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2020
Sufjan Stevens The Ascension3.5
Fleet Foxes Shore4.0
Bright Eyes Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was4.0
Tim Baker Survivors4.0
Phoebe Bridgers Punisher4.0
Westerman Your Hero Is Not Dead4.5
Christian Lee Hutson Beginners4.0
Jordan Klassen Tell Me What to Do3.5
Perfume Genius Set My Heart On Fire Immediately4.5
Moses Sumney grae4.5
Blake Mills Mutable Set4.0
Damien Jurado What's New, Tomboy?3.5
Childish Gambino 03.15.204.0
Moses Sumney grae: Part 13.5
Tame Impala The Slow Rush3.5
Hayley Williams Petals For Armor I3.5

2019
Angel Olsen All Mirrors3.5
Danny Brown uknowhatimsayin¿4.0
Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell!4.0
Noah Gundersen Lover3.5
Bon Iver i,i4.5
Crumb (USA-NY) Jinx4.0
Faye Webster Atlanta Millionaires Club3.0
Carly Rae Jepsen Dedicated3.0
Vampire Weekend Father Of The Bride3.5
Yes We Mystic Ten Seated Figures4.0
Tim Baker Forever Overhead4.0
Billie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?3.5
Tiny Ruins Olympic Girls4.5
Sharon Van Etten Remind Me Tomorrow3.5

2018
Dan Mangan More or Less3.5
Father John Misty God's Favorite Customer3.5
Ben Howard Noonday Dream4.0

2017
Tame Impala Currents B-Sides and Remixes3.5
Noah Gundersen White Noise4.0
Moses Sumney Aromanticism4.5
The War On Drugs A Deeper Understanding3.5
Lorde Melodrama3.5
Kendrick Lamar DAMN.4.0
Thundercat Drunk4.0

2016
Tove Lo Lady Wood3.5
Bon Iver 22, A Million5.0
Polyenso Pure In The Plastic4.0
Ray LaMontagne Ouroboros4.5

2015
Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion3.0
Noah Gundersen Carry the Ghost3.0
Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell5.0
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly5.0
Andy Shauf The Bearer of Bad News4.0
The Decemberists What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World4.0

2014
Hey Rosetta! Second Sight4.0
Ben Howard I Forget Where We Were4.5
Field Report Marigolden3.5
Tove Lo Queen of the Clouds3.5
My Brightest Diamond This Is My Hand3.5
The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream4.0
Dan Mangan Club Meds4.5

2013
HRVRD From the Bird's Cage4.0

2012
Anberlin Vital3.5
best birthday present ever
Ellie Goulding Halcyon3.0
Silversun Pickups Neck of the Woods3.5

2011
Dan Mangan Oh Fortune4.0
Thrice Major/Minor3.0
A very pleasant surprise. During the infrequent moments on Beggars where I felt there was a little punch missing, this more than makes up for it.
Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver4.5
The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection)3.0
The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum3.5
City and Colour Little Hell3.5
As Alexisonfire steadily declines in quality, Dallas Green's solo work simply can't help but be more and more delightful with each release. Little Hell is certainly no exception.
Hey Rosetta! Seeds4.0
The Decemberists The King Is Dead4.0
Colin Meloy! Watch him detoxing from a hazardous album of the yesteryear! See him write a celtic song! A country song! An REM song! Hear him and his fabulous Decemberists play sexy tunes on The King is Dead (with 100% less pretense) before you let 2011 get off to a poor start! rAlso, rate the album higher than a four and win the automatic approval of anybody dapper enough to recognise brilliance.

2010
Underoath Ø (Disambiguation)2.5
Young the Giant Young the Giant3.0
Anberlin Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place3.0
It'll be easy for a lot of Anberlin fans who weren't head-over-heels for New Surrender to dismiss
Dark Is the Way, Light is the Place as another mid-tempo'd, half-hearted exercise in sold out pop-rock
balladry but, really, they'd be missing the entire point. See, New Surrender suffered from a suffocating
laziness on the band's behalf; Dark Is the Way does not. By leaving space and truly working together as
a functioning band, Anberlin both accentuate their mid-tempo'd compositions and make the rockin'
numbers even more impressive. I'd reckon, with Dark Is the Way, Anberlin's blown New Surrender
out of the water and jostled the throne Cities sits on a little more convincingly than I would've
expected.
Ray LaMontagne God Willin' & The Creek Don't Rise4.0
The National High Violet4.5
Ellie Goulding Lights3.5

2009
Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect3.0
Thrice Beggars3.5
David Bazan Curse Your Branches5.0
fun. Aim and Ignite3.5
As Tall As Lions You Can't Take It With You3.5
Dan Mangan Nice, Nice, Very Nice3.5
Anchor and Braille Felt2.5
August Burns Red Constellations3.0
Ah, it's a beautiful thing to witness potential finally being realized -- and that's exactly what August Burns Red do with Constellations. Carrying over the positive qualities and disposing of most of the discrepancies on Messengers, August Burns Red manages to make a varied, relatively technical and generally consistent metalcore album. Color me surprised.
Florence and the Machine Lungs3.0
Alexisonfire Old Crows / Young Cardinals3.5
The Dear Hunter Act III: Life and Death3.5
mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright!4.0
The Chariot Wars and Rumors of Wars3.0
A pleasantly short brain-beating of a record that provides lots of raw and rough riffs, but little to no differentiation. Not bad at all, Scogin, but a little variation never hurt anybody.
As Cities Burn Hell or High Water3.5
ISIS Wavering Radiant4.0
Silversun Pickups Swoon3.5
Great Lake Swimmers Lost Channels3.5
Lost Channels will be the same for you the first time you hear and every time after that. It will not grow on you and it probably won't lose any points with repeated listens. What you hear is what you get; banjos, nostalgic production, folk-y Fleet Foxes mimicking. The question for you is, then: will it be love at first sight or will it be be merely a 'like'-affair?
The Decemberists The Hazards of Love4.5
The Decemberists. I truly wonder how they manage to pull it off. They make a harpsichord sound right at home with a children?s choir, they make a 3/4 waltz of a song transition seamlessly into a classic rocker and, most importantly, they make an album with as ridiculous of a concept as The Hazards of Love absolutely incredible. An experience only made possible by listening to the album itself and taking the time to articulate the lyrics, The Hazards of Love is an impeccably crafted work of art that manages to transcend its own pretentiousness and ambitions in order to wed narrative and melody. I don?t know how you did it, Colin Meloy, but the world is surely a better place because of it. Good luck topping this one.
Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion4.0

2008
Butch Walker Sycamore Meadows3.0
Between the Buried and Me Colors_Live3.0
Copeland You Are My Sunshine4.0
You Are My Sunshine is unremarkable, but 100% sincere and evocative -- something that is painfully missing from a handful of Copeland's indie-pop contemporaries. An absolute pleasure to listen to.
Horse Feathers House With No Home3.5
Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation4.0
Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends4.0
I owe part of my adoration for Viva La Vida to the experiences I associate with listening to the album (which of there are many), but I do not revere the album solely psychologically - Viva La Vida is a potpourri of terrifically produced and composed pop music that succeeds brilliantly on its own even before you even add emotional attachment to the mix. Expanding in every direction possible from 2005's lackluster X & Y, Chris Martin and gang's willingness to deviate and explore new territories (world music, more Radiohead, weird shoegazey, oriental-esque instrumentals) ultimately succeeds in creating what will likely stand as Coldplay's chef-d'oeuvre for many years to come.
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes4.0
Opeth Watershed4.0
A friend once diagnosed me with "firstalbumitis", a terribly paralyzing condition that renders a listener incapable of loving anything more than the first album he/she heard from any given artist. In my case, this rings true with Opeth. I've heard all the Akerfeldt-glorifying testimonies on Blackwater Park, I've trodded through the murky waters in which Opethian devotees leech on to Still Life and I've even frequented the remote mountain ranges of which where Ghost Reveries-enthusiasts reside, scared of rejection from their peers. But even if Still Life or Blackwater Park are "objectively" the best albums ever - I heard Watershed first and, in my generally irrelevant opinion, it is Opeth's best album. It expands on the melodic side presented on Damnation with 'Burden' and 'Porcelain Heart', it continues the proggy rode taken in Ghost Reveries with 'Hex Omega' and 'The Lotus Eater' and it certainly makes good on the heavy promises made on Deliverance with the absolutely gut-churning 'Heir Apparent.' I honestly believe that Watershed is the sound of Opeth coming full circle with their sound and creating a masterpiece. Then again, it's also the first Opeth album I heard - the symptoms of firstalbumitis may have simply made me delusional.
Four Tet Ringer3.0
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV3.0
The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave4.0
City and Colour Bring Me Your Love3.5

2007
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II3.0
Radiohead In Rainbows5.0
Iron And Wine The Shepherd's Dog5.0
Minus the Bear Planet of Ice4.0
Tranquil and frantic all at once, Planet Of Ice utilizes every trick in the Minus the Bear book of awesome - it has outlandish freakout guitar solos, ambient and soothing interludes and plenty of sex (no euphemisms here, I mean that quite literally). All of Minus the Bear's earlier work hinted that a classic album was not a novel concept for the Seattle band - but now, the concept has been realized, Planet of Ice is absolutely perfect.
3 (USA) The End is Begun3.0
Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago4.0
The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading3.0
Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet3.0
Steven Wilson, as whiny and pretentious as ever, tells the sad story of an oversaturated, commercialized American youth broken up by media influence and ultimate boredom - and as immature as the lyrics and concept seemingly get, Wilson gets his "teenaged society in a coma" message across very clearly on Fear of a Blank Planet. Employing a handful of guest musicians, the incredible girth and dynamic of the 17-minute Anesthetize and an array of surprisingly heavy riffs/patterns, Fear of a Blank Planet paints upon an eery canvas an incredibly bleak but ultimately captivating collection of songs that eclipses all of Porcupine Tree's earlier efforts. Oh, and did I mention the positively explosive drumming a la Gavin Harrison? Fan-freaking-tastic.
Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha4.0
Anberlin Cities3.0
Finding Anberlin on a creative high, Cities is comfortably precise and exacting. The band's unique combination of soaring vocal melodies, engaging riffs and clever songwriting make up the bulk of what is one of the most stylistically diverse and experimental albums in their niche. But despite Cities tugging on all of the right heartstrings, a cluster of lackluster tracks keep it from being the masterpiece Anberlin record we'd all pretend it is.

2006
The Decemberists The Crane Wife4.5
Horse Feathers Words Are Dead4.0
Alexisonfire Crisis4.0
As Tall As Lions As Tall As Lions3.5
Thom Yorke The Eraser4.0
Underoath Define the Great Line3.0

2005
Becoming The Archetype Terminate Damnation2.5
Opeth Ghost Reveries3.5
Minus the Bear Menos El Oso3.0
Sufjan Stevens Illinois4.0
Coldplay X&Y4.0
Four Tet Everything Ecstatic3.0
The Decemberists Picaresque4.0
Iron And Wine Woman King4.0
Andrew Bird The Mysterious Production Of Eggs4.0

2004
He Is Legend I Am Hollywood3.5
Four Tet LateNightTales: Four Tet3.0
Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety3.5
Iron And Wine Our Endless Numbered Days4.0
Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans4.0
The Decemberists The Tain4.0

2003
Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place3.5
Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus3.0
Sufjan Stevens Michigan4.0
Radiohead Hail to the Thief4.0
Four Tet Rounds3.5

2002
Trespassers William Different Stars3.5
Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head4.0
The Decemberists Castaways and Cutouts4.0

2001
Radiohead Amnesiac4.5
I have come up with an infallibly wise and completely objective slogan for Radiohead's "Kid B" - "Amnesiac: better than Kid A." That, my friends, is called honest advertising.
Four Tet Pause4.0

2000
Radiohead Kid A4.5

1999
Four Tet Dialogue4.0
1997
Radiohead OK Computer5.0

1996
Andrew Bird Music Of Hair3.5
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