| 3.5 great |
| 2562 Fever |
| 311 311 |
| A City Safe From Sea Throw Me Through Walls |
| A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders |
| Absu Absu |
| Acid Bath When the Kite String Pops |
| Actress Splazsh |
| Against Me! Reinventing Axl Rose |
| Agalloch The Mantle |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain |
| Agent Orange Living in Darkness |
| Algernon Cadwallader Some Kind Of Cadwallader |
| Minus half a point for sounding nearly indistinguishable from Cap'n Jazz. |
| Alias Fever Dream |
| Alice in Chains Dirt |
| America Addio Cotton Kingdom |
| Amon Tobin Permutation |
| Animal Collective Feels |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion |
| This is a fine record, despite being a bit too uniform and repetitive. |
| Animal Collective Fall Be Kind |
| Annuals Be He Me |
| Antipop Consortium Arrhythmia |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album |
| Arcade Fire Funeral |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible |
| Arghoslent Hornets of the Pogrom |
| Asobi Seksu Citrus |
| Assuck Misery Index |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| Atheist Unquestionable Presence |
| Atlas Sound Logos |
| Atmosphere God Loves Ugly |
| Atmosphere Lucy Ford: The Atmosphere EPs |
| Autechre Tri Repetae |
| Autechre Confield |
| Bailter Space Robot World |
| Barenaked Ladies Stunt |
| Basement Jaxx Remedy |
| Basement Jaxx Rooty |
| Basic Channel BCD |
| BATS Red In Tooth and Claw |
| Bauhaus In the Flat Field |
| Beastie Boys Check Your Head |
| Beirut Gulag Orkestar |
| Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect |
| Bibio Ambivalence Avenue |
| Big Black Songs About Fucking |
| Bill Withers Still Bill |
| Binary Star Masters of the Universe |
| Bjork Vespertine |
| Black Devil Disco Club Disco Club |
| Black Flag My War |
| Black Flag Slip It In |
| Black Moon Enta Da Stage |
| Deliciously dark (yet jazzy) beats and production. Buckshot's delivery is first rate, but his lyrics leave a little something to be desired. |
| Black Moth Super Rainbow Dandelion Gum |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath |
| Black Sabbath Vol. 4 |
| Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath |
| Black Sheep A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing |
| Black Star Black Star |
| Black Sun Empire Driving Insane |
| Black Tambourine Complete Recordings |
| Blackalicious Blazing Arrow |
| Blackfield Blackfield |
| Blackfield Blackfield II |
| blink-182 Greatest Hits |
| This band sure as hell knows how to write good, catchy singles. |
| Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta II - Dialogue With The Stars |
| Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children |
| Bob Dylan The Times They Are A-Changin' |
| Bob Dylan Modern Times |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Bongzilla Amerijuanican |
| Boredoms Super Ae |
| Boredoms Pop Tatari |
| Boris Pink |
| Boris Amplifier Worship |
| Boris With Michio Kurihara Rainbow |
| Boston Boston |
| Botch We Are the Romans |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Brand New Daisy |
| I was never that big of a Brand New fan, but this album really stands out to me in ways that their other albums didn't. |
| Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports |
| Brian Eno Here Come the Warm Jets |
| Brian Eno Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks |
| Brian Eno Nerve Net |
| Brian Eno Small Craft on a Milk Sea |
| Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene |
| Bryan Scary Flight of the Knife |
An explosive psychedelic pop album reminiscent of many popular 60s and 70s acts such as The Beatles, ELO, Queen,
The Beach Boys, David Bowie, and The Zombies.
Many of the songs are surprisingly piano-driven, however there is quite an assortment of different instruments to be
found; there are just layers upon layers of sound here. And while each of the songs have their own distinctive
qualities, they all share a certain ubiquitous energy that is hard to come across these days.
It's an incredibly strange and fun album that combines elements of everything you've already heard before and turns
it into something unique and refreshing. One of the best albums I've heard all year. |
| Burial Untrue |
| Burzum Filosofem |
| Busta Rhymes The Coming |
| Butch Walker Sycamore Meadows |
| Calyx and Teebee Anatomy |
| Can Tago Mago |
| Can Monster Movie |
| Can Soon Over Babaluma |
| Candlemass Epicus Doomicus Metallicus |
| Cannonball Adderley Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! Live At The Club |
| Cannonball Adderley Somethin' Else |
| Cannonball Adderley In San Francisco |
| Cannonball Adderley Cannonball Adderley Quintet in Chicago |
| Carole King Tapestry |
| Cassino Sounds of Salvation |
| Catherine Wheel Ferment |
| Chelsea Wolfe Apokalypsis |
| Chico Buarque Construção |
| Chrome Alien Soundtracks |
| Chrome Half Machine Lip Moves |
| Circle Jerks Group Sex |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo |
| Circulatory System Circulatory System |
| City of Caterpillar City of Caterpillar |
| Clark Clarence Park |
| Clueless Torrid Affairs |
| Cluster and Eno Cluster & Eno |
| Coalesce OX |
| Cocteau Twins Treasure |
| Coil Musick To Play In The Dark 2 |
| Common Resurrection |
| Common Rider Last Wave Rockers |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Converge Axe to Fall |
| Crustation Bloom |
| Cursed III: Architects of Troubled Sleep |
| Cursive Domestica |
| Cursive The Ugly Organ |
| Cynic Focus |
| D'Angelo Brown Sugar |
| D'Angelo Live At The Jazz Cafe |
| Daft Punk Homework |
| Daft Punk Alive 2007 |
| Dan Deacon Bromst |
| Has been described to me as "Merriweather Post Pavilion, except not shitty." |
| DangerDoom The Mouse And The Mask |
| Dark Time Sunshine Vessel |
| De La Soul Buhloone Mindstate |
| Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables |
| Death Human |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism |
| Deconstruction Deconstruction |
| Deep Purple Made in Japan |
| Deerhoof Deerhoof vs. Evil |
| Deerhunter Cryptograms |
| Deerhunter Microcastle |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist |
| Dela Changes of Atmosphere |
| Delerium Chimera |
| Delerium Karma |
| Delerium Poem |
| Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 |
| Demon Fuzz Afreaka! |
| Devin The Dude Devin the Dude |
| Devin Townsend Terria |
| Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech |
| Devin Townsend Project Ki |
| Devin Townsend Project Addicted |
| Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction |
| Devo Freedom of Choice |
| Digable Planets Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) |
| Digable Planets Blowout Comb |
| Dio Holy Diver |
| Discharge Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing |
| Disillusion Back to Times of Splendor |
| Dizzee Rascal Boy In Da Corner |
| DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper |
| DJ Shadow The Private Press |
| Don Caballero What Burns Never Returns |
| Dr. Dre The Chronic |
| dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion |
After hearing various snippets of the album from live performances on youtube, I had begun to worry that dredg had
lost everything that made them interesting in the first place.
I can say with confidence that my fears have (mostly) been laid to rest. dredg has managed to craft an album that
mixes some of the experimental tendencies of Leitmotif and El Cielo with the accessibility of Catch Without Arms.
There are a couple of tracks that drag the album down, but as a whole, it's quite solid. |
| Dropkick Murphys Do or Die |
| Dropkick Murphys The Warrior's Code |
| Dropkick Murphys Live on St. Patrick's Day from Boston |
| Drudkh Autumn Aurora |
| Drudkh Microcosmos |
| Durrty Goodz Axiom |
| Echospace The Coldest Season |
| El-B The Roots of El-B |
| Elvis Costello This Year's Model |
| Elzhi Elmatic |
| Enslaved Isa |
| Eric B and Rakim Paid in Full |
| Esthero Breath from Another |
| Exotic Animal Petting Zoo I Have Made My Bed in Darkness |
| Extra Life Secular Works |
| Eyedea and Abilities First Born |
| Faith No More King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime |
| Faith No More The Real Thing |
| Faith No More Album of the Year |
| FaltyDL You Stand Uncertain |
| fIREHOSE Ragin', Full On |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes |
| Flight of the Conchords Flight of the Conchords |
| Flower Travellin' Band Satori |
| Fluke Risotto |
| Flying Lotus Los Angeles |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma |
| Frank Zappa Apostrophe |
| Frank Zappa Waka/Jawaka |
| Frank Zappa The Grand Wazoo |
| Freddie Hubbard Red Clay |
| Freddie Hubbard Hub-Tones |
| Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects Sol Niger Within V3.33 |
| Freestyle Fellowship Innercity Griots |
| Fripp and Eno The Equatorial Stars |
| Front Line Assembly Tactical Neural Implant |
| Fugazi The Argument |
| fun. Aim and Ignite |
| Funkadelic One Nation Under a Groove |
| Funkadelic Maggot Brain |
| Galaxie 500 On Fire |
| Gang of Four Entertainment! |
| Gang of Four Yellow EP |
| Garotas Suecas Escaldante Banda |
| Gary Numan The Pleasure Principle |
| Genelec & Memphis Reigns Scorpion Circles |
| General Elektriks Cliquety Kliqk |
| Genghis Tron Board Up the House |
| George Clinton Computer Games |
| Germs (GI) |
| Geto Boys Uncut Dope |
| Gil Scott-Heron Reflections |
| Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson Winter In America |
| Giles Corey Giles Corey |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book |
| Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles) |
| Gorod Leading Vision |
| Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five The Message |
| Grant Green Idle Moments |
| Grant Green Matador |
| Gravediggaz 6 Feet Deep |
| Green Day Dookie |
| Gridlock Formless |
| Grizzly Bear Yellow House |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest |
| Grotus Slow Motion Apocalypse |
| Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill |
| Guided by Voices Bee Thousand |
| Guru Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1 |
| Hank Mobley Soul Station |
| Harmonia Deluxe |
| Harvey Milk Life... The Best Game in Town |
| Have a Nice Life Voids |
| The demos are sort of interesting to say the least, but the real meat here lies within the second disk of Deathconciousness b-sides. |
| Herb Ellis Ellis in Wonderland |
| Hieroglyphics Full Circle |
| High on Fire Blessed Black Wings |
| High on Fire Death Is This Communion |
| Hooverphonic Blue Wonder Power Milk |
| HORSE the band The Mechanical Hand |
| Hot Cross Cryonics |
| Hot Water Music A Flight and a Crash |
| Hybrid (UK) Wide Angle |
| IAMX Kingdom of Welcome Addiction |
| Ice Cube The Predator |
| Ice Cube AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted |
| Ice Cube Lethal Injection |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Fungus Amongus |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Enjoy Incubus |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Alive at Red Rocks |
| Incubus (USA-CA) The Morning View Sessions |
| Incubus (USA-CA) When Incubus Attacks, Vol. 2 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Live at Lollapalooza 2003 |
| At first glance this might seem like your typical live Incubus album, nothing you haven't seen before right? Wrong. This album was recorded while Incubus was wrapping up their new album, A Crow Left Of The Murder. Many of the songs featured on this bootleg have early tidbits of songs off the new album. For example, instead of playing the normal solo during "Nowhere Fast," Mike plays a rough and extended version of the solo from "Priceless," a song featured on ACLOTM. It's pretty fun to go back and listen to some of the early Crow material and see how far it came along during the short few months that they spent finishing up the album. |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Light Grenades |
| Infidel?/Castro! Bioentropic Damage Fractal |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights |
| Intronaut Prehistoricisms |
| Iron And Wine The Shepherd's Dog |
| Iron Lung Sexless // No Sex |
| ISIS Oceanic |
| Isolee We Are Monster |
| J Dilla Ruff Draft |
| James Brown Love, Power, Peace |
| Jamie Lidell Multiply |
| Jean-Michel Jarre Oxygene |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Violent by Design |
| Jeff Beck Wired |
| Jefre Cantu-Ledesma Love is a Stream |
| Jeru the Damaja The Sun Rises in the East |
| Jesu Conqueror |
| Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsys |
| Joe Pass Virtuoso |
| Joe Satriani Surfing with the Alien |
| John Coltrane Giant Steps |
| John Coltrane Ascension |
| John Mayer Continuum |
| John Roberts Glass Eights |
| Joy Division Closer |
| Jucifer If Thine Enemy Hunger |
| Jungle Brothers Straight Out The Jungle |
| Jurassic 5 Power in Numbers |
| k-os Atlantis: Hymns For Disco |
| Karate The Bed is in The Ocean |
| Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward |
| Khan Jamal Drumdance to the Motherland |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King |
| King Crimson Red |
| Kraftwerk The Man-Machine |
| Kraftwerk Autobahn |
| Kyuss Welcome to Sky Valley |
| Lamb Lamb |
| Larry Young Unity |
| LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening |
| Leaders Of The New School A Future Without a Past |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV |
| Led Zeppelin In Through the Out Door |
| LFO (UK) Frequencies |
| Liars Liars |
| Liquid Liquid Liquid Liquid |
| Lootpack Soundpieces: Da Antidote! |
| Lower Dens Twin-Hand Movement |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd One More From the Road |
| Machinedrum Room(s) |
| Machinedrum SXLND |
| Madlib Shades of Blue |
| Madvillain Madvillainy |
| Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible |
| Martyn Great Lengths |
| Mastodon Remission |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye |
| Mastodon The Hunter |
| Matrix & Futurebound Universal Truth |
| Matt Uelmen Diablo II |
| maudlin of the Well Part the Second |
| MC Solaar Prose Combat |
| Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell |
| Medeski, Martin and Wood End of the World Party (Just in Case) |
| Melvins Houdini |
| Melvins Bullhead |
| Mesa Verde The Old Road |
Mesa Verde, originally hailing from Glasgow, Scotland, is another up-and-coming act from the hardcore/screamo
scene. They released two solid EPs over the course of 2005 and 2006, and have finally returned this year with their
first full-length LP.
Their post-rock driven style of screamo (influenced by bands like City of Caterpillar, no doubt) is just chalk-full of
raw emotion, with harsh, biting vocals delivered upon layers of clean and distorted guitars and monstrous drum fills.
Anybody who is familiar with some of the more underground screamo bands probably knows what to expect here.
Moments of absolute chaos are broken up by slow, calm instrumental segments that inevitably transition into more
distorted guitars and passionate screaming.
And while Mesa Verde doesn't really push any of the genre's boundaries forward, they do what they do well. Very well
in fact, and that's good enough for me. |
| MF DOOM MM.. Food |
| Midnight Brown 17 Brown Lies |
| Mike and Rich Expert Knob Twiddlers |
| Miles Davis Bitches Brew |
| Miles Davis In a Silent Way |
| Miles Davis Milestones |
| Miles Davis Workin' With Miles Davis and the Quintet |
| Miles Davis Relaxin' With the Miles Davis Quintet |
| Miles Davis 'Round About Midnight |
| Ministry The Land of Rape and Honey |
| Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates |
| Minus the Bear Menos El Oso |
| Minus the Bear They Make Beer Commercials Like This |
| Minutemen What Makes a Man Start Fires? |
| Mobb Deep The Infamous |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica |
| Mogwai Young Team |
| Monolake Hong Kong |
| Moonshake Eva Luna |
| Moonshake Dirty & Devine |
| Mouse On The Keys An Anxious Object |
| Moving Mountains Pneuma |
| Mr. Bungle Disco Volante |
| Mr. Bungle Mr. Bungle |
| Municipal Waste Massive Aggressive |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry |
| My Dying Bride The Angel and the Dark River |
| N-Type Dubstep Allstars: Vol.5 |
| N.W.A. Niggaz4Life |
| Nadja Truth Becomes Death |
| Naked City Torture Garden |
| Nas It Was Written |
| Necrophagist Epitaph |
| Necrophagist Onset of Putrefaction |
| Neil Young Harvest |
| Neil Young Harvest Moon |
| New Order Power, Corruption and Lies |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Tender Prey |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth |
| Nine Inch Nails Quake |
| Nirvana In Utero |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| Nirvana Nirvana |
| NoMeansNo Wrong |
| Northstar Pollyanna |
| of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? |
| Off Minor Some Blood |
| OFF! First Four EPs |
| Oingo Boingo Only a Lad |
| Oingo Boingo Nothing to Fear |
| Oingo Boingo So-Lo |
| Ol' Dirty Bastard Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version |
| Om Conference of the Birds |
| OOIOO Gold and Green |
| Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come |
| Orphans of Cush White Noize |
| Owls Owls |
| Paco de Lucia Entre Dos Aguas |
| Paul McCartney Chaos and Creation in the Backyard |
| Pavement Slanted and Enchanted |
| Pele Elephant |
| Pelican Australasia |
| Pendulum Hold Your Colour |
| Pentemple O))) Presents... Pentemple |
| If hell existed, I'm pretty sure this is what it would sound like. |
| People Under the Stairs O.S.T. |
| Pete Rock Soul Survivor |
| Peter Frampton Frampton Comes Alive! |
| Petter Six Songs EP |
| Petter Some Polyphony |
| pg.99 Document #8 |
| Phaeleh Fallen Light |
| Pharoah Sanders Karma |
| Pharoahe Monch Internal Affairs |
| Pharoahe Monch Desire |
| Phetsta Congo EP |
| Pinch Underwater Dancehall |
| Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn |
| Pink Floyd Pulse |
| Pixies Doolittle |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa |
| Plaid Not for Threes |
| Planet X MoonBabies |
| Poison Idea Feel the Darkness |
| Poison the Well The Opposite of December |
| Poison the Well Versions |
| Poison the Well The Tropic Rot |
| Polvo Exploded Drawing |
| Porcupine Tree Signify |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet |
| Portishead Dummy |
| Primal Scream XTRMNTR |
| Primordial To the Nameless Dead |
| Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese |
| Primus Pork Soda |
| Primus June 2010 Rehearsal |
| Primus Green Naugahyde |
| Prince Purple Rain |
| Prince The Black Album |
| Prince Controversy |
| Propellerheads Decksandrumsandrockandroll |
| Public Image Ltd. Metal Box |
| Pulling Teeth Paranoid Delusions/Paradise Illusions |
| Quasimoto The Unseen |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... |
| Rapeman Budd |
| Ras Kass Soul on Ice |
| Really good flow and delivery. An underground classic though? I don't think so. |
| Reverend Bizarre In The Rectory Of The Bizarre Reverend |
| Rhythm and Sound The Artists |
| Rick James Street Songs |
| Ride Today Forever |
| Ride Fall |
| Rithma Music Fiction |
| Roots Manuva Run Come Save Me |
| Rosetta The Galilean Satellites |
| Run-D.M.C. Raising Hell |
| Rush Moving Pictures |
| Rush 2112 |
| Rush Fly by Night |
| Saltillo Ganglion |
| Saosin Translating the Name |
| Say Anything ...Is A Real Boy (re-release) |
| SBTRKT Step In Shadows |
| SBTRKT 2020 |
| Scorn Stealth |
| Seefeel Quique |
| Sepalcure Sepalcure |
| Shawn Lane, Brett Garsed and Frank Gamba Centrifugal Funk |
| Shudder To Think Pony Express Record |
| Sigh Hangman's Hymn |
| Sigh Scenes from Hell |
| Sigur Ros Takk... |
| Silver Jews American Water |
| Skinny Puppy Too Dark Park |
| Skinny Puppy Last Rights |
| Skream Skream! |
| Skycamefalling 10.21 |
| Slayer Reign in Blood |
| Slick Rick The Great Adventures of Slick Rick |
| Slint Slint |
| Slough Feg Hardworlder |
| Slowdive Souvlaki |
| Sly and The Family Stone Fresh |
| Snapcase Progression Through Unlearning |
| Sneaker Pimps Bloodsport |
| Sneaker Pimps Splinter |
| Snoop Dogg Doggystyle |
| Sombres Forets Royaume De Glace |
| Sonic Youth Goo |
| Sonny Rollins Saxophone Colossus |
| Soulive Turn It Out |
| Soulive Soulive |
| Souls of Mischief 93 'til Infinity |
| Soundgarden Superunknown |
| Soundgarden Badmotorfinger |
| Soundtrack (Film) Eraserhead |
| Spontaneous Music Ensemble Karyobin |
| Squarepusher Hard Normal Daddy |
| Stereolab Emperor Tomato Ketchup |
| Stevie Wonder Songs in the Key of Life |
| Stevie Wonder Talking Book |
| Stevie Wonder Fulfillingness' First Finale |
| Stray Cats Stray Cats |
| Suffocation Pierced from Within |
| Sun City Girls Torch of the Mystics |
| Sun Ra Jazz in Silhouette |
| Sunn O))) Flight of the Behemoth |
| Sunn O))) Dømkirke |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Diary |
| Swans Cop |
| Swans Swans Are Dead |
| Swell Maps A Trip to Marineville |
| Syd Barrett Barrett |
| T. Rex Electric Warrior |
| Tabla Beat Science Tala Matrix |
| Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock |
| Tangerine Dream Phaedra |
| Telefon Tel Aviv Fahrenheit Fair Enough |
| Tenacious D Tenacious D |
| Tera Melos Drugs to the Dear Youth |
| Tera Melos Patagonian Rats |
| The Afghan Whigs Gentlemen |
| The Avalanches Since I Left You |
| The Beach Boys 20 Good Vibrations: The Greatest Hits |
| The Beatles Revolver |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul |
| The Beatles A Hard Day's Night |
| The Beatles Help! |
| The Beatles Hey Jude |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| The Beatles Past Masters, Vol. 2 |
| The Beatles Past Masters, Vol. 1 |
| The Black Seeds Keep On Pushing |
| The Blood Brothers ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn |
| The Boo Radleys Giant Steps |
| The Cars The Cars |
| The Chemical Brothers Dig Your Own Hole |
| The Clash London Calling |
| The Coup Steal This Album |
| The Cure Pornography |
| The D.O.C. No One Can Do It Better |
| The Derek Trucks Band Joyful Noise |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Under the Running Board |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis |
| The Dismemberment Plan Emergency & I |
| The Drones Havilah |
| The End (CAN) Elementary |
| The Fall Hex Enduction Hour |
| The Fall of Troy Manipulator |
| The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin |
| The Format Dog Problems |
| The Go! Team Thunder, Lightning, Strike |
| The Guitar Trio Friday Night In San Francisco |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain Psychocandy |
| The Jesus Lizard Goat |
| The Kinks The Village Green Preservation Society |
| The KLF The White Room |
| The Locust New Erections |
| The Mars Volta Tremulant |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 |
| The New Pornographers Electric Version |
| The Olivia Tremor Control Music From The Unrealized Film Script |
| The One Up Downstairs The One Up Downstairs |
| The Orb Orblivion |
| The Orb Live 93 |
| The Pogues Red Roses for Me |
| The Postal Service Give Up |
| The Presidents of the United States of America The Presidents of the United States of America |
| The Replacements Let It Be |
| The Roots Phrenology |
| The Roots Things Fall Apart |
| The Shins Wincing the Night Away |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Gish |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting The Ocean and the Sun |
| The Streets Original Pirate Material |
| The Strokes Is This It |
| The Sundays Reading, Writing and Arithmetic |
| The Time What Time Is It? |
| The Upsetters Super Ape |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico |
| Thelonious Monk Monk's Music |
| Thelonious Monk Brilliant Corners |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV |
| Throbbing Gristle Part 2: The Endless Not |
| Thursday War All the Time |
| Thursday Full Collapse |
| Tiamat Wildhoney |
| Tiger Trap Tiger Trap |
| Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 |
| Time of Orchids Sarcast While |
| Time of Orchids Namesake Caution |
| Time-Lapse Consortium Live at the Roxy Theatre |
| Tom Tom Club Tom Tom Club |
| Tomahawk Anonymous |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Tool Ænima |
| Trophy Scars Hospital Music for the Aesthetics of Language |
| Trophy Scars Darkness, Oh Hell |
| TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain |
| TV on the Radio Dear Science |
| U. Srinivas & Michael Brook Dream |
| UGK Ridin' Dirty |
| Ultramagnetic MCs Critical Beatdown |
| Un-Cut The Un-Calculated Some |
| Van Halen 1984 |
| Van Halen Van Halen II |
| Van Halen Fair Warning |
| Venetian Snares Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett |
| Violent Femmes Violent Femmes |
| War (USA) The World Is a Ghetto |
| Warren Zevon Excitable Boy |
| We Were Promised Jetpacks These Four Walls |
| Weekend Sports |
| Weekend Nachos Unforgivable |
| Weekend Nachos Worthless |
| Ween Chocolate and Cheese |
| Ween The Mollusk |
| Weezer Pinkerton |
| Weezer Weezer |
| Weird Al Yankovic Running With Scissors |
| Weird Al Yankovic UHF |
| Weird Al Yankovic Dare To Be Stupid |
| Weird Al Yankovic In 3-D |
| Weird Al Yankovic Off the Deep End |
| Wes Montgomery The Wes Montgomery Trio: A Dynamic New Sound |
| Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot |
| Wire Pink Flag |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade |
| Women Public Strain |
| Wookie Wookie |
| Wu-Tang Clan Wu-Tang Forever |
| XTC Drums And Wires |
| XTC The Big Express |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever To Tell |
| Yes Relayer |
| Yes Yessongs |
| YOB The Great Cessation |
| 3.0 good |
| +44 When Your Heart Stops Beating |
| 10 Ft. Ganja Plant Presents |
| 2Pac 2Pacalypse Now |
| 2Pac Greatest Hits |
| 311 From Chaos |
| 311 Music |
| 311 Evolver |
| 311 Soundsystem |
| 311 Transistor |
| 311 Uplifter |
A predictable but solid release. It's definitely a step up from their last few albums, which often ranged from average
to just plain bad.
I don't feel compelled to give this anything higher than a 3 though, because the band really does nothing new here
and they've done it all better before anyways. |
| A.R. Kane 69 |
| Adebisi Shank This is the Album |
| Adebisi Shank This is the Second Album |
| Admiral Angry Buster |
| Aesop Rock Labor Days |
| AFI Sing the Sorrow |
| Afterlives A Ticking Clock I Couldn't Stop |
| Agent 51 Red Alert |
| Air Moon Safari |
| Al Di Meola Elegant Gypsy |
| Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde |
| Alkaline Trio From Here to Infirmary |
| All-Time Quarterback All-Time Quarterback |
| America Addio Plat of Zion |
| American Football American Football EP |
| Amesoeurs Amesoeurs |
| Amy Winehouse Back to Black |
| Andrew W.K. I Get Wet |
| Animal Collective Strawberry Jam |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not |
| Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare |
| Arctic Monkeys Humbug |
| As Cities Burn Hell or High Water |
| As Tall As Lions You Can't Take It With You |
| At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out |
| Atmosphere When Life Gives You Lemons... |
| Atmosphere Strictly Leakage |
| Au Revoir Simone Still Night, Still Light |
| Audio To The Edge Of Reason |
| Avey Tare Down There |
| Banyan Banyan |
| Basement Jaxx Scars |
| Bassnectar Mesmerizing The Ultra |
| Bat For Lashes Two Suns |
| Battles Mirrored |
| Battles Gloss Drop |
| Beach House Teen Dream |
| Beastie Boys To the 5 Boroughs |
| Beirut Lon Gisland |
| Beirut The Flying Club Cup |
| Between the Buried and Me The Anatomy Of |
| Bjork Volta |
| Black Milk Tronic |
| Black Moth Super Rainbow Eating Us |
| An inferior carbon copy of what this band has already been doing for the past several years. |
| Black Mountain In the Future |
| blink-182 Blink-182 |
| Blotted Science The Machinations of Dementia |
| Blue Sky Black Death Late Night Cinema |
| Bodyjar How It Works |
| Bombs Over Providence Shake Your Body Politic |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver |
| Boris New Album |
| Boston Don't Look Back |
| Boxcutter Glyphic |
| Braids Native Speaker |
| Brand New Deja Entendu |
| Brian Eno and David Byrne Everything that Happens Will Happen Today |
| Brian Wilson That Lucky Old Sun |
| Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People |
| Brother Ali Shadows On The Sun |
| Brother Ali The Undisputed Truth |
| Buckethead Colma |
| Buena Vista Social Club Buena Vista Social Club |
| Burial Street Halo |
| Burial and Four Tet Ego/Mirror |
| Burzum Belus |
| Butthole Surfers Independent Worm Saloon |
| Camp Lo Uptown Saturday Night |
| Cannibal Corpse Tomb of the Mutilated |
| Cannibal Ox The Cold Vein |
| Caribou Swim |
| Cave In Planets of Old |
| Caverns (DC) Kittens! |
| Chromeo Business Casual |
| Clinic Do it! |
| Clipse Hell Hath No Fury |
| Closure in Moscow First Temple |
| Clubroot Clubroot |
| Colonel Claypool's Bucket Of Bernie Brains The Big Eyeball In The Sky |
| Concord Dawn Uprising |
| Converge No Heroes |
| Cop Shoot Cop Release |
| Counterfit Super Amusement Machine for Your Exciting Heart |
| Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young CSN |
| CunninLynguists A Piece Of Strange |
| Cut Copy In Ghost Colours |
| Cypress Hill Black Sunday |
| Daft Punk Human After All |
| Daughters Hell Songs |
| David Lee Roth A Little Ain't Enough |
| Dead Prez Let's Get Free |
| Death Cab for Cutie Plans |
| Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs |
| Deep Puddle Dynamics The Taste of Rain...Why Kneel? |
| Deep Purple Who Do We Think We Are |
| Deep Purple Burn |
| Deerhunter Weird Era Cont. |
| Deerhunter Halcyon Digest |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Department of Eagles In Ear Park |
| Dert The Westside of the Moon |
| Dert Talk Strange: A Beat Tape Inspired by Björk |
| Destroyer Kaputt |
| Devo Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! |
| Dimmu Borgir Death Cult Armageddon |
| Dinosaur Jr. Farm |
| DJ Zinc In Bass We Trust |
| Dntel Life is Full of Possibilities |
| Dr. Dog Fate |
| Dr. Dre 2001 |
| Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory |
| Dream Theater Live at Budokan |
| Dream Theater Dark Side of the Moon |
| dredg Catch Without Arms |
| Dropkick Murphys Sing Loud, Sing Proud! |
| Dropkick Murphys The Gang's All Here |
| Dropkick Murphys The Meanest of Times |
| Eagle Eye Cherry Desireless |
| Earl Sweatshirt EARL |
| Eazy-E Eazy-Duz-It |
| Eels Hombre Lobo |
| Egyptrixx The Only Way Up |
| Egyptrixx Bible Eyes |
| Electric Six I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me |
| Eleven Tigers Clouds Are Mountains |
| Enya Watermark |
| Ephel Duath The Painter's Palette |
| FaltyDL Love Is A Liability |
| Fang Island Fang Island |
| Fantastic Mr Fox Evelyn |
| Fantastic Mr Fox Sketches |
| Fantomas The Director's Cut |
| Fantomas Fantômas |
| Fantomas Suspended Animation |
| Fastball All the Pain Money Can Buy |
| Fat Jon The Ample Soul Physician Repaint Tomorrow |
| Fear Factory Demanufacture |
| fIREHOSE if'n |
| fIREHOSE fROMOHIO |
| fIREHOSE Flyin' The Flannel |
| Flying Lotus Pattern+Grid World |
| Foo Fighters Foo Fighters |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape |
| Foxboro Hot Tubs Stop Drop and Roll!!! |
| Funkadelic Uncle Jam Wants You |
| Future of the Left The Plot Against Common Sense |
| Gasp Drome Triler of Puzzle Zoo People |
| Ghosts and Vodka Precious Blood |
| Gil Scott-Heron I'm New Here |
| Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie XX We're New Here |
| Giraffes? Giraffes! More Skin With Milk-Mouth |
| Girls Broken Dreams Club |
| Glass Casket We Are Gathered Here Today... |
| Glass Casket Desperate Man's Diary |
| Glasser Ring |
| Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere |
| Gold Panda Lucky Shiner |
| Goldfinger Hang-ups |
| Gorillaz Demon Days |
| Gorillaz Plastic Beach |
| Gorod Process of a New Decline |
| Initial listen has left me somewhat underwhelmed. |
| Guilty Simpson O.J. Simpson |
| Handsome Boy Modeling School White People |
| Have a Nice Life Time of Land |
| Helms Alee Night Terror |
| Herbie Hancock Maiden Voyage |
| High Contrast Tough Guys Dont Dance |
| Holy Fuck LP |
| Honey is Cool Crazy Love |
| HORSE the band R. Borlax |
| HORSE the band Pizza |
| HORSE the band A Natural Death |
| HORSE the band Desperate Living |
| Hot Chip Made in the Dark |
| I GOT SHOT IN THE FACE How Am I Not Myself |
| IAMX Kiss + Swallow |
| Ice Ages This Killing Emptiness |
| Ice Cube Kill at Will |
| Ice-T O.G. Original Gangster |
| Immortal Technique Revolutionary Volume 2 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) When Incubus Attacks, Vol. 1 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Live in Japan 2004 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Look Alive |
| Incubus (USA-CA) If Not Now, When? |
| Infected Mushroom Legend Of The Black Shawarma |
| Irepress Sol Eye Sea I |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast |
| ISIS In the Absence of Truth |
| J Dilla Donuts |
| Jack Johnson On and On |
| Jack Johnson In Between Dreams |
| Jaga Jazzist A Livingroom Hush |
| Jane's Addiction Strays |
| Japandroids Post-Nothing |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint |
| Jay-Z Reasonable Doubt |
| Jenna G For Lost Friends |
| Joe Satriani Super Colossal |
| John Coltrane Meditations |
| Joker Kapsize |
| Joy Orbison Hyph Mngo/Wet Look |
| Joy Orbison The Shrew Would Have Cushioned The Blow |
| Judas Priest Painkiller |
| Jurassic 5 Jurassic 5 LP |
| Justice † |
| Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| Katy B On A Mission |
| Kayo Dot Coyote |
| Kingdom (NYC) That Mystic |
| Kode9 and the Spaceape Memories of the Future |
| Kylesa Static Tensions |
| Lagwagon Duh |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin |
| Leftover Crack Fuсk World Trade |
| Light Pupil Dilate Snake Wine |
| Lil Wayne Tha Carter II |
| Lil Wayne Dedication 2 |
| Limblifter Limblifter |
| Los Lonely Boys Los Lonely Boys |
| Love Forever Changes |
| Luke Abbott Holkham Drones |
| Lunik Weather |
| Lustmord Heresy |
| M.I.A. Kala |
| M83 Saturdays=Youth |
| Mamaleek Kurdaitcha |
| The best moments of this album are often ruined by shitty vocals. Drop the black metal schtick, dude. |
| Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing |
| Maps and Atlases You and Me and the Mountain |
| Massive Attack Heligoland |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain |
| mc chris Life's A Bitch And I'm Her Pimp |
| Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Take a Break |
| Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Blow in the Wind |
| Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Are a Drag |
| Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Have a Ball |
| Meet Me in St. Louis Variations on Swing |
| Merzbow Merzbeat |
| Meshuggah obZen |
| Metallica Master of Puppets |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All |
| mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright! |
| MF DOOM Operation: Doomsday |
| MF DOOM Born Like This |
| Not unlike Doom's other work, except not as good. And something's missing. Meh. |
| Michelle Branch The Spirit Room |
| Microstoria Model 3, Step 2 |
| Midnight Brown 2084 |
| Midnight Brown dope/revenge |
| Mike Patton Mondo Cane |
| Miles Davis Sketches of Spain |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News |
| Mono/Poly Paramatma |
| Mos Def The Ecstatic |
| Motion City Soundtrack Commit This to Memory |
| mum Finally We Are No One |
| MxPx Life in General |
| MxPx Teenage Politics |
| MxPx Slowly Going the Way of the Buffalo |
| MxPx The Ever Passing Moment |
| My Morning Jacket Z |
| My Morning Jacket Evil Urges |
| Mylo Destroy Rock And Roll |
| N.W.A. 100 Miles and Runnin' |
| Nahvalr Nahvalr |
| Neil Young Mirror Ball |
| Neil Young Dead Man |
| Neil Young Road Rock Vol. 1: Friends & Relatives |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| Nicolas Jaar Space Is Only Noise |
| Nile Annihilation of the Wicked |
| Nine Inch Nails Year Zero |
| Nine Inch Nails The Slip |
| No Age Losing Feeling |
| NOISIA Monster |
| NOISIA Split The Atom |
| North What You Were |
| Oingo Boingo Boi-ngo |
| Om God Is Good |
| One Day as a Lion One Day as a Lion |
| OOIOO Feather Float |
| Opeth Watershed |
| Ornette Coleman Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation |
| Orphaned Land Mabool (The Story of the Three Sons...) |
| OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below |
| OutKast Aquemini |
| Owen Pallett Heartland |
| Ozric Tentacles Erpland |
| Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard of Ozz |
| P.O.S Never Better |
| Panda Bear Tomboy |
| Pantera Cowboys from Hell |
| Pantera Vulgar Display of Power |
| Pantha Du Prince Black Noise |
| Pariah (UK) Safehouses |
| Passion Pit Manners |
| Pat Metheny Bright Size Life |
| Paul McCartney Memory Almost Full |
| Peeping Tom Peeping Tom |
| Pendulum Live at Brixton Academy |
| Pepper Kona Town |
| Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix |
| Pinback Summer in Abaddon |
| Pinback This Is a Pinback CD |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Pink Floyd The Wall |
| Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets |
| Planet X Quantum |
| Planets Planets |
| Porcupine Tree We Lost the Skyline |
| Portable Payback Portable Payback |
| Portugal. The Man The Satanic Satanist |
| Prayer for Cleansing Rain In Endless Fall |
| Primus Tales from the Punchbowl |
| Prince LOtUSFLOW3R |
| Prince MPLSoUND |
| Priscilla Ahn A Good Day |
| Probot Probot |
| Prolyphic & Reanimator The Ugly Truth |
| Propagandhi Supporting Caste |
| Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles |
| Ramones Ramones |
| Rancid ...And Out Come the Wolves |
| Random Axe Random Axe |
| Ratatat Classics |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik |
| Reel Big Fish Turn the Radio Off |
| Rilo Kiley The Execution of All Things |
| Royksopp The Understanding |
| RZA RZA as Bobby Digital in Stereo |
| Sage Francis Personal Journals |
| Say Anything In Defense of the Genre |
| SBTRKT SBTRKT |
| Scuba Triangulation |
| SebastiAn Ross Ross Ross |
| SebastiAn Motor |
| Shackleton Three EPs |
| Shawn Lane Powers of Ten |
| Shawn Lane The Tri-Tone Fascination |
| Shining (NOR) Blackjazz |
| Shpongle Are You Shpongled? |
| Sigur Ros ( ) |
| Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas |
| Slayer Seasons in the Abyss |
| Slayer South of Heaven |
| Sleater-Kinney All Hands on the Bad One |
| Sleaze The Ocarina of Rhyme |
| Sleep In Raining Glass |
| Smoke City Flying Away |
| Sol.Illaquists Of Sound No More Heroes |
| Sole and the Skyrider Band Plastique |
| Sonic Youth The Eternal |
| Soul Position Things Go Better with RJ & Al |
| SPC ECO Silver Clouds EP |
| Special Others Good Morning |
| Spoon Gimme Fiction |
| Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga |
| Steve Miller Band Greatest Hits 1974-1978 |
| Steve Vai Passion and Warfare |
| Steve Vai Real Illusions: Reflections |
| Steve Vai Sex and Religion |
| Stevie Ray Vaughan Texas Flood |
| Stone Temple Pilots Purple |
| Submerse Dreamin |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz |
| Sun Kil Moon April |
| Sunset Bright Blue Dream |
| Sunset The Glowing City |
| Super Extra Bonus Party Appetite For Reconstruction |
| Surfer Blood Astro Coast |
| Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky |
| Syd Barrett The Madcap Laughs |
| System of a Down Mezmerize |
| Tame Impala Innerspeaker |
| That 1 Guy Songs In the Key of Beotch |
| The 13th Floor Elevators The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators |
| The Appleseed Cast Peregrine |
| The Appleseed Cast Sagarmatha |
| The Beatles Let It Be |
| The Beatles Please Please Me |
| The Beatles With the Beatles |
| The Beatles Beatles for Sale |
| The Black Keys Attack & Release |
| The Black Seeds On The Sun |
| The Blood Brothers Young Machetes |
| The Breeders Last Splash |
| The Chemical Brothers Further |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan The Dillinger Escape Plan |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works |
| The Echoing Green The Winter of Our Discontent |
| The Egg Travelator |
| The Ernies Meson Ray |
| The Fall of Troy The Fall of Troy |
| The Fall of Troy Phantom on the Horizon |
| The Fall of Troy's last studio album was kind of an odd misstep for the band. They made some big changes to their overall sound, and there was a negative reaction from those who wanted something more along the lines of their previous album, Doppelg?er. And while I can understand Thomas Erak not wanting to write the same album over and over again, Manipulator really seemed (to me) like it was a huge step in the wrong direction. That's why I was a little hesitant when I found out the band had released a completed version of the Ghostship Demos they had recorded so long ago. The first initial listen has left me quite impressed. The production is a huge step up from Manipulator, Thomas' vocals have improved quite a bit, and a lot of the pointless genre experimentation that was present on Manipulator is now gone. I'm also picking up a strong De-Loused In The Commatorium type vibe as well. If this is what we can expect from The Fall of Troy's forthcoming studio album, color me excited. |
| The Gathering The West Pole |
| The Juliana Theory Emotion is Dead |
| The Knife Silent Shout |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath |
| The Nation of Ulysses Plays Pretty for Baby |
| The National Boxer |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Nuclear. Sad. Nuclear. |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Worse Than Alone |
| The Octopus Project One Ten Hundred Thousand Million |
| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart The Pains of Being Pure at Heart |
| A pretty amazing album if you're not familiar with the bands they're ripping off. |
| The Red Chord Fused Together in Revolving Doors |
| The Red Chord Prey for Eyes |
| The Red Chord Fed Through the Teeth Machine |
| The Ruby Suns Sea Lion |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Adore |
| The Strokes Room on Fire |
| The Suicide Machines Destruction By Definition |
| The Suicide Machines Battle Hymns |
| The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza II: The Electric Boogaloo |
| The Weeknd House of Balloons |
| The Weeknd Thursday |
| These New Puritans Hidden |
| Thou Summit |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance |
| Thrice Beggars |
| A natural, straightforward progression from The Alchemy Index with more focus on strong songwriting and less on experimentation. Pretty boring, to be honest. |
| Throbbing Gristle Heathen Earth |
| Thursday Waiting |
| Tiger Army II: Power of Moonlite |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor |
| Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Greatest Hits |
| Tommy february6 Tommy february6 |
| Tommy Wright III On The Run |
| Trophy Scars Never Born, Never Dead |
| TV on the Radio Nine Types of Light |
| Tweaker The Attraction to All Things Uncertain |
| U2 The Joshua Tree |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation |
| Underworld Everything, Everything |
| United Nations United Nations |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend |
| Van Halen Diver Down |
| Van Halen Women and Children First |
| Vanessa Carlton Be Not Nobody |
| VAST Visual Audio Sensory Theater |
| Vegas! Midnight Machine |
| Washed Out Life of Leisure |
| Weather Report Heavy Weather |
| Weird Al Yankovic Poodle Hat |
| Weird Al Yankovic Bad Hair Day |
| Weird Al Yankovic The Food Album |
| Weird Al Yankovic Straight Outta Lynwood |
| Weird Al Yankovic Even Worse |
| Wild Nothing Gemini |
| Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz! |
| Youngsta & Hatcha Dubstep Allstars Vol.4 |
| Zs New Slaves |
| ZZ Top Tres Hombres |
| ZZ Top Eliminator |
| 2.5 average |
| 311 Don't Tread On Me |
| 50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin' |
| 65daysofstatic We Were Exploding Anyway |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms |
| AC/DC Highway To Hell |
| AC/DC Back In Black |
| AFI Decemberunderground |
| Albert Hammond Jr Yours To Keep |
| Animal Collective Keep + Animal Collective |
| Annuals Such Fun |
A real step back from their previous album. It seems to have lost a lot of its energy and charm, which I enjoy more
compared to the tired and unoriginal songwriting found here. |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs |
| Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti Before Today |
| Armin van Buuren Imagine |
| Atlas Sound Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See... |
| Atmosphere Leak At Will |
| Atmosphere The Family Sign |
| Audioslave Audioslave |
| August Burns Red Constellations |
| Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill |
| Behold... The Arctopus Skullgrid |
| Best Coast Crazy For You |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues |
| Bjork Medulla |
| Bjork Biophilia |
| Black Devil Disco Club 28 After |
| Black Milk Album Of The Year |
| blink-182 Cheshire Cat |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket |
| blink-182 Dude Ranch |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State |
| Bob Dylan Together Through Life |
| Britney Spears Greatest Hits: My Prerogative |
| Broken Bells Broken Bells |
| Brother Ali Us |
| Busy P Rainbow Man |
| Cannibal Corpse Evisceration Plague |
| Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet? |
| Circa Survive On Letting Go |
| CKY Infiltrate Destroy Rebuild |
| Clipse Til the Casket Drops |
| cLOUDDEAD cLOUDDEAD |
| Cold Year Of The Spider |
| Cult of Luna Salvation |
| Cursive Mama, I'm Swollen |
| Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains |
| Cynic Traced in Air |
| Danger Mouse The Grey Album |
| Death From Above 1979 You're a Woman, I'm a Machine |
| Death Grips Exmilitary |
| Delerium Nuages du Monde |
| Digitalism Idealism |
| Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca |
| DJ Shadow The Outsider |
| Don Caballero Punkgasm |
| Dream Theater Octavarium |
| Ducktails Ducktails |
| E-40 My Ghetto Report Card |
| Eagles Hotel California |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP |
| Enter Shikari Take to the Skies |
| Enter Shikari Common Dreads |
| Everclear So Much For The Afterglow |
| Eyedea and Abilities By the Throat |
Rhymesayers-based hip-hop duo Eyedea & Abilities return after a 5 year hiatus with somewhat mixed results.
They've mostly left behind the aggressive, battle-centric lyrics and turntablism that were present on E&A in favor of a
more indie rock/electronic type sound.
Eyedea's short stint as the vocalist for rock band Carbon Carousel is pretty apparent here, and many of the songs
feature him crooning along to dull and uninspired guitar lines that were obviously intended for the aforementioned
band. Eyedea isn't a particularly good singer either, and the tracks that forgo actual rapping in favor of singing are
generally the more successful ones.
A strong second half makes up for an abysmal first, with solid tracks like Sky Diver, Junk, This Story and Smile.
Another thing worth noting is the apparent lack of DJ Abilities. He still makes a few appearances here and there with
some scratching, but his contributions are seemingly minimal compared to the first two albums. This can be
explained by the complete change in direction sound-wise, but it is still pretty disappointing, considering Abilities
used to be an integral part of the E&A sound. |
| Fall Out Boy Infinity on High |
| Fall Out Boy Folie a Deux |
| Fantomas Delìrium Còrdia |
| Fatboy Slim You've Come a Long Way, Baby |
| Fear Before Fear Before |
| An instrumentally interesting album with laughably bad lyrics and mediocre vocals. |
| Felt (USA-MN) Felt 3: A Tribute to Rosie Perez |
| Finch What It Is to Burn |
| General Patton vs. The X-Ecutioners General Patton vs. The X-Ecutioners |
| Girl Unit IRL |
| God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright |
| Guido Anidea |
| Guilty Simpson Ode to the Ghetto |
| GZA Pro Tools |
| Hoobastank Every Man for Himself |
| How to Dress Well Love Remains |
| Innerpartysystem Innerpartysystem |
| Interpol Our Love to Admire |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant |
| Iwrestledabearonce Iwrestledabearonce |
| Iwrestledabearonce It's All Happening |
| James Blake James Blake |
| Je Suis Animal Self-Taught Magic From a Book |
| Joan of Arc Flowers |
| Job For A Cowboy Ruination |
| A huge improvement over their last album. This band has serious potential and I hope they continue to grow and refine their sound |
| John Frusciante and Josh Klinghoffer A Sphere in the Heart of Silence |
| John Lennon Imagine |
| John Petrucci Suspended Animation |
| Jurassic 5 Feedback |
| Justice A Cross the Universe |
| Kanye West Late Registration |
| Kanye West The College Dropout |
| Kanye West Graduation |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak |
| Kavinsky 1986 |
| Ken Snyder By Request Only |
| Killwhitneydead So Pretty So Plastic |
| Klaxons Myths of the Near Future |
| KMFDM Nihil |
| Kno Death Is Silent |
| Long Beach Dub Allstars Right Back |
| Long Beach Dub Allstars Wonders of the World |
| Mac Lethal 11:11 |
| Marilyn Manson Mechanical Animals |
| mc chris Knowing is Half the Hassle |
| mc chris Eating's Not Cheating |
| mc chris Dungeon Master Of Ceremonies |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree |
| Metallica Metallica |
| MGMT Congratulations |
| Mike Watt Ball-Hog or Tugboat? |
| Miles Davis Doo Bop |
| Minus the Bear Omni |
I really wanted to love this album, but it is quite difficult when over half of the songs
simply aren't very good.
Also, where the hell did Dave Knudson go? Synthesizers have always had their place in Minus
the Bear songs, especially on Planet of Ice, but here they have taken over almost
completely. Dave's inventive guitar playing and crazy looping techniques (a staple of the
band) are practically absent on this release.
And don't even get me started on the lyrics. While the band has never really had the deepest
of lyrical content, at least the lyrics were, more often than not, intelligently written.
The subject matter still hasn't changed, but the substance sure has. |
| Mogwai The Hawk Is Howling |
| Mogwai was previously one of the leading innovators in the post-rock movement. What the hell happened? This is about as mediocre as post-rock gets. |
| Motley Crue Shout at the Devil |
| Mount Kimbie Crooks & Lovers |
| Mr. Oizo Analog Worms Attack |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations |
| My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade |
| N.A.S.A. The Spirit of Apollo |
| Nadja When I See The Sun Always Shines on TV |
| Nas Untitled |
| Neil Young Are You Passionate? |
| No Age Nouns |
| Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? |
| of Montreal Skeletal Lamping |
| OFWGKTA Radical |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries |
| Osees Help |
| Pendulum In Silico |
| An eclectic mix of rock, drum and bass, and some other subgenres of electronic music. Drum and bass purists will scoff at it, but I still think it's a relatively enjoyable album. |
| Pharoahe Monch W.A.R. |
| Porcupine Tree The Incident |
A rather predictable release from Porcupine Tree. You probably have a pretty good idea of what this album sounds
like without actually having to listen to it.
Don't get me wrong, there are a number of really solid songs here, but none of them are particularly fresh or
interesting. |
| Porno For Pyros Porno For Pyros |
| Portishead Third |
| Primus The Brown Album |
| Primus Antipop |
| Primus Rhinoplasty |
| Protest the Hero Kezia |
| Protest the Hero Fortress |
| Pure Reason Revolution The Dark Third |
| Raekwon Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire |
| Rage Against the Machine Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium |
| Rebelution Courage to Grow |
| Red Sparowes Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red... |
| Rick Astley Whenever You Need Somebody |
| Rihanna Loud |
| Roska Roska |
| Royksopp Junior |
| Rufio Perhaps, I Suppose... |
| Santigold Santogold |
| Say Anything Say Anything |
| Scissor Sisters Scissor Sisters |
| Seventh Void Heaven is Gone |
| Shadows Fall The Art of Balance |
| Shadows Fall The War Within |
| Shrinebuilder Shrinebuilder |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon |
| Simian Mobile Disco Attack Decay Sustain Release |
| Six Feet Under Haunted |
| Skream Outside the Box |
| Slayer Christ Illusion |
| Slayer World Painted Blood |
| Smash Mouth Astro Lounge |
| Sneaker Pimps Becoming Remixed |
| Snowing Fuck Your Emotional Bullshit |
| Squarepusher Shobaleader One - D'demonstrator |
| Styx Return To Paradise |
| Sub Focus Sub Focus |
| Sugar Ray Sugar Ray |
| Sugar Ray 14:59 |
| Sum 41 All Killer No Filler |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| System of a Down Hypnotize |
| Taking Back Sunday New Again |
| Sink Into Me is probably one of the better songs TBS has written. The rest of this is kind of forgettable though. |
| Team Teamwork Vinyl Fantasy VII |
| Teengirl Fantasy 7 AM |
| Tenacious D The Pick of Destiny |
| The Advantage Elf Titled |
| The Antlers Hospice |
| The Beatles Yellow Submarine |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Deflorate |
| The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading |
| The Dear Hunter Act III: Life and Death |
| The Decemberists The Hazards of Love |
| The Fall of Troy In the Unlikely Event |
| The Flaming Lips At War with the Mystics |
| The Flashbulb Soundtrack to a Vacant Life |
| The KLF Doctorin' the Tardis |
| The Knux Remind Me In Three Days |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron |
A really laid back album full of mid/slow tempo "ballad" type songs. The only exception to this is Cotopaxi (a pretty decent song in its own right), which sticks out like a sore thumb and feels incredibly out of place.
It's not like The Mars Volta haven't done a number of mellow songs before, but when you have an entire album full of them, it just sort of starts to drag along. There is a lot of meaningless ambience here, and I can't help but wonder how the album would've turned out without it. |
| The Morning Benders Big Echo |
| The Offspring Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace |
| The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower Dissertation, Honey |
| The Presidents of the United States of America Love Everybody |
| The Qemists Join the Q |
| Catchy, melodic, rock-infused drum & bass. A few tracks (Stompbox, Lost Weekend, Drop Audio, When Ur Lonely) stand out from an otherwise mediocre album. Mike Patton makes a cool guest appearance. |
| The Residents The Third Reich 'n Roll |
| The Ruby Suns Fight Softly |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Zeitgeist |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Oceania |
| The Strokes First Impressions of Earth |
| The Strokes Angles |
| The Sword Age of Winters |
| The Thermals Personal Life |
| The Walkmen Lisbon |
| The xx xx |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our |
| Thrice Identity Crisis |
| Through the Eyes of the Dead Bloodlust |
| Thursday A City By the Light Divided |
| Thursday Common Existence |
| The Envy split got me all excited. Fuck this, I'm done with this band. |
| Tiny Tim God Bless Tiny Tim |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Two Door Cinema Club Tourist History |
| Tyler, the Creator Bastard |
| UGK UGK 4 Life |
| Underoath The Changing of Times |
| Untold Gonna Work Out Fine |
| Vampire Weekend Contra |
| Velvet Revolver Contraband |
| Velvet Revolver Libertad |
| Warpaint The Fool |
| Wavves King of the Beach |
| Weezer The Green Album |
| Weezer Hurley |
| Weird Al Yankovic Alapalooza |
| Weird Al Yankovic Polka Party |
| White Apple Tree Taste the Celebration |
| Why? Elephant Eyelash |
| Wilco Wilco (The Album) |
| Wire Red Barked Tree |
| Woods Songs of Shame |
| Xihilisk The Black Square |
| Yellowcard One for the Kids |
| Yellowcard Ocean Avenue |
| Yes Tales from Topographic Oceans |
| Yuck Yuck |
| Zebrahead Waste of Mind |
| Zomby One Foot Ahead Of The Other |
