| 4.5 superb |
| Heaume Mortal Solstices |
| Searing black metal guitars with sludge metal heaviness in the production, throat shredding vocals, progressive songwriting, and a simultaneously visceral and atmospheric sound? Yes please. It's rare for a black metal band to have this much clarity in their recording and not lose that raw edge that makes this style so exciting. Production on here really does make a good pair of headphones rumble when they start chugging. The Burzum cover on here is fantastic as well and thankfully isn't just a note for note cover of the original. Only real negative I have here is the closing track is pretty pointless -- it's a 10 minute ambient piece that, if it had been cut down and placed in the middle, would've been a good interlude to act as a breather between these incredibly heavy songs. |
| A Tribe Called Quest We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service |
| A.A.L. (Against All Logic) 2012-2017 |
| Actress Splazsh |
| Adeem The Artist White Trash Revelry |
| Aesop Rock Skelethon |
| Aesop Rock The Impossible Kid |
| Aesop Rock Spirit World Field Guide |
| Aesop Rock x Blockhead Garbology |
| Aeviterne The Ailing Facade |
| Best metal album of the year so far IMO. The atmosphere on this thing is unreal, the touches of ambient and industrial worked in are perfectly done, the performances are visceral while still being extremely tight, and good lord the vocals are something else. Profound Lore never disappoints when it comes to this kind of cavernous blackened death metal but this is maybe my favorite they've released in this style. |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain |
| Ahab The Boats of the Glen Carrig |
| AJJ Knife Man |
| Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill |
| Alex Cameron Miami Memory |
| Far From Born Again is one of the best songs of the year hands down, and overall this album is Cameron's biggest triumph so far. Lyrics are consistently on point with whatever topic he's covering, whether that be him becoming a stepdad, society's shaming of sex workers, emotional abuse, or "old boys" that are stuck in the past. The instrumentals on here are a bit jarring coming from the slick '70s and '80s sheen of Forced Witness but they're no less catchy or well made, same goes for Cameron's melodies. Pop music as a genre has been great this year and this is yet another amazing entry for 2019. |
| Alice in Chains Facelift |
| Alice in Chains MTV Unplugged |
| Alice in Chains Dirt |
| Alice in Chains Jar of Flies |
| Altered Dead Returned to Life |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Try Not To Destroy Everything You Love |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Only The Ocean Knows |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Lost |
| Anderson .Paak Ventura |
| Andrew W.K. You're Not Alone |
| Angel Olsen All Mirrors |
| It's genuinely baffling to me that this bold, lush, creative, and powerful album is from the same person that I saw open for Swans five years ago and get drowned out by audience chatter. |
| ANOHNI HOPELESSNESS |
| Anohni and the Johnsons Antony and the Johnsons |
| Anohni and the Johnsons My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross |
| Good to see the response to this is normal instead of the dumb and transphobic takes that infested the soundoffs on her last releases. Seems she really struck a nerve with the userbase here for some reason. |
| Armand Hammer Race Music |
| Armand Hammer Paraffin |
| Armand Hammer Shrines |
| Armand Hammer and The Alchemist Haram |
| ASAP Ferg Trap Lord |
| Backxwash God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of I |
| Bad Brains Rock For Light |
| Bad Brains I Against I |
| BADBADNOTGOOD BBNG2 |
| Baroness Purple |
| Bathory Hammerheart |
| Behemoth The Satanist |
| Behemoth Thelema.6 |
| Bell Witch Mirror Reaper |
| Bell Witch Four Phantoms |
| Bell Witch Future's Shadow I: The Clandestine Gate |
| Bicep Isles |
| Big K.R.I.T. ReturnOf4eva |
| Big K.R.I.T. 4Eva N A Day |
| Billy Woods Known Unknowns |
| Billy Woods Today, I Wrote Nothing |
| Billy Woods History Will Absolve Me |
| Billy Woods Dour Candy |
| Billy Woods and Kenny Segal Hiding Places |
| There isn't really much to say about this album that you couldn't also say about Billy Woods best material. He's an amazingly consistent artist, and paired with Kenny Segal's excellent production front-to-back makes Hiding Places one of his best projects. If you're not already into Woods' style, this album isn't likely to change that. |
| Bjork Post |
| Bjork Homogenic |
| Bjork Medulla |
| Bjork Vulnicura |
| Black Country, New Road For the first time |
| Black Curse Endless Wound |
| Black Midi Schlagenheim |
| Blood Orange Negro Swan |
| Boris Pink |
| Boris Boris At Last -Feedbacker- |
| Botanist VI: Flora |
| Botanist Photosynthesis |
| Bring Me the Horizon Amo |
| Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It... |
| Brockhampton SATURATION II |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss |
| Busdriver Perfect Hair |
| Busdriver Temporary Forever |
| Candlemass Ancient Dreams |
| Cannibal Corpse Tomb of the Mutilated |
| Cannibal Corpse Torture |
| Car Seat Headrest Twin Fantasy (Face to Face) |
| Carcass Torn Arteries |
| Carcass Heartwork |
| Caroline Polachek Pang |
| Cattle Decapitation Monolith of Inhumanity |
| Cattle Decapitation The Anthropocene Extinction |
| Charli XCX How I'm Feeling Now |
| Chelsea Wolfe Pain Is Beauty |
| Chris Stapleton Higher |
| Circuit Circuit Body Songs |
| clipping. Splendor and Misery |
| clipping. There Existed an Addiction to Blood |
| clipping. Visions of Bodies Being Burned |
| Code Orange Underneath |
| Colin Stetson When we were that what wept for the sea |
| Converge Axe to Fall |
| Conway the Machine God Don't Make Mistakes |
| Current 93 Baalstorm, Sing Omega |
| Current 93 Swastikas For Noddy |
| Da Mafia 6ix 6ix Commandments |
| Danny Brown Old |
| Danny Brown uknowhatimsayin¿ |
| this is amazing and definitely one of the better rap albums from this year, but this is now the second alternative hip hop project this year with a JPEGMAFIA feature that wasn't an actual verse where he really should've had one and I don't like this trend |
| Darkside Psychic |
| Daughters Daughters |
| David Bowie The Man Who Sold the World |
| David Bowie Hunky Dory |
| David Bowie Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) |
| David Bowie "Heroes" |
| Death Grips The Powers That B - Part I: Niggas on the Moon |
| Death Grips Exmilitary |
| Death Grips No Love Deep Web |
| Death Grips Bottomless Pit |
| Death Grips Year of the Snitch |
| Denzel Curry Imperial |
| Denzel Curry TA13OO |
| Denzel Curry Melt My Eyez See Your Future(The Extended Edition) |
| Denzel needs to take this on tour or do a whole album of originals with this band. The original Melt My Eyez is already his best work and this is just as good, it would be a shame if this was the last we heard of this sound. |
| Denzel Curry Melt My Eyez See Your Future |
| DIIV Deceiver |
| Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane |
| Dorian Electra Flamboyant |
| Drab Majesty An Object In Motion |
| Dragged Into Sunlight Hatred For Mankind |
| Dying Fetus Wrong One to Fuck With |
| Earl Sweatshirt Some Rap Songs |
| Earth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II |
| Earth The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull |
| Elder (USA-MA) Reflections of a Floating World |
| Electric Wizard Come My Fanatics... |
| Electric Wizard Electric Wizard |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP |
| Father John Misty Pure Comedy |
| Fell Voices Regnum Saturni |
| Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters |
| Flatbush Zombies BetterOffDEAD |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma |
| Freddie Gibbs and Madlib Pinata |
| Fugazi Red Medicine |
| Full of Hell Weeping Choir |
| Nice to hear them doing something a little outside their usual wheelhouse. It's still blistering and filthy grind, but there's some new stuff on here that works well. The weird dissonant riffs and extra instrumentation from the Merzbow collab are back along with some dirtier production that suits the music perfectly. Easily the most "metal" thing they've released so far as well, way more of a death metal vibe than they've had before. Somehow also managed to make the vocals even grosser than they already were before, quite a feat. |
| Full of Hell Coagulated Bliss |
| Fuoco Fatuo (ITA2) Obsidian Katabasis |
| GARDSGHASTR Slit Throat Requiem |
| Might just be the metal album of the year. This thing is symphonic, yes, but uses those symphonic elements to create something even more hellish. Swartadauþuz' vocals are, as usual, absolutely perfect for this style of music, and overall this is just a near perfect black metal album that's sure to stun most fans of the genre. It's also funny to me how everything Swartadauþuz is involved in is completely unpronounceable and/or almost impossible to spell from memory. |
| Genesis Owusu Smiling with No Teeth |
| Ghost (SWE) Prequelle |
| Ghost (SWE) Impera |
| I'm on board with Ghost going full camp. This is fun. |
| Ghost (SWE) Seven Inches Of Satanic Panic |
| Ghost (SWE) Ceremony and Devotion |
| HAAi Baby, We’re Ascending |
| High on Fire Luminiferous |
| High on Fire De Vermis Mysteriis |
| HIM Razorblade Romance |
| HMLTD Hate Music Last Time Delete EP |
| Home Is Where The Whaler |
| The I Became Birds EP is my favorite EP of the decade so far, and this album lives up to that. Wow this thing is a ride. |
| Hooded Menace Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed |
| Hot Water Music Feel the Void |
| This is easily their best album since Caution, and I really never thought I'd hear them this good again after their last few left me kind of cold. I really wasn't expecting this to end up being one of my favorites of the year and one of the best in their discography. |
| Hot Water Music A Flight and a Crash |
| Hot Water Music Forever and Counting |
| Hot Water Music Fuel for the Hate Game |
| Hot Water Music No Division |
| IDLES Ultra Mono |
| Indian Guiltless |
| Injury Reserve Floss |
| Injury Reserve By The Time I Get To Phoenix |
| Iron Maiden Piece of Mind |
| Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time |
| Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid |
| Jean Grae/Quelle Chris Everything's Fine |
| Jeff Rosenstock Thanks, Sorry! |
| Having seen him before, this perfectly captures Jeff's live energy and performances. I feel like I'm back in the cramped and sweaty Catalyst Atrium again when I hear this, even if that isn't where this was recorded. |
| Jon Hopkins Music for Psychedelic Therapy |
| JPEGMAFIA All My Heroes Are Cornballs |
| JPEGMAFIA Veteran |
| JPEGMAFIA LP! (offline) |
| Judas Priest Firepower |
| Judas Priest Painkiller |
| Ka The Night's Gambit |
| Kamasi Washington The Epic |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| Kayo Dot Hubardo |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye |
| Kayo Dot Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike |
| Kendrick Lamar Section.80 |
| Kendrick Lamar Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers |
| Kids See Ghosts Kids See Ghosts |
| King Diamond ''Them'' |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Nonagon Infinity |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Flying Microtonal Banana |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Changes |
| Kirin J. Callinan Bravado |
| Kostnateni Úpal |
| Krallice Dimensional Bleedthrough |
| Kruelty Untopia |
| La Dispute Wildlife |
| Lard Power of Lard |
| I only heard of this band from watching Glory Daze and this is easily the best thing about that movie. |
| Leviathan Scar Sighted |
| Leviathan The Tenth Sub Level of Suicide |
| Leviathan Massive Conspiracy Against All Life |
| Leviathan Verräter |
| An absolutely essential part of the American black metal scene. This isn't Leviathan's best of the best stuff, it's obviously very roughly recorded and Wrest hadn't quite reached the iconic sound this project is known for, but this comp does put together a lot of material from the early demos and shows that even at the earliest stages Leviathan was a powerhouse. |
| Lightning Bolt Sonic Citadel |
| Lingua Ignota Caligula |
| Little Simz Grey Area |
| Liturgy Aesthethica |
| Liturgy As The Blood Of God Bursts The Veins Of Time |
| Locrian New Catastrophism |
| Mac Miller Circles |
| Majesties Vast Reaches Unclaimed |
| Mamaleek Diner Coffee |
| Matana Roberts COIN COIN Chapter Four: Memphis |
| Matmos Supreme Balloon |
| Matmos A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure |
| Matmos Quasi-Objects |
| Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas |
| Mayhem Live in Leipzig |
| Mayhem Mediolanum Capta Est |
| Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas Alive |
| Moonsorrow Jumalten aika |
| Mount Eerie Now Only |
| Mount Eerie Wind's Poem |
| Nails Abandon All Life |
| Napalm Death Apex Predator - Easy Meat |
| Napalm Death Harmony Corruption |
| Napalm Death Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism |
| Neurosis Fires Within Fires |
| Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Ghosteen |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree |
| Numenorean Adore |
| Obsequiae Aria of Vernal Tombs |
| Obsequiae The Palms of Sorrowed Kings |
| Obsequiae is so far a band that doesn't evolve heavily between albums, but thankfully their sound is so unique that they don't really need to. This album does everything their last album did so well to the same level, and considering how fantastic that one was, this one really is just as amazing. An absolute must-listen for 2019. |
| Old Man Gloom The Ape of God II |
| Old Man Gloom The Ape of God I |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Garden of Delete |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Replica |
| Open Mike Eagle Unapologetic Art Rap |
| Open Mike Eagle Dark Comedy |
| Open Mike Eagle Brick Body Kids Still Daydream |
| Ordo Equilibrio The Triumph Of Light... And Thy Thirteen Shadows O |
| Pallbearer Heartless |
| Panopticon Autumn Eternal |
| Panopticon The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness |
| Panopticon Kentucky |
| Panopticon Collapse |
| Paramore This Is Why |
| Pearl Jam Yield |
| Perfume Genius No Shape |
| Perfume Genius Too Bright |
| Pig Destroyer Prowler in the Yard |
| Polyphia New Levels New Devils |
| Portal Hagbulbia |
| who classed this as an EP they're objectively wrong |
| Porter Robinson Nurture |
| Portico Quartet Portico Quartet |
| Preoccupations Preoccupations |
| Primitive Man Scorn |
| Primitive Man Caustic |
| Primitive Man Insurmountable |
| they call this an EP even though it's longer than their last album and the non-deluxe version of the debut, you love to see it |
| Primitive Man Immersion |
| in the least surprising news of the year, this rips |
| Prince Around the World in a Day |
| Prince Come |
| Prince Musicology |
| Prince Originals |
| Protomartyr Relatives in Descent |
| Pyrrhon The Mother of Virtues |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine |
| Rapsody Eve |
| Laila's Wisdom was Rapsody showing an insane amount of potential after the bump she received from TPAB. Not a perfect album but a great one nonetheless. Eve is Rapsody fully realizing that potential -- not a single song on here goes by without having at least a thoughtful message, clever lines, a charismatic performance, a great instrumental, or an excellent guest spot. There isn't a weak moment on here, and what makes this album so fantastic really doesn't need much explanation, it's just a fantastic hip hop album that does everything I would want a hip hop album to do. Definitely the best rap album to come out so far this year and a real contender for AOTY. |
| REOL Jijitsujou |
| Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter SAVED! |
| Richard Dawson 2020 |
| As someone that got into this guy from Peasant, this is certainly a massive change. None of Dawson's albums sound like each other outside of his voice, and on here he indulges in some indie and noise rock with subtle electronics with great success. |
| Rina Sawayama Sawayama |
| Rina Sawayama Hold The Girl |
| Roger Waters Is This The Life We Really Want? |
| Rolo Tomassi Where Myth Becomes Memory |
| Savage Garden Savage Garden |
| ScHoolboy Q Oxymoron |
| Seputus Phantom Indigo |
| Shabazz Palaces Black Up |
| Sleater-Kinney One Beat |
| Sleater-Kinney Dig Me Out |
| Slipknot Iowa |
| Snorlax II |
| Sophie Product |
| Spectral Wound A Diabolic Thirst |
| Frigid & Spellbound is so good that this album would deserve a 4.5 for it alone |
| St. Vincent Daddy's Home |
| Good to see this is basically her Boarding House Reach and yet again y'all somehow don't get at all that this is an amazing album |
| St. Vincent St. Vincent |
| Sudan Archives Athena |
| One of the most beautiful things I've heard this year. Sudan Archives uses her skills as a violinist to give her music a completely unique sound in the world of R&B. Her gorgeous voice and excellent songwriting come together with that to make one of the better R&B albums of the decade, up there with any number of releases from Frank Ocean, SZA, FKA Twigs, and The Weeknd. |
| Sudan Archives Natural Brown Prom Queen |
| Sun Kil Moon Common As Light and Love Are Red Valleys of Blood |
| Sun Kil Moon April |
| Sun Kil Moon Ghosts of the Great Highway |
| Sun Kil Moon Admiral Fell Promises |
| Sunn O))) Life Metal |
| Swain Howl |
| Swans The Seer |
| Swans The Glowing Man |
| Swans To Be Kind |
| Swans Children of God |
| Thantifaxath Sacred White Noise |
| Thantifaxath Hive Mind Narcosis |
| The Avalanches We Will Always Love You |
| Singles outside of Take Care in Your Dreaming didn't do much for me, but in the context of the album they're all great, as is the rest of the album. It's a massive departure for them and I can see why some people wouldn't like it, but for me, this is one of the most evocative albums I've heard this year. It feels like tuning a radio dial on the way to the afterlife. |
| The Black Keys Chulahoma |
| The Black Keys Thickfreakness |
| The Body All The Waters Of The Earth Turn To... |
| The Body and Full Of Hell One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache |
| The Comet Is Coming Trust in the Lifeforce of Deep Mystery |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer |
| The Haxan Cloak Midsommar (Original Score) |
| The Haxan Cloak's music has always sounded like a horror movie so of course he does an incredible job scoring one of the most terrifying films ever. These songs don't work quite as well without the visuals, but having already seen the movie and knowing what moments these accompany, it makes for one hell of a freaky experience. |
| The Koreatown Oddity Little Dominques Nosebleed |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron |
| The Microphones It Was Hot, We Stayed In The Water |
| The Mountain Goats Goths |
| The Physics House Band Mercury Fountain |
| The Voidz Virtue |
| The Weeknd Echoes of Silence |
| The Weeknd Trilogy |
| The Weeknd After Hours |
| This is the best thing he's done since Echoes of Silence, and with more listens it might beat that. In Your Eyes, After Hours, Hardest To Love, Faith, and Blinding Lights are absolutely stunning. Plus Daniel Lopatin is on two songs, so it's cool to like this even if you're not a pop fan. |
| The Weeknd After Hours (Deluxe) |
| Nothing Compares, Missed You, and Final Lullaby definitely add to the album. I wish the first two were mixed in the tracklist a little better, but Final Lullaby is a fantastic closer -- frankly a better one than Until I Bleed Out. |
| They Might Be Giants Lincoln |
| Thou Heathen |
| Thundercat It Is What It Is |
| I wasn't expecting an album that had Dragonball Durag and a Zack Fox feature to be genuinely heartbreaking. Rest in peace Mac. |
| Tim Hecker Virgins |
| Tim Hecker An Imaginary Country |
| Tim Hecker Harmony in Ultraviolet |
| Tom Waits Alice |
| Tom Waits Heartattack and Vine |
| Tom Waits Foreign Affairs |
| Touche Amore Is Survived By |
| Touche Amore ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me |
| Travis Scott Rodeo |
| Tribulation Down Below |
| Tropical Fuck Storm Braindrops |
| Tyler, the Creator Call Me If You Get Lost |
| Tyler, the Creator Call Me if You Get Lost: The Estate Sale |
| Ulcerate The Destroyers of All |
| Uncommon Nasa New York Telephone |
| Uncommon Nasa Written at Night |
| Unleash The Archers Abyss |
| I don't even like power metal but this thing is absolutely incredible regardless. Fantastic songwriting, singing, playing, it's all here and it's all stellar. |
| Unto Others Strength |
| There are a few just-okay moments on the back end, just because they sound like something they've already done before, but even so-so Unto Others is still incredible. The heavier first half is a really nice breath of fresh air, the howls and screams on the opening track especially are downright chilling. I'm sure these will all absolutely rip live too. |
| Venom Prison Erebos |
| Vince Staples Big Fish Theory |
| Warp Chamber Implements of Excruciation |
| Watain Lawless Darkness |
| Weeping Sores False Confession |
| White Suns Totem |
| White Suns Sinews |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestite |
| Wreck and Reference Absolute Still Life |
| Xiu Xiu Forget |
| Xiu Xiu Girl with Basket of Fruit |
| Yazz Ahmed Polyhymnia |
| Yazz Ahmed La Saboteuse |
| Young Fathers Heavy Heavy |
| Zaaar Magická Džungl’a |
| Zeal and Ardor Stranger Fruit |
| Zebra Katz Less Is Moor |
| 4.0 excellent |
| 100 Gecs 1000 gecs |
| A.A.L. (Against All Logic) 2017-2019 |
| Ab-Soul Do What Thou Wilt. |
| Ab-Soul Herbert |
| Actress Ghettoville |
| Actress R.I.P |
| Aesop Rock Float |
| Aesop Rock Bazooka Tooth |
| Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit |
| Ahab The Divinity of Oceans |
| Ahab The Giant |
| AJJ Good Luck Everybody |
| Alex Cameron Forced Witness |
| Alice in Chains Sap |
| Altar of Plagues Mammal |
| Amaarae Fountain Baby |
| Amber Mark Three Dimensions Deep |
| It's great to hear an album in this genre that feels really modern, but doesn't succumb to just being "vibes" the way a lot of low-key R&B does. This is a really lively album, and even the quieter moments don't just sound like playlist fodder. A ton of variety too and she does it all well, there's at least one song on here anyone could enjoy without the whole album feeling inconsistent or unconnected. It definitely does stay past its welcome however; either cutting down the tracklist, or maybe some interludes to break up the songs would help a lot. |
| Anderson .Paak Oxnard |
| Anderson .Paak Malibu |
| Andrew W.K. God Is Partying |
| Animal Collective Time Skiffs |
| Anohni and the Johnsons Swanlights |
| Ariana Grande Sweetener |
| Artificial Brain Infrared Horizon |
| ASAP Ferg Ferg Forever |
| Ash Borer Cold of Ages |
| Ash Koosha COMMA |
| Ash Koosha I AKA I |
| Ash Koosha GUUD |
| Ash Koosha 2025 |
| Asphyx Necroceros |
| The vocals on here aren't great, but they're far from terrible and sound frantic enough to fit the music. Asphyx has always had pretty weird vocals for death metal so maybe that's why it doesn't bother me here. Rest of the band sounds as tight as ever so yet another great album from these severely ignored death metal titans. |
| At the Gates At War with Reality |
| Autopsy Macabre Eternal |
| Autopsy Tourniquets, Hacksaws and Graves |
| Autopsy The Headless Ritual |
| Autopsy Acts of the Unspeakable |
| Baroness Yellow and Green |
| Baroness Blue Record |
| Baroness Red Album |
| Bathory The Return of the Darkness and Evil |
| Bathory Under the Sign of the Black Mark |
| beabadoobee Fake It Flowers |
| That awful song that samples her on tiktok better make this album a big hit because this is great. |
| Behemoth I Loved You at Your Darkest |
| Behemoth Evangelion |
| Behemoth Zos Kia Cultus (Here and Beyond) |
| Bicep Bicep |
| Big K.R.I.T. K.R.I.T Wuz Here |
| Big K.R.I.T. King Remembered In Time |
| Big Thief Two Hands |
| Big Thief Capacity |
| Billie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? |
| Billy Woods The Chalice |
| Billy Woods Camouflage |
| Bjork Debut |
| Bjork Biophilia |
| Bjork Fossora |
| she just doesn't miss no matter how weird it gets |
| Black Milk Fever |
Really don't understand what all the low ratings are about on here. This is a great
album, much better than his last and at least on par with No Poison No Paradise. |
| Black Milk No Poison No Paradise |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath |
| Black Sabbath Vol. 4 |
| Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell |
| Black Sabbath Born Again |
| Black Sabbath Mob Rules |
| Black Sabbath 13 |
| Black Thought Streams of Thought, Vol. 3: Cane and Abel |
| Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race |
| Blood Incantation Starspawn |
| Blood Incantation Interdimensional Extinction |
| Boris Love and Evol |
| Boris Heavy Rocks (2011) |
| Boris Akuma no Uta |
| Boris W |
| Botanist IV: Mandragora |
| Botanist III: Doom in Bloom / Allies |
| Botanist Collective: The Shape of He to Come |
| Botanist Ecosystem |
| Brockhampton Ginger |
| Brockhampton Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine |
| Brutus (BE) Nest |
| Brutus (BE) Burst |
| Bummer (USA-MO) Dead Horse |
| feels like the second coming of Jesus Lizard on here |
| Burzum Burzum |
| Busdriver Memoirs of the Elephant Man |
| Busdriver Thumbs |
| Busdriver RoadKillOvercoat |
| Cannibal Corpse The Bleeding |
| Cannibal Corpse Vile |
| Cannibal Corpse Kill |
| Cap'n Jazz Boys 16 To 18 Years...Age Of Action |
| Cap'n Jazz Sometimes If... |
| Car Seat Headrest Making a Door Less Open |
| This is WAAAAAAAY better than I thought it would be. Hollywood is definitely the worst song they've ever written, but most of what's on here is pretty great. |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Dedicated |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion |
| Cattle Decapitation Death Atlas |
| This is really really good, but it definitely feels like there's an over reliance on Travis' cave troll singing and melodic passages compared to their past albums that does sap some of the savagery out of the music. As well, the vocal melody on Be Still Our Beating Hearts during the chorus is godawful and almost elicited an immediate skip. That said, most of this album is absolutely killer, and I never thought I would hear Cattle Decapitation of all bands put out a 10 minute epic like the title track. |
| Cattle Decapitation Human Jerky |
| Cattle Decapitation Terrasite |
| Sounds like a modern cattle decap album, with some more melody and tremolo riffs thrown in, what more could you want? |
| Caustic Wound Death Posture |
| Chance the Rapper Acid Rap |
| Chance the Rapper Coloring Book |
| Charli XCX Pop 2 |
| Charli XCX Number 1 Angel |
| Chelsea Wolfe Apokalypsis |
| Chelsea Wolfe Abyss |
| Chthe'ilist Le Dernier Crépuscule |
| clipping. Wriggle |
| Converge No Heroes |
| Converge The Dusk in Us |
| Converge When Forever Comes Crashing |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky |
| Converge Beautiful Ruin |
| Convulsif Extinct |
| Crawl Damned |
| Even though it's much less of a pure drone experience, this really gives me the same sensation as SUNN O)))'s "Black One." Profound Lore calls this "blackened dungeon synth" which is a pretty silly genre tag, but it's definitely black metal influenced, mostly in the vocals but also in the atmosphere and chord progressions at times. Impressive to know it's all being done live by one person too. |
| Creative Waste Condemned |
| Current 93 The Light is Leaving Us All |
| After numerous ventures out into art rock and generally "louder" sounds, C93 return to their neofolk roots. When looking at their whole discography, it's not particularly groundbreaking, but even an okay-by-C93-standards album is still a hell of a statement, and this is no exception. If you like Thunder Perfect Mind and All The Pretty Little Horses, you'll like this. |
| Current 93 Black Ships Ate the Sky |
| Current 93 HoneySuckle Æons |
| Daft Punk Homework |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories |
| Daftside Random Access Memories Memories |
| Danny Elfman Big Mess |
| it is truly bizarre that this sounds so much more out there than his film work and yet it would also fit perfectly in any of those films, late era Scott Walker fans take note because this feels like a poppier version of Bish Bosch at points |
| Daughters Hell Songs |
| David Bowie Space Oddity |
| David Bowie Lodger |
| DC Dark Nights: Death Metal Dark Nights: Death Metal Soundtrack |
| Dead in the Dirt The Blind Hole |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| Death Scream Bloody Gore |
| Death Leprosy |
| Death Spiritual Healing |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance |
| Death Grips The Powers That B - Part II: Jenny Death |
| Death Grips The Powers That B |
| Death Grips Government Plates |
| Death Grips The Money Store |
| Deerhoof Offend Maggie |
| Deerhoof Breakup Song |
| Deerhoof La Isla Bonita |
| Deerhoof The Magic |
| Deerhoof Mountain Moves |
| Denzel Curry Zuu |
| Fun fact: driving with this on is the only time you're allowed to go 20 miles over the speed limit. It's only fair. |
| Denzel Curry 13 |
| Don Caballero Don Caballero II |
| Dorian Electra My Agenda |
| First listen, I was confused and frankly kinda disappointed. Second listen, started growing on me. Third, this thing is fantastic (though still not anywhere near Flamboyant). Wall to wall bangers and the concept of internet cringe culture on a lot of these songs is great, with the homophobe-bashing being a great compliment. I do wish it was a bit longer -- most of the songs hover around the 2 to 2.5 minute mark when they could easily go longer -- but regardless this is great and I'm so happy it's here. |
| Dr. Yen Lo Days With Dr. Yen Lo |
| Drab Majesty Modern Mirror |
| Dryad The Abyssal Plain |
| Dua Lipa Future Nostalgia |
| Duma Duma |
| This is one of the weirdest things I've heard all year and I absolutely love it. Super abrasive mix of power electronics, grind, and traditional Kenyan music. It's a little too lo-fi for its own good, but overall this is stellar. |
| Dying Fetus Killing on Adrenaline |
| Dying Fetus Reign Supreme |
| Dying Fetus Make Them Beg for Death |
| Earl Sweatshirt I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside |
| Earth Extra-Capsular Extraction |
| Earth Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version |
| Earth Hex: Or Printing In the Infernal Method |
| Elder (USA-MA) Lore |
| Elder (USA-MA) Dead Roots Stirring |
| Elder (USA-MA) Omens |
| Electric Wizard Witchcult Today |
| Eminem The Eminem Show |
| Fallujah Empyrean |
| Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear |
| FKA Twigs LP1 |
| FKA Twigs Magdalene |
| Frank Ocean Endless |
| Freddie Gibbs Shadow of a Doubt |
| Freddie Gibbs and Madlib Bandana |
| Great album, as expected. Hearing Madlib's take on a trap beat was pretty interesting and production from front to back is excellent as is Freddie's rapping and lyrics (minus that stupid anti-vaxxer stuff). Overall, if you liked Pinata you'll probably like this, the biggest change is Freddie's delivery being a little more dynamic. |
| Fugazi Steady Diet of Nothing |
| Fugazi The Argument |
| Full Of Hell and Primitive Man Suffocating Hallucination |
| Gatecreeper Deserted |
| two words and two words only need to be said about this: riffs hard |
| Gatecreeper An Unexpected Reality |
| Ghost (SWE) Opus Eponymous |
| Ghost (SWE) If You Have Ghost |
| Gloo (UK) XYZ |
| Criminally short for how good this is. 28 straight minutes of wacked out electronic bangers, this album sounds like a very even blend of everyone that's here. Kai Whiston's heavy and aggressive sound matches Iglooghost bubbly and off the wall style surprisingly well, and the vocals that BAbii brings add a bit of normalcy to the insanity. I just wish there were a few more tracks because what's here is fantastic, hopefully these three work together again in the future. |
| Godthrymm Distortions |
| Gorguts Considered Dead |
| Gorguts From Wisdom to Hate |
| Gorguts Pleiades' Dust |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz |
| Gorillaz Cracker Island |
| Gudsforladt Friendship, Love and War |
| The production is raw and kind of wonky as you'd expect, with everything having a haze to it and at times the cymbals and vocals completely destroy the rest of the mix (and sometimes it's the guitars doing that -- really depends on the song). But that doesn't distract from the genuinely excellent writing on here that isn't afraid to throw in some fun odd ideas. There's a song on here that's got a spaghetti western section to it, a lot of great guitar harmonies, and thankfully plentiful quieter moments to break up the black metal onslaught. |
| Guerilla Toss Twisted Crystal |
| Guerilla Toss Eraser Stargazer |
| Guerilla Toss GT Ultra |
| Guerilla Toss What Would the Odd Do? |
| Guerilla Toss Gay Disco |
| Guerilla Toss Smack the Brick |
| Guerilla Toss Famously Alive |
| HAIM Women In Music, Pt. III |
| I do miss the sound of songs like Want You Back, but this is an amazing album regardless and probably their best full album experience yet. The messier production really works for them in a way I didn't think it would. |
| Hannah Diamond Reflections |
| Who needs AI to make uncanny valley pop music when we have Hannah doing it? |
| Haunter (USA-TX) Sacramental Death Qualia |
| This would be a 4.5 if that instrumental interlude was shortened by about five minutes. |
| Have a Nice Life The Unnatural World |
| Have a Nice Life Time of Land |
| High on Fire Snakes for the Divine |
| HIM Greatest Love Songs Vol. 666 |
| HIM Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights |
| HMLTD The Worm |
| I do miss that West of Eden sound, but a big appeal of HMLTD for me was the over the top drama on a lot of their songs so them doing what's basically a musical on here makes sense. Not a Mikey's Song or LOADED to be found on here, but it makes up for it with the sheer weirdness and theatrics all over. |
| Iceage New Brigade |
| Iceage Beyondless |
| IDLES Brutalism |
| Iglooghost Neo Wax Bloom |
| Iglooghost Clear Tamei |
| Iglooghost Steel Mogu |
| Iglooghost Chinese Nü Yr |
| Injury Reserve Injury Reserve |
| I'm probably just caught up in my own hype but I think this is excellent. The production on here is insane, Ritchie and Groggs' rapping is as on point as ever (though I wish Groggs was on here more, something I think about a lot of their other work too), every feature is stellar, and there isn't a song on here as a whole that I'd say is less than fantastic. The only real disappointment to me is that JPEGMAFIA doesn't get a full verse, but even then Cakes da Killa easily makes up for it on that track. With this, Little Simz, Blu, Quelle Chris, Billy Woods, Malibu Ken, and the new Tyler out along with Freddie Gibbs and Danny Brown dropping at some point, this is shaping up to be a hell of a year for hip-hop. PS: What a Year It's Been is basically the best Kanye song since MBDTF -- the resemblance is uncanny but it doesn't take away at all. |
| Injury Reserve Drive It Like It's Stolen! |
| Iron Maiden Brave New World |
| Iron Maiden Fear of the Dark |
| James Blake Overgrown |
| James Blake James Blake |
| James Blake Assume Form |
| Janelle Monae The Electric Lady |
| Jeff Rosenstock WORRY. |
| Jeff Witscher Approximately 1​,​000 Beers |
| This album is simultaneously hilarious, unnerving, confusing, and almost beautiful in an incredibly abstract way. "Deconstructed country" is the best way to describe it, it sounds like a broken AI trying to write country music. |
| JID The Never Story |
| JID DiCaprio 2 |
| Joey Badass ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$ |
| Joey Badass 1999 |
| Jonwayne Rap Album Two |
| JPEGMAFIA Communist Slow Jams |
| JPEGMAFIA LP! (online) |
| Do yourself a favor and ignore the Bandcamp description. I love JPEG's music (this album included) but he's always either starting beef or dragging people over absolutely nothing. He threw a fit about Bandcamp not following him on twitter ffs |
| Judas Priest British Steel |
| Judas Priest Killing Machine |
| Judas Priest Rocka Rolla |
| Julia Holter Aviary |
| Julia Holter Have You In My Wilderness |
| Julia Holter Loud City Song |
| Ka Grief Pedigree |
| Ka Honor Killed The Samurai |
| Ka Iron Works |
| Kamasi Washington Harmony of Difference |
| Kamasi Washington Fearless Movement |
| Kanye West The Life of Pablo |
| Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue |
| Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward |
| Kayo Dot Coyote |
| Keiji Haino and Sumac American Dollar Bill |
| KEN mode Success |
| KEN mode Entrench |
| KEN mode Venerable |
| KEN mode Mennonite |
| KEN mode Reprisal |
| KEN mode Mongrel |
| KEN mode Nerve |
| Kendrick Lamar untitled unmastered. |
| Kesha High Road |
| Kesha Gag Order |
| King Diamond The Eye |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Murder Of The Universe |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Quarters |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Gumboot Soup |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Infest the Rats' Nest |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Fishing For Fishies |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard K.G. |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard L. W. |
| King Krule Man Alive! |
| I'm usually not into music this faint and relaxed, but this album is just such a great atmosphere record. Really easy to get lost in, it almost reminds me of beat tapes like Slauson Malone's "A Quiet Farwell." |
| Kirin J. Callinan Return to Center |
| Don't go into this expecting another Bravado. My initial thoughts on it were pretty disappointed considering how much I loved that release, but this is a genuinely great covers album and definitely one of the better ones out there. Outside of the fake-ass synth horns on Life is Life and straight up bad vocals on Vienna, Kirin's renditions of these songs are excellent and he really makes these songs his own. The Homosexual, Rise, and Whole of the Moon are the standouts for me. |
| Kirin J. Callinan Embracism |
| Knoll Interstice |
| Krallice Years Past Matter |
| Krallice Krallice |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak |
| Kvelertak Meir |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair |
| Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell! |
| Lard The Last Temptation of Reid |
| Lard Pure Chewing Satisfaction |
| Leviathan True Traitor, True Whore |
| Leviathan A Silhouette in Splinters |
| Leviathan Howl Mockery At The Cross |
| Leviathan The Blind Wound |
| Lianne La Havas Is Your Love Big Enough? |
| Lianne La Havas Blood |
| Liars The Apple Drop |
| Life's Question World Full Of... |
| It definitely overstays its welcome, trimming maybe 10 minutes would go a long way here, but it's still great hardcore with some nice guitar flourishes every now and then. A more emotional/melodic version of New York hardcore isn't something you hear everyday. |
| Lightning Bolt Wonderful Rainbow |
| Lightning Bolt Hypermagic Mountain |
| Lightning Bolt Earthly Delights |
| Lightning Bolt Fantasy Empire |
| Lil Nas X Montero |
| Lil Uzi Vert Lil Uzi Vert vs. The World |
| Liturgy The Ark Work |
| Loathe I Let It In And It Took Everything |
| Lord Mantis Death Mask |
| Lord Mantis Pervertor |
| Lorde Solar Power |
| Mac Miller Watching Movies With The Sound Off |
| Mac Miller GO:OD AM |
| Mac Miller Faces |
| Mac Miller Best Day Ever |
| Mac Miller K.I.D.S. |
| Marissa Nadler and Stephen Brodsky Droneflower |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun |
| Mastodon Leviathan |
| Matmos Ultimate Care II |
| Matmos The Civil War |
| Matmos The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast |
| Mayhem Esoteric Warfare |
| Mayhem Daemon |
| Great straight forward, no BS black metal. I'm usually on the side of the more experimental stuff but this is perfect for when you want a no frills and ferocious album. |
| Melted Bodies Enjoy Yourself |
| Miley Cyrus Endless Summer Vacation |
| Milo So The Flies Don't Come |
| Milo A Toothpaste Suburb |
| Milo Who Told You To Think?​?​!​!​?​!​?​!​?​! |
| Milo Things That Happen At Day |
| Milo Things That Happen At Night |
| Moderator Midnight Madness |
| Modern English Mesh & Lace |
| Moor Mother Black Encyclopedia of the Air |
| Moses Boyd Dark Matter |
| Moses Boyd Displaced Diaspora |
| Mount Eerie Clear Moon |
| Mount Eerie Lost Wisdom |
| Mount Eerie Black Wooden Ceiling Opening |
| Mount Eerie Lost Wisdom, Pt. 2 |
| Nails Unsilent Death |
| Napalm Death Utilitarian |
| Napalm Death Enemy of the Music Business |
| Neurosis A Sun That Never Sets |
| Neurosis Enemy of the Sun |
| Neurosis Given to the Rising |
| Nirvana Bleach |
| No Age An Object |
| No Age Snares Like A Haircut |
| No Age Everything In Between |
| No Age Nouns |
| No Age Weirdo Rippers |
| Nothingness Supraliminal |
| OK Goodnight The Fox and the Bird |
| Old Tower The Last Eidolon |
| Oneohtrix Point Never R Plus Seven |
| Open Mike Eagle Rappers Will Die of Natural Causes |
| Open Mike Eagle 4NML HSPTL |
| Open Mike Eagle What Happens When I Try to Relax |
| Open Mike Eagle A Special Episode Of |
| Osees Orc |
| Osees A Weird Exits |
| Osees A Foul Form |
| OutKast Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik |
| Oval Scis |
| Pallbearer Sorrow And Extinction |
| Pallbearer Forgotten Days |
| Paramore Riot! |
| Paramore After Laughter |
| Park Hye Jin How Can I |
| Pearl Jam Vitalogy |
| Pearl Jam Binaural |
| Pearl Jam Pearl Jam |
| Pearl Jam Backspacer |
| Perfume Genius Put Your Back N 2 It |
| Pig Destroyer Book Burner |
| Pig Destroyer Phantom Limb |
| Pig Destroyer Pornographers of Sound: Live in NYC |
| If you?re a fan of the band there?s no reason you wouldn?t love this live album. The vocals sound way more ferocious than they have on the past few studio releases which is definitely a welcome change, and the whole thing is recorded amazingly. Super chunky guitars and bass with crystal clear drums. Live metal albums usually aren?t my thing but this one is fantastic. |
| Pop Smoke Meet The Woo |
| Pop. 1280 Paradise |
| Poppy I Disagree |
| Poppy Am I a Girl? |
| Poppy EAT (NXT Soundtrack) |
| Poppy Choke |
| Poppy I Disagree (more) |
| Portal Vexovoid |
| Portal Swarth |
| Pottery Welcome to Bobby's Motel |
| Best Talking Heads album since Speaking in Tongues |
| Preoccupations Arrangements |
| Primitive Man P/M |
| Prince For You |
| Prince Dirty Mind |
| Prince The Black Album |
| Prince Batman |
| Prince Graffiti Bridge |
| Prince Chaos and Disorder |
| Prince 3121 |
| Pyramids / Horseback A Throne Without A King |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R |
| Quelle Chris Guns |
| Rapsody Laila's Wisdom |
| REOL Kinjitou |
| Richard Dawson Peasant |
| Rina Sawayama RINA |
| Ringworm Justice Replaced By Revenge |
| RMR DRUG DEALING IS A LOST ART |
| Most of what's on here doesn't really sound like Rascal at all, but that doesn't matter. RMR stands out among the sea of trap-crooners thanks to his excellent singing and earworm melodies, along with great production that does actually maintain some country elements through the samples. The fact that Dealer is on here twice with one of them being a decidedly worse remix with Future and Lil Baby is disappointing, especially for a project this short, but this thing is great regardless. |
| Roger Waters The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking |
| Rotten Sound Cursed |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 |
| Sadistik Altars |
| Sadistik Ultraviolet |
| Sanguisugabogg Tortured Whole |
| Savage Garden Affirmation |
| SeeYouSpaceCowboy The Romance of Affliction |
| SeeYouSpaceCowboy Songs for the Firing Squad |
| serpentwithfeet Apparition |
| Wish there was more here but what is here is fantastic. Can't get enough of this voice. |
| Shabazz Palaces Of Light |
| Shabazz Palaces Shabazz Palaces |
| Slauson Malone A Quiet Farwell, 2016–2018 |
| It took seven months for me to finally come around on this, but I'm glad it did. This is some truly otherworldly and beautiful beat music that establishes a mood like nothing else. |
| Sleater-Kinney All Hands on the Bad One |
| Sleater-Kinney The Hot Rock |
| Sleater-Kinney Sleater-Kinney |
| Sleater-Kinney No Cities to Love |
| Slipknot Slipknot |
| Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind |
| Slugdge Esoteric Malacology |
| Spell (CAN) Opulent Decay |
| Spider God Black Renditions |
| Words cannot describe how annoyed I am that this is one of my favorite things I've heard this year. It's done so well but it's such a ridiculous idea. If you just put it out of your head that you're listening to black metal wretches of I Want It That Way or Hit Me Baby One More Time, it's just really throttling melodic black metal. It honestly sounds closer to the last Numenorean album than anything else (don't tell them I said that though). |
| Sprain As Lost Through Collision |
| If you like Slint, you'll like this band, because they also very clearly like Slint. |
| Spy Habitual Offender |
| St. Vincent Strange Mercy |
| St. Vincent Actor |
| Stone Titan Scratch 'N Sniff |
| It's rare that an album can simultaneously be absolutely head-splitting, noisy to the point of chaos, psychedelic, incredibly tight, and hilarious all at once, but Stone Titan did that somehow. Scratch n' Sniff is a real brick-to-face kind of album, a body destroying blend of the grimier side of sludge metal and noise rock's most out of control bands with a wonderful nihilistic sense of humor. |
| Street Sects Rat Jacket |
| Subtle For Hero: For Fool |
| Subtle ExitingARM |
| Subtle A New White |
| Sudan Archives Sink |
| Sudan Archives Sudan Archives |
| Sun Kil Moon I Also Want to Die in New Orleans |
| Sun Kil Moon Among the Leaves |
| Sunn O))) ØØ Void |
| Sunn O))) Oracle |
| Sunn O))) Pyroclasts |
| Sunn O))) The Grimmrobe Demos (Demo) |
| Sunn O))) Agharthi 09-10 |
| Sunn O))) Metta, Benevolence BBC 6Music... |
| Surachai Come, Deathless |
| Swain Negative Space |
| Swain continues to be the best band doing '90s revivalism by actually being good songwriters and not just Nirvana/Soundgarden/Alice In Chains clones. The first of those definitely has a massive influence, especially in the vocal melodies, but it's tasteful and worked into original songs. None of the hardcore energy that informed Long Dark Blue is here, this is just a pure alt rock affair and it's the better for it. Also as a bassist I have to note that every bassline on here is awesome with a great warm tone, the sound in general is excellent but the bass especially stands out. |
| Swans Soundtracks for the Blind |
| Swans The Great Annihilator |
| SZA Ctrl |
| Tears for Fears The Hurting |
| Tears for Fears The Seeds of Love |
| Tears for Fears Elemental |
| Tears for Fears Raoul and the Kings of Spain |
| Tears for Fears The Tipping Point |
| Tenue Territorios |
| The Avalanches Wildflower |
| The Black Keys Let's Rock |
| The Black Keys El Camino |
| The Black Keys Brothers |
| The Black Keys Rubber Factory |
| The Black Keys Magic Potion |
| The Black Keys The Big Come Up |
| The Body I Shall Die Here |
| The Body I’ve Seen All I Need To See |
| Given this band's discography, it's impressive to say this is the most fucked up thing they've ever made. Absolutely claustrophobic, never ending low-end distortion with drums that are so blown out they just become part of that low-end distortion. They talk about this being a "return to form" for them going back to just guitar, vocals, and drums, but this is the closest they've come to just making pure noise music and it's absolutely terrifying. There are multiple parts on here that genuinely hurt. |
| The Callous Daoboys Celebrity Therapist |
| I really miss Dillinger Escape Plan but this helps fill that void, with some extra weirdness thrown in there. Awesome stuff. |
| The Cure Bloodflowers |
| The Cure Wish |
| The Cure Three Imaginary Boys |
| The Cure Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me |
| The Cure The Top |
| The Cure Faith |
| The Cure Seventeen Seconds |
| The Cure The Cure |
| The Cure 4:13 Dream |
| The Last Dinner Party Prelude to Ecstasy |
| "industry plant" sounds like you just want an excuse to not listen to this banger album |
| The Lemon Twigs Everything Harmony |
| The Lemon Twigs A Dream Is All We Know |
| Really wish it was longer but otherwise, another solid set of throwbacks from them. The Beach Boys vibes on here really make it stand out against their other albums. |
| The Microphones Don't Wake Me Up |
| The Microphones Song Islands |
| The Mountain Goats Transcendental Youth |
| The Mountain Goats All Eternals Deck |
| The Planet You The Planet You |
| If anything good came out of that ridiculous ghostfuneral drama, it's that I found this great album. Apparently good enough to pretend its your own! |
| The Voidz Tyranny |
| The Weeknd House of Balloons |
| The Weeknd Thursday |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Harmlessness |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Whenever, If Ever |
| Theon Cross Fyah |
| They Might Be Giants They Might Be Giants |
| Thou Summit |
| Thou Algiers |
| Thou Rendon |
| Thou Oakland |
| Thou Ceremonies of Humiliation |
| Thundercat Drunk |
| Thundercat The Golden Age Of Apocalypse |
| Tim Hecker No Highs |
| Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 |
| Tim Hecker Dropped Pianos |
| Tom Waits Real Gone |
| Tom Waits Blue Valentine |
| Tom Waits Bad As Me |
| Tom Waits The Heart of Saturday Night |
| Tool Undertow |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Torche Harmonicraft |
| Torche Meanderthal |
| Torche Torche |
| Tyler, the Creator Wolf |
| Tyler, the Creator Bastard |
| Ulcerate Of Fracture and Failure |
| Ulcerate Shrines of Paralysis |
| Uncommon Nasa Halfway |
| Unto Others Mana |
| Vein.fm Errorzone |
| Viagra Boys Welfare Jazz |
| Vince Staples FM! |
| Vince Staples Prima Donna |
| VV (FIN) Neon Noir |
| Take HIM, add a little more a-ha style synthpop and other 80s ballady stuff, and sadly subtract some of the power and presence of Ville's vocals, and you've got this. It's exactly what I hoped it would be, title track goes especially hard. |
| Watain The Wild Hunt |
| Watain Casus Luciferi |
| Watain Rabid Death's Curse |
| Weatherday Come In |
| There are moments here that genuinely hurt to listen to, but the melodies and excellent songwriting shine through the wall of noise most of the time. This album sounds incredibly amateurish but that's part of the appeal, one of the better lo-fi bedroom indie releases you'll find this year. |
| Weezer The Black Album |
| Weezer The White Album |
| Weezer The Green Album |
| Weezer Maladroit |
| Weyes Blood Titanic Rising |
| White Suns the lower way |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage |
| Wreck and Reference No Youth |
| Wreck and Reference Want |
| Xiu Xiu Plays the Music of "Twin Peaks" |
| Xiu Xiu Angel Guts: Red Classroom |
| Xoth Interdimensional Invocations |
| Young Fathers Cocoa Sugar |
| Young Fathers White Men Are Black Men Too |
| Young Fathers TAPE TWO |
| Young Fathers TAPE ONE |
| Zulu A New Tomorrow |
| 3.5 great |
| Abrasion Born To Be Betrayed |
| Agalloch The Serpent and the Sphere |
| Ahab The Coral Tombs |
| Really solid, but it isn't sticking with me as much as Boats of Glen Carrig did. It's weirdly quiet overall too. |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children As The Morning Dawns We Close Our Eyes |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children All Fell Silent, Everything Went Quiet |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children The Long Goodbye |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Everything |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children The Light of September |
| Andrew W.K. I Get Wet |
| ANOHNI Paradise |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not |
| Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare |
| Aries (US) Welcome Home |
| If you're curious about what "emo rap" has to offer, this is a good place to start. It's not exactly innovative for this genre, but it's a solid project that doesn't fall victim to bloat or filler the way other emo rap albums do. Aries is also one of the better singers and producers doing this sound right now. |
| Armand Hammer Rome |
| Aseitas False Peace |
I first heard about this album through the band advertising it on Instagram, and I'm glad they put the money in for it because this thing is absolutely insane. The grooves these riffs hit are really out there a lot of the time, the vocals are super dynamic, and the production is super chunky in a really satisfying way. Their cover art is also absolutely insane, with this one especially reminding of a Castlevania final boss or something.
BUT, this thing is waaaaaay too long. 20 minutes or even half an hour could have been cut and the album would have been better for it. It's not that the songs run out of ideas or anything, it's just that with this style of music, it gets fatiguing listening to something so abrasive for well over an hour. |
| Autopsy Skull Grinder |
| BADBADNOTGOOD IV |
| Batushka Litourgiya |
| Behemoth The Apostasy |
| Behemoth Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic) |
| Behemoth Demigod |
| Big Thief Masterpiece |
| Bjork Utopia |
| Black Kirin National Trauma |
| This is a really unique band, and I wish I'd found them sooner. Their 2017 album Nanking Massacre is definitely their best, but even here on their debut they sound fully formed and great. The only issue I really have is the mixing leaving these songs feeling off -- the vocals are SUPER loud much of the time to the point of drowning everything else out, and some of the orchestral instruments don't feel like they're part of the band so much as just playing on top of it. |
| Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath |
| Botanist I: The Suicide Tree / II: A Rose From the Dead |
| Brockhampton SATURATION |
| Brockhampton SATURATION III |
| Burzum Filosofem |
| Burzum Fallen |
| Busdriver Beaus​$​Eros Instrumentals |
| Candlemass Tales of Creation |
| Car Seat Headrest Teens of Denial |
| Cattle Decapitation The Harvest Floor |
| Cattle Decapitation To Serve Man |
| Cattle Decapitation Humanure |
| Cattle Decapitation Homovore |
| Chelsea Wolfe Hiss Spun |
| clipping. Midcity |
| Current 93 Aleph At Hallucinatory Mountain |
| Current 93 The Moons At Your Door |
| A welcome return to the stranger atmospheric sounds Current 93 had waaaaay back when they started. The Moons At Your Door isn't a top tier C93 album by any means -- it doesn't have the same terrifying atmosphere throughout that their early work does and it's not as beautiful or eerie as their neofolk albums, but it isn't really trying to be that either. Definitely unsettling, but not groundbreaking either. Good background music for reading some Lovecraft short stories. |
| DaBaby Baby On Baby |
| This is nothing innovative, smart, or original by any means, but it's good dumb fun from a guy that raps on a completely different level compared to most of his peers. If you don't enjoy this at least a little you probably just hate fun. |
| Daft Punk Human After All |
| Daniel Avery Ultra Truth |
| The music is good but oh my god that is horrible album art. |
| Dead Kennedys Bedtime for Democracy |
| Deafheaven New Bermuda |
| Deerhoof Deerhoof vs. Evil |
| Denzel Curry 32 Zel / Planet Shrooms |
| DIIV Is the Is Are |
| Drake Take Care |
| Drake So Far Gone |
| Drake If You're Reading This It's Too Late |
| Dying Fetus Stop at Nothing |
| Dying Fetus Destroy the Opposition |
| Dying Fetus Descend into Depravity |
| Earl Sweatshirt EARL |
| Earl Sweatshirt Doris |
| Earth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I |
| Electric Wizard Black Masses |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP 2 |
| Fallujah The Flesh Prevails |
| Fallujah Dreamless |
| FEVER 333 Wrong Generation |
| The lyrics aren't great but frankly, the performances on here are so good that it doesn't really matter. Jason Butler is just a hell of a frontman, that's a fact. I can get finding his vocals grating (I did for a while too), but he's so wild and unhinged all over this that I can't help but get caught up in it. |
| Frank Ocean Nostalgia, Ultra. |
| Freddie Gibbs Soul Sold Separately |
| Full of Hell Trumpeting Ecstasy |
| Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam |
| Gorguts The Erosion of Sanity |
| Gorillaz Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez |
| High on Fire Death Is This Communion |
| High on Fire Electric Messiah |
| IDK Is He Real? |
| The line about telling the teacher to suck his penis is pretty bad, but overall this is a quality hip hop project. The best songs are definitely the more aggressive ones, more mellow tracks like Lilly and the dancehall-ish December are really not the strong suit of this thing. When Is He Real is at its best is when IDK is going full J.I.D. with constantly changing flows and intricate rhymes on hard beats, like 24, Porno, or 42 Hundred Choices. Not the most unique thing out there but it's enjoyable overall and shows potential the same way IWASVERYBAD did. |
| Impetuous Ritual Iniquitous Barbarik Synthesis |
| I like this band but I also feel like I enjoy them kind of as a placeholder in between more interesting bands now. Hissing and Portal have this sound perfected for me but they don't release too often. |
| Injury Reserve Live From The Dentist Office |
| Jessie Ware That! Feels Good! |
| Joey Badass Summer Knights |
| Joey Badass B4.DA.$$ |
| JPEGMAFIA Black Ben Carson |
| Production on here is absolutely insane, but it feels relatively samey after a while due to how long this thing is -- 75 minutes is really unnecessary for something this abrasive. Hearing this after Veteran adds context to a lot Peggy's lyrics, mainly that he doesn't necessarily mean everything he raps. That said, a lot of the lyrics on here are really confrontational to the point that it's annoying, and like others have said, they can get really really edgy for no real reason. It's definitely worth listening to and overall enjoyable, but it's clearly a formative stage that was realized on Veteran. |
| Judas Priest Defenders of the Faith |
| Judas Priest Sin After Sin |
| Kamasi Washington The Choice |
| Kanye West The College Dropout |
| Kanye West Late Registration |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak |
| Kayo Dot Gamma Knife |
| King Diamond Conspiracy |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Paper Mache Dream Balloon |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Polygondwanaland |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Omnium Gatherum |
| Krallice Diotima |
| Krallice Ygg Huur |
| Krallice Prelapsarian |
| Krallice Loüm |
| Krallice Hyperion |
| La Dispute Rooms of the House |
| La Dispute Panorama |
| Lightning Bolt Lightning Bolt |
| Lightning Bolt Ride The Skies |
| Lil Uzi Vert Pink Tape |
| Lil Uzi Vert Luv Is Rage |
| Lil Uzi Vert The Perfect Luv Tape |
| Liturgy Origin of the Alimonies |
| I think this wins the coveted "worst album cover of the year" award by a wide margin but at leas the music is still good. It's one holistic piece and it's really really weird but it's interesting. Didn't expect to hear trap beats, djent, black metal, autotune, and an orchestra all on one sub-4 minute song. Also feels like a story is being told here that I don't even remotely understand. |
| LVME Of Sinful Nature |
| Doesn't really sound like Watain, but it feels like Watain. Don't know how else to describe it. |
| Malibu Ken Malibu Ken |
| Mastodon The Hunter |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain |
| Mastodon Cold Dark Place |
| Mastodon Hushed and Grim |
| I'm genuinely confused by all the complaints about the production I've heard, this album sounds fine through all my headphones and speakers. |
| Mayhem Ordo ad Chao |
| McKinley Dixon For My Mama And Anyone Who Look Like Her |
| McKinley Dixon The Importance of Self Belief |
| McKinley Dixon Who Taught You to Hate Yourself? |
| Metz Atlas Vending |
| this sounds nothing like Daughters lmao what are you talking about |
| Migos Culture |
| Migos No Label II |
| Miley Cyrus Plastic Hearts |
| This would be a 4 without Angels Like You and High. Would have been cool if those two were replaced with proper studio recordings of Zombie and Heart of Glass imo. |
| Monolord Vænir |
| Mount Eerie Sauna |
| Nails You Will Never Be One of Us |
| Napalm Death Utopia Banished |
| No Age Goons Be Gone |
| Old Man Gloom NO |
| Open Mike Eagle Component System With The Auto Reverse |
| Osees Face Stabber |
| Osees Mutilator Defeated At Last |
| OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below |
| Paramore Paramore |
| Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets |
| Pink Floyd Ummagumma |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon |
| Polyphia Renaissance |
| Pop Smoke Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon |
| Pop Smoke Meet The Woo 2 |
| Pop. 1280 Way Station |
| Portal Outre |
| Post Malone beerbongs and bentleys |
| Prince Prince |
| Prince Controversy |
| Prince Lovesexy |
| Prurient Rainbow Mirror |
| Prurient Garden of the Mutilated Paratroopers |
| It's nice to hear Dominick do something so minimal after how massive his past few projects have been, but it also isn't exactly new ground for the world of noise music outside of some of the audio sources. He was going for a disturbing vibe and he definitely achieved that. |
| Pyrrhon What Passes for Survival |
| Pyrrhon Growth Without End |
| Quelle Chris Being You Is Great... |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles |
| Ringworm Snake Church |
| Ringworm Scars |
| Ringworm Birth Is Pain |
| Rorcal Muladona |
| Rotten Sound Cycles |
| Sanguisugabogg Homicidal Ecstasy |
| Very fun but way too long for this kind of music. Missing the full beer keg sounding snare too even if this is technically "better." |
| SeeYouSpaceCowboy The Correlation Between Entrance And Exit Wounds |
| A very enjoyable album, but it feels like they've taken a turn for the generic compared to their earlier stuff. Gone are the hilarious song titles and extremely chaotic moments of what made it onto Songs For the Firing Squad, replaced by more serious topics and a sound that's closer to modern metalcore like Vein. |
| Shabazz Palaces Lese Majesty |
| Sleater-Kinney Call the Doctor |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone |
| Slipknot The End, So Far |
| Stuck Freak Frequency |
| Suicide Silence Become The Hunter |
| Sunn O))) White2 |
| Sunn O))) White1 |
| Sunn O))) Flight of the Behemoth |
| Swain The Long Dark Blue |
| Swans White Light From the Mouth of Infinity |
| Swans Love of Life |
| Swans Filth |
| Swans Greed |
| Swans Holy Money |
| The Body Christs, Redeemers |
| The Cure Wild Mood Swings |
| The Strokes First Impressions of Earth |
| The Strokes Angles |
| The Weeknd Starboy |
| Theophonos Ashes in the Huron River |
| Really solid album hampered by a kinda eh full experience. The fadeouts on multiple songs are disappointing and ending on an uneventful instrumental track feels like a cop out. |
| They Might Be Giants John Henry |
| Thou Peasant |
| Tim Hecker Love Streams |
| Tom Waits Closing Time |
| Tom Waits The Black Rider |
| Totaled Lament |
| Not the most original band by any means, but it's ferocious as hell and some of the songwriting is actually pretty impressive. Most of the tracks are very well structured so as to not just be a flurry of tremolo guitars and blast beats/d-beats. To me, more than anything, they sound like a version of Black Breath that has a strong black metal influence rather than a strong death metal one. |
| Toxic Holocaust Conjure and Command |
| Toxic Holocaust Chemistry of Consciousness |
| Toxic Holocaust An Overdose of Death... |
| Toxic Holocaust Hell on Earth |
| Tribulation Where the Gloom Becomes Sound |
| Tropical Fuck Storm A Laughing Death in Meatspace |
| Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still |
| Ulcerate Everything Is Fire |
| Ulcerate Vermis |
| Vince Staples Summertime '06 |
| Watain Sworn to The Dark |
| Weezer Van Weezer |
| White Suns Psychic Drift |
| Xiu Xiu Nina |
| 3.0 good |
| A Continent Named Coma Removal of Thorns |
| This is cool, but describing it as "ambient post-hardcore" is so pretentious that it leaves a bad taste in mouth. |
| Ab-Soul Control System |
| Actress AZD |
| Algiers There Is No Year |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue |
| Alice in Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here |
| Amaro Freitas Y'Y |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Eternal |
| Arctic Monkeys Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino |
| Arctic Monkeys Suck It and See |
| Arctic Monkeys Humbug |
| ASAP Ferg Still Striving |
| BADBADNOTGOOD BBNG |
| BADBADNOTGOOD III |
| Battles La Di Da Di |
| Battles Juice B Crypts |
| Fun album, better than their last but not mindblowing by any means. The songs with Jon Anderson and Xenia Rubinos are the real highlights. |
| Bjork Volta |
| Black Sabbath Sabotage |
| Black Sabbath Technical Ecstasy |
| Blarf Cease & Desist |
| Part of me wonders how seriously I'm supposed to take this and whether or not it's actually supposed to be good. About half of it is some of the coolest sample based music I've ever heard, the other half is unlistenable nonsense. |
| Busdriver Jhelli Beam |
| Cannibal Corpse Eaten Back to Life |
| Cannibal Corpse Butchered at Birth |
| Cannibal Corpse Red Before Black |
| Cannibal Corpse A Skeletal Domain |
| Cannibal Corpse The Wretched Spawn |
| Cannibal Corpse Evisceration Plague |
| Cannibal Corpse Gore Obsessed |
| Cannibal Corpse Gallery of Suicide |
| Cara Neir Phase Out |
| I haven't listened to this band since Portals to a Better Dead World and... what happened to turn them into an RPG concept metal band |
| Cattle Decapitation Karma.Bloody.Karma |
| City of Caterpillar Mystic Sisters |
| Code Orange Love Is Love // Return To Dust |
| Converge Halo in a Haystack |
| Current 93 Christ and the Pale Queens Mighty in Sorrow |
| A potentially amazing album marred by a weak intro track and an outro that drags on for far too long. The middle of this album is incredible, but the opener does not fit the rest of the tracks and the closer's massive repetition, while creating an interesting sensation, is grating after a few minutes (and it goes on for almost 20). |
| Daughters Canada Songs |
| Deafheaven Roads to Judah |
| Denzel Curry Nostalgic 64 |
| DIIV Oshin |
| Drake Nothing Was the Same |
| Dying Fetus Purification Through Violence |
| Dying Fetus War of Attrition |
| Earl Sweatshirt Feet of Clay |
| Exhumed Worming |
| I really wanna like this more but that one very loud cymbal being panned all the way to the right channel is genuinely so annoying that I can't stand it |
| Frank Ocean channel ORANGE |
| Frank Ocean Blonde |
| Freddie Gibbs Freddie |
| Full of Hell Roots Of Earth Are Consuming My Home |
| Gezan with Million Wish Collective Anochi |
| Ghost (SWE) Popestar |
| Gorillaz The Fall |
| Gupi None |
| High on Fire Blessed Black Wings |
| Higher Brothers Five Stars |
| Hot Water Music The New What Next |
| Hot Water Music Exister |
| Hot Water Music Light it Up |
| Iron Maiden The Book of Souls |
| Iron Maiden The Final Frontier |
| Iron Maiden Iron Maiden |
| Iron Maiden Killers |
| Jeff Rosenstock POST- |
| Jessie Ware What's Your Pleasure? |
| Judas Priest Stained Class |
| Judas Priest Jugulator |
| Judas Priest Turbo |
| Julia Holter Ekstasis |
| Kamasi Washington Heaven and Earth |
| Kayak Jones You Swear It's Getting Better Every Day |
| Kevin Abstract American Boyfriend: A Suburban Love Story |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard I'm In Your Mind Fuzz |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Laminated Denim |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Butterfly 3000 |
| Kirin J. Callinan If I Could Sing |
| About half of this album is some of the best stuff Kirin's ever written, the other half... not so much. Young Drunk Driver, If I Could Sing, Anaemic Adonis, Eternally Hateful, In Absolutes, Crazier Idea, and It's the Truth are all fantastic, whether they're passionate ballads or weirdo synth pop. But good lord, Chop Chop is one of the most irritating things I've ever heard, Bread of Love is an intro that feels like it never starts, My Little One feels the same way, and the two instrumentals on here are just wasted space. I love everything else he's done but after the long wait I can't help but feel like this is a bit of a disappointment as a whole album. At least there's enough individual highlights to enjoy, but this is the first time he's fumbled the album experience imo. |
| Krallice Go Be Forgotten |
| Krallice Wolf |
| L'Orange and Jeremiah Jae Complicate Your Life with Violence |
| Lil Uzi Vert Luv Is Rage 2 |
| Liturgy Renihilation |
| Mastodon Remission |
| Mayhem Chimera |
| Mayhem Deathcrush |
| McKinley Dixon Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!? |
| Milo Budding Ornithologists Are Weary Of Tired Analogie |
| Monolord Empress Rising |
| Napalm Death Diatribes |
| Napalm Death Fear, Emptiness, Despair |
| Napalm Death Inside the Torn Apart |
| Neurosis Honor Found in Decay |
| Obituary Dying Of Everything |
sounds like a post-reunion obituary album, for better and for worse
it's better than a lot of their recent stuff but still not great and way below what we know they're capable of |
| Open Mike Eagle Anime, Trauma and Divorce |
| Osees Smote Reverser |
| OutKast Idlewild |
| Panchiko Failed at Math(s) |
| The story behind this album is a lot more exciting than the music itself for me. Not that it's necessarily bad, but the lore surrounding this band makes it way more interesting than this on its own would be. |
| Pearl Jam No Code |
| Pearl Jam Riot Act |
| Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn |
| Polyphia Muse |
| Pom Poko Cheater |
| Guys, this might be a stretch, but I think this band might be fans of Deerhoof. |
| Portal Seepia |
| Preoccupations Viet Cong |
| Prince Welcome 2 America |
| Weirdly, this album of brand new songs feels like more of a "fans-only" project than the demo album Originals. This sounds a lot like the last few albums Prince released, albeit not as grand, so this really is only for the hardcore fans that were into that late-era sound. It's certainly not bad, but it's not a secret that Prince had a pretty inconsistent discography after a while (to me that starts after Love Symbol but it's up to you where that dividing line is), and this is on the "good" end of that spectrum. Not another Purple Rain or even Musicology, but for what it is, it's worth a listen if you love his stuff. Born 2 Die, One Day We Will All B Free, Running Game (Son of a Slave Master), and Hot Summer are the definite highlights for me. |
| Prince Emancipation |
| Prince Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic |
| PUP Morbid Stuff |
| Pyrrhon Abscess Time |
| While I do like this, the whole thing ends up blending together and there's very little memorable. The Mother of Virtues was similarly noisy and chaotic, but every song there had its own sound that made it stand out; this just feels like one giant hour-long piece of death metal noise. The only thing I really remember is The Cost of Living, and that's just because it's an absolutely tedious slog compared to the rest of the album. |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze |
| Ringworm Death Becomes My Voice |
| If you like Ringworm's other albums, you'll probably like this. If you haven't, you won't. One of the most consistent bands in metallic hardcore, and that's both a good and a bad thing. |
| Ringworm Hammer of the Witch |
| Ringworm The Venomous Grand Design |
| Ringworm The Promise |
| Rotten Sound Species At War |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3 |
| ScHoolboy Q Blank Face LP |
| Split End Deep Love |
| Stake Critical Method |
| It's good, but it could have been so much better if alt-rock style clean vocal passages were either removed entirely or done in a way that better fits the noise/sludge parts. |
| Succumb Succumb |
| Suicide Silence No Time to Bleed |
| Suicide Silence The Black Crown |
| Sun Kil Moon This Is My Dinner |
| Sunn O))) Kannon |
| Swans The Burning World |
| Thanks! I Hate It Lovers Lane |
| pretty good album but needs more tambourine to really hit a peak |
| The Body I have fought against it, But I can’t any longer |
| The Body No One Deserves Happiness |
| The Raging Nathans Waste My Heart |
| this band's name doubles as the comments section for spiritual lyrical miracle rappers |
| The Weeknd My Dear Melancholy, |
| The Weeknd Beauty Behind the Madness |
| Thou Tyrant |
| Thou The House Primordial |
| Tim Hecker Konoyo |
| Tim Hecker Anoyo |
| tUnE-yArDs I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life |
| Tyler, the Creator Goblin |
| Vi Som Alskade Varandra Sa Mycket Det Onda. Det Goda. Det Vackra. Det Fula. |
| Watain Trident Wolf Eclipse |
| Weeping Sores Weeping Sores |
| Weezer Everything Will Be Alright in the End |
| Weezer Pinkerton |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Thrice Woven |
| Wreck and Reference Indifferent Rivers Romance End |
| Yard Act The Overload |
| Ye Banished Privateers Hostis Humani Generis |
| The Current 93 fan in me loves how theatrical and over the top these guys are with their maritime folk music, but I can't pretend like this doesn't also sound incredibly silly and not really in a good way. It appeals to someone I'm sure but this just makes me giggle every time I hear it. |
| Your Old Droog It Wasn't Even Close |
| Music is fine. Clever lines and decent production, albeit the bar about trans women "tricking" guys into sleeping with them is moronic at best. Worth noting that this dude, as good as he is, might be the whiniest rapper alive on his twitter. |
| 2.5 average |
| Ab-Soul These Days... |
| Amon Amarth The Great Heathen Army |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Closure |
| Ash Koosha Return 0 |
| Asystole (USA-NY) Siren To Blight |
| Autopsy Puncturing the Grotesque |
| Avenged Sevenfold Life Is But a Dream... |
| Baroness Gold and Grey |
| Basil's Kite Shooting Tsars |
| I was ready to be hyped on this. But playing through Sun is Smiling, I was ready for it to over a minute in, and was genuinely shocked I was only 1/4 of the way in. Cool stuff and it's fun that they're named after my favorite Cap'n Jazz song, but this is kind of an exhausting listen. |
| Batushka Panihida |
| Beast Coast Escape From New York |
| If you really really loved Flatbush Zombies' most recent projects, you'll probably like this. Their sound really dominates this and while it leads to some highlights, it's pretty average altogether. Standard, if kinda psychedelic, trap production with those usual Pro Era/Flatbush/Underachievers quality verses and performances. The quality in verses varies pretty wildly between members. Only real standout is One More Round and NOT for good reasons. Disappointing altogether, this had the potential to be amazing but instead it's an unmemorable slog of okay trap beats and bad-to-decent verses. I'm sure some of these songs will be great live though. |
| Behemoth Opvs Contra Natvram |
| Big K.R.I.T. K.R.I.T. Iz Here |
| This sounds a lot more like his earlier commercial efforts than 4eva Is a Mighty Long Time or his mixtapes. If you liked the three EP's he released last year you'll probably like this -- it's not awful but it's a step down from what he put out just two years ago. One of his more disappointing projects so far, it's overloaded with songs and most of them go one ear and out the other. |
| Billy Woods Terror Management |
| billy woods is, as expected, excellent on this, with dense wordplay and some of the better flows he's recorded. Production throughout is interesting without stealing the show, and there are some pretty out there moments like Gas Leak and Trivial Pursuit that have some strange grooves and textures. What holds this project back a little bit is the sound -- much of the music is very tinny and digital for a hip hop album and woods' doesn't feel mixed with the beats very well. It definitely adds character but it also makes the album sound somewhat demo-ish. |
| Black Sabbath Never Say Die! |
| Brockhampton Iridescence |
| Burzum Belus |
| Busdriver Electricity Is on Our Side |
| Cancer Christ God is Violence |
| With some better vocals and thicker production this would've been a lot better. Love the energy but album experience is just eh. |
| Cannabis Corpse Nug So Vile |
| get it, it's weed, but it's also metal, so weed pun |
| Chelsea Wolfe Birth of Violence |
| Code Orange Forever |
| Converge Bloodmoon: I |
| Conway the Machine Won't He Do It |
| DaBaby KIRK |
| David Bowie David Bowie |
| Drake Thank Me Later |
| Electric Wizard Time to Die |
| Elif Endlich Tut Es Wieder Weh |
| Eluveitie Ategnatos |
| Eminem Kamikaze |
| Eminem Relapse |
| Eyes (DK) Congratulations |
| Fever Ray Plunge |
| Fit For An Autopsy / Thy Art is Murder / Malevolence The Aggression Sessions |
| That cover of Hammer Smashed Face just cements how much better death metal sounds when the production is organic and not so digital and quantized. Saps all the life out of it even if the performances are good. The bass is nonexistent and the drums might as well be a drum machine. |
| Freddie Gibbs You Only Live 2wice |
| Fuming Mouth Last Day of Sun |
| Gorillaz Humanz |
| Halestorm Back from the Dead |
| most okay band ever continues being exactly that, take it how you will |
| Hath Of Rot And Ruin |
| Heaven's Club Here There And Nowhere |
| High on Fire Art of Self-Defense |
| Iceage Seek Shelter |
| ICECOLDBISHOP GENERATIONAL CURSE |
| Indian The Unquiet Sky |
| Jack White Blunderbuss |
| Jack White Lazaretto |
| James Blake The Colour in Anything |
| Jay Electronica A Written Testimony |
| man, this thing is BORIIIIIIIIIIIIIING. just BORIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING |
| Joji Nectar |
| Kanye West Graduation |
| Kayo Dot Coffins on Io |
| Kendrick Lamar DAMN. |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Made in Timeland |
| Kruelty A Dying Truth |
| Kvelertak Splid |
| Lana Del Rey Born to Die |
| LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver |
| LCD Soundsystem LCD Soundsystem |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Magic Oneohtrix Point Never |
| Pallbearer Foundations of Burden |
| Pink Floyd More |
| Pink Floyd Obscured by Clouds |
| Post Malone Stoney |
| Preoccupations New Material |
| Prince Parade |
| Prince Diamonds & Pearls |
| Prince The Truth |
| Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age |
| Rebecca Black Rebecca Black Was Here |
| Rebecca Black Let Her Burn |
| This is fine, but it also feels really played out when it comes to this genre. As soon as the second track came in with nu metal sounding guitars and Britney Spears style vocals, it's just like, I have heard this before with more energy and excitement. And pretty much the whole album feels like that. In one ear, out the other. Maybe more listens will expose something special but I just felt bored most of it. |
| Rich Brian Amen |
| Rich Brian The Sailor |
| Rotten Sound Apocalypse |
| Rotten Sound Abuse to Suffer |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels |
| Sleep Token Take Me Back to Eden |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses |
| Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter |
| slowthai Nothing Great About Britain |
| slowthai TYRON |
| Spinebreaker Cavern Of Inoculated Cognition |
| Spy Satisfaction |
| I can't really put my finger on why, but this feels like such a downgrade from their past EPs and splits. Feels way less visceral and more generic punk, just with nastier vocals. Might be down to the cleaner production but this just didn't do anything for me. Also funny to see the debut LP is a whole three minutes longer than the EP, 13 versus 10 minutes. |
| Street Sects The Kicking Mule |
| Sun Kil Moon Universal Themes |
| Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky |
| Swans Cop |
| SZA S |
| Tears for Fears Everybody Loves a Happy Ending |
| The Carters Everything Is Love |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation |
| The National Sleep Well Beast |
| The Ocean Holocene |
| The Strokes Comedown Machine |
| The Weeknd Kiss Land |
| Torche Restarter |
| Torche Admission |
| Toxic Holocaust Evil Never Dies |
| Travis Scott Astroworld |
| want some of whatever the fans of this are smoking bc this one is just boring as hell to me |
| Travis Scott Days Before Rodeo |
| Travis Scott Owl Pharaoh |
| Travis Scott and Quavo Huncho Jack, Jack Huncho |
| Vince Staples RAMONA PARK BROKE MY HEART |
| I'm really not feeling this lowkey wave Vince has been on lately. It's not like I don't think he could do quieter or less hype songs well, it's that he's bringing absolutely no energy to almost all of these songs. And when he doesn't have the energy, he frankly sounds really annoying with a super creaky voice that feels like it's right in my ear. He's not going crazy like he did on his old stuff on tracks like LEMONADE or MAGIC, but it sounds like he wants to be there compared to the flat, bored sound on SLIDE or EAST POINT PRAYER. |
| We Lost the Sea Triumph and Disaster |
| Wristmeetrazor Replica of a Strange Love |
| Young Fathers DEAD |
| 1.0 awful |
| AB HIMOTHY |
| Adult Jazz Earings Off! |
| Akitsa Credo |
| Akitsa Grands Tyrans |
| Akitsa Devenir le diable |
| Allegaeon Apoptosis |
| ASAP Ferg Always Strive and Prosper |
| blink-182 California |
| Brockhampton TM |
| Brockhampton The Family |
| Cardi B Gangsta Bitch Music Vol. 1 |
| Cardi B Gangsta Bitch Music Vol. 2 |
| Chance the Rapper The Big Day |
| How does someone go from something as creative, fun, and forward-thinking as Coloring Book to... this? Big Day sounds like 2012-era B.O.B. leftovers, from the awful glitzy instrumentals to the cheesy hooks to the corny-as-hell lines (did I hear something about owning giant Timbs so you could kick people out? Really?), it's a dead ringer for a bad B.O.B. album with some extra trap stuff thrown in because it's 2019. It's almost as bad as Logic's Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, maybe even worse since I actually loved Chance's previous projects. Bloated, terrible pop rap from someone that should be doing so much better. Biggest disappointment of the year. |
| Crystal Castles Alice Practice |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles II |
| Crystal Castles Amnesty (I) |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles III |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles |
| Crystal Castles Doe Deer |
| Crystal Castles Celestica |
| Cultic High Command |
| At this point I'm leaving a note on here so I can find this easier in my ratings list and go back to it when I want a laugh. |
| DaBaby BLAME IT ON BABY |
| Danzig Danzig Sings Elvis |
| Death Angel Under Pressure |
| DJ Khaled Father of Asahd |
| DJ Khaled Grateful |
| Drake Scorpion |
| Drake Dark Lane Demo Tapes |
| drake ffs PLEASE take a year or seven off, we have enough of you |
| dying in designer Nobody's Happy. |
| EDEN no future |
| intro track literally puts me to sleep every time I try it so feel pretty confident in calling this B O R I N G |
| EDEN Vertigo |
| Fallujah Undying Light |
| Fine Young Cannibals The Raw and the Cooked |
| Ghost Bath Moonlover |
| ghostfuneral the nomad |
| absolute buffoons. morons. did they seriously think no one would notice? |
| Grand Belial's Key Kohanic Charmers |
| "Black metal to me is paganism, and paganism is neo-fascism, and neo-fascism is anti-christian, and anti-christianity is black metal. It is a circle that cannot be altered for everything fits in perfectly." - Gelal Necrosodomy, founder of the band, in case you need any more proof to stay the hell away from these dumbasses. |
| Have a Nice Life Sea of Worry |
| Havok Conformicide |
| Highly Suspect MCID |
| Iced Earth The Glorious Burden |
| Inquisition Veneration Of Medieval Mysticism And Cosmological |
| Why any label would let this band release anything on their catalogue after what came out about Dagon is beyond me. |
| Inquisition Black Mass for a Mass Grave |
| Jason Aldean Highway Desperado |
| Kanye West Jesus Is King |
| "Closed on Sunday, you my Chik-Fil-A" has officially usurped "Who's biracial only in his penis" as worst rap lyric of the year. |
| Kanye West Donda 2 |
| Kanye West and Ty Dolla Sign Vultures 1 |
| Khalid Free Spirit |
| Khalid Suncity |
| Khalid American Teen |
| Kim Petras Feed The Beast |
| Kim Petras Slut Pop |
| KMFDM Hyena |
| Lauryn Hill MTV Unplugged No. 2.0 |
| Liars Titles With The Word Fountain |
| Lil Xan TOTAL XANARCHY |
| Liturgy Immortal Life |
| The only reason to listen to this is if you're a fan of Liturgy and want to hear the very primordial stages of the band. The recording on here is godawful, with sloppily layered guitars and electronic drums that don't come together in any kind of satisfying way. Considering Greg Fox's drumming is one of the main things that makes Liturgy work, a release without him doesn't make much sense. Stay away unless you're morbidly curious. |
| Logic Confessions of a Dangerous Mind |
| Logic Supermarket (Soundtrack) |
| Machine Head Catharsis |
| Mastodon Emperor of Sand |
| Migos Culture II |
| Morrissey I Am Not a Dog on a Chain |
| Morrissey Low In High School |
| Morrissey World Peace Is None of Your Business |
| Origin Abiogenesis - A Coming into Existence |
| Park Hye Jin Before I Die |
| I was really, really excited for this honestly. This is one of the most heartbreakingly terrible albums I've ever heard. The production is way less interesting than her EPs, her singing and rapping is completely lifeless with this awful half-asleep moaning tone, the lyrics in English are genuinely painfully annoying after less than 30 seconds... I genuinely can't think of a redeeming moment on here. Her last EP was a big highlight for electronic music last year, what happened here? |
| Peste Noire Peste Noire - Split - Peste Noire |
| The fact that this even exists in the first place is mildly shocking based on the cover alone, but the music somehow manages to be even worse. Even beyond the fact that it's wildly racist, the music on here just sucks. Take away the blackface and every other bigoted thing about it, and it's still either generic poorly made black metal or black metal mixed with trap music, neither of which are entertaining.rF*** this album. |
| Peste Noire Le Retour Des Pastoureaux |
| Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse of Reason |
| Puddle of Mudd Welcome to Galvania |
| Refused Freedom |
| Shabazz Palaces Quazarz: Born On A Gangster Star |
| Shabazz Palaces Quazarz vs. The Jealous Machines |
| Sleaford Mods Spare Ribs |
| Sleaford Mods Eton Alive |
| Steve Lacy (USA-CA) Apollo XXI |
| Steve Lacy (USA-CA) Steve Lacy's Demo |
| Suicide Silence Suicide Silence |
| Sunday Service Choir Jesus Is Born |
| this is getting a 1 just for that DannyBoy0 review |
| Swans Leaving Meaning |
| Swans The Beggar |
| Sweet Trip A Tiny House, In Secret Speeches, Polar Equals |
| SYQEM Reflections Of Elephants |
| SYQEM Collection of Elephants |
| The Strokes Future Present Past |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars America |
| Tom Morello The Atlas Underground |
| Tom Morello The Atlas Underground Fire |
| the album cover alone makes this a 1 but boy that music is something else |
| Tory Lanez Daystar |
| This prick wrote an entire album about victim blaming and gaslighting the public, using the exact thing he did to promote it. And the amount of people online eating it up is absolutely disgusting.rWorst album of the year. Music is trash regardless but what it actually is makes it even worse. |
| Tory Lanez Memories Don't Die |
| Tory Lanez The New Toronto 3 |
| Trapt Shadow Work |
| if I could go below 1 I would, the music is crap and the guy as a person is even worse |
| Tyler, the Creator Cherry Bomb |
| Tyler, the Creator Music Inspired by The Grinch |
| Van Morrison Latest Record Project, Volume I |
| I'm glad I already hated his music so him being an anti-science nut doesn't affect my opinion of it at all. |
| Waterparks Intellectual Property |
| I'm already not huge on this genre to begin with but even I know bad when I hear it. This gave mad ear fatigue only a minute in and I'm genuinely baffled by how it sounds. Zero remains of what could be a human sounding band here. |
| X Ambassadors VHS |
| XXXTENTACION 17 |
| XXXTENTACION Bad Vibes Forever |
| Zac Brown Band The Owl |
| Zayn Mind of Mine |
