| 2015 |
| Cindy Lee Act of Tenderness | 4.0 |
| Baroness Purple | 3.4 |
| Coldplay A Head Full of Dreams | 2.0 |
| Narc Twain Narc Twain | 3.8 |
| Young Lyre Weekend | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters Saint Cecilia | 2.5 |
| Arca Mutant | 2.0 |
| Adele 25 | 3.5 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Garden of Delete | 2.5 |
| Floating Points Elaenia | 3.5 |
| Grimes Art Angels | 4.0 |
| Guy Garvey Courting The Squall | 3.0 |
| Beach Slang The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel | 3.5 |
| Joanna Newsom Divers | 3.0 |
| Kauan Sorni Nai | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Color Before The Sun | 2.5 |
| Deerhunter Fading Frontier | 3.5 |
| Neon Indian Vega Intl. Night School | 4.0 |
| Bryan Adams Get Up | 2.0 |
| Deafheaven New Bermuda | 4.0 |
| Vulfpeck Thrill of the Arts | 2.0 |
| Disclosure Caracal | 2.7 |
| Silversun Pickups Better Nature | 2.8 |
| The Dead Weather Dodge & Burn | 3.0 |
| CHVRCHES Every Open Eye | 3.3 |
| Kurt Vile b'lieve i'm goin' down... | 3.5 |
| Julia Holter Have You In My Wilderness | 4.0 |
| Ryan Adams 1989 | 2.5 |
| David Gilmour Rattle That Lock | 3.0 |
| Chris Cornell Higher Truth | 2.0 |
| Beirut No No No | 2.5 |
| Duran Duran Paper Gods | 2.5 |
| Well, not entirely yuck, but dat album cover tho... |
| Slayer Repentless | 3.8 |
| The Libertines Anthems For Doomed Youth | 2.5 |
| Iron Maiden The Book of Souls | 4.0 |
| The Weeknd Beauty Behind the Madness | 2.5 |
| Foals What Went Down | 3.5 |
| Beach House Depression Cherry | 4.0 |
| Disturbed Immortalized | 3.0 |
| Ghost (SWE) Meliora | 3.2 |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion | 3.5 |
| FKA Twigs M3LL155X | 4.0 |
| Mac DeMarco Another One | 3.0 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Abyss | 3.0 |
| Dr. Dre Compton | 3.7 |
| HEALTH Death Magic | 4.0 |
| Elbow Lost Worker Bee | 2.7 |
| Albert Hammond Jr Momentary Masters | 3.5 |
| Jessie Jones Jessie Jones | 3.0 |
| Lamb of God VII: Sturm und Drang | 3.5 |
| We Lost the Sea Departure Songs | 4.0 |
| Ratatat Magnifique | 2.0 |
| The Chemical Brothers Born in the Echoes | 3.0 |
| Tim Bowness Stupid Things That Mean The World | 3.0 |
| Future DS2 | 3.5 |
| Tame Impala Currents | 4.0 |
| Wilco Star Wars | 4.0 |
| The Observatory Continuum | 3.5 |
| Miguel Wildheart | 4.0 |
| Siti Nurhaliza Unplugged | 4.2 |
| August Burns Red Found in Far Away Places | 3.5 |
| Bully Feels Like | 2.5 |
| High on Fire Luminiferous | 3.5 |
| Kacey Musgraves Pageant Material | 3.5 |
| Thundercat The Beyond/Where The Giants Roam | 3.0 |
| KEN mode Success | 3.0 |
| Giorgio Moroder Deja Vu | 3.5 |
| Of Monsters and Men Beneath the Skin | 3.0 |
| Muse Drones | 3.1 |
| Koes Barat Koes Barat | 4.0 |
| Florence and the Machine How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful | 2.8 |
| Bomba Estereo Amanecer | 3.7 |
| Jamie xx In Colour | 4.0 |
| Unknown Mortal Orchestra Multi-Love | 3.0 |
| The Vaccines English Graffiti | 3.0 |
| Shamir Ratchet | 2.5 |
| Bryce Dessner Music for Wood and Strings | 2.5 |
| Elina Born Elina Born | 3.0 |
| Faith No More Sol Invictus | 4.0 |
| Brandon Flowers The Desired Effect | 4.0 |
| Jamie Foxx Hollywood: A Story Of A Dozen Roses | 2.0 |
| Hot Chip Why Make Sense? | 3.0 |
| Twenty One Pilots Blurryface | 3.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Dark Bird Is Home | 3.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Trust Fall (Side A) | 3.2 |
| Ken we mekkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk outtttttttttttttttt?????? |
| Hop Along Painted Shut | 3.0 |
| Mumford and Sons Wilder Mind | 2.0 |
| Metz Metz II | 3.3 |
| My Morning Jacket The Waterfall | 3.6 |
| Nao February 15 | 2.5 |
Bet everyone here checked this out because it was listed as "Best New Music" on Pitchfork.
And bet everyone left thoroughly disappointed by such a mediocre EP. |
| Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld Never Were The Way She Was | 2.0 |
| Mew +- | 3.8 |
| Braids Deep In The Iris | 3.8 |
| Blur The Magic Whip | 4.2 |
| Dustin Kensrue Carry the Fire | 2.5 |
| Passion Pit Kindred | 4.0 |
| Tribulation The Children of the Night | 4.0 |
| The Wombats Glitterbug | 3.3 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Instant Gratification | 4.0 |
| Bosse-de-Nage All Fours | 4.0 |
| Froya Panic Bird | 3.8 |
| Toro Y Moi What For? | 2.8 |
| Waxahatchee Ivy Tripp | 3.5 |
| Drenge Undertow | 3.0 |
| Dead Sara Pleasure to Meet You | 2.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Kintsugi | 3.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress' | 3.8 |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell | 4.0 |
| Lower Dens Escape from Evil | 4.0 |
| Courtney Barnett sometimes i sit and think, and sometimes i just sit | 4.3 |
| Laura Marling Short Movie | 2.9 |
| OJ Law Let's Be Adult | 4.0 |
| Tobias Jesso Jr. Goon | 3.8 |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly | 4.0 |
| Natalia Lafourcade Hasta la Raiz | 4.0 |
| Pearson Sound Pearson Sound | 2.5 |
| Madonna Rebel Heart | 2.0 |
| Will Butler Policy | 3.2 |
| Enslaved In Times | 3.5 |
| Purity Ring Another Eternity | 2.5 |
| Clarence Clarity No Now | 2.5 |
| Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Chasing Yesterday | 3.8 |
| Jon Hopkins Late Night Tales | 4.0 |
| Red (USA) Of Beauty and Rage | 3.0 |
| Black Star Riders The Killer Instinct | 2.5 |
| Drake If You're Reading This It's Too Late | 3.0 |
| The Do Shake, Shook, Shaken | 3.0 |
| Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear | 4.2 |
| Kyoto Protocol Catch These Men | 3.4 |
| Mount Eerie Sauna | 3.0 |
| Butch Walker Afraid of Ghosts | 3.0 |
| Andrew Bird Echolocations: Canyon | 3.0 |
| The Dodos Individ | 3.0 |
| Napalm Death Apex Predator - Easy Meat | 3.0 |
| Natalie Prass Natalie Prass | 2.7 |
| Aphex Twin Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments Pt 2 | 4.0 |
| Fall Out Boy American Beauty/American Psycho | 2.0 |
| Belle and Sebastian Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance | 2.8 |
| The Decemberists What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World | 3.5 |
| Lupe Fiasco Tetsuo and Youth | 3.5 |
| Arcane Known/Learned | 3.5 |
| Bjork Vulnicura | 3.5 |
| Preoccupations Viet Cong | 4.0 |
| Sleater-Kinney No Cities to Love | 4.2 |
| Well it's certainly better than that new Marilyn Manson album, I'll definitely concede that... |
| Marilyn Manson The Pale Emperor | 3.5 |
| Jazmine Sullivan Reality Show | 2.5 |
| Pastel Lite Etcetera | 4.0 |
| BABYMETAL LIVE AT BUDOKAN ~RED NIGHT~ | 4.5 |
| 2011 |
| Metallica Beyond Magnetic | 1.5 |
| Some decent riffs in here but the lyrics (and Lars Ulrich's drumming) are just lol. r"I will hide within her!" *BANG BANG CRASH CRASH* "Not much good has come out of the rlight!!" |
| Monoloque Jejak Tanah | 1.5 |
| Plainly, I was expecting so much more from this Malaysian musical maestro. |
| The Black Keys El Camino | 3.5 |
| Ourlives Out of Place | 3.5 |
| Nickelback Here and Now | 1.0 |
| My rating was given on principle alone. And because I have to make this piece longer than fifty characters, I'll add a complimentary "fuck you Nickelback" at no extra cost. |
| Vanessa Carlton Hear the Bells | 3.0 |
| Kate Bush 50 Words for Snow | 4.0 |
| Drake Take Care | 2.5 |
| R.E.M. Part Lies Part Heart Part Truth... | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here — Immersion | 3.0 |
| Disturbed The Lost Children | 3.0 |
| Brian Eno Panic of Looking | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd A Foot in the Door | 2.0 |
| Justin Bieber Under the Mistletoe | 1.0 |
| Lou Reed and Metallica Lulu | 4.0 |
| I take great pride in the fact that my rating single-handedly bumped this album's mean score from a 1.3 to a 1.4. |
| Florence and the Machine Ceremonials | 4.0 |
| This record would have received a much higher rating if not for the fact that listening to it is so utterly exhausting. |
| Various Artists AHK-toong BAY-bi Covered | 2.5 |
| Rising (DK) To Solemn Ash | 2.5 |
| Coldplay Mylo Xyloto | 4.0 |
| Darren Hayes Secret Codes and Battleships | 3.5 |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming | 4.0 |
| Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds | 3.5 |
| Radiohead TKOL RMX 1234567 | 3.0 |
| Bjork Biophilia | 3.5 |
| James Blake Enough Thunder | 4.0 |
| I could drink a case of this. And still be on my feet. |
| Feist Metals | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) Batman: Arkham City - The Album | 3.5 |
| Zola Jesus Conatus | 4.0 |
| James Morrison The Awakening | 2.0 |
| Dum Dum Girls Only in Dreams | 3.5 |
| Gavin DeGraw Sweeter | 1.5 |
| AJJ Knife Man | 2.5 |
| Lisa Hannigan Passenger | 2.5 |
| Of Monsters and Men My Head is an Animal | 3.5 |
| OJ Law Yesterday Is A Distant Dream | 3.5 |
| Opeth Heritage | 3.2 |
| Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events | 2.5 |
| Neon Indian Era Extrana | 4.0 |
| St. Vincent Strange Mercy | 4.5 |
| Girls Father, Son, Holy Ghost | 3.8 |
| PINK FLOYD-LIKE CHORDS!! |
| The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Am I the Enemy | 1.5 |
| I tried to review this, but it was so banal and mind-numbing I just gave up. And I've reviewed two Justin Bieber albums, mind you. |
| Thundercat The Golden Age Of Apocalypse | 3.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers I'm With You | 2.5 |
| Zee Avi Ghostbird | 4.0 |
| Lenny Kravitz Black and White America | 2.5 |
| Gotye Making Mirrors | 3.5 |
| The War On Drugs Slave Ambient | 4.5 |
| Beirut The Rip Tide | 2.0 |
| Dull, disinterested, and thoroughly mediocre. If there's excellence to behold on this thing then clearly it's not getting through to me. And believe me, things like this usually do. |
| Jay-Z and Kanye West Watch the Throne | 3.5 |
| Kyoto Protocol An Album | 3.2 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) If Not Now, When? | 3.5 |
| Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors | 3.5 |
| Washed Out Within and Without | 4.2 |
| Brian Eno Drums Between The Bells | 4.0 |
| Yes Fly from Here | 2.5 |
| Beyonce 4 | 2.5 |
| Limp Bizkit Gold Cobra | 2.5 |
| Coldplay Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall | 3.0 |
| The Dear Hunter White | 3.0 |
| sleepmakeswaves ...and so we destroyed everything | 2.5 |
| Devin Townsend Project Ghost | 3.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Violet | 3.0 |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 4.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Indigo | 3.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Blue | 3.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Green | 4.0 |
| Mercer Avenue More Than A Statement | 1.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Yellow | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Orange | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Red | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Transformers: Dark of the Moon | 2.0 |
| Soundtrack (Theatre) Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark | 2.5 |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Black | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection) | 4.0 |
| WU LYF Go Tell Fire to the Mountain | 3.5 |
| Submotion Orchestra Finest Hour | 4.5 |
| City and Colour Little Hell | 4.0 |
| Sophie Ellis-Bextor Make A Scene | 2.5 |
| Frank Turner England Keep My Bones | 3.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys Suck It and See | 3.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Codes and Keys | 2.5 |
| After threatening to do so for the better part of eight years, Death Cab For Cutie finally lose the plot. |
| Death Cab for Cutie Live at the Mt. Baker Theatre | 3.0 |
| Matthew Good Lights of Endangered Species | 3.5 |
| What if I can't see the point Matthew? |
| Foster the People Torches | 3.0 |
| Kate Bush Director's Cut | 3.0 |
| The Antlers Burst Apart | 4.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra Simple Math | 4.0 |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues | 4.0 |
| Deafheaven Roads to Judah | 3.8 |
| Laura Stevenson Sit Resist | 4.0 |
| tUnE-yArDs w h o k i l l | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take Care | 3.5 |
| Deftones Covers | 3.5 |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light | 3.5 |
| Thursday No Devolucion | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues | 4.0 |
| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Belong | 2.5 |
| Swarms Old Raves End | 2.5 |
| Anchorsong The Lost and Found EP | 2.5 |
| Glasvegas Euphoric Heartbreak | 3.0 |
| Oh Land Oh Land | 2.5 |
| Britney Spears Femme Fatale | 3.5 |
| My guilty pleasure central of the year. And you could be my fuck tonight. |
| Soundgarden Live on I-5 | 1.5 |
| Duran Duran All You Need Is Now | 3.5 |
| The Strokes Angles | 3.7 |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous | 4.0 |
| BEEEE CAREFUL WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT BECAUSE IT MIGHT BE LOOKING BACK!!! |
| The Weeknd House of Balloons | 3.5 |
| Green Day Awesome As Fuck | 2.0 |
| Earthbound Papas Octave Theory | 1.0 |
| Rise Against Endgame | 3.0 |
| Mother Mother Eureka | 3.5 |
| Yuna Decorate | 3.5 |
| R.E.M. Collapse Into Now | 4.0 |
| of Montreal thecontrollersphere | 2.5 |
| Eisley The Valley | 3.5 |
| Several great tracks but only a few transcendental ones. |
| Toro Y Moi Underneath The Pine | 2.5 |
| Julianna Barwick The Magic Place | 3.0 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 4.0 |
| Frank Ocean Nostalgia, Ultra. | 3.5 |
| Hey Rosetta! Seeds | 3.5 |
| Armistice Armistice | 4.0 |
| Justin Bieber Never Say Never : The Remixes | 1.5 |
| The Rural Alberta Advantage Departing | 3.0 |
| PJ Harvey Let England Shake | 3.5 |
| Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 | 4.0 |
| In Every Breath Awakening | 3.5 |
| Yanni Truth of Touch | 4.0 |
| James Blake James Blake | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park A Thousand Suns: Puerta De Alcala | 1.5 |
| Rafter Quiet Storm | 3.0 |
| Corinne Bailey Rae The Love E.P | 3.5 |
| In an age of online romances and speed dating, Corinne Bailey Rae's latest release - a collection of covers unified under a singular "love" theme - seems to be a bit of an anachronism. A grandiose artistic statement it is not, yet Rae's brazen interpretations do manage to turn out some surprisingly pleasant results. Her rehash of Prince's "I Wanna Be Your Lover" is particularly infectious, while the deep, sensual interpretation of "Low Red Moon" goes a long way towards recalling the stunning vistas of a wintry desert at midnight. Indeed, the only real weakness on this compilation is the live performance of "Que Sera Sera", whose 13 minute length makes listening to it a bit of a chore. Although Lennon was probably right when he said that love couldn't possibly have been left behind in the Roaring Sixties, Rae's latest EP does provide strong evidence that it may have taken on a different form since then. |
| Iron And Wine Kiss Each Other Clean | 4.0 |
| Adele 21 | 3.0 |
Adele being Adele and doing Adele things. 21 is, in every sense of the word, simply
19 + 2. |
| Mehdi Cayenne Club Luminata | 1.5 |
| Madison The Noise Some People Make | 3.0 |
| The Decemberists The King Is Dead | 3.5 |
| Hang Glider Hang Glider | 2.0 |
| 2010 |
| Gorillaz The Fall | 3.0 |
| The Damned Things Ironiclast | 2.5 |
| Natasha Bedingfield Strip Me | 2.5 |
| Daft Punk Tron: Legacy | 3.0 |
| Liz Janes Say Goodbye | 4.0 |
| Sowing's soundoff hurts my soul. Truly, madly, deeply. |
| Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit | 4.0 |
| Justin Bieber My Worlds Acoustic | 3.0 |
| Metallica Live at Grimey's | 3.5 |
| U2 Wide Awake in Europe | 4.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Teargarden by Kaleidyscope, Vol. 2 | 2.5 |
| My Chemical Romance The Mad Gear and Missile Kid | 1.0 |
| My Chemical Romance Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys | 3.0 |
| GRAAAAAAAAAVITY!!!!! DON'T MEAN TOO MUCH TO ME!!!!! |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 4.8 |
| Metallica Six Feet Down Under Part II | 3.5 |
| Pink Greatest Hits... So Far!!! | 4.0 |
| James Blunt Some Kind of Trouble | 1.5 |
| Brian Eno Small Craft on a Milk Sea | 4.0 |
| Helloween 7 Sinners | 3.5 |
| Mindless power/speed/heavy metal with semi-cogent lyrics, thundering drums, and sick tempos - a powerful combination indeed. |
| Ghost (SWE) Opus Eponymous | 3.8 |
| Bran Van 3000 The Garden | 3.5 |
| Kings of Leon Come Around Sundown | 4.0 |
| This took the better part of five years to grow on me, but now I?m a believer. |
| Zola Jesus Valusia | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz | 4.5 |
| Bruno Mars Doo-Wops & Hooligans | 1.0 |
| Is it the turd that you write, or is it your lousy tunes? Who cares baby; I think I'm gonna 1 you. |
| Fran Healy Wreckorder | 1.0 |
| The Orb Metallic Spheres (feat. David Gilmour) | 1.5 |
| Grimes Halfaxa | 3.9 |
| Soundgarden Telephantasm | 3.5 |
| Deerhunter Halcyon Digest | 4.5 |
| James Blake Klavierwerke | 4.0 |
| Maroon 5 Hands All Over | 2.0 |
| Michael Franti and Spearhead The Sound Of Sunshine | 2.5 |
| Modern Superstitions All The Things We've Been Told | 3.0 |
| Metallica Six Feet Down Under | 1.5 |
| Linkin Park A Thousand Suns | 4.0 |
| Interpol Interpol | 3.5 |
| Disturbed Asylum | 2.5 |
| Zola Jesus Stridulum II | 3.5 |
| Philip Selway Familial | 2.5 |
| The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus The Hell or High Water | 1.0 |
| Katy Perry Teenage Dream | 2.5 |
| One Night Only One Night Only | 3.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens All Delighted People | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden The Final Frontier | 3.7 |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs | 4.5 |
| Michelle Branch Everything Comes and Goes | 2.0 |
| Enrique Iglesias Euphoria | 1.5 |
| Bodyslam คราม "Kraam" | 3.5 |
| Against Me! White Crosses | 3.5 |
| Tame Impala Innerspeaker | 4.0 |
| U2 360° at the Rose Bowl | 3.5 |
| How to Destroy Angels How To Destroy Angels | 2.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Teargarden by Kaleidyscope, Vol. 1 | 3.3 |
| Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid | 3.5 |
| Motorama Alps | 4.2 |
| Deafheaven Demo | 4.0 |
| Japandroids No Singles | 3.0 |
| The Dead Weather Sea of Cowards | 4.0 |
| The National High Violet | 4.7 |
| Keane Night Train | 2.0 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 4.4 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Distant Worlds II | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow | 2.5 |
| Well, if there's one thing that the band did do very well for this release it's got to be their choice of singles: buoyed by the amazing synth energy atop Here We Are Juggernaut and the phenomenal rock-riffing on World of Lines I splurged on the Limited Deluxe Edition version of this album, expecting more of the same...I was sorely disappointed. The album is extremely front-loaded (the final four or five songs are the worst that Coheed & Cambria have produced as a group), and there's barely a truly remarkable moment on this cohesive - but ultimately uninspired - record. It's by far and away the worst Coheed record around. Only get it to complete your collection, or if the idea of a couple of stylish prog rock songs stacked alongside acceptable filler appeals to you. |
| MGMT Congratulations | 3.5 |
| Justin Bieber My World 2.0 | 2.0 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Nobuo Uematsu's 10 Short Stories | 4.0 |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor | 3.5 |
| Radio Radio Belmundo Regal | 2.5 |
| I'm sure this record is reasonably enjoyable if you like the genre (rap/disco) and the French-Canadian scene, but I personally can't stand all the white-boy posturing that goes on in here. Get Belmundo Regal if you like rap gypsy disco pow-wow; only check out "Dekshoo" and "Guess What?" if you're the average, casual listener. |
| Fang Island Fang Island | 3.5 |
| Angels and Airwaves Love | 3.0 |
| Corinne Bailey Rae The Sea | 3.5 |
| MetaL BrotherS Thunders - Demo | 1.0 |
| 2002 |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! | 3.5 |
| Matchbox Twenty More Than You Think You Are | 3.5 |
| Audioslave Audioslave | 4.0 |
| Opeth Deliverance | 4.0 |
| Justin Timberlake Justified | 3.5 |
| The Mountain Goats Tallahassee | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros ( ) | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia | 2.5 |
| Beck Sea Change | 3.0 |
| Disturbed Believe | 2.5 |
| The Cranberries Stars: The Best of 1992–2002 | 3.5 |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head | 3.3 |
| Daniel Bedingfield Gotta Get Thru This | 3.5 |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 4.0 |
| Linkin Park Reanimation | 3.5 |
| Bodyslam Bodyslam | 2.0 |
| Natalia Lafourcade Natalia Lafourcade | 3.0 |
| Aerosmith O, Yeah! Ultimate Aerosmith Hits | 3.0 |
| Maroon 5 Songs About Jane | 3.5 |
| Avril Lavigne Let Go | 2.5 |
| Against Me! Reinventing Axl Rose | 3.5 |
| David Bowie Heathen | 3.0 |
| Darren Hayes Spin | 3.5 |
| The Mountain Goats All Hail West Texas | 3.0 |
| Iron And Wine The Creek Drank the Cradle | 3.0 |
| Damien Rice O | 2.8 |
| Christina Milian Christina Milian | 1.5 |
| Fifteen year-old me hated it, and that seriously says a LOT, especially considering that my musical diet at that time was a full course of Britney Spears, a side of Michelle Branch, and lots of N'Sync and Backstreet Boys to wash the whole thing down. Even for a mindless pop album, this one's a mess: too much filler, poor-to-mediocre lyrics, and - above all - too few hooks. Avoid. |
| Blue One Love | 2.5 |
| Blue's sophomore effort is as inoffensive as their debut, yet manages to produce quite a few solid numbers that comfortably cement this record as the 4 x Platinum juggernaut that it is in the UK. Particularly of note is the collaboration with Elton John on "Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word" - although nowhere near as poignant as the original, the fact that the man himself is willing to be part of this 2003 rehash goes a long way to illustrate that the boys must be doing something right. |
| Pop Shuvit Take It & Shuvit | 3.0 |
| U2 The Best Of 1990-2000 | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade | 4.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Earphoria | 3.5 |
