| 1000 Funerals Portrait Of A Dream | 3.5 |
| A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe | 1.0 |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step | 2.5 |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms | 2.5 |
| Acid Mothers Temple Crystal Rainbow Pyramid Under the Stars | 4.0 |
| Adema Adema | 0.5 |
| Adema Unstable | 0.5 |
| Adema Planets | 0.5 |
| Adrian Belew Side Three | 3.5 |
| Adrian Belew Side One | 4.0 |
| Agalloch The Mantle | 2.0 |
| Agalloch The White | 2.0 |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain | 2.5 |
| Akercocke Words That Go Unspoken... | 3.0 |
| Albert Ayler Spiritual Unity | 4.0 |
| Andrew Hill Black Fire | 4.0 |
| Andrew Hill Smoke Stack | 4.0 |
| Andrew Hill Point of Departure | 4.5 |
| Andrew Hill Compulsion!!!!! | 4.5 |
| Angelo Badalamenti Twin Peaks | 4.0 |
| Angelo Badalamenti Mulholland Drive | 4.5 |
| Angels and Airwaves We Don't Need to Whisper | 1.5 |
| Arcturus Aspera Hiems Symfonia | 3.0 |
| Arcturus Sideshow Symphonies | 3.5 |
| Arcturus La Masquerade Infernale | 4.5 |
| Art Blakey Moanin' | 4.0 |
| Ash Ra Tempel Ash Ra Tempel | 4.0 |
| Avril Lavigne The Best Damn Thing | 4.0 |
| Bardo Pond Amanita | 4.0 |
| Bjork Debut | 4.0 |
| Blind Guardian Live | 2.0 |
| Blind Guardian A Twist in the Myth | 2.0 |
| Blue Sky Black Death Late Night Cinema | 3.0 |
| Bob Dylan The Times They Are A-Changin' | 4.5 |
| Bob Dylan No Direction Home: The Soundtrack | 4.5 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 2.5 |
| Boris Boris At Last -Feedbacker- | 4.0 |
| Boris Amplifier Worship | 4.0 |
| Boris Absolutego | 4.0 |
| Boris Akuma no Uta | 4.5 |
| Boris Flood | 5.0 |
| Boris With Michio Kurihara Rainbow | 4.5 |
| Buckethead Colma | 4.0 |
| Buckethead Enter the Chicken | 4.0 |
| Buckethead Kaleidoscalp | 4.0 |
| Buckethead The Elephant Man's Alarm Clock | 4.5 |
| Burial Untrue | 4.5 |
| Burton Wagner A Sentinel's Eyes | 3.5 |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss | 4.0 |
| Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) | 3.5 |
| Cecil Taylor Conquistador! | 4.0 |
| Celestia Frigidiis Apotheosia | 3.5 |
| Charles Mingus Pithecanthropus Erectus | 3.5 |
| Charles Mingus Mingus at Antibes | 4.0 |
| Charles Mingus The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady | 4.5 |
| Charlie Parker Jazz at the Philharmonic, 1949 | 4.0 |
| Chevelle This Type Of Thinking (Could Do Us In) | 1.0 |
| Chick Corea Now He Sings, Now He Sobs | 4.0 |
| Cold A Different Kind of Pain | 1.5 |
| Cold Year Of The Spider | 3.5 |
| Cold Cold | 3.5 |
| Collective Soul Dosage | 3.0 |
| David Bowie The Man Who Sold the World | 4.0 |
| David Bowie Low | 4.5 |
| Deftones Adrenaline | 4.0 |
| Deftones White Pony | 4.5 |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist | 4.5 |
| Deftones Around the Fur | 5.0 |
| Deftones Deftones | 5.0 |
| Deterior Antimonument | 3.0 |
| Devin Townsend Ziltoid the Omniscient | 1.0 |
| Devin Townsend Infinity | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech | 4.0 |
| Disturbed Believe | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Octavarium | 2.0 |
| dredg Orph | 4.0 |
| dredg Live at The Fillmore | 4.0 |
| dredg Leitmotif | 5.0 |
| dredg El Cielo | 5.0 |
| EAQuartett Electroacoustiquarett | 4.0 |
| El-P I'll Sleep When You're Dead | 4.0 |
| Electric Wizard Dopethrone | 4.0 |
| Eric Dolphy Out to Lunch! | 5.0 |
| Esmerine Aurora | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Rescue | 1.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 2.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die... | 2.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky How Strange, Innocence | 2.5 |
| Filter Short Bus | 2.5 |
| Filter The Amalgamut | 3.0 |
| Filter Title Of Record | 3.5 |
| Fuck Buttons Street Horrrsing | 3.5 |
| Galaxie 500 On Fire | 3.5 |
| Ghost (JPN) In Stormy Nights | 4.0 |
| Ghost (JPN) Ghost | 4.0 |
| Ghost (JPN) Hypnotic Underworld | 4.5 |
| God Is an Astronaut A Moment of Stillness | 4.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright | 4.0 |
| Godflesh Us and Them | 4.0 |
| Godflesh Streetcleaner | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 5.0 |
| Grails Doomsdayer's Holiday | 2.5 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 0.5 |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness | 4.5 |
| Ice Cube AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted | 1.5 |
| In Flames Reroute to Remain | 2.5 |
| In Flames Clayman | 3.0 |
| In Flames Colony | 4.0 |
| In Flames Come Clarity | 4.0 |
| In Flames A Sense of Purpose | 4.0 |
| In Flames The Jester Race | 4.5 |
| In Flames Whoracle | 4.5 |
| Intronaut Prehistoricisms | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave | 2.0 |
| ISIS Sawblade | 1.5 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 4.0 |
| ISIS In the Absence of Truth | 4.5 |
| ISIS Oceanic | 5.0 |
| Jack Rose I Do Play Rock and Roll | 3.5 |
| Jack Rose Raag Manifestos | 4.0 |
| Jaga Jazzist What We Must | 3.5 |
| Jaga Jazzist A Livingroom Hush | 4.5 |
| Jarboe/Justin K. Broadrick J2 | 3.5 |
| Jesu Lifeline EP | 3.5 |
| Jesu Conqueror | 4.0 |
| The interesting thing about this, and indeed all of Jesu's material, is that it seemingly gives some great insight into Justin Broderick's world and philosophy. Underneath the thickness of his production and the distorted wall of guitars, we witness a vulnerable Broderick exploring an almost child-like curiosity for melody and harmony. The direct contrast of darkness/light is not a new frontier but it seems as if Jesu is an outlet where the imagination can run wild even among the muck and sludge of a world that tries to crush the spirit. |
| Jesu Sun Down / Sun Rise | 4.0 |
| Jesu Silver | 4.5 |
| John Coltrane Blue Train | 3.5 |
| John Coltrane My Favorite Things | 3.5 |
| John Coltrane A Love Supreme | 4.0 |
| John Coltrane Stellar Regions | 4.0 |
| John Coltrane The John Coltrane Quartet Plays | 4.0 |
| John Coltrane Lush Life | 4.0 |
| John Coltrane Giant Steps | 4.5 |
| John Coltrane Interstellar Space | 4.5 |
| John Coltrane Ascension | 4.5 |
| John Coltrane Concert in Japan | 4.5 |
| John Coltrane Meditations | 5.0 |
| John Coltrane and Don Cherry The Avant-Garde | 3.0 |
| John Frusciante Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt | 4.0 |
| John Frusciante Smile from the Streets You Hold | 4.0 |
| John Frusciante The Will to Death | 4.5 |
| John Zorn Moonchild | 4.0 |
| John Zorn Six Litanies for Heliogabalus | 4.0 |
| John Zorn Astronome | 4.0 |
| Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds | 1.0 |
| Katatonia The Great Cold Distance | 4.0 |
| Katatonia Viva Emptiness | 4.5 |
| Katatonia Last Fair Deal Gone Down | 4.5 |
| Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward | 4.0 |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye | 4.5 |
| Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue | 5.0 |
| King Crimson In the Wake of Poseidon | 3.5 |
| King Crimson Happy With What You Have To Be Happy With | 3.5 |
| King Crimson Beat | 4.0 |
| King Crimson Starless and Bible Black | 4.0 |
| King Crimson Three of a Perfect Pair | 4.0 |
| King Crimson THRAK | 4.0 |
| King Crimson Discipline | 4.5 |
| King Crimson The Power to Believe | 4.5 |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King | 4.5 |
| King Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic | 4.5 |
| King Crimson Lizard | 4.5 |
| King Crimson The ConstruKction of Light | 4.5 |
| King Crimson Red | 5.0 |
| Korn Follow the Leader | 2.5 |
| Korn Life Is Peachy | 3.0 |
| Korn Issues | 4.0 |
| Laddio Bolocko Strange Warmings of Laddio Bolocko | 3.5 |
| Leviathan Massive Conspiracy Against All Life | 4.0 |
| Linkin Park Live In Texas | 0.5 |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight | 1.0 |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 1.5 |
| Lou Reed Berlin | 4.0 |
| Lou Reed Transformer | 4.5 |
| Madvillain Madvillainy | 4.0 |
| Mahavishnu Orchestra Birds of Fire | 3.5 |
| Manowar The Triumph of Steel | 1.5 |
| Manowar Kings of Metal | 1.5 |
| Marcus Miller Silver Rain | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 3.0 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Remission | 4.0 |
| maudlin of the Well My Fruit Psychobells... A Seed Combustible | 4.0 |
| maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map | 4.5 |
| maudlin of the Well Bath | 5.0 |
| Meshuggah obZen | 3.0 |
| Miles Davis Live Evil | 3.5 |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue | 4.5 |
| Miles Davis Bitches Brew | 5.0 |
| Mogwai Mr. Beast | 3.0 |
| Mogwai Rock Action | 4.0 |
| Mogwai Happy Songs for Happy People | 4.5 |
| Mono Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined | 4.5 |
| Mono You Are There | 4.5 |
| Mudvayne Lost and Found | 3.5 |
| Mushroomhead Savior Sorrow | 2.5 |
| Nadja Desire in Uneasiness | 3.5 |
| Nahvalr Nahvalr | 3.5 |
| Nels Cline Destroy All Nels Cline | 4.0 |
| Nick Drake Bryter Layter | 4.0 |
| Nightwish Angels Fall First | 2.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Broken | 3.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Fragile | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Year Zero | 4.5 |
| No-Man Schoolyard Ghosts | 2.5 |
| NOFX Don't Call Me White | 0.5 |
| Oceansize Music for Nurses | 3.0 |
| Oceansize Effloresce | 4.5 |
| Om Pilgrimage | 4.0 |
| Om Conference of the Birds | 5.0 |
| Opeth Orchid | 1.5 |
| Opeth Morningrise | 2.5 |
| Opeth Watershed | 2.5 |
| Opeth Deliverance | 3.0 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 3.0 |
| Opeth Still Life | 3.5 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 4.0 |
| Opeth Damnation | 4.5 |
| Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come | 4.5 |
| Pain of Salvation Remedy Lane | 4.5 |
| Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out | 1.0 |
| Paris Hilton Paris | 1.0 |
| Paul Motian Trio Trioism | 4.5 |
| Pelican City of Echoes | 3.5 |
| Pelican Australasia | 4.5 |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... | 5.0 |
| Pharoah Sanders Karma | 4.5 |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet | 2.0 |
| Porcupine Tree We Lost the Skyline | 2.5 |
| Porcupine Tree Voyage 34: The Complete Trip | 3.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream | 3.5 |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Signify | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Nil Recurring | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing | 4.5 |
| Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun | 4.5 |
| Porcupine Tree Stars Die: The Delerium Years | 4.5 |
| Porcupine Tree The Sky Moves Sideways | 4.5 |
| ProjeKct X Heaven and Earth | 4.0 |
| Queen Elephantine Yatra | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris | 3.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R | 4.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze | 4.5 |
| Ra Black Sun | 1.0 |
| Ra Duality | 2.0 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 3.0 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 4.5 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 4.5 |
| Rahsaan Roland Kirk The Inflated Tear | 4.0 |
| Red Sparowes Aphorism | 3.5 |
| Red Sparowes At The Soundless Dawn | 4.5 |
| Return to Forever Return to Forever | 4.0 |
| Reverend Bizarre In The Rectory Of The Bizarre Reverend | 3.0 |
| Riverside Second Life Syndrome | 2.5 |
| Riverside Out of Myself | 4.0 |
| Rosetta The Galilean Satellites | 5.0 |
| Russian Circles Enter | 4.0 |
| Scott Walker The Drift | 4.5 |
| Seether Karma And Effect | 1.5 |
| Seether Disclaimer II | 2.0 |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros Takk... | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros ( ) | 4.5 |
| Simon and Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water | 4.5 |
| Sir Richard Bishop While My Guitar Violently Bleeds | 4.5 |
| Six Organs Of Admittance Goatflower | 4.0 |
| Sleep Dopesmoker | 4.5 |
| Slint Spiderland | 4.0 |
| Snow Patrol Final Straw | 2.0 |
| Snowman The Horse, the Rat and the Swan | 4.5 |
| Enter the first important and relevant album of the year: Snowman’s The Horse, the Rat and the Swan. Indeed, this is a band so in touch with our times, it’ll force most people to turn away in discomfort. It’s a record in touch with its own absurdity and so soaked in existential postmodernism that it almost never even escapes the pull of the very black hole it’s spawned from. Luckily for us, it does, and for that fact alone we should be grateful. |
| So the Story Goes As We March With Victims | 1.0 |
| Soulja Boy Souljaboytellem.com | 1.0 |
| Staind 14 Shades of Grey | 1.0 |
| Staind Dysfunction | 3.0 |
| Strapping Young Lad Alien | 2.0 |
| Suffocation Pierced from Within | 3.5 |
| Sun Kil Moon April | 2.5 |
| Sun Kil Moon Tiny Cities | 4.0 |
| Sun Ra The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol 1 | 4.5 |
| Sunn O))) and Boris Altar | 3.5 |
| Sunset Bright Blue Dream | 4.0 |
Bright Blue Dream never makes any apologies for its anachronistic approach to psych-pop, but instead draws from a wider palette to catalyze new directions in sound. While the hypnotic nature of the songwriting rightly implies a repetitive theme in many or all of the songs, it is the sonic inventiveness and subtleties that keep the album from being negatively affected by this approach. While the album has a lot of fun throughout its course, it is never afraid to strip itself naked and show some real earnest vulnerability and it is in these moments that the album lets its guard down and transcends itself. It is the intermingling of a wide variety of sonic ideas into a cohesive and emotional package that makes the Bright Blue Dream a worthwhile listen, and one to mark down for 2008’s early successes.
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| Taproot Welcome | 2.0 |
| Taproot Gift | 2.5 |
| Tartar Lamb Sixty Metonymies | 4.5 |
| Team Sleep Team Sleep | 2.0 |
| The Cinematic Orchestra Every Day | 4.0 |
| The Cinematic Orchestra Ma Fleur | 4.0 |
| The Cinematic Orchestra Motion | 4.5 |
| The Devin Townsend Band Synchestra | 4.5 |
| The Doors The Doors | 5.0 |
| The Life and Times Suburban Hymns | 4.5 |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture | 2.0 |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath | 3.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Heretic Pride | 2.5 |
| The Nels Cline Singers Draw Breath | 4.0 |
| The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds | 4.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Pisces Iscariot | 3.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | 4.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream | 4.5 |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico | 5.0 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons | 4.0 |
| Thelonious Monk Brilliant Corners | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV | 3.0 |
| Time of Orchids Namesake Caution | 4.5 |
| Toby Driver In the L..L..Library Loft | 4.0 |
| Tool Ænima | 4.0 |
| Tool Lateralus | 4.5 |
| Tortoise TNT | 4.5 |
| Tortoise Millions Now Living Will Never Die | 4.5 |
| Trivium The Crusade | 1.5 |
| Ulver Perdition City | 4.5 |
| Valet Naked Acid | 2.5 |
| Wayne Shorter Speak No Evil | 4.0 |
| Wicked Wisdom Wicked Wisdom | 2.5 |
| William Patrick Corgan TheFutureEmbrace | 2.0 |
| Wolfmother Wolfmother | 1.5 |
| Yusef Lateef Eastern Sounds | 4.5 |
