5.0 classic |
Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret |
Built to Spill Perfect from Now On |
Burial Untrue |
Dave Holland Conference of the Birds |
Destroyer Kaputt |
DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... |
Do Make Say Think Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn |
This album is pure genious. Fredericia is one of my favourite songs of all time. DMST have an impeccable knack for using various musical styles, sometimes in the same song. For example, Ontario Plates starts off jazzy, then turns into punk-rock by the end. So many standout tracks full of great musicianship and instrumentation. Classic. |
Do Make Say Think Other Truths |
Eric Whitacre Whitacre: Cloudburst |
Glenn Gould Bach: Goldberg Variations |
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ |
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada |
Moya is an excellent song, and for me one of Godspeed's best. Similar to Motherf***er=redeemer pt. 2, this one starts with a great string part, then builds in typical fashion to a great finale. Blaise Bailey Finnegan III has a very interesting field recording to introduce the song. While I don't agree with the person talking, he certainly is charasmatic and interesting. The sample has the typical ambiguity of Godspeed. Knowing that they probably agree with most of what Finnegan is saying, it is hard to determine whether they are pitting him as a hero, or showing how crazy he is. None the less, the music that crescendos into the ending is still very excellent. Great EP. |
Henryk Gorecki Symphony No. 3, Op. 36 |
James Ehnes Barber, Korngold, Walton Violin Concertos |
John Coltrane A Love Supreme |
Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye |
Keith Jarrett The Köln Concert |
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV |
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No14 C-sharp minor,Op.27No2 |
Mahavishnu Orchestra Birds of Fire |
Miles Davis Kind of Blue |
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Murder Ballads |
Okkervil River Black Sheep Boy |
Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come |
Oscar Peterson Night Train |
Otis Redding Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul |
Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon |
Radiohead Kid A |
Radiohead OK Computer |
Ralph Vaughan Williams A London Symphony [No. 2] |
Ralph Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis |
Red House Painters Red House Painters |
Rush Hemispheres |
Sufjan Stevens Illinois |
Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz |
Talk Talk Laughing Stock |
The National High Violet |
The Smiths The Queen Is Dead |
The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt |
The Weakerthans Left and Leaving |
Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot |
4.5 superb |
Ali Farka Toure Savane |
Andrew Bird The Mysterious Production Of Eggs |
Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha |
An excellent album that is full of a strange sort of pop. It can both be immediately catchy and ultimately subtle. Certainly an album that you have to listen to more then once. The album can also seem like it's split into two halfs. The first have is louder and more drum heavy. The second half is almost dream like with it's more acoustic approach and even more whistling. The two instrumentals are also very beautiful melodies on the violin. Overall a very solid album. |
Andrew Bird Break It Yourself |
Andrew Bird's Bowl Of Fire The Swimming Hour |
Antonin Dvorak Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, B. 178 |
Arcade Fire Funeral |
Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution A Call To Arms |
Battles Mirrored |
Big Star Third/Sister Lovers |
Billy Joel The Stranger |
Bob Marley and The Wailers Legend |
Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning |
Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People |
Built to Spill There Is No Enemy |
Burial Kindred |
Charles Mingus Mingus Ah Um |
Charles Spearin The Happiness Project |
Clogs The Creatures In the Garden of Lady Walton |
Colin Stetson New History Warfare Vol 2: Judges |
Danilo Perez Providencia |
Dave Holland What Goes Around |
Dave Holland Extended Play: Live at Birdland |
Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism |
Deerhunter Halcyon Digest |
Destroyer Destroyer's Rubies |
Destroyer Streethawk: A Seduction |
Do Make Say Think You, You're a History in Rust |
Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road |
Elton John Madman Across the Water |
Elton John Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy |
Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues |
Florence and the Machine Ceremonials |
Flying Lotus Cosmogramma |
Frederic Chopin Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 35 |
Glenn Gould Bach: Goldberg Variations |
Grizzly Bear Veckatimest |
Iron And Wine The Shepherd's Dog |
ISIS Panopticon |
Jaco Pastorius Word of Mouth |
Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid |
Japandroids Post-Nothing |
Jeff Buckley Grace |
John Abercrombie Gateway |
John Coltrane Blue Train |
Johnny Cash The Legend of Johnny Cash |
Kiss Kiss Kiss Kiss |
LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver |
Lenny Breau and Dave Young Live at Bourbon Street |
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 |
M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming |
holy shit this is the best thing they've done ever ever ever |
Mahavishnu Orchestra The Inner Mounting Flame |
maudlin of the Well Bath |
maudlin of the Well Part the Second |
Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell |
Menomena Mines |
Mew Frengers |
Miles Davis Sketches of Spain |
Miles Davis In a Silent Way |
Miles Davis Jack Johnson |
Opeth Damnation |
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Architecture & Morality |
Oscar Peterson Canadiana Suite |
Pat Metheny Group First Circle |
Pink Floyd The Wall |
Plush Fed |
Prefab Sprout Steve McQueen |
Queen A Night at the Opera |
R.E.M. Automatic for the People |
Rachel's Music for Egon Schiele |
Rush A Farewell to Kings |
Rush Exit...Stage Left |
Rush R30: 30th Anniversary Tour |
Shearwater The Golden Archipelago |
Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun |
Sigur Ros Heima (DVD) |
Spoon Kill the Moonlight |
Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga |
St. Vincent Strange Mercy |
Steve Reich Music for 18 Musicians |
Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb |
Such a great album from an excellent third-wave ska band. I'm not a huge fan of ska, but I can't not like Streetlight seeing as they are such great musicians. This album demonstrates some of the great work from the horn section (If and When We Rise) and drumming (Here's to Life). The only real problem with the album is the poor production quality. Overall it is an outstanding debut album. |
Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between |
Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans |
Sun Kil Moon Ghosts of the Great Highway |
Sun Kil Moon April |
Sunset Rubdown Random Spirit Lover |
Sunset Rubdown Dragonslayer |
The Beatles Revolver |
The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
The Decemberists The Crane Wife |
The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin |
The National Boxer |
An excellent album. I really took a chance on this after only hearing Fake Empire and a few songs from Alligator. It certainly is subtle, as at first I thought it was good, but not great. Soon I couldn't stop finger drumming Squalor Victoria, or humming Fake Empire. The album really grew on me and is now one of my favourites. |
The New Pornographers Twin Cinema |
The Replacements Let It Be |
The Weeknd Echoes of Silence |
The Who Who's Next |
Thelonious Monk Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane |
Titus Andronicus The Monitor |
Tom Waits Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards |
Tom Waits Bad As Me |
TV on the Radio Dear Science |
Various Artists (Indie) Dark Was The Night |
Venetian Snares Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett |
Vince Guaraldi Trio A Charlie Brown Christmas |
Vladimir Ashkenazy Chopin Romantic Piano 2 |
4.0 excellent |
Aaron Parks Invisible Cinema |
Allen Toussaint The Bright Mississippi |
Andrew Bird Noble Beast |
Anohni and the Johnsons I Am A Bird Now |
Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album |
Arcade Fire Neon Bible |
Band of Horses Everything All the Time |
Bark Psychosis Hex |
Basia Bulat Heart of My Own |
Bat For Lashes Two Suns |
Battles Gloss Drop |
Beach House Teen Dream |
Beirut The Rip Tide |
Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot |
Bill Frisell Disfarmer |
Billy Joel Piano Man |
Blonde Redhead Penny Sparkle |
Boards of Canada Geogaddi |
Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver |
Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports |
Bright Eyes The People's Key |
Broken Social Scene Forgiveness Rock Record |
Built to Spill There's Nothing Wrong with Love |
Calexico Feast of Wire |
Car Seat Headrest Twin Fantasy (Mirror to Mirror) |
Caribou Andorra |
Caribou Swim |
Cee Lo Green The Lady Killer |
Cheap Trick Cheap Trick at Budokan |
Cherry Ghost Beneath This Burning Shoreline |
Chicago Underground Duo Boca Negra |
Chicago Underground Quartet Chicago Underground Quartet |
Clogs Lantern |
Corinne Bailey Rae The Sea |
Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains |
Cymbals Eat Guitars Lenses Alien |
Dave Holland Critical Mass |
Dave Holland Extensions |
Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs |
Deerhunter Microcastle |
Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 |
Destroyer Bay of Pigs |
DeVotchKa A Mad & Faithful Telling |
DeVotchKa 100 Lovers |
Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca |
Do Make Say Think & Yet & Yet |
Electric Light Orchestra Time |
Elton John Caribou |
Elton John Tumbleweed Connection |
Eluvium Copia |
Empty Space Orchestra Empty Space Orchestra |
Ennio Morricone The Good, the Bad and the Ugly |
Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place |
Feist Metals |
Leslie Feist seems to be in total control of this album; it is clear that The Reminder gave her the sort of confidence that infects her song writing. Her melodies seem to strike out at you, instead of bouncing around like they tended to before |
Fever Ray Fever Ray |
Film School alwaysnever |
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes |
Flight of the Conchords Flight of the Conchords |
Flying Horseman Wild Eyes |
Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape |
Foo Fighters Greatest Hits |
Four Tet There is Love in You |
fun. Aim and Ignite |
Girls Father, Son, Holy Ghost |
Green Day Dookie |
Grizzly Bear Yellow House |
Hot Water Music A Flight and a Crash |
Iron And Wine Our Endless Numbered Days |
ISIS Wavering Radiant |
Jaga Jazzist What We Must |
Jaga Jazzist One-Armed Bandit |
James Blake James Blake |
John Murphy Sunshine (Soundtrack) |
John Scofield Up All Night |
John Scofield This Meets That |
Johnny Cash American V: A Hundred Highways |
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue |
Kiss Kiss The Meek Shall Inherit What's Left |
Laura Radio Swan is Down |
LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening |
Les Savy Fav Let's Stay Friends |
Liars Sisterworld |
Local Natives Gorilla Manor |
Madvillain Madvillainy |
Maps and Atlases Perch Patchwork |
Marc Ribot Silent Movies |
Max Richter The Blue Notebooks |
Max Richter Infra |
Menomena Friend And Foe |
Mew No More Stories |
Michael Jackson Thriller |
My Morning Jacket Z |
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! |
Nick Drake Pink Moon |
Okkervil River Black Sheep Boy Appendix |
Okkervil River I Am Very Far |
Olenka and the Autumn Lovers Olenka and the Autumn Lovers |
Oscar Peterson Oscar Peterson Trio Plus One |
Pantha Du Prince Black Noise |
Pearl Jam Ten |
Phosphorescent Pride |
Phosphorescent Here's To Taking It Easy |
Plants and Animals Parc Avenue |
Portishead Third |
Radiohead Amnesiac |
Radiohead The Bends |
Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
Radiohead In Rainbows |
Radiohead The King of Limbs |
Red House Painters Songs for a Blue Guitar |
Rogue Wave Descended Like Vultures |
Rush Moving Pictures |
Rush Permanent Waves |
Santigold Santogold |
Sepalcure Sepalcure |
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings I Learned the Hard Way |
Shearwater Rook |
Slint Spiderland |
Spokes Everyone I Ever Met |
Spoon Gimme Fiction |
Spoon Girls Can Tell |
Spoon Transference |
St. Vincent Actor |
Sun Kil Moon Admiral Fell Promises |
Surfer Blood Astro Coast |
The Antlers Hospice |
The Beatles Love |
The Besnard Lakes The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night |
The Cars The Cars |
The Chieftains The Long Black Veil |
The Chieftains and Ry Cooder San Patricio |
The Clash London Calling |
The Cranberries No Need to Argue |
The Decemberists Picaresque |
The Decemberists The King Is Dead |
The Decemberists seem to be having fun making music again. While I wouldn't say they ever stopped enjoying themselves, The Kings is Dead feels so effortless and natural that it makes you wonder why they ever wanted to do such a bloated concept album in the first place. |
The Dodos Visiter |
The Dodos No Color |
The Drones Havilah |
The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots |
The Hold Steady Stay Positive |
The Hold Steady Heaven Is Whenever |
Certainly a more consistently strong album compared to Stay Positive, The Hold Steady retain their core sound despite losing their (very talented) keyboardist. A few left-field ideas crop up (the horns and woodwinds in "Barely Breathing") but the record is the better for it. |
The Horrors Skying |
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble |
The Knife Silent Shout |
The Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs |
The National Alligator |
The Rankin Family Fare Thee Well Love |
The Shins Oh, Inverted World |
The Slackers Redlight |
The Slackers The Question |
The Swell Season Once: Music From The Motion Picture |
The Verve Urban Hymns |
The Walkmen Lisbon |
The War On Drugs Slave Ambient |
The Weakerthans Reconstruction Site |
The Weeknd House of Balloons |
Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones |
Tom Waits Mule Variations |
Tord Gustavsen Trio Being There |
TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain |
Two Gallants The Throes |
Ulf Wakenius Notes From the Heart: The Music of Keith Jarrett |
Weezer Weezer |
Wolf Parade Expo 86 |
WU LYF Go Tell Fire to the Mountain |
Wycliffe Gordon Dig This!! |
Wye Oak Civilian |
Yo La Tengo Popular Songs |
Yuck Yuck |
3.5 great |
(The) Slowest Runner (In All The World) We, Burning Giraffes |
Actress Splazsh |
Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill |
Andrew Bird Weather Systems |
Andrew Bird Useless Creatures |
Andrew Lloyd Webber Highlights from The Phantom of the Opera |
Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion |
Antonio Vivaldi The Four Seasons |
At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen |
Beirut Lon Gisland |
Billy Joel Streetlife Serenade |
blink-182 Blink-182 |
Blitzen Trapper Furr |
Bon Iver Blood Bank |
Bon Iver Myspace Transmissions |
Braids Native Speaker |
Built to Spill You in Reverse |
Built to Spill Ultimate Alternative Wavers |
Camera Obscura My Maudlin Career |
Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo |
Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head |
Creedence Clearwater Revival Chronicle, Vol. 1 |
David Francey Far End of Summer |
Death Cab for Cutie We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes |
Death Cab for Cutie Codes and Keys |
It's a Death Cab for Cutie album, and at this point I'm not expecting anything else. In this very low standard I feel fairly comfortable in simply enjoying Codes and Keys as another nugget from a band who aren't going to top their best stuff. +.5 because Adam Thomas isn't fucking a movie star. |
Def Leppard Hysteria |
Destroyer Trouble In Dreams |
Destroyer This Night |
Do Make Say Think Goodbye Enemy Airship the Landlord is Dead |
Duke Ellington Ellington Uptown |
Egyptrixx Bible Eyes |
Elton John Honky Chateau |
Elton John Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player |
Elton John Blue Moves |
Eluvium Similes |
Emerson, Lake and Palmer Brain Salad Surgery |
Foo Fighters In Your Honor |
Girl Talk All Day |
Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere |
Green Day Nimrod |
Green Day American Idiot |
Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights |
Islands Arm's Way |
Jaga Jazzist A Livingroom Hush |
The first time I heard this, I couldn't help but think "this is electronic elevator music." I'm not sure what song it was that made me think of this, but after listening to the entire album, I realized that jaga jazzist are far more talented then that first deion. With a few standout tracks for me, including Lithuania, Airborne and Cinematic, this is a solid album. Still not one of my favourites, but overall it's a strong effort. |
James Blackshaw The Cloud of Unknowing |
James Blackshaw All Is Falling |
Jeff Beck Emotion & Commotion |
Jim Croce Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits |
Lady Gaga The Fame |
Lagwagon Let's Talk About Feelings |
Laura Marling A Creature I Don't Know |
Laura Veirs July Flame |
Lightning Dust Infinite Light |
Lionel Loueke Mwaliko |
Lost In The Trees All Alone In An Empty House |
Major Lazer Guns Dont Kill People... Lazers Do |
Menomena I Am The Fun Blame Monster! |
Minus the Bear Planet of Ice |
Monsters of Folk Monsters of Folk |
Muse Absolution |
Nirvana Nevermind |
Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? |
Oh No Ono Eggs |
Opeth Watershed |
Our Lady Peace Clumsy |
Panda Bear Person Pitch |
Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix |
Ray LaMontagne Trouble |
Ray LaMontagne Gossip In The Grain |
Red Sparowes At The Soundless Dawn |
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss Raising Sand |
Rush 2112 |
Rush All the World's a Stage |
Rush Rush in Rio |
Rush Snakes & Arrows |
S. Carey All We Grow |
Sam Roberts Band We Were Born In A Flame |
Sigur Ros Takk... |
sleepmakeswaves In Today Already Walks Tomorrow |
Stars Set Yourself On Fire |
Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline |
Sufjan Stevens Michigan |
Sufjan Stevens Songs For Christmas |
Sufjan Stevens All Delighted People |
The Besnard Lakes The Besnard Lakes Are the Dark Horse |
The Decemberists The Tain |
The Decemberists The Hazards of Love |
The Dodos Time to Die |
The Drift Memory Drawings |
The Flaming Lips At War with the Mystics |
The Go-Betweens Oceans Apart |
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble From the Stairwell |
The Magnetic Fields i |
The Milk Carton Kids Prologue |
The Morning Benders Big Echo |
The National Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers |
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart The Pains of Being Pure at Heart |
The Roots How I Got Over |
The Sand Band All Through the Night |
The Slackers Wasted Days |
The Weakerthans Reunion Tour |
The Weeknd Thursday |
Torngat You Could Be |
Trans-Siberian Orchestra The Lost Christmas Eve |
TV on the Radio Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes |
Two Gallants What the Toll Tells |
Vampire Weekend Contra |
Viktor Vaughn Vaudeville Villain |
Weather Report Heavy Weather |
Weather Report 8:30 |
Wilco Wilco (The Album) |
Youth Lagoon The Year of Hibernation |
3.0 good |
311 311 |
A Sunny Day in Glasgow Autumn, Again |
Andrew Bird Music Of Hair |
As Cities Burn Hell or High Water |
Atlas Sound Logos |
Basshunter LOL |
blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket |
Bloc Party A Weekend in the City |
Burton Wagner 21 |
Cherry Poppin Daddies Zoot Suit Riot |
Collective Soul Collective Soul |
Conor Oberst Outer South |
Cursive The Ugly Organ |
Daft Punk Tron: Legacy |
Death Cab for Cutie Plans |
Do Make Say Think Do Make Say Think |
Electric President S/T |
Eluvium Talk Amongst the Trees |
Eluvium An Accidental Memory in the Case of Death |
Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP |
Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone |
Ghastly City Sleep Ghastly City Sleep |
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. |
Gorillaz Gorillaz |
Gorillaz Demon Days |
Grand Archives The Grand Archives |
Ill Scarlett All Day With It |
Jack Johnson In Between Dreams |
James Blackshaw O True Believer |
So beautiful. Slightly too repetitive at times, which is fixed in the Cloud of Unknowing. Still the technical ability shown in Spiraling Skeleton Memorial alone is worth it. Great album. |
James Blackshaw Sunshrine |
Jimmy Eat World Futures |
John K. Samson Provincial |
MGMT Oracular Spectacular |
Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind |
Mono / World's End Girlfriend Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain |
Muse Origin of Symmetry |
Muse Black Holes & Revelations |
My Morning Jacket Circuital |
Neil Young Prairie Wind |
Neutral Milk Hotel On Avery Island |
This album is half really good, until it self implodes in on itself. The final "song" is ridiculously overly long. The other two instrumentals are also rather forgettable if not down right annoying (Marching Theme). However the first half of the album, again, is excellent and makes this a worthwhile listen. |
Nirvana In Utero |
NOFX The Decline |
Oceansize Frames |
of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? |
Panda Bear Tomboy |
Remember that first time you used hyperbole? Yeah it's kinda like that. |
Protest the Hero Fortress |
Rihanna Good Girl Gone Bad |
Rogue Wave Asleep at Heaven's Gate |
Rogue Wave Permalight |
Roy Orbison Black & White Night |
Rush Rush |
Rush Hold Your Fire |
Sam Roberts Band Love at the End of the World |
Sarah Brightman La Luna |
Sigur Ros ( ) |
Snow Patrol Eyes Open |
Streetlight Manifesto Keasbey Nights |
Sufjan Stevens The Avalanche: Outtakes and Extras |
Sufjan Stevens The BQE |
The Cinematic Orchestra Ma Fleur |
The Killers Hot Fuss |
The Pirate Ship Quintet The Pirate Ship Quintet EP |
The Proclaimers Life With You |
The Radio Dept. Clinging to a Scheme |
The Tragically Hip Phantom Power |
The White Stripes Elephant |
U2 The Joshua Tree |
A pretty solid album. I've never been a very big, or even casual U2 fan. Having said that, Where the Streets Have No Name is still a great song in my opinion. In fact the first three songs, are the best for me, the rest of the album is okay. |
Women Public Strain |
Woods Songs of Shame |
YACHT Shangri-La |
Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss |