| 2007 |
| Jonny Greenwood There Will Be Blood OST | 4.0 |
| Burial Untrue | 4.0 |
| Rocket Surgery Rocket Surgery | 3.5 |
| Annuals Frelen Mas (Be He Me B-Sides) | 3.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Notes from the Past | 3.0 |
| By The End Of Tonight/Tera Melos Complex Full of Phantoms | 3.5 |
| Say Anything In Defense of the Genre | 4.5 |
| Holy Fuck LP | 3.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 3.5 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 4.0 |
| She Wants Revenge This is Forever | 2.0 |
| Beirut The Flying Club Cup | 4.0 |
| All Time Low So Wrong, It's Right | 2.5 |
| Capgun Coup Brought to You by Nebraskafish | 3.0 |
| Magik Markers BOSS | 3.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters | 4.0 |
| Thurston Moore Trees Outside the Academy | 3.5 |
| HEALTH Health | 4.0 |
| Equus Observing the Moon | 3.5 |
| The Go! Team Proof of Youth | 3.5 |
| Animal Collective Strawberry Jam | 4.5 |
| Picastro Whore Luck | 4.0 |
| Japanther Skuffed Up My Huffy | 4.0 |
| Pre Epic Fits | 3.5 |
| Liars Liars | 4.0 |
| No Age Weirdo Rippers | 4.5 |
| Aiden Conviction | 2.0 |
| M.I.A. Kala | 4.0 |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice | 4.0 |
| Modern Life Is War Midnight in America | 3.0 |
| Ghastly City Sleep Ghastly City Sleep | 4.0 |
| UNKLE War Stories | 3.5 |
| Interpol Our Love to Admire | 3.5 |
| St. Vincent Marry Me | 3.5 |
| Against Me! New Wave | 3.0 |
| Justice †| 3.5 |
| Kidcrash Jokes | 4.0 |
| Pharoahe Monch Desire | 4.0 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Is Is | 3.0 |
| Equus Transmissions | 3.0 |
| Straylight Run The Needles, The Space | 3.5 |
| Videohippos Unbeast the Leash | 3.5 |
| Daniel Striped Tiger Capital Cities | 3.5 |
| Paramore Riot! | 3.5 |
| Tonight is Goodbye Birds and the Bees EP | 1.5 |
| The National Boxer | 3.5 |
| Wilco Sky Blue Sky | 3.5 |
| Battles Mirrored | 4.0 |
| The Clientele God Save the Clientele | 3.0 |
| Dan Deacon Spiderman of the Rings | 4.0 |
| Dinosaur Jr. Beyond | 3.5 |
| Frog Eyes Tears of the Valedictorian | 3.5 |
| PlayRadioPlay! Frequency | 2.0 |
| Benefit Friends Count Everest | 4.0 |
| Joanna Newsom Joanna Newsom and the Ys Street Band | 4.5 |
| Avey Tare and Kria Brekkan Pullhair Rubeye | 3.5 |
| Dntel Dumb Luck | 3.5 |
| Aa GAame | 4.0 |
| CocoRosie The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillbo | 3.5 |
| Blonde Redhead 23 | 3.5 |
| Bright Eyes Cassadaga | 3.0 |
| Timbaland Timbaland Presents Shock Value | 3.0 |
| The Twilight Sad Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters | 3.5 |
| Fields Everything Last Winter | 3.5 |
| Klaxons Myths of the Near Future | 3.5 |
| shh... this is a library shh... this is a library | 3.0 |
| Panda Bear Person Pitch | 4.5 |
| Person Pitch is a very Brian Wilson/Beach Boys influenced outing for the famed Panda Bear (Noah Lennox). Fans of Bear's other group Animal Collective (especially Feels) should be right at home with this disc, as all 7 tracks features the lush production and trippy effects that are so prominent in much of the Collective's work. One word to describe the sound of Person Pitch? Perhaps watery, but maybe tribal, or even poppy, because, at bare bones Person Pitch is just a collection of well written pop songs. From the jarring jungle beats of Good Girl/Carrots to the choruses of Bro's (as sweeping as they are sad) to the reflective album closer Ponytail, every thing about Person Pitch just works. |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank | 3.5 |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible | 4.0 |
| RJD2 The Third Hand | 2.5 |
| Albert Hammond Jr Yours To Keep | 2.5 |
| Dalek Abandoned Language | 4.5 |
| Dr. Dog We All Belong | 3.0 |
| Hot Cross Risk Revival | 3.5 |
| Eluvium Copia | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone | 2.5 |
| Do Make Say Think You, You're a History in Rust | 4.0 |
| Kiss Kiss Reality Vs. The Optimist | 3.5 |
| Bloc Party A Weekend in the City | 2.5 |
| Shadowgraphs Shadowgraphs [EP] | 4.0 |
| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Some Loud Thunder | 3.5 |
| Lily Allen Alright, Still | 3.5 |
| Animal Collective People | 3.0 |
| Atreyu The Best of Atreyu | 1.0 |
| Dustin Kensrue Please Come Home | 2.0 |
| The Bird And The Bee The Bird and the Bee | 3.0 |
| Deerhoof Friend Opportunity | 2.5 |
| Tera Melos Drugs to the Dear Youth | 4.0 |
| Maps and Atlases Tree, Swallows, Houses | 3.5 |
| Pygmy Lush Bitter River | 3.0 |
| 2005 |
| Radiohead The Astoria London Live (DVD) | 3.5 |
| Madonna Confessions on a Dancefloor | 2.5 |
| Bell Orchestre Recording A Tape The Colour Of The Light | 3.5 |
| blink-182 Greatest Hits | 3.5 |
| Tapes 'n Tapes The Loon | 3.0 |
| The Fiery Furnaces Rehearsing My Choir | 4.0 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Feels | 5.0 |
| Putting their experimental folk craziness behind them Animal Collective get alot catchier with their 2005 release. The first half consists of upbeat indie songs while the second is full of golden ballad time beauty. Banshee Beat shows why Feels could be the band's best work. |
| Lightning Bolt Hypermagic Mountain | 3.5 |
| Kiss Kiss Kiss Kiss | 3.5 |
| Kiss Kiss's debut EP is created by a medley of genres, blended together to create a smoothie of sonic perfection. Channeling label mates Murder By Death, Kiss Kiss's punkish sound is heavily aided by keyboards and violins. Says My Doctor, the first song, is just about as good as it gets and the quality of the EP barely wanes in the next four tracks. A great album for fans of Indie, Punk and Experimental alike. |
| Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene | 4.0 |
| Tera Melos Untitled | 4.0 |
| Fiona Apple Extraordinary Machine | 3.5 |
| My Morning Jacket Z | 3.5 |
| Aiden Nightmare Anatomy | 1.0 |
| Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better | 3.5 |
| R. Kelly Trapped In The Closet (Chapters 1-12) | 2.0 |
| Flyleaf Flyleaf | 3.0 |
| Katie Melua Piece By Piece | 3.0 |
| Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary | 3.5 |
| HIM Dark Light | 1.5 |
| Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out | 3.5 |
| Panic! at the Disco's debut album is hard for me to rate. The music is much more creative than any other band playing the new style of Pop-Punk but the vocals are so annoying they are almost intolerable. Certain songs (including a three song streach at the end) are awesome and fun but others are just stupid. Fun to dance to though. |
| Devendra Banhart Cripple Crow | 3.5 |
| Nightmare Of You Nightmare Of You | 2.5 |
| Nightmare of You, like most new bands these days take heavy influences from the 80’s. But instead of using synths like The Bravery or The Killers, Nightmare of You take their dark pop sound from the bands like The Smiths and The Cure and add in elements of modern Pop-Punk like Fall Out Boy and Panic! at the Disco. Chorus tinged guitars, the occasional keyboard line and mellower drums and bass make up the majority of Nightmare of You’s sound. NOY themselves have a great songwriting talent, which unfortunately only comes into play 4 or 5 times on the album. This leads me to the biggest problem with Nightmare’s debut. Nearly every song sounds the same, a few tunes break the mold but most are just the same thing, dark love songs, which makes for a dull 11 tracks. |
| Sigur Ros Takk... | 4.5 |
| Nada Surf The Weight Is a Gift | 3.5 |
| Biology Making Moves | 3.5 |
| Against Me! Searching for a Former Clarity | 4.0 |
| Black Dice Broken Ear Record | 4.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Plans | 2.5 |
| Kanye West Late Registration | 3.5 |
| The Go! Team Thunder, Lightning, Strike [US Reissue] | 3.5 |
| The Click Five Greetings from Imrie House | 2.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger | 3.5 |
| Paramore All We Know Is Falling | 3.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Drive Well, Sleep Carefully (DVD) | 3.5 |
| Xiu Xiu La Foret | 3.5 |
| Thee More Shallows More Deep Cuts | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois | 3.5 |
| Extra Blue Kind The Tide and The Undertow | 2.0 |
| dredg Catch Without Arms | 3.0 |
| The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan | 3.0 |
| Say Hi Ferocious Mopes | 3.5 |
| Coldplay X&Y | 2.5 |
| Cloud Cult Advice from the Happy Hippopotamus | 3.5 |
| Gorillaz Demon Days | 3.5 |
| Common Be | 3.5 |
| At the Drive-In This Station Is Non-Operational | 4.0 |
| M.I.A. Arular | 3.0 |
| Animal Collective Prospect Hummer | 4.0 |
| John Cena and Tha Trademarc You Can't See Me | 1.5 |
| Weezer Make Believe | 1.5 |
| Spoon Gimme Fiction | 3.0 |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World | 4.0 |
| Japanther Master of Pigeons | 4.5 |
| 13 and God 13 & God | 3.5 |
| Quasimoto The Further Adventures of Lord Quas | 4.5 |
| With The Further Adventures of Lord Quas, Quasimoto (an alter ego of Undie Rap Chameleon Madlib) reinvents his sound with sampledelic beats that put shame to the naked snares of his previous effort the Unseen. Like the Unseen Quas brings hilarious rhymes, as well as dark commentaries on the urban life, all through a voice altering device that makes him sound more Bo Bo than Nas. The CD really picks up after a guest appearance from MF DOOM shakes things up on insta-classic Closer. The last half is all gold. |
| Jaga Jazzist What We Must | 4.5 |
| Circa Survive Juturna | 3.0 |
| Ampere All Our Tomorrows End Today | 4.0 |
| The National Alligator | 4.0 |
| Gang Gang Dance God's Money | 3.5 |
| Beck Guero | 3.5 |
| The Decemberists Picaresque | 4.0 |
| Eluvium Talk Amongst the Trees | 3.5 |
| Jack Johnson In Between Dreams | 2.5 |
| Gym Class Heroes The Papercut Chronicles | 3.0 |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 4.0 |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm | 3.0 |
| Beck GameBoy Variations | 2.5 |
| Anohni and the Johnsons I Am A Bird Now | 4.0 |
| Antony's voice is amazing in every sense of the word. It is full, deep, and extremley moving. Though I question his lyrics, this is the perfect chill-out blend of indie, blues and soul. The guest stars keep things intresting through this wave of beauty and intrigue. The first and final tracks are major standouts, the former being one of my picks for best single of 05. |
| Bright Eyes Digital Ash in a Digital Urn | 3.0 |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning | 4.0 |
| CocoRosie Noah's Ark | 3.5 |
| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | 3.0 |
| Various Artists Rock Against Bush Vol 2 | 2.5 |
| Glassjaw El Mark | 3.5 |
| Modern Life Is War Witness | 4.0 |
| 2004 |
| Lindsay Lohan Speak | 2.5 |
| U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb | 3.0 |
| Ghost Mice Debt of the Dead | 3.5 |
| MF DOOM MM.. Food | 3.5 |
| Handsome Boy Modeling School White People | 3.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Horn of Plenty | 4.0 |
| Death From Above 1979 You're a Woman, I'm a Machine | 3.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Futures | 3.5 |
| mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes | 3.5 |
| Straylight Run Straylight Run | 3.0 |
| The Blood Brothers Crimes | 3.5 |
| Interpol Antics | 3.5 |
| Panda Bear Young Prayer | 3.5 |
| Wolf Eyes Burned Mind | 3.5 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 3.0 |
| With Idiot Green Day manage to pull three things, they alienate old fans, gain thousands of new ones and make some of the most radio ready pop punk tunes ever. Tracks like Homecoming and Give me Novacaine make up for some of the garbage on the record, but can not salvage the fact that it has one of the lowest replay values of any album. The singles, peppered through out the album recieved so much play that it is now almost impossible for me to listen to it in whole. Plus some songs just suck. |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 4.5 |
| The Chinese Stars A Rare Sensation | 3.5 |
| Bjork Medulla | 4.0 |
| The Libertines The Libertines | 1.5 |
| Drive-By Truckers The Dirty South | 4.5 |
| Tim McGraw Live Like You Were Dying | 1.5 |
| Off Minor Innominate | 4.5 |
| Regina Spektor Soviet Kitsch | 4.0 |
| Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy | 4.5 |
| Real Boy is the epitome of pop punk songwriting. More of a musical than a concept album, It blends Descendents esque down on myself punk with delicious indie rock elements. Max Bemis is one of the most enjoyable whiners I have ever heard in my life, his voice is perfect (for what it is) and his lyrics are delectable. This is a masterpiece, nuff said. |
| Taking Back Sunday Where You Want To Be | 2.5 |
| Ashlee Simpson Autobiography | 2.5 |
| The Killers Hot Fuss | 3.0 |
| Hawthorne Heights The Silence in Black and White | 1.5 |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge | 3.5 |
| Velvet Revolver Contraband | 2.0 |
| Battles EP C | 3.5 |
| Midlake Bamnan and Slivercork | 4.5 |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 3.0 |
| Blonde Redhead Misery is a Butterfly | 4.0 |
| New Found Glory Catalyst | 1.5 |
| RJD2 Since We Last Spoke | 3.5 |
| Alanis Morissette So-Called Chaos | 2.5 |
| Feist Let It Die | 4.0 |
| Hot Cross Fair Trades and Farewells | 3.5 |
| Pixies Best of Pixies: Wave of Mutilation | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News | 3.0 |
| Old Time Relijun Lost Light | 4.0 |
| Wilco A Ghost Is Born | 3.5 |
| Snow Patrol Final Straw | 2.5 |
| Madvillain Madvillainy | 4.0 |
| Hellogoodbye Mush Slowly and Guac | 3.0 |
| Deerhoof Milk Man | 4.0 |
| Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand | 3.5 |
| Liars They Were Wrong, So We Drowned | 3.0 |
| Xiu Xiu Fabulous Muscles | 4.5 |
| Say Hi Numbers & Mumbles | 3.0 |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 4.5 |
| The Honorary Title Anything Else But The Truth | 2.5 |
| The Streets A Grand Don't Come For Free | 4.0 |
| An album like nothing I had ever heard before listening, AGDCFF combines great production with Mike Skinner's legendary real life songwriting. A concept album that is as much a storybook set to music that it is one of the most hyped modern Hip-Hop albums. The only flaw is that Skinner voice gets slightly annoying on some tracks. But seriously who else do you know who can write an entire song about going to return a DVD? |
| Animal Collective Sung Tongs | 4.0 |
| CocoRosie La Maison De Mon Reve | 3.5 |
| Weezer Video Capture Device | 3.5 |
| Sonic Youth Sonic Nurse | 4.0 |
| TV on the Radio Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes | 3.5 |
| The Dead Texan The Dead Texan | 3.5 |
| A thought provoking effort from a 2004 ambient duo, The Dead Texan soars high with epic, all most post-rock melodies and calming synthesizers, but falters slightly with an overlong tune towards the end and a decidedly low replay value. Sparse vocals make for an interesting listen, but instrumental A Chronicle of Early Failures Part 2 speaks louder than most songs ever could, without a single word. An excellent excellent CD for fans of Brian Eno, Sigur Ros and others along that line. |
| Joanna Newsom The Milk-Eyed Mender | 5.0 |
| Wives (PA) Erect the Youth Problem | 4.0 |
| The Mae Shi Terrorbird | 4.0 |
| A Day In Black And White My Heroes Have Always Killed Cowboys | 4.0 |
| 1994 |
| Rodan Rusty | 4.0 |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York | 3.0 |
| Aerosmith Big Ones | 2.0 |
| Ween Chocolate and Cheese | 3.5 |
| Jeff Buckley Grace | 4.0 |
| Dinosaur Jr. Without a Sound | 3.0 |
| Portishead Dummy | 4.0 |
| Weezer Weezer | 4.0 |
| Nas Illmatic | 4.5 |
| Unwound New Plastic Ideas | 4.0 |
| Beck Mellow Gold | 3.0 |
| Mellow Gold is Beck's debut album, a masterpiece in it's own right. The album blends lo-fi with heavy electronica and hip-hop. Fans of Sea Change and Odelay! may be turned off at first, but beneath layers of strange fuzz and screams there is a creative and brooding songsmith. Though he does not expose himself totally many songs (including hit single "Loser") are seen by many as some of Beck's best work. |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 4.0 |
| Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain | 5.0 |
| Green Day Dookie | 3.0 |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Diary | 4.0 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel Everything Is | 2.0 |
| Everything Is is probably the single hardest to rate piece of music I have ever heard. Its emotionless, dry, hard to listen to and extremley underproduced, and on the other hand its heart-breaking, strange and fun. The album is full of crazy samples and crunchy guitar, with Mangum just wailing along in the background, Everything Is just takes the problems (if every so small) with Aeroplane and magnifys them, as if a joke or something. The last 2 tracks are pretty cool, but the first are almost unlistenable. |
| Autechre Amber | 4.0 |
| Jawbreaker 24 Hour Revenge Therapy | 4.5 |
