| 1997 Notes From Underground | 2.5 |
| A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe | 1.0 |
| A Skylit Drive Adelphia | 1.0 |
| Aarni Bathos | 3.5 |
| Abigail Williams In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns | 2.0 |
| Across Five Aprils Collapse | 2.0 |
| AFI Decemberunderground | 2.0 |
| After Midnight Project Let's Build Something to Break | 2.5 |
| AFX Chosen Lords | 4.0 |
| Against Me! As the Eternal Cowboy | 3.5 |
| Agalloch The Mantle | 3.5 |
| Age of Silence Acceleration | 3.5 |
| Air Talkie Walkie | 4.5 |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune | 3.0 |
| Ecailles De Lune, successor to the crtically acclaimed Souvenirs Dun Autre Monde may be a promising take on post-black metal at first, but it has little lasting value and can easily be seen as a tedium. Alcest may just need to go back to stargaze. |
| Alcest Le Secret | 3.5 |
| Alcest Tristesse Hivernale (Demo) | 3.5 |
| Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde | 4.0 |
| Alchemist Tripsis | 3.5 |
| Alchemist Organasm | 4.0 |
| Alchemist Austral Alien | 4.0 |
| Alesana On Frail Wings of Vanity and Wax | 1.0 |
| Alesana Where Myth Fades to Legend | 1.0 |
| Alesana The Emptiness | 1.5 |
Alesana have most definitely improved on The Emptiness, but they are still pretty fucking terrible. Granted, the high pitched voice is somewhat apt on the verses of "The Thespian", and the musicianship contains more depth and technicality.m However, the tracks are still boring as all hell; the growled vocals are absolutely terrible, terrible, terrible; and there's no artistic merit on this album.
Also it's pretentious (yes Alesana can do that.) |
| All Time Low Nothing Personal | 1.0 |
| Amorphis Tales from the Thousand Lakes | 2.5 |
| Ampere All Our Tomorrows End Today | 4.0 |
| An Albatross We Are The Lazer Viking | 1.5 |
| An Albatross Blessphemy (Of The Peace-Beast Feastgive | 2.0 |
| Andrew W.K. I Get Wet | 1.0 |
| Animal Collective Danse Manatee | 1.5 |
| For those who equate the quality of music with its difficulty, pick up this album. For those with sense, move on. |
| Animal Collective Strawberry Jam | 1.5 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 1.5 |
| When reading a review describing Animal Collectives sound as (I quote) "an amalgamation of campfire songs and LSD, I was immediately intrigued. And though intrigue may help a listener, this album fucking sucks without it. Despire many people's claims, Animal Collective is not catchy, versatile, or ingenius. "Lion In A Coma", though the album's best song, is homogenous and forgettable, as are all of the other songs on this record. The way Animal Collective toys with textures provides this effect, as the band refuses to stray from the "wall-of-sound" technique for even a minute, thus reducing its effect. And rather than accentuating this album's positive points, it forces them to drown in an undying fugue of noise. A component of this noise is the faux-exoticism that ceases to go the fuck away on this album. The sounds of "My Gurls" are ridiculous, and the trump on "Lion in a Coma" is used without much effect other than annoyance. The same applies to the constantly pulsating basslines, the poorly executed electronics, and stagnant melodies. Disparity is nonexistent. Homogeny is constant (I mean when you use 20+ instruments for each track without variation and do the same for textures, what do you expect. And none of the folk-pop "anthems" are memorable at all. Forever imprinted on my brain are the words "Avoid at all costs." |
| Animal Collective Feels | 3.5 |
| Animal Collective Fall Be Kind | 3.5 |
| Anthony Green Avalon | 1.0 |
| Anthony Green's overtly long album touches upon folksy pop in a rather austere way, marrying pretense and boredom in one [b]FAR TOO MOTHERFUCKING LONG[/b record. |
| AntiSchism Still Life | 3.5 |
| Apator Masturbate in Praise of Black Satan | 5.0 |
| Aphex Twin ...I Care Because You Do | 3.5 |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album | 4.0 |
| Aphex Twin Drukqs | 4.0 |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 4.5 |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II | 4.5 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 4.5 |
| Unique, melodic. and artsy, Funeral touches upon many variants of indie, all of which combine resplendently into an almost-cinematic release. Basically, 1nd13 cr3d on a stick. |
| Arcana Coelestia Le Mirage de L’idéal | 4.0 |
| Architects Nightmares | 2.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys Humbug | 3.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not | 4.0 |
| Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti The Doldrums | 3.5 |
| Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti House Arrest | 3.5 |
| Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti Underground | 4.0 |
| Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti Worn Copy | 4.5 |
| Armor For Sleep What To Do When You Are Dead | 3.0 |
| Arsonists Get All the Girls Portals | 2.0 |
| As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse | 1.5 |
| As Tall As Lions You Can't Take It With You | 3.5 |
| Asking Alexandria Stand Up and Scream | 1.0 |
| Assuck Misery Index | 4.5 |
| Guess what! Assuck doesn't suck, in all actuality their LP, Misery Index is an oxymoron: it's resplendent powerviolence. |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 4.5 |
| Atlas Sound Logos | 2.0 |
| Atrox Orgasm | 4.0 |
| Attack Attack! Someday Came Suddenly | 1.5 |
| August Burns Red Messengers | 2.0 |
| Austere To Lay Like Old Ashes | 4.0 |
| Autechre Incunabula | 4.5 |
| Autechre Tri Repetae | 4.5 |
| Autechre Oversteps | 4.5 |
| Azure Emote Chronicles of an Aging Mammal | 4.5 |
| Epic, claustrophobic and avant-garde, Azure Emote's electronicized death metal album impresses on nearly all counts. But some of the death metal sects are a tad off, awkward pig squeals and such feel haphazard. But the textural nuances are enough to make this album somewhat enjoyable, let alone the creative use of disco, acoustic, and electronic music throughout. |
| Balthazar (BE) Applause | 4.0 |
| Band of Horses Everything All the Time | 4.5 |
| Bar Kokhba Lucifer: Book of Angels Volume 10 | 4.5 |
| Bar Kokhba 50th Birthday Celebration Volume Eleven | 4.5 |
| Baroness Blue Record | 2.0 |
| Barren Earth Curse of the Red River | 3.0 |
| Behemoth Zos Kia Cultus (Here and Beyond) | 1.5 |
| Terrible vocals, musicianship, and songwriting amount to a terrible blackened-seath metal release that is as tedious as it is obnoxious. |
| Behemoth Evangelion | 2.5 |
| Belong October Language | 4.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus | 1.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 2.0 |
| Bill Laswell Invisible Design II | 3.5 |
| Bill Laswell Oscillations | 4.5 |
| Black Veil Brides We Stitch These Wounds | 1.0 |
| Bleeding Through Bleeding Through | 1.5 |
| Blessthefall Witness | 2.0 |
| Blut Aus Nord Ultima Thulee | 4.5 |
| Blut Aus Nord The Work Which Transforms God | 4.5 |
| Blut Aus Nord MoRT | 4.5 |
| Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta I - Fathers Of The Icy Ages | 4.5 |
| Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children | 4.5 |
| Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase | 4.5 |
| Boards of Canada Geogaddi | 4.5 |
| Boredoms Vision Creation Newsun | 4.5 |
| Borgia Ecclesia | 3.5 |
| Botch We Are the Romans | 3.5 |
| Brian Eno Ambient 4: On Land | 4.5 |
| Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports | 5.0 |
| Brian McBride When The Detail Lost Its Freedom | 4.5 |
| Bright Eyes Digital Ash in a Digital Urn | 3.0 |
| Bright Eyes Cassadaga | 3.5 |
| Bright Eyes Fevers & Mirrors | 4.0 |
| Bright Eyes Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground | 4.5 |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning | 4.5 |
| Bright Eyes Don't Be Frightened Of Turning the Page | 4.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon This Is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For | 1.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Count Your Blessings | 1.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season | 2.0 |
| I like Suicide Season and The Sadness Will Never End, but other wise Bring Me The Horizon take a tip from The Devil Wears Prada and mash it with a Gallows Slipknot crossbreed. |
| Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene | 4.5 |
| Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People | 5.0 |
| Very few releases exude nostalgia, catchiness, and depth. But very few releases are You Forgot It In People. |
| brokeNCYDE BC 13 | 1.0 |
| brokeNCYDE The Broken | 1.0 |
| brokeNCYDE I'm Not a Fan, but the Kids Like It! | 1.0 |
| Bucket Full Of Teeth IV | 4.5 |
| Bucket Full Of Teeth I, II, III | 4.5 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Fever | 1.0 |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss | 4.0 |
| Cap'n Jazz Shmap'n Shmazz | 3.5 |
| Capsule (US) Blue | 4.0 |
| Carcass Symphonies of Sickness | 4.0 |
| Caribou The Milk Of Human Kindness | 4.0 |
| Caribou Start Breaking My Heart (as Manitoba) | 4.0 |
| Caribou Andorra | 4.5 |
| Caribou Up in Flames (as Manitoba) | 4.5 |
| Caribou Swim | 4.5 |
| Carissa's Wierd Songs About Leaving | 4.0 |
| Cartel Cycles | 1.0 |
| Cave In Jupiter | 3.5 |
| Celeste Misanthrope(s) | 2.5 |
| Celeste Morte(s) Nee(s) | 2.5 |
| Chicago Underground Duo Boca Negra | 4.5 |
| Chicago Underground Quartet Chicago Underground Quartet | 4.5 |
| Chiodos The Heartless Control Everything | 1.0 |
| Chiodos All's Well That Ends Well | 1.5 |
| Chiodos Bone Palace Ballet | 2.0 |
| Chthonic Seediq Bale | 4.5 |
| Chthonic Pandemonium | 4.5 |
| Circa Survive The Inuit Sessions | 1.5 |
| Circa Survive On Letting Go | 1.5 |
| Circa Survive Juturna | 2.0 |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise | 2.5 |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 2.5 |
| Circle Takes the Square Circle Takes the Square | 3.0 |
| City of Caterpillar Demo + Live Recording | 3.0 |
| City of Caterpillar City of Caterpillar | 4.0 |
| Clinic Walking With Thee | 4.0 |
| Cloacal Kiss Easter | 2.0 |
| Cocteau Twins Treasure | 3.5 |
| Coffinworm When All Became None | 3.5 |
| Cogito Vital EP | 3.5 |
| Combatwoundedveteran This is Not an Erect, All-Red Neon Body | 3.5 |
| Although monotonous, this powerviolence compilation is a feast of angular bliss, best devoured in its entirety. |
| Combatwoundedveteran I Know A Girl Who Develops Crime Scene Photos | 4.0 |
| Company Of Thieves Ordinary Riches | 4.0 |
| Confide Shout the Truth | 1.5 |
| Converge No Heroes | 3.5 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 4.0 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 4.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Thornography | 1.0 |
| Cradle of Filth Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder | 1.0 |
| Craig Owens With Love | 1.5 |
| Crotchduster Big Fat Box of Shit | 2.0 |
| Some can do the whole avant-garde/spasmodic experimentation thing, others cannot. Crotchduster cannot. |
| Cryptopsy The Unspoken King | 1.0 |
| Cryptopsy And Then You'll Beg | 2.5 |
| Cryptopsy Once Was Not | 2.5 |
| Cryptopsy None So Vile | 3.0 |
| Cryptopsy Whisper Supremacy | 3.5 |
| Cryptopsy Blasphemy Made Flesh | 4.0 |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles | 3.5 |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles II | 4.5 |
| Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna Salvation | 4.5 |
| Cursive Domestica | 4.0 |
| Cursive The Ugly Organ | 5.0 |
| Cute Is What We Aim For Rotation | 1.0 |
| Daft Punk Human After All | 2.5 |
| Daitro Y | 3.0 |
| Daitro Laisser Vivre Les Squelettes | 4.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain | 4.0 |
| Dangers Messy, Isn't It? | 3.5 |
| Dangers Anger | 4.0 |
| Dark Time Sunshine Vessel | 4.0 |
| Daughters Daughters | 2.5 |
| SOOOOOOOOOOOOO BOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGG.... |
| Daughters Canada Songs | 4.0 |
| Daughters Hell Songs | 4.0 |
| Dave Holland Conference of the Birds | 5.0 |
| David Byrne and Fatboy Slim Here Lies Love | 2.5 |
| Deathspell Omega Kenose | 4.5 |
| Deathspell Omega Si Monvmentvm Reqvires Circvmspice | 4.5 |
| Deathspell Omega Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum | 4.5 |
| Delorean Subiza | 3.0 |
| Despised Icon The Ills Of Modern Man | 1.0 |
| Despised Icon Day Of Mourning | 1.5 |
| Diablo Swing Orchestra Sing-Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious | 4.5 |
| Dimmu Borgir Stormblåst | 4.5 |
| Dimmu Borgir Stormblåst MMV | 4.5 |
| Dinosaur Jr. Farm | 3.0 |
| Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca | 4.0 |
| Discordance Axis Jouhou | 4.0 |
| Discordance Axis The Inalienable Dreamless | 4.5 |
| Dismember The God That Never Was | 3.5 |
| Do Make Say Think & Yet & Yet | 4.5 |
| Do Make Say Think Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn | 4.5 |
| Do Make Say Think You, You're a History in Rust | 4.5 |
| Do Make Say Think Other Truths | 4.5 |
| Dodewaard Heroïne maakt veel goed | 4.0 |
| Dot Dot Curve Til the Wheels Fall Off | 1.0 |
| Drop Dead, Gorgeous Be Mine, Valentine | 1.0 |
| Drop Dead, Gorgeous Hot N' Heavy | 2.0 |
| Duck Duck Goose Noise, Noise and More Noise | 3.5 |
| Earth Pentastar: In The Style Of Demons | 4.0 |
| Earth Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version | 4.5 |
| Earth Hex: Or Printing In the Infernal Method | 4.5 |
| Earth The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull | 4.5 |
| EAT ME RAW All My Friends | 1.0 |
| Electric Masada At the Mountains of Madness | 4.5 |
| Electric Masada 50th Birthday Celebration Volume Four | 4.5 |
| Emarosa Relativity | 1.5 |
| Emery I'm Only A Man | 1.5 |
| Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail | 3.5 |
| Emmure Felony | 1.0 |
| Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse | 4.5 |
| Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk | 4.5 |
| Enkephalin / Phoenix Bodies Enkephalin / Phoenix Bodies | 4.5 |
| Ephel Duath The Painter's Palette | 4.0 |
| Erykah Badu New Amerykah Pt. One: 4th World War | 4.0 |
| Erykah Badu New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh | 4.0 |
| Escape the Fate This War Is Ours | 1.0 |
| Every Time I Die Hot Damn! | 3.0 |
| Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic | 3.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die... | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky How Strange, Innocence | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 4.5 |
| Faith No More Angel Dust | 4.5 |
| Fear Before Fear Before | 1.5 |
| Fear Before Odd How People Shake | 2.0 |
| Fear Before Art Damage | 2.0 |
| Fear Before The Always Open Mouth | 3.0 |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes | 2.0 |
| Foxy Shazam Introducing | 2.0 |
| Foxy Shazam The Flamingo Trigger | 2.5 |
| Franz Ferdinand Tonight: Franz Ferdinand | 3.0 |
| From Autumn to Ashes Abandon Your Friends | 1.0 |
| From First to Last Throne to the Wolves | 2.0 |
| fun. Aim and Ignite | 1.5 |
| fun. Live At Fingerprints | 3.0 |
| Funeral Diner The Underdark | 4.0 |
| Funeral for a Friend Seven Ways To Scream Your Name | 2.0 |
| Gantz La Chambre Des Morts | 4.0 |
| Gantz Les jours se suivent et ne se ressemblent plus | 4.5 |
| Gasp Drome Triler of Puzzle Zoo People | 4.0 |
| Gaza He Is Never Coming Back | 2.5 |
| Gaza I Don't Care Where I Go When I Die | 3.5 |
| Gaza East | 3.5 |
| Genghis Tron Dead Mountain Mouth | 2.5 |
| Genghis Tron Cloak of Love | 3.0 |
| Genghis Tron Board Up the House | 3.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 4.5 |
| This album lacks the idiosyncrasies that Slow Riot For Zero Kanada, but there's still the ever-present climax, the tranquil strings, and the mighty evocative trumpet. Basically, though not a classic, this album still keeps up Godspeed You! Black Emperor's almighty repuation as GOz OF DUH POS ROK. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada | 5.0 |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius | 4.0 |
| Gojira The Link | 4.5 |
| Gojira The Link Alive | 4.5 |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh | 4.5 |
| Gorillaz Plastic Beach | 3.0 |
| Gorillaz Demon Days | 4.5 |
| Grade And Such Is Progress | 4.0 |
| Grade The Embrassing Beginning | 4.0 |
| Grade Separate The Magnets | 4.0 |
| Grade Headfirst Straight To Hell | 4.0 |
| Grade Under the Radar | 4.5 |
| Green Day 21st Century Breakdown | 1.0 |
| Gregor Samsa Rest | 4.0 |
| Gregor Samsa 55:12 | 4.5 |
| Gwen Stacy The Life I Know | 1.0 |
| Gwen Stacy A Dialogue | 2.0 |
| Harlan T. Bobo Sucker | 4.5 |
| Harold Budd and Brian Eno The Pearl | 5.0 |
| Henryk Gorecki Symphony No. 3, Op. 36 | 5.0 |
| Her Demise My Rise The Takeover | 1.0 |
| Hewhocorrupts The Discographer | 3.0 |
| Hewhocorrupts Ten Steps To Success | 4.0 |
| Hiretsukan End States | 4.0 |
| Hiretsukan Invasive/Exotic | 4.0 |
| HORSE the band Desperate Living | 3.5 |
| Hot Cross Risk Revival | 3.0 |
| Hot Cross Cryonics | 4.0 |
| I Shot The Duck Hunt Dog Epic Fail | 1.0 |
| I Would Set Myself On Fire For You I Would Set Myself On Fire For You | 4.0 |
| I Would Set Myself On Fire For You Believes In Patterns | 5.0 |
| Ikonika Contact, Love, Want, Have | 3.5 |
| Imperium Dekadenz Procella Vadens | 4.0 |
| In the Woods... Strange in Stereo | 4.5 |
| In the Woods... Heart of the Ages | 5.0 |
| In/Humanity Violent Resignation: The Great... | 4.0 |
| The Great American Teenage Suicide is a manifestation of angular dissonance, oftentimes fitting into the "emo-violence" genre. |
| Incursus Eternal Funeral Trance | 4.0 |
| Insane Clown Posse Bang! Pow! Boom! | 1.0 |
| The only reason for the rating to be above a 2 is the scene infestation. |
| ISIS Celestial | 3.0 |
| ISIS Oceanic | 4.0 |
| ISIS In the Absence of Truth | 4.0 |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant | 4.0 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 4.5 |
| Isles and Glaciers The Hearts of Lonely People | 1.0 |
| It Dies Today Lividity | 2.0 |
| Iwrestledabearonce It's All Happening | 2.0 |
| It's All Happening shows potential from a spasmodic metalcore band, but never is it fulfilled. To Iwrestaledabearonce: you're really polystylistic... but fucking boring. |
| Iwrestledabearonce Iwrestledabearonce | 3.0 |
| Unlike their full-length, this eponymous EP knows what it is: fun metalcore with a campy experimental tinge throughout. It never tries to take itself too seriously, and sometimes that's what you need. |
| Jaga Jazzist One-Armed Bandit | 3.5 |
| Jaga Jazzist A Livingroom Hush | 4.0 |
| Jaga Jazzist What We Must | 4.5 |
| Jaldaboath Hark the Herald | 1.0 |
| Arg mateys! Do not listen to thee disney black less thee get scurvy on thine tongue. |
| Jeromes Dream Completed | 4.5 |
| Job For A Cowboy Doom | 1.0 |
| Job For A Cowboy Genesis | 2.0 |
| Job For A Cowboy Ruination | 3.0 |
| Jodis Secret House | 4.0 |
| John Coltrane Blue Train | 4.5 |
| John Zorn Filmworks XXII: The Last Supper | 3.5 |
| John Zorn Filmworks XIV: Hiding and Seeking | 3.5 |
| John Zorn Alhambra Love Songs | 3.5 |
| John Zorn Spy vs. Spy: The Music of Ornette Coleman | 4.0 |
| John Zorn From Silence to Sorcery | 4.0 |
| John Zorn The Dreamers | 4.0 |
| John Zorn Filmworks XXIII: El General | 4.0 |
| John Zorn Moonchild | 4.5 |
| John Zorn Six Litanies for Heliogabalus | 4.5 |
| John Zorn The Big Gundown | 4.5 |
| John Zorn Duras: Duchamp | 4.5 |
| John Zorn Astronome | 4.5 |
| John Zorn Spillane | 4.5 |
| John Zorn Taboo and Exile | 4.5 |
| John Zorn I.A.O. - Music in Sacred Light | 4.5 |
| John Zorn The Gift | 4.5 |
| John Zorn Filmworks XIX: The Rain Horse | 4.5 |
| John Zorn The Circle Maker | 4.5 |
| John Zorn Elegy | 4.5 |
| John Zorn Chimeras | 4.5 |
| John Zorn The Crucible | 4.5 |
| John Zorn The Bribe | 4.5 |
| John Zorn Redbird | 4.5 |
| John Zorn Filmworks XXI: Belle de Nature/The New Rijksmuseum | 4.5 |
| John Zorn O'o | 4.5 |
| John Zorn In Search of the Miraculous | 4.5 |
| John Zorn Kristallnacht | 5.0 |
| Jonas Hellborg Octave of the Holy Innocents | 4.5 |
| Jonny Craig A Dream Is A Question You Don't Know How To Answer | 1.5 |
| Jonsi Go | 4.5 |
| Joshua Fit For Battle To Bring Our Own End | 4.0 |
| Justin Bieber My World 2.0 | 1.0 |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak | 1.5 |
| Katatonia Viva Emptiness | 3.0 |
| Katatonia The Great Cold Distance | 3.0 |
| Katatonia Night Is the New Day | 3.0 |
| Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward | 2.5 |
| Kayo Dot Coyote | 4.5 |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye | 5.0 |
| Choirs of the Eye dabbles in all things epic and unique, yet has a knack for balancing the intense with the delicate, the grand with the simple, and even contrasting genres like acoustic and electronic. Go on, walk towards those scorching fumes. |
| Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue | 5.0 |
| Kekal 1000 Thoughts of Violence | 4.5 |
| Khanate Things Viral | 3.0 |
| Khanate Clean Hands Go Foul | 4.0 |
| Khanate Khanate | 4.5 |
| Khlyst Chaos is My Name | 4.5 |
| Comprised of excruciating lulls and claustrophobic textures, this drone album is one that is portentous of doom, but strikingly original. |
| Killie September Against Sexism | 3.5 |
| Killie Offering A Sacrifice That Presents And Indicates.. | 4.5 |
| Killie Want To Escape From The Underground... | 4.5 |
| Killie Afterall, The Opinion Of One In A Hundre | 4.5 |
| Kite Flying Society [FL] A Discography | 4.5 |
| The Art of Conversation is one of the best emo songs made of all time ever. |
| Kokumaromilk こくまろみるく | 4.5 |
| Literally the most insane band ever to be good and make catchy music. |
| Kokumaromilk 少女娼婦 | 4.5 |
| Krallice Krallice | 2.0 |
| Krallice Dimensional Bleedthrough | 2.0 |
| La Dispute Here, Hear. II | 3.0 |
| La Quiete La fine non è la fine | 3.5 |
| Labradford E Luxo So | 4.5 |
| Le Grand Guignol The Great Maddening | 4.0 |
| Les Discrets/Alcest Split | 4.0 |
| Liar Liar Cross On Fire Exposed, Barren and Often Windswept | 3.0 |
| Light This City Stormchaser | 2.0 |
| Lindstrom and Christabelle Real Life Is No Cool | 4.5 |
| One of the architects behind retro-futurism destroys the very idea, as Lindstrom has officially attacked his new age, disco sound (without straying too far from home of course). |
| Loma Prieta Matrimony EP | 1.5 |
| Matrimony is four minutes of directionless howling atop inept hardcore musicianship. Apt title, eh? |
| Loma Prieta Dark Mountain | 3.0 |
| Loma Prieta Last City | 3.5 |
| Lotte Kestner China Mountain | 4.5 |
| Love Like... Electrocution Love Like... Electrocution | 4.5 |
| Love Lost But Not Forgotten Upon the Right, I Saw a New Misery | 3.0 |
| Love Lost But Not Forgotten Love Lost but Not Forgotten | 3.5 |
| By taking a surprising amount of grindcore influence and combining it with several emo aspects, LLBNF creates an album of angular bliss. Yet, nothing is groundbreaking or new, a flaw that rears its ugly head more than once. But still... the drumming kicks major amounts of ass (see: Means To No End and Loathing) |
| Ludo You're Awful, I Love You | 3.0 |
| Lugubrum Albino de Congo | 4.0 |
| M83 Digital Shades Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
| M83 M83 | 4.0 |
| M83 Live at La Route du Rock | 4.0 |
| M83 Before The Dawn Heals Us | 4.5 |
| M83 Saturdays=Youth | 4.5 |
| M83 Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts | 5.0 |
| Marc Ribot Shrek | 4.0 |
| Marilyn Manson The High End of Low | 1.5 |
| Masada Beit | 4.0 |
| Masada Gimel | 4.0 |
| Masada Dalet | 4.0 |
| Masada Alef | 4.5 |
| Masada Hei | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 2.0 |
| maudlin of the Well My Fruit Psychobells... A Seed Combustible | 3.5 |
| maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map | 4.0 |
| maudlin of the Well Part the Second | 4.0 |
| maudlin of the Well Bath | 5.0 |
| Maylene and the Sons of Disaster III | 2.0 |
| Merzbow Houjoue | 4.0 |
| Merzbow Anicca | 4.0 |
| Merzbow Merzbeat | 4.0 |
| Merzbow Rainbow Electronics | 4.0 |
| Merzbow Great American Nude / Crash for Hi-Fi | 4.0 |
| Merzbow Pinkream | 4.0 |
| Merzbow Pulse Demon | 4.5 |
| Merzbow Sphere | 4.5 |
| Merzbow Minazo Vol. 1 | 4.5 |
| Merzbow 1930 | 4.5 |
| Merzbow Music for Bondage Performance | 4.5 |
| Merzbow Venereology | 4.5 |
| Merzbow Noisembryo | 4.5 |
| Merzbow Merzbear | 4.5 |
| MGMT Congratulations | 2.0 |
| MGMT Oracular Spectacular | 2.5 |
| Mihai Edrisch L'un Sans L'Autre | 3.5 |
| Mihai Edrisch are an emo band that tries to make their sound diverse and exciting with post-rock and acoustic bits. However, it isn't diverse or exciting. In fact it's really repetitive and at times anticlimactic. |
| Miles Davis Bitches Brew | 4.5 |
| Millionaires Bling Bling Bling! | 1.0 |
| Minus the Bear Interpretaciones Del Oso | 1.5 |
| Minus the Bear Menos El Oso | 2.0 |
| Minus the Bear This is What I Know About Being Gigantic | 2.5 |
| Minus the Bear Acoustics | 2.5 |
| Minus the Bear Bands Like It When You Yell YAR at Them | 3.0 |
| Minus the Bear They Make Beer Commercials Like This | 3.0 |
| Minus the Bear Omni | 3.0 |
| Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates | 3.5 |
| Minus the Bear Into the Mirror | 4.0 |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice | 4.5 |
| Mirrorthrone Gangrene | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse No One's First, and You're Next | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica | 4.5 |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About | 4.5 |
| Moneen The World I Want To Leave Behind | 2.5 |
| Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind | 3.0 |
| Muse The Resistance | 1.5 |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 4.5 |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade | 1.5 |
| My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love | 3.5 |
| My Kappa Roots The House of St Colme Burnt Down | 4.5 |
| My Kappa Roots Old Sentry Who Saw The Transfiguring | 4.5 |
| Nadja Touched | 4.5 |
| Nadja Radiance of Shadows | 4.5 |
| Nadja Bodycage | 4.5 |
| Naked City Heretic | 4.0 |
| Naked City Absinthe | 4.0 |
| Naked City Leng Tch'e | 4.0 |
| Naked City Naked City | 4.5 |
| For most, John Zorn's opus Naked City will be a sort of extra-terrestrial glance into the experimental realm that is Zorn's mind; however, to those that can appreciate the irrational jazz and hostile grindcore mash that is this album, it seems like a near-masterpiece. |
| Naked City Grand Guignol | 4.5 |
| Naked City Radio | 4.5 |
| Naked City Torture Garden | 5.0 |
| Napalm Death The Code Is Red...Long Live the Code | 3.5 |
| Necrophagist Epitaph | 4.5 |
| Necrophagist Onset of Putrefaction | 4.5 |
| Negura Bunget OM | 4.5 |
| Neil Perry Lineage Situation | 3.5 |
| Neon Trees Habits | 3.0 |
| Nervous Light of Sunday 弱心光景 | 4.0 |
| Nest (FIN) Trail of the Unwary | 4.5 |
| Neun Welten Valg | 3.5 |
| Neun Welten Destrunken | 4.0 |
| Neun Welten Vergessene Pfade | 4.5 |
| Neurosis Through Silver in Blood | 2.0 |
| Neurosis Given to the Rising | 2.0 |
| Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm | 2.5 |
| Never Shout Never What Is Love? | 1.0 |
| Nocte Obducta Schwarzmetall - Ein primitives Zwischenspiel | 4.0 |
| Nocte Obducta Sequenzen einer Wanderung | 4.0 |
| Nocte Obducta Stille: Das nagende Schweigen | 4.0 |
| Nocte Obducta Nektar: Teil 1 - Zwölf Monde, Eine Hand voll Träum | 4.5 |
| Nocte Obducta Nektar - Teil 2: Seen, Flüsse, Tagebücher | 4.5 |
| Norma Jean O' God, the Aftermath | 1.0 |
| Norma Jean The Anti Mother | 1.0 |
| Norma Jean Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child | 1.5 |
| Norma Jean Redeemer | 1.5 |
| Novembers Doom The Novella Reservoir | 1.5 |
| Novembers Doom Into Night's Requiem Infernal | 2.0 |
| Obadiah Parker Obadiah Parker Live | 3.5 |
| Obscura Cosmogenesis | 4.0 |
| Oceano Depths | 1.0 |
| October Falls The Streams Of The End | 3.0 |
| October Falls Tuoni | 4.0 |
| October Falls Marras | 4.0 |
| October Falls The Womb of Primordial Nature | 4.0 |
| Okkervil River Black Sheep Boy | 4.5 |
| OLD The Musical Dimension of Sleaslak | 3.5 |
| OLD Lo Flux Tube | 4.0 |
| Opeth Orchid | 1.5 |
| Opeth Watershed | 1.5 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 2.0 |
| Opeth Deliverance | 3.0 |
| Opeth Morningrise | 3.5 |
| Opeth Damnation | 3.5 |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse | 3.5 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 3.5 |
| Opeth Still Life | 4.0 |
| Orchid Totality | 3.5 |
| Orchid Chaos is Me | 4.0 |
| Orchid Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow! | 4.0 |
| Orchid Orchid | 4.5 |
| Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come | 4.0 |
| Orphaned Land The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR | 1.5 |
| Owl City Ocean Eyes | 1.0 |
| PainKiller Buried Secrets | 4.0 |
| PainKiller Guts of a Virgin | 4.5 |
| PainKiller Execution Ground | 4.5 |
| Paper Tongues Paper Tongues | 1.5 |
| Peccatum Lost in Reverie | 4.5 |
| Pelican Australasia | 4.0 |
| Pelican Pink Mammoth | 4.0 |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... | 4.5 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | 4.5 |
| Phoenix Bodies Raise The Bullshit Flag | 4.0 |
| Portal Outre | 4.5 |
| Portugal. The Man Church Mouth | 1.5 |
| Portugal. The Man The Satanic Satanist | 1.5 |
| Praxis Profanation (Preperation For An Upcoming Darkness) | 4.0 |
| Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese | 4.5 |
| Protest the Hero Gallop Meets the Earth | 1.0 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 1.5 |
| Protest the Hero Kezia | 2.0 |
| Queen A Night at the Opera | 4.5 |
| Quest For Blood Quest for Blood with Yukihiro Isso | 5.0 |
| Quest For Blood, a nearly unclassifiable metal band with black metal, neoclassical, and noise roots, has released a masterpeice. Toying with density, all things vanguard, some extremely wtf flute skills and creating a new genre altogether, Quest for Blood with Yukihiro Isso is one of the best metal albums to be released in the past couple thousand decades. |
| Rachel Grimes Book Of Leaves | 4.5 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 4.0 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 5.0 |
| Raein Il n'y a pas de orchestre | 3.5 |
| Red Sparowes At The Soundless Dawn | 4.5 |
| Red Sparowes Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red... | 4.5 |
| Red Sparowes The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein... | 4.5 |
| Return to Forever Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy | 4.5 |
| Return to Forever Where Have I Known You Before | 4.5 |
| Return to Forever No Mystery | 4.5 |
| Saetia A Retrospective | 3.0 |
| While those who lack indie cred jump on Saetia's bandwagon, a few thoughts come to my mind, nay, misconceptions of the misinformed, impressionable twit. For starters, Saetia did not define the genre of screamo, let alone emo (yes, the genres are different in the way that emo is less intense than screamo). Indian Summer, I Hate Myself, and many other bands played this sound in a far more exceptional manner than that of Saetia. Second, though sometimes caustic, the lyrical stylings of Saetia as well as some of the music, hit trite moments. Example A: "Roquentin" and several other tracks are just entirely placid attempts at angular dissonance. As well as impotent, these songs are contradictory to their genre. Forced emotion isn't emotion, its fucking pathetic. Third, Billy Werner was nothing new in the vocal department. Moans, squeals, and spoken word segments have been used since the mid-80's. The same goes for the balance of chaos and beauty. Sadly it is these flaws that do not allow for a phenomenal screamo album. Yet, there is immense potential. "Some Natures Catch No Plagues" is an interesting take on evocation. Similarly, "Notres Langues Nous Trompent" is an energetic track, expressing frustration adeptly. And "Venus And Bacchus" is a fun, if repetitive track. Though many other tracks are also great, there are so ver many flaws. |
| Saves the Day Under the Boards | 2.0 |
| Saxon Shore Be a Bright Blue | 4.5 |
| Say Anything Say Anything | 2.0 |
| Say Anything In Defense of the Genre | 2.5 |
| Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy | 4.0 |
| Senmuth Planetary Dust | 4.0 |
| Senses Fail Still Searching | 1.5 |
| Senses Fail Let It Enfold You | 2.0 |
| Shining (NOR) Grindstone | 4.0 |
| Shining (NOR) In the Kingdom of Kitsch You Will Be a Monster | 4.0 |
| Shining (NOR) Where the Ragged People Go | 4.0 |
| Shining (NOR) Blackjazz | 4.5 |
| Shining (SWE) I - Within Deep Dark Chambers | 4.0 |
| Shining (SWE) III - Angst, Självdestruktivitetens Emissarie | 4.0 |
| Shining (SWE) II - Livets Andhallplats | 4.0 |
| Shining (SWE) VI - Klagopsalmer | 4.0 |
| Shining (SWE) V - Halmstad | 4.5 |
| Shining (SWE) IV - The Eerie Cold | 4.5 |
| Shpongle Ineffable Mysteries from Shpongleland | 4.0 |
| Shpongle Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost | 4.5 |
| Shpongle Tales of the Inexpressible | 4.5 |
| Shugo Tokumaru Exit | 3.5 |
| Sigh Scenes from Hell | 2.0 |
| I was disappointed that there was no disco on this album.... |
| Sigh Imaginary Sonicscape | 3.0 |
| Sigur Ros Takk... | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Heima (DVD) | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Ny Batteri | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun | 4.5 |
| Sigur Ros ( ) | 4.5 |
| Sky Eats Airplane Sky Eats Airplane | 1.5 |
| Sleepingdog Polar Life | 4.5 |
| Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Of Natural History | 4.5 |
| Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Grand Opening and Closing | 4.5 |
| Sleepytime Gorilla Museum In Glorious Times | 4.5 |
| Soilent Green Sewn Mouth Secrets | 4.0 |
| Sonic Youth Rather Ripped | 3.5 |
| Sonic Youth The Eternal | 3.5 |
| Sonic Youth Dirty | 4.0 |
| Sonic Youth Goo | 4.0 |
| Sonic Youth Evol | 4.0 |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation | 4.5 |
| Sonic Youth Sister | 4.5 |
| Sonic Youth Sonic Nurse | 4.5 |
| Sonic Youth Murray Street | 4.5 |
| Sparks The Rescue Eyes to the Sun | 3.0 |
| Sparks the Rescue have everything that it takes to be successful within the absolutepunk.net scene. All the good makings of a pop-punk band (catchy choruses, some flairs of technicality, etc.), and a video that's just a little too reminiscent of one of Thursday's. Eyes To The Sun will do nothing to change that, or the state of the genre. But fuck, it's guilty pleasure material, isn't it? |
| Spazz Crush Kill Destroy | 3.5 |
| Spazz's album, Crush Kill Destroy is sonic skullfuckery at its most abrasive, yet most repetitive. In essence: a great powerviolence album. |
| Spoon Transference | 4.0 |
| Squarepusher Hard Normal Daddy | 4.0 |
| Squarepusher Feed Me Weird Things | 4.0 |
| Stars Set Yourself On Fire | 4.0 |
| Stars of the Lid The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid | 4.5 |
| Stars of the Lid Avec Laudenum | 4.5 |
| Stars of the Lid The Ballasted Orchestra | 4.5 |
| Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline | 5.0 |
| Story of the Year The Constant | 1.0 |
| Suffocate For Fuck Sake Suffocate For Fuck Sake | 4.5 |
| Suffocate For Fuck Sake Blazing Fires and Helicopters... | 5.0 |
| Suffocation Blood Oath | 2.0 |
| Suicide Silence No Time to Bleed | 1.0 |
| Suicide Silence The Cleansing | 1.5 |
| Sunn O))) Monoliths and Dimensions | 2.0 |
| Sunn O))) Black One | 2.5 |
| Completely forgettable drone music that refuses to have any sort of emotional or aesthetic quality, let alone a decent attention-grabbing aspect. |
| Sunn O))) La Mort Noir En Esch/Alzette | 2.5 |
| Sunn O))) Dømkirke | 2.5 |
| Takaru There Can Be Only None | 2.0 |
| Tartar Lamb Sixty Metonymies | 4.5 |
| Te Naraba, Imi kara Houkaisareta Hibiki ha "Oto" no S | 4.5 |
| Te It Be The Thinking As 'the Song' Of Realistic Sound From The World Which | 4.5 |
| Ten Grand This Is The Way To Rule | 4.0 |
| Ten Grand The Comprehensive List | 4.0 |
| The Almost Monster, Monster | 1.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Deflorate | 1.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Unhallowed | 1.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma | 2.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal | 2.5 |
| The Bled Silent Treatment | 1.5 |
| The Blood Brothers Young Machetes | 2.5 |
| The Blood Brothers ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn | 4.0 |
| The Blood Brothers Crimes | 4.0 |
| The Blood Brothers March On Electric Children | 4.0 |
| The Bravery Stir The Blood | 1.5 |
| The Bravery The Bravery | 2.0 |
| The Chariot The Fiancee | 1.5 |
| The Chariot Wars and Rumors of Wars | 2.0 |
| The Cinematic Orchestra Every Day | 4.5 |
| The Cinematic Orchestra Man With A Movie Camera | 4.5 |
| The Crinn Kills Curiosity | 4.0 |
| The Crinn The Crinn EP | 4.0 |
| The Decemberists Picaresque | 4.0 |
| The Faceless Akeldama | 2.0 |
| The Fall of Troy In the Unlikely Event | 1.5 |
| The Futureheads The Futureheads | 4.0 |
| The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound | 4.5 |
| The Hold Steady Heaven Is Whenever | 2.0 |
| The Knife Tomorrow, In a Year | 2.0 |
| The Libertines The Libertines | 2.5 |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron | 3.0 |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath | 3.5 |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta Tremulant | 4.5 |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 4.5 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 5.0 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Worse Than Alone | 3.0 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Nuclear. Sad. Nuclear. | 4.5 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Put On Your Rosy Red Glasses | 4.5 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Mongrel | 4.5 |
| The Sawtooth Grin Pervavor | 3.5 |
| The Sawtooth Grin Cuddlemonster | 4.0 |
| The Strokes First Impressions of Earth | 3.0 |
| The Strokes Room on Fire | 4.0 |
| The Strokes Is This It | 4.5 |
| The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza II: The Electric Boogaloo | 1.5 |
| The Used Lies for the Liars | 1.0 |
| The Used Artwork | 1.0 |
| The Used The Used | 1.5 |
| The Used In Love and Death | 1.5 |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico | 4.5 |
| The Word Alive Empire | 2.0 |
| These Arms Are Snakes This Is Meant To Hurt You | 4.0 |
| These Arms Are Snakes Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home | 4.0 |
| These Arms Are Snakes Easter | 4.0 |
| These Arms Are Snakes Tail Swallower and Dove | 4.0 |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars This Is War | 1.0 |
| This Time We Will Not Promise and Forgive 歌詞を読まない世代へ継ぐ | 3.5 |
| Throwdown Deathless | 1.5 |
| Thursday War All the Time | 3.0 |
| Thursday Waiting | 3.0 |
| Thursday A City By the Light Divided | 3.0 |
| Thursday Full Collapse | 4.0 |
| Thursday Common Existence | 4.0 |
| Thy Art Is Murder Infinite Death | 2.0 |
| Thy Catafalque Tuno Ido Tarlat | 4.0 |
| Thy Catafalque Roka Hasa Radio | 4.5 |
| Thy Mighty Contract Thy Mighty Contract | 4.5 |
| Tim Hecker Harmony in Ultraviolet | 4.5 |
| Time of Orchids Sarcast While | 4.0 |
| Time of Orchids Namesake Caution | 4.0 |
| Train Save Me San Francisco | 1.5 |
| Tristan Tzara Omorina Nad Evropom | 3.5 |
| While Tristan Tzara brings very little new to the table, what they accomplish with a relatively tried formula is great. |
| True Still Life | 3.5 |
| Type O Negative Bloody Kisses | 4.0 |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety | 1.5 |
| Underoath Act of Depression | 1.5 |
| Underoath The Changing of Times | 2.0 |
| Underoath Cries of the Past | 2.0 |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation | 2.5 |
| Underoath Define the Great Line | 4.0 |
| Unearthly Trance The Trident | 3.0 |
| Unexpect _We, Invaders | 4.5 |
| Unexpect Utopia | 4.5 |
| Unfathoms Da Lowd NOIZ Demo | 5.0 |
| Unfathoms Rogue | 5.0 |
Will get a link for this soon - for now you all will have to gawk at my musical self-importance.
Concept: A whirlwind take on confusion, regret, and whimsy - amounting to the realization of how complicated the human mind is, through tropical, world-inspired "avant-garde" noise (pop).
Genres: Noise (pop), world (pop), electronic.
Special thanks to Enrique (bailar11, to be more specific) for listening to demos and to anyone else on sputnik who let me know of what was and was not a mistake on my part - you know who you are. |
| Urna Sepulcrum | 4.0 |
| Usurp Synapse Disinformation Fix | 4.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend | 3.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Contra | 3.0 |
| Various Artists (Electronic) Pop Ambient 2010 | 3.0 |
| Ved Buens Ende Written In Waters | 4.5 |
| Vex'd Cloud Seed | 3.5 |
| Viggo Mortensen Intelligence Failure | 4.5 |
| Viggo Mortensen Pandemoniumfromamerica | 4.5 |
| Waking The Cadaver Perverse Recollections Of A Necromangler | 1.0 |
| We Are The World Clay Stones | 2.5 |
| We The Kings We The Kings | 2.0 |
| wecamewithbrokenteeth We're Packing Are You? | 1.0 |
| wecamewithbrokenteeth sweet.sweet.rock | 1.0 |
| Whitechapel The Somatic Defilement | 1.0 |
| William Basinski The Disintegration Loops I | 5.0 |
| This ambient album is what the earth would sound like if it was able to subdue its denizens with infinite knowledge and understanding. Each note here has been saturated in character and finesse to the point where evocation is undeniable, and each listening experience is unique. Every listen however does reveal an odd paradox: when listening to the album, a morose feeling is exuded, yet an uplifting quality is produced. Perhaps it is the fact that one can feel such sadness that makes them feel this way? Whatever is the case, it is phenomenal knowing that this minimalist collection of songs is able to produce such an effect. Though very lengthy, Basinski shows his genius with tasteful subtlely. Oftentimes utilizing bare-bones piano notes and cello arrangements, his songs are extremely lengthy, relaxing, and enjoyable. With each press of a key, a reverberating sound is sent throughout the air, oftentimes repeating its call to those who are lucky enough to hear it, and dying as it does so. Yet, I highly doubt that this album will die anytime soon, as it is the essence of life, originality, and music. |
| William Basinski Melancholia | 5.0 |
| William Basinski The Disintegration Loops II | 5.0 |
| William Basinski The Disintegration Loops III | 5.0 |
| William Basinski The Disintegration Loops IV | 5.0 |
| William Basinski Shortwavemusic | 5.0 |
| Wold Working Together For Our Privacy | 2.0 |
| Wold Stratification | 4.0 |
| Wold Screech Owl | 4.0 |
| Wold L.O.T.M.P. | 4.5 |
| Wold Imperator | 4.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade | 4.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters | 4.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars | 5.0 |
| Wrath and Rapture Wrath and Rapture | 4.0 |
| Wykked Wytch Memories of A Dying Whore | 1.0 |
| Wykked Wytch Nefret | 1.0 |
| Yakuza Samsara | 3.5 |
| Yakuza Transmutations | 4.5 |
| Yaphet Kotto We Bury Our Dead Alive | 3.0 |
| Yeasayer Odd Blood | 3.0 |
| Yeasayer All Hour Cymbals | 4.0 |
| Yukon Blonde Yukon Blonde | 2.0 |
