| 2013 |
| A Wilhelm Scream Partycrasher | 4.5 |
| A Lot Like Birds No Place | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Volition | 4.0 |
| Sleigh Bells Bitter Rivals | 4.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Acceptance Speech | 4.0 |
| Touche Amore Is Survived By | 4.5 |
| The Weeknd Kiss Land | 3.5 |
| London Grammar If You Wait | 4.0 |
| Modern Life Is War Fever Hunting | 3.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Hesitation Marks | 4.0 |
| Dead Letter Circus The Catalyst Fire | 2.5 |
| Norma Jean Wrongdoers | 4.0 |
| Karnivool Asymmetry | 4.0 |
| Misery Signals Absent Light | 4.0 |
| Defeater Letters Home | 3.0 |
| Empty Days got more shit than it deserved, but this is definitely by the numbers Defeater. Solid and that's about it |
| letlive. The Blackest Beautiful | 3.5 |
| Editors The Weight of Your Love | 4.0 |
| 9mm Parabellum Bullet Dawning | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Rescue & Restore | 3.0 |
| Palms Palms | 3.0 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Whenever, If Ever | 2.0 |
| Kanye West Yeezus | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros Kveikur | 4.5 |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 3.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Damage | 3.5 |
| City and Colour The Hurry and the Harm | 2.5 |
| Considering how much I adored Little Hell it's perhaps not surprising I'm disappointed. But that's the thing, this is such an obvious step down in both song writing and lyricism it's almost painful |
| Like Thieves The Wolves At Winter's Edge | 3.0 |
| One of Clint Boge's new bands. It's okay, mostly a shittier, slightly heavier version of The Butterfly Effect, although some of that heaviness is washed out thanks to lackluster production. Clint's vocals are mostly worse too. The last couple of tracks are pretty good and interesting though. |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me | 4.0 |
| The Boxer Rebellion Promises | 3.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer | 3.5 |
| The Wonder Years The Greatest Generation | 4.5 |
| Captain, We're Sinking The Future Is Cancelled | 4.5 |
| Altar of Plagues Teethed Glory and Injury | 3.5 |
| The Given Things The Given Things | 2.0 |
| Ling Tosite Sigure I'mperfect | 4.5 |
| This is probably their densest album to date, it'll take many listens to unravel itself. Sometimes it can be hard to tell where one song ends and another begins. So while it doesn't live up to the unbelievable greatness of their early recordings, it's still a pretty fantastic listen. I'm not even sure TK is capable of less than great. |
| James Blake Overgrown | 4.0 |
| Killswitch Engage Disarm the Descent | 4.0 |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience | 3.5 |
| How to Destroy Angels Welcome Oblivion | 3.0 |
| Soilwork The Living Infinite | 4.5 |
| How the fuck did this happen. I don't know where they got this sudden inspiration and passion from but I'm loving it. |
| Safe Hands Montenegro | 4.0 |
| Perspectives Blind | 3.5 |
| I'm kind of in disbelief at how many times he says "blind" on this EP, but if you can ignore the lyrics it's a pretty tight listen |
| Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun | 4.0 |
| Sadistik Flowers for My Father | 4.0 |
| Silverstein This Is How the Wind Shifts | 2.5 |
| Wil Wagner Laika | 4.5 |
| My Bloody Valentine m b v | 3.0 |
| TTNG 13.0.0.0.0 | 3.5 |
| Ludovico Einaudi In a Time Lapse | 4.5 |
| Touche Amore/Pianos Become the Teeth Split | 3.5 |
| 2011 |
| The Weeknd Echoes of Silence | 3.5 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After | 5.0 |
| Profoundly depressing, it'll send you revisiting your most painful memories. Yet, there's just enough sprinkling of hope to stop it being a form of self-harm; it's more a tool for catharsis. |
| Florence and the Machine Ceremonials | 4.0 |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming | 3.5 |
| Likes Lions Future Colour | 4.5 |
| La Dispute Wildlife | 3.5 |
| Overlong and tedious at times (it shouldn't take until the second last song for the point to come across), it still packs a bunch and most of Dreyer's lyrics are just dying to be screamed back by a sweaty, crowded bar. The instrumentation has stepped back from the spotlight a little too far, settling for quite noodling instead of forceful riffing which really works a lot better for them. Still, I'LL SCREAM YOUR NAMES UNTIL I DIE! |
| Frenzal Rhomb Smoko at the Pet Food Factory | 4.0 |
| Mastodon The Hunter | 4.0 |
| The Jezabels Prisoner | 4.0 |
| Thrice Major/Minor | 4.5 |
| The Weeknd Thursday | 2.5 |
| Gotye Making Mirrors | 4.5 |
| I feel better, better, better than before (after listening to this). |
| Trophy Scars Never Born, Never Dead | 4.5 |
| Hands (US-ND) Give Me Rest | 2.5 |
| The Bunny The Bear If You Don't Have Anything Nice to Say... | 1.5 |
| In Flames Sounds of a Playground Fading | 3.5 |
| The problem here isn't In Flames being overly generic, or just plain 'bad'. No, the issue is a lot weirder than that. In Flames wants to hip and young, but they're too old to know how to make it work. This album is a mess of ideas misshapenly put together with shitty chorus' and old-school solos. Sometimes it works, like on A New Dawn and sometimes it really really doesn't, like the title track. My rating will probably drop once I get over the fanboyishness. Plus, Ander's voice is even more tired and out of place than ever before. It's not his fault, but it's true. |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 4.5 |
| 9mm Parabellum Bullet Movement | 3.5 |
| The Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing | 5.0 |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me | 3.0 |
| Fuck Amends, Home Away From Here is the most beastly. In general, the second half of the album clearly outshines the first. |
| City and Colour Little Hell | 4.5 |
| Frank Turner England Keep My Bones | 4.5 |
| Departures When Losing Everything Is Everything You Wanted | 4.0 |
| More Than Life release their follow up record, improving in all the ways they needed to. Oh wait, this isn't More Than Life. |
| Maybeshewill I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was Gone | 4.5 |
| Cave In White Silence | 4.0 |
| Weekend Nachos Worthless | 3.0 |
| Moving Mountains Waves | 3.0 |
| The National Think You Can Wait/Exile Vilify | 4.5 |
| Pulling Teeth Funerary | 4.0 |
| Lower Than Atlantis World Record | 3.5 |
| Thursday No Devolucion | 4.0 |
| Saliva Under Your Skin | 1.5 |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous | 3.5 |
| The Weeknd House of Balloons | 4.5 |
| Trap Them Darker Handcraft | 4.5 |
| R.E.M. Collapse Into Now | 3.5 |
| Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights | 4.5 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain II | 4.5 |
| Until Your Heart Stops Errors | 3.0 |
| Darkest Hour The Human Romance | 3.0 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 2.5 |
| Love American Love American | 3.5 |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book | 4.5 |
| The Boxer Rebellion The Cold Still | 4.0 |
| Architects The Here and Now | 3.5 |
| Times of Grace The Hymn of a Broken Man | 2.5 |
| The Carrier Blind To What Is Right | 3.0 |
| Mt. Meridian Emeritus | 4.0 |
There are still some bands breathing life into post-hardcore, even if they're ones you've
never heard of. Mt. Meridian is one of them. Download them for free at their bandcamp:
http://mtmeridian.bandcamp.com/ |
| Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles) | 4.0 |
| 2010 |
| The Damned Things Ironiclast | 4.0 |
| Totally Unicorn Horse Hugger | 4.0 |
| Frank Turner Rock & Roll | 3.0 |
| The Chariot Long Live | 4.0 |
| Killing The Dream Lucky Me | 4.5 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 3.5 |
| Cee Lo Green The Lady Killer | 3.5 |
| Underoath Ø (Disambiguation) | 3.5 |
| A general step down from their last two efforts. It's still a solid and enjoyable album, but just about every aspect of the music is less than what it once was. The drums are less driving and original, Spencer's vocals have lost (some) of their intensity and the guitars aren't nearly as crushing and atmospheric. Disambiguation is a collection of songs rather than a cohesive, tension-ladden album. |
| Alexisonfire Dog's Blood | 4.5 |
| Trophy Scars Darkness, Oh Hell | 4.5 |
| All That Remains For We Are Many | 3.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It... | 3.0 |
| The Jezabels Dark Storm | 4.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Invented | 4.5 |
| Ben Folds Lonely Avenue | 3.0 |
| Ling Tosite Sigure Still a Sigure Virgin? | 4.5 |
| The Saddest Landscape You Will Not Survive | 4.0 |
| Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky | 2.5 |
| Linkin Park A Thousand Suns | 3.5 |
| Phantoms As Above, So Below | 4.0 |
| Anberlin Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place | 3.5 |
| Envy Recitation | 4.0 |
| Miles Away Endless Roads | 4.0 |
| Orbs Asleep Next to Science | 3.0 |
| Mass of the Fermenting Dregs Zero Comma, Irotoridori no Sekai | 3.5 |
| Bangs Hard 2 Be Up | 5.0 |
| Mai boi bangs! Taek me 2 da movies, put on ur perfume and buy me popcorn, ya kno wat I liek. |
| Kerouac Cold and Distant, Not Loving | 4.0 |
| Touche Amore/La Dispute Searching for a Pulse/The Worth of the World | 4.0 |
| Rosaline The Vitality Theory | 2.5 |
| M.I.A. Maya | 3.5 |
| The Effort Wartime Citizens | 4.0 |
| Parkway Drive Deep Blue | 3.5 |
| United Nations Never Mind the Bombings, Here's Your Six Figures | 3.5 |
| Heaven In Her Arms Paraselene | 4.0 |
| Kele The Boxer | 3.0 |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak | 4.0 |
| Endless Heights Prologue | 4.0 |
| Eminem Recovery | 4.0 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Invictus (Iconoclast III) | 3.0 |
| This Is Hell Weight of the World | 3.0 |
| Integrity The Blackest Curse | 3.5 |
| Rosetta A Determinism of Morality | 4.0 |
| Pendulum Immersion | 4.0 |
| Rolo Tomassi Cosmology | 4.0 |
| Dead Letter Circus This Is The Warning | 4.0 |
| As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise | 3.5 |
| The National High Violet | 3.5 |
| Sleigh Bells Treats | 4.0 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 4.0 |
| The Hold Steady Heaven Is Whenever | 4.0 |
| Punch Push Pull | 3.0 |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles II | 4.5 |
| Parades Foreign Tapes | 4.5 |
| letlive. Fake History | 4.5 |
| Rebuke Wouldworks | 2.5 |
| Red Sparowes The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein... | 3.0 |
| A Hope For Home Realis | 4.0 |
| Lower Than Atlantis Far Q | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis | 4.0 |
| Daughters Daughters | 4.5 |
| The soundtrack to a psychological horror movie. It's unhinged, it's heavy and its fucking danceable. It sounds live Elvis riding on a jet engine and its amazing for it. |
| House Vs. Hurricane Perspectives | 2.5 |
| The Bled Heat Fetish | 4.0 |
| Thousand Needles In Red Thousand Needles In Red | 1.5 |
| Acid Tiger Acid Tiger | 3.0 |
| Crucified Coldest Winter; Darkest Reaches of the Mind | 3.5 |
| El Trio de Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Ciencia de los Inutiles | 4.0 |
| Throats Throats | 4.0 |
| The Wonder Years The Upsides | 4.5 |
| Galleons (UK) Swans | 3.5 |
| Extortion Loose Screws | 2.5 |
| Decisions Nothing To Lose, Everything To Gain | 3.0 |
| Surroundings Surroundings | 3.5 |
| Harbours Harbours EP | 4.0 |
| Persist The Untold Story | 4.0 |
| Dangers Messy, Isn't It? | 4.5 |
| More Than Life Love Let Me Go | 4.5 |
