| 4.5 superb |
| Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues |
| Agent Fresco A Long Time Listening |
| Agent Fresco Destrier |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Brand New Daisy |
| Circa Survive On Letting Go |
| Closure in Moscow Pink Lemonade |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension |
| Crime In Stereo I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone |
| Dance Gavin Dance Happiness |
| Dance Gavin Dance Acceptance Speech |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Deftones Gore |
| dredg El Cielo |
| Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown |
| Fear Before Fear Before |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book |
| Hail the Sun Elephantitis |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair |
| Mew And the Glass Handed Kites |
| Opeth Damnation |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries |
| Poison the Well Versions |
| Poison the Well I/III / II/III / III/III |
| Polyenso Pure In The Plastic |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Refused Freedom |
| While I realise that many people loved The Shape of Punk to Come for its relentless ferocity, it seems quite a few people are forgetting just how experimental that album actually was. Things like the jazzier musical elements, the use of samples, etc. were all unprecedented within the genre at the time of its release. I can't say Refused fail recapture the aggression that had previously defined them, because they're not even trying to do so. They're doing something completely different here - combining elements of their older material with a wide variety of other genres and influences, creating something that is not quite like anything I've ever heard before. And, in my opinion, that's a great thing. It's thrilling to me when a band experiments and tries something different, and the genre-hopping present in most of the songs here consistently surprised me and kept me on my toes. I suppose backlash was inevitable with a band of such stature putting out their first new album in 17 years - had they not changed their sound at all, you'd likely have people calling the album derivative and criticising the band for playing it safe. But Refused were a band well ahead of their time, and I dare say they remain as such. Will this album ever be able to claim the same legacy of The Shape of Punk to Come? No, of course not. That album is a landmark for the genre and then some. But I wouldn't be surprised if this new sound comes with a wave of imitators in the next 5-10 years. In the meantime, I've got a new Refused album to spin, and I couldn't be happier about it. |
| The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II |
| Tides of Man Empire Theory |
| Tides of Man Dreamhouse |
