| 5.0 classic |
| Blu No York! |
| holy fuck how did i miss this |
| Cannibal Ox The Cold Vein |
| Cave In Jupiter |
| Charles Mingus The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady |
| Codeine Frigid Stars |
| Codeine The White Birch |
| where has this record been all my life |
| Company Flow Funcrusher Plus |
| D'Angelo Voodoo |
| D'Angelo Black Messiah |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars |
| Dean Blunt The Redeemer |
| Deathspell Omega Paracletus |
| Deftones Around the Fur |
| Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 |
| Depeche Mode Violator |
| Dog Fashion Disco Adultery |
| dredg El Cielo |
| El-P Fantastic Damage |
| Perhaps one of the most overlooked founding fathers of 21st century progressive hip-hop, Jaime Meline's Fantastic Damage is the follow-up to the revered Company Flow classic, Funcrusher Plus. Most notably, the 2002 release acts as a bridge between his hard working, NYC underground roots and his evolution into a successful producer and entrepreneur/owner/CEO of label Definitive Jux. While the chemistry of CoFlow is missed (while label Rawkus is not), El-Ps solo debut is at least as important - a 70-minute exploration in socio-political paranoia. |
| El-P I'll Sleep When You're Dead |
| El-P Cancer 4 Cure |
| Failure Fantastic Planet |
| Faith No More Angel Dust |
| Frank Sinatra In The Wee Small Hours |
| Funkadelic Maggot Brain |
| Gorguts Obscura |
| Guilty Simpson Ode to the Ghetto |
| How to Dress Well Love Remains |
| ISIS Panopticon |
| John Coltrane A Love Supreme |
| Julia Holter Loud City Song |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience |
| Killer Mike R.A.P. Music |
| I almost shed a tear every time I hear the title track. What a beautiful song. It's everything I've dreamed hip-hop could be. |
| Lauryn Hill The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill |
| Madvillain Madvillainy |
| Marvin Gaye What's Going On |
| Miles Davis Bitches Brew |
| Mount Eerie Wind's Poem |
| Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm |
| Neurosis Through Silver in Blood |
| Neurosis A Sun That Never Sets |
| Neurosis Times of Grace |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| Nevermore Dead Heart in a Dead World |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Organized Konfusion Stress: The Extinction Agenda |
| OutKast Aquemini |
| Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon |
| Platinum Pied Pipers Abundance |
| By now, the consonant "D" undoubtedly inspires euphoria in underground hip-hop heads: unemployment drives its stake deeper into the D daily, yet through this hardship and pain therein lies true beauty and revolution. From the layman rhymes of Guilty Simpson's Ode To The Ghetto, to the break-out release of Elzhi's The Preface, and closing out the year in grand style with Black Milk's epic Tronic... Detroit is the hip-hop epicenter of the millenium. If Waajeed and Saadiq's Platinum Pied Pipers project promises anything, it's that the D isn't done; Abundance kicks off 2009 and the new regime with no ifs or maybes. |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia |
| Prince Purple Rain |
| Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back |
| Public Enemy Fear of a Black Planet |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II |
| Essentially the audible recording of the art of cooking fish, in all of its beauty and rage, and one could not ask for anything more. |
| Ride Nowhere |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels |
| el-p is involved it's incredible surprise surprise |
| Sly and The Family Stone There's A Riot Goin' On |
| Stevie Wonder Songs in the Key of Life |
| Stevie Wonder Innervisions |
| Strapping Young Lad City |
| Strapping Young Lad The Complete Works |
| pretty awesome too bad i sold mine |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots |
| The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 |
| The Roots Things Fall Apart |
| The Weeknd House of Balloons |
| The Weeknd Thursday |
| The Weeknd Echoes of Silence |
| Three 6 Mafia Mystic Stylez |
| Thundercat Apocalypse |
| Jazz, Funk, Classical, Soul, incredible, beautiful, so far ahead of its time. Review here:rhttp://www.byvolume.co.uk/thundercat-apocalypse/ |
| Thursday No Devolucion |
| Tool Ænima |
| Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You |
| Vangelis Blade Runner Soundtrack |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) |
| 4.5 superb |
| *shels Plains Of The Purple Buffalo |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| Ben Frost A U R O R A |
| damn this is really good so far |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect |
| Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot |
| Big Boi may not be widely considered the star of Outkast, but his first ever (official) solo recording shines an unmistakeable spotlight nonetheless. Sir Lucious Leftfoot: The Son of Chico Dusty will by no means leave you pensive with overwhelming metaphysical conflicts post-listen, but be prepared to nod your head to some of the best southern hip-hop since, well, the last Outkast offering. |
| Big L Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous |
| Bilal 1st Born Second |
| Black Moon Enta Da Stage |
| Black Star Black Star |
| Blackalicious Blazing Arrow |
| Blood Orange Freetown Sound |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver |
| Boredoms Vision Creation Newsun |
| Camel Mirage |
| Charles Mingus Mingus Ah Um |
| clipping. CLPPNG |
this is incredible wowowowow
holy shit how can you not like this |
| Clipse Hell Hath No Fury |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Dark Time Sunshine Vessel |
| going to be hard to beat this for aoty. |
| Dark Time Sunshine ANX |
| Continues to establish 2012 as the best year for hip-hop in over a decade |
| Dave Weckl Band Synergy |
| David Bowie Low |
| De La Soul De La Soul Is Dead |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| Death Symbolic |
| Deep Puddle Dynamics The Taste of Rain...Why Kneel? |
| Deftones White Pony |
| Deftones Adrenaline |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
| Once upon a time there was a man who as a child had heard that beautiful story of how God tempted Abraham and of how Abraham withstood the temptation, kept the faith, and, contrary to expectation, got a son a second time. When he grew older, he read the same story with even greater admiration, for life had fractured what had been united in the pious simplicity of the child. The older he became, the more often his thoughts turned to that story; his enthusiasm for it became greater and greater, and yet he could understand the story less and less. Finally, he forgot every thing else because of it; his soul had but one wish, to see Abraham, but one longing, to have witnessed that event. His craving was not to see the beautiful regions of the East, not the earthly glory of the promised land, not that God-fearing couple whose old age God had blessed, not the venerable figure of the aged patriarch, not the vigorous adolescence God bestowed upon Isaac-the same thing could just as well have occurred on a barren heath. His craving was to go along on the three-day journey when Abraham rode with sorrow before him and Isaac beside him. His wish was to be present in that hour when Abraham raised his eyes and saw Mount Moriah in the distance, the hour when he left the asses behind and went up the mountain alone with Isaac- for what occupied him was not the beautiful tapestry of imagination but the shudder of the idea. |
| Denzel Curry Nostalgic 64 |
| Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech |
| Digable Planets Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... |
| Doe Eye T E L E V I S I O N |
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| Dr. Dre The Chronic |
| Dr. Octagon Dr. Octagonecologyst |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory |
| dredg Leitmotif |
| Electric Wire Hustle Electric Wire Hustle |
| Elliott Smith From a Basement on the Hill |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP |
| Failure Magnified |
| Fantomas The Director's Cut |
| Flying Lotus 1983 |
| Funkadelic Free Your Mind...And Your Ass Will Follow |
| Ghostface Killah Ironman |
| Ghostface Killah Supreme Clientele |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute |
| Gorguts The Erosion of Sanity |
| Gorguts From Wisdom to Hate |
| GZA Liquid Swords |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness |
| Hiatus Kaiyote Tawk Tomahawk |
| whoa cant believe i missed this |
| His Hero Is Gone Fifteen Counts Of Arson |
| How to Dress Well Total Loss |
| Hum Downward Is Heavenward |
| Hum You'd Prefer an Astronaut |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View |
| Intestine Baalism Ultimate Instinct |
| Iron Maiden Brave New World |
| ISIS Oceanic |
| ISIS Celestial |
| J Dilla Donuts |
| Janelle Monae Metropolis: The Chase Suite |
| Jay-Z The Black Album |
| Jay-Z Reasonable Doubt |
| Jerusalem in my Heart Mo7it Al-Mo7it |
| wow this record is incredible !! ! ! r |
| Kamelot The Black Halo |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King |
| King Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic |
| Kool G. Rap and DJ Polo Live and Let Die |
| Kool G. Rap and DJ Polo Wanted: Dead Or Alive |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak |
| Maps and Atlases You and Me and the Mountain |
| Marijuana Deathsquads Tamper, Disable, Destroy |
| Mastodon Leviathan |
| Maxwell Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite |
| one of the best soul albums of all time has less than 30 ratings here not surprised come on guys wtf |
| Mobb Deep The Infamous |
| Modern Life Is War Witness |
| Mono You Are There |
| Morbus Chron Sweven |
| Mos Def Black on Both Sides |
| Mount Eerie No Flashlight |
| Mount Eerie Clear Moon |
| Mount Eerie Ocean Roar |
| Ocean Roar is essentially the audible recording of the ocean's roar, in all of its beauty and rage, and one could not ask for anything more. |
| N.E.R.D. In Search Of |
| Nails Abandon All Life |
| holy shit;kasjdfl;kasjdf; |
| Nas Illmatic |
| Neneh Cherry Blank Project |
| mark it down, the first time ive ever agreed with greg |
| Neurosis Enemy of the Sun |
| Nevermore Dreaming Neon Black |
| Niechec Smierc w Miekkim Futerku |
| Album is so good it demotes you for even rating it. |
| Nmesh Dream Sequins |
| Oceansize Effloresce |
| Old Man Gloom Christmas |
| Opeth Still Life |
| Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come |
| OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below |
| OutKast ATLiens |
| Pain of Salvation The Perfect Element, Part 1 |
| Pharoahe Monch Internal Affairs |
| Pink Floyd The Wall |
| Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun |
| Porcupine Tree The Sky Moves Sideways |
| Prince 1999 |
| Quasimoto The Unseen |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come |
| Scarface The Diary |
| Sebadoh Bakesale |
| Secret Chiefs 3 Book of Horizons |
| Sigh Imaginary Sonicscape |
| Slint Spiderland |
| Sole and the Skyrider Band Plastique |
| This is easily one of the year's finest hip-hop ventures - if only Raekwon delayed his newest another year, Plastique would be sitting on top of all of 2009's releases defecating. |
| Stateless Matilda |
| i dont think the people with less than a 3.5 rating are listening to the same album even. this is incredible music, period. |
| Strapping Young Lad Alien |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz |
| Team Sleep Team Sleep |
| Tears for Fears The Hurting |
| The Beatles Abbey Road |
| The Drones I See Seaweed |
| holy shit this destroys havilah |
| The Flaming Lips Clouds Taste Metallic |
| The Flaming Lips Zaireeka |
| The Microphones Mount Eerie |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die |
| The Ocean Precambrian |
| The Prodigy The Fat of the Land |
| The Roots Game Theory |
| The Roots Do You Want More?!!!??! |
| The Samuel Jackson Five Easily Misunderstood |
| The-Dream Love Hate |
| Thundercat The Beyond/Where The Giants Roam |
| Tim Hecker Harmony in Ultraviolet |
| TiRon & Ayomari A Sucker For Pumps |
| Tool Lateralus |
| TV on the Radio Dear Science |
| Vektor Black Future |
| Vektor Outer Isolation |
| Viktor Vaughn Vaudeville Villain |
| Young L Enigma Theory |
| 4.0 excellent |
| *shels Sea of the Dying Dhow |
| 7 Days Of Funk 7 Days Of Funk |
| ????MACROSS 82-99 SAILORWAVE |
| i give this a 4. kingsoby1 stamp of approval. |
| Abel (NY) Make It Right |
| Aesop Rock Labor Days |
| Aesop Rock Daylight |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore |
| Ambrose Akinmusire The Imagined Sailor Is Far Easier To Paint |
| Amenra Mass V |
| Amorphis Tales from the Thousand Lakes |
| Amorphis Tuonela |
| Amplifier Amplifier |
| Amplifier The Astronaut Dismantles HAL |
| Andrew Bird Break It Yourself |
| Arctic Monkeys Suck It and See |
| As Tall As Lions You Can't Take It With You |
| Astronote Weapon Of The Future |
| Atmosphere Lucy Ford: The Atmosphere EPs |
| Atmosphere Overcast! |
| Ava Luna Electric Balloon |
| BADBADNOTGOOD BBNG2 |
| what the f this is so good |
| Battles Mirrored |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues |
| chugga chugga doo doo bliddle bliddle brawrrrrr lalala |
| Big Boi Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors |
| Big Business Head for the Shallow |
| Bilal Airtight's Revenge |
| Bilal A Love Surreal |
| Billy Woods History Will Absolve Me |
| This is the easiest 4/5 I've ever given. Billy Woods is so good lyrically it's ridiculous, and the beats are consistently great - somewhat glitchy, heavy electronic influence. Only downside is the seriously excessive length. Just plain impossible to focus on a 20 track record. |
| Binary Star Masters of the Universe |
| Birds in Row You, Me, and the Violence |
| Black Breath Sentenced To Life |
| Black Host Life in the Sugar Candle Mines |
| Black Milk Tronic |
| Blank Banshee Blank Banshee 0 |
| Blank Banshee Blank Banshee 1 |
| Blue Sky Black Death A Heap Of Broken Images |
| Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Bozzio Levin Stevens Situation Dangerous |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Broken Bells Broken Bells |
| Best record of the year so far. |
| BT This Binary Universe |
| Buke and Gase General Dome |
| Burst Origo |
| Cage (USA-NY) Hell's Winter |
| Carcass Surgical Steel |
| Cave In Antenna |
| Cave In Planets of Old |
| Charles Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus |
| Charles Mingus The Clown |
| Choking Victim No Gods, No Managers |
| Circle Takes the Square Decompositions: Volume Number One |
| Clipse Lord Willin' |
| Cloud Nothings Attack on Memory |
| cLOUDDEAD cLOUDDEAD |
| Coalesce 0:12 Revolution in Just Listening |
| Cobalt Gin |
| Cult Leader Nothing for Us Here |
| Cult of Luna Salvation |
| CunninLynguists A Piece Of Strange |
| Cynic Focus |
| Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse Dark Night of the Soul |
| further emphasizes you must kill yourself to earn indie cred. |
| Danny Brown XXX |
| Daughters Daughters |
| De La Soul 3 Feet High and Rising |
| De La Soul Stakes Is High |
| Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables |
| Deathspell Omega Drought |
| Decapitated Winds of Creation |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Del Tha Funkee Homosapien Both Sides of the Brain |
| Depeche Mode Music for the Masses |
| Depeche Mode Black Celebration |
| Devin Townsend Terria |
| Devin Townsend Project Addicted |
| Digable Planets Blowout Comb |
| Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca |
| Right now, this is the best album of the year. Almost every tune is crafted precisely and beautifully. Excellent musicians, interesting lyrics, and my girlfriend likes this. Any album my girlfriend likes is usually the next internet indie smash hit. |
| Disillusion Back to Times of Splendor |
| Dr. Dre 2001 |
| Dream Theater Live Scenes From New York |
| Ducktails Ducktails |
| Dutch E Germ IN.RAK.DUST |
| Dyzlectic Octo The Epee |
| excellent rapping and solid production for the early 2000s. v solid. |
| East of the Wall The Apologist |
| El-Creepo! El-Creepo! |
| El-P Weareallgoingtoburninhellmegamixxx3 |
| El-P High Water |
| Elzhi The Preface |
| Eminem Recovery |
| Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini |
| Entropia (PL) Vesper |
| EPMD Strictly Business |
| Eric Dolphy Out to Lunch! |
| Ernie Watts Reaching Up |
| Ernie Watts To The Point |
| Erykah Badu New Amerykah Pt. One: 4th World War |
| Estradasphere Palace Of Mirrors |
| Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True |
| Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors |
| Fates Warning Parallels |
| Finale A Pipe Dream and a Promise |
| Finger Eleven The Greyest of Blue Skies |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues |
| Flying Lotus Los Angeles |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light |
| Forest Swords Engravings |
| Francis Harris Minutes of Sleep |
| Frank Ocean channel ORANGE |
| Frank Sinatra Come Fly With Me |
| Freddie Gibbs and Madlib Pinata |
| From Ashes Rise Nightmares |
| Gazpacho Night |
| Georgia Anne Muldrow Umsindo |
| Georgia Anne Muldrow Seeds |
| Madlib is awesome 100% of the time, it only matters to what degree of awesome. And this is probably one of his lower awesome levels unfortunately... which still equates to Muldrow's finest (tied with Umsindo). This time around, Muldrow does a great job condensing her LP - where Umsindo had eleventy billion songs, Seeds takes 11 songs and puts them into a nice, continuous package. Interestingly enough, I find myself missing Muldrow's production - while similar to the Beat Konducta, it is a bit less Fantastic Planet if that makes any sense. Madlib really does a great job emulating 70's funk, and in classic fashion shines a spotlight on Muldrow's performance. But this is the main detractor to Seeds; her preachy, blunted out philosophy takes center stage when it likely shouldn't. Georgia Anne Muldrow is easily one of the most talented musicians around today and is definitely due for a classic one of these days. Seeds isn't it, but is a great record that shows she hasn't yet lost focus since Umsindo. |
| Ghostface Killah Fishscale |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book |
| God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright |
| God Is an Astronaut Far from Refuge |
| Gorguts Considered Dead |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World |
| Guilty Simpson O.J. Simpson |
| Heltah Skeltah Nocturnal |
| High on Fire Blessed Black Wings |
| High on Fire Death Is This Communion |
| High on Fire Snakes for the Divine |
| How to Dress Well What Is This Heart? |
| In Pieces Lions Write History |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself |
| Iron Lung Sexless // No Sex |
| ISIS The Red Sea |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant |
| Isis and Aereogramme In The Fishtank 14 |
| Island Orakel |
| J Dilla The Shining |
| J Dilla Dillanthology |
| James Blake The Colour in Anything |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint |
| Jaylib Champion Sound |
| Jeremiah Jae Raw Money Raps |
very influenced by blu's no york!... kind of like what shabazz palaces would sound like if they didn't suck :]
this is growing on me, might 4 it |
| Jessy Lanza Pull My Hair Back |
| JJ DOOM Key To The Kuffs |
| JMSN †Pllajë†|
| Juicy J Stay Trippy |
| Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds |
| Kamelot Karma |
| Kamelot The Fourth Legacy |
| Kangding Ray Solens Arc |
| Karriem Riggins Alone Together |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I |
| Kenna New Sacred Cow |
| Keyshia Cole Just Like You |
| Kidcrash Jokes |
| Killer Mike I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind II |
| King Crimson Red |
| King Geedorah Take Me to Your Leader |
| Kishi Bashi Lighght |
| Kiss Kiss The Meek Shall Inherit What's Left |
| KMD Bl_ck B_st_rds |
| Kylesa Spiral Shadow |
| Lady Gaga The Fame Monster |
| Lakutis 3 Seashells |
| Latitudes Individuation |
| Little Scream The Golden Record |
| M. Ward Transistor Radio |
| M. Ward Post-War |
| M. Ward Transfiguration of Vincent |
| Madlib Shades of Blue |
| Madlib Beat Konducta Vol 1-2: Movie Scenes |
| Maps and Atlases Tree, Swallows, Houses |
| Maps and Atlases Perch Patchwork |
| Maps and Atlases Beware and Be Grateful |
| Marie Davidson Perte d'identité |
| Mark Ronson Record Collection |
| this has nothing to do with hipsters and is incredible |
| Mastodon Remission |
| Matana Roberts COIN COIN Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres |
| Max Richter Recomposed: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons |
| Maxwell Embrya |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve |
| Method Man Tical |
| Mew Frengers |
| MF DOOM Operation: Doomsday |
| MF DOOM MM.. Food |
| Michio Kurihara Sunset Notes |
| Miguel Kaleidoscope Dream |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice |
| Modern Life Is War My Love. My Way. |
| Mondkopf Hades |
| feels like a darker boards of canada |
| Mono Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined |
| Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind |
| Morgan Delt Morgan Delt |
| Mos Def The Ecstatic |
| Mount Eerie Lost Wisdom |
| Mount Kimbie Cold Spring Fault Less Youth |
| Mr. Bungle California |
| Mr. Lif I Phantom |
| N.E.R.D. Fly Or Die |
| Nacho Picasso and Avatar Darko Vampsterdam |
| Not only did Nacho Picasso release three albums in the past year and a half - he released three brilliantly produced records absolutely brimming with the most innovative punchline rapping known to man. But while For the Glory, Lord of the Fly, and Exalted were technical marvels with respect to quality versus volume, they still lacked a certain distinguishing factor to elevate their content beyond gimmickry. The beats, courtesy of Blue Sky Black Death, effectively dabbled in the still-developing tropes of cloud-rap and trap, yet Picasso's rapping lacked enough of a coherent structure to truly enhance this backdrop to its fullest potential. Vampsterdam mostly solves this problem by giving Nacho Picasso the energy of Avatar Darko to, well, feed upon. The interplay between the two is natural, giving room on the mic for Picasso to breathe with ample hooks to transition from - as opposed to filling up four minutes with constant punchlines about drugs or dicks/ using them. Araab Muzik, Raised Byy Wolves, and Clams Casino (among others) man the boards alongside a solitary beat from Blue Sky Black Death; the minor stylistic differences between each producer also help to differentiate Vampsterdam from its predecessors with less slow-tempo monotony. As a whole, the record is a marked improvement that truly showcases Picasso's potential to dethrone Weezy as the king of the punchline (hopefully not too hard now that his brain has been completely transplanted by syzzurp). |
| Nails Unsilent Death |
| Naked City Naked City |
| Napalm Death From Enslavement to Obliteration |
| Nas STILLmatic |
| Natti Still Motion |
| liking this way more than CL's typical shtick, plus Natti is my favorite mc from the group |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I |
| Neurosis Souls at Zero |
| Neurosis Given to the Rising |
| Nevermore This Godless Endeavor |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral |
| Nine Inch Nails The Fragile |
| Obsidian Kingdom Mantiis |
| Oceansize Everyone Into Position |
| Oceansize Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up |
| Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe |
| Oh No Exodus Into Unheard Rhythms |
| Oh No Ohnomite |
| Old Man Gloom Seminar III: Zozobra |
| Old Man Gloom NO |
| omg this is like awesome |
| Opeth Deliverance |
| Opeth Damnation |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse |
| Organized Konfusion Organized Konfusion |
| Orphans of Cush White Noize |
| OutKast Stankonia |
| P.O.S Never Better |
| Pain of Salvation Remedy Lane |
| Panda Bear Tomboy |
| Everything that didn't suck about MPP expanded into an entire album. |
| Passion Pit Gossamer |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... |
| Pelican Ataraxia/Taraxis |
| Pharoahe Monch Desire |
| Poison the Well The Tropic Rot |
| Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing |
| Porcupine Tree Up the Downstair |
| Porcupine Tree Nil Recurring |
| Portugal. The Man Waiter: ''You Vultures!'' |
| Pulse Ultra Headspace |
| Pygmy Lush Mount Hope |
| Pygmy Lush Old Friends |
| Quadron Quadron |
| Quadron Avalanche |
| Quasimoto The Further Adventures of Lord Quas |
| R. Kelly Chocolate Factory |
| R. Kelly Love Letter |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles |
| Random Axe Random Axe |
| The easiest rating you could ever give. |
| Raphael Saadiq The Way I See It |
| Red Sparowes At The Soundless Dawn |
| Rhian Sheehan Stories From Elsewhere |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness |
| Rise and Fall Faith |
| very impressed with this. best metalcore i've heard in a while |
| RJD2 Deadringer |
| Royce da 5'9 Death is Certain |
| Rufus Wainwright Poses |
| Rush Moving Pictures |
| Rush 2112 |
| Rush Hemispheres |
| Rush Exit...Stage Left |
| Sadistik Flowers for My Father |
| Sannhet Known Flood |
| Santigold Santogold |
| Scarface The Fix |
| Scarface Mr. Scarface Is Back |
| Scarface Emeritus |
| Scientist (JAM) Rids the World of the Curse of the Vampires |
| Sean Price Monkey Barz |
| Secret Chiefs 3 Book M |
| Secret Chiefs 3 Xaphan: Book of Angels Volume 9 |
| Secret Chiefs 3 Traditionalists |
Out of the ashes of circus-metal pioneers Mr. Bungle, Trey Spruance took something unique and wonderful, steeped it in a pressure cooker of middle eastern lore and scales, and morphed it into his own entity. Being only one of the dimensions introduced on the Book of Horizons record, this is a welcome explanation of the "Traditionalists" tracks it presented. Heavily Morricone, spaghetti western, and general bombast-influenced, the Secret Chiefs 3 give their interpretation of the cinematic soundtrack genre with an epic theme deconstructed and reanimated over the course of 33 tracks. Don't let the high track count discourage you, this is meant to be a continuous listen, likely only separated out for the sake of listener sanity (or lack thereof). Traditionalists calls life, love, suspense, and chaos to the fore in any given section with dissonant chimes, lush horns and violin, and ominous Italian guitar atmospheres. A very strong (and eccentric) attempt at a soundtrack, the combining factor remains Spruance's trademark surf-rock tendencies and noise experimentation - a boon when implemented properly, these techniques have evolved much from SC3's early Grand Constitution days. Initially immature and largely directionless in their chaotic meanderings, it's very refreshing to see a group grow and come full circle artistically in such grand fashion. Traditionalists is a challenging journey and will not find constant rotation as such - just know that it's a ride well worth the effort.
Here's to further expansion of the Book of Horizons personalities; with five chapters remaining, Secret Chiefs 3 have a bright future ahead of them. |
| Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun |
| Sholi Sholi |
| Shugo Tokumaru In Focus? |
| Silk Rhodes Silk Rhodes |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon |
| Sol.Illaquists Of Sound No More Heroes |
| shiiiit's tiiiight son |
| Sole and the Skyrider Band Sole and the Skyrider Band |
| Souls of Mischief 93 'til Infinity |
| Spawn of Possession Incurso |
| Spires (USA) Flowers And Fireworks |
| Kind of similar to the Mesa Verde record from last year, but heavier. John Hanson says this is skramz isis. this will definitely be on my year end top 10. |
| St. Vincent Strange Mercy |
| Strapping Young Lad Strapping Young Lad |
| Strapping Young Lad The New Black |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois |
| Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans |
| Sufjan Stevens All Delighted People |
| Symphony X V: The New Mythology Suite |
| T.I. Paper Trail |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock |
| Tears for Fears Songs from the Big Chair |
| Textures Drawing Circles |
| The Afghan Whigs Do to the Beast |
| The Beatles Revolver |
| The Decemberists The Crane Wife |
| The Drones Havilah |
| The Flaming Lips The Terror |
| The Gaslamp Killer I Spit On Your Grave |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute |
| The Pharcyde Labcabincalifornia |
| The Poor Nobodys The Poor Nobodys [EP] |
| The Roots Phrenology |
| The Roots Illadelph Halflife |
| The Roots Rising Down |
| The Samuel Jackson Five Goodbye Melody Mountain |
| The-Dream Love vs. Money |
| The-Dream Love King |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything |
| Thrice Vheissu |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV |
| Thundercat The Golden Age Of Apocalypse |
| Thursday War All the Time |
| Thursday Full Collapse |
| Thursday Common Existence |
| Thy Catafalque Roka Hasa Radio |
| Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 |
| Tomahawk Mit Gas |
| Tool Undertow |
| Trap Them Darker Handcraft |
| TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain |
| Twin Shadow Forget |
| UGK Ridin' Dirty |
| Ulcerate Vermis |
| Usher Confessions |
| Vanden Plas Far Off Grace |
| When Saints Go Machine Infinity Pool |
| Wyclef Jean The Carnival |
| Yo Gotti I Am |
| Yo La Tengo I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One |
| Young Widows Old Wounds |
| Zelienople The World Is A House On Fire |
| 3.5 great |
| 18 Carat Affair Adventures in Schizophrenia |
| 2Pac Me Against the World |
| 311 Music |
| 311 Grassroots |
| 50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin' |
| 65daysofstatic The Fall of Math |
| ????MACROSS 82-99 A Million Miles Away |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms |
| A/T/O/S A/T/O/S |
| Aesop Rock None Shall Pass |
| Aesop Rock Float |
| Aesop Rock Skelethon |
| not sure if i like this at all |
| Agalloch The Mantle |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune |
| Alexander Spit A Breathtaking Trip to That Otherside |
| Alice in Chains Dirt |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue |
| Amanda Palmer Who Killed Amanda Palmer? |
| Amen Dunes Love |
| Amesoeurs Amesoeurs |
| Amorphis Elegy |
| Amplifier Insider |
| Ana Kefr The Burial Tree (II) |
| Anaal Nathrakh In the Constellation of the Black Widow |
| Corpses raping animals then fighting other reanimated corpses after being burned alive by fire rain and death angels. Destruction on a colossal scale. |
| Anberlin New Surrender |
| Ancestors In Dreams And Time |
| Andromeda Extension of the Wish |
| Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra Take Off! |
| Animal Kingdom The Looking Away |
| Antigua y Barbuda Try Future |
| Armand Hammer Race Music |
| like a kajillion times better than dour candy. |
| ASAP Rocky Live.Love.A$AP. |
| Asobi Seksu Citrus |
| Astronautalis This Is Our Science |
| Atmosphere God Loves Ugly |
| Atomship The Crash of `47 |
| Au4 ...And Down Goes The Sky |
| August Burns Red Constellations |
| B. Dolan Fallen House Sunken City |
| straight up hiphop and more entertaining than The Failure. probably as deep too. awesome beats. |
| Baptists Bushcraft |
| Baroness Red Album |
| Baroness Blue Record |
| Ok so I finally decided that this isn't as good as the Red Album. I don't know, maybe it's "more mainstream", but Blue Album nearly sheds all sense of identity developed on its forebear. |
| Barren Earth The Devil's Resolve |
| Baths Obsidian |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska |
| Bibio Mind Bokeh |
| Big K.R.I.T. K.R.I.T Wuz Here |
| Big K.R.I.T. ReturnOf4eva |
| Bigg Jus Machines That Make Civilization Fun |
| Black Milk Popular Demand |
| Black Milk Album Of The Year |
| Black Mountain In the Future |
| Blindside Silence |
| Blood Orange Cupid Deluxe |
| Blu and Exile Below the Heavens |
| Blu and Mainframe Johnson and Jonson |
| Blue Sky Black Death Late Night Cinema |
| Blue Sky Black Death Jean Grae: The Evil Jeanius |
| Blue Sky Black Death NOIR |
| Blue Sky Black Death Razah's Ladder |
| Bonobo The North Borders |
| Bozzio Levin Stevens Black Light Syndrome |
| Britney Spears Circus |
| Brother Ali Shadows On The Sun |
| Brother/Ghost Black Ice |
| BT These Hopeful Machines |
| This Binary Universe was not only a defining electronic record of 2006, but it may even be remembered centuries from now - and with good reason, as it far exceeded all expectations fans and colleagues alike had for Brian Transeau (aka "BT"). Mastered in 5.1 surround sound, it was a sprawling, cross-genre piece of epic proportions - jazz, downbeat, house, ambient, and even classical-bent soundtrack influence, it was all there. This alone is the primary detractor from These Hopeful Machines. It's not that BT fails in any sense of the word - quite the contrary actually. His latest machination is bound to have lasting appeal on top of the electronic charts, in the clubs, and all over the globe in places where people actually care about their house music.rRecommended Tracks:r"Suddenly"r"The Emergency"r"Rose of Jericho"r"Love Can Kill You"r"Le Nocturne De Lumiere" |
| Buried Inside Spoils Of Failure |
| Cam'ron Purple Haze |
| Cassie Cassie |
| Cave In Until Your Heart Stops |
| Cave In Perfect Pitch Black |
| Cave In Creative Eclipses |
| Cave In Tides of Tomorrow |
| Cave In White Silence |
| Charles Mingus Pithecanthropus Erectus |
| Charles Mingus Blues & Roots |
| Charles Mingus Tijuana Moods |
| Chromatics Kill for Love |
| Circa Survive Juturna |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo |
| Clams Casino Instrumental Mixtape |
| clipping. Midcity |
| this is way better than death grips |
| Coalesce OX |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness |
| Common Be |
| Common Like Water for Chocolate |
| Common One Day It'll All Make Sense |
| Converge Axe to Fall |
| There are some really solid tunes here, but unfortunately way too much filler. Sorry dudes.rBetter than No More Heroes for sure and a step in the right direction. |
| Crash of Rhinos Distal |
| Creed My Own Prison |
| CunninLynguists Dirty Acres |
| CunninLynguists Southernunderground |
| CunninLynguists Oneirology |
| I keep trying to see what everyone else sees in this, but can't. Sure, Kno's beats are probably his best since Dirty Acres, but he doesn't really do anything that hasn't been done in the past 10 years. That said, this is a solid record; every track is indeed listenable. If you like this, try out A Piece of Strange... far and away their best. |
| Cynic Traced in Air |
| D'Angelo Brown Sugar |
| d'Eon LP |
| Dalek Abandoned Language |
| Dalek Absence |
| Dalek Deadverse Massive Vol. 1: Dälek Rarities 1999-2006 |
| Dan Deacon Bromst |
| Dan Deacon America |
| Danny Brown The Hybrid |
| Danny Brown Old |
| Das Racist Relax |
| De La Soul Are You In?: Nike+ Original Run |
| Deafheaven Roads to Judah |
| Deftones Deftones |
| Dela Changes of Atmosphere |
| Denali The Instinct |
| Depeche Mode Playing The Angel |
| Depeche Mode Songs of Faith and Devotion |
| Devin Townsend Infinity |
| DJ Muggs Vs GZA Grandmasters |
| Dj Muggs Vs. Ill Bill Kill Devil Hills |
| DJ Sprinkles Midtown 120 Blues |
| Dog Fashion Disco Committed to a Bright Future |
| Dog Fashion Disco Anarchists of Good Taste |
| Doldrums (CAN) Lesser Evil |
| Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence |
| Dream Theater Awake |
| dredg Catch Without Arms |
| Ducktails Landscapes |
| Ducktails Ducktails III: Arcade Dynamics |
| Earl Sweatshirt EARL |
| Earth The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull |
| Earth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I |
| El-P Collecting The Kid |
| El-P Weareallgoingtoburninhell Megamixx 2 |
| Awesome material from El-P as usual... One of the main highlights here is the last track, beginning with a unique El-P reinterpretation of Jay-Z's "99 Problems" and segueing into a nearly industrial remix of The Mars Volta's "The Widow". This mixtape is available for free from defjux. |
| Electric President The Violent Blue |
| Eligh Grey Crow |
| Eminem Infinite |
| EPMD Unfinished Business |
| EPMD Business as Usual |
| EPMD Business Never Personal |
| EPMD We Mean Business |
| Estradasphere Quadropus |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives |
| Exotic Animal Petting Zoo I Have Made My Bed in Darkness |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place |
| Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die... |
| Eyedea and Abilities E&A |
| Faith No More King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime |
| Faith No More The Real Thing |
| Fantomas Fantômas |
| Fat Freddy's Drop Blackbird |
| Felt (USA-MN) Felt 3: A Tribute to Rosie Perez |
| To any of my regular readers, it's probably no secret that I despise Slug (of overrated Atmosphere fame) almost as much as I do Murs (of also overrated, 9th Wonder-produced 3:16 fame). And with that, I had a real bias going into listening to a record produced entirely by an emcee instrumental in my hip-hop development. Like any aspiring backpacking blogger-come-critic, Aesop Rock was one of my first forays into progressively produced and lyrically existential hip-hop. But while my days as a purely conscious-bent subject matter proponent are over, a sentimentality still lingers over my time spent with Aes. When I saw he would be responsible for the production on Felt's third installment, A Tribute to Rosie Perez, I was excited and apprehensive simultaneously. |
| Finger Eleven Tip |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes |
| Frank Ocean Nostalgia, Ultra. |
| Freddie Gibbs ESGN |
| solid record, but way too many tracks. cat needs to be more picky about what he puts his name on |
| Frustrator Anther |
| fun. Some Nights |
| G-Side Starshipz and Rocketz |
| Gallows (UK) Grey Britain |
| Gaza No Absolutes in Human Suffering |
| Gazpacho March of Ghosts |
| GETEYE Above the Clouds |
| Ghostface Killah Apollo Kids |
| Giles Corey Giles Corey |
| Girls Father, Son, Holy Ghost |
| Glassjaw El Mark |
| God Is an Astronaut The End of the Beginning |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius |
| Goldfinger Hang-ups |
| Goldfinger Stomping Ground |
| Gordian Knot Gordian Knot |
| Grails Doomsdayer's Holiday |
| Grayceon Pearl & The End of Days |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest |
| Gucci Mane The State vs. Radric Davis |
| Gucci Mane And Rich Homie Quan Trust God Fuck 12 |
| GZA Legend of the Liquid Sword |
| GZA Beneath the Surface |
| Half Moon Run Dark Eyes |
| Heaven and Hell The Devil You Know |
| Pretty good for a bunch of really old people. Not that old folks can't rock; I'm just surprised. Dio still sounds like Dio, and Sabbath is still Sabbath... but this is more novelty for me than anything. |
| Heaven Shall Burn Veto |
| Heems Nehru Jackets |
| Heiress Early Frost |
| Highasakite Silent Treatment |
| Ill Bill The Hour of Reprisal |
| Immortal Technique Revolutionary Volume 2 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E. |
| Into Eternity Buried in Oblivion |
| Iron Braydz Devil May Cry |
| Iron Lung White Glove Test |
| Iron Maiden Dance of Death |
| Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death |
| ISIS In the Absence of Truth |
| J Dilla Ruff Draft |
| J Dilla Jay Stay Paid |
| J Dilla Welcome 2 Detroit |
| J. Cole The Warm Up |
| Jake One White Van Music |
| Probably one of the most overlooked releases this year, Jake One tears it up on White Van Music and is easily one of the best producers in hip hop today. With an all star guest list, more than half the tracks (of a 20+ track release) are bangers. While not a progressive production genius, he is a brilliant composer, and Rhymesayers made a great move by putting this on their label. |
| Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid |
| Jay Rock Follow Me Home |
| Jay-Z American Gangster |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Violent by Design |
| Jenny Hval Viscera |
| Jeremiah Jae and Oliver the 2nd RawHyde Mixtape |
| Jeremih Late Nights With Jeremih |
| Jerry Cantrell Degradation Trip |
| Jessie Ware Devotion |
| JMSN Priscilla |
| John Legend Love in the Future |
| John Zorn Moonchild |
| I highly reccommend this to any fan of Mike Patton or John Zorn... the premise is that Zorn wrote this for Patton and a couple others (Trevor Dunn is on bass I think). There are no lyrics; it is nearly a more structured Fantomas. |
| John Zorn Six Litanies for Heliogabalus |
| John Zorn The Crucible |
| Kanye West Late Registration |
| Kanye West The College Dropout |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak |
| Karnivool Themata |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly |
| Keyshia Cole The Way It Is |
| Kid Cudi A Kid Named Cudi |
| Kid Cudi Indicud |
| not sure how you could dislike this at all really experimental |
| Kid Dynamite Kid Dynamite |
| Killer Mike Pl3dge |
| King Crimson The Power to Believe |
| King Crimson Islands |
| King Crimson Three of a Perfect Pair |
| King Crimson The ConstruKction of Light |
| Kodak Cameo Riviera |
| Kreng L'Autopsie Phenomenale De Dieu |
| Krusseldorf Fractal World |
| KXNG Crooked Mr. Pig Face Weapon Waist |
| Kylesa Static Tensions |
| Latitudes Agonist |
| Laura Stevenson Wheel |
| Liars Sisterworld |
| Lily Allen It's Not Me, It's You |
| Lo-Fang Blue Film |
| Amazing for a debut. Excited to see what he turns into - hopefully some more electronic experimentation is in the cards as some of these tracks are far too tame. |
| Lo-Pan Salvador |
| Long Distance Calling Satellite Bay |
| Long Distance Calling Avoid The Light |
| Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor |
| M. Ward Hold Time |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming |
| Madlib Beat Konducta Vol. 5: Dil Cosby Suite |
| Madlib Beat Konucta Vol. 6: Dil Withers Suite |
| Madlib Sujinho |
| Always consistent, madlib put out an interesting album in 2008 that largely flew under everyone's radar. Collaborating with Mamao Conti (the drummer of Brazillian jazz group Azymuth), Sujinho is an energetic romp into redefinition of classic Brazillian standards. |
| Madvillain Madvillainy 2: The Madlib Remix |
| Magrudergrind Magrudergrind |
| Main Attrakionz 808s and Dark Grapes II |
| Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing |
| Mastodon The Hunter |
| Maxwell BLACKsummers'night (2009) |
| Maybeshewill Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony |
| Menomena Moms |
| Mesa Verde The Old Road |
| Meshuggah obZen |
| MF DOOM Born Like This |
| Mike Mictlan Snaxxx |
| Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates |
| Minus the Bear Menos El Oso |
| Minus the Bear They Make Beer Commercials Like This |
| Mobb Deep Hell on Earth |
| Modern Life Is War Midnight in America |
| Mono Under the Pipal Tree |
| Mono One Step More and You Die |
| Moodie Black Sana Sana |
| Moodie Black Moodie Black |
| Mutemath Mutemath |
| My Vitriol Finelines |
| Nacho Picasso For The Glory |
| Napalm Death Scum |
| Napalm Death The Code Is Red...Long Live the Code |
| Napalm Death Time Waits for No Slave |
| Nappy Roots The Humdinger |
| Nas Life Is Good |
| Ne-Yo Year of the Gentleman |
| Necro Death Rap |
| Neon Indian Psychic Chasms |
this is the kind of record you would think lewis would like, tell him so, and then he would probably say it sucks b/c he's hipsterish :[
oh who called it.
adam downer is a downer. |
| Nevermore Enemies of Reality |
| Oceansize Music for Nurses |
| Oceansize Frames |
| Off Minor Some Blood |
| Oh No Dr. No's Oxperiment |
| Oh No Oh No Vs. Now Again |
| Oh No The Disrupt |
| Okkervil River The Stand Ins |
| Old Man Gloom Seminar II: The Holy Rites of Primitivism Regressi |
| Omar Souleyman Wenu Wenu |
| cool but extremely abrasive after a while |
| Onry Ozzborn Hold On for Dear Life |
| whoops forgot to review this one.rpsych i didn't forget just too lazy |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries |
| Opeth Lamentations |
| Outerspace Blood Brothers |
| P.O.S Audition |
| Pain of Salvation One Hour by the Concrete Lake |
| Parades Foreign Tapes |
| Pax and Pry A Day Off |
| Pelican Australasia |
| Pelican March Into the Sea |
| Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After |
| Pink Floyd Animals |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Poison the Well You Come Before You |
| Poison the Well The Opposite of December |
| Porcupine Tree Signify |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet |
| Protest the Hero Kezia |
| Pure Reason Revolution The Dark Third |
| Pure X Crawling Up The Stairs |
| Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime |
| R. Kelly Write Me Back |
| Racing Heart To Walk Beside That Ghost |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Raekwon Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang |
| Real Estate Days |
| Red Sparowes Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red... |
| Reef The Lost Cauze A Vicious Cycle |
| Rosetta A Determinism of Morality |
| Royce da 5'9 The Bar Exam 2 |
| One of the most talent Detroit MCs for years, Royce da 5'9" puts forth a solid, well produced effort on 'The Album'. Fuck Ice Cube, this is a real pyroclastic flow. Detroit is inarguably the hotbed of 21st centry hip-hop... look out for his scheduled March 2009 release. |
| Rush Permanent Waves |
| Rush Signals |
| Rush Rush |
| Rush Grace Under Pressure |
| Russian Circles Enter |
| Rx Bandits Mandala |
| Sa-Ra Nuclear Evolution: The Age of Love |
| Sadistik The Balancing Act |
| Sage Francis Copper Gone |
| Santigold Master of My Make-Believe |
| Saosin Translating the Name |
| Satan Life Sentence |
| Saxon Shore The Exquisite Death of Saxon Shore |
| SBTRKT SBTRKT |
| Scarface The World Is Yours |
| Scarface Made |
| ScHoolboy Q Setbacks |
| this is pretty great. too bad i missed it last year. black hippy is probably the most interesting hiphop collective right now. Light Years AHead is such a ridiculous track |
| ScHoolboy Q Habits and Contradictions |
My initial infatuation wore off slightly (dropped rating from 4 to 3.5)... I can't bring myself to listen continuously to this record, as it's a bit inconsistent. When both Q and the producer are in sync, it bangs, but some of the tracks are just boring/ borderline obnoxious. I really wish Q took his time and released a joint that took the best of H&C and Setbacks; that would have been an excellent record, worthy of top 2012 hip-hop accolades.
My favorite tracks in no particular order:
Sacrilegious
Druggys Wit Hoes Again
Nightmare on Figg St
There He Go
Hands on the Wheel
Grooveline Pt. 1
Blessed
As it stands it seems we'll have to wait for Lamar to best Section.80 to get that Black Hippy dopeness we've been waiting for this year. |
| Sean Price Jesus Price Supastar |
| Secret Chiefs 3 Second Grand Constitution and Bylaws |
| Sevendust Home |
| Shadow Gallery Tyranny |
| She and Him Volume One |
| Shining (NOR) Blackjazz |
| Shugo Tokumaru Exit |
| Silversun Pickups Neck of the Woods |
| Sinch Clearing the Channel |
| Sir Sly Ghost |
| Sleigh Bells Reign of Terror |
| Sol.Illaquists Of Sound As If We Existed |
| Sole No Wising Up No Settling Down |
| Sole and the Skyrider Band Hello Cruel World |
| Souls of Mischief Montezuma's Revenge |
| St. Vincent St. Vincent |
| Strapping Young Lad Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing |
| Sufjan Stevens Michigan |
| T.I. Trouble Man: Heavy Is the Head |
| Talib Kweli Quality |
| Talk Talk Spirit of Eden |
| Talk Talk The Colour of Spring |
| Textures Polars |
| The Bad Plus Prog |
| The Chasm Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm |
| The Decemberists Picaresque |
| The Decemberists The Hazards of Love |
| The Delfonics Adrian Younge Presents The Delfonics |
| The Devin Townsend Band Accelerated Evolution |
| The Dodos Visiter |
| The Dodos No Color |
| The Dynospectrum Dynospectrum |
| The Eastern Wave All Covet, All Lose |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger |
| The Foreign Exchange Leave It All Behind |
| The Game The Documentary |
| The Game Jesus Piece |
| The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble From the Stairwell |
| The Knife Silent Shout |
| The Knife Shaking the Habitual |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath |
| The National High Violet |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Life After Death |
| The Ocean Aeolian |
| The Pharcyde Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde |
| The Postmarks Memoirs At The End Of The World |
| Some truly remarkable songs, but unfortunately a lot of filler too. What a grand opener... I love the movie soundtrack/ spaghetti western qualities here. |
| The Republic of Wolves Varuna |
| The Roots The Tipping Point |
| The Roots Organix |
| The Roots How I Got Over |
| probably about time i posted my review for this |
| The Samuel Jackson Five The Samuel Jackson Five |
| The Sword Warp Riders |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt |
| The Velvet Teen Elysium |
| THEESatisfaction awE naturalE |
| pretty cool overall, pretty impressed with the production. the vocals are a bit lacking, but solid enough. |
| This Will Destroy You Young Mountain |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II |
| Thrice Beggars |
| Thursday Waiting |
| Thursday A City By the Light Divided |
| Thy Catafalque Rengeteg |
| Tim Hecker Virgins |
| Tobacco Fucked Up Friends |
| One of the few interesting anticon projects. Tobacco makes an electronic come industrial trip-hop atmosphere on Fucked Up Friends. Beautiful at times, mediocre at others, it almost feels as if most of this has been done before. This sneaking suspicion keeps FUF from getting a 4, whereas Aesop Rock's verses on "Dirt" solidy its 3.5. Definitely recommended. |
| Todd Terje It's Album Time |
| toe New Sentimentality |
| TOKiMONSTA Midnight Menu |
| Tomahawk Tomahawk |
| Tool Opiate |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Tortoise TNT |
| True Widow As High As The Highest Heavens And From The Center |
| TV on the Radio Nine Types of Light |
| Twin Shadow Confess |
| Tyler, the Creator Bastard |
| UGK UGK 4 Life |
| Ulcerate Everything Is Fire |
| Ulcerate The Destroyers of All |
| Umberto Confrontations |
| United Nations United Nations |
| Usher Looking 4 Myself |
| Volcano Choir Unmap |
Well, this is better than For Emma after half a listen. Really interesting record that combines the intricacies of post-rock and math with Vernon's standard folk fare; he turns out to be an excellent indie rockstar/frontman. Some might call this "mindless experimentation", but a more accurate descriptor would be "highly dynamic math rock". Much of the more eccentric passages are placed well throughout - doing wonders for the album's pacing; half an hour goes by, yet it feels like merely minutes passed, leaving one with something new each time. This is an excellent outing for Vernon and company that will unfortunately go unnoticed due to Bon Iver fans feeling betrayed. Read: this is not for those that like their music vanilla. Strikey is crazy.
Coincidentally, my lady and I decided that Bon Iver's "Creature Fear" will be our first dance as a married couple. Sue me, that song rules. |
| Wale Attention Deficit |
| Wave Machines Pollen |
| We Lost the Sea The Quietest Place on Earth |
| i dont know how you could even suggest the heresy of this being in the same vein of panopticon what a ridiculous statement :[ |
| We Will Fail Verstörung |
| Willie Isz Georgiavania |
| Woods of Desolation As the Stars |
| World's End Girlfriend Hurtbreak Wonderland |
| Wu-Tang Clan Wu-Tang Forever |
| Yo La Tengo I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass |
| Yuck Yuck |
| Zero Hour The Towers of Avarice |
| Zoroaster The Voice of Saturn |
| Zu Carboniferous |
| 3.0 good |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead The Century of Self |
| 311 311 |
| 311 Soundsystem |
| 311 Transistor |
| 50 Cent War Angel LP |
| 50 Cent Before I Self Destruct |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step |
| A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory |
| Adebisi Shank This is the Album |
| Air Love 2 |
| Akron/Family Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free |
| Alice in Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here |
| All There All There |
| Altar of Plagues Teethed Glory and Injury |
| Amorphis The Karelian Isthmus |
| Amplifier The Octopus |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion |
| Antibalas Antibalas |
| Antipop Consortium Fluorescent Black |
| Apollo Brown and O.C. Trophies |
| Arghoslent Hornets of the Pogrom |
| Artificial Brain Labyrinth Constellation |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us |
| Atmosphere Seven's Travels |
| Atmosphere When Life Gives You Lemons... |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen |
| Bad Religion True North |
| Baptists Baptists |
| Baroness Yellow and Green |
| Barren Earth Curse of the Red River |
| Bat For Lashes Two Suns |
| Baths Cerulean |
| BATS Red In Tooth and Claw |
| Beach House Teen Dream |
| Believer Gabriel |
| Between the Buried and Me The Anatomy Of |
| Beyonce Beyonce |
| Big K.R.I.T. 4Eva N A Day |
| Big K.R.I.T. Live From The Underground |
| Black Mountain Black Mountain |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Beileid |
| Bombino Nomad |
| Bonobo Black Sands |
| Boris New Album |
| Brand New Deja Entendu |
| Britney Spears Greatest Hits: My Prerogative |
| Brother Ali The Undisputed Truth |
| Brother Ali The Truth Is Here |
| Burial Untrue |
| Burst Lazarus Bird |
| Cage (USA-NY) Kill the Architect |
| Cakes Da Killa The Eulogy |
| Cam'ron Crime Pays |
| Camera Obscura My Maudlin Career |
| Cannibal Ox Gotham |
| Cars & Trains The Roots, The Leaves |
| Cars AND Trains... |
| Cassie RockaByeBaby |
| Cave In Beyond Hypothermia |
| Ceschi The One Man Band Broke Up |
| Chevelle Wonder What's Next |
| Chevelle Sci-Fi Crimes |
| Circa Survive On Letting Go |
| Clipse Til the Casket Drops |
Easily the worst Clipse record as a whole. Some cool single-quality tracks here and there, but so many cases where either the vocal component or production side is spot on - and not at the same time, unfortunately.
This isn't even close to the level of HHNF. |
| Closure in Moscow First Temple |
| Code Orange Love Is Love // Return To Dust |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow |
| Common Electric Circus |
| Common Resurrection |
| Common Market Tobacco Road |
| Converge No Heroes |
| Creed Human Clay |
| CunninLynguists Will Rap For Food |
| CunninLynguists Strange Journey Vol. 1 |
| Currensy Covert Coup |
| Cursive Mama, I'm Swollen |
| Cymbals (UK) The Age of Fracture |
| Cyrus Malachi Ancient Future |
| CZARFACE CZARFACE |
| Damien Rice My Favourite Faded Fantasy |
| Dawn Richard Goldenheart |
| Dead Letter Circus This Is The Warning |
| Deerhunter Microcastle |
| An interesting exercise in atmospheric indie-rock, Deerhunter attempts to maintain a creative focus on Microcastle. At times they are truly genuine, yet this also seems to conceal the simplistic nature of their compositions. While not glaringly obvious, Deerhunter would be better for maturation of a creative process. Make no mistake, there is potential for greatness here; it only needs proper channeling. |
| Del Tha Funkee Homosapien Funk Man (The Stimulus Package) |
| Denitia and Sene His and Hers. |
| Devin Townsend Physicist |
| Devin Townsend Ziltoid the Omniscient |
| Devin Townsend Project Ki |
| DIIV Oshin |
| DJ Food The Search Engine |
| DJ Rashad Double Cup |
| Doomtree Doomtree |
| Doomtree No Kings |
| Downfall of Gaia Suffocating in the Swarm of Cranes |
| Downliners Sekt Silent Ascent |
| Drake Take Care |
| Dream Theater Images and Words |
| Dream Theater A Change of Seasons |
| Dream Theater Falling into Infinity |
| Dream Theater Octavarium |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings |
| dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion |
| It's like if they tried to be even more poppy/mainstream than CWA, but reverted back to the epic-come-concept ideas of El Cielo. If you're a dredg fan, you'll like this. If you're a butt rock fan, you might like this. Overall, I'm really surprised; their new tracks sucked so bad live (cough Ireland cough), but in the context of the album, they work so much better. |
| Earl Sweatshirt Doris |
| Earth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II |
| El Da Sensei & The Returners GT2: Nu World |
| El-P Weareallgoingtoburninhell Megamix |
| Emancipator Safe In The Steep Cliffs |
| Emika DVA |
| Eminem The Eminem Show |
| Eminem Relapse |
| EPMD Back in Business |
| Ernie Watts Unity |
| Exotic Animal Petting Zoo Tree of Tongues |
| not as good as the last record. kind of a poor man's screamo deftones |
| Explosions in the Sky How Strange, Innocence |
| Explosions in the Sky The Rescue |
| Eyedea and Abilities First Born |
| Failure Comfort |
| Faith No More Album of the Year |
| Fantomas Suspended Animation |
| Fatima Yellow Memories |
| Fatima Al Qadiri Asiatisch |
| Felt (USA-MN) Felt 2: A Tribute to Lisa Bonet |
| Finger Eleven Finger Eleven |
| First Aid Kit The Lion's Roar |
| Fliptrix Third Eye of the Storm |
| Foals Holy Fire |
| Fort Minor The Rising Tied |
| Freeway & Jake One The Stimulus Package |
| Frightened Rabbit Pedestrian Verse |
| G-Side Huntsville International |
| Galaxie 500 On Fire |
| Gangrene Gutter Water |
| Gaza He Is Never Coming Back |
| Georgia Anne Muldrow Kings Ballad |
| Ghostface Killah The Big Doe Rehab |
| Ghostface Killah Ghostdini: The Wizard of Poetry in Emerald City |
Tony Starks likes two things, or so it seems according to the subject matter of his rhymes: bitches and blow. Abandoning the latter for a whole record (seriously), he dedicates his trademark crazed flow entirely to the fairer sex with mixed results. Not completely a club-oriented record, The Wizard of Poetry in Emerald City dons a multi-faceted mantle of sentimentality, jealousy, and sorrow; this emotional gamut really doesn't click in certain situations (namely the off-target affair that is "Baby"), but there are some incredibly catchy moments here. When the record was initially announced as Ghostface's foray into R&B, it was greeted with disdain and an overall air of negativity - and while fears of 90s radio-soul surmounted, this reaction is largely unwarranted with modern production standards and a collection of excellent featured vocalists. "Not Your Average Girl" and "Do Over" kick things off brilliantly with catchy hooks from Shareefa and Raheem DeVaughn, respectively. Quickly setting Ghost's intended tone amidst updated, soul-laden beats, this one-two punch unfortunately sets the bar quite high for the remainder. Follow-up "Baby" was seemingly written for an audience of peers and not a younger crowd with sappy generalizations for parents to be. As is typical of Mr. Starks, each and every track is mired in the misogynist musings of a man that loves "running trains" and "threesomes every other weekend"; "Stapleton Sex" runs these assertions to a head in what could possibly be a recording of the Wizard actually fornicating. TMI Ghostface, TMI.
Ghostdeini is at his absolute best on the more modern iterations on the radio soul/rap formula, especially on the John Legend assisted "Let's Stop Playing" and a killer trio of album closers. The crooning tenor of Lloyd over a clinic on funk in "Goner" stands out with a particularly absorbing chorus; as a good measuring stick, many ladies in this household have been caught recently with their heads bobbing. Interestingly enough, the two closing bonus tracks are some of the best - Ne-yo and Kanye collabo "Back Like That" may be familiar to some, and the heavily dynamic, autotune-tastic "She's a Killah" brings a unique spin to your typical club tune.
While difficult to expect another killer Wu joint immediately following the brilliant Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II, The Wizard of Poetry is definitely enjoyable even if it is sporadic in its appeal. It's hard not to inflate the rating of a record with some truly incredible joints, yet it's difficult to ignore the two-thirds filler combined with Ghostface's least complicated rhymes in years. Nice try Tony, but let's shoot for a Supreme Clientele II next time around. |
| God Is an Astronaut God Is an Astronaut |
| God Is an Astronaut Age of the Fifth Sun |
| Gojira The Link |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh |
| Gordian Knot Emergent |
| Grails Deep Politics |
| Grand Magus The Hunt |
| Grieves 88 Keys & Counting |
| Grieves The Confessions Of Mr. Modest |
| Grimes Visions |
| Gris À L'Âme Enflammée, L'Âme Constellée... |
| GZA Pro Tools |
| Handwrist All flesh is grass... |
| Holy Other Held |
| Hop Along Get Disowned |
| Hot Water Music Exister |
| House Of Heroes Cold Hard Want |
| Ice Cube Raw Footage |
The only thing that keeps this album above average are Ice Cube's pyroclastic flows, obviously. On a more serious note, although his anti-ghetto preachiness does become frustrating at times... Ice Cube remains a bastion of lyrical honor in the hip hop game. The beats are very average, but his flow makes up for that.
Most likely reviewing this soon. |
| If These Trees Could Talk Above the Earth, Below the Sky |
| IMAKEMADBEATS IMAKEMADBEATS |
| Immolation Majesty and Decay |
| Immortal Technique Revolutionary Volume 1 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Enjoy Incubus |
| Inferi (USA) The Path of Apotheosis |
| Intronaut Void |
| Isaiah Rashad Cilvia Demo |
| J. Cole Cole World: The Sideline Story |
| Jack White Blunderbuss |
| Jaga Jazzist The Stix |
| James Blake James Blake |
| Japandroids Post-Nothing |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint 3 |
| Not even as cool as American Gangster, let alone the original Blueprint |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Legacy of Blood |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Servants in Heaven, Kings in Hell |
| Jenny Hval Innocence Is Kinky |
| Jerry Cantrell Boggy Depot |
| Joey Badass 1999 |
| kid is very talented with much potential. excited to hear an LP with beats from 2012, not 1999 |
| John Zorn Astronome |
| Jubala Jubala |
| Jurassic 5 Power in Numbers |
| Justin Timberlake Justified |
| K'naan The Dusty Foot Philosopher |
| K-X-P II |
| Kanye West Graduation |
| Karnivool Sound Awake |
| Khoma The Second Wave |
| Kid Cudi Man on the Moon: The End of Day |
| Kidz in the Hall The In Crowd |
| Killah Priest The Psychic World of Walter Reed |
| Kings of Leon Only By The Night |
| Kurt Vile Wakin on a Pretty Daze |
| no matter how many chances i give it, i just cant get into a kurt vile record beyond "oh hey this is cool" |
| Kylesa Time Will Fuse Its Worth |
| Lady Gaga The Fame |
| Laurel Halo Quarantine |
| Letherette Letherette |
| Liars Mess |
| Long Distance Calling The Flood Inside |
| Lowkey Soundtrack to the Struggle |
| Ludacris Theater of the Mind |
| Lupe Fiasco The Cool |
| Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor 2: The Great American Rap Album Pt.1 |
| Madlove White With Foam |
| Magic Wands Aloha Moon |
| Mark Lanegan Blues Funeral |
| Mastodon Call of the Mastodon |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun |
| Maxwell Now |
| MellowHype BLACKENEDWHITE |
| Menomena Mines |
| Mercenary The Hours That Remain |
| Merchandise Totale Nite |
| Meshuggah Koloss |
| Messiah J & The Expert From The Word Go |
| Meth, Ghost and Rae Wu-Massacre |
| i wrote an entire review for this and it got lost. fuck it this album isn't that great. |
| Metric Synthetica |
| Mew No More Stories |
| Mgla With Hearts Toward None |
| Mighty Joseph Empire State |
| An intriguing, yet ultimately unbalanced effort. Although one of the most unique rappers of the 2000s, Vast Aire is unable to save the album from the mediocre production over a majority of its length. Regardless, "The Uprising" is one of the best tracks of 2008; it's a tragedy the rest of the album doesn't live up to this standard. |
| Miguel All I Want Is You |
| Mikal Cronin MCII |
| Moderat II |
| Moodie Black The Responsive Chord |
| Moodie Black Nausea |
| Mos Def True Magic |
| Mr. Lif I Heard It Today |
| Mr. Lif Mo' Mega |
| Murmur (CHI) Murmur |
| Murs Murs 3:16: the 9th Edition |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade |
| Napalm Death Enemy of the Music Business |
| Napalm Death Noise for Music's Sake |
| Napalm Death Smear Campaign |
| Napalm Death Harmony Corruption |
| Napalm Death Order of the Leech |
| Narrows Painted |
| Nas It Was Written |
| Nas Untitled |
| Nas and Damian Marley Distant Relatives |
| Neneh Cherry The Cherry Thing (w. The Thing) |
| Nervosa Victim of Yourself |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Push The Sky Away |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine |
| Nine Inch Nails Year Zero |
| Obits Moody, Standard, and Poor |
| Oceans of Sadness The Arrogance Of Ignorance |
| Oh No Dr No's Ethiopium |
| Open Mike Eagle 4NML HSPTL |
| Opeth Orchid |
| Orphaned Land Mabool (The Story of the Three Sons...) |
| OutKast Idlewild |
| Oysterhead The Grand Pecking Order |
| P.O.S Ipecac Neat |
| P.O.S We Don't Even Live Here |
| PackFM I F*cking Hate Rappers |
| Pain of Salvation Entropia |
| Pariso Nothing Beyond, Everything After |
| Pax and Pry A Day at the Office |
| Paysage d'Hiver Das Tor |
| Peeping Tom Peeping Tom |
| Pelican City of Echoes |
| Pelican What We All Come to Need |
| Pepper In With The Old |
| Peter Evans Zebulon |
| Pharoahe Monch W.A.R. |
| beats more dated than internal affairs ??? some good stuff, but some of the beats are really boring.r |
| Pity Sex Feast of Love |
| Polkadot Cadaver Purgatory Dance Party |
| Porcupine Tree The Incident |
| Port St. Willow Holiday |
| Portugal. The Man Church Mouth |
| Prolyphic & Reanimator The Ugly Truth |
| Psycroptic The Inherited Repression |
| Pure Reason Revolution Amor Vincit Omnia |
| Pyrrhon The Mother of Virtues |
| Very technically solid album. borders more on unstructured noise than tech death (not a bad thing, but maybe not executed as well as it could have been). a placing of head in car engine simile a-la calculating infinity definitely applies here, maybe more-so. Invisible Injury is probably my favorite track here. |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork |
| Ra From One |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs |
| RATKING So It Goes |
| Rescuer With Time Comes the Comfort |
| Rick Ross God Forgives, I Don't |
| Rita Ora ORA |
| troll ratings in the house |
| RJD2 The Third Hand |
| RJD2 The Colossus |
| Firstly, hip-hop doesn't mean rap...ummm? |
| Rodrigo y Gabriela 11:11 |
| Rotting Christ Kata Ton Demona Eaftou |
| Royce da 5'9 The Revival EP |
| Royce da 5'9 Street Hop |
| Rufus Wainwright Out of the Game |
| Rush Caress of Steel |
| Rush Hold Your Fire |
| Rush Power Windows |
| Rush Roll the Bones |
| Rush Presto |
| Russian Circles Station |
| Russian Circles Geneva |
it's like this:
.........---------^^^^^CRASH BOOM CRASH^^^^^----------......... |
| Sabac Red Ritual |
| At his best, Sabac Red is merely serviceable; at his worst, his content is pseudo-intelligent, oozing with lame inspiration and socio-political generalities. The production here is extremely hit or miss... Skammadix is terrible, but Blue Sky Black Death and Sick Nature pull off some swell beats. Ill Bill has an uninspired guest appearance that's barely worth even noting in this sentence. |
| Sage Francis Li(f)e |
| Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside Untamed Beast |
| Scarface The Untouchable |
| Secret Chiefs 3 First Grand Constitution and Bylaws |
| Sevendeaths Concrete Misery |
| Sevendust Sevendust |
| Shad When This Is Over |
| Shadow Gallery Carved In Stone |
| Shifted Crossed Paths |
| Shining (NOR) One One One |
| Shit Robot We Got a Love |
| Shlohmo Bad Vibes |
| Sigur Ros Kveikur |
| Sims Bad Time Zoo |
| Sinch Sinch |
| Sleep Dopesmoker |
| Slim Guerilla & DJ Smokey Guerilla Warfare |
| Snowgoons Black Snow |
This is German hiphop production-team Snowgoons' second album, featuring a ton of talent in or associated with the Army of the Pharoahs. The beats are unique from the underground flavor most typified by that Philadelphia scene; that is, the serious/apocalyptic flavor is still there, yet with a distinct European surface coating. Make no mistake, this isn't fluffy electropop; this is full-fledged hiphop that leaves the listener thirsty for more.
It would be interesting to hear a different set up of less aggressive MCs next time around... One can only take so much anger over the course of a 22 track album. |
| Soen Cognitive |
| SOHN Tremors |
| Soilwork Natural Born Chaos |
| Soulsavers The Light The Dead See |
| SpaceGhostPurrp Mysterious Phonk |
| State Faults Desolate Peaks |
| hard to listen to the vocals without cringing |
| Steven Wilson Insurgentes |
| Steven Wilson Grace for Drowning |
| Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) |
| Sudatsuga Blue Moon Saiyeed |
| Sulphur Aeon Swallowed by the Ocean's Tide |
| Sun Kil Moon April |
| Talib Kweli Eardrum |
| Terra Tenebrosa The Tunnels |
| Thantifaxath Sacred White Noise |
| The Antlers Hospice |
| The Appleseed Cast Sagarmatha |
| The Besnard Lakes Until in Excess, Imperceptible UFO |
| The Black Heart Rebellion Har Nevo |
| The Bloody Beetroots Romborama |
| The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading |
| This is far too long to maintain any shred of interest I had in this album. Builds at far too slow of a pace... and not in an interesting, dynamic fashion. It would be okay if the music was revolutionary, but it's more-so just lame acoustic doodling surrounded by punk-tinged arena c*ck rock. |
| The Dear Hunter Migrant |
| The Decemberists Her Majesty the Decemberists |
| The Decemberists The King Is Dead |
| The Devin Townsend Band Synchestra |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis |
| The Dodos Time to Die |
| The Doppelgangaz Lone Sharks |
| The Doppelgangaz HARK |
| The Exies Inertia |
| The Fall of Troy Phantom on the Horizon |
| The Flaming Lips At War with the Mystics |
| The Game LAX |
| The Human Abstract Nocturne |
| The Icarus Line Slave Vows |
| The Knux Remind Me In Three Days |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron |
| Okay it's a Mars Volta record. They need to break up and form 2 new bands with one of the bands playing generic prog rock and the other one playing experimental insect noises. That would shake things up. |
| The Ocean Heliocentric |
| The Ocean Pelagial |
| ugh those vocals. not much in this discog worth listening to since that one about amoebas or whatever |
| The Psychic Paramount II |
| The Roots undun |
I've been using this term a lot lately, but this is easy listening music. Not nearly as creative as How I Got Over was in incorporating a less hard-hitting, indie approach to their craft. Their time on Jimmy Fallon's show is unfortunately rubbing off on their compositions.
This is the worst Roots record ever made. |
| The Shins Port of Morrow |
| The Walkmen Heaven |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars 30 Seconds To Mars |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance |
| Tinariwen Emmaar |
| Tomahawk Anonymous |
| Torae and Marco Polo Double Barrel |
| Torche Meanderthal |
| Toro Y Moi Anything In Return |
| Tortoise Standards |
| Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs Trouble |
| Tove Lo Truth Serum |
| Trophy Scars Bad Luck |
| Trophy Scars Holy Vacants |
| TTNG 13.0.0.0.0 |
| Tusk The Resisting Dreamer |
| Ty Segall Band Slaughterhouse |
| Ulcerate Of Fracture and Failure |
| Unknown Mortal Orchestra II |
| Valentin Stip Sigh |
| VAST NUDE |
| Volbeat Beyond Hell/Above Heaven |
| Volcano Choir Repave |
| Wale Mixtape About Nothing |
| Wale Back To The Feature |
| i'm going to stick to my guns here and say "9th wonder is pretty stale" |
| Warm Brew The Ride |
| Wild Beasts Present Tense |
| Woodkid The Golden Age |
| Wu-Tang Clan The W |
| XXYYXX XXYYXX |
| Yo La Tengo Popular Songs |
| Yo La Tengo Fade |
| Young Fathers DEAD |
| Young Widows In and Out of Youth and Lightness |
| Zechs Marquise Our Delicate Stranded Nightmare |
Earth to the Rodriguez-Lopez family: you're 35 years too late.
It's a commonplace occurrence these days: guy finds guitar, guy discovers 70s prog, guy imitates said prog. More and more frequently, this process flow delineates the creative process of Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, friends, family, and affiliates; if Cryptomnesia, Octahedron, and other recent pursuits weren't enough, here comes the extended jam interpretation a-la Zechs Marquise's Our Delicate Stranded Nightmare. With an all-too-familiar formula mixing equal parts funk, fuzzed out rock, and just enough atmospheric experimentation, one would be hard pressed to find a more faithful era-specific recreation. Blistering instrumental work keeps the group out of the realm of mediocrity; this is definitely a piece made by musicians, for musicians. A certain haphazard flair presents guitar-work analogous to a certain Rodriguez-Lopez brood compatriot - and while obviously not as much of a technician, there is just enough variety to maintain some kind of individual identity. However, the cardinal difference between Zechs Marquise and Omar's solo work lies within the carefully orchestrated ambient passages; they lack the random noodling of Cryptomnesia, the oft-overbearing noisy textures of A Manual Dexterity, and are even reminiscent of Mars Volta atmospherics on a good day. The whirling synths and feedback amalgamate into a kind of darkness that works as an acceptable juxtaposition with the more traditional rock sections.
While derivative to an extent, the Zechs Marquise sub-collective is successful in their aim of contrasting sounds. With more focus, this could be the side-project Mars Volta fans have been expecting - of which Omar has yet to deliver. |
| 2.5 average |
| 311 From Chaos |
| 50 Cent Curtis |
| A Storm Of Light As The Valley Of Death Becomes Us... |
| Ab-Soul Longterm Mentality |
| I never realized how bad the beats on this record truly were until I listened to the marginally better Control System |
| Abstract Rude Rejuvenation |
| Alice Smith She |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals |
| Andromeda II=I |
| As Cities Burn Hell or High Water |
| As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security |
| Asobi Seksu Hush |
| Astronautalis Pomegranate |
| Atmosphere You Can't Imagine How Much Fun... |
| Atmosphere To All My Friends, Blood Makes The Blade Holy |
| Atmosphere The Family Sign |
| AudioVent Dirty Sexy Knights in Paris |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil |
| B-Real Smoke N Mirrors |
| Bad Rabbits American Love |
| Be'lakor Of Breath and Bone |
| Beach Fossils Clash the Truth |
| Beach House Bloom |
| Beck Morning Phase |
| Becoming The Archetype Dichotomy |
| Billy Woods Dour Candy |
yeah so Blockhead's beats are fucking terrible what the fuck this isnt even close to as good as history will absolve me
wow that was negative i'm sorry billy woods ur a good rapper |
| Blood Ceremony The Eldritch Dark |
| Brand New Daisy |
| Brand New, Thrice, these names can do no wrong here, predictably. This is probably slightly above average, and all this ridiculous praise is just as unwarranted as that for Beggars. |
| Brotha Lynch Hung Mannibalector |
| Brother Ali Us |
| Cage (USA-NY) Depart From Me |
| this is what it would sound like if cage performed the Queen of the Damned soundtrack.raaliyah RIP |
| Caribou Swim |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise |
| Common The Dreamer/The Believer |
| CunninLynguists Strange Journey Vol. 2 |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories |
| Dangers Messy, Isn't It? |
| Death Grips Exmilitary |
| Depeche Mode Ultra |
| Digital Daggers The Devil Within |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought |
| Dream Theater When Dream and Day Unite |
| DRGN KING Paragraph Nights |
| Elbow The Take Off And Landing Of Everything |
| Eleanor Friedberger Personal Record |
| Emancipator Dusk to Dawn |
| Eminem Encore |
| Enemies Embark Embrace |
| EPMD Out of Business |
| Ernie Watts Classic Moods |
| Esham KKKill the Fetus |
| Evergreen Terrace Wolfbiker |
| Expire Pendulum Swings |
| Felt (USA-MN) A Tribute to Christina Ricci |
| Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel... |
| Four Tet There is Love in You |
| Full Devil Jacket Full Devil Jacket |
| Future of the Left The Plot Against Common Sense |
| G-Side The One...Cohesive |
| Gangrene Vodka & Ayahuasca |
| Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere |
| Godsticks The Envisage Conundrum |
| Grieves Together/Apart |
Together/Apart is a manifestation of Rhymesayers Entertainment's marketing department and their seemingly neverending quest to homogenize hip-hop. Their understanding of the 20-something white male psyche is unrivaled in this industry. It is unfortunate; Grieves has the makings of a multi-dimensional vocalist with a pleasant voice and something of substance to say with it. There aren't technically complex mult-syllabics to be had here, just pure introspection. "On The Rocks" hearkens backs to previous releases and almost recalls what could have been amidst a catcy hook and Budo's (previously) typical electro-funk.
But Grieves presses forward almost too awkwardly with a poorly executed spoken word vibe-come-Brother Ali posturing/preaching made more obvious by their phoned in duet on "Tragic". The production suffers more, taking [mis]cues from nearly every Rhymesayers Entertainment release over the past 5 years. Most of the tracks emulate what could be B-Sides of a post-Lemons Ant, doing nothing so groundbreaking as regurgitating mid-90's soul. Budo was never an incredible producer in the past, but did just enough to shine a spotlight on Grieves' strong personal narrative. It is in that regard that Together/Apart reeks of compromise and mimicry. |
| Gutta Heads Will Roll |
| Gym Class Heroes The Quilt |
| Hands Like Houses Ground Dweller |
| Harm's Way (USA-IL) Blinded |
| Heltah Skeltah D.I.R.T. (Da Incredible Rap Team) |
Basically, everyone is gay except Sean Price.
Seriously, sexism, homophobia, and a ton of other gangsta cliches galore... this is pretty unnecessary in 2008. Regardless, Jesus Price rocks the mic, and the beats are cool at times (less often than they should be). Roc is really just a bad rapper. |
| How to Destroy Angels Welcome Oblivion |
| HTRK Psychic 9-5 Club |
| Immortal Technique The 3rd World |
| In Mourning The Weight of Oceans |
| In Vain (NO) Mantra |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Fungus Amongus |
| Incubus (USA-CA) When Incubus Attacks, Vol. 1 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Light Grenades |
| Indian Handcrafts Civil Disobedience For Losers |
| Insane Clown Posse Riddle Box |
| Into Eternity The Scattering of Ashes |
| J. Cole Born Sinner |
| Jay-Z Kingdom Come |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint²: The Gift & the Curse |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Visions of Gandhi |
| John Legend Evolver |
| John Robinson Who Is This Man? |
Dear John Robinson, stop imitating Nas.
Dear MF Doom, release a new album already.
Seriously, this comes off as a phoned-in waste of time on Doom's part... thoroughly decent, but never excellent. Dude needs to stop sending impersonators to shows and pick up the mic. |
| Jurassic 5 Quality Control |
| Kamelot Haven |
| Kashiwa Daisuke 5 Dec. |
| Kid Cudi Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager |
| Kno Death Is Silent |
| Kool A.D. 51 |
| letlive. The Blackest Beautiful |
| Long Distance Calling Long Distance Calling |
| Main Attrakionz Bossalinis and Fooliyones |
| Maudlin Ionesco |
| Mellow Bravo Mellow Bravo |
| Method Man and Redman Blackout! 2 |
| Mew And the Glass Handed Kites |
| mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright! |
| Migos Young Rich Niggas |
| Mike Jones Who Is Mike Jones? |
| Monolake Ghosts |
| Monsters of Folk Monsters of Folk |
| Murs Murs For President |
| My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love |
| Napalm Death Utopia Banished |
| Napalm Death Diatribes |
| Napalm Death Fear, Emptiness, Despair |
| Necro The Sexorcist |
| Nicole Atkins Slow Phaser |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth |
| Noah and the Whale The First Days of Spring |
| Oceana Birth.Eater |
| Oceansize Home & Minor |
| Octaves Greener Pastures |
| Omnium Gatherum Beyond |
| Opeth Heritage |
| Opiuo Meraki |
| Pain of Salvation Be |
| Palms Palms |
| Passion Pit Manners |
| Planes Mistaken for Stars Mercy |
| Portugal. The Man Censored Colors |
| Prefuse 73 Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian |
| Propagandhi Supporting Caste |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous |
| Ra Duality |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Regina Spektor Far |
| Her next album I will definitively be able to describe as "more overrated psuedo-intellectual pop". |
| Reka Renaissance |
| Reks Grey Hairs |
| Rorcal Vilagvege |
| RPWL World Through My Eyes |
| Sage Francis Personal Journals |
| Saigon The Greatest Story Never Told |
| Sax Ruins Yawiquo |
| Scale the Summit The Collective |
| Scarface My Homies |
| Scarface The Last Of A Dying Breed |
| ScHoolboy Q Oxymoron |
| Semantik Punk abcdefghijklmnoprstuwxyz |
| Sevendust Black Out the Sun |
| Shabazz Palaces Black Up |
| Shad TSOL |
| Shearwater Animal Joy |
| Shone Heat Thing |
| Skyzoo The Salvation |
| Slaughterhouse Slaughterhouse |
| This is not very good. |
| Snowmine Dialects |
| Sol.Illaquists Of Sound The 4th Wall Part I |
| stellastarr* Civilized |
| Stolas Living Creatures |
| Sun Kil Moon Benji |
| SZA Z |
| Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends |
| Talib Kweli Gutter Rainbows |
| Talib Kweli Prisoner of Conscious |
| The Alchemist Chemical Warfare |
| The Appleseed Cast Illumination Ritual |
| The Devil Wears Prada With Roots Above and Branches Below |
| The Flaming Lips Embryonic |
| This record is so stupid. |
| The Game The R.E.D. Album |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet |
| The Mayan Factor 44 |
| An art rock group from Baltimore, The Mayan Factor have an ethnic sound, using atmospheric percussion (kongas and drums), acoustic guitars, various keyboard samples and tribal bass to an melodic, intense effect. The Mayan Factor could equally be called progressive rock as they could be lumped into the space rock category, one thing setting them apart from most artists in these genres is that the vocalist raps on occasion. Don't let this deter you, because it's an altogether interesting and one of a kind experience. |
| The Mayan Factor In Lake 'CH |
| An art rock group from Baltimore, The Mayan Factor have an ethnic sound, using atmospheric percussion (kongas and drums), acoustic guitars, various keyboard samples and tribal bass to an melodic, intense effect. The Mayan Factor could equally be called progressive rock as they could be lumped into the space rock category, one thing setting them apart from most artists in these genres is that the vocalist raps on occasion. Don't let this deter you, because it's an altogether interesting and one of a kind experience. |
| The Mayan Factor Yesterday's Son |
| An art rock group from Baltimore, The Mayan Factor have an ethnic sound, using atmospheric percussion (kongas and drums), acoustic guitars, various keyboard samples and tribal bass to an melodic, intense effect. The Mayan Factor could equally be called progressive rock as they could be lumped into the space rock category, one thing setting them apart from most artists in these genres is that the vocalist raps on occasion. Don't let this deter you, because it's an altogether interesting and one of a kind experience. |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting The Ocean and the Sun |
| The Streets Original Pirate Material |
| The Sword Age of Winters |
| The Weeknd Kiss Land |
| Themselves CrownsDown |
| This Will Destroy You This Will Destroy You |
| Thrice Identity Crisis |
| tUnE-yArDs w h o k i l l |
| Tyler, the Creator Goblin |
| Tyondai Braxton Central Market |
| Vast Aire Dueces Wild |
| Waxahatchee Cerulean Salt |
| Widowspeak Almanac |
| Wolfmother Wolfmother |
| Wu-Tang Clan Iron Flag |
| Wu-Tang Clan 8 Diagrams |
| YG My Krazy Life |
| very inconsistent and misogynist |
| Yonlu A Society In Which No Tear is Shed... |
| Young Widows Settle Down City |
| Zozobra Savage Masters |
| 1.5 very poor |
| 9th Prince Prince Of New York |
| Copy GZA's flow to a tee, the subdued production style of Pro Tools, then rap about dumb sh*t. Hey look, you're 9th Prince. |
| Asher Roth Asleep In The Bread Aisle |
| Mario Kart, munchies, Madden, suburbs, Sublime-posturing, pre-pubescent socio-political musings… Asleep in the Bread Aisle has all the ingredients for anthemic frat-party bro-hop. Raised in the suburbs (the far-outlying suburbs to be precise) of Philadelphia, Asher Roth paints a picture one would expect from homogeneous experiences and a biblically allusive name. And there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that, especially when delving into the metaphysical or even the mildly interesting. Even then, some artists excel at making light, care-free party music – see pre-808’s/ Louis Vitton Kanye for a good example. The thing is, Roth tries to do both here – but is by no means a renaissance man; instead, he recreates the very essence of Wonderbread through music. |
| Common Universal Mind Control |
| Depeche Mode Speak & Spell |
| Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand |
| Green City Brand New Money |
This isn't the absolute worst album ever; there are maybe 20 albums below this benchmark on the craptacular scale. Mixing equal parts southern cliches and mainstream hiphop yields Green City. All of the lyrics are contrived and sound as if they looked up "gangster" (yes, with the "er") on wikipedia and copied what they saw. Even then, half of the lyrics don't even make sense. The beats are digustingly repetitive, redefining the term unimaginative, and include plenty of high BPM closed-hi-hat passages typical of the genre. Stay away from this album; it's horrible, and the .5 extra points above 1.0 are only given for Scarface's introduction. Speaking of Scarface, he should be quite ashamed to associate his name with presenting this record.
A more in depth review to come, just using this as a forum for my thoughts at work. |
| Hurt Goodbye To The Machine |
| Incubus (USA-CA) A Crow Left of the Murder... |
| Insane Clown Posse The Great Milenko |
| Insane Clown Posse The Amazing Jeckel Brothers |
| Insane Clown Posse Bizaar |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights |
| Islander Violence and Destruction |
| Kevin Rudolf In The City |
| Terribly generic dance rock. I don't know how this album has anything to do with being "In The City", except that it has Nas and Weezy on it. Don't even bother. |
| Mike Mictlan False Hopes VIII: Deity For Re-Hire |
| R. Kelly Trapped In The Closet (Chapters 1-12) |
| Robin Thicke Blurred Lines |
| Soilwork Sworn to a Great Divide |
| Sonata Arctica Ecliptica |
| The Receiving End of Sirens Between the Heart and the Synapse |
| Trapt Trapt |
| Wiz Khalifa Rolling Papers |
| "Ayo 1...this nigga whole style is straight baby thighs son. Straight up. He might got some songs that yall might enjoy n shit but he a straight glitter blooded nigga wit a bullshit ass rhyme book when it come down to it nahmean. The nigga got yall fooled tho so I aint gon step on the nigga toes too much n shit but if you got male genitalia n shit n you listen to this nigga music you a vic nahmean. This nigga done flashed his wand on you. Or you mighta caught a contact off that fairy dust the niggas smokin" -- http://bigghostnahmean.blogspot.com |
