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Average Rating: 3.65
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Objectivity Score: 69%
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5.0 classic
Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks
Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
Elliott Smith Either/Or
Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear
Joni Mitchell Court and Spark
Kate Bush Hounds of Love
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Let Love In
Nick Drake Pink Moon
Okkervil River Black Sheep Boy
Paul Simon Graceland
Talking Heads Remain in Light
The Mountain Goats Get Lonely
This Heat Deceit
Tom Waits Rain Dogs

4.5 superb
Bad Brains Bad Brains
Bill Evans Sunday at the Village Vanguard
Billy Joel The Stranger
David Bowie Hunky Dory
David Bowie Blackstar
Destroyer Poison Season
Elvis Costello My Aim Is True
Elvis Costello This Year's Model
Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel...
Joanna Newsom Ys
Joanna Newsom Divers
Breakers is by far Newsom's most diverse offering. Every track sees her stretching herself as
a musician and taking her voice to new interesting place.

As per usual with Newsom's music, the lyrics are the selling point for me. Each song paints a
picture so vivid, and so thought provoking that you can't help but feel you stumbled on the
worlds greatest poet. Occasionally Newsom mumbles her lines and gives a bit of a stilted
delivery, but for the most part her vocals and overall tone is fantastic.

Instrumentally this album is wild. The harp and piano are the main instruments, but she isn't
afraid to bring in a whole host of other instruments to help tell her story. This is a woman
who knows how to make things sound epic. The overall sound is so grandiose that at points it
can be over the top.

Still with the few minor quibbles this album ranks as one of the best albums of 2015, and may
grow to be one of my favorite records of all time.
Joy Division Unknown Pleasures
mewithoutYou Brother, Sister
Momus Tender Pervert
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Patrick Watson Adventures in Your Own Backyard
Paul Simon Paul Simon
Radiohead OK Computer
Robert Wyatt Rock Bottom
Sarah Kirkland Snider Unremembered
Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell
Talk Talk Laughing Stock
The Cure Disintegration
The Mountain Goats The Sunset Tree
The National Boxer
The Smiths The Queen Is Dead
The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt
These New Puritans Field of Reeds

4.0 excellent
ABRA Rose
Adult Jazz Gist Is
Aine O'Dwyer Anything Bright or Startling?
Anathallo Canopy Glow
Andrew Bird Break It Yourself
Andy Shauf The Bearer of Bad News
Anna von Hausswolff The Miraculous
Bauhaus In The Flat Field
Ben Howard I Forget Where We Were
Bill Evans New Jazz Conceptions
Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
Bright Eyes Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
Bright Eyes Fevers & Mirrors
Camberwell Now All's Well
Cemeteries Barrow
Chelsea Wolfe Abyss
Chet Baker Chet Baker Sings
Cigarettes After Sex I.
Clarence Clarity No Now
Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld Never Were The Way She Was
Cult Leader Lightless Walk
Cymbals Eat Guitars LOSE
Daniel Johnston Hi, How Are You
Daniel Johnston 1990
Daughters Daughters
David Sylvian Brilliant Trees
Deafheaven New Bermuda
Destroyer Streethawk: A Seduction
Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me
Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca
Duke Ellington The Far East Suite
Echo and The Bunnymen Ocean Rain
Elvis Costello Armed Forces
flatsound Sleep
Forest Swords Engravings
Foxing Dealer
Fuck Buttons Tarot Sport
Grouper Ruins
Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness
Hexvessel No Holier Temple
Hiatus Kaiyote Choose Your Weapon
Hop Along Painted Shut
Human Behavior Bethphage
Iron And Wine Our Endless Numbered Days
James Blake Overgrown
Jens Lekman Night Falls Over Kortedala
Jens Lekman I Know What Love Isn't
Jerusalem in my Heart If He Dies, If If If If If If
Jex Thoth Blood Moon Rise
Joanna Newsom Have One on Me
Joe Jackson Look Sharp!
John Martyn Solid Air
Joni Mitchell The Hissing of Summer Lawns
Julia Holter Loud City Song
Julianna Barwick Nepenthe
Kamasi Washington The Epic
Karen Dalton In My Own Time
Keaton Henson Dear...
Keaton Henson Birthdays
King Tears Bat Trip King Tears Bat Trip
Laura Nyro Eli and The 13th Confession
Laura Stevenson A Record + 3
Leonard Cohen Songs of Leonard Cohen
Liars WIXIW
Lorde Pure Heroine
Low Ones and Sixes
Lychgate An Antidote for the Glass Pill
Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing
Margot and the Nuclear So and So's Animal!
Masayoshi Fujita Apologues
Massacre (USA-NY) Killing Time
Mew +-
mewithoutYou Pale Horses
Milo So The Flies Don't Come
Minor Threat Minor Threat
Mount Eerie Sauna
My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything
My Brightest Diamond This Is My Hand
Naked City Naked City
Naked City Grand Guignol
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Tender Prey
Okkervil River The Silver Gymnasium
Owen Davies Mystic
Patrick Watson Wooden Arms
Patti Smith Horses
Paul de Jong IF
Perfume Genius Too Bright
Pete Townshend Empty Glass
Peter Gabriel Security
PJ Harvey Rid of Me
Popol Vuh Hosianna Mantra
PWR BTTM Ugly Cherries
Quiet Sun Mainstream
Randy Newman Good Old Boys
Right Away, Great Captain! The Eventually Home
San Fermin San Fermin
Sandy Denny Sandy
Sonic Youth Daydream Nation
Spyro Gyra Incognito
Stara Rzeka Zamknely Sie Oczy Ziemi
Steve Von Till A Life Unto Itself
Swell Maps A Trip to Marineville
Sylvan Esso Sylvan Esso
Tangerine Dream Phaedra
The Antlers Familiars
The Black Heart Rebellion Har Nevo
The Dear Hunter Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise
The Hirsch Effekt Holon: Agnosie
The Jesus and Mary Chain Psychocandy
The Mountain Goats Tallahassee
The Mountain Goats Heretic Pride
The Mountain Goats All Eternals Deck
The Mountain Goats Transcendental Youth
The National High Violet
The National Trouble Will Find Me
The Sisters of Mercy First And Last And Always
The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave
The Tallest Man on Earth Sometimes The Blues Is Just A Passing Bird
The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now
Thelonious Monk Underground
Thelonious Monk Straight, No Chaser
Timber Timbre Timber Timbre
Timber Timbre Hot Dreams
Typhoon (USA-OR) White Lighter
We Are The City Violent
We Are The City Above Club
Wildbirds and Peacedrums Rhythm
Woody Guthrie Dust Bowl Ballads
Youth Lagoon Savage Hills Ballroom

3.5 great
Algiers Algiers
Andre Bratten Gode
Arcade Fire Neon Bible
Baths Obsidian
Beggar's Opera Pathfinder
Black Wing ...Is Doomed
Bobby Charles Bobby Charles
Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Caspian Dust and Disquiet
Cursive I Am Gemini
Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains
Danny L Harle Broken Flowers
Devendra Banhart Rejoicing in the Hands
Dirty Projectors Swing Lo Magellan
Dixie Dregs Night of the Living Dregs
Doug Hoyer Dream Life
Dry The River Alarms in the Heart
Eartheater RIP Chrysalis
Efterklang Piramida
Elvis Depressedly New Alhambra
Father John Misty Fear Fun
Gang Gang Dance Eye Contact
Gazelle Twin Unflesh
Grooms Prom
Halls Ark
How to Dress Well Total Loss
Howard Jones Human's Lib
Icehouse Primitive Man
Isaac Vallentin Hedera
J. Tillman Year In The Kingdom
J. Tillman Singing Ax
Jenny Hval Apocalypse, girl
John Galm Sky of No Stars
Julia Holter Have You In My Wilderness
Little Scream The Golden Record
Lotte Kestner The Bluebird of Happiness
Marika Hackman We Slept at Last
Marissa Nadler July
Martha and the Muffins This is the Ice Age
Mayo Thompson Corky's Debt to His Father
Melt-Banana Cell-Scape
Mercury Rev The Light In You
Mouse On The Keys The Flowers of Romance
Patrick Watson Love Songs for Robots
Perfume Genius Put Your Back N 2 It
Peter Gabriel Melt
Protomartyr The Agent Intellect
Right Away, Great Captain! The Church of the Good Thief
Scott Nicks String of Dreams
Sigur Ros Kveikur
Silversun Pickups Swoon
Terry Callier Occasional Rain
The Haxan Cloak Excavation
The Mountain Goats The Life of the World to Come
Thomas Dolby The Golden Age of Wireless
Timber Timbre Creep On Creepin' On
Wilco A Ghost Is Born

3.0 good
Andrew Bird Hands of Glory
Bad Books II
Baths Ocean Death
Ben Howard Every Kingdom
Black Math Horseman Wyllt
Chris de Burgh Man on the Line
Colin Blunstone One Year
Darkside Psychic
EL VY Return to the Moon
Feist Metals
Fred Frith Gravity
Grimes Art Angels
Grooms Comb the Feelings Through Your Hair
Halls Love To Give
Hiss Golden Messenger Bad Debt
How to Dress Well What Is This Heart?
Iron And Wine The Sea and the Rhythm EP
Iron And Wine Kiss Each Other Clean
Iron And Wine Ghost on Ghost
James Blake James Blake
Jeff Rosenstock We Cool?
Justin Bieber Purpose
Bieber manages to deliver a solid pop album, full of memorable hooks and a few genuinely fun moments.
Laura Nyro New York Tendaberry
Lianne La Havas Blood
Majical Cloudz Are You Alone?
mewithoutYou A to B: Life
Michael Franks The Art of Tea
Mister Lies Shadow
Neon Indian Vega Intl. Night School
Neutral Milk Hotel On Avery Island
Nick Mulvey First Mind
Okkervil River The Stand Ins
Okkervil River I Am Very Far
Pete Townshend All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes
Polyenso EP 1
Regina Spektor What We Saw from the Cheap Seats
Right Away, Great Captain! The Bitter End
Shakey Graves And The War Came
Sigur Ros Valtari
Tame Impala Currents
The Milk Carton Kids The Ash & Clay
The Mountain Goats Beat the Champ
The Tallest Man on Earth Dark Bird Is Home
Torres Sprinter
Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City
William Elliott Whitmore Field Songs

2.5 average
Bad Books Bad Books
Casiotone For The Painfully Alone Etiquette
Explosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
FIDLAR Too
Hiss Golden Messenger Haw
Joni Mitchell Both Sides Now
Lana Del Rey Honeymoon
Liars Mess
mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright!
Mike Patton Mondo Cane
Mogwai Rave Tapes
Murder by Death Big Dark Love
Observer Drift Corridors
Robert Palmer Pride
San Fermin Jackrabbit
Scale the Summit V
Shlohmo Dark Red
Spiritualized Sweet Heart Sweet Light
The Dear Hunter Act I: The Lake South, the River North
The Dear Hunter Migrant
The Decemberists What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World
The Milk Carton Kids Monterey
Vampire Weekend Contra
Wavves Afraid of Heights

2.0 poor
Animal Collective Centipede Hz
Ben Folds Way To Normal
Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow
Dan Deacon Gliss Riffer
fun. Some Nights
Hiss Golden Messenger Lateness of Dancers
Mumford and Sons Wilder Mind
Myrkur M
Noah and the Whale Heart Of Nowhere
The Drums Encyclopedia
Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend
Vance Joy Dream Your Life Away
Wavves V
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