| 5.0 classic |
| 12 Rods Gay? |
| Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto Insen |
| Architecture In Helsinki In Case We Die |
| Oddly bitter pop music with a sweet candy coating. In Case We Die has it's detractors, but there's a lot of genuinely fantastic pop here once you can get behind Cameron Bird's off-kilter vocal delivery. |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| At the Drive-in pretty much renders most punk bands obsolete. Between this, in/Casino/Out and Vaya, they've made a godly triangle of post-hardcore albums that almost can't be beat. |
| At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out |
| If you asked me, I would probably tell you this is my favourite ATDI album. While Relationship of Command is a masterstroke in it's own right, in/Casino/Out embodies a whole different set of emotions, with the infinitely catchy, almost pop-punk style of For Now... We Toast or Hulahoop Wounds and the funky aggression of Chanbara, it's extremely well rounded and more importantly, extremely well written. |
| Bat For Lashes Two Suns |
| Bat For Lashes The Haunted Man |
| Baths Obsidian |
| Bjork Homogenic |
| Bjork Post |
| Boredoms Pop Tatari |
| Loosely tied together only by a few crushing guitar riffs and the enigmatic vocals of Yamantaka Eye, Pop Tatari is otherwise content to storm through genre's and soundscapes like a horde of wildebeest. |
| Born Gold I Am An Exit |
| Botch We Are the Romans |
| Botch An Anthology of Dead Ends |
| Brainiac Hissing Prigs in Static Couture |
| As much a trainwreck as it is a post-hardcore, dance-punk, noise-rock gem. Brainiac has been called the most underrated band ever, and their influence has been attributed to bands such as At the Drive-in, The Blood Brothers and The Locust. Making use of an insane assortment of effects, Brainiac's twisted sense of song-writing is inherently inaccessible, completely ridiculous, but absolutely incredible. |
| Bubblegum Octopus Bad Happy |
| Built to Spill Perfect from Now On |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo |
| Coaltar of the Deepers No Thank You |
| Cursive The Ugly Organ |
| Cutting Pink With Knives Populuxxe |
| Daughters Daughters |
| David Bowie Hunky Dory |
| Hunky Dory is a pop masterpiece. Featuring almost every facet of the genre being explored or reinvented for it's time, any description you can think of for Hunky Dory is temporary. |
| Deep Puddle Dynamics The Taste of Rain...Why Kneel? |
| Deerhoof The Man, the King, the Girl |
| Enon Believo! |
| Fang Island Fang Island |
| Like the kind of uppers you'd have to take to feel good about the Ugly Organ. |
| Fear Before The Always Open Mouth |
| Food for Animals Belly |
| Foxy Shazam The Flamingo Trigger |
| Foxy Shazam Foxy Shazam |
| Heccra The Last Weekend of Summer |
| HORSE the band Desperate Living |
| We live in a world where HORSE the Band brought Jamie Stewart, Valentina Lisitsa and Vernon Chatman (PFFR, Towelie!) onto an album. Thank you, HORSE the Band. |
| HORSE the band The Mechanical Hand |
| HORSE the band R. Borlax |
| HORSE the band Secret Rhythm of the Universe |
Let me tell you about a little thing I like to call comedic value, actually probably like a
1.5 or something, the songs aren't bad, but the instruments are performed terribly and the
vocalist is an asshat. |
| Hymie's Basement Hymie's Basement |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye |
| La Dispute Wildlife |
| Mineral The Power of Failing |
| Monomate Negative Emotions/Positive Outlook |
| I WANNA KNOW EVERYTHING, I WANNA BE EVERYWHERE, I WANNA FUCK EVERYOOONE IN THE WOOORLD, I rWANNA DO SOMETHING THAT MATTERS |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless |
| My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything |
| Natural Snow Buildings The Dance of the Moon and the Sun |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| Protest the Hero Kezia |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come |
| Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy |
| Say Anything In Defense of the Genre |
| Say Anything ...Is A Real Boy (re-release) |
| Shudder To Think Pony Express Record |
| SikTh The Trees Are Dead and Dried Out, Wait for Something Wild |
| YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAHHHHHHHI'VE SEEN YOUR SECOND FACE |
| Snowing I Could Do Whatever I Wanted If I Wanted |
| St. Vincent Strange Mercy |
| St. Vincent Krokodil |
| St. Vincent St. Vincent |
| Subtle For Hero: For Fool |
| Talking Heads More Songs About Buildings and Food |
| The Beatles The Beatles |
| The Blood Brothers ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn |
| Catchy rhythmic dissonance, killer hardcore riff's, oddly melodic passages and one of the most original vocal duo's ever make Burn Piano Island, Burn a modern punk masterpiece. Mathy, catchy, noisy, melodic, what the Blood Brothers have on display is full of contradictions and disparate influences, but ultimately works to create a sound that might never be achieved again. |
| The Blood Brothers Crimes |
| Musical taste is subjective, and Crimes is proof. Exaggerating every aspect of The Blood Brothers sound to create a ferocious amalgam of styles that will either win you over or drive nails through your skull. Fuzzed out bass lines, killer punk riffs and strangely baroque sensibilities make this one of post-hardcore's strangest gems. |
| The Sawtooth Grin Cuddlemonster |
| The Sawtooth Grin does not let up. Cuddlemonster is having your face pounded in for 15 minutes, and the short bursts of melody are the fleeting seconds of bliss in which you think you're about to die, only to return to having your face pounded in. |
| The Unicorns Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? |
| Themselves Them |
| Thingy To The Innocent |
| Trophy Scars Darkness, Oh Hell |
| Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You |
| Weezer Pinkerton |
| Why? Alopecia |
| Why? Elephant Eyelash |
| While Why?'s music generally tends to fall under the umbrella of trip-hop or indie-rock, the range of emotions they're able to convey while adhering to those two styles (whether intentional or not) is impressive. Elephant Eyelash is at times one of the cheeriest, most cathartic albums, and at others is downright melancholy. |
| Xiu Xiu Women As Lovers |
| Xiu Xiu Always |
| 4.5 superb |
| A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders |
| Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde |
| An Albatross The An Albatross Family Album |
| Anamanaguchi My Skateboard Will Go On |
| Anamanaguchi Airbrushed |
| Animal Collective Sung Tongs |
| Antioch Arrow Gems of Masochism |
| Antioch Arrow In Love with Jetts/The Lady Is a Cat |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral |
| Architecture In Helsinki Places Like This |
| Art Brut Bang Bang Rock & Roll |
| At the Drive-In Acrobatic Tenement |
| At the Drive-In Vaya |
| Baths Cerulean |
| BATS Red In Tooth and Claw |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors |
| Billy Talent Billy Talent II |
| Bjork Vespertine |
| Bjork Debut |
| Black Moth Super Rainbow Dandelion Gum |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket |
| Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children |
| Bondage Fairies What You Didn't Know When You Hired Me |
| Boredoms Soul Discharge |
| Boris Pink |
| Born Gold Bodysongs |
| Brainiac Electro-Shock for President |
| Brainiac Bonsai Superstar |
| Brainworms Brainworms II: Swear To Me |
| Brand New Deja Entendu |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Brasstronaut Mount Chimaera |
| Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret |
| Caroliner Rise of the Common Woodpile |
| Circle Takes the Square Circle Takes the Square |
| cLOUDDEAD Ten |
| Cloudkicker Beacons |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade |
| Cold Craving Beacons |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind |
| Copeland In Motion |
| Current 93 All the Pretty Little Horses |
| Cynic Carbon-Based Anatomy |
| Daughters Canada Songs |
| David Bowie Earthling |
| David Bowie The Next Day |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars |
| Deerhoof Holdypaws |
| Deerhoof Breakup Song |
| Deerhoof Deerhoof vs. Evil |
| Discordance Axis The Inalienable Dreamless |
| Drive Like Jehu Drive Like Jehu |
| Enon High Society |
| Envy A Dead Sinking Story |
| Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic |
| Final Fantasy He Poos Clouds |
| Flying Lotus Until the Quiet Comes |
| Fog (USA-MN) Ether Teeth |
| Foxy Shazam The Church of Rock and Roll |
| Gang of Four Entertainment! |
| Genghis Tron Board Up the House |
| Genghis Tron Dead Mountain Mouth |
| Giant Squid The Ichthyologist |
| Girlfriends Girlfriends |
| Gob Foot In Mouth Disease |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World |
| Heavenly (UK) Le Jardin De Heavenly |
| Heavy Vegetable The Amazing Undersea Adventures of Aqua Kitty and |
| Hella Hold Your Horse Is |
| Hot Cross Cryonics |
| I Hate Myself 10 Songs |
| Innards Tracing |
| Joanna Newsom The Milk-Eyed Mender |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| Koji Kondo The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker OST |
| Koji Kondo The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time OST |
| La Dispute Vancouver |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair |
| La Quiete La fine non è la fine |
| Logs Hogz |
| Love Like... Electrocution Love Like... Electrocution |
| 17 minutes of insanely catchy screamo/post-hardcore riff's and a winning team of vocalist's makes for one of my favourite releases in the genre. What LLE does isn't particularly groundbreaking, but damn, they do it well. |
| Love Lost But Not Forgotten Upon the Right, I Saw a New Misery |
| Mahria Mahria |
| Maximum the Hormone Bu-ikikaesu |
| This album and Kezia pretty much got me into Metalcore. Kezia has aged better. |
| Me and Him Call It Us Loss |
| Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell |
| Melt-Banana Cell-Scape |
| Melt-Banana Fetch |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister |
| mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright! |
| mewithoutYou A to B: Life |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice |
| Motion City Soundtrack My Dinosaur Life |
| Motion City Soundtrack Commit This to Memory |
| Mountain Interval Nocnitsa |
| Nero's Day at Disneyland From Rotting Fantasylands |
| Now, Now Threads |
| Now, Now Every Children Cars |
| Nujabes Modal Soul |
| Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe |
| Oingo Boingo Only a Lad |
| OOIOO Feather Float |
| Orbs Asleep Next to Science |
| OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below |
| Past Lives Tapestry of Webs |
| pg.99 Document #8 |
| Pinback Summer in Abaddon |
| PLVS VLTRA Parthenon |
| Pre Epic Fits |
| Propagandhi How to Clean Everything |
| Pygmy Lush Old Friends |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Say Anything Say Anything |
| Say Anything Baseball |
| The production is one hell of a turn-off buuuuut...rMEEEEET ME WHERE THE CITY TUUUURNS TO TREEES |
| Say Anything For Sale... [Tour EP] |
| Shoplifting Body Stories |
| Shudder To Think Get Your Goat |
| Slint Spiderland |
| Snowing Fuck Your Emotional Bullshit |
| St. Vincent Actor |
| St. Vincent Marry Me |
| Stars Set Yourself On Fire |
| State Faults Desolate Peaks |
| Steel Train Steel Train |
| Suis La Lune Quiet, Pull the Strings! |
| Swans Children of God |
| Tappi Tikarrass Miranda |
| Tegan and Sara Sainthood |
| Tegan and Sara The Con |
| Tenacious D Tenacious D |
| The Age of Rockets Hannah |
| I usually listen to this when I fall asleep but it's better than the postal service. :I |
| The Age of Rockets The Drive Home |
| The Catalyst/Mass Movement of the Moth Two Thousand and 666 |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots |
| The Format Dog Problems |
| The Locust Plague Soundscapes |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Mongrel |
| The Paper Chase Hide the Kitchen Knives |
| The Red Light Sting Hands Up, Tiger |
| Thingy Songs About Angels Evil And Running Around On Fire |
| Thursday War All the Time |
| Thursday No Devolucion |
| Tiny Tim God Bless Tiny Tim |
| Title Fight The Last Thing You Forget |
| Touche Amore/La Dispute Searching for a Pulse/The Worth of the World |
| United Nations Never Mind the Bombings, Here's Your Six Figures |
| This is so easy to play a million times and not get sick of a single song. |
| Why? Sanddollars |
| Xiu Xiu Dear God, I Hate Myself |
| Xiu Xiu Knife Play |
| Xploding Plastix Amateur Girlfriends Go Proskirt Agents |
| Yeasayer Odd Blood |
| Yeasayer All Hour Cymbals |
| Yes Close to the Edge |
| Yip-Yip Bone Up |
