A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step | 3.0 |
A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms | 4.0 |
Alcest Écailles De Lune | 3.5 |
Anohni and the Johnsons The Crying Light | 4.0 |
Arcade Fire Neon Bible | 4.0 |
Arcade Fire Funeral | 5.0 |
As Tall As Lions As Tall As Lions | 3.5 |
Bat For Lashes Two Suns | 4.0 |
Bjork Debut | 4.0 |
Bjork Volta | 4.0 |
Bjork Homogenic | 4.5 |
Bjork Medulla | 4.5 |
Bjork Post | 5.0 |
Bjork Vespertine | 5.0 |
Blonde Redhead Penny Sparkle | 4.0 |
Disliked it on the first play-through, the sounds seemed all to wash together. After hearing
it a few times its stuck in my head. Makino's vocals are as strong and ethereal as ever, but
the production and lyrics really put this album over the top. There are so many layers of
carefully constructed sound to delve into, and the dreamy atmosphere created by the hazy
vocals and lyrics create an immersive atmosphere I have not felt on any other album this
year. This is a cohesive, intricately crafted album that completes the evolution hinted on
23. Highly recommended.
Top Picks: My Plants Are Dead, Oslo, Penny Sparkle, Black Guitar |
Brazil A Hostage and the Meaning of Life | 4.0 |
Bright Eyes Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground | 4.0 |
Bright Eyes Digital Ash in a Digital Urn | 4.0 |
Bright Eyes Fevers & Mirrors | 4.0 |
Bright Eyes Cassadaga | 4.5 |
Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning | 5.0 |
Circa Survive Juturna | 3.5 |
Circa Survive On Letting Go | 4.0 |
In my opinion this is an incredible album...much better than their debut.
The lyrics are excellent and thought-provoking (as always), Anthony Green's singing is far more impressive and ranged than the last album and anything hes done in Saosin/Sounds of Animals Fighting.
As far as song structure goes...the songs vary largely from each other...upon first listening things do sound a bit 'sameish'...the guitarwork still is largely very distorted (as they intended)...but theirs still a lot of good noodling (In The Morning/Amazing, The Greatest Lie, Kicking Your Crosses Down, and On Letting Go are very interesting) and melody is much more present than the last album.
Drumming is far better than Juturna and is quite good throughout...check out The Difference Between Medicine and Poison Is In The Dose.
Overall, this is an incredible album which I can recommend highly if your looking for something different too listen too or if you dig anything from Radiohead to The Mars Volta to The Shins.
+'s - Lyrics, Anthony Green's singing, far more varied and more melodious song structures than Juturna, Drumming, some excellent guitarwork.
-'s - Can seem 'sameish' on first listening, Guitarwork is often distorted/muddy,
Note: The entire album is streamed on the bands myspace.
Recommended Songs: In The Morning And Amazing, The Greatest Lie, The Difference Between Medicine And Poison Is In The Dose, Kicking Your Crosses Down, On Letting Go, Your Friends Are Gone
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Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise | 4.0 |
Coldplay X&Y | 3.5 |
Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head | 4.0 |
Coldplay Parachutes | 4.0 |
Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | 4.0 |
Darren Hayes Spin | 3.0 |
Darren Hayes Secret Codes and Battleships | 4.0 |
Darren Hayes This Delicate Thing We've Made | 4.5 |
Darren Hayes The Tension And The Spark | 5.0 |
Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues | 3.5 |
Fleet Foxes Sun Giant | 4.0 |
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes | 5.0 |
Frou Frou Details | 4.0 |
Grizzly Bear Veckatimest | 4.5 |
Harry Connick Jr. Blue Light, Red Light | 4.0 |
Imogen Heap Speak For Yourself | 4.0 |
Jeff Buckley Grace | 5.0 |
Jeff Buckley Grace (Legacy Edition) | 5.0 |
Kenna Make Sure They See My Face | 3.5 |
Kenna New Sacred Cow | 4.0 |
Lovedrug Pretend You're Alive | 4.0 |
Margot and the Nuclear So and So's The Dust of Retreat | 3.5 |
Margot and the Nuclear So and So's Animal! | 4.0 |
Margot and the Nuclear So and So's Not Animal. | 4.0 |
Minus the Bear Omni | 2.5 |
Muse Showbiz | 3.5 |
Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 3.5 |
Muse The Resistance | 3.5 |
Muse Hullabaloo Soundtrack | 4.0 |
Muse Absolution | 4.5 |
Muse Origin of Symmetry | 5.0 |
Nightmare Of You Nightmare Of You | 3.5 |
Paul Dempsey Everything Is True | 4.0 |
Porcupine Tree In Absentia | 4.5 |
Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun | 4.5 |
Radiohead OK Computer | 4.0 |
Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 4.0 |
Radiohead Amnesiac | 4.5 |
Radiohead The Bends | 4.5 |
Radiohead In Rainbows | 4.5 |
Radiohead Kid A | 5.0 |
Savage Garden Affirmation | 3.5 |
Savage Garden Savage Garden | 4.0 |
Seal System | 3.5 |
Seal Seal IV | 3.5 |
Seal Human Being | 4.0 |
Seal Seal II | 4.5 |
Seal Seal | 5.0 |
Sholi Dreams Before People | 4.5 |
Sholi Sholi | 5.0 |
Shugo Tokumaru Exit | 4.0 |
System of a Down Steal This Album! | 3.0 |
System of a Down System of a Down | 3.5 |
System of a Down Hypnotize | 3.5 |
System of a Down Toxicity | 4.0 |
System of a Down Mezmerize | 4.0 |
Tears for Fears Elemental | 3.5 |
The Antlers Hospice | 4.0 |
The Blood Brothers ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn | 4.0 |
The Blood Brothers Crimes | 4.0 |
The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 3.5 |
The Mars Volta Amputechture | 4.0 |
The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 5.0 |
The National High Violet | 4.0 |
The Rural Alberta Advantage Hometowns | 4.5 |
The Shins Chutes Too Narrow | 4.0 |
The Shins Wincing the Night Away | 4.5 |
The Shins Oh, Inverted World | 5.0 |
Thrice Vheissu | 4.5 |
Vampire Weekend Contra | 3.0 |
Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend | 3.5 |
Yes Close to the Edge | 5.0 |