| Mannequin Pussy I Got Heaven | 4.0 |
| Rush 2112 | 4.0 |
| Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick | 4.5 |
| Beyonce Cowboy Carter | 4.0 |
| Genesis From Genesis to Revelation | 3.5 |
| Genesis We Can't Dance | 3.0 |
| Northlane Mirror's Edge | 4.5 |
| Genesis Genesis | 4.0 |
| Genesis Abacab | 3.0 |
| Genesis ...And Then There Were Three... | 3.5 |
| Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues | 4.5 |
| Genesis Wind & Wuthering | 4.5 |
| Genesis A Trick of the Tail | 4.5 |
| Emerson, Lake and Palmer Tarkus | 4.5 |
| King Crimson Lizard | 4.0 |
| Styx The Serpent Is Rising | 2.5 |
| Styx Styx | 3.0 |
| Styx Cornerstone | 2.5 |
| Genesis Invisible Touch | 4.0 |
| Styx Equinox | 3.0 |
| Swans The Glowing Man | 4.5 |
| King Crimson Starless and Bible Black | 4.0 |
| Fleetwood Mac Heroes Are Hard to Find | 4.0 |
| Donna Summer Lady of the Night | 2.5 |
| Styx Man of Miracles | 2.5 |
| Styx Crystal Ball | 2.5 |
| Styx Styx II | 4.0 |
| Roxy Music Country Life | 4.5 |
| Queen Sheer Heart Attack | 3.5 |
| Earth, Wind and Fire Earth, Wind and Fire | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV | 4.5 |
| Elton John Madman Across the Water | 4.0 |
| Yes Time and a Word | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother | 3.0 |
| Yes Big Generator | 4.0 |
| Yes Drama | 4.0 |
| Yes Relayer | 4.0 |
| Yes Going for the One | 4.0 |
| Gary Numan The Pleasure Principle | 4.5 |
| Slift Ilion | 4.5 |
| Tin Machine Tin Machine | 4.0 |
| David Bowie Never Let Me Down | 3.0 |
| David Bowie Tonight | 3.5 |
| David Bowie Baal | 3.5 |
| David Bowie Let's Dance | 3.5 |
| Vitriol (USA) Suffer & Become | 4.0 |
| Swans Greed | 4.0 |
| Premiata Forneria Marconi Per un amico | 4.0 |
| Yes Tales from Topographic Oceans | 3.5 |
| Genesis Nursery Cryme | 4.5 |
| Genesis Selling England by the Pound | 4.5 |
| David Bowie Low | 5.0 |
| Marillion Brave | 4.5 |
| Camel The Snow Goose | 4.0 |
| Van der Graaf Generator Pawn Hearts | 4.5 |
| King Crimson Discipline | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd Animals | 3.5 |
| Camel Mirage | 3.5 |
| Swans Cop | 3.5 |
| Yes 90125 | 4.0 |
| Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe | 2.5 |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd Meddle | 4.0 |
| Yes Tormato | 2.5 |
| King Crimson Red | 4.5 |
| Genesis Calling All Stations | 1.5 |
| Genesis The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway | 5.0 |
| Jethro Tull Aqualung | 4.0 |
| Swans Love of Life | 4.0 |
| Peter Gabriel Melt | 4.5 |
| Genesis Duke | 4.0 |
| Swans White Light From the Mouth of Infinity | 4.5 |
| Talking Heads Remain in Light | 5.0 |
| Talking Heads Fear of Music | 4.5 |
| Fela Kuti Expensive Shit | 4.5 |
| Genesis Foxtrot | 4.5 |
| Yes Close to the Edge | 4.5 |
| Swans Leaving Meaning | 4.0 |
| Swans The Great Annihilator | 4.5 |
| Yes Fragile | 4.0 |
| Boston Boston | 4.5 |
| Yes The Yes Album | 4.5 |
| Styx Pieces of Eight | 3.5 |
| Styx The Grand Illusion | 3.5 |
| TesseracT One | 3.5 |
| TesseracT Altered State | 4.0 |
| The Police Synchronicity | 4.5 |
| Alluvial Death Is But A Door | 3.0 |
| Cult of Luna The Long Road North | 3.5 |
| Fallujah Empyrean | 4.0 |
| Lingua Ignota Caligula | 4.5 |
| Kinoteki Faith and the Vessel | 3.5 |
| Animal Ghosts Swell | 3.0 |
| Svdestada Candela | 3.0 |
| Yeule Glitch Princess | 3.5 |
| Rosalia Motomami | 2.0 |
| Daughters You Won't Get What You Want | 5.0 |
| Chat Pile God's Country | 3.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers | 4.0 |
| Absent In Body Plague God | 4.5 |
| Beyonce Renaissance | 4.5 |
| Animals As Leaders Parrhesia | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Hushed and Grim | 4.0 |
| Dorian Electra Fanfare | 4.0 |
| Sleepytime Gorilla Museum In Glorious Times | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Emperor of Sand | 3.5 |
| Closet Witch Chiaroscuro | 4.0 |
| Celtic Frost Monotheist | 4.5 |
| Northlane Obsidian | 4.0 |
| Gojira Magma | 4.5 |
| Gojira Fortitude | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Snuggles | 3.5 |
| Devil Sold His Soul Loss | 3.0 |
| ERRA ERRA | 3.5 |
| Liz Phair Soberish | 2.5 |
| Limp Bizkit Still Sucks | 2.5 |
| Zeal and Ardor Zeal and Ardor | 4.5 |
| Rammstein Zeit | 4.5 |
| Spiritbox Singles Collection | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Bad Witch | 5.0 |
| Devin Townsend Empath | 5.0 |
| Devin Townsend Dark Matters | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Tests of Manhood | 3.5 |
| Devin Townsend Project Sky Blue | 4.5 |
| Devin Townsend Project Transcendence | 4.5 |
| The Contortionist Clairvoyant | 5.0 |
| Ahab The Coral Tombs | 4.0 |
| David Bowie Blackstar | 5.0 |
| David Bowie Outside | 5.0 |
| The Contortionist Language | 5.0 |
| TesseracT Sonder | 5.0 |
| Gary Numan Intruder | 4.0 |
| Kimbra A Reckoning | 3.0 |
| Steven Wilson The Future Bites | 3.0 |
| Holly Herndon PROTO | 2.0 |
| Holly Herndon Platform | 2.5 |
| Halsey If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power | 4.0 |
| Otep The God Slayer | 1.5 |
| Otep Kult 45 | 2.0 |
| Otep Generation Doom | 2.0 |
| Lorde Solar Power | 2.0 |
| Billie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? | 3.0 |
| Charli XCX Crash | 2.5 |
| King Woman Celestial Blues | 3.0 |
| Animal Collective Time Skiffs | 3.0 |
| Animal Collective Painting With | 2.0 |
| Animal Collective Isn’t It Now? | 3.0 |
| Spiritbox Rotoscope | 4.0 |
| Spiritbox Eternal Blue | 4.5 |
| Devin Townsend Lightwork | 4.5 |
| Devin Townsend Nightwork | 4.5 |
| Plini Mirage | 3.0 |
| Angel Olsen Forever Means | 2.5 |
| The Ocean Holocene | 4.0 |
| Panopticon The Rime of Memory | 4.0 |
| Till Lindemann Zunge | 4.0 |
| Andre 3000 New Blue Sun | 4.0 |
| Peter Gabriel i/o | 4.0 |
| Poets of the Fall Rebirth: Greatest Hits (Old Gods of Asgard) | 4.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Life Is But a Dream... | 4.0 |
| Cattle Decapitation Terrasite | 4.5 |
| Swans The Beggar | 4.5 |
| Dodheimsgard Black Medium Current | 4.5 |
| Various Artists Hi-Fi Rush (Original Game Soundtrack) | 4.5 |
| Enslaved Heimdal | 4.5 |
| TesseracT War of Being | 4.5 |
| Periphery Periphery V: Djent is Not a Genre | 4.5 |
| Masashi Hamauzu Final Fantasy XIII: Original Soundtrack | 5.0 |
| Insomnium Anno 1696 | 3.5 |
| Blindfolded and Led to the Woods Rejecting Obliteration | 3.5 |
| Sleep Token Take Me Back to Eden | 3.0 |
| Slowdive Everything is Alive | 3.0 |
| Godsmack Lighting Up the Sky | 1.5 |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars It's the End of the World But It's a Beautiful Day | 1.0 |
| Fires in the Distance Air Not Meant For Us | 3.5 |
| Unprocessed ...And Everything In Between | 2.0 |
| Yeule softscars | 3.0 |
| Godflesh Purge | 3.0 |
| Alkaloid Numen | 3.0 |
| Prog death is one of my fave genres, so I was hoping to love this. Oh, well. |
| Queens of the Stone Age In Times New Roman... | 4.0 |
| Blut Aus Nord Disharmonium – Nahab | 4.0 |
| Horrendous Ontological Mysterium | 4.0 |
| Fever Ray Radical Romantics | 3.5 |
| Veil of Maya [m]other | 3.5 |
| Cannibal Corpse Chaos Horrific | 3.5 |
| Myrkur Spine | 3.5 |
| Janelle Monae The Age of Pleasure | 3.5 |
| Sevendust Truth Killer | 3.0 |
| Spiritbox The Fear of Fear | 3.0 |
| Gorillaz Cracker Island | 3.0 |
| END (USA-NJ) The Sin of Human Frailty | 3.0 |
| Dying Fetus Make Them Beg for Death | 3.0 |
| Code Orange The Above | 3.0 |
| Little Dragon Slugs of Love | 3.0 |
| Better Lovers God Made Me an Animal | 3.0 |
| Autarkh Emergent | 3.0 |
| Suffocation Hymns From the Apocrypha | 2.5 |
| Caroline Polachek Desire, I Want To Turn Into You | 2.5 |
| Invent Animate Heavener | 2.5 |
| Ashnikko WEEDKILLER | 2.5 |
| Boygenius the record | 2.5 |
| Eartheater Powders | 2.5 |
| Baroness Stone | 2.5 |
| Insomnium Songs of the Dusk | 2.5 |
| I like 'Stained in Red' because it sounds like early aughts Opeth. lol |
| Crosses Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete. | 2.5 |
| PVRIS EVERGREEN | 2.0 |
| Kali Uchis Red Moon in Venus | 2.0 |
| Doja Cat Scarlet | 1.5 |
| Nickelback The Long Road | 2.5 |
| Aesop Rock The Impossible Kid | 4.5 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3 | 4.5 |
| Grimes Art Angels | 3.0 |
| Deerhunter Fading Frontier | 3.5 |
| Braids Deep In The Iris | 3.0 |
| Opeth Pale Communion | 3.5 |
| Punky Bruster Cooked on Phonics | 3.5 |
| Faith No More Sol Invictus | 4.0 |
| Northumbria Helluland | 4.0 |
| Eisbrecher Schock | 3.0 |
| Pelican The Cliff | 3.5 |
| Black Alice (CA) Untroubled / Forgotten Kids | 4.0 |
| This summer remix ep by Black Alice (which I have been sitting on for almost an entire year) is a chilly blast of beach brutality. The original (Cremation Mountain) mixes of the title tracks are pumping meditations on heartache that seamlessly switch gears from bleeding to brooding. Bishop Usire's remix of "Forgotten State Stringer" winds it down to a broken traffic light in an intersection and Reverend Desaad's touch on "How Cylic" imbues the base pattern with playful terror. And finally, Soluna's take on "Rose Voyager" is a swim through a dark aural lake. The weak point is the final track which, while having an intriguing beat, doesn't do enough with it in its run time. |
| Geinoh Yamashirogumi Ecophony Rinne | 4.5 |
| Lower Dens Escape from Evil | 3.5 |
| Chastity Belt Time To Go Home | 4.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly | 5.0 |
| Eisbrecher Sünde | 3.0 |
| Eisbrecher Eiszeit | 2.5 |
| Geinoh Yamashirogumi Symphonic Suite Akira | 4.5 |
| Bjork Vulnicura | 3.5 |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Gone Girl OST | 4.0 |
| Geinoh Yamashirogumi Ecophony Gaia | 5.0 |
| Timber Timbre Hot Dreams | 4.0 |
| Panda Bear Tomboy | 4.5 |
| Arch Enemy War Eternal | 3.5 |
| The Agonist Eye of Providence | 3.0 |
| Sleater-Kinney No Cities to Love | 4.0 |
| Panda Bear Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper | 4.0 |
| John Carpenter Lost Themes | 3.5 |
| I have always had a mild interest in Carpenter's themes (In the Mouth of the Madness is one of the few I listen to regularly) so I was sure this would be an enjoyable listen. It is, but it isn't much beyond that. Carpenter and his crew create evocative soundscapes, but they have a tendency to evoke ideas he has already touched on in his well recognized catalogue. |
| Talking Heads More Songs About Buildings and Food | 5.0 |
| Talking Heads Talking Heads: 77 | 4.0 |
| Talking Heads Sand in the Vaseline: Popular Favorites | 4.5 |
| Hans Zimmer Interstellar | 4.5 |
| Utterly fantastic in every way. When I went to see Interstellar, I was not expecting to be struck by the music so hard, but it is appropriately ominous, melancholic and colossal. The organ adds that extra kick that only a big budget can have (even if blockbuster films often fail in this department). The only downside is that the full version of the "Spinning dock" score is not included on any version of the OST, although it has been confirmed it will be released for free in the future. |
| Pharmakon Bestial Burden | 4.5 |
| Type O Negative October Rust | 5.0 |
| Type O Negative Bloody Kisses | 4.5 |
| Eyvind Kang Virginal Co-Ordinates | 5.0 |
| Type O Negative The Origin of the Feces | 4.0 |
| Type O Negative Slow, Deep, and Hard | 4.0 |
| Primus Primus and The Chocolate Factory With The Fungi Ensemble | 3.5 |
| Static-X Wisconsin Death Trip | 4.0 |
| Coldplay Ghost Stories | 2.5 |
| Foster the People Supermodel | 4.0 |
| Boris Noise | 4.0 |
| Godflesh A World Lit Only by Fire | 4.0 |
| Decapitated Organic Hallucinosis | 4.0 |
| Decapitated Blood Mantra | 3.0 |
| Iluvatar Iluvatar | 1.5 |
| Grouper Ruins | 4.0 |
| Ché Aimee Dorval Volume One | 4.0 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Citadel | 3.5 |
| Devin Townsend Project Z2 | 4.5 |
| Flying Lotus You're Dead! | 4.5 |
| Oingo Boingo Only a Lad | 4.0 |
| David Bowie Diamond Dogs | 4.0 |
| David Bowie Pin Ups | 3.5 |
| David Bowie Aladdin Sane | 4.0 |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars | 4.0 |
| David Bowie Hunky Dory | 4.0 |
| GFOTY Secret Mix | 3.5 |
| Sophie Lemonade/Hard | 4.0 |
| David Bowie Space Oddity | 4.0 |
| Killer Be Killed Killer Be Killed | 3.5 |
| Jupiter (JPN) Last Moment | 3.5 |
| Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter | 3.5 |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 3.5 |
| Kayo Dot Coffins on Io | 4.0 |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion | 3.5 |
| Primal Scream Screamadelica | 4.5 |
| Linkin Park The Hunting Party | 2.5 |
| Casualties of Cool Casualties of Cool | 5.0 |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun | 3.5 |
| Destiny Potato Lun | 4.0 |
| Svffer Lies We Live | 3.5 |
| Swans To Be Kind | 4.5 |
| Pacifika Amor Planeta | 4.5 |
| Wow, wasn't expecting to find something that sites like amazon categorize under "latin music", but this is truly fantastic-one of the few albums I have heard in recent memory that is immediately amazing upon the beginning of the first track and remains so throughout its run time. |
| Lykke Li I Never Learn | 3.5 |
| Chevelle La Gárgola | 3.5 |
| Lord Mantis Death Mask | 4.5 |
| tUnE-yArDs Nikki Nack | 4.5 |
| I have been waiting for something to blow my mind this year. Super surprised that not only this is it, but at the fact I haven't really checked their stuff before now. |
| Lily Allen Sheezus | 3.5 |
| Jeremy Soule The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Soundtrack | 4.0 |
| Bear McCreary Defiance (Original Television Soundtrack) | 4.0 |
| St. Vincent St. Vincent | 4.5 |
| I am not so sure this will end up being my AOTY just yet, but holy hell it is even better than I thought it would be (based on "Birth in Reverse" and "Digital Witness"). Gaga, this is what people really think of when the term Artpop is used. |
| Beck Morning Phase | 3.5 |
| Nicole Atkins Slow Phaser | 4.0 |
| I wasn't expecting to enjoy this as much as I did. I am not that familiar with her previous work, but I do know that it didn't really grab my attention. This is pretty attention grabbing throughout its duration. |
| Bosnian Rainbows Bosnian Rainbows | 4.0 |
| Junius Days of the Fallen Sun | 3.5 |
| Helms Alee Sleepwalking Sailors | 4.0 |
| Cibo Matto Hotel Valentine | 4.0 |
| Just shy of a 4.5 for me. If more of the record was like "10th Floor Ghost Girl", it would have pushed it over the line. |
| Soluna ((Suunae)) The Reverend.Cosmic ((Divine Polaric)) | 4.0 |
| A light 4, but still a lovely, droney listen with enough bizarre titles to keep you busy for a day. |
| Volcanic Queen Faith In Desire | 4.0 |
| Blut Aus Nord Debemur MoRTi | 3.0 |
| Crosses Crosses | 3.5 |
| Well, the material off their first EP is still the best stuff they have done so far. |
| Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us | 3.0 |
| Sunn O))) and Ulver Terrestrials | 3.0 |
| Behemoth The Satanist | 4.5 |
| A lot has changed since my original shout. I understand this record far better than I did when I was younger. |
| Wildernessking The Devil Within | 3.5 |
| Marissa Nadler July | 3.0 |
| Mas Ysa Worth | 3.5 |
| Actress Ghettoville | 3.5 |
| Young Fathers DEAD | 4.0 |
| Black Alice (CA) Ileana (Your Laugh) | 4.0 |
| 4'in this because even though it is a bit inconsistent musically-the bookends are pretty far away quality wise from tracks like "Fragment Forest" and "Antenna Life 2.0"-I get the emotions driving the EP and "Joan of Hark" grooves hard. "Uh uh huh ooh oh" |
| Isaiah Rashad Cilvia Demo | 4.0 |
| Broken Bells After The Disco | 3.5 |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Piano Nights | 4.0 |
| Have a Nice Life The Unnatural World | 4.0 |
| Dum Dum Girls Too True | 3.5 |
| The Visit Between Worlds | 3.0 |
| Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues | 4.0 |
| Mogwai Rave Tapes | 3.5 |
| Gnaw Their Tongues & Alkerdeel Dyodyo Asema | 3.5 |
| Painted Palms Forever | 3.0 |
| Periphery Clear | 3.5 |
| Alcest Shelter | 3.0 |
| Hexis Abalam | 4.0 |
| Funkadelic Maggot Brain | 4.0 |
| Damn, I never knew that "Rill Rill" by Sleigh Bells was sampled, but now that I have heard "Can You Get to that" I can see why they did. |
| Aphrodite's Child 666 | 3.5 |
| The psychedlic music doesn't fit the subject matter at all (for me). I understand that the album is a product of its time, but when I hear stoner jams horrifying Biblical imagery isn't what comes to mind. Even so, there are a few gems on here, like the single "The Four Horseman", the chant "Seven Bowls" which I recognized due it being sampled by Enigma on their debut, the tense "Capture of the Beast" and "The Beast" which rocks a hard groove. |
| hide (JPN) Ja, Zoo | 4.5 |
| Kathleen Mae Clandestine | 3.0 |
| Enigma Seven Lives, Many Faces | 2.5 |
| The Crystal Method The Crystal Method | 3.0 |
| Lorna Dune Miamisphere | 3.5 |
| Peter Gabriel So | 4.0 |
| Eric Serra The Fifth Element | 5.0 |
| Timber Timbre Timber Timbre | 3.5 |
| Peter Gabriel Scratch My Back | 3.5 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything | 3.0 |
| Peter Gabriel And I'll Scratch Yours | 3.5 |
| Heart Dreamboat Annie | 4.0 |
| John Zorn The Mysteries | 4.0 |
| Black Alice (CA) Akka | 4.0 |
| The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation Roadburn | 4.5 |
| Ishome Confession | 4.5 |
| Gazelle Amber Valentine Devil's Tower I | 3.5 |
| Lord Snow Solitude | 4.0 |
| Pharmakon Abandon | 4.5 |
| Jenny Hval Innocence Is Kinky | 3.5 |
| Wax Idols Discipline & Desire | 3.5 |
| Julia Holter Loud City Song | 3.5 |
| Tim Hecker Virgins | 4.0 |
| James Blake Overgrown | 3.5 |
| Mr. Bungle Disco Volante | 4.0 |
| Jupiter (JPN) Classical Element | 3.0 |
| Manufactured as hell with very little of the flair that Hizaki displayed earlier on with his solo projects, but at least the image is still sexy. |
| Ween White Pepper | 3.0 |
| Peeping Tom Peeping Tom | 4.0 |
| CSS Planta | 3.0 |
| Clap! Clap! Gwidingwi Dema | 4.0 |
| Wolf Alice Blush | 4.0 |
| Disclosure Settle | 3.5 |
| Smohalla/Omega Centauri Tellur / Epitome | 4.5 |
| Jucifer за волгой для нас земли нет | 3.5 |
| Skeme Ingleworld | 3.5 |
| Locktender Kafka | 3.5 |
| Dale Cooper Quartet and the Dictaphones Quatorze Pieces De Menace | 4.5 |
| FIS Preparations | 4.0 |
| Kayo Dot Hubardo | 4.0 |
| Obscure Sphinx Void Mother | 4.5 |
| Braids Flourish // Perish | 3.5 |
| Had the potential to be a 4, but it really only has two tracks that really wow: "Ebben" and "In Kind". Everything else you can hear once and it will be sufficient. |
| Potty Mouth Hell Bent | 3.5 |
| ReVamp Wild Card | 3.5 |
| CocoRosie Tales of a Grass Widow | 3.5 |
| Shpongle Museum of Consciousness | 4.5 |
| The Ruins of Beverast Blood Vaults - The Blazing Gospels of Heinrich... | 4.0 |
| Windhand Soma | 3.5 |
| Black Alice (CA) Kalma | 3.5 |
| Rodolfo Amaral Aura | 4.0 |
| Persephonaut de mokkel | 3.0 |
| Clint Lowery's Hello Demons... Meet Skeletons Choices | 3.5 |
| Melt-Banana Fetch | 3.5 |
| Physical Therapy Non-Drowsy | 4.0 |
| Black Alice (CA) Nirrti | 4.0 |
| Leprous Coal | 4.0 |
| Butcher Babies Goliath | 3.5 |
| Fuck Buttons Slow Focus | 4.5 |
| Grouper The Man Who Died in His Boat | 4.5 |
| Evan Brewer Your Itinerary | 4.0 |
| Kinda surprised that this lost so much steam in the second half. The first track wow'd me right away and it just seems that the song writing just couldn't maintain that quality level. Still a strong album. |
| Fuck the Facts Amer | 4.0 |
| Future Bible Heroes Partygoing | 4.0 |
| Julianna Barwick Nepenthe | 4.0 |
| Gary Numan Splinter (Songs From A Broken Mind) | 4.0 |
| Art of Noise (Who's Afraid Of?) The Art Of Noise! | 4.0 |
| Art of Noise The Seduction of Claude Debussy | 4.5 |
| A fantastic record that builds drum n bass music around Debussy compositions. While the narration is a bit jarring at first, it didn't take long to become acclimated to its presence. The weak point of the record is the "Dreaming in Colour" section. It doesn't feel as layered and meticulous as other tracks. |
| Burial Rival Dealer | 4.0 |
| Brendan Benson You Were Right | 3.5 |
| Vaura The Missing | 3.5 |
| Exivious Liminal | 4.0 |
| NGUZUNGUZU Skycell | 3.0 |
| Claude Debussy Suite bergamasque, L. 75 | 4.0 |
| The Impossible Girl The Sky is Calling | 3.5 |
| worC The Sequel | 4.5 |
| Gustavo Santaolalla The Last of Us OST | 4.5 |
| Lorne Balfe with Hans Zimmer Beyond: Two Souls OST | 4.0 |
| Kate Bush 50 Words for Snow | 4.0 |
| Rammstein Mutter | 4.0 |
| Obscure Sphinx Anaesthetic Inhalation Ritual | 5.0 |
| Scar the Martyr Scar the Martyr | 2.5 |
| This is almost capable of rivaling Frequency Unknown... |
| Sockweb Bullies Are Mean | 3.0 |
| Caspian Hymn For The Greatest Generation | 4.0 |
| Ralph Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis | 5.0 |
| Free Dominguez Volcano+The Sea | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess OST | 4.0 |
| Koji Kondo The Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary Symphony | 3.5 |
| Kate Bush The Dreaming | 4.0 |
| Kate Bush The Kick Inside | 3.5 |
| Kate Bush Lionheart | 3.5 |
| Dimmu Borgir For All Tid | 3.0 |
| Dimmu Borgir Inn I Evighetens Mørke | 3.0 |
| Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest | 4.0 |
| Dimmu Borgir Spiritual Black Dimensions | 4.0 |
| Marilyn Manson Born Villain | 3.0 |
| Kenji Yamamoto and Minako Hamano Metroid: Zero Mission | 4.5 |
| Hirokazu Tanaka Metroid Soundtrack | 4.5 |
| Dead Letter Circus The Catalyst Fire | 3.5 |
| Yamantaka // Sonic Titan YT//ST | 4.0 |
| Yamantaka // Sonic Titan Uzu | 4.0 |
| It is very uneven. The first half, for the most part, doesn't really make much of an impression. The album really picks up at "Seasickness" and reaches its peak on "One". |
| Bardo Pond Peace On Venus | 3.0 |
| Circuit Des Yeux Overdue | 4.0 |
| Laurel Halo Chance of Rain | 4.0 |
| Russian Circles Memorial | 3.5 |
| Ulver Messe I.X-VI.X | 4.5 |
| Close (UK) Getting Closer | 4.0 |
| Monkey3 The 5th Sun | 4.0 |
| Koji Kondo The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time OST | 4.0 |
| Palehound Bent Nail | 4.5 |
| Active Child Rapor | 2.5 |
| Cara Neir Portals to a Better, Dead World | 3.0 |
| Cults Static | 3.0 |
| Glass Cloud Perfect War Forever | 3.5 |
| The sheer awfulness of this EP is overhyped (a common thing in music nowadays), but the release is indeed weak in comparison to The Royal Thousand. There is far too much pandering to the young and violent crowd. Standout: "How to Survive Suicide" |
| Olive Extra Virgin | 4.5 |
| An absolutely lovely mid 90's record that seems to have been forgotten by time. |
| Polica Shulamith | 3.0 |
| Sleigh Bells Bitter Rivals | 3.0 |
| Slander | 4.0 |
| Slander Magnets b/w Ghosts | 4.5 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Pain Is Beauty | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Hesitation Marks | 4.0 |
| Falling in Reverse Fashionably Late | 1.5 |
| Soundtrack (Disney) The Hunchback of Notre Dame | 4.5 |
| The Polyphonic Spree Yes, It's True | 4.0 |
| The opener is definitely one of the best tracks of the year. The rest of the album is disappointingly uneven with some tracks being very catchy and others coming across as quite boring (like "Battlefield"). I was really hoping this would end up being one of my favorite albums of the year. |
| Icon For Hire Scripted | 3.0 |
| Serj Tankian Jazz-Iz-Christ | 3.0 |
| Karnivool Asymmetry | 3.0 |
| I don't really have a quantifiable reason for not liking this record. It just falls flat for me. The entire thing. Even the tracks people are claiming are great do nothing for me. |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork | 3.0 |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 2.5 |
| Mister Bare Uncle Feces Flapshwölle | 3.0 |
| Opul The Assailant | 3.5 |
| Doesn't have the catchiness of January's EP, but is an interesting enough listen. The associated artwork is gorgeous, though. Best track: "The Entire Fleet" |
| Kylesa Ultraviolet | 3.5 |
| It has its moments ("Vulture's Landing" and "Quicksand") and I really love Laura Pleasants voice and presence as a band leader, but too much of the album is just ok. |
| Immolation Kingdom of Conspiracy | 3.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer | 3.5 |
| I like the lyrical aesthetic here more than past release (which seems to be ranting of a reluctant/apologetic murderer). However, it is a bit more Monochrome than Ire Works and Option Paralysis. It may deliberate on their part, but the emotional palette feels more gray and the riffing gets dull a bit faster. The energy of past releases is certainly here, but it strikes more impersonally than earlier work. Still, it is fun to rock out to, just not as great as it is being made out to be. |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity | 3.5 |
| Demi Lovato Demi | 2.5 |
| Deftones White Pony | 4.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs | 4.5 |
| Mykki Blanco Cosmic Angel: The Illuminati Prince/ss | 3.0 |
| Swans Young God | 3.0 |
| Altar of Plagues Teethed Glory and Injury | 3.0 |
| Savages Silence Yourself | 3.5 |
| Swans Filth | 4.0 |
| Swans Swans | 3.0 |
| Akron/Family Sub Verses | 4.0 |
| While it doesn't hold my attention the whole way through, I really appreciate the mood shifts on this record. It starts out with a distinctly indie folk vibe and singsong vocal delivery if a bit negative lyrically. Then on track 5 after "Sand Talk" increases the tempo and bears some similarity to Battles' Gloss Drop (that crunchy beat and guitar melodies), the music gets more menacing with the vocal centric "Sometimes I" and then heavier with screeching guitars, thundering drums and shouted vocals on "Holy Boredom" (maybe leftovers from their recent collaboration with Swans?). "Sand Time" sees a similar vocal melody to the first track and shimmering synths. The tail end of the album lightens things up for a nostalgic ballad and then get meditative with "Samurai". I only have listened to so much of Akron/Family's backlog, but this record shows me that I should probably check out more. Favored tracks: "No Room", "Sand Talk", "Sometimes I", "Holy Boredom", "Sand Time". |
| Tenacious D The Pick of Destiny | 4.0 |
| Flight of the Conchords I Told You I Was Freaky | 5.0 |
| Colin Stetson New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light | 4.5 |
| Given how some people I know talk about Colin Stetson, I was not expecting to like this. I expected to be minimalistic traditional sax playing. This is full of weird sounds and the usage of his sax to make shrill, tense and threatening tones. Not to mention that several moments on here (such as "Among the Sef") are strangely accessible. Favored track: "Brute", "And in Truth", "High above a Grey Green Sea", "In Mirrors", "Among the Sef (Righteous, Pt. 2)", "To see more Light", "Part of Me Apart from You". |
| Deerhunter Halcyon Digest | 4.0 |
| Deerhunter Monomania | 2.5 |
| Ok, it cannot just be nostalgia. This album is literally a few steps down from Halcyon Digest. |
| Svart Crown Profane | 3.5 |
| You know, usually albums with covers like this are boring as shit. This is actually pretty good (High end of a 3.5). There may be areas where the thoroughly headbangable riffs lose me due to stretching out an idea for too long or slowing down the tempo too much, but this record's engaging bits stick out a bit more to me than those. Favored tracks: "Manifestatio Symptoms", "Until the Last Breath", "Genesis Architect", "The Therapy of Flesh", "Venomous Ritual". |
| Full of Hell Rudiments of Mutilation | 3.0 |
| KbN before 2005 | 5.0 |
| Queensryche Frequency Unknown (Tate's Queensryche) | 2.0 |
| Incredibly bland, but not quite as bad as #willpower. Two tracks actually had infectious melodies ("The Hands of God" and Give it to You"), but even they only have so much to offer. As far as the rerecordings, I haven't heard the original versions I can only go off of how bored I was. |
| Julianna Barwick The Magic Place | 4.0 |
| Started out strong, but drug on and could have been better. Then again, I have a strong affinity for the way Enya does things so my perspective may be different than others. Favored tracks: "Envelope" and "The Magic Place" |
| Soap and Skin Sugarbread | 4.0 |
| The Stooges Ready to Die | 3.0 |
| It is an album for rocking and it does rock. Who doesn't love them DD's? |
| Howl Bloodlines | 3.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works | 4.0 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 3.0 |
| The Delicious Bread Collection Tales from the Yeast Side | 2.0 |
| Battles Gloss Drop | 4.5 |
| The sounds. The fucking sounds on this record. I have no idea what setting or pre-recorded material Ian loaded onto his keyboards, but whatever they were it sounds so fucking fantastic. Not only that, but this record has some of the most prominent and tastey sounding bass playing I have ever heard. The way the riffs groove in and out of your brain while bizarrely crunchy synth work blasts away is simply awe-inspiring. Save for a few moments that lack the extra oomph ("Futura", "Wall Street" and "Toddler"), this album is pure greatness. Favored tracks: "Ice Cream", "Inchworm", "My Machines", "Sweetie & Shag", "Rolls Bayce" and "Sundome" |
| The Moth Gatherer A Bright Celestial Light | 3.5 |
| There are gorgeous moments hidden amongst the lull and drone.The downside is that when it isn't beautiful, it doesn't have very many interesting things going on and I found myself zoning out and forgetting that I was listening to music. |
| Morality Crisis Boats | 3.5 |
| Emora Stars | 3.0 |
| Jawbox For Your Own Special Sweetheart | 4.0 |
| A gem of the '90s I wasn't aware until recently. Favored tracks: "Savory", "Breathe", "Motorist", "LS/MFT", "U-Trau" |
| Encircling Sea A Forgotten Land | 3.5 |
| Dilute The Gypsy Valentine Curve | 3.5 |
| Dead Letter Circus This Is The Warning | 4.0 |
| Radiohead COM LAG (2plus2isfive) | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 4.0 |
| will.i.am #Willpower | 1.5 |
| Animal Collective Prospect Hummer | 3.5 |
| Animal Collective Campfire Songs | 4.0 |
| I am in a very sour, forlorn mood tonight, This record seems to complement that emotional track well. |
| Animal Collective Honeycomb/Gotham | 4.0 |
| Ricky Martin Ricky Martin | 4.5 |
| Skagos Anarchic | 3.5 |
| Memfis Silva | 3.5 |
| Nick Drake Pink Moon | 5.0 |
For some reason, I hadn't gotten around rating this before now. This has been a solid 5 for
me for 2 and a half years. |
| Shining (NOR) One One One | 3.0 |
| Sudatsuga Eeid Syrojh Suhn | 4.0 |
| Track 1 goes from Karin style vox effects to the kind of ambience Ellen Meijers (Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey/Abe's Exoddus) would create. Track 2 has a brief return of the warbling and has a stronger core melody and gorgeous accompaniments. |
| Ulfur White Mountain | 4.0 |
| Sleigh Bells Treats | 4.5 |
| Clutch Earth Rocker | 3.5 |
| Jeffrey Nothing The New Psychodalia | 2.5 |
| Static-X Cannibal | 2.5 |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore | 3.0 |
| Barn Owl V | 4.0 |
| Lydia Devil | 2.5 |
| Yo La Tengo Fade | 3.0 |
| Otep Hydra | 3.0 |
| This album clawed its way into a 3 for its lyrical concept and some of audio concepts (such as the recurring blaring horn in the first track). This could have made for a better, possibly terrifying album if the hydra metaphor wasn't so under utilized and the metal bits weren't so straight forward. If only the execution was up to par. |
| Julianna Barwick Pacing | 4.5 |
| Boris Präparat | 4.0 |
| Black Mare Field of the Host | 4.5 |
| Absolutely gorgeous and worth the time it takes to listen to this in full. Each track stands out in its own way amongst the airy, slow tempo melodies and riffs, although I would say that "Fighting Birds" is the best track on here with catchiest passage on the album. |
| Adema Topple the Giants | 2.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Malevolent Grain | 4.0 |
| Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam | 2.5 |
| The Flaming Lips The Terror | 3.5 |
| Le1f Fly Zone | 3.5 |
| Charli XCX True Romance | 3.5 |
| All of the best material from this record was released last year. I still love "You're the One" as much as I did when it debuted, but most of the rest of this is only slightly above average. |
| Unru Demo MMXIII | 3.5 |
| Mutato Muzika Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back | 5.0 |
| Sunwolf Midnight Moon | 4.0 |
| Not the most thrilling work you will ever hear, but it is pretty and the artwork and music fit well together. |
| Ramlord Crippled Minds, Sundered Wisdom | 2.5 |
| Rammstein Sehnsucht | 3.5 |
| Devin Townsend Project Epiclouder | 4.0 |
| Device Device | 3.0 |
| I know how this will make me look, but I actually like Draiman's vocals. The problem is he keeps attaching himself to horrendously generic sounding music. |
| The Knife Shaking the Habitual | 3.0 |
| "Wrap your arms around me", "Old Dreams Waiting to Be Realized", "Raging Lung" and "Fracking Fluid Injection" are worth hearing at least once. The rest of it just doesn't speak to me. |
| Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark English Electric | 3.5 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Mosquito | 3.5 |
| Colleen Green Sock It To Me | 3.5 |
| Fallujah Nomadic | 4.5 |
| I love it when I can really get into a metal band with a techy edge. :D |
| Maria Minerva Bless | 2.5 |
| Zozobra Savage Masters | 3.0 |
| Sevendust Black Out the Sun | 4.5 |
| While not quite as good as I was hoping based off the leading single, "Decay", Black out the Sun is a very strong album that takes SOME threads from Home, Animosity and Alpha and coalesces them into a whole that is not particularly unique given their backlog but is just enough to have its own identity. Between the jun junz, the acoustic passages ("Got a Feeling") and rising choruses ("Picture Perfect", "Mountain"), Black out the Sun is another Sevendust album. If you don't dig it, that is fine. Favored tracks: "Decay", "Picture Perfect", "Til Death", "Got a Feeling", "Mountain", "Nobody wants it", "Murder Bar" and "Black out the Sun" |
| IO Echo Ministry of Love | 4.0 |
| Mike Patton The Place Beyond the Pines | 4.0 |
| Mike Patton's orchestrations sound like a mix of Tomahawk's debut and King for a Day.... Fool for a Lifetime as inspired by Ennio Morricone (which, depending on how you look at it, could seem a bit redundant to say). I have been bouncing back and forth in my mindset as to whether to see this film or not, but given that the score is actually very engaging I may have to choose to despite my reservations over it being a mobstery movie. |
| Cough/Windhand Reflection of the Negative (split) | 4.5 |
| I don't know why nobody added this before now (especially given that it is already available on amazon). Anyway, the Cough track is pretty snazzy and the Windhand tracks are absolutely amazing. |
| Boris New Album | 4.0 |
| Erel Pilo Drone | 3.0 |
| Boris Heavy Rocks (2011) | 3.5 |
| Sudatsuga Hain-Ba Sun Hex | 3.5 |
| Personally, I don't like it as much as Blue Moon Saiyeed. Some of the voice effects on track 7 and elsewhere get to be too grating and this release definitely meanders more than the previous. Still, it remains the pretty instrumentation and infectious beat construction. |
| Bonobo The North Borders | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Migrant | 3.0 |
| Michael Bross Music From Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath Vol. 1 | 5.0 |
| Foot Village Make Memories | 3.5 |
| A 3.9. If the opener didn't drag so long in its tail end, this would be a 4. They are a very interesting band with their 4 drummer/shouty vocals dynamic. |
| CHVRCHES Recover | 2.5 |
| David Bowie The Next Day | 3.5 |
| This is about a 3.8. It falls short on several levels, although there are five really good songs. |
| Nails Abandon All Life | 3.5 |
| David Arnold Stargate: The Deluxe Edition | 5.0 |
| Behavior Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent | 5.0 |
| Pristina Hopeless Godless | 3.0 |
| Botanist IV: Mandragora | 3.0 |
| Save Us From The Archon Some Things We Carry, Always | 3.0 |
| Amaranthe The Nexus | 2.5 |
| Despise (US) 2012 Recording | 3.5 |
| Kvelertak Meir | 3.0 |
| JG/BC Sorath | 4.0 |
| Rachel Zeffira The Deserters | 4.0 |
| Inter Arma Sky Burial | 4.0 |
| Doth Datura Wrightii | 4.0 |
| Intronaut Habitual Levitations | 3.5 |
| Nero di Marte Nero di Marte | 3.0 |
| Pig Destroyer Mass & Volume | 3.5 |
| Batillus Concrete Sustain | 3.5 |
| Little BB Bare To My Bones | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Nothing (Re-Release) | 5.0 |
| Meshuggah None | 4.5 |
| Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Damn The Torpedoes | 4.0 |
| Sound City Players Sound City: Real To Reel | 4.0 |
| Pretty damn good, but it is made for very specific environments, namely social (like driving around, a concert). This kind of record has to be a shared experience. Alone, it just gets kinda boring and sounds somewhat uninspired. That being said, the tracks featuring Josh Homme, "Centipede", "Mantra" and "Trick with no Sleeve" are the ones I found the most enjoyable. The Paul McCartney-Nirvana collab, "Cut me some slack", is also a highlight given how well the *ahem* old man and younguns meld together. |
| Strapping Young Lad Strapping Young Lad | 4.5 |
| Northern Faces Southern Places | 3.5 |
| Rings of Saturn Dingir | 3.0 |
| American Head Charge The War Of Art | 4.0 |
| Disturbed The Sickness | 3.5 |
| Dido Girl Who Got Away | 4.0 |
Only one rating so far? Ouch. It is shame that this album might come and go without anyone
really noticing. It is one of the better pop albums of the last few years. Her voice may
instantly bring me back to the late 90s, but this doesn't sound dated to that time. The
collaboration with Kendrick Lamar is surreal and really good and there are some great tracks
on here ("End of Night", "Love to Blame" and "Go Dreaming") that are fairly energetic and
varied in their instrumentation. The lead single, "No Freedom" may not have been the best
choice, though... |
| Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) | 4.0 |
| Disturbed Believe | 3.5 |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists | 4.0 |
| Blue Hawaii Untogether | 4.0 |
| Lil' Kim Notorious K.I.M. | 4.0 |
| Riverside Shrine Of New Generation Slaves | 3.0 |
| Clint Mansell Stoker | 4.0 |
| Clint Mansell Moon | 5.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal | 4.0 |
| The Men New Moon | 2.5 |
| I am getting so sick of retro ass shit, but I guess the thing that bothers me most is the general aesthetic. |
| Long Distance Calling The Flood Inside | 3.5 |
| Just shy of a 4. There are just too many missteps in decisions over the course of the album for me to dig it. |
| Old Wounds From Where We Came Is Where We'll Rest | 3.5 |
| Portal Vexovoid | 4.5 |
| Rotting Christ Kata Ton Demona Eaftou | 4.0 |
| As Angels Bleed As Angels Bleed | 3.5 |
| Chelsea Light Moving Chelsea Light Moving | 3.5 |
| Lil' Kim Hard Core | 4.0 |
| Night Owls Wounds Again | 3.5 |
| Nubilum Tsantsa | 4.5 |
| This gives me hope that there will be more stuff that I will really get into this year. |
| Archon (USA-NY) Ouroboros Collapsing | 3.5 |
| Rorcal Vilagvege | 3.5 |
| Braid/Balance and Composure Split | 3.0 |
| Waxahatchee Cerulean Salt | 3.0 |
| Feared Furor Incarnatus | 3.5 |
| I really wanted to love this. That album cover is my favorite of the last few years. |
| SubRosa (US) No Help for the Mighty Ones | 3.5 |
| Sally Shapiro Somewhere Else | 2.5 |
| There are some flares of Enigma-like (Voyageur era) samples and instrumentation on here, but it mostly just sounds like Euro dance pop. This is the type of release that teases you with ethereal intros just to roughly transition into a retro sounding beat. |
| How to Destroy Angels How To Destroy Angels | 4.5 |
| Torres Torres | 3.0 |
| Taurus (USA-OR) Life | 4.0 |
| Coilguns Commuters | 3.0 |
| "Commuters Part 2" and "Earthians" are interesting, drawn out tracks that take the listener on long, chuggy treks.. I found the rest of the album sleep-inducing. |
| Lozen Para Vida | 4.5 |
| Despise (US) Desolate Single | 4.0 |
| A band from Minneapolis doing crusty shit and being generally batshit. What isn't there to like? |
| Black Table Sentinel | 3.0 |
| Doldrums (CAN) Lesser Evil | 3.5 |
| This is one of those albums I will always feel conflicted on. There are some moments where I really love where it is going, but tracks like "Anomaly" and "Lesser Evil" really shit the bed for me. "Egypt", too, has its strong moments in the repeated verses but the non vocal sections just kinda wander. "Lost in Everyone" is a prime example of what this album can achieve at its best and what holds it back. There are some very interesting micro melodies on the track, but it is hurt by its seemingly aimless approach. |
| Devourment Conceived in Sewage | 3.0 |
| Drones for Queens Whitewashed Afterlife | 3.5 |
| While it is fairly average, there are moments that suggest a lot of potential for growth into a damn decent band. |
| How to Destroy Angels Welcome Oblivion | 3.5 |
| I am starting to become quite nostalgic of SIGIL02 (HTDA) due to how An Omen_ and Welcome Oblivion have turned out. For all HTDA did wrong, it actually did sound fairly distinct in its own way. Welcome Oblivion strikes me as an attempt to make the project less solely Reznor under a different moniker, an appeal to the indie crowd with tracks like "Ice Age" and utilize rejected material from the Year Zero sessions. It is also showing that the best material on this record is the work that was on the An Omen_ EP. And that single, "How Long", is still an utterly wretched piece of pseudo gospel garbage.rIt is hard to tell if Reznor's glory days are over or if this release just falls short for me. If he follows through on his intent to do more NIN, I shall see which is true then. Until that point in time comes, I am just going to not bother with this record again. |
| Atoms for Peace Amok | 3.5 |
| It is always strange when the lead in single that takes you forever to grow to love winds up being the best track on an album by a longshot. "Default" and "Judge, Jury, Executioner" are the only tracks that aren't distinctly average from beginning to end. Maybe "Amok" is also alright. |
| Rotten Sound Species At War | 3.5 |
| Matmos The Marriage of True Minds | 4.0 |
| Eight Bells The Captain's Daughter | 4.5 |
| One of the better releases I have heard so far this year. This ladies on guitars and sir on drums trio is pretty snazzy at what they are doing. |
| Sudatsuga Blue Moon Saiyeed | 4.0 |
| Rwake Voices of Omens | 4.0 |
| Iceage You're Nothing | 2.0 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Push The Sky Away | 3.5 |
| Grayceon Pearl & The End of Days | 2.5 |
| Pissed Jeans Honeys | 3.0 |
| Puscifer "V" Is For Vagina | 4.0 |
| Puscifer C is for... | 4.0 |
| Puscifer Donkey Punch the Night | 3.0 |
| Octopus Into the Void of Fear | 4.0 |
| Whoa?! A heavily Meshuggah influenced progressive metal band release that is only 26 minutes across 8 tracks? And gets right to the point rather than stretch songs out with fluff? Brevity is the soul of wit and I dig what these clowns are cookin'. Jun fuckin jun |
| K-X-P II | 3.5 |
| Cakes Da Killa The Eulogy | 3.5 |
| Mister Bare Uncle Feces Inuchan | 4.0 |
| Starts out a bit off, but the majority of "Inuchan" is a really hypnotic arrangement of noises. |
| My Bloody Valentine m b v | 2.5 |
| Jesus, you all are bitching about the artwork and it is far from the worst even released so far this year. As for the music, this is one of those early 90s bands I never even knew existed until early last month so I won't be surprised if I wind up feeling about their discog how I feel currently about this "New You" track (not that positive). |
| Amiensus Restoration | 4.0 |
| The Bronx The Bronx (IV) | 3.5 |
| hepa-Titus Follow Me | 2.5 |
| Really, really, really grimy, which I guess is what you expect from a musician who is a former bassist for both The Melvins and Tomahawk. I just hope future releases are little more fine tuned. The whole sounding like it was recorded in a trashcan aesthetic fits in an odd way, I guess, though. |
| Trapt Reborn | 3.0 |
| Pomegranate Tiger Entities | 3.0 |
| Tomahawk Oddfellows | 4.0 |
| The Robot Ate Me Circumstance | 3.0 |
| "Circumstance #2" really got my attention. The rest is pretty okay, though. I guess this stuff just really isn't my thing. |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal | 3.0 |
| The Robot Ate Me Bridge by Bridge | 3.0 |
| Opul Personnel | 4.0 |
| While this release has its shakey moments, it has a nice progression to it and the songs at least in parts are quite memorable. |
| Tegan and Sara Heartthrob | 3.5 |
| Oliver Mechanical | 4.5 |
| I am honestly surprised that I wound up liking this as much as I did. Generally when Fantano gives a glowing review of something, I find myself indifferent and bored. There is a lot of throwback to 80s and 90s synths on here. |
| Gold Panda Trust | 4.0 |
| David Bowie Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) | 4.0 |
| The Odious Joint Ventures | 3.0 |
| Wow, the first track made me think I would like this. Then the rest of the album happened. Really don't see what the bloggy fuss is over. The techy-prog hard rock angle while interesting isn't really that well fleshed out on this release. |
| Newsted Metal | 4.5 |
| A pretty cool way to start off the year. I am glad this has been getting a lot of press. Newsted has been largely ignored since he and Metallica split ways 9 years ago. "Godsnake" is a bit on the weak side, but the other tracks are total jamz. If a full length comes out later this year, hopefully it will carry on the momentum of this release. |
| Mr. 3 Uranus -A Prelude to the Gymnopedist- | 4.5 |
| Another great EP that I somehow didn't take the time to listen to until now. |
| exist trace Virgin | 3.5 |
| exist trace VANGUARD -of the muses- | 4.5 |
| David Byrne and St. Vincent Love This Giant | 4.0 |
| Tomahawk Tomahawk | 4.5 |
| Indian Jewelry Peel It | 4.0 |
| KOPPS Fuck Jams | 4.0 |
| Mr. Bungle California | 5.0 |
| Marriages Kitsune | 4.5 |
| David Bowie Lodger | 4.5 |
| David Bowie Station to Station | 4.5 |
| Steve Vai The Story of Light | 3.5 |
| Reso Tangram | 4.0 |
| Duran Duran Duran Duran (The Wedding Album) | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Wall | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 5.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Final Cut | 2.0 |
| Linda Killerbee Congo Cunt Crasher | 3.5 |
| Faustcoven Hellfire and Funeral Bells | 3.0 |
| White Sea This Frontier | 4.0 |
| Sylver Tongue Something Big | 4.5 |
| Another "holy fuck I love this". XD I really hope this catches on in some way. A lot of thought went into constructing "Something Big" and "Creatures", I can see. |
| Inverloch Dusk|Subside | 3.5 |
| Hell (USA) III | 4.0 |
| This is a really atmospheric and engaging droney black metal release. It does stretch a bit long, especially if you are focusing on it and not doing anything else. However, it is really good for background noise while you work. |
| Dark New Day New Tradition | 3.5 |
| Dark New Day Twelve Year Silence | 4.0 |
| Naily L.I.E. | 3.0 |
| Grace Potter and The Nocturnals The Lion The Beast The Beat | 3.5 |
| Anastacia It's a Man's World | 3.0 |
| the GazettE Division | 4.0 |
| Marie Dior 7 | 3.0 |
| I'd Fuck Gia Paloma | 3.5 |
| Surprisingly good for a 5 minute grind release. The musician/s sound like they actually know what they are doing. Of course, there isn't a ton of novelty here. |
| All India Radio Red Shadow Landing | 4.0 |
| Cherri Bomb This Is the End of Control | 3.5 |
| Kesha Warrior | 4.0 |
| John Zorn Mount Analogue | 4.0 |
| All India Radio Don't Leave | 4.5 |
| Roniit In The Shadows | 3.0 |
| I respect for being a woman in a mostly man dominated genre of music, but holy hell her music does pretty much nothing for me. In fact the fifth track really rubbed me the wrong way. |
| The Birthday Massacre Hide and Seek | 3.5 |
| Circus Maximus Nine | 3.0 |
| It is pretty decent. I am definitely not within the target audience, though, as pretty much every aspect is not really gripping me. |
| Cumshot Cumshot | 4.0 |
| Through Waves Santuário | 4.0 |
| ABGOHARD 4o | 3.0 |
| ABGOHARD Blowjobs N Bacon | 3.0 |
| I really dig hearing his orgasm sounds on the fifth track (I really like hearing people moan for some reason), but when he tries to sing....holy shit. It almost hurts to hear. That and he sounds blazed the whole way through. |
| KLoNDyKE Diggin' for Gold | 4.0 |
| Ducky Boys Club | 3.5 |
| Cyanide Ejaculation Cyanide Ejaculation | 3.0 |
| It is interesting that growling in this band is actually coming from a woman. A woman growling about this subject matter is surreal. |
| Deep Throat Cumageddon Deep Throat Cumageddon | 2.5 |
| Scify Sexxx & Spermtomitosis 2 Ways Alien Party | 2.5 |
| Cum Book Noise for Bitches | 3.0 |
| Abortion Autopsy Deep Throat | 3.5 |
| Abortion Autopsy Cellulite Fuck Fest | 3.5 |
| Interesting, but short. I do really dig the production on this. |
| Emily and the Orgasm Addicts Animator | 4.0 |
| Tessuroh For Queen | 3.0 |
| Just a collection of snippets of song ideas. The themes are interesting but are too brief to be compelling. |
| Mister Bare Uncle Feces Purity Cum | 3.5 |
| Interesting enough trashy drone music. I would have liked a better balance between the porn theme and the noise, though. |
| Neil Davidge Halo 4 Original Soundtrack | 4.0 |
| Pacing could be much better, but this is pretty entertaining. |
| The Birthday Massacre Pins and Needles | 3.5 |
| Emilie Autumn Opheliac | 4.0 |
| U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb | 3.5 |
| U2 The Best Of 1980-1990 | 4.0 |
| U2 The Best Of 1990-2000 | 3.0 |
| Martin O'Donnell Halo Original Soundtrack | 4.5 |
| Martin O'Donnell Halo 2, Vol. 2 OST | 4.0 |
| Brendon Small Galaktikon | 3.0 |
| Dethklok Dethalbum III | 3.5 |
| Jonny Greenwood There Will Be Blood OST | 5.0 |
| I the Mighty Karma Never Sleeps | 4.0 |
| The Algorithm Polymorphic Code | 3.5 |
| Holly Herndon Movement | 5.0 |
| Holy shit, this is something. It has been since July (Glass Cloud) that I have heard something that I have dug all the way through. "From May to Now" as it were. Yeah, this is best of 2012 material. |
| Deftones Deftones | 4.0 |
| Black Light Burns The Moment You Realize You're Going To Fall | 4.0 |
| Lana Del Rey Paradise | 3.5 |
| Holy fuck, could she have made a more jingoistic record?! But musically it is really pretty. Well kinda. Actually, this is actually bad, worse than Born to Die. |
| Storm Corrosion Storm Corrosion | 4.0 |
| Kelly Bailey Half-Life 2 | 4.0 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VII: Original Soundtrack | 5.0 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VI: Original Soundtrack | 4.5 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy IX: Original Soundtrack | 5.0 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy X: Original Soundtrack | 4.5 |
| Pitch Black Forecast Burning In Water... Drowning In Flame | 4.5 |
| Okay, so I am on the first track and hearing Devin Townsend in the background of Jason Popson's voice. That is a very pleasant surprise. In fact, I think I am going to like this more than I was expecting to. Mushroomhead meets Devy meets A7X. Brilliant. |
| Grotus Brown | 4.5 |
| Now THIS is a underrated band. The fact that only four people, including myself, on this site have actually put forth a rating for this record and the other records is a disgrace. Get on it Sputnik. |
| Eths III | 3.5 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I | 3.5 |
| Torche Harmonicraft | 3.5 |
| Intervals In Time | 3.5 |
| Venetian Snares Fool the Detector | 4.0 |
| Angel Haze Reservation | 3.0 |
| Angel Haze Classick | 3.5 |
| I appreciate the fact that it is a short mixtape, but "Cleaning Out My Closet" is the only one on here that has real replay value. |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan | 3.0 |
| Venetian Snares Affectionate | 4.0 |
| Gorillaz Demon Days | 4.5 |
| Trans-Siberian Orchestra Christmas Eve and Other Stories | 4.5 |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist | 4.5 |
| Knives Out! Black Mass Hysteria | 3.0 |
| As I figured when I heard the single back in March, this album is really bland and makes me wonder if my love of the Polkadot Cadaver debut is nothing more than fluke. And what is with this collaboration? DFD + Nothingface/Hellyeah? |
| Charli XCX Super Ultra Mixtape | 4.0 |
| Pretty good mixtape, but not as good as her previous one this year. Also, apparently this wasn't written in two days. It is evident that she was pulling from a lot of contemporary pop sources on this, especially on "Cloud Aura" and "Glow". |
| Code Orange Love Is Love // Return To Dust | 3.5 |
| Jeremy Soule Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Soundtrack | 5.0 |
| Kettlespider Avadante | 3.5 |
| How to Destroy Angels An Omen | 4.0 |
| Neil Young Americana | 3.0 |
| Devin Townsend Devlab | 4.5 |
| Devin Townsend Christeen + 4 Demos | 4.5 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs | 4.0 |
| Eisbrecher Die Hölle Muss Warten | 3.5 |
| Eisbrecher Antikörper | 4.0 |
| Eisbrecher Eisbrecher | 4.5 |
| The Shins Wincing the Night Away | 4.0 |
| Pearl Jam Ten | 3.5 |
| Papa Roach Infest | 4.0 |
| Enya Paint The Sky With Stars | 4.5 |
| Enya Amarantine | 3.0 |
| Enya A Day Without Rain | 4.5 |
| Dale Cooper Quartet and the Dictaphones Parole de Navarre | 5.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin Phobia | 3.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin We Are Not Alone | 3.0 |
| Atlas Sound Bedroom Databank, Vols. 1-4 | 3.5 |
| Collective Soul 7even Year Itch | 3.5 |
| Stabbing Westward Ungod | 4.0 |
| Stabbing Westward Darkest Days | 5.0 |
| Rob Zombie Past, Present & Future | 3.5 |
| Rob Zombie Hellbilly Deluxe 2 | 2.5 |
| Rob Zombie Educated Horses | 3.0 |
| Stone Temple Pilots Tiny Music... Songs From the Vatican Gift Shop | 3.0 |
| Stone Temple Pilots Purple | 3.0 |
| Stone Temple Pilots Core | 3.5 |
| Stone Temple Pilots No. 4 | 3.5 |
| Trapt Trapt | 4.0 |
| Trapt Someone in Control | 3.0 |
| Public Image Ltd. Flowers Of Romance | 4.0 |
| Rob Thomas ...Something to Be | 3.5 |
| In This Moment The Dream | 4.0 |
| The Knife Silent Shout | 4.0 |
| Hellyeah Hellyeah | 3.5 |
| Evanescence The Open Door | 4.0 |
| Sander van Doorn Eleve11 | 3.5 |
| Rush Clockwork Angels | 3.5 |
| Car Bomb w^w^^w^w | 4.0 |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine | 5.0 |
| Abney Park The Death of Tragedy | 4.5 |
| Abney Park before they jumped the shark and started milking the Steampunk movement for all it has got. This album is actually really well composed and executed. |
| Stolen Babies Naught | 3.5 |
| Has some strong moments, but a lot of it feels bland. |
| Polarization Chasing the Light | 4.0 |
| Starts out really strong, but the middle gets kinda loses me. |
| Exotic Animal Petting Zoo Tree of Tongues | 4.5 |
| Down Down IV - Part I | 3.5 |
| Lacuna Coil Dark Adrenaline | 3.0 |
| Moonspell Alpha Noir | 3.0 |
| Sithu Aye Invent the Universe | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Physicist | 4.5 |
| Bat For Lashes The Haunted Man | 4.0 |
| While there aren't any moments that live up to the captivating "Siren Song", "Travelling Woman", "Moon and Moon" or "Sleep Alone" from her last LP, this one is pretty well done as a whole. The two singles are the best tracks, but they get the job done. |
| Shpongle Are You Shpongled? | 4.5 |
| Gary Numan Dead Son Rising | 4.5 |
| Carla Kihlstedt & Matthias Bossi Rabbit Rabbit Radio - Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 4.0 |
| Dev Booty Bounce | 4.0 |
| Carla Kihlstedt & Matthias Bossi Niagara Falling: Tales for the Stage, III | 4.0 |
| In contrast to last year's Tales for the Stage part II, Niagara falling is very much a minimalist mood-piece. The 1st and 3rd tracks are short piano and mellotron interludes. The 2nd and 4th lengthy tracks contains audio samples of interviews about a street/town near the American side of the Niagara and how unspecified forces have caused it to lose its former glory. The music itself is melancholic and fairly beautifully constructed. |
| The Hurd Ensemble Strange Lands | 4.5 |
| It is only a 6 minute, two track release, but it is very nicely textured. It has a very menacing and mischievious sound. |
| Carla Kihlstedt & Matthias Bossi Still You Lay Dreaming: Tales for the Stage, II | 5.0 |
Kinda surprised that no one has added this record or this artist. This is definitely within
my top ten releases in 2011. |
| David Bowie The Man Who Sold the World | 4.0 |
| Lou Reed Transformer | 4.0 |
| David Bowie Young Americans | 4.0 |
| David Bowie "Heroes" | 5.0 |
| Korn The Path of Totality | 3.0 |
| Ash Little Infinity EP | 4.0 |
| Projected Human | 3.0 |
| Has some engaging moments, but overall not one of the better releases from the members of Sevendust. |
| Freelance Whales Diluvia | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence | 4.0 |
| Lou Reed and Metallica Lulu | 2.5 |
| Not as bad as people make it out to be, but the trolliness of it all does wear out its welcome after a few listens. |
| Die Mannequin Danceland | 3.0 |
| Overall, this as a okay to decent EP. On tracks "Candide" and "Die Snitch Die" it actually succeeds in being raucous and engaging at the same time and they are catchy enough to want to return to. The rest of it, though. It is raw. Really raw. On "Suffer" you can very easily hear vocalist Care attempt to squeak out the notes that she can't hit, whether it is because during recording she wore out her voice or they are just outside her range. The song itself is kinda bland, but those moments on vocals exemplify the negative side of this EP. And the (drunken?) attempts at singing by Tonyswar are just too awful to even be funny. |
| Metric Synthetica | 3.5 |
| Sylosis Monolith | 3.5 |
| There are some really pretty moments on here that flourish into something beautiful (the opener and hidden track), but for the most part the "let's start out with thrashy heavy and incorporate some keyboards later on during the bridge" shtick that they make literally every track conform to gets old quick. |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - Cosmosophy | 3.5 |
| Matchbox Twenty North | 3.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! | 4.0 |
| Amanda Palmer Theatre Is Evil | 4.0 |
| Liam MMIX | 3.5 |
| Caspian Waking Season | 4.5 |
| The Chariot One Wing | 3.5 |
| The Agonist Prisoners | 4.0 |
| f(x) Electric Shock | 4.0 |
| Dum Dum Girls End of Daze | 3.5 |
| The Flaming Lips The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends | 4.0 |
| Ultraista Ultraista | 5.0 |
| Flying Lotus Until the Quiet Comes | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Centipede Hz | 4.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Shields | 4.5 |
| Jens Lekman I Know What Love Isn't | 4.0 |
| Mount Eerie Ocean Roar | 3.5 |
| The Faceless Autotheism | 4.0 |
| Cat Power Sun | 4.0 |
| Garbage Not Your Kind of People | 4.0 |
| Grimes Visions | 4.5 |
| Swans The Seer | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Epicloud | 4.5 |
| Charli XCX Heartbreaks and Earthquakes Mixtape | 4.5 |
| Charli XCX You're the One | 4.5 |
| This EP features two tracks plus remixes of both tracks that while containing simple + common melodies are rather infectious and have quite a bit of replay value. Only downside for me is that Nuclear Seasons is a bit too long for its own good. |
| Jessie Ware Devotion | 3.5 |
| EPROM Metahuman | 3.5 |
| The Darkness Hot Cakes | 3.5 |
| In This Moment Blood | 4.0 |
| Nicki Minaj Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded | 4.0 |
| Katatonia Dead End Kings | 3.5 |
| I kinda feel meh after this album. The closer is amazing with its odd melodies, but most of the stuff that comes before it just isn't that engaging. |
| Xibalba Hasta La Muerte | 4.5 |
| Emmure Slave To The Game | 3.0 |
| Knife Party Rage Valley | 4.0 |
| Serebro Mama Lover | 4.0 |
| The Machine Calmer Than You Are | 4.5 |
| The Omega Experiment The Omega Experiment | 4.0 |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality | 4.0 |
| Sevendust Next | 3.5 |
| Sevendust Chapter VII: Hope and Sorrow | 3.5 |
| Sevendust Seasons | 3.5 |
| Sevendust Alpha | 4.0 |
| Sevendust Animosity | 4.0 |
| Sevendust Sevendust | 4.5 |
| Sevendust Home | 5.0 |
| Versailles Noble | 4.5 |
| Tom Waits Blue Valentine | 4.5 |
| Tom Waits Rain Dogs | 4.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest | 5.0 |
| Filter Title Of Record | 4.0 |
| Filter Short Bus | 4.0 |
| Dimmu Borgir Death Cult Armageddon | 4.0 |
| Faith No More Angel Dust | 5.0 |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue | 4.5 |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia | 4.5 |
| The Delgados Hate | 4.5 |
| Moonspell Memorial | 4.5 |
| Opeth Heritage | 3.5 |
| Opeth Still Life | 3.5 |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse | 4.0 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 4.0 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 4.5 |
| Opeth Deliverance | 3.0 |
| Opeth Damnation | 3.0 |
| Opeth Watershed | 4.5 |
| Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Of Natural History | 5.0 |
| Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Grand Opening and Closing | 4.0 |
| Apocalyptica Worlds Collide | 3.5 |
| Audioslave Out of Exile | 3.5 |
| Audioslave Audioslave | 4.0 |
| Audioslave Revelations | 4.0 |
| Coldplay Live 2003 | 4.5 |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head | 4.0 |
| Coldplay X&Y | 4.0 |
| Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True | 4.0 |
| Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors | 4.0 |
| Emigrate Emigrate | 3.5 |
| Rammstein Liebe Ist Für Alle Da | 4.0 |
| Rammstein Rosenrot | 4.5 |
| Rammstein Herzeleid | 4.0 |
| Rammstein Reise, Reise | 5.0 |
| Pelican Ataraxia/Taraxis | 4.5 |
| Pelican City of Echoes | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 5.0 |
| OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below | 3.5 |
| Acid Bath Paegan Terrorism Tactics | 4.0 |
| Karnivool Sound Awake | 5.0 |
| Karnivool Themata | 4.5 |
| Tool Ænima | 5.0 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 5.0 |
| Tool Lateralus | 4.5 |
| Matchbox Twenty More Than You Think You Are | 4.0 |
| Matchbox Twenty Yourself or Someone Like You | 4.0 |
| Matchbox Twenty Mad Season | 4.5 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 4.0 |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 4.0 |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight | 2.5 |
| Linkin Park A Thousand Suns | 4.0 |
| Car Bomb Centralia | 5.0 |
| Polkadot Cadaver Purgatory Dance Party | 4.0 |
| Psychostick We Couldn't Think of a Title | 4.5 |
| Psychostick Sandwich | 4.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails And All That Could Have Been | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Quake | 4.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Still | 4.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Fixed | 4.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine | 4.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Fragile | 5.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth | 5.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Year Zero | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IV | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Slip | 4.0 |
| A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe | 4.0 |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms | 4.5 |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step | 4.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues | 4.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 4.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 4.5 |
| Mushroomhead XX | 4.0 |
| Mushroomhead XIII | 3.5 |
| There are several strong tracks on the album, but the overall vibe is a bit lacking and I find my self skipping back and forth on this album. |
| Mushroomhead Savior Sorrow | 4.0 |
| Mushroomhead Beautiful Stories For Ugly Children | 3.0 |
| Enigma Love Sensuality Devotion: The Greatest Hits | 4.0 |
| Enigma A posteriori | 3.5 |
| Enigma Voyageur | 4.0 |
| Enigma Le Roi est mort, vive le Roi! | 3.5 |
| Enigma MCMXC a.D. | 3.5 |
| Enigma The Cross of Changes | 4.5 |
| Enigma The Screen Behind the Mirror | 5.0 |
| Braids Native Speaker | 4.5 |
| Fear Factory Demanufacture | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Call of the Mastodon | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah I | 4.5 |
| Meshuggah obZen | 4.5 |
| Meshuggah Nothing | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere | 5.0 |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree | 5.0 |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh | 4.5 |
| Gojira Terra Incognita | 4.0 |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius | 5.0 |
| Overkill The Electric Age | 4.0 |
| Esperanza Spalding Radio Music Society | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park Living Things | 3.5 |
| Bilocate Summoning the Bygones | 3.5 |
| Deathspell Omega Drought | 3.5 |
| Azealia Banks Fantasea | 4.5 |
| Ahab The Giant | 4.0 |
| Hellyeah Band of Brothers | 3.0 |
| Toro Y Moi June 2009 | 3.0 |
| Mnemic Mnemesis | 4.5 |
| Fear Factory The Industrialist | 4.0 |
| Attack Attack! This Means War | 4.0 |
| The Contortionist Intrinsic | 4.0 |
| Chelsea Grin Evolve | 4.0 |
| Ab-Soul Control System | 4.5 |
| Mission of Burma Unsound | 3.5 |
| Call Me No One Last Parade | 4.0 |
| Blood on the Dance Floor Evolution | 3.5 |
| Aesop Rock Skelethon | 4.5 |
| Serj Tankian Harakiri | 3.5 |
| Beneath the Massacre Incongruous | 4.0 |
| Emilie Autumn Fight Like A Girl | 4.0 |
| Frank Ocean channel ORANGE | 4.5 |
| Barrier Dark Days | 3.5 |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal | 3.5 |
| Dying Fetus Reign Supreme | 3.5 |
| Manowar The Lord of Steel | 3.5 |
| Gnaw Their Tongues Eschatological Scatology | 4.0 |
| Malodorous Augury of the Aborted | 4.0 |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Transverse Temporal Gyrus | 4.5 |
This EP has great spacey moments. The Deep voice midway into part two is rather chilling
with headphones. My only gripe is that some of the passages stretch on a little bit too
long. Doesn't really hurt the experience, but there will be a few moments where you will
find yourself thinking "ok, on with it". |
| of Montreal Paralytic Stalks | 4.0 |
| Nachtmystium Silencing Machine | 3.5 |
| Ihsahn Eremita | 3.5 |
| Passion Pit Gossamer | 3.0 |
| Om Advaitic Songs | 4.5 |
| Sleigh Bells Reign of Terror | 3.5 |
| Lana Del Rey Born to Die | 3.5 |
| Cloudkicker Fade | 3.5 |
| Glass Cloud The Royal Thousand | 4.0 |
| Abigail Williams Becoming | 4.5 |
| Strapping Young Lad City | 5.0 |
| Strapping Young Lad The New Black | 4.0 |
| Strapping Young Lad Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing | 4.5 |
| Strapping Young Lad Alien | 5.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Contain Us | 4.5 |
| Devin Townsend Project By A Thread: Live in London 2011 | 4.5 |
| Devin Townsend Project Ki | 5.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Ghost | 5.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Addicted | 4.5 |
| Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction | 5.0 |
| Devin Townsend Terria | 5.0 |
| Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech | 5.0 |
| For some reason I forgot how much I love all the tracks on this release. |
| Devin Townsend Infinity | 5.0 |
| Mastodon The Hunter | 4.0 |
| This album has a few faults, but overall it is a solid record whose pop moments work well with the heavier rock moments. |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Remission | 4.0 |
| Justin Bieber Believe | 3.5 |
| Purity Ring Shrines | 2.5 |
| Animal Collective Sung Tongs | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Feels | 4.5 |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage | 3.0 |
| Meshuggah Koloss | 3.0 |
| Mastodon Lifesblood | 3.5 |
| The Devin Townsend Band Accelerated Evolution | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Ziltoid the Omniscient | 4.5 |
