| 4.5 superb |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Source Tags and Codes |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead The Century of Self |
| Actress Splazsh |
| Actress R.I.P |
| AFI Sing the Sorrow |
| AFI Black Sails in the Sunset |
| Animal Collective Sung Tongs |
| Animal Collective Fall Be Kind |
| Animal Collective Centipede Hz |
| Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti Mature Themes |
| Balam Acab Wander/Wonder |
| Baroness Red Album |
| Baroness Yellow and Green |
| Battles Mirrored |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - Cosmosophy |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Burial Kindred |
| Caribou The Milk Of Human Kindness |
| Caribou Swim |
| Carter Tutti Void Transverse |
| Cave In Jupiter |
| Cave In White Silence |
| Chavez Gone Glimmering |
| Clams Casino Rainforest |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Converge Axe to Fall |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles III |
| Dan Deacon Bromst |
| Danny Brown XXX |
| Death Grips Exmilitary |
| Death Grips The Money Store |
| Deerhunter Microcastle |
| Deftones White Pony |
| Deftones Around the Fur |
| Django Django Django Django |
| Drive Like Jehu Yank Crime |
| Drive Like Jehu Drive Like Jehu |
| El-P Cancer 4 Cure |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP |
| Every Time I Die Hot Damn! |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives |
| Faith No More King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime |
| Fantomas The Director's Cut |
| Fantomas Suspended Animation |
| Fantomas Delìrium Còrdia |
| Fever Ray Fever Ray |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma |
| Flying Lotus Until the Quiet Comes |
| Frank Ocean channel ORANGE |
| Fuck Buttons Tarot Sport |
| Future of the Left Travels With Myself And Another |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! |
| Grizzly Bear Shields |
| HORSE the band The Mechanical Hand |
| Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E. |
| ISIS Oceanic |
| James Blake Overgrown |
| Jawbox For Your Own Special Sweetheart |
| Jawbox Jawbox |
| Justice † |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| Killer Mike R.A.P. Music |
| Lil B God's Father |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory |
| Mastodon Leviathan |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye |
| Matthew Good Lights of Endangered Species |
| mclusky McLusky Do Dallas |
| Melvins A Senile Animal |
| Melvins Pigs Of The Roman Empire |
| Metz Metz |
| Mount Eerie Clear Moon |
| The brainchild of Mount Eerie, Phil Elverum, is one of the most important, influential figures in modern music that almost no one knows about. Under his band's previous moniker, The Microphones, he released The Glow Pt. 2 in 2001, one of the hallmark indie releases of the entire decade. The Glow Pt. 2 was an almost frighteningly creative piece of music, highly experimental in conception and massively successful upon completion. To this day, not much sounds like it, although it had a huge hand in inspiring the experimental, lo-fi folk movement that this decade has seen in abundance. I really can't begin to describe how important that record is. And Elverum hasn't faltered since, released LP after LP of intensely interesting music, refusing to be pigeonholed into any specific genre or movement. Over the past while, folk-inspired black metal has become the new 'thing', with bands like Wolves In The Throneroom mixing the extreme aesthetics of the genre with woolier, melodic folky arrangements. But much of the Mount Eerie project is about flipping this, cultivating 'folk music' (I use this term incredibly loosely here) that draws inspiration from black metal. Don't expect to hear any blood-curdling screams on this album, however: Elverum is more interested in the tonal experiments of black metal, and how they can further a certain mood or emotion. Long, drawn out squalls of feedback play out over lightly strummed acoustics, and haunting, droning organ chords provide a contrast to fairly mid-tempo drumming. Musically, this album is all over the place, but never manages to sound unfocused; in fact, this collection of tracks are arguably the most focused collection of Elverum's entire career. Guitar distortion rumbles heavily in the background of The Place Lives. Throbbing keyboards mark the feverish House Shape and the jazzy saxophone hook in Lone Bell result in an all out jam by the end of the song. A blastbeat even makes an appearance in Over Dark Water. Yet through it all, Elverum's calm, almost tender voice holds everything together, the Clear Moon that our eyes and ears cling on to through all the darkness. Even now as I type, it seems futile to describe the truly original experience that is this album. And I haven't even mentioned that this is only the first of two albums Mount Eerie has released this year, Ocean Roar being the darker counterpart to Clear Moon's light. There's so much more that I could attempt to say about this album, but it really is something that has to be heard to be understood. Beautiful. Terrifying. |
| Mount Eerie Ocean Roar |
| Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm |
| Neurosis Honor Found in Decay |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral |
| Oxbow The Narcotic Story |
| Panda Bear Person Pitch |
| PJ Harvey Let England Shake |
| Portishead Third |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Slint Spiderland |
| Snowman The Horse, the Rat and the Swan |
| Strapping Young Lad Alien |
| Strapping Young Lad City |
| Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky |
| Tame Impala Lonerism |
| The Blood Brothers ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn |
| The Blood Brothers Young Machetes |
| The Devin Townsend Band Accelerated Evolution |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer |
| The Dismemberment Plan Emergency & I |
| The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin |
| The Jesus Lizard Liar |
| The Knife Silent Shout |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| The Ocean Heliocentric |
| These Arms Are Snakes This Is Meant To Hurt You |
| These Arms Are Snakes Easter |
| These New Puritans Hidden |
| Tomahawk Mit Gas |
| Tomahawk Tomahawk |
| Tomahawk Oddfellows |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Tool Ænima |
| Torche Meanderthal |
| Unwound Repetition |
