| 2013 |
| Beyonce Beyonce | 4.0 |
| Sandveiss Scream Queen | 3.8 |
| Mutoid Man Helium Head | 3.8 |
| Beastmilk Climax | 3.8 |
| Lumbar The First And Last Days Of Unwelcome | 3.3 |
| Krzysztof Zalewski Zelig | 4.0 |
| Lady Gaga Artpop | 3.0 |
| Obliteration Black Death Horizon | 3.5 |
| M.I.A. Matangi | 4.2 |
| Russian Circles Memorial | 3.0 |
| Los Campesinos! No Blues | 3.8 |
| Whores. Clean | 4.1 |
| Netherlands Silicon Vapor | 4.2 |
| Future of the Left Human Death | 4.3 |
| Supervoid Filaments | 3.6 |
| The Body Christs, Redeemers | 3.8 |
| Sahg Delusions of Grandeur | 4.1 |
| Chlopcy Kontra Basia Oj Tak! | 4.3 |
| Future of the Left How To Stop Your Brain In An Accident | 4.5 |
| Red Fang Whales and Leeches | 3.0 |
| Deep Swell Lore Of The Angler | 3.8 |
| Antlered Man This Devil Is Them | 3.8 |
| Mountaineater Mountaineater | 3.8 |
| Melt-Banana Fetch | 3.8 |
| Do they have an instrumental version of this LP? Great music, but the vocals ruin it for me. |
| Korn The Paradigm Shift | 3.5 |
| Danny Brown Old | 4.0 |
| Alter Bridge Fortress | 4.0 |
| In Solitude Sister | 3.4 |
| Sasquatch IV | 3.8 |
| Windhand Soma | 3.0 |
| Gregory Porter Liquid Spirit | 4.2 |
| SubRosa (US) More Constant Than The Gods | 4.3 |
| Manic Street Preachers Rewind The Film | 3.2 |
| Mellow Bravo RiPPER | 3.8 |
| Janelle Monae The Electric Lady | 4.6 |
| FKA Twigs EP2 | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Hesitation Marks | 3.7 |
| Haken The Mountain | 3.0 |
| Vista Chino Peace | 3.9 |
| Goodie Mob Age Against The Machine | 3.4 |
| Diesto For Water Or Blood | 3.8 |
| Superchunk I Hate Music | 3.8 |
| Typhoon (USA-OR) White Lighter | 4.0 |
| O'Brother Disillusion | 4.2 |
| Pop. 1280 Imps Of Perversion | 3.5 |
| Karnivool Asymmetry | 3.7 |
| Norma Jean Wrongdoers | 3.8 |
| The Icarus Line Slave Vows | 4.1 |
| Pond (AUS) Hobo Rocket | 3.8 |
| Julia Holter Loud City Song | 3.0 |
| Maximum the Hormone Yoshu Fukushu | 3.6 |
| The Flying Eyes Lowlands | 4.0 |
| Dozer Vultures | 4.0 |
| Misery Signals Absent Light | 2.3 |
| Thundercat Apocalypse | 2.5 |
| letlive. The Blackest Beautiful | 2.5 |
| Speedy Ortiz Major Arcana | 2.5 |
| Octopussy Octopussy | 3.6 |
| Lord Dying Summon the Faithless | 3.8 |
| Goatess Goatess | 3.5 |
| Hawk Eyes That's What This Is | 4.5 |
| Kirin J. Callinan Embracism | 3.8 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels | 3.6 |
| Stone Titan Scratch 'N Sniff | 3.5 |
| Queensryche Queensryche | 3.6 |
| Night Verses Lift Your Existence | 3.6 |
| Man's Gin Rebellion Hymns | 4.3 |
| Scorpion Child Scorpion Child | 3.6 |
| Kanye West Yeezus | 2.5 |
| Valient Thorr Our Own Masters | 3.7 |
| Melt Yourself Down Melt Yourself Down | 3.9 |
| Jex Thoth Blood Moon Rise | 3.5 |
| Action Bronson Saaab Stories | 3.5 |
| Author and Punisher Women and Children | 4.2 |
| Black Sabbath 13 | 3.2 |
| Disclosure Settle | 3.9 |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork | 4.5 |
| Sofy Major Idolize | 3.7 |
| Shining (NOR) One One One | 3.5 |
| Kylesa Ultraviolet | 3.6 |
| ASG Blood Drive | 3.7 |
| Alice in Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here | 3.7 |
| Iron Tongue The Dogs Have Barked, The Birds Have Flown | 4.2 |
| Southern rock hasn't sounded so manly in way too long. I love drinking to this album. |
| TesseracT Altered State | 3.0 |
| Blood Ceremony The Eldritch Dark | 4.2 |
| Leprous Coal | 3.5 |
| NK Nothing To Be Gained Here | 3.6 |
| Gaytheist Hold Me... But Not So Tight | 3.9 |
| Satan Life Sentence | 4.0 |
| These Monsters Heroic Dose | 3.5 |
| Uncle Acid and The Deadbeats Mind Control | 3.0 |
| Roomrunner Ideal Cities | 3.0 |
| Polkadot Cadaver Last Call in Jonestown | 3.4 |
| Captain, We're Sinking The Future Is Cancelled | 3.5 |
| Bad Rabbits American Love | 3.7 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer | 4.2 |
These guys are always intriguing to listen to. Here's to another mind-bending, if slightly
more streamlined ride. The hooks are huge, the structures - aptly frenzied and chaotic.
Plus, I bet all songs are about Greg's failed relationships in one way or another. |
| Savages Silence Yourself | 4.4 |
| Altar of Plagues Teethed Glory and Injury | 3.8 |
| The Body Master, We Perish | 3.8 |
| Coliseum Sister Chance | 4.0 |
| Coliseum Sister Faith | 4.5 |
| Purson The Circle and the Blue Door | 3.8 |
| The Ocean Pelagial | 3.2 |
| Rob Zombie Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor | 2.5 |
| Gozu The Fury Of A Patient Man | 4.0 |
| Frank Turner Tape Deck Heart | 3.5 |
| Stake The Hutch | 3.6 |
| Strawberry Girls French Ghetto | 4.2 |
| Beastwars Blood Becomes Fire | 4.2 |
| Spiritual Beggars Earth Blues | 3.0 |
| Anciients Heart of Oak | 2.8 |
| Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 2 | 3.4 |
| Blaak Heat Shujaa The Edge Of An Era | 3.5 |
| Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam | 3.7 |
| Devil To Pay Fate is Your Muse | 3.8 |
| The Knife Shaking the Habitual | 3.8 |
| Device Device | 3.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Migrant | 3.0 |
| Nails Abandon All Life | 3.5 |
| Kvelertak Meir | 3.0 |
| Sevendust Black Out the Sun | 3.3 |
| Deville Hydra | 4.5 |
| Clutch Earth Rocker | 5.0 |
| Intronaut Habitual Levitations | 3.2 |
| Inter Arma Sky Burial | 3.6 |
| Batillus Concrete Sustain | 3.8 |
| Alice Smith She | 3.9 |
| Dope Body Saturday | 4.0 |
| Loading Data Double Disco Animal Style | 4.1 |
| With Elvis Presley on vocals this is the one stoner rock album your girlfriend will dig. |
| KEN mode Entrench | 4.3 |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience | 2.6 |
| Hedvig Mollestad Trio All Of Them Witches | 4.1 |
| Universe 217 Never | 3.6 |
| Sound City Players Sound City: Real To Reel | 3.5 |
| Stonewall Noise Orchestra Salvation | 3.7 |
| Amplifier Echo Street | 3.7 |
| John Grant Pale Green Ghosts | 3.8 |
| Boris Präparat | 3.2 |
| They Might Be Giants Nanobots | 3.7 |
| Laura Mvula Sing To The Moon | 3.8 |
| Big Big Train English Electric Part 2 | 3.4 |
| Hookworms Pearl Mystic | 3.8 |
| The Drones I See Seaweed | 4.5 |
| Autre Ne Veut Anxiety | 3.5 |
| KMFDM Kunst | 3.6 |
| Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) | 2.5 |
| Thalamus Soul | 3.9 |
| Komatsu Manu Armata | 4.0 |
| Flat Earth Society 13 | 4.0 |
| Boil aXiom | 3.7 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Push The Sky Away | 2.5 |
| Pissed Jeans Honeys | 3.5 |
| Pinnick, Gales and Pridgen Pinnick, Gales & Pridgen | 3.8 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension | 3.0 |
| Kongh Sole Creation | 3.7 |
| Audrey Horne Youngblood | 4.5 |
| The Bronx The Bronx (IV) | 3.5 |
| Godsticks The Envisage Conundrum | 3.8 |
| Semantik Punk abcdefghijklmnoprstuwxyz | 4.0 |
| Buke and Gase General Dome | 3.4 |
| Tomahawk Oddfellows | 3.5 |
| Five Horse Johnson The Taking Of Blackheart | 3.8 |
| Trapt Reborn | 2.8 |
| Voivod Target Earth | 3.6 |
| The Joy Formidable Wolf's Law | 3.7 |
| Riverside Shrine Of New Generation Slaves | 4.0 |
| Fire! Orchestra Exit! | 4.1 |
| Dropkick Murphys Signed and Sealed in Blood | 3.0 |
| 2012 |
| Big Boi Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors | 3.5 |
| Kowloon Walled City Container Ships | 3.9 |
| Swarm Of Arrows The Great Seekers Of Lesser Life | 3.5 |
| Future of the Left Man vs. Melody | 4.0 |
| Action Bronson Rare Chandeliers | 3.5 |
| Soundgarden King Animal | 3.8 |
| Wo Fat The Black Code | 4.0 |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan | 4.4 |
| Graveyard (SWE) Lights Out | 3.5 |
| Twelve Foot Ninja Silent Machine | 4.5 |
| Atriarch Ritual of Passing | 3.5 |
| Indian Handcrafts Civil Disobedience For Losers | 4.2 |
| Neurosis Honor Found in Decay | 3.5 |
| Blood Command Funeral Beach | 3.5 |
| Lento Anxiety Despair Languish | 3.7 |
| Valis Minds Through Space And Time | 4.0 |
| Bison Lovelessness | 3.5 |
| Pile Dripping | 3.5 |
| The Sword Apocryphon | 3.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city | 3.5 |
| P.O.S We Don't Even Live Here | 4.0 |
| BATS The Sleep of Reason | 4.0 |
| Yakuza Beyul | 3.5 |
| Spiders Flash Point | 3.8 |
| Witch Mountain Witch Mountain EP | 4.0 |
| Nonpoint Nonpoint | 3.0 |
| Danko Jones Rock and Roll Is Black and Blue | 3.4 |
| Lord Fowl Moon Queen | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension | 4.0 |
| Coheed draw a fine line between ferocious hard rockers and splendid ballads. They also tighten the focus of the story delivering their most concise and focused album to date. |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind | 4.0 |
| An intense amalgamation of their signature chaotic hardcore and morose sludge. This is their leanest effort to date. |
| Klone The Dreamer's Hideaway | 3.5 |
| Raketkanon RKTKN#1 | 3.5 |
| Enslaved RIITIIR | 2.5 |
| Murder by Death Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon | 3.5 |
| Millions Failure Tactics | 3.5 |
| Fight Amp Birth Control | 3.5 |
| Witchcraft Legend | 3.0 |
| Abel (NY) Make It Right | 2.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Epicloud | 3.0 |
| Rival Sons Head Down | 3.0 |
| Title Fight Floral Green | 3.5 |
| Down Down IV - Part I | 3.5 |
| Haarp Husks | 3.5 |
| Menomena Moms | 4.5 |
| Vision of Disorder The Cursed Remain Cursed | 4.3 |
| Dinosaur Jr. I Bet on Sky | 3.5 |
| Colour Haze She Said | 3.5 |
| Prototype Catalyst | 3.0 |
| Billy Talent Dead Silence | 3.5 |
| Amanda Palmer Theatre Is Evil | 3.5 |
| Dave Matthews Band Away From The World | 3.8 |
| Neal Morse Momentum | 4.0 |
| David Byrne and St. Vincent Love This Giant | 3.8 |
| Gallows (UK) Gallows | 4.0 |
| Two Gallants The Bloom and the Blight | 3.6 |
| Sucioperro Fused | 3.5 |
| The Pineapple Thief All the Wars | 3.5 |
| Big Big Train English Electric | 4.0 |
| Katatonia Dead End Kings | 2.5 |
| Alanis Morissette Havoc and Bright Lights | 3.5 |
| The Chariot One Wing | 4.0 |
| The first word that comes to mind when listening to The Chariot's One Wing is blistering. There isn't a moment on this album where you don't feel the fierce intensity of the band, even in its most contemplative passages. It's a crazed affair built around the chaotic brand of hardcore, yet The Chariot revel in making this brief 30-minute ride intoxicating. They merge their ferocious, oddly reassuring style with ostensibly eccentric, left-field detours into piano balladry, ambient and even spaghetti western music. Decidedly these eyebrow-raising segments provide the disc with a breath of fresh air that breaks through a relentless onslaught. There's no place for randomness though with every track deliberately planned and structured. All in all, The Chariot show limitless potential for growth and One Wing is their most cohesive and ambitious record thus far. |
| Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell Don't Hear It... Fear It | 4.0 |
| Beardfish The Void | 4.8 |
| Parabelle Your Starry Eyes Will Never Make Us Even | 2.5 |
| Project 86 Wait for the Siren | 3.5 |
| Birds in Row You, Me, and the Violence | 3.5 |
| Gaytheist Stealth Beats | 4.5 |
| Jessie Ware Devotion | 3.0 |
| Goat World Music | 3.8 |
| Black Light Burns The Moment You Realize You're Going To Fall | 3.7 |
| Texas Hippie Coalition Peacemaker | 3.8 |
| BNNT _ _ | 3.2 |
| Abrahma Through the Dusty Paths of Our Lives | 3.5 |
| Om Advaitic Songs | 4.0 |
| Baroness Yellow and Green | 3.0 |
| Frank Ocean channel ORANGE | 3.0 |
| Feed The Rhino The Burning Sons | 3.5 |
| Methadone Skies Enter The Void | 3.8 |
| Dirty Projectors Swing Lo Magellan | 2.5 |
| Serj Tankian Harakiri | 2.5 |
| P.O.D. Murdered Love | 3.0 |
| Lianne La Havas Is Your Love Big Enough? | 4.0 |
| Mangoo Neverland | 3.9 |
| A Place to Bury Strangers Worship | 2.5 |
| Ty Segall Band Slaughterhouse | 3.0 |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage | 3.5 |
| Ladder Devils Nowhere Plans | 3.5 |
| Plum Emergence | 3.5 |
| Over-Reactor Mouth of the Ghetto | 3.8 |
| Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel... | 4.2 |
| While numerous contemporary art pop artists heavily rely on excess and elaborate arrangements, Fiona Apple opts for unorthodox minimalism on her first album in seven years. The Idler Wheel... is all about subtle piano balladry, and this approach to songcraft works wonders for Apple whose eccentric, if vulnerable personality is now at the forefront, perfectly bare and not muddled by any unnecessary studio tricks. That's the reason why The Idler Wheel... is so profoundly personal, tackling Apple's neurotic tendencies and fears with raw intensity. It also makes complete sense that the artist's vivid voice and trusty piano playing are supplemented with Charley Drayton's equally important percussion work, that gives the record an eerie, often idiosyncratic vibe. Even in its most rhythmically non-conventional moments though, The Idler Wheel... revolves around alluring melodies which, along with Fiona's truly unique vision, largely make for its resounding triumph. |
| Witch Mountain Cauldron Of The Wild | 4.5 |
| Turbonegro Sexual Harassment | 3.5 |
| Celldweller Wish Upon a Blackstar | 3.0 |
| Rush Clockwork Angels | 4.0 |
| Future of the Left The Plot Against Common Sense | 4.5 |
| Thank You Scientist Maps of Non-Existent Places | 4.0 |
| I can't believe so many people have slept on this album this year. A mesmerizing blend of progressive rock, jazz fusion and post-hardcore with phenomenal musicianship. It's like Coheed And Cambria on drugs. |
| Fear Factory The Industrialist | 3.0 |
| Melvins Freak Puke | 3.0 |
| Mellow Bravo Mellow Bravo | 4.0 |
| Japandroids Celebration Rock | 2.0 |
| The Main Squeeze The Main Squeeze | 4.0 |
| Dawnbringer Into the Lair of the Sun God | 4.0 |
| Azealia Banks 1991 | 3.5 |
| Grand Magus The Hunt | 4.0 |
| Saint Vitus Lillie: F-65 | 3.0 |
| The Cult Choice of Weapon | 3.0 |
| El-P Cancer 4 Cure | 3.5 |
| Royal Thunder CVI | 3.5 |
| Headspace I Am Anonymous | 3.5 |
| Dope Body Natural History | 4.3 |
| Diablo Swing Orchestra Pandora's Pinata | 4.5 |
| Black Moth The Killing Jar | 3.5 |
| Young Hunter Stone Tools | 4.0 |
| Tenacious D Rize of the Fenix | 4.0 |
| Killer Mike R.A.P. Music | 4.5 |
| It requires a lot of guts to call your album R.A.P. Music and place the picture of your son on the cover. You need to take into account that your endeavour may be dismissed as overly straightforward or pretentious by an increasingly superficial audience. However, the new Killer Mike record truly lives up to its title standing for everything that hip hop should encompass in 2012. It's the kind of defiant rap that was popular two decades ago, but it feels surprisingly in touch with the economically uncertain times we're living in now. Aptly then, the LP abounds in anger, with Mike bashing an increasing commercialization of hip hop, dishonest cops and political corruption. The scope of interest in his lyrics is much wider though. His delivery often tends to be narratively inclined (JoJo's Chillin') or even greatly inspirational, like in the record's blissful, double-punch climax consisting of autobiographical "Willie Burke Sherwood" and the title track that's a poignant ode to the music that respects its heritage. It's not only Killer Mike who's throwing his heart and soul into his craft on R.A.P. Music. At one point he states "This album was created entirely by Jamie and Mike", acknowledging the enormous contribution of El-P. As unexpected a rapper/producer collaboration as it may be, El-P complements Mike's impeccable flow with his futuristic blend of Southern rap and soul to startling effect. The fact that the music has been crafted with hardly any guest appearances is only a testament to Jamie and Mike's genuine talent cutting through every single moment of this seminal album. |
| PS I Love You Death Dreams | 2.5 |
| Exotic Animal Petting Zoo Tree of Tongues | 3.5 |
| Oddland The Treachery of Senses | 4.0 |
| Hurt The Crux | 3.5 |
| Disconnect (US) Enough Blame To Go Around | 3.5 |
| Kontrust Second Hand Wonderland | 3.0 |
| Marilyn Manson Born Villain | 3.2 |
| Paradise Lost Tragic Idol | 3.0 |
| Death Grips The Money Store | 3.0 |
| Cancer Bats Dead Set on Living | 3.5 |
| Jack White Blunderbuss | 3.5 |
| Mares Of Thrace The Pilgrimage | 3.5 |
| Blacklisters BLKLSTRS | 3.5 |
| Brad United We Stand | 4.0 |
| Author and Punisher Ursus Americanus | 4.0 |
| Torche Harmonicraft | 4.5 |
| You Slut! Medium Bastard | 3.5 |
| Ancestors In Dreams And Time | 3.5 |
| Sleepy Sun Spine Hits | 3.5 |
| Dead Sara Dead Sara | 4.0 |
| Fero Lux Some Divine Ashtray | 3.0 |
| Dr. John Locked Down | 3.0 |
| High on Fire De Vermis Mysteriis | 4.0 |
| Killing Joke MMXII | 4.0 |
| Hawk Eyes Ideas | 5.0 |
| Hiatus Kaiyote Tawk Tomahawk | 3.5 |
| Destroyer of Light Destroyer of Light | 3.8 |
| Niechec Smierc w Miekkim Futerku | 3.8 |
| Shinedown Amaryllis | 2.0 |
| OSI Fire Make Thunder | 2.5 |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet | 2.5 |
| THEESatisfaction awE naturalE | 3.0 |
| Astra The Black Chord | 3.5 |
| Akphaezya Anthology IV: The Tragedy of Nerak | 3.9 |
| Meshuggah Koloss | 4.0 |
| Flying Colors Flying Colors | 2.8 |
| Janus Nox Aeris | 3.0 |
| Georgia Anne Muldrow Seeds | 3.0 |
| Klone The Eye of Needle | 3.5 |
| Blood Red Shoes In Time To Voices | 4.0 |
| Roadsaw Roadsaw EP | 4.0 |
| Sinch Hive Mind | 3.8 |
| Unsane Wreck | 4.0 |
| Esperanza Spalding Radio Music Society | 4.0 |
| Say Anything Anarchy, My Dear | 3.0 |
| Melvins The Bulls and the Bees | 3.5 |
| Wizard Rifle Speak Loud Say Nothing | 3.5 |
| Horisont Second Assault | 3.5 |
| Lord Mantis Pervertor | 4.0 |
| Hilltop Hoods Drinking From The Sun | 4.0 |
| The Men Open Your Heart | 3.0 |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives | 3.5 |
| Greenleaf Nest of Vipers | 4.0 |
| Antlered Man Giftes Parts 1 And 2 | 3.9 |
| Dark New Day New Tradition | 3.0 |
| Infernal Overdrive Last Rays of the Dying Sun | 3.5 |
| T.R.A.M. Lingua Franca | 3.5 |
| Narrows Painted | 3.5 |
| Christian Mistress Possession | 4.5 |
| Hypno5e Acid Mist Tomorrow | 3.5 |
| fun. Some Nights | 3.0 |
| Sleigh Bells Reign of Terror | 3.0 |
| Pallbearer Sorrow And Extinction | 3.3 |
| Cursive I Am Gemini | 3.5 |
| NK Basement Tapes Vol. 2 | 4.0 |
| Soen Cognitive | 3.3 |
| Knives Out! Black Mass Hysteria | 3.5 |
| Orange Goblin A Eulogy for the Damned | 4.0 |
| Sithu Aye Isles | 3.5 |
| Ribozyme Presenting the Problem | 3.5 |
| Stubb Stubb | 3.5 |
| Therapy? A Brief Crack of Light | 4.5 |
| Dwellers Good Morning Harakiri | 3.5 |
| Marmozets Vexed | 3.5 |
| Pepe Deluxe Queen of the Wave | 4.2 |
| Crippled Black Phoenix (Mankind) The Crafty Ape | 3.0 |
| Kapitan Korsakov Stuff and Such | 4.3 |
| Cloud Nothings Attack on Memory | 2.5 |
| Lamb of God Resolution | 3.0 |
| Foxy Shazam The Church of Rock and Roll | 3.0 |
| Pop. 1280 The Horror | 4.0 |
| Stew and the Negro Problem Making It | 4.0 |
| Birds in Row Collected | 3.5 |
| Xenia Rubinos Magic Trix | 4.0 |
| Xibalba Hasta La Muerte | 3.5 |
| El Doom & The Born Electric El Doom & The Born Electric | 3.7 |
| Netherlands Fantasmatic | 4.0 |
