | 3.0 |
| Kamasi Washington The Choice | 3.0 |
| Kamasi Washington Harmony of Difference | 4.0 |
| Kanonenfieber Menschenmühle | 3.5 |
| Kaonashi Dear Lemon House, You Ruined Me: Senior Year | 2.5 |
| Kaonashi The 3 Faces of Beauty | 2.5 |
| Kareem Ali Star-Crossed | 3.5 |
| Karkara Nowhere Land | 3.0 |
| Karl Hector and the Malcouns Ka Rica-Tar | 2.0 |
| Katatonia City Burials | 3.5 |
| Kate Bush Hounds of Love | 4.5 |
| Kauan Ice Fleet | 4.0 |
| Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward | 2.5 |
| Kaze (FRA) Unwritten | 3.5 |
| Kehlvin Holistic Dreams | 3.0 |
| Kekht Arakh Pale Swordsman | 3.5 |
| Kelly Clarkson Breakaway | 2.5 |
| Kelly Clarkson All I Ever Wanted | 2.5 |
| Kelly Moran Moves in the Field | 4.0 |
| KEN mode Null | 3.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly | 4.5 |
| Kenny Dorham Afro-Cuban | 3.5 |
| Maybe it's not the most innovative, complex, or even consistent jazz records out there, but Kenny Dorham's Afro-Cuban is a fun piece with enough energy and groove to placate the rabid r/jazzcj Neanderthal. |
| Kenta Shimakawa Glimpse | 3.5 |
| Kesha Gag Order | 2.5 |
| Keygen Church ░ ▒ ▓ █ | 3.0 |
| Keygen Church ░█░█░░█░█░█░ | 3.5 |
| Keygen Church Bullug Gegbug... | 3.5 |
| Keygen Church Nel Nome Del Codice | 4.0 |
| Khemmis Deceiver | 3.0 |
| Kilgore Trout Immemorial | 4.0 |
| Kill Alters Armed To The Teeth L.M.O.M.M. | 3.5 |
| King Crimson VROOOM | 3.5 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard K.G. | 3.0 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard L. W. | 3.5 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Polygondwanaland | 4.0 |
| King Woman Celestial Blues | 3.5 |
| Kinkajous Being Waves | 4.0 |
| Kississippi Mood Ring | 3.0 |
| Knut Challenger | 4.0 |
| KOAN Sound Forgotten Myths | 2.5 |
| KOAN Sound Led by Ancient Light | 4.0 |
| Koenji Hyakkei Dhorimviskha | 3.5 |
| Kokoko! Fongola | 3.5 |
| Koldovstvo Ни царя, ни бога | 1.5 |
| Kole?anka Place Is | 4.0 |
| Kollapse Sult | 3.5 |
| Kolya Kolya | 3.5 |
| Korn Life Is Peachy | 3.0 |
| Korn Korn | 3.5 |
| Korn Follow the Leader | 3.5 |
| Kosmodemonic Liminal Light | 3.0 |
| Krallice Demonic Wealth | 3.0 |
| KRS-One Keep Right | 4.0 |
| Krystian Zimerman Chopin: 4 Balladen; Barcarolle; Fantasie | 4.5 |
| KRZTA ŻÓŁĆ.NISZCZENIE.ZGLISZCZE | 4.0 |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak | 4.5 |
| La Colonie de Vacances ECHT | 3.5 |
| ECHT is eclectic, dizzying, and nervous, just as one would expect from an 11-piece comprising members of four French math-adjacent groups. The compositions are wonderfully free-flowing at the intersection of improvised frenzy and calculated experimentation. A cohesive narrative would propel this record to greater heights, but it's a fun, challenging listen. |
| La Femme Mystère | 3.5 |
| La Quiete Tenpeun 01.05 | 3.0 |
| La Quiete La fine non è la fine | 4.0 |
| La Quiete 2006 / 2009 | 4.0 |
| Laüstic La Canzone del Cefaloforo | 2.0 |
| Lack the Low God-Carrier | 3.5 |
| Lady Wray Piece Of Me | 3.5 |
| Lakes (UK) Elysian Skies | 3.5 |
| Lamb of God New American Gospel | 2.5 |
| Landlady Landlady | 4.0 |
| LAPP Selvacava | 3.0 |
| Lasciate ogne Sperenza Abandon All Hope | 3.5 |
| Lau (UK) Believer | 2.5 |
| Laufey Bewitched | 3.5 |
| Laufey Everything I Know About Love | 4.0 |
| Laura Stevenson Laura Stevenson | 3.0 |
| Laura Stevenson The Big Freeze | 3.5 |
| The Big Freeze brims with melancholy and downtempo guitar playing, yet Laura Stevenson's voice comforts the listener as it shimmers. There's soul and a shy confidence about Laura Stevenson that convinces the listener, and this overshadows any shortcomings due to songwriting. |
| Laurent Bardainne & Tigre d'Eau Douce Eden Beach Club | 2.0 |
| Lava La Rue BUTTER-FLY | 3.5 |
| Lawrence Butch Morris Dust to Dust | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy | 3.5 |
| Lee Konitz You and Lee | 3.0 |
| Lee Konitz Motion | 3.5 |
| Lee Morgan Tom Cat | 4.0 |
| Leitha Sispyhus | 3.5 |
| Les Chants de Nihil Le Tyran Et L'esthète | 2.5 |
| Les Chants du Hasard Livre Troisième | 2.0 |
| Les McCann Layers | 4.0 |
| Let's Talk Daggers Fantastic Contraption | 3.5 |
| Liam Kazar Due North | 3.5 |
| Lianne La Havas Lianne La Havas | 4.0 |
| Light Dweller Hominal | 3.5 |
| Light Field Reverie Another World | 2.5 |
| Lightning Bug A Color of the Sky | 4.0 |
| Like Lovers Syntax | 3.5 |
| Lil Dicky Penith | 1.0 |
| Lil Dicky I'm Brain | 2.0 |
| Lil Ugly Mane Volcanic Bird Enemy and the Voiced Concern | 3.5 |
| Limina Hidden Spaces | 2.5 |
| Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water | 2.0 |
| Limp Bizkit Three Dollar Bill Y'all | 2.0 |
| Ling Tosite Sigure Telecastic fake show | 3.5 |
| Ling Tosite Sigure Feeling Your UFO | 4.0 |
| Lingua Ignota SINNER GET READY | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight | 2.5 |
| Linkin Park A Thousand Suns | 2.5 |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 3.0 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 3.5 |
| Lip Talk Laughing and Eating Cake | 3.0 |
| Liquid Tension Experiment Liquid Tension Experiment | 3.5 |
| Lisel Angels on the Slope | 3.0 |
| Lisel Patterns For Auto-Tuned Voices And Delay | 3.0 |
| Little Simz Drop 7 | 3.0 |
| Little Simz Sometimes I Might Be Introvert | 4.0 |
| Liturgy Origin of the Alimonies | 3.0 |
| Liturgy H.A.Q.Q. | 4.0 |
| In terms of experimentation, creativity, and fusion, H.A.Q.Q. is an absolute masterpiece. In terms of being enjoyable and fun to listen to, it's often wonderful but occasionally grating. On balance, it's a wonderful piece of art, nerdiness be damned. |
| Liturgy 93696 | 4.0 |
| LLNN Unmaker | 3.0 |
| Locktender Friedrich | 4.0 |
| Lord Huron Long Lost | 4.0 |
| Lord Snow Solitude | 4.0 |
| I play this record when I am feeling like any of the following, in combination or solo: lesbian, vegan, feminist, hard, core. |
| Los Jaivas Alturas de Machu Picchu | 4.0 |
| Los Males Del Mundo Descent Towards Death | 3.5 |
| Lost Horizons In Quiet Moments | 3.5 |
| Low Hey What | 3.5 |
| Low Roar maybe tomorrow... | 4.0 |
| Lower Automation Lower Automation | 3.5 |
| Lucinda Chua Antidotes 2 | 3.5 |
| Ludus The Visit | 4.0 |
| Ludus The Seduction | 4.0 |
| Lunarette Clair de Lunarette | 3.5 |
| Lupe Fiasco Drill Music in Zion | 4.0 |
| Lynyn Lexicon | 4.0 |
| M83 Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts | 4.0 |
| Mabe Fratti Será que ahora podremos entendernos | 2.5 |
| Machine Gun Kelly Mainstream Sellout | 1.0 |
| Machine Gun Kelly bloom | 1.5 |
| Machine Gun Kelly Tickets to My Downfall | 1.5 |
| Macklemore Ben | 1.0 |
| MadnessLoveMysticism Y&E&M | 2.0 |
| Magnetophonique Une Cartographie Idéale | 4.0 |
| Mahlathini & the Mahotella Queens Music Inferno: The Indestructible Beat Tour 1988- | 4.0 |
| Makaya McCraven In These Times | 4.0 |
| Mall Girl Pure Love | 4.0 |
| Malthusian/Suffering Hour Time's Withering Shadow | 3.5 |
| Mamaleek Come and See | 3.5 |
| Mamaleek Out of Time | 4.0 |
| Mammal Hands Animalia | 3.5 |
| Avant-garde and yet accessible, Animalia is a decent first full record from Mammal Hands. Ethereal piano and captivating sax are on full display here; definitely worth a spin, but nothing remarkable. |
| Mammal Hands Gift From the Trees | 3.5 |
| Mammal Hands Shadow Work | 4.0 |
| Mammal Hands' strongest effort, in my opinion. Their sound is more captivating, more ethereal, and smoother than before. The record grips an active listener and soothes a passive one; i.e., I spin it when I'm working, before I sleep, or just as much on a long drive when little else occupies my mind. |
| Mammal Hands Becoming | 4.0 |
| Becoming is a superb example of Mammal Hands' trademark avant-garde yet smooth jazz. Instrumentation is tight yet flowing, compositions are harmonious and precise, and production creates a well-rounded and full-bodied sound. At a greater length, Mammal Hands could craft an even more remarkable album, but they do earn their 4 well. |
| Mammal Hands Captured Spirits | 4.0 |
| Mammal Hands Floa | 4.5 |
| Mammoth Deviations | 3.0 |
| Man or Astro-Man? Defcon 5...4...3...2...1 | 3.5 |
| Manbryne Heilsweg: O Udręce Ciała I Tułaczce Duszy | 3.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child | 3.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing | 3.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra Simple Math | 3.5 |
| Mandy, Indiana ... EP | 3.5 |
| Manes Vilosophe | 3.5 |
| Pleasant, experimental, innovative. I can only imagine the confounded shock upon the countenances of Manes' (kvltily Nordic) fanbase when this record came out all those years ago. Whatever the BM equivalent of a monocle is (eyebrow stud?), I'm sure it popped off each one of their faces. |
| Manticora To Live to Kill to Live | 3.5 |
| Maple Glider To Enjoy Is The Only Thing | 3.5 |
| Marasmus Necrotic Overlord | 3.0 |
| Maraudeur Puissance 4 | 3.5 |
| Mare Cognitum Solar Paroxysm | 4.0 |
| Maria BC Devil's Rain | 3.0 |
| Maria BC Hyaline | 3.5 |
| Maria BC Spike Field | 4.0 |
| Mariah Utakata no Hibi | 3.5 |
| Marika Hackman Deaf Heat | 3.5 |
| Marika Hackman Big Sigh | 3.5 |
| Marilyn Manson The Golden Age of Grotesque | 3.0 |
| Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar | 3.5 |
| Mark Freedman One Man Posse | 3.0 |
| Marmozets The Weird and Wonderful Marmozets | 3.5 |
| Maroon 5 Overexposed | 1.0 |
| Maroon 5 V | 1.0 |
| Maroon 5 Red Pill Blues | 1.0 |
| Maroon 5 Jordi | 1.0 |
| Maroon 5 Hands All Over | 2.5 |
| Maroon 5 It Won't Be Soon Before Long | 3.0 |
| Martin Glass The Pacific Visions of Martin Glass | 3.5 |
| Mary Halvorson Amaryllis | 4.0 |
| Mary Halvorson Cloudward | 4.0 |
| Masayoshi Takanaka Seychelles | 3.5 |
| Master Boot Record C:\>DEFRAG | 3.0 |
| Master Boot Record Personal Computer | 4.0 |
| Maston and L'clair Souvenir | 3.5 |
| Matchess Sonescent | 2.5 |
| Material Improvised Music New York 1981 | 2.0 |
| Materic Between Stone Slabs | 3.5 |
| Mathan Darkroot Tzantza | 3.5 |
| Mathieu Fiset RoboJazz | 2.5 |
| Matthew Halsall The Temple Within | 3.5 |
| Matthew Halsall Fletcher Moss Park | 4.0 |
| maudlin of the Well The Secret Song | 4.0 |
| maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map | 4.5 |
| maudlin of the Well Part the Second | 4.5 |
| maudlin of the Well Bath | 5.0 |
| Maxime Denuc Nachthorn | 2.5 |
| Mazzy Star Among My Swan | 4.0 |
| Mdou Moctar Afrique Victime | 4.0 |
| Me and Him Call It Us Loss | 4.0 |
| Medeski, Martin and Wood Friday Afternoon in the Universe | 3.5 |
| Meer Playing House | 3.5 |
| Megadeth Super Collider | 1.5 |
| Megadeth Th1rt3en | 2.5 |
| Megadeth Endgame | 3.0 |
| Melanie De Biasio Blackened Cities | 4.0 |
| Melt Yourself Down Pray for Me I Don't Fit In | 3.5 |
| Men I Trust Untourable Album | 3.5 |
| Menchaca Burn the Edges | 1.5 |
| Mercury Rev Yerself Is Steam | 4.5 |
| Merda Mundi Hatred | 3.0 |
| A calming and soothing mix of lullabies perfect for a kindergartner's ear. |
| Mesarthim CLG J02182–05102 | 3.5 |
| Mesh (USA-FL) Mesh | 2.0 |
| Meshell Ndegeocello Peace Beyond Passion | 4.0 |
| Mestis Eikasia | 3.5 |
| Javier Reyes crafts a beautiful, jazzy work here to exercise some of his non-AAL energy. It's a shame that any of his projects will be compared to his work in AAL, but the contrast between the work serves to highlight Reyes' songwriting and compositional prowess. |
| Metal Mike Ted Nugent Is Not My Dad | 3.0 |
| Toothless, medium tempo, and shivering cold in the shadow of the Ramones. That said, there are some fine riffs on this early 90s punk EP. Mr. Loser's drum tone is mighty ace, Julia Allstatt's bass is plenty audible, and Metal Mike himself croons like an undead Ian Curtis when at his best. So yeah, it's a mixed bag. |
| Metallica St. Anger | 1.5 |
| Metallica Reload | 2.0 |
| Metallica Load | 2.5 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 2.5 |
| This is definitely, definitely better than any album Metallica has released since the self titled, and I will stand and die on that statement. Of course, this isn't saying a whole lot, but props to Metallica for trying yet again. |
| Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct | 2.5 |
| I mean, it was a hell of a lot better than it could have been. HtSD truly sounds like a vintage Metallica album, and given their track record that's rare praise. There are definitely some certified hits on this baby, and I find a hell of a lot more redeeming qualities to this than most of their work since the 90s. Still, though, it's a bloated effort straight from a money machine. There's not much fresh here, though there's a reasonable quantity of energy for a group of old farts. I'm not exactly disappointed overall, really, just a bit bored. |
| Metallica S&M2 | 2.5 |
| Metallica 72 Seasons | 2.5 |
| truly, who else deserves the 66th Annual Grammy Awards trophy for Best Metal Performance other than the boys in black? |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 3.0 |
| I can't say much that hasn't been said by others in the camp of "Extremely Overrated Metallica record." From a standpoint of sheer influence, this album would deserve a higher rating; unfortunately, the musical appeal of Master of Puppets wears away pretty quickly. Aside from Battery, which remains one of my favorite Metallica cuts, I find a lot of this record not gripping nor all that innovative. The title track is extremely overblown IMO, and there aren't many highlights from the tracks I haven't named (except, perhaps, Orion). |
| Metaphobic Demo 2021 | 2.5 |
| Methyl Ethel Are You Haunted? | 2.5 |
| mgk and Trippie Redd Genre : Sadboy | 1.0 |
| Michael Cormier More Light!!! | 2.5 |
| Michael Peter Olsen Yearning Flow | 3.0 |
| Midlake For the Sake Of Bethel Woods | 3.0 |
| Midori Shimizu | 4.0 |
| Miguel Angelo DANÇA DOS DESASTRADOS | 3.5 |
| Mike Posner 31 Minutes To Takeoff | 2.0 |
| Mike Posner The Truth | 2.5 |
| Miles Davis You're Under Arrest | 1.5 |
| Miles Davis Doo Bop | 1.5 |
| Miles Davis Amandla | 2.0 |
| Miles Davis The Man with the Horn | 2.0 |
| Miles Davis Dingo | 2.0 |
| Miles Davis Rubberband | 2.0 |
| Miles Davis Decoy | 2.5 |
| Miles Davis Aura | 2.5 |
| Miles Davis Star People | 3.0 |
| Miles Davis Blue Haze | 3.5 |
| Miles Davis Miles Smiles | 4.0 |
| Miles Davis Sketches of Spain | 4.0 |
| Miles Davis Birth of the Cool | 4.0 |
| Miles Davis Get Up with It | 4.0 |
| Miles Davis In a Silent Way | 4.5 |
| Miles Davis Filles de Kilimanjaro | 4.5 |
| Milton Nascimento and Lo Borges Clube da Esquina | 4.5 |
| Minoru Fushimi Thanatos of Funk | 3.5 |
| Mirror (CYP) The Day Bastards Leaders Die | 3.0 |
| Misery Signals Ultraviolet | 3.0 |
| Unfortunately, this is contemporary Misery Signals. Monotonous vocals and uninspired fretwork cannot compensate for a stellar rhythm section and occasional spots of emotional outpouring. Misery Signals are at their best when they inject their music with feeling, and much of this record feels phoned in. |
| Misha Panfilov Sound Combo Days As Echoes | 4.0 |
| Mitch Murder Then Again | 3.5 |
| Mitski Laurel Hell | 3.0 |
| Mndsgn Rare Pleasure | 2.5 |
| Modern Rites Monuments | 3.0 |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News | 3.5 |
| Modest Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition | 4.0 |
| Modest Mussorgsky Dawn on the Moskva River & Pictures at an Exhibit | 4.5 |
| Modha Through the Cycle | 2.5 |
| Molested Divinity Unearthing The Void | 3.0 |
| Molly Tuttle Crooked Tree | 3.5 |
| Mono My Story, The Buraku Story (An Original Soundtrack | 3.0 |
| Monobody Raytracing | 4.0 |
| Monobody Comma | 4.0 |
| Montagne Black Waterfall | 3.0 |
| Moon Kissed I’d Like to Tell You Something Important | 3.5 |
| Moon Tooth Chromaparagon | 3.0 |
| Moss Icon Lyburnum Wits End Liberation Fly | 4.0 |
| Motel Radio The Garden | 3.5 |
| Mother Mother Inside | 3.5 |
| Motorists Surrounded | 3.5 |
| Motorpsycho Lobotomizer | 2.5 |
| Motorpsycho Kingdom of Oblivion | 3.5 |
| Motorpsycho Ancient Astronauts | 4.0 |
| Motorpsycho Trust Us | 4.5 |
| Motorpsycho The All Is One | 4.5 |
| Mouse On The Keys NHK Special Drama ''Phone Fraud Children'' Origina | 4.0 |
| MouthBreather (USA-MA) I'm Sorry Mr. Salesman | 3.0 |
| This had massive potential, but without Kurt Ballou in the studio I think these guys were far too loosey-goosey on this effort. Short tracks feel like unrealized ideas that didn't sit all the way; pinch harmonics and guitar tones are mixture of Car Bomb ripoffs and gratuitous nu metal callbacks. There's some good fun on this album but what with the release drama and inevitably too-high expectations this LP is a disappointment. |
| Mr. Bungle California | 4.5 |
| mt.ida mt.ida | 3.5 |
| Mudvayne The New Game | 1.5 |
| As a younger fellow I transitioned directly from Mudvayne's self-titled to the New Game. Suffice to say I haven't listened to Mudvayne since. A tragedy! |
| Mudvayne Lost and Found | 2.0 |
| Mudvayne The End of All Things to Come | 2.5 |
| Mudvayne Mudvayne | 2.5 |
| Mudvayne L.D. 50 | 3.0 |
| Murderdolls Beyond The Valley of the Murderdolls | 2.5 |
| Muse The 2nd Law | 2.0 |
| Muse Simulation Theory | 2.0 |
| Muse The Resistance | 2.5 |
| Muse Drones | 2.5 |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 3.5 |
| Music Research Strategies Eleven Postures | 1.5 |
| Musk Ox Inheritance | 4.0 |
| Mutoid Man War Moans | 3.5 |
| Mvltifission Decomposition in the Painful Metamorphosis | 3.5 |
| My Lonely Sea Havoc | 3.0 |
| Myriam Alter Where Is There | 4.0 |
| Mystic Priestess Mystic Priestess | 3.0 |
| Mystic Storm From the Ancient Chaos | 2.5 |
| N.I.N.A. (BRA) PELE | 3.0 |
| Naedr Past is Prologue | 4.0 |
| Nails Abandon All Life | 3.5 |
| Nala Sinephro Space 1.8 | 3.5 |
| Narval Orquesta Incentro | 2.0 |
| Natalie Evans Movements | 2.5 |
| Natasha Bedingfield Pocketful of Sunshine | 2.0 |
| Natasha Bedingfield Unwritten | 2.5 |
| Nature's Neighbor O t h e r s i d e | 3.5 |
| Naughtskeid Ultimate Infernal Nightscape | 3.5 |
| NEØV Picture of a Good Life | 3.5 |
| Neck of the Woods The Annex of Ire | 3.5 |
| Nothing groundbreaking here, but Neck of the Woods craft a hard-hitting record with a just-right runtime that hits all the notes. They pack energy, riffs, and some melodies into a tight little package, and the hints of atmosphere lend enough of a prog metal tinge to the record to keep The Annex of Ire from being too crushingly generic. |
| Necrophobic Dawn of the Damned | 3.5 |
| Neon Empire Distorted Reality | 3.0 |
| Neon Hiss Volume IV | 2.5 |
| Neptunian Maximalism Eons | 3.5 |
| Nervosa Perpetual Chaos | 2.5 |
| Netherbird Arete | 3.0 |
| netra Sørbyen | 3.0 |
| Neurosis Times of Grace | 4.5 |
| NF HOPE | 2.0 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Push The Sky Away | 3.5 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Let Love In | 4.0 |
| Nickelback Curb | 1.5 |
| Nickelback Dark Horse | 1.5 |
| Nickelback Here and Now | 1.5 |
| Nickelback Silver Side Up | 2.0 |
| Nickelback The Long Road | 2.0 |
| Nickelback The State | 2.0 |
| Nickelback No Fixed Address | 2.0 |
| Nickelback All the Right Reasons | 2.5 |
| Nicki Minaj Pink Friday 2 | 1.5 |
| Night Beats Outlaw R&B | 2.5 |
| Night Verses Every Sound Has a Color...: Part II | 3.5 |
| Night Verses Every Sound Has a Color...: Part I | 4.0 |
| Night Verses From the Gallery of Sleep | 4.5 |
| Niklas Paschburg Oceanic | 2.5 |
| Niklas Paschburg Svalbard | 3.5 |
| Nils Wulker Go | 3.0 |
| Nirvana Bleach | 3.5 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 4.5 |
| Nneka Love Supreme | 3.5 |
| No Ceremony in anticipation of an ending | 2.5 |
| NO MAN ERASE | 3.5 |
| No Note if this is the future then I'm in the dark | 4.0 |
| No Suits In Miami Nothing Ever Happens | 3.5 |
| Noda Yuki Soda Sickness | 3.5 |
| Noda Yuki ddbb | 3.5 |
| Noltem Illusions In The Wake | 3.5 |
| Nord (FRA) The Implosion of Everything that Matters | 2.5 |
| Nord (FRA) And Now There's Only A River Left Behind | 4.0 |
| Nord (FRA) Monsters | 4.0 |
| Nord (FRA) The Only Way To Reach The Surface | 4.5 |
| Nordjevel Fenriir | 3.0 |
| nouns While of Unsound Mind | 3.0 |
| Noveliss Vagabond | 3.5 |
| Nowherer Victory Over the Sun | 4.0 |
| Noxantes Never Seen | 2.5 |
| Nujabes Metaphorical Music | 4.0 |
| Nujabes Modal Soul | 4.5 |
| Nursing Self Care | 3.5 |
| Nuvolascura As We Suffer From Memory and Imagination | 4.0 |
| The Envy comparisons are inevitable yet somewhat needless. Nuvolascura offer a package that is both more bruising and more bruised than their Japanese counterparts. The record is paced perfectly for its desired emotional effect, pelting the listener with a hectic mishmash of noise, math, and skramz. |
| Nyck Caution Anywhere But Here | 2.5 |
| Nyctophagia Terrified of Tomorrow | 2.5 |
| Nyu. Flux | 3.0 |
| o'summer vacation Wicked Heart | 3.5 |
| Ocean Alley Yellow Mellow | 2.5 |
| Odal Welten Mutter | 3.5 |
| Odalie Derrière l'Écran | 3.0 |
| Of Mice and Men Cold World | 1.5 |
| Of Mice and Men Tether | 2.0 |
| Of Mice and Men Defy | 2.5 |
| Of Mice and Men EARTHANDSKY | 2.5 |
| Of Mice and Men Echo | 2.5 |
| Of Monsters and Men Beneath the Skin | 3.0 |
| of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? | 4.0 |
| Off Minor Innominate (Remix) | 4.5 |
| Office Culture Big Time Things | 3.5 |
| Oh No Noh where one begins and the other stops | 3.5 |
| Okvsho Traphouse Jazz | 2.5 |
| Old Nick Witch Lymph | 3.0 |
| Old Nick The Vanitous Specter | 3.5 |
| Old Nick A New Generation Of Vampiric Conspiracies | 4.0 |
| Old Nick and Hex Clock Split | 3.5 |
| Olec Mun Vögel | 3.0 |
| Oliver Nelson The Blues and the Abstract Truth | 4.0 |
| Oliver Tree Cowboy Tears | 1.5 |
| Olivia Dean Growth | 3.5 |
| Olivia Kaplan Tonight Turns to Nothing | 3.0 |
| Olivia Rodrigo Guts | 3.0 |
| Olivier Messiaen Les Offrandes oubliées | 3.0 |
| Olivier Messiaen Quatuor Pour la Fin du Temps | 5.0 |
| Omegavortex Black Abomination Spawn | 3.0 |
| OneRepublic Human | 1.5 |
| Onsegen Ensemble Fear | 3.5 |
| Operentzia Tribalkan | 3.0 |
| Orchid Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow! | 3.5 |
| Organ Freeman Organ Freeman | 3.5 |
| Organ Freeman Respect My Art | 3.5 |
| Orisaka Yuta Heisei | 3.5 |
| Ornette Coleman New Vocabulary | 1.5 |
| Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come | 4.5 |
| Osaki Seiichi The Tale Of A Long Forgotten Sunken City | 3.0 |
| Oscar Lang Chew the Scenery | 3.0 |
| Otoboke Beaver SUPER CHAMPON | 4.0 |
| OU One | 4.0 |
| Our Friend the Sun Let Me Out of History | 2.5 |
| Our Future is an Absolute Shadow LP | 3.5 |
| Our Place of Worship is Silence Disavowed, and Left Hopeless | 3.5 |
| Outrun the Sunlight A Vast Field of Silence | 3.5 |
| Overo Waiting For The End To Begin | 4.0 |
| Ox en Mayo Alto Mot, the Valuator, Incredible God | 3.0 |
| Oxbow Fuckfest | 3.5 |
| Oxbow King of the Jews | 3.5 |
| Oxbow Serenade In Red | 3.5 |
| Oxbow Songs for the French | 3.5 |
| Oxbow Love's Holiday | 3.5 |
| Oxbow The Narcotic Story | 4.0 |
| Oxbow Let Me Be A Woman | 4.0 |
| Oxbow Thin Black Duke | 4.0 |
| Oxbow An Evil Heat | 5.0 |
| Ozzy Osbourne The Ultimate Sin | 2.0 |
| Ozzy Osbourne No Rest for the Wicked | 2.5 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Ozzmosis | 2.5 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Down to Earth | 2.5 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Black Rain | 2.5 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Ordinary Man | 2.5 |
| Ozzy Osbourne No More Tears | 3.0 |
| Ozzy Osbourne The Essential Ozzy Osbourne | 3.5 |
| p.s.you'redead Sugar Rot | 2.0 |
| Pacmanthemovie Pacmanthemovie 2: Eat Lives | 3.5 |
| Painted Shrines Heaven and Holy | 3.5 |
| Pal Hwang Dan 2013-2021 Seoul | 4.0 |
| Palm Ghosts Lifeboat Candidate | 3.5 |
| Palm Reader Sleepless | 3.5 |
| Pan American The Patience Fader | 3.5 |
| Pan-Amerikan Native Front Little Turtle's War | 3.5 |
| Panache! Paradis | 3.5 |
| Panopticon ...And Again into the Light | 4.0 |
| Papa M Live from a Shark Cage | 3.5 |
| Paralydium Worlds Beyond | 3.0 |
| Parannoul To See the Next Part of the Dream | 3.5 |
| Parannoul After The Magic | 3.5 |
| Parannoul / Asian Glow / sonhos tomam conta Downfall of the Neon Youth | 3.5 |
| Paranoid Void Travels In My Universe | 3.0 |
| Paranorm Empyrean | 2.5 |
| Pardoner Came Down Different | 3.5 |
| Park Jiha Philos | 3.5 |
| Park Jiha The Gleam | 4.0 |
| Parliament Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome | 4.0 |
| Parquet Courts Wide Awake | 3.5 |
| Patrick Shiroishi Hidemi | 4.0 |
| Paul Jacobs (CAN) Pink Dogs on the Green Grass | 3.0 |
| Paysage d'Hiver Im Wald | 2.5 |
| Okay folks, I must draw the line here. There are some superb, beautiful, positively chilling moments on this record. Pd'H excel at their craft - there's no doubt they can whisk the listener to an Arctic place filled with shimmering dark chords and ambience. But like...it's two hours. And they play approximately 3 notes per song. |
| PDP III Pilled Up on a Couple of Doves | 3.0 |
| Peace'd Out Feelings Blade | 3.5 |
| 2020 HC in a nutshell. Emotive, powerful vox, twisty-turny riffage, tempo changes, and dissonant production combine to communicate pleasingly slapdash snack for the listener. |
| Peach Pit From 2 to 3 | 3.5 |
| Peach Pit Sweet FA | 4.0 |
| Penelope Trappes Penelope Three | 3.0 |
| Pere Ubu The Modern Dance | 4.0 |
| Pere Ubu Dub Housing | 4.0 |
| Peregrine (USA-MA) the awful things we've done | 4.0 |
| perfect blue a week of fires | 3.0 |
| perfect blue digging a hole into hell | 3.0 |
| perfect blue unto souls whose wellsprings fail | 3.5 |
| perfect blue you breed like stars | 3.5 |
| perfect blue crystalline in gorgeous imperfection | 3.5 |
| Perfume Genius Ugly Season | 4.0 |
| Perihelion Gnosis Syzygial Summoning | 3.5 |
| Periphery Periphery III: Select Difficulty | 3.0 |
| Petrol Girls Baby | 4.0 |
| pg.99 Document #7 | 4.0 |
| pg.99 Document #5 | 4.0 |
| pg.99 Document #8 | 4.5 |
| pg.99 / Majority Rule Document #12 | 4.0 |
| Phantasmagore Insurrection or Submission | 2.5 |
| Philip Glass Itaipú; The Canyon | 3.0 |
| Phoebe Bridgers Stranger in the Alps | 3.5 |
| Phoebe Bridgers Punisher | 4.0 |
| Pickle Darling Cosmonaut | 3.5 |
| Piebald When Life Hands You Lemons | 3.5 |
| Pier Piras A Wizard's Perspective | 3.0 |
| Piet Verbist Secret Exit To Another Dimension | 3.5 |
| Pilori (FRA) À Nos Morts | 4.0 |
| Pink Try This | 2.5 |
| Pink Funhouse | 2.5 |
| Pink I'm Not Dead | 3.0 |
| Pink M!ssundaztood | 3.0 |
| Piri Reis Ritma | 4.0 |
| Pixies Come On Pilgrim | 3.5 |
| Plasmodium Towers of Silence | 2.5 |
| Plebeian Grandstand Rien ne suffit | 4.0 |
| Pledge Haunted Visions | 4.0 |
| Plini birds / surfers | 2.0 |
| Plini Sweet Nothings | 3.0 |
| Plosivs Plosivs | 3.5 |
| Plum Green Somnambulistic | 2.5 |
| Polaris The Death of Me | 3.5 |
| Polly Fae Earthlight | 2.5 |
| Polyphia Resurrect | 2.5 |
| Polyphia Inspire | 3.0 |
| Polyphia Muse | 3.0 |
| Polyphia Remember That You Will Die | 3.0 |
| Pool Kids Pool Kids | 4.0 |
| Poppy EAT (NXT Soundtrack) | 4.0 |
| Porter Robinson Nurture | 3.5 |
| Portico Quartet We Welcome Tomorrow | 3.0 |
| Portico Quartet Knee Deep in the North Sea | 3.5 |
| Portico Quartet Portico Quartet | 3.5 |
| Portico Quartet Memory Streams | 3.5 |
| Portico Quartet Monument | 3.5 |
| Portico Quartet Isla | 4.0 |
| Portishead Dummy | 4.5 |
| Portrayal of Guilt Christfucker | 3.5 |
| Portrayal of Guilt Devil Music | 3.5 |
| Portrayal of Guilt We Are Always Alone | 4.0 |
| Possession1981 Somnambulism | 2.5 |
| Postvorta Porrima | 4.0 |
| Power Trip Manifest Decimation | 3.5 |
| Powerglove Metal Kombat for the Mortal Man | 3.5 |
| Powerman 5000 Transform | 2.0 |
| Praam Luminance | 3.5 |
| Praise the Plague The Obsidian Gate | 3.5 |
| Primus Frizzle Fry | 4.5 |
| Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese | 4.5 |
| Profane Desecration Abysmal Stillness | 2.5 |
| Protest the Hero Pacific Myth | 3.5 |
| Prototype Continuum | 3.5 |
| Psychostick Sandwich | 2.5 |
| Puddle of Mudd Ubiquitous | 1.5 |
| Pupil Slicer Blossom | 3.0 |
| Pupil Slicer Mirrors | 4.0 |
| Pure Reason Revolution Eupnea | 3.5 |
| This album is a showcase in fluidity, melody, and poise. Production highlights the electronic influences, heightens the record's characteristic twin vocal harmonics, and makes accessible the distinct prog rock climaxes dotting Eupnea's soundscapes. Each track is its own being yet the sound is extremely cohesive and represents Eupnea both 10 years removed from their last record and yet terrifically cognizant of where they left off sonically. I probably would have liked a bit more heaviness to balance out the light beauty, but Eupnea is still a wonderful listen. |
| Purplefox Town Who Is Malkallam? | 3.0 |
| Purplefox Town Purplefox Town | 4.0 |
| Pyramaze Epitaph | 3.0 |
| Pyrrhon Abscess Time | 3.5 |
| Qrixkuor Poison Palinopsia | 3.5 |
| Quadraphonnes + Andrew Durkin Five-Pointed Star | 3.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris | 3.0 |
| Quicksand Slip | 4.5 |
| R U N For You Will Never Find Peace Within Your Quiet | 4.0 |
| Rabbit Rabbit Radio Rabbit Rabbit Radio, Volume 4 - The Animal I Am | 3.5 |
| Rabbit Rabbit Radio Rabbit Rabbit Radio, Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
| Raccoon City For Nobody, Nowhere | 3.5 |
| Rachel Chinouriri Four° in Winter | 3.5 |
| Rachel Lime A.U. | 4.0 |
| Rachika Nayar Heaven Come Crashing | 4.0 |
| Radical Face Therapy | 2.0 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 4.5 |
| Raein Ah, As If... | 3.5 |
| Rafael Anton Irisarri Agitas Al Sol | 3.0 |
| Randolph's Leap Spirit Level | 4.0 |
| Rannoch Reflections Upon Darkness | 2.5 |
| Raum Daughter | 3.5 |
| Raw Grip Kaleidoscope | 3.0 |
| Really From Verse | 3.5 |
| Really From Really From | 4.0 |
| Red Harvest Cold Dark Matter | 4.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Red Hot Chili Peppers | 2.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Freaky Styley | 2.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium | 3.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication | 3.5 |
| Red Ribbon Planet X | 2.5 |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come | 4.5 |
| Regional Justice Center Crime and Punishment | 3.5 |
| Replicant Malignant Reality | 3.0 |
| Resist and Exist Kwangju | 2.0 |
| Respire Black Line | 4.5 |
| Return to Forever Return to Forever | 4.0 |
| Revenant Marquis Youth In Ribbons | 2.5 |
| Reveries, Chalk Hands, and Oknt 3-way Split | 3.5 |
| Revulsion (FIN) Revulsion | 3.5 |
| ria Mono No Aware | 2.5 |
| Richard Hell and The Voidoids Blank Generation | 4.5 |
| Roamer Lost Bees | 3.0 |
| Robert Stillman What Does It Mean to Be American | 3.5 |
| Robohands Shapes | 3.0 |
| Rolo Tomassi Hysterics | 3.0 |
| Rolo Tomassi Cosmology | 4.0 |
| Rolo Tomassi Where Myth Becomes Memory | 4.0 |
| Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It | 5.0 |
| Ronnie Martin From The Womb Of The Morning... | 3.5 |
| Rooftops A Forest Of Polarity | 3.0 |
| Rosali No Medium | 3.5 |
| Rosalia Motomami | 3.5 |
| Rotting Christ Theogonia | 3.5 |
| Royal Coda To Only a Few at First | 4.0 |
| Rudresh Mahanthappa Hero Trio | 4.0 |
| A finely performed tribute to Rudresh's self-proclaimed masters. Hero Trio is a lovely piece of throwback jazz and a fitting interpretation of many titanic voices from Ornette Coleman to Coltrane, with some less jazzy influences thrown in as well such as Stevie Wonder and Johnny Cash. A purely enjoyable, easily listenable, overall super fun record from beginning to end |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels | 3.5 |
| Rusty Cooley Rusty Cooley | 2.5 |
| Rx Bandits Those Damn Bandits | 2.5 |
| Rx Bandits Progress | 3.0 |
| Rx Bandits Halfway Between Here and There | 3.0 |
| Rx Bandits Mandala | 4.0 |
| Rx Bandits Gemini, Her Majesty | 4.0 |
| Rx Bandits The Resignation | 4.5 |
| Rx Bandits ...And the Battle Begun | 5.0 |
| Ryley Walker Course In Fable | 3.5 |
| Ryo Fukui Scenery | 4.5 |
| Sade Love Deluxe | 4.0 |
| Sam Burton I Can Go With You | 3.5 |
| Sam Cooke Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964 | 5.0 |
| Sangre de Muerdago Xuntas | 4.0 |
| Sangre de Muerdago O Vento que Lambe as miñas Feridas | 4.0 |
| Santi Debriano Flash of the Spirit | 3.5 |
| Sarcasm (UK) Creeping Life | 2.5 |
| Sasquatch Fever Fantasy | 3.5 |
| Scarred Gaia - Medea | 3.5 |
| Scenario. Sounds in Sequence | 3.5 |
| SCHKAF Часть II | 3.0 |
| SCHKAF Часть I | 3.5 |
| Scott Hamilton The Right Time | 3.0 |
| Scree Jasmine on a Night in July | 2.5 |
| Scribble Selected Works 1983–86 | 2.5 |
| Sea Mosquito Fire, Magic & Venom | 4.0 |
| Secret Band LP2 | 3.5 |
| Sed Non Satiata Sed Non Satiata | 4.0 |
| Haunting and beautiful, powered by strong vocals and solidly standard BM instrumentation. No tracks stand head and shoulders above the others, but this is fairly engaging, which says a lot. |
| Seizures The Sanity Universal | 4.5 |
| Seizures Reverie of the Revolving Diamond | 4.5 |
| Sentinel (USA-NY) Sense Of Dread | 2.5 |
| Senyawa Alkisah | 3.0 |
| Senza Even a Worm Will Turn | 3.5 |
| Septage Septisk Eradikasyon | 2.5 |
| Seputus Phantom Indigo | 3.5 |
| Sequelae Systemic Epilepsis | 2.5 |
| Seth La Morsure du Christ | 3.5 |
| Sevendust Seasons | 3.0 |
| Severed Heads Lamborghini/Petrol EP | 3.5 |
| Shai Maestro Human | 3.5 |
| Shaking Chains Overvalued Ideas | 3.5 |
| Shania Twain Queen Of Me | 1.5 |
| Shanique Marie Gigis' House | 3.0 |
| Shannen Moser The Sun Still Seems to Move | 3.5 |
| Sheer Mag Playing Favorites | 2.5 |
| Shell of a Shell Away Team | 3.0 |
| Shibusashirazu Shibuzen | 3.0 |
| Shibusashirazu Shibuboshi | 4.0 |
| Shibusashirazu Shibuki | 4.0 |
| Shiina Ringo Kalk Samen Kuri no Hana | 5.0 |
| Shiner Lula Divinia | 4.5 |
| Shpongle Carnival of Peculiarities | 3.5 |
| Shrinkwrap Killers Parents + FBI = Cahoots | 3.0 |
| Shum Levegő | 4.0 |
| Shygirl Club Shy | 3.5 |
| Sia This Is Acting | 2.5 |
| Sia We Are Born | 3.0 |
| Sia 1000 Forms Of Fear | 3.5 |
| Sianvar Stay Lost | 3.5 |
| Siderean Lost on Void's Horizon | 3.0 |
| Siege Drop Dead | 4.0 |
| Sights and Sounds Monolith | 4.0 |
| Silent Drive Love is Worth It | 3.5 |
| Silicone Prairie My Life On The Silicone Prairie | 2.0 |
| Silk Sonic An Evening with Silk Sonic | 3.5 |
| Silvana Estrada Marchita | 3.5 |
| Since By Man We Sing The Body Electric | 4.0 |
| Sithu Aye Senpai III | 3.0 |
| Sitka Sun All The Way West | 3.5 |
| Ska-P Eurosis | 2.0 |
| Ska-P Planeta Eskoria | 2.5 |
| Ska-P Que Corra La Voz | 3.0 |
| Ska-P El Vals Del Obrero | 3.0 |
| Ska-P Lágrimas y Gozos | 3.0 |
I bumped this quite a bit back in high school, partially out of my nearly blind devotion to ska at
the time and partially to flex on my compatriots who couldn't speak Spanish. The album is front-
loaded with some absolute bangers, and if the whole album were like the first five tracks I'd
probably still listen to Lagrimas y Gozos even though I've outgrown my ska phase. Unfortunately,
there's a steep decline in quality once La Colmena crashes to an end, and no matter how great
Crimen Sollicitationis or El Libertador are I can't excuse the inconsistency in quality. |
| Ska-P 99% | 3.0 |
| Ska-P Incontrolable | 3.0 |
| Skaphe Skáphe³ | 4.0 |
| Are you kidding me? You're telling me you're gonna hear those drums at 2+ minutes in to Track 2 and not instantly give these dudes $7 on Bandcamp? Since it's a soundoff, I'll close with a lasy comparison: halfway between Imperial Triumphant and Wormlust on the mindfucky, atmospheric, death-inspiring black metal wizardry, and the love child of Ulcerate's and Deathspell Omega's hazy vortex of death. |
| Skee Mask Compro | 4.0 |
| Skeletal Remains The Entombment of Chaos | 3.5 |
| Skeleton Skeleton | 3.5 |
| Energetic blackened punk for all y'all ripped denim shorts crusty sk8ers |
| Skrillex Don’t Get Too Close | 2.0 |
| Skullcrusher Quiet the Room | 3.5 |
| Skycamefalling 10.21 | 3.5 |
| Skycamefalling are persistently overlooked, but this album is a testament to the musical potential they never fully realized. Though 10.21 may be hampered by some poor production value and almost-tediously repetitive structure from song to song, there are flashes of brilliance throughout. Christopher's harsh vocals surge across each track with a potent, raspy vehemence, often linking up with the punky power chords Cameron employs and the punchy fills Brian uses to punctuate each track. Cameron's addition of piano invites a welcome complexity to seep into each track, but on the theme of poor production I do believe Skycamefalling hampered themselves a bit here. I feel more experimentation with song structures, more distinct fretwork, and less inhibition from Brian on drums would have opened this album up much more and allowed it to ascend into early 2000s metalcore royalty. That all being said, this is a consistently strong record with a few standout tracks and a worthwhile listen for any 'core fan. |
| Sleater-Kinney Path of Wellness | 2.0 |
| Sleep Moscow Of the Sun | 3.0 |
| sleepmakeswaves Love of Cartography | 4.5 |
| Sleepwalker (JPN) Noč Na Krayu Sveta | 3.5 |
| Slift Ummon | 4.0 |
| Y'all know that recent list a user made about seducing women with progressive rock? This is the record you play to seduce your homies |
| Slift Ilion | 4.0 |
| Slint Tweez | 2.0 |
| Slint Spiderland | 4.5 |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone | 2.5 |
| Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter | 2.5 |
| Slipknot Slipknot | 3.0 |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 3.0 |
| Slipknot Iowa | 3.0 |
| Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind | 3.0 |
| Slowly Building Weapons Sunbirds | 3.5 |
| Talk about a gem that deserves more praise! The raw production values are kind of a downside, but the merciless vocals, intensifying chord progressions, and groovy drums are highlights. SBW's mix of black metal, hxcore, and mxcore is promising, and I hope a major label picks them up and amps up the production. |
| slowthai UGLY | 3.0 |
| Smog Red Apple Falls | 4.0 |
| Smoothboi Ezra Stuck | 3.0 |
| Snarky Puppy Ground UP | 3.0 |
| Snarky Puppy Sylva | 4.0 |
| Snooze Familiaris | 3.5 |
| Snooze create a thematically consistent, not-too-silly work about the life cycle of a dog. Points for executing that well, but they also execute true math rock with no real frills. Vox are standout here, the songs are catchy, and the album is pretty solid. I'd like to see Snooze get a bit more adventurous with song structures in the future, but I'd be okay if they do something like this again as well. |
| So Hideous None But a Pure Heart Can Sing | 4.0 |
| SOiL Redefine | 2.5 |
| Soko ni Naru 一閃 (ISSEN) | 4.0 |
| Soleil Bleu Félins pour l’autre | 3.5 |
| Solitary Vice No One Asks for Anyone | 3.0 |
| Solstafir Endless Twilight of Codependent Love | 3.0 |
| Son Lux Tomorrows III | 2.0 |
| sonhos tomam conta insolação | 3.5 |
| Sonny Rollins Saxophone Colossus | 4.0 |
| Sordid Pink Sordid Pink | 3.0 |
| SOUL GLO DisNigga Vol. 1 | 2.5 |
| SOUL GLO DisNigga, Vol. 2 | 3.5 |
| SOUL GLO Songs To Yeet At The Sun | 4.0 |
| SOUL GLO Diaspora Problems | 4.5 |
| kev, 'really run-of-the-mill hardcore punk?" i get that your genre pie slab beats mine by 4 % rpoints & totally chill if you didn't vibe with Diaspora Problems, but for real i never heard a rsuicidal tendencies record that sounds like this |
| Sour Widows Crossing Over | 2.5 |
| Space Art Trip in the Center Head | 4.0 |
| Space360 Daily Rituals | 3.0 |
| Special Interest Trust No Wave | 2.0 |
| Spectral Lore Ετερόφωτος | 3.5 |
| Spellling The Turning Wheel | 4.0 |
| Spinebreaker Ice Grave | 3.5 |
| Spiritbox Eternal Blue | 3.5 |
| Spoon Memory Dust | 3.0 |
| Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga | 4.0 |
| Spoon Lucifer on the Sofa | 4.0 |
| Springtime (AUS) Night Raver | 4.0 |
| Spud Cannon Good Kids Make Bad Apples | 3.0 |
| Squarepusher Go Plastic | 3.5 |
| Squarepusher Feed Me Weird Things | 4.5 |
| Squid Bright Green Field | 4.0 |
| Squirrel Flower Planet (i) | 3.5 |
| Staind 14 Shades of Grey | 2.0 |
| Stargazer (AUS) Psychic Secretions | 3.5 |
| Starkweather Croatoan | 4.0 |
| Stars Hollow I Want To Live My Life | 3.5 |
| Starterra Celestial | 4.0 |
| Starterra Transformation Cycles | 4.0 |
| State Faults Clairvoyant | 4.0 |
| Static Dress Rouge Carpet Disaster | 4.0 |
| Static-X Shadow Zone | 3.0 |
| Steel Toe Steel Toe | 3.0 |
| Steely Dan Aja | 4.5 |
| Stella (GR) Up and Away | 3.0 |
| Stepping Stone Escape From the Junkyard | 3.0 |
| Steve Reich Octet/Music For a Large Ensemble/Violin Phase | 4.5 |
| Steve Reich Music for 18 Musicians [Nonesuch 1998] | 5.0 |
| Steve Roach Structures from Silence | 4.5 |
| Still Corners The Last Exit | 2.5 |
| Stimulator Jones La Mano | 3.0 |
| Stone Sour Stone Sour | 3.0 |
| Stortregn Evocation of Light | 3.0 |
| Stortregn Uncreation | 3.5 |
| Stortregn Emptiness Fills the Void | 3.5 |
| Stortregn Singularity | 3.5 |
| Stortregn Impermanence | 3.5 |
| Strawberry Girls Tasmanian Glow | 3.0 |
| Strawberry Girls French Ghetto | 3.5 |
| Strawberry Girls American Graffiti | 3.5 |
| Strike Anywhere Iron Front | 3.5 |
| String Noise, Greg Saunier, and International Contemporary E Eric Lyon: Giga Concerto | 4.0 |
| Stromae Multitude | 3.5 |
| Struggling Harsh Immortals 4 Death | 3.0 |
| STUFF. T(h)reats | 3.5 |
| Stygian Crown Stygian Crown | 2.5 |
| Sudan Archives Natural Brown Prom Queen | 4.0 |
| Suede Autofiction | 4.0 |
| Suffering Hour The Cyclic Reckoning | 4.0 |
| Sugar Wounds Calico Dreams | 3.5 |
| Suho Meso An Important Message to Every Man and Woman in Ame | 2.5 |
| Suicidal Tendencies Freedumb | 3.0 |
| Suicide Suicide | 3.0 |
| Suicide Silence Suicide Silence | 1.0 |
| Suis La Lune Quiet, Pull the Strings! | 4.0 |
| Suis La Lune Heir | 4.0 |
| Summoning Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame | 3.0 |
| Sun-El Musician Africa to the World | 3.5 |
| Sunami Sunami EP | 3.0 |
| Sunami/Gulch Split | 3.5 |
| Sundr Solar Ships | 2.0 |
| Sunflo'er All These Darlings and Now Me | 3.5 |
| Sunken Livslede | 4.0 |
| Sunless Dawn Timeweaver | 3.5 |
| Sunrise Patriot Motion Black Fellflower Stream | 3.5 |
| Sunstrife SOL | 3.0 |
| Supine No Altar for the Company Man | 3.5 |
| Surmoi Bipolarität | 3.0 |
| Susie Ibarra / Claire Chase / Alex Peh Talking Gong | 3.5 |
| Susumu Yokota Symbol | 4.0 |
| Svalbard One Day All This Will End | 4.0 |
| Svalbard It's Hard to Have Hope | 4.0 |
| Svalbard When I Die, Will I Get Better? | 4.0 |
| Svalbard The Weight of the Mask | 4.0 |
| Swamp Witch The Slithering Bog (Remix) | 2.0 |
| Swamp Witch The Slithering Bog | 2.5 |
| Swamp Witch Dead Rituals | 3.0 |
| Swans Filth | 3.5 |
| Sweet Trip Walkers Beware! We Drive Into The Sun / Stab/Slow | 3.5 |
| Sweet Trip A Tiny House, In Secret Speeches, Polar Equals | 4.0 |
| Sylosis Monolith | 2.5 |
| Sylosis Dormant Heart | 3.0 |
| Sylosis The Supreme Oppressor | 3.5 |
| Sylvaine Nova | 4.0 |
| Synovial Songs of Silver | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 3.0 |
| System of a Down Protect The Land/Genocidal Humanoidz | 3.0 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 4.5 |
| Taiko Super Kicks Nami | 3.0 |
| Takako Mamiya Love Trip | 4.0 |
| Takatak Acrophase | 2.5 |
| Talk Talk The Party's Over | 2.5 |
| Talk Talk It's My Life | 3.0 |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock | 4.5 |
| Tanukichan Sundays | 2.5 |
| Taulard Dans La Plaine | 2.5 |
| Taylor Swift Taylor Swift | 2.5 |
| Taylor Swift Fearless | 2.5 |
| Taylor Swift Reputation | 2.5 |
| Taylor Swift Lover | 2.5 |
| Taylor Swift Midnights | 2.5 |
| Taylor Swift The Tortured Poets Department | 2.5 |
| Taylor Swift The Tortured Poets Department (Anthology) | 2.5 |
| Taylor Swift Speak Now | 3.0 |
| Taylor Swift Red | 3.0 |
| Taylor Swift 1989 | 3.0 |
| Taylor Swift Evermore | 3.0 |
| Taylor Swift Folklore | 3.5 |
| Taylor Swift 1989 (Taylor’s Version) | 3.5 |
| Tchornobog Tchornobog | 2.5 |
| TDA Ascète | 2.0 |
| Teamonade Borderline | 3.5 |
| Teenage Jesus and the Jerks Live 1977-1979 | 4.0 |
| TEETH (CAN) A Biblical Worship Of Violence | 3.5 |
| Telefon Tel Aviv Map of What Is Effortless | 2.5 |
| Television Marquee Moon | 4.5 |
| Telos Delude | 4.0 |
| Temple Nightside Pillars of Damnation | 3.5 |
| Tenace Des marques sur nos mains | 3.5 |
| Tenacious D Rize of the Fenix | 2.5 |
| Tenacious D The Pick of Destiny | 3.0 |
| Tenhi Valkama | 4.0 |
| Tennyson Rot | 3.5 |
| Tenue Territorios | 3.5 |
| Tera Melos Drugs to the Dear Youth | 3.5 |
| Short and sweet, a readily accessible yet impressively complex cauldron of mathy experimentation. Those drums make me frisky. |
| Tera Melos Trash Generator | 3.5 |
| Tera Melos X'ed Out | 4.0 |
| Teresa Russell and Cocobilli The Blues is Real | 2.5 |
| Terminal Nation Holocene Extinction | 2.5 |
| Terminalist The Great Acceleration | 3.0 |
| Terra Tenebrosa The Tunnels | 3.5 |
| Terror Trapped In A World | 3.0 |
| Terzij de Horde Self | 2.5 |
| TesseracT One | 3.0 |
| TesseracT Polaris | 3.0 |
| Thank You Scientist The Perils of Time Travel | 3.5 |
| Thank You Scientist Stranger Heads Prevail | 4.0 |
| Thank You Scientist Terraformer | 4.0 |
| TYS shoulder high expectations for good reason, and they mostly delivered with Terraformer. The almost inconceivably long runtime is surprisingly not much of a hindrance here, as the band stay quite engaged with their craft the whole time. TYS maintain their sound well and don't experiment much, which is perhaps why this album doesn't reach the highs it could have. That being said, Terraformer is a wonderful record with some truly superb tracks that belong in the top tier of TYS's discog. |
| Thank You Scientist Maps of Non-Existent Places | 4.5 |
| Thantifaxath Hive Mind Narcosis | 3.0 |
| Thanya Iyer rest | 3.0 |
| The Algorithm Data Renaissance | 3.0 |
| The Algorithm Brute Force | 4.0 |
| Brute Force is pure fun. It's chaotic yet calculated, ferocious yet tentative, and in your face yet by your side. There's something comforting to me about the Algorithm's blend of electronic music and prog metal, perhaps because Brute Force is so contemporary as to only work in the mid-2010s. To throw another juxtaposition into the mix, this whole record both seems effortless and tortuously complicated. Won't stop banging this one till the cows come home |
| The Allman Brothers Band The Allman Brothers Band | 3.5 |
| The Altogether Silo | 3.5 |
| The Antikaroshi Extract.Transform.Debase | 3.5 |
| The Antlers Hospice | 4.5 |
| The Armed Untitled | 4.0 |
| The Armed Only Love | 4.0 |
| Dissonant and distorted, a vision of punk and hardcore for the future. I admire the Armed for their ability to push the scene forward; the album pushes the envelope and is still a fantastic listen. |
| The Armed Ultrapop | 4.0 |
| The Bad Plus Activate Infinity | 3.5 |
| The Best of the Worst Better Medicine | 3.5 |
| The Beths Expert in a Dying Field | 4.5 |
| The Black Eyed Peas The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies) | 2.0 |
| The Black Eyed Peas Elephunk | 2.5 |
| The Black Eyed Peas Monkey Business | 2.5 |
| The Brave Little Abacus Just Got Back from the Discomfort... | 4.5 |
| The Breathing Effect Eli & Harry | 3.5 |
| The Breathing Effect Mars Is a Very Bad Place for Love | 4.0 |
| The Callous Daoboys Die on Mars | 4.0 |
| To synthesize everyone else's comments: TDEP's frenetic energy meets The Chariot's sonic palate meets DGD's humor. It's a refreshing take on a genre that ostensibly peaked years ago, and an entry to the scene worthy of notice. |
| The Callous Daoboys God Smiles Upon the Callous Daoboys | 4.0 |
| The Callous Daoboys Celebrity Therapist | 4.5 |
| The Chameleons Script of the Bridge | 4.0 |
| The Chariot One Wing | 4.0 |
| Unbelievable, undeniable riffage. I don't believe One Wing deserves the most dazzling praise. Its ideas, while executed quite well and performed cohesively, aren't entirely groundbreaking. It's certainly a wild, joyful, ecstatic ride, but what the Chariot's final album possessed in creating a few supreme tracks it lacked in consummate consistency. |
| The Circle Metamorphosis | 3.0 |
| The Clientele Music for the Age of Miracles | 3.5 |
| The Daysleepers Drowned in a Sea of Sound | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise | 4.5 |
| The Death Particle Chapter I | 4.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada With Roots Above and Branches Below | 3.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada ZII | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity | 4.5 |
| The Faceplant Inward | 3.5 |
| The Fahrenheit Drill Install Me Into The Cloud | 3.5 |
| The Fall of Troy The Fall of Troy | 4.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger | 4.5 |
| The Field From Here We Go Sublime | 5.0 |
| The Future Sound of London Lifeforms | 4.0 |
| The Future Sound of London Dead Cities | 4.0 |
| The Ghost Inside The Ghost Inside | 3.5 |
| It's not generic melodic hardcore if it's executed to the T generic melodic hardcore! |
| The God Awful Truth Memory Palace | 3.0 |
| The Hirsch Effekt Urian | 4.0 |
| The Jesus Lizard Goat | 4.5 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland | 4.5 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold as Love | 4.5 |
| The Killers Sam's Town | 2.5 |
| The Killers Day & Age | 2.5 |
| The Killers Hot Fuss | 3.0 |
| The Knife Silent Shout | 4.0 |
| The Letters Organize Dead Rhythm Machine | 4.0 |
| The Lucid Dream The Deep End | 3.0 |
| The Marias Cinema | 3.5 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 4.5 |
| The Monolith Deathcult V3 - Vernedering: Connect the Goddamn Dots | 3.0 |
| The Most Of What We Have | 3.5 |
| The Mothers of Invention Freak Out! | 3.5 |
| The Motion Mosaic Samsara | 3.0 |
| The Motion Mosaic Bed Sores//Domino Effect | 3.5 |
| The Motion Mosaic Avant-Garbage | 4.0 |
| Hearkens back to older metalcore in the most refreshing way. The diversity of sounds on this album makes it a challenging, rewarding ride e.g. the appropriately placed interludes giving the listener a much-needed breather. that seems to be one of the common denominators across the album. Personal highlight is DMT Daydream, with Cancer and Cure a close second. Hoping these guys get the attention they deserve. |
| The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation Succubus | 4.0 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Mongrel | 4.0 |
| The Orb Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld | 4.0 |
| The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds | 4.5 |
| The Physics House Band Mercury Fountain | 3.5 |
| The Physics House Band Horizons / Rapture | 4.0 |
| The Physics House Band Incident on 3rd | 4.0 |
| The Pretty Things Parachute | 4.0 |
| The Prodigy The Day Is My Enemy | 2.0 |
| The Prodigy Invaders Must Die | 2.5 |
| The Raging Nathans Waste My Heart | 3.5 |
| The Reds, Pinks and Purples Inner Richmond | 2.5 |
| The Reds, Pinks and Purples Build Love | 3.0 |
| The Reds, Pinks and Purples Dull Panic & Sunday Gloom | 3.0 |
| The Reds, Pinks and Purples You Might Be Happy Someday | 3.5 |
| The Reds, Pinks and Purples Summer at Land's End | 3.5 |
| The Reds, Pinks and Purples Slow Torture of an Hourly Wage | 3.5 |
| The Reds, Pinks and Purples Murder, Oral Sex & Cigarettes | 3.5 |
| The Reds, Pinks and Purples Uncommon Weather | 4.0 |
| The Reds, Pinks and Purples The Town That Cursed Your Name | 4.0 |
| The Residents Not Available | 3.0 |
| The Rolling Stones Out of Our Heads | 3.5 |
| The Ruins of Beverast The Thule Grimoires | 4.0 |
| The Secret Disintoxication | 3.0 |
| The Sick Boy Method For Karyn | 3.0 |
| The Slow Readers Club The Joy of the Return | 3.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins ATUM: Act III | 1.5 |
| The Sound That Ends Creation Memes, Dreams, And Flying Machines | 2.5 |
| The Stooges The Stooges | 3.5 |
| The Suicide Machines Destruction By Definition | 3.5 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Illusory Walls | 4.0 |
| The Wrens The Meadowlands | 4.5 |
| Thelonious Monk Monk | 3.5 |
| Thelonious Monk Brilliant Corners | 4.5 |
| They Hate Change Wish You Were Here... | 2.5 |
| Thin (USA-NY) Respite_apology (demo) | 3.5 |
| Thirdface Do It With A Smile | 3.0 |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie | 3.0 |
| This Heat This Heat | 4.0 |
| thoughtcrimes Tap Night | 3.5 |
| Only 4ing this for length as Tap Night is the best EP I've heard in a long while. Compact, ferocious energy meets a variegated guitar sound, rumbling bass and kitwork, and solid production. This clocks in at less than a quarter of an hour but whets my hardcore tastebuds so hard. |
| thoughtcrimes Altered Pasts | 4.0 |
| Thousand Foot Krutch That's What People Do | 2.0 |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Phenomenon | 2.5 |
| Three Knee Deep Three Knee Deep | 2.5 |
| Thrice Horizons/East | 3.5 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 4.5 |
| Throwing Snow Dragons | 3.5 |
| thus:owls Who Would Hold You If The Sky Betrayed Us? | 3.5 |
| Thy Catafalque Alföld | 3.0 |
| Tigercub As Blue As Indigo | 3.5 |
| Tingvall Trio Dance | 3.5 |
| Tiny Habits Tiny Things | 3.5 |
| Tired Lion Breakfast for Pathetics | 4.0 |
| Tobacco Maniac Meat | 3.0 |
| Toby Driver In the L..L..Library Loft | 3.0 |
| Toby Driver They Are the Shield | 4.5 |
| toe That's Another Story | 2.5 |
| toe Songs, Ideas We Forgot | 3.0 |
| toe The Book About My Idle Plot on a Vague Anxiety | 3.5 |
| toe For Long Tomorrow | 3.5 |
| For as much as the vox do not jibe at all with the rest of the music. For as much as the tracks rblend together a bit too well. For as much as I totally zone out when I listen to FLT. Drums. |
| toe Hear You | 3.5 |
| Toluca Darvo | 3.5 |
| Toluca Act I | 4.0 |
| Don't you love when you stumble across an EP that gets you absolutely psyched about a band, and then you realize it's their first release and there's much more of their catalog to enjoy? Toluca's Act I |
| Toluca Memoria | 4.0 |
| Toluca's first full length release has them firing on their selected cylinders. This is an emotionally charged, atmospheric, melodic, and even well produced hodgepodge with the Russian blackened screamo group at their best. Fans of envy looking for something with a harsher edge should check this out. |
| Toluca Soras | 4.5 |
| Tom MacDonald Deathreats | 1.0 |
| Tom MacDonald Gravestones | 1.0 |
| Tom MacDonald Flowers For The Dead | 1.0 |
| Tom MacDonald See You Tomorrow | 1.5 |
| Tom MacDonald Ghoststories | 1.5 |
| Tom MacDonald Us Against the World | 1.5 |
| Tom Sochas You could hear the bird sing | 3.0 |
| Tom Waits The Heart of Saturday Night | 3.0 |
| Tom Waits Closing Time | 4.0 |
| Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones | 4.0 |
| Tom Waits Nighthawks At The Diner | 4.0 |
| Tom Waits Franks Wild Years | 4.5 |
| TOMÁ Atom | 4.0 |
| Tomberlin i don’t know who needs to hear this... | 4.0 |
| Tomoko Omura Branches Vol. 2 | 4.0 |
| Tomoko Omura Branches Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
| Tony Jay Hey There Flower | 2.5 |
| Totally Unicorn High Spirits//Low Life | 2.5 |
| Totem Skin Still Waters Run Deep | 4.0 |
| Blackened hardcore is my jam at the moment, and Totem Skin are one of the most underappreciated artists in the genre. This album is a full-on emotive assault, with the blackened vocals and atmosphere underscoring the raw power of the hxcore-influenced instrumentals. The Silent Hill sample don't hurt either |
| Totem Skin Weltschmerz | 4.0 |
| Touche Amore Stage Four | 4.0 |
| I really hate that I miss harsher vox on this album. Stage Four is an undeniably moving experience - as it should be, given the fact that it's a dedication to lead singer Bolm's mother in the throes of cancer. Each song positively drips with emotion, and for the studious follower of my soundoffs one could gather that I tend to find emotion in my favorite musical pieces. I do feel, though, that Jeremy Bolm held back a little here, and that prevents me from ascribing legendary status to Stage Four. All in all, though, it's a fantastic listen and work of art. |
| Touche Amore Lament | 4.0 |
| Towers Bel Air Highrise Plantation | 3.5 |
| Trachimbrod A Collection of Hidden Sketches | 4.0 |
| Train Christmas in Tahoe | 1.0 |
| Train A Girl A Bottle A Boat | 1.0 |
| Train I Am | 1.0 |
| Train California 37 | 1.5 |
| Train Bulletproof Picasso | 1.5 |
| Train For Me, It's You | 2.0 |
| Train Save Me San Francisco | 2.0 |
| Train One and a Half | 2.0 |
| Train Train | 2.5 |
| Train Drops of Jupiter | 2.5 |
| Train My Private Nation | 2.5 |
| Train AM Gold | 2.5 |
| Trenches Reckoner | 3.5 |
| Trentemoller Memoria | 3.5 |
| Tribulation Where the Gloom Becomes Sound | 3.5 |
| Tricot Repeat | 3.0 |
| Tricot craft a typically pretty EP with their signature vocal harmonies but skimp on the instrumental heft that makes their other records great. The songs are easy listens, but I miss the virtuosity that defined their previous releases. |
| Tricot The | 3.5 |
| Tricot Makkuro | 3.5 |
| A standard sunny release from Tricot belying the album cover, Makkuro is a solid showcase of the group's defining characteristics. Tricot excel at infusing harmony and melody with Japanese math rock drumming and guitar noodling, but you get the sense they're slightly living below their potential here. |
| Tricot 10 | 4.0 |
| Trioscapes Digital Dream Sequence | 4.0 |
| Trippers & Askers Acorn | 3.5 |
| Trivium Ember to Inferno | 2.0 |
| Trivium The Crusade | 2.0 |
| Without mentioning the big M this is certainly Trivium's worst effort. There is little of redeeming value here to this day. Trivium were confused and misguided; you can tell they have some musical talent but it's really not on display. |
| Trivium What the Dead Men Say | 2.5 |
| Trivium Ascendancy | 3.0 |
| Trivium Shogun | 3.0 |
| Trivium In Waves | 3.0 |
| Trivium The Sin and the Sentence | 3.0 |
| Trophy Hunt Katabasis | 3.0 |
| Trophy Scars Holy Vacants | 4.5 |
| Trophy Scars Astral Pariah | 4.5 |
| Tubelord Our First American Friends | 4.0 |
| Turnover Peripheral Vision | 4.5 |
| Tuscoma Gu-cci | 3.5 |
| Tuscoma Arkhitecturenominus | 4.0 |
| A full, rambunctious sound populated by galloping riffage, harsh growls that aren't buried in reverb, and solid rhythm. Tuscoma is a fascinating project and the artists deserve all the attention they can get. |
| Two People Second Body | 3.5 |
| Two People First Body | 4.0 |
| Uli Kempendorff Someone Talked | 3.5 |
| Ulthar Helionomicon | 3.5 |
| Ulthar Providence | 4.0 |
| Ulthar Anthronomicon | 4.0 |
| Ulver Kveldssanger | 3.0 |
| Ulver Perdition City | 3.5 |
| Umbra Vitae Shadow of Life | 2.5 |
| Under Old Trees Kelo | 3.0 |
| under.his.eye under.his.eye | 3.0 |
| Underworld Second Toughest in the Infants | 4.5 |
| Unexpect _We, Invaders | 3.5 |
| Unexpect In a Flesh Aquarium | 3.5 |
| Unreqvited Beautiful Ghosts | 3.5 |
| Unwound Fake Train | 4.0 |
| Unwound New Plastic Ideas | 4.5 |
| Ushangvagush Mntu | 3.0 |
| Valdrin Effigy Of Nightmares | 3.5 |
| Effigy of Nightmares is a pleasant surprise. Full disclosure, I was expecting this record to be a reasonably well done if completely non-memorable slab of gloomy black metal. Valdrin do check off quite a few of those boxes - BBs, tremolos, etc. But the riffs impart a great deal of melody, the shrieks are mixed at a proper volume, and the atmosphere is both present and dissonant. |
| Valleyheart Heal My Head | 4.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Only God Was Above Us | 4.0 |
| Van Morrison Latest Record Project, Volume I | 1.0 |
| Van Morrison Astral Weeks | 5.0 |
| Vanilla Ice To the Extreme | 2.0 |
| Vansire Angel Youth | 4.0 |
| Vansire The Modern Western World | 4.0 |
| Various Artists (Electronic) Doom Mix, Vol. V | 3.0 |
| Vasudeva Generator | 3.0 |
| Venetian Snares Infolepsy E.P. | 3.0 |
| Venetian Snares Moonglow/This Bitter Earth | 4.0 |
| Venetian Snares Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett | 4.5 |
| Verse Aggression | 4.5 |
| Vexes Imagine What We Could Destroy / If Only Given Time | 3.5 |
| Vi Som Alskade Varandra Sa Mycket Den sorgligaste musiken i varlden | 4.5 |
| Who would have thought my love language was tonsilitically-screamed Swedish hxc? |
| Vi Som Alskade Varandra Sa Mycket Det Onda. Det Goda. Det Vackra. Det Fula. | 4.5 |
| Victory Over The Sun Nowherer | 3.5 |
| Vincent Vallires Toute beauté n'est pas perdue | 3.0 |
| Violet Cold Noir Kid | 2.5 |
| Violet Cold Empire of Love | 3.5 |
| Virginie B Insula | 3.5 |
| Vision of Disorder Imprint | 3.5 |
| Viva Belgrado Flores, Carne | 4.0 |
| Voices An Audience of Mannequins | 2.5 |
| Volto! Incitare | 4.0 |
| Vorvan Awakened | 4.0 |
| Votto Quindi noi sbagliando facemmo giusto | 3.5 |
| Vous Autres Sel de Pierre | 3.0 |
| Vredehammer Viperous | 3.5 |
| Vulkan Technatura | 2.0 |
| Wake Devouring Ruin | 3.5 |
| Wake Confluence | 3.5 |
| Wake Thought Form Descent | 4.0 |
| Walt McClements A Hole in the Fence | 3.5 |
| Water Nymph Water Nymph | 2.5 |
| Water Nymph Heroic Pond of Love | 3.5 |
| Wayfarer A Romance with Violence | 3.5 |
| We Lost the Sea The Quietest Place on Earth | 4.0 |
| We Lost the Sea Departure Songs | 4.5 |
| Weald and Woe The Fate of Kings and Men | 3.0 |
| Weather Report Sweetnighter | 3.5 |
| Wednesday Rat Saw God | 4.0 |
| Weston Super Maim The Neglected Works | 2.5 |
| Weston Super Maim 180-Degree Murder | 3.5 |
| Weyes Blood And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow | 4.0 |
| Weyes Blood Titanic Rising | 4.5 |
| Wharflurch Psychedelic Realms ov Hell | 3.5 |
| Whimsical Melt | 3.0 |
| White Ward Futility Report | 4.0 |
| White Ward Love Exchange Failure | 4.0 |
| White Ward False Light | 4.0 |
| Whitey NOTHING IN MY POCKET BUT A HOLE | 4.0 |
| Wide Eyes Oneironaut | 3.0 |
| I'm oneiroNOT happy with how much the teenager inside me is having a field day with this. The tones are gorgeous and the sheer volume of ear candy on display is staggering. However, gratuitous wankery has a ceiling, and Wide Eyes brush way too hard against this ceiling on this record and it can only be recognized as such. Less is so often more it hurts |
| Wild Nothing Nocturne | 4.0 |
| Willzyx I Don't Feel Anything | 3.5 |
| Winterfylleth The Reckoning Dawn | 3.5 |
| The Reckoning Dawn is atmospheric and pretty, yet it rarely backs off from heavy riffage, powerful shrieks, and the requisite BBs. Checking out the rest of Winterfylleth's discog reveals their latest release is pretty much par for the course for one of the more prominent bands in the English BM scene. That's not to say this record is trite - far from it, as the passages are lush and packed with plenty of interesting lyrical twists and melodies to engage the listener. Halfway through May I'd say it's my album of the month, despite the lack of experimentation on the part of the artist. Title track is a beast. |
| Without Waves Comedian | 3.0 |
| Wo Fat The Singularity | 3.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Primordial Arcana | 3.0 |
| World's End Girlfriend Hurtbreak Wonderland | 4.0 |
| Wormlust The Feral Wisdom | 4.0 |
| Worn Human Work | 3.5 |
| WOWOD Yarost’ I Proshchenie | 3.5 |
| Wrecking Crew Sedale Threat | 4.0 |
| Wynton Marsalis Wynton Marsalis | 4.5 |
| Wynton Marsalis The London Concert | 4.5 |
| Xerath III | 3.0 |
| Xor Xor | 2.5 |
| Xythlia Immortality Through Quantum Suicide | 3.0 |
| Yaeji What We Drew | 3.0 |
| Yashira Fail To Be | 4.0 |
| Yasuaki Shimizu Music for Commercials | 2.5 |
| Yautja The Lurch | 3.0 |
| yaya bey The Things I Can't Take With Me | 3.5 |
| yaya bey Remember Your North Star | 4.0 |
| YAYA KIM a.k.a YAYA | 4.0 |
| Yearning (CAN) MMXXII | 3.5 |
| Yellow Magic Orchestra Solid State Survivor | 4.0 |
| Yellow Ostrich Soft | 3.5 |
| Yerin Baek Love, Yerin | 3.0 |
| Yeule Glitch Princess | 3.5 |
| Yeule softscars | 4.5 |
| Yngwie Malmsteen Magnum Opus | 2.5 |
| Yngwie Malmsteen High Impact | 2.5 |
| Yngwie Malmsteen Trilogy | 3.0 |
| Yngwie Malmsteen Perpetual Flame | 3.0 |
| Yngwie Malmsteen 20th Century Masters | 3.0 |
| Yngwie Malmsteen Odyssey | 3.5 |
| Yngwie Malmsteen Rising Force | 3.5 |
| Yo La Tengo Autumn Sweater | 3.5 |
| Yo La Tengo Electr-O-Pura | 4.0 |
| Yon order of violence | 3.5 |
| Young Mountain Lost Tree | 3.5 |
| everybody say 3.5 keep it going. solid skramzz but idk if it's worth many revisits |
| Young Pilgrims We're Young Pilgrims | 3.5 |
| Youssou N'Dour Djamil Inédits 84-85 | 4.5 |
| Youth Lagoon Heaven Is a Junkyard | 3.5 |
| Yukihiro Takahashi Saravah! | 3.0 |
| Yukihiro Takahashi Neuromantic | 3.5 |
| Yung Ongoing Dispute | 3.5 |
| Yvette Young Acoustics EP 2 | 3.5 |
| Yvette Young Piano EP | 3.5 |
| Some gorgeous mathematic wankery on the piano. Yvette Young flexes her non-guitar proficiency in a pretty outstanding way; one wonders if technical showboating comes at the expense of tight composition, but nonetheless this is a gorgeous listen on the whole. |
| Zao The Well-Intentioned Virus | 4.0 |
| Zao The Crimson Corridor | 4.0 |
| Zao Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest | 4.5 |
| Zapruder Fall In Line | 4.0 |
| Zeal and Ardor Wake of a Nation | 2.5 |
| Zeal and Ardor Stranger Fruit | 3.5 |
| Zella Day Where Does The Devil Hide | 3.0 |
| Zeta (VEN) Todo Bailarlo | 3.5 |
| Zhmach Euphoria Never Leaves | 3.5 |
| Zmar Zmar | 3.5 |
| Zs Music of the Modern White | 2.0 |
