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Japandroids Near To The Wild Heart Of Life2.5
Near To The Wild Heart Of Life is the sound going from being a cool kid hanging out in the sketchy part of downtown to being 35 and wanting the new condo built right over where the DIY spot used to be because it's close to the Whole Foods.
Deafheaven New Bermuda3.5
3.5ish sounds about right, I guess. Maybe a little lower. Maybe a little higher. *shrugs*
Adventures Supersonic Home2.3
Matana Roberts COIN COIN Chapter Three: river run thee4.2
The Decemberists What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World2.5
The Average White Band
G.L.O.S.S. Demo4.0
Preoccupations Viet Cong4.0
Turnstile Nonstop Feeling1.0
Cloakroom Further Out3.0
Sleater-Kinney No Cities to Love4.2
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 23.0
At the Gates At War with Reality2.5
Remember when Carcass put out Surgical Steel? That was cool.
SBTRKT Wonder Where We Land3.2
Weezer Everything Will Be Alright in the End4.0
Glass Bones Loner4.0
Where the split with Les Doux felt more like a stop gap than a complete project, Loner is the true follow up to Seasons that we've all been waiting for.
Flying Lotus You're Dead!4.7
Yes.
Finch Back to Oblivion2.5
Yung Lean Unknown Memory2.0
Perfume Genius Too Bright4.0
Inigo Kennedy Vaudeville4.5
Answer Code Request Code4.0
Lee Gamble Koch3.5
Cymbals Eat Guitars LOSE2.8
Karen O Crush Songs3.5
YOB Clearing The Path To Ascend2.8
Lusine Arterial3.5
Daphni Jiaolong2.3
Jeff Mills Sleeper Wakes3.7
Caribou Andorra3.5
Caribou Swim3.5
Burial Kindred4.5
This is ridiculously good. Not sure what I'm rating it quite yet, but god damn, color me impressed.
Burial Untrue5.0
Four Tet Rounds4.0
Four Tet There is Love in You3.5
Tycho Dive3.0
Teebs Ardour3.5
Teebs E S T A R A4.5
Swarms Old Raves End4.5
Voices From The Lake Voices From The Lake4.0
Christian Loffler Young Alaska4.0
Recondite Hinterland3.5
Recondite On Acid4.0
Underworld dubnobasswithmyheadman3.5
Orbital In Sides3.5
The Orb Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld3.5
The Orb Orbus Terrarum3.5
Newworldaquarium The Dead Bears3.5
Murcof Martes4.0
Moodymann Forevernevermore3.0
Moodymann Silentintroduction4.0
Minilogue Animals3.5
Machinedrum Vapor City4.5
Lone Reality Testing3.5
Lee Gamble Dutch Tvashar Plumes3.5
Lindstrom Where You Go I Go Too4.0
John Talabot Fin4.0
Gesaffelstein Aleph4.0
Francis Harris Minutes of Sleep4.0
John Roberts Glass Eights3.0
Efdemin Decay3.5
Efdemin Chicago3.5
Pantha Du Prince Black Noise4.0
Pantha Du Prince This Bliss4.0
The Field Yesterday and Today4.0
The Field From Here We Go Sublime4.0
Dalhous Will to be Well3.5
Cobblestone Jazz 23 Seconds3.7
Cocteau Twins Heaven or Las Vegas4.5
Boards of Canada Geogaddi3.5
Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children3.5
Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase3.5
Azari & III Azari & III3.3
Balam Acab Wander/Wonder4.5
808 State Ninety4.5
Virgo Four Virgo4.0
Luomo Vocalcity4.0
Akufen My Way3.0
Jon Hopkins Immunity4.0
Nicolas Jaar Space Is Only Noise4.0
Darkside Psychic4.0
Autechre Tri Repetae3.5
Amon Tobin Supermodified4.0
Amon Tobin Permutation4.0
Tipper Surrounded3.5
Tipper Broken Soul Jamboree3.5
Tipper Forward Escape3.0
Venetian Snares Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett4.5
Venetian Snares Detrimentalist3.0
Venetian Snares My Love Is A Bulldozer2.5
Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-924.0
Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II4.0
Aphex Twin ...I Care Because You Do4.0
Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album4.0
Zomby With Love3.7
FaltyDL In The Wild3.5
Actress Ghettoville2.8
Actress Hazyville3.5
Actress Splazsh3.5
Demdike Stare Liberation Through Hearing3.5
The Haxan Cloak Excavation4.0
Ben Frost A U R O R A4.0
Fennesz Endless Summer3.8
Fennesz Black Sea4.0
Fennesz Becs3.7
Tim Hecker Harmony in Ultraviolet4.0
Tim Hecker An Imaginary Country4.0
Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 19724.0
Tim Hecker Virgins3.5
Gas Pop3.5
Gas Zauberberg4.0
DJ Sprinkles Midtown 120 Blues4.0
Caribou Our Love4.0
Earthless Meets Heavy Blanket In A Dutch Haze2.2
Rx Bandits Gemini, Her Majesty2.3
This album cover confirms that RXB are now Phish for punk kids.
Kanye West Yeezus4.1
Sylvan Esso Sylvan Esso4.0
Joyce Manor Never Hungover Again3.7
It's cool. Like, you know, whatever.
United Nations The Next Four Years3.8
Boris Noise2.3
Die Kreuzen Die Kreuzen4.1
Sharon Van Etten Are We There4.6
Agalloch The Serpent and the Sphere2.0
Never before has an Agalloch record sounded so Agallochy.
AJJ Christmas Island2.2
The most disappointing record of the year.
LCD Soundsystem The Long Goodbye5.0
A perfect document in sound, style, and substance from the most important band of the last
decade.
Matter Teraphim3.3
Todd Terje It's Album Time3.0
The Body I Shall Die Here4.0
Comadre Comadre4.5
Insomnium Shadows of the Dying Sun2.5
The Menzingers Rented World3.3
Lisa and I are going out for a gelato. We'd ask you to come, but...you know.
Cult Leader Nothing for Us Here3.5
Antarctigo Vespucci Soulmate Stuff3.0
Pyrrhon The Mother of Virtues4.0
holy shit this rules. It's like Converge, Demilich, and Bastard Noise all rolled into one.
Cold Body Radiation A Clear Path2.3
If I went to a barbecue and there was no meat, I would say 'Yo Goober! Where's the meat!?? I?m trying to impress people here Lisa. You don't win friends with salad.
Cloud Nothings Here and Nowhere Else4.2
Saintseneca Dark Arc3.0
So what separates this from the rest of the world of bland alt-folk other than it has the singer of The Sidekicks in it?
Jungbluth/Callow Split4.0
Sargeist Feeding the Crawling Shadows2.0
Trophy Scars Holy Vacants4.0
Darkness, Oh Hell still sits atop the Trophy Scars pantheon for me, but this is pretty darn close.
YG My Krazy Life2.0
Since I stopped smoking weed this kind of shit is dead to me.
Finch What It Is to Burn2.5
What It Is To Burn is one of those albums that tests just how important nostalgia is to its listener. If you had a deep connection with it when the album first came out, chances are you'll love it. If you liked it, but weren't exactly enthralled with it, chances are you'll think it has aged horribly. I happen to be in that latter camp. When I was 15 this was great. Now at 26 it's nothing more than slightly less annoying bro-rock. It's not without its moments, but you might want to stick with how you remember it sounding rather than taking the time to give it another spin with an older set of ears.
Sisyphus Sisyphus2.0
Owls Two4.0
GZA Liquid Swords5.0
Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II4.0
Cuban Linx II is the best Wu joint in years. Not only does it show off Rae and Co. at the top of their game, it features a wide range of A-List producers (J-Dilla, Dre, RZA, Necro, BT, and more) showing off their best beats.
Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...4.5
Ghostface Killah Twelve Reasons to Die4.0
Ghostface Killah Fishscale4.0
Ghostface Killah Supreme Clientele4.5
Ghostface Killah Ironman4.5
Freddie Gibbs and Madlib Pinata4.0
Pinata is everything a good collaboration should be. Freddie Gibbs returns to his role as
the last hard ass motherfucker in a mainstream rap universe that's about as threatening as
the bear in the Snuggle fabric softener commercials. His laid back drawl bounces in and out
of Madlib's chopped soul samples and Motown breaks with a streetwise nonchalance that is
reminiscent of Guru -- if only he came of age on a grizzled street corner instead of in
graduate classes. Madlib is in full on soul-jam mode. The jazzy experiments of his slew of
recent solo tapes is put on the back burner for a reprise of the chopped and sultry sounds
of mid-60's Detroit a la his collaborations with MF DOOM and Guilty Simpson. The final
result is somewhere between those two projects but no less immediate.
La Dispute Rooms of the House2.5
Cursed II4.5
Taking Back Sunday Happiness Is3.2
Angel Olsen Burn Your Fire for No Witness3.5
Perfect Pussy Say Yes to Love3.7
Poison the Well The Tropic Rot2.8
Morbus Chron Sweven2.0
Horse shit.
GridLink Longhena4.7
Propagandhi Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes4.5
Propagandhi Supporting Caste4.5
Propagandhi Failed States4.5
Comeback Kid Die Knowing3.5
Real Estate Atlas3.0
Thou Heathen4.5
The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream4.5
And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Titus Andronicus The Monitor5.0
Japandroids Celebration Rock5.0
Rick Ross Mastermind4.0
Rick Ross finally has an album that lives up to all of his show stealing guest spots.
ScHoolboy Q Oxymoron2.0
St. Vincent St. Vincent4.0
On one hand, St. Vincent is quite a good art-pop record. On the other, it sounds exactly like what you would expect a quite good art-pop record to sound like. I don't know if that says more about the creative strength and collective influences of Annie's contemporaries, or if it's that she's settled into a sound that she's comfortable with. Either way, it is quite a good art-pop record even if it lacks any real surprises.
Pusha T My Name Is My Name4.0
The Weeknd Trilogy3.0
Diarrhea Planet Loose Jewels4.0
the epitome of wonderful, stupid, lovely drunken fun.
Phantogram Voices3.9
Macintosh Plus Floral Shoppe1.5
The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There4.6
The first great pop punk record of the 2010's.


edit: dude above me makes the assumption The Story So Far aren't shit.
Masked Intruder Masked Intruder3.5
The Rival Mob Mob Justice4.1
Saosin Translating the Name4.7
Blu and Exile Give Me My Flowers While I Can Still Smell Them4.3
Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill4.5
Slough Feg Digital Resistance3.6
Modern Baseball You’re Gonna Miss It All2.3
Sparta Wiretap Scars4.5
Sun Kil Moon Benji2.5
edit: after three play throughs this has gone from tough but good to insufferable.
Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us2.8
Behemoth The Satanist3.7
Nothing Guilty of Everything3.6
Cap'n Jazz Shmap'n Shmazz5.0
Haymaker Let Them Rot3.9
Dum Dum Girls Too True3.3
Rapeman Two Nuns and a Pack Mule4.0
Seahaven Silhouette (Latin Skin)2.5
Marissa Nadler July4.3
Siege Drop Dead4.0
Seizures The Sanity Universal4.8
Throwdown Intolerance3.9
Dangers 5 O'Clock Shadows At The Edge Of The Western World2.8
Throwdown Haymaker4.5
Woods of Desolation As the Stars4.2
Warpaint Warpaint4.0
Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues4.5
Blonde Redhead Misery is a Butterfly4.0
You Blew It! Keep Doing What You’re Doing2.3
Bruce Springsteen High Hopes3.0
Van Morrison Moondance5.0
Alcest Shelter4.5
Perfect Pussy I have lost all desire for feeling4.6
Hey Alex, how does it feel to miss everything awesome and die alone?
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything4.5
Main Attrakionz 808s and Dark Grapes II2.5
John-Allison Weiss Say What You Mean (Sideways Sessions)3.3
Friendzone DX2.0
Really? REALLY?! smh
Julianna Barwick Nepenthe4.3
Lil B 05 Fuck Em4.1
Lil B is cool an all, but it's Keke The Adopted Tabby Cat who steals the show on "Hadouken". #MERRYBASEDMAS
Sharon Van Etten Tramp4.0
Sara Bareilles The Blessed Unrest4.0
Julia Holter Loud City Song4.4
Burial Rival Dealer4.1
Rival Dealer is a change of moods for Burial. While he has always been at his best in the past when channeling distance and longing, the songs on Rival Dealer are finally at peace with their surroundings. For the first time we finally get the Hollywood ending for Untrue's beautiful emptiness and Kindred's overwhelming confusion that we've been waiting for.
Busta Rhymes and Q-Tip The Abstract & The Dragon3.4
At this point in time I don't think anyone here expects greatness from either Busta or Q-Tip anymore (I mean shit, did you hear Arab Money? What a fucking shit stain that was) but what The Abstract and The Dragon brings us is two former greats 20 years removed from their primes taking an enjoyable look back on the style that made them famous. It's a fun little nostalgia trip, nothing more nothing less.
Self Defense Family Try Me4.5
The first must have record of 2014 is here and it's still 2013.
Bane Give Blood4.0
Townes Van Zandt Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas4.2
Gram Parsons GP3.9
Torres Torres4.0
Olivier Messiaen Quatuor Pour la Fin du Temps4.6
Igor Stravinsky Le Sacre du Printemps5.0
Title Fight Spring Songs2.7
I think Title Fight are one of those bands where I would rather listen to the sum of their influences than what they end up condensing them in to.
Sed Non Satiata Mappo3.0
Karlheinz Stockhausen Mantra3.8
Electric Masada At the Mountains of Madness4.0
John Zorn From Silence to Sorcery1.0
John Zorn Duras: Duchamp2.0
Don Cherry "mu" Second Part2.5
Sun Ra The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra2.5
Sun Ra The Nubians of Plutonia3.0
Thundercat Apocalypse4.0
Fire! Orchestra Exit!3.0
Pharoah Sanders Karma4.5
"The Creator Has a Master Plan" might just be the pinnacle of jazz as a medium of emotional art.
Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op.904.1
Igor Stravinsky L'Oiseau de feu "The Firebird"4.6
Bela Bartok Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sz 714.0
Bela Bartok Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Sz. 834.0
Alfred Schnittke String Quartet No. 34.0
Olivier Messiaen Des canyons aux etoiles4.0
Olivier Messiaen Turangalîla-Symphonie4.0
Arnold Schoenberg String Quartet No. 2, Op. 104.5
Arnold Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht, Op. 44.0
Anton Webern Complete Webern4.5
Arnold Schoenberg String Quartet No. 3, Op. 304.5
Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come5.0
The single most important album of the last 20 years.
A Wilhelm Scream Partycrasher3.4
Deftones Saturday Night Wrist4.5
Gaza No Absolutes in Human Suffering4.5
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Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World5.0
Hop Along Get Disowned4.5
State Faults Resonate/Desperate4.4
Arcade Fire Reflektor2.3
Sometimes I wish that one half of Funeral that was worth giving a shit over never happened so that these guys
would stop being fellated by the press as something valid.
Protest the Hero Volition3.5
AFI Burials3.6
Desperate Living I Think I'm Losing Touch3.0
Red City Radio Titles3.0
Tiles has its moments, but the hooks aren't anywhere near as infectious as their debut and the production is bizarrely thick.
Oranssi Pazuzu Valonielu4.1
Lunar Aurora Andacht4.0
Elysian Blaze Levitating the Carnal3.5
Elysian Blaze Blood Geometry4.5
Blood Of The Black Owl Light the Fires!3.5
Ordo Obsidium Orbis Tertius3.5
Sleeping Village Fragments4.0
Ritual Mess Ritual Mess3.5
His Hero Is Gone Monuments To Thieves4.5
Tragedy Vengeance4.0
Tragedy Darker Days Ahead1.5
Prurient The History of AIDS3.5
Prurient And Still, Wanting3.5
Black Flag Damaged4.5
Black Flag My War4.0
Minor Threat Out of Step4.0
Youth of Today We're Not In This Alone3.0
Judge What It Meant: The Complete Discography3.5
In My Eyes Nothing To Hide4.0
In My Eyes The Difference Between2.5
Botch American Nervoso4.0
Botch Unifying Themes Redux2.0
Botch An Anthology of Dead Ends5.0
Crossed Out 1990-19933.5
Dropdead 2nd LP3.0
Dropdead 1st LP3.5
Charles Bronson Complete Discocrappy4.0
Infest Mankind4.0
Infest Slave3.5
Infest No Man's Slave4.5
Spazz La Revancha2.5
Spazz Crush Kill Destroy4.5
Hatred Surge Deconstruct4.0
Hatred Surge Human Overdose2.5
Iron Lung Sexless // No Sex4.0
Red House Painters Red House Painters4.0
Red House Painters Red House Painters II2.5
Red House Painters Songs for a Blue Guitar4.0
Low C'Mon2.0
Low The Invisible Way1.0
Low Things We Lost in the Fire4.5
Low I Could Live in Hope4.5
Om God Is Good4.0
Om Advaitic Songs4.0
Om Conference of the Birds4.5
Sleep Sleep's Holy Mountain4.0
Cathedral The Garden Of Unearthly Delights2.0
Cathedral The Ethereal Mirror2.5
Saint Vitus C.O.D.2.5
Saint Vitus Die Healing2.5
Count Raven Mammons War2.0
Candlemass Nightfall4.5
Candlemass Chapter VI2.0
Candlemass Epicus Doomicus Metallicus4.0
My Dying Bride Turn Loose the Swans4.0
My Dying Bride The Dreadful Hours4.0
My Dying Bride A Map of All Our Failures3.0
Corrupted El Mundo Frio4.5
Corrupted Garten Der Unbewusstheit4.5
Garten Der Unbewusstheit gives Deafheaven's Roads to Judah a run for its money for the title of metal AOTY and the album's final track, the 30 minute "Gekkou No Daichi", is easily the single most powerful metal track of 2011.
Sunn O))) Dømkirke3.5
Nadja Touched4.5
Nadja Thaumogenesis4.0
Nadja Radiance of Shadows4.0
Nadja Dagdrøm3.5
The Angelic Process Weighing Souls With Sand4.5
Worship Dooom5.0
Skepticism Alloy3.5
Esoteric The Maniacal Vale4.0
Thou Peasant4.0
Mournful Congregation The June Frost4.5
Church of Misery Houses of the Unholy4.0
Worship Terranean Wake3.5
Pallbearer Sorrow And Extinction4.0
The Obsessed The Church Within4.0
Gris Il Était Une Forêt...4.5
Ash Borer Ash Borer4.0
Austere To Lay Like Old Ashes4.0
Saint Vitus Born Too Late4.0
Saint Vitus Saint Vitus4.5
Krieg Destruction Ritual4.0
Krieg The Isolationist4.0
Twilight Twilight3.5
Twilight Monument To Time End4.0
So far this is my metal aoty for 2010. Ditching Malefic and picking up Aaron Turner and Sanford Parker was the best thing that ever happened to this black/post metal behemoth.
Leviathan Massive Conspiracy Against All Life4.5
Forgotten Tomb Springtime Depression3.5
Forgotten Tomb Songs to Leave4.0
TotalSelfHatred TotalSelfHatred4.0
Trist (CZ) Zrcadlení melancholie4.0
Trist (CZ) Nostalgie3.5
Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger4.0
Darkthrone A Blaze in the Northern Sky4.5
Darkthrone Circle the Wagons3.5
No One Circles the Wagons Like the Buffalo Bills
Darkthrone The Underground Resistance4.0
Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss4.0
Burzum Filosofem4.5
Judas Iscariot To Embrace the Corpses Bleeding4.0
Judas Iscariot The Cold Earth Slept Below3.5
Anti The Insignificance of Life4.0
William Parker The Peach Orchard3.5
Peter Brotzmann Machine Gun4.0
Andrew Hill Point of Departure4.0
Albert Ayler Spiritual Unity4.0
Cecil Taylor Unit Structures4.5
Don Cherry Symphony for Improvisers4.0
Don Cherry Eternal Rhythm4.0
The New Tony Williams Lifetime Believe It4.0
Charles Mingus Mingus Ah Um3.5
Charles Mingus The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady4.5
Charles Mingus Let My Children Hear Music4.5
Ornette Coleman Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation4.5
Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come4.5
John Coltrane Ascension5.0
Ascension is the sound of two dueling quartets playing opposite of each other in a maddening crescendo of adventurous rhythms.
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV3.5
Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy5.0
Fleetwood Mac Rumours4.5
Dance Gavin Dance Acceptance Speech2.9
Superchunk I Hate Music4.6
I'm going to go out on a limb here and declare this the best thing Superchunk have ever done.
Fucked Up David Comes to Life4.7
did somebody just call American Idiot the best concept album ever? jeez, it's like anyone can get an account at sputnikmusic these days...
Lorde Pure Heroine2.3
Credit to Joel Little for knowing how to produce the piss out of a solid hook until it sharpens itself into a point that
lodges itself into your brain, but far too often nothing substantial hits and Ella's trying-oh-so-hard-to-be-clever
lyrics stumble in the three sizes too big shoes she wears in her game of electro-pop dress up.
Codeine The White Birch5.0
John-Allison Weiss Say What You Mean4.0
Saves the Day In Reverie4.5
Saves the Day Saves the Day2.0
Max Richter The Blue Notebooks4.5
Max Richter Recomposed: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons4.2
I love orchestral music, but I've never been the biggest fan of Vivaldi, especially his most well known piece Four Seasons. There's a level of pomp and bombast in Baroque music that has never really set well with me. Max Richter's "recomposition" completely discards everything baroque in his own Four Seasons. The end result isn't a celebration of the time of year like the original, but an introspective look at the feeling each season elicits. The melodies are all culled from Vivaldi's 1725 composition, but that's where the similarities end. If you're looking for something that follows the past to the tee, get Swoboda or Molinari's. If you're looking for something oh so familiar yet strikingly different, Richter has you covered.
Eluvium Copia4.0
Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline4.0
A Winged Victory for the Sullen A Winged Victory for the Sullen4.5
Drake Nothing Was the Same4.0
Touche Amore Is Survived By4.2
That guitar tone is just too good ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh *cum everywhere*
The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading3.0
The Dear Hunter Migrant2.0
Thrice The Illusion of Safety3.0
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II2.5
Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance3.5
Thrice Vheissu2.5
Electric Wizard Come My Fanatics...4.0
Electric Wizard Dopethrone4.5
Sleep Dopesmoker5.0
Ataraxie L'être et la Nausée4.0
Apathean Eve4.0
Drudkh Microcosmos3.5
Fen Dustwalker3.0
Woods of Desolation Torn Beyond Reason4.0
Coldworld Melancholie²4.0
Thy Light No Morrow Shall Dawn4.0
Sombres Forets La Mort du Soleil4.0
Gris À L'Âme Enflammée, L'Âme Constellée...4.0
Moving Mountains Moving Mountains2.0
I liked these guys better when they played poppy, emotive, post-rock influenced music. Not this adult contemporary snooze fest.
CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe4.0
I feel pretty when I listen to this.
Native Orthodox4.5
Baroness Yellow and Green4.0
The idea of a double album from Baroness was somewhat off putting at first, as each of their albums are so full of twists, turns, build ups and just plain old booming mischief that 18 tracks of it would be like running a marathon after finishing a triathlon. Yet thankfully Yellow and Green works. If one had been following the band it wouldn't be that much of a surprise that it does. Baizley has stated not only that the records would lack "edge", so to speak, but also would be much more straightforward. The songwriting is direct and to the point and Baizley's vocals are no longer burly mountain man shouts, but instead he shows off his clean vocal skills throughout. The sound is not only more "rock" oriented, but at times shows flashes of bands such as Cave In during their Perfect Pitch Black era in both mood and approach. It is definitely an interesting outing that is propelled by equal parts 70's influence and modern swagger. Fans of the riff oriented Baroness of old might be off put and understandably so, but for those looking for a quality rock and roll record look no further.
The Weeknd Kiss Land2.0
Even before Kiss Land was a topic on message boards, before Abel unsuccessfully tried to out jackass Kanye West, it was obvious that whatever he did next was going to be a slick and lifeless affair. His reworking of his near flawless Trilogy to make it uninteresting, clean, and safe enough for pop-rap radio play was the clarion call that it wasn't about the art, it wasn't about the sex, and it wasn't about the drugs; it was about how much of his art he could sacrifice to get more sex and more drugs. The answer on Kiss Land gives us is most of it. It's boring, it's bloated, and worst of all, it's comfortable. Mind-numbingly so.
Wheels Within Wheels The Six Months of the Northern Course of the Sun4.5
Okkervil River The Silver Gymnasium2.5
That feeling when you go to an old person's house and the only soda they have in the fridge is TAB. You know better but you grab a can anyways. It's still warm. Obviously it was sitting in the pantry up until a few minutes ago but they put it in the refrigerator because company was coming over. You crack it open and drink it. All you can think is, "Fuck this shitty aftertaste," but you're thirsty and drink the whole thing. Then you remember that TAB is sweetened with saccharine, not aspartame or Splenda, and that saccharine has been known to cause cancer in lab rats. Fucking saccharine.
calculator This Will Come To Pass4.0
Balance and Composure The Things We Think We're Missing4.0
Personally, I think this is by far the best thing they've ever done.
Into It. Over It. Proper3.5
Captain, We're Sinking The Future Is Cancelled3.5
The Future Is Canceled is equal parts The Menzingers immediacy, The Sidekicks emotive yelping, and Brand New circa 2003's punk rawk. I can dig it.
Iron Lung White Glove Test4.0
Morbid Angel Altars of Madness4.0
Kreator Coma of Souls3.5
Kreator Endorama1.0
Kreator Cause for Conflict2.0
Kreator Pleasure to Kill4.0
Celtic Frost Monotheist2.5
Bathory Octagon1.0
Bathory Blood on Ice3.0
Bathory Blood Fire Death4.5
Drudkh Autumn Aurora4.0
Hate Forest Purity3.5
Abyssic Hate Suicidal Emotions3.5
The Suicide File Some Mistakes You Never Stop Paying For4.0
The Hope Conspiracy Endnote3.0
On the shortlist of best hardcore albums of the last decade
American Nightmare We're Down Til We're Underground4.5
love it so much I took my band name from it. album slays
The Smiths Complete5.0
Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind4.5
Modern Life Is War Fever Hunting2.5
I was saying Boo-urns.
Carcass Surgical Steel4.0
Gorguts Colored Sands4.5
Eels Blinking Lights & Other Revelations4.5
Eels Electro-Shock Blues4.5
Jungbluth Part Ache4.0
The Weakerthans Reconstruction Site4.5
The Weakerthans Left and Leaving5.0
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels2.5
Summoning Old Mornings Dawn3.0
The Ocean Pelagial2.5
Touche Amore/Pianos Become the Teeth Split3.0
The Story So Far What You Don't See1.5
Tiny Moving Parts This Couch Is Long & Full of Friendship2.5
Sigur Ros Kveikur3.0
Superheaven Jar2.0
Brave Bird Maybe You, No One Else Worth It2.0
Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest2.5
I applaud what Boards of Canada are doing on this record. It brims with the eerie sounds of low budget films and documentaries that any one born in the 1980's should remember from when your grade school teacher used to wheel out the TV and VCR when he/she felt like not doing their job for an afternoon. The moods and textures that they're able to pull off while working in the austere confines of their obvious influences is quite astounding. That being said it really is a mood record. For a few tracks at a time it is wondrously trance inducing, but absorbed all at once it is furiously tedious. I think one's enjoyment of Tomorrow's Harvest comes not only from one's overall appreciation of the genre, but also to how much concentration one puts into finding and appreciating the small shifts in mood with each new layer in the tracks. Overall it's a good album, but not something I am an any rush to revisit any time soon unless as I prefer my zone outs to be more ethereal than adderall.
Misery Signals Absent Light2.0
Paysage d'Hiver Das Tor4.5
CityCop / Les Doux Family Ties/Labors of Love3.0
Nails Abandon All Life4.0
The World Is a Beautiful Place... Whenever, If Ever3.0
James Blake Overgrown3.5
Laura Stevenson Wheel3.0
While nowhere near as endearing as Sit, Resist and more refined than A Record, Wheel is a good album. Not bad, not great, but good.
Listener Time Is A Machine1.5
The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer3.0
Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork2.5
The National Trouble Will Find Me4.0
Deafheaven Sunbather5.0
I haven't been this floored by a record on my first play through since High Violet. It is the perfect microcosm of all my musical tastes elegantly placed together in a tightly wound, hour long ball of time that seems to pass effortlessly in an all too short instant.
Miles Davis In a Silent Way5.0
John Coltrane A Love Supreme5.0
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada5.0
Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada is the ultimate Godspeed You! Black Emperor release. It
takes everything the band has ever accomplished and condenses it into a half hour. It has
the intensity of Yanqui, the despair of F#A#, and the beauty of Lift Your
Skinny Fists
. It is the perfect example of the power that music can wield.
Do Make Say Think You, You're a History in Rust5.0
LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver5.0
Sound of Silver I love you and you're not bringing me down.
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