| 5.0 classic |
| Alice in Chains Dirt |
| Archers of Loaf Vs. The Greatest Of All Time |
| One of the best EPs ever made. 5 classic AoL songs in a row. |
| Archers of Loaf Icky Mettle |
| Essential listening for any fan of alternative or indie rock. Same with all of Archers of Loaf's work on their original run. |
| Archers of Loaf Vee Vee |
| Archers of Loaf All the Nation's Airports |
| bar italia Tracey Denim |
| bar italia The Twits |
| This is absolute ear candy for me. The three vocalists, the feeling, the interplay of guitars. So good! |
| Barkmarket L. Ron |
| Blind Melon Blind Melon |
| Blue October Consent to Treatment |
| Blue October The Answers |
| Brad Shame |
| Built to Spill Perfect from Now On |
| Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret |
| Catherine Wheel Chrome |
| Catherine Wheel Ferment |
| Everclear Sparkle And Fade |
| Probably the best release from Everclear. Loaded with feeling and lots of great hooks. Good sound quality as well. |
| Failure Fantastic Planet |
| Fugazi Steady Diet of Nothing |
| Fugazi The Argument |
| Fugazi End Hits |
| Fugazi Red Medicine |
| Fugazi Repeater |
| Heatmiser Cop and Speeder |
| Heatmiser Mic City Sons |
| Heatmiser Yellow No. 5 |
| Most similar in sound to Cop and Speeder, this EP packs a lot of goodness into 5 songs. Sounds great, too. |
| Helmet Betty |
| I Mother Earth Dig |
| I Mother Earth Scenery & Fish |
| Jimmie's Chicken Shack Pushing the Salmanilla Envelope |
| One of my favorite albums. It's like a weird combination of alternative rock that throws in some funk and metal sounds. The guitar and bass are both uniquely awesome. Lots of good lyrics as well. |
| June of 44 Tropics and Meridians |
| June of 44 Four Great Points |
| Limblifter Bellaclava |
| Incredible album. Songwriting, lyrics, drumming. It's all there. |
| Local H Ham Fisted |
| Local H As Good as Dead |
| Local H Pack Up the Cats |
| Our Lady Peace Naveed |
| Our Lady Peace Clumsy |
| Pinback This Is a Pinback CD |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa |
| Pixies Doolittle |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf |
| This is about as good as music gets for me. If only the dynamic range wasn't so low...it's quite a fatiguing listen. |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R |
| Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication |
| Rehab Southern Discomfort |
| Sam Roberts Band We Were Born In A Flame |
| Sam Roberts Band Chemical City |
| Slint Spiderland |
| Soundgarden Superunknown |
| Soundgarden Down on the Upside |
| Sparklehorse Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot |
| Stone Temple Pilots Tiny Music... Songs From the Vatican Gift Shop |
| A very underrated album with great sound quality as well. |
| Stone Temple Pilots Purple |
| Stone Temple Pilots Core |
| Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb |
| Probably the best ska album ever made. The intricate horn section, the genius lyrics, the insane drumming, and the almost metal-ish-at-times punk guitar. It all comes together to form something so good it's hard to imagine how it all came to be. |
| Sunny Day Real Estate How It Feels To Be Something On |
| Such an incredibly solid album. The only low point is "The Prophet" with its odd chanting, but otherwise the album is full of incredibly well-written songs that pull at your brain strings. |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Diary |
| Superdrag Head Trip in Every Key |
| Sad to see no one has reviewed this. I would, but I suck at reviewing. This album is amazing. Probably Superdrag's most well accomplished work. |
| Swervedriver Mezcal Head |
| The Breeders Pod |
| Not only is the music great on this, the sound quality is superb. But that's what you get with Albini. Powerful drums and great dynamic range. Raw and yet clean. Awesome. |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
| The White Stripes De Stijl |
| The White Stripes White Blood Cells |
| The White Stripes Elephant |
| Three Mile Pilot Another Desert, Another Sea |
| Tripping Daisy Tripping Daisy |
| Tripping Daisy Jesus Hits Like The Atom Bomb |
| Psychedelic pop-rock perfected. Unfortunately marred by overly loud mastering. Still, it's excellent. |
| Tripping Daisy Bill |
| Tripping Daisy I Am an Elastic Firecracker |
| What a great album. Weird, quirky, and it sounds great. "Prick" is honestly one of the best guitar songs ever. |
| Young Jesus Young Jesus |
| 4.5 superb |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Source Tags and Codes |
| 764-HERO Salt Sinks & Sugar Floats |
| Arcade Fire Funeral |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs |
| Archers of Loaf The Speed Of Cattle |
| Audio Learning Center Friendships Often Fade Away |
| Bedhead Transaction De Novo |
| Bedhead Beheaded |
| Bedhead WhatFunLifeWas |
| Black Box Revelation Set Your Head On Fire |
| Blind Melon Soup |
| Blinker the Star August Everywhere |
| Braid Frame & Canvas |
| Braid The Age of Octeen |
| Broken Bells Broken Bells |
| Brother Cane Seeds |
| Brother Cane Wishpool |
| Built to Spill Ancient Melodies of the Future |
| I seriously have no clue why this album has such a low rating. Few bands are this consistently good throughout their time. Just listen to "Trimmed and Burning". My god. Not a single bad song on this album, and plenty of them are awesome. Most indie bands don't hold a candle. And there isn't a single bad BTS album, so I recommend getting them all if you like quality indie rock. |
| Built to Spill There's Nothing Wrong with Love |
| Built to Spill You in Reverse |
| Built to Spill There Is No Enemy |
| Burning Airlines Mission: Control! |
| Burning Airlines Identikit |
| Catherine Wheel Adam and Eve |
| Catherine Wheel Happy Days |
| Centro-Matic Redo The Stacks |
| Combining elements of indie rock (a la Archers of Loaf) with a more poppy, upbeat side to great success. |
| Cloud Nothings Turning On |
| Constantines Constantines |
| Almost like a sort of indie, art-rock form of Fugazi. Don't get me wrong, it's not Fugazi, but you can definitely hear the post-hardcore influences even though it's not. |
| Constantines Shine A Light |
| Corrosion of Conformity Deliverance |
| Cracker Kerosene Hat |
| Cracker The Golden Age |
| Death From Above 1979 You're a Woman, I'm a Machine |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
| Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 |
| Dig Dig |
| Dinosaur Jr. Beyond |
| Dinosaur Jr. Farm |
| Doughboys Crush |
| Everclear So Much For The Afterglow |
| Everclear White Trash Hell |
| Pretty solid EP from start to finish. Most of it sounds like a mix between their first two albums. "1975" is a major highlight. I recommend it for any Everclear fan. |
| Failure Comfort |
| Failure Magnified |
| Faraquet The View From This Tower |
| Finger Eleven Tip |
| Flake Music When You Land Here, It's Time To Return |
| Oddly enough I love this but don't really care for The Shins. |
| Foo Fighters Foo Fighters |
| Frog Whatever We Probably Already Had It |
| Froth Duress |
| Fugazi 13 Songs |
| Fugazi In on the Kill Taker |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz |
| Grandaddy Under the Western Freeway |
| Grandaddy The Sophtware Slump |
| Harvey Danger Where Have All The Merrymakers Gone? |
| Heatmiser Dead Air |
| Helmet Meantime |
| Hudson Bell When The Sun Is The Moon |
| Hum You'd Prefer an Astronaut |
| I Mother Earth Blue Green Orange |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights |
| Jawbox Novelty |
| Jawbox Jawbox |
| Jawbox For Your Own Special Sweetheart |
| Jawbreaker Dear You |
| Jawbreaker 24 Hour Revenge Therapy |
| Jawbreaker Bivouac |
| Jimmie's Chicken Shack Bring Your Own Stereo |
| June of 44 Engine Takes to the Water |
| Kings of Leon Because Of The Times |
| Kings of Leon Aha Shake Heartbreak |
| Kings of Leon Youth and Young Manhood |
| Limblifter Limblifter |
| I don't know how this didn't gain more popularity, but it's alternative rock with a pop-tinge at its near best. And then Limblifter goes and follows it up with an even more impressive album. |
| Local H Whatever Happened to P.J. Soles? |
| Here's an album that not enough people have heard or will hear. "Buffalo Trace" is easily one of Local H's greatest and most ambitious songs. The album is solid all the way through. The only real problem I have with it is the poor dynamic range which is typical of most music these days. |
| Love Battery Confusion Au Go Go |
| Love Battery Dayglo |
| Lungfish Feral Hymns |
| Lync These Are Not Fall Colors |
| Marcy Playground Shapeshifter |
| Marcy Playground Marcy Playground |
| Matt Mays When the Angels Make Contact |
| Matt Mays Matt Mays + El Torpedo |
| Matt Mays Terminal Romance |
| Mellowdrone Box |
| mewithoutYou A to B: Life |
| Minutemen Double Nickels on the Dime |
| Minutes Roland |
| Amazing combination of indie rock and post-hardcore. Never gets old. |
| Minutes Dirty Work |
| Minutes Minutes |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About |
| Muse Showbiz |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry |
| Neutral Milk Hotel On Avery Island |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| Nuzzle San Lorenzo's Blues |
| Overseas Overseas |
| Pavement Brighten the Corners |
| Pavement Wowee Zowee |
| Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain |
| Pavement Slanted and Enchanted |
| Pile Jerk Routine |
| Possibly my favorite Pile album. Such a great sound, and man, can Rick Maguire ever sing... |
| Pile Odds and Ends |
| One of the best compilations of non-album songs I've heard. Actually probably one of Pile's best collections of music, though they're all quite tasty so that's hard to say. If you like Pile there's no reason you won't like this. |
| Pile Magic Isn't Real |
| Pile Dripping |
| Pile You're Better Than This |
| Pile A Hairshirt of Purpose |
| Pinback Blue Screen Life |
| Pinback Offcell |
| Pixies Bossanova |
| Pixies Trompe Le Monde |
| Pond (USA) Rock Collection |
| Pond (USA) The Practice Of Joy Before Death |
| While Pond are definitely set in the '90s alt-rock sound, they differentiate themselves just enough with their wild basslines, quirky guitar, and odd, humorous lyrics. |
| Pond (USA) Pond |
| Poster Children Daisychain Reaction |
| Poster Children Tool of the Man |
| Pure (CAN) Generation 6-Pack |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze |
| Quicksand Slip |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way |
| Rehab Graffiti the World |
| Rival Schools United By Fate |
| Rusty Fluke |
| Salmonblaster Salmonblaster |
| Some of my favorite '90s alt rock. So good. It probably sounds derivative to some, but my love for it knows no bounds. It's a shame these lads only put out one album. |
| Sam Roberts Band Collider |
| Screaming Trees Dust |
| Screaming Trees Sweet Oblivion |
| Silkworm Italian Platinum |
| Silkworm It'll Be Cool |
| Silkworm Lifestyle |
| Silkworm Firewater |
| Silkworm Libertine |
| Smart Went Crazy Con Art |
| It took me a while to get into this, but now it's one of my favorite albums. It's a shame more people don't get to hear music that's this good. |
| Smart Went Crazy Now We're Even |
| Solid album with some really great alternative/post-hardcore songs. Good production, too. |
| Soundgarden Badmotorfinger |
| Sprinkler More Boy, Less Friend |
| Heavy hitting alt rock with some sweet sounding drumming. |
| Sunny Day Real Estate The Rising Tide |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Sunny Day Real Estate |
| Superdrag Regretfully Yours |
| Superdrag Last Call For Vitriol |
| Superdrag In the Valley of Dying Stars |
| Superdrag Changin' Tires on the Road to Ruin |
| Swell Too Many Days Without Thinking |
| Probably one of my favorite alt-rock albums. Makes me think of a bitter Pavement, though there's more to them than that. Good percussion as well. |
| Swingin' Utters Fistful Of Hollow |
| Systems Officer Systems Officer |
| Systems Officer Underslept |
| The Afghan Whigs 1965 |
| The Age Of Electric The Age Of Electric |
| The Breeders Title TK |
| I honestly don't get the rating for this one. Such a great listen. And the sound quality is so good...Albini's production is the best. I think I like this one even more than Pod (even though I rated that one higher) thanks to a greater variation in sound while still being classic Breeders. |
| The Breeders Last Splash |
| The Brian Jonestown Massacre The Brian Jonestown Massacre |
| The Dandy Warhols Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia |
| The Gandharvas Kicking in the Water |
| Much more consistent than the first, The Gandharva's second album continues with the former's excellent alt-rock weirdness. |
| The Grifters Crappin' You Negative |
| The Hives Tyrannosaurus Hives |
| The Hives Veni Vidi Vicious |
| The Life and Times The Flat End of the Earth |
| The New Pornographers Mass Romantic |
| The New Pornographers Electric Version |
| The New Pornographers Twin Cinema |
| The New Year The End Is Near |
| The New Year Newness Ends |
| The New Year The New Year |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Gish |
| The Tea Party Transmission |
| The Tea Party The Edges Of Twilight |
| The Tea Party Triptych |
| The Tea Party Splendor Solis |
| The Thermals Now We Can See |
| The Thermals The Body, The Blood, The Machine |
| The Tragically Hip Fully Completely |
| The Tragically Hip Trouble At The Henhouse |
| The Whigs Give 'Em All a Big Fat Lip |
| The Whigs' best album with a unique sound, interesting lyrics, and good sound quality. |
| The White Stripes The White Stripes |
| The White Stripes Icky Thump |
| Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures |
| Three Mile Pilot Maps |
| Triple Fast Action Cattlemen Don't |
| Triple Fast Action Broadcaster |
| Essential '90s alt rock. Great songwriting and great sound quality. Highly recommended. |
| Tripping Daisy Time Capsule |
| Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You |
| Verbena Into The Pink |
| Verbena Souls For Sale |
| Weezer Weezer |
| Weezer Pinkerton |
| Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary |
| Young Jesus Grow / Decompose |
| 4.0 excellent |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dea |
| Archers of Loaf White Trash Heroes |
| Audio Learning Center Cope Park |
| Black Box Revelation Silver Threats |
| Bottomless Pit Shade Perennial |
| Bottomless Pit Blood Under The Bridge |
| Bottomless Pit Hammer Of The Gods |
| Braid Frankie Welfare Boy Age Five |
| Built to Spill Ultimate Alternative Wavers |
| Built to Spill The Normal Years |
| Centro-Matic All the Falsest Hearts Can Try |
| Constantines Tournament of Hearts |
| Constantines Kensington Heights |
| Death From Above 1979 Heads Up |
| Dig Defenders Of The Universe |
| Dig Life Like |
| Dumb Seeing Green |
| Dumb Club Nites |
| Everclear World Of Noise |
| Faraquet Anthology 1997-98 |
| Gorillaz Demon Days |
| Grandaddy Sumday |
| Greys Age Hasn't Spoiled You |
| Harvey Danger Little By Little... |
| Harvey Danger King James Version |
| Hater Hater |
| Helmet Aftertaste |
| Iceage Beyondless |
| Incubus (USA-CA) A Crow Left of the Murder... |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Light Grenades |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself |
| Jawbox Grippe |
| Local H Here Comes the Zoo |
| Love Battery Straight Freak Ticket |
| Love Battery Far Gone |
| Love Battery Between the Eyes |
| Matt Mays Coyote |
| One of my favorite albums of the last few years. Matt Mays does a good job of not diluting his sound like so many artists do these days. Makes me think of what it would sound like if you mixed Sam Roberts with Tom Petty. |
| Mellowdrone Angry Bear |
| Middle Class Rut No Name No Color |
| minihorse Living Room Art |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News |
| Nada Surf High/Low |
| Our Lady Peace Happiness... |
| Pavement Terror Twilight |
| Paw Home Is a Strange Place |
| Paw Dragline |
| Paw Death to Traitors |
| Paws Cokefloat! |
| Paws Youth Culture Forever |
| peaer A Healthy Earth |
| I'm surprised by these bizarrely low ratings. This is interesting, dynamic indie-rock with some minor math influences. Well-recorded/produced and not mastered too loud like most music these days. |
| Pile Green and Gray |
| Another tasty album from Pile, but hampered by poor production and mastering. |
| Pinback Summer in Abaddon |
| Pinback Autumn of the Seraphs |
| Portugal. The Man American Ghetto |
| Pure (CAN) Pureafunalia |
| Pure (CAN) Feverish |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Less enjoyable and with a few filler songs compared to Ok Computer, but still pretty amazing. |
| Rainbow Butt Monkeys Letters from Chutney |
| Rival Schools Found |
| Surprisingly good stuff for 2013. It essentially continues in Rival Schools' impressive ability to make albums that are solid all the way through. |
| Rusty Out Of Their Heads |
| Rusty Sophomoric |
| Sam Roberts Band Love at the End of the World |
| Sandbox Bionic |
| Screaming Trees Last Words: The Final Recordings |
| Silkworm In The West |
| Silkworm Blueblood |
| Silkworm Developer |
| Static In Stereo Static In Stereo |
| Stef Chura Midnight |
| Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks Mirror Traffic |
| Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks Real Emotional Trash |
| Stone Temple Pilots No. 4 |
| Strange Ranger Daymoon |
| I must be listening to a different album than these other peeps because this is awesome and deserves more love. |
| Streetlight Manifesto Keasbey Nights |
| Superdrag The Fabulous 8-Track Sound of Superdrag |
| Superdrag Industry Giants |
| The Age Of Electric Make A Pest A Pet |
| The Black Keys Attack & Release |
| The Black Keys Magic Potion |
| The Black Keys Rubber Factory |
| The Dandy Warhols Welcome To The Monkey House |
| The Dandy Warhols Come Down |
| The Gandharvas Sold for a Smile |
| More mainstream sounding than the first two albums, but still a great set of alt-rock songs. |
| The Gandharvas A Soap Bubble and Inertia |
| A bit uneven, but awesomely weird and incredibly spacious sounding thanks to high dynamic range. |
| The Hives Lex Hives |
| The Hives Barely Legal |
| The Hives The Death Of Randy Fitzsimmons |
| The Hives are still making great music. Unfortunately, this is their worst sounding album yet. It's clearly mastered way too loud which makes it painful to listen to. Not that The Hives have ever had dynamically mastered albums, but this is their worst. |
| The New Year Snow |
| The Tea Party The Interzone Mantras |
| The Thermals Personal Life |
| The Thermals Fuckin' A |
| The Thermals More Parts Per Million |
| The Tragically Hip In Between Evolution |
| The Tragically Hip Phantom Power |
| The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan |
| Three Mile Pilot The Inevitable Past Is The Future Forgotten |
| Toadies Rubberneck |
| Ty Segall Ty Segall (2017) |
| Uzeda Quocumque jeceris stabit |
| Verbena La Musica Negra |
| Warm Drag Warm Drag |
| This is awesome. It's a shame the sound quality is so bad though. Audible clipping and terribly mastered. |
| Wax 13 Unlucky Numbers |
| Great punky power-pop album. Reminds me of Superdrag and maybe Dig, but often faster paced. Also, this Wax should have its own artist page. |
| Young Jesus The Whole Thing Is Just There |
| This album is pretty good, though I will say the "jams/improvisations" can feel a bit too much and can overstay their welcome. I find the tighter, though still sometimes freewheeling nature of the previous album works better for them. |
| Young Jesus Home |
| 3.5 great |
| Black Box Revelation My Perception |
| Brother Cane Brother Cane |
| Built to Spill Untethered Moon |
| It's true, this band is incapable of sucking. Now, it's not better than any previous albums (in my opinion), but it is quality music from the most consistently good band on earth. |
| Catherine Wheel Wishville |
| Coriky Coriky |
| Coriky is more so The Evens rather than Fugazi, but it's at least a bit more varied than The Evens. As with The Evens I care less for the songs where Amy sings as I just don't find her voice enjoyable, though she's quite a good drummer. I wish they would do more songs like "Last Thing" where the guitar playing is a bit more intricate versus straight strumming. But I'm just glad to see Ian making more music, and as per usual it's quite good. It's also not mastered too loud like most music is these days which makes it enjoyable to listen to. Hopefully we don't have to wait as long for the next album, and if Fugazi ever somehow made another album this gives me more confidence that it wouldn't be a letdown. |
| Cusp (USA-IL) You Can Do It All |
| Dinosaur Jr. I Bet on Sky |
| Grandaddy Just Like the Fambly Cat |
| I Mother Earth The Quicksilver Meat Dream |
| Jawbreaker Unfun |
| Jimmie's Chicken Shack Re.present |
| Limblifter I/O |
| Some great songs on here, but it's certainly not up to the standards of Bellaclava, nor the consistency of the self-titled album. Mastering is also too loud as is typical for albums these days. |
| Local H Hallelujah! I’m A Bum |
| Local H Hey, Killer |
| Marcy Playground MP3 |
| Middle Class Rut Pick Up Your Head |
| A pretty solid rock album marred by god-awful sound quality. |
| Middle Class Rut Gutters |
| Another good album by Middle Class Rut with terrible mastering. |
| Mike Krol Power Chords |
| Like MMM said, this isn't anything new, and quite frankly it's pretty derivative. It reminds me a lot of Sparklehorse's louder songs, especially with the vocal effects Mike employs. And maybe a little bit of Death From Above 1979. But that's all a good thing. |
| Philary I Complain |
| Fun album. Surprisingly accessible despite the onslaught of noise. The closest thing I can compare them to is Death From Above before they lost their intensity and rawness. |
| Pinback Information Retrieved |
| This is Pinback's worst album, but it's still good. I just find it too polished and it seems to be influenced in some songs by modern indie in ways that I don't care for, mainly in the vocals. The songwriting also lacks the complexity of earlier albums. As far as songs go, Drawstring is the biggest highlight for me. It sounds like it could be on a previous album more so than most of the other songs on this album. The production of the album is good other than being too polished as I said before. |
| Pure (CAN) Greed |
| Pure (CAN) Extra Purestrial |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork |
| Queens of the Stone Age In Times New Roman... |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium |
| Seether Disclaimer II |
| Seether Karma And Effect |
| Silkworm L'ajre |
| Slow Mass On Watch |
| First half is really strong, but the latter half isn't quite as compelling. I do commend them for the dynamic/quiet mastering, though the drums are a little duller sounding than ideal and production overall could be improved some. I could see them benefitting from Albini's production. Anyway, it's nice to find music like this in this day and age. |
| Soundgarden King Animal |
| Stone Temple Pilots Shangri-La-Dee-Da |
| Streetlight Manifesto The Hands That Thieve |
| The Black Keys Brothers |
| The Breeders All Nerve |
| The Dandy Warhols Dandys Rule OK? |
| The Dandy Warhols Distortland |
| The Flys Holiday Man |
| Overall a fun album. Sure, it's not that innovative, nor is it that genius, but it's an enjoyable alt-pop-rap fusion from the second half of the '90s. |
| The Tea Party The Ocean At The End |
| The Verve Pipe Villains |
| The Whigs Mission Control |
| The Whigs In The Dark |
| Toadies Feeler |
| Weezer The Green Album |
| Weezer The White Album |
| Young Jesus Welcome to Conceptual Beach |
| Not as solid as previous albums, but still some good stuff to be found here. The sax in "Pattern Doubt" comes off a bit kitschy and sounds like lounge music. Some of the percussion just seems to be a bit too freeform as well. I feel like they're most successful when sounding more like what they've done before, and that's not because I want them to just repeat themselves, but for me that's what works best on this album (and that's not to say they're repeating themselves, but rather they sound best when they sound like themselves). And as usual John Rossiter's voice is incredible, though the effect he uses in the beginning of the first song does not sound good. |
| 3.0 good |
| Blue October Foiled |
| Broken Bells After The Disco |
| Grandaddy Last Place |
| J. Robbins Un-Becoming |
| Sounds like a continuation of what J. Robbins has been doing in his other groups, but to me it's getting a bit stale. He's clearly a talented guy, but he doesn't seem to be pushing his self much in terms of songwriting. It's fine, but it also doesn't pull at the brain strings, if you know what I mean. Not only that, but this album is mastered too loud, which doesn't help things. Not to say the sound quality is terrible, but it's not really that enjoyable to turn up the volume. You'd think J. would know better considering he's a producer and obviously a musician... |
| Jack White Lazaretto |
| Jack White's second solo album delves too much into honky tonk type music for me, but the few good tracks and good dynamic range keep it from being a failure. I enjoy any of his releases with The White Stripes much more, however, as they are much more consistent in quality and are much more reliant on JW's wild guitar playing. |
| June of 44 Anahata |
| Local H 12 Angry Months |
| Nickelback Curb |
| While this album isn't anything out of the ordinary for its time, I personally enjoy it. It's infinitely better than their later "music". |
| Nickelback The State |
| In my opinion this is actually a pretty decent album. If only Nickelback stopped making music after this album... |
| Paws No Grace |
To me this represents a sizeable decline from the previous two. This one is overproduced
and the vocals sound noticeably worse. Mark Hoppus is at least partly to thank for this
one being worse as they end up sounding more like Blink 182 than ever before, which isn't
a good thing. |
| Pile All Fiction |
| Pixies Indie Cindy |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Getaway |
| Sam Roberts Band Lo-Fantasy |
| Streetlight Manifesto 99 Songs of Revolution: Volume I |
| The Hives Black and White Album |
| The New Pornographers Brill Bruisers |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Zeitgeist |
| Three Mile Pilot Chief Assassin To The Sinister |
| 2.5 average |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead So Divided |
| Archers of Loaf Reason In Decline |
They've lost all the magic they once had. You can hardly even tell it's AoL most of the
time. But what can ya expect after 24 years... |
| Black Box Revelation Highway Cruiser |
| Black Mountain Destroyer |
| Terribly mastered - sounds like garbage. Music is pretty bland, too. |
| Blue October History for Sale |
| Cloud Nothings Last Building Burning |
| Sound quality is poop. Please learn how an album should be mastered, Cloud Nothings. |
| Dinosaur Jr. Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not |
| Hovvdy Heavy Lifter |
| Why is this album so boring? I couldn't imagine making this music and having to perform it. Previous Hovvdy is better. |
| Kings of Leon Mechanical Bull |
| Kings of Leon Only By The Night |
| Limblifter Pacific Milk |
| I was pretty disappointed by this release, but most Limblifter fans seem to like it. It just doesn't have the feeling of the old Limblifter releases. The mastering is too loud as well. |
| Marcy Playground Leaving Wonderland... In a Fit of Rage |
| Matt Mays Once Upon A Hell Of A Time... |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank |
| Queens of the Stone Age Villains |
| Quicksand Interiors |
| I kinda wish Quicksand didn't use their name for this album. It's just mediocre compared to their previous albums. On its own it's an alright album, but the production sounds way too clean and it's mastered too loud, and it just doesn't sound nearly as engaging as the old stuff. If you're going to bring a band back and record a new album you better make sure it's something worth listening to. |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers I'm With You |
| Swervedriver Future Ruins |
| Middle of the road musically and mastered poorly aka dull and lifeless sounding which makes for a rather boring listen. |
| The Black Keys El Camino |
| The Tea Party Seven Circles |
| The Thermals We Disappear |
The Thermals make the same album for the seventh time now.
Okay, that's a bit of an exaggeration, but this album definitely adds nothing new other than "The Great Dying", which consists of picked chords instead of strumming the same three chords over and over, and "Years In A Day" which slows things down. The mastering is terrible on this album as well - the drums have no impact among other things. I like when a band continues sounding like the same band, but The Thermals could really do well with some experimentation. |
| The Thermals Desperate Ground |
| Weezer Everything Will Be Alright in the End |
