Average Rating: 4.31 Rating Variance: 0.17 Objectivity Score: 42% (Poorly Balanced)
Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name2008 O'Death Broken Hymns, Limbs, and Skin3.5While more accessible than 2007's Head Home, this majestic collection of gypsy punk, country, Americana is not without it's faults. The vocals can be a bit hard to listen to (especially Legs to Sin), however it is an album that everyone must hear atleast once in their life. If you like this direction that alternative country is going in, then this is an album that you will love.Opeth Watershed4.0The Interpestuals ReviveR5.0One of the best albums I have ever heard in my entire life. If you like acoustic country mixed with grunge and rock then this is THE album for you. Please contact me and you will get the album.2007 Buck 65 Situation4.0This quirky album is slowly becoming one of my favourite hip hop albums. Way Back When is a song that I MUST listen to when I'm out driving, yes... Canadians can rap!Flobots Fight with Tools3.5Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet4.5Busdriver RoadKillOvercoat3.52006 Strapping Young Lad The New Black3.5Novembre Materia4.52005 Elliott Brood Ambassador4.5When Johnny Cash died in 2003 it was a time of sadness for anyone who was connected to country music. However with his passing, the reins of country music were handed down to the new musicians and a new era of country music is starting to flourish. This new generation of musicians have found that blending country's twang music with the hopelessness of Cash is quite a lucrative success which brings me to Elliott BROOD. The trio from Toronto, Canada bill themselves as "death country", taking with them country's catchy combination of banjo, acoustic, and percussion and adding whispy, gravely vocals and songs about death and despair. The group open up Ambassador with a rather lengthy song "Twill" clocking in a 6:30. The use of this song as an opening track is something that bewilders me, because it has much more of an indie/ acoustic feel to it, something I would expect The Shins to write if they all got dumped by their girlfriends and evicted from their apartments on the same day. There isn't much in the way of "country" in the song, now that doesn't mean it's a bad song, just feels a little out of place and doesn't quite give the greatest first impression for life time fans of country music.. Luckily the rest of the album contains banjo pluckin' and guitar strummin' to pacify even the most pretentious country fan.Blackalicious The Craft4.0Busdriver Fear Of A Black Tangent4.0Nevermore This Godless Endeavor4.5Rehab Graffiti the World4.52004 Audible Mainframe Framework4.5Audible Mainframe were one of the first hip hop bands that I listened to after I discovered the Roots. The song Digital Cafe has such a profound effect on me. If you like intelligent hip hop that you can groove to for an hour this is an album that will not disappoint you. Contact me if you're having trouble finding it and I can hook you up.G Band Free Backwards Crown5.0This is one of my favourite albums of all time, words cannot do it any justice, you just need to listen to it. You can download it from the band's site ://gbandfree.com/2003 Opeth Damnation4.5Katatonia Viva Emptiness4.5The Devin Townsend Band Accelerated Evolution4.52002 Opeth Deliverance4.0Blackalicious Blazing Arrow4.5Green Carnation Light of Day, Day of Darkness5.0Nightwish Century Child4.0Busdriver Temporary Forever4.52001 Aesop Rock Labor Days4.5Opeth Blackwater Park4.52000 Rehab Southern Discomfort4.5Green Carnation Journey To The End Of The Night4.5Blackalicious Nia5.0Dark Lunacy Devoid4.01999 Mos Def Black on Both Sides4.01998 Nightwish Oceanborn4.51997 Strapping Young Lad City4.5Ween The Mollusk4.51996 Nevermore The Politics of Ecstasy4.01995 Mr. Bungle Disco Volante4.5Faith No More King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime4.51992 Faith No More Angel Dust4.51989 Faith No More The Real Thing3.5Unknown The Blend After What Came Before4.5The Blend are exactly what their band name says, they're a blend of jazz, hip hop, hard rock, and funk. Their songs are catchy, intelligently written, and accessible to anyone. This is an album everyone who likes The Roots or any Hip Hop Band should listen to.
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