| Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown | 4.0 |
| I liked Joe Baressi's production on Ex Lives better than the production here. Still, "Idiot" is probably the angriest ETID song and that's definitely worth something. |
| Chevelle La Gárgola | 4.5 |
| There's an energy and attitude that hasn't been present since Wonder What's Next. The whole band sounds rejuvenated. La Gargola is their best album since Wonder What's Next - and might even be the best album in the band's entire catalogue. |
| The Used Imaginary Enemy | 2.0 |
Imaginary Enemy is Katy Perry with guitars, with the only exception being "Revolution" and "A Song To Stifle
Imperial Progress". The Used go full on pop with hardly a nod to their heavier roots and the results are bad -
very bad.
Seriously though, if I wanted to listen to a Katy Perry album, I would listen to a Katy Perry album. Why is the
new The Used album a Katy Perry album with guitars? Embarrassing. Reach for the radio, boys! Reach! Grab
those airwaves.
|
| Dream the Electric Sleep Heretics | 3.0 |
| Balance and Composure The Things We Think We're Missing | 4.5 |
| Superheaven Jar | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer | 4.0 |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan | 5.0 |
| Abandoned Pools Sublime Currency | 4.0 |
| The Chariot One Wing | 2.0 |
| Kayo Dot Gamma Knife | 2.5 |
| Architects Daybreaker | 3.5 |
| The Early November The Room's Too Cold | 4.5 |
| The Early November The Mother, The Mechanic, and The Path | 2.0 |
| The Early November In Currents | 2.0 |
| The Used Vulnerable | 3.0 |
| R. Kelly Write Me Back | 2.5 |
| Glass Cloud The Royal Thousand | 3.5 |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal | 4.0 |
| dredg Chuckles and Mr. Squeezy | 1.5 |
| Hands (US-ND) Give Me Rest | 4.0 |
| Baroness Yellow and Green | 2.5 |
| The Contortionist Intrinsic | 2.5 |
| Staind Staind | 3.5 |
| Skindred Union Black | 4.0 |
| As Hell Retreats Volition | 4.0 |
| Verah Falls All Our Yesterdays | 3.5 |
| Twin Atlantic Vivarium | 3.5 |
| Twin Atlantic Free | 4.5 |
| The Gun Show Discontentment | 3.0 |
| Sovereign Strength The Prophecy | 2.0 |
| Scale the Summit The Collective | 3.0 |
| More Than A Thousand Vol. 4 Make Friends and Enemies | 3.0 |
| The Nova Echo The Nova Echo | 3.0 |
| Name Internet Killed The Audio Star | 3.5 |
| Snowman Absence | 3.5 |
| Pulse Ultra Headspace | 4.0 |
| Paper Tongues Paper Tongues | 2.5 |
| Oh, Sleeper Son of the Morning | 3.0 |
| Oh, Sleeper Children of Fire | 3.0 |
| Moving Mountains Waves | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 2.5 |
| Mastodon The Hunter | 4.0 |
| Lower Than Atlantis Bretton | 3.5 |
| Lower Than Atlantis World Record | 3.5 |
| Lecrae Rehab | 2.0 |
| Structures Divided By | 3.5 |
| Kings of Leon Live at the O2 London, England | 4.5 |
| Kings of Leon Youth and Young Manhood | 3.0 |
| Kings of Leon Aha Shake Heartbreak | 3.0 |
| Kings of Leon Because Of The Times | 4.0 |
| Kings of Leon Only By The Night | 4.0 |
| Kings of Leon Come Around Sundown | 4.0 |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | 2.5 |
| Coldplay Mylo Xyloto | 3.0 |
| R. Kelly Love Letter | 3.0 |
| Matthew Good Lights of Endangered Species | 4.0 |
| For Today Ekklesia | 1.5 |
| For Today Portraits | 1.5 |
| For Today Breaker | 4.0 |
| Lights Action Welcome to the New Cold World | 4.0 |
| Mae Singularity | 1.5 |
| Mae The Everglow | 4.5 |
| Mae Destination: Beautiful | 4.5 |
| The Urgency The Urgency | 2.5 |
| Yakuza Of Seismic Consequence | 2.5 |
| Twelve Tribes Midwest Pandemic | 4.5 |
| Violent Soho Violent Soho | 3.0 |
| Waterdown All Riot | 2.5 |
| Waterdown The Files You Have on Me | 3.5 |
| Unitopia The Garden | 3.0 |
| Sinai Beach Immersed | 4.0 |
| The Sleeping The Big Deep | 4.0 |
| This Day Will Tell Too True To Be Good | 3.0 |
| Six Gallery Breakthroughs in Modern Art | 3.0 |
| Noctiferia Death Culture | 2.5 |
| Ani DiFranco Not a Pretty Girl | 3.5 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 3.0 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 3.5 |
| The Burial The Winepress | 2.0 |
| This is equal to ordering a scoop of vanilla in a cup at Baskin Robbins. With so many other flavors available, why settle for this? Boring. |
| Her Name Is Calla The Quiet Lamb | 4.0 |
| Dawn Of Ashes Genocide Chapters | 2.5 |
| Architects The Here and Now | 2.0 |
| Architects Hollow Crown | 3.0 |
| After Midnight Project Let's Build Something to Break | 3.5 |
| Advent Remove the Earth | 2.0 |
| Advent Naked and Cold | 2.5 |
| The Acacia Strain ...And Life Is Very Long | 1.5 |
| The Acacia Strain 3750 | 3.0 |
| The Acacia Strain The Dead Walk | 3.0 |
| The Acacia Strain Continent | 2.5 |
| The Acacia Strain Wormwood | 2.5 |
| Abigail Williams In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns | 2.5 |
| Abigail Williams In the Absence of Light | 2.0 |
| Lower Than Atlantis Far Q | 3.5 |
| Cage The Elephant Thank You Happy Birthday | 2.0 |
| Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid | 3.5 |
| Neverending White Lights Act 1: Goodbye Friends of the Heavenly Bodies | 2.5 |
| Neverending White Lights Act II: The Blood And The Life Eternal | 3.5 |
| A Day To Remember What Separates Me from You | 2.0 |
| Waking Ashland Composure | 1.5 |
| Thomas Giles Pulse | 2.5 |
| Melovine Blight | 3.5 |
| From Tomorrow The Fear of Forever | 4.0 |
| Breathe All That Jazz | 4.0 |
| This album is stacked with hitz. Try listening to standout tracks like the mournful "Hands to Heaven," the bleak "All This I Should Have Known," and the cautiously optimistic "How Can I Fall?" and tell me that your mascara didn't bleed. Modern-era pop be damned, this is the soundtrack for hopeless romantics everywhere - led by the stellar croon of someone unafraid to pick up the pieces when their heart is dropped - yet willing to bask in the glory of a love ignited. |
| Cyclamen (JPN) Senjyu | 2.5 |
| As much as Senjyu offers ear-pleasing variation, ranging from chaotic, fingers-tangled-on-the-fretboard freak-outs to sparse, contemplative crawls, Cyclamen's debut album suffers too much from a tug-of-war dynamic that quells any urge to press the 'replay' button. |
| Decortica Love Hotel | 4.5 |
Decortica combine sprawling sections of spaciness with both thunderous aggression and seasoned flair.
For fans of Oceansize and Muse.
Check it out here: http://music.decortica.com/ |
| letlive. Fake History | 3.5 |
| The Reign of Kindo This Is Also What Happens | 1.5 |
| The Reign of Kindo This Is What Happens | 3.5 |
| The Reign of Kindo Rhythm, Chord & Melody | 4.5 |
| Open Hand Honey | 3.5 |
| Open Hand You and Me | 4.0 |
| I, the Breather These Are My Sins | 3.5 |
| David Crowder Band A Collision Or (3 + 4 = 7) | 4.0 |
| David Crowder Band Church Music | 4.0 |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute | 4.0 |
| Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles) | 4.0 |
| The Famine The Raven and the Reaping | 2.0 |
| Disillusion Gloria | 3.0 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 3.5 |
| Kaddisfly Buy Our Intention; We'll Buy You a Unicorn | 3.5 |
| Kaddisfly Set Sail The Prairie | 5.0 |
| Hotwire The Routine | 5.0 |
| My Epic I Am Undone | 3.5 |
| Painted in Exile Revitalized | 3.5 |
| TV on the Radio Dear Science | 3.0 |
| TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain | 3.0 |
| Coma Lies NC The Great Western Basin | 3.0 |
| Pat Metheny Group The Way Up | 3.0 |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety | 3.5 |
| Underoath Define the Great Line | 3.5 |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation | 2.5 |
| See You Next Tuesday Intervals | 2.5 |
| See You Next Tuesday Parasite | 2.5 |
| The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza II: The Electric Boogaloo | 2.0 |
| The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza III: Series of Unfortunate Events | 4.5 |
| Hopesfall A Types | 3.5 |
| Hopesfall Magnetic North | 4.5 |
| Write This Down Write This Down | 3.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday New Again | 2.5 |
| Taking Back Sunday Where You Want To Be | 3.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends | 4.5 |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars 30 Seconds To Mars | 3.0 |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie | 3.0 |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars This Is War | 3.0 |
| System Divide The Conscious Sedation | 3.0 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 2.5 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 2.5 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 3.0 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 2.5 |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 3.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV | 2.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 2.0 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 4.0 |
| Thrice Beggars | 2.5 |
| maudlin of the Well Part the Second | 4.0 |
| Vendetta Red Between the Never and the Now | 3.5 |
| Vendetta Red Sisters of the Red Death | 3.0 |
| The Used Lies for the Liars | 3.0 |
| The Used In Love and Death | 3.0 |
| The Used The Used | 4.5 |
| The Used Artwork | 1.5 |
| Trust Company True Parallels | 3.5 |
| Trust Company The Lonely Position of Neutral | 5.0 |
| Trivium Shogun | 3.5 |
| This or the Apocalypse Haunt What's Left | 4.0 |
| My Epic Yet | 4.5 |
| I Am Abomination To Our Forefathers | 3.5 |
| Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue | 2.5 |
| Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward | 2.0 |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye | 5.0 |
| Kayo Dot Coyote | 2.0 |
| Hate Eternal I, Monarch | 3.5 |
| Hate Eternal Fury & Flames | 3.5 |
| Impending Doom The Serpent Servant | 3.5 |
| Impending Doom There Will Be Violence | 4.0 |
| Grammatics Grammatics | 5.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Zombie | 3.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord | 3.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Plagues | 3.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada With Roots Above and Branches Below | 3.5 |
| Paula Cole This Fire | 4.0 |
| dredg El Cielo | 4.5 |
| dredg Catch Without Arms | 3.0 |
| dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion | 1.5 |
| Haken Aquarius | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis | 3.5 |
| Dave Matthews Band Under The Table And Dreaming | 4.0 |
| Dave Matthews Band Busted Stuff | 3.0 |
| Dave Matthews Band Everyday | 3.5 |
| Dave Matthews Band Stand Up | 2.5 |
| Dave Matthews Band Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King | 3.0 |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet | 4.0 |
| Confession Cancer | 3.0 |
| Clutch From Beale Street to Oblivion | 2.0 |
| Clutch Strange Cousins From The West | 2.0 |
| Clutch Blast Tyrant | 3.0 |
| Clutch Robot Hive/Exodus | 4.0 |
| The Chariot Unsung | 2.0 |
| The Chariot Everything Is Alive, Everything Is... | 3.0 |
| The Chariot The Fiancee | 3.0 |
| The Chariot Wars and Rumors of Wars | 3.0 |
| Cave In Until Your Heart Stops | 2.0 |
| Cave In Beyond Hypothermia | 2.0 |
| Cave In Antenna | 2.0 |
| Cave In Perfect Pitch Black | 4.0 |
| Candiria What Doesn't Kill You... | 2.5 |
| Bison Dark Ages | 3.0 |
| The Breathing Process Odyssey: (Un)dead | 3.0 |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 4.0 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 2.5 |
| Brand New Daisy | 2.0 |
| Chevelle Wonder What's Next | 4.5 |
| Chevelle This Type Of Thinking (Could Do Us In) | 4.0 |
| Chevelle Vena Sera | 2.5 |
| Chevelle Sci-Fi Crimes | 2.5 |
| Breaking Benjamin So Cold | 3.5 |
| Breaking Benjamin Saturate | 4.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin We Are Not Alone | 3.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin Phobia | 2.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin Dear Agony | 1.5 |
| Bleeding Through This Is Love, This Is Murderous | 3.0 |
| Bleeding Through The Truth | 3.0 |
| Bleeding Through Declaration | 4.0 |
| Bleeding Through Bleeding Through | 4.0 |
| The Bled Pass the Flask | 3.0 |
| The Bled Found in the Flood | 3.5 |
| The Bled Silent Treatment | 3.5 |
| The Bled Heat Fetish | 3.0 |
| The Ataris So Long, Astoria | 3.5 |
| The Ataris Welcome the Night | 5.0 |
| Bad Rabbits Stick Up Kids | 3.5 |
| Ani DiFranco Red Letter Year | 2.0 |
| Ani DiFranco Evolve | 4.0 |
| Ani DiFranco Educated Guess | 4.0 |
| Ani DiFranco Reprieve | 2.0 |
| Alice in Chains Jar of Flies | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains Dirt | 2.5 |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue | 3.0 |
| Andrew W.K. Close Calls with Brick Walls | 2.0 |
| Andrew W.K. The Wolf | 2.0 |
| Andrew W.K. I Get Wet | 3.0 |
| Anathallo Canopy Glow | 2.5 |
| Anathallo Floating World | 3.5 |
| Alter Bridge Blackbird | 3.0 |
| Alter Bridge One Day Remains | 3.0 |
| Alien Ant Farm ANThology | 4.5 |
| Alien Ant Farm TruANT | 4.0 |
| Alien Ant Farm Up in the Attic | 4.5 |
| Alexisonfire Alexisonfire | 2.5 |
| Alexisonfire Watch Out! | 4.0 |
| Alexisonfire Crisis | 2.5 |
| Alexisonfire Old Crows / Young Cardinals | 2.5 |
| Aereogramme My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go | 3.5 |
| Five Pointe O Untitled | 3.5 |
| Finch Finch | 2.5 |
| Finch What It Is to Burn | 3.5 |
| Finch Say Hello to Sunshine | 4.0 |
| Fightstar Grand Unification | 3.5 |
| Fightstar One Day Son This Will All Be Yours | 3.5 |
| Fightstar Alternate Endings | 3.0 |
| Fightstar Be Human | 4.0 |
| Fightstar Be Human Deluxe Edition | 4.5 |
| Feed Her to the Sharks The Beauty of Falling | 2.5 |
| Far At Night We Live | 4.0 |
| Far-Less Everyone Is Out to Get Us | 3.0 |
| Far-Less A Toast to Bad Taste | 3.0 |
| Team Sleep Team Sleep | 3.5 |
| Oceansize Home & Minor | 3.0 |
| Oceansize Effloresce | 3.5 |
| Oceansize Everyone Into Position | 3.0 |
| Oceansize Frames | 4.5 |
| Oceansize Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up | 4.5 |
| Matthew Good Band In A Coma: 1995-2005 | 3.0 |
| Matthew Good Band Underdogs | 4.0 |
| Matthew Good Band Beautiful Midnight | 4.0 |
| Matthew Good Band The Audio of Being | 5.0 |
| Matthew Good Avalanche | 4.5 |
| Matthew Good White Light Rock & Roll Review | 3.0 |
| Matthew Good Hospital Music | 3.0 |
| Matthew Good Vancouver | 3.5 |
| Idiot Pilot Strange We Should Meet Here | 4.0 |
| Idiot Pilot Wolves | 4.5 |
| He Is Legend 91025 | 3.0 |
| He Is Legend I Am Hollywood | 3.5 |
| He Is Legend Suck Out the Poison | 4.5 |
| He Is Legend It Hates You | 5.0 |
| Every Time I Die Last Night in Town | 3.0 |
| Every Time I Die Hot Damn! | 3.5 |
| Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon | 4.0 |
| Every Time I Die The Big Dirty | 3.5 |
| Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors_Live | 3.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me | 3.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 4.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 3.5 |
| Deftones Adrenaline | 2.5 |
| Deftones Around the Fur | 3.0 |
| Deftones White Pony | 5.0 |
| Deftones Deftones | 4.5 |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist | 4.0 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 4.0 |
| Taproot Plead the Fifth | 3.5 |
