| The New Pornographers In the Morse Code of Brake Lights | 3.5 |
| Tegan and Sara Hey, I'm Just Like You | 3.0 |
| Sturgill Simpson Sound and Fury | 2.5 |
| Kanye West Jesus Is King | 3.5 |
| Elbow Giants of All Sizes | 2.5 |
| Chromatics Closer to Grey | 2.5 |
| Richard Dawson 2020 | 3.0 |
| Danny Brown XXX | 4.0 |
| Caroline Polachek Pang | 3.0 |
| Danny Brown uknowhatimsayin¿ | 3.5 |
| Big Thief Two Hands | 3.5 |
| Angel Olsen All Mirrors | 2.5 |
| Wilco Ode to Joy | 3.0 |
| Lightning Bolt Sonic Citadel | 3.5 |
| Grachan Moncur III Evolution | 3.5 |
| Parliament Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome | 4.0 |
| Amy Winehouse Back to Black | 3.5 |
| Ghostface Killah Ironman | 4.0 |
| King Crimson In the Wake of Poseidon | 3.0 |
| Los Prisioneros Pateando Piedras | 3.5 |
| Electric Wizard Dopethrone | 3.5 |
| Emeralds Does It Look Like I'm Here? | 4.0 |
| Emeralds Emeralds | 3.5 |
| Bruce Springsteen The River | 3.0 |
| OutKast ATLiens | 3.5 |
| Moby Everything is Wrong | 3.0 |
| Gin Wigmore Gravel and Wine | 3.0 |
| Roomful of Teeth Render | 4.0 |
| Roomful of Teeth Roomful of Teeth | 4.5 |
| Dave Psychodrama | 3.5 |
| Frank Zappa Apostrophe | 3.0 |
| Todd Snider Agnostic Hymns and Stoner Fables | 4.0 |
| The Yardbirds Yardbirds (Roger the Engineer) | 4.0 |
| Cabaret Voltaire Red Mecca | 3.0 |
| Suzanne Vega Solitude Standing | 3.0 |
| Destroyer Destroyer's Rubies | 3.5 |
| Charles Mingus Oh Yeah | 3.0 |
| Charles Mingus Tijuana Moods | 4.0 |
| Marshall Crenshaw Field Day | 3.5 |
| De La Soul De La Soul Is Dead | 4.0 |
| Battles La Di Da Di | 3.5 |
| Battles Mirrored | 3.5 |
| The Crickets The "Chirping" Crickets | 3.5 |
| Big Star #1 Record | 4.0 |
| Big Star 3rd | 3.5 |
| Big Star Radio City | 3.5 |
| Silver Jews American Water | 3.5 |
| Dirty Projectors Rise Above | 4.0 |
| Miguel Kaleidoscope Dream | 3.5 |
| Sly and The Family Stone Life | 3.0 |
| Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) | 4.0 |
| Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Doc at the Radar Station | 3.5 |
| Smog Knock Knock | 3.5 |
| K'naan The Dusty Foot Philosopher | 3.5 |
| Camaron de la Isla La leyenda del tiempo | 4.0 |
| Death Grips The Money Store | 3.5 |
| Death Grips No Love Deep Web | 3.0 |
| Death Grips Bottomless Pit | 2.5 |
| Syd Fin | 4.0 |
| Rapsody Laila's Wisdom | 3.5 |
| Jay-Z 4:44 | 3.5 |
| Purple Mountains Purple Mountains | 3.0 |
| Oren Ambarchi Simian Angel | 4.0 |
| Sleater-Kinney All Hands on the Bad One | 4.0 |
| Sleater-Kinney The Center Won’t Hold | 3.0 |
| Four Tet Anna Painting | 3.5 |
| clairo Immunity | 2.0 |
| Young Thug JEFFERY | 4.0 |
| Taylor Swift Lover | 3.5 |
| Young Thug So Much Fun | 3.0 |
| Black Milk Dive | 3.0 |
| Tropical Fuck Storm Braindrops | 2.5 |
| Bon Iver i,i | 2.5 |
| Brockhampton Ginger | 3.0 |
| Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell! | 2.5 |
| Tool Fear Inoculum | 2.0 |
| Rapsody Eve | 3.5 |
| Charli XCX Charli | 2.5 |
| The Highwomen The Highwomen | 3.0 |
| Jenny Hval The Practice of Love | 3.0 |
| JPEGMAFIA All My Heroes Are Cornballs | 3.0 |
| Alex G House Of Sugar | 3.0 |
| Wilson Pickett The Exciting Wilson Pickett | 3.5 |
| Los Jaivas Alturas de Machu Picchu | 4.0 |
| Kool A.D. WORD O.K. | 4.0 |
| Das Racist Relax | 3.5 |
| Stars of the Lid Avec Laudenum | 3.5 |
| Jorge Ben Samba Esquema Novo | 3.5 |
| Jorge Ben África Brasil | 4.5 |
| Miranda Lambert Platinum | 4.0 |
| Jesca Hoop Stonechild | 3.5 |
| Lil Nas X 7 | 3.0 |
| Black Midi Schlagenheim | 3.0 |
| Muse Showbiz | 3.0 |
| Freddie Gibbs and Madlib Bandana | 3.5 |
| Thom Yorke Suspiria | 2.5 |
| Thom Yorke The Eraser | 3.5 |
| Thom Yorke Tomorrow's Modern Boxes | 3.5 |
| Jai Paul Do You Love Her Now / He | 4.0 |
| Thom Yorke Anima | 3.0 |
| Ed Sheeran No. 6 Collaborations Project | 3.0 |
| Lingua Ignota Caligula | 2.5 |
| Jade Bird Jade Bird | 4.0 |
| Anderson .Paak Malibu | 3.5 |
| Anderson .Paak Ventura | 3.5 |
| The Mountain Goats In League With Dragons | 3.5 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Fishing For Fishies | 3.0 |
| Lizzo Cuz I Love You | 3.5 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth I Love You. It's a Fever Dream. | 3.0 |
| Remo Drive Natural, Everyday Degradation | 3.0 |
| Chris Forsyth All Time Present | 4.0 |
| Steve Lacy (USA-CA) Apollo XXI | 3.5 |
| Vampire Weekend Father Of The Bride | 4.5 |
| Tyler, the Creator Wolf | 1.5 |
| The National The National | 3.0 |
| The National Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers | 3.5 |
| Tyler, the Creator IGOR | 3.0 |
| The National I Am Easy to Find | 2.5 |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Dedicated | 2.5 |
| Jamila Woods Legacy! Legacy! | 3.5 |
| Injury Reserve Injury Reserve | 3.0 |
| Charly Bliss Young Enough | 3.5 |
| Tim Hecker Anoyo | 3.5 |
| Big Thief U.F.O.F. | 3.0 |
| Jai Paul Leak 04-13 (Bait Ones) | 3.0 |
| Hatchie Keepsake | 3.0 |
| Bill Callahan Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest | 2.5 |
| Billie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? | 3.0 |
| Ibibio Sound Machine Doko Mien | 3.5 |
| Little Simz Grey Area | 3.5 |
| Fennesz Agora | 3.5 |
| Broken Social Scene Let's Try the After - Vol. 2 | 3.0 |
| The Chemical Brothers No Geography | 3.5 |
| Weyes Blood Titanic Rising | 3.0 |
| Carsie Blanton Buck Up | 4.0 |
| Juliana Hatfield Weird | 4.0 |
| Wings Venus and Mars | 3.5 |
| Allison Miller Glitter Wolf | 4.0 |
| Stephen Malkmus Groove Denied | 2.5 |
| Jenny Lewis On The Line | 3.5 |
| First three songs are as strong as anything she's ever made (the hook for "Wasted Youth" is one of her career's highlights). Then it becomes a bit too contemplative, but nothing to be too worried about. |
| Maren Morris Girl | 3.0 |
| Sigrid Sucker Punch | 3.5 |
| American Football American Football (LP3) | 3.0 |
| Tanya Tagaq Toothsayer | 3.5 |
| The Comet Is Coming Trust in the Lifeforce of Deep Mystery | 3.0 |
| The Who Quadrophenia | 3.5 |
| Old 97s Satellite Rides | 3.5 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb | 3.0 |
| Procol Harum Procol Harum | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Mystery of Love | 3.0 |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead The Century of Self | 3.5 |
| James Taylor Sweet Baby James | 3.0 |
| Tom Waits Closing Time | 3.5 |
| Chumbawamba Tubthumper | 3.0 |
| I Am Robot and Proud The Electricity in Your House Wants to Sing | 3.5 |
| Smokey Robinson and the Miracles Going To A Go-Go | 4.0 |
| Bebe Rexha Expectations | 3.0 |
| Daniel Johnston Hi, How Are You | 2.5 |
| Juana Molina Un Dia | 3.0 |
| Juana Molina Segundo | 3.0 |
| Liz Phair Liz Phair | 3.5 |
| Chet Baker Chet Baker Sings | 3.0 |
| Mission of Burma Vs. | 4.0 |
| Oliver Nelson The Blues and the Abstract Truth | 3.5 |
| Marillion Misplaced Childhood | 3.0 |
| Kate Bush 50 Words for Snow | 3.0 |
| Shakira Pies Descalzos | 3.0 |
| The Arrogant Sons of Bitches Three Cheers For Disappointment | 3.0 |
| Dr. John Gris-Gris | 3.0 |
| Fabrizio De Andre Crêuza De Mä | 4.0 |
| L7 Bricks Are Heavy | 3.0 |
| Harold Budd and Brian Eno Ambient 2 - The Plateaux of Mirror | 3.0 |
| Laurie Anderson Heart of A Dog | 3.5 |
| Wes Montgomery The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery | 3.5 |
| Franco and Rochereau Omona Wapi | 4.5 |
| UNKLE Psyence Fiction | 4.0 |
| Drake Views | 3.0 |
| Drake Take Care | 3.5 |
| Pat Metheny Bright Size Life | 4.0 |
| Manu Chao Clandestino | 3.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar Section.80 | 4.0 |
| John Prine John Prine | 4.0 |
| Triana El Patio | 4.0 |
| Dolly Parton Jolene | 4.0 |
| The Ex and Tom Cora Scrabbling at the Lock | 3.5 |
| Electric Light Orchestra Out of the Blue | 3.0 |
| Cornershop When I Was Born For The 7th Time | 4.0 |
| Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins Rabbit Fur Coat | 3.5 |
| Ennio Morricone Once Upon a Time in the West | 3.5 |
| The Beat I Just Can't Stop It | 4.0 |
| Saint Etienne Fox Base Alpha | 3.5 |
| Kae Tempest Everybody Down | 4.0 |
| Monks Black Monk Time | 4.0 |
| Kate and Anna McGarrigle Kate and Anna McGarrigle | 4.0 |
| The Roots Things Fall Apart | 3.0 |
| The Roots Game Theory | 4.0 |
| The Roots How I Got Over | 3.5 |
| Marshall Crenshaw Marshall Crenshaw | 4.0 |
| Amy Rigby Diary Of A Mod Housewife | 4.0 |
| The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America | 3.5 |
| Wayne Shorter Adam's Apple | 4.0 |
| Beat Happening Beat Happening | 3.0 |
| George Michael Faith | 3.0 |
| Todd Snider East Nashville Skyline | 3.5 |
| Polaris (USA) Music from The Adventures of Pete & Pete | 3.0 |
| The Twilight Singers Blackberry Belle | 3.5 |
| Freddie Hubbard Red Clay | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell | 3.0 |
| The Apples in Stereo Fun Trick Noisemaker | 3.0 |
| Eric B and Rakim Paid in Full | 3.5 |
| Tarnation Gentle Creatures | 3.0 |
| Sonic Youth Rather Ripped | 4.0 |
| Francoise Hardy Comment te dire adieu? | 3.0 |
| Haruomi Hosono/Shigeru Suzuki/Tatsuro Yamashita Pacific | 3.5 |
| Duster Stratosphere | 3.0 |
| Altar of Plagues Teethed Glory and Injury | 3.5 |
| Loretta Lynn Don't Come Home A Drinkin' | 3.5 |
| Prince Dirty Mind | 3.5 |
| Prince Paul A Prince Among Thieves | 4.0 |
| Randy Newman Sail Away | 3.5 |
| Herbie Hancock Head Hunters | 3.5 |
| Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends | 3.5 |
| The Mothers of Invention Absolutely Free | 3.0 |
| Emmylou Harris Luxury Liner | 3.5 |
| Emmylou Harris Wrecking Ball | 3.5 |
| Crying Beyond The Fleeting Gales | 3.5 |
| Nina Simone Little Girl Blue | 4.0 |
| Nina Simone Wild is the Wind | 4.0 |
| Motorhead Ace of Spades | 4.0 |
| The Books Lost And Safe | 3.5 |
| The Afghan Whigs Gentlemen | 3.0 |
| Bob Dylan Bob Dylan | 3.5 |
| Akira Yamaoka Silent Hill 2 | 3.5 |
| Miranda Lambert Four the Record | 3.5 |
| Miles Davis Porgy and Bess | 4.5 |
| Miles Davis Get Up with It | 3.5 |
| Andrew Hill Judgment! | 4.0 |
| Tori Amos Night of Hunters | 3.0 |
| Tori Amos Gold Dust | 2.5 |
| Joni Mitchell Don Juan's Reckless Daughter | 3.5 |
| The Seatbelts Blue | 3.5 |
| Victoria Williams Loose | 5.0 |
| Bad Bunny X100PRE | 3.0 |
| Maggie Rogers Heard It in a Past Life | 2.5 |
| James Blake Assume Form | 3.0 |
| Deerhunter Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? | 3.0 |
| The Delines The Imperial | 3.5 |
| Malibu Ken Malibu Ken | 2.5 |
| Sharon Van Etten Remind Me Tomorrow | 3.0 |
| Better Oblivion Community Center Better Oblivion Community Center | 3.5 |
| Mon Laferte La Trenza | 3.5 |
| Mon Laferte Norma | 4.5 |
| Panda Bear Buoys | 2.5 |
| Ariana Grande Thank U, Next | 3.0 |
| Xiu Xiu Girl with Basket of Fruit | 2.5 |
| Broken Social Scene Let's Try the After - Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
| Jessica Pratt Quiet Signs | 3.0 |
| Default Genders main pop girl 2019 | 3.0 |
| Laura Jane Grace and the Devouring Mothers Bought To Rot | 3.0 |
| Anderson .Paak Oxnard | 3.5 |
| Vessel Queen of Golden Dogs | 3.0 |
| Earl Sweatshirt Some Rap Songs | 2.5 |
| Tropical Fuck Storm A Laughing Death in Meatspace | 2.5 |
| Cyndi Lauper She's So Unusual | 3.5 |
| Mary Margaret O'Hara Miss America | 3.5 |
| James Blake CMYK | 3.5 |
| Catherine Ribeiro and 2 Bis Catherine Ribeiro + 2 Bis | 3.0 |
| Bob Dylan Desire | 4.0 |
| Mass of the Fermenting Dregs Zero Comma, Irotoridori no Sekai | 3.5 |
| The Cure Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me | 3.5 |
| De La Soul Buhloone Mindstate | 4.0 |
| of Montreal Satanic Panic in the Attic | 3.5 |
| Chicago Chicago Transit Authority | 3.5 |
| Talking Heads The Name of this Band Is Talking Heads | 4.5 |
| Le Tigre Le Tigre | 4.0 |
| Deep Purple Machine Head | 3.5 |
| Japan Tin Drum | 3.5 |
| Janet Jackson Rhythm Nation 1814 | 3.5 |
| Fennesz Venice | 3.5 |
| Ghostface Killah Fishscale | 4.5 |
| Gal Costa Gal Costa | 3.5 |
| Akiko Yano Tadaima | 4.0 |
| Eliane Radigue Trilogie de la Mort | 4.0 |
| Elbow Cast of Thousands | 3.0 |
| Andrew Hill Black Fire | 4.0 |
| Sky Ferreira Night Time, My Time | 3.5 |
| Embrace (US) Embrace | 4.0 |
| Morcheeba Big Calm | 3.0 |
| Gilberto Gil Gilberto Gil | 4.0 |
| The Sound From The Lion's Mouth | 3.0 |
| Fishmans Uchuu Nippon Setagaya | 3.5 |
| Destroyer Kaputt | 4.0 |
| Slint Slint | 4.0 |
| Rilo Kiley Under the Blacklight | 4.0 |
| The Doors Waiting for the Sun | 2.5 |
| The Doors L.A. Woman | 3.5 |
| X-Ray Spex Germfree Adolescents | 4.0 |
| The Flaming Lips Transmissions From the Satellite Heart | 4.0 |
| Muddy Waters Folk Singer | 4.0 |
| Astor Piazzolla Tango: Zero Hour | 4.0 |
| Astor Piazzolla Libertango | 3.5 |
| Hooverphonic Blue Wonder Power Milk | 4.0 |
| Andrew Lloyd Webber Jesus Christ Superstar: Original Cast | 4.0 |
| Nuno Canavarro Plux Quba | 3.0 |
| Spiritualized Let It Come Down | 3.0 |
| Almendra Almendra | 3.0 |
| Art of Noise In Visible Silence | 3.5 |
| Liz Phair Whitechocolatespaceegg | 4.0 |
| Roomful of Teeth Partita for 8 Voices (Caroline Shaw) | 4.5 |
| Chico Science & Nacao Zumbi Da lama ao caos | 3.5 |
| Natural Snow Buildings The Dance of the Moon and the Sun | 3.5 |
| Laurie Anderson Strange Angels | 3.5 |
| The Rolling Stones Out of Our Heads | 3.0 |
| Genesis Trespass | 3.0 |
| Genesis Duke | 3.5 |
| Pixies Bossanova | 3.5 |
| Paul Simon There Goes Rhymin' Simon | 3.5 |
| Paul Simon In the Blue Light | 3.5 |
| Paul Simon So Beautiful or So What | 4.0 |
| The Seatbelts Cowboy Bebop | 4.5 |
| John Coltrane Meditations | 3.0 |
| Siouxsie and the Banshees The Scream | 3.0 |
| Herbert Around The House | 4.0 |
| Horace Silver Song For My Father | 4.0 |
| Ice Cube Death Certificate | 4.5 |
| Carina Round The Disconnection | 3.5 |
| Buffalo Springfield Buffalo Springfield Again | 3.5 |
| Jesca Hoop The House that Jack Built | 4.0 |
| Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse | 3.5 |
| Guerilla Toss GT Ultra | 3.5 |
| Mahavishnu Orchestra The Inner Mounting Flame | 4.0 |
| The Residents Commercial Album | 3.0 |
| The Residents Not Available | 3.0 |
| Lamb Lamb | 3.5 |
| Tori Amos Unrepentant Geraldines | 2.5 |
| James Brown Live At The Apollo | 4.5 |
| Charles Mingus Let My Children Hear Music | 4.0 |
| Taylor Swift Speak Now | 3.5 |
| Loretta Lynn Coal Miner's Daughter | 4.5 |
| Ruben Gonzalez Introducing... | 4.5 |
| Fountains of Wayne Welcome Interstate Managers | 3.5 |
| Bill Evans Explorations | 4.0 |
| Bill Evans and Jim Hall Undercurrent | 4.5 |
| Jackie McLean Destination... Out! | 3.5 |
| Grace Jones Nightclubbing | 3.5 |
| The La's The La's | 4.0 |
| Greta Van Fleet From the Fires | 3.5 |
| The Mamas and The Papas If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears | 3.5 |
| David Bowie Aladdin Sane | 3.5 |
| Current 93 All the Pretty Little Horses | 3.5 |
| Joanna Newsom Walnut Whales | 3.0 |
| The Field From Here We Go Sublime | 4.0 |
| Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood Nancy and Lee | 4.0 |
| Modern English Mesh & Lace | 3.0 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never R Plus Seven | 3.5 |
| John Lennon John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band | 3.0 |
| Sly and The Family Stone Fresh | 4.0 |
| Ween The Pod | 3.0 |
| Ween White Pepper | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Year Zero | 3.5 |
| Ornette Coleman Of Human Feelings | 3.5 |
| Ornette Coleman Science Fiction | 4.0 |
| Ornette Coleman Dancing In Your Head | 4.0 |
| Julee Cruise Floating into the Night | 3.0 |
| M83 Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts | 2.5 |
| M83 Before The Dawn Heals Us | 2.5 |
| Miles Davis Ascenseur pour l'echafaud OST | 4.0 |
| X (USA) Wild Gift | 4.0 |
| Pizzicato Five This Year's Girl | 4.0 |
| Pistol Annies Hell on Heels | 4.0 |
| Pistol Annies Interstate Gospel | 4.0 |
| Robyn Honey | 3.5 |
| Boygenius boygenius | 3.0 |
| Rosalia El Mal Querer | 3.5 |
| Kelly Moran Ultraviolet | 3.5 |
| Cloud Nothings Last Building Burning | 3.5 |
| Phosphorescent C'est La Vie | 3.0 |
| Greta Van Fleet Anthem of the Peaceful Army | 4.5 |
| mewithoutYou [Untitled] | 3.0 |
| Julia Holter Aviary | 3.5 |
| Daughters You Won't Get What You Want | 3.0 |
| Miranda Lambert Revolution | 4.0 |
| Jesca Hoop Snowglobe | 3.5 |
| ABBA Voulez-Vous | 3.5 |
| Young Thug On the Rvn | 3.5 |
| Jlin Autobiography | 4.0 |
| Tim Hecker An Imaginary Country | 4.0 |
| Tim Hecker Konoyo | 3.0 |
| Brockhampton Iridescence | 2.5 |
| Aphex Twin Collapse | 3.5 |
| Helena Hauff Qualm | 3.5 |
| Young Thug Slime Language | 3.0 |
| Paul McCartney New | 3.5 |
| Amanda Shires To the Sunset | 3.0 |
| Paul McCartney Egypt Station | 3.5 |
| Guerilla Toss Twisted Crystal | 4.0 |
| Spiritualized And Nothing Hurt | 3.5 |
| IDLES Joy as an Act of Resistance | 2.0 |
| Noname Room 25 | 4.0 |
| Yves Tumor Safe in the Hands of Love | 3.0 |
| Interpol Marauder | 2.5 |
| Animal Collective Tangerine Reef | 2.5 |
| The Beths Future Me Hates Me | 3.5 |
| Mitski Be the Cowboy | 2.5 |
| Iggy Pop and Underworld Teatime Dub Encounters | 3.5 |
| Denzel Curry TA13OO | 3.0 |
| Travis Scott Astroworld | 2.5 |
| R.E.M. New Adventures in Hi-Fi | 3.0 |
| Bjork Medulla | 3.0 |
| Superchunk No Pocky For Kitty | 3.5 |
| Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath | 3.5 |
| Fleetwood Mac Mirage | 3.5 |
| Spiritualized Lazer Guided Melodies | 4.0 |
| Regina Spektor What We Saw from the Cheap Seats | 3.0 |
| Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill | 3.5 |
| Billy Bragg and Wilco Mermaid Avenue | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News | 3.5 |
| Miles Davis Nefertiti | 3.5 |
| Miles Davis On the Corner | 4.0 |
| This Heat This Heat | 3.5 |
| Bran Van 3000 Glee | 4.0 |
| Natalia Lafourcade Hu hu hu | 3.5 |
| Eric Dolphy Far Cry | 3.5 |
| Yes Tales from Topographic Oceans | 3.5 |
| Loreena McKennitt The Book of Secrets | 3.0 |
| The Dismemberment Plan Uncanney Valley | 3.5 |
| Julie London Julie Is Her Name | 4.0 |
| Joan of Arc A Portable Model Of | 3.5 |
| Girls Aloud Chemistry | 3.5 |
| Bill Evans Portrait in Jazz | 4.0 |
| Dolly Mixture Demonstration Tapes | 4.0 |
| Arto Lindsay Mundo Civilizado | 3.5 |
| Nellie McKay Get Away From Me | 4.0 |
| The Flying Burrito Brothers The Gilded Palace of Sin | 4.0 |
| The Sugarcubes Life's Too Good | 3.5 |
| The Orb Orbus Terrarum | 4.0 |
| No Age An Object | 3.5 |
| Unwound New Plastic Ideas | 3.5 |
| Jorge Drexler Eco | 3.5 |
| The Beach Boys Surf's Up | 3.5 |
| Nico The End... | 3.5 |
| Jim O'Rourke Eureka | 4.0 |
| Natalie Prass Natalie Prass | 3.0 |
| M.I.A. Maya | 4.0 |
| Big Brother And The Holding Company Cheap Thrills | 4.0 |
| Janis Joplin Pearl | 4.0 |
| Megadeth Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? | 3.5 |
| Kylie Minogue Impossible Princess | 3.0 |
| Wussy Funeral Dress | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III | 3.5 |
| Starflyer 59 Silver | 3.0 |
| Elza Soares A mulher do fim do mundo | 3.5 |
| Ornette Coleman Ornette! | 4.0 |
| Mourn (SPA) Sorpresa Familia | 3.5 |
| The Magnetic Fields Get Lost | 4.0 |
| Don Caballero American Don | 4.5 |
| Isaac Hayes Hot Buttered Soul | 3.0 |
| Descendents Milo Goes to College | 4.0 |
| Beth Orton Central Reservation | 3.0 |
| Boris Akuma no Uta | 3.5 |
| Santana Abraxas | 4.0 |
| Richard and Linda Thompson I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight | 4.0 |
| Richard and Linda Thompson Shoot Out The Lights | 3.5 |
| The Pillows Runners High | 3.5 |
| Miranda Lambert Crazy Ex-Girlfriend | 4.5 |
| Herbie Hancock Maiden Voyage | 3.5 |
| Sonic Youth Confusion Is Sex | 3.0 |
| Burzum Filosofem | 3.5 |
| Van der Graaf Generator Pawn Hearts | 3.0 |
| Emmylou Harris Roses in the Snow | 3.5 |
| Emmylou Harris Elite Hotel | 3.5 |
| Emmylou Harris Pieces of the Sky | 4.0 |
| Van Morrison Veedon Fleece | 3.5 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds The Boatman's Call | 3.0 |
| Lily Allen Alright, Still | 3.5 |
| Willie Nelson Red Headed Stranger | 3.5 |
| Willie Nelson Last Man Standing | 4.0 |
| The Ex 27 Passports | 3.5 |
| Faith No More Angel Dust | 3.0 |
| D'Angelo Voodoo | 3.5 |
| D'Angelo Black Messiah | 4.0 |
| Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade | 5.0 |
| ABBA ABBA | 3.5 |
| ABBA The Album | 5.0 |
| ABBA Super Trouper | 4.0 |
| Pete Rock and CL Smooth Mecca and the Soul Brother | 4.0 |
| Pete Rock and CL Smooth All Souled Out | 4.5 |
| Julianna Barwick The Magic Place | 3.5 |
| Laura Nyro Eli and The 13th Confession | 4.0 |
| Siouxsie and the Banshees Tinderbox | 4.0 |
| Darkthrone A Blaze in the Northern Sky | 4.0 |
| David Thomas Broughton The Complete Guide to Insufficiency | 3.0 |
| Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell United | 3.5 |
| Anna von Hausswolff Dead Magic | 3.5 |
| Adolescents Adolescents | 3.5 |
| Bad Religion No Control | 3.0 |
| The Internet Hive Mind | 3.5 |
| The Internet Ego Death | 3.5 |
| Nelly Furtado Loose | 4.0 |
| Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No.15 in A major, Op.141 | 4.5 |
| The Cleaners From Venus Midnight Cleaners | 4.0 |
| Oval 94 Diskont | 4.0 |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint | 4.5 |
| Wild Pink Yolk in the Fur | 3.0 |
| John Coltrane Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album | 3.5 |
| Dirty Projectors Lamp Lit Prose | 3.0 |
| Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love | 3.0 |
| The Carters Everything Is Love | 3.0 |
| Florence and the Machine High as Hope | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Bad Witch | 3.0 |
| Let's Eat Grandma I'm All Ears | 3.5 |
| Charli XCX Focus / No Angel | 3.5 |
| Kamasi Washington Heaven And Earth | 3.0 |
| Flasher Constant Image | 3.5 |
| Melody's Echo Chamber Bon Voyage | 3.5 |
| serpentwithfeet soil | 3.0 |
| Leon Vynehall Nothing Is Still | 3.0 |
| Sophie Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides | 2.0 |
| CHVRCHES Love Is Dead | 2.5 |
| Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks Sparkle Hard | 3.5 |
| Kanye West ye | 4.0 |
| Natalie Prass The Future and the Past | 3.5 |
| Kids See Ghosts Kids See Ghosts | 3.5 |
| Neko Case Hell-On | 3.0 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Age Of | 3.5 |
| Hatchie Sugar and Spice | 4.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino | 2.5 |
| Courtney Barnett Tell Me How You Really Feel | 3.5 |
| Pusha T DAYTONA | 3.5 |
| Parquet Courts Wide Awake | 3.5 |
| Iceage Beyondless | 3.5 |
| Beach House 7 | 3.0 |
| Jon Hopkins Singularity | 3.5 |
| Rosehall The First Requisite Is Life | 3.0 |
| Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill | 3.0 |
| Kimbra Primal Heart | 3.0 |
| Janelle Monae Dirty Computer | 3.0 |
| Grouper Grid of Points | 2.5 |
| Courtney Marie Andrews May Your Kindness Remain | 3.0 |
| Eels The Deconstruction | 3.0 |
| Hop Along Bark Your Head Off, Dog | 4.0 |
| Thelonious Monk Straight, No Chaser | 4.0 |
| Ashra New Age of Earth | 4.0 |
| Ween Pure Guava | 2.5 |
| Hop Along Get Disowned | 3.5 |
| Derek and the Dominos Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs | 4.0 |
| Silvio Rodriguez Dias y Flores | 3.5 |
| Don Caballero What Burns Never Returns | 4.0 |
| Tori Amos Abnormally Attracted To Sin | 3.0 |
| Fiona Apple Tidal | 3.0 |
| Lou Reed and John Cale Songs for Drella | 3.5 |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Madonna | 4.0 |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead So Divided | 3.5 |
| Duke Ellington Such Sweet Thunder | 3.5 |
| The Police Zenyatta Mondatta | 3.0 |
| Grandaddy Under the Western Freeway | 3.5 |
| Nicolas Jaar Space Is Only Noise | 3.0 |
| Steely Dan Can't Buy a Thrill | 4.0 |
| Sleater-Kinney One Beat | 3.5 |
| Sleater-Kinney The Hot Rock | 4.0 |
| Four Tet Everything Ecstatic | 3.5 |
| Superorganism Superorganism | 2.5 |
| McCoy Tyner The Real McCoy | 4.0 |
| Manuel Gottsching E2-E4 | 4.0 |
| Digable Planets Blowout Comb | 3.5 |
| Cat Power You Are Free | 3.0 |
| Philip Glass Koyaanisqatsi | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros Von | 3.0 |
| Sigur Ros Valtari | 3.0 |
| Peter Gabriel Us | 3.5 |
| Soda Stereo Signos | 4.0 |
| Stereolab Dots and Loops | 3.5 |
| Animal Collective Ark | 3.0 |
| Animal Collective Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished | 3.5 |
| Can Monster Movie | 4.0 |
| Stevie Wonder Fulfillingness' First Finale | 4.0 |
| Ornette Coleman Change of the Century | 4.0 |
| Ornette Coleman Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation | 4.5 |
| Gleb Kolyadin Gleb Kolyadin | 3.5 |
| Suuns Felt | 2.5 |
| Yo La Tengo There’s A Riot Going On | 3.0 |
| Preoccupations New Material | 3.5 |
| Young Fathers Cocoa Sugar | 3.5 |
| David Byrne American Utopia | 3.0 |
| Sons of Kemet Your Queen Is a Reptile | 3.5 |
| The Voidz Virtue | 3.0 |
| Mount Eerie Now Only | 2.5 |
| Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour | 3.5 |
| Black Milk Fever | 4.0 |
| S. Carey Hundred Acres | 3.0 |
I don't see much effort put into any of these songs. Pleasant sounds, don't misunderstand me, but
the lack of desire to move forward might be problematic. It doesn't help that the best song Carey
wrote for this record ("Still, Still, Still.") didn't even end up featured on the release. |
| Superchunk What a Time to Be Alive | 4.0 |
| Kero Kero Bonito TOTEP | 3.0 |
| A.A.L. (Against All Logic) 2012-2017 | 3.5 |
| Tori Amos American Doll Posse | 3.0 |
| Sleater-Kinney Dig Me Out | 4.5 |
| Youth Lagoon The Year of Hibernation | 3.5 |
| Wayne Shorter Juju | 4.0 |
| Bauhaus In the Flat Field | 3.0 |
| The Presidents of the United States of America The Presidents of the United States of America | 3.5 |
| Owen At Home With Owen | 3.5 |
| Leonard Cohen Songs From a Room | 2.5 |
| mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes | 3.5 |
| The Yardbirds Having a Rave Up | 3.5 |
| New Order Republic | 3.0 |
| New Order Technique | 4.0 |
| New Order Brotherhood | 3.5 |
| New Order Low-Life | 3.5 |
| New Order Power, Corruption and Lies | 4.0 |
| New Order Movement | 3.5 |
| Emma Pollock In Search Of Harperfield | 3.5 |
| The Mothers of Invention We're Only in It for the Money | 3.0 |
| Tears for Fears Songs from the Big Chair | 3.0 |
| Black Tambourine Complete Recordings | 3.5 |
| No Age Everything In Between | 4.0 |
| Palm (USA-PA) Shadow Expert | 3.0 |
| Palm (USA-PA) Rock Island | 2.5 |
| John Coltrane Africa/Brass | 4.0 |
| Kate Bush Lionheart | 3.5 |
| Siouxsie and the Banshees A Kiss in the Dreamhouse | 4.0 |
| Peter Gabriel Passion OST | 3.5 |
| The Radio Dept. Lesser Matters | 3.5 |
| MGMT MGMT | 3.0 |
| MGMT Little Dark Age | 2.5 |
| Townes Van Zandt Our Mother the Mountain | 3.0 |
| The Replacements Pleased To Meet Me | 3.5 |
| Angelo Badalamenti Twin Peaks | 3.5 |
| Tal National Tantabara | 3.5 |
| The Kinks Face to Face | 3.5 |
| Spoon Gimme Fiction | 4.0 |
| Rush Hemispheres | 3.0 |
| Judas Priest Painkiller | 3.5 |
| Shakira Laundry Service | 3.0 |
| Ash Ra Tempel Ash Ra Tempel | 3.5 |
| Willie Colon and Ruben Blades Siembra | 3.5 |
| N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton | 4.0 |
| Panic! at the Disco Pretty. Odd. | 3.0 |
| Aphex Twin Analord 10 | 3.0 |
| AFX Hangable Auto Bulb EP.2 | 4.5 |
| Aphex Twin Digeridoo | 3.0 |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II | 3.0 |
| Faust Faust So Far | 3.0 |
| Car Seat Headrest Twin Fantasy (Face to Face) | 3.5 |
| The B-52s Wild Planet | 4.0 |
| No Age Snares Like A Haircut | 4.5 |
| Nils Frahm All Melody | 3.0 |
| Justin Timberlake Man of the Woods | 3.0 |
| tUnE-yArDs I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life | 3.0 |
| No Age Nouns | 3.5 |
| Aretha Franklin Aretha Now | 4.0 |
| Souls of Mischief 93 'til Infinity | 3.5 |
| James Holden The Inheritors | 3.5 |
| Charles Mingus Pithecanthropus Erectus | 4.0 |
| Mobb Deep The Infamous | 3.5 |
| Nico Muhly Mothertongue | 4.0 |
| Max Roach We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite | 3.5 |
| King Crimson Discipline | 3.5 |
| Spoon Girls Can Tell | 3.5 |
| Cannonball Adderley Somethin' Else | 4.0 |
| The Clash The Clash | 3.5 |
| Death Symbolic | 3.5 |
| Kylie Minogue Fever | 3.5 |
| Thelonious Monk Monk's Music | 4.0 |
| Prince 1999 | 3.5 |
| The New Pornographers Challengers | 3.5 |
| Al Green Call Me | 4.0 |
| Belle and Sebastian How To Solve Our Human Problems Pt. 1 | 3.0 |
| Eminem Revival | 3.0 |
| OutKast Aquemini | 4.0 |
| Iron Butterfly In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida | 3.0 |
| Woods of Desolation Torn Beyond Reason | 3.0 |
| Curtis Mayfield Curtis | 4.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen Born in the U.S.A. | 3.5 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 3.5 |
| Art Blakey Moanin' | 3.5 |
| Brian Eno Thursday Afternoon | 2.5 |
| The Sundays Blind | 3.0 |
| Sam Beam and Jesca Hoop Love Letter for Fire | 3.5 |
| Bill Evans Waltz for Debby | 4.0 |
| Amon Tobin Supermodified | 3.5 |
| Alvvays Alvvays | 3.5 |
| Andrew Hill Point of Departure | 4.5 |
| Moondrive Moondrive | 3.0 |
| Lucinda Williams Lucinda Williams | 3.5 |
| MGMT Oracular Spectacular | 3.0 |
| Scott Walker Scott 4 | 3.5 |
| Scott Walker Scott 3 | 3.0 |
| Charly Garcia Piano Bar | 3.0 |
| Invisible Durazno sangrando | 3.5 |
| Invisible El jardin de los presentes | 4.0 |
| Madonna Like a Prayer | 3.0 |
| Sonic Youth Bad Moon Rising | 3.5 |
| Sonic Youth Murray Street | 3.5 |
| Sonic Youth Sonic Nurse | 4.0 |
| Little Richard Here's Little Richard | 3.5 |
| Orchestra Baobab Specialist in All Styles | 3.5 |
| Etta James At Last! | 4.0 |
| Bedhead WhatFunLifeWas | 3.5 |
| Asobi Seksu Citrus | 4.0 |
| Novos Baianos Acabou Chorare | 3.5 |
| Depeche Mode Black Celebration | 2.5 |
| Violeta Parra Las ultimas composiciones de Violeta Parra | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Iron Maiden | 4.0 |
| Buena Vista Social Club Buena Vista Social Club | 3.5 |
| Rilo Kiley More Adventurous | 3.5 |
| Miles Davis Relaxin' With the Miles Davis Quintet | 4.0 |
| Miles Davis 'Round About Midnight | 3.5 |
| Art of Noise (Who's Afraid Of?) The Art Of Noise! | 4.5 |
| Justin Timberlake Justified | 4.0 |
| Jorge Ben A Tabua de Esmeralda | 4.5 |
| Swell Maps ....In "Jane From Occupied Europe" | 3.5 |
| The Cranberries Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? | 4.0 |
| Missy Elliott Miss E… So Addictive | 3.5 |
| Neil Young Tonight's the Night | 4.0 |
| Mouse on Mars Cache Coeur Naif | 3.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 4.0 |
| Laura Marling Alas, I Cannot Swim | 3.0 |
| Laura Marling I Speak Because I Can | 4.0 |
| Shame (UK) Songs of Praise | 3.0 |
| Charli XCX Pop 2 | 2.5 |
| Camila Cabello Camila | 3.5 |
| The Go! Team Semicircle | 4.0 |
| Jeff Rosenstock POST- | 3.5 |
| Emperor X Western Teleport | 3.5 |
| Emperor X Oversleepers International | 4.0 |
| Oxbow Thin Black Duke | 3.0 |
| Brockhampton SATURATION III | 2.5 |
| Call Super Arpo | 3.0 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Polygondwanaland | 3.5 |
| U2 Songs of Experience | 3.0 |
| The Band Music from Big Pink | 3.5 |
| Camel Mirage | 3.5 |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Sunny Day Real Estate | 4.0 |
| Kamasi Washington Harmony of Difference | 4.0 |
| The Julie Ruin Run Fast | 3.5 |
| Torres Three Futures | 3.5 |
| Terry Riley A Rainbow In Curved Air | 4.0 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 3.5 |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All | 4.0 |
| 12 Rods Gay? | 3.5 |
| Jesca Hoop Kismet | 4.0 |
| Benjamin Clementine I Tell A Fly | 3.5 |
| The Rolling Stones Their Satanic Majesties Request | 3.5 |
| TV on the Radio Young Liars | 3.0 |
| Genesis Nursery Cryme | 3.5 |
| Beck Colors | 3.0 |
| Fela Kuti Zombie | 4.0 |
| The Lemonheads It's a Shame About Ray | 3.5 |
| St. Vincent Masseduction | 3.0 |
| Ghostface Killah Supreme Clientele | 3.5 |
| Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile Lotta Sea Lice | 3.0 |
| Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book | 4.0 |
| Autechre Confield | 3.0 |
| Elton John Madman Across the Water | 4.0 |
| Margo Price All American Made | 3.5 |
| The Smiths Hatful of Hollow | 3.5 |
| Dido No Angel | 3.0 |
| Chance the Rapper Acid Rap | 4.0 |
| XTC Black Sea | 3.0 |
| XTC Drums And Wires | 4.0 |
| The Black Keys El Camino | 4.0 |
| The Black Keys Rubber Factory | 3.5 |
| Fever Ray Plunge | 2.5 |
| The Beatles Help! | 4.0 |
| The Beatles With the Beatles | 3.5 |
| Giorgio Moroder From Here to Eternity | 4.0 |
| Tori Amos The Beekeeper | 3.5 |
| Joan Manuel Serrat Dedicado a Antonio Machado, poeta | 3.5 |
| James Holden and The Animal Spirits The Animal Spirits | 4.0 |
| Penguin Cafe Orchestra Music from the Penguin Cafe | 3.0 |
| Avril Lavigne Let Go | 3.0 |
| The Ronettes ...Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes Featuring Veronica | 4.0 |
| Laurie Anderson Mister Heartbreak | 3.5 |
| Third Eye Blind Blue | 3.5 |
| Duke Ellington Ellington Uptown | 4.5 |
| Max Roach, Charles Mingus, and Duke Ellington Money Jungle | 3.5 |
| Misfits Beware | 3.5 |
| NoMeansNo Wrong | 3.5 |
| Bibio Phantom Brickworks | 3.0 |
| Bibio Ambivalence Avenue | 4.0 |
| Al Green I'm Still in Love With You | 4.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen Darkness on the Edge of Town | 3.5 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Flying Microtonal Banana | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son | 3.0 |
| Bruce Dickinson can't fucking sing on these songs. When his singing is raw it can pass, but whenever he goes for clean, "epic", vocals he sounds awful. It's an embarrassment. The rest of the band is doing ok, but not as well as they were doing a couple of years before. |
| Bob Dylan Love and Theft | 3.5 |
| Black Sabbath Vol. 4 | 3.5 |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath | 3.0 |
| Brian Eno and David Byrne My Life in the Bush of Ghosts | 3.0 |
| Dr. Dre The Chronic | 4.0 |
| Bjork Utopia | 3.5 |
| Circuit Des Yeux In Plain Speech | 3.5 |
| Weezer Pacific Daydream | 2.0 |
| Wolf Alice Visions of a Life | 3.5 |
| Circuit Des Yeux Reaching For Indigo | 3.5 |
| Julien Baker Turn Out The Lights | 3.0 |
| Taylor Swift Reputation | 3.0 |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All | 3.5 |
| Denver Musica, Gramatica, Gimnasia | 3.5 |
| Arcade Fire Everything Now | 3.0 |
| Ornette Coleman This Is Our Music | 4.0 |
| Lucinda Williams Sweet Old World | 3.5 |
| Lucinda Williams Car Wheels on a Gravel Road | 4.5 |
| Fazerdaze Morningside | 3.5 |
| Kate Bush Aerial | 3.0 |
| Sonny Rollins Saxophone Colossus | 3.5 |
| Mogwai Come On Die Young | 3.0 |
| Spoon Kill the Moonlight | 4.5 |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival Bayou Country | 3.5 |
| The Soft Boys Underwater Moonlight | 3.5 |
| Seefeel Quique | 4.0 |
| Murcof Remembranza | 3.5 |
| Young Marble Giants Testcard EP | 3.0 |
| Young Marble Giants Colossal Youth | 3.5 |
| Steel Pulse Handsworth Revolution | 4.0 |
| Alice Glass Alice Glass | 2.5 |
| Swirlies They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days in the Glittering World of the Salons | 3.5 |
| Drive-By Truckers Decoration Day | 3.5 |
| Joni Mitchell Song to a Seagull | 4.0 |
| Franz Schubert Symphony No. 3 in D major, D. 200 | 4.0 |
| Franz Schubert "Unfinished" Symphony No.8, D.759 | 4.5 |
| Prefab Sprout Steve McQueen | 3.0 |
| Iris DeMent My Life | 3.5 |
| Iris DeMent Infamous Angel | 4.0 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Replica | 4.0 |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd | 4.0 |
| Black Flag Damaged | 3.5 |
| Elliott Smith From a Basement on the Hill | 4.0 |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Burnin' | 3.5 |
| Aretha Franklin Lady Soul | 4.0 |
| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart The Echo of Pleasure | 3.0 |
| Wipers Over the Edge | 3.5 |
| The Clientele Suburban Light | 3.0 |
| Cream Disraeli Gears | 3.5 |
| Frederic Chopin Nocturnes, Op. 55 | 4.5 |
| Ramones Rocket to Russia | 3.5 |
| Ramones Ramones | 4.0 |
| The Smiths The Smiths | 3.0 |
| The Smiths Meat Is Murder | 3.0 |
| The Smiths Strangeways, Here We Come | 3.5 |
| Wilco Sky Blue Sky | 3.5 |
| Judee Sill Judee Sill | 3.5 |
| John Martyn Solid Air | 3.5 |
| The Cranberries No Need to Argue | 3.5 |
| Regina Spektor 11:11 | 3.5 |
| Thelonious Monk Monk's Dream | 3.5 |
| Eric Dolphy Out There | 4.0 |
| Seru Giran La Grasa de las Capitales | 3.5 |
| Zola Jesus Okovi | 3.5 |
| Shakira ¿Dónde Están los Ladrones? | 4.5 |
| Yo La Tengo Summer Sun | 4.0 |
| Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong Ella and Louis | 3.5 |
| The Who My Generation | 4.0 |
| Rostam Half-Light | 3.0 |
| The Cardigans Life | 3.5 |
| Ariel Pink Dedicated to Bobby Jameson | 3.5 |
| Marnie Stern This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It... | 4.0 |
| Miles Davis Sketches of Spain | 4.5 |
| Miles Davis Filles de Kilimanjaro | 3.5 |
| Modern English After the Snow | 4.0 |
| Aphex Twin On | 3.5 |
| The Horrors V | 3.0 |
| Tori Amos Live at Montreux 1991/1992 | 4.0 |
| Tori Amos Native Invader | 2.5 |
| Cocteau Twins Lullabies | 3.5 |
| Fela Kuti Expensive Shit | 4.5 |
| Liz Phair Whip-Smart | 3.5 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Always Foreign | 2.5 |
| Rilo Kiley The Execution of All Things | 4.0 |
| Four Tet New Energy | 4.0 |
| The National Sleep Well Beast | 3.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Luciferian Towers | 3.0 |
| Margo Price Weakness | 4.0 |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest | 3.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Shields | 4.0 |
| Steven Wilson To the Bone | 2.5 |
| Brockhampton SATURATION II | 4.0 |
| Grizzly Bear Painted Ruins | 3.0 |
| The War On Drugs A Deeper Understanding | 3.0 |
| Mogwai Every Country's Sun | 3.0 |
| Alvvays Antisocialites | 4.0 |
| LCD Soundsystem LCD Soundsystem | 3.5 |
| LCD Soundsystem American Dream | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Villains | 3.0 |
| Brand New Science Fiction | 3.0 |
| Flotation Toy Warning The Machine That Made Us | 3.0 |
| The Rolling Stones Between the Buttons | 3.5 |
| Jamiroquai Travelling Without Moving | 3.0 |
| Dalek Absence | 4.0 |
| Duke Ellington The Far East Suite | 4.5 |
| The The Soul Mining | 3.0 |
| HAIM Days Are Gone | 3.0 |
| Beastie Boys Check Your Head | 3.5 |
| Mogwai Happy Songs for Happy People | 3.0 |
| Coldplay Kaleidoscope | 2.5 |
| Ennio Morricone The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | 4.0 |
| Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell | 3.0 |
| Waxahatchee Out in the Storm | 3.0 |
| Taylor Swift Fearless | 3.0 |
| Loretta Lynn Van Lear Rose | 3.5 |
| Roxy Music Country Life | 3.5 |
| Roxy Music Stranded | 3.5 |
| Tyler, the Creator Flower Boy | 3.0 |
| X Japan Art of Life | 3.0 |
| Lou Reed Metal Machine Music | 1.0 |
| Lou Reed Transformer | 3.0 |
| Lou Reed Berlin | 3.0 |
| Los Piratas Ultrasonica | 3.5 |
| Miles Davis Milestones | 4.0 |
| Meta Meta EP 3 | 3.5 |
| The Delgados Hate | 3.5 |
| The Police Reggatta de Blanc | 3.5 |
| Photek Natural Born Killa | 3.5 |
| Wings Band on the Run | 4.5 |
| Moby 18 | 3.5 |
| Gil Scott-Heron Pieces of a Man | 3.5 |
| Autechre Incunabula | 3.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Add Violence | 3.0 |
| Lana Del Rey Lust For Life | 2.0 |
| Joy Division An Ideal for Living | 3.5 |
| Queen A Night at the Opera | 3.0 |
| HAIM Something To Tell You | 3.5 |
| Broken Social Scene Hug of Thunder | 3.5 |
| Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun | 3.5 |
| Real Estate In Mind | 2.5 |
| Aretha Franklin I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You | 3.5 |
| Arthur Russell World of Echo | 3.0 |
| Do Make Say Think Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn | 3.0 |
| Wayne Shorter Speak No Evil | 4.0 |
| Yes Relayer | 4.0 |
| The Byrds The Notorious Byrd Brothers | 3.5 |
| Butthole Surfers Locust Abortion Technician | 3.5 |
| Kelly Lee Owens Kelly Lee Owens | 3.5 |
| Gustav Mahler Das Lied von der Erde | 4.5 |
| Jon Hopkins Insides | 4.0 |
| Goldfrapp Silver Eye | 3.0 |
| Sampha Process | 3.5 |
| Slayer Reign in Blood | 3.5 |
| Tricky Pre-Millenium Tension | 3.5 |
| St. Vincent Actor | 3.5 |
| Marvin Gaye What's Going On | 3.0 |
| Husker Du New Day Rising | 4.0 |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come | 4.0 |
| maudlin of the Well Bath | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti | 3.5 |
| Supertramp Breakfast in America | 3.0 |
| Tindersticks Tindersticks | 3.5 |
| Emma Pollock Watch The Fireworks | 3.5 |
| T. Rex Electric Warrior | 3.0 |
| Harmonium Les Cinq Saisons | 3.0 |
| Dirty Three Ocean Songs | 3.0 |
| The White Stripes De Stijl | 3.5 |
| The Durutti Column LC | 3.0 |
| Timber Timbre Sincerely, Future Pollution | 3.0 |
| Spacemen 3 The Perfect Prescription | 3.0 |
| Gas Narkopop | 3.0 |
| Carole King Tapestry | 3.5 |
| The Chameleons Strange Times | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Meeting of the Waters | 3.0 |
| Okkervil River Black Sheep Boy | 3.0 |
| Francoise Hardy La Question | 3.0 |
| Francoise Hardy Tous les Garcons et les Filles | 3.5 |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz | 3.0 |
| Gorillaz Humanz | 2.0 |
| Joni Mitchell Hejira | 3.5 |
| Erykah Badu Baduizm | 4.0 |
| Charly Bliss Guppy | 3.5 |
| Jesca Hoop Hunting My Dress | 4.0 |
| Kasabian For Crying Out Loud | 3.0 |
| Eurythmics Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) | 3.5 |
| Slowdive Slowdive (LP) | 3.0 |
| Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler | 3.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky How Strange, Innocence | 3.0 |
| Joan Baez Joan Baez | 4.0 |
| Perfume Genius No Shape | 3.0 |
| The Feelies Crazy Rhythms | 3.5 |
| The Feelies The Good Earth | 3.5 |
| Sugar Copper Blue | 4.0 |
| Fennesz Endless Summer | 3.5 |
| Mac DeMarco Salad Days | 3.0 |
| Mac DeMarco This Old Dog | 3.0 |
| Exuma Exuma | 3.5 |
| The Beta Band Champion Versions | 3.5 |
| At the Drive-In in•ter a•li•a | 3.0 |
| Mount Eerie Ocean Roar | 3.0 |
| The Mothers of Invention Freak Out! | 3.0 |
| Charles Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus | 3.5 |
| Virginia Astley From Gardens Where We Feel Secure | 4.0 |
| Jlin Black Origami | 3.5 |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace | 3.5 |
| Burial Subtemple/Beachfires | 3.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R | 3.5 |
| Pictures of Vernon Pictures Of Vernon | 3.5 |
| Curtis Mayfield Superfly | 4.5 |
| Madonna True Blue | 4.5 |
| Fugazi End Hits | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Long Tall Sally | 3.5 |
| Steely Dan Aja | 4.0 |
| Ani DiFranco Dilate | 3.5 |
| Jesu/Sun Kil Moon 30 Seconds to the Decline of Planet Earth | 3.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Tallahassee | 3.5 |
| The Mountain Goats Goths | 3.5 |
| alt-J An Awesome Wave | 3.5 |
| alt-J This Is All Yours | 3.0 |
| alt-J Relaxer | 3.5 |
| The Beach Boys Today! | 3.5 |
| The Beach Boys Smiley Smile | 3.5 |
| Jandek Chair Beside a Window | 3.0 |
| PJ Harvey Is This Desire? | 3.0 |
| PJ Harvey Dry | 4.0 |
| Alice Coltrane Journey in Satchidananda | 3.5 |
| Beat Happening You Turn Me On | 3.5 |
| Stereo Total Musique Automatique | 3.0 |
| John Coltrane Olé Coltrane | 4.0 |
| Neil Young Rust Never Sleeps | 4.5 |
| Anathema The Optimist | 3.0 |
| Kate Bush The Sensual World | 4.0 |
| Haruomi Hosono Watering a Flower | 3.0 |
| Young Thug BEAUTIFUL THUGGER GIRLS | 4.0 |
| Andrew W.K. I Get Wet | 3.0 |
| Herbie Hancock Empyrean Isles | 3.5 |
| The Roches The Roches | 4.0 |
| Cocteau Twins Four-Calendar Cafe | 3.0 |
| Los Planetas Unidad de Desplazamiento | 3.5 |
| Los Planetas Zona temporalmente autónoma | 3.5 |
| Thelonious Monk Misterioso | 4.5 |
| Thelonious Monk Brilliant Corners | 4.0 |
| X (USA) Los Angeles | 4.0 |
| Richard Dawson Peasant | 3.5 |
| Jefferson Airplane After Bathing at Baxter's | 3.5 |
| The Cure Faith | 3.0 |
| The Gloria Record A Lull in Traffic | 3.0 |
| Alex G Rocket | 4.0 |
| Lorde Melodrama | 3.5 |
| Stevens/Dessner/Muhly/McAlister Planetarium | 3.0 |
| Fleet Foxes Crack-Up | 3.5 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Ti Amo | 2.5 |
| Minor Threat In My Eyes | 3.5 |
| Paramore After Laughter | 3.5 |
| Minor Threat Salad Days | 4.5 |
| Minor Threat Minor Threat | 3.5 |
| Mission of Burma Signals, Calls, and Marches | 3.5 |
| Glenn Branca The Ascension | 4.0 |
| The New Pornographers Whiteout Conditions | 4.0 |
| The New Pornographers Mass Romantic | 4.0 |
| Fishmans 98.12.28 Otokotachi no Wakare | 4.5 |
| Twerps Range Anxiety | 3.0 |
| Portishead Dummy | 4.5 |
| Portishead Portishead | 3.5 |
| Portishead Third | 4.0 |
| The Magnetic Fields Distant Plastic Trees | 3.0 |
| Sannhet Revisionist | 3.0 |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain Damage and Joy | 2.5 |
| Cocteau Twins Tiny Dynamine | 3.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar DAMN. | 4.0 |
| Stereolab Emperor Tomato Ketchup | 3.5 |
| Fishmans Long Season | 4.0 |
| The Chemical Brothers Surrender | 4.0 |
| Autechre Garbage | 3.5 |
| Tricky Maxinquaye | 3.5 |
| Ride Going Blank Again | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Broken | 3.5 |
| Arca Arca | 3.5 |
| Mount Eerie A Crow Looked At Me | 2.5 |
| Future Islands The Far Field | 3.0 |
| Father John Misty Pure Comedy | 2.5 |
| Neurosis Times of Grace | 3.0 |
| The Courtneys II | 3.5 |
| Jackson C. Frank Jackson C. Frank | 3.5 |
| Dirty Projectors Dirty Projectors | 3.5 |
| Slowdive Slowdive | 3.0 |
| Slowdive Pygmalion | 3.0 |
| Elbow Asleep In The Back | 3.0 |
| The Who The Who Sell Out | 3.5 |
| The Flaming Lips Clouds Taste Metallic | 3.5 |
| Los Campesinos! Sick Scenes | 3.0 |
| Andrew Bird The Mysterious Production Of Eggs | 3.5 |
| Sly and The Family Stone Stand! | 4.5 |
| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Only Run | 2.5 |
| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah The Tourist | 3.0 |
| Cocteau Twins Aikea-Guinea | 4.0 |
| Cocteau Twins The Spangle Maker | 4.5 |
| Cocteau Twins Victorialand | 3.0 |
| At the Drive-In Vaya | 4.0 |
| Regina Spektor Far | 3.5 |
| The Pretty Things S.F. Sorrow | 3.5 |
| Planning for Burial Below the House | 3.0 |
| Elvis Costello My Aim Is True | 3.5 |
| Mogwai Young Team | 4.0 |
| The Shins Heartworms | 3.5 |
| The Shins Chutes Too Narrow | 4.0 |
| PJ Harvey White Chalk | 3.5 |
| Laura Marling My Manic and I | 3.5 |
| Laura Marling Semper Femina | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy | 3.5 |
| Tubeway Army Replicas | 3.5 |
| Belle and Sebastian 3.. 6.. 9 Seconds Of Light | 3.5 |
| Fleet Foxes Sun Giant | 3.0 |
| Spoon Hot Thoughts | 3.0 |
| Vince Guaraldi Trio A Charlie Brown Christmas | 4.0 |
| Peter Gabriel So | 3.5 |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die | 3.5 |
| Remo Drive Greatest Hits | 3.5 |
| Prince Sign o' the Times | 3.0 |
| Tool Lateralus | 3.5 |
| Sun Kil Moon Common As Light and Love Are Red Valleys of Blood | 2.0 |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave | 3.5 |
| Mineral EndSerenading | 3.5 |
| Mineral The Power of Failing | 3.5 |
| Cloud Nothings Attack on Memory | 4.0 |
| Cloud Nothings Life Without Sound | 3.0 |
| Jesca Hoop Memories Are Now | 4.5 |
| Tim Buckley Blue Afternoon | 3.0 |
| Tori Amos Strange Little Girls | 2.0 |
| Jaki Byard The Jaki Byard Experience | 3.5 |
| Patti Smith Easter | 3.5 |
| Priests Nothing Feels Natural | 3.0 |
| Uncle Tupelo Anodyne | 3.5 |
| Popol Vuh In den Garten Pharaos | 3.0 |
| Kairon IRSE! Ruination | 3.5 |
| Mike Oldfield Ommadawn | 4.0 |
| Aphex Twin Donkey Rhubarb | 3.5 |
| Drive-By Truckers The Dirty South | 4.0 |
| Elbow Little Fictions | 3.0 |
| Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come | 3.5 |
| Madonna Like a Virgin | 3.5 |
| Max Richter Three Worlds: Music from Woolf Works | 3.5 |
| Miles Davis Miles Smiles | 3.5 |
| The Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Out | 4.0 |
| Stevie Wonder Songs in the Key of Life | 5.0 |
| Four Tet Pause | 4.0 |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival Green River | 3.5 |
| The Pogues Rum Sodomy & the Lash | 3.5 |
| Jens Lekman Life Will See You Now | 3.5 |
| Animal Collective Centipede Hz | 3.0 |
| Animal Collective The Painters | 3.5 |
| Neil Cicierega Mouth Moods | 3.5 |
| Fleetwood Mac Then Play On | 3.0 |
| Sui Generis Pequeñas anécdotas sobre las instituciones | 4.0 |
| Lauryn Hill The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill | 4.0 |
| The Microphones Mount Eerie | 3.0 |
| Yes The Yes Album | 3.5 |
| Metallica Metallica | 3.5 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 3.5 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3 | 3.5 |
| A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders | 3.5 |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing | 3.5 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold as Love | 3.0 |
| Siouxsie and the Banshees Juju | 4.0 |
| Siouxsie and the Banshees Kaleidoscope | 3.5 |
| De La Soul 3 Feet High and Rising | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Michigan | 4.0 |
| Charles Mingus Blues & Roots | 4.0 |
| Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca | 4.5 |
| Dirty Projectors Swing Lo Magellan | 3.5 |
| Vashti Bunyan Just Another Diamond Day | 3.5 |
| Brian Eno Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks | 3.5 |
| AFI AFI (The Blood Album) | 2.5 |
| Bob Dylan Nashville Skyline | 3.0 |
| King Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic | 3.5 |
| Talk Talk The Colour of Spring | 3.5 |
| Opeth Still Life | 3.0 |
| Xiu Xiu Forget | 3.5 |
| Jucara Marcal Encarnado | 3.5 |
| Japandroids Celebration Rock | 3.5 |
| Japandroids Near To The Wild Heart Of Life | 3.5 |
| Japandroids Post-Nothing | 3.5 |
| Jamie xx Far Nearer / Beat For | 4.0 |
| The xx xx | 3.5 |
| The xx I See You | 3.0 |
| The Flaming Lips Oczy Mlody | 2.5 |
| Brian Eno Reflection | 2.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Not the Actual Events | 2.5 |
| Ravi Shankar Three Ragas | 4.0 |
| Steel Pulse True Democracy | 3.5 |
| Throwing Muses The Real Ramona | 3.5 |
| Stevie Wonder Talking Book | 4.5 |
| ABBA Arrival | 4.0 |
| Hilary Hahn and Hauschka Silfra | 3.5 |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak | 3.5 |
| The Byrds Younger Than Yesterday | 3.5 |
| The Pretenders Pretenders | 3.5 |
| Ween Chocolate and Cheese | 2.5 |
| Spray Paint Feel the Clamps | 3.5 |
| Justice Woman | 3.0 |
| Caetano Veloso Caetano Veloso [Tropicália] | 3.5 |
| Peter Gabriel Car | 3.5 |
| Cap'n Jazz Analphabetapolothology | 4.0 |
| Elvis Presley Elvis Presley | 3.5 |
| Childish Gambino "Awaken, My Love!" | 3.5 |
| Joni Mitchell The Hissing of Summer Lawns | 4.0 |
| Madonna Ray of Light | 3.5 |
| The Free Design Kites Are Fun | 4.0 |
| Envy All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead | 3.5 |
| Charly Garcia Clics Modernos | 3.5 |
| Game Theory Lolita Nation | 4.0 |
| Volcano Choir Repave | 3.0 |
| Florence and the Machine Lungs | 3.5 |
| Blur Blur | 3.5 |
| Blur Parklife | 3.5 |
| Blur The Magic Whip | 3.0 |
| Iceage You're Nothing | 3.0 |
| Beach House Thank Your Lucky Stars | 2.5 |
| Beach House Depression Cherry | 3.0 |
| George Harrison All Things Must Pass | 3.5 |
| XTC English Settlement | 3.5 |
| XTC Skylarking | 3.5 |
| Alanis Morissette Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie | 3.5 |
| Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill | 4.0 |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival Willy and the Poor Boys | 4.5 |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival Cosmo's Factory | 3.5 |
| Tinashe Nightride | 3.5 |
| Coil Horse Rotorvator | 3.0 |
| Fiona Apple When the Pawn... | 3.5 |
| The Brave Little Abacus Masked Dancers | 4.0 |
| Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young Crosby, Stills and Nash | 3.5 |
| Pharoah Sanders Karma | 4.0 |
| Ulrich Schnauss No Further Ahead Than Today | 3.0 |
| David Bowie Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) | 3.5 |
| Yo La Tengo Electr-O-Pura | 3.5 |
| tUnE-yArDs w h o k i l l | 4.0 |
| Neu! Neu! | 3.0 |
| Neu! Neu! '75 | 4.0 |
| Neu! Neu! 2 | 3.5 |
| Throbbing Gristle 20 Jazz Funk Greats | 3.5 |
| David Sylvian Secrets of the Beehive | 3.0 |
| The Radio Dept. Running Out of Love | 3.5 |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister | 4.0 |
| Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison | 3.5 |
| Otis Redding Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul | 4.0 |
| Kate Bush Never for Ever | 3.5 |
| Guided by Voices Alien Lanes | 3.5 |
| Lady Gaga Joanne | 2.5 |
| Burial Street Halo | 3.5 |
| Norah Jones Come Away with Me | 3.5 |
| Miles Davis Jack Johnson | 4.5 |
| Klaus Schulze X | 3.5 |
| Lambchop FLOTUS | 3.0 |
| Jonathan Richman I, Jonathan | 3.5 |
| Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk | 3.0 |
| Paul McCartney Ram | 4.0 |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Ocean Rain | 4.0 |
| A Tribe Called Quest We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service | 3.0 |
| Placebo Sleeping with Ghosts | 3.5 |
| Placebo Without You I'm Nothing | 3.5 |
| Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto Getz/Gilberto | 3.5 |
| Miles Davis Bitches Brew | 4.0 |
| Lambchop Is a Woman | 2.5 |
| The Gun Club Fire of Love | 3.0 |
| Big Black Atomizer | 3.5 |
| Massive Attack Blue Lines | 3.5 |
| Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition | 4.0 |
| J Dilla Donuts | 3.0 |
| American Football American Football EP | 4.5 |
| American Football American Football (LP2) | 3.0 |
| Mbongwana Star From Kinshasa | 3.5 |
| The Doors Strange Days | 3.0 |
| The Nerves The Nerves | 3.5 |
| Built to Spill There's Nothing Wrong with Love | 3.5 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 3.5 |
| Townes Van Zandt Townes Van Zandt | 3.5 |
| Phantogram Three | 3.0 |
| Brian Eno Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) | 4.0 |
| The KLF Chill Out | 3.0 |
| Petar Dundov Ideas From The Pond | 3.5 |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Catch A Fire | 4.5 |
| Alcest Kodama | 3.5 |
| Jenny Hval Blood Bitch | 3.0 |
| The message doesn't get across at all, and the sequencing of the album is kind of terrible (Did anyone really need those noise and ambient interludes? Really?), but there are a bunch of tracks that should be saved ("Conceptual Romance", "Female Vampire" and other few) for reasons that anyone would understand. Jenny is a cool musician with cool ideas, but this is very messed up. |
| Agalloch The Mantle | 3.0 |
| Joni Mitchell Clouds | 4.0 |
| Japan Gentlemen Take Polaroids | 3.0 |
| Regina Spektor Remember Us To Life | 3.0 |
| Low I Could Live in Hope | 2.5 |
| Bon Iver 22, A Million | 4.0 |
| Fugazi Red Medicine | 3.5 |
| Coil The Ape Of Naples | 3.5 |
| Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam I Had a Dream That You Were Mine | 3.5 |
| Bob Dylan John Wesley Harding | 3.5 |
| Gary Numan The Pleasure Principle | 4.0 |
| How to Dress Well Care | 3.0 |
| The New Pornographers Twin Cinema | 4.0 |
| James Carr You Got My Mind Messed Up | 4.0 |
| Francis and the Lights Farewell, Starlite! | 3.5 |
| Various Artists No New York | 3.5 |
| Lisa Germano Geek The Girl | 3.5 |
| Nicolas Jaar Sirens | 3.5 |
| Sonic Youth Experimental Jet Set, Trash, and No Star | 3.5 |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Diary | 4.0 |
| Sunny Day Real Estate How It Feels To Be Something On | 3.5 |
| Grimes Halfaxa | 3.0 |
| Roxy Music Roxy Music | 3.5 |
| The Sound Jeopardy | 4.0 |
| Soda Stereo Dynamo | 3.5 |
| The Mountain Goats All Hail West Texas | 3.5 |
| Sly and The Family Stone There's A Riot Goin' On | 4.0 |
| Against Me! Shape Shift With Me | 3.0 |
| The Police Synchronicity | 3.0 |
| Touche Amore Stage Four | 3.5 |
| Goldfrapp Felt Mountain | 3.5 |
| John Coltrane Ascension | 3.0 |
| The Replacements Let It Be | 3.0 |
| Wilco Schmilco | 3.0 |
| Broder Daniel Forever | 3.0 |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms | 3.0 |
| Dead Can Dance Within the Realm of a Dying Sun | 3.0 |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality | 4.5 |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid | 3.5 |
| M.I.A. AIM | 3.5 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree | 3.0 |
| Philip Glass Glassworks | 4.0 |
| Steve Reich Different Trains/Electric Counterpoint | 3.5 |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Jupiter" Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551 | 3.5 |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550 | 4.5 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 | 5.0 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93 | 4.0 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 | 4.5 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven "Pastoral" Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 | 4.0 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in E♭ “Eroica” Op. 55 | 3.5 |
| A.k.a the one that's overrated. Head straight to the last four symphonies |
| Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 | 4.0 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven "Pathétique" Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 | 4.5 |
| Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me | 3.5 |
| Banks and Steelz Anything But Words | 3.0 |
| Ride Fall | 3.5 |
| Taylor Swift Red | 3.5 |
| Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Safe As Milk | 4.0 |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Exodus | 4.0 |
| Bonnie 'Prince' Billy I See a Darkness | 3.5 |
| Angel Olsen My Woman | 2.5 |
| The first half is ok, nothing special (although "Never Be Mine" may give you reasons to pay attention). The second half is basically garbage. This is the classic example of a songwriter who has no compositional talent whatsoever and therefore proceeds to slow everything down in search for firm emotional ground, which, of course, doesn't necessarily have to be there. Vague lyrics that could have been written by everyone and thick layers of reverb everywhere. Nothing to offer. |
| De La Soul and the Anonymous Nobody... | 3.5 |
| Primal Scream Screamadelica | 3.5 |
| Slowdive Holding Our Breath | 3.0 |
| Chapterhouse Whirlpool | 3.5 |
| Javiera Mena Esquemas juveniles | 3.5 |
| Frank Ocean Blonde | 3.5 |
| Meat Puppets Meat Puppets II | 3.5 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds No More Shall We Part | 3.5 |
| Devo Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! | 3.5 |
| Suuns Hold/Still | 2.5 |
| Ian William Craig Centres | 3.0 |
| Tori Amos To Venus and Back | 3.0 |
| Crystal Castles Amnesty (I) | 3.0 |
| Preoccupations Preoccupations | 3.5 |
| Tyler, the Creator Cherry Bomb | 1.0 |
| Tyler, the Creator Goblin | 2.0 |
| John Coltrane Giant Steps | 3.5 |
| The Jam Sound Affects | 3.0 |
| Jim O'Rourke Halfway to a Threeway | 3.0 |
| Kraftwerk Radio-Activity | 3.5 |
| Fabrizio De Andre Non al denaro non all'amore né al cielo | 4.0 |
| Fabrizio De Andre La buona novella | 3.5 |
| Cocteau Twins Blue Bell Knoll | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens All Delighted People | 4.0 |
| The Byrds Fifth Dimension | 3.5 |
| The Kinks Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) | 3.5 |
| Simple Minds New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) | 3.0 |
| Damien Jurado Rehearsals for Departure | 3.5 |
| Leon Vynehall Rojus | 3.5 |
| Wild Beasts Boy King | 2.5 |
| Charles Mingus Mingus Ah Um | 4.0 |
| Aphex Twin Drukqs | 3.5 |
| Silvio Rodriguez Al Final de este Viaje | 4.5 |
| Jamila Woods HEAVN | 3.5 |
| Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Dazzle Ships | 3.5 |
| Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Architecture & Morality | 3.5 |
| Victor Jara El derecho de vivir en paz | 3.5 |
| GZA Liquid Swords | 3.0 |
| The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound | 3.0 |
| Brand New 3 Demos, Reworked | 3.0 |
| The Chemical Brothers Exit Planet Dust | 3.5 |
| Elvis Costello This Year's Model | 3.5 |
| Husker Du Zen Arcade | 3.5 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Tender Prey | 3.5 |
| Bat For Lashes The Bride | 3.0 |
| Stephen Malkmus Stephen Malkmus | 4.0 |
| Joan Manuel Serrat Mediterraneo | 4.0 |
| Aphex Twin Cheetah EP | 4.0 |
| Caetano Veloso Transa | 3.5 |
| The Rolling Stones Aftermath | 3.5 |
| Blood Orange Freetown Sound | 3.0 |
| Madonna Madonna | 4.0 |
| Unwound Repetition | 3.5 |
| Belle and Sebastian The Life Pursuit | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets | 3.0 |
| Peter Gabriel Security | 4.0 |
| Gustavo Cerati Amor Amarillo | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin | 4.5 |
| Garbage Strange Little Birds | 3.0 |
| Garbage Version 2.0 | 3.5 |
| Garbage Garbage | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Getaway | 3.0 |
| John Frusciante Curtains | 3.0 |
| Fleetwood Mac Tusk | 3.5 |
| White Lung Paradise | 3.5 |
| Mitski Puberty 2 | 3.5 |
| The Rolling Stones Exile on Main St. | 3.5 |
| The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers | 4.5 |
| The Avalanches Wildflower | 3.5 |
| The B-52s The B-52's | 4.5 |
| Kyuss Welcome to Sky Valley | 4.0 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 3.5 |
| Patti Smith Radio Ethiopia | 3.5 |
| Pixies Come On Pilgrim | 3.0 |
| Keane Perfect Symmetry | 3.0 |
| Keane Hopes & Fears | 3.5 |
| AFI Sing the Sorrow | 3.0 |
| Depeche Mode Music for the Masses | 3.0 |
| Jessica Pratt On Your Own Love Again | 3.0 |
| Green Day ¡UNO! | 3.0 |
| Green Day 21st Century Breakdown | 3.0 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 4.5 |
| Green Day Insomniac | 3.5 |
| Green Day Dookie | 4.0 |
| Paul Simon Stranger to Stranger | 3.5 |
| Laurie Anderson Big Science | 4.5 |
| Naked City Torture Garden | 3.5 |
| Gas Pop | 3.0 |
| John Fahey The Yellow Princess | 3.5 |
| John Fahey Volume 6: Days Have Gone By | 3.5 |
| The Cure Seventeen Seconds | 3.0 |
| The Cure The Head on the Door | 3.5 |
| Regina Spektor Songs | 3.5 |
| Tegan and Sara Love You to Death | 3.5 |
| Tegan and Sara The Con | 3.0 |
| The Prayer Chain Mercury | 3.0 |
| Swans The Glowing Man | 3.0 |
| Gira does the same things he has always done, which makes you wonder why aren't you listening to The Seer instead. |
| Meta Meta MM3 | 3.5 |
| Meta Meta MetaL MetaL | 3.5 |
| Paul Simon Paul Simon | 4.0 |
| Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out | 2.0 |
| Of Monsters and Men Beneath the Skin | 2.5 |
| Brandon Flowers The Desired Effect | 3.0 |
| Aereogramme My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go | 3.0 |
| Owen Pallett Heartland | 3.5 |
| Pet Shop Boys Behaviour | 3.0 |
| This Heat Deceit | 4.0 |
| The Caretaker An Empty Bliss Beyond This World | 3.0 |
| The Strokes First Impressions of Earth | 3.5 |
| The Strokes Comedown Machine | 3.0 |
| The Strokes Future Present Past | 2.5 |
| Elton John Honky Chateau | 4.0 |
| Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road | 3.5 |
| The Hotelier Goodness | 3.5 |
| Kasabian West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum | 3.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie The Photo Album | 3.5 |
| The Byrds Mr. Tambourine Man | 3.5 |
| Barclay James Harvest Once Again | 3.5 |
| Aesop Rock Labor Days | 4.0 |
| The Beatles A Hard Day's Night | 4.0 |
| The Books The Lemon Of Pink | 4.5 |
| The Books Thought For Food | 4.0 |
| The Chameleons What Does Anything Mean? Basically | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse Strangers to Ourselves | 3.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas | 4.0 |
| Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga | 3.5 |
| Television Adventure | 4.0 |
| U2 Songs of Innocence | 2.5 |
| U2 Achtung Baby | 3.0 |
| Patricio Rey y sus redonditos de ricota Oktubre | 4.0 |
| U2 War | 4.0 |
| Los Planetas Super 8 | 3.5 |
| Los Planetas Una Semana en el Motor de un Autobús | 4.5 |
| Car Seat Headrest Teens of Denial | 3.5 |
| Mourn (SPA) Ha, Ha, He | 4.5 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Sometimes The Blues Is Just A Passing Bird | 3.5 |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes | 3.5 |
| Soda Stereo Cancion Animal | 4.0 |
| The Sundays Reading, Writing and Arithmetic | 3.5 |
| Naked City Naked City | 4.5 |
| Roxy Music For Your Pleasure | 3.5 |
| Gang of Four Entertainment! | 3.5 |
| Comus First Utterance | 3.5 |
| Popol Vuh Hosianna Mantra | 3.5 |
| Robert Wyatt Rock Bottom | 4.0 |
| Patti Smith Horses | 4.5 |
| Chico Buarque Construção | 4.0 |
| Steve Reich Music for 18 Musicians | 5.0 |
| Big Star Third/Sister Lovers | 3.5 |
| Arvo Part Tabula Rasa | 4.0 |
| Neil Young Harvest | 3.5 |
| Wire Chairs Missing | 4.0 |
| Wire 154 | 4.0 |
| Funkadelic Maggot Brain | 3.5 |
| Wire Pink Flag | 3.5 |
| Neil Young On the Beach | 3.5 |
| The Stooges Fun House | 3.5 |
| Stevie Wonder Innervisions | 4.0 |
| Bob Dylan Another Side of Bob Dylan | 3.5 |
| The Stooges The Stooges | 3.0 |
| The Millennium Begin | 3.0 |
| The Sonics Here Are the Sonics | 3.0 |
| The Kinks Something Else by The Kinks | 3.5 |
| Jefferson Airplane Surrealistic Pillow | 4.0 |
| The United States of America The United States of America | 3.5 |
| Nick Drake Five Leaves Left | 3.5 |
| The Moody Blues Days of Future Passed | 3.5 |
| The Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet | 4.5 |
| Leonard Cohen Songs of Love and Hate | 3.5 |
| The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed | 4.0 |
| Leonard Cohen Songs of Leonard Cohen | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II | 3.0 |
| Fugazi Fugazi | 4.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen Nebraska | 3.5 |
| My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything | 3.5 |
| Glenn Branca Lesson No. 1 | 4.0 |
| The Replacements Tim | 3.5 |
| The Fall Hex Enduction Hour | 3.5 |
| The Stone Roses The Stone Roses | 4.0 |
| U2 The Joshua Tree | 4.5 |
| My Bloody Valentine You Made Me Realise | 4.0 |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa | 4.5 |
| Talk Talk Spirit of Eden | 3.5 |
| Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique | 4.5 |
| Wipers Youth of America | 3.5 |
| Autechre LP5 | 3.5 |
| Autechre Amber | 3.5 |
| Stereolab Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements | 3.0 |
| Suede Dog Man Star | 3.0 |
| Liz Phair Exile In Guyville | 4.5 |
| I didn't like this one at first, but getting used to Phair's manerisms helps a lot. Although it's certainly an album that could have been improved by letting more resources get involved in the recording and production process (sometimes the DIY aesthetic goes just way too far for the songs own good), I can't help but feeling this is a wonderful indie-songwriting manual. Listen to the way one chords goes to another so unpredictably. Listen to those spontaneous and full-of-life key changes! Melodies like the ones on "6'1"", "Never Said", "Fuck and Run" or "Divorce Song" are not stuff you see everyday. C'mon, this just can't be me. |
| PJ Harvey Rid of Me | 3.5 |
| Counting Crows August And Everything After | 4.0 |
| Pavement Demolition Plot J-7 | 3.0 |
| Pavement Perfect Sound Forever | 3.5 |
| Pavement Watery, Domestic | 4.0 |
| The Promise Ring Nothing Feels Good | 3.5 |
| Relies mostly on the opener, but goddamn! What an opener! Few indie emo bands did better than "Is This Thing On?". |
| Pavement Brighten the Corners | 3.5 |
| The Chemical Brothers Dig Your Own Hole | 3.5 |
| Hooverphonic A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular | 3.5 |
| Hum You'd Prefer an Astronaut | 3.5 |
| The Prodigy The Fat of the Land | 3.5 |
| Hum Downward Is Heavenward | 3.5 |
| The Get Up Kids Something to Write Home About | 3.0 |
| The Necks Hanging Gardens | 4.0 |
| The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan | 3.5 |
| Yo La Tengo Painful | 4.0 |
| Yo La Tengo And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside... | 4.0 |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain | 3.5 |
| R.E.M. Fables of the Reconstruction | 3.5 |
| Faust Faust IV | 3.5 |
| Faust Faust | 4.0 |
| Brian Eno The Ship | 3.0 |
| Kraftwerk Autobahn | 4.0 |
| Kraftwerk Trans-Europe Express | 4.5 |
| Kraftwerk Computer World | 4.5 |
| Kraftwerk The Man-Machine | 4.0 |
| Mourn (SPA) Mourn | 3.5 |
| Chance the Rapper Coloring Book | 4.0 |
| Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy | 2.5 |
| The Band The Band | 3.5 |
| Henryk Gorecki Symphony No. 3, Op. 36 | 4.5 |
| Neil Young Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere | 3.5 |
| Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible | 3.0 |
| Alice in Chains Jar of Flies | 4.0 |
| Van Morrison Moondance | 4.5 |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock | 3.5 |
| Van Morrison Astral Weeks | 4.0 |
| A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory | 3.5 |
| The Zombies Odessey and Oracle | 5.0 |
| Alice in Chains Dirt | 4.0 |
| Prince Purple Rain | 4.0 |
| Rush Moving Pictures | 3.5 |
| Neil Young After the Gold Rush | 3.5 |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I | 3.5 |
| Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones | 3.0 |
| The Who Tommy | 3.5 |
| Minutemen Double Nickels on the Dime | 3.5 |
| Tom Waits Rain Dogs | 3.0 |
| Swans Soundtracks for the Blind | 3.5 |
| The Who Who's Next | 4.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen Born to Run | 4.0 |
| Tool Ænima | 4.0 |
| Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick | 4.0 |
| The Clash London Calling | 4.0 |
| The Cure Disintegration | 4.5 |
| The Doors The Doors | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV | 4.0 |
| Courtney Barnett sometimes i sit and think, and sometimes i just sit | 3.5 |
| Hot Chip In Our Heads | 3.0 |
| Hot Chip The Warning | 3.0 |
| Hot Chip Why Make Sense? | 3.5 |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead IX | 3.5 |
| Mogwai Rave Tapes | 3.5 |
| Warpaint Warpaint | 3.0 |
| Warpaint The Fool | 3.5 |
| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Days of Abandon | 3.5 |
| You Blew It! Keep Doing What You’re Doing | 3.5 |
| The New Pornographers Brill Bruisers | 3.5 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Between Bodies | 3.5 |
| A Sunny Day in Glasgow Sea When Absent | 4.0 |
| Panda Bear Mr Noah | 4.0 |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience | 3.5 |
| David Bowie The Next Day | 3.0 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Let Love In | 3.0 |
| Bill Callahan Dream River | 3.5 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Push The Sky Away | 3.5 |
| Mazes Ores & Minerals | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine | 3.0 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Try Not To Destroy Everything You Love | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Hesitation Marks | 3.5 |
| James Blake The Colour in Anything | 3.5 |
| Waclaw Zimpel Lines | 3.5 |
| Kurt Vile b'lieve i'm goin' down... | 3.5 |
| Torres Sprinter | 3.5 |
| Yo La Tengo Stuff Like That There | 3.5 |
| Meta Meta Meta Meta EP | 4.0 |
| Dean Wareham Dean Wareham | 3.5 |
| Donnie Trumpet and The Social Experiment Surf | 4.0 |
| Can Future Days | 4.5 |
| Can Ege Bamyasi | 3.5 |
| Can Tago Mago | 4.0 |
| Genesis The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway | 3.5 |
| Genesis A Trick of the Tail | 3.5 |
| Sturgill Simpson A Sailor's Guide To Earth | 4.0 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 3.5 |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool | 3.5 |
| The Horrors Primary Colours | 4.0 |
| The Horrors Luminous | 3.5 |
| Sophia The Infinite Circle | 4.0 |
| Travis The Man Who | 3.5 |
| Dusty Springfield Dusty in Memphis | 3.5 |
| Belle and Sebastian Dear Catastrophe Waitress | 3.5 |
| Belle and Sebastian Tigermilk | 4.0 |
| Gustavo Cerati Bocanada | 4.5 |
| Pylon (USA-GA) Chomp | 3.5 |
| Car Seat Headrest Teens of Style | 4.0 |
| The Range Potential | 3.0 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 3.5 |
| Ween The Mollusk | 3.5 |
| Ween Quebec | 4.0 |
| Beyonce Lemonade | 3.0 |
| PJ Harvey The Hope Six Demolition Project | 4.0 |
| Deakin Sleep Cycle | 3.5 |
| Parquet Courts Human Performance | 3.5 |
| Parquet Courts Light Up Gold | 3.5 |
| Triángulo de Amor Bizarro Salve Discordia | 3.5 |
| Tim Buckley Lorca | 3.0 |
| Sia This Is Acting | 3.0 |
| Animal Collective Painting With | 3.5 |
| Roy Orbison In Dreams | 3.5 |
| Porches Pool | 3.0 |
| Kate Bush The Kick Inside | 4.0 |
| Kate Bush The Dreaming | 4.5 |
| Kate Bush Hounds of Love | 4.5 |
| Wild Nothing Life of Pause | 3.0 |
| School of Seven Bells SVIIB | 3.5 |
| Wussy Attica! | 3.5 |
| Feel fine by pretending that Christgau is a genius and he never gets anything wrong? Then don't come here: you won't find a masterpiece. Many tunes are nice, but damn... it's always perfunctory in its niceness.r |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain Darklands | 3.0 |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain Psychocandy | 2.5 |
| Joni Mitchell Court and Spark | 4.5 |
| Lemon Demon Spirit Phone | 4.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar untitled unmastered. | 4.0 |
| James Blake James Blake | 3.5 |
| Rites of Spring Rites of Spring | 4.5 |
| Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac | 3.5 |
| The Drones Feelin Kinda Free | 3.5 |
| Sonic Youth Evol | 3.5 |
| Sonic Youth A Thousand Leaves | 4.0 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced | 3.5 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland | 3.5 |
| Paul Simon Graceland | 3.5 |
| Simon and Garfunkel Sounds of Silence | 3.5 |
| Simon and Garfunkel Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme | 5.0 |
| Simon and Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water | 4.5 |
| Nada Surf Let Go | 3.0 |
| John Coltrane My Favorite Things | 4.0 |
| John Coltrane A Love Supreme | 3.5 |
| Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables | 4.0 |
| Dead Kennedys Plastic Surgery Disasters | 3.5 |
| Miles Davis In a Silent Way | 5.0 |
| John Cale Paris 1919 | 3.5 |
| Kanye West Graduation | 3.5 |
| Kanye West The Life of Pablo | 4.0 |
| Jens Lekman Maple Leaves | 4.0 |
| Jens Lekman When I Said I Wanted To Be Your Dog | 3.5 |
| Jens Lekman Night Falls Over Kortedala | 3.5 |
| Djeli Moussa Diawara Djeli Moussa Diawara | 3.5 |
| Bob Dylan The Times They Are A-Changin' | 3.0 |
| Bob Dylan Time Out of Mind | 3.0 |
| Underworld Beaucoup Fish | 4.0 |
| Underworld Second Toughest in the Infants | 3.5 |
| Underworld dubnobasswithmyheadman | 4.0 |
| Underworld Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone | 3.5 |
| Luomo Vocalcity | 3.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Wilderness | 3.5 |
| Kent Isola | 3.5 |
| Kent Du & Jag Doden | 3.0 |
| Tim Hecker Love Streams | 3.5 |
| France Gall Baby Pop | 3.5 |
| Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back | 4.0 |
| Deftones Around the Fur | 3.5 |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan | 4.0 |
| Deftones Gore | 3.5 |
| Weezer The White Album | 3.0 |
| Daughter Not to Disappear | 3.0 |
| M83 Junk | 2.0 |
| Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Trout Mask Replica | 1.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers I'm With You | 2.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik | 3.5 |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree | 3.0 |
| Sonic Youth Washing Machine | 4.0 |
| Kanye West Late Registration | 4.0 |
| Nina Simone Pastel Blues | 4.0 |
| Fatboy Slim You've Come a Long Way, Baby | 3.5 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave | 3.0 |
| Bob Dylan The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan | 5.0 |
| Pylon (USA-GA) Gyrate | 4.5 |
| Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home | 4.0 |
| Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde | 4.5 |
| Tortoise TNT | 3.0 |
| Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks | 4.0 |
| Tortoise Millions Now Living Will Never Die | 3.5 |
| Tortoise The Catastrophist | 2.5 |
| R.E.M. Lifes Rich Pageant | 3.5 |
| R.E.M. Murmur | 5.0 |
| Fleetwood Mac Rumours | 4.5 |
| R.E.M. Chronic Town | 5.0 |
| R.E.M. Reckoning | 4.0 |
| Eric Dolphy Out to Lunch! | 4.0 |
| R.E.M. Accelerate | 3.0 |
| Drive Like Jehu Yank Crime | 3.5 |
| R.E.M. Document | 4.0 |
| Joni Mitchell Ladies of the Canyon | 4.5 |
| Frank Zappa Hot Rats | 4.5 |
| Joni Mitchell For the Roses | 4.0 |
| Joni Mitchell Blue | 5.0 |
| Is this the best album ever by a solo woman? I guess you could say so. It's Joni's best album for sure. |
| Wilco Being There | 3.0 |
| M.I.A. Kala | 3.5 |
| M.I.A. Matangi | 3.5 |
| Love Da Capo | 3.0 |
| Ani DiFranco Little Plastic Castle | 3.5 |
| Rihanna ANTI | 3.0 |
| Boards of Canada Geogaddi | 3.5 |
| Cocteau Twins Treasure | 4.5 |
| Although not a particularly solid album (I'd discard a bunch of the tracks without thinking it twice) it's really one of the best albums of 1984, and maybe one of the most influential records of the 80s. "Lorelei" and "Domino" are fire. |
| Cocteau Twins Head Over Heels | 3.5 |
| Cocteau Twins Heaven or Las Vegas | 4.0 |
| Tim Buckley Goodbye and Hello | 4.0 |
| It has its ups a downs. I mean, I could really do without a bunch of these songs (for example "Carnival Song", or the pretentiously awful title track) but the highlights are works of great songwriting finess. "Phantasmagoria in Two" is quite gorgeous, "I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain" is as invigorating as it gets, and "Pleasant Street" is probably one of the most atmospherical pieces of music ever written (and, I'd argue, an improvement on Dylan's "Ballad of a Thin Man"). Great highlights to always take into account. |
| Van Dyke Parks Song Cycle | 3.0 |
| Tim Buckley Starsailor | 3.0 |
| Tim Buckley Happy Sad | 4.0 |
| Genesis Foxtrot | 4.5 |
| Genesis Selling England by the Pound | 4.5 |
| Yes Fragile | 4.5 |
| Peter Gabriel Melt | 5.0 |
| David Bowie Station to Station | 3.5 |
| DIIV Is the Is Are | 3.0 |
| David Bowie Low | 4.0 |
| David Bowie "Heroes" | 4.0 |
| Savages Silence Yourself | 3.5 |
| Savages Adore Life | 2.5 |
| Jesu/Sun Kil Moon Jesu/Sun Kil Moon | 3.5 |
| David Bowie Blackstar | 3.0 |
| Massive Attack Ritual Spirit | 3.5 |
| The Dandy Warhols Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia | 3.5 |
| Broadcast The Noise Made by People | 3.0 |
| Doves (UK) Lost Souls | 3.0 |
| PJ Harvey Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea | 3.5 |
| Grandaddy The Sophtware Slump | 2.5 |
| Boards of Canada In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country | 3.5 |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP | 4.0 |
| Gorillaz Demon Days | 3.0 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our | 3.5 |
| Eels Electro-Shock Blues | 4.0 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Born Into Trouble As the Sparks Fly Upward | 3.0 |
| The Shins Oh, Inverted World | 3.5 |
| The Strokes The Modern Age | 4.0 |
| Daft Punk Discovery | 4.5 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 3.5 |
| Bjork Vespertine | 3.5 |
| Max Richter Memoryhouse | 3.5 |
| The Streets Original Pirate Material | 4.0 |
| Beck Odelay | 3.5 |
| Beck Sea Change | 3.0 |
| 90 Day Men To Everybody | 3.5 |
| William Basinski The Disintegration Loops I | 3.0 |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia | 3.5 |
| The Notwist Close to the Glass | 3.5 |
| Ulrich Schnauss Far Away Trains Passing By | 4.5 |
| The Postal Service Give Up | 4.0 |
| Ulrich Schnauss A Strangely Isolated Place | 3.5 |
| The Unicorns Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? | 3.0 |
| The Gathering Souvenirs | 4.0 |
| The Notwist Neon Golden | 3.5 |
| Mew +- | 3.0 |
| Magnolia Electric Co Magnolia Electric Co | 3.0 |
| Opeth Damnation | 3.5 |
| Sweet Trip Velocity : Design : Comfort | 3.0 |
| Mew Frengers | 3.5 |
| Wilco A Ghost Is Born | 3.5 |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction | 3.5 |
| The Rapture Echoes | 3.0 |
| Wilco Star Wars | 3.0 |
| Death From Above 1979 The Physical World | 3.0 |
| The Go! Team The Scene Between | 3.5 |
| Death From Above 1979 You're a Woman, I'm a Machine | 3.0 |
| The Go! Team Thunder, Lightning, Strike | 4.0 |
| King Crimson Red | 4.5 |
| Boris Flood | 3.0 |
| Boris Boris At Last -Feedbacker- | 4.0 |
| Boris Pink | 3.5 |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning | 3.5 |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 3.0 |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World | 3.5 |
| Regina Spektor Begin To Hope | 4.0 |
| Tori Amos From the Choirgirl Hotel | 3.5 |
| Regina Spektor Soviet Kitsch | 4.5 |
| Tori Amos Under the Pink | 4.0 |
| Tori Amos Little Earthquakes | 4.0 |
| Regina Spektor Begin To Hope EP | 3.5 |
| Jesu Silver | 3.5 |
| Tori Amos Boys for Pele | 4.5 |
| Helios Eingya | 3.5 |
| The Knife Shaking the Habitual | 3.0 |
| Mono You Are There | 2.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys Leave Before The Lights Come On | 4.5 |
| The Knife Silent Shout | 4.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys Fluorescent Adolescent | 4.0 |
| LSD and the Search for God LSD and the Search for God | 3.0 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 4.0 |
| Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm | 3.5 |
| Biosphere Substrata | 3.0 |
| Sonic Youth Dirty | 3.5 |
| Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline | 3.5 |
| The Angelic Process Weighing Souls With Sand | 2.0 |
| TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain | 3.0 |
| Nico Chelsea Girl | 3.0 |
| Nico Desertshore | 4.5 |
| Nico The Marble Index | 4.0 |
| TV on the Radio Seeds | 3.0 |
| TV on the Radio Dear Science | 3.5 |
| of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? | 4.0 |
| Fugazi In on the Kill Taker | 3.5 |
| Animal Collective Sung Tongs | 3.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. | 3.0 |
| Animal Collective Fall Be Kind | 3.5 |
| Iceage Plowing into the Field of Love | 3.0 |
| Merchant Ships For Cameron | 3.5 |
| Women Public Strain | 2.5 |
| The Brave Little Abacus Just Got Back from the Discomfort... | 4.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now | 3.5 |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma | 3.0 |
| Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid | 3.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt | 4.0 |
| Taylor Swift 1989 | 4.0 |
| M83 Saturdays=Youth | 3.5 |
| Car Seat Headrest Twin Fantasy (Mirror to Mirror) | 3.5 |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming | 4.0 |
| Nicolas Jaar Don't Break My Love | 3.5 |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 3.0 |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues | 3.0 |
| A Winged Victory for the Sullen A Winged Victory for the Sullen | 3.5 |
| Deer Leap/The World Is A Beautiful Place... Are Here To Help You | 3.5 |
| Frank Ocean channel ORANGE | 3.5 |
| Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel... | 3.5 |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind | 3.0 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Garden of Delete | 3.5 |
| Paramore Paramore | 4.0 |
| Clearly their best and an improvement all across the board: Hayley's vocals have improved a lot, in a way that we have no more of those cringe-inducing hooks that were common in Riot!, the lyrics are mature (even smart and ironic at points!), the instrumentation finally gets more interesting than just the basic pop-punk band set (colourful xylophone and string arrangements in "Ain't it Fun" and "Hate to See Your Heart Break"), the hooks have also improved by themselves because the melodies are clearly less generic (see any of the singles for more details), and the songwriting has also became more spontaneous and provocative (experimentation in "Future", gospel choirs in "Ain't it Fun"!). This is so obviously a great power pop album (it gets praised everywhere outside sputnikmusic) that the fact that it maintains such a lower rating here is a shame for this site. C'mon people, stop praising things for their appearance, you're better than that. |
| Paramore Brand New Eyes | 3.5 |
| Paramore Riot! | 3.0 |
| Sonic Youth Goo | 3.5 |
| Talking Heads Fear of Music | 3.5 |
| Talking Heads More Songs About Buildings and Food | 4.0 |
| Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues | 3.5 |
| Brian Eno Discreet Music | 3.5 |
| Brian Eno Here Come the Warm Jets | 4.0 |
| Brian Eno Before and After Science | 4.0 |
| The Velvet Underground Loaded | 3.5 |
| Adele 25 | 3.0 |
| Coldplay Mylo Xyloto | 2.5 |
| Coldplay Prospekt's March | 3.5 |
| Coldplay A Head Full of Dreams | 2.5 |
| Foxing The Albatross | 3.5 |
| Foxing Dealer | 2.5 |
| Weak. Boring songs that sound as generic as they can get. This album is like a bizarre sleeping pill that for some reason whimpers all the time and then screams at you for not understanding its pain... just fucking grow up, dude. There have been a bunch of good emo revival acts (actually, even their own debut was kinda good, if I recall correctly), but this is just dull without a single note that could possibly claim for your attention. They aren't even trying anymore. |
| Nicolas Jaar Nymphs III | 4.5 |
| Brian Eno would be proud because this is what he was thinking about when he (practically) invented the concept of electronic music. All the dreamy soundscapes and the possibilities to reach! On the other side, Claude Debussy would also be proud, since "Mistress" is basically the concept of what he was trying to teach pianists around the world to do. A remarkably solid package. Not even a 4.0 would make it justice. |
| Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld Never Were The Way She Was | 3.0 |
| DJ Richard Grind | 3.5 |
| Grimes Visions | 3.5 |
| Grimes Art Angels | 4.0 |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue | 3.5 |
| Coldplay The Blue Room | 3.5 |
| Pinback This Is a Pinback CD | 3.5 |
| Silverchair Neon Ballroom | 3.0 |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles II | 3.0 |
| Brand New Daisy | 3.5 |
| Moby Play | 4.0 |
| Boredoms Vision Creation Newsun | 4.0 |
| The Olivia Tremor Control Black Foliage: Animation Music Volume 1 | 3.5 |
| The Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs | 3.5 |
| PJ Harvey To Bring You My Love | 4.5 |
| PJ Harvey Let England Shake | 3.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada | 3.5 |
| A-side is a somehow pointless remake of Gorecki's third symphony. B-side is Godspeed at their most focused sound, though not perfectly accomplished. |
| The Drones I See Seaweed | 3.5 |
| Jon Hopkins Immunity | 4.0 |
| Nils Frahm Spaces | 3.5 |
| Grouper Ruins | 3.0 |
| Cymbals Eat Guitars LOSE | 3.0 |
| Perfume Genius Too Bright | 3.0 |
| Kairon IRSE! Ujubasajuba | 4.0 |
| Jakob Sines | 3.0 |
| Damien Rice My Favourite Faded Fantasy | 3.5 |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There | 3.5 |
| Mount Eerie Sauna | 3.0 |
| Nicolas Jaar Nymphs II | 4.0 |
| Prurient Frozen Niagara Falls | 3.0 |
| Steven Wilson Hand. Cannot. Erase. | 3.5 |
| The Chemical Brothers Born in the Echoes | 3.5 |
| Deerhunter Fluorescent Grey | 3.0 |
| Deerhunter Cryptograms | 3.5 |
| Miley Cyrus Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz | 1.0 |
| Any argument to redeem this album is over-rationalized wankery. This just fails as everything: as an experimental work it's substanceless bullshit, as a psychedelic album it's the weakest thing The Flaming Lips have been involved with, as a piece of pop music it's the most boring and pointless shit released this year, and as a confessional record is plain dumb and deserves facepalms. Cherry on top: Miley's voice is cringeworthy. |
| Fall Out Boy Save Rock and Roll | 2.5 |
| Jamie xx Girl/Sleep Sound | 4.0 |
| Titus Andronicus The Most Lamentable Tragedy | 3.5 |
| Joanna Newsom The Milk-Eyed Mender | 4.0 |
| Joanna Newsom Ys | 4.0 |
| Joanna Newsom Divers | 3.5 |
| Deerhunter Fading Frontier | 3.5 |
| Hop Along Painted Shut | 3.5 |
| Joanna Newsom Have One on Me | 4.5 |
| Burial Truant/Rough Sleeper | 3.5 |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... | 3.0 |
| Depeche Mode Violator | 4.0 |
| Four Tet Morning/Evening | 3.5 |
| Morning Side is fantastic. Hebden at his finest. Evening Side exists. |
| Four Tet Rounds | 4.5 |
| Four Tet There is Love in You | 4.5 |
| Tim Hecker Radio Amor | 3.5 |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 3.0 |
| Tame Impala Innerspeaker | 3.5 |
| Panda Bear Tomboy | 3.0 |
| Tame Impala Currents | 3.0 |
| Panda Bear Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper | 4.0 |
| Lana Del Rey Honeymoon | 2.5 |
| Panda Bear Crosswords | 3.0 |
| Julia Holter Loud City Song | 3.5 |
| Deafheaven New Bermuda | 3.5 |
| Julia Holter Have You In My Wilderness | 3.0 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Harmlessness | 4.0 |
| CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe | 4.0 |
| New Order Music Complete | 3.5 |
| CHVRCHES Every Open Eye | 3.5 |
| Ride Nowhere | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats The Sunset Tree | 3.5 |
| The Mountain Goats Beat the Champ | 3.5 |
| The Walkmen Bows + Arrows | 3.0 |
| My Morning Jacket The Waterfall | 2.5 |
| Belle and Sebastian If You're Feeling Sinister | 4.5 |
| Belle and Sebastian The Boy With the Arab Strap | 3.5 |
| Belle and Sebastian Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance | 3.0 |
| St. Vincent Strange Mercy | 3.5 |
| Elliott Smith Elliott Smith | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 4.0 |
| The Strokes Angles | 3.5 |
| The Strokes Is This It | 4.5 |
| Foo Fighters There Is Nothing Left to Lose | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape | 4.0 |
| Red House Painters Red House Painters | 3.5 |
| The Strokes Room on Fire | 3.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare | 3.5 |
| Bjork Debut | 3.5 |
| Foo Fighters Sonic Highways | 2.5 |
| Bjork Post | 4.0 |
| Bjork Homogenic | 4.5 |
| Fall Out Boy American Beauty/American Psycho | 2.0 |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots | 3.5 |
| Sun Kil Moon Ghosts of the Great Highway | 3.5 |
| Sun Kil Moon Universal Themes | 3.5 |
| The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin | 4.0 |
| Bjork Vulnicura | 3.0 |
| Sonic Youth Sister | 4.5 |
| Aphex Twin Come to Daddy | 4.5 |
| Jamie xx In Colour | 4.5 |
| Kanye West The College Dropout | 4.5 |
| Fugazi Repeater | 4.0 |
| Aphex Twin Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments Pt 2 | 3.0 |
| Aphex Twin ...I Care Because You Do | 3.5 |
| Gorillaz Plastic Beach | 2.5 |
| Aphex Twin Syro | 4.0 |
| Snow Patrol Final Straw | 4.0 |
| Spiritualized Sweet Heart Sweet Light | 3.5 |
| Mr. Bungle California | 3.5 |
| The Cure Pornography | 3.0 |
| Built to Spill Untethered Moon | 3.0 |
| Ariel Pink Pom Pom | 3.5 |
| Liars Drum's Not Dead | 3.0 |
| Preoccupations Viet Cong | 4.0 |
| Burial Rival Dealer | 4.0 |
| Unknown Mortal Orchestra Multi-Love | 2.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism | 4.0 |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune | 3.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Plans | 3.0 |
| Sleater-Kinney The Woods | 3.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Kintsugi | 3.0 |
| Florence and the Machine How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful | 3.0 |
| Take the opening track (nice song), "Third Eye" (nice hook), and the title track (nice arrangements) and discard the rest. All you need is right there. |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Mosquito | 2.5 |
| Interpol Interpol EP | 4.5 |
| dredg El Cielo | 3.0 |
| Interpol El Pintor | 3.5 |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry | 4.0 |
| Muse Absolution | 3.0 |
| Muse The Resistance | 3.0 |
| Muse The 2nd Law | 2.0 |
| Phosphorescent Muchacho | 4.0 |
| Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear | 3.0 |
| Sleater-Kinney No Cities to Love | 3.5 |
| Muse Drones | 2.5 |
| Simon and Garfunkel Bookends | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois | 5.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell | 3.5 |
| Weezer Everything Will Be Alright in the End | 3.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress' | 3.5 |
| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | 3.5 |
| Kamasi Washington The Epic | 3.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly | 4.5 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Dark Bird Is Home | 3.5 |
| Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) What It Takes to Move Forward | 3.5 |
| Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) You Will Eventually Be Forgotten | 3.0 |
| R.E.M. Automatic for the People | 4.5 |
| Spoon They Want My Soul | 4.0 |
| Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You | 4.0 |
| FKA Twigs LP1 | 3.5 |
| The Wedding Present Seamonsters | 3.0 |
| Deerhunter Microcastle | 4.5 |
| Deerhunter Halcyon Digest | 4.0 |
| Deerhunter Monomania | 4.5 |
| This is probably the best Deerhunter album. It's cohesive, chaotic and the only one that's consistently good. Some of the best songs 2013 left behind came from this mysterious, dark, and gloomy Indie Rock little masterpiece. Songs like "Pensacola", "Back to the Middle" and "Leather Jacket II" prove that the best Deerhunter is the one that knows how to rock the most. Takes a few listens but it's extremelly rewarding. In particular, I fell in love with "The Missing" instantly. That may happen to you with any song. |
| Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 | 3.0 |
| Tim Hecker Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again | 3.0 |
| Tim Hecker Harmony in Ultraviolet | 4.5 |
| Stars of the Lid The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid | 4.0 |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Worlds Apart | 3.5 |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Source Tags and Codes | 5.0 |
| The Avalanches Since I Left You | 4.0 |
| Love Forever Changes | 4.5 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 4.5 |
| Animal Collective Strawberry Jam | 3.5 |
| Animal Collective Feels | 3.5 |
| Galaxie 500 On Fire | 3.0 |
| Panda Bear Person Pitch | 4.0 |
| The Wrens The Meadowlands | 4.0 |
| Red House Painters Down Colorful Hill | 4.0 |
| AJJ People Who Can Eat People are the Luckiest People | 3.0 |
| Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People | 4.5 |
| Slowdive Souvlaki | 4.0 |
| Yo La Tengo I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One | 4.5 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 3.0 |
| The Chameleons Script of the Bridge | 3.5 |
| Cap'n Jazz Shmap'n Shmazz | 4.0 |
| The Kinks The Village Green Preservation Society | 4.5 |
| Fugazi The Argument | 3.5 |
| Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space | 4.5 |
| Interpol Interpol | 3.0 |
| Interpol Our Love to Admire | 3.5 |
| Interpol Antics | 4.0 |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 4.5 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 3.0 |
| Venetian Snares Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett | 3.0 |
| Autechre Tri Repetae | 4.0 |
| Wilco Summerteeth | 4.0 |
| Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot | 5.0 |
| The Dismemberment Plan Change | 3.5 |
| Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children | 3.5 |
| The Dismemberment Plan Emergency & I | 4.5 |
| Pavement Wowee Zowee | 4.0 |
| Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain | 5.0 |
| Pavement Slanted and Enchanted | 4.5 |
| American Football American Football | 5.0 |
| The Best Emo album of all time. Mike Kinsella plays the role of a workman translating complex rhythmic patterns into beautiful cathartic series of arpeggios without losing the charm of pop music. American Football's debut and only LP contains 9 amazing and overly-sincere songs that almost anyone can relate with, and they evocate every single memory you're trying to hide, maybe even in your subconscious, no matter how deep they are buried. "Never Meant" and "Honestly" are the highlights of this record. Two heartwarming songs with beautiful band playing and intense riff delivering. It is recommended to give repeated listens to the album. It may not click at the first one. |
| LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening | 3.5 |
| LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver | 4.5 |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 4.0 |
| I'm gonna put it simple: "Xtal" is the greatest piece of electronic music ever created. Electronic music traveled a long way just to get here. This is the song where everything starts and everything ends. It's not just about the blissful beat, it's not about the immersive reverb, it's not about the evocative synths, and it's not, I SWEAR IT'S NOT about the vocal sample. It's about the sum of all its parts. About everything together, being just one. That's what electronic music is all about. Let's rejoice in this majestic piece of music and all it has to offer! Oh, almost forgot... the rest of the album. Well, it's good. It's definitely good. There're some well layered textures and insanely original beats. All songs have their own "personality" and there's a lot of colour everywhere. Still, they never match the perfection of the opening track. It's understandable, Richard was barely around 17-20 when this album was recorded. |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album | 5.0 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Whenever, If Ever | 4.5 |
| Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) | 3.5 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | 3.5 |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible | 4.5 |
| Los Campesinos! Hold On Now, Youngster... | 4.0 |
| Guided by Voices Bee Thousand | 4.0 |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 | 3.0 |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs | 4.5 |
| Arcade Fire Reflektor | 4.0 |
| Los Campesinos! No Blues | 4.0 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 5.0 |
| Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind | 3.5 |
| Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret | 4.0 |
| Built to Spill Perfect from Now On | 3.5 |
| The National Alligator | 4.0 |
| The National High Violet | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About | 3.5 |
| The Verve A Storm in Heaven | 3.0 |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica | 4.5 |
| The Verve Urban Hymns | 3.5 |
| The National Boxer | 4.5 |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West | 4.0 |
| Weezer Pinkerton | 3.5 |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead | 5.0 |
| Weezer Weezer | 3.5 |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures | 4.0 |
| Joy Division Closer | 3.5 |
| Madvillain Madvillainy | 3.0 |
| NOFX The Decline | 4.5 |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation | 5.0 |
| Slint Tweez | 2.5 |
| Slint Spiderland | 4.5 |
| Television Marquee Moon | 5.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | 4.0 |
| David Bowie Hunky Dory | 3.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream | 4.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 4.0 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 3.5 |
| The Velvet Underground White Light/White Heat | 3.5 |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground | 5.0 |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico | 5.0 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 5.0 |
This album is an extremelly enduring experience. It's amazing how Mangum's songwriting got better
this fast. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, as an album, as a cohesive unity, is one of the most
trascendental pieces of music ever written. From small detailed images to disgusting sick
pictures, Mangum's poetry hits the right buttons always at the right times. He's always singing in
the presence of original instrumental arrangements, brasses, distorted guitars, trumpets,
accordions, synths, and more. These 11 songs are everything folk music has ever aspired to be,
intuitive, simple, gorgeous, moving, inspiring and confrontative. An all time classic and a must
listen for everyone who still doesn't understand what the big fuss is all about. (By the way, all
the people who believe this is the best album of all times have a clue. Having a clue doesn't mean
they're right. It means they have a good point). (Also: Having a good point is more important than
being right). |
| Pixies Doolittle | 4.5 |
| Jeff Buckley Grace | 4.5 |
| Pixies EP1 | 3.0 |
| Elliott Smith XO | 3.5 |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 4.0 |
| Talking Heads Remain in Light | 4.0 |
| A good album that managed to become a great one in front of the the eyes of music "erudites" for two obvious reasons: "Born Under Punches" and "Once in a Lifetime". The first one is a great track, super danceable, no needed big explanation. The latter is the late 70's hipster anthem #1, a perfect song that does everything right and never gets old. The rest of the album is forgetable, but not bad at all. It's a shame that the album quality relies on those two tracks. |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 4.5 |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness | 3.0 |
| Nick Drake Pink Moon | 3.5 |
| The Beach Boys Pet Sounds | 4.0 |
| Elliott Smith Figure 8 | 4.0 |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or | 4.5 |
| Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited | 5.0 |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars | 3.5 |
| Have a Nice Life The Unnatural World | 3.0 |
| Yes Close to the Edge | 4.0 |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Please Please Me | 3.5 |
| The Beatles The Beatles | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour | 5.0 |
| Temples Sun Structures | 3.5 |
| Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest | 3.0 |
| Phantogram Voices | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 4.5 |
| Sun Kil Moon Benji | 4.5 |
| Beck Morning Phase | 3.0 |
| The Beatles Revolver | 5.0 |
| I would be, lets say, pretty "ok" if you guys tell me this is the best album of all time. I get the reasons, and I love the reasons. Revolver is the first time The Beatles put their whole potential on the table and started working around it, creating some flawless songs. It's ridiculous how flawless they are. When it comes to songwriting, melody, or even innovation, all musicians admire Revolver as a work to have as a model, something to use as the "you're doing it right" example. Their best, though the rest of their carreer will be full of great records, but none of them as consistent as Revolver. |
| Foals Holy Fire | 3.0 |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul | 4.5 |
| Wild Beasts Present Tense | 3.5 |
| Real Estate Atlas | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Abbey Road | 4.0 |
| Pearl Jam Ten | 4.0 |
| Nothing Guilty of Everything | 3.5 |
| We Are Scientists With Love and Squalor | 3.5 |
| The Men Tomorrow's Hits | 3.5 |
| Charles Mingus The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady | 4.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 4.5 |
| God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright | 3.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die... | 3.5 |
| Jakob Solace | 4.0 |
| La Dispute Rooms of the House | 3.0 |
| Nas Illmatic | 4.5 |
| Elbow The Seldom Seen Kid | 3.5 |
| The Antlers Hospice | 4.5 |
| Elbow The Take Off And Landing Of Everything | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Wall | 4.5 |
| Hundred Waters The Moon Rang Like a Bell | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 4.5 |
| Was meant to be the perfect Pink Floyd album but for some reason Waters (I don't know who did it, but I suspect it was him) decided to include "Have a Cigar" in the middle of the record. It adds nothing to the album but a commercial single. Of course, because all the people who bought this record were thinking about the "Money" kind of songs. Right? |
| Pink Floyd Animals | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 4.5 |
| Carissa's Wierd Songs About Leaving | 3.5 |
| Life Without Buildings Any Other City | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd Meddle | 3.0 |
| The big problem about Meddle is that those are not songs, they are small pieces of songs matched together in most randomly possible way ("Fearless" is the closest thing to a real song). This problem will be solved in a fancy way in their next album. Also, the great thing is that this stage of transition excludes both Syd Barret and Alan Parsons, which makes the songs sound like any other band around the time release sounded. And just to point out, "Echoes" cannot be half as good as the modern cannon tells us, that's for sure, specially taking into acount everything Pink Floyd has accomplished since then. |
| The Black Keys Turn Blue | 3.5 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 5.0 |
| Kanye West Yeezus | 4.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Bleed American | 3.5 |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine | 4.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Clarity | 4.5 |
| Ought More Than Any Other Day | 3.5 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 4.0 |
| Brian Eno Another Green World | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 4.5 |
| Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports | 3.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Fragile | 4.0 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 5.0 |
| This is the best album of all times, of course. If you seriously thought at any point while listening to this record that there was something, even the smallest thing, not perfect, then you are surely in the completely wrong mindset. This may seem to be an awful statement, I get it, but it also happens to be true. Radiohead's superbly creative 96-97 period is easily comparable to The Beatles 66-67 one, but the thing is that while The Beatles released 3 masterpieces in that time, Radiohead got everything together and released an out-of-proportions bomb, changing the popular music panorama. OK Computer's influece in recent music has been subtle (because there're no acts that are "inmediately" derivative of Radiohead's turn-of-the-millenia period), but if you are willingful to listen... you'll find a bunch of surprises. |
| Radiohead The Bends | 4.5 |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York | 4.5 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 4.5 |
| Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde | 3.5 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey | 3.0 |
| Alcest Shelter | 3.5 |
| The White Stripes White Blood Cells | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 3.5 |
| Lana Del Rey Born to Die | 3.0 |
| The White Stripes Elephant | 4.0 |
| Anathema Distant Satellites | 3.5 |
| Jack White Lazaretto | 3.5 |
| Lana Del Rey Ultraviolence | 2.5 |
| The Antlers Familiars | 3.0 |
| Kasabian 48:13 | 3.5 |
| Deftones White Pony | 4.0 |
| Sharon Van Etten Are We There | 3.5 |
| Burial Untrue | 3.5 |
| Burial Kindred | 4.0 |
| Swans The Seer | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork | 3.5 |
| Beach House Bloom | 3.0 |
| Tame Impala Lonerism | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 3.5 |
| Beach House Teen Dream | 3.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 4.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 5.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! | 3.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city | 4.5 |
| Yo La Tengo Fade | 3.5 |
| My Bloody Valentine m b v | 4.5 |
| Coldplay Parachutes | 4.0 |
| Coldplay X&Y | 3.5 |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | 4.5 |
| Coldplay Ghost Stories | 3.0 |
| Parquet Courts Sunbathing Animal | 3.0 |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head | 4.5 |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm | 4.0 |
| Oasis Be Here Now | 3.0 |
| Franz Ferdinand Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action | 3.5 |
| Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? | 4.5 |
| Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand | 3.5 |
| Oasis Definitely Maybe | 4.0 |
| The Libertines Up The Bracket | 4.0 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 3.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not | 4.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys Suck It and See | 4.0 |
| Kurt Vile Wakin on a Pretty Daze | 3.5 |
| James Blake Overgrown | 3.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys AM | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park The Hunting Party | 3.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Contra | 4.5 |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun | 5.0 |
| Sigur Ros ( ) | 4.5 |
| Sigur Ros Takk... | 4.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend | 4.5 |
| Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City | 5.0 |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories | 3.5 |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 4.5 |
| Probably one of the 5 best metal albums I've heard. A level of sonic bliss and detail that I have heard in only a hadful of records. The opening = a rain of fire. Key tip: PLAY LOUD. |
| Sigur Ros Kveikur | 4.0 |
| Melt-Banana Fetch | 3.0 |
| The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream | 3.5 |
| St. Vincent St. Vincent | 4.0 |
| Cloud Nothings Here and Nowhere Else | 3.5 |
| Swans To Be Kind | 3.5 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything | 3.5 |
| Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues | 3.5 |
| Touche Amore Is Survived By | 3.5 |
| Tim Hecker Virgins | 4.0 |
