| 65daysofstatic We Were Exploding Anyway | 4.0 |
| Adebisi Shank This is the Second Album | 4.5 |
| Adebisi Shank This is the Third Album | 4.5 |
| This is streaming on Spotify now, but the mods don't find that newsworthy. Boo. It's also great and Mazel Tov is my jam right now. |
| Altars Something More | 4.0 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar And So I Watch You From Afar | 4.5 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar Gangs | 4.5 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar The Endless Shimmering | 4.0 |
Definitely a return to the groove and abandoning the gang vox. But it is a much darker time
now and seems to make sense. Their guitars will always fascinate me, and this is the first
album of theirs since Tony left where I feel like they got their early career magic back.
Big ups. |
| August Burns Red Leveler | 4.0 |
| Biffy Clyro Puzzle | 3.0 |
| Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot | 4.0 |
| Born Gold Bodysongs | 4.0 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 4.5 |
| Burning Airlines Identikit | 3.5 |
| Captain, We're Sinking The Future Is Cancelled | 4.5 |
| City and Colour If I Should Go Before You | 4.5 |
| Cloud Nothings Last Building Burning | 4.0 |
| First half of the album is lean and mean and I probably like the second half more than most. Great return to form from the band although I fully admit I'm a sucker for this jangly trebly post-hardcore sound. |
| Cloudkicker Beacons | 4.0 |
| Cougar Patriot | 4.5 |
| This album grew like a monster, almost perfect. I love every track, no skippers or filler. And man the drummer/percussionist is solid! |
| Counterparts The Current Will Carry Us | 4.5 |
| Counterparts A Eulogy for Those Still Here | 4.5 |
| Cursive I Am Gemini | 4.0 |
| Deftones Gore | 4.0 |
| DJ Taye Still Trippin | 4.0 |
| Don Caballero Punkgasm | 2.5 |
| I need to listen to this more, as they are one of my favorite bands ever, but I haven't really liked any Don Cab since WBNR. It seems like they captured a perfect amount of melody and mathiness on that. Now the songs are either too straight forward or Damon Masturbating with drum sticks. Listen to Battles. |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or | 4.5 |
| ERRA Impulse | 4.5 |
| Far-Less Everyone Is Out to Get Us | 4.5 |
| Far-Less A Toast to Bad Taste | 3.5 |
| Foals Antidotes | 4.0 |
| Foals Total Life Forever | 4.5 |
| Foals Holy Fire | 4.0 |
| Fugazi In on the Kill Taker | 5.0 |
| Fugazi Red Medicine | 4.5 |
| Girl Talk Feed the Animals | 3.5 |
| Grade Under the Radar | 4.0 |
| Hot Water Music Live At The Hardback | 4.0 |
| Great live album made at the pinnacle of the band's career. Fantastic album. Essential for all HWM fans. |
| Invent Animate Heavener | 4.0 |
| Atmospherics and songwriting choices bumped it for me. |
| Jimmy Eat World Chase This Light | 3.0 |
| June of 44 Four Great Points | 4.5 |
| June of 44 Tropics and Meridians | 4.0 |
| June of 44 Engine Takes to the Water | 3.0 |
| Kidcrash Jokes | 4.5 |
| Kidcrash Snacks | 4.0 |
| letlive. Fake History | 4.5 |
| Loma Prieta Self Portrait | 4.0 |
| Los Campesinos! Hello Sadness | 4.0 |
| M.I.A. Maya | 3.5 |
| Maps and Atlases Perch Patchwork | 4.0 |
| Margins Margins | 3.5 |
| Maybeshewill I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was Gone | 4.0 |
| Memphis May Fire The Hollow | 4.0 |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice | 4.5 |
| Oh, Sleeper Children of Fire | 4.5 |
| Parades Foreign Tapes | 4.5 |
| Pierce the Veil Misadventures | 4.0 |
| Polar Bear Club Sometimes Things Just Disappear | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 2.5 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 2.5 |
| I've listened to this album 12 times, and I keep waiting for a hook, chorus or distinct rhythm. This album is a dire bore for me to listen to. I really like Radiohead and I want to like this album, but it's not pretty enough to be ambient and not cohesive enough to be anything else. I really hope they go in a different direction. In Rainbows is my 4th favorite Radiohead album and it's LOADS better than this. |
| Radiohead TKOL RMX 1234567 | 4.0 |
| Red City Radio The Dangers of Standing Still | 4.5 |
| Russian Circles Station | 4.0 |
| Saosin In Search Of Solid Ground | 3.5 |
| Sharks The Joys Of Living 2008-2010 | 4.0 |
| Shellac Excellent Italian Greyhound | 3.5 |
| Shellac Terraform | 4.5 |
| Sometimes they make love WITH THE DOO-DOO AND THE FECES ON THE WALL!!! |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas | 2.5 |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon | 4.0 |
| Static Colours Sun Swells | 4.0 |
| Sweep the Leg Johnny Tomorrow We Will Run Faster | 4.5 |
| A fantastic album of huge, sweeping songs, this album showcased Sweep's use of simple melodies with interesting rhythmic shifts. Definitely a must-have for fans of angular post-rock. |
| Texas Is the Reason Do You Know Who You Are? | 4.5 |
| Absolutely required listening to anyone who likes emotional rock. The guitars are great and song structures are fantastic. *Warning* haters of high-pitched singers stay away. The sound on the vinyl of this album is absolutely amazing, blows away any digital version I've heard. If you love dissonant guitars with fun octave riffs and interesting songs, please listen! |
| The Color Morale Know Hope | 3.5 |
| The Color Morale Hold On Pain Ends | 3.5 |
| The Dangerous Summer War Paint | 4.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Manipulator | 3.5 |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting The Ocean and the Sun | 4.5 |
| This Will Destroy You Young Mountain | 4.0 |
| Trophy Scars Bad Luck | 4.0 |
I am quite happy with this album. Some of the most fleshed out narrative lyrics I've heard in awhile. But I understand Greer's frustration in the sophomoric tendencies. They have a great flow going and the lyrics are inspired, and then the singer throws in some 15 year-old line that makes you say wtf. I've always liked a band that doesn't take itself too seriously, so I don't mind this. But I can see how a critic who wants a cohesive piece of work would fault it. I really like how the drummer plays almost every possible variation of 6/8 as well, but that's kind of a nerdy thing.
Oh and win for the blues guitars and horns :-) |
| Trophy Scars Hospital Music for the Aesthetics of Language | 4.5 |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation | 4.5 |
| Underoath The Changing of Times | 3.0 |
| Underoath Voyeurist | 3.5 |
| Van Morrison Moondance | 5.0 |
| Vessels Helioscope | 4.5 |
| Wolves at the Gate Captors | 4.0 |
| Wolves at the Gate VxV | 4.5 |
