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2023
Atticus Chimps Space Exploitation	3.0
All Get Out All Get Out	2.5
In This Moment Godmode	2.5
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard The Silver Cord	4.0
Dreamwell In My Saddest Dreams, I Am Beside You	4.0
Knuckle Puck Losing What We Love	3.5
The Callous Daoboys God Smiles Upon the Callous Daoboys	4.0
The Menzingers Some of it Was True	2.5
Steven Wilson The Harmony Codex	3.0
pulses. It Wasn't Supposed To Be Like This	3.0
The Hirsch Effekt Urian	3.5
Harm's Way (USA-IL) Common Suffering	3.5
Staind Confessions Of The Fallen	2.0
KEN mode Void	4.0
Night Verses Every Sound Has a Color...: Part I	4.0
Kvelertak Endling	3.5
Polaris Fatalism	3.5
Slowdive Everything is Alive	4.0
Holding Absence The Noble Art of Self-Destruction	3.0
Hail the Sun Divine Inner Tension	4.0
Teenage Wrist Still Love	3.5
Queens of the Stone Age In Times New Roman...	3.0
Heavenward (USA) Pyrophonics	3.0
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of...	4.0
Foo Fighters But Here We Are	4.0
Incendiary Change The Way You Think About Pain	4.0
This is much better than the album art would have you think
Hot Mulligan Why Would I Watch	4.0
Overgrow This All Will End	3.0
Jessie Ware That! Feels Good!	4.0
Jesus Piece ...So Unknown	4.0
Covet catharsis	3.5
JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown Scaring the Hoes	3.5
100 Gecs 10,000 gecs	3.5
I'm just here for the ska-infused ballad on the topic of existential dread caused by dental pain
Periphery Periphery V: Djent is Not a Genre	3.5
Manchester Orchestra The Valley of Vision	4.0
Thanks! I Hate It Lovers Lane	3.5
Elvis Depressedly Who Owns The Graveyard?	3.5
The latest "final" album from Elvis Depressedly has a lot of good material, mixed in with a few too many tracks and the borderline unlistenable title track. What I wouldn't give to get an entire album in the style of On Earth.
Algiers Shook	3.0
Korine Tear	3.5
Screaming Females Desire Pathway	3.5
Caroline Polachek Desire, I Want To Turn Into You	3.5
Paramore This Is Why	3.5
Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance (Revisited)	5.0
Unironically Thrice's best post-hiatus release thus far. I think this could have done without the guest features, but it's otherwise a perfect reimagining of the original album. They succeeded at capturing the impeccable live sound that they've been using for the past 15 years. Seriously, every single track is noticeably improved over its original.
Katatonia Sky Void of Stars	3.5
Anti-Flag Lies They Tell Our Children	2.5
Fireworks Higher Lonely Power	3.0

2022
Elder (USA-MA) Innate Passage	3.5
Nickelback Get Rollin'	2.0
Just imagine if they actually leaned into the country rock tunes like High Time and Steel Still Rusts, that would least have the potential to be interesting. A couple early tracks have some decent riffs and the production is impeccable as always. A solid 2
He Is Legend Endless Hallway	4.0
L.S. Dunes Past Lives	3.5
Soul Blind Feel It All Around	3.5
Fleshwater We're Not Here To Be Loved	4.5
Taylor Swift Midnights	3.0
Carly Rae Jepsen The Loneliest Time	3.5
Birds in Row Gris Klein	4.0
Counterparts A Eulogy for Those Still Here	4.0
Slipknot The End, So Far	3.0
First track had me thinking this was actually Porcupine Tree. Would have been way more interesting
City of Caterpillar Mystic Sisters	3.5
KEN mode Null	4.0
Kelsea Ballerini SUBJECT TO CHANGE	3.5
I don't ask for much with pop country, just give me good hooks and fun lyrics. This totally delivers.
No Devotion No Oblivion	3.0
Mindforce New Lords	3.0
Holy Fawn Dimensional Bleed	3.5
The Callous Daoboys Celebrity Therapist	4.5
A lot of people with way higher music cred are going to tell you this metalcore wankery is better than the Daoboys' previous album of metalcore wankery, and those people would be
Stella Donnelly Flood	3.0
Silversun Pickups Physical Thrills	4.0
Flipturn Shadowglow	3.5
Norma Jean Deathrattle Sing for Me	4.0
Cheekface Too Much to Ask	3.5
You always wanna bomb the Middle East when we could be learning Portuguese or Korean
Dance Gavin Dance Jackpot Juicer	3.0
Pool Kids Pool Kids	4.5
"I DON'T THINK I HAVE THE ENERGY TO MAKE IT OUT OF MY BED TODAY it's not even a bed I've been sleeping on an air mattress with a hole for almost 3 months" I really hope this album gets the attention it deserves.
Anthony Green Boom. Done.	3.5
Ghais Guevara There Will Be No Super-Slave	3.0
Gospel MVDM: Magick Volumes Of Dark Madder	4.0
Viagra Boys Cave World	4.0
Ben Quad I'm Scared That's All There Is	3.5
Alexisonfire Otherness	4.0
Tenemos Explosivos Cortacalles	4.5
Through a single listen, I want to say this is their best work. It's on the longer side but it's more interesting than their previous albums.
Sasquatch Fever Fantasy	3.5
Cave In Heavy Pendulum	3.5
Be Well Hello Sun	3.0
Static Dress Rouge Carpet Disaster	4.5
Gospel The Loser	4.5
Moon Tooth Phototroph	3.5
Bloc Party Alpha Games	3.0
Traps is fantastic, outside of that it's very standard British indie rock. Not bad but not exceptionally memorable
Fontaines D.C. Skinty Fia	3.5
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Omnium Gatherum	4.0
Greyhaven This Bright and Beautiful World	4.0
Jack White Fear of the Dawn	3.5
Denzel Curry Melt My Eyez See Your Future	4.0
Placebo Never Let Me Go	3.5
SOUL GLO Diaspora Problems	4.5
Hot Water Music Feel the Void	3.0
The Mysterines Reeling	3.0
Bodega (USA-NY) Broken Equipment	3.5
Vein.fm This World Is Going to Ruin You	3.5
Beach House Once Twice Melody	3.0
Cult of Luna The Long Road North	3.5
Big Thief Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You	4.5
Amorphis Halo	3.5
Venom Prison Erebos	4.0
Rolo Tomassi Where Myth Becomes Memory	3.0
40 Watt Sun Perfect Light	3.0

2021
Silent Planet Iridescent	3.5
Limp Bizkit Still Sucks	3.0
Mastodon Hushed and Grim	3.5
Slow Crush Hush	3.5
Knocked Loose A Tear in the Fabric of Life	3.5
Trivium In the Court of the Dragon	4.0
Frontierer Oxidized	3.5
Thrice Horizons/East	4.0
CHVRCHES Screen Violence	3.0
Turnstile Glow On	5.0
We're gonna all look back at this album as one of the highlights of the decade
The Bronx The Bronx VI	3.0
Tropical Fuck Storm Deep States	4.0
Quicksand Distant Populations	4.0
Foxing Draw Down the Moon	3.0
Catbite Nice One	3.0
Against The Current Fever	3.5
Nightlife new low	4.0
Turnstile Turnstile Love Connection	4.0
Spellling The Turning Wheel	4.0
Pretty Sick Come Down	3.5
It's not reinventing the wheel but come on that average is way too low
Rise Against Nowhere Generation	3.0
Pixel Grip ARENA	4.0
Bala Maleza	3.5
Manchester Orchestra The Million Masks of God	4.5
Jeff Rosenstock SKA DREAM	4.0
Ghais Guevara BlackBolshevik	3.5
Harry Haywood is a true American hero and we should be teaching about him in schools
While She Sleeps Sleeps Society	2.5
The Armed Ultrapop	3.5
Holding Absence The Greatest Mistake of My Life	3.5
Genghis Tron Dream Weapon	3.0
underscores fishmonger	4.0
This probably isn't a 4 but I can't stop listening to it. Too many catchy, goofy, sincere moments that I keep coming back to.
Dvne Etemen Ænka	4.0
Pupil Slicer Mirrors	4.0
The Hyena Kill A Disconnect	4.0
Gotta be completely honest, I like this more than the new Chevelle album.
Chevelle NIRATIAS	3.5
Home Is Where I Became Birds	3.0
Arab Strap As Days Get Dark	4.0
Architects For Those That Wish to Exist	3.0
Rural Internet BREAKING UP	3.5
Jetty Bones Push Back	3.5
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard L. W.	3.0
Teenage Wrist Earth Is A Black Hole	3.5
Sarin (CAN) You Can’t Go Back	4.0
Pekin Bike Разминка	3.5
Viagra Boys Welfare Jazz	3.5

2020
Palm Reader Sleepless	4.0
Tired Lion Breakfast for Pathetics	3.5
Soft Kill Dead Kids R.I.P. City	3.0
Kali Uchis Sin Miedo (del Amor y Otros Demonios)	4.0
The Casket Lottery Short Songs For End Times	3.0
Ariana Grande positions	4.0
This feels like a return to the gorgeous polished production of Dangerous Woman, and I really think it suits Ariana best. Any of the folks who loved the experimentation in Sweetener and in parts of Thank U, Next will probably feel let down, but I'm in the opposite camp where those albums didn't stick with me quite as well.
Nothing The Great Dismal	4.5
Sevendust Blood and Stone	3.0
Loma Don't Shy Away	3.5
FEVER 333 Wrong Generation	2.5
Touche Amore Lament	4.0
Get Dead Dancing with the Curse	4.0
WE DON'T GOT NO GOD DAMN BAND. WE DON'T NEED NO FUCKIN' PRACTICE, RANDY. WE DON'T NEED A SHITTY ASS MANAGER NEITHER.
Born Ruffians SQUEEZE	3.5
The Menzingers From Exile	2.0
Maybe it's that I didn't love Hello Exile, but these versions are mostly miss for me. For stripped-down renditions, they feel overproduced and lifeless. There's way too much echo, the drums might as well be a drum machine, and the acoustic strumming on some tracks is aggressively high in the mix that it's grating.
Deftones Ohms	5.0
IDLES Ultra Mono	4.0
Svalbard When I Die, Will I Get Better?	3.5
Yours Truly Self Care	3.0
Movements No Good Left to Give	4.0
Marilyn Manson We Are Chaos	3.5
Doves (UK) The Universal Want	3.5
Exhalants Atonement	3.5
Mammal Hands Captured Spirits	4.0
All Them Witches Nothing as the Ideal	4.0
Cloudkicker Solitude	4.5
Korine The Night We Raise	4.0
Sevdaliza Shabrang	3.5
Necrot Mortal	3.5
Pain of Salvation Panther	3.0
Pig Destroyer The Octagonal Stairway	3.5
Narrow Head 12th House Rock	4.0
Be Well The Weight And The Cost	4.0
Maya Hawke Blush	3.5
Blues Pills Holy Moly!	2.5
Only Sibling Get Well Soon	3.5
Misery Signals Ultraviolet	3.5
Land Of Talk Indistinct Conversations	3.0
Taylor Swift Folklore	3.0
Protomartyr Ultimate Success Today	3.5
If I Die First My Poison Arms	3.0
Stumbled across this on Spotify and thought it was from 2004. It's unapologetic post-hardcore nostalgia.
Dream Wife So When You Gonna...	3.0
The Goin' Nowheres Curse Rotted Record	3.5
Hum Inlet	4.0
Trapt Shadow Work	1.0
Jessie Ware What's Your Pleasure?	4.5
Phoebe Bridgers Punisher	3.5
Disheveled Cuss Disheveled Cuss	3.0
Covet technicolor	3.5
Hinds The Prettiest Curse	3.5
END (USA-NJ) Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face	4.0
Run the Jewels RTJ4	4.5
Mrs. Piss Self-Surgery	4.0
Roly Porter Kistvaen	3.5
Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist Alfredo	3.0
Heads. PUSH	3.5
Caligula's Horse Rise Radiant	3.5
Jeff Rosenstock NO DREAM	3.5
Hayley Williams Petals for Armor	3.0
O'Brother You and I	3.5
Happyness Floatr	3.0
Boston Manor Glue	4.0
Elder (USA-MA) Omens	3.5
Trivium What the Dead Men Say	3.5
Dance Gavin Dance Afterburner	3.5
The Used Heartwork	3.0
Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters	3.5
The Smith Street Band Don't Waste Your Anger	3.5
Elvis Depressedly Depressedelica	4.0
Red (USA) Declaration	3.5
Violent Soho Everything Is A-OK	3.0
Charmer ivy	3.5
Telepathy Burn Embrace	4.0
I think I like this more than the last Russian Circles album
FACS Void Moments	3.0
Sorry 925	3.5
The Weeknd After Hours	4.0
Moaning Uneasy Laughter	3.0
Koyo (US) Painting Words Into Lines	3.5
The Bombpops Death in Venice Beach	3.0
orchards Lovecore	3.5
Dogleg Melee	3.5
The Garden Kiss My Super Bowl Ring	4.0
Silverstein A Beautiful Place to Drown	2.5
Hot Mulligan You'll Be Fine	4.0
Snarls Burst	4.0
Glacier Veins The World You Want to See	3.5
Void Of Sleep Metaphora	2.5
Polaris The Death of Me	3.5
Deniro Farrar Sole Food	3.0
Beach Bunny Honeymoon	3.5
Kvelertak Splid	3.5
Post Animal Forward Motion Godyssey	3.0
Tame Impala The Slow Rush	4.0
Loathe I Let It In And It Took Everything	4.5
Spanish Love Songs Brave Faces Everyone	4.5
I really liked Schmaltz and this just blows it out of the water. The writing, the hooks, the vocals, the production... everything is so much tighter and powerful. Yes, the lyrics are all thematically similar, and yes, the vocals do walk the line between shouting and lamenting. That's the point. For me, those have always been the band's strengths. With Brave Faces Everyone, they have added that compelling musical element that was lacking at times in Schmaltz. This thing is straight fire front to back.
Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats Unlocked	4.0
Wolf Parade Thin Mind	3.5
Caspian On Circles	3.5
Acid Mammoth Under Acid Hoof	3.5
Pinegrove Marigold	3.0
Floral Tattoo You Can Never Have a Long Enough Head Start	3.5

2019
Short Fictions Fates Worse Than Death	3.5
IDLES A Beautiful Thing: Idles Live At Le Bataclan	4.0
Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race	3.0
Hammock Silencia	3.5
Left Behind No One Goes To Heaven	4.0
Origami Angel Somewhere City	4.0
Greet Death New Hell	5.0
Cigarettes After Sex just got stoner rock pedalboards. Greet Death sound so massive when they want to be, but a lot of the album time is spent meandering through slower, quieter passages. This would be an easy 5 if they leaned into the heavier side like on Do You Feel Nothing. Edit: it's been over a year and I can't get this out of my head.
Stray from the Path Internal Atomics	3.5
Counterparts Nothing Left to Love	4.0
Frail Body A Brief Memoriam	4.0
Cigarettes After Sex Cry	3.5
I get that they've done basically the same song for two entire records now, but they do it so well that I don't really mind. The compositions are decent, the production is terrific, I personally love the vocals. I'd like to see a bit more experimentation, but I can't say I'm disappointed with this one overall.
Norma Jean All Hail	4.0
Sunn O))) Pyroclasts	2.5
Great Grandpa Four of Arrows	3.5
Equipment Madrigal	3.5
Kanye West Jesus Is King	2.0
Jimmy Eat World Surviving	4.0
From Indian Lakes Dimly Lit	3.5
Varials In Darkness	4.0
This as good as you all seem to think Knocked Loose is
BATS Alter Nature	3.5
The Menzingers Hello Exile	3.5
Lagwagon Railer	3.5
Bayside Interrobang	3.5
Ranges Babel	3.0
Mars Red Sky The Task Eternal	3.0
Exhorder Mourn the Southern Skies	4.0
Fitz and the Tantrums All The Feels	2.0
It's not without a few catchy moments but most of its 17 tracks are the same uninspired electronic-infused pop rock that you can find in a dozen other identical bands.
Tove Lo Sunshine Kitty	3.5
Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear	3.5
Charli XCX Charli	3.5
Microwave Death is a Warm Blanket	4.0
Starset Divisions	2.0
Tiny Moving Parts Breathe	3.5
Tool Fear Inoculum	3.0
Tropical Fuck Storm Braindrops	3.0
There's the same frayed wires guitar tone but so much of the explosive edge that I loved on A Laughing Death in Meatspace is absent here. They do get loud on occasion and it's awesome when they do, but there's also a lot of drawn-out quiet instrumental mush in there that doesn't feel like it's building into anything. At least the backup vocals are abundant. They're the best part about this album.
Seratones POWER	3.5
Queen Of Jeans If you’re not afraid, I’m not afraid	3.5
Redd Kross Beyond The Door	3.0
Knocked Loose A Different Shade of Blue	3.0
Frog Count Bateman	3.5
The Comet Is Coming Trust in the Lifeforce of Deep Mystery	3.5
Tried playing this for my girlfriend in the car, halfway for the first track she turns to me and asks "is this whole album just going to be one self-important horn?" Oh well. She likes Kanye and as far as self-important horns go...
Cloudkicker Unending	3.0
Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind	4.0
Marika Hackman Any Human Friend	3.5
The Harmaleighs She Won't Make Sense	4.0
Russian Circles Blood Year	3.5
clairo Immunity	3.0
Of Monsters and Men Fever Dream	3.5
Wolves at the Gate Eclipse	3.0
Flaw Vol IV: Because of the Brave	2.0
Banks III	3.0
Joliette Luz Devora	4.5
State Faults Clairvoyant	4.5
Russian Girlfriends In The Parlance of Our Times	4.0
Diabolic The Disconnect	4.0
The Callous Daoboys Die on Mars	3.5
SOUL GLO The Nigga In Me Is Me	3.5
Pelican Nighttime Stories	3.5
CHON CHON	3.5
Silversun Pickups Widow's Weeds	3.5
Cave In Final Transmission	3.5
Dinosaur Pile-Up Celebrity Mansions	3.0
Denzel Curry Zuu	4.0
Stuck Out Here Until We're Each Someone Else	4.5
100 Gecs 1000 gecs	3.5
Glass Bones Nesh	4.0
Parabelle The Rose Avail	3.5
On first listen this seems like improvement over The Kill Plan, but there's a few too many dull songs on this for me to get really excited.
Carly Rae Jepsen Dedicated	3.5
Tyler, the Creator IGOR	3.5
We Never Learned To Live The Sleepwalk Transmissions	4.0
Arch/Matheos Winter Ethereal	3.5
Cold Moon (USA-CA) Rising	4.0
Big Nothing Chris	3.0
Overgrow The Name We Share	3.5
Big Thief U.F.O.F.	4.0
Cosmonauts Star 69	3.0
Local Natives Violet Street	4.0
Helms Alee Noctiluca	4.0
Smoulder Times of Obscene Evil and Wild Daring	3.5
Ceres We Are A Team	3.5
Mortality Rate You Were the Gasoline	4.0
This is the best 10 minute stretch of metalcore I've heard in a long time. Gimme more
Kayak Jones You Swear It's Getting Better Every Day	3.5
Lizzo Cuz I Love You	4.5
Not sure how you make an album both intensely personal and incredibly fun but this manages to pull it off and it slaps all the way through
Dead To A Dying World Elegy	2.5
After the Burial Evergreen	3.5
Thrice Deeper Wells	2.5
I'm not sure what I should have expected with a group of songs that didn't make the cut on Thrice's worst album. Outside of Stumbling West, these are instantly forgettable tracks marred by awful production and even worse lyricism.
Numenorean Adore	4.0
In Her Own Words Steady Glow	3.5
The Menzingers No Penance/ Cemetery's Garden	3.5
Secret Band LP2	3.0
Periphery Periphery IV: Hail Stan	4.0
PUP Morbid Stuff	3.5
Weyes Blood Titanic Rising	3.5
Moon Tooth Crux	3.5
Laura Stevenson The Big Freeze	4.0
Brutus (BE) Nest	3.5
thoughtcrimes Tap Night	3.5
American Football American Football (LP3)	4.0
Stella Donnelly Beware of the Dogs	4.0
Buckcherry Warpaint	1.5
Better Off Reap What You Sow	3.5
Dear Seattle Don't Let Go	3.5
Copeland Blushing	3.5
Strange vocal effects, awkward transitions, always-stumbling drum beats, and a distracting hodgepodge of different instruments keep Blushing from ever feeling comfortable. It's powerful, memorable, but it's not exactly beautiful the way Copeland's other work is.
Ariana Grande Thank U, Next	3.5
Emarosa Peach Club	3.5
Xiu Xiu Girl with Basket of Fruit	3.5
Ithaca The Language of Injury	4.0
The Western Den A Light Left On	4.0
This is the chillest thing I've heard since Carrie & Lowell. The Western Den mixes carefully crafted instrumental passages and haunting melodies in their debut LP. Not sure if comparing this to Sufjan Stevens is accurate in anyway but it's having a similar impact on me. As someone who isn't drawn to slower acoustic jams, this is surprisingly captivating.
Astronoid Astronoid	3.5
Bring Me the Horizon Amo	2.0
Puppy The Goat	3.5
SeeYouSpaceCowboy Songs for the Firing Squad	4.0
Weezer The Teal Album	3.0
Together to the Stars An Oblivion Above	3.5
FEVER 333 Strength In Numb333rs	2.5
Pedro the Lion Phoenix	2.0
Sharon Van Etten Remind Me Tomorrow	3.5
Two People First Body	3.5
Claw The Thin Ice Colour Phase	4.0
While She Sleeps So What?	3.5
Storm{O} Finis Terrae	3.5

2018
Facing New York Dogtown	3.5
Frog Whatever We Probably Already Had It	3.5
Can't Swim This Too Won't Pass	3.5
Portrayal of Guilt Let Pain Be Your Guide	3.0
Architects Holy Hell	3.0
All Get Out No Bouquet	4.0
Silent Planet When the End Began	4.0
The Zeta Magia Infinita	4.0
Daughters You Won't Get What You Want	5.0
Antarctigo Vespucci Love in the Time of E-Mail	3.5
Haken Vector	3.5
Hands Like Houses -Anon.	2.5
Cursive Vitriola	3.5
mewithoutYou [Untitled]	4.0
Slow Crush Aurora	3.5
SUMAC Love In Shadow	3.5
Thrice Palms	3.0
Half of this is a generic mess, half of this is Thrice's usual brilliance. I'll never understand how Hold Up a Light got past everyone and onto this album. It might just be the worst song they've put out since Identity Crisis.
Holy Fawn Death Spells	3.5
Single Mothers Through A Wall	3.5
Boston Manor Welcome to the Neighbourhood	3.0
IDLES Joy as an Act of Resistance	4.0
KEN mode Loved	3.5
Black Mirrors Look Into The Black Mirror	3.5
Ariana Grande Sweetener	2.5
The two Max Martin songs (Everytime and No Tears Left to Cry) are fantastic. The rest are extremely hit or miss.
Foxing Nearer My God	4.5
Denzel Curry TA13OO	4.0
Mathew Lee Cothran My First Love Mends My Final Days	3.0
Birds in Row We Already Lost The World	4.0
Hopesfall Arbiter	3.5
Night Verses From the Gallery of Sleep	4.5
Cleopatrick the boys	3.5
Vein.fm Errorzone	3.5
Death Grips Year of the Snitch	3.0
Protomartyr Consolation	3.5
Gatherers We Are Alive Beyond Repair	4.5
Hoobastank Push Pull	2.5
CHVRCHES Love Is Dead	2.5
Parquet Courts Wide Awake	3.5
Beach House 7	3.5
Tropical Fuck Storm A Laughing Death in Meatspace	4.5
Kali Uchis Isolation	3.5
Palm Reader Braille	3.5
Spanish Love Songs Schmaltz	4.5
The Voidz Virtue	3.0
This is eclectic alright, but feels a lot more like listening to an indie rock mixtape of a dozen bands that don't really have anything unique to them.
Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour	3.5
Pekin Bike Не хочу забывать	3.5
The Republic of Wolves shrine	3.5
Hot Mulligan Pilot	4.0
Cute Without the E by Michelle Branch! No actually I kinda dig this. It's solid pop punk/emo but rthey wear their influences so hard that it's difficult to tell if the band even has the potential rto come into their own. Otherwise they're just feeding off my nostalgia.
Jack White Boarding House Reach	3.5
FEVER 333 Made An America	2.0
Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name	4.0
Teenage Wrist Chrome Neon Jesus	3.5
Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It	4.0
Slugdge Esoteric Malacology	4.0
Turnstile Time and Space	3.5
A.A.L. (Against All Logic) 2012-2017	3.0
Senses Fail If There Is Light, It Will Find You	2.5
Senses Fail made an album of 2004-era pop punk with pretty mixed results. There's a few catchy moments, a few embarrassingly bad cliches, and quite a bit of forgettable in between. I can't shake the feeling that I've heard this album before.
Endless Heights Vicious Pleasure	4.0
U.S. Girls In A Poem Unlimited	4.0
Marmozets Knowing What You Know Now	3.0
Pretty standard rock album by all accounts. The band showed on their debut that they're capable of more, but the riffs are still here. I just wish they experimented more.
Dead! The Golden Age of Not Even Trying	2.5
Tiny Moving Parts Swell	3.5
Night Verses Copper Wasp	4.0
Tiny Little Houses Idiot Proverbs	3.0
Prince and Beggar Surfacing at Zero	4.0

2017
Glassjaw Material Control	4.5
FJORT Couleur	4.0
Greta Van Fleet From the Fires	2.0
Taylor Swift Reputation	2.5
Reputation is much longer and much less interesting than I was hoping for. That cover art is fantastic though.
Quicksand Interiors	3.5
Bob Dylan The Bootleg Series Vol.13: Trouble No More	3.5
10 Years (How to Live) As Ghosts	3.5
The Used The Canyon	4.0
I the Mighty Where the Mind Wants to Go / Where You Let it Go	3.0
St. Vincent Masseduction	3.5
Iron Chic You Can't Stay Here	3.5
blis. No One Loves You	3.5
Protomartyr Relatives in Descent	4.5
Propagandhi Victory Lap	4.0
Circa Survive The Amulet	4.5
Chelsea Wolfe Hiss Spun	4.0
Counterparts You're Not You Anymore	4.0
Foo Fighters Concrete and Gold	3.0
Caligula's Horse In Contact	4.0
Arcane Roots Melancholia Hymns	4.0
Nothing More The Stories We Tell Ourselves	2.5
The National Sleep Well Beast	4.0
Can't help but feel like this is a slight misstep. The National needed to play around with their sound, but Sleep Well Beast feels like a transition rather than a completion. The songs with more electronic elements don't grab me at all, but there's still a few classic tracks on here that make it worthwhile listen regardless.
Death From Above 1979 Outrage! Is Now	4.0
Mogwai Every Country's Sun	3.5
Leprous Malina	3.5
Gang of Youths Go Farther in Lightness	4.5
The Hirsch Effekt Eskapist	4.5
Brand New Science Fiction	4.0
So it's a good album but Jesse Lacey is also a creepy guy so...
Dyne Side Immigrant	4.5
Well, this is wicked cool. The Glassjaw and Fugazi comparisons are unavoidable, but there's more going on here. The production bounces between lo-fi hardcore, standard metalcore, and newer techno sounds to provide for a lot of variety, but more memorable is the vocal performance. I'm a sucker for the passionate, barely-on-key vocals in old post-hardcore and emo. Dyne Side's Emmanuel Costa-Maya nails it.
Less Art Strangled Light	4.0
Manchester Orchestra A Black Mile to the Surface	4.0
Tenemos Explosivos Victoria	3.5
Sasquatch Maneuvers	4.0
Color Film Living Arrangements	3.0
I was really excited for this but I don't think it quite lives up to its singles. "I Need a Parasite" is easily the worst song I've ever heard from Daryl.
Lorde Melodrama	4.0
Apt title but a great album. It's much more ambitious and personal than Pure Heroine, and while it doesn't always work, it's impressive when it does.
Nickelback Feed the Machine	3.5
Half of the tracks are well within Nickelback's normal mediocrity, but the other half are frankly solid rock songs that warrant a bit of praise. This is definitely the best album they've put out in a decade.
Fleet Foxes Crack-Up	3.5
SZA Ctrl	4.0
Cigarettes After Sex Cigarettes After Sex	4.0
Big Thief Capacity	3.5
Elder (USA-MA) Reflections of a Floating World	4.0
The Lulls in Traffic Rabbit in the Snare	4.0
Paramore After Laughter	3.5
Cafe Tacuba Jei Beibi	3.0
Oxbow Thin Black Duke	3.5
The Afghan Whigs In Spades	3.5
Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell Live	5.0
While She Sleeps You Are We	3.5
It's catchy and fun but doesn't stand out quite like it should. Certain parts can get a bit annoying like the "hooOoOo" in the chorus of Silence Speaks, an otherwise great song. I preferred the darker tone of Brainwashed. You Are We gets there a couple times, but not nearly as often or as powerfully.
Kendrick Lamar DAMN.	3.0
Joey Badass ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$	3.5
Ulver The Assassination of Julius Caesar	4.0
Mastodon Emperor of Sand	3.5
Depeche Mode Spirit	3.0
Without Waves Lunar	3.5
Mothership High Strangeness	3.5
IDLES Brutalism	4.5
Mathew Lee Cothran Judas Hung Himself in America	3.0
Eisley I'm Only Dreaming	4.0
Meat Wave The Incessant	3.5
The Menzingers After the Party	4.5
Less Than Jake Sound the Alarm	3.0
Big Wreck Grace Street	3.0
dangerkids Blacklist_	3.0
Greywind Afterthoughts	3.5
Vientre Las Huellas Que Dejamos	4.0

2016
Deniro Farrar Red Book, Vol. 1	3.5
Childish Gambino "Awaken, My Love!"	3.5
The Weeknd Starboy	3.0
Makari Elegies	3.5
dne These Semi Feelings, They Are Everywhere	3.0
Bruno Mars 24K Magic	3.5
24K Magic is a fun and superficial experience with great funky music and some fairly cringeworthy lyrics. "You need to activate your sexy," and, "Fellas grab your ladies if your lady fine," probably aren't the greatest lines ever written
Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct	3.5
A Tribe Called Quest We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service	4.0
Parabelle The Kill Plan	3.5
This is Parabelle's most predictable album to date. They do what they do rather well, and it's fairly catchy. I wish it were a bit more innovative and varied from song to song but the release of the rerecorded A Summit Borderline & A Drop in the Ocean songs make up for it.
Birds Of Tokyo BRACE	3.5
Avenged Sevenfold The Stage	3.5
Jimmy Eat World Integrity Blues	4.0
Planes Mistaken for Stars Prey	3.5
Jeff Rosenstock WORRY.	3.5
Sparrows Let the Silence Stay Where It Was	3.5
Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition	4.0
Banks The Altar	4.0
Regina Spektor Remember Us To Life	3.5
Neurosis Fires Within Fires	3.5
Beach Slang A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings	3.0
Every Time I Die Low Teens	3.5
Too Close to Touch Haven't Been Myself	4.0
Norma Jean Polar Similar	4.0
Joliette Atáxico	3.5
Flaw Divided We Fall	3.0
This was a trip straight back to nu metal territory. Flaw doesn't bring anything new with their reunion album, but it was fun to listen to regardless. The moments when they revisit the Through the Eyes style (Fed Up, Bleed Red, Heal) stand above the rest.
Russian Circles Guidance	4.0
Trade Wind You Make Everything Disappear	4.0
Emarosa 131	4.0
Chevelle The North Corridor	4.0
Night Verses Into the Vanishing Light	4.0
Heavy Hearts Bliss	3.5
Straightforward but consistently good radio rock. The final track, Rust, is absolutely worth checking out
letlive. If I'm the Devil...	3.0
SUMAC What One Becomes	4.0
Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere	4.0
I think some of Dustin's lyrics here might lag behind the band's music, but the music is sublime. Thrice have done something really special here by coming back from a hiatus to deliver possibly their best musical album to date. They kept talking about their equipment and search for a great guitar tone in interviews, and it's easy to see what they're talking about. They absolutely nail it there.
Architects All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us	3.5
The Hotelier Goodness	3.5
The Zeta L'Antiteoria del Todo	3.5
Saosin Along the Shadow	3.5
Ariana Grande Dangerous Woman	4.0
Car Seat Headrest Teens of Denial	3.5
Nothing Tired of Tomorrow	4.5
Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool	4.5
Death Grips Bottomless Pit	4.0
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Nonagon Infinity	4.0
Deftones Gore	3.0
Gore is a bit of a disappointment when I was expecting greatness from Deftones. It's not a bad album, but it really fails to stand out in any meaningful way.
Filter Crazy Eyes	3.5
Frightened Rabbit Painting of a Panic Attack	3.5
Weezer The White Album	3.0
O'Brother Endless Light	5.0
Tanner's vocals have gotten a lot better and the music as powerful as its ever been. This is exceptional. I thought the singles were good but they might be the weakest songs on the album.
The Drones Feelin Kinda Free	4.0
3 Doors Down Us and the Night	1.0
Denzel Curry Imperial	4.0
Asking Alexandria The Black	3.0
Hands Like Houses Dissonants	4.0
The Jezabels Synthia	3.5
The Black Queen Fever Daydream	4.0
Basement Promise Everything	3.5
What year is this? I don't care I like this. Pretty standard emo grunge rock but that's okay
David Bowie Blackstar	4.5

2015
Baroness Purple	4.0
Pusha T King Push – Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude	3.5
Intronaut The Direction of Last Things	4.0
Beach Slang The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel	3.5
Even if there's nothing new and I feel like I've heard it all before, this is still a fun listen
Caligula's Horse Bloom	4.0
Pentimento I, No Longer	3.5
Arcane Roots Heaven and Earth	4.0
State Champs Around the World and Back	3.0
Fightstar Behind the Devil's Back	3.5
Cult Leader Lightless Walk	4.0
Mayday Parade Black Lines	3.5
Deafheaven New Bermuda	4.0
Clutch Psychic Warfare	4.0
Bay Faction Bay Faction	4.0
I think this is the first emo album in a while to actually have an emotional impact on me. Well done
No Devotion Permanence	3.0
Those last four tracks are something special. Expect this to get some repeated listens in the coming months
CHVRCHES Every Open Eye	3.5
Matthew Good Chaotic Neutral	3.5
It's all great but nothing particularly stands out to me, sadly. It could be the production. This is one of those albums that feels just a bit overproduced. I think Matthew Good is at his best when imperfections, especially in his voice, are noticeable. I personally love that and it seems to be lacking on Chaotic Neutral.
Native Tongue Driftwood Head	4.0
I don't care for comparing anything to Brand New. It's cliche. This is actually really gone its own and deserves attention for that.
Lin-Manuel Miranda Hamilton - Original Broadway Cast	3.0
The Front Bottoms Back On Top	3.0
Atreyu Long Live	3.5
Meg Myers Sorry	3.5
Bring Me the Horizon That's the Spirit	3.0
This isn't good and I can't stop listening to it. So come rain on my paraaaaaaade
The Wonder Years No Closer to Heaven	3.5
Five Finger Death Punch Got Your Six	1.0
My rating is a half fist pump... but since Sputnik doesn't accept that, awful it is
The Dear Hunter Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise	4.0
Alexisonfire Live at Copps	1.5
Alexisonfire is incredible in the studio, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to translate at all in this live performance. I'm surprised the band signed off on this when the mix is so clearly atrocious. Can't tell if it was mixed poorly live or in postproduction, but either way the band and their fans deserve a better farewell
Caspian Dust and Disquiet	3.5
Soilwork The Ride Majestic	3.5
Foals What Went Down	3.0
The Weeknd Beauty Behind the Madness	3.5
Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion	3.5
Ghost (SWE) Meliora	3.0
Stray from the Path Subliminal Criminals	3.5
Chelsea Wolfe Abyss	4.0
Saint Asonia Saint Asonia	2.0
It's like One X and 14 Shades of Grey had a child. A couple good tracks but outside of the nostalgia, there's nothing of substance here.
Knuckle Puck Copacetic	4.0
i hate sex Circle Thinking	3.5
Counterparts Tragedy Will Find Us	4.0
We Lost the Sea Departure Songs	3.5
Highly Suspect Mister Asylum	3.5
Tame Impala Currents	4.5
Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic	3.0
Breaking Benjamin Dark Before Dawn	3.0
High on Fire Luminiferous	4.0
mewithoutYou Pale Horses	4.0
The Ongoing Concept Handmade	4.0
Sorority Noise Joy, Departed	3.0
Tremonti Cauterize	3.5
Muse Drones	3.0
Vennart The Demon Joke	3.0
Silverstein I Am Alive In Everything I Touch	3.5
The Story So Far The Story So Far	3.5
Overall a more mature outing for The Story So Far. The production lets the album down quite a bit though. The instruments feel muddier than ever, whereas the production on What You Don't See really made it stand out. "Heavy Gloom" is going to stay a jam though
Twenty One Pilots Blurryface	4.0
I wasn't expecting this to be so good. It has all the energy that an alternative pop album should have.
Cheerleader (USA) The Sunshine of Your Youth	3.0
Elvis Depressedly New Alhambra	5.0
There's no such thing as a rock and roll, bless my reptilian soul
Turnover Peripheral Vision	3.5
Tenemos Explosivos La Virgen de los Mataderos	4.5
Dayseeker Origin	3.0
Slightly above average metalcore. The clean vocals are solid
Dustin Kensrue Carry the Fire	2.5
Maybe I'm just stuck in the past because this doesn't even compare to anything Thrice has done. Boring production, boring songwriting. It sounds like Switchfoot, Matchbox Twenty, Three Doors Down, or any of those other bands that continue to put out absurdly generic music
10 Years From Birth to Burial	3.0
Say Lou Lou Lucid Dreaming	3.5
Alabama Shakes Sound & Color	3.5
Dance Gavin Dance Instant Gratification	3.0
Death Cab for Cutie Kintsugi	3.0
Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell	4.0
Strung Out Transmission.Alpha.Delta	3.5
Too Close to Touch Nerve Endings	4.0
Earl Sweatshirt I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside	3.0
While She Sleeps Brainwashed	4.5
I put this album to the side for a while but when I finally listened to it... wow. It's well-crafted and gets heavy and quiet in all the right places.
San Cisco Gracetown	3.0
Death Grips The Powers That B - Part II: Jenny Death	4.0
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly	4.5
Ghost Bath Moonlover	4.0
"AARRRRGGH URRRRGGGH" this is one hell of a quotable album
Steven Wilson Hand. Cannot. Erase.	3.5
Jeff Rosenstock We Cool?	4.0
Red (USA) Of Beauty and Rage	4.0
Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear	4.0
Bob Dylan Shadows in the Night	3.0
Periphery Juggernaut: Omega	3.5
Periphery Juggernaut: Alpha	3.5
Papa Roach F.E.A.R.	2.5
Mediocre nu metal music combined with popular overdone metalcore production. Still has some catchy moments
Cloakroom Further Out	3.5
Fall Out Boy American Beauty/American Psycho	2.5
Do you like Fall Out Boy? Their early work was a little too 'pop punk' for my taste, but when Folie a Deux came rout in '08, I think they really came into their own - both commercially and artistically. The whole album has a rclear, crisp sound, and a fresh varnish of pop culture idealism that really gives the songs a big boost. They've rbeen compared to My Chemical Romance, but I think Fall Out Boy has a far more comprehensive, satirical rsense of humor. In '15, Fall Out Boy released this, American Beauty/American Psycho, their most raccomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Centuries", a song so catchy most people rprobably don't listen to the lyrics - but they should! Because it's not just about the pleasures of being famous, rand the importance of trends, it's also a personal statement about the band itself! Hey Futures!r
The Sidekicks Runners in the Nerved World	4.0
Marilyn Manson The Pale Emperor	3.5

2014
Charli XCX Sucker	3.0
Glass Bones Loner	4.0
"Are we so spoiled as human beings that we can actually be 'bored' with something as beautiful and extraordinary as life? Maybe we aren't pushing ourselves hard enough to change this fact. Because, I'm not bored, I'm busy. Oh what i would give to be 'bored'"
Copeland Ixora	5.0
Circa Survive Descensus	3.5
Nickelback No Fixed Address	3.0
Kings of radio rock doing what they've always done: adapting current pop trends to the easiest and most digestible format possible. At least they decided to take a couple risks, and they are easily the best songs on the album. Check out "Got Me Runnin Round" for proof
In This Moment Black Widow	4.0
In This Moment finally gets the "pop metal" formula right. It's sure to offend a lot purists, but I see that as a strength, not a weakness.
Foo Fighters Sonic Highways	2.5
Happy Diving Big World	4.0
The Xcerts There Is Only You	4.5
PVRIS White Noise	3.5
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2	4.0
Black Veil Brides Black Veil Brides	3.0
Pianos Become the Teeth Keep You	4.0
Taylor Swift 1989	3.0
1989 reminds me of the most painful fact that Taylor Swift is 5 years older than me. If only this were named 1994
Gates (USA-NJ) Bloom and Breathe	4.0
Pompeii Loom	3.0
xSPONGEXCOREx Don't Mess With TexXxas	3.5
Finch Back to Oblivion	3.0
Just like in Elder Scrolls IV, Finch produces an Oblivion that seems edgy and chaotic, but becomes boring and repetitive before its end.
Nonpoint The Return	3.5
Nonpoint doing basically what they've always done - and that's great
Beach Slang Cheap Thrills On A Dead End Street	3.5
Catfish and the Bottlemen The Balcony	3.5
Emarosa Versus	3.5
Tiny Moving Parts Pleasant Living	3.5
Death From Above 1979 The Physical World	4.0
xSPONGEXCOREx How Tough Are Yah?	5.0
Royal Blood Royal Blood	3.5
Ariana Grande My Everything	3.5
Sophie Lemonade/Hard	2.5
Theory of a Deadman Savages	2.0
The songwriting is pretty bad, but this is one of the most overproduced albums I've ever heard. Every single song has some unnecessary effects on the vocals to make Connolly sound even more ridiculous than he normally does
Within the Ruins Phenomena	3.5
Rise Against The Black Market	2.5
Rise Against has been at it for a while and they sound exactly the same. Their complete refusal to take risks makes for a frustrating listen. It's not a bad album, but there's simply nothing there to differentiate it from everything else they've done
Big Wreck Ghosts	4.0
Everything about this album at first glance bores me. It doesn't have an exciting sound. There's no angst or edge. It's not confessional or deeply personal. And in spite of all of that, it's incredibly well crafted and a very pleasurable listen.
United Nations The Next Four Years	4.0
Islander Violence and Destruction	4.0
This clicked from the first time I heard it. Writing is top notch and the little nod to Thrice in "Kingdom" is the kind appeal I can't resist. This sort of post-hardcore seems to have largely gone out of style, and it's nice to find a band still continuing it
Starset Transmissions	3.5
Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown	3.5
Brontide Artery	4.0
Nothing More Nothing More	3.5
Even though they're relatively young in the alt rock scene, they WILL be one of the biggest bands in five years' time
Beartooth Disgusting	3.0
Jack White Lazaretto	3.5
Mingle Harde Mongol Horde	4.0
Deniro Farrar Rebirth	4.0
Bane Don't Wait Up	3.5
Closure in Moscow Pink Lemonade	5.0
Beach Slang Who Would Ever Want Anything So Broken?	3.5
Lord Mantis Death Mask	4.0
The Menzingers Rented World	4.0
Like I expected, this album grew on me a lot. Short but sweet running time. A well-rounded album in general.
Planet Of Zeus Vigilante	4.0
Molecular Corporation Ambient Sputnik and The Dancing Government	1.5
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen (oh who are we kidding, Sputnik is a boys' club), to the audiobook companion of the self-help bestseller, Plebbing for Dummies.
VIS No Waves	3.5
There's lots of potential shown in this debut EP. Songwriting is great, but the overall sound is just a little too generic in my opinion. "Static in the Air" is cool
Todd Terje It's Album Time	3.5
Lacuna Coil Broken Crown Halo	2.5
Chevelle La Gárgola	4.5
My go-to riff album from 2014 so far. I liked HOTTB but this feels like a stronger effort in every aspect
Various Artists (Punk) Punk Goes 90s Vol. 2	3.0
Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion	4.0
La Dispute Rooms of the House	3.5
They kept the powerful storytelling of Wildlife but lost the edgy sound. Oh well. It's still pretty good
Minority Of One GLORY DAYS	3.5
Tycho Awake	3.0
Nick Murphy (fka Chet Faker) Built on Glass	3.5
Royal Blood Out of the Black	4.0
This one EP is better than anything The Black Keys have done in years
Elder Brother Heavy Head	2.5
Saw these guys live. Absolutely nothing to stand out. The guitars and vocals sound okay on the recording, but they're still so dull
The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There	5.0
Took a few listens but there is a lot of emotional depth here and the music is woven together to match it perfectly
Finch What It Is to Burn X	4.0
Lionize Jetpack Soundtrack	4.0
Rains From the Ashes	2.0
Sloppy and uninspired follow up record. I'm really disappointed with it since I know the band is capable of more
Woods of Desolation As the Stars	3.0
Sun Kil Moon Benji	2.0
Pretty sure I never want to listen to this album again. Once was enough
Helms Alee Sleepwalking Sailors	3.0
The Zeta No Somos Marineros / Zeta split	3.0
Icarus the Owl Icarus the Owl	3.5
Marissa Nadler July	4.0
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything	3.0
Not sure what the deal with this album is. There are a couple of good parts but they don't justify the monotony of the rest of the album
Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues	4.0
Kevin Matisyn Alice Ofelia Kira	3.0
Sounds good so far. I might end up reviewing it, if I get through some of the other reviews that I've been meaning to do.
Highs HIGHS EP	3.5

2013
Childish Gambino Because the Internet	3.5
There Will Be Fireworks The Dark, Dark Bright	4.0
Five Finger Death Punch The Wrong Side of Heaven and The Righteous Side of Hell, Volume 2	1.0
I'd say these guys are the Nickelback of nu metal, but that wouldn't be fair to Nickelback
Death Grips Government Plates	3.5
Foxing The Albatross	4.0
Nickelback The Best of Nickelback Volume 1	1.0
A lot of these songs are nostalgic for me, but most of Nickelback's better songs are the ones that never became hits.rI also find it strange that this is a part 1 with 19 songs on it. 19 songs is about 25% of the band's discography.
Russian Circles Memorial	4.0
Policewomanwithfangs. policewomanwithfangs.	4.0
A lot calmer than In the Arms of Providence or The Cambiata, but it really feels right.
Protest the Hero Volition	3.5
Danny Brown Old	4.0
Alter Bridge Fortress	3.5
Dustin Kensrue The Water and the Blood	2.0
As nice as it is to hear Dustin's voice, that's all there is on this record. This doesn't feel like real music.
Lorde Pure Heroine	4.0
Casper Hinterland	3.5
Touche Amore Is Survived By	4.0
Avicii True	1.5
Cult of Luna Vertikal II	4.0
Deaf Havana Old Souls	4.0
Hans Zimmer Rush OST	4.0
Balance and Composure The Things We Think We're Missing	4.0
Violent Soho Hungry Ghost	4.0
My Ticket Home Strangers Only	4.0
Modern Life Is War Fever Hunting	3.5
Joliette Principia	5.0
Avenged Sevenfold Hail to the King	2.0
Blue October Sway	3.0
Another good album from Blue October. Some catchy songs, some emotional songs, Ryan Delahoussaye bringing everything together... pretty much everything you'd expect from the band. My only criticisms are that the album lacks any particular focus, and that Justin Furstenfeld's lyrics seem unusually vague.
O'Brother Disillusion	4.0
Cage Grind Noir Pilots	4.0
I don't normally enjoying grindcore, but this is very well done. I expected it to be a joke about the glorious Nic Cage, but the music is surprisingly great
Roanoke Beautiful People	4.0
Norma Jean Wrongdoers	3.5
Five Finger Death Punch The Wrong Side of Heaven and The Righteous Side of Hell, Volume 1	1.0
This what the skit at the end of Deftones' Pink Cellphone sounds like when made into a full album. Inaudible bass, uninspired drumming, mediocre chugging and riffing on guitar, and some of the most pretentious of vocals on the planet. As for the lyrics: more vague than Breaking Benjamin, more cliche than Nickelback.
Fight Or Flight A Life By Design?	2.0
Painfully average. Given the people creating the album, I had some doubts but was also optimistic. Unfortunately, every doubt was realized. It's yet another mediocre mainstream rock album, with only a few interesting moments that give it a 2.
Misery Signals Absent Light	4.0
This is how you do heavy vocals. This is how you metal
Counterparts The Difference Between Hell and Home	4.0
Pill Friends Blessed Suffering	3.0
Puig Destroyer Puig Destroyer EP	3.5
Baseball, in my humble opinion, is one of the most boring sports. I don't understand the attraction. The (ex?)-drummer from my favorite band, Riley Breckenridge, seems to enjoy it though. He manages to make baseball interesting on this EP.rProtip: don't bunt
letlive. The Blackest Beautiful	4.5
Weak production but still some of the best post-hardcore of the year
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels	4.5
Night Verses Lift Your Existence	5.0
The World Is a Beautiful Place... Whenever, If Ever	4.0
Falling in Reverse Fashionably Late	1.0
Deafheaven Sunbather	4.0
Coma Cinema Posthumous Release	4.0
Jimmy Eat World Damage	3.5
Filter The Sun Comes Out Tonight	3.5
Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork	2.5
Homme's vocals are boring. The guitars are boring. The drums are boring. The whole band is pretty boring.
Alice in Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here	3.5
Considering how repetitive and generic the grunge genre gets, Alice in Chains reaches as far as they can into the murky abyss and pulls out an album that combines the dirtiest of guitar tones with the most polished production available. Not groundbreaking, but quite enjoyable.
Baths Obsidian	4.0
Thirty Seconds to Mars Love Lust Faith + Dreams	2.0
Have Mercy (Indie) The Earth Pushed Back	4.0
Pet Symmetry Two Songs About Cars. Two Songs With Long Titles.	3.5
The National Trouble Will Find Me	4.5
Daft Punk Random Access Memories	3.0
Pop Evil Onyx	2.5
The Wonder Years The Greatest Generation	4.0
Bad Rabbits American Love	3.0
American Love is fun, pleasant, and upbeat. Not necessarily immediately catchy, but that makes it feel more mature than it is at first glance.
The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer	3.5
War Charge New World Justice	2.5
Fitz and the Tantrums More Than Just A Dream	3.5
This deserves a higher average. Fitz and the Tantrums is one of the best indie pop bands out there right now. While this is a step down from their debut album, it's still loaded with hits.
Streetlight Manifesto The Hands That Thieve	4.0
Toh Kay The Hand That Thieves	3.0
The Neighbourhood I Love You.	3.0
Ghostface Killah Twelve Reasons to Die	4.0
Elvis Depressedly Holo Pleasures	4.0
The Dear Hunter Migrant	3.5
Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal	3.5
Nails Abandon All Life	3.0
Parabelle Air	3.5
Good stuff, though some of the songs don't translate as well on acoustic as others.
Senses Fail Renacer	3.5
The Story So Far What You Don't See	4.5
Kvelertak Meir	4.0
Clutch Earth Rocker	4.5
What's this about limits? Sorry, I don't know none.
Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience	3.5
Sound City Players Sound City: Real To Reel	2.5
Off With Their Heads Home	4.0
Soilwork The Living Infinite	3.5
The Drones I See Seaweed	3.5
Joliette Voltean/Están Felices	4.0
RVIVR The Beauty Between	3.5
Sadistik Flowers for My Father	3.5
Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun	4.0
HRVRD From the Bird's Cage	4.0
Bullet for My Valentine Temper Temper	2.0
Arc & Stones Arc & Stones	3.5
Red (USA) Release the Panic	2.5
Silverstein This Is How the Wind Shifts	3.5
Pomegranate Tiger Entities	4.0
Ex Friends Twisted Around	3.0
The Black Heart Rebellion Har Nevo	4.0
Seth Glier Things I Should Let You Know	3.5
Tiny Moving Parts This Couch Is Long & Full of Friendship	4.0
Astral Display Prometheus	3.0
Lisa Miskovsky Umea	3.5

2012
Circle Takes the Square Decompositions: Volume Number One	3.5
Lifehouse Almería	1.0
This one is a dud if I've ever heard one. Absolutely nothing of value to be found
Hinder Welcome to the Freakshow	1.5
San Cisco San Cisco	3.0
Deftones Koi No Yokan	4.5
This is the slickest Deftones album to date. Flows beautifully from start to finish
Pentimento Pentimento	4.0
Issues Black Diamonds	3.0
All That Remains A War You Cannot Win	2.0
Thrice Anthology	4.0
Pretty much all you can hope for in a live album. The performance feels distant at times, especially with the early songs. Under a Killing Moon and Of Dust and Nations are highlights
Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 1	4.0
Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city	4.0
Anberlin Vital	3.0
July Talk July Talk	4.0
Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!	3.5
Ellie Goulding Halcyon	3.5
Troubled Coast Awake and Empty	4.0
Feels a bit monotonous at a couple points, but a couple dynamic points show Troubled Coast's great potential here. "Missoula/Big Sur" is the stand out track for me
Nonpoint Nonpoint	3.5
Elvis Depressedly Hotter Sadness	4.0
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis The Heist	2.5
Papa Roach The Connection	2.0
Three Days Grace Transit of Venus	2.5
Interesting album, although it falls victim of a common issue in this genre, where the promise of sincere and emotional lyrics just reveal how hollow and emotionless they are. Thank god for that opening track, Sign of the Times, which is the only track worth mentioning.
Muse The 2nd Law	4.0
Bash this all you want, this is a fun album. It's not stellar musically or lyrically, but it's crazy and a mess and just a hint of m-m-m-m-ma-mad-ness.
Green Day ¡UNO!	1.5
Title Fight Floral Green	3.5
Abel (NY) Make It Right	3.5
Imagine Dragons Night Visions	2.5
The Hirsch Effekt Holon: Anamnesis	4.5
The Chariot One Wing	4.0
Swans The Seer	3.5
Parabelle Your Starry Eyes Will Never Make Us Even	4.0
In This Moment Blood	1.5
Laughably bad lyrics and pop-metal in sound. Seeing them live just made it worse, as all Maria is capable live is screaming half decently and lap dancing for the audience. Waste of time
Yellowcard Southern Air	4.0
If you're going to listen to pop punk, Yellowcard is essential
While She Sleeps This Is the Six	4.0
Digital Summer Breaking Point	3.0
10 Years Minus the Machine	3.5
The Gaslight Anthem Handwritten	4.0
Forever Came Calling Contender	4.0
Tremonti All I Was	3.5
All I was expecting was a fun hard rock album with some excellent guitar work, and I was very satisfied. Great drums too. Wait did I just make an unintentional pun? Fuuuuu...
Saving Abel Bringing Down the Giant	3.0
Frank Ocean channel ORANGE	4.0
Pierce the Veil Collide with the Sky	4.0
Track Fighter Revenge	3.0
Hail the Sun Elephantitis	4.0
Linkin Park Living Things	2.0
The Smashing Pumpkins Oceania	3.0
Rush Clockwork Angels	3.5
Thank You Scientist Maps of Non-Existent Places	4.0
A Silent Film Sand & Snow	4.0
Japandroids Celebration Rock	3.5
Here's a band that deserves the hype and recognition that The Black Keys get
Marissa Nadler The Sister	4.0
Regina Spektor What We Saw from the Cheap Seats	3.5
mewithoutYou Ten Stories	4.0
Daytrader Twelve Years	4.0
Silversun Pickups Neck of the Woods	3.5
Hurt The Crux	3.0
I wanted this album to be better than it really is... half of it is just so forgettable and the other half, while good, doesn't quite compare to either Vol. 1 or 2.
Jack White Blunderbuss	4.0
Jack White being Jack White with a little more piano than expected. The guitar work and songwriting, as always, shines like a candle in a blackout (not sure if that really means anything).
Deuce Nine Lives	2.0
Embarrassingly fun to listen to at some points, though ultimately still quite embarrassing.
Death Grips The Money Store	4.5
Evans Blue Graveyard of Empires	3.0
Train California 37	1.5
It's just... ew... I can't stand music like this, if that's what you want to call it. Maybe it will be a hit on the radio, but the vocal melodies aren't infectious; they're just annoying.
Halestorm The Strange Case Of...	3.5
Tenemos Explosivos Derrumbe y Celebracion	4.0
Shinedown Amaryllis	2.0
Janus Nox Aeris	4.0
Hello Kitty Suicide Club ^_^	1.0
The Menzingers On the Impossible Past	5.0
Frau Potz lehnt dankend ab	4.0
Young Guns Bones	2.5
Aranda Stop the World	3.0
Oedipus Vicious Little Smile	4.0
Cloud Nothings Attack on Memory	4.0
Нервы (Nervy) Всё что вокруг	3.0

2011
Glass Bones Seasons	4.0
The Black Keys El Camino	2.5
I don't understand why The Black Keys are so highly praised. Their music is fairly bland, and they sell themselves at duo but can't play half their songs without two extra players.rEvery live video of them I've seen is the same way. Mediocre energy, mediocre music. There's better music in the genre, so I'm not sure why people are settling for this stuff.
Chevelle Hats Off To The Bull	4.0
James Durbin Memories of a Beautiful Disaster	2.5
Nickelback Here and Now	2.0
City Lights In It To Win It	3.5
O'Brother Garden Window	5.0
O'brother is a growing musical behemoth, and this album is a perfect example of that.
Russian Circles Empros	4.0
Counterparts The Current Will Carry Us	4.5
This is how you do screaming vocals. Counterparts puts their best foot forward and it's a great listen
Coldplay Mylo Xyloto	3.0
Five Finger Death Punch American Capitalist	1.5
Barely metal music, total pop lyrics. But hey, it's catchy sometimes.
A Lot Like Birds Conversation Piece	3.5
La Dispute Wildlife	5.0
blink-182 Neighborhoods	3.0
All Get Out The Season	3.5
'Me and My Lovers' stands out as great track. Everyone who says this sounds like Manchester Orchestra is right. Looking forward to seeing what they do in the future
Kasabian Velociraptor!	3.5
Staind Staind	3.5
IAMDYNAMITE Supermegafantastic	3.0
Thrice Major/Minor	4.5
Probably the best example I've ever seen of straight up brilliant songwriting. No two verses sound alike, and Dustin's voice and lyrics have only gotten better. Seeing these songs live made me realize just how good this album is. Thrice is just one of those bands that can work their instruments to create a unique and magical sound that only a select few bands are capable of.
Corelia Nostalgia	4.5
Blue October Any Man in America	4.5
Lyrically hit and miss, musically here and there, and emotionally overwhelming
That Handsome Devil The Heart Goes to Heaven, The Head Goes to Hell	4.0
Hell or Highwater Begin Again	2.0
I really wanted to like this, but I just couldn't. The songs seem extremely overproduced and devoid of any real emotion. It's very dry and the only thing keeping it from being 3 Doors Down is Brandon Saller's voice, which seems like the only focus this album ends up with. Even "Find the Time to Breathe", which Saller made a demo of and released on Youtube, ends up being a boring mainstream rock song.
3 Doors Down Time of My Life	1.5
Theory of a Deadman The Truth Is...	1.5
Colbie Caillat All of You	3.0
Single Mothers Single Mothers	3.5
Crossfade We All Bleed	4.0
Very dark and emotional (with the exception of a song or two). The instrumentation is great (especially the drumming on Lay Me Down). Personally, I just love the sound of the album. It's so dark and different from every other rock band. There are couple radio-friendly songs, but the chord progressions and lyrics touch a darker place that most bands can't reach.rThe range of the album is also great. There's some heavy metallic songs as well as some slower acoustic songs. I wish they could've used fewer electronic elements and brought in some screaming vocals, but for a band that was off for half a decade, it's definitely more than I ever expected.
The Story So Far Under Soil and Dirt	4.5
The Dear Hunter Indigo	4.0
The Dear Hunter Blue	3.0
The Dear Hunter Green	4.0
The Dear Hunter Orange	3.5
The Dear Hunter Red	3.5
Black Veil Brides Set the World on Fire	1.5
Black Veil Brides, I dare you to stop wearing absurd amounts of makeup and re-writing glam metal songs that have already been done.
Egypt Central White Rabbit	2.0
If you're listening to album with a song titled "Kick Ass", you're gonna have a bad time.rMotley Crue would be able to get off with something like this, but Egypt Central can't and doesn't. There are a couple good songs, but overall, the album is disappointing.
Manchester Orchestra Simple Math	4.5
I don't think I've been enamored with Manchester Orchestra, but boy is this a solid indie rock album with memorable songs front to back.
Hugh Laurie Let Them Talk	3.5
Sixx:A.M. This Is Gonna Hurt	2.5
There's a couple songs I'm going to skip and there's a couple songs that I can't stop listening to... seems to be the case with most mainstream rock albums these days.rSure Feels Right, Deadlihood, and Help Is On the Way are my favorites, and Skin is beautiful
Death Grips Exmilitary	4.0
YUH............ IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES GUILLOTIIIIIIINE
Thursday No Devolucion	5.0
It took me a couple of listens to realize how good this album is. It's perfect for sleeping to, but not in a bad way. Every song is captivating and ends up producing a visual image in my mind that I only experience when listening to bands like Tool and Radiohead.
Foo Fighters Wasting Light	3.5
Joliette Convertirse En Agua	4.0
Who would have expected one of the best hardcore acts in recent years to be a Spanish-singing band from Mexico?
Crash of Rhinos Distal	4.0
Art Of Dying Vices and Virtues	2.5
Green Day Awesome As Fuck	2.0
Rise Against Endgame	2.0
Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights	4.0
Trust Company Dreaming In Black and White	3.5
Rev Theory Justice	2.5
Glassjaw Coloring Book	4.5
As a opposed to Glassjaw first two LP's, which were all about rhythm and melody and energy and such, Coloring Book is all about texture.
Adele 21	3.5
Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles)	4.5
5 amazing songs, start to finish. This is Glassjaw at their most innovative and rhythmic moments

2010
Hinder All American Nightmare	2.0
Regina Spektor Live in London	4.5
Regina Spektor is both quirky and original, two traits most songwriters don't have. She's also a phenomenal singer. Her live show is not to be missed.
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy	4.0
Parabelle Reassembling the Icons	4.0
Halestorm Live in Philly 2010	3.5
Their live show is great. Arejay is one of the flashiest drummers I've seen, so fun to watch
Jon Lajoie I Kill People	3.5
Alter Bridge AB III	3.0
Senses Fail The Fire	4.0
Trapt No Apologies	3.0
I like a couple of the songs on here, especially the title track, but I can't even get through the rest of the songs.
All That Remains ...For We Are Many	2.5
Chiodos Illuminaudio	3.0
Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It...	3.0
The Script Science & Faith	3.0
Santana Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics	2.5
The Gracious Few The Gracious Few	3.5
Linkin Park A Thousand Suns	4.0
Stone Sour Audio Secrecy	3.0
Only a couple of songs I liked here. Most were just too forgettable
Iron Chic Not Like This	4.0
Papa Roach Time For Annihilation	3.0
10 Years Feeding the Wolves	4.0
A bit more radio friendly than usual from 10 Years, but that's not necessarily bad. After another listen or two, Feeding the Wolves really grew on me.
Buckcherry All Night Long	2.0
Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare	2.5
There are only a couple moments in Nightmare where I really enjoy listening. The rest feels like a chore. God Hates Us and Natural Born Killer are good
Black Veil Brides We Stitch These Wounds	2.0
In This Moment A Star-Crossed Wasteland	3.0
United Nations Never Mind the Bombings, Here's Your Six Figures	3.5
Hour Cast Dystopia	2.5
Framing Hanley A Promise to Burn	2.5
The Black Keys Brothers	3.0
Danko Jones Below The Belt	3.5
The National High Violet	4.0
Deftones Diamond Eyes	4.5
Bullet for My Valentine Fever	3.0
Melissa Etheridge Fearless Love	3.5
Anarbor The Words You Don't Swallow	3.5
The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt	4.0
letlive. Fake History	4.5
The Menzingers Chamberlain Waits	4.5
Titus Andronicus The Monitor	4.5
Lifehouse Smoke and Mirrors	3.0
Look What I Did Atlas Drugged	4.5
Fitz and the Tantrums Pickin' Up the Pieces	4.0

2009
The Republic of Wolves His Old Branches	4.0
Thirty Seconds to Mars This Is War	2.5
John Mayer Battle Studies	2.0
Atreyu Congregation of the Damned	2.5
Russian Circles Geneva	4.0
Thrice Beggars	5.0
Matthew Good Vancouver	4.0
Mumford and Sons Sigh No More	3.5
I imagine listening to this album on a sunny winter day with a light breeze would be very nice.
Breaking Benjamin Dear Agony	3.0
Three Days Grace Life Starts Now	2.5
Brand New Daisy	4.5
Five Finger Death Punch War Is The Answer	2.5
Chevelle Sci-Fi Crimes	4.5
BATS Red In Tooth and Claw	4.0
Skillet Awake	3.0
The xx xx	3.0
Joan Red Side Effects Of You	4.0
RIP Anthony Basurto, and thank you for this great album
Cavo Bright Nights Dark Days	2.5
The Dead Weather Horehound	4.0
Jack White's playing drums and singing here and there. By default, you're gonna have a good time listening.
Daughtry Leave This Town	2.0
Parabelle A Summit Borderline/A Drop Oceanic	5.0
Excessively ambitious and lamentably produced are two ways to accurately describe Parabelle's initial double album, but the songwriting somehow shines through because of it. "Blur" deserves a separate mention for being Kevin Matisyn's outright best song.
Alexisonfire Old Crows / Young Cardinals	3.5
Evans Blue Evans Blue	3.0
brokeNCYDE I'm Not a Fan, but the Kids Like It!	1.0
The Black Eyed Peas The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies)	1.0
Karnivool Sound Awake	4.5
Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail	3.5
Marilyn Manson The High End of Low	2.5
The Paper Chase Someday This Could All Be Yours Vol.1	4.5
Green Day 21st Century Breakdown	2.0
Closure in Moscow First Temple	4.5
O'Brother The Death of Day	4.0
Halestorm Halestorm	3.0
Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing	4.5
The Veer Against the Grain	2.5
Silversun Pickups Swoon	4.0
Hurt Goodbye To The Machine	3.5
Snowing Fuck Your Emotional Bullshit	4.0
Rains Stories	3.5
Papa Roach Metamorphosis	2.5
Blue October Approaching Normal	3.0
The Antlers Hospice	4.0
Thursday Common Existence	4.5
Jon Lajoie You Want Some Of This?	3.5
Track Fighter Band Aids for Bullet Wounds	3.5

2008
Fall Out Boy Folie a Deux	3.0
Thrice Live At The House Of Blues	5.0
Linkin Park Road to Revolution	4.0
Nickelback Dark Horse	2.0
La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair	4.5
Hinder Take It to the Limit	2.0
Thursday/Envy Thursday/Envy	3.0
In:Aviate 1985	3.5
Facing New York Get Hot	4.5
This is what indie music is supposed to be. What happened to these guys?
Copeland You Are My Sunshine	4.5
Rise Against Appeal to Reason	3.5
Senses Fail Life Is Not a Waiting Room	3.5
Pompeii Nothing Happens for a Reason	4.5
Buckcherry Black Butterfly	2.0
Adebisi Shank This is the Album	3.5
Hollywood Undead Swan Songs	1.5
Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation	3.5
Slipknot All Hope Is Gone	3.0
Three Days Grace Live at the Palace (DVD)	3.0
The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound	3.5
The Gaslight Anthem has a big rock sound that is so familiar to everyone, yet makes it contemporary. Well done
Trapt Only Through the Pain	3.0
Radio rock that I'll openly admit to liking... Black Rose is amazing.
Misery Signals Controller	4.0
Shinedown The Sound of Madness	3.0
I don't really like Shinedown, but there are some good songs on here if you can skip the radio hits. Call Me is excellent.
Rev Theory Light It Up	2.5
There are some catchy songs here, but all around, it's a fairly hollow album. Album art is pretty cool though
10 Years Division	4.0
Aranda Aranda	3.5
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV	3.5
Frightened Rabbit The Midnight Organ Fight	4.5
Theory of a Deadman Scars and Souvenirs	2.0
The Black Keys Attack & Release	3.0
Muse HAARP	3.5
Saving Abel Saving Abel	3.0
Hurt The Re-Consumation	3.5
Simple Plan Simple Plan	2.5
Bullet for My Valentine Scream Aim Fire	2.5
Mass of the Fermenting Dregs MASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGS	4.0

2007
Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between	4.5
Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold	3.0
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II	5.0
Jimmy Eat World Chase This Light	3.5
Radiohead In Rainbows	5.0
Hurt Vol. II	4.0
Melissa Etheridge The Awakening	3.5
Between the Buried and Me Colors	4.5
Chamillionaire Ultimate Victory	4.5
AJJ People Who Can Eat People are the Luckiest People	3.5
Atreyu Lead Sails Paper Anchor	3.0
I think this is the first metal album I ever got into, so I'm still attached to some of the songs. I don't care what people say, "Blow" is fun to listen to, especially if you don't like the band. For Lead Sails Paper Anchors, it really comes down to what you're expecting. This is basically a pop-punk meets nu-metal album. The pitch correction can get very annoying though.
Sixx:A.M. Heroin Diaries Soundtrack	4.0
Very memorable and emotional album. It has a little of everything: acoustic ballads, intense rock songs, some radio hits, and commentary throughout. The lyrics fit extremely well and blow most contemporary rock bands out of the water in that category. Van Nuys never gets old.
Minus the Bear Planet of Ice	4.0
Matthew Good Hospital Music	4.5
Matthew Good? More like Matthew Superb! I wrote a review, check it out. Beware, puns
Evans Blue The Pursuit Begins When This Portrayal of Life Ends	4.5
This isn't an exceptional album in any objective way, but I'm attached to it regardless. Kevin Matisyn's vocals rand lyrics are something special, and this album is him and Evans Blue's musicians at their best.
The Menzingers A Lesson in the Abuse of Information Technology	4.0
Mayday Parade A Lesson In Romantics	4.0
Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago	4.0
A very passionate album, which is odd given how mellow all of the music is. I haven't bothered to pay much attention to the lyrics, but the music definitely a pleasure to listen to
The White Stripes Icky Thump	3.5
Paramore Riot!	3.0
Circa Survive On Letting Go	4.0
The National Boxer	4.5
Maroon 5 It Won't Be Soon Before Long	2.5
Framing Hanley The Moment	3.5
Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain	3.5
Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight	2.5
Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet	4.0
Good Charlotte Good Morning Revival	2.5
Anberlin Cities	3.5
Lifehouse Who We Are	3.0

2006
Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me	5.0
Would love to be able to put this on without having to skip Untitled each time
Daughtry Daughtry	2.0
Staind The Singles: 1996-2006	3.0
A good collection of Staind hits. Epiphany and Price to Play always get me. The bonus tracks are great too. The Sober cover is excellent, Aaron matches Maynard's emotion very well.
Deftones Saturday Night Wrist	3.0
My Chemical Romance The Black Parade	3.5
Skillet Comatose	3.0
Manchester Orchestra I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child	4.5
Tycho Past is Prologue	3.5
O'Brother In Comparison To Me	3.0
Saosin Saosin	4.0
Papa Roach The Paramour Sessions	3.0
Alexisonfire Crisis	4.0
Boys Like Girls Boys Like Girls	3.0
The Cambiata Into the Night	4.5
Shards of Pornography so damn good. Chris Moulton has the best vocals and it's a shame the band never got big like Glassjaw or Letlive
Breaking Benjamin Phobia	3.5
Daughters Hell Songs	3.5
Stone Sour Come What(ever) May	3.5
Silversun Pickups Carnavas	3.5
All That Remains The Fall of Ideals	4.0
Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness	3.5
Three Days Grace One-X	2.0
Remember TDG's self-titled released had a song called Overrated? It's an excellent example of foreshadowing.
Trophy Scars Alphabet Alphabets	4.0
Dangers Anger	4.5
Russian Circles Enter	4.0
Tool 10,000 Days	4.0
Thursday A City By the Light Divided	3.5
Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere	3.5
Buckcherry Fifteen	2.5
Thrice Red Sky	4.0
Blue October Foiled	4.0
Beautiful album, though maybe a little self-indulgent. Justin's vocals are phenomenal
Hurt Vol. 1	4.5
Anti-Flag For Blood and Empire	3.5
Katatonia The Great Cold Distance	4.0
Evans Blue The Melody and the Energetic Nature of Volume	4.5
This was my favorite album for a good while. Why? Because it captures the emotions of falling in and out of love and moving on in such a way that you can remember that first love as if you were there. There are so many different melodies in this song, and each member shines in his own. Kevin Matisyn's unique voice is the most earnest I've ever heard in music. A Girl and a Cross, Eclipsed, and Dark that Follows are perfect.
Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not	3.5
If These Trees Could Talk If These Trees Could Talk	3.5

2005
Green Day Bullet In A Bible	2.0
Slipknot 9.0: Live	4.5
This album helped me get through my senior essay in high school. The album is mostly texture over anything musical, but it definitely succeeds in that aspect.
Melissa Etheridge Greatest Hits: The Road Less Traveled	3.5
Thrice Vheissu	5.0
This is Thrice's equivalent of Radiohead's Kid A.
Nickelback All the Right Reasons	3.0
Bullet for My Valentine The Poison	3.0
Hinder Extreme Behavior	2.5
Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out	3.5
Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists	2.5
The Fray How to Save a Life	2.0
Cave In Perfect Pitch Black	3.5
Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie	3.5
Protest the Hero Kezia	4.5
Death Cab for Cutie Plans	3.5
Minus the Bear Menos El Oso	3.0
10 Years The Autumn Effect	3.5
Silverstein Discovering the Waterfront	3.5
Bullet for My Valentine Hand of Blood	3.5
One Less Reason Everydaylife	3.5
Funeral for a Friend Hours	3.5
Finch Say Hello to Sunshine	4.0
Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World	4.5
Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree	4.0
Porcupine Tree Deadwing	4.5
The Receiving End of Sirens Between the Heart and the Synapse	3.5
Circa Survive Juturna	3.5
ISIS Live 3	3.5
The National Alligator	4.0
Mudvayne Lost and Found	3.0
Rob Thomas ...Something to Be	3.0
Clutch Robot Hive/Exodus	4.0
Thrice If We Could Only See Us Now	3.5
Copeland In Motion	4.5
Look What I Did Minuteman For The Moment	4.5
In The Arms of Providence Lost My Voicebox in a Seaside Town	4.5
Armor For Sleep What To Do When You Are Dead	4.0
Blue October Argue With A Tree...	4.5
Karnivool Themata	4.5
Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning	3.5
Cursed II	4.0
Modern Life Is War Witness	4.0

2004
Kasabian Kasabian	3.0
Hopesfall A Types	4.0
Everything I've ever wanted in an alternative rock album.
ISIS Panopticon	4.0
A Thorn For Every Heart Things Aren't So Beautiful Now	4.0
Jimmy Eat World Futures	4.5
The Blood Brothers Crimes	3.5
Converge You Fail Me	4.0
Chevelle This Type Of Thinking (Could Do Us In)	4.0
Senses Fail Let It Enfold You	4.5
Papa Roach Getting Away With Murder	3.0
Red Animal War Black Phantom Crusades	4.0
Atomship The Crash of `47	4.0
Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture	3.5
Strata Strata	3.5
Breaking Benjamin We Are Not Alone	4.0
From First to Last Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count	4.0
The Killers Hot Fuss	3.5
My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge	4.0
Alexisonfire Watch Out!	4.5
Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses	3.5
mclusky The Difference Between Me and You Is That I'm Not on Fire	3.5
Clutch Blast Tyrant	4.5
36 Crazyfists A Snow Capped Romance	3.5
Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand	3.0
Matthew Good White Light Rock & Roll Review	3.5
Kelly Clarkson Breakaway	3.5
Crossfade Crossfade	3.5

2003
blink-182 Blink-182	4.0
Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place	3.0
Funeral for a Friend Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation	4.0
Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism	4.0
Nickelback The Long Road	3.0
Thursday War All the Time	4.5
A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step	4.0
John Mayer Heavier Things	1.5
Yawn. Not really interested in John Mayer's vague attempt at tapping into deep emotions. The music doesn't move me and his lyrics make my eyes roll more often than not.
Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance	5.0
I found Thrice through the title track. Impressive songwriting, impressive instrumentation, very impressive vocals and lyrics. Love the guitar tone on this album, it has a real unique flavor
Three Days Grace Three Days Grace	3.5
Blue October History for Sale	4.0
Brand New Deja Entendu	4.5
This is a 3.5 at best if you take the lyrics out of the equation. But the lyrics are where most of the album is at. Both youthful and deep in thought
Linkin Park Meteora	4.0
Matthew Good Avalanche	4.5
Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb	4.5
Yellowcard Ocean Avenue	4.0
Boysetsfire Tomorrow Come Today	3.5

2002
3 Doors Down Away from the Sun	2.0
Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates	3.5
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O.	4.0
Alexisonfire Alexisonfire	4.5
Hopesfall The Satellite Years	4.0
Chevelle Wonder What's Next	4.0
Porcupine Tree In Absentia	4.5
No Knife Riot For Romance!	3.5
Stone Sour Stone Sour	4.0
Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf	3.0
Glassjaw Worship and Tribute	5.0
Carissa's Wierd Songs About Leaving	4.5
Trust Company The Lonely Position of Neutral	3.5
Maroon 5 Songs About Jane	3.5
Papa Roach lovehatetragedy	3.5
The Apex Theory Topsy-Turvy	4.0
mclusky McLusky Do Dallas	4.0
Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends	4.5
Finch What It Is to Burn	4.0
Pop punk and post-hardcore working together. Nothing here is really new, but it's just such a fun and upbeat album to listen to, with surprising depth in a couple of the songs (Project Mayhem for instance).
dredg El Cielo	4.0
Breaking Benjamin Saturate	4.5
Thrice The Illusion of Safety	4.5
Ra From One	3.5
ISIS Oceanic	4.5
This was the first post-metal album I really got into, but it made me want to get in a band and just jam to this kind of sound for hours.
Pretty Girls Make Graves Good Health	4.5
Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade	3.5
Hot Water Music Caution	4.0

2001
Thursday Full Collapse	4.5
Brand New Your Favorite Weapon	4.0
What can I say? This is one the most fun albums ever. "Is that what you call getaway? Tell me what you got away with / cause I've seen more spine in jellyfish / I've seen more guts in eleven year old kids"
The Strokes Is This It	3.5
Nickelback Silver Side Up	4.0
I'm convinced the back half of this album is the best thing in Nickelback's discography. Sure beats a lot of the music that it inspired
Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die...	4.5
Converge Jane Doe	4.0
Slipknot Iowa	3.5
Jimmy Eat World Bleed American	4.0
Hot Water Music A Flight and a Crash	3.5
Further Seems Forever The Moon Is Down	3.0
Staind Break The Cycle	3.5
Opeth Blackwater Park	4.5
Flaw Through the Eyes	4.0
This is the best nu metal that I've ever heard, and although that isn't saying much, it really is good.

2000
Alice in Chains Live	3.5
The Beatles 1	4.0
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory	4.0
Radiohead Kid A	5.0
Gets better with every listen. From the first 5 notes of Everything in Its Right Place to the final sweeps in Motion Picture Soundtrack, an emotional trek takes place over slowly devolving wasteland imagined through music that only Radiohead could produce.
At the Drive-In Relationship of Command	5.0
The Juliana Theory Emotion is Dead	3.5
Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence	4.5
I like the first 5 tracks the best. The rest of the album is good, but them first 5 tracks are unbeatable
The Weakerthans Left and Leaving	3.0
Deftones White Pony	4.5
Cursive Domestica	3.5
A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms	3.5
Papa Roach Infest	3.5
Thrice Identity Crisis	3.5
Thrice's first full album is a fun listen even if it doesn't get remotely close to the greatness of the rest of their career. Phoenix Ignition and T&C will always be jams
3 Doors Down The Better Life	2.0
Explosions in the Sky How Strange, Innocence	4.0
Blue October Consent to Treatment	4.0
Cave In Jupiter	4.0
Boysetsfire After The Eulogy	3.5
Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun	4.0
The Blood Brothers This Adultery Is Ripe	3.5

1999
Matthew Good Band Beautiful Midnight	4.5
Opeth Still Life	3.5
American Football American Football	4.0
Sevendust Home	3.5
Slipknot Slipknot	4.0
Anathema Judgement	4.0
Muse Showbiz	4.0
No Knife Fire In The City Of Automatons	3.5
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada	4.0
Choking Victim No Gods, No Managers	4.5
AFI All Hallow's E.P.	4.0
Jimmy Eat World Clarity	3.5
Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles	4.5

1998
Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come	3.5
Blue October The Answers	3.5
Marilyn Manson Mechanical Animals	4.0
Sunny Day Real Estate How It Feels To Be Something On	3.5
Nickelback The State	4.0
Sad what happened to the band after Silver Side Up, but I love this album. Unlike every Nickelback album that followed, this does get better the more you listen to it.
Soundtrack (Disney) Mulan	4.0
Massive Attack Mezzanine	4.5
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea	4.0
Unwound Challenge For a Civilized Society	4.0
Thrice First Impressions	3.0
The Black Heart Procession 1	4.0

1997
Deftones Around the Fur	4.5
Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞	4.0
Radiohead OK Computer	5.0
Elliott Smith Either/Or	4.5

1996
Slipknot Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.	3.0
Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar	3.5
Tool Ænima	4.0
Nickelback Curb	2.5
Neurosis Through Silver in Blood	4.5
Unwound Repetition	4.0

1995
Deftones Adrenaline	3.5
Elliott Smith Elliott Smith	4.5
Hum You'd Prefer an Astronaut	4.0
Tricky Maxinquaye	2.5
Fugazi Red Medicine	3.5

1994
Bush Sixteen Stone	3.5
Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York	4.0
Jeff Buckley Grace	4.0
Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger	1.5
This will be my go-to black metal rating. I don't get it. The awful production is aurally painful and it's absolutely devoid of musical value. Can't tell if it's of any lyrical value because the the vocals are unintelligible.
Nas Illmatic	3.5
Green Day Dookie	3.0
Sunny Day Real Estate Diary	4.0

1993
Tool Undertow	4.0

1992
Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine	4.5
ABBA ABBA Gold	3.5
Stone Temple Pilots Core	3.5
Tori Amos Little Earthquakes	4.5
I like this album, but there's something more than that to it. It's infectious, it's emotional, and it's so well-done that I have to question why this album doesn't get more attention. So many powerful lyrics throughout the album, matched by Tori Amos' incredible voice and a decent band behind her, make this quite the album.

1991
My Bloody Valentine Loveless	4.0
Nirvana Nevermind	3.0
The Jesus Lizard Goat	4.0

1990
Heroes del Silencio Senderos de Traicion	4.0

1989
The Cure Disintegration	5.0

1987
Embrace (US) Embrace	4.0
Swans Children of God	3.5
The Cure Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me	4.0

1986
The Smiths The Queen Is Dead	5.0
Took me a while to get into this, but it deserves the 5
Metallica Master of Puppets	3.0
Here's the thing about this album. There's a reason it's called Master of Puppets. Everything in that song is basically expanded in other songs in the album.rI heard the song Master of Puppets before listening to the album, and my initial reaction was, "So Metallica found a way to increase the length of one song into a full album."rMaybe it's only fair to say that because the song has so much in it, but it really seems like there's not much reason to listen to the whole album if you only have to listen to one song to experience the whole thing.

1985
The Cure The Head on the Door	4.5
Tom Waits Rain Dogs	3.5
Tears for Fears Songs from the Big Chair	3.5

1984
The Cure The Top	3.5

1982
The Cure Pornography	4.5
Duran Duran Rio	3.0

1981
Mission of Burma Signals, Calls, and Marches	4.0
The Cure Faith	4.0

1980
Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables	4.5
The Cure Seventeen Seconds	3.5

1979
The Clash London Calling	3.5
The Cure Three Imaginary Boys	3.0
Supertramp Breakfast in America	3.5

1978
Elvis Costello This Year's Model	4.0
Little Feat Waiting For Columbus	4.0

1977
Fleetwood Mac Rumours	4.5

1976
Ramones Ramones	4.0
Tom Waits Small Change	4.5
The Tubes Young And Rich	3.0

1975
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here	4.5
Tom Waits Nighthawks At The Diner	4.0
The Tubes The Tubes	4.0

1972
Curtis Mayfield Superfly	4.0

1971
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV	3.5
Some great songs and some songs that are boring and fall flat. But it's legendary

1970
The Velvet Underground Loaded	4.5

1969
The Beatles Abbey Road	4.5

1967
The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	4.5
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico	4.0

1966
The Beatles Revolver	4.0

1965
The Beatles Rubber Soul	4.0

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