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Average Rating: 3.25
Rating Variance: 0.45
Objectivity Score: 83%
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5.0 classic
The Cat Empire Two Shoes
Epic lyrics meet instrumental prowess to produce music in an incredibly pure, upbeat, fascinating form.

4.5 superb
Amelia Curran Spectators
Basia Bulat Tall Tall Shadow
Dan Mangan Nice, Nice, Very Nice
Dire Straits Love Over Gold
Dire Straits Brothers in Arms
Eddie Vedder Water on the Road
Gabrielle Aplin English Rain
Harry James Angus Little Stories
Little enthralling stories, told, sung and played by one of the most talented musicians alive and his acoustic guitar.
The Cat Empire The Cat Empire
The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt
Trummer Fürne Königin
Xavier Rudd Spirit Bird
You Plus Me Rose Ave.
Rarely will you find voices that blend so effortlessly.
Zaz Zaz
What a voice. I'm hard tempted to put a loop over the songs La Fee and Eblouie par la Nuit, but that would make the thrill go away faster. Hence I ration the drug of this sound.

4.0 excellent
Agnes Obel Aventine
Ben Harper Welcome to the Cruel World
Way ahead of his time with this album. Groundbreaker is the right word.
Ben Howard I Forget Where We Were
Bernard Fanning Tea & Sympathy
Getting better each time I listen to it. Good guitar, ok voice, feels very authentic.
Birdy Birdy
Camille Le Fil
Caroline Keating Silver Heart
Casualties of Cool Casualties of Cool
Crowded House Woodface
Eddie Vedder Into the Wild
Hans Zimmer Crimson Tide
Holly Brook Like Blood Like Honey
Hudson Taylor Singing For Strangers
Very impressive debut LP.
Keith Jarrett The Köln Concert
Mark Knopfler Sailing to Philadelphia
Missy Higgins The Sound of White
Mumford and Sons Sigh No More
Musk Ox Woodfall
Natalie Merchant Tigerlily
Passenger (UK) All The Little Lights
Patent Ochsner Wildbolz & Süsstrunk
Pink Floyd Pulse — The Film
Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon
Sophie Hunger 1983
The Cat Empire So Many Nights
Tom Waits The Early Years, Vol. I
Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman
Typhoon (USA-OR) White Lighter

3.5 great
Amy Macdonald This Is The Life
Asaf Avidan & the Mojos The Reckoning
Augie March Moo, You Bloody Choir
Basia Bulat Heart of My Own
Dark Dark Dark Who Needs Who
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros Up From Below
A record I can listen to 5 times in a row. Spews forth the best of vibes, rich in variety, interesting in lyrics. Good mood music. The track 'Home' will repeat in your mind long after you listened to it.
Eels Hombre Lobo
Ennio Morricone The Very Best of Ennio Morricone
Gemma Hayes Let It Break
Jack Johnson In Between Dreams
Johnny Cash American III: Solitary Man
Laura Marling I Speak Because I Can
Laura Stevenson Sit Resist
Lisa Mitchell Wonder
Lynyrd Skynyrd Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd
Mana Amar Es Combatir
Missy Higgins On a Clear Night
Moby Play
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds The Boatman's Call
Pyotr Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 in B♭ Minor, Op. 23
Radiohead OK Computer
Rae Morris Unguarded
Regina Spektor Begin To Hope
Seu Jorge The Life Aquatic Featuring Seu Jorge
Sophie Hunger Sketches On Sea
Sophie Hunger The Danger of Light
Sophie Hunger Monday's Ghost
The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Cat Empire Cinema
The Cat Empire Steal the Light
The National Trouble Will Find Me
The Waifs Up All Night
The Waifs Temptation
The Wooden Sky Let's Be Ready
The xx xx
Tom Waits Rain Dogs
Tracy Chapman Matters Of The Heart
Vance Joy God Loves You When You're Dancing
Yann Tiersen Le fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain
Zaz Recto Verso

3.0 good
Anna F. For Real
Anna Nalick Wreck of the Day
Avishai Cohen Aurora
Provides access to jazz music for people not normally listening to it. Very unique sound.
Banks Goddess
Basil Poledouris Quigley Down Under
Great soundtrack for a great movie. Capturing the mixture of desert america and australia, with tunes that stay in your ear.
Bünehuber Honigmelonemond
Ben Harper The Will To Live
Benjamin Francis Leftwich Last Smoke Before The Snowstorm
Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks
Bob Marley and The Wailers Exodus
Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen The River
Colbie Caillat Coco
Crowded House Time On Earth
Dan Mangan Club Meds
Dido No Angel
Elton John Tumbleweed Connection
Eric Clapton Clapton Chronicles: The Best of Eric Clapton
Ezio Black Boots on Latin Feet
Florence and the Machine Lungs
Foxygen Take The Kids Off Broadway
Gin Wigmore Holy Smoke
Hans Zimmer Interstellar
While I like the atmospheric nature of this soundtrack, and can very well imagine that it lends a great mood to the motion picture, I can't help to feel disappointed. Listening to the tracks without supporting visuals is mostly boring, which is in stark contrast to other work of Zimmer. I've given it a good chance to grow on me, and it didn't.
Heidi Happy On The Hills
Jack Johnson To the Sea
Jarabe De Palo Adelantando
John Mayer Continuum
Joni Mitchell Hejira
Lighthouse Family Ocean Drive
Lorde Pure Heroine
Luke Sital-Singh The Fire Inside
Lunik Small Lights in the Dark
Manu Chao Clandestino
Missy Higgins The Ol' Razzle Dazzle
Mumford and Sons Babel
Neil Young A Letter Home
Nick Drake Pink Moon
Nirvana Nevermind
Paul Simon Graceland
Rachael Yamagata Elephants... Teeth Sinking Into Heart
Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication
Sara Bareilles Kaleidoscope Heart
Sophie Zelmani Sing & Dance
Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb
Survivor Vital Signs
The Dear Hunter Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise
Not sure this band is named correctly. Listening to that music, I would say they go big game hunting, for bands like Queen and Muse. Monumental instrumental arrangements, multiple voices supporting the lead singer and providing harmonics, suites... and yet they mostly *do* pull it off!
The Lumineers The Lumineers
The National Boxer
The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers
Timber Timbre Timber Timbre
Tom Waits The Early Years, Vol. 2
Tom Waits Bone Machine
Züri West Retour

2.5 average
Anberlin Vital
I listened to it because of the good ratings, haven't heard of them before. The sound is ok, but after a few songs I felt it kept repeating, and I was bored by the lyrics. Too much noise and not enough sound for me, too heavy on the e-guitar and synthesizer, but that's more of a genre problem I suppose.
Ben l'Oncle Soul Ben l'Oncle Soul
Boy & Bear Moonfire
Bruce Springsteen Born in the U.S.A.
Calexico Carried To Dust
City and Colour Little Hell
Climbing Tree Constantly Trying
Cold Chisel Cold Chisel
Damien Rice My Favourite Faded Fantasy
Imogen Heap Speak For Yourself
One amazing song in Hide and Seek, but nothing else on the album to back it up.
Jackson Jackson The Fire Is on the Bird
John Butler Trio Sunrise Over Sea
Journey Greatest Hits
Jovanotti Safari
Mano Negra King Of Bongo
Michael Kiwanuka Home Again
Morcheeba Big Calm
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Murder Ballads
Of Monsters and Men My Head is an Animal
Little talks is just a great song. But the album was quite a disappointment to me, because they all sound the same, very unoriginal up to lame.
Old Crow Medicine Show O.C.M.S.
Old Crow Medicine Show Remedy
Pete Murray Blue Sky Blue
Sebadoh Harmacy
Sophie Zelmani I'm the Rain
The Beautiful Girls Ziggurats
The Cranberries No Need to Argue
The Cure Disintegration
The Sheepdogs Learn and Burn
The Strokes Comedown Machine
U2 The Joshua Tree
U2 Achtung Baby

2.0 poor
Camille Music Hole
Where "Le Fil" felt amazingly creative and groundbreaking, nicely blending vocals and rhythmic loop elements, "Music Hole" overextends the creative (at times plain silly) elements, destroying the music beneath. Great example of less is sometimes more. Turning towards english lyrics might sell more records, but is also further diminishing authenticity.
Carrousel En équilibre
Gotye Making Mirrors
John Fogerty Premonition
Keb' Mo' Big Wide Grin
Kruder and Dorfmeister G-Stoned
Laura Marling Short Movie
Why would an artist with a really good voice decide it's more fun to talk half of the time instead of sing, and when singing get off the tune most of the time? Baffling. As much as I've enjoyed 'I Speak Because I Can', I felt no inspiration at all in this album.

I hope on her next record she will sing, because she can.
The Knife Deep Cuts
Absolutely amazing track in 'Pass This On', and the rest is rubbish.

1.5 very poor
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Pamyu Pamyu Revolution
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