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2015
Steven Wilson Hand. Cannot. Erase.3.5

2014
Emma Ruth Rundle Some Heavy Ocean4.0
Casualties of Cool Casualties of Cool4.5
Kishi Bashi Lighght4.5
Sorne House of Stone: Death I2.0
Huge disappointment. Nearly everything that made the House of Stone incredible is lacking
here, most notably the rhythms.

2013
David Maxim Micic Bilo 3.03.0
This album makes no sense to me. Some moments are shockingly brilliant and beautiful while others are unnecessarily abrasive without any real driving melody.
Darkside Psychic3.5
Haken The Mountain3.5
Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City3.0
Streetlight Manifesto The Hands That Thieve4.0
Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)4.0
Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun3.5

2012
Muse The 2nd Law2.0
Celldweller Wish Upon a Blackstar3.5
Right Away, Great Captain! The Church of the Good Thief3.5
Rush Clockwork Angels4.0
I never imagined I would enjoy this as much as I do. Pleasant surprise.
Anathema Weather Systems2.5
This album is a mixed bag, it offers some awesome moments blended with some awful ones.
BADBADNOTGOOD BBNG24.0
Andrew Bird Break It Yourself4.0
Buckethead Electric Sea3.0
Soen Cognitive3.0
The Omega Experiment The Omega Experiment3.0
Grimes Visions3.5

2011
Glass Bones Seasons4.5
Korn The Path of Totality1.0
Chevelle Hats Off To The Bull2.5
Surprisingly not as inept as I had initially expected. Chevelle have created a catchy mainstream album, that despite lacking ambition and interesting instrumental parts, rises head and shoulders above its predecessors.
Olafur Arnalds Living Room Songs3.5
Cynic Carbon-Based Anatomy4.0
Haken Visions4.5
Steven Wilson Grace for Drowning4.0
The Jezabels Prisoner4.5
Opeth Heritage4.0
Standalone, Heritage is a fantastic album. However, when put into context with Opeth's previous releases Heritage fails to measure up.
Thrice Major/Minor3.5
Beirut The Rip Tide4.0
Bomb the Music Industry! Vacation4.0
3 Doors Down Time of My Life1.0
Trophy Scars Never Born, Never Dead4.0
Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors4.0
Yes Fly from Here2.5
Gillian Welch The Harrow And The Harvest3.0
Coldplay Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall2.0
Absolutely nothing new or special. The members of Coldplay do nothing to demonstrate any
musical ability and instead create simplistic catchy pop tunes, completely lacking any
musical merit.
*shels Plains Of The Purple Buffalo3.5
Devin Townsend Project Ghost4.0
Quality seems to wane a bit in the last few songs, but otherwise a fantastic release.
sleepmakeswaves ...and so we destroyed everything4.0
Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction3.0
This album bores me beyond belief. I dont understand the point of the relentless drumbeats or poorly done heavy sound. It all seems like such a waste for such and intricately layered album.
The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection)4.5
Frank Turner England Keep My Bones4.0
Seether Holding Onto Strings Better Left To Fray1.5
Manchester Orchestra Simple Math4.0
dredg Chuckles and Mr. Squeezy1.0
Believer Transhuman3.0
Light Bearer Lapsus4.0
Radiohead The King of Limbs3.5
Armistice Armistice3.0
Sorne House of Stone4.5
Akron/Family S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT4.0
Incredibly rich and diverse. Akron/Family have created an excellent and experimental album.
Red (USA) Until We Have Faces2.0
Abigail Washburn City of Refuge2.5

2010
Linkin Park A Thousand Suns2.5
10 Years Feeding the Wolves2.5
Apocalyptica 7th Symphony2.5
Those Poor Bastards Gospel Haunted2.5
This album is either somewhat decent with some unique ideas... or terrible, I cant decide which.
Olafur Arnalds ...And They Have Escaped The Weight Of Darkness3.5
Deftones Diamond Eyes4.0
The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt4.5
Alcest Écailles De Lune4.0
John Butler Trio April Uprising3.0
Lifehouse Smoke and Mirrors1.5
Myrath Desert Call3.5

2009
Tyler, the Creator Bastard3.5
Thirty Seconds to Mars This Is War2.5
OneRepublic Waking Up2.0
Puscifer C is for...3.5
Cry to the Blind From Conflict to Clarity2.0
Mumford and Sons Sigh No More2.0
Breaking Benjamin Dear Agony2.0
Brand New Daisy3.0
Liz Durrett Outside Our Gates4.0
Owl City Ocean Eyes1.0
Sick Puppies Tri-Polar1.5
Evans Blue Evans Blue1.5
The Mars Volta Octahedron3.0
Not their best album but it has grown on me. One has to learn to appreciate each TMV album individually and ignore the larger context of the bands previous releases. That being said this album is good but not great.
Abigail's Ghost d_letion3.5
The Dear Hunter Act III: Life and Death4.0
dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion3.5
Placebo Battle for the Sun2.5
For every interesting moment, there is an equally disappointing one. Never displaying brilliance however, this album proves another mediocre release.
Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders4.0
Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing3.5
Red (USA) Innocence and Instinct3.0
Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion4.5
16Bit Cobra3.5

2008
Janus Red Right Return2.5
Nickelback Dark Horse1.0
Cynic Traced in Air4.0
Straylight Run Un Mas Dos1.5
Adebisi Shank This is the Album3.0
Earshot The Silver Lining2.0
O'Death Broken Hymns, Limbs, and Skin3.5
Staind The Illusion of Progress2.0
The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound4.5
Shinedown The Sound of Madness2.0
Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends3.0
10 Years Division3.5
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV3.5
Ashes Divide Keep Telling Myself It's Alright3.0
TTNG This Town Needs Guns3.0
Slim Cessna's Auto Club Cipher3.5
Fantastic, complex, and unique even within the genre. Excellent album.
Why? Alopecia4.5
The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath3.5
Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend3.5

2007
Burial Untrue3.0
Puscifer "V" Is For Vagina2.5
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II3.5
Radiohead In Rainbows4.0
Between the Buried and Me Colors4.0
Minus the Bear Planet of Ice3.5
Barcelona Absolutes3.5
Evans Blue The Pursuit Begins When This Portrayal of Life Ends2.5
Kidcrash Jokes4.0
Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago4.5
Pharoahe Monch Desire3.5
Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True3.0
The Bravery The Sun and the Moon2.0
The National Boxer4.5
Great Northern Trading Twilight for Daylight3.0
The Angelic Process Weighing Souls With Sand4.5
Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight2.0
Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet4.0
Buckethead In Search Of The - Volume 1: 'I'3.0
Anberlin Cities3.0
Anberlin featuring redundant lyrics, dull structures, songs that have remarkably little to offer, ubiquitous filler, and surprisingly, several moments of brilliance. (*Fin) is the perfect closer and deserves a 4.5 however the album fails to build to this point. It's a shame, I wanted to like this album.
OneRepublic Dreaming Out Loud2.5

2006
Incubus (USA-CA) Light Grenades2.5
Daughtry Daughtry1.5
Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me4.5
Joanna Newsom Ys4.0
mewithoutYou Brother, Sister4.5
Jakob Solace3.5
The Mars Volta Amputechture3.5
Breaking Benjamin Phobia2.5
The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers3.0
Tool 10,000 Days3.5
Hurt Vol. 13.0
Evans Blue The Melody and the Energetic Nature of Volume2.5

2005
Fort Minor The Rising Tied2.5
The Mars Volta Scab Dates2.5
Thrice Vheissu4.0
Animal Collective Feels4.0
Nickelback All the Right Reasons1.0
The Fray How to Save a Life2.0
32 Leaves Welcome to the Fall2.0
Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie3.0
10 Years The Autumn Effect3.5
The All-American Rejects Move Along2.0
Sufjan Stevens Illinois4.5
dredg Catch Without Arms3.5
The Mayan Factor 443.5
Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World4.5
Porcupine Tree Deadwing4.0
The National Alligator4.0
Hammock Kenotic4.0
The Mars Volta Frances the Mute4.0
God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright3.5
Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning4.5
Apocalyptica Apocalyptica3.0

2004
A Perfect Circle aMOTION1.5
A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe1.0
Green Day American Idiot3.0
65daysofstatic The Fall of Math3.5
Arcade Fire Funeral4.5
Papa Roach Getting Away With Murder2.0
Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy4.0
Breaking Benjamin We Are Not Alone2.5
John Butler Trio Sunrise Over Sea4.0
Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo4.0
Crossfade Crossfade2.0

2003
blink-182 Blink-1823.5
Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye4.5
Muse Absolution4.0
A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step4.0
The Mayan Factor In Lake 'CH4.5
Gatsby's American Dream Ribbons and Sugar3.0
The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium4.5
Brand New Deja Entendu3.5
Nadja Touched3.5
Linkin Park Meteora2.5
King Crimson The Power to Believe3.0
DoomThrone Skeleton Veiled in Flesh1.0
The Fray Reason EP1.0

2002
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O.3.5
Sigur Ros ( )3.5
Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People4.0
Porcupine Tree In Absentia4.5
Glassjaw Worship and Tribute4.0
Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights3.0
16 Horsepower Folklore4.0
Bruce Springsteen The Rising2.0
dredg El Cielo4.5
Breaking Benjamin Saturate2.5
Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade3.5
Agalloch The Mantle4.0

2001
Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot4.5
Aesop Rock Labor Days4.0
The Microphones The Glow Pt. 24.5
It's all just so fragile, as if a single movement would shatter the beautiful landscape it depicts.
Converge Jane Doe5.0
10 Years Into the Half Moon1.5
Yes... this was before they evolved into a radio rock band... but listen to "The Autumn Effect" and tell me they aren't one of the best radio rock bands out there. As such, this album does little to display the bands later direction and is, as a whole, relatively poor.
maudlin of the Well Bath4.0
Tool Lateralus5.0
Opeth Blackwater Park5.0
Low Things We Lost in the Fire4.0

2000
The Avalanches Since I Left You4.5
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven4.5
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory2.5
Radiohead Kid A5.0
At the Drive-In Relationship of Command5.0
OOIOO Gold and Green3.0
Cheval De Frise Cheval De Frise4.5
Deftones White Pony4.0
Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica4.5
A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms4.0
Deltron 3030 Deltron 30304.0
1999
Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory5.0
Creed Human Clay1.5
dredg Leitmotif3.0
AFI All Hallow's E.P.3.5
Agalloch Pale Folklore3.0
Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream4.0

1998
At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out4.0
Catch 22 Keasbey Nights5.0
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea4.5
Against Me! Vivida Vis!3.0

1997
Yes Open Your Eyes1.5
Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞4.5
Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech5.0
Radiohead OK Computer5.0

1996
Tool Ænima4.5
Failure Fantastic Planet3.5
Apocalyptica Plays Metallica by Four Cellos3.5
At the Drive-In Acrobatic Tenement3.5

1993
Radiohead Pablo Honey2.5
Tool Undertow3.0

1992
Tool Opiate3.0
Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-925.0
1991
My Bloody Valentine Loveless5.0
Nirvana Nevermind4.0
Slint Spiderland4.0
1990
Megadeth Rust in Peace5.0

1989
Cynic Reflections of a Dying World2.0

1988
Cynic '88 Demo2.5

1985
Joni Mitchell Dog Eat Dog2.5

1983
Philip Glass Koyaanisqatsi3.0
Yes 901252.5

1978
Jandek Ready for the House2.5

1977
Fela Kuti Zombie4.0

1976
Rush 21123.5

1975
Van der Graaf Generator Godbluff4.0
Triana El Patio4.0
You can literally sing Epitaph to the intro of the first song, but otherwise, critically this album is excellent, it effectively merges flamenco and prog.
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here4.5
Tangerine Dream Rubycon4.5

1974
King Crimson Red4.5
1972
Yes Close to the Edge5.0
Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick5.0

1971
Jethro Tull Aqualung4.0
Comus First Utterance4.5
Joni Mitchell Blue5.0

1970
Exuma Exuma4.0
1969
King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King5.0
Yes Yes3.0

1961
Robert Johnson King of the Delta Blues Singers4.5
1959
Miles Davis Kind of Blue5.0

1940
Woody Guthrie Dust Bowl Ballads4.0

1928
Maurice Ravel Boléro2.5

1905
Maurice Ravel Miroirs, M. 434.5

1899
Maurice Ravel Pavane pour une infante défunte4.5
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