| 4.5 superb |
| Alexisonfire Watch Out! |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion |
| Battles Mirrored |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors |
| blink-182 Blink-182 |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State |
| City of Caterpillar City of Caterpillar |
| Cloudkicker Beacons |
| Cynic Traced in Air |
| Defeater Travels |
| Dream Theater Score |
| Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini |
| Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book |
| Green Day Nimrod |
| Hans Zimmer Inception |
| Johnny Truant In the Library of Horrific Events |
| Kamelot The Black Halo |
| letlive. Fake History |
| letlive. Fake History (Re-Release) |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye |
| Mew Frengers |
| Neverending White Lights Act II: The Blood And The Life Eternal |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VII: Original Soundtrack |
| OutKast Stankonia |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet |
| Protest the Hero Kezia |
| Rush A Farewell to Kings |
| Rx Bandits Mandala |
| Saetia A Retrospective |
| Sights and Sounds Monolith |
| Steven Wilson Grace for Drowning |
| It's almost as good as people seem to think it is. |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| The Beatles Love |
| The Dear Hunter Act III: Life and Death |
| Casey Crescenzo further embraces the theatrics of his silly little band, but remembers to leave in the heart and soul. Thankfully, the extra theatrical touches never overwhelm the expertly composed, catchy-as-hell music. The album as a whole is far more consistent than either of the previous acts, and while there isn't one moment that rivals "Red Hands", there are plenty of moments that cumulatively compete with it (the Son/Father/Life and Death suite, for example.) Act III pushes forward just about every aspect of TDH's music to create a package far more powerful than anything the band has yet released. |
| The Dear Hunter Violet |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute |
| While the musicianship of the Mars Volta cannot be questioned, Frances The Mute almost tries to do too much at once, and overdoes most of the songs with overly long ambient pauses. Despite this, there enough moments of sheer prog bliss to make this worth checking out. |
| The Ocean Precambrian |
| The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers |
| The Receiving End of Sirens Between the Heart and the Synapse |
| Trophy Scars Darkness, Oh Hell |
| Trophy Scars Never Born, Never Dead |
| Anything that samples one of the best scenes from Lost deserves at least a 4. The fact that just about every other part of this EP slays is just gravy. |
| TV on the Radio Dear Science |
| Weezer Pinkerton |
| Weezer Weezer |
| 4.0 excellent |
| 3 (USA) The End is Begun |
| A Lot Like Birds Plan B |
| A Lot Like Birds Conversation Piece |
| Against Me! White Crosses |
| Alexisonfire Alexisonfire |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders |
| As Cities Burn Hell or High Water |
| At the Drive-In Vaya |
| At the Drive-In This Station Is Non-Operational |
| At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out |
| Attack in Black Marriage |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect |
| Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot |
| Billy Talent Billy Talent |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver |
| Boys Night Out Boys Night Out |
| Chiodos Illuminaudio |
| Circle Takes the Square Rites of Initiation |
| Circle Takes the Square Decompositions: Volume Number One |
| City and Colour Live |
| Closure in Moscow First Temple |
| Cloudkicker Portmanteau |
| Cloudkicker Let Yourself Be Huge |
| Cloudkicker Fade |
| Coheed and Cambria The Last Supper: Live At Hammerstein Ballroom |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends |
| Converge Axe to Fall |
| Cursive Mama, I'm Swollen |
| Cynic Focus |
| Daft Punk Tron: Legacy |
| Lol at all the people complaining that a movie score does not sound like Discovery. This is a terrific score, not the next Daft Punk album. Get over it. |
| Defeater Lost Ground |
| Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction |
| Devin Townsend Project Ghost |
| Dream Theater Images and Words |
| Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence |
| Dream Theater Live at Budokan |
| Dream Theater Awake |
| Dream Theater Octavarium |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings |
| Dream Theater Live Scenes From New York |
| dredg Live at The Fillmore |
| dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion |
| Eminem Recovery |
| FACT Fact |
| Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True |
| Foals Total Life Forever |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light |
| Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles) |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! |
| Green Day International Superhits |
| Green Day American Idiot |
| Hot Cross Cryonics |
| Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid |
| Jethro Tull Aqualung |
| Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick |
| Karnivool Sound Awake |
| Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue |
| Kid Cudi Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King |
| Kiss Kiss Reality Vs. The Optimist |
| Maps and Atlases Perch Patchwork |
| Maps and Atlases Beware and Be Grateful |
| maudlin of the Well Part the Second |
| Meshuggah Koloss |
| Mew And the Glass Handed Kites |
| Moneen The Red Tree |
| Motion City Soundtrack Commit This to Memory |
| Motion City Soundtrack My Dinosaur Life |
| Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Xenophanes |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries |
| Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out |
| Papa Roach The Paramour Sessions |
| Past Lives Strange Symmetry |
| Periphery Periphery |
| pg.lost It's Not Me, It's You! |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia |
| Protest the Hero Fortress |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness |
| Rush Moving Pictures |
| Rush R30: 30th Anniversary Tour |
| Rush Snakes & Arrows |
| Scale the Summit The Collective |
| Symphony X The Odyssey |
| Symphony X V: The New Mythology Suite |
| Symphony X Paradise Lost |
| System of a Down System of a Down |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| Te Naraba, Imi kara Houkaisareta Hibiki ha "Oto" no S |
| Te It Be The Thinking As 'the Song' Of Realistic Sound From The World Which |
| Tera Melos Patagonian Rats |
| It's been a long time since I've been this vexed by an album. Simultaneously catchy and completely inaccessible, Patagonian Rats is a conundrum set to music, a massive contradiction that eventually folds in upon itself and begins self-sustaining and breeding like its titular rats. Oh, and it's also really good... I think. Maybe. |
| TesseracT Concealing Fate |
| TesseracT One |
| The Beatles Revolver |
| The Beatles Let It Be |
| The Beatles The Beatles |
| The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection) |
| The Dear Hunter Black |
| The Dear Hunter Indigo |
| The Dear Hunter Green |
| The Dear Hunter Yellow |
| The Dear Hunter White |
| The Flashbulb Soundtrack to a Vacant Life |
| The Flashbulb Arboreal |
| The Lonely Island Incredibad |
Incredibad is the rare sort of music/comedy album that not only is hilarious (Who Said We're Wack?, Like A Boss) and catchy as hell (Boombox, Space Olympics), but frequently manages to fuse the two together (Jizz In My Pants) to create moments of sheer harmonious, laugh-out-loud brilliance.
Also, Natalie Portman Raps. |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron |
| The opposite end of the spectrum to Bedlam, Octahedron proves that TMV can still right a hella catchy prog song, while still maintaining their unique atmosphere. The band's most consistent record since Frances. |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet |
| The Ocean Anthropocentric |
| Everything Heliocentric was supposed to be, just far better. Oh, and "Ptolemy Was Wrong" is not on this album, so it's automatically better. |
| The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds |
| The Receiving End of Sirens The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi |
| A great album that got unfairly criticized for simply being "different" from the band's equally stellar debut. Fans of Between The Heart...will likely identify with songs like Oubliette (Disappear) and Smoke and Mirrors, because they accurately reflect the more energetic feel of the band's debut. However, The Earth Sings... also has plenty of atmosphere to go around, with A Realization of the Ear and Pale Blue Dot conjuring lush soundscapes and fantastic vocals. The lyrics are as poignant and beautiful as ever (check out "The Salesman... for some awesome narrative touches), the production is flawless, and the band prove that the loss of one of their key members isn't enough to stop the music. Sure, there are a few duds (Wanderers and Music of the Spheres lack a clear payoff and point entirely), The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi shows off the band's diversity and tact in a truly uplifting way. |
| The Roots undun |
| The Strokes Angles |
| The Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing |
| Thrice Vheissu |
| Tides of Man Empire Theory |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Touche Amore/La Dispute Searching for a Pulse/The Worth of the World |
| Touche Amore/Pianos Become the Teeth Split |
| TTNG Adventure, Stamina and Anger |
| Underoath Define the Great Line |
| Underoath Ø (Disambiguation) |
| Unexpect Fables of the Sleepless Empire |
| Vildhjarta Måsstaden |
| Weezer Hurley |
| Weird Al Yankovic Straight Outta Lynwood |
| Yellowcard When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes |
| 3.5 great |
| *shels Plains Of The Purple Buffalo |
| 3 (USA) Wake Pig |
| Alexisonfire Crisis |
| Alexisonfire Dog's Blood |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen |
| BATS Red In Tooth and Claw |
| Battles Gloss Drop |
| Billy Talent Billy Talent II |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket |
| Cancer Bats Hail Destroyer |
| Children of Nova The Complexity of Light |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise |
| City and Colour Sometimes |
| Cloudkicker ]]][[[ |
| Coheed and Cambria Live at the Starland Ballroom |
| Coheed and Cambria Kerrang! / XFM UK Acoustic Sessions |
| Coheed and Cambria Live At La Zona Rosa |
| Another one of the many hidden gems in the Coheed and Cambria discography. Plenty of classics to behold, including one of the best performances of Devil In Jersey City ever. But the true highlight is the five-minute reggae jam right smack in the middle of Everything Evil. Worth recommending for that single moment alone. |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow |
| Converge No Heroes |
| Cynic Carbon-Based Anatomy |
| Dance Gavin Dance Happiness |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
| DragonForce Valley of the Damned |
| DragonForce Inhuman Rampage |
| Dream Theater A Change of Seasons |
| Dream Theater Systematic Chaos |
| FACT burundanga |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree |
| Foals Antidotes |
| Green Day Insomniac |
| Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds |
| Mastodon The Hunter |
| Mew No More Stories |
| Mobile Tomorrow Starts Today |
| Moneen Are we Really Happy with who we are Right Now? |
| Motion City Soundtrack I Am the Movie |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade |
| Neverending White Lights Act 1: Goodbye Friends of the Heavenly Bodies |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VIII: Original Soundtrack |
| Oceansize Frames |
| Oceansize Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up |
| Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun |
| Porcupine Tree The Incident |
| Rishloo Feathergun |
| Rush 2112 |
| Saosin Saosin |
| Sigur Ros Takk... |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! |
| System of a Down Mezmerize |
| Team Teamwork Vinyl Fantasy VII |
| The Dear Hunter Act I: The Lake South, the River North |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum |
| The most important thing to remember about The Color Spectrum LP is that it is, for all intents and purposes, a sampler plate for a nine EP collection. As such, there's really no cohesion between the material here, leaving instead eleven disconnected tracks to review on their own individual merit. If taken in these terms, The Color Spectrum LP is a success, though likely a divisive one, as its "everything-for-everyone" aims may alienate those hoping for the (slightly) more restrained and focused outputs of Crescenzo's Act series. Thankfully, this variety also leads to a number of unexpected highlights, and what those highlights are will largely depend on what you come to The Dear Hunter for (for my part, I surprisingly fell in love with the indie-pop "She's Always Singing", the theatrical and bombastic "Lillian", and the "Red Hands"-in-a-box flair of "Home). It's no Act IV, but it's certainly an ample diversion. |
| The Dear Hunter Orange |
| The Decemberists The Crane Wife |
| The Decemberists The Hazards of Love |
| The Ocean Heliocentric |
| The Prize Fighter Inferno My Brother's Blood Machine |
| My Brother's Blood Machine is a fairly satisfying listen, but fails to leave enough of a mark on you. The album was recorded over a period of 7 years, and it occasionally shows, as certain songs seem disjointed. However, the musicianship is solid, the songs are fun, and the album is enjoyable enough to give my reccomendation for. |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV |
| Tides of Man Dreamhouse |
| Whereas Empire Theory was an ambitious album that occasionally failed to live up to its incredible promises, Dreamhouse streamlines and condenses the band's songwriting formula considerably, and executes on this basic premise more consistently than the band's debut. The result is an album rife with catchy choruses and a few scorching progressive-laced alternative tracks, but also one lacking in much of the drama and emotion that defined Empire Theory. Choose yer poison. |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me |
| TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain |
| TV on the Radio Nine Types of Light |
| Two Door Cinema Club Tourist History |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation |
