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2016
The 1975 I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It3.0
Steven Wilson 4 1/24.0

2015
Four Stroke Baron King Radio4.5
Roots Manuva Bleeds4.0
This album has some of the most straightforward production and flow I've heard from Roots in a while; "Hard Bastards" is one of those great, chill openers I love hearing from him, "Crying" somehow manages to be deep even when he's talking about his arse, Four Tet nails the production on "Facety 2:11", and so on. I enjoyed this a lot.
Cloudkicker Woum4.0
This is definitely harkening back to the days of Let Yourself Be Huge. Some excellent atmospheres being built here. It sticks with me more than Little Histories, for sure.
Miley Cyrus Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz1.5
Defeater Abandoned4.0
Roots Manuva Facety 2:114.0
Tyler, the Creator Cherry Bomb3.5
the production on this album is streets ahead of Goblin, let alone Bastard. hookier and a bit more listenable than Wolf yet still as vulgar and immature as his older stuff.
Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell4.0
Maths The Fires Courting The Sea4.5
the most incredible, gut-wrenching hardcore i've heard for a very long time. the opening track is a brass-knuckled five finger death punch to the scrotum.
Steven Wilson Hand. Cannot. Erase.4.5

2014
Stumbleine Infinite Overcast4.0
Cloudkicker Little Histories3.5
Seaway All In My Head4.0
The Flaming Lips With A Little Help From My Fwends2.0
Have Mercy (Indie) A Place of Our Own4.0
Taylor Swift 19894.0
Transit Joyride4.5
North Atlantic Oscillation The Third Day4.0
Great Good Fine Ok Body Diamond4.0
Dad Rocks! Year of the Flesh4.0
Milo A Toothpaste Suburb4.0
The Pineapple Thief Magnolia4.0
iamthemorning Belighted4.5
Anup Sastry Titan3.5
Pretty solid little EP, especially coming from a drummer (drummers amirite). That title track is just great.
Thousand Foot Krutch Oxygen: Inhale1.5
Maybeshewill Fair Youth5.0
Watsky All You Can Do4.0
definitely a step up from Cardboard Castles (which i really liked, incidentally).
Michael Cera True That3.0
This is a good album. It's nothing special, but there's nothing atrocious about it and it's, all in all, very nice. If this blows your mind, search "lo-fi" on Bandcamp. There's as good or better stuff than this everywhere; if this wasn't Michael Cera, it wouldn't have a quarter of the interest it does.
Acollective Pangaea4.5
Braid No Coast4.0
sleepmakeswaves Love of Cartography5.0
Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion4.5
Moonlit Sailor We Come from Exploding Stars4.0
Steven Wilson Cover Version4.5
Periphery Clear3.5

2013
Sand (Sam Healy) Sand4.5
Shad Flying Colours4.0
Death Angel The Dream Calls for Blood4.0
Plini Sweet Nothings4.0
Dance Gavin Dance Acceptance Speech4.0
Cage The Elephant Melophobia3.5
Katie Malco Tearing Ventricles4.5
Into It. Over It. Intersections4.0
Said the Whale Hawaii4.0
65daysofstatic Wild Light4.5
Cloudkicker Subsume4.5
Tyr Valkyrja4.0
Volcano Choir Repave4.0
Bear Mountain XO3.5
Karnivool Asymmetry4.5
Katie Malco Katie Malco and The Slow Parade4.0
Jamie Cullum Momentum4.0
Transit Young New England3.0
Tyler, the Creator Wolf3.5
fairly self-indulgent (especially compared to his earlier stuff), but it's got some lovely moments
PVRIS Paris4.0
Soundtrack (Television) The Walking Dead Vol. 13.0
Watsky Cardboard Castles4.0
Old Gray An Autobiography3.5
Plini Other Things4.0
Birds Of Tokyo March Fires3.5
Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)4.0
Funeral for a Friend Conduit3.0
Skrillex Leaving2.5

2012
NOMADS (OH) NOMADS4.5
it's got such a big sound. the drumming on this thing is open and brilliantly subdued, like that of North Atlantic Oscillation. you don't get that natural sound anymore, that much. the guitars are creamy and massive, really smooth, big chords. they're also really nice dudes, too, so bonus!
Scan The Sky Dear Hope4.0
Lowercase Noises Passage4.5
Punch Brothers Ahoy!4.0
Blood on the Dance Floor Anthem of the Outcast2.5
Flyleaf New Horizons3.5
Taylor Swift Red4.0
Kaki King Glow4.0
Deadmau5 >album title goes here<3.0
The Pineapple Thief All the Wars4.0
Everyone Everywhere Everyone Everywhere II4.5
Cloudkicker Fade4.0
The Antlers Undersea4.5
Transit Listen & Forgive (Reissue)4.5
Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal4.0
A Place to Bury Strangers Worship3.5
Blood on the Dance Floor Evolution1.5
65daysofstatic The Last Dance4.0
Watsky Nothing Like The First Time3.5
alt-J An Awesome Wave4.0
Sigur Ros Valtari4.0
iLiKETRAiNS The Shallows4.0
North Atlantic Oscillation Fog Electric4.0
Ninth Paradise Ninth Paradise4.0
iamthemorning ~4.0
Thousand Foot Krutch The End Is Where We Begin3.5
Anathema Weather Systems4.5
Dumbsaint Something That You Feel Will Find Its Own Form4.0
OFWGKTA The OF Tape Vol. 23.5
George Barnett 17 Days4.0
Said the Whale Little Mountain4.0
Milo Milo Takes Baths4.0
Punch Brothers Who's Feeling Young Now?4.5
A Place to Bury Strangers Onwards To The Wall3.0

2011
Skrillex Bangarang3.0
Miracles of Modern Science Dog Year4.0
Taylor Swift Speak Now World Tour4.0
Cloudkicker Let Yourself Be Huge4.5
brokeNCYDE Guilty Pleasure1.0
Dad Rocks! Mount Modern4.5
Animals As Leaders Weightless4.0
Down With Webster Time to Win Vol. 23.5
Transit Listen and Forgive4.5
Jack's Mannequin People and Things4.0
Roots Manuva 4everevolution3.0
Steven Wilson Grace for Drowning4.5
Mastodon The Hunter4.0
Anathema Falling Deeper3.0
The Milk Carton Kids Prologue4.5
sleepmakeswaves ...and so we destroyed everything4.5
Black Veil Brides Set the World on Fire2.5
Skrillex More Monsters and Sprites2.5
Tyr The Lay of Thrym4.0
Death Cab for Cutie Codes and Keys3.5
Maybeshewill I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was Gone4.0
Lowercase Noises Migratory Patterns4.5
Tyler, the Creator Goblin4.0
Blackfield Welcome To My DNA3.5
Explosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take Care3.5
Floating Me Floating Me4.0
The Chemical Brothers Hanna OST4.5
FM Static My Brain Says Stop, But My Heart Says Go3.5
Funeral for a Friend Welcome Home Armageddon3.0
Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain II3.0
Industries of the Blind Chapter 1: Had We Known Better4.0
Cage The Elephant Thank You Happy Birthday3.5
The Hotelier It Never Goes Out4.0

2010
Deadmau5 4x4=123.0
My Chemical Romance Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys3.0
Cloudkicker A New Heavenly Body4.0
Underoath Ø (Disambiguation)3.5
brokeNCYDE Will Never Die1.5
Taylor Swift Speak Now4.0
Skrillex Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites4.0
iLiKETRAiNS He Who Saw The Deep4.0
Cloudkicker Beacons4.5
Millionaires Cash Only1.5
it's definitely not anything to write home about, but Cash Only is still a massive step forward, and "Stay The Night" is actually really catchy and mature - for Millionaires, at least.
Katy Perry Teenage Dream3.0
S. Carey All We Grow4.0
The Devil Wears Prada Zombie3.5
Transit Keep This To Yourself4.0
Birds Of Tokyo Birds Of Tokyo3.5
Black Veil Brides We Stitch These Wounds2.5
Baths Cerulean4.0
Punch Brothers Antifogmatic4.0
The Pineapple Thief Someone Here Is Missing4.0
Anathema We're Here Because We're Here4.5
Framing Hanley A Promise to Burn2.5
Porcupine Tree Anesthetize4.5
Zoe Keating Into the Trees4.0
65daysofstatic We Were Exploding Anyway4.0
Periphery Periphery3.5
North Atlantic Oscillation Grappling Hooks4.5
Cloudkicker ]]][[[4.0

2009
Tyler, the Creator Bastard4.0
Flyleaf Memento Mori3.5
Jamie Cullum The Pursuit4.0
Said the Whale Islands Disappear4.0
Tubelord Our First American Friends4.0
Down With Webster Time To Win Vol. I3.0
Deadmau5 For Lack of a Better Name4.0
Porcupine Tree The Incident4.0
Children of Bodom Skeletons in the Closet2.5
Thousand Foot Krutch Welcome to the Masquerade4.0
Mew No More Stories4.0
Skillet Awake2.0
Maybeshewill Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony4.5
Mew No More Stories EP4.0
Millionaires Just Got Paid, Let's Get Laid2.0
this is actually a lot more listenable than it gets credit for being, but pretty much every song on here has at least one aspect that induces physical pain. "I Like Money" is atrocious.
brokeNCYDE I'm Not a Fan, but the Kids Like It!1.0
Karnivool Sound Awake4.5
Karnivool Set Fire to the Hive4.0
Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders4.0
FM Static Dear Diary4.0
And So I Watch You From Afar And So I Watch You From Afar4.0
Cloudkicker Portmanteau4.0
sleepmakeswaves/Tangled Thoughts of Leaving Split4.0
Mastodon Crack the Skye4.0
Tyr By the Light of the Northern Star4.0

2008
Cloudkicker The Map Is Not the Territory4.0
Steven Wilson Insurgentes4.5
Taylor Swift Fearless4.0
Funeral for a Friend Memory and Humanity3.0
Jack's Mannequin The Glass Passenger4.0
My Epic I Am Undone4.0
Cloudkicker The Discovery4.0
Birds Of Tokyo Universes3.5
Cage The Elephant Cage the Elephant4.0
Katy Perry One of the Boys3.0
Hey Rosetta! Into Your Lungs (And Around in Your Heart and on4.0
Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs4.0
Maybeshewill Not For Want Of Trying4.0
Millionaires Bling Bling Bling!1.0
65daysofstatic The Distant and Mechanised Glow of Eastern Euro...4.0
Blood on the Dance Floor Let's Start a Riot1.0
Tubelord Feed Me a Box of Words4.0
sleepmakeswaves In Today Already Walks Tomorrow4.5
Punch Brothers Punch4.0

2007
Shad The Old Prince4.0
The Pineapple Thief What We Have Sown4.5
Thousand Foot Krutch The Flame in All of Us4.0
A Place to Bury Strangers A Place to Bury Strangers3.5
Kate Nash Made of Bricks3.5
Tegan and Sara The Con4.0
brokeNCYDE The Broken1.0
Rasputina Oh Perilous World4.0
Down With Webster Down With Webster2.5
Framing Hanley The Moment3.0
65daysofstatic The Destruction of Small Ideas4.0
Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet4.5
Blackfield Blackfield II4.0

2006
Shad When This Is Over4.5
The Pineapple Thief Little Man4.5
My Chemical Romance The Black Parade4.5
Taylor Swift Taylor Swift3.5
Chris Thile How to Grow A Woman From the Ground4.5
FM Static Critically Ashamed3.5
Underoath Define the Great Line4.0
Maybeshewill Japanese Spy Transcript EP3.5

2005
Cloudkicker Myspace.com/musicistight4.0
Andy McKee Art of Motion4.0
65daysofstatic One Time for All Time4.5
Explosions in the Sky The Rescue3.0
Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet?3.5
The Samuel Jackson Five Easily Misunderstood4.0
Sigur Ros Takk...4.5
Death Cab for Cutie Plans4.0
Jack's Mannequin Everything in Transit4.5
Thousand Foot Krutch The Art of Breaking3.5
Sufjan Stevens Illinois4.5
Funeral for a Friend Hours3.5
Porcupine Tree Deadwing4.5
Karnivool Themata4.0
Seven Ark Noise of the New4.0
Roots Manuva Awfully Deep3.5
Zoe Keating One Cello x 16: Natoma4.0

2004
ISIS Panopticon4.5
Chris Thile Deceiver5.0
An absolutely marvelous showcase of Thile's ridiculous talent and musical genius. The jazz of tracks like "Locking Doors" is excellently and brilliantly balanced by the off-kilter modern bluegrass of songs like the smashing "On Ice."
65daysofstatic The Fall of Math4.5
Mastodon Leviathan4.0
Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety4.0
mclusky The Difference Between Me and You Is That I'm Not on Fire4.0
Steven Wilson Unreleased Electronic Music Vol. 14.0
Jon Brion I Heart Huckabees OST4.0

2003
Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place4.5
Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism5.0
John Mayer Heavier Things4.5
Sufjan Stevens Michigan4.0
FM Static What Are You Waiting For?3.0
Mew Frengers4.0

2002
Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People4.0
Porcupine Tree In Absentia4.0
Idlewild The Remote Part4.5
Underoath The Changing of Times3.0

2001
Chris Thile Not All Who Wander Are Lost4.0
Broken Social Scene Feel Good Lost3.0
John Mayer Room for Squares4.0
The Pineapple Thief 1374.0
Jon Brion Meaningless4.5

2000
Death Cab for Cutie We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes4.0

1999
John Mayer Inside Wants Out4.0
Roots Manuva Brand New Second Hand4.0
Our Lady Peace Happiness...4.5

1998
Death Cab for Cutie Something About Airplanes4.0

1997
Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects Sol Niger Within4.0
Our Lady Peace Clumsy4.0

1996
Porcupine Tree Signify4.0
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