3.5 great |
Abandoned Pools Humanistic |
Abel (NY) Make It Right |
Abel (NY) Lesser Men |
alt-J This Is All Yours |
Altars Conclusions |
Strong gritty vocals over beefy chords and tight drumming. Softer sections scattered throughout, mostly unmemorable but nice little breaks from the heavier sections. Production has a great balance of dirty feedback and bright leads. |
Andy Hunter Exodus |
Arcade Fire Her |
Ariana Grande Dangerous Woman |
Artifex Pereo Time in Place |
As Cities Burn Hell or High Water |
As Cities Burn Come Now Sleep |
As Cities Burn Son, I Loved You at Your Darkest |
As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise |
As I Lay Dying Awakened |
August Burns Red Home |
Bat For Lashes The Bride |
Beck Morning Phase |
Becoming The Archetype Terminate Damnation |
Bells Our Forest, Our Empire |
Benea Reach Monument Bineothan |
Benea Reach Alleviat |
Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence |
Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect |
Between the Buried and Me Colors |
Between the Buried and Me Alaska |
Bigfoot Wallace Malleable |
Blindside With Shivering Hearts We Wait |
Braille Weapon Aid |
Broken Bells After The Disco |
Broken Bells Meyrin Fields |
Brooke Fraser Albertine |
Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion |
Children 18:3 Children 18:3 |
Children 18:3 Rain's 'A Comin' |
Children 18:3 On The Run |
Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends |
Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head |
Coldplay Parachutes |
Daft Punk Human After All |
Darkside Darkside |
Deafheaven Sunbather |
Deas Vail Birds & Cages |
Deas Vail All The Houses Look The Same |
Derek Webb Stockholm Syndrome |
Edison Glass Time Is Fiction |
Eisley The Valley |
Eisley Room Noises |
Ellie Goulding Halcyon |
Emery We Do What We Want |
Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail |
Emery I'm Only A Man |
Emery While Broken Hearts Prevail |
Empire Of The Sun Walking On A Dream |
First Aid Kit Stay Gold |
Flyleaf Remember to Live |
Friendly Fires Friendly Fires |
Future of Forestry Twilight |
Future of Forestry Travel |
Future of Forestry Travel II |
Gungor Beautiful Things |
Gungor Ancient Skies |
Hans Zimmer Inception |
Haste the Day Attack of the Wolf King |
Hawkboy Hawkboy |
Hawkboy King Folly |
Heath McNease Thrift Store Jesus |
Hope For The Dying Dissimulation |
Hope For The Dying Aletheia |
The muscianship on this album is the finest you'll hear from the Facedown roster. HFTD more than improving their instrument playing they have matured in their song writing and production choices. Rather than minutes of inflated orchestra and keys as on Dissimulation, Aletheia keeps the stringed section to a minimum. Vocals have always been powerful, but not until Aletheia has there really been any range. Perhaps my only problem with the album is the drumming. It's never really more than a time keeping device which is very dissappointing considering the amazing guitar and progressive elements present. |
Jars Of Clay The Long Fall Back to Earth |
Jars Of Clay Jars Of Clay |
Jars Of Clay Inland |
Jessie Ware Tough Love |
John Powell How to Train Your Dragon |
Jonathan Jones We Were Young |
Kanye West Graduation |
Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak |
Kings Kaleidoscope Becoming Who We Are |
Kye Kye Fantasize |
Least of These More Than Conquerors |
Lecrae Gravity |
Lecrae Church Clothes 3 |
Life in Your Way Ignite and Rebuild |
Lights Siberia |
Living Sacrifice The Infinite Order |
Living Sacrifice In Memoriam |
Lorde Pure Heroine |
Lorde The Love Club |
M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming |
Mastodon The Hunter |
mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright! |
Muse Origin of Symmetry |
Muse The Resistance |
Mutemath Odd Soul |
Mutemath Armistice |
My Epic Broken Voice |
My Heart to Fear Algorithm |
Now, Now Neighbors |
Oh, Sleeper Children of Fire |
Oh, Sleeper Son of the Morning |
OneRepublic Waking Up |
Overcome The Great Campaign of Sabotage |
Paper Route The Peace Of Wild Things |
Paper Route Absence |
Paul Simon Stranger to Stranger |
Phil Wickham Phil Wickham |
Phil Wickham Cannons |
Phinehas thegodmachine |
Phinehas The Last Word Is Yours to Speak |
Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix |
Project 86 Picket Fence Cartel |
Project 86 Wait for the Siren |
Red (USA) Innocence and Instinct |
Sainthood Reps Monoculture |
Seabird Til We See the Shore |
Secret And Whisper Teenage Fantasy |
Secret And Whisper Great White Whale |
Showbread The Fear of God |
Sleigh Bells Treats |
Sons Keep Quiet |
Starflyer 59 My Island |
Starflyer 59 Can't Stop Eating EP |
Switchfoot Oh! Gravity. |
Switchfoot Nothing is Sound |
Switchfoot The Beautiful Letdown |
Switchfoot Learning To Breathe |
Switchfoot Eastern Hymns For Western Shores |
Switchfoot The Best Yet: Deluxe Edition |
Taylor Swift 1989 |
Tennis Ritual In Repeat |
The Burial Lights and Perfections |
The Classic Crime Seattle Sessions |
The Classic Crime The Silver Cord |
The Ember Days The Ember Days EP |
The Ember Days Finger Painting EP |
The Ember Days Emergency |
The Famine The Architects of Guilt |
The Myriad With Arrows, With Poise |
Tourniquet Microscopic View of a Telescopic Realm |
Tourniquet Antiseptic Bloodbath |
Tourniquet Crawl to China |
Tourniquet Where Moth and Rust Destroy |
Tourniquet Psycho Surgery |
Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety |
Venia I've Lost All Faith In Myself |
Venia Frozen Hands |
War of Ages Arise and Conquer |
Wavorly Conquering the Fear of Flight |
Wolves at the Gate VxV |
Woodkid The Golden Age |
3.0 good |
Abandoned Pools Sublime Currency |
Abandoned Pools Armed to the Teeth |
Anberlin Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place |
Andy Hunter Life |
Andy Mineo Uncomfortable |
I have a difficult time giving this a 2.5, even though I think this album is mostly pretty average to Andy's previous material as well as his peers' music--so I gave it a 3 because it does have some good things going for it. If anything, Andy consistently improves his production album to album and Uncomfortable is no exception. He has an ear for catchy beats which makes the album enjoyable. However, his lyrical skills are...not so good. He bounces from one topic to another within a song so often that it leaves each song feeling aimless. Additionally, Andy doesn't possess the same introspection and clarity that his peer Lecrae has. Which in other genres wouldn't be much of an issue. However, rap has a distinct focus on the lyrics and the power of words that for a rap album and its rapper not to offer much in the way of lyrics makes his/her work seem self-defeating. Overall--if you like Andy Mineo's previous music then you will like this. But if you didn't, you probably won't like this, because it suffers the same weaknesses of his previous work. |
As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us |
August Burns Red Leveler |
August Burns Red Thrill Seeker |
August Burns Red Sleddin' Hill |
Becoming The Archetype I Am |
Benea Reach Possession |
Decent listen that never stands above the genre standards, but never falls below it. The screams are harsh and have an engaging range. Overall a well put together album that serves it purpose. Heavy when it should be. Soft when it feels appropriate. |
Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus |
Blessed by a Broken Heart Feel The Power |
Brooke Fraser Brutal Romantic |
Cloakroom Further Out |
Coldplay Mylo Xyloto |
Coldplay X&Y |
Cut Copy Zonoscope |
Cut Copy Bright Like Neon Love |
Daft Punk Tron: Legacy |
Daft Punk Tron Legacy: Reconfigured |
Deas Vail Deas Vail |
Demon Hunter True Defiance |
Demon Hunter The World Is a Thorn |
Demon Hunter Storm the Gates of Hell |
Demon Hunter Extremist |
Disciple (USA-TN) Horseshoes and Hand Grenades |
Ellie Goulding Lights |
Emery The Question |
Falling Up Captiva |
Falling Up Exit Lights |
Falling Up Dawn Escapes |
Falling Up Crashings |
Falling Up Mnemos |
Fit for a King Slave to Nothing |
Flyleaf Memento Mori |
Icon For Hire Scripted |
Ivoryline Vessels |
Jars Of Clay The Shelter |
Jars Of Clay Redemption Songs |
Jars Of Clay Good Monsters |
John Carpenter Lost Themes |
John Powell The Bourne Supremacy |
Kye Kye Young Love |
Lana Del Rey Paradise |
Lana Del Rey Born to Die |
Lecrae Church Clothes |
Lecrae Rehab The Overdose |
Lecrae Rehab |
Lost Ocean Lost Ocean |
Matisyahu Light |
Matisyahu Akeda |
Muse Showbiz |
Muse Black Holes & Revelations |
Oh, Sleeper When I Am God |
Onward To Olympas The War Within Us |
Phil Wickham Heaven and Earth |
Red (USA) Of Beauty and Rage |
Red (USA) End of Silence |
S. Carey Range Of Light |
Search The City A Fire So Big The Heavens Can See It |
Sent By Ravens Mean What You Say |
Sent By Ravens Our Graceful Words |
Showbread Who Can Know It? |
Showbread Cancer |
Silent Planet The Night God Slept |
Skillet Collide |
Starflyer 59 The Changing of the Guard |
Switchfoot Vice Verses |
Switchfoot Hello Hurricane |
Switchfoot New Way to Be Human |
Switchfoot Legend of Chin |
The Afters Never Going Back To Okay |
The Classic Crime Phoenix |
The Classic Crime Vagabonds |
The Classic Crime Albatross |
The Devil Wears Prada With Roots Above and Branches Below |
The Devil Wears Prada Zombie |
The Devil Wears Prada 8:18 |
The Ember Days Your Eyes Light Up |
The Famine The Raven and the Reaping |
The Overseer We Search, We Dig |
To Speak Of Wolves Myself < Letting Go |
Trip Lee Between Two Worlds |
Trip Lee Good Life |
Underoath The Changing of Times |
War of Ages Eternal |
Wolves at the Gate Captors |