| 2020 |
| Akhlys Melinoe | 4.0 |
| Yashira Fail To Be | 4.0 |
| Black Wing No Moon | 4.5 |
| god damn i am stoked for this. i gave up on any new material a long time ago. |
| Poppy A Very Poppy Christmas | 3.5 |
| Shores of Null Beyond the Shores (On Death and Dying) | 3.5 |
| Within the Ruins Black Heart | 4.0 |
| Our Oceans While Time Disappears | 4.0 |
| Coletta Idealism | 4.0 |
| Palm Reader Sleepless | 4.5 |
| Killer Be Killed Reluctant Hero | 2.5 |
| Liturgy Origin of the Alimonies | 2.5 |
| Bearings (CAN) Hello, It's You | 3.0 |
| Lindstrom and Prins Thomas III | 3.0 |
| Generic electronic that you might hear on the edgier weather channels. |
| Dark Tranquillity Moment | 3.5 |
| Soft Kill Dead Kids R.I.P. City | 4.0 |
| Seahaven Halo of Hurt | 4.0 |
| Tired Lion Breakfast for Pathetics | 4.5 |
| so this is pretty good, surprised this has no review already |
| The Cribs Night Network | 4.5 |
| Shygirl ALIAS | 4.5 |
| Public Memory Ripped Apparition | 4.5 |
| Bilmuri Eggy Pocket | 4.5 |
| Lunatic Soul Through Shaded Woods | 3.0 |
| Goodie Mob Survival Kit | 3.0 |
| Lambchop TRIP | 3.5 |
| Mitochondrial Sun Sju Pulsarer | 3.5 |
| Dysphoria Primal Entropy | 4.0 |
| Pyramaze Epitaph | 4.0 |
| Jesu Terminus | 4.0 |
| Dark Buddha Rising Mathreyata | 4.5 |
| Unseen Faith Evoke | 4.5 |
| Aera Cura Perpetual Nothingness | 4.5 |
| Spieglass None Shall Gather | 3.5 |
| The Casket Lottery Short Songs For End Times | 4.5 |
| Yukon Blonde Vindicator | 4.0 |
| VCTMS and Falsifier Misery In Death | 4.0 |
| Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou May Our Chambers Be Full | 4.5 |
| The Wytches Three Mile Ditch | 4.5 |
| Leaves' Eyes The Last Viking | 2.0 |
| Laura Veirs My Echo | 3.5 |
| Sevendust Blood and Stone | 4.0 |
| Everything in Slow Motion Influence | 4.5 |
| HEALTH DISCO4 :: Part I | 4.5 |
| Domestic Terminal I Could See Midnight Sky | 4.0 |
| Cardijum Cardijum | 4.0 |
| Babirusa Humanoid | 4.5 |
| The Bunny The Bear Afterglow | 4.0 |
| Crippled Black Phoenix Ellengaest | 4.5 |
| 156/Silence Irrational Pull | 4.0 |
| SUMAC May You Be Held | 3.0 |
| Teenanger Good Time | 3.5 |
| Jonsi Shiver | 4.0 |
| Anaal Nathrakh Endarkenment | 4.0 |
| Eartheater Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin | 4.0 |
| Woodes Crystal Ball | 4.5 |
| Svalbard When I Die, Will I Get Better? | 4.0 |
| The Reticent The Oubliette | 4.0 |
| Anna von Hausswolff All Thoughts Fly | 4.5 |
| Deftones Ohms | 4.5 |
| David Thompson The Wall | 3.5 |
| The Ocean Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic | 4.5 |
| Fleet Foxes Shore | 3.5 |
| Into It. Over It. Figure | 3.0 |
| Fit for a King The Path | 4.0 |
| Iress Flaw | 4.5 |
| Rogue Aeon | 4.5 |
| Electric Callboy MMXX | 4.0 |
| Corps Fleur Corps Fleur | 4.5 |
| Elysian Fields Transience of Life | 3.0 |
| The Pineapple Thief Versions of the Truth | 4.5 |
| Powerman 5000 The Noble Rot | 2.0 |
| Blake Rules Day Drinking In The Kiddie Pool | 3.5 |
| Ulver Flowers of Evil | 4.0 |
| this is blackternative rock |
| Widowspeak Plum | 4.0 |
| Volatile Ways Condemned to Life, Burdened to Death | 4.0 |
| Zella Day Where Does The Devil Hide | 4.5 |
| Bright Eyes Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was | 4.5 |
| Young Jesus Welcome to Conceptual Beach | 2.5 |
| Havukruunu Uinuos Syömein Sota | 3.5 |
| Ingested Where Only Gods May Tread | 4.0 |
| Emuness Open Wounds | 4.0 |
| The Microphones Microphones in 2020 | 3.0 |
| Tkay Maidza Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 2 | 3.5 |
| Black Crown Initiate Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape | 4.0 |
| Orbit Culture Nija | 4.0 |
| Good Tiger Raised in a Doomsday Cult | 4.0 |
| Anni Rossi House of Rossi (Mixtape) | 2.0 |
| Hockey Dad Brain Candy | 3.0 |
| Imperial Triumphant Alphaville | 4.0 |
| Land Of Talk Indistinct Conversations | 4.0 |
| Madeline Kenney Sucker's Lunch | 4.5 |
| Vein.fm Old Data in a New Machine, Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
| Blaqk Audio Beneath the Black Palms (Side A) | 2.5 |
| Defeated Sanity The Sanguinary Impetus | 2.0 |
| Quite a tedious listen. Never could get into this. |
| Haken Virus | 3.5 |
| Mikau PHANTOMa | 3.5 |
| Gaerea Limbo | 4.0 |
| The Acacia Strain Slow Decay | 4.0 |
| Taylor Swift Folklore | 4.0 |
| katie dey Mydata | 4.0 |
| Liza Anne Bad Vacation | 4.0 |
| Morphiend Fiend | 4.0 |
| Lianne La Havas Lianne La Havas | 2.5 |
| Protomartyr Ultimate Success Today | 3.5 |
| Arca KiCk i | 3.5 |
| Amarionette [US] Sunset On This Generation | 3.5 |
| If I Were You Radiant Dark | 4.0 |
| Illuminati Hotties FREE I.H: This Is Not the One... | 4.0 |
| Vespera A Fragile Seed | 4.0 |
| On Hollow Ground Blood Is Blood | 4.5 |
| Ways Away Ways Away | 5.0 |
| Synovial Songs of Silver | 5.0 |
Genius guitar work, great lyrics verging on conversationally written prose. It's heavy as
fuck in the right moments, killer vocals. Beautiful, unpredictable melodies that just make
sense, great energy all around.
Very progressive, heavy metalcore. |
| Entropy (AU) Denouement | 4.5 |
| Jared Dines Shred Feast | 3.0 |
| Inter Arma Garbers Days Revisited | 3.5 |
| My Morning Jacket The Waterfall II | 3.5 |
| Modern Color From The Leaves Of Your Garden | 4.0 |
| Static-X Project Regeneration Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
| Julianna Barwick Healing Is a Miracle | 4.0 |
| The Beths Jump Rope Gazers | 4.0 |
| Aseitas False Peace | 4.5 |
| Rufus Wainwright Unfollow The Rules | 5.0 |
| Spieglass Suddenly There's Something | 4.0 |
| Confound The Mighty Sustained Collapse | 4.5 |
| Boris NO | 3.5 |
| Phoxjaw Royal Swan | 4.5 |
| A.A. Williams Forever Blue | 5.0 |
| Malcontent Embodiment | 4.0 |
| Rot (ITA) The Black Pill | 4.5 |
| Nadine Shah Kitchen Sink | 3.0 |
| Relies too heavily on recycled loops to stay interesting. |
| Neptunian Maximalism Eons | 3.0 |
| Paysage d'Hiver Im Wald | 4.0 |
| Descend The Deviant | 4.0 |
| Young Ejecta Ride Lonesome | 4.0 |
| Emmure Hindsight | 4.5 |
| Bell Witch and Aerial Ruin Stygian Bough Volume 1 | 4.5 |
| this album was a good destresser for me today... bumping to 4.5 |
| Hum Inlet | 4.5 |
| Sweam Lounge Music for Cat People | 4.0 |
| Kars Landman Clouds | 1.5 |
| Trapt Shadow Work | 2.0 |
| I've heard worse. |
| Braids Shadow Offering | 2.0 |
| I can't believe this album happened like this. Why is Braids trying to sound like Ani Defranco? |
| Neil Young Homegrown | 2.5 |
| Protest the Hero Palimpsest | 3.5 |
| Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways | 3.5 |
| Jessie Ware What's Your Pleasure? | 3.5 |
| Nuvolascura As We Suffer From Memory and Imagination | 3.5 |
| Make Them Suffer How to Survive a Funeral | 4.0 |
| This album is going to 3.8 so hard. |
| Phoebe Bridgers Punisher | 4.0 |
| Hollow Front Loose Threads | 4.0 |
| Preseija Reclaim Your Mind | 4.0 |
| Hail Spirit Noir Eden In Reverse | 4.5 |
| Eye of Nix Ligeia | 4.5 |
shit this gon' be gud
edit: shit was gud |
| Teen Idle Insomniac Dreams | 3.5 |
| Prison of Mirrors (ITA) De Ritualibus et Sacrificiis ad Serviendum Abysso | 3.5 |
| The Sounds The Things We Do For Love | 2.0 |
| Aversions Crown Hell Will Come For Us All | 4.0 |
| Ulthar Providence | 4.0 |
| Gia Margaret Mia Gargaret | 4.0 |
| Thomas Azier Love, Disorderly | 4.5 |
| The Alpha Structure 7 Deadly Sins | 4.0 |
| Darko (US) Dethmask, Pt. 1 | 4.0 |
| Armand Hammer Shrines | 3.0 |
| strong raps against chill beats, a little jarring for me |
| The Ghost Inside The Ghost Inside | 3.5 |
| Emery White Line Fever | 4.0 |
| Currents The Way It Ends | 4.0 |
| Covet technicolor | 4.0 |
| END (USA-NJ) Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face | 4.5 |
| Ebonivory The Long Dream I | 4.5 |
| Keleketla! Keleketla! | 3.5 |
| Run the Jewels RTJ4 | 4.0 |
| Behemoth A Forest | 3.0 |
| Xibalba Años En Infierno | 3.5 |
| Alukah Descending | 3.5 |
| Winters Howl Instinctive | 3.5 |
| Carach Angren Franckensteina Strataemontanus | 4.0 |
| Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist Alfredo | 4.0 |
| Album title could have been Marionetti. Missed opportunity. |
| Robot Koch The Next Billion Years | 4.0 |
| The Ruins Of Beverast / Almyrkvi Almyrkvi / The Ruins Of Beverast (Split) | 4.5 |
| Habitual Gloom The Chronic Plague | 4.5 |
| Nicole Atkins Italian Ice | 4.5 |
| Rannoch Reflections Upon Darkness | 4.5 |
| This album stayed hard for like four hours, was about to call a nurse. |
| Old Man Gloom Seminar IX: Darkness of Being | 4.0 |
| Donny Benet Mr. Experience | 4.0 |
| Caligula's Horse Rise Radiant | 4.0 |
| Esoctrilihum Eternity Of Shaog | 4.0 |
| Mountaineer Bloodletting | 4.5 |
| Old Man Gloom Seminar VIII: Light Of Meaning | 4.0 |
| Jeff Rosenstock NO DREAM | 4.5 |
This album really started out weak, but fuck me if it isn't a roller coaster that never
drops. I'm at the end of this spin like I just coasted off into space. |
| alas, Farewell 3am bells | 4.0 |
| Jason Isbell Reunions | 2.5 |
| Charli XCX How I'm Feeling Now | 2.5 |
| A Lapse of Ethos The Cannibal Spirit | 2.5 |
| Perfume Genius Set My Heart On Fire Immediately | 3.0 |
| Consumer Death Proposal Don't Touch That Dial Now... | 3.0 |
| Paradise Lost Obsidian | 3.5 |
| Berried Alive Fuego | 4.0 |
| Duality (FR) Elements | 4.0 |
| Declan McKenna Zeros | 4.5 |
| Infant Island Beneath | 4.5 |
| Jess Williamson Sorceress | 4.5 |
| Godcaster Long Haired Locusts | 2.0 |
| Kardashev The Baring of Shadows | 4.5 |
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| Winterfylleth The Reckoning Dawn | 3.5 |
| ...and Oceans Cosmic World Mother | 3.5 |
| Blake Rules Artistic Genius | 3.5 |
| Gleemer Down Through | 4.0 |
| Odraza Rzeczom | 4.0 |
| Forming the Void Reverie | 4.0 |
| Hayley Williams Petals for Armor | 4.5 |
| Brigid Mae Power Head Above the Water | 3.5 |
| Cryptic Shift Visitations from Enceladus | 4.0 |
| Days N Daze Show Me The Blueprints. | 2.5 |
| Car Seat Headrest Making a Door Less Open | 3.0 |
| Johanna Warren Chaotic Good | 3.0 |
| Spieglass Genera | 3.5 |
| Cosmic Putrefaction The Horizons Towards Which Splendour Withers | 4.0 |
| Austra HiRUDiN | 4.0 |
| Before The Common Era Anthropologic | 4.0 |
| O'Brother You and I | 4.5 |
| Elita Blood Sucker | 4.5 |
| Ever Eden Illumine | 5.0 |
| Karmacipher Introspectrum | 4.0 |
| In Gloom In Gloom | 4.5 |
| Ashen (US-NJ) Dead Silence | 4.5 |
| King Witch Body of Light | 1.5 |
| Trivium What the Dead Men Say | 3.0 |
| Black Curse Endless Wound | 3.0 |
| Allelic À Contre Vent | 3.5 |
| Kailee Morgue Here In Your Bedroom | 3.5 |
| Hazel English Wake Up | 4.0 |
| Katatonia City Burials | 4.0 |
| Elder (USA-MA) Omens | 4.0 |
| Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still | 4.0 |
| I Am Abomination Passion Of The Heist II | 4.0 |
| The Stygian Complex Tartarus | 4.0 |
| North (BRA) Hermeneutics II | 4.0 |
| Elephant Tree Habits | 4.5 |
| Resistance (ES) Checkmate | 3.5 |
| Before I Turn Lovelorn: Moon | 5.0 |
| The Azimuth Beholder | 3.0 |
| Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters | 3.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Verminous | 3.5 |
| Funeral Leech Death Meditation | 3.5 |
| Foes (US-OR) American Violence | 3.5 |
| Enter Shikari Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible | 4.0 |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Mestarin Kynsi | 4.0 |
| pulses. Speak It Into Existence | 4.0 |
| Divitius Primordial | 4.0 |
| Lilac Kings Desolation | Desperation | 4.0 |
| Nord (FRA) The Only Way To Reach The Surface | 4.0 |
| Vermicide Violence The Praxis of Prophylaxis | 4.5 |
| Infant Island Sepulcher | 4.5 |
| Before We Burn Hostage | 4.0 |
| Vexatious Odium | 4.0 |
| Veninspectre Enter, Serenity | 2.5 |
| Jonny Craig Find Your Home | 2.5 |
| Kingsmen Revenge. Forgiveness. Recovery. | 2.5 |
| Nightwish HUMAN. :II: NATURE. | 3.0 |
| Sparta Trust the River | 3.5 |
| Dream On Dreamer What If I Told You It Doesn't Get Better | 3.5 |
| The Strokes The New Abnormal | 4.0 |
| Wolfheart Wolves of Karelia | 4.0 |
| Why Bonnie Voice Box | 4.0 |
| Local H Lifers | 4.0 |
| Calligram The Eye Is the First Circle | 4.0 |
| Vasudeva Generator | 4.0 |
| By the Thousands Dead Matter | 4.0 |
| Azusa Loop of Yesterdays | 4.5 |
| High Priestess Casting the Circle | 4.5 |
| Bladee Exeter | 2.0 |
| Eat the Day The Demos | 4.0 |
| Bilmuri Muri and Friends | 2.5 |
| Marked As An Enemy Fire Find Me | 3.5 |
| Full Bloom Black Lung | 4.5 |
| Breakdowns At Tiffany's Eternal Lords | 3.5 |
| Galactic Mechanics The Ominous Quadrant | 3.5 |
| Surrender The Throne Surrender The Throne | 4.5 |
| Birthright Daydream | 2.0 |
| August Burns Red Guardians | 3.0 |
| Dropout Kings GlitchGang | 3.0 |
| Testament Titans of Creation | 3.5 |
| Beyond Unbroken Running Out of Time | 3.5 |
| Forndom Faþir | 3.5 |
| Peach Pit You and Your Friends | 3.5 |
| Purity Ring Womb | 4.0 |
| Yves Tumor Heaven To A Tortured Mind | 4.0 |
| Pure Reason Revolution Eupnea | 4.0 |
| Ellis Born Again | 4.0 |
| After Hour Animals After Hour Animals OG | 4.0 |
| Designer Disguise Nowhere | 4.0 |
| Cabal (DK) Drag Me Down | 4.5 |
| We Are Chapters One Last Goodbye | 2.0 |
| Yaeji What We Drew | 3.5 |
| Primal Aggression Sinister | 4.0 |
| Consequence (PT) Collapsed Home | 3.5 |
| Without Belief The Parting Gift | 4.0 |
| LEM Twelve Who Stole The Rain | 4.0 |
| Martin Grech Hush Mortal Core | 4.5 |
| Chasing Whisper Phantom Pain | 3.5 |
| Mamaleek Come and See | 1.5 |
i think mamaleek is the epitome of cult black metal, being the most abrasive possible listen that
can still display talent and song structure. maybe it isn't meant to be enjoyable, and maybe i'm
missing the point here. in any case, yuck. |
| In This Moment Mother | 2.0 |
Three shitty covers and two pointless interludes. With the exception of two or three decent songs,
most of the album is just boring.
The lyrics don't really make sense in a bunch of the songs. In the song Legacy, Maria talks about
setting someone free who might never return, who she is also a part of, who is already free
apparently. I can't tell if she's mixing metaphors, or if she just didn't think it through.
"If I set you free, will you promise me I will see you again?
I will walk with you till both of our feet bleed
Cause we are one, we run free
I am you and you are me"
I hope someone is working on a review for this, though. I'd like to see some more opinions. |
| Pearl Jam Gigaton | 3.0 |
| Waxahatchee Saint Cloud | 3.0 |
| Delacey Black Coffee | 3.0 |
| Teksuo Endless | 3.0 |
| We Struck Gold All Life Is Divine | 3.0 |
| Igorrr Spirituality and Distortion | 3.5 |
| Aeternam Al Qassam | 3.5 |
| Warp Chamber Implements of Excruciation | 3.5 |
| Makari Alternate EP | 3.5 |
| Ardra Unto Leviathan | 3.5 |
| Temple of Void The World That Was | 4.0 |
| Dua Lipa Future Nostalgia | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Ghosts VI: Locusts | 4.0 |
| cavetown Sleepyhead | 4.0 |
| Alchemists Chapter One: Love | 4.0 |
| Wake Devouring Ruin | 4.5 |
| Holy shit. This is good. Was not expecting a sludgy evolution. |
| Sorry 925 | 4.5 |
| Spotlights We Are All Atomic | 4.5 |
| Lamp of Murmuur The Burning Spears Of Crimson Agony | 2.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Ghosts V: Together | 4.0 |
| Errance Fracture | 4.0 |
| The Polarity Gutterball | 4.5 |
| Childish Gambino 03.15.20 | 4.0 |
| Kelsea Ballerini kelsea | 1.5 |
| successful country created with trite lyrics and formulaic melodies. some of the lyrics don't make sense, especially when they're reaching for a rhyme. this is pretty common practice for this genre, but still disappointing. i can see this album going over pretty well for its targeted demographic, due to its catchy hooks and catered subject matter. overall, it's not impressive, but also i dislike it on a personal level. |
| Sweven (SWE) The Eternal Resonance | 2.0 |
| It's that local cover band everyone loved that decided to write something original. I can almost hear the arguments in the garage during the songwriting process. |
| Sematary Rainbow Bridge 2 | 2.0 |
| The Weeknd After Hours | 2.5 |
| Escape The Madness Drown My Faith | 3.0 |
| Never Prey Gnozis | 3.0 |
| The Oblyvion Amygdala | 3.0 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Of Truth and Sacrifice | 3.5 |
| Myrkur Folkesange | 3.5 |
| Should have renamed the band. This is just too different. |
| Oceans Beneath Us Decimation of Humanity | 3.5 |
| Blake Rules and Lil Indigo The Dream Team, Vol. 1 | 3.5 |
| TOKiMONSTA Oasis Nocturno | 4.0 |
Great sound samples, mixing, atmosphere. The tracks featuring guest vocalists don't feel like a
gimmick. It feels like the songs were written in conjunction with the vocalists, and with their
skills in mind. "Fried for the Night" is a perfect example of this, with EARTHGANG being
incorporated so flawlessly, one might assume they are part of TOKiMONSTA. |
| Ovid's Withering Terraphage | 4.0 |
| Empty Country Empty Country | 4.5 |
| After Hour Animals Remember This | 4.5 |
| Dalex Modo Avión | 1.5 |
| Vox autotuned beyond recognition, beats less substantial than white bread. The beats sound like they would normally be used for a salsa dance track, but they're placed in such a way that it's not engaging, and it's just a bit too slow to dance to. So this is like... Chill Salsa. When Dalex slows it down even further into a ballad in track 6, it feels more like a showcase for the vocals. Which, again, are autotuned. There's nothing here beyond a sweet album cover. |
| J Balvin Colores | 2.5 |
| Serpent Column Endless Detainment | 2.5 |
| Feminazgul No Dawn for Men | 3.5 |
| Die Antwoord House of Zef | 3.0 |
| It wasn't too bad. Wish Ninja wouldn't brag about his song spitting quality during the worst vocal rhythm he's ever produced. |
| Hillside Verity | 4.5 |
| Smoulder Dream Quest Ends | 1.5 |
| Afterbirth Four Dimensional Flesh | 3.0 |
| WhatDrivesTheWeak Lightbringer | 3.0 |
| Dogleg Melee | 3.5 |
| Bury the Rod Crisis | 3.5 |
| Code Orange Underneath | 4.0 |
| Spectral Lore and Mare Cognitum Wanderers: Astrology of the Nine | 4.0 |
| Invent Animate Greyview | 4.0 |
| JFDR New Dreams | 4.0 |
| Burden of Life The Makeshift Conqueror | 4.5 |
| Caitlyn Smith Supernova | 4.5 |
| Sunquake Amaranthe | 4.5 |
| Boneflower Armour | 4.0 |
| Eyexist Celebrated Chaos | 3.5 |
| Omni Express Florida Man | 4.0 |
| Apeiro Nexus | 3.0 |
| Honey Harper Starmaker | 3.0 |
| Elyne Art of Being Human | 3.0 |
| Aseul Slow Dance | 3.5 |
| Vredehammer Viperous | 4.0 |
| Earth Rot Black Tides of Obscurity | 4.0 |
| Snarls Burst | 4.0 |
| R.A.P. Ferreira purple moonlight pages | 4.0 |
| Psychonaut Unfold the God Man | 4.5 |
| Viscera (UK) Obsidian | 4.5 |
| Goddamn brutal, wonderful atmospheric elements, good unclean vocals, and clean vocals that actually contribute to the heavy feel. Nothing necessarily new, but it's done so well, and it's refreshingly engaging. |
| Distorted Visions Born Dead | 2.5 |
| Heartless (CA) II | 3.0 |
| The New Reign For the Blackest of Hearts | 3.0 |
| FLYINGDICK Оплодотворение | 4.0 |
| lol |
| Violet Cold Noir Kid | 4.0 |
| Spieglass Dull Haunt | 4.0 |
| Monolith (UK-England) No Saints No Solace | 4.0 |
| Goodbye To Sleep The Pain In Parting | 2.5 |
| Terrible production quality, but solid songs throughout. Vocals could use some work in areas but are successful in the softer execution. |
| Intronaut Fluid Existential Inversions | 4.0 |
| Regarde Les Hommes Tomber Ascension | 4.0 |
| Dark Fortress Spectres from the Old World | 4.0 |
| Internal Rot Grieving Birth | 4.0 |
| Christine and the Queens La vita nuova | 4.0 |
| Fluisteraars Bloem | 4.5 |
| Drown (US) Subaqueous | 4.5 |
| Slift Ummon | 4.5 |
| The Undercover Dream Lovers It's All In Your Head | 4.5 |
| Crystalview Distant Lights: Solstice | 4.0 |
| The Motion Mosaic Avant-Garbage | 3.5 |
| Death Of A Poet Tragedies | 4.0 |
| InTechnicolour Big Sleeper | 2.5 |
| The vocal mixing/recording is so glaringly terrible that it ruins the album. Imagine visiting a museum to find someone has spray-painted dicks on all the paintings. Admiring the creation can only go so far before all you can see is a big dick staring back at you. |
| Sortout Conquer From Within | 3.0 |
| The Amity Affliction Everyone Loves You... Once You Leave Them | 3.5 |
| Like Bridges We Burn Periscope Eyes | 3.5 |
| Grimes Miss Anthropocene | 4.0 |
| Wilsen Ruiner | 4.0 |
| Lowrider Refractions | 4.0 |
| Invocation (CL) Attunement to Death | 4.0 |
| Satyr Locus | 4.0 |
| Agnes Obel Myopia | 4.5 |
| Xenobiotic Mordrake | 4.5 |
| Mourir Animal Bouffe Animal | 4.5 |
| A Night Like This Your Colours Will Show | 4.5 |
| Introvert Mending Breaking | 5.0 |
| Omerta Hyperviolence | 2.0 |
| Cult Of Fire Nirvana | 3.5 |
| Reflections Willow | 4.0 |
| Cult Of Fire Moksha | 4.0 |
| Toby Driver and Nick Hudson Black Feather Under Your Tongue | 2.0 |
Toby doesn't need help writing music. And he certainly doesn't need a vocalist mimicking a
pelican swallowing a bullfrog. |
| Space Of Variations XXXXX | 4.0 |
| Primo Nothing Hides Under the Sun | 3.5 |
| Shadow Witch Under The Shadow Of A Witch | 2.5 |
| Sanity Slip Submerged in Pain | 2.5 |
| Justin Bieber Changes | 3.0 |
| Gavin Crump Vivification | 3.0 |
| Suicide Silence Become The Hunter | 3.5 |
| Psychotic Waltz The God-Shaped Void | 4.0 |
| Hotel Mira Perfectionism | 4.0 |
| Spanish Love Songs Brave Faces Everyone | 2.5 |
| The End of an Age Recurrence | 2.5 |
| Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats Unlocked | 3.0 |
| King of Swords The Wolf You Feed | 3.0 |
| A.A.L. (Against All Logic) 2017-2019 | 3.5 |
| Envy The Fallen Crimson | 4.0 |
| Loathe I Let It In And It Took Everything | 4.0 |
| Krosis A Memoir of Free Will | 4.0 |
| Hayley Williams Petals For Armor I | 4.5 |
| Nightmare Puppy Nara Nara Voltsong For Shower | 4.0 |
| Salem Burning Revelations | 4.5 |
| Victims (CZ) Lorn Echoes | 4.0 |
| Today Is the Day No Good To Anyone | 1.5 |
| Lorna Shore Immortal | 3.0 |
| Panopticon/Nechochwen Panopticon / Nechochwen | 4.0 |
| White Gangster Fly | 2.5 |
| NGHTCRWLR HiSeq_Let The Children Scream | 4.0 |
| Tricot Makkuro | 4.0 |
| Nero di Marte Immoto | 3.5 |
| Silent Planet The Night God Slept (Redux) | 4.0 |
| Thy Catafalque Naiv | 4.5 |
| Stella (GR) The Break | 4.5 |
| Higher Power 27 Miles Underwater | 4.0 |
| REOL Kinjitou | 2.5 |
| Veninspectre Caving In | 3.0 |
| Mac Miller Circles | 3.0 |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead X: The Godless Void and Other Stories | 4.0 |
| Utro Утро | 4.0 |
| Holy Fawn The Black Moon | 4.5 |
| Sallow Moth The Larval Hope | 3.0 |
| Musta Köksä Mustan Köksän Disko | 4.5 |
| The Big Moon Walking Like We Do | 4.0 |
| Lotus Thief Oresteia | 4.5 |
| Poppy I Disagree | 5.0 |
| Almost perfect but suffers a bit from too much try-harding. |
| Bodysnatcher This Heavy Void | 4.0 |
| Forsaker My Spot in the Void | 4.0 |
| 2019 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Music to Listen to... | 1.5 |
| Spieglass Long Lives For Bad People | 4.0 |
| Reasoning Reflections Samsara | 3.5 |
| Toby Driver N.G.H.4.M. | 5.0 |
| I originally thought this would be a single off an upcoming album, but now I'm doooone believing. |
| Xurl Deity | 2.5 |
| Roddy Ricch Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial | 2.0 |
| Camila Cabello Romance | 2.5 |
| ANIMAL The Witch (Deluxe) | 3.5 |
| Kitsune Nothing makes me happy anymore | 4.5 |
| Down to Insanity Ce Qu'il Reste | 4.5 |
| As Earth Shatters Fragments | 4.0 |
| Classic Jack Can You Feel Anything | 4.0 |
| 24kGoldn DROPPED OUTTA COLLEGE | 2.0 |
| Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race | 3.5 |
| Dead/Awake Dead/Awake | 4.0 |
| Hikes Mahal Kita | 4.0 |
| What We Do in Secret Repose | 4.0 |
| Sleep Token Sundowning | 2.5 |
| Benee Stella & Steve | 3.5 |
| Emily Jane White Immanent Fire | 4.5 |
| so fucking excited for this album. only the one single on spotify so far |
| Sematary Rainbow Bridge | 2.5 |
| Slow (BE) VI – Dantalion | 4.0 |
| Doja Cat Hot Pink | 3.5 |
| Royal Coda Compassion | 4.0 |
| Prompts Magenta Smile | 4.0 |
| Turnover Altogether | 3.5 |
| Electric Callboy Rehab | 3.5 |
| Counterparts Nothing Left to Love | 4.0 |
| Frail Body A Brief Memoriam | 4.0 |
| Hive (USA-IL) The Mirthless Kind | 4.0 |
| Shrine Of Malice Sheol | 4.5 |
| Rings of Saturn Gidim | 3.0 |
| Bendik Det går bra | 3.0 |
| Alcest Spiritual Instinct | 3.5 |
| Night Flowers Fortune Teller | 3.5 |
| Norma Jean All Hail | 4.0 |
| Leprous Pitfalls | 4.0 |
| Thornhill The Dark Pool | 4.0 |
| Malaise (US) Death Do Us Part | 4.0 |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Sea of Tragic Beasts | 4.5 |
| Anna Of The North Dream Girl | 4.5 |
| Yeule Serotonin II | 4.5 |
| Sam Pinkerton Ceiling | 4.5 |
| The Great Old Ones Cosmicism | 4.0 |
| Caroline Polachek Pang | 3.0 |
| Teitanblood The Baneful Choir | 3.5 |
| Darknet Morally Flexible | 4.0 |
| From Indian Lakes Dimly Lit | 4.5 |
| Holy Serpent Endless | 4.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada The Act | 2.0 |
| I actually love this style of music, but I hate this album. Sounds awful. The songs suck. |
| Thousand Below Gone in Your Wake | 2.5 |
| Blut Aus Nord Hallucinogen | 3.0 |
| Signs Of The Swarm Vital Deprivation | 3.5 |
| Varials In Darkness | 3.5 |
| Gideon Out of Control | 3.5 |
| Shadow Limb Burn Scar | 3.5 |
| Toothgrinder I Am | 4.0 |
| Blake Rules and Netherfriends Kids Trap 14 | 4.0 |
| Fleshworld The Essence Has Changed, but the Details Remain | 4.5 |
| LEMOLO Swansea | 5.0 |
| Angel Olsen All Mirrors | 4.0 |
| Insomnium Heart Like a Grave | 4.5 |
| Car Bomb Mordial | 3.0 |
| Kadinja DNA | 4.0 |
| ah, nostalgia. it's actually quite impressive how much the vocalist sounds like some of the original artists. the korn and limp bizkit songs are perfect examples of this. |
| Empyreal Vault Empyreal Vault | 4.0 |
| SeeYouSpaceCowboy The Correlation Between Entrance And Exit Wounds | 4.5 |
| Above, Below The Lotus Chapters | 4.5 |
| INSTILL TERROR Prophet of Resent | 4.5 |
| a deathcore breakdown, start to finish. parts were so slow and brutal it literally brought a smile to my face. |
| Karmic Demise Svart | 4.5 |
| Spieglass Light Years | 4.0 |
| Douaumont Chironex Fleckeri | 3.0 |
| Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear | 4.0 |
| Pangaea (USA) Vespr | 4.0 |
| Fawning Too Late | 4.0 |
| M83 DSVII | 4.5 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Wild Gods | 4.5 |
| White Ward Love Exchange Failure | 4.5 |
| Slayyyter Slayyyter | 3.5 |
| Puddle of Mudd Welcome to Galvania | 2.0 |
| Cold The Things We Can't Stop | 3.0 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Birth of Violence | 4.0 |
| Dead Neanderthals Ghosts | 4.0 |
| Pine Pine | 4.0 |
| Microwave Death is a Warm Blanket | 5.0 |
| Errance II | 4.5 |
| Empty Hope and The Loss of It | 4.0 |
| Kayo Dot Blasphemy | 4.5 |
| Materia (PL) The Rising | 3.5 |
| Mgla Age of Excuse | 4.0 |
| Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell! | 4.0 |
| We Struck Gold To Conquer A Fear | 3.5 |
| Wage War Pressure | 4.0 |
| Taylor Swift Lover | 4.0 |
| Gamma Sector Sanctum of Vivisection | 3.0 |
| Shadow Of Intent Melancholy | 4.0 |
| Pijn and Conjurer Curse These Metal Hands | 4.0 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Infest the Rats' Nest | 2.5 |
| The Comet Is Coming Trust in the Lifeforce of Deep Mystery | 4.5 |
| Unprocessed Artificial Void | 4.0 |
| The Contortionist Our Bones | 4.5 |
| Marika Hackman Any Human Friend | 4.5 |
| Losing Language In Truth and Trust | 4.5 |
| Northlane Alien | 4.5 |
| Humanity's Last Breath Abyssal | 4.5 |
| Sanguisugabogg Pornographic Seizures | 3.5 |
| ANIMAL and Still_bloom Group Therapy | 4.0 |
| Black Passage The Veil | 5.0 |
| PRINCESSBRI Little Baby B!tch | 4.5 |
| Iggy Azalea In My Defense | 3.0 |
| Lingua Ignota Caligula | 3.5 |
| Yung Skrrt Dumbass Genius | 2.0 |
| Banks III | 3.0 |
| Oh, Sleeper Bloodied/Unbowed | 4.0 |
| Ashnikko Hi, It's Me | 4.0 |
| Blacks0n Cry for Inspiration | 4.0 |
| Brand of Sacrifice God Hand | 4.5 |
| Phoxjaw A Playground For Sad Adults | 4.5 |
| He Is Legend White Bat | 4.5 |
| The Appleseed Cast The Fleeting Light of Impermanence | 4.5 |
| Poppy Choke | 5.0 |
| Weeping Hour Hunger and Thirst | 4.5 |
| Lunar Vacation The Lunar Vacation EPs | 4.5 |
| Lil Nas X 7 | 2.0 |
| The Raconteurs Help Us Stranger | 3.0 |
| Mc Tha Rito de Passá | 3.0 |
| Hatchie Keepsake | 4.0 |
| State Faults Clairvoyant | 4.0 |
| Crumb (USA-NY) Jinx | 4.0 |
| Detest (UK) Human Scum | 4.0 |
| Pelican Nighttime Stories | 4.0 |
| As Cities Burn Scream Through the Walls | 4.0 |
| Heartist Sleep | 4.0 |
| Cave In Final Transmission | 4.5 |
| Dekadent The Nemean Ordeal | 4.5 |
| Heart of a Coward The Disconnect | 4.5 |
| Spieglass Patience | 4.5 |
| Miley Cyrus She Is Coming | 2.5 |
| AngelMaker AngelMaker | 4.0 |
| Cursed Earth The Deathbed Sessions | 4.5 |
| The Gloom in The Corner Flesh & Bones | 4.0 |
| Replacer Pretentious Pain | 4.0 |
| Loser Never Young | 4.5 |
| Rendezvous Point Universal Chaos | 4.5 |
| Zheani Satanic Prostitute | 3.5 |
| Lewis Capaldi Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent | 1.5 |
| Hate his pronunciations. His vocal volume to instrumental volume is extremely jarring, to the extent that it physically bothers me. Songs lack anything really memorable. Dislike this album. The only thing keeping it from a 1 is the fact that it's too forgettable to hate it more. |
| Vale of Pnath Accursed | 4.0 |
| Diamond Construct Diamond Construct | 4.5 |
| God Of Nothing Cruel By Nature | 4.5 |
| Warforged I: Voice | 3.5 |
| Mellow Gang Adjourn | 4.5 |
| N'Zwaa Maha Kali | 4.5 |
| Lashing Out The Corner $hop | 3.5 |
| In The Burial Lamentations: Of Deceit & Redemption | 4.0 |
| Top-notch vocals, both screams and clean. Melodic portions are stronger than the heavier portions of the album. |
| New Years Day Unbreakable | 3.0 |
| Otoboke Beaver Itekoma Hits | 4.0 |
| Spotlights Love and Decay | 4.5 |
| Spiritbox Singles Collection | 5.0 |
| Spieglass Mostly Valleys | 3.5 |
| Alpha Wolf Fault | 3.5 |
| Blood Command Return of the Arsonist | 4.0 |
| Anna Tivel The Question | 4.0 |
| Bilmuri Wet Milk | 4.0 |
| Rrussell Bell Like-a-Human | 4.5 |
| Numenorean Adore | 4.0 |
| Secret Band LP2 | 4.5 |
| Fleshburner DeathDealer | 4.5 |
| Enterprise Earth Luciferous | 4.5 |
| Latitudes Part Island | 4.5 |
| Moon Tooth Crux | 3.0 |
| A Wake in Providence The Blvck Sun || The Blood Moon | 3.5 |
| Lotus Eater (UK) Social Hazard | 4.0 |
| Lotus Eater Social Hazard | 4.0 |
| Old Wharf Reside | 4.0 |
| Whitechapel The Valley | 4.5 |
| Billie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? | 4.5 |
| Ultar Pantheon MMXIX | 4.5 |
| Owel Paris | 5.0 |
| This album is a collection of perfect singles. Its lulling beauty and catchy melodies and radio-friendliness make me question why they aren't as popular as other bands like Coldplay or Oasis. Might be my AOTY. |
| Windwaker Empire | 4.5 |
| Idiot Pilot Blue Blood | 4.0 |
| Zheani The Line | 3.5 |
| Holding Absence Holding Absence | 4.0 |
| Spieglass Astral Canvas | 4.0 |
| To Whom It May The Great Filter | 4.5 |
| Hate Priest Hate Priest | 4.0 |
| In Flames I, the Mask | 3.5 |
| Casavettes Senselessness | 4.5 |
| Ghost Iris Apple of Discord | 4.0 |
| Boundaries My Body in Bloom | 4.0 |
| Rogue Anomaly | 4.0 |
| Noiseast Dead Languages | 4.5 |
| InVisions Between You & Me | 5.0 |
| Solid. Vocalist has like 5 different screams with impressive clean singing as well. Listening to album on repeat which is rare for me. |
| Florida Georgia Line Can't Say I Ain't Country | 1.0 |
| Violet Cold kOsmik | 4.5 |
| Salem Burning Pagan Moon | 4.5 |
| Still_Bloom Melancholia | 3.5 |
| Year of the Knife Ultimate Aggression | 3.0 |
| HEALTH VOL. 4 :: SLAVES OF FEAR | 4.5 |
| The Stygian Complex The Stygian Complex | 4.0 |
| Equaleft We Defy | 3.0 |
| Vocal production quality seems low, but it could just be stylistic choice. The portions that include thrash-style guitar are very off-putting. Doesn't jive well, for me, with the progressive death metal sound. Having said that, it's a pretty good album otherwise. |
| The Western Den A Light Left On | 3.5 |
| Backstreet Boys DNA | 3.0 |
| Deep Cut Different Planet | 4.0 |
| Swallow the Sun When a Shadow Is Forced into the Light | 4.5 |
| My Own Shiva Holograms | 4.0 |
| Surfaces Where the Light Is | 3.0 |
| Shrezzers Relationships | 4.0 |
*don't say brazzers, don't say brazzers, don't say brazzers*
Have you heard the new Brazzers album?
*fuck* |
| 2017 |
| Eye of Nix Black Somnia | 4.0 |
| For All Eternity The Will to Rebuild | 4.5 |
| Glassjaw Material Control | 4.0 |
| Icarus the Owl Rearm Circuits | 4.5 |
| Tyler Bates The Punisher (Original Soundtrack) | 4.0 |
| Taylor Swift Reputation | 3.0 |
| Eluvium Shuffle Drones | 3.5 |
| Toothgrinder Phantom Amour | 4.5 |
| Mexican Institute of Sound Disco Popular | 4.5 |
| Fun and catchy in an almost cheesy way. The melodies are classic. |
| Marty Ray Project Mixed Emotions | 2.5 |
| Yaeji EP2 | 4.5 |
| Polaris The Mortal Coil | 4.5 |
| Winds of Plague Blood of My Enemy | 3.5 |
| Strong effort, solid songs. Hooks are hooky. Only criticism is sometimes the vocalist doesn't seem credible. His energy doesn't match his lyrics. |
| Kardashev The Almanac | 4.0 |
| Major Parkinson Blackbox | 5.0 |
| Spiritbox Spiritbox | 5.0 |
| Blut Aus Nord Deus Salutis Meae | 4.5 |
| Noija Colorblind | 3.0 |
| YUC'e Future Cαke | 3.5 |
| St. Vincent Masseduction | 4.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nightbringers | 4.0 |
| Poppy Poppy.Computer | 4.5 |
| blis. No One Loves You | 4.5 |
| Reptaliens FM-2030 | 4.5 |
| alas, Farewell you're not left | 4.0 |
| Monolord Rust | 3.0 |
| Anna Tivel Small Believer | 5.0 |
| Kauan Kaiho | 4.0 |
| Sufferer Sufferer | 4.0 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Hiss Spun | 4.5 |
| Archspire Relentless Mutation | 4.5 |
| Falsifier World Demise | 4.5 |
| Circa Survive The Amulet | 5.0 |
| Prophets of Rage Prophets of Rage | 3.0 |
| Our Lives In Cinema Our Lives In Cinema | 3.5 |
| Rostam Half-Light | 4.5 |
| Vattnet Vattnet | 4.5 |
| The Contortionist Clairvoyant | 5.0 |
| Myrkur Mareridt | 5.0 |
| Tori Amos Native Invader | 3.0 |
| Anna Of The North Lovers | 5.0 |
| Lotte Kestner Off White | 5.0 |
| Leprous Malina | 4.0 |
| Turnover Good Nature | 4.0 |
| Berried Alive Fools Gold | 4.5 |
| Agency Resist | 2.0 |
| Thy Art Is Murder Dear Desolation | 4.5 |
| Brand New Science Fiction | 4.5 |
| Rain Check Things Change | 3.5 |
| Hundred Suns The Prestaliis | 5.0 |
| Hell (USA) Hell | 4.5 |
| Lana Del Rey Lust For Life | 3.0 |
| Bedouine Bedouine | 4.0 |
| In This Moment Ritual | 3.0 |
| Declan McKenna What Do You Think About The Car? | 5.0 |
| this album gets better every time i listen to it. it's hard to find catchy songs in this lackadaisical style. |
| Asad Ahmed Rebirth | 3.5 |
| Shroud Eater Strike the Sun | 4.0 |
| Lorde Melodrama | 3.0 |
| Others By No One Book I: Dr. Breacher | 4.5 |
| the official music video is undesirable. i recommend checking it out for a laugh. |
| Katy Perry Witness | 3.0 |
| Panda Riot Infinity Maps | 4.0 |
| Cigarettes After Sex Cigarettes After Sex | 4.5 |
| '68 Two Parts Viper | 4.0 |
| Eidola To Speak, to Listen | 4.0 |
| Drewsif Stalin's Musical Endeavors Anhedonia | 3.5 |
| Drain Age and Marion East End Sessions | 1.0 |
| Divitius The Arcadian Parallel | 4.5 |
| Obscure Of Acacia The Biggest Lie | 4.5 |
| The Mountain Goats Goths | 3.0 |
Much overrated. Profusely pretentious. The first song I actually enjoy quite a bit with its atmosphere and mood,
then it goes into some sort of hipster coffee shop recycled cookie cutter bullcrap. It exudes an unearned air of
confidence whilst spitting intentional rhymes of the same repeated word. Name-drops of hipster locales, self-
professed ideology and style, and modest bragging are just a few of its facades of superiority. I'm not falling for
it. Adding jazz and rhythm-defying lyrics for a stroke to the ego is bad. As Linkin Park once said, "got a DJ in
your group just for credibility." This is that same shit on a different day. Don't get me wrong, though. In the face
of the music's glaring character, this album is good. It's just not that good. This album is good. It's just not that
good. This album is good. It's just not that good. |
| Land Of Talk Life After Youth | 4.5 |
| Paramore After Laughter | 4.5 |
| Ulsect Ulsect | 4.5 |
| Perfume Genius No Shape | 3.5 |
| Fazerdaze Morningside | 4.5 |
| Oumou Sangare Mogoya | 3.5 |
| american poetry club glad to be here, etcetera | 3.0 |
| He Is Legend few | 5.0 |
| Blood Command Cult Drugs | 4.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) 8 | 2.0 |
| Mina Alali Something About Her | 2.5 |
| Not terrible, but lacking any hook. The songs are predictable, the instrument and electronic choices are dated as well as cheesy. Wasn't worth the time to listen. |
| Artificial Brain Infrared Horizon | 4.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar DAMN. | 3.0 |
| Blake Rules and Netherfriends Kids Trap | 3.5 |
| Ulver The Assassination of Julius Caesar | 5.0 |
| You'll Never Get to Heaven Images | 4.0 |
| Demon Hunter Outlive | 4.5 |
| Mount Eerie A Crow Looked At Me | 4.0 |
| Northlane Mesmer | 5.0 |
| Heaven In Her Arms White Halo | 4.0 |
| Polygon Woods Post Space | 4.0 |
| Sorority Noise You're Not As ____ As You Think | 5.0 |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Great Collapse | 5.0 |
| Abyss Walker The Consumed | 4.0 |
| Emmure Look At Yourself | 4.5 |
| Suicide Silence Suicide Silence | 2.5 |
| Keiichi Okabe Nier Automata OST | 4.0 |
| Eisley I'm Only Dreaming | 3.5 |
| Red Helen Trading Past For Pathways | 4.0 |
| The Great Old Ones EOD: A Tale of Dark Legacy | 4.0 |
| Devilish Dear These Sunny Days | 4.5 |
| Drab Majesty The Demonstration | 4.0 |
| Aversions Crown Xenocide | 5.0 |
| Code Orange Forever | 5.0 |
| Circa Survive B-Sides | 5.0 |
| Pink Guy Pink Season | 4.0 |
| Earth Groans Renovate | 4.0 |
| 2015 |
| 1914 Eschatology of War | 4.0 |
| Novelists Souvenirs | 4.5 |
| Grimes Art Angels | 4.5 |
| Kardashev Peripety | 4.5 |
| Chris Black Investigator | 3.0 |
| Sea Ghost SG | 4.0 |
| Kauan Sorni Nai | 4.0 |
| Cult Leader Lightless Walk | 3.0 |
| Beach House Thank Your Lucky Stars | 4.0 |
| The Plot In You Happiness in Self Destruction | 4.5 |
| Kylesa Exhausting Fire | 4.0 |
| Elza Soares A mulher do fim do mundo | 4.0 |
| Black Wing ...Is Doomed | 4.5 |
| Lana Del Rey Honeymoon | 4.0 |
| Reflections The Color Clear | 4.0 |
| Le Butcherettes A Raw Youth | 4.0 |
| Tahlhoff Garten This Title Is Self-Referential | 2.5 |
| Decent-sounding ambient noise. It might be useful for some time or place, like sleep or meditative trance. |
| Beirut No No No | 3.0 |
The album title says it all:
Can I have some solid catchy songs?
No.
How about some interesting harmonies?
No.
Well I'm sure it still has an awesome mariachi feel to it, right?
No. You can have some predictable vocals and a bit of trumpet. Quit begging. Fine. Here, have some
keyboards. |
| The Dear Hunter Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise | 4.5 |
| Black Tongue The Unconquerable Dark | 4.5 |
| Rob Thomas The Great Unknown | 2.5 |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion | 4.0 |
| Stories (AUS) The Youth to Become | 4.5 |
| Agent Fresco Destrier | 4.0 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Abyss | 5.0 |
| Future DS2 | 2.0 |
| Highly Suspect Mister Asylum | 4.0 |
| Makari Ghost Stories | 3.5 |
| Khemmis Absolution | 3.5 |
| Vattnet Settler | 3.5 |
| mewithoutYou Pale Horses | 4.0 |
| MewithoutYou have really settled down and become comfortable in this style of theirs. Pale Horses is their first album since their entry A-->B Life where they seem uninterested in impressing their intellectual peers. It's their only album that seems entirely confident in itself. Having said that, is it their best album yet? No. It's really good, though. It's not exciting by any means, and lacks any groundbreaking elements. It is, however, immediately palatable and effortlessly enjoyable. The emotional aspects of the album are glass-house revealing while the lyrics are cryptic as ever. The simplicity of the song structures and melodies work to an advantage, making it a solid listen start to finish. There's nothing unexpected here. No risks, no losses. It's a flawless testament to who they are as a band. As a side note, I would actually recommend this album first to someone who has never heard the band. |
| Nights Like These Old Youth Culture | 4.5 |
| Nadine Shah Fast Food | 2.5 |
| God dammit, why did this album have to suck? I was looking forward to this for quite some time... But all the songs sound the same, and each individual song sounds the same the whole way through. It's like acoustic drone music. And it doesn't work. No substance at all. |
| Zella Day Kicker | 3.5 |
| Liza Anne Two | 5.0 |
| Before I Turn The Virus | 4.0 |
| Braids Deep In The Iris | 3.0 |
| Constrobuz Game Lord | 3.5 |
| Incredibly impressive for what it is. Would have been fucking sweet to have this on an original gameboy game. |
| Halestorm Into the Wild Life | 2.0 |
| Dekadent Veritas | 4.0 |
| Orgy Talk Sick | 3.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly | 3.0 |
| Disasterpeace It Follows OST | 4.0 |
| Jeff Rosenstock We Cool? | 3.5 |
| The White Birch The Weight of Spring | 3.5 |
| All That Remains The Order of Things | 2.5 |
| Where was I when these fuckers turned into Theory Of A Deadman? In all honesty, this album isn't as bad as everyone claims. I wouldn't go so far as to say it's good... But if you're a hick nu-metal fan, this album might actually appeal to you. |
| Sam Pinkerton A Story in Parts | 5.0 |
| Mount Eerie Sauna | 4.0 |
| Snow Ghosts A Wrecking | 4.0 |
| Callisto Secret Youth | 5.0 |
| Pinkshinyultrablast Everything Else Matters | 4.0 |
| Holly Miranda Holly Miranda | 4.0 |
Not quite as "magical" as her previous album... But still, Holly Miranda continues (and succeeds) with her unique
catchy tranquility. |
| 2010 |
| Freezepop Imaginary Friends | 3.5 |
| Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession | 4.5 |
| The Chariot Long Live | 4.0 |
| My Chemical Romance Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys | 3.5 |
| Maybe they were planning a tour with Good Charlotte. Anyway, I actually like this album more than Black Parade. It probably shows less talent and is less note-worthy, but it's more enjoyable. |
| Gypsy and the Cat Gilgamesh | 4.5 |
| Underoath Ø (Disambiguation) | 4.5 |
| Senses Fail The Fire | 4.0 |
| Athletics Why Aren't I Home? | 4.0 |
| Chiodos Illuminaudio | 4.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It... | 4.5 |
| Almost gave it a 4 due to the fact that I skip tracks 6, 7, 8, and 10. But if I close my eyes, forget those songs exist, and pretend it's an EP... what a great album! |
| Cough Ritual Abuse | 4.0 |
| Dimmu Borgir Abrahadabra | 4.0 |
| U.S. Christmas Run Thick In The Night | 4.0 |
| Tides of Man Dreamhouse | 3.0 |
| Land Of Talk Cloak and Cipher | 5.0 |
| My Ruin Ghosts and Good Stories | 3.0 |
| Conditions Fluorescent Youth | 4.0 |
| The Soundcarriers Celeste | 4.0 |
| 36 Crazyfists Collisions and Castaways | 3.5 |
| The Soldier Thread In Spades | 5.0 |
| Norma Jean Meridional | 4.5 |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak | 3.5 |
| The American Dollar Ambient Two | 4.0 |
| The Pineapple Thief Someone Here Is Missing | 4.0 |
| Uffie Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans | 2.5 |
| Attack Attack! Attack Attack! | 3.5 |
| Sea of Bees Songs for the Ravens | 5.0 |
| The Divine Comedy Bang Goes The Knighthood | 4.5 |
| Holy Fuck Latin | 4.0 |
| UNKLE Where Did The Night Fall | 4.0 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 4.5 |
| Author and Punisher Drone Machines | 4.5 |
| Young Heretics We Are The Lost Loves | 5.0 |
| Year of No Light Ausserwelt | 4.5 |
| Caribou Swim | 3.5 |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise | 4.5 |
| Sarah Jaffe Suburban Nature | 4.0 |
| Don't miss the last song on the album, "Perfect Plan." |
| Secret And Whisper Teenage Fantasy | 5.0 |
| PM Today In Medias Res | 5.0 |
| Jonsi Go | 4.5 |
| The Blood of Heroes The Blood Of Heroes | 4.0 |
| Social Siberia Waterworks | 2.5 |
| Six Gallery Breakthroughs in Modern Art | 4.0 |
| Rufus Wainwright All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu | 4.0 |
| Broken Bells Broken Bells | 4.0 |
| Eluvium Similes | 4.0 |
| Efterklang Magic Chairs | 4.0 |
| Holly Miranda The Magician's Private Library | 5.0 |
| The Album Leaf A Chorus Of Storytellers | 2.0 |
| The glitchy portions of the album literally hurt my ears, and the rest of the album has poor instrument choice. There is decent melody, but that's not difficult with this style of music. |
| FACT In the Blink of an Eye | 3.5 |
| The Ouija Birds The Ouija Birds | 4.5 |
| Beach House Teen Dream | 3.5 |
| Galleons (UK) Swans | 3.5 |
| Hope Diamond Old Salt | 5.0 |
| Haunting vocals, chilling emotion. Cold and beautiful. |
| Cruel Black Dove The Myth and the Sum | 4.0 |
| Anni Rossi Heavy Meadow | 3.5 |
| Anni Rossi really reeled herself in for this album, right on the cusp of her predecessor, Rockwell. It was a smart move, making these songs more approachable and less abrasive. But with only one hit song, Crushing Limbs, and a couple others even worth mentioning, this album relies on Anni's charming voice and instantly likable new style to complete a full album. It works, actually, but it also leaves much to be desired. |
| Andorra Atkins Augenlied | 4.0 |
| Clever Girl No Drum And Bass in the Jazz Room | 4.0 |
