| 65daysofstatic The Fall of Math | 4.0 |
| 65daysofstatic We Were Exploding Anyway | 3.5 |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step | 4.0 |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms | 3.5 |
| A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe | 2.5 |
| Adebisi Shank This is the Album | 3.0 |
| This is the soundoff of a band called Adebisi Shank. |
| Adele 19 | 2.5 |
| Adele 21 | 3.0 |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain | 4.5 |
| Agalloch The Mantle | 4.0 |
| alt-J This Is All Yours | 4.0 |
| alt-J Relaxer | 3.5 |
| Amorphis Silent Waters | 4.5 |
| Amy Winehouse Back to Black | 3.5 |
| ANOHNI HOPELESSNESS | 2.0 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 5.0 |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs | 4.0 |
| Fuck Yes! The disappointment of Neon Bible is now just a distant memory. |
| Arcade Fire Everything Now | 3.5 |
| Arcade Fire Reflektor | 3.5 |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible | 3.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare | 4.5 |
| The Arctic Monkeys return with a darker, maturer sound, whilst still keeping all of the elements that made "Whatever People Say I Am..." such a success. Although not quite up to the standard of their debut, this is filled with catchy songs, and arguably the first 5 songs are collectively better than anything on the first album. If it weren't for a slump in quality halfway through the album, this would be a masterpiece, and while "Old Yellow Bricks" and "505" make for a brilliant ending, you can't help but feel short changed by tracks such as "This House Is A Circus" and "Only Ones Who Know". Even with a few poor tracks, this album is brilliant. |
| Arctic Monkeys Humbug | 3.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys Suck It and See | 2.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys AM | 4.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not | 5.0 |
| Brilliant, stunning, epic, masterful, genius. All word that could be used to describe The Arctic Monkeys debut album "Whatever people say I am...". Surely the most astounding thing of all is not the age of the band (all in their teens) or the consistency of the album, but the sheer tongue-in-cheekness of it all, as if the boys already knew it was going to be a masterpiece, and so performed with a near Oasis like complacency. There is not a bad song on the whole album, and whilst Fake tales of San Fransisco and Riot Van don't live up to the excellence of the rest of the album, there are literally thousands of bands out in the big wide world who would actually centre an album around such tracks. That the worst tracks on this album are still stunning is all I have to say, simply awesome. |
| Arctic Monkeys Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino | 2.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys The Car | 2.5 |
| Ariana Grande Yours Truly | 4.0 |
| At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out | 3.5 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 5.0 |
| Baroness Purple | 4.5 |
| Bat For Lashes Lost Girls | 3.5 |
| Ben Howard I Forget Where We Were | 4.0 |
| Ben Howard Every Kingdom | 4.0 |
| Ben Howard Noonday Dream | 3.5 |
| Ben Howard Collections from the Whiteout | 4.0 |
| Ben Howard Burgh Island | 4.5 |
| Ben Howard Is It? | 4.0 |
| Benjamin Clementine At Least For Now | 4.0 |
| Benjamin Clementine I Tell A Fly | 3.5 |
| Bess Atwell Already, Always | 4.0 |
| Bicep Bicep | 4.0 |
| Bjork Debut | 3.5 |
| Bjork Post | 3.5 |
| Bjork Biophilia | 3.5 |
| Bjork Homogenic | 4.0 |
| Black Country, New Road For the first time | 4.0 |
| Black Country, New Road Ants From Up There | 4.5 |
| Black Country, New Road Live at Bush Hall | 4.5 |
| Black Midi Hellfire | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid | 4.5 |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm | 4.0 |
| Bloc Party A Weekend in the City | 3.5 |
| Bloc Party Intimacy | 3.5 |
| Bloc Party Four | 3.0 |
| Blur Think Tank | 2.5 |
| Blur Modern Life Is Rubbish | 3.5 |
| Blur Parklife | 4.0 |
| Blur 13 | 4.0 |
| Blur The Magic Whip | 3.5 |
| Blur Leisure | 2.0 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 4.5 |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 3.5 |
| Bon Iver 22, A Million | 4.0 |
| Bon Iver Blood Bank | 3.0 |
| Bon Iver i,i | 4.0 |
| Boy Kill Boy Civilian | 2.5 |
| Boy Kill Boy Stars and The Sea | 2.0 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 5.0 |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 4.0 |
| Brand New Daisy | 4.5 |
| Brand New Science Fiction | 3.5 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Scream Aim Fire | 2.5 |
| Bullet for My Valentine The Poison | 3.5 |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss | 4.5 |
| Burzum Filosofem | 4.5 |
| Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet? | 3.0 |
| Children of Bodom Blooddrunk | 2.0 |
| Circa Survive Violent Waves | 3.0 |
| clipping. Visions of Bodies Being Burned | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade | 4.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow | 3.0 |
| Chris Pennie: For this I love you. |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria Neverender | 5.0 |
| Neverender is the epitome of generosity. To get all four albums spread over two DVD's for less than £15 is incredible in itself, but when the performances are this good then it is an absolute steal. The first show (SSTB) in particular is almost note perfect and the quaint additions that Chris Pennie adds to the drum beats is a welcome relief from the safe Coheed drumming of old, and delivers promises of an outstanding prequel album. |
| Coldplay Ghost Stories | 3.0 |
| Coldplay Parachutes | 4.0 |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head | 3.5 |
| Coldplay X&Y | 2.5 |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | 3.0 |
| Coldplay Mylo Xyloto | 3.0 |
| Crazy Frog Crazy Frog Presents Crazy Hits | 1.0 |
| Just No. |
| Cynic Traced in Air | 3.0 |
| Damien Rice 9 | 3.0 |
| Damien Rice O | 4.5 |
| Damien Rice My Favourite Faded Fantasy | 4.5 |
| Dark Sky Othona | 3.5 |
| Dark Tranquillity The Gallery | 4.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity Fiction | 3.0 |
| Daughter Music From Before the Storm | 3.5 |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars | 5.0 |
| David Bowie Hunky Dory | 4.5 |
| David Bowie Aladdin Sane | 4.0 |
| David Bowie The Next Day | 3.5 |
| David Bowie Diamond Dogs | 3.5 |
| David Bowie Blackstar | 4.5 |
| David Bowie Reality | 3.0 |
| David Bowie Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) | 3.5 |
| David Bowie Low | 4.5 |
| David Bowie "Heroes" | 4.0 |
| David Gilmour Rattle That Lock | 3.5 |
| David Sylvian Gone to Earth | 3.5 |
| David Sylvian Brilliant Trees | 4.0 |
| David Sylvian Secrets of the Beehive | 4.5 |
| David Sylvian Blemish | 3.0 |
| David Sylvian Dead Bees on a Cake | 4.0 |
| David Sylvian Manafon | 3.5 |
| Manafon is a reserved experiment in artistic minimalism. The lack of exuberance in the song structure can grow wearisome after a while, especially in the bloated, prolonged middle section. Musically the vocals are the standout, and often the only obvious driving force behind the songs. The poetic lyrics and thought provoking metaphors are delivered with considered style, especially considering the abject despondency of the majority of the album. The withering misery could put many potential listeners off, as indeed could the long-lasting silences reminiscent of Sputnik favourite Godspeed You! Back Emperors F# A# (infinity) in style, if not in substance. At times it can be a difficult album to get through and without a doubt cannot just be put on at any time; listeners need to be in the mood for it. In the end Manafon fails to live up to previous works such as Brilliant Trees or Secrets Of The Beehive, but it has been 20 long years since Sylvian released those masterworks and Manafon is a good enough contemporary effort to tide fans over for another few years. |
| Death Symbolic | 4.5 |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance | 4.5 |
| With the final release of his flagship band and death metal standard bearers Death, Chuck Schuldiner finally perfected the art to create the pinnacle release of the genre. |
| Death Human | 4.0 |
| Death Individual Thought Patterns | 4.0 |
| Deftones White Pony | 4.5 |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan | 4.0 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 4.0 |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist | 3.5 |
| Deftones Deftones | 3.0 |
| Deftones Around the Fur | 3.5 |
| Deftones Gore | 3.5 |
| Deftones Ohms | 4.0 |
| Dermot Kennedy Without Fear | 3.0 |
| Dermot Kennedy Doves & Ravens | 3.5 |
| Disturbed The Sickness | 3.0 |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists | 3.5 |
| Disturbed Indestructible | 2.0 |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... | 4.5 |
| Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Awake | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings | 3.0 |
| Drudkh Blood In Our Wells | 4.0 |
| Drudkh Autumn Aurora | 3.5 |
| Eagles Hotel California | 3.0 |
| Emancipator Safe In The Steep Cliffs | 3.5 |
| Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail | 4.0 |
| Emery We Do What We Want | 3.0 |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP | 4.5 |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP | 4.5 |
| Well what can I say about this album that hasn't all been said before? Revolutionary, emotional, aggressive, check check and check. This album basically changed everything I thought I knew about popular music, and without wanting to sound ignorant or racist in any way, probably introduced the majority of white suburban kids to rap music. Without a doubt this is lyrically a masterpiece, with Marshall on top form from the off. The tracks are startlingly diverse, most focusing on human emotions such as anger, fear, insecurity etc, but others just being plain stupid for stupidities sake. Lead single "Real Slim Shady" demonstrates this second point brilliantly, with witth intelligable lyrics intended to offend as many people as possible within the four minute forty four seconds of play time. Other album standouts include the brutally graphic, yet gripping "Kim" and "The way I am" a hauntingly accurate observation on the modern worlds fame scene. All in all, this album is fantastic, and even now, when in the mood, I will put this on and go through the emotional roller coaster that is "The Marshall Mathers LP", loving every second. |
| Eminem The Eminem Show | 4.0 |
| Eminem Encore | 3.0 |
| Eminem Relapse | 2.5 |
| Eminem Recovery | 2.5 |
| Recovery is the album people hoped Relapse would be. |
| Enter Shikari The Mindsweep | 3.5 |
| Evanescence Fallen | 2.5 |
| Everything Everything Get to Heaven | 4.0 |
| Everything Everything A Fever Dream | 3.0 |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues | 4.5 |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes | 3.5 |
| Fleet Foxes Shore | 3.5 |
| Fleetwood Mac Rumours | 4.5 |
| Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac | 4.0 |
| Fleetwood Mac Tango in the Night | 3.5 |
| Fleetwood Mac Tusk | 4.0 |
| Florence and the Machine Lungs | 4.0 |
| Florence and the Machine Ceremonials | 3.5 |
| Florence and the Machine How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful | 3.0 |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma | 4.5 |
| Flying Lotus You're Dead! | 4.0 |
| Foals Holy Fire | 3.5 |
| Foals Antidotes | 4.0 |
| Foals debut release is a technical wonder, enjoyable indie/pop music with intelligent, puzzling lyrics and frenzied synths atop a really quite ordinary indie structure. What sets them apart from 90% of the wannabe's is the tenacity of the songs; all of which remain fun and catchy whilst at the same time containing a quirky unpredictability. Without a doubt one of the best debut releases of 2008. |
| Foals Total Life Forever | 5.0 |
| Total Life Forever is like a stalker, cold and isolated on the surface but teeming with relentless adrenaline underneath the mask...and my word is it good. |
| Foals What Went Down | 3.0 |
| Foals Tapes | 2.5 |
| Foals Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost - Part 1 | 3.0 |
| Foals Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost - Part 2 | 4.0 |
| Fontaines D.C. Dogrel | 3.5 |
| Fontaines D.C. A Hero's Death | 3.0 |
| Frank Turner Love, Ire & Song | 4.0 |
| Frank Turner England Keep My Bones | 4.5 |
| Frank Turner Tape Deck Heart | 3.0 |
| Frightened Rabbit Painting of a Panic Attack | 4.0 |
| Frightened Rabbit The Midnight Organ Fight | 4.5 |
| fun. Aim and Ignite | 4.5 |
| In Aim And Ignite Nate Ruess and company have created the fun.nest album of 2009. From the unobtrusive organ/violin combination in the opening of Be Calm to the grandoise distorted electric guitar in the closing of Take Your Time there is never a let up in consistency and it is this consistency that is Aim And Ignite's true strength. Quite simply an excellent album and the best pop of 2009. |
| fun. Some Nights | 3.0 |
| Ghostface Killah Supreme Clientele | 4.0 |
| Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles) | 3.0 |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book | 4.0 |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! | 3.5 |
| Moar like post-cock |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 5.0 |
| So my friend wanted some good music and I was like “ok there’s this album, I dunno if you've heard of it, it’s called F#A# infinity by some band I think you'd like it because it’s like all dark and atmospherey but then POW you realise its actually meant to be a scathing commentary on today’s world and Blaize Bayley Finnegan III is actually Jesus or something then you orgasm like 50 times and East Hasting’s is so amazing, but then you think Providence is too long but it’s so worth it cause the climax is the second best on the record (behind only my epic climax when I listen to it) and then so you’re like Dead Flag Blues is the worst - BUT IT ISNT, IT’S THE ONLY RECORD EVER WITHOUT A WORST TRACK BECAUSE THEY'RE ALL THE BEST TRACK - and then splodge you ejaculate again and your girlfriend leaves you because she walked in on you when you were fucking your vinyl version like you had your cock in the hole and you were really going for it even though it chafed and yeah its awesome its by the black emperors or something and if you don't like it then you're racist” and he was like “cool” so he got it. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada | 4.5 |
| Words cannot describe how I feel about the half hour of music offered here by Godspeed You! Black Emperor. The nontet are on absolutely top form here, with both tracks offering a different idea to the EP's dynamic, whilst still obeying the same calculated, methodical structure that GY!BE are known for. First track Moya starts off with a beautifully slow, yet agonizingly tempting string progression before gradually building up into an explosive crescendo of epic proportions; with strings, horns, percussion and god knows what else thrown into the hypnotic concoction. The second track BBFIII is touching perfection as well. Just like Moya, the track starts slowly and builds, but with the crazed monologues of madman Blaize Baily Finnegan in the background the band manage to keep things interesting. THe crescendo at the end is one of the greatest things I have ever had the pleasure of witnessing, and the soft string led ending is proof, if any is needed, that T.S.Eliot was right when he wrote the immortal line "This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but with a whimper". |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh | 4.0 |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage | 3.0 |
| GZA Liquid Swords | 4.5 |
| Haken Affinity | 3.5 |
| Hayley Williams Petals for Armor | 3.5 |
| Hot Milk A Call to the Void | 3.5 |
| Ichiko Aoba Adan no Kaze | 4.0 |
| IDLES Joy as an Act of Resistance | 4.0 |
| IDLES Ultra Mono | 3.5 |
| In Flames The Jester Race | 4.5 |
| In Flames A Sense of Purpose | 2.5 |
| In Flames Colony | 4.0 |
| In Flames Whoracle | 3.5 |
| In Flames Clayman | 3.5 |
| In Flames Come Clarity | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Piece of Mind | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son | 4.5 |
| "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son" is in my opinion, the magnum opus of one of the greatest heavy metal bands to grace the planet; Iron Maiden. Although not having the best musical content or individual tracks (both accolades that fall to the mighty "Powerslave") the seamless flow and consistency of the songs, mixed with the execution of the concept on offer mean that for this album the sum of the whole is greater than that of the constituent parts. For example, in terms of album openers I would take "Aces High" or "Invaders" over "Moonchild" any day, as I would with many individual comparisons between the "great" Iron Maiden albums. However not a single song lets "Seventh Son..." down; whereas "The Duellists" and "Total Eclipse" respectively let down its less consistent counterparts. Of course this isn't to say that the music on offer is poor, indeed that assumption couldn't be further from the truth. From the slightly more mainstream metal of "Can I Play With Madness" to the distinct Maiden sound on tracks such as "The Clairvoyant" the ballsy decision to add synths to an already winning formula means this album is musically one of Maidens most diverse. With the two standout tracks ("The Evil That Men Do" and "Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son") jam packed in the middle of the album, listners need not wait too long to get to the really good stuff. All in all a fantastic album, worthy of a place in any music collection. |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden Brave New World | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden The Book of Souls | 3.5 |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant | 4.0 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 4.5 |
| ISIS Oceanic | 3.5 |
| James Blake Enough Thunder | 3.5 |
| James Blake The Colour in Anything | 4.0 |
| James Blake Love What Happened Here | 3.0 |
| James Blake Overgrown | 3.0 |
| James Blake James Blake | 3.5 |
| Jamie xx In Colour | 3.5 |
| Jeff Rosenstock NO DREAM | 3.5 |
| Joe Goddard Electric Lines | 3.5 |
| Kadhja Bonet The Visitor | 2.5 |
| Kae Tempest Let Them Eat Chaos | 4.0 |
| Kaiser Chiefs Employment | 3.0 |
| Kaiser Chiefs Yours Truly, Angry Mob | 2.5 |
| Kaiser Chiefs Off With Their Heads | 2.0 |
| Kalmah Swamplord | 3.5 |
| Kamasi Washington Harmony of Difference | 4.0 |
| Kamasi Washington The Epic | 4.5 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 5.0 |
| Kanye West Late Registration | 4.0 |
| Kanye West The College Dropout | 4.0 |
| Kanye West Yeezus | 3.5 |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak | 3.5 |
| Karnivool Sound Awake | 4.5 |
| Karnivool Themata | 3.5 |
| Kate Bush Hounds of Love | 5.0 |
| Kate Bush The Dreaming | 4.0 |
| Kate Bush The Kick Inside | 4.0 |
| Kate Bush 50 Words for Snow | 3.5 |
| Kate Bush Aerial | 3.5 |
| Kate Bush The Red Shoes | 2.5 |
| Kate Bush Lionheart | 2.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly | 4.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar Section.80 | 3.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city | 4.5 |
| KennyHoopla Survivors Guilt: The Mixtape// | 4.0 |
| KennyHoopla how will i rest in peace if i'm buried by a highway?// | 4.0 |
| Korn See You on the Other Side | 2.5 |
| Korn Follow the Leader | 3.5 |
| Korn Untitled | 2.0 |
| La Roux La Roux | 3.0 |
| Lacuna Coil Comalies | 3.0 |
| Lacuna Coil Karmacode | 2.5 |
| Lana Del Rey Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd | 3.0 |
| Laura Marling I Speak Because I Can | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV | 5.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti | 4.5 |
| letlive. Fake History | 4.0 |
| Lianne La Havas Lianne La Havas | 4.0 |
| Low Roar 0 | 4.0 |
| Machine Head The Blackening | 4.0 |
| Machine Head Through The Ashes Of Empires | 4.0 |
| Machine Head The Burning Red | 3.0 |
| Machine Head Bloodstone And Diamonds | 3.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing | 4.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra Simple Math | 4.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra Cope | 3.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra A Black Mile to the Surface | 4.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child | 3.5 |
| Marina The Family Jewels | 4.5 |
| Marina Electra Heart | 3.5 |
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| Marina Froot | 4.0 |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine | 4.5 |
| Massive Attack Blue Lines | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun | 4.0 |
| Megadeth Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? | 3.5 |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace | 4.0 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 4.0 |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All | 4.5 |
| Metallica Reload | 2.0 |
| Metallica Load | 2.0 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 4.5 |
| Metallica St. Anger | 1.5 |
| Metallica Metallica | 2.5 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 3.0 |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All | 3.5 |
| Michael Kiwanuka Kiwanuka | 4.5 |
| Michael Kiwanuka Home Again | 3.0 |
| Monika Roscher Bigband Witchy Activities and the Maple Death | 4.5 |
| Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind | 5.0 |
| Moonsorrow Viides luku - Hävitetty | 4.0 |
| Moonsorrow Tulimyrsky | 3.5 |
| Moses Sumney grae | 4.0 |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry | 4.0 |
| Muse Absolution | 3.5 |
| Muse Showbiz | 3.5 |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 3.0 |
| Muse The Resistance | 2.5 |
| Muse The 2nd Law | 2.0 |
| Nadine Shah Kitchen Sink | 4.0 |
| Nadine Shah Fast Food | 2.5 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I | 4.0 |
| Neurosis Through Silver in Blood | 4.5 |
| Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm | 4.5 |
| Neurosis Given to the Rising | 4.0 |
| Nine Horses Snow Borne Sorrow | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Fragile | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IV | 3.0 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 3.5 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 3.5 |
| Nothing But Thieves Moral Panic | 3.5 |
| Oasis Don't Believe the Truth | 2.5 |
| Oasis Heathen Chemistry | 1.5 |
| Oasis Definitely Maybe | 4.0 |
| Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? | 4.0 |
| Opeth Still Life | 5.0 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 4.5 |
| This album marked my first foray into death metal. Concerned that I wouldn't like it, I heeded the common conscencious and went for the most highly praised album that I could find. What I eventually stumbled upon is one of the most amazing and complete albums I have ever had the pleasure of listening to. From start to finish this album is refreshingly original, outrageously technical and brilliantly progressive, blending death metal and progressive rock effortlessly. Brutally epic, with intelligent lyrics and beautiful vocals, this record has everything, and while Bleak and The Leper Affinity will forever remain two of my favorite songs, and the sheer nerve of the band to then include a (brilliant) soothing instrumental in Patterns of the Ivy is overwhelming, and the flawless experimentation displayed is typical of a band who have fast become one of my favorites. |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 4.0 |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse | 4.5 |
| Opeth Damnation | 4.5 |
| Opeth Deliverance | 3.5 |
| Opeth Watershed | 3.5 |
| Opeth Orchid | 3.0 |
| Opeth Morningrise | 3.5 |
| Palm Reader Sleepless | 4.5 |
| Pariso/Kerouac Split | 3.5 |
| Passion Pit Gossamer | 4.5 |
| Passion Pit Manners | 4.0 |
| Periphery Juggernaut: Alpha | 4.0 |
| Periphery Periphery | 3.0 |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal | 3.0 |
| Phoebe Bridgers Punisher | 5.0 |
| Phoebe Bridgers Stranger in the Alps | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd Meddle | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Wall | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 5.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Division Bell | 2.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Endless River | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd Animals | 4.5 |
| Pixies Doolittle | 3.5 |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet | 3.5 |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia | 4.0 |
| Porridge Radio Every Bad | 3.5 |
| Portishead Dummy | 5.0 |
| Portishead Portishead | 3.5 |
| Portishead Third | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 4.5 |
| Protest the Hero Kezia | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Palimpsest | 3.5 |
| Pulp His 'n' Hers | 3.0 |
| Pulp Different Class | 4.0 |
| Queen News of the World | 4.0 |
| Queen Sheer Heart Attack | 3.5 |
| Queen The Platinum Collection | 4.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R | 4.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 4.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork | 4.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris | 3.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Villains | 3.0 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 3.0 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 4.0 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 4.0 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 5.0 |
| Radiohead TKOL RMX 1234567 | 3.0 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey | 2.5 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 4.5 |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 4.0 |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II | 4.0 |
| Raekwon Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang | 3.5 |
| Raekwon Fly International Luxurious Art | 2.0 |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come | 4.0 |
| Rishloo Eidolon | 3.5 |
| Eidolon is Seattle based progressive-rock band Rishloo's sophomore album, and it shows a definate progression from debut Terras Fames. By ditching many of the Tool-esque sounds that plagued Terras Fames, Rishloo have found their true identity and many of the ideas on the album feel fresh because of it. Lead single "Freaks and Animals" opens the album well and gives a good taste of whats to come, mainly a tight-knit bunch of musicians playing well structured music. If there is one negative it is that lead singer Andrew Mailloux tends to oversing his part and dominates over the less assertive instrumental performances, but in the end the positives far outweigh this. |
| Rishloo Feathergun | 4.0 |
| Rishloo Living as Ghosts with Buildings as Teeth | 4.0 |
| Royal Blood Royal Blood | 4.0 |
| Royal Blood How Did We Get So Dark? | 2.5 |
| Run the Jewels RTJ4 | 4.5 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels | 3.5 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 | 4.0 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3 | 2.5 |
| Rx Bandits Mandala | 3.5 |
| Sad Night Dynamite Sad Night Dynamite | 3.5 |
| Sampha Process | 3.5 |
| Sed Non Satiata Sed Non Satiata | 4.5 |
| Shadows Fall Threads of Life | 3.5 |
| Sleep Token Take Me Back to Eden | 3.0 |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 4.0 |
| With the softer side of Slipknot now fully in effect, Vol 3: The Subliminal Verses attempts to focus more on the melodic than the extreme. Throughout the album Corey's vocals seem distant and disinterested, and pale in comparison to those of "side project" Stone Sour. While musically the album is on the same level as previous albums, the shocking brutality and "don't give a fuck" attitude seem missing, and although singles Before I Forget and Vermillion Pt I save the album from being a complete travesty, they are ultimately too little too late. Overall this valiant progression in the bands sound ultimately fails to deliver either the energy or brutality of earlier albums. |
| Slipknot Iowa | 3.5 |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone | 3.0 |
| Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter | 3.0 |
| slowthai UGLY | 2.0 |
| Snow Patrol Final Straw | 3.5 |
| Snow Patrol Eyes Open | 3.0 |
| Snow Patrol A Hundred Million Suns | 2.5 |
| St. Vincent Masseduction | 3.5 |
| Stevie Nicks Trouble In Shangri-La | 3.5 |
| Stone Sour Come What(ever) May | 3.0 |
| Suede Dog Man Star | 4.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois | 4.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans | 4.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens The Ascension | 3.0 |
| Swarms Low Sun | 3.0 |
| Swarms Old Raves End | 5.0 |
| The most perfect album of 2011, end of story. |
| Swarms Black Chapel Sun | 4.0 |
| Sylosis Edge of the Earth | 4.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends | 4.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Louder Now | 3.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Where You Want To Be | 3.0 |
| Tame Impala Currents | 3.5 |
| Tame Impala The Slow Rush | 3.0 |
| Tame Impala Lonerism | 4.0 |
| Taylor Swift Evermore | 3.5 |
| Taylor Swift Folklore | 3.0 |
| Taylor Swift Red | 2.5 |
| Taylor Swift 1989 | 3.0 |
| Taylor Swift Reputation | 2.0 |
| TesseracT Polaris | 4.0 |
| The Cure Wish | 3.0 |
| The Cure Disintegration | 4.0 |
| The Decemberists The King Is Dead | 3.0 |
| The Enemy (UK) We'll Live And Die In These Towns | 2.5 |
| The Flaming Lips Clouds Taste Metallic | 3.5 |
| The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin | 4.0 |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots | 4.5 |
| The Flaming Lips Embryonic | 4.0 |
| The Flaming Lips At War with the Mystics | 3.0 |
| The Flaming Lips Dark Side of the Moon | 2.5 |
| The Flaming Lips The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends | 3.0 |
| The Fratellis Costello Music | 3.5 |
| The Killers Hot Fuss | 4.0 |
| The Killers Sam's Town | 3.5 |
| The Killers Day & Age | 2.0 |
| The Last Shadow Puppets The Age Of The Understatement | 4.0 |
| The Libertines The Libertines | 2.5 |
| The Libertines Up The Bracket | 4.0 |
| The Maccabees Marks To Prove It | 3.5 |
| The Maccabees Given to the Wild | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath | 3.0 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 5.0 |
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| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 3.5 |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron | 3.0 |
| The Murder Capital When I Have Fears | 3.5 |
| The National Sleep Well Beast | 3.5 |
| The Pigeon Detectives Up, Guards And At 'Em! | 1.0 |
| The Pigeon Detectives Emergency | 2.5 |
| The Pigeon Detectives Wait For Me | 3.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream | 4.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | 4.0 |
| The Smiths Meat Is Murder | 3.0 |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead | 4.5 |
| The Streets A Grand Don't Come For Free | 3.5 |
| The Strokes Is This It | 5.0 |
| The Strokes Room on Fire | 3.5 |
| The Strokes Angles | 3.0 |
| The Strokes First Impressions of Earth | 3.5 |
| The Strokes Comedown Machine | 2.5 |
| The Strokes The New Abnormal | 3.5 |
| The Ting Tings We Started Nothing | 1.0 |
| The Ting Tings Super Critical | 2.5 |
| The Ting Tings Sounds from Nowheresville | 1.5 |
| The Verve Urban Hymns | 3.5 |
| The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream | 4.0 |
| The War On Drugs A Deeper Understanding | 3.5 |
| The Weeknd Beauty Behind the Madness | 3.5 |
| The White Stripes Icky Thump | 3.0 |
| The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan | 4.0 |
| The White Stripes Elephant | 3.5 |
| The Wombats A Guide to Love, Loss and Desperation | 3.0 |
| The Wombats This Modern Glitch | 2.5 |
| Thom Yorke Tomorrow's Modern Boxes | 3.0 |
| Thom Yorke Suspiria | 3.0 |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 4.0 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 4.5 |
| Having not (at this date) heard any of Thrice's earlier records, I cannot really comment on the supposed change of sound that the band pulled off with this release. What I can say is that every single song on this album is absolutely fantastic, ranging from the heavy The Earth Will Shake to the calculated ambiance of Atlantic and Red Sky and everything in between. I cannot praise this album enough, it changed my musical tastes and my life, need I say more? |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV | 3.5 |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 3.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 3.5 |
| Thrice Beggars | 3.0 |
| After the phenomenally ambitious if slightly disappointing concept "The Alchemy Index" Thrice are signalling their intentions toward another genre shift, this time transmogrifying into a more mainstream friendly alt-rock act. If you enjoyed "The Alchemy Index", especially the "Earth" EP, then there is a good chance you'll be wholly satisfied with the majority of "Beggars". There is a very natural progression from this EP to "Beggars" with a large influence from Dustin's solo work creeping into the band's sound. However despite treading unfamiliar territory there is something comfortingly familiar in the majority of the material here. "Wood & Wire" could easily have come from either "The Alchemy Index" or Thrice's last 'proper' album "Vheissu" with an ending reminiscent to that of "Red Sky" four years ago. While the album is unsurprisingly consistent, the two outstanding highlights "In Exile" and the eponymous "Beggars" are similar only in that they both manage to slow the albums tempo and harness the roaming guitars, instead focussing intensely on Dustin's much improved vocals. In essence "Beggars" is a stepping stone album and when looked at in this light is a rather remarkable piece of work. |
| Thrice Major/Minor | 3.0 |
| Thursday No Devolucion | 4.5 |
| Thursday Full Collapse | 3.5 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 3.0 |
| Tool Lateralus | 4.0 |
| Trivium Shogun | 3.0 |
| Good album really. Not better than good, but it is good...hence the rating. |
| Trivium Ascendancy | 3.5 |
| Trivium The Crusade | 2.5 |
| Twin Atlantic Great Divide | 2.5 |
| U2 The Joshua Tree | 4.0 |
| U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb | 2.5 |
| Vektor Terminal Redux | 4.5 |
| Wednesday 13 Transylvania 90210 | 2.5 |
| Wintersun Wintersun | 4.0 |
| Wintersun Time I | 3.0 |
| Wolf Alice Visions of a Life | 4.0 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 4.0 |
