| 2017 |
| Eminem Revival | 2.0 |
| Brockhampton SATURATION III | 4.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar DAMN. Collector's Edition | 1.0 |
| Jake Paul and Team 10 Litmas | 1.0 |
| Five Finger Death Punch A Decade of Destruction | 2.5 |
| Includes some of their stronger cuts like "Battle Born" and "Far from Home", but also includes a decent amount of their poorer stuff like most of the Got Your Six singles and "Lift Me Up". And their cover of "Gone Away" does not do justice to the original at all. |
| Jon Brion Lady Bird OST | 4.0 |
| Greta Van Fleet From the Fires | 3.0 |
| Carter Burwell Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | 4.0 |
| Converge The Dusk in Us | 3.5 |
| 21 Savage, Offset and Metro Boomin Without Warning | 3.0 |
| Weezer Pacific Daydream | 2.5 |
| Julien Baker Turn Out The Lights | 4.5 |
| Adelitas Way Notorious | 2.0 |
| Destroyer Ken | 3.5 |
| Dirty Heads Swim Team | 1.5 |
| "Vacation" is one of the worst hit songs of the year, and it's not like the rest of this is any better. |
| Beck Colors | 3.5 |
| St. Vincent Masseduction | 4.0 |
| Sleeping With Sirens Gossip | 1.5 |
| lovelytheband Everything I Could Never Say... | 2.5 |
| The Killers Wonderful Wonderful | 3.0 |
| Prophets of Rage Prophets of Rage | 2.0 |
| Foo Fighters Concrete and Gold | 3.5 |
| Nothing More The Stories We Tell Ourselves | 3.5 |
| Phoebe Bridgers Stranger in the Alps | 4.5 |
| Nothing But Thieves Broken Machine | 3.5 |
| The National Sleep Well Beast | 4.5 |
| Pitchfork didn't, but I'm labelling this Best New Music. AOTY for me. |
| LCD Soundsystem American Dream | 4.0 |
| XXXTENTACION 17 | 1.5 |
| PVRIS All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Villains | 4.0 |
| Brockhampton SATURATION II | 4.0 |
| The War On Drugs A Deeper Understanding | 4.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Painted Ruins | 4.0 |
| Gang of Youths Go Farther in Lightness | 4.0 |
| Brand New Science Fiction | 4.0 |
| Kesha Rainbow | 2.5 |
| Arcade Fire Everything Now | 3.0 |
| Joywave Content | 3.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra A Black Mile to the Surface | 4.0 |
| Ded Mis-An-Thrope | 1.5 |
| Tyler, the Creator Flower Boy | 4.0 |
| Hans Zimmer Dunkirk | 4.0 |
| me&me Playdough Cooked in Tea | 1.0 |
| Stone Sour Hydrograd | 3.0 |
| Calvin Harris Funk Wav Bounces, Vol. 1 | 3.5 |
| Jay-Z 4:44 | 3.5 |
| Imagine Dragons ƎVOLVE | 2.0 |
| Algiers The Underside of Power | 4.0 |
| Nickelback Feed the Machine | 3.0 |
| Portugal. The Man Woodstock | 3.0 |
| Lorde Melodrama | 3.5 |
| Royal Blood How Did We Get So Dark? | 3.5 |
| Royal Blood's second album is a slight sophomore slump (emphasis on 'slight') that still has some enjoyable tracks. |
| Jason Isbell The Nashville Sound | 4.0 |
| Fleet Foxes Crack-Up | 4.5 |
| AJR The Click | 1.0 |
| Rise Against Wolves | 3.5 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Ti Amo | 3.5 |
| Cigarettes After Sex Cigarettes After Sex | 4.0 |
| Brockhampton SATURATION | 4.0 |
| alt-J Relaxer | 3.0 |
| Linkin Park One More Light | 2.0 |
| Papa Roach Crooked Teeth | 2.5 |
| Kobra and the Lotus Prevail I | 2.5 |
| Seether Poison The Parish | 3.5 |
| Harry Styles Harry Styles | 3.5 |
| Paramore After Laughter | 3.5 |
| Mac DeMarco This Old Dog | 4.0 |
| Perfume Genius No Shape | 4.0 |
| Slowdive Slowdive (LP) | 4.0 |
| Chris Stapleton From A Room: Volume 1 | 4.0 |
| Gorillaz Humanz | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell Live | 4.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) 8 | 3.0 |
| COIN How Will You Know If You Never Try | 3.5 |
| Coin go for a more synthpop-focused album than their debut LP and the end result is a better album. My favorite tracks are "Talk Too Much", "Lately II" and "Feeling". |
| Greta Van Fleet Black Smoke Rising | 3.5 |
| Bishop Briggs Bishop Briggs | 2.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar DAMN. | 4.0 |
| Cold War Kids LA Divine | 3.0 |
| Father John Misty Pure Comedy | 4.0 |
| Ulver The Assassination of Julius Caesar | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Emperor of Sand | 4.0 |
| Mount Eerie A Crow Looked At Me | 4.0 |
| Real Estate In Mind | 3.5 |
| Depeche Mode Spirit | 3.5 |
| Spoon Hot Thoughts | 4.0 |
| The Shins Heartworms | 3.5 |
| Suicide Silence Suicide Silence | 1.0 |
| Ryan Adams Prisoner | 3.5 |
| Maggie Rogers Now That The Light Is Fading | 3.5 |
| Alice Merton No Roots | 2.5 |
| I've got no roo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooots, I've got no roo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooots |
| Sampha Process | 4.0 |
| The xx I See You | 4.0 |
| 2016 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3 | 4.0 |
| Ded FMFY | 1.5 |
| Childish Gambino "Awaken, My Love!" | 3.5 |
| The Weeknd Starboy | 3.5 |
| Overall, another satisfying album from Mr. Tesfaye. I may even prefer this to Beauty Behind the Madness. I recommend Starboy, Party Monster, False Alarm, Rockin', Sidewalks and Reminder. |
| Highly Suspect The Boy Who Died Wolf | 3.5 |
| Bruno Mars 24K Magic | 3.5 |
| Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct | 3.5 |
| A Tribe Called Quest We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service | 4.0 |
| Korn The Serenity of Suffering | 2.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation | 3.5 |
| Green Day Revolution Radio | 3.5 |
| Lewis Del Mar Lewis Del Mar | 3.5 |
| Leonard Cohen You Want It Darker | 4.5 |
| William Michael Morgan Vinyl | 3.5 |
| "Missing", "I Met a Girl" and "Lonesomeville" are all great country songs. If you do like your country to be traditional (rather than the "metro country" phase that it's going now), this album is for you. |
| Bon Iver 22, A Million | 4.0 |
| Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition | 4.5 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree | 4.5 |
| Joseph I'm Alone, No You're Not | 2.5 |
| Aside from "SOS (Overboard)" and maybe some other tracks, this album is boring and generic. |
| Dreamers This Album Does Not Exist | 3.0 |
Based on the first two singles (Wolves and Drugs), these guys had a lot of potential. But
several of the tracks do not really live up to these songs. The album is decent guitar-
driven indie rock, but besides those greats two tracks, "Lucky Dog" and "Shooting Shadows"
(though "Painkiller", "Sweet Disaster", "Cry out for Me" and "Little New Moon" were good as
well), the remaining few tracks could have been better. |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion: Side B | 4.0 |
| Frank Ocean Blonde | 4.0 |
| Young the Giant Home Of The Strange | 3.0 |
| Skillet Unleashed | 2.0 |
| Lori McKenna The Bird & The Rifle | 3.5 |
| Chevelle The North Corridor | 4.0 |
| Walk Through Fire Breathe | 2.0 |
| Duplicate albums = more objectivity boost! |
| Through Fire Breathe | 2.0 |
| Duplicate albums = more objectivity boost! |
| blink-182 California | 3.0 |
| The Avett Brothers True Sadness | 3.0 |
| Corey Feldman Angelic 2 The Core | 1.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Getaway | 3.0 |
| Kaleo A/B | 3.5 |
| Pretty good album. Check out the harder tracks like "No Good" and "Glass House", as well as the more subtle tracks like "All the Pretty Girls". |
| Maren Morris Hero | 3.5 |
| Six Feet Under Graveyard Classics IV: The Number Of The Priest | 1.0 |
| Catfish and the Bottlemen The Ride | 2.0 |
| Sophomore slump. Aside from "Twice" and maybe a few other tracks, this isn't very good. |
| Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere | 4.0 |
| Car Seat Headrest Teens of Denial | 4.0 |
| Meghan Trainor Thank You | 1.5 |
| Pierce the Veil Misadventures | 3.0 |
| Chance the Rapper Coloring Book | 4.0 |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool | 4.5 |
| Death Grips Bottomless Pit | 3.5 |
| Drake Views | 3.0 |
| Views is a decent album, and Drake once again shows that he can both rap and sing well, but the album is overlong. |
| Beyonce Lemonade | 4.0 |
| Sturgill Simpson A Sailor's Guide To Earth | 4.5 |
| The Lumineers Cleopatra | 3.0 |
| Deftones Gore | 3.5 |
| Weezer The White Album | 3.5 |
| Iggy Pop Post Pop Depression | 3.5 |
| Key tracks: Paraguay, Gardenia, German Days, Sunday |
| 3 Doors Down Us and the Night | 2.0 |
| Denzel Curry Imperial | 4.0 |
| Judah and the Lion Folk Hop N' Roll | 1.0 |
| There are some decent tracks here like "Forever Always", "Insane" and "Better Man", but the bad tracks outweigh what good these songs have. "Folk-Hop Sound", "Reputation", "We Own the Night" and "Uh-Huh, Yeah!" are all horrendous. The deluxe edition comes with a remix of "Take It All Back" and a bonus track. |
| Ray LaMontagne Ouroboros | 3.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar untitled unmastered. | 4.0 |
| The 1975 I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It | 4.0 |
| Rihanna ANTI | 3.5 |
| Panic! at the Disco Death of a Bachelor | 3.0 |
| Anderson .Paak Malibu | 4.0 |
| David Bowie Blackstar | 4.5 |
| 2015 |
| Cage The Elephant Tell Me I'm Pretty | 3.0 |
| Liking this new Black Keys album, but where's the new Cage the Elephant album? |
| Pusha T King Push – Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude | 4.0 |
| Cam Untamed | 3.5 |
| Kid Cudi Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven | 1.0 |
| Coldplay A Head Full of Dreams | 2.5 |
| G-Eazy When It's Dark Out | 3.0 |
The first half of the album is pretty good, but it wears out towards the end. Key tracks: Random,
Me, Myself & I, One of Them, Calm Down, Don't Let Me Go, Nothing to Me |
| Foo Fighters Saint Cecilia | 3.5 |
| Adele 25 | 3.5 |
| Kurt Cobain Montage of Heck: The Home Recordings | 1.0 |
| There are some good tracks, like "And I Love Her" and "Reverb Experiment", but this as a whole is an album Cobain wouldn't have want to be released. Several of the tracks have Cobain's voice altered greatly, and it doesn't do justice to him. Strangely, the better tracks are the ones without Cobain singing. |
| Justin Bieber Purpose | 2.5 |
| Ellie Goulding Delirium | 3.5 |
| Eric Church Mr. Misunderstood | 3.5 |
| EL VY Return to the Moon | 3.5 |
| Logic The Incredible True Story | 3.5 |
| Demi Lovato Confident | 3.5 |
| Carrie Underwood Storyteller | 3.0 |
| BORNS Dopamine | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Color Before The Sun | 3.5 |
| Nothing But Thieves Nothing But Thieves | 4.0 |
| City and Colour If I Should Go Before You | 3.5 |
| Sevendust Kill the Flaw | 3.5 |
| Silversun Pickups Better Nature | 3.0 |
| Bryson Tiller T R A P S O U L | 3.0 |
| Production and vocal-wise, it's great; it's the lyrics that bring the album down. |
| CHVRCHES Every Open Eye | 3.5 |
| Kurt Vile b'lieve i'm goin' down... | 3.5 |
| Don Henley Cass County | 3.5 |
| Ryan Adams 1989 | 3.0 |
| Shinedown Threat to Survival | 3.0 |
| Fans will love this, but those who are looking more of the "Sound of Madness" sound may be disappointed. |
| Robert DeLong In the Cards | 3.5 |
| Bob Moses Days Gone By | 4.0 |
| An excellent electronic album. I highly recommend the first half of the album in particular. |
| Bring Me the Horizon That's the Spirit | 2.5 |
| Five Finger Death Punch Got Your Six | 2.0 |
| Another average album from this band. "Boots and Blood" is terrible. If you want to listen to decent rock music, skip this and listen to Highly Suspect's "Mister Asylum" instead. |
| Iron Maiden The Book of Souls | 3.5 |
| Atlas Genius Inanimate Objects | 3.0 |
| The Weeknd Beauty Behind the Madness | 3.5 |
| Disturbed Immortalized | 3.0 |
| Nathaniel Rateliff and The Night Sweats Nathaniel Rateliff and The Night Sweats | 3.5 |
| Maddie and Tae Start Here | 3.5 |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion | 4.0 |
| Ghost (SWE) Meliora | 4.5 |
| Luke Bryan Kill the Lights | 2.0 |
| tobyMac This Is Not A Test | 3.0 |
| Dr. Dre Compton | 4.0 |
Not as fun as "To Pimp a Butterfly" but nonetheless an excellent record. I expected Dr. Dre to be
more present in the tracks though, but the guests were equally good as well. |
| Saint Asonia Saint Asonia | 2.0 |
| Ashley Monroe The Blade | 4.0 |
| Future DS2 | 2.5 |
| Jason Isbell Something More Than Free | 4.0 |
| Highly Suspect Mister Asylum | 4.0 |
| Tame Impala Currents | 4.5 |
| A step down from 'Lonerism', but still a good album. |
| Wilco Star Wars | 3.0 |
| Miguel Wildheart | 3.5 |
| Meek Mill Dreams Worth More Than Money | 3.0 |
| Once again, what could have been an excellent album was watered down by some poor lyrics. Production and flow is very good though. |
| August Burns Red Found in Far Away Places | 3.0 |
| X Ambassadors VHS | 2.0 |
| A snooze fest, "VHS" consists mostly of filler tracks, and only "Renegades" and "Jungle" were outstanding. Not even Imagine Dragons could save this record. |
| Breaking Benjamin Dark Before Dawn | 3.5 |
| Wolf Alice My Love Is Cool | 3.5 |
| Leon Bridges Coming Home | 3.5 |
| Kacey Musgraves Pageant Material | 3.5 |
| Adam Lambert The Original High | 3.0 |
| FFS FFS | 3.0 |
| Muse Drones | 3.5 |
| COIN Coin | 3.0 |
| Florence and the Machine How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful | 3.5 |
| Jamie xx In Colour | 4.0 |
| Jason Derulo Everything Is 4 | 2.5 |
| Hillsong United Empires | 3.0 |
| ASAP Rocky At.Long.Last.A$AP | 3.5 |
| Brandon Flowers The Desired Effect | 3.0 |
| Zedd True Colors | 3.0 |
| Faith No More Sol Invictus | 3.5 |
| Twenty One Pilots Blurryface | 3.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Trust Fall (Side A) | 3.5 |
| Chris Stapleton Traveller | 4.0 |
| Key tracks: Traveller, Parachute, Nobody To Blame, The Devil Named Music, Outlaw State of Mind |
| Mumford and Sons Wilder Mind | 3.0 |
| My Morning Jacket The Waterfall | 3.5 |
| Zac Brown Band Jekyll + Hyde | 2.5 |
| Blur The Magic Whip | 3.5 |
| Passion Pit Kindred | 3.0 |
| Yelawolf Love Story | 3.0 |
| Alabama Shakes Sound & Color | 3.5 |
| Joywave How Do You Feel Now? | 3.5 |
| Hollywood Undead Day of the Dead | 2.0 |
| Three Days Grace Human | 2.5 |
| Darius Rucker Southern Style | 3.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Kintsugi | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell | 4.5 |
| James Bay Chaos And The Calm | 3.0 |
| Courtney Barnett sometimes i sit and think, and sometimes i just sit | 3.5 |
| Not at good as what the critics are saying about this album, but still a really good album. |
| Action Bronson Mr. Wonderful | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse Strangers to Ourselves | 3.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly | 4.5 |
| Jack U Skrillex and Diplo Present Jack U | 3.0 |
| Mat Kearney Just Kids | 3.5 |
| Elle King Love Stuff | 2.5 |
| Drake If You're Reading This It's Too Late | 3.5 |
| Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear | 4.5 |
| The Decemberists What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World | 3.5 |
| Joey Badass B4.DA.$$ | 4.0 |
| Marilyn Manson The Pale Emperor | 3.5 |
| Meghan Trainor Title | 2.0 |
| Rae Sremmurd SremmLife | 2.5 |
