| Behemoth The Satanist | 3.5 |
| Aenaon Extance | 3.5 |
| Vindensang Terminus: Rebirth in Eight Parts... | 4.0 |
| Vindensang Alpha | 4.0 |
| Inferi (FIN) Shores of Sorrow | 4.0 |
| Olafur Arnalds For Now I Am Winter | 3.5 |
| The Mire Glass Cathedrals | 4.0 |
| Have a Nice Life The Unnatural World | 3.0 |
| Panopticon Collapse | 3.5 |
| Cobalt Eater of Birds | 3.5 |
| Cobalt Gin | 4.0 |
| Lifelover Konkurs | 4.0 |
| Germ Grief | 3.0 |
| Drudkh Eastern Frontier in Flames | 2.0 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything | 3.0 |
| Woods of Desolation As the Stars | 4.0 |
| Lil B 05 Fuck Em | 1.0 |
| Croatian Amor The World | 1.5 |
| u-Ziq Chewed Corners | 3.5 |
| u-Ziq Duntisbourne Abbots Soulmate Devastation Technique | 2.5 |
| u-Ziq Bilious Paths | 3.0 |
| u-Ziq In Pine Effect | 3.5 |
| u-Ziq Tango N' Vectif | 4.0 |
| u-Ziq Lunatic Harness | 4.0 |
| u-Ziq Royal Astronomy | 3.5 |
| u-Ziq Bluff Limbo | 3.0 |
| Klabautamann Our Journey Through the Woods | 3.5 |
| Klabautamann The Old Chamber | 3.5 |
| Klabautamann Merkur | 4.0 |
| Klabautamann Der Ort | 4.0 |
| Mogwai Rave Tapes | 3.0 |
| Clad In Darkness Amidst Her Shadows | 3.5 |
| Portico Quartet Isla | 4.0 |
| Forgotten Tomb ...And Don't Deliver Us from Evil | 2.0 |
| Forgotten Tomb Under Saturn Retrograde | 3.0 |
| Forgotten Tomb Negative Megalomania | 2.5 |
| Forgotten Tomb Love's Burial Ground | 3.0 |
| Forgotten Tomb Springtime Depression | 3.5 |
| Forgotten Tomb Songs to Leave | 3.5 |
| Sombres Forets Quintessence | 3.5 |
| Gris Neurasthénie | 3.5 |
| Burial Untrue | 1.5 |
| Burial Rival Dealer | 2.0 |
| fantastic Burial release |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Muukalainen Puhuu | 3.5 |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Kosmonument | 3.5 |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Valonielu | 4.0 |
| Hol Baumann Human | 4.0 |
| Asura Oxygene | 3.0 |
| Asura Code Eternity | 4.0 |
| Asura Lost Eden | 3.5 |
| Asura 360 | 3.5 |
| Asura Life2 | 4.0 |
| AES Dana Season 5 | 3.0 |
| AES Dana Pollen | 3.5 |
| AES Dana Leylines | 3.5 |
| AES Dana Aftermath | 3.5 |
| Kauan Pirut | 4.0 |
| Ataraxie Anhedonie | 4.0 |
| Exivious Liminal | 4.0 |
| Trespassers William Cast | 3.5 |
| Trespassers William Having | 4.0 |
| Trespassers William Different Stars | 4.0 |
| Obscure Sphinx Void Mother | 3.5 |
| Grey Waters Below The Ever Setting Sun | 3.5 |
| Obliteration Black Death Horizon | 4.5 |
| Hammock Oblivion Hymns | 4.0 |
| Vagrond Temporal | 4.0 |
| Portal Swarth | 4.0 |
| M83 You and the Night (OST) | 3.0 |
| M83 Oblivion (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | 3.5 |
| Seefeel Quique | 4.0 |
| Loscil Coast/Range/Arc | 3.0 |
| Loscil Triple Point | 3.5 |
| Loscil First Narrows | 3.5 |
| Loscil Plume | 3.5 |
| Loscil Endless Falls | 4.0 |
| Loscil Sketches From New Brighton | 4.0 |
| Cerna Restoring Life | 4.0 |
| Year of No Light Tocsin | 3.5 |
| Year of No Light Nord | 4.0 |
| Year of No Light Ausserwelt | 4.0 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Hearts Of Light/Blossoms | 4.0 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Try Not To Destroy Everything You Love | 4.0 |
| AFX Smojphace | 2.0 |
| AFX Hangable Auto Bulb EP | 4.0 |
| AFX Hangable Auto Bulb EP.2 | 4.5 |
| This album should be rated higher than HAB2. HAB1 is great, but this EP is brilliant. |
| AES Dana Perimeters | 3.5 |
| AES Dana Memory Shell | 4.0 |
| Solar Fields Origin #01 | 3.5 |
| Solar Fields Until We Meet the Sky | 3.0 |
| Solar Fields Altered - Second Movements | 4.0 |
| Solar Fields Reflective Frequencies | 3.5 |
| Solar Fields Extended | 4.0 |
| Solar Fields Leaving Home | 4.5 |
| Solar Fields Random Friday | 3.0 |
| Raison D'Etre Lost fragments 2CD | 3.5 |
| Raison D'Etre When the Earth Dissolves in Ashes | 3.0 |
| Raison D'Etre Prospectus I | 3.0 |
| Raison D'Etre Enthralled by the Wind of Loneliness | 3.5 |
| Raison D'Etre The Stains of the Embodied Sacrifice | 3.5 |
| Raison D'Etre Requiem for Abandoned Souls | 4.0 |
| Raison D'Etre Within the Depths of Silence and Phormations | 4.0 |
| Raison D'Etre In Sadness, Silence and Solitude | 4.0 |
| Raison D'Etre The Empty Hollow Unfolds | 4.5 |
| Raison D'Etre Metamorphyses | 4.0 |
| Bitcrush Enarc | 3.0 |
| Stars of the Lid The Ballasted Orchestra | 4.0 |
| Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline | 4.5 |
| Stars of the Lid The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid | 4.0 |
| The Dead Texan The Dead Texan | 4.0 |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms Twentythree | 3.5 |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms Interloper | 4.0 |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms World Of Sleepers | 4.5 |
| Solar Fields Blue Moon Station | 4.0 |
| Solar Fields Movements | 4.0 |
| Solar Fields Origin #02 | 3.5 |
| Susumu Yokota The Boy and the Tree | 3.0 |
| Susumu Yokota Symbol | 3.5 |
| Susumu Yokota Magic Thread | 3.0 |
| Deathspell Omega Paracletus | 4.0 |
| Deathspell Omega Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum | 3.5 |
| Vaura The Missing | 3.5 |
| Global Communication Pentamerous Metamorphosis | 4.0 |
| Global Communication 76:14 | 4.5 |
| July Skies Dreaming of Spires | 3.5 |
| July Skies The English Cold | 4.0 |
| July Skies The Weather Clock | 3.5 |
| Last Days Satellite | 3.0 |
| Last Days The Safety of the North | 3.5 |
| Last Days These Places Are Now Ruins | 3.5 |
| Last Days Sea | 4.0 |
| Biosphere N-Plants | 3.5 |
| Biosphere Microgravity | 3.0 |
| Biosphere Patashnik | 3.0 |
| Biosphere Substrata | 4.0 |
| Biosphere Cirque | 4.0 |
| Biosphere Shenzhou | 3.5 |
| Biosphere Dropsonde | 4.0 |
| Loscil Submers | 4.0 |
| Move D Kunststoff | 2.5 |
| Emeralds What Happened | 3.5 |
| Emeralds The Overlook | 3.5 |
| Gas Gas | 3.5 |
| Gas Zauberberg | 4.0 |
| Gas Königsforst | 4.0 |
| Gas Pop | 4.0 |
| Autechre Move Of Ten | 3.5 |
| Autechre Splitrmx12 | 3.0 |
| Autechre Peel Session | 3.5 |
| Autechre Peel Session 2 | 3.5 |
| Autechre Cichlisuite | 4.0 |
| Autechre Envane | 3.5 |
| Autechre Cavity Job | 2.0 |
| Autechre Anti | 3.5 |
| Autechre We R Are Why | 2.5 |
| Autechre Basscad | 3.0 |
| Autechre Anvil Vapre | 4.0 |
| Autechre Garbage | 4.0 |
| Autechre Quaristice | 3.5 |
| Autechre Oversteps | 4.0 |
| Proem Burn Plate No. 1 | 3.5 |
| Proem Negativ | 3.5 |
| Proem You Shall Have Ever Been | 4.0 |
| Proem A Permanent Solution | 4.0 |
| Proem Till There's No Breath | 3.0 |
| Jega Spectrum | 3.5 |
| Jega Variance | 3.5 |
| Jega Geometry | 4.0 |
| Bola Fyuti | 3.5 |
| Bola Soup | 4.0 |
| Be'lakor The Frail Tide | 4.0 |
| Be'lakor Of Breath and Bone | 3.5 |
| Be'lakor Stone's Reach | 4.0 |
| Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession | 4.0 |
| Ametsub All Is Silence | 3.5 |
| Ametsub The Nothings Of The North | 3.5 |
| Ametsub Linear Cryptics | 4.0 |
| The American Dollar Ambient Three | 3.5 |
| port-royal Dying in Time | 3.5 |
| port-royal Afraid to Dance | 4.0 |
| port-royal Flares | 4.0 |
| Aerosol Airborne | 3.5 |
| Aerosol All That Is Solid Melts Into Air | 3.0 |
| M83 Saturdays=Youth | 3.5 |
| Jatun Jatun | 4.0 |
| Jatun Blanket Of Ash | 4.0 |
| Hammock Stranded Under Endless Sky | 4.0 |
| Hammock Asleep in the Downlights | 3.5 |
| Bitcrush Shimmer and Fade | 3.5 |
| Bitcrush Epilogue in Waves | 4.0 |
| Bitcrush Collapse | 3.5 |
| Bitcrush from arcs to embers | 3.0 |
| Bitcrush Of Embers | 4.0 |
| Fans of Lights Out Asia, Hammock, and m83 should check this out. |
| Bitcrush In Distance | 3.5 |
| Gridlock The Synthetic Form | 3.0 |
| Gridlock Further | 4.0 |
| Gridlock Formless | 4.5 |
| Gridlock Trace | 4.0 |
| East of the Wall Redaction Artifacts | 3.5 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 2.5 |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible | 2.5 |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs | 2.5 |
| Eluvium Static Nocturne | 3.5 |
| Eluvium Nightmare Ending | 3.5 |
| Eluvium Lambent Material | 3.5 |
| Eluvium An Accidental Memory in the Case of Death | 4.0 |
| Eluvium Similes | 3.0 |
| Eluvium Talk Amongst the Trees | 4.5 |
| Eluvium Copia | 4.5 |
| Susumu Yokota Sakura | 4.0 |
| Lovesliescrushing Avianium (Microphona Magnetica) | 3.0 |
| Lovesliescrushing CRWTH (Chorus Redux) | 3.0 |
| Lovesliescrushing Glinter | 3.5 |
| Autechre Untilted | 3.5 |
| Autechre L-event | 3.5 |
| Autechre EP7 | 4.5 |
| Russian Circles Memorial | 3.5 |
| Lovesliescrushing Glissceule | 4.0 |
| Lovesliescrushing Chorus | 3.5 |
| Lovesliescrushing Voirshn | 4.0 |
| Lovesliescrushing Girl. Echo. Suns. Veils. | 3.5 |
| Lovesliescrushing Tiny Shiny Stars | 3.5 |
| Ghost Brigade Isolation Songs | 3.0 |
| Ghost Brigade Guided By Fire | 2.5 |
| Tim Hecker Mirages | 4.5 |
| Tim Hecker Radio Amor | 4.5 |
| Sleep Dealer Shadows Of The Past | 4.0 |
| Sleep Dealer The Way Home | 4.0 |
| Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill | 4.0 |
| Grouper A I A | 4.0 |
| Grouper The Man Who Died in His Boat | 4.0 |
| I can't believe these are B-Sides to DADDUAH. This is just as good, if not better. If 2013 ended today, this would probably be my AOTY. |
| Belong Colorloss Record | 4.0 |
| Belong Common Era | 3.0 |
| Belong October Language | 4.0 |
| The Advisory Circle As The Crow Flies | 4.0 |
| Xela For Frosty Mornings and Summer Nights | 4.0 |
| Yasume Where we're from the Birds Sing a Pretty Song | 4.0 |
| Ceephax Acid Crew United Acid Emirates | 4.5 |
| Insomnium Ephemeral | 3.0 |
| Ceephax Cro Magnox | 4.0 |
| Wow, I didn't expect this. Awesome album. |
| Four Tet Beautiful Rewind | 2.5 |
| This is the most disappointing album for me so far this year. I've been afraid that Kieran was going to switch to house ever since There Is Love in You and he's finally taken the plunge. If you're into house this might be your favorite Four Tet album yet, but it unfortunately doesn't do much for me |
| Blindead Absence | 4.0 |
| CunninLynguists Will Rap For Food | 4.0 |
| CunninLynguists Southernunderground | 4.0 |
| CunninLynguists Dirty Acres | 4.0 |
| CunninLynguists A Piece Of Strange | 5.0 |
| CunninLynguists Oneirology | 4.5 |
| Hammock Kenotic | 5.0 |
| Ulver Svidd Neger OST | 3.5 |
| Ulver Lyckantropen Themes OST | 2.5 |
| Tenhi Airut: Aamujen | 4.0 |
| Tenhi Saivo | 4.0 |
| Tenhi Vare | 4.5 |
| Tenhi Kauan | 4.5 |
| Tenhi Maaaet | 4.5 |
| Vali Forlatt | 4.0 |
| Arovane Ve Palor | 4.0 |
| Arovane Atol Scrap | 4.0 |
| Arovane Lilies | 4.0 |
| Arovane Icol Diston | 3.5 |
| Arovane Tides | 4.0 |
| ISIS Celestial | 4.0 |
| Sombres Forets Royaume De Glace | 4.0 |
| Saor Roots | 4.5 |
| Shpongle Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost | 3.5 |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms Hydroponic Garden | 3.5 |
| Gorguts Considered Dead | 4.0 |
| Gorguts From Wisdom to Hate | 4.5 |
| Gorguts The Erosion of Sanity | 4.5 |
| Lovesliescrushing Bloweyelashwish | 3.5 |
| Lovesliescrushing Xuvetyn | 5.0 |
| ethereal (i-THir-eal) adj. - heavenly : seeming to belong to another world. synonyms: celestial, xuvetyn, ghostly, sublime |
| Lovesliescrushing Ghost Colored Halo | 4.0 |
| Solar Fields EarthShine | 3.5 |
| Jesu Silver | 4.0 |
| Jesu Duchess/Veiled | 2.5 |
| Jesu Everyday I Get Closer to the Light from Which I Came | 3.5 |
| Maybeshewill I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was Gone | 4.0 |
| Maybeshewill Not For Want Of Trying | 4.0 |
| Maybeshewill Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony | 4.5 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar Gangs | 2.0 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar All Hail Bright Futures | 1.0 |
| Boards of Canada Closes Volume 1 | 3.5 |
| Boards of Canada A Few Old Tunes | 4.0 |
| Boards of Canada Hi Scores | 4.0 |
| 65daysofstatic Wild Light | 3.0 |
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| A Storm Of Light Nations to Flames | 3.0 |
| Cloudkicker Subsume | 3.5 |
| Pelican Forever Becoming | 3.5 |
| A Storm Of Light And We Wept The Black Ocean Within | 3.5 |
| A Storm Of Light Forgive Us Our Trespasses | 3.5 |
| A Storm Of Light As The Valley Of Death Becomes Us... | 3.5 |
| 65daysofstatic The Fall of Math | 4.0 |
| Moving Mountains Moving Mountains | 3.0 |
| Hecq Horror Vacui | 3.5 |
| Pan American Cloud Room, Glass Room | 4.0 |
| Frosttide Awakening | 3.5 |
| Of the Wand and the Moon Nighttime Nightrhymes | 4.0 |
| Of the Wand and the Moon :Emptiness:Emptiness:Emptiness: | 4.0 |
| Of the Wand and the Moon Lucifer | 3.5 |
| Of the Wand and the Moon Sonnenheim | 4.5 |
| Of the Wand and the Moon Shall Love Fall From View? | 3.5 |
| Vallendusk Vallendusk | 4.0 |
| I Am Robot and Proud The Electricity in Your House Wants to Sing | 4.0 |
| I Am Robot and Proud Grace Days | 4.5 |
| I Am Robot and Proud Touch/Tone | 4.0 |
| Whirr June | 3.5 |
| Whirr Pipe Dreams | 3.5 |
| Whirr Around | 3.0 |
| Whirr Distressor | 4.0 |
| Ef Mourning Golden Morning | 3.5 |
| Ef I Am Responsible | 4.0 |
| Ef Give Me Beauty... Or Give Me Death! | 4.5 |
| mum Smilewound | 3.5 |
| Ef Ceremonies | 4.0 |
| Satyricon Satyricon | 3.0 |
| Current 93 Sleep Has His House | 4.0 |
| Current 93 Imperium | 4.0 |
| Current 93 Earth Covers Earth | 4.0 |
| Tim Hecker Virgins | 4.5 |
| Vali Skogslandskap | 4.5 |
| God Is an Astronaut The End of the Beginning | 4.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut God Is an Astronaut | 4.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut Far from Refuge | 4.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright | 4.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut Age of the Fifth Sun | 3.5 |
| Vaura Selenelion | 3.0 |
| Amon Amarth Deceiver of the Gods | 3.5 |
| Vreid Welcome Farewell | 3.5 |
| Fennesz Seven Stars | 3.0 |
| Delarosa and Asora Agony Part 1 | 4.0 |
| Aeroc Viscous Solid | 4.0 |
| Aeroc R+B=? | 3.5 |
| Kona Triangle Sing a New Sapling Into Existence | 4.0 |
| Bibio Mind Bokeh | 3.5 |
| Bibio Silver Wilkinson | 3.0 |
| The Avalanches Since I Left You | 2.5 |
| Tipper Bubble Control | 1.5 |
| Tipper Puzzle Dust | 2.0 |
| Tipper Snake Eyes | 2.0 |
| Tipper Shatter Box | 1.0 |
| Tipper The Critical Path | 4.0 |
| Tipper Holding Pattern | 3.5 |
| Tipper Relish The Trough | 3.0 |
| Tipper Wobble Factor | 3.5 |
| Tipper Broken Soul Jamboree | 3.5 |
| Tipper Tip Hop | 3.5 |
| Tipper The Seamless Unspeakable Something | 4.0 |
| Tipper Surrounded | 4.5 |
| Stendeck A Crash Into Another World | 2.0 |
| Stendeck Can You Hear My Call? | 2.5 |
| Stendeck Faces | 3.0 |
| Stendeck Sonnambula | 3.5 |
| Stendeck Scintilla | 3.0 |
| Kettel Whisper Me Wishes | 3.5 |
| Kettel Myam James - Part 1 | 3.5 |
| Kettel Cenny Crush | 4.0 |
| Kettel Through Friendly Waters | 4.0 |
| Kettel Myam James - Part 2 | 4.0 |
| Kettel Volleyed Iron | 3.5 |
| Kettel Smiling Little Cow | 3.5 |
| Kettel Dreim | 3.0 |
| Kettel My Dogan | 4.0 |
| Kettel Unreleased (2002-2012) | 4.0 |
| Kettel and u-Ziq have both released unreleased material albums this year. Hopefully RDJ is next. |
| Mouse on Mars Autoditacker | 3.5 |
| Mouse on Mars Iaora Tahiti | 4.0 |
| Proem Enough Conflict | 3.0 |
| Proem Among Others | 4.0 |
| Proem Socially Inept | 4.0 |
| Metallica Metallica | 3.5 |
| Carach Angren Lammendam | 4.0 |
| Carach Angren Death Came Through a Phantom Ship | 4.0 |
| Carach Angren Where the Corpses Sink Forever | 4.0 |
| Dimmu Borgir In Sorte Diaboli | 2.5 |
| Dimmu Borgir Abrahadabra | 2.0 |
| Dimmu Borgir Death Cult Armageddon | 3.0 |
| Dimmu Borgir For All Tid | 3.0 |
| Dimmu Borgir Spiritual Black Dimensions | 3.5 |
| Dimmu Borgir Stormblåst | 4.0 |
| Dimmu Borgir Enthrone Darkness Triumphant | 4.0 |
| Dimmu Borgir Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia | 3.5 |
| Limbonic Art Phantasmagoria | 2.5 |
| Limbonic Art Legacy of Evil | 3.0 |
| Limbonic Art The Ultimate Death Worship | 3.0 |
| Limbonic Art Epitome Of Illusions | 3.5 |
| Limbonic Art Ad Noctum - Dynasty Of Death | 4.0 |
| Limbonic Art In Abhorrence Dementia | 4.0 |
| Limbonic Art Moon In The Scorpio | 4.5 |
| Bal-Sagoth The Power Cosmic | 3.5 |
| Bal-Sagoth Atlantis Ascendant | 3.5 |
| Bal-Sagoth Battle Magic | 3.5 |
| Bal-Sagoth A Black Moon Broods Over Lemuria | 3.0 |
| Bal-Sagoth Starfire Burning Upon the Ice-Veiled Throne | 4.0 |
| Cryptic Wintermoon A Coming Storm | 2.5 |
| Cryptic Wintermoon The Age of Cataclysm | 4.0 |
| Odium (NOR) The Sad Realm of the Stars | 4.0 |
| Vinterland Welcome My Last Chapter | 4.0 |
| Dissection Reinkaos | 2.5 |
| Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane | 4.5 |
| Dissection The Somberlain | 4.0 |
| Emperor Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire... | 4.0 |
| Emperor IX Equilibrium | 3.5 |
| Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk | 4.0 |
| Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse | 4.0 |
| Mayhem Ordo ad Chao | 2.5 |
| Mayhem Chimera | 3.0 |
| Mayhem Grand Declaration of War | 2.0 |
| 1349 Beyond the Apocalypse | 3.5 |
| 1349 Hellfire | 3.5 |
| 1349 Liberation | 3.0 |
| 1349 Demonoir | 3.0 |
| 1349 Revelations of the Black Flame | 2.0 |
| Gorgoroth Under the Sign of Hell 2011 | 2.0 |
| Gorgoroth Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt | 2.5 |
| Gorgoroth Incipit Satan | 2.5 |
| Gorgoroth Twilight of the Idols | 3.0 |
| Gorgoroth Destroyer | 3.0 |
| Gorgoroth Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam | 3.5 |
| Gorgoroth Under the Sign of Hell | 4.0 |
| Gorgoroth Antichrist | 4.0 |
| Gorgoroth Pentagram | 4.0 |
| Panopticon Kentucky | 3.0 |
| Alrakis Alpha Eri | 3.5 |
| God Is an Astronaut Origins | 3.5 |
| Air Moon Safari | 3.0 |
| Lemon Jelly '64-'95 | 1.0 |
| Lemon Jelly Lost Horizons | 1.5 |
| Royksopp Junior | 1.0 |
| Royksopp The Understanding | 1.5 |
| Royksopp Melody A.M. | 2.0 |
| Telefon Tel Aviv Immolate Yourself | 4.0 |
| Telefon Tel Aviv Map of What Is Effortless | 4.0 |
| Telefon Tel Aviv Fahrenheit Fair Enough | 4.0 |
| Tortoise A Lazarus Taxon | 3.5 |
| Tortoise Its All Around You | 3.0 |
| Tortoise Beacons of Ancestorship | 3.0 |
| Tortoise Standards | 4.0 |
| Tortoise Tortoise | 4.0 |
| Tortoise TNT | 4.5 |
| Tortoise Millions Now Living Will Never Die | 4.5 |
| The American Dollar Atlas | 3.5 |
| The American Dollar Awake In The City | 3.5 |
| The American Dollar The American Dollar | 4.0 |
| The American Dollar The Technicolour Sleep | 4.0 |
| The American Dollar A Memory Stream | 4.0 |
| Saxon Shore Be a Bright Blue | 4.0 |
| Explosions In The Sky and David Wingo Prince Avalanche | 2.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take Care | 3.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Rescue | 3.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky How Strange, Innocence | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die... | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 4.5 |
| Sigur Ros Von | 3.5 |
| Brand New Daisy | 1.5 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 2.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 2.0 |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 2.5 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 3.0 |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 2.5 |
| From Autumn to Ashes The Fiction We Live | 3.0 |
| blink-182 Cheshire Cat | 1.0 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 1.0 |
| Green Day Warning | 2.0 |
| Green Day Nimrod | 2.0 |
| Green Day Dookie | 2.5 |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! | 2.0 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 3.0 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 3.5 |
| Otep Sevas Tra | 2.5 |
| Miserere Luminis Miserere Luminis | 3.5 |
| Sombres Forets La Mort du Soleil | 4.0 |
| Pallbearer Demo 2010 | 4.0 |
| Enshine Origin | 4.0 |
| Vintersorg Visions From The Spiral Generator | 3.5 |
| Vintersorg The Focusing Blur | 3.5 |
| Vintersorg Solens Rotter | 3.0 |
| Vintersorg Jordpuls | 3.5 |
| Ved Buens Ende Those who Caress the Pale | 3.0 |
| Ved Buens Ende Written In Waters | 4.0 |
| Ulcerate Vermis | 4.0 |
| Matmos Supreme Balloon | 3.0 |
| Matmos The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast | 3.5 |
| Matmos A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure | 3.5 |
| Matmos The West | 4.0 |
| Matmos' best |
| Matmos The Marriage of True Minds | 3.5 |
| This is Matmos' most experimental foray so far. Glitch often gets bogged down when musicians attempt to stay within the confines of accessibility. The Marriage of True Minds was created without such reservation - it is coarse, abrasive, and whimsical to the extreme, and that is the very philosophy of glitch. There is very little consistency to the album; the tracks are short, disparate forays into various concepts that once ended are dismissed and a new direction is taken. There are fleeting moments of brilliance that come to rapid fruition, but they then wilt just as quickly. This hasn't gotten very much play from me this year, but neither has it fallen completely out of circulation. A worthwhile listen for an old fan, but not an appropriate introduction for someone trying to get into Matmos' work. |
| Sun Glitters Everything Could Be Fine | 2.5 |
| Sun Glitters It's Snowing And The Girls Are Singing | 1.0 |
| Tycho Sunrise Projector | 3.5 |
| Tycho Past is Prologue | 3.0 |
| Tycho Dive | 4.0 |
| Lone Galaxy Garden | 2.5 |
| Lone Emerald Fantasy Tracks | 2.0 |
| Lone Ecstasy & Friends | 3.0 |
| Lone Lemurian | 4.0 |
| Fennesz Plus Forty Seven Degrees... | 4.0 |
| Fennesz AUN - The Beginning and the End of All Things | 3.0 |
| Fennesz Black Sea | 3.5 |
| Fennesz Venice | 4.5 |
| Fennesz Endless Summer | 4.5 |
| Fennesz Hotel paral.lel | 3.5 |
| Tim Hecker Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again | 4.0 |
| Tim Hecker An Imaginary Country | 4.0 |
| Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 | 4.0 |
| Tim Hecker Harmony in Ultraviolet | 5.0 |
| ASC Out Of Sync | 3.5 |
| ASC The Light That Burns Twice As Bright | 3.0 |
| ASC Heights Of Perception | 2.5 |
| ASC The Astral Traveller | 3.5 |
| ASC Nothing Is Certain | 3.5 |
| ASC Time Heals All | 3.5 |
| Sleeping Peonies Rose Curl, Sea Swirl | 3.5 |
| Sleeping Peonies s l o w l y d i s a p p e a r i n g | 3.0 |
| Sleeping Peonies Ghosts, and Other Things | 4.0 |
| The Great Old Ones Al Azif | 4.0 |
| Thy Serpent Forests of Witchery | 4.0 |
| Woe Quietly, Undramatically | 2.5 |
| Woe Withdrawal | 3.0 |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Agonie | 4.0 |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Der Weg Einer Freiheit | 4.0 |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Unstille | 4.0 |
| Thranenkind/Heretoir Wiedersehen - Unsere Hoffnung | 3.5 |
| King Apathy Eine Momentaufnahme - Der Rest ist nur Einsamkeit | 3.5 |
| King Apathy The Elk | 4.0 |
| Morne Shadows | 2.5 |
| Flourishing A Momentary Sense of the Immediate World | 3.5 |
| Csejthe Reminiscence | 4.0 |
| Dornenreich Flammentriebe | 2.5 |
| Dornenreich Her Von Welken Nächten | 3.5 |
| Dargaard Rise and Fall | 4.0 |
| Dargaard The Dissolution of Eternity | 4.0 |
| Dargaard In Nomine Aeternitatis | 4.0 |
| Dargaard Eternity Rites | 4.5 |
| Eluveitie Helvetios | 3.5 |
| Eluveitie Everything Remains As It Never Was | 3.0 |
| Eluveitie Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion | 2.5 |
| Eluveitie Slania | 4.0 |
| Eluveitie Spirit | 4.0 |
| Akercocke Words That Go Unspoken... | 3.5 |
| Akercocke Choronzon | 3.5 |
| Irepress Sol Eye Sea I | 3.0 |
| Red Sparowes Aphorism | 3.5 |
| Pelican Deny the Absolute/The Truce | 3.5 |
| Pelican Ataraxia/Taraxis | 2.5 |
| Blindead Devouring Weakness | 3.5 |
| Blindead Autoscopia: Murder In Phazes | 4.0 |
| Blindead Affliction XXIX II MCMXCVI | 4.0 |
| Black Dog Productions Bytes | 4.0 |
| Born of Osiris Tomorrow We Die Alive | 1.5 |
| Frigoris Wind | 3.5 |
| Kalmah 12 Gauge | 4.0 |
| Kalmah The Black Waltz | 4.0 |
| Kalmah For the Revolution | 3.0 |
| Kalmah Swamplord | 4.0 |
| Kalmah Swampsong | 4.0 |
| Kalmah They Will Return | 4.5 |
| Kalmah Seventh Swamphony | 3.5 |
| A 5 should have no stand out tracks. Every track should be of consistent quality. If just a few tracks stood out, it wouldn't be a 5. |
| Jex Thoth Blood Moon Rise | 3.5 |
| In Vain (NO) Mantra | 3.5 |
| In Vain (NO) The Latter Rain | 4.0 |
| In Vain (NO) Aenigma | 4.0 |
| I predict seeing this on many a year-end list. their strongest work by far. |
| Agrypnie F51.4 | 4.0 |
| Gorguts Obscura | 4.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Hail to the King | 1.5 |
| Krallice Dimensional Bleedthrough | 3.5 |
| Krallice Diotima | 3.5 |
| Krallice Years Past Matter | 4.0 |
| Krallice Krallice | 4.0 |
| Apocynthion Sidereus Nuncius | 3.0 |
| Nirvana Incesticide | 3.5 |
| Nirvana Bleach | 3.0 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 4.0 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 3.5 |
| October Falls The Plague of a Coming Age | 4.0 |
| Ulver Shadows of the Sun | 4.0 |
| Ulver Blood Inside | 3.5 |
| Ulver Wars of the Roses | 2.5 |
| Ulver Perdition City | 3.0 |
| Ulver Nattens Madrigal | 4.0 |
| Ulver Kveldssanger | 4.5 |
| Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler | 5.0 |
| Ulver Messe I.X-VI.X | 3.5 |
| Altar of Plagues Tides | 3.5 |
| Altar of Plagues Sol | 4.0 |
| Austere To Lay Like Old Ashes | 4.0 |
| Daft Punk Discovery | 1.5 |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories | 1.0 |
| Thy Light No Morrow Shall Dawn | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues | 2.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 2.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 3.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 2.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence | 3.0 |
| Palms Palms | 2.5 |
| lol @ searching for new music on piratebay. in need of some serious internet lessons. |
| Entropia (PL) Vesper | 3.5 |
| Do you use sputnik? Want realistic album ratings? If so, subtract a half star from each album and you're in business. |
| Hollywood Undead Notes From the Underground | 1.0 |
| Why would any band ever be interested in ripping off Linkin Park and Slipknot? I thought it was pretty established that those were the two worst bands in the universe. I think we have a new contender though. This shit is as gay as it gets. |
| Kanye West Yeezus | 1.0 |
| This is even more 1 than the last album |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica | 4.5 |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West | 4.5 |
| Megadeth Countdown to Extinction | 2.5 |
| Megadeth Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? | 2.5 |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace | 2.5 |
| Megadeth Super Collider | 1.0 |
| Anthrax Among the Living | 2.5 |
| Anthrax Spreading the Disease | 2.5 |
| Kreator Pleasure to Kill | 2.5 |
| Kreator Terrible Certainty | 2.5 |
| Kreator Extreme Aggression | 2.5 |
| Kreator Coma of Souls | 2.5 |
| Slayer Hell Awaits | 2.5 |
| Slayer Reign in Blood | 2.5 |
| Slayer South of Heaven | 2.5 |
| Slayer Seasons in the Abyss | 2.5 |
| Bright Eyes A Christmas Album | 1.0 |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning | 4.0 |
| Bright Eyes Digital Ash in a Digital Urn | 2.5 |
| Bright Eyes Cassadaga | 3.0 |
| Bright Eyes The People's Key | 2.5 |
| Bright Eyes A Collection Of Songs Written And Recorded '95-'97 | 3.5 |
| Bright Eyes Letting Off the Happiness | 4.0 |
| Bright Eyes Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground | 4.5 |
| Bright Eyes Fevers & Mirrors | 4.5 |
| Deftones White Pony | 2.0 |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute | 2.5 |
| Thursday Waiting | 3.0 |
| Thursday A City By the Light Divided | 3.5 |
| Thursday Common Existence | 4.0 |
| Thursday No Devolucion | 4.0 |
| Thursday Full Collapse | 4.0 |
| Thursday War All the Time | 5.0 |
| Lil B 100% Gutta | 1.0 |
| Representing for the gangstas all across the world still |
| Suicide Silence The Cleansing | 1.0 |
| Noumena Anatomy of Life | 3.5 |
| Noumena Pride/Fall | 2.0 |
| Noumena Death Walks With Me | 3.0 |
| In Flames Come Clarity | 2.5 |
| In Flames Soundtrack to Your Escape | 2.0 |
| In Flames Lunar Strain | 3.0 |
| In Flames Reroute to Remain | 2.5 |
| In Flames A Sense of Purpose | 1.5 |
| In Flames Clayman | 4.0 |
| In Flames Colony | 4.0 |
| In Flames Whoracle | 4.0 |
| In Flames The Jester Race | 4.0 |
| Manegarm Legions of the North | 3.5 |
| Probably the best Viking Metal album of the year so far. |
| Omnium Gatherum Spirits And August Light | 3.0 |
| Omnium Gatherum Years in Waste | 2.5 |
| Omnium Gatherum Stuck Here on Snakes Way | 3.5 |
| Omnium Gatherum The Redshift | 4.0 |
| Omnium Gatherum New World Shadows | 4.0 |
| Omnium Gatherum Beyond | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Blooddrunk | 1.0 |
| Eternal Tears of Sorrow Sinner's Serenade | 1.5 |
| Eternal Tears of Sorrow Vilda Mánnu | 2.5 |
| Eternal Tears of Sorrow Children of the Dark Waters | 4.0 |
| Eternal Tears of Sorrow Chaotic Beauty | 4.0 |
| Eternal Tears of Sorrow Before the Bleeding Sun | 4.0 |
| Eternal Tears of Sorrow A Virgin and a Whore | 4.0 |
| Eternal Tears of Sorrow Saivon Lapsi | 3.5 |
| Ensiferum Unsung Heroes | 3.5 |
| Ensiferum Iron | 4.0 |
| Ensiferum Ensiferum | 4.5 |
| Einherjer Norwegian Native Art | 4.0 |
| Einherjer Odin Owns Ye All | 3.5 |
| Behemoth Evangelion | 3.5 |
| Behemoth The Apostasy | 3.5 |
| Behemoth Demigod | 4.0 |
| Behemoth Thelema.6 | 3.0 |
| Behemoth Satanica | 3.5 |
| Behemoth Pandemonic Incantations | 3.5 |
| Behemoth Grom | 3.5 |
| Behemoth Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic) | 4.0 |
| Behemoth Zos Kia Cultus (Here and Beyond) | 4.0 |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms | 4.0 |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step | 4.5 |
| A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe | 1.0 |
| Morbid Angel Illud Divinum Insanus | 1.0 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 2.0 |
| Metallica St. Anger | 1.0 |
| Metallica Reload | 2.0 |
| Metallica Load | 3.0 |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All | 4.0 |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All | 4.5 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 4.5 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 5.0 |
| Bathory Nordland II | 3.5 |
| Bathory Nordland I | 3.5 |
| Bathory Destroyer of Worlds | 2.0 |
| Bathory Blood on Ice | 3.5 |
| Bathory Octagon | 1.0 |
| Bathory Requiem | 2.5 |
| Bathory The Return of the Darkness and Evil | 4.0 |
| Bathory Twilight of the Gods | 4.0 |
| Bathory Hammerheart | 4.5 |
| Bathory Under the Sign of the Black Mark | 4.5 |
| Bathory Blood Fire Death | 4.5 |
| Burzum Sol austan, Mani vestan | 2.5 |
| Burzum Umskiptar | 1.5 |
| Burzum Fallen | 2.0 |
| Burzum Belus | 2.5 |
| Burzum Hlidskjalf | 2.0 |
| Burzum Daudi Baldrs | 1.5 |
| Burzum Filosofem | 4.5 |
| Burzum Det Som Engang Var | 4.0 |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss | 5.0 |
| Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas | 3.5 |
| Zodiak Sermons | 4.0 |
| We Lost the Sea Crimea | 4.0 |
| We Lost the Sea The Quietest Place on Earth | 4.5 |
| Tombs Winter Hours | 4.0 |
| Tombs Path of Totality | 4.0 |
| Thy Catafalque Sublunary Tragedies | 2.5 |
| Thy Catafalque Microcosmos | 4.0 |
| Thy Catafalque Roka Hasa Radio | 4.5 |
| Thy Catafalque Rengeteg | 4.0 |
| Thy Catafalque Tuno Ido Tarlat | 5.0 |
| Graveland The Fire of Awakening | 3.0 |
| Graveland The Celtic Winter | 4.5 |
| Graveland Memory and Destiny | 4.0 |
| Appalachian Winter Silence Before the Great Mountain Wind | 2.5 |
| Appalachian Winter Winter Eternal | 4.0 |
| Appalachian Winter I Become The Frozen Land | 4.5 |
| Appalachian Winter Appalachian Winter | 4.0 |
| Appalachian Winter Ghosts of the Mountains | 4.0 |
| This is a really unique black metal venture. AW borrows alot of civil war era musical technique... from the way certain passages are chanted to flutes and fiddles. Eastcoast USBM at it's finest. It's very epic in some places where the folk metal almost transcends to viking metal. I can't explain exactly what happens in Patriarchs, but it's one of the strangest black metal songs I've ever heard. Any fan of black, folk, or even viking metal should definitely check this. |
| Caladan Brood Echoes Of Battle | 4.5 |
| Summoning Lugburz | 3.5 |
| Summoning Minas Morgul | 4.5 |
| Summoning Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame | 4.0 |
| Summoning Oath Bound | 4.0 |
| Summoning Stronghold | 4.5 |
| Moving Mountains Waves | 3.5 |
| Moving Mountains Pneuma | 4.5 |
| Summoning Dol Guldur | 5.0 |
| Summoning Old Mornings Dawn | 4.0 |
| Thurisaz The Cimmerian Years | 3.5 |
| Thurisaz Circadian Rhythm | 4.0 |
| Thurisaz Scent of a Dream | 4.5 |
| Saturnus Veronika Decides to Die | 4.0 |
| Saturnus Saturn in Ascension | 4.0 |
| Saturnus Martyre | 4.0 |
| Saturnus Paradise Belongs to You | 4.5 |
| Sage Francis Li(f)e | 3.5 |
| Sage Francis Human The Death Dance | 4.0 |
| Sage Francis A Healthy Distrust | 4.5 |
| Sage Francis Personal Journals | 5.0 |
| ASAP Rocky LONG.LIVE.A$AP | 3.0 |
| Sadistik The Balancing Act | 4.0 |
| Sadistik Flowers for My Father | 4.0 |
| This is the best indie-hop act since Personal Journals. Or maybe since First Born. |
| Russian Circles Enter | 4.0 |
| Russian Circles Station | 4.0 |
| Russian Circles Geneva | 4.5 |
| Russian Circles Empros | 4.5 |
| Dark Moor Tarot | 3.5 |
| Dark Moor Ancestral Romance | 3.0 |
| Dark Moor Ars Musica | 2.5 |
| Rhapsody of Fire Symphony of Enchanted Lands | 4.0 |
| Rhapsody of Fire Power of the Dragonflame | 4.0 |
| Rhapsody of Fire Symphony of Enchanted Lands II | 4.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Freaky Styley | 3.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Mother's Milk | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers One Hot Minute | 2.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers I'm With You | 2.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik | 4.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication | 4.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way | 5.0 |
| Redwood Hill Descender | 4.5 |
| This is where demons dwell! |
| Rapture Silent Stage | 4.0 |
| Rapture Songs for the Withering | 4.5 |
| Rapture Futile | 4.0 |
| Sun of the Blind Skullreader | 3.5 |
| Progenie Terrestre Pura U.M.A. | 4.0 |
| Procession (CL) The Cult of Disease | 3.0 |
| Procession (CL) Destroyers Of The Faith | 3.5 |
| Procession (CL) To Reap Heavens Apart | 4.0 |
| Portishead Portishead | 4.5 |
| Portishead Dummy | 4.5 |
| Portishead Third | 5.0 |
| Spark The Robotic Girl Next Door | 5.0 |
| Enabl.ed Dips33 EP | 4.0 |
| Enabl.ed Saccharine Morning | 4.5 |
| Casino Versus Japan Whole Numbers Play the Basics | 4.0 |
| Plone For Beginner Piano | 4.5 |
| Plone was signed to Warp Records for this one album, before disbanding. A very worthy addition to the Warp catalog. |
| Coldworld Melancholie² | 4.0 |
| Mogwai Les Revenants OST | 2.5 |
| Mono One Step More and You Die | 4.0 |
| Mono For My Parents | 4.0 |
| Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind | 4.5 |
| Mono You Are There | 4.0 |
| Mono Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined | 5.0 |
| mum Finally We Are No One | 4.0 |
| mum Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is OK | 4.5 |
| Plaid Scintilli | 3.0 |
| Plaid Double Figure | 4.0 |
| Plaid Not for Threes | 4.0 |
| Plaid Rest Proof Clockwork | 4.5 |
| Plaid Spokes | 4.5 |
| Persefone Truth Inside the Shades | 4.0 |
| Persefone Core | 4.5 |
| Persefone Shin-Ken | 4.0 |
| Persefone Spiritual Migration | 4.0 |
| Ulcerate The Coming of Genocide (Reissue) | 3.5 |
| Ulcerate Of Fracture and Failure | 3.5 |
| Ulcerate Everything Is Fire | 4.0 |
| Ulcerate The Destroyers of All | 4.5 |
| Flourishing Intersubjectivity | 3.0 |
| Flourishing The Sum of All Fossils | 4.0 |
| Antediluvian Through the Cervix of Hawaah | 3.0 |
| Antediluvian λόγος | 3.0 |
| On second thought, this is garbage |
| Portal Vexovoid | 3.5 |
| Cynic Re-Traced | 2.5 |
| Cynic Carbon-Based Anatomy | 3.0 |
| Cynic Focus | 4.0 |
| Cynic Traced in Air | 4.0 |
| Death Scream Bloody Gore | 3.5 |
| Death Leprosy | 4.0 |
| Death Spiritual Healing | 3.5 |
| Death Human | 4.5 |
| Death Individual Thought Patterns | 4.5 |
| Death Symbolic | 4.5 |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance | 5.0 |
| Elvenking The Winter Wake | 3.5 |
| Elvenking Wyrd | 3.5 |
| Elvenking Heathenreel | 4.0 |
| Falconer Armod | 3.5 |
| Falconer Among Beggars And Thieves | 3.5 |
| Falconer Falconer | 4.0 |
| Falconer Northwind | 4.0 |
| Falconer Grime vs Granduer | 1.0 |
| Falconer The Sceptre of Deception | 4.5 |
| Falconer Chapters From A Vale Forlorn | 4.0 |
| Oval O | 3.0 |
| Oval Szenariodisk | 4.0 |
| Oval Oh | 3.0 |
| Oval Wohnton | 3.5 |
| Oval Calidostópia! | 3.5 |
| Markus Popp (of Oval) went to Brazil and recorded this 16 track collaboration with seven artists that he had never met before over a ten day period. Each day Popp would show up at the Goethe Institute and would be introduced to a South American singer participating in the project. They'd spend the remainder of the day recording, and Calidostopia! is the cumulative effort of those seven recording sessions. He utilized previously recorded and unreleased material in the production of this album. The album was then released for free, funded by the Goethe Institute and the Cultural Foundation of the State of Bahia. Only a producer as talented as Popp could possibly pull something like this so smoothly and naturally. The Oval aspect of the release is what primarily concerns me, however I am not disappointed that glitch takes the passenger seat here. It's not something I would normally seek out, but it's very cool for what it is. |
| Oval Ovalprocess | 4.0 |
| Oval Systemisch | 4.5 |
| Oval Pre/Commers | 4.0 |
| Oval Dok | 3.5 |
| Oval Ovalcommers | 4.5 |
| Oval 94 Diskont | 5.0 |
| Of the Wand and the Moon The Lone Descent | 4.5 |
| OutKast Idlewild | 2.5 |
| OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below | 4.0 |
| OutKast Stankonia | 4.0 |
| OutKast Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik | 4.5 |
| OutKast ATLiens | 4.5 |
| OutKast Aquemini | 5.0 |
| Amenra Mass V | 3.5 |
| Omega Massif Kalt | 3.5 |
| Omega Massif Geisterstadt | 3.5 |
| Omega Massif Karpatia | 4.0 |
| October Tide Tunnel of No Light | 3.5 |
| October Tide A Thin Shell | 3.5 |
| October Tide Grey Dawn | 4.0 |
| October Tide Rain Without End | 4.5 |
| Near The Parenthesis Japanese For Beginners | 3.5 |
| Near The Parenthesis L 'Eixample | 3.5 |
| Near The Parenthesis Music for the Forest Concourse | 4.0 |
| Near The Parenthesis Of Soft Construction | 4.0 |
| Near The Parenthesis Go Out And See | 4.5 |
| Shape of Despair Angels of Distress | 4.0 |
| Skepticism Alloy | 4.0 |
| Skepticism Farmakon | 3.0 |
| Skepticism Lead and Aether | 4.5 |
| Skepticism Stormcrowfleet | 5.0 |
| Mournful Congregation The Book of Kings | 4.5 |
| Mournful Congregation Tears from a Grieving Heart | 4.0 |
| Mournful Congregation The June Frost | 4.0 |
| Mournful Congregation The Monad of Creation | 5.0 |
| Morgion Among Majestic Ruin | 3.5 |
| Morgion Solinari | 4.5 |
| Morgion Cloaked By Ages, Crowned In Earth | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse of Reason | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Division Bell | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Final Cut | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd More | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd Ummagumma | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd Obscured by Clouds | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd Meddle | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Wall | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd Animals | 5.0 |
| Tool Opiate | 3.5 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 3.0 |
| Tool Lateralus | 4.5 |
| Tool Ænima | 4.5 |
| Tool Undertow | 4.5 |
| Minsk With Echoes in the Movement of Stone | 3.5 |
| Minsk Out of a Center Which is Neither Dead nor Alive | 4.0 |
| Minsk The Ritual Fires of Abandonment | 4.5 |
| Midas Fall Wilderness | 4.0 |
| This album is beautiful. |
| Midas Fall Eleven Return and Revert | 4.5 |
| Masta Ace Take A Look Around | 4.0 |
| Masta Ace Disposable Arts | 4.5 |
| Masta Ace A Long Hot Summer | 5.0 |
| Melankoli Wind | 4.0 |
| Khoma All Erodes | 4.0 |
| Khoma A Final Storm | 4.0 |
| Khoma The Second Wave | 4.5 |
| Khoma Tsunami | 4.5 |
| Jaga Jazzist What We Must | 4.5 |
| Jedi Mind Tricks The Psycho-Social | 4.0 |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Visions of Gandhi | 3.5 |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Violence Begets Violence | 3.5 |
| Jedi Mind Tricks A History of Violence | 2.5 |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Servants in Heaven, Kings in Hell | 4.0 |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Violent by Design | 4.5 |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Legacy of Blood | 5.0 |
| Mourning Beloveth Dust | 4.0 |
| Mourning Beloveth A Murderous Circus | 3.5 |
| Mourning Beloveth A Disease for the Ages | 4.0 |
| Mourning Beloveth Formless | 4.0 |
| the 1984 references were pretty cool. |
| Mourning Beloveth The Sullen Sulcus | 5.0 |
| Mael Mordha Gealtacht Mael Mórdha | 4.0 |
| Primordial Redemption at the Puritan's Hand | 3.5 |
| Primordial Storm Before Calm | 4.0 |
| Primordial To the Nameless Dead | 4.0 |
| Primordial Spirit the Earth Aflame | 4.0 |
| Primordial The Gathering Wilderness | 4.5 |
| Primordial A Journey's End | 4.5 |
| The Notwist The Devil, You + Me | 3.0 |
| The Notwist Shrink | 3.5 |
| The Notwist Neon Golden | 5.0 |
| The Cure Three Imaginary Boys | 3.5 |
| The Cure Boys Don't Cry | 3.5 |
| The Cure The Top | 2.5 |
| The Cure Faith | 4.0 |
| The Cure Seventeen Seconds | 3.5 |
| The Cure The Head on the Door | 4.0 |
| The Cure Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me | 4.0 |
| The Cure Wish | 3.5 |
| The Cure 4:13 Dream | 2.0 |
| The Cure The Cure | 2.5 |
| The Cure Wild Mood Swings | 1.5 |
| The Cure Pornography | 5.0 |
| The Cure Bloodflowers | 5.0 |
| The Cure Disintegration | 5.0 |
| Interpol Our Love to Admire | 2.5 |
| Interpol Antics | 4.0 |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 4.5 |
| Gallowbraid Ashen Eidolon | 3.5 |
| Gwynbleidd Nostalgia | 4.0 |
| In Mourning Monolith | 3.5 |
| In Mourning The Weight of Oceans | 4.0 |
| In Mourning Shrouded Divine | 4.5 |
| Ikuinen Kaamos Fall of Icons | 3.5 |
| Ikuinen Kaamos The Forlorn | 4.0 |
| Ikuinen Kaamos Closure | 4.5 |
| Huldra Monuments, Monoliths | 4.0 |
| Immolation Unholy Cult | 4.5 |
| Immolation Majesty and Decay | 4.0 |
| Immolation Kingdom of Conspiracy | 3.5 |
| Immolation Close to a World Below | 5.0 |
| Suffocation Pinnacle of Bedlam | 3.5 |
| Gorguts Colored Sands | 4.5 |
| Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Takk... | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Kveikur | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Valtari | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun | 4.5 |
| Sigur Ros ( ) | 5.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 5.0 |
| Wu-Tang Clan The W | 3.0 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Iron Flag | 2.5 |
| Wu-Tang Clan 8 Diagrams | 2.5 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Wu-Tang Forever | 4.0 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 4.0 |
| GZA Pro Tools | 2.5 |
| GZA Beneath the Surface | 3.5 |
| GZA Liquid Swords | 5.0 |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Life After Death | 4.0 |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die | 5.0 |
| 2Pac Me Against the World | 4.5 |
| 2Pac All Eyez on Me | 4.0 |
| Nas Street's Disciple | 2.0 |
| Nas I Am... | 2.0 |
| Nas Nastradamus | 1.0 |
| Nas It Was Written | 3.5 |
| Nas God's Son | 3.0 |
| Nas STILLmatic | 4.0 |
| Nas Illmatic | 3.5 |
| Gang Starr The Ownerz | 4.0 |
| Gang Starr Daily Operation | 4.5 |
| Gang Starr Hard to Earn | 4.5 |
| Gang Starr Step in the Arena | 4.5 |
| Gang Starr Moment of Truth | 5.0 |
| Forest Stream The Crown of Winter | 3.5 |
| Forest Stream Tears of Mortal Solitude | 4.0 |
| Fallujah Nomadic | 4.0 |
| Fallujah The Harvest Wombs | 4.0 |
| edIT Crying Over Pros For No Reason | 5.0 |
| edIT Certified Air Raid Material | 1.0 |
| Dan Swano Moontower | 4.5 |
| Edge of Sanity Cryptic | 2.0 |
| Edge of Sanity Infernal | 2.5 |
| Edge of Sanity Nothing But Death Remains | 2.0 |
| Edge of Sanity Unorthodox | 3.5 |
| Edge of Sanity The Spectral Sorrows | 4.0 |
| Edge of Sanity Purgatory Afterglow | 4.5 |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson II | 4.5 |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson | 5.0 |
| Draconian The Burning Halo | 3.5 |
| Draconian A Rose for the Apocalypse | 3.5 |
| Draconian Turning Season Within | 4.0 |
| Draconian Where Lovers Mourn | 4.0 |
| Draconian Arcane Rain Fell | 4.5 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 3.0 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey | 3.5 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 4.0 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 5.0 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 4.0 |
| dredg Leitmotif | 4.0 |
| dredg El Cielo | 5.0 |
| dredg Catch Without Arms | 4.0 |
| dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion | 3.5 |
| dredg Chuckles and Mr. Squeezy | 1.0 |
| Dr. Dre 2001 | 4.0 |
| Dr. Dre The Chronic | 4.0 |
| Dammerfarben Herbstpfad | 4.0 |
| This album was largely ignored on sputnik this year. It is popular on certain blogs, but it appears that the name Dammerfarben has yet to make itself heard on this website. It is a shame, because they have released two fantastic albums which deserve more coverage then they've been getting. If you enjoy Wyrd, Finsterforst, or Drudkh you will enjoy this. It's available for free download, so there's no reason not to check Dammerfarben out. Highly recommended. |
| Dammerfarben Im Abendrot | 4.5 |
| Cradle of Filth The Manticore and Other Horrors | 2.0 |
| Cradle of Filth Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa | 2.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder | 3.0 |
| Cradle of Filth Nymphetamine | 2.5 |
| Cradle of Filth From the Cradle to Enslave | 3.0 |
| Cradle of Filth Vempire or Dark Faerytales in Phalluste | 4.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Bitter Suites to Succubi | 3.0 |
| Cradle of Filth The Principle of Evil Made Flesh | 4.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Dusk... and Her Embrace | 4.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Cruelty and the Beast | 4.0 |
| Cradle of Filth Midian | 4.0 |
| Cradle of Filth Damnation and a Day | 3.5 |
| Cormorant Metazoa | 4.5 |
| Cormorant Dwellings | 4.5 |
| Callisto Providence | 3.5 |
| Callisto True Nature Unfolds | 3.5 |
| Callisto Noir | 4.0 |
| Big L Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous | 5.0 |
| Battle Of Mice A Day of Nights | 4.0 |
| Mastodon The Hunter | 1.0 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 2.0 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 2.0 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 3.0 |
| Baroness Blue Record | 4.0 |
| Baroness Red Album | 4.0 |
| Baroness Yellow and Green | 2.5 |
| Autechre Gantz Graf | 4.5 |
| Autechre Exai | 4.0 |
| Time to commit seppuku, MisterTornado. The album's really good, so at least you'll have something nice to listen to on your way out |
| Autechre Incunabula | 4.0 |
| Autechre Amber | 4.5 |
| Autechre Chiastic Slide | 4.0 |
| Autechre LP5 | 4.0 |
| Autechre Confield | 4.5 |
| Autechre Draft 7.30 | 4.0 |
| Autechre Tri Repetae | 5.0 |
| Alda Alda | 3.5 |
| Alda Tahoma | 4.0 |
| Threnos By Blood and By Earth | 3.5 |
| Addaura Burning for the Ancient | 4.0 |
| Woods of Desolation Sorh | 3.5 |
| Woods of Desolation Toward the Depths | 4.0 |
| Woods of Desolation Torn Beyond Reason | 4.5 |
| Annorkoth Silent Woods | 2.5 |
| Annorkoth The Eternal Coldness | 2.5 |
| Annorkoth Wind of Death | 3.0 |
| Annorkoth Annorkoth | 4.0 |
| Annorkoth The Last Days | 4.0 |
| Holy shit! It's the black metal m83! |
| Matryoshka Zatracenie | 3.5 |
| Matryoshka Laideronnette | 3.5 |
| Kashiwa Daisuke 88 | 3.0 |
| Kashiwa Daisuke 5 Dec. | 2.5 |
| Kashiwa Daisuke April.#07 | 3.0 |
| Kashiwa Daisuke April. #02 | 4.5 |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I | 5.0 |
| Bruce Dickinson Accident of Birth | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden Iron Maiden | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden Killers | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave | 5.0 |
| Iron Maiden Piece of Mind | 5.0 |
| Iron Maiden No Prayer for the Dying | 2.5 |
| Iron Maiden Fear of the Dark | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden The X Factor | 2.0 |
| Iron Maiden Virtual XI | 1.5 |
| Iron Maiden Brave New World | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden Dance of Death | 4.0 |
| Soundgarden Louder Than Love | 2.5 |
| Soundgarden Ultramega OK | 2.5 |
| Soundgarden Badmotorfinger | 4.0 |
| Soundgarden Superunknown | 4.0 |
| Soundgarden Down on the Upside | 3.5 |
| Soundgarden King Animal | 2.5 |
| Alice in Chains We Die Young | 2.5 |
| Alice in Chains Sap | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains Jar of Flies | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains Facelift | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains Dirt | 5.0 |
| Alice in Chains Alice in Chains | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue | 3.0 |
| Alice in Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here | 2.5 |
| Slowdive Souvlaki | 4.5 |
| My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything | 3.5 |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 4.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine m b v | 3.5 |
| Jesu Ascension | 3.5 |
| Jesu Infinity | 3.0 |
| Jesu Jesu | 4.0 |
| Jesu Conqueror | 4.0 |
| Airs Gloomlights | 2.0 |
| Listen to this online before you buy it. It is nothing like their previous works. |
| Airs Rainclouds over the Remains of Hope | 4.0 |
This album is unarguably interesting. The black metal/shoegaze wave that has been sweeping over the scene may have found an emergent voice in Airs. The atmosphere is unmistakably black metal, yet the guitar's shimmering and the ethereal vocals bring to mind Slowdive or the Catherine Wheel. The songs are lengthy and show some post rock influence. The only drawback is a lack of consistency. Track two seems as if the beginning was chopped off during production, and track eight doesn't belong on this album at all. Despite those flaws, this is a very nice listen and this could be one of the better acts in its genre with a little more cohesiveness.
edit: I just listened to Gloomlights, and it looks like Airs has decided to change directions. Their music has no black metal influence at all, and reminded me of Blink182. Very disappointing. |
| Airs Adore | 1.0 |
| Lantlos Agape | 4.0 |
| Lantlos Lantlos | 4.0 |
| Lantlos .neon | 4.5 |
| Alcest Les Voyages De L'Âme | 3.5 |
| Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde | 4.5 |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune | 4.0 |
| Savath y Savalas The Predicate | 1.0 |
| Savath y Savalas La Llama | 2.0 |
| Savath y Savalas Golden Pollen | 2.5 |
| Savath y Savalas Apropa't | 3.0 |
| Savath y Savalas Folk Songs for Trains, Trees, and Honey | 4.0 |
| Prefuse 73 Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives | 3.0 |
| Prefuse 73 One Word Extinguisher | 4.0 |
| Four Tet Dialogue | 3.5 |
| Four Tet Pause | 4.0 |
| Four Tet Everything Ecstatic | 3.5 |
| Four Tet Rounds | 4.5 |
| Four Tet There is Love in You | 4.0 |
| Four Tet Pink | 3.5 |
| Four Tet 0181 | 3.5 |
| Fridge The Sun | 4.0 |
| Fridge Ceefax | 3.0 |
| Fridge Semaphore | 3.5 |
| Fridge Eph | 4.0 |
| Fridge Happiness | 5.0 |
| Gris Il Était Une Forêt... | 4.0 |
| Gris À L'Âme Enflammée, L'Âme Constellée... | 5.0 |
| Doom VS Aeternum Vale | 4.0 |
| Doom VS Dead Words Speak | 4.0 |
| Pallbearer Sorrow And Extinction | 4.5 |
| 40 Watt Sun The Inside Room | 4.0 |
| Warning The Strength to Dream | 3.5 |
| Warning Watching from a Distance | 5.0 |
| Woods of Ypres Pursuit of the Sun & Allure of the Earth | 4.0 |
| Forest of Shadows Six Waves Of Woe | 3.0 |
| Forest of Shadows Departure | 3.0 |
| Forest of Shadows Where Dreams Turn to Dust EP | 4.5 |
| Kauan Lumikuuro | 4.0 |
| Kauan Tietäjän Laulu | 3.5 |
| Kauan Kuu.. | 4.0 |
| Kauan Aava Tuulen Maa | 4.5 |
| Sol Invictus Trees in Winter | 4.0 |
| Sol Invictus The Hill of Crosses | 4.0 |
| Sol Invictus In the Rain | 4.5 |
| Current 93 HoneySuckle Æons | 2.5 |
| Current 93 Baalstorm, Sing Omega | 3.0 |
| Current 93 Aleph At Hallucinatory Mountain | 3.5 |
| Current 93 Black Ships Ate the Sky | 4.0 |
| Current 93 Soft Black Stars | 4.0 |
| Current 93 Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre | 4.0 |
| Current 93 All the Pretty Little Horses | 4.5 |
| Current 93 Thunder Perfect Mind | 5.0 |
| Emeralds Solar Bridge | 2.5 |
| Emeralds Smoke Signals | 2.5 |
| Emeralds Golden Swirl | 2.0 |
| Emeralds Emeralds | 3.5 |
| Emeralds' self-titled release seems to be a declaration of new identity for the project. With this release, Emeralds takes theri second tentative step into ambient tinged with progressive electronic reminiscent of Tangerine Dream. This album is comparable to Does It Look Like I'm Here? but is perhaps not as successful in capturing the sound that Emeralds achieved on their next album. This is a worthwhile listen for fans of Emeralds' later work. |
| Emeralds Does It Look Like I'm Here? | 4.0 |
| Emeralds Just To Feel Anything | 3.0 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never R Plus Seven | 4.0 |
| ~lol~r |
| The Flight of Sleipnir Saga | 4.0 |
| The Flight of Sleipnir Algiz + Berkanan | 4.0 |
| The Flight of Sleipnir Lore | 4.5 |
| The Flight of Sleipnir Essence of Nine | 4.5 |
| Myrkgrav Trollskau, Skromt og Kolabrenning | 4.0 |
| Vintersorg Orkan | 4.0 |
| Vintersorg Cosmic Genesis | 4.0 |
| Vintersorg Odemarkens Son | 4.5 |
| Vintersorg Till Fjälls | 5.0 |
| Mithotyn King of the Distant Forest | 4.0 |
| Mithotyn Gathered Around the Oaken Table | 4.5 |
| Mithotyn In the Sign of the Ravens | 5.0 |
| Wintersun Time I | 4.0 |
| Wintersun Wintersun | 4.5 |
| Bonobo The North Borders | 4.0 |
| Bonobo Black Sands | 4.5 |
| Judas Iscariot Thy Dying Light | 3.5 |
| Judas Iscariot Of Great Eternity | 4.0 |
| Judas Iscariot Distant In Solitary Night | 4.0 |
| Judas Iscariot Heaven In Flames | 4.0 |
| Judas Iscariot To Embrace the Corpses Bleeding | 4.5 |
| Judas Iscariot The Cold Earth Slept Below | 4.5 |
| Fell Voices Fell Voices | 2.5 |
| Fell Voices Untitled | 2.5 |
| Fell Voices Regnum Saturni | 2.0 |
| meh |
| Ash Borer Bloodlands | 2.0 |
| Ash Borer Ash Borer | 2.5 |
| Ash Borer Cold of Ages | 2.5 |
| Deafheaven Roads to Judah | 4.0 |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 3.5 |
| Talk about a hype album! This is alright, but nothing new. There's better blackgaze out there. |
| Ihsahn angL | 4.0 |
| Ihsahn The Adversary | 4.0 |
| Ihsahn Eremita | 4.0 |
| Ihsahn After | 4.5 |
| Enslaved Vikingligr Veldi | 4.0 |
| Enslaved Frost | 5.0 |
| Enslaved Eld | 4.0 |
| Enslaved Blodhemn | 3.5 |
| Enslaved Mardraum - Beyond the Within | 4.0 |
| Enslaved Monumension | 4.0 |
| Enslaved Below the Lights | 4.5 |
| Enslaved Isa | 5.0 |
| Enslaved Ruun | 4.0 |
| Enslaved Vertebrae | 4.0 |
| Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini | 4.5 |
| Enslaved RIITIIR | 4.5 |
| Windir Soknardalr | 4.0 |
| Windir Arntor | 4.5 |
| Windir Likferd | 4.5 |
| Windir 1184 | 5.0 |
| Wyrd Kalivägi | 3.0 |
| Wyrd Kammen | 3.5 |
| Wyrd The Ghost Album | 4.0 |
| Wyrd Rota | 3.5 |
| Wyrd Vargtimmen pt.I | 4.0 |
| Wyrd Heathen | 4.0 |
| Wyrd Huldrafolk | 5.0 |
| Wyrd Vargtimmen pt.II | 5.0 |
| Light Bearer Silver Tongue | 4.0 |
| This website is ruled by trends. The new Darkthrone release is a shining example of that. Once so many people had rated the album a 5, it became difficult for anyone to rate it negatively. Alot of people who didn't even like the album rated it a 4, or 3.5, to be conservative. It couldn't possibly be a 2, because to so many others it was flawless. It is difficult to rate something without taking everyone else's opinions into consideration. This album has fallen foul to another trend, and the trend here is to dislike the album. Give the first and last track respect, and disregard the remainder. Well, I disagree. The entire album is fantastic. There are no bookends, every track is great. Light Bearer embraces the "post-" aspect of their music, and they take time to build crescendos and develop atmosphere. To the impatient, this causes the album to appear drawn out and boring. Nothing could be further from the truth. If you haven't listened to this, I hope you will disregard the trendy negativity and listen to it with an open mind. You will not be disappointed. |
| Light Bearer Lapsus | 4.5 |
| Fall of Efrafa Tharn | 4.0 |
| Fall of Efrafa Elil | 4.0 |
| Fall of Efrafa Owsla | 4.5 |
| Fall of Efrafa Inle | 4.5 |
| Insomnium In the Halls of Awaiting | 3.5 |
| Insomnium Above the Weeping World | 4.5 |
| Insomnium Across the Dark | 4.0 |
| Insomnium One for Sorrow | 4.0 |
| Insomnium Since the Day It All Came Down | 5.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Slip | 3.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IV | 2.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Year Zero | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine | 5.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 5.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth | 3.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Fragile | 4.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Hesitation Marks | 3.0 |
| Let me guess, guys. AOTY? |
| Daylight Dies Idle | 4.0 |
| Daylight Dies No Reply | 4.0 |
| Daylight Dies Lost to the Living | 4.0 |
| Daylight Dies A Frail Becoming | 4.0 |
| Daylight Dies Dismantling Devotion | 4.5 |
| Swallow the Sun Emerald Forest and the Blackbird | 4.0 |
| Swallow the Sun New Moon | 3.5 |
| Swallow the Sun Hope | 4.0 |
| Swallow the Sun Ghosts of Loss | 4.0 |
| Swallow the Sun The Morning Never Came | 5.0 |
| Opeth Heritage | 3.0 |
| Opeth Watershed | 4.0 |
| Opeth Deliverance | 3.5 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 4.5 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 4.0 |
| Opeth Still Life | 4.5 |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse | 5.0 |
| Opeth Morningrise | 4.5 |
| Opeth Orchid | 5.0 |
| Opeth Damnation | 5.0 |
| The Fall of Every Season From Below | 4.5 |
| The Fall of Every Season Amends | 5.0 |
| Squarepusher Do You Know Squarepusher | 3.5 |
| Squarepusher Square Window | 4.0 |
| Squarepusher Budakhan Mindphone | 4.0 |
| Squarepusher Big Loada | 4.0 |
| Squarepusher Ufabulum | 3.5 |
| Squarepusher Hello Everything | 3.5 |
| Squarepusher Just a Souvenir | 3.5 |
| Squarepusher Hard Normal Daddy | 4.5 |
| Squarepusher Selection Sixteen | 4.0 |
| Squarepusher Go Plastic | 4.0 |
| Squarepusher Music Is Rotted One Note | 5.0 |
| Squarepusher Ultravisitor | 4.5 |
| Twine Violets | 4.5 |
| Twine Twine | 4.5 |
| Twine :reference: | 3.5 |
| Twine Memory | 2.0 |
| Twine Circulation | 4.5 |
| Twine Recorder | 5.0 |
| Drudkh Eternal Turn of the Wheel | 4.0 |
| Drudkh Microcosmos | 4.0 |
| Drudkh Handful of Stars | 3.5 |
| Drudkh Estrangement | 4.0 |
| Drudkh Songs of Grief and Solitude | 3.5 |
| Drudkh Blood In Our Wells | 4.5 |
| Drudkh The Swan Road | 4.5 |
| Drudkh Autumn Aurora | 5.0 |
| Drudkh Forgotten Legends | 4.0 |
| Winterfylleth The Ghost Of Heritage | 3.5 |
| Winterfylleth The Mercian Sphere | 4.0 |
| Winterfylleth The Threnody of Triumph | 4.0 |
| The Morningside Moving Crosscurrent of Time | 3.5 |
| The Morningside TreeLogia (The Album As it is Not) | 3.5 |
| The Morningside The Wind, The Trees And The Shadows... | 4.0 |
| Falls of Rauros Into the Archaic (Demo) | 3.5 |
| Falls of Rauros The Light That Dwells in Rotten Wood | 4.5 |
| 92/100 transcendental |
| Falls of Rauros Hail Wind and Hewn Oak | 4.0 |
| Agalloch Of Stone, Wind and Pillor | 4.5 |
| Agalloch Faustian Echoes | 4.0 |
| Agalloch The Mantle | 4.5 |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore | 5.0 |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain | 5.0 |
| Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit | 5.0 |
| Fen Dustwalker | 4.0 |
| Fen The Malediction Fields | 4.5 |
| Fen Epoch | 5.0 |
| Cold Body Radiation The Great White Emptiness | 4.0 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Everything | 3.5 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Only The Ocean Knows | 4.0 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Lost | 4.5 |
| Skagos Ast | 3.5 |
| Skagos Anarchic | 4.0 |
| Fauna The Hunt | 3.5 |
| Fauna Avifauna | 4.0 |
| Six 4s in a row. What else needs to be said? |
| Encircling Sea I | 3.5 |
| Encircling Sea Écru | 4.0 |
| Encircling Sea A Forgotten Land | 4.0 |
| Manetheren Solitary Remnants | 3.0 |
| Manetheren Time | 4.0 |
| wow |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 4.5 |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II | 4.0 |
| Aphex Twin ...I Care Because You Do | 4.0 |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album | 4.5 |
| Aphex Twin Drukqs | 5.0 |
| Boards of Canada Twoism | 3.5 |
| Boards of Canada Boc Maxima | 3.5 |
| Boards of Canada Trans Canada Highway | 3.0 |
| Boards of Canada In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country | 4.5 |
| Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest | 4.0 |
| Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase | 4.0 |
| Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children | 4.5 |
| Boards of Canada Geogaddi | 5.0 |
| World's End Girlfriend Starry Starry Night Soundtrack | 4.0 |
| World's End Girlfriend Ending Story | 4.0 |
| World's End Girlfriend Farewell Kingdom | 4.0 |
| World's End Girlfriend Dream's End Come True | 4.5 |
| World's End Girlfriend The Lie Lay Land | 4.5 |
| World's End Girlfriend Seven Idiots | 3.5 |
| World's End Girlfriend Hurtbreak Wonderland | 5.0 |
| Aurore Rien Telesthesia | 4.0 |
| Aurore Rien Sedative for the Celestial Blue | 4.5 |
| Helios Moiety | 3.5 |
| Helios Unleft | 3.5 |
| Helios Caesura | 4.0 |
| Helios Ayres | 3.5 |
| Helios Unomia | 4.5 |
| Helios Eingya | 5.0 |
| Hammock Maybe They Will Sing for Us Tomorrow | 4.0 |
| Hammock Chasing After Shadows...Living with the Ghosts | 4.0 |
| Hammock Departure Songs | 4.5 |
| Hammock Raising Your Voice... Trying to Stop an Echo | 4.5 |
| Lights Out Asia Hy-Brasil | 4.0 |
| Lights Out Asia In The Days Of Jupiter | 4.0 |
| Lights Out Asia Tanks And Recognizers | 4.5 |
| Lights Out Asia Garmonia | 5.0 |
| Lights Out Asia Eyes Like Brontide | 5.0 |
| Lurker Of Chalice Lurker Of Chalice | 4.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage | 4.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade | 4.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters | 4.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars | 4.5 |
| Altar of Plagues Teethed Glory and Injury | 4.5 |
| woo |
| Altar of Plagues Mammal | 4.0 |
| Altar of Plagues White Tomb | 4.5 |
| Vallendusk Black Clouds Gathering | 5.0 |
| The Ocean Aeolian | 4.0 |
| The Ocean Anthropocentric | 3.5 |
| The Ocean Pelagial | 4.0 |
| The Ocean Precambrian | 4.5 |
| The Ocean Fluxion | 5.0 |
| Intronaut Habitual Levitations | 3.5 |
| Nothing but clean vocals? I hope this is a Damnation kind of situation. |
| Intronaut Prehistoricisms | 4.5 |
| Intronaut Valley of Smoke | 5.0 |
| Rosetta The Anaesthete | 3.5 |
| Rosetta A Determinism of Morality | 4.5 |
| Rosetta Wake/Lift | 4.5 |
| Rosetta The Galilean Satellites | 5.0 |
| ISIS In the Absence of Truth | 4.0 |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant | 4.5 |
| ISIS Oceanic | 5.0 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 4.5 |
| Neurosis Honor Found in Decay | 4.0 |
| Neurosis Through Silver in Blood | 4.0 |
| Neurosis A Sun That Never Sets | 5.0 |
| Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm | 5.0 |
| Red Sparowes The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein... | 3.5 |
| Red Sparowes At The Soundless Dawn | 4.0 |
| Red Sparowes Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red... | 4.0 |
| Pelican What We All Come to Need | 3.5 |
| Pelican City of Echoes | 4.0 |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... | 4.0 |
| Pelican Australasia | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna Eternal Kingdom | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna Cult of Luna | 3.5 |
| Cult of Luna The Beyond | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna Salvation | 5.0 |
| Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway | 5.0 |
| Mouth Of The Architect The Violence Beneath | 3.0 |
| Mouth Of The Architect Time and Withering | 4.0 |
| Mouth Of The Architect The Ties That Blind | 4.5 |
| Mouth Of The Architect Quietly | 5.0 |
| Mouth Of The Architect Dawning | 5.0 |
| I don't see anything topping this for 2013 - this is a fantastic album. This is four excellent albums in a row. With Dawning, Mouth of the Architect have secured themselves a spot amongst the post-metal elite. No conversation that includes Isis, Cult of Luna, or Neurosis should ever exclude Mouth of the Architect. Check this out if you haven't already. |
| M83 Reunion | 2.5 |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming | 4.5 |
| M83 Digital Shades Vol. 1 | 3.5 |
| M83 Before The Dawn Heals Us | 4.5 |
| M83 M83 | 4.0 |
| M83 Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts | 5.0 |
