| Brand New Science Fiction | 5.0 |
| Honestly i expected this to be a massive let down after Mene and I am a nightmare, but lacey and crew went back to the drawing board and really outdid themselvesrelements of every other brand new album show up here, marinated in 8 years of life experience, and with a few new tricks thrown in amidst the chaos (Vin sings on track 5)rIf there is an album anyone deserves to 5 after 2 listens, it's this one. After growing up with this band and getting what feels like the last final goodbye from them, today is a really special moment |
| The Wonder Years No Closer to Heaven | 4.5 |
| is there a high quality leak of this floating around? |
| The Antlers Familiars | 4.0 |
| on repeated listens this record does exactly what the Antlers have always done best - create the perfect atmospheres - and punishing them for not being mind blowing is unfair |
| Manchester Orchestra Cope | 4.0 |
| Bump this in your car at full blast, and tell me that you don't have an erection. |
| Protest the Hero Volition | 4.0 |
| Mist is the kind of song I have been waiting for this band to make for years |
| Okkervil River The Silver Gymnasium | 4.5 |
| Will Shepp unleashes his most focused and dynamic effort since Black Sheep Boy, and you can't help but sing-along to his triumph |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 4.0 |
| a little summery black metal to go along with that little something in your lemonade |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me | 5.0 |
| Well, The Wonder Years had their 24 hours in the spotlight. If this isn't AOTY 2013 will be the best year in music of the past 10 years |
| The Wonder Years The Greatest Generation | 4.5 |
| I Just Want To Sell Out My Funeral is the song of the year |
| Frank Turner Tape Deck Heart | 4.5 |
| Hop Along Get Disowned | 4.0 |
| Sole and the Skyrider Band Hello Cruel World | 4.5 |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 4.5 |
| dredg Chuckles and Mr. Squeezy | 2.0 |
| a disjointed mess of a pop record that noone expected Dredg to make, and you know what, I kind of dig it. |
| letlive. Fake History (Re-Release) | 4.5 |
| listening to lemon party is almost as fantastic as attending an actual lemon party |
| Rise Against Endgame | 3.5 |
| halfway through and first listen, may eventually go up, some good moments but seems pretty stale |
| Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights | 5.0 |
| Tidal Arms The Sun Exploding | 4.0 |
| Very impressive for a debut album, Tidal arms are able to create many different types of soundscapes and come across sounding somewhat like Thrice, but a lot darker |
| Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows D.R.U.G.S. | 2.0 |
| this album is one of the most annoying things I have ever listened to, even if I didnt have a sex life i don't give a fuck about Craig's affairs with other dudes |
| A Skylit Drive Identity on Fire | 3.0 |
| Bayside Killing Time | 4.0 |
| album is catchy as hell, and is probably among their most consistent (i.e a step-up from the hit-or-miss shudder). Title Track, Mona Lisa, and It's Not A Bad little War are some of their best songs |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book | 5.0 |
| yes i know this is classic after 4 listens so stfu |
| Defeater Dear Father | 4.5 |
| Bright Eyes The People's Key | 4.0 |
| most solid Oberst material to come out in quite awhile |
| The Republic of Wolves Varuna | 4.5 |
| This is now streaming, and I have to say that it is easily one of the top albums released this year. Beautiful and cathartic at the same time, this is possibly one of the greatest debuts I have ever heard. Check it out and giving this any less than a 4 is just stupid |
| My Chemical Romance Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys | 2.5 |
| some decent songs, some really shitty ones. a letdown from black parade and three cheers |
| Alexisonfire Dog's Blood | 4.0 |
| This was awesome, for realz. They extended their song structures and added in an element of post-rock on songs like vex. |
| Make Do and Mend End Measured Mile | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz | 3.0 |
| sounds like electro-poop, sounds like electro-poop, sounds like electro-poop |
| Envy Recitation | 4.0 |
| pretty sweet, but the vocals sound kind of shitty. They do a good job switching between the post-rock and screamo dynamic, and also mix slower ambient songs with more upbeat tracks like "rain clouds...". definitely one of the best screamo outings of 2010. |
| Anberlin Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place | 4.0 |
| forget the negative hype, Anberlin has crafted an album with a subtly darker atmosphere leaving behind some of the filler happy go lucky tracks on new surrender. |
| Taking Back Sunday Live from Orensanz | 4.0 |
| The Felix Culpa Sever Your Roots | 4.5 |
| The National High Violet | 4.5 |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise | 4.5 |
| Rebuke Wouldworks | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow | 4.0 |
| The Republic of Wolves His Old Branches | 4.5 |
| Strike Anywhere Iron Front | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Addicted | 2.5 |
| Eleventh He Reaches London Hollow Be My Name | 4.5 |
| Thrice Beggars | 4.0 |
| Cormorant Metazoa | 4.5 |
| Brand New Daisy | 4.5 |
| Brand New come out with their loudest and most dense album yet making a third and unprecedented musical leap. Over time this might rival Devil and God for me even though it falls a bit short right now. Overall it flows better than any of its predecessors and im impressed. |
| The Roots Game Theory | 4.0 |
| Immortal Technique Revolutionary Volume 2 | 4.0 |
| Anaal Nathrakh In the Constellation of the Black Widow | 3.0 |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade | 3.5 |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron | 3.5 |
| Regina Spektor Far | 4.0 |
| Darkest Hour The Eternal Return | 4.0 |
| dredg Catch Without Arms | 4.5 |
| dredg El Cielo | 4.0 |
| dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings | 3.0 |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank | 3.5 |
| The Gathering The West Pole | 3.0 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Get Warmer | 3.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Album Minus Band | 3.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! To Leave or Die in Long Island | 4.0 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Scrambles | 4.0 |
| Heaven and Hell The Devil You Know | 3.5 |
| Green Day 21st Century Breakdown | 2.5 |
| Amorphis Silent Waters | 4.0 |
| Aiden Knives | 2.0 |
| Jeff Mangum Live at Jittery Joe's | 4.5 |
| Coalesce 0:12 Revolution in Just Listening | 3.5 |
| After the Burial Rareform | 2.0 |
| Pulling Teeth Paranoid Delusions/Paradise Illusions | 3.5 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 5.0 |
| Propagandhi Supporting Caste | 4.5 |
| Mudvayne The New Game | 1.5 |
| Bridge and Tunnel East/West | 4.0 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 5.0 |
| Mischief Brew Songs From Under the Sink | 3.5 |
| We The Kings We The Kings | 2.0 |
| you guys have to be kidding me, this album is so generic it makes me want to gag. |
| Alesana Where Myth Fades to Legend | 2.5 |
| Alesana On Frail Wings of Vanity and Wax | 3.0 |
| The Locust New Erections | 2.0 |
| Soulja Boy Souljaboytellem.com | 1.0 |
| The Flashbulb Soundtrack to a Vacant Life | 4.0 |
| Lights Out Asia Eyes Like Brontide | 3.0 |
| 5ive Hesperus | 3.5 |
| Fall Out Boy Folie a Deux | 3.0 |
| Arghoslent Hornets of the Pogrom | 4.0 |
| The Roots Rising Down | 3.5 |
| Two Gallants Two Gallants | 4.0 |
| Good Old War Only Way To Be Alone | 3.5 |
| The Riot Before Fists Buried In Pockets | 4.0 |
| Becoming The Archetype Terminate Damnation | 4.0 |
| Becoming The Archetype Dichotomy | 4.0 |
| The Drones Havilah | 4.5 |
| Strike Anywhere Change Is a Sound | 3.5 |
| Strike Anywhere Dead FM | 4.0 |
| Strike Anywhere To Live in Discontent | 3.5 |
| Strike Anywhere Exit English | 3.5 |
| Shangrala This Is How We Communicate | 4.5 |
| Okkervil River Down the River of Golden Dreams | 5.0 |
| there are few albums out there that posses this much introspection and this much lyrical accesibility provided by one of the greatest lyricists of all time william Sheff. This album stands out as okkervil rivers masterpiece backed by songs like "The Velocity of Saul at the Time of His Coversion" and "The War Criminal Rises and Speaks" the word epic is the only way to describe it. |
| Okkervil River The Stage Names | 3.5 |
| Okkervil River The Stand Ins | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica | 4.5 |
| Rise Against Appeal to Reason | 4.0 |
| Only Crime To The Nines | 3.0 |
| Only Crime Virulence | 3.5 |
| In Flames The Jester Race | 4.5 |
| In Flames Come Clarity | 4.0 |
| In Flames A Sense of Purpose | 3.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity Damage Done | 5.0 |
| State Radio Us Against the Crown | 4.0 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 3.5 |
| Metallica Metallica | 4.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Count Your Blessings | 2.0 |
| Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe | 4.0 |
| A Skylit Drive Wires...and the Concept of Breathing | 3.0 |
| Aiden Conviction | 2.0 |
| A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide | 4.0 |
| Paramore Riot! | 2.5 |
| i ahte all of the hype this generic as hell album has generated, but hayley williams is a really good singer. There is nothing on this album that isnt catchy, but there also isnt anything remotely interesting. |
| Darkest Hour Deliver Us | 4.5 |
| Underoath Define the Great Line | 4.5 |
| Protest the Hero Kezia | 4.5 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 4.0 |
