| Something For Kate Leave Your Soul To Science | 4.0 |
| Florence and the Machine Ceremonials | 3.5 |
| Tom Waits Bad As Me | 4.0 |
| Nothing Rhymes With David = | 3.5 |
| Wye Oak My Neighbor / My Creator | 4.0 |
| Nothing Rhymes With David Double Negative, All The Way! | 4.0 |
| Jebediah Kosciuszko | 4.5 |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book | 4.5 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 4.0 |
| Halfway To Forth Treasure For Memories | 4.0 |
| Cut Copy Zonoscope | 3.5 |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor | 4.5 |
| Toni Collette and The Finish Beautiful Awkward Pictures | 4.0 |
| The Jezabels Dark Storm | 3.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV | 3.5 |
| Tom Waits Small Change | 5.0 |
| The Cat Empire Cinema | 3.0 |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News | 4.0 |
| Nas Illmatic | 4.5 |
| Machine Head The Blackening | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz | 4.0 |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs | 3.5 |
| Susan Boyle The Gift | 1.5 |
| Trophy Scars Hospital Music for the Aesthetics of Language | 5.0 |
| Broken Social Scene Lo-Fi for the Dividing Nights | 3.0 |
| 10 half-baked ideas. Its as simple as that. They're good ideas, in some cases they're really good, but that's all they are: ideas. These songs were concocted on a whim during the recording of "World Sick" and no thought has been put into them past that. |
| Taylor Swift Speak Now | 3.5 |
| Monogrim / Slow Dreams 1300+ Miles of Sound | 3.5 |
| Florence and the Machine Lungs | 4.5 |
| Angus and Julia Stone Down the Way | 3.5 |
| Caleb McAlpine Science Fiction | 4.0 |
| Rosetta A Determinism of Morality | 4.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Bleed American | 4.0 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 4.0 |
| Parades Foreign Tapes | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 4.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens All Delighted People | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 4.0 |
| Atlas Weights Atlas Weights | 3.5 |
| Brand New Daisy | 4.0 |
| Eels Tomorrow Morning | 4.0 |
| Calling All Cars Hold, Hold, Fire | 3.5 |
| Laura Marling I Speak Because I Can | 4.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden The Final Frontier | 4.0 |
| Bad Religion 30 Years Live | 4.0 |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 4.0 |
| The Atlas Room, I Woke Up In Moscow JOS | 3.5 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt | 4.0 |
| Cults Cults 7" | 3.0 |
| Mos Def Black on Both Sides | 4.0 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 4.5 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Scream | 2.5 |
| Birds Of Tokyo Birds Of Tokyo | 3.5 |
| Unfathoms Sounds of an Islander's City... | 2.0 |
| Grating, meandering noise, "Sounds of an Islander's City, Touch of a Medieval Faerie" gets swallowed up by its own bloated concept. The tracks meld together into 9 minutes of mindless shrieking and static, occasionally twisting and turning into something worth listening to but never for long enough. |
| The National Alligator | 3.5 |
| The Mayan Factor In Lake 'CH | 4.0 |
| Kim Churchill With Sword & Shield | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey | 3.5 |
| The Weakerthans Reconstruction Site | 3.5 |
| The Weakerthans Fallow | 2.5 |
| Josh Groban Awake Live | 3.5 |
| He's actually not that bad a musician, he's just generic as hell. Every year they pump the same shit out for mother's day. He is nothing more then a passing fad for middle-aged women. I almost gave this a 4, then I realized that that implies that I actually want to watch this again. |
| The National Boxer | 4.5 |
| The National High Violet | 4.5 |
| The Strokes Is This It | 3.5 |
| Karnivool Themata | 4.0 |
| InApril Fields | 2.5 |
| Cloud Control Cloud Control | 4.0 |
| Static Colours Sun Swells | 3.5 |
| Owl City Ocean Eyes | 2.0 |
| Cloud Control Bliss Release | 4.0 |
| Eminem Recovery | 3.5 |
| Nothing Rhymes With David Beard Logic Riddles | 3.5 |
| Newton Faulkner Hand Built By Robots | 4.5 |
| Dead Letter Circus This Is The Warning | 4.0 |
| Tool Undertow | 4.0 |
| British India Avalanche | 3.0 |
| Something For Kate Echolalia | 4.0 |
| A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe | 3.0 |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms | 4.0 |
| Justin Bieber My World 2.0 | 2.0 |
| Taylor Swift Fearless | 3.0 |
| Broken Social Scene Forgiveness Rock Record | 4.0 |
| Jose Gonzalez Veneer | 4.0 |
| Moby Play | 3.5 |
| Megadeth Endgame | 3.5 |
| Sarah Blasko The Overture & The Underscore | 4.0 |
| John Butler Trio April Uprising | 3.5 |
| April Uprising is a conundrum in music form. On the one hand you have The John Butler Trio's back catalogue when considering how to approach it. If the only reason you got into JBT was because of John Butler's guitar, then avoid this album. If you like alternative rock music, or a little bit of folk (Iron and Wine sound familiar?) then this is your thing. The reason is this: John Butler has decided that, rather then using his usual finger-picking style, he's going to use rock riffs and chord progressions that wouldn't be out of a place on an Eskimo Joe album. You've probably guessed this by now but April Uprising is very commercial. The choruses are catchy to the point of stupidity and the riffs revolved more around being "fun" then showing any kind of technical skill. |
| A (UK) Hi-Fi Serious | 3.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend | 3.5 |
| Obadiah Parker Obadiah Parker Live | 4.5 |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step | 4.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Contra | 3.5 |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak | 3.5 |
| Bluejuice Head of The Hawk | 4.0 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 4.0 |
| Birds Of Tokyo Universes | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 3.5 |
| Something For Kate The Official Fiction | 4.0 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 4.5 |
| The Dresden Dolls Yes, Virginia... | 3.5 |
| Silverchair Neon Ballroom | 4.0 |
| Joss Stone The Soul Sessions | 3.5 |
| Silverchair Freak Show | 3.5 |
| John Butler Trio John Butler | 4.5 |
| Hilltop Hoods The Hard Road Restrung | 3.5 |
| Hilltop Hoods Left Foot, Right Foot | 3.0 |
| Hilltop Hoods The Hard Road | 3.5 |
| Hilltop Hoods The Calling | 3.5 |
| Hilltop Hoods State of the Art | 4.5 |
| Weezer Pinkerton | 4.0 |
| Lisa Mitchell Wonder | 4.0 |
| Mammal The Majority | 4.0 |
| Sarah Blasko What the Sea Wants, the Sea Will Have | 4.5 |
| John Butler Trio Three | 4.5 |
| John Butler Trio Grand National | 4.0 |
| Definitely not his best (three tracks on his wife? Come on Butler, its sweet, but two would have been enough) but nevertheless outstanding. |
| Ben Folds Way To Normal | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Flight 666 (DVD) | 4.5 |
| Alanis Morissette Under Rug Swept | 4.0 |
| Arch Enemy Anthems of Rebellion | 3.5 |
| Rise Against Appeal to Reason | 3.5 |
| Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People | 4.5 |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP | 4.5 |
| Faker Be The Twilight | 4.0 |
| David Gray White Ladder | 3.5 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 4.5 |
| The Vines Winning Days | 3.5 |
| Mumford and Sons Sigh No More | 3.5 |
| Bob Evans Goodnight, Bull Creek! | 4.0 |
| A stepup from his debut solo effort, Goodnight Bull Creek shows Bob Evans (A.K.A Kevin Mitchell) saying "goodbye to the suburbs" (Bull Creek is the suburb of Perth where he grew up) and creating a more rock orientated album. His sophomore effort is noticably less generic then "Suburban Songbook", which I felt was too frighteningly close to the work of Badly Drawn Boy to be worth anything more than the price of admission. It appears turning his back on the suburbs has been a good move for Mitchell, as GBC is a much more enjoyable album. |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas | 4.0 |
| Eleventh He Reaches London Hollow Be My Name | 4.0 |
| James Morrison Undiscovered | 3.5 |
| Bob Evans Suburban Songbook | 3.5 |
| Karnivool Sound Awake | 4.5 |
| Tool Lateralus | 4.0 |
| Paul Dempsey Counterfeits and Forgeries | 3.0 |
| Lisa Mitchell Said One to the Other | 3.5 |
| Eskimo Joe A Song Is A City | 4.0 |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 4.0 |
| The Screaming Jets All For One | 3.0 |
| Nickelback All the Right Reasons | 3.0 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 3.5 |
| Powderfinger Golden Rule | 4.0 |
| DevilDriver Pray for Villains | 4.0 |
| Coalesce OX EP | 4.0 |
| Roadrunner United The All-Star Sessions | 4.0 |
| Murderdolls Beyond The Valley of the Murderdolls | 3.5 |
| DevilDriver The Fury of Our Maker's Hand | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Michigan | 4.0 |
| Nickelback The State | 3.5 |
| Nickelback Curb | 3.0 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 4.5 |
| Trivium The Crusade | 2.5 |
| Paperprophets Paperprophets EP | 4.5 |
| Cirque Du Soleil Quidam | 4.5 |
| Opeth Watershed | 3.5 |
| Tool Ænima | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 4.0 |
| Santana Supernatural | 3.5 |
| Simple Plan Still Not Getting Any... | 1.5 |
| Radiohead The Best Of | 4.0 |
| Regina Spektor Far | 4.5 |
| Nightwish Dark Passion Play | 3.5 |
| The Idea Of North The Idea Of North | 4.5 |
| Ezekiel Ox Winter In Suburbia | 4.0 |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness | 4.0 |
| Paul Dempsey Everything Is True | 5.0 |
| The Middle East The Recordings of the Middle East | 4.5 |
| Mammal Mammal | 4.0 |
| Dido Life For Rent | 4.0 |
| Opeth Still Life | 4.5 |
| HIM Venus Doom | 4.0 |
| Metallica Metallica | 4.0 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 4.5 |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 3.5 |
| Eminem Encore | 2.5 |
| Clutch Blast Tyrant | 4.0 |
| Fatboy Slim Why Try Harder | 4.0 |
| Bernard Carney No Time Like The Future | 4.0 |
| Sometimes touching (Cassandra's Lullaby), sometimes funny (The Bronchiodilated Blues), but always beautiful. Bernard Carney and Peter Grayling's seemless mixing of guitar and Cello create some truly wondeful sounds. There are a few rehashes of old songs, as well as a few lovely covers of old jazz tunes, to go along with the original tracks that are present. I highly recommend this to anyone who likes folk music, old dance tunes (Fred Astaire's "Cheek To Cheek"), or simply a classy mix of songs everyone can pick something out of. |
| Seether One Cold Night | 4.0 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 3.5 |
| Creed Human Clay | 3.5 |
| The Killers Hot Fuss | 3.5 |
| Stone Sour Come What(ever) May | 4.0 |
| Staind Break The Cycle | 3.5 |
| Nickelback Dark Horse | 2.5 |
| Nightwish Once | 4.5 |
| Theory of a Deadman Gasoline | 3.0 |
| Yann Tiersen Le fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain | 5.0 |
| The Black Eyed Peas Elephunk | 2.5 |
| Matchbox Twenty Exile on Mainstream | 4.0 |
| Evanescence Fallen | 3.0 |
| Powderfinger Vulture Street | 4.5 |
| Powderfinger Dream Days At The Hotel Existence | 3.5 |
| Enya The Memory of Trees | 4.0 |
| John Butler Trio Sunrise Over Sea | 5.0 |
| A new lineup proves to be the best thing for The John Butler Trio, as Sunrise Over Sea excels in all the right areas while still remaining accessible. |
