| +44 When Your Heart Stops Beating | 2.5 |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead The Century of Self | 3.0 |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Source Tags and Codes | 2.5 |
| 65daysofstatic The Destruction of Small Ideas | 3.5 |
| 65daysofstatic One Time for All Time | 4.0 |
| 65daysofstatic We Were Exploding Anyway | 4.0 |
| 65daysofstatic The Fall of Math | 4.0 |
| A Verse Unsung Sleeping Tigers | 3.5 |
| A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide | 4.0 |
| Adebisi Shank This is the Album | 3.5 |
| Alkaline Trio Crimson | 3.0 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar And So I Watch You From Afar | 4.5 |
| Angels and Airwaves We Don't Need to Whisper | 2.5 |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs | 3.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not | 4.5 |
| British rock has spent most of the first decade of the 21st century desperately searching for its own classic album. Hopefully this will be the one that earns the historic crown because it deserves it. |
| As Cities Burn Come Now Sleep | 4.5 |
| As Cities Burn Hell or High Water | 4.5 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 4.5 |
| BATS Red In Tooth and Claw | 3.5 |
| Bayside The Walking Wounded | 4.0 |
| Bayside Bayside | 3.0 |
| Bayside Shudder | 3.5 |
| Bear vs. Shark Terrorhawk | 3.0 |
| Biffy Clyro Puzzle | 3.0 |
| Billy Talent Billy Talent II | 3.0 |
| Bloc Party A Weekend in the City | 3.0 |
| Bloc Party Intimacy | 2.5 |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm | 4.0 |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 3.5 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 5.0 |
| Brand New Daisy | 4.0 |
| Brazil Philosophy of Velocity | 3.5 |
| Brigade Come Morning We Fight | 3.5 |
| Brigade Lights | 4.0 |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning | 3.5 |
| Chiodos Bone Palace Ballet | 2.5 |
| Circa Survive On Letting Go | 3.0 |
| Circa Survive Juturna | 3.5 |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise | 4.0 |
| Colour of Fire Pearl Necklace | 4.0 |
| Crime In Stereo The Troubled Stateside | 4.0 |
| Cursive Happy Hollow | 3.5 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin Dance | 2.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Plans | 4.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism | 3.5 |
| Disco Ensemble First aid kit | 4.0 |
| Do Make Say Think Other Truths | 4.0 |
| DragonForce Inhuman Rampage | 2.5 |
| Dropkick Murphys The Meanest of Times | 3.5 |
| Eisley Combinations | 3.5 |
| Emery The Question | 2.5 |
| Enter Shikari Take to the Skies | 3.0 |
| Not as original or groundbreaking as the hype machine suggested but it doesn't deserve the inevitable backlash it got designating it as utter crap. While it's not a real meld of genres and the synth plays an extremely basic role it does have a lot of experimentation in various other areas which curiously comes out to something completely average but in an interesting way. The energy of the album powers it through its bad moments but it never really transcends it. Doubt they'll ever be a great band but they'll probably never be a boring one either. |
| Enter Shikari Common Dreads | 3.0 |
| Feeder The Singles | 3.0 |
| Fighting With Wire Man Vs Monster | 3.0 |
| Fightstar Grand Unification | 4.0 |
| Fightstar One Day Son This Will All Be Yours | 3.0 |
| Foals Antidotes | 3.5 |
| Foals Total Life Forever | 3.0 |
| Four Year Strong Enemy of the World | 4.0 |
| Frank Turner Love, Ire & Song | 3.5 |
| Gifts From Enola From Fathoms | 3.5 |
| God Is an Astronaut God Is an Astronaut | 3.5 |
| God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright | 3.0 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 2.5 |
| Hell Is For Heroes The Neon Handshake | 4.0 |
| Hell Is For Heroes Transmit Disrupt | 4.5 |
| Hell Is For Heroes Hell is for Heroes | 4.0 |
| Hot Cross Risk Revival | 4.0 |
| Hot Water Music Caution | 4.0 |
| I Am the Avalanche I Am the Avalanche | 3.5 |
| Idlewild The Remote Part | 4.0 |
| Idlewild 100 Broken Windows | 4.0 |
| Idlewild Post Electric Blues | 4.0 |
| If These Trees Could Talk Above the Earth, Below the Sky | 3.5 |
| Jetplane Landing Once Like A Spark | 4.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Bleed American | 3.5 |
| Kinesis Handshakes For Bullets | 3.0 |
| Kings of Leon Only By The Night | 3.0 |
| La Dispute Here, Hear. III | 4.5 |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair | 4.5 |
| Los Campesinos! Romance Is Boring | 4.5 |
| Lostprophets Liberation Transmission | 2.5 |
| An album apparently made on auto-pilot. The vast majority of the songs feel like the band has taken a serviceable musical element, be it a decent riff, some gang vocals, maybe a bit of screaming possibly chuck in a memorable chorus line or two and then chucked it into some kind of song machine which then turned out a song. Even the guitar solos are pretty interchangeable. These songs don't have their own atmospheres because they're built with the same elements and structures and though each one makes for a perfectly alright single track an entire album worth gets stale. A couple of songs (Everyday Combat, A Town Called Hypocrisy) benefit from conscious efforts to create a certain sound a little outside the norm but as for the rest, there's not a bad song on here (in fact there's not even a single bad moment, though occasionally the vocals dive into straight out nasal whine) but there's not a great one either. This problem was present on Start Something but to a lesser degree as the songs sounded fresher and heavier. Next time guys, please pay attention to what you're doing. |
| Make Do and Mend Bodies Of Water | 3.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing | 3.5 |
| mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes | 5.0 |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou A to B: Life | 3.5 |
| mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright! | 4.0 |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice | 3.5 |
| Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica | 3.5 |
| Moneen The Red Tree | 4.5 |
| Moneen The World I Want To Leave Behind | 3.0 |
| Moving Mountains Pneuma | 3.5 |
| Moving Mountains Foreword | 4.0 |
| Mumford and Sons Sigh No More | 3.5 |
| Muse Absolution | 4.0 |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 3.5 |
| Native Wrestling Moves | 3.0 |
| New Found Glory Catalyst | 2.5 |
| New Found Glory Sticks and Stones | 3.5 |
| Northstar Pollyanna | 3.5 |
| Northstar Is This Thing Loaded? | 2.5 |
| Oasis Stop the Clocks | 4.0 |
| Owen At Home With Owen | 3.5 |
| Polar Bear Club Chasing Hamburg | 4.0 |
| Polar Bear Club Sometimes Things Just Disappear | 3.5 |
| Red Sparowes At The Soundless Dawn | 3.5 |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness | 4.0 |
| Saosin Saosin | 3.0 |
| Say Anything In Defense of the Genre | 4.0 |
| Say Anything ...Is A Real Boy (re-release) | 4.0 |
| Say Anything Say Anything | 4.0 |
| Set Your Goals This Will Be the Death of Us | 4.5 |
| Small Brown Bike The River Bed | 2.5 |
| Small Leaks Sink Ships Until The World Is Happy | 4.0 |
| So Many Dynamos The Loud Wars | 4.0 |
| Sparta Porcelain | 3.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Louder Now | 3.5 |
| The All-American Rejects Move Along | 3.0 |
| The Antlers Hospice | 4.5 |
| The Faint Danse Macabre | 2.5 |
| The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound | 4.5 |
| The Killers Sam's Town | 2.5 |
| The Killers Hot Fuss | 3.5 |
| The Out Circuit Pierce The Empire With A Sound | 3.0 |
| The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds | 3.5 |
| The Receiving End of Sirens Between the Heart and the Synapse | 4.5 |
| The Receiving End of Sirens The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi | 4.0 |
| The Republic of Wolves Varuna | 4.0 |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie | 3.0 |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 3.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV | 3.5 |
| Thrice Beggars | 3.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 3.0 |
| Thursday War All the Time | 2.5 |
| Thursday A City By the Light Divided | 3.5 |
| Trophy Scars Alphabet Alphabets | 2.0 |
| TTNG Animals | 3.5 |
| We Were Promised Jetpacks These Four Walls | 3.0 |
| Yellowcard Paper Walls | 2.5 |
| Yellowcard Ocean Avenue | 3.5 |
| Yellowcard Lights and Sounds | 3.0 |
