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StrangerofSorts

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2021
Godspeed You! Black Emperor G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!	3.0

2017
Ben Frost The Centre Cannot Hold	4.5

2016
kj wake	4.0
Raime Tooth	3.7
ANOHNI HOPELESSNESS	2.5
Julianna Barwick Will	3.5
Brian Eno The Ship	2.0
Tape Loop Orchestra Go Straight Towards the Light of All That You Love	4.0
Phaeleh All That Remains	3.3
Gidge Lulin	3.3

2015
Frederic D Oberland Peregrinus Ubique	4.4
Rival Consoles Howl	2.9
Christina Vantzou No. 3	4.1
Ruhe Patriarchs	3.7
Julia Holter Have You In My Wilderness	3.5
17f Two Cowboy Songs	3.6
The Weeknd Beauty Behind the Madness	1.0
Hidden Spheres Waiting	4.1
Tame Impala Currents	2.5
Woob Adaption	4.3
Ta-Ku Songs to Make Up To	2.2
Sun Kil Moon Universal Themes	3.8
Jamie xx In Colour	4.0
Pretty much a victory lap for the best single of 2014 (Girl) - the rest is warm-up when it isn't noise.
The Frozen Vaults 1816	4.0
Young Fathers White Men Are Black Men Too	3.5
Benjamin Finger Pleasurably Lost	3.6
Benoit Pioulard Stanza	3.4
Benoit Pioulard Sonnet	4.0
Earl Sweatshirt I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside	3.8
Bill Seaman f (noir)	4.6
John Bence Disquiet	2.7
Public Service Broadcasting The Race For Space	3.0
William Ryan Fritch Revisionist	3.5
Kreng The Summoner	4.0
Preoccupations Viet Cong	4.0
Benjamin Clementine At Least For Now	4.0

2014
Grouper Ruins	4.0
Mr. Mitch Don't Leave	3.5
Bvdub and Loscil Erebus	4.5
Throwing Snow Mosaic	4.0
Natural Snow Buildings The Night Country	4.5
Douglas Dare Whelm	3.5
Baths Ocean Death	2.5
Pausal Along the Mantic Spring	4.0
The Horrors Luminous	2.5
are you all high?
Fennesz Becs	3.0
A Winged Victory for the Sullen Atomos VII	4.0
Eels The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett	3.5
Oneohtrix Point Never Commissions I	3.5
Djrum The Miracle	4.0
After tripping a little bit with an LP attempt, DjRum's straight back to making some of the best music out there.
Squarepusher Music for Robots	1.5
SOHN Tremors	3.0
it's like if The Weeknd wasn't the kind of person who'd try and sleep with your sister.
The Body I Shall Die Here	3.0
It would be really, really, really good if it didn't have to be so fucking melodramatic. Krlic should have been more brutal in showing how it's actually done.
De La Soul Smell The DA.I.S.Y.	3.5
Tycho Awake	2.5
man should open a shop with all this cheese, but I guess he's making enough money filling albums with 8 versions of the same song as it is.
The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream	3.5
my forth AOTY so far!
Metronomy Love Letters	3.5
The Correspondents Puppet Loosely Strung	3.5
Eagulls Eagulls	3.0
Not really my kind of thing, but it's good to see guitar music with credibility getting its time in the spotlight.rAlso, my friend stage-dived when they played the Louisiana in Bristol, apparently they're (quote) "off the fucking chain."
Arrange Their Bodies in a Fog	3.5
Son Lux Alternate Worlds	3.5
an dey bootiful
Tensnake Glow	3.5
A/T/O/S A/T/O/S	4.0
Addison Groove Presents James Grieve	3.5
Major Lazer Apocalypse Soon	2.0
St. Vincent St. Vincent	4.0
Nicholas Szczepanik Not Knowing	4.0
Patten ESTOILE NAIANT	3.5
Wild Beasts Present Tense	4.0
Don't confuse me with someone who gives a fuck, I'm all over this shit like a sputnik user on an over-hyped flavour of the month release.r
Kassem Mosse Workshop 19	4.0
Christina Vantzou No. 2	4.0
Jan Amit Around & Above	5.0
Mark Harris The Angry Child	3.5
Valentin Stip Sigh	3.0
Leyland Kirby Breaks My Heart Each Time	3.0
ASC, Sam KDC and Synth Sense AUXWL001-003	3.5
Crosses Crosses	3.0
Sun Kil Moon Benji	5.0
Woodsman Woodsman	3.0
Bibio Green	3.0
Small Engine Repair Serve Yourself	3.5
Actress Ghettoville	4.0
Ricky Eat Acid Three Love Songs	3.5
Carlos Cipa and Sophia Jani Relive	3.5
Tape Loop Orchestra Yesterday This Would've Meant So Much To Us	4.0
Sam Mumford Scatter	4.0

2013
Burial Rival Dealer	3.0
Nils Frahm Spaces	3.0
JMSN †Pllajë†	3.5
ASC Programme 02	3.5
Booka Shade Eve	4.5
Son Lux Lanterns	3.5
Arcade Fire Reflektor	3.0
Fanfarlo The Sea	4.0
Olan Mill Hiraeth	4.5
The Range Nonfiction	4.0
Darkside Psychic	4.0
Fresh from remixing the entire of Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories, Nicholas Jaar and Dave Harrington return with an album ambitious enough to fill the void between the dancefloor and Django Unchained’s soundtrack. Long-time Jaar fans will be on familiar turf here, though will struggle not to notice the heavier blues and rock influence and Harringtons efforts to lure him towards some late-night club bliss. Harrington wasn’t entirely unsuccessful in this, as “Freak, Go Home” is the closest Jaar has come to rectifying his own uneasiness at his tracks’ previous lack of danceability. The tempo is pushed up, murky basslines join infectious one-two percussion and it’s all topped off with a recurring melody catchy enough to move even the most miserable of bar lurkers. However, while the dead ends, smothering vocal samples and industrial guitar finish make it more interesting, it doesn’t half result in a confusing first listen. Elsewhere Darkside are much more chilled out, with the guitar-based, soulful bluesyness of “Heart” and overall seductive, genre-hopping instrumentation, Psychic becomes more of a come-down record than anything else. They seem to enjoy experimenting too much to be immediately accessible - “Greek Light” and “Golden Arrow” show just how far Darkside are willing to go - but Psychic still oozes the essence of cool necessary to make it a fantastic and, hopefully, successful album.
Machinedrum Vapor City	4.0
Trentemoller Lost	4.0
San Fermin San Fermin	3.5
Daedelus Drown Out	4.0
Pausal Sky Margin	4.0
*AR Succession	4.0
Arctic Monkeys AM	3.0
Preoccupations Cassette	3.5
The Dodos Carrier	4.5
Mark Kozelek and Desertshore Mark Kozelek and Desertshore	3.5
Rudimental Home	3.0
Julia Holter Loud City Song	4.0
ASC Time Heals All	3.5
Son Lux TEAR	4.0
Tom Odell Long Way Down	2.0
Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest	4.0
Rrose Waterfall Variations	3.9
Mount Kimbie Cold Spring Fault Less Youth	3.5
The National Trouble Will Find Me	3.5
But is it a shower or a grower?
Witxes A Fabric of Beliefs	3.0
Eluvium Nightmare Ending	4.0
Bibio Silver Wilkinson	3.5
Colin Stetson New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light	4.0
Djrum Seven Lies	3.5
ASC Sonic Assault	3.0
ASC Flood Tide Rising	2.5
Max Richter Disconnect	3.5
Kahn Kahn	3.5
James Blake Overgrown	4.0
Petrels Onkalo	4.5
Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience	2.5
Geskia! Silent of Light	4.5
Benoit Pioulard Hymnal	4.0
ASC Solenoid	3.0
Lemaitre Relativity 3	3.5
Olafur Arnalds For Now I Am Winter	3.0
Atoms for Peace Amok	4.0
It's Kid B time, baby.
Volor Flex Unlit	3.5
Foals Holy Fire	3.0
A.M. Architect Pattern Language	3.0
ASC Proton/Electron	3.5
Ital Tek Hyper Real	3.5
Ancient History Tracks	4.0
Stuart Warwick The Butcher's Voice	3.5
Benoit Pioulard Roanoke	3.0

2012
Burial Truant/Rough Sleeper	4.0
Kettel and Secede When Can	4.5
Bvdub All Is Forgiven	1.5
Stumbleine Spiderwebbed	3.5
Liar Strange Love	3.5
Brambles Charcoal	3.5
Stray Ghost Those Who Know Darkness See The Light	3.5
Flying Lotus Until the Quiet Comes	3.5
David Newlyn The Misspelled Numbers	4.0
Mala Mala In Cuba	4.0
17f The Boy Who Cried Wolf	4.0
The xx Coexist	1.5
Mono For My Parents	1.5
Couldn't help but cringe during some of those crescendos. The title suggests this album might have some personality, but it's utterly lifeless and dry. blegh.
Night Shift Trespassers Guide to Nowhere	5.0
Evening Hymns Spectral Dusk	4.5
Bloc Party Four	3.5
Micol Cazzell Broken Things	2.5
Purity Ring Shrines	3.5
The Antlers Undersea	3.5
Grasscut Unearth	3.5
Borealis (ROU) Voidness	3.5
ASC Out Of Sync	3.5
Submerse Tears	3.5
Lorn Ask The Dust	4.0
Kira Kira Feathermagnetik	4.0
Marissa Nadler The Sister	3.5
Sigur Ros Valtari	2.5
So insubstantial that if the hype train rattles it might just fall apart.
Submerse They Always Come Back	3.5
Lemaitre Relativity 2	3.5
Blue Foundation In My Mind I Am Free	3.0
El-P Cancer 4 Cure	3.5
Hilary Hahn and Hauschka Silfra	3.5
Kubrick's Cube Odissey	4.5
Amon Tobin Amon Tobin	4.5
I don't know if it's possible to even just look at the tracklist without collapsing in a pool of your own saliva.
Swarms Low Sun	2.0
Beach House Bloom	2.5
Squarepusher Ufabulum	3.0
Killer Mike R.A.P. Music	4.0
Clonki Seize The Smoke	3.0
S. Carey Hoyas	3.5
oOoOO Our Loving Is Hurting Us	2.0
Helios Moiety	2.5
Deuce Nine Lives	1.0
Dweller On The Threshold Dweller On The Threshold	3.0
Animal Collective Transverse Temporal Gyrus	3.0
Bersarin Quartett II	5.0
Clubroot III - MMXII	3.5
Bear in Heaven I Love You, It's Cool	2.5
Orbital Wonky	3.0
BADBADNOTGOOD BBNG2	4.0
Yppah Eighty One	3.5
Clark Iradelphic	4.0
Paco Sala Ro-Me-Ro	4.0
Black Swan (USA-NY) Aeterna	3.0
Chromatics Kill for Love	3.5
Bvdub Serenity	2.5
The Shins Port of Morrow	3.0
Mirrorring Foreign Body	3.5
Ital Tek The Planet	3.5
Desolate (DE) Celestial Light Beings	4.5
Mark Aubert Fake Island	4.0
Monolake Ghosts	3.5
Dakent Matahari	3.0
Senpai They Say Just Wait Till Morning	3.0
Cassette Organ Dream House Study	3.5
Julia Holter Ekstasis	3.0
Loscil City Hospital	3.0
Danny Norbury Bluebeard	3.5
Venetian Snares Fool the Detector	3.0
DJ Madd The Real & The Shadow	3.5
Boy Friend Egyptian Wrinkle	4.0
Pulse Emitter Aeons	3.5
matthewdavid Jewelry	3.5
Demdike Stare Elemental	3.0
Fanfarlo Rooms Filled With Light	3.0
While certainly enjoyable, Rooms Filled With Light sees Fanfarlo abandon many of the things which made Reservoir so memorable. What's left seems borrowed from the more popular indie outfits. Again, it's good, just uninspired.
Olafur Arnalds Another Happy Day	3.5
Listening Mirror Resting in Aspic	4.0
Perfume Genius Put Your Back N 2 It	3.0
Josh Ritter Bringing in the Darlings	3.0
Waxahatchee American Weekend	3.5
The Post Riot Era Schism	4.0
Milo Milo Takes Baths	3.0
The Caretaker Patience (After Sebald)	3.5
John Talabot Fin	4.0
Elias Fossils	4.0
Burial Kindred	4.5
Sluggart Languish	3.5
The Flashbulb Opus At The End Of Everything	2.5
Air Le Voyage Dans La Lune	3.0
Lapalux When You're Gone	3.5
Shlohmo Vacation	4.0
Saltillo Monocyte	4.0
Ulrich Schnauss and Mark Peters Underrated Silence	3.5
Hermitude HyperParadise	4.0
mmpsuf Retina	4.0
Pepe Deluxe Queen of the Wave	4.5
Sun Glitters High	3.0
Portico Quartet Portico Quartet	4.5
Lana Del Rey Born to Die	2.0
Cloud Nothings Attack on Memory	3.0
John K. Samson Provincial	3.5
Jason Urick I Love You	3.5
Pye Corner Audio Black Mill Tapes Volume 3	4.0
DJ Food The Search Engine	4.5
Cate Le Bon CYRK	3.0
Enter Shikari A Flash Flood of Colour	1.5
ASC No Secrets/Zenith	4.0
Venetian Snares Affectionate	3.0
Snow Patrol Fallen Empires	2.0
The New Law The Fifty Year Storm	4.5
The Maccabees Given to the Wild	3.0
Void Pedal Pair of L	3.5

2011
Skrillex Bangarang	1.5
The Weeknd Echoes of Silence	3.0
Knife Party 100% No Modern Talking	2.0
James Blake Love What Happened Here	3.0
Macintosh Plus Floral Shoppe	3.5
The Black Keys El Camino	3.0
Jacaszek Glimmer	4.0
The Roots undun	4.5
Olafur Arnalds Living Room Songs	4.0
Tenhi Saivo	4.0
The Antlers (together)	3.0
The Log.Os λόγος	4.0
Horsepower Productions Justify	3.0
Drake Take Care	2.0
Los Campesinos! Hello Sadness	3.0
Sigur Ros Inni	3.5
Korallreven An Album By Korallreven	3.5
Followed By Ghosts Still, Here	3.5
Atlas Sound Parallax	2.5
Tycho Dive	4.0
Oneohtrix Point Never Replica	3.5
Nicolas Jaar Don't Break My Love	4.0
http://www.clownandsunset.com/cs/november1st.html if anyone didn't know where the stream was.
Lou Reed and Metallica Lulu	1.0
Keep Shelly in Athens Our Own Dream	3.5
Walls Coracle	4.0
Joker The Vision	2.5
Coldplay Mylo Xyloto	2.0
M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming	3.5
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds	3.5
Coldair Far South	3.5
Rustie Glass Swords	3.0
Tim Hecker Dropped Pianos	3.5
James Blake Enough Thunder	3.0
Radiohead TKOL RMX 1234567	3.5
Olkin Donder Oben Glex	3.5
Mayday Parade Mayday Parade	2.0
Daughter The Wild Youth	4.0
Milo I Wish My Brother Rob Was Here	4.0
Aperture Science Psychoacoustics Lab... Portal 2: Songs to Test By	4.0
Wilco The Whole Love	3.5
dEUS Keep You Close	3.5
Of Monsters and Men My Head is an Animal	3.5
BADBADNOTGOOD BBNG	3.5
Gui Boratto III	4.0
A Winged Victory for the Sullen A Winged Victory for the Sullen	5.0
Leyland Kirby Eager To Tear Apart The Stars	3.5
Red Hot Chili Peppers I'm With You	2.5
Balam Acab Wander/Wonder	4.0
Bombay Bicycle Club A Different Kind of Fix	4.0
bansheebeat Galactics	4.0
David Guetta Nothing but the Beat	1.0
Nero Welcome Reality	2.5
The War On Drugs Slave Ambient	4.0
Omar S It Can Be Done But Only I Can Do It	3.5
Beirut The Rip Tide	3.0
Shlohmo Bad Vibes	3.5
Ifan Dafydd No Goo/Miranda	3.5
Widowspeak Widowspeak	3.0
3 Doors Down Time of My Life	1.0
Nicholas Szczepanik Please Stop Loving Me	2.5
The Horrors Skying	3.0
Zomby Dedication	3.5
Shabazz Palaces Black Up	3.0
Pogo Wonderpuff	3.0
John Maus We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves	4.5
Motion Sickness Of Time Travel Luminaries & Synastry	3.5
Valentin Stip Anytime Will Do	3.5
*shels Plains Of The Purple Buffalo	3.5
The Dear Hunter White	4.0
The Caretaker An Empty Bliss Beyond This World	4.0
Chad Valley Equatorial Ultravox	4.0
The Dear Hunter Indigo	4.5
The Dear Hunter Green	4.0
The Dear Hunter Red	3.5
Owl City All Things Bright And Beautiful	1.5
The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum	4.0
The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection)	4.0
WU LYF Go Tell Fire to the Mountain	3.0
Submotion Orchestra Finest Hour	4.0
Fo//ic/e Nidificating	4.0
Dark, shambling, experimental electronic music - it's a tad patchy but that's more than made up for by the ambition of the whole thing.
Holy Other With U	4.0
Arctic Monkeys Suck It and See	2.5
Frank Turner England Keep My Bones	3.0
Death Cab for Cutie Codes and Keys	2.5
Unexpect Fables of the Sleepless Empire	3.5
Maybeshewill I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was Gone	4.5
Friendly Fires Pala	2.5
Amon Tobin ISAM	4.5
Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi Rome	3.0
Master Musicians of Bukkake Totem Three	3.0
The Lonely Island Turtleneck and Chain	1.5
The Antlers Burst Apart	3.0
Manchester Orchestra Simple Math	3.0
Okkervil River I Am Very Far	3.5
Gang Gang Dance Eye Contact	4.0
Wild Beasts Smother	4.5
My Cats A Stargazer Solstice Celebration	4.0
Snowmine Laminate Pet Animal	4.0
Fredrik Flora	4.5
Giles Corey Giles Corey	4.0
Robag Wruhme Thora Vukk	4.0
Laura Stevenson Sit Resist	3.5
Son Lux We Are Rising	3.5
Bill Wells and Aidan Moffat Everything's Getting Older	4.0
London Elektricity Yikes!	3.5
Metronomy The English Riviera	4.5
Grouper A I A	4.0
Jamie Woon Mirrorwriting	3.5
The Middle East I Want That You Are Always Happy	4.0
Timber Timbre Creep On Creepin' On	4.0
Black Swan (USA-NY) The Quiet Divide	3.0
Craft Spells Idle Labor	3.5
Niva Feverish Dreams	3.5
Woodkid Iron	3.5
Burial Street Halo	4.0
Swarms Old Raves End	4.0
Soundtrack (Film) Sucker Punch	3.0
The Strokes Angles	3.5
Gold Panda Companion	3.5
Stendeck Scintilla	4.0
The Weeknd House of Balloons	3.0
Secret Cities Strange Hearts	3.5
The Dodos No Color	3.5
Sun Glitters Everything Could Be Fine	3.5
STRFKR Reptilians	4.0
Elbow Build A Rocket Boys!	3.0
Thrupence Voyages	3.5
C418 Volume Alpha	4.0
Powder! Go Away Laika Still Wants Go Home	3.5
Lykke Li Wounded Rhymes	3.0
The Luyas Too Beautiful to Work	3.5
Julianna Barwick The Magic Place	3.5
Colin Stetson New History Warfare Vol 2: Judges	4.5
Radiohead The King of Limbs	3.5
Yuck Yuck	3.0
Telekinesis (USA-WA, Indie Rock) 12 Desperate Straight Lines	3.0
Deaf Center Owl Splinters	3.5
Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972	4.0
Nicolas Jaar Space Is Only Noise	4.5
Long Arm The Branches	4.0
James Blake James Blake	3.5
The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation Anthropomorphic	3.5
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble From the Stairwell	4.0
Say Hi Um, Uh Oh	4.0
The Decemberists The King Is Dead	3.0
White Lies Ritual	3.0
Creepoid Horse Heaven	3.0

2010
Deadmau5 4x4=12	2.5
My Chemical Romance Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys	2.0
Girls Broken Dreams Club	3.0
Dakent Banger	3.5
Plinth (UK) Music For Smalls Lighthouse	5.0
Warpaint The Fool	3.5
Skrillex Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites	2.5
Kids and Explosions Shit Computer	2.5
Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz	5.0
Jimmy Eat World Invented	3.0
Manic Street Preachers Postcards from a Young Man	3.5
Cloudkicker Beacons	3.0
California Wives Affair	4.0
Digitalism Blitz	4.0
cssc The Lonely Robot	3.5
Arcade Fire The Suburbs	4.0
Max Richter Infra	4.0
Paper Tiger Made Like Us	4.0
Bombay Bicycle Club Flaws	2.0
Tired Pony The Place We Ran From	2.5
Kele The Boxer	3.0
Oneohtrix Point Never Returnal	3.5
Foals Total Life Forever	4.0
Ratatat LP4	3.5
The Flashbulb Arboreal	4.0
Ital Tek Midnight Colour	4.0
(The) Slowest Runner (In All The World) We, Burning Giraffes	4.5
Submotion Orchestra Submotion Orchestra	4.0
The Glitch Mob Drink the Sea	2.5
Hammock Chasing After Shadows...Living with the Ghosts	4.0
Grum Heartbeats	4.5
The National High Violet	4.0
Clubroot II - MMX	4.0
Olafur Arnalds ...And They Have Escaped The Weight Of Darkness	4.0
Flying Lotus Cosmogramma	4.0
Crystal Castles Crystal Castles II	2.0
MGMT Congratulations	3.0
Jonsi Go	4.5
NOISIA Split The Atom	4.5
Gorillaz Plastic Beach	2.5
Titus Andronicus The Monitor	4.0
Rogue Wave Permalight	3.5
Two Door Cinema Club Tourist History	3.5
Fang Island Fang Island	3.5
Fake Blood Fix Your Accent	3.5
Autechre Oversteps	4.0
Massive Attack Heligoland	4.0
Hot Chip One Life Stand	3.0
Fredrik Trilogi	4.5
Beach House Teen Dream	4.0
Magic Man Real Life Color	4.0
Motion City Soundtrack My Dinosaur Life	2.5
Richard Skelton Landings	4.5
Lostprophets The Betrayed	2.0
These New Puritans Hidden	4.0
OK Go Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky	3.5
Vampire Weekend Contra	2.0
Delphic Acolyte	2.5
Lemaitre The Friendly Sound	4.0
Rokkurro Í Annan Heim	4.0
Void Pedal Void Pedal	4.5

2009
Flying Lotus A Decade of Flying Lotus	3.5
William Basinski Vivian & Ondine	3.5
Thirty Seconds to Mars This Is War	2.5
New Century Classics Natural Process	3.5
Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures	2.0
Biffy Clyro Only Revolutions	3.0
Mike Posner One Foot Out the Door	1.5
Flight of the Conchords I Told You I Was Freaky	2.5
Fuck Buttons Tarot Sport	3.5
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble Here Be Dragons	4.0
Editors In This Light and On This Evening	2.0
Piano Magic Ovations	3.5
Mayday Parade Anywhere But Here	2.0
Mumford and Sons Sigh No More	1.5
Mount Kimbie Sketch On Glass	3.5
Paramore Brand New Eyes	3.0
Guilt Machine On This Perfect Day	4.0
Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) What It Takes to Move Forward	4.5
Ian Brown My Way	2.0
Brand New Daisy	3.0
Owen New Leaves	3.5
Girls Album	3.5
Deadmau5 For Lack of a Better Name	4.0
Porcupine Tree The Incident	3.5
Muse The Resistance	2.5
Just Jack All Night Cinema	3.5
Arctic Monkeys Humbug	4.0
The xx xx	3.0
Flying Lotus L.A. EP 3 X 3	3.5
The Temper Trap Conditions	4.0
Throw Me The Statue Creaturesque	3.0
Modest Mouse No One's First, and You're Next	3.5
Ronald Jenkees Disorganized Fun	3.5
Clint Mansell Moon	3.5
Owl City Ocean Eyes	2.5
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros Up From Below	3.0
Bombay Bicycle Club I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose	4.5
Bibio Ambivalence Avenue	3.5
Sunset Rubdown Dragonslayer	4.0
VNV Nation Of Faith, Power and Glory	3.5
Enter Shikari Common Dreads	2.5
Taking Back Sunday New Again	2.0
Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix	3.0
Passion Pit Manners	3.0
OSI Blood	3.0
Wisp The Shimmering Hour	3.5
Maximo Park Quicken The Heart	3.0
Fischerspooner Entertainment	2.0
The Tumbled Sea melody/summer	4.0
The Maccabees Wall of Arms	4.5
Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing	4.5
Silversun Pickups Swoon	4.0
Metric Fantasies	4.0
Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind	4.0
Harlem Shakes Technicolor Health	4.5
Fever Ray Fever Ray	3.5
ASC The Astral Traveller	4.0
U2 No Line on the Horizon	2.5
The Antlers Hospice	5.0
Red Light Company Fine Fascination	4.0
0edit Neotokyo	4.5
The Lonely Island Incredibad	2.0
Fanfarlo Reservoir	4.0
Natural Snow Buildings Daughter of Darkness	4.5
I stared at myself in the mirror after listening to this twice in one day thinking, "that was incredibly enjoyable". I'm not going to lie, this is pretty much like embarking on "The Odyssey": it has a few not-so-good parts, but I think that's kind of the point. You can't treat it like a regular album, it deserves a less passive response. Overall, it's top notch if you have the stomach for it.
The Rifles Great Escape	3.5
White Lies To Lose My Life	3.5
Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion	2.0
Kettel Myam James - Part 2	4.0

2008
Fall Out Boy Folie a Deux	3.0
The Tumbled Sea Songs By The Tumbled Sea	4.0
The Killers Day & Age	3.5
Flying Lotus L.A. EP 2 X 3	2.5
Nickelback Dark Horse	1.0
Snow Patrol A Hundred Million Suns	2.5
The Rural Alberta Advantage Hometowns	4.0
Funeral for a Friend Memory and Humanity	2.5
Windy and Carl Songs For The Broken Hearted	3.0
Empire Of The Sun Walking On A Dream	2.0
Jack's Mannequin The Glass Passenger	2.5
Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season	2.0
STRFKR Starfucker	3.5
Kings of Leon Only By The Night	3.5
Okkervil River The Stand Ins	4.0
Benn Jordan Pale Blue Dot	4.0
Friendly Fires Friendly Fires	2.5
Bloc Party Intimacy	4.0
Hawthorne Heights Fragile Future	1.5
The Airborne Toxic Event The Airborne Toxic Event	3.5
The Faint Fasciinatiion	4.0
Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends	3.0
Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill	4.5
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes	3.0
Port O'Brien All We Could Do Was Sing	4.0
Jacaszek Treny	4.0
Sam Roberts Band Love at the End of the World	3.5
Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs	2.5
Cajun Dance Party This Colourful Life	3.5
Flight of the Conchords Flight of the Conchords	4.0
Frightened Rabbit The Midnight Organ Fight	3.5
M83 Saturdays=Youth	4.0
Ott Skylon	4.0
Frank Turner Love, Ire & Song	4.0
Panic! at the Disco Pretty. Odd.	2.5
Foals Antidotes	4.5
Alio Die Aura Seminalis	4.0
Owl City Maybe I'm Dreaming	2.5
Fuck Buttons Street Horrrsing	3.5
The Dodos Visiter	4.5
Elbow The Seldom Seen Kid	4.0
Son Lux At War With Walls And Mazes	4.0
Autistic Daughters Uneasy Flowers	4.0
Some flashes of absolute brilliance here, but a few areas leave a lot to be desired.
Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend	3.0
This Will Destroy You This Will Destroy You	3.5
The Flashbulb Soundtrack to a Vacant Life	4.5
Lightspeed Champion Falling Off The Lavender Bridge	3.0
Kettel Whisper Me Wishes	4.0
The Antlers New York Hospitals	3.0
The Antlers Cold War	4.0

2007
Enter Shikari The Zone	3.5
The Antlers In the Attic of the Universe	4.5
Burial Untrue	4.5
Jimmy Eat World Chase This Light	2.5
Funeral for a Friend The Great Wide Open	3.0
Radiohead In Rainbows	5.0
Band of Horses Cease to Begin	3.0
Sunset Rubdown Random Spirit Lover	3.5
MGMT Oracular Spectacular	4.5
Matt Pond PA Last Light	2.5
Stars In Our Bedroom After The War	3.0
Iron And Wine The Shepherd's Dog	4.0
Blue Foundation Life Of A Ghost	3.0
Motion City Soundtrack Even If It Kills Me	3.0
Between the Buried and Me Colors	3.5
Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I	4.0
Okkervil River The Stage Names	3.5
Bloc Party Another Weekend in the City	3.5
Mayday Parade A Lesson In Romantics	3.0
Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago	4.5
Editors An End Has A Start	3.5
Paramore Riot!	3.5
Biffy Clyro Puzzle	3.5
Mumm-Ra These Things Move In Threes	3.0
The Used Lies for the Liars	2.5
The National Boxer	4.0
Funeral for a Friend Tales Don't Tell Themselves	2.0
The Maccabees Colour It In	4.0
Maximo Park Our Earthly Pleasures	3.5
Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare	3.5
Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet	4.0
Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline	4.0
Madina Lake From Them, Through Us, To You	2.5
Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank	3.0
Enter Shikari Take to the Skies	4.0
Amon Tobin Foley Room	4.0
Eluvium Copia	4.5
Do Make Say Think You, You're a History in Rust	4.5
Fall Out Boy Infinity on High	2.5
Bloc Party A Weekend in the City	3.5
The Romanovs ...and the Moon Was Hungry...	5.0

2006
Carbon Based Lifeforms World Of Sleepers	4.5
Yppah You Are Beautiful At All Times	4.0
Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me	4.5
Clint Mansell, Kronos Quartet and Mogwai The Fountain	4.5
Owen At Home With Owen	4.0
Slow Dancing Society The Sound of Lights When Dim	3.5
Ben Frost Theory of Machines	3.5
My Chemical Romance The Black Parade	3.0
Squarepusher Hello Everything	4.0
Tim Hecker Harmony in Ultraviolet	4.5
Cold War Kids Robbers and Cowards	4.0
The Antlers Uprooted	4.0
The Decemberists The Crane Wife	4.5
Manchester Orchestra I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child	4.0
The Killers Sam's Town	3.5
This Providence This Providence	3.0
Mono / World's End Girlfriend Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain	4.5
BT This Binary Universe	4.5
Ratatat Classics	4.0
Silversun Pickups Carnavas	4.0
Muse Black Holes & Revelations	3.5
Lostprophets Liberation Transmission	2.5
Wisp Honor Beats	3.5
Helios Eingya	4.0
Hot Chip The Warning	3.0
Zero 7 The Garden	3.5
This Will Destroy You Young Mountain	4.0
Angels and Airwaves We Don't Need to Whisper	3.0
Burial Burial	4.0
Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium	1.5
Daedelus Denies the Day's Demise	3.5
Sunset Rubdown Shut Up I Am Dreaming	4.5
Taking Back Sunday Louder Now	2.5
AFX Chosen Lords	4.5
Snow Patrol Eyes Open	4.0
Band of Horses Everything All the Time	3.5
Tenhi Maaaet	4.0
Hawthorne Heights If Only You Were Lonely	2.5
Belong October Language	3.5
The Kooks Inside In/Inside Out	3.5
Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not	4.5
A Bunny's Caravan Draining Puddles, Retrieving Treasures	4.5
Natural Snow Buildings The Dance of the Moon and the Sun	5.0

2005
Bluetech Sines And Singularities	4.0
Wisp NRTHNDR	4.0
Deaf Center Pale Ravine	4.0
Solar Fields Leaving Home	4.5
Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene	4.0
Murcof Remembranza	4.0
Nickelback All the Right Reasons	1.5
Straylight Run Prepare To Be Wrong	2.5
Jimmy Eat World Stay on My Side Tonight	4.0
Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out	4.0
Sigur Ros Takk...	4.0
Death Cab for Cutie Plans	3.0
OK Go Oh No	3.0
Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie	3.0
Jack's Mannequin Everything in Transit	3.5
Paramore All We Know Is Falling	3.0
Sufjan Stevens Illinois	4.0
Monolake Polygon Cities	4.0
Foo Fighters In Your Honor	3.0
Funeral for a Friend Hours	3.5
Motion City Soundtrack Commit This to Memory	3.0
Coldplay X&Y	3.5
Secede Tryshasla	4.0
Gorillaz Demon Days	4.1
Venetian Snares Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett	4.5
Robert Rich Echo Of Small Things	4.5
AFX Analord 08	4.0
Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree	2.5
Piano Magic Disaffected	4.0
The National Alligator	4.5
Okkervil River Black Sheep Boy	4.0
The Decemberists Picaresque	4.0
The Flashbulb Kirlian Selections	4.0
Kaiser Chiefs Employment	3.5
3 Doors Down Seventeen Days	1.5
AFX Analord 04	3.5
Hidden In Plain View Life in Dreaming	2.5
Bloc Party Silent Alarm	4.0
Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning	3.5
Aphex Twin Analord 10	4.0
Secede Silent Flower Observers	4.0
At first I agreed with the general consensus that this album was a bit of a dud. It always remained at the top of my library with all the other unsorted stuff because the file-type wouldn't let me tuck it away somewhere else. It was read only or some shit like that - I don't know...rSo whenever I let a new album play too long, it would silently turn to this. I'd get really excited and think "oh god, this is good, what song is this?" before opening the music library and seeing "Spend" or "Digital Doves" or any track from this album, really. I never really paid it too much attention: just reset it on the other album and carried on.rAnd you know what, this final time I've come to terms with the fact this album is actually fucking good. It's lovely- just fucking god darn lovely.

2004
U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb	2.5
Owen I do perceive.	3.5
Elliott Smith From a Basement on the Hill	3.0
Jimmy Eat World Futures	5.0
Biffy Clyro Infinity Land	3.5
The Used In Love and Death	3.0
Green Day American Idiot	3.5
Arcade Fire Funeral	4.0
Fourcolor Air Curtain	3.5
The National Cherry Tree	3.5
The Killers Hot Fuss	4.0
My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge	2.5
Hawthorne Heights The Silence in Black and White	2.5
Keane Hopes & Fears	4.0
Bloc Party Bloc Party	2.5
edIT Crying Over Pros For No Reason	4.5
Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News	4.0
Snow Patrol Final Straw	3.0
Zero 7 When It Falls	4.0
Max Richter The Blue Notebooks	4.5
Air Talkie Walkie	3.5
Lostprophets Start Something	3.5
Wisp A Thousand Tomorrows	4.0
The Flashbulb Red Extensions of Me	3.5
The Dead Texan The Dead Texan	4.0

2003
M83 Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts	3.5
blink-182 Blink-182	2.5
Anathema A Natural Disaster	4.0
R.E.M. In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003	4.0
Something Corporate North	3.5
The Shins Chutes Too Narrow	3.5
The Unicorns Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?	3.5
The Format Interventions and Lullabies	3.5
Funeral for a Friend Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation	3.5
Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism	3.5
Muse Absolution	3.5
Million Dead A Song to Ruin	3.0
The National Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers	5.0
Okkervil River Down the River of Golden Dreams	5.0
Oh hell yes
Secede Bye Bye Gridlock Traffic	4.5
The Appleseed Cast Two Conversations	4.0
I Monster Neveroddoreven	4.5
Brand New Deja Entendu	4.0
Radiohead Hail to the Thief	4.5
Ulrich Schnauss A Strangely Isolated Place	4.0
William Basinski Melancholia	4.5
Something Corporate Songs for Silent Movies	3.0
Four Tet Rounds	4.0
Prefuse 73 One Word Extinguisher	4.0
William Basinski The Disintegration Loops IV	4.5
Motion City Soundtrack I Am the Movie	3.5
Opeth Damnation	4.0
William Basinski The Disintegration Loops III	5.0
Caribou Up in Flames (as Manitoba)	3.0
Carbon Based Lifeforms Hydroponic Garden	4.0
Evanescence Fallen	3.0
Shiina Ringo Kalk Samen Kuri no Hana	4.0
The Postal Service Give Up	3.0
The Microphones Mount Eerie	4.0
Yellowcard Ocean Avenue	2.5
William Basinski The Disintegration Loops II	4.0
Aglaia Three Organic Experiences	4.5
Natural Snow Buildings Ghost Folks	4.5

2002
Symphony X The Odyssey	4.0
Sigur Ros ( )	4.0
Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People	4.5
Porcupine Tree In Absentia	3.5
Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights	4.0
Secede Mommylove and Daddypride	4.0
My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love	4.0
Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way	3.0
Max Richter Memoryhouse	4.0
Something Corporate Leaving Through The Window	4.0
Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends	3.0
Boards of Canada Geogaddi	4.0
Okkervil River Don't Fall In Love With Everyone You See	4.5
Jets to Brazil Perfecting Loneliness	3.5
Bohren und der Club of Gore Black Earth	3.5
William Basinski The Disintegration Loops I	4.5

2001
Dntel Life is Full of Possibilities	3.5
Stars of the Lid The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid	4.5
Aphex Twin Drukqs	4.5
Lostprophets The Fake Sound Of Progress	3.5
Death Cab for Cutie The Photo Album	3.0
Anathema A Fine Day to Exit	3.5
Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot	4.0
Nickelback Silver Side Up	2.5
The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2	5.0
Radiohead Amnesiac	4.0
Sparklehorse It's a Wonderful Life	4.0
Taking Back Sunday Taking Back Sunday EP	3.5
Jimmy Eat World Bleed American	3.5
Muse Origin of Symmetry	4.0
Fennesz Endless Summer	4.0
Robert Rich Somnium	4.0
The Shins Oh, Inverted World	4.0
Zero 7 Simple Things	4.5
The Smiths The Very Best of The Smiths	3.5
Gorillaz Gorillaz	4.0
Ben Frost Music for Sad Children	4.5
Beefcake Drei	5.0

2000
The Avalanches Since I Left You	4.5
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven	4.5
Green Day Warning	2.5
Radiohead Kid A	4.5
Something Corporate Ready...Break	2.5
Coldplay Parachutes	4.0
Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica	4.0
Beefcake Coincidentia Oppositorum	4.0
Elliott Smith Figure 8	3.5
Death Cab for Cutie We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes	4.0

1999
The Dismemberment Plan Emergency & I	4.5
Mr. Scruff Keep It Unreal	4.0
Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication	4.0
Pavement Terror Twilight	4.0
Autechre EP7	4.5
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada	4.5
Blur 13	4.0
Jimmy Eat World Clarity	4.0

1998
Eels Electro-Shock Blues	4.5
Goo Goo Dolls Dizzy Up The Girl	3.5
Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children	5.0
Nickelback The State	2.0
Korn Follow the Leader	3.0
Death Cab for Cutie Something About Airplanes	3.5
Massive Attack Mezzanine	4.0
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea	4.0
Beefcake Polycontrale Contra Punkte	3.0

1997
Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West	4.5
Death Cab for Cutie You Can Play These Songs With Chords	4.0
Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ [Vinyl]	4.5
Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞	5.0
u-Ziq Lunatic Harness	4.0
Radiohead OK Computer	5.0
Blur Blur	3.5
Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space	4.0
Elliott Smith Either/Or	4.5
Mogwai Young Team	3.0

1996
The Future Sound of London Dead Cities	4.5
Failure Fantastic Planet	5.0
Black Tape for a Blue Girl Remnants of a Deeper Purity	4.5
Jimmy Eat World Static Prevails	3.0
Orbital In Sides	4.0
DJ Shadow Endtroducing.....	4.5
Squarepusher Feed Me Weird Things	3.5
Boards of Canada Boc Maxima	4.0

1995
Green Day Insomniac	4.0
Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory?	4.0
Radiohead The Bends	4.0
Fear Factory Demanufacture	3.0
Stars of the Lid Music For Nitrous Oxide	3.0
Flying Saucer Attack Further	4.0
Autechre Tri Repetae	4.0
Goldie Timeless	4.0

1994
Woob 1194	3.5
Portishead Dummy	4.5
The Future Sound of London Lifeforms	4.0
Blur Parklife	3.5
Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II	4.5
Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain	4.5
Green Day Dookie	3.0
Autechre Amber	4.0
Sunny Day Real Estate Diary	4.5

1993
u-Ziq Tango N' Vectif	4.0
The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream	4.5
Manic Street Preachers Gold Against The Soul	3.0

1992
Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine	4.0
R.E.M. Automatic for the People	4.5
Manic Street Preachers Generation Terrorists	3.5
Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92	5.0
Alio Die Under an Holy Ritual	4.0

1991
Green Day Kerplunk	2.0
My Bloody Valentine Loveless	4.5
Nirvana Nevermind	2.0
Massive Attack Blue Lines	4.0

1989
The Cure Disintegration	4.5

1988
Sonic Youth Daydream Nation	4.0
Harold Budd The White Arcades	3.5

1987
R.E.M. Document	3.5
U2 The Joshua Tree	4.0

1986
The Smiths The Queen Is Dead	5.0

1985
The Smiths Meat Is Murder	4.0
Mark Banning Journey to the Light	4.5

1984
The Smiths Hatful of Hollow	5.0
Arvo Part Tabula Rasa	4.5
The Smiths The Smiths	4.5

1983
New Order Blue Monday	5.0
the only song you will ever need for anything. About to go out? Blue Monday. Just broken up with the girl? Blue Monday. Want to be forced to the ground by the weight of sheer audio majesty? Blue Monday.

1980
Talking Heads Remain in Light	4.0
The Specials More Specials	4.0
Joy Division Closer	4.5

1979
Pink Floyd The Wall	4.0
The Specials Specials	4.5
Madness One Step Beyond	4.0
Joy Division Unknown Pleasures	4.0

1978
Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports	4.0

1976
Henryk Gorecki Symphony No. 3, Op. 36	4.5

1975
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here	4.5
Klaus Schulze Timewind	4.5
Tangerine Dream Rubycon	4.0
Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks	4.0

1974
Kraftwerk Autobahn	3.5

1973
Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon	3.5

1972
Klaus Schulze Irrlicht	4.5
Wendy Carlos Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange	4.5

1971
Cluster Cluster	3.5

1968
The Beatles The Beatles	4.0

1967
The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	4.5

1966
The Beatles Revolver	4.0

1963
Bob Dylan The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan	4.5

1959
Miles Davis Kind of Blue	4.5

1916
Gustav Holst The Planets, Op. 32	4.5

1801
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No14 C-sharp minor,Op.27No2	4.5

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