2007 |
Rivers Cuomo Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo | 3.5 |
Raine Maida The Hunters Lullaby | 4.0 |
Electric Wizard Witchcult Today | 4.0 |
Jesu Lifeline EP | 3.5 |
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 3.5 |
Radiohead In Rainbows | 4.0 |
Band of Horses Cease to Begin | 4.0 |
A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide | 4.5 |
Beirut The Flying Club Cup | 4.0 |
Ulver Shadows of the Sun | 4.5 |
Om Pilgrimage | 4.5 |
iLiKETRAiNS Elegies to Lessons Learnt | 3.5 |
The Weakerthans Reunion Tour | 4.5 |
While most bands would have released two or three albums in the time it took The Weakerthans to record Reunion Tour, this album was well worth the wait. The songs are simple, beautiful and flow together wonderfully creating the band's most cohesive album to date. Though the songs aren't as sharp as they were on Left and Leaving and there is no concept in sight (which made Reconstruction Site a wonderful album rather than a mere great one), Reunion Tour delivers with consistancy, passion, and songs that are meaningful, introspective and, most importantly, well written. Standouts: Hymn of the Medical Oddity, Tournament of Hearts, Virtute the Cat Explains her Departure, Bigfoot! and Utilities. |
Iron And Wine The Shepherd's Dog | 4.0 |
Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters | 4.5 |
Between the Buried and Me Colors | 4.5 |
High on Fire Death Is This Communion | 3.5 |
Vic Chesnutt North Star Deserter | 3.5 |
Film School Hideout | 3.0 |
Baroness Red Album | 4.0 |
Attack in Black Marriage | 3.5 |
Minus the Bear Planet of Ice | 2.5 |
Modern Life Is War Midnight in America | 3.5 |
Slightly Stoopid Chronchitis | 2.0 |
Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde | 4.5 |
Matthew Good Hospital Music | 4.5 |
Bomb the Music Industry! Get Warmer | 4.0 |
Interpol Our Love to Admire | 3.5 |
The Smashing Pumpkins Zeitgeist | 3.0 |
Against Me! New Wave | 3.0 |
Bad Religion New Maps of Hell | 3.5 |
Library Tapes Höstluft | 3.0 |
The Ghost is Dancing Album Name | 3.5 |
The White Stripes Icky Thump | 3.0 |
Strung Out Blackhawks Over Los Angeles | 4.0 |
Neurosis Given to the Rising | 4.0 |
Niobe White Hats | 3.5 |
Wilco Sky Blue Sky | 3.0 |
Elliott Smith New Moon | 4.0 |
Manic Street Preachers Send Away The Tigers | 4.0 |
Frog Eyes Tears of the Valedictorian | 4.0 |
Feist The Reminder | 3.0 |
Dinosaur Jr. Beyond | 4.0 |
Ensiferum Victory Songs | 3.5 |
Nine Inch Nails Year Zero | 2.5 |
Patti Smith Twelve | 3.5 |
Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet | 4.5 |
Bright Eyes Cassadaga | 2.5 |
Caspian The Four Trees | 4.0 |
Clutch From Beale Street to Oblivion | 4.0 |
Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank | 2.5 |
Low Drums and Guns | 4.0 |
Big D and the Kids Table Strictly Rude | 4.0 |
Arcade Fire Neon Bible | 3.5 |
Hot Cross Risk Revival | 4.0 |
Jesu Conqueror | 4.0 |
Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone | 3.5 |
Eluvium Copia | 4.0 |
Do Make Say Think You, You're a History in Rust | 4.5 |
Swallow the Sun Hope | 4.0 |
Deerhunter Cryptograms | 2.5 |
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Some Loud Thunder | 3.5 |
The Shins Wincing the Night Away | 3.5 |
2005 |
Shakira Oral Fixation Vol. 2 | 3.5 |
System of a Down Hypnotize | 4.0 |
Alexisonfire/Moneen The Switcheroo Series | 2.0 |
Interpol Remix EP | 2.5 |
Bush Zen x Four (DVD & CD) | 3.0 |
City and Colour Sometimes | 3.0 |
Death From Above 1979 Romance Bloody Romance | 2.5 |
Animal Collective Feels | 2.5 |
Propagandhi Potemkin City Limits | 4.0 |
Sunn O))) Black One | 4.0 |
Thrice Vheissu | 3.5 |
Bomb the Music Industry! To Leave or Die in Long Island | 4.0 |
Audioslave Live in Cuba | 1.5 |
Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene | 4.5 |
DangerDoom The Mouse And The Mask | 3.5 |
Explosions in the Sky The Rescue | 3.0 |
Swallow the Sun Ghosts of Loss | 3.5 |
Metric Live It Out | 2.0 |
My Morning Jacket Z | 3.5 |
Fiona Apple Extraordinary Machine | 4.0 |
Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better | 3.5 |
Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary | 4.0 |
The Dead 60s The Dead 60s | 4.0 |
Matthew Good Band In A Coma: 1995-2005 | 3.0 |
Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 3.5 |
Switchfoot Nothing is Sound | 2.0 |
Sigur Ros Takk... | 4.5 |
Paul McCartney Chaos and Creation in the Backyard | 3.0 |
Against Me! Searching for a Former Clarity | 4.0 |
Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 4.0 |
Earth Hex: Or Printing In the Infernal Method | 4.0 |
The Rolling Stones A Bigger Bang | 1.0 |
Jets Overhead Bridges | 2.0 |
Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie | 2.5 |
Our Lady Peace Healthy In Paranoid Times | 4.0 |
Death Cab for Cutie Plans | 2.5 |
Kanye West Late Registration | 3.5 |
Opeth Ghost Reveries | 3.5 |
Protest the Hero Kezia | 2.0 |
ZOX The Wait | 4.0 |
The Go! Team Thunder, Lightning, Strike [US Reissue] | 4.0 |
The Suicide Machines War Profiteering Is Killing Us All | 3.0 |
Silverstein Discovering the Waterfront | 2.0 |
Editors The Back Room | 3.0 |
The Fall of Troy Doppelganger | 2.0 |
Soundtrack (Film) Garden State | 3.5 |
Death Cab for Cutie Drive Well, Sleep Carefully (DVD) | 4.5 |
Boys Night Out TrainWreck | 2.0 |
The Most Serene Republic Underwater Cinematographer | 3.0 |
Hiretsukan End States | 3.5 |
Ulver Blood Inside | 3.5 |
Clutch Pitchfork & Lost Needles | 3.0 |
The Planet Smashers Unstoppable | 3.5 |
Sufjan Stevens Illinois | 4.0 |
Hard-Fi Stars Of CCTV | 3.5 |
Megadeth Greatest Hits: Back to the Start | 2.0 |
dredg Catch Without Arms | 3.5 |
The Lawrence Arms Cocktails and Dreams | 4.0 |
Engineers Engineers | 3.0 |
William Patrick Corgan TheFutureEmbrace | 3.0 |
Foo Fighters In Your Honor | 2.5 |
The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan | 2.5 |
Coldplay X&Y | 3.0 |
Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... | 3.5 |
Oasis Don't Believe the Truth | 2.5 |
Amusement Parks On Fire Amusement Parks On Fire | 3.5 |
Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree | 3.0 |
Audioslave Out of Exile | 2.0 |
Gorillaz Demon Days | 4.5 |
At the Drive-In This Station Is Non-Operational | 3.5 |
Stephen Malkmus Face the Truth | 3.5 |
System of a Down Mezmerize | 2.5 |
Weezer Make Believe | 1.5 |
Matt Mays + El Torpedo Matt Mays + El Torpedo | 3.5 |
For sheer spirit-lifting rock music, this is a great listen. Perfect for travelling, breakups, or when you just need a song to sing along to, this alt-country album is sure to be a good help. |
Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World | 4.0 |
They Might Be Giants A User's Guide to They Might Be Giants | 3.5 |
Nine Inch Nails With Teeth | 2.5 |
A very dissapointing album. Trent Reznor brings down the gloom-n-doom art rock that heavily inhabited The Fragile and replaces it with mediocre head bangers such as "The Hand That Feeds" and "You Know What You Are?". Still, Reznor knows how to make a good tune, as shown on "Every Day is Exactly The Same", but in the end this is a very dissapointing album that leans more towards radio-rock than industrial music. |
Alcest Le Secret | 3.5 |
Ben Folds Songs for Silverman | 4.0 |
Porcupine Tree Deadwing | 3.5 |
Jaga Jazzist What We Must | 4.5 |
Slightly Stoopid Closer To The Sun | 4.0 |
Millencolin Kingwood | 4.0 |
Clutch Robot Hive/Exodus | 3.5 |
Beck Guero | 3.5 |
Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze | 2.0 |
ZZZZ Palm Reader | 3.0 |
Jack Johnson In Between Dreams | 2.0 |
Eluvium Talk Amongst the Trees | 3.5 |
Armor For Sleep What To Do When You Are Dead | 2.0 |
Gym Class Heroes The Papercut Chronicles | 3.0 |
The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 4.5 |
Bloc Party Silent Alarm | 3.0 |
God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright | 3.5 |
Bomb the Music Industry! Album Minus Band | 4.5 |
High on Fire Blessed Black Wings | 3.5 |
Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning | 3.0 |
Bright Eyes Digital Ash in a Digital Urn | 2.0 |
Low The Great Destroyer | 3.5 |
Neverending White Lights Act 1: Goodbye Friends of the Heavenly Bodies | 4.0 |
People In Planes People in Planes EP | 3.5 |
D.O.A. War And Peace | 2.5 |
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | 3.5 |
Welkin Strangers & Exiles | 4.0 |
2004 |
Incubus (USA-CA) Alive at Red Rocks | 3.0 |
Nirvana With the Lights Out | 2.5 |
U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb | 2.0 |
MF DOOM MM.. Food | 3.5 |
A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe | 2.5 |
Death From Above 1979 You're a Woman, I'm a Machine | 2.5 |
Jakalope It Dreams | 3.0 |
Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA's Desert | 4.0 |
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus | 4.5 |
Ray Charles Ray Original Soundtrack | 4.0 |
Elliott Smith From a Basement on the Hill | 4.0 |
ISIS Panopticon | 4.5 |
Jimmy Eat World Futures | 2.5 |
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists Shake The Sheets | 3.5 |
Cult of Luna Salvation | 4.0 |
Jesu Jesu | 4.0 |
Interpol Antics | 3.5 |
Social Distortion Sex, Love and Rock 'n' Roll | 4.0 |
The Used In Love and Death | 1.5 |
Green Day American Idiot | 2.5 |
k-os Joyful Rebellion | 4.5 |
The Music Welcome To The North | 2.0 |
Arcade Fire Funeral | 4.5 |
Megadeth The System Has Failed | 1.0 |
Tegan and Sara So Jealous | 2.5 |
Mastodon Leviathan | 4.0 |
Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture | 3.0 |
The Tragically Hip In Between Evolution | 3.5 |
Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm | 4.0 |
The Cure The Cure | 3.5 |
Sun of the Sleepless/Nachtmahr Sun of the Sleepless/Nachtmahr Split | 4.0 |
The Killers Hot Fuss | 2.5 |
Seether Disclaimer II | 2.0 |
Bad Religion The Empire Strikes First | 4.0 |
Velvet Revolver Contraband | 1.0 |
Alexisonfire Watch Out! | 2.0 |
Bedouin Soundclash Sounding a Mosaic | 4.5 |
Feist Let It Die | 3.0 |
Morrissey You Are the Quarry | 4.0 |
Eluvium An Accidental Memory in the Case of Death | 3.5 |
Clutch Blast Tyrant | 4.5 |
Patti Smith Trampin' | 4.0 |
A Wilhelm Scream Mute Print | 4.0 |
Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News | 3.0 |
Wilco A Ghost Is Born | 4.5 |
Secret Machines The Road Leads Where It's Led EP | 3.5 |
Youth Group Skeleton Jar | 4.5 |
Iron And Wine Our Endless Numbered Days | 4.0 |
Descendents Cool to Be You | 3.5 |
Madvillain Madvillainy | 4.0 |
Slightly Stoopid Acoustic Roots: Live & Direct | 4.0 |
Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand | 4.0 |
Weezer The Blue Album (Deluxe Edition) | 4.0 |
Max Richter The Blue Notebooks | 4.0 |
Tantric After We Go | 1.0 |
Orphaned Land Mabool (The Story of the Three Sons...) | 4.5 |
Incubus (USA-CA) A Crow Left of the Murder... | 4.0 |
Lostprophets Start Something | 3.5 |
Matthew Good White Light Rock & Roll Review | 3.5 |
Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 4.5 |
Secret Machines Now Here is Nowhere | 4.0 |
The Vines Winning Days | 4.0 |
Mono Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined | 4.0 |
Amazingly dense and slow moving, Mono's second album comes up with eight songs clocking in at an hour. While somewhat amateurish for most Post Rock bands, Mono have studied the sounds of Mogwai and Sigur Ros and truly created a work of passion for the genre. From the 10 minute opener to the achingly poignant Lost Snow, the band know their limits and play them just right. An incredibly deep and thoughtful listen, this is an album no fan of the genre should pass on. |
The Go! Team Thunder, Lightning, Strike | 4.0 |
Sonic Youth Sonic Nurse | 4.5 |
Probot Probot | 2.5 |
The Streets A Grand Don't Come For Free | 4.0 |
A Day In Black And White My Heroes Have Always Killed Cowboys | 4.0 |