| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 4.0 |
| I enjoy this album best listening to it drunk. And that's saying more than it sounds like. It's still not all people crack it up to be on this site. But it's not bad, and has its epic, poignant moments. |
| Dance Gavin Dance Whatever I Say Is Royal Ocean | 3.5 |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me | 3.5 |
| AJJ Knife Man | 4.5 |
| Dr. Octagon Dr. Octagonecologyst | 4.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city | 5.0 |
| fun. Aim and Ignite | 3.5 |
| Nas Illmatic | 4.5 |
| Atmosphere When Life Gives You Lemons... | 4.0 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 4.0 |
| The Shins Wincing the Night Away | 3.0 |
| The Shins Oh, Inverted World | 3.5 |
| The Shins Chutes Too Narrow | 4.0 |
| Emarosa Relativity | 2.0 |
| Emarosa This Is Your Way Out | 2.0 |
| maudlin of the Well Part the Second | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica | 3.0 |
| Damiera Quiet Mouth Loud Hands | 3.0 |
| Senses Fail Still Searching (Deluxe Edition) | 4.0 |
| Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates | 4.0 |
| From First to Last Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count | 3.5 |
| Chiodos All's Well That Ends Well | 4.0 |
| Hella Hold Your Horse Is | 3.0 |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues | 2.0 |
| Joanna Newsom Have One on Me | 4.0 |
| Paramore Riot! | 2.5 |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine | 3.0 |
| Interpol Antics | 3.5 |
| Jack Johnson Sleep Through the Static | 1.5 |
| Jack Johnson To the Sea | 1.5 |
| Jack Johnson On and On | 2.0 |
| The Killers Hot Fuss | 4.0 |
| Rx Bandits Mandala | 4.0 |
| Rx Bandits ...And the Battle Begun | 3.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend | 3.0 |
| Girl Talk Feed the Animals | 3.5 |
| Catchy as hell. Since you've heard it all before, from the first listen it's already grown on you. And yet it's still innovative, for the most part. Certainly better than the sum of its parts. |
| Coldplay X&Y | 2.5 |
| Karen O and the Kids Where the Wild Things Are OST | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Thrill Seeker | 3.5 |
| The National High Violet | 4.0 |
| Tricky Maxinquaye | 3.0 |
| The Weakerthans Reconstruction Site | 4.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare | 2.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not | 3.0 |
| The Weakerthans Left and Leaving | 3.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 3.5 |
| Texas Is the Reason Do You Know Who You Are? | 4.0 |
| Richard Cheese The Sunny Side of the Moon | 2.5 |
| Evokes a smile or a hearty chuckle once in a while. Worth a listen or two. I especially enjoyed his parody of Slipknot's colorful song People = S*** and of U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday. |
| The Avalanches Since I Left You | 2.0 |
| While there are definitely pleasant creative pockets throughout this album, overall I don't find it to be nearly as inspired as people make it out to be. Frontier Psychiatry is probably the only track I get into, but even it, the stand-out track, isn't that great. It must have been arduous and fun to piece together, and that's a pity, because it amounted to something I don't think I'll ever be happy to listen to. Perhaps this just isn't my genre, but I think my discontent counts for something, even if it's just the inevitable "this isn't for everyone" voice. |
| American Football American Football | 3.0 |
| My attention seems to ALWAYS stray, several times, while listening to this album. Certain parts simply bore me, and slip by without leaving anything memorable behind. Some people enjoy getting lost in the long minimalist sections. I think they could have been a great deal more interesting. If you like the sound this band spawned (and they really deserve that credit), I would recommend that you explore the band This Town Needs Guns--it is an all-around better version of American Football IMHO. |
| The Album Leaf In A Safe Place | 3.0 |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming | 2.5 |
| With all the hype, I expected much more out of this album. Recommended tracks: My Tears Are Becoming A Sea; Where The Boats Go; Wait; Train To Pluton; Year One, One UFO; Echoes of Mine. |
| John Mayer Continuum | 2.5 |
| People need to differentiate between John Mayer's guitar-prowess and the overall enjoyability of his songwriting. I agree that he is a master of his instrument, but his songs and albums exist in a different sphere of judgement. It seems I am in the minority (at least on sputnik), but his music either fails to grab my attention in any compelling way or makes me cringe when it does grab my attention. What some perceive as subtle, heartfelt soul via well-crafted blues I perceive as excruciating John-Mayer-getting-off-to-John-Mayer. All that said, I think Continuum is probably his best album yet, so if you like his sound you should look into it... |
| Animal Collective Strawberry Jam | 2.0 |
| Creative, yes. Good, no. Almost nothing of Animal Collective's eclectic sound comes across as compelling or particularly inspired. |
| Okkervil River Don't Fall In Love With Everyone You See | 3.5 |
| Edward Lasher A Phantom Whines Pt. 2 | 4.0 |
| Recommended tracks: Maryland, Maryland; Trazodone Shuffle; Get Untethered; In Caves. |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Diary | 4.0 |
| Saves the Day Stay What You Are | 4.0 |
| Bob Dylan The Times They Are A-Changin' | 3.5 |
| Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited | 4.0 |
| Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde | 4.0 |
| Tool Ænima | 4.0 |
| Blonde Redhead Misery is a Butterfly | 3.5 |
| Blonde Redhead 23 | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Under the Running Board | 4.0 |
| 4/5 for length. Otherwise it could be a 4.5/5 or 5/5. |
| The Dear Hunter Act I: The Lake South, the River North | 2.0 |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry | 4.0 |
| My Morning Jacket Z | 2.5 |
| Recommended tracks: Dondante, Gideon, What a Wonderful Man, Anytime |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Mongrel | 3.5 |
| This band's music is brilliant but lacks listenability. I love the intensity of screamo, but something about this is almost too abrasive for anything more than a brief listen. Great car-music though. |
| The National Alligator | 4.5 |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible | 2.5 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain | 3.0 |
| Five Minute Ride The World Needs Convincing... | 3.5 |
| Reminds me of early Dance Gavin Dance. Very Energetic. Wish they would mature a little and make like two more albums' worth of music. |
| Emmy Rossum Inside Out | 2.0 |
| Deftones Around the Fur | 3.5 |
| Deftones Deftones | 3.5 |
| Girl Talk Night Ripper | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 | 4.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade | 4.0 |
| TTNG Animals | 4.0 |
| Andrew W.K. I Get Wet | 2.0 |
| Ghosts and Vodka Addicts and Drunks | 3.0 |
| The Most Serene Republic Population | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News | 4.0 |
| 311 Uplifter | 2.0 |
| I am the Ocean ...And Your City Needs Swallowing | 2.5 |
| Helms The Swimmer | 3.5 |
| From First to Last Aesthetic | 3.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Contra | 2.5 |
| Maps and Atlases Tree, Swallows, Houses | 3.5 |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists | 2.0 |
| Xiu Xiu Fabulous Muscles | 3.5 |
| The Kooks Inside In/Inside Out | 3.0 |
| Naive is an awesome song. The rest I can take or leave, for the most part. |
| Howard Shore The Lord of the Rings: Complete Trilogy | 5.0 |
| High School Musical High School Musical | 1.0 |
| High School Musical High School Musical 2 | 1.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Pikul | 3.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas | 4.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon | 4.0 |
| The Strokes Is This It | 3.5 |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket | 4.0 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains Dirt | 2.5 |
| Scale the Summit The Collective | 2.5 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 4.5 |
| bygones by- | 3.5 |
| blink-182 Buddha | 2.0 |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting Tiger and the Duke | 4.0 |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting The Ocean and the Sun | 4.0 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 3.0 |
| Evanescence Fallen | 2.0 |
| 311 Don't Tread On Me | 3.5 |
| 311 Evolver | 4.0 |
| Tera Melos Patagonian Rats | 3.5 |
| Joanna Newsom Ys | 4.5 |
| Deftones Adrenaline | 4.0 |
| Deftones White Pony | 4.0 |
| Disturbed The Sickness | 3.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen | 4.5 |
| Bear vs. Shark Terrorhawk | 4.0 |
| Bear vs. Shark Right Now You're in the Best of Hands | 4.5 |
| Gin Blossoms New Miserable Experience | 3.0 |
| Rammstein Mutter | 3.5 |
| Kid Cudi Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager | 3.0 |
| Kid Cudi Man on the Moon: The End of Day | 4.0 |
| Piglet lava land | 4.5 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 4.0 |
| Creed Human Clay | 1.5 |
| Band of Horses Cease to Begin | 3.5 |
| Secret And Whisper Great White Whale | 3.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Light Grenades | 2.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) A Crow Left of the Murder... | 3.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View | 4.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E. | 4.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself | 4.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Fungus Amongus | 3.5 |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger | 3.5 |
| 311 Greatest Hits | 4.5 |
| Trivium Ascendancy | 2.5 |
| Damiera M(US)IC | 4.5 |
| Band of Horses Everything All the Time | 3.5 |
| Box Car Racer Box Car Racer | 4.0 |
| The National Boxer | 5.0 |
| This album just grows and grows and grows and grows and grows. |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 4.0 |
| Dispatch Bang Bang | 4.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity | 4.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine | 5.0 |
| Definitely the most accessible and, in my opinion, the most successful of DEP's albums. There's a variety of brilliance for the uninitiated and the fans alike. Make sure you listen to this album at least a few times before you set it aside; it must be digested before it even becomes intelligible, but when you begin to actually hear what's being played and are able to anticipate what comes next, something clicks, and you realize each song is well written despite all the dense, technical bombardment. |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 3.5 |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders | 3.5 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 4.0 |
| Tool Lateralus | 5.0 |
| By The End Of Tonight/Tera Melos Complex Full of Phantoms | 4.5 |
| The 4.5/5 rating comes as an average of the album's two halves (Tera Melos 5/5, By The End Of Tonight 4/5) |
| Tera Melos Demo | 4.0 |
| Tera Melos Drugs to the Dear Youth | 5.0 |
| Tera Melos Idioms, Vol. 1 | 3.0 |
| Tera Melos Untitled | 5.0 |
