| Squeamish Hammerhead | 3.5 |
| Icarus the Owl Love Always, Leviathan | 3.0 |
| Mutilation Rites Empyrean | 4.0 |
| Kehlvin The Orchard of Forking Paths | 3.0 |
| Royal Headache Royal Headache | 3.5 |
| Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Orange | 3.5 |
| The Afghan Whigs Gentlemen | 3.0 |
| Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward | 3.5 |
| Kayo Dot Coyote | 3.0 |
| Fago.Sepia The Resume | 3.5 |
| Earth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II | 3.5 |
| Joyce Manor Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired | 2.5 |
| My Winter Nerve Leave it to Science to Solve All Your Problems | 3.5 |
| High on Fire De Vermis Mysteriis | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet | 3.5 |
| Q and Not U No Kill No Beep Beep | 3.5 |
| Gangrene Vodka & Ayahuasca | 4.0 |
| Daytrader Twelve Years | 3.0 |
| The Avett Brothers Emotionalism | 3.0 |
| The Men Open Your Heart | 3.5 |
| Lungfish The Unanimous Hour | 4.0 |
| Maps and Atlases Beware and Be Grateful | 3.0 |
| Pop. 1280 The Horror | 3.0 |
| Cloud Nothings Attack on Memory | 4.0 |
| Boris Attention Please | 2.5 |
| Nujabes Spiritual State | 3.5 |
| Algernon Cadwallader Parrot Flies | 3.5 |
| The Roots undun | 3.0 |
| Shabazz Palaces Black Up | 3.0 |
| SBTRKT SBTRKT | 3.5 |
| Followed By Ghosts Still, Here | 3.0 |
| Joyce Manor Joyce Manor | 4.0 |
| Liturgy Aesthethica | 3.0 |
| Opeth Heritage | 3.5 |
| Cynic Focus | 3.5 |
| Cynic Re-Traced | 3.0 |
| Cynic Traced in Air | 3.5 |
| Cynic Carbon-Based Anatomy | 4.0 |
| Mastodon The Hunter | 3.5 |
| Sleepytime Trio Memory Minus | 3.5 |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming | 3.5 |
| Black Tusk Set The Dial | 3.5 |
| Bluetip Polymer | 3.0 |
| Decahedron Disconnection Imminent | 3.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage | 3.5 |
| AJJ Knife Man | 3.0 |
| Tammar Visits | 2.5 |
| La Dispute Wildlife | 2.5 |
| 2562 Unbalance | 3.5 |
| Two Lone Swordsmen The Fifth Mission Return to the Flightpath Estate | 4.0 |
| The Atlas Moth An Ache for the Distance | 2.0 |
| Beirut The Rip Tide | 3.0 |
| Frightened Rabbit The Winter of Mixed Drinks | 2.5 |
| Trampled By Turtles Palomino | 3.5 |
| Black Star Black Star | 4.0 |
| Skeletonwitch Forever Abomination | 3.5 |
| Scuba DJ-Kicks: Scuba | 4.0 |
| Gillian Welch The Harrow And The Harvest | 4.0 |
| Pig Destroyer Phantom Limb | 4.0 |
| Anti-Flag For Blood and Empire | 2.5 |
| Pinebender Working Nine to Wolf | 3.5 |
| Light Bearer Lapsus | 3.0 |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Black Earth | 3.5 |
| The Psychic Paramount II | 3.0 |
| Hot Cross Risk Revival | 3.5 |
| Iselia Life From Dead Limbs | 3.0 |
| The Men Leave Home | 4.0 |
| Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsys | 4.5 |
| Atmosphere Seven's Travels | 3.5 |
| Black Flag Damaged | 4.0 |
| Pissed Jeans King of Jeans | 3.5 |
| Wugazi 13 Chambers | 3.5 |
| Crash of Rhinos Distal | 4.0 |
| Moving Mountains Pneuma | 4.0 |
| Earth Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version | 5.0 |
| Lifter Puller Half Dead and Dynamite | 3.0 |
| Lifter Puller Fiestas and Fiascos | 3.5 |
| Ted Leo and the Pharmacists Hearts of Oak | 3.5 |
| Ted Leo and the Pharmacists The Tyranny of Distance | 3.5 |
| Earth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I | 4.0 |
| Kyuss Blues for the Red Sun | 4.0 |
| Dick Dale King Of The Surf Guitar - The Best Of | 4.5 |
| Propellerheads Decksandrumsandrockandroll | 3.0 |
| Bardo Pond Dilate | 4.0 |
| Bardo Pond Lapsed | 3.5 |
| Hank Mobley Workout | 4.0 |
| Cities Aviv Digital Lows | 3.5 |
| Fu Manchu The Action is Go | 3.0 |
| Off Minor Some Blood | 3.5 |
| Blue Sky Black Death NOIR | 4.0 |
| Florence and the Machine Lungs | 3.5 |
| Bat For Lashes Two Suns | 3.0 |
| Portraits Of Past Discography | 4.0 |
| Integrity To Die For | 3.5 |
| Sonny Sharrock Ask the Ages | 3.5 |
| Last Exit Last Exit | 3.5 |
| Ghostpoet Peanut Butter Blues and Melancholy Jam | 4.0 |
| Past Lives Strange Symmetry | 3.5 |
| Past Lives Tapestry of Webs | 4.0 |
| Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 | 3.5 |
| Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables | 4.0 |
| Lo-Pan Salvador | 3.5 |
| Fishbone Fishbone | 3.5 |
| Menomena Friend And Foe | 3.5 |
| Fucked Up David Comes to Life | 3.5 |
| Corey Wilkes Drop It | 3.5 |
| Herbie Hancock Head Hunters | 4.0 |
| Herbie Hancock Mwandishi | 3.5 |
| Grant Green Solid | 4.5 |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron | 3.0 |
| The Clash London Calling | 5.0 |
| De La Soul 3 Feet High and Rising | 4.0 |
| Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back | 4.5 |
| Nas Illmatic | 4.0 |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die | 4.5 |
| Public Enemy Fear of a Black Planet | 5.0 |
| Hungry For Hands I Was Hungry For Hands | 3.5 |
| Weekend Nachos Worthless | 3.5 |
| Hella Hold Your Horse Is | 3.5 |
| Hella There's No 666 In Outer Space | 3.0 |
| blink. The Epidemic of Ideas | 4.0 |
| Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come | 4.0 |
| They Might Be Giants Flood | 3.5 |
| Charles Mingus The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady | 4.0 |
| Thelonious Monk Monk's Dream | 4.5 |
| Weather Report Heavy Weather | 3.5 |
| John Coltrane Blue Train | 4.5 |
| Beau Navire Hours | 3.5 |
| Iselia Adaptations | 3.0 |
| Hot Water Music Fuel for the Hate Game | 4.0 |
| Joanna Newsom Ys | 3.5 |
| Laura Stevenson Sit Resist | 4.0 |
| Daytrader Last Days of Rome | 3.5 |
| Ride Nowhere | 3.5 |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain | 3.5 |
| De Magia Veterum The Divine Antithesis | 3.0 |
| The Fertility Cult Eschatology | 3.0 |
| Krallice Diotima | 3.5 |
| Les Savy Fav Inches | 3.5 |
| Jesu Ascension | 4.0 |
| Okkervil River I Am Very Far | 4.0 |
| More Than Life Love Let Me Go | 3.0 |
| Set Your Goals This Will Be the Death of Us | 2.5 |
| Beirut Lon Gisland | 3.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor John Peel Sessions | 4.0 |
| The Blood Brothers ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn | 4.0 |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues | 3.0 |
| Deafheaven Roads to Judah | 4.0 |
| Don Caballero Don Caballero II | 3.0 |
| Don Caballero For Respect | 3.5 |
| Buzzcocks Singles Going Steady | 4.5 |
| Okkervil River Stars Too Small To Use | 3.0 |
| Los Campesinos! Hold On Now, Youngster... | 3.5 |
| Battles Gloss Drop | 3.0 |
| Slint Spiderland | 5.0 |
| Electric Masada 50th Birthday Celebration Volume Four | 4.0 |
| Masada Beit | 3.5 |
| Naked City Naked City | 3.5 |
| The Pax Cecilia Nouveau | 3.0 |
| Fucked Up Hidden World | 3.5 |
| Unwound Repetition | 4.0 |
| Unwound Challenge For a Civilized Society | 4.0 |
| Kaiser Chiefs Employment | 2.5 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | 3.5 |
| Deerhunter Microcastle | 3.5 |
| Zu Carboniferous | 3.5 |
| Oxbow An Evil Heat | 4.0 |
| Dispatch Bang Bang | 3.5 |
| Bastro Sing the Troubled Beast | 3.5 |
| Underworld dubnobasswithmyheadman | 3.5 |
| The Chemical Brothers Dig Your Own Hole | 4.0 |
| Boom Boom Satellites Out Loud | 3.5 |
| Dave Matthews Band Under The Table And Dreaming | 3.0 |
| The Gaslight Anthem American Slang | 3.5 |
| The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound | 4.0 |
| Against Me! Reinventing Axl Rose | 3.0 |
| AJJ People Who Can Eat People are the Luckiest People | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues | 3.0 |
| Yeasayer All Hour Cymbals | 2.5 |
| MGMT Oracular Spectacular | 3.5 |
| Don Caballero What Burns Never Returns | 4.0 |
| Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures | 3.0 |
| Anamanaguchi Power Supply | 3.5 |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning | 3.5 |
| Swan Lake Beast Moans | 2.5 |
| Spirit Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus | 4.0 |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye | 3.5 |
| Karmakanic Who's the Boss in the Factory? | 3.0 |
| Gong Camembert Electrique | 3.5 |
| Frodus And We Washed Our Weapons In The Sea | 3.0 |
| Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Trout Mask Replica | 5.0 |
| Neu! Neu! | 4.0 |
| Can Tago Mago | 5.0 |
| Amon Tobin Bricolage | 4.0 |
| Koenji Hyakkei Angherr Shisspa | 4.0 |
| Koenji Hyakkei Nivraym | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Wall | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd Animals | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 4.0 |
| Yes Fragile | 4.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication | 3.5 |
| Envy All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead | 4.0 |
| Envy Abyssal | 3.5 |
| Descendents Milo Goes to College | 5.0 |
| House Boat The Delaware Octopus | 2.0 |
| Genesis The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway | 4.0 |
| Beardfish Mammoth | 3.5 |
| The Airborne Toxic Event The Airborne Toxic Event | 2.5 |
| Racebannon Satan's Kickin' Yr Dick In | 3.5 |
| Racebannon First There Was the Emptiness | 3.0 |
| Baroness Second | 3.0 |
| Baroness First | 3.0 |
| Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights | 2.5 |
| Daughters Daughters | 4.0 |
| Soft Machine Third | 4.0 |
| Boris New Album | 3.0 |
| I was all set to hate this album. I mean, let's be honest, who wants j-pop from Boris? However as soon as I heard Takeshi's giddy vocals on the first track I couldn't help but smile. From then out Boris pull out every cliched trick in the book, from corny synths to club friendly drum machines. But they sincerely sound like they're having such a good time that I can't fault them for it. |
| Explosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take Care | 2.5 |
| Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot | 3.5 |
| The Walkmen Bows + Arrows | 3.5 |
| Discharge Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing | 4.0 |
| Black Mountain Black Mountain | 3.0 |
| Rites of Spring End on End | 4.5 |
| Sebadoh III | 3.5 |
| The American Analog Set Know By Heart | 3.5 |
| Okkervil River Sleep and Wake-Up Songs | 3.5 |
| Okkervil River Black Sheep Boy Appendix | 3.5 |
| Velella Velella The Bay of Biscay | 3.5 |
| Okkervil River Mermaid | 3.5 |
| Grails Black Tar Prophecies, Vols. I, II & III | 3.0 |
| Grails Deep Politics | 3.0 |
| The Dodos Visiter | 4.0 |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma | 3.5 |
| Swervedriver Mezcal Head | 3.5 |
| The Feelies Crazy Rhythms | 4.0 |
| Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca | 3.5 |
| Weakling Dead as Dreams | 4.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars | 4.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Takk... | 3.0 |
| Defiance, Ohio The Fear, The Fear, The Fear | 3.5 |
| Talking Heads Remain in Light | 4.0 |
| Mission of Burma Vs. | 4.0 |
| The Replacements Let It Be | 3.5 |
| Belle and Sebastian If You're Feeling Sinister | 4.0 |
| Fugazi The Argument | 3.5 |
| Fugazi Red Medicine | 4.0 |
| Fugazi Furniture | 3.0 |
| Fugazi Repeater | 3.0 |
| Husker Du Zen Arcade | 4.5 |
| Fennesz Black Sea | 4.0 |
| Tim Hecker Harmony in Ultraviolet | 4.0 |
| Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline | 4.0 |
| Boris With Merzbow Klatter | 3.0 |
| The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Ska-Core, The Devil, and More | 3.5 |
| The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Let's Face It | 3.5 |
| The Sight Below It All Falls Apart | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Kezia | 2.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought | 3.0 |
| Symphony X Paradise Lost | 3.0 |
| Iron Maiden Brave New World | 2.5 |
| GZA Liquid Swords | 4.0 |
| Yuck Yuck | 3.5 |
| Japandroids Post-Nothing | 4.0 |
| Texas Is the Reason Do You Know Who You Are? | 3.0 |
| The Roots Rising Down | 3.5 |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Diary | 4.5 |
| Maximillian Colby Discography | 4.0 |
| Knapsack This Conversation Is Ending Starting Right Now | 4.0 |
| Mihai Edrisch Un Jour Sans Lendemain | 3.0 |
| Aussitot Mort Montuenga | 3.0 |
| Moss Icon Lyburnum Wits End Liberation Fly | 4.5 |
| Kodan Armada A Collection Of Songs | 3.5 |
| Orchid Orchid | 3.0 |
| Beau Navire Life Moves | 3.0 |
| Indian Summer Discography | 4.0 |
| Saetia A Retrospective | 5.0 |
| Margot and the Nuclear So and So's The Dust of Retreat | 4.0 |
| R.E.M. Murmur | 4.0 |
| Gang of Four Entertainment! | 5.0 |
| TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain | 3.0 |
| TV on the Radio Dear Science | 4.5 |
| Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene | 4.0 |
| Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People | 3.5 |
| Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? | 4.0 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 2.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles | 4.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 4.0 |
| Mogwai Mr. Beast | 3.5 |
| Mogwai The Hawk Is Howling | 3.0 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 3.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 5.0 |
| Tera Melos Untitled | 2.5 |
| Taint The Ruin of Nova Roma | 3.5 |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture | 3.0 |
| Hot Cross Cryonics | 3.5 |
| At the Drive-In Acrobatic Tenement | 3.0 |
| At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out | 3.5 |
| Earth The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. | 3.5 |
| American Football American Football | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV | 5.0 |
| James Blake James Blake | 3.0 |
| Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand | 2.5 |
| Danny! And I Love H.E.R. | 4.0 |
| The Killers Hot Fuss | 3.5 |
| The Strokes First Impressions of Earth | 3.0 |
| The Strokes Room on Fire | 4.0 |
| Comets on Fire Blue Cathedral | 4.0 |
| High on Fire Death Is This Communion | 4.0 |
| Foxy Shazam Foxy Shazam | 3.0 |
| Rinoa An Age Among Them | 4.0 |
| Kidcrash Jokes | 3.5 |
| Armchairpolitician Seven Segment Decoder | 3.5 |
| Tera Melos Patagonian Rats | 3.5 |
| Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession | 3.5 |
| Gatsby's American Dream Volcano | 4.0 |
| Cut Copy Zonoscope | 2.5 |
| Jamie Lidell Multiply | 4.0 |
| LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver | 4.5 |
| Melvins Houdini | 4.0 |
| Parliament Mothership Connection | 4.0 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland | 5.0 |
| Animal Collective Sung Tongs | 2.0 |
| Animal Collective Fall Be Kind | 3.5 |
| The Velvet Underground White Light/White Heat | 4.5 |
| Nachtmystium Assassins: Black Meddle Pt.1 | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah Nothing | 4.0 |
| Cobalt Gin | 4.0 |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico | 5.0 |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground | 4.0 |
| Company Flow Funcrusher Plus | 4.0 |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa | 4.5 |
| Pixies Doolittle | 5.0 |
| Innerpartysystem The Download EP | 3.5 |
| The Nation of Ulysses Plays Pretty for Baby | 4.0 |
| Modern Life Is War Witness | 3.5 |
| Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky | 4.0 |
| The Decemberists Castaways and Cutouts | 3.5 |
| Menomena I Am The Fun Blame Monster! | 4.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend | 4.0 |
| Rodan Rusty | 4.0 |
| Laura Stevenson A Record | 3.5 |
| Yellowcard Ocean Avenue | 2.5 |
| Jesu Christmas | 3.5 |
| Lucero 1372 Overton Park | 3.5 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 5.0 |
| The Hold Steady Heaven Is Whenever | 2.5 |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness | 2.0 |
| maudlin of the Well Part the Second | 3.5 |
| The Flower Kings Space Revolver | 3.5 |
| Acid Mothers Temple New Geocentric World of Acid Mothers Temple | 3.5 |
| Acid Mothers Temple Crystal Rainbow Pyramid Under the Stars | 3.5 |
| Acid Mothers Temple Have You Seen the Other Side of the Sky? | 4.0 |
| Earthless Rhythms from a Cosmic Sky | 3.5 |
| Earthless Sonic Prayer | 3.5 |
| Witch Witch | 3.5 |
| Electric Wizard Dopethrone | 4.0 |
| Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space | 4.0 |
| Lightning Bolt Earthly Delights | 4.0 |
| Lightning Bolt Wonderful Rainbow | 4.0 |
| Om Pilgrimage | 3.5 |
| Sunn O))) Oracle | 3.0 |
| Sunn O))) Black One | 3.5 |
| Sunn O))) Monoliths and Dimensions | 4.5 |
| Year of No Light Nord | 4.0 |
| Jesu Infinity | 3.0 |
| The Cancer Conspiracy Omega | 3.0 |
| Constants If Tomorrow the War | 2.5 |
| Sleep Sleep's Holy Mountain | 3.0 |
| The Cancer Conspiracy The Audio Medium | 3.5 |
| Blakroc Blakroc | 3.0 |
| P.O.S Never Better | 4.0 |
| The War On Drugs Wagonwheel Blues | 3.0 |
| Elvis Perkins Ash Wednesday | 3.5 |
| Rumah Sakit Rumah Sakit | 4.0 |
| Flobots Fight with Tools | 3.5 |
| Gym Class Heroes The Papercut Chronicles | 3.5 |
| A City Safe From Sea Throw Me Through Walls | 4.0 |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak | 2.5 |
| Dark Time Sunshine Vessel | 3.5 |
| Krallice Dimensional Bleedthrough | 4.0 |
| Sed Non Satiata Sed Non Satiata | 3.0 |
| Beirut Elephant Gun | 3.5 |
| Beirut Gulag Orkestar | 3.5 |
| Sublime Sublime | 4.0 |
| Asian Dub Foundation Community Music | 4.0 |
| Dub Pistols Six Million Ways to Live | 4.0 |
| Dub Pistols Point Blank | 3.0 |
| King Crimson Lizard | 3.5 |
| King Crimson Discipline | 3.0 |
| Yes Relayer | 3.0 |
| Yes Close to the Edge | 4.5 |
| Girl Talk All Day | 3.5 |
| Daft Punk Discovery | 4.0 |
| LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening | 3.0 |
| Jay-Z American Gangster | 3.0 |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint | 3.0 |
| Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates | 3.0 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 3.0 |
| Mariachi El Bronx El Bronx | 3.0 |
| Akron/Family Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free | 3.0 |
| Akron/Family Meek Warrior | 3.5 |
| The Offspring Greatest Hits | 3.0 |
| Green Day International Superhits | 3.5 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 3.0 |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence | 3.0 |
| The Felix Culpa Sever Your Roots | 3.0 |
| Dead Kennedys Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death | 3.5 |
| Rancid ...And Out Come the Wolves | 4.0 |
| Operation Ivy Energy | 4.0 |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step | 2.0 |
| Tool Ænima | 2.5 |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica | 2.5 |
| Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret | 3.5 |
| Pavement Slanted and Enchanted | 3.0 |
| Sonic Youth The Eternal | 3.0 |
| Melt-Banana Scratch or Stitch | 3.0 |
| Boredoms Pop Tatari | 3.0 |
| The Aquabats The Fury of the Aquabats! | 3.0 |
| Jay-Z The Black Album | 3.5 |
| Edan Primitive Plus | 3.0 |
| Edan Beauty and the Beat | 3.5 |
| Spank Rock YoYoYoYoYo | 3.0 |
| Sea Power Do You Like Rock Music? | 3.0 |
| Grandiose, anthemic stadium rock. It would be hard to deny its ability to rouse a crowd of fans. The band often goes all out - guitars blaring and drums crashing while the lead singer... whispers. The glaring contrast between the band's impassioned efforts and the front man's restrained, almost bored performance is as compelling as it is frustrating. Fans of Arcade Fire, Coldplay, and U2 will probably eat this up, but others will find it only fairly decent. |
| Ratatat Ratatat Remixes Vol.1 | 3.0 |
| Ratatat Ratatat | 3.5 |
| Das Racist Shut Up, Dude | 3.5 |
| Das Racist Sit Down, Man | 4.0 |
| Kid Cudi Man on the Moon: The End of Day | 2.5 |
| A startlingly ambitious, concept driven hip-hop album that could have been either an amazing success or a spectacular failure. Disappointingly enough it does neither, Kid Cudi delivering a thoroughly mediocre album - despite the inspired beats and support from talented guests like Common and Ratatat, his lackluster performance manages to dull even the glossiest of production efforts. |
| Phish Live In Brooklyn | 3.5 |
| DJ Krush Kaku-Sei | 4.0 |
| The Roots Things Fall Apart | 4.5 |
| Gorillaz Demon Days | 3.5 |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz | 3.5 |
| Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 | 4.0 |
| Dr. Octagon Dr. Octagonecologyst | 4.5 |
| Cut Copy In Ghost Colours | 4.0 |
| Aesop Rock Bazooka Tooth | 3.0 |
| A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory | 4.0 |
| Les Savy Fav Let's Stay Friends | 3.5 |
| Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You | 3.0 |
| Kylesa Spiral Shadow | 3.5 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 3.5 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 4.0 |
| Battles Mirrored | 4.5 |
| Weezer Make Believe | 2.5 |
| Wolfmother Wolfmother | 4.0 |
| Funkadelic Maggot Brain | 5.0 |
| Cage The Elephant Cage the Elephant | 2.5 |
| Lagwagon Trashed | 3.5 |
| NOFX Wolves in Wolves' Clothing | 3.0 |
| Madvillain Madvillainy | 4.0 |
| Aesop Rock None Shall Pass | 4.0 |
| Aesop Rock Labor Days | 4.0 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 2.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 3.5 |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 5.0 |
| The State Lottery When the Night Comes | 3.0 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 5.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream | 3.5 |
| Muse The Resistance | 2.0 |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 3.0 |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry | 3.5 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 2.5 |
| Titus Andronicus The Airing of Grievances | 3.5 |
| Grails Burning Off Impurities | 4.0 |
| Les Discrets Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées | 4.0 |
| Hypnos 69 Legacy | 3.5 |
| Mass of the Fermenting Dregs MASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGS | 3.5 |
| Ufomammut Eve | 3.0 |
| No Age Everything In Between | 2.5 |
| Mahavishnu Orchestra The Inner Mounting Flame | 4.0 |
| The White Stripes Elephant | 3.5 |
| Death From Above 1979 You're a Woman, I'm a Machine | 3.5 |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Source Tags and Codes | 3.5 |
| Pearl Jam Ten | 3.5 |
| Mogwai Young Team | 4.0 |
| The Decemberists The Crane Wife | 4.0 |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King | 5.0 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb | 3.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works | 3.5 |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger | 3.5 |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant | 4.0 |
| Ufomammut Snailking | 3.5 |
| Intronaut Valley of Smoke | 3.5 |
| Intronaut Prehistoricisms | 4.0 |
| Fang Island Fang Island | 2.5 |
| Kylesa Static Tensions | 3.5 |
| Don Caballero American Don | 3.0 |
| Faraquet The View From This Tower | 3.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not | 4.0 |
| The Omar Rodriguez Lopez Quartet Sepulcros De Miel | 2.0 |
| Les Savy Fav Root For Ruin | 2.5 |
| A Hope For Home Realis | 2.5 |
| Maps and Atlases Perch Patchwork | 4.0 |
| Surfer Blood Astro Coast | 4.0 |
| Liars Sisterworld | 3.0 |
| High on Fire Snakes for the Divine | 4.0 |
| The Roots How I Got Over | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens All Delighted People | 3.0 |
| Foals Total Life Forever | 2.5 |
| Tame Impala Innerspeaker | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz | 3.0 |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune | 3.5 |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak | 4.0 |
| Kno Death Is Silent | 3.0 |
| The National High Violet | 3.5 |
| Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid | 3.5 |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor | 5.0 |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh | 3.5 |
| Helmet Meantime | 3.5 |
| Boredoms Super Ae | 3.5 |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 3.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil | 2.5 |
| Animal Collective Feels | 2.0 |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair | 3.5 |
| If you're loath to admit the fact that you were once a fan of My Chemical Romance, but are still looking for similar music La Dispute will fit the bill. Imaginative concepts and an enthusiastic frontman are a plus, but the rest of the band's uninspired performance that pulls from the same old bag of post-hardcore tricks makes the album drag. Despite this just like MCR they manage to be surprisingly listenable, worthy of a 3.5 rating. |
| Bad Religion 30 Years Live | 2.5 |
| A Lot Like Birds Plan B | 3.5 |
| Defeater Lost Ground | 3.0 |
| The Saddest Landscape You Will Not Survive | 4.0 |
| pg.99 Document #8 | 3.5 |
| Mesa Verde The Old Road | 4.5 |
| City of Caterpillar City of Caterpillar | 5.0 |
| Envy A Dead Sinking Story | 4.0 |
| Envy Recitation | 3.0 |
| The Dismemberment Plan Change | 4.0 |
| Fucked Up The Chemistry of Common Life | 4.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Plans | 4.0 |
| El-P I'll Sleep When You're Dead | 4.0 |
| Sleep Dopesmoker | 5.0 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between | 4.5 |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World | 5.0 |
| The jaw dropping pyrotechnics of prog combined with the emotional punch of screamo make for an incredibly powerful record. Major props to Kurt Ballou's production, he manages to make the album sound suffocatingly dense yet finely nuanced. Instant classic. |
| Ruins Mandala 2000 | 3.5 |
| Okkervil River Overboard & Down | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 2.5 |
| Jack's Mannequin Everything in Transit | 4.0 |
| Matthew Dear Black City | 4.0 |
| Mux Mool Skulltaste | 4.0 |
| The Books The Lemon Of Pink | 4.0 |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes | 4.0 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 4.0 |
| Wolf Parade At Mount Zoomer | 2.5 |
| Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary | 4.0 |
| Tortoise TNT | 4.0 |
| The Tangent A Place in the Queue | 4.0 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 3.0 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! | 3.0 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 3.5 |
| Venetian Snares Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett | 4.0 |
| Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha | 4.0 |
| Hawkwind Space Ritual | 4.5 |
| Polvo Today's Active Lifestyles | 3.5 |
| Polvo In Prism | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd Is There Anybody Out There? | 5.0 |
| Owen Pallett Heartland | 3.5 |
| Final Fantasy He Poos Clouds | 4.0 |
| Yo La Tengo Painful | 4.0 |
| Yo La Tengo I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One | 3.5 |
| Yo La Tengo And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside... | 3.5 |
| Yo La Tengo I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass | 3.5 |
| Spacemen 3 The Perfect Prescription | 4.0 |
| Spacemen 3 Playing With Fire | 3.5 |
| Spacemen 3 Dreamweapon | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow | 3.5 |
| Kanye West Late Registration | 4.0 |
| Kanye West Graduation | 4.0 |
| Jawbox For Your Own Special Sweetheart | 4.5 |
| Dungen Ta Det Lugnt | 4.0 |
| M. Ward Transistor Radio | 3.5 |
| M. Ward Post-War | 3.5 |
| Nujabes Metaphorical Music | 4.0 |
| Nujabes Modal Soul | 3.0 |
| Ghost (JPN) Hypnotic Underworld | 4.0 |
| Ghost (JPN) In Stormy Nights | 4.0 |
| Beirut The Flying Club Cup | 4.0 |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge | 3.0 |
| Reel Big Fish Turn the Radio Off | 3.5 |
| Reel Big Fish Cheer Up! | 3.5 |
| Cake Fashion Nugget | 3.5 |
| Frightened Rabbit The Midnight Organ Fight | 4.0 |
| The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower Dissertation, Honey | 4.0 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey | 3.5 |
| The Unicorns Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Hvarf/Heim | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun | 4.5 |
| Torche Meanderthal | 4.0 |
| Karate 595 (Live) | 3.5 |
| Karate Unsolved | 3.5 |
| Karate Pockets | 4.0 |
| Foals Antidotes | 3.5 |
| Weezer Pinkerton | 5.0 |
| Forget about the multitudes of terrible bands that would later draw from this album; Pinkerton is simply one of the most outstanding examples of modern emo. That's right, emo. Throughout Rivers Cuomo displays his heart on his sleeve not proudly, but honestly. He is alternately hurt, bitter, angry, depressed, tired and jaded. At times deeply touching and others laughably embarrassing, this is what true emo is all about. |
| Weezer Weezer | 5.0 |
| Ruins Tzomborgha | 3.5 |
| Fugazi 13 Songs | 5.0 |
| The Flaming Lips Clouds Taste Metallic | 3.5 |
| The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin | 4.0 |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots | 3.0 |
| The Flaming Lips Embryonic | 3.5 |
| Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me | 4.0 |
| Dinosaur Jr. Without a Sound | 3.0 |
| Dinosaur Jr. Farm | 4.0 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 4.5 |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm | 4.0 |
| Descendents Somery | 4.0 |
| Massive Attack Heligoland | 3.0 |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine | 5.0 |
| Animal Collective Strawberry Jam | 3.5 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 3.5 |
| Jesu Silver | 4.0 |
| Jesu Lifeline EP | 4.0 |
| Jesu Opiate Sun | 3.5 |
| Jesu Conqueror | 4.0 |
| Jesu Jesu | 3.5 |
| Catch 22 Keasbey Nights | 5.0 |
| The Hold Steady Separation Sunday | 4.0 |
| The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America | 4.5 |
| The National Alligator | 3.5 |
| The National Boxer | 4.5 |
| Cap'n Jazz Analphabetapolothology | 5.0 |
| Converge You Fail Me | 3.5 |
| Converge No Heroes | 3.5 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 4.5 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 4.0 |
| Burial Untrue | 5.0 |
| Girl Talk Night Ripper | 4.5 |
| Girl Talk Feed the Animals | 3.0 |
| Oneida Preteen Weaponry | 3.5 |
| Oneida Secret Wars | 3.5 |
| Oneida The Wedding | 3.5 |
| Oneida Happy New Year | 4.0 |
| Oneida Each One Teach One | 4.0 |
| Oneida Rated O | 4.0 |
| Shinobu Strange Spring Air | 4.0 |
| Quirky, fun, catchy - pop punk on par with the best of the Descendents. |
| M83 Before The Dawn Heals Us | 3.5 |
| M83 Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts | 4.0 |
| M83 Saturdays=Youth | 4.0 |
| Drive Like Jehu Drive Like Jehu | 4.0 |
| Drive Like Jehu Yank Crime | 5.0 |
| Hot Snakes Automatic Midnight | 3.0 |
| Hot Snakes Audit in Progress | 3.0 |
| Hot Snakes Suicide Invoice | 4.0 |
| Rocket From The Crypt RFTC | 3.0 |
| Rocket From The Crypt Circa: Now! | 3.0 |
| Rocket From The Crypt Scream, Dracula, Scream! | 4.0 |
| Rocket From The Crypt Group Sounds | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Remission | 3.0 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois | 4.5 |
| The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds | 4.5 |
| Maps and Atlases Tree, Swallows, Houses | 4.0 |
| Maps and Atlases You and Me and the Mountain | 4.0 |
| Boris Amplifier Worship | 3.5 |
| Boris Heavy Rocks | 4.0 |
| Boris Boris At Last -Feedbacker- | 4.0 |
| Boris Akuma no Uta | 4.0 |
| Boris Pink | 4.5 |
| Boris With Michio Kurihara Rainbow | 4.0 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 5.0 |
| Okkervil River Don't Fall In Love With Everyone You See | 3.5 |
| Okkervil River Down the River of Golden Dreams | 4.5 |
| Okkervil River Black Sheep Boy | 4.5 |
| Okkervil River The Stage Names | 4.5 |
| Okkervil River The Stand Ins | 4.5 |
| The Dismemberment Plan Emergency & I | 5.0 |
| Baroness Red Album | 4.0 |
| Baroness Blue Record | 4.5 |
| This is, hands down, my favorite driving record. Roll down the windows, turn up the volume, and cruise down the freeway while those riffs hum in your gut and Blickle's fills rattle your rear-view mirror. Simply a blast to listen to. If you haven't already be sure to grab the version with the Descendents cover for a sweet little bonus. |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come | 5.0 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture | 4.5 |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 5.0 |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath | 4.5 |
