| Akira Yamaoka Silent Hill 3 | 3.5 |
| Akira Yamaoka Silent Hill 2 | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 4.0 |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album | 3.5 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 3.5 |
| Uh, still great but it just sounds like it wants to be the most important thing I've ever heard so desperately. |
| Art Brut Bang Bang Rock & Roll | 4.0 |
| Asian Kung-Fu Generation Sol-fa | 3.0 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 4.5 |
| Badly Drawn Boy The Hour Of Bewilderbeast | 4.5 |
| Basement Jaxx Remedy | 4.5 |
| Basement Jaxx Kish Kash | 4.5 |
| Basement Jaxx The Singles | 4.5 |
| Basement Jaxx Rooty | 5.0 |
| Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique | 5.0 |
| Rumbling past concrete and bridges swiftly converted into homes, an outdoor Bronx candy store. |
| Belle and Sebastian If You're Feeling Sinister | 5.0 |
| Big Star Third/Sister Lovers | 5.0 |
| Bjork Homogenic | 5.0 |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm | 5.0 |
| Blur Blur | 4.0 |
| Blur The Great Escape | 4.0 |
| Blur Think Tank | 4.5 |
| Blur Modern Life Is Rubbish | 4.5 |
| Blur Parklife | 5.0 |
| Blur 13 | 5.0 |
| Boards of Canada Geogaddi | 4.5 |
| Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children | 5.0 |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 3.5 |
| A thick guitar chord rings from his guitar as something unintelligible soars out of his throat, I yawn again. |
| Broadcast The Noise Made by People | 4.0 |
| Bush Sixteen Stone | 2.0 |
| Chance the Rapper Acid Rap | 4.0 |
| Chief Keef Finally Rich | 3.5 |
| Chief Keef Back From The Dead | 4.0 |
A new player in the trap rap landscape finding his voice with confidence, pop smarts, and a hella good
beatmaker backing him up. |
| Childish Gambino Camp | 1.5 |
| Chris Brown Fortune | 1.5 |
| Clinic Walking With Thee | 3.5 |
| Clinic Internal Wrangler | 5.0 |
| Clipse We Got It 4 Cheap Volume 2 | 4.0 |
| Noone is safe from the Clipse, taking boring street bangers and setting the beat free, I think I can cook cocaine now. |
| Clipse Hell Hath No Fury | 5.0 |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head | 4.0 |
| Coldplay Parachutes | 4.0 |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | 4.5 |
| Cornershop When I Was Born For The 7th Time | 4.0 |
| Craig David Born to Do It | 3.5 |
| D'Angelo Brown Sugar | 4.5 |
| D'Angelo Black Messiah | 4.5 |
| D'Angelo Voodoo | 5.0 |
| It has become an utterly nessecary part of my life over the past couple months. Perfect, no bad songs. Not even close. |
| Danny Brown XXX | 5.0 |
| Deerhunter Microcastle | 3.0 |
| Depeche Mode Violator | 4.5 |
| Disclosure Control | 3.5 |
| Disclosure Settle | 5.0 |
| Dizzee Rascal Showtime | 4.0 |
| Dizzee Rascal Boy In Da Corner | 5.0 |
| Drake Thank Me Later | 3.5 |
| Elastica Elastica | 3.5 |
| Elbow Asleep In The Back | 4.0 |
| Elbow Cast of Thousands | 4.0 |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP | 4.0 |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP | 5.0 |
| Fatboy Slim You've Come a Long Way, Baby | 4.0 |
| Four Tet Rounds | 3.5 |
| Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand | 4.0 |
| Friendzone Collection 1 | 4.0 |
| Future Pluto | 4.0 |
| Future Honest | 4.0 |
| G Herbo Welcome to Fazoland | 3.5 |
| GDP Holla | 1.5 |
| Girls Aloud Sound of the Underground | 3.0 |
| Girls Aloud What Will The Neighbours Say? | 3.5 |
| Goo Goo Dolls Dizzy Up The Girl | 3.0 |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz | 3.0 |
| Gorillaz Demon Days | 4.0 |
| Greyson Chance Hold On 'Til The Night | 2.5 |
| Gucci Mane The State vs. Radric Davis | 3.5 |
| Happy Mondays Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches | 3.5 |
| Hard-Fi Stars Of CCTV | 3.5 |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 4.5 |
| James Brown Live At The Apollo | 5.0 |
| Jamie Lidell Multiply | 4.0 |
| Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid | 4.0 |
| Jeremih Late Nights With Jeremih | 4.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Clarity | 3.0 |
| Joey Badass 1999 | 2.5 |
| Certainly solid, but owes too much to the decade it takes its title from to establish Joey's own identity. |
| Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds | 3.5 |
| Kaiser Chiefs Employment | 3.5 |
| Kano Home Sweet Home | 4.0 |
| Kanye West Graduation | 3.5 |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak | 3.5 |
| Kanye West Late Registration | 4.5 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 5.0 |
| Karmin Hello | 1.0 |
| Killer Mike R.A.P. Music | 4.0 |
| Ladytron Witching Hour | 4.0 |
| Life Without Buildings Any Other City | 4.5 |
| Lil Reese Don't Like | 3.0 |
| Some total stunners and some total filler. A good introduction for certain but Reese needs to make a serious effort to step out from Chief Keef's shadow. |
| Lil Wayne Dedication 4 | 2.0 |
| Lil Wayne Tha Carter III | 4.0 |
| It sounded like the beginning, that Lil Wayne had just hit upon his true potential and classics would flow from his jaw monthly. It was downhill from here, but then again, it had to be. |
| Lil Wayne Da Drought 3 | 4.5 |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 2.5 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 4.0 |
| M People Elegant Slumming | 4.0 |
| M.I.A. Piracy Funds Terrorism, Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
| M.I.A. Arular | 4.5 |
| M.I.A. Kala | 4.5 |
| Manic Street Preachers Everything Must Go | 4.0 |
| Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible | 4.0 |
| Mansun Six | 3.0 |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine | 4.5 |
| Massive Attack Protection | 4.5 |
| Massive Attack Blue Lines | 5.0 |
| Maximo Park A Certain Trigger | 4.0 |
| Missy Elliott Da Real World | 3.0 |
| Missy Elliott Respect M.E.: The Best of Missy Elliott | 4.0 |
| Missy Elliott Miss E… So Addictive | 4.5 |
| Missy Elliott Supa Dupa Fly | 4.5 |
| So frontloaded you might miss the generally excellent second half, but isn't that every Missy album? |
| Moby Play | 2.5 |
| Mogwai Young Team | 4.5 |
| Morrissey You Are the Quarry | 4.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 5.0 |
| Mylo Destroy Rock And Roll | 4.5 |
| Nas Nastradamus | 1.0 |
| Nas Illmatic | 5.0 |
| Boom boom BAP boom boom BAP boom, boom BAP! "Aye yo..." |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 5.0 |
| No Age Nouns | 3.5 |
| Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? | 4.0 |
| Oasis Definitely Maybe | 4.5 |
| One Direction Four | 3.5 |
| OutKast Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik | 3.0 |
| Rhymes denser than concrete but beats that hew twords the generic. Flashes of future greatness swallowed by monotony, a curio but hardly essential listening. |
| Owl City Ocean Eyes | 1.0 |
| P.O.D. Satellite | 3.0 |
| Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain | 5.0 |
| "Bummed around town all day, it was so hot we didnt feel like doing anything. Wanna go to the pool tomorrow?" |
| PJ Harvey To Bring You My Love | 4.0 |
| PJ Harvey Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea | 4.5 |
| Portishead Portishead | 3.5 |
| Portishead Dummy | 4.0 |
| Primal Scream Screamadelica | 4.5 |
| Primal Scream XTRMNTR | 4.5 |
| Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back | 5.0 |
| Pulp We Love Life | 4.5 |
| Pulp This is Hardcore | 4.5 |
| Pulp Different Class | 5.0 |
| Rachel Stevens Come and Get It | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 4.0 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 5.0 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 5.0 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 5.0 |
| Radiohead OK Computer: Collector's Edition | 5.0 |
| Richard Hawley Coles Corner | 3.5 |
| Rick Ross God Forgives, I Don't | 2.0 |
| Ride Nowhere | 4.0 |
| Roots Manuva Brand New Second Hand | 3.5 |
| Run-D.M.C. Raising Hell | 2.5 |
| A few obviously slammers (No not "Walk This Way") flanked on all sides with filler. |
| Sigur Ros Kveikur | 3.5 |
| Sleigh Bells Treats | 3.0 |
| Stereolab Emperor Tomato Ketchup | 4.0 |
| Suede Suede | 3.5 |
| Suede Dog Man Star | 4.0 |
| Suede Coming Up | 4.5 |
| Suede Sci-Fi Lullabies | 4.5 |
| Sugababes One Touch | 3.0 |
| Sugababes Angels with Dirty Faces | 3.5 |
| Sugababes Three | 4.0 |
| Super Furry Animals Songbook: The Singles, Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
| Supergrass In It for the Money | 3.5 |
| The 1975 The 1975 | 2.5 |
| The Beatles A Hard Day's Night | 5.0 |
| The Beatles The Beatles | 5.0 |
| The Chemical Brothers Dig Your Own Hole | 4.5 |
| The Clientele Suburban Light | 4.5 |
| The Darkness Permission to Land | 4.5 |
| The Dismemberment Plan Emergency & I | 5.0 |
| The Dismemberment Plan Change | 5.0 |
| The Futureheads The Futureheads | 4.5 |
| The Go! Team Thunder, Lightning, Strike | 4.5 |
| The Libertines The Libertines | 3.5 |
| The Libertines Up The Bracket | 4.5 |
| The National High Violet | 5.0 |
| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart The Pains of Being Pure at Heart | 3.5 |
| The Prodigy Music for the Jilted Generation | 4.5 |
| The Replacements Let It Be | 5.0 |
| The Shins Chutes Too Narrow | 4.0 |
| The Stone Roses The Stone Roses | 5.0 |
| The Stooges Raw Power | 5.0 |
| The Streets A Grand Don't Come For Free | 4.5 |
| The Streets Original Pirate Material | 5.0 |
| The Verve Urban Hymns | 4.5 |
| The Wrens The Meadowlands | 5.0 |
| Travis The Man Who | 3.5 |
| Tricky Pre-Millenium Tension | 3.0 |
| Tricky Maxinquaye | 5.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Contra | 3.0 |
| Various Artists Run the Road | 4.0 |
| Various Artists (Hip Hop) SHADYXV | 2.0 |
| Waka Flocka Flame Flockaveli | 5.0 |
| Walk Off the Earth R.E.V.O. | 2.0 |
| Wiley Treddin' on Thin Ice | 3.5 |
| will.i.am #Willpower | 2.0 |
| Wiz Khalifa Rolling Papers | 2.5 |
| Very middle of the road. Good but inoffensive and bland. Disposable. |
| YG My Krazy Life | 4.0 |
| Young Thug Barter 6 | 3.5 |
