| .blacktunic 1NE | 3.7 |
| .O.rang Herd of Instinct | 4.3 |
| .O.rang Fields & Waves | 3.7 |
| 10 Years The Autumn Effect | 4.0 |
| 10 Years Minus the Machine | 3.5 |
| 2814 新しい日の誕生 | 4.0 |
| 2Pac Me Against the World | 4.0 |
| 2Pac All Eyez on Me | 4.0 |
| 50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin' | 3.0 |
| 65daysofstatic The Fall of Math | 4.0 |
| 65daysofstatic One Time for All Time | 4.0 |
| 65daysofstatic The Destruction of Small Ideas | 4.0 |
| 65daysofstatic We Were Exploding Anyway | 3.5 |
| 65daysofstatic Wild Light | 3.5 |
| 65daysofstatic No Man's Sky: Music for an Infinite... | 3.5 |
| 65daysofstatic No Man's Sky: Soundscapes | 3.5 |
| 801 801 Live | 4.0 |
| A Bunny's Caravan Draining Puddles, Retrieving Treasures | 4.0 |
| A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart | 2.5 |
| A Day To Remember Homesick | 2.5 |
| A Day To Remember What Separates Me from You | 2.5 |
| A Guy Called Gerald Black Secret Technology | 3.0 |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms | 4.0 |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step | 4.5 |
| A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe | 2.5 |
| A Perfect Circle A Perfect Circle Live: Featuring Stone and Echo | 4.0 |
| A Perfect Circle Three Sixty | 3.5 |
| A Perfect Circle Eat the Elephant | 3.7 |
| A compelling, well made rock album that sounds timely and contains enough diverse compositional elements to be one of the finest albums of the year so far. |
| A Sunny Day in Glasgow Scribble Mural Comic Journal | 3.7 |
| Abigail Williams The Accuser | 3.0 |
| Abigail Williams Becoming | 3.5 |
| Abigail Williams In the Absence of Light | 3.0 |
| Abigail Williams In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns | 3.0 |
| AC/DC Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap | 3.5 |
| AC/DC Let There Be Rock | 3.5 |
| AC/DC Highway To Hell | 4.0 |
| AC/DC Back In Black | 3.5 |
| AC/DC For Those About To Rock We Salute You | 3.5 |
| AC/DC Black Ice | 3.0 |
| Adam F Colours | 3.5 |
| Adramelech Psychostasia | 4.0 |
| Adrenaline Mob Omerta | 2.0 |
| Adrian Belew Lone Rhino | 3.0 |
| Adrian Belew Young Lions | 3.0 |
| Adrian Belew Side One | 3.5 |
| Aeon Sable Visionaers | 3.7 |
| Aeon Spoke Above the Buried Cry | 3.5 |
| Aeon Spoke Aeon Spoke | 4.0 |
| Aeon Spoke Nothing | 3.0 |
| Aerosmith Get Your Wings | 4.0 |
| Aerosmith Toys in the Attic | 4.0 |
| Aerosmith Permanent Vacation | 3.5 |
| AES Dana Inks | 3.5 |
| AES Dana Pollen | 4.0 |
| After the Burial Forging a Future Self | 3.5 |
| After the Burial Rareform | 3.5 |
| After the Burial In Dreams | 3.5 |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore | 4.5 |
| Agalloch The Mantle | 5.0 |
| Agalloch The White | 4.5 |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain | 5.0 |
| Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit | 4.3 |
| Agalloch The Serpent and the Sphere | 3.7 |
| Agalloch Faustian Echoes | 4.0 |
| Agalloch From Which of This Oak | 4.0 |
| Agalloch Of Stone, Wind and Pillor | 4.0 |
| Agalloch Alpha Serpentis | 4.0 |
| Aghora Aghora | 4.0 |
| Aghora Formless | 4.0 |
| Agnes Obel Aventine | 4.0 |
| Aiden Conviction | 1.5 |
| Aimee Mann Magnolia [OST] | 4.0 |
| Ainulindale Nevrast | 4.0 |
| Air Moon Safari | 4.0 |
| Alan Silvestri Avengers: Endgame | 3.5 |
| Alan Silvestri Avengers: Infinity War | 3.5 |
| Alan Silvestri Ready Player One | 3.0 |
| Alcest Shelter | 4.0 |
| Alcest Le Secret (2011 Version) | 4.0 |
| Alcest Les Voyages De L'Âme | 4.2 |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune | 5.0 |
| Alcest Kodama | 4.5 |
| The atmosphere of Japanese folklore and Neige's dreamworld collide in this euphoric odyssey, continuing from where Voyages... left off, yet sounding more focused overall. While Shelter was an enjoyable diversion from the band's sound, Kodama follows swiftly in the footsteps of Le Secret and Ecailles...: sweeping post-rock atmospheres colliding with intense metal soundscapes. It frequently convalesces into a swirling blend of chaotic beauty, going for a more sophisticated sound than the typical dynamic motifs one hears in post-black metal. While it could have been a bit longer, the first forty minutes stands as among Niege's most stunning creations yet. Note: It helps to think of the enjoyable yet meandering final 10 minutes (including the bonus track, "Notre sang et nos pens?es") as the falling action of Kodama, being much more ambient overall. |
| Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde | 4.3 |
| Alcest Spiritual Instinct | 3.6 |
| A more metal-charged affair and technical rhythm section are the most noticeable changes in Spiritual Instinct, being probably their most energetic release. |
| Alesana On Frail Wings of Vanity and Wax | 3.0 |
| Alestorm Captain Morgan's Revenge | 3.5 |
| Alestorm Black Sails at Midnight | 3.0 |
| Alestorm Back Through Time | 3.0 |
| Alestorm Sunset on the Golden Age | 3.5 |
| Alestorm Leviathan | 3.0 |
| Alexandre Desplat The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | 3.5 |
| Alexandre Desplat Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part.1 | 4.0 |
| Alexandre Desplat Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt. 2 | 4.0 |
| Alexandre Desplat The Tree of Life Original Soundtrack | 3.5 |
| Alexandre Desplat The Grand Budapest Hotel | 4.0 |
| Alexandre Desplat Godzilla | 3.5 |
| Alexandre Desplat The Shape of Water | 3.5 |
| Alexandre Desplat Little Women | 3.5 |
| Alexandre Desplat The Midnight Sky | 3.5 |
| Alexandre Desplat Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio | 4.0 |
| Alice Cooper Killer | 3.5 |
| Alice Cooper School's Out | 3.5 |
| Alice Cooper Along Came a Spider | 3.0 |
| Alice in Chains Facelift | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains Dirt | 4.5 |
| Alice in Chains Jar of Flies | 4.5 |
| Alice in Chains Sap | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains Alice in Chains | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains MTV Unplugged | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains Rainier Fog | 3.0 |
| All Shall Perish The Price of Existence | 3.5 |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals | 3.5 |
| All That Remains A War You Cannot Win | 1.5 |
| All That Remains Behind Silence and Solitude | 2.0 |
| All That Remains This Darkened Heart | 3.0 |
| All That Remains Overcome | 3.0 |
| All That Remains For We Are Many | 2.5 |
| All That Remains The Order of Things | 2.0 |
| Alora Crucible Thymiamatascension | 4.2 |
| Love this, major Felt and The Durutti Column Vibes but very Toby Driver of course. Channeling his best solo work, They Are the Shield, he takes on another new identity with Alora Crucible for a truly engrossing work that emphasizes space, silence, texture, and nocturnal atmospheres. The loudness of his main bands is nowhere to be found here, existing in an abstract space of otherworldly beauty. One of the highlights of 2021. Favorite piece: "Livonomancy in Jasper." |
| alt-J An Awesome Wave | 4.2 |
| alt-J This Is All Yours | 3.6 |
| alt-J Relaxer | 3.8 |
| Alt-J mature and expand their songwriting for rewarding results. |
| Altar of Plagues Teethed Glory and Injury | 4.0 |
| Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto The Revenant | 4.0 |
| Alvvays Antisocialites | 3.5 |
| Alvvays Blue Rev | 4.0 |
| American Football American Football | 3.8 |
| American Football American Football (LP3) | 4.1 |
| American Football American Football (LP2) | 3.5 |
| American Football Rare Symmetry / Fade into You | 4.0 |
| Amesoeurs Amesoeurs | 4.0 |
| Amesoeurs Ruines Humaines | 4.0 |
| Amethystium Odonata | 4.0 |
| Amethystium Aphelion | 3.5 |
| Amethystium Isabliss | 3.5 |
| Amon Tobin Adventures In Foam | 3.5 |
| Amon Tobin Permutation | 4.5 |
| Amon Tobin Bricolage | 4.5 |
| Amon Tobin Supermodified | 4.5 |
| Amon Tobin Out From Out Where | 4.0 |
| Amon Tobin Chaos Theory - Splinter Cell 3 Soundtrack | 4.2 |
| Amon Tobin Foley Room | 4.0 |
| Amon Tobin ISAM | 3.7 |
| Amon Tobin Dark Jovian | 2.5 |
| Amon Tobin Amon Tobin | 4.0 |
| Amon Tobin Chomp Samba | 4.0 |
| Amon Tobin Fear In A Handful Of Dust | 4.0 |
| Amon Tobin Long Stories | 4.0 |
| Amon Tobin How Do You Live | 3.5 |
| Amorphous Androgynous The Isness | 4.0 |
| Amorphous Androgynous Tales of Ephidrina | 3.7 |
| Amorphous Androgynous Alice in Ultraland | 3.5 |
| Amorphous Androgynous Peppermint Tree and Seeds of Superconsciousness | 3.3 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Try Not To Destroy Everything You Love | 4.0 |
| Anarchy Club The Way and Its Power | 3.3 |
| Anarchy Club A Single Drop of Red | 3.0 |
| Anathema Alternative 4 | 4.0 |
| Anathema Judgement | 4.3 |
| Anathema A Fine Day to Exit | 4.0 |
| Anathema A Natural Disaster | 4.0 |
| Anathema We're Here Because We're Here | 4.2 |
| Anathema Weather Systems | 4.0 |
| Anathema Distant Satellites | 3.5 |
| Anathema Serenades | 3.0 |
| Anathema The Silent Enigma | 3.5 |
| Anathema Eternity | 3.7 |
| Anathema The Optimist | 4.0 |
| An interesting direction to go in, mainly darker and with less accessible songwriting than the previous three albums. The middle few songs are the highlights. |
| Anathema Hindsight | 4.0 |
| Anathema Falling Deeper | 3.5 |
| Anciients Heart of Oak | 4.1 |
| Anciients Voice of the Void | 3.7 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar And So I Watch You From Afar | 4.0 |
| Andrew Bayer If It Were You, We'd Never Leave | 3.5 |
| Andrew Bird The Mysterious Production Of Eggs | 3.5 |
| Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha | 4.0 |
| Andrew Bird Noble Beast | 3.5 |
| Andrew Bird Break It Yourself | 3.5 |
| Andrew Lloyd Webber Highlights from The Phantom of the Opera | 4.0 |
| Andy Summers and Robert Fripp I Advance Masked | 4.0 |
| Andy Summers and Robert Fripp Bewitched | 3.5 |
| Angelo Badalamenti Twin Peaks | 4.2 |
| Angelo Badalamenti Twin Peaks: Music from the Limited Event Series | 4.0 |
| Angelo Badalamenti Twin Peaks (Limited Series Soundtrack) | 4.2 |
| Angelo Badalamenti Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me | 4.0 |
| Angelo Badalamenti Mulholland Drive | 4.0 |
| Angelo Badalamenti Twin Peaks: Music From Season 2 And More | 4.0 |
| Angelo Badalamenti Blue Velvet | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 3.0 |
| Animals As Leaders The Madness of Many | 4.0 |
| Animals As Leaders shake up their formula a bit with increased technical playing (if that were even possible) and less hooks overall. The result could be described as mixed, but there are simply too many great moments on here to be considered a disappointment. The opener is one of their most fascinating tracks, beginning the first run of more dissonant, darker sounding compositions than on the debut or The Joy of Motion. This trend only lasts for about the first 1/3 of the album however, as it veers back into more melodic and rewarding territory in the middle. The last three songs are the highlights, with less metal elements making for jazzy, syncopated musical madness to be the focus. The Madness of Many isn't the strongest album from AAL, but takes enough risks and remains fascinating enough to warrant plenty of close listens, as plenty of rewarding details can flicker by quickly. |
| Animals As Leaders Weightless | 4.0 |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion | 4.5 |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders | 4.5 |
| Animals As Leaders Wave of Babies | 4.0 |
| Anna von Hausswolff Dead Magic | 4.0 |
| Anna von Hausswolff All Thoughts Fly | 3.5 |
| Antimatter Leaving Eden | 3.5 |
| Antonio Sanchez Birdman | 4.0 |
| Anubis Hitchhiking to Byzantium | 3.5 |
| Anvil Metal on Metal | 3.5 |
| Aperture Science Psychoacoustics Lab... Portal 2: Songs to Test By | 3.5 |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 4.2 |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II | 4.3 |
| Aphex Twin Digeridoo | 3.0 |
| Aphex Twin Xylem Tube | 3.0 |
| Aphex Twin On | 3.5 |
| Aphex Twin ...I Care Because You Do | 3.5 |
| Aphex Twin Donkey Rhubarb | 3.3 |
| Aphex Twin Girl/Boy EP | 3.0 |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album | 3.5 |
| Aphex Twin Come to Daddy | 3.0 |
| Aphex Twin Windowlicker | 2.5 |
| Aphex Twin Classics | 2.5 |
| Aphex Twin Drukqs | 3.7 |
| Aphex Twin Syro | 3.8 |
| Aphex Twin Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments Pt 2 | 2.5 |
| Aphex Twin Cheetah EP | 3.2 |
| Aphex Twin Collapse | 3.5 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 4.5 |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible | 4.0 |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs | 4.2 |
| Arcade Fire Reflektor | 3.5 |
| Arcade Fire Her | 4.0 |
| Arcade Fire Everything Now | 2.2 |
| Like Humanz by Gorillaz from earlier this year, Everything Now by Arcade Fire is a major low for a once incredible band. The mainstream 80s dance rock sound reaches modern The Killers-level banality here, with especially poor lyrics and singing performances. One of the laziest albums I've ever heard from a favorite band of mine, as much as it pains me to say it. |
| Arcade Fire WE | 2.5 |
| Arch Enemy Wages of Sin | 4.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not | 4.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare | 4.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys Humbug | 3.8 |
| Arctic Monkeys Suck It and See | 3.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys AM | 3.2 |
| Arctic Monkeys Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino | 3.4 |
| Strikes an interesting balance of being weirder and more relaxed than AM, but also less diverse. The change in direction is nice enough, but a whole album of these spacey, lounge music piano standards gets a bit homogeneous toward the end. Still, it has a very nice atmosphere and entertaining lyrics. |
| Arctic Monkeys The Car | 3.0 |
| Arcturus Aspera Hiems Symfonia | 4.0 |
| Arcturus La Masquerade Infernale | 4.0 |
| Arcturus The Sham Mirrors | 4.3 |
| Arcturus Sideshow Symphonies | 3.7 |
| Arcturus Arcturian | 4.0 |
| Arma Gathas Dead To This World | 3.0 |
| Arsonists Get All the Girls The Game Of Life | 2.5 |
| As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse | 3.0 |
| As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security | 3.0 |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us | 3.5 |
| As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise | 3.5 |
| As I Lay Dying Decas | 2.5 |
| As I Lay Dying Awakened | 2.5 |
| Ashbringer Yūgen | 3.5 |
| Asking Alexandria Stand Up and Scream | 1.5 |
| Asking Alexandria Reckless and Relentless | 2.0 |
| Astronauts Hollow Ponds | 4.0 |
| Astronauts End Codes | 4.0 |
| Astronauts are an underappreciated indie band that deserve more attention, and will probably make it big some day. End Codes has a very gentle feel to many of the compositions, but the quirky songwriting is enough to stand out from the rest. While being quirky, much of this band?s music is subtle and restrained. Very much their own sound, the band does a great job of making thoughtful and poignant music while not getting too melancholic, which suits them. |
| Astronoid Stargazer | 3.5 |
| Astronoid Air | 4.0 |
| One of the better blackgaze albums with hardly any actual black metal elements at all. The songwriting is fairly triumphant and bombastic throughout, being a good example of hard-hitting music that can sound happy and upbeat without getting cheesy. It's a fine line to ride, but select bands can do it, and the results are always fascinating. Astronoid have the songwriting chops to back up such genre-bending decisions as combining thrash metal, dream pop, and whatever else this is. Air almost resembles Melting Sun by Lantlos, if the tempos were three times faster and had catchier sensibilities. |
| Astronoid Astronoid | 3.6 |
| Asya Sergeeva Heart of Winter | 4.0 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 3.5 |
| At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul | 4.0 |
| At the Gates Gardens of Grief | 3.5 |
| At the Gates The Red in the Sky Is Ours | 3.5 |
| Atheist Piece of Time | 4.5 |
| Atheist Unquestionable Presence | 4.5 |
| Atoms for Peace Amok | 3.2 |
| Atreyu Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses | 2.5 |
| Attack Attack! Attack Attack! | 2.0 |
| Atticus Ross The Book Of Eli OST | 3.5 |
| Audioslave Audioslave | 3.5 |
| Audioslave Out of Exile | 3.0 |
| Audioslave Revelations | 3.0 |
| August Burns Red Messengers | 3.0 |
| August Burns Red Constellations | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Leveler | 3.0 |
| August Burns Red Rescue & Restore | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Found in Far Away Places | 3.5 |
| The melodic sections are a welcome break from August Burns Red's trademark sound. Overall, this is just as good as R&R, with some longer tracks and a welcome guest appearance from A Day To Remember vocalist Jeremy McKinnon. |
| Austin Wintory Journey OST | 4.0 |
| Autopsy Mental Funeral | 4.0 |
| Autopsy Severed Survival | 4.0 |
| Autumn's Grey Solace Within the Depths of a Darkened Forest | 4.4 |
| Autumn's Grey Solace Over The Ocean | 4.2 |
| Autumn's Grey Solace Riverine | 4.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil | 3.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold | 2.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare | 2.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Hail to the King | 1.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold further alienate their fanbase by releasing a shamelessly unoriginal rip-off of classic hard rock and heavy metal bands. Granted they've always done that to some degree, but the band really show how little shame they have here. Hail... stands as being largely void of substance or inspiration, so much that it boggles the mind. Arin Ilejay's talent with the sticks is squandered for a disappointingly bland and monotonous drumming performance throughout. The music itself isn't terrible, other than the ever-pervading stagnation and unoriginality. The singing is the least annoying of any of their albums at least, and the guitar work can be interesting if I have to name some positives. Heretic and Coming Home are the most worthwhile tracks. |
| Avenged Sevenfold Sounding the Seventh Trumpet | 2.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen | 2.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen: Resurrected | 3.0 |
| Avril Lavigne Let Go | 2.5 |
| Avril Lavigne Under My Skin | 3.0 |
| Avril Lavigne The Best Damn Thing | 2.5 |
| Avril Lavigne Goodbye Lullaby | 2.5 |
| BABYMETAL BABYMETAL | 2.5 |
| Bambara Stray | 3.5 |
| Bang On A Can All-Stars Music for Airports | 4.0 |
| Banks Goddess | 3.5 |
| Bark Psychosis Hex | 5.0 |
| Bark Psychosis Codename: Dustsucker | 4.5 |
| Bark Psychosis Independency | 4.0 |
| Bass Communion Bass Communion | 3.5 |
| Bass Communion Bass Communion II | 4.0 |
| Bass Communion Ghosts on Magnetic Tape | 3.5 |
| Bass Communion Molotov And Haze | 3.0 |
| Bass Communion Litany | 4.0 |
| Bass Communion Atmospherics | 3.7 |
| Bass Communion Bass Communion III | 3.0 |
| Bass Communion Cenotaph | 3.5 |
| Bass Communion Sisters Oregon | 3.0 |
| Bass Communion Indicates Void | 2.0 |
| Bass Communion Loss | 2.5 |
| Bass Communion Pacific Codex | 2.0 |
| Bass Communion Chiaroscuro | 3.0 |
| Bathory Blood Fire Death | 4.5 |
| Bathory The Return of the Darkness and Evil | 3.5 |
| Bathory Bathory | 4.0 |
| Baths Ocean Death | 3.5 |
| Battle Tapes Polygon | 3.5 |
| Beach House Once Twice Melody: Chapter One | 4.0 |
| Beach House Teen Dream | 4.0 |
| Beach House Bloom | 4.0 |
| Beach House 7 | 4.0 |
| Beach House Once Twice Melody: Chapter Three | 3.7 |
| Beach House Depression Cherry | 3.7 |
| Beach House Once Twice Melody: Chapter Two | 3.6 |
| Beach House Once Twice Melody | 4.0 |
| Beach House Become | 3.0 |
| Beastie Boys Ill Communication | 3.5 |
| Beastie Boys Check Your Head | 3.5 |
| Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique | 4.0 |
| Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill | 3.5 |
| Beck Mutations | 3.8 |
| Beck Midnite Vultures | 4.0 |
| Beck Odelay | 4.0 |
| Beck Mellow Gold | 3.5 |
| Beck Sea Change | 4.2 |
| Beck Guero | 3.5 |
| Beck The Information | 2.5 |
| Beck Modern Guilt | 3.5 |
| Beck Morning Phase | 3.7 |
| Beck Colors | 3.0 |
| Upbeat almost to a fault, Colors finds Beck return to writing pop rock hits for the first time in nearly a decade. This is yet another new direction however, with glossy, modern production and pop hooks galore. While a bit one dimensional in this way, the songs are diverse enough to keep attention for the 40 minute run time. |
| Beck Hyperspace | 2.0 |
| Behavior Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent | 4.0 |
| Behemoth Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic) | 3.5 |
| Behemoth Grom | 3.5 |
| Behemoth Satanica | 3.5 |
| Behemoth The Satanist | 3.7 |
| Behemoth Evangelion | 3.5 |
| Behemoth The Apostasy | 3.0 |
| Behemoth Demigod | 3.5 |
| Behemoth And the Forests Dream Eternally | 3.7 |
| Bela Fleck and The Flecktones Live at the Quick | 4.0 |
| Bela Fleck and The Flecktones Flight Of The Cosmic Hippo | 4.0 |
| Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow Black Mirror: Men Against Fire | 3.5 |
| Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow Devs | 4.0 |
| Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow Ex Machina | 4.0 |
| Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow Men | 3.5 |
| Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow Annihilation | 4.0 |
| Beneath The Sky In Loving Memory | 3.0 |
| Benjamin Wallfisch The Flash | 3.0 |
| Benjamin Wallfisch The Invisible Man | 3.5 |
| Bernard Herrmann Vertigo | 4.0 |
| Bernard Herrmann Psycho | 4.0 |
| Bernard Herrmann Taxi Driver: Original Soundtrack Recording | 4.0 |
| Better Oblivion Community Center Better Oblivion Community Center | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic | 2.3 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence | 3.2 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 3.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 3.3 |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 3.1 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus | 3.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me | 2.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Automata I | 2.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Automata II | 3.0 |
| Bibio fi | 4.0 |
| Beautiful stuff, like Boards of Canada's The Campfire Headphase meets The Durutti Column. |
| Bibio Hand Cranked | 3.5 |
| Big Bud Infinity + Infinity | 3.7 |
| Big Bud Late Night Blues | 3.5 |
| Big Red Machine Big Red Machine | 4.0 |
| A lovely combination of electronic, pop, folk, and indie rock from Aaron Dessner of The National and Justin Vernon of Bon Iver. A highlight of the year. |
| Big Red Machine How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last? | 4.0 |
| Plenty more expansive than the debut, with a longer track list than either The National or Bon Iver have done before. I wish there was more Justin singing as opposed to having so many features akin to a Gorillaz album. Maybe not a very interesting take, but I like this about the same as the debut from 2018. The ratio of forgettable filler to greatness is around the same for both, this just has more of everything. Might slightly prefer this just for the sheer variety, whereas the debut was more uniform. Like with that one, I heard the whole album at once without having listened to any pre-release singles before, which are among the highlights. Favs are "Latter Days," "Phoenix," "Ghost of Cincinnati," "Mimi," "Magnolia," and "Brycie." |
| Big Thief Masterpiece | 3.5 |
| Big Thief Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You | 4.0 |
| Big Thief U.F.O.F. | 3.5 |
| Billie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? | 2.0 |
| Biosphere Substrata | 4.0 |
| Bjork Post | 4.0 |
| Bjork Debut | 4.0 |
| Bjork Homogenic | 5.0 |
| Bjork Vespertine | 4.5 |
| Bjork Selmasongs | 3.5 |
| Black Country, New Road Ants From Up There | 3.5 |
| Black Label Society The Blessed Hellride | 3.5 |
| Black Label Society Skullage | 3.5 |
| Black Peaks Statues | 3.7 |
| Black Sabbath 13 | 3.8 |
| Black Sabbath The End | 3.5 |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath | 4.5 |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid | 5.0 |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality | 5.0 |
| Black Sabbath Vol. 4 | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath | 4.6 |
| Black Sabbath Sabotage | 4.5 |
| Black Sabbath Technical Ecstasy | 3.0 |
| Black Sabbath Never Say Die! | 2.5 |
| Black Sabbath Mob Rules | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Born Again | 2.0 |
| Black Sabbath Seventh Star | 2.5 |
| Black Sabbath The Eternal Idol | 2.0 |
| Black Sabbath Headless Cross | 2.5 |
| Black Sabbath Tyr | 3.0 |
| Black Sabbath Dehumanizer | 3.5 |
| Black Sabbath Cross Purposes | 3.0 |
| Black Sabbath Forbidden | 2.0 |
| Black Tongue Born Hanged | 1.5 |
| Black Tongue The Unconquerable Dark | 2.5 |
| Black Veil Brides We Stitch These Wounds | 2.5 |
| Black Veil Brides Set the World on Fire | 2.0 |
| Black Wing ...Is Doomed | 3.5 |
| Black Wizard New Waste | 4.0 |
| Blackfield Blackfield | 4.0 |
| Blackfield Welcome To My DNA | 3.0 |
| Blackfield Blackfield II | 4.0 |
| Blackfield Blackfield IV | 3.0 |
| Blackfield Blackfield V | 3.6 |
| The songs serve as a series of brief vignettes that together form a sweeping art rock musical concept about the cycles of life relating to the ocean. It cleverly builds to the impressive ending few songs, recalling Porcupine Tree while launching Blackfield back into the hearts of fans who may have been disappointed by WTMDNA and IV. |
| Blackfield For The Music | 2.5 |
| Blackmill Miracle | 3.5 |
| Blessthefall Witness | 3.0 |
| Blessthefall Awakening | 3.0 |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm | 4.0 |
| Blondie Blondie | 3.5 |
| Bloodbath Resurrection Through Carnage | 3.5 |
| Bloodbath Nightmares Made Flesh | 4.0 |
| Bloodbath The Fathomless Mastery | 3.5 |
| Bloodbath Grand Morbid Funeral | 3.0 |
| Bloodmist Sheen | 2.0 |
| Blotted Science The Machinations of Dementia | 4.0 |
| Blotted Science The Animation of Entomology | 4.0 |
| Blue Oyster Cult Blue Öyster Cult | 3.5 |
| Blue Oyster Cult Secret Treaties | 4.5 |
| Blue Oyster Cult Tyranny and Mutation | 4.0 |
| Blue Oyster Cult Agents of Fortune | 4.0 |
| Blue Oyster Cult Spectres | 3.5 |
| Blue Oyster Cult Mirrors | 3.0 |
| Blue Oyster Cult Cultösaurus Erectus | 3.5 |
| Blue Oyster Cult Fire of Unknown Origin | 4.0 |
| Blue Sky Black Death Late Night Cinema | 4.2 |
| Blue Sky Black Death The Holocaust Instrumentals | 4.0 |
| Blue Sky Black Death NOIR | 3.5 |
| Blue Sky Black Death Glaciers | 3.5 |
| Blur Modern Life Is Rubbish | 3.5 |
| Blur Leisure | 3.3 |
| Blur Parklife | 3.8 |
| Blur The Great Escape | 3.2 |
| Blur Blur | 3.5 |
| Blur 13 | 4.0 |
| Blur Think Tank | 4.0 |
| Blur The Magic Whip | 3.5 |
| Blur The Ballad of Darren | 3.5 |
| Bo Burnham Inside (The Songs) | 1.5 |
| Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children | 4.4 |
| Boards of Canada Geogaddi | 4.3 |
| Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase | 4.5 |
| Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest | 4.2 |
| Boards of Canada Twoism | 4.0 |
| Boards of Canada Hi Scores | 4.0 |
| Boards of Canada Aquarius | 3.5 |
| Boards of Canada Boc Maxima | 3.5 |
| Boards of Canada In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country | 4.0 |
| Boards of Canada Trans Canada Highway | 3.5 |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Exodus | 4.5 |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Legend | 4.5 |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Sunset Mission | 4.2 |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Black Earth | 4.0 |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Patchouli Blue | 3.5 |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Dolores | 3.5 |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Piano Nights | 3.5 |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 4.5 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 4.2 |
| Bon Iver 22, A Million | 4.0 |
| Bon Iver Blood Bank | 4.0 |
| Bon Iver i,i | 3.9 |
| Bonobo Black Sands | 4.0 |
| Bonobo The North Borders | 3.5 |
| Bonobo Days To Come | 3.8 |
| Bonobo Migration | 3.5 |
| Bonobo Animal Magic | 3.7 |
| Bonobo Dial 'M' For Monkey | 3.5 |
| Bonobo Fragments | 3.3 |
| Boring Bathtimes An Otherwise Clouded Mind | 4.0 |
| Boris Flood | 4.0 |
| Boris Blenn Berlin Future Lounge | 4.0 |
| Born of Osiris The New Reign | 3.5 |
| Born of Osiris A Higher Place | 3.0 |
| Born of Osiris The Discovery | 3.8 |
| Born of Osiris Tomorrow We Die Alive | 2.0 |
| Boston Boston | 3.5 |
| Botanist Hammer of Botany | 3.5 |
| Boygenius boygenius | 3.5 |
| Boygenius the record | 3.5 |
| Boygenius the rest | 3.0 |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon | 3.0 |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 4.0 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 4.5 |
| Brand New Daisy | 4.4 |
| Brand New Fight Off Your Demons (The Demos) | 4.0 |
| Brand New Leaked Demos 2006 | 4.0 |
| Brand New 3 Demos, Reworked | 3.7 |
| Brand New Science Fiction | 4.3 |
| Brand New unceremoniously drop their long-waited fifth album, Science Fiction, yet another rewarding new direction. Jesse & co. stray even farther from their roots, resembling the latest Thrice in some ways. The scattershot direction of Daisy comes to mind here, though the angst, fire, and rage is replaced with exciting, mature songwriting and a confident new direction. Whether it's superior to Daisy, or even The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me is not yet clear. What matters is that Brand New have exceeded expectations yet again, providing some of the most emotional and mature music of the year. |
| Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports | 4.5 |
| Brian Eno Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) | 4.0 |
| Brian Eno Discreet Music | 4.0 |
| Brian Eno Before and After Science | 4.5 |
| Brian Eno Ambient 4: On Land | 4.0 |
| Brian Eno Music For Films | 4.0 |
| Brian Eno Another Green World | 5.0 |
| Brian Eno Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks | 4.0 |
| Brian Eno Thursday Afternoon | 3.7 |
| Brian Eno Here Come the Warm Jets | 4.0 |
| Brian Eno Reflection | 3.5 |
| Brian Eno The Ship | 3.0 |
| Brian Eno Lux | 4.0 |
| LUX is one of the finest modern ambient albums you can find. Follows in the legacy of Discreet Music and Ambient 1: Music for Airports in the best ways. |
| Brian Eno Music for Films Volume 2 | 3.5 |
| Brian Eno More Music for Films | 3.5 |
| Brian Eno The Shutov Assembly | 3.5 |
| Brian Eno Neroli | 3.5 |
| Brian Eno Another Day On Earth | 3.0 |
| Brian Eno Small Craft on a Milk Sea | 3.2 |
| Brian Eno Music for Installations | 3.8 |
| Brian Eno Foreverandevernomore | 3.0 |
| Brian Eno and David Byrne My Life in the Bush of Ghosts | 4.5 |
| Brian Eno and David Byrne Everything that Happens Will Happen Today | 3.6 |
| Brian Eno and John Cale Wrong Way Up | 3.7 |
| Brian Eno and Jon Hassell Fourth World, Vol 1: Possible Musics | 4.0 |
| Brian Eno and Roger Eno Mixing Colours | 3.5 |
| Brian Eno with Kevin Shields The Weight Of History/Only Once Away My Son | 3.5 |
| Brian Wilson Brian Wilson | 3.5 |
| Brian Wilson Smile | 4.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It... | 3.4 |
| Bring Me the Horizon This Is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For | 2.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season | 2.8 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal | 3.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Count Your Blessings | 2.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon That's the Spirit | 2.0 |
| Wetting myself in anticipation to hear Oli Sykes go full-on Chester Bennington here. Reviews for this will probably talk about the how the band has "matured" just because they decided to nix the riffs and dynamics for synth ambience and pop hooks instead. Personally though AOTY 2/5 |
| Broken Social Scene Feel Good Lost | 4.0 |
| Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People | 4.0 |
| Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene | 3.8 |
| Bruce Soord with Jonas Renkse Wisdom of Crowds | 3.5 |
| BRUIT The Machine Is Burning... | 4.0 |
| BT ESCM | 3.5 |
| BT Ima | 3.5 |
| BT Movement In Still Life | 4.0 |
| BT This Binary Universe | 4.0 |
| Budgie Never Turn Your Back on a Friend | 4.0 |
| Built to Spill Perfect from Now On | 4.5 |
| Built to Spill There's Nothing Wrong with Love | 4.0 |
| Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret | 4.0 |
| Bulb The Best Of Misha Mansoor | 4.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine The Poison | 3.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Hand of Blood | 3.3 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Scream Aim Fire | 2.5 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Fever | 2.5 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Temper Temper | 1.5 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Venom | 2.0 |
| Louder and thrashier than Temper Temper, but more or less same **** different day |
| Burial, Four Tet and Thom Yorke Her Revolution/His Rope | 3.5 |
| Burn the Priest Burn the Priest | 3.0 |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss | 4.5 |
| Caladan Brood Echoes Of Battle | 4.0 |
| Camel Mirage | 5.0 |
| Camel Camel | 4.1 |
| Camel The Snow Goose | 4.2 |
| Camel Moonmadness | 4.7 |
| Can Soundtracks | 3.5 |
| Can Monster Movie | 3.5 |
| Can Tago Mago | 4.5 |
| Can Ege Bamyasi | 4.0 |
| Can Future Days | 4.5 |
| Can Soon Over Babaluma | 3.5 |
| Can Landed | 3.0 |
| Can Flow Motion | 3.0 |
| Candlemass Candlemass | 3.5 |
| Candlemass Epicus Doomicus Metallicus | 4.5 |
| Candlemass Ancient Dreams | 4.0 |
| Candlemass King of the Grey Islands | 3.5 |
| Candlemass Lucifer Rising | 3.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse Kill | 4.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse Evisceration Plague | 3.7 |
| Cannibal Corpse Torture | 4.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse A Skeletal Domain | 4.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse Bloodthirst | 3.5 |
| Cannibal Corpse Gore Obsessed | 3.5 |
| Cannibal Corpse Vile | 3.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse Tomb of the Mutilated | 3.0 |
| Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Trout Mask Replica | 3.5 |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms Hydroponic Garden | 4.0 |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms World Of Sleepers | 4.0 |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms Interloper | 4.0 |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms Twentythree | 3.5 |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms Derelicts | 3.5 |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion | 2.0 |
| Carnifex Dead in My Arms | 2.5 |
| Carnifex The Diseased and Poisoned | 2.0 |
| Carnifex Hell Chose Me | 3.0 |
| Carnifex Until I Feel Nothing | 3.0 |
| Carter Burwell Fargo/Barton Fink | 4.0 |
| Carter Burwell The Tragedy of Macbeth | 3.5 |
| Carter Burwell The Ballad of Buster Scruggs | 4.0 |
| Carter Burwell Carol | 3.5 |
| Carter Burwell The Banshees of Inisherin | 3.5 |
| Caspian Dust and Disquiet | 4.4 |
| Caspian On Circles | 3.7 |
| Caspian Waking Season | 4.2 |
| Casualties of Cool Casualties of Cool | 4.0 |
| Catapilla Changes | 4.0 |
| Catherine Wheel Ferment | 3.5 |
| Catherine Wheel Chrome | 4.0 |
| Cell Hanging Masses | 4.0 |
| Celtic Frost Monotheist | 3.5 |
| Ceterum Fathom | 3.5 |
| Cheap Trick Heaven Tonight | 4.0 |
| Cheatahs Cheatahs | 3.5 |
| Cheatahs Sunne | 3.2 |
| Chelsea Grin Chelsea Grin | 2.5 |
| Chelsea Grin Desolation Of Eden | 2.0 |
| Chelsea Grin My Damnation | 2.5 |
| Chelsea Grin Evolve | 3.0 |
| Chelsea Grin Ashes To Ashes | 3.0 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Apokalypsis | 4.0 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Pain Is Beauty | 4.0 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Abyss | 4.0 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs | 4.0 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Hiss Spun | 3.5 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Birth of Violence | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Something Wild | 3.5 |
| Children of Bodom Hatebreeder | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll | 3.5 |
| Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet? | 3.0 |
| Children of Bodom Blooddrunk | 2.5 |
| Children of Bodom Relentless Reckless Forever | 2.5 |
| Children of Bodom Halo of Blood | 3.5 |
| CHON Demo 2008 | 4.0 |
| CHON Newborn Sun | 4.0 |
| CHON Woohoo! | 3.5 |
| CHON Grow | 3.7 |
| CHON Homey | 3.7 |
| Blissful summer jams with beautiful guitar work and some interesting electronic elements as well. |
| Chris Remo Gone Home: Original Soundtrack | 4.0 |
| Christophe Beck Ant-Man | 3.0 |
| Christopher Lee Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross | 3.0 |
| Christopher Lee Charlemagne: The Omens of Death | 3.5 |
| Christopher Lee A Heavy Metal Christmas | 3.5 |
| Circle of Contempt Artifacts in Motion | 3.5 |
| Circle of Contempt Entwine the Threads | 3.5 |
| Circle of Contempt Structures for Creation | 3.5 |
| Clan of Xymox Medusa | 4.2 |
| A very atmospheric and unique album. Back Door is one of the best goth songs I've ever heard. |
| Cliff Martinez Only God Forgives | 3.0 |
| Cliff Martinez Drive | 4.0 |
| Cliff Martinez The Neon Demon (OST) | 4.0 |
| Cliff Martinez Solaris | 4.0 |
| Cliff Martinez Too Old to Die Young | 3.5 |
| Cliff Martinez Copenhagen Cowboy | 3.5 |
| Clint Mansell Moon | 4.0 |
| Clint Mansell π | 3.5 |
| Clint Mansell Black Swan | 4.0 |
| Clint Mansell, Kronos Quartet and Mogwai The Fountain | 4.0 |
| Cloudkicker The Discovery | 2.6 |
| Cloudkicker Beacons | 3.5 |
| Cloudkicker Let Yourself Be Huge | 3.5 |
| Cloudkicker Subsume | 3.0 |
| Cloudkicker Live with Intronaut | 3.5 |
| Cluster Cluster II | 3.5 |
| Cluster Zuckerzeit | 4.0 |
| Cluster Cluster | 3.5 |
| Cluster Sowiesoso | 4.0 |
| Cluster Grosses Wasser | 4.0 |
| Cluster Curiosum | 3.5 |
| Cluster and Eno Cluster & Eno | 4.0 |
| Cocteau Twins Head Over Heels | 4.0 |
| Cocteau Twins Blue Bell Knoll | 4.0 |
| Cocteau Twins Victorialand | 4.2 |
| Cocteau Twins Treasure | 4.5 |
| Cocteau Twins Heaven or Las Vegas | 5.0 |
| Cocteau Twins Lullabies to Violaine | 4.0 |
| Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd The Moon and the Melodies | 4.0 |
| Codeine Barely Real | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow | 3.0 |
| Coil Musick To Play In The Dark | 4.0 |
| Coil Musick To Play In The Dark 2 | 4.0 |
| Coil The Ape Of Naples | 4.5 |
| Coil Black Antlers | 3.5 |
| Coil Love's Secret Domain | 3.0 |
| Coldplay Ghost Stories (Instrumentals) | 3.5 |
| Coldplay Parachutes | 3.7 |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head | 3.8 |
| Coldplay X&Y | 3.3 |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | 4.0 |
| Coldplay Mylo Xyloto | 2.5 |
| Coldplay A Head Full of Dreams | 2.0 |
| Coldplay Ghost Stories | 2.5 |
| Coldplay The Blue Room | 3.5 |
| Coldplay Everyday Life | 3.0 |
| Coldplay Prospekt's March | 3.5 |
| Coldplay Kaleidoscope | 3.0 |
| Coldplay Music of the Spheres | 1.5 |
| Coldworld Autumn | 4.3 |
| After a lengthy eight years of inactivity, Coldworld returns with one of the best metal albums of 2016. Autumn features a plethora of added instrumentation and melodic vocals not heard before from the one-man black metal project. It's reminiscent of last year's Autumn Eternal by Panopticon in this way, even featuring folk instrumentation and female vocals. This makes for a large departure from Coldworld's rawer debut, with Autumn embodying a full range of sounds for a more polished, superior offering that even has moments of optimism, particularly within the post-rock influenced "Womb of Emptiness" and the folkish "The Wind and the Leaves." Coldworld have once again released a masterful modern metal record, one that was well worth the nearly decade long wait. |
| Coldworld Melancholie² | 4.1 |
| Colin Stetson Hereditary | 4.0 |
| Colin Stetson The Menu | 4.0 |
| Comus First Utterance | 4.0 |
| Confessor Condemned | 4.0 |
| Control Denied The Fragile Art of Existence | 3.8 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 4.0 |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind | 4.0 |
| Copeland Blushing | 3.7 |
| Count to Altek Path Kethona | 3.5 |
| Count to Altek She Will Fly With You Forever | 3.5 |
| Covenant Northern Light | 3.5 |
| Cradle of Filth The Principle of Evil Made Flesh | 4.0 |
| Cradle of Filth Dusk... and Her Embrace | 4.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Cruelty and the Beast | 4.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Midian | 4.3 |
| Cradle of Filth Damnation and a Day | 3.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Nymphetamine | 3.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Thornography | 3.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder | 3.0 |
| Cradle of Filth Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa | 3.0 |
| Cradle of Filth The Manticore and Other Horrors | 3.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Hammer of the Witches | 4.0 |
| This is their most fun and seamless release in quite a while. The line-up changes yield their most focused songwriting in years, especially given the centerpiece of twin guitar riffs, harmonies, and soloing throughout. |
| Cradle of Filth Lovecraft & Witch Hearts | 3.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Midnight in the Labyrinth | 1.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Vempire or Dark Faerytales in Phalluste | 4.5 |
| Cradle of Filth From the Cradle to Enslave | 3.0 |
| Cradle of Filth Bitter Suites to Succubi | 3.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Evermore Darkly | 2.5 |
| Creepers Lush | 3.5 |
| Crooked X Crooked X | 3.0 |
| Crosses Crosses | 3.7 |
| Cruciamentum Charnel Passages | 4.0 |
| Cryptopsy None So Vile | 4.2 |
| Cult of Luna Cult of Luna | 3.5 |
| Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway | 4.2 |
| Cult of Luna The Beyond | 3.7 |
| Cult of Luna Salvation | 4.0 |
| Cynic Ascension Codes | 3.5 |
| Cynic Re-Traced | 3.5 |
| Cynic Focus | 4.5 |
| Cynic Traced in Air | 4.5 |
| Cynic Carbon-Based Anatomy | 4.0 |
| Cynic The Portal Tapes | 4.5 |
| Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us | 3.3 |
| Cynic Traced In Air Remixed | 4.0 |
| Cynic ReFocus | 3.5 |
| D. Tiffany S/T | 3.7 |
| Daft Punk Tron: Legacy | 3.5 |
| Damien Rice O | 4.3 |
| Damon Albarn Everyday Robots | 3.5 |
| Daniel Cavanagh Monochrome | 2.6 |
| Daniel Hart A Ghost Story (Original Soundtrack Album) | 4.0 |
| Daniel Hart The Green Knight | 4.0 |
| Daniel Hart Peter Pan and Wendy | 3.5 |
| Danny Elfman Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | 3.5 |
| Danny Elfman Beetlejuice | 4.0 |
| Danny Elfman Batman | 4.0 |
| Danny Elfman Darkman | 3.5 |
| Danny Elfman Edward Scissorhands | 4.0 |
| Danny Elfman Batman Returns | 4.0 |
| Danny Elfman The Nightmare Before Christmas | 4.2 |
| Danny Elfman Mission Impossible | 3.5 |
| Danny Elfman Mars Attacks! | 3.5 |
| Danny Elfman Men in Black | 4.0 |
| Danny Elfman Spider-Man | 3.5 |
| Danny Elfman Spider-Man 2 | 4.0 |
| Danny Elfman Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | 3.5 |
| Danny Elfman The Corpse Bride | 3.5 |
| Danny Elfman Alice in Wonderland | 3.0 |
| Dario Marianelli Pride & Prejudice | 4.0 |
| Dario Marianelli Jane Eyre | 4.0 |
| Dark Fortress Seance | 3.5 |
| Dark Fortress Eidolon | 3.5 |
| Dark Fortress Ylem | 3.5 |
| Dark Millennium Ashore the Celestial Burden | 4.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity The Gallery | 4.2 |
| Dark Tranquillity Damage Done | 4.0 |
| Darkthrone Soulside Journey | 4.0 |
| Darkthrone A Blaze in the Northern Sky | 4.5 |
| Darkthrone Goatlord | 2.5 |
| Darkthrone Hate Them | 3.0 |
| Darzamat Solfernus' Path | 4.0 |
| Dave Porter Breaking Bad | 4.0 |
| Dave Porter Breaking Bad, Vol. 2 | 4.0 |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars | 4.5 |
| David Bowie Aladdin Sane | 4.0 |
| David Bowie Station to Station | 4.5 |
| David Bowie Low | 5.0 |
| David Bowie "Heroes" | 4.5 |
| David Bowie Lodger | 4.0 |
| David Bowie Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) | 4.5 |
| David Bowie Let's Dance | 3.5 |
| David Bowie Earthling | 3.3 |
| David Bowie Outside | 4.0 |
| David Bowie Black Tie White Noise | 3.0 |
| David Bowie Heathen | 3.8 |
| David Bowie Hours | 3.5 |
| David Bowie Reality | 3.5 |
| David Bowie The Next Day | 4.0 |
| David Bowie Blackstar | 4.5 |
| Blackstar sees David Bowie's music at its most profound, bewildering, and emotional. There's hardly any semblance of traditional rock n' roll on here, with a purposeful move to stray from that style. It instead draws influences from more contemporary music, and makes use of avant-garde musical styles like industrial, jazz, art rock, and electronica. "Blackstar" is a monolith, being a 10 minute exercise in occultish atmospheres and haunting melodies. The bridge is a beautiful soundscape however, with other gorgeous moments being plentiful in the morose "Lazarus" and emotionally resonant album closer "I Can't Give Everything Away." Bowie passed away two days after this was released, and much of the lyrical themes seem to hauntingly explore his impending passing. This only adds to the poignancy of Blackstar, being not only Bowie's strongest record in decades, but one of the best finale albums of all time. |
| David Bowie No Plan | 4.0 |
| David Bowie Hunky Dory | 4.0 |
| David Bowie The Man Who Sold the World | 3.5 |
| David Bowie Space Oddity | 3.5 |
| David Bowie The Buddha of Suburbia | 3.5 |
| David Bowie The Next Day Extra | 3.5 |
| David Bowie Best of Bowie | 4.0 |
| David Bowie Legacy | 4.0 |
| David Bowie Diamond Dogs | 4.0 |
| David Bowie Young Americans | 3.5 |
| David Brent Life on the Road | 3.7 |
| David Byrne American Utopia | 3.3 |
| David Gilmour On An Island | 4.0 |
| David Gilmour Rattle That Lock | 3.7 |
| David Julyan The Prestige: Original Score | 4.0 |
| David Lynch Eraserhead OST | 4.0 |
| David Lynch Inland Empire OST | 3.0 |
| David Sylvian Gone to Earth | 5.0 |
| David Sylvian Secrets of the Beehive | 5.0 |
| David Sylvian Brilliant Trees | 4.5 |
| David Sylvian Alchemy - An Index of Possibilities | 4.0 |
| David Sylvian Dead Bees on a Cake | 4.5 |
| David Sylvian Blemish | 4.0 |
| David Sylvian Manafon | 3.5 |
| David Sylvian Do You Know Me Now? | 4.0 |
| David Sylvian Everything and Nothing | 4.0 |
| David Sylvian Pop Song | 3.5 |
| David Sylvian Approaching Silence | 3.5 |
| David Sylvian Sleepwalkers | 4.0 |
| David Sylvian When Loud Weather Buffeted Naoshima | 3.0 |
| David Sylvian There's a Light that Enters Houses... | 3.5 |
| David Sylvian Died in the Wool: Manafon Variations | 3.0 |
| David Sylvian Playing the Schoolhouse | 2.0 |
| David Sylvian and Holger Czukay Plight and Premonition | 4.0 |
| David Sylvian and Holger Czukay Flux and Mutability | 4.0 |
| David Sylvian and Robert Fripp The First Day | 4.5 |
| David Sylvian and Robert Fripp Damage | 4.0 |
| Daylight Dies Dismantling Devotion | 4.0 |
| Daylight Dies Lost to the Living | 3.8 |
| Daylight Dies No Reply | 3.5 |
| Dead Can Dance Dead Can Dance | 3.7 |
| Dead Can Dance Spleen and Ideal | 4.5 |
| Dead Can Dance Within the Realm of a Dying Sun | 5.0 |
| Dead Can Dance The Serpent's Egg | 4.0 |
| Dead Can Dance Aion | 3.5 |
| Dead Can Dance Into the Labyrinth | 4.0 |
| Dead Can Dance Spiritchaser | 3.5 |
| Dead Can Dance Anastasis | 4.0 |
| Dead Can Dance Garden of the Arcane Delights | 3.7 |
| Dead Can Dance Dionysus | 3.5 |
| Dead Can Dance follow the style of Spiritchaser while also going in a new direction by creating a multi-layered sound collage of various world music traditions. The talent of the duo assures that it sounds natural as they incorporate Middle Eastern folk music and traverse ritualistic soundscapes. Dionysus sounds ancient and mysterious, being more celebratory than most other Dead Can Dance releases and having the characteristics of the Greek god. This is a more fluid and succinct release that sounds truly alive. It could have been even longer and featured more of Lisa's vocals, but it's still a rewarding and unique listening experience that lives up to their adventurous musical past. |
| Dead Can Dance Toward the Within | 4.0 |
| Deafheaven Roads to Judah | 3.5 |
| Deafheaven Demo | 3.5 |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 4.3 |
| An expansion of the style presented in their debut Roads to Judah, Sunbather defies genre boundaries. The hour blurs by in multi-faceted textures that blend shoegazing, black metal, and post-rock into an incredible whirlwind of sonic power and beauty. Crashing drums and tremolo picked guitars alternate with dreamy guitar ambience, with beautiful melodies abundant throughout. This magnificent powerhouse demands multiple listens to allow the sheer intensity and emotional power it exudes to fully sink in. As the album cover and title suggest, a perfect album to jam in the summer. |
| Deafheaven New Bermuda | 3.7 |
| As the surreal album cover would suggest, New Bermuda is a much darker and more melancholic record than smash hit Sunbather from only two years ago. Soaring dream pop melodies and their most furious black metal yet clash in one of the most diverse records of the year, a passionate, furious, unpredictable journey through all sides of the band's sound thus far. This is not Sunbather Part 2, but a different beast altogether, and serves as a fantastic progression for the young group thus far. |
| Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love | 4.0 |
| More sophisticated than New Bermuda, Deafheaven's latest veers closer to Sunbather while continuing to introduce new ideas into their dense blend of black metal, dream pop/shoegaze, and post-rock. The opener, "Near", and "Worthless Animal" are highlights. |
| Deafheaven Infinite Granite | 4.5 |
| Deafheaven continue evolving and release their most consistently impressive and impactful record yet. Gorgeous musical passages and walls of sound are abound, with the band taking more inspiration from shoegaze and post-rock while still sounding uniquely like themselves. George Clark's clean singing voice has a wonderful, haunting goth rock quality to it, perhaps due to the reverb and vocal effects. Much of the production is dense and various instrumental elements blend together beautifully. It's not easy to pick favorites, but a few would be "In Blur," "Great Mass of Color," "Other Language," and "Mombasa." |
| Death Symbolic | 4.5 |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance | 4.5 |
| Death Individual Thought Patterns | 4.0 |
| Death Human | 4.5 |
| Death Spiritual Healing | 4.0 |
| Death Leprosy | 4.0 |
| Death Scream Bloody Gore | 4.0 |
| Death Angel The Ultra-Violence | 4.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Something About Airplanes | 3.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes | 3.7 |
| Death Cab for Cutie The Photo Album | 4.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism | 4.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs | 3.2 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Kintsugi | 3.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Plans | 3.8 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Codes and Keys | 3.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Thank You For Today | 3.0 |
| A very pleasant, inoffensive listening experience which is essentially what Death Cab have gone for in the 2010s. Highlights are the first three songs, "Northern Lights," and "60 & Punk." |
| Deep Purple Fireball | 4.0 |
| Deep Purple Machine Head | 4.5 |
| Deftones Adrenaline | 3.0 |
| Deftones Around the Fur | 3.5 |
| Deftones B-Sides and Rarities | 3.0 |
| Deftones White Pony | 4.0 |
| Deftones Deftones | 3.5 |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist | 4.5 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 4.0 |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan | 4.5 |
| Deftones Gore | 4.0 |
| Deftones keep getting better and better, with Gore expertly infusing their crushing metal with tranquil, blissful soundscapes. |
| Deftones Ohms | 3.7 |
| Deicide Deicide | 3.5 |
| Demilich Nespithe | 4.0 |
| Depeche Mode Violator | 4.5 |
| Depeche Mode Songs of Faith and Devotion | 4.0 |
| Depeche Mode Black Celebration | 4.0 |
| Deru 1979 | 3.5 |
| Desert Sessions Volumes 1 and 2 | 4.0 |
| Destiny Potato Lun | 4.0 |
| Destroyer Your Blues | 3.7 |
| Destroyer Streethawk: A Seduction | 3.5 |
| Destroyer Poison Season | 4.0 |
| Destroyer Destroyer's Rubies | 4.0 |
| Destroyer Kaputt | 4.5 |
| Destroyer Bay of Pigs | 4.0 |
| Destroyer Archer on the Beach | 3.5 |
| Destroyer Ken | 3.5 |
| Destroyer Trouble In Dreams | 3.5 |
| Destroyer This Night | 3.3 |
| Destroyer Have We Met | 3.5 |
| Destroyer LABYRINTHITIS | 3.5 |
| DevilDriver DevilDriver | 2.5 |
| DevilDriver The Fury of Our Maker's Hand | 3.0 |
| DevilDriver The Last Kind Words | 3.0 |
| DevilDriver Pray for Villains | 2.5 |
| DevilDriver Beast | 3.0 |
| DevilDriver Winter Kills | 2.5 |
| Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Ghost | 4.0 |
| Devo Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! | 3.5 |
| Devo Duty Now for the Future | 3.5 |
| Devo Freedom of Choice | 3.5 |
| Diamond Head Lightning to the Nations | 4.0 |
| Dimmu Borgir For All Tid | 4.0 |
| Dimmu Borgir Stormblåst | 4.0 |
| Dimmu Borgir Enthrone Darkness Triumphant | 4.5 |
| Dimmu Borgir Spiritual Black Dimensions | 4.5 |
| Dimmu Borgir Death Cult Armageddon | 3.5 |
| Dio Holy Diver | 4.0 |
| Dir En Grey Gauze | 4.0 |
| Dir En Grey Macabre | 4.0 |
| Dir En Grey Kisou | 4.0 |
| Dir En Grey Vulgar | 4.0 |
| Dir En Grey Withering to Death | 4.0 |
| Dir En Grey The Marrow of a Bone | 3.5 |
| Disasterpeace It Follows OST | 4.0 |
| Disasterpeace Under the Silver Lake OST | 3.5 |
| Disasterpeace Marcel the Shell with Shoes On OST | 4.0 |
| Disasterpeace Bodies Bodies Bodies OST | 3.0 |
| Disco Inferno D.I. Go Pop | 2.5 |
| Disemballerina Undertaker | 4.0 |
| Dissection The Somberlain | 4.0 |
| Dissection Reinkaos | 3.0 |
| Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane | 4.5 |
| Disturbed The Sickness | 2.0 |
| Disturbed Believe | 3.0 |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists | 3.0 |
| Disturbed Indestructible | 3.0 |
| Disturbed Asylum | 2.5 |
| Disturbed Immortalized | 2.5 |
| Divine Heresy Bringer of Plagues | 3.0 |
| Divine Ratio Split By Unity | 3.5 |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... | 4.5 |
| DJ Shadow The Private Press | 4.0 |
| DJ Shadow What Does Your Soul Look Like? | 4.0 |
| DJ Shadow Preemptive Strike | 4.0 |
| DJ Spooky Songs Of A Dead Dreamer | 4.0 |
| Dr. Dre The Chronic | 4.0 |
| Dr. Dre 2001 | 3.5 |
| Dr. Dre Compton | 3.5 |
| Drab Majesty The Demonstration | 3.7 |
| Drab Majesty Modern Mirror | 4.0 |
| Drab Majesty An Object In Motion | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater When Dream and Day Unite | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater Images and Words | 4.5 |
| Dream Theater Awake | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Falling into Infinity | 3.3 |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory | 4.5 |
| Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Octavarium | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Systematic Chaos | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events | 3.2 |
| Dream Theater Dream Theater | 2.5 |
| Dream Theater The Astonishing | 2.3 |
| Dream Theater A Change of Seasons | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Greatest Hit | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Distance Over Time | 3.1 |
| Dream Theater A View from the Top of the World | 2.8 |
| dredg El Cielo | 4.0 |
| Drop Dead, Gorgeous In Vogue | 1.5 |
| Drudkh Forgotten Legends | 4.0 |
| Drudkh Autumn Aurora | 4.5 |
| Drudkh Songs of Grief and Solitude | 3.3 |
| Dungen Skit I Allt | 4.0 |
| Duster Stratosphere | 3.5 |
| Earthside A Dream In Static | 4.0 |
| Edge of Sanity The Spectral Sorrows | 4.0 |
| Edge of Sanity Purgatory Afterglow | 4.2 |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson | 4.5 |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson II | 4.3 |
| Effigy (FRC) Black Is Now the Sun | 3.5 |
| EL VY Return to the Moon | 4.0 |
| Elder (USA-MA) Reflections of a Floating World | 4.2 |
| Electric Wizard Come My Fanatics... | 4.2 |
| Electric Wizard Dopethrone | 4.3 |
| Electric Wizard Witchcult Today | 4.0 |
| Electric Wizard Time to Die | 3.7 |
| Electric Wizard We Live | 4.1 |
| Electric Wizard Let Us Prey | 3.5 |
| Electric Wizard Black Masses | 3.5 |
| Electric Wizard Electric Wizard | 3.5 |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or | 3.5 |
| Elvis Perkins The Blackcoat's Daughter | 4.0 |
| Elvis Presley Elvis: 30 #1 Hits | 3.5 |
| Emancipator Soon It Will Be Cold Enough | 4.0 |
| Emancipator Safe In The Steep Cliffs | 3.5 |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP | 4.0 |
| Emma Ruth Rundle Some Heavy Ocean | 4.0 |
| Emma Ruth Rundle Marked for Death | 4.0 |
| Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse | 4.5 |
| Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk | 4.5 |
| Emperor Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire... | 4.0 |
| Emperor IX Equilibrium | 3.5 |
| Empyrium Weiland | 4.0 |
| Enigma MCMXC a.D. | 3.8 |
| Enigma The Cross of Changes | 3.1 |
| Ennio Morricone A Fistful of Dollars | 4.0 |
| Ennio Morricone For a Few Dollars More | 4.0 |
| Ennio Morricone The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | 4.5 |
| Ennio Morricone The Thing | 4.5 |
| Ennio Morricone The Hateful Eight | 4.0 |
| Ennio Morricone Once Upon a Time in the West | 4.0 |
| Eno, Moebius and Roedelius After the Heat | 4.0 |
| Enslaved Mardraum - Beyond the Within | 3.5 |
| Enslaved Monumension | 4.0 |
| Enslaved Ruun | 4.3 |
| Enslaved Below the Lights | 4.5 |
| Enslaved Isa | 4.0 |
| Enslaved Vertebrae | 4.5 |
| Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini | 4.5 |
| Enslaved RIITIIR | 4.3 |
| Enslaved In Times | 4.0 |
| An incredible and diverse listen from start to finish, as usual the opener and closer are among the very best. It's difficult to believe, but even thirteen albums in they pushed their experimentation even further. |
| Enslaved Vikingligr Veldi | 3.5 |
| Enslaved Frost | 4.0 |
| Enya Watermark | 3.5 |
| EOB Earth | 3.5 |
| ERRA Impulse | 3.0 |
| Erykah Badu Baduizm | 4.0 |
| Escape the Fate There's No Sympathy for the Dead | 3.0 |
| Escape the Fate Dying Is Your Latest Fashion | 3.0 |
| Escape the Fate This War Is Ours | 2.0 |
| Escape the Fate Escape the Fate | 1.5 |
| Esperanza Spalding Emily's D+Evolution | 3.8 |
| Ethel Cain Preacher's Daughter | 3.5 |
| Ethereal Shroud They Became the Falling Ash | 4.0 |
| Evan Brewer Your Itinerary | 3.5 |
| Evanescence Fallen | 3.2 |
| Evanescence Evanescence | 3.0 |
| Evanescence The Open Door | 3.0 |
| Everything But the Girl Eden | 4.0 |
| Everything But the Girl Idlewild | 4.4 |
| Everything But the Girl The Language of Life | 4.0 |
| Everything But the Girl Amplified Heart | 4.3 |
| Everything But the Girl Walking Wounded | 4.1 |
| Everything But the Girl Temperamental | 4.2 |
| Everything But the Girl Worldwide | 3.5 |
| Everything But the Girl Like the Deserts Miss the Rain | 3.5 |
| Everything But the Girl Fuse | 3.0 |
| Okay but kind of forgettable. Nothing Left to Lose and Caution to the Wind are my favorite songs. Doesn't touch any of their past releases and not really sure what the point is. Overproduced too, especially Tracey Thorn's vocals. |
| Exivious Exivious | 4.0 |
| Exivious Liminal | 4.2 |
| Exodus The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A | 3.0 |
| Exodus Exhibit B: The Human Condition | 3.5 |
| Exodus Shovel Headed Kill Machine | 3.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky How Strange, Innocence | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die... | 4.2 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 4.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Wilderness | 4.0 |
| The Wilderness signifies important changes for Explosions: most notably, an absence of sonic clutter and a willingness to fearlessly explore new sonic terrain. The band utilizes shorter track lengths lending to a more easily digestible listening experience, while taking their sound into bold new directions. Their musical style welcomes emphases of low end and electronica featured throughout. "Disintegration Anxiety" has stunning bass guitar and "Tangle Formations" is a moment of meditative beauty. "Landing Cliffs" is the real highlight, being one of the most blissful songs of the year. Overall The Wilderness is a diverse and heady post-rock release that should not be missed by fans of the genre, and especially if you thought Explosions were becoming too comfortable repeating past successes. |
| Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky Friday Night Lights | 3.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Rescue | 3.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take Care | 3.5 |
| Explosions In The Sky and David Wingo Prince Avalanche | 3.5 |
| Eyes Set to Kill Reach | 3.0 |
| Failure Fantastic Planet | 4.0 |
| Failure The Heart Is a Monster | 3.5 |
| Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors | 4.0 |
| Falling in Reverse The Drug in Me Is You | 2.0 |
| Falling in Reverse Fashionably Late | 1.0 |
| Falls of Rauros The Light That Dwells in Rotten Wood | 4.0 |
| Fallujah The Flesh Prevails | 3.7 |
| Falseta Thought Process | 3.5 |
| Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear | 3.7 |
| Faust Faust IV | 4.0 |
| Felt (UK) Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty | 4.0 |
| Felt (UK) The Splendour of Fear | 4.5 |
| A beautiful, nocturnal, magical work of art that sounds decades ahead of its time. I hear influences on neofolk music, post-rock, and the band Agalloch. |
| Felt (UK) The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories | 4.0 |
| Felt (UK) Ignite The Seven Cannons | 4.0 |
| Felt (UK) Forever Breathes The Lonely Word | 4.2 |
| Felt (UK) Poem of the River | 4.3 |
| Felt (UK) Me and a Monkey on the Moon | 4.0 |
| Fen Winter | 4.0 |
| Fen Carrion Skies | 3.8 |
| Fennesz Becs | 3.5 |
| Fever Ray Fever Ray | 4.0 |
| Fields of the Nephilim The Nephilim | 3.8 |
| Fields of the Nephilim Elizium | 4.5 |
| Figueroa The World As We Know It | 3.5 |
| Fishmans Kuuchuu Camp | 3.5 |
| Fishmans Long Season | 4.0 |
| Fishmans Uchuu Nippon Setagaya | 4.0 |
| Fishmans 98.12.28 Otokotachi no Wakare | 3.5 |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Process of Human Extermination | 3.0 |
| Fit for an Autopsy Hellbound | 3.5 |
| Fleet Foxes Sun Giant | 4.0 |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes | 4.0 |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues | 4.4 |
| Fleet Foxes Crack-Up | 4.3 |
| If Crack-Up is any indication, the members of Fleet Foxes have spent the past six years since Helplessness Blues maturing their songwriting skills and overcoming that albums' themes of inner anxiety. Crack-Up is the other side of that coin, a freeing and surprisingly eclectic work of art. Diverse instrumentation, classical influences, and grand arrangements make for some of the group's finest compositions yet. "Third of May," the two-part "Cassius," and the gorgeous "On Another Ocean" encompass these ideas in spectacular fashion. The beauty of Fleet Foxes' music is just as apparent as it ever was, with an abundance of musical flourishes and progressive song structures that make for some of the band's finest achievements thus far. |
| Fleet Foxes Shore | 4.1 |
| Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac | 4.0 |
| Fleetwood Mac Rumours | 4.5 |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Mafia | 3.5 |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Oracles | 3.5 |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Agony | 3.5 |
| Flying Lotus Los Angeles | 3.5 |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma | 4.4 |
| Flying Lotus Until the Quiet Comes | 4.2 |
| Flying Lotus You're Dead! | 3.5 |
| Flying Lotus Flamagra | 3.8 |
| A densely packed collection of ideas that hearkens to each album from Flying Lotus's career. You'll find some of his best material here on Flamagra, even though the first half of the album has some hit-and-miss guest-centered tracks, but suddenly becomes a sequel to Cosmogramma and Until the Quiet Comes, his two best records, starting with track 14. The album is a blissed-out cosmic journey starting there, but there are certainly many good moments in the first half too. |
| Flying Lotus You're Dead! Instrumentals | 3.8 |
| Flying Lotus Flamagra Instrumentals | 4.2 |
| Foals Total Life Forever | 4.6 |
| Total Life Forever excels in providing a rich, stunning, aquatic atmosphere throughout. Everything from the guitar effects, keyboards, vocals, and percussion comes together in service of adventurous and naturalistic textures. This is a rich, beautiful record that displays just the right amount of accessibility to accompany its ambitions. This album has it all and shines bright in its creative, melancholic beauty and truth. |
| Foals What Went Down | 4.2 |
| Foals Antidotes | 4.0 |
| Foals Holy Fire | 4.0 |
| Foals Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost - Part 1 | 3.5 |
| A short, dense, high-energy first half of an ambitious two-part album cycle. It's far from their most cinematic or engrossing work, but keeps things dynamic and has enough detail to be a solid listen overall. |
| Foals Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost - Part 2 | 3.2 |
| Foals Life Is Yours | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters Foo Fighters | 4.0 |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape | 4.0 |
| Foo Fighters Saint Cecilia | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters Sonic Highways | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light | 3.5 |
| Foo Fighters One by One | 3.0 |
| Four Tet New Energy | 4.0 |
| Four Tet Sixteen Oceans | 4.0 |
| Four Tet Three | 3.5 |
| Fripp and Eno The Equatorial Stars | 4.0 |
| Fripp and Eno Evening Star | 4.5 |
| Fripp and Eno No Pussyfooting | 4.0 |
| Fuath I | 3.5 |
| Galaxie 500 Today | 3.0 |
| Galaxie 500 On Fire | 3.3 |
| Gang of Youths Go Farther in Lightness | 4.0 |
| Gang of Youths Total Serene | 3.5 |
| Gang of Youths Angel in Realtime | 3.7 |
| Garry Schyman Bioshock Score | 4.0 |
| Garry Schyman Sounds from the Lighthouse (BioShock 2) | 4.0 |
| Garry Schyman Bioshock Infinite Score | 4.0 |
| Gates (USA-NJ) Parallel Lives | 3.7 |
| Gates (USA-NJ) Bloom and Breathe | 4.1 |
| Gazpacho Night | 4.5 |
| Gazpacho Tick Tock | 4.2 |
| Gazpacho Missa Atropos | 4.0 |
| Gazpacho March of Ghosts | 3.7 |
| Gazpacho Demon | 4.0 |
| Gazpacho Molok | 3.5 |
| As if this band couldn't get any quirkier. Molok plays out as a bombastic musical journey, with swelling instrumentation and dreamy, ethereal soundscapes throughout. Despite being very much a Gazpacho album, it manages to sound largely different from everything else they've done. The concept is interesting and ambitious as always, which is up to the listener to follow and experience for themselves. A charming and diverse listen, as always from the Norwegian rockers. |
| Gazpacho Soyuz | 3.5 |
| Gazpacho Fireworker | 3.0 |
| Gazpacho Bravo | 3.5 |
| Gazpacho When Earth Lets Go | 3.2 |
| Gazpacho Firebird | 3.5 |
| Genesis Nursery Cryme | 4.2 |
| Genesis Foxtrot | 4.5 |
| Genesis Selling England by the Pound | 5.0 |
| Genesis Trespass | 4.0 |
| Genesis The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway | 4.5 |
| Genesis A Trick of the Tail | 4.1 |
| Genesis Wind & Wuthering | 3.8 |
| George Harrison All Things Must Pass | 4.0 |
| Geto Boys The Resurrection | 4.0 |
| Ghost (SWE) If You Have Ghost | 3.0 |
| Ghost (SWE) Popestar | 3.0 |
| Ghost (SWE) Meliora | 3.8 |
| Ghost (SWE) Opus Eponymous | 3.9 |
| Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam | 3.5 |
| Ghost (SWE) Prequelle | 3.5 |
| Ghost Brigade Isolation Songs | 4.0 |
| Ghost Brigade Until Fear No Longer Defines Us | 4.0 |
| Ghost Brigade Guided By Fire | 3.5 |
| Ghost Brigade IV - One with the Storm | 3.7 |
| Ghoulgotha The Deathmass Cloak | 3.0 |
| Giles Corey Giles Corey | 4.0 |
| Giles Corey Hinterkaifeck | 3.5 |
| Goblin Suspiria | 4.0 |
| Goblin Zombi (Dawn of the Dead) | 4.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright | 4.4 |
| God Is an Astronaut The End of the Beginning | 3.7 |
| God Is an Astronaut Far from Refuge | 4.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut A Moment of Stillness | 3.5 |
| God Is an Astronaut God Is an Astronaut | 3.5 |
| God Is an Astronaut Age of the Fifth Sun | 3.5 |
| God Is an Astronaut Helios/Erebus | 3.7 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 5.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 5.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. | 4.3 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress' | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Luciferian Towers | 3.3 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! | 3.4 |
| Goldfrapp Felt Mountain | 4.5 |
| Goldfrapp Black Cherry | 3.7 |
| Goldfrapp Supernature | 3.5 |
| Goldfrapp Seventh Tree | 4.4 |
| Goldfrapp Head First | 3.0 |
| Goldfrapp Tales Of Us | 4.3 |
| Goldfrapp Silver Eye | 4.0 |
| Goo Goo Dolls A Boy Named Goo | 3.0 |
| Goo Goo Dolls Greatest Hits Volume One: The Singles | 3.0 |
| Gordian Knot Gordian Knot | 4.0 |
| Gordian Knot Emergent | 4.0 |
| Gorguts Colored Sands | 4.1 |
| Gorguts Pleiades' Dust | 4.0 |
| Picking up where Colored Sands left off, this release sees Gorguts showcase ominous ambient soundscapes juxtaposed with their off kilter brand of death metal wonderfully. The bass tone is also sharp and tasty, a wonderful addition as practically a lead instrument. |
| Gorguts From Wisdom to Hate | 4.0 |
| Gorguts Obscura | 4.3 |
| Gorguts The Erosion of Sanity | 4.0 |
| Gorguts Considered Dead | 4.0 |
| Gorillaz Plastic Beach | 4.0 |
| Gorillaz Demon Days | 4.0 |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz | 3.7 |
| Gorillaz The Fall | 2.5 |
| Gorillaz Humanz | 3.0 |
| The biggest problem with Humanz lies in how underdeveloped so much of the material sounds. Half-baked trip-hop ideas aplenty, and too many of the songs fly by, hardly leaving much of an impression. "Ascension" and "Carnival" are listenable, but don't really go anywhere beyond what you hear in their first 15-30 seconds. "Charger" is good and sees an appropriate use of a collaboration, and "Busted and Blue" is slower and more atmospheric than the rest, an album highlight, along with the banger "Andromeda." Unfortunately though, most of the tracks lack enough interesting elements that made much of their first three albums so rewarding to listen to. There are many guest appearances, which makes the underwhelming nature of this even more disappointing. Some of them are even the worst and most grating moments of the album, like the screeching vocals in "Momentz" and Danny Brown's appearance in "Submission." I've never been a fan of breaking up an average length album like Humanz (40-50 minutes) with a 10 second interlude every two songs, and the real songs being short much of the time all makes for a pretty underwhelming experience. Still, there is some enjoyable sounds throughout, especially the deluxe bonus tracks. You just have to get past a good amount of filler and interludes to find them. |
| Gorillaz G-Sides | 3.0 |
| Gorillaz D-Sides | 3.5 |
| Gorillaz The Now Now | 3.5 |
| The Now Now is a focused, very satisfying summer pop record, which after Humanz is all it needed to be. The songwriting is a bit tepid and one-note at times, but the strengths of Albarn's songwriting and a laid back atmosphere makes it a success. |
| Gorillaz Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez | 3.8 |
| Gorillaz Cracker Island | 3.5 |
| Graeme Revell The Crow Original Score | 3.5 |
| Graeme Revell Sin City Soundtrack | 3.5 |
| Graveworm As the Angels Reach the Beauty | 4.0 |
| Green Carnation Light of Day, Day of Darkness | 3.8 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 2.5 |
| Green Day 21st Century Breakdown | 2.0 |
| Green Day Dookie | 3.0 |
| Grimes Miss Anthropocene | 3.0 |
| Grimes Visions | 3.7 |
| Grimes Art Angels | 3.5 |
| Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill | 4.0 |
| Grouper A I A | 4.0 |
| Grouper Ruins | 4.2 |
| Grouper Water People | 4.0 |
| Grouper Paradise Valley | 4.0 |
| Grouper Grid of Points | 4.0 |
| Grouper The Man Who Died in His Boat | 3.5 |
| Grouper Shade | 3.5 |
| Grouper A I A: Dream Loss | 4.0 |
| Grouper A I A: Alien Observer | 4.2 |
| Guitar Sunkissed | 4.0 |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction | 4.5 |
| Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion I | 4.0 |
| Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion II | 4.0 |
| Guns N' Roses The Spaghetti Incident? | 2.5 |
| Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy | 3.0 |
| Guns N' Roses G N' R Lies | 3.5 |
| Gustavo Santaolalla The Last of Us OST | 4.5 |
| Gustavo Santaolalla The Last of Us, Volume 2 OST | 4.0 |
| Gustavo Santaolalla The Last of Us Part II OST | 4.0 |
| Guthrie Govan Erotic Cakes | 4.2 |
| Haavard Haavard | 4.0 |
| HAIM Days Are Gone | 3.0 |
| Haken Visions | 3.0 |
| Haken The Mountain | 3.5 |
| Haken Affinity | 3.0 |
| Half Moon Run Dark Eyes | 3.5 |
| Hammock Love in the Void | 4.0 |
| Hammock Kenotic | 4.5 |
| Hammock Stranded Under Endless Sky | 4.3 |
| Hammock Raising Your Voice... Trying to Stop an Echo | 4.5 |
| Hammock Maybe They Will Sing for Us Tomorrow | 3.7 |
| Hammock Chasing After Shadows...Living with the Ghosts | 4.0 |
| Hammock Departure Songs | 4.3 |
| Hammock Oblivion Hymns | 4.0 |
| Hammock Everything and Nothing | 4.2 |
| Hammock Mysterium | 3.3 |
| Hammock The Night You Caught on Fire | 4.0 |
| Hammock Floating World | 4.0 |
| Hammock Repeat/Texture | 3.5 |
| Hammock Universalis | 3.5 |
| Hammock Silencia | 3.4 |
| Hammock Elsewhere | 3.5 |
| Hans Zimmer Inception | 4.0 |
| Hans Zimmer Interstellar | 4.0 |
| Hans Zimmer Dunkirk | 4.0 |
| Hans Zimmer Dune | 4.0 |
| Hans Zimmer Man of Steel | 2.5 |
| Hans Zimmer The Dark Knight Rises | 3.5 |
| Hans Zimmer Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | 3.0 |
| Hans Zimmer Sherlock Holmes | 3.5 |
| Hans Zimmer The Lone Ranger | 2.5 |
| Hans Zimmer The Simpsons Movie: The Music | 3.5 |
| Hans Zimmer Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End | 3.5 |
| Hans Zimmer Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | 3.5 |
| Hans Zimmer The Amazing Spider-Man 2 | 2.0 |
| Hans Zimmer The Dark Knight: Original Motion Picture Soundtrac | 4.0 |
| Hans Zimmer Gladiator: Music from the Motion Picture | 4.0 |
| Hans Zimmer The Lion King | 4.0 |
| Hans Zimmer Matchstick Men | 3.5 |
| Hans Zimmer Thin Red Line | 4.0 |
| Hans Zimmer Wonder Woman 1984 | 3.0 |
| Hans Zimmer No Time to Die | 3.5 |
| Hans Zimmer The Creator | 2.5 |
| Hans Zimmer Dune: Part Two | 4.0 |
| Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch Blade Runner 2049 | 4.2 |
| Harmonia Deluxe | 4.0 |
| Harmonia Musik von Harmonia | 4.1 |
| Harmonia Tracks and Traces | 4.2 |
| Harmonium Les Cinq Saisons | 4.2 |
| Harmonium L'heptade | 4.0 |
| Harmonium Harmonium | 4.0 |
| Harold Budd The Pavilion of Dreams | 4.0 |
| Harold Budd Lovely Thunder | 4.0 |
| Harold Budd The White Arcades | 4.0 |
| Harold Budd Abandoned Cities | 3.5 |
| Harold Budd The Room | 3.5 |
| Harold Budd and Brian Eno Ambient 2 - The Plateaux of Mirror | 4.5 |
| Harold Budd and Brian Eno The Pearl | 4.5 |
| Haruka Nakamura Twilight | 4.0 |
| Haruomi Hosono/Shigeru Suzuki/Tatsuro Yamashita Pacific | 4.0 |
| Hashshashin Badakhshan | 3.5 |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness | 4.3 |
| Have a Nice Life The Unnatural World | 3.5 |
| Have a Nice Life Sea of Worry | 3.0 |
| Hawthorne Heights The Silence in Black and White | 2.5 |
| Hawthorne Heights If Only You Were Lonely | 2.5 |
| Hayley Williams Petals For Armor II | 3.6 |
| Hayley Williams Petals for Armor | 3.5 |
| Hayley Williams Petals For Armor I | 3.3 |
| Hayley Williams FLOWERS for VASES / descansos | 3.2 |
| Heart Little Queen | 3.5 |
| Heaven and Hell The Devil You Know | 4.0 |
| Helios Eingya | 4.0 |
| Helios Unleft | 3.5 |
| Helios Caesura | 4.0 |
| Helios Moiety | 3.5 |
| Hello Kitty Suicide Club ^_^ | 1.0 |
| Henry Jackman Captain America: Civil War | 3.0 |
| Heretoir Heretoir | 3.5 |
| Heretoir The Circle | 4.0 |
| High on Fire Blessed Black Wings | 4.0 |
| High on Fire Death Is This Communion | 4.0 |
| Hildur Gudnadottir Joker (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | 3.8 |
| Hildur Gudnadottir Chernobyl (Music from the Original TV Series) | 4.2 |
| Hildur Gudnadottir Mary Madgalene | 4.0 |
| Himsa Summon In Thunder | 3.0 |
| Holy Fawn The Black Moon | 3.5 |
| Holy Fawn Dimensional Bleed | 4.0 |
| Holy Fawn Death Spells | 4.0 |
| Horrendous Ecdysis | 3.7 |
| Horrendous Anareta | 4.0 |
| Horseback Piedmont Apocrypha | 4.0 |
| Horseback Dead Ringers | 3.0 |
| Howard Shore The Fellowship of the Ring | 4.5 |
| Howard Shore The Two Towers | 4.5 |
| Howard Shore The Return of the King | 4.5 |
| Howard Shore The Departed | 4.0 |
| Howard Shore A History of Violence | 3.5 |
| Howard Shore The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey | 4.0 |
| Howard Shore The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Soundtrack | 3.5 |
| Howard Shore The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | 3.5 |
| Howard Shore Spotlight | 3.5 |
| Howard Shore The Fellowship of the Ring: The Complete Recording | 4.5 |
| Howard Shore The Two Towers: The Complete Recordings | 4.5 |
| Howard Shore The Return of the King: The Complete Recordings | 4.5 |
| Howard Shore The Lord of the Rings: Complete Trilogy | 5.0 |
| Howard Shore Hugo | 4.0 |
| Howls of Ebb The Marrow Veil | 4.2 |
| Howls of Ebb Vigils of the 3rd Eye | 4.0 |
| Hybrid (UK) Wide Angle | 3.6 |
| I Declare War I Declare War | 2.5 |
| Ice Cube AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted | 4.0 |
| Ice Cube Death Certificate | 4.0 |
| Ice Cube The Predator | 3.5 |
| Ichiko Aoba Adan no Kaze | 3.5 |
| Iggy Pop Post Pop Depression | 3.5 |
| Imagine Dragons Night Visions | 2.5 |
| Immortal At the Heart of Winter | 4.2 |
| In Flames A Sense of Purpose | 3.2 |
| In the Woods... Heart of the Ages | 3.5 |
| In the Woods... Omnio | 4.2 |
| In the Woods... Strange in Stereo | 4.0 |
| In This Moment Beautiful Tragedy | 3.0 |
| In This Moment The Dream | 3.0 |
| In This Moment A Star-Crossed Wasteland | 3.0 |
| In This Moment Blood | 2.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself | 4.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View | 4.0 |
| Insomnium One for Sorrow | 3.5 |
| Insomnium Above the Weeping World | 4.5 |
| Insomnium Since the Day It All Came Down | 4.5 |
| Insomnium In the Halls of Awaiting | 4.0 |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 4.5 |
| Interpol Antics | 4.0 |
| Interpol El Pintor | 4.2 |
| Interpol Marauder | 3.2 |
| This a significant step down from El Pintor unfortunately. A solid release with some very good tracks, especially the opener and the closer, but the muddled production and safe songwriting makes for nothing more than a decent result. All in all a good album, but this won't go down as one of their more memorable or emotionally engaging releases like the first two or El Pintor. |
| Intronaut Void | 3.7 |
| Intronaut Prehistoricisms | 4.0 |
| Intronaut Valley of Smoke | 4.5 |
| Intronaut Habitual Levitations | 4.2 |
| Intronaut The Direction of Last Things | 4.1 |
| Fantastic energy and musicianship throughout, featuring their most energetic, dynamic guitar work and a stunningly technical rhythm section. The transitions from jazzy, meditative sections to pummeling metal and frantic prog goodness are fantastic, and the return of screams and chaotic songwriting is most welcome. |
| Intronaut Fluid Existential Inversions | 3.7 |
| Iosonouncane Ira | 3.5 |
| Iron Butterfly In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida | 3.0 |
| Iron Maiden The Book of Souls | 3.7 |
| Iron Maiden Iron Maiden | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden Killers | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden Piece of Mind | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden Dance of Death | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden The Final Frontier | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden Brave New World | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden Live After Death | 4.5 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 4.7 |
| ISIS In the Absence of Truth | 5.0 |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant | 4.5 |
| ISIS Oceanic | 4.5 |
| ISIS Celestial | 4.0 |
| ISIS SGNL>05 | 3.5 |
| ISIS The Red Sea | 3.5 |
| ISIS Mosquito Control | 3.5 |
| ISIS Oceanic: Remixes and Reinterpretations | 3.0 |
| ISIS Temporal | 3.7 |
| Isis and Aereogramme In The Fishtank 14 | 4.0 |
| Iwan Rheon Dinard | 4.0 |
| J Dilla Donuts | 4.0 |
| Jaco Pastorius Jaco Pastorius | 4.0 |
| Jaga Jazzist What We Must | 3.9 |
| Jaga Jazzist One-Armed Bandit | 3.3 |
| Jakob Cale:Drew | 4.0 |
| Jakob Sines | 4.3 |
| Jakob Solace | 4.5 |
| Jakszyk, Fripp and Collins A Scarcity Of Miracles | 4.0 |
| James Newton Howard Nightcrawler | 3.5 |
| James Newton Howard King Kong | 3.5 |
| James Newton Howard A Hidden Life | 3.5 |
| Jamie xx In Colour | 3.0 |
| Jarboe Sacrificial Cake | 3.5 |
| Jay-Z Reasonable Doubt | 4.0 |
| Jay-Z In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 | 3.5 |
| Jay-Z Vol. 2: Hard Knock Life | 3.5 |
| Jay-Z The Black Album | 4.0 |
| Jeff Beck There and Back | 3.5 |
| Jeremy Soule Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Soundtrack | 4.0 |
| Jeremy Soule Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Soundtrack | 4.5 |
| Jeremy Soule The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Soundtrack | 4.5 |
| Jerry Goldsmith Chinatown | 4.0 |
| Jerry Goldsmith The Omen | 4.0 |
| Jerry Goldsmith Alien | 4.0 |
| Jerry Goldsmith Poltergeist | 3.5 |
| Jerry Goldsmith Gremlins | 3.5 |
| Jerry Goldsmith Mulan | 3.5 |
| Jessica Curry Dear Esther | 4.0 |
| Jethro Tull Aqualung | 4.5 |
| Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick | 4.5 |
| Jill Scott Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1 | 3.7 |
| Jim James Eternally Even | 3.5 |
| Jim James Regions of Light and Sound of God | 3.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Bleed American | 3.2 |
| Jimmy Eat World Clarity | 4.3 |
| Jimmy Eat World Integrity Blues | 3.6 |
| Jimmy Eat World Futures | 4.2 |
| Joan Jett and the Blackhearts Bad Reputation | 3.5 |
| Job For A Cowboy Sun Eater | 4.0 |
| That bass is so delicious, this band really stepped up their game. |
| Job For A Cowboy Demonocracy | 3.0 |
| Job For A Cowboy Doom | 2.5 |
| Job For A Cowboy Genesis | 2.5 |
| Job For A Cowboy Ruination | 3.0 |
| Job For A Cowboy Gloom | 3.0 |
| Joe Hisaishi Howl's Moving Castle | 4.0 |
| Joe Hisaishi Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind | 4.0 |
| Joe Hisaishi Castle In The Sky | 4.0 |
| Joe Hisaishi My Neighbor Totoro | 4.0 |
| Joe Hisaishi Kiki's Delivery Service | 3.5 |
| Joe Hisaishi Porco Rosso | 4.0 |
| Joe Hisaishi Princess Mononoke | 4.5 |
| Joe Hisaishi Spirited Away | 4.5 |
| Joe Hisaishi Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea | 3.5 |
| Joe Hisaishi The Wind Rises | 4.0 |
| Joe Hisaishi Kaguya-Hime no Monogatari Soundtrack | 4.0 |
| Joe Satriani Surfing with the Alien | 4.0 |
| Johann Johannsson Arrival OST | 4.0 |
| John Cage 4'33'' | 2.5 |
| John Carpenter Firestarter (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | 3.0 |
| John Carpenter Assault on Precinct 13 | 4.0 |
| John Carpenter Halloween (2018) | 4.0 |
| John Carpenter Halloween 20th Anniversary Edition | 4.0 |
| John Carpenter Prince of Darkness | 3.5 |
| John Carpenter Halloween | 4.2 |
| John Carpenter Escape From New York | 4.0 |
| John Carpenter The Fog | 4.0 |
| John Carpenter Vampires | 3.0 |
| John Carpenter Lost Themes | 3.5 |
| John Carpenter Lost Themes II | 3.5 |
| John Carpenter Anthology: Movie Themes 1974-1998 | 4.0 |
| John Carpenter Halloween Kills | 3.5 |
| John Carpenter Halloween Ends | 3.5 |
| John Frusciante To Record Only Water for Ten Days | 3.5 |
| John Frusciante Shadows Collide with People | 4.0 |
| John Frusciante The Will to Death | 3.8 |
| John Frusciante Inside of Emptiness | 3.5 |
| John Frusciante Curtains | 4.0 |
| John Frusciante The Empyrean | 4.0 |
| John Frusciante PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone | 2.5 |
| John Frusciante Enclosure | 2.0 |
| John Frusciante Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt | 3.5 |
| John Frusciante Smile from the Streets You Hold | 3.0 |
| John Frusciante and Josh Klinghoffer A Sphere in the Heart of Silence | 3.5 |
| John Haughm +46° 17' 36.30", -124° 4' 20.13" | 3.5 |
| John Lennon Imagine | 4.0 |
| John Lennon John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band | 4.0 |
| John Murphy Sunshine (Soundtrack) | 4.0 |
| John Murphy 28 Days Later Soundtrack | 4.0 |
| John Murphy 28 Weeks Later Soundtrack | 3.5 |
| John Ottman X2 | 3.5 |
| John Ottman X-Men: Days of Future Past | 3.5 |
| John Powell Solo: A Star Wars Story | 3.0 |
| John Williams Star Wars: The Force Awakens | 4.0 |
| John Williams Jaws | 4.0 |
| John Williams Star Wars, Episode IV: A New Hope | 4.5 |
| John Williams Superman | 4.0 |
| John Williams Close Encounters of the Third Kind | 4.0 |
| John Williams Star Wars, Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back | 4.5 |
| John Williams Star Wars, Episode VI: Return of the Jedi | 4.0 |
| John Williams Raiders of the Lost Ark | 4.5 |
| John Williams Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | 4.0 |
| John Williams Empire of the Sun (Soundtrack) | 3.5 |
| John Williams E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial | 4.0 |
| John Williams Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | 4.0 |
| John Williams Jurassic Park | 4.0 |
| John Williams Schindler's List | 4.0 |
| John Williams Jurassic Park: The Lost World | 4.0 |
| John Williams Saving Private Ryan | 4.0 |
| John Williams Star Wars OST | 4.0 |
| John Williams Star Wars, Episode I: The Phantom Menace | 3.5 |
| John Williams Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | 4.0 |
| John Williams A.I.: Artificial Intelligence | 4.0 |
| John Williams Minority Report | 3.5 |
| John Williams Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | 3.5 |
| John Williams Star Wars, Episode II: Attack of the Clones | 3.5 |
| John Williams Catch Me If You Can (Soundtrack) | 3.5 |
| John Williams Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | 4.0 |
| John Williams Star Wars, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith | 3.5 |
| John Williams The War of the Worlds | 3.5 |
| John Williams Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | 3.5 |
| John Williams Lincoln | 4.0 |
| John Williams Star Wars: The Last Jedi | 3.5 |
| John Williams The Post | 3.5 |
| John Williams Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | 3.5 |
| John Williams The Fabelmans | 3.0 |
| John Williams Home Alone | 4.0 |
| John Williams Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny | 3.0 |
| Jon Brion Punch-Drunk Love OST | 4.0 |
| Jon Brion Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind OS | 4.0 |
| Jon Brion Synecdoche, New York OST | 4.0 |
| Jon Brion Lady Bird OST | 4.0 |
| Jon Hassell Dream Theory in Malaya | 4.0 |
| Jon Hopkins Music for Psychedelic Therapy | 3.3 |
| Jon Hopkins Immunity | 4.0 |
| Jon Hopkins Monsters (Soundtrack) | 3.5 |
| Jon Hopkins Singularity | 4.0 |
| Jon Hopkins Opalescent | 3.5 |
| Jon Hopkins Insides | 3.7 |
| Joni Mitchell Blue | 4.0 |
| Jonny Greenwood Bodysong | 3.0 |
| Jonny Greenwood There Will Be Blood OST | 4.0 |
| Jonny Greenwood The Master OST | 4.0 |
| Jonny Greenwood Inherent Vice OST | 3.5 |
| Jonny Greenwood Phantom Thread OST | 4.2 |
| Jonny Greenwood You Were Never Really Here | 3.6 |
| Jonny Greenwood The Power of the Dog | 3.5 |
| Jonny Greenwood Spencer | 3.7 |
| Jonsi We Bought a Zoo | 3.3 |
| Jonsi Shiver | 2.3 |
| Jonsi Go | 3.7 |
| Jonsi Obsidian | 3.5 |
| Jonsi and Alex Lost and Found | 3.0 |
| Jonsi and Alex Riceboy Sleeps | 4.0 |
| Jonsi and Alex All Animals | 3.5 |
| Joris de Man Horizon Zero Dawn (Original Soundtrack) | 3.5 |
| Joy Division Love Will Tear Us Apart | 4.0 |
| Judas Priest Sad Wings of Destiny | 4.5 |
| Judas Priest Sin After Sin | 4.0 |
| Judas Priest British Steel | 3.0 |
| Judas Priest Screaming for Vengeance | 4.0 |
| Judas Priest Ram It Down | 3.0 |
| Judas Priest Painkiller | 4.0 |
| Judas Priest Jugulator | 2.0 |
| Judas Priest Nostradamus | 2.5 |
| Julee Cruise Floating into the Night | 4.0 |
| Julien Face of God | 3.0 |
| Julien Baker Turn Out The Lights | 4.1 |
| Julien Baker Sprained Ankle | 4.3 |
| Julien Baker Little Oblivions | 3.5 |
| Junkie XL Mad Max: Fury Road | 4.0 |
| Junkie XL Godzilla vs. Kong | 3.0 |
| Junkie XL Zack Snyder’s Justice League | 2.5 |
| Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour | 2.5 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 3.5 |
| Karl Sanders Saurian Meditation | 3.5 |
| Karnivool Sound Awake | 3.5 |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I | 4.0 |
| Kataklysm In the Arms of Devastation | 3.0 |
| Katatonia The Great Cold Distance | 4.0 |
| Katatonia Night Is the New Day | 3.8 |
| Katatonia Dead End Kings | 4.0 |
| Katatonia The Fall of Hearts | 4.0 |
| Kate Bush The Kick Inside | 4.2 |
| Kate Bush Lionheart | 3.5 |
| Kate Bush Never for Ever | 4.0 |
| Kate Bush The Dreaming | 4.5 |
| Kate Bush Hounds of Love | 5.0 |
| Kate Bush 50 Words for Snow | 4.0 |
| Kate Bush Aerial | 4.0 |
| Kate Bush The Sensual World | 4.0 |
| Kate Bush The Red Shoes | 3.0 |
| Katy Perry One of the Boys | 2.5 |
| Katy Perry Teenage Dream | 2.0 |
| Kauan Sorni Nai | 4.2 |
| Kauan Kaiho | 4.0 |
| Kauan Ice Fleet | 3.7 |
| Kauan ATM Revised | 4.0 |
| Kaura That Which Defines Us | 3.5 |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye | 5.0 |
| Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue | 4.5 |
| Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward | 4.0 |
| Kayo Dot Coyote | 3.0 |
| Kayo Dot Gamma Knife | 3.5 |
| Kayo Dot Hubardo | 4.5 |
| Kayo Dot Coffins on Io | 4.5 |
| Kayo Dot Plastic House on Base of Sky | 4.3 |
| Kayo Dot take the sci-fi aspects of Coffins on Io and funnels them into a surreal amalgamation of progressive rock and synthwave. The music is dense and unrelenting at times, but also lush and with plenty of beautiful moments. Avant-garde and electronic musical styles, along with the lyrics, conjures forth strange imagery of a neo-noir future reminiscent of Blade Runner. Plastic House on Base of Sky embodies an identity of its own with electrifying energy and incredible musicianship. |
| Kayo Dot Stained Glass | 3.5 |
| Kayo Dot Kraków | 4.0 |
| Kayo Dot Blasphemy | 3.0 |
| An approachable prog rock album with a lot of strengths, Blasphemy unfortunately contains too many annoying qualities to live up to their classics. Toby Driver has some of the best singing moments of his career, and the band's continued embrace of avant-garde synth rock or whatever you'd want to call it produces moments of greatness, despite not reaching the heights of Coffins on Io or Plastic House on Base of Sky. |
| Kayo Dot Purity | 3.0 |
| Kayo Dot Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike | 2.7 |
| A spirited tribute to the European gothic metal bands of the late 1980s and '90s that Driver and co. grew up being inspired by. The wonky and largely emotionally cold nature of Blasphemy still lingers in this follow-up, as it never quite gets off the ground for me. There's just too much disjointedness and throwback metal songwriting to be fully effective. There are some nice moments throughout, and the return of bass is very welcome. "Void in Virgo (The Nature of Sacrifice)" is the highlight. |
| Keith Emerson Inferno OST | 4.0 |
| Kelly Bailey Half-Life 2 | 4.0 |
| Kelly Bailey Half-Life 2: Episode One | 4.0 |
| Kelly Bailey Half-Life 2: Episode Two | 4.0 |
| Kelly Lee Owens Inner Song | 3.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar Section.80 | 3.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city | 3.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly | 4.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar DAMN. | 3.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar untitled unmastered. | 3.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers | 2.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar DAMN. Collector's Edition | 1.0 |
| Kevin Morby Singing Saw | 3.5 |
| Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage | 3.0 |
| Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing | 3.5 |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache | 3.0 |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies | 2.5 |
| Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage (2009) | 2.0 |
| King Crimson Lizard | 4.5 |
| King Crimson Islands | 4.3 |
| King Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic | 5.0 |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King | 4.5 |
| King Crimson In the Wake of Poseidon | 4.0 |
| King Crimson Discipline | 4.7 |
| King Crimson Starless and Bible Black | 4.0 |
| King Crimson Beat | 3.5 |
| King Crimson Red | 5.0 |
| King Crimson Three of a Perfect Pair | 3.5 |
| King Crimson VROOOM | 3.0 |
| King Crimson THRAK | 3.5 |
| King Crimson The ConstruKction of Light | 3.0 |
| King Crimson Happy With What You Have To Be Happy With | 2.5 |
| King Crimson The Power to Believe | 3.5 |
| King Crimson The Condensed 21st Century Guide | 4.0 |
| King Crimson Radical Action To Unseat The Hold Of Monkey Mind | 4.0 |
| King Crimson Live in Chicago | 4.5 |
| King Crimson Sailors’ Tales (1970 – 1972) | 4.0 |
| King Green Alexander Desjardins | 3.5 |
| Kitchie Kitchie Ki Me O Are You Land Or Water | 3.5 |
| Koop Waltz for Koop | 4.0 |
| Korn Korn | 3.5 |
| Korn Life Is Peachy | 3.5 |
| Korn Follow the Leader | 3.5 |
| Korn Issues | 3.5 |
| Korn Untouchables | 3.0 |
| Korn Take a Look in the Mirror | 2.0 |
| Korn See You on the Other Side | 2.5 |
| Korn Untitled | 2.0 |
| Korn Korn III: Remember Who You Are | 2.5 |
| Korn The Path of Totality | 2.0 |
| Korn The Paradigm Shift | 3.0 |
| Korn MTV Unplugged: Korn | 2.5 |
| Korn All Mixed Up | 2.0 |
| Kraftwerk Autobahn | 4.0 |
| Kraftwerk Trans-Europe Express | 4.0 |
| Kraftwerk The Man-Machine | 4.0 |
| Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein Stranger Things, Volume One | 4.0 |
| Kyuss Blues for the Red Sun | 4.0 |
| Kyuss Welcome to Sky Valley | 4.2 |
| Lacuna Coil Lacuna Coil | 3.8 |
| Lacuna Coil Comalies | 3.5 |
| Lacuna Coil Karmacode | 3.0 |
| Lacuna Coil Shallow Life | 2.5 |
| Lacuna Coil Dark Adrenaline | 3.0 |
| Lacuna Coil Broken Crown Halo | 2.5 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame | 1.5 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame Monster | 1.0 |
| Lady Gaga Born This Way | 1.0 |
| Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper A Star is Born | 3.5 |
| Lamb of God New American Gospel | 3.0 |
| Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn | 3.5 |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake | 3.5 |
| Lamb of God Sacrament | 3.5 |
| Lamb of God Wrath | 3.0 |
| Lamb of God Resolution | 3.0 |
| Lamb of God VII: Sturm und Drang | 3.5 |
| Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell! | 3.3 |
| Lantlos Lantlos | 3.5 |
| Lantlos .neon | 4.3 |
| Lantlos Agape | 4.0 |
| Lantlos Melting Sun | 4.2 |
| Lantlos Wildhund | 3.5 |
| Lapalux Nostalchic | 3.7 |
| Lapalux When You're Gone | 3.5 |
| Lapalux Amnioverse | 4.0 |
| Lapalux Ruinism | 3.5 |
| Lapalux Lustmore | 3.5 |
| Lapalux Many Faces Out of Focus | 3.5 |
| Lapalux Some Other Time | 3.5 |
| Laraaji Ambient 3: Day of Radiance | 4.0 |
| LCD Soundsystem LCD Soundsystem | 3.5 |
| LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver | 4.0 |
| LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening | 3.5 |
| LCD Soundsystem American Dream | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV | 5.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Presence | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Mothership | 4.5 |
| Leonard Cohen You Want It Darker | 3.5 |
| Leonard Cohen Songs of Leonard Cohen | 4.0 |
| Leonard Cohen Songs of Love and Hate | 4.0 |
| Leprous Bilateral | 3.5 |
| Les Discrets Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées | 4.0 |
| Let's Eat Grandma I'm All Ears | 3.3 |
| Leviathan Scar Sighted | 4.0 |
| Lewis L'Amour | 3.7 |
| Lewis Hawaiian Breeze | 3.0 |
| Lights The Listening | 3.0 |
| Lights Out Asia Tanks And Recognizers | 3.5 |
| Lights Out Asia Eyes Like Brontide | 4.0 |
| Lights Out Asia In The Days Of Jupiter | 3.5 |
| Lights Out Asia Hy-Brasil | 4.0 |
| Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water | 2.0 |
| Lin-Manuel Miranda Hamilton - Original Broadway Cast | 3.0 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 2.5 |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 2.5 |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight | 1.5 |
| Linkin Park Reanimation | 1.5 |
| Liquid Tension Experiment Liquid Tension Experiment | 4.0 |
| Liquid Tension Experiment Liquid Tension Experiment 2 | 4.0 |
| Liturgy Renihilation | 3.5 |
| Liturgy Aesthethica | 3.0 |
| Liturgy The Ark Work | 2.5 |
| Beautiful melodies and harmonies alongside a fantastic drumming performance are the best parts of The Ark Work, while monotonous vocals and muddled production mar the overall potential. |
| Local Natives Hummingbird | 4.0 |
| Local Natives Sunlit Youth | 3.3 |
| Local Natives Sour Lemon | 3.5 |
| Local Natives Gorilla Manor | 3.7 |
| Local Natives Violet Street | 3.5 |
| Local Natives Time Will Wait For No One | 3.0 |
| Logic No Pressure | 3.0 |
| Loom (CAN) epyllion | 4.0 |
| Lorde Pure Heroine | 2.5 |
| Lorde Melodrama | 2.5 |
| Lost Ubikyst in Apeiron Abstruse Imbeciles Nailed on Slavery | 4.0 |
| Lotte Kestner China Mountain | 4.0 |
| Lotte Kestner The Bluebird of Happiness | 3.5 |
| Lou Reed and Metallica Lulu | 1.0 |
| Love Forever Changes | 5.0 |
| Love Da Capo | 3.5 |
| Love, Robot Rebuild | Rebirth | 3.5 |
| LSD and the Search for God LSD and the Search for God | 4.0 |
| Lucy Dacus Historian | 3.3 |
| Lucy Dacus No Burden | 3.0 |
| Ludwig Goransson Black Panther (Original Score) | 3.5 |
| Ludwig Goransson Black Panther: Wakanda Forever | 2.5 |
| Ludwig Goransson Tenet | 4.0 |
| Ludwig Goransson Oppenheimer | 4.0 |
| Lunatic Soul Lunatic Soul | 3.5 |
| Lush Spooky | 4.0 |
| Lush Mad Love | 4.0 |
| Lush Scar | 3.5 |
| M83 Oblivion (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | 3.5 |
| M83 DSVII | 2.5 |
| M83 Junk | 3.2 |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming | 4.0 |
| M83 Saturdays=Youth | 4.0 |
| M83 Fantasy | 2.5 |
| Machine Head Burn My Eyes | 3.5 |
| Machine Head The More Things Change... | 3.5 |
| Machine Head Through The Ashes Of Empires | 3.0 |
| Machine Head The Blackening | 3.5 |
| Machine Head Unto The Locust | 3.5 |
| Machine Head Bloodstone And Diamonds | 3.5 |
| Machine Head The Burning Red | 2.5 |
| Machine Head Supercharger | 2.0 |
| Mahavishnu Orchestra The Inner Mounting Flame | 4.0 |
| Mahavishnu Orchestra Birds of Fire | 4.0 |
| Makoto Matsushita First Light | 4.0 |
| Mamiffer Hirror Enniffer | 4.0 |
| Mammoth Deviations | 3.5 |
| Manntis Sleep In Your Grave | 3.0 |
| Mansions Dig Up the Dead | 4.0 |
| Many Rooms Hollow Body | 4.0 |
| Many Rooms There is a Presence Here | 4.0 |
| Marco Beltrami 3:10 to Yuma | 4.0 |
| Marco Beltrami The Hurt Locker | 3.0 |
| Marco Beltrami World War Z | 2.0 |
| Marco Beltrami Logan | 4.0 |
| Marco Beltrami A Quiet Place | 3.5 |
| Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar | 3.5 |
| Marilyn Manson Holy Wood | 3.5 |
| Marilyn Manson Eat Me, Drink Me | 3.2 |
| Marilyn Manson The Pale Emperor | 3.3 |
| Marilyn Manson Mechanical Animals | 3.5 |
| Marilyn Manson The High End of Low | 2.5 |
| Marilyn Manson Smells Like Children | 2.0 |
| Marilyn Manson Lest We Forget | 3.5 |
| Marilyn Manson Born Villain | 3.0 |
| Marilyn Manson Portrait of an American Family | 2.5 |
| Marilyn Manson The Golden Age of Grotesque | 3.0 |
| Mark Hollis Mark Hollis | 5.0 |
| Mark Korven The Witch (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | 4.0 |
| Mark Korven The Lighthouse - OST | 3.5 |
| Mark Mothersbaugh Thor: Ragnarok | 3.5 |
| Mark Snow The Truth and the Light: Music From the X-Files | 4.0 |
| Maroon 5 V | 1.0 |
| Marriages Salome | 3.6 |
| Martin O'Donnell Halo Original Soundtrack | 4.3 |
| Martin O'Donnell Halo 3 OST | 4.3 |
| Martin O'Donnell Halo 2 OST & New Music Volume One | 4.0 |
| Martin O'Donnell Halo 2, Vol. 2 OST | 4.0 |
| Martin O'Donnell Halo: Reach OST | 3.5 |
| Martin O'Donnell Destiny OST | 3.5 |
| Marvin Gaye What's Going On | 4.0 |
| Massive Attack Splitting the Atom | 3.5 |
| Massive Attack Ritual Spirit | 4.2 |
| Massive Attack Heligoland | 3.8 |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine | 5.0 |
| Massive Attack Blue Lines | 4.0 |
| Massive Attack 100th Window | 4.3 |
| Massive Attack Protection | 4.0 |
| Massive Attack Collected | 4.0 |
| Massive Attack The Spoils | 4.0 |
| Massive Attack Eutopia | 2.0 |
| Mastodon Call of the Mastodon | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Remission | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 4.3 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 4.4 |
| Mastodon The Hunter | 3.6 |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun | 3.2 |
| Mastodon Cold Dark Place | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Emperor of Sand | 3.5 |
| Emperor of Sand signifies more excellent, mind-bending metal from prog giants Mastodon. There's not a whole lot that's new to be said for the band in 2017, as they continue down the path that really began with The Hunter. Some moments hearken to Crack the Skye and Blood Mountain, but this is mostly a further excursion into what they've been doing in a more classic metal sounding approach. |
| Mastodon Hushed and Grim | 3.7 |
| Matt Berninger Serpentine Prison | 3.5 |
| maudlin of the Well My Fruit Psychobells... A Seed Combustible | 4.2 |
| maudlin of the Well Bath | 5.0 |
| maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map | 4.5 |
| maudlin of the Well Part the Second | 5.0 |
| maudlin of the Well Odes To Darksome Spring | 4.0 |
| Max Richter The Blue Notebooks | 4.0 |
| Max Richter Recomposed: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons | 4.0 |
| Max Richter Three Worlds: Music from Woolf Works | 3.6 |
| Max Richter Black Mirror: Nosedive | 4.0 |
| Maybeshewill Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony | 4.0 |
| Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas | 3.5 |
| Mazzy Star So Tonight That I Might See | 4.0 |
| Megadeth Dystopia | 3.0 |
| Megadeth United Abominations | 3.5 |
| Megadeth Endgame | 4.0 |
| Megadeth The System Has Failed | 3.0 |
| Megadeth Super Collider | 2.0 |
| Megadeth Th1rt3en | 3.0 |
| Megadeth Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! | 4.0 |
| Megadeth Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? | 4.4 |
| Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What! | 4.0 |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace | 4.5 |
| Megadeth Countdown to Extinction | 4.0 |
| Megadeth Youthanasia | 4.0 |
| Megadeth Cryptic Writings | 2.5 |
| Megadeth Risk | 2.0 |
| Megadeth Hidden Treasures | 3.0 |
| Megadeth The World Needs a Hero | 2.5 |
| Melody's Echo Chamber Melody's Echo Chamber | 3.5 |
| Melody's Echo Chamber Bon Voyage | 3.7 |
| Melvins Bullhead | 4.0 |
| Melvins Houdini | 4.0 |
| Melvins Stoner Witch | 4.0 |
| Memories Of Machines Warm Winter | 4.2 |
| A sorrowful and sublime offering from the minds of No-Man, Porcupine Tree, and Nosound. There are features by Robert Fripp and Peter Hammill as well, adding up to a sublime marriage of soft progressive rock and ambient textures. Think Schoolyard Ghosts (which this actually shares a few tracks with), A Scarcity of Miracles, and Damnation by Opeth. The tempos are slow, the atmosphere intoxicating, and styles of dream pop and minimalism are thrown into the mix for a mellow offering that serves as a wonderful extension of Schoolyard Ghosts by No-Man, but holds up as its own project too. |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve | 4.3 |
| Meshuggah obZen | 4.2 |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree | 4.1 |
| Meshuggah Koloss | 3.3 |
| Meshuggah Nothing (Re-Release) | 4.2 |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Nothing | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah Contradictions Collapse | 3.3 |
| Meshuggah I | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah The True Human Design | 3.0 |
| Meshuggah Selfcaged | 3.0 |
| Meshuggah None | 3.7 |
| Meshuggah Rare Trax | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Psykisk Testbild | 3.0 |
| Meshuggah The Violent Sleep Of Reason | 2.5 |
| Meshuggah Pitch Black | 3.5 |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All | 4.0 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 4.4 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 4.5 |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All | 4.3 |
| Metallica Metallica | 3.5 |
| Metallica Load | 2.5 |
| Metallica Reload | 2.0 |
| Metallica St. Anger | 2.3 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 3.0 |
| Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct | 3.0 |
| Metallica Garage Inc. | 3.0 |
| Mew Frengers | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister | 3.5 |
| MGMT Congratulations | 2.8 |
| MGMT Oracular Spectacular | 3.3 |
| MGMT Time to Pretend | 3.0 |
| MGMT MGMT | 2.0 |
| MGMT Little Dark Age | 4.0 |
| MGMT Loss of Life | 3.5 |
| Mica Levi Under The Skin OST | 4.0 |
| Michael Giacchino Doctor Strange | 3.0 |
| Michael Giacchino Spider-Man: Far From Home | 3.0 |
| Michael Giacchino Spider-Man: Homecoming | 3.0 |
| Michael Giacchino Incredibles 2 | 3.5 |
| Michael Giacchino War for the Planet of the Apes | 3.5 |
| Michael Giacchino Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | 3.5 |
| Michael Giacchino Lost: Season 1 | 4.0 |
| Michael Giacchino Ratatouille | 4.0 |
| Michael Giacchino Star Trek | 3.5 |
| Michael Giacchino Up | 4.0 |
| Michael Giacchino Star Trek Into Darkness | 3.0 |
| Michael Giacchino Inside Out | 3.5 |
| Michael Giacchino Star Trek Beyond | 3.0 |
| Michael Giacchino Coco | 3.5 |
| Michael Giacchino The Batman | 4.0 |
| Michael Giacchino Spider-Man: No Way Home | 3.5 |
| Michael Gira Drainland | 3.0 |
| Michael Jackson Off the Wall | 4.0 |
| Michael Jackson This Is It | 3.0 |
| Michael Jackson Thriller | 4.0 |
| Michael Jackson Bad | 4.0 |
| Michael Jackson Dangerous | 3.5 |
| Michael Jackson The Essential Michael Jackson | 4.0 |
| Mick Gordon Doom OST | 3.5 |
| Miguel Migs Colorful You | 3.8 |
| Mikael Akerfeldt Clark (Soundtrack from the Netflix series) | 4.0 |
| The best thing Akerfeldt has been part of in the decade since Storm Corrosion, one reason being that he finally shuts up with the oversinging and made a wonderful instrumental soundtrack traversing all manner of musical styles like symphonic/psych/progressive rock, jazz, funk, chamber, and ambient. Some parts remind me of Opeth's Pale Communion. All in all an excellent album that signifies great things for a hopefully continuing solo career. |
| Millicent Waffles Under Dark Blue Blanket | 4.0 |
| Minus the Bear They Make Beer Commercials Like This | 4.0 |
| Minus the Bear Bands Like It When You Yell YAR at Them | 3.5 |
| Minus the Bear This is What I Know About Being Gigantic | 3.5 |
| Minus the Bear Lost Loves | 3.5 |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice | 4.5 |
| Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates | 4.0 |
| Minus the Bear Menos El Oso | 4.0 |
| Miss May I Apologies Are for the Weak | 2.5 |
| Miss May I Monument | 2.5 |
| Misthyrming Söngvar elds og óreiðu | 4.0 |
| Moby Play | 3.5 |
| Moby 18 | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About | 4.3 |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West | 4.5 |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica | 5.0 |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News | 4.4 |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank | 3.8 |
| Modest Mouse Strangers to Ourselves | 3.6 |
| Modest Mouse No One's First, and You're Next | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks | 4.2 |
| Modest Mouse Building Nothing Out of Something | 4.2 |
| Modest Mouse Sad Sappy Sucker | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse The Fruit That Ate Itself | 3.3 |
| Modest Mouse Interstate 8 | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse ナイト・オン・ザ・サン (Night on the Sun) | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse The Golden Casket | 3.2 |
| Mogwai Young Team | 4.5 |
| Mogwai Come On Die Young | 4.0 |
| Mogwai Rock Action | 3.5 |
| Mogwai Happy Songs for Happy People | 4.0 |
| Mogwai Mr. Beast | 3.5 |
| Mojave 3 Ask Me Tomorrow | 4.0 |
| Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind | 4.3 |
| Mono You Are There | 4.0 |
| Morbid Angel Altars of Madness | 3.5 |
| Morbus Chron Sweven | 4.5 |
| Morbus Chron A Saunter Through The Shroud | 4.0 |
| Morbus Chron Sleepers in the Rift | 3.5 |
| Morrissey Viva Hate | 4.0 |
| Motorhead Motörhead | 4.0 |
| Motorhead Ace of Spades | 4.0 |
| Mount Eerie A Crow Looked At Me | 4.0 |
| Mouse On The Keys The Flowers of Romance | 4.0 |
| Moving Mountains Pneuma | 4.5 |
| Moving Mountains Foreword | 4.5 |
| Moving Mountains Waves | 3.3 |
| Moving Mountains Moving Mountains | 3.0 |
| Mree The Middle | 3.5 |
| Murderdolls Beyond The Valley of the Murderdolls | 3.0 |
| Murderdolls Women and Children Last | 2.5 |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry | 3.5 |
| Muse Absolution | 3.5 |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 3.0 |
| Muse The Resistance | 2.5 |
| Mushroomhead XIII | 3.5 |
| Musk Ox Woodfall | 4.1 |
| Musk Ox Inheritance | 3.8 |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 5.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine You Made Me Realise | 4.5 |
| My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything | 4.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine m b v | 4.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine Tremolo | 4.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine Feed Me with Your Kiss | 3.5 |
| My Bloody Valentine Glider | 4.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine Ecstasy and Wine | 3.5 |
| My Bloody Valentine EPs 1988-1991 | 4.5 |
| My Morning Jacket The Tennessee Fire | 3.5 |
| My Morning Jacket At Dawn | 4.0 |
| My Morning Jacket It Still Moves | 4.2 |
| My Morning Jacket Z | 4.3 |
| My Morning Jacket Evil Urges | 3.3 |
| My Morning Jacket Circuital | 3.0 |
| My Morning Jacket The Waterfall | 4.0 |
| My Morning Jacket The Waterfall II | 3.7 |
| My Morning Jacket My Morning Jacket | 3.0 |
| My Morning Jacket Okonokos | 4.5 |
| Myles Oliver Geosinect & Methods of Its Growth | 3.5 |
| Myles Oliver Find Me Tomorrow | 3.5 |
| Myles Oliver Opio | 3.7 |
| Myles Oliver New Sounds | 3.5 |
| Myrkur M | 3.2 |
| Myrkur Myrkur | 3.0 |
| Myrkur Folkesange | 3.5 |
| N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton | 4.0 |
| N.W.A. Niggaz4Life | 3.5 |
| Napalm Death Time Waits for No Slave | 3.5 |
| Napalm Death Utilitarian | 3.5 |
| Nas Illmatic | 4.0 |
| Natalie Holt Obi-Wan Kenobi | 3.0 |
| Native Construct Quiet World | 3.5 |
| Nature and Organisation Beauty Reaps the Blood of Solitude | 4.0 |
| Nature and Organisation Death in a Snow Leopard Winter | 4.0 |
| Nature and Organisation Snow Leopard Messiah | 4.0 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I | 4.1 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Citadel | 3.8 |
| Neil Davidge Halo 4 Original Soundtrack | 3.5 |
| NeraNature Foresting Wounds | 3.7 |
| NeraNature Disorders | 3.3 |
| Nero di Marte Derivae | 4.0 |
| Nero di Marte Nero di Marte | 3.5 |
| Nest (FIN) Fabled Lore | 3.5 |
| Nest (FIN) Hidden Stream | 3.5 |
| Nest (FIN) Woodsmoke | 3.7 |
| Nest (FIN) Trail of the Unwary | 4.0 |
| Nest (FIN) Mietteitä | 3.0 |
| Neu! Neu! | 4.0 |
| Neu! Neu! '75 | 4.5 |
| Neun Welten Vergessene Pfade | 4.0 |
| Neun Welten Destrunken | 4.0 |
| Neurosis Times of Grace | 4.2 |
| Neurosis Given to the Rising | 3.8 |
| Neurosis Honor Found in Decay | 4.0 |
| Neurosis Fires Within Fires | 4.0 |
| Fires Within Fires takes on a more purposeful feel than previous Neurosis albums, being the shortest and most easily digestible from them in many years. This demands a close listen more than anything else, as the subtleties in each track flicker by quickly. Tempos are largely increased here, making for a refreshing groove feel present in many of the heavier moments. The songwriting is top notch as always, feeling massive in scope and is consistently engrossing, with enough new tricks to keep it interesting. Faster songs and a willingness to further explore their calmer odysseys make for their most rewarding release in over a decade. "Reach" is their best song in 10 years. |
| Neurosis Souls at Zero | 4.3 |
| Neurosis Enemy of the Sun | 4.0 |
| Neurosis Through Silver in Blood | 4.0 |
| Neurosis A Sun That Never Sets | 4.5 |
| Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm | 4.5 |
| Neurosis Pain of Mind | 3.3 |
| Neurosis The Word as Law | 3.6 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 4.0 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds B-Sides and Rarities (Part II) | 4.0 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Tender Prey | 4.3 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Let Love In | 4.4 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds The Boatman's Call | 4.3 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds No More Shall We Part | 5.0 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Nocturama | 3.5 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! | 3.5 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Push The Sky Away | 4.1 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Your Funeral... My Trial | 3.8 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds The Good Son | 4.1 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Henry's Dream | 4.0 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Murder Ballads | 4.5 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus | 4.2 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds The Firstborn Is Dead | 3.5 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds The Best Of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds | 4.0 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds B-Sides & Rarities | 4.0 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree | 5.0 |
| Skeleton Tree is a captivating, heart-rending meditation from a true artist coming to terms with the most horrific tragedy a person can experience. Many of the tracks in Skeleton Tree see Cave paint bizarre, beautiful pictures of lost loves in much the same way as predecessor Push The Sky Away did. Continuing from where it left off, the instrumentation is largely based on dissonant string arrangements and unsettling ambience. The bare bones playing provides appropriate musical terrain for Cave to exorcise his demons, giving a tense feeling over the listening experience. This is due largely to the vulnerable, and sometimes even quivering vocal performance by Cave. Skeleton Tree is meant to be a record for everyone, a naked, honest depiction of true grief in musical form. This is as much a sorrowful exploration as a loving sendoff for his fans, but more importantly, for himself. |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Distant Sky (Live in Copenhagen) | 4.0 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Ghosteen | 4.5 |
| The band follow their masterpiece Skeleton Tree with a less dark direction, even more sparse and ethereal than their previous work has been this past decade. This is practically a full on ambient album, often being not much more than synths and piano alongside Cave's voice. His lyrics continue to be wonderfully impressionistic, ranging from the surreal and fantastical to some very intimate and personal musings as well. It's not quite as consistently engaging as Abattoir Blues, ...Sky, or Skeleton Tree but is another triumph and one of the finest albums of the year. Highlights include "Bright Horses" "Sun Forest" "Galleon Ship" "Leviathan". |
| Nick Cave and Warren Ellis Hell Or High Water | 4.0 |
| Nick Cave and Warren Ellis The Road | 4.0 |
| Nick Cave and Warren Ellis Dahmer (Soundtrack) | 3.0 |
| Nick Cave and Warren Ellis The Proposition | 4.0 |
| Nick Cave and Warren Ellis The Assasination of Jesse James | 4.0 |
| Nick Cave and Warren Ellis Carnage | 4.0 |
| Nick Cave and Warren Ellis La Panthere Des Neiges | 3.5 |
| Nick Cave and Warren Ellis Blonde (Soundtrack from the Netflix film) | 4.0 |
| Nick Drake Five Leaves Left | 4.5 |
| Nick Drake Pink Moon | 4.5 |
| Nick Drake Bryter Layter | 4.0 |
| Nile Black Seeds of Vengeance | 3.5 |
| Nile At The Gate of Sethu | 3.0 |
| Nile Those Whom the Gods Detest | 4.2 |
| Nile Ithyphallic | 3.0 |
| Nile Annihilation of the Wicked | 4.0 |
| Nile In Their Darkened Shrines | 3.7 |
| Nine Horses Snow Borne Sorrow | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 4.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine | 4.0 |
| Ninet Tayeb Paper Parachute | 4.0 |
| "Child" is one of the best rock songs of the year. |
| Nirvana In Utero | 4.1 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 4.3 |
| Nirvana Incesticide | 3.5 |
| Nirvana Bleach | 3.7 |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York | 4.0 |
| No-Man Days in the Trees | 4.0 |
| No-Man Loveblows & Lovecries | 3.5 |
| No-Man Wild Opera | 4.0 |
| No-Man Flowermouth | 4.0 |
| No-Man Together We're Stranger | 4.3 |
| No-Man Returning Jesus | 4.5 |
| No-Man Speak | 4.5 |
| No-Man Lovesighs - An Entertainment | 3.5 |
| No-Man Heaven Taste | 3.5 |
| No-Man All The Blue Changes - An Anthology 1988-2003 | 4.0 |
| No-Man Schoolyard Ghosts | 4.5 |
| No-Man Wherever There Is Light | 4.0 |
| No-Man Dry Cleaning Ray | 3.5 |
| No-Man Love You to Bits | 3.5 |
| A whole embrace of synthpop hinted at by "Permanating," Love You to Bits harnesses a high concept approach to psychedelic electronic music that sounds like an evolution of their early '90s releases, a gift to fans who love that that era, as the albums beginning with Wild Opera and culminating with the Schoolyard Ghosts project pursued new directions. For fans of new Tame Impala. |
| No-Man Love You To Bits EP | 3.5 |
| Love You to Shreds is wonderful; essentially the acknowledgement of their 1999-2008 albums, while the main Love You to Bits album is the celebration of their early '90s work. |
| Nosound Sol29 | 4.0 |
| Nosound Lightdark | 4.0 |
| Nosound A Sense of Loss | 3.5 |
| Nosound Afterthoughts | 4.0 |
| Nosound Scintilla | 3.5 |
| Nosound Allow Yourself | 3.0 |
| Nothing Guilty of Everything | 4.0 |
| Nothing The Great Dismal | 4.0 |
| Novembers Doom Amid Its Hallowed Mirth | 2.5 |
| Novembre Classica | 4.5 |
| Novembre Novembrine Waltz | 4.2 |
| Novembre Materia | 4.5 |
| Novembre The Blue | 4.2 |
| Novembre Ursa | 4.4 |
| Ursa is a more patient record than its predecessor The Blue, with less emphasis on genre bending. "Australis," "Umana," "Agathae," and "Fin" are counted with the best songs they ever wrote, lending Ursa to the triumphant feel it exudes for much of the running time. The fluid atmospheres recall bands like Opeth and Katatonia, while sounding just as original. With a masterful command of structure and compelling songwriting ideas, Ursa is among the finest melodic metal records in recent years. |
| Novembre Dreams D'Azur | 4.0 |
| O'Brother Garden Window | 3.2 |
| O'Brother Endless Light | 2.5 |
| Oado Life Era | 4.0 |
| Oasis Definitely Maybe | 4.2 |
| Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? | 4.3 |
| Oasis Be Here Now | 3.2 |
| Oceano Depths | 2.0 |
| Oceano Ascendants | 2.5 |
| Oceansize Effloresce | 4.5 |
| Oceansize Frames | 4.5 |
| Oceansize Everyone Into Position | 4.0 |
| Oceansize Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up | 4.0 |
| Oceansize Music for Nurses | 4.0 |
| Oceansize Home & Minor | 4.0 |
| October Falls Marras | 4.0 |
| Of Machines As If Everything Was Held In Place | 4.0 |
| Okkervil River Away | 4.0 |
| Okkervil River In The Rainbow Rain | 3.5 |
| A diverse and feel-good indie pop album with spring-time vibes and plenty of '80s and contemporary influences alike, including The War on Drugs, The Killers, even a little Blackstar by David Bowie too. Despite some cliche'd ideas that pop up from time to time, In The Rainbow Rain succeeds due to the earnestness of the songwriting and enough adventurous musical ideas to justify multiple listens. Not quite as deep and compelling as predecessor Away, but a finely crafted, breezy, very enjoyable record in its own right. |
| Olafur Arnalds Broadchurch | 3.5 |
| Olafur Arnalds ...And They Have Escaped The Weight Of Darkness | 4.0 |
| Old Man's Child Revelation 666 | 3.5 |
| Old Man's Child In Defiance of Existence | 4.3 |
| Old Man's Child Vermin | 3.5 |
| Old Man's Child Slaves of the World | 3.8 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Returnal | 3.8 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Betrayed in the Octagon | 3.5 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Replica | 4.2 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Age Of | 3.5 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Good Time | 3.5 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never The Fall Into Time | 3.5 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Transmat Memories | 3.0 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never A Pact Between Strangers | 3.5 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Ruined Lives | 3.5 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Zones Without People | 3.5 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Russian Mind | 3.7 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Rifts | 4.0 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Garden of Delete | 4.0 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never R Plus Seven | 4.1 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Magic Oneohtrix Point Never | 3.5 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Commissions I | 3.5 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Commissions II | 3.5 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never The Station | 3.5 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Love in the Time of Lexapro | 3.5 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Again | 3.0 |
| Opeth The Throat Of Winter | 4.0 |
| Opeth Apostle in Triumph | 3.5 |
| Opeth Orchid | 4.0 |
| Opeth Morningrise | 4.1 |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse | 4.5 |
| Opeth Still Life | 5.0 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 5.0 |
| Opeth Deliverance | 4.0 |
| Opeth Damnation | 4.5 |
| Opeth Watershed | 4.3 |
| Opeth Heritage | 4.2 |
| A major grower, Heritage takes the group into a new direction while still maintaining their sense of musical adventure and dynamic instrumentation. |
| Opeth Pale Communion | 3.5 |
| Diverse, emotional, and at times heavy, this is Heritage taken in a new and interesting direction, but manages to sound completely different. Very proggy and wonderful. |
| Opeth Deliverance & Damnation Remixed | 4.0 |
| Opeth Burden | 3.0 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 5.0 |
| Opeth Sorceress | 3.3 |
| Naturalistic vibes and explorative songwriting galore, Sorceress emphasizes adventure above all else. It manifests a warm, yet occult atmosphere, particularly within the gorgeous "Sorceress 2" and colorful "The Wilde Flowers." The unpredictable qualities of Watershed and Heritage are certainly intact, especially regarding the instrumentation; don't be surprised when a rollicking progressive metal jam fully transforms into beautiful musical passages of acoustic guitar pluckings and ethereal mellotrons. There are unfortunately some bland lyrics similar to the weaker moments of Pale Communion, but vocals are improved with Akerfeldt giving his best performance in a decade. While Sorceress may be too disjointed or tranquil for some, Opeth nevertheless continue developing their new musical styles triumphantly. |
| Opeth Book of Opeth EP | 3.5 |
| Opeth Lamentations | 4.0 |
| Opeth The Roundhouse Tapes | 4.0 |
| Opeth Still Day Beneath The Sun | 4.0 |
| Opeth Garden of the Titans | 4.0 |
| Opeth In Cauda Venenum | 3.7 |
| In Cauda Venenum boasts better production and is packed with more ideas and genre-bending goodness than the previous two records, but some uninspired moments and weird vocal quirks from Akerfeldt hold it back from true greatness. Still, it has some of their best tracks of their 2010s albums and the songwriting sounds more streamlined and satisfying overall. |
| Orange Juice Rip It Up | 3.5 |
| Orange Juice You Can't Hide Your Love Forever | 4.0 |
| Oriya Light To Dark | 3.5 |
| Our Oceans Our Oceans | 4.0 |
| Our Oceans While Time Disappears | 3.0 |
| Ozric Tentacles Jurassic Shift | 4.2 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard of Ozz | 4.0 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Diary of a Madman | 3.5 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Bark at the Moon | 3.5 |
| Ozzy Osbourne The Ultimate Sin | 3.0 |
| Ozzy Osbourne No Rest for the Wicked | 3.5 |
| Ozzy Osbourne No More Tears | 4.0 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Ozzmosis | 3.0 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Down to Earth | 2.5 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Black Rain | 2.0 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Scream | 2.5 |
| Paddy McAloon I Trawl The Megahertz | 4.3 |
| Pain of Salvation Remedy Lane | 4.2 |
| Pain of Salvation The Perfect Element, Part 1 | 4.3 |
| Pale Waves All the Things I Never Said | 3.0 |
| Pale Waves My Mind Makes Noises | 2.5 |
| Palms Palms | 4.0 |
| Palms Opening Titles / End Credits | 3.5 |
| Panopticon Autumn Eternal | 4.4 |
| From what I've heard of Panopticon before Autumn Eternal, the one-man project has a great run of atmospheric black metal albums exploring a wide range of themes. This is considered his most impressive release yet however, magnificently harnessing the essence of autumn throughout the ghostly atmospheres, particularly within the soothing opener and "Oaks Ablaze". Much of Autumn Eternal balances incredible guitar solos and blasting drums with clean guitar breaks and naturalistic interludes stunningly. A strong discography now has its crowning achievement with the most mature sense of songwriting yet, and has solidified itself as one of the greatest metal albums of the year. Excellent Fall album. For fans of Drukdh, Agalloch, and Opeth. |
| Panopticon Roads to the North | 4.1 |
| Panopticon Panopticon | 4.0 |
| Panopticon Collapse | 4.0 |
| Panopticon On the Subject of Mortality | 3.5 |
| Panopticon Social Disservices | 2.5 |
| Panopticon Kentucky | 2.5 |
| Pantera Cowboys from Hell | 4.0 |
| Pantera Vulgar Display of Power | 3.5 |
| Pantera Far Beyond Driven | 3.5 |
| Pantera Power Metal | 3.0 |
| Pantera The Great Southern Trendkill | 3.5 |
| Pantera Reinventing the Steel | 3.0 |
| Paradise Lost One Second | 3.5 |
| Paradise Lost Lost Paradise | 3.0 |
| Paradise Lost Shades of God | 4.0 |
| Paradise Lost Gothic | 4.0 |
| Paradise Lost In Requiem | 3.8 |
| Paradise Lost Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us | 4.3 |
| Paradise Lost Tragic Idol | 4.0 |
| Paradise Lost The Plague Within | 4.2 |
| Paradise Lost Icon | 4.5 |
| Paradise Lost Draconian Times | 4.5 |
| Paradise Lost Medusa | 3.0 |
| Paradise Lost Obsidian | 3.5 |
| Paradise Lost Host | 2.5 |
| Paradise Lost Believe In Nothing | 2.5 |
| Paradise Lost Symbol Of Life | 3.0 |
| Paradise Lost Paradise Lost | 3.5 |
| Paramore Singles Club | 3.5 |
| Paramore All We Know Is Falling | 3.5 |
| Paramore Riot! | 3.0 |
| Paramore Paramore | 3.0 |
| Paramore Brand New Eyes | 3.5 |
| Paramore The Summer Tic | 3.5 |
| Paramore After Laughter | 4.0 |
| Paramore This Is Why | 3.0 |
| Parkway Drive Killing with a Smile | 3.5 |
| Parkway Drive Horizons | 3.5 |
| Parkway Drive Deep Blue | 3.0 |
| Parkway Drive Atlas | 2.5 |
| Parkway Drive Ire | 2.0 |
| Passion Pit Manners | 3.0 |
| Passion Pit Gossamer | 3.0 |
| Pat Metheny Bright Size Life | 4.0 |
| Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls | 4.2 |
| Paul Buchanan Mid Air | 4.0 |
| Paul Leonard-Morgan Dredd: Original Film Soundtrack | 4.0 |
| Paul McCartney Wingspan: Hits and History | 4.0 |
| Paul McCartney Ram | 4.0 |
| Pearl Jam Ten | 4.5 |
| Pearl Jam Vs. | 4.0 |
| Pearl Jam Vitalogy | 4.0 |
| Pearl Jam Yield | 3.5 |
| Peeping Tom Peeping Tom | 3.0 |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... | 4.0 |
| Periphery Periphery | 3.3 |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal | 3.4 |
| Periphery Juggernaut: Alpha | 2.8 |
| Periphery Juggernaut: Omega | 3.0 |
| Periphery Periphery III: Select Difficulty | 2.0 |
| Periphery perhaps come too hot on the heels of the Juggernaut albums with their weakest release yet. The first song sounds like a joke, especially Spencer's contributions. Motormouth has a badass Koloss by Meshuggah sounding breakdown, but other than that lacks memorability. Most of the tracks follow the same way in one form or another, as the band could really benefit from being more melodic. They need to focus on something for a bit, instead of drastically changing what's happening in the song every minute or two. Habitual Line-Stepper is the worst offender in that regard, at least having a cool melodic guitar section. Remain Indoors is the only track on here I can stand all the way through. The rest all annoy in one way or another due to unmemorable songwriting and cheesy pop elements (especially the second half). Spencer's singing is neither better nor worse than the previous releases, and while the lyrics aren't awful, they don't exactly help either. A disappointing lack of inspiration is obvious, and I can only recommend this to the most loyal of fans. |
| Periphery Icarus | 3.0 |
| Periphery Clear | 3.0 |
| Periphery Periphery (Instrumental) | 4.0 |
| Perry Blake Perry Blake | 3.8 |
| Perry Blake California | 4.0 |
| Pestilence Consuming Impulse | 4.0 |
| Peter Gabriel Car | 4.0 |
| Peter Gabriel Melt | 4.5 |
| Peter Gabriel Security | 4.0 |
| Peter Gabriel Scratch | 3.5 |
| Peter Gabriel So | 4.5 |
| Peter Gabriel Passion OST | 4.0 |
| Peter Gabriel Us | 3.5 |
| Peter Gabriel Up | 4.2 |
| Peter Gabriel i/o | 4.0 |
| Peter Kyed and Peter Hughes Valhalla Rising | 3.5 |
| pg.lost It's Not Me, It's You! | 4.0 |
| Phoebe Bridgers Copycat Killer | 3.0 |
| Phoebe Bridgers Stranger in the Alps | 4.3 |
| Phoebe Bridgers Killer | 4.0 |
| Phoebe Bridgers Punisher | 4.0 |
| Simultaneously more subdued and adventurous than Stranger in the Alps, Phoebe Bridgers expands her songwriting talents and continued excellent lyrics for a sublime sophomore effort brimming with nocturnal atmosphere. Just look at that gorgeous album cover. |
| Phoebe Bridgers If We Make It Through December | 3.5 |
| Photek Modus Operandi | 3.0 |
| Photek Solaris | 3.5 |
| Piggy Black Cross Always Just Out of R.E.A.C.H. | 4.0 |
| A surreal, engrossing debut from another band of maudlin of the Well/Kayo Dot frontman Toby Driver with his girlfriend, Brd, on vocals that sounds reminiscent to industrial groups like Nine Inch Nails and Skinny Puppy mixed with the styles from Plastic House on Base of Sky by Toby Driver's main band, Kayo Dot. |
| Pink Floyd The Endless River | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd More | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd Ummagumma | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd Meddle | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd Obscured by Clouds | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 5.0 |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 5.0 |
| Pink Floyd Animals | 5.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Wall | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Final Cut | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse of Reason | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Division Bell | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd Pulse | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Early Singles | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd Cre/ation: The Early Years 1965–1972 | 4.0 |
| Pinkshinyultrablast Happy Songs For Happy Zombies | 3.5 |
| Pinkshinyultrablast Everything Else Matters | 4.0 |
| Pity Sex Dark World | 3.5 |
| Pity Sex Feast of Love | 3.0 |
| Pixies Come On Pilgrim | 4.0 |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa | 4.0 |
| Pixies Doolittle | 4.5 |
| Pompeii Loom | 4.0 |
| Pond (AUS) Frond | 3.5 |
| Pond (AUS) Man, It Feels like Space Again | 3.5 |
| Popol Vuh Hosianna Mantra | 4.2 |
| Popol Vuh Affenstunde | 3.0 |
| Popol Vuh In den Garten Pharaos | 3.5 |
| Popol Vuh Seligpreisung | 3.7 |
| Popol Vuh Einsjäger und Siebenjäger | 4.0 |
| Popol Vuh Aguirre | 4.0 |
| Popol Vuh Das Hohelied Salomos | 3.5 |
| Popol Vuh Letzte Tage Letzte Nachte | 3.8 |
| Popol Vuh Nosferatu OST | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree On the Sunday of Life | 3.5 |
| Porcupine Tree Up the Downstair | 4.3 |
| Porcupine Tree The Sky Moves Sideways | 5.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Signify | 4.7 |
| One of their most atmospheric and consistent releases, Signify indicates a perfect balance of their psychedelic beginnings and welcomes more diversity into the Porcupine Tree sound. Waiting, Every Home is Wired, Intermediate Jesus, Idiot Prayer, and Dark Matter are highlights. |
| Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream | 5.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun | 4.5 |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia | 5.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing | 5.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet | 4.5 |
| Porcupine Tree The Incident | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Voyage 34: The Complete Trip | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Stars Die: The Delerium Years | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Moonloop | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Staircase Infinities | 4.2 |
| Porcupine Tree Nil Recurring | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Anesthetize | 4.5 |
| Porcupine Tree Transmission IV | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Futile | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Octane Twisted | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Recordings | 4.2 |
| Porcupine Tree Lazarus | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape | 3.5 |
| Porcupine Tree We Lost the Skyline | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Metanoia | 3.5 |
| Porcupine Tree Insignificance | 3.5 |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet (Instrumentals) | 5.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Closure/Continuation | 4.0 |
| The long awaited return of Porcupine Tree has finally come, and the band haven't missed a step during their long hiatus. This isn't to say there's anything quite as mind-blowing as their best work however; C/C essentially comes across like seven random new songs in the vein of Nil Recurring and The Incident without much of a change. There is virtually no influence of frontman Steven Wilson's solo career, even his latest work (thankfully), and sounds like it could have easily been released a decade ago. The standout players are Gavin Harrison on drums, one of the all time greats, and Richard Barbieri's keyboard work. No surprise that the longest and most complex pieces, "Harridan," "Dignity," and "Chimera's Wreck" happened to be the standout tracks. C/C isn't groundbreaking, but it sees one of the finest British rock bands return in solid form and show their influences how it's done. |
| Portal (Cynic) Portal | 4.2 |
| Portishead Dummy | 4.2 |
| Portishead Portishead | 3.8 |
| Portishead Third | 4.0 |
| Powerman 5000 True Force | 3.0 |
| Powerman 5000 Transform | 2.5 |
| Pram North Pole Radio Station | 3.5 |
| Pram The Museum of Imaginary Animals | 4.0 |
| Pram Dark Island | 4.0 |
| Pram Across the Meridian | 3.5 |
| Prefab Sprout Crimson/Red | 4.1 |
| Prefab Sprout Swoon | 4.0 |
| Prefab Sprout Steve McQueen | 4.5 |
| Prefab Sprout From Langley Park To Memphis | 4.4 |
| Prefab Sprout Jordan: The Comeback | 4.3 |
| Prefab Sprout Andromeda Heights | 4.2 |
| Prefab Sprout The Gunman and Other Stories | 3.2 |
| Prefab Sprout Let's Change the World With Music | 3.5 |
| Prefab Sprout Protest Songs | 3.8 |
| Pretend Tapestry'd Life | 4.0 |
| Prince Dirty Mind | 3.5 |
| Prince 1999 | 4.0 |
| Prince Purple Rain | 4.5 |
| Prince Around the World in a Day | 4.2 |
| Prince Parade | 4.0 |
| Prince Sign o' the Times | 4.5 |
| Prince Batman | 3.0 |
| Prisma Collusion | 3.5 |
| Public Enemy Power to the People and the Beats | 4.0 |
| Pulp His 'n' Hers | 3.7 |
| Pulp Different Class | 4.0 |
| Puscifer Conditions of My Parole | 3.5 |
| Puscifer Money Shot | 3.5 |
| Queen Queen II | 4.0 |
| Queen A Night at the Opera | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age | 3.7 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R | 4.2 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 4.6 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze | 4.1 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris | 3.3 |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork | 4.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Villains | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age decide to take a left turn, which isn't a surprise for the shape-shifting rock band, but results in some regression. Villains too often feels like they took the ideas of "Smooth Sailing," a very good song, and stretched them out to an entire album. This results in guitar riff-centered dance rock songs with witty lyrics, some of which work and some don't. Queens... shouldn't need to repeat what worked in the past to make excellent music, but the brief moments that remind of ...Like Clockwork in Fortress and Hideaway are the most rewarding qualities this has. There are plenty of other enjoyable moments, like most of The Evil has Landed and the middle few songs. Doesn't hold a candle to ...Like Clockwork, but still a very good listen overall. |
| Queens of the Stone Age In Times New Roman... | 3.0 |
| Their first dud in my opinion, with better production/mixing than Villains but sounding muddled and uninspired to me. No standouts or songs I loved, just a consistently fine rock album from beginning to end. |
| Radiohead The Daily Mail/Staircase | 4.0 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 5.0 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 4.4 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Supercollider/The Butcher | 4.0 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows Disk 2 | 4.2 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 5.0 |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool | 4.5 |
| Radiohead take another surprising direction by emphasizing Jonny Greenwood's sublime string arrangements. The band craft beautiful, spacey atmospheres and engaging compositions like "Present Tense," "Decks Dark," and "Daydreaming." Each song is memorable in its own right, be it the layered, midtempo indie rock song "The Numbers" or the anxious "Ful Stop" that ends with a propulsive guitar-centered outro similar to "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi." A Moon Shaped Pool recalls the warm, melancholic qualities of In Rainbows along with the colder, more elusive nature of The King of Limbs and Kid A, but this is very much its own incarnation. Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood are masters of their craft, always seeking new ways to explore and reinvent their sound. In the context of Radiohead's career thus far, A Moon Shaped Pool isn't their most experimental or challenging record. It's not simplistic, straightforward, or predictable either, but has an emotional core more open and fragile than what we're used to hearing. On top of that, there's an elegance to the songwriting and even if it's not as innovative as their past classics, A Moon Shaped Pool is always engrossing and Radiohead's most subtle offering yet. The band offer an immersive and spaced out journey with some of their most emotionally poignant moments to date. |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs: From the Basement | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 4.3 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 5.0 |
| Radiohead My Iron Lung | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Street Spirit (Fade Out) | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Airbag/How Am I Driving? | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Knives Out | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Go to Sleep | 3.5 |
| Radiohead COM LAG (2plus2isfive) | 3.5 |
| Radiohead I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings | 4.0 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey | 3.0 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows: From the Basement | 4.5 |
| Radiohead TKOL RMX 1234567 | 3.5 |
| Radiohead 8 Outtakes From Amnesiac | 4.0 |
| Radiohead OKNOTOK 1997-2017 | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Pyramid Song | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Spectre | 4.0 |
| Radiohead KID A MNESIA | 4.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 4.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire | 4.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles | 4.3 |
| Rain Tree Crow Rain Tree Crow | 4.0 |
| Rainbow Rising | 4.5 |
| Ramin Djawadi Game of Thrones: Season 1 | 3.5 |
| Ramin Djawadi Game of Thrones: Season 2 | 3.5 |
| Ramin Djawadi Game of Thrones: Season 3 | 3.5 |
| Ramin Djawadi Game of Thrones: Season 4 | 4.0 |
| Ramin Djawadi Game of Thrones: Season 5 | 4.0 |
| Ramin Djawadi Game of Thrones: Season 6 | 4.0 |
| Ramin Djawadi Game of Thrones: Season 7 | 4.0 |
| Ramin Djawadi Westworld: Season 1 | 4.0 |
| Ramin Djawadi Game of Thrones: Season 8 | 4.0 |
| Ramin Djawadi Westworld: Season 2 | 4.0 |
| Ramin Djawadi Westworld: Season 3 | 4.0 |
| Ramones Ramones | 3.0 |
| Ramones Greatest Hits | 3.5 |
| Real Estate Days | 4.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Mother's Milk | 3.7 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik | 4.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers One Hot Minute | 3.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication | 4.2 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way | 4.1 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers I'm With You | 2.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Getaway | 3.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Red Hot Chili Peppers | 3.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Freaky Styley | 3.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Uplift Mofo Party Plan | 3.5 |
| Red Sparowes At The Soundless Dawn | 4.0 |
| Reflux The Illusion Of Democracy | 4.0 |
| Renaissance Ashes Are Burning | 4.5 |
| Renaissance Prologue | 4.0 |
| Renaissance Turn of the Cards | 4.0 |
| Ride Nowhere | 4.1 |
| Ride Going Blank Again | 4.0 |
| Rishloo Eidolon | 4.0 |
| Rishloo Feathergun | 3.8 |
| Rishloo Living as Ghosts with Buildings as Teeth | 3.6 |
| Riverside Second Life Syndrome | 4.2 |
| Riverside Out of Myself | 4.0 |
| Riverside O2 Panic Room | 3.5 |
| Riverside Rapid Eye Movement | 3.5 |
| Riverside Love, Fear and the Time Machine | 4.0 |
| Riverside Memories In My Head | 3.5 |
| Riverside Anno Domini High Definition | 3.7 |
| Riverside Shrine Of New Generation Slaves | 4.0 |
| Riverside Voices In My Head | 4.0 |
| Riverside Eye of the Soundscape | 4.0 |
| Riverside emerge from the ashes of tragedy with a compilation double-album of instrumental explorations: some old, some new. Past successes "Rapid Eye Movement" and "Rainbow Box" are treated with remixes, and arguably surpass the originals. Ambient bonus tracks of the previous two albums are included as well. As if all of this content wasn't enough for a tantalizing compilation, four new tracks are also present. Two of them, "Where The River Flows" and the t/t, bookend the album, all four comprised of atmospheric textures with a notable absence of progressive rock or metal flourishes the band have become known for. Overall, the minimal showcasing of guitars here will surprise many fans, but Piotr Grudzi?ski is still honored, just in a different way than one would assume. His contributions possess a subtle, dreamy quality that recall the more thoughtful Riverside compositions. All in all, this serves as a fitting, loving sendoff for Grudzi?ski, as well as an intriguing reminder of the ever-shifting musical qualities of one of the finest modern progressive rock bands. |
| Riverside Wasteland | 3.0 |
| Riverside ID.Entity | 2.5 |
| Rob Zombie Hellbilly Deluxe | 3.5 |
| Rob Zombie The Sinister Urge | 3.5 |
| Rob Zombie Educated Horses | 3.0 |
| Rob Zombie Hellbilly Deluxe 2 | 3.0 |
| Robbie Robertson Killers of the Flower Moon OST | 3.0 |
| Robert Fripp A Blessing of Tears: 1995 Soundscapes Vol. 2 | 4.0 |
| Robert Fripp The League of Gentlemen | 4.0 |
| Robert Fripp Exposure | 4.0 |
| Robert Fripp The Gates of Paradise | 4.0 |
| Robert Fripp God Save the Queen/Under Heavy Manners | 3.5 |
| Robert Fripp Let The Power Fall | 3.5 |
| Robert Fripp God Save the King | 4.0 |
| Robert Plant and Alison Krauss Raising Sand | 3.5 |
| Robin Carolan and Sebastian Gainsborough The Northman | 4.0 |
| Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd Mysterious Skin: Music From The Film | 3.5 |
| Roger Waters Is This The Life We Really Want? | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd legend Roger Waters joins with Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich for an impassioned expression of the current state of affairs in the world. There are some beautiful arrangements on here, but the album suffers from a bit of an identity crisis in the middle run of songs. Lyrically you definitely feel the passion and message Waters is projecting throughout, for whoever is in the mood for outcry about modern times and global conflict. This isn't just complaining about world affairs, it is a call to respond, and for that function it accomplishes that goal well. |
| Roger Waters The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking | 3.5 |
| Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It | 4.0 |
| Rosetta The Galilean Satellites | 4.2 |
| Rosetta Wake/Lift | 4.0 |
| Rosetta A Determinism of Morality | 3.6 |
| Roxy Music Avalon | 4.0 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels | 4.0 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 | 4.0 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3 | 4.0 |
| Run-D.M.C. Run DMC | 4.0 |
| Run-D.M.C. King Of Rock | 3.5 |
| Run-D.M.C. Raising Hell | 4.0 |
| Run-D.M.C. Down With The King | 3.0 |
| Rush Rush | 3.5 |
| Rush Fly by Night | 4.0 |
| Rush Caress of Steel | 4.0 |
| Rush 2112 | 4.5 |
| Rush A Farewell to Kings | 5.0 |
| Rush Hemispheres | 5.0 |
| Rush Permanent Waves | 4.5 |
| Rush Moving Pictures | 5.0 |
| Rush Signals | 4.5 |
| Rush Grace Under Pressure | 4.5 |
| Rush Power Windows | 4.5 |
| Rush Hold Your Fire | 4.5 |
| Rush Presto | 4.0 |
| Rush Roll the Bones | 4.0 |
| Rush Counterparts | 4.0 |
| Rush Test for Echo | 3.5 |
| Rush Snakes & Arrows | 4.0 |
| Rush Vapor Trails Remixed | 4.0 |
| Rush Vapor Trails | 4.0 |
| Rush Clockwork Angels | 4.5 |
| Ryuichi Sakamoto Async | 3.5 |
| Ryuichi Sakamoto 12 | 3.5 |
| S. Carey All We Grow | 3.6 |
| S. Carey Hoyas | 3.5 |
| S. Carey Range Of Light | 4.2 |
| S. Carey Supermoon | 3.5 |
| S. Carey Hundred Acres | 4.0 |
| Sade The Best Of Sade | 4.0 |
| Sade Stronger Than Pride | 4.1 |
| Sade Promise | 4.2 |
| Sade Diamond Life | 4.0 |
| Sade Love Deluxe | 4.5 |
| Sand (UK) The Dynamic Curve | 4.0 |
| Sand Snowman Two Way Mirror | 3.5 |
| Saor Aura | 4.3 |
| Scale the Summit Monument | 3.0 |
| Scale the Summit Carving Desert Canyons | 3.5 |
| Scale the Summit The Collective | 3.8 |
| Scale the Summit The Migration | 4.0 |
| Scale the Summit V | 3.0 |
| Scar the Martyr Scar the Martyr | 2.7 |
| Seal Seal | 4.0 |
| Seal Seal II | 4.2 |
| Seefeel Starethrough EP | 4.0 |
| Seefeel Seefeel | 3.2 |
| Seefeel Quique | 4.0 |
| An evocative, dreamy listen from Seefeel and their best work to date. Each track proceeds like a different musical texture, not unlike Selected Ambient Works 2 or Another Green World. Structure is not part of this album's playbook, instead being fairly laid back focused on transporting the listener with diverse soundscapes. Lots of wonderful bass lines too. |
| Seefeel Succour | 3.5 |
| Seefeel Polyfusia | 4.0 |
| Seefeel More Like Space | 4.0 |
| Seefeel (Ch-Vox) | 3.0 |
| Seether Disclaimer II | 2.5 |
| Seether Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces | 2.5 |
| Sepultura Arise | 4.0 |
| Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols | 3.0 |
| Shpongle Are You Shpongled? | 4.0 |
| Shpongle Tales of the Inexpressible | 4.5 |
| Shpongle Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost | 4.2 |
| Shpongle Ineffable Mysteries from Shpongleland | 4.0 |
| Shpongle Museum of Consciousness | 3.5 |
| Shpongle Codex VI | 3.0 |
| Sia Colour the Small One | 4.0 |
| Breathe Me is one of the best pop songs of this century, and was used in Six Feet Under amazingly. |
| Sigur Ros ( ) | 5.0 |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun | 4.5 |
| Sigur Ros Von | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros Takk... | 4.7 |
| Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Valtari | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Kveikur | 4.5 |
| Sigur Ros Route One | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros Hvarf/Heim | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Sæglópur | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Brennisteinn | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros Svefn-g-englar | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Ny Batteri | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Untitled 1 | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Sigur Ros Presents Liminal Sleep | 3.0 |
| Sigur Ros Odin’s Raven Magic | 3.0 |
| Sigur Ros ÁTTA | 3.5 |
| Essentially continuing from the orchestral and ambient qualities of Valtari and frontman Jonsi's recent solo album Obsidian instead of exploring new territory. Skel is my favorite, such a beautiful piece of music that sounds like something from a movie score. |
| Silverstein Transitions | 3.0 |
| Silverstein A Shipwreck in the Sand | 3.0 |
| Silverstein When Broken Is Easily Fixed | 3.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas | 4.0 |
| Simply Red Picture Book | 4.0 |
| Sinmara Aphotic Womb | 4.0 |
| Six Feet Under Undead | 3.0 |
| Six Feet Under Unborn | 2.7 |
| Six Feet Under Death Rituals | 2.5 |
| Six Feet Under Maximum Violence | 3.0 |
| Six Feet Under Bringer of Blood | 2.5 |
| Six Feet Under Graveyard Classics | 1.0 |
| Six Feet Under Graveyard Classics 2 | 0.5 |
| SKATERS Manhattan | 3.0 |
| Skullcrusher Storm in Summer | 3.5 |
| Skullcrusher Skullcrusher | 4.0 |
| Skullcrusher Quiet the Room | 4.0 |
| Slayer Show No Mercy | 4.2 |
| Slayer Hell Awaits | 4.1 |
| Slayer Reign in Blood | 4.0 |
| Slayer South of Heaven | 4.0 |
| Slayer Seasons in the Abyss | 4.0 |
| Slayer Divine Intervention | 3.0 |
| Slayer Diabolus in Musica | 2.0 |
| Slayer God Hates Us All | 2.5 |
| Slayer Christ Illusion | 3.5 |
| Slayer World Painted Blood | 3.0 |
| Slayer Repentless | 2.5 |
| Slayer Decade of Aggression | 4.0 |
| Slayer Undisputed Attitude | 2.5 |
| Slayer Eternal Pyre | 3.0 |
| Sleep Sleep's Holy Mountain | 4.0 |
| Sleep Dopesmoker | 4.0 |
| sleepmakeswaves In Today Already Walks Tomorrow | 4.0 |
| sleepmakeswaves Love of Cartography | 4.0 |
| sleepmakeswaves ...and so we destroyed everything | 4.0 |
| sleepmakeswaves Made Of Breath Only | 4.0 |
| Sleepmakeswaves go in a proggier direction here, blending technical instrumental prowess with lush guitar work. The standout track "Midnight Sun" encapsulates these ideas stunningly, being an early contender for post-rock song of the year. |
| Slint Spiderland | 4.5 |
| Slint Slint | 4.0 |
| Slint Tweez | 3.2 |
| Slipknot Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. | 3.0 |
| Slipknot Slipknot | 3.0 |
| Slipknot Iowa | 3.0 |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 3.5 |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone | 3.0 |
| Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter | 2.5 |
| Slipknot Vol.3: The Subliminal Verses [Reissue] | 3.0 |
| Slipknot 9.0: Live | 3.0 |
| Slowdive Just for a Day | 4.2 |
| Slowdive Souvlaki | 5.0 |
| Slowdive Pygmalion | 4.5 |
| Slowdive Slowdive | 4.0 |
| Slowdive Morningrise | 4.0 |
| Slowdive Holding Our Breath | 4.0 |
| Slowdive Outside Your Room | 4.0 |
| Slowdive 5 | 4.0 |
| Slowdive Blue Day | 4.0 |
| Slowdive Slowdive (LP) | 4.2 |
| An excellent collection of dreamy shoegaze tracks, ranging from melancholy to more upbeat. The dual vocals really elevate the songs, and the band have not lost their touch after 20 years. |
| Slowdive Everything is Alive | 4.0 |
| Snoop Dogg Doggystyle | 4.0 |
| Snoop Dogg Tha Doggfather | 3.5 |
| Snoop Dogg Paid tha Cost to Be da Bo$$ | 3.0 |
| Snoop Dogg Tha Blue Carpet Treatment | 3.0 |
| Snoop Dogg Bush | 2.5 |
| Snoop Lion Reincarnated | 2.5 |
| Snow Patrol Eyes Open | 3.8 |
| Social Distortion Social Distortion | 4.0 |
| Soen Cognitive | 3.5 |
| Soen Tellurian | 3.7 |
| Soen Lykaia | 3.8 |
| Soen continue to find their own voice through Lykaia. With many of their contemporaries changing musical direction or halting progress altogether, it's encouraging to hear a new band provide an excellent contribution to progressive metal. Soen used to wear their influences on their sleeve, but have impressively been moving away from this trend and are sounding more original. Lykaia might sound like Opeth, Riverside, or even Pink Floyd at times, but maintains a distinct voice and stands as an impressive, well above average album for fans of Tool, Katatonia, and other similar groups. |
| Soen Lotus | 3.5 |
| Solar Fields Blue Moon Station | 4.0 |
| Solar Fields Leaving Home | 4.0 |
| Solar Fields Movements | 4.0 |
| Solar Fields Mirror's Edge Original Soundtrack | 4.0 |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation | 4.0 |
| Soulstice (USA-CA) Illusion | 4.0 |
| Soundgarden Superunknown | 4.5 |
| Soundgarden King Animal | 3.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Kill Bill Vol. 1 Original Soundtrack | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Donnie Darko | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Pulp Fiction | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) 28 Days Later | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) The Crow | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) The Matrix | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Run Lola Run | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Django Unchained | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Juno | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Garden State | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Baby Driver | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Black Panther The Album | 2.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) The Guest | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) The Graduate Soundtrack | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) 2001: A Space Odyssey | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) The Terminator | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 2 | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Rosemary's Baby | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Blade Runner | 4.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Halloween III - Season of the Witch | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Reservoir Dogs: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Forrest Gump | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Lost Highway | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Jackie Brown | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) The Big Lebowski | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) The Royal Tenenbaums | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) O Brother, Where Art Thou? | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Kill Bill Vol. 2 Original Soundtrack | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Silent Hill The Movie Soundtrack | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Nightmare Before Christmas: 2-Disc Special Edition | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Nightmare Revisited | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Watchmen: Music from the Motion Picture | 3.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Inglourious Basterds Motion Picture Soundtrack | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Scott Pilgrim vs. The World | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Drive OST | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Avengers Assemble | 3.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Licorice Pizza | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Elvis | 3.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Soundtrack) | 2.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Pacific Rim | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Barbie: The Album | 2.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Inside Llewyn Davis | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Television) Songs in the Key of X | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Television) The Legend of Korra: Book One | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Television) True Detective (Season 2) | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Television) Wednesday | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Theatre) Phantom of the Opera [Highlights] | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) The Orange Box | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) Fallout 3 | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) Infamous | 3.6 |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) Mass Effect 2 | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) Bioshock Infinite | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) Resident Evil 6 Original Soundtrack | 1.5 |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) The Music of Grand Theft Auto V | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) Mass Effect 3 | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) The Music of Red Dead Redemption 2 | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) Mass Effect | 3.5 |
| Spastic Ink Ink Complete | 4.0 |
| Spiral Architect A Sceptic's Universe | 3.5 |
| Spiritualized Pure Phase | 4.0 |
| Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space | 4.3 |
| Spiritualized Lazer Guided Melodies | 4.0 |
| Squeeze Greatest Hits | 3.5 |
| Stargazer (AUS) A Merging to the Boundless | 4.0 |
| Static-X Wisconsin Death Trip | 3.5 |
| Stella Luna Stargazer | 4.1 |
| Stereolab Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements | 3.0 |
| Stereolab Dots and Loops | 4.5 |
| Stereolab Emperor Tomato Ketchup | 3.5 |
| Stereolab Sound-Dust | 4.0 |
| Stereolab Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night | 4.2 |
| Stereolab Margerine Eclipse | 3.6 |
| Stereolab Chemical Chords | 3.5 |
| Stereolab Not Music | 3.2 |
| Steve Reich Music for 18 Musicians | 4.0 |
| Steve Roach Structures from Silence | 4.0 |
| Steve Roach Dreamtime Return | 4.0 |
| Steven Wilson The B-Sides Collection | 2.7 |
| Steven Wilson Insurgentes | 4.0 |
| Steven Wilson Drive Home | 4.0 |
| Steven Wilson 4 1/2 | 4.2 |
| Steven Wilson Hand. Cannot. Erase. | 5.0 |
| An adventurous and modern release that combines a wide array of influences to create an atmospheric and massively enjoyable LP. |
| Steven Wilson Cover Version | 4.0 |
| Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) | 4.2 |
| Steven Wilson Unreleased Electronic Music Vol. 1 | 3.5 |
| Steven Wilson Transience | 4.0 |
| Steven Wilson To the Bone | 4.5 |
| Steven Wilson strays further from progressive rock with his most forward thinking album yet. To The Bone is a colorful, accessible yet diverse rock album that explores the modern age of distorted truths and volatile nature of world affairs in 2017. Steven Wilson doesn't just revel in doom and gloom as one might anticipate him doing, but phases in and out of joyful moments ("Nowhere Now" and "Permanating"), being the most surprising here, and more progressive songs like the title track and "Detonation." Much of To The Bone follows a more straightforward rock pacing, but not without wide shifts in tone and mood. All in all, this is a hugely impressive statement from Wilson. It's an album that hearkens to Porcupine Tree's Stupid Dream in that it has the potential to be enjoyed by anyone, riding the line impressively between going very accessible (at times), and furthering artistry. |
| Steven Wilson Grace for Drowning | 4.3 |
| Steven Wilson Last Day of June Soundtrack | 4.0 |
| A beautiful extension of Wilson's music re-interpreted for the purposes of a video game soundtrack. Many of the finest moments of his work is tinkered with and made instrumental for an atmospheric and engrossing listening experience. |
| Steven Wilson Get All You Deserve | 4.0 |
| Steven Wilson Catalogue / Preserve / Amass | 4.0 |
| Steven Wilson Home Invasion: In Concert At The Royal Albert Hall | 4.0 |
| Steven Wilson The Future Bites | 2.8 |
| A bold reinvention for the modern progressive rock giant that will polarize his audience. |
| Steven Wilson The Future Bites (Instrumentals) | 3.5 |
| Steven Wilson To the Bone (Instrumentals) | 5.0 |
| Steven Wilson Hand. Cannot. Erase. (Instrumentals) | 5.0 |
| Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (Instrumentals) | 4.5 |
| Steven Wilson The Harmony Codex | 3.5 |
| I have to respect how different The Harmony Codex is once again, which finds Steven Wilson continuing to evolve and experiment with new ideas beyond progressive rock with (mostly) great outcomes. If nothing else its noticeably more successful than the drastic change of The Future Bites, which I was pretty mixed on. THC is truly captivating throughout, sounding a bit similar to TFB but less poppy and a little more loose and sonically diverse. Theres a Jon Hassell sounding trumpet in the first track and just an odd structure overall there, and in Beautiful Scarecrow too that both emphasize electronic instrumentation in unconventional song structures. Then the following tracks are like slow Blackfield ballads meets Pink Floyd, and some prog stuff in Impossible Tightrope, all of which is great. The second half is a bit less consistent but still very good. The Harmony Codex is this nice droney ambient electronic epic and then kind of an art rock feel to the lush 10-minute album closer, Staircase, which is also great. I dont have much to say about the two songs in between those, like the Massive Attack inspired Actual Facts, or the pretty good one with Ninet Tayeb, Rock Bottom either. The clear highlights are What Life Brings, Economies of Scale, Impossible Tightrope, Harmony Codex, and Staircase. Overall not as excellent as anything he released before this decade, but a big improvement on TFB. 7.5 out of 10. |
| Steven Wilson The Harmony Codex (instrumentals) | 4.0 |
| Stevens/Dessner/Muhly/McAlister Planetarium | 4.1 |
| Planetarium is a wondrous, massive experience that explores ideas of fate, mythology, the solar system, and other big topics. It's not perfect, but the music is consistently engaging while frequently changing genres from ambient ballads, to frantic electronica, to spacey soundscapes, and other styles. It can elicit a range of emotions and reactions from a listener, as these collaborators decided to make something more daring and ambitious than any of their individual projects would allow, at times to a fault. While a bit long-winded and over-indulgent at times, the strengths of Planetarium make it adventurous and highly engaging, being one of the best albums of the year. |
| Stevie Wonder Innervisions | 4.5 |
| Stevie Wonder Songs in the Key of Life | 4.5 |
| Sting The Dream of the Blue Turtles | 3.5 |
| Sting ...Nothing Like the Sun | 4.0 |
| Sting The Soul Cages | 4.0 |
| Sting Ten Summoner's Tales | 3.7 |
| Stiu Nu Stiu Ultra Silvam | 4.0 |
| Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 1 | 3.0 |
| Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 2 | 3.0 |
| Stone Temple Pilots Core | 4.0 |
| Storm Corrosion Storm Corrosion | 4.5 |
| Stray (UK-LDN) Paradise | 3.5 |
| Submotion Orchestra Finest Hour | 4.5 |
| Submotion Orchestra Fragments | 4.0 |
| Submotion Orchestra Alium | 3.7 |
| Submotion Orchestra Kites | 3.5 |
| Submotion Orchestra Colour Theory | 3.0 |
| Suede Suede | 3.7 |
| Suede Dog Man Star | 4.0 |
| Suffocation Effigy of the Forgotten | 4.0 |
| Suffocation Pierced from Within | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens The Greatest Gift | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans | 4.1 |
| Sufjan Stevens Michigan | 4.3 |
| Sufjan Stevens All Delighted People | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz | 3.7 |
| Sufjan Stevens Songs For Christmas | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Silver & Gold | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois | 4.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell | 4.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell Live | 4.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Mystery of Love | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens The Ascension | 2.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Convocations | 2.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Javelin | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine A Beginner's Mind | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens and Lowell Brams Aporia | 3.0 |
| Sugar Plant Happy/Trance Mellow | 3.5 |
| Sugar Plant Dryfruit | 3.5 |
| Suicide Silence Suicide Silence (EP) | 2.5 |
| Suicide Silence The Cleansing | 3.0 |
| Suicide Silence No Time to Bleed | 2.5 |
| Suicide Silence The Black Crown | 2.7 |
| Suicide Silence You Can't Stop Me | 2.0 |
| Some decent solos and a few cool moments can't save this overblown, repetitive-ass album from the depths of mediocrity. From the constant chugging and breakdowns to the out of place blast beats to the painful lyrics, this is true commercial diarrhea for a scene that really needs to die already. 1.8/5 |
| Sunn O))) and Ulver Terrestrials | 3.3 |
| Supercell Today is a Beautiful Day | 3.5 |
| Susumu Yokota Sakura | 4.0 |
| Susumu Yokota Symbol | 3.5 |
| Svartidaudi Flesh Cathedral | 4.2 |
| Swallow the Sun The Morning Never Came | 4.5 |
| Swallow the Sun Ghosts of Loss | 3.6 |
| Swallow the Sun Hope | 4.5 |
| Swallow the Sun New Moon | 4.0 |
| Swallow the Sun Emerald Forest and the Blackbird | 3.7 |
| Swallow the Sun Songs from the North I, II & III | 3.8 |
| Swallow the Sun Plague of Butterflies | 4.0 |
| Swallow the Sun When a Shadow Is Forced into the Light | 3.5 |
| Swallow the Sun Moonflowers | 4.0 |
| Swans To Be Kind | 4.0 |
| Swans The Glowing Man | 3.5 |
| Meditative and hypnotic, The Glowing Man possesses even less traditional song structures than the band's previous efforts. It contains more serene soundscapes than To Be Kind, with no bangers in the form of "Oxygen" to be found. Some nods toward their gothic past take the form of the shorter tracks, while longer epics require the listener's full patience to completely absorb. It bears a few too many similarities to To Be Kind, but The Glowing Man stands as a fantastic outing nonetheless, and one of the highlights of the year. |
| Swans The Seer | 4.2 |
| Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky | 3.3 |
| Swans Soundtracks for the Blind | 4.4 |
| Swans The Great Annihilator | 4.0 |
| Swans Love of Life | 4.0 |
| Swans White Light From the Mouth of Infinity | 4.5 |
| Swans Children of God | 4.0 |
| Swans The Burning World | 3.5 |
| Swans Various Failures | 4.0 |
| Swans Leaving Meaning | 3.2 |
| They really ran out of ideas this time, but I shouldn't be surprised given the indications that the second disc of The Glowing Man gave. The more subdued and droney approach is an interesting avenue to take, but too much feels like a chore to get through. There seems to be a lack of inspiration and the album even seems formulaic in places. There're some rewarding songs here, but it could've been really good if they cut at least 20 minutes and deemphasized Gira's voice at times. |
| Swarms Old Raves End | 4.0 |
| Sweet Trip Alura | 4.0 |
| Sweet Trip Halica: Bliss Out v.11 | 4.2 |
| Sweet Trip Velocity : Design : Comfort | 4.5 |
| Sweet Trip Fish | 4.0 |
| Sweet Trip You Will Never Know Why | 5.0 |
| Sweet Trip Seen/Unseen | 4.0 |
| Sweet Trip 4-track | 4.0 |
| Sweet Trip You Will Never Know Why Outtakes | 4.0 |
| Sweet Trip Walkers Beware! We Drive Into The Sun / Stab/Slow | 4.2 |
| Sweet Trip A Tiny House, In Secret Speeches, Polar Equals | 5.0 |
| Enchanting from beginning to end, and worth the 12 year wait. Displays a masterful use of various instrumental components, the electronic/digital elements balanced perfectly with acoustic guitars and stunning bass lines coalescing into pure musical ecstasy. Each song is its own little masterpiece, flourishing with inspiration and creativity. I wouldn't be surprised if it took years and years to make this, though it seems effortless too. Easily my favorite new album in years and sounds like music made just for me. Great for spring and summer, a perfect marriage of blissful 60s psychedelic pop rock and ethereal ambient electronic music, also with Slowdive and My Bloody Valentine influences. Their best work I'm thinking, perhaps tied with the recent remastered You Will Never Know Why with bonus tracks. A must-listen. |
| Sweet Trip,Technicolor, Flowchart, Color Filter... Drum & Bliss | 3.7 |
| Sweet Trip,Technicolor, Flowchart, Color Filter... Drum & Bliss Vol. 2 | 3.5 |
| Swervedriver Mezcal Head | 3.5 |
| Sweven (SWE) The Eternal Resonance | 4.0 |
| Swing Out Sister It's Better to Travel | 3.0 |
| Swing Out Sister Kaleidoscope World | 3.0 |
| Sylvaine Wistful | 3.5 |
| Wistful is an album that develops beautifully throughout. The angelic vocal layers are a huge strength, making for a meditative listening experience despite some of the bombast. Neige from Alcest is behind the instrumentation, lending this to feel almost like a companion album to his band. Highly recommended for fans of Alcest, and of atmospheric music in general. |
| Sylvaine Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone | 4.0 |
| Sylvaine Nova | 3.5 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! | 3.0 |
| T2 It'll All Work Out in Boomland | 4.0 |
| Talk Talk The Colour of Spring | 4.5 |
| Talk Talk Spirit of Eden | 5.0 |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock | 5.0 |
| Talk Talk The Party's Over | 3.0 |
| Talk Talk It's My Life | 3.5 |
| Talk Talk Missing Pieces | 3.5 |
| Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues | 4.0 |
| Talking Heads Remain in Light | 5.0 |
| Talking Heads Talking Heads: 77 | 4.0 |
| Talking Heads More Songs About Buildings and Food | 4.2 |
| Talking Heads Fear of Music | 4.5 |
| Talking Heads Stop Making Sense | 4.0 |
| Tame Impala Currents B-Sides and Remixes | 4.0 |
| Tame Impala Currents | 4.4 |
| Tame Impala Innerspeaker | 4.3 |
| Tame Impala Lonerism | 4.5 |
| Tame Impala The Slow Rush | 4.2 |
| Tame Impala surprised fans with the more R&B and disco-oriented pop album Currents in 2015, lessening the 60s classic rock influences and musically entering the 21st century. The Slow Rush does not represent a comparable renaissance for the Tame Impala sound, but continues with blissed out psych-pop and representing a fitting sequel to Currents. The production is of course excellent, and the middle run of songs are some of the best Kevin Parker has recorded to date. The Slow Rush feels expansive and optimistic, embodying a successfully escapist, sunnier mindset during such a challenging year like 2020. |
| Tame Impala The Slow Rush B-Sides and Remixes | 3.5 |
| Tangerine Dream Electronic Meditation | 3.5 |
| Tangerine Dream Thief OST | 3.5 |
| Tangerine Dream Legend - OST | 3.0 |
| Tangerine Dream Alpha Centauri | 4.0 |
| Tangerine Dream Zeit | 4.0 |
| Tangerine Dream Atem | 4.0 |
| Tangerine Dream Phaedra | 4.5 |
| Tangerine Dream Rubycon | 4.5 |
| Tangerine Dream Stratosfear | 4.2 |
| Tangerine Dream Ricochet | 4.0 |
| Tangerine Dream Force Majeure | 4.0 |
| Tangerine Dream Tangram | 4.0 |
| Tangerine Dream Quichotte | 4.0 |
| Tangerine Dream Pergamon | 4.0 |
| Tangerine Dream Underwater Sunlight | 4.0 |
| Tangerine Dream Firestarter OST | 3.0 |
| Tangerine Dream Sorcerer OST | 3.5 |
| Tangerine Dream Cyclone | 3.0 |
| Tangerine Dream Exit | 3.5 |
| Tangerine Dream Hyperborea | 3.5 |
| Tangerine Dream Tyger | 3.0 |
| Tangerine Dream Canyon Dreams OST | 3.5 |
| Tangerine Dream The Seven Letters From Tibet | 3.5 |
| Tartar Lamb Polyimage of Known Exits | 3.5 |
| Tartar Lamb Sixty Metonymies | 4.0 |
| Taylor Swift 1989 | 3.0 |
| Taylor Swift Fearless | 2.5 |
| Taylor Swift Red | 2.0 |
| Taylor Swift Speak Now | 2.5 |
| Taylor Swift Reputation | 1.0 |
| Taylor Swift Lover | 1.5 |
| Taylor Swift Evermore | 2.5 |
| Taylor Swift Folklore | 3.3 |
| Taylor Swift Midnights | 2.0 |
| Team Sleep Team Sleep | 3.5 |
| Tears for Fears The Hurting | 4.0 |
| Tears for Fears Songs from the Big Chair | 4.5 |
| Tears for Fears The Seeds of Love | 5.0 |
| Tears for Fears Elemental | 4.0 |
| Tears for Fears The Tipping Point | 3.2 |
| Technicolor One Touch Test Strip | 4.0 |
| Technicolor Normal Control Range (Bliss Out Vol. 16) | 3.5 |
| Telefon Tel Aviv Fahrenheit Fair Enough | 3.0 |
| Temple of Thieves Passing Through the Zer0s | 3.5 |
| Tenacious D Tenacious D | 3.5 |
| Tenacious D The Pick of Destiny | 3.5 |
| Tenacious D Rize of the Fenix | 3.5 |
| Tenhi Kauan | 4.2 |
| Tenhi Folk Aesthetic 1996-2006 | 4.0 |
| Tenhi Vare | 4.0 |
| Tenhi Maaaet | 4.0 |
| Tenhi Saivo | 3.5 |
| Tenhi Airut : Ciwi | 4.0 |
| Tenhi Airut: Aamujen | 4.0 |
| Tenhi Valkama | 3.5 |
| As ambitious and musically diverse as any of their other releases, a welcome return! Its a bit long-winded and could have used more instrumental passages, but a melancholic and beautiful listen from beginning to end. |
| Tennis Swimmer | 3.5 |
| TesseracT One | 3.8 |
| TesseracT Altered State | 3.3 |
| TesseracT Polaris | 2.7 |
| TesseracT Concealing Fate | 4.0 |
| TesseracT Perspective | 2.3 |
| TesseracT Sonder | 2.4 |
| Testament The Legacy | 4.0 |
| Testament The New Order | 4.5 |
| Testament Practice What You Preach | 4.0 |
| Testament Souls of Black | 3.5 |
| Testament The Ritual | 3.0 |
| Testament The Formation of Damnation | 3.5 |
| Thantifaxath Sacred White Noise | 4.2 |
| The 1975 I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It | 2.5 |
| The 3rd and the Mortal Tears Laid in Earth | 3.5 |
| The 3rd and the Mortal Painting on Glass | 4.0 |
| The 69 Eyes Back In Blood | 3.5 |
| The Acacia Strain The Dead Walk | 2.5 |
| The Acacia Strain Wormwood | 2.5 |
| The Agonist Eye of Providence | 2.7 |
| The Agonist Prisoners | 4.0 |
| The Agonist Lullabies for the Dormant Mind | 3.5 |
| The Agonist Once Only Imagined | 3.0 |
| The Album Leaf In A Safe Place | 3.5 |
| The Album Leaf Into The Blue Again | 3.5 |
| The Angels of Light New Mother | 4.0 |
| The Angels of Light How I Loved You | 4.0 |
| The Antlers Hospice | 3.1 |
| The Avalanches We Will Always Love You | 4.0 |
| The Avalanches Since I Left You | 4.0 |
| The Avalanches Wildflower | 3.5 |
| The B-52s The B-52's | 3.5 |
| The B-52s Cosmic Thing | 3.5 |
| The Beach Boys Sunflower | 4.0 |
| The Beach Boys Wild Honey | 4.0 |
| The Beach Boys Smiley Smile | 4.0 |
| The Beach Boys Pet Sounds | 5.0 |
| The Beach Boys The Smile Sessions | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Beatles for Sale | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Yellow Submarine | 3.0 |
| The Beatles Help! | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Let It Be | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Please Please Me | 3.5 |
| The Beatles A Hard Day's Night | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Revolver | 5.0 |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 5.0 |
| The Beatles Abbey Road | 5.0 |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour | 4.5 |
| The Beatles The Beatles | 4.5 |
| The Beatles With the Beatles | 3.5 |
| The Beatles 1 | 4.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Unhallowed | 3.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal | 3.0 |
| The Black Keys El Camino | 3.0 |
| The Black Keys Turn Blue | 2.5 |
| The Blue Nile A Walk Across the Rooftops | 4.2 |
| The Blue Nile Hats | 4.5 |
| The Blue Nile Peace at Last | 3.5 |
| The Blue Nile High | 4.0 |
| The Chameleons What Does Anything Mean? Basically | 4.2 |
| The Chameleons Strange Times | 4.5 |
| The Chameleons Script of the Bridge | 4.5 |
| The Clash The Clash (US version) | 3.5 |
| The Contortionist Language | 4.5 |
| The Contortionist Intrinsic | 3.5 |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet | 4.0 |
| The Contortionist Clairvoyant | 4.0 |
| A solid and enjoyable follow-up to Language, if a bit less compelling overall. The middle section of songs are the most adventurous and memorable. There is plenty of excellent songwriting and soaring melodies here, but the song structures themselves don't quite develop with as much punch or impact as I feel like they could. A couple tracks are also almost too straightforward, but everything still works well. |
| The Contortionist Our Bones | 3.0 |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet (Redux) | 4.0 |
| The Contortionist Language (Rediscovered Edition) | 4.5 |
| The Cure Disintegration | 5.0 |
| The Cure Seventeen Seconds | 4.0 |
| The Cure Faith | 4.0 |
| The Cure Pornography | 4.5 |
| The Cure Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me | 4.0 |
| The Cure Wish | 4.0 |
| The Cure The Head on the Door | 4.0 |
| The Cure Wild Mood Swings | 3.0 |
| The Cure Bloodflowers | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Act III: Life and Death | 3.3 |
| The Dear Hunter Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional | 3.7 |
| The Dear Hunter Act I: The Lake South, the River North | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum | 4.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord | 2.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Plagues | 2.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada With Roots Above and Branches Below | 3.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Zombie | 3.1 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dead Throne | 2.5 |
| The Dismemberment Plan Emergency & I | 4.1 |
| The Drones Feelin Kinda Free | 3.5 |
| The Durutti Column The Return of the Durutti Column | 4.0 |
| The Durutti Column LC | 4.4 |
| The Durutti Column Another Setting | 4.3 |
| The Durutti Column Without Mercy | 4.0 |
| The Durutti Column Vini Reilly | 4.2 |
| The Durutti Column Circuses And Bread | 3.7 |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality | 3.0 |
| The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin | 4.0 |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots | 4.0 |
| The Future Sound of London Lifeforms | 4.5 |
| The Future Sound of London Dead Cities | 4.5 |
| The Future Sound of London Cascade | 4.0 |
| The Future Sound of London Lifeforms (Paths) | 4.0 |
| The Future Sound of London ISDN | 4.0 |
| The Future Sound of London My Kingdom | 4.0 |
| The Future Sound of London The Isness | 4.2 |
| The Future Sound of London Environments 4 | 3.5 |
| The Future Sound of London Environments 3 | 3.5 |
| The Future Sound of London Environments II | 3.8 |
| The Future Sound of London Environments | 3.3 |
| The Future Sound of London Accelerator | 3.5 |
| The Future Sound of London Yage 2019 | 3.5 |
| The Gathering Mandylion | 4.0 |
| The Gathering Nighttime Birds | 4.2 |
| The Gathering How to Measure a Planet? | 4.3 |
| The Gathering if_then_else | 3.5 |
| The Gathering Souvenirs | 3.8 |
| The Gathering Home | 3.7 |
| The Great Old Ones Al Azif | 4.0 |
| The Great Old Ones Tekeli-Li | 4.2 |
| The Haxan Cloak Midsommar (Original Score) | 4.2 |
| The Haxan Cloak Beef | 3.5 |
| The Haxan Cloak Beau is Afraid | 3.5 |
| The Jezabels Prisoner | 4.2 |
| The Jezabels The Brink | 3.7 |
| The Jezabels Synthia | 4.5 |
| Synthia contains elements from all kinds of musical styles like dance and electronica, providing interesting results behind the anthemic indie rock sound. This certainly is a gripping listen, with a lot of dimensions to it including vulnerability, love, loss, and triumph. It's not quite as straightforward as the band's previous two albums, and feels more urgent overall. Everything comes together and feels strange yet beautiful, with moments of irony lending to the personality the band have shown to possess. Synthia shows an alternative band continuing to grow into themselves, delivering an impassioned exercise in social issues, heartbreak, and naked emotion. |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced | 5.0 |
| The Killers Hot Fuss | 4.0 |
| The Killers Sam's Town | 3.7 |
| The Killers Day & Age | 2.7 |
| The Letter Black Hanging On By A Thread | 3.0 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 3.5 |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 | 4.2 |
| The National Cherry Tree | 4.0 |
| The National Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers | 4.0 |
| The National The Virginia EP | 3.7 |
| The National Boxer | 5.0 |
| The National The National | 3.0 |
| The National High Violet | 5.0 |
| The National Think You Can Wait/Exile Vilify | 4.0 |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me | 4.2 |
| The National Alligator | 4.6 |
| The National Sleep Well Beast | 4.4 |
| A masterful departure from recent predecessors, The National enter a new era of their sound with further musical experimentation. Some moments recall Alligator, others Radiohead even. Everything falls into place masterfully, being the best album of the year. "The System Dreams...," "Guilty Party," "I Will Destroy You," and the final two tracks are highlights. |
| The National I Am Easy to Find | 3.5 |
| Like Trouble Will Find Me meets EL VY, The National pursue a much lighter direction with upbeat rhythms and a plethora of guest musicians, including numerous female vocalists. This new style magnifies the holes of light in the darker atmospheres of Boxer, Trouble..., and Sleep Well Beast, being just as sprawling as those but more scattershot. I Am Easy to Find is by no means as magnificent as The National's classics, but it's clear the band's music is still elegant and passionate with some rewarding new dimensions. |
| The National First Two Pages of Frankenstein | 3.0 |
| Even with tempered expectations after I Am Easy to Find, this foray into milquetoast indie folk was still pretty disappointing to hear from one of my top favorite bands for the past decade at least. ...Easy to Find for all its faults at least had a few great tracks that lived up to their classic period. This just sounds tepid and unimaginative too much of the time, and those features are a joke with what wastes they are. I thought Berninger's lyrics were lower quality on the last one but this album takes it another level lower. Sticksman Devendorf also gets very little to do that's impressive. Favs are T-Shirt, This Isn't Helping, Tropic Morning News, Ice Machines, and Your Mind is Not Your Friend, three of which were singles. |
| The National Laugh Track | 4.0 |
| The National quickly release a follow-up to what is widely considered their weakest album since the debut, First Two Pages of Frankenstein from earlier this year. Laugh Track is a far more inspired, ambitious, and instrumentally layered record that proves they haven't lost it after all, their best since Sleep Well Beast. They even learned how to handle features on here, I guess third time's the charm. Highlights are Alphabet City, Weird Goodbyes, Laugh Track, Space Invader, and Smoke Detector. |
| The Night Watch The Night Watch | 3.5 |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die | 4.0 |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Life After Death | 4.0 |
| The Ocean Precambrian | 4.0 |
| The Orb Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld | 4.0 |
| The Orb U.F.Orb | 3.5 |
| The Orb Orbus Terrarum | 3.2 |
| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Belong | 3.5 |
| The Pineapple Thief Abducting the Unicorn | 4.0 |
| The Pineapple Thief 137 | 4.0 |
| The Pineapple Thief Variations on a Dream | 4.2 |
| The Pineapple Thief Someone Here Is Missing | 4.0 |
| The Pineapple Thief All the Wars | 3.3 |
| The Pineapple Thief Magnolia | 3.5 |
| The Pineapple Thief Little Man | 4.1 |
| The Pineapple Thief Your Wilderness | 3.7 |
| The Pineapple Thief Dissolution | 3.5 |
| The Police The Police | 4.0 |
| The Police Synchronicity | 4.0 |
| The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed | 4.5 |
| The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers | 4.5 |
| The Rolling Stones Exile on Main St. | 4.0 |
| The Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet | 4.0 |
| The Rolling Stones Aftermath | 4.0 |
| The Runaways The Runaways | 3.5 |
| The Shins Chutes Too Narrow | 3.5 |
| The Shins Wincing the Night Away | 3.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Oceania | 3.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | 4.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream | 4.3 |
| The Smile A Light For Attracting Attention | 4.0 |
| Sounds to me like another Radiohead album essentially, most similar to HTTT than any others with a little AMSP and Thom Yorke's Anima thrown in there. The slower songs in the middle of the track list are the highlights. |
| The Smile Wall of Eyes | 3.5 |
| The Smiths Hatful of Hollow | 4.0 |
| The Smiths The Smiths | 4.0 |
| The Smiths Meat Is Murder | 4.5 |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead | 5.0 |
| The Smiths Strangeways, Here We Come | 4.0 |
| The Smiths The World Won't Listen | 4.0 |
| The Smiths Louder Than Bombs | 4.0 |
| The Stone Roses The Stone Roses | 4.0 |
| The Strokes Is This It | 4.0 |
| The Style Council Café Bleu | 3.5 |
| The Sugarhill Gang Rapper's Delight | 4.0 |
| The Sword Age of Winters | 3.7 |
| The Sword Gods of the Earth | 3.8 |
| The Sword Warp Riders | 4.1 |
| The Sword Apocryphon | 3.5 |
| The Sword High Country | 2.6 |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico | 5.0 |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground | 4.5 |
| The Verve A Storm in Heaven | 4.3 |
| The Verve A Northern Soul | 4.0 |
| The Verve Urban Hymns | 4.2 |
| The Verve Verve | 4.3 |
| The War On Drugs Slave Ambient | 4.0 |
| The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream | 4.4 |
| The War On Drugs Future Weather | 4.0 |
| The War On Drugs A Deeper Understanding | 4.0 |
| Another excellent The War on Drugs album, despite some familiar elements. I can't help but think at times that this style is going to run out of steam soon, but for now it's still going strong with some of the band's best cuts to date including "Thinking of a Place," "Strangest Thing," "Pain," and "In Chains." |
| The War On Drugs I Don't Live Here Anymore | 3.5 |
| The White Stripes White Blood Cells | 3.5 |
| The White Stripes Elephant | 3.3 |
| The Who The Who Sell Out | 4.0 |
| The Who My Generation | 4.0 |
| The Who Quadrophenia | 4.5 |
| The Who Who's Next | 4.5 |
| The Who Tommy | 4.0 |
| The Winery Dogs The Winery Dogs | 3.5 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Illusory Walls | 3.5 |
| The Zombies Begin Here | 3.0 |
| The Zombies Odessey and Oracle | 5.0 |
| Theatre Of Tragedy Velvet Darkness They Fear | 3.5 |
| Theatre Of Tragedy Aégis | 4.0 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything | 4.0 |
| Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures | 4.0 |
| There Will Be Fireworks The Dark, Dark Bright | 4.0 |
| This Mortal Coil It'll End in Tears | 3.5 |
| Thom Yorke The Eraser | 3.5 |
| Thom Yorke Tomorrow's Modern Boxes | 3.5 |
| Thom Yorke Spitting Feathers | 3.0 |
| Thom Yorke Suspiria | 4.0 |
| Thom Yorke follows in the footsteps of fellow Radiohead band member Jonny Greenwood by composing a soundtrack. Suspiria is a sprawling double album of dark ambiance, neo-psychedelia, and beautiful piano ballads. The noisy interludes aren't as enjoyable to listen to in absence of the film I'd imagine, but all in all this is an excellent soundtrack and Yorke's most ambitious solo project yet. |
| Thom Yorke Suspiria: Unreleased Material | 3.0 |
| Thom Yorke Anima | 4.2 |
| Thomas Newman Shawshank Redemption | 4.5 |
| Thomas Newman American Beauty | 4.0 |
| Thomas Newman Skyfall | 3.5 |
| Thomas Newman Bridge of Spies | 3.5 |
| Thomas Newman Spectre | 3.0 |
| Thrice Major/Minor | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 4.2 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 4.5 |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 4.0 |
| Thrice Beggars | 4.5 |
| Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere | 3.7 |
| Thrice Identity Crisis | 3.0 |
| Thrice Anthology | 4.0 |
| Thrice Palms | 3.0 |
| A well made but somewhat disappointing release from Thrice, half of which contains mainstream radio rock and the other half their more innovative side. The best tracks include "The Grey," an effective, high energy track, "Everything Belongs" and "My Soul" being rewarding, atmospheric ballads, and "Blood on Blood" contains some beautiful acoustic guitar and harp sections. This is definitely worth a listen, but unfortunately is pretty inconsistent overall. |
| Thrice Deeper Wells | 3.0 |
| Thrice Horizons/East | 3.0 |
| Throes of Dawn Quicksilver Clouds | 4.0 |
| Thulcandra Fallen Angel's Dominion | 3.5 |
| Thulcandra Under a Frozen Sun | 3.5 |
| Thulcandra Ascension Lost | 3.5 |
| Thursday No Devolucion | 3.8 |
| Tiamat Wildhoney | 4.0 |
| Tim Bowness Lost in the Ghost Light | 4.0 |
| Very enjoyable, atmospheric prog rock album for fans of Pink Floyd and Porcupine Tree. |
| Tim Bowness Flowers At The Scene | 4.0 |
| Tim Bowness Songs From The Ghost Light | 3.5 |
| Tim Bowness Stupid Things That Mean The World | 3.5 |
| Tim Bowness Abandoned Dancehall Dreams | 4.0 |
| Tim Bowness Late Night Laments | 3.5 |
| Tim Bowness/Peter Chilvers Modern Ruins | 3.4 |
| Tim Hecker Konoyo | 4.0 |
| Times of Grace The Hymn of a Broken Man | 2.5 |
| Toby Driver The Slowly Self-Coalescing Album of Vagrant... | 3.0 |
| Toby Driver In the L..L..Library Loft | 3.5 |
| Toby Driver Ichneumonidae | 3.5 |
| Toby Driver Madonnawhore | 4.0 |
| A dreamy collection of ambient guitar pieces, making for Toby Driver's most intimate (and accessible) offering yet. Everything about Madonnawhore feels loose and fleeting. Sparse drumming comes in at times to support the floaty guitars and vocals, and the sounds create a beautiful ambience fully realized from the quieter moments of Driver's bands Maudlin of the Well and Kayo Dot. |
| Toby Driver Live at Roulette, March 2017 | 4.0 |
| Toby Driver They Are the Shield | 4.5 |
| Toby Driver continues where his solo album from last year, Madonnawhore, left off for the most ambitious and consistently beautiful album of his solo career. Violins, guitars, and keyboards drift in and out of playing solo or layered together in a uniquely beautiful way throughout the whole album, at times recalling Part the Second by Driver's earlier band maudlin of the Well. Some moments on the first half sound faintly influenced by early Godspeed You! Black Emperor and later-day Talk Talk. The opener "Anamnesis Park" embodies what it means to be cinematic. Five minutes go by before the singing and main groove of the song even begins, but this intro is so captivating and well-made that it could've gone on even longer. The gorgeous outro of "Glyph" has a similar effect, and the song also has some of Driver's best singing. They Are the Shield is full of surprises and unique moments, being another ambitious and wholly original release that recalls '90's post-rock and maudlin of the Well while embodying the ghostly, wistful atmospheres introduced in Madonnawhore. |
| Toby Driver The Pod | 2.5 |
| Toby Driver N.G.H.4.M. | 3.0 |
| Toby Driver and Nick Hudson Black Feather Under Your Tongue | 3.0 |
| Tom Rogerson with Brian Eno Finding Shore | 4.0 |
| Tom Tom Club Tom Tom Club | 4.0 |
| Tom Waits Rain Dogs | 3.5 |
| Tom Waits Night on Earth | 3.0 |
| Tool Ænima | 5.0 |
| Tool Undertow | 4.0 |
| Tool Opiate | 3.5 |
| Tool 72826 | 3.5 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 4.5 |
| Tool Salival | 4.0 |
| Tool Lateralus | 5.0 |
| Tool Fear Inoculum | 4.5 |
| Worth the wait, being a massive, compelling album that balances their unique style with new elements. |
| Tortoise Millions Now Living Will Never Die | 4.3 |
| Tortoise TNT | 4.4 |
| Tortoise The Catastrophist | 3.7 |
| This is an underrated release and a very welcome return. The chemistry between the players is a real joy to experience, and it helps that the production and mixing are sublime. The variety of sounds and styles played is most welcome, recalling the also underrated It's All Around You. |
| Tortoise Beacons of Ancestorship | 3.5 |
| Tortoise Standards | 4.0 |
| Tortoise Its All Around You | 4.0 |
| Tortoise Tortoise | 4.0 |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Mank OST | 3.5 |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross The Social Network OST | 4.0 |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo OST | 4.0 |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Gone Girl OST | 4.0 |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Bird Box OST | 3.5 |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Watchmen: Volume 1 OST | 3.0 |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Watchmen: Volume 2 OST | 3.0 |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Watchmen: Volume 3 OST | 3.0 |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Soul OST | 4.0 |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Patriots Day OST | 3.5 |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Bones and All OST | 4.0 |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Waves OST | 3.5 |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Empire of Light OST | 3.5 |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross The Killer | 3.5 |
| Trentemoller The Last Resort | 3.5 |
| Trespassers William Anchor | 3.7 |
| Trespassers William Different Stars | 4.5 |
| Trespassers William Having | 4.2 |
| Trespassers William Noble House | 4.0 |
| Trespassers William The Natural Order of Things | 4.0 |
| Trespassers William Cast | 3.5 |
| Trickfinger Trickfinger | 3.0 |
| Tricky Maxinquaye | 2.5 |
| Trigger the Bloodshed Degenerate | 3.5 |
| Trophy Scars Astral Pariah | 3.0 |
| Trophy Scars Holy Vacants | 4.2 |
| Turnover Peripheral Vision | 4.0 |
| Turnover Good Nature | 3.5 |
| Twisted Sister Stay Hungry | 3.5 |
| Tycho Sunrise Projector | 4.0 |
| Tycho Past is Prologue | 4.0 |
| Tycho The Science of Patterns | 3.5 |
| Tycho Epoch | 3.3 |
| Tycho Awake | 3.6 |
| Tycho Dive | 4.0 |
| U2 Songs of Experience | 3.0 |
| Songs of Experience is no different from most modern U2: accessible and maybe a bit safe, but this embodies a more triumphant and resilient tone than predecessors Songs of Innocence and No Line... It won't convert detractors of the band, but U2's latest is a diverse collection of effective, inspirational pop rock anthems that are worth hearing. Summer of Love, Red Flag Day, and 13 (There is a Light) are the album highlights. |
| U2 The Joshua Tree | 5.0 |
| U2 Achtung Baby | 4.0 |
| U2 Zooropa | 3.5 |
| U2 Pop | 3.5 |
| U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb | 3.2 |
| U2 No Line on the Horizon | 3.8 |
| U2 Songs of Innocence | 3.0 |
| U2 All That You Can't Leave Behind | 3.5 |
| U2 Boy | 4.0 |
| U2 October | 3.5 |
| U2 War | 4.5 |
| U2 The Unforgettable Fire | 4.5 |
| U2 Rattle and Hum | 3.0 |
| U2 Original Soundtracks 1 (As Passengers) | 3.0 |
| U2 The Best Of 1980-1990 | 4.0 |
| U2 The Best Of 1990-2000 | 3.5 |
| U2 U218 Singles | 3.5 |
| U2 Medium, Rare & Remastered | 4.0 |
| U2 360° at the Rose Bowl | 4.0 |
| Ulcerate Everything Is Fire | 4.3 |
| Ulcerate The Destroyers of All | 4.0 |
| Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler | 5.0 |
| Ulver Themes From William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell | 4.0 |
| Ulver Perdition City | 4.7 |
| Ulver Shadows of the Sun | 5.0 |
| Ulver Wars of the Roses | 4.5 |
| Ulver Messe I.X-VI.X | 4.1 |
| Ulver ATGCLVLSSCAP | 4.2 |
| Ulver's latest outing is one that convalesces together elements of psychedelic rock, drone, and ambience into a pulsing, organic entity. It's almost too easy to get lost in the beautiful soundscapes, as well as the dark, trancing noise that permeates the mind. The hypnotic qualities Ulver has explored in the past are brought to the forefront here, showcasing all sides of the band's sound for a truly haunting and emotionally engaging release. |
| Ulver A Quick Fix of Melancholy | 4.0 |
| Ulver Metamorphosis | 3.5 |
| Ulver Lyckantropen Themes OST | 4.0 |
| Ulver Childhood's End | 3.5 |
| Ulver Nattens Madrigal | 4.5 |
| Ulver Blood Inside | 4.0 |
| Ulver Kveldssanger | 4.4 |
| Ulver Silence Teaches You How to Sing EP | 4.0 |
| Ulver Silencing the Singing | 4.0 |
| Ulver Svidd Neger OST | 4.0 |
| Ulver Oddities and Rarities #1 | 3.5 |
| Ulver Trolsk Sortmetall 1993-1997 | 4.5 |
| Ulver The Norwegian National Opera | 4.0 |
| Ulver Teachings In Silence | 4.1 |
| Ulver Riverhead OST | 3.5 |
| Ulver The Assassination of Julius Caesar | 4.3 |
| Ghostly atmospheres are abound in Ulver's latest. Being their "pop" album, there are electro-pop melodies, dark synth passages, and even a few bass drops scattered throughout the run time. The lyrics traverse all times of history and mythology, while the music recalls a strange blend of their turn of the millennium records and Wars of the Roses. Garm's vocals are back in full force as well, all making for a resounding meditation on the dark side of history, mythology, and human nature. |
| Ulver Sic Transit Gloria Mundi | 4.0 |
| Ulver Drone Activity | 3.5 |
| Ulver Flowers of Evil | 3.8 |
| A laid back extension of their '80s goth/synthpop style with more guitars and steady rhythms pretty much from beginning to end. While the unpredictable shifts in tone and experimentation from The Assassination of Julius Caesar is missed, this is still a solid effort from the wolves of Norway. Flowers of Evil is a dark yet inviting "pop" album and a highlight of 2020 music. |
| Ulver Grieghallen 20180528 | 3.5 |
| Ulver Hexahedron | 3.7 |
| Ulver Scary Muzak | 3.5 |
| Ulvesang Ulvesang | 4.0 |
| Ulvesang The Hunt | 4.0 |
| Underoath The Changing of Times | 3.0 |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety | 3.5 |
| Underoath Define the Great Line | 3.7 |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation | 3.5 |
| Underoath Ø (Disambiguation) | 3.8 |
| Underworld dubnobasswithmyheadman | 3.5 |
| Underworld Second Toughest in the Infants | 3.5 |
| Underworld Beaucoup Fish | 3.0 |
| Underworld A Hundred Days Off | 3.0 |
| UNKLE Psyence Fiction | 3.0 |
| Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You | 4.5 |
| Unwound New Plastic Ideas | 4.0 |
| Vali Forlatt | 4.0 |
| Vali Skogslandskap | 4.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City | 3.0 |
| Van Halen Van Halen | 4.0 |
| Van Halen The Best of Both Worlds | 4.0 |
| Vangelis 1492: Conquest of Paradise | 4.0 |
| Vangelis Blade Runner Soundtrack | 4.5 |
| Vangelis L'Apocalypse Des Animaux | 4.0 |
| Various Artists Whom The Moon A Nightsong Sings | 4.0 |
| Various Artists Der Wanderer über Dem Nebelmeer | 4.0 |
| Various Artists (Indie) Dark Was The Night | 4.0 |
| Vaura The Missing | 4.2 |
| Vaura Selenelion | 3.6 |
| Vaura Sables | 4.0 |
| Vaura Vista of Deviant Anatomies | 2.5 |
| Veil of Maya The Common Man's Collapse | 3.0 |
| Veil of Maya [id] | 3.0 |
| Veil of Maya Eclipse | 2.5 |
| Vektor Outer Isolation | 3.8 |
| Vektor Black Future | 3.7 |
| Vektor Terminal Redux | 4.1 |
| Vennart The Demon Joke | 3.7 |
| Vennart To Cure A Blizzard Upon A Plastic Sea | 4.0 |
| Vennart Copeland EP | 4.0 |
| Venom Welcome to Hell | 3.5 |
| Vildhjarta Måsstaden | 3.8 |
| Vinterland Welcome My Last Chapter | 4.0 |
| Vladislav Delay Anima | 3.5 |
| Vladislav Delay Entain | 3.5 |
| Vladislav Delay Multila | 3.5 |
| Vladislav Delay The Four Quarters | 3.0 |
| Vladislav Delay Whistleblower | 4.0 |
| Volumes Via | 3.0 |
| Votum :KTONIK: | 3.5 |
| Vuvr Pilgrimage | 4.0 |
| Walk the Moon Walk the Moon | 3.0 |
| Warpaint Warpaint | 3.5 |
| Warpaint The Fool | 4.0 |
| Warpaint Heads Up | 3.5 |
| Warpaint Radiate Like This | 3.0 |
| Watchtower Energetic Disassembly | 4.0 |
| Watchtower Control and Resistance | 4.0 |
| Wavves King of the Beach | 3.2 |
| We Lost the Sea Crimea | 3.0 |
| We Lost the Sea The Quietest Place on Earth | 4.0 |
| We Lost the Sea Departure Songs | 4.4 |
| We Lost the Sea Triumph and Disaster | 3.5 |
| We the Wild From The Cities We Fled | 3.5 |
| Weakling Dead as Dreams | 4.0 |
| Weezer Weezer | 4.0 |
| Weezer Pinkerton | 4.0 |
| Weezer The Green Album | 3.0 |
| Weezer Make Believe | 2.0 |
| Weezer The Red Album | 2.3 |
| Weezer Raditude | 2.0 |
| Weezer Maladroit | 3.0 |
| Weezer Hurley | 3.0 |
| Weezer Everything Will Be Alright in the End | 3.5 |
| Weezer The White Album | 3.3 |
| Whirr Pipe Dreams | 3.5 |
| White Zombie La Sexorcisto-Devil Music Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
| White Zombie Astro Creep: 2000 | 4.0 |
| White Zombie Make Them Die Slowly | 3.0 |
| Whitechapel The Somatic Defilement | 2.5 |
| Whitechapel This Is Exile | 3.0 |
| Whitechapel A New Era of Corruption | 3.0 |
| Whitechapel Whitechapel | 3.5 |
| Whitechapel Our Endless War | 2.5 |
| Whitechapel Recorrupted | 2.0 |
| Wilco A Ghost Is Born | 4.0 |
| Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot | 4.5 |
| Wild Nothing Nocturne | 4.2 |
| Wild Nothing Gemini | 3.7 |
| Wild Nothing Life of Pause | 3.0 |
| While Life of Pause perhaps lacks as much depth as Wild Nothing's previous releases, this is still a fairly enjoyable and blissfully nostalgic sounding record. The songwriting and lush production job channels the likes of Slowdive and The Cure in the best ways. "Life of Pause," "Alien," and "To Know You" is perhaps the band's finest trifecta of songs yet. Overall this is a fun, diverse dream pop record that deserves multiple listens to fully sink in and appreciate. |
| Will Smith Big Willie Style | 2.5 |
| Will Smith Willennium | 3.0 |
| Will Smith Born To Reign | 2.5 |
| Will Smith Lost and Found | 3.0 |
| Will Smith Greatest Hits | 3.0 |
| Wings Band on the Run | 4.0 |
| Wojciech Kilar Bram Stoker's Dracula | 4.2 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars | 4.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters | 4.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade | 3.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage | 4.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestite | 3.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Malevolent Grain | 3.5 |
| Woods City Sun Eater In The River Of Light | 4.0 |
| One of the more fun records of a depressing yet musically brilliant year, Woods put out one of the best indie rock records of the year. This has psychedelia, personality, and varied instrumentation aplenty to keep things interesting. It's different enough from other bands that make it very replayable as well, with the music serving a variety of functions, be it a cookout, study music, or a drive through the sweltering desert. |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 4.0 |
| X Japan Art of Life | 4.0 |
| XTC Skylarking | 4.0 |
| Yes The Yes Album | 4.5 |
| Yes Fragile | 5.0 |
| Yes Close to the Edge | 5.0 |
| Yes Relayer | 4.5 |
| Yes Drama | 4.0 |
| Yes Classic Yes | 4.0 |
| Yes Tales from Topographic Oceans | 4.0 |
| Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss | 4.5 |
| Yndi Halda Under Summer | 4.0 |
| After ten years, Yndi Halda return with a beautiful debut album perfect for the month of summer. While some musical passages might go on longer than they need to, the build-ups are handled well, crescendoing into gorgeous soundscapes and bursts of energy. There just enough vocals to add color without overpowering the instrumental focus. Overall they are used rarely and effectively, especially adding to the beauty of the album's first few minutes. Violins and other strings give a classical feel reminiscent of Sigur Ros. While not quite reaching the heights of Enjoy Eternal Bliss from a decade before, Under Summer can be counted among the essential post-rock albums of the year. |
| Yndi Halda A Sun-Coloured Shaker | 3.5 |
| Yngwie Malmsteen Rising Force | 3.5 |
| Yo La Tengo I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One | 4.3 |
| Yo La Tengo And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside... | 4.0 |
| Yo La Tengo Painful | 4.0 |
| yodaka yodaka | 3.5 |
| Young the Giant Young the Giant | 3.7 |
| Young the Giant Mind Over Matter | 3.5 |
| Young the Giant Home Of The Strange | 3.5 |
| Younger Brother The Last Days of Gravity | 4.0 |
| Yuri Gagarin At The Center Of All Infinity | 4.0 |
| Zedd True Colors | 2.5 |
| ZZ Top Eliminator | 3.5 |
