| A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory | 4.5 |
| A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders | 4.0 |
| Agalloch The Mantle | 3.5 |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain | 4.0 |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore | 4.0 |
| Aglaia Three Organic Experiences | 4.0 |
| A full, warm, oscillating record of organic and gorgeous ambience. Essential. |
| Agnes Obel Aventine | 5.0 |
| Agnes Obel Citizen Of Glass | 5.0 |
| Agnes Obel Philharmonics | 4.5 |
| Air Moon Safari | 4.5 |
| Akron/Family S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT | 3.5 |
| Akron/Family Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free | 4.5 |
| Akron/Family Sub Verses | 4.5 |
| Really digging this so far, mathy and direct. Not to mention the production is mindblowing. What the hell is wrong with you people |
| Akron/Family Love Is Simple | 4.0 |
| Alaskalana Safe From Harm | 4.0 |
| if I heard this in a record store I'd buy me a copy on the fucken spot |
| Anamanaguchi Endless Fantasy | 2.0 |
| Angelo Badalamenti Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me | 4.0 |
| A fantastic, haunting soundtrack to one of the most unsettling films I've ever seen. The Pink Room is phenomenal. |
| Angelo Badalamenti Twin Peaks | 5.0 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 5.0 |
| Animal Collective Strawberry Jam | 5.0 |
| Animal Collective Sung Tongs | 4.5 |
| Animal Collective Feels | 5.0 |
| Animal Collective Ark | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective ODDSAC | 4.5 |
| Animal Collective Centipede Hz | 4.0 |
| Merriweather's busy, scrambled and erratic cousin - for better and for worse. |
| Animal Collective Campfire Songs | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Fall Be Kind | 4.5 |
| Animal Collective People | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Keep + Animal Collective | 3.5 |
| First two tracks (Geologist's and Avey Tare's) are pleasant enough, although the latter two (Deakin's and Panda Bear's) are really worth the listen. A funny little EP. |
| Animal Collective Honeycomb/Gotham | 4.0 |
This single, particularly a-side Honeycomb, feels very much like business as usual for Animal Collective. You
could call Honeycomb an ecstatic three-minute summation of their last three albums; it has the rough 'n'
tumble execution of 'Feels', the soaring vocals of 'Merriweather Post Pavilion', and the melodic sweetness of
'Strawberry Jam'. Melancholic b-side Gotham isn't quite so familiar-sounding, featuring a heartbreaking vocal
from Avey Tare that sighs across lethargic guitar and unhurried drums. It isn't the blast of energy and colour
Honeycomb is, but may well be the superior track. All in all Honeycomb/Gotham is a fantastic, if slightly
inessential pre-'Centipede' single. |
| Animal Collective Painting With | 3.5 |
| Animal Collective Water Curses | 4.5 |
| "This is where I come to cry" ... "Coooool" |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 4.5 |
| Aphex Twin Syro | 3.5 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 4.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare | 3.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys AM | 3.0 |
| Atoms for Peace Amok | 3.5 |
| Austra Feel It Break | 5.0 |
| Austra Olympia | 3.0 |
| Autechre EP7 | 3.5 |
| Autechre Amber | 3.5 |
| Autechre Tri Repetae | 4.0 |
| Autechre Exai | 3.5 |
| Battles Gloss Drop | 4.0 |
| Battles Mirrored | 3.5 |
| Battles Dross Glop | 3.5 |
| Beach House Beach House | 3.5 |
| Beach House Depression Cherry | 4.0 |
| Beach House Devotion | 3.5 |
| Beady Eye Different Gear, Still Speeding | 2.5 |
| Barely competent revivalist rock that does offer some treats and surprises across its thirteen tracks, but not quite enough to bother spinning it. |
| Beady Eye BE | 2.5 |
| Big Black Songs About Fucking | 4.0 |
| Biosphere Substrata | 4.0 |
| Bjork Post | 3.5 |
| Bjork Homogenic | 5.0 |
| Bjork Vespertine | 4.0 |
| Bjork Debut | 3.5 |
| Bjork Biophilia | 3.5 |
| Black Moth Super Rainbow Eating Us | 4.0 |
| Black Moth Super Rainbow Dandelion Gum | 4.5 |
| Black Moth Super Rainbow Falling Through a Field | 3.5 |
| Bliss N Eso Circus In The Sky | 2.0 |
| Blur Think Tank | 3.5 |
| Blur Parklife | 4.5 |
| Blur Modern Life Is Rubbish | 4.0 |
| Boards of Canada Geogaddi | 5.0 |
| Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase | 4.0 |
| Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children | 4.5 |
| Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest | 4.5 |
| Boards of Canada In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country | 4.0 |
| Bonnie 'Prince' Billy I See a Darkness | 3.5 |
| Bonobo The North Borders | 4.0 |
| Boredoms Seadrum/House Of Sun | 4.0 |
| Boston Boston | 2.5 |
| File under anthemic, all-American pseudo-prog rock. |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 4.0 |
| Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports | 4.0 |
| Brian Eno Another Green World | 4.0 |
| BT Ima | 4.5 |
| Burial Kindred | 4.0 |
| Burial Street Halo | 4.0 |
| Burial Untrue | 4.0 |
| Butthole Surfers Locust Abortion Technician | 3.5 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Pain Is Beauty | 3.5 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Abyss | 4.0 |
| Coil Horse Rotorvator | 4.0 |
| Crazy Frog Crazy Frog Presents Crazy Hits | 1.0 |
| Cryptopsy None So Vile | 4.0 |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles II | 3.5 |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles | 4.0 |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles III | 3.5 |
| D'Angelo Black Messiah | 4.0 |
| Daft Punk Homework | 4.0 |
| Daft Punk Human After All | 3.0 |
| Daft Punk Discovery | 4.0 |
| Daft Punk Alive 2007 | 4.5 |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories | 4.0 |
| Danny Brown Old | 4.0 |
| Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition | 4.0 |
| Danny Brown XXX | 4.5 |
| Darkside Psychic | 3.5 |
| Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger | 4.0 |
| David Bowie "Heroes" | 4.5 |
| David Bowie The Next Day | 4.5 |
| David Bowie Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) | 4.5 |
| David Bowie Blackstar | 4.0 |
| David Bowie Hunky Dory | 4.5 |
| David Bowie Station to Station | 4.0 |
| David Bowie Aladdin Sane | 4.0 |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars | 4.5 |
| David Lynch The Big Dream | 3.5 |
| David Sylvian Secrets of the Beehive | 4.0 |
| Dead Can Dance Into the Labyrinth | 4.0 |
| Dead Can Dance Within the Realm of a Dying Sun | 4.5 |
| Dead Can Dance The Serpent's Egg | 4.5 |
| The opening and closing tracks are two of the best things ever recorded. |
| Deadsy Commencement | 3.0 |
| Deakin Sleep Cycle | 4.5 |
| Death Human | 4.0 |
| Deerhoof Reveille | 4.0 |
| Deftones Around the Fur | 4.0 |
| Deftones White Pony | 4.5 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 4.0 |
| Denzel Curry Imperial | 3.5 |
| Devendra Banhart Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon | 3.0 |
| Devendra Banhart Rejoicing in the Hands | 4.0 |
| Devendra Banhart Mala | 3.5 |
| Diamanda Galas The Divine Punishment | 5.0 |
| Die Antwoord Ten$ion | 1.5 |
| Possibly the most gimmicky, charmless, style-over-substance band I have ever heard... all surface and no meaning whatsoever. |
| Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me | 4.0 |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... | 4.5 |
| Doprah Wasting | 4.0 |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Ocean Rain | 4.0 |
| El-P Fantastic Damage | 4.0 |
| El-P Cancer 4 Cure | 4.5 |
| Electric Wizard Dopethrone | 4.0 |
| Elliott Smith Figure 8 | 3.0 |
| En Esch Spänk | 3.5 |
| Ennio Morricone The Hateful Eight | 3.5 |
| Estradasphere Buck Fever | 4.0 |
| Faith No More The Real Thing | 4.0 |
| Faith No More Album of the Year | 4.5 |
| Faith No More Angel Dust | 5.0 |
| Faith No More King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime | 4.5 |
| Faith No More Original Album Series [Box set] | 4.5 |
| Faith No More Sol Invictus | 4.0 |
| Fantomas Suspended Animation | 4.5 |
| Fantomas Delìrium Còrdia | 5.0 |
| Fantomas The Director's Cut | 3.5 |
| Fantomas Fantômas | 4.0 |
| Faun Fables Mother Twilight | 4.5 |
| Faun Fables A Table Forgotten | 3.5 |
| Faun Fables The Transit Rider | 3.5 |
| Faun Fables Light of a Vaster Dark | 4.0 |
| Fever Ray Fever Ray | 5.0 |
| Fever Ray Stranger Than Kindness/Here Before | 4.5 |
| Fever Ray Live In Luleå | 4.5 |
| Flipper Album – Generic Flipper | 3.5 |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma | 4.0 |
| Forest Swords Engravings | 3.5 |
| Frank Zappa Apostrophe | 2.0 |
| Frank Zappa Hot Rats | 3.0 |
| Frank Zappa Joe's Garage | 3.5 |
| Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand | 3.5 |
| Franz Ferdinand Tonight: Franz Ferdinand | 4.0 |
| Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better | 3.0 |
| Franz Ferdinand Blood | 3.5 |
| Franz Ferdinand Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action | 4.0 |
| Fuck Buttons Slow Focus | 3.5 |
| Funkadelic Maggot Brain | 3.5 |
| Gary Numan Dead Son Rising | 4.0 |
| Gary Numan Sacrifice | 3.5 |
| Gary Numan Telekon | 3.5 |
| Gary Numan The Pleasure Principle | 4.0 |
| Gary Numan Pure | 3.5 |
| General Patton vs. The X-Ecutioners General Patton vs. The X-Ecutioners | 4.0 |
| Genesis Platinum Collection | 4.0 |
| Genesis Selling England by the Pound | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! | 3.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada | 3.5 |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius | 3.5 |
| Gold Panda Lucky Shiner | 4.0 |
| Goldfrapp Felt Mountain | 5.0 |
| Gorguts Obscura | 4.5 |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz | 4.0 |
| Gorillaz Demon Days | 4.0 |
| Gorillaz D-Sides | 3.5 |
| Gravediggaz 6 Feet Deep | 4.0 |
| Hammock Oblivion Hymns | 4.0 |
| Hans Zimmer The Dark Knight Rises | 3.5 |
| Hans Zimmer Interstellar | 4.5 |
| How to Destroy Angels Welcome Oblivion | 4.0 |
| How to Destroy Angels An Omen | 3.5 |
| Howard Shore The Return of the King | 5.0 |
| Howard Shore The Fellowship of the Ring | 5.0 |
| Howard Shore The Two Towers | 5.0 |
| Idiot Flesh Fancy | 5.0 |
| Idiot Flesh The Nothing Show | 5.0 |
| Idiot Flesh Tales of Instant Knowledge and Sure Death | 4.0 |
| Jack White Blunderbuss | 3.5 |
| Jakob Solace | 4.0 |
| James Blake Overgrown | 1.5 |
| Jamie Saft Trio Astaroth: Book of Angels Volume 1 | 4.0 |
| Janelle Monae The Electric Lady | 3.5 |
| Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid | 4.0 |
| Jeff Buckley Grace | 4.5 |
| Jenny Hval Blood Bitch | 4.5 |
| Joanna Newsom Ys | 5.0 |
| Joanna Newsom The Milk-Eyed Mender | 4.5 |
| fuck y'all she has a stunning voice, I love Joanna Newsroom |
| John Williams Star Wars: The Force Awakens | 4.5 |
| John Williams Star Wars, Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back | 4.5 |
| Vader: Luke I am your father /.../ Luke: Daddy /.../ Vader: what the fuck |
| John Zorn Filmworks XXI: Belle de Nature/The New Rijksmuseum | 3.0 |
| John Zorn Spillane | 4.5 |
| John Zorn Filmworks XIII: Invitation to a Suicide | 4.0 |
| This is a film score consisting of about three or four simple themes, varied upon and repeated throughout. What makes this score wonderful rather than monotonous is a) the sheer, aching beauty of these melodic motifs, and b) the ingenious ways Zorn is able to remould them in different hues. Highly recommended. |
| John Zorn Madness, Love and Mysticism | 4.0 |
| Jon Hopkins Immunity | 5.0 |
| Julianna Barwick Will | 3.5 |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience | 2.5 |
| Kasabian Velociraptor! | 3.0 |
| Kasabian West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum | 2.5 |
| Kasabian Empire | 3.0 |
| Kate Bush 50 Words for Snow | 4.0 |
| Kate Bush Hounds of Love | 5.0 |
| Kate Bush The Dreaming | 4.5 |
| Kate Bush The Kick Inside | 3.5 |
| Kate Bush The Sensual World | 4.0 |
| Kaytranada 99.9% | 3.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly | 4.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city | 4.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar untitled unmastered. | 3.5 |
| Kerli Love Is Dead | 3.0 |
A surprisingly convincing combination of Alice in Wonderland-style gothics and Bjorky, eccentric pop. Rest
assured, this sounds/tastes nothing like Evanescence. Imperfect, but tasteful and ambitious. |
| Killer Mike R.A.P. Music | 4.0 |
| Killing Joke Killing Joke | 3.5 |
| Killing Joke Brighter Than a Thousand Suns | 3.0 |
| King Crimson Starless and Bible Black | 4.0 |
| King Crimson Islands | 4.5 |
| King Crimson In the Wake of Poseidon | 4.0 |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King | 4.0 |
| King Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic | 4.0 |
| Kings of Leon Only By The Night | 3.5 |
| Kings of Leon Come Around Sundown | 2.5 |
| Kings of Leon Aha Shake Heartbreak | 3.5 |
| Kings of Leon Because Of The Times | 4.0 |
| Kings of Leon Youth and Young Manhood | 3.5 |
| Kings of Leon Mechanical Bull | 2.5 |
| Kings of Leon Walls | 2.5 |
| KMFDM WTF?! | 3.0 |
| KMFDM Tohuvabohu | 3.0 |
| KMFDM WWIII | 1.5 |
| Other than the first minute of the title track (a scorching banjo jam) and some gorgeously-mixed industrial samples, this is a totally forgettable, lifeless release. The chugging metal riffs of earlier KMFDM albums worked because they were catchy and tongue-in-cheek, here they just sound like those of any other cringeworthy metal band. Probably the worst KMFDM album of the post-Esch years. |
| KMFDM Attak | 3.0 |
| KMFDM Symbols | 4.5 |
| KMFDM XTORT | 4.0 |
| KMFDM Nihil | 4.5 |
| KMFDM Angst | 4.0 |
| KMFDM Money | 4.0 |
| KMFDM Naïve | 5.0 |
| KMFDM UAIOE | 3.5 |
| KMFDM Don't Blow Your Top | 4.5 |
| KMFDM Opium | 4.0 |
| KMFDM What Do You Know, Deutschland? | 4.0 |
| KMFDM Rules | 4.5 |
| KMFDM Juke Joint Jezebel | 4.0 |
| KMFDM Trust | 3.5 |
| KMFDM Brute | 3.5 |
| KMFDM Sin Sex & Salvation | 4.0 |
| KMFDM Vogue | 4.5 |
| KMFDM Split | 4.5 |
| KMFDM Godlike | 4.5 |
| KMFDM Virus | 4.0 |
| KMFDM More'n'faster | 4.0 |
| KMFDM Strum & Drang Tour 2002 | 3.5 |
| KMFDM Greatest Shit | 4.0 |
| KMFDM Agogo | 4.0 |
| KMFDM Extra Vol.1 | 4.5 |
| KMFDM Extra Vol.3 | 4.5 |
| KMFDM Extra Vol.2 | 4.5 |
| KMFDM 84-86 | 4.0 |
| KMFDM Retro | 4.0 |
| KMFDM Krank | 3.0 |
| KMFDM Day of light | 3.0 |
| KMFDM Adios | 3.5 |
| KMFDM Rocks | 1.0 |
| Oh, how the mighty have fallen. The point where KMFDM truly lost all artistic integrity, and became a soulless franchise. At least on recent KMFDM albums, when they rehashed old ideas, they at least tried to pass it off as new material (see the opener of Kunst for example). This album is literally a bunch of older songs (most of them terrible) remixed by Sascha and thrown together on a CD. Why? Because legions of brainless fans will buy it anyway, because of the brand name attached to it. For which KMFDM collection is complete, without this utterly needless and ridiculous release? You better grab the vinyl and the t-shirt, too. We already have three greatest hits albums. We already have reissues, remasters, and remix albums aplenty. Please don't fork over money for this album. You'll only enable Sascha to continue making a mockery of the KMFDM name, which he's been doing since the early 2000s. Go listen to their classic material instead, or check out Slick Idiot. This release is positively cancerous. |
| KMFDM Amnesia | 2.0 |
| Korn Life Is Peachy | 2.5 |
| Despite some truly impressive in-your-face production, this is Korn at their most juvenile and embarrassing. Like other Korn albums, it can competently channel superior bands (Faith No More, Mr. Bungle) but offers nothing of worth beyond that. |
| Korn Issues | 3.0 |
| Perhaps Korn's least obnoxious release, Issues leans closer to alternative metal than nu-metal, a stylistic shift they should've made earlier and stuck with for longer. Despite being long-winded and flawed beyond belief, Issues does offer up a handful of clever riffs and explosive choruses, evident on tracks like Hey Daddy and Make Me Bad. As good as they ever got. |
| Korn Korn | 2.0 |
| Korn Untitled | 1.0 |
| Korn Follow the Leader | 2.0 |
| Korn The Path of Totality | 1.5 |
A cross-promotion can of energy drink. I'll admit this match made in hell carries some morbid fascination for me. The one
or two faint glimmers of guilty pleasure on here (e.g. the pre-chorus of 'Get Up') prevent me from rating this as a 1.0... as
much as this id-driven, fad-chasing mess might deserve it. This really does represent some nadir of Western culture. I only
wish I hated it more than I do. |
| Kraftwerk Tour De France Soundtracks | 2.5 |
| Kraftwerk Computer World | 4.0 |
| Kraftwerk The Man-Machine | 4.0 |
| Kraftwerk Trans-Europe Express | 4.0 |
| Kraftwerk Radio-Activity | 3.0 |
| Kraftwerk Autobahn | 3.5 |
| Lana Del Rey Honeymoon | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV | 4.0 |
| Lightning Bolt Earthly Delights | 4.5 |
| Lightning Bolt Hypermagic Mountain | 4.0 |
| Lightning Bolt Wonderful Rainbow | 4.5 |
| Lightning Bolt Ride The Skies | 3.5 |
| Lightning Bolt Fantasy Empire | 4.0 |
| Lorde Pure Heroine | 4.0 |
| Lorde The Love Club | 4.0 |
| Lorde Tennis Court | 3.5 |
| Lovage Music To Make Love To Your Old Lady By | 3.5 |
| Lustmord The Word As Power | 4.5 |
| M.I.A. VICKI LEEKX | 3.5 |
| Mac DeMarco Salad Days | 3.5 |
| Mac DeMarco Another One | 3.0 |
| Mac DeMarco 2 | 3.5 |
| Madvillain Madvillainy | 4.5 |
| Mali Mali Gather 'round The Gooseclock | 3.0 |
| Mark Pritchard Under the Sun | 2.5 |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine | 5.0 |
| Massive Attack Blue Lines | 4.0 |
| Massive Attack Protection | 3.0 |
| Massive Attack Heligoland | 2.5 |
| Heligoland is a record that feels rushed and directionless, a fairly random series of cheap-sounding noises thrown at a canvas. Not a lot of it sticks. |
| Massive Attack The Spoils | 4.0 |
| Massive Attack Ritual Spirit | 4.5 |
| Massive Attack 100th Window | 4.0 |
| Fragile, glassy, subtle, ethereal, sparse, gorgeous. Listening to this album is like being haunted by Mezzanine's ghost. |
| Mastodon The Hunter | 2.0 |
| I must admit I never managed to get through the whole thing, but the impression it gave me was so weak I don't think I'll ever bother. A massive disappointment following the epic Crack The Skye. |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun | 3.0 |
| Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas | 4.0 |
| Melvins Hostile Ambient Takeover | 4.5 |
| Melvins Stag | 4.0 |
| Melvins Stoner Witch | 5.0 |
| Melvins Houdini | 4.0 |
| Melvins Lysol | 3.5 |
| Melvins The Bride Screamed Murder | 3.5 |
| Melvins A Senile Animal | 3.5 |
| Melvins Eggnog | 4.0 |
| Melvins Bullhead | 4.0 |
| MGMT Oracular Spectacular | 3.0 |
| Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells | 4.0 |
| Mike Patton Crank: High Voltage | 4.0 |
| Miles Davis Bitches Brew | 4.5 |
| Moderat II | 3.5 |
| Modeselektor Monkeytown | 4.0 |
| Modeselektor Happy Birthday! | 3.5 |
| Modeselektor & Thom Yorke This | 4.0 |
| Motoi Sakuraba Dark Souls Soundtrack | 4.0 |
| Motoi Sakuraba and Yuka Kitamura Dark Souls III OST | 4.5 |
| Mr. Bungle Disco Volante | 5.0 |
| An alternately hilarious and terrifying avant-garde record of plodding death metal, schizoid jazz, sensual funk and eerie ambience. Never has a record had a more mysterious, haunting personality. Requires many a listen to make sense of it all, but it'll stick with you for life. |
| Mr. Bungle California | 5.0 |
| Mr. Bungle's third and final album was their weakest, but nonetheless an absolute triumph. The weirdest and best pop album ever recorded. |
| Mr. Bungle Mr. Bungle | 5.0 |
| Mr. Bungle OU818 | 4.0 |
| Mr. Bungle The Studio Album Collection | 5.0 |
| Mr. Oizo The Church | 2.5 |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 3.0 |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry | 3.0 |
| Muse The 2nd Law | 1.5 |
| Muse's trashy mix of cheesy guitar riffs, space-themed lyrics and Freddie Mercury-style histrionics can at times be great fun to listen to. On The 2nd Law however the cheese and the drama is cranked to 11, totally at the cost of any enjoyment. This album is almost entirely forgettable, save for the couple of tracks (Survival, Unsustainable) where the band verges into unlistenable territory. The addition of wobble bass on tracks such as Madness, Follow Me and Unsustainable (funnily enough the three singles thus far) was a soulless and ineffective attempt to jump on the dubstep bandwagon, yielding results more tragic than anything else. Stay way clear of this, folks. |
| Muse The Resistance | 2.0 |
| Muse Absolution | 3.5 |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 4.5 |
| My Bloody Valentine m b v | 4.5 |
| My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love | 1.0 |
| My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult 13 Above The Night | 4.0 |
| My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult Sexplosion! | 4.0 |
| Myrkur M | 3.0 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 4.5 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel On Avery Island | 4.0 |
| Nick Drake Pink Moon | 3.5 |
| Nicolas Jaar Space Is Only Noise | 4.0 |
| Nicolas Jaar Sirens | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Slip | 3.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IV | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth | 2.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Fragile | 3.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Fixed | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine: 2010 Remaster | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Hesitation Marks | 3.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Year Zero | 3.5 |
| Nirvana Bleach | 3.5 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 4.0 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 3.0 |
| Nobukazu Takemura Songbook | 4.0 |
| Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds | 3.0 |
| Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Chasing Yesterday | 2.5 |
| Nujabes Spiritual State | 4.0 |
| Oasis Dig Out Your Soul | 3.0 |
| Oasis Don't Believe the Truth | 3.5 |
| Oasis Heathen Chemistry | 3.0 |
| Oasis Standing on the Shoulder of Giants | 3.5 |
| Oasis Be Here Now | 3.0 |
| Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? | 3.5 |
| Oasis Definitely Maybe | 3.5 |
| Oasis Wibbling Rivalry | 4.0 |
| Oasis The Masterplan | 3.0 |
| Om God Is Good | 4.0 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never R Plus Seven | 3.0 |
| Opeth Still Life | 2.5 |
| OutKast ATLiens | 4.0 |
| Panda Bear Person Pitch | 4.5 |
| Panda Bear Tomboy | 4.5 |
| Panda Bear Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper | 4.0 |
| Paolo Nutini Caustic Love | 3.0 |
| Parliament Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome | 4.0 |
| Parliament Mothership Connection | 5.0 |
| Pearl Jam Ten | 3.5 |
| Peeping Tom Peeping Tom | 4.0 |
| Peter Gabriel So | 4.0 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Bankrupt! | 3.0 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | 3.5 |
| PIG The Gospel | 2.5 |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Wall | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 5.0 |
| I actually consider Dark Side Of The Moon a little flawed, and find a couple of tracks far less interesting than others... but the one-two punch of Time and The Great Gig In The Sky is enough to 5 this alone. A timeless, sweeping classic. |
| Pink Floyd Animals | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd Meddle | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd Ummagumma | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn | 4.0 |
| Pixies EP1 | 2.0 |
Four lifeless, uninspired songs that bare absolutely no resemblance to the Pixies or even each other. An
inscrutable little EP. |
| Portishead Dummy | 4.0 |
| Portishead Portishead | 4.0 |
| Primus Pork Soda | 4.0 |
| Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese | 3.5 |
| Primus Antipop | 2.0 |
| Primus The Brown Album | 3.5 |
| Primus Frizzle Fry | 4.0 |
| Primus Animals Should Not Try To Act Like People | 4.0 |
| Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back | 4.0 |
| Purity Ring Shrines | 3.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R | 4.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork | 4.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 5.0 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 4.0 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 5.0 |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 4.5 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 5.0 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey | 2.5 |
| Not the embarrassing, grating pop-grunge album people would lead you to believe it is, Pablo Honey is simply an unimpressive mix of bland songwriting and ho-hum execution. Not a patch on even The Bends. |
| Radiohead TKOL RMX 1234567 | 4.0 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs: From the Basement | 4.5 |
| Radiohead 8 Outtakes From Amnesiac | 3.5 |
| Radiohead The Daily Mail/Staircase | 4.5 |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool | 5.0 |
| Radiohead Supercollider/The Butcher | 4.0 |
| Forgot to butcher this despite colliding both times a ton of magic. Songrater is super okay, and The Hearer is pure |
| Radiohead In Rainbows Disk 2 | 3.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 3.5 |
| Regina Spektor Soviet Kitsch | 3.0 |
| "life ain't kitsch but a phat Regina" - king Vendrick Lamar |
| Regina Spektor Begin To Hope | 2.5 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 | 4.0 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels | 3.5 |
| Run the Jewels Meow the Jewels | 1.5 |
| Ryan Amon Bloodborne Original Soundtrack | 4.5 |
| Scorn Zander | 4.0 |
| Scratch Acid The Greatest Gift | 4.0 |
| Scratch Acid Just Keep Eating | 4.5 |
| Shihad The General Electric | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun | 5.0 |
| Sigur Ros Takk... | 4.5 |
| Sigur Ros Valtari | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Kveikur | 5.0 |
| Sigur Ros Brennisteinn | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Heima (DVD) | 4.5 |
| Sigur Ros ( ) | 4.0 |
| Silver Apples Silver Apples | 3.5 |
| Six Organs Of Admittance The Sun Awakens | 3.5 |
| Skinny Puppy Last Rights | 4.0 |
| Skinny Puppy Too Dark Park | 4.0 |
| Sleepytime Gorilla Museum In Glorious Times | 5.0 |
| Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Of Natural History | 5.0 |
| Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Grand Opening and Closing | 4.5 |
| Sleigh Bells Treats | 3.0 |
| Slick Idiot Sucksess | 4.0 |
"Sucksess" is the 2009 album by electro-industrial act Slick Idiot, aka ex-KMFDM members En Esch and
Guenter Schulz. Although amateurly produced and a little incoherent stylistically, this album is far superior to
anything KMFDM has come up with since said members left in 1999. Tracks like Everyone's A Winner,
Daydreams, Silly and Wer Bist Du? are exotic and deliciously catchy post-industrial jams far more deserving of
the KMFDM name than Sascha's recent mall goth bullshit. I am yet to listen to their divisive debut, DickNity,
but this album fills me with hope and excitement. Well done fellas. |
| Slick Idiot Dicknity | 4.0 |
| Slowdive Souvlaki | 4.5 |
| Son Lux Bones | 4.0 |
| Son Lux At War With Walls And Mazes | 4.5 |
| Son Lux We Are Rising | 3.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Man of Steel | 2.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Scott Pilgrim vs. The World | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Juno | 3.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Watchmen: Music from the Motion Picture | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Donnie Darko | 4.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Snatch | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Pulp Fiction | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Reservoir Dogs: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 | 2.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) 2001: A Space Odyssey | 4.5 |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) Witcher 3 - The Wild Hunt | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria | 4.5 |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade | 4.5 |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) World of Warcraft | 4.5 |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) World of Warcraft: Wraith of the Lich King | 4.5 |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) Imaginarium: Songs from the Neverhood | 4.0 |
| An underrated and unknown gem of a game. Suitably wacky music to accompany the vistas of plasticine. |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) Super Smash Bros. For Nintendo 3DS/Wii U | 3.5 |
| Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space | 5.0 |
| St. Vincent St. Vincent | 3.5 |
| Stimming Alpe Lusia | 4.5 |
I first heard Stimming nearly five years ago, when a song of his was given to me by a friend as part of a mixtape. The track
exhibited a fresh and meticulous approach to house music, suggesting Stimming possessed something special among the
hordes of bedroom DJs. However, there was something audibly missing from the track, as
though Stimming had not yet realised how to take the disparate elements of his music and add them up to something entire
and profound. While optimistic that I would one day hear Stimming deliver on his promise, a torrent of new music and other
experiences flooded into my life, and I quickly forgot all about him. Cue the release of his new album. Alpe Lusia is the
sound of Stimming fully, gloriously realising the potential I first heard from him half a decade ago. One of the best
electronic albums I've heard in some years. |
| Sunn O))) Monoliths and Dimensions | 4.0 |
| Swans To Be Kind | 4.5 |
| Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky | 3.5 |
| Swans Soundtracks for the Blind | 4.5 |
| Swans Love of Life | 3.5 |
| Swans The Great Annihilator | 5.0 |
| Swans White Light From the Mouth of Infinity | 4.0 |
| Swans The Burning World | 3.0 |
| Swans Holy Money | 3.5 |
| Swans Greed | 4.0 |
| Swans Filth | 5.0 |
| Swans Love Will Tear Us Apart | 4.0 |
| Swans The Seer | 5.0 |
| Swans The Glowing Man | 4.0 |
| Sweet Trip Velocity : Design : Comfort | 4.5 |
| I ain't never seen a gator get punked by no mongooses |
| T. Rex Electric Warrior | 3.5 |
| Talk Talk Spirit of Eden | 4.0 |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock | 4.0 |
| Talking Heads Remain in Light | 5.0 |
| Talking Heads Fear of Music | 4.5 |
| Tears for Fears Songs from the Big Chair | 4.5 |
| Television Marquee Moon | 4.5 |
| The All Seeing Hand Mechatronics | 4.5 |
| The Beach Boys Pet Sounds | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Abbey Road | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Revolver | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 4.0 |
| The Beatles The Beatles | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Let It Be | 2.5 |
| The Beatles Love | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour | 4.5 |
| The Beatles A Hard Day's Night | 2.5 |
| The Beatles Help! | 3.0 |
| The Brian Jonestown Massacre Bravery Repetition and Noise | 2.0 |
| The Brian Jonestown Massacre Methodrone | 3.0 |
| The Brian Jonestown Massacre Give It Back | 2.5 |
| The Chemical Brothers Surrender | 4.0 |
| The Chemical Brothers Dig Your Own Hole | 3.5 |
| The Clash London Calling | 3.5 |
| The Cure Disintegration | 4.0 |
| The Flaming Lips Clouds Taste Metallic | 3.5 |
| The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin | 4.0 |
| The Horrors Skying | 3.5 |
| The Horrors Primary Colours | 3.0 |
| The Horrors Strange House | 2.5 |
| The Jesus Lizard Blue | 4.0 |
| The Jesus Lizard Down | 3.5 |
| The Jesus Lizard Shot | 3.5 |
| The Jesus Lizard Liar | 5.0 |
| The Jesus Lizard Goat | 5.0 |
| The Jesus Lizard Head | 3.5 |
| The Jesus Lizard The Jesus Lizard | 3.5 |
| The Jesus Lizard Pure | 3.0 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced | 4.0 |
| The Killers Day & Age | 3.0 |
| The Killers Battle Born | 2.0 |
| The Knife Shaking the Habitual | 4.5 |
| The Knife Silent Shout | 4.5 |
| The Knife Deep Cuts | 3.5 |
| The Knife Tomorrow, In a Year | 5.0 |
| The fragmented, droning dissonance of the first half had me basically twitching in anticipation of a sonic payoff. When it finally came, so did I. What a rollercoaster of an album. |
| The Mothers of Invention Freak Out! | 3.5 |
| The Mountain Goats We Shall All Be Healed | 3.0 |
| The Necks Sex | 4.0 |
| The Necks Hanging Gardens | 4.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream | 4.0 |
| The Strokes First Impressions of Earth | 3.5 |
| The Strokes Is This It | 4.0 |
| The Strokes Room on Fire | 3.5 |
| The Strokes Comedown Machine | 3.0 |
| The Strokes Angles | 3.0 |
| The United States of America The United States of America | 3.5 |
| The Veils Time Stays, We Go | 2.0 |
| Time Stays, We Go is not a terrible record, simply a huge letdown considering The Veil's massive reputation. |
| The Verve A Storm in Heaven | 4.5 |
| The Vines Highly Evolved | 3.0 |
| Young Aussie rockers splicing The Beatles' Revolver with Nirvana's Nevermind. Sound awful? It isn't. This album is far, far better than it has any right to be. |
| The Vines Winning Days | 2.5 |
| Aside from the opener and the beautiful title track, this is a step down in quality from their debut. A shame. |
| The White Stripes Icky Thump | 4.0 |
| The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan | 3.5 |
| The White Stripes Elephant | 4.0 |
| The White Stripes De Stijl | 4.0 |
| The White Stripes The White Stripes | 3.0 |
| The White Stripes White Blood Cells | 3.5 |
| The xx xx | 3.5 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Horses in the Sky | 4.5 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Born Into Trouble As the Sparks Fly Upward | 4.0 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our | 4.0 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Pretty Little Lightning Paw | 3.0 |
| Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures | 3.5 |
| Thom Yorke The Eraser | 3.5 |
| Thurston Moore Demolished Thoughts | 3.5 |
| Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 | 4.0 |
| TNGHT TNGHT | 3.5 |
| Tomahawk Anonymous | 4.0 |
| Tomahawk Mit Gas | 4.5 |
| Tomahawk Tomahawk | 4.0 |
| Tomahawk Oddfellows | 3.5 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 1.5 |
| Tool Lateralus | 2.5 |
| Tool Ænima | 2.5 |
| Trentemoller The Last Resort | 4.0 |
| Tricky Maxinquaye | 5.0 |
| Tycho Epoch | 2.0 |
Fuck me, this is as bland as it gets. The musical equivalent of having a palm tree as your desktop screensaver. Offensively
inoffensive. |
| Tycho The Science of Patterns | 3.0 |
| u-Ziq Chewed Corners | 3.0 |
| Ufomammut Eve | 5.0 |
| Ufomammut Idolum | 4.0 |
| Ufomammut Snailking | 4.5 |
| Ufomammut Godlike Snake | 3.5 |
| Ufomammut Lucifer Songs | 4.5 |
| Van Morrison Astral Weeks | 4.0 |
| Venetian Snares The Chocolate Wheelchair Album | 4.0 |
| Weezer Weezer | 3.0 |
| Woods of Desolation Torn Beyond Reason | 3.0 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 4.0 |
| Xiu Xiu Plays the Music of "Twin Peaks" | 4.0 |
| Young Thug JEFFERY | 3.0 |
| Young Thug Slime Season 3 | 2.0 |
| Zahava Seewald and Michael Grebil From My Mother's House | 4.0 |
