Clown Core van | 3.5 |
Olivia Rodrigo Guts | 4.0 |
The Beths Expert in a Dying Field | 4.5 |
City of Caterpillar Mystic Sisters | 4.0 |
Petrol Girls Baby | 4.0 |
Muse Will of the People | 2.0 |
Chat Pile God's Country | 4.5 |
Jaubi Nafs at Peace | 4.0 |
Elzhi and Georgia Anne Muldrow Zhigeist | 4.0 |
So Hideous None But a Pure Heart Can Sing | 3.5 |
FKA Twigs Caprisongs | 4.0 |
Weatherday Come In | 4.5 |
Frail Body A Brief Memoriam | 3.5 |
Olivia Rodrigo Sour | 3.5 |
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Butterfly 3000 | 3.5 |
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard L. W. | 4.0 |
Shame (UK) Songs of Praise | 4.0 |
sleepmakeswaves these are not your dreams | 3.5 |
Cherry Glazerr Stuffed and Ready | 4.0 |
Imperial Triumphant Alphaville | 4.0 |
Dizzee Rascal E3 AF | 4.0 |
Deafheaven Black Brick | 4.5 |
Sylvan Esso Free Love | 3.5 |
Kelly Lee Owens Kelly Lee Owens | 3.5 |
Kelly Lee Owens Inner Song | 4.0 |
Land Of Talk Indistinct Conversations | 3.0 |
Drei Affen Seguimos Ciegxs | 4.0 |
NO MAN ERASE | 4.0 |
Jessie Ware What's Your Pleasure? | 3.5 |
Hayley Williams Petals for Armor | 2.5 |
Mgla Exercises in Futility | 4.0 |
Grimes Miss Anthropocene | 3.5 |
Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats Unlocked | 4.5 |
Hannah Diamond Reflections | 2.0 |
Spanish Love Songs Brave Faces Everyone | 3.0 |
the medioczingers |
The Menzingers Hello Exile | 3.0 |
Caspian On Circles | 3.5 |
Hayley Mary The Piss, The Perfume | 3.0 |
FKA Twigs Magdalene | 4.0 |
Caroline Polachek Pang | 3.0 |
Chelsea Wolfe Birth of Violence | 3.0 |
Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell! | 3.5 |
Tool Fear Inoculum | 3.0 |
Marissa Nadler and Stephen Brodsky Droneflower | 2.5 |
Of Monsters and Men Fever Dream | 3.5 |
Frightened Rabbit Tiny Changes | 3.5 |
Petrol Girls Cut and Stitch | 4.0 |
Denzel Curry Zuu | 4.5 |
Denzel Curry TA13OO | 4.0 |
The National I Am Easy to Find | 3.0 |
Local Natives Violet Street | 3.5 |
Jenny Lewis On The Line | 3.5 |
PUP Morbid Stuff | 3.5 |
Mid-Air Thief Crumbling | 3.5 |
Stella Donnelly Beware of the Dogs | 4.0 |
Julia Jacklin Crushing | 3.5 |
The Menzingers After the Party | 4.5 |
The Menzingers On the Impossible Past | 4.0 |
Two People First Body | 4.5 |
Haru Nemuri Haru to Shura | 4.5 |
Bring Me the Horizon Amo | 2.0 |
James Blake Assume Form | 3.5 |
In which JB finally goes all-in on his hip-hop Janis Joplin vibe. |
Sharon Van Etten Remind Me Tomorrow | 3.5 |
Ghostface Killah The Lost Tapes | 4.0 |
mewithoutYou [Untitled] | 4.0 |
Eminem Kamikaze | 3.5 |
IDLES Joy as an Act of Resistance | 4.5 |
Every Time I Die Low Teens | 4.0 |
Milo Who Told You To Think??!!?!?!?! | 4.0 |
Let's Eat Grandma I'm All Ears | 4.5 |
The Presets Hi Viz | 4.0 |
I will never stop raving to Until the Dark. Ever. |
Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It | 4.0 |
Kimbra Primal Heart | 4.5 |
Tiny Moving Parts Swell | 4.0 |
Glassjaw Material Control | 4.0 |
Charlotte Gainsbourg Rest | 3.5 |
Julien Baker Turn Out The Lights | 4.0 |
Jay Som Everybody Works | 3.5 |
Tale Of Us Endless | 3.5 |
The National Sleep Well Beast | 3.5 |
Arcade Fire Everything Now | 3.0 |
New LCD Soundsystem, oh boy. |
Broken Social Scene Hug of Thunder | 3.5 |
HEALTH Death Magic | 4.0 |
Tzusing 東方不敗 | 3.5 |
The Chinese Stars Heaven On Speed Dial | 2.0 |
Poor man's Blood Brothers |
Local Natives Hummingbird | 4.0 |
Local Natives Gorilla Manor | 4.0 |
Vince Staples Big Fish Theory | 4.0 |
Lorde Melodrama | 3.5 |
Arcade Fire Her | 4.0 |
Arcade Fire Reflektor | 3.0 |
Shabazz Palaces Lese Majesty | 3.5 |
IDLES Brutalism | 3.5 |
Sylvan Esso What Now | 3.5 |
Do Make Say Think Stubborn Persistent Illusions | 4.5 |
still shitting on everyone else 8 years later |
Joey Badass ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$ | 3.5 |
Kendrick Lamar DAMN. | 4.0 |
Dodie Intertwined | 4.0 |
The Shins Heartworms | 3.5 |
A Shins album in twentyseventeen |
Dirty Projectors Dirty Projectors | 4.0 |
Sampha Process | 4.5 |
Runaway Brother Mother | 4.0 |
Modern Baseball The Perfect Cast | 4.0 |
Modern Baseball Holy Ghost | 3.5 |
Marissa Nadler Strangers | 4.0 |
Moderat III | 3.5 |
Hands Like Houses Dissonants | 3.5 |
Sylvan Esso Sylvan Esso | 4.0 |
Kanye West The Life of Pablo | 4.0 |
Julien Baker Sprained Ankle | 4.5 |
Chairlift Moth | 3.5 |
David Bowie Blackstar | 4.0 |
Marnero Il sopravvissuto | 4.0 |
i hate sex Circle Thinking | 4.0 |
Grimes Art Angels | 4.0 |
Meg Myers Sorry | 3.5 |
John-Allison Weiss New Love | 3.0 |
St Germain Tourist | 4.0 |
Loma Prieta Self Portrait | 4.0 |
Laurel Halo Chance of Rain | 3.5 |
Laurel Halo In Situ | 3.5 |
CHVRCHES Every Open Eye | 3.5 |
Beach House Depression Cherry | 3.0 |
Beach House Bloom | 3.5 |
Royal Headache High | 4.0 |
Frank Turner Positive Songs for Negative People | 3.5 |
M.I.A. Matangi | 4.5 |
Mahria Mahria | 3.5 |
Belle Epoque A La Derive | 3.5 |
Film School alwaysnever | 4.0 |
Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld Never Were The Way She Was | 4.0 |
Zella Day Kicker | 3.5 |
Algiers Algiers | 4.0 |
mewithoutYou Pale Horses | 4.0 |
Holly Herndon Platform | 4.0 |
Florence and the Machine How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful | 3.5 |
Sharon Van Etten Are We There | 4.0 |
Jenny Hval Apocalypse, girl | 4.0 |
Jenny Hval Innocence Is Kinky | 4.0 |
Joanna Gruesome Weird Sister | 3.5 |
Joanna Gruesome Peanut Butter | 3.5 |
Mew +- | 3.5 |
The Tallest Man on Earth Dark Bird Is Home | 4.0 |
Marriages Salome | 3.5 |
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly | 4.5 |
Modest Mouse Strangers to Ourselves | 3.5 |
The Menzingers Rented World | 3.5 |
Makthaverskan II | 4.0 |
Purity Ring Another Eternity | 3.5 |
Saintseneca Dark Arc | 3.0 |
Secret Pyramid Movements of Night | 3.5 |
Bjork Vulnicura | 4.5 |
Oh my. |
Future of the Left Travels With Myself And Another | 3.5 |
Art Blakey Moanin' | 4.5 |
Joey Badass B4.DA.$$ | 4.0 |
clipping. CLPPNG | 3.5 |
All Pigs Must Die Nothing Violates This Nature | 4.0 |
Vales Clarity | 3.5 |
Vales Wilt And Rise | 4.0 |
Logos Cold Mission | 3.5 |
Kanye West Yeezus | 4.5 |
Azealia Banks Broke With Expensive Taste | 3.5 |
Two Door Cinema Club Tourist History | 4.5 |
Black Milk If There's A Hell Below | 3.5 |
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 | 3.5 |
Zella Day Zella Day | 4.0 |
The Flaming Lips With A Little Help From My Fwends | 3.5 |
Yes but my god is it fun! |
Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After | 3.5 |
Jessie Ware Tough Love | 3.5 |
Misser Every Day I Tell Myself... | 4.0 |
Grouper Ruins | 4.0 |
Andy Stott Faith in Strangers | 3.5 |
Jenny Hval and Susanna Meshes Of Voice | 4.5 |
Banks Goddess | 3.5 |
As We Draw Mirages | 4.0 |
Interpol El Pintor | 4.0 |
Prawn Kingfisher | 3.5 |
Saint Pepsi Hit Vibes | 4.0 |
Caribou Our Love | 4.0 |
Darkest Hour Deliver Us | 4.0 |
Coma Regalia En Sperata | 4.0 |
Secret Band Secret Band | 4.0 |
Animal Faces Anomie | 4.0 |
Discordance Axis The Inalienable Dreamless | 4.0 |
Joyce Manor Never Hungover Again | 3.5 |
Joyce Manor Joyce Manor | 3.5 |
Angel Olsen Burn Your Fire for No Witness | 4.5 |
Towers Bel Air Highrise Plantation | 4.5 |
United Nations The Next Four Years | 3.5 |
Braid Frame & Canvas | 4.0 |
Braid No Coast | 4.0 |
Braid return to remind everyone how to emotionally fucking rock. |
Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown | 3.5 |
How to Dress Well What Is This Heart? | 3.5 |
White Lung Deep Fantasy | 4.0 |
White Lung; Best Lung. |
First Aid Kit Stay Gold | 4.0 |
Cult Leader Nothing for Us Here | 3.5 |
Closure in Moscow Pink Lemonade | 3.0 |
Wild Beasts Present Tense | 3.5 |
Labyrinth Ear The Orchid Room | 3.5 |
Pharoahe Monch W.A.R. | 3.5 |
Pharoahe Monch PTSD: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder | 4.0 |
We've got our Monch back! Lyrically dazzling and musically compelling, as he should be; as it is. |
Trophy Scars Holy Vacants | 3.5 |
Ramona Lisa Arcadia | 3.0 |
Arrows Modern Art & Politics | 3.5 |
Fireworks Oh, Common Life | 3.0 |
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Days of Abandon | 3.5 |
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Belong | 4.0 |
Dangers 5 O'Clock Shadows At The Edge Of The Western World | 4.0 |
Lydia Devil | 3.5 |
The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There | 4.0 |
Liars WIXIW | 4.0 |
Liars Mess | 4.0 |
Cloud Nothings Here and Nowhere Else | 3.5 |
The Jezabels The Brink | 3.5 |
Wild Beasts Two Dancers | 4.0 |
The Front Bottoms The Front Bottoms | 3.5 |
The Front Bottoms Talon of the Hawk | 3.0 |
Cynic The Portal Tapes | 4.0 |
Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us | 2.0 |
Modern Baseball You’re Gonna Miss It All | 4.0 |
Julia Holter Ekstasis | 4.0 |
From Indian Lakes The Man With Wooden Legs | 3.5 |
From Indian Lakes Able Bodies | 4.0 |
Self Defense Family Try Me | 3.0 |
Frightened Rabbit The Midnight Organ Fight | 4.0 |
Seizures The Sanity Universal | 4.5 |
Manners Pale Blue Light | 4.0 |
Anamanaguchi Endless Fantasy | 4.0 |
Marissa Nadler July | 3.5 |
There Will Be Fireworks The Dark, Dark Bright | 3.5 |
Deafheaven Roads to Judah | 4.0 |
Nerves Nerves | 4.0 |
Majical Cloudz Impersonator | 4.0 |
So Many Ways Seer | 4.0 |
Germs (GI) | 4.0 |
HAIM Days Are Gone | 3.5 |
The Darcys Warring | 5.0 |
Jesu Everyday I Get Closer to the Light from Which I Came | 3.0 |
Oathbreaker Eros|Anteros | 4.0 |
A Lot Like Birds No Place | 3.5 |
Dizzee Rascal The Fifth | 1.5 |
Nils Frahm Spaces | 4.0 |
Glasser Interiors | 3.5 |
The Dismemberment Plan Uncanney Valley | 3.0 |
Sleigh Bells Bitter Rivals | 4.0 |
Danny Brown Old | 4.5 |
Lorde Pure Heroine | 3.5 |
Icona Pop This Is...Icona Pop | 3.0 |
Placebo Loud Like Love | 2.0 |
John-Allison Weiss Say What You Mean | 4.0 |
Frankie Rose Herein Wild | 4.0 |
Frankie Rose Interstellar | 3.5 |
Touche Amore Is Survived By | 3.5 |
Richard Youngs Sapphie | 4.0 |
Mazzy Star Seasons of Your Day | 3.0 |
Lusine The Waiting Room | 3.5 |
London Grammar If You Wait | 4.0 |
Janelle Monae The Electric Lady | 4.0 |
Forest Swords Engravings | 4.0 |
The Bloody Beetroots Hide | 3.5 |
Don't you mean... decadance? *cue David Ca.... |
Volcano Choir Repave | 3.5 |
CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe | 3.5 |
Tim Hecker Virgins | 4.0 |
Hey just fyi if you keep the song titles in mind while listening to each song this is even better |
Real Friends Put Yourself Back Together | 3.5 |
Okkervil River The Silver Gymnasium | 3.5 |
Julianna Barwick Nepenthe | 4.0 |
Mirrorring Foreign Body | 3.5 |
Neko Case The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight... | 4.0 |
Julia Holter Loud City Song | 3.5 |
Braids Flourish // Perish | 3.5 |
Puig Destroyer Puig Destroyer EP | 4.0 |
Modern Life Is War Fever Hunting | 4.0 |
Sed Non Satiata Mappo | 3.5 |
On The Might of Princes Where You Are and Where You Want to Be | 4.0 |
Crash of Rhinos Knots | 3.5 |
Action Bronson Saaab Stories | 3.5 |
Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience | 3.5 |
Mazzy Star So Tonight That I Might See | 3.5 |
Primitive Weapons The Shadow Gallery | 4.0 |
Moderat II | 4.0 |
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels | 4.0 |
Flipper Album – Generic Flipper | 4.0 |
calculator This Will Come To Pass | 3.5 |
Captain, We're Sinking The Future Is Cancelled | 3.5 |
Black Swan (USA-NY) Black Swan (In 8 Movements) | 4.0 |
Cerce Cerce | 3.5 |
Action Bronson Rare Chandeliers | 3.5 |
Laura Marling Once I Was an Eagle | 3.5 |
Jon Hopkins Immunity | 3.5 |
Hail the Sun Elephantitis | 3.5 |
Volor Flex My Story | 3.5 |
The Dodos Carrier | 4.0 |
Perfect Future Old Wounds: Warmth In The Winter Of 1914-1915 | 3.5 |
Rodan Rusty | 4.0 |
Volor Flex Unlit | 4.0 |
Modern Baseball Sports | 4.0 |
Vowel All the Sad Songs | 4.0 |
Forever Came Calling Contender | 4.0 |
Disclosure Settle | 4.0 |
Real Friends Everyone That Dragged You Here | 4.0 |
Self Defense Family You Are Beneath Me | 3.5 |
Self Defense Family Sincerely | 3.5 |
Deafheaven Sunbather | 3.5 |
Nils Frahm Felt | 4.0 |
Sorrow (UK) Dreamstone | 3.5 |
Daft Punk Random Access Memories | 3.5 |
The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer | 3.5 |
The National Trouble Will Find Me | 3.5 |
The Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing | 3.5 |
Streetlight Manifesto The Hands That Thieve | 3.5 |
Glen Check Haute Couture | 3.5 |
Bibio Silver Wilkinson | 4.0 |
Silver Wilkinson is incredible. Incredible what? Electronic? Folk? Ambient? Post-chillin'-out-while-strumming-light-chords-under-a-blossoming-tree-as-a-summer-breeze-goes-past-bleep-boop-core? Yeah, let's go with that. |
Bibio Mind Bokeh | 3.5 |
Baths Obsidian | 3.5 |
Youth Lagoon Wondrous Bughouse | 3.0 |
Wretched (USA-NC) Beyond the Gate | 3.5 |
Ghostface Killah Twelve Reasons to Die | 3.5 |
Fang Island Fang Island | 3.5 |
Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It... | 3.0 |
Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal | 3.0 |
Deerhunter Monomania | 3.5 |
Between the Buried and Me Colors | 1.5 |
The Knife Shaking the Habitual | 4.5 |
The Knife, Unchained |
James Blake Overgrown | 4.5 |
Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun | 3.5 |
Barrow Though I'm Alone | 4.0 |
Caravels Lacuna | 3.5 |
Zozobra Savage Masters | 3.5 |
The Story So Far What You Don't See | 3.5 |
Bonobo The North Borders | 3.5 |
Olafur Arnalds For Now I Am Winter | 3.5 |
Capacities There Is No Neutral | 4.0 |
CHVRCHES Recover | 4.0 |
RVIVR The Beauty Between | 4.0 |
Nails Abandon All Life | 4.0 |
Iron Lung White Glove Test | 4.0 |
Atoms for Peace Amok | 4.0 |
Balance and Composure Separation | 3.0 |
Cyne Evolution Fight | 4.0 |
Binary Star Masters of the Universe | 4.0 |
One Last Wish 1986 | 3.5 |
Blue Hawaii Untogether | 3.5 |
Infinite Void Infinite Void | 3.5 |
Rachel's The Sea and the Bells | 3.5 |
Secret Arms New Colonies | 4.5 |
Perfume Genius Put Your Back N 2 It | 4.0 |
Big Boi Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors | 3.5 |
Billy Woods History Will Absolve Me | 3.5 |
Classics of Love Classics of Love | 4.0 |
Reagan Youth A Collection of Pop Classics | 4.0 |
Ghost Cat Cave Sounds | 4.0 |
Captain Murphy Duality | 4.0 |
Masked Intruder Masked Intruder | 3.5 |
My Heart To Joy Seasons In Verse | 3.5 |
Joey Badass 1999 | 4.0 |
Glocca Morra Just Married | 3.5 |
Andy Stott Luxury Problems | 4.0 |
BATS The Sleep of Reason | 3.0 |
Lisa Mitchell Bless This Mess | 3.5 |
Pig Destroyer Terrifyer | 4.0 |
Patrick Wolf Sundark and Riverlight | 3.5 |
Bat For Lashes The Haunted Man | 3.5 |
Pig Destroyer Book Burner | 3.5 |
Converge All We Love We Leave Behind | 3.0 |
Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! | 4.0 |
How to Dress Well Total Loss | 2.5 |
The Presets Pacifica | 3.5 |
Baby Huey The Baby Huey Story: The Living Legend | 4.5 |
Propagandhi Failed States | 4.0 |
Passion Pit Gossamer | 3.5 |
So Hideous To Clasp a Fallen Wish With Broken Fingers | 3.5 |
Serena Joy Ours Will Be A Lonely Battle EP | 4.0 |
Grizzly Bear Shields | 4.5 |
Jessie Ware Devotion | 3.5 |
Animal Collective Centipede Hz | 3.5 |
Cat Power Sun | 3.5 |
Capacities The Unexamined Life | 4.0 |
The xx Coexist | 3.0 |
Eternal Summers Correct Behavior | 3.0 |
Disclosure The Face | 4.0 |
Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains Love Songs For The Apocalypse | 4.0 |
alt-J An Awesome Wave | 4.0 |
Maybeshewill Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony | 3.5 |
Dirty Projectors Swing Lo Magellan | 3.5 |
Laurel Halo Quarantine | 3.5 |
Purity Ring Shrines | 3.5 |
Make Do and Mend Everything You Ever Loved | 2.5 |
Azealia Banks 1991 | 4.0 |
The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now | 3.5 |
Regina Spektor What We Saw from the Cheap Seats | 3.0 |
John Mayer Born and Raised | 2.0 |
Music for bitches. |
White Lung Sorry | 4.0 |
White Lung It's The Evil | 4.0 |
Chromatics Kill for Love | 3.5 |
Art By Numbers Reticence: The Musical | 3.5 |
Thursday No Devolucion | 4.5 |
Silversun Pickups Neck of the Woods | 3.0 |
mewithoutYou Ten Stories | 4.0 |
The Flaming Lips The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends | 4.0 |
Jack White Blunderbuss | 3.5 |
Lotus Plaza Spooky Action At A Distance | 4.0 |
Man, how's this for a step up? While The Floodlight Collective was a decent bunch of fuzzy wuzzy tunes, Spooky Action At A Distance takes the haze of the the previous album and puts it into sharp, diamond-sparkle relief: the melodies are better defined, the vocals more engaging, and the songwriting just miles beyond. Everything is just fucking better. With gems like these, any day now, it's going to be Deerhunter that's going to labeled the 'side-project'. And that's just fine. |
Chromatics Night Drive | 4.0 |
Danny Brown XXX | 4.0 |
Colin Stetson New History Warfare Vol 2: Judges | 3.5 |
Hands Like Houses Ground Dweller | 3.0 |
The Weakerthans Left and Leaving | 4.5 |
Royal Headache Royal Headache | 4.0 |
Sleigh Bells Reign of Terror | 3.5 |
Braids Native Speaker | 3.5 |
First Aid Kit The Lion's Roar | 3.5 |
Chairlift Something | 3.5 |
Ital Hive Mind | 2.5 |
SBTRKT SBTRKT | 3.5 |
The Pine The Pine | 3.5 |
The Pine Days Slipping By | 3.5 |
Gui Boratto Chromophobia | 4.0 |
Burial Kindred | 4.0 |
John Talabot Fin | 3.5 |
Stendeck Scintilla | 3.0 |
Blondes Blondes | 3.5 |
John K. Samson Provincial | 3.5 |
ScHoolboy Q Habits and Contradictions | 4.0 |
Marnie Stern This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It... | 2.5 |
Marnie Stern Marnie Stern | 2.5 |
Grimes Geidi Primes | 3.0 |
Grimes Visions | 3.5 |
The Saddest Landscape After The Lights | 3.5 |
Loma Prieta I.V. | 4.5 |
Shabazz Palaces Black Up | 4.0 |
Converge You Fail Me | 3.5 |
Converge When Forever Comes Crashing | 3.5 |
Time To Burn Is.Land | 4.5 |
Raein Ah, As If... | 2.5 |
Raein Il n'y a pas de orchestre | 3.5 |
Toh Kay Streetlight Lullabies | 2.5 |
Crash of Rhinos Distal | 3.5 |
Gang Gang Dance Eye Contact | 3.5 |
Sepalcure Sepalcure | 4.0 |
Adorno Said And Unsaid | 3.5 |
Lion of the North The Compass Calls | 4.0 |
Midwest Pen Pals Inside Jokes | 3.5 |
Merchant Ships For Cameron | 4.0 |
Kate Bush 50 Words for Snow | 4.0 |
Olafur Arnalds Living Room Songs | 4.0 |
The Naked and Famous Passive Me, Aggressive You | 3.5 |
Atlas Sound Parallax | 4.5 |
Patrick Stump Soul Punk | 3.0 |
Florence and the Machine Ceremonials | 4.0 |
London Elektricity Yikes! | 3.5 |
Her Name Is Calla The Quiet Lamb | 3.0 |
Chelsea Wolfe Apokalypsis | 3.0 |
M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming | 4.0 |
Bjork Biophilia | 3.5 |
Tim Hecker Dropped Pianos | 4.0 |
A Lot Like Birds Conversation Piece | 3.0 |
A Lot Like Birds lose everything that made them an interesting band and become another competent post-hardcore act who can do stuff and things and whatever. |
Tim Hecker Harmony in Ultraviolet | 4.0 |
Laura Jean Eden Land | 4.0 |
La Dispute Wildlife | 4.0 |
Spank Rock Everything Is Boring & Everyone Is A Fucking Liar | 1.5 |
Zola Jesus Conatus | 4.0 |
Floex Zorya | 4.0 |
Youth Lagoon The Year of Hibernation | 3.5 |
Jenny Hval Viscera | 4.5 |
Feist Metals | 4.0 |
Wilco The Whole Love | 3.5 |
How to Dress Well Just Once | 3.5 |
blink-182 Neighborhoods | 3.5 |
Oh my god I'm in high school again :D |
The Jezabels Prisoner | 4.0 |
Blu and Exile Below the Heavens | 4.0 |
Thrice Major/Minor | 3.5 |
St. Vincent Strange Mercy | 3.5 |
Cut Off Your Hands Shaky Hands | 3.5 |
Cut Off Your Hands Hollow | 3.5 |
Circle Takes the Square Rites of Initiation | 4.0 |
Active Child You Are All I See | 3.5 |
Labyrinth Ear Oak EP | 4.5 |
The Weeknd House of Balloons | 3.5 |
The Weeknd Thursday | 2.0 |
This is what happens when you stick your balls in a vice and compensate by fucking the drum machine and cranking the reverb. |
Gotye Making Mirrors | 3.0 |
Balam Acab Wander/Wonder | 3.5 |
The War On Drugs Slave Ambient | 3.5 |
Little Dragon Ritual Union | 3.5 |
BT This Binary Universe | 3.5 |
BT ESCM | 3.5 |
High Places High Places | 3.0 |
sleepmakeswaves ...and so we destroyed everything | 3.5 |
Meniscus War of Currents | 3.5 |
Mohinder Everything | 4.0 |
Bomb the Music Industry! Vacation | 3.5 |
YACHT Shangri-La | 3.0 |
Marissa Nadler Marissa Nadler | 3.5 |
WU LYF Go Tell Fire to the Mountain | 3.5 |
Patrick Wolf Lupercalia | 3.5 |
Departures When Losing Everything Is Everything You Wanted | 3.5 |
Battles Gloss Drop | 3.5 |
Twin Shadow Forget | 3.0 |
Ampere Like Shadows | 4.0 |
Holy shit. The last album that had me on the edge of my seat like this was something out of pg.99's discography, and even then this is a ride like no other. Short, fast, brutal and passionate - everything Ampere ever had in them, distilled into the best 13 minutes of the year. |
Unexpect Fables of the Sleepless Empire | 3.0 |
Friendly Fires Pala | 3.5 |
fun fun fun fun ... percussion! |
Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 | 4.0 |
Fireworks Gospel | 3.0 |
Land Of Talk Cloak and Cipher | 3.5 |
Matthew Good Avalanche | 4.0 |
Matthew Good Lights of Endangered Species | 3.0 |
Matthew Good Hospital Music | 4.0 |
Matthew Good Band Beautiful Midnight | 4.0 |
Algernon Cadwallader Parrot Flies | 3.5 |
There's this drinking game we used to play in high school that went something like this: Someone started out by screaming at the top of his lungs: "FINGERS IN THE MIDDLE!", to which everyone screamed it right back. This was followed by "FIDDLE WITH MY DIDDLE!!". Scream back. And then altogether: "OOOHHH FUCK ME YOU FAT BITCH!" and someone would open up with something like "Alex fuck Alex fuck how about a Downer fuck!". Downer would follow with the same, only with someone else's name instead of his. This would go around the party and get faster and faster and faster until someone eventually messed up and scoff something like "Alex fu- shi- go- ahhghghhgdfgdf DAMMIT" and down whatever they had left of their drink, no matter how full it was. Of course we had to make sure of it by chanting "DOWN! DOWN! DOWN!" every ugly gulp of the way. You've probably done that part before. Anyway, not only was this probably the best drinking game ever, but it's messy as fuck. And usually, even before the games got underway, some idiot somewhere would scream out "LETS GET FUCKIN' NAKED!!!" which was how we knew the party had really started.
Parrot Flies feels like this. |
Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me | 3.5 |
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie XX We're New Here | 3.0 |
Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 4.0 |
Blue Sky Black Death NOIR | 3.0 |
Laura Stevenson Sit Resist | 4.0 |
Wild Beasts Smother | 4.5 |
Swarms Old Raves End | 4.0 |
Phaeleh Fallen Light | 3.5 |
Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction | 3.5 |
Aesop Rock Labor Days | 3.5 |
Aesop Rock None Shall Pass | 3.5 |
Pulling Teeth Funerary | 3.5 |
Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi Rome | 3.5 |
Tyler, the Creator Goblin | 3.0 |
Punchline Just Say Yes | 2.0 |
The Dodos No Color | 4.5 |
Devastatingly good. |
Memphis May Fire The Hollow | 3.5 |
Okkervil River I Am Very Far | 3.5 |
Frank Ocean Nostalgia, Ultra. | 3.5 |
PVT Church With No Magic | 3.5 |
Jamie Woon Mirrorwriting | 3.5 |
Capsule (US) Blue | 3.5 |
Hercules and Love Affair Blue Songs | 3.5 |
Edan Beauty and the Beat | 4.5 |
The Aquabats Hi-Five Soup! | 2.0 |
What the hell Aquabats |
My Disco Little Joy | 3.5 |
Ice Cube AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted | 3.5 |
mclusky McLusky Do Dallas | 4.0 |
No Trigger Canyoneer | 3.5 |
Sepalcure Love Pressure | 4.0 |
Fireworks Adventure, Nostalgia, and Robbery | 3.0 |
Fireworks Bonfires | 3.0 |
The Sawtooth Grin Cuddlemonster | 3.5 |
Solomon Burke Don't Give Up On Me | 4.0 |
Iron And Wine Kiss Each Other Clean | 3.5 |
Cut Copy Zonoscope | 3.5 |
The Get Up Kids There Are Rules | 2.5 |
Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession | 3.5 |
M.I.A. VICKI LEEKX | 3.5 |
The Jezabels She's So Hard | 3.5 |
The Decemberists The King Is Dead | 3.5 |
Kate Bush The Dreaming | 4.0 |
Kids and Explosions Shit Computer | 3.5 |
Yuck Yuck | 4.5 |
Rory Gallagher Irish Tour '74 | 4.0 |
Feist Look At What The Light Did Now | 4.0 |
Destroyer Kaputt | 4.0 |
Okay so the whole time I'm listening to this, I'm imagining Sharon Stone (circa Sliver) walking up to me real slow like, in this awesome black leotard, real skimpy like, and they're these candles (red), burning, and rose petals too. We're in a hotel room, by the way. So like, I'm sitting on a chair and she comes up to me, climbs on top and wraps those long, 80s sex goddess legs are around me, and shes sorta dry humping me, real passionate like, and then I reach down and start to unzip the leotard from behind, and she stops me, looks me in the eye real seductive like, and starts to like make out with my neck and oh my god I jizzed my pants. |
Ghostface Killah Apollo Kids | 4.0 |
Zola Jesus Stridulum | 4.0 |
Asobi Seksu Fluorescence | 4.0 |
Finch Epilogue | 4.0 |
Thursday Waiting | 3.5 |
Thursday War All the Time | 3.5 |
James Blake James Blake | 4.5 |
Bridezilla The First Dance | 3.0 |
OFF! First Four EPs | 4.0 |
Maximillian Colby Discography | 4.5 |
Simian Mobile Disco Delicacies | 4.0 |
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 3.5 |
Actress Splazsh | 3.5 |
Girl Talk All Day | 3.5 |
Underoath Ø (Disambiguation) | 4.0 |
Amy Winehouse Back to Black | 4.0 |
Washington I Believe You Liar | 3.5 |
Cee Lo Green The Lady Killer | 3.5 |
Hans Zimmer The Rock | 3.5 |
Atlas Sound Logos | 3.5 |
Gravediggaz 6 Feet Deep | 4.0 |
Distance Repercussions | 3.5 |
Pariah (UK) Safehouses | 4.0 |
Warpaint The Fool | 3.5 |
Trophy Scars Darkness, Oh Hell | 3.0 |
Archers of Loaf Icky Mettle | 4.0 |
Burning Airlines Identikit | 4.0 |
Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 5.0 |
The Jezabels Dark Storm | 3.5 |
Mae (e)vening | 2.5 |
CunninLynguists A Piece Of Strange | 4.0 |
Kno Death Is Silent | 3.5 |
Bomb the Music Industry! Everybody That You Love | 3.5 |
Jazzanova In Between | 3.0 |
Max Bemis and The Painful Splits Max Bemis and The Painful Splits | 2.5 |
Mae Destination: Beautiful | 3.5 |
Kylesa Spiral Shadow | 3.5 |
Orchid Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow! | 3.5 |
Orchid Orchid | 4.0 |
Textbook Traitors You Pull the Strings That Make Us Dance | 4.0 |
T.I. Paper Trail | 3.5 |
Zola Jesus Valusia | 3.5 |
The Saddest Landscape You Will Not Survive | 4.0 |
Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I | 3.5 |
A Lot Like Birds Plan B | 4.0 |
Kings of Leon Come Around Sundown | 3.0 |
Kings of Leon Only By The Night | 3.5 |
The Thermals The Body, The Blood, The Machine | 3.5 |
Envy All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead | 3.5 |
Envy Recitation | 2.5 |
Envy get cute and decide to write Christmas carols. |
PS I Love You Meet Me At The Muster Station | 4.0 |
Blondes Touched | 4.0 |
Gold Panda Lucky Shiner | 4.0 |
Bauhaus In the Flat Field | 4.0 |
Arthur Russell Love is Overtaking Me | 3.5 |
Arthur Russell Another Thought | 4.0 |
2Pac Me Against the World | 3.5 |
Jay-Z The Blueprint | 3.5 |
Jay-Z The Black Album | 3.5 |
Jay-Z American Gangster | 3.5 |
James Blake CMYK | 4.0 |
James Blake Klavierwerke | 4.0 |
The Black Keys Brothers | 3.5 |
Glasser Ring | 3.5 |
Defeater Travels | 3.5 |
Defeater Lost Ground | 3.5 |
Lykke Li Youth Novels | 3.0 |
No Age Everything In Between | 3.0 |
Baths Cerulean | 3.0 |
Fight Like Apes The Body Of Christ And The Legs Of Tina Turner | 3.0 |
Serge Gainsbourg Histoire de Melody Nelson | 4.0 |
Burial Burial | 4.0 |
Departures Escaping | 4.0 |
Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans | 3.5 |
Sufjan Stevens Michigan | 3.5 |
The Angelic Process Weighing Souls With Sand | 3.5 |
Sufjan Stevens The BQE | 3.0 |
Neko Case Blacklisted | 4.0 |
Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz | 3.0 |
Here is what you need to know about Sufjan Stevens. He lives in a room. This room has no windows, but it is a magic room. It responds to Sufjan's every thought, warping and twisting with every leap of Sufjan's wild imagination. But the real magic is that this is also a musical room - every twist a note, every warp a harmony. This all sounds pretty awesome, but the downside is that poor Sufjan is stuck in this bloody room. He hasn't seen daylight for years, which means he has to conjure it all in the form of music. And let's give the man credit where credit is due: his imagination is wild, colorful as the brightest day and vivid as the greatest portraits could ever convey. But he has also lost grip on reality. Just... gone, completely: it's a windlowless room. Which means that every ray of gorgeous musical sun is refracted through a prism of unfocused spectral madness, sweeping - left, right, everywhere - but no where in particular. If you alive back then, you'd have seen this same thing before, except that time, the man in question was Dustin Hoffman, and the movie was, well, Rain Man. |
Kerouac Cold and Distant, Not Loving | 4.0 |
How to Dress Well Love Remains | 4.5 |
It's like Justin Vernon went up to Burial and was like yo make an album for me, and Burial was like sure bro and the shit was cash. Also, Justin Vernon is black. |
Pharoahe Monch Internal Affairs | 4.0 |
Trophy Scars Darts to the Sea | 3.5 |
Trophy Scars Goodnight Alchemy | 3.5 |
Trophy Scars Alphabet Alphabets | 2.5 |
Ghostface Killah Fishscale | 4.5 |
Ghostface Killah Supreme Clientele | 4.0 |
Oceansize Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up | 3.5 |
Decahedron Disconnection Imminent | 4.0 |
The Felix Culpa Sever Your Roots | 3.5 |
Kyu キイチ | 3.5 |
Jimmy Eat World Futures | 3.5 |
Magazine Real Life | 4.0 |
Pianos Become the Teeth Old Pride | 3.0 |
Sundowner We Chase the Waves | 3.0 |
Black Milk Album Of The Year | 3.5 |
Vic Chesnutt West of Rome | 4.0 |
Vic Chesnutt At The Cut | 4.0 |
Orbs Asleep Next to Science | 3.0 |
Max Richter Infra | 3.5 |
Vic Chesnutt North Star Deserter | 4.0 |
Grinderman Grinderman 2 | 3.5 |
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan Hawk | 3.5 |
Deerhunter Halcyon Digest | 4.0 |
A City Safe From Sea Throw Me Through Walls | 3.0 |
Dark Time Sunshine Vessel | 3.5 |
The Menzingers Chamberlain Waits | 3.5 |
The Killers Hot Fuss | 3.5 |
Blackalicious Blazing Arrow | 3.5 |
The Walkmen You & Me | 3.0 |
Blonde Redhead Penny Sparkle | 3.5 |
Otis Redding Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul | 4.5 |
Ultramagnetic MCs Critical Beatdown | 3.5 |
Jay Reatard Watch Me Fall | 3.0 |
Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic | 3.5 |
Touche Amore ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse | 3.5 |
The Word Alive Deceiver | 3.0 |
Uffie Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans | 2.5 |
90 Day Men To Everybody | 4.0 |
La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair | 3.0 |
Tera Melos Patagonian Rats | 3.5 |
Hi! We're Tera Melos and we like noodles! So many fucking noodles. |
Quicksand Slip | 4.0 |
Cee Lo Green Cee-Lo Green Is The Soul Machine | 3.5 |
Klaxons Surfing the Void | 2.5 |
Armchairpolitician Seven Segment Decoder | 4.0 |
Sufjan Stevens All Delighted People | 3.5 |
Pulp Different Class | 4.5 |
Ceremony (USA-CA) Violence Violence | 4.0 |
Adebisi Shank This is the Second Album | 3.5 |
Cannibal Ox The Cold Vein | 3.5 |
The Wrens The Meadowlands | 4.5 |
Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 4.0 |
Interpol Antics | 3.5 |
Interpol Our Love to Admire | 4.0 |
Mount Kimbie Crooks & Lovers | 3.5 |
Atmosphere God Loves Ugly | 4.0 |
The Zombies Odessey and Oracle | 4.5 |
Q and Not U No Kill No Beep Beep | 4.0 |
Stay Gold Pills & Advice | 3.5 |
Super Furry Animals Rings Around the World | 3.0 |
Lil Wayne Tha Carter II | 3.5 |
P.O.S Never Better | 4.0 |
Daniel Striped Tiger Condition | 3.0 |
Sleepy Sun Fever | 3.5 |
Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend | 3.0 |
Arcade Fire Neon Bible | 4.0 |
Arcade Fire The Suburbs | 4.0 |
MF DOOM MM.. Food | 4.0 |
Menomena Mines | 4.0 |
Lydia Assailants | 3.0 |
The Books The Way Out | 3.5 |
Robyn Body Talk Pt. 1 | 3.5 |
Harvest Living With A God Complex | 3.5 |
Booka Shade Movements | 4.0 |
ceo White Magic | 3.0 |
Frank Turner Love, Ire & Song | 4.0 |
Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse Dark Night of the Soul | 4.0 |
Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot | 3.5 |
letlive. Fake History | 2.0 |
Dizzee Rascal Tongue N' Cheek | 2.5 |
The Jonbenet The Plot Thickens | 3.5 |
Violent Femmes Violent Femmes | 3.5 |
The Roots How I Got Over | 3.5 |
Anais Mitchell Hymns for the Exiled | 4.0 |
Anais Mitchell Hadestown | 3.5 |
The Dead Weather Horehound | 3.0 |
The Chemical Brothers Further | 3.5 |
M.I.A. Maya | 4.0 |
Stars of the Lid The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid | 4.0 |
Stars The Five Ghosts | 3.5 |
Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures | 3.0 |
Foals Total Life Forever | 3.5 |
Sonic Youth Murray Street | 3.5 |
Sonic Youth Confusion Is Sex | 4.5 |
The Modern Lovers The Modern Lovers | 3.5 |
Cassette Kids Nothing on TV | 3.5 |
Eminem Recovery | 3.0 |
Regulator Watts The Aesthetics of No Drag | 4.0 |
The Replacements Let It Be | 4.0 |
Ceremony (USA-CA) Rohnert Park | 4.0 |
Pixies Surfer Rosa | 4.0 |
Periphery Periphery | 3.0 |
Shugo Tokumaru Port Entropy | 3.5 |
The Ghost Inside Returners | 3.0 |
More Than Life Love Let Me Go | 4.0 |
Lone Wolf The Devil and I | 3.5 |
Tame Impala Innerspeaker | 3.5 |
Rolo Tomassi Cosmology | 2.5 |
Joanna Newsom The Milk-Eyed Mender | 4.0 |
The Dead Weather Sea of Cowards | 3.5 |
Marina The Family Jewels | 3.5 |
Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid | 4.5 |
NOISIA Split The Atom | 3.0 |
Sleigh Bells Treats | 3.5 |
Trial Kennedy New Manic Art | 3.5 |
Sed Non Satiata Sed Non Satiata | 4.0 |
Angus and Julia Stone Down the Way | 3.5 |
Flying Lotus Cosmogramma | 3.5 |
Jonathan Boulet Jonathan Boulet | 4.0 |
Gayngs Relayted | 3.0 |
Parades Foreign Tapes | 4.0 |
Parades, like their name, know how to celebrate in style. I'm thinking dinner jacket, skinny black tie and a pair of blue jeans. You know the one. A little sharp, a lot cool. And when you've released a debut as clean and crisp as Foreign Tapes, there's every reason in the world to party: drawing from constellation of biting post-punk, warm indie-pop and a dash of honey sickle post-rock, if the sheer amount of hyphenating didn't give it away, Foreign Tapes stands on the razor's edge of the musical universe, redefining and breaking out of every little box on the display shelf. How else to explain the way the record delicately threads a line between crystalline sharpness and gorgeous, cascading layers of harmony? Or the way songs like Lung Full Of Light sway with an easy breeze while hitting like a ton of bricks? Or the soothing warmth of the Marigold's thundering climax? Foreign Tapes isn't just a party, but a lesson in how to throw one: new without being weird, innovative without being overbearingly eclectic - in a word, the most refreshing album of 2010. |
The National Alligator | 4.0 |
The National High Violet | 4.0 |
Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise | 3.5 |
Broken Social Scene Forgiveness Rock Record | 3.5 |
The Whitest Boy Alive Rules | 3.5 |
Flying Lotus Los Angeles | 4.5 |
LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening | 4.0 |
Holy Fuck Latin | 3.5 |
Holy Fuck LP | 3.5 |
The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt | 4.0 |
60 Watt Kid We Come From The Bright Side | 4.0 |
Delorean Subiza | 3.5 |
Los Campesinos! Romance Is Boring | 3.5 |
Laura Marling I Speak Because I Can | 3.5 |
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada | 4.0 |
Caribou Swim | 4.0 |
Streetlight Manifesto 99 Songs of Revolution: Volume I | 3.5 |
Deftones Diamond Eyes | 4.0 |
OutKast Aquemini | 4.0 |
OutKast Stankonia | 4.0 |
The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis | 4.0 |
Daughters Daughters | 3.5 |
The Gathering Souvenirs | 4.0 |
The Gathering Sleepy Buildings:A Semi-Acoustic Evening | 4.0 |
The Gathering Nighttime Birds | 4.0 |
The Gathering Mandylion | 4.0 |
The Gathering How to Measure a Planet? | 4.5 |
Titus Andronicus The Monitor | 3.0 |
Joanna Newsom Have One on Me | 4.0 |
Ignite Our Darkest Days | 3.5 |
Bomb the Music Industry! Adults!!!: Smart!!! Shithammered!!! And Excited By Nothing!!!!!!! | 4.0 |
Pantha Du Prince This Bliss | 4.0 |
Charlotte Gainsbourg IRM | 3.0 |
The Knife Tomorrow, In a Year | 3.5 |
Four Tet There is Love in You | 3.5 |
Emancipator Safe In The Steep Cliffs | 3.5 |
VOICEsVOICEs Origins EP | 5.0 |
Beach House Teen Dream | 3.0 |
Stiff Little Fingers Inflammable Material | 4.0 |
Eleventh He Reaches London Hollow Be My Name | 3.5 |
Arsis Starve for the Devil | 3.0 |
Pantha Du Prince Black Noise | 4.0 |
The Field From Here We Go Sublime | 4.0 |
The Knux Fuck You EP | 3.5 |
Fever Ray Fever Ray | 4.0 |
The Knife Silent Shout | 4.0 |
OK Go Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky | 2.0 |
Blakfish Champions | 4.0 |
Million Dead A Song to Ruin | 4.0 |
Reuben Racecar Is Racecar Backwards | 4.0 |
Meet Me in St. Louis Variations on Swing | 3.5 |
Vitalic Flashmob | 3.5 |
Vitalic Ok Cowboy | 3.5 |
Liars Sisterworld | 3.5 |
Mobb Deep The Infamous | 4.0 |
The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die | 4.5 |
Orphans of Cush White Noize | 4.0 |
Souls of Mischief 93 'til Infinity | 4.5 |
Vampire Weekend Contra | 4.0 |
Iron Lung Life. Iron Lung. Death. | 4.0 |
Max Richter The Blue Notebooks | 3.5 |
Usurp Synapse Disinformation Fix | 3.5 |
Yeasayer Odd Blood | 3.0 |
Dangers Messy, Isn't It? | 4.0 |
Animal Collective Fall Be Kind | 4.0 |
Matchbox Twenty Mad Season | 4.5 |
Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) What It Takes to Move Forward | 3.5 |
Ol' Dirty Bastard Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version | 4.0 |
Mos Def The Ecstatic | 4.0 |
Lady Gaga The Fame | 3.5 |
Annie Don't Stop | 3.5 |
John Mayer Battle Studies | 3.5 |
Achilles (USA-NY) Hospice | 4.0 |
Gaza He Is Never Coming Back | 4.0 |
Shpongle Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost | 4.0 |
Blonde Redhead Misery is a Butterfly | 3.5 |
The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity | 3.5 |
Neko Case Fox Confessor Brings The Flood | 4.0 |
Comets on Fire Blue Cathedral | 4.0 |
Devin Townsend Project Addicted | 3.5 |
Julian Casablancas Phrazes for the Young | 3.0 |
The Postal Service Give Up | 3.5 |
The Strokes Is This It | 4.5 |
Persefone Shin-Ken | 3.0 |
Fuck Buttons Tarot Sport | 3.5 |
DFRNT Metafiction | 3.5 |
Pyramids with Nadja Pyramids with Nadja | 3.5 |
Dark Tranquillity The Gallery | 4.5 |
Shpongle Ineffable Mysteries from Shpongleland | 4.5 |
Nothing Lasts hey? Oh, but I'll tell you what does: the divine bloody brilliance of Simon Posford and Raja Ram. If Shpongle weren't already the most forward thinking and boundary shattering act on the electronic compass, the duo's latest, Ineffable Mysteries From Shpongleland would be as much of an album as it would be a veritable psychoelectromagnetic nuclear device. Hell, this isn't an album any more than Alice In Wonderland is a story - where Alice had her madly grinning Cheshire Cat, Shpongle have the Goa warped landscape of "Electroplasm"; where the bottle said 'drink me', Shpongle provide their own journey though wild-eyed explorations of acoustic tinged flamenco solos, dub riddled basslines and the most wicked effort at beat stringing ever on "Shpongolese Spoken Here".
In fact, I suspect it would take no less than the psydripped rave of "Ineffable Mysteries" (complete with woodwind straight from the Andes), to convince Shiva the Destroyer to take a holiday from her macabre life of death to indulge in a night of full moon partying down at whichever mystic beach she'd choose. But the kicker? When Benn Jordan gets out-Flashbulb'd by "Nothing Is Something Worth Doing" - A track that stretches Shpongle's template of earthy percussion and electronic wrangling to the edges of the sonic horizon, obscured by the vorpal rays of trance gripped experimentation. And no, by the way, there's no rhyme or reason here, not in this place, this dimension, not where Comic Gods and Carrolleqse absurdity dwell in Unsane harmony, but I'll stand by my Brahman and bask in this light, oh gods, what light. |
Say Anything Say Anything | 5.0 |
The Arrogant Sons of Bitches Three Cheers For Disappointment | 5.0 |
Pomegranates Everybody, Come Outside! | 3.5 |
Johnny Foreigner Grace And The Bigger Picture | 3.5 |
The Lawrence Arms Cocktails and Dreams | 3.5 |
The Lawrence Arms Buttsweat and Tears | 4.0 |
Chick Corea The Ultimate Adventure | 4.5 |
Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come | 4.5 |
Miles Davis In a Silent Way | 4.0 |
Miles Davis Kind of Blue | 4.5 |
Miles Davis Bitches Brew | 4.0 |
Buena Vista Social Club Buena Vista Social Club | 4.0 |
Tragedy Vengeance | 4.0 |
The Carrier No Love Can Save Me | 4.0 |
Floex Pocustone | 4.0 |
Engineer The Dregs | 4.0 |
Gustavo Santaolalla Ronroco | 4.0 |
Sparta Porcelain | 3.0 |
Sonic Youth The Eternal | 4.0 |
Weekend Nachos Unforgivable | 3.5 |
Weezer Weezer | 4.0 |
Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot | 4.5 |
The Fall of Troy In the Unlikely Event | 2.0 |
Converge Axe to Fall | 2.5 |
Built to Spill There Is No Enemy | 4.0 |
Moderat Moderat | 3.5 |
Kidcrash Snacks | 3.0 |
Pig Heart Transplant Hope You Enjoy Heaven | 4.5 |
Daitro Y | 3.5 |
Daitro Des Cendres, Je Me Consume | 3.5 |
Baroness Blue Record | 2.5 |
Brand New Daisy | 4.0 |
Yo La Tengo Popular Songs | 3.5 |
The Flaming Lips Embryonic | 4.0 |
Do Make Say Think & Yet & Yet | 3.5 |
The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin | 4.0 |
Do Make Say Think Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn | 4.0 |
UGK Ridin' Dirty | 4.5 |
Jay-Z Reasonable Doubt | 4.0 |
Do Make Say Think Other Truths | 4.0 |
Ok, this is just ridiculous now, no band should be allowed to be this consistently awesome. Usually this is the bit where I rant about how saturated the post rock scene is, but Do Make Say Think's brand of jazz infused instrumental jams are so strikingly unique it's hard to even consider mentioning the band and the genre in the same breath for fear of lumping them in with 'everyone else'. While Other Truths isn't the band's most polished record, there's a distinct feeling here that 'polished' isn't exactly the point - with just four songs averaging about ten minutes each, Other Truths plays itself out as one giant, magical studio jam that just so happily got captured on tape. That they just also happen to all sound immaculately composed and free flowing at the same time is only a testament to the wonder of this Canadian collective. Oh, and "Do" just might be the greatest thing these guys have ever written. Get. Now. Feel. Good. |
Brother/Ghost Black Ice | 3.5 |
The Suicide File Twilight | 4.0 |
Breather Resist Charmer | 4.5 |
Dangers Anger | 4.5 |
AU Au | 4.0 |
Weekend Nachos Punish and Destroy | 3.5 |
Cat Power Moon Pix | 3.5 |
Muse The Resistance | 2.5 |
Still Life Still Girls Come Too | 3.5 |
Lusine A Certain Distance | 4.0 |
Polvo In Prism | 3.5 |
Urthboy Spitshine | 3.5 |
N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton | 3.5 |
Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back | 4.0 |
Pulling Teeth Paranoid Delusions/Paradise Illusions | 4.0 |
Gallows (UK) Grey Britain | 3.5 |
Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II | 4.0 |
Exivious Exivious | 3.5 |
A Fine Frenzy One Cell in the Sea | 3.5 |
A Fine Frenzy Bomb In A Birdcage | 3.0 |
The Format Dog Problems | 3.5 |
Volcano Choir Unmap | 3.0 |
BATS Red In Tooth and Claw | 4.0 |
The Bloody Beetroots Romborama | 3.5 |
The xx xx | 4.0 |
Ceremony (USA-CA) Still Nothing Moves You | 4.0 |
Sally Shapiro My Guilty Pleasure | 3.0 |
Paint It Black Paradise | 3.5 |
fun. Aim and Ignite | 3.5 |
Simian Mobile Disco Temporary Pleasure | 3.5 |
As Tall As Lions You Can't Take It With You | 3.5 |
Mew And the Glass Handed Kites | 4.0 |
The Used The Used | 2.5 |
Mew Frengers | 4.5 |
Mew No More Stories | 4.5 |
Mew's biggest problem has simply been that they've been called, well... Mew. Maybe they realized this after the fact and have been striving to make up for it since, because following from the explosive brilliance of Frengers, Mew have threatened to become one of indie rock's most breathtakingly refreshing and innovative bands to ever press a record. While it's been almost four years since their last attempt, here on No More Stories Are Told, I'm Sorry, They Washed Away this Danish collective clearly haven't lost any of their steam, following through with a knockout punch of devastating beauty. With its rapturous mix of artfully composed progressive rock swirling amongst a thicket of richly textured shoegaze and dreampop inspired melodies, Mew have managed to redefine the musical landscape of 2009 with a single magisterial sweep. Drawing on Jonas Bjerre's delicately misty vocals and a haze of shimmering guitar lines, songs like the tension-racked rock out of "Repeater Beater" and the stunningly evocative "Cartoons and Macreme Wounds" never lose sight of Mew's ability to bring together both subtlety and intensity with immaculate ease. Did I mention that "Sometimes Life Isn't Easy" may just be most uplifting and heartfelt song ever written? For anyone who ever thought Minus The Bear had the monopoly on intricate but soulful indie rock, Mew have got a thing or two to say - and it's about time to sit up and listen. |
Kate Miller-Heidke Curiouser | 3.5 |
Midnight Juggernauts Dystopia | 3.0 |
Finale A Pipe Dream and a Promise | 3.5 |
Amanda Blank I Love You | 2.0 |
Hopesfall A Types | 3.5 |
Morbid Angel Altars of Madness | 4.0 |
Wire Pink Flag | 4.0 |
Behemoth Demigod | 4.0 |
Cave In Jupiter | 3.5 |
Thrice Beggars | 3.5 |
There Will Be Fireworks There Will Be Fireworks | 3.0 |
Delorean Ayrton Senna | 4.0 |
Behemoth Evangelion | 3.5 |
Converge No Heroes | 4.0 |
Set Your Goals This Will Be the Death of Us | 3.5 |
Towers Full Circle | 4.5 |
Sarah Blasko As Day Follows Night | 3.5 |
Rx Bandits Mandala | 3.5 |
Lisa Mitchell Wonder | 3.5 |
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes | 3.5 |
Northstar Pollyanna | 3.0 |
As Tall As Lions As Tall As Lions | 3.5 |
Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars | 3.5 |
Blur Parklife | 4.0 |
Blur Blur | 3.5 |
Tiny Vipers Life on Earth | 4.0 |
Park It Won't Snow Where You're Going | 3.5 |
Iron Lung Sexless // No Sex | 4.5 |
Sonic Youth Sister | 3.0 |
Sonic Youth Evol | 4.0 |
Dance Gavin Dance Happiness | 3.5 |
Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail | 3.5 |
Florence and the Machine Lungs | 4.0 |
Emancipator Soon It Will Be Cold Enough | 3.5 |
La Roux La Roux | 3.0 |
Margot and the Nuclear So and So's The Dust of Retreat | 3.0 |
Does It Offend You, Yeah? You Have No Idea... | 3.0 |
Bibio Ambivalence Avenue | 4.0 |
Sunset Rubdown Dragonslayer | 3.0 |
Various Artists Dirty Edits Vol. 1 | 4.5 |
Poison the Well The Tropic Rot | 3.5 |
Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings | 3.0 |
YACHT See Mystery Lights | 4.0 |
Kate Bush Hounds of Love | 4.0 |
Regina Spektor Far | 4.0 |
The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 3.0 |
The Mars Volta Octahedron | 3.0 |
Holler, Wild Rose! Our Little Hymnal | 3.0 |
Major Lazer Guns Dont Kill People... Lazers Do | 3.5 |
The Weepies Say I Am You | 3.0 |
Patti Smith Horses | 4.0 |
Marissa Nadler Little Hells | 4.0 |
PJ Harvey Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea | 3.0 |
The Middle East The Recordings of the Middle East | 4.0 |
Manic Street Preachers Journal For Plague Lovers | 2.0 |
Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | 3.5 |
Passion Pit Manners | 3.5 |
Placebo Battle for the Sun | 3.0 |
YACHT I Believe In You, Your Magic Is Real | 3.5 |
The Mae Shi HLLLYH | 3.5 |
datA (House) The Skywriter | 3.5 |
Gorod Leading Vision | 4.0 |
maudlin of the Well Part the Second | 4.0 |
Yeasayer All Hour Cymbals | 3.5 |
Cancer Bats Hail Destroyer | 2.5 |
Thursday A City By the Light Divided | 3.0 |
Mastodon Crack the Skye | 2.5 |
Bjork Medulla | 3.5 |
Jon Hopkins Insides | 3.5 |
The Pogues If I Should Fall from Grace with God | 4.5 |
The Pogues Rum Sodomy & the Lash | 4.5 |
The Antlers Hospice | 3.5 |
Grizzly Bear Veckatimest | 4.5 |
Au Revoir Simone Still Night, Still Light | 3.0 |
Deep Purple Made in Japan | 4.5 |
The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower Love in the Fascist Brothel | 3.5 |
Closure in Moscow First Temple | 4.0 |
Sundowner Four One Five Two | 3.5 |
Patrick Watson Wooden Arms | 3.0 |
Defiance, Ohio The Fear, The Fear, The Fear | 3.5 |
Puracane Things You Should Leave Alone | 4.0 |
Portishead Third | 4.0 |
Glassjaw Worship and Tribute | 4.0 |
Sonic Youth Daydream Nation | 4.0 |
ISIS Wavering Radiant | 3.5 |
The Gathering The West Pole | 3.5 |
The National Boxer | 5.0 |
St. Vincent Actor | 3.5 |
Bomb the Music Industry! Goodbye Cool World! | 4.0 |
Dan Deacon Bromst | 3.5 |
Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca | 4.5 |
Dirty Projectors Rise Above | 3.5 |
Patrick Wolf The Bachelor | 4.0 |
Japandroids Post-Nothing | 4.0 |
Manic Street Preachers Send Away The Tigers | 3.5 |
mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright! | 3.5 |
sleepmakeswaves/Tangled Thoughts of Leaving Split | 4.0 |
Caverns (DC) Kittens! | 3.5 |
Bill Callahan Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle | 3.5 |
Final Fantasy He Poos Clouds | 3.5 |
Spires (USA) Flowers And Fireworks | 3.5 |
Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing | 3.0 |
The Lawrence Arms The Greatest Story Ever Told | 3.5 |
Optikatechniqua Sinister Dub | 4.0 |
Bomb the Music Industry! Scrambles | 4.0 |
If punk rock had itself a barmy, mad professor to call its own, Bomb The Music Industry!s Jeff Rosenstock would be at the very top of the list of candidates. Taking a spin through Scrambles, it'd be easy enough to see him laughing maniacally around the album's wicked brew of attitude-fueled, messily composed DIY punk. While there's very little of what would be called a formula (Scrambles is far too interesting and varied to pin it down to any one recipe book, especially the loose "folk-punk" label the band is associated with), Rosenstock and co. assemble an alchemical mix of ingredients including a whirlwind set of piano driven backroom rockers, furious acoustic tirades and quirky but hard-edged forays of introspection all rolled into one. And as usual, sitting centre stage among it all is Rosenstock's biting lyrical scalpel, his powerful delivery underscored by the force of his playful irony, conjuring enough empathy to pluck ever so softly at the emotions while remaining irresistibly, absolutely and undeniably fun at the same time. And to top it all off? Well, the band is giving Scrambles away absolutely free online. Could you really ask for any more? |
No Age Nouns | 3.0 |
Jimmy Eat World Chase This Light | 3.0 |
Silversun Pickups Swoon | 3.5 |
Lene Marlin Twist the Truth | 3.0 |
Absu Absu | 3.0 |
Kylesa Static Tensions | 4.0 |
Gang Gang Dance Saint Dymphna | 3.5 |
Hot Snakes Automatic Midnight | 4.0 |
Fireworks All I Have To Offer Is My Own Confusion | 4.0 |
If you're after the perfect album for a teenage summer, then there's not much better you could do than All I Have To Offer... Brimming with an energy untarnished by anything less than a rollicking set of feel-good pop punk anthems, Fireworks make it their sole mission to drag kids kicking and screaming out from whichever dark, angry hole they've dug themselves and into the sunlight of their wistful playground of emotionally aggressive fun. Infused with a hardcore ethos drawn from fellow bands like Set Your Goals and Four Year Strong, what is on offer here, title aside, is a slew of wispy, bouncing guitar lines that flail playfully around David Mackinder's poignantly innocent lyrics. There's a certain nostalgia here too, but only just enough to make All I Have To Offer... the album you'll look back on and say 'hey, now that - that was a good time' with a tinge of heartfelt warmth and memory. While it may not be on the cutting edge of the scene, with its constant tsunamis of catchy, Yeti-sized chorus and way-above-the-standard songwriting, its one of the most gloriously infectious albums to creep up from the sidelines of '09 - and to do anything but revel in its light would be a crime against all that is awesome. |
Silversun Pickups Pikul | 3.5 |
Smog Knock Knock | 4.0 |
Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit The Very Best | 3.5 |
Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind | 3.5 |
Deadmau5 Random Album Title | 3.5 |
Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains | 3.5 |
The Decemberists The Hazards of Love | 3.5 |
Neko Case Middle Cyclone | 4.0 |
Children Collide The Long Now | 2.5 |
MSTRKRFT Fist of God | 3.0 |
Trophy Scars Bad Luck | 3.0 |
Anatomy of a Ghost Evanesce | 4.0 |
Karoshi Karoshi | 4.0 |
Anohni and the Johnsons The Crying Light | 3.5 |
Various Artists (Indie) Dark Was The Night | 4.5 |
HEALTH Health//Disco | 4.0 |
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart The Pains of Being Pure at Heart | 3.5 |
Propagandhi Supporting Caste | 4.5 |
All Time Low So Wrong, It's Right | 4.0 |
Two Fingers Two Fingers | 4.0 |
MSTRKRFT The Looks | 3.5 |
Trophy Scars Hospital Music for the Aesthetics of Language | 4.5 |
Jimmy Eat World Static Prevails | 3.5 |
Sholi Sholi | 3.5 |
Thursday Common Existence | 4.0 |
RJD2 Deadringer | 3.5 |
The Boxer Rebellion Union | 3.5 |
The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream | 3.5 |
DJ Sprinkles Midtown 120 Blues | 4.5 |
Friendly Fires Friendly Fires | 3.5 |
The Jezabels The Man Is Dead | 4.0 |
Yellowcard Paper Walls | 3.5 |
Lotus Plaza The Floodlight Collective | 3.5 |
The Appleseed Cast Sagarmatha | 3.5 |
Bat For Lashes Two Suns | 4.5 |
El Guincho Alegranza! | 2.5 |
Firekites The Bowery | 3.5 |
Bat For Lashes Fur and Gold | 4.5 |
The Gathering if_then_else | 4.0 |
Look What I Did Minuteman For The Moment | 3.5 |
Lily Allen It's Not Me, It's You | 3.0 |
Ringworm The Promise | 3.0 |
Pale Young Gentlemen Black Forest (tra la la) | 4.0 |
Maxine Kauter Maxine Kauter EP | 4.0 |
Two Tongues Two Tongues | 3.0 |
Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends | 3.5 |
Fight Like Apes ...And The Mystery Of The Golden Medallion | 4.0 |
Sepultura A-Lex | 2.0 |
Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor | 3.5 |
Fireworks We Are Everywhere | 4.0 |
The Living End White Noise | 3.5 |
Buraka Som Sistema Black Diamond | 4.0 |
Mayday Parade A Lesson In Romantics | 2.0 |
Kitsuné Maison Vol. 3 | 4.0 |
Architects Hollow Crown | 3.5 |
Architects Nightmares | 4.0 |
Isle Of Thieves Only Human | 3.0 |
The Spill Canvas Sunsets and Car Crashes | 2.0 |
Integrity Humanity is the Devil | 4.0 |
Dillinger Four Midwestern Songs Of The Americas | 4.0 |
Ricardo Villalobos Fabric 36 | 2.5 |
Unbroken Life. Love. Regret. | 4.0 |
Skycamefalling 10.21 | 4.0 |
Reverend Bizarre In The Rectory Of The Bizarre Reverend | 4.0 |
Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... | 4.0 |
DeVotchKa A Mad & Faithful Telling | 3.5 |
Moving Mountains Foreword | 3.5 |
Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 4.5 |
Bon Iver Blood Bank | 3.5 |
Lykathea Aflame Elvenefris | 3.0 |
Eric B and Rakim Paid in Full | 3.5 |
Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill | 3.5 |
Meat Beat Manifesto Autoimmune | 3.5 |
Following the vein of the heavy electrodub explosion that took place all throughout the year, Meat Beat Manifesto serve up an offering of grinding dub, ten ton bass drops and the occasional funk-to-the-max break. While it's not a combination that screams with originality - The Bug's London Zoo will make good company for Autoimmune - Meat Beat pull it off with damn fine precision. Be prepared though - for all of Autoimmune's delicate crafting, this is heavy, heavy s'hit that'll bang out from your speakers like a ton of raging bricks. |
Q-Tip The Renaissance | 4.0 |
A good friend described this album as the sound of Barry Manilow in 2008. He has a point. See, The Renaissance is smoother than the skin I'd be rubbing honey into as I undressed her in the dim lights of my pad and just about as cool as the club I picked her up from. After all, when you've gone so far from gangsta to have Norah Jones on guest vocals you may as well be compared to Barry Manilow. My sexytime music of '08. |
Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | 3.5 |
Face it, the only reason you liked Coldplay was to show your 'sensitive side' to help you get into the pants of that smokin' indie chick you never quite ended up hooking up with. "You know how I know you're gay?" - Yeah. Well, Viva La Vida showed everyone up didn't it? With Brian Eno on the production decks, Coldplay threw open their sound to capture a rocky edge that shot them into the untouchable realm of being liked that the smokin' preppy chick - now even the indie guys have a chance with them, if of course they aren't too busy being apathetically cool. And why not? With music this good, flourishing love can only be a good thing. |
Arghoslent Hornets of the Pogrom | 3.5 |
Garden of Shadows Oracle Moon | 3.5 |
Black Milk Tronic | 3.5 |
Britney Spears Circus | 3.5 |
The Roots Rising Down | 4.0 |
Marc Rizzo Colossal Myopia | 3.5 |
Lenka Lenka | 3.0 |
Fall Out Boy Folie a Deux | 3.5 |
Evol Intent Era of Diversion | 4.0 |
Past Lives Strange Symmetry | 4.0 |
Ghost Mice Europe | 3.5 |
Sol (DK) Let There Be A Massacre | 4.0 |
Mineral The Power of Failing | 3.5 |
Jack's Mannequin The Glass Passenger | 3.5 |
Fluke Risotto | 4.0 |
Scarface Emeritus | 3.5 |
The Fall of Troy Phantom on the Horizon | 2.5 |
Deadly Avenger Blossoms And Blood | 4.0 |
Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 4.0 |
Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion I | 4.0 |
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Show Your Bones | 3.5 |
Hadouken! Music For An Accelerated Culture | 3.0 |
Lydia Illuminate | 3.5 |
Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe | 3.5 |
Kalisia Cybion | 3.5 |
Mudvayne The New Game | 2.5 |
Mono You Are There | 3.5 |
Zoe Keating One Cello x 16: Natoma | 4.0 |
sleepmakeswaves In Today Already Walks Tomorrow | 4.0 |
Sufjan Stevens Illinois | 3.5 |
Kings of Leon Because Of The Times | 3.0 |
Squarepusher Music Is Rotted One Note | 3.5 |
Lights Out Asia Eyes Like Brontide | 3.5 |
Misery Signals Controller | 3.0 |
7 Angels 7 Plagues Jhazmyne's Lullaby | 3.5 |
Mutyumu Il y a | 3.0 |
Uzi And Ari Headworms | 3.5 |
CSS Cansei de Ser Sexy | 2.5 |
God Is an Astronaut God Is an Astronaut | 3.0 |
Feral Children Second to the Last Frontier | 3.0 |
Up-C Down-C Left-C Right-C ABC + Start Embers | 3.5 |
Thursday/Envy Thursday/Envy | 3.5 |
Ghosts and Vodka Addicts and Drunks | 3.5 |
Aussitot Mort Montuenga | 3.5 |
Tricky Nearly God | 3.0 |
Jakob Solace | 3.5 |
Shugo Tokumaru Exit | 3.5 |
BATS Cruel Sea Scientist | 4.0 |
PVT O Soundtrack My Heart | 3.5 |
Los Campesinos! We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed | 3.5 |
Adebisi Shank This is the Album | 4.0 |
"Hey ma hey ma hey ma! - look what I can do with a guitar!!!" is more or less the sentiment Adebisi Shank give off here on their insane debut. Far from fret blazing wankery though, the Shanks write their music with one foot in a puddle of math rock and the other in a bucket of fun, all while jumping up and down with frantic energy. With most of the songs here barely scratching the three-minute mark, This is literally packed so tight with awesomeness that its spewing from the seams. |
Circa Survive On Letting Go | 3.5 |
Burst Lazarus Bird | 3.5 |
Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out | 3.5 |
Fall Out Boy Infinity on High | 4.0 |
Saosin Saosin | 3.5 |
Deerhunter Microcastle | 4.0 |
Davwuh Dystopia | 4.0 |
Carcass Heartwork | 4.0 |
Meniscus Absence of I | 4.0 |
Forgive Durden Razia's Shadow: A Musical | 3.0 |
Forgive Durden Wonderland | 3.5 |
Fear Before The Always Open Mouth | 4.0 |
Raison D'Etre The Empty Hollow Unfolds | 4.0 |
Shotmaker The Complete Discography 1993-1996 | 4.0 |
Portraits Of Past Discography | 2.5 |
The Blood Brothers This Adultery Is Ripe | 3.5 |
The Blood Brothers Crimes | 3.5 |
Frodus And We Washed Our Weapons In The Sea | 4.0 |
The Blood Brothers Young Machetes | 5.0 |
Dillinger Four C I V I L W A R | 4.0 |
TV on the Radio Dear Science | 3.5 |
Brand New Your Favorite Weapon | 3.5 |
Mindless Self Indulgence Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy | 3.5 |
Eternal Tears of Sorrow Before the Bleeding Sun | 3.0 |
Neon Blonde Chandeliers in the Savannah | 4.0 |
Heroin Heroin | 4.0 |
Majority Rule Interview With David Frost | 3.5 |
Malady Malady | 3.5 |
Swing Kids Discography | 4.0 |
sgt. Stylus Fantasticus | 3.5 |
Adolescents Adolescents | 4.5 |
Verse En Coma Rialto | 4.0 |
Mihai Edrisch Un Jour Sans Lendemain | 3.0 |
Joanna Newsom Ys | 4.0 |
Mesa Verde The Old Road | 4.5 |
Shulman Soundscapes and Modern Tales | 3.5 |
Running Wild Black Hand Inn | 3.0 |
Solar Fields Extended | 3.0 |
Younger Brother The Last Days of Gravity | 3.5 |
Bluetech Sines And Singularities | 3.0 |
1200 Micrograms 1200 Micrograms | 3.5 |
Hallucinogen In Dub | 3.0 |
Hallucinogen The Lone Deranger | 3.5 |
The Future Sound of London Lifeforms | 4.5 |
Black Flag Damaged | 3.5 |
Soulwax Any Minute Now | 3.5 |
Blue Sky Black Death A Heap Of Broken Images | 3.5 |
Ladyhawke Ladyhawke | 3.5 |
Prefuse 73 One Word Extinguisher | 3.5 |
Unn Exit | 3.0 |
Younger Brother A Flock of Bleeps | 4.0 |
Bloc Party A Weekend in the City | 3.0 |
Broken Social Scene Feel Good Lost | 3.0 |
Oceans of Sadness The Arrogance Of Ignorance | 3.5 |
Feist Let It Die | 3.5 |
Islands Arm's Way | 3.0 |
mewithoutYou A to B: Life | 4.5 |
Pig Destroyer Phantom Limb | 4.0 |
MGMT Oracular Spectacular | 3.0 |
Agalloch The Mantle | 3.0 |
Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain | 3.0 |
Ohana Dead Beat | 4.0 |
Cursive Domestica | 3.5 |
Gatsby's American Dream Volcano | 4.0 |
Gatsby's American Dream Ribbons and Sugar | 4.0 |
Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety | 2.5 |
Christina Aguilera Back to Basics | 3.5 |
Cut Copy In Ghost Colours | 3.0 |
Cut Copy Bright Like Neon Love | 3.0 |
Baroness Red Album | 4.0 |
Bring Me the Horizon Count Your Blessings | 2.5 |
Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation | 4.0 |
Red Snapper Prince Blimey | 2.0 |
Boxcutter Oneiric | 4.0 |
mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes | 5.0 |
Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season | 3.0 |
Death Spiritual Healing | 3.5 |
Death Leprosy | 3.5 |
Death Scream Bloody Gore | 3.0 |
Death The Sound of Perseverance | 4.0 |
Death Symbolic | 4.5 |
Death Individual Thought Patterns | 4.5 |
Latterman No Matter Where We Go...! | 3.5 |
Extra Life Secular Works | 3.5 |
M83 Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts | 3.0 |
Anberlin New Surrender | 4.0 |
Lisa Hannigan Sea Sew | 3.5 |
TV on the Radio Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes | 3.0 |
Insomnium Since the Day It All Came Down | 4.5 |
Cynic Traced in Air | 4.0 |
Aeon Spoke Aeon Spoke | 3.0 |
Nas Illmatic | 3.0 |
Amanda Woodward La Decadence de la Decadence | 3.5 |
Amanda Palmer Who Killed Amanda Palmer? | 3.5 |
Birds Of Tokyo Universes | 3.5 |
Majority Rule Emergency Numbers | 4.0 |
Hot Water Music A Flight and a Crash | 3.5 |
...Who Calls So Loud ...Who Calls So Loud | 3.5 |
The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 | 4.0 |
The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 (Re-release) | 3.5 |
The Blood Brothers ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn | 4.0 |
The Sound of Animals Fighting The Ocean and the Sun | 3.5 |
Okkervil River The Stand Ins | 4.0 |
Oceansize Frames | 3.0 |
The Ergs! Dorkrockcorkrod | 4.0 |
Lifetime Hello Bastards | 3.5 |
Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary | 3.0 |
United Nations United Nations | 4.0 |
Neil Perry Lineage Situation | 4.0 |
Kevin Drew Spirit If... | 3.5 |
Animal Collective Strawberry Jam | 3.5 |
Animal Collective Feels | 5.0 |
The Chemical Brothers Brotherhood | 3.5 |
Liz Phair Exile In Guyville | 4.0 |
Mercy Arms Mercy Arms | 4.0 |
Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue | 3.5 |
Mercy Arms Kept Low EP | 3.5 |
mewithoutYou Brother, Sister | 5.0 |
Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret | 4.0 |
Built to Spill Perfect from Now On | 4.0 |
blink-182 Dude Ranch | 3.5 |
Bloc Party Intimacy | 2.5 |
Jesu Conqueror | 2.5 |
Van She Van She | 3.0 |
Lifetime Jersey's Best Dancers | 4.5 |
The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound | 3.5 |
Blacklisted Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God | 4.0 |
Saltillo Ganglion | 4.0 |
These Arms Are Snakes Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home | 3.0 |
Minor Threat Complete Discography | 4.0 |
Hopesfall The Satellite Years | 3.5 |
Shai Hulud Misanthropy Pure | 3.0 |
NoMeansNo Wrong | 4.5 |
Blue Sky Black Death Late Night Cinema | 4.0 |
My Own Private Alaska MOPA | 2.0 |
Orphaned Land El Norra Alila | 3.0 |
Disillusion Back to Times of Splendor | 4.0 |
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | 4.0 |
The Flashbulb Soundtrack to a Vacant Life | 3.5 |
The Get Up Kids Something to Write Home About | 4.0 |
Belle and Sebastian If You're Feeling Sinister | 3.5 |
Red Sparowes Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red... | 3.0 |
Daitro/Sed Non Satiata Split | 4.0 |
Guided by Voices Bee Thousand | 4.0 |
Delerium Karma | 4.0 |
Bad Astronaut Houston: We Have a Drinking Problem | 3.5 |
Bad Astronaut Twelve Small Steps, One Giant Disappointment | 3.0 |
pg.lost It's Not Me, It's You! | 3.5 |
Van She V | 3.5 |
Beirut The Flying Club Cup | 3.5 |
Organized Konfusion Stress: The Extinction Agenda | 4.5 |
Black Star Black Star | 4.0 |
Ghostface Killah Ironman | 4.0 |
Venetian Snares Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett | 4.0 |
Dizzee Rascal Boy In Da Corner | 4.0 |
Santigold Santogold | 3.5 |
Santigold Top Ranking - A Diplo Dub | 4.0 |
Andy McKee Art of Motion | 4.5 |
Dark Tranquillity Damage Done | 4.5 |
Snow Patrol Eyes Open | 3.0 |
The Dodos Visiter | 4.0 |
At first glance, Visiter seems to be just there, its brand of breezy folk lying naked in the open with all on display. From Meric Long's seemingly frank, no-frills delivery to Logan Kroeber's "rainfall of rocks" percussion style, Visiter's unfaltering solidness makes it a strange offering in a genre so usually bound to intimacy. But it compels the listener to weave in and out of Visiter's musical tapestry, letting the songs fall around in the spaces in between. And when, as so often happens, the occasional musical idea strikes, it strikes deep, as beautiful lyrics swim over frenzied percussion and hurried, twangy guitar lines. And that, of course, is Visiter's strength- it's an album so at ease with itself that it's hard not to be taken into the folds of its fatherly arms: serious, but in the end, always there for you. |
Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip Angles | 3.5 |
Brendan Canning Something For All of Us... | 3.5 |
Angus and Julia Stone A Book Like This | 3.5 |
Loma Prieta Last City | 3.5 |
Ghostlimb Bearing & Distance | 3.5 |
The Herd Summerland | 4.0 |
Angus and Julia Stone Chocolates & Cigarettes | 4.0 |
Stars Set Yourself On Fire | 4.0 |
Sunset Rubdown Shut Up I Am Dreaming | 3.0 |
The Fall of Troy Ghostship Demos | 4.0 |
The Fall of Troy The Fall of Troy | 3.5 |
The Fall of Troy Doppelganger | 3.5 |
Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica | 4.0 |
Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West | 4.0 |
Edge of Sanity Crimson | 4.0 |
Shai Hulud That Within Blood Ill-Tempered | 3.5 |
Jeromes Dream Completed | 3.5 |
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV | 3.5 |
Jawbreaker 24 Hour Revenge Therapy | 3.5 |
Jawbreaker Dear You | 3.5 |
Girl Talk Feed the Animals | 3.5 |
Jimmy Eat World Bleed American | 3.5 |
Iron And Wine The Shepherd's Dog | 4.0 |
Grizzly Bear Yellow House | 3.5 |
Jimmy Eat World Clarity | 4.5 |
Okkervil River The Stage Names | 3.5 |
Okkervil River Black Sheep Boy | 4.0 |
Off Minor Some Blood | 4.0 |
Norma Jean O' God, the Aftermath | 3.0 |
Poison the Well The Opposite of December | 4.0 |
Jesu Silver | 3.5 |
Suis La Lune Quiet, Pull the Strings! | 3.5 |
Circle Jerks Group Sex | 3.5 |
The Appleseed Cast Peregrine | 3.5 |
The Appleseed Cast Low Level Owl, Vol. 2 | 3.5 |
The Appleseed Cast Low Level Owl, Volume I | 4.5 |
Joshua Fit For Battle To Bring Our Own End | 4.0 |
The Khayembii Communique The Khayembii Communiqué | 3.0 |
Descendents Milo Goes to College | 4.5 |
Underoath Define the Great Line | 4.0 |
A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide | 3.5 |
Islands Return To The Sea | 3.0 |
Crystal Castles Crystal Castles | 4.0 |
I realize that I'm going to lose a lot of indie points for this, but I'm too busy elegantly disheveling my hair to give a damn. Trailing on the bookends of the electrokidz craze of '07, Crystal Castles had just about everything going against them. If the gimmicky 8 bit gameboy samples didn't make this an album already marked for the bin of quick love, NME pretty much sounded the band's death knell by naming Alice Glass the coolest person of '08. And besides, nurave electro is sooo 2007. But I told you - I don't give a damn. There's more fun here than you'll find on a string of glowstick parties and more than enough surprises - from the manic "Xxzxcuzx Me" to the electropop of "Good Time" - to keep it interesting for a while to come. |
Wolf Parade At Mount Zoomer | 2.5 |
Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 5.0 |
I once subscribed to the idea that your favorite music was supposed to be the type of music you could listen to over and over again because it was, well, your favorite. In the dazzling light of the trail blazed by Bon Iver's For Emma, Forever Ago, I'm not sure I can hold on to that anymore. The simple truth is that I can't listen to this over and over again. There's just something about having your heartstrings pulled across every galaxy of emotion that begs for moderation - and that's exactly what this record represents: an intimacy carved into the deepest confines of the soul, skipping with bounds and strides across ears and into the chest with piercing clarity. And it hurts, a brilliant hurt. But maybe now I can subscribe to a new adage: that it's the pain that reminds us that we're all really alive in the first place. |
Algernon Cadwallader Some Kind Of Cadwallader | 3.5 |
Michael Jackson Thriller | 4.0 |
Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 4.0 |
Eucalypt Collection | 4.0 |
Organized Konfusion Organized Konfusion | 4.5 |
Moonsorrow Viides luku - Hävitetty | 4.5 |
Kalmah For the Revolution | 3.0 |
mum Finally We Are No One | 3.0 |
God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright | 3.5 |
Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss | 3.5 |
The Presets Apocalypso | 3.5 |
Rites of Spring End on End | 4.0 |
HORSE the band R. Borlax | 2.5 |
The Nation of Ulysses Plays Pretty for Baby | 4.0 |
Hercules and Love Affair Hercules and Love Affair | 3.5 |
Quo Vadis Defiant Imagination | 3.5 |
The Wombats A Guide to Love, Loss and Desperation | 3.5 |
Roisin Murphy Overpowered | 3.5 |
Drive Like Jehu Drive Like Jehu | 4.5 |
Pennywise Pennywise | 3.5 |
Pennywise Full Circle | 3.5 |
Insomnium Above the Weeping World | 4.0 |
Drive Like Jehu Yank Crime | 4.0 |
Blonde Redhead 23 | 4.0 |
Pennywise Reason to Believe | 3.0 |
Cut Chemist The Audience's Listening | 3.5 |
Be Your Own Pet Get Awkward | 3.0 |
Lightning Bolt Wonderful Rainbow | 3.5 |
DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... | 4.0 |
DJ Shadow The Private Press | 4.0 |
Son Lux At War With Walls And Mazes | 2.5 |
Melt-Banana Cell-Scape | 4.0 |
cLOUDDEAD cLOUDDEAD | 3.5 |
Why? Alopecia | 4.0 |
In Pieces Lions Write History | 3.0 |
The Crystal Method Tweekend | 3.5 |
Pharoahe Monch Desire | 4.5 |
GZA Liquid Swords | 4.0 |
Fluke Puppy | 4.0 |
The Prodigy Music for the Jilted Generation | 3.5 |
Shpongle Tales of the Inexpressible | 4.5 |
UNKLE Psyence Fiction | 3.5 |
The Crystal Method Vegas | 3.5 |
Underworld dubnobasswithmyheadman | 4.0 |
Tricky Maxinquaye | 4.5 |
Hybrid (UK) Wide Angle | 4.0 |
Juno Reactor Bible Of Dreams | 4.0 |
Hallucinogen Twisted | 4.5 |
Rob Dougan Furious Angels | 3.5 |
Owls Owls | 3.5 |
Shellac At Action Park | 4.0 |
Patrick Wolf Lycanthropy | 4.0 |
You and I The Curtain Falls | 4.5 |
You and I Discography | 4.5 |
Strung Out Suburban Teenage Wasteland Blues | 4.0 |
Strung Out Twisted By Design | 4.0 |
Millencolin Pennybridge Pioneers | 4.0 |
Millencolin Same Old Tunes | 4.0 |
American Football American Football | 3.5 |
Vex'd Degenerate | 4.0 |
Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness | 3.5 |
Do Make Say Think You, You're a History in Rust | 4.0 |
Dan Deacon Spiderman of the Rings | 3.5 |
Diplo FabricLive.24 | 3.5 |
Leftfield Leftism | 3.5 |
Dio Holy Diver | 3.5 |
Thursday Full Collapse | 4.0 |
Diplo Florida | 3.5 |
Spank Rock FabricLive.33 | 4.0 |
M.I.A. Piracy Funds Terrorism, Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
Plump DJs Eargasm | 3.5 |
Louis XIV The Best Little Secrets Are Kept | 2.5 |
Bonde Do Role With Lazers | 3.5 |
The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots | 4.0 |
Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere | 3.5 |
Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True | 4.0 |
Protest the Hero Fortress | 3.5 |
The Red Chord Fused Together in Revolving Doors | 3.5 |
Agalloch Pale Folklore | 3.5 |
Funeral Diner The Underdark | 4.0 |
Primordial To the Nameless Dead | 4.0 |
Dizzee Rascal Maths and English | 4.0 |
Klute The Emperors New Clothes | 3.5 |
Damien Rice 9 | 3.5 |
Damien Rice O | 4.0 |
Flogging Molly Drunken Lullabies | 3.0 |
Panda Bear Person Pitch | 4.5 |
Joan of Arc How Memory Works | 3.5 |
Animal Collective Sung Tongs | 4.0 |
Goldie Timeless | 3.5 |
London Elektricity Pull The Plug | 4.0 |
Sigh Hangman's Hymn | 3.0 |
Girl Talk Night Ripper | 3.5 |
Aphrodite Aftershock | 4.0 |
Ensiferum Ensiferum | 3.0 |
Big D and the Kids Table How it Goes | 3.5 |
M.I.A. Kala | 4.0 |
Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy | 3.5 |
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III | 4.0 |
Concord Dawn Chaos By Design | 3.5 |
Caribou Andorra | 3.5 |
Yo La Tengo I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass | 3.5 |
Timbaland Timbaland Presents Shock Value | 3.0 |
Spank Rock YoYoYoYoYo | 4.0 |
Pendulum Hold Your Colour | 3.0 |
Finch Say Hello to Sunshine | 4.0 |
Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 | 4.0 |
Dr. Octagon Dr. Octagonecologyst | 3.5 |
Patrick Wolf Wind in the Wires | 4.5 |
John 5 The Devil Knows My Name | 4.0 |
Patrick Wolf The Magic Position | 4.0 |
Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children | 3.5 |
The Cure Pornography | 3.5 |
Portrait Discography | 4.0 |
La Quiete La fine non è la fine | 4.0 |
Oceansize Everyone Into Position | 3.0 |
Kite Flying Society [FL] A Discography | 4.5 |
NOFX Punk in Drublic | 4.0 |
Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People | 4.5 |
Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene | 4.5 |
Television Marquee Moon | 3.0 |
Pavement Slanted and Enchanted | 3.5 |
Goldfinger Stomping Ground | 3.5 |
Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates | 4.0 |
Paramore All We Know Is Falling | 3.0 |
Feist The Reminder | 4.5 |
Botch We Are the Romans | 4.0 |
Botch An Anthology of Dead Ends | 4.0 |
Burial Untrue | 4.5 |
Bridezilla Bridezilla EP | 3.5 |
Beyond The Embrace Against The Elements | 3.5 |
Mineral EndSerenading | 3.5 |
Brand New Deja Entendu | 4.0 |
Operator Please Yes Yes Vindictive | 3.0 |
Box Car Racer Box Car Racer | 4.0 |
blink-182 Blink-182 | 3.5 |
Slint Spiderland | 5.0 |
Bear vs. Shark Right Now You're in the Best of Hands | 4.0 |
The Jesus and Mary Chain Psychocandy | 4.0 |
Daft Punk Alive 2007 | 4.5 |
Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence | 4.0 |
Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between | 4.5 |
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 4.0 |
Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World | 4.5 |
Lost Valentinos Damn and Damn Again | 4.0 |
Owen At Home With Owen | 3.5 |
Cacophony Speed Metal Symphony | 3.5 |
Cacophony Go Off! | 3.5 |
The Cure Boys Don't Cry | 3.5 |
The Cure Disintegration | 4.0 |
Oceansize Effloresce | 3.0 |
Angels and Airwaves I-Empire | 2.5 |
Cap'n Jazz Analphabetapolothology | 4.0 |
Minus the Bear Planet of Ice | 4.0 |
Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 4.0 |
Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye | 4.0 |
Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 3.5 |
Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 5.0 |
Ampere All Our Tomorrows End Today | 3.5 |
Arsis United in Regret | 3.0 |
Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come | 4.5 |
Klaxons Myths of the Near Future | 4.0 |
LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver | 3.5 |
Sunny Day Real Estate Diary | 4.0 |
Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 4.0 |
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 3.5 |
The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds | 3.5 |
Say Anything In Defense of the Genre | 4.5 |
Paramore Riot! | 3.5 |
Yelle Pop-Up | 3.5 |
Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky | 4.5 |
Moss Icon Lyburnum Wits End Liberation Fly | 4.5 |
The Velvet Underground White Light/White Heat | 3.5 |
The Saddest Landscape The Sound Of The Spectacle | 3.5 |
The Saddest Landscape Lift Your Burdens High For This is Where We Cross | 3.5 |
AFI The Art of Drowning | 3.5 |
AFI Sing the Sorrow | 3.5 |
Radiohead In Rainbows | 4.5 |
Protest the Hero Kezia | 4.0 |
Converge Jane Doe | 5.0 |
Anberlin Cities | 3.5 |
System of a Down Hypnotize | 2.0 |
System of a Down Mezmerize | 2.0 |
Kid Dynamite Kid Dynamite | 3.5 |
Unkle Ho Circus Maximus | 3.0 |
Urthboy The Signal | 3.5 |
The Herd The Herd | 4.0 |
The Herd An Elefant Never Forgets | 4.5 |
The Herd Sun Never Sets | 4.5 |
Slowdive Souvlaki | 3.5 |
Red Hot Chili Peppers One Hot Minute | 3.0 |
Matchbox Twenty Exile on Mainstream | 3.5 |
Thrice Vheissu | 4.0 |
Thom Yorke The Eraser | 3.5 |
Daitro Laisser Vivre Les Squelettes | 4.0 |
Tera Melos Untitled | 3.5 |
Sed Non Satiata Le Ciel De Notre Enfance | 5.0 |
Stateless Stateless | 3.5 |
Propagandhi Potemkin City Limits | 4.0 |
Propagandhi Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes | 4.0 |
Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy | 5.0 |
New Young Pony Club Fantastic Playroom | 2.5 |
The Go! Team Thunder, Lightning, Strike | 3.0 |
The Go! Team Proof of Youth | 3.5 |
Diablo Swing Orchestra The Butcher's Ballroom | 3.5 |
Massive Attack Mezzanine | 4.0 |
John Frusciante Smile from the Streets You Hold | 1.0 |
The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | 4.0 |
Kalmah Swampsong | 4.0 |
Kalmah They Will Return | 3.5 |
Lily Allen Alright, Still | 3.5 |
Atheist Piece of Time | 3.5 |
Atheist Unquestionable Presence | 3.5 |
+44 When Your Heart Stops Beating | 3.0 |
Sugarcult Start Static | 3.0 |
blink-182 Enema Of The State | 3.0 |
Talk Talk Laughing Stock | 3.5 |
Modern Life Is War Witness | 4.5 |
Nick Drake Pink Moon | 3.5 |
Rockets and Bluelights A Smashed City with Flames and Music in the Air | 4.0 |
Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe | 4.5 |
Orchid Chaos is Me | 4.0 |
Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 4.0 |
Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 4.0 |
Deathspell Omega Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum | 3.0 |
City of Caterpillar City of Caterpillar | 5.0 |
At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 4.0 |
Saetia A Retrospective | 3.5 |
Mika Life in Cartoon Motion | 3.0 |
Wintersun Wintersun | 3.5 |
Off Minor Innominate | 4.5 |
Simian Mobile Disco Attack Decay Sustain Release | 4.0 |
Digitalism Idealism | 3.0 |
Daft Punk Discovery | 3.5 |
pg.99 Document #7 | 4.0 |
pg.99 Document #8 | 4.0 |
Operator Please On the Prowl | 3.5 |
Justice † | 4.5 |
Nile Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka | 3.5 |
Virgin Black Elegant and Dying | 2.5 |
The Shins Oh, Inverted World | 3.5 |
Kidcrash Jokes | 4.0 |
Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde | 4.0 |
Muse Absolution | 4.5 |
Muse Origin of Symmetry | 4.0 |
Joe Satriani Surfing With The Alien | 3.0 |
Dave Navarro Trust No One | 3.0 |
Death From Above 1979 You're a Woman, I'm a Machine | 3.5 |
The Presets Beams | 4.0 |
My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 4.5 |
Bloc Party Silent Alarm | 3.5 |
pg.99 Document #5 | 4.5 |
Husker Du Zen Arcade | 4.0 |
Hot Cross Cryonics | 4.0 |
Alexisonfire Crisis | 3.0 |
Envy A Dead Sinking Story | 3.5 |
Metallica Master of Puppets | 2.5 |
Rachid Taha Made in Medina | 3.5 |
Rachid Taha Tekitoi | 4.0 |
Velvet Revolver Libertad | 3.0 |
Korn See You on the Other Side | 1.0 |
Opeth Blackwater Park | 3.0 |
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Source Tags and Codes | 3.5 |
Jane's Addiction Kettle Whistle | 3.5 |
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico | 3.0 |
John Mayer Continuum | 4.5 |
The Veronicas The Secret Life Of... | 3.5 |
Defiance, Ohio The Great Depression | 4.0 |
Morning Glory The Whole World is Watching | 4.0 |
Craig Armstrong Plunkett & MacLeane OST | 4.0 |
Justin King Le Bleu | 4.5 |
Save Ferris Modified | 2.5 |
Save Ferris It Means Everything | 3.5 |
Flametal The Elder | 4.0 |
Persefone Truth Inside the Shades | 4.5 |
Linkin Park Meteora | 2.0 |
Ulver Perdition City | 2.0 |
Linkin Park Live In Texas | 2.0 |
Goldfinger Open Your Eyes | 2.0 |
Murder by Death Like the Exorcist, but More Breakdancing | 2.0 |
Theatre Of Tragedy Storm | 2.0 |
Alexisonfire Alexisonfire | 2.5 |
Green Day Dookie | 2.5 |
Alexisonfire Watch Out! | 2.5 |
Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 2.5 |
Green Day American Idiot | 2.5 |
ISIS Panopticon | 2.5 |
Against Me! Reinventing Axl Rose | 2.5 |
The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 2.5 |
Audioslave Out of Exile | 2.5 |
Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse of Reason | 2.5 |
Leftover Crack Mediocre Generica | 2.5 |
Origin Echoes of Decimation | 2.5 |
Robert Plant and the Strange Sensation Mighty Rearranger | 2.5 |
MC Lars The Graduate | 2.5 |
The Amenta Occasus | 2.5 |
Finch What It Is to Burn | 3.0 |
Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication | 3.0 |
Radiohead Pablo Honey | 3.0 |
John Frusciante Shadows Collide with People | 3.0 |
The Black Dahlia Murder Unhallowed | 3.0 |
Oasis Be Here Now | 3.0 |
Mastodon Leviathan | 3.0 |
So come the 'saviours of modern metal' with their second studio release and, well, while the odd few would go so far as to coin a whole other genre of 'whalecore' (oh yes really) on account of it's awsomeness, the truth is, this just another run of the mill, albeit solid, metal record. So Dailor can drum pretty well, and Kelliher and Hinds can harmonize like choir boys on guitar and Sanders ain't no slouch either I suppose. But that's it. There's nothing new to hear here, but I suppose these nothing old either. Moving along.... |
Opeth Still Life | 3.0 |
Necrophagist Onset of Putrefaction | 3.0 |
Velvet Revolver Contraband | 3.0 |
Jet Get Born | 3.0 |
The White Stripes De Stijl | 3.0 |
Arcade Fire The Arcade Fire | 3.0 |
The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma | 3.0 |
Jane's Addiction Strays | 3.0 |
Slapstick Slapstick | 3.0 |
Megadeth Capitol Punishment | 3.0 |
Evanescence Fallen | 3.0 |
Manic Street Preachers This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours | 3.0 |
Be Your Own Pet Be Your Own Pet | 3.0 |
Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros Global A Go-Go | 3.0 |
Tool 10,000 Days | 3.0 |
Rodrigo y Gabriela Rodrigo y Gabriela | 3.0 |
Aghora Formless | 3.0 |
Sinergy Beware The Heavens | 3.0 |
Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris | 3.0 |
Murderdolls Beyond The Valley of the Murderdolls | 3.0 |
Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 3.5 |
Radiohead Amnesiac | 3.5 |
Tool Ænima | 3.5 |
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 3.5 |
Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way | 3.5 |
System of a Down Toxicity | 3.5 |
Jeff Buckley Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk | 3.5 |
Queens of the Stone Age Rated R | 3.5 |
Leftover Crack Fuсk World Trade | 3.5 |
John Mayer Heavier Things | 3.5 |
Mostly Autumn The Spirit of Autumn Past | 3.5 |
Immortal Sons of Northern Darkness | 3.5 |
Bad Religion Suffer | 3.5 |
Mahavishnu Orchestra Birds of Fire | 3.5 |
Mahavishnu Orchestra The Inner Mounting Flame | 3.5 |
Ulver Kveldssanger | 3.5 |
Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age | 3.5 |
Stone Temple Pilots Core | 3.5 |
Stone Temple Pilots Purple | 3.5 |
The Aquabats The Fury of the Aquabats! | 3.5 |
Mudvayne Lost and Found | 3.5 |
Oasis Don't Believe the Truth | 3.5 |
The Decemberists Picaresque | 3.5 |
Funkadelic Maggot Brain | 3.5 |
John 5 Vertigo | 3.5 |
The Verve A Northern Soul | 3.5 |
Manic Street Preachers Gold Against The Soul | 3.5 |
Wolfmother Wolfmother | 3.5 |
Iron Maiden Edward the Great | 3.5 |
John Petrucci Suspended Animation | 3.5 |
Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros Streetcore | 3.5 |
Kalmah The Black Waltz | 3.5 |
Placebo Meds | 3.5 |
Fragments of Unbecoming Sterling Black Icon: Black But Shining | 3.5 |
Green Carnation Light of Day, Day of Darkness | 3.5 |
Green Carnation The Acoustic Verses | 3.5 |
Propagandhi How to Clean Everything | 3.5 |
Morning Glory This is No Time Ta Sleep | 3.5 |
Gary Moore Still Got The Blues | 3.5 |
Unexpect Utopia | 3.5 |
Deconstruction Deconstruction | 3.5 |
After Forever Remagine | 3.5 |
The White Stripes Icky Thump | 3.5 |
Sinergy Suicide By My Side | 3.5 |
Dream Theater Train of Thought | 4.0 |
Radiohead The Bends | 4.0 |
Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 4.0 |
Placebo Without You I'm Nothing | 4.0 |
Pixies Doolittle | 4.0 |
Red Hot Chili Peppers Mother's Milk | 4.0 |
Sublime Sublime | 4.0 |
Sublime 40 Oz. to Freedom | 4.0 |
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV | 4.0 |
Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll | 4.0 |
The Prodigy The Fat of the Land | 4.0 |
Mudvayne L.D. 50 | 4.0 |
Young Heart Attack Mouthful of Love | 4.0 |
Tenacious D Tenacious D | 4.0 |
Children of Bodom Something Wild | 4.0 |
Children of Bodom Hatebreeder | 4.0 |
The Filaments Skull And Trombones | 4.0 |
Manic Street Preachers Everything Must Go | 4.0 |
The Filaments ...Whats Next? | 4.0 |
At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul | 4.0 |
John Mayer Room for Squares | 4.0 |
Gordian Knot Gordian Knot | 4.0 |
Weird Al Yankovic Running With Scissors | 4.0 |
Christopher O'Riley True Love Waits | 4.0 |
Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik | 4.0 |
Arsis A Celebration of Guilt | 4.0 |
Gordian Knot Emergent | 4.0 |
Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 4.0 |
Jane's Addiction Jane's Addiction | 4.0 |
The White Stripes The White Stripes | 4.0 |
The Aquabats Charge!! | 4.0 |
Maroon 5 Songs About Jane | 4.0 |
The Clash The Essential Clash | 4.0 |
The Verve Urban Hymns | 4.0 |
Guns N' Roses Live Era '87-'93 | 4.0 |
Stone Temple Pilots Thank You | 4.0 |
John Butler Trio Sunrise Over Sea | 4.0 |
Placebo Placebo | 4.0 |
John 5 Songs For Sanity | 4.0 |
Kalmah Swamplord | 4.0 |
At the Gates Terminal Spirit Disease | 4.0 |
John Mayer Trio Try! | 4.0 |
This one shut them allll up didn't it? No more pretty boy here, Mayer delves staright into his raw roots of aqua blues, playing like the best of them and using his soothing but oh-so-dirty voice to give us one of the purest and punchy records of his career. This was the album Mayer simply had to have - from him to us, a breath of awesomeness. |
Manic Street Preachers Generation Terrorists | 4.0 |
Psycroptic The Scepter of the Ancients | 4.0 |
Slash's Snakepit It's Five O'Clock Somewhere | 4.0 |
Psycroptic Symbols of Failure | 4.0 |
Streetlight Manifesto Keasbey Nights | 4.0 |
Defiance, Ohio Share What Ya Got | 4.0 |
John Petrucci An Evening With John Petrucci & Jordan Rudess | 4.0 |
Christopher O'Riley Hold Me To This | 4.0 |
Silversun Pickups Carnavas | 4.0 |
Unexpect In a Flesh Aquarium | 4.0 |
Dark Tranquillity Character | 4.0 |
Eluvium Copia | 4.0 |
Dark Tranquillity Fiction | 4.0 |
John Butler Trio Grand National | 4.0 |
Battles Mirrored | 4.0 |
Persefone Core | 4.0 |
Slash's Snakepit Ain't Life Grand | 4.0 |
NOFX The Decline | 4.5 |
Tool Lateralus | 4.5 |
Catch 22 Keasbey Nights | 4.5 |
blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket | 4.5 |
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin | 4.5 |
The Clash London Calling | 4.5 |
Jane's Addiction Nothing's Shocking | 4.5 |
Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? | 4.5 |
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II | 4.5 |
Jeff Buckley Grace | 4.5 |
Jane's Addiction Ritual De Lo Habitual | 4.5 |
Cynic Focus | 4.5 |
Oasis Definitely Maybe | 4.5 |
Operation Ivy Energy | 4.5 |
After Forever Invisible Circles | 4.5 |
Aghora Aghora | 4.5 |
Pink Floyd Pulse | 4.5 |
Unexpect _We, Invaders | 4.5 |
X Japan Art of Life | 4.5 |
Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols | 4.5 |
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin [DVD] | 4.5 |
Blue Man Group The Complex Rock Tour Live (DVD) | 4.5 |
Minutemen Double Nickels on the Dime | 4.5 |
Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction | 4.5 |
Arsis A Diamond for Disease | 4.5 |
After Forever Decipher | 4.5 |
Orphaned Land Mabool (The Story of the Three Sons...) | 4.5 |
The Lawrence Arms Oh! Calcutta! | 4.5 |
Pink Floyd Pulse — The Film | 4.5 |
Sarah Blasko What the Sea Wants, the Sea Will Have | 4.5 |
This album absolutely pulses with gut wrenching beauty - Blasko's hauntingly vulnerable vocal performance is only matched by the immensity of her songwriting skills and the freshness she brings to a pop scene on defibrillators. For fans of singer/songwriters everywhere, this release is up there among the best of the year. |
John Butler Trio Three | 4.5 |
John Butler Trio John Butler | 4.5 |
After Forever After Forever | 4.5 |
De Lucia, McLaughlin, Di Meola Friday Night In San Francisco | 4.5 |
Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb | 5.0 |
Radiohead Kid A | 5.0 |
Arcade Fire Funeral | 5.0 |
Radiohead OK Computer | 5.0 |
Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible | 5.0 |
Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution A Call To Arms | 5.0 |
Death Human | 5.0 |