Average Rating: 4.07 Rating Variance: 0.25 Objectivity Score: 51% (Somewhat Balanced)
Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name2014 Behemoth The Satanist4.02013 Death Grips Government Plates4.0Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP 23.5Germ Grief4.0Vocals like banshee shrieks. Sparkling metal guitars, almost blackgazy. Really good stuff. Could do with being a little shorter.Arcade Fire Reflektor4.0This was a pleasant surprise. The bombastic, but ultimately empty anthemics of earlier Arcade Fire releases is redressed here with a healthy dose of cheesy fun. There's still plenty of OTT emoting, but Win Butler sounds a little more self-aware this time around. James Murphy's influence is much appreciated. Synths often take precedence over guitars, highlighting the dance punk qualities of the band's sound. Love the clear and airy production on the back end of the album, too.Danny Brown Old4.0Chelsea Wolfe Pain Is Beauty3.0I love this girl. Pains me to give a lukewarm rating. The album is let down constantly by weak, unmemorable melodies. As usual, there's a persistent, haunting atmosphere. But it's not enough.Gris À L'Âme Enflammée, L'Âme Constellée...4.0This was a consistently beautiful album. I want to give it a 4.5, but I just think it's a little on the long side. As a result, its ebb and flow becomes more predictable as it drags on. The dramatic peaks and atmospheric interludes are nicely arranged, though.Run the Jewels Run the Jewels3.5Bosnian Rainbows Bosnian Rainbows3.0Sigur Ros Kveikur3.5Deafheaven Sunbather5.0The National Trouble Will Find Me3.5Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City4.5Chance the Rapper Acid Rap4.5Nails Abandon All Life4.0Wavves Afraid of Heights3.0CHVRCHES Recover3.0clipping. Midcity4.5Fire! Orchestra Exit!4.0Milo Things That Happen At Night4.0Milo Things That Happen At Day4.02012 Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city4.5Thy Art Is Murder Hate3.5Chelsea Wolfe Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs3.5Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!4.0Mac DeMarco 24.0Tame Impala Lonerism3.5Death Grips No Love Deep Web4.5John Frusciante PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone3.5Cerce Cerce4.0Animal Collective Centipede Hz3.5Frank Ocean channel ORANGE4.0Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel...4.5alt-J An Awesome Wave4.0Killer Mike R.A.P. Music4.0Cerce Tour Sampler CD-R4.0Cattle Decapitation Monolith of Inhumanity4.5Torche Harmonicraft4.0Death Grips The Money Store5.0Mac DeMarco Rock and Roll Night Club3.5TR/ST TRST3.5Grimes Visions3.52011 Radiohead The Daily Mail/Staircase4.0Childish Gambino Camp3.5Oneohtrix Point Never Replica3.5Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds2.0Milo I Wish My Brother Rob Was Here4.0St. Vincent Strange Mercy3.5Danny Brown XXX4.0Kendrick Lamar Section.804.0Shabazz Palaces Black Up4.5Liturgy Aesthethica4.0Deafheaven Roads to Judah4.0Death Grips Exmilitary5.0tUnE-yArDs w h o k i l l3.5Radiohead The King of Limbs3.5James Blake James Blake4.0Death Grips Death Grips4.52010 Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy4.5Strand of Oaks Pope Killdragon4.0Kvelertak Kvelertak4.0The most fun I've had with a black metal(?) record in a long time. Almost like listening to blackened party rock anthems. Maybe a little repetitive on occasion, but the album is a tasteful length, does not overstay its welcome.Tame Impala Innerspeaker3.5The National High Violet4.0Flying Lotus Cosmogramma4.0Earl Sweatshirt EARL4.0Alcest Écailles De Lune4.5Nails Unsilent Death4.02009 Animal Collective Fall Be Kind4.5Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect4.5Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders4.0P.O.S Never Better4.0Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion4.0Wormrot Abuse4.02008 La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair 4.5Lisa Hannigan Sea Sew4.0Coldworld Melancholie²4.0Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend3.5Protest the Hero Fortress4.0Food for Animals Belly3.02007 Jonny Greenwood There Will Be Blood OST4.5Burial Untrue4.0Radiohead In Rainbows4.5Time To Burn Is.Land4.0Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters4.5The acme of Cascadian Black Metal. Natural beauty is channeled here in a way you'd never think possible in the hands of an extreme metal band. But to call this supremely calming and ambient record "extreme" seems a little misguided. You can get lost in the lush sonic expanse if you're not careful -- and once lost, you may not wish to find your way back again. This is living, breathing music. A wonderful re-contextualizing of Norwegian BM tropes. The macabre becomes the triumphant. The bleak becomes... well, bleak - but tempered by awe in the face of nature. This is the best kind of cultural appropriation and there needn't be any controversy.Between the Buried and Me Colors5.0Animal Collective Strawberry Jam4.5AJJ People Who Can Eat People are the Luckiest People4.5Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde4.0Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago3.5The National Boxer4.0Panda Bear Person Pitch4.52006 Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me5.0Joanna Newsom Ys5.0Negura Bunget OM4.5Peste Noire La Sanie des Siècles4.5J Dilla Donuts4.0Drudkh Blood In Our Wells4.52005 Animal Collective Feels4.0Rosetta The Galilean Satellites5.0Protest the Hero Kezia4.0The National Alligator4.0The Mars Volta Frances the Mute5.02004 ISIS Panopticon4.0Jesu Jesu4.0Converge You Fail Me4.0Arcade Fire Funeral4.0Drudkh Autumn Aurora4.0Mastodon Leviathan4.0Madvillain Madvillainy4.5Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo4.5Joanna Newsom The Milk-Eyed Mender4.02003 Boris Boris At Last -Feedbacker-4.5TV on the Radio Young Liars4.0The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium4.5Radiohead Hail to the Thief4.0Four Tet Rounds4.52002 Botch An Anthology of Dead Ends4.5Angers me to think what these boys could have accomplished with a few more years, a little more refinement. But what a fucking swan song. An EP with all the power of an LP. A solid grasp of quiet/loud dynamics that would have elevated their LPs to a whole other level. Afghamistam, which is essentially an interlude, has the audacity to be the longest track on the album. A window into what the band's future might have held. Hushed emo vocals give way to some glorious Slint worship in the closing minutes. It gives new perspective to the uncompromising violence in Botch's sound. If this is a dead end, it was well worth the detour.Porcupine Tree In Absentia3.5Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights4.0Oh, this is that band fronted by 'Generic Post-Punk Vocalist #17?' I've been meaning to check them out for years. Heard great things. This album is chill, for the most part. Sometimes it's beautiful even. Trying my hardest to get lost in the expansive, rippling sound-scape, I definitely feel something. But it's faint. The lights flicker expectantly, before being snuffed out by the vengeful ghost of Ian Curtis -- icy cold, drained of vitality. EDIT: grows on you once you get past the vocals.Infest No Man's Slave3.5Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing3.5The clean vox and the frequent, chugging bro-downs take away from the experience somewhat. But all musical snobbery aside, you have to be fairly soulless not to enjoy this stuff. This is really tight and catchy. And I'll be honest, a few of those bro-downs did get me awkwardly headbanging with headphones on, alone in my room at 2AM. Hey, I'm not going to deny what is essentially a good bit of fun. Metal can groove, too.Hella Hold Your Horse Is4.0Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade3.5El-P Fantastic Damage4.02001 Akira Yamaoka Silent Hill 24.0Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot4.5System of a Down Toxicity4.0Converge Jane Doe5.0Radiohead Amnesiac5.0John Frusciante From the Sounds Inside3.5Sigh Imaginary Sonicscape4.5Cannibal Ox The Cold Vein3.5Tool Lateralus4.5Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You4.5Daft Punk Discovery3.0John Frusciante To Record Only Water for Ten Days4.02000 OutKast Stankonia4.0Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven4.5Radiohead Kid A5.0At the Drive-In Relationship of Command4.5Deftones White Pony4.5Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica4.0Kid Dynamite Shorter, Faster, Louder4.0Ghostface Killah Supreme Clientele3.5Discordance Axis The Inalienable Dreamless4.01999 Botch We Are the Romans4.0The Dismemberment Plan Emergency & I4.5Mos Def Black on Both Sides4.5Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication3.5The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin3.5The Roots Things Fall Apart3.5Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream3.01998 The Offspring Americana3.5Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come5.0OutKast Aquemini3.5Lauryn Hill The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill4.0Blind Guardian Nightfall in Middle-Earth4.0Dirty Three Ocean Songs4.0It's like looking on as something tragic transpires, but not feeling compelled to intervene. You just sit and watch. And it works out in the end. For post-rock, which so often courts the bombastic, this record displays impressive restraint. This is all very pretty and has some solid catharsis on offer. But crescendo-core it is not. It's too understated to evoke the infinite or inspire awe, instead it's almost parochial - could only be Australian. Docking a point because of length and some occasionally unmemorable passages.Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea5.0Mark Hollis Mark Hollis4.0Gorguts Obscura5.0This is true madness. Uncharted territory. Here be dragons (and beasts far worse). Precision and chaos co-exist, but not peacefully. This is a jazz holocaust, a prog genocide. This is more than tech death. This is Beefheart metal. It might serve as lobby muzak in hell. But this snarling, gnashing abomination was never meant for mortal ears. Approach at your own risk.1997 Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West5.0Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞4.5Radiohead OK Computer4.5Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space4.5Elliott Smith Either/Or4.0Camp Lo Uptown Saturday Night4.01996 Tool Ænima3.5Weezer Pinkerton4.0Beck Odelay4.0DJ Shadow Endtroducing.....4.0Dr. Octagon Dr. Octagonecologyst4.0Burzum Filosofem4.0Katatonia Brave Murder Day4.51995 Radiohead The Bends3.5Porcupine Tree The Sky Moves Sideways3.51994 Korn Korn4.0Portishead Dummy4.0Kyuss Welcome to Sky Valley4.0Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger4.0Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse4.0Weezer Weezer4.5Nas Illmatic3.5The Offspring Smash3.5John Frusciante Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt4.5Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral5.0Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss4.01993 Burzum Det Som Engang Var3.5The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream4.0Cynic Focus4.01992 Darkthrone A Blaze in the Northern Sky4.51991 Talk Talk Laughing Stock5.0My Bloody Valentine Loveless5.0Death Human3.5Nirvana Nevermind3.5Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik3.5Atheist Unquestionable Presence3.5Swans White Light From the Mouth of Infinity4.0Slint Spiderland5.01990 Megadeth Rust in Peace4.0Cocteau Twins Heaven or Las Vegas3.5Saccharine sweet, but lacking nutritional value. Hoping it's a grower. Immensely likable, but not loveable (yet).1989 Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine3.5Angsty, grimy, vulnerable, suffering major growing pains. This is some profoundly adolescent music, but if you can get past that, you will find a synth pop record unlike any other. No twinkling, bubblegum wonderland here, just rusty razor blades and pounding machinery. At this point in Trent's development the industrial trappings are still just that, trappings. He is yet to realise the full potential of the aesthetic that would cement TDS as a modern classic. But this record represents a solid prototype for future projects. Things are taking shape. It's more than a curiosity. It stands alone, youthful, impetuous, and catchy as hell.Morbid Angel Altars of Madness4.0The Cure Disintegration5.0Pixies Doolittle4.51988 Talk Talk Spirit of Eden4.5Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime3.5Pixies Surfer Rosa4.01987 Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me4.0Big Black Songs About Fucking4.01986 Slayer Reign in Blood4.5The Smiths The Queen Is Dead4.0Candlemass Epicus Doomicus Metallicus4.5Metallica Master of Puppets4.0Big Black Atomizer4.0Paul Simon Graceland4.51985 The Jesus and Mary Chain Psychocandy3.51984 Mercyful Fate Don't Break the Oath4.5Metallica Ride the Lightning4.5Prince Purple Rain3.0Husker Du Zen Arcade3.51983 Mercyful Fate Melissa3.51982 Michael Jackson Thriller4.0The Cure Pornography4.01981 Black Flag Damaged3.5Rush Moving Pictures4.01979 Joy Division Unknown Pleasures4.51978 Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports4.5Distilled, elemental, patient and seemingly vacant. The few moments of trembling anticipation, that might prefigure some great breakthrough or climax, quickly subside. This would frustrate, if not for the record's ingenious use of space. Matter and antimatter. Void and volume. Inhalation and exhalation. Whispers, but never speech. What Eno offers sonically is not a cleansing rainstorm, nor a complex river system - all tributaries and runoff, green fingers fanning out across yellow land - but instead a solitary drop in an ocean. Yes, all well and good. But where are the guitar solos and drum fills, Brian?1977 Iggy Pop Lust For Life3.0Kraftwerk Trans-Europe Express3.0Steely Dan Aja4.5Television Marquee Moon4.0Pink Floyd Animals3.5David Bowie Low4.51975 Fripp and Eno Evening Star3.51974 King Crimson Red4.51973 Fripp and Eno No Pussyfooting4.0Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon4.01972 Lou Reed Transformer4.5Yes Close to the Edge5.0David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars5.0Paul Simon Paul Simon3.5Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick4.51971 David Bowie Hunky Dory4.5Sly and The Family Stone There's A Riot Goin' On3.0Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV5.0Pink Floyd Meddle4.5The Who Who's Next4.5Black Sabbath Master of Reality4.5Leonard Cohen Songs of Love and Hate4.0Serge Gainsbourg Histoire de Melody Nelson4.0Joni Mitchell Blue4.0Can Tago Mago4.5Funkadelic Maggot Brain4.5Comus First Utterance5.01970 The Velvet Underground Loaded3.5Black Sabbath Paranoid4.5Neil Young After the Gold Rush3.5The Stooges Fun House4.0Simon and Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water4.01969 The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed4.0King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King5.0The Beatles Abbey Road4.5The Stooges The Stooges3.5The Who Tommy4.0Neil Young Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere4.0Frank Zappa Hot Rats5.01968 The Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet4.0The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland4.0Van Morrison Astral Weeks4.5The Velvet Underground White Light/White Heat4.01967 Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn4.0The Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced4.0The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico5.0The Doors The Doors4.51966 The Beach Boys Pet Sounds4.0The Mothers of Invention Freak Out!4.51965 John Coltrane A Love Supreme4.01963 Bob Dylan The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan4.01959 Miles Davis Kind of Blue4.5
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