| !!! Myth Takes | 3.5 |
| !!! Wallop | 3.0 |
| Simple and straightforward, and definitely lacking the textures of Myth Takes, but far more fun than it has any right to be |
| 10 Years Feeding the Wolves | 2.5 |
| 12 Stones Potter's Field | 1.5 |
| 12 Stones 12 Stones | 1.5 |
| 2 Chainz Rap Or Go To The League | 3.0 |
| 65daysofstatic replicr, 2019 | 3.5 |
| A Day To Remember Common Courtesy | 2.5 |
| A Hope For Home In Abstraction | 3.5 |
| A Lot Like Birds Conversation Piece | 4.0 |
| A Lot Like Birds No Place | 4.5 |
| A Lot Like Birds DIVISI | 3.5 |
| A Perfect Circle Eat the Elephant | 2.5 |
| A Swarm of the Sun The Woods | 3.5 |
| A Winged Victory for the Sullen Invisible Cities | 3.0 |
| A.A.L. (Against All Logic) 2012-2017 | 3.5 |
| A.A.L. (Against All Logic) 2017-2019 | 4.0 |
| Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties We Don't Have Each Other | 3.5 |
| Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties Bittersweet | 3.5 |
| Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties Routine Maintenance | 4.5 |
| Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties In Lieu of Flowers | 4.0 |
| Abel (NY) Make It Right | 3.5 |
| Adebisi Shank This is the Third Album | 4.0 |
| Adjy The Idyll Opus (I-VI) | 5.0 |
| Adjy Prelude (.3333) | 3.5 |
| Adjy June Songs Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
| AFI Burials | 3.0 |
| Aficionado Aficionado | 4.5 |
Very unique punk/indie, mixing pianos, flutes and organs with the typical punk sound. Neither the male or
female vocalist is technically stellar but their passion is extremely evident and more than makes up for the
flaws. Lyrics range from clever ("To go seven days without eating makes one weak") to introspective without
seeming heavy-handed. Highlights include "The Things You Like," "Stir Like Hell," "Permanent" and "Open
Doors." Very consistent, and a definite grower--one of 2011's best new artists, without a doubt. |
| Air Review Low Wishes | 4.0 |
| Air Review How We Got By | 3.5 |
| Alcest Spiritual Instinct | 3.5 |
| Alejandro Aranda The Act of Forgiveness | 3.5 |
| Alkaline Trio Is This Thing Cursed? | 4.0 |
| Alkaline Trio E.P. | 3.5 |
| Alkaline Trio Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs | 3.0 |
| All That Remains For We Are Many | 2.5 |
| All The Luck In The World All the Luck in the World | 3.5 |
| All The Luck In The World A Blind Arcade | 4.5 |
| All The Luck In The World How The Ash Felt | 3.5 |
| The familiar lush indie-folk formula adds an emphasis on electronics for texture but misses the dynamic high points that really made A Blind Arcade shine. Still, it's a beautiful work that's easy to get lost in. |
| Allegaeon Apoptosis | 3.5 |
| American Football American Football (LP3) | 4.0 |
| american poetry club we are beautiful, even when... | 2.0 |
| Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God | 3.0 |
| Amon Tobin How Do You Live | 3.5 |
| Amorphis Queen of Time | 2.5 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children As The Morning Dawns We Close Our Eyes | 3.5 |
| Anathema The Optimist | 4.0 |
| Anathema We're Here Because We're Here | 3.5 |
| Anberlin Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place | 2.5 |
| Anberlin Lost Songs | 4.0 |
| Anberlin Cities | 5.0 |
| Anberlin Never Take Friendship Personal | 4.5 |
| Anberlin New Surrender | 3.0 |
| Anberlin Blueprints for the Black Market | 3.0 |
| Anberlin Vital | 4.0 |
| Anberlin Lowborn | 4.0 |
| Anberlin Silverline | 4.0 |
| Asking is a top-tier Anberlin song. Songs are as straightforward as you expect, but crisp production and a good mix of styles keep things fresh. This is far better than a comeback EP has any right being. |
| Anchor and Braille Felt | 3.5 |
| Anchor and Braille The Quiet Life | 3.0 |
| Anchor and Braille Tension | 3.0 |
| It's the least substantive of A&B's albums, but it's a solid mellow pop record where just about every song is a base hit. No home runs, and none of the intriguing songwriting of Felt, but it's pleasant enough. |
| Anchor and Braille Songs for the Late Night Drive Home | 3.0 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar Heirs | 3.5 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar The Endless Shimmering | 4.0 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar Jettison | 3.5 |
| The first third is remarkably groovy, and the final third is bright and dynamic. The middle third drags a tad, but the new sound suits ASIWYFA with only a tasteful amount of cheese. Title cut, Dive Pt 2, and the production (the bass in particular) are early highlights. |
| And The Kids When This Life Is Over | 3.0 |
| And Then There Were None Who Speaks For Planet Earth? | 4.0 |
| Anderson .Paak Ventura | 3.0 |
| Andrea von Kampen That Spell | 3.5 |
| Andrew Judah Impossible Staircase | 3.0 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 4.0 |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion | 3.5 |
| Animals As Leaders Parrhesia | 3.5 |
| Anna Burch Quit The Curse | 2.5 |
| Antarctigo Vespucci Love in the Time of E-Mail | 2.5 |
| Antimatter Black Market Enlightenment | 4.0 |
| Arcade Fire Reflektor | 3.0 |
| Arcane Roots Heaven and Earth | 3.5 |
| Arcane Roots Melancholia Hymns | 3.5 |
| Arch Echo Arch Echo | 4.0 |
| Does it do anything new? No. Does it do what it does really, really well? Yes. |
| Arch Echo You Won't Believe What Happens Next! | 3.5 |
| Their debut thrived on frenetic energy. This feels like a slightly mellower retread. Still a fun listen, but the debut outclasses this from beginning to end. |
| Ariana Grande Thank U, Next | 4.0 |
| As Cities Burn Son, I Loved You at Your Darkest | 3.5 |
| As Cities Burn Come Now Sleep | 4.5 |
| As Cities Burn Scream Through the Walls | 2.5 |
| As I Lay Dying Shaped by Fire | 2.5 |
| As They Sleep Dynasty | 4.5 |
| Astronoid Astronoid | 3.0 |
| Athletics Who You Are Is Not Enough | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Constellations | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Leveler | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Rescue & Restore | 4.5 |
| August Burns Red Found in Far Away Places | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Phantom Anthem | 3.0 |
| August Burns Red Guardians | 3.5 |
A definite step up from Phantom Anthem, but mostly https://imgflip.com/i/3v8l9x
Empty Heaven slaps and the closer instantly belongs in their top 5 |
| August Burns Red All I Want For Christmas Is You | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Death Below | 2.0 |
| Aural Method When I Drifted I Heard a Faint Melody | 4.0 |
| Aurora (NOR) The Gods We Can Touch | 4.0 |
| Avicii Tim | 2.5 |
| Azusa Heavy Yoke | 2.5 |
| Bad Books III | 4.0 |
| Balance and Composure Separation | 3.5 |
| Balance and Composure The Things We Think We're Missing | 2.5 |
| Tiny Raindrops is good, but nothing else stood out. And I really wanted to like this. Here's to hoping it grows. |
| Balance of Power Heathen Machine | 3.0 |
| Barely Civil We Can Live Here Forever | 4.0 |
| Barely Civil I'll Figure This Out | 3.5 |
| Barely Civil I’d Say I’m Not Fine | 3.5 |
| Bartees Strange Live Forever | 4.0 |
| Bartees Strange Farm To Table | 3.5 |
| Heavy Heart, Mulholland Dr. and Wretched are a fantastic opening trio. But the album seems to run out of energy halfway through, and while the slower songs are still well-crafted, the ordering leaves a lot to be desired. |
| BATS Alter Nature | 3.0 |
| Bayside Killing Time | 3.0 |
| Bayside Cult | 3.0 |
| Bayside Interrobang | 3.5 |
Pros: Really fun guitar riffs, massive choruses, "Tall" and "Medication"
Cons: Pretty homogeneous
It's a pretty fun ride overall |
| Bayside There Are Worse Things Than Being Alive | 3.0 |
| Beach Bunny Honeymoon | 3.5 |
| Not original in the slightest but there is some darn good songwriting here |
| Beast In Black From Hell With Love | 3.5 |
| Beck Colors | 2.5 |
| Becoming The Archetype The Physics of Fire | 3.5 |
| Becoming The Archetype Terminate Damnation | 3.5 |
| Becoming The Archetype Children of the Great Extinction | 3.0 |
| Each song is individually fun and technically solid, but homogenous songwriting does the band no favors. The concept is fun but when it's all reduced to very similar-sounding metalcore tunes, BtA's talent for melody is wasted. |
| Bell Plaines Through Fog | 3.0 |
| Belle and Sebastian The Life Pursuit | 3.5 |
| Better Oblivion Community Center Better Oblivion Community Center | 4.0 |
| Bibio Sleep on the Wing | 3.5 |
| Very pretty textured folk that passes by a little too quickly |
| Bicep Isles | 3.0 |
| Big Red Machine How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last? | 3.0 |
| Big Thief Capacity | 3.0 |
| Big Wild Superdream | 3.0 |
| Billie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? | 2.5 |
| Billie Eilish Happier Than Ever | 3.0 |
| Birds in Row We Already Lost the World | 3.5 |
| Black Country, New Road Ants from Up There | 3.5 |
| Black Crown Initiate Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape | 3.5 |
| Black Tide Post Mortem | 3.5 |
| It's not complex or substantial in any way (minus some impressive guitar and vocal work), but it's got a lot of energy, and it's a fun listen. Hooks are huge, and production is fantastic. If you're looking for complexity, look away fast, but if you want some good, simple, bombastic metal, check this out. Recommended tracks: That Fire, Honest Eyes, Lost In The Sound |
| Blanck Mass Animated Violence Mild | 4.0 |
| Blanck Mass World Eater | 4.0 |
| Blanck Mass In Ferneaux | 3.5 |
| Bleach Blonde Starving Artist | 2.5 |
| Whiny vocals, completely insubstantial, and nary an original thought in sight, but it's catchy (particularly Pillow Talk) and ultimately listenable. |
| Bleachers Strange Desire | 3.5 |
| Bleachers Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night | 3.0 |
| Bleachers Gone Now | 2.5 |
| Blindside With Shivering Hearts We Wait | 3.5 |
| Blindside The Great Depression | 3.5 |
| Blindside About A Burning Fire | 4.5 |
| Blindside Silence | 4.5 |
| blink-182 Neighborhoods | 3.5 |
| blink-182 Blink-182 | 4.0 |
| blink-182 California | 2.5 |
| blink-182 Nine | 3.0 |
| It's not as bad as you feared (most of the good stuff is the non-singles) but it's also not the blink you're hoping for |
| blink-182 One More Time... | 3.5 |
| Blue Sky Black Death NOIR | 3.5 |
| Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways | 2.0 |
| Bobby Barnett Little Wounds | 3.5 |
| Bobby Barnett Steady Ache | 3.0 |
| Body Thief Travel Glow | 2.5 |
| Bodyjar New Rituals | 3.5 |
| Boil aXiom | 3.0 |
| Boneflower Armour | 3.5 |
| Born of Osiris The Simulation | 2.0 |
| Boston Boston | 4.5 |
| Boygenius boygenius | 3.5 |
| "Stay Down" and "Salt in the Wound" are two of the best back-to-back tracks of 2018. |
| Boygenius the record | 3.5 |
| Braids Deep In The Iris | 4.0 |
| Braids Shadow Offering | 2.5 |
The first half would have been a solid EP full of texture and tight songwriting. "Eclipse
(Ashley)" is lovely, and the slow-burning "Just Let Me" does Hayley Williams' solo album better
than Hayley did. The second half is burdened by a lack of subtlety, strange vocal arrangements and
cringey lyrics. "Snow Angel"'s white-guilt melodrama is downright embarrassing. |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 5.0 |
| Brand New Daisy | 4.5 |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 3.5 |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon | 3.5 |
| Brand New Science Fiction | 4.5 |
| Brandi Carlile By the Way, I Forgive You | 4.0 |
| Brandi Carlile In These Silent Days | 3.5 |
| Brendan Rivera No Ocean In Ireland | 4.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It... | 3.5 |
| Broadside Into the Raging Sea | 2.5 |
| Broken Social Scene Hug of Thunder | 3.5 |
| BRUIT The Machine Is Burning... | 3.5 |
| Buke and Gase Scholars | 2.5 |
| Burden of Life The Makeshift Conqueror | 4.5 |
| Camila Cabello Camila | 3.5 |
| Canterbury Dark Days | 3.5 |
| Captain, We're Sinking The Future Is Cancelled | 4.0 |
| Captain, We're Sinking The King of No Man | 3.5 |
| Caracara New Preoccupations | 4.0 |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms Stochastic | 2.5 |
| Caribou Suddenly | 3.5 |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Dedicated | 3.5 |
| Carly Rae Jepsen The Loneliest Time | 3.5 |
| It grooves, Carly sings, it's fun. It's definitely not the most substantive record but it's a blast. It ends on a strong note, with Go Find Yourself or Whatever, a genuinely fantastic ballad, and the title cut, the peak of sentimental sweetness on an album full of it. |
| Caspian Live At Old South Church | 3.5 |
| Caspian Dust and Disquiet | 4.0 |
| Caspian On Circles | 4.0 |
| Chapel of Disease ...And as We Have Seen the Storm | 3.0 |
| Chasing Victory I Call This Abandonment | 3.0 |
| Chevelle Wonder What's Next | 4.0 |
| Chevelle Hats Off To The Bull | 3.0 |
| Chevelle Point #1 | 2.0 |
| Chevelle This Type Of Thinking (Could Do Us In) | 4.5 |
| Chevelle Vena Sera | 4.0 |
| Chevelle Sci-Fi Crimes | 3.0 |
| Chevelle La Gárgola | 2.0 |
| Chevelle NIRATIAS | 4.0 |
| CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe | 4.5 |
| CHVRCHES Every Open Eye | 4.0 |
| CHVRCHES Love Is Dead | 2.5 |
| It's not the total disaster I feared, but there's a disappointing amount of filler. For every "Graffiti," which belongs in the upper pantheon of their discography, there's two "Miracle"s. Also, "Forever" should never have been recorded. |
| CHVRCHES Screen Violence | 4.0 |
| Circa Survive The Amulet | 4.0 |
| Circle Takes the Square Decompositions: Volume Number One | 3.5 |
| Citizen As You Please | 3.5 |
| Citizen Life In Your Glass World | 3.0 |
| City of the Sun City of the Sun | 3.5 |
| Not a lot of variety but some pretty solid execution. The second half is a good bit stronger than the first, with more lively and memorable melodies. |
| Clark Kiri Variations | 2.5 |
| Closure in Moscow Pink Lemonade | 4.0 |
| Cloud Nothings Life Without Sound | 3.0 |
| Cloud Nothings Attack on Memory | 2.5 |
| Cloud Nothings Here and Nowhere Else | 3.0 |
| Cloudkicker Subsume | 4.0 |
| Cloudkicker Little Histories | 3.5 |
| Cloudkicker Unending | 3.5 |
| Cloudkicker Solitude | 4.0 |
| Cobra Starship ¡Viva La Cobra! | 4.0 |
| Cobra Starship Hot Mess | 3.0 |
| Codeseven Go Let it In | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria Vaxis I: The Unheavenly Creatures | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind | 4.0 |
| dumb as rocks and fun as heck what do you mean i need 20 more characters |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | 4.5 |
| Coldplay Mylo Xyloto | 4.0 |
| Coldplay Ghost Stories | 4.0 |
| Coldplay Everyday Life | 3.5 |
| colourblind Move Like You | 4.0 |
| Com Truise Persuasion System | 2.5 |
| Copeland Blushing | 3.5 |
| Corrosion of Conformity No Cross No Crown | 3.0 |
| Counterparts You're Not You Anymore | 2.5 |
| Courtney Barnett sometimes i sit and think, and sometimes i just sit | 3.5 |
| Courtney Barnett Tell Me How You Really Feel | 3.0 |
| Covet technicolor | 3.5 |
| Crippled Black Phoenix Great Escape | 3.5 |
| Crippled Black Phoenix Banefyre | 3.5 |
| Crooks Are We All The Same Distance Apart | 3.0 |
| Crosses Crosses | 3.0 |
| Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna The Long Road North | 3.5 |
| Currents The Way It Ends | 2.5 |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories | 4.0 |
| Dan Deacon Mystic Familiar | 3.5 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Acceptance Speech | 3.5 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Instant Gratification | 4.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Mothership | 3.5 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Afterburner | 3.0 |
| It's every Tillian-era DGD album, but the high points aren't as high as Artificial Selection or Instant Gratification. Most songs are just "fine." Prisoner and One in a Million are winners, but most everything else just sounds like a typical DGD track. Solid 3.2 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Artificial Selection | 4.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Acceptance Speech 2.0 | 4.0 |
| I don't know if it's the remix or the fact that I've listened to more DGD since Acceptance Speech came out, but this hits like a truck |
| Dance Gavin Dance Jackpot Juicer | 3.0 |
| Darren Korb Transistor OST | 4.0 |
| David Maxim Micic Bilo 3.0 | 4.0 |
| Dawn Fades Ode | 3.5 |
| Dayseeker Dreaming Is Sinking /// Waking Is Rising | 3.0 |
| Dc Talk Jesus Freak | 4.5 |
| Dc Talk Supernatural | 4.5 |
| Dead Poetic New Medicines | 4.5 |
| Dead Poetic Vices | 3.5 |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 4.0 |
| Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love | 3.5 |
| Deafheaven Infinite Granite | 3.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Kintsugi | 3.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Thank You For Today | 3.0 |
| Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights | 4.0 |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan | 3.0 |
| Delta Sleep Ghost City | 4.0 |
| Delta Sleep Spring Island | 4.0 |
| Demon Hunter Summer of Darkness | 2.0 |
| Demon Hunter The Triptych | 2.5 |
| Demon Hunter Demon Hunter | 2.0 |
| Demon Hunter War | 2.5 |
| I want to go war against the drum mastering on this album |
| Destrage The Chosen One | 2.5 |
| Destroyer Have We Met | 2.5 |
| Devil Sold His Soul Loss | 2.5 |
| Dizmas On A Search In America | 2.5 |
| DJ Koze knock knock | 3.5 |
| Do Make Say Think Stubborn Persistent Illusions | 3.5 |
| Doldrums (CAN) The Air Conditioned Nightmare | 3.5 |
| Downfall of Gaia Ethic of Radical Finitude | 4.0 |
| downy Mudai (7) | 3.5 |
| Dream State Primrose Path | 2.0 |
| Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events | 2.5 |
| Dream Theater Distance Over Time | 3.0 |
| Dream Wife Dream Wife | 3.0 |
| Dreamwell Modern Grotesque | 3.5 |
| Dreamwell In My Saddest Dreams, I Am Beside You | 3.5 |
| Drudkh They Often See Dreams About The Spring | 3.5 |
| Dua Lipa Future Nostalgia | 3.5 |
| Dua Lipa Radical Optimism | 3.0 |
| Duster Duster | 2.5 |
| Dustin Kensrue The Water and the Blood | 3.5 |
| Dustin Kensrue Carry the Fire | 3.5 |
| Dustin Kensrue Thoughts That Float on a Different Blood | 4.0 |
| Dustin Kensrue Desert Dreaming | 2.5 |
| Dvne Etemen Ænka | 4.5 |
| Dvne Voidkind | 3.5 |
| Eidola The Architect | 3.0 |
| like much of swancore, it's fun but more than a little homogeneous. there might be enough songwriting and instrumental prowess to elevate this a little |
| El Buho Camino de Flores | 3.5 |
| El Ten Eleven Tautology I | 3.5 |
| Ela Minus acts of rebellion | 2.5 |
| Elder (USA-MA) Reflections of a Floating World | 3.0 |
| Eluvium Virga II | 3.0 |
| Elvis Costello Look Now | 2.5 |
| Emarosa Peach Club | 3.0 |
| Emery The Question | 5.0 |
| Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail | 5.0 |
| Emery I'm Only A Man | 3.5 |
| Emery We Do What We Want | 3.5 |
| Emery While Broken Hearts Prevail | 4.0 |
| Emery The Weak's End | 3.0 |
| Emery You Were Never Alone | 4.0 |
| Emery Revival: Emery Classics Reimagined | 4.0 |
| Emery Eve | 4.5 |
By far Emery's most personal album, and yet maybe their most lofty and ambitious. It's eclectic to
the point that it harms its own flow, and it's relatively light on screams if you care about that
sort of thing, but it's viscerally, unsettlingly emotional. A 4 at first glance, but I expect it
to grow. Highlights: Streets of Gold, Name Your God, Sins of Every Father
edit: it grew |
| Emery White Line Fever | 3.0 |
Civil Wars is fantastic ? too bad very few songs come close to it. The lyrics are Emery's most
personal but somehow their least affecting. A steep drop from Eve, though I'm sure this will grow
on me as most Emery albums do.
edit: idk, it's actually growing off me |
| Emery Rub Some Dirt on It | 3.5 |
| Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou The Helm of Sorrow | 4.0 |
| Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou May Our Chambers Be Full | 3.5 |
| Empyrium Über den Sternen | 3.0 |
| Endless Heights Vicious Pleasure | 2.5 |
| Endling The Heavy Frigate | 3.0 |
| Enemies Embark Embrace | 4.0 |
| Enshine Origin | 3.5 |
| Enslaved Utgard | 3.5 |
| Enter Shikari The Mindsweep | 2.0 |
| Envy The Fallen Crimson | 4.0 |
| Eomac Cracks | 3.5 |
| ERRA Augment | 3.0 |
| ERRA Neon | 2.5 |
| ERRA ERRA | 2.0 |
If this is their most diverse album I shudder to imagine the monotony of their previous work. The
riffs are fun and the drumming is decent, but the band just shoehorns the technicality into
predictable songwriting. Vox are bland, and cleans are downright sterile. Lyrics are thesaurus-
laden ramblings that are either painfully on the noise or pointlessly vague.
There's no dynamic range and every song sounds exactly the same. |
| Etherwood Etherwood | 4.0 |
| Etherwood Blue Leaves | 3.5 |
| Etherwood In Stillness | 3.0 |
| A little too focused on vocal tracks that don't do much for me. "Fire Lit Sky" is a beautiful track in the vein of "Souls Apart" and "Souls Rejoined," and "In the Wind" is a gorgeous curveball of a closer. But overall this lacks the energy of past Etherwood releases. |
| Evergrey The Atlantic | 2.5 |
| Exotic Animal Petting Zoo Tree of Tongues | 3.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take Care | 2.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Wilderness | 3.5 |
| Fall Out Boy Save Rock and Roll | 2.5 |
| Fall Out Boy M A N I A | 1.5 |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree | 4.0 |
| Fall Out Boy So Much (For) Stardust | 3.0 |
| fallfiftyfeet Twisted World Perspective | 3.5 |
| Falling Up Dawn Escapes | 3.5 |
| Falls of Rauros Patterns in Mythology | 3.5 |
| Falls of Rauros Key to a Vanishing Future | 3.5 |
| Fallujah The Flesh Prevails | 3.5 |
| Fallujah Dreamless | 3.5 |
| Fallujah Undying Light | 3.5 |
| Rumors of this band's demise have been greatly exaggerated. Slightly less atmosphere, but more fire. This is a fun ride. |
| Fallujah Empyrean | 3.5 |
| Fanfarlo Let's Go Extinct | 3.0 |
| Far-Less Everyone Is Out to Get Us | 3.0 |
| Feels Post Earth | 2.5 |
| Fightstar Behind the Devil's Back | 3.0 |
| Finch Back to Oblivion | 3.0 |
| Fireflight The Healing of Harms | 2.0 |
| Fireworks Gospel | 4.0 |
| Fireworks Oh, Common Life | 3.0 |
| Fireworks Higher Lonely Power | 4.0 |
| First Aid Kit Ruins | 2.0 |
| Five Iron Frenzy Upbeats and Beatdowns | 4.5 |
| Five Iron Frenzy Quantity Is Job 1 | 4.5 |
| Five Iron Frenzy Until This Shakes Apart | 3.0 |
| Fleet Foxes Shore | 4.0 |
| Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The LSO Promises | 4.0 |
| Flobots Fight with Tools | 3.0 |
| Flobots Survival Story | 2.5 |
| Flobots The Circle in the Square | 2.0 |
| Flobots Noenemies | 3.0 |
| Florence and the Machine High as Hope | 4.0 |
I wish the musical diversity and vastly improved lyrics didn't come at the expense of the manic
Florence energy, but there's a good bit to chew on here. Oh, and The End of Love belongs on
everyone's SOTY list.
edit: Oh boy it's a grower |
| Florence and the Machine How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful | 4.0 |
| Florence and the Machine Dance Fever | 3.0 |
| Flotsam and Jetsam The End of Chaos | 3.5 |
| Flux Pavilion .wav | 2.5 |
| Foals Total Life Forever | 3.5 |
| Foals Holy Fire | 3.5 |
| Foals What Went Down | 3.0 |
| Foals Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost - Part 2 | 3.5 |
| Foals Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost - Part 1 | 3.5 |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light | 4.0 |
| Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters Sonic Highways | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters Concrete and Gold | 3.0 |
| For Giants There, There | 3.5 |
| Four Tet New Energy | 3.5 |
| Four Tet Parallel | 3.5 |
| Foxing Nearer My God | 3.5 |
| Foxing Draw Down the Moon | 3.5 |
| Foxy Shazam Foxy Shazam | 4.0 |
| Frank Iero and The Future Violents Heaven is a Place, This is a Place | 2.5 |
| Frank Turner Tape Deck Heart | 4.0 |
| Frank Turner Be More Kind | 2.5 |
Do you like on-the-nose lyrics that are topical without saying anything? Do you like people
telling you that every cloud has a silver lining? Do you like the music you hear in the background
on Toyota commercials? Well boy howdy are you gonna like this! There are a few genuinely
enjoyable songs (Blackout and Common Ground, which are strangely the least 'typical Frank' songs
here), but it's musically trite and lyrically almost entirely devoid of substance. Sincerity
doesn't mean much when you have nothing to say. |
| Franz Ferdinand Always Ascending | 3.0 |
| Frederic Robinson Mixed Signals | 3.0 |
| Free Throw What's Past Is Prologue | 3.5 |
| Friendly Fires Inflorescent | 2.5 |
| From Indian Lakes Able Bodies | 4.0 |
| From Indian Lakes Absent Sounds | 4.0 |
jeez someone is on top of their database-adding game
edit: surprised at the lack of Misery Signals-related puns |
| From Indian Lakes Dimly Lit | 2.5 |
| Remember when this guy wrote songs with passion and dynamics and didn't just do the same sleepy dreampop vibe for a whole album? |
| fun. Some Nights | 3.5 |
| Gang of Youths Angel in Realtime | 4.5 |
| Gang of Youths Go Farther in Lightness | 5.0 |
| Gang of Youths The Positions | 4.0 |
| Geskia! Silent of Light | 3.5 |
| Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam | 3.5 |
| Glass Beach The First Glass Beach Album | 4.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut Age of the Fifth Sun | 4.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright | 3.5 |
| God Is an Astronaut Origins | 3.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut Epitaph | 3.5 |
| God Is an Astronaut Ghost Tapes #10 | 3.0 |
| Every individual song is good, but they're all good in the exact same way. It's a little more high-energy and drum-forward than a lot of post-rock, but there's less dynamic range. The melodies are clear and vibrant, but the highly structured approach undermines attempts at atmosphere. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! | 3.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! | 3.5 |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage | 3.0 |
| Good Tiger We Will All be Gone | 3.0 |
| Good Tiger Raised in a Doomsday Cult | 4.0 |
| Lush post-hardcore that brings newer Circa Survive to mind. The first seven tracks are a fantastic opening run, though the album loses a little steam in the latter third. Ghost Vomit, 1252 and Redshift are solid highlights, and there's something very comforting about the mid-2000s post-hardcore melodies mixed with 2010s swancore technicality. |
| Green Day ¡UNO! | 1.5 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 3.0 |
| Gregor Barnett Don't Go Throwing Roses in My Grave | 3.0 |
| Greyhaven This Bright and Beautiful World | 3.5 |
| Gym Class Heroes The Papercut Chronicles II | 3.0 |
| Kid Nothing and the Never-Ending Naked Nightmare is a great song; the rest of this is pretty catchy, innocuous hip-hop/pop. And yes, Stereo Hearts is mad catchy. |
| Hail the Sun Mental Knife | 3.0 |
| Hail the Sun New Age Filth | 4.0 |
| Hail the Sun Divine Inner Tension | 3.5 |
| HAIM Women In Music, Pt. III | 3.0 |
| Haken Vector | 3.5 |
| Haken Virus | 3.5 |
| Haley Heynderickx I Need to Start a Garden | 3.0 |
| Half Waif Mythopoetics | 4.0 |
| Half Waif Lavender | 3.5 |
| Half Waif The Caretaker | 4.0 |
| Beautifully textured synth/artpop with gorgeous vocals. "In August" and "Blinking Light" are the standouts, but there's not really a bad track here. Starts to lose a little steam toward the end due to lack of variety, but holy wow, the best moments are fantastic (the key change in Sirens, the chorus of In August, the twangy riff of Blinking Light...) |
| Half Waif Sodium & Cigarettes | 3.5 |
| half/cut Salt an Atlas | 4.0 |
| Hammock Oblivion Hymns | 4.5 |
| Hammock The Sleepover Series, Volume 2 | 4.0 |
| Hammock Everything and Nothing | 4.5 |
| Hammock Mysterium | 3.0 |
| Hammock Love in the Void | 3.5 |
| Hammock Universalis | 3.5 |
| Hammock Elsewhere | 4.0 |
there are parts of this that really want to sound like Oblivion Hymns, but the songs lack the
dynamics that made that album special. it's still pretty because it's Hammock with more textures
and variety than their past few albums, but it could be so much more. that said, it is a grower,
like most of Hammock's work |
| Hayley Williams Petals for Armor | 2.5 |
| Hayley Williams FLOWERS for VASES / descansos | 3.0 |
| He Is Legend I Am Hollywood | 4.5 |
| He Is Legend It Hates You | 3.0 |
| He Is Legend 91025 | 4.0 |
| He Is Legend Endless Hallway | 3.5 |
| He Is Legend White Bat | 3.5 |
| If you're looking for the one that reminds you of the I Am Hollywood days, check the opener and Bent |
| Hespera In Absence | 3.5 |
| A dead ringer for Soilwork. Bjorn Strid's at the top of his game vocally, and the guitar work is as technical and meaty as you'd expect from definitely-not-Soilwork. If only the drums didn't sound so flimsy. |
| Hit the Lights Invicta | 3.0 |
| Hitorie Howls | 3.5 |
| Holding Absence Holding Absence | 3.0 |
| Holy Fawn Dimensional Bleed | 4.0 |
| Hookworms Microshift | 3.5 |
| Hop Along Bark Your Head Off, Dog | 4.0 |
| Hopesfall Arbiter | 4.0 |
| Hostage Calm Die On Stage | 3.0 |
| Hot Mulligan You'll Be Fine | 3.0 |
| Ever listened to Tiny Moving Parts but wished Soupy was the lead singer instead? Ever wish Soupy screamed instead of doing the dramatic voice quiver? Boy have I got a band for you |
| House Of Heroes Suburba | 4.0 |
| House Of Heroes The End Is Not the End | 5.0 |
| House Of Heroes Cold Hard Want | 4.0 |
| House Of Heroes The Knock-Down Drag-Outs | 4.0 |
| House Of Heroes Colors | 4.0 |
| House Of Heroes Say No More | 3.0 |
| HRVRD From the Bird's Cage | 3.5 |
| Hundred Waters Communicating | 4.0 |
| Hurry Up, Brothers All is Beautiful. I'm Okay to be Alive.. | 3.5 |
| Hypno5e Shores of the Abstract Line | 3.5 |
| I Am Empire Kings | 2.5 |
| I Am King Onehundred | 1.5 |
| Djenty cheese that every now and again has a nice riff, rendered useless by some of the worst lyrics I have ever heard. |
| I Call Fives I Call Fives | 3.0 |
| I DON'T KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME Razzmatazz | 2.5 |
| I'm Glad It's You Every Sun, Every Moon | 4.5 |
| Nothing here is groundbreaking, but heartfelt lyrics, tight songwriting, crystal-clear mixing and just the right amount of grandiosity give this an edge in a crowded scene. |
| Icarus the Owl Love Always, Leviathan | 4.5 |
| Icarus the Owl Icarus the Owl | 4.0 |
| Icarus the Owl Rearm Circuits | 4.5 |
| Icarus the Owl Pilot Waves | 4.0 |
| idle threat Blurred Visions | 3.0 |
| Ihsahn Amr | 3.0 |
| Illuminati Hotties Kiss Yr Frenemies | 4.0 |
| It's absolutely all over the place but somehow everything works, bouncing back and forth between raucous lo-fi indie-pop and dirges that wouldn't be out of place on a Phoebe Bridgers album. |
| Illuminati Hotties Let Me Do One More | 4.0 |
| Illyria The Carpathian Summit | 3.0 |
| In Mourning Garden of Storms | 3.0 |
| In Vain (NO) Currents | 3.5 |
| Indigo De Souza Any Shape You Take | 3.5 |
| Inferi (USA) Revenant | 3.5 |
| Infinity Shred Forever, A Fast Life | 4.5 |
| They call themselves Infinity Shred because you'll listen to this forever and never get tired of it somehow |
| Interpol El Pintor | 3.0 |
| Intervals Circadian | 4.0 |
| It's an injection of pure serotonin. It grooves hard, and all the soaring riffs don't get old. It's nothing new for the genre of instrumental prog metal, but it's executed brilliantly and doesn't overstay its welcome. Vantablack and D.O.S.E. are the first-impression highlights. |
| Into It. Over It. Figure | 3.5 |
| Intronaut The Direction of Last Things | 4.0 |
| Invalids Fulfillment EP | 3.5 |
| Invent Animate The Sun Sleeps, As If It Never Was | 3.0 |
| Ithaca The Language of Injury | 4.0 |
| Ithaca They Fear Us | 3.5 |
| I miss the mix on The Language of Injury. This is a little too slickly polished. But the intensity remains, the songwriting is tight, and the back third is a wild ride |
| Jack Johnson To the Sea | 2.5 |
| Jade Bird Jade Bird | 3.5 |
| Jakub Zytecki Wishful Lotus Proof | 3.5 |
| Jakub Zytecki Feather Bed | 3.5 |
| Jakub Zytecki Nothing Lasts, Nothing's Lost | 3.5 |
| Jambinai ONDA | 4.5 |
| Jamie xx In Colour | 3.5 |
| Janelle Monae The Electric Lady | 3.5 |
| Janelle Monae Dirty Computer | 3.0 |
| Japandroids Celebration Rock | 3.5 |
| Japanese Breakfast Jubilee | 3.5 |
| Jeff Rosenstock POST- | 2.5 |
| Jessie Ware Glasshouse | 3.5 |
| Jessie Ware What's Your Pleasure? | 3.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Bleed American | 4.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Invented | 4.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Damage | 2.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Integrity Blues | 3.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Surviving | 4.5 |
| John Nolan Abendigo | 3.0 |
| Johnny Jewel Digital Rain | 3.0 |
| Jon Foreman Departures | 3.5 |
| A mix of well-trod indie folk ideas and clever, diverse arrangements. Lyrics fluctuate between "pretty decent" and "as on-the-nose as you should expect from Foreman by now." The opener is a bombastic, cinematic banger that seems wildly out of place with the mostly calm songs that follow. An overall enjoyable listen. |
| Jon Hopkins Immunity | 4.5 |
| Jon Hopkins Singularity | 4.0 |
| Jon Hopkins Music for Psychedelic Therapy | 2.5 |
| a love of psychedelics is not an appropriate substitution for interesting music |
| Jonathan Coulton Artificial Heart | 3.0 |
| Journey Greatest Hits | 4.0 |
| Joyce Manor Million Dollars To Kill Me | 2.5 |
| Jukebox the Ghost Safe Travels | 3.0 |
| Julien Baker Turn Out The Lights | 4.5 |
| Julien Baker Sprained Ankle | 4.0 |
| Julien Baker Little Oblivions | 4.0 |
| Justifide The Beauty of the Unknown | 1.5 |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience | 4.5 |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience - 2 of 2 | 3.0 |
| Justin Timberlake Man of the Woods | 2.0 |
| K Sera Collisions and Near Misses | 4.0 |
| Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour | 3.5 |
| Kanye West Jesus Is King | 2.5 |
| Kardashev The Almanac | 4.0 |
| Kardashev Liminal Rite | 4.0 |
| Katatonia Dead End Kings | 3.0 |
| Kauan Kaiho | 3.5 |
| Kauan Ice Fleet | 3.5 |
| Kelly Lee Owens Inner Song | 3.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly | 4.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar DAMN. | 3.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers | 4.0 |
| Kesha Rainbow | 3.5 |
| Kesha High Road | 2.0 |
| Rainbow might have been a fluke. This has none of the earnest charm and not enough energy. "Raising Hell" is decent but nothing else really lands without feeling like Rainbow did it better. |
| Kid You Not Never a Dull Moment | 3.0 |
| Kids in the Way Apparitions of Melody | 3.5 |
| Kings Kaleidoscope Becoming Who We Are | 4.5 |
| Kings Kaleidoscope Beyond Control | 4.0 |
| Kings Kaleidoscope The Beauty Between | 4.0 |
| Kings Kaleidoscope The Rush | 4.5 |
| Kings Kaleidoscope Zeal | 4.0 |
| The fact that half of Oxygen is a dramatic rendition of "Jesus Loves Me" is a bit ... much. But there's still a good bit more substance than most worship albums, even though the flashes of "Becoming Who We Are"-era energy are few and far between. "The Rush" trilogy is still jaw-dropping. |
| Kings Kaleidoscope Baptized Imagination | 3.5 |
| Kings Kaleidoscope Kings Kaleidoscope | 3.0 |
| The band clearly has a tremendous amount of talent, but the songs just aren't hitting like they used to. The lyrics don't have the same depth as past albums and the instrumentation is full of effects without actually being memorable. You can see glimmers of greatness throughout, but too few are fully developed. |
| KINNSHIP Commensality | 4.0 |
| Warm, soothing R&B-influenced electronica with airy melodies. It's very relaxing and gorgeously textured. Songs can run together a little bit but each one is well-executed. Christian themes are very prominent, but the album avoids cringey trappings of a lot of worship music. |
| KINNSHIP Community | 4.0 |
| KINNSHIP A Thousand Fibres | 3.5 |
| KINNSHIP Stones & Geysers | 3.5 |
| KINNSHIP Intenserenity | 3.5 |
| Could use a little more dynamic range, but the vocals and production are excellent as always. Kinnship's music continues to be chill to the point of soothing. |
| Kishi Bashi Omoiyari | 4.0 |
| Klaxons Myths of the Near Future | 3.5 |
| Kurt Travis Everything Is Beautiful | 3.5 |
| Kurt Travis There's a Place I Want to Take You | 3.0 |
| Kutless Kutless | 1.5 |
| Kutless Hearts of the Innocent | 1.5 |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair | 4.0 |
| La Dispute Wildlife | 5.0 |
| One of the most emotionally visceral albums ever written. Gives a voice to the thoughts of fear and feelings of worthlessness that we all go through, wrapped up in a perfectly balanced post-hardcore package. While I'm not always in the mood for this, when I am it absolutely crushes me. |
| La Dispute Rooms of the House | 4.0 |
| La Dispute Panorama | 4.5 |
| Lack the Low One Eye Closed | 4.0 |
| Lack the Low God-Carrier | 3.5 |
| Lagwagon Railer | 3.0 |
| Lakes (UK) Elysian Skies | 4.0 |
| It's nothing you haven't heard before but the execution is absolutely stellar. Songwriting is a good mix of dynamic range and solid hooks |
| Lamb of God Resolution | 4.0 |
| Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell! | 3.0 |
| Lana Del Rey Chemtrails Over The Country Club | 3.0 |
| Lantlos Wildhund | 4.0 |
| Lapalux Amnioverse | 4.0 |
| Lapsley Cautionary Tales of Youth | 4.0 |
| Le Grand Plastic Jazz | 3.0 |
| Leon Vynehall Rare, Forever | 3.5 |
| Less Art Strangled Light | 3.0 |
| letlive. Fake History | 4.0 |
| letlive. Fake History (Re-Release) | 4.5 |
| letlive. The Blackest Beautiful | 4.0 |
| Liam Singer Finish Him | 3.5 |
| Lights and Motion Bloom | 3.5 |
| Lights and Motion Dear Avalanche | 3.0 |
| Lights and Motion The Great Wide Open | 3.0 |
| Lil Uzi Vert Eternal Atake | 2.0 |
| Lines In the Sky Beacon | 2.5 |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight | 2.0 |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 2.5 |
| Liongeist Liongeist | 4.0 |
| Little Simz Grey Area | 4.0 |
| Little Simz Sometimes I Might Be Introvert | 4.0 |
| Living Sacrifice The Hammering Process | 3.5 |
| Living Sacrifice Conceived In Fire | 4.0 |
| Living Sacrifice The Infinite Order | 4.0 |
| Living Sacrifice Ghost Thief | 3.0 |
First impression: a predictable progression from The Infinite Order. Thrashier than Conceived/Hammering,
but I'm not sure it suits them.
also it's like 2:30 am and metal always sounds weird after 2 |
| Lncstr All the Things That Lead Us Home | 2.5 |
| It's so good to hear Jason Lancaster's voice again. I just wish he was doing something more with it than rehashing contemporary Christian chart-toppers. Album is a mix of high-energy, polished-to-a-shine pop-punk that wouldn't be out of place on a Mayday Parade album (shocker!) and sparse piano ballads. Jason delivers a powerful vocal performance, and the band behind him delivers as well. But the devotion to the lyrical staleness and rigid song structures of CCM does this album in. In terms of 'punk darlings turned worship leaders,' you're better off with Dustin Kensrue/The Modern Post. |
| Lo Moon Lo Moon | 3.5 |
| Local Natives Violet Street | 4.5 |
| Production's just fuzzy enough for that summer vibe but clean enough to showcase the great rhythms on display. Songwriting is tight, and the hooks are so subtle that you don't notice how infectious they are until you realize you've been humming them all day. |
| Local Natives But I'll Wait For You | 3.0 |
| Long Distance Calling Boundless | 3.0 |
| Lord Huron Long Lost | 3.5 |
| Lorde Melodrama | 4.0 |
| Lorde Solar Power | 2.5 |
| either write a folk album or write a pop album but quit it with this halfhearted coffeeshop dregs |
| Lorem Ipsum Vivre encore | 3.5 |
| Lupe Fiasco Tetsuo and Youth | 4.5 |
| Lupe Fiasco DROGAS Wave | 4.0 |
| Lupe Fiasco Drill Music in Zion | 3.5 |
| Madeline Kenney Perfect Shapes | 3.0 |
| Mae The Everglow | 4.5 |
| Mae Multisensory Aesthetic Experience | 3.5 |
| Mae (e)vening | 4.0 |
| Mae (a)fternoon | 3.5 |
| Mae (m)orning | 3.5 |
| Mae (m)(a)(e) | 4.0 |
| Mae 3.0 | 4.0 |
| Make Do and Mend Everything You Ever Loved | 2.5 |
| Make Sure Ninjutsu | 3.0 |
| Mallrat In the Sky | 4.0 |
| Mallrat Butterfly Blue | 3.5 |
| Man Overboard Man Overboard | 3.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra Cope | 3.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra Simple Math | 4.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra Hope | 3.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child | 4.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra A Black Mile to the Surface | 4.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing | 4.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra Christmas Songs Vol. 1 | 3.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra The Million Masks of God | 4.0 |
| ManDancing The Good Sweat | 4.0 |
| Mare Cognitum Solar Paroxysm | 4.0 |
| Maserati Enter the Mirror | 3.0 |
| Matt and Toby Matt And Toby | 4.0 |
| Maybeshewill No Feeling Is Final | 3.5 |
| Mayday Parade A Lesson In Romantics | 4.5 |
| Mayday Parade Monsters in the Closet | 2.5 |
| It's a really bad sign when only one song is instantly memorable on a punk-pop album. Still in the early impressions stage, but it sounds like this band has fallen really hard, really fast. At least the self-titled had some genuine emotion. |
| Mayday Parade Mayday Parade | 4.0 |
| Mayday Parade Black Lines | 3.0 |
| Mayday Parade Anywhere But Here | 2.5 |
| Mayday Parade Sunnyland | 3.5 |
| Imagine the self-titled album, but occasionally with the grit of Black Lines. ALIR this is not, but it's a good bit better than their last two. |
| Mayday Parade What It Means To Fall Apart | 3.5 |
| Meat Beat Manifesto Impossible Star | 3.5 |
| Mechina Xenon | 3.0 |
| Mechina Empyrean | 4.0 |
| Meet Me @ The Altar Model Citizen | 3.5 |
| Megadeth Th1rt3en | 2.5 |
| Megadeth The System Has Failed | 3.5 |
| Megadeth United Abominations | 2.5 |
| Memphis May Fire Challenger | 2.0 |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister | 4.5 |
| mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright! | 5.0 |
| mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes | 4.5 |
| mewithoutYou Ten Stories | 4.5 |
| mewithoutYou A to B: Life | 3.0 |
| mewithoutYou Pale Horses | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou [Untitled] | 4.5 |
| mewithoutYou [untitled] e.p. | 4.0 |
| MGMT Little Dark Age | 3.0 |
| Microwave Death is a Warm Blanket | 3.0 |
| Midas Fall Evaporate | 4.0 |
| Midas Fall Cold Waves Divide Us | 4.0 |
| Midwife (USA) Forever | 3.5 |
| Midwife (USA) Luminol | 3.5 |
| Mini Mansions Mini Mansions | 1.5 |
| Minus the Bear Menos El Oso | 4.0 |
| Minus the Bear Omni | 3.5 |
| Minus the Bear Infinity Overhead | 2.5 |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice | 3.5 |
| Misery Signals Absent Light | 3.5 |
| Misery Signals Ultraviolet | 3.5 |
| MisterWives Connect the Dots | 4.0 |
| MisterWives Superbloom | 3.0 |
| It's sunny, energetic, funky pop that belongs at all the beach/pool parties we can't have during COVID. But at 19 tracks with very little diversity, the album wears out its welcome. |
| Mitochondrial Sun Sju Pulsarer | 3.0 |
| Mitski Be the Cowboy | 3.0 |
| Moby All Visible Objects | 3.0 |
| Moderat II | 4.0 |
| Moderat MORE D4TA | 4.0 |
| Modern Studies Welcome Strangers | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse Strangers to Ourselves | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse The Golden Casket | 2.5 |
| Mono Pilgrimage Of The Soul | 3.0 |
| hi this is my first full mono album and it's pretty ok |
| Moon Tooth Crux | 4.0 |
| Moon Tooth Phototroph | 4.0 |
| Moonlit Sailor We Come from Exploding Stars | 3.0 |
| More Than Life What's Left of Me | 3.0 |
| Mree The Middle | 3.5 |
| Muse The 2nd Law | 3.5 |
| Muse The Resistance | 2.5 |
| Muse Simulation Theory | 3.0 |
| Musk Ox Inheritance | 3.5 |
| Naked Flames Miracle in Transit | 3.5 |
| Neck of the Woods The Annex of Ire | 3.0 |
| Netsky Netsky | 4.0 |
| Netsky Second Nature | 3.0 |
| NF Perception | 3.0 |
| Starts off strong but the songs are far too similar. It's very personal but thematically extremely repetitive, and One Hundred and Lie are pretty awful. |
| Nickelback Here and Now | 1.0 |
| Nicolas Jaar Cenizas | 3.0 |
| Night Verses Lift Your Existence | 2.5 |
| Night Verses From the Gallery of Sleep | 4.0 |
| Night Verses Every Sound Has a Color...: Part I | 4.0 |
| Night Verses Every Sound Has a Color...: Part II | 4.0 |
| Night Verses Every Sound Has a Color... | 4.0 |
| Nightwish Imaginaerum | 3.0 |
| Nils Frahm All Melody | 3.5 |
| No Mana Secret Level | 3.0 |
| Norma Jean All Hail | 3.5 |
| Novelists C'est La Vie | 2.5 |
| for once can a djent band not cover everything in a layer of polish thick enough to drown in |
| Numenorean Adore | 3.5 |
| O'Brother Disillusion | 3.5 |
| O'Brother You and I | 3.0 |
| Oceans of Slumber Oceans of Slumber | 3.0 |
| Of Monsters and Men Fever Dream | 3.5 |
| of Montreal False Priest | 4.0 |
| Oh Hiroshima Myriad | 3.5 |
| Oh, Sleeper When I Am God | 3.0 |
| Oh, Sleeper Children of Fire | 4.0 |
| Oh, Sleeper Bloodied/Unbowed | 3.5 |
| OK Goodnight The Fox and the Bird | 3.5 |
| One with the Riverbed Absence | 3.5 |
| Origami Angel Gami Gang | 3.0 |
| Oso Oso Basking in the glow | 4.0 |
| Oso Oso Sore Thumb | 3.0 |
| Our Lost Infantry Interregnum | 4.5 |
| Ovid's Withering Scryers of the Ibis | 2.5 |
| Owel Owel | 4.0 |
| Owel Paris | 4.5 |
| Owel The Salt Water Well | 3.5 |
| Owen The Avalanche | 3.0 |
| Gorgeous but aimless. Not enough variety to make the beautiful melodies stick. |
| Owl City All Things Bright And Beautiful | 2.0 |
| Owl City Ocean Eyes | 3.5 |
| Owl City Cinematic | 1.5 |
| P.O.D. Satellite | 4.0 |
| P.O.D. Payable on Death | 2.5 |
| P.O.D. Testify | 3.0 |
| P.O.D. Brown | 1.0 |
| Palm Reader Sleepless | 3.0 |
| Palm Reader Braille | 3.5 |
| Panic! at the Disco Pray for the Wicked | 3.0 |
| Panopticon The Rime of Memory | 4.0 |
| Papir 7 | 3.5 |
| Parachute for Gordo Best Understood By Children And Animals | 3.5 |
| Parachute Musical Everything Is Working Out Fine in Some Town | 3.5 |
| Paramore Brand New Eyes | 4.0 |
| Paramore Riot! | 4.0 |
| Paramore Paramore | 2.0 |
| Paramore After Laughter | 3.0 |
| Parannoul Let's Walk on the Path of a Blue Cat | 4.0 |
| Parannoul To See the Next Part of the Dream | 3.5 |
| Parannoul After The Magic | 4.0 |
| Passenger (UK) Wicked Man's Rest | 4.0 |
| Passion Pit Gossamer | 4.5 |
| Passion Pit Kindred | 3.0 |
| Passion Pit Tremendous Sea of Love | 4.0 |
| This is a return to form. TSOL has all the chipper electronic chaos and heartfelt lyrics you'd expect from Passion Pit, but now with added variety and dynamics that Kindred was sorely lacking. The mood swings from intimate ("For Sondra") to addictive pop bangers ("I'm Perfect") smoothly. "Somewhere Up There" is the most experimental song in Passion Pit's discography and one of the best, soaring to euphoric heights with no need for a chorus. It's a bit short at 35 minutes, and it leaves the listener wanting more. |
| Passion Pit Manners | 3.5 |
| Patrick Stump Soul Punk | 3.5 |
| Lots of energy, well-written lyrics, and a ridiculously good vocal performance. It's a blast to listen to, even if it gets a bit homogenous and a few tracks with overly long endings reek of pretension. Don't worry about the ratings, this is absolutely worth investigating.rBest songs: Explode, Coast (It's Gonna Get Better), The I in Lie |
| Pelican Nighttime Stories | 3.5 |
| Perfect music for "I want to listen to music while I do work, but I don't want vocals to distract me, and I don't want it to be chill or I'll fall asleep" |
| Pemberton Maybe I'm a friend that stuck around too long. | 3.0 |
| Peregrine (USA-MA) the awful things we've done | 3.5 |
| Perfume Genius Set My Heart On Fire Immediately | 3.5 |
| Persefone Spiritual Migration | 3.5 |
| Persefone Metanoia | 3.5 |
| Petal Magic Gone | 3.5 |
| Petrol Girls Cut and Stitch | 3.5 |
| pg.lost Oscillate | 3.5 |
| Phinehas The Fire Itself | 3.0 |
| Phoebe Bridgers Stranger in the Alps | 4.0 |
| Phoebe Bridgers Punisher | 4.5 |
| Phoebe Bridgers Copycat Killer | 3.5 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | 4.0 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Bankrupt! | 3.5 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Ti Amo | 3.0 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Wait For Love | 3.0 |
| Pijn and Conjurer Curse These Metal Hands | 4.0 |
| This is next to "soaring" in the dictionary. Some of the best metal of the year |
| Pillar Above | 1.0 |
| Pillar Fireproof | 2.0 |
| Pinegrove Skylight | 2.5 |
| Pinegrove Marigold | 4.5 |
| The last album did nothing for me, but for some reason this is resonating, in particular the second half. Phase and Endless make for a great one-two punch. Songwriting is remarkable. |
| Pinegrove 11:11 | 4.0 |
| Plini Handmade Cities | 3.5 |
| Plini The End of Everything | 3.5 |
| Plini Sunhead | 3.0 |
| Plini Impulse Voices | 3.0 |
| Polar Bear Club Clash Battle Guilt Pride | 4.0 |
| Polaris The Death of Me | 3.0 |
| The comparisons to old Underoath would be more apt if Polaris wasn't such a slave to "screamed verse, clean chorus, repeat, breakdown, clean chorus" structures. It's the same over-polished metalcore you've heard a thousand times, but the execution is solid enough. The rough vox are a highlight. |
| Polynation Igneous | 4.0 |
| Polyphia New Levels New Devils | 3.0 |
| Poppy Ackroyd Resolve | 3.5 |
| Porter Robinson Nurture | 4.0 |
| Prawn Run | 3.0 |
| Pridelands Light Bends | 2.5 |
| Project 86 Rival Factions | 2.0 |
| Project 86 Songs to Burn Your Bridges By | 5.0 |
| Project 86 ...And the Rest Will Follow | 4.5 |
| Project 86 Picket Fence Cartel | 4.0 |
| Project 86 Truthless Heroes | 4.0 |
| Project 86 Drawing Black Lines | 4.0 |
| Project 86 Knives to the Future | 2.5 |
| It's a sad, sad day when you realize one of your favorite childhood bands hit their peak years ago and is now running on fumes. Thanks for the memories, Project 86, but I don't know if you can write interesting music anymore. |
| Project 86 Wait for the Siren | 2.5 |
| Proper. I Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting Bet | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Volition | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Palimpsest | 4.5 |
| Public Service Broadcasting Bright Magic | 4.0 |
| Punch Brothers Who's Feeling Young Now? | 4.0 |
| PUP Morbid Stuff | 4.0 |
| PUP The Unraveling of PUPTheBand | 4.0 |
| Purity Ring Another Eternity | 2.5 |
| PVRIS All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell | 3.5 |
| PVRIS Use Me | 2.5 |
| Ray Alder What The Water Wants | 2.5 |
| Red (USA) Until We Have Faces | 2.0 |
| Rich People Harmony | 3.5 |
| Rise Against Endgame | 3.0 |
| Rise Against Appeal to Reason | 4.0 |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness | 4.0 |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture | 4.5 |
| Rise Against The Black Market | 2.5 |
| Rise Against Wolves | 2.0 |
| Rise Against Nowhere Generation | 2.0 |
| Rival Consoles Night Melody | 4.0 |
| Rival Consoles Articulation | 3.5 |
| Rival Consoles Overflow | 4.0 |
Rival Consoles' mastery of texture and groove is no longer restricted by tight song lengths and
rigid structures. With a broader palette of textures to play with, songs breathe organically
without betraying the unsettling mechanical heart. "Monster" and "Overflow" are prominent
standouts. |
| Rival Consoles Now Is | 4.0 |
| Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name | 3.5 |
| Roisin Murphy Roisin Machine | 3.0 |
| Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It | 4.5 |
| Rolo Tomassi Where Myth Becomes Memory | 4.0 |
| Royal Coda To Only a Few at First | 3.0 |
| Run the Jewels RTJ4 | 4.5 |
| Russian Circles Blood Year | 3.0 |
| Russkaja No One Is Illegal | 3.0 |
| Ryuichi Sakamoto Async | 3.5 |
| Saba Care For Me | 4.0 |
| Sacral Rage Beyond Celestial Echoes | 3.0 |
| Sainthood Reps Monoculture | 3.0 |
| Sam Roberts Band Lo-Fantasy | 4.0 |
| Sannhet So Numb | 3.5 |
| Saor Forgotten Paths | 3.5 |
| Save Us From The Archon Thereafter | 4.0 |
| Save Us From The Archon Some Things We Carry, Always | 4.0 |
| Save Us From The Archon Melancholia | 3.5 |
| More emotional than the relatively cold L'Eclisse. Still the same barrage of riffs and time signature changes every three seconds, but clearer production lets the guitar melodies shine through. Doesn't quite reach the highs of Thereafter, but a welcome entry in their discography nonetheless. |
| Say Anything Hebrews | 4.0 |
| Say Anything Oliver Appropriate | 3.0 |
| Scallops Hotel sovereign nose of (y)our arrogant face | 3.5 |
| Seahaven Halo of Hurt | 3.5 |
| Secret Circuit Cosmic Vibrations | 3.5 |
| Self Esteem Compliments Please | 3.5 |
| Senses Fail The Fire | 3.0 |
| Senses Fail If There Is Light, It Will Find You | 2.0 |
Horribly cheesy lyrics, monotonous pop-punk delivery, homogeneous, derivative. Band doesn't
deserve the hype. edit: bumped for a half-decent closer |
| Sepultura Quadra | 3.0 |
| Serj Tankian Imperfect Harmonies | 3.5 |
| Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun | 3.5 |
| Showbread No Sir, Nihilism Is Not Practical | 4.0 |
| Showbread Age of Reptiles | 2.0 |
| Showbread Anorexia Nervosa | 2.5 |
| Showbread Cancer | 4.0 |
| Showbread Showbread is Showdead | 3.5 |
| Showbread Who Can Know It? | 2.0 |
| Shrezzers Relationships | 2.5 |
| A poor man's Dance Gavin Dance with less interesting songwriting, obnoxiously polished production and occasionally a saxophone. But every now and then they turn up something fun. |
| SikTh The Future In Whose Eyes? | 3.5 |
| Silent Drive Fairhaven | 4.0 |
| Silent Planet When the End Began | 3.0 |
| Silverstein This Is How the Wind Shifts | 2.5 |
| Silversun Pickups Physical Thrills | 3.5 |
| Simple Creatures Strange Love | 2.5 |
| Skee Mask Compro | 3.0 |
| Skillet Comatose | 2.5 |
| Skillet Collide | 4.0 |
| Skillet Alien Youth | 3.5 |
| Skillet Invincible | 2.5 |
| Skillet Hey You, I Love Your Soul | 2.5 |
| Skrillex Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites | 3.5 |
| Skrillex Bangarang | 2.5 |
| Skyforest A New Dawn | 2.5 |
| Sleeping at Last Yearbook - January | 4.5 |
| Sleeping at Last Yearbook - December | 4.5 |
| Sleeping at Last Yearbook - November | 4.5 |
| Sleeping at Last Yearbook - October | 3.5 |
| Sleeping at Last Enneagram | 4.0 |
| sleepmakeswaves these are not your dreams | 3.5 |
| sleepmakeswaves It's Here, But I Have No Names For It | 4.0 |
| Slow Meadow Costero | 4.0 |
| One of the rare ambient albums where "subtle" and "heartwrenching" go hand in hand. "Hurricane" is one of the most powerful instrumental tracks of the year. |
| Slow Meadow Happy Occident | 3.5 |
| So-Cal Rocket Dynamics Too Bad She Won't Live | 3.0 |
| Soccer Mommy Color Theory | 3.0 |
| Social Distortion Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes | 3.0 |
| Soen Imperial | 2.0 |
| Soilwork The Living Infinite | 4.0 |
| Soilwork The Ride Majestic | 4.0 |
| Soilwork Verkligheten | 4.0 |
| Soilwork Overgivenheten | 3.0 |
Pros: Soilwork is really good at writing melodies. Bjorn is a remarkable vocalist. The opener and
Vultures are very good.Cons: Soilwork is really bad at dynamic contrast and varying song
structures which highlights the lack of variety in their instrumentation. Death I Hear You Calling
is their worst song in years. The production is pretty bad overall; it's too clean and polished,
particularly the drums (which makes the heavy parts weaker, which feeds into the 'lack of dynamic
contrast' thing). |
| Son Lux Brighter Wounds | 4.0 |
| Sonata Arctica Winterheart's Guild | 3.5 |
| SOWNBONES helpless | 3.0 |
| Spanish Love Songs Schmaltz | 3.5 |
| Spanish Love Songs Losers | 4.0 |
| Spanish Love Songs Brave Faces Everyone | 4.0 |
| Spanish Love Songs, AKA The Menzinger Years. Equal parts After the Party and The Upsides |
| Spanish Love Songs No Joy | 3.5 |
| Spawn of Possession Incurso | 3.0 |
| Special Explosion To Infinity | 4.0 |
| Spirit Adrift Divided by Darkness | 3.0 |
| Spiritbox Eternal Blue | 2.5 |
| St. Vincent St. Vincent | 2.5 |
| St. Vincent Masseduction | 4.0 |
| St. Vincent Daddy's Home | 2.5 |
| Psychedelia and 'retro' influences are a terrible substitute for good songwriting |
| Staple Of Truth And Reconciliation | 3.0 |
| Starset Horizons | 2.0 |
| State Faults Resonate/Desperate | 3.0 |
| State Faults Clairvoyant | 4.5 |
| The opener is gonna appear on a lot of SOTY lists. Album rips |
| Static Dress Rouge Carpet Disaster | 3.5 |
| Stephen Christian Wildfires | 2.0 |
| Steven Wilson To the Bone | 3.5 |
| Stortregn Impermanence | 3.5 |
| Stray (UK-LDN) Paradise | 3.5 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb | 4.0 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between | 4.5 |
| Streetlight Manifesto The Hands That Thieve | 4.0 |
| Strung Out Transmission.Alpha.Delta | 3.5 |
| Sufferer Sufferer | 3.5 |
| Suldusk Lunar Falls | 3.0 |
| Sulphur Aeon The Scythe of Cosmic Chaos | 3.0 |
| Superorganism Superorganism | 3.5 |
| Svalbard When I Die, Will I Get Better? | 4.0 |
| Svalbard The Weight of the Mask | 3.5 |
| Switchfoot Legend of Chin | 3.0 |
| Switchfoot Oh! Gravity. | 4.0 |
| Switchfoot Learning To Breathe | 3.5 |
| Switchfoot Nothing is Sound | 4.0 |
| Switchfoot The Beautiful Letdown | 3.5 |
| Switchfoot New Way to Be Human | 3.5 |
| Switchfoot Vice Verses | 2.5 |
| Switchfoot Fading West | 1.5 |
| Switchfoot interrobang | 3.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Taking Back Sunday | 2.5 |
| Tapes 'n Tapes Outside | 3.0 |
| Taravana A Visible Chill | 3.0 |
| Taylor Swift Evermore | 3.0 |
| Taylor Swift Folklore | 3.5 |
| Taylor Swift Midnights | 3.5 |
| Taylor Swift The Tortured Poets Department | 3.0 |
| Ted Leo The Hanged Man | 3.0 |
| Tenth Avenue North The Things We've Been Afraid To Say | 2.0 |
| Tera Melos X'ed Out | 3.5 |
| Termination Dust Growing Down | 3.0 |
| Thank You Scientist Terraformer | 3.5 |
| The Airborne Toxic Event Hollywood Park | 3.5 |
| The All-American Rejects Send Her To Heaven | 2.0 |
Send Her to Heaven is generic pop with no energy. DGAF is utter trash featuring one of the worst-
written choruses in recent memory and it will get stuck in your head after one listen. Demons
sounds like a Twenty One Pilots b-side with a fraction of that band's sincerity. Do not listen to
this. |
| The Avalanches We Will Always Love You | 3.5 |
| The Bell Jar I Infest, Therefore I Am | 3.0 |
| The Classic Crime What Was Done, Vol. 1: A Decade Revisited | 4.0 |
| The Classic Crime Albatross | 3.5 |
| The Classic Crime The Silver Cord | 5.0 |
| The Classic Crime Vagabonds | 4.0 |
| The Classic Crime Phoenix | 3.0 |
| The Classic Crime How to Be Human | 2.0 |
| Band has gradually gotten worse and worse since their magnum opus, The Silver Cord. Choruses have become flat and repetitive. Instrumentation is far less interesting than on past albums. Lyrics show flashes of brilliance but too frequently seem heavy-handed and clunky. TCC has lost their magic. |
| The Classic Crime Patterns in the Static | 3.0 |
| The Classic Crime Grim Age | 4.0 |
| The Contortionist Clairvoyant | 3.5 |
| The Dangerous Summer Mother Nature | 3.5 |
| The Dangerous Summer The Dangerous Summer | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Act I: The Lake South, the River North | 2.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional | 4.5 |
| The Dear Hunter The Indigo Child | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Antimai | 3.0 |
| The Decemberists The Crane Wife | 4.0 |
| The Decemberists What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World | 4.5 |
| The Decemberists I’ll Be Your Girl | 3.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada The Act | 3.0 |
| The Dirty Nil Fuck Art | 3.5 |
| Every song is the same and they're all fun as heck |
| The Ghost Inside Get What You Give | 3.0 |
| The Ghost Inside The Ghost Inside | 2.0 |
| The Go! Team Semicircle | 3.5 |
| The Graduate Only Every Time | 3.5 |
| The Hold Steady Open Door Policy | 3.0 |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There | 4.5 |
| The Hotelier Goodness | 4.5 |
| The Japanese House Clean | 4.0 |
| The Japanese House Swim Against the Tide | 3.0 |
| The Japanese House Good At Falling | 3.5 |
| The Japanese House In the End It Always Does | 3.0 |
| The Killers Day & Age | 2.5 |
| The Killers Battle Born | 2.0 |
| The Killers Imploding the Mirage | 3.0 |
| The Killers Pressure Machine | 3.0 |
| The Lulls in Traffic Rabbit in the Snare | 4.0 |
| The Menzingers After the Party | 4.5 |
| The Menzingers Hello Exile | 3.5 |
| The Most Of What We Have | 2.5 |
| The Myriad With Arrows, With Poise | 4.5 |
| The Myriad You Can't Trust a Ladder | 3.5 |
| The National High Violet | 4.0 |
| The National Boxer | 4.0 |
| The National I Am Easy to Find | 3.5 |
| The Night Flight Orchestra Aeromantic | 3.5 |
| The Night Flight Orchestra Aeromantic II | 3.5 |
| every song is cheesy and openly apes various classic rock cliches but they are so absurdly fun and Bjorn is such a good singer that they all work for some wild reason |
| The O.C. Supertones Chase the Sun | 4.5 |
| The O.C. Supertones Loud and Clear | 4.0 |
| The O.C. Supertones Hi-Fi Revival | 2.5 |
| The O.C. Supertones Adventures Of The O.C. Supertones | 2.0 |
| The O.C. Supertones Supertones Strike Back | 3.5 |
| The Ocean Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic | 3.5 |
| The Ocean Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic | 3.5 |
| The Paper Kites Roses | 3.0 |
| The Raconteurs Consolers of the Lonely | 4.0 |
| The Receiving End of Sirens The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi | 4.5 |
| The Receiving End of Sirens Between the Heart and the Synapse | 4.5 |
| The Reign of Kindo This Is What Happens | 4.5 |
| The Reign of Kindo Rhythm, Chord & Melody | 4.0 |
| The Reign of Kindo Play With Fire | 3.5 |
| The Reign of Kindo This Is Also What Happens | 4.0 |
| The Reign of Kindo Happy However After | 4.0 |
| The Republic of Wolves Varuna | 3.5 |
| The Republic of Wolves No Matter How Narrow | 3.0 |
| The Republic of Wolves shrine | 4.5 |
| The Sleep Design All That Is Not Music Is Silence | 3.5 |
| It's neither as long-winded as Explosions in the Sky nor as repetitive as God Is An Astronaut. Great production, but a little on the homogenous side -- the middle of the album is a drag. Still, definitely worth a listen for post-rock fans. Highlights: "& The Beast," "The Woman," "The Sound of War," "All That Is Not Music Is Silence."rOh yeah and it's a pay-what-you-want album. |
| The Smith Street Band Don't Waste Your Anger | 4.0 |
| The Smith Street Band Throw Me in the River | 4.0 |
| The Soft Moon Criminal | 3.5 |
| The Soft Pink Truth Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase? | 3.5 |
| The Story So Far Under Soil and Dirt | 4.0 |
| The Story So Far What You Don't See | 3.5 |
| The Story So Far The Story So Far | 2.5 |
| The Story So Far Proper Dose | 4.0 |
| The Twilight Sad It Won/t Be Like This All the Time | 3.5 |
| The Used The Canyon | 3.0 |
| The Visit Between Worlds | 4.0 |
| The War On Drugs A Deeper Understanding | 2.5 |
| The Weather Station Ignorance | 3.5 |
| The Wonder Years The Upsides | 4.0 |
| The Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing | 5.0 |
| The Wonder Years Get Stoked on It! | 3.5 |
| The Wonder Years The Greatest Generation | 4.5 |
| The Wonder Years No Closer to Heaven | 4.0 |
| The Wonder Years Burst & Decay | 3.5 |
| The Wonder Years Sister Cities | 3.5 |
| The Wonder Years Burst & Decay (Volume II) | 3.5 |
| Some of the reimaginings don't do too much (I Wanted So Badly to Be Brave), but the new Hoodie Weather and Washington Square Park are worth the price of admission. |
| The Wonder Years The Hum Goes on Forever | 4.5 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Harmlessness | 4.0 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Illusory Walls | 4.5 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything | 3.0 |
| There Will Be Fireworks The Dark, Dark Bright | 5.0 |
| There Will Be Fireworks There Will Be Fireworks | 3.5 |
| There Will Be Fireworks Summer Moon | 4.5 |
| This Will Destroy You New Others Part One | 4.0 |
| Thomas Azier Love, Disorderly | 3.0 |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Phenomenon | 2.0 |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Set It Off | 2.0 |
| Thousand Foot Krutch The Art of Breaking | 2.5 |
| Thrice Red Sky | 3.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 4.0 |
| Thrice Beggars | 4.0 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 4.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 4.5 |
| Thrice Major/Minor | 4.5 |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 3.5 |
| Thrice Identity Crisis | 2.0 |
| Thrice Anthology | 4.5 |
| Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere | 4.0 |
| Thrice Palms | 2.5 |
| Thrice Deeper Wells | 2.5 |
| Thrice Horizons/East | 3.5 |
| Thunder Dreamer Capture | 2.5 |
| Thursday No Devolucion | 4.5 |
| Thursday A City By the Light Divided | 3.5 |
| Thy Catafalque Geometria | 3.0 |
| Tides of Man Young and Courageous | 3.0 |
| Tides of Man Every Nothing | 3.5 |
| Tigers Jaw Charmer | 3.0 |
| Tigers Jaw I Won't Care How You Remember Me | 3.5 |
| Tiny Little Houses Idiot Proverbs | 3.0 |
| Tiny Moving Parts Swell | 3.5 |
| Tiny Moving Parts Breathe | 3.0 |
| Title Fight Shed | 2.5 |
| Together to the Stars An Oblivion Above | 3.5 |
| Tonight Alive Underworld | 3.0 |
| Too Close to Touch Nerve Endings | 2.5 |
| Tool Fear Inoculum | 3.0 |
| Torche Admission | 3.0 |
| Torres Three Futures | 3.5 |
| Touche Amore Is Survived By | 4.5 |
| Touche Amore Stage Four | 4.0 |
| Touche Amore Lament | 3.5 |
| Tourniquet Where Moth and Rust Destroy | 3.5 |
| Tourniquet Microscopic View of a Telescopic Realm | 4.5 |
| Travis Barker Give The Drummer Some | 4.0 |
| Tribulation Down Below | 3.0 |
| Trivium In Waves | 2.0 |
| Trophy Eyes Chemical Miracle | 4.0 |
| Trophy Eyes The American Dream | 3.5 |
| Trophy Scars Holy Vacants | 3.5 |
| Trophy Scars Astral Pariah | 3.0 |
| TTNG 13.0.0.0.0 | 2.5 |
| Tuber Desert Overcrowded | 3.0 |
| tUnE-yArDs I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life | 3.0 |
| Turnstile Glow On | 2.5 |
| throws a bunch of spaghetti at the wall in the name of having fun but none of it sticks so now there's pasta on the floor AND i'm bored |
| Twenty One Pilots Twenty One Pilots | 4.0 |
| Twenty One Pilots Vessel | 4.0 |
| Twenty One Pilots Blurryface | 4.5 |
| Twenty One Pilots Trench | 3.5 |
| Twenty One Pilots Scaled and Icy | 2.5 |
| It's Trench without the atmosphere plus Vessel without the energy. |
| Two People First Body | 4.5 |
| Two People Second Body | 4.0 |
| Tycho Awake | 3.0 |
| Tycho Weather | 2.5 |
| Typhoon (USA-OR) Sympathetic Magic | 4.0 |
| On first listen it doesn't have a bombastic gutpunch like Offerings did, but gosh it's still pretty. We're In It and Welcome to the Endgame are the early highlights. |
| Typhoon (USA-OR) Offerings | 4.5 |
| Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still | 3.5 |
| Underoath Define the Great Line | 4.0 |
| Underoath Ø (Disambiguation) | 4.0 |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation | 4.5 |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety | 4.5 |
| Underoath The Changing of Times | 2.5 |
| Underoath Erase Me | 2.5 |
| Underoath Voyeurist | 3.5 |
| Unwed Sailor Look Alive | 3.5 |
| Vampire Weekend Only God Was Above Us | 3.5 |
| Vanum Ageless Fire | 3.0 |
| Vessel Queen of Golden Dogs | 3.5 |
| Vestascension Breaching the Sound | 4.0 |
| Vexes Ancient Geometry | 3.0 |
| Vexes Imagine What We Could Destroy / If Only Given Time | 3.0 |
| Vi Som Alskade Varandra Sa Mycket Det Onda. Det Goda. Det Vackra. Det Fula. | 3.5 |
| Vimur Triumphant Master of Fates | 3.5 |
| Vince Staples Big Fish Theory | 3.5 |
| VNV Nation Noire | 4.0 |
| VOLA Applause of a Distant Crowd | 3.5 |
| VOLA Witness | 4.0 |
| Waldskin Clarity Before the Crash | 3.5 |
| Wang Wen Invisible City | 4.0 |
| Wang Wen 100,000 Whys | 3.5 |
| Waxahatchee Out in the Storm | 3.0 |
| Waxahatchee Great Thunder | 3.0 |
| Waxahatchee Saint Cloud | 3.0 |
| We Are The In Crowd Best Intentions | 3.5 |
| We Are The In Crowd Weird Kids | 2.5 |
| It's punk-pop that's heavy on the pop, it's more than a little cheesy, but hey the first half has some good hooks. I was hoping for a bit a little more growth from this band, but I'm not bleeding from my ears or anything. |
| We Lost the Sea Triumph and Disaster | 3.5 |
| We The Kings Sunshine State of Mind | 2.0 |
| Wear Your Wounds Rust on the Gates of Heaven | 3.5 |
| It's really good when Bannon doesn't mumblesing, which is unfortunately far too often (and even then it's sometimes okay). Shrinking Violet is magnificent |
| Weatherbox Follow the Rattle of the Afghan Guitar | 3.5 |
| Weathered Everything All at Once | 3.5 |
| Weezer The White Album | 3.5 |
| Weezer The Black Album | 1.5 |
| the two staff ratings for this are 4.2 and 2.4 so that should tell you everything you need to know |
| While She Sleeps So What? | 2.0 |
| White Ward Love Exchange Failure | 3.5 |
| Wild Pink A Billion Little Lights | 3.5 |
| Wilderun Veil of Imagination | 3.0 |
| Wilderun Epigone | 3.5 |
| William Ryan Key Thirteen | 4.0 |
| William Ryan Key Virtue | 4.0 |
| Willow Smith The 1st | 3.5 |
| Wlots Paperking | 3.5 |
| An original blend of frantic skramz with moodier post-hardcore and melodic sections, a la old Pianos Become the Teeth mixed with La Dispute and Brand New. It's raw and some of the screams get grating, but the talent is clear and the dynamics go a long, long way. |
| Wolf Alice Visions of a Life | 4.0 |
| Wolf Alice Blue Weekend | 4.0 |
| Wolf Parade Cry Cry Cry | 3.5 |
| Wolf Parade Thin Mind | 3.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Primordial Arcana | 3.5 |
| Wounds of Recollection You Were A Garden of Empyrean Light | 3.0 |
| WRVTH No Rising Sun | 3.5 |
| Wythersake Antiquity | 3.5 |
| Xanthochroid Blessed He With Boils | 4.0 |
| Xanthochroid Of Erthe and Axen: Act I | 4.0 |
| Xanthochroid Of Erthe and Axen: Act II | 4.0 |
| xSPONGEXCOREx How Tough Are Yah? | 5.0 |
| Yashira Fail To Be | 3.5 |
| Yellowcard When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes | 3.5 |
| Yellowcard Southern Air | 4.5 |
| Yellowcard Paper Walls | 4.0 |
| Yellowcard Lights and Sounds | 3.0 |
| Yellowcard Lift a Sail | 2.5 |
| Yellowcard Yellowcard | 3.5 |
| Yellowcard and Hammock A Hopeful Sign | 3.0 |
| Yndi Halda Under Summer | 4.0 |
| Yon order of violence | 3.5 |
| Yves Tumor Heaven To A Tortured Mind | 2.5 |
