| 4.5 superb |
| Against Me! Reinventing Axl Rose |
| Agoraphobic Nosebleed Altered States of America |
| Agoraphobic Nosebleed Agorapocalypse |
| Amon Tobin Permutation |
| Animal Collective Ark |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion |
| Aphex Twin Drukqs |
| "um what this doesn't sound like SAW III why is there so much noise ack this hurts i don't like it but i don't want people to think that i don't get it uh shit i dunno 3 stars" |
| Arcade Fire Funeral |
| At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out |
| Black Star Black Star |
| Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children |
| Boards of Canada Geogaddi |
| Boredoms Vision Creation Newsun |
| Botch We Are the Romans |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo |
| Clark Body Riddle |
| Colossamite Economy of Motion |
| Cryptopsy None So Vile |
| Dark Time Sunshine Vessel |
| Dark Time Sunshine ANX |
| Daughters Hell Songs |
| David Wise Donkey Kong Country 2 Soundtrack |
| Death From Above 1979 You're a Woman, I'm a Machine |
| Death Grips The Money Store |
| Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me |
| Don Caballero What Burns Never Returns |
| Dr. Dooom First Come, First Served |
| Dr. Octagon Dr. Octagonecologyst |
| Earth Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma |
| Foals Antidotes |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World |
| GZA Liquid Swords |
| Hella Hold Your Horse Is |
| James Blake James Blake |
| John Coltrane A Love Supreme |
| John Coltrane Giant Steps |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King |
| Koenji Hyakkei Angherr Shisspa |
| Liars Sisterworld |
| Liars WIXIW |
| Lightning Bolt Wonderful Rainbow |
| Lightning Bolt Hypermagic Mountain |
| This is some of the most balls-out, fast-paced noise rock you'll ever hear, and it's from a drummer who straps the microphone directly to his mouth and a bass player who can wring more sound out his instrument than 6 guitarists all playing at the same time. It's almost impossible to avoid banging your head to songs like "Riffwraith" and "Megaghost," which see both members violently shredding eardrums with speed and volume. Songs like "Mohawkwindmill" and "Bizarro Bike" have a more jammy feel, and could rival any modern tech metal bands in terms of sheer brain-fuckery. If you like having your head beaten in at a thousand miles per hour, give this record a spin. |
| Madlib Shades of Blue |
| Madvillain Madvillainy |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine |
| Merzbow 1930 |
| Meshuggah Nothing |
| Meshuggah I |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue |
| Minor Threat Complete Discography |
| Minutemen Double Nickels on the Dime |
| Mr. Bungle California |
| Murder by Death Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them? |
| Nas Illmatic |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral |
| Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe |
| Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain |
| Pavement Slanted and Enchanted |
| Pig Destroyer Terrifyer |
| Pixies Doolittle |
| Scott Walker The Drift |
| Shabazz Palaces Black Up |
| Silver Apples Silver Apples |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation |
| Sonic Youth Bad Moon Rising |
| Soundtrack (Film) O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois |
| Swans Soundtracks for the Blind |
| Swans The Seer |
| Talking Heads Remain in Light |
| The Avalanches Since I Left You |
| The Blood Brothers ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn |
| The Blood Brothers Young Machetes |
| The Bug London Zoo |
| The Clash London Calling |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Under the Running Board |
| The Fall of Troy The Fall of Troy |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger |
| The For Carnation The For Carnation |
| The Locust Plague Soundscapes |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| The National Alligator |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Mongrel |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Worse Than Alone |
| The Roots Things Fall Apart |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico |
| This Heat Deceit |
| Tom Waits Rain Dogs |
| Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones |
| Tom Waits Bone Machine |
| Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You |
| Venetian Snares Doll Doll Doll |
| One of the most violent and horrifying albums I've ever heard, Doll Doll Doll invites you into the mind of a child killer. Each song is filled to the brim with brain-melting breaks and disturbing samples guaranteed to make you squirm, and the icing on the cake is that each song packs more than just a high-bpm punch - they're also quite atmospheric. Frantic horns and sinister strings scream in and out of focus to great effect. To anyone who says that metal is the heaviest, darkest, most evil music out there, I recommend Doll Doll Doll. |
| William Basinski The Disintegration Loops I |
| 3.5 great |
| A Life Once Lost Hunter |
| AFX Chosen Lords |
| Agoraphobic Nosebleed Frozen Corpse Stuffed With Dope |
| Ahleuchatistas What You Will |
| alt-J An Awesome Wave |
| Aluk Todolo Occult Rock |
| Andy Stott We Stay Together |
| Andy Stott Luxury Problems |
| Animal Collective Prospect Hummer |
| Animal Collective People |
| Animal Collective Campfire Songs |
| Animal Collective Water Curses |
| Animal Collective Fall Be Kind |
| Animal Collective Centipede Hz |
| Animosity Empires |
| Animosity Animal |
| Arsonists Get All the Girls The Game Of Life |
| As the Sun Sets 7744 |
| Asobi Seksu Citrus |
| Atlas Sound Logos |
| Austrian Death Machine Total Brutal |
| BATS Cruel Sea Scientist |
| Battles B EP |
| Beach House Bloom |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors |
| Black Flag In My Head |
| Blue Daisy The Sunday Gift |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Botch American Nervoso |
| Bubblegum Octopus The Album Formerly Known As |
| Chelsea Wolfe Apokalypsis |
| Circa Survive Juturna |
| Clams Casino Rainforest |
| Clubroot Clubroot |
| Clubroot III - MMXII |
| Comeback Kid Wake the Dead |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky |
| Converge Unloved and Weeded Out |
| Cynic Traced in Air |
| Dangers Anger |
| Darkest Hour Hidden Hands of a Sadist Nation |
| Darkest Hour Undoing Ruin |
| Daughters Canada Songs |
| Daughters Daughters |
| David Bowie Aladdin Sane |
| Deerhunter Cryptograms |
| Distance My Demons |
| Dizzee Rascal Boy In Da Corner |
| Don Caballero For Respect |
| Dungen Ta Det Lugnt |
| Earl Sweatshirt EARL |
| Elder (USA-PA) Reflect |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP |
| Fear Before Art Damage |
| Flume Flume |
| Flux Pavilion Lines in Wax |
| Flying Lotus 1983 |
| Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere |
| Grizzly Bear Shields |
| Grizzly Bear really shot themselves in the collective foot by starting the album with their best track. The album's quality is like a bathtub, with the high points being at either end and the middle dragging along the bottom. When giving your listeners a break, it's good to make it brief before kicking things off again. Instead Grizzly bear decided that the break needed to be 5 tracks long, which really hurts replayability. With that said, there are still a few really excellent moments here, and it's definitely worth a listen. I wouldn't be surprised to see it on quite a few "Best of 2012" lists. |
| Guthrie Govan Erotic Cakes |
| Heavy Heavy Low Low Turtle Nipple And The Toxic Shock |
| Helios Eingya |
| Holy Molar The Whole Tooth And Nothing But The Tooth |
| Holy Molar Cavity Search |
| HORSE the band The Mechanical Hand |
| HORSE the band A Natural Death |
| Hot Cross Fair Trades and Farewells |
| Iron And Wine Our Endless Numbered Days |
| Iron And Wine The Creek Drank the Cradle |
| Iwrestledabearonce Iwrestledabearonce |
| Sure, it's got "mallcore" written all over it. Sure, throwing 7 different genres into one song isn't new or difficult. And sure, Krysta's voice can be pretty grating sometimes. But overall, it's pretty good. Goofy self-deprecation, occasionally awesome songs, and enough sense to be short, sweet, and to the point. Not bad. Not bad at all. |
| Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins Rabbit Fur Coat |
| Joshua Fit For Battle To Bring Our Own End |
| Joy Orbison Hyph Mngo/Wet Look |
| Justice † |
| Kode9 and the Spaceape Memories of the Future |
| Kuedo Dream Sequence |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair |
| Les Claypool Of Whales And Woe |
| Lifeformed Fastfall |
| Lil Ugly Mane Mista Thug Isolation |
| Loefah Mud/Rufage |
| Lone Galaxy Garden |
| Loscil First Narrows |
| Loscil Endless Falls |
| Loscil Coast/Range/Arc |
| Macklemore and Ryan Lewis VS. |
| Magik Markers BOSS |
| Mala Left Leg Out/Blue Notez |
| Mala Bury Da Bwoy/Hunter |
| Maps and Atlases Tree, Swallows, Houses |
| Melt-Banana Teeny Shiny |
| Million Dead A Song to Ruin |
| Mindless Self Indulgence Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy |
| Mogwai Mr. Beast |
| Motorama Calendar |
| Mount Kimbie Crooks & Lovers |
| Mumford and Sons Sigh No More |
| Murder by Death Good Morning, Magpie |
| My Bloody Valentine Glider |
| My Bloody Valentine You Made Me Realise |
| NASA Symphonies of the Planets 4 |
| Neu! Neu! '75 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Replica |
| Planets Planets |
| Protest the Hero Kezia |
| Rafael Toral Wave Field |
| Remembering Never God Save Us |
| Ringo Deathstarr Ringo Deathstarr |
| Sabertooth Zombie ...And Your Fathers Are Dead In The Ground |
| Santigold Santogold |
| Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy |
| SBTRKT SBTRKT |
| Scissor Shock Psychic Existentialism |
| Sky Eats Airplane Everything Perfect on the Wrong Day |
| Slayer God Hates Us All |
| Slint Tweez |
| Sonic Youth Rather Ripped |
| Sunn O))) White2 |
| Sunn O))) Flight of the Behemoth |
| Sunn O))) White1 |
| Tame Impala Innerspeaker |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma |
| The Blood Brothers This Adultery Is Ripe |
| The Brian Jonestown Massacre Methodrone |
| The Fall of Troy Manipulator |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Put On Your Rosy Red Glasses |
| The Shins Wincing the Night Away |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting Tiger and the Duke |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave |
| The xx xx |
| Tom Waits Closing Time |
| Trash Talk Plagues |
| Trophy Scars Hospital Music for the Aesthetics of Language |
| TTNG Animals |
| UGK Ridin' Dirty |
| Ultramagnetic MCs Critical Beatdown |
| Untold Gonna Work Out Fine |
| Volta Do Mar 03>98 |
| Wait What the notorious xx |
| War from a Harlots Mouth Transmetropolitan |
| Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot |
| Wild Nothing Gemini |
| Yuck Yuck |
| 2.0 poor |
| A Life Once Lost Iron Gag |
| Borgore Borgore Ruined Dubstep (Part 2) |
| Car Bomb Centralia |
| Chiodos All's Well That Ends Well |
| For All Those Sleeping Cross Your Fingers |
| Gatekeeper Exo |
| Go! With Fourteen O The End Is Close. Almost No Need For Money. |
| Hawthorne Heights The Silence in Black and White |
| Insane Clown Posse The Great Milenko |
| Internet Club Final Tears |
| Kriss Kross Totally Krossed Out |
| Macintosh Plus Floral Shoppe |
| My Bloody Valentine The New Record By My Bloody Valentine |
| Past Lives Strange Symmetry |
| Prussian Blue Fragment Of The Future |
| The girls have some enunciation problems, the songs can get kind of samey, and they clearly haven't developed their musical talents quite yet. Even so, it really isn't as bad as the average score would have you believe. The songs are mostly silly little stories about culture and heritage and whatnot. Bad, but trust me, there is worse music out there. |
| Senses Fail Let It Enfold You |
| Sinai Beach Immersed |
| Sleigh Bells Sleigh Bells |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Plagiarism |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Cursed, Unshaven and Misbehavin' |
| Live albums are almost never worth the listen, and this one doesn't buck the trend. If you like indecipherable screams over bass so loud that it drowns out everything else, pick this up. |
| The Fall of Troy In the Unlikely Event |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain Psychocandy |
| Influence aside, Psychocandy is a genuinely bad album. Too lazily played to evoke any coherent feeling, too fuzzed out to articulate its melodies, and plagued by some truly inane lyrics ("I get ahead on my motorbike/I feel so quick in my leather boots/My mood is black when my jacket's on/And I'm in love with myself"), Psychocandy's only worth is that it inspired some of the greatest albums of all time (You're Living All Over Me, Loveless, etc.). |
| The Shaggs Philosophy of the World |
| Tokio Hotel Scream |
| Trivium The Crusade |
| Waking The Cadaver Perverse Recollections Of A Necromangler |
