| 5.0 classic |
| Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde |
| Arcade Fire Funeral |
| Beach House Depression Cherry |
| Black Country, New Road Ants From Up There |
Oh, I am very young
But I am working
Working on the glow-up
Well, Isaac, I think you achieved it. Miles and miles better than that debut |
| Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited |
| Bonnie 'Prince' Billy I See a Darkness |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism |
| Drive-By Truckers Decoration Day |
| Ethel Cain Preacher's Daughter |
| GOD LOVES YOU, BUT NOT ENOUGH TO SAVE YOU |
| Ethel Cain Inbred |
| Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear |
| One of the most hilarious albums I've ever heard, and at the same time a cutting satire of love in the modern age, a collection of wonderfully arranged psychedelic folk songs with beautiful melodies, and the best album of 2015. I am willing to bet this will become one of the iconic albums of our era. Don't be surprised when this shows up on lists of both the best of 2015 and, eventually, the best of the 2010s. |
| James McMurtry Complicated Game |
| Jason Isbell Southeastern |
| John Moreland In The Throes |
| Lambchop Nixon |
| Lambchop Is a Woman |
| A warm, patient, atmospheric masterpiece. |
| Lucinda Williams Car Wheels on a Gravel Road |
| An absolute masterpiece of American roots music. Lucinda Williams seamlessly blends country, folk, rock, and a bit of blues to create a beautiful paean to love and home and desire. The stories she tells convey real emotion, and you can tell she is feeling every moment, from the palpable longing of "Right In Time" to the gorgeous escapist journey of "Jackson". Even if you're not from the South, this album can make you feel like you've lived there forever. It's that powerful. |
| Magnolia Electric Co Magnolia Electric Co |
| Midnight Choir Amsterdam Stranded |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless |
| Neko Case Blacklisted |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| Phosphorescent Muchacho |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Silver Jews American Water |
| Slowdive Souvlaki |
| Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space |
| Sturgill Simpson A Sailor's Guide To Earth |
I'm calling it right now, this will by my AOTY.
Update: Yep, this slays. |
| Sunhouse Crazy on the Weekend |
| Stunning. An extremely beautiful and powerful album. I'm only a few listens in and it already destroys me. |
| Swirlies They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days in the Glittering World of the Salons |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock |
| The Decemberists The King Is Dead |
| The Mekons Fear And Whiskey |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me |
| Best listened to at 3 AM, lying in bed, lights out, headphones on. |
| The National High Violet |
| The National Boxer |
| The National Alligator |
| The National Sleep Well Beast |
| "There's also a pond right outside the studio that just constantly gets wildlife - bullfrogs and turtles and herons and ducks landing on it. It's hard to be a dick when you look out the window and there's this tranquil pond."r--Matt Berninger |
| The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream |
| The Weakerthans Reconstruction Site |
| Waxahatchee Tigers Blood |
| Wednesday Rat Saw God |
| This is exactly the level-up I was hoping for after the already amazing Twin Plagues. Hartzman's lyrics have reached an even greater level of specific and evocative detail in their portrayal of Southern youth, and her vocal delivery is stunning in its level of passion and nuance. The band fires on all cylinders as well from the powerful, punishing highs to the gorgeous subtler moments. This album confirms Wednesday as the best band we have right now. Bootgaze has found its defining statement. |
| Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot |
| Wilco Summerteeth |
| 4.5 superb |
| 40 Watt Sun Wider than the Sky |
| 40 Watt Sun Perfect Light |
| Acetone Acetone |
| Acetone York Blvd. |
| Acetone's final album presents an almost classic rock version of the band, with greater energy overall and more pronounced influences from psychedelic and blues rock largely superseding the country flavors that were more pronounced on the band's self-titled album. The album is structured more like a vinyl-era LP as well, with the first half containing relatively tight rock songs and the second half consisting mostly of more drawn-out slowcore tunes. Even more so than its predecessor, York Blvd. is a document of a band in peak form; if their song structures are not always particularly interesting, the band always sound perfectly locked in to each other, Richie Lee and Steve Hadley's rhythm section providing solid foundational grooves with plenty of subtlety that perfectly complement Mark Lightcap's guitar work. There's nothing terribly "heady" about this music but it's hard to complain when it goes down so damn smoothly. Just absolutely lovely stuff - it's an absolute shame things had to end they way they did for these guys. |
| Alcest Kodama |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune |
| Alex G House Of Sugar |
| fuck me I cried to this already |
| Alvvays Blue Rev |
| American Football American Football EP |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion |
| Animal Collective Feels |
| Anna and Elizabeth The Invisible Comes to Us |
| Anna von Hausswolff Dead Magic |
| Anna von Hausswolff Live at Montreux Jazz Festival |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible |
| Beach House Teen Dream |
| Big Thief Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You |
| Bill Callahan Apocalypse |
| Bill Callahan Gold Record |
| Blake Mills Heigh Ho |
| Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Brandi Carlile Bear Creek |
| Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People |
| Built to Spill Perfect from Now On |
| Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret |
| Caladan Brood Echoes Of Battle |
| Calexico and Iron and Wine In the Reins |
| Carissa's Wierd Ugly But Honest: 1996-1999 |
| Cass McCombs Mangy Love |
| Catherine Wheel Chrome |
| Cocteau Twins Treasure |
| Cocteau Twins Blue Bell Knoll |
| Yo why the F*CK does this not have a review or even any soundoffs?? |
| Cocteau Twins Heaven or Las Vegas |
| Cymbals Eat Guitars LOSE |
| David Bowie Station to Station |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars |
| Dawes Nothing Is Wrong |
| Dawes All Your Favorite Bands |
| Dead Can Dance Within the Realm of a Dying Sun |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| Death Leprosy |
| Death Cab for Cutie We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes |
| Death Cab for Cutie The Stability EP |
| Death Cab for Cutie Plans |
| Death Cab for Cutie The Photo Album |
| Delta Spirit History From Below |
| Destroyer Destroyer's Rubies |
| Destroyer Kaputt |
| Drive-By Truckers The Dirty South |
| Drive-By Truckers Southern Rock Opera |
| Drive-By Truckers American Band |
| ee Ramadan |
| Eels Electro-Shock Blues |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or |
| Empty Country Empty Country |
| Empty Country Empty Country II |
| Ethel Cain Golden Age |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place |
| Felicia Atkinson and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma Limpid as the Solitudes |
| Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters |
| Fishmans Long Season |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues |
| Gavin Clark Beautiful Skeletons |
| Gillian Welch Revival |
| A gorgeous Americana journey. Welch and her partner Rawlings succeed in evoking the dreamy feel of a bygone era. |
| Gillian Welch Time (The Revelator) |
| Glenn Branca The Ascension |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
| Grave Saddles 2022 Tour Tape |
| Guy Clark Old No. 1 |
| Home Is Where The Whaler |
| Honey Harper Starmaker |
| Hop Along Painted Shut |
| Hop Along Bark Your Head Off, Dog |
| Hop Along Freshman Year |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights |
| James McMurtry The Horses and the Hounds |
| Jason Isbell Something More Than Free |
| Jason Isbell Weathervanes |
| Jens Lekman Life Will See You Now |
| Jim O'Rourke Bad Timing |
| Jim O'Rourke Eureka |
| Joanna Newsom Divers |
| John Mayer Continuum |
| John Moreland High on Tulsa Heat |
| Joni Mitchell Blue |
| Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour |
| Sputniks Resident Country Enthusiast STAMP OF APPROVAL |
| Kali Malone The Sacrificial Code |
| Kali Malone All Life Long |
| Karate Unsolved |
| Lambchop The Bible |
| Lambchop Mr. M |
| Lambchop FLOTUS |
| Lambchop OH (Ohio) |
| Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell! |
| Laura Marling Alas, I Cannot Swim |
| Lift to Experience The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads |
| Little Kid A Million Easy Payments |
| Low I Could Live in Hope |
| Low Trust |
| Lucinda Williams Lucinda Williams |
| Marvin Gaye What's Going On |
| Mercury Rev Yerself Is Steam |
| Mitski bury me at makeout creek |
| MJ Lenderman MJ Lenderman |
| MJ Lenderman Boat Songs |
| MJ Lenderman Live And Loose! |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About |
| Modest Mouse Building Nothing Out of Something |
| Mount Eerie A Crow Looked At Me |
| My Bloody Valentine Tremolo |
| My Morning Jacket Z |
| Neil Young On the Beach |
| Neil Young Tonight's the Night |
| Neil Young Rust Never Sleeps |
| Neko Case Fox Confessor Brings The Flood |
| nouns Lonely Place of Dyin |
| Orville Peck Bronco |
| Patti Smith Horses |
| Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain |
| Phosphorescent Pride |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon |
| PJ Harvey Let England Shake |
| PJ Harvey Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea |
| PJ Harvey To Bring You My Love |
| PJ Harvey Is This Desire? |
| PJ Harvey White Chalk |
| Portishead Dummy |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool |
| Red House Painters Down Colorful Hill |
| Red House Painters Red House Painters |
| Ride Nowhere |
| Ryan Adams Heartbreaker |
| Shame (UK) Drunk Tank Pink |
| Shannen Moser The Sun Still Seems to Move |
| Sharon Van Etten Are We There |
| Don't worry, Sharon, nobody's calling you a one hit wonder after this one. |
| Sigur Ros ( ) |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun |
| Silver Jews The Natural Bridge |
| Slint Spiderland |
| Slint Slint |
| Slowdive Slowdive |
| Slowdive Pygmalion |
| Sparklehorse It's a Wonderful Life |
| Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga |
| Spoon Kill the Moonlight |
| Spoon Girls Can Tell |
| Steve Earle El Corazón |
| Sturgill Simpson Metamodern Sounds In Country Music |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell Live |
| Sufjan Stevens Javelin |
| Sun Kil Moon Ghosts of the Great Highway |
| Sun Kil Moon Benji |
| Sun Kil Moon Admiral Fell Promises |
| Sunny Day Real Estate How It Feels To Be Something On |
| Talk Talk Spirit of Eden |
| Tame Impala Lonerism |
| The Antlers Hospice |
| The Beach Boys Pet Sounds |
| The Beatles Abbey Road |
| The Beatles Revolver |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul |
| The Brave Little Abacus Masked Dancers |
| The Brave Little Abacus Just Got Back from the Discomfort... |
| The Chameleons Script of the Bridge |
| The Chameleons Strange Times |
| The Chameleons Tony Fletcher Walked on Water.... |
| The Decemberists The Hazards of Love |
| The Decemberists Picaresque |
| The Decemberists Castaways and Cutouts |
| The Delgados Hate |
| The For Carnation The For Carnation |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There |
| The Microphones Mount Eerie |
| The Mountain Goats Transcendental Youth |
| The National Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers |
| The National Cherry Tree |
| The Shins Chutes Too Narrow |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead |
| The Twilight Sad Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters |
| The War On Drugs A Deeper Understanding |
| I can't remember the last time a new release destroyed me this thoroughly, this quickly. Criticisms will probably come later, but for now, I'm just going to let it all wash over me. |
| The Weakerthans Left and Leaving |
| The Who Who's Next |
| The Wrens The Meadowlands |
| Tindersticks Tindersticks |
| Townes Van Zandt Townes Van Zandt |
| Turnpike Troubadours Diamonds and Gasoline |
| Uboa The Origin Of My Depression |
| Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City |
| We Were Promised Jetpacks These Four Walls |
| Wednesday Twin Plagues |
I definitely overlooked this last year because this is really awesome stuff. The band's mixture of noisy shoegaze and alt-country fits my taste to a T and Hartzman's lyrics and especially her passionate vocals are to die for. Very consistent
quality across this thing, but it does feel like this could use some more tracks with a tad more oomph to bring the whole thing to the next level. Their covers album from 2022 suggests they're trending toward a more even mix of shoegaze and alt-
country and if the proper follow-up to this album follows that trend we could be in for an even bigger treat next time around. |
| Wilco The Whole Love |
| Wilco Being There |
| Willi Carlisle Critterland |
| William Tyler Modern Country |
| Willie Nelson Phases and Stages |
| Wye Oak Civilian |
| Yo La Tengo Painful |
| Yo La Tengo Fade |
| Yuck Yuck |
| 4.0 excellent |
| 12 Rods Gay? |
| 40 Watt Sun The Inside Room |
| A Country Western Life on the Lawn |
| A Place to Bury Strangers Exploding Head |
| Adorable Against Perfection |
| Adrianne Night Songs |
| Adrianne Lenker Bright Future |
| Advance Base Animal Companionship |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain |
| Aine O'Dwyer Music for Church Cleaners Vol. I and II |
| Airiel Molten Young Lovers |
| Maybe the best shoegaze of the year, GET ON IT PEEPS |
| Alabama Shakes Sound & Color |
| Alcest Les Voyages De L'Âme |
| Alcest Le Secret (2011 Version) |
| Alex G God Save The Animals |
| Alice in Chains Jar of Flies |
| alt-J An Awesome Wave |
| Alter Pendulum |
| Alvvays Antisocialites |
| American Football American Football |
| American Music Club California |
| Amesoeurs Ruines Humaines |
| Angel Olsen My Woman |
| Angel Olsen All Mirrors |
| Angel Olsen Strange Cacti |
| Animal Collective Strawberry Jam |
| Animal Collective Fall Be Kind |
| Animal Collective Water Curses |
| Animal Collective Campfire Songs |
| Animal Collective Ark |
| Anna von Hausswolff All Thoughts Fly |
| Anna von Hausswolff The Miraculous |
| Anohni and the Johnsons My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross |
| Arab Strap Philophobia |
| Arab Strap As Days Get Dark |
| Archers of Loaf Icky Mettle |
| Asobi Seksu Citrus |
| bar italia Tracey Denim |
| Bark Psychosis Hex |
| Bark Psychosis Codename: Dustsucker |
| Bark Psychosis Independency |
| Bathory Blood Fire Death |
| Beach House 7 |
| Beck Sea Change |
| Beck Midnite Vultures |
| Beck Odelay |
| Beck Mutations |
| Bedhead WhatFunLifeWas |
| Bedhead Beheaded |
| Bedhead The Dark Ages |
| Belong October Language |
| Ben Howard Is It? |
| Ben Howard Noonday Dream |
| Big Red Machine Big Red Machine (EP) |
| Big Thief U.F.O.F. |
| Bill Callahan Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle |
| Bill Callahan Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest |
| Bill Callahan Dream River |
| Bill Callahan YTI⅃AƎЯ |
| Bitch Magnet Umber |
| Black Country, New Road Live at Bush Hall |
| Black Eyes Black Eyes |
| Blake Mills Mutable Set |
| Blonde Redhead Misery is a Butterfly |
| Bluetile Lounge Half-Cut |
| Bluetile Lounge Lowercase |
| Bob Dylan Desire |
| Bob Dylan The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver |
| Boris Pink |
| Brand New Science Fiction |
| Strange, I didn't realize Coldplay were reissuing X&Y. |
| Brand New Daisy |
| Brand New Deja Entendu |
| Brandi Carlile The Firewatcher's Daughter |
| Brandi Carlile By the Way, I Forgive You |
| Brandi Carlile Give up the Ghost |
| Breathless Green to Blue |
| Brent Cobb Shine On Rainy Day |
| Broken Social Scene Feel Good Lost |
| Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene |
| Built to Spill You in Reverse |
| Calexico Feast of Wire |
| Calexico The Black Light |
| Calexico Garden Ruin |
| Cap'n Jazz Shmap'n Shmazz |
| Car Seat Headrest Teens of Denial |
| Carissa's Wierd You Should Be At Home Here |
| Carlos Paredes Guitarra Portuguesa |
| Caroline Polachek Pang |
| When she said, "Show me the banana," I felt that. |
| Case/Lang/Veirs Case/Lang/Veirs |
| An absolutely gorgeous collection of smart chamber folk songs by three strong voices. With more listens this could be a strong AOTY contender. Recommended songs: Atomic Number, Delirium, Greens of June, Behind the Armory, I Want To Be Here, Down I-5. |
| Cass McCombs Wit's End |
| Cass McCombs Heartmind |
| Cat Power Moon Pix |
| Chris Stapleton Traveller |
| Chris Stapleton From A Room: Volume 1 |
| Another excellent effort from Chris Stapleton. This one's impressively concise, clocking in at only half the length of his previous album, but it manages to be equally satisfying. Bring on Volume 2. |
| Chris Stapleton Starting Over |
| CHVRCHES Screen Violence |
| Cigarettes After Sex Cigarettes After Sex |
| City of Caterpillar City of Caterpillar |
| City of Caterpillar Mystic Sisters |
| Cloud Nothings Attack on Memory |
| CMAT If My Wife New I'd Be Dead |
| Cocteau Twins Garlands |
| Cocteau Twins Head Over Heels |
| Cocteau Twins Love's Easy Tears |
| Codeine Frigid Stars |
| Codeine Barely Real |
| Codeine The White Birch |
| Codeine Dessau |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head |
| Coldplay Parachutes |
| Cory Hanson Western Cum |
| Courtney Barnett sometimes i sit and think, and sometimes i just sit |
| Pretty damn good until the last track kills the momentum and almost makes you forget how great the rest of it was. "Boxing Day Blues" just should not have been kept on the track listing. "Kim's Caravan" works so much better as a closing track, and if that were the end the album would still have 10 tracks and be 40 minutes, a totally appropriate album length. Nonetheless, you are missing out if you haven't checked this out yet. |
| Cowboy Junkies The Trinity Session |
| Craig Finn I Need a New War |
| Daniel Rossen You Belong There |
| Darkside Darkside |
| Darkside Psychic |
| Daughters You Won't Get What You Want |
| Daughters Daughters |
| David Bowie Hunky Dory |
| David Bowie Blackstar |
| David Kauffman and Eric Caboor Songs From Suicide Bridge |
| David Sylvian Secrets of the Beehive |
| Dawes Stories Don't End |
| Dawes Misadventures of Doomscroller |
| Dead Can Dance The Serpent's Egg |
| Dead Can Dance Spleen and Ideal |
| Deafcult Auras |
| Death Human |
| Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs |
| Death Cab for Cutie Asphalt Meadows |
| Death Cab for Cutie Forbidden Love |
| Deathprod Morals and Dogma |
| Deer Tick Negativity |
| Deer Tick War Elephant |
| Deerhunter Fading Frontier |
| Deerhunter Monomania |
| Deerhunter Halcyon Digest |
| Deerhunter Microcastle |
| Delta Spirit Into the Wide |
| Destroyer Your Blues |
| Destroyer Streethawk: A Seduction |
| Destroyer LABYRINTHITIS |
| Difference Engine Breadmaker |
| Dirty Three Horse Stories |
| Dirty Three Ocean Songs |
| Dogwood Tales Too Hard to Tell |
| Dogwood Tales Closest Thing to Heaven |
| Drab Majesty Modern Mirror |
| Drive-By Truckers English Oceans |
| Drive-By Truckers Brighter Than Creation's Dark |
| Drive-By Truckers A Blessing and a Curse |
| Drive-By Truckers Welcome 2 Club XIII |
| Drop Nineteens Delaware |
| Drudkh Autumn Aurora |
| Dry Cleaning Stumpwork |
| Duster Together |
| Slowcore gang, assemble! |
| East River Pipe Poor Fricky |
| Eels Beautiful Freak |
| Ellen Arkbro and Johan Graden I Get Along Without You Very Well |
| Elliott Smith XO |
| Elliott Smith Roman Candle |
| Elliott Smith Elliott Smith |
| Elliott Smith Figure 8 |
| Elliott Smith From a Basement on the Hill |
| Elliott Smith New Moon |
| Emily Scott Robinson Traveling Mercies |
| Emily Scott Robinson American Siren |
| Endling The Heavy Frigate |
| Ethel Cain Carpet Bed EP |
| Father John Misty Pure Comedy |
Prepare your bodies for the greatest album ever known to man.
Edit 3/15: I'm a bit saddened by these low ratings... Nonetheless I'm going to wait for the official release and give it an open-minded shot. I'm guessing that this album is intentionally divisive on Tillman's part and while I know he's not for everyone I still love the shit out of I Love You, Honeybear and I have a feeling I'm going to adore this too. Fuck the haters. |
| Fennesz Endless Summer |
| Fiona Apple When the Pawn... |
| Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel... |
| Fishmans Uchuu Nippon Setagaya |
| y dis no hav revue? |
| FKA Twigs Magdalene |
| Fleet Foxes Shore |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes |
| Fleet Foxes Sun Giant |
| Fleet Foxes Crack-Up |
| Florry The Holey Bible |
| Flotation Toy Warning The Machine That Made Us |
| Flotation Toy Warning Bluffer's Guide to the Flight Deck |
| Fontaines D.C. Skinty Fia |
| Foxing Dealer |
| Freakwater Old Paint |
| Friendship Shock Out of Season |
| Frightened Rabbit The Midnight Organ Fight |
| Fugazi Repeater |
| Fugazi Red Medicine |
| Fugazi 13 Songs |
| Fugazi The Argument |
| Galaxie 500 On Fire |
| Galaxie 500 This is Our Music |
| Gas Pop |
| George Clanton 100% Electronica |
| Giles Corey Giles Corey |
| Gillian Welch Hell Among the Yearlings |
| Gillian Welch Boots No. 1: The Official Revival Bootleg |
| Gillian Welch Soul Journey |
| Gillian Welch The Harrow And The Harvest |
| Gillian Welch and David Rawlings All the Good Times |
| Good Night and Good Morning Narrowing Type |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World |
| Gospel The Loser |
| Grandaddy The Sophtware Slump |
| Grant Lee Buffalo Fuzzy |
| Grant Lee Buffalo Mighty Joe Moon |
| Grave Saddles There You Ain't |
| Great Grandpa Four of Arrows |
| Greet Death New Hell |
| Greet Death New Low |
| Gris Il Était Une Forêt... |
| Grizzly Bear Horn of Plenty |
| Grizzly Bear Yellow House |
| Grouper A I A |
| Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill |
| Grouper Ruins |
| Grouper Paradise Valley |
| Grouper Shade |
| Grouper Water People |
| Grouper Cover the Windows and the Walls |
| I am familiar with pretty much all of Liz Harris's most popular/significant releases (her unique blending of singer/songwriter and psychedelic folk instrumentation with ambient and drone composition was one of the first forms of ambient music that really clicked with me) so Cover the Windows and the Walls represents one of my first forays into the fringes of her catalogue. This comes after my having finally fallen in love with ambient and drone music in the last couple years, and indeed I'm glad I waited to hear this because I might not have appreciated it as much when I was first getting into Grouper. "Murky" is the first word that comes to mind to describe this music. The echoes of conventional songs are here, but obscured by layers of reverb and feedback such that any conventional song structure is virtually undetectable; this is ambient music through and through. And in that sense it's quite successful, with many gorgeous textures forming the foundation of the music, paired with beautiful and subtle melodies (vocal and instrumental) that drift in and out of focus, urging the listener into a sort of trancelike state. The foundation is well-laid here for the sounds Harris would explore in her next several releases, and this would certainly not be the first Grouper album I'd recommend to anybody who is not decently well-acquainted with ambient music, Cover the Windows and the Walls certainly deserves to be in the conversation as one of Harris's many excellent releases, and makes me even more exited to dig into her other less-heard albums. |
| Guy Clark Dublin Blues |
| Haley Heynderickx I Need to Start a Garden |
| Hannah Frances Keeper of the Shepherd |
| Hans Chew Open Sea |
| Harmony Rockets Lachesis Clotho Atropos |
| Harold Budd Abandoned Cities |
| Harold Budd and Brian Eno Ambient 2 - The Plateaux of Mirror |
| Harp Albion |
| Hatchie Keepsake |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness |
| Have a Nice Life The Unnatural World |
| Have a Nice Life Sea of Worry |
| Hayes Carll Trouble in Mind |
| Here Swirl |
| Hiss Golden Messenger Haw |
| Hold Music The Infinite Sigh |
| Home Is Where I Became Birds |
| Home Is Where/Record Setter dissection lesson |
| Honey Harper Honey Harper and the Infinite Sky |
| Horse Jumper of Love Horse Jumper of Love |
| Hum Downward Is Heavenward |
| Ian Noe Between The Country |
| Ian Noe River Fools and Mountain Saints |
| Idaho Year After Year |
| Immortal Pure Holocaust |
| Immortal At the Heart of Winter |
| Interpol Antics |
| Iron And Wine Our Endless Numbered Days |
| Iron And Wine Light Verse |
| My personal experience with Iron and Wine is rather limited considering Sam Beam's massive catalogue, so I was not quite sure what to expect when listening to Light Verse, but what I found, after some careful listening, is a truly excellent folk album composed by a master seemingly near or at the top of his craft (and if this isn't the case, then I have truly done myself a disservice in not exploring more of Beam's discography). Light Verse is a carefully composed, subtly beautiful suite encompassing a range of influences, all anchored by Beam's gorgeous melodies and lyrics. The arrangement of acoustic instruments and textures is simply a pleasure to listen to, especially when it is intertwined with orchestration and progressive song structures as on highlights such as opener "You Never Know," album centerpiece "Taken By Surprise," and the climatic (and cinematic) "Tears That Don't Matter." The mixture of lush chamber folk with melodic indie folk pop and Americana textures (and occasionally structures) and Beam's masterful songwriting is consistently rewarding to bask in, although some moments do not quite land, and many of the best ones may not reveal themselves at first. Given how little I know of the Iron and Wine oeuvre maybe this is all par for the course, but I am certainly surprised it has not received a more enthusiastic reception. Regardless, I am now finally convinced I need to better acquaint myself with Sam Beam's work, because Light Verse is an absolute highlight for me in a year that is already very strong for folk and country/Americana. |
| ITEM Sad Light |
| Jake Xerxes Fussell Good and Green Again |
| James McMurtry Where'd You Hide the Body |
| James McMurtry Saint Mary of the Woods |
| James McMurtry It Had to Happen |
| Japanese Breakfast Jubilee |
| Jason Molina Pyramid Electric Co. |
| Jefre Cantu-Ledesma Love is a Stream |
| Jefre Cantu-Ledesma In Summer |
| Jefre Cantu-Ledesma Bloodstream Sermon |
| Jeromes Dream The Gray In Between |
| Jeromes Dream Seeing Means More Than Safety |
| Jerry Joseph The Beautiful Madness |
| Jessica Pratt Here In the Pitch |
| Jesu Silver |
| Jim O'Rourke The Visitor |
| Jim O'Rourke Halfway to a Threeway |
| Jim O'Rourke Insignificance |
| Jim O'Rourke Simple Songs |
| Joanna Newsom Ys |
| John Fahey Fare Forward Voyagers (Soldier's Choice) |
| John Mayer Born and Raised |
| John Mayer Trio Try! |
| John Moreland Big Bad Luv |
| John Moreland Birds In The Ceiling |
| John Moreland Visitor |
| John Prine John Prine |
| Joni Mitchell Court and Spark |
| Josh Rouse Nashville |
| Joshua Burnside Into the Depths of Hell |
| Joy Division Closer |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures |
| Jukka Nousiainen Jukka Nousiainen |
| Julia Holter Have You In My Wilderness |
| Julia Holter Aviary |
| Julia Holter Loud City Song |
| Julia Holter Something in the Room She Moves |
| Kacey Musgraves Same Trailer Different Park |
| Kali Malone Living Torch |
| Kali Malone Does Spring Hide Its Joy |
| Karate The Bed is in The Ocean |
| Kathleen Edwards Failer |
| King's Daughters and Sons If Then Not When |
| Kitchens Of Distinction Strange Free World |
| Klaus Schulze Irrlicht |
| Knife in the Water Plays One Sound and Others |
| Kurt Vile b'lieve i'm goin' down... |
| Kurt Vile Wakin on a Pretty Daze |
| Lambchop How I Quit Smoking |
| Lambchop What Another Man Spills |
| Lambchop Thriller |
| Lambchop Damaged |
| Lambchop This (is what I wanted to tell you) |
| AOTY 2019 is already settled, everyone else can take the year off. |
| Lambchop Showtunes |
| For two listens I was skeptical but it clicked. This band can do no wrong. |
| Lankum False Lankum |
| Laura Marling Once I Was an Eagle |
| Laura Marling Semper Femina |
| Lavender Country Lavender Country |
| Lenny Valentino Uwaga! Jedzie tramwaj |
| Lil Ugly Mane Volcanic Bird Enemy and the Voiced Concern |
| Lilys Eccsame The Photon Band |
| Lisa Germano Geek The Girl |
| Lissie Back To Forever |
| Lovesliescrushing Bloweyelashwish |
| Lovesliescrushing Xuvetyn |
| Low Double Negative |
| Low Long Division |
| Low Things We Lost in the Fire |
| Low Christmas |
| Low Hey What |
| LSD and the Search for God LSD and the Search for God |
| Lucinda Williams Essence |
| Lucinda Williams Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone |
| The 20-track Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone is an immense return to form for Lucinda Williams, her best since her 1998 classic, Car Wheels On a Gravel Road. She drops the murky, plodding atmospheres and improves massively upon the songwriting of much of her other post-Car Wheels work. Disc 1 is definitely the better of the two, and one can't shake the feeling that she could have made a much better album - hell, maybe even another classic - by cutting this in half or doing two albums, but what we are left with is still an excellent album from one of Americana's greats. |
| Lucinda Williams Sweet Old World |
| An stunning, bittersweet alt-country album with traces of death running through it, Sweet Old World is in many ways Car Wheels On a Gravel Road 1.0, though that appellation is a bit reductive. |
| Lucinda Williams The Ghosts of Highway 20 |
| Lucinda Williams West |
| Lush Spooky |
| Lush Lovelife |
| Lync These Are Not Fall Colors |
| Mac DeMarco This Old Dog |
| I'm surprised at the lower ratings compared to his other albums. Personally I think this is Mac's best album yet. The vibe is as chill as ever, there's some wonderful production and smaller sonic touches, and the songwriting is more emotionally substantial than on his past efforts. Well done, Mac. |
| Mannequin Pussy Patience |
| Maria BC Spike Field |
| Mark Hollis Mark Hollis |
| Mary Jane Dunphe Stage Of Love |
| Matt Maltese Bad Contestant |
| Melody's Echo Chamber Bon Voyage |
| Melody's Echo Chamber Emotional Eternal |
| Menomena Moms |
| Mercury Rev Deserter's Songs |
| Mercury Rev All Is Dream |
| mewithoutYou Ten Stories |
| Michael Kiwanuka Love and Hate |
| Mid-Air Thief Crumbling |
| Midnight Choir Unsung Heroine |
| Miles Davis In a Silent Way |
| Mineral The Power of Failing |
| MJ Lenderman Knockin’ |
| MJ Lenderman Ghost of Your Guitar Solo |
| MJ Lenderman Lucky |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News |
| Modest Mouse Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank |
| Modest Mouse No One's First, and You're Next |
| Modest Mouse Sad Sappy Sucker |
| Mojave 3 Excuses For Travelers |
| Mount Eerie Now Only |
| Murmuure Murmuure |
| My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything |
| My Bloody Valentine You Made Me Realise |
| My Bloody Valentine Ecstasy and Wine |
| My Morning Jacket It Still Moves |
| Nash To Stoudemire Faucet |
| Neil Young Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere |
| Neil Young After the Gold Rush |
| Neil Young Harvest |
| Neil Young Zuma |
| Neko Case The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight... |
| Neko Case Furnace Room Lullaby |
| Neko Case Hell-On |
| Neutral Milk Hotel On Avery Island |
| Nicole Dollanganger Natural Born Losers |
| Nilufer Yanya Painless |
| nouns While of Unsound Mind |
| Okkervil River Don't Fall In Love With Everyone You See |
| Old 97s Too Far to Care |
| MY NAME'S STEWART RANSOM MILLER, I'M A SERIAL LADY-KILLER |
| Old Saw Country Tropics |
| Oldstar On the Run |
| Origami Angel Gami Gang |
| Paddy Hanna Frankly, I Mutate |
| Palace Music Lost Blues and Other Songs |
| Palace Music Viva Last Blues |
| Papa M Whatever, Mortal |
| Parannoul To See the Next Part of the Dream |
| Parannoul After The Magic |
| Parannoul / Asian Glow / sonhos tomam conta Downfall of the Neon Youth |
| Patty Griffin American Kid |
| Pauline Oliveros / Stuart Dempster / Panaiotis Deep Listening |
| Pavement Wowee Zowee |
| Pavement Brighten the Corners |
| Pavement Terror Twilight |
| Pedro the Lion Phoenix |
| Penfold Amateurs and Professionals |
| Perfume Genius Ugly Season |
| Peter Silberman Impermanence |
| Phil Cook and His Feat Southland Mission |
| A wonderful, feel-good set of easygoing and uplifting country rock and Americana tunes. Some great tasty guitar playing on display here, and the chorus harmonies give the recording great warmth. Perfect stuff to play when you're feeling a bit down, or when you just want to kick back and relax on a sunny afternoon. |
| Phoebe Bridgers Stranger in the Alps |
| Phosphorescent The BBC Sessions |
| Phosphorescent Here's To Taking It Easy |
| Phosphorescent The Weight Of Flight |
| Phosphorescent Revelator |
| Pinback This Is a Pinback CD |
| Pinback Blue Screen Life |
| Pinback Offcell |
| Pinegrove Cardinal |
| Pixies Doolittle |
| Pixies Trompe Le Monde |
| PJ Harvey Rid of Me |
| PJ Harvey Dry |
| Planning for Burial Below the House |
| Portishead Portishead |
| Portishead Third |
| Pospulenn Sun People Sleepwalker |
| Preoccupations Viet Cong |
| Protomartyr Ultimate Success Today |
| Protomartyr The Agent Intellect |
| Purple Mountains Purple Mountains |
| Rachel's The Sea and the Bells |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs |
| Radiohead In Rainbows Disk 2 |
| Radiohead Knives Out |
| Rafael Toral Spectral Evolution |
| Ramper Nuestros mejores deseos |
| Ray LaMontagne Till the Sun Turns Black |
| Red House Painters Red House Painters II |
| Red House Painters Ocean Beach |
| Red House Painters Songs for a Blue Guitar |
| Red House Painters Old Ramon |
| Rex C |
| Rex Waltz |
| Richard Shindell Sparrows Point |
| Richmond Fontaine You Can't Go Back if There's Nothing to Go Back To |
| Richmond Fontaine Winnemucca |
| Richmond Fontaine Post To Wire |
| Ride Going Blank Again |
| Rodan Rusty |
| Rodriguez Cold Fact |
| Rollerskate Skinny Horsedrawn Wishes |
| Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It |
| wtf I love mathcore now |
| Ruston Kelly Shape and Destroy |
| Ryan Adams Cold Roses |
| Ryley Walker Course In Fable |
| Sarah Davachi Pale Bloom |
| Sarah Jarosz Build Me Up from Bones |
| Sarah Neufeld The Ridge |
| Scarcity Aveilut |
| Scarling. So Long, Scarecrow |
| Scars on 45 Scars on 45 |
| Scott Tuma Hard Again |
| Seam The Problem With Me |
| Shame (UK) Food For Worms |
| Shearwater Rook |
| Shearwater The Great Awakening |
| Shiina Ringo Kalk Samen Kuri no Hana |
| Sigur Ros Takk... |
| Silver Jews Starlite Walker |
| Silver Jews Bright Flight |
| Sleater-Kinney Dig Me Out |
| Slowdive Just for a Day |
| Slowdive Holding Our Breath |
| Slowdive Slowdive (LP) |
| Slowdive Everything is Alive |
| Sluice Radial Gate |
| Smidley Here Comes The Devil |
| Smog Red Apple Falls |
| Smog The Doctor Came at Dawn |
| Smog Kicking a Couple Around |
| Smog A River Ain't Too Much To Love |
| Smoke (USA) Heaven On A Popsicle Stick |
| Snowing Fuck Your Emotional Bullshit |
| Son Volt Trace |
| Songs: Ohia Ghost Tropic |
| Songs: Ohia Didn't It Rain |
| Sparklehorse Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot |
| Sparklehorse Good Morning Spider |
| Sparklehorse Bird Machine |
| Spiritualized Lazer Guided Melodies |
| Spoon They Want My Soul |
| Spoon Gimme Fiction |
| Spoon Series of Sneaks |
| Spoon Hot Thoughts |
| Band has one of the most consistent discographies of recent years and the title track rules, so I have high hopes for this. Please don't let me down Spoon.rUpdate: They did not let me down. |
| Spoon Lucifer on the Sofa |
| Sprain The Lamb As Effigy |
| Springtime (AUS) Springtime |
| Springtime (AUS) Night Raver |
| Squid Town Centre |
| Stella Luna Stargazer |
| Steve Gunn and The Black Twig Pickers Seasonal Hire |
| Steve Reich Music for 18 Musicians |
| Steve Roach Structures from Silence |
| Stimming Alpe Lusia |
| Storm Corrosion Storm Corrosion |
| Sturgill Simpson High Top Mountain |
| Huh, I really underrated this before... Gave it a 3 initially. Not on the level of Metamodern Sounds or Sailor's Guide but still a really excellent album. "Life Ain't Fair and the World Is Mean" is badass and "Hero" is a true tearjerker. The backing band is class too. |
| Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans |
| WTF I love Christian music now. |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz |
| Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine A Beginner's Mind |
| Sun Kil Moon Among the Leaves |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Diary |
| Sweet Trip Velocity : Design : Comfort |
| Sweet Trip You Will Never Know Why |
| Swell Too Many Days Without Thinking |
| Swervedriver Raise |
| Swervedriver Mezcal Head |
| Swirlies Blonder Tongue Audio Baton |
| Talk Talk The Colour of Spring |
| Tame Impala Innerspeaker |
| Television Marquee Moon |
| The Angelic Process Weighing Souls With Sand |
| The Angelic Process Coma Waering |
| The Antlers In the Attic of the Universe |
| The Antlers Undersea |
| The Antlers Familiars |
| The Antlers Green to Gold |
| The Apartments In and Out of the Light |
| The Avett Brothers I and Love and You |
| The Avett Brothers The Gleam |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| The Blue Nile Hats |
| The Chameleons What Does Anything Mean? Basically |
| The Cranberries Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? |
| The Cure The Head on the Door |
| The Cure Seventeen Seconds |
| The Cure Faith |
| The Decemberists What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World |
| The Decemberists The Crane Wife |
| The Decemberists The Tain |
| The Delines Colfax |
| The Delines The Sea Drift |
| The Dove and the Wolf I Don't Know What To Feel |
| The Durutti Column LC |
| The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa Pigment |
| The Felice Brothers The Felice Brothers |
| The Felice Brothers Celebration, Florida |
| The Felice Brothers From Dreams to Dust |
| The Flaming Lips Transmissions From the Satellite Heart |
| The Gathering Souvenirs |
| The Glands The Glands |
| The Jayhawks Hollywood Town Hall |
| The Jayhawks Tomorrow the Green Grass |
| The Jim Yoshii Pile-Up It's Winter Here |
| The Killers Pressure Machine |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 |
| The Mountain Goats All Hail West Texas |
| The Mountain Goats Goths |
| The Mountain Goats The Sunset Tree |
| The Mountain Goats Bleed Out |
| The National Think You Can Wait/Exile Vilify |
| The National I Am Easy to Find |
| The National Laugh Track |
| The Postal Service Give Up |
| The Shins Oh, Inverted World |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Gish |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Adore |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Pisces Iscariot |
| The Sonora Pine II |
| The Strokes Room on Fire |
| The Sundays Reading, Writing and Arithmetic |
| The Twilight Sad Nobody Wants To Be Here And Nobody Wants To Leave |
| The Unicorns Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? |
| The Veils Nux Vomica |
| The Verve A Storm in Heaven |
| The Verve Verve |
| The War On Drugs Slave Ambient |
| The War On Drugs I Don't Live Here Anymore |
| The Weakerthans Fallow |
| The Weakerthans Reunion Tour |
| These New Puritans Inside the Rose |
| This Heat This Heat |
| This Heat Health and Efficiency |
| Thomas Feiner and Anywhen The Opiates Revised |
| Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 |
| Tim Hecker Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again |
| Tim Hecker Harmony in Ultraviolet |
| Tim Hecker Radio Amor |
| Tindersticks Tindersticks II |
| Tindersticks Curtains |
| Tindersticks No Treasure but Hope |
| Titanic (MEX) Vidrio |
| Tokyo Shoegazer Crystallize |
| Tom Petty Wildflowers |
| Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Damn The Torpedoes |
| Torres Sprinter |
| A stunning album that uses its obvious PJ Harvey influence to its advantage. Torres expertly straddles a mix of distorted guitars and quiet atmospherics, all centered around her incredibly meaningful lyrics about aging, alienation, and death. The simplest yet most powerful track here is the closing "The Exchange", in which Torres is backed only by her acoustic guitar, placing her songwriting right in the front. "Mother, father / I'm underwater". Not a happy affair, but one that will reward your attention. |
| Trespassers William Different Stars |
| Tropical Fuck Storm A Laughing Death in Meatspace |
| Tujiko Noriko Crépuscule I & II |
| Turnpike Troubadours A Long Way From Your Heart |
| Turnpike Troubadours A Cat in the Rain |
| Ulla Hope Sonata |
| Ulver Nattens Madrigal |
| Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler |
| Uncle Tupelo No Depression |
| Uncle Tupelo March 16 to 20, 1992 |
| The Tupes strip it all down to acoustics and pull out the Great American Songbook to create a beautiful and profound set of tunes, blurring the line between new and old in the process. |
| Uncle Tupelo Anodyne |
| Uncle Tupelo Still Feel Gone |
| Ved Buens Ende Written In Waters |
| Velour 100 Fall Sounds |
| Warning Watching from a Distance |
| Water From Your Eyes Structure |
| Waxahatchee Out in the Storm |
| Waylon Payne Blue Eyes, the Harlot, the Queer, the Pusher & Me |
| Wednesday Mowing The Leaves Instead Of Piling 'Em Up |
| Wednesday I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone |
| Weed (CAN) Deserve |
| Weyes Blood Titanic Rising |
| Whiskeytown Stranger's Almanac |
| Wilco Wilco (The Album) |
| Wilco Sky Blue Sky |
| Wilco A Ghost Is Born |
| Wilco Schmilco |
| Wilco Cruel Country |
| Wilco Cousin |
| Wild Pink Strawberry Eraser |
| Willi Carlisle Peculiar, Missouri |
| William Tyler Goes West |
| Scaling back from the expansive, epic landscapes of Modern Country, Tyler instead pumps out 10 gorgeous, meditative pieces with all the catchiness and melodic character of a pop album. It's less outwardly impressive than his previous work, but no less memorable, affecting, or gorgeous. |
| William Tyler Impossible Truth |
| William Tyler Secret Stratosphere |
| Wolf Alice Visions of a Life |
| Women Public Strain |
| Wye Oak Shriek |
| Wye Oak The Knot |
| Wye Oak Tween |
| Yellow Swans Going Places |
| Yeule Glitch Princess |
| Yo La Tengo And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside... |
| Yo La Tengo Electr-O-Pura |
| Yo La Tengo I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One |
| Young Jesus Welcome to Conceptual Beach |
| Zachary McLellan The Gyres |
| Zguba Znój |
| 3.5 great |
| 16 Horsepower Sackcloth 'n' Ashes |
| 22 Degree Halo Garden Bed |
| 2814 新しい日の誕生 |
| 55 Deltic You Could Own An American Home |
| A Primary Industry Ultramarine |
| A.A. Williams Forever Blue |
| Actors and Actresses Pyre |
| Adrianne Lenker Songs |
| Adrianne Lenker Instrumentals |
| Aeon Station Observatory |
| Aerial M Aerial M |
| Alcest Shelter |
| Alcest Spiritual Instinct |
| Aldous Harding Warm Chris |
| Amanda Shires To the Sunset |
| Amanda Shires Take It Like A Man |
| American Football American Football (LP3) |
| Amesoeurs Amesoeurs |
| Andrew Bird My Finest Work Yet |
| Angaleena Presley American Middle Class |
| Angel Olsen Phases |
| Angel Olsen Big Time |
| Animal Collective Sung Tongs |
| Animal Collective Bridge to Quiet |
| Animal Collective Time Skiffs |
| Anna von Hausswolff Ceremony |
| Anna von Hausswolff Singing from the Grave |
| Arcade Fire Reflektor |
| Arcade Fire WE |
| Archers of Loaf Vee Vee |
| Archers of Loaf Vs. The Greatest Of All Time |
| Ashley Monroe Sparrow |
| Avey Tare Cows On Hourglass Pond |
| Bambara Stray |
| Bambara Love on My Mind |
| Bartees Strange Farm To Table |
| Bathory Under the Sign of the Black Mark |
| Beach Bunny Honeymoon |
| Beach House Bloom |
| Beach House Once Twice Melody |
| Beck Guero |
| Bedhead Transaction De Novo |
| Bedlocked Bedlocked |
| Ben Howard Collections from the Whiteout |
| Big Thief Two Hands |
| Big Thief Masterpiece |
| Bill Orcutt Music For Four Guitars |
| Bill Ryder-Jones Yawn |
| Bill Ryder-Jones Iechyd Da |
| Billy Bragg and Wilco Mermaid Avenue |
| Black Midi Schlagenheim |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath |
| Black Wing ...Is Doomed |
| Blake Mills Break Mirrors |
| Blake Mills Jelly Road |
| Blonde Redhead 23 |
| Blonde Redhead Sit Down for Dinner |
| Blue October The Answers |
| Blut Aus Nord Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses |
| Bob Dylan Another Side of Bob Dylan |
| Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways |
| Bob Dylan Oh Mercy |
| Bon Iver Blood Bank |
| Boygenius boygenius |
| Brandi Carlile The Story |
| Brandi Carlile Brandi Carlile |
| Brandi Carlile In These Silent Days |
| Brandy Clark 12 Stories |
| Breathing Autumn Without Latitude |
| Broken Bells Broken Bells |
| Broken Social Scene Let's Try the After - Vol. 1 |
| BRUIT The Machine Is Burning... |
| Calexico Convict Pool |
| Calexico El Mirador |
| Calexico and Iron and Wine Years To Burn |
| Califone Roots and Crowns |
| Carissa's Wierd Songs About Leaving |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion |
| Caroline Loveglow Strawberry |
| Caroline Polachek Desire, I Want To Turn Into You |
| Cass McCombs Catacombs |
| Cass McCombs Big Wheel & Others |
| Cassandra Jenkins An Overview on Phenomenal Nature |
| Chapterhouse Whirlpool |
| Chat Pile God's Country |
| Chris Corsano and Bill Orcutt Made Out Of Sound |
| Chris Stapleton From A Room: Volume 2 |
| Christian Lee Hutson Beginners |
| CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe |
| CHVRCHES Every Open Eye |
| Clem Snide Forever Just Beyond |
| Cloakroom Time Well |
| Cloakroom Dissolution Wave |
| Cloud Nothings Last Building Burning |
| Cloud Nothings Here and Nowhere Else |
| Cloud Nothings Final Summer |
| CMAT Crazymad, For Me |
| Cocteau Twins Lullabies |
| Cocteau Twins Victorialand |
| Cocteau Twins Four-Calendar Cafe |
| Cocteau Twins Tiny Dynamine |
| Cocteau Twins Echoes in a Shallow Bay |
| Colter Wall Colter Wall |
| Cotton Jones Paranoid Cocoon |
| Courting Guitar Music |
| Courtney Barnett how to carve a carrot into a rose |
| Courtney Barnett Things Take Time, Take Time |
| Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile Lotta Sea Lice |
| This was never going to be worth more than a 3.5, but hey, what's wrong with a 3.5? |
| Courtney Marie Andrews May Your Kindness Remain |
| Cowboy Junkies Songs of the Recollection |
| Craig Finn We All Want the Same Things |
| Craig Finn A Legacy Of Rentals |
| Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains |
| Daniel Lanois Belladonna |
| Darkthrone A Blaze in the Northern Sky |
| Dead Can Dance Aion |
| Deafheaven Roads to Judah |
| Dean Wareham and Cheval Sombre Dean Wareham Vs. Cheval Sombre |
| Death Cab for Cutie The Blue EP |
| deathcrash Return |
| The world's third best Slint tribute act. |
| deathcrash people thought my windows were stars e.p |
| Deer Tick Divine Providence |
| Deer Tick Born on Flag Day |
| Deer Tick Deer Tick Vol. 1 |
| Deerhunter Weird Era Cont. |
| Deerhunter Cryptograms |
| Deerhunter Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? |
| Delta Spirit Ode To Sunshine |
| Dersu Uzala Tempus Fugit |
| Destroyer Trouble In Dreams |
| Destroyer Poison Season |
| Destroyer Have We Met |
| DIIV Deceiver |
| Dirtwire Dirtwire |
| Dirtwire Showdown |
| Dirty Three Dirty Three |
| Dirty Three Whatever You Love, You Are |
| Dodie Build a Problem |
| Dogleg Melee |
| Dogwood Tales 13 Summers 13 Falls |
| Domestic Terminal All The Stories Left To Tell |
| Dougie Poole Wideass Highway |
| Dr. John Gris-Gris |
| Drive-By Truckers Pizza Deliverance |
| Drive-By Truckers The Big To-Do |
| Drive-By Truckers The Unraveling |
| Drive-By Truckers The New OK |
| Drive-By Truckers Gangstabilly |
| Drop Nineteens Mayfield |
| Drop Nineteens Hard Light |
| Drudkh Forgotten Legends |
| Dry Cleaning New Long Leg |
| Dum Dum Girls Only in Dreams |
| Durand Jones and The Indications American Love Call |
| Duster Stratosphere |
| Duster Duster |
| Earth Hex: Or Printing In the Infernal Method |
| East River Pipe The Gasoline Age |
| East River Pipe Shining Hours In A Can |
| Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros Here |
| Ellen Arkbro For Organ and Brass |
| Emily Scott Robinson Built on Bones |
| Erik Hall Canto Ostinato |
| Eternal Breathe |
| Ex-Isles Luxury Mass |
| Exit North Book of Romance and Dust |
| Exit North Anyway, Still |
| Explosions in the Sky The Wilderness |
| Father John Misty Fear Fun |
| Father John Misty God's Favorite Customer |
| LAST NIGHT I WROTE A POEM / MAN I MUST HAVE BEEN IN THE POEM ZONE |
| Faye Webster Atlanta Millionaires Club |
| feeble little horse Girl With Fish |
| Feist Metals |
| Fennesz Venice |
| Field Report Summertime Songs |
| First Aid Kit Stay Gold |
| First Aid Kit The Lion's Roar |
| Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The LSO Promises |
| Flock of Dimes If You See Me, Say Yes |
| Floral Tattoo You Can Never Have a Long Enough Head Start |
| Solid emo-gaze made by emo gays. |
| Florist Florist |
| Florry Sweet Guitar Solos |
| Fog Lake Tragedy Reel |
| Fontaines D.C. A Hero's Death |
| For Those I Love For Those I Love |
| Foxing The Albatross |
| Foxing Draw Down the Moon |
| Foxygen Hang |
| Frances Quinlan Likewise |
| Friendship Love the Stranger |
| Frog Whatever We Probably Already Had It |
| Fugazi In on the Kill Taker |
| Fugazi Steady Diet of Nothing |
| Fugazi End Hits |
| Galaxie 500 Today |
| Gallowbraid Ashen Eidolon |
| Gary Clark Jr. The Bright Lights |
| Gary Clark Jr. Gary Clark Jr. Live |
| Gem Club Breakers |
| Gene Clark No Other |
| George Clanton Ooh Rap I Ya |
| Get Your Gun Doubt Is My Rope Back To You |
| Gilla Band Most Normal |
| Gillian Welch Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs, Vol. 1 |
| Gillian Welch Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs, Vol. 2 |
| Gillian Welch Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs, Vol. 3 |
| Glen Hansard This Wild Willing |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada |
| Golden Smog Weird Tales |
| Good Night and Good Morning Good Night & Good Morning |
| Grandaddy Under the Western Freeway |
| Grandaddy Blu Wav |
| Greet Death Dixieland |
| Gregory Alan Isakov This Empty Northern Hemisphere |
| Grian Chatten Chaos For The Fly |
| Grimes Art Angels |
| Grivo Omit |
| Grizzly Bear Shields |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest |
| Grizzly Bear Painted Ruins |
| Grouper Grid of Points |
| HAIM Days Are Gone |
| Hammock Everything and Nothing |
| Hammock Stranded Under Endless Sky |
| Hatchie Sugar and Spice |
| Hatchie Giving the World Away |
| Hayes Carll You Get It All |
| Hey Marseilles Lines We Trace |
| Hilary Woods Acts of Light |
| Holly Macve Golden Eagle |
| Holy Fawn Death Spells |
| Holy Fawn Dimensional Bleed |
| Hop Along Get Disowned |
| Horrendous Ontological Mysterium |
| Horse Lords Comradely Objects |
| Horsegirl Versions of Modern Performance |
| Hotline TNT Cartwheel |
| HTRK Rhinestones |
| Hum You'd Prefer an Astronaut |
| Hum Inlet |
| Iceage Seek Shelter |
| Ida I Know About You |
| IDLES Joy as an Act of Resistance |
| Indigo De Souza All of This Will End |
| Iris DeMent Infamous Angel |
| Iris DeMent Workin' on a World |
| Israel Nash Israel Nash's Rain Plans |
| Israel Nash Topaz |
| James Blake The Colour in Anything |
| James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg Ambsace |
| James McMurtry Too Long in the Wasteland |
| Jason Isbell Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit |
| Jason Isbell Sirens of the Ditch |
| Jason Isbell The Nashville Sound |
| Jason Isbell Reunions |
| Jason Molina Autumn Bird Songs |
| Jay Som Anak Ko |
| Jeff Tweedy Together At Last |
| This is much better than I expected. Every song included here is of course great and the intimacy serves to highlight how at the core of Tweedy's best work is great songwriting and melodies. Some versions try a bit too hard to replicate the originals (for example when Tweedy whistles the violin solo at the end of "Hummingbird") and not every one works ("I Am Trying To Break Your Heart" just isn't the same without the fractured studio wizardry of the original) but overall it's a worthwhile listen for fans of everything Tweedy. |
| Jeff Tweedy Warm |
| Jeff Tweedy Love Is The King |
| Jenny Hval Classic Objects |
| Jesse Sykes and The Sweet Hereafter Reckless Burning |
| Jessica Pratt Quiet Signs |
| Jesu Jesu |
| Jim James Eternally Even |
| Jim White and Marisa Anderson The Quickening |
| John Fullbright The Liar |
| John Fullbright Songs |
| John Fullbright From the Ground Up |
| John Mayer Battle Studies |
| John Moreland LP5 |
| Jonny Nash Point of Entry |
| Josh Rouse Dressed Up Like Nebraska |
| Julia Holter In the Same Room |
| Julia Jacklin Crushing |
| Julia Jacklin Pre Pleasure |
| Julien Baker Little Oblivions |
| Just Mustard Heart Under |
| Justin Townes Earle Kids In The Street |
| I'm quite impressed by this, despite my not enjoying his work in the past this is very good (and, surprisingly, much better than the album his father released this year). The first half is an excellent run of varied Americana tunes. The album does get markedly weaker in the second half but there are still some highlights and there's enough variety across the whole thing that this makes a great listen overall. |
| Kairon IRSE! Polysomn |
| Kali Malone Cast of Mind |
| Kali Malone Organ Dirges 2016-2017 |
| Kali Malone Velocity of Sleep |
| Kara Jackson Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love? |
| Katatonia Brave Murder Day |
| Kathleen Edwards Total Freedom |
| Kathleen Edwards Dogs and Alcohol |
| Katie Gately Loom |
| Kevin Morby Singing Saw |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Nonagon Infinity |
| Kitchens Of Distinction Love is Hell |
| Kjellvandertonbruket Doom Country |
| Kurt Vile Back To Moon Beach |
| Kurt Vile Bottle It In |
| Kurt Vile Smoke Ring For My Halo |
| Kurt Vile Watch My Moves |
| Lack the Low God-Carrier |
| Lambchop I Hope You're Sitting Down |
| Lambchop Hank |
| Lambchop Aw C'Mon! No You C'mon! |
| Lambchop TRIP |
| Lantlos .neon |
| Lantlos Wildhund |
| Laura Marling I Speak Because I Can |
| Leon III Antlers in Velvet |
| Lissie Catching a Tiger |
| Lissie Watch Over Me (Early Works 2002-2009) |
| Little Kid Sun Milk |
| Lord Huron Long Lost |
| Lost Horizons In Quiet Moments |
| Low The Curtain Hits the Cast |
| Low C'Mon |
| Lucinda Williams World Without Tears |
| Here Lucinda Williams mixed the ethereality of the aptly-named Essence with the heartland rock influences of her next few to make her greatest album of the first decade of the 2000s. As usual, it's not a happy affair, but it is one that rewards repeated listens. |
| Lucinda Williams This Sweet Old World |
| Lucius Wildewoman |
| Lucy Dacus Historian |
| Luluc Passerby |
| Lush Gala |
| Lush Split |
| Lykke Li I Never Learn |
| Lykke Li Wounded Rhymes |
| Mac DeMarco Salad Days |
| Mac DeMarco 2 |
| Mac DeMarco Another One |
| Magnolia Electric Co What Comes After the Blues |
| Manuel Gottsching E2-E4 |
| Margo Price Weakness |
| Maria BC Hyaline |
| Marietta Summer Death |
| Mark Lanegan Whiskey For the Holy Ghost |
| Marvin Pontiac The Legendary Marvin Pontiac - Greatest Hits |
| Mary Lattimore Goodbye, Hotel Arkada |
| Matt Berninger Serpentine Prison |
| Matt Maltese Krystal |
| Matt Sweeney and Bonnie Prince Billy Superwolves |
| Mazzy Star She Hangs Brightly |
| Melissa Carper Ramblin' Soul |
| Mercury Rev Boces |
| Mercury Rev See You On The Other Side |
| Merle Haggard Mama Tried |
| Micah P. Hinson Micah P. Hinson and the Gospel of Progress |
| Michael Clark Something to Be Won |
| Michael Kiwanuka Kiwanuka |
| Middle Brother Middle Brother |
| Midnight Choir Olsen's Lot |
| Midwife (USA) Luminol |
| Mineral EndSerenading |
| Mirah You Think It's Like This But Really It's |
| MJ Lenderman and Wednesday How Do You Let The Love Into The Heart… |
| MJ Lenderman and Wednesday Guttering |
| Modest Mouse Strangers to Ourselves |
| Modest Mouse The Fruit That Ate Itself |
| moondaughter Phosphenes and Iridescent Lights |
| Mothers When You Walk A Long Distance You Are Tired |
| This is really great indie folk with indie rock and a bit of slowcore tossed in for good measure with a wonderful female vocalist fronting it. Angel Olsen fans take notice. |
| Mutual Benefit Love's Crushing Diamond |
| My Morning Jacket The Waterfall |
| My Morning Jacket Circuital |
| My Morning Jacket The Waterfall II |
| My Morning Jacket My Morning Jacket |
| My Vitriol Finelines |
| Myriam Gendron Ma délire - Songs of Love, Lost & Found |
| Natalie Prass Natalie Prass |
| Neil Young Time Fades Away |
| Neil Young American Stars 'n Bars |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree |
| Nicole Dollanganger Married in Mount Airy |
| Nilufer Yanya Miss Universe |
| No Age Snares Like A Haircut |
| Nothing Guilty of Everything |
| Nothing The Great Dismal |
| Now, Now Threads |
| Of Monsters and Men My Head is an Animal |
| Offa Rex The Queen of Hearts |
| Old Saw Sewn the Name |
| Oldstar Oldstar |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Age Of |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Magic Oneohtrix Point Never |
| OP8 Slush |
| Oso Oso Basking in the glow |
| Ovlov Buds |
| Owen The Falls of Sioux |
| Paddy Hanna The Hill |
| Paddy Hanna Imagine I'm Hoping |
| Palace Brothers Can we fix this shit please thank you |
| Palehorse/Palerider Burial Songs |
| Panda Bear Person Pitch |
| Parker Millsap Parker Millsap |
| An impressive debut large-scale release for this Oklahoma singer-songwriter. By the sound of this, this guy may have truly immense work somewhere in his future. An artist to watch if you're into stripped-down Americana. |
| Parker Millsap The Very Last Day |
| Parker Millsap Other Arrangements |
| Parquet Courts Wide Awake |
| Parquet Courts Light Up Gold |
| Patty Griffin Living With Ghosts |
| Patty Griffin Servant of Love |
| Patty Griffin Patty Griffin |
| Pavement Slanted and Enchanted |
| Pavement Watery, Domestic |
| Pedro the Lion Control |
| Pedro the Lion It's Hard To Find A Friend |
| Pedro the Lion Havasu |
| Peregrine (USA-MA) the awful things we've done |
| Perfume Genius Set My Heart On Fire Immediately |
| Phoebe Bridgers Punisher |
| Phosphorescent Aw Come Aw Wry |
| Pinback Summer in Abaddon |
| Pinegrove 11:11 |
| Pinegrove Marigold |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa |
| Plains I Walked With You A Ways |
| Preoccupations Preoccupations |
| Preoccupations Arrangements |
| The boys are back on form here, this is about all I can ask for from a very 80s gothic rock/darkwave heavy post-punk album in 2022. It doesn't do anything new but the sound/songwriting/riffs/melodies are all pretty much on point. Not quite as memorable or varied in the songwriting department as that debut but it does what it's intended to do. |
| Prolapse Pointless Walks To Dismal Places |
| Public Image Ltd. Flowers Of Romance |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Radiohead OKNOTOK 1997-2017 |
| Rating only based on the B-sides. The first four on the second disc are excellent and the rest range from average to really good. Only "Man of War" and "Lift" are good enough to have possibly made the album imo but after a number of listens to them I wouldn't be too disappointed if one or both had made the cut in place of "Subterranean Homesick Alien", "Karma Police", or "Electioneering". |
| Raum Daughter |
| Raum The Event of Your Leaving |
| Ray LaMontagne God Willin' & The Creek Don't Rise |
| Ray LaMontagne Ouroboros |
| Really From Really From |
| Richard Hawley Truelove's Gutter |
| Richmond Fontaine We Used to Think the Freeway Sounded Like a River |
| Richmond Fontaine Don’t Skip Out on Me |
| Richmond Fontaine The Fitzgerald |
| Ride Today Forever |
| Ride Smile |
| Robert Earl Keen A Bigger Piece of Sky |
| Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever Hope Downs |
| Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever Sideways to New Italy |
| Rolo Tomassi Where Myth Becomes Memory |
| Ruston Kelly Halloween |
| Ryan Adams Ryan Adams |
| Ryan Adams Ashes And Fire |
| Ryan Adams Gold |
| Ryan Adams Easy Tiger |
| Ryan Adams Love is Hell |
| Ryan Bingham Fear and Saturday Night |
| Ryley Walker Golden Sings That Have Been Sung |
| Ryley Walker Deafman Glance |
| Ryley Walker So Certain |
| S. Carey Hundred Acres |
| This is exceedingly pleasant, even beautiful, but it's lacking a truly stunning standout song or two to bring it to the next level. Folk music as impressionism. |
| S.G. Goodman Teeth Marks |
| Sam Fender Seventeen Going Under |
| Scoutmaster Winter Ache |
| Sea Dweller Love Is Coming |
| Seam Are You Driving Me Crazy? |
| Seam Headsparks |
| Shame (UK) Songs of Praise |
| Shannen Moser I'll Sing |
| Sharon Van Etten Tramp |
| Sharon Van Etten I Don't Want To Let You Down |
| This EP is another fantastic release from Sharon Van Etten. The opening title track is, ironically, rather weak, but the final three tracks and, to a lesser extent, the second, are stunning. |
| Sharon Van Etten Epic |
| Sharon Van Etten We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong |
| Shipping News Flies The Fields |
| Sigur Ros ÁTTA |
| Silver Jews Tanglewood Numbers |
| Silver Jews Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea |
| Silver Jews Early Times |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas |
| Simone Felice The Projector |
| Skullcrusher Quiet the Room |
| Sleaford Mods English Tapas |
| Sleater-Kinney Call the Doctor |
| Slowblow Slowblow |
| Slowdive Morningrise |
| Slowdive Outside Your Room |
| Slowdive 5 |
| Smog Knock Knock |
| Smog Wild Love |
| Snail Mail Valentine |
| Soccer Mommy Color Theory |
| Soccer Mommy Sometimes, Forever |
| Son Volt Notes of Blue |
| Son Volt Straightaways |
| Songs: Ohia The Lioness |
| Songs: Ohia Axxess and Ace |
| sonhos tomam conta maladaptive daydreaming |
| sonhos tomam conta Hypnagogia |
| sonhos tomam conta insolação |
| sonhos tomam conta corpos de água |
| Soulsavers It's Not How Far You Fall, It's the Way You Land |
| Sparklehorse Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain |
| Sparklehorse + Fennesz In the Fishtank |
| Spiritualized And Nothing Hurt |
| Spoon Transference |
| Spoon Love Ways |
| Spoon Soft Effects EP |
| Spoon Memory Dust |
| Sprain s/t |
| Squid Bright Green Field |
| Stara Rzeka Zamknely Sie Oczy Ziemi |
| Steve Earle Copperhead Road |
| Steve Earle Guitar Town |
| Steve Earle Train A Comin' |
| Steve Earle I Feel Alright |
| Steve Earle J.T. |
| Stevie Ray Vaughan Couldn't Stand the Weather |
| Still House Plants If I don’t make it, I love u |
| Sturgill Simpson Sound and Fury |
| Sturgill Simpson Cuttin' Grass - Vol. 1 |
| Sufjan Stevens The Greatest Gift |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois |
| Sufjan Stevens Silver & Gold |
| Sufjan Stevens Michigan |
| Sun Kil Moon April |
| Supercar Highvision |
| Susanne Sundfor Music For People In Trouble |
| Suss Ghost Box |
| Suzanne Vega 99.9 F° |
| Swell 41 |
| Swirlies What to Do About Them |
| Sylvan Esso What Now |
| Tame Impala Currents |
| This album is simply an extremely satisfying listen from start to finish (with the exception of "Past Life"). Tame Impala have managed to do something different from their previous output but still sound very much like themselves, resulting in one of the easiest 4's I've heard. Currents doesn't quite reach Lonerism's heights, but it doesn't need to.rEdit: Well this is awkward. |
| Tamino Sahar |
| Taylor Deupree Snow (Dusk, Dawn) |
| Taylor Swift 1989 |
| Television Adventure |
| The Antlers Burst Apart |
| The Antlers Losing Light |
| The Avett Brothers The Carpenter |
| The Avett Brothers Four Thieves Gone: The Robbinsville Sessions |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour |
| The Belle Brigade Just Because |
| The Bilinda Butchers regret, love, guilt, dreams |
| The Black Keys Turn Blue |
| The Cactus Blossoms You're Dreaming |
| The Chameleons Why Call It Anything? |
| The Cure Pornography |
| The Dead Weather Sea of Cowards |
| The December Sound The Silver Album |
| The Decemberists Her Majesty the Decemberists |
| The Delgados The Great Eastern |
| The Delgados Peloton |
| The Delines The Imperial |
| The Delines The Lost Duets |
| The Deslondes The Deslondes |
| A very enjoyable country/Americana album that revels in its simple but great old-fashioned tunecraft. The kind of stuff that shouldn't still be made in 2015, but fortunately is. |
| The Deslondes Hurry Home |
| The Dove and the Wolf The Dove and The Wolf - EP |
| The Dove and the Wolf Conversations |
| The Dream Syndicate How Did I Find Myself Here? |
| The Felice Brothers Favorite Waitress |
| The Glands Double Coda |
| The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick Ways of Hearing |
| The Goslings Grandeur of Hair |
| Two questions: 1) Why did I listen to this?; and, more importantly, 2) Why did I enjoy the experience enough to listen to it a second time? |
| The Highwomen The Highwomen |
| The Horrors Primary Colours |
| The Innocence Mission See You Tomorrow |
| The Jayhawks Back Roads And Abandoned Motels |
| The Jayhawks Rainy Day Music |
| The Jayhawks XOXO |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain Psychocandy |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain Honey's Dead |
| The Killers Hot Fuss |
| The Lemonheads It's a Shame About Ray |
| The Mountain Goats In League With Dragons |
| The Murder Capital When I Have Fears |
| The Murder Capital Gigi's Recovery |
| The New Pornographers Twin Cinema |
| The Promise Ring Nothing Feels Good |
| The Radio Dept. Lesser Matters |
| The Radio Dept. Pulling Our Weight |
| The Rosebuds Loud Planes Fly Low |
| The Rural Alberta Advantage Hometowns |
| The Shins Wincing the Night Away |
| The Smile Wall of Eyes |
| The Soft Pink Truth Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase? |
| The Soft Pink Truth Is It Going to Get Any Deeper Than This? |
| The Spirit Of The Beehive Pleasure Suck |
| The Strokes Is This It |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt |
| The Twilight Sad Forget The Night Ahead |
| The Twilight Sad It Won/t Be Like This All the Time |
| The Veils Total Depravity |
| The Veils ...And Out of the Void Came Love |
| The Voidz Virtue |
| The Weather Station Ignorance |
| The White Stripes Icky Thump |
| The White Stripes Elephant |
| This Heat Deceit |
| This Mortal Coil It'll End in Tears |
| Thom Yorke Suspiria |
| Tiger Trap Sour Grass |
| Tim Hecker Konoyo |
| Tim Hecker Anoyo |
| Tim Hecker No Highs |
| Tim Hecker Mirages |
| Tindersticks Simple Pleasures |
| Tindersticks The Waiting Room |
| Tommy McLain I Ran Down Every Dream |
| Tony Molina Kill The Lights |
| Torres Thirstier |
| Triangulo de Amor Bizarro oɹɹɐzıqɹoɯɐǝpolnƃuɐıɹʇ |
| Tropical Fuck Storm Braindrops |
| Tropical Fuck Storm Deep States |
| Tunng Tunng Presents...DEAD CLUB |
| Turnover Peripheral Vision |
| Tweedy Sukierae |
| First half excellent plus second half good equals great overall. Jeff Tweedy has said that the idea is it gets mellower as it goes on, and this is not always a good thing. However the two halves work pretty well individually and as I said I would rate the first half a 4 alone while the second would get a 3. |
| Tyler Childers Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven? |
| Tyler Childers Long Violent History |
| Tyler Childers Country Squire |
| Ugly Casanova Sharpen Your Teeth |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend |
| Vincent Neil Emerson Vincent Neil Emerson |
| Virus (NO) The Black Flux |
| Water From Your Eyes Everyone's Crushed |
| Waxahatchee Saint Cloud |
| We Were Promised Jetpacks Unravelling |
| We Were Promised Jetpacks In the Pit of the Stomach |
| We Were Promised Jetpacks The More I Sleep The Less I Dream |
| Weyes Blood And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow |
| Whirr Around |
| Whitney Light Upon the Lake |
A promising debut. Whitney have pretty much nailed their sound - a wonderful, breezy pastiche of late 60s-70s
pop, rock, and folk, with a bit of country and soul too - but for the most part they don't quite have the songs to
back it. Still, impressive work. |
| Wilco Star Wars |
| This album is, essentially, the sound of Wilco deciding, for better or for worse, not to give a fuck. Proof: They released it for free; it's fucking called Star Wars; it has a fucking cat on the cover. Most of these songs are quick and fun, with ra lot of ideas for their runtimes. Overall, the album does sound like a bit of a retread, but with nine albums now under their belt (not to mention the Mermaid Avenue albums, and, on Jeff Tweedy's part, a solo(ish) album and the four-album rUncle Tupelo run), this is no surprise. But Wilco don't give a fuck, so we might as well enjoy this for what it is: a short and sweet sampler of all things Wilco. This won't be one for the history books, but not every album needs to be. |
| Wilco Ode to Joy |
| Did you guys actually listen to Schmilco? |
| Wild Pink ILYSM |
| William Tyler New Vanitas |
| Willie Nelson God's Problem Child |
| Windy and Carl Drawing of Sound |
| Wolf Alice Blue Weekend |
| Women Women |
| Wulven I Have Seen The End and It Is Beautiful |
| Yo La Tengo Fakebook |
| Yo La Tengo Summer Sun |
| Yo La Tengo This Stupid World |
| Young Jesus Shepherd Head |
| Yuck Stranger Things |
| Not particularly compositionally or intellectually compelling (just look at that cover), but what you see is what you get: a solid collection of noise pop tunes from a band who clearly love what they do. |
| Yves Tumor Safe in the Hands of Love |
| Zach Bryan Elisabeth |
| 3.0 good |
| 12 Rods If We Stayed Alive |
| 2nd Grade Easy Listening |
| @ Mind Palace Music |
| A.A. Williams As The Moon Rests |
| A.A.L. (Against All Logic) 2012-2017 |
| Adam's House Cat Town Burned Down |
| Adrianne Lenker Abysskiss |
| Agnes Obel Citizen Of Glass |
| Aimee Mann Mental Illness |
| Alabama Shakes Boys & Girls |
| Aldous Harding Designer |
| Alvvays Alvvays |
| Amanda Shires My Piece of Land |
| Amen Dunes Freedom |
| American Aquarium Things Change |
| An Evening Redness An Evening Redness |
| Andrew Bird Break It Yourself |
| Angel Olsen Burn Your Fire for No Witness |
| Angel Olsen Whole New Mess |
| Angel Olsen Half Way Home |
| Angel Olsen Forever Means |
| Animal Collective The Painters |
| Animal Collective Isn’t It Now? |
| Arooj Aftab Vulture Prince |
| Arthur Russell Love is Overtaking Me |
| Ashley Monroe The Blade |
| Ashley Monroe Rosegold |
| Asian Glow Cull Ficle |
| Asian Glow Stalled Flutes, means |
| Asian Glow and sonhos tomam conta dreamglow |
| Asian Glow and Weatherday Weatherglow |
| Atoms for Peace Amok |
| Avey Tare Eucalyptus |
| bar italia The Twits |
| Bathory Bathory |
| Baxter Dury The Night Chancers |
| Beach House Thank Your Lucky Stars |
| Beck Morning Phase |
| Beck Mellow Gold |
| Better Oblivion Community Center Better Oblivion Community Center |
| Big Red Machine Big Red Machine |
| Big Red Machine How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last? |
| Bill Orcutt Jump on It |
| Biosphere Substrata |
| Bitch Magnet Ben Hur |
| Black Country, New Road For the first time |
| Black Midi Hellfire |
| Eddie Munson's favorite album. |
| Blake Mills Look |
| Blood Orange Cupid Deluxe |
| Blut Aus Nord Disharmonium – Nahab |
| Bob Dylan Time Out of Mind |
| Bon Iver 22, A Million |
| Bon Iver i,i |
| Bonnie 'Prince' Billy I Made a Place |
| Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You |
| Boygenius the record |
| Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports |
| Broken Bells Into the Blue |
| Broken Bells After The Disco |
| Broken Social Scene Let's Try the After - Vol. 2 |
| Broken Social Scene Hug of Thunder |
| Buck Meek Haunted Mountain |
| Built to Spill There's Nothing Wrong with Love |
| Built to Spill When The Wind Forgets Your Name |
| Burial Untrue |
| Calexico Hot Rail |
| Calexico The Thread that Keeps Us |
| Calexico Carried To Dust |
| Calexico Algiers |
| Candy Claws Ceres And Calypso In The Deep Time |
| Caroline (UK) Caroline |
| Caspian Dust and Disquiet |
| Cass McCombs Tip of the Sphere |
| Cat Power Sun |
| Cat Power Myra Lee |
| Catherine Wheel Ferment |
| Catherine Wheel Happy Days |
| Chelsea Wolfe Birth of Violence |
| Chris Stapleton Higher |
| Christian Lee Hutson Quitters |
| Chromatics Closer to Grey |
| CHVRCHES Love Is Dead |
| Cigarettes After Sex Cry |
| Cloud Nothings The Shadow I Remember |
| Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd The Moon and the Melodies |
| Collider -><- |
| Cory Chisel and The Wandering Sons Death Won't Send A Letter |
| Courtney Barnett The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas |
| Courtney Barnett Tell Me How You Really Feel |
| Covet Currents |
| Cowboy Junkies All That Reckoning |
| Cowboy Sadness Selected Jambient Works Vol. 1 |
| Daisuke Tobari Guitar |
| Daniel Johnston 1990 |
| Darkside Spiral |
| Daughter The Wild Youth |
| Dave Rawlings Machine Nashville Obsolete |
| Somehow the two shortest and most upbeat songs are the boring ones. |
| David Attias Elephant |
| David Bowie No Plan |
| David Ramirez We're Not Going Anywhere |
| Dawes North Hills |
| Dawes We're All Gonna Die |
| Dawes Passwords |
| Dawes Good Luck With Whatever |
| Dead Can Dance Dionysus |
| Dead Can Dance Dead Can Dance |
| Dead Can Dance is certainly a decent and enjoyable effort, but its more derivative sound compared to DCD's later works makes this a less rewarding listen than what would follow it. Hints of what would come are present here, especially in some of the Lisa Gerrard-fronted songs, but overall the more simplistic songwriting and arrangements here lack the dark, captivating drama for which DCD are best known. |
| Dead Can Dance Garden of the Arcane Delights |
| Deafcult Deafcult |
| Deafheaven New Bermuda |
| Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love |
| Deafheaven Infinite Granite |
| Death Cab for Cutie Something About Airplanes |
| Death Cab for Cutie Kintsugi |
| Death Cab for Cutie Thank You For Today |
| Death Cab for Cutie Asphalt Meadows (Acoustic) |
| deathcrash Less |
| Deer Tick The Black Dirt Sessions |
| Deer Tick Mayonnaise |
| Deer Tick Emotional Contracts |
| Delta Spirit Delta Spirit |
| Delta Spirit What Is There |
| Destroyer Ken |
| Destroyer This Night |
| Diamond Rugs Cosmetics |
| Dodheimsgard Black Medium Current |
| Dodie Human |
| Dodie Hot Mess |
| Dots (.........) Shuwa Shuwa (しゅわしゅわ) |
| Drive-By Truckers Go-Go Boots |
| Dum Dum Girls Too True |
| Dum Dum Girls I Will Be |
| Duster Contemporary Movement |
| Dwight Yoakam This Time |
| The arrangements are solid if fairly standard 90s country, the lyrics describe heartbreak (surprise, surprise) and occasionally evoke it, and the highlights are good enough to make it a worthwhile listen, albeit one that certainly won't win over anyone who doesn't already like country. |
| Eels Daisies Of The Galaxy |
| Eels The Deconstruction |
| EL VY Return to the Moon |
| Elder (USA-MA) Reflections of a Floating World |
| Elephant Revival These Changing Skies |
| Eric Harvey Lake Disappointment |
| Eric's Trip Love Tara |
| Erika de Casier Sensational |
| ESPRIT 200% Electronica |
| Ethan Gruska Slowmotionary |
| Father John Misty Chloe and the Next 20th Century |
| Faye Webster I Know I'm Funny haha |
| haha |
| Faye Webster Underdressed At The Symphony |
| Feist Let It Die |
| Feist Pleasure |
| Feist The Reminder |
| Feist Multitudes |
| Fiddlehead Between the Richness |
| Field Division Dark Matter Dreams |
| Field Report Marigolden |
| First Aid Kit Ruins |
| First Aid Kit Palomino |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes EP |
| A few good tracks here, a couple decent ones, and one kind of bad one ("Textbook Love"... ugh). Either way this is an intriguing listen as it presents an entirely different sound from everything else Fleet Foxes have produced. Presented here is a surprisingly simple, Beatlesque indie pop sound, only "Icicle Tusk" sounding even remotely like the lush and increasingly complex harmony-laden folk the band has explored ever since. While it's understandable that Pecknold and co have let this release fall into obscurity, it's worth a listen or two for fans of the band, if only to appreciate just how far they've come. |
| Floatie Voyage Out |
| Flock of Dimes Like So Much Desire |
| Flock of Dimes Head of Roses |
| Fontaines D.C. Dogrel |
| Foxing Nearer My God |
| Foxygen We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors... |
| Fugazi Instrument Soundtrack |
| Futurebirds Hampton's Lullaby |
| Futurebirds Baba Yaga |
| Gang of Youths Angel in Realtime |
| Gary Clark Jr. Blak and Blu |
| Gavin Clark and Toydrum Evangelist |
| George Clanton Slide |
| Glorietta Glorietta |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! |
| Good Looks Bummer Year |
| Grimes Miss Anthropocene |
| Hammock Raising Your Voice... Trying to Stop an Echo |
| Harmony Woods Graceful Rage |
| Hayes Carll KMAG YOYO |
| Hayes Carll Lovers and Leavers |
| There's a handful of really good tunes here ("The Love That We Need", "The Magic Kid", "Good While It Lasted") but the rest, while pleasant, are fairly unmemorable. Carll gets the stripped-down acoustic sound right, but the album falls short in the song department. |
| Heartless Bastards Arrow |
| Heartless Bastards Restless Ones |
| This is good but still a lot of these tracks feel like they're not quite "there". They have all the right elements, but only some of these tracks cross the line into great; however, when they do ("Wind Up Bird", "Hi-Line", "The Fool"), they work exceedingly well. All that said, Erika Wennerstrom has some serious pipes, and really propels these songs. |
| Heretoir The Circle |
| Hiss Golden Messenger Lateness of Dancers |
| Hiss Golden Messenger Heart Like a Levee |
| Hiss Golden Messenger Vestapol (Heart Like a Levee Bonus Disc) |
| Hiss Golden Messenger Hallelujah Anyhow |
| Hiss Golden Messenger Terms of Surrender |
| Hiss Golden Messenger Quietly Blowing It |
| Holy Motors Slow Sundown |
| Holy Motors Horse |
| Hoplites Ἀντιτιμωρουμένη |
| Horse Jumper of Love So Divine |
| Horse Jumper of Love Natural Part |
| Horse Jumper of Love Heartbreak Rules |
| Hozier Hozier |
| Hurray For The Riff Raff Small Town Heroes |
| Hurray For The Riff Raff The Navigator |
| Hurray For The Riff Raff The Past Is Still Alive |
| Ian Felice In the Kingdom of Dreams |
| Iron And Wine Weed Garden |
| Israel Nash Lifted |
| Jack White Blunderbuss |
| Jade Jackson Gilded |
| Jai Paul Leak 04-13 (Bait Ones) |
| James Blackshaw The Cloud of Unknowing |
| Jason Isbell Here We Rest |
| Jason Molina Eight Gates |
| Jason Molina Let Me Go, Let Me Go, Let Me Go |
| Jefre Cantu-Ledesma On The Echoing Green |
| Jefre Cantu-Ledesma Tracing Back The Radiance |
| Jessamine Jessamine |
| Jim White Drill a Hole in That Substrate and Tell Me What... |
| Joe Rainey Niineta |
| John K. Samson Provincial |
| John Mayer Room for Squares |
| John Mayer The Search for Everything |
| I really don't see where all these high ratings are coming from... This is pretty good and a step up from Paradise Valley but it's nowhere near as good as Continuum or Born and Raised. |
| John Mayer Sob Rock |
| John Moreland Everything The Hard Way |
| Everything the Hard Way, John Moreland's last studio album released before coming to greater prominence with 2013's In the Throes and his only billed with The Dust Bowl Souls as a backing band, is a set of mostly short, straightforward Southern rock songs, quite different from the comparatively mellow, lyric-centric but emotionally intense singer/songwriter Americana-folk he would later master. There are hints of that here (the brief opening title track, "Gods" and "This Town Tonight"), but the rest of the songs here sound basically nothing like anything Moreland has done since. Self-released, it's an incredibly authentic-sounding album, the sort of thing one could imagine buying as a cheaply-produced CD after a show by a local act. While the melodies and riffs are far from original and certainly do not do anything flashy, these songs are sturdy, heartfelt, and catchy. Moreland and co. know to keep things brief, so no song overstays its welcome, and the whole set comes in under 30 minutes, which makes the album quite listenable and replayable. Unfortunately, the lyrical content is also more generic than Moreland's typical fare, mostly conjuring images and feelings of youth and high school but mostly lacking the level of insight and craft of wordplay Moreland is known for. Again, this straightforward approach mostly works, so on the whole Everything the Hard Way is a very enjoyable release but probably not worth investigating for anybody who isn't already an established fan of Moreland's work. |
| Josh Rouse 1972 |
| Josh Rouse and Kurt Wagner Chester |
| Josh T. Pearson The Straight Hits |
| Julianna Barwick Healing Is a Miracle |
| Julien Baker Turn Out The Lights |
| Julien Baker Sprained Ankle |
| Jungstotter Love Is |
| Junior Kimbrough Most Things Haven't Worked Out |
| Junk Drawer Ready for the House |
| Justin Townes Earle Harlem River Blues |
| Kacey Musgraves Pageant Material |
| Kacey Musgraves Star-Crossed |
| Kacey Musgraves Deeper Well |
| Kairon IRSE! Ujubasajuba |
| Kali Malone Studies For Organ |
| Kassi Valazza Dear Dead Days |
| Kassi Valazza Highway Sounds |
| Kassi Valazza Kassi Valazza Knows Nothing |
| Katie Pruitt Expectations |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Flying Microtonal Banana |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Fishing For Fishies |
| King Hannah I'm Not Sorry, I Was Just Being Me |
| Kitchens Of Distinction The Death of Cool |
| Klaus Schulze Deus Arrakis |
| Knifeplay Animal Drowning |
| Langhorne Slim The Way We Move |
| Lantlos Melting Sun |
| Laura Marling Song For Our Daughter |
| I love Marling's music, and on the surface this is a lovely release, but I can't help but feel this is just a bit too tried and true. Some of the songs in the first half are excellent, and it's hard to say anything here is less than good, but it's one of those instantly familiar records that, while very well made, are just a bit too comfortable to be memorable. A step down from Semper Femina, which saw her taking more risks in production and songwriting. |
| Laurel Halo Atlas |
| Leonard Cohen You Want It Darker |
| Les Discrets Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées |
| Lightning Bolt Sonic Citadel |
| Lightning Bug A Color of the Sky |
| Lilys In the Presence of Nothing |
| Lissie My Wild West |
| Lori McKenna The Bird & The Rifle |
| Lori McKenna The Balladeer |
| Low Secret Name |
| Lucero Among The Ghosts |
| Lucinda Williams Blessed |
| The closest analogue to this of Lucinda Williams' discography is World Without Tears. Unfortunately, some of the downbeat tracks don't do much, but the more rock-influenced tracks improve significantly upon her last couple efforts in terms of both instrumentals and songwriting. |
| Lucinda Williams Good Souls Better Angels |
| Lucius Nudes |
| Lucy Dacus Home Video |
| Lucy Dacus No Burden |
| A pleasant album, but not much more. Dacus has the makings of a great songwriter but the songs sometimes get buried in bland instrumentation and pedestrian melodies. Highlights: Troublemaker Goppelgnger, Strange Torpedo, Map on a Wall, Direct Address. |
| Lucy Liyou Dog Dreams |
| Luke Temple A Hand Through the Cellar Door |
| LUMP (UK) Animal |
| Lush Blind Spot |
| Magdalena Bay Mercurial World |
| Mannequin Pussy Perfect |
| Margo Price Midwest Farmer's Daughter |
| Margo Price That's How Rumors Get Started |
| Margo Price Strays |
| Mark Eitzel 60 Watt Silver Lining |
| Mark Eitzel Hey Mr Ferryman |
| Mark Lanegan Field Songs |
| Matt Maltese Good Morning It’s Now Tomorrow |
| Matthew Logan Vasquez Austin |
| Mazzy Star So Tonight That I Might See |
| Mazzy Star Among My Swan |
| Medicine Shot Forth Self Living |
| Melody's Echo Chamber Melody's Echo Chamber |
| Metric Art of Doubt |
| mewithoutYou [Untitled] |
| Micah P. Hinson Micah P. Hinson Presents The Holy Strangers |
| Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band Dear Scott |
| Microdisney The Clock Comes Down the Stairs |
| Midnight Choir Waiting for the Bricks to Fall |
| Minor Victories Minor Victories |
| Mitski Puberty 2 |
| Mitski Be the Cowboy |
| Mitski The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We |
| Mojave 3 Ask Me Tomorrow |
| This is without a question very pretty as can be expected from Halstead and Goswell and while the country and slowcore flavors are appreciated, most of the songs end up fairly unmemorable and indistinguishable. |
| Mol JORD |
| Mount Eerie Lost Wisdom, Pt. 2 |
| Mountain Man Made The Harbor |
| Mumford and Sons Sigh No More |
| My Bloody Valentine Glider |
| My Bloody Valentine m b v |
| My Bloody Valentine Feed Me with Your Kiss |
| Natalie Hemby Puxico |
| Natalie Prass The Future and the Past |
| Neil Young Barn |
| Neil Young Comes a Time |
| Nikki Lane All or Nothin' |
| No Age Nouns |
| No Joy Motherhood |
| Nothing Downward Years to Come |
| Of Monsters and Men Beneath the Skin |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Garden of Delete |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Replica |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Again |
| Origami Angel The Brightest Days |
| Orville Peck Pony |
| Owen The Avalanche |
| Ozean Ozean |
| Papa M Live from a Shark Cage |
| Parquet Courts Sympathy For Life |
| Pedro the Lion Winners Never Quit |
| Perfume Genius No Shape |
| Phantom Planet Devastator |
| Phosphorescent C'est La Vie |
| Pinegrove Elsewhere |
| Pinegrove Skylight |
| Pink Floyd The Wall |
| Pino Palladino and Blake Mills Notes With Attachments |
| Pixies Bossanova |
| PJ Harvey Uh Huh Her |
| PJ Harvey The Hope Six Demolition Project |
| Shit album cover but this will still probably rule. |
| PJ Harvey I Inside the Old Year Dying |
| Preoccupations New Material |
| Protomartyr Relatives in Descent |
| Protomartyr Formal Growth in the Desert |
| Rachel's Music for Egon Schiele |
| Radiohead KID A MNESIA |
| Rapt None Of This Will Matter |
| Ray LaMontagne Trouble |
| Rex 3 |
| Ride Weather Diaries |
| Ride This Is Not a Safe Place |
| Rites of Spring Rites of Spring |
| Rodney Crowell Diamonds and Dirt |
| Rosehall The First Requisite Is Life |
| Rover Rover |
| Ruston Kelly Dying Star |
| Ruston Kelly The Weakness |
| Ryan Adams 1989 |
| This really is quite good, but it's held back by the glossy production and Adams' somewhat awkward interpretations of Swift's melodies. |
| Ryan Adams Prisoner |
| Sadness I want to be there |
| Sam Amidon Sam Amidon |
| Samantha Crain Kid Face |
| Sarah Davachi Two Sisters |
| Sarah Jarosz Undercurrent |
| Sarah Louise Nighttime Birds and Morning Stars |
| Saya Gray 19 Masters |
| Seam The Pace Is Glacial |
| Sharon Van Etten Remind Me Tomorrow |
| Sleep Dealer The Way Home |
| Sleeper Agent Celabrasion |
| Smog Dongs of Sevotion |
| Soundtrack (Film) The Hunger Games |
| Sour Widows Crossing Over |
| Spiritualized Everything Was Beautiful |
| Spokane The Proud Graduates |
| Spoon Telephono |
| Sprain As Lost Through Collision |
| Squid O Monolith |
| Stella Donnelly Beware of the Dogs |
| Stella Donnelly Flood |
| Steve Earle Exit 0 |
| Steve Earle Ghosts of West Virginia |
| Steve Gunn Eyes On The Lines |
| This is nice psychedelic folk rock with some really good guitar playing. Unfortunately, Gunn isn't much of a songwriter or vocalist, and the sound is so uniform that many of the songs end up blending together. The album, both in its vibe and lyrics, is about getting lost, but overall it ends up getting a bit too lost in itself for its own good. Overall though, it's an enjoyable listen, fine background music, and great for a sunny summer afternoon. |
| Stevens/Dessner/Muhly/McAlister Planetarium |
| Sting Ten Summoner's Tales |
| Sturgill Simpson The Ballad of Dood and Juanita |
| Sun's Signature Sun's Signature |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Sunny Day Real Estate |
| Suzanne Langille Let the Darkness Fall |
| Sweet Trip A Tiny House, In Secret Speeches, Polar Equals |
| Swirlies Brokedick Car |
| Sylvan Esso Sylvan Esso |
| Tacoma Radar No One Waved Goodbye |
| Tame Impala The Slow Rush |
| Taylor Swift Folklore |
| Tennis Swimmer |
| The Avett Brothers The Third Gleam |
| The Avett Brothers Magpie and the Dandelion |
| The Avett Brothers Mignonette |
| The Beatles Please Please Me |
| The Belle Brigade The Belle Brigade |
| The Clientele Suburban Light |
| The Dead Weather Dodge & Burn |
| The Decemberists I’ll Be Your Girl |
| The Decemberists Long Live the King |
| The Decemberists Florasongs |
| The Deslondes Ways and Means |
| The Felice Brothers Life In The Dark |
| Solid album from the Felices. Split more or less 50/50 between contemplative tunes and more upbeat "rockers", it doesn't do anything new but it's still fairly well executed. Highlights: Jack at the Asylum, Triumph '73, Diamond Bell, Sell the House |
| The Hotelier Goodness |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain Darklands |
| The Mountain Goats Dark In Here |
| The Mountain Goats Beat the Champ |
| These songs are pretty much either great, classic Mountain Goats, or dreadfully silly and boring. Fortunately, most lean towards the former. |
| The Mountain Goats Songs for Pierre Chuvin |
| The Mountain Goats Getting Into Knives |
| The National The National |
| The New Pornographers Mass Romantic |
| The New Pornographers In the Morse Code of Brake Lights |
| The Newfound Interest in Connecticut Tell Me About the Long Dark Path Home |
| The Shins Port of Morrow |
| The Smile A Light For Attracting Attention |
| The Strokes Angles |
| The Twilight Sad No One Can Ever Know |
| The Walkmen You & Me |
| The War On Drugs Wagonwheel Blues |
| They Are Gutting A Body Of Water/A Country Western An Insult To The Sport |
| Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind |
| Thom Yorke Anima |
| Tim Hecker Dropped Pianos |
| Timber Timbre Sincerely, Future Pollution |
| Tindersticks Distractions |
| Tom Petty Full Moon Fever |
| Tomberlin i don’t know who needs to hear this... |
| Turnstile Glow On |
| Tyler Childers Rustin' In The Rain |
| Uboa The Flesh of the World |
| Ulver Kveldssanger |
| Valium Aggelein Hier Kommt der Schwartze Mond |
| Vampire Weekend Father Of The Bride |
| Various Artists (Country) Southern Family |
| Ved Buens Ende Those who Caress the Pale |
| Viva Voce The Future Will Destroy You |
| Waxahatchee Ivy Tripp |
| Wayfarer American Gothic |
| We Were Promised Jetpacks Out Of Interest |
| We Were Promised Jetpacks Enjoy The View |
| Weatherday Come In |
| Ween Quebec |
| Whirr Distressor |
| Whirr/Nothing Split |
| Widowspeak The Jacket |
| Wilco A.M. |
| Wild Nothing Golden Haze |
| William Tyler Music From First Cow |
| Woelv Tout Seul Dans La Foret En Plein Jour... |
| Wye Oak The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs |
| Wye Oak Every Day Like The Last |
| Yeule softscars |
| Young the Giant Young the Giant |
| Yves Tumor Praise a Lord Who Chews, But Does Not Consume... |
| 2.0 poor |
| Anberlin Cities |
| Arcade Fire Everything Now |
| Please don't let me down Please don't let me down Please don't let me down Please don't let me down Please don't let me down Please don't let me down Please don't let me down Please don't let me down Please don't let me down Please don't let me down Please don't let me down Please don't let me down Please don't let me down Please don't let me down Please don't let me down Please don't let me down Please don't let me down |
| Beck Colors |
| Benjamin Gibbard Former Lives |
| Boygenius the rest |
| Cage The Elephant Tell Me I'm Pretty |
| Charli XCX Pop 2 |
| Only checked this out because I heard "Backseat" and loved it. Unfortunately aside from "Track 10" which is great the rest of this is meh to bad. |
| Coldplay Mylo Xyloto |
| Coldplay Ghost Stories |
| I have to give Coldplay props for trying something new at this point in their career, even if that something new is exceedingly dull and unimaginative electronic/synthpop. And sure, Chris Martin was never the best lyricist, but Ghost Stories' lyrics are particularly uninspired ("Ink" and "O" are exceptions). For this album, Coldplay have traded in the melodicism and emotional heft that made their first two albums (and Viva La Vida) so great for murky atmospheres. Sure, this isn't as cheesy as Mylo Xyloto, but ultimately, Ghost Stories elicits little other than indifference, and is none the better for it. |
| Coldplay Music of the Spheres |
| Colter Wall Songs of the Plains |
| Danny Worsnop The Long Road Home |
| Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros |
| Faye Webster Car Therapy Sessions |
| Grouplove Never Trust A Happy Song |
| Halsey Badlands |
| Hey Marseilles Hey Marseilles |
| Justin Townes Earle Absent Fathers |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Murder Of The Universe |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Paper Mache Dream Balloon |
| This went from quite pleasant to pretty annoying in record time. |
| Kleg Eating and Sleeping (#15) |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory |
| Lissie Castles |
| I love Lissie's first couple albums but wow is this dismal. Awful lyrics, completely forgettable melodies, awkward electronic elements, bland songwriting. It randomly gets good in the last three tracks, which bring back a bit of Lissie's earlier folk/country sound, but they're not enough to save this thoroughly disappointing album. |
| LSD and the Search for God Heaven Is a Place |
| Lucinda Williams Little Honey |
| Meg Myers Sorry |
| Mumford and Sons Babel |
| Now, Now Saved |
| Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse of Reason |
| Royal Teeth Glow |
| Scars on 45 Safety In Numbers |
| Sleeper Agent About Last Night |
| Steve Earle So You Wannabe An Outlaw |
| Disappointing... Most of these songs are pretty generic, the instrumentation is often clunky, Earle's vocals are pretty bad... The only really good song is the closer "Goodbye Michelangelo", a nice tribute to Guy Clark. |
| Steve Earle Terraplane |
| Taylor Swift Midnights |
| The Avett Brothers True Sadness |
| The Pretty Reckless Light Me Up |
| Van der Graaf Generator Do Not Disturb |
| Willie Nelson Summertime |
| This is undoubtedly well-performed, but the production makes it come across as dull. Granted, that's about what I would expect from an album of 1920s and 30s standards being released in 2016. The material is of course good (except for "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off", which is atrocious), but it is not given the sense of life it deserves. |
| Yves Tumor Heaven To A Tortured Mind |
| Weird, I wasn?t expecting another Tame Impala album so soon. |
