Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters | 4.0 |
I Hate Myself 10 Songs | 4.0 |
Dan Deacon Bromst | 4.0 |
My Disco Paradise | 3.5 |
Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 4.5 |
Ampere All Our Tomorrows End Today | 4.0 |
Orchid Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow! | 4.0 |
The Max Levine Ensemble OK Smartypants | 4.0 |
pg.99 Document #7 | 3.5 |
Arab on Radar Soak the Saddle | 4.0 |
Arab on Radar Yahweh or the Highway | 3.5 |
AIDS Wolf Cities of Glass | 4.0 |
TV on the Radio Dear Science | 3.5 |
Thursday/Envy Thursday/Envy | 3.5 |
Nelly Furtado Folklore | 3.5 |
Verse En Coma Rialto | 3.5 |
Daniel Striped Tiger Capital Cities | 3.5 |
Fucked Up The Chemistry of Common Life | 4.0 |
United Nations United Nations | 3.5 |
An Albatross We Are The Lazer Viking | 3.5 |
Thursday Waiting | 3.5 |
Bloc Party Intimacy | 2.5 |
The Cool Kids The Bake Sale | 3.0 |
Portishead Dummy | 4.0 |
Biology Making Moves | 3.5 |
The Mae Shi Terrorbird | 4.0 |
Death Cab for Cutie You Can Play These Songs With Chords | 3.5 |
CocoRosie Noah's Ark | 3.5 |
Orchid Chaos is Me | 4.0 |
Hot Cross Fair Trades and Farewells | 3.5 |
Burial Untrue | 4.0 |
Ghost Mice Debt of the Dead | 3.5 |
Black Dice Broken Ear Record | 4.0 |
pg.99 Document #5 | 4.0 |
Modern Life Is War Midnight in America | 3.0 |
Braid Frame & Canvas | 4.0 |
Madvillain Madvillainy 2: The Madlib Remix | 3.5 |
Fugazi The Argument | 4.5 |
Yip-Yip Two Kings of the Same Kingdom | 4.0 |
Dr. Manhattan Dr. Manhattan | 3.0 |
Maps and Atlases You and Me and the Mountain | 3.5 |
Beck Modern Guilt | 3.0 |
The Blood Brothers ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn | 3.5 |
Jawbreaker 24 Hour Revenge Therapy | 4.5 |
Why? Alopecia | 3.5 |
Can Ege Bamyasi | 4.0 |
Daughters Hell Songs | 4.0 |
Daitro/Sed Non Satiata Split | 3.5 |
HEALTH Health | 4.0 |
Girl Talk Feed the Animals | 4.5 |
Defiance, Ohio The Great Depression | 4.0 |
Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss | 3.5 |
Off Minor Some Blood | 4.5 |
Gang Gang Dance God's Money | 3.5 |
pg.99 Document #8 | 4.5 |
Benefit Friends Count Everest | 4.0 |
Aa GAame | 4.0 |
Wives (PA) Erect the Youth Problem | 4.0 |
Be Your Own Pet Get Awkward | 3.0 |
Los Campesinos! Hold On Now, Youngster... | 3.0 |
The Dead C The White House | 4.0 |
Magik Markers BOSS | 3.5 |
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV | 4.0 |
Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward | 4.0 |
Animal Collective Water Curses | 3.0 |
No Age Nouns | 4.0 |
The Locust The Locust | 3.5 |
Portishead Third | 4.0 |
Algernon Cadwallader Some Kind Of Cadwallader | 4.0 |
Don Caballero What Burns Never Returns | 3.0 |
Cursive Burst and Bloom | 3.5 |
The Dodos Visiter | 3.5 |
Sonic Youth Confusion is Sex/Kill Yr Idols | 4.0 |
cLOUDDEAD cLOUDDEAD | 4.5 |
You and I The Curtain Falls | 4.0 |
Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World | 4.0 |
Bright Eyes Letting Off the Happiness | 2.5 |
Jay Reatard Blood Visions | 3.5 |
Wolf Eyes Burned Mind | 3.5 |
Fuck Buttons Street Horrrsing | 4.0 |
Secret Shine Untouched | 3.0 |
The Mae Shi HLLLYH | 4.0 |
A Day In Black And White My Heroes Have Always Killed Cowboys | 4.0 |
Daitro Laisser Vivre Les Squelettes | 4.0 |
The Locust Plague Soundscapes | 4.0 |
Drive-By Truckers Brighter Than Creation's Dark | 3.5 |
Off Minor Problematic Courtship | 4.0 |
Xiu Xiu Women As Lovers | 3.5 |
Unwound New Plastic Ideas | 4.0 |
Defiance, Ohio Share What Ya Got | 4.5 |
Pygmy Lush Bitter River | 3.0 |
Lightning Bolt Ride The Skies | 4.0 |
Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend | 3.5 |
Rites of Spring End on End | 4.0 |
Magazine Real Life | 3.0 |
Black Flag Damaged | 3.5 |
Rodan Rusty | 4.0 |
Polvo Today's Active Lifestyles | 4.0 |
Count Bass D Dwight Spitz | 3.5 |
Japanther Dump the Body in Rikki Lake | 3.5 |
Hot Chip Made in the Dark | 3.0 |
Jonny Greenwood There Will Be Blood OST | 4.0 |
The Chinese Stars A Rare Sensation | 3.5 |
Gregor Samsa 55:12 | 3.5 |
This Will Destroy You This Will Destroy You | 2.5 |
Japanther Skuffed Up My Huffy | 4.0 |
Joan of Arc Eventually, All at Once | 3.0 |
Times New Viking Rip It Off | 4.0 |
Minor Threat Complete Discography | 4.5 |
Portrait Discography | 4.0 |
Capgun Coup Brought to You by Nebraskafish | 3.0 |
Abe Vigoda Kid City | 3.5 |
Native Nod Today Puberty, Tomorrow the World | 3.5 |
Pre Epic Fits | 3.5 |
Lightning Bolt Hypermagic Mountain | 3.5 |
Don Caballero Don Caballero II | 4.0 |
Old Time Relijun Lost Light | 4.0 |
Annuals Frelen Mas (Be He Me B-Sides) | 3.0 |
Rocket Surgery Rocket Surgery | 3.5 |
Owen At Home With Owen | 4.0 |
Japanther Master of Pigeons | 4.5 |
Mika Miko C.Y.S.L.A.B.F. | 3.5 |
Justice †| 3.5 |
By The End Of Tonight/Tera Melos Complex Full of Phantoms | 3.5 |
Do Make Say Think You, You're a History in Rust | 4.0 |
Meat Puppets Meat Puppets II | 3.5 |
King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King | 4.0 |
Joanna Newsom Joanna Newsom and the Ys Street Band | 4.5 |
Dalek Abandoned Language | 4.5 |
Black Dice Beaches and Canyons | 4.5 |
Slint Tweez | 2.5 |
Picastro Whore Luck | 4.0 |
godheadSilo Skyward in Triumph | 3.0 |
Panda Bear Young Prayer | 3.5 |
No Age Weirdo Rippers | 4.5 |
Holy Fuck LP | 3.5 |
Animal Collective Danse Manatee | 1.5 |
Styx Greatest Hits | 2.5 |
Daniel Johnston Yip/Jump Music | 3.5 |
shh... this is a library shh... this is a library | 3.0 |
Daniel Johnston Songs of Pain | 4.0 |
Dan Deacon Spiderman of the Rings | 4.0 |
Casiotone For The Painfully Alone Etiquette | 3.5 |
Say Anything In Defense of the Genre | 4.5 |
Taking Back Sunday Notes from the Past | 3.0 |
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 3.5 |
PlayRadioPlay! Frequency | 2.0 |
Les Savy Fav The Cat and the Cobra | 3.0 |
Liars They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top | 3.5 |
Liars They Were Wrong, So We Drowned | 3.0 |
Radiohead In Rainbows | 4.0 |
Underoath Define the Great Line | 3.5 |
Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone | 2.5 |
She Wants Revenge This is Forever | 2.0 |
Kidcrash Jokes | 4.0 |
Beirut The Flying Club Cup | 4.0 |
Husker Du Zen Arcade | 3.5 |
Minutemen Paranoid Time | 3.5 |
Animal Collective Feels | 5.0 |
Putting their experimental folk craziness behind them Animal Collective get alot catchier with their 2005 release. The first half consists of upbeat indie songs while the second is full of golden ballad time beauty. Banshee Beat shows why Feels could be the band's best work. |
Ratatat Classics | 4.0 |
Ghastly City Sleep Ghastly City Sleep | 4.0 |
Equus Observing the Moon | 3.5 |
Sonic Youth Bad Moon Rising | 4.0 |
Owen Owen | 3.5 |
Fall Out Boy Take This to Your Grave | 3.5 |
Dashboard Confessional A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar | 2.5 |
Yo La Tengo Electr-O-Pura | 3.0 |
Animal Collective People | 3.0 |
Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles | 3.0 |
Equus Transmissions | 3.0 |
St. Vincent Marry Me | 3.5 |
Feist Let It Die | 4.0 |
Mineral The Power of Failing | 3.5 |
Minutemen What Makes a Man Start Fires? | 4.0 |
Rascal Flatts Me And My Gang | 1.0 |
All Time Low So Wrong, It's Right | 2.5 |
All Time Low Put Up or Shut Up | 3.0 |
Thurston Moore Trees Outside the Academy | 3.5 |
Hella Hold Your Horse Is | 4.0 |
Shonen Knife Let's Knife | 2.5 |
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our | 4.0 |
The Go! Team Proof of Youth | 3.5 |
Pere Ubu The Modern Dance | 4.0 |
Make Believe Of Course | 2.5 |
Kiss Kiss Reality Vs. The Optimist | 3.5 |
Animal Collective Strawberry Jam | 4.5 |
Sonic Youth Dirty | 2.5 |
Animal Collective Ark | 3.5 |
Pavement Brighten the Corners | 3.0 |
Can Tago Mago | 4.0 |
Joanna Newsom Ys | 5.0 |
Fugazi Repeater | 4.0 |
Minor Threat Out of Step | 4.0 |
Bell Orchestre Recording A Tape The Colour Of The Light | 3.5 |
Optiganally Yours Exclusively Talentmaker! | 3.0 |
Animal Collective Sung Tongs | 4.0 |
Arcade Fire Funeral | 4.5 |
The Replacements Let It Be | 3.5 |
Arcade Fire The Arcade Fire | 4.0 |
Public Image Ltd. Metal Box | 3.5 |
Minus the Bear Planet of Ice | 4.0 |
Kiss Kiss Kiss Kiss | 3.5 |
Kiss Kiss's debut EP is created by a medley of genres, blended together to create a smoothie of sonic perfection. Channeling label mates Murder By Death, Kiss Kiss's punkish sound is heavily aided by keyboards and violins. Says My Doctor, the first song, is just about as good as it gets and the quality of the EP barely wanes in the next four tracks. A great album for fans of Indie, Punk and Experimental alike. |
The Promise Ring Very Emergency | 3.5 |
Liars Drum's Not Dead | 4.0 |
Liars Liars | 4.0 |
Aiden Conviction | 2.0 |
Elliott Smith XO | 3.5 |
Animal Collective Prospect Hummer | 4.0 |
Grandaddy The Sophtware Slump | 4.0 |
Saetia A Retrospective | 4.5 |
Lightning Bolt Wonderful Rainbow | 4.5 |
Elliott Smith Elliott Smith | 4.5 |
Morrissey Viva Hate | 3.0 |
Modern Life Is War Witness | 4.0 |
Xiu Xiu Knife Play | 4.5 |
Xiu Xiu A Promise | 3.5 |
Blonde Redhead In an Expression of the Inexpressible | 3.0 |
Unwound Repetition | 4.0 |
Off Minor Innominate | 4.5 |
Pharoahe Monch Desire | 4.0 |
Sunny Day Real Estate Sunny Day Real Estate | 3.5 |
Blonde Redhead Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons | 4.5 |
M.I.A. Arular | 3.0 |
M.I.A. Kala | 4.0 |
Misfits Walk Among Us | 3.5 |
Jack Johnson In Between Dreams | 2.5 |
Saosin Translating the Name | 3.0 |
Aiden Nightmare Anatomy | 1.0 |
Videohippos Unbeast the Leash | 3.5 |
Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 3.5 |
Daft Punk Discovery | 4.0 |
Desaparecidos Read Music/Speak Spanish | 3.5 |
Echo and The Bunnymen Heaven Up Here | 3.5 |
Joy Division Closer | 4.0 |
Radiohead I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings | 3.0 |
Wire Pink Flag | 4.0 |
Sonic Youth Goo | 4.0 |
MF DOOM MM.. Food | 3.5 |
Echo and The Bunnymen Ocean Rain | 4.0 |
Tapes 'n Tapes The Loon | 3.0 |
Against Me! New Wave | 3.0 |
Regina Spektor Begin To Hope | 3.5 |
Muse Absolution | 3.0 |
Tonight is Goodbye Birds and the Bees EP | 1.5 |
Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe | 5.0 |
Ghostface Killah Fishscale | 4.0 |
Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 2.5 |
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Is Is | 3.0 |
UNKLE War Stories | 3.5 |
Yo La Tengo Painful | 4.0 |
Bright Eyes Digital Ash in a Digital Urn | 3.0 |
American Football American Football EP | 4.0 |
Sparrows Swarm and Sing O' Shenandoah, Mighty Death Will Find Me | 3.0 |
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Trout Mask Replica | 4.0 |
Frog Eyes Tears of the Valedictorian | 3.5 |
The Clientele God Save the Clientele | 3.0 |
The Streets Original Pirate Material | 4.0 |
Slowdive Just for a Day | 3.0 |
Paramore Riot! | 3.5 |
Deerhoof Apple O' | 3.5 |
Cornelius Fantasma | 3.5 |
John Murphy 28 Days Later Soundtrack | 3.5 |
The Twilight Sad The Twilight Sad | 3.5 |
Owls Owls | 4.0 |
Dr. Dog We All Belong | 3.0 |
Drive-By Truckers Decoration Day | 4.0 |
Treepeople Guilt Regret Embarrassment | 3.0 |
Dntel Dumb Luck | 3.5 |
The Bird And The Bee The Bird and the Bee | 3.0 |
The Matches Decomposer | 3.0 |
Cursive Such Blinding Stars for Starving Eyes | 3.0 |
Lullaby for the Working Class Blanket Warm | 4.5 |
CocoRosie The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillbo | 3.5 |
Annuals Be He Me | 3.5 |
Panda Bear Person Pitch | 4.5 |
Person Pitch is a very Brian Wilson/Beach Boys influenced outing for the famed Panda Bear (Noah Lennox). Fans of Bear's other group Animal Collective (especially Feels) should be right at home with this disc, as all 7 tracks features the lush production and trippy effects that are so prominent in much of the Collective's work. One word to describe the sound of Person Pitch? Perhaps watery, but maybe tribal, or even poppy, because, at bare bones Person Pitch is just a collection of well written pop songs. From the jarring jungle beats of Good Girl/Carrots to the choruses of Bro's (as sweeping as they are sad) to the reflective album closer Ponytail, every thing about Person Pitch just works. |
My Latest Novel Wolves | 3.5 |
Abstractology Mammals and Computers | 3.0 |
Insik Sate Promotionless Shame | 3.5 |
Grizzly Bear Horn of Plenty | 4.0 |
Albert Hammond Jr Yours To Keep | 2.5 |
The Dear Hunter Act I: The Lake South, the River North | 3.0 |
Say Hi Impeccable Blahs | 3.5 |
Cloud Cult Advice from the Happy Hippopotamus | 3.5 |
Atreyu The Best of Atreyu | 1.0 |
The Carpenters Carpenters | 3.0 |
Loose Fur Born Again in the U.S.A. | 3.0 |
The Dead Texan The Dead Texan | 3.5 |
A thought provoking effort from a 2004 ambient duo, The Dead Texan soars high with epic, all most post-rock melodies and calming synthesizers, but falters slightly with an overlong tune towards the end and a decidedly low replay value. Sparse vocals make for an interesting listen, but instrumental A Chronicle of Early Failures Part 2 speaks louder than most songs ever could, without a single word. An excellent excellent CD for fans of Brian Eno, Sigur Ros and others along that line. |
My Brightest Diamond Bring Me the Workhorse | 4.0 |
13 and God 13 & God | 3.5 |
Beat Happening Jamboree | 3.0 |
KMD Bl_ck B_st_rds | 4.0 |
Vashti Bunyan Just Another Diamond Day | 5.0 |
Kelis Kaleidoscope | 3.5 |
This Will Destroy You Young Mountain | 3.5 |
Thee More Shallows More Deep Cuts | 4.0 |
Flyleaf Flyleaf | 3.0 |
The Forecast In The Shadow Of Two Gunmen | 3.0 |
The Decemberists The Crane Wife | 4.0 |
Stones Throw Records Chrome Children | 4.5 |
Deerhoof Milk Man | 4.0 |
The Fiery Furnaces Rehearsing My Choir | 4.0 |
Wheatus Wheatus | 3.0 |
In a world where Weezer are past their prime Wheatus are a breath of fresh air for nerd rock. They have one of the most Oh-that-song-sounds-so-familiart-but-who-the-hell-did-it one hit wonders of all time in Teenage Dirtbag, a pop-punk ditty that can hang with the catchiest of them all. The guitars on this record have some of the best tone of any mainstream rock record I've ever heard, not too much treble, with a very sustained fuzz. Album closer Wanna Be Gangster is an instant classic. |
UNKLE Never, Never, Land | 3.5 |
The Fiery Furnaces Gallowsbird's Bark | 3.5 |
Arab on Radar Queen Hygiene II | 3.0 |
Thom Yorke Harrowdown Hill | 3.0 |
TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain | 4.5 |
Hot Chip The Warning | 4.0 |
Madonna Like a Virgin | 4.5 |
Midlake The Trials of Van Occupanther | 3.5 |
Dntel Life is Full of Possibilities | 3.5 |
Be Your Own Pet Be Your Own Pet | 3.0 |
Pharrell Williams In My Mind | 3.0 |
The Shaggs Philosophy of the World | 2.0 |
Hellogoodbye Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs! | 3.0 |
A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders | 3.0 |
The Sleeping Question & Answers | 3.0 |
Pixies Come On Pilgrim | 4.0 |
Eels Electro-Shock Blues | 3.5 |
Thom Yorke The Eraser | 3.5 |
Nelly Furtado Loose | 3.5 |
Atmosphere God Loves Ugly | 3.0 |
Animal Collective Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished | 4.0 |
Quasimoto The Unseen | 4.5 |
Lindsay Lohan Speak | 2.5 |
Dem Franchize Boyz On Top of Our Game | 2.0 |
Pavement Major Leagues EP | 3.0 |
Nas It Was Written | 3.5 |
Katie Melua Piece By Piece | 3.0 |
Blue Cheer Vincebus Eruptum | 3.5 |
Descendents Everything Sucks | 3.0 |
Xiu Xiu Fabulous Muscles | 4.5 |
All-Time Quarterback All-Time Quarterback | 3.5 |
Guster Keep It Together | 3.0 |
Midlake Bamnan and Slivercork | 4.5 |
The Donnas Spend the Night | 1.0 |
R. Kelly Trapped In The Closet (Chapters 1-12) | 2.0 |
Common Electric Circus | 3.5 |
John Scofield A Go Go (feat. Medeski, Martin & Wood) | 3.5 |
Welcome Happy Sad Fun Music EP | 3.0 |
The Postal Service Such Great Heights | 3.0 |
Ashley Parker Angel Soundtrack to Your Life | 2.0 |
Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About | 4.5 |
The Cure Three Imaginary Boys | 3.5 |
Marvelous 3 ReadySexGo! | 3.0 |
Ima Robot Ima Robot | 2.5 |
Mates of State Bring it Back | 3.0 |
Xiu Xiu La Foret | 3.5 |
Snow Patrol Eyes Open | 3.0 |
Extra Blue Kind The Tide and The Undertow | 2.0 |
RJD2 Since We Last Spoke | 3.5 |
Dan the Automator A Much Better Tomorrow | 3.5 |
The Click Five Greetings from Imrie House | 2.0 |
Blonde Redhead Misery is a Butterfly | 4.0 |
Eiffel 65 Europop | 2.0 |
The Notwist Neon Golden | 4.0 |
Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends | 3.5 |
Norah Jones Come Away with Me | 3.5 |
The Dresden Dolls Yes, Virginia... | 3.0 |
Test Icicles For Screening Purposes Only | 3.0 |
Rilo Kiley The Execution of All Things | 3.5 |
Ashlee Simpson Autobiography | 2.5 |
Beck GameBoy Variations | 2.5 |
MF DOOM Operation: Doomsday | 4.5 |
Tommy Guerrero A Little Bit of Somthin' | 3.5 |
My Morning Jacket Z | 3.5 |
Gym Class Heroes The Papercut Chronicles | 3.0 |
Drive-By Truckers The Dirty South | 4.5 |
Bjork Debut | 4.0 |
Devendra Banhart Cripple Crow | 3.5 |
Oh My God Interrogations and Confessions | 3.0 |
She Wants Revenge She Wants Revenge | 2.5 |
Sleater-Kinney Dig Me Out | 4.0 |
Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me | 4.5 |
Say Hi Ferocious Mopes | 3.5 |
Echo and The Bunnymen Songs to Learn and Sing | 4.0 |
Drive-By Truckers A Blessing and a Curse | 2.5 |
Eluvium Copia | 4.0 |
Radiohead OK Computer | 5.0 |
Coldplay Parachutes | 3.5 |
Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 3.0 |
Radiohead Pablo Honey | 3.0 |
The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 4.5 |
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever To Tell | 3.5 |
Beck Guero | 3.5 |
At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 5.0 |
Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain | 5.0 |
Bloc Party Silent Alarm | 3.0 |
Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 4.5 |
Radiohead The Bends | 4.5 |
Radiohead Kid A | 5.0 |
Beck Odelay | 4.5 |
The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan | 3.0 |
Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot | 4.5 |
The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots | 3.5 |
At the Drive-In Vaya | 4.0 |
The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 4.0 |
RJD2 Deadringer | 4.0 |
Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism | 4.0 |
The Postal Service Give Up | 3.5 |
Violent Femmes Violent Femmes | 3.5 |
Weezer Weezer | 4.0 |
Death Cab for Cutie The Photo Album | 4.0 |
The Streets A Grand Don't Come For Free | 4.0 |
An album like nothing I had ever heard before listening, AGDCFF combines great production with Mike Skinner's legendary real life songwriting. A concept album that is as much a storybook set to music that it is one of the most hyped modern Hip-Hop albums. The only flaw is that Skinner voice gets slightly annoying on some tracks. But seriously who else do you know who can write an entire song about going to return a DVD? |
Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News | 3.0 |
Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 4.5 |
Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head | 3.5 |
Eluvium Talk Amongst the Trees | 3.5 |
Pixies Doolittle | 5.0 |
CocoRosie La Maison De Mon Reve | 3.5 |
Beck Sea Change | 4.5 |
Beck Mellow Gold | 3.0 |
Mellow Gold is Beck's debut album, a masterpiece in it's own right. The album blends lo-fi with heavy electronica and hip-hop. Fans of Sea Change and Odelay! may be turned off at first, but beneath layers of strange fuzz and screams there is a creative and brooding songsmith. Though he does not expose himself totally many songs (including hit single "Loser") are seen by many as some of Beck's best work. |
Gorillaz Gorillaz | 3.5 |
Gorillaz Demon Days | 3.5 |
Talking Heads Remain in Light | 5.0 |
Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 3.5 |
Beastie Boys The Sounds of Science | 4.0 |
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 3.0 |
Sigur Ros ( ) | 5.0 |
Sigur Ros' ( ) is one of the most breathtaking albums I have ever heard. It is simple, yet brilliant, well-written and epic. The length of some songs make it to be slightly dull but all in all this is the perfect album to listen to at night during a thunderstorm or such. |
Common Be | 3.5 |
Death Cab for Cutie Plans | 2.5 |
John Cena and Tha Trademarc You Can't See Me | 1.5 |
Air Moon Safari | 4.5 |
Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary | 3.5 |
The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin | 4.5 |
The Flaming Lips Clouds Taste Metallic | 4.5 |
Muse Origin of Symmetry | 3.5 |
Fiona Apple Extraordinary Machine | 3.5 |
Hawthorne Heights The Silence in Black and White | 1.5 |
blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket | 2.5 |
Wilco A Ghost Is Born | 3.5 |
Weezer Pinkerton | 4.5 |
Weezer Video Capture Device | 3.5 |
My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 5.0 |
Murder by Death Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them? | 4.5 |
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | 3.0 |
Sonic Youth Daydream Nation | 5.0 |
Coldplay X&Y | 2.5 |
Ramones Road to Ruin | 3.5 |
Liz Phair Exile In Guyville | 4.0 |
Hawthorne Heights If Only You Were Lonely | 1.0 |
Weezer Make Believe | 1.5 |
Green Day American Idiot | 3.0 |
With Idiot Green Day manage to pull three things, they alienate old fans, gain thousands of new ones and make some of the most radio ready pop punk tunes ever. Tracks like Homecoming and Give me Novacaine make up for some of the garbage on the record, but can not salvage the fact that it has one of the lowest replay values of any album. The singles, peppered through out the album recieved so much play that it is now almost impossible for me to listen to it in whole. Plus some songs just suck. |
Green Day International Superhits | 4.0 |
Green Day Warning | 3.0 |
The Killers Hot Fuss | 3.0 |
Eminem The Eminem Show | 2.5 |
My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge | 3.5 |
The White Stripes White Blood Cells | 4.0 |
The Smiths The Queen Is Dead | 5.0 |
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 5.0 |
Jet Get Born | 2.0 |
Nirvana Nevermind | 2.5 |
Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York | 3.0 |
Nirvana In Utero | 3.5 |
AC/DC Back In Black | 2.0 |
Talking Heads Talking Heads: 77 | 4.0 |
Taking Back Sunday Where You Want To Be | 2.5 |
DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... | 5.0 |
Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction | 3.0 |
Radiohead The Astoria London Live (DVD) | 3.5 |
Velvet Revolver Contraband | 2.0 |
Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West | 4.5 |
The Beatles Abbey Road | 4.5 |
The Dresden Dolls The Dresden Dolls | 3.5 |
The Flaming Lips At War with the Mystics | 3.0 |
The Flaming Lips Transmissions From the Satellite Heart | 4.0 |
Sum 41 All Killer No Filler | 3.0 |
Radiohead Airbag/How Am I Driving? | 3.5 |
New Found Glory Catalyst | 1.5 |
Taproot Welcome | 2.0 |
HIM Razorblade Romance | 2.0 |
HIM Dark Light | 1.5 |
Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica | 3.5 |
Nightmare Of You Nightmare Of You | 2.5 |
Nightmare of You, like most new bands these days take heavy influences from the 80’s. But instead of using synths like The Bravery or The Killers, Nightmare of You take their dark pop sound from the bands like The Smiths and The Cure and add in elements of modern Pop-Punk like Fall Out Boy and Panic! at the Disco. Chorus tinged guitars, the occasional keyboard line and mellower drums and bass make up the majority of Nightmare of You’s sound. NOY themselves have a great songwriting talent, which unfortunately only comes into play 4 or 5 times on the album. This leads me to the biggest problem with Nightmare’s debut. Nearly every song sounds the same, a few tunes break the mold but most are just the same thing, dark love songs, which makes for a dull 11 tracks. |
Bjork Medulla | 4.0 |
Radiohead Amnesiac | 4.5 |
Mogwai Young Team | 4.0 |
Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere | 3.5 |
DJ Shadow The Private Press | 4.0 |
Murder by Death Like the Exorcist, but More Breakdancing | 3.5 |
Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde | 4.0 |
Beyonce B'Day | 3.0 |
System of a Down Toxicity | 3.0 |
Snow Patrol Final Straw | 2.5 |
The Streets The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living | 2.0 |
Jethro Tull Aqualung | 3.5 |
Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 | 4.5 |
The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers | 3.0 |
U2 War | 3.5 |
U2 The Best Of 1980-1990 | 4.0 |
U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb | 3.0 |
Tim McGraw Live Like You Were Dying | 1.5 |
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Show Your Bones | 3.5 |
Bright Eyes Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground | 4.0 |
Thrice Vheissu | 4.0 |
Angels and Airwaves We Don't Need to Whisper | 1.5 |
The Flaming Lips Hit To Death In The Future Head | 4.5 |
Pavement Slanted and Enchanted | 4.5 |
blink-182 Blink-182 | 4.5 |
Pixies Surfer Rosa | 4.5 |
Billy Joel The Stranger | 4.0 |
Ciccone Youth The Whitey Album | 3.5 |
Insane Clown Posse The Wraith: Shangri-La | 1.0 |
Sunny Day Real Estate Diary | 4.0 |
Jeff Buckley Grace | 4.0 |
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico | 4.5 |
Say Hi Numbers & Mumbles | 3.0 |
The Beatles 1 | 3.5 |
Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album | 4.0 |
Various Artists Rock Against Bush Vol 2 | 2.5 |
Nas Illmatic | 4.5 |
Pixies Bossanova | 3.5 |
Massive Attack Mezzanine | 4.0 |
Sonic Youth Rather Ripped | 3.5 |
Sonic Youth are one the oldest bands today that still make important music. Unfortunetly with the release of Rather Ripped they trip up. The music iis as standard as SY get and can be pretty boring. The ideas are good, but many songs are under written. If Sister and DDN are rainforests of sound and creativity it would seem RR is nothing more than a prarie. |
Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 4.5 |
Aerosmith Big Ones | 2.0 |
Aerosmith Greatest Hits | 3.0 |
Descendents Milo Goes to College | 4.0 |
The Cure Pornography | 4.0 |
The Smiths The Smiths | 4.0 |
The Cure Greatest Hits | 3.0 |
Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die... | 3.0 |
Sonic Youth Sister | 5.0 |
Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy | 4.5 |
Real Boy is the epitome of pop punk songwriting. More of a musical than a concept album, It blends Descendents esque down on myself punk with delicious indie rock elements. Max Bemis is one of the most enjoyable whiners I have ever heard in my life, his voice is perfect (for what it is) and his lyrics are delectable. This is a masterpiece, nuff said. |
The Cure Disintegration | 4.5 |
The Cure Boys Don't Cry | 4.0 |
Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out | 3.5 |
Panic! at the Disco's debut album is hard for me to rate. The music is much more creative than any other band playing the new style of Pop-Punk but the vocals are so annoying they are almost intolerable. Certain songs (including a three song streach at the end) are awesome and fun but others are just stupid. Fun to dance to though. |
At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out | 4.5 |
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 5.0 |
Pixies Best of Pixies: Wave of Mutilation | 4.0 |
The Monkees Greatest Hits | 3.0 |
The Clash The Clash (US version) | 4.0 |
blink-182 Greatest Hits | 3.5 |
Taking Back Sunday Louder Now | 3.0 |
Rush The Spirit of Radio: Greatest Hits | 2.0 |
Sonic Youth Washing Machine | 4.0 |
Fields Everything Last Winter | 3.5 |
Envy A Dead Sinking Story | 4.5 |
t.A.T.u. 200 km/H In The Wrong Lane | 3.5 |
Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children | 4.5 |
Sigur Ros Takk... | 4.5 |
The Decemberists Picaresque | 4.0 |
Paramore All We Know Is Falling | 3.5 |
Kanye West Late Registration | 3.5 |
Nada Surf High/Low | 3.0 |
Nada Surf The Weight Is a Gift | 3.5 |
R.E.M. Automatic for the People | 4.0 |
The Used The Used | 3.0 |
Nelly Furtado Whoa, Nelly! | 3.0 |
Anohni and the Johnsons I Am A Bird Now | 4.0 |
Antony's voice is amazing in every sense of the word. It is full, deep, and extremley moving. Though I question his lyrics, this is the perfect chill-out blend of indie, blues and soul. The guest stars keep things intresting through this wave of beauty and intrigue. The first and final tracks are major standouts, the former being one of my picks for best single of 05. |
Transplants Transplants | 3.5 |
Jimmy Eat World Futures | 3.5 |
Jimmy Eat World Bleed American | 3.5 |
Yellowcard Ocean Avenue | 2.0 |
My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love | 3.0 |
Ween The Mollusk | 4.0 |
The Smiths Strangeways, Here We Come | 4.0 |
The Folk Implosion Dare to be Surprised | 2.5 |
Sonic Youth Evol | 4.5 |
Jaga Jazzist What We Must | 4.5 |
Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols | 2.0 |
Cold War Kids Robbers and Cowards | 3.5 |
Dinosaur Jr. Without a Sound | 3.0 |
Dinosaur Jr. Bug | 4.0 |
Handsome Boy Modeling School White People | 3.5 |
Madonna Confessions on a Dancefloor | 2.5 |
NOFX The Decline | 3.5 |
The Honorary Title Anything Else But The Truth | 2.5 |
Death From Above 1979 You're a Woman, I'm a Machine | 3.0 |
Slowdive Souvlaki | 4.5 |
Alanis Morissette So-Called Chaos | 2.5 |
Dinosaur Jr. Dinosaur | 4.0 |
The Smashing Pumpkins Rotten Apples | 3.5 |
Ride Nowhere | 4.0 |
Circa Survive Juturna | 3.0 |
Death Cab for Cutie Drive Well, Sleep Carefully (DVD) | 3.5 |
OutKast Idlewild | 3.0 |
Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun | 5.0 |
Sonic Youth Sonic Nurse | 4.0 |
Clint Mansell and Kronos Quartet Requiem for a Dream | 3.5 |
Sebadoh III | 3.5 |
TV on the Radio Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes | 3.5 |
HORSE the band R. Borlax | 3.5 |
The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 4.0 |
HORSE the band Pizza | 3.0 |
Against Me! Searching for a Former Clarity | 4.0 |
Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds | 3.5 |
John Mayer Continuum | 3.5 |
The Doors The Best of The Doors | 4.0 |
Elvis Costello My Aim Is True | 4.0 |
Sufjan Stevens Illinois | 3.5 |
Neutral Milk Hotel Everything Is | 2.0 |
Everything Is is probably the single hardest to rate piece of music I have ever heard. Its emotionless, dry, hard to listen to and extremley underproduced, and on the other hand its heart-breaking, strange and fun. The album is full of crazy samples and crunchy guitar, with Mangum just wailing along in the background, Everything Is just takes the problems (if every so small) with Aeroplane and magnifys them, as if a joke or something. The last 2 tracks are pretty cool, but the first are almost unlistenable. |
mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes | 3.5 |
Brand New Deja Entendu | 3.0 |
Madvillain Madvillainy | 4.0 |
Quasimoto The Further Adventures of Lord Quas | 4.5 |
With The Further Adventures of Lord Quas, Quasimoto (an alter ego of Undie Rap Chameleon Madlib) reinvents his sound with sampledelic beats that put shame to the naked snares of his previous effort the Unseen. Like the Unseen Quas brings hilarious rhymes, as well as dark commentaries on the urban life, all through a voice altering device that makes him sound more Bo Bo than Nas. The CD really picks up after a guest appearance from MF DOOM shakes things up on insta-classic Closer. The last half is all gold. |
The Beatles Revolver | 4.5 |
At the Drive-In Acrobatic Tenement | 4.0 |
Against Me! As the Eternal Cowboy | 3.0 |
The Format Dog Problems | 3.0 |
Pavement Wowee Zowee | 4.5 |
Blonde Redhead 23 | 3.5 |
David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars | 4.5 |
UNKLE Psyence Fiction | 4.0 |
Built to Spill Perfect from Now On | 4.0 |
Straylight Run Straylight Run | 3.0 |
Bright Eyes Cassadaga | 3.0 |
Beck The Information | 3.0 |
Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better | 3.5 |
The Killers Sam's Town | 3.5 |
Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor | 3.0 |
The Hush Sound Like Vines | 3.0 |
Flying Lotus 1983 | 3.5 |
dredg El Cielo | 3.5 |
Ad Astra Per Aspera Catapult Calypso | 3.0 |
The Libertines The Libertines | 1.5 |
Bruce Springsteen Born to Run | 4.0 |
Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 3.5 |
My Chemical Romance The Black Parade | 3.0 |
Drive-By Truckers Southern Rock Opera | 3.5 |
Sparklehorse Good Morning Spider | 4.0 |
The Mothers of Invention Weasels Ripped My Flesh | 4.5 |
Frank Zappa Chunga's Revenge | 4.0 |
Brian Eno Another Green World | 4.0 |
Street Drum Corps Street Drum Corps | 2.5 |
Lady Sovereign Public Warning | 3.0 |
Dinosaur Jr. Green Mind | 3.5 |
KISS The Very Best of Kiss | 2.0 |
Elliott Smith Either/Or | 4.0 |
Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye | 4.5 |
Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 3.0 |
Bright Eyes Fevers & Mirrors | 4.5 |
The Mars Volta Tremulant | 3.0 |
The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream | 3.5 |
Depeche Mode Violator | 3.5 |
M. Ward Post-War | 3.5 |
Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 3.5 |
Cap'n Jazz Analphabetapolothology | 4.0 |
Ween Chocolate and Cheese | 3.5 |
At the Drive-In This Station Is Non-Operational | 4.0 |
The Fall of Troy Doppelganger | 3.5 |
Various Production The World is Gone | 3.5 |
Xiu Xiu The Air Force | 4.0 |
Mission of Burma Vs. | 4.0 |
The Velvet Underground White Light/White Heat | 3.0 |
Minutemen Double Nickels on the Dime | 4.5 |
Sonic Youth Murray Street | 4.0 |
Jimmy Eat World Clarity | 3.5 |
Yo La Tengo I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass | 4.0 |
Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning | 4.0 |
Glassjaw Worship and Tribute | 4.0 |
Yo La Tengo I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One | 4.5 |
Mission of Burma Signals, Calls, and Marches | 4.0 |
Cursive The Ugly Organ | 4.0 |
Fugazi 13 Songs | 4.5 |
Beirut Gulag Orkestar | 4.0 |
Cursive Domestica | 5.0 |
DJ Shadow The Outsider | 3.0 |
Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand | 3.5 |
The Fall of Troy The Fall of Troy | 3.5 |
David Bowie Hunky Dory | 4.0 |
Sufjan Stevens Michigan | 4.5 |
Pavement Watery, Domestic | 3.5 |
Dustin Kensrue Please Come Home | 2.0 |
AFI Sing the Sorrow | 3.0 |
Sunset Rubdown Shut Up I Am Dreaming | 3.5 |
Beirut Lon Gisland | 3.5 |
Avey Tare and Kria Brekkan Pullhair Rubeye | 3.5 |
My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything | 4.0 |
Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not | 3.0 |
Bloc Party A Weekend in the City | 2.5 |
Envy Insomniac Doze | 4.0 |
Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 4.0 |
Glassjaw El Mark | 3.5 |
Jonny Greenwood Bodysong | 3.0 |
The Faint Media | 3.5 |
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Some Loud Thunder | 3.5 |
Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 4.5 |
Green Day Dookie | 3.0 |
dredg Catch Without Arms | 3.0 |
Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People | 4.5 |
Shadowgraphs Shadowgraphs [EP] | 4.0 |
The Blood Brothers Crimes | 3.5 |
Pokemon Pokemon 2.B.A. Master | 3.0 |
Lily Allen Alright, Still | 3.5 |
The Faint Danse Macabre | 3.5 |
Wilco Summerteeth | 4.5 |
Arcade Fire Neon Bible | 4.0 |
Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 4.5 |
American Football American Football | 4.5 |
Against Me! Against Me! | 4.0 |
RJD2 The Third Hand | 2.5 |
Spoon Gimme Fiction | 3.0 |
The Jesus and Mary Chain Psychocandy | 4.0 |
Neutral Milk Hotel On Avery Island | 3.0 |
Interpol Antics | 3.5 |
Grizzly Bear Yellow House | 4.0 |
The Shins Chutes Too Narrow | 3.0 |
Midlake Milkmaid Grand Army | 3.5 |
Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene | 4.0 |
Mogwai Come On Die Young | 3.5 |
Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You | 4.5 |
Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret | 3.0 |
Timbaland Timbaland Presents Shock Value | 3.0 |
Hot Cross Risk Revival | 3.5 |
Swing Kids Discography | 3.5 |
Joy Division Unknown Pleasures | 4.0 |
Murder by Death In Bocca Al Lupo | 3.5 |
Klaxons Myths of the Near Future | 3.5 |
Beat Happening Beat Happening | 4.0 |
Autechre Amber | 4.0 |
Bjork Post | 4.0 |
Loose Fur Loose Fur | 4.0 |
Slint Spiderland | 4.5 |
The Beach Boys Pet Sounds | 4.5 |
Echo and The Bunnymen Crocodiles | 3.5 |
I Would Set Myself On Fire For You Believes In Patterns | 3.5 |
Hot Cross Cryonics | 4.0 |
Texas Is the Reason Do You Know Who You Are? | 4.0 |
Dinosaur Jr. Beyond | 3.5 |
Cursive Happy Hollow | 4.0 |
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada | 4.5 |
The Twilight Sad Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters | 3.5 |
Talking Heads More Songs About Buildings and Food | 4.0 |
The Smiths Hatful of Hollow | 5.0 |
AC/DC Live | 2.0 |
The Zombies Odessey and Oracle | 4.5 |
The National Alligator | 4.0 |
The Clash London Calling | 4.5 |
Battles EP C | 3.5 |
Tera Melos Drugs to the Dear Youth | 4.0 |
Wilco Sky Blue Sky | 3.5 |
Fiona Apple When the Pawn... | 3.5 |
Joanna Newsom The Milk-Eyed Mender | 5.0 |
Cave In Jupiter | 3.5 |
Thursday Full Collapse | 4.0 |
Thursday War All the Time | 3.5 |
Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade | 3.0 |
The Go! Team Thunder, Lightning, Strike [US Reissue] | 3.5 |
Amy Winehouse Back to Black | 3.5 |
GZA Liquid Swords | 4.5 |
Straylight Run The Needles, The Space | 3.5 |
Regina Spektor Soviet Kitsch | 4.0 |
I Would Set Myself On Fire For You I Would Set Myself On Fire For You | 3.5 |
Hellogoodbye Mush Slowly and Guac | 3.0 |
Tera Melos Untitled | 4.0 |
Rise Against Revolutions per Minute | 3.5 |
Drive Like Jehu Drive Like Jehu | 4.0 |
I'm From Barcelona Let Me Introduce My Friends | 3.0 |
The National Boxer | 3.5 |
The Shins Oh, Inverted World | 3.0 |
Talk Talk Laughing Stock | 4.5 |
Maps and Atlases Tree, Swallows, Houses | 3.5 |
Dr. Octagon Dr. Octagonecologyst | 4.0 |
Deerhoof Friend Opportunity | 2.5 |
Girl Talk Night Ripper | 4.0 |
The Promise Ring Nothing Feels Good | 4.0 |
The Get Up Kids Something to Write Home About | 4.0 |
Against Me! Reinventing Axl Rose | 4.5 |
Battles Mirrored | 4.0 |
Joan of Arc How Memory Works | 3.5 |
Gwen Stefani The Sweet Escape | 3.0 |
Interpol Our Love to Admire | 3.5 |
The Faint Blank-Wave Arcade | 3.0 |
The Cure The Head on the Door | 4.5 |
Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank | 3.5 |
The Slits Cut | 3.5 |
Tapes 'n Tapes Walk It Off | 2.0 |
Japanther Tut Tut, Now Shake Ya Butt | 4.0 |