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5.0 classic
Arcade Fire Funeral
Simply the most beautiful, powerful, and breathtaking album of the past decade.
Arcade Fire The Suburbs
Bomb the Music Industry! Vacation
Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
If you don't absolutely love this album I have to assume that you have no heart and hate music.
Frank Ocean Blonde
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Not only the greatest Godspeed You! Black Emperor album, but certainly the greatest album to ever
emerge from the entirety of the post-rock genre. It was all leading up to this.
Loma Prieta I.V.
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
like everyone else I hate that this album has just become a dumb meme but yeah it's still great
The National Alligator
The Walkmen You & Me
Titus Andronicus The Monitor
Who the fuck else could pull off a bagpipe solo these days?

4.5 superb
Algiers The Underside of Power
One of the few modern post-punk albums that isn't complete trash
American Football American Football
Anna von Hausswolff Dead Magic
Big K.R.I.T. 4eva Is a Mighty Long Time
fucking amazing
Bomb the Music Industry! Scrambles
Boredoms Vision Creation Newsun
Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports
Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion
anyone who doesn't like this album is a homophobe sorry I don't make the rules
Daughters You Won't Get What You Want
Do Make Say Think You, You're a History in Rust
Envy The Fallen Crimson
Future Islands In Evening Air
This is absurdly good.
Gnod Just Say No To The Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial...
could've been more political
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
Grown Ups Songs
GIRL JUST GIVE IT A REST!
Holy Esque Holy Esque
It's rare that a band can so easily wrap you up in the pure sonic rush of their music; it's even more impressive when they do it in the span of four songs on a fairly short EP. This is music for the heart and the body rather than for the mind, and I wouldn't want anything else from them. The sound is all pounding drums, rhythmic guitars and the incomprehensible howl of the vocalist, sweeping you up and refusing to let go until you're a sweaty mess of flailing limbs and hoarse vocal cords. This EP is an outpouring of pure kinetic emotion. Listen to it.
Hop Along Get Disowned
will anyone ever write a song better than laments? only time will tell
Jamila Woods Legacy! Legacy!
actually no this is the AOTY
Janelle Monae Dirty Computer
women r scary 0/10
Japanese Breakfast Psychopomp
I don't want to underreact here but this is the best album of all time
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city
Kooba Tercu Kharrüb
Laura Marling Semper Femina
this is actually a masterpiece and all of you are wrong i saw it live sry
Laura Stevenson Sit Resist
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92
Minutemen Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat
Moving Mountains Pneuma
This album is incredible. And it hardly makes sense that this album is this incredible. On paper, rPneuma doesn't really seem like much. Post-rock and emo have gone hand in hand nearly since either rgenre became a thing. When read on their own, the lyrics are repetitive and simplistic and are at rmoments stunningly awkward. On paper, how much does Pneuma really stand out? rListening to Pneuma, though, is an entirely different beast. The sound is immediate and nostalgic rall at once, overwhelming in its emotion and the sense of extreme importance of every emotion rexpressed throughout this album. Every line is sung with the sort of painfully sincerity and rabsolutely vitality of feeling that comes with the ache of high school existence. The album covers rsimple, universal themes of love, death, and family in simple, immediately affecting ways, and is rall the stronger for it.
Nas Illmatic
Neutral Milk Hotel Ferris Wheel on Fire
Nick Drake Pink Moon
Panda Rosa Neochina
idk what it is but "is it safe to lie down?" is the most beautiful song I've ever heard
Panda Rosa Burned Car Highway Light Volcanic
an AOTY frontrunner already? creates an atmosphere like none other, filled to the brim with great ideas and truly wonderful melodic passages. justifies its length far better than the kinspiral, though arguably doesn't reach the heights of, say, neochina or bioconcrete
Parannoul To See the Next Part of the Dream
further proof that the rym userbase has better taste than we do
Park Jiha Communion
AOTY
Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Pinegrove Everything So Far
Problems has the quintessential Pinegroveian lyric with "& all of my problems / it's so stupid / they're not even problems!" in that on paper it sounds so silly and casual and yet within the context of the song it's utterly beautiful and cathartic and refreshing, it's weird
Pyotr Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 in B♭ Minor, Op. 23
Pyotr Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48
Radiohead In Rainbows
Radiohead Amnesiac
actually weird in the way most people claim that Kid A is (and all the better for it)
Radiohead Kid A
Radiohead OK Computer
Rina Sawayama Sawayama
easy pop aoty so far
Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18
Sonic Youth Daydream Nation
Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
Talking Heads Remain in Light
The Appleseed Cast Low Level Owl, Volume I
Probably the best band doing the whole emo + post-rock stylings. Beautiful, atmospheric, heartfelt stuff. EiTS wishes they could be this good
The Beach Boys Pet Sounds
The Comet Is Coming Trust in the Lifeforce of Deep Mystery
The Decemberists Castaways and Cutouts
"I figured I had paid my debt to society/by paying my overdue fines at the Multnomah County
Library."


That line captures the innocence of youth in a way that no other band's lyrics really have.
Beautiful, beautiful stuff.
The Dismemberment Plan Emergency & I
The Go! Team Thunder, Lightning, Strike
The Go! Team Thunder, Lightning, Strike [US Reissue]
The Menzingers On the Impossible Past
The Menzingers Hold on, Dodge
The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2
The National High Violet
The Notwist Neon Golden
The Postal Service Give Up
The Radio Dept. Lesser Matters
fuck beach house, radio dept. is the best dream pop band of its generation
The Sidekicks Awkward Breeds
The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt
The Walkmen Lisbon
The World Is a Beautiful Place... Whenever, If Ever
The World Is a Beautiful Place... Harmlessness
This Heat Deceit
Titus Andronicus The Airing of Grievances
Tricot Makkuro
the best fuckin album of 2020
Turnover Peripheral Vision
The more I listen to this album, the more I like it
Wil Wagner Laika
"And I've never felt better or more full of hope, never been so competently able to cope."
Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Requiem in D minor, K. 626
WU LYF Go Tell Fire to the Mountain
WE THE P E O YOU KNOW WE JUST P L E WORLD UNITE LUCIFER YOUTH FOUNDATION

4.0 excellent
Algiers There Is No Year
Anathema We're Here Because We're Here
And Also The Trees Born Into The Waves
A brilliant, mature, atmospheric release. And, most incredibly of all, it's a post-punk album released after the 80s that doesn't suck
Anderson .Paak Malibu
Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion
Animal Collective Feels
Antonin Dvorak Carnival Overture, Op. 92, B. 169
Antonin Dvorak Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, B. 178
Antonin Dvorak String Quartet No.12, Op.96, B.179
Arcade Fire Neon Bible
Barn Owl From Our Mouths a Perpetual Light
BATS Red In Tooth and Claw
BATS The Sleep of Reason
Beach Fossils Clash the Truth
Black Country, New Road For the first time
I'm normally wary of hype trains like this but I genuinely love this one
Black Flag Nervous Breakdown
Black Star Black Star
Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children
Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks
Bomb the Music Industry! Album Minus Band
Bomb the Music Industry! To Leave or Die in Long Island
Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver
Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago
Bon Iver 22, A Million
Kind of reminds me of Sufjan Steven's Age of Adz, only not mediocre. Also, 8 (circle) is one of the best songs of the year.
Brave Bird Maybe You, No One Else Worth It
Brian Eno Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks
Bruce Springsteen Darkness on the Edge of Town
Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret
Burial Untrue
Burial Kindred
Camp Cope Camp Cope
This album is a treasure
Carly Rae Jepsen Dedicated
Cheyenne Marie Mize Among the Grey
Chromatics Kill for Love
Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
Comadre Comadre
THE DEVIL OWES ME
Crash of Rhinos Distal
Crash of Rhinos Knots
Cut Copy In Ghost Colours
Cynic Focus
Dangers Anger
Daniel Bachman River
This is phenomenal.
Daniel Caesar Freudian
Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Deafheaven Sunbather
Deakin Sleep Cycle
Its strongest tracks are definitely the first and last, and it could stand to be a bit longer as a whole to really flesh out the ideas in play here, but this is still a great release
Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism
Death Grips The Money Store
Okay Sobhi, I will get off yr lawn, sir
Deerhunter Halcyon Digest
Denzel Curry Imperial
Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca
Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110
Dweller On The Threshold Dweller On The Threshold
Echo and The Bunnymen Ocean Rain
Elliott Smith Either/Or
Elvis Depressedly Holo Pleasures
Elvis Depressedly New Alhambra
Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) What It Takes to Move Forward
Everyone Everywhere Everyone Everywhere II
Everyone Everywhere Everyone Everywhere
My head tells me that this is just another pop-punk/emo album in a long line of pop-punk/emo albums, but my heart just wants to listen to it over and over again.
Fang Island Fang Island
Fantasy Rainbow Bos Taurus
Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters
good album. not as weird as critics say it is. a pop record with its heart in the right place.
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues
Fleetwood Mac Rumours
Frances Quinlan Likewise
idk quite what it is but frances quinlan's songwriting literally always works for me. she remains undefeated
Frank Ocean channel ORANGE
Frightened Rabbit The Midnight Organ Fight
Fugazi Repeater
Fugazi 13 Songs
Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞
Honestly? Dead Flag Blues is the only track I really return to off of this album. It's easy to complain about the spoken word section but I think it works very well and is quite powerful, the dark, moody musical arrangements working perfectly with the overall tone of the monologue. The latter half of the song is excellent as well, with beautiful, almost bluesy/western guitars and, of course, the lovely part with the bells. rEast Hastings, however, is more of a typical gy!be buildup, one they themselves have done better on other tracks on different (and better) releases. Providence has some interesting ideas in it (the eerie vocals near the end especially) but the song as a whole never really coalesces into much of anything. rIn all, this album isn't as beautiful or grandiose as Lift Yr Skinny Fists, not nearly as focused or frankly, as interesting as Allelujah!, and not as immediately impactful as Slow Riot. Hey, it is definitely better than Yanqui, though.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress'
Godspeed You! Black Emperor G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!
Gustav Holst The Planets, Op. 32
Hailaker Holding
One of the best albums that, for whatever reason, nobody cares about
Half Waif Lavender
This is already a really good album, but I still feel like she's on the verge of releasing something truly incredible and groundbreaking
Have Mercy (Indie) The Earth Pushed Back
Holy Esque At Hope's Ravine
Hop Along Painted Shut
Hopesfall The Satellite Years
Ian William Craig Red Sun Through Smoke
James Blake James Blake
Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid
Japandroids Post-Nothing
Japandroids Celebration Rock
Japanese Breakfast Soft Sounds From Another Planet
Jay-Z Reasonable Doubt
Jeff Mangum Live at Jittery Joe's
Jeff Rosenstock We Cool?
Jeff Rosenstock is an international treasure
Joy Division Unknown Pleasures
Joy Orbison Hyph Mngo/Wet Look
Jvcki Wai Enchanted Propaganda
amazing. running off of pure vibes. the title track is just one long hook. jvcki wai forever
Kanye West The College Dropout
Kikagaku Moyo Masana Temples
Killer Mike R.A.P. Music
Kim Gordon No Home Record
King Krule The OOZ
La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair
La Dispute Untitled
Latterman No Matter Where We Go...!
Laura Stevenson Wheel
Local Natives Hummingbird
Los Campesinos! Hold On Now, Youngster...
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125
M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
Mastodon Leviathan
Max Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26
Merchandise Children of Desire
Minutemen Double Nickels on the Dime
Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West
Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica
Modest Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition
Moonface Julia with Blue Jeans On
Spencer Krug is better than you at everything and he knows it.
Mount Eerie Clear Moon
Mountains Centralia
The band name says it all, really. Beautiful, natural, gorgeous, expansive ambient music.
My Bloody Valentine Loveless
Neil Young Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Neutral Milk Hotel On Avery Island
New Order Power, Corruption and Lies
Oliver Houston Whatever Works
this is hella fun and everyone should listen to it
Panda Rosa Bioconcrete
Passion Pit Manners
Passion Pit Gossamer
Pavement Slanted and Enchanted
pg.99 Document #8
Phoenix (FRA) United
Pianos Become the Teeth Old Pride
Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After
Pinegrove 11:11
Pinegrove Meridian
Pinegrove An Audiotree Live Session
Pond (AUS) The Weather
like tame impala but good
Pusha T King Push – Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude
Pyotr Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture, Op. 49
Pyotr Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64
Pyotr Tchaikovsky "Souvenir de Florence", Op. 70
Radiohead Hail to the Thief
Rae Morris Someone Out There
Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine
I'm young, I'm angry, and I enjoy Rage Against the Machine
Ralph Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Ralph Vaughan Williams Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus
Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come
Rhye Woman
Rosetta A Determinism of Morality
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels
Move over Yeezus, amateur hour is over.
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2
Sam Cooke Night Beat
Seaside Lovers Memories in Beach House
Sed Non Satiata Sed Non Satiata
Sepalcure Sepalcure
Sergei Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43
Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun
Silver Jews American Water
Sleater-Kinney Sleater-Kinney
It can devolve into tunelessness at times, but the aggressiveness and in-your-face attitude make this an album well worth listening to
Sleigh Bells Treats
honestly this album still fucking rules.
Slint Spiderland
lol these soundoffs are all terrible
Smooth Hound Smith Smooth Hound Smith
Snapped Ankles Come Play The Trees
Sonic Youth Sister
Spiritualized Sweet Heart Sweet Light
Spokes Everyone I Ever Met
Spokes People Like People Like You
Sunny Day Real Estate Diary
Swans The Seer
Swarms Old Raves End
Talk Talk Laughing Stock
Television Marquee Moon
The Antlers Burst Apart
The Antlers Hospice
I didn't mind you blaming me for your mistakes / I just held you in the door frame through all of the earthquakes
The Appleseed Cast Low Level Owl, Vol. 2
The Avalanches Since I Left You
The Beatles Abbey Road
The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Clash London Calling
The Decemberists The Crane Wife
The Decemberists The King Is Dead
The Gathering if_then_else
The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America
The Julie Ruin Run Fast
The Men Leave Home
The Menzingers Chamberlain Waits
The Menzingers After the Party
More of the same for The Menzingers is still a lot better than their contemporaries can muster
The Mountain Goats The Sunset Tree
The National Boxer
The National Sleep Well Beast
Thank god this is better than "Trouble Will Find Me"
The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die
The Pogues Rum Sodomy & the Lash
The Radio Dept. Clinging to a Scheme
The Radio Dept. rises above the usual dream pop fare because they remember they're actually making pop music before they bury it all in their usual, pleasant haze. This group has brilliant talent for melody, writing tunes that are unassuming yet endlessly memorable and beautifully emotive.
The Radio Dept. Pet Grief
The Replacements Let It Be
The Sidekicks Runners in the Nerved World
The Sidekicks Happiness Hours
this is the only good album
The Smith Street Band Don't Fuck With Our Dreams
The State Lottery When the Night Comes
The Strokes Is This It
The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Walkmen Bows + Arrows
The Walkmen Heaven
The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream
Do these songs really justify their playing time? Not always, but The War on Drugs has such a fascinating sound that I really don't care. Also, Mark Kozelek is a hack.
The Weeknd House of Balloons
The Weeknd Echoes of Silence
The World Is a Beautiful Place... Formlessness
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything
Fuck off get free / Love and love's the only thing
Tigers on Trains Grandfather
Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972
Titus Andronicus The Innocents Abroad: Live in London
http://titusandronic.us/discography
Oh it's real all right.
TNGHT TNGHT
Tokyo Police Club Champ
Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me
Touche Amore/La Dispute Searching for a Pulse/The Worth of the World
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross The Social Network OST
United Nations Never Mind the Bombings, Here's Your Six Figures
Unwound New Plastic Ideas
Var No One Dances Quite Like My Brothers
Waxahatchee Saint Cloud
"fire" is an uber bop
William Basinski The Disintegration Loops I
Wilsen I Go Missing in My Sleep
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Haffner" Symphony No. 35 in D major, K. 385
Wooden Wand Blood Oaths of the New Blues
Simple, beautiful folk music with incredible lyrics. One of the most enchanting and captivating albums of the year.
Yamantaka // Sonic Titan Uzu
This album takes a while to find its feet but it's quite impressive when it finally does. Of course, that leaves this album with half uninteresting songs and half really, really interesting ones.
Yo-Yo Ma and Others The Goat Rodeo Sessions

3.5 great
(The) Slowest Runner (In All The World) We, Burning Giraffes
Pretty good but thank goodness gy!be is releasing albums again
A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory
Air France No Way Down
AJJ People Who Can Eat People are the Luckiest People
"In fucking fact, Mrs. Robinson, they probably hate to see your stupid face"
Ampere Like Shadows
Animal Collective Fall Be Kind
Animal Collective Painting With
Antonin Dvorak Serenade for Strings, Op.22, B.52
Arcade Fire The Arcade Fire
ASAP Rocky LONG.LIVE.A$AP
I SAID IT MUST BEEEEEE
Ascetic Self Initiation
Remember when goth rock and darkwave were a thing? Yeah, good times.
Balmorhea Balmorhea
Battles Mirrored
Big Thief Masterpiece
Bigtree Bonsai Awoken
Bon Iver Blood Bank
Bruce Springsteen The River
Bruce Springsteen The Promise
Buke and Gase General Dome
CFCF Exercises
Cloakroom Further Out
Cloudkicker Beacons
Coldplay Mylo Xyloto
Coldplay Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall
Coldplay Parachutes
Coldplay Prospekt's March
Coldplay LeftRightLeftRightLeft
Coldplay The Blue Room
Coldplay Live 2003
Courtney Barnett The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas
Daft Punk Tron: Legacy
Deer Leap Impermanence
Delta Spirit History From Below
Dirty Projectors Ascending Melody
Dirty Projectors Swing Lo Magellan
Disconscious Hologram Plaza
DJ Shadow Endtroducing.....
Dntel Life is Full of Possibilities
Do Make Say Think Other Truths
Down NOLA
Drake Take Care
ECO VIRTUAL ATMOSPHERES 第2
Edouard Lalo Symphonie espagnole in D minor, Op. 21
Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) Home After Three Months Away
Everyone Everywhere A Lot Of Weird People Standing Around
Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die...
Felix Mendelssohn String Symphony XI in F major, MWVN11
FIDLAR FIDLAR
If yr a tryhard pretentious type you'll hate this
Flying Lotus Cosmogramma
Frameworks Every Day Is The Same
Like if touche amore actually fleshed out their songs
Frank Turner Love, Ire & Song
The songs here are either really good or really bad. There is no middle ground for Frank Turner. Luckily, the good songs are absolutely incredible.
Frightened Rabbit The Winter of Mixed Drinks
Frightened Rabbit Quietly, Now
Frightened Rabbit Pedestrian Verse
fun. Aim and Ignite
Musical theater for indie nerds
Future Islands On the Water
Gatherer Postcards
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O.
Grizzly Bear Veckatimest
Half Waif Probable Depths
Hamilton Leithauser Black Hours
Hans Zimmer Interstellar
Hans Zimmer finally writes a movie score that doesn't suck
Have Mercy (Indie) A Place of Our Own
Helios Eingya
Good background music.
HMLTD West of Eden
Hopesfall No Wings To Speak Of
Household (USA-NY) Items
Tense, taut, and to-the-point post-punk, with the added bonus of featuring a talented female lead singer.
Album streaming here: http://household.bandcamp.com/
How to Dress Well Love Remains
Iselia Life From Dead Limbs
Jack Wilson Spare Key
James Blake Enough Thunder
Jay Som Everybody Works
Jay-Z and Kanye West Watch the Throne
Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43
Jonsi Go
Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds
Kanye West Yeezus
Kanye West scaring the white folk again. Ain't it a beautiful thing.
Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak
Kishi Bashi Lighght
What a wonderfully charming pop record
Kvelertak Kvelertak
Kwes Meantime
Bashful is one of the best songs of the year.
L. Pierre The Island Come True
Lone Wolf The Devil and I
Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor
Madvillain Madvillainy
Megadeth Rust in Peace
mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes
Michelle Branch Hotel Paper
Michelle Branch The Spirit Room
Middle Kids Today We're the Greatest
Is this the most original album ever? No. Does it push out the boundaries of indie music? Definitely not. Do I love listening to it? Hell yeah brother
Mission of Burma Signals, Calls, and Marches
Mogwai Young Team
Moving Mountains Foreword
Nadia Reid Preservation
she looks exactly like the kind of music she'd make (also this is maybe the platonic ideal of a 3.5 indie album)
Nicolas Jaar Space Is Only Noise
Old Man Markley Down Side Up
Origami Angel Gami Gang
pop punk is good
Panda Bear Person Pitch
Panda Rosa The Kinspiral
Pantha du Prince and The Bell Laboratory Elements Of Light
Phoenix (FRA) It's Never Been Like That
Phoenix (FRA) Bankrupt!
Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon
Polica Shulamith
Simple, enjoyable synthpop with subtle artpop leanings. Plus it has Justin Vernon's seal of approval.
Prawn Kingfisher
Pusha T My Name Is My Name
I'd like this album a lot more if there were more tracks like "King Push" and "Nosetalgia" and fewer tracks like "Let Me Love You."
R.E.M. Automatic for the People
Radiohead The King of Limbs
Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool
Ramones Ramones
Rosetta The Galilean Satellites
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3
Saint Pepsi Hit Vibes
Scale the Summit Carving Desert Canyons
Six Organs Of Admittance Dark Noontide
Sleigh Bells Reign of Terror
Talib Kweli Quality
Talib Kweli Liberation
Thao And The Get Down Stay Down We The Common
The Appleseed Cast Peregrine
The Clash The Clash
The Decemberists We All Raise Our Voices to the Air
The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis
The Go! Team Rolling Blackouts
The Hotelier Goodness
This can feel a bit toothless at times, but it's still very much an enjoyable release with solid songwriting and melody
The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There
they really blow their load right out of the gate but this is still a solid, enjoyable emo revival album
The Killers Hot Fuss
The Knife Silent Shout
The Menzingers Rented World
The Morning Benders Big Echo
The National Cherry Tree
The Ocean Precambrian
The Saddest Landscape You Will Not Survive
The Tallest Man on Earth Sometimes The Blues Is Just A Passing Bird
The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now
The War On Drugs Slave Ambient
The Weakerthans Reconstruction Site
The Wild Dreams Are Maps
Touche Amore ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse
Touche Amore Live On BBC Radio 1
Touche Amore/Pianos Become the Teeth Split
TR/ST Joyland
Trophy Scars Darkness, Oh Hell
Trophy Scars Never Born, Never Dead
Washed Out Life of Leisure
William Basinski Cascade
it's william basinski with more of the same more of the same more of the same more of the same more of the same more of the same more of the same more of the same more of the same more of the same more of the same more of the same more of the same more of the same more of the same more of the same more of the same more of the same more of the same more of the same more of the same
Wolf Alice My Love Is Cool
Charming, well written noisy pop album. Good songwriting, strong melodies, and the lead vocalist is excellent.
Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss
I have a soft spot for this album despite it representing many things that I dislike about the post-rock genre.

3.0 good
65daysofstatic We Were Exploding Anyway
Alcest Shelter
A shallow kind of pretty, but very pretty nonetheless.
Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession
Arrows In Her It Tired Me All The Same
I'm a sucker for emo revival but this feels pretty half-baked outside of tracks like "It Tired Me All The Same"
Beach House Teen Dream
I feel like this is the type of album I should really like but every time I listen to it I can't remember anything about it when it's over.
Beach Slang The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel
Pretty ordinary-ish pop punk album. There are certainly bands who have a similar sound but do it in a much more interesting way. I'm worried I might be too much of a cynic, but I think I'm too cynical to truly enjoy this album. The lyrics feel far too cliche and rehashed for me to form any sort of emotional attachment to the music.
Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot
Black Midi Schlagenheim
this is fine but you guys know that you could just like... listen to post-punk from the eighties. like what is black midi really doing for y'all?
Blind Pilot 3 Rounds and a Sound
Blue Hawaii Untogether
definitely a band whose press releases are far more interesting than their actual music
Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
The emotion in the music comes across as really affected and false, which, for the lack of a better word,
makes the whole album seem fake. I have no idea if Conor is really that sad, but the way he sings and the way
the music is composed it's clear he tries really hard to make it seem like he is. The whole thing just comes off
as being very insincere.
Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People
Camille Saint-Saens Danse macabre, Op.40
Casey Neill and the Norway Rats All You Pretty Vandals
This isn't absolutly terrible but this might be the most flaccid folk-punk group I've ever heard.
Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow
Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade
Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head
Daft Punk Discovery
DAL EP
Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs
Death Cab for Cutie Plans
Death Cab for Cutie Codes and Keys
Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights
Defeater Travels
Defeater Lost Ground
Delorean Subiza
Destroyer Kaputt
This is pretty good mood music I guess
Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me
Distance My Demons
Drake Thank Me Later
Shut It Down is a goddamn masterpiece.
Drake So Far Gone
Emeralds Does It Look Like I'm Here?
Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
This is like The Appleseed Cast if The Appleseed Cast weren't good at music
Foxygen We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors...
Freelance Whales Weathervanes
Future Islands The Far Field
I really like this band but they just keep doing the same thing to diminishing returns
Future Islands Singles
Girls Broken Dreams Club
Glassjaw Worship and Tribute
GOOD Music Cruel Summer
Grouper Grid of Points
it's not terrible but have we really all convinced ourselves that adding reverb to the world's least interesting piano playing makes it Actually Genius
Happy Fangs Happy Fangs
Hunters Hunters
This sounds exactly like Sonic Youth.
Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights
It's hard for me to really gather my thoughts about this album, even so long after it's been released. Turn on the Bright Lights is a decent album. It's certainly not bad, it's hard to find faults in the songwriting or much of the band's playing. There's just not much substance or significance to it. As talented as this band is, this album just feels like a very shallow cliffsnotes of the post-punk scene, without a whole lot more to it. I certainly don't get anything significantly more out of this album that I do listening to any post-punk bands that were actually entrenched in the 80s UK culture that allowed these bands to exist in the first place. The lyrics are often laughably bad, the variation between tracks is largely nonexistent - the last half of the album in particular blends together into a singular drone, and the whole atmosphere of the album feels tired and dull. There are certainly songs that I do enjoy on this album - as evidenced by the rating I'm giving this album - but they're certainly not enough to save Turn on the Bright Lights. Taken as a whole, this album simply isn't as impressive, engaging, or enjoyable as all its critical accolades would suggest.
Iron And Wine Our Endless Numbered Days
I do like this but I feel like Beam is a better poet than he is a singer/songwriter
ISIS Panopticon
ISIS Oceanic
James Blake Overgrown
Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience
Kanye West Graduation
Kylesa Spiral Shadow
La Dispute Vancouver
La Dispute Wildlife
La Dispute/Koji Never Come Undone
Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell!
It's fine, maybe I'd like this more if I were a rich white woman?
LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II
Liars Sisterworld
Mae (e)vening
Mastodon The Hunter
Menomena Mines
Metallica Master of Puppets
Metz Strange Peace
boy this sure is noise rock
Muse The Resistance
I genuinely love the empty-headed bombast of this album. It's at the very least not any worse than their "good" albums, and it's definitely a lot more fun.
Muse Absolution
Muse Origin of Symmetry
My Chemical Romance The Black Parade
Norwegian Arms Wolf Like a Stray Dog
So I heard you like Animal Collective.
Old Gray An Autobiography
Not bad but super duper unoriginal
Orcas Orcas
Orcas Yearling
Palm (USA-PA) Rock Island
This isn't nearly as weird or interesting as I think this band thinks it is
Passion Pit Chunk of Change
Phoenix (FRA) Alphabetical
Pink Greatest Hits... So Far!!!
Port Blue The Airship
Queen A Night at the Opera
Radiohead The Bends
S. Carey All We Grow
Seabear The Ghost That Carried Us Away
Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
This album isn't terrible by any stretch of the imagination, but let's be real - the best thing
the Sex Pistols ever did was break up so that John Lydon could go on to form Public Image Ltd.
Sufjan Stevens Illinois
I really dislike Sufjan Stevens' voice. It sounds creepy and emotionally neutered. Having said that, he has an excellent ear for melody and harmony, and most of his work is excellently composed. Unfortunately, it seems like he doesn't believe in editing at all, leaving us with a good yet unbearably overlong album.
Surfer Blood Astro Coast
Talib Kweli Eardrum
The Decemberists Picaresque
Well, at least this album gave us On the Bus Mall.

(What about Mariner's Revenge Song, you say? Well, it's fun live. That's about it.)
The Decemberists Her Majesty the Decemberists
The Gaslight Anthem Sink or Swim
The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound
This band sort of makes me uncomfortable. I feel like their entire identity is based around a weird, faux-nostalgic fetishism of this ridiculously idealized version of post-war America. It all just feels very fake and forced, like they're trying too hard to appeal to our nostalgic longing of "times gone by." I find it difficult to believe anything they're saying because of it. Having said that, they're songwriting is very strong and the music is consistently upbeat enough to at least be enjoyable. I'll put this album on every now and again, but it doesn't emotionally resonate with me, nor do I take away anything from it. It's merely enjoyable, nothing more and nothing less.
The Gaslight Anthem American Slang
The Gaslight Anthem Señor and the Queen
The Gaslight Anthem Handwritten
The Gaslight Anthem releases another album that's pretty good or whatever.
The Graduate Only Every Time
The Horrible Crowes Elsie
God, Fallon is so insufferable, isn't he?
The Killers Day & Age
The Killers Sam's Town
The Knife Tomorrow, In a Year
The Mountaineering Club Orchestra A Start On Such A Night Is Full Of Promise
While "A Start On Such A Night Is Full Of Promise" might not be a shockingly original piece of post-rock, it is a beautiful and easy-to-love album. It features all of the mainstays of the genre - strings, a mix of distorted and clean guitars, ambient sections, spoken word passages - and adds a piano to the mix. The end result is a hugely enjoyable album, full of beautiful melodies and a highly cinematic atmosphere. While it certainly won't move the genre forward in a bold new direction, it's still definitely worth listening to.
The National Trouble Will Find Me
This isn't a bad album by any means. I don't think that The National are even truly capable of making a bad album. However, what The National have done here is even worse. They've made a bland album. An forgettable album. An uninteresting album. And that really hurts. There's nothing on Trouble Will Find Me that hasn't already been done in better and more interesting ways on their previous albums. Which begs the question - why even listen to this album? This is simply The National in their comfort zone, on autopilot, which isn't a very pretty sight. One can only hope that they'll shake things up with their next release.
The Ocean Anthropocentric
The Radio Dept. Running Out of Love
They introduce some newer wrinkles here, like a bigger deep house-ish influence and some shades of old school New Order, but it all somehow makes them less interesting than they used to be
The Rolling Stones Exile on Main St.
The Shins Chutes Too Narrow
The Strokes Angles
The Sword Warp Riders
The War On Drugs Wagonwheel Blues
The White Stripes White Blood Cells
Titus Andronicus Local Business
Tough Age Tough Age
Triangulo de Amor Bizarro Salve Discordia
Their female vocalist is a million times better than their male vocalist. Good gravy
U2 The Joshua Tree
Huge, epic, grandiose but ultimately sort of emotionally bland. I think the album is fairly interesting to listen to but I don't come away with anything when I'm done. I get that Bono probably deeply believes in what he's saying, but I don't really care or connect when I listen to him. All style with basically no substance.
Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend
Western Lows Glacial
This group features lots of talent but few new or interesting ideas. This band's personality is essentially "the
last five years of indie rock."
Woodkid Iron
Yndi Halda Under Summer
You know exactly what you're going to get with a Yndi Halda release, but it's still pretty nice to listen to regardless. Better for background music than active listening, I'd say
Young Heretics We Are The Lost Loves

2.5 average
B.o.B The Adventures of Bobby Ray
Blaudzun Heavy Flowers
Stop it with all of the homogenized indie folk my goodness
Car Seat Headrest Teens of Denial
boring, self-indulgent nothingness, like hearing an indie rock best hits album from the adjacent room, will toledo seems convinced he's making something great and I can hardly fathom why
Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow
Coldplay X&Y
Death Cab for Cutie Kintsugi
Deftones Diamond Eyes
ugh
Dirty Projectors Dirty Projectors
I can say with the utmost confidence that I don't care about dave longstreth's feelings
Eminem Curtain Call: The Hits
Eric Hutchinson Sounds Like This
God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright
lol are you kidding me? This is one of the most uninteresting, middling, unadventurous, dull post-rock record ever put to wax.
Hans Zimmer Inception
Holy Esque Television / Sweet
James Blake The Colour in Anything
James Blake continues his downward slide.
Jay-Z Magna Carta... Holy Grail
Jay, c'mon, you're rich as fuck already. Just give it a rest.
Jens Lekman Life Will See You Now
just make it stop
Julie Byrne Not Even Happiness
the okayest album of the year
LCD Soundsystem American Dream
why do we even care about james murphy?
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV
this is alright i guess
letlive. Fake History
I mean I guess this is good if you haven't heard any other post-hardcore music in your entire life.
Lupe Fiasco The Cool
Mac DeMarco This Old Dog
Maybeshewill Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony
Corny, bland, uninteresting post-rock. More proof that the genre is becoming increasingly homogenized.
MGMT Oracular Spectacular
Obnoxious.
MGMT Congratulations
Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind
Moving Mountains Moving Mountains
I mean damn, what happened to these guys? It's not often that a band's best work is written when the band members are in high school, but that certainly seems to be the case with Moving Mountains.
Muse Black Holes & Revelations
Of Monsters and Men My Head is an Animal
Did you guys know that indie folk is cool now?
OneRepublic Waking Up
Parades Foreign Tapes
This is honestly pretty unbearable to listen to.
Port Blue The Albatross
Spoon Kill the Moonlight
Like the chipotle of indie music - not bad in a pinch, but I'm never going out of my way to eat a fuckin chipotle burrito bowl
Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz
Honestly, if this album were comprised only of Impossible Soul I would enjoy it 1000x more. Unfortunately, there are other songs on this album, which is disappointing.
The Decemberists The Hazards of Love
The Hazards of Love is The Decemberists at their most turgid and obnoxious. The music at points is
decent enough on its own but the awful, overwrought story drags the whole endeavor down to the
point of embarrassment. The Crane Wife was an interesting concept album. The Hazards of Love is a
pastiche, a meaningless and unintentional self-parody. I never like criticizing a band too harshly
for branching out and trying new things, but The Decemberists fell flat onto their collective
faces with this release.
The Ocean Heliocentric
The xx xx
So insubstantial that it basically doesn't exist.
Thrice Vheissu
Vessels Helioscope
lol
Volbeat Beyond Hell/Above Heaven
Wavves King of the Beach

2.0 poor
James Blake Assume Form
James Blake seems content in writing emotionally vapid, musically dull, lyrically trite ballads and my annoyance at this steep and aggressive downward spiral of his career grows with each empty, boring release of his. His debut album and handful of early EPs may end up being the only good music he ever releases
Mumford and Sons Sigh No More
Owl City Maybe I'm Dreaming
Steam Powered Giraffe The 2-Cent Show
Gimmicky, terrible songwriting, embarrassing, irritating. Fedoras. Need I say more?

1.5 very poor
Jack Johnson To the Sea
Jack Johnson Sing-A-Longs and Lullabies for Curious George
Owl City Ocean Eyes
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