| Superchunk No Pocky For Kitty | 4.0 |
| The Dangerous Summer Reach for the Sun | 3.0 |
| Bones (USA-CA) Unrendered | 3.5 |
| First Blood Rules | 3.0 |
| Harm's Way (USA-IL) Isolation | 4.0 |
| Goolagoon Patrickviolence Demo | 3.5 |
| P.O.S Chill, Dummy | 3.0 |
| Future FUTURE | 3.5 |
| Paul White Accelerator | 2.5 |
| Sonic Youth Evol | 4.0 |
| Sonic Youth Confusion Is Sex | 4.5 |
| Converge Jane Live | 4.0 |
| Dropdead 1st LP | 3.5 |
| Earth Phase 3: Thrones and Dominions | 2.5 |
| Alexisonfire Old Crows / Young Cardinals | 4.0 |
| Underoath The Changing of Times | 3.0 |
| Suffocate For Fuck Sake Blazing Fires and Helicopters... | 4.0 |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety | 3.5 |
| Anal Trump To All the Broads I've Nailed Before | 2.0 |
| Anal Trump That Makes Me Smart! | 2.5 |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Beileid | 3.0 |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Dolores | 3.0 |
| Youth Funeral Heavenward | 3.5 |
| Youth Funeral See You When I See You | 4.0 |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Midnight Radio | 4.0 |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Geisterfaust | 3.5 |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Gore Motel | 4.5 |
| Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas | 3.5 |
| Chief Keef Two Zero One Seven | 3.0 |
| Thorr's Hammer Dommedagsnatt | 4.0 |
| Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition | 3.0 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3 | 2.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Not the Actual Events | 3.5 |
| Riff Raff Trench Coat Towers | 3.5 |
| Amusement Parks On Fire Amusement Parks On Fire | 4.0 |
| Discordance Axis The Inalienable Dreamless | 4.0 |
| Gucci Mane WOPTOBER | 4.0 |
| Princess Nokia 1992 | 2.5 |
| Bones (USA-CA) GoodForNothing | 4.0 |
| Wormrot Voices | 3.5 |
| Blank Banshee MEGA | 3.5 |
| Hatebreed Supremacy | 3.5 |
| Bon Iver 22, A Million | 2.5 |
| Nothing new here. Nothing particularly interesting or well-done either. |
| Neurosis Fires Within Fires | 3.5 |
| Ghost (SWE) Popestar | 2.5 |
| Street Sects End Position | 4.0 |
| Negative Thought Process Methylene Butterfly | 4.5 |
| Fudge Lady Parts | 4.0 |
| Chris Travis and Robb Banks No Trespassing | 4.5 |
| Robb Banks Year of the Savage | 4.0 |
| Norma Jean Polar Similar | 4.0 |
| Frank Ocean Blonde | 4.5 |
| Cruel Hand Your World Won't Listen | 3.5 |
| Hatebreed Rise of Brutality | 4.0 |
| Crowbar Symmetry in Black | 4.0 |
| clipping. Splendor and Misery | 3.5 |
| Pill (USA-NY) Convenience | 3.5 |
| Dragged Into Sunlight WidowMaker | 3.0 |
| Ka Honor Killed The Samurai | 3.0 |
| Melvins Bullhead | 4.5 |
| Fucked Up The Chemistry of Common Life | 4.0 |
| Ulcerate Everything Is Fire | 4.5 |
| Laura Cannell Beneath Swooping Talons | 4.0 |
| Primus Frizzle Fry | 4.0 |
| The Great Redneck Hope Behold The Fuck Thunder | 4.0 |
| Daughters Daughters | 3.5 |
| Daughters Canada Songs | 3.5 |
| Daughters Hell Songs | 4.5 |
| Big Freedia Just Be Free | 4.0 |
| Deadguy Fixation on a Coworker | 3.5 |
| Unsane Total Destruction | 4.0 |
| Unsane Occupational Hazard | 5.0 |
| Kembe X Talk Back | 3.5 |
| Rae Sremmurd SremmLife 2 | 4.0 |
| Pitchshifter Industrial | 4.0 |
| DevilDriver The Last Kind Words | 3.5 |
| Short Fuze & Uncommon Nasa Autonomy Music | 3.0 |
| White Boiz Neighborhood Wonderful | 3.0 |
| The Red Chord Clients | 3.5 |
| Aeon Aeons Black | 4.0 |
| Oddisee Alwasta | 3.0 |
| Statik Selektah Lucky 7 | 3.5 |
| The Doppelgangaz Parts Unknown | 3.5 |
| Diamond District March On Washington | 4.0 |
| John Lennon Unfinished Music No.2: Life with the Lions | 5.0 |
| Jay Reatard Blood Visions | 3.5 |
| First Blood Silence Is Betrayal | 4.0 |
| Daveed Diggs Small Things To A Giant | 4.0 |
| Decrepit Tired Of Licking Blood From A Spoon | 3.0 |
| Propagandhi Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes | 3.0 |
| Strung Out Exile In Oblivion | 4.0 |
| ISIS Celestial | 3.5 |
| Nasum Human 2.0 | 4.0 |
| Weed Weed | 3.5 |
| Poppy Bubblebath | 2.5 |
| Boris Dronevil -Final- | 3.5 |
| ScHoolboy Q Blank Face LP | 4.0 |
| Innerpartysystem The Download EP | 2.5 |
| Desiigner New English | 4.0 |
| clipping. Wriggle | 2.5 |
| Bones (USA-CA) HermitOfEastGrandRiver | 3.0 |
| God's Hate Mass Murder | 3.5 |
| Nails You Will Never Be One of Us | 4.0 |
| Sachiko M Bar Sachiko | 5.0 |
| Gojira Magma | 2.5 |
| Converge You Fail Me Redux | 4.0 |
| Swans The Glowing Man | 5.0 |
| G.L.O.S.S. Trans Day Of Revenge | 4.0 |
| Agoraphobic Nosebleed Altered States of America | 4.0 |
| Hatebreed Satisfaction Is The Death Of Desire | 4.0 |
| The Underachievers Indigoism | 3.5 |
| Melvins Joe Preston | 3.0 |
| The Boston Strangler Primitive | 3.0 |
| Swans Public Castration Is a Good Idea | 5.0 |
| Cursed II | 3.0 |
| Dragged Into Sunlight/Gnaw Their Tongues N.V. | 3.5 |
| Wovenhand Blush Music | 3.5 |
| The Underachievers It Happened In Flatbush | 4.0 |
| One Eyed God Prophecy One Eyed God Prophecy | 4.0 |
| Sylvaine Wistful | 4.0 |
| Gorguts Pleiades' Dust | 4.0 |
| Post Malone August 26th | 3.5 |
| Death Grips Bottomless Pit | 4.5 |
| Fallujah Dreamless | 3.5 |
| Melt Yourself Down Sticks and Stones | 4.0 |
| Thievery Corporation The Richest Man in Babylon | 4.5 |
| Moderat III | 3.5 |
| Dalek Asphalt For Eden | 4.0 |
| Youth Code Commitment to Complications | 4.5 |
| Deftones Gore | 3.5 |
| YES A MASTODON GUITAR SOLO |
| diSEMBOWELMENT Transcendence into the Peripheral | 4.0 |
| The Body and Full Of Hell One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache | 3.5 |
| Amnesia Scanner AS | 4.0 |
| Underworld Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future | 4.0 |
| Hatebreed Perseverance | 3.5 |
| Slayer South of Heaven | 4.0 |
| Denzel Curry Imperial | 3.5 |
| Chimaira Chimaira | 4.5 |
| Sheer Mag Sheer Mag III | 4.0 |
| Yndi Halda Under Summer | 4.0 |
| Airospace All Dreams End | 4.5 |
| Sepultura Chaos A.D. | 3.5 |
| Logic The Incredible True Story | 4.0 |
| Mr. Lif I Phantom | 4.5 |
| Death Index Death Index | 4.0 |
| Lupe Fiasco Tetsuo and Youth | 4.0 |
| Naked City Leng Tch'e | 5.0 |
| Kanye West The Life of Pablo | 1.0 |
| I can't think of any other album that's had this stupid of a prolonged release. |
| The Jezabels Synthia | 3.0 |
| Magrudergrind II | 4.0 |
| Quelle Chris, Chris Keys Innocent Country | 2.5 |
| Torae Entitled | 3.5 |
| Bea5t Empathy Is a Gift | 2.0 |
| Thievery Corporation The Cosmic Game | 4.0 |
| Thievery Corporation The Mirror Conspiracy | 4.0 |
| Spine Deny | 3.5 |
| Massive Attack Ritual Spirit | 2.5 |
| Pig Destroyer Phantom Limb | 4.5 |
| Tim Hecker Radio Amor | 3.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Hammer of the Witches | 4.0 |
| Doomtree False Hopes XII | 4.0 |
| P.O.S Ipecac Neat | 3.5 |
| The Roots Things Fall Apart | 4.0 |
| Lamb of God VII: Sturm und Drang | 3.0 |
| Strapping Young Lad Alien | 4.0 |
| Ape Cave Pillars Of Evolution | 4.5 |
| Daughter Not to Disappear | 3.5 |
| Panic! at the Disco Death of a Bachelor | 2.5 |
| Jesu/Sun Kil Moon Jesu/Sun Kil Moon | 3.0 |
| Made Out of Babies Trophy | 3.5 |
| Sheidim Amidst the Ashes of Consciousness / In the Light.. | 2.5 |
| Ommadon Empathy for the Wicked | 4.0 |
| Jay-Z The Black Album | 4.5 |
| Tony Yayo and Danny Brown Hawaiian Snow | 4.0 |
| Ka The Superfly Single | 3.5 |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Black Earth | 4.0 |
| Nickelus F and Shawn Kemp Trick Dice | 3.0 |
| Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor | 4.5 |
| Power Trip Power Trip | 4.5 |
| Various Artists Swollen Lungs | 4.0 |
| Gas Up Yr Hearse! Demo | 3.0 |
| Fire Academy/Gas Up Yr Hearse! A Split Floppy Disk | 2.5 |
| Nolan the Ninja lo-fi l∞ps. | 3.5 |
| Immune (UK-LON) Breathless | 3.5 |
| Bones, Cat Soup, and Drew the Architect slán | 3.0 |
| Black Moth Super Rainbow SeeFu Lilac | 3.0 |
| Nolan the Ninja f-ck the hype. | 4.5 |
| Kill The Vultures Carnelian | 3.5 |
| Unknown Mortal Orchestra SB - 03 | 4.0 |
| David Bowie Blackstar | 4.0 |
| Depression at Denny's on my way | 2.5 |
| Depression at Denny's mothball club | 2.5 |
| Cigarettes After Sex Affection | 4.0 |
| Cigarettes After Sex I. | 3.5 |
| Tha Connection Strive | 3.0 |
| Gas Up Yr Hearse!/Coma Regalia Split | 4.0 |
| Gas Up Yr Hearse! A Banner Year For The Sum of Our Losses | 2.5 |
| Low Level / I Hate Sex Split | 2.0 |
| i hate sex Circle Thinking | 3.5 |
| Full of Hell Amber Mote In The Black Vault | 2.5 |
| Slum Village Yes! | 3.0 |
| Reflection Eternal Train of Thought | 4.0 |
| Millicent Waffles nokturnus: trinity | 1.5 |
| We Lost the Sea Crimea | 3.0 |
| Sunn O))) LA Reh 012 | 5.0 |
| Kelela Hallucinogen | 4.0 |
| Obsidian Tongue A Nest of Ravens in the Throat of Time | 3.0 |
| Dead Congregation Promulgation of the Fall | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul | 3.5 |
| Drake and Future What a Time to Be Alive | 2.5 |
| Kylesa Exhausting Fire | 3.0 |
| Chinx Welcome To JFK | 2.0 |
| Tremonti Cauterize | 4.0 |
| Active Child Mercy | 3.0 |
| Little Simz A Curious Tale Of Trials + Persons | 3.5 |
| GridLink Longhena | 2.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine | 4.5 |
| Gary Clark Jr. The Story of Sonny Boy Slim | 2.5 |
| Thievery Corporation Saudade | 3.0 |
| Atoms Family The Prequel | 3.5 |
| Father Who's Gonna Get Fucked First? | 4.0 |
| The Underachievers Evermore: The Art of Duality | 4.0 |
| Magrudergrind Magrudergrind | 3.5 |
| Billy Woods Today, I Wrote Nothing | 4.0 |
| Freddie Gibbs Shadow of a Doubt | 3.0 |
| The Beatles With the Beatles | 4.5 |
| William Basinski Watermusic II | 3.0 |
| William Basinski Watermusic | 4.0 |
| Krallice Hyperion | 2.5 |
| Tut Preacher's Son | 3.0 |
| A Wilhelm Scream Ruiner | 3.0 |
| Steve Von Till A Life Unto Itself | 4.0 |
| Holly Herndon Platform | 3.5 |
| Tim Hecker Mirages | 3.0 |
| William Basinski El Camino Real | 4.5 |
| Uncle Acid and The Deadbeats The Night Creeper | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Revolver | 3.5 |
| Slim Thug Hogg Life, Vol. 2: Still Surviving | 2.5 |
| Wiki Lil Me | 3.5 |
| FKA Twigs LP1 | 3.5 |
| FKA Twigs M3LL155X | 4.5 |
| Inc. No World | 3.0 |
Speak up louder, I can't hear you.
What? Raise your voice, I can't understand what you're saying.
Okay yeah, I can hear you now and.....what???? |
| Odd Nosdam Burner | 3.5 |
| Sixtoo Duration | 4.0 |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet | 3.0 |
| Juicy J Rubba Band Business | 4.0 |
| Ill Nino Till Death, La Familia | 2.0 |
| Sunn O))) White1 | 3.0 |
| Sunn O))) Flight of the Behemoth | 3.5 |
| SikTh Opacities | 4.0 |
| Swans Young God | 4.5 |
| Sunn O))) Kannon | 2.5 |
| DevilDriver The Fury of Our Maker's Hand | 3.5 |
| Alex Wiley Village Party 2: Heaven's Gate | 4.0 |
| Sonic Youth Bad Moon Rising | 5.0 |
| MED, Blu and Madlib Bad Neighbor | 3.0 |
| Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway | 3.5 |
| NAH LIGHT AS FUCK | 3.0 |
| Ho99o9 Dead Bodies In The Lake | 4.5 |
| Mono/The Ocean Transcendental | 4.0 |
| His Hero Is Gone Fifteen Counts Of Arson | 4.5 |
| The Saddest Landscape Darkness Forgives | 3.0 |
| Amenra Mass V | 5.0 |
| Cult Leader Lightless Walk | 4.0 |
| Night Birds Mutiny At Muscle Beach | 3.0 |
| Uncommon Nasa Halfway | 2.5 |
| Pig Destroyer Prowler in the Yard | 4.0 |
| Sleep Dopesmoker | 4.5 |
| Cult Favorite For Madmen Only | 3.0 |
| Earache Records The World's Shortest Album | 3.0 |
| Xylouris White Goats | 2.5 |
| B. Dolan Kill The Wolf | 3.5 |
| Mykki Blanco Mykki Blanco Presents C-ORE | 4.5 |
| Sevendust Kill the Flaw | 3.5 |
| Apollo Brown Grandeur | 4.5 |
| Peaches Rub | 3.0 |
| Black Breath Slaves Beyond Death | 3.0 |
| Full of Hell Roots Of Earth Are Consuming My Home | 4.0 |
| Miles Davis 'Round About Midnight | 3.0 |
| Cattle Decapitation The Anthropocene Extinction | 4.5 |
| My Dying Bride Feel the Misery | 4.0 |
| Travis Scott Rodeo | 3.5 |
| Mac Miller GO:OD AM | 3.0 |
| Shahmen All in the Circle | 3.0 |
| Maxo Kream Maxo 187 | 2.5 |
| Busdriver Perfect Hair | 2.5 |
| Cannibal Ox Blade of the Ronin | 4.0 |
| Alex Wiley *one singular flame emoji ep* | 3.0 |
| Fear Factory Genexus | 2.0 |
| Godflesh A World Lit Only by Fire | 3.5 |
| ACxDC He Had It Coming | 2.5 |
| ACxDC The Second Coming | 2.5 |
| ACxDC Antichrist Demoncore | 3.0 |
| Talib Kweli Train Of Thought | 4.0 |
| Injury Reserve Live From The Dentist Office | 4.0 |
| Mick Jenkins Wave[s] | 3.5 |
| Neurosis Sovereign | 3.0 |
| Bones (USA-CA) Banshee | 2.5 |
| Myrkur M | 3.5 |
| Soulfly Archangel | 3.0 |
| Neurosis Enemy of the Sun | 3.5 |
| Weekend Nachos Worthless | 4.5 |
| Holy Molar The Whole Tooth And Nothing But The Tooth | 2.5 |
| Saint Asonia Saint Asonia | 1.5 |
| Nails Unsilent Death | 4.5 |
| Power Trip Manifest Decimation | 4.0 |
| Nayru Recollections | 2.5 |
| White Suns Totem | 3.5 |
| L'Orange and Kool Keith Time? Astonishing! | 2.5 |
| Vortex Of Crap Pure Cock Fury | 1.0 |
| Alias The Other Side Of The Looking Glass | 3.5 |
| Your Old Droog The Nicest | 2.5 |
| Full of Hell and Merzbow Full of Hell and Merzbow | 4.0 |
| Ghostface Killah Twelve Reasons to Die II | 3.0 |
| Senses Fail Pull the Thorns from Your Heart | 3.0 |
| State Champs The Finer Things | 2.0 |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore | 3.0 |
| The UN UN Or U Out | 4.5 |
| Breaking Benjamin Dark Before Dawn | 2.0 |
| Freddie Gibbs ESGN | 4.5 |
| Anticon Music for the Advancement of Hip Hop | 4.5 |
| Children of God Coup De Grace | 4.0 |
| Open Mike Eagle A Special Episode Of | 3.5 |
| The Dangerous Summer War Paint | 3.0 |
| The LOX We Are the Streets | 3.5 |
| Class Actress Movies | 2.5 |
| Citizen Everybody Is Going to Heaven | 3.0 |
| Fucked Up Year of the Hare | 4.0 |
| Vomir Indecente | 1.0 |
| Dr. Yen Lo Days With Dr. Yen Lo | 3.5 |
| Jeromes Dream Seeing Means More Than Safety | 3.5 |
| Earl Sweatshirt Solace | 3.5 |
| Young Troubled Minds One Big Session | 4.0 |
| Deep Puddle Dynamics We Ain't Fessin' (Double Quotes) | 3.5 |
| Freddie Gibbs and Madlib Pinata | 4.0 |
| P.O.S Never Better | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress' | 3.5 |
| Earl Sweatshirt I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside | 2.5 |
| Death Grips The Powers That B - Part II: Jenny Death | 3.5 |
| Botch We Are the Romans | 4.0 |
| Open Mike Eagle Dark Comedy | 4.5 |
| Pig Destroyer Terrifyer | 4.0 |
| Freddie Gibbs Pronto | 3.0 |
| Vacant Trauma | 4.0 |
| Swain Heavy Dancing | 3.0 |
| Bones and Dylan Ross SongsThatRemindYouOfHome | 4.0 |
| pg.99 Document #8 | 4.5 |
| Orchid Chaos is Me | 3.5 |
| surrenderdorothy itsthethoughtthatcounts | 2.0 |
| Orchid Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow! | 4.0 |
| City of Caterpillar City of Caterpillar | 5.0 |
| Youth Code Keep Falling Apart/Tiger's Remorse | 3.0 |
| As Cities Burn Come Now Sleep | 3.5 |
| Bobby Shmurda Shmurda She Wrote | 3.5 |
| Jaden Smith This Is The Album | 1.5 |
| G.L.O.S.S. Demo | 3.5 |
| Your Old Droog Kinison | 4.0 |
| Slim Thug Hogg Life: The Beginning | 4.0 |
| Funeral Diner The Underdark | 4.0 |
| You Blew It! Pioneer Of Nothing | 2.5 |
| Doomtree All Hands | 3.5 |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World | 5.0 |
| Converge/Napalm Death Split | 3.5 |
| Rae Sremmurd SremmLife | 2.0 |
| Ka 1200 B.C. | 4.0 |
| Coasts Coasts (EP) | 3.0 |
| Teengirl Fantasy Thermal | 3.0 |
| Cannibal Ox X 3:33 The Bicameral Vein | 4.0 |
| Rome Fortune x OG Maco Yep | 3.5 |
| NAH NOBODY CARES WHAT HAPPENS, NO ONE'S INTERESTED | 3.0 |
| Grýla Demo 2015 | 2.5 |
| Aesop Rock Cat Food | 3.5 |
| Bones (USA-CA) SoThereWeStood | 2.5 |
| To kick off the new year after a prolific 2014, Bones appears to have condensed a typical mixtape of his into what comes across as a sampler. All the hallmarks of the rapper's sound are present and accounted for throughout these six tracks, and not much else. As per usual, Bones listlessly raps over hazy ambient beats and vocal samples screwed beyond recognition. It might work well as an introduction to Bones for those overwhelmed by his extensive discography, but this standard affair is a bit of a regression for the rapper considering the sundry sound of Rotten (which was released only a month prior). Although he has a penchant for sporadically releasing new material, he might want to wait until he at least has some surprises for the already initiated before he risks putting out something this underwhelming again. |
| Walking Bicycles To Him That Wills The Way | 4.0 |
| Your Old Droog Your Old Droog LP | 3.5 |
| James Blake 200 Press | 2.5 |
| Melanin 9 Magna Carta | 4.0 |
| Guerilla Toss Gay Disco | 4.0 |
| Guerilla Toss Smack the Brick | 3.5 |
| Xavier Wulf and Bones Caves | 3.5 |
| Bones (USA-CA) YoungDumbFuck | 4.5 |
| Bones (USA-CA) Rotten | 4.5 |
| Old Man Gloom The Ape of God II | 3.5 |
| Old Man Gloom The Ape of God I | 4.0 |
| Neurosis A Sun That Never Sets | 3.0 |
| The Neighbourhood #000000 & #ffffff | 3.5 |
| Molly Drake Molly Drake | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Demo Tape 4 | 3.0 |
| D'Angelo Live At The Jazz Cafe | 3.5 |
| No Bird Sing Theft of the Commons | 4.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Monuments to an Elegy | 2.5 |
| Men Among Boys In Reverse, Rivers | 4.0 |
| Young Thug and Bloody Jay Black Portland | 2.0 |
| Emmure Felony | 1.5 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain | 3.5 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Happiness | 4.5 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Whatever I Say Is Royal Ocean | 4.0 |
| Arca Xen | 4.5 |
| Logic Young Sinatra: Welcome to Forever | 3.5 |
| Cage (USA-NY) Movies for the Blind | 3.5 |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground | 3.0 |
| PVRIS Acoustic | 4.0 |
| PVRIS White Noise | 5.0 |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico | 4.0 |
| The Velvet Underground Loaded | 2.5 |
| Hail Mary Mallon Bestiary | 3.5 |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Circa Survive/Sunny Day Real Estate | 2.5 |
| Circa Survive Juturna | 4.0 |
| A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory | 2.5 |
| Cage (USA-NY) Weatherproof | 3.0 |
| Christian Death Sex and Drugs and Jesus Christ | 4.5 |
| Savages/Bo Ningen Words to the Blind | 3.5 |
| surrenderdorothy weneveraskedforthis | 2.5 |
| surrenderdorothy nobodywantsme | 3.0 |
| surrenderdorothy itstheleastwecando | 3.0 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 | 4.5 |
| Azealia Banks 1991 | 3.0 |
| Jaden Smith Prakruti | 2.5 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Formlessness | 3.0 |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness | 3.5 |
| M.I.A. Maya | 4.5 |
| SIGHTS Behind the Mask | 3.5 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Keep You | 4.5 |
| Meghan Trainor Title EP | 1.0 |
| Aesop Waits Tom Shall Pass | 5.0 |
I don't know if Tom Waits even digs hip hop, but him and Aesop should get drinks or something and
maybe actually record an official collaboration that's even better and weirder than this.
http://aesopwaits.bandcamp.com/releases |
| Uncommon Nasa New York Telephone | 3.5 |
| Nothing But Thieves Graveyard Whistling | 4.0 |
| xSPONGEXCOREx Don't Mess With TexXxas | 2.5 |
| Youth Code A Place To Stand | 4.0 |
| Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter | 3.0 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Demo | 3.0 |
| Pianos Become The Teeth/Ezra Joyce Split | 3.5 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Old Pride | 4.0 |
| Jedi Mind Tricks The Amber Probe EP | 3.5 |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Violent by Design | 5.0 |
| Downloadmymixtape Download My Mixtape | 1.0 |
| B L A C K I E... All Caps, With Spaces FUCK THE FALSE | 2.0 |
| Cities Aviv Coastin | 2.5 |
| Priests Tape 2 | 2.5 |
| Priests Tape 1 | 3.0 |
| Priests Radiation/Personal Planes 7" | 3.0 |
| clipping. Something They Don't Know/Mouth | 4.0 |
| Beach Slang Cheap Thrills On A Dead End Street | 3.5 |
| Beach Slang Who Would Ever Want Anything So Broken? | 3.0 |
| Childish Gambino STN MTN | 4.0 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Josh Is Dead | 2.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 5.0 |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 4.5 |
| Terry Malts Insides | 2.5 |
| Girl Tears Tension | 2.0 |
| Jeezy Seen It All: The Autobiography | 3.5 |
| Celldweller Zombie Killer | 2.5 |
| Tennis Ritual In Repeat | 4.0 |
| Whirr June | 3.0 |
| System of a Down Demo Tape 3 | 4.0 |
| System of a Down Demo Tape 2 | 3.0 |
| System of a Down Demo Tape 1 | 3.0 |
| System of a Down Untitled Demo Tape | 3.5 |
| Darwin's Waiting Room Orphan | 3.5 |
| Young and in the Way I Am Not What I Am | 4.0 |
| Damaar Triumph Through Spears Of Sacrilege | 3.0 |
| Giles Corey Hinterkaifeck | 3.0 |
| Giles Corey Giles Corey | 4.0 |
| Salt Cathedral Oom Velt | 3.0 |
| Hammock The Sleep-Over Series (Volume 1) | 4.5 |
| King 810 Proem | 1.5 |
| Cathedrals Cathedrals EP | 4.0 |
| Mutual Benefit The Cowboy's Prayer | 3.5 |
| Aesop Rock Music For Earthworms | 4.5 |
| xSPONGEXCOREx How Tough Are Yah? | 2.0 |
| Ryan Adams 1984 | 3.0 |
| There Will Be Fireworks Because, Because | 2.5 |
| Lonely the Brave The Day's War | 4.0 |
| Black Veil Brides Wretched and Divine | 3.5 |
| The 1975 IV | 3.0 |
| The 1975 Music For Cars | 3.5 |
| The 1975 Sex | 4.0 |
| The 1975 Facedown | 3.5 |
| The 1975 IV [American edition] | 4.5 |
| TNGHT TNGHT | 3.5 |
| The Neighbourhood I'm Sorry... | 3.0 |
| The Neighbourhood The Love Collection | 3.5 |
| The Neighbourhood Thank You, | 2.5 |
| The Neighbourhood I Love You. | 3.0 |
| Mixed Blood Majority Mixed Blood Majority | 3.5 |
| The Blood of Heroes The Blood Of Heroes | 4.0 |
| The 2 Bears Lamb's Bread & Weepers | 2.0 |
| Drenge Drenge | 3.0 |
| Gris À L'Âme Enflammée, L'Âme Constellée... | 5.0 |
| Morning Effort I heard you the first time, it just wasn't funny | 1.5 |
| B L A C K I E... All Caps, With Spaces True Spirit And Not Giving A Fuck | 3.5 |
| Troye Sivan TRXYE | 3.0 |
| B L A C K I E... All Caps, With Spaces Wilderness Of North America | 4.0 |
| clipping. Chain/Jump | 4.0 |
| clipping. dba118 | 3.5 |
| The Districts The Districts | 4.0 |
| Anberlin Lowborn | 4.5 |
| Lil Ugly Mane PRELUDE TO PANOPTICON: "ON DOING AN EVIL DEED... | 3.5 |
| Lil Ugly Mane Mista Thug Isolation | 4.0 |
| Xavier Wulf and Bones ダサい | 4.0 |
| Corbin Black Silk | 2.5 |
| Bones (USA-CA) TEENWITCH | 3.5 |
| Bones (USA-CA) SCUMBAG | 3.0 |
| Corbin Leaving | 3.0 |
| Britney Spears Blackout | 3.5 |
| Skyzoo & Torae Barrel Brothers | 4.0 |
| Alex Wiley Village Party | 4.0 |
| Michael Cera True That | 2.0 |
| In The Arms of Providence Lost My Voicebox in a Seaside Town | 4.0 |
| Lil Silva Mabel | 3.5 |
| Self Defense Family/Meredith Hunter Split | 3.5 |
| Hello Kitty Suicide Club ^_^ | 1.0 |
| Eyedea and Abilities By the Throat | 3.0 |
| Sunn O))) Meets Nurse With Wound The Iron Soul of Nothing | 3.5 |
| CZARFACE CZARFACE | 4.0 |
| Your Old Droog Your Old Droog | 4.5 |
| Tigers Jaw/Code Orange/Self Defense Family/TWIABP 4-Way Split | 3.0 |
| Self Defense Family Two Genuine Oddities From Our Distant Past | 2.5 |
| Yung Lean Lavender | 2.0 |
| King Louie Tony | 4.0 |
| Spoon They Want My Soul | 3.5 |
| Apathy Connecticut Casual | 3.5 |
| Uncle Acid and The Deadbeats Mind Control | 3.5 |
| Electric Wizard Dopethrone | 4.5 |
| Earth The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull | 4.0 |
| Dalek Abandoned Language | 4.5 |
| The Cure Bloodflowers | 4.0 |
| Bones (USA-CA) Garbage | 3.0 |
| My Brightest Diamond None More Than You | 3.5 |
| UltraMantis Black UltraMantis Black | 2.5 |
| Ted Nugent Shutup&jam! | 2.0 |
| Electric Citizen Sateen | 4.0 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never R Plus Seven | 3.0 |
| King Krule King Krule | 3.5 |
| Gemini Syndrome Lux | 3.0 |
| Mannveira Von Er Eitur | 2.5 |
| Joyce Manor Never Hungover Again | 3.5 |
| Die Antwoord Donker Mag | 1.5 |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Visions of Gandhi | 4.5 |
| Riff Raff Neon Icon | 3.0 |
| Lil Wayne I Am Not a Human Being II | 2.0 |
| White Zombie God of Thunder | 4.0 |
| White Zombie Psycho-Head Blowout | 3.5 |
| White Zombie Pig Heaven | 3.0 |
| White Zombie Gods on Voodoo Moon | 3.0 |
| Blue Stahli The Devil: Chapter 01 | 2.5 |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair | 3.5 |
| BABYMETAL BABYMETAL | 3.0 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After | 4.5 |
| The Saddest Landscape/Pianos Become The Teeth Split | 2.5 |
| Suicide Suicide | 4.0 |
| maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map | 4.5 |
| maudlin of the Well Bath | 5.0 |
| Jay Electronica Act I: Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge) | 3.0 |
| Babe Rainbow Falling Apart | 3.5 |
| Owl City Ultraviolet | 1.5 |
| Big L Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous | 4.0 |
| Touche Amore/The Casket Lottery Split | 3.0 |
| Touche Amore/Make Do And Mend Split | 4.0 |
| Touche Amore/Pianos Become the Teeth Split | 4.5 |
| Touche Amore Live On BBC Radio 1 | 4.0 |
| Touche Amore/Title Fight Split | 3.5 |
| Touche Amore Touche Amore | 3.0 |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me | 3.5 |
| Touche Amore ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse | 3.5 |
| Monuments (UK) The Amanuensis | 4.0 |
| M. Geddes Gengras Ishi | 4.0 |
| Bright Light Bright Light Life Is Easy | 2.5 |
| Royal Blood Out of the Black | 4.0 |
| Crypts Crypts | 2.5 |
| Nick Drake Pink Moon | 3.0 |
| Isaiah Rashad Cilvia Demo | 3.0 |
| Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles) | 4.5 |
| Glassjaw El Mark | 4.0 |
| Touche Amore/La Dispute Searching for a Pulse/The Worth of the World | 3.5 |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence | 5.0 |
| La Dispute Rooms of the House | 4.0 |
| White Hex Gold Nights | 3.5 |
| Sadistik Ultraviolet | 3.5 |
| Puff Daddy Last Train to Paris | 3.5 |
| Eaters Eaters | 3.0 |
| Boris Noise | 4.0 |
| FKA Twigs EP | 3.5 |
| Wife Stoic | 4.0 |
| Empires How Good Does It Feel | 3.0 |
| Austra Habitat | 3.0 |
| OK Go Upside Out | 2.5 |
| Taylor McFerrin Early Riser | 4.0 |
| Morcheeba Who Can You Trust? | 4.5 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 3.0 |
| A Bunny's Caravan Draining Puddles, Retrieving Treasures | 5.0 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 5.0 |
| Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) What It Takes to Move Forward | 4.0 |
| Om Advaitic Songs | 3.5 |
| Gaza No Absolutes in Human Suffering | 4.0 |
| Jack White Lazaretto | 3.5 |
| Action Bronson and Statik Selektah Well-Done | 3.5 |
| clipping. CLPPNG | 3.0 |
| Dub Thompson 9 Songs | 2.0 |
| Shamir Northtown | 3.0 |
| Intuition & Equalibrum Intuition & Equalibrum | 3.5 |
| Death Grips The Powers That B - Part I: Niggas on the Moon | 3.0 |
| Inga Copeland Because I'm Worth It | 2.5 |
| Devonte Hynes Palo Alto (Original Motion Picture Score) | 3.0 |
| Killer Be Killed Killer Be Killed | 3.5 |
| Freddie Gibbs and Statik Selektah The Lord Giveth, The Lord Taketh Away | 3.0 |
| Danny Brown The Hybrid | 4.0 |
| Black Tongue Born Hanged | 2.5 |
| Black Milk and Danny Brown Black and Brown! | 4.0 |
| Gold-Bears Dalliance | 2.5 |
| Julianna Barwick Rosabi | 3.0 |
| Doe Eye T E L E V I S I O N | 3.0 |
| Godflesh Decline and Fall | 3.5 |
| Priests Bodies and Control and Money and Power | 3.5 |
| Innerpartysystem Innerpartysystem | 4.5 |
| Powerman 5000 Builders of the Future | 1.5 |
| Mingle Harde Mongol Horde | 4.5 |
| Lantlos Melting Sun | 4.0 |
| Freddie Gibbs and The World's Freshest The Tonite Show | 4.0 |
| Foxy Shazam Gonzo | 3.0 |
| Food for Animals Scavengers EP | 4.5 |
| Broods Broods | 4.0 |
| Trash Talk No Peace | 2.5 |
| Hiss Tracts Shortwave Nights | 4.5 |
| Statik Selektah Extended Play | 4.0 |
| Chromeo White Women | 2.5 |
| The Roots ...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin | 3.0 |
| Trans Am Volume X | 2.5 |
| Rome Fortune Drive, Thighs and Lies | 1.5 |
| Rome Fortune Beautiful Pimp II | 3.5 |
| Aloe Blacc Lift Your Spirit | 3.0 |
| Archie Bronson Outfit Wild Crush | 3.5 |
| The Flaming Lips 7 Skies H3 | 4.5 |
| White Sea In Cold Blood | 2.5 |
| Dead Rider The Raw Dents | 3.0 |
| Deniro Farrar Rebirth | 3.0 |
| Tobacco Ultima II Massage | 3.5 |
| DJ Rashad We On 1 | 2.0 |
| Kangding Ray Solens Arc | 4.0 |
| Baths Ocean Death | 2.5 |
| Front Line Assembly Echoes | 3.0 |
| Aesop Rock Daylight | 4.0 |
| Mica Levi Under The Skin OST | 3.5 |
| EMA The Future's Void | 4.0 |
| Jamie Isaac Blue Break | 4.0 |
| Atmosphere Southsiders | 2.5 |
| Liam Finn The Nihilist | 3.5 |
| Savages Fuckers/Dream Baby Dream | 3.5 |
| AJJ Christmas Island | 2.0 |
| Swans To Be Kind | 5.0 |
| Brian Blade Landmarks | 3.5 |
| Cashmere Cat Wedding Bells | 3.0 |
| YG My Krazy Life | 4.0 |
| Broken Twin May | 3.5 |
| Action Bronson and Party Supplies Blue Chips 2 | 3.5 |
| Saliva Rise Up | 3.0 |
| Damon Albarn Everyday Robots | 4.0 |
| Action Bronson Saaab Stories | 4.0 |
| Timeflies After Hours | 1.5 |
| Strict Face Fountains/Highbury Skyline | 3.0 |
| Sd Laika That's Harakiri | 2.0 |
| Future Honest | 2.5 |
| Ought More Than Any Other Day | 3.5 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Hang On to Each Other | 4.5 |
| Fennesz Becs | 4.0 |
| NOISIA Split The Atom | 3.5 |
| Roc Marciano The Pimpire Strikes Back | 3.5 |
| Antwon End of Earth | 3.0 |
| Asher Roth Retro Hash | 4.0 |
| Stitches No Snitching Is My Statement | 1.5 |
| Sevendust Time Travelers and Bonfires | 4.5 |
| Eagulls Eagulls | 4.0 |
| Nothing Guilty of Everything | 4.0 |
| Tweens Tweens | 2.5 |
| Toro Y Moi Underneath The Pine | 4.0 |
| Young & Sick Young & Sick | 3.0 |
| A/T/O/S A/T/O/S | 4.5 |
| Kool A.D. WORD O.K. | 3.5 |
| David Lynch and Alan R Splet Eraserhead | 5.0 |
One of the earliest cases of a soundtrack that paved the way for the further development of
other genres. These two sprawling 20 minute pieces vividly paint the universe of the movie
in all its morbid beauty, and all while dabbling in the fields of drone, noise, dark
ambient, and industrial music long before each of those genres had been fully realized and
capitalized on, let alone connected together. To call this soundtrack "ahead of its time"
would be an understatement, as these sound collages of layers of unsettling environmental
ambiance and dismal noise pollution make up one of the most avant-garde exercises in the
entirety of film scores still to this day. |
| Carla Bozulich Boy | 4.0 |
| Yuck Southern Skies | 2.5 |
| Lakutis 3 Seashells | 3.5 |
| Adrian Younge Something About April | 4.0 |
| Adrian Younge Black Dynamite (Original Motion Picture Score) | 5.0 |
| The Delfonics Adrian Younge Presents The Delfonics | 3.0 |
| Pharoahe Monch PTSD: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder | 4.0 |
| Cloud Nothings Here and Nowhere Else | 2.0 |
| Hop Along Get Disowned | 3.5 |
| Yung Lean Unknown Death 2002 | 3.5 |
| Twin Shadow Forget | 3.0 |
| Toro Y Moi Causers of This | 3.0 |
| Emmure Eternal Enemies | 1.5 |
| Protomartyr Under Color of Official Right | 3.0 |
| Fucked Up Year of the Dragon | 4.0 |
| La Femme Psycho Tropical Berlin | 2.5 |
| Grieves Winter & The Wolves | 3.5 |
| SZA Z | 3.0 |
| Mr. Bungle California | 4.5 |
| Crash of Rhinos Knots | 3.5 |
| Pity Sex Dark World | 3.5 |
| Pity Sex Feast of Love | 4.0 |
| The Weathermen The Conspiracy | 3.5 |
| Squarepusher Music for Robots | 1.0 |
| RATKING So It Goes | 4.5 |
| Vince Staples Shyne Coldchain Vol. 2 | 3.5 |
| Florence and the Machine Lungs | 4.0 |
| Mac Miller DELUSIONAL THOMAS | 3.0 |
| Childish Gambino Because the Internet | 4.5 |
| Ill Nino Epidemia | 4.5 |
| B Jesus | 3.0 |
| Chevelle La Gárgola | 4.0 |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals | 3.5 |
| Dry Kill Logic The Darker Side Of Nonsense | 3.5 |
| Perfect Pussy Say Yes to Love | 1.5 |
| Snowing Fuck Your Emotional Bullshit | 2.5 |
| Snowing Pump Fake / Scherbatsky 7" | 2.0 |
| Merchant Ships For Cameron | 2.5 |
| The Knife Tomorrow, In a Year | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Recoiled | 3.0 |
| Roc Marciano Marcberg | 4.0 |
| Roc Marciano Reloaded | 4.5 |
| Distance My Demons | 4.0 |
| Roc Marciano Marci Beaucoup | 4.5 |
| CunninLynguists Strange Journey Vol. 3 | 4.0 |
| Marijuana Deathsquads Oh My Sexy Lord | 3.5 |
| Young Fathers TAPE ONE | 3.0 |
| Young Fathers DEAD | 3.5 |
| Evian Christ Waterfall | 3.5 |
| Feist/Mastodon Feistodon | 4.0 |
| Cities Aviv Come To Life | 3.0 |
| Death Grips Death Grips | 3.0 |
| Saul Williams Amethyst Rock Star | 3.5 |
| Kill The Vultures Kill The Vultures | 3.5 |
| The Flaming Lips Embryonic | 5.0 |
| The Constructus Corporation The Ziggurat | 4.5 |
| Linda Perhacs The Soul of All Natural Things | 4.0 |
| Black Milk Glitches In The Break | 3.0 |
| Black Atlass Young Bloods | 3.0 |
| Tycho Awake | 4.0 |
| CHON Woohoo! | 2.5 |
| Arcade Fire Her | 5.0 |
| Morrissey Your Arsenal | 5.0 |
| Ka Grief Pedigree | 4.0 |
| Jamie Isaac I Will Be Cold Soon | 4.5 |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There | 3.5 |
| Saint Pepsi Gin City | 3.0 |
| Saosin Saosin | 4.5 |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute | 5.0 |
| Katy B Little Red | 3.5 |
| The Glitch Mob Love Death Immortality | 2.0 |
| Temples Sun Structures | 4.0 |
| St. Vincent St. Vincent | 4.5 |
| Macintosh Plus Floral Shoppe | 4.0 |
| The Sounds Dying to Say This to You | 3.5 |
| The Strokes Is This It | 3.0 |
| Cryoshell Cryoshell | 2.5 |
| Cymbals (UK) The Age of Fracture | 3.5 |
| Basement Colourmeinkindness | 3.5 |
| Les Claypool's Duo de Twang Four Foot Shack | 4.0 |
| Death Grips DxDG | 3.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 4.0 |
| ceo Wonderland | 3.0 |
| Of Mice and Men Restoring Force | 1.5 |
| This is actually so derivative of so many outdated and immature musical concepts, that it's kind of comparable to a middle-aged man going back to middle school even though he graduated long ago, and then trying to join the basketball team and getting pissed that he's taller than the hoop itself. This is realistically a 1/5 on the grounds that there is no better example of the current regression in metalcore as a whole, but these guys deserve an extra increment for impressively being able to describe their own sound in the most inept way possible: "fusion between Meshuggah and Nickelback." - Austin Carlile |
| For Today Fight the Silence | 2.5 |
| Tom Waits Alice | 3.5 |
| Warpaint Warpaint | 3.0 |
| letlive. Fake History | 5.0 |
| Have a Nice Life The Unnatural World | 4.0 |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness | 3.5 |
| Rosanne Cash The River & the Thread | 3.0 |
| Haymaker Let Them Rot | 2.5 |
| Strawberry Girls French Ghetto | 4.5 |
| The Visit Between Worlds | 3.0 |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Piano Nights | 4.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare | 4.0 |
| The Chain Gang Of 1974 Daydream Forever | 3.5 |
| Drowners Drowners | 2.0 |
| The Lawrence Arms Metropole | 1.5 |
| Dum Dum Girls Too True | 4.5 |
| Rarely is there shoegaze anymore with this much clarity and hooks this contagious. |
| Bibio Green | 4.0 |
| Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues | 3.5 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything | 3.0 |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm | 3.0 |
| I Break Horses Chiaroscuro | 3.5 |
| Crusades Perhaps You Deliver This Judgement... | 3.0 |
| Denzel Curry Nostalgic 64 | 4.0 |
| Local Natives Hummingbird | 4.0 |
| Omar Souleyman Wenu Wenu | 4.5 |
| Serj Tankian Orca Symphony No. 1 | 2.5 |
| The Flaming Lips Peace Sword | 3.5 |
| Glass Animals Glass Animals | 3.0 |
| Haraket İlk | 4.0 |
| Various Artists After Dark 2 | 3.5 |
| Alcest Shelter | 4.0 |
| Savages Savages - Single | 3.5 |
| Savages I Am Here | 3.5 |
| The Velvet Underground White Light/White Heat | 4.0 |
| Pixies EP2 | 3.0 |
| Pixies EP1 | 1.5 |
| Periphery Clear | 2.5 |
| Their / They're / There Analog Weekend | 3.0 |
| Their / They're / There Their / They're / There | 2.5 |
| Yuna Nocturnal | 3.5 |
| Melt-Banana Fetch | 3.0 |
| Foxing The Albatross | 3.5 |
| Beyonce Beyonce | 4.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City | 2.5 |
| Jon Hopkins Immunity | 4.0 |
| 7 Days Of Funk 7 Days Of Funk | 3.5 |
| Mutoid Man Helium Head | 4.0 |
| Angel Haze Dirty Gold | 4.0 |
| JMSN †Pllajë† | 3.5 |
| Say Lou Lou Better In The Dark | 3.0 |
| Uncle Acid and The Deadbeats Blood Lust | 4.5 |
| Various Artists Purple Snow: Forecasting the Minneapolis Sound | 4.5 |
| The Winery Dogs The Winery Dogs | 2.5 |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon | 3.5 |
| London Grammar If You Wait | 4.0 |
| Friendzone DX | 2.5 |
| Del Tha Funkee Homosapien Iller Than Most | 3.5 |
| Jhene Aiko Sail Out | 4.0 |
| Perfect Pussy I have lost all desire for feeling | 1.0 |
| I have lost all desire for feeling like listening to any more noise rock because this cassette is so terrible that listening to the audio quality is comparable to pouring an entire pitcher of water in each eardrum and then trying to discern the dying moans of the ancient voice chip decaying within a talking children's doll from the 1960s. |
| Typhoon (USA-OR) White Lighter | 3.0 |
| Kelela Cut 4 Me | 4.0 |
| Tom Waits Rain Dogs | 4.5 |
| Katy B Danger | 3.5 |
| Tom Waits Bad As Me | 4.5 |
| Icona Pop This Is...Icona Pop | 2.5 |
| Sara Bareilles The Blessed Unrest | 4.0 |
| The Story So Far What You Don't See | 3.5 |
| PARTYNEXTDOOR PARTYNEXTDOOR | 3.0 |
| Blue Sky Black Death Glaciers | 3.5 |
| The Smith Street Band Don't Fuck With Our Dreams | 4.0 |
| Ghostpoet Some Say I So I Say Light | 3.5 |
| Pharmakon Abandon | 2.0 |
| Altar of Plagues Teethed Glory and Injury | 3.5 |
| The Ocean Pelagial | 3.5 |
| Young Fathers TAPE TWO | 4.0 |
| Comadre Comadre | 3.0 |
| Bonobo The North Borders | 4.0 |
| Dead Letter Circus The Catalyst Fire | 3.5 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Whenever, If Ever | 3.0 |
| A Lot Like Birds No Place | 3.5 |
| Julia Holter Loud City Song | 4.0 |
| Mikal Cronin MCII | 2.5 |
| Self Defense Family Try Me | 4.0 |
| Shabazz Palaces Black Up | 3.5 |
| Glasser Interiors | 4.5 |
| Black Milk No Poison No Paradise | 4.0 |
| Input & Broken Never Heard of Ya | 3.5 |
| Parry Gripp Do You Like Waffles? | 2.5 |
| Hieroglyphics The Kitchen | 4.0 |
| Copeland Eat, Sleep, Repeat | 3.5 |
| Chozen Chozen's Jamz | 1.0 |
| James Blake Klavierwerke | 3.5 |
| Julia Holter Tragedy | 4.5 |
| Anberlin New Surrender | 3.5 |
| Anberlin Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place | 4.0 |
| Daughter If You Leave | 4.0 |
| Banks Fall Over | 3.0 |
| Theory of a Deadman Scars and Souvenirs | 2.5 |
| SOHN Bloodflows | 3.5 |
| Various Artists Birdemic EP | 1.0 |
| The New Pornographers Twin Cinema | 4.0 |
| Hans Zimmer The Dark Knight Rises | 3.0 |
| Various Artists Queen Of The Damned Soundtrack | 3.5 |
| Anohni and the Johnsons The Crying Light | 4.0 |
| Barn Owl Lost in the Glare | 4.5 |
| Silverchair Young Modern | 3.5 |
| Burial Rival Dealer | 3.0 |
| Bibio Silver Wilkinson | 3.5 |
| Hammock Oblivion Hymns | 3.0 |
| Honestly, either one of Departure Songs' two discs had more diversity and purposeful direction than this overly-seamless follow-up. There's only so much chest-swelling in a set of compositions that I can take before the whole thing becomes rather repetitive and the emotion is lost. The ambient layers are so over-powering that it sounds like a power-wash on the post-rock whispers. |
| Lana Del Rey Paradise | 3.5 |
| Daughtry Baptized | 2.0 |
| BOOM BA BOOM BOOM BA BOOM BOOM BOOOOM BOOM BA BOOM BOOM BA BOOM BOOM BOOM |
| Nails Abandon All Life | 3.5 |
| You know it's awesome when it pummels your brain and eardrums into so much mush that you can't think of more than a four word sentence to describe how epic of a war this album wages upon everything that's not chaos. |
| Zion I ShadowBoxing | 4.5 |
| Trifonic Ninth Wave | 4.0 |
| Hail the Villain Population: Declining | 3.5 |
| Nipsey Hussle Crenshaw | 3.5 |
| Joey Badass 1999 | 4.0 |
| JMSN Priscilla | 3.0 |
| Savages Silence Yourself | 4.5 |
| Demetri Martin These Are Jokes | 3.5 |
| Patton Oswalt My Weakness Is Strong | 3.0 |
| David Cross Shut Up, You Fucking Baby! | 4.0 |
| Patton Oswalt Feelin' Kinda Patton | 3.5 |
| Patton Oswalt Finest Hour | 3.5 |
| Patton Oswalt Werewolves and Lollipops | 4.5 |
| Kid Cudi Indicud | 3.0 |
| Araabmuzik Electronic Dream | 2.5 |
| Every single one of these dub-hop garage beat cuts begin with the same vocal sample of a women confirming that, "You are now listening to Araabmuzik", just in case listeners may have forgotten by the end of the track before. The annoying and stupidly repetitious nature of this may have been sort of a good idea if this was the type of music that was commonly released as singles and played on radio stations. At least that way there would be no doubt that you are indeed hearing a song from Araabmuzik, but it's just so unnecessary and makes the setup of these songs so cyclical. This is especially true when a hype-inducing statement like that makes promises of a fulfilling experience in every song that this collection of practice sessions that play out more like warm ups can't keep. Electronic Dream is decent electronic music with a hip hop swagger about it, but it's ultimately not satisfactory enough to warrant any returning listens. |
| Egyptrixx A/B Til Infinity | 3.5 |
| Brian Head Welch Save Me From Myself | 2.0 |
| Lady Gaga Artpop | 4.0 |
| Bosnian Rainbows Bosnian Rainbows | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension | 3.0 |
| Adelitas Way Home School Valedictorian | 2.0 |
| Ariana Grande Yours Truly | 3.5 |
| Mindless Self Indulgence You'll Rebel To Anything | 3.0 |
| Trophy Scars Hospital Music for the Aesthetics of Language | 3.5 |
| Trophy Scars Never Born, Never Dead | 4.0 |
| TesseracT Altered State | 3.5 |
| Submotion Orchestra 1968 | 3.5 |
| Melt Yourself Down Melt Yourself Down | 4.5 |
| Trophy Scars Darkness, Oh Hell | 5.0 |
| Torche Harmonicraft | 4.0 |
| Daft Punk Tron: Legacy | 3.5 |
| Mr. Muthafuckin eXquire Power and Passion | 3.0 |
| We Lost the Sea The Quietest Place on Earth | 4.5 |
| Quakers Quakers | 4.0 |
| A Day To Remember Common Courtesy | 3.5 |
| Mike Shinoda and Joseph Trapanese The Raid: Redemption | 4.0 |
| Natalia Kills Trouble | 3.0 |
| Stubborn Heart Stubborn Heart | 4.5 |
| Tom Waits Blood Money | 5.0 |
| Skream Skream! | 3.5 |
| M83 You and the Night (OST) | 2.5 |
| Kings of Leon Only By The Night | 3.5 |
| Touche Amore Is Survived By | 4.0 |
| The brash vocals can become a bit repetitive, but that doesn't detract from Is Survived By being as good as it gets as far as bleak and perturbing contemporary hardcore is concerned. |
| Scorpions Humanity: Hour I | 4.0 |
| Lindstrom Smalhans | 3.5 |
| Rochelle Jordan P R E S S U R E | 4.0 |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Kiss | 3.5 |
| Blood Orange Cupid Deluxe | 3.0 |
| The Wombats This Modern Glitch | 3.5 |
| The Wrens The Meadowlands | 4.5 |
| Knife Party Haunted House | 2.5 |
I don't know if I can even rate this. Two tracks in and I'd seriously rather be listening to
Crazy Frog. Here's to hoping these two never release a full-length album.
EDIT: Okay, just heard the whole thing, got reminded of "Sandstorm" by Darude, wished I was
listening to Darude instead, and realized how bad of a sign that is that I'd rather be
listening to fucking Darude. I think I can rate this now. |
| Knife Party Rage Valley | 3.0 |
| Skrillex Leaving | 2.0 |
| Invincible ShapeShifters | 4.5 |
| Devour The Day Time & Pressure | 3.0 |
| Ulver Perdition City | 4.5 |
| Megadeth Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? | 4.0 |
| Katatonia Dethroned & Uncrowned | 3.0 |
| In Flames The Jester Race | 4.0 |
| The Men Open Your Heart | 4.5 |
| 36 Crazyfists Bitterness the Star | 3.5 |
| DevilDriver Winter Kills | 4.0 |
| Chimaira Pass Out of Existence | 3.5 |
| ISIS Temporal | 4.0 |
| The Internet Feel Good | 3.0 |
| They seriously have this dreary and depressive tone of neo-soul music down to a science, that much is clear. However, there's virtually no dynamic range -- to the what could potentially be a great signature sound -- showcased on this. At about the halfway point, this can turn into a draining and almost exhausting trudge through the murkiest waters of downcast R&B. While it's more soul-inspired than PBR&B, and has nailed the right amount of moodiness for this kind of music, the saturated and dismal pace might make you want to grab some caffeine rather than the cleanex. |
| Marijuana Deathsquads Tamper, Disable, Destroy | 4.0 |
| Atreyu Congregation of the Damned | 2.0 |
| Gustavo Santaolalla The Last of Us OST | 4.0 |
| Talk Talk The Colour of Spring | 4.0 |
| Anberlin Devotion | 3.5 |
| Taylor Swift Speak Now | 3.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism | 3.5 |
| blink-182 Neighborhoods | 3.0 |
| The Antlers Hospice | 4.0 |
| Mount Eerie Pre-Human Ideas | 3.5 |
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| Hail Mary Mallon Are You Gonna Eat That? | 4.0 |
| Nicolas Jaar Space Is Only Noise | 4.5 |
| Baths Obsidian | 3.5 |
| Beacon The Ways We Seperate | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! | 3.5 |
| Clocking in at an unusually short 53 minutes for Godspeed You! Black Emperor, 'Allelujah! rDon't Bend! Ascend!, the band's first outing since 2002 is a bit underwhelming, respecially after a 10 year waiting period. Only four tracks long, consisting of two longer r20 minute epics that aren't really new material but reworkings of unreleased songs played on rtour as far back as 2003, and two shorter 6 minute "drone" tracks, 'Allelujah! spends rfar too much time on the drone side of things -which seems a bit forced to begin with - and rit comes at the price of memorable instances on the album, different instances, or a good ramount of instances in general for that matter. This music lacks the grand and sprawling rfeel of their previous efforts to suit the track lengths, a clear direction of its themes to rcompliment its ambition, and the variation of different musical elements to form distinct rmusical passages. Because of this, it doesn't do much to push Godspeed's sound in any new rdirection, and the album seems to struggle with presenting its themes as clearly yet rcryptically as previous albums from the band have. Still though, this is a Godspeed record rin every way, deep as an ocean and intriguing as ever for every reason fans would expect it rto be, even if it's an admittedly lackluster record in comparison to their earlier work. |
| letlive. The Blackest Beautiful | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Theatre) Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark | 2.0 |
| Oasis Dig Out Your Soul | 3.5 |
| Oasis Standing on the Shoulder of Giants | 2.0 |
| Oasis Be Here Now | 3.0 |
| Blur 13 | 2.5 |
| Blur Parklife | 4.0 |
| Nujabes Metaphorical Music | 5.0 |
| Nickelback The Best of Nickelback Volume 1 | 1.5 |
| The 1975 The 1975 | 3.5 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our | 3.5 |
| Wolf Eyes Burned Mind | 2.5 |
| Class Actress Rapprocher | 4.0 |
| Little Dragon Little Dragon | 3.5 |
| Veil of Maya Eclipse | 3.0 |
| Veil of Maya [id] | 3.5 |
| Lights Siberia | 4.0 |
| Owl City The Midsummer Station | 1.5 |
| Mr. Meeble Never Trust the Chinese | 3.5 |
| Kelly Bailey Half-Life 2 | 5.0 |
| An absolute marvel of sound design, as well as the quintessential soundtrack to a bleak and dissonant future ripe with decay and anxiety. Somber, rigid, organic, and visceral electronic music. |
| Kelly Bailey Half-Life | 4.0 |
| The Pretty Reckless Light Me Up | 3.5 |
| Pink I'm Not Dead | 4.0 |
| Fireflight For Those Who Wait | 3.5 |
| Psychostick We Couldn't Think of a Title | 4.0 |
| Ride Nowhere | 3.5 |
| Queen A Night at the Opera | 4.5 |
| Robert Glasper Experiment Black Radio 2 | 4.0 |
| Robert Glasper Experiment Black Radio | 4.0 |
| Cage (USA-NY) Kill the Architect | 2.5 |
| Cage (USA-NY) Hell's Winter | 4.5 |
| Mount Kimbie Crooks & Lovers | 4.0 |
| Born of Osiris Tomorrow We Die Alive | 2.0 |
| After the Burial In Dreams | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) Mass Effect 3 | 4.0 |
| Faunts M4 | 3.5 |
| HEALTH Max Payne 3 | 4.0 |
| HEALTH has created a soundtrack that beautifully blurs the line between score music and music you would find on an official album from the band. As a band, HEALTH works stunningly as composers, perfectly finding a way to match their music's signature sound with the attitude of the Max Payne series, while pushing their sound in new directions and showing off their composing skills in how well they comfortably adapt to the score music format as well. This is a sweeping soundtrack that has a cinematic flow with an identifiable introduction, climax, and conclusion, much like the video game's narrative itself. The score track dedicated to each unique level introduces the chapter to listeners by setting a distinct tone and then surrounding and immersing listeners by masterfully conveying the mood and even scenery of the game only through music alone. The soundtrack matches the visuals of the game and equates to the personality of Max Payne's cynical hero character well, ranging from disorienting spasms of the distorted color schemes from a drugged-out haze, to looming and brooding piano symphonies that wallow in feelings of a mournful past, and violent, vengeful wails of noisy feedback over guitars that chug like bullets being pumped out of an assault rifle, and tribal jungle drums that pound like a racing heartbeat in the feverish overcast of the atmosphere in the setting of a hectic Brazil. |
| Rage Against the Machine Renegades | 3.5 |
| The Smiths Meat Is Murder | 4.0 |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead | 3.5 |
| Underworld Second Toughest in the Infants | 3.5 |
| Underworld dubnobasswithmyheadman | 4.0 |
| The Qemists Join the Q | 3.0 |
| Grizzly Bear Shields | 4.5 |
Just how much Shields shows all the possible places that Grizzly Bear can take
their sound is truly something to behold. They're very exploratory artists, finding a
place to firmly plant their sound where they can cast a line out to delve into other
areas. Shields has a consistent central texture that is earthy and organic, yet its
vast atmosphere is flourishing with the decorative color scheme of baroque pop,
which makes for a contrast that is distinct and works. Shields is many things;
it's artsy, colorful, rustic, rocking, deep, psychedelic, and it all works together well
because Grizzly Bear layers all these elements with remarkable craft in a way that is
above all, ridiculously hooky and infectious. |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 4.0 |
| Banks London | 4.0 |
| Apocalyptica 7th Symphony | 2.5 |
| Apocalyptica Worlds Collide | 3.5 |
| Strapping Young Lad City | 4.0 |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage | 3.5 |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh | 3.5 |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius | 4.0 |
| Mnemic Mnemesis | 3.0 |
| Mnemic Sons of the System | 4.5 |
| Mnemic Passenger | 3.5 |
| Disclosure Settle | 3.5 |
| AlunaGeorge Body Music | 4.0 |
| u-Ziq Chewed Corners | 4.0 |
| A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe | 2.5 |
| u-Ziq Lunatic Harness | 4.0 |
| Squarepusher Ufabulum | 2.5 |
| Squarepusher Ultravisitor | 4.0 |
| Squarepusher Hard Normal Daddy | 4.5 |
| Brian Eno Small Craft on a Milk Sea | 3.5 |
| Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports | 4.5 |
| Autechre L-event | 3.0 |
| Autechre Confield | 3.5 |
| Autechre Tri Repetae | 4.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal | 3.5 |
| Falling in Reverse Fashionably Late | 1.5 |
| Matchbox Twenty North | 3.0 |
What's really interesting about North is how it embodies vintage early 2000's
contemporary pop rock and makes that sound still consistently work as well as it did 10
years ago. This is pop for grey skies, with a bleak enough production to appeal to post-
grunge and alternative rock audiences as much as Matchbox Twenty used to in their prime, but
loaded with enough snappy and catchy hooks to find a home on the pop charts. The end result
is an album that showcases the band refining their sound with their increasing maturity,
resembles something like a combination between Coldplay and Maroon 5, and is a recommendable
album for anyone looking for a pop rock record with a more somber atmosphere. The Fray
should take notes. |
| Autechre Exai | 4.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Bleed American | 3.5 |
| Goldie Timeless | 4.0 |
| Metric Synthetica | 3.5 |
| Front 242 Front By Front | 4.0 |
| Imogen Heap Speak For Yourself | 5.0 |
| Blue October Sway | 3.5 |
| Blue October Consent to Treatment | 3.0 |
| Blue October Foiled | 3.0 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 4.0 |
| Jesu Conqueror | 4.0 |
| Opeth Heritage | 3.5 |
| Slayer Reign in Blood | 4.0 |
| Mastodon The Hunter | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 4.5 |
| Gil Scott-Heron I'm New Here | 3.0 |
| Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie XX We're New Here | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 4.0 |
| Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill | 5.0 |
| Demi Lovato Demi | 2.5 |
Poor Demi. Like all former Disney child stars, she's grown up and desperately wants
to make adult music with the other female pop stars and be taken seriously. After
the awkwardly dark approach she attempted to mixed results on the introspective
pop album that was Unbroken, it's clear that Lovato still desires to make a
"personal album" by simply naming it after herself, and to do so she is now trying
the angle of maturity as opposed to angst. Unfortunately though, while it's still a
step in the right direction, maturity for Lovato means aspiring to sound just like all
of her other contemporaries on the market. Though despite not being original,
Demi is undoubtedly a pop album. Gleaming with glossy and polished
production, but still decently catchy all the same, and it's all about the voice and the
hooks anyway. However, it's a real shame that Lovato was much better at
commanding the energetic summer pop rock anthems of her debut than she is
leading the mediocre choruses here. That happy music was a lot more fun and
exhilarating than anything off this as well. Another flaw about Demi is how
strangely forced everything feels; from the hooks tirelessly being pushed upon
listeners, to Demi's very overdone and forced vocal delivery. She could use some
restraint, and a new source of inspiration if she really wants to stand out as much as
the impression she gives on this album lets on. |
| Black Sabbath 13 | 2.5 |
| Extreme Extreme II: Pornograffitti | 3.5 |
| Bon Jovi Have a Nice Day | 1.5 |
| Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet | 3.5 |
| Underoath Ø (Disambiguation) | 3.5 |
| Underoath Define the Great Line | 4.5 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 4.5 |
| August Burns Red Rescue & Restore | 3.5 |
| Atreyu Lead Sails Paper Anchor | 3.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Hail to the King | 1.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare | 2.5 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Temper Temper | 1.5 |
| Pantera Vulgar Display of Power | 4.0 |
| Buckcherry Fifteen | 3.5 |
| Guns N' Roses The Spaghetti Incident? | 1.0 |
| Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion II | 2.5 |
| Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion I | 3.5 |
| Guns N' Roses G N' R Lies | 2.0 |
| Screaming Trees Sweet Oblivion | 3.5 |
| Aerosmith Get a Grip | 2.0 |
| Aerosmith Pump | 3.5 |
| Aerosmith Rocks | 4.0 |
| Aerosmith Get Your Wings | 3.0 |
| Aerosmith Aerosmith | 2.5 |
| David Lee Roth Eat 'em And Smile | 3.0 |
| Devo Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! | 3.0 |
| Monster Magnet Last Patrol | 3.5 |
| Monster Magnet Spine of God | 4.0 |
| Clutch Earth Rocker | 4.0 |
| Clutch Clutch | 3.5 |
| Franz Ferdinand Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action | 3.0 |
| The Killers Hot Fuss | 2.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys AM | 5.0 |
| The White Stripes Elephant | 4.0 |
| Kid Rock Born Free | 2.0 |
| Kid Rock Devil Without a Cause | 4.0 |
| Pavement Slanted and Enchanted | 3.0 |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation | 3.5 |
| The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin | 4.0 |
| The Flaming Lips The Terror | 3.5 |
| will.i.am Lost Change | 4.5 |
| Katy Perry Teenage Dream | 2.0 |
| Karmin Hello | 1.0 |
| Lil Jon and the East Side Boyz Crunk Juice | 3.5 |
| brokeNCYDE I'm Not a Fan, but the Kids Like It! | 1.0 |
| DMX Flesh Of My Flesh, Blood Of My Blood | 4.0 |
| Lil Wayne Rebirth | 1.0 |
| MC Frontalot Nerdcore Rising | 3.0 |
| Slim Thug Already Platinum | 3.5 |
| Esham KKKill the Fetus | 4.0 |
| Toro Y Moi Anything In Return | 4.5 |
| XXYYXX XXYYXX | 3.5 |
| Holy Other With U | 3.0 |
| Holy Other Held | 4.5 |
| bansheebeat Spiral Power | 4.0 |
| Paramore Paramore | 2.5 |
It's really a matter of personal taste when it comes to whether or not the
experimentation on Paramore's self titled album will alienate you or attract you. In
my personal opinion, I think that all of the styles delved into here work very well
with each other, and that the amount of diversity that's present on this makes for
the most fun, cohesive, adventurous, colorful, distinguished, theatrical,
accomplished, ambitious, and overall interesting album that Paramore has ever
made. The ideas and directions that are embraced here find all sorts of different
methods to breathe much needed fresh air into the alternative rock/pop punk genre
while remaining focused, but at the same time, it's understandable how this music
can be seen as a loss of identity for the group, and polarizing to some fans because
of that. |
| Paramore Riot! | 4.5 |
| Paramore All We Know Is Falling | 4.0 |
| KMFDM Nihil | 3.5 |
| KMFDM Naïve | 3.5 |
| KMFDM Blitz | 3.0 |
| Wumpscut Embryodead | 4.5 |
| Throbbing Gristle The First Annual Report | 3.0 |
| Throbbing Gristle The Second Annual Report | 4.0 |
| Throbbing Gristle D.O.A: The Third And Final Report | 3.5 |
| Throbbing Gristle 20 Jazz Funk Greats | 4.5 |
| Kittie Spit | 2.0 |
| Steven Wilson Insurgentes | 3.5 |
| As to be rationally expected, Steven Wilson's debut solo album Insurgents isn't terribly different from a standard album by his band Porcupine Tree. It's essentially a Porcupine Tree record with Wilson completely at the helm and in charge of everything, - which does allow for an abundance of guest spots from other prog icons - but this is no way makes the quality and effort put into the album inferior to that of which is found on a PT album. In fact, Insurgentes proves just how much as a strong handle Wilson has on his progressive rock style even when he's working on his own, and it's impressive how much impeccable detail put into the songs is accomplished here by one man alone; comparable to the work of Trent Reznor even. This is a collection of complex, winding, and immersive soundscapes that are even more submerged in Wilson's personality than some of Porcupine Tree's music. Insurgentes possesses all of the quality of a typical Porcupine Tree album, even if it isn't an atypical effort from Wilson. |
| Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures | 4.0 |
| R.E.M. Murmur | 3.5 |
| Infected Mushroom Vicious Delicious | 3.5 |
| Shpongle Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost | 4.0 |
| Das Racist Relax | 3.0 |
| Big K.R.I.T. Live From The Underground | 4.0 |
| Zomby With Love | 4.0 |
| Foreign Beggars The Uprising | 3.5 |
| I Am Legion I Am Legion | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 3.0 |
| Muse The 2nd Law | 2.0 |
Sort of like an electronic opera, The 2nd Law is an over-dramatic, and at times over-
produced exercise in Muse's regular neo-prog symphonies that soar to the rafters, with an
additional handful of tracks heavily based in primarily dubstep-inspired electronics.
Naturally, this makes the The 2nd Law a very unbalanced and incohesive album, as Muse
makes efforts to tread waters unfamiliar to them while sticking to the territory they know
best, but fail to find a central ground to connect their experiments and their definitive
qualities. And with genres as drastically different from each other as dubstep and symphonic
rock, the result is an uneven collection of contrasting elements and sounds that don't
compliment each other or even work too well together for that matter. Though the execution
and presentation of Muse's ideas on The 2nd Law is clumsy, the tracks are still
somewhat interesting and enjoyable for what they are. The guitar tracks provide the grand
arena rock sound Muse has established for themselves, and while the synth-laden dance music-
infused songs are train wrecks for the most part, there is still something of a peculiar
entertainment to be found in that they display Muse's most severe change to their sound yet.
Overall, the most respectable trait about this album is how it mainly shows that Muse are
always trying to push their sound in new directions, even if they're largely unsuccessful in
doing so. |
| Muse Absolution | 3.5 |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry | 4.5 |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie | 3.0 |
| OneRepublic Native | 3.0 |
Not the U2, Coldplay, The Fray, and 30 Seconds to Mars circle jerk you'd expect from
them based on their first two efforts; surprising as that may seem. While this album
is a huge boost in maturity for them, it's still a pretty colorful affair, except this
time the canvas has been dyed with more sophisticated and slick tones as opposed
to the bright and overtly loud ones they started out wearing. However, in the future,
they're going to need a lot more personal soulfulness in their melodies to sustain
and shade in those polished-to-the-point-of-glistening stadium-sized hooks they
map out on this strong turnaround point of a junior release; but hell, they've
already been doing that much better than Kings of Leon anyway. |
| Explosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take Care | 3.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone | 4.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 4.0 |
| iamamiwhoami Kin | 3.5 |
| Standish/Carlyon Deleted Scenes | 4.0 |
| King Krule 6 Feet Beneath the Moon | 3.5 |
| Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard The Dark Knight | 3.0 |
| Adam Lambert Trespassing | 3.5 |
| Jenny Hval Viscera | 4.5 |
| Grimes Visions | 4.5 |
| The Future Sound of London Lifeforms | 5.0 |
| Does It Offend You, Yeah? You Have No Idea... | 4.0 |
| LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver | 3.5 |
| Groove Armada Vertigo | 4.5 |
| Scott Stapp Proof of Life | 2.5 |
| The only thing this is proof of is that Creed's other members still don't need Stapp, but he is clearly in constant need of them. |
| This Mortal Coil It'll End in Tears | 4.0 |
| Santigold Master of My Make-Believe | 4.5 |
| M.I.A. Matangi | 3.5 |
| M.I.A. Kala | 3.5 |
| Sleigh Bells Reign of Terror | 3.0 |
| Sleigh Bells Treats | 4.0 |
| Love Spirals Downwards Ardor | 3.5 |
| Love Spirals Downwards Idylls | 4.5 |
| No Bird Sing No Bird Sing | 4.0 |
| No Bird Sing Definition Sickness | 5.0 |
| Blueprint (USA-OH, Hip-Hop) Adventures in Counter-Culture | 3.0 |
| Gary Numan Splinter (Songs From A Broken Mind) | 3.5 |
| Tim Hecker Virgins | 4.0 |
| Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 | 4.5 |
| Ozzy Osbourne No More Tears | 3.5 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard of Ozz | 3.5 |
| Main Attrakionz 808s and Dark Grapes II | 4.0 |
The rapping on here itself isn't anything to write home about, but the real appeal
about this mixtape is how unique the production is. These textures are as lite as diet
yogurt and soft as a cloud, and the atmosphere is absolute lithium; resulting in
some of the most serene ambient beats in the independent hip hop scene. This is
impressively engineered for an indie release, and the production value sounds of a
much more professional quality than any of Main Attrakionz comtemporary MCs.
They don't sound like they're rapping over these atmospheric beats, because the
songs on the mixtape are layered so cohesively that it sounds like they're
completely surrounded and immersed within the music like they should. This gives
this mixtape a level of finesse that shows great potential for Main Attrakionz and
makes it an exemplary release for other aspiring idependent rappers/producers in
hip hop's internet age. |
| Yuck Yuck | 3.5 |
| Clubroot III - MMXII | 4.5 |
| Weezer Weezer | 3.5 |
| Weezer Pinkerton | 4.0 |
| Two Fingers Two Fingers | 4.0 |
| Soap and Skin Sugarbread | 4.0 |
| Marianas Trench Ever After | 4.0 |
| Pitchshifter Desensitized | 4.5 |
| Project Pitchfork Alpha Omega | 3.5 |
| Powerman 5000 Tonight the Stars Revolt | 3.0 |
| ASAP Rocky LONG.LIVE.A$AP | 3.5 |
| Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy | 2.0 |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction | 3.5 |
| Sixx:A.M. Heroin Diaries Soundtrack | 3.5 |
| Buckcherry Buckcherry | 3.0 |
| Tantric Tantric | 2.0 |
| Michael Andrews Donnie Darko | 5.0 |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 4.0 |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures | 3.5 |
| Pet Shop Boys Electric | 3.5 |
| Primal Scream Screamadelica | 4.0 |
| The Cure Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me | 3.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Zeitgeist | 1.5 |
| Falling Up Crashings | 3.5 |
| Static-X Wisconsin Death Trip | 2.5 |
| Dido Girl Who Got Away | 3.5 |
| Dido Safe Trip Home | 3.5 |
| Dido No Angel | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree The Incident | 3.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet | 3.5 |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream | 3.5 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Pain Is Beauty | 4.0 |
| Curve Gift | 3.0 |
| Curve Come Clean | 3.5 |
| Emiliana Torrini Tookah | 3.5 |
| Emiliana Torrini Love In the Time of Science | 4.5 |
Sly, sensual chillout music fit for a lounge high in the snowy mountains. It also
struts off this jazzy boldness that makes for hypnotizing trip hop music that doesn't
focus too much on being entrancing, but rather more on packing enough character
and personality to accentuate its stylistic alure. If Torrini, Bjork, and Sigur Ros are
any evidence, the Icelandic really have a knack for knowing how to create vast and
immersive soundscapes that have eletronic-based atmospheres, but feel as organic
as a nature-made monument. That aside though, this album is so intoxicating that
every song on here could be a possible contender for a main title theme in a James
Bond flick. |
| Air Le Voyage Dans La Lune | 2.5 |
| Air Moon Safari | 4.5 |
| Sneaker Pimps Becoming X | 3.5 |
| Kidneythieves Zerospace | 3.5 |
| Saving Abel Saving Abel | 2.0 |
| Hinder All American Nightmare | 1.0 |
| Hinder Extreme Behavior | 1.5 |
| Miranda Sex Garden Suspiria | 4.0 |
| Goldfrapp Tales Of Us | 4.0 |
| Goldfrapp Head First | 2.5 |
| Goldfrapp Seventh Tree | 3.5 |
| Goldfrapp Supernature | 3.5 |
| Goldfrapp Black Cherry | 4.0 |
| Goldfrapp Felt Mountain | 4.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage | 4.0 |
| Project 86 Wait for the Siren | 4.0 |
| Project 86 ...And the Rest Will Follow | 3.5 |
| Project 86 Truthless Heroes | 4.5 |
| Project 86 Drawing Black Lines | 3.0 |
| Misery Signals Absent Light | 3.0 |
| Norma Jean Wrongdoers | 4.0 |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation | 4.5 |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies | 4.0 |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache | 3.5 |
| Bullet for My Valentine The Poison | 3.5 |
| Trivium Shogun | 3.0 |
| A Day To Remember What Separates Me from You | 3.5 |
| Tortoise Millions Now Living Will Never Die | 4.5 |
| Slint Tweez | 2.5 |
| Slint Slint | 4.0 |
| Slint Spiderland | 4.0 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 5.0 |
| ISIS Oceanic | 4.5 |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal II | 3.5 |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna Salvation | 4.0 |
| Pelican Australasia | 3.5 |
| Russian Circles Empros | 4.0 |
| Neurosis and Jarboe Neurosis and Jarboe | 4.0 |
| Neurosis Honor Found in Decay | 3.5 |
| Neurosis Times of Grace | 4.5 |
| Neurosis Through Silver in Blood | 4.5 |
| Lustmord The Word As Power | 3.5 |
| Carnivore Retaliation | 4.0 |
| Biohazard Urban Discipline | 4.0 |
| Helmet Meantime | 3.5 |
| Helmet Strap It On | 3.0 |
| Company Flow Funcrusher Plus | 5.0 |
| Train California 37 | 1.5 |
| NSYNC Celebrity | 3.0 |
| NSYNC No Strings Attached | 3.5 |
| Maroon 5 Overexposed | 2.5 |
| Maroon 5 It Won't Be Soon Before Long | 4.0 |
| Beyonce B'Day | 4.0 |
| Boyz II Men II | 4.0 |
| Christina Aguilera Lotus | 2.5 |
| Christina Aguilera Bionic | 4.0 |
| Madonna Like a Prayer | 4.0 |
| Madonna Madonna | 3.5 |
| Britney Spears ...Baby One More Time | 3.5 |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience | 3.5 |
| God Lives Underwater Life in the So-Called Space Age | 2.5 |
| Seven Mary Three American Standard | 3.0 |
| Machines of Loving Grace Gilt | 4.0 |
| Machines of Loving Grace Concentration | 3.5 |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Diary | 3.5 |
| Amy Winehouse Back to Black | 4.0 |
| Alicia Keys As I Am | 4.0 |
| Kimbra Vows | 4.0 |
| The Roots undun | 3.5 |
| The Roots Game Theory | 4.0 |
| Saul Williams The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust | 4.0 |
| Living Colour Vivid | 4.5 |
| UNKLE Psyence Fiction | 4.5 |
| Bjork Bastards | 2.5 |
| Bjork Biophilia | 3.5 |
| Bjork Vespertine | 5.0 |
| Bjork Homogenic | 4.5 |
| Bjork Post | 4.0 |
| Bjork Debut | 3.5 |
| Tricky False Idols | 4.0 |
| Tricky Pre-Millenium Tension | 3.5 |
| Tricky Maxinquaye | 4.5 |
| FKA Twigs EP2 | 3.5 |
| Aaron Lewis Town Line | 1.5 |
| Sum 41 Chuck | 3.5 |
| Panic! at the Disco Vices & Virtues | 4.0 |
| Panic! at the Disco Pretty. Odd. | 3.0 |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree | 3.5 |
| My Chemical Romance Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys | 3.5 |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade | 4.0 |
| Simple Plan No Pads, No Helmets... Just Balls | 3.0 |
| blink-182 Blink-182 | 3.5 |
| Fiona Apple Extraordinary Machine | 4.0 |
| Fiona Apple When the Pawn... | 5.0 |
| Florence and the Machine Ceremonials | 4.0 |
| Frank Ocean channel ORANGE | 5.0 |
| Steven Price Gravity OST | 4.5 |
Never before on a soundtrack have I heard ambient music with an atmosphere this monolithic
and immense. These are gripping, suspenseful, tense, and suffocating compositions that
rapidly rise in tension up into the void above before they wither away into the unnerving
calm of bleak quietness and even chilling silence. The tracks perfectly toggle and
transition between beautifully spacious and complacent meditative music, and breathlessly
chest-crushing eruptions of noise both as claustrophobic and vastly deep as the perpetual
space that the film takes place in. |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz | 4.5 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 3.5 |
| Circle Takes the Square Decompositions: Volume Number One | 3.5 |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 3.0 |
| The All-American Rejects Kids in the Street | 3.5 |
| Rise Against Appeal to Reason | 3.5 |
| Deuce Nine Lives | 1.5 |
| Fall Out Boy Save Rock and Roll | 3.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 3.5 |
| Atomship The Crash of `47 | 4.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E. | 5.0 |
| Adema Topple the Giants | 1.0 |
| Alter Bridge Fortress | 4.0 |
| Alien Ant Farm TruANT | 3.5 |
| Adema Adema | 3.0 |
| Alien Ant Farm ANThology | 3.5 |
| Puddle of Mudd Volume 4: Songs in the Key of Love and Hate | 1.5 |
| Ladytron Velocifero | 3.0 |
| Ladytron Witching Hour | 3.5 |
| Techno Animal The Brotherhood of the Bomb | 4.5 |
| Chromatics Kill for Love | 4.0 |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me | 3.0 |
| The National High Violet | 4.0 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 4.5 |
| Death Grips Government Plates | 4.5 |
| The release of this album is comparable to an escaped, naked mental patient breaking into ryour house in the middle of the afternoon and yelling random obscenities and unintelligible rgibberish as the blood dripping from his mouth splashes all over your household possessions rthat he's destroying as he thrashes about. He then proceeds to put backmasked Bruce rSpringsteen records into your stereo and turns the volume up until your windows break and ryour eardrums burst. In all the chaos, urban hysteria, and abrasive noise, it's about half ran hour later that you realize you've been stripped bare, left for dead at the back of a 7-rEleven in GA, and are covered in plastic wrap with "FUCK YOU THINK I FUCK THIS FOR" rscribbled across your stomach in black sharpie. That being said, AOTY for sure. |
| MGMT MGMT | 3.0 |
| How to Destroy Angels An Omen | 4.0 |
| How to Destroy Angels How To Destroy Angels | 2.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer | 3.5 |
| Mac Miller Macadelic | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd Animals | 4.5 |
| Puddle of Mudd Life On Display | 1.5 |
| Atticus Ross The Book Of Eli OST | 4.0 |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo OST | 3.5 |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross The Social Network OST | 5.0 |
| Van Halen Fair Warning | 3.0 |
| Def Leppard Hysteria | 5.0 |
| Def Leppard Pyromania | 3.5 |
| Hammock Departure Songs | 4.5 |
| Breaking Benjamin Dear Agony | 3.0 |
| Chief Keef Finally Rich | 1.0 |
| 50 Cent Guess Who's Back | 3.5 |
| 50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin' | 3.5 |
| Slash Apocalyptic Love | 2.5 |
| Slash Slash | 2.5 |
| Santana Shape Shifter | 3.0 |
| Santana Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics | 2.0 |
| Santana Supernatural | 4.5 |
| Live Throwing Copper | 3.5 |
| Body/Head Coming Apart | 3.5 |
| Dizzee Rascal Boy In Da Corner | 4.0 |
| oOoOO Without Your Love | 4.0 |
| Soulfly Savages | 3.5 |
| Kyuss Welcome to Sky Valley | 4.0 |
| Kyuss Blues for the Red Sun | 3.5 |
| Jonwayne Rap Album One | 3.5 |
| The Streets Original Pirate Material | 4.0 |
| Chase and Status Brand New Machine | 3.0 |
| Chase and Status No More Idols | 3.5 |
| Katy B On A Mission | 4.5 |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die | 4.0 |
| Nicki Minaj Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded | 2.5 |
| P.O.S WDELH/MDS/RMX | 3.5 |
| P.O.S We Don't Even Live Here | 4.5 |
| Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest | 3.5 |
| Boards of Canada Geogaddi | 4.0 |
| Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children | 4.5 |
| Captain Murphy Duality | 4.0 |
| BADBADNOTGOOD BBNG2 | 3.5 |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 4.0 |
| Cocteau Twins Treasure | 4.5 |
| Slowdive Pygmalion | 4.5 |
| Slowdive Souvlaki | 4.5 |
| Slowdive Morningrise | 4.0 |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming | 4.5 |
| Why? Mumps, Etc. | 3.5 |
| Jurassic 5 Quality Control | 4.0 |
| Ice Cube The Predator | 4.5 |
| Dr. Dre 2001 | 3.5 |
| Dr. Dre The Chronic | 4.5 |
| Snoop Dogg Doggystyle | 4.5 |
| 2Pac All Eyez on Me | 4.5 |
| 2Pac Me Against the World | 5.0 |
| Nas Illmatic | 5.0 |
| Ka The Night's Gambit | 4.5 |
| Clipse Hell Hath No Fury | 4.0 |
| Pusha T My Name Is My Name | 3.5 |
| GOOD Music Cruel Summer | 3.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city | 4.0 |
| Common Like Water for Chocolate | 5.0 |
| HAIM Days Are Gone | 3.5 |
| Team Sleep Team Sleep | 3.5 |
| Weird Al Yankovic Straight Outta Lynwood | 3.5 |
| Childish Gambino Royalty | 3.5 |
| Childish Gambino Camp | 3.5 |
| Jes Hits Disconnected | 3.5 |
| The Chemical Brothers Dig Your Own Hole | 4.5 |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... | 4.0 |
| Depeche Mode Delta Machine | 3.0 |
Cunningly seductive industrial tones from the darkest corners and sleakest textures
of synthpop are still seeping from Depeche Mode's music this late into the group's
influential career. This is a very mature album that's aged well like fine wine, and
mainly focuses on their brand of lusty and erotic sex soundtracks that have a slow
burn, which strangely isn't awkward in the least bit coming from men in their fifties
because Depeche Mode have still got the moves. They've proven that they can still
stay relevent and effective with themes as heated as the one's found throughout
this album because of this transcendent suave they possess. Though, the album is a
bit uneven. It's really an album's worth of songs with slow and sensual heartbeats,
which doesn't give much in the way of sonic variation or speed differentiation. It
would have been nice to at least have a few of the sophisticated new wave dance
tunes for the clubs that Depeche Mode is known and praised for making - and has
continued to show they're still able to produce at this point in their careers on their
last few albums in the 2000s - to balance out the abundance of lounge tracks, and
get the blood pumping at a quicker and funkier pace here and there. |
| Depeche Mode Music for the Masses | 4.0 |
| Depeche Mode Violator | 4.5 |
| The Knife Shaking the Habitual | 3.5 |
| Shaking the Habitual sees The Knife delving further into much more avant-garde industrial influences rather than electro-industrial ones. Showing inspiration from the likes of Current 93, Coil, Einst?rzende Neubauten, and Throbbing Gristle, The Knife is experimenting with some of the most fleshed out compositions they've ever produced. While they've retained their tribal percussion, The Knife has toned down the IDM and tech house indie-dance anthems, and has opted for a more ominous approach with two discs worth of elongated songs that sprawl over disturbing dark ambient droning, and the unsettling progressive builds of caustic minimal techno. These assets combined should prove to make Shaking the Habitual an album with much longevity if The Knife decides to take another six year break in between albums. |
| The Knife Silent Shout | 4.5 |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles II | 4.0 |
| CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe | 3.0 |
| The xx Coexist | 4.5 |
| The xx xx | 3.5 |
| There a very few better examples than this album of how sometimes, less is indeed more. |
| Rob Sonic Sabotage Gigante | 4.5 |
| Aesop Rock Skelethon | 3.5 |
| Aesop Rock Labor Days | 4.0 |
| Aesop Rock Float | 4.5 |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint | 4.0 |
| Jay-Z Reasonable Doubt | 5.0 |
| Jay-Z Magna Carta... Holy Grail | 2.0 |
| ASAP Rocky Live.Love.A$AP. | 3.5 |
| ASAP Ferg Trap Lord | 3.5 |
| Danny Brown Old | 4.0 |
| Danny Brown XXX | 4.0 |
| Mac Miller Watching Movies With The Sound Off | 3.5 |
| Mac Miller Blue Slide Park | 3.5 |
| Tyler, the Creator Wolf | 2.5 |
Tyler is kind of stuck in this area where he wants to try new things but can't quite
completely let go of his old habits, and this really shows through on Wolf. The
typical provocative nature of the lyrics comes off as really forced at this point, and
its background purpose as a production showcase really doesn't make too much
sense since Tyler's numbing profanity directs all the attention to himself when he
speaks. However, the progressions, as subtle as they may be, are definitely
noticeable here. This is a solid hip hop album that delivers the thrills fans desire
and expect from OFWGKTA, but it's nowhere near as dingy as Goblin or
Bastard were. This shows that Tyler's comfortably moving out of his dark corner
of a safe zone, and truly creating in a broader and more confident light. Even if he
may not just yet be comfortable with shedding the skin of his former self and fully
thematically embracing his new lifestyle. |
| Tyler, the Creator Goblin | 3.0 |
| Tyler, the Creator Bastard | 4.0 |
| Earl Sweatshirt Doris | 3.0 |
| Earl Sweatshirt EARL | 3.5 |
| Ghostface Killah Twelve Reasons to Die | 4.0 |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 3.5 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 4.5 |
| Active Child You Are All I See | 4.5 |
| How to Dress Well Total Loss | 4.5 |
| Though it is noticeably lacking in sonic variation, Total Loss has a truly heavenly sound to it, and rises to soaring heights as it progresses, dreamily levitating listeners to indie pop cloud nine. |
| How to Dress Well Love Remains | 3.5 |
| James Blake Overgrown | 5.0 |
| Wow. |
| James Blake James Blake | 4.0 |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories | 5.0 |
| Daft Punk Discovery | 4.0 |
| Daft Punk Homework | 4.5 |
| Sick Puppies Connect | 2.0 |
| Sick Puppies Tri-Polar | 1.5 |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise | 3.5 |
| Kutless It Is Well | 2.0 |
| Kutless Hearts of the Innocent | 3.5 |
| Kutless Sea of Faces | 3.5 |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Welcome to the Masquerade | 4.0 |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Phenomenon | 4.0 |
| Disciple (USA-TN) Southern Hospitality | 3.0 |
| Pillar For the Love of the Game | 3.0 |
| Pillar Confessions | 3.5 |
| Ra Critical Mass | 3.5 |
| Lacuna Coil Dark Adrenaline | 4.0 |
| Lacuna Coil Karmacode | 4.0 |
| Cold Superfiction | 1.5 |
| Flyleaf Flyleaf | 3.0 |
| Evanescence Evanescence | 3.0 |
| Hurt Vol. II | 4.0 |
| In This Moment Blood | 2.5 |
| In This Moment A Star-Crossed Wasteland | 3.5 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Black Rain | 3.0 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Down to Earth | 3.5 |
| Coal Chamber Coal Chamber | 2.0 |
| Dead Letter Circus This Is The Warning | 3.5 |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock | 4.5 |
| Talk Talk Spirit of Eden | 4.5 |
| 3 Doors Down Away from the Sun | 3.5 |
| 3 Doors Down 3 Doors Down | 2.0 |
| 3 Doors Down Seventeen Days | 2.5 |
| Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 2 | 4.0 |
| Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 1 | 4.0 |
| Stone Sour Audio Secrecy | 3.5 |
| Stone Sour Come What(ever) May | 4.0 |
| Stone Sour Stone Sour | 4.0 |
| AFI Burials | 3.5 |
| AFI Decemberunderground | 4.5 |
| The Offspring Americana | 2.5 |
| Drowning Pool Desensitized | 3.0 |
| Stone Temple Pilots No. 4 | 3.0 |
| Mushroomhead Savior Sorrow | 3.0 |
| Mushroomhead XIII | 4.5 |
| Mushroomhead XX | 3.5 |
| The Offspring Smash | 4.0 |
| The Dangerous Summer Golden Record | 4.0 |
| Fuck Your Emotional Bullshit |
| Frank Ocean Nostalgia, Ultra. | 4.5 |
| Death Grips No Love Deep Web | 3.5 |
| Death Grips Exmilitary | 3.5 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame Monster | 4.0 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame | 4.0 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels | 3.5 |
| The chemistry these two have is beyond fantastic. |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold | 2.0 |
| Serj Tankian Imperfect Harmonies | 3.5 |
| Serj Tankian Elect the Dead | 3.5 |
| Scars on Broadway Scars on Broadway | 2.5 |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP 2 | 3.0 |
| Moderat II | 3.5 |
| Ashes Divide Keep Telling Myself It's Alright | 3.0 |
| Beastie Boys Hot Sauce Committee Part Two | 5.0 |
| Beastie Boys Check Your Head | 5.0 |
| Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique | 4.0 |
| Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill | 3.5 |
| Vanilla Ice WTF | 2.0 |
| Vanilla Ice Platinum Underground | 1.0 |
| Swans We Rose from Your Bed with the Sun in Our Head | 4.0 |
Man, do Swans love dishing out epic double live albums, it's like it's either two discs or
no discs with them. I didn't think it was possible to flesh out the brutal and engulfing
emotion in the songs on My Father Will Guide Me up a Rope to the Sky even more than
it already was, but the 23 minute live rendition of "No Words/No Thoughts" proves otherwise.
The live preview demos of a handful of songs from the then-upcoming album The Seer
provide those sample compositions with a raw and un-mastered edge, and gives a viscerally
unsettling sense of foreboding to the album as a whole. If We Rose from Your Bed with the
Sun in Our Head shows anything, it's that Swans can do no wrong in concert, and further
proves that the band's live performances have a masterful capability of conveying the
experience's power and staying effect through the album format just as well. |
| Swans Kill the Child: 1985/1986/1987 Live | 4.5 |
| Swans The Seer | 4.5 |
| Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky | 3.5 |
| Swans Soundtracks for the Blind | 4.0 |
| Swans Filth | 3.5 |
| Godflesh Godflesh | 3.5 |
| Godflesh Love and Hate in Dub | 4.0 |
| Godflesh Hymns | 3.0 |
| Godflesh Us and Them | 4.5 |
| Godflesh Selfless | 4.0 |
| Godflesh Pure | 3.5 |
| Godflesh Streetcleaner | 5.0 |
| Velvet Acid Christ Maldire | 3.0 |
| Velvet Acid Christ The Art of Breaking Apart | 2.0 |
| Velvet Acid Christ Lust For Blood | 2.5 |
| Velvet Acid Christ Calling Ov the Dead | 3.5 |
| Velvet Acid Christ Fun With Knives | 3.5 |
| Velvet Acid Christ Between the Eyes, Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
| Velvet Acid Christ Hex Angel: Utopia/Dystopia | 3.0 |
| Velvet Acid Christ Twisted Thought Generator | 4.0 |
| Velvet Acid Christ Church of Acid | 3.5 |
| The Mayan Factor 44 | 4.0 |
| dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion | 4.0 |
| dredg El Cielo | 3.5 |
| Karnivool Asymmetry | 3.0 |
| Karnivool Sound Awake | 3.5 |
| William Hung Hung For The Holidays | 1.0 |
| William Hung Inspiration | 1.0 |
| Otep Hydra | 2.5 |
| Otep Sevas Tra | 3.5 |
| Insane Clown Posse The Mighty Death Pop! | 3.5 |
| Insane Clown Posse The Amazing Jeckel Brothers | 3.0 |
| Insane Clown Posse The Great Milenko | 3.5 |
| Insane Clown Posse Mutilation Mix | 2.5 |
| Insane Clown Posse The Terror Wheel | 1.5 |
| Insane Clown Posse Ringmaster | 2.0 |
| Insane Clown Posse Carnival of Carnage | 2.5 |
| Hollywood Undead American Tragedy | 1.5 |
| Hollywood Undead Swan Songs | 1.5 |
| Mos Def The Ecstatic | 4.5 |
| Mos Def Black on Both Sides | 4.5 |
| Deltron 3030 City Rising From The Ashes | 3.5 |
| Deltron 3030 Event II | 3.0 |
| Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 | 5.0 |
| Gorillaz Plastic Beach | 3.0 |
| Gorillaz Demon Days | 4.0 |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz | 5.0 |
| Circle of Dust Disengage | 4.5 |
Circle of Dust was fortunate enough to nail their signature sound and what made them a band
that stood out in two completely different music scenes, but because it was their debut and
was of course made when they were so underground that they lacked any attention whatsoever,
the limitations of the technology at the time, and their budget at the time, prevented their
self titled debut album's genre-bending music from sounding in the best condition and
quality that it could have. The times are now much more in Circle of Dust's favor for
Disengage though, they aren't just starting out anymore, they're experienced
professionals on this album who have a grasp on what they're doing, and an idea of what was
most successful with their fans. After their sophomore effort Brainchild which saw
the band limiting themselves to thrash metal only, Disengage is a triumphant return
to what worked best for the band on their debut album, except this time it's played with
more finesse, has much better production, and a clearer sense of what direction the band
wants to go with the album. This is a sound that's familiar, yet an advancement upon itself
in every way. It's the band much more heavier, more melodic, more chaotic, and more brooding
than before, an improvement in each category Circle of Dust aims to excel in, and
indubitably does. This album also shows the industrial metal genre keeping with conventional
themes that are well distinguished already, but actually progressing them in a unique
direction instead of replicating them by imitating the artists who originally founded the
sound. |
| Circle of Dust Brainchild | 2.5 |
Brainchild sees Circle of Dust ditching the perfect balance between industrial's
heaviness and Christian rock's melodies for a much more thrash metal-inspired sound. This is
music that channels Slayer influences, but not much else other than that. This is simply
mediocre thrash metal music; it's one dimensional and is really only concerned with that one
genre alone, - it's hardly industrial music either with a significant lack of electronic
elements - and with very poor production quality that's vastly inferior to the production on
the band's debut album before it, Brainchild makes Circle of Dust sound like a
second-rate Ministry ripoff more than a band that proudly takes after Nine Inch Nails and
Skinny Puppy. Circle of Dust have definitely opted for going much more heavier here, but in
doing so they've abandoned the Christian/industrial blend that made them such a unique and
special group in both the Christian and industrial rock music scenes. |
| Circle of Dust Circle of Dust | 4.0 |
| Christian industrial metal is a genre that's as scarce as they come, and it's understandable why that is. The often violent attitude and nihilistic perspective that's common in industrial music is the polar opposite of Christian music's hopeful outlook and loving spirit, but Circle of Dust's self titled debut album found a way to marry these two opposites together in a way where they brought out the best in one another. Christian music had already become more flexible to the amounts of aggression the genre could display, with artists using alternative metal as a vehicle for their holy themes, but Circle of Dust brought how heavy Christian music could be to an all new level. Before this album, Christian metal hadn't been introduced to the harsh electronic assault and chugging riffs of industrial rock, and Circle of Dust provide the genre with a modern metal take on industrial music that draws as much pointers from Nine Inch Nails as it does Skinny Puppy. On the other end of the spectrum, the album has harnessed the soulful harmonies Christian music is known for, and has supplied industrial music with very symphonic and melodic choruses that contrast the gritty production nicely. Industrial music has never been this melodic, and Christian music has never been this heavy, making Circle of Dust a boundary-pushing album. |
| Celldweller Wish Upon a Blackstar | 3.0 |
| Celldweller Celldweller | 3.0 |
| Blue Stahli Antisleep Vol. 2 | 3.5 |
| Blue Stahli Blue Stahli | 4.0 |
| Orgy Vapor Transmission | 3.5 |
| Pigface Fook | 3.5 |
| Pigface Gub | 3.5 |
| Mr. Bungle Disco Volante | 4.5 |
| Mr. Bungle Mr. Bungle | 4.0 |
| Faith No More The Real Thing | 5.0 |
| Jane's Addiction Ritual De Lo Habitual | 4.0 |
| Jane's Addiction Nothing's Shocking | 4.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers I'm With You | 3.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium | 3.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication | 4.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers One Hot Minute | 2.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik | 5.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) A Crow Left of the Murder... | 4.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View | 4.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself | 4.5 |
| Papa Roach Time For Annihilation | 3.0 |
| Papa Roach Metamorphosis | 2.0 |
| Papa Roach Infest | 4.0 |
| Mudvayne The New Game | 1.5 |
| Mudvayne The End of All Things to Come | 3.0 |
| Nonpoint Development | 3.0 |
| 40 Below Summer Invitation to the Dance | 3.5 |
| Kelly Clarkson Breakaway | 4.0 |
| Janelle Monae The Electric Lady | 4.5 |
| Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid | 4.5 |
| Ill Nino Confession | 4.0 |
| Ill Nino Revolution/Revolucion | 3.5 |
| Drowning Pool Sinner | 3.5 |
| Aphex Twin Windowlicker | 3.5 |
| Aphex Twin Come to Daddy | 4.0 |
| Aphex Twin Ventolin | 3.5 |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album | 4.0 |
| Aphex Twin ...I Care Because You Do | 3.5 |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II | 4.5 |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 5.0 |
| The Prodigy Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned | 3.0 |
| The Prodigy The Fat of the Land | 4.0 |
| The Prodigy Music for the Jilted Generation | 5.0 |
| The Prodigy Experience | 3.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. | 3.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada | 5.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 5.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 5.0 |
| Sigur Ros Heima (DVD) | 4.5 |
| Sigur Ros Kveikur | 4.0 |
Any fan who has grown wearisome of the very light and high-spirited fluffiness of
their previous two albums should find a lot to love in Kveikur. Sigur Ros has
made a partial return to the bleak and icy soundscapes of ( ), and while it is at times
darker and more somber than anything they've put out in the last decade, this
album has as much sonic diversity as ?g?tis byrjun. Some tracks venture back
into instances of sweeping melancholia, but at the same time it retains the
whimsical joy of Takk..., and the nostalgic innocence of Me? su? ? eyrum vi?
spilum endalaust, and hell, it even provides a stark contrast to all of this through
some harsh blasts of distortion. But what's most admirable about Kveikur - as is
with every Sigur Ros album - is how seamlessly and beautifully everything comes
together to forge an all-around mystifying experience. |
| Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros Takk... | 4.5 |
| Sigur Ros ( ) | 5.0 |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun | 4.0 |
| Katatonia Viva Emptiness | 4.0 |
| Katatonia Last Fair Deal Gone Down | 3.5 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 4.0 |
| Opeth Damnation | 4.5 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 4.0 |
| Type O Negative Bloody Kisses | 4.0 |
| Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind | 4.5 |
| Periphery Icarus | 3.5 |
| Periphery Periphery | 4.5 |
| Tears for Fears Songs from the Big Chair | 5.0 |
| Lou Reed Metal Machine Music | 5.0 |
| Lou Reed and Metallica Lulu | 1.5 |
| Metallica St. Anger | 1.5 |
| Metallica Metallica | 4.0 |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All | 4.0 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 3.5 |
| Sepultura A-Lex | 3.0 |
| Sepultura Roots | 4.5 |
| Machine Head Unto the Locust | 3.0 |
| Machine Head The Blackening | 4.5 |
| Machine Head Through the Ashes of Empires | 3.5 |
| Machine Head Supercharger | 2.0 |
| Machine Head The Burning Red | 2.5 |
| Machine Head The More Things Change... | 4.0 |
| Machine Head Burn My Eyes | 4.0 |
| P.O.D. Murdered Love | 3.5 |
| P.O.D. When Angels and Serpents Dance | 3.0 |
| P.O.D. Testify | 4.0 |
| P.O.D. Satellite | 4.5 |
| P.O.D. Brown | 3.5 |
| Creed Full Circle | 3.0 |
| Creed Weathered | 2.5 |
| Creed Human Clay | 4.0 |
| Creed My Own Prison | 3.0 |
| Fear Factory The Industrialist | 4.0 |
| Fear Factory Mechanize | 3.5 |
| Fear Factory Concrete | 2.5 |
| Fear Factory Transgression | 3.5 |
| Fear Factory Archetype | 4.0 |
| Fear Factory Digimortal | 3.5 |
| Fear Factory Obsolete | 5.0 |
| Fear Factory Demanufacture | 4.0 |
| Fear Factory Soul of a New Machine | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah Nothing (Re-Release) | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah I | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah obZen | 5.0 |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree | 3.0 |
| Meshuggah Nothing | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere | 4.5 |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve | 4.0 |
| Beck Odelay | 5.0 |
| Beck Mellow Gold | 4.0 |
| My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult 13 Above The Night | 4.0 |
| Rob Zombie The Sinister Urge | 3.5 |
| Rob Zombie Hellbilly Deluxe | 4.5 |
| White Zombie Astro Creep: 2000 | 5.0 |
| White Zombie La Sexorcisto-Devil Music Vol. 1 | 3.5 |
| Front Line Assembly Echogenetic | 3.5 |
| Front Line Assembly Epitaph | 4.5 |
| Front Line Assembly Implode | 3.5 |
| Front Line Assembly Millennium | 3.5 |
| Front Line Assembly Tactical Neural Implant | 4.5 |
| Front Line Assembly Caustic Grip | 3.5 |
| Front Line Assembly Gashed Senses & Crossfire | 4.0 |
| Skinny Puppy Last Rights | 3.5 |
| Skinny Puppy Too Dark Park | 4.0 |
| Skinny Puppy VIVIsectVI | 5.0 |
| KMFDM WTF?! | 4.5 |
| Ministry Dark Side of the Spoon | 3.5 |
| Ministry Filth Pig | 2.5 |
| Ministry Psalm 69 | 4.0 |
| Ministry The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste | 4.0 |
| Ministry The Land of Rape and Honey | 3.5 |
| Ministry Twitch | 4.0 |
| Device Device | 2.5 |
| Disturbed Asylum | 3.0 |
| Disturbed Indestructible | 3.0 |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists | 4.5 |
| Disturbed Believe | 4.0 |
| Disturbed The Sickness | 3.5 |
| Godsmack The Oracle | 2.0 |
| Godsmack IV | 3.0 |
| Godsmack Faceless | 2.0 |
| Godsmack Awake | 4.0 |
| Godsmack Godsmack | 3.5 |
| Sadistik & Kristoff Krane Prey for Paralysis | 3.5 |
| Sadistik and Kid Called Computer The Art of Dying | 5.0 |
| Sadistik Flowers for My Father | 5.0 |
| Sadistik The Balancing Act | 4.0 |
| Katatonia Dead End Kings | 4.5 |
| Katatonia Night Is the New Day | 4.0 |
| Katatonia The Great Cold Distance | 3.5 |
| Green Day 21st Century Breakdown | 3.0 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 5.0 |
| Green Day Nimrod | 3.0 |
| Green Day Dookie | 4.0 |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light | 3.5 |
| Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace | 2.0 |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape | 4.5 |
| Bush The Sea of Memories | 3.5 |
| Bush The Science of Things | 3.5 |
| Bush Sixteen Stone | 4.5 |
| Velvet Revolver Contraband | 3.0 |
| Audioslave Audioslave | 3.5 |
| Army of Anyone Army of Anyone | 4.0 |
| Filter The Sun Comes Out Tonight | 4.5 |
| Filter The Trouble With Angels | 3.5 |
| Filter The Amalgamut | 4.0 |
| Filter Title Of Record | 4.0 |
| Filter Short Bus | 3.5 |
| Dead By Sunrise Out of Ashes | 3.0 |
| Fort Minor The Rising Tied | 4.0 |
| The Cure The Head on the Door | 4.0 |
| The Cure Entreat | 3.5 |
| The Cure Disintegration | 4.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins The Aeroplane Flies High | 4.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Pisces Iscariot | 4.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Gish | 3.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Teargarden by Kaleidyscope, Vol. 1 | 3.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Teargarden by Kaleidyscope, Vol. 2 | 2.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Adore | 4.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | 3.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream | 5.0 |
| Stabbing Westward Stabbing Westward | 2.5 |
| Stabbing Westward Darkest Days | 3.5 |
| Stabbing Westward Wither Blister Burn & Peel | 4.5 |
| Stabbing Westward Ungod | 3.0 |
| Mother Love Bone Mother Love Bone | 4.0 |
| Temple of the Dog Temple of the Dog | 3.5 |
| Pearl Jam Lightning Bolt | 3.5 |
| Pearl Jam Vs. | 3.5 |
| Pearl Jam Ten | 4.5 |
| Alice in Chains Facelift | 3.0 |
| Alice in Chains MTV Unplugged | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains Live | 2.5 |
| Alice in Chains Jar of Flies | 4.5 |
| Alice in Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue | 5.0 |
| Alice in Chains Alice in Chains | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains Dirt | 5.0 |
| Soundgarden King Animal | 3.5 |
| Soundgarden Superunknown | 4.0 |
| Soundgarden Badmotorfinger | 5.0 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 3.5 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 4.5 |
| Nirvana Bleach | 3.0 |
| Shinedown Amaryllis | 2.0 |
| Shinedown The Sound of Madness | 3.0 |
| Shinedown Us and Them | 2.0 |
| Shinedown Leave a Whisper | 2.5 |
| Seether Holding Onto Strings Better Left To Fray | 3.5 |
| Seether Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces | 2.0 |
| Seether Karma And Effect | 3.0 |
| Cold A Different Kind of Pain | 2.0 |
| Cold Year Of The Spider | 4.5 |
| Cold 13 Ways to Bleed On Stage | 5.0 |
| Cold Cold | 4.5 |
| Palms Palms | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 5.0 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 5.0 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 4.5 |
| Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? | 4.0 |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | 3.5 |
| Coldplay X&Y | 4.0 |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head | 3.5 |
| Coldplay Parachutes | 4.5 |
| Daughtry Leave This Town | 2.5 |
| Daughtry Daughtry | 4.0 |
| Nickelback Here and Now | 3.0 |
| Nickelback Dark Horse | 2.0 |
| Nickelback All the Right Reasons | 3.0 |
| Nickelback The Long Road | 3.5 |
| Nickelback Silver Side Up | 2.5 |
| Nickelback The State | 1.5 |
| Skillet Awake | 1.5 |
| Skillet Comatose | 3.5 |
| Skillet Alien Youth | 3.5 |
| Red (USA) Until We Have Faces | 5.0 |
| Red (USA) Innocence and Instinct | 4.0 |
| Red (USA) End of Silence | 3.5 |
| Chevelle Hats Off To The Bull | 3.5 |
| Chevelle Sci-Fi Crimes | 3.0 |
| Chevelle Vena Sera | 3.5 |
| Chevelle This Type Of Thinking (Could Do Us In) | 5.0 |
| Chevelle Wonder What's Next | 4.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin Phobia | 4.5 |
| Evans Blue The Pursuit Begins When This Portrayal of Life Ends | 3.5 |
| Evans Blue The Melody and the Energetic Nature of Volume | 4.0 |
| Three Days Grace Life Starts Now | 2.5 |
| Three Days Grace One-X | 4.5 |
| Three Days Grace Three Days Grace | 4.0 |
| The Weeknd Kiss Land | 2.0 |
Abel's melodies here aren't as varied, aching, and organic on Kiss Land as they were
on the mixtapes. Furthermore, while his range is still impressive, he's still showing no
signs of adopting any form of restraint, and this results in a vocal approach that is
identical to a numbing extent. The album's production isn't as raw as the mixtapes, and has
a much more cleaner and glossier sheen. While this makes sense seeing as how it's his major
label debut, I think this indicates a complete departure from what made him stand out from
the rest of his contemporaries in the first place. His mixtape trilogy was gritty, brooding,
and bluntly sexual R&B with darker alternative music leanings. It's plainly obvious that
Kiss Land sounds utterly processed and sterilized in comparison. The songs are set on
a bigger scale no doubt, but outside of the context of comparing this music to his previous
outings, the general atmosphere of the record sounds neutered, and musically, the songs are
like pack-mules in how lumbering, tedious, and over-encumbered they are with homogenized yet
jarringly contrasting layers. |
| The Weeknd Echoes of Silence | 3.5 |
| The Weeknd Thursday | 3.5 |
| The Weeknd House of Balloons | 4.0 |
| Drake So Far Gone | 3.0 |
| Evanescence Fallen | 4.0 |
| Drake Nothing Was the Same | 5.0 |
| Drake Take Care | 4.5 |
| Drake Thank Me Later | 4.5 |
| 10 Years Feeding the Wolves | 3.0 |
| 10 Years Division | 3.5 |
| 10 Years The Autumn Effect | 4.5 |
| 10 Years Killing All That Holds You | 3.5 |
| Sevendust Cold Day Memory | 3.0 |
| Sevendust Chapter VII: Hope and Sorrow | 3.5 |
| Sevendust Alpha | 2.5 |
| Sevendust Next | 4.0 |
| Sevendust Seasons | 3.5 |
| Sevendust Animosity | 4.5 |
| Sevendust Home | 3.5 |
| Sevendust Sevendust | 4.0 |
| Staind Staind | 3.0 |
| Staind The Illusion of Progress | 2.0 |
| Staind Chapter V | 2.5 |
| Staind 14 Shades of Grey | 3.5 |
| Staind Break The Cycle | 4.5 |
| Staind Dysfunction | 4.0 |
| Staind Tormented | 3.5 |
| One Direction Up All Night | 3.0 |
| Primus Green Naugahyde | 4.0 |
| Primus Antipop | 4.0 |
| Primus The Brown Album | 3.0 |
| Primus Tales from the Punchbowl | 4.0 |
| Primus Pork Soda | 5.0 |
| Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese | 3.5 |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step | 3.5 |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris | 3.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 5.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R | 4.5 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 4.5 |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak | 3.0 |
| Justin Bieber My World 2.0 | 2.5 |
| Massive Attack vs. Burial Four Walls/Paradise Circus | 5.0 |
| Portishead Third | 3.5 |
| Portishead Portishead | 5.0 |
| Portishead Dummy | 5.0 |
| Burial Truant/Rough Sleeper | 3.5 |
| Burial Street Halo | 3.5 |
| Burial Kindred | 4.0 |
| Burial Untrue | 5.0 |
| Burial Burial | 3.5 |
| Massive Attack 100th Window | 4.5 |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine | 5.0 |
| Massive Attack Protection | 3.5 |
| Massive Attack Blue Lines | 4.0 |
| Cannibal Ox Gotham | 3.0 |
| Cannibal Ox The Cold Vein | 5.0 |
| El-P Cancer 4 Cure | 4.5 |
| El-P I'll Sleep When You're Dead | 5.0 |
| El-P Fantastic Damage | 5.0 |
| The Mars Volta B-Sides | 3.0 |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath | 3.5 |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture | 3.5 |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 5.0 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 4.0 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 3.5 |
| Tool Lateralus | 5.0 |
| Tool Ænima | 5.0 |
| Tool Undertow | 3.5 |
| Marilyn Manson Born Villain | 3.0 |
| Marilyn Manson Smells Like Children | 2.5 |
| One Day as a Lion One Day as a Lion | 3.5 |
| Mudvayne L.D. 50 | 4.0 |
| Slipknot Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. | 2.0 |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone | 3.5 |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 4.5 |
| Slipknot Iowa | 4.0 |
| Slipknot Slipknot | 5.0 |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan | 4.5 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 5.0 |
| Fuck it. I still love every song 3 years later. 5/5 |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist | 4.0 |
| Deftones Deftones | 3.5 |
| Deftones White Pony | 4.5 |
| Deftones Around the Fur | 4.0 |
| Deftones Adrenaline | 3.5 |
| Limp Bizkit The Unquestionable Truth - Part I | 3.5 |
| Limp Bizkit Gold Cobra | 2.5 |
| Limp Bizkit Results May Vary | 2.0 |
| Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water | 3.0 |
| Limp Bizkit Significant Other | 4.0 |
| Limp Bizkit Three Dollar Bill Y'all | 4.0 |
| Korn Neidermeyers Mind | 3.5 |
| Korn The Paradigm Shift | 2.5 |
| If you want to hear a middle-aged man cathartically crooning about repressed sadomasochism rfantasies over some cheap Halloween-ish synths ripped straight from some cartoon about kids rdiscovering spooky aliens, then boy oh boy is this the album for you. |
| Korn The Path of Totality | 3.0 |
| Korn Korn III: Remember Who You Are | 2.0 |
| Korn Untitled | 1.5 |
| Korn See You on the Other Side | 3.5 |
| Korn Take a Look in the Mirror | 3.0 |
| Korn Untouchables | 4.0 |
| Korn Issues | 4.0 |
| Korn Follow the Leader | 3.0 |
| Korn Life Is Peachy | 4.0 |
| Korn Korn | 5.0 |
| Marilyn Manson The High End of Low | 2.0 |
| Marilyn Manson Eat Me, Drink Me | 2.5 |
| Marilyn Manson The Golden Age of Grotesque | 5.0 |
| Marilyn Manson Holy Wood | 4.0 |
| Marilyn Manson Mechanical Animals | 5.0 |
| Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar | 5.0 |
| Marilyn Manson Portrait of an American Family | 3.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles | 4.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire | 3.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 5.0 |
| Alter Bridge AB III | 3.0 |
| Alter Bridge Blackbird | 5.0 |
| Fair to Midland Inter.Funda.Stifle | 3.5 |
| Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True | 4.5 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 5.0 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 4.0 |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 5.0 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 5.0 |
| Linkin Park Xero | 2.0 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory EP | 3.0 |
| Linkin Park A Thousand Suns | 3.0 |
| Linkin Park Living Things | 2.5 |
| Linkin Park Reanimation | 4.5 |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight | 2.0 |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 5.0 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 3.5 |
| Eminem Recovery | 3.0 |
| Eminem Relapse | 2.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) 8 Mile Soundtrack | 4.5 |
| Eminem Encore | 1.5 |
| Eminem The Eminem Show | 4.0 |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP | 5.0 |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP | 4.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Closer to God | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Perfect Drug | 3.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine | 5.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Quake | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Further Down the Spiral (UK) | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Purest Feeling | 2.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Further Down the Spiral (US) | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Fixed | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Every Day Is Exactly the Same | 2.0 |
| EV-ER-YYY SOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNGGG IS EXAAACCCTLLLYYY THE SAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMEEEEEE |
| Nine Inch Nails Things Falling Apart | 2.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Broken | 5.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Still | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Hesitation Marks | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Slip | 3.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IV | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Year Zero | 5.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth | 2.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 5.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine: 2010 Remaster | 5.0 |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience - 2 of 2 | 2.5 |
| Dave Porter Breaking Bad, Vol. 2 | 4.0 |
| David Carbonara Mad Men: On the Rocks | 3.5 |
| Explosions In The Sky and David Wingo Prince Avalanche | 2.5 |
| Clinton Shorter 2 Guns: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) Resident Evil 6 Original Soundtrack | 1.5 |
| Marco Beltrami The Wolverine | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Television) The Legend of Korra: Book One | 4.0 |
| Joseph Bishara The Conjuring | 4.0 |
| Cliff Martinez Only God Forgives | 3.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Pacific Rim | 4.0 |
| Kanye West Yeezus | 5.0 |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars Love Lust Faith + Dreams | 3.5 |
| Pop Evil Onyx | 3.5 |
| Lights Siberia Acoustic | 4.0 |
| Guided by Voices English Little League | 2.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Iron Man 3: Heroes Fall | 2.0 |
| Drowning Pool Resilience | 2.5 |
| Snoop Lion Reincarnated | 3.0 |
| will.i.am #Willpower | 1.5 |
| Sevendust Black Out the Sun | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Fragile | 1.5 |
| Soundtrack (Television) The Walking Dead Vol. 1 | 2.5 |
| Mindless Behavior All Around The World | 1.5 |
| Sound City Players Sound City: Real To Reel | 2.5 |
| Megan Hilty It Happens All the Time | 3.0 |
| Family Force 5 The Third | 2.5 |
| Eric Clapton Old Sock | 3.0 |
| Bon Jovi What About Now | 1.5 |
| The soundtrack to losing your hair and getting new grey ones. |
| Chelsea Light Moving Chelsea Light Moving | 3.0 |
| Rhye Woman | 4.0 |
| They Might Be Giants Nanobots | 4.0 |
| Kavinsky Outrun | 3.5 |
| Luke Bryan Spring Break... Here to Party | 2.5 |
| How to Destroy Angels Welcome Oblivion | 4.0 |
| 10,000 Maniacs Music from the Motion Picture | 2.0 |
| Kutt Calhoun Black Gold | 3.5 |
| Mogwai Les Revenants OST | 4.0 |
| Johnny Marr The Messenger | 4.0 |
| KMFDM Kunst | 3.5 |
| Buckcherry Confessions | 2.5 |
| Dawn Richard Goldenheart | 4.0 |
| Ocean Colour Scene Painting | 2.5 |
| Pissed Jeans Honeys | 4.0 |
| Modestep Evolution Theory | 3.5 |
| Veronica Falls Waiting For Something To Happen | 2.5 |
| Red (USA) Release the Panic | 3.5 |
| Eels Wonderful, Glorious | 4.0 |
| Josh Groban All That Echoes | 3.5 |
| Misfits DEA.D. ALIVE! | 2.0 |
| Gary Allan Set You Free | 3.0 |
| Jose James No Beginning No End | 4.0 |
| Mountains Centralia | 4.5 |
| Guided by Voices Down by the Racetrack | 3.0 |
| Justin Bieber Believe Acoustic | 2.0 |
| Adam Ant Adam Ant Is The Blueblack Hussar... | 3.5 |
| Trapt Reborn | 3.0 |
| NOISIA Devil May Cry | 3.5 |
| Hollywood Undead Notes From the Underground | 1.5 |
| Broadcast Berberian Sound Studio | 4.0 |
| Green Day iTRE! | 3.5 |
| The Mayan Factor Yesterday's Son | 4.0 |
| Blue Stahli Antisleep Vol. 03 | 2.5 |
| Hinder Welcome to the Freakshow | 0.5 |
| Alicia Keys Girl on Fire | 3.5 |
| Nicki Minaj Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded – The Re-Up | 3.0 |
| Scum of the Earth Blah, Blah, Blah, Love Songs for the New Millenium | 3.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Octane Twisted | 3.5 |
| Aaron Lewis The Road | 1.0 |
| Front Line Assembly AirMech | 3.5 |
| The Weeknd Trilogy | 3.5 |
| Green Day iDOS! | 1.5 |
| Aerosmith Music from Another Dimension | 3.0 |
| Aperture Science Psychoacoustics Lab... Portal 2: Songs to Test By (Collectors Edition) | 4.5 |
| Rob Zombie Mondo Sex Head | 3.5 |
| ZAPPIEN ZAPPIEN | 1.5 |
| August Burns Red Sleddin' Hill | 4.0 |
| Jason Aldean Night Train | 2.0 |
| Anberlin Vital | 4.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension | 4.0 |
| Papa Roach The Connection | 3.0 |
| Three Days Grace Transit of Venus | 3.5 |
| Green Day ¡UNO! | 3.0 |
| Joel Nielsen Black Mesa Soundtrack | 3.5 |
| Dave Porter Breaking Bad | 4.5 |
| Animal Collective Centipede Hz | 3.0 |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd Last Of A Dyin' Breed | 2.5 |
| Trey Songz Chapter V | 3.5 |
| Digital Summer Breaking Point | 4.0 |
| 10 Years Minus the Machine | 2.0 |
| Blur Blur 21 | 4.5 |
| Saving Abel Bringing Down the Giant | 2.5 |
| Serj Tankian Harakiri | 2.5 |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal | 3.5 |
| Justin Bieber Believe | 4.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Oceania | 4.0 |
| Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel... | 4.5 |
| Sigur Ros Valtari | 3.5 |
| Rush Clockwork Angels | 4.0 |
| Japandroids Celebration Rock | 3.5 |
| Killer Mike R.A.P. Music | 4.5 |
| Neil Young Americana | 2.5 |
| The Young Dub Egg | 4.0 |
| Garbage Not Your Kind of People | 3.5 |
| GG Allin Anti-Social Personality Disorder – Live | 1.0 |
| Death Grips The Money Store | 5.0 |
| Jack White Blunderbuss | 3.5 |
| Florence and the Machine MTV Unplugged | 2.5 |
| Thousand Foot Krutch The End Is Where We Begin | 2.5 |
| Madonna MDNA | 3.0 |
| Meshuggah Koloss | 3.5 |
| OFWGKTA The OF Tape Vol. 2 | 3.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) The Hunger Games | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Wall — Immersion | 4.5 |
| Estelle All of Me | 3.0 |
| Ja Rule PIL2 | 3.0 |
| Kutless Believer | 2.5 |
| The Ting Tings Sounds from Nowheresville | 2.5 |
| WZRD WZRD | 2.0 |
| The Cranberries Roses | 3.0 |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet | 3.0 |
| Active Child Rapor | 4.0 |
