| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead So Divided | 2.0 |
| 90 Day Men Panda Park | 4.0 |
| A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe | 1.0 |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step | 3.0 |
| A Place to Bury Strangers Exploding Head | 4.5 |
| American Football American Football | 4.0 |
| American Football American Football EP | 4.0 |
| Ampere All Our Tomorrows End Today | 3.5 |
| Ampere Like Shadows | 4.0 |
| Ampere/Daitro Split | 4.5 |
| Andrew Bird Weather Systems | 2.5 |
| Andrew Bird Noble Beast | 3.5 |
| Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha | 4.0 |
| Andrew Bird The Mysterious Production Of Eggs | 4.5 |
| Animal Collective Water Curses | 2.5 |
| Animal Collective People | 3.0 |
| Animal Collective Sung Tongs | 3.5 |
| Animal Collective Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished | 3.5 |
| Animal Collective Centipede Hz | 3.5 |
| Animal Collective Strawberry Jam | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Fall Be Kind | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Feels | 4.5 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 5.0 |
| Anti-Flag The Bright Lights of America | 2.0 |
| Aphex Twin Come to Daddy | 3.5 |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II | 3.5 |
| Aphex Twin Windowlicker | 3.5 |
| Aphex Twin Drukqs | 3.5 |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album | 4.0 |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 4.5 |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs | 3.5 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 4.0 |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible | 4.0 |
| Arcade Fire Reflektor | 4.5 |
| Armchairpolitician Seven Segment Decoder | 4.0 |
| As Blood Runs Black Allegiance | 1.0 |
| At the Drive-In This Station Is Non-Operational | 3.5 |
| At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out | 4.0 |
| At the Drive-In Acrobatic Tenement | 4.5 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 5.0 |
| Atlas Sound Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See... | 2.5 |
| Audioslave Audioslave | 2.5 |
| Aussitot Mort 6 Songs | 3.5 |
| Autechre Confield | 3.5 |
| Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution A Call To Arms | 4.0 |
| Baroness Blue Record | 3.0 |
Dear John Baizley,
Among your repetitive artwork, your band's ripping of Mastodon, and your beard, can you or your band do anything original?
Sincerely,
Concerned Listener |
| Bat For Lashes Two Suns | 4.0 |
| Baths Obsidian | 4.0 |
| Battles Gloss Drop | 3.0 |
| Battles EP C | 3.5 |
| Battles B EP | 4.0 |
| Battles Mirrored | 4.5 |
| Beach House Bloom | 4.0 |
| Beach House Teen Dream | 4.5 |
| Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill | 3.0 |
| Behold... The Arctopus Nano-Nucleonic Cyborg Summoning EP | 3.5 |
| Beirut The Flying Club Cup | 3.5 |
| Beirut Gulag Orkestar | 4.0 |
| Beirut Lon Gisland | 4.0 |
In a medley of instruments, Beirut's 'Lon Gisland' creates a fantasy-type atmosphere. The EP follows "Gulag
Orkestar" with a more exuberant and lively collection of songs. With beautiful melodies and trumpet-lines,
it leaves your ears dancing. "Scenic World" is redone and it blows away the original with a much bolder
sound. "Lon Gisland" ends with the fantastic 'Carousels' which is sure to leave you spinning in a cheerful
mood. A truly fantastic record.
|
| Belle and Sebastian The Life Pursuit | 4.0 |
| Belle and Sebastian If You're Feeling Sinister | 4.5 |
| Ben Frost By the Throat | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Anatomy Of | 2.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 3.0 |
| Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot | 4.0 |
| Blackalicious Blazing Arrow | 4.5 |
| Blacklisted Peace On Earth, War On Stage | 3.5 |
| Blacklisted Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God | 4.0 |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State | 3.5 |
| blink-182 Dude Ranch | 4.0 |
| BLK JKS Mystery EP | 4.0 |
| BLK JKS have been lurking since 2000 in the depths of South Africa. Only now, with their major label released album, Mystery EP, have they been able to broadcast their enjoyably smooth, avant rock/afrobeat sound. "Lakeside" pulses listeners as the quartet create a giddy, hymnal trance of bliss. |
| Blue Sky Black Death Late Night Cinema | 3.5 |
| Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase | 4.0 |
| Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest | 4.5 |
| Bob Dylan The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan | 4.0 |
| Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde | 4.0 |
| Bob Dylan No Direction Home: The Soundtrack | 4.0 |
| Bon Iver Blood Bank | 3.5 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 4.5 |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 4.5 |
| Boredoms Super Ae | 4.5 |
| Boris Heavy Rocks | 3.0 |
| Boris Amplifier Worship | 3.5 |
| Boris Smile | 3.5 |
| Boris Noise | 3.5 |
| Boris Pink | 4.0 |
| Boris With Michio Kurihara Rainbow | 4.0 |
| Botch Unifying Themes Redux | 2.5 |
| Botch American Nervoso | 3.5 |
| Botch An Anthology of Dead Ends | 4.0 |
| Botch We Are the Romans | 4.5 |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon | 4.0 |
| Brand New Fight Off Your Demons (The Demos) | 4.0 |
| Brand New Daisy | 4.0 |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 4.5 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 4.5 |
| Brand New Science Fiction | 4.5 |
| Brendan Canning Something For All of Us... | 3.5 |
| Bright Eyes Four Winds | 3.0 |
| Bright Eyes Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground | 3.5 |
| Bright Eyes Cassadaga | 3.5 |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning | 4.0 |
| Bright Eyes Fevers & Mirrors | 4.0 |
| Bright Eyes The People's Key | 4.0 |
| Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People | 4.0 |
| Broken Social Scene Forgiveness Rock Record | 4.0 |
| Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene | 4.5 |
| Brother/Ghost Black Ice | 4.0 |
| Bucket Full Of Teeth IV | 4.0 |
| Bucket Full Of Teeth I, II, III | 4.0 |
| Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret | 4.5 |
| Built to Spill Perfect from Now On | 4.5 |
| Burial Untrue | 4.0 |
| Burton Wagner 21 | 2.5 |
| By The End Of Tonight/Tera Melos Complex Full of Phantoms | 3.5 |
| Cannibal Ox The Cold Vein | 4.0 |
| Cap'n Jazz Analphabetapolothology | 4.5 |
| Cat Power You Are Free | 3.5 |
| Cat Power The Greatest | 3.5 |
| Catch 22 Permanent Revolution | 1.0 |
| Catch 22 Dinosaur Sounds | 1.5 |
| Catch 22 Keasbey Nights | 4.5 |
| Cave In White Silence | 4.0 |
| Cease Upon the Capitol Untitled | 3.5 |
| Ceremony (USA-CA) Still Nothing Moves You | 3.5 |
| Chamillionaire The Sound of Revenge | 3.5 |
| Chiodos All's Well That Ends Well | 1.5 |
| Choking Victim No Gods, No Managers | 4.5 |
| Circa Survive On Letting Go | 2.5 |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise | 3.5 |
| Circa Survive Juturna | 4.0 |
| Circle Takes the Square Circle Takes the Square | 3.5 |
| Circle Takes the Square Rites of Initiation | 4.5 |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 5.0 |
| City of Caterpillar City of Caterpillar | 4.0 |
| Clint Mansell and Kronos Quartet Requiem for a Dream | 4.0 |
| Cloud Archive Left The Bright Opening... | 3.0 |
| cLOUDDEAD cLOUDDEAD | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow | 2.5 |
The fourth of five installments of Coheed and Cambria's enormous concept series has finally arrived with what seems more fitting for a book club than something included in a musical discussion. The reason is simple; Coheed and Cambria's once brilliant song writing, musically, has completely lost steam and regained a majority of the attention towards the storyline. "Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV - Volume 2: No World For Tomorrow" features songs that are reminiscent of eighties progressive metal, more or less, and ripped solos reminiscent of something from Eddie Van Halen's playbook. They abandon the simplistic elegance they once had with songs, and overwork them into a wrought collection of songs.
In addition, Coheed and Cambria try to recreate the progressive greatness that was 'The Willing Well I, II, III, IV,' four epic songs, with semi-epic songs in 'The End Chapter I, II, III, IV, V.' Beyond that, the inconsistencies are scattered between catchy and complex songs like 'No World For Tomorrow' and 'The End Chapter- III- The End Complete,' but is overshadowed by bland tracks that are flat-out bad like 'Feathers' and 'Mother Superior.' Hopefully, the final installment with this saga will reconnect with what once made Coheed and Cambria unique and not something recycled. |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow | 2.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria Live at the Starland Ballroom | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade | 5.0 |
| Coldplay X&Y | 2.0 |
| Converge Caring and Killing | 2.5 |
| Converge Unloved and Weeded Out | 3.0 |
| Converge When Forever Comes Crashing | 3.5 |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky | 4.0 |
| Converge No Heroes | 4.0 |
| The best way to describe this album: Misrepresented. There are certain genres that people should know they will not like, and Metalcore is one of them. With Converge's lastest release "No Heroes" people have gone based off of popularity on whether to pick it up or not. Simply because it was voted the top album by 15ish people does not mean they represent the entire world for what the top album of 2006 is. This album has plenty to offer and is a gem in the Converge collection with breaktaking riffs and menacing drumming. From the sludge-metal "Plagues" to the 58 second "Vengeance" Converge provides a relentless experience. It's a shame that it got in the wrong hands of the wrong people. We have been learning thoughout our lifetimes to adapt to certain things and Converge may be one of them. |
| Converge The Dusk in Us | 4.0 |
| Converge You Fail Me | 4.5 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 4.5 |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind | 4.5 |
| Converge I Can Tell You About Pain | 4.5 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 5.0 |
| Cursive The Difference Between Houses and Homes | 2.0 |
| Cursive Vitriola | 3.0 |
| Cursive Happy Hollow | 3.5 |
| Cursive Mama, I'm Swollen | 3.5 |
| Cursive I Am Gemini | 3.5 |
| Cursive Burst and Bloom | 4.0 |
| Cursive Domestica | 4.5 |
| Cursive The Ugly Organ | 4.5 |
| Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains | 4.0 |
| With Cymbals Eat Guitars debut release Why There Are Mountains lies raw passion and unnoticed brilliance. Every word and riff appears delicately planned as their unrefined indie rock, with a post rock edge, entices listeners repeatedly. Upon the first listen unravels their spontaneous, yet cohesive foundation. Every listen after is simply a bonus, whether it be dancing to the charming hit “Some Trees” or feeling that rush of euphoria sliver down your spine during “Wind Phoenix.” These guys know how to shred, and hardly show any form of inexperience. Gritty and soulful, Why There Are Mountains shouts a million-and-one reasons why Cymbals Eat Guitars should be playing right now; give it a spin and you too will know the reasons. |
| Cynic Traced in Air | 4.5 |
| Daft Punk Human After All | 2.5 |
| Daft Punk Homework | 3.5 |
| Daft Punk Discovery | 4.5 |
| Daitro Laisser Vivre Les Squelettes | 4.0 |
| Daitro/Sed Non Satiata Split | 4.5 |
| Dalek Gutter Tactics | 2.5 |
| Dalek Abandoned Language | 4.0 |
| Dan Deacon Spiderman of the Rings | 4.0 |
| Dan Deacon Bromst | 4.0 |
| Dangers Messy, Isn't It? | 4.0 |
| Daniel Bjarnason Processions | 4.0 |
| Dark Time Sunshine Vessel | 4.0 |
| Daughters Canada Songs | 3.0 |
| Daughters Hell Songs | 4.0 |
| Daughters Daughters | 4.0 |
| Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables | 4.0 |
| Deadmau5 4x4=12 | 3.5 |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 4.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs | 3.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism | 4.5 |
| Deerhunter Weird Era Cont. | 3.5 |
| Deerhunter Monomania | 3.5 |
| Deerhunter Microcastle | 4.0 |
| Deerhunter Cryptograms | 4.5 |
| Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights | 4.0 |
| Defiance, Ohio The Great Depression | 3.5 |
| Defiance, Ohio Midwestern Minutes | 3.5 |
| Deftones Adrenaline | 4.0 |
| Deftones Around the Fur | 4.0 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 4.0 |
| Deftones White Pony | 4.5 |
| Department of Eagles In Ear Park | 3.5 |
| Destroyer Kaputt | 4.0 |
| Dirty Projectors Rise Above | 3.0 |
| Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca | 4.5 |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... | 5.0 |
| DJ/rupture Uproot | 4.0 |
| Do Make Say Think & Yet & Yet | 3.5 |
| Do Make Say Think Goodbye Enemy Airship the Landlord is Dead | 4.0 |
| Do Make Say Think Other Truths | 4.0 |
| Do Make Say Think Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn | 4.5 |
| Do Make Say Think You, You're a History in Rust | 4.5 |
| Don Caballero World Class Listening Problem | 3.5 |
| Don Caballero American Don | 4.0 |
| Dr. Dog Fate | 4.0 |
| Dr. Octagon Dr. Octagonecologyst | 4.0 |
| Drake Thank Me Later | 2.5 |
| Dream Theater Awake | 3.0 |
| dredg El Cielo | 3.0 |
| Drowning Pool Sinner | 1.5 |
| Ed Gein Judas Goats & Dieseleaters | 2.5 |
| Ed Gein It's A Shame That A Family Can Be Torn Apart By... | 4.0 |
| El Guincho Alegranza! | 3.5 |
| Eluvium Copia | 3.5 |
| Eminem Recovery | 3.0 |
| Envy Insomniac Doze | 3.5 |
| Envy A Dead Sinking Story | 4.5 |
| Eric's Trip Love Tara | 4.0 |
| Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon | 2.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Rescue | 3.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone | 3.5 |
| They say everything is bigger in Texas. Well if you are talking about the sound resonating from Texas natives, Explosions in the Sky, then you are right. Their new album entitled, “All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone,” takes listeners from tranquility to glistening roars throughout with perfectly placed crescendos and decrescendos. They build off their previous release, “The Rescue,” that took an astonishing eight days to write and record. Like “The Rescue,” they incorporate a piano and an auxiliary of different instruments for added layers of effect. Be certain to check out the stunningly beautiful single, “Welcome, Ghosts,” to get an inside glimpse of the contents within. |
| Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die... | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky How Strange, Innocence | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 4.5 |
| Fang Island Fang Island | 4.0 |
| Far Water & Solutions | 4.0 |
| Far At Night We Live | 4.0 |
| Fear Before Fear Before | 3.5 |
| Fear Before Art Damage | 4.0 |
| Fear Before The Always Open Mouth | 4.0 |
| Feist Metals | 3.5 |
| Feist Let It Die | 4.0 |
| Feist The Reminder | 4.0 |
| Fever Ray Fever Ray | 4.0 |
| Final Fantasy He Poos Clouds | 4.0 |
| Finch What It Is to Burn | 3.0 |
| Finch Say Hello to Sunshine | 4.0 |
| Fink Sort Of Revolution | 2.5 |
| Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters | 4.5 |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes | 4.0 |
| Fleet Foxes Shore | 4.0 |
| Flight of the Conchords Flight of the Conchords | 3.5 |
| Flobots Fight with Tools | 3.0 |
| Flying Lotus Los Angeles | 4.0 |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma | 4.5 |
| Folly Resist Convenience | 3.5 |
| Folly Insanity Later | 4.0 |
| Four Tet There is Love in You | 3.5 |
| From A Second Story Window Not One Word Has Been Omitted | 2.0 |
| From Autumn to Ashes The Fiction We Live | 2.0 |
| From Autumn to Ashes Abandon Your Friends | 2.5 |
| From Autumn to Ashes Too Bad You're Beautiful | 3.5 |
| From Monument To Masses On Little Known Frequencies | 2.0 |
| Fuck Buttons Street Horrrsing | 4.0 |
| Fuck Buttons Tarot Sport | 4.0 |
| Fuck Buttons Slow Focus | 4.0 |
| Fucked Up Hidden World | 3.5 |
| Fucked Up The Chemistry of Common Life | 3.5 |
| Fugazi The Argument | 4.0 |
| Fugazi 13 Songs | 4.0 |
| Fugazi Repeater | 4.0 |
| fun. Aim and Ignite | 3.5 |
| Future Islands In Evening Air | 4.5 |
| Future Islands Singles | 4.5 |
| Gatsby's American Dream Ribbons and Sugar | 3.5 |
| Gatsby's American Dream Gatsby's American Dream | 3.5 |
| Gavin Castleton Home | 2.5 |
| Genghis Tron Cloak of Love | 3.5 |
| Genghis Tron Dead Mountain Mouth | 3.5 |
| Ghastly City Sleep Ghastly City Sleep | 4.0 |
| Ghost (JPN) In Stormy Nights | 3.0 |
| Ghostface Killah Fishscale | 3.5 |
| Ghostface Killah Ironman | 3.5 |
| Ghostface Killah The Big Doe Rehab | 3.5 |
| Ghostface Killah Twelve Reasons to Die | 4.0 |
| Girl Talk Feed the Animals | 3.5 |
| Girl Talk Night Ripper | 4.0 |
| Girls Album | 3.5 |
| Glassjaw El Mark | 3.5 |
| Glassjaw Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | 3.5 |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute | 4.5 |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book | 4.5 |
| Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles) | 4.5 |
| Glassjaw Material Control | 4.5 |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence | 5.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. | 3.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress' | 3.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Luciferian Towers | 3.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada | 5.0 |
| Gogol Bordello Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike | 4.0 |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World | 4.0 |
| Green Day Dookie | 4.0 |
| Grizzly Bear Friend | 3.0 |
| Grizzly Bear Horn of Plenty | 3.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Yellow House | 4.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest | 4.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Shields | 4.5 |
| Grizzly Bear have outdone themselves again with Shields, sticking to what they know best, yet rehashing their sound to not sound outdated. This may be the best indie rock album of 2012, and with that, they are proving to be one of the most consistent bands in the genre. |
| Grizzly Bear Painted Ruins | 4.5 |
| Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill | 3.0 |
| GZA Liquid Swords | 4.5 |
| Harvey Milk Courtesy and Good Will Toward Men | 4.0 |
| Harvey Milk Life... The Best Game in Town | 4.0 |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness | 3.0 |
| Have Heart Songs to Scream at the Sun | 3.5 |
| Head Automatica Popaganda | 2.0 |
| Head Automatica Decadence | 3.0 |
| Head Wound City Head Wound City | 4.0 |
| HEALTH Get Color | 2.5 |
| HEALTH Health | 3.5 |
| Hella Hold Your Horse Is | 3.5 |
| HORSE the band Pizza | 2.5 |
| HORSE the band R. Borlax | 3.5 |
| HORSE the band The Mechanical Hand | 3.5 |
| Hot Cross Risk Revival | 3.0 |
| Hundreds of AU Communications Link Re​-​established | 3.5 |
| Hundreds of AU Mission Priorities on Launch | 3.5 |
| In Pieces Lions Write History | 4.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) A Crow Left of the Murder... | 3.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View | 3.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E. | 4.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Fungus Amongus | 4.0 |
| Into Eternity The Incurable Tragedy | 1.5 |
| Iron And Wine Our Endless Numbered Days | 3.0 |
| Iron And Wine Woman King | 3.0 |
| Iron And Wine The Shepherd's Dog | 4.0 |
| ISIS The Red Sea | 3.0 |
| ISIS Celestial | 3.0 |
| ISIS In the Absence of Truth | 3.5 |
| ISIS Oceanic | 4.0 |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant | 4.0 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 4.5 |
| Islands Arm's Way | 4.0 |
| J Dilla Donuts | 4.5 |
| Jaga Jazzist What We Must | 4.0 |
| Jaguar Love Take Me to the Sea | 2.5 |
| James Blake James Blake | 3.5 |
| James Blake Overgrown | 4.5 |
| Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid | 4.5 |
| Japandroids Post-Nothing | 4.5 |
| If Post-Nothing doesn't melt your heart with its jubilant youthful charm, then I really don't know what to say. This two-piece garage/punk band out of Vancouver are bringing the energy of such acclaimed acts like At The Drive-In and Cap'n Jazz, but never over thinking their next hook; rather letting the album flow with a gracious, warm smile. Roll the windows down and raise the volume because Japandroids is here to stay this summer. |
| jj jj n° 2 | 3.0 |
| Joanna Newsom Ys | 4.5 |
| Joanna Newsom Have One on Me | 4.5 |
| Jonah Matranga And | 2.5 |
| Joyce Manor Joyce Manor | 4.5 |
| Joyce Manor Never Hungover Again | 4.5 |
| Jurassic 5 Quality Control | 4.0 |
| Justice †| 4.0 |
| Kanye West Yeezus | 2.5 |
| Kanye West The College Dropout | 3.5 |
| Kanye West Graduation | 3.5 |
| Kanye West Late Registration | 4.0 |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak | 4.0 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 4.5 |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I | 4.0 |
| Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward | 2.5 |
| Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue | 4.0 |
| Kayo Dot Coyote | 4.0 |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye | 4.5 |
| Kayo Dot Hubardo | 4.5 |
| KEN mode Entrench | 3.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar Section.80 | 4.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city | 5.0 |
| Kid Kilowatt Guitar Method 1996-1999 | 4.0 |
| Kidcrash New Ruins | 3.0 |
| Kidcrash Jokes | 4.0 |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King | 4.0 |
| Kiss Kiss The Meek Shall Inherit What's Left | 3.5 |
| Kiss Kiss Reality Vs. The Optimist | 4.0 |
| Korn Life Is Peachy | 3.0 |
| Korn Korn | 4.0 |
| Kylesa Static Tensions | 3.5 |
| Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn | 2.5 |
| LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver | 3.5 |
| LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening | 3.5 |
| Leftover Crack FuÑk World Trade | 3.0 |
| Leftover Crack Mediocre Generica | 3.5 |
| Leonard Cohen Songs of Leonard Cohen | 4.5 |
| Less Than Jake Anthem | 1.5 |
| Less Than Jake In with the Out Crowd | 1.5 |
| letlive. Fake History | 4.0 |
| Liars Sisterworld | 3.5 |
| Lifetime Jersey's Best Dancers | 4.0 |
| Lightning Bolt Ride The Skies | 3.5 |
| Lightning Bolt Oblivion Hunter | 3.5 |
| Lightning Bolt Hypermagic Mountain | 4.0 |
| Lightning Bolt Earthly Delights | 4.0 |
| Lightning Bolt Fantasy Empire | 4.5 |
| Lights Out Asia Eyes Like Brontide | 3.0 |
| Lil Wayne Tha Carter III | 3.5 |
| Local Natives Gorilla Manor | 4.5 |
| Loma Prieta Last City | 3.5 |
| Los Campesinos! Hold On Now, Youngster... | 3.5 |
| M.I.A. Maya | 3.0 |
| M.I.A. Kala | 4.0 |
| M83 Before The Dawn Heals Us | 3.5 |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming | 4.5 |
| Mac DeMarco Salad Days | 2.0 |
| Major Lazer Guns Dont Kill People... Lazers Do | 3.0 |
| Man Man Six Demon Bag | 3.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing | 4.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra Simple Math | 4.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra A Black Mile to the Surface | 5.0 |
| Maps and Atlases Bird Barnyard | 2.5 |
| Maps and Atlases Tree, Swallows, Houses | 4.0 |
| Maps and Atlases You and Me and the Mountain | 4.0 |
| Maps and Atlases Perch Patchwork | 4.0 |
| Mare Mare | 4.0 |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 3.0 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 4.0 |
| maudlin of the Well Bath | 3.5 |
| maudlin of the Well Part the Second | 4.0 |
| Melt-Banana Fetch | 4.5 |
| Menomena Friend And Foe | 4.0 |
| Mesa Verde The Old Road | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree | 3.0 |
| Meshuggah obZen | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah I | 4.0 |
| Metaform Standing on the Shoulders of Giants | 3.0 |
| Method Man Tical | 3.5 |
| mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright! | 3.0 |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou [Untitled] | 4.5 |
| MGMT Congratulations | 2.0 |
| MGMT Oracular Spectacular | 2.5 |
| Micachu and the Shapes Jewellery | 3.5 |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue | 4.0 |
| Miles Davis Bitches Brew | 4.5 |
| Minus the Bear Acoustics | 3.5 |
| Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates | 4.0 |
| Minus the Bear Menos El Oso | 4.0 |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice | 4.0 |
| Modern Life Is War Witness | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse Interstate 8 | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse Strangers to Ourselves | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse Building Nothing Out of Something | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse No One's First, and You're Next | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica | 4.5 |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West | 4.5 |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About | 4.5 |
| Mogwai Ten Rapid (Collected Recordings 1996-1997) | 3.5 |
| Mogwai Mr. Beast | 3.5 |
| Mogwai Happy Songs for Happy People | 4.0 |
| Mogwai Young Team | 4.0 |
| Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind | 4.0 |
| Mount Eerie Lost Wisdom | 3.5 |
| Mount Eerie Black Wooden Ceiling Opening | 4.0 |
| Mount Eerie No Flashlight | 4.0 |
| Mountains Centralia | 4.5 |
| Moving Mountains Pneuma | 4.0 |
| Mr. Bungle California | 4.5 |
| Mudvayne L.D. 50 | 4.0 |
| Murder by Death Good Morning, Magpie | 2.5 |
| Murder by Death Red Of Tooth And Claw | 3.5 |
| Murder by Death In Bocca Al Lupo | 4.0 |
| Murder by Death Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them? | 4.5 |
| Murder by Death Like the Exorcist, but More Breakdancing | 4.5 |
| My Bloody Valentine m b v | 4.0 |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge | 2.0 |
| My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love | 2.5 |
| My Morning Jacket Evil Urges | 2.0 |
| Nachtmystium Assassins: Black Meddle Pt.1 | 2.0 |
| Nas Illmatic | 4.5 |
| Nas and Damian Marley Distant Relatives | 4.0 |
| Neurosis Given to the Rising | 3.0 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel Everything Is | 2.0 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 5.0 |
| New End Original Thriller | 3.5 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth | 3.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IV | 3.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 4.5 |
| No Age Everything In Between | 3.5 |
| No Age Weirdo Rippers | 4.0 |
| No Age Nouns | 4.0 |
| Nonpoint Statement | 2.0 |
| Norma Jean Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child | 2.0 |
| Norma Jean O' God, the Aftermath | 2.5 |
| Oceansize Effloresce | 3.5 |
| Ocrilim Annwn | 3.0 |
| Ocrilim's Annwn is one giant guitar riff, seriously. There are tones to accompany the guitars, but otherwise it's a shredfest. So if you like tremolo picking, noodling, and scales for an hour and twenty-ish minutes, have a blast. |
| Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe | 4.0 |
| Off Minor Some Blood | 4.5 |
| Okkervil River The Stage Names | 3.5 |
| Old Man Gloom Meditations in B | 3.5 |
| Onelinedrawing The Volunteers | 4.0 |
| Onelinedrawing Visitor | 4.0 |
| Onelinedrawing Sketchy EP #1 | 4.0 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 2.5 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 3.5 |
| Opeth Deliverance | 3.5 |
| Orchid Chaos is Me | 4.0 |
| Orchid Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow! | 4.0 |
| P.O.D. Fundamental Elements of Southtown | 2.0 |
| P.O.D. Satellite | 2.0 |
| Panda Bear Young Prayer | 3.0 |
| Panda Bear Person Pitch | 4.5 |
| Panda Bear Tomboy | 4.5 |
| Pantha Du Prince This Bliss | 4.0 |
| Parades Foreign Tapes | 4.0 |
| Passion Pit Manners | 4.0 |
| Past Lives Strange Symmetry | 4.0 |
| Pavement Brighten the Corners | 3.0 |
| Pavement Wowee Zowee | 3.5 |
| Pavement Slanted and Enchanted: Luxe and Reduxe | 3.5 |
| Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain | 4.0 |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... | 3.0 |
| Pelican March Into the Sea | 3.5 |
| Pennywise Land Of The Free? | 3.0 |
| pg.99 Document #5 | 3.5 |
| pg.99 Document #7 | 4.0 |
| pg.99 Document #14: Singles | 4.0 |
| pg.99 Document #8 | 4.5 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | 4.0 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After | 4.0 |
| Pig Destroyer Terrifyer | 3.5 |
| Pig Destroyer Phantom Limb | 4.0 |
| Pink Mountain Pink Mountain | 3.5 |
| Pixies Trompe Le Monde | 3.0 |
| Pixies Doolittle | 4.0 |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa | 4.0 |
| Poison the Well You Come Before You | 3.0 |
| Poison the Well Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder | 3.0 |
| Poison the Well Tear From the Red | 3.5 |
| Poison the Well The Opposite of December | 4.0 |
| Polvo In Prism | 3.5 |
| Portishead Third | 4.5 |
| Portugal. The Man In The Mountain In The Cloud | 4.0 |
| Portugal. The Man Evil Friends | 4.5 |
| Primus Animals Should Not Try To Act Like People | 3.5 |
| Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese | 4.0 |
| Propagandhi Supporting Caste | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 2.0 |
| Psyopus Ideas of Reference | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze | 2.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 4.5 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 3.5 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 4.0 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 4.5 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 5.0 |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... | 4.5 |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II | 4.5 |
| Raekwon Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang | 4.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine Renegades | 1.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles | 3.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire | 4.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 4.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Freaky Styley | 2.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication | 3.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium | 3.5 |
| Red Sparowes Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red... | 3.5 |
| Refused Songs To Fan The Flames Of Discontent | 3.5 |
| Refused Refused Are Fucking Dead | 4.0 |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come | 5.0 |
| Regina Spektor Soviet Kitsch | 3.5 |
| Regina Spektor 11:11 | 3.5 |
| Regina Spektor Far | 3.5 |
| Regina Spektor Begin To Hope | 4.5 |
| Rites of Spring End on End | 4.0 |
| Rock Plaza Central Are We Not Horses | 3.5 |
| RoxXn Digital Waves + Tonight | 2.5 |
| Rx Bandits Gemini, Her Majesty | 2.5 |
| The spunk that Rx Bandits usually show is not present in "Gemini, Her Majesty." Perhaps they should have quit while they were on top, rather than forcing a mundane album that is best fit next to a 311 album in Hot Topic. |
| Rx Bandits Progress | 3.5 |
| Rx Bandits The Resignation | 4.0 |
| Rx Bandits ...And the Battle Begun | 4.5 |
| Rx Bandits Mandala | 4.5 |
| Saetia A Retrospective | 3.5 |
| Sam Cooke Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964 | 4.5 |
| Saosin Saosin | 3.0 |
| Savages Silence Yourself | 3.0 |
| Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy | 4.5 |
| I had lost faith, faith in the genre that was once called pop punk. It slowly transcended downward in the past couple of years but then their was a light, a light known as Say Anything. Their album "...Is A Real Boy" is what this genre should be about. Elegant songwriting and more fun than you could ever imagine. Highlights include the gem making fun of music scenes known as "Admit It!!!" along with "Alive With The Glory of Love" and "Spider Song." My faith is rekindled with this album, and I couldn't be happier. |
| Say Anything ...Is A Real Boy (re-release) | 4.5 |
| Say Anything In Defense of the Genre | 4.5 |
| See You Next Tuesday Sampler '05 | 1.0 |
| Shangrala This Is How We Communicate | 3.5 |
| Shellac 1000 Hurts | 4.0 |
| Shining (SWE) V - Halmstad | 4.0 |
| Shugo Tokumaru Exit | 4.0 |
| Shugo Tokumaru Night Piece | 4.0 |
| Sigh Scenes from Hell | 2.5 |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Takk... | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros ( ) | 4.5 |
| Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust | 4.5 |
| Sigur Ros Kveikur | 4.5 |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon | 3.5 |
| Slint Spiderland | 4.5 |
| Snowman The Horse, the Rat and the Swan | 3.5 |
| So the Story Goes As We March With Victims | 1.0 |
| Some Girls Heaven's Pregnant Teens | 2.5 |
| Some Girls All My Friends Are Going Death | 3.0 |
| Son Lux At War With Walls And Mazes | 3.0 |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation | 4.5 |
| Soulfly Prophecy | 1.5 |
| Soulfly Primitive | 2.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Garden State | 4.0 |
| St. Vincent Marry Me | 3.5 |
| St. Vincent Actor | 4.0 |
| Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline | 4.5 |
| Stars of the Lid produced a soundtrack of elegance. 'And Their Refinement Of The Decline' is a breathtaking, beautiful journey through ambient landscapes all packed within a double disc album. The overall atmosphere is nothing short of incredible. Whether it is the soft, brood cello tones in "Tippy's Demise" or the haunting piano strokes in "Humectez La Mouture," the mood is captured in a flash of brilliance. 'And Their Refinement Of The Decline' is intriguing, lush, captivating, and most importantly, unforgettable. |
| Steinski What Does It All Mean? | 4.5 |
| Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks Real Emotional Trash | 3.5 |
| Steve Miller Band Fly Like an Eagle | 4.0 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between | 4.0 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb | 4.5 |
| Subtle ExitingARM | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens The Avalanche: Outtakes and Extras | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Michigan | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Songs For Christmas | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois | 4.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens All Delighted People | 4.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz | 4.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell | 5.0 |
| Suis La Lune Quiet, Pull the Strings! | 3.0 |
| Sun Kil Moon April | 4.0 |
| Sunn O))) Monoliths and Dimensions | 3.5 |
| Sunny Day Real Estate The Rising Tide | 3.0 |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Diary | 4.5 |
| Sunny Day Real Estate How It Feels To Be Something On | 4.5 |
| Sunset Bright Blue Dream | 3.0 |
| Surfer Blood Astro Coast | 4.0 |
| Swans Soundtracks for the Blind | 4.5 |
| Swans The Seer | 4.5 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 2.5 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 3.0 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 4.0 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 4.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Louder Now | 3.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends | 3.5 |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock | 3.5 |
| Taproot Welcome | 1.5 |
| Tegan and Sara The Con | 3.0 |
| Tera Melos Drugs to the Dear Youth | 3.5 |
| Tera Melos Untitled | 4.0 |
| Tera Melos Patagonian Rats | 4.0 |
| Texas Is the Reason Do You Know Who You Are? | 3.5 |
| The (International) Noise Conspiracy Survival Sickness | 2.5 |
| The Academy Is... Almost Here | 2.5 |
| The Antlers Undersea | 2.5 |
| The Antlers In the Attic of the Universe | 3.5 |
| The Antlers Burst Apart | 4.0 |
| The Antlers Hospice | 5.0 |
| The Appleseed Cast Low Level Owl, Vol. 2 | 3.0 |
| The Appleseed Cast Two Conversations | 3.5 |
| The Appleseed Cast Sagarmatha | 4.0 |
| The Aquabats Charge!! | 1.0 |
| The Aquabats The Return of the Aquabats | 2.0 |
| The Avalanches Since I Left You | 4.0 |
| The Baltic Sea Through Scenic Heights and Days Regrets | 3.0 |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Revolver | 4.0 |
| The Bled Found in the Flood | 3.5 |
| The Bled Pass the Flask | 4.0 |
| The Bled Silent Treatment | 4.0 |
| The Blood Brothers Young Machetes | 2.5 |
| The Blood Brothers Love Rhymes with Hideous Car Wreck EP | 3.0 |
| The Blood Brothers Crimes | 3.5 |
| The Blood Brothers ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn | 4.5 |
| The Chariot Unsung | 1.5 |
| The Cure Disintegration | 4.5 |
| The Darcys The Darcys | 4.5 |
| The Decemberists 5 Songs | 3.0 |
| The Decemberists Picaresque | 3.5 |
| The Decemberists Castaways and Cutouts | 3.5 |
| The Decemberists Her Majesty the Decemberists | 4.0 |
| The Decemberists The Crane Wife | 4.0 |
| The Decemberists The Hazards of Love | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation | 2.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works | 3.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine | 3.5 |
| The album cover sort of describes "Miss Machine." The reason is that the songs are all there, but the order is horrendous for the most part. To switch from Setting Fire To Sleeping Giants to Baby's First Coffin to Unretrofied to The Perfect Design is beyond me. While their are great songs on this album, no song really would be considered their best that they have released by any means. If there were a "starter Dillinger CD," this would be ideal due to the accessibility factor. A decent release from the Dillinger Escape Plan. |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Under the Running Board | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene | 4.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis | 4.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity | 5.0 |
| This album shattered the limits of technicality, erased anyone's thought of a standard time signature, and broke a few metronomes. Calculating Infinity was the first significant release in the genre it is presented in. The lyrics are meaningful, the musicianship is ridiculous and blended together, it creates an utter masterpiece. This album will not be for everyone, but everyone should at least appreciate the edge at which they took music to. "What pawns we have become in this bland little play" no more, for it is no longer bland thanks to Dillinger's groundbreaking release Calculating Infinity. |
| The Dismemberment Plan Emergency & I | 4.5 |
| The Dodos Time to Die | 3.5 |
| The Dodos Visiter | 4.5 |
| This year, The Dodos have caught on like a wildfire. Not often do I really say music has intangibles, but Vister is an exception to that rule. From "Walking" to "God," the ride twists and turns with eloquent vocals and a stripped down sound that is irresistible to deny. With the exception of "It's That Time Again," this album is incredible. The lyrics are beautiful and painful; going through a tumultuous love journey within a personal life experience. So many nooks and crannies to discover and explore with each listen between the little hints of electric guitar in "Fools" to the complete directional change in "Joe's Waltz," Vister is simply stunning. It's time to catch on. |
| The Dodos No Color | 4.5 |
| The Fall of Troy In the Unlikely Event | 2.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Manipulator | 2.5 |
| The Fall of Troy provide a lackluster effort with their latest release "Manipulator." The unenthusiastic start to the album, (first six songs) are essentially the downfall. In contrast, the last six songs are filled with energy and creative songwriting. In fact, it may be some of their best work, but the production quality fails as a whole to showcase these talents. The last key problem is their sound is nothing new in comparison to their previous releases. While they do try to incorporate new sounds, it is all fairly similar. If you can manage to get through the first six songs, you may enjoy this release as a whole. Otherwise, it is a snoozefest that struggles to regain composure after it's painful start. |
| The Fall of Troy The Fall of Troy | 3.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger | 3.5 |
| The Fall of Troy Phantom on the Horizon | 3.5 |
| The Fall of Troy Ghostship Demos | 4.0 |
| The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin | 3.0 |
| The Flashbulb Soundtrack to a Vacant Life | 2.5 |
| The Flashbulb Kirlian Selections | 4.0 |
| The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound | 3.5 |
| The Get Up Kids There Are Rules | 3.5 |
| The Hotelier Goodness | 3.5 |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There | 4.5 |
| The Locust Flight of the Wounded Locust | 2.5 |
| The Locust The Locust | 3.5 |
| The Locust Plague Soundscapes | 4.0 |
| The Locust Safety Second, Body Last | 4.0 |
| The Locust New Erections | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta Scab Dates | 2.0 |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet | 2.0 |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture | 2.5 |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron | 3.5 |
| The Mars Volta Tremulant | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 5.0 |
| The Microphones Mount Eerie | 4.0 |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 | 5.0 |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 (Re-release) | 5.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Get Lonely | 3.5 |
| The Mountain Goats Heretic Pride | 3.5 |
| The Mountain Goats Satanic Messiah | 3.5 |
| The Mountain Goats The Life of the World to Come | 3.5 |
| The Mountain Goats Beat the Champ | 3.5 |
| The Mountain Goats We Shall All Be Healed | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats The Sunset Tree | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Tallahassee | 4.5 |
| The Mountain Goats All Hail West Texas | 4.5 |
| The National High Violet | 3.0 |
| The National Alligator | 4.0 |
| The National Boxer | 4.0 |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die | 4.5 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Put On Your Rosy Red Glasses | 3.0 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You An Inch of Gold for An Inch of Time | 3.5 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Worse Than Alone | 3.5 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Nuclear. Sad. Nuclear. | 4.0 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Mongrel | 4.0 |
| The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds | 3.5 |
| The Postal Service Give Up | 3.5 |
| The Seatbelts Cowboy Bebop Boxed Set | 4.5 |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting Lover, the Lord Has Left Us... | 2.5 |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting Tiger and the Duke | 4.0 |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting The Ocean and the Sun | 4.0 |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting We Must Become the Change We Want to See | 4.5 |
| The Streets The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living | 2.5 |
| The Streets Original Pirate Material | 3.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave | 4.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt | 4.0 |
| The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza | 3.0 |
| The Weakerthans Reconstruction Site | 4.0 |
| The Weakerthans Left and Leaving | 4.0 |
| The Weakerthans Reunion Tour | 4.0 |
| The Weeknd House of Balloons | 4.5 |
| The World/Inferno Friendship Society The Anarchy and the Ecstasy | 2.5 |
| The World/Inferno Friendship Society Just the Best Party | 4.0 |
| The Wrens The Meadowlands | 4.0 |
| The xx xx | 4.0 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons | 2.5 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Horses in the Sky | 3.5 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra This Is Our Punk-Rock, Thee Rusted Satellites Gather and Sing | 4.0 |
| These Arms Are Snakes Tail Swallower and Dove | 3.5 |
| These Arms Are Snakes Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home | 4.0 |
| These Arms Are Snakes Easter | 4.0 |
| This Will Destroy You Young Mountain | 3.5 |
| Thom Yorke The Eraser | 3.0 |
| Thrice Beggars | 3.0 |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV | 4.0 |
| Thrice Major/Minor | 4.0 |
| Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 4.5 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 4.5 |
| Thursday Five Stories Falling | 3.0 |
| Thursday A City By the Light Divided | 3.5 |
| Thursday Common Existence | 4.0 |
| Thursday No Devolucion | 4.0 |
| Thursday War All the Time | 4.5 |
| Thursday Full Collapse | 4.5 |
| Thursday/Envy Thursday/Envy | 3.5 |
| Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 | 4.0 |
| Times New Viking Rip It Off | 3.5 |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor | 4.0 |
| Today Is the Day Willpower | 4.5 |
| Tokyo Police Club A Lesson in Crime | 3.5 |
| Tom Waits Alice | 3.0 |
| Tom Waits Nighthawks At The Diner | 3.0 |
| Tom Waits Bad As Me | 4.0 |
| Tom Waits Rain Dogs | 4.5 |
| Tomahawk Anonymous | 3.0 |
| Tool Opiate | 3.0 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 3.5 |
| Tool Undertow | 4.0 |
| Tool Lateralus | 4.5 |
| Tool Ænima | 5.0 |
| Tortoise Beacons of Ancestorship | 2.5 |
| Tortoise A Lazarus Taxon | 3.5 |
| Tortoise TNT | 4.0 |
| Tortoise Millions Now Living Will Never Die | 4.5 |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me | 4.0 |
| Touche Amore/La Dispute Searching for a Pulse/The Worth of the World | 4.0 |
| Transistor Transistor Ruined Lives | 3.5 |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross The Social Network OST | 4.0 |
| Trophy Scars Hospital Music for the Aesthetics of Language | 4.0 |
| Trophy Scars Bad Luck | 4.0 |
| TTNG Animals | 3.5 |
| TV on the Radio Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes | 3.0 |
| TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain | 4.0 |
| TV on the Radio Dear Science | 4.5 |
| TV On The Radio followed up 'Return To Cookie Mountain' with an absolutely enticing, breathtaking, and brilliant album found in 'Dear Science.' Every weakness found in their previous works have been resolved. The output of 'Dear Science' is on another level and simply beyond comprehension. Tracks like "Halfway Home," "Family Tree," "DLZ," and "Golden Age" are only a few indie-rock masterpieces among the entire album. 'Dear Science' has the intangibles that is something to get excited about. Seriously, just get it already. |
| TV on the Radio Nine Types of Light | 4.5 |
| Tycho Dive | 4.0 |
| Tycho Awake | 4.0 |
| Unearth The Oncoming Storm | 2.5 |
| Unearth The Stings of Conscience | 3.0 |
| Unearth III: In the Eyes of Fire | 4.0 |
| United Nations Never Mind the Bombings, Here's Your Six Figures | 4.0 |
| Ben Koller is a dirty, dirty man on drums and he alone makes "Never Mind the Bombings, Here's Your Six Figures" worth it. |
| United Nations United Nations | 4.5 |
| The hardcore/emo style of the early ‘90s went missing, so Geoff Rickly and company (possibly members of GlassJAw and Converge) decided to revive the sound they once cherished under the name United Nations. Containing the technicality and rawness that defined ‘90s emo, United Nations recaptures the sound with incredible vigor and liveliness. The album is riddled with on-and-off melodic/coarse vocals countered with dense power-chord riffs and the occasional finger tapping, most notably on ‘No Sympathy For A Sinking Ship,’ ‘Subliminal Testing,’ and ‘Model UN.’ I would say that sound has been revivified. |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend | 3.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Contra | 3.5 |
| Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City | 4.5 |
| Various Artists (Indie) Dark Was The Night | 4.5 |
| Venetian Snares Cavalcade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Pom Poms | 3.5 |
| Venetian Snares Doll Doll Doll | 4.0 |
| Venetian Snares Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett | 4.5 |
| Verse Aggression | 4.0 |
| Vic Chesnutt North Star Deserter | 4.0 |
| Weezer Make Believe | 1.0 |
| Weezer The Red Album | 2.5 |
| Weezer Pinkerton | 4.5 |
| Weezer Weezer | 4.5 |
| Why? Alopecia | 3.0 |
| William Basinski The Disintegration Loops I | 3.5 |
| William Basinski The Disintegration Loops II | 4.5 |
| Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary | 4.0 |
| Women Public Strain | 3.0 |
| WU LYF Go Tell Fire to the Mountain | 4.5 |
| Wu-Tang Clan 8 Diagrams | 4.0 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 4.5 |
| Yeasayer All Hour Cymbals | 4.0 |
| Young Widows Old Wounds | 3.5 |
| Zu Carboniferous | 4.0 |
