| *shels Sea of the Dying Dhow | 4.0 |
| *shels Plains Of The Purple Buffalo | 4.5 |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead The Century of Self | 3.0 |
| 18 Carat Affair Adventures in Schizophrenia | 3.5 |
| 2Pac Me Against the World | 3.5 |
| 311 Evolver | 2.0 |
| 311 From Chaos | 2.5 |
| 311 311 | 3.0 |
| 311 Soundsystem | 3.0 |
| 311 Transistor | 3.0 |
| 311 Music | 3.5 |
| 311 Grassroots | 3.5 |
| 50 Cent Curtis | 2.5 |
| 50 Cent War Angel LP | 3.0 |
| 50 Cent Before I Self Destruct | 3.0 |
| 50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin' | 3.5 |
| 65daysofstatic The Fall of Math | 3.5 |
| 7 Days Of Funk 7 Days Of Funk | 4.0 |
| 9th Prince Prince Of New York | 1.5 |
| Copy GZA's flow to a tee, the subdued production style of Pro Tools, then rap about dumb sh*t. Hey look, you're 9th Prince. |
| ????MACROSS 82-99 A Million Miles Away | 3.5 |
| ????MACROSS 82-99 SAILORWAVE | 4.0 |
| i give this a 4. kingsoby1 stamp of approval. |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step | 3.0 |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms | 3.5 |
| A Storm Of Light As The Valley Of Death Becomes Us... | 2.5 |
| A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory | 3.0 |
| A/T/O/S A/T/O/S | 3.5 |
| Ab-Soul Longterm Mentality | 2.5 |
| I never realized how bad the beats on this record truly were until I listened to the marginally better Control System |
| Ab-Soul Control System | 3.2 |
| Abel (NY) Make It Right | 4.0 |
| Abstract Rude Rejuvenation | 2.5 |
| Adebisi Shank This is the Album | 3.0 |
| Aesop Rock None Shall Pass | 3.5 |
| Aesop Rock Float | 3.5 |
| Aesop Rock Skelethon | 3.5 |
| not sure if i like this at all |
| Aesop Rock Labor Days | 4.0 |
| Aesop Rock Daylight | 4.0 |
| Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues | 3.7 |
| Agalloch The Mantle | 3.5 |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore | 4.0 |
| Air Love 2 | 3.0 |
| Akron/Family Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free | 3.0 |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune | 3.5 |
| Alexander Spit A Breathtaking Trip to That Otherside | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here | 3.0 |
| Alice in Chains Dirt | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue | 3.5 |
| Alice Smith She | 2.5 |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals | 2.5 |
| All There All There | 3.0 |
| Altar of Plagues Teethed Glory and Injury | 3.0 |
| Amanda Palmer Who Killed Amanda Palmer? | 3.5 |
| Ambrose Akinmusire The Imagined Sailor Is Far Easier To Paint | 4.0 |
| Amen Dunes Love | 3.5 |
| Amenra Mass V | 4.0 |
| Amesoeurs Amesoeurs | 3.5 |
| Amorphis The Karelian Isthmus | 3.0 |
| Amorphis Elegy | 3.5 |
| Amorphis Tales from the Thousand Lakes | 4.0 |
| Amorphis Tuonela | 4.0 |
| Amplifier The Octopus | 3.0 |
| Amplifier Insider | 3.5 |
| Amplifier Amplifier | 4.0 |
| Amplifier The Astronaut Dismantles HAL | 4.0 |
| Ana Kefr The Burial Tree (II) | 3.5 |
| Anaal Nathrakh In the Constellation of the Black Widow | 3.5 |
| Corpses raping animals then fighting other reanimated corpses after being burned alive by fire rain and death angels. Destruction on a colossal scale. |
| Anberlin New Surrender | 3.5 |
| Ancestors In Dreams And Time | 3.5 |
| Andrew Bird Break It Yourself | 4.0 |
| Andromeda Chimera | 2.0 |
| Andromeda II=I | 2.5 |
| Andromeda Extension of the Wish | 3.5 |
| Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra Take Off! | 3.5 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 3.0 |
| Animal Kingdom The Looking Away | 3.5 |
| Antibalas Antibalas | 3.0 |
| Antigua y Barbuda Try Future | 3.5 |
| Antipop Consortium Fluorescent Black | 3.0 |
| Apollo Brown and O.C. Trophies | 3.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys Suck It and See | 4.0 |
| Arghoslent Hornets of the Pogrom | 3.0 |
| Armand Hammer Race Music | 3.5 |
| like a kajillion times better than dour candy. |
| Artificial Brain Labyrinth Constellation | 3.0 |
| As Cities Burn Hell or High Water | 2.5 |
| As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse | 2.0 |
| As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security | 2.5 |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us | 3.0 |
| As Tall As Lions You Can't Take It With You | 4.0 |
| ASAP Rocky Live.Love.A$AP. | 3.5 |
| ASAP Rocky LONG.LIVE.A$AP | 3.8 |
| Asher Roth Asleep In The Bread Aisle | 1.5 |
| Mario Kart, munchies, Madden, suburbs, Sublime-posturing, pre-pubescent socio-political musings… Asleep in the Bread Aisle has all the ingredients for anthemic frat-party bro-hop. Raised in the suburbs (the far-outlying suburbs to be precise) of Philadelphia, Asher Roth paints a picture one would expect from homogeneous experiences and a biblically allusive name. And there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that, especially when delving into the metaphysical or even the mildly interesting. Even then, some artists excel at making light, care-free party music – see pre-808’s/ Louis Vitton Kanye for a good example. The thing is, Roth tries to do both here – but is by no means a renaissance man; instead, he recreates the very essence of Wonderbread through music. |
| Asobi Seksu Hush | 2.5 |
| Asobi Seksu Citrus | 3.5 |
| Astronautalis Pomegranate | 2.5 |
| Astronautalis This Is Our Science | 3.5 |
| Astronote Weapon Of The Future | 4.0 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 4.5 |
| Atmosphere You Can't Imagine How Much Fun... | 2.5 |
| Atmosphere To All My Friends, Blood Makes The Blade Holy | 2.5 |
| Atmosphere The Family Sign | 2.5 |
| Atmosphere Seven's Travels | 3.0 |
| Atmosphere When Life Gives You Lemons... | 3.0 |
| Atmosphere God Loves Ugly | 3.5 |
| Atmosphere Lucy Ford: The Atmosphere EPs | 4.0 |
| Atmosphere Overcast! | 4.0 |
| Atomship The Crash of `47 | 3.5 |
| Au4 ...And Down Goes The Sky | 3.5 |
| AudioVent Dirty Sexy Knights in Paris | 2.5 |
| August Burns Red Constellations | 3.5 |
| Autre Ne Veut Anxiety | 4.3 |
| Ava Luna Electric Balloon | 4.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Sounding the Seventh Trumpet | 2.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil | 2.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen | 3.0 |
| B-Real Smoke N Mirrors | 2.5 |
| B. Dolan Fallen House Sunken City | 3.5 |
| straight up hiphop and more entertaining than The Failure. probably as deep too. awesome beats. |
| B.o.B The Adventures of Bobby Ray | 2.0 |
| a few good tracks and a whole lotta shit. |
| Bad Rabbits American Love | 2.5 |
| Bad Religion True North | 3.0 |
| BADBADNOTGOOD BBNG2 | 4.0 |
| what the f this is so good |
| Baptists Baptists | 3.0 |
| Baptists Bushcraft | 3.5 |
| Baroness Yellow and Green | 3.0 |
| Baroness Red Album | 3.5 |
| Baroness Blue Record | 3.5 |
| Ok so I finally decided that this isn't as good as the Red Album. I don't know, maybe it's "more mainstream", but Blue Album nearly sheds all sense of identity developed on its forebear. |
| Barren Earth Curse of the Red River | 3.0 |
| Barren Earth The Devil's Resolve | 3.5 |
| Bat For Lashes Two Suns | 3.0 |
| Baths Cerulean | 3.0 |
| Baths Obsidian | 3.5 |
| BATS Red In Tooth and Claw | 3.0 |
| Battles Mirrored | 4.0 |
| Be'lakor Of Breath and Bone | 2.5 |
| Beach Fossils Clash the Truth | 2.5 |
| Beach House Bloom | 2.5 |
| Beach House Teen Dream | 3.0 |
| Beck Morning Phase | 2.5 |
| Becoming The Archetype Dichotomy | 2.5 |
| Believer Gabriel | 3.0 |
| Ben Frost A U R O R A | 4.5 |
| damn this is really good so far |
| Between the Buried and Me The Anatomy Of | 3.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues | 4.0 |
| chugga chugga doo doo bliddle bliddle brawrrrrr lalala |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 4.5 |
| Beyonce Beyonce | 3.0 |
| Bibio Mind Bokeh | 3.5 |
| Big Boi Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors | 4.0 |
| Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot | 4.5 |
| Big Boi may not be widely considered the star of Outkast, but his first ever (official) solo recording shines an unmistakeable spotlight nonetheless. Sir Lucious Leftfoot: The Son of Chico Dusty will by no means leave you pensive with overwhelming metaphysical conflicts post-listen, but be prepared to nod your head to some of the best southern hip-hop since, well, the last Outkast offering. |
| Big Business Mind the Drift | 2.0 |
| Big Business Head for the Shallow | 4.0 |
| Big K.R.I.T. 4Eva N A Day | 3.0 |
| Big K.R.I.T. Live From The Underground | 3.0 |
| Big K.R.I.T. K.R.I.T Wuz Here | 3.5 |
| Big K.R.I.T. ReturnOf4eva | 3.5 |
| Big L Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous | 4.5 |
| Bigg Jus Machines That Make Civilization Fun | 3.5 |
| Bilal Airtight's Revenge | 4.0 |
| Bilal A Love Surreal | 4.0 |
| Bilal 1st Born Second | 4.5 |
| Billy Woods Dour Candy | 2.5 |
yeah so Blockhead's beats are fucking terrible what the fuck this isnt even close to as good as history will absolve me
wow that was negative i'm sorry billy woods ur a good rapper |
| Billy Woods History Will Absolve Me | 4.0 |
| This is the easiest 4/5 I've ever given. Billy Woods is so good lyrically it's ridiculous, and the beats are consistently great - somewhat glitchy, heavy electronic influence. Only downside is the seriously excessive length. Just plain impossible to focus on a 20 track record. |
| Binary Star Masters of the Universe | 4.0 |
| Birds in Row You, Me, and the Violence | 4.0 |
| Black Breath Sentenced To Life | 4.0 |
| Black Host Life in the Sugar Candle Mines | 4.0 |
| Black Kids Partie Traumatic | 1.0 |
| Black Milk Popular Demand | 3.5 |
| Black Milk Album Of The Year | 3.5 |
| Black Milk Tronic | 4.0 |
| Black Moon Enta Da Stage | 4.5 |
| Black Mountain Black Mountain | 3.0 |
| Black Mountain In the Future | 3.5 |
| Black Star Black Star | 4.5 |
| Blackalicious Blazing Arrow | 4.5 |
| Blank Banshee Blank Banshee 0 | 4.0 |
| Blank Banshee Blank Banshee 1 | 4.0 |
| Blindside Silence | 3.5 |
| Blood Ceremony The Eldritch Dark | 2.5 |
| Blood Orange Cupid Deluxe | 3.5 |
| Blood Orange Freetown Sound | 4.5 |
| Blu No York! | 5.0 |
| holy fuck how did i miss this |
| Blu and Exile Below the Heavens | 3.5 |
| Blu and Mainframe Johnson and Jonson | 3.5 |
| Blue Sky Black Death Late Night Cinema | 3.5 |
| Blue Sky Black Death Jean Grae: The Evil Jeanius | 3.5 |
| Blue Sky Black Death NOIR | 3.5 |
| Blue Sky Black Death Razah's Ladder | 3.5 |
| Blue Sky Black Death A Heap Of Broken Images | 4.0 |
| Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest | 4.0 |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Beileid | 3.0 |
| Boil aXiom | 2.0 |
| Bombino Nomad | 3.0 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 4.0 |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 4.5 |
| Bonobo Black Sands | 3.0 |
| Bonobo The North Borders | 3.5 |
| Boredoms Vision Creation Newsun | 4.5 |
| Boris New Album | 3.0 |
| Bozzio Levin Stevens Black Light Syndrome | 3.5 |
| Bozzio Levin Stevens Situation Dangerous | 4.0 |
| Brand New Daisy | 2.5 |
| Brand New, Thrice, these names can do no wrong here, predictably. This is probably slightly above average, and all this ridiculous praise is just as unwarranted as that for Beggars. |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 3.0 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 4.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin Saturate | 1.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal | 2.0 |
| Britney Spears Greatest Hits: My Prerogative | 3.0 |
| Britney Spears Circus | 3.5 |
| Broken Bells Broken Bells | 4.0 |
| Best record of the year so far. |
| Brotha Lynch Hung Mannibalector | 2.5 |
| Brother Ali Us | 2.5 |
| Brother Ali The Undisputed Truth | 3.0 |
| Brother Ali The Truth Is Here | 3.0 |
| Brother Ali Shadows On The Sun | 3.5 |
| Brother/Ghost Black Ice | 3.5 |
| BT These Hopeful Machines | 3.5 |
| This Binary Universe was not only a defining electronic record of 2006, but it may even be remembered centuries from now - and with good reason, as it far exceeded all expectations fans and colleagues alike had for Brian Transeau (aka "BT"). Mastered in 5.1 surround sound, it was a sprawling, cross-genre piece of epic proportions - jazz, downbeat, house, ambient, and even classical-bent soundtrack influence, it was all there. This alone is the primary detractor from These Hopeful Machines. It's not that BT fails in any sense of the word - quite the contrary actually. His latest machination is bound to have lasting appeal on top of the electronic charts, in the clubs, and all over the globe in places where people actually care about their house music.rRecommended Tracks:r"Suddenly"r"The Emergency"r"Rose of Jericho"r"Love Can Kill You"r"Le Nocturne De Lumiere" |
| BT This Binary Universe | 4.0 |
| Buke and Gase General Dome | 4.0 |
| Burial Untrue | 3.0 |
| Buried Inside Spoils Of Failure | 3.5 |
| Burst Lazarus Bird | 3.0 |
| Burst Origo | 4.0 |
| Busta Rhymes Back On My B.S. | 2.0 |
| Cage (USA-NY) I Never Knew You | 2.0 |
| Cage (USA-NY) Depart From Me | 2.5 |
| this is what it would sound like if cage performed the Queen of the Damned soundtrack.raaliyah RIP |
| Cage (USA-NY) Kill the Architect | 3.0 |
| Cage (USA-NY) Hell's Winter | 4.0 |
| Cakes Da Killa The Eulogy | 3.0 |
| Callenish Circle Pitch.Black.Effects | 2.0 |
| Cam'ron Crime Pays | 3.0 |
| Cam'ron Purple Haze | 3.5 |
| Camel Mirage | 4.5 |
| Camera Obscura My Maudlin Career | 3.0 |
| Cannibal Ox Gotham | 3.0 |
| Cannibal Ox The Cold Vein | 5.0 |
| Carcass Surgical Steel | 4.0 |
| Caribou Swim | 2.5 |
| Cars & Trains The Roots, The Leaves | 3.0 |
| Cars AND Trains... |
| Cassie RockaByeBaby | 3.0 |
| Cassie Cassie | 3.5 |
| Cave In Beyond Hypothermia | 3.0 |
| Cave In Until Your Heart Stops | 3.5 |
| Cave In Perfect Pitch Black | 3.5 |
| Cave In Creative Eclipses | 3.5 |
| Cave In Tides of Tomorrow | 3.5 |
| Cave In White Silence | 3.5 |
| Cave In Antenna | 4.0 |
| Cave In Planets of Old | 4.0 |
| Cave In Jupiter | 5.0 |
| Celph Titled and Buckwild Nineteen Ninety Now | 2.0 |
| Ceschi The One Man Band Broke Up | 3.0 |
| Chance the Rapper Acid Rap | 2.0 |
| Charles Mingus Pithecanthropus Erectus | 3.5 |
| Charles Mingus Blues & Roots | 3.5 |
| Charles Mingus Tijuana Moods | 3.5 |
| Charles Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus | 4.0 |
| Charles Mingus The Clown | 4.0 |
| Charles Mingus Mingus Ah Um | 4.5 |
| Charles Mingus The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady | 5.0 |
| Chevelle Wonder What's Next | 3.0 |
| Chevelle Sci-Fi Crimes | 3.0 |
| Child Actor Victory | 4.2 |
| missed this last year. top notch dream/ psychedelic pop |
| Choking Victim No Gods, No Managers | 4.0 |
| Chromatics Kill for Love | 3.5 |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise | 2.5 |
| Circa Survive On Letting Go | 3.0 |
| Circa Survive Juturna | 3.5 |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 3.5 |
| Circle Takes the Square Decompositions: Volume Number One | 4.0 |
| Clams Casino Instrumental Mixtape | 3.5 |
| clipping. Midcity | 3.5 |
| this is way better than death grips |
| clipping. CLPPNG | 4.5 |
this is incredible wowowowow
holy shit how can you not like this |
| Clipse Til the Casket Drops | 3.0 |
Easily the worst Clipse record as a whole. Some cool single-quality tracks here and there, but so many cases where either the vocal component or production side is spot on - and not at the same time, unfortunately.
This isn't even close to the level of HHNF. |
| Clipse Lord Willin' | 4.0 |
| Clipse Hell Hath No Fury | 4.5 |
| Closure in Moscow First Temple | 3.0 |
| Cloud Nothings Attack on Memory | 4.0 |
| cLOUDDEAD cLOUDDEAD | 4.0 |
| Coalesce OX | 3.5 |
| Coalesce 0:12 Revolution in Just Listening | 4.0 |
| Cobalt Gin | 4.0 |
| Code Orange Love Is Love // Return To Dust | 3.0 |
| Codeine Frigid Stars | 5.0 |
| Codeine The White Birch | 5.0 |
| where has this record been all my life |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 | 3.2 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 3.5 |
| Common Universal Mind Control | 1.5 |
| Common Finding Forever | 2.0 |
| Common The Dreamer/The Believer | 2.5 |
| Common Electric Circus | 3.0 |
| Common Resurrection | 3.0 |
| Common Be | 3.5 |
| Common Like Water for Chocolate | 3.5 |
| Common One Day It'll All Make Sense | 3.5 |
| Common Market Tobacco Road | 3.0 |
| Company Flow Funcrusher Plus | 5.0 |
| Converge No Heroes | 3.0 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 3.5 |
| There are some really solid tunes here, but unfortunately way too much filler. Sorry dudes.rBetter than No More Heroes for sure and a step in the right direction. |
| Converge Jane Doe | 4.5 |
| Corbin Black Silk | 2.0 |
lo-fi and lo-skill does not now = cool automatically
this guy seriously sounds and looks like some kind of eccentric sexual predator. like when
he says "pussy" it's like he's never gotten any before and really would like it if offered
(if he's into that kind of thing). |
| Crash of Rhinos Distal | 3.5 |
| Creed Weathered | 2.0 |
| Creed Human Clay | 3.0 |
| Creed My Own Prison | 3.5 |
| Cult Leader Nothing for Us Here | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna Salvation | 4.0 |
| CunninLynguists Strange Journey Vol. 2 | 2.5 |
| CunninLynguists Will Rap For Food | 3.0 |
| CunninLynguists Strange Journey Vol. 1 | 3.0 |
| CunninLynguists Dirty Acres | 3.5 |
| CunninLynguists Southernunderground | 3.5 |
| CunninLynguists Oneirology | 3.5 |
| I keep trying to see what everyone else sees in this, but can't. Sure, Kno's beats are probably his best since Dirty Acres, but he doesn't really do anything that hasn't been done in the past 10 years. That said, this is a solid record; every track is indeed listenable. If you like this, try out A Piece of Strange... far and away their best. |
| CunninLynguists A Piece Of Strange | 4.0 |
| Currensy Covert Coup | 3.0 |
| Cursive Mama, I'm Swollen | 3.0 |
| Cymbals (UK) The Age of Fracture | 3.0 |
| Cynic Traced in Air | 3.5 |
| Cynic Focus | 4.0 |
| Cyrus Malachi Ancient Future | 3.0 |
| CZARFACE CZARFACE | 3.0 |
| D'Angelo Brown Sugar | 3.5 |
| D'Angelo Voodoo | 5.0 |
| D'Angelo Black Messiah | 5.0 |
| d'Eon LP | 3.5 |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories | 2.5 |
| Dalek Abandoned Language | 3.5 |
| Dalek Absence | 3.5 |
| Dalek Deadverse Massive Vol. 1: Dälek Rarities 1999-2006 | 3.5 |
| Damien Rice My Favourite Faded Fantasy | 3.0 |
| Dan Deacon Bromst | 3.5 |
| Dan Deacon America | 3.5 |
| Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse Dark Night of the Soul | 4.0 |
| further emphasizes you must kill yourself to earn indie cred. |
| Dangers Messy, Isn't It? | 2.5 |
| Danny Brown The Hybrid | 3.5 |
| Danny Brown Old | 3.5 |
| Danny Brown XXX | 4.0 |
| Dark Time Sunshine Vessel | 4.5 |
| going to be hard to beat this for aoty. |
| Dark Time Sunshine ANX | 4.5 |
| Continues to establish 2012 as the best year for hip-hop in over a decade |
| Darkstar (UK) News From Nowhere | 3.7 |
| Das Racist Relax | 3.5 |
| Daughters Daughters | 4.0 |
| Dave Weckl Band Synergy | 4.5 |
| David Bowie Low | 4.5 |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars | 5.0 |
| Dawn Richard Goldenheart | 3.0 |
| De La Soul Are You In?: Nike+ Original Run | 3.5 |
| De La Soul 3 Feet High and Rising | 4.0 |
| De La Soul Stakes Is High | 4.0 |
| De La Soul De La Soul Is Dead | 4.5 |
| Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables | 4.0 |
| Dead Letter Circus This Is The Warning | 3.0 |
| Deafheaven Roads to Judah | 3.5 |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 4.5 |
| Dean Blunt The Redeemer | 5.0 |
| Death Symbolic | 4.5 |
| Death Grips The Money Store | 2.0 |
| rmakes me think of the pitchfork jet review:rhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gbwjfe5BbGc |
| Death Grips Exmilitary | 2.5 |
| Deathspell Omega Drought | 4.0 |
| Deathspell Omega Paracletus | 5.0 |
| Decapitated Winds of Creation | 4.0 |
| Deep Puddle Dynamics The Taste of Rain...Why Kneel? | 4.5 |
| Deerhunter Microcastle | 3.0 |
| An interesting exercise in atmospheric indie-rock, Deerhunter attempts to maintain a creative focus on Microcastle. At times they are truly genuine, yet this also seems to conceal the simplistic nature of their compositions. While not glaringly obvious, Deerhunter would be better for maturation of a creative process. Make no mistake, there is potential for greatness here; it only needs proper channeling. |
| Deftones Deftones | 3.5 |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist | 4.0 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 4.0 |
| Deftones White Pony | 4.5 |
| Deftones Adrenaline | 4.5 |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan | 4.5 |
| Once upon a time there was a man who as a child had heard that beautiful story of how God tempted Abraham and of how Abraham withstood the temptation, kept the faith, and, contrary to expectation, got a son a second time. When he grew older, he read the same story with even greater admiration, for life had fractured what had been united in the pious simplicity of the child. The older he became, the more often his thoughts turned to that story; his enthusiasm for it became greater and greater, and yet he could understand the story less and less. Finally, he forgot every thing else because of it; his soul had but one wish, to see Abraham, but one longing, to have witnessed that event. His craving was not to see the beautiful regions of the East, not the earthly glory of the promised land, not that God-fearing couple whose old age God had blessed, not the venerable figure of the aged patriarch, not the vigorous adolescence God bestowed upon Isaac-the same thing could just as well have occurred on a barren heath. His craving was to go along on the three-day journey when Abraham rode with sorrow before him and Isaac beside him. His wish was to be present in that hour when Abraham raised his eyes and saw Mount Moriah in the distance, the hour when he left the asses behind and went up the mountain alone with Isaac- for what occupied him was not the beautiful tapestry of imagination but the shudder of the idea. |
| Deftones Around the Fur | 5.0 |
| Del Tha Funkee Homosapien Eleventh Hour | 2.0 |
| Del Tha Funkee Homosapien Funk Man (The Stimulus Package) | 3.0 |
| Del Tha Funkee Homosapien Both Sides of the Brain | 4.0 |
| Dela Changes of Atmosphere | 3.5 |
| Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 | 5.0 |
| Denali The Instinct | 3.5 |
| Denitia and Sene His and Hers. | 3.0 |
| Denzel Curry Nostalgic 64 | 4.5 |
| Depeche Mode Speak & Spell | 1.5 |
| Depeche Mode Ultra | 2.5 |
| Depeche Mode Playing The Angel | 3.5 |
| Depeche Mode Songs of Faith and Devotion | 3.5 |
| Depeche Mode Music for the Masses | 4.0 |
| Depeche Mode Black Celebration | 4.0 |
| Depeche Mode Violator | 5.0 |
| Dessa A Badly Broken Code | 2.0 |
hello hubert cumberdale you taste like sunshine.
this is f*cking terrible tbh. |
| Devin Townsend Physicist | 3.0 |
| Devin Townsend Ziltoid the Omniscient | 3.0 |
| Devin Townsend Infinity | 3.5 |
| Devin Townsend Terria | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech | 4.5 |
| Devin Townsend Project Ki | 3.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Addicted | 4.0 |
| Diablo Swing Orchestra Sing-Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious | 1.0 |
| Digable Planets Blowout Comb | 4.0 |
| Digable Planets Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) | 4.5 |
| Digital Daggers The Devil Within | 2.5 |
| DIIV Oshin | 3.0 |
| Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca | 4.0 |
| Right now, this is the best album of the year. Almost every tune is crafted precisely and beautifully. Excellent musicians, interesting lyrics, and my girlfriend likes this. Any album my girlfriend likes is usually the next internet indie smash hit. |
| Disillusion Back to Times of Splendor | 4.0 |
| DJ Food The Search Engine | 3.0 |
| DJ Muggs Vs GZA Grandmasters | 3.5 |
| Dj Muggs Vs. Ill Bill Kill Devil Hills | 3.5 |
| DJ Rashad Double Cup | 3.0 |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... | 4.5 |
| DJ Sprinkles Midtown 120 Blues | 3.5 |
| Doe Eye T E L E V I S I O N | 4.5 |
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| Dog Fashion Disco Committed to a Bright Future | 3.5 |
| Dog Fashion Disco Anarchists of Good Taste | 3.5 |
| Dog Fashion Disco Adultery | 5.0 |
| Doldrums (CAN) Lesser Evil | 3.5 |
| Doomtree Doomtree | 3.0 |
| Doomtree No Kings | 3.0 |
| Downfall of Gaia Suffocating in the Swarm of Cranes | 3.0 |
| Downliners Sekt Silent Ascent | 3.0 |
| Dr. Dre 2001 | 4.0 |
| Dr. Dre The Chronic | 4.5 |
| Dr. Octagon Dr. Octagonecologyst | 4.5 |
| Drake Take Care | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought | 2.5 |
| Dream Theater When Dream and Day Unite | 2.5 |
| Dream Theater Images and Words | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater A Change of Seasons | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater Falling into Infinity | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater Octavarium | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Awake | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Live Scenes From New York | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory | 4.5 |
| dredg Chuckles and Mr. Squeezy | 2.0 |
| how do you fall this far from releasing a record like el cielo? what a sad day |
| dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion | 3.0 |
| It's like if they tried to be even more poppy/mainstream than CWA, but reverted back to the epic-come-concept ideas of El Cielo. If you're a dredg fan, you'll like this. If you're a butt rock fan, you might like this. Overall, I'm really surprised; their new tracks sucked so bad live (cough Ireland cough), but in the context of the album, they work so much better. |
| dredg Catch Without Arms | 3.5 |
| dredg Leitmotif | 4.5 |
| dredg El Cielo | 5.0 |
| DRGN KING Paragraph Nights | 2.5 |
| Ducktails The Flower Lane | 2.7 |
| Ducktails Landscapes | 3.5 |
| Ducktails Ducktails III: Arcade Dynamics | 3.5 |
| Ducktails Ducktails | 4.0 |
| Dutch E Germ IN.RAK.DUST | 4.0 |
| Dyzlectic Octo The Epee | 4.0 |
| excellent rapping and solid production for the early 2000s. v solid. |
| Earl Sweatshirt Doris | 3.0 |
| Earl Sweatshirt EARL | 3.5 |
| Earth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II | 3.0 |
| Earth The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull | 3.5 |
| Earth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I | 3.5 |
| East of the Wall The Apologist | 4.0 |
| El Da Sensei & The Returners GT2: Nu World | 3.0 |
| El-Creepo! El-Creepo! | 4.0 |
| El-P Weareallgoingtoburninhell Megamix | 3.0 |
| El-P Collecting The Kid | 3.5 |
| El-P Weareallgoingtoburninhell Megamixx 2 | 3.5 |
| Awesome material from El-P as usual... One of the main highlights here is the last track, beginning with a unique El-P reinterpretation of Jay-Z's "99 Problems" and segueing into a nearly industrial remix of The Mars Volta's "The Widow". This mixtape is available for free from defjux. |
| El-P Weareallgoingtoburninhellmegamixxx3 | 4.0 |
| El-P High Water | 4.0 |
| El-P Fantastic Damage | 5.0 |
| Perhaps one of the most overlooked founding fathers of 21st century progressive hip-hop, Jaime Meline's Fantastic Damage is the follow-up to the revered Company Flow classic, Funcrusher Plus. Most notably, the 2002 release acts as a bridge between his hard working, NYC underground roots and his evolution into a successful producer and entrepreneur/owner/CEO of label Definitive Jux. While the chemistry of CoFlow is missed (while label Rawkus is not), El-Ps solo debut is at least as important - a 70-minute exploration in socio-political paranoia. |
| El-P I'll Sleep When You're Dead | 5.0 |
| El-P Cancer 4 Cure | 5.0 |
| Elbow The Take Off And Landing Of Everything | 2.5 |
| Eleanor Friedberger Personal Record | 2.5 |
| Electric President The Violent Blue | 3.5 |
| Electric Wire Hustle Electric Wire Hustle | 4.5 |
| Eligh Grey Crow | 3.5 |
| Elliott Smith From a Basement on the Hill | 4.5 |
| Elzhi The Preface | 4.0 |
| Emancipator Dusk to Dawn | 2.5 |
| Emancipator Safe In The Steep Cliffs | 3.0 |
| Emika DVA | 3.0 |
| Eminem Encore | 2.5 |
| Eminem The Eminem Show | 3.0 |
| Eminem Relapse | 3.0 |
| Eminem Infinite | 3.5 |
| Eminem Recovery | 4.0 |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP | 4.5 |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP | 4.5 |
| Enemies Embark Embrace | 2.5 |
| Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini | 4.0 |
| Entropia (PL) Vesper | 4.0 |
| EPMD Out of Business | 2.5 |
| EPMD Back in Business | 3.0 |
| EPMD Unfinished Business | 3.5 |
| EPMD Business as Usual | 3.5 |
| EPMD Business Never Personal | 3.5 |
| EPMD We Mean Business | 3.5 |
| EPMD Strictly Business | 4.0 |
| Eric Dolphy Out to Lunch! | 4.0 |
| Ernie Watts Classic Moods | 2.5 |
| Ernie Watts Unity | 3.0 |
| Ernie Watts Reaching Up | 4.0 |
| Ernie Watts To The Point | 4.0 |
| Erykah Badu New Amerykah Pt. One: 4th World War | 4.0 |
| Esham KKKill the Fetus | 2.5 |
| Estradasphere Quadropus | 3.5 |
| Estradasphere Palace Of Mirrors | 4.0 |
| Evergreen Terrace Wolfbiker | 2.5 |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives | 3.5 |
| Exotic Animal Petting Zoo Tree of Tongues | 3.0 |
| not as good as the last record. kind of a poor man's screamo deftones |
| Exotic Animal Petting Zoo I Have Made My Bed in Darkness | 3.5 |
| Expire Pendulum Swings | 2.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky How Strange, Innocence | 3.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Rescue | 3.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 3.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die... | 3.5 |
| Eyedea and Abilities By the Throat | 2.8 |
| Eyedea and Abilities First Born | 3.0 |
| Eyedea and Abilities E&A | 3.5 |
| Failure Comfort | 3.0 |
| Failure Magnified | 4.5 |
| Failure Fantastic Planet | 5.0 |
| Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True | 4.0 |
| Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors | 4.0 |
| Faith No More Album of the Year | 3.0 |
| Faith No More King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime | 3.5 |
| Faith No More The Real Thing | 3.5 |
| Faith No More Angel Dust | 5.0 |
| Fall City Fall Victus | 2.0 |
| Fantomas Delìrium Còrdia | 2.0 |
| Fantomas Suspended Animation | 3.0 |
| Fantomas Fantômas | 3.5 |
| Fantomas The Director's Cut | 4.5 |
| Fat Freddy's Drop Blackbird | 3.5 |
| Fates Warning Parallels | 4.0 |
| Fatima Yellow Memories | 3.0 |
| Fatima Al Qadiri Asiatisch | 3.0 |
| Felt (USA-MN) A Tribute to Christina Ricci | 2.5 |
| Felt (USA-MN) Felt 2: A Tribute to Lisa Bonet | 3.0 |
| Felt (USA-MN) Felt 3: A Tribute to Rosie Perez | 3.5 |
| To any of my regular readers, it's probably no secret that I despise Slug (of overrated Atmosphere fame) almost as much as I do Murs (of also overrated, 9th Wonder-produced 3:16 fame). And with that, I had a real bias going into listening to a record produced entirely by an emcee instrumental in my hip-hop development. Like any aspiring backpacking blogger-come-critic, Aesop Rock was one of my first forays into progressively produced and lyrically existential hip-hop. But while my days as a purely conscious-bent subject matter proponent are over, a sentimentality still lingers over my time spent with Aes. When I saw he would be responsible for the production on Felt's third installment, A Tribute to Rosie Perez, I was excited and apprehensive simultaneously. |
| Finale A Pipe Dream and a Promise | 4.0 |
| Finger Eleven Them vs. You vs. Me | 2.0 |
| Finger Eleven Finger Eleven | 3.0 |
| Finger Eleven Tip | 3.5 |
| Finger Eleven The Greyest of Blue Skies | 4.0 |
| Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel... | 2.5 |
| Fire! Orchestra Exit! | 4.4 |
| First Aid Kit The Lion's Roar | 3.0 |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes | 3.5 |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues | 4.0 |
| Fliptrix Third Eye of the Storm | 3.0 |
| Flobots Fight with Tools | 1.0 |
| Flobots Survival Story | 1.0 |
| LOL |
| Flying Colors Flying Colors | 2.0 |
| Flying Lotus Los Angeles | 4.0 |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma | 4.0 |
| Flying Lotus 1983 | 4.5 |
| Foals Holy Fire | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light | 4.0 |
| Forest Swords Engravings | 4.0 |
| Fort Minor The Rising Tied | 3.0 |
| Four Tet There is Love in You | 2.5 |
| Francis Harris Minutes of Sleep | 4.0 |
| Frank Ocean Nostalgia, Ultra. | 3.5 |
| Frank Ocean channel ORANGE | 4.0 |
| Frank Sinatra Come Fly With Me | 4.0 |
| Frank Sinatra In The Wee Small Hours | 5.0 |
| Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand | 1.5 |
| Freddie Gibbs ESGN | 3.5 |
| solid record, but way too many tracks. cat needs to be more picky about what he puts his name on |
| Freddie Gibbs and Madlib Pinata | 4.0 |
| Freeway & Jake One The Stimulus Package | 3.0 |
| Frightened Rabbit Pedestrian Verse | 3.0 |
| From Ashes Rise Nightmares | 4.0 |
| Frustrator Anther | 3.5 |
| Full Devil Jacket Full Devil Jacket | 2.5 |
| fun. Some Nights | 3.5 |
| Funeral for a Friend Memory and Humanity | 2.0 |
| Funkadelic Free Your Mind...And Your Ass Will Follow | 4.5 |
| Funkadelic Maggot Brain | 5.0 |
| Future of the Left The Plot Against Common Sense | 2.5 |
| G-Side The One...Cohesive | 2.5 |
| G-Side Huntsville International | 3.0 |
| G-Side Starshipz and Rocketz | 3.5 |
| Galaxie 500 On Fire | 3.0 |
| Gallows (UK) Grey Britain | 3.5 |
| Gangrene Vodka & Ayahuasca | 2.5 |
| Gangrene Gutter Water | 3.0 |
| Gaza He Is Never Coming Back | 3.0 |
| Gaza No Absolutes in Human Suffering | 3.5 |
| Gazpacho March of Ghosts | 3.5 |
| Gazpacho Night | 4.0 |
| Georgia Anne Muldrow Kings Ballad | 3.0 |
| Georgia Anne Muldrow Umsindo | 4.0 |
| Georgia Anne Muldrow Seeds | 4.0 |
| Madlib is awesome 100% of the time, it only matters to what degree of awesome. And this is probably one of his lower awesome levels unfortunately... which still equates to Muldrow's finest (tied with Umsindo). This time around, Muldrow does a great job condensing her LP - where Umsindo had eleventy billion songs, Seeds takes 11 songs and puts them into a nice, continuous package. Interestingly enough, I find myself missing Muldrow's production - while similar to the Beat Konducta, it is a bit less Fantastic Planet if that makes any sense. Madlib really does a great job emulating 70's funk, and in classic fashion shines a spotlight on Muldrow's performance. But this is the main detractor to Seeds; her preachy, blunted out philosophy takes center stage when it likely shouldn't. Georgia Anne Muldrow is easily one of the most talented musicians around today and is definitely due for a classic one of these days. Seeds isn't it, but is a great record that shows she hasn't yet lost focus since Umsindo. |
| GETEYE Above the Clouds | 3.5 |
| Ghostface Killah The Big Doe Rehab | 3.0 |
| Ghostface Killah Ghostdini: The Wizard of Poetry in Emerald City | 3.0 |
Tony Starks likes two things, or so it seems according to the subject matter of his rhymes: bitches and blow. Abandoning the latter for a whole record (seriously), he dedicates his trademark crazed flow entirely to the fairer sex with mixed results. Not completely a club-oriented record, The Wizard of Poetry in Emerald City dons a multi-faceted mantle of sentimentality, jealousy, and sorrow; this emotional gamut really doesn't click in certain situations (namely the off-target affair that is "Baby"), but there are some incredibly catchy moments here. When the record was initially announced as Ghostface's foray into R&B, it was greeted with disdain and an overall air of negativity - and while fears of 90s radio-soul surmounted, this reaction is largely unwarranted with modern production standards and a collection of excellent featured vocalists. "Not Your Average Girl" and "Do Over" kick things off brilliantly with catchy hooks from Shareefa and Raheem DeVaughn, respectively. Quickly setting Ghost's intended tone amidst updated, soul-laden beats, this one-two punch unfortunately sets the bar quite high for the remainder. Follow-up "Baby" was seemingly written for an audience of peers and not a younger crowd with sappy generalizations for parents to be. As is typical of Mr. Starks, each and every track is mired in the misogynist musings of a man that loves "running trains" and "threesomes every other weekend"; "Stapleton Sex" runs these assertions to a head in what could possibly be a recording of the Wizard actually fornicating. TMI Ghostface, TMI.
Ghostdeini is at his absolute best on the more modern iterations on the radio soul/rap formula, especially on the John Legend assisted "Let's Stop Playing" and a killer trio of album closers. The crooning tenor of Lloyd over a clinic on funk in "Goner" stands out with a particularly absorbing chorus; as a good measuring stick, many ladies in this household have been caught recently with their heads bobbing. Interestingly enough, the two closing bonus tracks are some of the best - Ne-yo and Kanye collabo "Back Like That" may be familiar to some, and the heavily dynamic, autotune-tastic "She's a Killah" brings a unique spin to your typical club tune.
While difficult to expect another killer Wu joint immediately following the brilliant Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II, The Wizard of Poetry is definitely enjoyable even if it is sporadic in its appeal. It's hard not to inflate the rating of a record with some truly incredible joints, yet it's difficult to ignore the two-thirds filler combined with Ghostface's least complicated rhymes in years. Nice try Tony, but let's shoot for a Supreme Clientele II next time around. |
| Ghostface Killah Apollo Kids | 3.5 |
| Ghostface Killah Fishscale | 4.0 |
| Ghostface Killah Twelve Reasons to Die | 4.3 |
| Twelve Reasons To Die is essentially the audible recording of reasons to die, in all of their beauty and rage, and one could not ask for anything more. |
| Ghostface Killah Ironman | 4.5 |
| Ghostface Killah Supreme Clientele | 4.5 |
| Giles Corey Giles Corey | 3.5 |
| Girls Father, Son, Holy Ghost | 3.5 |
| Glassjaw El Mark | 3.5 |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence | 4.0 |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book | 4.0 |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute | 4.5 |
| Gnarls Barkley The Odd Couple | 2.0 |
| Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere | 2.5 |
| God Is an Astronaut God Is an Astronaut | 3.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut Age of the Fifth Sun | 3.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut The End of the Beginning | 3.5 |
| God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright | 4.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut Far from Refuge | 4.0 |
| Godsticks The Envisage Conundrum | 2.5 |
| Gojira The Link | 3.0 |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh | 3.0 |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius | 3.5 |
| Goldfinger Hang-ups | 3.5 |
| Goldfinger Stomping Ground | 3.5 |
| Gordian Knot Emergent | 3.0 |
| Gordian Knot Gordian Knot | 3.5 |
| Gorguts Considered Dead | 4.0 |
| Gorguts The Erosion of Sanity | 4.5 |
| Gorguts From Wisdom to Hate | 4.5 |
| Gorguts Colored Sands | 4.7 |
| Gorguts Obscura | 5.0 |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World | 4.0 |
| Grails Deep Politics | 3.0 |
| Grails Doomsdayer's Holiday | 3.5 |
| Grand Magus The Hunt | 3.0 |
| Grayceon Pearl & The End of Days | 3.5 |
| Green City Brand New Money | 1.5 |
This isn't the absolute worst album ever; there are maybe 20 albums below this benchmark on the craptacular scale. Mixing equal parts southern cliches and mainstream hiphop yields Green City. All of the lyrics are contrived and sound as if they looked up "gangster" (yes, with the "er") on wikipedia and copied what they saw. Even then, half of the lyrics don't even make sense. The beats are digustingly repetitive, redefining the term unimaginative, and include plenty of high BPM closed-hi-hat passages typical of the genre. Stay away from this album; it's horrible, and the .5 extra points above 1.0 are only given for Scarface's introduction. Speaking of Scarface, he should be quite ashamed to associate his name with presenting this record.
A more in depth review to come, just using this as a forum for my thoughts at work. |
| Grieves Together/Apart | 2.5 |
Together/Apart is a manifestation of Rhymesayers Entertainment's marketing department and their seemingly neverending quest to homogenize hip-hop. Their understanding of the 20-something white male psyche is unrivaled in this industry. It is unfortunate; Grieves has the makings of a multi-dimensional vocalist with a pleasant voice and something of substance to say with it. There aren't technically complex mult-syllabics to be had here, just pure introspection. "On The Rocks" hearkens backs to previous releases and almost recalls what could have been amidst a catcy hook and Budo's (previously) typical electro-funk.
But Grieves presses forward almost too awkwardly with a poorly executed spoken word vibe-come-Brother Ali posturing/preaching made more obvious by their phoned in duet on "Tragic". The production suffers more, taking [mis]cues from nearly every Rhymesayers Entertainment release over the past 5 years. Most of the tracks emulate what could be B-Sides of a post-Lemons Ant, doing nothing so groundbreaking as regurgitating mid-90's soul. Budo was never an incredible producer in the past, but did just enough to shine a spotlight on Grieves' strong personal narrative. It is in that regard that Together/Apart reeks of compromise and mimicry. |
| Grieves 88 Keys & Counting | 3.0 |
| Grieves The Confessions Of Mr. Modest | 3.0 |
| Grimes Visions | 3.0 |
| Gris À L'Âme Enflammée, L'Âme Constellée... | 3.0 |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest | 3.5 |
| Gucci Mane The State vs. Radric Davis | 3.5 |
| Gucci Mane And Rich Homie Quan Trust God Fuck 12 | 3.5 |
| Guilty Simpson O.J. Simpson | 4.0 |
| Guilty Simpson Ode to the Ghetto | 5.0 |
| Gutta Heads Will Roll | 2.5 |
| Gym Class Heroes The Quilt | 2.5 |
| GZA Pro Tools | 3.0 |
| GZA Legend of the Liquid Sword | 3.5 |
| GZA Beneath the Surface | 3.5 |
| GZA Liquid Swords | 4.5 |
| Half Moon Run Dark Eyes | 3.5 |
| Hands Like Houses Ground Dweller | 2.5 |
| Handwrist All flesh is grass... | 3.0 |
| Harm's Way (USA-IL) Blinded | 2.5 |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness | 4.5 |
| Heaven and Hell The Devil You Know | 3.5 |
| Pretty good for a bunch of really old people. Not that old folks can't rock; I'm just surprised. Dio still sounds like Dio, and Sabbath is still Sabbath... but this is more novelty for me than anything. |
| Heaven Shall Burn Veto | 3.5 |
| Heems Nehru Jackets | 3.5 |
| Heiress Early Frost | 3.5 |
| Heltah Skeltah D.I.R.T. (Da Incredible Rap Team) | 2.5 |
Basically, everyone is gay except Sean Price.
Seriously, sexism, homophobia, and a ton of other gangsta cliches galore... this is pretty unnecessary in 2008. Regardless, Jesus Price rocks the mic, and the beats are cool at times (less often than they should be). Roc is really just a bad rapper. |
| Heltah Skeltah Nocturnal | 4.0 |
| Hiatus Kaiyote Tawk Tomahawk | 4.5 |
| whoa cant believe i missed this |
| High on Fire Blessed Black Wings | 4.0 |
| High on Fire Death Is This Communion | 4.0 |
| High on Fire Snakes for the Divine | 4.0 |
| Highasakite Silent Treatment | 3.5 |
| His Hero Is Gone Fifteen Counts Of Arson | 4.5 |
| Hollywood Undead Swan Songs | 1.0 |
| Holy Other Held | 3.0 |
| Hop Along Get Disowned | 3.0 |
| Hot Water Music Exister | 3.0 |
| House Of Heroes Cold Hard Want | 3.0 |
| How to Destroy Angels Welcome Oblivion | 2.5 |
| How to Dress Well What Is This Heart? | 4.0 |
| How to Dress Well Total Loss | 4.5 |
| How to Dress Well Love Remains | 5.0 |
| HTRK Psychic 9-5 Club | 2.5 |
| Hum Downward Is Heavenward | 4.5 |
| Hum You'd Prefer an Astronaut | 4.5 |
| Hurt Goodbye To The Machine | 1.5 |
| Ice Cube Raw Footage | 3.0 |
The only thing that keeps this album above average are Ice Cube's pyroclastic flows, obviously. On a more serious note, although his anti-ghetto preachiness does become frustrating at times... Ice Cube remains a bastion of lyrical honor in the hip hop game. The beats are very average, but his flow makes up for that.
Most likely reviewing this soon. |
| Idir Idir | 3.8 |
| If These Trees Could Talk Above the Earth, Below the Sky | 3.0 |
| Ill Bill The Hour of Reprisal | 3.5 |
| IMAKEMADBEATS IMAKEMADBEATS | 3.0 |
| Immolation Majesty and Decay | 3.0 |
| Immortal Technique The 3rd World | 2.5 |
| Immortal Technique Revolutionary Volume 1 | 3.0 |
| Immortal Technique Revolutionary Volume 2 | 3.5 |
| In Mourning The Weight of Oceans | 2.5 |
| In Pieces Lions Write History | 4.0 |
| In Vain (NO) Mantra | 2.5 |
| Inc. No World | 2.7 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) A Crow Left of the Murder... | 1.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Fungus Amongus | 2.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) When Incubus Attacks, Vol. 1 | 2.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Light Grenades | 2.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Enjoy Incubus | 3.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E. | 3.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself | 4.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View | 4.5 |
| Indian Handcrafts Civil Disobedience For Losers | 2.5 |
| Inferi (USA) The Path of Apotheosis | 3.0 |
| Inga Copeland and Dean Blunt Black Is Beautiful | 2.0 |
| Insane Clown Posse Carnival of Carnage | 1.0 |
| Insane Clown Posse Ringmaster | 1.0 |
| Insane Clown Posse The Mighty Death Pop! | 1.0 |
| Insane Clown Posse The Great Milenko | 1.5 |
| Insane Clown Posse The Amazing Jeckel Brothers | 1.5 |
| Insane Clown Posse Bizaar | 1.5 |
| Insane Clown Posse The Wraith: Hell's Pit | 2.0 |
| Insane Clown Posse Riddle Box | 2.5 |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 1.5 |
| Intestine Baalism Ultimate Instinct | 4.5 |
| Into Eternity The Scattering of Ashes | 2.5 |
| Into Eternity Buried in Oblivion | 3.5 |
| Intronaut Void | 3.0 |
| Iron Braydz Devil May Cry | 3.5 |
| Iron Lung White Glove Test | 3.5 |
| Iron Lung Sexless // No Sex | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden Dance of Death | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Brave New World | 4.5 |
| Isaiah Rashad Cilvia Demo | 3.0 |
| ISIS In the Absence of Truth | 3.5 |
| ISIS The Red Sea | 4.0 |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant | 4.0 |
| ISIS Oceanic | 4.5 |
| ISIS Celestial | 4.5 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 5.0 |
| Isis and Aereogramme In The Fishtank 14 | 4.0 |
| Island Orakel | 4.0 |
| Islander Violence and Destruction | 1.5 |
| J Dilla Ruff Draft | 3.5 |
| J Dilla Jay Stay Paid | 3.5 |
| J Dilla Welcome 2 Detroit | 3.5 |
| J Dilla The Shining | 4.0 |
| J Dilla Dillanthology | 4.0 |
| J Dilla Donuts | 4.5 |
| J. Cole Born Sinner | 2.5 |
| J. Cole Cole World: The Sideline Story | 3.0 |
| J. Cole The Warm Up | 3.5 |
| Jack White Blunderbuss | 3.0 |
| Jaga Jazzist The Stix | 3.0 |
| Jake One White Van Music | 3.5 |
| Probably one of the most overlooked releases this year, Jake One tears it up on White Van Music and is easily one of the best producers in hip hop today. With an all star guest list, more than half the tracks (of a 20+ track release) are bangers. While not a progressive production genius, he is a brilliant composer, and Rhymesayers made a great move by putting this on their label. |
| James Blake James Blake | 3.0 |
| James Blake The Colour in Anything | 4.0 |
| James Blake Overgrown | 4.6 |
| Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid | 3.5 |
| Janelle Monae The Electric Lady | 4.1 |
| i reviewed this, hark: http://www.byvolume.co.uk/janelle-monae%E2%80%8E-the-electric-lady/ |
| Janelle Monae Metropolis: The Chase Suite | 4.5 |
| Japandroids Post-Nothing | 3.0 |
| Jay Rock Follow Me Home | 3.5 |
| Jay-Z Kingdom Come | 2.5 |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint²: The Gift & the Curse | 2.5 |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint 3 | 3.0 |
| Not even as cool as American Gangster, let alone the original Blueprint |
| Jay-Z American Gangster | 3.5 |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint | 4.0 |
| Jay-Z The Black Album | 4.5 |
| Jay-Z Reasonable Doubt | 4.5 |
| Jaylib Champion Sound | 4.0 |
| Jedi Mind Tricks A History of Violence | 2.0 |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Visions of Gandhi | 2.5 |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Legacy of Blood | 3.0 |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Servants in Heaven, Kings in Hell | 3.0 |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Violent by Design | 3.5 |
| Jenny Hval Innocence Is Kinky | 3.0 |
| Jenny Hval Viscera | 3.5 |
| Jeremiah Jae Raw Money Raps | 4.0 |
very influenced by blu's no york!... kind of like what shabazz palaces would sound like if they didn't suck :]
this is growing on me, might 4 it |
| Jeremiah Jae and Oliver the 2nd RawHyde Mixtape | 3.5 |
| Jeremih Late Nights With Jeremih | 3.5 |
| Jerry Cantrell Boggy Depot | 3.0 |
| Jerry Cantrell Degradation Trip | 3.5 |
| Jerusalem in my Heart Mo7it Al-Mo7it | 4.5 |
| wow this record is incredible !! ! ! r |
| Jessie Ware Devotion | 3.5 |
| Jessy Lanza Pull My Hair Back | 4.0 |
| JJ DOOM Key To The Kuffs | 4.0 |
| JMSN Priscilla | 3.5 |
| JMSN †Pllajë†| 4.0 |
| Joey Badass 1999 | 3.0 |
| kid is very talented with much potential. excited to hear an LP with beats from 2012, not 1999 |
| John Coltrane A Love Supreme | 5.0 |
| John Legend Evolver | 2.5 |
| John Legend Love in the Future | 3.5 |
| John Robinson Who Is This Man? | 2.5 |
Dear John Robinson, stop imitating Nas.
Dear MF Doom, release a new album already.
Seriously, this comes off as a phoned-in waste of time on Doom's part... thoroughly decent, but never excellent. Dude needs to stop sending impersonators to shows and pick up the mic. |
| John Zorn Astronome | 3.0 |
| John Zorn Moonchild | 3.5 |
| I highly reccommend this to any fan of Mike Patton or John Zorn... the premise is that Zorn wrote this for Patton and a couple others (Trevor Dunn is on bass I think). There are no lyrics; it is nearly a more structured Fantomas. |
| John Zorn Six Litanies for Heliogabalus | 3.5 |
| John Zorn The Crucible | 3.5 |
| Jon Hopkins Immunity | 4.3 |
| Jubala Jubala | 3.0 |
| Juicy J Stay Trippy | 4.0 |
| Julia Holter Loud City Song | 5.0 |
| Jurassic 5 Feedback | 2.0 |
| Jurassic 5 Quality Control | 2.5 |
| Jurassic 5 Power in Numbers | 3.0 |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience - 2 of 2 | 2.0 |
| piece of shit garbage betrayal of a sequel. |
| Justin Timberlake Justified | 3.0 |
| Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds | 4.0 |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience | 5.0 |
| K Sera Collisions and Near Misses | 3.2 |
| K'naan The Dusty Foot Philosopher | 3.0 |
| K-X-P II | 3.0 |
| Kamelot Haven | 2.5 |
| Kamelot Karma | 4.0 |
| Kamelot The Fourth Legacy | 4.0 |
| Kamelot The Black Halo | 4.5 |
| Kangding Ray Solens Arc | 4.0 |
| Kanye West Graduation | 3.0 |
| Kanye West Yeezus | 3.3 |
| Pretty good but simultaneously stupid. Posted a review over here: http://www.byvolume.co.uk/kanye-west-yeezus/ |
| Kanye West Late Registration | 3.5 |
| Kanye West The College Dropout | 3.5 |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak | 3.5 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 4.3 |
| Karnivool Sound Awake | 3.0 |
| Karnivool Themata | 3.5 |
| Karriem Riggins Alone Together | 4.0 |
| Kashiwa Daisuke 5 Dec. | 2.5 |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I | 4.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly | 3.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar Section.80 | 3.7 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city | 3.8 |
| i dont know guys. it's really tight, but not too much memorable stuff here for me. i think he has potential, just needs better beats. im not really digging this whole TDE scene from the production perspective. i feel like i heard all of these records already somewhere... |
| Kenna New Sacred Cow | 4.0 |
| Keri Hilson In A Perfect World... | 2.0 |
| Kevin Rudolf In The City | 1.5 |
| Terribly generic dance rock. I don't know how this album has anything to do with being "In The City", except that it has Nas and Weezy on it. Don't even bother. |
| Keyshia Cole The Way It Is | 3.5 |
| Keyshia Cole Just Like You | 4.0 |
| Khoma The Second Wave | 3.0 |
| Kid Cudi Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager | 2.5 |
| Kid Cudi Man on the Moon: The End of Day | 3.0 |
| Kid Cudi A Kid Named Cudi | 3.5 |
| Kid Cudi Indicud | 3.5 |
| not sure how you could dislike this at all really experimental |
| Kid Dynamite Kid Dynamite | 3.5 |
| Kidcrash Jokes | 4.0 |
| Kidz in the Hall The In Crowd | 3.0 |
| Killah Priest The Psychic World of Walter Reed | 3.0 |
| Killer Mike Pl3dge | 3.5 |
| Killer Mike I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind II | 4.0 |
| Killer Mike R.A.P. Music | 5.0 |
| I almost shed a tear every time I hear the title track. What a beautiful song. It's everything I've dreamed hip-hop could be. |
| King Crimson The Power to Believe | 3.5 |
| King Crimson Islands | 3.5 |
| King Crimson Three of a Perfect Pair | 3.5 |
| King Crimson The ConstruKction of Light | 3.5 |
| King Crimson Red | 4.0 |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King | 4.5 |
| King Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic | 4.5 |
| King Geedorah Take Me to Your Leader | 4.0 |
| Kings of Leon Only By The Night | 3.0 |
| Kishi Bashi Lighght | 4.0 |
| Kiss Kiss The Meek Shall Inherit What's Left | 4.0 |
| KMD Bl_ck B_st_rds | 4.0 |
| Kno Death Is Silent | 2.5 |
| Kodak Cameo Riviera | 3.5 |
| Kool A.D. 51 | 2.5 |
| Kool G. Rap and DJ Polo Live and Let Die | 4.5 |
| Kool G. Rap and DJ Polo Wanted: Dead Or Alive | 4.5 |
| Kreng L'Autopsie Phenomenale De Dieu | 3.5 |
| Krusseldorf Fractal World | 3.5 |
| Kurt Vile Wakin on a Pretty Daze | 3.0 |
| no matter how many chances i give it, i just cant get into a kurt vile record beyond "oh hey this is cool" |
| Kvelertak Meir | 4.2 |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak | 4.5 |
| KXNG Crooked Mr. Pig Face Weapon Waist | 3.5 |
| Kylesa Time Will Fuse Its Worth | 3.0 |
| Kylesa Static Tensions | 3.5 |
| Kylesa Spiral Shadow | 4.0 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame | 3.0 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame Monster | 4.0 |
| Laibach Spectre | 2.0 |
| Lakutis 3 Seashells | 4.0 |
| Latitudes Agonist | 3.5 |
| Latitudes Individuation | 4.0 |
| Laura Stevenson Wheel | 3.5 |
| Laurel Halo Quarantine | 3.0 |
| Lauryn Hill The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill | 5.0 |
| Letherette Letherette | 3.0 |
| letlive. The Blackest Beautiful | 2.5 |
| Liars Mess | 3.0 |
| Liars Sisterworld | 3.5 |
| Lily Allen It's Not Me, It's You | 3.5 |
| Little Scream The Golden Record | 4.0 |
| Lo-Fang Blue Film | 3.5 |
| Amazing for a debut. Excited to see what he turns into - hopefully some more electronic experimentation is in the cards as some of these tracks are far too tame. |
| Lo-Pan Salvador | 3.5 |
| Loading Data Double Disco Animal Style | 2.0 |
| Long Distance Calling Long Distance Calling | 2.5 |
| Long Distance Calling The Flood Inside | 3.0 |
| Long Distance Calling Satellite Bay | 3.5 |
| Long Distance Calling Avoid The Light | 3.5 |
| Los Campesinos! We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed | 1.0 |
| Lovage Music To Make Love To Your Old Lady By | 2.0 |
| Lowkey Soundtrack to the Struggle | 3.0 |
| Ludacris Theater of the Mind | 3.0 |
| Lupe Fiasco Lasers | 1.0 |
| Lupe Fiasco The Cool | 3.0 |
| Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor 2: The Great American Rap Album Pt.1 | 3.0 |
| Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor | 3.5 |
| M. Ward Hold Time | 3.5 |
| M. Ward Transistor Radio | 4.0 |
| M. Ward Post-War | 4.0 |
| M. Ward Transfiguration of Vincent | 4.0 |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming | 3.5 |
| Macklemore and Ryan Lewis The Heist | 2.0 |
| Madlib Beat Konducta Vol. 5: Dil Cosby Suite | 3.5 |
| Madlib Beat Konucta Vol. 6: Dil Withers Suite | 3.5 |
| Madlib Sujinho | 3.5 |
| Always consistent, madlib put out an interesting album in 2008 that largely flew under everyone's radar. Collaborating with Mamao Conti (the drummer of Brazillian jazz group Azymuth), Sujinho is an energetic romp into redefinition of classic Brazillian standards. |
| Madlib Shades of Blue | 4.0 |
| Madlib Beat Konducta Vol 1-2: Movie Scenes | 4.0 |
| Madlove White With Foam | 3.0 |
| Madvillain Madvillainy 2: The Madlib Remix | 3.5 |
| Madvillain Madvillainy | 5.0 |
| Magic Wands Aloha Moon | 3.0 |
| Magrudergrind Magrudergrind | 3.5 |
| Main Attrakionz Bossalinis and Fooliyones | 2.5 |
| Main Attrakionz 808s and Dark Grapes II | 3.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing | 3.5 |
| Maps and Atlases Tree, Swallows, Houses | 4.0 |
| Maps and Atlases Perch Patchwork | 4.0 |
| Maps and Atlases Beware and Be Grateful | 4.0 |
| Maps and Atlases You and Me and the Mountain | 4.5 |
| Marie Davidson Perte d'identité | 4.0 |
| Marijuana Deathsquads Tamper, Disable, Destroy | 4.5 |
| Mark Lanegan Blues Funeral | 3.0 |
| Mark Ronson Record Collection | 4.0 |
| this has nothing to do with hipsters and is incredible |
| Marvin Gaye What's Going On | 5.0 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 2.3 |
| Imagine if Mastodon continued in the direction of Blood Mountain, with a completely worthless concept, Dream Theater posturing, and a sound that completely lacks cohesion. There are at least 3 sludge/ post metal albums from March you could be listening to instead (namely Zoroaster, Kylesa, and Buried Inside). This is seriously mediocre, lacks a truly heavy punch, and is a complete disappointment coming all the way from Leviathan. |
| Mastodon Call of the Mastodon | 3.0 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 3.0 |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun | 3.0 |
| Mastodon The Hunter | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Remission | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 4.5 |
| Matana Roberts COIN COIN Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres | 4.0 |
| Maudlin Ionesco | 2.5 |
| Max Richter Recomposed: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons | 4.0 |
| Max Tannone Jaydiohead | 2.0 |
| Maxwell Now | 3.0 |
| Maxwell BLACKsummers'night (2009) | 3.5 |
| Maxwell Embrya | 4.0 |
| Maxwell Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite | 4.5 |
| one of the best soul albums of all time has less than 30 ratings here not surprised come on guys wtf |
| Maybeshewill Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony | 3.5 |
| Mellow Bravo Mellow Bravo | 2.5 |
| MellowHype BLACKENEDWHITE | 3.0 |
| Menomena Mines | 3.0 |
| Menomena Moms | 3.5 |
| Mercenary The Hours That Remain | 3.0 |
| Merchandise Totale Nite | 3.0 |
| Mesa Verde The Old Road | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Koloss | 3.0 |
| Meshuggah obZen | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve | 4.0 |
| Messiah J & The Expert From The Word Go | 3.0 |
| Metaform The Electric Mist | 2.0 |
| autotune use is not good. beats not good. album not good |
| Metallica St. Anger | 1.0 |
| Meth, Ghost and Rae Wu-Massacre | 3.0 |
| i wrote an entire review for this and it got lost. fuck it this album isn't that great. |
| Method Man Tical | 4.0 |
| Method Man and Redman Blackout! 2 | 2.5 |
| Metric Synthetica | 3.0 |
| Mew And the Glass Handed Kites | 2.5 |
| Mew No More Stories | 3.0 |
| Mew Frengers | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright! | 2.5 |
| MF DOOM Born Like This | 3.5 |
| MF DOOM Operation: Doomsday | 4.0 |
| MF DOOM MM.. Food | 4.0 |
| Mgla With Hearts Toward None | 3.0 |
| Micachu and the Shapes Jewellery | 2.0 |
| What's wrong with the album? Songwriting, coherence, repetition, vocal performance, lyrics, rhythm, artist name, album name... this is really stupid music. |
| Michio Kurihara Sunset Notes | 4.0 |
| Mighty Joseph Empire State | 3.0 |
| An intriguing, yet ultimately unbalanced effort. Although one of the most unique rappers of the 2000s, Vast Aire is unable to save the album from the mediocre production over a majority of its length. Regardless, "The Uprising" is one of the best tracks of 2008; it's a tragedy the rest of the album doesn't live up to this standard. |
| Migos Young Rich Niggas | 2.5 |
| Miguel All I Want Is You | 3.0 |
| Miguel Kaleidoscope Dream | 4.0 |
| Mikal Cronin MCII | 3.0 |
| Mike Jones Who Is Mike Jones? | 2.5 |
| Mike Mictlan False Hopes VIII: Deity For Re-Hire | 1.5 |
| Mike Mictlan Snaxxx | 3.5 |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue | 4.0 |
| Miles Davis Bitches Brew | 5.0 |
| Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates | 3.5 |
| Minus the Bear Menos El Oso | 3.5 |
| Minus the Bear They Make Beer Commercials Like This | 3.5 |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice | 4.0 |
| Mobb Deep Hell on Earth | 3.5 |
| Mobb Deep The Infamous | 4.5 |
| Moderat II | 3.0 |
| Modern Life Is War Midnight in America | 3.5 |
| Modern Life Is War My Love. My Way. | 4.0 |
| Modern Life Is War Witness | 4.5 |
| Mondkopf Hades | 4.0 |
| feels like a darker boards of canada |
| Mono Under the Pipal Tree | 3.5 |
| Mono One Step More and You Die | 3.5 |
| Mono Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined | 4.0 |
| Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind | 4.0 |
| Mono You Are There | 4.5 |
| Monolake Ghosts | 2.5 |
| Monsters of Folk Monsters of Folk | 2.5 |
| Moodie Black The Responsive Chord | 3.0 |
| Moodie Black Nausea | 3.0 |
| Moodie Black Sana Sana | 3.5 |
| Moodie Black Moodie Black | 3.5 |
| Moonspell The Antidote | 2.0 |
| Morbus Chron Sweven | 4.5 |
| Morgan Delt Morgan Delt | 4.0 |
| Mos Def True Magic | 3.0 |
| Mos Def The Ecstatic | 4.0 |
| Mos Def Black on Both Sides | 4.5 |
| Mount Eerie Lost Wisdom | 4.0 |
| Mount Eerie No Flashlight | 4.5 |
| Mount Eerie Clear Moon | 4.5 |
| Mount Eerie Ocean Roar | 4.5 |
| Ocean Roar is essentially the audible recording of the ocean's roar, in all of its beauty and rage, and one could not ask for anything more. |
| Mount Eerie Wind's Poem | 5.0 |
| Mount Kimbie Cold Spring Fault Less Youth | 4.0 |
| Mr. Bungle California | 4.0 |
| Mr. Lif I Heard It Today | 3.0 |
| Mr. Lif Mo' Mega | 3.0 |
| Mr. Lif I Phantom | 4.0 |
| Murmur (CHI) Murmur | 3.0 |
| Murs Murs For President | 2.5 |
| Murs Murs 3:16: the 9th Edition | 3.0 |
| Mutemath Armistice | 2.0 |
| Wow, this is barely listenable, especially compared to their self-titled debut record. Transforming from one of the most interesting alternative pop-rock groups around to the most generic piece of sh*t imaginable is quite the accomplishment. What a travesty. |
| Mutemath Mutemath | 3.5 |
| My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love | 2.5 |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge | 3.0 |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade | 3.0 |
| My Vitriol Finelines | 3.5 |
| N.E.R.D. Seeing Sounds | 1.0 |
| N.E.R.D. Fly Or Die | 4.0 |
| N.E.R.D. In Search Of | 4.5 |
| Nacho Picasso For The Glory | 3.5 |
| Nacho Picasso and Avatar Darko Vampsterdam | 4.0 |
| Not only did Nacho Picasso release three albums in the past year and a half - he released three brilliantly produced records absolutely brimming with the most innovative punchline rapping known to man. But while For the Glory, Lord of the Fly, and Exalted were technical marvels with respect to quality versus volume, they still lacked a certain distinguishing factor to elevate their content beyond gimmickry. The beats, courtesy of Blue Sky Black Death, effectively dabbled in the still-developing tropes of cloud-rap and trap, yet Picasso's rapping lacked enough of a coherent structure to truly enhance this backdrop to its fullest potential. Vampsterdam mostly solves this problem by giving Nacho Picasso the energy of Avatar Darko to, well, feed upon. The interplay between the two is natural, giving room on the mic for Picasso to breathe with ample hooks to transition from - as opposed to filling up four minutes with constant punchlines about drugs or dicks/ using them. Araab Muzik, Raised Byy Wolves, and Clams Casino (among others) man the boards alongside a solitary beat from Blue Sky Black Death; the minor stylistic differences between each producer also help to differentiate Vampsterdam from its predecessors with less slow-tempo monotony. As a whole, the record is a marked improvement that truly showcases Picasso's potential to dethrone Weezy as the king of the punchline (hopefully not too hard now that his brain has been completely transplanted by syzzurp). |
| Nails Unsilent Death | 4.0 |
| Nails Abandon All Life | 4.5 |
| holy shit;kasjdfl;kasjdf; |
| Naked City Naked City | 4.0 |
| Napalm Death Inside the Torn Apart | 2.0 |
| Napalm Death Words from the Exit Wound | 2.0 |
| Napalm Death Utopia Banished | 2.5 |
| Napalm Death Diatribes | 2.5 |
| Napalm Death Fear, Emptiness, Despair | 2.5 |
| Napalm Death Enemy of the Music Business | 3.0 |
| Napalm Death Noise for Music's Sake | 3.0 |
| Napalm Death Smear Campaign | 3.0 |
| Napalm Death Harmony Corruption | 3.0 |
| Napalm Death Order of the Leech | 3.0 |
| Napalm Death Scum | 3.5 |
| Napalm Death The Code Is Red...Long Live the Code | 3.5 |
| Napalm Death Time Waits for No Slave | 3.5 |
| Napalm Death From Enslavement to Obliteration | 4.0 |
| Nappy Roots The Humdinger | 3.5 |
| Narrows Painted | 3.0 |
| Nas It Was Written | 3.0 |
| Nas Untitled | 3.0 |
| Nas Life Is Good | 3.5 |
| Nas STILLmatic | 4.0 |
| Nas Illmatic | 4.5 |
| Nas and Damian Marley Distant Relatives | 3.0 |
| Natti Still Motion | 4.0 |
| liking this way more than CL's typical shtick, plus Natti is my favorite mc from the group |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I | 4.0 |
| Ne-Yo Year of the Gentleman | 3.5 |
| Necro The Sexorcist | 2.5 |
| Necro Death Rap | 3.5 |
| Neneh Cherry The Cherry Thing (w. The Thing) | 3.0 |
| Neneh Cherry Blank Project | 4.5 |
| mark it down, the first time ive ever agreed with greg |
| Neon Indian Psychic Chasms | 3.5 |
this is the kind of record you would think lewis would like, tell him so, and then he would probably say it sucks b/c he's hipsterish :[
oh who called it.
adam downer is a downer. |
| Nervosa Victim of Yourself | 3.0 |
| Neurosis Souls at Zero | 4.0 |
| Neurosis Given to the Rising | 4.0 |
| Neurosis Enemy of the Sun | 4.5 |
| Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm | 5.0 |
| Neurosis Through Silver in Blood | 5.0 |
| Neurosis A Sun That Never Sets | 5.0 |
| Neurosis Times of Grace | 5.0 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 5.0 |
| Nevermore Enemies of Reality | 3.5 |
| Nevermore This Godless Endeavor | 4.0 |
| Nevermore Dreaming Neon Black | 4.5 |
| Nevermore Dead Heart in a Dead World | 5.0 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Push The Sky Away | 3.0 |
| Nicole Atkins Slow Phaser | 2.5 |
| Niechec Smierc w Miekkim Futerku | 4.5 |
| Album is so good it demotes you for even rating it. |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth | 2.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine | 3.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Year Zero | 3.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Fragile | 4.0 |
| Nmesh Dream Sequins | 4.5 |
| Noah and the Whale The First Days of Spring | 2.5 |
| O'Brother Disillusion | 2.0 |
| Obits Moody, Standard, and Poor | 3.0 |
| Obsidian Kingdom Mantiis | 4.0 |
| Oceana Birth.Eater | 2.5 |
| Oceans of Sadness The Arrogance Of Ignorance | 3.0 |
| Oceansize Home & Minor | 2.5 |
| Oceansize Music for Nurses | 3.5 |
| Oceansize Frames | 3.5 |
| Oceansize Everyone Into Position | 4.0 |
| Oceansize Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up | 4.0 |
| Oceansize Effloresce | 4.5 |
| Octaves Greener Pastures | 2.5 |
| Off Minor Some Blood | 3.5 |
| Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe | 4.0 |
| Oh No Dr No's Ethiopium | 3.0 |
| Oh No Dr. No's Oxperiment | 3.5 |
| Oh No Oh No Vs. Now Again | 3.5 |
| Oh No The Disrupt | 3.5 |
| Oh No Exodus Into Unheard Rhythms | 4.0 |
| Oh No Ohnomite | 4.0 |
| Okkervil River The Stand Ins | 3.5 |
| Old Man Gloom Seminar II: The Holy Rites of Primitivism Regressi | 3.5 |
| Old Man Gloom Seminar III: Zozobra | 4.0 |
| Old Man Gloom NO | 4.0 |
| omg this is like awesome |
| Old Man Gloom Christmas | 4.5 |
| Omar Souleyman Wenu Wenu | 3.5 |
| cool but extremely abrasive after a while |
| Omnium Gatherum Beyond | 2.5 |
| Onry Ozzborn Hold On for Dear Life | 3.5 |
| whoops forgot to review this one.rpsych i didn't forget just too lazy |
| Open Mike Eagle 4NML HSPTL | 3.0 |
| Opeth Burden | 2.0 |
| Opeth Heritage | 2.5 |
| Opeth Orchid | 3.0 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 3.5 |
| Opeth Lamentations | 3.5 |
| Opeth Deliverance | 4.0 |
| Opeth Damnation | 4.0 |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse | 4.0 |
| Opeth Still Life | 4.5 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 5.0 |
| Opiuo Meraki | 2.5 |
| Organized Konfusion Organized Konfusion | 4.0 |
| Organized Konfusion Stress: The Extinction Agenda | 5.0 |
| Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come | 4.5 |
| Orphaned Land Mabool (The Story of the Three Sons...) | 3.0 |
| Orphans of Cush White Noize | 4.0 |
| Outerspace Blood Brothers | 3.5 |
| OutKast Idlewild | 3.0 |
| OutKast Stankonia | 4.0 |
| OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below | 4.5 |
| OutKast ATLiens | 4.5 |
| OutKast Aquemini | 5.0 |
| Oysterhead The Grand Pecking Order | 3.0 |
| P.O.S Ipecac Neat | 3.0 |
| P.O.S We Don't Even Live Here | 3.0 |
| P.O.S Audition | 3.5 |
| P.O.S Never Better | 4.0 |
| PackFM I F*cking Hate Rappers | 3.0 |
| Pain of Salvation Scarsick | 2.0 |
| Pain of Salvation Be | 2.5 |
| Pain of Salvation Entropia | 3.0 |
| Pain of Salvation One Hour by the Concrete Lake | 3.5 |
| Pain of Salvation Remedy Lane | 4.0 |
| Pain of Salvation The Perfect Element, Part 1 | 4.5 |
| Palms Palms | 2.5 |
| Panda Bear Tomboy | 4.0 |
| Everything that didn't suck about MPP expanded into an entire album. |
| Pantha Du Prince Black Noise | 2.0 |
| Parades Foreign Tapes | 3.5 |
| Pariso Nothing Beyond, Everything After | 3.0 |
| Passion Pit Manners | 2.5 |
| Passion Pit Gossamer | 4.0 |
| Pax and Pry A Day at the Office | 3.0 |
| Pax and Pry A Day Off | 3.5 |
| Paysage d'Hiver Das Tor | 3.0 |
| Peeping Tom Peeping Tom | 3.0 |
| Pelican City of Echoes | 3.0 |
| Pelican What We All Come to Need | 3.0 |
| Pelican Australasia | 3.5 |
| Pelican March Into the Sea | 3.5 |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... | 4.0 |
| Pelican Ataraxia/Taraxis | 4.0 |
| Pepper In With The Old | 3.0 |
| Periphery Periphery | 2.0 |
| Peter Evans Zebulon | 3.0 |
| Pharoahe Monch W.A.R. | 3.0 |
| beats more dated than internal affairs ??? some good stuff, but some of the beats are really boring.r |
| Pharoahe Monch Desire | 4.0 |
| Pharoahe Monch Internal Affairs | 4.5 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | 5.0 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd Animals | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Wall | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 5.0 |
| Pity Sex Feast of Love | 3.0 |
| Planes Mistaken for Stars Mercy | 2.5 |
| Platinum Pied Pipers Abundance | 5.0 |
| By now, the consonant "D" undoubtedly inspires euphoria in underground hip-hop heads: unemployment drives its stake deeper into the D daily, yet through this hardship and pain therein lies true beauty and revolution. From the layman rhymes of Guilty Simpson's Ode To The Ghetto, to the break-out release of Elzhi's The Preface, and closing out the year in grand style with Black Milk's epic Tronic... Detroit is the hip-hop epicenter of the millenium. If Waajeed and Saadiq's Platinum Pied Pipers project promises anything, it's that the D isn't done; Abundance kicks off 2009 and the new regime with no ifs or maybes. |
| Poison the Well Tear From the Red | 2.0 |
| Poison the Well You Come Before You | 3.5 |
| Poison the Well The Opposite of December | 3.5 |
| Poison the Well The Tropic Rot | 4.0 |
| Polkadot Cadaver Purgatory Dance Party | 3.0 |
| Polyenso One Big Particular Loop | 4.2 |
| i went back and listened to oceana for the first time after hearing this excellent record. i honestly dont understand how you could possibly enjoy that music, what a shit heap of bro-core cliches |
| Porcupine Tree Voyage 34: The Complete Trip | 2.0 |
| Porcupine Tree On the Sunday of Life | 2.0 |
| Porcupine Tree The Incident | 3.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Signify | 3.5 |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet | 3.5 |
| Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Up the Downstair | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Nil Recurring | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun | 4.5 |
| Porcupine Tree The Sky Moves Sideways | 4.5 |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia | 5.0 |
| Port St. Willow Holiday | 3.0 |
| Portugal. The Man It's Complicated Being a Wizard | 2.0 |
| Portugal. The Man The Satanic Satanist | 2.0 |
| Portugal. The Man Censored Colors | 2.5 |
| Portugal. The Man Church Mouth | 3.0 |
| Portugal. The Man Waiter: ''You Vultures!'' | 4.0 |
| Prefuse 73 Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian | 2.5 |
| Primer 55 Introduction to Mayhem | 2.0 |
| Prince 1999 | 4.5 |
| Prince Purple Rain | 5.0 |
| Prolyphic & Reanimator The Ugly Truth | 3.0 |
| Propagandhi Supporting Caste | 2.5 |
| Protest the Hero A Calculated Use of Sound | 2.0 |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous | 2.5 |
| Protest the Hero Kezia | 3.5 |
| Psycroptic The Inherited Repression | 3.0 |
| Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back | 5.0 |
| Public Enemy Fear of a Black Planet | 5.0 |
| Pulse Ultra Headspace | 4.0 |
| Pure Reason Revolution Amor Vincit Omnia | 3.0 |
| Pure Reason Revolution The Dark Third | 3.5 |
| Pure X Crawling Up The Stairs | 3.5 |
| Pygmy Lush Mount Hope | 4.0 |
| Pygmy Lush Old Friends | 4.0 |
| Pyrrhon The Mother of Virtues | 3.0 |
| Very technically solid album. borders more on unstructured noise than tech death (not a bad thing, but maybe not executed as well as it could have been). a placing of head in car engine simile a-la calculating infinity definitely applies here, maybe more-so. Invisible Injury is probably my favorite track here. |
| Quadron Quadron | 4.0 |
| Quadron Avalanche | 4.0 |
| Quasimoto The Further Adventures of Lord Quas | 4.0 |
| Quasimoto The Unseen | 4.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork | 3.0 |
| Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime | 3.5 |
| R. Kelly Trapped In The Closet (Chapters 1-12) | 1.5 |
| R. Kelly Write Me Back | 3.5 |
| R. Kelly Chocolate Factory | 4.0 |
| R. Kelly Love Letter | 4.0 |
| Ra Duality | 2.5 |
| Ra From One | 3.0 |
| Racing Heart To Walk Beside That Ghost | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 2.0 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 2.5 |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey | 2.5 |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 2.5 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 3.0 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 3.5 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 3.5 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 4.5 |
| Raekwon Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang | 3.5 |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... | 4.5 |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II | 5.0 |
| Essentially the audible recording of the art of cooking fish, in all of its beauty and rage, and one could not ask for anything more. |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire | 4.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles | 4.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 4.5 |
| Random Axe Random Axe | 4.0 |
| The easiest rating you could ever give. |
| Raphael Saadiq The Way I See It | 4.0 |
| RATKING So It Goes | 3.0 |
| Real Estate Days | 3.5 |
| Red Sparowes Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red... | 3.5 |
| Red Sparowes At The Soundless Dawn | 4.0 |
| Reef The Lost Cauze A Vicious Cycle | 3.5 |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come | 4.5 |
| Regina Spektor Far | 2.5 |
| Her next album I will definitively be able to describe as "more overrated psuedo-intellectual pop". |
| Reka Renaissance | 2.5 |
| Reks Grey Hairs | 2.5 |
| Rescuer With Time Comes the Comfort | 3.0 |
| Rhian Sheehan Stories From Elsewhere | 4.0 |
| Rhye Woman | 2.0 |
| Rick Ross God Forgives, I Don't | 3.0 |
| Ride Nowhere | 5.0 |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness | 4.0 |
| Rise and Fall Faith | 4.0 |
| very impressed with this. best metalcore i've heard in a while |
| Rita Ora ORA | 3.0 |
| troll ratings in the house |
| Riverside Shrine Of New Generation Slaves | 2.6 |
| RJD2 The Third Hand | 3.0 |
| RJD2 The Colossus | 3.0 |
| Firstly, hip-hop doesn't mean rap...ummm? |
| RJD2 Deadringer | 4.0 |
| Robert Glasper Experiment Black Radio | 2.0 |
| Robin Thicke Blurred Lines | 1.5 |
| Rodrigo y Gabriela 11:11 | 3.0 |
| Rorcal Vilagvege | 2.5 |
| Rosetta A Determinism of Morality | 3.5 |
| Rotting Christ Kata Ton Demona Eaftou | 3.0 |
| Royce da 5'9 The Revival EP | 3.0 |
| Royce da 5'9 Street Hop | 3.0 |
| Royce da 5'9 The Bar Exam 2 | 3.5 |
| One of the most talent Detroit MCs for years, Royce da 5'9" puts forth a solid, well produced effort on 'The Album'. Fuck Ice Cube, this is a real pyroclastic flow. Detroit is inarguably the hotbed of 21st centry hip-hop... look out for his scheduled March 2009 release. |
| Royce da 5'9 Death is Certain | 4.0 |
| RPWL World Through My Eyes | 2.5 |
| Rufus Wainwright Out of the Game | 3.0 |
| Rufus Wainwright Poses | 4.0 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels | 5.0 |
| el-p is involved it's incredible surprise surprise |
| Rush Caress of Steel | 3.0 |
| Rush Hold Your Fire | 3.0 |
| Rush Power Windows | 3.0 |
| Rush Roll the Bones | 3.0 |
| Rush Presto | 3.0 |
| Rush Permanent Waves | 3.5 |
| Rush Signals | 3.5 |
| Rush Rush | 3.5 |
| Rush Grace Under Pressure | 3.5 |
| Rush Moving Pictures | 4.0 |
| Rush 2112 | 4.0 |
| Rush Hemispheres | 4.0 |
| Rush Exit...Stage Left | 4.0 |
| Russian Circles Station | 3.0 |
| Russian Circles Geneva | 3.0 |
it's like this:
.........---------^^^^^CRASH BOOM CRASH^^^^^----------......... |
| Russian Circles Enter | 3.5 |
| Rx Bandits Mandala | 3.5 |
| Sa-Ra Nuclear Evolution: The Age of Love | 3.5 |
| Sabac Red Ritual | 3.0 |
| At his best, Sabac Red is merely serviceable; at his worst, his content is pseudo-intelligent, oozing with lame inspiration and socio-political generalities. The production here is extremely hit or miss... Skammadix is terrible, but Blue Sky Black Death and Sick Nature pull off some swell beats. Ill Bill has an uninspired guest appearance that's barely worth even noting in this sentence. |
| Sadistik The Balancing Act | 3.5 |
| Sadistik Flowers for My Father | 4.0 |
| Sage Francis Personal Journals | 2.5 |
| Sage Francis Li(f)e | 3.0 |
| Sage Francis Copper Gone | 3.5 |
| Saigon The Greatest Story Never Told | 2.5 |
| Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside Untamed Beast | 3.0 |
| Sannhet Known Flood | 4.0 |
| Santigold Master of My Make-Believe | 3.5 |
| Santigold Santogold | 4.0 |
| Saosin Saosin | 2.0 |
| Saosin Translating the Name | 3.5 |
| Satan Life Sentence | 3.5 |
| Sax Ruins Yawiquo | 2.5 |
| Saxon Shore The Exquisite Death of Saxon Shore | 3.5 |
| SBTRKT SBTRKT | 3.5 |
| Scale the Summit The Collective | 2.5 |
| Scarface My Homies | 2.5 |
| Scarface The Last Of A Dying Breed | 2.5 |
| Scarface The Untouchable | 3.0 |
| Scarface The World Is Yours | 3.5 |
| Scarface Made | 3.5 |
| Scarface The Fix | 4.0 |
| Scarface Mr. Scarface Is Back | 4.0 |
| Scarface Emeritus | 4.0 |
| Scarface The Diary | 4.5 |
| ScHoolboy Q Oxymoron | 2.5 |
| ScHoolboy Q Setbacks | 3.5 |
| this is pretty great. too bad i missed it last year. black hippy is probably the most interesting hiphop collective right now. Light Years AHead is such a ridiculous track |
| ScHoolboy Q Habits and Contradictions | 3.5 |
My initial infatuation wore off slightly (dropped rating from 4 to 3.5)... I can't bring myself to listen continuously to this record, as it's a bit inconsistent. When both Q and the producer are in sync, it bangs, but some of the tracks are just boring/ borderline obnoxious. I really wish Q took his time and released a joint that took the best of H&C and Setbacks; that would have been an excellent record, worthy of top 2012 hip-hop accolades.
My favorite tracks in no particular order:
Sacrilegious
Druggys Wit Hoes Again
Nightmare on Figg St
There He Go
Hands on the Wheel
Grooveline Pt. 1
Blessed
As it stands it seems we'll have to wait for Lamar to best Section.80 to get that Black Hippy dopeness we've been waiting for this year. |
| Scientist (JAM) Rids the World of the Curse of the Vampires | 4.0 |
| Sean Nicholas Savage Other Life | 2.0 |
| Sean Price Jesus Price Supastar | 3.5 |
| Sean Price Monkey Barz | 4.0 |
| Sebadoh Bakesale | 4.5 |
| Secret Chiefs 3 First Grand Constitution and Bylaws | 3.0 |
| Secret Chiefs 3 Second Grand Constitution and Bylaws | 3.5 |
| Secret Chiefs 3 Book M | 4.0 |
| Secret Chiefs 3 Xaphan: Book of Angels Volume 9 | 4.0 |
| Secret Chiefs 3 Traditionalists | 4.0 |
Out of the ashes of circus-metal pioneers Mr. Bungle, Trey Spruance took something unique and wonderful, steeped it in a pressure cooker of middle eastern lore and scales, and morphed it into his own entity. Being only one of the dimensions introduced on the Book of Horizons record, this is a welcome explanation of the "Traditionalists" tracks it presented. Heavily Morricone, spaghetti western, and general bombast-influenced, the Secret Chiefs 3 give their interpretation of the cinematic soundtrack genre with an epic theme deconstructed and reanimated over the course of 33 tracks. Don't let the high track count discourage you, this is meant to be a continuous listen, likely only separated out for the sake of listener sanity (or lack thereof). Traditionalists calls life, love, suspense, and chaos to the fore in any given section with dissonant chimes, lush horns and violin, and ominous Italian guitar atmospheres. A very strong (and eccentric) attempt at a soundtrack, the combining factor remains Spruance's trademark surf-rock tendencies and noise experimentation - a boon when implemented properly, these techniques have evolved much from SC3's early Grand Constitution days. Initially immature and largely directionless in their chaotic meanderings, it's very refreshing to see a group grow and come full circle artistically in such grand fashion. Traditionalists is a challenging journey and will not find constant rotation as such - just know that it's a ride well worth the effort.
Here's to further expansion of the Book of Horizons personalities; with five chapters remaining, Secret Chiefs 3 have a bright future ahead of them. |
| Secret Chiefs 3 Book of Horizons | 4.5 |
| Semantik Punk abcdefghijklmnoprstuwxyz | 2.5 |
| Sevendeaths Concrete Misery | 3.0 |
| Sevendust Animosity | 2.0 |
| Sevendust Black Out the Sun | 2.5 |
| Sevendust Sevendust | 3.0 |
| Sevendust Home | 3.5 |
| Shabazz Palaces Black Up | 2.5 |
| Shad TSOL | 2.5 |
| Shad When This Is Over | 3.0 |
| Shadow Gallery Carved In Stone | 3.0 |
| Shadow Gallery Tyranny | 3.5 |
| Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun | 4.0 |
| She and Him Volume One | 3.5 |
| Shearwater Animal Joy | 2.5 |
| Shifted Crossed Paths | 3.0 |
| Shining (NOR) One One One | 3.0 |
| Shining (NOR) Blackjazz | 3.5 |
| Shit Robot We Got a Love | 3.0 |
| Shlohmo Bad Vibes | 3.0 |
| Sholi Sholi | 4.0 |
| Shone Heat Thing | 2.5 |
| Shugo Tokumaru Exit | 3.5 |
| Shugo Tokumaru In Focus? | 4.0 |
| Sigh Imaginary Sonicscape | 4.5 |
| Sigur Ros Kveikur | 3.0 |
| Silk Rhodes Silk Rhodes | 4.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Neck of the Woods | 3.5 |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas | 4.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon | 4.0 |
| Sims Bad Time Zoo | 3.0 |
| Sinch Sinch | 3.0 |
| Sinch Clearing the Channel | 3.5 |
| Sir Sly Ghost | 3.5 |
| Skyzoo The Salvation | 2.5 |
| Slaughterhouse Slaughterhouse | 2.5 |
| This is not very good. |
| Sleep Dopesmoker | 3.0 |
| Sleigh Bells Reign of Terror | 3.5 |
| Slim Guerilla & DJ Smokey Guerilla Warfare | 3.0 |
| Slint Spiderland | 4.5 |
| Sly and The Family Stone There's A Riot Goin' On | 5.0 |
| Snowgoons Black Snow | 3.0 |
This is German hiphop production-team Snowgoons' second album, featuring a ton of talent in or associated with the Army of the Pharoahs. The beats are unique from the underground flavor most typified by that Philadelphia scene; that is, the serious/apocalyptic flavor is still there, yet with a distinct European surface coating. Make no mistake, this isn't fluffy electropop; this is full-fledged hiphop that leaves the listener thirsty for more.
It would be interesting to hear a different set up of less aggressive MCs next time around... One can only take so much anger over the course of a 22 track album. |
| Snowmine Dialects | 2.5 |
| Soen Cognitive | 3.0 |
| SOHN Tremors | 3.0 |
| Soilwork Sworn to a Great Divide | 1.5 |
| Soilwork Natural Born Chaos | 3.0 |
| Sol.Illaquists Of Sound The 4th Wall Part I | 2.5 |
| Sol.Illaquists Of Sound As If We Existed | 3.5 |
| Sol.Illaquists Of Sound No More Heroes | 4.0 |
| shiiiit's tiiiight son |
| Sole No Wising Up No Settling Down | 3.5 |
| Sole and the Skyrider Band Hello Cruel World | 3.5 |
| Sole and the Skyrider Band Sole and the Skyrider Band | 4.0 |
| Sole and the Skyrider Band Plastique | 4.5 |
| This is easily one of the year's finest hip-hop ventures - if only Raekwon delayed his newest another year, Plastique would be sitting on top of all of 2009's releases defecating. |
| Sonata Arctica Ecliptica | 1.5 |
| Sonata Arctica Silence | 2.0 |
| Soulja Boy Souljaboytellem.com | 1.0 |
| Souls of Mischief Montezuma's Revenge | 3.5 |
| Souls of Mischief 93 'til Infinity | 4.0 |
| Soulsavers The Light The Dead See | 3.0 |
| SpaceGhostPurrp Mysterious Phonk | 3.0 |
| Spawn of Possession Incurso | 4.0 |
| Spires (USA) Flowers And Fireworks | 4.0 |
| Kind of similar to the Mesa Verde record from last year, but heavier. John Hanson says this is skramz isis. this will definitely be on my year end top 10. |
| St. Vincent St. Vincent | 3.5 |
| St. Vincent Strange Mercy | 4.0 |
| State Faults Desolate Peaks | 3.0 |
| hard to listen to the vocals without cringing |
| Stateless Matilda | 4.5 |
| i dont think the people with less than a 3.5 rating are listening to the same album even. this is incredible music, period. |
| stellastarr* Civilized | 2.5 |
| Steven Wilson Insurgentes | 3.0 |
| Steven Wilson Grace for Drowning | 3.0 |
| Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) | 3.0 |
| Stevie Wonder Songs in the Key of Life | 5.0 |
| Stevie Wonder Innervisions | 5.0 |
| Stolas Living Creatures | 2.5 |
| Storm Corrosion Storm Corrosion | 2.0 |
| Uhm. *DELETE* |
| Strapping Young Lad Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing | 3.5 |
| Strapping Young Lad Strapping Young Lad | 4.0 |
| Strapping Young Lad The New Black | 4.0 |
| Strapping Young Lad Alien | 4.5 |
| Strapping Young Lad City | 5.0 |
| Strapping Young Lad The Complete Works | 5.0 |
| pretty awesome too bad i sold mine |
| Street Sweeper Social Club Street Sweeper Social Club | 2.0 |
| Sudatsuga Blue Moon Saiyeed | 3.0 |
| Suffocation Pinnacle of Bedlam | 3.8 |
| Sufjan Stevens A Sun Came | 2.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Michigan | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens All Delighted People | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz | 4.5 |
| Sulphur Aeon Swallowed by the Ocean's Tide | 3.0 |
| Sun Kil Moon Benji | 2.5 |
| Sun Kil Moon April | 3.0 |
| Symphony X V: The New Mythology Suite | 4.0 |
| SZA Z | 2.5 |
| T.I. Trouble Man: Heavy Is the Head | 3.5 |
| T.I. Paper Trail | 4.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday New Again | 2.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends | 2.5 |
| Talib Kweli Gutter Rainbows | 2.5 |
| Talib Kweli Prisoner of Conscious | 2.5 |
| Talib Kweli Eardrum | 3.0 |
| Talib Kweli Quality | 3.5 |
| Talk Talk Spirit of Eden | 3.5 |
| Talk Talk The Colour of Spring | 3.5 |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock | 4.0 |
| Team Sleep Team Sleep | 4.5 |
| Tears for Fears Songs from the Big Chair | 4.0 |
| Tears for Fears The Hurting | 4.5 |
| Terra Tenebrosa The Tunnels | 3.0 |
| Textures Polars | 3.5 |
| Textures Drawing Circles | 4.0 |
| Thantifaxath Sacred White Noise | 3.0 |
| The Afghan Whigs Do to the Beast | 4.0 |
| The Alchemist Russian Roulette | 2.0 |
| The Alchemist sucks as usual |
| The Alchemist Chemical Warfare | 2.5 |
| The Antlers Hospice | 3.0 |
| The Appleseed Cast Illumination Ritual | 2.5 |
| The Appleseed Cast Sagarmatha | 3.0 |
| The Bad Plus Prog | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Revolver | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Abbey Road | 4.5 |
| The Besnard Lakes Until in Excess, Imperceptible UFO | 3.0 |
| The Black Heart Rebellion Har Nevo | 3.0 |
| The Bloody Beetroots Romborama | 3.0 |
| The Chasm Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm | 3.5 |
| The Cool Kids The Bake Sale | 2.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading | 3.0 |
| This is far too long to maintain any shred of interest I had in this album. Builds at far too slow of a pace... and not in an interesting, dynamic fashion. It would be okay if the music was revolutionary, but it's more-so just lame acoustic doodling surrounded by punk-tinged arena c*ck rock. |
| The Dear Hunter Migrant | 3.0 |
| The Decemberists Her Majesty the Decemberists | 3.0 |
| The Decemberists The King Is Dead | 3.0 |
| The Decemberists Picaresque | 3.5 |
| The Decemberists The Hazards of Love | 3.5 |
| The Decemberists The Crane Wife | 4.0 |
| The Delfonics Adrian Younge Presents The Delfonics | 3.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada With Roots Above and Branches Below | 2.5 |
| The Devin Townsend Band Synchestra | 3.0 |
| The Devin Townsend Band Accelerated Evolution | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis | 3.0 |
| The Dodos Time to Die | 3.0 |
| The Dodos Visiter | 3.5 |
| The Dodos No Color | 3.5 |
| The Doppelgangaz Lone Sharks | 3.0 |
| The Doppelgangaz HARK | 3.0 |
| The Drones Havilah | 4.0 |
| The Drones I See Seaweed | 4.5 |
| holy shit this destroys havilah |
| The Dynospectrum Dynospectrum | 3.5 |
| The Eastern Wave All Covet, All Lose | 3.5 |
| The Exies Inertia | 3.0 |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality | 2.0 |
| The Fall of Every Season Amends | 2.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Phantom on the Horizon | 3.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger | 3.5 |
| The Flaming Lips Embryonic | 2.5 |
| This record is so stupid. |
| The Flaming Lips At War with the Mystics | 3.0 |
| The Flaming Lips The Terror | 4.0 |
| The Flaming Lips Clouds Taste Metallic | 4.5 |
| The Flaming Lips Zaireeka | 4.5 |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots | 5.0 |
| The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin | 5.0 |
| The Foreign Exchange Leave It All Behind | 3.5 |
| The Game The R.E.D. Album | 2.5 |
| The Game LAX | 3.0 |
| The Game The Documentary | 3.5 |
| The Game Jesus Piece | 3.5 |
| The Gaslamp Killer I Spit On Your Grave | 4.0 |
| The Human Abstract Nocturne | 3.0 |
| The Icarus Line Slave Vows | 3.0 |
| The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble From the Stairwell | 3.5 |
| The Knife Silent Shout | 3.5 |
| The Knife Shaking the Habitual | 3.5 |
| The Knux Remind Me In Three Days | 3.0 |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture | 2.5 |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet | 2.5 |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron | 3.0 |
| Okay it's a Mars Volta record. They need to break up and form 2 new bands with one of the bands playing generic prog rock and the other one playing experimental insect noises. That would shake things up. |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath | 3.5 |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 5.0 |
| The Mayan Factor 44 | 2.5 |
| An art rock group from Baltimore, The Mayan Factor have an ethnic sound, using atmospheric percussion (kongas and drums), acoustic guitars, various keyboard samples and tribal bass to an melodic, intense effect. The Mayan Factor could equally be called progressive rock as they could be lumped into the space rock category, one thing setting them apart from most artists in these genres is that the vocalist raps on occasion. Don't let this deter you, because it's an altogether interesting and one of a kind experience. |
| The Mayan Factor In Lake 'CH | 2.5 |
| An art rock group from Baltimore, The Mayan Factor have an ethnic sound, using atmospheric percussion (kongas and drums), acoustic guitars, various keyboard samples and tribal bass to an melodic, intense effect. The Mayan Factor could equally be called progressive rock as they could be lumped into the space rock category, one thing setting them apart from most artists in these genres is that the vocalist raps on occasion. Don't let this deter you, because it's an altogether interesting and one of a kind experience. |
| The Mayan Factor Yesterday's Son | 2.5 |
| An art rock group from Baltimore, The Mayan Factor have an ethnic sound, using atmospheric percussion (kongas and drums), acoustic guitars, various keyboard samples and tribal bass to an melodic, intense effect. The Mayan Factor could equally be called progressive rock as they could be lumped into the space rock category, one thing setting them apart from most artists in these genres is that the vocalist raps on occasion. Don't let this deter you, because it's an altogether interesting and one of a kind experience. |
| The Microphones Mount Eerie | 4.5 |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 | 5.0 |
| The Mountain Goats All Eternals Deck | 2.0 |
| I just dont get it. Vocals are just terrible and the music is nothing to write home about. |
| The National High Violet | 3.5 |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Life After Death | 3.5 |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die | 4.5 |
| The Ocean Heliocentric | 3.0 |
| The Ocean Pelagial | 3.0 |
| ugh those vocals. not much in this discog worth listening to since that one about amoebas or whatever |
| The Ocean Aeolian | 3.5 |
| The Ocean Precambrian | 4.5 |
| The Pharcyde Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde | 3.5 |
| The Pharcyde Labcabincalifornia | 4.0 |
| The Poor Nobodys The Poor Nobodys [EP] | 4.0 |
| The Postmarks Memoirs At The End Of The World | 3.5 |
| Some truly remarkable songs, but unfortunately a lot of filler too. What a grand opener... I love the movie soundtrack/ spaghetti western qualities here. |
| The Prodigy The Fat of the Land | 4.5 |
| The Psychic Paramount II | 3.0 |
| The Receiving End of Sirens Between the Heart and the Synapse | 1.5 |
| The Republic of Wolves Varuna | 3.5 |
| The Roots undun | 3.0 |
I've been using this term a lot lately, but this is easy listening music. Not nearly as creative as How I Got Over was in incorporating a less hard-hitting, indie approach to their craft. Their time on Jimmy Fallon's show is unfortunately rubbing off on their compositions.
This is the worst Roots record ever made. |
| The Roots The Tipping Point | 3.5 |
| The Roots Organix | 3.5 |
| The Roots How I Got Over | 3.5 |
| probably about time i posted my review for this |
| The Roots Phrenology | 4.0 |
| The Roots Illadelph Halflife | 4.0 |
| The Roots Rising Down | 4.0 |
| The Roots Game Theory | 4.5 |
| The Roots Do You Want More?!!!??! | 4.5 |
| The Roots Things Fall Apart | 5.0 |
| The Samuel Jackson Five The Samuel Jackson Five | 3.5 |
| The Samuel Jackson Five Goodbye Melody Mountain | 4.0 |
| The Samuel Jackson Five Easily Misunderstood | 4.5 |
| The Shins Port of Morrow | 3.0 |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting The Ocean and the Sun | 2.5 |
| The Streets The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living | 1.0 |
| The Streets Everything is Borrowed | 2.0 |
| The Streets Original Pirate Material | 2.5 |
| The Sword Age of Winters | 2.5 |
| The Sword Warp Riders | 3.5 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt | 3.5 |
| The Uncluded Hokey Fright | 2.0 |
| The Used The Used | 2.0 |
| The Velvet Teen Elysium | 3.5 |
| The Walkmen Heaven | 3.0 |
| The Weeknd Trilogy | 0.5 |
| what a shit heap of over-production. also the new tracks are fucking garbage. |
| The Weeknd Kiss Land | 2.5 |
| The Weeknd House of Balloons | 5.0 |
| The Weeknd Thursday | 5.0 |
| The Weeknd Echoes of Silence | 5.0 |
| The-Dream IV Play | 3.3 |
| The-Dream Love vs. Money | 4.0 |
| The-Dream Love King | 4.0 |
| The-Dream Love Hate | 4.5 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything | 4.0 |
| THEESatisfaction awE naturalE | 3.5 |
| pretty cool overall, pretty impressed with the production. the vocals are a bit lacking, but solid enough. |
| Themselves CrownsDown | 2.5 |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars 30 Seconds To Mars | 3.0 |
| This Will Destroy You This Will Destroy You | 2.5 |
| This Will Destroy You Young Mountain | 3.5 |
| Three 6 Mafia Mystic Stylez | 5.0 |
| Thrice Identity Crisis | 2.5 |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 3.0 |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 3.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 3.5 |
| Thrice Beggars | 3.5 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV | 4.0 |
| Thundercat The Golden Age Of Apocalypse | 4.0 |
| Thundercat The Beyond/Where The Giants Roam | 4.5 |
| Thundercat Apocalypse | 5.0 |
| Jazz, Funk, Classical, Soul, incredible, beautiful, so far ahead of its time. Review here:rhttp://www.byvolume.co.uk/thundercat-apocalypse/ |
| Thursday Waiting | 3.5 |
| Thursday A City By the Light Divided | 3.5 |
| Thursday War All the Time | 4.0 |
| Thursday Full Collapse | 4.0 |
| Thursday Common Existence | 4.0 |
| Thursday No Devolucion | 5.0 |
| Thy Catafalque Rengeteg | 3.5 |
| Thy Catafalque Roka Hasa Radio | 4.0 |
| Tim Hecker Virgins | 3.5 |
| Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 | 4.0 |
| Tim Hecker Harmony in Ultraviolet | 4.5 |
| Tinariwen Emmaar | 3.0 |
| TiRon & Ayomari A Sucker For Pumps | 4.5 |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor | 2.0 |
| Tobacco Fucked Up Friends | 3.5 |
| One of the few interesting anticon projects. Tobacco makes an electronic come industrial trip-hop atmosphere on Fucked Up Friends. Beautiful at times, mediocre at others, it almost feels as if most of this has been done before. This sneaking suspicion keeps FUF from getting a 4, whereas Aesop Rock's verses on "Dirt" solidy its 3.5. Definitely recommended. |
| Todd Terje It's Album Time | 3.5 |
| toe New Sentimentality | 3.5 |
| TOKiMONSTA Midnight Menu | 3.5 |
| Tomahawk Anonymous | 3.0 |
| Tomahawk Tomahawk | 3.5 |
| Tomahawk Mit Gas | 4.0 |
| Tool Opiate | 3.5 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 3.5 |
| Tool Undertow | 4.0 |
| Tool Lateralus | 4.5 |
| Tool Ænima | 5.0 |
| Torae and Marco Polo Double Barrel | 3.0 |
| Torche Meanderthal | 3.0 |
| Toro Y Moi Anything In Return | 3.0 |
| Tortoise Standards | 3.0 |
| Tortoise TNT | 3.5 |
| Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs Trouble | 3.0 |
| Tove Lo Truth Serum | 3.0 |
| Trap Them Darker Handcraft | 4.0 |
| Trapt Trapt | 1.5 |
| Trophy Scars Bad Luck | 3.0 |
| Trophy Scars Holy Vacants | 3.0 |
| True Widow As High As The Highest Heavens And From The Center | 3.5 |
| Trust Company The Lonely Position of Neutral | 2.0 |
| TTNG 13.0.0.0.0 | 3.0 |
| tUnE-yArDs w h o k i l l | 2.5 |
| Tusk The Resisting Dreamer | 3.0 |
| TV on the Radio Nine Types of Light | 3.5 |
| TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain | 4.0 |
| TV on the Radio Dear Science | 4.5 |
| Twelve Foot Ninja Silent Machine | 1.0 |
| Twin Shadow Confess | 3.5 |
| Twin Shadow Forget | 4.0 |
| Ty Segall Band Slaughterhouse | 3.0 |
| Tyler, the Creator Goblin | 2.5 |
| Tyler, the Creator Wolf | 2.8 |
| Tyler, the Creator Bastard | 3.5 |
| Tyondai Braxton Central Market | 2.5 |
| UGK UGK 4 Life | 3.5 |
| UGK Ridin' Dirty | 4.0 |
| Ulcerate Of Fracture and Failure | 3.0 |
| Ulcerate Everything Is Fire | 3.5 |
| Ulcerate The Destroyers of All | 3.5 |
| Ulcerate Vermis | 4.0 |
| Umberto Confrontations | 3.5 |
| United Nations United Nations | 3.5 |
| Unknown Mortal Orchestra II | 3.0 |
| Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You | 5.0 |
| Usher Looking 4 Myself | 3.5 |
| Usher Confessions | 4.0 |
| Valentin Stip Sigh | 3.0 |
| Vanden Plas Far Off Grace | 4.0 |
| Vangelis Blade Runner Soundtrack | 5.0 |
| VAST NUDE | 3.0 |
| Vast Aire Dueces Wild | 2.5 |
| Vaura Selenelion | 2.0 |
| Vektor Black Future | 4.5 |
| Vektor Outer Isolation | 4.5 |
| Viktor Vaughn Vaudeville Villain | 4.5 |
| Volbeat Beyond Hell/Above Heaven | 3.0 |
| Volcano Choir Repave | 3.0 |
| Volcano Choir Unmap | 3.5 |
Well, this is better than For Emma after half a listen. Really interesting record that combines the intricacies of post-rock and math with Vernon's standard folk fare; he turns out to be an excellent indie rockstar/frontman. Some might call this "mindless experimentation", but a more accurate descriptor would be "highly dynamic math rock". Much of the more eccentric passages are placed well throughout - doing wonders for the album's pacing; half an hour goes by, yet it feels like merely minutes passed, leaving one with something new each time. This is an excellent outing for Vernon and company that will unfortunately go unnoticed due to Bon Iver fans feeling betrayed. Read: this is not for those that like their music vanilla. Strikey is crazy.
Coincidentally, my lady and I decided that Bon Iver's "Creature Fear" will be our first dance as a married couple. Sue me, that song rules. |
| Wale Mixtape About Nothing | 3.0 |
| Wale Back To The Feature | 3.0 |
| i'm going to stick to my guns here and say "9th wonder is pretty stale" |
| Wale Attention Deficit | 3.5 |
| Walls of Jericho The American Dream | 2.0 |
| Warm Brew The Ride | 3.0 |
| Wartorn Iconic Nightmare | 3.9 |
| Wave Machines Pollen | 3.5 |
| Waxahatchee Cerulean Salt | 2.5 |
| We Lost the Sea The Quietest Place on Earth | 3.5 |
| i dont know how you could even suggest the heresy of this being in the same vein of panopticon what a ridiculous statement :[ |
| We Will Fail Verstörung | 3.5 |
| When Saints Go Machine Infinity Pool | 4.0 |
| Widowspeak Almanac | 2.5 |
| Wild Beasts Present Tense | 3.0 |
| Willie Isz Georgiavania | 3.5 |
| Wiz Khalifa Rolling Papers | 1.5 |
| "Ayo 1...this nigga whole style is straight baby thighs son. Straight up. He might got some songs that yall might enjoy n shit but he a straight glitter blooded nigga wit a bullshit ass rhyme book when it come down to it nahmean. The nigga got yall fooled tho so I aint gon step on the nigga toes too much n shit but if you got male genitalia n shit n you listen to this nigga music you a vic nahmean. This nigga done flashed his wand on you. Or you mighta caught a contact off that fairy dust the niggas smokin" -- http://bigghostnahmean.blogspot.com |
| Wolfmother Wolfmother | 2.5 |
| Woodkid The Golden Age | 3.0 |
| Woods of Desolation As the Stars | 3.5 |
| World's End Girlfriend Hurtbreak Wonderland | 3.5 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Iron Flag | 2.5 |
| Wu-Tang Clan 8 Diagrams | 2.5 |
| Wu-Tang Clan The W | 3.0 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Wu-Tang Forever | 3.5 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 5.0 |
| Wyclef Jean The Carnival | 4.0 |
| WZRD WZRD | 1.0 |
| XXYYXX XXYYXX | 3.0 |
| Yamantaka // Sonic Titan YT//ST | 4.7 |
| YG My Krazy Life | 2.5 |
| very inconsistent and misogynist |
| Yo Gotti I Am | 4.0 |
| Yo La Tengo Popular Songs | 3.0 |
| Yo La Tengo Fade | 3.0 |
| Yo La Tengo I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass | 3.5 |
| Yo La Tengo I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One | 4.0 |
| Yonlu A Society In Which No Tear is Shed... | 2.5 |
| Young Fathers DEAD | 3.0 |
| Young L Enigma Theory | 4.5 |
| Young Widows Settle Down City | 2.5 |
| Young Widows In and Out of Youth and Lightness | 3.0 |
| Young Widows Old Wounds | 4.0 |
| Yuck Yuck | 3.5 |
| Zechs Marquise Our Delicate Stranded Nightmare | 3.0 |
Earth to the Rodriguez-Lopez family: you're 35 years too late.
It's a commonplace occurrence these days: guy finds guitar, guy discovers 70s prog, guy imitates said prog. More and more frequently, this process flow delineates the creative process of Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, friends, family, and affiliates; if Cryptomnesia, Octahedron, and other recent pursuits weren't enough, here comes the extended jam interpretation a-la Zechs Marquise's Our Delicate Stranded Nightmare. With an all-too-familiar formula mixing equal parts funk, fuzzed out rock, and just enough atmospheric experimentation, one would be hard pressed to find a more faithful era-specific recreation. Blistering instrumental work keeps the group out of the realm of mediocrity; this is definitely a piece made by musicians, for musicians. A certain haphazard flair presents guitar-work analogous to a certain Rodriguez-Lopez brood compatriot - and while obviously not as much of a technician, there is just enough variety to maintain some kind of individual identity. However, the cardinal difference between Zechs Marquise and Omar's solo work lies within the carefully orchestrated ambient passages; they lack the random noodling of Cryptomnesia, the oft-overbearing noisy textures of A Manual Dexterity, and are even reminiscent of Mars Volta atmospherics on a good day. The whirling synths and feedback amalgamate into a kind of darkness that works as an acceptable juxtaposition with the more traditional rock sections.
While derivative to an extent, the Zechs Marquise sub-collective is successful in their aim of contrasting sounds. With more focus, this could be the side-project Mars Volta fans have been expecting - of which Omar has yet to deliver. |
| Zelienople The World Is A House On Fire | 4.0 |
| Zero Hour The Towers of Avarice | 3.5 |
| Zoroaster The Voice of Saturn | 3.5 |
| Zozobra Savage Masters | 2.5 |
| Zu Carboniferous | 3.5 |
