| 2014 |
| Culture Shock Raindrops/Troglodyte VIP | 3.6 |
| Clueless Shuttle | 3.5 |
| The Bug Demolition Dub | 4.3 |
| About as gutter as it gets |
| Ben Frost V A R I A N T | 3.3 |
| Clarity Infinite | 4.2 |
| Bonobo Flashlight | 4.0 |
| Cloudkicker Little Histories | 3.7 |
| AES Dana and Miktek Cut. | 3.5 |
| The Bug and Earth Boa/Cold | 3.4 |
| Brackles Skank | 2.8 |
| Andy Stott Faith in Strangers | 3.7 |
| Circa Survive Descensus | 3.4 |
| Caspa 500: Episode Two | 2.5 |
| Cloudkicker Live with Intronaut | 4.0 |
| Bromance Homieland Vol. 1 | 3.4 |
| Concord Dawn The Fuzz | 3.3 |
| Carlos Cipa All Your Life You Walk | 4.0 |
| Blockhead Bells and Whistles | 4.3 |
| Akkord HTH030 | 2.5 |
| Bambounou Feel Like This/Onto This | 3.0 |
| Big K.R.I.T. Cadillactica | 3.0 |
| Boxcutter and Defcon New Yen | 3.0 |
| Cause 4 Concern Back To The Future Vol. 1 | 3.3 |
| Azealia Banks Broke With Expensive Taste | 4.2 |
| Cavalera Conspiracy Pandemonium | 2.7 |
| Arca Xen | 2.8 |
Is anyone really surprised that Arca dropped the ball on this one?
Obviously I'm in the minority looking at most of the other ratings here, but barring &&&&& (I think that's all the ampersands) given its mixtape status, Arca was never going to be able to pull off the kind of statement that an LP needs to have to ensure survival. Hype derailed - I count 2 great songs, and one good one. The rest are nothing more than explorations in the kind of slo-mo drughype that he already perfected, and then bastardized.
You see this? This is my disappointed face |
| Clark Clark | 4.3 |
| But Iradelphic was a terrible album. I'm genuinely confused here... |
| Billain Binary Vol. 3 | 2.8 |
| Bleep Bleep Selects: 25 Years of Warp | 3.7 |
| Bloom Hydraulics | 3.5 |
| Beardyman Distractions | 1.0 |
| Da fuck is this nonsense? |
| Culprate Deliverance | 3.9 |
| Arms and Sleepers Swim Team | 3.5 |
| This is typically great and all, and there's a part of me that can't wait to get hungover and just chill at the beach with this blasting out of the car, but when did AAS stop being a unique and truly interesting group and devolve into aping Dilla beats and throwing twinkly synths over the top? |
| At the Gates At War with Reality | 2.7 |
| Apollo Brown and Ras Kass Blasphemy | 3.7 |
| Black Milk If There's A Hell Below | 3.6 |
| Bruce Not Stochastic | 3.7 |
| Attaque ON LY OU | 4.2 |
| CHLLNGR Form of Release | 2.8 |
| Cern Under Another Sky | 4.4 |
| Amaranthe Massive Addictive | 3.0 |
| Army Of The Pharaohs Heavy Lies The Crown | 3.2 |
| Asura Radio Universe | 2.9 |
| Caspa 500: Episode One | 3.0 |
| For all the bro-i-ness and the EDM baiting, this is surprisingly the most solid batch of tunes that Caspa has released. Which is saying something |
| Cooly G Wait 'Til Night | 3.0 |
| Audio Nil By Mouth | 3.6 |
| Boxcutter Retina Grains | 4.0 |
| Bad Taste Recordings Black Box Three | 2.8 |
| Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta III - Saturnian Poetry | 4.0 |
| Flying Lotus You're Dead! | 3.8 |
| Caribou Our Love | 3.7 |
| Bonobo The North Borders Tour - Live | 2.5 |
| Artikal Music UK The Compilation | 4.0 |
| Brodinski I Love Techno 2014 | 3.4 |
| Blu Mar Ten Famous Last Words: Remixes - Part III | 3.6 |
| As We Draw Mirages | 3.4 |
| Childish Gambino STN MTN | 2.9 |
| The Bug Exit | 4.2 |
| So much better than anything else he's ever released |
| Between the Buried and Me Future Sequence: Live at the Fidelitorium | 4.0 |
| Bruce Just Getting Started/Tilikum | 3.2 |
| Asa Heartbeats | 3.7 |
| Clarity Hell's Gate | 4.3 |
| Anstam Names | 3.6 |
| Aphex Twin Syro | 4.0 |
| BNJMN Coil | 3.8 |
| Biome Serenity/Maple | 3.6 |
| The Contortionist Language | 3.5 |
| Basic Channel Q-Loop | 3.3 |
| Blu Mar Ten Famous Last Words: Remixes - Part II | 3.8 |
| Benton The Callin' | 2.8 |
| Banks Goddess | 4.7 |
Marry me
Also: "Bitch I'm a motherfuckin' Goddess" |
| Bok Bok and Tom Trago Night Voyage Tool Kit II | 3.2 |
| Aspherium The Fall of Therenia | 3.8 |
| Code Orange I Am King | 2.7 |
| Call Super Suzi Ecto | 3.5 |
| Airhead October/Macondo | 4.1 |
| Circus Records Circus Reloaded Vol. 1 | 3.3 |
| Rustie Green Language | 2.2 |
| The Bug Angels and Devils | 3.3 |
| Conforce Depth Over Distance | 4.0 |
| Basement Jaxx Junto | 3.2 |
Junto is something of an enigma, in that the end result is not completely turgid in the way that 95% of long-delayed material by artists who mistake "hiatus" for "hibernation" tends to be. But it's also not the great return of one of the zaniest and machiavellian acts in house music either.
In truth, the album is the sound of a group in a state of flux. That the group in particular, who's path to stardom was dictated by their distaste for what they saw as "bland" and "robotic" dance pop music, should find themselves re-emerging into a world of chart-topping acts like Disclosure & Rudimental and immediately dust themselves off and pick up immediately from where they left off is the true marvel. Though it would be fair to say that the Jaxx have taken more than a few cues from today's current chart-risers (and keeping in mind that Basement Jaxx basically set the template for commercial house music), there's enough on offer here to recall the glory days of Remedy and Rooty (the truly excellent 'Mermaid of Salinas' wouldn't sound remotely out of place on the latter).
So while it's a joy to report that the duo haven't really missed a beat in terms of delivering on big room euphoria, Junto, while being a good album in a number of respects, is also curiously lacking in catchy hooks. It's a foot-tapping, knee-slapping jaunt into good old fashioned dance music, the kind whose poker face could only ever be lopsided, but there's little left by the end of it to mark any kind of a lasting legacy. |
| Asa and Sorrow Legendary | 3.7 |
| Broods Evergreen | 3.8 |
| Biome Lost Dubs - Part II | 3.7 |
| DJ Shadow Liquid Amber | 0.5 |
| "If this is the type of music that promoters deemed "too future", I'm glad he's getting kicked off the decks. He's pilfering from about five different Soundcloud sub-genres - all at once - and none of them are working" |
| Adebisi Shank This is the Third Album | 4.0 |
| Airhead FACT Mix 455 | 4.0 |
| Alex Clare Three Hearts | 2.6 |
| Addison Groove Turn Up the Silence | 3.4 |
| So 'Massamune' is the best tune Headhunter's ever released |
| Biffy Clyro Similarities | 3.3 |
| Break Coming 4 U/What A Little Moonlight Can Do | 3.4 |
| Blu Mar Ten Famous Last Words: Remixes - Part I | 4.0 |
| Break Groove With It/Soldier | 3.3 |
| Bop Punk's Not Dead | 4.2 |
| Boxcutter Shea | 3.7 |
| Best material he's made in about 7 years |
| BNJMN Wanderlust | 4.2 |
| I now (inadvertently) have Bieber on my iPod |
| Anberlin Lowborn | 2.8 |
| Calyx and Teebee FabricLive.76 | 3.8 |
| Airhead Believe | 3.5 |
| Common Nobody's Smiling | 2.6 |
| Actress Xoul | 3.8 |
| Anna Calvi Strange Weather | 4.3 |
| Araabmuzik For Professional Use Only 2 | 2.5 |
| You have just read my soundoff for Araabmuzik |
| NOISIA Purpose | 4.0 |
Perhaps the best thing to take away from Purpose is Noisia's stringent attention to
detail and uniformity. It's been some time since we've seen this Dutch trio so straight-
forward in their approach, and in their attempt to create such a streamlined release they've
hit upon a somewhat formulaic yet rewarding blueprint.
I'm not quite sure what the other soundoff is referring to with "their older underground
style", mainly because a) they never had an underground style, and b) if they did, this
isn't it. Purpose is still based upon the same principles that saw Noisia turn their
back on seminal tunes like 'The Tide' and 'Exodus'; the focus here is still very much on the
pummeling funk that Neosignal, the Virus crew, Project Trendkill and all the Vision
affiliates have been curating for the last 6 or 7 years. And while it's an old trick, it's
still a good 'un. Just don't come in here expecting the kind of genre epilepsy that Noisia
have played with in the past... this boiler room is open to one sound only
Well shit, he went and deleted it |
| Cerna Lost In Indigo | 2.0 |
| Borealis (ROU) Kallionyma | 3.5 |
| Bill Brewster After Dark - Nightshift | 3.3 |
| Cloud Boat Model of You | 4.0 |
| Circular Moon Pool | 3.8 |
| Biome Layers - Part II | 4.1 |
| ClekClekBoom Recordings Paris Club Music Vol. 2 | 3.3 |
| Brontide Artery | 3.7 |
| Bad Taste Recordings Soul Synthetic | 2.7 |
| Cooh Propast | 4.2 |
| Chord Marauders Groove Booty Vol. III | 3.6 |
| Air Music for Museum | 0.5 |
| Easily the most boring thing I have ever heard in my entire life |
| Ab-Soul These Days... | 2.2 |
| Alias Pitch Black Prism | 4.0 |
| Buraka Som Sistema Buraka | 2.5 |
| Claro Intelecto Stanza | 3.7 |
| BNJMN IV | 3.3 |
| Cosmin TRG FIZIC01 | 4.3 |
| Caustic Window Caustic Window | 3.7 |
| Akkord HTH20 | 3.0 |
| Cold Recordings CO.LD Vol. 1 | 3.7 |
| Arch Enemy War Eternal | 2.7 |
| Anathema Distant Satellites | 3.8 |
| Answer Code Request Code | 4.2 |
| Chris.SU Illusion Of Choice | 3.4 |
| Constrobuz For Light | 3.7 |
| Apathy and Celph Titled War Syndrome | 4.0 |
| Bok Bok Your Charizmatic Self | 4.0 |
| That's a lovely view out the window, all the foliage and such, but this thing has basslines that would fell trees |
| Apathy Connecticut Casual | 3.4 |
| Biome Lost Dubs | 3.4 |
If this was a free release I'd recommend it more. As it is, there's not too much of interest
here beyond the excellent 'The Watchmen' |
| Blue Sky Black Death Euphoric Tape III | 4.3 |
| Burzum The Ways of Yore | 3.3 |
| Beneath No Symbols 004 | 3.0 |
| Anubis Hitchhiking to Byzantium | 3.3 |
| Boxed Boxed Vol. 2 | 4.0 |
| Ben Frost A U R O R A | 4.2 |
| Break Moving On/On The Off | 3.4 |
| Benjamin Damage Up/Acid Bath | 3.8 |
| ASC Truth Be Told | 4.6 |
| Truth Be Told: ASC as The Wizard of Oz hiding behind the veil in the hall of the gods operating the machinery of night |
| Call Super Depicta/Acephale II | 3.9 |
| Audio Heads Up/Stampede | 3.4 |
| Coldplay Ghost Stories | 2.5 |
| Casualties of Cool Casualties of Cool | 3.6 |
| Alexandre Desplat Godzilla | 4.0 |
| Agalloch The Serpent and the Sphere | 2.7 |
| The Black Keys Turn Blue | 3.2 |
| Billain Colossus | 3.7 |
| Closure in Moscow Pink Lemonade | 4.0 |
| Beneath Vobes | 3.4 |
| BADBADNOTGOOD III | 3.7 |
| Atmosphere Southsiders | 3.3 |
| Baths Ocean Death | 3.4 |
| Barrows Red Giant | 4.5 |
| Bleep Bleep:10 | 3.7 |
| Crib45 Marching Through the Borderlines | 4.3 |
| Aim Drum Machines and VHS Dreams | 4.0 |
| Biome Cromos | 4.0 |
| Army Of The Pharaohs In Death Reborn | 2.4 |
| Coni Comfort Zone | 2.4 |
| Maya Jane Coles Fabric 75 | 3.7 |
| Not her best mix, but still another lasting testament to the power that is MJC behind the decks |
| Breach (UK) Artis | 3.3 |
| Bluetech Cosmic Dubs | 3.5 |
| Cult Leader Nothing for Us Here | 3.5 |
| Alix Perez U | 3.2 |
| Squarepusher Music for Robots | 0.5 |
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| Beats Antique A Thousand Faces - Act II | 4.0 |
| Amatorski From Clay To Figures | 2.5 |
| Austrian Death Machine Triple Brutal | 1.5 |
| Chevelle La Gárgola | 3.3 |
| Biome Small Pieces/Mystery (130 Edit) | 3.9 |
| Apollo Brown Thirty Eight | 4.5 |
| CunninLynguists Strange Journey Vol. 3 | 4.2 |
| Asusu Velez (A Made Up Sound Remixes 1 & 2) | 4.0 |
| Acres Solace | 3.2 |
| Counterstrike Rotterdam Sangomas | 3.1 |
| Biome Layers | 4.2 |
For someone who has never been very good at his publicized stock and trade, it's refreshing
to hear Biome step away from the confines of deepblogstep. Beginning where Spawned
left off, listening to Layers is akin to hearing Blawan discovering techno - Biome,
in discarding the tired tropes and formats of his homebase, has easily crafted his most
memorable release yet, and one that is more than aptly named |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion | 3.8 |
| Clint Mansell and Kronos Quartet Noah | 4.4 |
| Compa (UK) Sonic Textures Vol. 2 | 4.4 |
| Circus Records Grand Central | 2.7 |
| Bambounou Take It Out On Me/Ignition (Remixes) | 3.0 |
| That French Fries mix can fuck right off, but Garnier takes 'Ignition' and turns it into a speedball. Will dance in appropriate fashion |
| Calibre Shelflife 3 | 3.9 |
| You know, it'd be real nice if Martin wasn't so low key when it comes to dropping LPs. I never feel like I'm suitably hyped when they're released |
| Sorrow (UK) Hieroglyphics | 3.2 |
| Ehhhhhhh |
| Coki Demonator/Indian Girl | 1.5 |
| Beneath RA.407 | 4.2 |
| Compa (UK) FACT Mix 431 | 3.7 |
| Christopher Rau Mehris Mood | 3.7 |
| Caspa Dubstep Sessions 2014 | 2.7 |
| Architects Lost Forever // Lost Together | 3.8 |
| Clark Superscope | 3.3 |
| Compa (UK) Outer Lines | 4.7 |
| CHON Woohoo! | 3.3 |
| Boxed Boxed Vol. 1 | 3.7 |
| Black Milk Glitches In The Break | 2.9 |
| Amit Parallel | 4.0 |
| A/T/O/S A/T/O/S | 4.1 |
| Compa (UK) Let Them/Earths Orbit | 4.3 |
| Addison Groove Presents James Grieve | 3.3 |
| Commodo F_ck Mountain/Good Grief | 3.9 |
| Answer Code Request Breathe | 4.0 |
| Aether Solace | 3.8 |
| ASC, Sam KDC and Synth Sense AUXWL001-003 | 3.7 |
| Chymera Tidal/Moot Point | 3.5 |
| Adrenaline Mob Men Of Honor | 1.5 |
| Congi Tidal Fragments | 4.2 |
| Cashmere Cat Wedding Bells | 3.8 |
| Crosses Crosses | 3.7 |
| Biosphere Patashnik 2 | 4.0 |
| Bluetech Spacehop Chronicles Vol. 1 | 3.3 |
| Behemoth The Satanist | 3.8 |
| Broken Bells After The Disco | 4.0 |
| The Chain Gang Of 1974 Daydream Forever | 3.2 |
| Broods Broods | 4.0 |
| Blue Sky Black Death Glaciers//Melted | 3.7 |
| Bibio Green | 3.3 |
| Circus Records Circus 2.5 (The Remixes) | 3.0 |
| Actress Ghettoville | 3.4 |
| Christopher Rau Broke | 4.0 |
| Cooly G Hold Me | 3.3 |
| Boddika and Joy Orbison More Maim/In Here | 4.2 |
| The dream team is back. 2014 just got hot |
| Alcest Shelter | 3.8 |
| Constrobuz Beats Vol. 7 | 3.2 |
| Akkord FACT Mix 421 | 3.0 |
| Bill Callahan Have Fun With God | 3.2 |
| Black Swan (USA-NY) Tone Poetry | 3.3 |
| Carlos Cipa and Sophia Jani Relive | 3.4 |
| Audrey Fall Mitau | 4.3 |
| The Crystal Method The Crystal Method | 2.3 |
| Conforce Travelogue | 3.9 |
| Boys Noize Out Of The Black - The Remixes | 2.8 |
| 2013 |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms Refuge | 3.3 |
| Angel Haze Dirty Gold | 3.7 |
| Clams Casino Instrumental Mixtape 3 | 3.4 |
| After the Burial Wolves Within | 2.5 |
| Your album is not interesting enough. You must have more than 50 chord tones before being released |
| B.o.B Underground Luxury | 2.3 |
| Boxcutter Gnosis | 3.1 |
| Fucking footwork, fucking everywhere. Fuck |
| Biostacis Biostacis Revisited | 4.0 |
| Burial Rival Dealer | 4.3 |
| Okay, I'm going to have to review this fucker |
| Actress Grey Over Blue | 3.3 |
| Blue Sky Black Death Euphoric Tape II | 4.0 |
| Beyonce Beyonce | 3.7 |
| Childish Gambino Because the Internet | 4.0 |
| Compa (UK) Narabeh/Alpha | 4.2 |
| ASC Archival​:​02 EX​.​EP | 3.8 |
| Bambounou Ignition/Take It Out On Me | 3.6 |
| Bok Bok and Tom Trago Get Me What You Want | 3.9 |
| Celldweller Blackstar - Act One: Purified | 2.2 |
| Balkansky XII | 1.5 |
| Bar 9 Brave New World | 3.5 |
| Conforce RA.392 | 3.3 |
| Chord Marauders Groove Booty Vol. II | 3.4 |
| Bok Bok RA.391 | 4.4 |
| Beneath No Symbols 003 | 3.7 |
| Celeste Animale(s) | 3.5 |
| Celldweller Zombie Killer | 2.0 |
| Conforce Kinetic Image | 4.2 |
| Borealis (ROU) Glittervoice | 4.6 |
| Breach (UK) DJ-Kicks: Breach | 2.5 |
| Bonobo LateNightTales: Bonobo | 3.2 |
| Blu Mar Ten Famous Lost Words | 4.4 |
| Boys Noize FabricLive.72 | 3.6 |
| Cosmin TRG Panoramic | 4.1 |
| Andy C Nightlife 6 | 4.0 |
Couple of things here:
Firstly, fuck you Beatport for making me have to cue up these mixes myself.
And now for the cover:
1) YO ANDY, WHERE YOUR HAT AT MANE??
2) This looks like a bad Kaskade album
Despite cutting all his wax to the same tempo, and thus negating the need to beatmatch at all, Andy is still one of the greats. The kind of DJ who can knock out just about every commercial jump up drum and bass track from the last year or so (so, pretty much everything off of Ram then) and still knock it clear out of the park. If I had tints in my hair and referred to things as "molly", I'd be off my nut. If I had to be in the same club as said swine, well this is what should be playing |
| Axel Boman Family Vacation | 4.0 |
| Caspian Hymn For The Greatest Generation | 3.9 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Try Not To Destroy Everything You Love | 3.7 |
| Audio Force Of Nature | 3.3 |
| ASC Programme 02 | 4.4 |
| 'Stolen Memories' got dat groove son. Making those kids space bounce like Sandra Bullock |
| Clara Moto Blue Distance | 4.0 |
| Andy C Haunting/Workout | 3.4 |
| Adrian Sherwood and Pinch Music Killer | 3.6 |
| Arkist Summer Shimmer/Whipper Snapper | 4.3 |
| Black Sun Empire Variations On Black | 3.4 |
| Coki Voodoo Dolls/Prototype | 2.0 |
| Akkord Akkord | 3.3 |
| Action Bronson and Party Supplies Blue Chips 2 | 3.4 |
| Autechre L-event | 2.5 |
| Arcade Fire Reflektor | 2.8 |
| Cern Nostromo | 4.0 |
| Benjamin Damage 4600 | 4.0 |
| Blindead Absence | 3.7 |
| Active Child Rapor | 3.6 |
| Chris.SU Together In The Night/The Burning | 3.7 |
| Clara Hill Walk the Distance | 2.3 |
| Blut Aus Nord What Once Was...Liber III | 3.5 |
| Counterstrike Devil Fish | 3.4 |
| Beats Antique A Thousand Faces - Act I | 3.7 |
| Black Milk No Poison No Paradise | 2.6 |
| Annie Mac Annie Mac Presents: 2013 | 3.2 |
| Circles Infinitas | 3.0 |
| Alter Bridge Fortress | 3.4 |
| Anna Calvi One Breath | 3.3 |
| Audio Peepshow (Audio Remix)/Headroom VIP | 4.3 |
| Chase and Status Brand New Machine | 2.4 |
| Convex Industries Zero Point One | 3.0 |
| Kelela Cut 4 Me | 3.8 |
| Blue Sky Black Death Glaciers | 3.2 |
| Lorde Pure Heroine | 3.8 |
| But Red she's only 16, she'll grow into those shoes! |
| Attaque Blink/Good To Me | 3.9 |
| Camo and Krooked Zeitgeist | 3.1 |
| Cloud Boat Book of Hours - Remixes | 3.8 |
| B9 LP | 3.9 |
| Arts The Beatdoctor Lazy Thunder | 3.1 |
| Anathema Universal | 4.3 |
| CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe | 3.5 |
| Bill Callahan Dream River | 3.7 |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal II | 3.5 |
| The Bloody Beetroots Hide | 3.6 |
| In order to be excessive, one has to truly push the limits of excess. And Hide succeeds in doing this, more so than any of the dime-a-dozen filth merchants floating around with their tooth-rattling buzzsaws and synth strobes. Hide is a monument to decadence, with tongue wedged firmly in cheek. To write it off as "more of the same" is to miss the point entirely -- Paul McCartney on a dubstep track?! *cue David Caruso sunglasses*. All that can be said about this album is as follows: After the ringing in your ears slowly subsides, the only thought left is that cocaine is a helluva drug |
| Audio Bag Of Bones | 3.1 |
| Answer Code Request Crack City | 3.8 |
| Artificial Intelligence You Can Dream | 3.6 |
| Cloudkicker Subsume | 4.0 |
| Blacklistt Blacklistt | 3.2 |
| Aside from that abhorrent intro track (get rid of it, no white boy from NZ has any business whatsoever rapping), Blacklistt is a surprisingly decent album. It relies more heavily on melody than any kind of overt song structure or riffs, which is fine, except that certain songs seem to stall in between the bursts of energy that the group have attempted to perfect for some 10 years now. And when they do follow a pattern, the group seem to lose themselves while attempting to find something to do beyond the standard verse chorus, verse chorus syndrome - it certainly doesn't help that the guitarist relies more on undercurrents than directly leading the songs. Still though, Blindspott (I mean Blacklistt) are back, this time with a real drummer (even though he's now left the band as well), and a DJ who doesn't really do anything except throw a few vinyl scratches into the mix. If I was 14 and this was 10-12 years ago, I'd be happy. Sadly, I'm not, and this is 2013, so this curious time-traveling relic of an album is merely good. Still slightly better than End The Silence though, but the boys are still definitely denying their Hybrid Theory-era Linkin Park obsession and are still firmly entrenched with their love for the Deftones. |
| Constrobuz Trap Theory | 2.7 |
| ASC Programme 01 | 4.0 |
| Banks London | 3.8 |
| Call Super Black Octagons | 3.4 |
| Arctic Monkeys AM | 3.4 |
| I'm not the only one that heard 'Arabella' and immediately thought that everyone's favourite audio hooligans had just ripped off 'War Pigs', right? |
| Akeldama Everything Beautiful | 2.3 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Pain Is Beauty | 4.0 |
| Bluetech Dreaming Into Being | 2.7 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Hail to the King | 3.2 |
| Christopher Rau Derive Vol. 4 | 3.5 |
| Ben Frost F A R | 3.3 |
| Ben Frost Black Marrow | 3.1 |
| Ben Frost Sleeping Beauty | 2.3 |
| Boddika Steam | 3.2 |
| Clara Moto Joy Departed | 4.8 |
| BCee Lost and Found | 3.2 |
| Clark Feast/Beast | 4.0 |
| Born of Osiris Tomorrow We Die Alive | 2.2 |
| Props to the engineer and whatever autonomous autobot worked on this, because they've literally stripped every single shred of life out of the instruments. This thing is produced within a fucking inch of its life. Also, gotta love the strings in the opening track - that's some true Michael Bay-esque cock-tugging there, making me think something epic might actually happen. Also we get it, you have a theremin, that doesn't mean you look any less like an idiot when you slap the air around it every 5 seconds |
| BT A Song Across Wires | 2.3 |
| Why is 'Skylarking' so short? And what the hell is with this album anyway? And... who the hell am I talking to right now? |
| Asa and Sorrow Militant/Nightshade | 3.6 |
| Bloc Party The Nextwave Sessions | 3.3 |
| Bar 9 The Lost Dubs | 3.8 |
| Consequence (NZ) Etcht EP 001 | 4.1 |
| Exit Records Mosaic: Volume Two | 4.7 |
| It's disgusting how in love I am with this |
| Brackles Go | 3.6 |
| BNJMN Hummingbird | 3.4 |
| Biome Abyss | 3.5 |
| Chimaira Crown of Phantoms | 2.5 |
| Benton The Free EP Vol. 2 | 2.4 |
| B9 Avenue | 3.4 |
| Amit Human Warfare/No Mercy | 3.8 |
| Commodo Space Cash | 4.3 |
| AlunaGeorge Body Music | 3.1 |
| Addison Groove and Sam Binga BS3 | 3.6 |
| Black Tusk Tend No Wounds | 3.3 |
| American Head Charge Shoot | 2.7 |
| Arca &&&&& | 3.6 |
| Counterparts The Difference Between Hell and Home | 3.8 |
| Benton The Free EP Vol. 1 | 2.8 |
| Akkord RA.372 | 3.7 |
| Calibre Valentia | 3.2 |
| ASC Time Heals All | 4.8 |
| Album of the year - nothing is even going to come close to topping this |
| Bloom FACT Mix 391 | 4.3 |
| Staggeringly on point; Bloom takes the grubby synth low end of Girl Unit and drops it in a junkyard of elastic grime beatdowns. Expect Night Slugs to snap him up before the end of the year |
| ASC Machine Love | 5.0 |
| Ammunition Recordings Centennial | 2.7 |
| Coni My Secret Diving | 3.2 |
| CHVRCHES EP | 3.3 |
| Araabmuzik The Remixes, Vol. 1 | 3.4 |
| Ajapai Unlock | 1.5 |
| Maya Jane Coles Comfort | 3.8 |
| Huminahuminahuminahuminahuminahuminahumina |
| Billy Woods Dour Candy | 2.4 |
| Brunks BRNK001 | 2.3 |
| Floorplan Paradise | 4.6 |
| Above, Convenience Store! Building In Search Of The Sun | 2.5 |
| bansheebeat Spiral Power | 4.3 |
| Nightclubbin' in Midgar |
| Bliss N Eso Circus In The Sky | 3.8 |
| Author Forward Forever | 4.3 |
| Amon Amarth Deceiver of the Gods | 3.9 |
| August Burns Red Rescue & Restore | 3.2 |
| Artifact Drafty | 3.6 |
| Arkist Rendezvous (SCB Remixes) | 4.2 |
| Boys Noize Go Hard | 2.8 |
| Concord Dawn Numbers Will Kill Us All | 3.1 |
| Constrobuz Beats Vol. 6 | 3.4 |
| Asusu Velez/Rendering | 3.7 |
| Clueless Libertine | 3.5 |
| Zomby With Love | 3.8 |
| Beneath Strike A Pose/Bellz | 3.6 |
| Black Swan (USA-NY) Redemption | 4.5 |
| Azizi Gibson Ghost In The Shell | 4.1 |
| Counterstrike The Seed | 2.3 |
| CHON Newborn Sun | 3.7 |
| Airhead For Years | 2.8 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Everblack | 3.4 |
| Boysetsfire While A Nation Sleeps... | 3.7 |
| Atma Weapon Dark Tower | 3.5 |
| Action Bronson Saaab Stories | 2.9 |
| Children of Bodom Halo of Blood | 3.0 |
| Adrian Sherwood and Pinch Bring Me Weed | 3.4 |
| Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest | 3.4 |
| Close (UK) Getting Closer | 3.4 |
| City and Colour The Hurry and the Harm | 3.3 |
| Jon Hopkins Immunity | 4.4 |
| Aquatic Lab Aquatic Lab Sessions Vol.2 | 3.6 |
| Clarity Terminology | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here | 3.2 |
| Baths Obsidian | 4.1 |
| Akkord Navigate | 3.3 |
| Culprate The Great Expedition | 3.4 |
| Burzum Sol austan, Mani vestan | 2.5 |
| I wonder if Lord Burzum dresses up in his viking costume when he sits down in his cabin and "composes" this nonsense? I guess he didn't get the part in the new Phantom Of The Opera musical, and so he wanders the forests shooting bolts into trees and playing on his made-for-kids casio |
| Cloud Boat Book of Hours | 4.4 |
| Chord Marauders Groove Booty | 3.8 |
| Bloom Maze Temple | 3.9 |
| Calibre Spill | 3.7 |
| Alix Perez Chroma Chords | 2.4 |
| ASC Polemic | 3.7 |
| Bibio Silver Wilkinson | 3.8 |
| Circus Records Circus Two | 3.2 |
| Benton Reflections | 2.6 |
| Bill Brewster After Dark | 3.1 |
| Black Jazz Consortium Codes And Metaphors | 4.1 |
| Benga Chapter II | 0.5 |
| Breach (UK) Jack | 2.8 |
| Compa (UK) Sonic Textures Vol. 1 | 4.2 |
| Altar of Plagues Teethed Glory and Injury | 4.2 |
| Amorphis Circle | 3.6 |
| Colin Stetson New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light | 3.5 |
| Cosmin TRG Gordian | 3.8 |
| Djrum Seven Lies | 3.7 |
| I feel like I should love this; it's DjRum, which alone makes it a product of uncompromising ingenuity and creative inventiveness. But realistically, Seven Lies fails to fully capitalize not only on the (justified) hype surrounding Felix Manuel, but also on that delicate "post Burial" atmosphere that Manuel has so eagerly made his own. That gritty "noir-ish" fog that's slung itself so vividly over the London skyline is almost entirely absent here - as if long form has robbed DjRum of his almost shaman-like powers. By no means the greatest thing since sliced bread, but a tasty loaf nonetheless |
| Asa Arcane | 3.8 |
| Caspa Alpha Omega | 1.5 |
| Boysetsfire Bled Dry | 2.5 |
| Black Milk Synth Or Soul | 3.0 |
| Cooh ReBirth | 4.0 |
| Saor Roots | 3.8 |
| ASC Sonic Assault | 3.5 |
| Alix Perez Annie's Song | 3.1 |
| ASC Flood Tide Rising | 2.9 |
| Cluekid Spider Monkey/Rainy Street Light | 4.0 |
| Aquasky Bring The Ruckus | 3.2 |
| Anciients Heart of Oak | 3.7 |
| Big K.R.I.T. King Remembered In Time | 3.4 |
| Compa (UK) Kalindi/Antact | 4.0 |
| Cashmere Cat Mirror Maru: Remixes | 3.4 |
| Bonobo The North Borders | 4.2 |
| Braiden FACT Mix 376 | 4.1 |
| Ash Borer Bloodlands | 3.4 |
| Arkist Never Forgotten | 3.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal | 3.2 |
| ClekClekBoom Recordings Paris Club Music Vol. 1 | 4.2 |
| Amaranthe The Nexus | 2.8 |
| Black Sun Empire From The Shadows: Remixed | 2.2 |
| Billain Blockfield/Boogie | 3.4 |
| Concord Dawn Loophole/Hendricks | 3.4 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar All Hail Bright Futures | 3.5 |
| Calibre FabricLive.68 | 4.1 |
| Bambounou Full Of Feelings | 3.2 |
| Bok Bok FADEMIX003 | 4.2 |
| Artifact Cologne Tracks | 4.5 |
| Amit Acid Trip/Don't Forget Your Roots | 3.8 |
| Asa True Forever/Ark | 4.1 |
| Cern Pinch Me/Hollow Moon | 4.3 |
| Chymera Disc | 3.8 |
| Autechre Exai | 3.4 |
| ASC Solenoid | 3.7 |
| Artifact The Way It Do/We Trapped | 2.5 |
| Birds Of Tokyo March Fires | 2.7 |
| Banks Fall Over | 4.2 |
| Clint Mansell Stoker | 3.5 |
| Call Super The Present Tense | 3.6 |
| Bad Taste Recordings Black Box Two | 3.4 |
| Auxiliary Auxcast: Volume One | 3.6 |
| Above, Convenience Store! Planetary Exiles | 2.3 |
| Benjamin Damage Heliosphere | 4.3 |
| Axel Boman Black Magic Boman | 3.7 |
| Boil aXiom | 3.7 |
| Blue Sky Black Death Euphoric Tape | 4.2 |
| ASC The Remix EP | 4.1 |
| Audio Sabretooth (Audio Remix)/Grit | 3.7 |
| Attaque Toss Them Bodies | 3.2 |
| Apparat Krieg Und Frieden | 2.7 |
| Araabmuzik For Professional Use Only | 3.7 |
| Caladan Brood Echoes Of Battle | 2.8 |
| Balam Acab VHS SHV | 2.6 |
| Balam Acab The Rape After | 2.3 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Temper Temper | 2.3 |
| Biome Light | 3.1 |
| Balam Acab Club Water Discus | 3.3 |
| Ajapai Buggin' Out/Great Impact | 2.9 |
| Biome Black Widow | 2.7 |
| Breach and Dark Sky The Click/Fallout | 3.2 |
| Christopher Rau Some | 3.6 |
| Balam Acab Slopped & Wetted | 2.5 |
| ASC Proton/Electron | 3.8 |
| A.M. Architect Pattern Language | 3.2 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension | 3.3 |
| Above, Convenience Store! Gasfarming | 1.5 |
| Conforce Time Dilation | 4.0 |
| Constrobuz The Great Struggle | 4.6 |
| Beneath Duty/Texers | 4.0 |
| Beneath be on some other shit |
| Arts The Beatdoctor Lost Track Of Time: Unreleased 2002 - 2012 | 3.9 |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal | 3.7 |
| Actress Silver Cloud | 3.2 |
| Actress returns from his soul searching, church-despairing R.I.P with more of the fucked-up glitch-riddled scarred and battered beat-making that made him famous in the first place. And while Silver Cloud might boast an impressive pedigree, it's also something of a taxing listen. But enough of this - lets talk about how Ghettoville is fast becoming the "blue steel" of the UK underground. "You gotta tame the beast before you let it out of its cage Billy" |
| Biffy Clyro Opposites | 4.1 |
| Emancipator Dusk to Dawn | 2.7 |
| Barker and Baumecker Remixes | 4.0 |
| Biome Spawned | 3.8 |
I've never been the biggest fan of Biome, though my lack of admiration has never stemmed from the young producer's lack of talent - far from it in fact. Biome clearly has a knack for sound and rhythm, and I'm a fan of many of his ideas - I just don't think he has the nous to be able to carry a tune for 5+ minutes, simply because he lacks the kind of variation that's become all too apparent within this resurgence of dungeon-style dubstep. But in a few short years Biome has risen through the ranks, winning the hearts of many and signing with some impressive imprints thanks to his apparently impressive and winning formula.
Spawned's move into the kind of bleakhouse outlooks and cold ambigious techno of the more hermetically inclined European sect is by no means a surprising one though, and Biome is by no means the first dubstep producer to gaze longingly across the waters to Berlin - pretty much all of Scuba's Hotflush roster now considers themselves luminaries of Berghain's sound. What is surprising is how this new "sound" (I say sound because all of Biome's traits and cliches are still here in abundance) has opened up new ways for the producer to follow through on his early promises. This is easily the best Biome has ever sounded, and counting on production alone, this is some next level shizz. If he continues plowing his trade in this new vein, then you can consider me a born again Biome fan |
| Ulrich Schnauss A Long Way to Fall | 3.5 |
| Ben UFO FabricLive.67 | 5.0 |
| If Ben UFO's Rinse mix was the "future sound of London", then this is simply the future sound of sound itself. An absolutely ruthless mix from one third of the acclaimed Hessle Audio labelrunners, but also one that's not immediately rewarding. Ben takes the amorphous and genre-less sounds of London's latest and greatest and drops them into a murky ether, shaping them into hinges and linchpins that hold up an even greater sound when all glued together. One of the most ambitious productions he's ever lent his name to, and a watershed moment for the acclaimed DJ and post pitchfork dance music everywhere |
| Cluekid Dolphin | 3.8 |
| ASAP Rocky LONG.LIVE.A$AP | 3.3 |
| Brodinski FACT Mix 365 | 3.6 |
| Nosaj Thing Home | 3.0 |
| Answer Code Request RA.345 | 2.8 |
| Skrillex Leaving | 1.0 |
In all honesty, this is probably Sonny at his absolute worst and the reason isn't simply because of how horribly banal the music is. I've talked before about how the day will eventually come when Skrillex will undoubtedly shoot himself in the foot by experimenting and, in the process, completely alienate his entire core fanbase. And with brostep already on a downwards momentum, it's not surprising to see Moore trying to branch out, what is surprising is the route he's taken, and just who he's attempting to ripoff this time around.
Points for trying (well actually no, not really at all), but you've really gotta laugh at how desperate Moore has really become if this is what he intends to do with his time now. The minimal percussion, the sea of bass rising up underneath, the downtuned and pitch-shifted vocals - oh, and of course the "lonely street at midnight" artwork.... I guess the grammy awards and pop star hookups weren't enough, Skrillex must want some real fans now. And from the looks of things, he's willing to do anything to get them |
| 2012 |
| Amiensus Restoration | 2.0 |
| Blue Sky Black Death Skull And Bones | 3.3 |
| Circle Takes the Square Decompositions: Volume Number One | 3.0 |
| B9 Textural Kandscapes | 2.8 |
| Blue Stahli Antisleep Vol. 03 | 1.5 |
| Commercial Suicide Commercial Suicide Is Painless | 3.8 |
| Burial Truant/Rough Sleeper | 3.6 |
| Big Boi Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors | 3.0 |
| Circle of Contempt Entwine the Threads | 2.4 |
| Kahn Dread/Late Night Blues | 3.0 |
| Brodinski Bromance #7 | 3.5 |
| AES Dana Pollen | 4.3 |
| Christopher Rau In The Water | 3.4 |
| Shifted Razors | 4.0 |
| The Blood of Heroes The Waking Nightmare | 2.5 |
| Black Box (UK) Hedmuk 042 | 3.3 |
| Chevelle Stray Arrows - A Collection Of Favorites | 2.5 |
| Starkey Orbits | 3.0 |
| Big Bud Blue Plus Green | 4.4 |
| Nocow Gather Strength | 4.0 |
| Wu-Block Wu-Block | 4.0 |
| Ulrich Schnauss and ASC 77 | 4.5 |
| Beneath Illusions | 4.0 |
| Untold Hemlock Recordings: Chapter One | 4.0 |
| Distance Blue Meanie/Searching | 3.0 |
| Antimatter Fear Of A Unique Identity | 2.5 |
| Bambounou Orbiting | 2.8 |
| L'Orange The Mad Writer | 4.0 |
| Code Orange Love Is Love // Return To Dust | 3.3 |
| Sigha Living With Ghosts | 3.0 |
| Trevino Tactical Mannoeuvre | 3.0 |
| Bjork Bastards | 3.0 |
| Raime Quarter Turns Over a Living Line | 4.0 |
| Calibre Renaissance | 3.9 |
| Karenn Sheworks004 | 4.5 |
| Captain Murphy Duality | 3.0 |
| Action Bronson Rare Chandeliers | 2.5 |
| Stumbleine Spiderwebbed | 3.0 |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan | 4.5 |
| Bjork Biophilia Remixes - Part Eight | 2.5 |
| Big Strick LWE 144 | 3.0 |
| Beneath TDS 029 | 3.8 |
| Thriftworks Hydromancy | 3.5 |
| Anstam Stones And Woods | 3.0 |
| All That Remains A War You Cannot Win | 1.5 |
| Apollo Brown and Guilty Simpson Dice Game | 3.8 |
| Christopher Rau Two | 2.5 |
| Redshape Square | 4.0 |
| Reso Tangram | 2.5 |
| Calyx and Teebee All Or Nothing | 3.0 |
| ASC Lost Sync - Part 2 | 3.5 |
| Answer Code Request The Host | 3.4 |
| Counterstrike Fire | 2.0 |
| Biome The Prayer/Future Past | 3.5 |
| Breakage The Promise | 4.0 |
| Arkist Two Night Stand | 4.0 |
| Call Super No Episode | 4.2 |
| Answer Code Request Main Mode | 3.5 |
| Cradle of Filth The Manticore and Other Horrors | 2.8 |
| Andy Stott Luxury Problems | 3.5 |
| Audio Soulmagnet | 2.5 |
| Amit Killer Driller/Color Blind | 4.1 |
| Artifact Burst | 4.1 |
| Kora Light Years | 3.0 |
| Shifted Sickness By Means Of Clairvoyance | 3.5 |
| Angel Haze Classick | 3.6 |
| Photek KU:PALM | 4.0 |
| Ital Tek Nebula Dance | 3.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city | 4.0 |
| Balkansky Orenda | 4.1 |
| Cashmere Cat Mirror Maru | 3.2 |
| Cause 4 Concern Alchemist | 3.4 |
| Braiden Belfry Tower | 3.4 |
| Biome Shaman | 3.0 |
| Anberlin Vital | 3.0 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs | 3.4 |
| Vessel Order Of Noise | 3.5 |
| Reso Check 1, 2 | 2.0 |
| Ben Klock fabric 66 | 4.0 |
| ARP.101 x Elliot Yorke Fluro Black | 3.6 |
| Constrobuz 8-Bit | 4.0 |
| Artifact Worn | 3.8 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence | 3.7 |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind | 4.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension | 3.0 |
| Terrence Dixon From The Far Future - Part 2 | 5.0 |
| Annie Mac Annie Mac Presents: 2012 | 3.5 |
| Consequence (NZ) and ASC Noisy Spirits In This Soul/Snow Wolf | 4.2 |
| Angel Haze New York | 3.2 |
| Benjamin Damage Swarm/Headache | 3.0 |
| Birds Of Tokyo This Fire | 3.1 |
| Flying Lotus Until the Quiet Comes | 3.0 |
| I have opinions, opinions that might only be a few hours old, thoughts and ideas assembled after 2 listens and by god you will hear them now!! |
| Beth Orton Sugaring Season | 3.8 |
| Boys Noize Out Of The Black | 2.0 |
| Hidden Orchestra Archipelago | 4.5 |
| Baauer Dum Dum | 2.7 |
| Breach and Midland 101/Somewhere | 3.3 |
| Black Sun Empire From The Shadows | 3.0 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Only The Ocean Knows | 3.4 |
| As I Lay Dying Awakened | 3.5 |
| S.P.Y What The Future Holds | 3.5 |
| Commodo and Lurka Capisce?/Glue Sniff Riddim | 4.6 |
| J:Kenzo J:Kenzo | 2.5 |
| Distance Troubles/Rugged | 2.5 |
| Deadmau5 >album title goes here< | 2.0 |
"House is a horridly stupid genre and this shit is no exception."
Oh am I going to have fun with you |
| Caspian Waking Season | 4.0 |
| Clueless On The Street | 4.3 |
| Brother Ali Mourning In America Dreaming In Color | 3.0 |
| Becoming The Archetype I Am | 2.5 |
| Mala Mala In Cuba | 3.0 |
| DJ Hazard FabricLive.65 | 4.5 |
| Biome Two Way | 2.5 |
| Sorrow (UK) Art Is Dead | 4.0 |
| ASC Lost Sync - Part 1 | 3.0 |
| Coki Bobs Pillow/Spooky | 2.3 |
| The American Dollar Ambient Three | 3.0 |
| Asa Bits And Pieces | 4.0 |
| Addison Groove Adventures In Rainbow Country | 3.0 |
| Billy Talent Dead Silence | 3.0 |
| Apathy It's The Bootleg, Muthafuckas! Vol. 3 | 3.2 |
| Silent Servant Negative Fascination | 4.0 |
| Alpha Eleventh Trip | 4.0 |
| Old Apparatus Realise | 4.0 |
| Breach (UK) FACT Mix 346 | 3.7 |
| Barker and Baumecker Transsektoral | 3.7 |
| Animal Collective Centipede Hz | 2.0 |
| Suitably shit |
| DFRNT Fading | 3.5 |
| Commodo Buckwild/Axis | 3.7 |
| Clark Fantasm Planes | 2.4 |
| Clueless VIP | 3.7 |
| Ametsub Isolatedmix 31 | 3.4 |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - Cosmosophy | 3.5 |
| Robot Koch Cosmic Waves | 4.0 |
| Groundislava Feel Me | 3.5 |
| Phaeleh From The Vaults | 3.5 |
| Archive With Us Until You're Dead | 3.6 |
| The Chariot One Wing | 3.6 |
| Circa Survive Violent Waves | 4.2 |
| Deepchord Sommer | 4.0 |
| DFRNT El Spirito | 3.0 |
| LV Sebenza | 4.0 |
| Swans The Seer | 2.5 |
| Indigo Ayahuasca/The Root | 4.0 |
| Apparat RA.326 | 3.5 |
| Blawan His He She And She | 3.0 |
| Teengirl Fantasy Tracer | 2.0 |
| Busta Rhymes Year Of The Dragon | 2.5 |
| Four Tet Pink | 3.5 |
| Bloc Party Four | 4.0 |
| Bloc Party finally give us the official sequel to Silent Alarm, and it's a whiskey-soaked, grit in your teeth, fuzzed-out, party til you puke, high-octane speedway of an album. And it has balls, big fucking balls |
| Jessie Ware Devotion | 3.5 |
| Ghostek Vacuum | 4.0 |
| Biome Pariah/Chosen | 2.5 |
| JJ DOOM Key To The Kuffs | 3.5 |
| Culprate Nightmares In Reality | 3.7 |
| Coki Don't Get It Twisted Vol. 2 | 0.5 |
| Beats Antique Contraption Vol. II | 3.4 |
| Bambounou Cobe | 3.4 |
| DJ Shadow Total Breakdown: Hidden Transmissions | 3.0 |
| Ash Borer Cold of Ages | 4.0 |
| Shed The Killer | 3.0 |
| Nocow Like Apart | 3.5 |
| Traxman Heat | 3.5 |
| Bachelors Of Science Beast/Morning Sun | 3.5 |
| Chris.SU F.A.T.E. | 2.3 |
| Blu Mar Ten Love Is The Devil: Remixes - Part III | 3.4 |
| Untold Change In A Dynamic Environment 3 | 3.5 |
| Bloc Party Four More | 3.0 |
| Tempa 50 Tracks Of Tempa | 5.0 |
| Mala Cuba Electronic/Calle F | 3.5 |
| Black Box (UK) Transmissions Vol. 2 | 3.4 |
| Arca Stretch 2 | 3.5 |
| Bloom Quartz | 3.7 |
| Cloudkicker Fade | 3.4 |
| Rivet Grifter/Sundry | 4.0 |
| The Hedgehog's Dilemma The Voice In My Head Sounds A Lot Like You | 2.0 |
| Airhead Pyramid Lake | 4.1 |
| Cooh Rebirth/Shrambo | 3.9 |
| Gaza No Absolutes in Human Suffering | 4.0 |
| Celldweller Soundtrack for the Voices in My Head Vol. 02 | 1.5 |
| Echospace Silent World | 4.0 |
| Disclosure The Face - Remixes | 3.5 |
| Jon Convex Idoru | 4.0 |
| Jake Hollis Introspective | 1.5 |
| Shut up Mindle |
| Bad Taste Recordings Bad Taste Vol. V | 3.3 |
| Testament Dark Roots of Earth | 3.5 |
| Sun Glitters Insane | 3.5 |
| Bok Bok MJT/Dark Hearts (Remix) | 3.0 |
| TNGHT TNGHT | 4.0 |
| Distance A Result Of Sound/Deserted | 3.5 |
| Purity Ring Shrines | 2.0 |
| Dark Time Sunshine ANX | 4.0 |
| Silkie and Quest Dubstep Allstars Vol. 09 | 3.5 |
| Trevino Discovery | 4.0 |
| J:Kenzo Invaderz/Depth Charge | 2.5 |
| J.Sparrow Afraid Of Me/Good Old Days | 3.0 |
| A Made Up Sound Archive II | 4.0 |
| Analogue Monsta Boom | 4.0 |
| SpectraSoul Delay No More | 3.0 |
| Deniz Kurtel and The Marcy All Stars The Way We Live | 3.5 |
| Cluekid Into The Jungle | 3.3 |
| Prose Only a Ghost by Chance | 3.5 |
| Stumbleine The Night Before | 3.5 |
| Asa Withdrawal | 3.0 |
| Sorrow (UK) Shinigami | 4.0 |
| Cooly G Playin Me | 3.2 |
| Baroness Yellow and Green | 4.0 |
| Boddika, Joy Orbison and Pearson Sound Faint/Nil (Reece)/Moist | 3.5 |
| Bury Tomorrow The Union of Crowns | 2.5 |
| Angel Haze Reservation | 3.8 |
| The Contortionist Intrinsic | 3.3 |
| Old Apparatus Derren | 4.0 |
| Oneman FabricLive.64 | 4.5 |
| Mix of the year, nothing else is really going to have a chance. Dropping Burial in at the end is just the icing on the cake |
| Jacques Greene Ready | 4.0 |
| Break Rare Earth/Dreader | 3.5 |
| Biome Shadows | 3.0 |
| Indigo Symbol #7 | 4.5 |
| Bambounou Night | 4.1 |
| Djrum Watermark/The Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn | 4.0 |
| Dismantle (UK) Warp | 4.0 |
| Borealis (ROU) Voidness | 2.8 |
| Bok Bok Southside Remixes | 3.5 |
| Azealia Banks Fantasea | 3.0 |
| Aesop Rock Skelethon | 4.0 |
Still too early to tell if this might actually be Aesop's most successful outing yet, but at the very least it's certainly his most consistent release. From purely a musical perspective, the beats have never sounded as urgent and bombastic as they are here, and while Aesop is still infatuated with multisyllabic rhyme schemes it's less of a issue here; instead of saturating the beat with an assortment of absurd pop-culture references and questionable non-sequiturs, Aesop ends up working perfectly in tandem with his background, feeding off the energy rather than simply supplementing it.
In a year that's already seen El-P dominate hip hop, Skelethon shows that the other indie hip hop star has still got plenty to say, and this new album is truly something to get excited about. |
| Bjork Biophilia Remixes - Part Seven | 3.5 |
| Teebs Cecilia Tapes Collection | 3.0 |
| A Made Up Sound Malfunctions | 3.5 |
| Blut Aus Nord What Once Was... Liber II | 3.2 |
| Childish Gambino Royalty | 2.5 |
| Blu Mar Ten Love Is The Devil: Remixes - Part II | 3.9 |
| ASC Out Of Sync | 4.0 |
| Consequence (NZ) Injunction/Chamber Music | 3.7 |
| Foals Tapes | 1.5 |
| In the words of RA: If you come to Foals from an exclusively indie rock perspective, this may blow your tiny mind. But if this is Foals' attempt to infiltrate clubland proper, it falls short. |
| Fanu Coffee Crazy | 4.0 |
| Julio Bashmore Au Seve | 4.0 |
| Claro Intelecto FACT Mix 336 | 4.0 |
| Clarity Forensics/Skirmish | 3.8 |
| Culture Shock I Remember/Troglodyte | 3.7 |
| Biome Incubus/Symmetry | 2.5 |
| Biome and Demon Incubus/Symmetry | 3.7 |
| Dusk and Blackdown High Road | 4.0 |
| Ruby My Dear Remains Of Shapes To Come | 3.0 |
| Lil Silva Club Constructions Vol. 2 | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park Living Things | 2.0 |
A Thousand Suns was a terrible album, we all know that. But at least it was LP trying to experiment and have a little fun in the wake of nu-metal's death and the less than warm reception they received when they tried to, y'know "grow up". But while ATS failed because of its experimental nature, at least they were trying to shake things up a bit. This is not a band trying at all; Living Things might not be the group's worst outing but it sure as shit is their most boring outing to date. I mean, it really is fucking boring.
The anthemic choruses that seemed to have been designed as nothing more than to give those in attendance something to do are the words of any oppressed kid scratching his heartbreak on a school desk, held in place by a group of individuals well into their thirties.The electro-pop shlock instrumentation just feels tired and washed-out, and there's just this feeling of laziness surrounding the whole affair; the tired drudgery of a group realizing that it's time for another album. It isn't a return to form (seriously, what are you guys deaf?), but it also isn't even an attempt at it. It's LP, now on the other side of the Great Success Story spiralling ever downwards without the good graces to bow out sensibly. And come on now; you're one of the most commercially-successful "rock" outfits ever to have had the chance to shout on the radio, who are you kidding with this "victimized, victimized, never again victimized" bullshit?
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| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage | 3.5 |
| Groundislava TV Dream | 3.0 |
| Agalloch Faustian Echoes | 3.0 |
| Bosse-de-Nage III | 4.3 |
| Nymfo Characters | 4.5 |
| Untold Change In A Dynamic Environment 2 | 3.5 |
| Darling Farah Body | 4.0 |
| Bjork Biophilia Remixes - Part Six | 3.0 |
| Audio Fall Back/Rust | 4.0 |
| Clueless Griswald House | 3.3 |
| Ikonika I Make Lists | 3.5 |
| Stumbleine Ghosting | 4.0 |
| Cluekid Grim | 3.7 |
| Concord Dawn Air Chrysalis | 2.8 |
| Blawan Long Distance Open Water Worker | 3.5 |
| S_W_Z_K S_W_Z_K | 3.5 |
| Acres Acres | 3.7 |
| Kahn Percy/Fierce | 3.5 |
| Netsky 2 | 2.0 |
| Well this was a rather serendipitous choice for an album title |
| Spineshank Anger Denial Acceptance | 2.0 |
| Trey, I'll give you a hint: the rating looks a little like this |
| Azizi Gibson x Jeremiah Jae Ignorant Prayers | 4.1 |
| Locked Groove Keep It Simple | 3.5 |
| Lorn Ask The Dust | 3.0 |
| Ametsub All Is Silence | 3.5 |
| Attaque Flow | 3.5 |
| Borgore Decisions | 1.0 |
| Biosphere L'Incoronazione Di Poppea | 3.3 |
| Prose Salty Sea (Polaroid Evening) | 4.0 |
| Carlos Cipa The Monarch And The Viceroy | 3.8 |
| Chris.SU Illusions/Datahub (Mindscape Remix) | 3.9 |
| Cosmin TRG Vertigo/Sommer | 3.6 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now | 4.5 |
| BT If The Stars Are Eternal So Are You And I | 2.5 |
| BT Nuovo Morceau Subrosa | 3.0 |
| Celldweller Wish Upon a Blackstar | 2.0 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I | 3.5 |
| Future of the Left The Plot Against Common Sense | 4.0 |
| Amy Macdonald Life In A Beautiful Light | 3.0 |
| Mosca Eva Mendes | 4.0 |
| XXXY Bash | 3.5 |
| V.I.V.E.K Out Of Reach | 4.0 |
| iamamiwhoami Kin | 4.0 |
| Bjork Biophilia Remixes - Part Five | 3.5 |
| Dusky Flo Jam | 4.0 |
| Clarity Other Sights/Rohypnol | 4.0 |
| Beau Navire Lumens | 4.0 |
| Frozen Border Minutes In Ice | 4.0 |
| Akkord AKKORD002 | 3.6 |
| Emptyset Trace: 2005-2009 | 4.5 |
| The Agonist Prisoners | 3.3 |
| matthewdavid DISK II | 3.5 |
| Big K.R.I.T. Live From The Underground | 2.5 |
| Architects Daybreaker | 2.0 |
| Circus Maximus Nine | 3.5 |
| Fear Factory The Industrialist | 3.5 |
| Oh No Ohnomite | 4.0 |
| Lights Out Asia Hy-Brasil | 4.0 |
| DJ Rashad Teklife Vol. 1: Welcome To The Chi | 4.0 |
| Ryat Totem | 4.0 |
| Seven (UK) Evolution | 3.5 |
| Liars WIXIW | 3.0 |
| Fantastic Mr Fox San'en | 4.0 |
| Biome The Raven/Hybrid (Biome Remix) | 3.0 |
| Clams Casino Instrumental Mixtape 2 | 3.2 |
| Herve Pick Me Up, Sort Me Out, Calm Me Down | 4.0 |
| Be'lakor Of Breath and Bone | 4.0 |
| Nocow And Hmot Lost In Taiga | 4.0 |
| Disclosure The Face | 4.0 |
| Chymera Death By Misadventure | 4.8 |
| Dismantle (UK) Destroy/Computation VIP | 2.5 |
| Andy C Presents | 3.2 |
| Billain Total Darkness/Fiber Twist | 3.6 |
| Calibre Temple Step/Simple Emotion | 4.2 |
| Art By Numbers Reticence: The Musical | 3.5 |
| Regina Spektor What We Saw from the Cheap Seats | 3.0 |
| Simian Mobile Disco Unpatterns | 4.0 |
| Jam City Classical Curves | 3.5 |
| Cerna Restoring Life | 3.6 |
| Roska Roska 2 | 3.0 |
| Laurel Halo Quarantine | 3.5 |
| Black Swan (USA-NY) Heaven | 3.0 |
| Gemmy Tales Of The Deep | 3.5 |
| Swindle Do The Jazz | 3.5 |
| Azealia Banks 1991 | 4.0 |
| Neosignal Progression/Systeme Mecanique | 3.5 |
| Bjork Biophilia Remixes - Part Four | 2.5 |
| Caspa Sell Out | 2.0 |
| Submerse They Always Come Back | 3.5 |
| Clubroot Scars/Hellion | 4.0 |
| Volor Flex My Story | 3.5 |
| Busta Rhymes Anarchy 2 | 2.0 |
| El-P Cancer 4 Cure | 4.5 |
| Mount Eerie Clear Moon | 4.0 |
| Amon Tobin Amon Tobin | 5.0 |
| Deetron RA.312 | 4.5 |
| Trevino Backtracking/Juan Two Five | 4.5 |
| Perverse Genocide | 3.0 |
| Kahn Margeaux | 3.5 |
| Burzum Umskiptar | 3.0 |
| Clarity Fractured/Off The Cuff | 4.2 |
| Phon.o Black Boulder | 4.0 |
| Baauer Harlem Shake | 3.2 |
| Meiko The Bright Side | 3.0 |
| Killer Mike R.A.P. Music | 4.0 |
| Squarepusher Ufabulum | 2.0 |
| Beach House Bloom | 2.5 |
| mewithoutYou Ten Stories | 3.0 |
| Slugabed Time Team | 3.0 |
| Vakula RA.311 | 4.0 |
| NOISIA Imperial | 3.5 |
| BT Laptop Symphony | 1.5 |
| Bjork Biophilia Remixes - Part Three | 3.0 |
| Christopher Rau Cat Litter | 3.4 |
| Ab-Soul Control System | 3.0 |
| Cern Raven Row/Far Fetched | 4.2 |
| Ghosts Of Paraguay On The Run | 3.5 |
| Constrobuz Rain And Dust | 4.2 |
| Asa and Stumbleine Your Secret | 3.5 |
| Girl Unit Club Rez | 4.0 |
| Distal Civilization | 3.5 |
| Shifted RA.310 | 3.5 |
| Beneath FACT Mix 328 | 4.5 |
| Last Step Sleep | 3.5 |
| Lone Galaxy Garden | 3.5 |
| Brackles Brackles | 3.0 |
| Compa (UK) Security/Cold Weather | 3.4 |
| S.P.Y Love & Hate | 4.0 |
| Billy Woods History Will Absolve Me | 4.0 |
| Santigold Master of My Make-Believe | 3.5 |
| Ghost Mice All We Got Is Each Other | 4.0 |
| Digital Soundboy Soundsystem FabricLive.63 | 3.5 |
| Biome Havana | 3.0 |
| Apollo Brown and O.C. Trophies | 3.6 |
| B.o.B Strange Clouds | 3.2 |
| Blu Mar Ten Love Is The Devil: Remixes - Part I | 3.9 |
| Icicle Rinse: 19 | 3.5 |
| Unitz Moschinos | 3.0 |
| The Future Sound of London Environments 4 | 4.0 |
| Helios Moiety | 4.0 |
| Shackleton Music For The Quiet Hour | 4.0 |
| Shackleton Music For The Quiet Hour/The Drawbar Organ EPs | 4.5 |
| Disclosure FACT Mix 327 | 4.0 |
| Blockhead Interludes After Midnight | 2.0 |
| Boddika and Joy Orbison Dun Dun/Prone | 4.0 |
| Bjork Biophilia Remixes - Part Two | 2.5 |
| Bullion Love Me Oh Please Love Me | 3.2 |
| Lazer Sword Memory | 4.0 |
| Huoratron Cryptocracy | 3.5 |
| Paradise Lost Tragic Idol | 3.0 |
| Elgato Zone/Luv Zombie | 3.5 |
| Claro Intelecto Reform Club | 4.6 |
| ASC and Synkro Borderline/Sacred Moments | 3.5 |
| SebastiAn The EP Collection | 3.0 |
| Bok Bok NSMIX001 | 3.5 |
| Machinedrum Room(s) Extended | 3.5 |
| Aucan Black Rainbow Remixes | 2.0 |
| Actress R.I.P | 3.5 |
| Anstam First Sprout | 2.5 |
| Bersarin Quartett II | 3.0 |
| Angel Haze Voice | 2.8 |
| Arca Stretch 1 | 3.3 |
| Battles Dross Glop | 2.5 |
| Clubroot III - MMXII | 4.5 |
| Traxman Da Mind Of Traxman | 4.5 |
| Ajapai Power/Press The Button | 0.5 |
| Maya Jane Coles DJ-Kicks: Maya Jane Coles | 4.0 |
| Anathema Weather Systems | 3.6 |
| Attaque When Light Falls | 3.0 |
| Djrum RA.307 | 4.5 |
| Inga Copeland and Dean Blunt Black Is Beautiful | 4.0 |
| L-Vis 1990 Club Constructions Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
| Bjork Biophilia Remixes - Part One | 2.5 |
| Biome Swirls/Nomad | 3.8 |
| Clarity Parallels/Fractionate | 4.7 |
| LHF Keepers Of The Light | 4.0 |
| Addison Groove Transistor Rhythm | 2.5 |
| Bassnectar VAVA VOOM | 1.0 |
| The Black Seeds Dust And Dirt | 3.0 |
| Pelican Ataraxia/Taraxis | 3.5 |
| Elsiane Mechanics of Emotion | 3.5 |
| Untold Change In A Dynamic Environment 1 | 3.0 |
| Coki Haymaker/Revolution | 1.5 |
| Locked Groove Different Paths | 4.0 |
| Trevino Derelict/Buried | 3.5 |
| BADBADNOTGOOD BBNG2 | 4.5 |
| In which BADBADNOTGOOD stop pussyfooting around and completely lose their fucking minds. And I just can't get enough of it |
| Orbital Wonky | 2.5 |
| High on Fire De Vermis Mysteriis | 4.0 |
| Shifted Crossed Paths | 4.5 |
| Break Here We Go/Soundwaves | 3.5 |
| Synkro Broken Promises | 3.5 |
| Funkystepz Royal Rumble | 3.5 |
| Clark Iradelphic | 2.0 |
| XXXY Everything | 4.0 |
| Beneath No Symbols 002 | 4.5 |
| Commodo Commodo | 4.2 |
| Moodymann Picture This | 4.0 |
| Cluekid After The Storm | 4.2 |
| The Best Pessimist Love Is... | 2.5 |
| Swindle Unlimited | 4.0 |
| Amit You Look Better Dead | 3.8 |
| Amit Stay With Me | 4.7 |
| Rusko Songs | 2.5 |
| XXYYXX XXYYXX | 3.5 |
| Black Swan (USA-NY) Aeterna | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah Koloss | 4.0 |
| Clint Mansell Last Night | 3.3 |
| Dark Sky Black Rainbows | 4.0 |
| Borgore Borgore's Misadventures In Dubstep | 1.0 |
| Omar S 998 | 4.0 |
| Airhead RA.304 | 3.6 |
| The Chemical Brothers Don't Think | 4.5 |
| Barker and Baumecker A Murder of Crows | 4.2 |
| The American Dollar Awake In The City | 3.0 |
| Boddika Acid Jackson/Basement | 3.5 |
| Desolate (DE) Celestial Light Beings | 3.5 |
| Dismantle (UK) Detonate/2 In 1 | 3.5 |
| Camo and Krooked Between The Lines | 2.5 |
| Airhead Wait | 3.4 |
| Fhloston Paradigm Chasing Rainbows | 4.5 |
| Monolake Ghosts | 4.0 |
| Adrenaline Mob Omerta | 2.4 |
| Axi Viking | 3.8 |
| Nina Kraviz Nina Kraviz | 3.5 |
| ASC and Sam KDC Decayed Society | 3.3 |
| Action Bronson and Party Supplies Blue Chips | 2.6 |
| Ben UFO LWE 115 | 3.3 |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives | 3.5 |
| Akkord AKKORD001 | 3.8 |
| Jonwayne Oodles Of Doodles | 4.0 |
| Big K.R.I.T. 4Eva N A Day | 3.0 |
| Borgore Flex | 1.5 |
| Commix Dusted (Selected Works 2003 - 2008) | 4.0 |
| Cluekid Ninety Three/Swamp Man | 3.9 |
| Apex Omega Point | 3.7 |
| Emptyset Medium | 4.0 |
| Conforce 24 | 3.7 |
| Azizi Gibson PHUCK DLX | 3.4 |
| Mouse on Mars Parastrophics | 4.0 |
| Christian Mistress Possession | 3.5 |
| Stumbleine Drifting Youth | 4.0 |
| Scuba Personality | 3.0 |
| Demdike Stare Elemental | 4.0 |
| ASC The Gradient Project | 4.0 |
| Brainmath BRAiNMATHs Vol. 1 | 3.0 |
| Billain Batbots/Manifold | 2.5 |
| Hodgy Untitled | 3.0 |
| Pallbearer Sorrow And Extinction | 4.0 |
| Boddika and Joy Orbison Froth/Mercy | 4.5 |
| Asa Forgotten | 3.0 |
| Voices From The Lake Voices From The Lake | 4.0 |
| Bad Taste Recordings Black Box One | 3.0 |
| Chi Duly x The Weeknd Balloons Of Haus | 3.0 |
| Culprate LoFi | 3.2 |
| John Talabot Fin | 4.5 |
| Comfortable as the kind of bedroom pop album that almost demands the jumping on of beds, yet equally at home as a declaration against the dying of the day, Talabot's debut is an album set to become one of those timeless electronic albums. Timeless because it has no distinct place, instead alive through the influence of others, therefore comfortable anywhere and everywhere; and instead of being a compilation of loosely affiliated beats fIN instead is a cry of sublime cohesiveness, each track designed to work in perfect unison, to compliment each other. It?s a truly instinctive album, and as it stands now, one of a kind. |
| Burial Kindred | 4.5 |
| Fluxion Traces | 4.0 |
| Bonobo Black Sands Remixed | 4.0 |
| Brother Ali The Bite Marked Heart | 2.8 |
| Davwuh Edo Jazz Age | 3.5 |
| The Flashbulb Opus At The End Of Everything | 2.0 |
| bansheebeat Wutai | 3.0 |
| Yuffie always was a cunt |
| Air Le Voyage Dans La Lune | 3.5 |
| Shlohmo Vacation | 3.5 |
| Virtual Boy Virtual Boy | 3.0 |
| Saltillo Monocyte | 4.0 |
| Feed Me Escape From Electric Mountain | 2.0 |
| Tunnidge Aftershock/Blame | 3.0 |
| Chimp Spanner All Roads Lead Here | 3.5 |
| Arca Baron Libre | 3.8 |
| Grimes Visions | 4.0 |
| Shigeto Lineage | 2.5 |
| Bleeding Through The Great Fire | 3.0 |
| Apollo 440 The Future's What It Used To Be | 1.0 |
| Araabmuzik Instrumental University | 2.8 |
| Jacques Greene Concealer | 3.0 |
| ASC TMA-1 | 3.0 |
| Portico Quartet Portico Quartet | 4.0 |
| Claro Intelecto Second Blood | 3.9 |
| Lana Del Rey Born to Die | 2.5 |
After listening to Born To Die I'm convinced of the fact that Lana Del Ray has had the misfortune of being born in the wrong era. This button-down, middle of America repression that she spends far too much time indulging in would have made far more sense served up in the chic glamor of the '50s, a time that Lana oh-so-obviously longs for with her penchant for wallowing in the footsteps of the ghosts that stalk the Hollywood hills.
It's this obsession that ultimately derails her debut LP, where the kitsch and the quirk stumble far beyond being simply cute and instead aches with the wide-eyed pillow talk of a woman who never really bothered to grow up. And if that's the point, then I just don't see the pay off. |
| Rivet Amid The Roar | 4.5 |
| Artifact Archaic Line | 3.6 |
| Compa (UK) Sentence/Beginning | 3.7 |
| Lamb of God Resolution | 3.0 |
| Rodrigo y Gabriela Area 52 | 2.5 |
| Prose Where City Lights Burn | 3.0 |
| Crosses EP II | 3.6 |
| Gonjasufi MU.ZZ.LE | 3.0 |
| DJ Food The Search Engine | 4.0 |
| The 2 Bears Be Strong | 2.0 |
| Terrible combination of flowery synth pop and loose lips house music clearly designed with the indie scene in mind; specifically, the kind of dance kids who don't actually leave the house. T.E.E.D. nailed this style earlier on in the year, this is just awkward sloppy seconds with no bite |
| Deleted Scenes (UK) Hysteria/Reasons | 3.5 |
| Bullion Say Arr Ee | 2.5 |
| Dismantle (UK) Broke/Times Up | 3.0 |
| ASC Boundary Scan | 3.5 |
| Machinedrum SXLND | 3.0 |
| Boddika and Joy Orbison Swims | 4.0 |
| Ann Aimee Inertia // Resisting Routine | 3.8 |
| Pinch FabricLive.61 | 4.0 |
| Locked Groove Rooted | 3.5 |
| Loma Prieta I.V. | 4.0 |
| ASC No Secrets/Zenith | 3.5 |
| ScHoolboy Q Habits and Contradictions | 3.5 |
| Thriftworks Rainmaker | 4.0 |
| Biome Minus/Moody | 2.5 |
| Alcest Les Voyages De L'Âme | 3.0 |
| Beneath No Symbols 001 | 4.0 |
| Om Unit Aeolian | 4.0 |
| Culprate Sodden/Nightmare | 3.3 |
| Christopher Rau Just Love Baby... | 4.0 |
| Connect.Ohm 9980 | 3.6 |
| 2011 |
| Culprate 5 Star | 3.5 |
| Blackmill Miracle | 1.5 |
| Common The Dreamer/The Believer | 2.7 |
| Artifact Sonic Router #113 | 3.8 |
| Boys Noize The Remixes: 2004-2011 | 2.0 |
| Consequence (NZ) Test Dream | 3.8 |
| Cooh The Borger | 3.7 |
| Coni Luz In Pool/Suma/Crush | 3.6 |
| Culprate Curious George VIP/B-Side | 3.8 |
| Benton Wormholes/Sleepless | 2.5 |
| Blue Stahli Antisleep Vol. 2 | 2.5 |
| Commodo Dokument/Eastern Bloc | 3.7 |
| Chevelle Hats Off To The Bull | 3.5 |
| The Black Keys El Camino | 3.5 |
| Constrobuz We Will Die | 4.4 |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms Isolatedmix 23 | 3.7 |
| Visionquest Fabric 61 | 4.0 |
| ASC Time Is Now | 2.5 |
| Consequence (NZ) RA.288 | 3.5 |
| Conforce Escapism | 3.5 |
| Amy Winehouse Lioness: Hidden Treasures | 2.5 |
| Commercial Suicide Commercial Suicide: Compilation | 4.7 |
| Autechre Lego Feet | 4.0 |
| Blawan Peaches | 3.5 |
| Coki Don't Get It Twisted | 1.0 |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - The Desanctification | 3.0 |
| Biome Propaganda/DMT | 2.5 |
| BNJMN FACT Mix 303 | 3.4 |
| Cloudkicker Loop | 2.0 |
| Coki Lucifer | 2.8 |
| ASC The Light That Burns Twice As Bright | 3.0 |
| BCee Beat The System | 2.8 |
| Kahn FACT Mix 301 | 4.0 |
| Cloudkicker Let Yourself Be Huge | 2.8 |
| ASC Droids/Never Enough | 3.5 |
| Childish Gambino Camp | 3.7 |
| Author Author | 3.5 |
| Brodinski FabricLive.60 | 4.5 |
| Aquasky Raise The Devil | 3.0 |
| Chase and Status No More Idols (Platinum Edition) | 3.0 |
| Aspherium The Veil of Serenity | 4.2 |
| Celph Titled and Buckwild Nineteen Ninety More | 3.3 |
| Ben Frost and Daniel Bjarnason Solaris | 3.6 |
| Break Hot Love/Breakfast | 2.5 |
| Animals As Leaders Weightless | 3.0 |
| Calibre Piano Bizness/Smooth Baby | 4.0 |
| Actress Rainy Dub | 3.0 |
| Black Milk and Danny Brown Black and Brown! | 3.4 |
| Balkansky and Loop Stepwalker Adhesion | 3.2 |
| Constrobuz Work Hard | 3.9 |
| Counterstrike Careful With That Axe/That's Fucking Disgusting | 2.7 |
| ASAP Rocky Live.Love.A$AP. | 3.5 |
| ASC Archival:01 EX.EP | 3.5 |
| Bok Bok and Tom Trago Night Voyage Tool Kit | 3.5 |
| Buraka Som Sistema Komba | 3.5 |
| Blu Mar Ten Love Is The Devil | 4.2 |
| Calibre Reno/All Day | 3.7 |
| Anstam Dispel Dances | 4.0 |
| Culprate Colours | 3.7 |
| Black Tusk Set The Dial | 3.0 |
| Counterparts The Current Will Carry Us | 3.0 |
| BNJMN Black Square | 4.5 |
| Coldplay Mylo Xyloto | 2.7 |
| Asura Oxygene | 3.3 |
| Cooh Moscow | 3.3 |
| Bjork Biophilia | 3.5 |
| Andy Stott We Stay Together | 3.5 |
| Appleblim FACT Mix 290 | 4.5 |
| Commodo Uprising | 4.0 |
| Culture Shock Protection/Ohrwurm | 3.6 |
| Beats Antique Elektrafone | 3.3 |
| Calibre Condition | 4.0 |
| Ben UFO Rinse: 16 | 4.0 |
| Camo and Krooked Cross The Line | 2.0 |
| Blue Daisy The Sunday Gift | 3.0 |
| Asusu Sister | 4.1 |
| Code Orange Cycles | 3.8 |
| Balkansky The Temple | 3.5 |
| blink-182 Neighborhoods | 3.6 |
| Collide Counting to Zero | 2.5 |
| Apparat The Devil's Walk | 2.5 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Apokalypsis | 3.2 |
| Anubis A Tower Of Silence | 3.0 |
| ASC 3rd Eye | 3.0 |
| Cosmin TRG RA.277 | 3.7 |
| Balkansky and Loop Stepwalker Simetria | 3.0 |
| BADBADNOTGOOD BBNG | 3.5 |
| Calibre Foreign Bodies/Ugly Duckling | 3.8 |
| Answer Code Request Subway Into | 3.6 |
| Arch/Matheos Sympathetic Resonance | 3.5 |
| Axel Boman Lucky Tiger | 4.2 |
| Conforce Dystopian Elements | 3.0 |
| Cliff Martinez Drive | 3.0 |
| Shit is tight |
| Benton Skeptics/Thermo Stellar | 3.0 |
| Concord Dawn The Race To Zero Vol. 1 | 3.7 |
| Anathema Falling Deeper | 3.6 |
| Consequence (NZ) Symbol #4 | 3.0 |
| Bungle Memories | 3.0 |
| Audio Vacuum | 3.5 |
| Ajapai Energize | 2.5 |
| Adult Swim Unclassified | 3.5 |
| Blawan What You Do With What You Have | 4.0 |
| Benton 20/20/Zardoz | 3.0 |
| Blueneck Repetitions | 2.0 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Everything | 3.6 |
| Artifact TDS 016 | 4.2 |
| Cluekid Hawkeye | 4.0 |
| Alias Fever Dream | 4.0 |
| Arms and Sleepers A Man, A Plan, A Canal: Panama | 3.0 |
| Balam Acab Wander/Wonder | 3.5 |
| Calibre Hummer | 4.1 |
| Active Child You Are All I See | 3.5 |
| Apathy Honkey Kong | 2.9 |
| Cosmin TRG Simulat | 3.7 |
| Axel Boman Europa | 3.5 |
| Corrupted Garten Der Unbewusstheit | 4.3 |
| Chimaira The Age of Hell | 3.5 |
| Andres (USA-MI) Andres III | 3.5 |
| ARP.101 U/Groove/True | 3.1 |
| Crosses EP | 3.9 |
| Djrum Mountains | 5.0 |
| Call Super Staircase | 4.0 |
| Compa (UK) Wax Mix 002 | 3.8 |
| Culprate Flatline | 3.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Vacation | 3.5 |
| Axel Boman Nattsudd | 3.4 |
| ASC Ghost Train | 3.5 |
| The Count and Sinden Mega Mega Remix | 2.5 |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms VLA | 2.5 |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms Twentythree | 3.2 |
| Benga Faithless/Acid Lie | 2.0 |
| Prose Positive | 3.5 |
| Counterstrike VIP | 2.6 |
| ASC Images | 4.0 |
| Bassnectar Divergent Spectrum | 2.5 |
| Roska Rinse: 15 | 3.0 |
| Benton Hedmuk 022 | 3.3 |
| Clueless Dubstep Beats Vol. 1 | 3.5 |
| Angel Haze King | 3.9 |
| The Coma Recovery Goddverb | 4.5 |
| Alex Clare The Lateness Of The Hour | 3.0 |
| Billain Kontra | 3.3 |
| CHLLNGR Haven | 4.3 |
| Commodo and Lurka Airtight/Gassin | 3.6 |
| Astronote The Raw Tape | 2.5 |
| Beyonce 4 | 2.6 |
| Black Box (UK) Transmissions Vol. 1 | 3.7 |
| Damscray Blot Method | 3.5 |
| ASC Brainscan/Zone One | 3.9 |
| Big Bud Kool Beans | 4.1 |
| Biosphere N-Plants | 3.6 |
| Clams Casino Rainforest | 3.7 |
| Electrocado The Hass Effect | 1.0 |
| Amon Tobin Surge | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Leveler | 2.0 |
"If Caleb McAlpine knows he's an idiot, why does he continue to post soundoffs that make no sense? "
If Progmaster can't read it lends credence to the belief that he simply can't write either |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 3.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual | 3.5 |
| The Chain Gang Of 1974 Wayward Fire | 3.7 |
| Beau Navire Hours | 3.5 |
| Arkist Trapped In Tivoli | 4.3 |
| The Chain Lostwithiel | 3.2 |
| Caspa Not For The Playlist | 2.5 |
| Borgore Delicious | 2.0 |
| Black Jazz Consortium Electric Blues | 2.5 |
| Araabmuzik Electronic Dream | 3.0 |
| Bad Meets Evil Hell: The Sequel | 2.5 |
| ASC Saturnine | 3.0 |
| BNJMN 141 | 3.5 |
| Artificial Intelligence Days Of Rage VIP/Stand Alone | 4.2 |
| Blue Sky Black Death NOIR + VIOLET | 3.9 |
| Amorphis The Beginning of Times | 2.5 |
| The Air I Breathe Great Faith In Fools | 1.0 |
| Arch Enemy Khaos Legions | 2.0 |
| More recycled riffs and the same solos bought to you by Anthems Of Rebellion part 3 |
| Battles Gloss Drop | 3.0 |
| You won't find anything on here to rival the catchiness of 'Atlas' or the kind of concrete jungle vibe of 'Leyendecker'. And there's certainly nothing on here to topple the greatest moment in music ever; you know, THAT part in 'Tonto'. What you will find however are three band members, all masters in their respective fields, shedding some of the accessibility of their debut album and combining it with the slow progression of their early EPs. A little less technical, (which results in the album having a little more warmth to it) and a little more methodical, Gloss Drop is a worthy follow up. It's just not as energetic as I want it to be. It's a lot more cohesive than Mirrored though, but that's really only because it lacks any true defining moment, nothing really sticks its neck out to be noticed. Which sadly, does hold the album back |
| Blindside With Shivering Hearts We Wait | 3.5 |
| City and Colour Little Hell | 4.1 |
| Arctic Monkeys Suck It and See | 3.0 |
| Brookes Brothers The Brookes Brothers | 1.5 |
| Conforce LWE 87 | 2.6 |
| Bluetech Rainforest Reverberation | 3.4 |
| Caspa Fulham 2 Waterloo | 2.5 |
| Arkist Rendezvous/Fill Your Coffee | 3.8 |
| Circles The Compass | 2.8 |
| Cooh Teran/Sezon | 2.2 |
| Cooh Helmet/Silver Spoon | 3.8 |
| Basement Jaxx Attack The Block | 3.0 |
| Astronote Weapon Of The Future | 3.0 |
| BT These Re-Imagined Machines | 4.0 |
| Bok Bok Southside | 4.5 |
| Brontide Sans Souci | 3.8 |
| Basher Transmission | 3.5 |
| Bop The Amazing Adventures of One Curious Pixel | 3.9 |
| Amon Tobin ISAM | 4.0 |
| Cave In White Silence | 3.2 |
| Breach (UK) 2 Bob Note/Fatherless (T Williams Remix) | 4.5 |
| Youngsta Rinse: 14 | 2.5 |
| Clueless Garage Grooves Vol. 1 | 3.4 |
| Biome Hedmuk 018 | 2.8 |
| Chaosphere Eradicate | 1.5 |
| Arms and Sleepers The Organ Hearts | 4.0 |
| Amatorski TBC | 3.5 |
| Andy Stott Passed Me By | 3.0 |
| Anstam FACT Mix 246 | 4.5 |
| Audio The Prototype Project | 3.0 |
| Cause 4 Concern Pandemic/Dream Killer (Remixes) | 3.6 |
| Code Orange Embrace Me // Erase Me | 3.0 |
| Beastie Boys Hot Sauce Committee Part Two | 3.5 |
Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 starts off like any post Paul's Boutique Beastie Boys album. 4 tracks in and you start to get that feeling, that little tingle that reverberates all through you that yip, you might just be listening to the best hip hop album of the year. And just like every Beastie Boys album that doesn't involve The Dust Brothers or Rick Rubin (that's DJ Double R for you older ones), you hit the middle portion and watch as your expectations crumble away. Once again, the hip hop veterans have somehow fucked everything up as, just like always, everything goes southwards come the dying moments of the album. It's happened before as I've already stated and to be honest we should all be used to this by now. But the first half of the Hot Sauce is just so fuckin' sexy that it makes the downfall so much worse and infinitely more noticeable. It seems that the boys (middle aged men now) just don't have it in them to sustain themselves for a whole album anymore.
But to reiterate the important stuff: Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 is a HUGE step up from To The 5 Boroughs and probably about on par with Hello Nasty. But sure, compare this to The Mix Up, because that's fuckin' smart |
| And So I Watch You From Afar Gangs | 3.0 |
| Addison Groove It's Got Me/Minutes Of Funk | 3.0 |
| Blue Daisy 3rd Degree | 3.5 |
| Amit 9 Times | 4.6 |
| ASC Stutter/Leviathan | 4.6 |
| Circus Records Circus One | 2.8 |
| ASC Symbol #1 | 4.4 |
| Blue Sky Black Death NOIR | 2.5 |
| Boxcutter The Dissolve | 3.0 |
| Altar of Plagues Mammal | 3.6 |
| Counterstrike Violent Neon Robots | 2.2 |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Beileid | 3.0 |
| Coki Boomba | 2.0 |
| Boddika 2727 | 3.0 |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - Sect(s) | 3.7 |
| Addison Groove This Is It/Make Um Bounce | 4.0 |
| Beardyman I Done An Album | 3.0 |
| Compa (UK) Dreams/Them Dogs | 2.7 |
| Amaranthe Amaranthe | 2.5 |
| Axiom Paradigm Shift | 3.5 |
| Atmosphere The Family Sign | 2.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues | 2.5 |
| Adroa Decimation | 2.5 |
| ASC Ambitronic | 3.0 |
| Autechre EP Collection 1991-2002 | 4.0 |
| The Chemical Brothers Hanna OST | 3.8 |
| Bill Callahan Apocalypse | 4.0 |
| Antiserum Zephyr/Purple & Gold | 2.5 |
| Black Swan (USA-NY) The Quiet Divide | 3.0 |
| Clueless Torrid Affairs | 4.0 |
| Cosmin TRG A Universal Crush | 4.2 |
| Big Strick Detroit Heat | 3.5 |
| Benton New-Ro-Phen/Smash That Badger | 3.5 |
| ASC Comsat/The Lair | 3.8 |
| Cooly G Dub Organiser Vol. 6 | 3.9 |
| Amon Amarth Surtur Rising | 3.5 |
| Becoming The Archetype Celestial Completion | 2.5 |
| Bibio Mind Bokeh | 2.5 |
| Broken Bells Meyrin Fields | 2.5 |
| Alex Skolnick Trio Veritas | 3.5 |
| Cavalera Conspiracy Blunt Force Trauma | 2.4 |
| Burial Street Halo | 4.0 |
'Cause once upon a time it was you that I adored
But now you look different |
| Big K.R.I.T. ReturnOf4eva | 3.5 |
| Boddika You Tell Me/Breezin | 3.5 |
| Cooly G Dub Organiser Vol. 5 | 3.4 |
| Bad Taste Recordings Bad Taste Vol. IV | 3.6 |
| Bachelors Of Science Remixes Vol. 2 | 3.7 |
| Actress Harrier ATTK/Gershwin | 3.0 |
| Actaea Akred | 3.0 |
| Born of Osiris The Discovery | 3.0 |
| Was going to listen to this but Bloc gave it a 4.5 so yeah, no |
| Cooly G Dub Organiser Vol. 4 | 3.3 |
| CunninLynguists Oneirology | 4.3 |
| Ash Borer Ash Borer | 3.5 |
| ASC Machines | 2.9 |
| Christopher Rau Pervading Animal | 4.2 |
| Cooly G Dub Organiser Vol. 3 | 3.8 |
| Burial and Four Tet Ego/Mirror | 3.5 |
| Blue Stahli Blue Stahli | 3.0 |
| Action Bronson Dr. Lecter | 3.0 |
| Blawan FACT Mix 230 | 4.6 |
| BNJMN LWE 77 | 3.8 |
| Cern Terminus | 5.0 |
| Cooly G Dub Organiser Vol. 2 | 3.6 |
| Addison Groove Work It/Sexual | 3.5 |
| Burzum Fallen | 3.5 |
| Clare Maguire Light After Dark | 2.0 |
| Children of Bodom Relentless Reckless Forever | 2.7 |
| Break Commercial Suicide Presents... Break | 3.5 |
| Boxcutter Allele/Other People | 2.5 |
| Arms and Sleepers Nostalgia For The Absolute | 3.5 |
| Apollo Brown Clouds | 3.5 |
| Blawan Bohla | 3.5 |
| Oneman Rinse: 11 | 4.0 |
| ASC Starkwood/Reform | 3.9 |
| Benjamin Damage and Doc Daneeka Creeper/Infamous | 4.3 |
| Cassius I <3 U So | 3.0 |
| Christopher Rau Onion Smell | 2.9 |
| Clams Casino Instrumental Mixtape | 3.0 |
| Clubroot Time Flies | 3.5 |
| Conforce State of Mind | 3.6 |
| Consequence (NZ) Snakes & Skulls/Dub Bounce | 3.7 |
| Blackmill Reach For Glory | 2.0 |
| Brodinski Manifesto | 4.0 |
| Breakage Fighting Fire | 3.5 |
| Colin Stetson New History Warfare Vol 2: Judges | 3.7 |
| Amon Tobin Chaos Theory Remixed | 4.5 |
| BNJMN Plastic World | 4.0 |
| Beau Navire Life Moves | 2.5 |
| Caribou RA.246 | 3.0 |
| Boddika Electron/Underground | 3.0 |
| Antiserum The Swarm | 3.0 |
| Austin Peralta Endless Planets | 4.0 |
| AES Dana Perimeters | 4.8 |
| Cosmin TRG Separat | 3.6 |
| Balkansky and Loop Stepwalker Fraktals | 2.5 |
| Brokenchord Girl Of 13 Summers/Orion | 3.5 |
| Billain Probes/Horus 8 | 2.7 |
| Apex Inner Space | 3.3 |
| Asa Sweeter Things | 3.5 |
| Chase and Status No More Idols | 2.8 |
| The Bloody Beetroots Best Of... Remixes | 3.0 |
| Architects The Here and Now | 2.5 |
| Benton Sinners/Necromancy | 3.0 |
| Bullion You Drive Me To Plastic | 4.0 |
| Adele 21 | 4.0 |
| Anna Calvi Anna Calvi | 3.0 |
| Camo and Krooked Pulse Of Time | 2.5 |
| Cooh Are You There/Express | 3.3 |
| Cake Showroom Of Compassion | 2.5 |
| Ajapai Detected | 2.5 |
| Critical Recordings Critical Sound of Drum & Bass | 4.0 |
| Aardvarck Anti Concept | 3.0 |
| Aucan Black Rainbow | 4.0 |
| Annie Mac Annie Mac Presents: 2011 | 3.3 |
| Childish Gambino EP | 3.0 |
| Barrows Imprecari Island | 4.3 |
| Cern True Talk/Double Down | 4.4 |
| Bosse-de-Nage II | 3.4 |
