| 4.5 superb |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Source Tags and Codes |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Lost Songs |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step |
| Andrew Bird Break It Yourself |
| Animal Collective Fall Be Kind |
| Animal Collective Peacebone |
| Arcade Fire Funeral |
| Arcade Fire Reflektor |
| Arctic Monkeys Suck It and See |
| Arctic Monkeys The Car |
| At the Drive-In Vaya |
| Bill Callahan Dream River |
| Blur 13 |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver |
| Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Wolfroy Goes To Town |
| Bonnie 'Prince' Billy I See a Darkness |
| Brand New Deja Entendu |
| Brand New 3 Demos, Reworked |
| Brand New Mene |
| Bright Eyes Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground |
| Bright Eyes Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was |
| Broken Social Scene Hug of Thunder |
| Califone All My Friends Are Funeral Singers |
| Califone Quicksand/Cradlesnakes |
| Chevelle Sci-Fi Crimes |
| Colour Revolt Colour Revolt |
| Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile Lotta Sea Lice |
| Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains |
| Cymbals Eat Guitars Pretty Years |
| This album is outstanding. They're now an easy 4 for 4 in my book as all 4 of their LP's are incredible. I was a bit worried when Wish was released as it was such a huge departure for them, but silly me; Cymbals Eat Guitars don't know how to fail. They are in desperate need of attention here and all over and you are probably in desperate need of a new favorite band. Well, my friend, here you have them. This may very well end up being their best album which is saying a lot considering how highly I regard their first 3, especially considering Lenses Alien is one of my all time favorites. Get this! |
| Cymbals Eat Guitars LOSE |
| Dave Matthews Band Under The Table And Dreaming |
| Dave Matthews Band Before These Crowded Streets |
| Death Cab for Cutie Something About Airplanes |
| Death Cab for Cutie We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism |
| Deftones Deftones |
| Destroyer Destroyer's Rubies |
| Destroyer Trouble In Dreams |
| Destroyer Streethawk: A Seduction |
| Destroyer Ken |
| Devendra Banhart Flying Wig |
| Dinosaur Jr. Beyond |
| Dinosaur Jr. Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not |
| Dirty Projectors Swing Lo Magellan |
| Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape |
| Frog Eyes Paul's Tomb: A Triumph |
| Frog Eyes Tears of the Valedictorian |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence |
| Glassjaw Material Control |
| Gorillaz Demon Days |
| Hawkboy King Folly |
| Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E. |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights |
| Iron And Wine The Shepherd's Dog |
| Jeff Tweedy Love Is The King |
| Jim James Eternally Even |
I'm honestly a bit shocked at the quality of this album. I've been an MMJ fan since the era between It Still
Moves and Z, and have since watched one of my favorite bands hit on some serious peaks and valleys. I've, in
recent years, been able to wrap my head around what they were attempting on Evil Urges and found Circuital
to be at least a rebound after that divisive record. Essentially, I've watched an edgy band lose some of their
distinct edge over the course of years and experimentation. The Waterfall was a vastly surprising return to
form, in my opinion after not entirely loving JJ's debut solo record. This album came out of left field, as it as
an oddly erotic, confrontational blend of psychedelia, funk, R&B, and a lot in between. Jim sounds back to a
pivotal, mysterious point of view I haven't - really, honestly ever heard him sound like - and it's freaking
awesome. I wish this album gained a bit more traction, because as a companion piece to The Waterfall, I think
is a showcasing of a comeback happening before our eyes. |
| Kevin Devine Nothing's Real, So Nothing's Wrong |
| I just really wish my guy KD could ever get some critical and fanatical momentum. He's had his blips, but the fact that he's so closely involved with Brand New and Manchester Orchestra, while sharing sonic DNA with both bands, but never getting nearly as popular, even on sites like this, makes me sad and confused. |
| Kings of Leon Because Of The Times |
| Kurt Vile Wakin on a Pretty Daze |
| Kurt Vile So Outta Reach |
| Kurt Vile Bottle It In |
| I absolutely can't wait for this album. Somehow just found out about it yesterday and now I'm counting down the days. |
| Mac DeMarco Salad Days |
| Mac DeMarco This Old Dog |
| Feels too easy, and my early rating is more than likely, overzealous. But, this is more-or-less the Mac Demarco most of us have been waiting for. A very spacious, sad, spooky, warming, confusing, et al *most descriptors here* experience. An experience from a surface level *perhaps* snoozer of a musician. Calming slacker, island music still serves as the observing from too far away genre of what lead's the majority of Mac's tunes. There's an easy simplicity, still at play here - less frequently - that drives Mac's music at an ear glance. But, just like his previous works surprisingly demanded, "This Old Dog" begs of your time before writing it off as "boring" or "beach music". These lazy, recently created genre tags, only dissuade what your ears came here for: Mac makin' ya cry. |
| Mac DeMarco Here Comes the Cowboy |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister |
| mewithoutYou Ten Stories |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica |
| Modest Mouse No One's First, and You're Next |
| Moonface City Wrecker |
| Moonface My Best Human Face |
| So glad we got another new Moonface album; especially another one with Finnish rockers Sinaii. I love pretty much anything Spencer Krug puts his hands on - what a year 2016 has been |
| Moonhearts Moonhearts |
| Mount Eerie Wind's Poem |
| My Morning Jacket At Dawn |
| My Morning Jacket The Waterfall II |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds No More Shall We Part |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree |
| Nick Cave and Warren Ellis Carnage |
| Wow - this is so good. I selfishly wish it was a "Bad Seeds" release but that's beside the point. Such a gorgeous, poignant album. Sparsely arranged albums like this that still are diverse and fluid is another walk in the park for Nick and Warren. My expectations were certainly anything but low, but it is such an engaging beautifully arranged album and I'm so pleased. Definitely cut from the Push/Skeleton/Ghosteen trilogy cloth but its own beast altogether. |
| O'Brother The Death of Day |
| O'Brother Garden Window |
| Osees A Weird Exits |
| Ought More Than Any Other Day |
| OutKast Aquemini |
| Parquet Courts Sympathy For Life |
| After a few spins, I'm fairly sure this is my favorite Parquet Courts album. This is a move I pulled a lot say, ten years ago, but not anymore. I love PC, but this is doing a lot of things I've wanted from their albums and it's odd bends, melodic bends, and just frankly making me feel like I have er, the bends, is why I'm loving it so. That early 3.1 is bumming me out, but whatever, Sputnik will Sputnik. |
| Phosphorescent The Weight Of Flight |
| Phosphorescent C'est La Vie |
Can't wait to spin this over the weekend. It may be a bit at odds with my jamming of the new
mewithoutYou album, but it's going to be a great weekend of tunes leading up to Kurt Vile's
new album next weekend.
EDIT: Have spun it several times now and am in love. Such a lush, expansive set of songs.
Nothing that will convert any naysayers (if there are any), but definitely an entry at this
point in my top 10 (or 5) of 2018. |
| Plants and Animals Parc Avenue |
| Portugal. The Man Waiter: ''You Vultures!'' |
| Protomartyr Under Color of Official Right |
| Protomartyr Relatives in Descent |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Radiohead In Rainbows Disk 2 |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool |
| Red House Painters Songs for a Blue Guitar |
| Silver Jews Bright Flight |
| Silver Jews American Water |
| Smog A River Ain't Too Much To Love |
| Smog Knock Knock |
| Spoon Transference |
| Spoon Kill the Moonlight |
| Squid Bright Green Field |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois |
| Sufjan Stevens All Delighted People |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell |
| Sufjan Stevens Javelin |
| Sun Kil Moon Among the Leaves |
| Sunset Rubdown Random Spirit Lover |
| Tame Impala Innerspeaker |
| The Beatles Revolver |
| The Beatles The Beatles |
| The Beatles Abbey Road |
| The Black Keys Chulahoma |
| The Decemberists Picaresque |
| The Flaming Lips King's Mouth |
| The Killers Pressure Machine |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 |
| The National High Violet |
| The National Cherry Tree |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting The Ocean and the Sun |
| The Strokes The New Abnormal |
| The Strokes Is This It |
| The Walkmen You & Me |
| The War On Drugs I Don't Live Here Anymore |
| The White Stripes Elephant |
| Thrice Major/Minor |
| Thrice Beggars |
| Tool Undertow |
| Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk |
| Tori Amos From the Choirgirl Hotel |
| Ty Segall Band Slaughterhouse |
| Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City |
| Vampire Weekend Only God Was Above Us |
| Weezer Pinkerton |
| Weezer Weezer |
| Wilco Being There |
| Wilco Star Wars |
| Wilco Schmilco |
| Wilco Cruel Country |
| A slow burning, gorgeous album. Like a massive cozy blanket with a lot of depth. |
| Wilco Ode to Joy |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever To Tell |
| Yo La Tengo I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass |
| Yo La Tengo And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside... |
| 4.0 excellent |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Tao of the Dead |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dea |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead The Century of Self |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead The Secret of Elena's Tomb |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Madonna |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead IX |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead X: The Godless Void and Other Stories |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead XI: Bleed Here Now |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms |
| A. Savage Thawing Dawn |
| Parquet Courts - one of the better indie/punk/psyche bands going these days, at least for my money. Not always as popular as I wish they were on this site, but that is what it is. This, the solo debut from co-singer/songwriter (but really the main one) of this NYC band, is really a wild ride. I for some reason went in with hesitance, and have been more than impressed. This is a ghostly, Americana ride, with prog explorations too. It's definitely more subdued than anything PC (or PQ) have done to this point, but it would still fit snugly into their varied, excellent discography just by their virtue of exploration. This is definitely recommended and here's to hoping Savage keeps releasing solo stuff on the side of his excellent main project. |
| Albert Hammond Jr Francis Trouble |
| Albert Hammond Jr ¿Cómo Te Llama? |
| All Get Out All Get Out EP |
| All Get Out The Season |
| All Get Out Movement |
| All Get Out Kodak |
| Damn this band always performs. It's so easy to write them off as a Manchester clone or lackey but they're so so much more. This is their 4th excellent record alongside two stellar EPs. This thing gets real cranky at points too - much heavier than Mr. Hull is mustering up. |
| All Get Out Nobody Likes A Quitter |
| All Get Out No Bouquet |
The first half is definitely a bit heavier/darker and what I thought the whole album was going to head towards.
But the second half has some awesome, huge hooks that I dig. Another really solid offering from a really solid
band. |
| Animal Collective Centipede Hz |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion |
| Animal Collective Sung Tongs |
| Animal Collective Water Curses |
| Animal Collective Honeycomb/Gotham |
| Animal Collective Time Skiffs |
| First off, this album is excellent. Avey/Panda/Deakin's melodies are as good as they've been since MPP. Additionally, I am really taken aback by how nostalgic a lot of this album sounds without sounding contrived. From Avey's melodies to the full band set up, there's call backs to OLD albums more than we've gotten in 13 years (and I like Painting With and Centipede HZ!) The albums this most closely shares DNA with is Spirt They've Vanished and Feels for sure with a small dash of Centipede while of course having its own sound. Well done, boys...well done! |
| Animal Collective Bridge to Quiet |
| Animal Collective Isn’t It Now? |
| I actually have enjoyed everything from Centipede Hz on, but it is really nice to have AnCo making great records again. Time Skiffs was great and this feels even more ambitious while retaining that album's catchy, live charm. A good companion to that album while easily standing as its own behemoth. Can't wait to peel back everything going on here over the course of repeat listens. |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs |
| Arcade Fire WE |
| Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not |
| Arctic Monkeys Humbug |
| As Cities Burn Hell or High Water |
| As Cities Burn Come Now Sleep |
| At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out |
| Atlas Sound Logos |
| Bad Books Bad Books |
| Bad Books II |
| Bad Books III |
| Beach Fossils Bunny |
| Beck Modern Guilt |
| Beck The Information |
| Big Red Machine Big Red Machine |
| Big Thief Two Hands |
| Big Thief U.F.O.F. |
| Big Thief Capacity |
| Big Thief Masterpiece |
| Bill Callahan Apocalypse |
| Bill Callahan Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle |
| Bill Callahan Gold Record |
| Bill delivers as always. He's getting more and more into his folk roots with each album and some artists who go this route don't necessarily have my full attention. But man, if he doesn't do it better than most. Such an enthralling, beautiful artist and album. |
| Bill Callahan YTI⅃AƎЯ |
| Billy Bragg and Wilco Mermaid Avenue Vol. III |
| Such a fruitful recording session these turned out to be. Probably not quite a four and not up to par with Vol. I & II, but some of my favorite jams from all 3 reside here. Plus, this was resting at an unfair 3 rating so I had to boost that up. Gimme a new Wilco album now please. |
| Billy Bragg and Wilco Mermaid Avenue |
| Billy Bragg and Wilco Mermaid Avenue, Vol. 2 |
| Blur Blur |
| Blur The Magic Whip |
| Blur Think Tank |
| Blur The Great Escape |
| Blur The Ballad of Darren |
| Bon Iver Blood Bank |
| Bon Iver i,i |
| Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Bonnie 'Prince' Billy |
| Bonnie 'Prince' Billy I Made a Place |
| Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You |
| Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Lie Down in the Light |
| Bonnie 'Prince' Billy The Letting Go |
| Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Greatest Palace Music |
| Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Master And Everyone |
| Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Ease Down The Road |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon |
| Brand New Leaked Demos 2006 |
| Bright Eyes Fevers & Mirrors |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning |
| Bright Eyes Cassadaga |
| Broken Social Scene To Be You and Me |
| Broken Social Scene Forgiveness Rock Record |
| Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene |
| Built to Spill There Is No Enemy |
| Built to Spill Perfect from Now On |
| Built to Spill When The Wind Forgets Your Name |
| Califone Stitches |
| Califone Roots and Crowns |
| Califone Roomsound |
| Califone Echo Mine |
| Califone villagers |
| Car Seat Headrest How To Leave Town |
| Car Seat Headrest Teens of Denial |
| Car Seat Headrest Twin Fantasy (Face to Face) |
| Cass McCombs Tip of the Sphere |
| Cass McCombs Humor Risk |
| Chevelle Point #1 |
| Chevelle Wonder What's Next |
| Chevelle Vena Sera |
| Chevelle La Gárgola |
| Chevelle NIRATIAS |
| Chevelle The North Corridor |
| Cloud Nothings Last Building Burning |
| Album is heavy and awesome - now that I have this album, their last 4 on shuffle is an infinite treat. Band is a sneaky, awesome treat. |
| Cloud Nothings Here and Nowhere Else |
| Cloud Nothings Attack on Memory |
| Cloud Nothings Life Without Sound |
| Cloud Nothings The Shadow I Remember |
| Cloud Nothings Final Summer |
| Colour Revolt The Cradle |
| Colour Revolt Plunder, Beg, and Curse |
| Courtney Barnett Tell Me How You Really Feel |
| Damien Jurado Saint Bartlett |
| Damien Jurado Brothers And Sisters Of The Eternal Son |
| Damien Jurado The Horizon Just Laughed |
| Just discovered this album's existence in my obsession with Father John Misty's newest work. The way J. Tillman crafts and exists almost always allows him complete autonomy in my musical forays when he releases something new. However, the heft and presence of Damien Jurado, and probably unfairly, a review of one of Jurado's newest Maraqopa trilogy albums by Tillman himself, allowed me to venture out and listen to this too. So delicate and beautiful, and I didn't really realize I needed DJ to lay off the psychadelic swell of his previous 3.5 albums, and just get back to basics. Can't wait for this to seep into my bones. |
| Dave Matthews Band Crash |
| Dave Matthews Band Busted Stuff |
| Death Cab for Cutie The Photo Album |
| Death Cab for Cutie Plans |
| Deerhunter Weird Era Cont. |
| Deerhunter Microcastle |
| Deerhunter Fluorescent Grey |
| Deerhunter Rainwater Cassette Exchange |
| Deerhunter Monomania |
| Deerhunter Fading Frontier |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist |
| Deftones Around the Fur |
| Deftones Gore |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
| Department of Eagles In Ear Park |
| Destroyer Five Spanish Songs |
| Destroyer Kaputt |
| Destroyer Your Blues |
| Destroyer Thief |
| Destroyer City Of Daughters |
| Destroyer Poison Season |
| Destroyer Have We Met |
A couple spins through and I'm just again in love. Bejar just pumps out the goods always.
Can't wait to spend a lot more time with Have We Met. Has a little bit of Ken DNA, but
not as much as I thought it would. Kind of a darker, distant cousin of Kaputt, but that's
just a comparison for comparison's sake. Has traces of what Your Blues originated as 16
years ago too, but far less Vaudevillian. This could very easily climb from a 4, but I'll
let her nest in my brain for awhile. |
| Destroyer LABYRINTHITIS |
| Devendra Banhart Mala |
| Devendra Banhart Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon |
| Devendra Banhart What Will We Be |
| Devendra Banhart Ape In Pink Marble |
| Devendra Banhart Ma |
| DIIV Is the Is Are |
| DIIV Deceiver |
| DIIV Frog In Boiling Water |
| Dinosaur Jr. I Bet on Sky |
| Dinosaur Jr. Farm |
| Dinosaur Jr. Where You Been |
| Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me |
| Dinosaur Jr. Sweep It Into Space |
| Dinosaur Jr. Hand It Over |
| Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca |
| Dirty Projectors Lamp Lit Prose |
| El Obo Reach Into the Dark and Pull It Closer |
| Empty Country Empty Country |
| It's such a shame that Cymbals Eat Guitars called it quits - one of my favorite bands. If this is any indication of what's to come from Joe D though, then not to worry. It honestly sounds like the 5th Cymbals album in a lot of ways. It's a very emotional record with a lot of CEG's feel and approach, so I'm excited to see what can come from this project. |
| Father John Misty Fear Fun |
| Father John Misty Pure Comedy |
| Father John Misty God's Favorite Customer |
| Father John Misty Chloe and the Next 20th Century |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes |
| Fleet Foxes Crack-Up |
| Fleet Foxes Shore |
| Foo Fighters Concrete and Gold |
| Foo Fighters One by One |
| Foo Fighters There Is Nothing Left to Lose |
| Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace |
| Foo Fighters Sonic Highways |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light |
| Foo Fighters Medicine at Midnight |
| Foo Fighters But Here We Are |
| Frog Eyes Carey's Cold Spring |
| Frog Eyes The Folded Palm |
| Frog Eyes Violet Psalms |
| Frog Eyes The Bees |
| I was beyond excited when I found out Frog Eyes were reuniting to keep this carnival ship rocking on choppy waters. Carey Mercer is such an evocative songwriter and vocalist along the lines of Spencer Krug (bffs) or Aaron Weiss of mewithoutYou. This, their 9th (!) album, finds Carey going back for more guitar-centric sounding material. Seeing as I still think Paul's Tomb and Tears of the Valedictorian are their magnum opuses, and both are guitar records, I am really happy. I truly find joy in all of their material, as it is not something people grasp on a first or second listen (even seasoned listeners), but the payoff is immense. This album moves and grooves unlike anything released since Paul's Tomb and is arguably as rhythmic as I've ever heard them. Fantastic band that has always deserved far more attention, but that ship has sailed. Just blessed and pleased that these Canadian maniacs are back with another fantastic album. One of their best. |
| Glassjaw El Mark |
| Gorillaz Plastic Beach |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz |
| Gorillaz The Now Now |
| Gorillaz Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez |
| Gorillaz Cracker Island |
| Grandaddy Blu Wav |
| Grandaddy The Sophtware Slump |
| Grandaddy Under the Western Freeway |
| Grandaddy Just Like the Fambly Cat |
| Grandaddy Sumday |
| Grandaddy Last Place |
| Grinderman Grinderman |
| Grinderman Grinderman 2 |
| Grizzly Bear Shields |
| Grizzly Bear Yellow House |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest |
| Grizzly Bear Painted Ruins |
| Handsome Furs Plague Park |
| Handsome Furs Face Control |
| Handsome Furs Sound Kapital |
| Hawkboy Hawkboy |
| Iceage Seek Shelter |
| I'm a longtime wannabe fan, first time real fan. This album is such a fun ride and as I travel around their discography, I can't get over how good this band is. I knew it the whole time too and was constantly recommended them and still just didn't really do it outside of some quick listens. I am fully enthralled and blown away by the quality of...well, everything here and on the other 4 records. |
| Iceage Beyondless |
| Iceage Plowing into the Field of Love |
| Iceage You're Nothing |
| Iceage New Brigade |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Light Grenades |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View |
| Interpol Antics |
| Interpol El Pintor |
| Iron And Wine Kiss Each Other Clean |
| Jeff Tweedy Warm |
| Jeff Tweedy Warmer |
| Julian Casablancas Phrazes for the Young |
| Justin Vernon Hazeltons |
| Kanye West Late Registration |
| Kanye West The Life of Pablo |
| Kanye West Yeezus |
| Kanye West Jesus Is King |
| Kendrick Lamar DAMN. |
| Kevin Devine Brother's Blood |
| Kevin Devine Bubblegum |
| Kevin Devine Bulldozer |
| Kevin Devine Between the Concrete and Clouds |
| Kevin Devine Instigator |
| Another more than solid, consistent effort from KD. It always bums me out that he can't gain much traction in the popularity department, even being so close with acts like Brand New and Manchester Orchestra. Some day he'll get the recognition he deserves I hope. In the meantime, I hope he keeps pumping out great albums. |
| Kevin Devine Split the Country, Split the Street |
| Kevin Devine Put Your Ghost To Rest |
| Kevin Drew Spirit If... |
| This is a (not so i guess) surprisingly excellent album. Kevin Drew is slowly becoming one of my favorite voices in rock music, and this record only further solidifies his stellar work in Broken Social Scene. It can be argued that the first half of album (tracks 1-8) is definitely the stronger half, but really with the exception of "Big Love", I enjoy every track here thoroughly. This is definitely recommended and may see itself changing to a 4.5 if I keep up my torrid listening pace |
| Kings of Leon Youth and Young Manhood |
| Kings of Leon Aha Shake Heartbreak |
| Kings of Leon When You See Yourself |
| Kings of Leon Can We Please Have Fun |
| Kurt Vile Smoke Ring For My Halo |
| Kurt Vile Square Shells |
| Kurt Vile Childish Prodigy |
| Kurt Vile Watch My Moves |
| Kurt Vile Back To Moon Beach |
| Lana Del Rey Chemtrails Over The Country Club |
| Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell! |
| Lana Del Rey Ultraviolence |
| Lana Del Rey Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd |
| Liars WIXIW |
| Liars Sisterworld |
| Liars Liars |
| Limp Bizkit Significant Other |
| Limp Bizkit Three Dollar Bill Y'all |
| Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water |
| Limp Bizkit Still Sucks |
| Loose Fur Loose Fur |
| M. Ward Post-War |
| Mac DeMarco 2 |
| Mac DeMarco Another One |
| Manchester Orchestra I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child |
| Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing |
| Manchester Orchestra Simple Math |
| Manchester Orchestra Fourteen Years Of Excellence |
| Manchester Orchestra A Black Mile to the Surface |
| Manchester Orchestra The Million Masks of God |
| Mansions Big Bad |
| Mansions Doom Loop |
| Mansions Dig Up the Dead |
| Maps and Atlases Perch Patchwork |
| Mark Kozelek Finally |
| Mark Kozelek Like Rats |
| Mark Kozelek and Desertshore Mark Kozelek and Desertshore |
| Merchandise After The End |
| Merchandise Totale Nite |
| Metz Metz |
| Metz Metz II |
| Metz Strange Peace |
| Metz Atlas Vending |
| mewithoutYou Pale Horses |
| mewithoutYou [untitled] e.p. |
| mewithoutYou [Untitled] |
| MGMT Congratulations |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News |
| Modest Mouse Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks |
| Modest Mouse Strangers to Ourselves |
| Modest Mouse The Golden Casket |
| Moonface Julia with Blue Jeans On |
| Moonface With Siinai: Heartbreaking Bravery |
| Moonface Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I'd Hoped |
| Moonface This One’s For The Dancer... |
| Mount Eerie Clear Moon |
| Mount Eerie Sauna |
| Mount Eerie Lost Wisdom |
| Mount Eerie A Crow Looked At Me |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry |
| My Morning Jacket Circuital |
| My Morning Jacket Evil Urges |
| My Morning Jacket Z |
| My Morning Jacket The Waterfall |
| My Morning Jacket Chocolate and Ice |
| My Morning Jacket My Morning Jacket |
| Nas NASIR |
| Neutral Milk Hotel On Avery Island |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Let Love In |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds The Boatman's Call |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Push The Sky Away |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Ghosteen |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| Nirvana Incesticide |
| O'Brother Endless Light |
| O'Brother You and I |
| One Day as a Lion One Day as a Lion |
| Osees Mutilator Defeated At Last |
| Osees Floating Coffin |
| Osees Putrifiers II |
| Osees Help |
| Osees The Master's Bedroom is Worth Spending a Night In |
| Osees Castlemania |
| Osees Carrion Crawler/The Dream |
| I can't believe this doesn't have a review. This band is criminally underrated on this site. I love every one of their albums and this is no exception. One of their heaviest through and through; Castlemania came out in the same year and is a bit softer/more experimental. Together, they kick major ass |
| Osees Face Stabber |
| Ought Sun Coming Down |
| Ought Room Inside The World |
| Ought Once More With Feeling |
| OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below |
| OutKast Stankonia |
| OutKast ATLiens |
| Panda Bear Tomboy |
| Panda Bear Person Pitch |
| Panda Bear Buoys |
| Panda Bear Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper |
| Parquet Courts Human Performance |
| Completely shocked that this does still not have a review. And, a 3.5? Yikes. Thought Sputnik was tuned into this scene a bit more. Great album, great band - can't wait for more. |
| Parquet Courts Sunbathing Animal |
| Parquet Courts Light Up Gold |
| Parquet Courts Wide Awake |
| Pearl Jam Ten |
| Pearl Jam Vitalogy |
| Pearl Jam Yield |
| Pearl Jam No Code |
| Pearl Jam Gigaton |
| Pearl Jam Lost Dogs |
| Pearl Jam Dark Matter |
| Phosphorescent A Hundred Times Or More |
| Phosphorescent Pride |
| Phosphorescent Here's To Taking It Easy |
| Phosphorescent Muchacho |
| Phosphorescent To Willie |
| Phosphorescent Revelator |
| Pink Floyd More |
| Plants and Animals Waltzed in from the Rumbling |
| Plants and Animals La La Land |
| Portugal. The Man Church Mouth |
| Portugal. The Man Devil Say I, I Say AIR |
| Portugal. The Man Censored Colors |
| Portugal. The Man In The Mountain In The Cloud |
| Portugal. The Man Evil Friends |
| Protomartyr The Agent Intellect |
| This band kicks so much major ass - sounds like The National thrown through a greasy, bloody garage. rPerfect |
| Protomartyr No Passion All Technique |
| Album is killer. Band is killer. Needs more attention. |
| Protomartyr Ultimate Success Today |
| Protomartyr Formal Growth in the Desert |
| Purple Mountains Purple Mountains |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork |
| Queens of the Stone Age In Times New Roman... |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs |
| Radiohead The Daily Mail/Staircase |
| Real Estate Days |
| Real Estate Atlas |
| Real Estate The Main Thing |
| I for one am enjoying the new direction Real Estate has taken since the departure of Matt Mondanile. They're in a weird place where their last two albums are not enough of a separation of their first three for some, while too much of a departure of their sound for others. I'm here for it because Real Estate's songwriting has always (deceptively) been the core of their sound, which I think holds up real well in a more dreary, psychedelic, proggy setting. Great album |
| Red House Painters Old Ramon |
| Rogue Wave Asleep at Heaven's Gate |
| Rogue Wave Permalight |
| Rogue Wave Descended Like Vultures |
| Rogue Wave Out Of The Shadow |
| Sainthood Reps Monoculture |
| Silver Jews Tanglewood Numbers |
| Silver Jews The Natural Bridge |
| Smog Supper |
| Smog Red Apple Falls |
| I am a gradual Bill Callahan fanatic. It took me a few years, and admittedly with the aid of his solo billed 'Bill Callahan' records, I became this gradual fan. With that said, an album like 'Red Apple Falls' took more on the long side to grow. But just like what he was doing with Jeff Tweedy's transformation across the record sales with Wilco, Jim O'Rourke brought out greatness that already lied within Bill here first and foremost before the home-runs Callahan consistently knocked out of the park after this album. I love all Smog, before and after this, but this is nearly undoubtedly (sans a few distinct moments on 'A Doctor Came...') the moment where Smog(callahan) took off into his own unique, playbook of a musical future. |
| Smog Accumulation: None |
| Sparta Wiretap Scars |
| Sparta Porcelain |
| Spencer Krug Fading Graffiti |
| Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga |
| Spoon Gimme Fiction |
| Spoon Love Ways |
| Spoon They Want My Soul |
| Spoon Hot Thoughts |
| Spoon Lucifer on the Sofa |
| Squid O Monolith |
| Absolutely was blown away by their debut. This sounds super awesome so far. |
| St. Vincent Actor |
| St. Vincent Strange Mercy |
| St. Vincent St. Vincent |
| St. Vincent All Born Screaming |
| Stone Temple Pilots Core |
| Stone Temple Pilots Purple |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz |
| Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans |
| Sufjan Stevens The Avalanche: Outtakes and Extras |
| Sufjan Stevens The Greatest Gift |
| Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine A Beginner's Mind |
| Sun Kil Moon Ghosts of the Great Highway |
| Sun Kil Moon April |
| Sun Kil Moon Admiral Fell Promises |
| Sun Kil Moon Benji |
| Sun Kil Moon Common As Light and Love Are Red Valleys of Blood |
| Sunset Rubdown Shut Up I Am Dreaming |
| Swan Lake Enemy Mine |
| System of a Down System of a Down |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| Tame Impala Lonerism |
| Tame Impala The Slow Rush |
| The Antlers Hospice |
| The Beatles Help! |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul |
| The Beatles Let It Be |
| The Black Keys Brothers |
| The Black Keys El Camino |
| The Black Keys Let's Rock |
| The Decemberists The Crane Wife |
| The Decemberists What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World |
| The Decemberists Castaways and Cutouts |
| The Fall of Troy Manipulator |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots |
| The Flaming Lips The Terror |
| I really, really enjoy this album. It's cathartic and dark much like Embryonic, but much more like the morning wreckage and haze (much like the album cover depicts) that that album left in its wake. All in all, a slow ambient cruise through a trippy mixture of keyboards, spaceship sounds, basslines, and Wayne Coyne's melodic, falsetto. He even sounds a bit like Angus Andrews here a bit, and a few of these songs really do give me a Liars vibe, which is certainly a good thing. Overall impressed, and excited with the Lips new darker choice of direction. |
| The Flaming Lips Peace Sword |
| The Flaming Lips Christmas On Mars |
| The Flaming Lips American Head |
| The Killers Imploding the Mirage |
| The Killers Hot Fuss |
| The Killers Sam's Town |
| The Killers Sawdust |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture |
| The Mars Volta The Mars Volta |
| The Men Tomorrow's Hits |
| The Men New Moon |
| The Men Open Your Heart |
| The Men Leave Home |
| The Men Drift |
| The Men have always been an odd duck, and they've certainly continued that trend with these last two. I'm definitely still coming around to Devil Music but I'm diggin what I'm hearing here. They just give no damns and I always appreciate their ignorance to expectations or normal music constraints. Getting harsh reviews here - if nothing else, they're becoming an amazing shuffle band |
| The Men Mercy |
| The only album of The Men's I don't love is Devil Music and that even has its moments. I thought Drift and the few before that were awesome, and this album is a fuller continuation of Drift. I get frustrated at times like any other Men fan sometimes by a lack of consistency or what have you. Yet, I've found the best way to jam The Men is just blast them and ride whatever wave they want to take you on. They're a very simplistic, yet enigmatic band simultaneously, and I've always appreciated that about them. This is one of their stronger albums in years and I love that they're still mixing alt-country with post-rock with punk/hardcore touches mixed in with a decent psychedelic helping. The Men rawk. |
| The Microphones It Was Hot, We Stayed In The Water |
| The Microphones Mount Eerie |
| The National Laugh Track |
| The National First Two Pages of Frankenstein |
| The Raconteurs Consolers of the Lonely |
| The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers |
| The Republic of Wolves Varuna |
| The Republic of Wolves shrine |
| The Shins Wincing the Night Away |
| The Shins Oh, Inverted World |
| The Strokes Room on Fire |
| The Strokes First Impressions of Earth |
| The Strokes Angles |
| The Strokes Comedown Machine |
| The Strokes Future Present Past |
| The Voidz Tyranny |
| The Voidz Virtue |
| The Walkmen Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone |
| The Walkmen Lisbon |
| The Walkmen Heaven |
| The Walkmen A Hundred Miles Off |
| The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream |
| This could get higher or lower as I've only spun this twice thus far but have really enjoyed it. A very, very paced, relaxing listen, that flows with ease, as I'm sure Granduciel and co. intended (he continues with his affinity for spacey segues and interludes). One thing I was surprised about was the average track length; this is no complaint, just an observation. I remember having a similarly surprising feeling when popping "Wakin' On A Pretty Daze" into my iTunes some 8 or 9 months ago. Not that TWOD didn't have long tracks before, but this album has a 6 minute average track length; maybe a bit of a response to his buddy Kurt Vile's recent track length extension? Who knows, or cares; but funny. Great album though, I'm glad War on Drugs are expanding their small but excellent catalog. |
| The War On Drugs Slave Ambient |
| The War On Drugs A Deeper Understanding |
| The Weeknd Dawn FM |
| The Weeknd After Hours |
| The Weeknd Kiss Land |
| The Weeknd Beauty Behind the Madness |
| The Weeknd House of Balloons |
| The Weeknd Starboy |
| The White Stripes White Blood Cells |
| The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan |
| The White Stripes Icky Thump |
| Thrice Vheissu |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV |
| Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere |
| Thrice Horizons/East |
| Thursday Full Collapse |
| Thursday A City By the Light Divided |
| Thursday Common Existence |
| Tim Darcy Saturday Night |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Tool Opiate |
| Tool Fear Inoculum |
| Tori Amos Little Earthquakes |
| Tori Amos Under the Pink |
| Tori Amos Boys for Pele |
| Toro Y Moi Mahal |
| TV on the Radio Nine Types of Light |
| TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain |
| TV on the Radio Young Liars |
| Ty Segall Twins |
| Ty Segall Melted |
| Ty Segall Harmonizer |
| Ty Segall Freedom's Goblin |
| Tyler, the Creator IGOR |
| Tyler, the Creator Call Me If You Get Lost |
| Tyler, the Creator Flower Boy |
| Unknown Mortal Orchestra II |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend |
| Vampire Weekend Contra |
| Vampire Weekend Father Of The Bride |
| Volcano Choir Repave |
| Ween Chocolate and Cheese |
| Ween The Mollusk |
| Ween White Pepper |
| Ween Quebec |
| Ween Shinola, Vol. 1 |
| Weezer Pacific Daydream |
| Weezer The Red Album |
| Weezer Maladroit |
| Weezer The White Album |
| Weezer Everything Will Be Alright in the End |
| Weezer Hurley |
| Weezer The Black Album |
| Weezer OK Human |
| Weezer Van Weezer |
| Surprised by how good this was. Fun album with some jams. |
| Wilco Sky Blue Sky |
| Wilco Summerteeth |
| Wilco The Whole Love |
| Wilco Cousin |
| Wild Nothing Empty Estate |
| Wild Nothing Nocturne |
| Wolf Parade At Mount Zoomer |
| Wolf Parade EP 4 |
| Wolf Parade Expo 86 |
| Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary |
| Wolf Parade Cry Cry Cry |
| I am pretty damn stoked to hear this. Loved EP4 and have high expectations for this. Surprised at the lack of rattention Wolf Parade gets around these parts. One of my favorite bands. rHoping for a review of this is in the works, though judging from the general reception of WP on Sputnik, I'm rdoubting this. If I find a minute, I may concoct a review myself.rReally good to have the boys back - this is a Wolf Parade album through and through and definitely more of a rthrow back to earlier (Apologies, somewhat At Mount Zoomer) sound. It still retains a meatier sound that Expo r86 and EP4 solidified. I never doubted for a second that this would be great considering the company rinvolved. While not mind blowing, it's mind blowing in the sense of how seamless and awesome it does rsound. It loses some of the knottiness that dragged Expo 86 down at times; trimming song lengths and rambitions is often the right formula for such a band who's tendencies lean towards the epic. rStill, some of their heaviest moments, musically and lyrically, rest here and it's an awesome return from a rband that never lost their groove, in my mind. |
| Wolf Parade Thin Mind |
| Woods Strange To Explain |
| Woods Perennial |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Show Your Bones |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz! |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Is Is |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Cool It Down |
| Yo La Tengo Popular Songs |
| Yo La Tengo Painful |
| Yo La Tengo Summer Sun |
| Yo La Tengo I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One |
| Yo La Tengo Electr-O-Pura |
| Such an awesome, oddly underrated outing from La Tengo |
| Yo La Tengo Fade |
| Yo La Tengo There’s A Riot Going On |
| Yo La Tengo This Stupid World |
