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2024
Dvne Voidkind2.5
Taylor Swift The Tortured Poets Department2.5
High on Fire Cometh the Storm3.5
Taylor Swift The Tortured Poets Department (Anthology)2.0
Northlane Mirror's Edge3.5
Future and Metro Boomin We Still Don't Trust You2.0
Eidola Eviscerate2.5
Greyhaven Stereo Grief3.0
The Black Keys Ohio Players3.5
ERRA Cure3.0
J. Cole Might Delete Later1.5
Beyonce Cowboy Carter3.5
Empress Of For Your Consideration3.0
Justin Timberlake Everything I Thought It Was3.0
Kacey Musgraves Deeper Well3.0
Night Verses Every Sound Has a Color...: Part II3.0
Bleachers Bleachers2.5
Ariana Grande Eternal Sunshine3.0
Mannequin Pussy I Got Heaven3.5
ScHoolboy Q Blue Lips3.5
Pelican Adrift / Tending the Embers2.5
Suldusk Anthesis3.0
MGMT Loss of Life2.5
Kid Cudi Insano (Nitro Mega)2.5
Allie X Girl With No Face3.0
Commendable 80s synthpop but I just can never shake the feeling that this artist is trying way too hard
IDLES TANGK4.0
Kanye West and Ty Dolla Sign Vultures 12.0
Chelsea Wolfe She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She3.5
The Pineapple Thief It Leads To This3.0
Little Simz Drop 73.0
The Last Dinner Party Prelude to Ecstasy3.5
The Smile Wall of Eyes3.5
AlphaWhores I4.0
Green Day Saviors3.5
Slift Ilion3.0
Kid Cudi Insano3.0
21 Savage american dream3.5

2023
Nicki Minaj Pink Friday 23.0
Tate McRae Think Later3.0
Leonov Procession3.0
Danny Brown Quaranta3.0
If you were thinking his last album was a bit too mellow and down, get ready to hear even more of that this round.
Earthside Let The Truth Speak3.5
Saver From Ember and Rust3.5
Aesop Rock Integrated Tech Solutions3.5
Majid Jordan Good People3.5
Briqueville IIII3.5
Hotline TNT Cartwheel2.5
Howling Giant Glass Future3.0
Majid Jordan Violet - Single4.0
This is almost like a completely different band from their earlier stuff, more a mix of alternative and R&B here. I hear shades of modern day Radiohead in the beginning sections of "Hands Tied", then the song moves into something sounding like The Police? Ridiculous. Title track is a hazy, funky, chill longer piece that is very ambitious and works. Blown away by this after never really liking them.
Sampha LAHAI3.5
Sam Roberts Band The Adventures of Ben Blank2.5
Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter SAVED!3.0
Troye Sivan Something to Give Each Other3.0
Metric Formentera II3.5
Bad Bunny Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana2.5
Boygenius the rest2.0
Heretoir Nightsphere3.0
Drake For All The Dogs2.5
Red (USA) Rated R2.5
Steven Wilson The Harmony Codex3.5
Slow Pulp Yard3.5
Yeule softscars3.0
Mitski The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We3.5
Baroness Stone2.5
TesseracT War of Being3.5
Night Verses Every Sound Has a Color...: Part I3.5
The Beaches (ON) Blame My Ex2.5
Tinashe BB/ANG3L4.0
Olivia Rodrigo Guts3.0
Roisin Murphy Hit Parade3.0
Polaris Fatalism3.5
Slowdive Everything is Alive4.0
Royal Blood Back to the Water Below3.0
Filter The Algorithm3.5
Mick Jenkins The Patience3.0
Genesis Owusu Struggler3.5
Noname Sundial2.5
Urne A Feast On Sorrow3.5
Travis Scott Utopia3.5
Post Malone Austin2.5
Mother Tongues Love In A Vicious Way3.5
Soundtrack (Film) Barbie: The Album2.0
PVRIS EVERGREEN3.5
Nothing But Thieves Dead Club City4.0
Anberlin Convinced3.5
grouptherapy. I Was Mature for My Age, But I Was Still a Child3.5
Swans The Beggar3.5
Portugal. The Man Chris Black Changed My Life3.5
Killer Mike Michael2.5
Queens of the Stone Age In Times New Roman...3.0
Godflesh Purge3.0
Janelle Monae The Age of Pleasure3.5
Squid O Monolith2.5
Amaarae Fountain Baby3.0
Atlases Between The Day & I3.0
Foo Fighters But Here We Are3.0
Mandy, Indiana I've Seen a Way3.0
The Ocean Holocene3.5
KAYTRAMINE Kaytraminé3.0
Omen Astra The End of Everything3.5
Heretoir Wastelands4.5
Veil of Maya [m]other3.0
Spotlights Alchemy for the Dead4.5
The National First Two Pages of Frankenstein3.5
Single Mothers Roy3.0
Beach House Become2.5
Portrayal of Guilt Devil Music3.0
Metallica 72 Seasons2.5
Amplifier Hologram2.5
Tiesto Drive4.0
Boygenius the record3.0
Fall Out Boy So Much (For) Stardust3.5
Lana Del Rey Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd3.5
JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown Scaring the Hoes4.0
The HIRS Collective We're Still Here3.0
6LACK Since I Have A Lover2.5
Catsclaw Human Fission3.0
Linkin Park Meteora (20th Anniversary Edition)4.5
100 Gecs 10,000 gecs3.0
Yves Tumor Praise a Lord Who Chews, But Does Not Consume...3.5
Spotlights Seance3.5
Fever Ray Radical Romantics4.0
Miley Cyrus Endless Summer Vacation3.5
Periphery Periphery V: Djent is Not a Genre2.0
slowthai UGLY3.5
Haken Fauna3.5
Kali Uchis Red Moon in Venus2.5
Gorillaz Cracker Island2.0
Big|Brave nature morte2.5
Hypno5e Sheol3.0
Model/Actriz Dogsbody2.5
Daughters-lite. And I mean that in the most derivative and boring way possible.
Palms Opening Titles / End Credits4.0
Caroline Polachek Desire, I Want To Turn Into You3.5
Kelela Raven3.0
Tennis Pollen3.0
Parannoul After The Magic2.5
Hammock Love in the Void4.0
Sam Smith Gloria2.0
Riverside ID.Entity3.0
Ice Spice Like..?3.0

2022
Little Simz No Thank You3.0
Ab-Soul Herbert3.0
SZA S.O.S.4.0
The Depth Beneath Us The Depth Beneath Us3.0
Eyrth Meridian3.0
Elder (USA-MA) Innate Passage4.0
Weyes Blood And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow3.5
Brockhampton TM3.0
Brockhampton The Family2.5
Drake and 21 Savage Her Loss2.5
Phoenix (FRA) Alpha Zulu2.0
Smino Luv 4 Rent3.0
Single Mothers Everything You Need3.0
Carly Rae Jepsen The Loneliest Time2.5
Taylor Swift Midnights3.0
Broken Bells Into the Blue4.0
Alvvays Blue Rev2.5
Charlie Puth Charlie2.0
Freddie Gibbs Soul Sold Separately3.0
Slipknot The End, So Far2.0
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Cool It Down3.5
Wolf and Burning now sit near the top of YYY's greatest hits, welcome to the club. This is a very good comeback album that does a whole lot of everything.
Kid Cudi Entergalactic3.0
Rina Sawayama Hold The Girl2.5
BLACKPINK Born Pink2.0
Holy Fawn Dimensional Bleed3.0
Oceans Ate Alaska Disparity3.0
Muse Will of the People2.5
JID The Forever Story3.5
Silversun Pickups Physical Thrills4.0
Russian Circles Gnosis3.5
Danger Mouse and Black Thought Cheat Codes3.0
Norma Jean Deathrattle Sing for Me3.5
Anberlin Silverline3.0
Beyonce Renaissance3.5
Beach Bunny Emotional Creature3.5
Billie Eilish Guitar Songs3.0
The Ever Living Artificial Devices3.0
Black Midi Hellfire2.5
Metric Formentera3.5
Conjurer (UK) Pathos3.5
Soccer Mommy Sometimes, Forever4.0
Porcupine Tree Closure/Continuation3.0
Alexisonfire Otherness4.0
Punk and emo always just ends up in rock anyways. Deal with it.
Lupe Fiasco Drill Music in Zion4.0
Foals Life Is Yours2.5
Drake Honestly, Nevermind1.0
Perfume Genius Ugly Season3.5
This is the sexiest Swans have ever sounded, good for them!
Post Malone Twelve Carat Toothache2.0
070 Shake You Can't Kill Me3.0
Thornhill Heroine3.0
Just Mustard Heart Under3.5
Cave In Heavy Pendulum3.5
Harry Styles Harry's House3.0
The Black Keys Dropout Boogie2.5
Kendrick Lamar Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers4.0
BOG Remission3.5
The Smile A Light For Attracting Attention4.0
Ethel Cain Preacher's Daughter3.5
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever Endless Rooms3.0
Bad Bunny Un Verano Sin Ti4.0
Let's Eat Grandma Two Ribbons3.5
Helms Alee Keep This Be the Way3.0
Rammstein Zeit3.0
Pusha T It's Almost Dry3.5
The most 3.5 artist in hip-hop returns with an album that lives up to that standard once again
Noorvik Hamartia2.5
Northlane Obsidian4.5
Greyhaven This Bright and Beautiful World3.0
Jack White Fear of the Dawn3.5
Banks Serpentina3.0
Vince Staples RAMONA PARK BROKE MY HEART3.0
Camila Cabello Familia2.5
PUP The Unraveling of PUPTheBand3.0
Meshuggah Immutable3.0
Denzel Curry Melt My Eyez See Your Future3.5
Absent In Body Plague God3.5
Charli XCX Crash3.0
Gloson The Rift3.5
E-L-R Vexier3.0
Ghost (SWE) Impera3.0
Sylvaine Nova4.0
Rosalia Motomami4.0
Mountaineer Giving Up the Ghost3.5
The Great Yawn Blue Lawns3.0
Beach House Once Twice Melody3.5
alt-J The Dream2.5
Cult of Luna The Long Road North4.0
Saba Few Good Things4.0
Rolo Tomassi Where Myth Becomes Memory4.0
Mitski Laurel Hell2.5
SOM The Shape of Everything3.0
Toundra Hex3.5
The opening three-part suite is where it's at on this. Couple other songs but not much really new otherwise.
Earl Sweatshirt Sick!3.5
The Weeknd Dawn FM4.0

2021
Adele 303.5
Converge Bloodmoon: I2.5
Hemelbestormer Collide & Merge3.0
Silk Sonic An Evening with Silk Sonic3.5
Emma Ruth Rundle Engine of Hell3.0
Snail Mail Valentine3.5
Mol Diorama2.5
Limp Bizkit Still Sucks3.5
Mastodon Hushed and Grim2.5
Whitechapel Kin3.0
JPEGMAFIA LP! (online)4.0
Lana Del Rey Blue Banisters2.5
Biffy Clyro The Myth of the Happily Ever After3.5
Majid Jordan Wildest Dreams3.0
Twelve Foot Ninja Vengeance3.0
Coldplay Music of the Spheres2.0
We should all know by now that when Coldplay decides to have a rainbow colour scheme on their album art, it always translates to mediocre music.
Lil Nas X Montero3.5
Injury Reserve By The Time I Get To Phoenix3.0
Kacey Musgraves Star-Crossed3.5
Trophy Scars Astral Pariah3.5
Drake Certified Lover Boy1.5
Little Simz Sometimes I Might Be Introvert4.0
Kanye West Donda2.5
Leprous Aphelion3.0
Halsey If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power3.5
Lorde Solar Power2.5
Deafheaven Infinite Granite3.5
Lingua Ignota SINNER GET READY4.0
Tinashe 3333.5
Isaiah Rashad The House Is Burning3.5
Billie Eilish Happier Than Ever3.0
Lantlos Wildhund3.0
Nothing But Thieves Moral Panic II3.5
Erdve Savigaila4.0
Jfc what an absolutely delicious direction to take their sound after their debut. Get fucked listeners.
Yves Tumor The Asymptotical World3.5
Vince Staples Vince Staples4.0
IDK USee4Yourself3.0
Year of No Light Consolamentum3.0
Lucy Dacus Home Video2.5
Amenra De Doorn2.0
Tyler, the Creator Call Me If You Get Lost3.5
Doja Cat Planet Her3.0
Bossk Migration3.5
Album cover is like if the apartment from New Girl survived a nuclear Holocaust and was left uninhabited.
Migos Culture III2.0
Maroon 5 Jordi1.0
Japanese Breakfast Jubilee4.0
Wolf Alice Blue Weekend4.5
Black Midi Cavalcade3.5
Twenty One Pilots Scaled and Icy3.0
Olivia Rodrigo Sour2.0
VOLA Witness3.0
J. Cole The Off-Season3.5
St. Vincent Daddy's Home2.5
Squid Bright Green Field3.5
Royal Blood Typhoons2.5
Manchester Orchestra The Million Masks of God3.5
Crumb (USA-NY) Ice Melt2.5
Gojira Fortitude3.5
Big|Brave Vital3.0
London Grammar Californian Soil3.5
The Armed Ultrapop3.5
Kauan Ice Fleet3.5
Zao The Crimson Corridor3.5
Brockhampton Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine4.0
Godspeed You! Black Emperor G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!4.0
Moanaa Embers4.0
Somewhere in the past 3 years or so this band found their stride, what makes them THEM and now they cannot write a bad song.
Death From Above 1979 Is 4 Lovers3.0
Genghis Tron Dream Weapon3.5
serpentwithfeet Deacon3.0
Justin Bieber Justice3.0
Lana Del Rey Chemtrails Over The Country Club2.5
ERRA ERRA3.5
Chevelle NIRATIAS3.5
Drake Scary Hours 23.0
Architects For Those That Wish to Exist2.5
Of Mice and Men Timeless3.5
Sunnata Burning In Heaven, Melting On Earth3.5
Evergrey Escape of the Phoenix3.5
Julien Baker Little Oblivions2.5
Altin Gun Yol3.5
Harakiri for the Sky Maere3.5
JPEGMAFIA EP2!3.5
Dua Lipa Future Nostalgia: The Moonlight Edition3.0
Agreed on terriblekonrad's comment. She's milking the success of that album a bit. Remix album and then a deluxe? If we're going to go this route, the new songs on the deluxe better walk the talk and stand out and lead single "We're Good" just isn't on the same level and neither are the others.
slowthai TYRON3.5
Sarin (CAN) You Can’t Go Back4.0
Foo Fighters Medicine at Midnight2.0
Hayley Williams FLOWERS for VASES / descansos3.5
The Weather Station Ignorance3.5
Cult of Luna The Raging River3.5
Steven Wilson The Future Bites3.0
Weezer OK Human2.5
Portrayal of Guilt We Are Always Alone3.5
Arlo Parks Collapsed in Sunbeams3.5
Soen Imperial3.0
Rhye Home2.0
Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou The Helm of Sorrow3.5
Certainly feels like B-sides which is fine. Crone Dance and the Hollywood cover are worth the listen though.
Jazmine Sullivan Heaux Tales3.0
Year of No Light Mneme3.5

2020
Playboi Carti Whole Lotta Red3.0
The Avalanches We Will Always Love You4.0
Kid Cudi Man on the Moon III: The Chosen3.5
Taylor Swift Evermore3.0
Soilwork A Whisp of the Atlantic3.0
Show Me A Dinosaur Plantgazer3.5
Ingrina Siste Lys4.0
pg.lost Oscillate4.0
Killer Be Killed Reluctant Hero3.0
Megan Thee Stallion Good News2.0
Kali Uchis Sin Miedo (del Amor y Otros Demonios)3.0
Novarupta Marine Snow3.5
Aesop Rock Spirit World Field Guide4.0
Jesu Terminus2.5
JPEGMAFIA EP!2.5
Vennart In The Dead, Dead Wood3.5
Ariana Grande positions3.0
Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou May Our Chambers Be Full4.5
Nothing The Great Dismal4.0
Sam Smith Love Goes2.0
Oneohtrix Point Never Magic Oneohtrix Point Never3.0
PUP This Place Sucks Ass3.5
Nothing But Thieves Moral Panic4.0
Gorillaz Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez2.5
Local Natives Sour Lemon3.0
clipping. Visions of Bodies Being Burned3.5
Matt Berninger Serpentine Prison3.0
Kingdom of Giants Passenger3.0
Metz Atlas Vending3.5
Neander Eremit3.5
Dirty Projectors Earth Crisis3.0
SUMAC May You Be Held2.0
BLACKPINK The Album3.5
Enslaved Utgard3.0
21 Savage Savage Mode II3.5
Sam Roberts Band All of Us2.5
Sufjan Stevens The Ascension3.0
Deftones Ohms3.5
Sylvan Esso Free Love2.5
The Ocean Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic4.0
Fleet Foxes Shore3.5
Cults Host3.5
Pull Down the Sun Of Valleys and Mountains3.5
Oceans of Slumber Oceans of Slumber2.5
The Pineapple Thief Versions of the Truth2.5
Big Sean Detroit 23.5
Cloudkicker Solitude3.5
Three Steps To The Ocean Del Fuoco4.0
Songs 3-5 on this album are a hell of a stretch. Some of the better post-metal I?ve heard.
Dirty Projectors Super João1.5
PVRIS Use Me3.5
Pain of Salvation Panther3.0
Katy Perry Smile1.5
Carved Into The Sun Carved Into The Sun3.5
Dirty Projectors 5EPs2.5
Misery Signals Ultraviolet3.0
Rain City Drive To Better Days3.0
Amine Limbo3.5
Nug Alter Ego4.5
Taylor Swift Folklore3.5
Haken Virus4.0
Logic No Pressure3.0
Mother Tongues Everything You Wanted - EP3.5
Juice WRLD Legends Never Die1.5
Sleestak Aeon3.5
Jesu Never2.5
HAIM Women In Music, Pt. III3.5
OHHMS Close3.5
IDK IDK and Friends 23.0
6LACK 6pc Hot3.5
Hum Inlet3.0
Protest the Hero Palimpsest3.0
Jessie Ware What's Your Pleasure?2.5
Sometimes it's hard to critique albums that are doing nothing more than merely celebrating a past era/genre. This one is done well, but what personality of her own is really coming through the tracks? What new ideas are offered? I can't think of many examples. So the album gets high praise for copying an old musical period? At least Future Nostalgia felt like Dua Lipa's own creation. This could well have been any artist from the 70s/80s singing on these tracks.
Phoebe Bridgers Punisher3.0
Dirty Projectors Flight Tower3.5
Run the Jewels RTJ44.0
Lady Gaga Chromatica3.5
Lesser Glow Nullity3.5
Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist Alfredo3.0
Behemoth A Forest2.5
Old Man Gloom Seminar IX: Darkness of Being3.5
Mountaineer Bloodletting4.0
The 1975 Notes on a Conditional Form2.5
Gunna Wunna2.5
Old Man Gloom Seminar VIII: Light Of Meaning 2.0
Charli XCX How I'm Feeling Now3.5
Future High Off Life3.0
Moses Sumney grae3.5
Hayley Williams Petals for Armor3.0
Kehlani It Was Good Until It Wasn't3.5
Drake Dark Lane Demo Tapes2.5
still motions Mirrors3.5
O'Brother You and I3.0
Birds Of Tokyo Human Design1.5
Elder (USA-MA) Omens3.0
Kali Uchis To Feel Alive2.5
AWOLNATION Angel Miners and the Lightning Riders3.0
Katatonia City Burials3.0
Rina Sawayama Sawayama3.0
Coldbones The Cataclysm3.5
Azusa Loop of Yesterdays3.5
Red (USA) Declaration3.0
Empress Of I'm Your Empress Of3.5
Dua Lipa Future Nostalgia4.0
Telepathy Burn Embrace3.5
Spotlights We Are All Atomic3.5
Dirty Projectors Windows Open2.5
Childish Gambino 03.15.204.0
The Weeknd After Hours4.0
Hyborian Volume II3.0
Very by-the-book Mastodon and High on Fire workship. Decent if that's what you're craving at the moment.
Code Orange Underneath3.0
Lil Uzi Vert Eternal Atake2.0
Psychonaut Unfold the God Man3.0
Ikarass Relapse into Desolation3.5
Intronaut Fluid Existential Inversions4.0
Allie X Cape God3.5
Grimes Miss Anthropocene4.0
Polaris The Death of Me3.0
King Krule Man Alive!2.0
Agnes Obel Myopia3.5
Justin Bieber Changes2.5
Tame Impala The Slow Rush3.5
Green Day Father of All Motherfuckers2.5
Loathe I Let It In And It Took Everything4.0
Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats Unlocked3.5
Caspian On Circles3.0
Nero di Marte Immoto2.5
070 Shake Modus Vivendi4.0
COMMMROUND WITH YOUR LOVE OH BABY I?M IN NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDD
Eminem Music to Be Murdered By2.5
Mac Miller Circles3.0
Holy Fawn The Black Moon3.5
Poppy I Disagree2.5
Selena Gomez Rare2.5
Nothing about what she does here is unique at all. Hard to distinguish her from everyone else, despite it sounding plesant and consistent.
Sylvaine / Unreqvited Time Without End3.0
Poppy Music to Scream To1.0

2019
Jackboys Jackboys3.5
Camila Cabello Romance3.0
Roddy Ricch Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial2.5
Our Earth Is A Tomb Moth.3.5
With Our Arms to the Sun The Mogollon Monster3.5
Coldplay Everyday Life3.5
The Basement Paintings Antipodes3.5
Technically if they?re antipodes, then the right one should be pointed southeast not northeast.
FKA Twigs Magdalene3.0
Doja Cat Hot Pink2.5
Red (USA) The Evening Hate2.5
Earl Sweatshirt Feet of Clay2.5
Leprous Pitfalls3.5
PVRIS Hallucinations4.0
Kanye West Jesus Is King2.5
Swans Leaving Meaning3.0
Alcest Spiritual Instinct3.5
Norma Jean All Hail3.0
Moanaa Torches4.5
Trying not to get ahead of myself (especially over a shorter EP), but I think this is some of their best work yet, especially the closing 13-min track. Brings me back to that older sound Rosetta used to have, so much power.
The Great Old Ones Cosmicism3.0
Foals Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost - Part 23.5
clipping. There Existed an Addiction to Blood3.5
Lacuna Coil Black Anima2.5
Danny Brown uknowhatimsayin¿4.0
Noorvik Omission3.5
"Hidden" is the gem to be found in here. Stellar track! Another solid outing by these German post-rock/metal beauties. A little less dynamic/exciting than their debut and certainly nothing new for the genre but solid.
We Lost the Sea Triumph and Disaster3.0
Rosetta Terra Sola3.5
Ghosts of Glaciers The Greatest Burden4.0
Car Bomb Mordial3.0
E-L-R Mænad3.5
Of Mice and Men EARTHANDSKY3.0
The Number Twelve Looks Like You Wild Gods3.0
Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear4.5
Torpor (UK) Rhetoric of the Image3.5
Unfurl The Waking Void3.5
Tides From Nebula From Voodoo to Zen4.0
Korn The Nothing3.5
Chelsea Wolfe Birth of Violence2.5
JPEGMAFIA All My Heroes Are Cornballs4.5
Charli XCX Charli3.5
Starset Divisions3.0
Ghost (SWE) Seven Inches Of Satanic Panic3.5
PSOTY Sunless4.0
Post Malone Hollywood's Bleeding3.5
IDK Is He Real?4.0
Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell!4.0
Tool Fear Inoculum4.0
SAINt JHN Ghetto Lenny's Love Songs3.0
Taylor Swift Lover2.5
Brockhampton Ginger3.5
Pijn and Conjurer Curse These Metal Hands3.5
This is basically Baroness if they had stayed metal and didn't suck ass like they do now.
Cloudkicker Unending3.0
Bon Iver i,i3.5
Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind4.0
Murs, 9th Wonder, and The Soul Council The Iliad is Dead and The Odyssey is Over3.5
Cranial Alternate Endings3.0
Russian Circles Blood Year3.0
Drake Care Package3.0
Northlane Alien3.5
Chance the Rapper The Big Day1.0
Banks III3.0
Big K.R.I.T. K.R.I.T. Iz Here3.5
Wear Your Wounds Rust on the Gates of Heaven3.5
FAR more enjoyable than his first two solo endeavours. This is more like it!
Elder (USA-MA) The Gold and Silver Sessions3.5
Torche Admission4.0
Dreamville Revenge Of The Dreamers III3.0
He Is Legend White Bat3.5
The Black Keys Let's Rock3.0
Daniel Caesar Case Study 013.0
Freddie Gibbs and Madlib Bandana3.0
The Raconteurs Help Us Stranger3.5
State Faults Clairvoyant3.0
Mannequin Pussy Patience3.5
Jolly Family3.5
Black Midi Schlagenheim3.5
Drake The Best In The World Pack3.0
Baroness Gold and Grey2.5
Thank You Scientist Terraformer3.0
Crumb (USA-NY) Jinx2.5
GoldLink Diaspora3.0
Silversun Pickups Widow's Weeds3.5
Jonas Brothers Happiness Begins2.5
Pelican Nighttime Stories3.5
Denzel Curry Zuu4.0
Skepta Ignorance Is Bliss3.0
Miley Cyrus She Is Coming2.5
Flying Lotus Flamagra3.0
Tyler, the Creator IGOR4.0
Pillars (USA-IN) Cavum3.0
Rammstein Untitled3.5
The National I Am Easy to Find3.5
Injury Reserve Injury Reserve3.0
DJ Khaled Father of Asahd1.0
The Beaches (ON) The Professional2.5
Novarupta Disillusioned Fire4.0
ScHoolboy Q CrasH Talk3.0
OKAY LETS GIT IIIIIIIIITTr[insert blast beats]r*TINGTINGTINGTINGTINGTINGTING*r...Bitch lets git it, WOO!
Spotlights Love and Decay3.5
Helms Alee Noctiluca3.5
Vaura Sables2.5
Kevin Abstract ARIZONA BABY3.0
Pivot Gang You Can't Sit With Us3.5
Dead To A Dying World Elegy3.0
Numenorean Adore3.0
Suldusk Lunar Falls4.0
Anderson .Paak Ventura3.5
Grey Skies Ahead Panacea3.0
Weyes Blood Titanic Rising3.5
Periphery Periphery IV: Hail Stan3.5
PUP Morbid Stuff3.5
Latitudes Part Island3.0
Town Portal Of Violence3.0
Blindead Niewiosna2.0
Gloson Mara3.0
Billie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?3.0
Valerinne Desire3.5
Karen O and Danger Mouse Lux Prima3.5
Fallujah Undying Light2.5
Dave Psychodrama3.0
Our Last Night Let Light Overcome2.0
Not sure what they were thinking here. Whole thing is all over the place with incredibly cringe lyrics. Sounds like
"We Came As Romans"-lite. Keep in mind this is coming from someone who adored their 2017 EP.
Foals Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost - Part 14.0
Juice WRLD Death Race For Love3.0
Saver They Came with Sunlight3.5
Weezer The Black Album2.5
Little Simz Grey Area3.5
Degraey Reveries4.0
DaBaby Baby On Baby2.5
The Moth Gatherer Esoteric Oppression4.5
Dream Theater Distance Over Time3.5
Neander neander4.0
Their Methlab The Last Second2.5
Copeland Blushing2.5
Uboa The Origin Of My Depression3.5
Ariana Grande Thank U, Next4.0
Downfall of Gaia Ethic of Radical Finitude4.0
Aortes Have You Found Peace?3.0
Astronoid Astronoid2.5
Soen Lotus3.0
A Secret Revealed Sacrifices3.0
James Blake Assume Form2.5
Future Future Hndrxx Presents: The WIZRD2.5
Malibu Ken Malibu Ken3.0
Kosatka Colossus4.5
Soilwork Verkligheten4.0
Big K.R.I.T. TDT3.0
Eyrth Fracture3.5
If you can get over the horribly mixed vocals (not sure if they intended them to sound this muffled and weak?), then there's a perfectly enjoyable post/doom-metal record waiting for you full of groovy and chunky riffs galore.
Rosetta Sower of Wind3.0

2018
Becoming The Lion Ghosts of a Fallen Soldier (Reissue) - EP4.0
Beautiful vocals and harmonies have been mixed over the original 2010 instrumental tracks. It's hard to imagine this music without the vocals now. Stellar piece of work here.
21 Savage i am > i was3.0
Dirge (FR) Lost Empyrean3.0
Kerretta Exiscens3.5
Baltic By The Light Of The Hidden Sun4.0
Earl Sweatshirt Some Rap Songs3.0
JID DiCaprio 24.0
Black Thought Streams Of Thought, Vol. 23.0
Anderson .Paak Oxnard2.5
P.O.D. Circles2.5
Muse Simulation Theory2.0
Cult Leader A Patient Man3.5
Architects Holy Hell3.0
Antimatter Black Market Enlightenment3.0
The Ocean Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic4.0
Sylvaine Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone3.5
Vince Staples FM!4.0
Haken Vector3.5
Chevelle 12 Bloody Spies: B-Sides and Rarities4.5
These guys have been cranking out some of the most underrated bonus tracks in rock for over a decade. Now those who haven't heard can finally share the love. It's missing their cover for "It's No Good" and also a song called "(High) Visibility" but the highlights are still mainly here.
Daughters You Won't Get What You Want3.0
Leonov Wake3.0
Yuxa Yuxa3.0
Nothing But Thieves What Did You Think When You Made Me This Way?2.5
Haester (BE) All Anchors No Sails3.0
Twenty One Pilots Trench3.5
Black Peaks All That Divides3.5
High on Fire Electric Messiah3.0
A Storm Of Light Anthroscene3.0
Music is competent and slightly punchy by post/sludge-metal standards. Someone needs to tell the lead singer to write less gimmicky lyrics though. We get it man...you don't like where America is headed right now; get in line!
Behemoth I Loved You at Your Darkest3.5
Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper A Star is Born3.5
Lupe Fiasco DROGAS Wave4.0
Riverside Wasteland3.5
Brockhampton Iridescence3.5
Dead Letter Circus Dead Letter Circus (2018)3.0
Metric Art of Doubt3.5
SUMAC Love In Shadow3.0
Toby Driver They Are the Shield3.0
Rad Horror The Part Where Julia Dies2.5
Noname Room 253.0
Arcane Roots Landslide EP3.5
Vennart To Cure A Blizzard Upon A Plastic Sea3.0
Not powerful enough to match Oceansize's work. But also not adventurous enough to match the wacky experimentation and variety of his first solo release. I'll always continue to follow Vennart's work, but releases like this will keep my expectations grounded.
Holy Fawn Death Spells4.0
Emma Ruth Rundle On Dark Horses4.0
6LACK East Atlanta Love Letter3.5
Clutch Book of Bad Decisions3.5
Pig Destroyer Head Cage2.5
Skyharbor Sunshine Dust3.5
Single Mothers Through A Wall3.5
Clearly these animals having been listening to a lot of post-2009 Converge lately. It kinda works actually!
Besra Anhedonia3.5
The Pineapple Thief Dissolution3.5
Eminem Kamikaze3.0
KEN mode Loved3.0
Alice in Chains Rainier Fog3.0
Ancestors Suspended in Reflections3.0
Ariana Grande Sweetener3.0
Mitski Be the Cowboy3.0
Nicki Minaj Queen2.0
Cardi B wins 2018, not Ms. Minaj unfortunately. Maybe next time.
Mac Miller Swimming3.5
Travis Scott Astroworld4.5
Middle Class Rut Gutters3.0
Choker Honeybloom3.0
Denzel Curry TA13OO4.0
Between the Buried and Me Automata II3.0
Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love4.5
Future BEASTMODE 22.0
Drake Scorpion2.0
Gorillaz The Now Now2.0
Converge Beautiful Ruin2.5
Let's Eat Grandma I'm All Ears4.5
Night Verses From the Gallery of Sleep4.0
Teyana Taylor K.T.S.E.3.0
Freddie Gibbs Freddie3.0
Death Grips Year of the Snitch3.0
The Carters Everything Is Love3.0
Nas NASIR3.0
Kids See Ghosts Kids See Ghosts4.5
Cudi kills it and Ye sounds like he's been listening to too much Michael Gira. How can I NOT get on this?
Ghost (SWE) Prequelle4.0
Kanye West ye2.5
Black Thought Streams of Thought, Vol. 13.5
Pusha T DAYTONA3.5
ASAP Rocky TESTING2.5
Don't expect too much here. His work leading up to this has been spotty at best, with a lot of his standalone singles over the past year or so not making much of a splash. His work with ASAP Mob (especially Vol. 2) was also very hit-or-miss and no where near the quality of his first two studio albums. Rocky's fallen off the cliff a bit whether via a lack of passion in what he's doing or lack of content to rap about so it mostly comes off as stale. Despite this, there are some standouts mainly in the first half and the instrumentation has a very Yeezus feel to it which could work for some. AT.LONG.LAST will remain his best for now.
Charlie Puth Voicenotes3.5
Sevendust All I See Is War3.5
Abraham Look, Here Comes The Dark!3.0
Music's ok, lot of neat black metal influence on it. But did it need to be 19 songs and close in on 2 hours? No way.
Playboi Carti Die Lit3.0
Beach House 73.0
Ingrina Etter Lys4.5
Archelon Tribe of Suns3.5
The Ever Living HEREPHEMINE4.0
Astodan Ameretat3.5
Rad Horror Anti Teenage Sensation - Part 13.5
Post Malone beerbongs and bentleys4.0
Janelle Monae Dirty Computer3.0
Toundra Vortex3.5
A Perfect Circle Eat the Elephant3.0
TesseracT Sonder3.0
J. Cole K.O.D.2.5
Sleep The Sciences3.0
Breaking Benjamin Ember3.5
Mol JORD4.0
Cardi B Invasion of Privacy3.5
Kali Uchis Isolation2.5
Saba Care For Me4.0
The Weeknd My Dear Melancholy,2.5
Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour3.5
WuW Rien ne nous sera épargné2.0
SAINt JHN Collection One4.0
The Republic of Wolves shrine3.5
Jack White Boarding House Reach3.0
Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name3.0
Fallujah is more interesting. *proceeds to put on bulletproof vest*
Greyhaven Empty Black4.0
Between the Buried and Me Automata I3.0
Hemelbestormer A Ring Of Blue Light3.5
Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It4.5
Oceans of Slumber The Banished Heart3.0
Just like their last release, Oceans of Slumber are adding in a lot of interesting elements and building a fairly strong foundation for their sound. It's in the execution of these ideas where they offer mixed results and once again there are a few songs that work and a few that clock in at overly-bloated run lengths but never really offer up any rewards along the way. It makes the entire listen a bit of a chore. Luckily, their sound is one that can appeal to fans of many genres (namely progressive-,doom-, and even some post-metal) so there is at least something to discover here for most. Recommended Songs: The Decay of Disregard, Etiolation, No Color No Light
Anna von Hausswolff Dead Magic3.0
SOB x RBE Gangin2.0
Loved their song "Paramedic!" off of the Black Panther soundtrack. Good beat, energetic lyrics and great dynamic between the members. This album tries to recapture that in 15 lesser songs following the exact same blueprint. By the second third of the album, the idea is beaten into the ground and comes off as try-hard. It says nothing new, it does nothing new.
Lo Moon Lo Moon3.0
Towkio WWW3.0
Conjurer (UK) Mire3.0
Rain City Drive Beautiful Death3.0
Subnoir A Long Way From Home3.0
MGMT Little Dark Age2.5
Soundtrack (Film) Black Panther The Album3.5
The Atlas Moth Coma Noir3.0
Legend of the Seagullmen Legend of the Seagullmen2.5
Erdve Vaitojimas4.0
AWOLNATION Here Come The Runts2.5
Justin Timberlake Man of the Woods2.5
Migos Culture II2.5
Mike Shinoda Post Traumatic EP2.0
Drake Scary Hours3.0
JPEGMAFIA Veteran3.0
Fight the Fade Masks3.0
Noorvik Noorvik4.0
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Wrong Creatures3.0
Sinistro Sangue Cassia2.5
Obscure Sphinx is a better version of this band. Their female singer offers decent harsh vocals to mix things up and their songs don't feel as overly long as these ones do.

2017
Eminem Revival1.0
Hard to believe but it's the worst album Eminem has ever released, worse than even Encore and Relapse.
Brockhampton SATURATION III3.5
Dirge (FR) Alma Baltica3.0
Godflesh Post Self3.5
Electric Wizard Wizard Bloody Wizard2.5
Taylor Swift Reputation3.0
Zao Pyrrhic Victory3.5
Converge The Dusk in Us3.5
Maroon 5 Red Pill Blues2.0
Maroon 5 tries to emulate Drake? As expected, it's largely full of "misses". However, I always have a hard time slapping 1's on anything, there's typically at least one good song buried deep enough on any album. Here it's "Lips on You". But people seem to be neglecting the ambitious 11-minute funk/jazz jam to close the album out ("Closure"). It's been years since the band has tried anything this sprawling and well thought-out and it's most certainly NOT indicative of a band going through the motions like many on here would have you think. Grow some balls and give the WHOLE album a try, yeesh. Pistol out.
James Holden and The Animal Spirits The Animal Spirits3.0
Kygo Kids in Love2.5
Chris Brown Heartbreak on a Full Moon1.0
21 Savage, Offset and Metro Boomin Without Warning3.5
Weezer Pacific Daydream3.0
Red (USA) Gone2.5
10 Years (How to Live) As Ghosts3.5
Big K.R.I.T. 4eva Is a Mighty Long Time3.5
Fever Ray Plunge2.0
Majid Jordan The Space Between2.5
Cairo Knife Fight Seven4.0
Amenra Mass VI3.5
Lou The Human Humaniac3.5
St. Vincent Masseduction3.5
IDK IWASVERYBAD3.5
Beck Colors3.5
Opium Eater ENNUI3.5
Robot Process EP3.5
Soul-crushing hardcore from Canada with hints of sludge that will hand you your balls on a platter and make no apologies.
August Burns Red Phantom Anthem3.0
Like most of ABR's recent releases, this plays nicely all the way through. Some stuff sticks with you along the way, nothing really flat out blows...but the experience overall is quickly forgotten once it's done. "King of Sorrow" is the one exception, that song is a blast. This is perfect for music you can play in the background at the gym without needing to sing along. It's "lasting appeal" once outside that kind of scenario would be in question though. Recommended Songs: King of Sorrow, Float, Dangerous
Spotlights Seismic3.5
Miley Cyrus Younger Now2.5
Chelsea Wolfe Hiss Spun3.0
The Killers Wonderful Wonderful2.0
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Luciferian Towers3.5
Mastodon Cold Dark Place2.5
Circa Survive The Amulet4.0
Kauan Kaiho4.0
An album for those who need that temporary relief from the chaotic, mundane routine we all tend to find ourselves in as adults. It's atmospheres let your mind wander back to those simpler times when the world didn't quite seem so chartered on a downward spiral. Beautiful, patient and rewarding music.
Arcane Roots Melancholia Hymns4.0
Nothing More The Stories We Tell Ourselves3.0
Consistently good for what it is (alt rock with a dose of nu-metal flavor this time). But they had such a good sound on the S/T three years ago and this not only feels like a step backwards instrumentally but also in terms of maturity. Recommended Songs: Go To War, Ripping Me Apart
Foo Fighters Concrete and Gold3.0
Death From Above 1979 Outrage! Is Now3.5
Nothing But Thieves Broken Machine4.5
Rosetta Utopioid4.0
Queens of the Stone Age Villains3.5
ASAP Mob Cozy Tapes, Vol. 2: Too Cozy2.0
Leprous Malina3.5
Brockhampton SATURATION II3.0
Daniel Caesar Freudian3.0
PVRIS All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell3.5
Steven Wilson To the Bone3.0
Brand New Science Fiction4.0
Kesha Rainbow1.5
Milo Who Told You To Think?​?​!​!​?​!​?​!​?​!3.0
Billie Eilish dont smile at me3.0
Lana Del Rey Lust For Life4.0
Converge I Can Tell You About Pain3.5
Arcade Fire Everything Now2.0
Sarin (CAN) Darker Lakes5.0
Tyler, the Creator Flower Boy4.0
Coldplay Kaleidoscope3.5
Amplifier Trippin' with Dr. Faustus3.0
Jay-Z 4:442.5
Jay-Z actually comes up with better lyrics and more interesting things to say this time around. He just forgot to also bring interesting beats and any energy to his music whatsoever. Some rappers can pull it off, but Jay-Z needs some level of hype and urgency to his music and it's just not here.
BOG Unshriven3.5
Vince Staples Big Fish Theory4.5
Finally a rap album comes out this year to contend against DAMN. for the throne. Staples' best beats to date (hands down) mixed with his vintage flow and lyricism. Quintessential shit.
Imagine Dragons ƎVOLVE2.0
Big Boi BOOMIVERSE3.0
Nickelback Feed the Machine3.0
SZA Ctrl3.0
Single Mothers Our Pleasure2.5
Fleet Foxes Crack-Up3.0
Lorde Melodrama3.5
Royal Blood How Did We Get So Dark?3.0
LLNN / Wovoka Marks / Traces3.0
Portugal. The Man Woodstock4.0
Our Last Night Selective Hearing4.0
Some really strong song-writing here. The middle section has maybe 1-2 average tracks, but the first and last pair of tracks are great. It's poppy metalcore so I mean you have to go into it with as little bias as possible, but those who can put that aside will find something to love here. Recommended Songs: Broken Lives, Tongue Tied, Common Ground
Katy Perry Witness2.0
Anathema The Optimist2.5
Phoenix (FRA) Ti Amo2.5
Brockhampton SATURATION4.0
London Grammar Truth is a Beautiful Thing3.0
SikTh The Future In Whose Eyes?3.0
alt-J Relaxer3.0
Dan Auerbach Waiting On A Song2.5
Elder (USA-MA) Reflections of a Floating World4.0
Wear Your Wounds Dunedevil2.5
Linkin Park One More Light1.5
Snoop Dogg Neva Left2.0
Au-Dessus End of Chapter4.0
Summoner Beyond The Realm Of Light2.5
Paramore After Laughter1.5
This shit sucks. I mean the band was barely tolerable before as it was. And now they come galloping into the scene with this newer '80s beachy/funky sound like it's revolutionary and just play it into the ground for 12 songs until it's beyond overdone. And the hooks are normal indie pop hooks, nothing more nothing less.
The Afghan Whigs In Spades4.0
At the Drive-In in•ter a•li•a3.0
Slowdive Slowdive (LP)2.5
Gorillaz Humanz3.5
Sol (USA) Upheaval2.5
Incubus (USA-CA) 83.0
With Our Arms to the Sun Orenda4.0
Really good blend of post-rock/metal with hints of Tool/Mastodon influence everywhere. Lyrics can be a little
cheesy but this album reaches even more soaring heights than its predecessor. The heavier inclusion of rougher
vocals is a plus too. Give it a few listens and it'll grow on you. Recommended Songs: Macrocosm:
Prometheus, Apex: 100 Year Dream, The War: Light the Shadows
When Icarus Falls Resilience4.0
Kendrick Lamar DAMN.4.5
Playboi Carti Playboi Carti3.0
Father John Misty Pure Comedy1.5
What a chore to sit through. This is like if Elton John decided to become a cynical curmudgeon who shakes his fist at the clouds all day and sings about whatever the fuck is on his mind at a given time instead of just saying it normally.
Wear Your Wounds WYW2.5
Mastodon Emperor of Sand3.5
A very solid return to form from the lackluster album they came out with in 2014. However, it fails to match their landmark record Leviathan in terms of sheer fury and power while also not surpassing The Hunter in terms of their newer more mainstream approach as both those albums did what this does better. Recommended Songs: Show Yourself, Steambreather, Scorpion's Breath
Freddie Gibbs You Only Live 2wice3.5
OHHMS The Fool3.0
Pretty decent stoner metal with some progressive metal and sludge tendencies. Songs are long but paced well so they don't outstay their welcome. Music is fairly simple and standard for the genre, but some of the heavier sections jam very hard despite their simplicity. Was pleasantly surprised to see that the ~22 minute closer actually wasn't a bore, band pulls off a strong performance. The Bossk comparisons are a little incorrect, this is more Electric Wizard meets Anciients in my opinion, but definitely open to interpretation there.
The Moth Gatherer The Comfortable Low3.0
Heretoir The Circle3.5
Drake More Life4.0
Lodz Time Doesn't Heal Anything3.5
The Shins Heartworms2.5
Deadmau5 Stuff I Used To Do2.5
Future HNDRXX2.0
Persefone Aathma3.5
Born of Osiris The Eternal Reign3.5
Thundercat Drunk3.0
Future FUTURE3.0
Jidenna The Chief3.0
Cranial Dark Towers, Bright Lights4.0
This is some crushing and lethal post/sludge metal. "Towers" will quite literally stomp on and devour your soul.
Gloson Grimen3.5
Mother Mother No Culture3.0
Lupe Fiasco DROGAS Light2.5
Sampha Process3.0
Big Sean I Decided.3.0
Soen Lykaia3.0
P.O.S Chill, Dummy3.5
Train A Girl A Bottle A Boat1.0
Migos Culture3.0
The Great Old Ones EOD: A Tale of Dark Legacy3.5
Starset Vessels3.5
Uggh....why am I such a sucker for this shit?
Riviere Heal3.0
Pain of Salvation In the Passing Light of Day4.0
Hyborian I3.5
JID The Never Story3.0

2016
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 34.0
Nine Inch Nails Not the Actual Events3.5
Kid Cudi Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin’2.5
J. Cole 4 Your Eyez Only2.0
J. Cole tries to be Drake at a time when Drake is on the decline and still can't even manage to match that. This guy is up there with the most overrated rappers there are.
Zao The Well-Intentioned Virus4.0
Post Malone Stoney3.0
Childish Gambino "Awaken, My Love!"3.0
The Weeknd Starboy3.5
Dragonette Royal Blues2.0
Sleigh Bells Jessica Rabbit2.0
Animals As Leaders The Madness of Many3.0
Degraey Chrysalis3.0
Birds Of Tokyo BRACE3.0
A very different offering that blends the poppier leanings they've been going for recently with an electronic industrial sound and a bit of their old alternative rock sound too. Even if the lyrics are some of their corniest and phoned-in to date, it still feels refreshing. Recommended Songs: Harlequins, Gods, Mercy Arms
BLACKPINK Square Two3.5
ASAP Mob Cozy Tapes, Vol. 1: Friends3.0
Chagall Locust Spitter3.5
Extremely groovy and punishing metal from Canada with a slight sludge edge to the sound. Vocals can switch between death and black metal growls at the snap of a finger and the instrumentation is on point. Recommended Songs: Ghosts, Healing Ground
Sam Roberts Band Terraform2.5
This is really the sound of Sam Roberts getting a little too comfortable with the pop sound he's drenched his recent offerings in. It helps that it's nice and short (barring the snoozefest opener). The singles are strong and fit what he's trying to go for. But the album does get lost in its own conservativeness, especially towards the end. Maybe not his weakest effort, but close. Recommended Songs: FIEND, If You Want It, Black Spark
Saba Bucket List3.5
Korn The Serenity of Suffering3.5
Lady Gaga Joanne3.0
DRAM Big Baby D.R.A.M.2.5
Blindead Ascension2.5
NxWorries Yes Lawd!3.0
The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation3.0
Dayshell Nexus4.0
Mouth Of The Architect Path of Eight2.5
Meshuggah The Violent Sleep Of Reason2.0
Green Day Revolution Radio2.5
Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition4.5
Banks The Altar3.5
An incredibly top-heavy album that will undoubtedly re-establish Banks as a top notch female pop artist in today's competitive and "hard-to-please" music industry but falls just a bit short of her debut as the back half lacks the standouts. Still solid work and the first half is vintage Banks at her finest. Recommended Songs: Fuck With Myself, Lovesick, Mind Games
Bon Iver 22, A Million2.0
Alcest Kodama4.0
Opeth Sorceress3.0
Emma Ruth Rundle Marked for Death4.5
Neurosis Fires Within Fires3.5
Tash Sultana Notion3.5
Artificial waves Heavy. Deep. Sad. Ironic.3.0
Ghost (SWE) Popestar3.5
Moanaa Passage2.5
Obscure Sphinx Epitaphs4.5
The Dear Hunter Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional3.0
Norma Jean Polar Similar4.0
Helms Alee Stillicide3.0
Isaiah Rashad The Sun's Tirade3.0
Prophets of Rage The Party's Over2.0
Twelve Foot Ninja Outlier3.0
The issue here isn't that it's a bad album, it's that it feels too much like TFN running through the motions. Every song, at its core, is structured much the same as each other. The sudden shifts in tempo and genre no longer feel fresh and exciting, they feel instead like something TFN puts into the song because "that's what they do". And in the end you have a product that feels more like attending a class of "How to Write a Twelve Foot Ninja Song 101" rather than the passionate and energetic album we know they can write. For this listener, the novelty has long worn off. Recommended Songs: Invincible, Point of You
De La Soul and the Anonymous Nobody...3.0
SubRosa (US) For This We Fought the Battle of Ages3.0
Young Thug JEFFERY3.0
Vince Staples Prima Donna3.0
Frank Ocean Blonde4.5
Soilwork Death Resonance3.0
Crystal Castles Amnesty (I)3.5
The Pineapple Thief Your Wilderness3.0
Russian Circles Guidance3.5
Thank You Scientist Stranger Heads Prevail2.5
These guys sound like The Dear Hunter except even MORE full of themselves.
Periphery Periphery III: Select Difficulty3.0
Bear's Den Red Earth & Pouring Rain2.5
21 Savage Savage Mode3.0
Chevelle The North Corridor4.5
ScHoolboy Q Blank Face LP4.0
Fates Warning Theories of Flight3.5
Be'lakor Vessels4.0
Red Hot Chili Peppers The Getaway3.0
Swans The Glowing Man3.5
Nails You Will Never Be One of Us3.0
Thousand Foot Krutch Exhale2.5
Let's Eat Grandma I, Gemini2.5
MY CAT IS DEAD. MY FOTHA HIT ME. I RAN AWAY. I'M REALLY HUNGRY. (Maybe working my way backwards with this band wasn't the best idea. There is such a thing as TOO experimental and wacky, of which they struck the perfect balance on their sophomore album.)
SUMAC What One Becomes3.5
Astronoid Air3.0
Vic Mensa There's Alot Going On3.5
Very good, but not all songs are as tight as that stretch of Tracks 2-5.
If These Trees Could Talk The Bones of a Dying World3.5
Lacuna Coil Delirium2.5
Architects All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us2.5
Saosin Along the Shadow3.5
Ariana Grande Dangerous Woman3.5
Chance the Rapper Coloring Book2.5
Meghan Trainor Thank You1.0
Spotlights Tidals3.5
Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool3.5
Death Grips Bottomless Pit3.5
Skepta Konnichiwa3.5
Ring ring pussy, it's SHUT DOWN.
Drake Views3.0
Fallujah Dreamless3.5
Haken Affinity3.0
Aesop Rock The Impossible Kid3.5
Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas Mariner4.0
Filter Crazy Eyes2.5
Deftones Gore4.0
Weezer The White Album3.5
Bossk Audio Noir4.5
Cecil Otter Dear Echo3.5
The Ever Living The Ever Living - EP3.5
O'Brother Endless Light4.0
It's O'Brother stripping their sound down to a rough slow-burn rooted in weighty distortion. It's no where close to Garden Window but still thrilling and shows the band is still writing interesting music. I also hear a lot of neat influences at work I didn't hear from them before like Deftones (Your Move) and even a bit of Muse (title track). And Tanner's voice isn't weird any more. Now newcomers might have an easier time liking it! Recommended Songs: Your Move, Deconstruct, I Am (Become Death)
Domo Genesis Genesis2.5
Young Thug Slime Season 32.0
Denzel Curry Imperial3.5
Kendrick Lamar untitled unmastered.3.5
Oceans of Slumber Winter3.0
Fall of Messiah EMPTY COLORS3.5
Hemelbestormer Aether3.5
Kanye West The Life of Pablo3.5
Just as much of a mess as Yeezus was, albeit slightly better this time. I still expect him to deliver another MBDTF one of these days and when it hits it's going to be earth-shattering and we're all going to look like fools for not believing in him. Recommended Songs: Famous, Feedback, FML
Majid Jordan Majid Jordan2.5
Rihanna ANTI4.5
Nothing Rihanna released since Good Girl Gone Bad almost a decade ago has been anything more than overblown messes of albums with maybe 2 hits each and that's it. Nothing, that is...until this album. With ANTI, Rihanna has finally given us an album with enough consistency that it can be listened to the whole way through. One can only hope this remains the trend for future releases. Recommended Songs: Kiss It Better, Desperado, Yeah I Said It
Steven Wilson 4 1/22.0
Anderson .Paak Malibu4.5

2015
Pusha T King Push – Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude3.5
Baroness Purple3.5
Coldplay A Head Full of Dreams2.0
Kid Cudi Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven1.0
The Moth Gatherer The Earth is the Sky4.0
Foo Fighters Saint Cecilia2.5
Adele 252.5
While the instrumentation and vocals succeed in most respects, they never really encroach on any new territory for her. But what really brings the album down are the lyrics themselves, which feel more like a regression from "21" where it felt easier to buy into what she was singing about. Her lyrics four years later ironically seem to take a step back in maturity, making her seem more like a mid-20s drama queen who never grew out of her boy-crazy days rather than the powerful and emotionally-stable woman she is striving to be. The album is also incredibly top-heavy, with maybe a couple gems later on in the album amidst a ton a dreary, somber mediocrity along the way. Nothing ever really comes close to the impact of opener "Hello" either. Recommended Songs: Hello (of course...), I Miss You, River Lea
The Mire Vice Regalia3.5
Intronaut The Direction of Last Things4.0
Justin Bieber Purpose3.0
Sunpocrisy Eyegasm, Hallelujah!3.5
Kauan Sorni Nai3.0
Arcane Roots Heaven and Earth4.5
Cult Leader Lightless Walk3.5
The Game The Documentary 2.52.5
Nothing But Thieves Nothing But Thieves3.5
Beach House Thank Your Lucky Stars3.0
The Game The Documentary 23.5
Dog Fashion Disco Ad Nauseam3.5
Clutch Psychic Warfare3.0
The Dead Weather Dodge & Burn3.5
Silversun Pickups Better Nature3.5
Drake and Future What a Time to Be Alive2.5
Metric Pagans In Vegas3.0
Lana Del Rey Honeymoon2.5
Bleak, depressing, and self-loathing in the most boring way imaginable. This music has no energy and coasts along for an unfair amount of time with little to no reward.
TesseracT Polaris3.5
Mac Miller GO:OD AM2.5
Riverside Love, Fear and the Time Machine3.5
The Dear Hunter Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise3.5
Travis Scott Rodeo2.5
Cranial Dead Ends3.5
Caspian Dust and Disquiet3.0
Foals What Went Down4.5
Soilwork The Ride Majestic3.5
The Weeknd Beauty Behind the Madness4.0
Beach House Depression Cherry3.5
Ghost (SWE) Meliora4.5
P.O.D. The Awakening2.5
Dead Letter Circus Aesthesis3.5
Dr. Dre Compton4.0
Future DS23.5
Tame Impala Currents3.0
Rosetta Quintessential Ephemera3.5
Failure The Heart Is a Monster3.5
Vince Staples Summertime '063.5
August Burns Red Found in Far Away Places3.0
Breaking Benjamin Dark Before Dawn2.5
Wolf Alice My Love Is Cool3.0
Cult Leader Useless Animal2.5
The Named The Named3.0
Denzel Curry 32 Zel / Planet Shrooms3.0
Rolo Tomassi Grievances3.0
Cairo Knife Fight The Colossus3.0
ASAP Rocky At.Long.Last.A$AP4.0
Vennart The Demon Joke4.0
This is a special album. Without the backing of his old Oceansize comrades, I'll admit the album felt a bit...."lonely" at first. The music doesn't quite have the same impact and emotional weight as the latter band. But that's not the point here, Mike Vennart is letting his creativity run wild, and here he delivers quite a wide array of styles of rock with a surprising level of consistency. His voice is also equally as good as before and has arguably got even better with age, which is nuts. Recommended Songs: Doubt, Infatuate, Duke Fame (the chorus on this song makes it a SOTY candidate)
Leprous The Congregation4.0
Incubus (USA-CA) Trust Fall (Side A)3.5
Blur The Magic Whip3.0
10 Years From Birth to Burial2.5
Birds Of Tokyo Anchor1.5
Irreversible Irreversible4.0
Wovoka Saros3.0
Tyler, the Creator Cherry Bomb3.5
Minsk The Crash and the Draw3.5
Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress'2.5
Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell3.5
Earl Sweatshirt I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside3.0
Modest Mouse Strangers to Ourselves3.5
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly4.0
Death Grips The Powers That B - Part II: Jenny Death3.0
Disasterpeace It Follows OST4.0
Three Steps To The Ocean Migration Light4.0
Yanos Omega3.5
Steven Wilson Hand. Cannot. Erase.3.0
Elder (USA-MA) Lore3.0
Au-Dessus Au-Dessus3.0
Red (USA) Of Beauty and Rage4.0
A stupendous return to form for the boys from Red. I don't think these guys have ever made an album where the second half outclasses the first half, yet here we are. Absolutely epic songs, you can really hear the quality is back in their sound. Recommended Songs: Fight to Forget, Gravity Lies, The Ever
Big Sean Dark Sky Paradise3.5
Torche Restarter3.5
Izah Sistere4.0
Drake If You're Reading This It's Too Late4.0
Things I learned about Drake by listening to this: 1.) He has a very negative opinion of Facebook, which he claims is not "real" enough for him and often distracts women he is trying to hit on, taking time away from what he'd rather do with them. 2.) He does not like to assist in police investigations even when said investigation does not involve him even in the slightest. 3.) He has a lot of enemies. Like...a LOT.
SUMAC The Deal3.0
Rabbit Junk Invasion3.0
Callisto Secret Youth2.5
I get it had been six years since their previous album. I get that they don't feel obligated to sound like their older selves. I get that they may even want to distance themselves from post-metal altogether (which this album definitely tries to do). But this heavier incorporation of alt-rock and almost complete doing away with harsh vocals has resulted in something that lacks impact. If you stack this against their earlier stuff it wilts quite fast. The band definitely has some work to do in order to make something big out of this newer direction.
Periphery Juggernaut: Omega4.5
The album Periphery always had in them, absolutely brilliant and single-handedly saves the entire Juggernaut double album from the inevitable mediocrity that Alpha would've left it in on its own. It's nice and concise and plays to all their strengths.
Periphery Juggernaut: Alpha3.5
Arcane Known/Learned3.5
First half: A solid 4-4.5/5 and an astounding piece of prog rock. Second half: 2-2.5/5, the acoustic side comes off as boring and diluted and would've maybe suited a shorter EP but really drags down the far superior first half.
Lupe Fiasco Tetsuo and Youth4.5
Sarin (CAN) Burial Dream4.0

2014
Ashes and Iron The Wind Takes a Side4.0
Baulta Any Fool Can Regret Yesterday2.5
Deeply Sorry... was a fun debut release. You can tell the band were excited and while their music invoked moodier atmospheres in certain parts, it felt adventurous and exciting nonetheless. Then the band kind of just got...sad (for lack of a better word). Any Fool Can Regret Yesterday is the darkest and bleakest release yet for Baulta. Maybe their debut was the wrong first impression to get but to me this music isn't very fun anymore and hard to vibe with. As with any post-rock release, I'm sure there will be a certain group that gets something out of this, but I really miss their emotionally lighter material. This makes me want to cry and I have other bands that already do that for me...thank you VERY much.
J. Cole 2014 Forest Hills Drive3.0
Cloudkicker Little Histories3.0
Damascus When Last We Met3.0
Circa Survive Descensus2.0
Skyharbor Guiding Lights4.5
Foo Fighters Sonic Highways2.5
Old Man Gloom The Ape of God II3.0
Mother Mother Very Good Bad Thing3.0
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 25.0
Taylor Swift 19893.0
Anderson .Paak Venice4.0
Jakob Sines3.0
Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter2.0
Rosetta Flies to Flame3.0
Single Mothers Negative Qualities4.0
Weezer Everything Will Be Alright in the End3.5
Godflesh A World Lit Only by Fire3.5
Vince Staples Hell Can Wait4.0
Electric Wizard Time to Die3.0
Moanaa Descent3.5
alt-J This Is All Yours3.0
Sleepwave Broken Compass3.0
Irreversible Surface5.0
The crown jewel of an incredibly overlooked and underrated discography.
Death From Above 1979 The Physical World3.5
Banks Goddess4.0
Amplifier Mystoria4.0
Maroon 5 V2.0
Rabbit Junk Pop That Pretty Thirty4.0
Thousand Foot Krutch Oxygen: Inhale1.5
Thousand Foot Krutch has been teetering on the edge between decent melodic hard rock and face-smacking awkward nu-metal for years. However, up until now they had somehow managed to elude the inevitable collapse that happens to bands like that by having each album deliver at least a few gems and a tolerable level of consistency. Oxygen:Inhale is the first time I can tell you that TFK has fallen off the wrong side of the wall and is lost in a place that only they understand. Let's hope Oxygen:Exhale redeems them.
Royal Blood Royal Blood4.0
Fallujah The Flesh Prevails4.0
Anberlin Lowborn3.5
Dog Fashion Disco Sweet Nothings4.0
Rise Against The Black Market2.0
Starset Transmissions3.0
Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun2.5
Nothing More Nothing More4.0
A bastard child of Emery and Fair to Midland for all those who miss the latter band and the days of high-adrenaline and all-around FUN rock.
Deadmau5 While(1<2)3.0
Linkin Park The Hunting Party3.5
Lana Del Rey Ultraviolence3.5
Anathema Distant Satellites2.5
Jack White Lazaretto2.0
The Roots ...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin3.0
Emma Ruth Rundle Some Heavy Ocean2.5
Coldplay Ghost Stories3.5
Greyhaven Cult America3.0
Swans To Be Kind4.5
Killer Be Killed Killer Be Killed3.0
Telepathy 12 Areas3.5
Lantlos Melting Sun4.0
Crib45 Marching Through the Borderlines4.5
Red (USA) Release the Panic: Recalibrated3.0
Trophy Scars Holy Vacants4.0
The Great Old Ones Tekeli-Li2.5
Cult Leader Nothing for Us Here3.5
PSOTY Fragments Of Uniforms4.5
Chevelle La Gárgola4.5
Lacuna Coil Broken Crown Halo2.0
Single Mothers Wild Party4.5
Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion4.0
Dirge (FR) Hyperion4.0
St. Vincent St. Vincent3.5
Kid Cudi Satellite Flight: The Journey to Mother Moon1.5
ScHoolboy Q Oxymoron3.0
With Our Arms to the Sun A Far Away Wonder3.5
Sam Roberts Band Lo-Fantasy4.0
Helms Alee Sleepwalking Sailors3.0
Broken Bells After The Disco3.5
Behemoth The Satanist3.5
When Icarus Falls Circles3.5
The Mire Glass Cathedrals4.0
Periphery Clear2.0
Isaiah Rashad Cilvia Demo3.5
Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues3.0
Alcest Shelter3.5
Cyanotic Worst Case Scenario Vol. 13.5

2013
Childish Gambino Because the Internet3.0
Kauan Pirut3.0
Ghost (SWE) If You Have Ghost2.5
Obscure Sphinx Void Mother4.5
Lady Gaga Artpop3.0
Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP 23.5
Our Last Night Oak Island3.5
Russian Circles Memorial4.0
Blindead Absence3.0
Katy Perry Prism2.5
Dayshell Dayshell3.0
Anberlin Devotion4.5
Pelican Forever Becoming2.5
I'm going to say about Pelican the same thing Paul Pierce said about the Toronto Raptors' disappointing 2015 playoff run: Pelican don't have the 'it' factor. They make mildly enjoyable instrumental post-metal that is by no means unlistenable but is also not in any way memorable.
Ra Critical Mass3.5
Sleigh Bells Bitter Rivals1.5
This band has inexplicably forgotten how to make a good song. I can't even find one song on here that sticks out. They need to cool their jets and take their time on the next album, because this was one colossal waste of everyone's time.
Danny Brown Old3.0
Pusha T My Name Is My Name3.5
Secrets of the Sky To Sail Black Waters3.5
Fates Warning Darkness in a Different Light3.5
Lorde Pure Heroine3.5
Agnes Obel Aventine3.0
Drake Nothing Was the Same3.0
A bit of a step down from Take Care. There are some strong songs here, but his sophomore release somehow felt tighter with very few chinks in its armor despite having 18 songs. Nothing Was The Same will keep Drake relevant, but doesn't offer much to prove to us that there's a whole lot left in him. I love the Toronto shout-outs though, I'm from there! Recommended Songs: Started From The Bottom, From Time, Hold On We're Going Home, Pound Cake.
Jesu Everyday I Get Closer to the Light from Which I Came2.5
Cult of Luna Vertikal II4.0
SubRosa (US) More Constant Than The Gods4.0
Redlight King Irons in the Fire2.5
Janelle Monae The Electric Lady2.5
London Grammar If You Wait4.0
Arctic Monkeys AM2.5
The Safety Fire Mouth of Swords2.5
O'Brother Disillusion4.0
Earl Sweatshirt Doris3.5
Our Last Night Summer Of Covers3.0
Dead Letter Circus The Catalyst Fire4.5
Rosetta The Anaesthete3.5
Norma Jean Wrongdoers3.5
Karnivool Asymmetry4.5
We Came As Romans Tracing Back Roots2.5
Misery Signals Absent Light3.0
Helm (AU) Vol 3… Panthalassa4.0
Jay-Z Magna Carta... Holy Grail2.5
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels4.0
Palms Palms2.5
Middle Class Rut Pick Up Your Head4.0
Mouth Of The Architect Dawning3.0
August Burns Red Rescue & Restore3.5
Kanye West Yeezus3.0
Deafheaven Sunbather3.5
Filter The Sun Comes Out Tonight4.0
Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork4.0
Alice in Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here3.5
TesseracT Altered State3.5
Leprous Coal4.0
Daft Punk Random Access Memories3.5
The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer4.0
Arcane Roots Blood and Chemistry4.0
Altar of Plagues Teethed Glory and Injury4.0
Chance the Rapper Acid Rap3.0
The Ocean Pelagial4.0
Helioscope Noir4.0
Kid Cudi Indicud3.0
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Mosquito3.0
The Moth Gatherer A Bright Celestial Light4.0
Anciients Heart of Oak3.0
Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam3.0
Sarin (CAN) House of Leaves3.5
Tyler, the Creator Wolf3.5
Fallujah Nomadic3.0
OneRepublic Native3.5
Clutch Earth Rocker4.5
Intronaut Habitual Levitations4.0
And So I Watch You From Afar All Hail Bright Futures3.0
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Specter At The Feast2.5
Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience3.0
Amplifier Echo Street3.0
Jolly The Audio Guide to Happiness (Part 2)4.0
Soilwork The Living Infinite3.5
Bastille Bad Blood2.0
Birds Of Tokyo March Fires3.5
Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)3.5
Bullet for My Valentine Temper Temper1.5
Foals Holy Fire3.5
Humanfly Awesome Science4.0
Red (USA) Release the Panic2.0
With Our Arms to the Sun Ep0013.5
Cult of Luna Vertikal4.5
This album shouldn't be as special to me as it is. But with Isis gone, and Neurosis delivering a simply "okay" album last year, I guess it's just nice to know someone out of these top tier post-metal bands can still be counted on. I knew this album would take patience (as do most of their albums). So I wasn't surprised to see that one day at work after several listens, I could put this album on and practically every song has that enormous presence and elegant flow I come to expect from Cult of Luna. It's stellar and so very worth the patience. Recommended Songs: I: The Weapon (the clusterfuck song on "Vertikal"), Synchronicity (go listen to this song a few times and tell me if that drumline and rhythm isn't stuck in your head for days after), In Awe Of (best riffs on the album, instant classic)
Riverside Shrine Of New Generation Slaves4.5
ASAP Rocky LONG.LIVE.A$AP3.0
Huldra Monuments, Monoliths3.0

2012
Baulta That's My House You're Living In2.5
Izah Izah/Fire Walk With Us Split4.0
Izah's half (4.5/5): expertly paced and ferocious post metal from Izah as always. They balance the heavier
and ambient sections well and the final minute of the song is quite rewarding and spectacular. FWWU's half
(3.5/5): not as impressive but still solid instrumental metal. Some of the spastic heavier sections stand out as
on "Bygones" but musically it's just outbeaten by Izah overall.
Rihanna Unapologetic1.5
Deftones Koi No Yokan4.0
Lana Del Rey Paradise4.0
Well honeybun you outdid yourself on this one. How did you know I liked Pepsi-Cola and cherry pies? I mean gawddamn!
ISIS Temporal3.5
Crystal Castles Crystal Castles III4.0
Twelve Foot Ninja Silent Machine4.0
Neurosis Honor Found in Decay3.0
Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city4.5
P.O.S We Don't Even Live Here3.5
Anberlin Vital4.5
Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!4.0
Converge All We Love We Leave Behind4.5
Tame Impala Lonerism3.5
Birds Of Tokyo This Fire4.0
Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor 2: The Great American Rap Album Pt.13.0
The Gathering Disclosure3.5
Dragonette Bodyparts2.0
When Icarus Falls Aegean3.0
Mother Mother The Sticks2.5
GOOD Music Cruel Summer2.0
Imagine Dragons Night Visions3.0
Two Door Cinema Club Beacon3.0
Blut Aus Nord 777 - Cosmosophy4.0
Circa Survive Violent Waves2.5
Songs 1-3: "Holy shit, this is gold, keep it up! AOTY baby!". Songs 4-11: "Zzzzzzz...oh wut the album's done? Cool...". Typical. Goddammit Circa, here's someone who wants so badly to enjoy your music and you let them down every time with this inconsistency.
Minus the Bear Infinity Overhead2.5
The Chariot One Wing3.5
Swans The Seer4.0
Toundra III3.0
Our Last Night Age Of Ignorance2.5
Gaza No Absolutes in Human Suffering3.5
10 Years Minus the Machine3.0
Baroness Yellow and Green3.5
Frank Ocean channel ORANGE4.0
P.O.D. Murdered Love3.5
Git in mah iP.O.D. right meooowwwwww
Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal2.5
Linkin Park Living Things3.5
Now that the fanboy jitters and adrenaline rush have settled, I can try and sit back and seriously look at this new LP album from an unbiased perspective.

...I'll take it, it's not perfect, but I'll fucking gladly take this energetic bit of fun that brightened my year up a bit from the depressing shit I usually listen to. "Burn It Down" is arguably the catchiest thing they've made in ages...fuck yo couch all of you!
Maroon 5 Overexposed2.0
Justin Bieber Believe1.5
Metric Synthetica3.5
Rush Clockwork Angels3.5
alt-J An Awesome Wave4.5
El-P Cancer 4 Cure4.0
Beach House Bloom4.5
Silversun Pickups Neck of the Woods4.0
Karmin Hello2.0
Hurt The Crux3.0
Father John Misty Fear Fun3.0
Jack White Blunderbuss3.0
Death Grips The Money Store3.5
Skyharbor Blinding White Noise: Illusion & Chaos4.0
Feist/Mastodon Feistodon3.5
Train California 371.0
Thousand Foot Krutch The End Is Where We Begin3.0
Anathema Weather Systems3.5
Hoodie Allen All American2.5
Irreversible Ashes3.5
High on Fire De Vermis Mysteriis4.0
Atoma Skylight3.0
The Mars Volta Noctourniquet3.5
Meshuggah Koloss4.5
Adestria Chapters3.0
Janus Nox Aeris4.0
The Shins Port of Morrow3.5
OFWGKTA The OF Tape Vol. 23.0
If These Trees Could Talk Red Forest3.0
The Mire/Chronos Split3.5
The Safety Fire Grind the Ocean3.5
Sleigh Bells Reign of Terror2.5
There is something underwhelming about this album. At some point, I noticed that Sleigh Bells was using that same rapid thrashy drum injection in over 50% of the songs. Yes, it's a nice progression from their earlier subtle percussions, but it shouldn't reach the point of overkill. Reign of Terror succeeded by not being a re-hash of Treats. It did NOT succeed in leaving anywhere near as much of an impression as the 2010 effort. That felt fresh and alive. Here, only a few songs manage to do that, and the last 5 songs pass by like they're invisible. I miss the in-your-face Sleigh Bells I guess. If this album becomes popular, it will be nothing more than a short-lived fad and everyone will forget about Sleigh Bells for 2012. Recommended Songs: Crush, Comeback Kid
Sunpocrisy Samaroid Dioramas3.0
Burial Kindred3.5
The Fray Scars and Stories2.0
Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster Exegesis2.5
Lana Del Rey Born to Die3.0
Lacuna Coil Dark Adrenaline3.5
This album is like a random hookup, fun in the moment but you feel like shit afterwards for listening to it. This band knows how to write a good hook though, I just wish the Dave Grohl look-alike would stop singing. Recommended Songs: Trip the Darkness, Against You, End of Time
ScHoolboy Q Habits and Contradictions3.5
Cyanotic MedPack Vol. 12.5

2011
The Weeknd Echoes of Silence2.5
Devon Tracy Dream Chase3.0
The Black Keys El Camino3.5
Chevelle Hats Off To The Bull4.0
The Roots undun4.5
Silversun Pickups Seasick3.0
Rihanna Talk That Talk1.5
Nickelback Here and Now2.0
Drake Take Care3.5
Huldra Signals From the Void3.0
Megadeth Th1rt3en2.5
Lou Reed and Metallica Lulu1.0
O'Brother Garden Window5.0
ASAP Rocky Live.Love.A$AP.3.0
Russian Circles Empros4.0
Coldplay Mylo Xyloto3.5
Evanescence Evanescence3.0
The Knux Eraser2.5
Mastodon The Hunter4.0
Steven Wilson Grace for Drowning3.0
Machine Head Unto the Locust3.5
The Atlas Moth An Ache for the Distance3.0
Opeth Heritage2.0
We Came As Romans Understanding What We've Grown to Be2.5
St. Vincent Strange Mercy3.0
Wolves Like Us Late Love3.5
Thrice Major/Minor3.5
Omega Massif Karpatia3.0
Leprous Bilateral5.0
The Weeknd Thursday2.0
Design the Skyline Nevaeh1.5
Cairo Knife Fight Cairo Knife Fight II3.5
Greeley Estates The Death of Greeley Estates2.5
Jay-Z and Kanye West Watch the Throne3.5
Crosses EP3.5
Danny Brown XXX3.0
Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors5.0
In all likelihood, the funnest rock album ever created.
Single Mothers Single Mothers3.5
Kendrick Lamar Section.803.5
Limp Bizkit Gold Cobra3.5
Redlight King Something For The Pain3.5
*shels Plains Of The Purple Buffalo3.0
Converge/Dropdead Split3.5
Crossfade We All Bleed4.0
Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver2.0
Sleestak The Fall Of Altrusia4.0
City and Colour Little Hell2.5
Battles Gloss Drop2.5
Lady Gaga Born This Way1.5
The Lonely Island Turtleneck and Chain2.5
Honestly it has some hilarious songs, but for the most part it's pretty bland compared to "Incredibad". The second Shy Ronnie is just crap, even with Rihanna looking as fine as she does. On the other hand, "Threw It on the Ground" is funnier than anything we heard before, Andy Samberg nails that song. Recommended Songs: Motherlover, Threw it on the Ground, Great Day
Sam Roberts Band Collider3.5
Tyler, the Creator Goblin3.0
Jesu Ascension4.0
Beastie Boys Hot Sauce Committee Part Two3.5
Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues4.0
And So I Watch You From Afar Gangs3.0
dredg Chuckles and Mr. Squeezy1.5
Dirge (FR) Elysian Magnetic Fields3.5
Periphery Icarus2.0
Deftones Covers2.0
Obscure Sphinx Anaesthetic Inhalation Ritual3.5
Floating Me Floating Me2.5
Foo Fighters Wasting Light4.0
First truly great rock album of 2011. It's been a rough first quarter of the year, but this makes it so much sweeter. I cannot believe there is absolutely no filler here, it's insane. And can you hear just how much Dave Grohl learned from Them Crooked Vultures? Recommended Songs: Bridge Burning, Dear Rosemary, These Days, I Should Have Known
Thursday No Devolucion2.0
Panda Bear Tomboy2.5
Broken Bells Meyrin Fields2.0
True Widow As High As The Highest Heavens And From The Center3.5
Swarms Old Raves End3.5
Protest the Hero Scurrilous3.0
Born of Osiris The Discovery3.5
TesseracT One3.5
The Weeknd House of Balloons4.0
Rise Against Endgame3.0
Funeral for a Friend Welcome Home Armageddon3.0
Mother Mother Eureka3.5
Lupe Fiasco Lasers2.5
Dinosaur Bones My Divider3.0
Jolly The Audio Guide to Happiness (Part 1)4.0
SubRosa (US) No Help for the Mighty Ones3.5
Arcane Roots Left Fire3.5
Tephra Tempel3.0
Hetfield and Hetfield Tidal Wave Dreams3.5
Red (USA) Until We Have Faces3.5
You knew it would be difficult to top Innocence & Instinct, but this album somehow stands it's ground. It's a grower. Red has definitely softened up enough to hit radio and generate some new fans, but some moments on here are some of the best of their career. It's just a mature and tight album from a band that knows it's strengths. I honestly got what I wanted, which was another song from them I can play 50+ times without tiring of it (in the form of "The Outside" - such an epic intro). They have to learn to end on a strong note though...none of this 5-minute long piano soft bullshit anymore. They finish every album like this, do something nuts for once geez! Recommended Songs: Feed the Machine, Buried Beneath, The Outside, Best is Yet to Come.
Amplifier The Octopus3.5
Adele 213.0
Cage The Elephant Thank You Happy Birthday3.0
Chevelle Any Last Words3.0
Baulta Deeply Sorry to Interrupt Your Megalomania3.5

2010
Gorillaz The Fall1.5
Puff Daddy Last Train to Paris2.0
The Mire Volume: II5.0
Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession3.5
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy4.5
I don't think a single person who's heard of Kanye West (love him or hate him) can say that his heart wasn't 120% in this album. It's difficult for me to rate rap because the music to me is usually a short-lived fad. Kanye West has made something here that will be held as a benchmark for any future modern rap albums. It brings us back to the time when these artists were still emerging and dishing out those legendary historic albums we still hold in high-esteem. It's a celebration featuring countless artists and music styles here to support Kanye through his transition back into sanity. Recommended Songs: Gorgeous, POWER, So Appalled, Hell Of A Life
Rihanna Loud2.0
Kid Cudi Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager4.0
Rabbit Junk Project Nonagon4.0
Underoath Ø (Disambiguation)3.0
The Ocean Anthropocentric3.0
Alexisonfire Dog's Blood4.0
The Black Eyed Peas The Beginning1.5
Twelve Foot Ninja Smoke Bomb2.5
Ghost (SWE) Opus Eponymous3.0
Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz3.5
Intronaut Valley of Smoke4.0
oOoOO oOoOO3.0
Middle Class Rut No Name No Color3.0
Bruno Mars Doo-Wops & Hooligans1.0
Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini4.0
State Faults Head in the Clouds3.0
Oceansize Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up3.5
Linkin Park A Thousand Suns3.0
Anberlin Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place3.5
10 Years Feeding the Wolves3.5
Katy Perry Teenage Dream3.0
Usher Versus2.5
The Devil Wears Prada Zombie3.5
Filter The Trouble With Angels4.5
Arcade Fire The Suburbs3.0
Birds Of Tokyo Birds Of Tokyo4.0
Not reaching the caliber of its predecessor "Universes" but still so catchy and intriguing. There is a lack of hits, but the overall record is easy to run through without wanting to skip any particularly bad songs. Ian Kenny is still outstanding and one of the best vocalists I've ever had the pleasure of listening to. As of now though, I'm definitely waiting more avidly for the next Karnivool album than the next from this band. Recommended Songs: In the Veins of Death Valley, The Gap, Murmurs, Waiting for the Wolves
Cyanotic The Medication Generation4.0
Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot3.5
The Roots How I Got Over3.5
Eminem Recovery3.0
Drake Thank Me Later3.0
Oh Drake, how I wanted to hate this album on the basis of how much I dislike you and your cockiness. You would've loved to see my reaction when I started having some songs from here stuck in my head. I still wouldn't consider this a great album, but some songs on here (really just tracks 4-7) are just really good songs. Sneaky bastard. Recommended Songs: Over, Find Your Love, Show Me A Good Time, Up All Night
Foals Total Life Forever2.5
Tokyo Police Club Champ2.0
Anathema We're Here Because We're Here2.5
Shad TSOL3.5
Rosetta A Determinism of Morality3.5
Toundra Toundra (II)3.0
Reflection Eternal Revolutions Per Minute3.0
If only the whole album was as strong as tracks 3-7. Kweli is epic in each of those songs.
VESSL Goddess3.5
The Black Keys Brothers2.5
Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid3.5
Dead Letter Circus This Is The Warning4.0
Sleigh Bells Treats4.0
The Dead Weather Sea of Cowards4.0
Deftones Diamond Eyes5.0
Minus the Bear Omni3.5
Bullet for My Valentine Fever3.5
B.o.B The Adventures of Bobby Ray3.5
Year of No Light Ausserwelt3.0
Crystal Castles Crystal Castles II3.5
Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise3.0
Periphery Periphery3.5
Khoma A Final Storm2.5
Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow2.0
The Ocean Heliocentric3.0
Usher Raymond v. Raymond2.5
Alcest Écailles De Lune3.5
The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis4.5
Gorillaz Plastic Beach3.5
Broken Bells Broken Bells3.0
Beach House Teen Dream4.0
Kesha Animal1.0

2009
Tyler, the Creator Bastard3.0
Mudvayne Mudvayne3.5
Eminem Relapse: Refill2.5
Rishloo Feathergun3.0
Blakroc Blakroc2.5
Lady Gaga The Fame Monster4.0
Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures4.0
There are just so many different songs to enjoy in this album made by a super team of music artists including the singers from both Foo Fighters and Queens of the Stone Age. Them Crooked Vulture's sound is addicting, it sounds crisp and new while at the same time celebrating that old classic rock sound. The songs are cheeky and quirky with unexpected turns and twists in rhythm and riffs. There are also many highlights in the album, particularly the first 1.5 minutes of "Elephants" where the band breaks down into one of the most enjoyable lead-ins to a song I've ever heard. Each song is unique and the songs don't ever really blend much, so you truly see how flexible the band can be. A solid debut album. Recommended Songs: No One Loves Me & Neither Do I, Elephants, Reptiles, Caligulove, Gunman
Defeater Lost Ground3.5
Foo Fighters Greatest Hits3.5
The Almost Monster, Monster3.5
We Came As Romans To Plant a Seed3.5
Russian Circles Geneva2.5
Baroness Blue Record3.5
Mumford and Sons Sigh No More2.0
Converge Axe to Fall4.5
Irreversible Light4.5
Dragonette Fixin to Thrill4.0
Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue4.5
Brand New Daisy4.0
Porcupine Tree The Incident3.5
Kid Cudi Man on the Moon: The End of Day3.5
Muse The Resistance2.0
Megadeth Endgame4.0
Jay-Z The Blueprint 33.5
Moloken Our Astral Circle3.0
Saosin In Search Of Solid Ground2.0
Thousand Foot Krutch Welcome to the Masquerade4.0
Chevelle Sci-Fi Crimes4.5
David Guetta One Love2.5
Jolly Forty-six Minutes, Twelve Seconds of Music4.0
The Dead Weather Horehound4.0
Dan Black ((Un))3.5
The Waters Deep Here Sunden3.5
Alexisonfire Old Crows / Young Cardinals4.0
Riverside Anno Domini High Definition3.0
The Black Eyed Peas The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies)1.0
Coalesce OX3.5
Karnivool Sound Awake5.0
Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail3.5
Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix3.5
Eminem Relapse2.0
Closure in Moscow First Temple2.0
O'Brother The Death of Day3.0
Leprous Tall Poppy Syndrome3.5
Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders3.5
ISIS Wavering Radiant5.0
Hacride Lazarus3.0
Silversun Pickups Swoon4.0
Metric Fantasies4.5
Mastodon Crack the Skye3.0
Fever Ray Fever Ray3.5
If These Trees Could Talk Above the Earth, Below the Sky3.0
Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz!3.5
Probably the best album they've released to date (that includes EPs). However, this band has yet to release an album I can listen to without wanting to skip over tracks here and there. Some songs are just not worth being shown the light of day (ex. Skeletons, Dragon Queen). Recommended Songs: Heads Will Roll, Soft Shock, Shame and Fortune
K'naan Troubadour2.5
Nothing More The Few Not Fleeting2.5
Thursday Common Existence3.0
Red (USA) Innocence and Instinct5.0
P.O.S Never Better4.0
Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion2.5
Crib45 The Ghosts Among Me4.0
A little smoother and more melodic than the colossal sound that makes up their 2014 album Marching Through the Borderlines. It brings with it both more consistency but also less variety in tracks. However, a solid display of post-metal out of Finland nonetheless and some pretty decent ghost boobs on the front cover too as an added bonus. Recommended Songs: As I, Beyond the Reach of Repair.
Crib45 Metamorphosis3.5
Fall of Efrafa Inle3.5

2008
Steven Wilson Insurgentes3.5
Steven Wilson's songwriting has always been stellar, and it's nice to see his solo work follows suit. Many of the songs here are actually beautifully sung and written. He has a knack for pacing his songs perfectly. But, here he falls victim to the same issues his recent work with Porcupine Tree had. The last three songs sound stale and boring, and his longer songs here struggle a bit too, just like The Incident did in spots. As side projects go though (often experimental and hit-or-miss), "Insurgentes" is a wonderful listen and it'll be interesting to see what he comes out with next. Recommended Songs: Harmony Korine, Veneno Para Las Hadas, Only Child
Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak2.0
Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy2.5
Janus Red Right Return3.5
Nickelback Dark Horse2.0
Lady Gaga The Fame2.5
Unfortunately, like most major pop releases, Lady Gaga may be fantastic for those first few listens, but this CD is, in the end, utterly forgettable. The slightly higher than than average mark is more due to the above average success she had on music charts and sales, because she undeniably topped 2009 sales and even had my ear for a good month before I came to this sad realization.
Skepticism Alloy3.5
Rise Against Appeal to Reason3.5
A more mainstream album from the band that has always produced the same level of music in all the years they've been together. I have the same goddamn opinion of this as I do with everything they make: solid, a good listen, but just not good enough to cross that line into epic. Recommended Songs: Long Forgotten Sons, Re-Education (Through Labor), Kotov Syndrome, The Strength to Go On
Twelve Foot Ninja New Dawn4.5
Anberlin New Surrender4.0
Intronaut Prehistoricisms4.0
Mother Mother O My Heart4.0
Cecil Otter Rebel Yellow3.5
One Day as a Lion One Day as a Lion3.5
Misery Signals Controller3.5
Mouth Of The Architect Quietly3.5
Cloudkicker The Discovery3.5
Birds Of Tokyo Universes4.5
Rabbit Junk This Life Is Where You Get Fucked2.5
Cage The Elephant Cage the Elephant2.5
Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends4.5
Katy Perry One of the Boys2.0
Cult of Luna Eternal Kingdom4.0
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes3.0
Sam Roberts Band Love at the End of the World3.0
Sam Roberts needs to learn that when you intend to have 12+ tracks on an album, you need to ensure listener's attention is kept the whole way through. "We Were Born..." did that, "Chemical City" was short and sweet, yet here he trudges along with a few bursts of speed scattered throughout, but trails off near the end. I also want to see him progress more for the next album, he is becoming stale and predictable even though his music maintains its gracefulness and hooks. Recommended Tracks: Love at the End of the World, Lions of the Kalahari, Sundance (one of his strongest to date).
Zodiak Sermons3.0
Cog Sharing Space2.0
Quite possibly one of the most disappointing albums I've ever listened to. It's not the worst album ever, but to follow up 2005's gorgeous Aussie rock anthem "The New Normal" with this is really depressing. Where is the energy, the blast of riffs that sound like fog horns signaling shit's about to go down? They even gave us mediocre proggier songs which seemed to be their strength from before and what I was expecting they would lean towards. I can't think of a standout song that will make want to listen to it again, but I also can't think of one I despised. Even the song "Silence is Violence" with it's corny repetitive chorus somehow feels less corny alongside song other songs here that attack governments in some weird attempt at revolution. Before they made their repetitive choruses and harmonies the hooks of the songs, literally begging you to sing a long. Here there's none of that. Iunno, will try it in the future again but I've given it enough tries to sink in already.
P.O.D. When Angels and Serpents Dance3.0
Foals Antidotes3.0
Crystal Castles Crystal Castles3.0
Meshuggah obZen3.0
Ganon As Above, So Below3.0
Drake So Far Gone2.0

2007
Lupe Fiasco The Cool3.5
Daft Punk Alive 20074.0
The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works4.5
The Ocean Precambrian4.5
An album that, if you let it, unfolds itself to you little by little over time. Even the clearly inferior Disc 1 still consistently nails its mission of straighter-forward hardcore punk. But folks, it's the second disc where the band digs deep and unleashes a lethal power nobody thought possible in the realms of post-metal. Every song plays out like a nuclear bomb, quietly ticking away and building to a catastrophic explosion, each in its own unique way. This is what it's all about, the reason I listen to post-metal in the first place, for experiences like this.
The Holly Springs Disaster Motion Sickness Love3.0
Alter Bridge Blackbird3.5
Riverside Rapid Eye Movement3.5
Rosetta Wake/Lift3.5
Oceansize Frames4.5
Time To Burn Is.Land3.5
Hurt Vol. II3.0
Kanye West Graduation3.5
Little Dragon Little Dragon2.5
Bossk .25.0
Post-metal perfection. Each song is a journey. One is a more straight-forward journey (Define) that beautifully sets you up for the penultimate mountain summit. And the climb up to the top (Truth) is such a slow and satisfying build to one of the finest musical climaxes post-metal has ever produced.
Fall of Efrafa Elil3.0
Minus the Bear Planet of Ice2.5
Strata Strata Presents The End Of The World3.5
Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris3.0
Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True4.5
Rihanna Good Girl Gone Bad3.5
Maroon 5 It Won't Be Soon Before Long3.0
Rishloo Eidolon3.0
Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight3.5
Dark Tranquillity Fiction4.0
Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet4.5
Dead Letter Circus Dead Letter Circus3.0
Chevelle Vena Sera5.0
The Almost Southern Weather2.0
Anberlin Cities4.5
Birds Of Tokyo Day One2.0
Birds of Tokyo have definitely improved from this mediocre crap. There are some great songs here, but you can definitely tell the band is in the experimenting stage. What drove me crazy was how annoying Ian Kenny gets when he repeats the same lines 10 times over like in "Violet" or "Get Out", just sounds effortless. The follow-up album a year later makes this album look almost disgraceful and negligible. Recommended Songs: Black Sheets, Minor War.
Irreversible Sins4.5
Seriously, one of the best post-metal albums to come out during its "heyday" in the mid-2000's. It showcases in various forms all the different sides of post-metal in one big wonderful mish-mash (heavy, atmospheric, acoustic, progressive, harsh/soft vocals), making it one of the most multi-faceted releases to ever come out of the genre. Must-listen and a great starting point for this type of music.

2006
Clipse Hell Hath No Fury3.5
Shad When This Is Over3.0
Shad is definitely a threatening force in the modern rap scene. It's even more awesome that he's Canadian. Honestly, he starts out this album with some of the freshest and most easy-listening hip-hop I've heard in a while, but it trails out at the end and becomes a little too dull. "I Get Down" is bright and cheery and shows how confident Shad is. "I'll Never Understand" is on the opposite spectrum, one of the saddest songs I've ever sat through and so powerful. Recommended Songs: I Get Down, Out of Love, I'll Never Understand
Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me4.0
Soundtrack (Video Game) The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess OST4.5
ISIS In the Absence of Truth5.0
Battle Of Mice A Day of Nights2.5
Deftones Saturday Night Wrist3.5
Converge No Heroes2.5
Skillet Comatose4.0
Amplifier Insider2.5
Saosin Saosin3.5
Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor4.5
Jakob Solace4.0
Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds3.5
Alexisonfire Crisis3.5
Threat Signal Under Reprisal3.5
Mouth Of The Architect The Ties That Blind3.0
Breaking Benjamin Phobia3.5
Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain3.5
Silversun Pickups Carnavas3.0
The Knife Silent Shout3.5
The Butterfly Effect Imago3.5
Muse Black Holes & Revelations3.0
Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness3.5
Red (USA) End of Silence3.5
Genghis Tron Dead Mountain Mouth2.5
Russian Circles Enter3.0
The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers3.0
Callisto Noir4.0
Tool 10,000 Days4.0
Intronaut Void3.0
Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway4.5
Transmission0 Memory of a Dream3.5
Sam Roberts Band Chemical City4.0
This time around, Sam Roberts starts the album off again with a bang, but it becomes much more mellow than his debut LP. The good thing is that he makes his softer songs felt a bit more and they end up being stronger than the softer songs on "We Were Born...". It's a quiet album, but very rewarding once it clicks. Still don't understand why his music is so catchy. Recommended Songs: Bridge to Nowhere, With A Bullet, The Bootleg Saint.
Khoma The Second Wave3.5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Show Your Bones2.5
Hurt Vol. 13.5
Intronaut Null3.0
P.O.S Audition4.5
P.O.S.'s lesser-known crowning achievement that unfortunately was overshadowed by Never Better but marked the first time he truly fused the sounds of punk rock and electronic with rap in perfect fashion. The album glides by effortlessly with hit-after-hit and the ideal blend of anger, passion, and sensitivity in his delivery. Very few songs feel out of place, each unique and powerful enough to standout. This is the ideal starting point for the rock/metal fans who need a gateway into hip-hop. Recommended Songs: De la Souls, Safety in Speed (Heavy Metal), P.O.S. Is Ruining My Life
P.O.D. Testify3.5
Fall of Efrafa Owsla3.0
Bossk .13.5
Year of No Light Nord3.0

2005
The Ocean Aeolian4.0
Riverside Second Life Syndrome4.5
Amplifier The Astronaut Dismantles HAL2.5
Rosetta The Galilean Satellites4.0
Metric Live It Out2.5
Oceansize Everyone Into Position4.5
Kanye West Late Registration3.5
10 Years The Autumn Effect3.5
Silversun Pickups Pikul2.0
Thousand Foot Krutch The Art of Breaking3.0
dredg Catch Without Arms3.0
Ra Duality3.0
Coldplay X&Y3.0
Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon...3.0
Gorillaz Demon Days4.5
System of a Down Mezmerize4.5
Porcupine Tree Deadwing5.0
Cog The New Normal4.5
Mudvayne Lost and Found2.5
The National Alligator3.5
Clutch Robot Hive/Exodus3.5
Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze3.0
Karnivool Themata4.0
Bloc Party Silent Alarm2.5
Anberlin Never Take Friendship Personal4.5
Dark Tranquillity Character4.0
Buried Inside Chronoclast3.5

2004
Eminem Encore2.0
Oceansize Music for Nurses4.0
A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe2.0
Death From Above 1979 You're a Woman, I'm a Machine3.5
ISIS Panopticon5.0
Cult of Luna Salvation4.0
Mare Mare3.5
Chevelle This Type Of Thinking (Could Do Us In)5.0
Green Day American Idiot3.5
Converge You Fail Me3.5
Arcade Fire Funeral2.5
Mastodon Leviathan4.0
12 Stones Potter's Field2.5
The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine4.0
Meshuggah I2.5
Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm3.5
Pillar Where Do We Go from Here2.0
Amplifier Amplifier3.5
Alexisonfire Watch Out!4.0
Thornley Come Again3.5
Clutch Blast Tyrant4.5
The Ocean Fluxion3.0
Callisto True Nature Unfolds3.0
P.O.S Ipecac Neat3.0
Riverside Out of Myself4.0
Kanye West The College Dropout4.0
Khoma Tsunami3.0
Dirge (FR) And Shall The Sky Descend3.5

2003
Machine Head Through the Ashes of Empires3.5
Howard Shore The Return of the King4.5
Skillet Collide3.5
blink-182 Blink-1822.5
Jay-Z The Black Album3.0
The Strokes Room on Fire2.0
Hieroglyphics Full Circle3.0
Metric Old World Underground, Where Are You Now3.0
Thousand Foot Krutch Phenomenon4.0
Pretty awkward on the first listen, but TFK's sound and cocky pump-up lyrics eventually sneak inside your head. The problem is at some points Trevor McNevan sounds likes he's impersonating a British person and failing miserably. But the music is meant to blow your ears by how wild it is, and it's a great time, finished off by one of their catchiest choruses to date (Break the Silence). Recommended Songs: Step to Me; Faith, Love, and Happiness; New Design; Break the Silence
Muse Absolution3.5
Oceansize Effloresce4.0
A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step3.5
Saosin Translating the Name3.0
Brand New Deja Entendu2.5
Sam Roberts Band We Were Born In A Flame4.0
Deftones Deftones3.5
Cult of Luna The Beyond3.5
Cold Year Of The Spider3.5
Anberlin Blueprints for the Black Market3.5
Opeth Damnation3.0
The White Stripes Elephant3.5
Linkin Park Meteora5.0
The Fray Reason EP3.5
This EP started out like it could be what I was waiting for my whole life. Unfortunately, after "Without Reason" it simply becomes mediocre. Definitely check it out if "How to Save a Life" grabbed your attention, you may find this even better. Recommended Songs: Together, Some Trust, Without Reason
Yellowcard Ocean Avenue3.0

2002
System of a Down Steal This Album!3.5
Botch An Anthology of Dead Ends3.5
Elton John Greatest Hits 1970-20024.0
Trapt Trapt3.0
Chevelle Wonder What's Next4.5
Porcupine Tree In Absentia3.5
Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf4.0
Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head3.5
The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene3.5
Meshuggah Nothing2.5
Cog Just Visiting - Part 23.0
Eminem The Eminem Show4.0
dredg El Cielo3.0
An alright album with a few sparks of genius here and there. Gavin Hayes' voice is remarkably soothing. As a full album though, it contains a few chinks in its armor. It also reeks of pretentiousness, this band clearly thinks very highly of themselves (little 1-2 minute "Brushstrokes" all over the place...get over yourselves). It is very over-hyped in my opinion, but still worth a look. Recommended Songs: Same Ol' Road, Sanzen, Sorry But It's Over, Of The Room.
Cog Just Visiting - Part 13.0
"Moo" is my fucking jam. Best song name in history, fuckin Moo!
Ra From One4.0
ISIS Oceanic4.5
The Roots Phrenology3.0
Filter The Amalgamut4.0
Fair to Midland The Carbon Copy Silver Lining2.0
Agalloch The Mantle4.5
Not being a real fan of black metal, I used to look upon this album as an unreachable hurdle that I just assumed I would never understand the love for. Now here I am, like all the other Agalloch fanboys/masturbators slapping a 4.5 on this beast of an album. Some powerful shit, and even those who cringe at black metal vocals like myself can find something to like here as those are kept to a tolerable level.

2001
Backstreet Boys The Hits: Chapter One4.0
Really the only BB album you need in your life. A nice, condensed version of everything they did well. Stop being a manly man and get your "90's boy-band craze" on.
Brand New Your Favorite Weapon3.0
P.O.D. Satellite4.5
Converge Jane Doe5.0
System of a Down Toxicity4.0
Slipknot Iowa3.5
Cult of Luna Cult of Luna3.0
Jimmy Eat World Bleed American2.5
Tool Lateralus4.0
Gorillaz Gorillaz3.0
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club B.R.M.C.3.5
Rammstein Mutter3.5
Karnivool Persona2.5
ISIS SGNL>053.0
Opeth Blackwater Park4.0
Constantines Constantines3.5

2000
Backstreet Boys Black and Blue2.5
OutKast Stankonia4.0
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven3.5
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory4.5
Electric Wizard Dopethrone4.0
Mudvayne L.D. 504.0
A very solid nu-metal album that's only real flaw is the sheer length of the record. On their own, almost every song is strong. However, when listening in full, my interest fades by track 11-12 due to the fact that the sound is similar in every track and the album becomes basically one 1.2 hr meshed song. It is still excellent and one of the stronger albums of its genre and era. Recommended Songs: Dig, -1, Nothing to Gein, (K)now F(orvever)
Finger Eleven The Greyest of Blue Skies3.5
Deftones White Pony4.0
ISIS Celestial4.0
Queens of the Stone Age Rated R3.5
Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP3.0
A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms3.0
Rage Against the Machine Renegades4.0
Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water3.5
PJ Harvey Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea4.0

1999
Botch We Are the Romans4.0
Coalesce 0:12 Revolution in Just Listening3.0
Dr. Dre 20014.0
It's basically Dre coming back to address the haters after having been low-key for 7 years and saying: "Fuck y'all, Imma do me" in various different styles over 70 gorgeous minutes of top-tier beats. He may be historically one of the angriest, most chauvinistic assholes to ever grace hip-hop, but his talent as a producer is undisputable and on display here in dividends.
ISIS The Red Sea2.5
God that woman's voice is annoying as hell. Holy shit, shut the fuck up!
Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory3.5
The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity3.0
This is a rating I wish wasn't what it is. I get why the album is so highly praised. Really, they are the pioneers. But compared to the newer albums, this album didn't have highlights. How can I appreciate the music when it doesn't give me a reason to return to it? It all sounds like one 40 minute mess. Some good parts, but nothing standout.
Filter Title Of Record4.5
Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself3.0
Backstreet Boys Millennium3.0
Karnivool Karnivool1.5
Ahhhh heellllppp pleeeeassseee it's agony!!! *plays Simple Boy* "I'm highhhhhhh above the world, why should I feel pain, or feel alooonnneeeee...." whew all better : )
Neurosis Times of Grace3.5
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada3.5
Eminem The Slim Shady LP3.5
Chevelle Point #14.0
Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles4.0
Ahhhhhh, the album that could've been up there with my favorite albums of all time. It's flawless, literally gorgeous music and some of the best stuff RATM has ever written...for the first 75% of the album. The last few songs are depressingly average and a buzzkill. RATM had a slump with "Evil Empire", a very average album living in the shadow of its predecessor. "Battle of Los Angeles" kicks the living shit of that album as well. Recommended Songs: Guerilla Radio, Mic Check, Sleep Now in the Fire, Born as Ghosts, No Shelter (Bonus Song)
Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream3.5
ISIS Sawblade2.0
P.O.D. Fundamental Elements of Southtown4.0

1998
The Dillinger Escape Plan Under the Running Board4.0
System of a Down System of a Down3.5
Zao Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest3.5
Converge When Forever Comes Crashing3.0
Coalesce Functioning on Impatience4.0
ISIS Mosquito Control4.5

1997
Deftones Around the Fur4.5
Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E.3.5
Rammstein Sehnsucht3.0
Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞4.0
Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind4.0

1996
Swans Soundtracks for the Blind3.5
I have put myself through this album non-stop for three weeks. I listened to it at work, while I studied, even before I went to bed. It's intriguing, daring, and terrifying. But I can't possibly give it more than this rating. This double album strives to literally do everything. Unfortunately, such an eclectic mix of genres and ideas more often than not crumbles under its own weight. For every gem like "Helpless Child", there is a song like "I Was A Prisoner In Your Skull" or "Empathy" that goes literally no where over the course of its entirety. For every terrifying experience like "Her Mouth Is Filled With Honey", there is a pointless filler track like "Fan's Lament" that makes you wonder why the song exists. And then, there are songs so good they almost standout TOO much. "The Sound" could stand alongside some of the greatest musical achievements in history, it's that good. It's so good, I get impatient while listening to the first disc of the album because all I want is to just cut the crap and get to hear "The Sound" again. Soundtracks For The Blind is quite the musical achievement and Swans should be commended for what they've done here, but the harsh reality is that THIS style was not perfected until the group reformed in the late 2000's. Their later stuff makes this look like an unfinished idea and unrefined.
Tool Ænima5.0
Backstreet Boys Backstreet Boys3.0
Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire2.5
Neurosis Through Silver in Blood4.5
DJ Shadow Endtroducing.....4.0
Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky3.0
This gets a 3 simply because "The Saddest Day' is without a doubt one of the best songs in Converge's discography. As has been mentioned in other soundoffs, the other songs on here come off as mere leftovers compared to the opener. They mostly just sound unpolished and some a bit immature, something the band thankfully fixes in later records.

1995
Alice in Chains Alice in Chains3.5
Deftones Adrenaline2.5
Filter Short Bus2.5
Radiohead The Bends3.0
Swans The Great Annihilator3.5

1994
Korn Korn3.5
Helmet Betty3.5
Weezer Weezer3.5
Nas Illmatic4.0
The Offspring Smash4.0
Soundgarden Superunknown2.0
Alice in Chains Jar of Flies4.0
Yanni Live at the Acropolis5.0

1993
Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)4.0
Nirvana In Utero3.0
The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream3.5
Tool Undertow3.5
Neurosis Enemy of the Sun4.0

1992
Dr. Dre The Chronic3.0
Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine4.0
Alice in Chains Dirt4.0
ABBA ABBA Gold4.5
Even a cold-hearted, self-centered millennial piece of shit like me who listens to very little these days besides brooding metal and misogynistic rap can find something to like here. Maybe you had to grow up with it, but as far as I'm concerned you'd have to be the true embodiment of pure evil and an asshole not to enjoy this.
Helmet Meantime3.5
Tool Opiate3.0

1991
Soundgarden Badmotorfinger3.5
Nirvana Nevermind3.5
Melvins Bullhead4.0

1990
Megadeth Rust in Peace3.5

1989
Godflesh Streetcleaner4.0

1987
Swans Children of God4.0

1986
Yanni Keys to Imagination4.0
Megadeth Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?3.5

1979
Pink Floyd The Wall3.5

1975
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here4.5

1973
Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon4.0

1969
The Beatles Abbey Road4.0
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