| +44 When Your Heart Stops Beating | 3.5 |
| Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties We Don't Have Each Other | 3.5 |
| AC/DC Black Ice | 3.0 |
| AC/DC Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap | 4.5 |
| AC/DC Back In Black | 4.5 |
| AC/DC Let There Be Rock | 4.5 |
| AC/DC High Voltage | 4.5 |
| AC/DC Highway To Hell | 5.0 |
| But Bon Scott told me it's OK to slip into her room, crawl across her floor and make a mess of her while she sleeps! |
| Aerosmith Toys in the Attic | 5.0 |
| Aerosmith Rocks | 5.0 |
| Akon Freedom | 2.0 |
| Alkaline Trio Goddamnit | 4.5 |
| American Football American Football EP | 4.0 |
| American Football American Football | 4.5 |
| Angels and Airwaves We Don't Need to Whisper | 2.5 |
| Aphex Twin Syro | 4.5 |
| Aramid Obsidian | 3.5 |
| ASG Win Us Over | 4.0 |
| Athlete Tourist | 2.0 |
| Athlete Black Swan | 3.0 |
| Athlete Vehicles & Animals | 3.5 |
| The electronic influence and infectious hooks on this record proved Athlete both unique and promising. Too bad they settled with becoming a less successful Coldplay. |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold | 3.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare | 3.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen | 4.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil | 4.0 |
| Bay Faction Bay Faction | 3.5 |
| Beach Slang Cheap Thrills On A Dead End Street | 3.5 |
| Beach Slang Who Would Ever Want Anything So Broken? | 4.0 |
| Beck Sea Change | 3.5 |
| Ben Watt Hendra | 4.0 |
| Although lyrically poor at times, "Hendra" by Ben Watt (previously one-half of Everything But the Girl) excels with its relaxed summery charm, complimented by the breezy guitar lines of Suede's Bernard Butler ("The Levels" even features slide guitar/backing vocals from David Gilmour). |
| Big L Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous | 4.5 |
| Black Country Communion Black Country | 4.0 |
| Black Country Communion Afterglow | 4.0 |
| Black Country Communion 2 | 4.5 |
| Black Spiders Sons of the North | 3.5 |
| Black Stone Cherry Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea | 3.0 |
| When will they realise that their Southern-tinged hard rock tracks are like 100X better than the shite attempts to top the charts? |
| blink-182 Neighborhoods | 3.5 |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket | 4.5 |
| blink-182 Blink-182 | 5.0 |
| Blood on the Dance Floor EPIC | 1.0 |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Legend | 5.0 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 4.0 |
| Boogie Down Productions Criminal Minded | 5.0 |
| Bowling for Soup A Hangover You Don't Deserve | 4.0 |
| Bowling for Soup The Great Burrito Extortion Case | 4.0 |
| Boys Like Girls Boys Like Girls | 2.5 |
| Braids Native Speaker | 4.0 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 4.5 |
| Bridget St John Ask Me No Questions | 4.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Count Your Blessings | 1.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season | 2.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It... | 3.5 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Temper Temper | 2.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine The Poison | 4.0 |
| Bully Feels Like | 3.0 |
| Bully Bully | 3.5 |
| Caspa and Rusko FabricLive.37 | 3.5 |
| Chance the Rapper Acid Rap | 4.0 |
| Chickenfoot Chickenfoot | 2.5 |
| Cloud Nothings Attack on Memory | 3.5 |
| Cloud Nothings Here and Nowhere Else | 4.0 |
Behind all the sloppy punk goodness, Cloud Nothings have put intricate care into this - the hooks creep out with
each repeat listen, making the album that bit more enjoyable each time. Where as Attack On Memory grew off
me pretty fast, I just keep coming back to this. |
| Cocteau Twins Victorialand | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension | 4.0 |
| Crosses EP | 3.5 |
| Crosses EP II | 4.0 |
| Crucial Dudes 61 Penn | 4.0 |
| Currensy The Stoned Immaculate | 4.0 |
| Cyanotic MedPack Vol. 1 | 2.0 |
| Damon Albarn Dr. Dee | 1.0 |
| Danny Brown XXX | 4.0 |
| Deadmau5 4x4=12 | 3.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism | 4.0 |
| Death Grips Exmilitary | 3.0 |
| Death Grips No Love Deep Web | 3.5 |
| Defeater Travels | 4.0 |
| Don't usually like this type of music, but this is great. A chilling tale told with the usual screamed/shouted vocals and good lyrics. I also like the atmosphere the guitarists create. |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist | 3.5 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 4.0 |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan | 4.0 |
Here deftones expertly master their distinctive meld of dreamy metal. No, their sound has
not changed; Chino's voice still melts over the pounding rhythm section and the whirling
fuzz of distortion (occasionally coming up for air with a meaty riff or two--see the latter
half of "Tempest"). But the material here is so good that the stasis is more of a
consistency. rOn paper, opener "Swerve city" is a disaster. The headbanging riff pounds,
reassuring the band have not quite abandoned their metal roots, and before we know it, we're
straight into a verse that swerves and swirls under Chino's vocals. And then it's back to
the riff. But it works, and serves as a perfect introduction for what's to come. rEven the
tracks that drift furthest away from the band's nu-metal roots (the beautiful "Entombed" and
closer "What happened to you?), whose sound resembles that of Chino's side project
"Crosses", have something (maybe in the guitar lines that accompany their souring choruses)
that is distinctively Deftones about them. Great album.r"Shapes and colours are all I see." |
| Deftones White Pony | 4.5 |
| Deftones Around the Fur | 4.5 |
| Dizzee Rascal Boy In Da Corner | 5.0 |
| Doldrums (CAN) The Air Conditioned Nightmare | 3.0 |
| Don Henley Building the Perfect Beast | 3.5 |
| Down Down IV - Part I | 3.5 |
| riffs man, riffssssssssss |
| Down NOLA | 5.0 |
| Dowsing All I Could Find Was You | 2.5 |
| Dry The River Shallow Bed | 3.5 |
| Duff McKagan's Loaded The Taking | 3.5 |
| Most of the tracks on 'The Taking' punch you in the face with their hard rock-meets-grunge approach, helped by the low-end production. It's the commercial tracks (e.g. "We Win" SPEW) that let this down. |
| Earl Sweatshirt Doris | 3.0 |
| Earl Sweatshirt EARL | 3.5 |
| Earl Sweatshirt I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside | 4.0 |
| Earl Sweatshirt Solace | 4.5 |
| Enter Shikari The Zone | 3.0 |
| The non-album tracks on this are great. However, the remixes/alternate versions don't interest me. |
| Enter Shikari A Flash Flood of Colour | 3.0 |
| Enter Shikari Common Dreads | 3.5 |
| Enter Shikari Take to the Skies | 4.0 |
There's something about the hypnotic mess of manic hardcore -- complete with a distinctive
techno atmosphere and pretty harmonies (Adieu rules) -- that keeps my inner 14-year-old self
coming back to this. |
| Eric Clapton Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert | 3.0 |
| Everything Everything Get to Heaven | 3.5 |
| Failure Magnified | 4.0 |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes | 2.5 |
| Fleetwood Mac Bare Trees | 4.0 |
| Foo Fighters Sonic Highways | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light | 4.5 |
| Forever Came Calling Contender | 4.0 |
| Foxing Dealer | 3.5 |
| Foxing The Albatross | 4.0 |
| Frank Ocean Nostalgia, Ultra. | 3.5 |
| Frank Ocean channel ORANGE | 4.5 |
| Free Throw Those Days Are Gone | 3.5 |
The guitar work is the highlight for me. The guitars twinkle over the rhythm section creating a
sort of warm, hazy sound (nicely encapsulating the purple of the album art,) that's somewhat
shoegaze-influenced--especially in harmony with the clean vocals. The screamed vocals sound out of
place to me though and all-in-all, it's midwest emo we've all heard before. |
| Friendzone DX | 4.0 |
| Funeral for a Friend Memory and Humanity | 3.0 |
| Funeral for a Friend Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation | 3.5 |
| Funeral for a Friend Tales Don't Tell Themselves | 3.5 |
| Funeral for a Friend Conduit | 3.5 |
| Funeral for a Friend Hours | 4.0 |
| Funeral for a Friend The Young And Defenseless | 4.0 |
| Funeral for a Friend Welcome Home Armageddon | 4.0 |
| Gary Clark Jr. The Bright Lights | 3.5 |
| Gary Clark Jr. Blak and Blu | 4.0 |
| Gates (USA-NJ) You Are All You Have Left to Fear | 3.5 |
| George Clanton 100% Electronica | 4.0 |
| Ghost (SWE) Opus Eponymous | 4.0 |
| Gravediggaz 6 Feet Deep | 5.0 |
6 Feet Deep oozes fun. The Gravediggaz' shockingly good rhymes are coupled with a halloween-ready
soundtrack that's trippy, yet completely danceable, and never lets up the fun. For me, 6 Feet Deep
has all I could ask for from a hip-hop album. |
| Green Day 21st Century Breakdown | 2.5 |
| Green Day ¡UNO! | 2.5 |
| Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion II | 4.0 |
| Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion I | 4.5 |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction | 5.0 |
| Handguns Angst | 3.0 |
| His Name Is Alive Detrola | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son | 4.0 |
| James Iha Let It Come Down | 3.5 |
| After hearing 'Take me down' from Mellon collie I had to hear this. Granted, nothing here really sounds like that song, or any other song in the Pumpkins' discography for that matter. But it's a pleasant record full of sunny, country-tinged, 70s soft rock. |
| Jeff Buckley Grace | 4.5 |
| Jim Sullivan U.F.O. | 4.0 |
| John Martyn Bless the Weather | 4.5 |
| John Mayer Paradise Valley | 3.0 |
| John Mayer Heavier Things | 3.5 |
| John Mayer Battle Studies | 3.5 |
Decidedly simple and poppy song structures that shot him to stardom, but John's smooth Clapton-esque guitar
lines make this irresistible. A great album to chill to. |
| John Mayer Room for Squares | 4.0 |
| John Mayer Born and Raised | 4.0 |
| Joyce Manor Never Hungover Again | 4.0 |
| Judee Sill Judee Sill | 4.0 |
| Kate Bush The Whole Story | 4.5 |
| Kid Cudi Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven | 1.5 |
| Kid Cudi Man on the Moon: The End of Day | 4.0 |
| Korn The Path of Totality | 1.5 |
| Lil Ugly Mane Mista Thug Isolation | 3.5 |
| Living With Lions Make Your Mark | 3.0 |
| Living With Lions Holy Shit | 3.5 |
Pretty much pop punk we've all heard before. But the vocalist weaves some nice melodies into
the reverb-dipped, flat sounding production (when he's not grunting).. and I just like
listening to it. |
| Lorde Pure Heroine | 3.5 |
| Lordi The Arockalypse | 3.5 |
| Lostprophets Liberation Transmission | 2.5 |
| Lostprophets Start Something | 4.0 |
| Lostprophets The Betrayed | 4.0 |
| LSD and the Search for God LSD and the Search for God | 4.0 |
| Main Attrakionz 808s and Dark Grapes III | 3.5 |
| hear for the beats |
| Masked Intruder Masked Intruder | 3.5 |
| Megadeth Th1rt3en | 3.5 |
| Metallica St. Anger | 2.0 |
| Metallica Some Kind of Monster | 2.0 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 3.5 |
| Metallica Beyond Magnetic | 3.5 |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All | 4.0 |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All | 4.0 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 4.5 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 4.5 |
| Metallica Metallica | 4.5 |
| Mild High Club Timeline | 3.5 |
| such a blazed album |
| Mock Orange The Record Play | 4.5 |
| Modern Baseball Sports | 3.5 |
| Motion City Soundtrack Commit This to Memory | 4.0 |
| Motion City Soundtrack My Dinosaur Life | 4.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine m b v | 4.5 |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 5.0 |
| My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love | 3.0 |
| My Chemical Romance Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys | 4.0 |
| My Morning Jacket At Dawn | 4.0 |
| Neck Deep Rain in July | 3.0 |
| Neck Deep Wishful Thinking | 3.0 |
| Neck Deep A History of Bad Decisions | 3.5 |
| New Found Glory New Found Glory | 3.5 |
| Nickelback All the Right Reasons | 2.5 |
| Nirvana Hormoaning | 3.5 |
| Nirvana Bleach | 4.0 |
| Back when Kurt wrote songs about masturbation, blowjobs and serial rapists/killers. Evidence that Nirvana were actually grunge as fuck. |
| Nirvana Incesticide | 4.0 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 5.0 |
| her shit is my milk, my milk is her shit. DOLL STEAK! |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York | 5.0 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 5.0 |
| Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds | 3.5 |
| Old Gray Do I Dare Disturb The Universe | 3.0 |
| Paint in Watercolour Flow | 2.5 |
| Paint in Watercolour Unknown | 3.5 |
| Papercranes Let's Make Babies in the Woods | 4.0 |
| Pity Sex Dark World | 3.5 |
| nice 90's vibe |
| Plan B The Defamation Of Strickland Banks | 3.5 |
| Plan B Who Needs Actions When You've Got Words | 4.5 |
| Portishead Dummy | 4.5 |
| Posture and The Grizzly Christians and Freemasons Will Kill Me | 4.0 |
| PRhyme PRhyme | 3.0 |
| Receivers Haunts | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers I'm With You | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik | 4.5 |
| Rich Robinson Through a Crooked Sun | 4.0 |
| Roy Orbison Mystery Girl | 2.5 |
| Runaway Brother Mother | 4.0 |
| Ry Cooder Paradise And Lunch | 4.0 |
| Ryan Adams Ryan Adams | 3.5 |
| Ryan Adams Gold | 4.0 |
| Saves the Day Stay What You Are | 4.0 |
| Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy | 4.5 |
| Section Boyz Don't Panic | 2.0 |
| Shabazz Palaces Black Up | 4.5 |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon | 3.5 |
| this one's a bit too sparkling pumpkins |
| Silversun Pickups Neck of the Woods | 4.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas | 4.5 |
| Simple Minds New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) | 4.0 |
| Sithu Aye Cassini | 3.5 |
| It is in the second half of the album -as its true prog colours are shown- where Cassini shines. The first half falls victim to pedictable song structures and downtuned riffs that chug, chug, chug. EXCELLENT guitar work, though, and the fact that pretty much all of this was done by one guy amazes me! |
| Sithu Aye Invent the Universe | 3.5 |
| another solid release from Sithu Aye, even if some of those riffs and jazzy interludes are losing their punch. |
| Sithu Aye Isles | 4.0 |
| Sithu Aye released Cassini, played Skyrim and then released this. Awesome. |
| Slash Slash | 3.0 |
| Slash Apocalyptic Love | 3.0 |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone | 3.5 |
| Snowmine Laminate Pet Animal | 4.0 |
| Something Corporate Leaving Through The Window | 3.0 |
| Soulja Boy Souljaboytellem.com | 1.0 |
| Soulja Boy iSouljaBoyTellEm | 1.0 |
| Soundgarden Ultramega OK | 4.0 |
| Soundgarden King Animal | 4.0 |
| An older, lighter Soundgarden that surprisingly still manages to create a hypnotic energy that one can only love to be engrossed in. They've been away for too long, and it's great to have them back. |
| Stereophonics Language.Sex.Violence.Other? | 4.0 |
| Stone Sour Come What(ever) May | 3.5 |
| Stone Sour Stone Sour | 4.0 |
| Stone Sour Audio Secrecy | 4.0 |
| Stoned Jesus Seven Thunders Roar | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell | 4.0 |
| Suzanne Ciani Seven Waves | 4.0 |
| Sylosis Edge of the Earth | 3.5 |
| Sylosis have crafted what is an excellent piece of modern thrash metal here, possessing an instrumental section that is almost flawless to listen to. The album does, however, run for 70+ minutes - way longer than it should, and the vocals occasionally come off as weak in comparison to the rest of the band. With a few minor tweaks, these guys will be putting out a classic in the near future - no doubt. Heads up for a new album in the works....Safe! |
| Taking Back Sunday Taking Back Sunday | 3.0 |
| Not a terrible album, but many of the tracks struggle to push beyond mediocrity. 'El Paso' and 'You Got Me' are awesome, though, and John Nolan's backing vocals make a welcome return. |
| Taking Back Sunday Louder Now | 3.5 |
| Taking Back Sunday New Again | 3.5 |
| Taking Back Sunday Where You Want To Be | 4.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends | 4.5 |
| Tame Impala Currents | 3.0 |
| Taylor Swift 1989 | 3.5 |
| Tenacious D The Pick of Destiny | 4.0 |
| Tenacious D Rize of the Fenix | 4.0 |
| the fucking D is baacckkkk! yeah this rocks, the honesty in the 'hollywood jack' thing and how their film sucked is cool, and the production is awesome. |
| Tenacious D Tenacious D | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul | 4.5 |
| The Bilinda Butchers goodbyes | 3.5 |
| The Black Eyed Peas The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies) | 2.0 |
| The Blackout The Best in Town | 3.5 |
| The Damned Things Ironiclast | 3.5 |
| The Front Bottoms The Front Bottoms | 3.5 |
| The Get Up Kids Four Minute Mile | 3.5 |
| The Get Up Kids Something to Write Home About | 4.5 |
| The Hextalls Get Smashed | 3.5 |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There | 4.5 |
| The Jet Age Of Tomorrow Journey to the 5th Echelon | 2.0 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold as Love | 5.0 |
| The Killers Battle Born | 2.5 |
| WHAT IS THIS!? will probably appeal to ageing married couples on the brink of divorce. Can't stop listening to runaways though |
| The Lay-Lows Your Old Best Thing | 3.0 |
| The Lay-Lows Pick Up And Go | 3.5 |
| The Lay-Lows Happy Families | 4.0 |
| The Main Drag Yours As Fast As Mine | 4.5 |
| The Mothers of Invention Uncle Meat | 3.5 |
| The Shins Oh, Inverted World | 4.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Monuments to an Elegy | 3.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Oceania | 4.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | 4.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream | 5.0 |
| The Story So Far Under Soil and Dirt | 4.0 |
| The Vaccines What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? | 3.0 |
| The Wannadies Be a Girl | 2.5 |
| The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream | 4.5 |
| The Weakerthans Left and Leaving | 4.0 |
| The Weeknd Thursday | 3.5 |
| The Weeknd House of Balloons | 4.0 |
| The Weeknd Echoes of Silence | 4.0 |
| The Wonder Years Get Stoked on It! | 3.0 |
| The Wonder Years No Closer to Heaven | 3.5 |
| The Wonder Years The Upsides | 4.0 |
| The Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing | 4.5 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Josh Is Dead | 3.0 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Formlessness | 4.0 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Whenever, If Ever | 4.0 |
| Thin Lizzy Renegade | 3.5 |
| Thin Lizzy Chinatown | 3.5 |
| Thin Lizzy Nightlife | 4.0 |
| "Just a slight guitar injection", a cool Phil Lynott shouts in Nightlife's opening track, right before we get a first taste of the twin-guitar harmonies that defined Lizzy's career. In comparison to later releases, Nightlife is best described as laid-back, but it is a gem of an album in a discography that is largely underrated. |
| Thin Lizzy Thunder and Lightning | 4.0 |
| Thin Lizzy Vagabonds of the Western World | 4.0 |
| Thin Lizzy Fighting | 4.5 |
| Thin Lizzy Jailbreak | 5.0 |
| Thin Lizzy Black Rose: A Rock Legend | 5.0 |
| Thin Lizzy Johnny the Fox | 5.0 |
| Thin Lizzy Live and Dangerous | 5.0 |
| Thin Lizzy Bad Reputation | 5.0 |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars This Is War | 2.5 |
| Todd Rundgren Something/Anything? | 4.5 |
| Travis Barker Give The Drummer Some | 2.0 |
| Turnover Magnolia | 3.0 |
| Turnover Peripheral Vision | 4.0 |
| Twin Atlantic Free | 2.5 |
| Tyler, the Creator Cherry Bomb | 2.0 |
| Tyler, the Creator Goblin | 3.0 |
| Tyler, the Creator Bastard | 3.5 |
| Unknown Mortal Orchestra II | 3.0 |
| Vince Guaraldi Trio A Charlie Brown Christmas | 4.5 |
| Violent Soho Violent Soho | 3.5 |
| Violent Soho Tinderbox, Neighbour Neighbour EP | 4.0 |
| Weezer Everything Will Be Alright in the End | 3.5 |
| Wild Nothing Gemini | 4.0 |
| Wiley Chill Out Zone | 1.5 |
| Wiley 'chilling out' by producing some light, stripped-down beats and hiring a few guest singers. Oh, he also made a rubbish EP in the process. |
| Wiley Treddin' on Thin Ice | 3.5 |
| Wiley Playtime Is Over | 3.5 |
| wiley, the 'Godfather' of grime, put (and still puts) out some great tracks, but his first few LP's were inconsistent and contained a high abundance of shit. |
| Yellowcard Ocean Avenue | 4.0 |
| You Blew It! Keep Doing What You’re Doing | 3.0 |
| You Blew It! Grow Up, Dude | 3.5 |
| Yuck Glow and Behold | 3.0 |
| Yuck Yuck | 4.5 |
