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2021
Low Hey What4.5
Asian Glow Cull Ficle4.0

2020
Eefje de Visser Bitterzoet4.0

2019
BATS Alter Nature2.5
Tool Fear Inoculum4.0
2018
mewithoutYou [Untitled]5.0
Low Double Negative4.5
mewithoutYou [untitled] e.p.4.5
Sleep The Sciences3.5
The Republic of Wolves shrine3.0
Mount Eerie Now Only4.0
Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It4.5
Typhoon (USA-OR) Offerings3.5

2017
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Gumboot Soup3.0
Burial Pre Dawn/Indoors2.5
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Polygondwanaland4.0
Quicksand Interiors3.5
Amenra Mass VI4.0
The National Sleep Well Beast4.0
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Sketches of Brunswick East (w/ Mild High Club)3.0
Brand New Science Fiction4.0
City of Caterpillar Driving Spain Up A Wall4.5
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Murder Of The Universe3.5
Lvmen Mitgefangen Mitgehangen4.0
Kasabian For Crying Out Loud2.5
Mount Eerie A Crow Looked At Me4.5
Xiu Xiu Forget4.0
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Flying Microtonal Banana4.0
Brutus (BE) Burst3.5

2016
Cotillion Korean Fan Death4.0
Once again very enjoyable, sometimes heavy, instrumental music
A Tribe Called Quest We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service4.0
Nocturnal Habits New Skin for Old Children4.0
Jimmy Eat World Integrity Blues3.5
Yellowcard Yellowcard3.5
Touche Amore Stage Four4.0
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree4.0
Brand New 3 Demos, Reworked3.5
The Hotelier Goodness4.0
Lonely Ghost Funereal3.0
Stumbled upon this on Bandcamp (free). Pretty decent bedroom pop/indie/lo-fi/shoegaze hybrid. Maybe its a 3.5 idk should listen to it more.
https://lonelyghost.bandcamp.com/
Car Seat Headrest Teens of Denial4.0
Twin Fantasy will probably always be my favourite CSH, but this is very awesome.
Vektor Terminal Redux4.0
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Nonagon Infinity4.0
Wire Nocturnal Koreans3.0
Xiu Xiu Plays the Music of "Twin Peaks"4.0
Deftones Gore2.5
Three Trapped Tigers Silent Earthling4.0
She's Beautiful Ok3.5
Lobby Boxer Big Bucks3.0

2015
Brand New Leaked Demos 20064.0
Car Seat Headrest Teens of Style3.5
Cotillion Two Years4.0
Current tags Cotillion are Metal, post-harcore and electronic. All I can say is that this is instrumental and very awesome
Mgla Exercises in Futility4.0
ourfathers. Movements4.0
We Lost the Sea Departure Songs4.5
mewithoutYou Pale Horses5.0
This album really is a grower. Felt underwhelmed listening to it the first couple of times. But yeah, in the end this is one of their best (although everything they have done is great). The album flows really well, it is over before you know it....
mewithoutYou Pale Horses: Appendix4.0
Built to Spill Untethered Moon3.5
Modest Mouse Strangers to Ourselves3.0
Leviathan Scar Sighted4.0
Paint The Sky Red Not All Who Wonder Are Lost4.0
Mount Eerie Sauna3.5

2014
Car Seat Headrest How To Leave Town3.5
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard I'm In Your Mind Fuzz4.0
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 24.0
Unwound No Energy4.5
Typhoon (NL) Lobi Da Basi3.5
Kasabian 48:132.0
The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There4.0

2013
Burial Rival Dealer4.0
There Will Be Fireworks The Dark, Dark Bright4.0
State Faults Resonate/Desperate4.0
Lord Snow Solitude4.0
Polvo Siberia3.5
Car Seat Headrest Nervous Young Man4.0
Typhoon (USA-OR) White Lighter4.0
Geology North4.0
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels4.0
Jimmy Eat World Damage3.0
Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest4.0
The National Trouble Will Find Me4.0
Daft Punk Random Access Memories3.0
Elvis Depressedly Holo Pleasures3.0
Mogwai Les Revenants OST3.5
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Push The Sky Away4.0
Secret Smoker Terminal Architecture4.0

2012
Cotillion The Debutantes (pt. III)4.0
Circle Takes the Square Decompositions: Volume Number One4.0
Burial Truant/Rough Sleeper4.5
Unwound Live Leaves4.0
Cotillion The Debutantes (pt. II)4.0
Car Seat Headrest Starving While Living4.0
Deftones Koi No Yokan3.0
BATS The Sleep of Reason4.5
Cotillion The Debutantes (pt. I)4.0
Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!4.0
Dinosaur Jr. I Bet on Sky3.5
Paper Route The Peace Of Wild Things2.5
Mount Eerie Ocean Roar3.5
The Chariot One Wing4.0
Yellowcard Southern Air3.0
Tigers on Trains Foundry4.0
mewithoutYou Other Stories4.0
Mount Eerie Clear Moon3.5
mewithoutYou Ten Stories4.5
Helios Moiety3.5
Death Grips The Money Store4.0
Shakey Graves Roll The Bones3.5
Geology The Neighboring Sea3.5
The Brave Little Abacus Okumay4.0
Burial Kindred4.5
Loma Prieta I.V.4.0

2011
Down I Go Gods4.5
Car Seat Headrest Twin Fantasy (Mirror to Mirror)4.0
Is it the chorus yet? No it is just the building of the verse. So when the chorus does come, it will be more rewarding
blink-182 Neighborhoods2.5
Kasabian Velociraptor!3.0
Three Trapped Tigers Route One or Die3.0
Giles Corey Giles Corey4.0
Sum 41 Screaming Bloody Murder2.0
Burial Street Halo4.0
Car Seat Headrest My Back Is Killing Me Baby3.5
flatsound i clung to you hoping we'd both drown4.0
Mogwai Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will3.0
The Hotelier It Never Goes Out3.5

2010
Jimmy Eat World Invented3.5
Women Public Strain5.0
Geology Three Birds3.5
The Brave Little Abacus Just Got Back from the Discomfort...5.0
The National High Violet4.5
Deftones Diamond Eyes4.0
Mimicking Birds Mimicking Birds4.5

2009
Built to Spill There Is No Enemy3.5
Sweet Trip You Will Never Know Why4.5
Brand New Daisy4.5
BATS Red In Tooth and Claw4.5
Tigers on Trains Grandfather4.5
Modest Mouse No One's First, and You're Next3.5
Mount Eerie Wind's Poem4.0
Touche Amore ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse4.0
Dinosaur Jr. Farm4.0
Kasabian West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum3.5
mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright!4.0
Paper Route Absence3.5
Snowing Fuck Your Emotional Bullshit3.0
Solar Fields Movements4.5
The Brave Little Abacus Masked Dancers4.5
Fall of Efrafa Inle4.5

2008
La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair 4.0
Mount Eerie Dawn4.0
Peter Broderick Home3.5
Mount Eerie Lost Wisdom4.0
Zebrahead Phoenix3.0
Mesa Verde The Old Road4.0
Paper Route Are We All Forgotten3.5
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes3.5
Hecq Night Falls4.0
Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness5.0
Lvmen Heron4.5
Off Minor Some Blood4.5
Practice Absence is just the perfect closer for this album and for Off Minor. At the end off all things....That build-up reminds me of Good Morning captain -> I miss You.
2007
Burial Untrue5.0
As Cities Burn Come Now Sleep4.5
Sum 41 Underclass Hero2.5
Yellowcard Paper Walls3.0
Kidcrash Jokes4.0
Burial Ghost Hardware4.0
The National Boxer4.0
The Angelic Process Weighing Souls With Sand4.5
Dinosaur Jr. Beyond4.0
Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank3.5
Panda Bear Person Pitch4.5
Hot Cross Risk Revival3.0

2006
Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me4.5
Joanna Newsom Ys4.0
Deftones Saturday Night Wrist3.5
mewithoutYou Brother, Sister5.0
Brother, Sister was the first mwY album I heard. Tried some songs, freaking hated it, dismissed the band, hated the vocal style, everything. Then I heard 'In a sweater poorly knit' some time later and decided it was a good song. Might as well try the whole album again. OMG how did I not realize this is fucking amazing. Perfect mix of post-hardcore and indie rock. Mindblowing lyrics, awesome vocals, awesome drumming, awesome guitars. I have become a total mwY fanboy. Passion. Poetry. This album man. No I am not religious.
Kasabian Empire3.0
Fear Before The Always Open Mouth4.5
The Veils Nux Vomica4.0
Ratatat Classics3.0
Helios Eingya4.5
Burial Burial4.0
Tool 10,000 Days4.0
Built to Spill You in Reverse3.5
Yellowcard Lights and Sounds2.5
Lvmen Mondo4.5

2005
Thrice Vheissu4.0
Why? Elephant Eyelash4.0
Mount Eerie No Flashlight3.5
The Offspring Greatest Hits4.0
Smog A River Ain't Too Much To Love3.5
Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World5.0
Amenra Mass III4.0
The National Alligator4.0
Funeral Diner The Underdark4.5
Bloc Party Silent Alarm3.5
Burial South London Boroughs3.5
Modern Life Is War Witness4.5

2004
Kasabian Kasabian4.0
ISIS Panopticon4.5
Jimmy Eat World Futures3.5
mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes5.0
Sum 41 Chuck3.5
Converge You Fail Me4.5
Arcade Fire Funeral4.0
Off Minor Innominate4.5
Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy5.0
La Quiete La fine non è la fine4.0
Hot Cross Fair Trades and Farewells4.0
Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News4.0
Helios Unomia3.5
Madvillain Madvillainy4.5
Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo5.0

2003
Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place4.0
Zebrahead MFZB3.5
Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism4.0
Bear vs. Shark Right Now You're in the Best of Hands4.0
Brand New Deja Entendu4.0
Sweet Trip Velocity : Design : Comfort5.0
Mogwai Happy Songs for Happy People4.0
Deftones Deftones3.5
Hot Cross Cryonics4.0
AFI Sing the Sorrow4.0
Cursive The Ugly Organ3.5
Magnolia Electric Co Magnolia Electric Co4.5
The Microphones Mount Eerie5.0
The follow-up to acclaimed album the Glow Pt. 2 might seem dissappointing at first, but the patient listener is rewarded.
Sleep Dopesmoker4.0
Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb4.0
Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe5.0
Yellowcard Ocean Avenue4.0

2002
Sum 41 Does This Look Infected?3.5
Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People4.0
Bad Astronaut Houston: We Have a Drinking Problem4.0
Hopesfall The Satellite Years4.5
Glassjaw Worship and Tribute4.5
Orchid Orchid5.0
mewithoutYou A to B: Life4.5
City of Caterpillar City of Caterpillar5.0
Songs: Ohia Didn't It Rain4.0
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Source Tags and Codes4.0
Boards of Canada Geogaddi4.0
Thrice The Illusion of Safety4.0
ISIS Oceanic4.5
Agalloch The Mantle4.5
Maximillian Colby Discography4.0
The Delgados Hate4.5
Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade4.5

2001
Shiner The Egg4.5
Brand New Your Favorite Weapon4.0
The Strokes Is This It4.0
Modest Mouse Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks3.5
The Microphones The Glow Pt. 25.0
Really depressing album. The Mansion gets me everytime.
Converge Jane Doe5.0
Bjork Vespertine4.0
Sparklehorse It's a Wonderful Life4.0
Jimmy Eat World Bleed American3.5
Built to Spill Ancient Melodies of the Future3.5
Lift to Experience The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads5.0
With bangers like 'Waiting to Hit' and Falling from Cloud 9 this album is something to behold. Opener and closer are great as well. Please check the recent remastering. Gets better upon listening to it more. But it is clear from the start that the drums are killer
pg.99 Document #84.0
blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket3.0
Sum 41 All Killer No Filler3.5
Tool Lateralus4.0
Cannibal Ox The Cold Vein4.5
cLOUDDEAD cLOUDDEAD5.0
Modest Mouse Sad Sappy Sucker2.5
Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You5.0
Even without this album Unwound has one of the most solid discographies ever. But yeah this exists and deserves nothing less than a 5. Brilliant album, lyrically and musically. I want a reunion.
Frodus And We Washed Our Weapons In The Sea4.0
Fugazi The Argument4.5
mewithoutYou I Never Said That I Was Brave3.0
Pig Destroyer Prowler in the Yard4.5
pg.99 Document #74.0

2000
Songs: Ohia Ghost Tropic4.0
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven4.5
Shotmaker The Complete Discography 1993-19964.5
The Microphones It Was Hot, We Stayed In The Water4.0
At the Drive-In Relationship of Command5.0
Deftones White Pony4.0
Cursive Domestica3.5
Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica5.0
Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP4.5
Broadcast The Noise Made by People4.0
Modest Mouse Building Nothing Out of Something4.5
Songs: Ohia The Lioness4.0
Lvmen Raison D'Etre4.0
Orchid Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow!4.5
pg.99 Document #54.0
Skycamefalling 10.214.0
NoMeansNo One4.0
Shellac 1000 Hurts4.0
Deltron 3030 Deltron 30304.5

1999
Dr. Dre 20014.0
The Dismemberment Plan Emergency & I4.5
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Madonna3.5
The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity4.5
American Football American Football4.0
The Microphones Don't Wake Me Up4.0
blink-182 Enema Of The State3.5
The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin4.0
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada4.5
Three 6 Mafia Underground Vol. 1: 1991-19944.0
Jimmy Eat World Clarity4.0
Eminem The Slim Shady LP4.5
Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret4.5
Smog Knock Knock4.0
Unwound A Single History: 1991-19974.0
Orchid Chaos is Me4.5
Deep Puddle Dynamics The Taste of Rain...Why Kneel?4.5

1998
Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come4.0
Soul Coughing El Oso4.0
Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children4.5
Death The Sound of Perseverance4.5
At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out4.0
Far Water & Solutions4.0
Sunhouse Crazy on the Weekend5.0
You can feel the pain of Gavin Clark while listening to this album. Truly an overlooked classic that hits very hard. Hard Sun has become one of my favourite songs of all time.

Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea4.5
Air Moon Safari4.0
Unwound Challenge For a Civilized Society4.0
Fugazi End Hits4.0
1997
Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West5.0
Deftones Around the Fur4.0
Bjork Homogenic4.0
Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞4.5
Modest Mouse The Fruit That Ate Itself4.0
Yo La Tengo I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One4.0
Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind4.0
Dinosaur Jr. Hand It Over3.5
Built to Spill Perfect from Now On5.0
Lync Remembering The Fireballs (part 8)4.0
Ween The Mollusk4.0
The Van Pelt Sultans of Sentiment3.0
Mogwai Young Team4.0

1996
Tool Ænima4.5
Weezer Pinkerton4.0
Modest Mouse Interstate 84.0
Alice in Chains MTV Unplugged4.5
Soul Coughing Irresistible Bliss3.5
Polvo Exploded Drawing4.0
Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About5.0
Neurosis Through Silver in Blood4.5
The Afghan Whigs Black Love4.5
DJ Shadow Endtroducing.....4.5
Unwound Repetition4.5
Corpse Pose... Corpse Pose. Most hypnotic bass line ever. Has some of their best: Lady Elect, For your Entertainment.
Shotmaker Mouse Ear [Forget-Me-Not]4.5
Portraits Of Past 010101014.0
Burzum Filosofem4.5

1995
GZA Liquid Swords4.5
The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness4.5
Deftones Adrenaline3.5
Unwound Unwound3.5
Three 6 Mafia Mystic Stylez4.0
Unwound The Future of What4.5
Underappreciated greatness by Unwound. Descension, Petals like bricks, Dissappoint, Swan are all classics and the whole album kicks ass.
Death Symbolic4.5
Archers of Loaf Vee Vee4.0
Quicksand Manic Compression4.0
Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler4.5
Boards of Canada Twoism4.0
Fugazi Red Medicine4.5
Palace Music Viva Last Blues4.0
Shotmaker/Maximillian Colby Split4.5
Shotmaker The Crayon Club4.5

1994
Soul Coughing Ruby Vroom4.0
Dinosaur Jr. Without a Sound3.5
Lync These Are Not Fall Colors4.5
Kyuss Welcome to Sky Valley4.5
Weezer Weezer4.0
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Let Love In4.5
Nas Illmatic4.5
The Offspring Smash4.0
Bedhead WhatFunLifeWas4.5
Unwound New Plastic Ideas5.0
This might be the best Unwound album after Leaves Turn Inside you. Good stuff
Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral4.5
Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II4.0
The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die4.5
Alice in Chains Jar of Flies4.5
Built to Spill There's Nothing Wrong with Love4.0
Drive Like Jehu Yank Crime4.5
Therapy? Troublegum4.5
Low I Could Live in Hope4.5
Sunny Day Real Estate Diary4.5
Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss4.0
Slint Slint3.5

1993
Archers of Loaf Icky Mettle4.5
A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders4.5
The Afghan Whigs Gentlemen4.5
The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream4.5
Catherine Wheel Chrome4.0
Fugazi In on the Kill Taker4.5
Death Individual Thought Patterns4.0
Bjork Debut4.0
NoMeansNo Why Do They Call Me Mr. Happy?4.0
Tool Undertow3.5
Dinosaur Jr. Where You Been4.0
Quicksand Slip4.5
Awesome album. Awesome riffs. This sounds like Tool, but not pretentious and without the overly long progressive crap. Head to Wall can never be too loud.
Unwound Fake Train4.5
You can't go wrong with Unwound. Contains one of the best songs ever: Valentine Card/Kantina/Were, are and was or is
Built to Spill Ultimate Alternative Wavers3.0
Moss Icon Lyburnum Wits End Liberation Fly4.5
Eric's Trip Love Tara4.0

1992
Dr. Dre The Chronic4.5
Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine4.5
R.E.M. Automatic for the People4.0
Alice in Chains Dirt4.5
Faith No More Angel Dust4.5
Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-924.5
The Offspring Ignition3.5
1991
My Bloody Valentine Loveless5.0
NoMeansNo 0 + 2 = 14.0
Death Human4.5
A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory4.5
Anacrusis Manic Impressions4.5
Dinosaur Jr. Green Mind4.0
Slint Spiderland5.0
Drive Like Jehu Drive Like Jehu4.0

1990
Megadeth Rust in Peace4.5
Sonic Youth Goo4.0
Naked City Naked City4.0
Death Spiritual Healing4.0
Fugazi Repeater4.5

1989
Operation Ivy Energy4.0
The Stone Roses The Stone Roses4.5
Slint Tweez3.0
Pixies Doolittle4.5
NoMeansNo Wrong4.5
Fugazi 13 Songs4.5

1988
Dinosaur Jr. Bug4.5
Sonic Youth Daydream Nation4.5
Death Leprosy4.5
Joy Division Substance4.5
Wire A Bell Is A Cup Until It Is Struck4.0
Not as good as the first 3 but really good nonetheless. Dreamy pop songs, Kidney Bingos is catchy as hell. Deserves at least a 4 rating. Genius band
Pixies Surfer Rosa4.5
NoMeansNo Small Parts Isolated and Destroyed4.0
1987
Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me5.0
The Smiths Strangeways, Here We Come4.5
Death Scream Bloody Gore3.5
The Smiths Louder Than Bombs4.5
Big Black Songs About Fucking4.5

1986
The Smiths The Queen Is Dead4.5
NoMeansNo Sex Mad4.0
Discharge Grave New World1.0

1985
The Smiths Meat Is Murder4.5
Dinosaur Jr. Dinosaur3.5
Amebix Arise!4.5

1984
The Smiths Hatful of Hollow4.5
Minutemen Double Nickels on the Dime4.5
The Smiths The Smiths4.5
The Replacements Let It Be4.0
Husker Du Zen Arcade4.5

1983
Wipers Over the Edge4.5
The Chameleons Script of the Bridge4.5

1982
Mission of Burma Vs.4.0
Discharge Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing4.5
Descendents Milo Goes to College4.5

1981
Joy Division Still4.0
This Heat Deceit5.0
Mission of Burma Signals, Calls, and Marches4.5
Gang of Four Solid Gold4.0
Wipers Youth of America4.5

1980
Talking Heads Remain in Light4.5
Joy Division Closer4.5
Wipers Is This Real?4.5
1979
Wire 1545.0
This Heat This Heat3.5
Talking Heads Fear of Music4.5
Joy Division Unknown Pleasures5.0
Gang of Four Entertainment!5.0

1978
Wire Chairs Missing4.5
Bruce Springsteen Darkness on the Edge of Town4.5
1977
Wire Pink Flag5.0
Talking Heads Talking Heads: 774.0
Television Marquee Moon4.5

1975
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here4.5
Hawkwind Warrior on the Edge of Time4.5
Bruce Springsteen Born to Run4.5

1974
Camel Mirage4.0

1973
Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon4.5

1971
Hawkwind In Search of Space4.5

1967
Leonard Cohen Songs of Leonard Cohen4.5
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