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Average Rating: 3.64
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Objectivity Score: 68%
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3 (USA) Wake Pig3.5
3 (USA) Summercamp Nightmare4.0
3 (USA) The End is Begun4.5
Aereogramme My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go3.5
AFI Answer That and Stay Fashionable3.0
AFI A Fire Inside3.5
AFI Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes3.5
AFI Very Proud of Ya3.5
AFI Decemberunderground3.5
AFI The Art of Drowning4.0
AFI All Hallow's E.P.4.0
AFI Black Sails in the Sunset4.5
AFI Sing the Sorrow5.0
Agent Sparks Red Rover3.0
Alice in Chains MTV Unplugged5.0
Amos Lee Supply And Demand3.0
Amos Lee Amos Lee3.5
Anberlin Cities3.0
Aqualung Strange and Beautiful4.0
Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not3.0
Audioslave Audioslave3.0
Audioslave Out of Exile3.0
Biffy Clyro Blackened Sky4.0
Biffy Clyro Puzzle4.0
Blackfield Blackfield4.0
Blackfield Blackfield II4.0
Blaqk Audio CexCells3.5
Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me3.5
Chroma Key Dead Air For Radios4.0
Citizen Cope Citzen Cope3.0
Citizen Cope The Clarence Greewood Recordings3.5
Coldplay X&Y3.0
Cult of Luna Eternal Kingdom4.0
Daft Punk Discovery4.0
Danzig Danzig4.0
Dax Riggs We Sing of Only Blood or Love2.5
Deadboy and the Elephantmen We Are Night Sky2.5
Death Cab for Cutie Plans4.0
Don Caballero World Class Listening Problem4.0
dredg Leitmotif4.5
Eagles Of Death Metal Death By Sexy3.0
East of the Wall Farmer's Almanac4.0
Surprisingly intense and perfectly balanced instrumental post-rock... what a rarity.
Elliott Smith Either/Or4.0
Elliott Smith Elliott Smith4.5
Elliott Smith New Moon4.5
Elliott Smith XO5.0
Elliott Smith Figure 85.0
Evaline Postpartum Modesty. A Portrait of Skin EP3.0
Falling Up Dawn Escapes3.0
Falling Up Crashings3.5
Glassjaw Worship and Tribute4.0
Hell Is For Heroes Transmit Disrupt3.0
House of Brothers Deadman3.5
Howie Day Stop All The World Now3.0
Incubus (USA-CA) Fungus Amongus3.0
Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself3.5
Incubus (USA-CA) Light Grenades3.5
Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View4.0
Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E.4.0
Incubus (USA-CA) A Crow Left of the Murder...4.5
Interpol Antics3.0
Interpol Our Love to Admire3.5
Jamie Cullum Twentysomething3.5
Jamie Cullum Catching Tales4.0
Jason Mraz Mr. A-Z3.0
Jason Mraz Waiting For My Rocket To Come4.0
Jeff Buckley Grace3.5
Joey Eppard Been To the Future4.5
John Mayer Room for Squares3.5
John Mayer Inside Wants Out3.5
John Mayer Heavier Things4.0
John Mayer Continuum4.0
Justice 4.0
Justin Timberlake Justified2.0
Maroon 5 Songs About Jane3.5
Minus the Bear Planet of Ice4.0
Murder by Death Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them?4.0
Nine Inch Nails Year Zero4.0
Oceansize Effloresce4.5
Opeth Damnation5.0
Pagoda Pagoda2.5
Placebo Black Market Music3.0
Placebo Placebo3.5
Placebo Meds3.5
Porcupine Tree Signify3.5
Porcupine Tree In Absentia4.0
Porcupine Tree Deadwing4.0
Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun4.0
Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet4.5
Fear of a Blank Planet was the second Porcupine Tree album that I picked up and I was more than pleased.

Even though I'm new to the Progressive Rock genre, I don't think it would be out of line to say that this is one of the best prog rock albums I've ever had the pleasure of listening to. Just the title track itself is enough to set you for a loop. The starting riff followed by Gavin's aggressive drum line lets the listener's know that they are in for the journey.

Fear of a Blank Planet also brings an interesting issue of how much advanced technology is affecting the young generation. It's a little insane how a human being can access anything he or she wants on the internet without leaving the room. Has things like this tamed curiosity and the instinct to explore in the younger generation? The lyrics address the stark reality with simplicity and straight-forwardness.

My favorite track has to be Sleep Together. The synthesizers to start off the song bring about such a dark, outer space feeling and puts you in a trance you never want to get out of.

This album can easily be a great starting point for any new Porcupine Tree or Prog Rock fan.
Porcupine Tree Nil Recurring4.5
Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream5.0
Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age3.5
Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze3.5
Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris3.5
Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf4.0
Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness3.5
Shangrala This Is How We Communicate3.5
Son of Sam Songs from the Earth3.5
Soundgarden A-Sides4.0
The Academy Is... Almost Here3.5
Almost Here is one of the few pop punk albums that melts my heart. It's simple and very well produced. The majority of the songs are fun and catchy. However, I found the chorus in songs like Classifieds and Down And Out to be a little weak leaving the song to feel incomplete. But Checkmarks makes up for the missing pieces.

Overall, The Academy Is... definitely stand out over the many pop punk bands that sound horribly the same but I'd like to see them branch out even further away.
The Blood Brothers Crimes2.5
The Blood Brothers Young Machetes2.5
The Cat Empire Two Shoes3.0
The Format Interventions and Lullabies3.0
The Format Dog Problems3.5
The Police Synchronicity2.5
The Police Zenyatta Mondatta3.0
The Police Reggatta de Blanc3.5
The Police Ghost in the Machine3.5
The Rapture Pieces Of The People We Love3.5
The Vines Vision Valley2.5
The Vines Highly Evolved3.5
The Vines Winning Days4.0
Thom Yorke The Eraser3.5
Tool Undertow4.5
Underoath Define the Great Line3.0
Wolfmother Wolfmother3.5
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