| Vampire Weekend Only God Was Above Us | 5.0 |
| Genuinely feels like I'm listening to an album like Funeral or Bluffer's Guide to the Flight Deck for the first time again. |
| The Church Eros Zeta and the Perfumed Guitars | 4.5 |
| Lift to Experience The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads | 5.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin We Are Not Alone | 5.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin Saturate | 5.0 |
| The Gaslight Anthem History Books | 4.5 |
| Lana Del Rey Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd | 5.0 |
| Harp Albion | 5.0 |
| There Will Be Fireworks Summer Moon | 5.0 |
| Swans Public Castration Is a Good Idea | 4.5 |
| Swans The Beggar | 5.0 |
| Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky | 4.5 |
| Swans Leaving Meaning | 4.5 |
| Swans The Glowing Man | 5.0 |
| Swans The Great Annihilator | 5.0 |
| Swans Love of Life | 3.5 |
| Swans Holy Money | 3.5 |
| Swans Greed | 3.0 |
| Ruby Throat Out of A Black Cloud Came A Bird | 4.5 |
| Daisy Chainsaw For They Know Not What They Do | 4.5 |
| Daisy Chainsaw Eleventeen | 4.5 |
| QueenAdreena Djin | 4.0 |
| QueenAdreena The Butcher and the Butterfly | 4.0 |
| QueenAdreena Drink Me | 4.5 |
| QueenAdreena Taxidermy | 4.5 |
| Ben Howard Is It? | 4.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age In Times New Roman... | 4.0 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 4.5 |
| Jessie Ware That! Feels Good! | 3.5 |
| The National First Two Pages of Frankenstein | 2.5 |
| Caroline Polachek Desire, I Want To Turn Into You | 3.5 |
| Everything But the Girl Amplified Heart | 4.5 |
| Everything But the Girl Walking Wounded | 4.5 |
| Everything But the Girl Fuse | 4.5 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Henry St. | 3.5 |
| Wednesday Rat Saw God | 4.5 |
| Fall Out Boy So Much (For) Stardust | 3.0 |
| Depeche Mode Memento Mori | 4.5 |
| All Time Low Tell Me I'm Alive | 3.5 |
| 100 Gecs 10,000 gecs | 1.0 |
| James Seven | 4.0 |
| The Church The Hypnogogue | 5.0 |
| Flotation Toy Warning Bluffer's Guide to the Flight Deck | 5.0 |
| Paramore This Is Why | 3.0 |
| Lil Yachty Let's Start Here. | 4.5 |
| Parannoul After The Magic | 4.5 |
| Total Downer Caretaker | 4.5 |
| Gorillaz Plastic Beach | 4.5 |
| We Are Scientists With Love and Squalor | 3.0 |
| We Are Scientists Brain Thrust Mastery | 3.0 |
| We Are Scientists Barbara | 3.0 |
| We Are Scientists TV en Français | 3.5 |
| We Are Scientists Helter Seltzer | 3.0 |
| We Are Scientists Megaplex | 2.5 |
| We Are Scientists Lobes | 4.0 |
| We Are Scientists Huffy | 4.0 |
| Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible | 5.0 |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP | 5.0 |
| The music critic in me upholds this record as a hip/hop classic. The hooks and flows are incredible and it hits with an emotional intensity that is truly unforgettable. However, the softer, human part of me simply cannot listen to this front to back again. "Kim" is a gut-wrenching and terrifying excursion into unadulterated hatred and rage, "Stan" remains a devastating highlight and the record as a whole is a biting, scarring look into a broken and hurt mind. |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP | 4.5 |
| THUMPER (IRE) D e l u s i o n s o f G r a n d e u r | 5.0 |
| Goldfrapp Felt Mountain | 4.0 |
| Michelle Branch The Spirit Room | 3.5 |
| Weyes Blood And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow | 3.5 |
| Nickelback Get Rollin' | 2.0 |
| Tamino Sahar | 4.5 |
| Rammstein Untitled | 3.5 |
| Rammstein Liebe Ist Für Alle Da | 3.5 |
| Rammstein Rosenrot | 3.5 |
| Rammstein Reise, Reise | 4.5 |
| Rammstein Mutter | 4.0 |
| Rammstein Sehnsucht | 4.0 |
| Rammstein Herzeleid | 4.0 |
| Rammstein Zeit | 4.0 |
| Fleshwater We're Not Here To Be Loved | 4.0 |
| Seiko Oomori Cho Tengoku | 3.5 |
| Honey Harper Honey Harper and the Infinite Sky | 4.0 |
| Kilbey Kennedy The Strange Life of Persephone Nimbus | 4.5 |
| Demon Hunter Exile | 3.0 |
| Paddy Hanna Imagine I'm Hoping | 4.5 |
| Pool Kids Pool Kids | 3.5 |
| Avantasia A Paranormal Evening With the Moonflower Society | 3.0 |
| Carly Rae Jepsen The Loneliest Time | 4.5 |
| These lonely midnights are just so much better for the soul |
| The 1975 Being Funny In A Foreign Language | 2.0 |
| Tomberlin i don’t know who needs to hear this... | 4.5 |
| Skullcrusher Quiet the Room | 4.5 |
| Bill Callahan YTI⅃AƎЯ | 5.0 |
| Bonny Light Horseman Rolling Golden Holy | 4.0 |
| The Orielles Tableau | 3.5 |
| Alvvays Blue Rev | 5.0 |
| Counterparts A Eulogy for Those Still Here | 3.0 |
| Lambchop The Bible | 5.0 |
| The Afghan Whigs Gentlemen | 4.5 |
| Icon For Hire The Reckoning | 1.0 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Cool It Down | 3.0 |
| Slipknot The End, So Far | 1.5 |
| Bjork Fossora | 5.0 |
| My neighbour Bjorkoro. |
| The Afghan Whigs Congregation | 3.5 |
| Placebo Never Let Me Go | 4.0 |
| The Afghan Whigs How Do You Burn? | 4.5 |
| Suede Autofiction | 4.5 |
| Suede Suede | 2.0 |
| The Wonder Years The Hum Goes on Forever | 3.0 |
| Rina Sawayama Hold The Girl | 5.0 |
| Bjork Utopia | 5.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Asphalt Meadows | 4.0 |
| Jockstrap I Love You Jennifer B | 4.0 |
| Tindersticks The Hungry Saw | 3.5 |
| Tindersticks The Something Rain | 4.5 |
| Becoming The Archetype Children of the Great Extinction | 3.5 |
| Tindersticks Can Our Love | 4.0 |
| Tindersticks Simple Pleasures | 4.0 |
| Muse Will of the People | 3.0 |
| nouns While of Unsound Mind | 5.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Bleed Out | 3.5 |
| tobyMac Life After Death | 3.5 |
| Demi Lovato Holy Fvck | 2.0 |
| Pale Waves Unwanted | 4.5 |
| You go, Pale Waves. Wonderful little album. |
| Norma Jean Deathrattle Sing for Me | 4.0 |
| Ithaca They Fear Us | 3.5 |
| Bryan Ferry Boys and Girls | 4.5 |
| Chat Pile God's Country | 2.5 |
| Beyonce Lemonade | 4.0 |
| Beyonce Renaissance | 4.0 |
| Anberlin Silverline | 3.0 |
| Beyonce Beyonce | 4.0 |
| Electric Light Orchestra A New World Record | 4.5 |
| Domestic Terminal All The Stories Left To Tell | 4.5 |
| Electric Light Orchestra Face the Music | 4.5 |
| Electric Light Orchestra Eldorado | 4.5 |
| Domestic Terminal I Could See Midnight Sky | 3.0 |
| David Sylvian Secrets of the Beehive | 5.0 |
| Beyonce Dangerously in Love | 2.5 |
| Beach Bunny Emotional Creature | 3.0 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland | 5.0 |
| Black Midi Hellfire | 4.5 |
| Bedlocked Bedlocked | 3.5 |
| Metric Formentera | 4.0 |
| Feeder Generation Freakshow | 3.5 |
| Feeder Renegades | 3.0 |
| Feeder Silent Cry | 3.5 |
| Feeder Pushing the Senses | 3.0 |
| Feeder Comfort In Sound | 4.0 |
| Feeder Echo Park | 4.0 |
| Feeder Yesterday Went Too Soon | 3.5 |
| Petrol Girls Baby | 3.5 |
| Wet Leg Wet Leg | 3.0 |
| Asian Glow Stalled Flutes, means | 4.0 |
| Yeule Glitch Princess | 4.5 |
| Mondo Grosso Big World | 3.5 |
| Regina Spektor Soviet Kitsch | 4.5 |
| Regina Spektor Home, Before and After | 4.5 |
| Regina Spektor Remember Us To Life | 3.5 |
| Beach House Once Twice Melody | 4.5 |
| Beach House Depression Cherry | 4.5 |
| John Van Deusen (I Am) Origami Pt. 4 - Marathon Daze | 4.0 |
| I wasn't entirely sure if Van Deusen would be able to capitalize on his promise by moving beyond his fresh take on alternative rock, but Marathon Daze builds upon A Catacomb Hymn's strengths with sublime pop/rock songwriting and lyrical honesty. It's some of the most sonically beautiful work by a religious artist in years, crafted in the midst of a heartbreak that can be related to by anyone from nearly every walk of life. |
| Warpaint Radiate Like This | 3.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Adore | 3.5 |
| Craig Finn A Legacy Of Rentals | 3.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Gish | 4.0 |
| Vansire The Modern Western World | 4.0 |
| Ethel Cain Preacher's Daughter | 5.0 |
| Warning Watching from a Distance | 4.5 |
| The Smile A Light For Attracting Attention | 4.5 |
| Hello, Hail to the Thief Part 2. |
| Sharon Van Etten We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong | 3.0 |
| The Clientele Music for the Age of Miracles | 4.0 |
| The Clientele Bonfires on the Heath | 3.5 |
| The Clientele God Save the Clientele | 4.5 |
| The Clientele Strange Geometry | 4.5 |
| The Clientele The Violet Hour | 4.0 |
| The Clientele Suburban Light | 4.0 |
| MJ Lenderman Boat Songs | 4.0 |
| Proper. The Great American Novel | 3.5 |
| Arcade Fire WE | 2.5 |
| Black Country, New Road For the first time | 3.5 |
| The Church Remote Luxury | 5.0 |
| 40 Watt Sun Wider than the Sky | 5.0 |
| 40 Watt Sun Perfect Light | 5.0 |
| The Gathering Beautiful Distortion | 4.5 |
| Fontaines D.C. Skinty Fia | 4.5 |
| Fleetwood Mac Tusk | 5.0 |
| The Delgados Domestiques | 4.0 |
| Prince Daddy and The Hyena Prince Daddy And The Hyena | 4.0 |
| The Church Man Woman Life Death Infinity | 4.5 |
| The Church The Blurred Crusade | 5.0 |
| The Church Of Skins and Heart | 4.5 |
| The Church Further Deeper | 5.0 |
| The Church Untitled #23 | 5.0 |
| Machine Gun Kelly Mainstream Sellout | 2.5 |
| PUP The Unraveling of PUPTheBand | 3.5 |
| SOUL GLO Diaspora Problems | 4.5 |
| The Church Uninvited Like the Clouds | 4.5 |
| Destroyer LABYRINTHITIS | 4.5 |
| The Church After Everything Now This | 5.0 |
| The Church Forget Yourself | 5.0 |
| The Church Hologram of Baal | 5.0 |
| Charli XCX Crash | 4.0 |
| The Church Magician Among the Spirits | 5.0 |
| The Church Gold Afternoon Fix | 4.5 |
| The Church Priest=Aura | 5.0 |
| The Church Sometime Anywhere | 5.0 |
| The Church Heyday | 5.0 |
| The Church Seance | 4.5 |
| Wolves at the Gate Eulogies | 2.5 |
| Arcade Fire Everything Now | 3.5 |
| Arcade Fire Reflektor | 4.5 |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible | 4.5 |
| Avril Lavigne Love Sux | 3.5 |
| Monoeyes A Mirage In the Sun | 3.5 |
| The Japanese Yellowcard bringing back the sound of '03. |
| Black Country, New Road Ants From Up There | 4.5 |
| Big Thief Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You | 5.0 |
| The Gathering Almost a Dance | 1.0 |
| The Gathering Always | 2.0 |
| Soundgarden Superunknown | 5.0 |
| Rolo Tomassi Where Myth Becomes Memory | 4.0 |
| Keane Perfect Symmetry | 3.0 |
| Magdalena Bay Mercurial World | 4.0 |
| Skillet Dominion | 1.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Uplift Mofo Party Plan | 2.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Red Hot Chili Peppers | 1.5 |
| Mazzy Star Seasons of Your Day | 3.5 |
| Mazzy Star Among My Swan | 4.0 |
| Devics The Stars at St. Andrea | 4.0 |
| Mazzy Star So Tonight That I Might See | 4.5 |
| Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters | 4.5 |
| Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel... | 4.5 |
| Fiona Apple Extraordinary Machine | 4.5 |
| Fiona Apple When the Pawn... | 5.0 |
| Fiona Apple Tidal | 4.5 |
| Mock Orange Nines & Sixes | 3.5 |
| Art School Girlfriend Is It Light Where You Are | 3.0 |
| Aeon Station Observatory | 5.0 |
| It's like we're living only two years removed from Secaucus. As good as anything The Wrens have done, yes, including The Meadowlands. AOTY? Shoot, it could be. |
| Caroline Polachek Pang | 4.5 |
| Cold Collective Weathervane | 4.0 |
| Failure Wild Type Droid | 3.0 |
| Lifehouse Stanley Climbfall | 2.5 |
| Lifehouse No Name Face | 2.5 |
| The Blue Nile High | 4.5 |
| The Blue Nile Peace at Last | 4.0 |
| Prefab Sprout Crimson/Red | 5.0 |
| A band from the 80s releasing a magnificent classic in the 10s? That's Paddy for you. |
| Prefab Sprout Swoon | 4.5 |
| Prefab Sprout Let's Change the World With Music | 5.0 |
| Prefab Sprout Protest Songs | 3.5 |
| Prefab Sprout The Gunman and Other Stories | 4.5 |
| Converge Bloodmoon: I | 3.5 |
| Prefab Sprout From Langley Park To Memphis | 4.5 |
| Prefab Sprout Andromeda Heights | 5.0 |
| Silent Planet Iridescent | 3.5 |
| Taylor Swift Red (Taylor’s Version) | 4.5 |
| Makthaverskan Makthaverskan | 3.5 |
| Makthaverskan II | 4.0 |
| Makthaverskan För Allting | 3.5 |
| The War On Drugs I Don't Live Here Anymore | 4.0 |
| Bodyjar How It Works | 3.5 |
| ABBA Voyage | 3.5 |
| Black Veil Brides The Phantom Tomorrow | 3.0 |
| Emily Scott Robinson American Siren | 5.0 |
| Every Time I Die Radical | 4.5 |
| Starset Horizons | 4.0 |
| Illuminati Hotties Let Me Do One More | 3.0 |
| Vashti Bunyan Just Another Diamond Day | 5.0 |
| Coldplay Music of the Spheres | 1.0 |
| Rough Dreams Disappear. Reappear. | 4.0 |
| The Felice Brothers From Dreams to Dust | 4.5 |
| The Walkabouts Nighttown | 4.5 |
| Joanna Newsom Divers | 5.0 |
| Joanna Newsom Have One on Me | 5.0 |
| Amyl and the Sniffers Comfort To Me | 4.5 |
| Joanna Newsom Ys | 5.0 |
| Joanna Newsom The Milk-Eyed Mender | 5.0 |
| Thrice Horizons/East | 3.0 |
| Eidola The Architect | 2.5 |
| Low Ones and Sixes | 4.0 |
| Low Hey What | 4.0 |
| Belle and Sebastian The Life Pursuit | 4.0 |
| Belle and Sebastian Dear Catastrophe Waitress | 3.0 |
| Belle and Sebastian Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant | 4.0 |
| Belle and Sebastian The Boy With the Arab Strap | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Piece of Mind | 4.0 |
| Talking Heads More Songs About Buildings and Food | 3.5 |
| Belle and Sebastian If You're Feeling Sinister | 4.0 |
| Sleigh Bells Texis | 3.5 |
| Sleigh Bells Treats | 3.5 |
| Ween The Pod | 3.0 |
| Homesafe Nervous Reaction | 3.5 |
| Big Star Radio City | 4.5 |
| Ween GodWeenSatan: The Oneness | 4.0 |
| Big Star #1 Record | 4.0 |
| PJ Harvey Let England Shake | 5.0 |
| PJ Harvey White Chalk | 4.5 |
| PJ Harvey Uh Huh Her | 4.5 |
| PJ Harvey Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea | 4.0 |
| PJ Harvey Is This Desire? | 4.5 |
| The Smiths Strangeways, Here We Come | 4.5 |
| The Smiths Meat Is Murder | 4.0 |
| Turnstile Time and Space | 3.5 |
| Turnstile Glow On | 4.5 |
| The Smiths The Smiths | 4.5 |
| CHVRCHES Screen Violence | 4.0 |
| James McMurtry The Horses and the Hounds | 3.5 |
| PJ Harvey To Bring You My Love | 5.0 |
| PJ Harvey Rid of Me | 4.5 |
| Tropical Fuck Storm Deep States | 2.5 |
| Lorde Solar Power | 2.5 |
| PJ Harvey Dry | 4.5 |
| Shed Seven Let It Ride | 3.0 |
| Tropical Fuck Storm Braindrops | 4.0 |
| Switchfoot interrobang | 4.0 |
| This is hardly the Switchfoot we have come to know over the past decade. This Switchfoot is subtle, moody, restrained and unconventional. At nearly every melodic turn it makes the choice to be as unpredictable as it possibly could. This is easily the best Switchfoot record since Hello Hurricane. |
| Depeche Mode Delta Machine | 3.5 |
| Depeche Mode Sounds Of The Universe | 4.0 |
| The Killers Pressure Machine | 4.5 |
| Once I heard "Quite Town" I knew this was going to be something special. I have never been more floored by a Killers song than that one yet the way this record unfolds eclipses even that. This is their opus. |
| Depeche Mode Playing The Angel | 4.5 |
| Depeche Mode Exciter | 4.0 |
| Depeche Mode Ultra | 4.5 |
| Pulp This is Hardcore | 4.5 |
| Pulp His 'n' Hers | 4.5 |
| Pulp Different Class | 5.0 |
| Foxing Draw Down the Moon | 2.5 |
| Laura Stevenson Laura Stevenson | 5.0 |
| Belle and Sebastian Tigermilk | 4.0 |
| Needtobreathe Into The Mystery | 3.5 |
| Billie Eilish Happier Than Ever | 4.5 |
| This is one of the most stunning yet equally unnerving pop albums I've heard in a long time. It's such an interesting and refreshing character study of who one can become when met with failures from oneself, the music industry and celebrity fame, and other lovers. If I could liken it to a film it'd be Mulholland Drive. |
| The Innocence Mission Glow | 5.0 |
| Bleachers Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night | 2.5 |
| Tropical Fuck Storm A Laughing Death in Meatspace | 4.5 |
| Alexis Marshall House of Lull. House of When | 4.0 |
| R.E.M. Murmur | 4.5 |
| Midwife (USA) Luminol | 3.5 |
| Tom Waits Rain Dogs | 5.0 |
| Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones | 4.5 |
| Tom Waits Heartattack and Vine | 3.5 |
| Tom Waits Blue Valentine | 3.5 |
| Tom Waits Small Change | 4.0 |
| Tom Waits The Heart of Saturday Night | 4.0 |
| Tom Waits Closing Time | 4.5 |
| Blur Parklife | 3.0 |
| Adjy The Idyll Opus (I-VI) | 3.5 |
| TR/ST TRST | 4.5 |
| Billy Joel 52nd Street | 4.0 |
| The Maine XOXO: From Love and Anxiety in Real Time | 3.0 |
| Billy Joel The Stranger | 5.0 |
| Billy Joel Turnstiles | 3.5 |
| Blur Modern Life Is Rubbish | 4.0 |
| Spellling The Turning Wheel | 4.5 |
| Once the strings in Little Deer hit, I knew this was something special. And I was right. This is pure, dazzling brilliance. |
| Semisonic All About Chemistry | 3.5 |
| Billy Joel Piano Man | 3.0 |
| The Radio Dept. Lesser Matters | 4.5 |
| Lucy Dacus Home Video | 3.5 |
| The Doors Morrison Hotel | 4.0 |
| The Doors Waiting for the Sun | 3.0 |
| Modest Mouse The Golden Casket | 3.5 |
| The Doors Strange Days | 4.0 |
| Steely Dan Aja | 4.5 |
| Steely Dan The Royal Scam | 3.0 |
| Steely Dan Katy Lied | 3.0 |
| Steely Dan Pretzel Logic | 3.5 |
| The Doors The Doors | 5.0 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 4.0 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 4.0 |
| Natalie Bergman Mercy | 4.5 |
| Crowder Milk & Honey | 1.0 |
| ZOC PvP | 3.5 |
| Television Marquee Moon | 5.0 |
| Microdisney Everybody Is Fantastic | 4.0 |
| Steely Dan Countdown to Ecstasy | 4.0 |
| Steely Dan Can't Buy a Thrill | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin | 4.0 |
| Poppy EAT (NXT Soundtrack) | 3.5 |
| Wolf Alice Blue Weekend | 3.5 |
| Depeche Mode Songs of Faith and Devotion | 4.5 |
| Depeche Mode Music for the Masses | 3.5 |
| SUNDAYS Inner Coasts | 4.5 |
| The Raging Nathans Waste My Heart | 4.5 |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness | 3.5 |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture | 4.0 |
| Rise Against Nowhere Generation | 2.5 |
| Depeche Mode Some Great Reward | 4.0 |
| Sweet Trip A Tiny House, In Secret Speeches, Polar Equals | 3.5 |
| Iosonouncane Ira | 3.5 |
| Prefab Sprout Jordan: The Comeback | 5.0 |
| Prefab Sprout Steve McQueen | 4.5 |
| Lambchop Showtunes | 4.5 |
| Twenty One Pilots Scaled and Icy | 1.5 |
| Genesis Selling England by the Pound | 4.0 |
| Genesis Foxtrot | 4.0 |
| Genesis Nursery Cryme | 4.0 |
| Porter Robinson Worlds | 3.5 |
| Porter Robinson Nurture | 4.5 |
| Bill Wells and Aidan Moffat The Most Important Place in the World | 4.5 |
| Bill Wells and Aidan Moffat Everything's Getting Older | 4.5 |
| Weezer Van Weezer | 1.5 |
| King Crimson Red | 5.0 |
| King Crimson Starless and Bible Black | 4.0 |
| The The Soul Mining | 4.5 |
| Eternal Boy Bad Days Are Over | 4.0 |
| King Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic | 4.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra The Million Masks of God | 2.5 |
| Origami Angel Gami Gang | 5.0 |
| Sometimes it's a heavy burden being a man of science. |
| Oceansize Home & Minor | 4.0 |
| Lisa Germano Geek The Girl | 4.5 |
| King Crimson Islands | 4.0 |
| King Crimson Lizard | 3.0 |
| King Crimson In the Wake of Poseidon | 3.5 |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King | 5.0 |
| Glenn Branca The Ascension | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Final Cut | 3.5 |
| Jeff Rosenstock SKA DREAM | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Wall | 4.0 |
| The Apartments A Life Full of Farewells | 5.0 |
| Surfer Blood Astro Coast | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd Meddle | 5.0 |
| PONY TV Baby | 3.0 |
| Zao The Crimson Corridor | 4.5 |
| Taylor Swift Fearless (Taylor’s Version) | 4.5 |
| One of the greatest country albums ever. |
| Blondie Parallel Lines | 5.0 |
| Blondie Blondie | 4.0 |
| Arab Strap As Days Get Dark | 4.5 |
| Kali Masi Laughs | 4.0 |
| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart The Echo of Pleasure | 3.5 |
| Ben Howard Collections from the Whiteout | 4.0 |
| I'm not quite prepared to say this is better than Noonday Dream. Am I prepared to say it's my favourite and will probably be my most revisited down the lane? I'm certain of it. |
| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Days of Abandon | 4.0 |
| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Belong | 4.5 |
| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart The Pains of Being Pure at Heart | 4.0 |
| Demon Hunter Songs of Death and Resurrection | 2.5 |
| A Day To Remember You're Welcome | 2.5 |
| Chevelle NIRATIAS | 3.5 |
| Pasteboard Glitter | 4.5 |
| Julien Baker Little Oblivions | 3.0 |
| Architects For Those That Wish to Exist | 1.0 |
| Fallstar Sunbreather | 1.5 |
| Unwritten Law Here's to the Mourning | 2.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 3.0 |
| Love and Death Perfectly Preserved | 2.5 |
| Jon Foreman Departures | 3.5 |
| Pale Waves Who Am I? | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade | 3.0 |
| Joshua Burnside Into the Depths of Hell | 4.0 |
| Nirvana Bleach | 4.5 |
| Grandaddy The Sophtware Slump | 4.0 |
| The Wonder Years The Upsides | 3.0 |
| Rowland S. Howard Pop Crimes | 3.5 |
| Robert Wyatt Rock Bottom | 4.0 |
| Special Interest The Passion Of | 3.5 |
| Meer Playing House | 3.0 |
| The Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing | 4.0 |
| ee Ramadan | 4.0 |
| And Also The Trees (Listen for) the Rag and Bone Man | 4.0 |
| A Day To Remember Common Courtesy | 2.0 |
| Blonde Redhead Penny Sparkle | 3.0 |
| Weezer OK Human | 2.5 |
| Another day another goofy Weezer album that I'll probably never listen to again. |
| Midori Aratame Hajime Mashite Midori Desu | 4.5 |
| A Day To Remember What Separates Me from You | 2.0 |
| A Day To Remember Homesick | 3.5 |
| Magnolia Electric Co What Comes After the Blues | 4.0 |
| And Also The Trees Further from the Truth | 3.0 |
| Hot Water Music Forever and Counting | 3.0 |
| Five Iron Frenzy Until This Shakes Apart | 3.0 |
| Sparklehorse It's a Wonderful Life | 5.0 |
| Just as wonderful and poetic as the film that shares its namesake. |
| Spoken Spoken | 2.5 |
| Sparklehorse Good Morning Spider | 4.5 |
| Sparklehorse Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot | 4.0 |
| Blonde Redhead 23 | 4.5 |
| Daniel Knox Won't You Take Me With You | 4.0 |
| Lambchop Aw C'Mon! No You C'mon! | 4.5 |
| The Brilliant Green The Brilliant Green | 2.5 |
| Blonde Redhead Misery is a Butterfly | 3.5 |
| Blonde Redhead Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons | 3.5 |
| Hot Water Music Fuel for the Hate Game | 3.5 |
| Mew No More Stories | 3.5 |
| Blonde Redhead In an Expression of the Inexpressible | 4.0 |
| Blonde Redhead Fake Can Be Just As Good | 4.0 |
| Sonic Youth Sister | 4.0 |
| Blonde Redhead Blonde Redhead | 4.0 |
| Shiner The Egg | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast | 4.5 |
| Mew And the Glass Handed Kites | 3.5 |
| Mew Frengers | 4.5 |
| Front Line Assembly Tactical Neural Implant | 4.0 |
| Hospital Bracelet South Loop Summer | 3.0 |
| Ashnikko Demidevil | 1.0 |
| David Sylvian Brilliant Trees | 4.0 |
| Janis Joplin I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! | 4.0 |
| Juliet McConkey Disappearing Girl | 4.0 |
| Stand Atlantic Pink Elephant | 1.5 |
| New Order Power, Corruption and Lies | 3.5 |
| I Am They Trial and Triumph | 2.0 |
| I Am They Faithful God | 2.5 |
| Red House Painters Red House Painters | 4.5 |
| Red House Painters Down Colorful Hill | 4.5 |
| Chevelle The North Corridor | 2.0 |
| Chevelle La Gárgola | 4.0 |
| Elliott Smith XO | 4.5 |
| Chevelle Hats Off To The Bull | 3.0 |
| Pavement Slanted and Enchanted | 4.5 |
| Chevelle Vena Sera | 3.5 |
| Chevelle This Type Of Thinking (Could Do Us In) | 2.5 |
| Chevelle Wonder What's Next | 4.0 |
| Chevelle Point #1 | 3.5 |
| Type O Negative Bloody Kisses | 3.5 |
| ABBA More Gold: More Hits | 4.5 |
| Common Children Delicate Fade | 3.5 |
| Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children | 3.0 |
| Emery White Line Fever | 2.0 |
| The Violet Burning Demonstrates Plastic and Elastic | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Killers | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Iron Maiden | 4.0 |
| Broadway Calls Good Views, Bad News | 3.0 |
| American Music Club California | 4.5 |
| Shinedown The Sound of Madness | 2.5 |
| Shinedown Leave a Whisper | 2.5 |
| Broadway Calls Comfort/Distraction | 3.0 |
| Broadway Calls Sad In The City | 4.0 |
| Introvert Mending Breaking | 3.0 |
| Tired Radio Patterns | 3.5 |
| David Bowie Blackstar | 5.0 |
| David Bowie The Next Day | 3.5 |
| Elliott Smith Elliott Smith | 3.5 |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or | 5.0 |
| The Buggles The Age of Plastic | 3.5 |
| Jordan Feliz Say It | 2.0 |
| The Carpenters Close to You | 4.0 |
| Sweet Trip You Will Never Know Why | 4.5 |
| Tunng Tunng Presents...DEAD CLUB | 5.0 |
| The Avalanches We Will Always Love You | 4.0 |
| Crippled Black Phoenix Ellengaest | 4.5 |
| Boneflower Armour | 3.5 |
| Dogleg Melee | 3.0 |
| Miley Cyrus Plastic Hearts | 2.5 |
| Shehehe Pet Songs | 4.5 |
| Taylor Swift Evermore | 4.0 |
| The moment Taylor goes from an indie darling to a singer/songwriter sensation. |
| Seiko Oomori Kintsugi | 4.5 |
| Seiko Oomori releases the most Seiko Oomori album of her career and it is glorious. All the character of Sennou, with the emotional beats of Tokyo Black Hole, and a dash of the melodic aggression of Kusokawa Party. |
| Taylor Swift Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions | 4.0 |
| Deftones Black Stallion | 2.0 |
| Ouch. My favourite metal album of all-time has become a mostly unrecognizable, incoherent mess. The only remixes that offer anything of substance are "Street Carp" and "Knife Prty." |
| Talking Heads Talking Heads: 77 | 3.0 |
| Talking Heads Remain in Light | 5.0 |
| Believe what has been said about this album. Remain In Light is one of the most ingenious, infectious, and astonishing records of the 80s. Walk with me into the light, where every note inspires either terror, awe, or GROOVE. |
| Talking Heads Fear of Music | 4.5 |
| Therapy? Troublegum | 3.5 |
| Billie Joe Armstrong No Fun Mondays | 2.5 |
| House and Home Find Sense. Feel Love. Make Light. | 3.5 |
| Depeche Mode Violator | 5.0 |
| Sweet Trip Velocity : Design : Comfort | 4.5 |
| The Moore Family Band Missy | 4.0 |
| Girls be kicking ass this year! |
| Joni Mitchell Ladies of the Canyon | 3.5 |
| Joni Mitchell Clouds | 4.0 |
| You vs Yesterday You Vs. Yesterday | 2.5 |
| Lydia Loveless Daughter | 3.5 |
| Mogwai Young Team | 3.5 |
| Woodes Crystal Ball | 3.0 |
| ManDancing The Good Sweat | 3.0 |
| David Bowie Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) | 4.0 |
| Weathered Everything All at Once | 3.5 |
| Illuminati Hotties FREE I.H: This Is Not the One... | 4.5 |
| Minnie Riperton Come To My Garden | 3.5 |
| Air Moon Safari | 4.5 |
| Yukika Soul Lady | 4.0 |
| Rush 2112 | 3.5 |
| David Bowie Lodger | 3.0 |
| Seahaven Halo of Hurt | 3.0 |
| Citizens and Saints The Joy Of Being | 3.5 |
| Kings Kaleidoscope Power Perfect. | 2.5 |
| Wake Low Wake Low | 3.0 |
| David Bowie "Heroes" | 4.0 |
| David Bowie Low | 4.5 |
| David Bowie Station to Station | 5.0 |
| David Bowie Young Americans | 3.5 |
| David Bowie Diamond Dogs | 3.5 |
| David Bowie Pin Ups | 2.0 |
| David Bowie Aladdin Sane | 4.5 |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars | 5.0 |
| David Bowie Hunky Dory | 4.5 |
| Chris Stapleton Starting Over | 3.0 |
| Tegan and Sara If It Was You | 3.0 |
| The Chameleons Script of the Bridge | 4.0 |
| Tired Lion Dumb Days | 4.0 |
| Tired Lion Breakfast for Pathetics | 4.0 |
| Oh heck yes, this is what I've been waiting to hear. Fiery punk with an attitude that manages to maintain an irresistible melodic edge from beginning to end. |
| Lydia I Was Someone Else | 2.5 |
| A minute step in a better direction but still terribly unexciting. |
| Perfume Genius No Shape | 3.0 |
| Cam The Otherside | 3.5 |
| Bright Eyes Fevers & Mirrors | 3.5 |
| Fugazi In on the Kill Taker | 3.0 |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine | 5.0 |
| Massive Attack Protection | 4.0 |
| Turnpike Troubadours Diamonds and Gasoline | 4.0 |
| Glass Harp Glass Harp | 3.5 |
| Olafur Arnalds Some Kind of Peace | 3.5 |
| Wolves at the Gate We Are the Ones | 2.5 |
| Wolves at the Gate Reprise | 2.5 |
| Wolves at the Gate Dawn | 2.5 |
| Camera Obscura Underachievers Please Try Harder | 3.5 |
| The State Lottery When the Night Comes | 3.5 |
| Kate Bush Aerial | 5.0 |
| Lambchop TRIP | 3.5 |
| Camera Obscura Biggest Bluest Hi Fi | 4.0 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Replica | 3.0 |
| Sangre de Muerdago Xuntas | 3.5 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Magic Oneohtrix Point Never | 3.5 |
| Various Artists (Punk) Punk Goes Pop Vol. 6 | 1.0 |
| Prince Dirty Mind | 3.0 |
| The Apartments No Song, No Spell, No Madrigal | 4.0 |
| Grant Lee Buffalo Fuzzy | 4.5 |
| The Apartments Fête Foraine | 3.5 |
| The Apartments In and Out of the Light | 4.0 |
| Tindersticks Curtains | 4.5 |
| Tindersticks Tindersticks II | 5.0 |
| After falling in love with their sprawling and resoundingly beautiful debut, the follow-up wasn't quite as immediate for me. Time and an open heart, however, let its magic sink in. And now....well....take note of the word beside the rating. |
| Anathema A Natural Disaster | 4.5 |
| Massive Attack Blue Lines | 4.0 |
| Anathema Judgement | 4.5 |
| Vennart In The Dead, Dead Wood | 3.5 |
| Vennart To Cure A Blizzard Upon A Plastic Sea | 3.5 |
| The Cure The Top | 2.5 |
| No Joy Motherhood | 3.5 |
| The Horrors Primary Colours | 3.0 |
| Nothing The Great Dismal | 4.5 |
| Liz Phair Exile In Guyville | 3.5 |
| clipping. There Existed an Addiction to Blood | 3.5 |
| The Cure Japanese Whispers | 3.5 |
| Tricot 10 | 4.0 |
| Grails Deep Politics | 3.0 |
| Yo La Tengo And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside... | 4.0 |
| Break Fate Ferocity | 3.0 |
| The Cure Three Imaginary Boys | 3.0 |
| Nothing But Thieves Moral Panic | 3.5 |
| Sam Amidon Sam Amidon | 3.5 |
| Tricot The | 3.5 |
| The Cure Wish | 4.5 |
| Fireflight Who We Are: The Head And The Heart | 3.0 |
| The Cure Disintegration | 5.0 |
| Distintegration is the record that fills the silence and eases the loneliness of those who aren't sure where their place in the world is. If you want to know what it means to be Goth, both inside and out, here it is. |
| PUP This Place Sucks Ass | 4.0 |
| The Cure Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me | 4.5 |
| The Cure The Head on the Door | 4.5 |
| Polock Getting Down From The Trees | 3.5 |
| The Cure Pornography | 4.5 |
| Poppy Music to Scream To | 1.5 |
| I mean, Noise has a place in music, doesn't it? Can't discredit a whole "genre" but I really don't get it. |
| Amiel Audio Out | 3.0 |
| "Love Song," another one hit wonder from my childhood. Popped in my head years later and it's still a gem. Rest of the album is typical angsty 2000s pop/rock. |
| The Cure Faith | 4.0 |
| The Cure Seventeen Seconds | 4.0 |
| Backstreet Boys Backstreet Boys | 2.5 |
| Japan Gentlemen Take Polaroids | 4.0 |
| AC/DC Highway To Hell | 3.0 |
| AC/DC Back In Black | 2.5 |
| The Who Quadrophenia | 4.5 |
| Everything in Slow Motion Influence | 3.0 |
| Space Corolla Cordales | 3.5 |
| Catch 22 Keasbey Nights | 3.5 |
| Yo La Tengo I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One | 4.5 |
| Matt Berninger Serpentine Prison | 3.5 |
| The Moody Blues Days of Future Passed | 4.5 |
| A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory | 4.0 |
| Underworld dubnobasswithmyheadman | 4.5 |
| Kate Bush The Sensual World | 4.0 |
| Get Dead Dancing with the Curse | 4.0 |
| Throw Green Day, Jeff Rosenstock, and Beach Slang in a blender and you get this slice of thrilling punk brilliance. |
| Kate Bush Hounds of Love | 4.5 |
| Marvin Gaye What's Going On | 4.0 |
| A Tribe Called Quest People's Instinctive Travels & The Paths of Rhythm | 3.5 |
| The Beach Boys Today! | 3.5 |
| The Rural Alberta Advantage Hometowns | 4.0 |
| Patti Smith Horses | 4.0 |
| Radwimps Weathering With You | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Sabotage | 3.5 |
| Kate Bush The Dreaming | 4.5 |
| Kate Bush Never for Ever | 4.0 |
| Kate Bush Lionheart | 3.5 |
| Kate Bush The Kick Inside | 4.5 |
| Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath | 4.0 |
| Acceptance Wild, Free | 2.5 |
| Blaaah, just another version of the ol "If you like this band (in this case The Killers) then you'll love this Christian band!" |
| Black Sabbath Vol. 4 | 3.5 |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality | 4.5 |
| They really don't write metal like this anymore. A riff-tastic masterpiece. |
| Janet Jackson Control | 3.5 |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid | 4.5 |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath | 4.5 |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival Green River | 3.5 |
| The Dismemberment Plan Change | 3.5 |
| The Dismemberment Plan Emergency & I | 4.0 |
| The Pretenders Pretenders | 4.0 |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures | 4.0 |
| Aimyon Oishii Pasta ga Aru to Kiite | 3.0 |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival Bayou Country | 3.0 |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... | 5.0 |
| There are records that conjure a specific kind of mood or feeling, then there are records that just define what that feeling means. Endtroducing is the kind of album that, to me, embodies the feeling of Kenopsia-an unsettling emptiness and bittersweet nostalgia of a beloved place left behind. Nothing else I've heard has ever managed to capture it as well. This is a special, important, and downright incredible record. |
| Bill Withers Just As I Am | 3.5 |
| X-Ray Spex Germfree Adolescents | 3.5 |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival Creedence Clearwater Revival | 3.0 |
| Slick Shoes Rotation and Frequency | 3.5 |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance | 3.0 |
| Svalbard When I Die, Will I Get Better? | 3.5 |
| Machine Gun Kelly Tickets to My Downfall | 1.5 |
| Deftones Ohms | 4.5 |
| Ohms is really just the ideal Deftones record: from the production that exudes melancholic angst, to the music that is 'Tones at their absolute best. |
| Death Symbolic | 4.5 |
| Fleet Foxes Shore | 3.0 |
| Death Individual Thought Patterns | 4.0 |
| Kim Wilde Kim Wilde | 3.0 |
| Death Human | 4.0 |
| Death Spiritual Healing | 3.5 |
| Death Leprosy | 4.0 |
| Death Scream Bloody Gore | 3.0 |
| Semisonic You're Not Alone | 4.0 |
| "Watch Semisonic be one of the year's best." Yeah, I think I was right! I'd love to hear a new LP from these lads. |
| No Age Snares Like A Haircut | 3.5 |
| KT Tunstall Eye To The Telescope | 3.0 |
| Carissa's Wierd Scrap Book | 4.0 |
| As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse | 3.0 |
| The Elms Chess Hotel | 2.0 |
| The Presidents of the United States of America The Presidents of the United States of America | 3.5 |
| Jeff Rosenstock 2020 DUMP | 3.5 |
| Jeff continues to bless us with his brilliance on this crappy year. |
| We Are Messengers Power + | 2.5 |
| Carissa's Wierd Songs About Leaving | 4.5 |
| Carissa's Wierd You Should Be At Home Here | 4.5 |
| Carissa's Wierd Ugly But Honest: 1996-1999 | 5.0 |
| To me, music has always been a distinctly human expression first and foremost. It doesn't always have to sound pristine, massively ambitious, or even impressively technical. As long as it can express genuine, honest emotion it can truly mean something. In no uncertain terms then, this is a soul-barring, intimate masterpiece and one of my favourite records ever. |
| Fit for a King The Path | 2.0 |
| Deathgrip pt.2. Or is it Dark Skies pt. 2? Slave To Nothing pt. 2? It's a FFAK record, that's it. |
| Marilyn Manson We Are Chaos | 2.5 |
| Narrow Head Satisfaction | 4.0 |
| Narrow Head 12th House Rock | 4.0 |
| It's of my conviction that the best style music ever knew was conceived in and died in the 90s. Imitators come and go but few have ever been able to capture that magic again. But blimey, these lads have it. The magic, the creativity, the unbridled emotion and unfettered rage. They're bringing it it back, man, they're bringing it back. |
| Motion City Soundtrack I Am the Movie | 3.5 |
| Fit for a King Descendants (Redux) | 2.5 |
| '68 Love Is Ain't Dead | 3.0 |
| The production choices made here don't sit right with me but aside from that, this is little more than Two-Parts Viper b-sides. |
| Stryper Fallen | 3.0 |
| Stryper Even the Devil Believes | 2.5 |
| Ruston Kelly Shape and Destroy | 3.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal | 2.0 |
| Black Veil Brides Re-Stitch These Wounds | 3.0 |
| Black Veil Brides Vale | 3.5 |
| Lush Spooky | 3.5 |
| Black Veil Brides Black Veil Brides | 3.0 |
| Black Veil Brides Wretched And Divine: Ultimate Edition | 4.0 |
| Sometimes you just gotta embrace the chunibyo inside of you. |
| Black Veil Brides Set the World on Fire | 3.0 |
| Saves the Day Stay What You Are | 3.0 |
| Hellogoodbye Would It Kill You? | 3.5 |
| Cold A Different Kind of Pain | 2.5 |
| Colour in the Clouds Inosculation | 3.5 |
| Bill Callahan Gold Record | 3.5 |
| Sara Groves Conversations | 3.0 |
| Chris Tomlin Chris Tomlin And Friends | 1.5 |
| Seether Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum | 3.0 |
| YFriday Great And Glorious | 3.0 |
| The Killers Imploding the Mirage | 3.5 |
| toe The Book About My Idle Plot on a Vague Anxiety | 3.0 |
| Needtobreathe Out Of Body | 3.5 |
| Bjork Vulnicura | 5.0 |
| Katy Perry Smile | 2.0 |
| Bjork Biophilia | 4.5 |
| Bjork Volta | 4.0 |
| Bjork Medulla | 4.0 |
| Bjork Vespertine | 5.0 |
| Bjork Homogenic | 5.0 |
| Bjork Post | 5.0 |
| Bjork Debut | 4.5 |
| Novembre Novembrine Waltz | 3.5 |
| Lambchop What Another Man Spills | 4.5 |
| Novembre Classica | 4.0 |
| The Killers Battle Born | 2.5 |
| Vexes Ancient Geometry | 3.5 |
| Monoral Via | 3.0 |
| Monoral Turbulence | 3.0 |
| Monoral Petrol | 3.0 |
| Melt-Banana Fetch | 3.5 |
| Melt-Banana Cell-Scape | 4.0 |
| You Am I Sound As Ever | 3.5 |
| Boom Boom Satellites To The Loveless | 2.5 |
| The Veils Total Depravity | 4.0 |
| Nate Parrish I'm A Wreck | 3.5 |
| The Veils Time Stays, We Go | 3.5 |
| Westelaken Westelaken | 3.5 |
| Deftones Covers | 3.0 |
| The Veils Sun Gangs | 3.5 |
| The Veils Nux Vomica | 4.5 |
| Video Age Pleasure Line | 3.0 |
| Stereolab Emperor Tomato Ketchup | 2.5 |
| The Veils The Runaway Found | 4.0 |
| Sky Sailing An Airplane Carried Me to Bed | 2.5 |
| Stereolab Mars Audiac Quintet | 3.0 |
| Ella Mine Dream War | 3.0 |
| Stereolab Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements | 4.0 |
| Iona The Circling Hour | 4.0 |
| Goldfrapp Tales Of Us | 4.0 |
| Iona Open Sky | 5.0 |
| Iona Beyond These Shores | 4.5 |
| KIDS (USA) Lost Cities | 2.0 |
| Acceptance Phantoms | 3.0 |
| The Gathering Disclosure | 5.0 |
| BTS Map of the Soul: 7 | 1.0 |
| Iona The Book of Kells | 4.5 |
| Iona Journey Into the Morn | 5.0 |
A spellbinding and gorgeous progressive/folk record that moves with soul, grace, and
conviction. |
| Fontaines D.C. A Hero's Death | 3.5 |
| The Gathering The West Pole | 3.5 |
| Creeper Sex, Death and the Infinite Void | 2.5 |
| Somehow they wrote the best track of their career ("Be My End") on a woefully frustrating and inconsistent follow up. |
| The Gathering Home | 5.0 |
| The Gathering Souvenirs | 5.0 |
| Converge I Can Tell You About Pain | 4.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Sometimes The Blues Is Just A Passing Bird | 3.5 |
| One Ok Rock Niche Syndrome | 3.0 |
| Fleetwood Mac Rumours | 5.0 |
| Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac | 4.5 |
| The Gathering if_then_else | 5.0 |
| the peggies Hell Like Heaven | 3.5 |
| Haken Virus | 3.0 |
| Neck Deep All Distortions Are Intentional | 3.5 |
| Taylor Swift Folklore | 4.0 |
| The moment Taylor goes from a bubbly, polarizing pop singer to an indie darling. |
| Boris Boris At Last -Feedbacker- | 4.0 |
| The Chicks Home | 3.0 |
| The Chicks Fly | 4.0 |
| SNFU The One Voted Most Likely to Succeed | 3.5 |
| Lifelong Above The Waves | 3.0 |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains Dirt | 3.0 |
| Alice in Chains Jar of Flies | 4.0 |
| Dawn Of Ashes The Antinomian | 2.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not | 3.0 |
| The Lawrence Arms Skeleton Coast | 3.5 |
| Higher Power 27 Miles Underwater | 3.0 |
| PVRIS Use Me | 2.0 |
| If your goal is to play quietly on the speakers in Target this will do the job. |
| Dryve Thrifty Mr. Kickstar | 3.5 |
| The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers | 4.0 |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Diary | 4.0 |
| The Jim Yoshii Pile-Up It's Winter Here | 4.0 |
| Bob Dylan Nashville Skyline | 3.0 |
| Sleepstar Lost Machines | 2.5 |
| Failure In The Future Your Body Will Be The Furthest Thing From Your Mind | 3.5 |
| I think I just saw every era of music flash before my eyes and it was magnificent. |
| The Winter Passing New Ways Of Living | 3.0 |
| Failure The Heart Is a Monster | 3.0 |
| A.A. Williams Forever Blue | 2.5 |
| Verbena La Musica Negra | 2.5 |
| Verbena Into The Pink | 4.0 |
| A lost 90s gem. I'm honestly shocked this has a mere two ratings here. |
| Failure Magnified | 3.5 |
| Failure Fantastic Planet | 4.0 |
| The National Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers | 3.5 |
| Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman | 3.0 |
| Tokyo Shoegazer Turnaround | 4.0 |
| Jessie Ware What's Your Pleasure? | 4.5 |
| Dinosaur Jr. Bug | 3.5 |
| American Arson A Line in the Sand | 2.5 |
| Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me | 4.0 |
| Japan Quiet Life | 3.0 |
| Tokyo Shoegazer Crystallize | 4.0 |
| Supercell Today is a Beautiful Day | 2.5 |
| Japan Adolescent Sex | 3.0 |
| Pixies Bossanova | 3.0 |
| Pixies Doolittle | 5.0 |
| The spirit of rock 'n' roll is found right here and it absolutely melts face. |
| Lightworker Fury by Failure | 3.0 |
| Hum You'd Prefer an Astronaut | 4.0 |
| The Clash The Clash | 3.0 |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa | 4.0 |
| Fraction Moon Blood | 4.5 |
| This is the holy grail of Christian rock. Primal passion married with a sense of coolness that can't be matched. |
| Alex Lloyd Watching Angels Mend | 3.0 |
| Fellow Aussies will know the Commodor ad that played "Amazing." It was one of those ads I used to wait by the TV for and hope I'd see it again. We've come a long way since. Now I can reach the song in seconds instead of days. |
| By Surprise Mountain Smashers | 3.5 |
| Remo Drive Greatest Hits | 2.5 |
| Well I guess they were never that good...... |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories | 3.5 |
| Dazzle Vision Kirari | 3.5 |
| The Pillows Moondust | 3.0 |
| Johnny Foreigner Waited Up 'til It Was Light | 4.5 |
| Daft Punk Human After All | 2.5 |
| Hum Inlet | 4.5 |
| Ramones Leave Home | 3.5 |
| Daft Punk Discovery | 4.0 |
| A sense of childlike wonder and discovery wrapped up in a delectable array of dance and synth-pop. I'm nearly twenty years late to the party and it still sounds modern and absolutely timeless. |
| Daft Punk Homework | 4.0 |
| Euphoric and transportive dance beats and ingenious, visceral synths and loops. Album is a masterwork. |
| Showbread Anorexia Nervosa | 4.0 |
| Thomas Azier Love, Disorderly | 3.5 |
| Petra Revival | 2.0 |
| The beginning of the end. This was the new label's attempt to bring them back into popularity. Sadly that involved following the trend of the joyless, generic shell praise music was becoming. Aside from the genuinely beautiful opener, this is as forgettable as they come. |
| Go Radio Close the Distance | 2.0 |
| New Found Glory Forever + Ever x Infinity | 3.5 |
| Clever Girl No Drum And Bass in the Jazz Room | 4.5 |
| Petra No Doubt | 2.5 |
| They really lost their way with this one. Bland, contemporary CCM. This ain't Petra. |
| Petra Come And Join Us | 3.0 |
| Petra God Fixation | 3.5 |
| The first Petra album I loved. When I heard it off of that old burned CD my friends shared with me this was my immediate favourite. I still think it's a great introduction point to the band. "Falling Up" will never not make my heart soar. |
| Petra Back To The Street | 3.5 |
| This is where Petra really began for me. While the Greg Volz era is good, John Schlitt will always be the face of Petra. |
| Petra Never Say Die | 3.0 |
| Petra Petra | 2.0 |
| Phoebe Bridgers Punisher | 5.0 |
| Beach House Teen Dream | 4.5 |
| The Pillows Trial | 2.5 |
| Playdough Writer Dye | 2.0 |
| Playdough Gold Tips | 2.5 |
| The Pillows Horn Again | 3.0 |
| New Found Glory Catalyst | 2.5 |
| Pearl Jam Ten | 4.5 |
| Arms (FL) Blackout | 4.0 |
| Camber Beautiful Charade | 3.0 |
| The Pillows OOPArts | 2.0 |
| Slow Coming Day Farewell to the Familiar | 3.0 |
| The Pillows Pied Piper | 2.0 |
| The Beat I Just Can't Stop It | 3.5 |
| The Pillows Wake Up! Wake Up! Wake Up! | 4.0 |
| Craig of the Creek In the Key of the Creek A Craig of the Creek Musi | 3.5 |
| The Pillows My Foot | 3.5 |
| Bonsai Trees Learn To Grow | 2.5 |
| The Pillows Good Dreams | 4.0 |
| Counting Crows August And Everything After | 3.5 |
| The Pillows Penalty Life | 3.0 |
| Ging Nang Boyz 君と僕の第三次世界大戦的恋愛革命 | 4.0 |
| Bomb The Music Industry - Japan Ver. Rating speaks for itself. |
| The Pillows Thank You, My Twilight | 4.0 |
| Playdough Don't Drink The Water | 3.5 |
| The Pillows Smile | 2.5 |
| The Pillows Happy Bivouac | 5.0 |
| Japan's answer to the Blue album. Coarse, unbelievably fun, and a masterclass of 90s emo and alt-rock from beginning to end. |
| The Pillows Runners High | 4.5 |
| Playdough Lonely Superstar | 3.0 |
| The Pillows Please Mr. Lostman | 4.0 |
| The Pillows Little Busters | 4.5 |
| The soundtrack to one of the best animes of all-time also turns out to be an utterly blissful and flawless slice of 90s alternative rock and punk. Where is the surprise? |
| Jeff Rosenstock Summer Seven Club | 3.5 |
| Aimer Daydream | 3.0 |
| Drive-By Truckers Southern Rock Opera | 4.0 |
| Eskimo Joe A Song Is A City | 3.0 |
| Hot Little Rocket Our Work And Why We Do It | 2.5 |
| Michaela Anne Desert Dove | 4.0 |
| Converge Jane Live | 4.0 |
| END (USA-NJ) Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face | 3.5 |
| Sleater-Kinney All Hands on the Bad One | 3.0 |
| Ecke Wu 表演 Performance | 3.5 |
| Chasing Furies With Abandon | 3.5 |
| Yo La Tengo Painful | 4.5 |
| "I Heard You Looking" is one of the best album closers these ears have ever heard. This is a great album in its own right but that song alone turns this into a classic. |
| Mrs. Piss Self-Surgery | 3.5 |
| Nobody wants to play with us! Gotta admit, that gave me a chuckle. |
| Motion City Soundtrack Even If It Kills Me | 4.0 |
| Cinema Stare Hum And The Glow | 3.0 |
| Motion City Soundtrack Go | 3.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles | 3.5 |
| AFI Black Sails in the Sunset | 4.0 |
| Jon Guerra Keeper Of Days | 3.5 |
| Sleater-Kinney The Hot Rock | 3.0 |
| Sleater-Kinney Dig Me Out | 4.0 |
| Sleater-Kinney Call the Doctor | 4.0 |
| The Arrogant Sons of Bitches Pornocracy | 2.0 |
| Hail the Sun Wake | 2.5 |
| Deerhunter Microcastle | 3.5 |
| Fountains of Wayne Fountains Of Wayne | 2.5 |
| The Lawrence Arms Oh! Calcutta! | 3.5 |
| The Lawrence Arms The Greatest Story Ever Told | 4.5 |
| The Lawrence Arms Apathy and Exhaustion | 4.0 |
| The Arrogant Sons of Bitches Built to Fail | 2.0 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Album Minus Band | 4.0 |
| The The Infected | 5.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Hesitation Marks | 2.5 |
| Weezer The Red Album | 2.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | 5.0 |
| Number Girl Sappukei | 4.0 |
| Haru Nemuri LOVETHEISM | 3.5 |
| Number Girl School Girl Distortional Addict | 4.0 |
| Mandisa What If We Were Real? | 3.0 |
| Mandisa Overcomer | 3.5 |
| Moriah Peters Brave | 2.5 |
| Ages and Ages Divisionary | 3.0 |
| John Moreland In The Throes | 4.5 |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Dedicated Side B | 3.5 |
| Anchor and Braille Tension | 2.5 |
| This record could be a knockout if there was any substance or dynamic turns. As it is, Christian's side project is still yet to completely win me over. |
| Weezer Maladroit | 3.0 |
| Jeff Rosenstock NO DREAM | 4.5 |
| Jeff, if you don't stop being so awesome, dropping absolutely brilliant pieces of punk music out of nowhere, no one else is ever gonna have a chance. |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream | 5.0 |
| Oceansize Heaven Alive | 4.0 |
| Oceansize New Pin | 4.5 |
| Jason Isbell The Nashville Sound | 3.5 |
| Jess Williamson Sorceress | 3.0 |
| Neil Young Tonight's the Night | 3.5 |
| Mandisa Out Of The Dark | 3.5 |
| John Denver Poems, Prayers & Promises | 4.0 |
| Caligula's Horse Moments from Ephemeral City | 3.0 |
| Faith No More The Real Thing | 3.0 |
| Charli XCX How I'm Feeling Now | 3.0 |
| Vennart The Demon Joke | 4.0 |
| Jason Isbell Reunions | 4.0 |
| Off Road Minivan Swan Dive | 3.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Slip | 2.0 |
| Blake Mills Mutable Set | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Year Zero | 3.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth | 3.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Fragile | 3.5 |
| Oceansize Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up | 4.0 |
| Faith No More Angel Dust | 4.5 |
| Macaroom Swimming Classroom | 3.5 |
| tobyMac The Lost Demos | 2.5 |
| Gleemer Down Through | 3.5 |
| Sojourner Premonitions | 3.5 |
| Hayley Williams Petals for Armor | 2.5 |
| For the most part, this is fine, but it severely lacks colour compared to her work in Paramore. Every vocalist has to stretch out and experiment with their craft on their own at some point, but paired with the unexciting sound and unapproachable layout, it's difficult to be invested with what she's doing. |
| Maison Book Girl Yume | 3.0 |
| Macaroom Homephone TE | 5.0 |
| Why is this humble little J-pop album, tragically hidden in the corners of Bandcamp, the most perfect and transportive thing I have personally ever heard in the realm of pop music? Why not see for yourself? |
| Seiko Oomori Zettai Shoujo | 4.0 |
| Katatonia Viva Emptiness | 2.5 |
| Katatonia The Great Cold Distance | 3.5 |
| Chris Renzema Let The Ground Rest | 3.0 |
| Oceansize Music for Nurses | 4.5 |
| Oceansize Frames | 5.0 |
| Frames is the kind of album that makes me marvel at what we humans can create. Epic in scope and majestic in its execution, it's the kind of masterpiece you hear once in a lifetime. |
| The Used Heartwork | 1.5 |
| Blood and Water In Character | 3.5 |
| Lovebites Clockwork Immortality | 3.0 |
| Colton Dixon Colton Dixon | 2.5 |
| Oceansize Effloresce | 5.0 |
| How do you begin a career with an album this monumental and, dare I say, awe-inspiring? It's forever engaging, profoundly diverse, and strikingly innovative. It's one of the best alternative metal albums of the 21st century and it isn't even the best Oceansize album. |
| Songs: Ohia Ghost Tropic | 3.5 |
| Umbra Vitae Shadow of Life | 2.5 |
| O'Brother You and I | 4.0 |
| Crooked Fingers Dignity And Shame | 3.5 |
| Tigerwine Nothing is for You | 3.5 |
| First impressions can be deicieving. The vocals are mostly indistinguishable and vanilla and the post-rock/emo sound is nothing new. But there's a creative depth that's only revealed to the patient. It's a sludgy and atmospheric venture that deserves respect. |
| Boston Manor Glue | 2.5 |
| It's weird how Brand New's Daisy started a trend ten years after its release. With this and Microwave's latest album, pop/punk bands morphing into screamo is now becoming a popular move. I'm not complaining. |
| Brandy Clark Your Life Is A Record | 3.5 |
| Sam Hunt Southside | 1.0 |
| Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still | 3.0 |
| Oceansize Everyone Into Position | 4.5 |
| The Meeting Places Find Yourself Along the Way | 4.0 |
| Burden of Life The Makeshift Conqueror | 5.0 |
| Power metal has always been hit and miss for me but this album is, to put it in simple terms, next f#!&*ing level. The production is colossal, the ambition is grand, and the riffs.... the riffs are glorious. This is something else. |
| Neil Young On the Beach | 4.0 |
| Kings of Convenience Riot on an Empty Street | 4.0 |
| Mantric False Negative | 2.5 |
| You can say many things about this album, but you can't say it's falsely advertised. This record sounds just like those woolly bottoms. |
| Mass of the Fermenting Dregs Zero Comma, Irotoridori no Sekai | 3.5 |
| Nanci Griffith Storms | 3.0 |
| Sturgill Simpson A Sailor's Guide To Earth | 4.0 |
| Bonnie 'Prince' Billy I See a Darkness | 4.0 |
| Tift Merritt Traveling Alone | 3.5 |
| The Highwomen The Highwomen | 4.0 |
| Nanci Griffith Little Love Affairs | 3.0 |
| Nanci Griffith Lone Star State of Mind | 4.0 |
| Nanci Griffith The Last of the True Believers | 4.5 |
| There are records that capture a time and place in history and then there are records that transcend history to become, in no lesser terms, timeless. The songwriting and lyricism are just as poignant today as they were thirty years ago. |
| Trivium What the Dead Men Say | 3.0 |
| Lucinda Williams Good Souls Better Angels | 2.5 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Afterburner | 3.5 |
| For Squirrels Example | 4.0 |
| Caroline Spence Spades And Roses | 3.5 |
| Caroline Spence Mint Condition | 4.0 |
| Trivium Silence in the Snow | 3.0 |
| Whitacre Seasons | 3.0 |
| From Ashes To New Day One | 2.0 |
| THICK 5 Years Behind | 3.0 |
| Little Big Town Nightfall | 3.5 |
| Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga | 3.5 |
| Rina Sawayama Sawayama | 3.5 |
| Rolo Tomassi Grievances | 4.0 |
| Neurosis Enemy of the Sun | 2.5 |
| There is a lot of artistic merit here, however, I know my tastes and this isn't it. It's unforgivingly dark. It also appears to bear some early Swans influence, which doesn't entice me whatsoever. I hope I never have to meet this enemy of the sun. |
| Neurosis Souls at Zero | 4.0 |
| Spoon Gimme Fiction | 4.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie The Photo Album | 3.5 |
| Clem Snide Forever Just Beyond | 3.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes | 4.5 |
| This is an indie rock album for those cold Autumn mornings, holding the hand of your love and sharing a scarf together. I think it's the near epitome of beauty. |
| Spoon Kill the Moonlight | 4.5 |
| Asobi Seksu Hush | 3.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Something About Airplanes | 3.5 |
| Dead Can Dance Within the Realm of a Dying Sun | 3.5 |
| Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True | 4.0 |
| Azusa Loop of Yesterdays | 3.5 |
| David Kauffman and Eric Caboor Songs From Suicide Bridge | 4.0 |
| You're on the ground, but not for long. You'll fly again. It might not be the easiest album to sit through but it has every chance of being a life changer to someone who needs it. |
| Spoon Girls Can Tell | 3.5 |
| Asobi Seksu Citrus | 4.5 |
| When shoegaze and pop marry to create a sound that is so lovely, so irresistible, that it almost makes you wonder how you ever enjoyed shoegaze before it. |
| Purity Ring Shrines | 3.0 |
| Spoon Series of Sneaks | 3.5 |
| Midwife (USA) Forever | 3.5 |
| HRVRD The Inevitable And I | 3.0 |
| Falling Up House Full Of Caverns | 3.0 |
| Dillinger Four C I V I L W A R | 3.5 |
| Slowdive Just for a Day | 4.0 |
| Ellis Born Again | 3.5 |
| Dillinger Four Situationist Comedy | 3.5 |
| Latterman No Matter Where We Go...! | 4.5 |
| Dillinger Four Versus God | 3.0 |
| Dillinger Four Midwestern Songs Of The Americas | 3.5 |
| Pure Reason Revolution Eupnea | 4.5 |
| Delain Apocalypse & Chill | 2.5 |
| Ichiko Aoba "gift" at Sogetsu Hall | 3.5 |
| Slowdive Slowdive (LP) | 4.5 |
| Psychotic Waltz The God-Shaped Void | 3.0 |
| Falling Up Fangs | 3.5 |
| Depeche Mode Black Celebration | 4.0 |
| Saving Grace The Urgency | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Guardians | 3.0 |
| All Time Low Wake Up, Sunshine | 4.0 |
| Falling Up Exit Lights | 3.5 |
| Fight the Fade In Love. in Hope. in Peace. | 2.5 |
| Red (USA) Declaration | 3.5 |
| Cloud Nothings Here and Nowhere Else | 3.5 |
| Rend Collective CHOOSE TO WORSHIP | 3.0 |
| The Beautiful Mistake You're Not Broken. I Am | 2.5 |
| Falling Up Midnight On Earthship | 2.0 |
| Imminence Turn the Light On | 3.0 |
| Pillar The Reckoning | 3.0 |
| Waxahatchee Saint Cloud | 3.5 |
| Waxahatchee Out in the Storm | 4.0 |
| Eels Electro-Shock Blues | 4.5 |
| The Weeknd After Hours | 3.0 |
| Dua Lipa Future Nostalgia | 3.5 |
| Allow me to jump on this hype train because this is HOT! |
| Brian Fallon Local Honey | 4.0 |
| Empty Country Empty Country | 3.5 |
| Bob Dylan John Wesley Harding | 3.0 |
| Invent Animate Greyview | 2.5 |
| Japandroids Celebration Rock | 4.0 |
| Owen I do perceive. | 4.0 |
| Japandroids Post-Nothing | 4.0 |
| THE BOYS ARE LEAVING TOWN! |
| Alvvays Alvvays | 3.5 |
| Crying Beyond The Fleeting Gales | 4.0 |
| Bill Callahan Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle | 3.5 |
| Steve Taylor I Want to Be a Clone | 2.5 |
| Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain | 4.0 |
| Mae Multisensory Aesthetic Experience | 2.5 |
| James McMurtry Complicated Game | 4.5 |
| Schematic Color (n.) Inside The Lines | 1.5 |
| Bruce Springsteen Tunnel of Love | 3.0 |
| Lucinda Williams Lucinda Williams | 4.0 |
| The Districts You Know I'm Not Going Anywhere | 3.5 |
| Cody Carnes Run To The Father | 1.5 |
| Bruce Springsteen Nebraska | 4.0 |
| There are times to laugh and celebrate love and life (The River) and there are times to mourn, to embrace confusion, and to hope that those joyous times will be just around the bend. That is the sound of Nebraska. |
| Bruce Springsteen The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle | 3.5 |
| Mae (m)orning | 3.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen The River | 4.0 |
| Katie Pruitt Expectations | 3.0 |
| Lucinda Williams Car Wheels on a Gravel Road | 5.0 |
| Over the past few years I've been growing a real appreciation for country and the emotions/images it can conjure. This may be the best record I have heard yet. Intimate, homely yet full of unsated desire and longing. Every emotion is felt and every note and melody just hits home. As someone who lives in a rural town and has some of those same dreams, this is connecting all too perfectly. |
| Car Seat Headrest Teens of Denial | 3.5 |
| Code Orange Underneath | 3.0 |
| The Bathers Sweet Deceit | 3.5 |
| The White Stripes De Stijl | 3.5 |
| Mae Singularity | 3.0 |
| John Foxx Metamatic | 3.5 |
| Kings of Leon Only By The Night | 3.0 |
| Soccer Mommy Color Theory | 3.5 |
| Honey Harper Starmaker | 4.5 |
| Dens Taming Tongues | 3.0 |
| Earth Groans Prettiest of Things | 3.5 |
| Earth Groans Rahab | 3.5 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 5.0 |
| The reason the 90s were the peak of music is albums like this. A blistering, innovative, and guttural rock masterpiece drowning in pain and foreboding tragedy. It's in your face, confronting, and just electrifying through and through. |
| Tindersticks Tindersticks | 5.0 |
| Tindersticks swung out of the gate in the best way possible. A sprawling, ingenious, beautiful work of art that reaches the soul. This is one for the books. |
| Ratboys Printer's Devil | 3.5 |
| Aseul Slow Dance | 3.0 |
| Mae Destination: B-Sides | 2.5 |
| Hot Mulligan You'll Be Fine | 2.5 |
| PEARS Pears | 4.0 |
| Mae Destination: Beautiful | 3.5 |
| Worriers You or Someone You Know | 3.5 |
| Ramones Rocket to Russia | 4.5 |
| The Clash London Calling | 5.0 |
| This album is why Punk is the best genre music has ever conceived and why it should be revered as more than the product of rebellious teenagers ranting through the confusion of a world gone awry. Of course, London Calling has the rebellion, the fiery, inclusive, and impassioned spirit, and the dirty, raw vocals, but there's an artistic ambition that transcends it all. It thus remains one of the greatest records of our time. |
| Taking Back Sunday Tidal Wave | 3.5 |
| Ramones Ramones | 4.0 |
| Sonic Youth Evol | 4.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Happiness Is | 2.5 |
| Northstar Is This Thing Loaded? | 3.5 |
| Glocca Morra Just Married | 3.0 |
| Hop Along Get Disowned | 4.0 |
| Antarctigo Vespucci Leavin' La Vida Loca | 3.5 |
| The Classic Crime Patterns in the Static | 2.5 |
| Jeff Rosenstock I Look Like Shit | 3.5 |
| Jeff Rosenstock Thanks, Sorry! | 4.5 |
| Why is Jeff so flippin awesome? |
| Taking Back Sunday Taking Back Sunday | 2.5 |
| The Classic Crime Vagabonds | 3.5 |
| Short Fictions Fates Worse Than Death | 3.5 |
| Orville Peck Pony | 2.5 |
| Tigers Jaw Two Worlds | 3.0 |
| Regina Spektor What We Saw from the Cheap Seats | 4.0 |
| Swans Soundtracks for the Blind | 5.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Where You Want To Be | 3.5 |
| Lambchop Mr. M | 5.0 |
| Five For Fighting America Town | 1.5 |
| Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene | 3.5 |
| Greg Dulli Random Desire | 3.5 |
| Great American Ghost Power Through Terror | 2.5 |
| Portishead Portishead | 4.5 |
| Polaris The Death of Me | 2.5 |
| Elbow Little Fictions | 3.0 |
| Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People | 4.5 |
| No Mana Secret Level | 3.0 |
| Girlpool Powerplant | 3.0 |
| The Bathers Sunpowder | 4.0 |
| The Bathers Kelvingrove Baby | 5.0 |
| Magical, romantic, sweet, and endearing. Kelvingrove Baby plays out as a dream that makes your heart soar as you walk along the busy streets of a city bathed in golden lights with the love of your life hand in hand. |
| P.S. Eliot Introverted Romance In Our Troubled Minds | 3.5 |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico | 2.5 |
| The Story So Far Under Soil and Dirt | 3.5 |
| Bruce Springsteen Darkness on the Edge of Town | 4.5 |
| Tame Impala Currents | 3.5 |
| John Mark McMillan People With Dreams | 3.0 |
| Mika Life in Cartoon Motion | 3.0 |
| Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks | 5.0 |
| Beach Bunny Honeymoon | 3.5 |
| Cocteau Twins Heaven or Las Vegas | 5.0 |
| This is the kind of pop album that I feel terribly sorry for pop music fans who haven't had it grace their lives. Sheer beauty. |
| Sylosis Conclusion of an Age | 2.0 |
| Spanish Love Songs Brave Faces Everyone | 2.5 |
| I never grew to love Schmaltz. It's a fine record and all, just not what I needed at the time. I'm seeing the same pattern here. Solid musicianship, competentant but generic, gruff vocals, and lyrics about the sorry state of our lives. I just don't really see what separates these guys from everyone else. |
| Cocteau Twins Blue Bell Knoll | 3.5 |
| Bon Voyage Bon Voyage | 3.5 |
| Cocteau Twins Treasure | 4.5 |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots | 3.5 |
| Cocteau Twins Victorialand | 4.0 |
| The Rival The Rival | 2.5 |
| The Colourist The Colourist | 2.5 |
| Envy The Fallen Crimson | 4.0 |
| Hillsong Worship For All You've Done | 3.0 |
| Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary | 4.0 |
| Envy All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead | 4.0 |
| Training for Utopia Throwing A Wrench In The American Music | 3.0 |
| Loathe I Let It In And It Took Everything | 3.5 |
| Training for Utopia Plastic Soul Impalement | 4.0 |
| A Rotterdam November Past, Present, Future | 2.5 |
| Green Day 39/Smooth | 3.5 |
| Songs: Ohia The Lioness | 4.0 |
| Anthony Quails The Man I Thought I'd Never Be | 3.5 |
| Anthony Quails Before The Bright Lights | 3.5 |
| Green Day Father of All Motherfuckers | 2.0 |
| Oh Green Day, how you have changed. I hoped this would be a return to the short, blistering punk of your early days but there's not a hint of that on here. I don't expect another American Idiot ever again and I'm content with that but something with a bit of effort wouldn't go astray. |
| All Star United All Star United | 3.5 |
| Magnolia Electric Co Magnolia Electric Co | 5.0 |
| David Bowie Space Oddity | 3.5 |
| Mutemath Odd Soul | 2.5 |
| The Beatles Yellow Submarine | 2.5 |
| David Bowie David Bowie | 2.0 |
| Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic | 3.5 |
| Eat Your Heart Out Florescence | 3.0 |
| Dennis Wilson Pacific Ocean Blue | 4.0 |
| Marietta Summer Death | 3.5 |
| Mutemath Armistice | 2.5 |
| Mutemath Mutemath | 3.0 |
| En Attendant Ana Juillet | 3.5 |
| Meghan Trainor Treat Myself | 1.5 |
| What I heard of this wasn't as wholly despicable as her previous efforts. It just sounds like the product of a washed-up pop star riding the trends. She's already a forgotten product of yesterday which is simply a testimony to the timeless truth that lazy, misguided, trend-following music will never have lasting value. |
| Destroyer We'll Build Them A Golden Bridge | 2.0 |
| This album is so sad. Classic Bejar. |
| Destroyer Have We Met | 4.0 |
| Have We Met is yet another triumphant showcase of songwriting from Destroyer. It's subtly gorgeous, atmospherically transcendent, and strikingly grand. Bejar only continues to write with a consistency that should leave any songwriter green with envy. |
| Earthsuit Kaleidoscope Superior | 3.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin Aurora | 2.0 |
| Cynic Focus | 2.5 |
| Mazzy Star She Hangs Brightly | 3.5 |
| 13 Crowes Solway Star | 3.0 |
| The Go-Betweens Liberty Belle And The Black Diamond Express | 3.0 |
| Caspian On Circles | 3.0 |
| Psallos Jude | 4.0 |
| The Beatles 1 | 4.0 |
| Colony House Leave What's Lost Behind | 2.5 |
| Jonezetta Cruel to Be Young | 2.5 |
| Jonezetta Popularity | 2.0 |
| Simon and Garfunkel Sounds of Silence | 4.0 |
| The Kinks Face to Face | 3.5 |
| Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition | 4.5 |
| Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? | 3.5 |
| Regina Spektor Far | 4.0 |
| The Innocence Mission See You Tomorrow | 4.0 |
| I will see this gorgeous record tomorrow, the day after, the day after that, and the day after that..... |
| Built to Spill Perfect from Now On | 3.5 |
| Neil Young Harvest | 3.5 |
| Built to Spill There's Nothing Wrong with Love | 3.5 |
| Neil Young After the Gold Rush | 4.0 |
| Neil Young Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere | 4.5 |
| The Postal Service Give Up | 3.0 |
| The Beatles Let It Be | 3.0 |
| The Beatles Abbey Road | 5.0 |
| .....It's Abbey Road. It's one of most iconic and musically perfect albums ever written. The Beatles were simply an unbelievable phenomenon who crafted the best sounds the popular music world had ever heard. There will never be another band like this. Long live the wonderful legacy of these gentlemen. "You're gonna carry that weight." |
| The Beatles The Beatles | 5.0 |
| The White Album is a journey into the human mind like no other. It's all the bright moments, all the inside jokes and silly takes, all the biting insight and criticism of society, all the creative fire and ambition, all the heartbreak, all the anger and aggression, all the romance, and all the passion of a band at the peak of their craft. It might not be their "best" album, but it's certainly their most meaningful, even if it was all but a glorious accident in the end. |
| Beach Slang The Deadbeat Bang Of Heartbreak City | 2.5 |
| Poppy I Disagree | 3.5 |
| Well this slaps....wasn't expecting that at all. |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Revolver | 5.0 |
| Revolver is one of those records that just bleeds classic status from the very first note. "Taxman" is a blindingly awesome song, no doubt about it, but this record is stacked with moments of sheer brilliance. It's daring, heartfelt, and brimming with artistic integrity. It's rightly one of the best rock albums of all-time. |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul | 5.0 |
| Rubber Soul is the perfect album. It takes all the strengths of earlier Beatles records and fine tunes them until they're at their highest peak. The magic is felt in spades as the band shows a wonderful sense of maturity and introspection. And lest we forget the beginnings of their experimental phase that helped them become the greatest band the world of music has ever seen. Rubber Soul is a spellbinding pop record that rightly deserves its place as a classic. |
| The Beatles Help! | 5.0 |
| Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Beatles for Sale | 3.5 |
| The Beatles A Hard Day's Night | 4.5 |
| The sheer songwriting quality of this album is leaps and bounds above their previous two. Wonderful album. |
| The Beatles With the Beatles | 3.5 |
| Cliffdiver At Your Own Risk | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Please Please Me | 3.5 |
| Marilyn Manson The Pale Emperor | 3.0 |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 4.5 |
| Every Time I Die Last Night in Town | 3.0 |
| Every Time I Die Low Teens | 4.0 |
| The Who Who's Next | 4.5 |
| Philmont Attention | 2.5 |
| Sanctus Real Unstoppable God | 1.5 |
| Rachael Roberts Rachael Roberts | 3.0 |
| Matthew West Something To Say | 2.5 |
| Matthew West Live Forever | 2.5 |
| Postcards The Good Soldier | 3.5 |
| Run Kid Run This Is Who We Are | 3.0 |
| Capital Lights Rhythm N Moves | 2.0 |
| This Beautiful Republic Even Heroes Need A Parachute | 2.5 |
| Tegan and Sara The Con | 3.5 |
| Handguns When The Light Burns Out | 3.0 |
| Why not start the first day of 2020 with a supremely banging punk album? Can't think of anything better, honestly. |
| Nevertheless In The Making... | 3.5 |
| Tegan and Sara So Jealous | 4.0 |
| June If you speak any faster | 2.5 |
| The Chariot Wars and Rumors of Wars | 3.0 |
| The Chariot Everything Is Alive, Everything Is... | 3.0 |
| Empty Hope and The Loss of It | 3.5 |
| Capital Lights This Is An Outrage! | 4.5 |
| What a deliciously catchy, summery gem of a record. Why did it take me so long to listen to it when I've heard the name plenty of times before? |
| Red (USA) Release the Panic: Recalibrated | 2.5 |
| New Found Glory New Found Glory | 3.5 |
| Exit North Book of Romance and Dust | 4.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Music to Listen to... | 2.5 |
| I'm going to attempt to defend this. Does it tend to scream "Aren't I so weird! I'm not like other bands" at points? Absolutely. That 20-minute long slog? Bin it. But the way they just dropped it out of nowhere makes it a lot easier to stomach. I can always respect an attempt to try something ridiculous, even if the end result isn't too far removed from your average EDM record. This is also the only time I've ever been able to endure something with Halsey in it. And the final three tracks are actually fairly decent nightcore tunes. I might not ever choose to listen to it again but hey, it's good to say something relatively nice about this band for a change. |
| Demon Hunter Demon Hunter | 3.0 |
| New Found Glory Sticks and Stones | 3.0 |
| Plumb Beautifully Broken | 2.5 |
| Plumb Exhale | 2.0 |
| Plumb Need You Now | 3.5 |
| Plumb Chaotic Resolve | 3.0 |
| The Academy Is... Almost Here | 2.5 |
| Swans White Light From the Mouth of Infinity | 4.5 |
| The Starting Line Say It Like You Mean It | 3.0 |
| To Speak Of Wolves Find Your Worth, Come Home | 3.0 |
| Plumb Beautiful Lumps of Coal | 2.5 |
| Cultdreams Things That Hurt | 3.0 |
| Hidden In Plain View Life in Dreaming | 3.5 |
| Kero Kero Bonito Time 'n' Place | 3.0 |
| Self Esteem Compliments Please | 3.5 |
| Charli XCX Pop 2 | 2.5 |
| Neck Deep The Peace And The Panic | 3.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child | 3.5 |
| Charli XCX Charli | 3.5 |
| Children 18:3 On The Run | 3.5 |
| SUMMEEEERRRR IS ALMOST OVEEEEEER! |
| Bad Religion Against the Grain | 3.5 |
| Plumb CandyCoatedWaterdrops | 3.5 |
| Plumb Plumb | 3.5 |
| Snowing Fuck Your Emotional Bullshit | 3.5 |
| Christie Front Drive Stereo | 3.5 |
| Thursday Full Collapse | 4.0 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs: From the Basement | 4.0 |
| Rites of Spring Rites of Spring | 3.5 |
| The Promise Ring Nothing Feels Good | 4.0 |
| The Gaslight Anthem Sink or Swim | 4.5 |
| Something Corporate North | 2.5 |
| Hikaru Utada Fantôme | 3.5 |
| Son Lux Remedy | 2.5 |
| Jonsi Go | 3.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Christmas EP | 3.5 |
| Ashland Over the Moon | 2.5 |
| Molly and The Zombies Molly and The Zombies | 4.0 |
| Old Sea Brigade Ode To A Friend | 3.0 |
| The Gaslight Anthem Get Hurt | 4.0 |
| Manafest This Is Not The End | 2.0 |
| Manafest Reborn | 2.0 |
| Swans Children of God | 5.0 |
| Neck Deep Life's Not Out To Get You | 4.5 |
| Basement Colourmeinkindness | 4.0 |
| Swans Cop | 4.5 |
| This is pure suffering. |
| Swans Filth | 5.0 |
| I don't like this one bit. But then, that may have been what the band was going for. It's ugly, grimy, angry, and dirty in a way that sticks with you long after. It's a disgusting portrait of evil that we often forget exists. |
| Swans The Seer | 5.0 |
| The establishment of mood and atmosphere is greater here than it is on To Be Kind. However, based on pure enjoyment, I adore the bluesy grooves on TBK more than the eerie, droning soundscapes on this record. It's an incredible achievement in its own right, just not quite the monolith To Be Kind is for me. |
| Swans To Be Kind | 5.0 |
| Perhaps the most monumental album of our time. This is one of those albums where the first listen is revelatory and it only gets better the more you explore it. |
| Death Grips The Money Store | 2.0 |
| The Famine The Architects of Guilt | 3.5 |
| Northlander Forces of Light | 1.5 |
| Why does this have the absolute worst mastering job I've heard on anything this year? And why does the music have to draw attention to it by being so forgettable? |
| Citizen Way 2.0 | 1.5 |
| Vi Som Alskade Varandra Sa Mycket Det Onda. Det Goda. Det Vackra. Det Fula. | 3.5 |
| Frank Turner Love, Ire & Song | 4.0 |
| Out of Service Burden | 3.5 |
| American Hi-Fi Fight The Frequency | 2.0 |
| American Hi-Fi Hearts On Parade | 2.5 |
| Deftones B-Sides and Rarities | 2.5 |
| MxPx Panic | 3.0 |
| Problem Daughter Grow Up Trash | 3.5 |
| Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde | 5.0 |
| Bad Religion No Control | 4.0 |
| What We Do in Secret Repose | 2.5 |
| JJ Weeks Band As Long As We Can Breathe | 1.5 |
| Genghis Tron Board Up the House | 3.5 |
| Pom Poko Birthday | 2.5 |
| Future Islands In Evening Air | 3.0 |
| Bad Religion Suffer | 4.0 |
| MxPx Before Everything & After | 2.5 |
| Fugazi Repeater | 4.5 |
| Semisonic Feeling Strangely Fine | 4.5 |
| AM Taxi Shiver By Me | 3.5 |
| MxPx The Ever Passing Moment | 3.5 |
| Anna Flyaway Tomorrow I Will Take A Knife To Your Confidence | 3.5 |
| Hallelujah The Hills I'm You | 3.5 |
| If you thought the best of the decade was over you might want to think twice. I'm You is a rich and stunning slice of Americana rock 'n' roll and relatable, earnest storytelling. Fans of early Wilco should be eating this up with glee. |
| The Damn Tracks Second City Is Burning | 4.0 |
| Coldplay Everyday Life | 2.5 |
| Sleep Token Sundowning | 2.0 |
| MxPx Slowly Going the Way of the Buffalo | 3.5 |
| MxPx Teenage Politics | 4.0 |
| Everything But the Girl The Language of Life | 4.0 |
| MxPx Pokinatcha | 2.5 |
| The Stargazer Lilies Occabot | 3.5 |
| Neon Beach Billy Miles | 3.5 |
| Starflyer 59 Young in My Head | 3.0 |
| Starflyer is as Starflyer does. |
| Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited | 4.0 |
| Origami Angel Somewhere City | 4.5 |
| Somewhere City is an emo record full of charm, superbly well-written melodies and out-of-left-field twists, and a genuinely emotional backbone. In the scope of its genre, it's a modern classic. |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma | 3.5 |
| Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home | 4.0 |
| Bob Dylan Another Side of Bob Dylan | 3.5 |
| Bob Dylan The Times They Are A-Changin' | 4.0 |
| Bob Dylan The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan | 4.0 |
| Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights | 3.5 |
| Illuminati Hotties Kiss Yr Frenemies | 3.5 |
| The Menzingers Chamberlain Waits | 4.0 |
| Fleet Foxes Crack-Up | 4.5 |
| Helplessness Blues is the album you play to all of your friends and family. Crack-Up is the album you keep to yourself for those cherished nights when you're alone and pondering the meaning of it all. |
| Fleet Foxes Sun Giant | 4.0 |
| Lapalux Amnioverse | 4.0 |
| Starflyer 59 Dial M | 3.0 |
| Chromatics Closer to Grey | 3.5 |
| FKA Twigs Magdalene | 2.5 |
| Where has the "pop" in pop music gone? |
| The Band CAMINO tryhard | 3.0 |
| Wilder Woods Wilder Woods | 4.0 |
| Greet Death New Hell | 4.0 |
This is a stunner. A mixture of emo, shoegaze, alternative rock, and even some Low inspired
slow-core moments. Beautiful album |
| Kate Davis Trophy | 3.5 |
| Starflyer 59 Talking Voice vs. Singing Voice | 4.0 |
| Keaton Henson Birthdays | 3.5 |
| Macseal Super Enthusiast | 3.0 |
| Elliott Smith Roman Candle | 4.0 |
| Starflyer 59 I Am The Portuguese Blues | 3.0 |
| Keaton Henson Dear... | 3.5 |
| The Ataris End is Forever | 4.0 |
| Starflyer 59 Old | 3.5 |
| Night Flowers Fortune Teller | 3.5 |
| Cubfires Stay Gone | 4.0 |
| Telethon Hard Pop | 3.5 |
| Indoor Pets Be Content | 3.5 |
| MakeWar Get It Together | 3.5 |
| Red (USA) The Evening Hate | 3.0 |
| James Yorkston The Route to the Harmonium | 3.5 |
| Stuck Out Here Until We're Each Someone Else | 3.5 |
| Turnover Altogether | 2.5 |
| Counterparts Nothing Left to Love | 3.0 |
| Perhaps my ear for metalcore is not what it used to be but this can't be more than a plain 'ol everyday metalcore record. It's fine, but nowhere close to notable. |
| Sixpence None the Richer Sixpence None the Richer | 3.5 |
| PVRIS Hallucinations | 3.0 |
| Wilco Ode to Joy | 3.0 |
| Proper. I Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting Bet | 4.0 |
| Great Grandpa Four of Arrows | 4.5 |
| We've been saturated by so many artists striving for the same road Pheobe Bridgers took a couple of years back. Somewhere along the line it all became a blur. And then a humble little group named Great Grandpa comes along to eclipse practically everyone who has ever lent their voices to the style since. If these folks don't blow up in the indie scene after this something is terribly, terribly wrong with the music community. |
| Citizen Way Love Is the Evidence | 1.5 |
| Ling Tosite Sigure I'mperfect | 3.0 |
| Andrew Peterson Carried Along | 3.0 |
| Ling Tosite Sigure Still a Sigure Virgin? | 3.5 |
| Ling Tosite Sigure Inspiration Is Dead | 4.0 |
| Kinoko Teikoku Time Lapse | 3.5 |
| Ling Tosite Sigure Just a Moment | 5.0 |
| Yeule Serotonin II | 4.0 |
| Seiko Oomori Tokyo Black Hole | 4.5 |
| Saint Asonia Flawed Design | 2.5 |
| Hunter G.K. Thompson No Books About Me | 3.5 |
| Cigarettes After Sex Cry | 4.5 |
| Kanye West Jesus Is King | 2.5 |
| The Early November Imbue | 3.0 |
| The Porter's Gate Neighbour Songs | 3.5 |
| Thornhill The Dark Pool | 3.5 |
| Norma Jean All Hail | 3.5 |
| Did we really have any doubt that this was going to be the best metalcore album of 2019? Monsterous, melodically captivating, and a conclusion that brings the house down. They did it again. Phenomenal record. |
| John Mark Pantana Love Secrets | 3.0 |
| Deep Valleys Goldhaven | 2.5 |
| Clay Finnesand Springside | 1.5 |
| The Early November In Currents | 3.5 |
| MUNA Saves The World | 3.5 |
| Patrick Watson Wave | 3.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Singles | 3.0 |
| Starflyer 59 Leave Here A Stranger | 4.0 |
| Scalene Respiro | 3.0 |
| From Indian Lakes Dimly Lit | 3.0 |
| The Blamed The Church Is Hurting People | 3.0 |
| No Vacation Phasing | 3.5 |
| Common Holly When I say to you Black Lightning | 4.0 |
| If I had to describe the type of folk music a ghostly apparition would create this would be the album I'd point to. |
| The Almost Fear Caller | 3.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Surviving | 4.5 |
| This is the catchiest, most energetic Jimmy Eat World has been since Chase This Light. I'm absolutely living for it. After some of my favourites disappointed me this year, my boys always come around to remind me of just why I fell in love with music in the first place. |
| Everyday Sunday Wake Up! Wake Up! | 2.0 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Ghosteen | 3.0 |
| I want to like this, I really do. After falling in love with Cave's music I was certain I would. But this album....I mean I can kinda get it? It's very lush and emotionally heavy, however, there is nothing there instrumentally. Take away Cave's vocals and you have a fairly unremarkable ambient record. |
| Everyday Sunday Anthems for the Imperfect | 2.5 |
| Everyday Sunday Stand Up | 3.5 |
| Jim Adkins I Will Go | 3.5 |
| BABYMETAL Metal Galaxy | 2.5 |
| Lightning Bolt Sonic Citadel | 3.0 |
| The Wrens Secaucus | 4.5 |
| Before the heartfelt masterpiece that is The Meadowlands, The Wrens were crafting some of the catchiest alt-rock of the 90s. Two amazing sides of the same coin. |
| Lagwagon Hoss | 4.0 |
| Wilco Summerteeth | 4.5 |
| Mitski bury me at makeout creek | 3.5 |
| Lagwagon Let's Talk About Feelings | 4.0 |
| Split End Deep Love | 4.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada The Act | 2.5 |
| The Wooden Sky When Lost At Sea | 3.5 |
| Jim Bryson and The Weakerthans The Falcon Lake Incident | 3.5 |
| Big Thief Two Hands | 4.0 |
| Cursive Get Fixed | 3.0 |
| Bent Knee You Know What They Mean | 3.5 |
| Two amazing Courtney Swain led projects this year? I feel spoiled. |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree | 4.0 |
| Cursive The Ugly Organ | 3.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Stay on My Side Tonight | 4.5 |
| The most emo thing Jimmy has ever released which, in and of itself, makes this essential. That it has one of their top 10 songs in "Closer" makes it stand out that much more. |
| Project 86 Rival Factions | 2.5 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Push The Sky Away | 3.5 |
| Project 86 ...And the Rest Will Follow | 4.0 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus | 4.0 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Henry's Dream | 4.0 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds No More Shall We Part | 4.5 |
| Project 86 Truthless Heroes | 3.5 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Murder Ballads | 3.5 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds The Boatman's Call | 4.0 |
| Angel Olsen All Mirrors | 3.0 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Let Love In | 4.0 |
| Seizures Reverie of the Revolving Diamond | 4.0 |
| Lagwagon Railer | 4.0 |
| If there is any record that has a chance to unseat Prince Daddy for punk album of the year it is this wonderful slab of skater-punk brilliance. |
| Bayside Interrobang | 3.5 |
| The Menzingers Hello Exile | 3.5 |
| The album where I struggle to call The Menzies a punk band....and that's not a bad rthing. |
| Joni Mitchell Court and Spark | 3.5 |
| Marilyn Manson Holy Wood | 3.5 |
| Marilyn Manson Mechanical Animals | 2.5 |
| Project 86 Drawing Black Lines | 2.0 |
| Floppy (CAN) Months | 3.5 |
| Dayseeker Sleeptalk | 2.5 |
| Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar | 4.0 |
| Brenton Brown Everlasting God | 2.5 |
| PassCode Clarity | 3.5 |
| Project 86 Project 86 | 3.0 |
| Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear | 4.5 |
| Sleeping at Last Enneagram | 4.0 |
| Car Bomb Mordial | 3.0 |
| Tim Hughes Holding Nothing Back | 2.0 |
| Tim Hughes When Silence Falls | 3.0 |
| Paul Baloche Glorious | 2.5 |
| Paul Baloche A Greater Song | 2.5 |
| Paul Baloche The Same Love | 2.5 |
| Paul Baloche Our God Saves | 2.0 |
| Paul Baloche Your Mercy | 2.5 |
| Edison Glass Time Is Fiction | 3.5 |
| U2 Zooropa | 2.5 |
| Car Bomb Centralia | 3.5 |
| Seizures The Sanity Universal | 4.0 |
| Opeth In Cauda Venenum | 4.5 |
| Opeth continues to be their daring, adventurous selves, but this time they pull it off with flying colours. This is some of the best material Opeth has written in years. |
| The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin | 5.0 |
| "The Soft Bulletin really is about despair but....there's no despair in it. I think sometimes you want to sing about despair but I don't think it's like that. It's about being IN despair and singing. It's realizing this despair is not something we're singing about, it's us." - Wayne Coyne. Instant classic. |
| Zac Brown Band The Owl | 1.0 |
| AJR, Judah and the Lion, Zac Brown Band. I bring you the 2019 unholy trinity of garbage. |
| Keane Cause and Effect | 2.5 |
| I don't hear a whole lot of vomit-inducing tunes here. It's vapid and pretty empty musically but it's a harmless return. Let em keep doing what they do. |
| 65daysofstatic The Fall of Math | 3.0 |
| The Gathering How to Measure a Planet? | 5.0 |
| A Dream Too Late Intermission to the Moon | 2.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Firestarter | 4.0 |
| The Berries Berryland | 3.0 |
| The Weakerthans Live at Burton Cummings Theatre | 4.5 |
| Propagandhi How to Clean Everything | 3.5 |
| Christine Fellows Roses on the Vine | 3.5 |
| Capstan Restless Heart, Keep Running | 3.5 |
| Converge When Forever Comes Crashing | 4.0 |
| As I Lay Dying Shaped by Fire | 2.0 |
| Jeremy Camp The Story's Not Over | 3.0 |
| blink-182 Nine | 2.0 |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky | 3.5 |
| John K. Samson Winter Wheat | 4.5 |
| I have no problem with calling John Samson one of the best artists of our generation. His music exudes love, warmth, humility, understanding and compassion, and so on so forth. On Winter Wheat his music dives ever deeper into the vulnerable lives of his characters. It is a behemoth of an album for the folk genre and one to treasure for years, even decades, to come. |
| U2 Achtung Baby | 4.0 |
| Weatherstate Born a Cynic | 3.0 |
| This has so much potential but the hooks are just not there. |
| Korn The Nothing | 2.0 |
| War of Ages Void | 3.0 |
| Bent Knee Shiny Eyed Babies | 3.5 |
| Courtney Swain Monstre | 3.0 |
| Pocket Full of Rocks More Than Noise | 2.5 |
| Pocket Full of Rocks Manifesto | 4.0 |
| Pocket Full of Rocks Song to the King | 3.0 |
| Big Daddy Weave When The Light Comes | 2.0 |
| Bent Knee Bent Knee | 3.5 |
| Being as an Ocean PROXY: An A.N.I.M.O. Story | 1.0 |
| Tiny Moving Parts Breathe | 2.5 |
| So disappointing. Celebrate is one of my fav emo records of the 2010s but this sounds like the band has stagnated creatively. They haven't evolved at all. |
| Microwave Death is a Warm Blanket | 3.5 |
| Disciple (USA-TN) Love Letter Kill Shot | 3.5 |
| Starset Divisions | 2.5 |
| Microwave Much Love | 3.5 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Birth of Violence | 4.0 |
| U2 War | 4.0 |
| The Church Starfish | 5.0 |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain Darklands | 3.0 |
| Crosses Crosses | 3.5 |
| Alex G House Of Sugar | 3.5 |
| U2 October | 2.5 |
| U2 Boy | 4.0 |
| Paul Colman Trio New Map of the World | 3.0 |
| Soutaisei Riron Hi-Fi Anatomia | 3.5 |
| Courtney Swain Between Blood and Ocean | 4.5 |
| I cannot see anything topping "Sweet Snow" for the song of the year title. I haven't been taken on a rjourney like that in a very long time. |
| Alkaline Trio From Here to Infirmary | 4.0 |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead | 5.0 |
| Anberlin Lost Songs | 3.5 |
| Seiko Oomori Kusokawa Party | 4.5 |
| Madison Cunningham Who Are You Now? | 3.5 |
| Converge Beautiful Ruin | 3.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dead Throne | 3.0 |
| NOFX Punk in Drublic | 3.5 |
| John Maus We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves | 3.0 |
| Guided by Voices Bee Thousand | 4.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada With Roots Above and Branches Below | 2.5 |
| Wage War Pressure | 2.0 |
| Future Teens Breakup Season | 3.0 |
| Millencolin Life On A Plate | 4.0 |
| Converge The Dusk in Us | 4.5 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Garden of Delete | 3.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Plagues | 2.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord | 2.5 |
| Steven Curtis Chapman The Glorious Unfolding | 2.5 |
| where is my spaceship Never Unhappy | 2.5 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 5.0 |
| The Who The Who Sell Out | 3.0 |
| The Who A Quick One | 3.0 |
| The Who My Generation | 3.5 |
| The Night Cafe 0151 | 3.5 |
| We Are Only Human Once The Prettiest Boys in Town | 3.0 |
Remember that "main pop girl 2019" album from earlier this year? This is like that but most
of the fun and interesting things about it have been removed. |
| Taylor Swift Lover | 3.5 |
| Oh, how I missed this sweet, playful, romantic side of Ms (Mrs?). T Swift. Lover is everything I could want from rher: bops to last for days, touching ballads, and a healthy dose of innocent, silly fun. Oh yeah, and a couple of absolute blinders like "Cornelia Street." |
| Katy Perry Teenage Dream | 1.5 |
| Katy Perry One of the Boys | 4.0 |
| Steven Curtis Chapman This Moment | 3.0 |
| Taylor Swift Taylor Swift | 4.0 |
| Tal Bachman Tal Bachman | 2.5 |
| SHE'S SO HIIIIIIIEEEIIIIIGHHH HIGH ABOVE ME, SHE'S SO LOVELY |
| Sunsleeper You Can Miss Something and Not Want It Back | 2.5 |
| Another punk/emo record that will eventually get lost in the sea of similar-sounding nobodies. They offer nothing new, nothing surprising, and nothing that hasn't been offered by countless others before. |
| Shura forevher | 3.5 |
| Inhale Exhale The Lost, the Sick, the Sacred | 2.5 |
| Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear | 3.0 |
| The National The National | 2.5 |
| The National Cherry Tree | 4.0 |
| Shura Nothing's Real | 3.5 |
| Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space | 5.0 |
| Ride This Is Not a Safe Place | 3.5 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between | 3.5 |
| Steven Curtis Chapman Speechless | 3.0 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 3.0 |
| Oso Oso Basking in the glow | 3.5 |
| Field Mouse Hold Still Life | 3.5 |
| Off With Their Heads Be Good | 3.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 3.0 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb | 4.5 |
| Holy Holy My Own Pool of Light | 2.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Get Warmer | 4.5 |
| Strung Out Songs Of Armor And Devotion | 3.5 |
| Steven Curtis Chapman First Hand | 3.0 |
| John K. Samson Provincial | 4.5 |
| The Weakerthans Reunion Tour | 4.5 |
| The Weakerthans Fallow | 4.5 |
| Sometimes the moments in our lives that mean the most are those that are mundane to everyone else. |
| Lambchop OH (Ohio) | 5.0 |
| The sound of the loveliest autumn you've ever had. |
| Good Charlotte The Young And The Hopeless | 1.0 |
| Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter | 2.5 |
| Underline the Sky Here's Looking At You, Kid | 2.5 |
| Lambchop Damaged | 5.0 |
| Joyce Manor Joyce Manor | 3.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Goodbye Cool World! | 4.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! To Leave or Die in Long Island | 4.5 |
| The Arrogant Sons of Bitches Three Cheers For Disappointment | 5.0 |
| Bad day? Spin this and instantly everything is right with the world again. |
| Josh Garrels Lost Animals | 3.0 |
| Josh Garrels Jacaranda | 3.5 |
| Josh Garrels Over Oceans | 3.0 |
| Josh Garrels Chrysaline | 3.5 |
| Half Alive Now, Not Yet | 2.5 |
| Half Alive is an all too fitting name for this group. |
| Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind | 3.0 |
| Bon Iver i,i | 3.0 |
| I Mean Us OST | 4.0 |
| Slipknot Slipknot | 3.5 |
| iamthemorning The Bell | 3.0 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Adults!!!: Smart!!! Shithammered!!! And Excited By Nothing!!!!!!! | 4.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Scrambles | 4.5 |
| Jeff Rosenstock POST- | 4.0 |
| Korn Korn | 3.0 |
| 10 Years (How to Live) As Ghosts | 2.5 |
| Antighost Animal Panic! | 4.0 |
| Falls of Rauros Patterns in Mythology | 3.5 |
| Ithaca The Language of Injury | 4.0 |
| You know those records that make you clench your fist, make you pull a dirty face, rand head bang like it's your last night on earth? Yeah, this is one of those, and rthere's a beauty to it that ties it all together. |
| Glass Beach The First Glass Beach Album | 3.5 |
| If this is the first Glass Beach album then the second is gonna be mind-shattering. |
| Have Mercy (Indie) The Love Life | 1.5 |
| Tenth Avenue North No Shame | 3.0 |
| Volbeat Rewind, Replay, Rebound | 3.5 |
| Skillet Victorious | 1.5 |
| Is it possible to be lazier than Skill....wait a second. |
| Skillet Invincible | 1.5 |
| Skillet Hey You, I Love Your Soul | 1.0 |
| The Blue Nile A Walk Across the Rooftops | 4.5 |
| Drab Majesty Modern Mirror | 3.5 |
| Volbeat Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie | 3.0 |
| I can't believe how much some of this sounds like Green Day lol |
| Graduating Life Grad Life | 3.5 |
| TV COMA Body Negativity | 3.0 |
| Dr. Manhattan Jam Dreams | 3.5 |
| Dr. Manhattan Dr. Manhattan | 3.5 |
| Paul Buchanan Mid Air | 4.5 |
| Heard the title track during the credits of the beautiful film About Time, I looked it up, I listened, I realized this was the singer of the Blue Nile, and I fell in love. |
| The Weakerthans Reconstruction Site | 5.0 |
| When people let me down or friends disappear this is the record I turn to. It's like a warm hug that lifts you up after a bad day. You're discouraged, filled with self-doubt and anxiety, and then Samson sings "I know you might roll your eyes at this, but I'm so glad that you exist." We all need to hear words so simple yet so beautiful. And we all need to hear this wonderful little album. |
| Torche Admission | 3.0 |
| The Weakerthans Left and Leaving | 5.0 |
| A big part of me believes that Reconstruction Site is the best record Samson has ever written but the emotional gut-punch of Left and Leaving cannot be understated. It's a steadily building atomic bomb. You know something is coming but when it does nothing can prepare you for it. That is "Exiles Among You." Thank goodness it settles down for the final few songs. A masterpiece. |
| The Maine Pioneer | 3.5 |
| Esben and the Witch A New Nature | 3.0 |
| Starflyer 59 Everybody Makes Mistakes | 3.5 |
| Friolento Destroy All Bad Luck | 3.5 |
| Lisel Angels on the Slope | 3.5 |
| Of Monsters and Men My Head is an Animal | 3.0 |
| Of Monsters and Men Fever Dream | 3.5 |
| OMAM ditch their bandwagoning folk sound for a lush, dreamy pop style that works surprisingly well. Sure the hooks could be stronger and as a pop album, it isn't the most memorable thing around but as an OMAM record? I'd say it's their best effort yet. |
| The Maine Black & White | 2.5 |
| The Maine Can't Stop, Won't Stop | 2.0 |
| The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream | 4.5 |
| John Van Deusen (I Am) Origami, Pt. 3: A Catacomb Hymn | 4.5 |
| When people ask where I want to see Christian music go in the next ten years I'll point to this. I don't think the importance of this album for Christian music has been fully understood just yet. |
| Flyleaf Flyleaf EP | 3.0 |
| NF The Search | 2.5 |
| NF NF | 3.0 |
| Abandon Kansas Ad Astra Per Aspera | 3.5 |
| Bill Callahan Dream River | 3.5 |
| Evie Mirror | 3.0 |
| Stryper To Hell With the Devil | 3.5 |
| Green Day Kerplunk | 3.5 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Abyss | 4.5 |
| Transit Listen and Forgive | 3.5 |
| Transit This Will Not Define Us | 3.0 |
| Transit Joyride | 3.5 |
| Norma Jean Meridional | 3.0 |
| Sum 41 Order In Decline | 2.5 |
| The Chariot Long Live | 4.0 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Pain Is Beauty | 4.0 |
| Nick Drake Pink Moon | 5.0 |
| Nick Drake Five Leaves Left | 4.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth When the Bird Sees the Solid Ground | 4.0 |
| "Forever Is a Very Long Time" is an incredibly strong contender for the best song this wonderful man has ever written. |
| Five Iron Frenzy Our Newest Album Ever! | 3.0 |
| Wolves at the Gate Eclipse | 2.5 |
| Damien Rice 9 | 3.5 |
| Keith Green No Compromise | 3.0 |
| Starflyer 59 The Fashion Focus | 3.5 |
| Bomethius Sweet Nothings | 3.5 |
| Five Iron Frenzy Upbeats and Beatdowns | 2.5 |
| Keith Green Songs for the Shepard | 3.5 |
| Keith Green For Him Who Has Ears | 3.5 |
| Ed Sheeran No. 6 Collaborations Project | 1.0 |
| Rebecca St. James God | 3.0 |
| We Are The City Above Club | 2.0 |
| Starflyer 59 Americana | 4.0 |
| Breathless Green to Blue | 4.5 |
| Oh, Sleeper Bloodied/Unbowed | 3.0 |
| The long-awaited Bloodied//Unbowed is finally upon us. Does it live up to expectations? Kinda, sorta? It's a solid return with nothing drawdropping, but then, that shouldn't have been expected. As far as reunion records go it's great. |
| Fishmans Long Season | 3.5 |
| Jason Isbell Southeastern | 5.0 |
| I've always said that the best albums are those who ask for some patience. Not work, mind you, patience. First impressions are pleasant, perhaps even lovely, but the more you live with it, the more those vulnerable emotions become as real as your own, all the while never realizing it until tears are trickling down your cheeks. Yeah, this is one of those albums. A stone-cold classic. |
| Joliette Luz Devora | 3.5 |
| Anamanaguchi Endless Fantasy | 3.5 |
| Free Throw What's Past Is Prologue | 2.5 |
| Prince Daddy and The Hyena Adult Summers | 4.0 |
| Barlowgirl Barlowgirl | 1.5 |
| The Dangerous Summer Mother Nature | 3.0 |
| I never knew summer could feel so underwhelming. |
| Chinese Football Chinese Football | 3.5 |
| Haru Nemuri Haru to Shura | 4.5 |
| Unspoken (USA-TN) Unspoken | 2.5 |
| The Dangerous Summer The Dangerous Summer | 3.0 |
| Bill Callahan Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest | 5.0 |
| An album about contentment and the mystery that comes after. Something so beautifully human can only be sung the way Bill does here. Give it a little time and those little lyrical nuggets will move the soul. "True love is not magic, it's certainty." |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes | 4.0 |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues | 5.0 |
| Like many others have lovingly stated, Helplessness Blues is an album of sheer beauty and an unforgettable ode to the wonder of music. Undoubtedly one of the most important records of our time. |
| Bomethius As Roses | 3.5 |
| The All-American Rejects Kids in the Street | 1.5 |
| The All-American Rejects When the World Comes Down | 2.5 |
| Casting Crowns Peace on Earth | 2.0 |
| Alkaline Trio Maybe I'll Catch Fire | 4.0 |
| Gena Rose Bruce Can't Make You Love Me | 3.5 |
| Starflyer 59 Gold | 3.5 |
| The Smith Street Band No One Gets Lost Anymore | 4.0 |
| Modern Baseball Sports | 3.5 |
| Motion City Soundtrack My Dinosaur Life | 4.5 |
| Russian Girlfriends In The Parlance of Our Times | 3.5 |
| Prince Daddy and The Hyena I Thought You Didn't Even Like Leaving | 4.0 |
| This is what music is all about ladies and gents. Jammin out, having the time of our lives, making memories, just taking in the raw youth of it all. |
| Prince Daddy and The Hyena Cosmic Thrill Seekers | 4.5 |
| I haven't been this floored by a punk album since Rosenstock's Worry from nearly three ryears ago. This record could not bring the decade to a better close. |
| Sebastian Field Picture Stone | 4.0 |
| The Dangerous Summer Golden Record | 3.5 |
| Bad Books III | 4.0 |
| Thom Yorke Anima | 4.0 |
| For All Eternity The Will to Rebuild | 3.5 |
| Finally listened to this two years later. Glad I did! |
| Chelsea Wolfe Apokalypsis | 3.5 |
| Chelsea Wolfe The Grime And The Glow | 3.5 |
| What an entrancing record. I won't be surprised if it ends up being one of my favs from the goth queen. |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave | 4.5 |
| Weeping Hour Hunger and Thirst | 3.5 |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation | 4.5 |
| In Her Own Words Steady Glow | 2.5 |
| State Faults Clairvoyant | 3.5 |
| Resurrection Band / Rez Colors | 3.5 |
| Resurrection Band / Rez Rainbow's End | 3.5 |
| Resurrection Band / Rez Awaiting Your Reply | 3.5 |
| Ghost Ship (USA-WA) The Good King | 3.0 |
| Thrice Deeper Wells | 2.5 |
| Air Review How We Got By | 3.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Plans | 3.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism | 5.0 |
| You won't find an indie rock fan who doesn't know or love this album. It's an undeniable classic that moves from bouncy, relatable, and down-to-earth mid-tempo jams to a subtle heartbreak that is as captivating as it is crushing. It's one of the best examples of pacing and album structure you'll ever hear. |
| Altar Boys GLM (Gut Level Music) | 2.5 |
| Altar Boys Against the Grain | 3.0 |
| The Violet Burning This is the Moment | 3.5 |
| The Violet Burning The Violet Burning | 3.5 |
| Sixpence None the Richer This Beautiful Mess | 3.5 |
| Starflyer 59 Silver | 4.0 |
| One of the absolute best shoegaze albums of the 90s. Hazy, dreamy, and very, very alien. rHow is this never mentioned? |
| Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison | 4.0 |
| The Prayer Chain Shawl | 3.5 |
| Johnny Q. Public Extra*Ordinary | 3.0 |
| Jaci Velasquez Heavenly Place | 2.5 |
| Aaron Sprinkle Moontraveler | 2.5 |
| FM Static Dear Diary | 3.0 |
| Deas Vail All The Houses Look The Same | 4.0 |
| The Darling Fire Dark Celebration | 3.5 |
| Bruce Springsteen Born in the U.S.A. | 3.5 |
| Bruce Springsteen Western Stars | 3.5 |
| The Boss is still able to conjure up that Americana magic decades into his career. That ralone deserves praise. That the album is really, really good is just the cream on top. |
| Alcest Kodama | 3.5 |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd Animals | 5.0 |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 5.0 |
| Apollo LTD Out of Body | 2.0 |
| I didn't know Walk the Moon had recently renamed themselves and cheapened their music. Not the best move gentlemen. |
| Harmonium L'heptade | 4.5 |
| The angelic and heartbreaking vocals and the elegant and wistful instrumentation are all wielded by a band whose creativity is as far-reaching as their ambition. What this album delivers can only be described as magical. |
| Jonas Brothers Happiness Begins | 3.0 |
| Alkaline Trio Goddamnit | 4.0 |
| Alkaline Trio Good Mourning | 4.0 |
| The All-American Rejects Move Along | 3.5 |
| CHON CHON | 3.5 |
| Me and the boys just chilling out with the guitar noodlers. |
| Charly Bliss Young Enough | 3.0 |
| Harmonium Les Cinq Saisons | 4.0 |
| The Wonder Years The Greatest Generation | 4.0 |
| As Cities Burn Scream Through the Walls | 2.5 |
| Comrades For We Are Not Yet, We Are Only Becoming | 2.5 |
| Ian Noe Between The Country | 2.5 |
| Emma Ruth Rundle Some Heavy Ocean | 3.5 |
| Evan Call Violet Evergarden: Automemories | 4.5 |
| Seiko Oomori Sennou | 5.0 |
| Cave In Jupiter | 3.0 |
| Cave In Until Your Heart Stops | 3.5 |
| Kinoko Teikoku Eureka | 4.0 |
| The Gathering Nighttime Birds | 5.0 |
| Kinoko Teikoku Uzu Ni Naru | 4.5 |
| A shoegaze album that properly rocks the socks off? Why haven't I heard something as awesome as this before? |
| Midwife (USA) Like Author, Like Daughter | 4.5 |
| Gates (USA-NJ) Bloom and Breathe | 3.5 |
| Kishi Bashi Omoiyari | 3.5 |
| Shiina Ringo Sanmon Gossip | 2.5 |
| Bon Iver 22, A Million | 3.5 |
| The Dangerous Summer War Paint | 3.5 |
| Trophy Scars Never Born, Never Dead | 3.0 |
| life (USA-TX) demo 2 | 3.5 |
| The Dangerous Summer Reach for the Sun | 3.5 |
| Seventh Day Slumber Closer to Chaos | 2.0 |
| The Afters Fear No More | 2.5 |
| Seventh Day Slumber Found | 2.0 |
| Shiina Ringo Heisei Fuuzoku | 4.0 |
| Seventh Day Slumber We Are The Broken | 2.0 |
| Ichiko Aoba qp | 4.0 |
| I would very happily get lost in this music forever. This girl has a truly special gift. |
| Ichiko Aoba Mahoroboshiya | 3.5 |
| The Damned Things High Crimes | 3.5 |
| Talkie Everything Matters | 3.5 |
| Another brilliant throwback to the surf rock of the 70s. They've expanded their rsound and taken it to the highest peaks yet. |
| Ichiko Aoba 0% | 5.0 |
| This is the best live album of all-time. No bright, flickering lights, electrifying instruments, or loud vocals. It's one girl, one angelic voice, and one guitar in the open air and it bewitches you for every small minute. |
| Ichiko Aoba 0 | 4.5 |
| Ichiko Aoba Origami | 4.0 |
| Ichiko Aoba Kamisori Otome | 4.0 |
| Ichiko Aoba Utabiko | 4.0 |
| The Gathering Mandylion | 4.5 |
| Kyuss Welcome to Sky Valley | 3.0 |
| The Appleseed Cast Two Conversations | 3.5 |
| Team Sleep Team Sleep | 4.0 |
| Jungstotter Love Is | 3.5 |
| Shiina Ringo Kalk Samen Kuri no Hana | 4.5 |
| Stephen Christian Wildfires | 2.5 |
| Young Lions Mr. Spaceman | 3.5 |
| Astronauts Hollow Ponds | 4.0 |
| Portishead Dummy | 4.5 |
| Truth Club Not an Exit | 3.0 |
| Craig's Brother Devil's In The Details | 2.5 |
| Shiina Ringo Shouso Strip | 5.0 |
| So this is the best thing ever. |
| Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You | 4.0 |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Dedicated | 4.0 |
| This is every bit as consistently excellent as Emotion was. Sure, the highs aren't quite as high as something like "Run Away With Me" or "Your Type," but when the music itself is this stupidly catchy it's easy to call Dedicated another runaway success. |
| Queens of the Stone Age Villains | 2.0 |
| Toth Practice Magic and Seek Professional Help | 2.0 |
| Local Natives Violet Street | 3.0 |
| Grey Holiday The Glorious Revolution | 2.5 |
| Peter Furler Sun and Shield | 3.0 |
| Peter Furler On Fire | 2.5 |
| Martin Smith Iron Lung | 2.5 |
| The National I Am Easy to Find | 2.0 |
| The Decemberists The Crane Wife | 3.5 |
| Fades Away Perceptions | 3.0 |
| Matt Kivel last night in america | 3.5 |
| My Epic Violence | 3.5 |
| The Get Up Kids Problems | 2.5 |
| O'Brother Disillusion | 3.0 |
| The Decemberists Picaresque | 4.0 |
| Newsboys United | 3.0 |
| The Get Up Kids Something to Write Home About | 3.5 |
| The Decemberists Her Majesty the Decemberists | 3.5 |
| Hillsong United People (Live) | 3.5 |
| The Decemberists Castaways and Cutouts | 3.5 |
| Judah and the Lion Pep Talks | 1.0 |
This was tolerable until it hit "Don't Mess With My Mama," where the record decided to fly
off the tracks and kill any poor soul who decided to innocently take the mid-day train to
their favourite town, "Good Music." |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation | 4.0 |
| Judah and the Lion Folk Hop N' Roll | 1.0 |
| Citizens and Saints Fear | 3.5 |
| Bark Psychosis Hex | 4.5 |
| Hammock Raising Your Voice... Trying to Stop an Echo | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis | 4.0 |
| Big Thief U.F.O.F. | 5.0 |
| Love everything about this. It's reminiscent of the more traditional folk records that have come out this year ("Cattails) but it's also incredibly versatile and innovative. The way the t/t ebbs and flows, "From's" off-kilter melodies, those stunning low notes on "Betsy," etc. A sense of familiarity mixed with a yearning for adventure. Beautiful album. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada | 4.0 |
| Craig Finn I Need a New War | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works | 4.5 |
| Helms Alee Noctiluca | 3.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 4.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine | 3.5 |
| AJR Neotheater | 1.0 |
This band is just rotten. They've made the worst album of all-time yet again and somehow
crafted something even more absurdly wretched than The Click. |
| Pink Hurts 2B Human | 2.5 |
Some surprisingly solid pop songs here but half of it is bogged by a needlessly high amount
of slow, acoustic ballads. That's not what I want to hear on a pop album. |
| Illyria The Carpathian Summit | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity | 3.5 |
| Tame Impala Innerspeaker | 3.0 |
| Icon For Hire Icon for Hire | 2.0 |
| Icon For Hire Scripted | 3.5 |
| Marina Love + Fear | 1.5 |
I've seen a strange correlation between grey album art and similarly grey, dull, bad quality music. It's
almost a given at this point. If the art is grey the overly modern music will follow suit. The problem is
that everything sounds so cheaply produced. |
| Rob Thomas Chip Tooth Smile | 2.5 |
| Kayak Jones You Swear It's Getting Better Every Day | 3.0 |
| Damien Rice O | 4.0 |
| The Wedding No Direction | 1.5 |
| William Tyler Goes West | 3.5 |
| The Wedding Polarity | 2.5 |
| Glen Hansard Between Two Shores | 3.5 |
| The Wrens The Meadowlands | 5.0 |
| The Wedding The Wedding | 2.5 |
| The Swell Season Strict Joy | 3.5 |
| Glen Hansard Didn't He Ramble | 4.0 |
| The Swell Season Once: Music From The Motion Picture | 3.5 |
| Glen Hansard Rhythm and Repose | 4.0 |
| LSD (Labrinth, Sia, Diplo) LSD | 2.0 |
| The Swell Season The Swell Season | 4.5 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth I Love You. It's a Fever Dream. | 4.5 |
| Glen Hansard This Wild Willing | 4.0 |
| Number One Gun The North Pole Project | 3.0 |
| Ruth Secondhand Dreaming | 2.5 |
| Anderson .Paak Ventura | 3.0 |
| Numenorean Adore | 3.5 |
| Sol Distorsion Sol Distorsion | 3.5 |
| Placebo Black Market Music | 3.5 |
| Placebo Without You I'm Nothing | 4.5 |
| Fair Disappearing World | 3.5 |
| Danny Gokey Haven't Seen It Yet | 2.5 |
| Thrice Identity Crisis | 2.5 |
| The Mountain Goats The Sunset Tree | 4.0 |
| Death Therapy Voices | 2.5 |
In trying to branch out and experiment a little this winds up being an unfortunately
underwhelming and uneven experience. Nothing quite lives up to their brilliant debut. |
| Botch An Anthology of Dead Ends | 4.5 |
| John Waller While I'm Waiting | 2.0 |
| John Waller As For Me and My House | 2.5 |
| Jenna Kate Brown Covered | 3.0 |
| Laura Stevenson A Record + 3 | 3.5 |
| Gwen Stacy A Dialogue | 2.0 |
| Gwen Stacy The Life I Know | 1.5 |
| Norma Jean O' God, the Aftermath | 4.0 |
| Botch We Are the Romans | 4.5 |
| Like the legendary Jane Doe that came barely two years after, We Are The Romans is another absolute classic record that established just what metalcore as a genre could do. |
| Seventh Day Slumber Finally Awake | 2.0 |
| Botch American Nervoso | 4.0 |
| The Japanese House Good At Falling | 3.5 |
| Young Lions Blue Isla | 3.5 |
| Sundara Karma Ulfilas' Alphabet | 3.0 |
| Kings Kaleidoscope Zeal | 3.5 |
| Becoming The Archetype The Physics of Fire | 3.0 |
| Weyes Blood Titanic Rising | 5.0 |
| Becoming The Archetype Terminate Damnation | 4.0 |
| Kitty Rose Gold | 3.0 |
| Periphery Periphery IV: Hail Stan | 2.0 |
| Mike Mains and The Branches When We Were In Love | 4.0 |
| Mr. Mains and the Branches have a fine, fine record on their hands here. A splendid feel-rgood pop record full of romantic sentimentalism and a dash of autumn melancholy. |
| Young Lions Burn | 4.0 |
| Such a fantastic rock album. Proud of my fellow Brisbane natives. Lads put on a great show as well. |
| Seventh Day Slumber Once Upon A Shattered Life | 2.0 |
| Creed Human Clay | 2.0 |
| PUP Morbid Stuff | 4.5 |
| Avey Tare Cows On Hourglass Pond | 3.0 |
| Owel Paris | 3.0 |
| The Maine You Are OK | 4.0 |
| Took me awhile to warm up to what this album was doing stylistically but given the chance, this just grows and grows and..... This should be the staple pop record of 2019. |
| Bon Voyage Lies | 2.5 |
| I Prevail TRAUMA | 1.0 |
| Billie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? | 2.0 |
| Simple Creatures Strange Love | 1.5 |
| How to live: avoid this album |
| Laura Stevenson The Big Freeze | 5.0 |
| The Big Freeze takes a far softer and more subtle approach compared to the rock'n'roll anomaly that was Cocksure. To anyone who has already fallen in love with her sweet as honey songwriting, it comes as no surprise to find that this is just as gorgeously delightful. And now coming back to this a year later I've realized that if this isn't an absolute modern classic of the singer/songwriter genre I don't know what is. |
| Laura Stevenson The Mystic & the Master | 4.5 |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey | 3.5 |
| Anyone who thinks this isn't good because it isn't as experimental or daring needs to hear "Blow Out" immediately. |
| Agalloch The Mantle | 3.0 |
| Placebo Placebo | 3.0 |
| Laura Stevenson Cocksure | 4.5 |
| Laura Stevenson Sit Resist | 5.0 |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade: The B-Sides | 3.5 |
| Soul Embraced Mythos | 2.5 |
| Soul Embraced Dead Alive | 3.5 |
| Billie Eilish dont smile at me | 2.5 |
| Soul Embraced Immune | 3.0 |
| Pompeii Loom | 3.5 |
| La Dispute Panorama | 4.0 |
| La Dispute Wildlife | 4.0 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 4.0 |
| 7eventh Time Down Brand New Day | 1.0 |
| Ritual Howls Rendered Armor | 3.0 |
| Emily Scott Robinson Traveling Mercies | 5.0 |
| An absolutely splendid country offering that wholly deserves to see the same success Musgraves saw last year. |
| ISIS Oceanic | 4.5 |
| ISIS SGNL>05 | 2.5 |
| ISIS Celestial | 3.5 |
| Dirge (FR) Down Last Level | 3.0 |
| Dirge (FR) Lost Empyrean | 3.5 |
| Dirge (FR) Alma Baltica | 3.5 |
| American Football American Football (LP3) | 4.0 |
| Dirge (FR) Hyperion | 3.5 |
| Slint Spiderland | 4.5 |
| Dirge (FR) Elysian Magnetic Fields | 3.5 |
| Dirge (FR) Wings Of Lead Over Dormant Seas | 3.5 |
| David Leonard The Wait | 2.5 |
| Dirge (FR) And Shall The Sky Descend | 3.5 |
| Hum Downward Is Heavenward | 5.0 |
| Sigrid Sucker Punch | 2.5 |
| Anathema Distant Satellites | 5.0 |
| Anathema We're Here Because We're Here | 4.5 |
| Anathema Weather Systems | 4.0 |
| Lantlos .neon | 4.0 |
| Opeth Sorceress | 4.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork | 4.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris | 3.0 |
| Stella Donnelly Beware of the Dogs | 2.5 |
| Holding Absence Holding Absence | 2.5 |
| Heath McNease Among Thieves | 3.5 |
| Our Last Night Let Light Overcome | 2.0 |
| Heath McNease Be Clean Again | 3.5 |
| Through Fire Breathe | 1.5 |
| Spoken called and they said they want their album cover (and album title) back. |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 4.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R | 4.0 |
| Opeth Damnation | 3.5 |
| Opeth Deliverance | 3.5 |
| Better Off Reap What You Sow | 3.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Dark Bird Is Home | 4.0 |
| Elias Dummer The Work, Vol. 1 | 3.0 |
| Seabird Rocks Into Rivers | 3.0 |
| Samestate The Alignment | 3.0 |
| Auditorium The First Music | 3.5 |
| Lambchop This (is what I wanted to tell you) | 4.0 |
Lambchop take their electronic excursion even further on this record and the
results are even more focused, subtle, and free-flowing than their last. Could be yet
another late-career classic for the 'Chop. |
| In Flames I, the Mask | 2.5 |
| Opeth Pale Communion | 3.5 |
| Weezer The Black Album | 2.0 |
| Opeth Heritage | 5.0 |
| Talk Talk Spirit of Eden | 4.0 |
| Talk Talk The Colour of Spring | 4.0 |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock | 5.0 |
| Opeth Watershed | 4.0 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 4.5 |
| Dream Theater Distance Over Time | 2.5 |
| Feels Post Earth | 2.0 |
| Demon Hunter Peace | 2.5 |
| Demon Hunter War | 2.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Jimmy Eat World [EP] | 4.5 |
| Temperance (IT) Of Jupiter and Moons | 3.5 |
| Chasms The Mirage | 3.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City | 3.0 |
| Switchfoot Legend of Chin | 3.0 |
| Cara Neir Part III / Part IV | 3.5 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 4.5 |
| Holly Ann Light And Bloom | 3.5 |
This is one of those unfortunate, but rare times where a genuinely beautiful record is stained by
subpar production. 'Tis a shame, although it's certainly not unlistenable. |
| Default Genders main pop girl 2019 | 3.0 |
| Tourist Everyday | 3.0 |
| Copeland Ixora Twin | 4.0 |
| In some respects, this honestly surpasses the original record. |
| Avantasia Moonglow | 4.5 |
| February has been insane with these releases. Power metal doesn't get much better than this. |
| Avril Lavigne Head Above Water | 1.0 |
| The most forgettable album of Avril's career and nearly just as awful as the self-titled record. |
| Time, The Valuator How Fleeting, How Fragile | 2.5 |
| Copeland Blushing | 4.5 |
| 2014 was a big year for me. It was the year I graduated from school for one thing. It was also the ryear I started dipping my toes into genres I, up until then, had never explored. And it was the ryear I first fell in love with Copeland with their gorgeous reunion record, Ixora. That album rplayed a massive role in shaping my musical taste today and I still return to it regularly. Just rover four years later we finally get to hear its follow-up. In short, Blushing is everything I was rhoping for with just enough room to grow and mean as much to me today as Ixora did to me five years rago. |
| Copeland In Motion | 4.5 |
| Copeland Beneath Medicine Tree | 3.5 |
| Opeth Still Life | 5.0 |
| Against The Current In Our Bones | 1.5 |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse | 5.0 |
| John Van Deusen D-Sides | 4.0 |
| Beast In Black From Hell With Love | 3.5 |
| Within Temptation The Unforgiving | 3.5 |
| Within Temptation The Silent Force | 4.0 |
| Emarosa Peach Club | 2.5 |
| HEALTH Death Magic | 3.0 |
| HEALTH VOL. 4 :: SLAVES OF FEAR | 2.5 |
| Jessica Pratt Quiet Signs | 3.5 |
| Project 86 Knives to the Future | 3.0 |
| Rival Consoles Persona | 3.5 |
| Burial Untrue | 4.5 |
| This is the ultimate lonely, rainy day album. |
| Jon Hopkins Immunity | 4.5 |
| I Prevail Lifelines | 1.0 |
| This is just a plain worthless record. Home brand produced metalcore without an ounce of substance, quality, or conviction. Not even acceptable as a Playstation backing track. |
| Charmaine Love Reality | 3.5 |
| Kari Jobe Kari Jobe | 2.5 |
| Big Wild Superdream | 3.5 |
| Together to the Stars An Oblivion Above | 3.0 |
| Avantasia Ghostlights | 4.0 |
| Evanescence Fallen | 2.5 |
| .........Asleep |
| Astronoid Air | 3.5 |
| Astronoid Astronoid | 3.5 |
| Good Saint Nathanael Hide No Truth | 4.0 |
| Within Temptation Resist | 3.5 |
| Here I go enjoying an entry-level pop-metal album again all because I was drawn in by its sci-fi rinspired cover art. Who cares about musical elitism anyway? |
| Within Temptation The Heart of Everything | 3.5 |
| O'Brother Endless Light | 3.0 |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning | 3.5 |
| Within Temptation Hydra | 3.0 |
| O'Brother Garden Window | 4.5 |
| How do I even begin to describe a record such as O'Brother's Garden Window? For one thing, it's musically untamed and explosive in both its sound and scope, trying out new and innovative styles with every song and managing to pull them all off. This is no doubt a post-hardcore staple of the 2010s. |
| Opeth Morningrise | 4.5 |
| Better Oblivion Community Center Better Oblivion Community Center | 3.5 |
| Opeth Orchid | 5.0 |
| Two People First Body | 2.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Amo | 2.0 |
| Opeth Deliverance & Damnation Remixed | 3.0 |
| Weezer The Teal Album | 2.0 |
| Etienne Sin The Metal Sessions | 1.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon That's the Spirit | 1.5 |
| Warren Barfield Worth Fighting For | 1.5 |
| Everything But the Girl Temperamental | 4.0 |
| Illenium Ashes | 2.5 |
| De Staat Bubble Gum | 3.5 |
| Illenium Awake | 3.5 |
| I guess I'm a big sucker for these techno acts now. Never would have thought it. |
| Gorillaz Demon Days | 3.5 |
| The Gaslight Anthem Handwritten | 4.0 |
| The Gaslight Anthem American Slang | 4.0 |
| Wavorly Conquering the Fear of Flight | 4.0 |
| Hands down the best record Rob Graves has ever produced. Tragically under-recognised. |
| The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound | 5.0 |
| Like Jimmy Eat World's Bleed American before it, The 59' Sound takes its listener to a simpler, but no less melancholic time bathed in youthful innocence, romanticism, and rock 'n' roll fervour. A true nostalgic classic. |
| Brian Fallon Painkillers | 4.5 |
| The way music can just unexpectedly capture the heart is a mystery I'm not sure I ever want to know the answer to. This man just has it. |
| The Horrible Crowes Elsie | 4.5 |
| Brian Fallon Sleepwalkers | 4.5 |
| This is one of those albums that I find myself being inexplicably in love with. Yes, it's simple and the instrumentation isn't particularly innovative, but it's so earnest and confident with what it does. Fallon is a master of melody and romanticism and now that I associate it with a couple of painful and amazing memories it's become a very personal classic. |
| Civilized Creature Of The Uncaused Cause | 3.5 |
| Civilized Creature Steadfast | 4.0 |
| Civilized Creature's prior records showcased a tasteful blend of electronic music, hip/hop, and organic songwriting without sounding gimmicky or try-hard. On Steadfast, however, our friendly beast fully embraces his electronic side and the results are nothing short of stunning. |
| Switchfoot Native Tongue | 2.5 |
| Sara Groves Fireflies and Songs | 3.5 |
| Civilized Creature Tales and Tails | 3.5 |
| Civilized Creature Permission To Feel | 3.5 |
| Civilized Creature A New Heart | 3.5 |
| Fightstar Behind the Devil's Back | 3.5 |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind | 4.5 |
| Michl Michl | 3.5 |
| Decyfer Down The Other Side of Darkness | 2.5 |
| Decyfer Down Scarecrow | 2.0 |
| Decyfer Down Crash | 2.0 |
| Shadow Hunters Black Hearts and Lost Secrets | 1.5 |
| This should have stayed a secret. A secret locked up in the basement this was recorded in. |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 4.5 |
| Shadow Hunters Avatar | 2.0 |
| Mree The Middle | 3.5 |
| Converge No Heroes | 3.5 |
| Underoath Ø (Disambiguation) | 3.5 |
| Women Public Strain | 3.0 |
| Converge You Fail Me Redux | 4.5 |
| You Fail Me is a pummeling masterpiece and quite easily one of the most astounding metalcore records of the 2000s. |
| Tool Lateralus | 5.0 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 5.0 |
| This is the album every other metalcore act looks up to in a quivering heap. |
| Captain Kudzu Arboretum | 3.5 |
| Mark Schultz Mark Schultz | 3.0 |
| Colour Anthology | 3.5 |
| Anchor and Braille Songs for the Late Night Drive Home | 3.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city | 4.0 |
| Noname Room 25 | 3.5 |
| Kevin Devine Instigator | 3.0 |
| Michael Buble ❤️ (Love) | 3.0 |
| Beach Slang Who Would Ever Want Anything So Broken? | 3.0 |
| Kevin Devine Between the Concrete and Clouds | 3.5 |
| awakebutstillinbed what people call low self-esteem is really... | 2.5 |
The music itself is fine, great even, but those screams.....I get what she's going
for but....they're really bad. |
| Kevin Devine Bulldozer | 3.5 |
| Kevin Devine Bubblegum | 3.5 |
| Kevin Devine Brother's Blood | 4.0 |
| Dillon Chase Joyful Loser | 3.0 |
| Tool Ænima | 5.0 |
| Miss May I Rise of the Lion | 1.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas | 3.0 |
| Caspian Dust and Disquiet | 4.5 |
| Sorority Noise You're Not As ____ As You Think | 3.0 |
| Beach Slang A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings | 3.0 |
| Beach Slang The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel | 4.0 |
| Doe Grow Into It | 2.5 |
| Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss | 4.0 |
| Tiny Moving Parts Celebrate | 4.0 |
| Belgrado Obraz | 3.0 |
| Fennesz Venice | 4.0 |
| David Sylvian Blemish | 4.0 |
| bansheebeat Lumine | 3.5 |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair | 3.5 |
| The Antlers Undersea | 4.0 |
| The Antlers Familiars | 4.0 |
| The Antlers make the most gorgeously evocative and enchanting album of their career. It was love at first sight for me and as time continues to tick by I've only grown more and more fond of it. |
| The Antlers In the Attic of the Universe | 3.5 |
| MGMT Little Dark Age | 3.5 |
| Vansire Reflections And Reveries | 4.0 |
| Jason Gray Where The Light Gets In | 3.5 |
| Jason Gray Love Will Have The Final Word | 3.0 |
| Brandi Carlile By the Way, I Forgive You | 4.0 |
| Senses Fail If There Is Light, It Will Find You | 2.0 |
| Bonny Doon Longwave | 2.5 |
| The Chainsmokers Sick Boy | 2.0 |
| Grouper Grid of Points | 3.5 |
| Currents I Let the Devil In | 2.5 |
| Valleyheart Everyone I've Ever Loved | 3.5 |
| Jet Get Born | 2.5 |
| Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols | 3.0 |
| Had to give this a jam because my girl Nana Osaki praised them. It's a fun punk classic to be certain but not quite for me. |
| Deftones Adrenaline | 4.5 |
| The complaints of this album's quality as a debut are valid but....this is a freaking good debut. As soon as you embrace the raw, aggressive, in your face youth of it it's easy to love this as much as many of their classics. And let's not confuse simplisty with underdeveloped songwriting because that is just not what this is. This is Adrenaline and there's nothing else like it. |
| Jon Hopkins Singularity | 4.5 |
| Vansire The Rolling, Driftless North | 4.0 |
| Rivers and Robots Discovery | 3.5 |
| Such gorgeously dreamy soundscapes on a worship album? Hallelujah! |
| Andrew Serino The Golden Thread | 2.5 |
| Novo Amor Birthplace | 3.5 |
| City Calm Down Echoes In Blue | 3.5 |
| Jessica Pratt On Your Own Love Again | 3.5 |
| Jérôme Minière In the Digital Forest | 3.0 |
| Like Pacific In Spite of Me | 2.5 |
| Disciple (USA-TN) This Might Sting a Little | 2.5 |
| Madeline Kenney Perfect Shapes | 3.5 |
| Deftones Deftones | 4.5 |
| ITEM Sad Light | 3.5 |
| John Van Deusen (I Am) Origami Pt. 2 Every Power Wide Awake | 4.0 |
| Benjamin Krogh Beck and Call | 3.0 |
| The Choir Flap Your Wings | 3.0 |
| Portrayal of Guilt Let Pain Be Your Guide | 3.5 |
| Castlebeat VHS | 3.0 |
| William Ryan Key Virtue | 4.0 |
| The king of pop/punk is back yet again but do we finally have a stinker from the dude? Not at all. It's just another brilliant ep. You know. The standard, everyday stuff. |
| The 1975 A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships | 3.0 |
| Sobs Telltale Signs | 3.0 |
| Vansire Angel Youth | 4.5 |
| Vansire craft a gorgeously warm and subtle lo-fi dream-pop album that erupts with young adult sentimentalism, melancholy, and childhood nostalgia. All of this they wrap up in a wonderfully cosy aesthetic that sounds and feels like a lazy early morning. I cannot get enough of it. |
| The Innocence Mission The Snow on Pi Day | 3.5 |
| Lauren Balthrop This Time Around | 3.5 |
| Liza Anne Fine But Dying | 3.0 |
| Paddy Hanna Frankly, I Mutate | 4.0 |
| The Innocence Mission Sun on the Square | 4.0 |
| Everything about this record is sublime. I could listen to it for hours upon hours upon hours.... |
| Blurred City Lights Volker | 3.5 |
| Phinehas thegodmachine | 3.0 |
| The Choir Circle Slide | 4.0 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Whenever, If Ever | 3.5 |
| Jake Paul and Team 10 Litmas | 1.0 |
| The Choir Chase the Kangaroo | 3.5 |
| The Choir Shadow Weaver | 4.5 |
| The Choir The Loudest Sound Ever Heard | 3.5 |
| The Choir O How The Mighty Have Fallen | 3.0 |
| The Choir Burning Like The Midnight Sun | 4.0 |
| Veridia The Beast You Feed | 1.0 |
| Catch Fire Karma Owes Me A Lifetime of Happiness | 3.0 |
| Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill | 3.0 |
| Elder Brother Stay Inside | 3.0 |
| Tides of Man Every Nothing | 3.5 |
| Sunhouse Crazy on the Weekend | 5.0 |
| The story of a weathered soul and a man who had seen it all. It's so real it hurts. Bless ya Gav, you legend. |
| John Nolan Abendigo | 3.5 |
| The Jesus Lizard Goat | 4.0 |
| Azusa Heavy Yoke | 3.5 |
| Casting Crowns Only Jesus | 1.5 |
| Memphis May Fire Broken | 1.5 |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank | 3.0 |
| Crazy Crazy Awesome Awesome Truth | 1.0 |
| I DON'T KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME 1981 Extended Play | 3.0 |
| Threatin Breaking the World | 1.0 |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica | 5.0 |
| The Maine Forever Halloween | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West | 4.5 |
| All Sons & Daughters Poets and Saints | 3.5 |
| All Sons & Daughters All Sons & Daughters | 3.0 |
| Waterparks Entertainment | 1.0 |
| Architects Holy Hell | 3.0 |
| Crowder I Know A Ghost | 2.0 |
This record saddens me. It saddens me to see what was once one of Christian music's most creative,
exciting, and innovative voices stoop this low into mediocrity. He's become a mere shell of what
he used to be and now seems content to run in circles around his swampy aesthetic and novel image.
Throw in a rap verse here, a latino chant over there to establish that the record's hip and
trendy, an emotional worship ballad, a Christian pub anthem to shake up the stuck up religious
folk, and chuck in some hip/hop beats for the youth. It's a sad, sad mess. |
| Emery Eve | 3.0 |
| Imagine Dragons Origins | 1.0 |
| Muse Simulation Theory | 3.0 |
| Waterparks Double Dare | 1.0 |
| Mol JORD | 3.5 |
| Bill Ryder-Jones Yawn | 3.5 |
| Francesca Battistelli If We're Honest | 2.5 |
| Tourniquet Gazing at Medusa | 3.5 |
| The Chariot One Wing | 4.5 |
| Warbly Jets Warbly Jets | 4.0 |
| colourblind Move Like You | 3.5 |
| Fazerdaze Morningside | 3.0 |
| Rarity I Couldn't Be Weaker | 2.5 |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About | 4.5 |
| Girl On Fire Not Broken | 1.5 |
| Sylvaine Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone | 3.0 |
| There is some massive potential here but, unfortunately, Sylvain seems content with scratching the surface just enough to craft something good and serviceable but not enough to form something notable and grand. |
| Silent Planet When the End Began | 1.5 |
| "Is it faaaaaaataaaaaaal? Is the fallout inevitaBBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLL!?" |
| Skillet Skillet | 2.0 |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety | 3.0 |
| Julia Holter Aviary | 3.0 |
| Snail Mail Lush | 3.0 |
| My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love | 1.5 |
| Lovelite Apocalypse Hymnal | 3.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra Simple Math | 4.5 |
| Once the sheer immensity of this album hits you'll know it. Simple Math is one of the most monumental rock albums of the past decade. |
| The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now | 4.5 |
| Blindside Silence | 3.0 |
| Antarctigo Vespucci Love in the Time of E-Mail | 4.5 |
| This album defines the magic of pop/punk and what it has ever meant to me as a genre. This gloriously hook filled record reaches the heart in all the right ways. |
| Boygenius boygenius | 3.5 |
| Fight The Fury Still Breathing | 1.0 |
| Chris Tomlin Holy Roar | 2.0 |
| Greta Van Fleet Anthem of the Peaceful Army | 1.5 |
| Saves the Day 9 | 2.0 |
| Julia Holter Loud City Song | 3.5 |
| Daughters You Won't Get What You Want | 5.0 |
| After eight years of silence, Daughters come screaming back with an unbelievably terrifying and chilling magnum opus. You Won't Get What You Want is a deeply affecting portrait of paranoia and existential dread wrapped up in one of the most awesome sounding records to come out in years. |
| Andrew Peterson The Resurrection Letters Vol. 2 | 3.0 |
| Andrew Peterson The Far Country | 3.0 |
| Andrew Peterson Resurrection Letters: Vol.1 | 4.0 |
| Haste the Day When Everything Falls | 2.5 |
| Hop Along Bark Your Head Off, Dog | 4.0 |
| Big Ups Two Parts Together | 3.0 |
| Trivium The Sin and the Sentence | 3.0 |
| Zao Pyrrhic Victory | 3.5 |
| Daughters Daughters | 3.5 |
| Disturbed Evolution | 1.5 |
| Tenth Avenue North Cathedrals | 3.5 |
| Tenth Avenue North The Things We've Been Afraid To Say | 3.0 |
| Lovelite Nearness | 3.5 |
| Lovelite All Color | 3.5 |
| Nothing But Thieves What Did You Think When You Made Me This Way? | 3.0 |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 4.0 |
| Destroyer Streethawk: A Seduction | 5.0 |
| Starset Vessels 2.0 | 4.0 |
| One Direction Up All Night | 1.5 |
| Falling Up Captiva | 2.5 |
| Falling Up Dawn Escapes | 2.5 |
| Falling Up Crashings | 2.5 |
| VOLA Applause of a Distant Crowd | 3.5 |
| The Hotelier It Never Goes Out | 3.5 |
| Les Friction Dark Matter | 2.5 |
| Window to the Abbey Moving Around Bias | 3.5 |
| Allelic The Smoke of Atavistic Fires | 3.0 |
| Basement Beside Myself | 4.0 |
| Grandview Everything Between Paint and a Wall | 4.0 |
| Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson | 3.5 |
| Young the Giant Mirror Master | 3.0 |
| tobyMac The Elements | 3.0 |
| Hands Like Houses -Anon. | 2.5 |
| Dissonants was an awfully bland and lifeless record. This is a step in the right direction and I'd love to hear them tread even further into pop music next go around. |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 3.5 |
| Neon Horse Haunted Horse: Songs of Love, Defiance and Delusio | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria Vaxis I: The Unheavenly Creatures | 2.5 |
| Whoever is going to make an AMV with those characters will at least have an easy time finding the music for it. |
| Ben Howard I Forget Where We Were | 4.5 |
| Zao Awake? | 2.5 |
| Zao The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here | 2.0 |
| This one is just too much. The production sounds and feels like a relentless and sludgy wall of sound. There are no particular highlights here because nothing gets a chance to breathe and reveal itself. It's certainly a heavy record but in the worst way possible. |
| Zao The Funeral of God | 4.0 |
| Zao All Else Failed (2003) | 3.0 |
| Zao Parade of Chaos | 3.0 |
| Zao (Self-Titled) | 3.5 |
| Cursive Vitriola | 4.0 |
| The Gray Havens She Waits | 3.5 |
| for KING and COUNTRY Burn the Ships | 2.5 |
| Florence and the Machine High as Hope | 3.5 |
| Metric Synthetica | 3.5 |
| Twenty One Pilots Trench | 3.0 |
| U.S. Girls In A Poem Unlimited | 3.5 |
| mewithoutYou [Untitled] | 4.5 |
| Brother, Sister meet your explosive maker. [Untitled] is a once in a lifetime magnum opus that sounds and feels like a nuclear bomb. Combined with the gorgeously subtle companion ep that foreshadowed something truly game-changing this may become one of the most memorable records of the past decade. |
| Toby Driver They Are the Shield | 4.0 |
| Against The Current Past Lives | 1.5 |
| Marissa Nadler For My Crimes | 3.5 |
| I Am The Storm Fight Musik Vol. 1 | 3.0 |
| The Joy Formidable AAARTH | 3.5 |
| Holy S#$%! |
| Beartooth Disease | 2.5 |
| Metric Fantasies | 4.0 |
| Metric Art of Doubt | 4.0 |
| This is how you create an extraordinary synth-pop album. Art of Doubt is a record that blends rinsanely catchy melodies with gorgeous, lush sonic textures and colours it all with a dark, indie-rrock flair. One of 2018's most spectacular releases. |
| Zao Liberate Te Ex Inferis | 4.0 |
| Zao Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest | 4.0 |
| Beartooth Disgusting | 1.5 |
| Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) Home After Three Months Away | 3.5 |
| Keane Under The Iron Sea | 4.0 |
| Keane Hopes & Fears | 5.0 |
| Really pretty pop record and although it doesn't offer a lot more than that, rwhoever said just sounding pretty was a bad thing? This can be downright beautiful rand sometimes that's more than enough. |
| Joyce Manor Million Dollars To Kill Me | 2.5 |
| A million dollar lullaby |
| Pale Waves All the Things I Never Said | 3.0 |
| Matthew Perryman Jones Swallow the Sea | 3.5 |
| Matthew Perryman Jones Throwing Punches in the Dark | 3.5 |
| Matthew Perryman Jones The Waking Hours | 3.5 |
| Zao The Splinter Shards the Birth of Separation | 3.5 |
| Avril Lavigne Avril Lavigne | 1.0 |
| Hello evil, have you come to scar me for the rest of my life? |
| The Story So Far Proper Dose | 3.0 |
| The Chainsmokers Sick Boy...This Feeling | 1.0 |
| Good to hear that The Chainsmokers are still donating to the good cause of year-end worst of lists. |
| Avril Lavigne Goodbye Lullaby | 3.5 |
| Rainbow Kitten Surprise How to: Friend, Love, Freefall | 3.0 |
| Record deserves heaps of respect but musically, this one isn't for me. |
| Deftones Around the Fur | 4.5 |
| Zao The Well-Intentioned Virus | 4.5 |
| Becoming The Archetype Dichotomy | 3.5 |
| Enemy of Satan Enemy of Satan | 3.5 |
| Ed Sheeran ÷ | 1.5 |
| Damien Jurado The Horizon Just Laughed | 4.0 |
| Jars Of Clay Who We Are Instead | 4.0 |
| This album is a thing of sheer beauty and grace. A folk/bluegrass gem that keeps growing richer with time. |
| Good Charlotte Generation Rx | 1.5 |
| Pale Waves My Mind Makes Noises | 4.0 |
| This is what I wish the 1975 were. |
| Thrice Palms | 2.5 |
| Jars Of Clay Good Monsters | 3.5 |
| Jars Of Clay 20 | 4.5 |
| Building 429 Live the Journey | 1.5 |
| Shannen Moser I'll Sing | 3.5 |
| Count Me In How's Your Heart, Kid? | 3.5 |
| 2018 needed a pop/punk record like this one. Quality stuff in the vein of classic Blink and Yellowcard. Debut records don't get much better than this. |
| The Kooks Let's Go Sunshine | 2.0 |
| Fit for a King Dark Skies | 2.5 |
| Emma Blackery Villains | 3.0 |
| mewithoutYou Pale Horses: Appendix | 3.0 |
| mewithoutYou Other Stories | 3.5 |
| Boston Manor Be Nothing. | 3.0 |
| Low Drums and Guns | 3.0 |
| S. Carey Hundred Acres | 3.5 |
| Ben Howard Noonday Dream | 4.5 |
| You can almost feel the intense heat radiating off the ground as you trudge through this album's desolate landscape and sense the eyes of the vultures as they wait for you to breathe your last. And yet, as you walk on, you feel a sense of peace and comfort in the isolation. This is how it feels to listen to Noonday Dream. |
| Boston Manor Welcome to the Neighbourhood | 3.5 |
| Lauren Daigle Look Up Child | 3.0 |
| Nuoro In the Hills | 3.5 |
| Taking Back Sunday New Again | 2.5 |
| Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere | 2.0 |
| Low The Great Destroyer | 3.5 |
| Impending Doom The Sin and Doom Vol. II | 2.5 |
| John Mark McMillan Live at the Knight | 4.0 |
| Thrice Major/Minor | 4.0 |
| Manes Slow Motion Death Sequence | 3.5 |
| Lambchop FLOTUS | 5.0 |
| The comparison has been made before but it bears repeating. This is what 22 A Million wanted to be. An avant-garde, atmospheric, ethereal beauty to get lost in without any of the glaring, on the nose indications that what you were listening to was, in fact, weird. It's the sound of being free to create. |
| Big Red Machine Big Red Machine | 3.0 |
| Derek Webb Fingers Crossed | 3.5 |
| Alkaline Trio Is This Thing Cursed? | 3.5 |
| 2018's After The Party? It's definitely in the conversation, that's how good this thing is.rEDIT: Not quite After the Party level of brilliance but a superb punk offering nonetheless. |
| Taking Back Sunday Louder Now | 3.5 |
| We The Kings Somewhere Somehow | 1.5 |
| Cat Power Moon Pix | 4.5 |
| Convictions Hope for the Broken | 3.0 |
| Jack's Mannequin Everything in Transit | 3.5 |
Like a mixture of Relient K and Mae. It's a sweet pop/rock album with a delicious summer vibe,
although I would have preferred it kick the tempo up a notch here and there. |
| Portugal. The Man Woodstock | 2.0 |
| We The Kings Strange Love | 1.5 |
| Wild Pink Yolk in the Fur | 3.0 |
| Chris Tomlin Nobody Loves Me Like You | 2.0 |
| Low Trust | 3.5 |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness | 4.5 |
| A sprawling, ingenious, sometimes depressing, but always magnificent creation. |
| Low Things We Lost in the Fire | 3.5 |
| The Amity Affliction Misery | 1.5 |
| Misery is what one feels after listening to this Amity Affliction record. |
| Fall Out Boy Lake Effect Kid | 2.0 |
They were so close to getting a good rating from me with the first two tracks but then "Super
Fade" came in to show us that they weren't sorry for the abomination that was MANIA. |
| Interpol Marauder | 3.0 |
| Deftones Gore | 4.0 |
| Low Secret Name | 4.5 |
| ERRA Neon | 2.0 |
| Low The Curtain Hits the Cast | 4.5 |
| Kings Kaleidoscope The Beauty Between | 3.0 |
| The Classic Crime What Was Done, Vol. 1: A Decade Revisited | 3.5 |
| Low Long Division | 4.0 |
| A stunningly sparse beauty. It'll be a grower for sure but a good handful of late night spins should do the job. |
| Low I Could Live in Hope | 4.5 |
| Low Double Negative | 4.5 |
| The four songs released thus far are sublime. If this ends up being another AOTY rcontender....rEDIT: Yep, this is wonderful. |
| Weathered Stranger Here | 2.5 |
| Ariana Grande Sweetener | 2.0 |
| mewithoutYou [untitled] e.p. | 4.0 |
| This is the calm before the storm. The peace before the catastrophe. The quiet before the blast. It's the feeling of waiting for the calamity that you know all too well is inevitable. |
| Showbread No Sir, Nihilism Is Not Practical | 4.0 |
| The Bell Jar I Infest, Therefore I Am | 3.5 |
Showbread Pt. 2 anybody? Josh's vocals sound as insane as ever and the music is
infectious. It's short, punchy, and it'll infest your mind with its addictive hooks
after the first listen. |
| Thrice Beggars | 3.5 |
| Sum 41 All Killer No Filler | 3.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vol. IV: Earth | 2.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vol. III: Air | 3.0 |
| Lifehouse Lifehouse | 3.0 |
| Lifehouse Out Of The Wasteland | 3.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vol. II: Water | 3.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vol. I: Fire | 3.5 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 4.5 |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 4.5 |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 3.5 |
| Suzanne Vega Suzanne Vega | 3.0 |
| mewithoutYou Pale Horses | 4.5 |
| Jason Mraz Know. | 1.0 |
| Delta Sleep Ghost City | 3.5 |
| Foxing Nearer My God | 4.0 |
| Take the emo sensibilities of Brand New, throw in the vocal eccentricities of Modest Mouse, and douse it all in the sublime atmosphere of The Antlers and you'll have a product called Nearer, My God. In other words, a forceful AOTY contender. |
| Foxing Dealer | 3.5 |
| Foxing The Albatross | 3.5 |
| With Confidence Love and Loathing | 3.0 |
| Like the title describes, there are moments you'll love and those you'll loathe. A fine release for the moment but fairly forgettable by the end of the day. |
| Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind | 4.5 |
| Best summer jam of the 90s? You better believe it! |
| Andrew Peterson Resurrection Letters: Prologue | 4.0 |
| Phil Wickham Living Hope | 2.0 |
| Deaf Havana Rituals | 1.0 |
Man, Train was certainly quick to release
another album after A Girl, A Bottle, A Boat. |
| Trophy Eyes Chemical Miracle | 3.5 |
| Trophy Eyes The American Dream | 2.5 |
| Anthem Lights Anthem Lights | 2.0 |
| Mikeschair Mikeschair | 2.0 |
| Michael W. Smith Worship Again | 3.0 |
| Michael W. Smith Worship | 3.0 |
| Michael W. Smith Glory | 3.5 |
| Jeremy Camp The Answer | 3.0 |
| The Porter's Gate Work Songs: The Porter's Gate Worship Project Vol. | 4.0 |
| One of the most essential Christian records to come out in the past five years. Porter's Gate is the image of a church filled with people from different walks of life coming together in unity and sharing that love and warmth to those who have none. |
| Grouper A I A | 3.5 |
| The Ongoing Concept Saloon | 3.5 |
| The Ongoing Concept Handmade | 4.0 |
| Matt Redman The Father's Song | 2.0 |
| Haste the Day Pressure the Hinges | 3.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin Dark Before Dawn | 5.0 |
| Yellowcard Underdog | 4.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin Dear Agony | 5.0 |
| Riley Clemmons Riley Clemmons | 3.0 |
| Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime | 4.0 |
| The All-American Rejects The All-American Rejects | 2.5 |
| Let's Eat Grandma I'm All Ears | 3.5 |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan | 5.0 |
| This might be my favourite rock album of the 2010s.... |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 5.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin Phobia | 5.0 |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist | 4.5 |
| I've racked my brain trying to put words to the way this album makes me feel. It's intensely claustrophobic and musty, yet dreamy and ethereal. It's like being lost in a fever dream. It's a harrowing look into the psyche of a band on the edge of destruction that yet possesses the maturity, originality, and beauty of a band in their prime. |
| Deftones White Pony | 5.0 |
| My favourite metal album of all-time. A brooding, visceral, and ingenious work of art. |
| Jimmy Eat World Love Never/half heart | 4.0 |
| Night Verses From the Gallery of Sleep | 4.5 |
| MxPx Life in General | 4.5 |
| Best Christian punk album of all-time. It has none of the cheesiness, cringy Christian-isms, or manipulative inspiration that floods CCM on the daily today. |
| Daughtry Cage to Rattle | 1.5 |
| MxPx MxPx | 3.5 |
| 30 minutes of blistering pop/punk from a veteran in the genre? Yes please! |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Vacation | 5.0 |
| Who needs to go on a vacation when you can hear this punk masterpiece instead? |
| Weezer Make Believe | 2.5 |
| mewithoutYou Ten Stories | 4.0 |
| The Armed Only Love | 4.5 |
| Living Sacrifice The Infinite Order | 4.0 |
| San Cisco The Water | 3.0 |
| Lydia Liquor | 2.0 |
I've been on board with practically everything after Lydia's opus, Illuminate. Paint it Golden was
a beautiful but somewhat poor imitation of Illuminate, Devil was simply a joy, even Run Wild had
its gems. But with Liquor, this is where I get off the fan train. |
| Lydia Run Wild | 3.0 |
| Lydia Devil B-Sides | 3.0 |
| Lydia Devil | 3.5 |
| Lydia Paint it Golden | 3.5 |
| No doubting that this is a beautiful sounding record, however, the problem is that it tries too hard to replicate the magic of Illuminate. Rather than sounding like an expansion or exploration of a new direction it comes off as a somewhat poor imitation of their previous treasure. |
| Landry Cantrell Projections | 3.0 |
First five tracks are near perfect bops but it's perplexing how far this drops off in its second
half. From track six onwards it shifts into auto-pilot. The infectious hooks and addictive grooves
disappear and I'm left just scratching my head. |
| Jeff Buckley Grace | 4.5 |
| Lydia Illuminate | 5.0 |
| This takes everything that makes bands like Copeland brilliant and dials up the warmth another ten notches. One of the best pop/rock records I've heard in the indie scene in a very long time. |
| Blood on the Dance Floor Scissors | 1.0 |
| Jack River Sugar Mountain | 3.0 |
| Hopesfall A Types | 3.0 |
| Hopesfall The Satellite Years | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright! | 4.0 |
| Lauren Daigle How Can It Be | 2.5 |
Daigle has become a big name in CCM and it's easy to see why. The record has
massive musical appeal and Daigle has a strong voice to boot. If the music was a
tad more interesting or innovative I would join the celebration but it's simply far
too vanilla to warrant any kind of frenzy. |
| Needtobreathe Forever On Your Side | 2.5 |
| Hopesfall Arbiter | 4.5 |
| The National Boxer Live in Brussels | 4.0 |
| Amy Shark Love Monster | 2.5 |
| The Chariot The Fiancee | 2.5 |
| Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline | 4.5 |
| Wanted to find a random ambient/drone record to fall asleep to. I found this. It was the best sleep I had ever had. |
| Norma Jean The Anti Mother | 4.0 |
| Norma Jean Redeemer | 4.0 |
| Norma Jean Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child | 3.0 |
| Ah, Norma Jean's debut with The Chariot's Josh Scogin at the helm. It was a solid start but rnot one I see myself coming back to all that often over their later material. |
| Spanish Love Songs Schmaltz | 3.5 |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Kiss | 3.5 |
| We all know it deep down inside. "Call Me Maybe" is a true bop. If Justin Bieber didn't stuff things up with a tune so sickly sweet it may as well be on Playschool this may be as consistent as Emotion. |
| Radwimps Your Name. | 4.0 |
| I love this film so much. I always find myself going back to the soundtrack whenever I'm studying, browsing the web, or when I'm just in the mood for music to think along with. |
| We The Kings Six | 1.0 |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister | 4.5 |
| Records like this are ones that turn a good band into a remarkable one. Years down the road, I'm sure this will still be speaking to believers about the nature of humanity and his relationship with God. An absolutely essential record of the 2000s. |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm | 2.5 |
| Hillsong Young & Free III | 2.5 |
| Hillsong Young & Free Youth Revival | 1.5 |
| Hillsong Young & Free We Are Young & Free | 1.5 |
| Joe Purdy Julie Blue | 4.0 |
| Lou Reed Metal Machine Music | 1.0 |
| It's like a vast expanse of nothingness. It gives you the opportunity to experience an empty and hollow existence with no meaning or purpose whatsoever. |
| Perry Blake California | 4.0 |
| Kitty Miami Garden Club | 3.5 |
| Goo Goo Dolls Let Love In | 3.0 |
| Goo Goo Dolls Gutterflower | 2.5 |
| Goo Goo Dolls Dizzy Up The Girl | 4.0 |
| Goo Goo Dolls A Boy Named Goo | 3.0 |
| Archabald Relativity | 3.5 |
| mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes | 4.5 |
| Joni Mitchell Blue | 4.5 |
| The Rosebuds Birds Make Good Neighbors | 3.5 |
| Sleeping at Last Atlas: Intelligence | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou A to B: Life | 3.5 |
| On mewithoutYou's debut record, the rough, abrasive sound doesn't quite affect me the same way the more melodic aspects of the band's sound does on later records. Even so, it's a remarkable debut. |
| Lecrae Let The Trap Say Amen | 1.5 |
| Tiny Vipers Life on Earth | 3.5 |
It's a super bare indie folk record with some of the most sparse instrumentation I have ever
heard. For those lonely, cold evenings it makes a great soundtrack. |
| Dead Poetic New Medicines | 2.5 |
| Yellowcard Ocean Avenue (Acoustic) | 4.0 |
| Yellowcard Where We Stand | 2.0 |
| Yellowcard Midget Tossing | 1.5 |
I can't give this a one because it's Yellowcard but boy oh boy did they have a rough start. Since
it isn't on any streaming or digital platforms the only reason you would ever want to spin this is
to see where Yellowcard started. |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 4.5 |
| Bleach Again, For The First Time | 3.0 |
| McCafferty Thanks. Sorry. Sure. | 3.0 |
| Bebe Rexha Expectations | 1.0 |
| The Offspring Smash | 3.5 |
| Coldplay Prospekt's March | 3.5 |
| Panic! at the Disco Pray for the Wicked | 1.5 |
| Yellowcard When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes Acoustic | 3.5 |
| The Republic of Wolves shrine | 3.5 |
| The Choir Bloodshot | 4.0 |
Bloodshot is a stunningly beautiful yet sobering portrayal of divorce and forgiveness. The Choir
masterfully spin a melancholic tale of fading love, broken hearts, and shattered lives picking up
the pieces and, with bloodshot eyes, choosing to look forward. |
| Johan Pull Up | 2.5 |
| Matt Maltese Bad Contestant | 3.5 |
| 5 Seconds of Summer Youngblood | 1.5 |
| Mayday Parade Sunnyland | 3.5 |
| After the excellent A Lesson in Romantics, Mayday Parade went on a steady downfall into mediocrity. Thankfully, Sunnyland has finally pulled them back on their feet. The hooks are infectious, the music emotional and varied, and Derek's vocals shine more than they ever have. |
| Tancred Nightstand | 3.0 |
| Kye Kye Young Love | 3.5 |
| Sheppard Watching the Sky | 1.5 |
Sheppard is still making bland and vapid pop. No surprises here despite wishing there
were. |
| Dance Gavin Dance Artificial Selection | 3.0 |
| Mayday Parade Monsters in the Closet | 2.5 |
| Mayday Parade Mayday Parade | 3.0 |
| Mayday Parade Anywhere But Here | 3.0 |
| Mayday Parade A Lesson In Romantics | 3.5 |
| The Antlers Burst Apart | 4.0 |
| Nine Lashes Ascend | 1.5 |
| Adam Watts When a Heart Wakes Up | 3.5 |
| Pillar Where Do We Go from Here | 2.5 |
| Fenne Lily On Hold | 3.5 |
| Nine Lashes World We View | 2.5 |
| King Creosote From Scotland With Love | 4.5 |
| William Ryan Key Thirteen | 4.0 |
| The 1975 I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It | 2.0 |
| The 1975 The 1975 | 2.0 |
| Owl City Cinematic | 1.0 |
| Yellowcard Yellowcard | 4.0 |
| A beautifully emotional sendoff to one of the most consistently amazing bands to ever come out of the pop/punk scene. Long live Yellowcard. Thanks for the memories. |
| Yellowcard Lift a Sail | 3.5 |
| Snow Patrol Wildness | 2.0 |
| Yellowcard Southern Air | 4.5 |
| "This southern air is all I need, breathe it in and I can see canvasses behind my eyes, all the colors of my life." This pretty much sums up how I feel about this wonderful record. |
| Yellowcard One for the Kids | 4.0 |
| Yellowcard When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes | 4.0 |
| On Paper Walls there was a definite sense that the band had truly begun maturing and honing in on their sound. WYTTSY pushes that evolution further still, adding a marvellous sense of reminiscence and optimism. This is a pop/punk album BY adults, made FOR adults. It's the sound of looking back at youth, remembering the good times ("Do you remember when I said you were my only one?), and actually looking forward to a future just as bright and incredible. |
| Yellowcard Lights and Sounds | 4.0 |
| Leigh Nash The State I'm In | 3.0 |
| Shawn Mendes Shawn Mendes | 2.0 |
| Hoobastank Push Pull | 1.0 |
| CHVRCHES Love Is Dead | 2.5 |
| It honestly isn't a surprise that this latest Chvrches record is a disappointment. Unlike Every Open Eye, it gets bogged down by forgettable repetition, an uninteresting aesthetic, and an especially dull final quarter. If more songs were like "Graffiti" and "Graves" this would be far better as those songs are everything a Chvrches song should be. |
| Twenty One Pilots Twenty One Pilots | 1.5 |
| Bad Wolves Disobey | 2.0 |
| Mikal Cronin MCII | 2.0 |
| Owen At Home With Owen | 4.0 |
| If American Football went acoustic I'd imagine it would sound something like At Home With Owen and that is a very good thing indeed. |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon | 3.5 |
| Weezer The Green Album | 2.5 |
| Lambchop Nixon | 5.0 |
| The sound of the best children's book you've ever read. |
| Slowdive Pygmalion | 5.0 |
| DNCE DNCE | 2.0 |
| Sanctus Real Changed | 2.5 |
| A pleasant enough change from a childhood staple. The direction the band were going with Matt at the helm wasn't all that great so it's refreshing to have a new vocalist help switch things up a little (heavy emphasis on the little). |
| Eisley Room Noises | 3.5 |
| Brand New Daisy | 4.5 |
| Children 18:3 Rain's 'A Comin' | 3.5 |
| Eric Stuart Band My Kind of Danger | 3.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Jimmy Eat World | 2.5 |
| Finally gave this a spin and it honestly wasn't all that bad. An average pop/punk/emo record from a band who would become my all-time favourite. Don't think I'll ever return to this but it's always good to know where they started. |
| Beach House 7 | 4.0 |
| Slowdive Souvlaki | 5.0 |
| On one hand, it makes sense why Souvlaki is always compared to MBV's Loveless. They're both seminal shoegaze records anyone who's interested in the genre should hear. But on the other, the two records cover completely different ground and for me, Souvlaki edges its sister out as my personal favourite of the two. Its dreamy, nocturnal atmosphere is utterly captivating from beginning to end. At times euphoric, at others gentle, Souvlaki is a treasure. |
| Charlie Puth Voicenotes | 3.0 |
| On the first listen boy was I excited for this record. On subsequent listens the attraction of it started to wane until I realized that this was nothing more than a mildly shallow, albeit catchy, pop/r&b record. Probably won't make the year-end list but it's enjoyable enough to return to if I'm ever in the mood for some pop. |
| The Summer Kills Last Night We Became Swans | 3.5 |
| Lambchop How I Quit Smoking | 5.0 |
| The sound of.....really loving life. |
| Phoebe Bridgers Stranger in the Alps | 4.5 |
| Stranger In The Alps has been a slow burn for me. That isn't to say there was a time I didn't like it, quite the contrary. But it was the kind of record I took for granted, all too content to call it a memorable note in an oversaturated genre. And because of that I missed it. I missed the warmth and the familial intimacy among its snowcapped landscape and towering mountain peaks. Now, I have nothing but a profound appreciation and love for it. |
| Parkway Drive Reverence | 1.5 |
| Lambchop I Hope You're Sitting Down | 4.5 |
| CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe | 3.0 |
| Surprised this is seen more favourably than Every Open Eye. This one is rather boring all things considered. The follow-up had the hooks, the narrative, and was just a stronger project all around. |
| Mat Kearney CRAZYTALK | 3.5 |
| Fall Out Boy Folie a Deux | 4.0 |
| Fall Out Boy Infinity on High | 4.5 |
| Laura Stevenson Wheel | 5.0 |
| A delectably sweet, innovative, and emotional opus. This is my favourite record of all-time and saying that feels so right. |
| Janelle Monae Dirty Computer | 1.5 |
| Regina Spektor Begin To Hope | 4.5 |
| Talkie Fundamental Things | 3.5 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Temper Temper | 1.0 |
| Young the Giant Home Of The Strange | 2.5 |
| Mercury Rev Deserter's Songs | 4.5 |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree | 2.5 |
| The Longshot Love Is For Losers | 3.5 |
| Same as the E.P. this is just a straightforward, fun, garage pop/punk record. Play it, throw up your hands, and let it all go. |
| The Blue Nile Hats | 5.0 |
| An album for the romantics, the soft-hearted, the ones who live to inspire others by living for others, and the ones who never fail to have a twinkle in their eyes. |
| Racing Glaciers Caught in the Strange | 3.0 |
| A.A.L. (Against All Logic) 2012-2017 | 2.5 |
| Wish I could get into this more since it's quite a unique project but I found it to be repetitive and rather bland overall. |
| Muse Drones | 3.0 |
| Elevation Worship Here as in Heaven | 1.5 |
| Muse The 2nd Law | 4.5 |
| Muse The Resistance | 3.5 |
| Barely Civil We Can Live Here Forever | 3.0 |
| Blood on the Dance Floor Kawaii Monster | 1.0 |
| Blood on the Dance Floor Haunted | 1.0 |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry | 4.5 |
| The Longshot The Longshot | 3.5 |
| Like a mix of Revolution Radio and 21st Century Breakdown. It's a simple, straight ahead pop/punk jam. Love it. |
| LEDGER LEDGER | 2.0 |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars Love Lust Faith + Dreams | 1.5 |
| Breaking Benjamin Ember | 5.0 |
| This or the latest Underoath record? You know what, I think I'd take this. |
| The Wonder Years Sister Cities | 2.5 |
| Ethan C. Davis Serenade | 2.5 |
A glitchy, autotuned EDM worship album. It works well on occasion but it's mostly superfluous and
shrill. |
| Train Save Me San Francisco | 1.0 |
| "Hey, Soul Sister" is an abysmal trainwreck, as is the rest of this record. |
| Train Bulletproof Picasso | 1.5 |
| Lambchop Is a Woman | 5.0 |
| Is a Woman is a beautifully nuanced and understated gem of a record. Everything works as a unified whole, from Wagner's soulful vocals and elegant delivery, the subtle sonic texture and wonderfully warm atmosphere, and every little piece of music that enters at just the right time. It's perfect. |
| The Antlers Hospice | 4.5 |
| Quite possibly the most soul-crushing record of the 2000s. You can almost feel the chill of the hospital hallways and the accompanying sadness that looms over each room. |
| Midnight Choir Amsterdam Stranded | 5.0 |
Amsterdam Stranded is at once an understated masterpiece and a show of emotions so grand
and poignant that it immediately betrays its subtly. It is nothing short of magical. |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars America | 1.0 |
| Whale Bones Island Fire | 3.5 |
| Hawk Nelson Miracles | 1.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Integrity Blues Acoustic | 4.0 |
| Can Jimmy Eat World's music be any more beautiful? |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 5.0 |
| As my taste has matured and widened over the years I find I'm consistently amazed at what I can find myself liking. I mean *really* liking. When it comes to pop I'm one who loves a smooth, gentle style; Loveless is almost anything but. The guitar is noisy and harsh and any kind of familiarity and accessibility is buried and difficult to find. The vocals can barely be heard and any sense of melody is sparse if it exists at all. It's a record that wants you to listen closely to hear its incredibly intricate sonic landscape yet, at the same time, it's content to be the best darn background noise you could ever hear. The clash between violent and gentle shouldn't work but it does so, so well. It's just intoxicating. |
| Underoath Erase Me | 1.5 |
| Like its title implies Underoath's big return effortlessly erases everything that made them good during their mid-2000 stretch. |
| Motion City Soundtrack Commit This to Memory | 5.0 |
| Panic! at the Disco Death of a Bachelor | 1.5 |
| Panic! at the Disco Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die! | 2.0 |
| My Epic Ultraviolet | 2.5 |
| Panic! at the Disco Vices & Virtues | 2.5 |
| The Weeknd My Dear Melancholy, | 2.0 |
| The Lumineers Cleopatra | 2.5 |
| This record can be downright dull at times and merely ok at others. The new wave folk movement is pretty much a dead and mostly forgotten fad in the mainstream today and for good reason: it had been run into the ground. Cleopatra is a fine example of a record that tried to fit into that movement but ended up being completely redundant. |
| Cyndi Lauper She's So Unusual | 3.5 |
| Onward To Olympas Indicator | 2.5 |
| Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour | 3.0 |
| Dua Lipa Dua Lipa | 3.0 |
| Melanie Martinez Cry Baby | 1.5 |
| Troy Baker Sitting In the Fire | 3.5 |
| Panic! at the Disco Pretty. Odd. | 3.0 |
| Gotta admit this one was an improvement over their awful debut record. It takes some sweet cues from The Beatles at times which gives it a pleasant and inventive sound overall. It is way too drawn out though. |
| Athletics Who You Are Is Not Enough | 3.0 |
| As much as I love post-rock I just haven't been able to get into this one. It plays around the standard post-rock formula with little risk taken. Although this is fine I wish it had a bit more to it. |
| Bruce Springsteen Born to Run | 5.0 |
| The Appleseed Cast The End of the Ring Wars | 3.5 |
| American Football American Football (LP2) | 3.0 |
| Yeah, this one is pretty disappointing. It isn't that I expected them to replicate the magic of the first, in fact, I'd rather them go in an entirely different direction, but this one just feels like a really watered down and somewhat tedious version of their 1999 masterpiece. |
| The Appleseed Cast Low Level Owl, Vol. 2 | 4.0 |
| Jeremy Camp Stay | 3.5 |
| The Appleseed Cast Low Level Owl, Volume I | 4.0 |
| Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out | 1.5 |
| This is nothing more than the product of a generic pop/punk band that's trying to pose as an MCR-like "emo" wannabe with some awful theatrical elements thrown in. I truly don't see the appeal at all. |
| Gulfer Dog Bless | 3.5 |
| Got this one free from Topshelf records due to an email mistake. Now, this is what I like! Raw, mathy emo with a punk bite. Thank you, lads! |
| Preoccupations New Material | 2.5 |
| Jordan Feliz Future | 2.5 |
| Jordan Feliz The River | 2.5 |
| Linkin Park The Hunting Party | 2.5 |
| Fickle Friends You Are Someone Else | 3.0 |
When I saw sixteen songs on the tracklist I was worried about how consistent it would really be.
The sound isn't bad and is honestly pretty fun at times but the sheer length is monotonous and the
songs only become more indistinguishable as it goes on. It's a promising debut that needs to be
severely cut down and tightened the next go around. |
| Green Day Oh Love | 1.0 |
| Linkin Park Living Things | 2.0 |
| A slight step up from A Thousand Suns but this one really isn't a lot better. It's a smooth pop/rock album with some screaming to make it seem like the Linkin Park of old has returned. It's forgettable in the end. |
| Linkin Park A Thousand Suns | 2.0 |
| How did we get here? What happened between Minutes and this? While I can respect the effort and ambition that was put into this one it's just a painfully poor and puzzling project overall. |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight | 3.0 |
| This album makes me feel like a young kid again, excitedly browsing the aisles of my local Video Ezy to find the first live-action Transformers film, during which this record would be blaring out the speakers. Is it a good record? Not really. But the nostalgia is just too good. |
| Jimmy Eat World Clarity Live | 4.5 |
| Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends | 4.0 |
| Fall Out Boy Save Rock and Roll | 2.0 |
| Oso Oso The Yunahon Mixtape | 3.5 |
| Bon Jovi Greatest Hits - The Ultimate Collection | 3.0 |
| NO APOLOGIES!!! (no apologies!) WE WILL NOT BACK DOOOOWWWN! WE ARE NOT AFRAID! NOT A DROP OF DOOOOOOUUUUBT!!! |
| Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot | 5.0 |
| Athlete Black Swan | 3.0 |
| Smooth, dreamy, and at times beautiful, Black Swan is an excellent indie rock release that's held back only by its habit of sounding just a little too tame throughout. |
| will.i.am #Willpower | 1.0 |
| Wow.... witness the peak of artistic achievement right here ladies and gentlemen. If that hair doesn't convince you that a masterpiece is in your hands I will have to question your sanity. |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 3.0 |
| Pretty much the same story here as with Hybrid Theory. I respect it but I'm probably not going to spin it again. |
| Further Seems Forever The Moon Is Down | 4.0 |
| Green Day iTRE! | 1.5 |
| Green Day iDOS! | 1.0 |
| Green Day ¡UNO! | 1.5 |
| Green Day Insomniac | 3.5 |
| Dessa Chime | 4.0 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame | 3.0 |
| Colton Dixon A Messenger | 2.5 |
| Matt Maher Alive Again | 2.5 |
| Relient K Is For Karaoke | 2.5 |
| Relient K The Anatomy of Tongue In Cheek | 3.0 |
| MercyMe The Worship Sessions | 2.0 |
| Vota Love Found Me | 3.0 |
| If it weren't for "Crying Out" this would be a slightly above average CCM record. However, I respect "Crying Out" greatly for being desperate, honest, and uncertain, something Christian music lacks severely. |
| Vota Vota | 2.5 |
| All Time Low Dirty Work | 1.5 |
| Chris August The Upside of Down | 2.0 |
| Sigur Ros Valtari | 4.0 |
| Where do you go after releasing your most upbeat and lighthearted work to date? You strip it all away and embrace pure, gentle ambience. Valtari is simple but beautiful. Because of this, it may be the most difficult to enjoy for some. It has more in common with ( )'s second half than it does with their other records (especially Takk....), but in no way is this as dark as ( ). If you accept it for what it is and give it some patience it'll reveal itself to you in its own way. In other words, it follows the Sigur Ros tradition of giving each record its own distinct character and Valtari's happens to be as wonderful as everything before it. |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 3.0 |
| As far as nu-metal goes I understand that for many people Hybrid Theory is a classic. However, I'm not a fan of nu-metal so while I can see that it's good I'm definitely not the target audience for this kind of music, at least not in this stage of my life. Hand it to 16-year old me and it may have been a different story. |
| Moose Blood I Don't Think I Can Do This Anymore | 2.5 |
| I don't think I can listen to this anymore. What? Too easy of a jab? It's as creative as the music and lyrics are on this thing. |
| Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust | 3.5 |
| Although Med Sud is a step down from previous records (and really, four masterpieces in a row would be tough for any band to pull off) I'd wager that it's the band's most free sounding and fun release to this point. But since the hilarious cover already gave it away I guess that's not too surprising! |
| Sigur Ros Takk... | 4.5 |
| What if someone managed to capture the warm, orange glow of a sunrise and inject it into a note, a lyric, or a melody? What if someone made a whole album out of it? I believe someone did and we have the incredible opportunity to hear and experience it for ourselves. Takk.... is that album. It's a sublime wonder that you only get to hear once in a lifetime. |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun | 4.5 |
| For many passionate fans, Agaetis Byrjun is hailed as the band's masterpiece and one of the best records of all-time. I honestly cannot find a solid point to argue against them. Agaetis Byrjun is a gorgeous centrepiece in post-rock and one of the best treasures of the 90s. |
| Manafest Citizens Activ | 2.0 |
| Linkin Park One More Light | 2.5 |
| This got a lot of hate when it was released and while I can definitely understand it at the same time I don't think it was entirely deserved. Half of it (read "Battle Symphony" and tracks 8-r10....maybe 7) actually edges towards being good. The rest is run-of-the-mill commercial pop so while it isn't bad it isn't good either. It's average and that's ok if you ask me. |
| Sigur Ros ( ) | 4.5 |
| From the soaring yet delicate first half to the despairingly dark and epic second, ( ) is a post-rock masterpiece. Sit back and let your own life fill in the gaps. |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 4.0 |
| Family Force 5 Business Up Front, Party In The Back | 3.0 |
| Delirious? King of Fools | 3.5 |
| Delirious? Mezzamorphis | 2.5 |
| Delirious? Glo | 3.5 |
| Dc Talk Nu Thang | 1.5 |
| Dc Talk Dc Talk | 1.5 |
| Dc Talk Free at Last | 3.0 |
| Big Daddy Weave What I Was Made For | 2.5 |
| Frightened Rabbit The Winter of Mixed Drinks | 4.0 |
| Eric Stuart Band Lipstick And Barbed Wire | 3.0 |
Seto Kaiba fronting a folk/pop band and writing some genuinely good tunes? It's surprising for
sure but I can't deny the knack for songwriting these boys possess. LaBW does overstay its welcome
for someone who isn't head over heels with this genre and the record lacks the versatility that
should justify the runtime (pun intended btw, a fantastic song there!). |
| Civil War Gods And Generals | 3.5 |
| Killer band, killer vocals, killer artwork, killer music, killer record! |
| Showbread Age of Reptiles | 4.0 |
| Showbread Who Can Know It? | 3.5 |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Set It Off (Remastered) | 2.0 |
| "Puppet" is a TFK classic but Set It Off just does not work well as an album. It's overly long and stuffed with tracks that try to do something inventive (All The Way We Live, etc.) but ultimately there are few examples of good, congruent songwriting. |
| Newsboys In the Hands of God | 2.0 |
| Stellar Kart All In | 2.0 |
| Capital Kings II | 3.0 |
| Sonicflood Sonicflood | 2.5 |
| Florida Georgia Line Dig Your Roots | 1.0 |
| Demon Hunter Summer of Darkness | 3.0 |
| The Appleseed Cast Mare Vitalis | 4.0 |
| AJR Living Room | 1.0 |
| Needtobreathe Daylight | 3.0 |
| All The Luck In The World A Blind Arcade | 3.5 |
| My Darkest Days Sick and Twisted Affair | 2.5 |
| "Save Yourself" is a great rock anthem but everything else on here? Standard radio rock that tries to be dirty at times. I'll pass. |
| Skillet Alien Youth | 2.0 |
| Skillet Collide | 3.0 |
| Skillet Comatose | 3.0 |
| Guess it's time to admit that not all Skillet albums are bad. Comatose is actually pretty great. For the most part, it's mainstream rock done right, and while it certainly isn't perfect I have no complaints spinning this one. |
| Jimmy Needham Vice & Virtue | 3.5 |
| Kari Jobe Majestic (Live) | 3.0 |
| Icon For Hire Now You Know EP | 1.0 |
| Michael W. Smith Stand | 3.0 |
| Michael W. Smith A New Hallelujah | 3.0 |
| Michael W. Smith Wonder | 3.5 |
| Revive Blink | 2.0 |
| Robbie Seay Band Rich and Poor | 3.5 |
| Red (USA) Until We Have Faces | 4.0 |
| Red (USA) End of Silence | 3.0 |
| Seventh Day Slumber Take Everything | 2.0 |
| Sidewalk Prophets Live Like That | 2.5 |
| Starfield The Saving One | 3.0 |
| Starfield I Will Go | 2.5 |
| Stars Go Dim Stars Go Dim | 1.5 |
| The Afters Live On Forever | 2.5 |
| The Digital Age Evening:Morning | 3.0 |
| The Violet Burning Drop-dead | 2.5 |
| Destroyer Destroyer's Rubies | 4.5 |
| So I'm walking side by side with the love of my life along the River Thames in the early hours of the night. To my disappointment, it isn't everything I dreamed it'd be. The stars are hidden behind a blanket of clouds, the air is kinda stuffy, and the river itself smells a little off. But I say something about it all that makes my girl laugh and I realize that there is nowhere else in the world I'd rather be than beside her. Then I decide that if the scenery isn't going to amaze her then I'm going to do it myself and make her the happiest woman in the world. That's what Destroyer's Rubies is to me. It may not be a traditionally pleasant-sounding record but there's real heart behind it. |
| Dorena Nuet | 3.5 |
| Destroyer City Of Daughters | 3.5 |
| Puddle of Mudd Come Clean | 1.0 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 4.0 |
| Nickelback Feed the Machine | 2.5 |
| Nickelback's best since All The Right Reasons but that isn't saying much. The music is just as generic and the lyrics can be laughable at times ("the icky of the sticky" and "Humpty Dumpty do your thing") but unlike the slew of albums before it, this isn't bad and may just be the most listenable of everything post-2000. |
| Nickelback No Fixed Address | 1.5 |
| Nickelback Silver Side Up | 2.0 |
| Nickelback Here and Now | 1.0 |
| I didn't really understand the burning hatred for Nickelback until I heard this album. Here and Now is just so offensively bad it hurts. |
| Nickelback Dark Horse | 1.0 |
| Nickelback All the Right Reasons | 2.0 |
| Nickelback The Long Road | 2.0 |
| The Chainsmokers Collage | 1.5 |
| Of Monsters and Men Beneath the Skin | 3.0 |
| Attalus Post Tenebras Lux | 4.0 |
| Heavy, emotional, epic, beautiful, unique, breathtaking, the descriptions can go on. |
| Camp Cope How to Socialise and Make Friends | 2.0 |
| Harker No Discordance | 3.5 |
| Haley Heynderickx I Need to Start a Garden | 3.5 |
| Sit back and let Haley's simple but beautiful instrumentation wash over you. A superb folk record. |
| Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It | 4.5 |
| On Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It, Rolo Tomassi have fine-tuned their sound to perfection. And perfect it is as the result of their hard work over the course of five records is one of the most exhilarating, unpredictable, and utterly beautiful metal albums I have heard in years, quite possibly this decade. |
| A Great Big Pile of Leaves You're Always on My Mind | 3.5 |
| Hillsong United Across the Earth: Tear Down the Walls | 2.5 |
| Passion Worship Salvation's Tide Is Rising | 2.5 |
| Foster the People Supermodel | 2.5 |
| Hillsong Worship No Other Name | 2.5 |
| Luminate Welcome To Daylight | 3.0 |
| Luminate's seemingly final album is a nice pop diversion from Come Home's more stripped back pop/rock sound despite being tainted with modern CCM's plastic inspiration. |
| Luminate Come Home | 4.0 |
| Passion Worship Even So Come | 2.5 |
| Chris Tomlin The Noise We Make | 2.0 |
| Casting Crowns Lifesong | 2.5 |
| Casting Crowns The Very Next Thing | 2.0 |
| Passion Worship Let The Future Begin | 1.5 |
| Passion Worship Whole Heart | 2.5 |
| Chris Tomlin Not to Us | 2.0 |
| Simple Plan Taking One for the Team | 1.0 |
| Passion Worship Take It All | 2.5 |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 4.0 |
| Hillsong Worship OPEN HEAVEN / River Wild | 3.0 |
| Passion Worship Awakening | 2.5 |
| Hillsong Worship A Beautiful Exchange | 2.0 |
| Hillsong United All of the Above | 2.5 |
| Hillsong United Aftermath | 2.5 |
| Hawk Nelson Letters To The President | 3.0 |
| Abandon Control | 3.0 |
| Switchfoot Float Remix EP | 2.5 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt | 5.0 |
| One of the most gorgeously human records ever written. It's like sitting on a hillside in the evening, grabbing your guitar, and belting it out at the top of your lungs because at that moment you love life and this earth we've been given more than anything else. |
| FM Static Critically Ashamed | 2.5 |
| Gotye Like Drawing Blood | 3.5 |
| FM Static What Are You Waiting For? | 2.5 |
| Years Of Rice and Salt Nothing of Cities | 3.5 |
| Family Force 5 Dance or Die | 3.0 |
| Family Force 5 Time Stands Still | 2.0 |
| Trading Yesterday More Than This | 5.0 |
| As incredibly simple as this is I cannot help but fall for its earnest charm. It so clearly tries to be great with everything it has. Its simplicity can taste a little bland at times but overall I'm always moved in some way. |
| Destroyer Your Blues | 4.0 |
| Destroyer Trouble In Dreams | 4.0 |
| Justin Timberlake Man of the Woods | 1.0 |
| Downhere Downhere | 3.0 |
| Downhere So much for substitutes | 3.5 |
| Penfold Amateurs and Professionals | 3.0 |
| Bandit Of Life | 3.5 |
| The Sky Life Caves | 3.0 |
| The Cast Before The Break Still | 3.5 |
| Sheppard Bombs Away | 2.0 |
| A Bunny's Caravan Draining Puddles, Retrieving Treasures | 5.0 |
| Draining Puddles.... may only be six songs long but I'm certain the impact will be felt for years..... This is me from three years into the future. The impact is still being felt. Give it that classic rating, son. |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Wait For Love | 3.0 |
| Underoath The Changing of Times | 2.5 |
| Mineral The Power of Failing | 4.5 |
| Mineral February/ M.D. | 4.5 |
| Michael W. Smith A Million Lights | 2.5 |
| Michael W. Smith makes an electronic dance record? Does he pull it off? Kinda. Sorta. Not really. |
| Mineral EndSerenading | 4.5 |
| Endserenading is 90s emo at its absolute best. That it was only Mineral's second (and sadly final) record only provides an extra touch of sadness. Yet their final words tell us that we will all eventually find peace even when our souls are afraid to rejoice. |
| The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Don't You Fake It | 2.0 |
| The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Lonely Road | 1.0 |
| Sleeping Giant Finished People | 3.5 |
| Sleeping Giant I AM | 3.5 |
| Sleeping Giant end their career with a satisfying bang of hardcore bliss. It doesn't get much better than this. |
| Hollyn One-Way Conversations | 2.0 |
| Fireflight Innova | 2.5 |
| Fireflight Unbreakable | 2.5 |
| Everyone Everywhere Everyone Everywhere | 3.5 |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Untraveled Roads (Live) | 2.5 |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Live At The Masquerade | 3.5 |
| Disciple (USA-TN) Scars Remain | 3.0 |
| Disciple (USA-TN) Southern Hospitality | 2.0 |
| Hillsong United Zion | 3.0 |
| Hillsong United Empires | 2.5 |
| Nine Lashes From Water to War | 2.0 |
| Family Force 5 III | 1.0 |
| Thousand Foot Krutch TFK Remixes | 1.5 |
| Third Day Third Day | 3.5 |
| Third Day Offerings II: All I Have To Give | 2.5 |
| Meghan Trainor Title | 1.0 |
| Ellie Holcomb Red Sea Road | 3.5 |
| Ellie Holcomb As Sure As The Sun | 3.5 |
| Relient K Truly Madly Deeply EP | 3.0 |
| The Wombats Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life | 2.5 |
| Owl City Ocean Eyes | 1.5 |
| The Wombats This Modern Glitch | 2.5 |
| The Hotelier Goodness | 3.5 |
| Tina Boonstra My Concrete Heart (Will Beat Again) | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 5.0 |
| The Shaggs Philosophy of the World | 2.0 |
| It's terrible but at the same time can you really hate it? |
| Jimmy Eat World Static Prevails | 5.0 |
| Static Prevails may be the most tragically overlooked album in the band's discography, perhaps even more so than Damage. In my ears, this nothing short of brilliant. Granted, a lot of that is how this album moves me personally. This album, along with Clarity, reminds me of Christmas and evokes a lot of warm memories. It's impossible for me to rate this on an objective scale, I just can't. I can barely see the album for what it is anymore. |
| Nothing Tired of Tomorrow | 3.0 |
| Muse Absolution | 4.0 |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 4.0 |
| Rend Collective Good News | 3.5 |
Gotta give it to the Collective. I've liked their past output but they were still struggling with
that generic shell that permeates most worship music. That's been toned down a lot here. The music
and the emotion feel genuine and it's a well-crafted record overall. |
| Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better | 3.5 |
| Taylor Swift Speak Now | 4.5 |
| I struggle to picture a more brilliantly consistent, rocking, and gorgeous pop/rock album than Speak Now. |
| Weezer Weezer | 4.5 |
| The Strokes Angles | 3.0 |
| Tiny Moving Parts Swell | 3.0 |
| Yellowcard Paper Walls | 4.5 |
| R.E.M. Automatic for the People | 4.5 |
| OneRepublic Dreaming Out Loud | 2.5 |
| Citizens and Saints Citizens | 3.5 |
| David Crowder Band Can You Hear Us? | 2.5 |
| Yellowcard Ocean Avenue | 4.5 |
| The Offspring Americana | 3.0 |
| The Beach Boys Pet Sounds | 4.5 |
| Green Day Warning | 4.0 |
| The Fray Scars and Stories | 2.5 |
| All Time Low Nothing Personal | 3.0 |
| All Time Low Last Young Renegade | 2.0 |
| Fall Out Boy American Beauty/American Psycho | 3.0 |
| Fall Out Boy M A N I A | 1.5 |
| The best thing I can say about Mania is that it does live it up its name. It's a confusing, ugly, disorientating, and entirely unpleasant mess of a record. |
| Avril Lavigne The Best Damn Thing | 4.5 |
| Avril Lavigne Let Go | 2.5 |
| Camila Cabello Camila | 2.5 |
| Project 86 Picket Fence Cartel | 3.5 |
| Muse Showbiz | 3.5 |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie | 2.5 |
| Avril Lavigne Under My Skin | 3.0 |
| Weezer Raditude | 2.5 |
| The National High Violet Expanded Edition | 3.5 |
| Group 1 Crew Power | 3.5 |
| Remedy Drive Commodity | 3.0 |
| J Givens Fly Exam | 3.5 |
| Foreknown (USA-CA, Hip-Hop) Ornithology | 3.5 |
| Frightened Rabbit The Midnight Organ Fight | 4.5 |
| One of the most devastatingly human records I've ever heard. Scott, wherever you are my friend, I hope you're well. Your music has touched and changed thousands of lives including mine. We can't thank you enough. |
| Chris Tomlin See the Morning | 2.0 |
| Goo Goo Dolls Greatest Hits Volume One: The Singles | 3.5 |
| Say what you will, I love this band's sound. This is the best collection around. Melodramatic, nostalgic, and highly listenable. |
| Cool Hand Luke Cora | 3.0 |
| Amanda Cook Brave New World | 2.5 |
| Bellarive Before There Was | 3.0 |
| "Lazarus" and "Save Us" makes this one worth a listen but overall Bellarive took quite a step back with this one and chose to go the generic worship route. |
| As They Sleep Dynasty | 3.5 |
| Audio Adrenaline Sound of the Saints | 1.0 |
| Project 86 Songs to Burn Your Bridges By | 3.5 |
| There Will Be Fireworks The Dark, Dark Bright | 5.0 |
| From the soaring highs of "And Our Hearts Did Beat" and "River" to the sweeping yet solemn sentimentalism of "Elder and Oak" and "The Good Days," The Dark, Dark Bright is a magnificent achievement. |
| American Football American Football | 4.0 |
| American Football's classic debut is a melancholic tale of youth and heartbreak sung on the balcony of a grandparent's home as the dusk gives way to the night. It's nostalgic and transportive without ever having to require growing up with it. It evokes a feeling that I don't believe will ever be replicated in music again, despite how hard its followers try. |
| Jeremy Camp Restored | 3.0 |
| Jeremy Camp Carried Me | 2.5 |
| Jeremy Camp Beyond Measure | 3.0 |
| Jesus Culture Love Has a Name | 1.5 |
| Spoken IX | 3.0 |
| Have Mercy (Indie) The Earth Pushed Back | 3.5 |
| Modern Baseball Holy Ghost | 3.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Clarity | 5.0 |
| Has there ever been an emo record as stunningly lovely as Clarity? I can wait for an eternity for the answer and I'm more than certain that I will only see empty hands. |
| Turnover Good Nature | 2.5 |
| Turnover Peripheral Vision | 4.0 |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion: Side B | 3.5 |
| Twila Paris He Is Exalted Live | 4.5 |
| As someone who's rarely a fan of live worship records, this one is a special, not only because rit is the single most nostalgic piece of music I own, but it's also excellent as a standalone live rrecord as well. I have so many vivid memories attached to this thing that a single second of these rsongs is enough to transport me to a certain time and place where I was beginning to find out who rI was as a person. I can't quite put into words how much these songs mean to me. |
| The Killers Day & Age | 3.0 |
| Taylor Swift Fearless | 4.5 |
| I'll shout it out fearlessly that I love this record. So sweet, so sincere, and just so lovely. |
| Taylor Swift Red | 4.5 |
| Love and Death Between Here And Lost | 3.5 |
| Manafest Stones | 3.0 |
| Manafest The Moment | 1.5 |
| Manafest Fighter | 3.0 |
| Manafest The Chase | 2.5 |
| Manafest Glory | 3.0 |
| Heath NcNease Who Knows? Who Cares? | 3.0 |
| Heath NcNease The Weight of Glory | 4.0 |
| Heath NcNease Thrift Store Jesus | 4.0 |
| Fallstar Future Golden Age | 3.0 |
| Sianvar Stay Lost | 3.5 |
| Steve Taylor and the Perfect Foil Goliath | 4.0 |
| Jon Foreman Fall and Winter | 3.5 |
| Fiction Family Fiction Family Reunion | 3.0 |
| Petra Jekyll & Hide | 3.0 |
| Petra goes out with guitars blazing in an AC/DC inspired riff fest. It's heavy enough to rival their late 80s material. Newsboys' Peter Furler helped bring them back but his influence on this album is overbearing. It's almost a heavy Newsboys album first, a Petra album second. The ingenious, soaring melodies of of their heyday is replaced by Furler's quicky, occasionally goofy ear for melody ("Woulda, Shoulda, Coulda" is song plucked right out of the Newsboys catalogue. Like Revival, this isn't ever looked back on in career retrospectives. |
| Rend Collective As Family We Go | 3.5 |
| Rend Collective The Art of Celebration | 3.0 |
| Robbie Seay Band Miracle | 3.0 |
| Robbie Seay Band Give Yourself Away | 3.5 |
| Sanctus Real The Dream | 2.5 |
| Kutless Alpha / Omega | 1.5 |
| Kutless Strong Tower | 2.5 |
| Tenth Avenue North The Struggle | 3.5 |
| for KING and COUNTRY Run Wild. Live Free. Love Strong. | 3.0 |
| for KING and COUNTRY Crave | 3.0 |
| Nichole Nordeman Every Mile Shattered | 3.5 |
| Sho Baraka The Narrative | 4.0 |
| The Gray Havens Ghost of a King | 3.5 |
| The Gray Havens Fire and Stone | 4.0 |
| Fever Fever Aftermath | 3.5 |
| The Ember Days The Ember Days EP | 3.0 |
| The Ember Days Finger Painting EP | 3.5 |
| The Ember Days Your Eyes Light Up | 2.5 |
| Derek Webb I Was Wrong, I'm Sorry, And I Love You | 3.5 |
| Derek Webb Ctrl | 4.0 |
| Derek Webb Mockingbird | 3.0 |
| Derek Webb She Shall and Must Go Free | 4.0 |
| Andrew Peterson Counting Stars | 3.0 |
| Andrew Peterson The Burning Edge of Dawn | 3.5 |
| Andrew Peterson Light For The Lost Boy | 4.0 |
| Talkie Hablas | 4.5 |
| Sara Groves Abide With Me | 3.0 |
| Sara Groves Floodplain | 3.5 |
| Sara Groves Invisible Empires | 4.0 |
| Michael W. Smith Change Your World | 3.5 |
| Incredibly cheesy but fun. What can I say, it's Smitty in the 90s? |
| Michael W. Smith Healing Rain | 3.0 |
| Chris Tomlin And If Our God Is for Us... | 2.0 |
| Britt Nicole Britt Nicole | 3.5 |
| Basement Promise Everything | 3.0 |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion | 4.5 |
| Charlie Puth Nine Track Mind | 1.0 |
| Meghan Trainor Thank You | 1.0 |
| Beach House Bloom | 4.5 |
| Destroyer Poison Season | 4.5 |
| Come, take my hand as we stroll through the glorious Times Square. |
| Dead Leaves Vultures | 3.5 |
| Hodera First Things First | 3.0 |
| Suis La Lune Heir | 4.0 |
| Aaron Sprinkle Real Life | 3.0 |
| Future of Forestry Awakened to the Sound | 3.5 |
| Building 429 Unashamed | 1.5 |
| Building 429 Listen to the Sound | 3.0 |
| I remember when I thought this was the best thing. Ah, the simple days. Honestly, this really isn't all that bad. |
| Building 429 Building 429 | 2.5 |
| Building 429 Space in Between Us | 3.0 |
| Phil Wickham Children of God | 3.0 |
| Phil Wickham The Ascension | 3.5 |
| Phil Wickham Heaven and Earth | 3.5 |
| Phil Wickham Cannons | 3.5 |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool | 4.5 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows: From the Basement | 4.0 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows Disk 2 | 3.5 |
| The National Alligator | 4.5 |
| Destroyer Kaputt | 5.0 |
| Grayscale Adornment | 3.0 |
| Destroyer Ken | 4.5 |
| The Preatures Girlhood | 3.0 |
| Captain, We're Sinking The Future Is Cancelled | 4.5 |
| PUP The Dream Is Over | 4.5 |
| Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) What It Takes to Move Forward | 3.5 |
| Project 86 Sheep Among Wolves | 2.5 |
| Asking Alexandria Asking Alexandria | 2.5 |
| Phinehas Dark Flag | 3.0 |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There | 4.5 |
| This has become one of the hardest fives I've ever given. It got me through a really rough time and it has resonated with me like few others have. |
| Falling in Reverse Coming Home | 2.0 |
| Bleachers Gone Now | 4.0 |
| How could you possibly hate something so damn catchy? I liked Bleacher's debut, Strange Desire, well enough, but in my eyes, this is even better. It's fun, diverse, and incredibly imaginative. |
| Bleachers Strange Desire | 3.5 |
| Grave Declaration When Dying Souls Scream Praise | 4.0 |
| As Cities Burn Son, I Loved You at Your Darkest | 4.0 |
| Blindside About A Burning Fire | 3.0 |
| Simple Plan Still Not Getting Any... | 1.0 |
| Simple Plan No Pads, No Helmets... Just Balls | 1.0 |
| Avicii True | 2.5 |
| U2 Songs of Experience | 3.0 |
| Gotta be honest, didn't have high expectations for this one after the terribly mediocre Songs of Innocence in 2014 and for the most part, Experience fulfils every one of them. It's a passable U2 record with some pretty moments spread lightly around. |
| Makthaverskan Ill | 3.5 |
| Really underrated record this year but it has some incredible cuts. "Leda," "In My Dreams," and "Siren" are top picks. They have a heavier Alvvays sound which is a great thing. |
| A Will Away Here Again | 3.5 |
| Cigarettes After Sex Cigarettes After Sex | 5.0 |
| There is nothing like turning out the lights, opening the blinds so you can see the town lights in rthe distance, and softly jamming this record before going to bed. It's nearly euphoric. |
| The Mountain Goats Goths | 4.5 |
| Young Fox Sky Beats Gold | 3.5 |
| Worriers Survival Pop | 3.5 |
| The Movielife Cities In Search Of A Heart | 3.5 |
| Gideon Calloused | 2.5 |
| Gideon Cold | 2.5 |
| AJR The Click | 1.0 |
| Has to be one of the most horrendous albums I have ever heard. Every song, lyric, melody, vocal, and note is nearly tormenting to hear. How this thing got the green light is 2017's unsolvable mystery. |
| The Oh Hellos Dear Wormwood | 4.0 |
| Green Day God's Favorite Band | 3.0 |
| Katy Perry Witness | 1.5 |
| Flotation Toy Warning The Machine That Made Us | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 5.0 |
| I can kind of understand how someone could enjoy this one but for this music connoisseur, it's rjust one long and tedious venture. There are highlights here and there there (bad pun but it had rto be made) but it's missing its own identity and instead opts to reach for anything and reverything it can. The nostalgic feel of The Bends, the cold distance of Kid A, the twisted, rsinister vibe of Amnesiac, you name it it's here. No wonder it's called "Hail to the Thief." |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 5.0 |
| There's just something about Kid A that few records, if any, have been able to replicate. I'm not sure if it's the beautiful yet eerie atmosphere it wraps itself in or its irresistibly smooth texture. Maybe it's the experimentation that manages to be both strange and unfamiliar yet weirdly listenable at the same time. I can't quite explain why this record has such an effect on me, all I know is that it's amazing. |
| Sherwood Some Things Never Leave You | 4.0 |
| Sherwood A Different Light | 3.0 |
| House Of Heroes Smoke | 3.5 |
| Francis Marathon | 3.5 |
| Demon Hunter The Triptych | 3.5 |
| Demon Hunter Storm the Gates of Hell | 2.0 |
| Bethel Music You Make Me Brave | 1.5 |
| Bethel Music Tides | 2.0 |
| Kutless Glory | 2.0 |
| Tall Ships Impressions | 3.5 |
| Walk the Moon What If Nothing | 3.0 |
| Taylor Swift Reputation | 4.0 |
| Thousand Foot Krutch The Art of Breaking | 3.0 |
| Seventh Day Slumber The Anthem of the Angels | 2.0 |
| Kutless Surrender | 2.5 |
| Maroon 5 Red Pill Blues | 1.0 |
| Bee Gees Number Ones | 3.0 |
| ABBA Ring Ring | 2.0 |
| PVRIS All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell | 3.0 |
| Sleeping at Last Storyboards | 4.0 |
| Phinehas Till the End | 3.5 |
| Circa Survive The Amulet | 3.0 |
| Audio Adrenaline Kings and Queens | 3.0 |
| Kevin Max Broken Temples | 3.0 |
| tobyMac Dubbed and Freq'd: A Remix Project | 2.0 |
| tobyMac Christmas in Diverse City | 2.0 |
| tobyMac Momentum | 3.5 |
| We Shot The Moon The Finish Line | 3.0 |
| We Shot The Moon A Silver Lining | 3.0 |
| Snow Patrol Up to Now | 2.0 |
| Rend Collective Homemade Worship by Handmade People | 3.5 |
| Perspectives Stay For Those Who Care | 4.0 |
| Penny and Sparrow Tenboom | 3.0 |
| Josh Garrels The Light Came Down | 3.5 |
| The Oh Hellos Through The Deep, Dark Valley | 4.0 |
| Weezer Hurley | 2.5 |
| Matt Maher Empty & Beautiful | 2.5 |
| Lauren Mann and the Fairly Odd Folk Over Land and Sea | 3.5 |
| Immortal Souls Wintermetal | 3.5 |
| Forevermore Integral | 3.0 |
| Diamond Youth Nothing Matters | 3.5 |
| Capital Kings Capital Kings | 2.5 |
| DecembeRadio Satisfied | 2.5 |
| Day of Fire Day of Fire | 2.0 |
| Bellarive The Heartbeat | 3.5 |
| Extol Extol | 4.0 |
| Petra Unseen Power | 3.0 |
| Petra Petra Praise: The Rock Cries Out | 4.0 |
| The golden era of praise is found right here. |
| Petra More Power To Ya | 3.5 |
| Petra Not Of This World | 3.0 |
| Petra Beat the System | 3.0 |
| Petra This Means War! | 4.0 |
| Petra's best record and genuinely one of the best Christian rock albums of all-time. |
| Petra On Fire! | 3.5 |
| Petra Petra Praise 2 | 4.0 |
| Just a simple, timeless worship record from a great band. |
| Petra Wake Up Call | 3.5 |
| Ah, what a nostalgic record. "Sleeping Giant" will always be fav Petra tune. |
| Petra Beyond Belief | 4.0 |
| Album absolutely rocks the socks off. |
| Gungor Beautiful Things | 3.0 |
| The Brilliance All Is Not Lost | 3.5 |
| The Brilliance Brother | 3.5 |
| Remedy Drive Daylight Is Coming | 3.0 |
| The Afters Life Is Beautiful | 2.5 |
| The Afters Light Up The Sky | 2.5 |
| Have Mercy (Indie) Make The Best Of It | 3.0 |
| Third Day Miracle | 3.0 |
| Third Day Wherever You Are | 3.0 |
| Third Day Wire | 3.0 |
| Third Day Offerings: A Worship Album | 3.0 |
| Third Day Revelation | 3.0 |
| Walk the Moon Talking is Hard | 3.0 |
| Ariana Grande Dangerous Woman | 3.0 |
| Fifth Harmony Fifth Harmony | 2.0 |
| Justin Bieber Purpose | 2.0 |
| Justin Bieber My World 2.0 | 1.0 |
| Adele 25 | 3.0 |
| New Radicals Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too | 4.0 |
| Jeremy Camp I Will Follow | 2.5 |
| Skillet Awake | 2.0 |
| Moose Blood Blush | 3.0 |
| Shawn McDonald Roots | 2.0 |
| Birdy Birdy | 3.0 |
| Owel Dear Me | 3.5 |
| Mew +- | 4.5 |
| Mew Visuals | 3.0 |
| Train A Girl A Bottle A Boat | 1.0 |
| A girl.... hmmm, what else is good about this thing? Um, there's a girl on the cover, yeah, let's just stick with that. |
| Fallstar Backdraft | 2.5 |
| Come Wind Move in Place | 3.5 |
| Avion Roe In Separation | 3.5 |
| P.O.D. Satellite | 2.5 |
| Starflyer 59 My Island | 3.0 |
| Jesus Culture We Cry Out | 1.5 |
| Hyland Finding Our Way | 2.5 |
| Hyland Weights & Measures | 3.0 |
| Write This Down Lost Weekend | 3.5 |
| War of Ages Supreme Chaos | 3.0 |
| The Fold Moving Past | 3.0 |
| Hillsong Worship Let There Be Light | 2.5 |
| Deathbreaker Disconnect | 3.0 |
| Comrades Lone/Grey | 3.0 |
| For All Eternity Metanoia | 3.5 |
| Hawk Nelson Diamonds | 1.0 |
| Hawk Nelson Made | 1.5 |
| Relient K Two Lefts Dont Make a Right But Three Do | 3.5 |
| Tenth Avenue North Followers | 3.0 |
| Tenth Avenue North The Light Meets The Dark | 3.5 |
| Tenth Avenue North Over and Underneath | 3.5 |
| Mutemath Vitals | 2.5 |
| Twenty One Pilots Regional At Best | 1.0 |
| OneRepublic Waking Up | 3.0 |
| OneRepublic Native | 2.5 |
| OneRepublic Oh My My | 2.0 |
| Coldplay Mylo Xyloto | 3.0 |
| Sleeping at Last Atlas: Senses | 4.0 |
| Sleeping at Last Atlas: Emotions | 4.0 |
| Sleeping at Last Atlas - Life | 4.0 |
| Sleeping at Last Atlas - Oceans | 4.0 |
| Sleeping at Last Atlas - Land | 4.0 |
| Sleeping at Last Darkness | 4.0 |
| Sleeping at Last Light | 4.0 |
| Sleeping at Last Atlas - Space 2 | 4.0 |
| Sleeping at Last Atlas - Space 1 | 4.0 |
| Sleeping at Last Keep No Score | 4.0 |
| Newsboys Not Ashamed | 2.0 |
| Newsboys Going Public | 3.5 |
| Newsboys Adoration: The Worship Album | 3.5 |
| Newsboys Go | 3.0 |
| This is the first album I ever bought. As a thirteen year old this was everything. |
| Newsboys God's Not Dead | 2.0 |
| Mat Kearney Just Kids | 3.5 |
| Mat Kearney Young Love | 3.0 |
| Brandon Heath What if We | 2.5 |
| Brandon Heath Leaving Eden | 2.5 |
| Hillsong Worship Glorious Ruins | 2.0 |
| Hillsong Worship Cornerstone | 1.5 |
| Brooke Fraser Albertine | 3.0 |
| Kari Jobe Where I Find You | 3.0 |
| Jars Of Clay Much Afraid | 4.0 |
| Jars Of Clay The Eleventh Hour | 2.5 |
| Jars Of Clay If I Left The Zoo | 3.0 |
| Jars Of Clay The Shelter | 2.5 |
| Mae The Everglow | 4.5 |
| ABBA Waterloo | 3.0 |
| ABBA ABBA | 3.5 |
| ABBA The Visitors | 3.5 |
| ABBA Super Trouper | 4.5 |
| ABBA Voulez-Vous | 4.0 |
| ABBA The Album | 4.0 |
| ABBA Arrival | 4.5 |
| Arrival is not only the definitive ABBA record (apart from Gold of course) I'd contend that it's one of the defining pop records of the 70s. The group was slowly developing their sound on prior records until everything they had been working towards was fully realized on this classic. It just delivers hit after hit after hit. |
| Hotel Books Equivalency | 3.5 |
| Julien Baker Turn Out The Lights | 4.0 |
| The Fray Helios | 1.5 |
| Red (USA) Gone | 3.5 |
| Weezer Pacific Daydream | 2.5 |
| The Classic Crime The Silver Cord | 4.0 |
| Matt & Toby Matt & Toby | 3.5 |
| The Classic Crime How to Be Human | 2.5 |
| Hands Like Houses Dissonants | 2.0 |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation | 4.0 |
| Underoath Define the Great Line | 4.0 |
| Everything in Slow Motion Phoenix | 4.0 |
| Artifex Pereo Passengers | 3.0 |
| Young the Giant Mind Over Matter | 3.5 |
| From Indian Lakes Everything Feels Better Now | 3.5 |
| blink-182 Neighborhoods | 2.5 |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket | 4.0 |
| The Killers Hot Fuss | 4.5 |
| Fit for a King Slave to Nothing | 3.0 |
| Fit for a King Deathgrip | 2.0 |
| Beartooth Aggressive | 2.0 |
| The Ember Days Emergency | 3.5 |
| Jon Foreman The Wonderlands: Dawn | 3.5 |
| Jon Foreman The Wonderlands: Darkness | 3.5 |
| Jon Foreman The Wonderlands: Shadows | 3.5 |
| Jon Foreman The Wonderlands: Sunlight | 3.5 |
| Switchfoot The Edge of the Earth | 3.5 |
| Switchfoot New Way to Be Human | 3.5 |
| Switchfoot Learning To Breathe | 3.0 |
| Audrey Assad Inheritance | 3.5 |
| Leeland Love Is On The Move | 3.0 |
| Leeland Opposite Way | 3.5 |
| We As Human We As Human | 2.0 |
| As We Ascend Farewell To Midnight | 2.0 |
| The Violet Burning The Story of Our Lives | 5.0 |
| The Story of Our Lives is a massive accomplishment for not only Christian music but music in rgeneral. It's a three-part masterpiece that's only resonated stronger with time. |
| The City Harmonic I Have a Dream (It Feels Like Home) | 3.5 |
| The City Harmonic Heart | 3.5 |
| The City Harmonic We Are | 3.0 |
| Civilian You Wouldn't Believe What Privilege Costs | 4.0 |
| Children 18:3 Come In | 3.5 |
| Children 18:3 Children 18:3 | 4.0 |
| A Christian record that is full of punk energy, amazing hooks, and shockingly creative twists. One of the all-time bests. |
| Lacey Sturm Life Screams | 3.5 |
| Lovelite In Three Persons | 3.5 |
| Mike Mains and The Branches Calm Down, Everything Is Fine | 4.0 |
| Mike Mains and The Branches Home | 4.5 |
| Paramore All We Know Is Falling | 4.0 |
| Paramore Riot! | 4.0 |
| Matchbox Twenty Exile on Mainstream | 3.0 |
| Matchbox Twenty Yourself or Someone Like You | 2.5 |
| Crowded House Woodface | 4.0 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Hiss Spun | 4.5 |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs | 5.0 |
| Ivoryline Vessels | 3.5 |
| Ivoryline There Came A Lion | 3.0 |
| Kings Kaleidoscope Beyond Control | 4.0 |
| Kings Kaleidoscope Becoming Who We Are | 4.0 |
| Needtobreathe Live From The Woods | 4.0 |
| Needtobreathe The Heat | 3.0 |
| Needtobreathe The Outsiders | 4.0 |
| Needtobreathe The Reckoning | 4.5 |
| Needtobreathe H A R D L O V E | 1.5 |
| Abandoned Pools Sublime Currency | 3.5 |
| Twenty One Pilots Vessel | 3.0 |
| Twenty One Pilots Blurryface | 2.5 |
| Hawk Nelson Smile, It's the End of the World | 3.0 |
| Hawk Nelson Live Life Loud | 2.5 |
| Hawk Nelson Crazy Love | 2.5 |
| Maroon 5 It Won't Be Soon Before Long | 3.0 |
| U2 The Joshua Tree | 4.5 |
| U2 The Unforgettable Fire | 4.5 |
| U2 All That You Can't Leave Behind | 3.5 |
| U2 Songs of Innocence | 1.5 |
| Green Day Dookie | 4.5 |
| The album that turned punk from the gritty and anthemic music that fuelled many political riots to the fun, catchy, and angsty music that sung to the immature and lonely teenage mind. We didn't have a care in the world, we were just getting through life in our own stupid way. |
| Green Day Nimrod | 4.0 |
| Sidewalk Prophets These Simple Truths | 2.5 |
| Big Daddy Weave Every Time I Breathe | 3.0 |
| Big Daddy Weave What Life Would Be Like | 3.0 |
| Big Daddy Weave Love Come To Life | 3.0 |
I thought this record was the bee knees when it came out. Although I don't see eye to eye with my
past self anymore I gotta pay the record my respects because I do remember when this was the best
thing I had ever heard. |
| MercyMe The Generous Mr. Lovewell | 3.0 |
| MercyMe Spoken For | 3.0 |
| MercyMe Almost There | 3.0 |
| MercyMe All That Is Within Me | 3.5 |
| MercyMe Undone | 2.5 |
| MercyMe Coming Up to Breathe | 3.5 |
| MercyMe The Hurt and the Healer | 3.0 |
| MercyMe Welcome to the New | 3.0 |
| MercyMe Lifer | 3.0 |
| The Almost Fear Inside Our Bones | 3.5 |
| Kye Kye Fantasize | 4.0 |
| One of the most gorgeously lush dream pop records in recent memory. It falls off ever so slightly in its back half but aside from that it's one to keep in the noggin for years. |
| Josh Garrels Home | 3.5 |
| Jeremy Camp Speaking Louder Than Before | 3.5 |
| Jeremy Camp We Cry Out: The Worship Project | 2.5 |
| Jeremy Camp Reckless | 2.0 |
| Hope For The Dying Dissimulation | 4.0 |
| Hope For The Dying Legacy | 3.0 |
| Crowder Neon Steeple | 3.5 |
| Crowder American Prodigal | 3.5 |
| Hearts Like Lions If I Never Speak Again | 3.5 |
| The Fray The Fray | 2.5 |
| The Fray How to Save a Life | 3.5 |
| Copeland Eat, Sleep, Repeat | 4.5 |
| Copeland You Are My Sunshine | 4.5 |
| Michael W. Smith This is Your Time | 3.5 |
| Michael W. Smith I'll Lead You Home | 3.5 |
| Michael W. Smith Live The Life | 3.5 |
| Propaganda (Hip-Hop) Excellent | 4.0 |
| Propaganda (Hip-Hop) Crimson Cord | 3.5 |
| Propaganda (Hip-Hop) Crooked | 4.0 |
| Sanctus Real We Need Each Other | 3.5 |
| Sanctus Real Say it Loud | 3.5 |
| Sanctus Real Fight The Tide | 3.5 |
| Sanctus Real The Face of Love | 3.5 |
| Sanctus Real Pieces of a Real Heart | 2.5 |
| Sanctus Real Run | 3.0 |
| Flyleaf Between the Stars | 3.0 |
| Flyleaf Flyleaf | 3.5 |
| Flyleaf New Horizons | 3.0 |
| Flyleaf Memento Mori | 2.5 |
| Third Day Move | 3.5 |
| Third Day Lead Us Back: Songs of Worship | 3.0 |
| Third Day Revival | 4.0 |
Mainstream CCM hasn't seen an album this good in years. It's a genuine, nostalgic and effortlessly
enjoyable Gospel record that can be played countless times over. Massive respect to Third Day for
closing their career with this rock n' roll treasure. |
| Gungor Ghosts Upon the Earth | 4.0 |
| Paper Route Real Emotion | 3.5 |
| Paper Route The Peace Of Wild Things | 4.0 |
| Brooke Fraser Brutal Romantic | 3.5 |
| Brooke Fraser Flags | 4.0 |
| Project 86 Wait for the Siren | 4.0 |
| Kutless Sea of Faces | 3.0 |
| Kutless Kutless | 2.0 |
| Kutless It Is Well | 3.0 |
| This is honestly the best record Kutless ever made. |
| Jeff Rosenstock We Cool? | 4.5 |
| Jeff Rosenstock WORRY. | 5.0 |
| Ambitious, reckless, emotional, thought-provoking, and absurdly fun. Worry is everything a good punk album should be. No, Worry is everything a good record should be period. Absolutely essential. This is the best punk album of the 2010s |
| Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | 3.5 |
| Avicii Stories | 1.5 |
| Coldplay A Head Full of Dreams | 3.0 |
| Anberlin Blueprints for the Black Market | 3.5 |
| Anberlin New Surrender | 4.5 |
| Anberlin Devotion | 4.0 |
| Nothing But Thieves Broken Machine | 3.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Integrity Blues | 4.5 |
| Funnily enough, this one took the longest to grow on me out of JEW's entire discography. As more time passes the higher I see it climb. Although it's an incredibly cliche thing to say nowadays, I don't think JEW can do wrong at this point |
| Silent Planet The Night God Slept | 3.0 |
| August Burns Red Rescue & Restore | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Leveler | 3.5 |
| Becoming The Archetype Celestial Completion | 4.0 |
| Red (USA) Release the Panic | 3.5 |
| Ashes Remain What I've Become | 2.5 |
| BABYMETAL Metal Resistance | 3.0 |
| Haste the Day Dreamer | 3.5 |
| Haste the Day Attack of the Wolf King | 3.5 |
| Haste the Day Coward | 3.5 |
| Sleeping With Sirens Gossip | 1.0 |
| Unlike actual gossip what I am about to say is true: this Sleeping With Sirens record is the biggest snorefest I've had in years. |
| Starset Transmissions | 4.5 |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge | 4.0 |
| This was the closest mainstream emo ever got to pure thrash punk. It's a tad melodramatic but hey, you can choose to look at your emo years with a cringe or a proud grin. |
| Dance Gavin Dance Mothership | 3.5 |
| Delirious? Touch | 2.5 |
| Delirious? Kingdom of Comfort | 3.0 |
| Delirious? The Mission Bell | 3.5 |
| Delirious? World Service | 3.5 |
| Casting Crowns Casting Crowns | 2.0 |
| Casting Crowns The Altar and the Door | 1.5 |
| The Chainsmokers Memories...Do Not Open | 1.0 |
| Newsboys Devotion | 3.0 |
| Newsboys Born Again | 1.5 |
| Newsboys Step up to the Microphone | 2.5 |
| Newsboys Restart | 1.5 |
| Newsboys Take Me To Your Leader | 3.5 |
| One of my childhood favs and although its cheesiness has come through over the years I still think rit's a legitimately good record overall. And "Lost The Plot" is still one of the greatest songs rever written for my money. |
| Newsboys Thrive | 3.5 |
| Newsboys Love Liberty Disco | 3.5 |
| Newsboys Love Riot | 2.0 |
| Chris Tomlin Arriving | 2.5 |
| Building 429 We Won't Be Shaken | 2.5 |
| tobyMac This Is Not A Test | 2.5 |
| tobyMac Tonight | 2.5 |
| tobyMac Portable Sounds | 4.0 |
| tobyMac Welcome to Diverse City | 3.5 |
| tobyMac Eye On It | 2.0 |
| Chris Tomlin Hello Love | 2.5 |
| Chris Tomlin Love Ran Red | 2.0 |
| Chris Tomlin Burning Lights | 2.0 |
| Owl City All Things Bright And Beautiful | 1.5 |
| Owl City The Midsummer Station | 1.5 |
| Owl City Mobile Orchestra | 1.0 |
| David Crowder Band Remedy | 3.0 |
| Jars Of Clay The Long Fall Back to Earth | 4.5 |
| Long Fall is not only a superb creative leap in Jars' discography, but it's also arguably their best record since Much Afraid. Every song has its own identity and personality. It's lush, infectious yet melancholy, relatable, and most importantly, human. A pop album worthy of the loudest applause. |
| Dustin Kensrue The Water and the Blood | 3.5 |
| David Crowder Band Illuminate | 3.5 |
| Needtobreathe Rivers In The Wasteland | 4.0 |
| Dc Talk Supernatural | 3.0 |
| Dc Talk Jesus Freak | 3.5 |
| All Sons & Daughters Live | 3.5 |
| Citizens and Saints A Mirror Dimly | 3.5 |
| Beautiful Eulogy Worthy | 3.5 |
| Switchfoot The Beautiful Letdown | 4.0 |
| The Afters I Wish We All Could Win | 3.0 |
| The Afters Never Going Back To Okay | 3.5 |
| Colony House Only the Lonely | 3.5 |
| Colony House When I Was Younger | 4.0 |
| Thousand Foot Krutch The Flame in All of Us | 2.5 |
| Thousand Foot Krutch The End Is Where We Begin | 2.5 |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Phenomenon | 3.0 |
| The Ember Days More Than You Think | 4.5 |
| The Ember Days Valitus | 3.5 |
| Chevelle Sci-Fi Crimes | 4.0 |
| My Chemical Romance Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys | 3.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Damage | 4.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Invented | 5.0 |
| Get in the car, take a drive through glistening city lights, put on Invented and be awestruck by this beautiful record again and again. Absolute classic. |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 5.0 |
| Took a little time to grow on me but like every Radiohead record (almost every record *ahem* Hail to the Thief) you eventually find yourself wrapped up in its brilliance. Warm, delicate, and soothing are just a few words to come to mind when I spin this masterpiece. |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell | 5.0 |
| Attalus Into the Sea | 4.0 |
| Falling Up Your Sparkling Death Cometh | 3.0 |
| Falling Up Hours | 4.0 |
| Falling Up Falling Up | 3.5 |
| Ron Gallo Heavy Meta | 3.5 |
| '68 Two Parts Viper | 4.0 |
| David Crowder Band A Collision Or (3 + 4 = 7) | 4.0 |
| David Crowder Band Church Music | 1.5 |
| David Crowder Band Give Us Rest | 4.0 |
| Spoken Breathe Again | 3.5 |
| Spoken Illusion | 4.0 |
| Relient K Mmhmm | 4.0 |
| Relient K Five Score and Seven Years Ago | 3.5 |
| Relient K Forget and Not Slow Down | 4.0 |
| Relient K Collapsible Lung | 2.0 |
| Relient K Air For Free | 4.0 |
| Oh, Sleeper Children of Fire | 4.0 |
| Oh, Sleeper Son of the Morning | 4.0 |
| The Menzingers Rented World | 4.5 |
| The Menzingers On the Impossible Past | 4.5 |
| Leeland Invisible | 3.0 |
| I was wrong about this one, I'll admit it. Is it at times standard flair for the worship genre? rYep. But is it executed as flat and lifeless as everything else out there? Far from it. It's rhonestly beautiful how well this was crafted. |
| Leeland The Great Awakening | 4.0 |
| Leeland Sound of Melodies | 4.0 |
| Josh Garrels Love and War and The Sea In Between | 4.0 |
| Hands (US-ND) Give Me Rest | 4.5 |
| Jars Of Clay Jars Of Clay | 4.5 |
| The pinnacle of CCM. To this day it remains one of the greatest artistic achievements in Christian music. |
| Jars Of Clay Inland | 4.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs | 4.0 |
| Casting Crowns Come to the Well | 2.5 |
| Casting Crowns Thrive | 1.5 |
| Casting Crowns Until the Whole World Hears | 1.5 |
| Eisley I'm Only Dreaming | 3.5 |
| Sherwood QU | 4.0 |
| Imagine Dragons Smoke + Mirrors | 1.5 |
| Imagine Dragons ƎVOLVE | 1.0 |
| Imagine Dragons Night Visions | 2.0 |
| The Killers Sam's Town | 4.0 |
| Skillet Rise | 2.0 |
| Skillet Unleashed | 1.5 |
| Is it possible to be lazier than Nickelback? Yes, yes it is. Well done Skillet. |
| Disciple (USA-TN) O God Save Us All | 2.5 |
| Disciple (USA-TN) Horseshoes and Hand Grenades | 3.0 |
| Disciple (USA-TN) Attack | 3.5 |
| Disciple (USA-TN) Long Live the Rebels | 3.5 |
| Taylor Swift 1989 | 4.5 |
| 1989 is pop brilliance. It has some of the best hooks of Swift's career, the 80s throwback is delicious, and the entire record is just one infectious, sugary jam. Quite possibly my all-time favourite modern pop record. |
| Coldplay Ghost Stories | 3.5 |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head | 4.0 |
| Coldplay X&Y | 4.5 |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | 4.5 |
| Coldplay Parachutes | 3.5 |
| Kutless To Know That You're Alive | 3.0 |
| Kutless Believer | 2.5 |
| Kutless Hearts of the Innocent | 3.0 |
| Emery You Were Never Alone | 3.5 |
| Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail | 4.0 |
| Hillsong United Of Dirt and Grace (Live from the Land) | 3.5 |
| Hillsong United Wonder | 3.0 |
| CHVRCHES Every Open Eye | 4.0 |
| Fleshkiller Awaken | 4.0 |
| Copeland Ixora | 4.0 |
| Creeper Eternity, In Your Arms | 3.0 |
| Silent Planet Everything Was Sound | 3.5 |
| Green Day Revolution Radio | 3.0 |
| Green Day 21st Century Breakdown | 3.5 |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State | 4.0 |
| blink-182 Blink-182 | 4.0 |
| John Mark McMillan Borderland | 3.0 |
| John Mark McMillan Mercury and Lightning | 3.0 |
| Suis La Lune Riala | 5.0 |
| If you asked me what record has made the biggest impact on my adult life as a music lover I would give Riala as my answer without hesitation. This is one of the most gorgeously composed and beautifully written albums of all-time. That it isn't hailed as an emo classic is simply a musical crime. |
| Radiohead The Bends | 5.0 |
| One of the warmest, most beautifully nostalgic records around. |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 5.0 |
| What can I say that thousands, no, millions of others haven't already said? Ok Computer is a timeless and profoundly relevant masterpiece and the music contained therein is a prime example of innovation done right. Do I think it's Radiohead's best? What astonishes me the most is that sometimes I'm honestly not sure. |
| Theocracy As the World Bleeds | 4.0 |
| Theocracy Ghost Ship | 4.0 |
| Theocracy Theocracy | 3.5 |
| Theocracy Mirror of Souls | 4.5 |
| Mirror of Souls is simply one of best heavy records I have ever had the pleasure of hearing. The pummeling aggression of "Laying the Demon To Rest" and the twenty-two-minute epic that is the title track are just two examples of the eight flawless gems on display here. One of the best records of the 2000s, hands down. |
| And Then There Were None Who Speaks For Planet Earth? | 3.0 |
| Bon Jovi This House Is Not for Sale | 2.5 |
A fine new album from Bon Jovi. It doesn't shake things up too much and sticks to what he does
best. Not really in my ballpark but far from awful. |
| ABBA ABBA Gold | 5.0 |
| Demon Hunter The World Is a Thorn | 2.5 |
| Demon Hunter True Defiance | 3.5 |
| Demon Hunter Extremist | 3.5 |
| Demon Hunter Outlive | 2.0 |
| Death Therapy The Storm Before The Calm | 4.0 |
| The Maine American Candy | 4.5 |
| If the world was a good and just place The Maine would be one of the biggest bands in modern music. American Candy is an album that doesn't know when to stop giving. 10 years down the road and these hooks will still be delivering punches. |
| The Maine Lovely Little Lonely | 4.5 |
| Gotta hand it to the Maine, this is another really solid release and easily one of the best pop/rock albums of the year. American Candy was great yet this takes their sound that much further. |
| Sons Keep Quiet | 4.0 |
| Keep Quiet was Sons first and only full-length project before disbanding the following year and, against all odds, it's an indie rock masterpiece. It was also one of the few records that played a part in expanding the boundaries of my musical palette. "Ghost" alone is an all-time best but the opening five cuts are utter perfection. I dearly hope the band reunites and writes another record one day but if that never happens I guess I'll go on refusing to keep quiet about this one. |
| Showbread The Fear of God | 4.0 |
| Showbread Cancer | 4.0 |
| Showbread Showbread is Showdead | 4.0 |
| Cool Hand Luke Of Man | 3.5 |
| Chris Tomlin Never Lose Sight | 2.0 |
| Norma Jean Polar Similar | 4.0 |
| Polar Similar is a beautifully innovative opus that keeps rewarding even years after its release. |
| Norma Jean Wrongdoers | 4.5 |
| Wrongdoers is a masterfully crafted record from beginning to end. A ferocious display of Norma Jean's true potential. |
| Downhere On The Altar of Love | 3.5 |
| Downhere Ending is Beginning | 3.0 |
| Downhere Wide-eyed and mystified | 4.5 |
| Red (USA) Innocence and Instinct | 4.0 |
| Red (USA) Of Beauty and Rage | 4.0 |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Welcome to the Masquerade | 3.5 |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Oxygen: Inhale | 1.5 |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Exhale | 2.0 |
| Alvvays Antisocialites | 4.5 |
| House Of Heroes Colors | 3.0 |
| House Of Heroes Cold Hard Want | 3.5 |
| House Of Heroes Suburba | 4.0 |
| House Of Heroes The End Is Not the End | 3.5 |
| NF Mansion | 3.0 |
| NF Therapy Session | 2.0 |
| NF Perception | 2.0 |
| Beautiful Eulogy Satellite Kite | 4.0 |
| Beautiful Eulogy Instruments of Mercy | 4.5 |
| The Letter Black Pain | 1.5 |
| Lorde Pure Heroine | 3.0 |
| Lorde Melodrama | 4.5 |
| Melodrama is one of those few pop records that play out as a complete and cohesive experience, from naive love, heartbreak and resentment, to forgiveness and a mature and newfound look at happiness and fulfilment. It's a gorgeous stroke of genius and one of the best pop records in years. |
| Citizen As You Please | 3.5 |
| My Epic Viscera | 3.5 |
| My Epic I Am Undone | 3.5 |
| My Epic Broken Voice | 3.5 |
| My Epic Yet | 4.0 |
| My Epic Behold | 4.5 |
| All Time Low Don't Panic | 3.5 |
| Guilty pleasure? Possibly. Either way, this thing has some incredible hooks. |
| All Time Low Future Hearts | 3.0 |
| Weezer Pinkerton | 4.5 |
| Weezer Everything Will Be Alright in the End | 3.5 |
| Weezer The White Album | 4.5 |
| White is the reason I became a Weezer fan and it's the reason I still have faith in them. In 2016, when I discovered this album, I didn't realize I had stumbled across something that would become one of my all-time favourite summer records. I love this record inside and out. It genuinely shocks me that Weezer was able to create something this profoundly excellent this late in their career and how it seems this brilliance won't be touched on again, possibly ever. |
| The National High Violet | 5.0 |
| The National Boxer | 5.0 |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me | 4.5 |
| Anberlin Never Take Friendship Personal | 4.0 |
| Anberlin Cities | 4.5 |
| Anberlin Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place | 3.5 |
| Anberlin Vital | 3.5 |
| Anberlin Lowborn | 3.0 |
| Switchfoot Nothing is Sound | 4.0 |
| Switchfoot Oh! Gravity. | 2.5 |
| Switchfoot Hello Hurricane | 4.0 |
| Switchfoot Vice Verses | 3.5 |
| Switchfoot Fading West | 3.0 |
| Switchfoot Where the Light Shines Through | 3.5 |
| A fantastic soundtrack to a family day out at the coast. While not an "objectively" brilliant record it holds plenty of special memories. |
| Wolves at the Gate Captors | 3.0 |
| Wolves at the Gate Types & Shadows | 4.0 |
| Wolves at the Gate VxV | 3.0 |
| This is the record that got me into the wonderful genre we call metal so it's a personal classic. rEven if that were not the case it's a near flawless release in its own right. It proved this rrelatively unknown band had the potential for greatness. Massive potential. |
| Jimmy Eat World Bleed American | 5.0 |
| I remember hearing "The Middle" when I was young and thinking it was a fun song but nothing more than something that occasionally appeared in films about high school. However, a few years later, when I was starting to grow tired of the mundanity of the Christian music I grew up on, I stumbled upon Bleed American for 2 bucks from a used book festival. I picked it up and it became the first pop/punk record I fell in love with and shaped my music taste more than anything else ever have. It helped shaped my personality and who I am today and it has always been there for me when I needed it. |
| Jimmy Eat World Chase This Light | 4.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Futures | 5.0 |
| Futures is, by no means, groundbreaking. It didn't have a cultural impact nor did it innovate a genre. However, I do believe that it can challenge preconceptions of the genre by being the undeniable pinnacle of it. It's youthful yet profoundly mature. Optimistic yet heartbreaking. If Static and Clarity were probing around for their sound and Bleed American was the joy in finally finding it, Futures was the album that defined it. It was the album that made Jimmy Eat World the band they are today. |
| Paramore Brand New Eyes | 4.5 |
| Brand New Eyes isn't overly experimental or progressive but an album doesn't need to be to be considered a masterpiece. It managed to perfect everything Paramore had established beforehand and I'm honestly glad they parted ways with this sound on future releases. This closes their pop/punk days in the most satisfying way possible and I will forever look back on it as a highlight of my teenage years. |
| Paramore Paramore | 3.0 |
| Paramore After Laughter | 4.0 |
| Talk about a grower. Was fairly disappointed with Paramore's latest when I first heard it but it's only grown on me little by little since. At this moment, it's sitting among my favourite pop albums this half of the decade. |
| Green Day American Idiot | 4.5 |
| And here is the cultural phenomenon that swept away thousands of frustrated and misunderstood teens into a pop/punk bliss that was never again felt quite the same way. |
| The Menzingers After the Party | 4.0 |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade | 4.5 |
| Yeah, for many, this is pretty much a cringy emo infused pop/punk album from days past. However, for others, including myself, it's a testament to what the genre can achieve and it holds up extraordinarily well. It proves that sometimes albums you loved in your teens can still be good. |
| Julien Baker Sprained Ankle | 4.5 |
| There are a severely limited number of albums I would recommend to anyone, regardless of genre preference, to listen to at least once. Julien Baker's Sprained Ankle is one of those albums. It exposes the fears of self-worth we all hide and it invites us to share them openly. There is a subtle comfort in the unrelenting sadness, a relief in bringing to light a desperate need to share our pain with another. It's a beautiful thing to behold. |
| Gang of Youths Go Farther in Lightness | 2.5 |
| The War On Drugs A Deeper Understanding | 5.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra A Black Mile to the Surface | 4.0 |
| The Ongoing Concept Places | 3.0 |
| August Burns Red Phantom Anthem | 3.0 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 4.5 |
| I remember when the album artwork for The Devil and God first caught my eye. I was browsing a music forum when I saw this creepy cover of a little girl hiding from two masked men on a front porch. That, along with the title of the record, sent my mind alive with stories and questions. Who were these characters and what did they mean in relation to the album's name? Who was the little girl? Was she God? Did the men represent the devil? I had to give it a listen straight away. What I experienced next was one of the most impactful first listens of any album I had ever heard. It's a record I will always cherish along with the rest of Brand New's prolific discography. |
| Iron Chic You Can't Stay Here | 4.0 |
| The National Sleep Well Beast | 4.0 |
| After months of listening it dawned on me that Sleep Well Beast may just be The National's second rbest album, sitting comfortably below Trouble Will Find Me. May even make the second slot on my ryear-end list. |
| Brand New Science Fiction | 3.5 |
