| 3 (USA) The End is Begun | 3.5 |
| 3OH!3 Want | 1.5 |
| Want does not offer much besides the catchy "Don't Trust Me." Even this hit sinks once it gets to the terrible "Helen Keller" bridge. |
| 3OH!3 Streets of Gold | 2.0 |
| Adebisi Shank This is the Second Album | 3.0 |
| Adele 21 | 3.5 |
| AFI Sing the Sorrow | 2.0 |
| Alkaline Trio From Here to Infirmary | 2.0 |
| All Time Low Three Words to Remember in Dealing With The End | 1.5 |
| All Time Low Put Up or Shut Up | 2.0 |
| Amy Macdonald A Curious Thing | 2.5 |
| Anberlin New Surrender | 2.5 |
| Anberlin Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place | 3.0 |
| Animal Collective Ark | 2.0 |
| Animal Collective Danse Manatee | 2.0 |
| Animal Collective Campfire Songs | 2.5 |
| Animal Collective Centipede Hz | 2.5 |
| Animal Collective Prospect Hummer | 3.0 |
| Animal Collective Feels | 3.5 |
| Animal Collective Strawberry Jam | 3.5 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 3.5 |
| Animal Collective Fall Be Kind | 4.0 |
| Antagonist World In Decline | 2.0 |
| Antonio Vivaldi The Four Seasons | 4.0 |
| Apocalyptica Worlds Collide | 2.5 |
| Apocalyptica Apocalyptica | 3.5 |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible | 3.5 |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs | 4.0 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 4.5 |
| As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse | 2.5 |
| As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security | 2.5 |
| As I Lay Dying A Long March: The First Recordings | 2.5 |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us | 2.5 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 3.0 |
| Audio Adrenaline Underdog | 2.0 |
| Audioslave Audioslave | 3.0 |
| August Burns Red Constellations | 3.0 |
| Band of Horses Cease to Begin | 2.5 |
| Basshunter LOL | 2.5 |
| Beach House Bloom | 2.5 |
| Beardfish The Void | 3.0 |
| Bedrich Smetana Má Vlast | 3.5 |
| Beirut The Flying Club Cup | 3.0 |
| Beirut The Rip Tide | 3.5 |
| Bel Auburn Lullabies In A & C | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus | 2.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 3.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 3.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 3.5 |
| Black Dub Black Dub | 3.0 |
| Blind Guardian Follow the Blind | 2.0 |
| Blind Guardian Imaginations from the Other Side | 3.0 |
| Blind Guardian Battalions of Fear | 3.0 |
| Blind Guardian A Twist in the Myth | 3.0 |
| Blind Guardian At the Edge of Time | 3.0 |
| Blind Guardian A Night at the Opera | 3.5 |
| Blind Guardian Nightfall in Middle-Earth | 5.0 |
| With Nightfall in Middle-Earth, an album based on Tolkien's high fantasy tale The Silmarillion, Blind Guardian strikes gold. Hansi Kursch does an outstanding job of changing his voice to portray the emotions of Feanor, Melkor, Maedhros, Fingolfin and others in the collection of tales preceding The Lord of the Rings books, and the music is right with anything else they've done, making it accessible to those who aren't familiar with the tales (even though they might prefer to skip the dialogue sessions in between). Nightfall in Middle-Earth is a classic album and highly recommended if you're into this type of music. |
| Blindside A Thought Crushed My Mind | 2.0 |
| Blindside Silence | 3.0 |
| Blindside Blindside | 3.0 |
| Blue Man Group The Complex | 3.5 |
| Bob Dylan Under the Red Sky | 2.0 |
| Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home | 2.5 |
| Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde | 2.5 |
| Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited | 2.5 |
| Bob Dylan Nashville Skyline | 3.0 |
| Bob Dylan Bob Dylan | 3.0 |
| Bob Dylan Oh Mercy | 3.0 |
| Bob Dylan The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan | 3.5 |
| Bob Dylan The Times They Are A-Changin' | 3.5 |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Mellow Mood | 3.0 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Scrambles | 2.5 |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 3.0 |
| Bon Iver Blood Bank | 3.5 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 4.5 |
| Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Master And Everyone | 3.0 |
| Brad Paisley 5th Gear | 1.0 |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon | 2.0 |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 3.0 |
| Brand New Daisy | 3.5 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 4.0 |
| brokeNCYDE BC 13 | 1.0 |
| brokeNCYDE The Broken | 1.0 |
| Buckcherry All Night Long | 1.5 |
| Built to Spill There Is No Enemy | 2.0 |
| Burial Kindred | 2.5 |
| Bury Your Dead Beauty and the Breakdown | 2.5 |
| Called to Arms Peril and the Patient | 2.5 |
| Camel Mirage | 3.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse Kill | 1.5 |
| Cee Lo Green The Lady Killer | 2.5 |
| Cephalic Carnage Misled by Certainty | 1.5 |
| Chevelle Point #1 | 2.5 |
| Chevelle Wonder What's Next | 2.5 |
| Chevelle Vena Sera | 3.0 |
| Chevelle Sci-Fi Crimes | 3.5 |
| Claude Debussy La mer (The Sea), L. 109 | 3.5 |
| Claude Debussy Suite bergamasque, L. 75 | 4.0 |
| Claude Debussy Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, L. 86 | 4.0 |
| Claude Debussy Rêverie, L. 8 | 5.0 |
| Claude-Michel Schonberg Les Misérables - Original Broadway Cast | 4.5 |
| Clubroot III - MMXII | 2.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 4.5 |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | 3.5 |
| Comus First Utterance | 2.5 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 2.5 |
| Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains | 3.0 |
| D-Why Don't Flatter Yourself | 3.0 |
| Damien Rice O | 3.5 |
| Damien Rice 9 | 4.0 |
| Dc Talk Jesus Freak | 2.0 |
| Dead Kennedys Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death | 2.0 |
| Delta Spirit History From Below | 3.0 |
| Demon Hunter The Triptych | 2.0 |
| Demon Hunter Storm the Gates of Hell | 2.0 |
| Demon Hunter Summer of Darkness | 2.5 |
| Demon Hunter Demon Hunter | 2.5 |
| DevilDriver The Fury of Our Maker's Hand | 3.0 |
| DevilDriver DevilDriver | 3.0 |
| DevilDriver Pray for Villains | 3.0 |
| DeVotchKa 100 Lovers | 2.5 |
| Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca | 3.5 |
| DragonForce Inhuman Rampage | 2.5 |
| DragonForce Sonic Firestorm | 3.0 |
| dredg Chuckles and Mr. Squeezy | 2.0 |
| dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion | 3.5 |
| dredg Catch Without Arms | 4.0 |
| dredg El Cielo | 4.5 |
| East West The Light in Guinevere's Garden | 2.5 |
| East West Hope in Anguish | 2.5 |
| EAT ME RAW XALBUMX | 1.5 |
| Eddie Vedder Into the Wild | 4.5 |
| Edvard Grieg Peer Gynt, Op. 23 | 3.5 |
| Edvard Grieg Piano Concerto in A Minor | 3.5 |
| Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros Up From Below | 3.0 |
| El Ten Eleven El Ten Eleven | 3.5 |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP | 1.0 |
| Eminem Encore | 1.0 |
| Eminem Recovery | 1.5 |
| Evergreen Terrace Sincerity is an Easy Disguise in this Business | 2.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 4.0 |
| Fairport Convention Liege and Lief | 3.0 |
| Fireflight Unbreakable | 3.0 |
| Five.Bolt.Main Venting | 3.0 |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes | 3.5 |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues | 3.5 |
| Florence and the Machine Ceremonials | 3.5 |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma | 3.5 |
| Flyleaf Memento Mori | 2.0 |
| Flyleaf Flyleaf | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters Five Songs and a Cover | 2.5 |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape | 3.5 |
| Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace | 3.5 |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light | 3.5 |
| Forever the Sickest Kids The Weekend: Friday | 1.5 |
| Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand | 2.5 |
| Franz Ferdinand Tonight: Franz Ferdinand | 3.5 |
| Frozen Silence Frozen Silence | 4.0 |
| fun. Aim and Ignite | 2.5 |
| Genius Hired Guns Dutch Mafia | 3.0 |
| God Forbid IV: Constitution of Treason | 2.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. | 3.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 3.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 4.0 |
| Good Old War Good Old War | 3.0 |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest | 3.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Shields | 3.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Yellow House | 4.0 |
| Ha Ha Tonka Death of a Decade | 4.0 |
| Ha Ha Tonka Buckle in the Bible Belt | 4.5 |
| Ha Ha Tonka Novel Sounds of the Nouveau South | 4.5 |
| Head Automatica Decadence | 2.5 |
| Henryk Gorecki Symphony No. 3, Op. 36 | 4.0 |
| Her Name Is Calla The Quiet Lamb | 3.0 |
| How to Dress Well Love Remains | 2.5 |
| Hugh Laurie Let Them Talk | 3.5 |
| Hurt Goodbye To The Machine | 2.0 |
| Igor Stravinsky Le Sacre du Printemps | 4.0 |
| Ikuinen Kaamos Closure | 3.0 |
| Imogen Heap Speak For Yourself | 3.0 |
| In Flames Reroute to Remain | 2.5 |
| In Flames Lunar Strain | 2.5 |
| In Flames Subterranean | 2.5 |
| In Flames Colony | 3.0 |
| In Flames A Sense of Purpose | 3.0 |
| In Flames The Jester Race | 3.5 |
| In Flames Soundtrack to Your Escape | 3.5 |
| While most of the album isn't up to par with other IF material, this album contains three absolutely outstanding songs in "The Quiet Place," "My Sweet Shadow" and "Evil in a Closet." |
| In Flames Clayman | 3.5 |
| In Flames Whoracle | 3.5 |
| In Flames Come Clarity | 3.5 |
| Iron And Wine The Shepherd's Dog | 3.5 |
| Iron And Wine Our Endless Numbered Days | 4.0 |
| Iron And Wine The Creek Drank the Cradle | 4.0 |
| Iron And Wine Kiss Each Other Clean | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden No Prayer for the Dying | 1.5 |
| The only thing keeping me from rating this as awful is "Mother Russia," which adds to the great catalog of Maiden album closers. |
| Iron Maiden Fear of the Dark | 2.0 |
| Iron Maiden Virtual XI | 2.0 |
| Iron Maiden The X Factor | 2.5 |
| Iron Maiden The Final Frontier | 2.5 |
| Iron Maiden Dance of Death | 3.0 |
| Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time | 3.0 |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast | 3.0 |
| Iron Maiden Iron Maiden | 3.0 |
| Iron Maiden Piece of Mind | 3.0 |
| Iron Maiden Killers | 3.0 |
| Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son | 3.0 |
| Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death | 3.0 |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Brave New World | 3.5 |
| Japandroids Celebration Rock | 4.0 |
| Japandroids Post-Nothing | 4.5 |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint 3 | 2.5 |
| Jonsi Go | 4.0 |
| Joose Keskitalo Tule Minun Luokseni, Kulta | 3.0 |
| Justice † | 3.5 |
| Kaiser Chiefs Yours Truly, Angry Mob | 2.5 |
| Kanye West Graduation | 1.5 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 2.0 |
| Kesha Animal | 2.0 |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache | 3.0 |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies | 3.0 |
| Kings of Leon Come Around Sundown | 2.5 |
| Kings of Leon Youth and Young Manhood | 3.0 |
| Kings of Leon Only By The Night | 3.0 |
| Kings of Leon Because Of The Times | 3.5 |
| Kings of Leon Aha Shake Heartbreak | 4.0 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame | 2.5 |
| LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Coda | 2.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Presence | 2.5 |
| Led Zeppelin In Through the Out Door | 2.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV | 4.0 |
| Less Than Jake GNV FLA | 2.5 |
| Lights Out Asia In The Days Of Jupiter | 2.5 |
| Lil Wayne Lights Out | 1.0 |
| Lil Wayne Tha Carter II | 1.5 |
| Linkin Park Reanimation | 2.0 |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight | 2.0 |
| Linkin Park A Thousand Suns | 2.5 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 3.0 |
| Living Sacrifice Conceived In Fire | 2.5 |
| Living Sacrifice The Hammering Process | 3.0 |
| Ludo You're Awful, I Love You | 3.0 |
| Ludo Broken Bride EP | 3.5 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36 | 3.0 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21 | 3.5 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in E♭ “Eroica” Op. 55 | 3.5 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor "Für Elise", WoO 59 | 3.5 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 | 4.0 |
| Lukeing Forward Wandering In Urban Fog | 2.5 |
| M.I.A. Kala | 2.5 |
| M.I.A. Maya | 3.0 |
| M.I.A. Arular | 4.0 |
| Man in the Ring Live at the Blue Note | 3.0 |
| Maps and Atlases Perch Patchwork | 3.5 |
| Massive Attack Heligoland | 3.5 |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Remission | 3.0 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 3.0 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 3.0 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 3.5 |
| Mayday Parade A Lesson In Romantics | 1.5 |
| Maylene and the Sons of Disaster III | 3.0 |
| Maylene and the Sons of Disaster Maylene and the Sons of Disaster | 3.5 |
| Maylene and the Sons of Disaster II | 3.5 |
| Menomena Mines | 3.5 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 3.0 |
| Mew No More Stories | 3.5 |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister | 2.5 |
| MGMT Congratulations | 2.5 |
| MGMT Oracular Spectacular | 3.0 |
| Midlake The Courage Of Others | 3.5 |
| The Courage of Others is a step down from Midlake's sophomore album but still a welcome change of pace. Here, we hear a darker side of the band. Gone are the uptempo songs from The Trials of Van Occupanther and in their place are slower, meloncholy selections. My main problem with the album is the lack of variety as it goes on. |
| Midlake The Trials of Van Occupanther | 4.5 |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue | 3.5 |
| Misery Signals Mirrors | 2.5 |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News | 3.0 |
| Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind | 4.5 |
| Mountain Man Made The Harbor | 3.0 |
| MSWHITE Squares | 2.5 |
| Mumford and Sons Sigh No More | 3.5 |
| Murderdolls Women and Children Last | 1.5 |
| Muse The 2nd Law | 2.0 |
| Muse Showbiz | 2.5 |
| Muse The Resistance | 3.0 |
| Muse Absolution | 3.5 |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry | 3.5 |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 4.0 |
| Muse HAARP | 4.0 |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade | 2.0 |
| Never Shout Never Me & My Uke | 1.5 |
| Never Shout Never Yippee EP | 2.0 |
| Nick Drake Bryter Layter | 3.5 |
| Nick Drake Pink Moon | 4.0 |
| Nick Drake Five Leaves Left | 4.5 |
| Nile In The Beginning | 2.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine | 3.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth | 3.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Broken | 3.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Slip | 3.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 4.0 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 3.0 |
| Norma Jean Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child | 3.0 |
| Norma Jean Redeemer | 3.0 |
| Oh, Sleeper Son of the Morning | 2.0 |
| Olafur Arnalds Eulogy for Evolution | 4.5 |
| Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and John Frusciante Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and John Frusciante | 3.0 |
| One Day as a Lion One Day as a Lion | 2.5 |
| Our Lady Peace Happiness... | 4.5 |
| Owen Pallett Heartland | 4.0 |
| P.O.D. Snuff the Punk | 1.5 |
| P.O.D. Brown | 2.0 |
| P.O.D. Fundamental Elements of Southtown | 3.0 |
| P.O.D. Payable on Death | 3.0 |
| P.O.D. Satellite | 3.0 |
| Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out | 1.5 |
| Parades Foreign Tapes | 4.5 |
| Paramore Riot! | 3.0 |
| Paramore Brand New Eyes | 3.5 |
| Passion Pit Manners | 4.5 |
| Philip Glass Glassworks | 3.5 |
| Philip Glass Einstein on the Beach | 4.0 |
| Phosphorescent Here's To Taking It Easy | 2.5 |
| Pillar Fireproof | 1.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn | 2.0 |
| Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets | 2.0 |
| Pink Floyd Ummagumma | 2.5 |
| Pink Floyd Animals | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Division Bell | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Final Cut | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse of Reason | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd Meddle | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Wall | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 5.0 |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 5.0 |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia | 3.0 |
| Porter Robinson Spitfire | 3.5 |
| Portishead Third | 2.5 |
| Protest the Hero Kezia | 2.5 |
| Pyotr Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker, Op. 71 | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze | 3.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 4.5 |
| Ra Ra Riot The Orchard | 3.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire | 3.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles | 3.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 3.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine Renegades | 4.0 |
| Rammstein Mutter | 2.5 |
| Rammstein Reise, Reise | 2.5 |
| Rammstein Rosenrot | 2.5 |
| Rammstein Liebe Ist Für Alle Da | 2.5 |
| Rascal Flatts Feels Like Today | 1.5 |
| Ratatat Ratatat | 4.0 |
| Ratatat LP3 | 4.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Red Hot Chili Peppers | 1.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Freaky Styley | 1.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Uplift Mofo Party Plan | 1.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way | 2.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers One Hot Minute | 2.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers I'm With You | 2.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Mother's Milk | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication | 4.0 |
| Regina Spektor Soviet Kitsch | 3.0 |
| Regina Spektor Begin To Hope | 3.5 |
| Regina Spektor Far | 4.0 |
| Reward Tree Needy | 3.5 |
| Rise Against Revolutions per Minute | 2.5 |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture | 3.0 |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness | 3.5 |
| Rise Against Appeal to Reason | 3.5 |
| Rome Nos Chants Perdus | 3.0 |
| Rome Flowers From Exile | 4.5 |
| S. Carey All We Grow | 3.5 |
| Sara Bareilles Kaleidoscope Heart | 3.0 |
| Serj Tankian Elect the Dead | 3.0 |
| Shadows Fall The Art of Balance | 2.5 |
| Shadows Fall The War Within | 2.5 |
| She Wants Revenge She Wants Revenge | 3.0 |
| Sick Puppies Tri-Polar | 1.5 |
| Sigur Ros Valtari | 3.0 |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros Sæglópur | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros ( ) | 4.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Neck of the Woods | 2.5 |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas | 3.5 |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon | 3.5 |
| Simon and Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water | 3.5 |
| Skillet Hey You, I Love Your Soul | 2.0 |
| Skillet Invincible | 2.0 |
| Skillet Alien Youth | 2.5 |
| Skillet Collide | 3.0 |
| Sky Eats Airplane Sky Eats Airplane | 2.5 |
| Son of Sam Songs from the Earth | 1.5 |
| Sonic Syndicate We Rule the Night | 1.5 |
| Soulwax Nite Versions | 3.5 |
| Street Dogs State of Grace | 2.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Michigan | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz | 4.5 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 3.0 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 3.5 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 4.0 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 4.0 |
| Tame Impala Lonerism | 2.5 |
| Tame Impala Innerspeaker | 3.5 |
| Tech N9ne Misery Loves Kompany | 1.0 |
| Terrible Things Terrible Things | 2.0 |
| The Absence From Your Grave | 2.5 |
| The Antlers Burst Apart | 3.5 |
| The Antlers Hospice | 5.0 |
| The Avett Brothers The Gleam | 3.0 |
| The Avett Brothers A Carolina Jubilee | 3.0 |
| The Avett Brothers Emotionalism | 3.5 |
| The Avett Brothers The Second Gleam | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Revolver | 2.5 |
| The Black Keys Brothers | 3.5 |
| The Black Keys Thickfreakness | 4.0 |
| The Black Keys The Big Come Up | 4.0 |
| The Black Keys El Camino | 4.0 |
| The Black Keys Rubber Factory | 4.5 |
| The Decemberists The Hazards of Love | 4.5 |
| The Doors The Soft Parade | 3.5 |
| The Doors Morrison Hotel | 3.5 |
| The Doors Waiting for the Sun | 3.5 |
| The Doors Strange Days | 4.0 |
| The Doors The Doors | 4.0 |
| The Flaming Lips Transmissions From the Satellite Heart | 3.0 |
| The Flaming Lips At War with the Mystics | 3.0 |
| The Flaming Lips Embryonic | 3.5 |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots | 4.0 |
| The Flaming Lips Dark Side of the Moon | 4.0 |
| The Flashbulb Opus At The End Of Everything | 3.0 |
| The Flashbulb Arboreal | 4.0 |
| The Gaslight Anthem American Slang | 4.0 |
| The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound | 4.5 |
| The Last Felony Too Many Humans | 1.5 |
| The Mars Volta Tremulant | 3.0 |
| The Mars Volta Scab Dates | 3.0 |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet | 3.0 |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 3.5 |
| Frances the Mute vs. De-Loused in the Comatorium: the debate swings back and forth. I've always preferred the latter, and after a recent listen to the former, I still do. Proponents of Frances... point to how each of the five songs sound different from one another and each have their own feel. While this is true, I don't necessarily see this as a strength for the album. "L'Via L'Viaquez" in particular, despite being a great effort, seems out of place. Even within the songs, transitions seems unnatural and even a little forced. Finally, De-Loused... boasts a better and more interesting story. That being said, the excellent moments on Frances... are still excellent, and this is still outstanding. |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture | 3.5 |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron | 3.5 |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 5.0 |
| The Mountain Goats The Sunset Tree | 1.5 |
| The Mountain Goats Get Lonely | 2.0 |
| The Mountain Goats The Life of the World to Come | 2.0 |
| The National The National | 3.0 |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me | 3.5 |
| The National Cherry Tree | 4.0 |
| The National Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers | 4.5 |
| The National Alligator | 5.0 |
| Alligator is where The National went from being a good band to being a perfect band, and it is the perfect set-up album for Boxer. While Boxer is all about coming to grips with newly discovered adulthood, becoming distant from once-close friends and colorless work routines, Alligator reminds us of the more hopeful time of late youth before that when the whole world was on the horizon waiting to be experienced. Even so, despite the unbridled confidence of "All the Wine," the child-like ambition in "The Geese of Beverly Road" and the spontaneous adventure seeking in "City Middle," Matt Berninger's lyrics occasionally hint at a sense of doubt starting to sink in and climaxing in the remarkable closer "Mr. November." Alligator is the perfect prequel to Boxer and High Violet and an outstanding album on its own. I highly recommend it. |
| The National Boxer | 5.0 |
| The National High Violet | 5.0 |
| The Nightwatchman The Fabled City | 2.0 |
| The Noise FM Enclave | 3.0 |
| The O.C. Supertones Loud and Clear | 1.5 |
| The O.C. Supertones Chase the Sun | 1.5 |
| The O.C. Supertones Supertones Strike Back | 2.0 |
| The Octopus Project Hexadecagon | 3.5 |
| The Offspring Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace | 2.5 |
| The Parlor Mob And You Were a Crow | 4.0 |
| The Republic of Wolves Varuna | 2.5 |
| The State Lottery When the Night Comes | 3.0 |
| The Strokes Angles | 2.5 |
| The Sword Warp Riders | 2.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt | 3.5 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now | 3.5 |
| The Used In Love and Death | 1.5 |
| The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan | 3.0 |
| The White Stripes Icky Thump | 3.5 |
| The White Stripes White Blood Cells | 4.0 |
| The xx xx | 4.0 |
| Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures | 4.0 |
| Thine Eyes Bleed In the Wake of Separation | 2.5 |
| Three Days Grace Three Days Grace | 2.0 |
| Three Days Grace One-X | 2.5 |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 2.0 |
| Through the Eyes of the Dead Bloodlust | 2.0 |
| Tides of Man Dreamhouse | 2.5 |
| Tim McGraw Let It Go | 1.5 |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor | 3.0 |
| tobyMac Momentum | 1.5 |
| Tool Ænima | 3.5 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 4.0 |
| Trapt Trapt | 2.0 |
| Trapt Only Through the Pain | 2.0 |
| Trivium Ascendancy | 1.5 |
| Unearth The Oncoming Storm | 2.5 |
| Unearth The March | 2.5 |
| Unearth III: In the Eyes of Fire | 3.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Contra | 3.5 |
| Various Artists (Punk) Punk Goes Pop 3 | 1.5 |
| Volcano Choir Unmap | 3.5 |
| Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot | 3.0 |
| Zao The Splinter Shards the Birth of Separation | 2.0 |
| Zao All Else Failed (2003) | 2.5 |
| Zao Awake? | 2.5 |
| Zao Parade of Chaos | 3.0 |
| Zao (Self-Titled) | 3.0 |
| Zao The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here | 3.0 |
| Zao The Funeral of God | 3.5 |
| Zao Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest | 3.5 |
| Zao Liberate Te Ex Inferis | 3.5 |
