| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism | 4.5 |
| Portugal. The Man In The Mountain In The Cloud | 4.0 |
| Fuck Buttons Slow Focus | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! | 4.5 |
| Glassjaw Material Control | 4.5 |
| Fleet Foxes Shore | 4.0 |
| Boris Noise | 3.5 |
| Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters | 4.5 |
| Modest Mouse Building Nothing Out of Something | 4.0 |
| The Cure Disintegration | 4.5 |
| Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Luciferian Towers | 3.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress' | 3.5 |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I | 4.0 |
| Swans Soundtracks for the Blind | 4.5 |
| Converge The Dusk in Us | 4.0 |
| Hundreds of AU Communications Link Re-established | 3.5 |
| Hundreds of AU Mission Priorities on Launch | 3.5 |
| Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest | 4.5 |
| Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase | 4.0 |
| Tycho Dive | 4.0 |
| Tycho Awake | 4.0 |
| Cursive Vitriola | 3.0 |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou [Untitled] | 4.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation | 2.5 |
| pg.99 Document #14: Singles | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse Interstate 8 | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse No One's First, and You're Next | 4.0 |
| Fever Ray Fever Ray | 4.0 |
| Pantha Du Prince This Bliss | 4.0 |
| Grizzly Bear Painted Ruins | 4.5 |
| Brand New Science Fiction | 4.5 |
| Converge I Can Tell You About Pain | 4.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra A Black Mile to the Surface | 5.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 4.5 |
| The Hotelier Goodness | 3.5 |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There | 4.5 |
| Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Beat the Champ | 3.5 |
| Lightning Bolt Fantasy Empire | 4.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell | 5.0 |
| Modest Mouse Strangers to Ourselves | 3.5 |
| Mac DeMarco Salad Days | 2.0 |
| Rx Bandits Gemini, Her Majesty | 2.5 |
| The spunk that Rx Bandits usually show is not present in "Gemini, Her Majesty." Perhaps they should have quit while they were on top, rather than forcing a mundane album that is best fit next to a 311 album in Hot Topic. |
| Joyce Manor Never Hungover Again | 4.5 |
| Joyce Manor Joyce Manor | 4.5 |
| Future Islands In Evening Air | 4.5 |
| Future Islands Singles | 4.5 |
| Arcade Fire Reflektor | 4.5 |
| Melt-Banana Fetch | 4.5 |
| Kayo Dot Hubardo | 4.5 |
| Portugal. The Man Evil Friends | 4.5 |
| Ampere Like Shadows | 4.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Contra | 3.5 |
| Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City | 4.5 |
| Kanye West Yeezus | 2.5 |
| Sigur Ros Kveikur | 4.5 |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 4.5 |
| Savages Silence Yourself | 3.0 |
| Baths Obsidian | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer | 4.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar Section.80 | 4.0 |
| Ghostface Killah Twelve Reasons to Die | 4.0 |
| James Blake Overgrown | 4.5 |
| Deerhunter Monomania | 3.5 |
| KEN mode Entrench | 3.5 |
| Murder by Death Good Morning, Magpie | 2.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city | 5.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine m b v | 4.0 |
| Mountains Centralia | 4.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow | 2.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension | 3.0 |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! | 4.5 |
| Lightning Bolt Oblivion Hunter | 3.5 |
| Swans The Seer | 4.5 |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Centipede Hz | 3.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Shields | 4.5 |
| Grizzly Bear have outdone themselves again with Shields, sticking to what they know best, yet rehashing their sound to not sound outdated. This may be the best indie rock album of 2012, and with that, they are proving to be one of the most consistent bands in the genre. |
| The Antlers Undersea | 2.5 |
| The Wrens The Meadowlands | 4.0 |
| The World/Inferno Friendship Society Just the Best Party | 4.0 |
| The World/Inferno Friendship Society The Anarchy and the Ecstasy | 2.5 |
| The Dismemberment Plan Emergency & I | 4.5 |
| Beach House Bloom | 4.0 |
| Cave In White Silence | 4.0 |
| Built to Spill Perfect from Now On | 4.5 |
| Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret | 4.5 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After | 4.0 |
| The Darcys The Darcys | 4.5 |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron | 3.5 |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet | 2.0 |
| Cannibal Ox The Cold Vein | 4.0 |
| Cursive I Am Gemini | 3.5 |
| The Weeknd House of Balloons | 4.5 |
| WU LYF Go Tell Fire to the Mountain | 4.5 |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming | 4.5 |
| Feist Metals | 3.5 |
| Tom Waits Bad As Me | 4.0 |
| The Seatbelts Cowboy Bebop Boxed Set | 4.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing | 4.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra Simple Math | 4.5 |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About | 4.5 |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West | 4.5 |
| Thrice Major/Minor | 4.0 |
| Circle Takes the Square Rites of Initiation | 4.5 |
| J Dilla Donuts | 4.5 |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me | 4.0 |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 4.5 |
| The Antlers Burst Apart | 4.0 |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise | 3.5 |
| Battles Gloss Drop | 3.0 |
| TV on the Radio Nine Types of Light | 4.5 |
| Thursday No Devolucion | 4.0 |
| Panda Bear Tomboy | 4.5 |
| The Dodos No Color | 4.5 |
| Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights | 4.0 |
| James Blake James Blake | 3.5 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 3.5 |
| Raekwon Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang | 4.5 |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross The Social Network OST | 4.0 |
| Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 | 4.0 |
| Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles) | 4.5 |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book | 4.5 |
| Bright Eyes The People's Key | 4.0 |
| Destroyer Kaputt | 4.0 |
| The Get Up Kids There Are Rules | 3.5 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 4.5 |
| Brother/Ghost Black Ice | 4.0 |
| Women Public Strain | 3.0 |
| Deadmau5 4x4=12 | 3.5 |
| No Age Everything In Between | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz | 4.5 |
| The National Alligator | 4.0 |
| The National High Violet | 3.0 |
| Touche Amore/La Dispute Searching for a Pulse/The Worth of the World | 4.0 |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs | 3.5 |
| Tera Melos Patagonian Rats | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens All Delighted People | 4.5 |
| Ben Frost By the Throat | 4.0 |
| 90 Day Men Panda Park | 4.0 |
| Parades Foreign Tapes | 4.0 |
| Lightning Bolt Ride The Skies | 3.5 |
| Lightning Bolt Earthly Delights | 4.0 |
| Lightning Bolt Hypermagic Mountain | 4.0 |
| The Antlers In the Attic of the Universe | 3.5 |
| Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot | 4.0 |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting We Must Become the Change We Want to See | 4.5 |
| letlive. Fake History | 4.0 |
| Miles Davis Bitches Brew | 4.5 |
| Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid | 4.5 |
| Local Natives Gorilla Manor | 4.5 |
| United Nations Never Mind the Bombings, Here's Your Six Figures | 4.0 |
| Ben Koller is a dirty, dirty man on drums and he alone makes "Never Mind the Bombings, Here's Your Six Figures" worth it. |
| Dark Time Sunshine Vessel | 4.0 |
| Maps and Atlases Perch Patchwork | 4.0 |
| William Basinski The Disintegration Loops I | 3.5 |
| William Basinski The Disintegration Loops II | 4.5 |
| Drake Thank Me Later | 2.5 |
| Defiance, Ohio Midwestern Minutes | 3.5 |
| M.I.A. Maya | 3.0 |
| Eminem Recovery | 3.0 |
| Far At Night We Live | 4.0 |
| Nas and Damian Marley Distant Relatives | 4.0 |
| LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening | 3.5 |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma | 4.5 |
| Daniel Bjarnason Processions | 4.0 |
| Kayo Dot Coyote | 4.0 |
| Broken Social Scene Forgiveness Rock Record | 4.0 |
| MGMT Congratulations | 2.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt | 4.0 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 4.0 |
| Daughters Daughters | 4.0 |
| M83 Before The Dawn Heals Us | 3.5 |
| Tom Waits Nighthawks At The Diner | 3.0 |
| Joanna Newsom Ys | 4.5 |
| Joanna Newsom Have One on Me | 4.5 |
| Liars Sisterworld | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis | 4.5 |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor | 4.0 |
| Fang Island Fang Island | 4.0 |
| The Avalanches Since I Left You | 4.0 |
| Fugazi The Argument | 4.0 |
| Sigh Scenes from Hell | 2.5 |
| Beach House Teen Dream | 4.5 |
| Surfer Blood Astro Coast | 4.0 |
| Four Tet There is Love in You | 3.5 |
| Dangers Messy, Isn't It? | 4.0 |
| Bat For Lashes Two Suns | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica | 4.5 |
| Animal Collective Fall Be Kind | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats All Hail West Texas | 4.5 |
| The Mountain Goats We Shall All Be Healed | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats The Sunset Tree | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Tallahassee | 4.5 |
| The Mountain Goats Get Lonely | 3.5 |
| The Mountain Goats Satanic Messiah | 3.5 |
| The Mountain Goats The Life of the World to Come | 3.5 |
| Do Make Say Think Other Truths | 4.0 |
| The Fall of Troy In the Unlikely Event | 2.0 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 4.5 |
| Fuck Buttons Tarot Sport | 4.0 |
| Girls Album | 3.5 |
| A Place to Bury Strangers Exploding Head | 4.5 |
| Baroness Blue Record | 3.0 |
Dear John Baizley,
Among your repetitive artwork, your band's ripping of Mastodon, and your beard, can you or your band do anything original?
Sincerely,
Concerned Listener |
| Bucket Full Of Teeth I, II, III | 4.0 |
| Bucket Full Of Teeth IV | 4.0 |
| Polvo In Prism | 3.5 |
| Brand New Fight Off Your Demons (The Demos) | 4.0 |
| Sunn O))) Monoliths and Dimensions | 3.5 |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II | 4.5 |
| Fink Sort Of Revolution | 2.5 |
| Young Widows Old Wounds | 3.5 |
| Brand New Daisy | 4.0 |
| The xx xx | 4.0 |
| HEALTH Get Color | 2.5 |
| Major Lazer Guns Dont Kill People... Lazers Do | 3.0 |
| fun. Aim and Ignite | 3.5 |
| jj jj n° 2 | 3.0 |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... | 3.0 |
| Thrice Beggars | 3.0 |
| The Dodos Time to Die | 3.5 |
| Suis La Lune Quiet, Pull the Strings! | 3.0 |
| Rx Bandits Mandala | 4.5 |
| Kiss Kiss The Meek Shall Inherit What's Left | 3.5 |
| Gavin Castleton Home | 2.5 |
| Tortoise Beacons of Ancestorship | 2.5 |
| Regina Spektor Far | 3.5 |
| Tortoise A Lazarus Taxon | 3.5 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | 4.0 |
| Passion Pit Manners | 4.0 |
| Kylesa Static Tensions | 3.5 |
| maudlin of the Well Part the Second | 4.0 |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue | 4.0 |
| From Monument To Masses On Little Known Frequencies | 2.0 |
| Dirty Projectors Rise Above | 3.0 |
| Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca | 4.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest | 4.5 |
| Propagandhi Supporting Caste | 4.0 |
| The Antlers Hospice | 5.0 |
| The Flashbulb Soundtrack to a Vacant Life | 2.5 |
| St. Vincent Actor | 4.0 |
| Japandroids Post-Nothing | 4.5 |
| If Post-Nothing doesn't melt your heart with its jubilant youthful charm, then I really don't know what to say. This two-piece garage/punk band out of Vancouver are bringing the energy of such acclaimed acts like At The Drive-In and Cap'n Jazz, but never over thinking their next hook; rather letting the album flow with a gracious, warm smile. Roll the windows down and raise the volume because Japandroids is here to stay this summer. |
| Pink Mountain Pink Mountain | 3.5 |
| mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright! | 3.0 |
| No Age Weirdo Rippers | 4.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon | 3.5 |
| Boredoms Super Ae | 4.5 |
| Micachu and the Shapes Jewellery | 3.5 |
| Zu Carboniferous | 4.0 |
| BLK JKS Mystery EP | 4.0 |
| BLK JKS have been lurking since 2000 in the depths of South Africa. Only now, with their major label released album, Mystery EP, have they been able to broadcast their enjoyably smooth, avant rock/afrobeat sound. "Lakeside" pulses listeners as the quartet create a giddy, hymnal trance of bliss. |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant | 4.0 |
| The Decemberists The Hazards of Love | 4.0 |
| Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains | 4.0 |
| With Cymbals Eat Guitars debut release Why There Are Mountains lies raw passion and unnoticed brilliance. Every word and riff appears delicately planned as their unrefined indie rock, with a post rock edge, entices listeners repeatedly. Upon the first listen unravels their spontaneous, yet cohesive foundation. Every listen after is simply a bonus, whether it be dancing to the charming hit Some Trees or feeling that rush of euphoria sliver down your spine during Wind Phoenix. These guys know how to shred, and hardly show any form of inexperience. Gritty and soulful, Why There Are Mountains shouts a million-and-one reasons why Cymbals Eat Guitars should be playing right now; give it a spin and you too will know the reasons. |
| Trophy Scars Bad Luck | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 4.0 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Worse Than Alone | 3.5 |
| Orchid Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow! | 4.0 |
| Orchid Chaos is Me | 4.0 |
| Gatsby's American Dream Ribbons and Sugar | 3.5 |
| Cursive Mama, I'm Swollen | 3.5 |
| Thursday Common Existence | 4.0 |
| Various Artists (Indie) Dark Was The Night | 4.5 |
| Dan Deacon Bromst | 4.0 |
| The Appleseed Cast Sagarmatha | 4.0 |
| Dalek Gutter Tactics | 2.5 |
| Taking Back Sunday Louder Now | 3.0 |
| Andrew Bird Noble Beast | 3.5 |
| Sam Cooke Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964 | 4.5 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 5.0 |
| Lights Out Asia Eyes Like Brontide | 3.0 |
| Times New Viking Rip It Off | 3.5 |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend | 3.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave | 4.0 |
| Today Is the Day Willpower | 4.5 |
| Bon Iver Blood Bank | 3.5 |
| Aussitot Mort 6 Songs | 3.5 |
| American Football American Football EP | 4.0 |
| DJ/rupture Uproot | 4.0 |
| Blackalicious Blazing Arrow | 4.5 |
| Daft Punk Human After All | 2.5 |
| Daft Punk Homework | 3.5 |
| Maps and Atlases Bird Barnyard | 2.5 |
| Ocrilim Annwn | 3.0 |
| Ocrilim's Annwn is one giant guitar riff, seriously. There are tones to accompany the guitars, but otherwise it's a shredfest. So if you like tremolo picking, noodling, and scales for an hour and twenty-ish minutes, have a blast. |
| Deerhunter Weird Era Cont. | 3.5 |
| Kanye West The College Dropout | 3.5 |
| Kanye West Graduation | 3.5 |
| The Fall of Troy Phantom on the Horizon | 3.5 |
| The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound | 3.5 |
| Department of Eagles In Ear Park | 3.5 |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak | 4.0 |
| Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill | 3.0 |
| Nachtmystium Assassins: Black Meddle Pt.1 | 2.0 |
| Harvey Milk Courtesy and Good Will Toward Men | 4.0 |
| Leonard Cohen Songs of Leonard Cohen | 4.5 |
| Transistor Transistor Ruined Lives | 3.5 |
| TV on the Radio Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes | 3.0 |
| Hella Hold Your Horse Is | 3.5 |
| Subtle ExitingARM | 3.5 |
| Gatsby's American Dream Gatsby's American Dream | 3.5 |
| Deerhunter Microcastle | 4.0 |
| Mesa Verde The Old Road | 3.5 |
| Fear Before Fear Before | 3.5 |
| Fucked Up The Chemistry of Common Life | 3.5 |
| Eric's Trip Love Tara | 4.0 |
| Weezer Pinkerton | 4.5 |
| Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe | 4.0 |
| TTNG Animals | 3.5 |
| Armchairpolitician Seven Segment Decoder | 4.0 |
| Pixies Trompe Le Monde | 3.0 |
| Have Heart Songs to Scream at the Sun | 3.5 |
| Boris Smile | 3.5 |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock | 3.5 |
| Flying Lotus Los Angeles | 4.0 |
| Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill | 3.0 |
| Mount Eerie Lost Wisdom | 3.5 |
| Mount Eerie Black Wooden Ceiling Opening | 4.0 |
| Mount Eerie No Flashlight | 4.0 |
| The Microphones Mount Eerie | 4.0 |
| Ceremony (USA-CA) Still Nothing Moves You | 3.5 |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 | 5.0 |
| Minus the Bear Acoustics | 3.5 |
| The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin | 3.0 |
| Thursday/Envy Thursday/Envy | 3.5 |
| Jonah Matranga And | 2.5 |
| Los Campesinos! Hold On Now, Youngster... | 3.5 |
| Jurassic 5 Quality Control | 4.0 |
| Portishead Third | 4.5 |
| Lil Wayne Tha Carter III | 3.5 |
| LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver | 3.5 |
| Cynic Traced in Air | 4.5 |
| TV on the Radio Dear Science | 4.5 |
| TV On The Radio followed up 'Return To Cookie Mountain' with an absolutely enticing, breathtaking, and brilliant album found in 'Dear Science.' Every weakness found in their previous works have been resolved. The output of 'Dear Science' is on another level and simply beyond comprehension. Tracks like "Halfway Home," "Family Tree," "DLZ," and "Golden Age" are only a few indie-rock masterpieces among the entire album. 'Dear Science' has the intangibles that is something to get excited about. Seriously, just get it already. |
| Shugo Tokumaru Exit | 4.0 |
| Shugo Tokumaru Night Piece | 4.0 |
| MGMT Oracular Spectacular | 2.5 |
| Tom Waits Alice | 3.0 |
| Past Lives Strange Symmetry | 4.0 |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting The Ocean and the Sun | 4.0 |
| United Nations United Nations | 4.5 |
| The hardcore/emo style of the early 90s went missing, so Geoff Rickly and company (possibly members of GlassJAw and Converge) decided to revive the sound they once cherished under the name United Nations. Containing the technicality and rawness that defined 90s emo, United Nations recaptures the sound with incredible vigor and liveliness. The album is riddled with on-and-off melodic/coarse vocals countered with dense power-chord riffs and the occasional finger tapping, most notably on No Sympathy For A Sinking Ship, Subliminal Testing, and Model UN. I would say that sound has been revivified. |
| These Arms Are Snakes Tail Swallower and Dove | 3.5 |
| Into Eternity The Incurable Tragedy | 1.5 |
| Jaguar Love Take Me to the Sea | 2.5 |
| Dr. Octagon Dr. Octagonecologyst | 4.0 |
| Metaform Standing on the Shoulders of Giants | 3.0 |
| Blue Sky Black Death Late Night Cinema | 3.5 |
| Steinski What Does It All Mean? | 4.5 |
| Harvey Milk Life... The Best Game in Town | 4.0 |
| Yeasayer All Hour Cymbals | 4.0 |
| Weezer The Red Album | 2.5 |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes | 4.0 |
| Verse Aggression | 4.0 |
| Loma Prieta Last City | 3.5 |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die | 4.5 |
| Ghostface Killah Ironman | 3.5 |
| Dr. Dog Fate | 4.0 |
| Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks Real Emotional Trash | 3.5 |
| Brendan Canning Something For All of Us... | 3.5 |
| HEALTH Health | 3.5 |
| Snowman The Horse, the Rat and the Swan | 3.5 |
| cLOUDDEAD cLOUDDEAD | 3.5 |
| pg.99 Document #7 | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Revolver | 4.0 |
| Ampere All Our Tomorrows End Today | 3.5 |
| Maps and Atlases You and Me and the Mountain | 4.0 |
| The Baltic Sea Through Scenic Heights and Days Regrets | 3.0 |
| Sunset Bright Blue Dream | 3.0 |
| Girl Talk Feed the Animals | 3.5 |
| Blacklisted Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God | 4.0 |
| No Age Nouns | 4.0 |
| Fuck Buttons Street Horrrsing | 4.0 |
| M.I.A. Kala | 4.0 |
| Nas Illmatic | 4.5 |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... | 4.5 |
| Ghostface Killah Fishscale | 3.5 |
| El Guincho Alegranza! | 3.5 |
| Off Minor Some Blood | 4.5 |
| RoxXn Digital Waves + Tonight | 2.5 |
| Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust | 4.5 |
| My Morning Jacket Evil Urges | 2.0 |
| Shangrala This Is How We Communicate | 3.5 |
| Shellac 1000 Hurts | 4.0 |
| Flobots Fight with Tools | 3.0 |
| Islands Arm's Way | 4.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs | 3.0 |
| Daitro/Sed Non Satiata Split | 4.5 |
| Flight of the Conchords Flight of the Conchords | 3.5 |
| Anti-Flag The Bright Lights of America | 2.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Heretic Pride | 3.5 |
| Murder by Death Red Of Tooth And Claw | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 2.0 |
| Tortoise TNT | 4.0 |
| Tortoise Millions Now Living Will Never Die | 4.5 |
| American Football American Football | 4.0 |
| Circle Takes the Square Circle Takes the Square | 3.5 |
| The Dodos Visiter | 4.5 |
| This year, The Dodos have caught on like a wildfire. Not often do I really say music has intangibles, but Vister is an exception to that rule. From "Walking" to "God," the ride twists and turns with eloquent vocals and a stripped down sound that is irresistible to deny. With the exception of "It's That Time Again," this album is incredible. The lyrics are beautiful and painful; going through a tumultuous love journey within a personal life experience. So many nooks and crannies to discover and explore with each listen between the little hints of electric guitar in "Fools" to the complete directional change in "Joe's Waltz," Vister is simply stunning. It's time to catch on. |
| Animal Collective Water Curses | 2.5 |
| Meshuggah obZen | 3.5 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! | 4.0 |
| Leftover Crack Mediocre Generica | 3.5 |
| Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward | 2.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IV | 3.0 |
| Defiance, Ohio The Great Depression | 3.5 |
| See You Next Tuesday Sampler '05 | 1.0 |
| Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline | 4.5 |
| Stars of the Lid produced a soundtrack of elegance. 'And Their Refinement Of The Decline' is a breathtaking, beautiful journey through ambient landscapes all packed within a double disc album. The overall atmosphere is nothing short of incredible. Whether it is the soft, brood cello tones in "Tippy's Demise" or the haunting piano strokes in "Humectez La Mouture," the mood is captured in a flash of brilliance. 'And Their Refinement Of The Decline' is intriguing, lush, captivating, and most importantly, unforgettable. |
| Sun Kil Moon April | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV | 4.0 |
| Lifetime Jersey's Best Dancers | 4.0 |
| So the Story Goes As We March With Victims | 1.0 |
| Mare Mare | 4.0 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 4.5 |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 (Re-release) | 5.0 |
| The National Boxer | 4.0 |
| Son Lux At War With Walls And Mazes | 3.0 |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album | 4.0 |
| Shining (SWE) V - Halmstad | 4.0 |
| Method Man Tical | 3.5 |
| St. Vincent Marry Me | 3.5 |
| Why? Alopecia | 3.0 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons | 2.5 |
| Atlas Sound Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See... | 2.5 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 4.0 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 4.0 |
| Pavement Wowee Zowee | 3.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles | 3.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire | 4.0 |
| Tom Waits Rain Dogs | 4.5 |
| Man Man Six Demon Bag | 3.0 |
| Dalek Abandoned Language | 4.0 |
| Kanye West Late Registration | 4.0 |
| Ghostface Killah The Big Doe Rehab | 3.5 |
| Burton Wagner 21 | 2.5 |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness | 3.0 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Horses in the Sky | 3.5 |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath | 4.0 |
| Kiss Kiss Reality Vs. The Optimist | 4.0 |
| Kid Kilowatt Guitar Method 1996-1999 | 4.0 |
| Iron And Wine Woman King | 3.0 |
| Iron And Wine The Shepherd's Dog | 4.0 |
| Grizzly Bear Friend | 3.0 |
| Green Day Dookie | 4.0 |
| From A Second Story Window Not One Word Has Been Omitted | 2.0 |
| Far Water & Solutions | 4.0 |
| Eluvium Copia | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works | 3.0 |
| The Decemberists 5 Songs | 3.0 |
| Cease Upon the Capitol Untitled | 3.5 |
| Bright Eyes Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground | 3.5 |
| Bright Eyes Four Winds | 3.0 |
| Botch Unifying Themes Redux | 2.5 |
| Boris Amplifier Worship | 3.5 |
| Boris Heavy Rocks | 3.0 |
| Boris With Michio Kurihara Rainbow | 4.0 |
| The Blood Brothers Love Rhymes with Hideous Car Wreck EP | 3.0 |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State | 3.5 |
| blink-182 Dude Ranch | 4.0 |
| Blacklisted Peace On Earth, War On Stage | 3.5 |
| Autechre Confield | 3.5 |
| The Appleseed Cast Low Level Owl, Vol. 2 | 3.0 |
| The Appleseed Cast Two Conversations | 3.5 |
| Aphex Twin Windowlicker | 3.5 |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II | 3.5 |
| Aphex Twin Drukqs | 3.5 |
| Andrew Bird Weather Systems | 2.5 |
| Converge Caring and Killing | 2.5 |
| Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain | 4.0 |
| Pavement Brighten the Corners | 3.0 |
| Pavement Slanted and Enchanted: Luxe and Reduxe | 3.5 |
| Gogol Bordello Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 4.5 |
| Wu-Tang Clan 8 Diagrams | 4.0 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 4.5 |
| Ghastly City Sleep Ghastly City Sleep | 4.0 |
| Choking Victim No Gods, No Managers | 4.5 |
| Rites of Spring End on End | 4.0 |
| Saetia A Retrospective | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Songs For Christmas | 4.0 |
| Okkervil River The Stage Names | 3.5 |
| Burial Untrue | 4.0 |
| The Weakerthans Reunion Tour | 4.0 |
| Ghost (JPN) In Stormy Nights | 3.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Garden State | 4.0 |
| Venetian Snares Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett | 4.5 |
| Daft Punk Discovery | 4.5 |
| Ampere/Daitro Split | 4.5 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between | 4.0 |
| Justice † | 4.0 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 5.0 |
| Fugazi Repeater | 4.0 |
| Menomena Friend And Foe | 4.0 |
| By The End Of Tonight/Tera Melos Complex Full of Phantoms | 3.5 |
| Texas Is the Reason Do You Know Who You Are? | 3.5 |
| Dan Deacon Spiderman of the Rings | 4.0 |
| Regina Spektor Begin To Hope | 4.5 |
| Say Anything In Defense of the Genre | 4.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow | 2.5 |
The fourth of five installments of Coheed and Cambria's enormous concept series has finally arrived with what seems more fitting for a book club than something included in a musical discussion. The reason is simple; Coheed and Cambria's once brilliant song writing, musically, has completely lost steam and regained a majority of the attention towards the storyline. "Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV - Volume 2: No World For Tomorrow" features songs that are reminiscent of eighties progressive metal, more or less, and ripped solos reminiscent of something from Eddie Van Halen's playbook. They abandon the simplistic elegance they once had with songs, and overwork them into a wrought collection of songs.
In addition, Coheed and Cambria try to recreate the progressive greatness that was 'The Willing Well I, II, III, IV,' four epic songs, with semi-epic songs in 'The End Chapter I, II, III, IV, V.' Beyond that, the inconsistencies are scattered between catchy and complex songs like 'No World For Tomorrow' and 'The End Chapter- III- The End Complete,' but is overshadowed by bland tracks that are flat-out bad like 'Feathers' and 'Mother Superior.' Hopefully, the final installment with this saga will reconnect with what once made Coheed and Cambria unique and not something recycled. |
| In Pieces Lions Write History | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 4.0 |
| Ed Gein Judas Goats & Dieseleaters | 2.5 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 4.0 |
| Beirut The Flying Club Cup | 3.5 |
| Kidcrash Jokes | 4.0 |
| Modern Life Is War Witness | 4.0 |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World | 4.0 |
| The Bled Silent Treatment | 4.0 |
| Genghis Tron Dead Mountain Mouth | 3.5 |
| As Blood Runs Black Allegiance | 1.0 |
| Cloud Archive Left The Bright Opening... | 3.0 |
| Moving Mountains Pneuma | 4.0 |
| Vic Chesnutt North Star Deserter | 4.0 |
| Slint Spiderland | 4.5 |
| Kidcrash New Ruins | 3.0 |
| Regina Spektor Soviet Kitsch | 3.5 |
| Tomahawk Anonymous | 3.0 |
| Animal Collective Strawberry Jam | 4.0 |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree | 3.0 |
| Tera Melos Drugs to the Dear Youth | 3.5 |
| Battles B EP | 4.0 |
| Don Caballero World Class Listening Problem | 3.5 |
| Don Caballero American Don | 4.0 |
| Deerhunter Cryptograms | 4.5 |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice | 4.0 |
| Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables | 4.0 |
| Cap'n Jazz Analphabetapolothology | 4.5 |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 3.0 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 4.0 |
| Daitro Laisser Vivre Les Squelettes | 4.0 |
| Steve Miller Band Fly Like an Eagle | 4.0 |
| New End Original Thriller | 3.5 |
| Refused Songs To Fan The Flames Of Discontent | 3.5 |
| The Flashbulb Kirlian Selections | 4.0 |
| Venetian Snares Doll Doll Doll | 4.0 |
| The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza | 3.0 |
| Finch What It Is to Burn | 3.0 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 2.5 |
| The Locust The Locust | 3.5 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Mongrel | 4.0 |
| Final Fantasy He Poos Clouds | 4.0 |
| Beirut Lon Gisland | 4.0 |
In a medley of instruments, Beirut's 'Lon Gisland' creates a fantasy-type atmosphere. The EP follows "Gulag
Orkestar" with a more exuberant and lively collection of songs. With beautiful melodies and trumpet-lines,
it leaves your ears dancing. "Scenic World" is redone and it blows away the original with a much bolder
sound. "Lon Gisland" ends with the fantastic 'Carousels' which is sure to leave you spinning in a cheerful
mood. A truly fantastic record.
|
| Onelinedrawing Sketchy EP #1 | 4.0 |
| Unearth The Stings of Conscience | 3.0 |
| Daughters Hell Songs | 4.0 |
| Grizzly Bear Yellow House | 4.5 |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture | 2.5 |
| Do Make Say Think Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn | 4.5 |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting Lover, the Lord Has Left Us... | 2.5 |
| Botch We Are the Romans | 4.5 |
| The Locust New Erections | 4.0 |
| pg.99 Document #8 | 4.5 |
| Old Man Gloom Meditations in B | 3.5 |
| Head Wound City Head Wound City | 4.0 |
| Folly Resist Convenience | 3.5 |
| The Mars Volta Tremulant | 4.0 |
| Murder by Death Like the Exorcist, but More Breakdancing | 4.5 |
| Finch Say Hello to Sunshine | 4.0 |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come | 5.0 |
| Murder by Death In Bocca Al Lupo | 4.0 |
| Onelinedrawing Visitor | 4.0 |
| Folly Insanity Later | 4.0 |
| The Locust Safety Second, Body Last | 4.0 |
| A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe | 1.0 |
| The Aquabats Charge!! | 1.0 |
| Weezer Make Believe | 1.0 |
| Catch 22 Permanent Revolution | 1.0 |
| Less Than Jake Anthem | 1.5 |
| Taproot Welcome | 1.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine Renegades | 1.5 |
| Catch 22 Dinosaur Sounds | 1.5 |
| Chiodos All's Well That Ends Well | 1.5 |
| Soulfly Prophecy | 1.5 |
| The Chariot Unsung | 1.5 |
| Drowning Pool Sinner | 1.5 |
| Less Than Jake In with the Out Crowd | 1.5 |
| From Autumn to Ashes The Fiction We Live | 2.0 |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge | 2.0 |
| Nonpoint Statement | 2.0 |
| The Aquabats The Return of the Aquabats | 2.0 |
| Coldplay X&Y | 2.0 |
| Norma Jean Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child | 2.0 |
| P.O.D. Fundamental Elements of Southtown | 2.0 |
| The Mars Volta Scab Dates | 2.0 |
| P.O.D. Satellite | 2.0 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel Everything Is | 2.0 |
| Head Automatica Popaganda | 2.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Anatomy Of | 2.0 |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead So Divided | 2.0 |
| Cursive The Difference Between Houses and Homes | 2.0 |
| Audioslave Audioslave | 2.5 |
| Unearth The Oncoming Storm | 2.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Freaky Styley | 2.5 |
| My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love | 2.5 |
| Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn | 2.5 |
| The Academy Is... Almost Here | 2.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze | 2.5 |
| Norma Jean O' God, the Aftermath | 2.5 |
| Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon | 2.5 |
| From Autumn to Ashes Abandon Your Friends | 2.5 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 2.5 |
| Soulfly Primitive | 2.5 |
| The (International) Noise Conspiracy Survival Sickness | 2.5 |
| The Locust Flight of the Wounded Locust | 2.5 |
| The Streets The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living | 2.5 |
| Some Girls Heaven's Pregnant Teens | 2.5 |
| HORSE the band Pizza | 2.5 |
| The Blood Brothers Young Machetes | 2.5 |
| The Fall of Troy Manipulator | 2.5 |
| The Fall of Troy provide a lackluster effort with their latest release "Manipulator." The unenthusiastic start to the album, (first six songs) are essentially the downfall. In contrast, the last six songs are filled with energy and creative songwriting. In fact, it may be some of their best work, but the production quality fails as a whole to showcase these talents. The last key problem is their sound is nothing new in comparison to their previous releases. While they do try to incorporate new sounds, it is all fairly similar. If you can manage to get through the first six songs, you may enjoy this release as a whole. Otherwise, it is a snoozefest that struggles to regain composure after it's painful start. |
| Circa Survive On Letting Go | 2.5 |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step | 3.0 |
| Poison the Well You Come Before You | 3.0 |
| Tool Opiate | 3.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) A Crow Left of the Murder... | 3.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication | 3.0 |
| The Streets Original Pirate Material | 3.0 |
| Daughters Canada Songs | 3.0 |
| Thursday Five Stories Falling | 3.0 |
| Poison the Well Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder | 3.0 |
| The Fall of Troy The Fall of Troy | 3.0 |
| Leftover Crack Fuсk World Trade | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater Awake | 3.0 |
| ISIS The Red Sea | 3.0 |
| Head Automatica Decadence | 3.0 |
| Korn Life Is Peachy | 3.0 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 3.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth | 3.0 |
| dredg El Cielo | 3.0 |
| Pennywise Land Of The Free? | 3.0 |
| ISIS Celestial | 3.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 3.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Rescue | 3.0 |
| Iron And Wine Our Endless Numbered Days | 3.0 |
| Sunny Day Real Estate The Rising Tide | 3.0 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Put On Your Rosy Red Glasses | 3.0 |
| Thom Yorke The Eraser | 3.0 |
| Saosin Saosin | 3.0 |
| Converge Unloved and Weeded Out | 3.0 |
| Some Girls All My Friends Are Going Death | 3.0 |
| Panda Bear Young Prayer | 3.0 |
| Hot Cross Risk Revival | 3.0 |
| Animal Collective People | 3.0 |
| Neurosis Given to the Rising | 3.0 |
| Tegan and Sara The Con | 3.0 |
| From Autumn to Ashes Too Bad You're Beautiful | 3.5 |
| Rx Bandits Progress | 3.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View | 3.5 |
| Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends | 3.5 |
| maudlin of the Well Bath | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine | 3.5 |
| The album cover sort of describes "Miss Machine." The reason is that the songs are all there, but the order is horrendous for the most part. To switch from Setting Fire To Sleeping Giants to Baby's First Coffin to Unretrofied to The Perfect Design is beyond me. While their are great songs on this album, no song really would be considered their best that they have released by any means. If there were a "starter Dillinger CD," this would be ideal due to the accessibility factor. A decent release from the Dillinger Escape Plan. |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Under the Running Board | 3.5 |
| Psyopus Ideas of Reference | 3.5 |
| The Blood Brothers Crimes | 3.5 |
| Animal Collective Sung Tongs | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik | 3.5 |
| HORSE the band R. Borlax | 3.5 |
| Poison the Well Tear From the Red | 3.5 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 3.5 |
| Opeth Deliverance | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria Live at the Starland Ballroom | 3.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. | 3.5 |
| Behold... The Arctopus Nano-Nucleonic Cyborg Summoning EP | 3.5 |
| Pelican March Into the Sea | 3.5 |
| The Decemberists Picaresque | 3.5 |
| At the Drive-In This Station Is Non-Operational | 3.5 |
| Do Make Say Think & Yet & Yet | 3.5 |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger | 3.5 |
| The Bled Found in the Flood | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 3.5 |
| Aphex Twin Come to Daddy | 3.5 |
| The Postal Service Give Up | 3.5 |
| Converge When Forever Comes Crashing | 3.5 |
| HORSE the band The Mechanical Hand | 3.5 |
| Cat Power You Are Free | 3.5 |
| Primus Animals Should Not Try To Act Like People | 3.5 |
| Mogwai Ten Rapid (Collected Recordings 1996-1997) | 3.5 |
| The Decemberists Castaways and Cutouts | 3.5 |
| Cat Power The Greatest | 3.5 |
| Genghis Tron Cloak of Love | 3.5 |
| Mogwai Mr. Beast | 3.5 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You An Inch of Gold for An Inch of Time | 3.5 |
| Oceansize Effloresce | 3.5 |
| Thursday A City By the Light Divided | 3.5 |
| Pig Destroyer Terrifyer | 3.5 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium | 3.5 |
| Chamillionaire The Sound of Revenge | 3.5 |
| Envy Insomniac Doze | 3.5 |
| Animal Collective Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens The Avalanche: Outtakes and Extras | 3.5 |
| Venetian Snares Cavalcade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Pom Poms | 3.5 |
| Glassjaw El Mark | 3.5 |
| Cursive Happy Hollow | 3.5 |
| Tokyo Police Club A Lesson in Crime | 3.5 |
| Botch American Nervoso | 3.5 |
| ISIS In the Absence of Truth | 3.5 |
| This Will Destroy You Young Mountain | 3.5 |
| Red Sparowes Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red... | 3.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone | 3.5 |
| They say everything is bigger in Texas. Well if you are talking about the sound resonating from Texas natives, Explosions in the Sky, then you are right. Their new album entitled, All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone, takes listeners from tranquility to glistening roars throughout with perfectly placed crescendos and decrescendos. They build off their previous release, The Rescue, that took an astonishing eight days to write and record. Like The Rescue, they incorporate a piano and an auxiliary of different instruments for added layers of effect. Be certain to check out the stunningly beautiful single, Welcome, Ghosts, to get an inside glimpse of the contents within. |
| Glassjaw Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | 3.5 |
| pg.99 Document #5 | 3.5 |
| Regina Spektor 11:11 | 3.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Horn of Plenty | 3.5 |
| Bright Eyes Cassadaga | 3.5 |
| The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds | 3.5 |
| Battles EP C | 3.5 |
| Fucked Up Hidden World | 3.5 |
| Rock Plaza Central Are We Not Horses | 3.5 |
| Deftones Adrenaline | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 | 4.0 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 4.0 |
| Poison the Well The Opposite of December | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 4.0 |
| Tool Undertow | 4.0 |
| ISIS Oceanic | 4.0 |
| Pixies Doolittle | 4.0 |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King | 4.0 |
| Deftones Around the Fur | 4.0 |
| Korn Korn | 4.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E. | 4.0 |
| Bob Dylan The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan | 4.0 |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa | 4.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Fungus Amongus | 4.0 |
| Trophy Scars Hospital Music for the Aesthetics of Language | 4.0 |
| The Bled Pass the Flask | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah I | 4.0 |
| The Locust Plague Soundscapes | 4.0 |
| Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde | 4.0 |
| Mudvayne L.D. 50 | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die... | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky How Strange, Innocence | 4.0 |
| Fear Before Art Damage | 4.0 |
| Ed Gein It's A Shame That A Family Can Be Torn Apart By... | 4.0 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun | 4.0 |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 4.0 |
| Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese | 4.0 |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning | 4.0 |
| Mogwai Happy Songs for Happy People | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 4.0 |
| Onelinedrawing The Volunteers | 4.0 |
| Mogwai Young Team | 4.0 |
| Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates | 4.0 |
| Fugazi 13 Songs | 4.0 |
| The Weakerthans Reconstruction Site | 4.0 |
| City of Caterpillar City of Caterpillar | 4.0 |
| Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution A Call To Arms | 4.0 |
| Botch An Anthology of Dead Ends | 4.0 |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting Tiger and the Duke | 4.0 |
| Jaga Jazzist What We Must | 4.0 |
| Minus the Bear Menos El Oso | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Takk... | 4.0 |
| Circa Survive Juturna | 4.0 |
| Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People | 4.0 |
| Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary | 4.0 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Nuclear. Sad. Nuclear. | 4.0 |
| The Decemberists Her Majesty the Decemberists | 4.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Ghostship Demos | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Michigan | 4.0 |
| Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue | 4.0 |
| These Arms Are Snakes Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home | 4.0 |
| Cursive Burst and Bloom | 4.0 |
| Boris Pink | 4.0 |
| Belle and Sebastian The Life Pursuit | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans | 4.0 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra This Is Our Punk-Rock, Thee Rusted Satellites Gather and Sing | 4.0 |
| At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out | 4.0 |
| Tera Melos Untitled | 4.0 |
| Rx Bandits The Resignation | 4.0 |
| Feist Let It Die | 4.0 |
| Do Make Say Think Goodbye Enemy Airship the Landlord is Dead | 4.0 |
| The Weakerthans Left and Leaving | 4.0 |
| Refused Refused Are Fucking Dead | 4.0 |
| Bob Dylan No Direction Home: The Soundtrack | 4.0 |
| Unearth III: In the Eyes of Fire | 4.0 |
| Bright Eyes Fevers & Mirrors | 4.0 |
| Converge No Heroes | 4.0 |
| The best way to describe this album: Misrepresented. There are certain genres that people should know they will not like, and Metalcore is one of them. With Converge's lastest release "No Heroes" people have gone based off of popularity on whether to pick it up or not. Simply because it was voted the top album by 15ish people does not mean they represent the entire world for what the top album of 2006 is. This album has plenty to offer and is a gem in the Converge collection with breaktaking riffs and menacing drumming. From the sludge-metal "Plagues" to the 58 second "Vengeance" Converge provides a relentless experience. It's a shame that it got in the wrong hands of the wrong people. We have been learning thoughout our lifetimes to adapt to certain things and Converge may be one of them. |
| Beirut Gulag Orkestar | 4.0 |
| TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain | 4.0 |
| Fear Before The Always Open Mouth | 4.0 |
| Clint Mansell and Kronos Quartet Requiem for a Dream | 4.0 |
| The Decemberists The Crane Wife | 4.0 |
| Girl Talk Night Ripper | 4.0 |
| These Arms Are Snakes Easter | 4.0 |
| Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha | 4.0 |
| Maps and Atlases Tree, Swallows, Houses | 4.0 |
| Feist The Reminder | 4.0 |
| Pig Destroyer Phantom Limb | 4.0 |
| Deftones White Pony | 4.5 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb | 4.5 |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 4.5 |
| Tool Lateralus | 4.5 |
| Catch 22 Keasbey Nights | 4.5 |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Diary | 4.5 |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 4.5 |
| Thursday War All the Time | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 4.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 4.5 |
| Thursday Full Collapse | 4.5 |
| Weezer Weezer | 4.5 |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye | 4.5 |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute | 4.5 |
| The Blood Brothers ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn | 4.5 |
| Cursive Domestica | 4.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 4.5 |
| Converge You Fail Me | 4.5 |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation | 4.5 |
| Sunny Day Real Estate How It Feels To Be Something On | 4.5 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 4.5 |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 4.5 |
| Sigur Ros ( ) | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 4.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene | 4.5 |
| Cursive The Ugly Organ | 4.5 |
| Mr. Bungle California | 4.5 |
| Belle and Sebastian If You're Feeling Sinister | 4.5 |
| Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy | 4.5 |
| I had lost faith, faith in the genre that was once called pop punk. It slowly transcended downward in the past couple of years but then their was a light, a light known as Say Anything. Their album "...Is A Real Boy" is what this genre should be about. Elegant songwriting and more fun than you could ever imagine. Highlights include the gem making fun of music scenes known as "Admit It!!!" along with "Alive With The Glory of Love" and "Spider Song." My faith is rekindled with this album, and I couldn't be happier. |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois | 4.5 |
| Murder by Death Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them? | 4.5 |
| At the Drive-In Acrobatic Tenement | 4.5 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 4.5 |
| Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene | 4.5 |
| Animal Collective Feels | 4.5 |
| Envy A Dead Sinking Story | 4.5 |
| Andrew Bird The Mysterious Production Of Eggs | 4.5 |
| GZA Liquid Swords | 4.5 |
| Rx Bandits ...And the Battle Begun | 4.5 |
| Say Anything ...Is A Real Boy (re-release) | 4.5 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 4.5 |
| Do Make Say Think You, You're a History in Rust | 4.5 |
| Panda Bear Person Pitch | 4.5 |
| Battles Mirrored | 4.5 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 5.0 |
| Tool Ænima | 5.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity | 5.0 |
| This album shattered the limits of technicality, erased anyone's thought of a standard time signature, and broke a few metronomes. Calculating Infinity was the first significant release in the genre it is presented in. The lyrics are meaningful, the musicianship is ridiculous and blended together, it creates an utter masterpiece. This album will not be for everyone, but everyone should at least appreciate the edge at which they took music to. "What pawns we have become in this bland little play" no more, for it is no longer bland thanks to Dillinger's groundbreaking release Calculating Infinity. |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 5.0 |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence | 5.0 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 5.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada | 5.0 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 5.0 |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... | 5.0 |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 5.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade | 5.0 |
