| 5.0 classic |
| 40 Watt Sun Perfect Light |
| 40 Watt Sun Wider than the Sky |
| A Bunny's Caravan Draining Puddles, Retrieving Treasures |
| Draining Puddles.... may only be six songs long but I'm certain the impact will be felt for years..... This is me from three years into the future. The impact is still being felt. Give it that classic rating, son. |
| ABBA ABBA Gold |
| Aeon Station Observatory |
| It's like we're living only two years removed from Secaucus. As good as anything The Wrens have done, yes, including The Meadowlands. AOTY? Shoot, it could be. |
| Alvvays Blue Rev |
| Anathema Distant Satellites |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs |
| Arcade Fire Funeral |
| Big Thief U.F.O.F. |
| Love everything about this. It's reminiscent of the more traditional folk records that have come out this year ("Cattails) but it's also incredibly versatile and innovative. The way the t/t ebbs and flows, "From's" off-kilter melodies, those stunning low notes on "Betsy," etc. A sense of familiarity mixed with a yearning for adventure. Beautiful album. |
| Big Thief Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You |
| Bill Callahan Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest |
| An album about contentment and the mystery that comes after. Something so beautifully human can only be sung the way Bill does here. Give it a little time and those little lyrical nuggets will move the soul. "True love is not magic, it's certainty." |
| Bill Callahan YTI⅃AƎЯ |
| Billy Joel The Stranger |
| Bjork Fossora |
| My neighbour Bjorkoro. |
| Bjork Post |
| Bjork Homogenic |
| Bjork Vespertine |
| Bjork Vulnicura |
| Bjork Utopia |
| Blondie Parallel Lines |
| Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde |
| Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Vacation |
| Who needs to go on a vacation when you can hear this punk masterpiece instead? |
| Breaking Benjamin Dark Before Dawn |
| Breaking Benjamin Dear Agony |
| Breaking Benjamin Ember |
| This or the latest Underoath record? You know what, I think I'd take this. |
| Breaking Benjamin Phobia |
| Breaking Benjamin Saturate |
| Breaking Benjamin We Are Not Alone |
| Bruce Springsteen Born to Run |
| Burden of Life The Makeshift Conqueror |
| Power metal has always been hit and miss for me but this album is, to put it in simple terms, next f#!&*ing level. The production is colossal, the ambition is grand, and the riffs.... the riffs are glorious. This is something else. |
| Carissa's Wierd Ugly But Honest: 1996-1999 |
| To me, music has always been a distinctly human expression first and foremost. It doesn't always have to sound pristine, massively ambitious, or even impressively technical. As long as it can express genuine, honest emotion it can truly mean something. In no uncertain terms then, this is a soul-barring, intimate masterpiece and one of my favourite records ever. |
| Cigarettes After Sex Cigarettes After Sex |
| There is nothing like turning out the lights, opening the blinds so you can see the town lights in rthe distance, and softly jamming this record before going to bed. It's nearly euphoric. |
| Cocteau Twins Heaven or Las Vegas |
| This is the kind of pop album that I feel terribly sorry for pop music fans who haven't had it grace their lives. Sheer beauty. |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| This is the album every other metalcore act looks up to in a quivering heap. |
| Daughters You Won't Get What You Want |
| After eight years of silence, Daughters come screaming back with an unbelievably terrifying and chilling magnum opus. You Won't Get What You Want is a deeply affecting portrait of paranoia and existential dread wrapped up in one of the most awesome sounding records to come out in years. |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars |
| David Bowie Station to Station |
| David Bowie Blackstar |
| David Sylvian Secrets of the Beehive |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism |
| You won't find an indie rock fan who doesn't know or love this album. It's an undeniable classic that moves from bouncy, relatable, and down-to-earth mid-tempo jams to a subtle heartbreak that is as captivating as it is crushing. It's one of the best examples of pacing and album structure you'll ever hear. |
| Deftones White Pony |
| My favourite metal album of all-time. A brooding, visceral, and ingenious work of art. |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
| This might be my favourite rock album of the 2010s.... |
| Depeche Mode Violator |
| Destroyer Streethawk: A Seduction |
| Destroyer Kaputt |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... |
| There are records that conjure a specific kind of mood or feeling, then there are records that just define what that feeling means. Endtroducing is the kind of album that, to me, embodies the feeling of Kenopsia-an unsettling emptiness and bittersweet nostalgia of a beloved place left behind. Nothing else I've heard has ever managed to capture it as well. This is a special, important, and downright incredible record. |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or |
| Emily Scott Robinson Traveling Mercies |
| An absolutely splendid country offering that wholly deserves to see the same success Musgraves saw last year. |
| Emily Scott Robinson American Siren |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP |
| The music critic in me upholds this record as a hip/hop classic. The hooks and flows are incredible and it hits with an emotional intensity that is truly unforgettable. However, the softer, human part of me simply cannot listen to this front to back again. "Kim" is a gut-wrenching and terrifying excursion into unadulterated hatred and rage, "Stan" remains a devastating highlight and the record as a whole is a biting, scarring look into a broken and hurt mind. |
| Ethel Cain Preacher's Daughter |
| Fiona Apple When the Pawn... |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues |
| Like many others have lovingly stated, Helplessness Blues is an album of sheer beauty and an unforgettable ode to the wonder of music. Undoubtedly one of the most important records of our time. |
| Fleetwood Mac Rumours |
| Fleetwood Mac Tusk |
| Flotation Toy Warning Bluffer's Guide to the Flight Deck |
| Harp Albion |
| Hum Downward Is Heavenward |
| Ichiko Aoba 0% |
| This is the best live album of all-time. No bright, flickering lights, electrifying instruments, or loud vocals. It's one girl, one angelic voice, and one guitar in the open air and it bewitches you for every small minute. |
| Iona Journey Into the Morn |
A spellbinding and gorgeous progressive/folk record that moves with soul, grace, and
conviction. |
| Iona Open Sky |
| Jason Isbell Southeastern |
| I've always said that the best albums are those who ask for some patience. Not work, mind you, patience. First impressions are pleasant, perhaps even lovely, but the more you live with it, the more those vulnerable emotions become as real as your own, all the while never realizing it until tears are trickling down your cheeks. Yeah, this is one of those albums. A stone-cold classic. |
| Jeff Rosenstock WORRY. |
| Ambitious, reckless, emotional, thought-provoking, and absurdly fun. Worry is everything a good punk album should be. No, Worry is everything a good record should be period. Absolutely essential. This is the best punk album of the 2010s |
| Jimmy Eat World Futures |
| Futures is, by no means, groundbreaking. It didn't have a cultural impact nor did it innovate a genre. However, I do believe that it can challenge preconceptions of the genre by being the undeniable pinnacle of it. It's youthful yet profoundly mature. Optimistic yet heartbreaking. If Static and Clarity were probing around for their sound and Bleed American was the joy in finally finding it, Futures was the album that defined it. It was the album that made Jimmy Eat World the band they are today. |
| Jimmy Eat World Bleed American |
| I remember hearing "The Middle" when I was young and thinking it was a fun song but nothing more than something that occasionally appeared in films about high school. However, a few years later, when I was starting to grow tired of the mundanity of the Christian music I grew up on, I stumbled upon Bleed American for 2 bucks from a used book festival. I picked it up and it became the first pop/punk record I fell in love with and shaped my music taste more than anything else ever have. It helped shaped my personality and who I am today and it has always been there for me when I needed it. |
| Jimmy Eat World Invented |
| Get in the car, take a drive through glistening city lights, put on Invented and be awestruck by this beautiful record again and again. Absolute classic. |
| Jimmy Eat World Clarity |
| Has there ever been an emo record as stunningly lovely as Clarity? I can wait for an eternity for the answer and I'm more than certain that I will only see empty hands. |
| Jimmy Eat World Static Prevails |
| Static Prevails may be the most tragically overlooked album in the band's discography, perhaps even more so than Damage. In my ears, this nothing short of brilliant. Granted, a lot of that is how this album moves me personally. This album, along with Clarity, reminds me of Christmas and evokes a lot of warm memories. It's impossible for me to rate this on an objective scale, I just can't. I can barely see the album for what it is anymore. |
| Joanna Newsom The Milk-Eyed Mender |
| Joanna Newsom Ys |
| Joanna Newsom Have One on Me |
| Joanna Newsom Divers |
| Kate Bush Aerial |
| Keane Hopes & Fears |
| Really pretty pop record and although it doesn't offer a lot more than that, rwhoever said just sounding pretty was a bad thing? This can be downright beautiful rand sometimes that's more than enough. |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King |
| King Crimson Red |
| Lambchop Is a Woman |
| Is a Woman is a beautifully nuanced and understated gem of a record. Everything works as a unified whole, from Wagner's soulful vocals and elegant delivery, the subtle sonic texture and wonderfully warm atmosphere, and every little piece of music that enters at just the right time. It's perfect. |
| Lambchop How I Quit Smoking |
| The sound of.....really loving life. |
| Lambchop Nixon |
| The sound of the best children's book you've ever read. |
| Lambchop FLOTUS |
| The comparison has been made before but it bears repeating. This is what 22 A Million wanted to be. An avant-garde, atmospheric, ethereal beauty to get lost in without any of the glaring, on the nose indications that what you were listening to was, in fact, weird. It's the sound of being free to create. |
| Lambchop OH (Ohio) |
| The sound of the loveliest autumn you've ever had. |
| Lambchop Damaged |
| Lambchop Mr. M |
| Lambchop The Bible |
| Lana Del Rey Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd |
| Laura Stevenson Sit Resist |
| Laura Stevenson Wheel |
| A delectably sweet, innovative, and emotional opus. This is my favourite record of all-time and saying that feels so right. |
| Laura Stevenson The Big Freeze |
| The Big Freeze takes a far softer and more subtle approach compared to the rock'n'roll anomaly that was Cocksure. To anyone who has already fallen in love with her sweet as honey songwriting, it comes as no surprise to find that this is just as gorgeously delightful. And now coming back to this a year later I've realized that if this isn't an absolute modern classic of the singer/songwriter genre I don't know what is. |
| Laura Stevenson Laura Stevenson |
| Lift to Experience The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads |
| Ling Tosite Sigure Just a Moment |
| Lucinda Williams Car Wheels on a Gravel Road |
| Over the past few years I've been growing a real appreciation for country and the emotions/images it can conjure. This may be the best record I have heard yet. Intimate, homely yet full of unsated desire and longing. Every emotion is felt and every note and melody just hits home. As someone who lives in a rural town and has some of those same dreams, this is connecting all too perfectly. |
| Lydia Illuminate |
| This takes everything that makes bands like Copeland brilliant and dials up the warmth another ten notches. One of the best pop/rock records I've heard in the indie scene in a very long time. |
| Macaroom Homephone TE |
| Why is this humble little J-pop album, tragically hidden in the corners of Bandcamp, the most perfect and transportive thing I have personally ever heard in the realm of pop music? Why not see for yourself? |
| Magnolia Electric Co Magnolia Electric Co |
| Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine |
| Midnight Choir Amsterdam Stranded |
Amsterdam Stranded is at once an understated masterpiece and a show of emotions so grand
and poignant that it immediately betrays its subtly. It is nothing short of magical. |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica |
| Motion City Soundtrack Commit This to Memory |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless |
| As my taste has matured and widened over the years I find I'm consistently amazed at what I can find myself liking. I mean *really* liking. When it comes to pop I'm one who loves a smooth, gentle style; Loveless is almost anything but. The guitar is noisy and harsh and any kind of familiarity and accessibility is buried and difficult to find. The vocals can barely be heard and any sense of melody is sparse if it exists at all. It's a record that wants you to listen closely to hear its incredibly intricate sonic landscape yet, at the same time, it's content to be the best darn background noise you could ever hear. The clash between violent and gentle shouldn't work but it does so, so well. It's just intoxicating. |
| Nick Drake Pink Moon |
| Nirvana In Utero |
| The reason the 90s were the peak of music is albums like this. A blistering, innovative, and guttural rock masterpiece drowning in pain and foreboding tragedy. It's in your face, confronting, and just electrifying through and through. |
| nouns While of Unsound Mind |
| Oceansize Frames |
| Frames is the kind of album that makes me marvel at what we humans can create. Epic in scope and majestic in its execution, it's the kind of masterpiece you hear once in a lifetime. |
| Oceansize Effloresce |
| How do you begin a career with an album this monumental and, dare I say, awe-inspiring? It's forever engaging, profoundly diverse, and strikingly innovative. It's one of the best alternative metal albums of the 21st century and it isn't even the best Oceansize album. |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse |
| Opeth Orchid |
| Opeth Still Life |
| Opeth Heritage |
| Origami Angel Gami Gang |
| Sometimes it's a heavy burden being a man of science. |
| Phoebe Bridgers Punisher |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon |
| Pink Floyd Animals |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Pink Floyd Meddle |
| Pixies Doolittle |
| The spirit of rock 'n' roll is found right here and it absolutely melts face. |
| PJ Harvey To Bring You My Love |
| PJ Harvey Let England Shake |
| Prefab Sprout Let's Change the World With Music |
| Prefab Sprout Andromeda Heights |
| Prefab Sprout Jordan: The Comeback |
| Prefab Sprout Crimson/Red |
| A band from the 80s releasing a magnificent classic in the 10s? That's Paddy for you. |
| Pulp Different Class |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| I can kind of understand how someone could enjoy this one but for this music connoisseur, it's rjust one long and tedious venture. There are highlights here and there there (bad pun but it had rto be made) but it's missing its own identity and instead opts to reach for anything and reverything it can. The nostalgic feel of The Bends, the cold distance of Kid A, the twisted, rsinister vibe of Amnesiac, you name it it's here. No wonder it's called "Hail to the Thief." |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| There's just something about Kid A that few records, if any, have been able to replicate. I'm not sure if it's the beautiful yet eerie atmosphere it wraps itself in or its irresistibly smooth texture. Maybe it's the experimentation that manages to be both strange and unfamiliar yet weirdly listenable at the same time. I can't quite explain why this record has such an effect on me, all I know is that it's amazing. |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| What can I say that thousands, no, millions of others haven't already said? Ok Computer is a timeless and profoundly relevant masterpiece and the music contained therein is a prime example of innovation done right. Do I think it's Radiohead's best? What astonishes me the most is that sometimes I'm honestly not sure. |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| One of the warmest, most beautifully nostalgic records around. |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Took a little time to grow on me but like every Radiohead record (almost every record *ahem* Hail to the Thief) you eventually find yourself wrapped up in its brilliance. Warm, delicate, and soothing are just a few words to come to mind when I spin this masterpiece. |
| Rina Sawayama Hold The Girl |
| Seiko Oomori Sennou |
| Shiina Ringo Shouso Strip |
| So this is the best thing ever. |
| Slowdive Souvlaki |
| On one hand, it makes sense why Souvlaki is always compared to MBV's Loveless. They're both seminal shoegaze records anyone who's interested in the genre should hear. But on the other, the two records cover completely different ground and for me, Souvlaki edges its sister out as my personal favourite of the two. Its dreamy, nocturnal atmosphere is utterly captivating from beginning to end. At times euphoric, at others gentle, Souvlaki is a treasure. |
| Slowdive Pygmalion |
| Soundgarden Superunknown |
| Sparklehorse It's a Wonderful Life |
| Just as wonderful and poetic as the film that shares its namesake. |
| Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell |
| Suis La Lune Riala |
| If you asked me what record has made the biggest impact on my adult life as a music lover I would give Riala as my answer without hesitation. This is one of the most gorgeously composed and beautifully written albums of all-time. That it isn't hailed as an emo classic is simply a musical crime. |
| Sunhouse Crazy on the Weekend |
| The story of a weathered soul and a man who had seen it all. It's so real it hurts. Bless ya Gav, you legend. |
| Swans Filth |
| I don't like this one bit. But then, that may have been what the band was going for. It's ugly, grimy, angry, and dirty in a way that sticks with you long after. It's a disgusting portrait of evil that we often forget exists. |
| Swans The Seer |
| The establishment of mood and atmosphere is greater here than it is on To Be Kind. However, based on pure enjoyment, I adore the bluesy grooves on TBK more than the eerie, droning soundscapes on this record. It's an incredible achievement in its own right, just not quite the monolith To Be Kind is for me. |
| Swans To Be Kind |
| Perhaps the most monumental album of our time. This is one of those albums where the first listen is revelatory and it only gets better the more you explore it. |
| Swans Children of God |
| Swans Soundtracks for the Blind |
| Swans The Great Annihilator |
| Swans The Glowing Man |
| Swans The Beggar |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock |
| Talking Heads Remain in Light |
| Believe what has been said about this album. Remain In Light is one of the most ingenious, infectious, and astonishing records of the 80s. Walk with me into the light, where every note inspires either terror, awe, or GROOVE. |
| Taylor Swift The Tortured Poets Department (Anthology) |
| Television Marquee Moon |
| The Apartments A Life Full of Farewells |
| The Arrogant Sons of Bitches Three Cheers For Disappointment |
| Bad day? Spin this and instantly everything is right with the world again. |
| The Bathers Kelvingrove Baby |
| Magical, romantic, sweet, and endearing. Kelvingrove Baby plays out as a dream that makes your heart soar as you walk along the busy streets of a city bathed in golden lights with the love of your life hand in hand. |
| The Beatles Help! |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul |
| Rubber Soul is the perfect album. It takes all the strengths of earlier Beatles records and fine tunes them until they're at their highest peak. The magic is felt in spades as the band shows a wonderful sense of maturity and introspection. And lest we forget the beginnings of their experimental phase that helped them become the greatest band the world of music has ever seen. Rubber Soul is a spellbinding pop record that rightly deserves its place as a classic. |
| The Beatles Revolver |
| Revolver is one of those records that just bleeds classic status from the very first note. "Taxman" is a blindingly awesome song, no doubt about it, but this record is stacked with moments of sheer brilliance. It's daring, heartfelt, and brimming with artistic integrity. It's rightly one of the best rock albums of all-time. |
| The Beatles The Beatles |
| The White Album is a journey into the human mind like no other. It's all the bright moments, all the inside jokes and silly takes, all the biting insight and criticism of society, all the creative fire and ambition, all the heartbreak, all the anger and aggression, all the romance, and all the passion of a band at the peak of their craft. It might not be their "best" album, but it's certainly their most meaningful, even if it was all but a glorious accident in the end. |
| The Beatles Abbey Road |
| .....It's Abbey Road. It's one of most iconic and musically perfect albums ever written. The Beatles were simply an unbelievable phenomenon who crafted the best sounds the popular music world had ever heard. There will never be another band like this. Long live the wonderful legacy of these gentlemen. "You're gonna carry that weight." |
| The Blue Nile Hats |
| An album for the romantics, the soft-hearted, the ones who live to inspire others by living for others, and the ones who never fail to have a twinkle in their eyes. |
| The Church The Blurred Crusade |
| The Church Starfish |
| The Church Further Deeper |
| The Church Untitled #23 |
| The Church Heyday |
| The Church Sometime Anywhere |
| The Church Priest=Aura |
| The Church Magician Among the Spirits |
| The Church Hologram of Baal |
| The Church Forget Yourself |
| The Church After Everything Now This |
| The Church Remote Luxury |
| The Church The Hypnogogue |
| The Clash London Calling |
| This album is why Punk is the best genre music has ever conceived and why it should be revered as more than the product of rebellious teenagers ranting through the confusion of a world gone awry. Of course, London Calling has the rebellion, the fiery, inclusive, and impassioned spirit, and the dirty, raw vocals, but there's an artistic ambition that transcends it all. It thus remains one of the greatest records of our time. |
| The Cure Disintegration |
| Distintegration is the record that fills the silence and eases the loneliness of those who aren't sure where their place in the world is. If you want to know what it means to be Goth, both inside and out, here it is. |
| The Doors The Doors |
| The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin |
| "The Soft Bulletin really is about despair but....there's no despair in it. I think sometimes you want to sing about despair but I don't think it's like that. It's about being IN despair and singing. It's realizing this despair is not something we're singing about, it's us." - Wayne Coyne. Instant classic. |
| The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound |
| Like Jimmy Eat World's Bleed American before it, The 59' Sound takes its listener to a simpler, but no less melancholic time bathed in youthful innocence, romanticism, and rock 'n' roll fervour. A true nostalgic classic. |
| The Gathering if_then_else |
| The Gathering Nighttime Birds |
| The Gathering How to Measure a Planet? |
| The Gathering Souvenirs |
| The Gathering Home |
| The Gathering Disclosure |
| The Innocence Mission Glow |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland |
| The National Boxer |
| The National High Violet |
| The Pillows Happy Bivouac |
| Japan's answer to the Blue album. Coarse, unbelievably fun, and a masterclass of 90s emo and alt-rock from beginning to end. |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt |
| One of the most gorgeously human records ever written. It's like sitting on a hillside in the evening, grabbing your guitar, and belting it out at the top of your lungs because at that moment you love life and this earth we've been given more than anything else. |
| The The Infected |
| The Violet Burning The Story of Our Lives |
| The Story of Our Lives is a massive accomplishment for not only Christian music but music in rgeneral. It's a three-part masterpiece that's only resonated stronger with time. |
| The War On Drugs A Deeper Understanding |
| The Weakerthans Left and Leaving |
| A big part of me believes that Reconstruction Site is the best record Samson has ever written but the emotional gut-punch of Left and Leaving cannot be understated. It's a steadily building atomic bomb. You know something is coming but when it does nothing can prepare you for it. That is "Exiles Among You." Thank goodness it settles down for the final few songs. A masterpiece. |
| The Weakerthans Reconstruction Site |
| When people let me down or friends disappear this is the record I turn to. It's like a warm hug that lifts you up after a bad day. You're discouraged, filled with self-doubt and anxiety, and then Samson sings "I know you might roll your eyes at this, but I'm so glad that you exist." We all need to hear words so simple yet so beautiful. And we all need to hear this wonderful little album. |
| The Wrens The Meadowlands |
| There Will Be Fireworks The Dark, Dark Bright |
| From the soaring highs of "And Our Hearts Did Beat" and "River" to the sweeping yet solemn sentimentalism of "Elder and Oak" and "The Good Days," The Dark, Dark Bright is a magnificent achievement. |
| There Will Be Fireworks Summer Moon |
| THUMPER (IRE) D e l u s i o n s o f G r a n d e u r |
| Tindersticks Tindersticks |
| Tindersticks swung out of the gate in the best way possible. A sprawling, ingenious, beautiful work of art that reaches the soul. This is one for the books. |
| Tindersticks Tindersticks II |
| After falling in love with their sprawling and resoundingly beautiful debut, the follow-up wasn't quite as immediate for me. Time and an open heart, however, let its magic sink in. And now....well....take note of the word beside the rating. |
| Tom Waits Rain Dogs |
| Tool Ænima |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Trading Yesterday More Than This |
| As incredibly simple as this is I cannot help but fall for its earnest charm. It so clearly tries to be great with everything it has. Its simplicity can taste a little bland at times but overall I'm always moved in some way. |
| Tunng Tunng Presents...DEAD CLUB |
| Vampire Weekend Only God Was Above Us |
| Genuinely feels like I'm listening to an album like Funeral or Bluffer's Guide to the Flight Deck for the first time again. |
| Vashti Bunyan Just Another Diamond Day |
| Weyes Blood Titanic Rising |
| Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot |
| 4.5 superb |
| ABBA Arrival |
| Arrival is not only the definitive ABBA record (apart from Gold of course) I'd contend that it's one of the defining pop records of the 70s. The group was slowly developing their sound on prior records until everything they had been working towards was fully realized on this classic. It just delivers hit after hit after hit. |
| ABBA Super Trouper |
| ABBA More Gold: More Hits |
| Air Moon Safari |
| Alvvays Antisocialites |
| American Music Club California |
| Amyl and the Sniffers Comfort To Me |
| Anathema We're Here Because We're Here |
| Anathema Judgement |
| Anathema A Natural Disaster |
| Anberlin Cities |
| Anberlin New Surrender |
| Antarctigo Vespucci Love in the Time of E-Mail |
| This album defines the magic of pop/punk and what it has ever meant to me as a genre. This gloriously hook filled record reaches the heart in all the right ways. |
| Arab Strap As Days Get Dark |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible |
| Arcade Fire Reflektor |
| Asobi Seksu Citrus |
| When shoegaze and pop marry to create a sound that is so lovely, so irresistible, that it almost makes you wonder how you ever enjoyed shoegaze before it. |
| Avantasia Moonglow |
| February has been insane with these releases. Power metal doesn't get much better than this. |
| Avril Lavigne The Best Damn Thing |
| Bark Psychosis Hex |
| Beach House Bloom |
| Beach House Teen Dream |
| Beach House Depression Cherry |
| Beach House Once Twice Melody |
| Beautiful Eulogy Instruments of Mercy |
| Ben Howard Noonday Dream |
| You can almost feel the intense heat radiating off the ground as you trudge through this album's desolate landscape and sense the eyes of the vultures as they wait for you to breathe your last. And yet, as you walk on, you feel a sense of peace and comfort in the isolation. This is how it feels to listen to Noonday Dream. |
| Ben Howard I Forget Where We Were |
| Ben Howard Is It? |
| Big Star Radio City |
| Bill Wells and Aidan Moffat Everything's Getting Older |
| Bill Wells and Aidan Moffat The Most Important Place in the World |
| Billie Eilish Happier Than Ever |
| This is one of the most stunning yet equally unnerving pop albums I've heard in a long time. It's such an interesting and refreshing character study of who one can become when met with failures from oneself, the music industry and celebrity fame, and other lovers. If I could liken it to a film it'd be Mulholland Drive. |
| Bjork Debut |
| Bjork Biophilia |
| Black Country, New Road Ants From Up There |
| Black Midi Hellfire |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality |
| They really don't write metal like this anymore. A riff-tastic masterpiece. |
| Blonde Redhead 23 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Goodbye Cool World! |
| Bomb the Music Industry! To Leave or Die in Long Island |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Get Warmer |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Adults!!!: Smart!!! Shithammered!!! And Excited By Nothing!!!!!!! |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Scrambles |
| Botch We Are the Romans |
| Like the legendary Jane Doe that came barely two years after, We Are The Romans is another absolute classic record that established just what metalcore as a genre could do. |
| Botch An Anthology of Dead Ends |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| I remember when the album artwork for The Devil and God first caught my eye. I was browsing a music forum when I saw this creepy cover of a little girl hiding from two masked men on a front porch. That, along with the title of the record, sent my mind alive with stories and questions. Who were these characters and what did they mean in relation to the album's name? Who was the little girl? Was she God? Did the men represent the devil? I had to give it a listen straight away. What I experienced next was one of the most impactful first listens of any album I had ever heard. It's a record I will always cherish along with the rest of Brand New's prolific discography. |
| Brand New Daisy |
| Breathless Green to Blue |
| Brian Fallon Sleepwalkers |
| This is one of those albums that I find myself being inexplicably in love with. Yes, it's simple and the instrumentation isn't particularly innovative, but it's so earnest and confident with what it does. Fallon is a master of melody and romanticism and now that I associate it with a couple of painful and amazing memories it's become a very personal classic. |
| Brian Fallon Painkillers |
| The way music can just unexpectedly capture the heart is a mystery I'm not sure I ever want to know the answer to. This man just has it. |
| Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People |
| Bruce Springsteen Darkness on the Edge of Town |
| Bryan Ferry Boys and Girls |
| Burial Untrue |
| This is the ultimate lonely, rainy day album. |
| Capital Lights This Is An Outrage! |
| What a deliciously catchy, summery gem of a record. Why did it take me so long to listen to it when I've heard the name plenty of times before? |
| Captain, We're Sinking The Future Is Cancelled |
| Carissa's Wierd You Should Be At Home Here |
| Carissa's Wierd Songs About Leaving |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion |
| Carly Rae Jepsen The Loneliest Time |
| These lonely midnights are just so much better for the soul |
| Caroline Polachek Pang |
| Caspian Dust and Disquiet |
| Cat Power Moon Pix |
| Chelsea Wolfe Hiss Spun |
| Chelsea Wolfe Abyss |
| Cigarettes After Sex Cry |
| Clever Girl No Drum And Bass in the Jazz Room |
| Cocteau Twins Treasure |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends |
| Coldplay X&Y |
| Converge Axe to Fall |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind |
| Converge You Fail Me Redux |
| You Fail Me is a pummeling masterpiece and quite easily one of the most astounding metalcore records of the 2000s. |
| Converge The Dusk in Us |
| Copeland You Are My Sunshine |
| Copeland Eat, Sleep, Repeat |
| Copeland In Motion |
| Copeland Blushing |
| 2014 was a big year for me. It was the year I graduated from school for one thing. It was also the ryear I started dipping my toes into genres I, up until then, had never explored. And it was the ryear I first fell in love with Copeland with their gorgeous reunion record, Ixora. That album rplayed a massive role in shaping my musical taste today and I still return to it regularly. Just rover four years later we finally get to hear its follow-up. In short, Blushing is everything I was rhoping for with just enough room to grow and mean as much to me today as Ixora did to me five years rago. |
| Courtney Swain Between Blood and Ocean |
| I cannot see anything topping "Sweet Snow" for the song of the year title. I haven't been taken on a rjourney like that in a very long time. |
| Crippled Black Phoenix Ellengaest |
| Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear |
| Daisy Chainsaw Eleventeen |
| Daisy Chainsaw For They Know Not What They Do |
| Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition |
| David Bowie Aladdin Sane |
| David Bowie Hunky Dory |
| David Bowie Low |
| Death Symbolic |
| Death Cab for Cutie We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes |
| This is an indie rock album for those cold Autumn mornings, holding the hand of your love and sharing a scarf together. I think it's the near epitome of beauty. |
| Deftones Deftones |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist |
| I've racked my brain trying to put words to the way this album makes me feel. It's intensely claustrophobic and musty, yet dreamy and ethereal. It's like being lost in a fever dream. It's a harrowing look into the psyche of a band on the edge of destruction that yet possesses the maturity, originality, and beauty of a band in their prime. |
| Deftones Around the Fur |
| Deftones Adrenaline |
| The complaints of this album's quality as a debut are valid but....this is a freaking good debut. As soon as you embrace the raw, aggressive, in your face youth of it it's easy to love this as much as many of their classics. And let's not confuse simplisty with underdeveloped songwriting because that is just not what this is. This is Adrenaline and there's nothing else like it. |
| Deftones Ohms |
| Ohms is really just the ideal Deftones record: from the production that exudes melancholic angst, to the music that is 'Tones at their absolute best. |
| Depeche Mode Songs of Faith and Devotion |
| Depeche Mode Ultra |
| Depeche Mode Playing The Angel |
| Depeche Mode Memento Mori |
| Destroyer Destroyer's Rubies |
| So I'm walking side by side with the love of my life along the River Thames in the early hours of the night. To my disappointment, it isn't everything I dreamed it'd be. The stars are hidden behind a blanket of clouds, the air is kinda stuffy, and the river itself smells a little off. But I say something about it all that makes my girl laugh and I realize that there is nowhere else in the world I'd rather be than beside her. Then I decide that if the scenery isn't going to amaze her then I'm going to do it myself and make her the happiest woman in the world. That's what Destroyer's Rubies is to me. It may not be a traditionally pleasant-sounding record but there's real heart behind it. |
| Destroyer Ken |
| Destroyer Poison Season |
| Come, take my hand as we stroll through the glorious Times Square. |
| Destroyer LABYRINTHITIS |
| Domestic Terminal All The Stories Left To Tell |
| Downhere Wide-eyed and mystified |
| Eels Electro-Shock Blues |
| Electric Light Orchestra Eldorado |
| Electric Light Orchestra Face the Music |
| Electric Light Orchestra A New World Record |
| Elliott Smith XO |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP |
| Evan Call Violet Evergarden: Automemories |
| Every Time I Die Radical |
| Everything But the Girl Fuse |
| Everything But the Girl Walking Wounded |
| Everything But the Girl Amplified Heart |
| Exit North Book of Romance and Dust |
| Faith No More Angel Dust |
| Fall Out Boy Infinity on High |
| Fiona Apple Tidal |
| Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel... |
| Fiona Apple Extraordinary Machine |
| Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters |
| Fleet Foxes Crack-Up |
| Helplessness Blues is the album you play to all of your friends and family. Crack-Up is the album you keep to yourself for those cherished nights when you're alone and pondering the meaning of it all. |
| Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac |
| Flotation Toy Warning The Machine That Made Us |
| Fontaines D.C. Skinty Fia |
| Fraction Moon Blood |
| This is the holy grail of Christian rock. Primal passion married with a sense of coolness that can't be matched. |
| Frightened Rabbit The Midnight Organ Fight |
| One of the most devastatingly human records I've ever heard. Scott, wherever you are my friend, I hope you're well. Your music has touched and changed thousands of lives including mine. We can't thank you enough. |
| Fugazi Repeater |
| Glenn Branca The Ascension |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ |
| Gorillaz Plastic Beach |
| Grant Lee Buffalo Fuzzy |
| Great Grandpa Four of Arrows |
| We've been saturated by so many artists striving for the same road Pheobe Bridgers took a couple of years back. Somewhere along the line it all became a blur. And then a humble little group named Great Grandpa comes along to eclipse practically everyone who has ever lent their voices to the style since. If these folks don't blow up in the indie scene after this something is terribly, terribly wrong with the music community. |
| Green Day American Idiot |
| And here is the cultural phenomenon that swept away thousands of frustrated and misunderstood teens into a pop/punk bliss that was never again felt quite the same way. |
| Green Day Dookie |
| The album that turned punk from the gritty and anthemic music that fuelled many political riots to the fun, catchy, and angsty music that sung to the immature and lonely teenage mind. We didn't have a care in the world, we were just getting through life in our own stupid way. |
| Hands (US-ND) Give Me Rest |
| Harmonium L'heptade |
| The angelic and heartbreaking vocals and the elegant and wistful instrumentation are all wielded by a band whose creativity is as far-reaching as their ambition. What this album delivers can only be described as magical. |
| Haru Nemuri Haru to Shura |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness |
| A sprawling, ingenious, sometimes depressing, but always magnificent creation. |
| Honey Harper Starmaker |
| Hopesfall Arbiter |
| Hum Inlet |
| Ichiko Aoba 0 |
| Illuminati Hotties FREE I.H: This Is Not the One... |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights |
| Iona The Book of Kells |
| Iona Beyond These Shores |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast |
| ISIS Oceanic |
| James McMurtry Complicated Game |
| Jars Of Clay Jars Of Clay |
| The pinnacle of CCM. To this day it remains one of the greatest artistic achievements in Christian music. |
| Jars Of Clay The Long Fall Back to Earth |
| Long Fall is not only a superb creative leap in Jars' discography, but it's also arguably their best record since Much Afraid. Every song has its own identity and personality. It's lush, infectious yet melancholy, relatable, and most importantly, human. A pop album worthy of the loudest applause. |
| Jars Of Clay 20 |
| Jeff Buckley Grace |
| Jeff Rosenstock We Cool? |
| Jeff Rosenstock Thanks, Sorry! |
| Why is Jeff so flippin awesome? |
| Jeff Rosenstock NO DREAM |
| Jeff, if you don't stop being so awesome, dropping absolutely brilliant pieces of punk music out of nowhere, no one else is ever gonna have a chance. |
| Jessie Ware What's Your Pleasure? |
| Jimmy Eat World Damage |
| Jimmy Eat World Integrity Blues |
| Funnily enough, this one took the longest to grow on me out of JEW's entire discography. As more time passes the higher I see it climb. Although it's an incredibly cliche thing to say nowadays, I don't think JEW can do wrong at this point |
| Jimmy Eat World Clarity Live |
| Jimmy Eat World Jimmy Eat World [EP] |
| Jimmy Eat World Stay on My Side Tonight |
| The most emo thing Jimmy has ever released which, in and of itself, makes this essential. That it has one of their top 10 songs in "Closer" makes it stand out that much more. |
| Jimmy Eat World Surviving |
| This is the catchiest, most energetic Jimmy Eat World has been since Chase This Light. I'm absolutely living for it. After some of my favourites disappointed me this year, my boys always come around to remind me of just why I fell in love with music in the first place. |
| John K. Samson Provincial |
| John K. Samson Winter Wheat |
| I have no problem with calling John Samson one of the best artists of our generation. His music exudes love, warmth, humility, understanding and compassion, and so on so forth. On Winter Wheat his music dives ever deeper into the vulnerable lives of his characters. It is a behemoth of an album for the folk genre and one to treasure for years, even decades, to come. |
| John Moreland In The Throes |
| John Van Deusen (I Am) Origami, Pt. 3: A Catacomb Hymn |
| When people ask where I want to see Christian music go in the next ten years I'll point to this. I don't think the importance of this album for Christian music has been fully understood just yet. |
| Johnny Foreigner Waited Up 'til It Was Light |
| Jon Hopkins Singularity |
| Jon Hopkins Immunity |
| Joni Mitchell Blue |
| Julien Baker Sprained Ankle |
| There are a severely limited number of albums I would recommend to anyone, regardless of genre preference, to listen to at least once. Julien Baker's Sprained Ankle is one of those albums. It exposes the fears of self-worth we all hide and it invites us to share them openly. There is a subtle comfort in the unrelenting sadness, a relief in bringing to light a desperate need to share our pain with another. It's a beautiful thing to behold. |
| Kate Bush The Dreaming |
| Kate Bush The Kick Inside |
| Kate Bush Hounds of Love |
| Kilbey Kennedy The Strange Life of Persephone Nimbus |
| King Creosote From Scotland With Love |
| King Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic |
| Kinoko Teikoku Uzu Ni Naru |
| A shoegaze album that properly rocks the socks off? Why haven't I heard something as awesome as this before? |
| Lambchop Aw C'Mon! No You C'mon! |
| Lambchop I Hope You're Sitting Down |
| Lambchop What Another Man Spills |
| Lambchop Showtunes |
| Latterman No Matter Where We Go...! |
| Laura Stevenson Cocksure |
| Laura Stevenson The Mystic & the Master |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV |
| Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy |
| Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti |
| Lil Yachty Let's Start Here. |
| Lisa Germano Geek The Girl |
| Lorde Melodrama |
| Melodrama is one of those few pop records that play out as a complete and cohesive experience, from naive love, heartbreak and resentment, to forgiveness and a mature and newfound look at happiness and fulfilment. It's a gorgeous stroke of genius and one of the best pop records in years. |
| Low Double Negative |
| The four songs released thus far are sublime. If this ends up being another AOTY rcontender....rEDIT: Yep, this is wonderful. |
| Low I Could Live in Hope |
| Low The Curtain Hits the Cast |
| Low Secret Name |
| Mae The Everglow |
| Manchester Orchestra Simple Math |
| Once the sheer immensity of this album hits you'll know it. Simple Math is one of the most monumental rock albums of the past decade. |
| Mazzy Star So Tonight That I Might See |
| Mercury Rev Deserter's Songs |
| Mew +- |
| Mew Frengers |
| mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister |
| Records like this are ones that turn a good band into a remarkable one. Years down the road, I'm sure this will still be speaking to believers about the nature of humanity and his relationship with God. An absolutely essential record of the 2000s. |
| mewithoutYou Pale Horses |
| mewithoutYou [Untitled] |
| Brother, Sister meet your explosive maker. [Untitled] is a once in a lifetime magnum opus that sounds and feels like a nuclear bomb. Combined with the gorgeously subtle companion ep that foreshadowed something truly game-changing this may become one of the most memorable records of the past decade. |
| Midori Aratame Hajime Mashite Midori Desu |
| Midwife (USA) Like Author, Like Daughter |
| Mike Mains and The Branches Home |
| Mineral EndSerenading |
| Endserenading is 90s emo at its absolute best. That it was only Mineral's second (and sadly final) record only provides an extra touch of sadness. Yet their final words tell us that we will all eventually find peace even when our souls are afraid to rejoice. |
| Mineral February/ M.D. |
| Mineral The Power of Failing |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West |
| Motion City Soundtrack My Dinosaur Life |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry |
| Muse The 2nd Law |
| MxPx Life in General |
| Best Christian punk album of all-time. It has none of the cheesiness, cringy Christian-isms, or manipulative inspiration that floods CCM on the daily today. |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade |
| Yeah, for many, this is pretty much a cringy emo infused pop/punk album from days past. However, for others, including myself, it's a testament to what the genre can achieve and it holds up extraordinarily well. It proves that sometimes albums you loved in your teens can still be good. |
| My Epic Behold |
| Nanci Griffith The Last of the True Believers |
| There are records that capture a time and place in history and then there are records that transcend history to become, in no lesser terms, timeless. The songwriting and lyricism are just as poignant today as they were thirty years ago. |
| Natalie Bergman Mercy |
| Neck Deep Life's Not Out To Get You |
| Needtobreathe The Reckoning |
| Neil Young Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds No More Shall We Part |
| Night Verses From the Gallery of Sleep |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral |
| Nirvana Bleach |
| Norma Jean Wrongdoers |
| Wrongdoers is a masterfully crafted record from beginning to end. A ferocious display of Norma Jean's true potential. |
| Nothing The Great Dismal |
| O'Brother Garden Window |
| How do I even begin to describe a record such as O'Brother's Garden Window? For one thing, it's musically untamed and explosive in both its sound and scope, trying out new and innovative styles with every song and managing to pull them all off. This is no doubt a post-hardcore staple of the 2010s. |
| Oceansize Music for Nurses |
| Oceansize Everyone Into Position |
| Oceansize New Pin |
| Opeth Morningrise |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries |
| Opeth Sorceress |
| Opeth In Cauda Venenum |
| Opeth continues to be their daring, adventurous selves, but this time they pull it off with flying colours. This is some of the best material Opeth has written in years. |
| Origami Angel Somewhere City |
| Somewhere City is an emo record full of charm, superbly well-written melodies and out-of-left-field twists, and a genuinely emotional backbone. In the scope of its genre, it's a modern classic. |
| Paddy Hanna Imagine I'm Hoping |
| Pale Waves Unwanted |
| You go, Pale Waves. Wonderful little album. |
| Paramore Brand New Eyes |
| Brand New Eyes isn't overly experimental or progressive but an album doesn't need to be to be considered a masterpiece. It managed to perfect everything Paramore had established beforehand and I'm honestly glad they parted ways with this sound on future releases. This closes their pop/punk days in the most satisfying way possible and I will forever look back on it as a highlight of my teenage years. |
| Parannoul After The Magic |
| Pasteboard Glitter |
| Paul Buchanan Mid Air |
| Heard the title track during the credits of the beautiful film About Time, I looked it up, I listened, I realized this was the singer of the Blue Nile, and I fell in love. |
| Pavement Slanted and Enchanted |
| Pearl Jam Ten |
| Phoebe Bridgers Stranger in the Alps |
| Stranger In The Alps has been a slow burn for me. That isn't to say there was a time I didn't like it, quite the contrary. But it was the kind of record I took for granted, all too content to call it a memorable note in an oversaturated genre. And because of that I missed it. I missed the warmth and the familial intimacy among its snowcapped landscape and towering mountain peaks. Now, I have nothing but a profound appreciation and love for it. |
| PJ Harvey Uh Huh Her |
| PJ Harvey Is This Desire? |
| PJ Harvey Rid of Me |
| PJ Harvey Dry |
| PJ Harvey White Chalk |
| Placebo Without You I'm Nothing |
| Porter Robinson Nurture |
| Portishead Dummy |
| Portishead Portishead |
| Prefab Sprout Swoon |
| Prefab Sprout From Langley Park To Memphis |
| Prefab Sprout Steve McQueen |
| Prefab Sprout The Gunman and Other Stories |
| Prince Daddy and The Hyena Cosmic Thrill Seekers |
| I haven't been this floored by a punk album since Rosenstock's Worry from nearly three ryears ago. This record could not bring the decade to a better close. |
| Pulp His 'n' Hers |
| Pulp This is Hardcore |
| PUP The Dream Is Over |
| PUP Morbid Stuff |
| Pure Reason Revolution Eupnea |
| QueenAdreena Taxidermy |
| QueenAdreena Drink Me |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork |
| R.E.M. Automatic for the People |
| R.E.M. Murmur |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool |
| Rammstein Reise, Reise |
| Ramones Rocket to Russia |
| Red House Painters Down Colorful Hill |
| Red House Painters Red House Painters |
| Regina Spektor Begin To Hope |
| Regina Spektor Home, Before and After |
| Regina Spektor Soviet Kitsch |
| Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It |
| On Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It, Rolo Tomassi have fine-tuned their sound to perfection. And perfect it is as the result of their hard work over the course of five records is one of the most exhilarating, unpredictable, and utterly beautiful metal albums I have heard in years, quite possibly this decade. |
| Ruby Throat Out of A Black Cloud Came A Bird |
| Seiko Oomori Tokyo Black Hole |
| Seiko Oomori Kusokawa Party |
| Seiko Oomori Kintsugi |
| Seiko Oomori releases the most Seiko Oomori album of her career and it is glorious. All the character of Sennou, with the emotional beats of Tokyo Black Hole, and a dash of the melodic aggression of Kusokawa Party. |
| Semisonic Feeling Strangely Fine |
| Shehehe Pet Songs |
| Shiina Ringo Kalk Samen Kuri no Hana |
| Shiner The Egg |
| Sigur Ros ( ) |
| From the soaring yet delicate first half to the despairingly dark and epic second, ( ) is a post-rock masterpiece. Sit back and let your own life fill in the gaps. |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun |
| For many passionate fans, Agaetis Byrjun is hailed as the band's masterpiece and one of the best records of all-time. I honestly cannot find a solid point to argue against them. Agaetis Byrjun is a gorgeous centrepiece in post-rock and one of the best treasures of the 90s. |
| Sigur Ros Takk... |
| What if someone managed to capture the warm, orange glow of a sunrise and inject it into a note, a lyric, or a melody? What if someone made a whole album out of it? I believe someone did and we have the incredible opportunity to hear and experience it for ourselves. Takk.... is that album. It's a sublime wonder that you only get to hear once in a lifetime. |
| Skullcrusher Quiet the Room |
| Slint Spiderland |
| Slowdive Slowdive (LP) |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation |
| SOUL GLO Diaspora Problems |
| Sparklehorse Good Morning Spider |
| Spellling The Turning Wheel |
| Once the strings in Little Deer hit, I knew this was something special. And I was right. This is pure, dazzling brilliance. |
| Split End Deep Love |
| Spoon Kill the Moonlight |
| Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline |
| Wanted to find a random ambient/drone record to fall asleep to. I found this. It was the best sleep I had ever had. |
| Starset Transmissions |
| Steely Dan Aja |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb |
| Suede Autofiction |
| SUNDAYS Inner Coasts |
| Swans Cop |
| This is pure suffering. |
| Swans White Light From the Mouth of Infinity |
| Swans Leaving Meaning |
| Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky |
| Swans Public Castration Is a Good Idea |
| Sweet Trip Velocity : Design : Comfort |
| Sweet Trip You Will Never Know Why |
| Talkie Hablas |
| Talking Heads Fear of Music |
| Tamino Sahar |
| Taylor Swift 1989 |
| 1989 is pop brilliance. It has some of the best hooks of Swift's career, the 80s throwback is delicious, and the entire record is just one infectious, sugary jam. Quite possibly my all-time favourite modern pop record. |
| Taylor Swift Red |
| Taylor Swift Fearless |
| I'll shout it out fearlessly that I love this record. So sweet, so sincere, and just so lovely. |
| Taylor Swift Speak Now |
| I struggle to picture a more brilliantly consistent, rocking, and gorgeous pop/rock album than Speak Now. |
| Taylor Swift Fearless (Taylor’s Version) |
| One of the greatest country albums ever. |
| Taylor Swift Red (Taylor’s Version) |
| The Afghan Whigs How Do You Burn? |
| The Afghan Whigs Gentlemen |
| The Antlers Hospice |
| Quite possibly the most soul-crushing record of the 2000s. You can almost feel the chill of the hospital hallways and the accompanying sadness that looms over each room. |
| The Armed Only Love |
| The Beach Boys Pet Sounds |
| The Beatles A Hard Day's Night |
| The sheer songwriting quality of this album is leaps and bounds above their previous two. Wonderful album. |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| The Blue Nile A Walk Across the Rooftops |
| The Blue Nile High |
| The Chariot One Wing |
| The Choir Shadow Weaver |
| The Church Of Skins and Heart |
| The Church Seance |
| The Church Gold Afternoon Fix |
| The Church Uninvited Like the Clouds |
| The Church Man Woman Life Death Infinity |
| The Church Eros Zeta and the Perfumed Guitars |
| The Clientele Strange Geometry |
| The Clientele God Save the Clientele |
| The Cure Pornography |
| The Cure The Head on the Door |
| The Cure Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me |
| The Cure Wish |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works |
| The Ember Days More Than You Think |
| The Felice Brothers From Dreams to Dust |
| The Gaslight Anthem Sink or Swim |
| The Gaslight Anthem History Books |
| The Gathering Mandylion |
| The Gathering Beautiful Distortion |
| The Horrible Crowes Elsie |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There |
| This has become one of the hardest fives I've ever given. It got me through a really rough time and it has resonated with me like few others have. |
| The Killers Hot Fuss |
| The Killers Pressure Machine |
| Once I heard "Quite Town" I knew this was going to be something special. I have never been more floored by a Killers song than that one yet the way this record unfolds eclipses even that. This is their opus. |
| The Lawrence Arms The Greatest Story Ever Told |
| The Maine Lovely Little Lonely |
| Gotta hand it to the Maine, this is another really solid release and easily one of the best pop/rock albums of the year. American Candy was great yet this takes their sound that much further. |
| The Maine American Candy |
| If the world was a good and just place The Maine would be one of the biggest bands in modern music. American Candy is an album that doesn't know when to stop giving. 10 years down the road and these hooks will still be delivering punches. |
| The Menzingers On the Impossible Past |
| The Menzingers Rented World |
| The Moody Blues Days of Future Passed |
| The Mountain Goats Goths |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me |
| The National Alligator |
| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Belong |
| The Pillows Little Busters |
| The soundtrack to one of the best animes of all-time also turns out to be an utterly blissful and flawless slice of 90s alternative rock and punk. Where is the surprise? |
| The Pillows Runners High |
| The Radio Dept. Lesser Matters |
| The Raging Nathans Waste My Heart |
| The Smile A Light For Attracting Attention |
| Hello, Hail to the Thief Part 2. |
| The Smiths Strangeways, Here We Come |
| The Smiths The Smiths |
| The Swell Season The Swell Season |
| The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now |
| The Tallest Man on Earth I Love You. It's a Fever Dream. |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave |
| The The Soul Mining |
| The Veils Nux Vomica |
| The Walkabouts Nighttown |
| The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream |
| The Weakerthans Reunion Tour |
| The Weakerthans Fallow |
| Sometimes the moments in our lives that mean the most are those that are mundane to everyone else. |
| The Weakerthans Live at Burton Cummings Theatre |
| The Who Who's Next |
| The Who Quadrophenia |
| The Wrens Secaucus |
| Before the heartfelt masterpiece that is The Meadowlands, The Wrens were crafting some of the catchiest alt-rock of the 90s. Two amazing sides of the same coin. |
| Theocracy Mirror of Souls |
| Mirror of Souls is simply one of best heavy records I have ever had the pleasure of hearing. The pummeling aggression of "Laying the Demon To Rest" and the twenty-two-minute epic that is the title track are just two examples of the eight flawless gems on display here. One of the best records of the 2000s, hands down. |
| Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind |
| Best summer jam of the 90s? You better believe it! |
| Thrice Vheissu |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety |
| Tindersticks Curtains |
| Tindersticks The Something Rain |
| Tom Waits Closing Time |
| Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones |
| Tomberlin i don’t know who needs to hear this... |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Total Downer Caretaker |
| TR/ST TRST |
| Tropical Fuck Storm A Laughing Death in Meatspace |
| Turnstile Glow On |
| Twila Paris He Is Exalted Live |
| As someone who's rarely a fan of live worship records, this one is a special, not only because rit is the single most nostalgic piece of music I own, but it's also excellent as a standalone live rrecord as well. I have so many vivid memories attached to this thing that a single second of these rsongs is enough to transport me to a certain time and place where I was beginning to find out who rI was as a person. I can't quite put into words how much these songs mean to me. |
| U2 The Unforgettable Fire |
| U2 The Joshua Tree |
| Underworld dubnobasswithmyheadman |
| Vansire Angel Youth |
| Vansire craft a gorgeously warm and subtle lo-fi dream-pop album that erupts with young adult sentimentalism, melancholy, and childhood nostalgia. All of this they wrap up in a wonderfully cosy aesthetic that sounds and feels like a lazy early morning. I cannot get enough of it. |
| Warning Watching from a Distance |
| Wednesday Rat Saw God |
| Weezer The White Album |
| White is the reason I became a Weezer fan and it's the reason I still have faith in them. In 2016, when I discovered this album, I didn't realize I had stumbled across something that would become one of my all-time favourite summer records. I love this record inside and out. It genuinely shocks me that Weezer was able to create something this profoundly excellent this late in their career and how it seems this brilliance won't be touched on again, possibly ever. |
| Weezer Pinkerton |
| Weezer Weezer |
| Wilco Summerteeth |
| Yellowcard Ocean Avenue |
| Yellowcard Paper Walls |
| Yellowcard Southern Air |
| "This southern air is all I need, breathe it in and I can see canvasses behind my eyes, all the colors of my life." This pretty much sums up how I feel about this wonderful record. |
| Yeule Glitch Princess |
| Yo La Tengo Painful |
| "I Heard You Looking" is one of the best album closers these ears have ever heard. This is a great album in its own right but that song alone turns this into a classic. |
| Yo La Tengo I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One |
| Zao The Well-Intentioned Virus |
| Zao The Crimson Corridor |
| 4.0 excellent |
| '68 Two Parts Viper |
| A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory |
| ABBA The Album |
| ABBA Voulez-Vous |
| AFI Black Sails in the Sunset |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune |
| Alexis Marshall House of Lull. House of When |
| Alice in Chains Jar of Flies |
| Alkaline Trio Good Mourning |
| Alkaline Trio Goddamnit |
| Alkaline Trio Maybe I'll Catch Fire |
| Alkaline Trio From Here to Infirmary |
| All Time Low Wake Up, Sunshine |
| American Football American Football |
| American Football's classic debut is a melancholic tale of youth and heartbreak sung on the balcony of a grandparent's home as the dusk gives way to the night. It's nostalgic and transportive without ever having to require growing up with it. It evokes a feeling that I don't believe will ever be replicated in music again, despite how hard its followers try. |
| American Football American Football (LP3) |
| Anathema Weather Systems |
| Anberlin Never Take Friendship Personal |
| Anberlin Devotion |
| And Also The Trees (Listen for) the Rag and Bone Man |
| Andrew Peterson Light For The Lost Boy |
| Andrew Peterson Resurrection Letters: Prologue |
| Andrew Peterson Resurrection Letters: Vol.1 |
| Antighost Animal Panic! |
| Arms (FL) Blackout |
| As Cities Burn Son, I Loved You at Your Darkest |
| Asian Glow Stalled Flutes, means |
| Astronauts Hollow Ponds |
| Attalus Into the Sea |
| Attalus Post Tenebras Lux |
| Heavy, emotional, epic, beautiful, unique, breathtaking, the descriptions can go on. |
| August Burns Red Rescue & Restore |
| Avantasia Ghostlights |
| Bad Books III |
| Bad Religion Suffer |
| Bad Religion No Control |
| Basement Colourmeinkindness |
| Basement Beside Myself |
| Beach House 7 |
| Beach Slang The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel |
| Beautiful Eulogy Satellite Kite |
| Becoming The Archetype Terminate Damnation |
| Becoming The Archetype Celestial Completion |
| Belle and Sebastian If You're Feeling Sinister |
| Belle and Sebastian Tigermilk |
| Belle and Sebastian The Boy With the Arab Strap |
| Belle and Sebastian Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant |
| Belle and Sebastian The Life Pursuit |
| Ben Howard Collections from the Whiteout |
| I'm not quite prepared to say this is better than Noonday Dream. Am I prepared to say it's my favourite and will probably be my most revisited down the lane? I'm certain of it. |
| Beyonce Beyonce |
| Beyonce Renaissance |
| Beyonce Lemonade |
| Big Star #1 Record |
| Big Thief Two Hands |
| Billy Joel 52nd Street |
| Bjork Medulla |
| Bjork Volta |
| Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath |
| Black Veil Brides Wretched And Divine: Ultimate Edition |
| Sometimes you just gotta embrace the chunibyo inside of you. |
| Bleachers Gone Now |
| How could you possibly hate something so damn catchy? I liked Bleacher's debut, Strange Desire, well enough, but in my eyes, this is even better. It's fun, diverse, and incredibly imaginative. |
| blink-182 Blink-182 |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket |
| Blonde Redhead Blonde Redhead |
| Blonde Redhead Fake Can Be Just As Good |
| Blonde Redhead In an Expression of the Inexpressible |
| Blondie Blondie |
| Blur Modern Life Is Rubbish |
| Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited |
| Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home |
| Bob Dylan The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan |
| Bob Dylan The Times They Are A-Changin' |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Album Minus Band |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver |
| Bonnie 'Prince' Billy I See a Darkness |
| Bonny Light Horseman Rolling Golden Holy |
| Boris Boris At Last -Feedbacker- |
| Botch American Nervoso |
| Brand New Deja Entendu |
| Brandi Carlile By the Way, I Forgive You |
| Brian Fallon Local Honey |
| Broadway Calls Sad In The City |
| Brooke Fraser Flags |
| Bruce Springsteen The River |
| Bruce Springsteen Nebraska |
| There are times to laugh and celebrate love and life (The River) and there are times to mourn, to embrace confusion, and to hope that those joyous times will be just around the bend. That is the sound of Nebraska. |
| Camera Obscura Biggest Bluest Hi Fi |
| Carissa's Wierd Scrap Book |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Dedicated |
| This is every bit as consistently excellent as Emotion was. Sure, the highs aren't quite as high as something like "Run Away With Me" or "Your Type," but when the music itself is this stupidly catchy it's easy to call Dedicated another runaway success. |
| Caroline Spence Mint Condition |
| Charli XCX Crash |
| Chelsea Wolfe Pain Is Beauty |
| Chelsea Wolfe Birth of Violence |
| Chevelle Wonder What's Next |
| Chevelle Sci-Fi Crimes |
| Chevelle La Gárgola |
| Children 18:3 Children 18:3 |
| A Christian record that is full of punk energy, amazing hooks, and shockingly creative twists. One of the all-time bests. |
| CHVRCHES Every Open Eye |
| CHVRCHES Screen Violence |
| Civilian You Wouldn't Believe What Privilege Costs |
| Civilized Creature Steadfast |
| Civilized Creature's prior records showcased a tasteful blend of electronic music, hip/hop, and organic songwriting without sounding gimmicky or try-hard. On Steadfast, however, our friendly beast fully embraces his electronic side and the results are nothing short of stunning. |
| Cocteau Twins Victorialand |
| Cold Collective Weathervane |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head |
| Colony House When I Was Younger |
| Common Holly When I say to you Black Lightning |
| If I had to describe the type of folk music a ghostly apparition would create this would be the album I'd point to. |
| Converge When Forever Comes Crashing |
| Converge Jane Live |
| Converge I Can Tell You About Pain |
| Copeland Ixora |
| Copeland Ixora Twin |
| In some respects, this honestly surpasses the original record. |
| Craig Finn I Need a New War |
| Crowded House Woodface |
| Crying Beyond The Fleeting Gales |
| Cubfires Stay Gone |
| Cursive Vitriola |
| Daft Punk Homework |
| Euphoric and transportive dance beats and ingenious, visceral synths and loops. Album is a masterwork. |
| Daft Punk Discovery |
| A sense of childlike wonder and discovery wrapped up in a delectable array of dance and synth-pop. I'm nearly twenty years late to the party and it still sounds modern and absolutely timeless. |
| Damien Jurado The Horizon Just Laughed |
| Damien Rice O |
| Daniel Knox Won't You Take Me With You |
| David Bowie "Heroes" |
| David Bowie Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) |
| David Crowder Band Give Us Rest |
| David Crowder Band A Collision Or (3 + 4 = 7) |
| David Kauffman and Eric Caboor Songs From Suicide Bridge |
| You're on the ground, but not for long. You'll fly again. It might not be the easiest album to sit through but it has every chance of being a life changer to someone who needs it. |
| David Sylvian Blemish |
| David Sylvian Brilliant Trees |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| Deas Vail All The Houses Look The Same |
| Death Leprosy |
| Death Human |
| Death Individual Thought Patterns |
| Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs |
| Death Cab for Cutie Asphalt Meadows |
| Death Therapy The Storm Before The Calm |
| Deftones Gore |
| Dennis Wilson Pacific Ocean Blue |
| Depeche Mode Black Celebration |
| Depeche Mode Some Great Reward |
| Depeche Mode Exciter |
| Depeche Mode Sounds Of The Universe |
| Derek Webb Ctrl |
| Derek Webb She Shall and Must Go Free |
| Dessa Chime |
| Destroyer Trouble In Dreams |
| Destroyer Your Blues |
| Destroyer Have We Met |
| Have We Met is yet another triumphant showcase of songwriting from Destroyer. It's subtly gorgeous, atmospherically transcendent, and strikingly grand. Bejar only continues to write with a consistency that should leave any songwriter green with envy. |
| Devics The Stars at St. Andrea |
| Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me |
| Drive-By Truckers Southern Rock Opera |
| ee Ramadan |
| Elliott Smith Roman Candle |
| Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail |
| Envy All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead |
| Envy The Fallen Crimson |
| Eternal Boy Bad Days Are Over |
| Every Time I Die Low Teens |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives |
| Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown |
| Everything But the Girl Temperamental |
| Everything But the Girl The Language of Life |
| Everything in Slow Motion Phoenix |
| Extol Extol |
| Failure Fantastic Planet |
| Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True |
| Fall Out Boy Folie a Deux |
| Falling Up Hours |
| Feeder Echo Park |
| Feeder Comfort In Sound |
| Fennesz Venice |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes |
| Fleet Foxes Sun Giant |
| Fleshkiller Awaken |
| Fleshwater We're Not Here To Be Loved |
| For Squirrels Example |
| Foxing Nearer My God |
| Take the emo sensibilities of Brand New, throw in the vocal eccentricities of Modest Mouse, and douse it all in the sublime atmosphere of The Antlers and you'll have a product called Nearer, My God. In other words, a forceful AOTY contender. |
| Frank Turner Love, Ire & Song |
| Frightened Rabbit The Winter of Mixed Drinks |
| Front Line Assembly Tactical Neural Implant |
| Further Seems Forever The Moon Is Down |
| Genesis Selling England by the Pound |
| Genesis Nursery Cryme |
| Genesis Foxtrot |
| Get Dead Dancing with the Curse |
| Throw Green Day, Jeff Rosenstock, and Beach Slang in a blender and you get this slice of thrilling punk brilliance. |
| Ging Nang Boyz 君と僕の第三次世界大戦的恋愛革命 |
| Bomb The Music Industry - Japan Ver. Rating speaks for itself. |
| Glen Hansard This Wild Willing |
| Glen Hansard Rhythm and Repose |
| Glen Hansard Didn't He Ramble |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada |
| Goldfrapp Felt Mountain |
| Goldfrapp Tales Of Us |
| Goo Goo Dolls Dizzy Up The Girl |
| Good Saint Nathanael Hide No Truth |
| Grandaddy The Sophtware Slump |
| Grandview Everything Between Paint and a Wall |
| Grave Declaration When Dying Souls Scream Praise |
| Green Day Warning |
| Green Day Nimrod |
| Greet Death New Hell |
This is a stunner. A mixture of emo, shoegaze, alternative rock, and even some Low inspired
slow-core moments. Beautiful album |
| Guided by Voices Bee Thousand |
| Gungor Ghosts Upon the Earth |
| Hammock Raising Your Voice... Trying to Stop an Echo |
| Harmonium Les Cinq Saisons |
| Heath NcNease Thrift Store Jesus |
| Heath NcNease The Weight of Glory |
| Honey Harper Honey Harper and the Infinite Sky |
| Hop Along Bark Your Head Off, Dog |
| Hop Along Get Disowned |
| Hope For The Dying Dissimulation |
| Hopesfall The Satellite Years |
| House Of Heroes Suburba |
| Hum You'd Prefer an Astronaut |
| I Mean Us OST |
| Ichiko Aoba Utabiko |
| Ichiko Aoba Kamisori Otome |
| Ichiko Aoba Origami |
| Ichiko Aoba qp |
| I would very happily get lost in this music forever. This girl has a truly special gift. |
| Iona The Circling Hour |
| Iron Chic You Can't Stay Here |
| Iron Maiden Iron Maiden |
| Iron Maiden Piece of Mind |
| ISIS Panopticon |
| Ithaca The Language of Injury |
| You know those records that make you clench your fist, make you pull a dirty face, rand head bang like it's your last night on earth? Yeah, this is one of those, and rthere's a beauty to it that ties it all together. |
| James Seven |
| Janis Joplin I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! |
| Japan Gentlemen Take Polaroids |
| Japandroids Post-Nothing |
| THE BOYS ARE LEAVING TOWN! |
| Japandroids Celebration Rock |
| Jars Of Clay Inland |
| Jars Of Clay Much Afraid |
| Jars Of Clay Who We Are Instead |
| This album is a thing of sheer beauty and grace. A folk/bluegrass gem that keeps growing richer with time. |
| Jason Isbell Reunions |
| Jeff Rosenstock POST- |
| Jeff Rosenstock SKA DREAM |
| Jimmy Eat World Chase This Light |
| Jimmy Eat World Integrity Blues Acoustic |
| Can Jimmy Eat World's music be any more beautiful? |
| Jimmy Eat World Love Never/half heart |
| Jimmy Eat World Firestarter |
| Jockstrap I Love You Jennifer B |
| Joe Purdy Julie Blue |
| John Denver Poems, Prayers & Promises |
| John Mark McMillan Live at the Knight |
| John Van Deusen D-Sides |
| John Van Deusen (I Am) Origami Pt. 2 Every Power Wide Awake |
| John Van Deusen (I Am) Origami Pt. 4 - Marathon Daze |
| I wasn't entirely sure if Van Deusen would be able to capitalize on his promise by moving beyond his fresh take on alternative rock, but Marathon Daze builds upon A Catacomb Hymn's strengths with sublime pop/rock songwriting and lyrical honesty. It's some of the most sonically beautiful work by a religious artist in years, crafted in the midst of a heartbreak that can be related to by anyone from nearly every walk of life. |
| Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison |
| Joni Mitchell Clouds |
| Josh Garrels Love and War and The Sea In Between |
| Joshua Burnside Into the Depths of Hell |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures |
| Julien Baker Turn Out The Lights |
| Juliet McConkey Disappearing Girl |
| Kali Masi Laughs |
| Kate Bush Never for Ever |
| Kate Bush The Sensual World |
| Katy Perry One of the Boys |
| Keane Under The Iron Sea |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city |
| Kevin Devine Brother's Blood |
| King Crimson Islands |
| King Crimson Starless and Bible Black |
| Kings Kaleidoscope Becoming Who We Are |
| Kings Kaleidoscope Beyond Control |
| Kings of Convenience Riot on an Empty Street |
| Kinoko Teikoku Eureka |
| Kye Kye Fantasize |
| One of the most gorgeously lush dream pop records in recent memory. It falls off ever so slightly in its back half but aside from that it's one to keep in the noggin for years. |
| La Dispute Wildlife |
| La Dispute Panorama |
| Lagwagon Let's Talk About Feelings |
| Lagwagon Railer |
| If there is any record that has a chance to unseat Prince Daddy for punk album of the year it is this wonderful slab of skater-punk brilliance. |
| Lagwagon Hoss |
| Lambchop This (is what I wanted to tell you) |
Lambchop take their electronic excursion even further on this record and the
results are even more focused, subtle, and free-flowing than their last. Could be yet
another late-career classic for the 'Chop. |
| Lantlos .neon |
| Lapalux Amnioverse |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin |
| Leeland Sound of Melodies |
| Leeland The Great Awakening |
| Ling Tosite Sigure Inspiration Is Dead |
| Living Sacrifice The Infinite Order |
| Low Long Division |
| A stunningly sparse beauty. It'll be a grower for sure but a good handful of late night spins should do the job. |
| Low Ones and Sixes |
| Low Hey What |
| Lucinda Williams Lucinda Williams |
| Luminate Come Home |
| Magdalena Bay Mercurial World |
| Magnolia Electric Co What Comes After the Blues |
| Makthaverskan II |
| Manchester Orchestra A Black Mile to the Surface |
| Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar |
| Marvin Gaye What's Going On |
| Massive Attack Blue Lines |
| Massive Attack Protection |
| Mazzy Star Among My Swan |
| Melt-Banana Cell-Scape |
| Metric Art of Doubt |
| This is how you create an extraordinary synth-pop album. Art of Doubt is a record that blends rinsanely catchy melodies with gorgeous, lush sonic textures and colours it all with a dark, indie-rrock flair. One of 2018's most spectacular releases. |
| Metric Fantasies |
| Metric Formentera |
| mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright! |
| mewithoutYou Ten Stories |
| mewithoutYou [untitled] e.p. |
| This is the calm before the storm. The peace before the catastrophe. The quiet before the blast. It's the feeling of waiting for the calamity that you know all too well is inevitable. |
| Michaela Anne Desert Dove |
| Microdisney Everybody Is Fantastic |
| Mike Mains and The Branches Calm Down, Everything Is Fine |
| Mike Mains and The Branches When We Were In Love |
| Mr. Mains and the Branches have a fine, fine record on their hands here. A splendid feel-rgood pop record full of romantic sentimentalism and a dash of autumn melancholy. |
| Millencolin Life On A Plate |
| MJ Lenderman Boat Songs |
| Molly and The Zombies Molly and The Zombies |
| Motion City Soundtrack Even If It Kills Me |
| Muse Absolution |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations |
| MxPx Teenage Politics |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge |
| This was the closest mainstream emo ever got to pure thrash punk. It's a tad melodramatic but hey, you can choose to look at your emo years with a cringe or a proud grin. |
| My Epic Yet |
| Nanci Griffith Lone Star State of Mind |
| Narrow Head 12th House Rock |
| It's of my conviction that the best style music ever knew was conceived in and died in the 90s. Imitators come and go but few have ever been able to capture that magic again. But blimey, these lads have it. The magic, the creativity, the unbridled emotion and unfettered rage. They're bringing it it back, man, they're bringing it back. |
| Narrow Head Satisfaction |
| Needtobreathe Rivers In The Wasteland |
| Needtobreathe The Outsiders |
| Needtobreathe Live From The Woods |
| Neil Young After the Gold Rush |
| Neil Young On the Beach |
| Neon Horse Haunted Horse: Songs of Love, Defiance and Delusio |
| Neurosis Souls at Zero |
| New Radicals Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Let Love In |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds The Boatman's Call |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Henry's Dream |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree |
| Nick Drake Five Leaves Left |
| Norma Jean Polar Similar |
| Polar Similar is a beautifully innovative opus that keeps rewarding even years after its release. |
| Norma Jean Redeemer |
| Norma Jean The Anti Mother |
| Norma Jean O' God, the Aftermath |
| Norma Jean Deathrattle Sing for Me |
| Novembre Classica |
| Number Girl School Girl Distortional Addict |
| Number Girl Sappukei |
| O'Brother You and I |
| Oceansize Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up |
| Oceansize Heaven Alive |
| Oceansize Home & Minor |
| Oh, Sleeper Son of the Morning |
| Oh, Sleeper Children of Fire |
| Opeth Watershed |
| Owen At Home With Owen |
| If American Football went acoustic I'd imagine it would sound something like At Home With Owen and that is a very good thing indeed. |
| Owen I do perceive. |
| Paddy Hanna Frankly, I Mutate |
| Pale Waves My Mind Makes Noises |
| This is what I wish the 1975 were. |
| Pale Waves Who Am I? |
| Paper Route The Peace Of Wild Things |
| Paramore After Laughter |
| Talk about a grower. Was fairly disappointed with Paramore's latest when I first heard it but it's only grown on me little by little since. At this moment, it's sitting among my favourite pop albums this half of the decade. |
| Paramore Riot! |
| Paramore All We Know Is Falling |
| Patti Smith Horses |
| Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain |
| PEARS Pears |
| Perry Blake California |
| Perspectives Stay For Those Who Care |
| Petra Beyond Belief |
| Album absolutely rocks the socks off. |
| Petra Petra Praise 2 |
| Just a simple, timeless worship record from a great band. |
| Petra This Means War! |
| Petra's best record and genuinely one of the best Christian rock albums of all-time. |
| Petra Petra Praise: The Rock Cries Out |
| The golden era of praise is found right here. |
| Pink Floyd The Wall |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa |
| PJ Harvey Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea |
| Placebo Never Let Me Go |
| Pocket Full of Rocks Manifesto |
| Prince Daddy and The Hyena I Thought You Didn't Even Like Leaving |
| This is what music is all about ladies and gents. Jammin out, having the time of our lives, making memories, just taking in the raw youth of it all. |
| Prince Daddy and The Hyena Adult Summers |
| Prince Daddy and The Hyena Prince Daddy And The Hyena |
| Project 86 Wait for the Siren |
| Project 86 ...And the Rest Will Follow |
| Propaganda (Hip-Hop) Crooked |
| Propaganda (Hip-Hop) Excellent |
| Proper. I Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting Bet |
| Psallos Jude |
| PUP This Place Sucks Ass |
| QueenAdreena The Butcher and the Butterfly |
| QueenAdreena Djin |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R |
| Queens of the Stone Age In Times New Roman... |
| Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime |
| Radiohead In Rainbows: From the Basement |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs: From the Basement |
| Radwimps Weathering With You |
| Radwimps Your Name. |
| I love this film so much. I always find myself going back to the soundtrack whenever I'm studying, browsing the web, or when I'm just in the mood for music to think along with. |
| Rammstein Mutter |
| Rammstein Sehnsucht |
| Rammstein Herzeleid |
| Rammstein Zeit |
| Ramones Ramones |
| Red (USA) Until We Have Faces |
| Red (USA) Of Beauty and Rage |
| Red (USA) Innocence and Instinct |
| Regina Spektor Far |
| Regina Spektor What We Saw from the Cheap Seats |
| Relient K Air For Free |
| Relient K Forget and Not Slow Down |
| Relient K Mmhmm |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture |
| Robert Wyatt Rock Bottom |
| Rolo Tomassi Where Myth Becomes Memory |
| Rolo Tomassi Grievances |
| Rough Dreams Disappear. Reappear. |
| Sara Groves Invisible Empires |
| Sebastian Field Picture Stone |
| Seiko Oomori Zettai Shoujo |
| Seizures The Sanity Universal |
| Seizures Reverie of the Revolving Diamond |
| Semisonic You're Not Alone |
| "Watch Semisonic be one of the year's best." Yeah, I think I was right! I'd love to hear a new LP from these lads. |
| Sherwood QU |
| Sherwood Some Things Never Leave You |
| Shiina Ringo Heisei Fuuzoku |
| Sho Baraka The Narrative |
| Showbread Showbread is Showdead |
| Showbread Cancer |
| Showbread The Fear of God |
| Showbread Age of Reptiles |
| Showbread No Sir, Nihilism Is Not Practical |
| Showbread Anorexia Nervosa |
| Sigur Ros Valtari |
| Where do you go after releasing your most upbeat and lighthearted work to date? You strip it all away and embrace pure, gentle ambience. Valtari is simple but beautiful. Because of this, it may be the most difficult to enjoy for some. It has more in common with ( )'s second half than it does with their other records (especially Takk....), but in no way is this as dark as ( ). If you accept it for what it is and give it some patience it'll reveal itself to you in its own way. In other words, it follows the Sigur Ros tradition of giving each record its own distinct character and Valtari's happens to be as wonderful as everything before it. |
| Simon and Garfunkel Sounds of Silence |
| Sleater-Kinney Call the Doctor |
| Sleater-Kinney Dig Me Out |
| Sleeping at Last Atlas: Intelligence |
| Sleeping at Last Keep No Score |
| Sleeping at Last Atlas - Space 1 |
| Sleeping at Last Atlas - Space 2 |
| Sleeping at Last Light |
| Sleeping at Last Darkness |
| Sleeping at Last Atlas - Land |
| Sleeping at Last Atlas - Oceans |
| Sleeping at Last Atlas - Life |
| Sleeping at Last Atlas: Emotions |
| Sleeping at Last Atlas: Senses |
| Sleeping at Last Storyboards |
| Sleeping at Last Enneagram |
| Slowdive Just for a Day |
| Songs: Ohia The Lioness |
| Sonic Youth Sister |
| Sonic Youth Evol |
| Sons Keep Quiet |
| Keep Quiet was Sons first and only full-length project before disbanding the following year and, against all odds, it's an indie rock masterpiece. It was also one of the few records that played a part in expanding the boundaries of my musical palette. "Ghost" alone is an all-time best but the opening five cuts are utter perfection. I dearly hope the band reunites and writes another record one day but if that never happens I guess I'll go on refusing to keep quiet about this one. |
| Sparklehorse Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot |
| Spoken Illusion |
| Spoon Gimme Fiction |
| Starflyer 59 Leave Here A Stranger |
| Starflyer 59 Silver |
| One of the absolute best shoegaze albums of the 90s. Hazy, dreamy, and very, very alien. rHow is this never mentioned? |
| Starflyer 59 Americana |
| Starflyer 59 Talking Voice vs. Singing Voice |
| Starset Vessels 2.0 |
| Starset Horizons |
| Steely Dan Can't Buy a Thrill |
| Steely Dan Countdown to Ecstasy |
| Stereolab Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements |
| Steve Taylor and the Perfect Foil Goliath |
| Sturgill Simpson A Sailor's Guide To Earth |
| Suis La Lune Heir |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Diary |
| Switchfoot interrobang |
| This is hardly the Switchfoot we have come to know over the past decade. This Switchfoot is subtle, moody, restrained and unconventional. At nearly every melodic turn it makes the choice to be as unpredictable as it possibly could. This is easily the best Switchfoot record since Hello Hurricane. |
| Switchfoot Hello Hurricane |
| Switchfoot Nothing is Sound |
| Switchfoot The Beautiful Letdown |
| System of a Down System of a Down |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends |
| Talk Talk The Colour of Spring |
| Talk Talk Spirit of Eden |
| Taylor Swift Reputation |
| Taylor Swift Taylor Swift |
| Taylor Swift Evermore |
| The moment Taylor goes from an indie darling to a singer/songwriter sensation. |
| Taylor Swift Folklore |
| The moment Taylor goes from a bubbly, polarizing pop singer to an indie darling. |
| Taylor Swift Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions |
| Team Sleep Team Sleep |
| Tegan and Sara So Jealous |
| The Antlers Burst Apart |
| The Antlers Familiars |
| The Antlers make the most gorgeously evocative and enchanting album of their career. It was love at first sight for me and as time continues to tick by I've only grown more and more fond of it. |
| The Antlers Undersea |
| The Apartments In and Out of the Light |
| The Apartments No Song, No Spell, No Madrigal |
| The Appleseed Cast Mare Vitalis |
| The Appleseed Cast Low Level Owl, Volume I |
| The Appleseed Cast Low Level Owl, Vol. 2 |
| The Ataris End is Forever |
| The Avalanches We Will Always Love You |
| The Bathers Sunpowder |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour |
| The Beatles 1 |
| The Blue Nile Peace at Last |
| The Carpenters Close to You |
| The Chameleons Script of the Bridge |
| The Chariot Long Live |
| The Chicks Fly |
| The Choir Burning Like The Midnight Sun |
| The Choir Bloodshot |
Bloodshot is a stunningly beautiful yet sobering portrayal of divorce and forgiveness. The Choir
masterfully spin a melancholic tale of fading love, broken hearts, and shattered lives picking up
the pieces and, with bloodshot eyes, choosing to look forward. |
| The Choir Circle Slide |
| The Classic Crime The Silver Cord |
| The Clientele Suburban Light |
| The Clientele The Violet Hour |
| The Clientele Music for the Age of Miracles |
| The Cure Seventeen Seconds |
| The Cure Faith |
| The Damn Tracks Second City Is Burning |
| The Decemberists Picaresque |
| The Delgados Domestiques |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation |
| The Dismemberment Plan Emergency & I |
| The Doors Strange Days |
| The Doors Morrison Hotel |
| The Gaslight Anthem American Slang |
| The Gaslight Anthem Handwritten |
| The Gaslight Anthem Get Hurt |
| The Gray Havens Fire and Stone |
| The Highwomen The Highwomen |
| The Innocence Mission Sun on the Square |
| Everything about this record is sublime. I could listen to it for hours upon hours upon hours.... |
| The Innocence Mission See You Tomorrow |
| I will see this gorgeous record tomorrow, the day after, the day after that, and the day after that..... |
| The Jesus Lizard Goat |
| The Jim Yoshii Pile-Up It's Winter Here |
| The Killers Sam's Town |
| The Lawrence Arms Apathy and Exhaustion |
| The Maine Forever Halloween |
| The Maine You Are OK |
| Took me awhile to warm up to what this album was doing stylistically but given the chance, this just grows and grows and..... This should be the staple pop record of 2019. |
| The Meeting Places Find Yourself Along the Way |
| The Menzingers After the Party |
| The Menzingers Chamberlain Waits |
| The Moore Family Band Missy |
| Girls be kicking ass this year! |
| The Mountain Goats The Sunset Tree |
| The National Cherry Tree |
| The National Sleep Well Beast |
| After months of listening it dawned on me that Sleep Well Beast may just be The National's second rbest album, sitting comfortably below Trouble Will Find Me. May even make the second slot on my ryear-end list. |
| The National Boxer Live in Brussels |
| The Oh Hellos Dear Wormwood |
| The Oh Hellos Through The Deep, Dark Valley |
| The Ongoing Concept Handmade |
| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart The Pains of Being Pure at Heart |
| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Days of Abandon |
| The Pillows Please Mr. Lostman |
| The Pillows Thank You, My Twilight |
| The Pillows Good Dreams |
| The Pillows Wake Up! Wake Up! Wake Up! |
| The Porter's Gate Work Songs: The Porter's Gate Worship Project Vol. |
| One of the most essential Christian records to come out in the past five years. Porter's Gate is the image of a church filled with people from different walks of life coming together in unity and sharing that love and warmth to those who have none. |
| The Pretenders Pretenders |
| The Promise Ring Nothing Feels Good |
| The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers |
| The Rural Alberta Advantage Hometowns |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Gish |
| The Smith Street Band No One Gets Lost Anymore |
| The Smiths Meat Is Murder |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Dark Bird Is Home |
| The Tallest Man on Earth When the Bird Sees the Solid Ground |
| "Forever Is a Very Long Time" is an incredibly strong contender for the best song this wonderful man has ever written. |
| The Veils Total Depravity |
| The Veils The Runaway Found |
| The War On Drugs I Don't Live Here Anymore |
| The Wonder Years The Greatest Generation |
| The Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing |
| Theocracy Ghost Ship |
| Theocracy As the World Bleeds |
| Third Day Revival |
Mainstream CCM hasn't seen an album this good in years. It's a genuine, nostalgic and effortlessly
enjoyable Gospel record that can be played countless times over. Massive respect to Third Day for
closing their career with this rock n' roll treasure. |
| Thom Yorke Anima |
| Thrice Major/Minor |
| Thursday Full Collapse |
| Tindersticks Simple Pleasures |
| Tindersticks Can Our Love |
| Tiny Moving Parts Celebrate |
| Tired Lion Breakfast for Pathetics |
| Oh heck yes, this is what I've been waiting to hear. Fiery punk with an attitude that manages to maintain an irresistible melodic edge from beginning to end. |
| Tired Lion Dumb Days |
| Toby Driver They Are the Shield |
| tobyMac Portable Sounds |
| Tokyo Shoegazer Turnaround |
| Tokyo Shoegazer Crystallize |
| Tom Waits The Heart of Saturday Night |
| Tom Waits Small Change |
| Training for Utopia Plastic Soul Impalement |
| Tricot 10 |
| Tropical Fuck Storm Braindrops |
| Turnover Peripheral Vision |
| Turnpike Troubadours Diamonds and Gasoline |
| U2 Boy |
| U2 War |
| U2 Achtung Baby |
| Underoath Define the Great Line |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation |
| Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You |
| Vansire The Rolling, Driftless North |
| Vansire Reflections And Reveries |
| Vansire The Modern Western World |
| Vennart The Demon Joke |
| Verbena Into The Pink |
| A lost 90s gem. I'm honestly shocked this has a mere two ratings here. |
| Warbly Jets Warbly Jets |
| Wavorly Conquering the Fear of Flight |
| Hands down the best record Rob Graves has ever produced. Tragically under-recognised. |
| Waxahatchee Out in the Storm |
| We Are Scientists Huffy |
| We Are Scientists Lobes |
| Ween GodWeenSatan: The Oneness |
| Wilder Woods Wilder Woods |
| William Ryan Key Thirteen |
| William Ryan Key Virtue |
| The king of pop/punk is back yet again but do we finally have a stinker from the dude? Not at all. It's just another brilliant ep. You know. The standard, everyday stuff. |
| Within Temptation The Silent Force |
| Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary |
| Wolves at the Gate Types & Shadows |
| Yellowcard Underdog |
| Yellowcard When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes |
| On Paper Walls there was a definite sense that the band had truly begun maturing and honing in on their sound. WYTTSY pushes that evolution further still, adding a marvellous sense of reminiscence and optimism. This is a pop/punk album BY adults, made FOR adults. It's the sound of looking back at youth, remembering the good times ("Do you remember when I said you were my only one?), and actually looking forward to a future just as bright and incredible. |
| Yellowcard Lights and Sounds |
| Yellowcard One for the Kids |
| Yellowcard Yellowcard |
| A beautifully emotional sendoff to one of the most consistently amazing bands to ever come out of the pop/punk scene. Long live Yellowcard. Thanks for the memories. |
| Yellowcard Ocean Avenue (Acoustic) |
| Yeule Serotonin II |
| Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss |
| Yo La Tengo And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside... |
| Young Lions Burn |
| Such a fantastic rock album. Proud of my fellow Brisbane natives. Lads put on a great show as well. |
| Yukika Soul Lady |
| Zao Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest |
| Zao Liberate Te Ex Inferis |
| Zao The Funeral of God |
| 3.5 great |
| A Day To Remember Homesick |
| A Great Big Pile of Leaves You're Always on My Mind |
| A Tribe Called Quest People's Instinctive Travels & The Paths of Rhythm |
| A Will Away Here Again |
| Abandon Kansas Ad Astra Per Aspera |
| Abandoned Pools Sublime Currency |
| ABBA The Visitors |
| ABBA ABBA |
| ABBA Voyage |
| Adam Watts When a Heart Wakes Up |
| Adjy The Idyll Opus (I-VI) |
| Air Review How We Got By |
| Alcest Kodama |
| Alex G House Of Sugar |
| Alkaline Trio Is This Thing Cursed? |
| 2018's After The Party? It's definitely in the conversation, that's how good this thing is.rEDIT: Not quite After the Party level of brilliance but a superb punk offering nonetheless. |
| All Sons & Daughters Live |
| All Sons & Daughters Poets and Saints |
| All Star United All Star United |
| All The Luck In The World A Blind Arcade |
| All Time Low Don't Panic |
| Guilty pleasure? Possibly. Either way, this thing has some incredible hooks. |
| All Time Low Tell Me I'm Alive |
| Alvvays Alvvays |
| AM Taxi Shiver By Me |
| Anamanaguchi Endless Fantasy |
| Anberlin Vital |
| Anberlin Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place |
| Anberlin Blueprints for the Black Market |
| Anberlin Lost Songs |
| Anchor and Braille Songs for the Late Night Drive Home |
| Andrew Peterson The Burning Edge of Dawn |
| Anna Flyaway Tomorrow I Will Take A Knife To Your Confidence |
| Antarctigo Vespucci Leavin' La Vida Loca |
| Anthony Quails Before The Bright Lights |
| Anthony Quails The Man I Thought I'd Never Be |
| Arcade Fire Everything Now |
| Archabald Relativity |
| As They Sleep Dynasty |
| Asobi Seksu Hush |
| Astronoid Astronoid |
| Astronoid Air |
| Auditorium The First Music |
| Audrey Assad Inheritance |
| August Burns Red Leveler |
| Avion Roe In Separation |
| Avril Lavigne Love Sux |
| Avril Lavigne Goodbye Lullaby |
| Azusa Loop of Yesterdays |
| Azusa Heavy Yoke |
| Bad Religion Against the Grain |
| Bandit Of Life |
| bansheebeat Lumine |
| Bayside Interrobang |
| Beach Bunny Honeymoon |
| Beast In Black From Hell With Love |
| Beautiful Eulogy Worthy |
| Becoming The Archetype Dichotomy |
| Becoming The Archetype Children of the Great Extinction |
| Bedlocked Bedlocked |
| Bellarive The Heartbeat |
| Bent Knee Bent Knee |
| Bent Knee Shiny Eyed Babies |
| Bent Knee You Know What They Mean |
| Two amazing Courtney Swain led projects this year? I feel spoiled. |
| Better Oblivion Community Center Better Oblivion Community Center |
| Big Wild Superdream |
| Bill Callahan Dream River |
| Bill Callahan Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle |
| Bill Callahan Gold Record |
| Bill Ryder-Jones Yawn |
| Bill Withers Just As I Am |
| Billy Joel Turnstiles |
| Black Country, New Road For the first time |
| Black Sabbath Sabotage |
| Black Sabbath Vol. 4 |
| Black Veil Brides Vale |
| Blake Mills Mutable Set |
| Bleachers Strange Desire |
| Blonde Redhead Misery is a Butterfly |
| Blonde Redhead Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons |
| Blood and Water In Character |
| Blurred City Lights Volker |
| Bob Dylan Another Side of Bob Dylan |
| Bodyjar How It Works |
| Bomethius As Roses |
| Bomethius Sweet Nothings |
| Bon Iver 22, A Million |
| Bon Voyage Bon Voyage |
| Boneflower Armour |
| Boston Manor Welcome to the Neighbourhood |
| Boygenius boygenius |
| Brand New Science Fiction |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon |
| Brandy Clark Your Life Is A Record |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning |
| Bright Eyes Fevers & Mirrors |
| Britt Nicole Britt Nicole |
| Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene |
| Brooke Fraser Brutal Romantic |
| Bruce Springsteen Western Stars |
| The Boss is still able to conjure up that Americana magic decades into his career. That ralone deserves praise. That the album is really, really good is just the cream on top. |
| Bruce Springsteen Born in the U.S.A. |
| Bruce Springsteen The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle |
| Built to Spill There's Nothing Wrong with Love |
| Built to Spill Perfect from Now On |
| By Surprise Mountain Smashers |
| Cam The Otherside |
| Camera Obscura Underachievers Please Try Harder |
| Capstan Restless Heart, Keep Running |
| Captain Kudzu Arboretum |
| Car Bomb Centralia |
| Car Seat Headrest Teens of Denial |
| Cara Neir Part III / Part IV |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Dedicated Side B |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion: Side B |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Kiss |
| We all know it deep down inside. "Call Me Maybe" is a true bop. If Justin Bieber didn't stuff things up with a tune so sickly sweet it may as well be on Playschool this may be as consistent as Emotion. |
| Caroline Polachek Desire, I Want To Turn Into You |
| Caroline Spence Spades And Roses |
| Catch 22 Keasbey Nights |
| Cave In Until Your Heart Stops |
| Charli XCX Charli |
| Charmaine Love Reality |
| Chasing Furies With Abandon |
| Chelsea Wolfe The Grime And The Glow |
| What an entrancing record. I won't be surprised if it ends up being one of my favs from the goth queen. |
| Chelsea Wolfe Apokalypsis |
| Chevelle Point #1 |
| Chevelle Vena Sera |
| Chevelle NIRATIAS |
| Children 18:3 Come In |
| Children 18:3 Rain's 'A Comin' |
| Children 18:3 On The Run |
| SUMMEEEERRRR IS ALMOST OVEEEEEER! |
| Chinese Football Chinese Football |
| CHON CHON |
| Me and the boys just chilling out with the guitar noodlers. |
| Christie Front Drive Stereo |
| Christine Fellows Roses on the Vine |
| Chromatics Closer to Grey |
| Citizen As You Please |
| Citizens and Saints Citizens |
| Citizens and Saints The Joy Of Being |
| Citizens and Saints A Mirror Dimly |
| Citizens and Saints Fear |
| City Calm Down Echoes In Blue |
| Civil War Gods And Generals |
| Killer band, killer vocals, killer artwork, killer music, killer record! |
| Civilized Creature A New Heart |
| Civilized Creature Permission To Feel |
| Civilized Creature Tales and Tails |
| Civilized Creature Of The Uncaused Cause |
| Clem Snide Forever Just Beyond |
| Cliffdiver At Your Own Risk |
| clipping. There Existed an Addiction to Blood |
| Cloud Nothings Here and Nowhere Else |
| Cocteau Twins Blue Bell Knoll |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 |
| Coldplay Parachutes |
| Coldplay Ghost Stories |
| Coldplay Prospekt's March |
| Colony House Only the Lonely |
| Colour Anthology |
| Colour in the Clouds Inosculation |
| colourblind Move Like You |
| Come Wind Move in Place |
| Common Children Delicate Fade |
| Converge No Heroes |
| Converge Beautiful Ruin |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky |
| Converge Bloodmoon: I |
| Cool Hand Luke Of Man |
| Copeland Beneath Medicine Tree |
| Count Me In How's Your Heart, Kid? |
| 2018 needed a pop/punk record like this one. Quality stuff in the vein of classic Blink and Yellowcard. Debut records don't get much better than this. |
| Counting Crows August And Everything After |
| Craig Finn A Legacy Of Rentals |
| Craig of the Creek In the Key of the Creek A Craig of the Creek Musi |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival Green River |
| Crooked Fingers Dignity And Shame |
| Crosses Crosses |
| Crowder American Prodigal |
| Crowder Neon Steeple |
| Cursive The Ugly Organ |
| Cyndi Lauper She's So Unusual |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories |
| Damien Rice 9 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Mothership |
| Dance Gavin Dance Afterburner |
| Daughters Daughters |
| David Bowie Diamond Dogs |
| David Bowie Young Americans |
| David Bowie Space Oddity |
| David Bowie The Next Day |
| David Crowder Band Illuminate |
| Dazzle Vision Kirari |
| Dc Talk Jesus Freak |
| De Staat Bubble Gum |
| Dead Can Dance Within the Realm of a Dying Sun |
| Dead Leaves Vultures |
| Death Spiritual Healing |
| Death Cab for Cutie Something About Airplanes |
| Death Cab for Cutie The Photo Album |
| Deerhunter Microcastle |
| Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights |
| Delirious? World Service |
| Delirious? The Mission Bell |
| Delirious? Glo |
| Delirious? King of Fools |
| Delta Sleep Ghost City |
| Demon Hunter Extremist |
| Demon Hunter True Defiance |
| Demon Hunter The Triptych |
| Depeche Mode Music for the Masses |
| Depeche Mode Delta Machine |
| Derek Webb I Was Wrong, I'm Sorry, And I Love You |
| Derek Webb Fingers Crossed |
| Destroyer City Of Daughters |
| Diamond Youth Nothing Matters |
| Dillinger Four Situationist Comedy |
| Dillinger Four C I V I L W A R |
| Dillinger Four Midwestern Songs Of The Americas |
| Dinosaur Jr. Bug |
| Dirge (FR) And Shall The Sky Descend |
| Dirge (FR) Wings Of Lead Over Dormant Seas |
| Dirge (FR) Elysian Magnetic Fields |
| Dirge (FR) Hyperion |
| Dirge (FR) Alma Baltica |
| Dirge (FR) Lost Empyrean |
| Disciple (USA-TN) Long Live the Rebels |
| Disciple (USA-TN) Attack |
| Disciple (USA-TN) Love Letter Kill Shot |
| Dorena Nuet |
| Downhere On The Altar of Love |
| Downhere So much for substitutes |
| Dr. Manhattan Dr. Manhattan |
| Dr. Manhattan Jam Dreams |
| Drab Majesty Modern Mirror |
| Dryve Thrifty Mr. Kickstar |
| Dua Lipa Future Nostalgia |
| Allow me to jump on this hype train because this is HOT! |
| Dustin Kensrue The Water and the Blood |
| Earth Groans Prettiest of Things |
| Earth Groans Rahab |
| Ecke Wu 表演 Performance |
| Edison Glass Time Is Fiction |
| Eisley I'm Only Dreaming |
| Eisley Room Noises |
| Ellie Holcomb As Sure As The Sun |
| Ellie Holcomb Red Sea Road |
| Elliott Smith Elliott Smith |
| Ellis Born Again |
| Emery You Were Never Alone |
| Emma Ruth Rundle Some Heavy Ocean |
| Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) What It Takes to Move Forward |
| Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) Home After Three Months Away |
| Empty Hope and The Loss of It |
| Empty Country Empty Country |
| En Attendant Ana Juillet |
| END (USA-NJ) Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face |
| Enemy of Satan Enemy of Satan |
| Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic |
| Everyday Sunday Stand Up |
| Everyone Everywhere Everyone Everywhere |
| Failure Magnified |
| Failure In The Future Your Body Will Be The Furthest Thing From Your Mind |
| I think I just saw every era of music flash before my eyes and it was magnificent. |
| Fair Disappearing World |
| Falling Up Falling Up |
| Falling Up Exit Lights |
| Falling Up Fangs |
| Falls of Rauros Patterns in Mythology |
| Feeder Yesterday Went Too Soon |
| Feeder Silent Cry |
| Feeder Generation Freakshow |
| Fenne Lily On Hold |
| Fever Fever Aftermath |
| Field Mouse Hold Still Life |
| Fightstar Behind the Devil's Back |
| Fishmans Long Season |
| Floppy (CAN) Months |
| Florence and the Machine High as Hope |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma |
| Flyleaf Flyleaf |
| Fontaines D.C. A Hero's Death |
| For All Eternity Metanoia |
| For All Eternity The Will to Rebuild |
| Finally listened to this two years later. Glad I did! |
| Foreknown (USA-CA, Hip-Hop) Ornithology |
| Foxing Dealer |
| Foxing The Albatross |
| Francis Marathon |
| Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better |
| Friolento Destroy All Bad Luck |
| From Indian Lakes Everything Feels Better Now |
| Future of Forestry Awakened to the Sound |
| Gates (USA-NJ) Bloom and Breathe |
| Gena Rose Bruce Can't Make You Love Me |
| Genghis Tron Board Up the House |
| Glass Beach The First Glass Beach Album |
| If this is the first Glass Beach album then the second is gonna be mind-shattering. |
| Glass Harp Glass Harp |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence |
| Gleemer Down Through |
| Glen Hansard Between Two Shores |
| Goo Goo Dolls Greatest Hits Volume One: The Singles |
| Say what you will, I love this band's sound. This is the best collection around. Melodramatic, nostalgic, and highly listenable. |
| Gorillaz Demon Days |
| Gotye Like Drawing Blood |
| Graduating Life Grad Life |
| Green Day Insomniac |
| Green Day 21st Century Breakdown |
| Green Day Kerplunk |
| Green Day 39/Smooth |
| Greg Dulli Random Desire |
| Group 1 Crew Power |
| Grouper A I A |
| Grouper Grid of Points |
| Gulfer Dog Bless |
| Got this one free from Topshelf records due to an email mistake. Now, this is what I like! Raw, mathy emo with a punk bite. Thank you, lads! |
| Haley Heynderickx I Need to Start a Garden |
| Sit back and let Haley's simple but beautiful instrumentation wash over you. A superb folk record. |
| Hallelujah The Hills I'm You |
| If you thought the best of the decade was over you might want to think twice. I'm You is a rich and stunning slice of Americana rock 'n' roll and relatable, earnest storytelling. Fans of early Wilco should be eating this up with glee. |
| Harker No Discordance |
| Haru Nemuri LOVETHEISM |
| Haste the Day Coward |
| Haste the Day Attack of the Wolf King |
| Haste the Day Dreamer |
| Have Mercy (Indie) The Earth Pushed Back |
| Hearts Like Lions If I Never Speak Again |
| Heath McNease Be Clean Again |
| Heath McNease Among Thieves |
| Hellogoodbye Would It Kill You? |
| Helms Alee Noctiluca |
| Hidden In Plain View Life in Dreaming |
| Hikaru Utada Fantôme |
| Hillsong United Of Dirt and Grace (Live from the Land) |
| Hillsong United People (Live) |
| Holly Ann Light And Bloom |
This is one of those unfortunate, but rare times where a genuinely beautiful record is stained by
subpar production. 'Tis a shame, although it's certainly not unlistenable. |
| Homesafe Nervous Reaction |
| Hot Water Music Fuel for the Hate Game |
| Hotel Books Equivalency |
| House and Home Find Sense. Feel Love. Make Light. |
| House Of Heroes The End Is Not the End |
| House Of Heroes Cold Hard Want |
| House Of Heroes Smoke |
| Hunter G.K. Thompson No Books About Me |
| Ichiko Aoba Mahoroboshiya |
| Ichiko Aoba "gift" at Sogetsu Hall |
| Icon For Hire Scripted |
| Illenium Awake |
| I guess I'm a big sucker for these techno acts now. Never would have thought it. |
| Illuminati Hotties Kiss Yr Frenemies |
| Illyria The Carpathian Summit |
| Immortal Souls Wintermetal |
| Indoor Pets Be Content |
| Iosonouncane Ira |
| Iron Maiden Killers |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave |
| ISIS Celestial |
| ITEM Sad Light |
| Ithaca They Fear Us |
| Ivoryline Vessels |
| J Givens Fly Exam |
| Jack's Mannequin Everything in Transit |
Like a mixture of Relient K and Mae. It's a sweet pop/rock album with a delicious summer vibe,
although I would have preferred it kick the tempo up a notch here and there. |
| James McMurtry The Horses and the Hounds |
| James Yorkston The Route to the Harmonium |
| Janet Jackson Control |
| Jars Of Clay Good Monsters |
| Jason Gray Where The Light Gets In |
| Jason Isbell The Nashville Sound |
| Jeff Rosenstock I Look Like Shit |
| Jeff Rosenstock Summer Seven Club |
| Jeff Rosenstock 2020 DUMP |
| Jeff continues to bless us with his brilliance on this crappy year. |
| Jeremy Camp Speaking Louder Than Before |
| Jeremy Camp Stay |
| Jessica Pratt On Your Own Love Again |
| Jessica Pratt Quiet Signs |
| Jessie Ware That! Feels Good! |
| Jim Adkins I Will Go |
| Jim Bryson and The Weakerthans The Falcon Lake Incident |
| Jimmy Eat World Christmas EP |
| Jimmy Needham Vice & Virtue |
| John Foxx Metamatic |
| John Nolan Abendigo |
| Joliette Luz Devora |
| Jon Foreman The Wonderlands: Sunlight |
| Jon Foreman The Wonderlands: Shadows |
| Jon Foreman The Wonderlands: Darkness |
| Jon Foreman The Wonderlands: Dawn |
| Jon Foreman Fall and Winter |
| Jon Foreman Departures |
| Jon Guerra Keeper Of Days |
| Joni Mitchell Court and Spark |
| Joni Mitchell Ladies of the Canyon |
| Josh Garrels Home |
| Josh Garrels The Light Came Down |
| Josh Garrels Jacaranda |
| Josh Garrels Chrysaline |
| Joyce Manor Joyce Manor |
| Julia Holter Loud City Song |
| Jungstotter Love Is |
| Katatonia The Great Cold Distance |
| Kate Bush Lionheart |
| Kate Davis Trophy |
| Keaton Henson Dear... |
| Keaton Henson Birthdays |
| Keith Green For Him Who Has Ears |
| Keith Green Songs for the Shepard |
| Kevin Devine Bubblegum |
| Kevin Devine Bulldozer |
| Kevin Devine Between the Concrete and Clouds |
| King Crimson In the Wake of Poseidon |
| Kings Kaleidoscope Zeal |
| Kinoko Teikoku Time Lapse |
| Kishi Bashi Omoiyari |
| Kitty Miami Garden Club |
| Kye Kye Young Love |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair |
| Lacey Sturm Life Screams |
| Lambchop TRIP |
| Laura Stevenson A Record + 3 |
| Lauren Balthrop This Time Around |
| Lauren Mann and the Fairly Odd Folk Over Land and Sea |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III |
| Leeland Opposite Way |
| Let's Eat Grandma I'm All Ears |
| life (USA-TX) demo 2 |
| Ling Tosite Sigure Still a Sigure Virgin? |
| Lisel Angels on the Slope |
| Little Big Town Nightfall |
| Liz Phair Exile In Guyville |
| Loathe I Let It In And It Took Everything |
| Love and Death Between Here And Lost |
| Lovelite In Three Persons |
| Lovelite All Color |
| Lovelite Nearness |
| Lovelite Apocalypse Hymnal |
| Low The Great Destroyer |
| Low Things We Lost in the Fire |
| Low Trust |
| Lucy Dacus Home Video |
| Lush Spooky |
| Lydia Paint it Golden |
| No doubting that this is a beautiful sounding record, however, the problem is that it tries too hard to replicate the magic of Illuminate. Rather than sounding like an expansion or exploration of a new direction it comes off as a somewhat poor imitation of their previous treasure. |
| Lydia Devil |
| Lydia Loveless Daughter |
| Macaroom Swimming Classroom |
| Madeline Kenney Perfect Shapes |
| Madison Cunningham Who Are You Now? |
| Mae Destination: Beautiful |
| MakeWar Get It Together |
| Makthaverskan Ill |
| Really underrated record this year but it has some incredible cuts. "Leda," "In My Dreams," and "Siren" are top picks. They have a heavier Alvvays sound which is a great thing. |
| Makthaverskan För Allting |
| Makthaverskan Makthaverskan |
| Manchester Orchestra I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child |
| Mandisa Out Of The Dark |
| Mandisa Overcomer |
| Manes Slow Motion Death Sequence |
| Marietta Summer Death |
| Marilyn Manson Holy Wood |
| Marissa Nadler For My Crimes |
| Mass of the Fermenting Dregs Zero Comma, Irotoridori no Sekai |
| Mat Kearney Just Kids |
| Mat Kearney CRAZYTALK |
| Matt & Toby Matt & Toby |
| Matt Berninger Serpentine Prison |
| Matt Kivel last night in america |
| Matt Maltese Bad Contestant |
| Matthew Perryman Jones The Waking Hours |
| Matthew Perryman Jones Throwing Punches in the Dark |
| Matthew Perryman Jones Swallow the Sea |
| Mayday Parade A Lesson In Romantics |
| Mayday Parade Sunnyland |
| After the excellent A Lesson in Romantics, Mayday Parade went on a steady downfall into mediocrity. Thankfully, Sunnyland has finally pulled them back on their feet. The hooks are infectious, the music emotional and varied, and Derek's vocals shine more than they ever have. |
| Mazzy Star She Hangs Brightly |
| Mazzy Star Seasons of Your Day |
| Melt-Banana Fetch |
| MercyMe Coming Up to Breathe |
| MercyMe All That Is Within Me |
| Metric Synthetica |
| Mew No More Stories |
| Mew And the Glass Handed Kites |
| mewithoutYou Other Stories |
| mewithoutYou A to B: Life |
| On mewithoutYou's debut record, the rough, abrasive sound doesn't quite affect me the same way the more melodic aspects of the band's sound does on later records. Even so, it's a remarkable debut. |
| MGMT Little Dark Age |
| Michael W. Smith Glory |
| Michael W. Smith Wonder |
| Michael W. Smith Live The Life |
| Michael W. Smith I'll Lead You Home |
| Michael W. Smith This is Your Time |
| Michael W. Smith Change Your World |
| Incredibly cheesy but fun. What can I say, it's Smitty in the 90s? |
| Michelle Branch The Spirit Room |
| Michl Michl |
| Microwave Much Love |
| Microwave Death is a Warm Blanket |
| Midwife (USA) Forever |
| Midwife (USA) Luminol |
| Minnie Riperton Come To My Garden |
| Mitski bury me at makeout creek |
| Mock Orange Nines & Sixes |
| Modern Baseball Holy Ghost |
| Modern Baseball Sports |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News |
| Modest Mouse The Golden Casket |
| Mogwai Young Team |
| Mol JORD |
| Mondo Grosso Big World |
| Monoeyes A Mirage In the Sun |
| The Japanese Yellowcard bringing back the sound of '03. |
| Motion City Soundtrack Go |
| Motion City Soundtrack I Am the Movie |
| Mree The Middle |
| Mrs. Piss Self-Surgery |
| Nobody wants to play with us! Gotta admit, that gave me a chuckle. |
| MUNA Saves The World |
| Muse The Resistance |
| Muse Showbiz |
| MxPx MxPx |
| 30 minutes of blistering pop/punk from a veteran in the genre? Yes please! |
| MxPx Slowly Going the Way of the Buffalo |
| MxPx The Ever Passing Moment |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade: The B-Sides |
| My Epic Violence |
| My Epic Broken Voice |
| My Epic I Am Undone |
| My Epic Viscera |
| Nate Parrish I'm A Wreck |
| Neck Deep All Distortions Are Intentional |
| Needtobreathe Out Of Body |
| Needtobreathe Into The Mystery |
| Neil Young Harvest |
| Neil Young Tonight's the Night |
| Neon Beach Billy Miles |
| Nevertheless In The Making... |
| New Found Glory Forever + Ever x Infinity |
| New Found Glory New Found Glory |
| New Order Power, Corruption and Lies |
| Newsboys Love Liberty Disco |
| Newsboys Thrive |
| Newsboys Take Me To Your Leader |
| One of my childhood favs and although its cheesiness has come through over the years I still think rit's a legitimately good record overall. And "Lost The Plot" is still one of the greatest songs rever written for my money. |
| Newsboys Adoration: The Worship Album |
| Newsboys Going Public |
| Nichole Nordeman Every Mile Shattered |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Murder Ballads |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Push The Sky Away |
| Night Flowers Fortune Teller |
| Nine Inch Nails The Fragile |
| No Age Snares Like A Haircut |
| No Joy Motherhood |
| No Vacation Phasing |
| NOFX Punk in Drublic |
| Noname Room 25 |
| Norma Jean All Hail |
| Did we really have any doubt that this was going to be the best metalcore album of 2019? Monsterous, melodically captivating, and a conclusion that brings the house down. They did it again. Phenomenal record. |
| Northstar Is This Thing Loaded? |
| Nothing But Thieves Broken Machine |
| Nothing But Thieves Moral Panic |
| Novembre Novembrine Waltz |
| Novo Amor Birthplace |
| Numenorean Adore |
| Nuoro In the Hills |
| Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? |
| Of Monsters and Men Fever Dream |
| OMAM ditch their bandwagoning folk sound for a lush, dreamy pop style that works surprisingly well. Sure the hooks could be stronger and as a pop album, it isn't the most memorable thing around but as an OMAM record? I'd say it's their best effort yet. |
| Off With Their Heads Be Good |
| Olafur Arnalds Some Kind of Peace |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Garden of Delete |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Magic Oneohtrix Point Never |
| Opeth Pale Communion |
| Opeth Damnation |
| Opeth Deliverance |
| Oso Oso The Yunahon Mixtape |
| Oso Oso Basking in the glow |
| Out of Service Burden |
| Owel Dear Me |
| P.S. Eliot Introverted Romance In Our Troubled Minds |
| Paper Route Real Emotion |
| PassCode Clarity |
| Patrick Watson Wave |
| Petra Wake Up Call |
| Ah, what a nostalgic record. "Sleeping Giant" will always be fav Petra tune. |
| Petra On Fire! |
| Petra More Power To Ya |
| Petra Back To The Street |
| This is where Petra really began for me. While the Greg Volz era is good, John Schlitt will always be the face of Petra. |
| Petra God Fixation |
| The first Petra album I loved. When I heard it off of that old burned CD my friends shared with me this was my immediate favourite. I still think it's a great introduction point to the band. "Falling Up" will never not make my heart soar. |
| Petrol Girls Baby |
| Phil Wickham Cannons |
| Phil Wickham Heaven and Earth |
| Phil Wickham The Ascension |
| Phinehas Till the End |
| Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix |
| Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother |
| Pink Floyd The Final Cut |
| Placebo Black Market Music |
| Playdough Don't Drink The Water |
| Plumb Plumb |
| Plumb CandyCoatedWaterdrops |
| Plumb Need You Now |
| Polock Getting Down From The Trees |
| Pompeii Loom |
| Pool Kids Pool Kids |
| Poppy I Disagree |
| Well this slaps....wasn't expecting that at all. |
| Poppy EAT (NXT Soundtrack) |
| Porter Robinson Worlds |
| Portrayal of Guilt Let Pain Be Your Guide |
| Postcards The Good Soldier |
| Prefab Sprout Protest Songs |
| Problem Daughter Grow Up Trash |
| Project 86 Songs to Burn Your Bridges By |
| Project 86 Picket Fence Cartel |
| Project 86 Truthless Heroes |
| Propaganda (Hip-Hop) Crimson Cord |
| Propagandhi How to Clean Everything |
| Proper. The Great American Novel |
| PUP The Unraveling of PUPTheBand |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs |
| Radiohead In Rainbows Disk 2 |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey |
| Anyone who thinks this isn't good because it isn't as experimental or daring needs to hear "Blow Out" immediately. |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles |
| Rammstein Rosenrot |
| Rammstein Untitled |
| Rammstein Liebe Ist Für Alle Da |
| Ramones Leave Home |
| Ratboys Printer's Devil |
| Red (USA) Release the Panic |
| Red (USA) Gone |
| Red (USA) Declaration |
| Regina Spektor Remember Us To Life |
| Relient K Five Score and Seven Years Ago |
| Relient K Two Lefts Dont Make a Right But Three Do |
| Rend Collective Homemade Worship by Handmade People |
| Rend Collective As Family We Go |
| Rend Collective Good News |
Gotta give it to the Collective. I've liked their past output but they were still struggling with
that generic shell that permeates most worship music. That's been toned down a lot here. The music
and the emotion feel genuine and it's a well-crafted record overall. |
| Resurrection Band / Rez Colors |
| Resurrection Band / Rez Rainbow's End |
| Resurrection Band / Rez Awaiting Your Reply |
| Ride This Is Not a Safe Place |
| Rina Sawayama Sawayama |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness |
| Rites of Spring Rites of Spring |
| Rival Consoles Persona |
| Rivers and Robots Discovery |
| Such gorgeously dreamy soundscapes on a worship album? Hallelujah! |
| Robbie Seay Band Give Yourself Away |
| Robbie Seay Band Rich and Poor |
| Ron Gallo Heavy Meta |
| Rowland S. Howard Pop Crimes |
| Rush 2112 |
| Russian Girlfriends In The Parlance of Our Times |
| Ruston Kelly Shape and Destroy |
| S. Carey Hundred Acres |
| Sam Amidon Sam Amidon |
| Sanctus Real The Face of Love |
| Sanctus Real Fight The Tide |
| Sanctus Real Say it Loud |
| Sanctus Real We Need Each Other |
| Sangre de Muerdago Xuntas |
| Sara Groves Floodplain |
| Sara Groves Fireflies and Songs |
| Saving Grace The Urgency |
| Seiko Oomori Cho Tengoku |
| Self Esteem Compliments Please |
| Semisonic All About Chemistry |
| Shannen Moser I'll Sing |
| Short Fictions Fates Worse Than Death |
| Showbread Who Can Know It? |
| Shura Nothing's Real |
| Shura forevher |
| Sianvar Stay Lost |
| Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust |
| Although Med Sud is a step down from previous records (and really, four masterpieces in a row would be tough for any band to pull off) I'd wager that it's the band's most free sounding and fun release to this point. But since the hilarious cover already gave it away I guess that's not too surprising! |
| Silent Planet Everything Was Sound |
| Silent Planet Iridescent |
| Sixpence None the Richer This Beautiful Mess |
| Sixpence None the Richer Sixpence None the Richer |
| Sleeping Giant I AM |
| Sleeping Giant end their career with a satisfying bang of hardcore bliss. It doesn't get much better than this. |
| Sleeping Giant Finished People |
| Sleigh Bells Treats |
| Sleigh Bells Texis |
| Slick Shoes Rotation and Frequency |
| Slipknot Slipknot |
| SNFU The One Voted Most Likely to Succeed |
| Snowing Fuck Your Emotional Bullshit |
| Soccer Mommy Color Theory |
| Sojourner Premonitions |
| Sol Distorsion Sol Distorsion |
| Songs: Ohia Ghost Tropic |
| Soul Embraced Dead Alive |
| Soutaisei Riron Hi-Fi Anatomia |
| Space Corolla Cordales |
| Spanish Love Songs Schmaltz |
| Special Interest The Passion Of |
| Spoken Breathe Again |
| Spoon Series of Sneaks |
| Spoon Girls Can Tell |
| Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga |
| Starflyer 59 Gold |
| Starflyer 59 The Fashion Focus |
| Starflyer 59 Everybody Makes Mistakes |
| Starflyer 59 Old |
| State Faults Clairvoyant |
| Steely Dan Pretzel Logic |
| Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between |
| Strung Out Songs Of Armor And Devotion |
| Stryper To Hell With the Devil |
| Stuck Out Here Until We're Each Someone Else |
| Svalbard When I Die, Will I Get Better? |
| Swans Holy Money |
| Swans Love of Life |
| Sweet Trip A Tiny House, In Secret Speeches, Polar Equals |
| Switchfoot Where the Light Shines Through |
| A fantastic soundtrack to a family day out at the coast. While not an "objectively" brilliant record it holds plenty of special memories. |
| Switchfoot Vice Verses |
| Switchfoot New Way to Be Human |
| Switchfoot The Edge of the Earth |
| Taking Back Sunday Louder Now |
| Taking Back Sunday Where You Want To Be |
| Taking Back Sunday Tidal Wave |
| Talkie Fundamental Things |
| Talkie Everything Matters |
| Another brilliant throwback to the surf rock of the 70s. They've expanded their rsound and taken it to the highest peaks yet. |
| Talking Heads More Songs About Buildings and Food |
| Tall Ships Impressions |
| Tame Impala Currents |
| Taylor Swift Lover |
| Oh, how I missed this sweet, playful, romantic side of Ms (Mrs?). T Swift. Lover is everything I could want from rher: bops to last for days, touching ballads, and a healthy dose of innocent, silly fun. Oh yeah, and a couple of absolute blinders like "Cornelia Street." |
| Tegan and Sara The Con |
| Telethon Hard Pop |
| Temperance (IT) Of Jupiter and Moons |
| Tenth Avenue North Over and Underneath |
| Tenth Avenue North The Light Meets The Dark |
| Tenth Avenue North The Struggle |
| Tenth Avenue North Cathedrals |
| The Afghan Whigs Congregation |
| The Afters Never Going Back To Okay |
| The All-American Rejects Move Along |
| The Almost Fear Inside Our Bones |
| The Antlers In the Attic of the Universe |
| The Apartments Fête Foraine |
| The Appleseed Cast The End of the Ring Wars |
| The Appleseed Cast Two Conversations |
| The Bathers Sweet Deceit |
| The Beach Boys Today! |
| The Beat I Just Can't Stop It |
| The Beatles With the Beatles |
| The Beatles Please Please Me |
| The Beatles Beatles for Sale |
| The Bell Jar I Infest, Therefore I Am |
Showbread Pt. 2 anybody? Josh's vocals sound as insane as ever and the music is
infectious. It's short, punchy, and it'll infest your mind with its addictive hooks
after the first listen. |
| The Brilliance Brother |
| The Brilliance All Is Not Lost |
| The Buggles The Age of Plastic |
| The Cast Before The Break Still |
| The Choir The Loudest Sound Ever Heard |
| The Choir Chase the Kangaroo |
| The City Harmonic Heart |
| The City Harmonic I Have a Dream (It Feels Like Home) |
| The Classic Crime What Was Done, Vol. 1: A Decade Revisited |
| The Classic Crime Vagabonds |
| The Clientele Bonfires on the Heath |
| The Cure Japanese Whispers |
| The Damned Things High Crimes |
| The Dangerous Summer Reach for the Sun |
| The Dangerous Summer War Paint |
| The Dangerous Summer Golden Record |
| The Darling Fire Dark Celebration |
| The Decemberists Castaways and Cutouts |
| The Decemberists Her Majesty the Decemberists |
| The Decemberists The Crane Wife |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine |
| The Dismemberment Plan Change |
| The Districts You Know I'm Not Going Anywhere |
| The Early November In Currents |
| The Ember Days Finger Painting EP |
| The Ember Days Valitus |
| The Ember Days Emergency |
| The Famine The Architects of Guilt |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots |
| The Fray How to Save a Life |
| The Gathering The West Pole |
| The Get Up Kids Something to Write Home About |
| The Gray Havens Ghost of a King |
| The Gray Havens She Waits |
| The Hotelier Goodness |
| The Hotelier It Never Goes Out |
| The Innocence Mission The Snow on Pi Day |
| The Japanese House Good At Falling |
| The Joy Formidable AAARTH |
| Holy S#$%! |
| The Killers Imploding the Mirage |
| The Kinks Face to Face |
| The Lawrence Arms Oh! Calcutta! |
| The Lawrence Arms Skeleton Coast |
| The Longshot The Longshot |
| Like a mix of Revolution Radio and 21st Century Breakdown. It's a simple, straight ahead pop/punk jam. Love it. |
| The Longshot Love Is For Losers |
| Same as the E.P. this is just a straightforward, fun, garage pop/punk record. Play it, throw up your hands, and let it all go. |
| The Maine Pioneer |
| The Menzingers Hello Exile |
| The album where I struggle to call The Menzies a punk band....and that's not a bad rthing. |
| The Mountain Goats Bleed Out |
| The Movielife Cities In Search Of A Heart |
| The National High Violet Expanded Edition |
| The National Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers |
| The Night Cafe 0151 |
| The Offspring Smash |
| The Ongoing Concept Saloon |
| The Orielles Tableau |
| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart The Echo of Pleasure |
| the peggies Hell Like Heaven |
| The Pillows My Foot |
| The Porter's Gate Neighbour Songs |
| The Prayer Chain Shawl |
| The Presidents of the United States of America The Presidents of the United States of America |
| The Republic of Wolves shrine |
| The Rosebuds Birds Make Good Neighbors |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Adore |
| The Stargazer Lilies Occabot |
| The State Lottery When the Night Comes |
| The Story So Far Under Soil and Dirt |
| The Summer Kills Last Night We Became Swans |
| The Swell Season Once: Music From The Motion Picture |
| The Swell Season Strict Joy |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Sometimes The Blues Is Just A Passing Bird |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Henry St. |
| The Veils Sun Gangs |
| The Veils Time Stays, We Go |
| The Violet Burning The Violet Burning |
| The Violet Burning This is the Moment |
| The Violet Burning Demonstrates Plastic and Elastic |
| The White Stripes De Stijl |
| The Who My Generation |
| The Wooden Sky When Lost At Sea |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Whenever, If Ever |
| Theocracy Theocracy |
| Therapy? Troublegum |
| Third Day Third Day |
| Third Day Move |
| Thomas Azier Love, Disorderly |
| Thornhill The Dark Pool |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Live At The Masquerade |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Welcome to the Masquerade |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vol. I: Fire |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance |
| Thrice Beggars |
| Tides of Man Every Nothing |
| Tift Merritt Traveling Alone |
| Tigerwine Nothing is for You |
| First impressions can be deicieving. The vocals are mostly indistinguishable and vanilla and the post-rock/emo sound is nothing new. But there's a creative depth that's only revealed to the patient. It's a sludgy and atmospheric venture that deserves respect. |
| Tina Boonstra My Concrete Heart (Will Beat Again) |
| Tindersticks The Hungry Saw |
| Tiny Vipers Life on Earth |
It's a super bare indie folk record with some of the most sparse instrumentation I have ever
heard. For those lonely, cold evenings it makes a great soundtrack. |
| Tired Radio Patterns |
| tobyMac Welcome to Diverse City |
| tobyMac Momentum |
| tobyMac Life After Death |
| Tom Waits Blue Valentine |
| Tom Waits Heartattack and Vine |
| Tourniquet Gazing at Medusa |
| Transit Joyride |
| Transit Listen and Forgive |
| Tricot The |
| Trophy Eyes Chemical Miracle |
| Troy Baker Sitting In the Fire |
| Turnstile Time and Space |
| Type O Negative Bloody Kisses |
| U.S. Girls In A Poem Unlimited |
| U2 All That You Can't Leave Behind |
| Underoath Ø (Disambiguation) |
| Valleyheart Everyone I've Ever Loved |
| Vennart To Cure A Blizzard Upon A Plastic Sea |
| Vennart In The Dead, Dead Wood |
| Vexes Ancient Geometry |
| Vi Som Alskade Varandra Sa Mycket Det Onda. Det Goda. Det Vackra. Det Fula. |
| VOLA Applause of a Distant Crowd |
| Volbeat Rewind, Replay, Rebound |
| Warpaint Radiate Like This |
| Waxahatchee Saint Cloud |
| We Are Scientists TV en Français |
| Weathered Everything All at Once |
| Weeping Hour Hunger and Thirst |
| Weezer Everything Will Be Alright in the End |
| Westelaken Westelaken |
| Weyes Blood And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow |
| Whale Bones Island Fire |
| William Tyler Goes West |
| Window to the Abbey Moving Around Bias |
| Within Temptation The Heart of Everything |
| Within Temptation Resist |
| Here I go enjoying an entry-level pop-metal album again all because I was drawn in by its sci-fi rinspired cover art. Who cares about musical elitism anyway? |
| Within Temptation The Unforgiving |
| Wolf Alice Blue Weekend |
| Worriers Survival Pop |
| Worriers You or Someone You Know |
| Write This Down Lost Weekend |
| X-Ray Spex Germfree Adolescents |
| Years Of Rice and Salt Nothing of Cities |
| Yellowcard Lift a Sail |
| Yellowcard When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes Acoustic |
| You Am I Sound As Ever |
| Young Fox Sky Beats Gold |
| Young Lions Blue Isla |
| Young Lions Mr. Spaceman |
| Young the Giant Mind Over Matter |
| Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson |
| Zao The Splinter Shards the Birth of Separation |
| Zao (Self-Titled) |
| Zao Pyrrhic Victory |
| ZOC PvP |
| 3.0 good |
| '68 Love Is Ain't Dead |
| The production choices made here don't sit right with me but aside from that, this is little more than Two-Parts Viper b-sides. |
| 13 Crowes Solway Star |
| 65daysofstatic The Fall of Math |
| Aaron Sprinkle Real Life |
| Abandon Control |
| ABBA Waterloo |
| AC/DC Highway To Hell |
| Acceptance Phantoms |
| Adele 25 |
| Agalloch The Mantle |
| Ages and Ages Divisionary |
| Aimer Daydream |
| Aimyon Oishii Pasta ga Aru to Kiite |
| Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill |
| Alex Lloyd Watching Angels Mend |
| Fellow Aussies will know the Commodor ad that played "Amazing." It was one of those ads I used to wait by the TV for and hope I'd see it again. We've come a long way since. Now I can reach the song in seconds instead of days. |
| Alice in Chains Dirt |
| All Sons & Daughters All Sons & Daughters |
| All Time Low Future Hearts |
| All Time Low Nothing Personal |
| Allelic The Smoke of Atavistic Fires |
| Altar Boys Against the Grain |
| American Football American Football (LP2) |
| Yeah, this one is pretty disappointing. It isn't that I expected them to replicate the magic of the first, in fact, I'd rather them go in an entirely different direction, but this one just feels like a really watered down and somewhat tedious version of their 1999 masterpiece. |
| Amiel Audio Out |
| "Love Song," another one hit wonder from my childhood. Popped in my head years later and it's still a gem. Rest of the album is typical angsty 2000s pop/rock. |
| Anberlin Lowborn |
| Anberlin Silverline |
| And Also The Trees Further from the Truth |
| And Then There Were None Who Speaks For Planet Earth? |
| Anderson .Paak Ventura |
| Andrew Peterson Counting Stars |
| Andrew Peterson The Far Country |
| Andrew Peterson The Resurrection Letters Vol. 2 |
| Andrew Peterson Carried Along |
| Angel Olsen All Mirrors |
| Architects Holy Hell |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not |
| Ariana Grande Dangerous Woman |
| Art School Girlfriend Is It Light Where You Are |
| Artifex Pereo Passengers |
| As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse |
| Aseul Slow Dance |
| Athlete Black Swan |
| Smooth, dreamy, and at times beautiful, Black Swan is an excellent indie rock release that's held back only by its habit of sounding just a little too tame throughout. |
| Athletics Who You Are Is Not Enough |
| As much as I love post-rock I just haven't been able to get into this one. It plays around the standard post-rock formula with little risk taken. Although this is fine I wish it had a bit more to it. |
| Audio Adrenaline Kings and Queens |
| August Burns Red Phantom Anthem |
| August Burns Red Guardians |
| Avantasia A Paranormal Evening With the Moonflower Society |
| Avey Tare Cows On Hourglass Pond |
| Avril Lavigne Under My Skin |
| BABYMETAL Metal Resistance |
| Barely Civil We Can Live Here Forever |
| Basement Promise Everything |
| Beach Bunny Emotional Creature |
| Beach Slang A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings |
| Beach Slang Who Would Ever Want Anything So Broken? |
| Becoming The Archetype The Physics of Fire |
| Bee Gees Number Ones |
| Belgrado Obraz |
| Bellarive Before There Was |
| "Lazarus" and "Save Us" makes this one worth a listen but overall Bellarive took quite a step back with this one and chose to go the generic worship route. |
| Belle and Sebastian Dear Catastrophe Waitress |
| Benjamin Krogh Beck and Call |
| Better Off Reap What You Sow |
| Big Daddy Weave Love Come To Life |
I thought this record was the bee knees when it came out. Although I don't see eye to eye with my
past self anymore I gotta pay the record my respects because I do remember when this was the best
thing I had ever heard. |
| Big Daddy Weave What Life Would Be Like |
| Big Daddy Weave Every Time I Breathe |
| Big Red Machine Big Red Machine |
| Big Ups Two Parts Together |
| Billy Joel Piano Man |
| Birdy Birdy |
| Black Veil Brides Set the World on Fire |
| Black Veil Brides Black Veil Brides |
| Black Veil Brides Re-Stitch These Wounds |
| Black Veil Brides The Phantom Tomorrow |
| Bleach Again, For The First Time |
| Blindside About A Burning Fire |
| Blindside Silence |
| Blonde Redhead Penny Sparkle |
| Blur Parklife |
| Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children |
| Bob Dylan John Wesley Harding |
| Bob Dylan Nashville Skyline |
| Bon Iver i,i |
| Bon Jovi Greatest Hits - The Ultimate Collection |
| NO APOLOGIES!!! (no apologies!) WE WILL NOT BACK DOOOOWWWN! WE ARE NOT AFRAID! NOT A DROP OF DOOOOOOUUUUBT!!! |
| Boston Manor Be Nothing. |
| Break Fate Ferocity |
| Broadway Calls Comfort/Distraction |
| Broadway Calls Good Views, Bad News |
| Brooke Fraser Albertine |
| Bruce Springsteen Tunnel of Love |
| Building 429 Space in Between Us |
| Building 429 Listen to the Sound |
| I remember when I thought this was the best thing. Ah, the simple days. Honestly, this really isn't all that bad. |
| Caligula's Horse Moments from Ephemeral City |
| Camber Beautiful Charade |
| Capital Kings II |
| Car Bomb Mordial |
| Caspian On Circles |
| Castlebeat VHS |
| Catch Fire Karma Owes Me A Lifetime of Happiness |
| Cave In Jupiter |
| Charli XCX How I'm Feeling Now |
| Charlie Puth Voicenotes |
| On the first listen boy was I excited for this record. On subsequent listens the attraction of it started to wane until I realized that this was nothing more than a mildly shallow, albeit catchy, pop/r&b record. Probably won't make the year-end list but it's enjoyable enough to return to if I'm ever in the mood for some pop. |
| Charly Bliss Young Enough |
| Chasms The Mirage |
| Chevelle Hats Off To The Bull |
| Chris Renzema Let The Ground Rest |
| Chris Stapleton Starting Over |
| CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe |
| Surprised this is seen more favourably than Every Open Eye. This one is rather boring all things considered. The follow-up had the hooks, the narrative, and was just a stronger project all around. |
| Cinema Stare Hum And The Glow |
| Circa Survive The Amulet |
| Code Orange Underneath |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness |
| Coldplay A Head Full of Dreams |
| Coldplay Mylo Xyloto |
| Comrades Lone/Grey |
| Convictions Hope for the Broken |
| Cool Hand Luke Cora |
| Counterparts A Eulogy for Those Still Here |
| Counterparts Nothing Left to Love |
| Perhaps my ear for metalcore is not what it used to be but this can't be more than a plain 'ol everyday metalcore record. It's fine, but nowhere close to notable. |
| Courtney Swain Monstre |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival Bayou Country |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival Creedence Clearwater Revival |
| Creeper Eternity, In Your Arms |
| Cultdreams Things That Hurt |
| Cursive Get Fixed |
| Dance Gavin Dance Artificial Selection |
| David Bowie Lodger |
| David Crowder Band Remedy |
| Dc Talk Supernatural |
| Dc Talk Free at Last |
| Death Scream Bloody Gore |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance |
| Death Cab for Cutie Plans |
| Deathbreaker Disconnect |
| Default Genders main pop girl 2019 |
| Deftones Covers |
| Delirious? Kingdom of Comfort |
| Demon Hunter Summer of Darkness |
| Demon Hunter Demon Hunter |
| Demon Hunter Exile |
| Dens Taming Tongues |
| Derek Webb Mockingbird |
| Dillinger Four Versus God |
| Dillon Chase Joyful Loser |
| Dirge (FR) Down Last Level |
| Disciple (USA-TN) Scars Remain |
| Disciple (USA-TN) Horseshoes and Hand Grenades |
| Dogleg Melee |
| Domestic Terminal I Could See Midnight Sky |
| Downhere Ending is Beginning |
| Downhere Downhere |
| Dua Lipa Dua Lipa |
| Earthsuit Kaleidoscope Superior |
| Eat Your Heart Out Florescence |
| Elbow Little Fictions |
| Elder Brother Stay Inside |
| Elias Dummer The Work, Vol. 1 |
| Ella Mine Dream War |
| Emery Eve |
| Emma Blackery Villains |
| Eric Stuart Band Lipstick And Barbed Wire |
Seto Kaiba fronting a folk/pop band and writing some genuinely good tunes? It's surprising for
sure but I can't deny the knack for songwriting these boys possess. LaBW does overstay its welcome
for someone who isn't head over heels with this genre and the record lacks the versatility that
should justify the runtime (pun intended btw, a fantastic song there!). |
| Eric Stuart Band My Kind of Danger |
| Esben and the Witch A New Nature |
| Eskimo Joe A Song Is A City |
| Every Time I Die Last Night in Town |
| Everything in Slow Motion Influence |
| Evie Mirror |
| Fades Away Perceptions |
| Failure The Heart Is a Monster |
| Failure Wild Type Droid |
| Faith No More The Real Thing |
| Fall Out Boy American Beauty/American Psycho |
| Fall Out Boy So Much (For) Stardust |
| Falling Up House Full Of Caverns |
| Falling Up Your Sparkling Death Cometh |
| Fallstar Future Golden Age |
| Family Force 5 Dance or Die |
| Family Force 5 Business Up Front, Party In The Back |
| Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear |
| Fazerdaze Morningside |
| Feeder Pushing the Senses |
| Feeder Renegades |
| Fickle Friends You Are Someone Else |
When I saw sixteen songs on the tracklist I was worried about how consistent it would really be.
The sound isn't bad and is honestly pretty fun at times but the sheer length is monotonous and the
songs only become more indistinguishable as it goes on. It's a promising debut that needs to be
severely cut down and tightened the next go around. |
| Fiction Family Fiction Family Reunion |
| Fireflight Who We Are: The Head And The Heart |
| Fit for a King Slave to Nothing |
| Five Iron Frenzy Our Newest Album Ever! |
| Five Iron Frenzy Until This Shakes Apart |
| Fleet Foxes Shore |
| Flyleaf New Horizons |
| Flyleaf Between the Stars |
| Flyleaf Flyleaf EP |
| FM Static Dear Diary |
| for KING and COUNTRY Crave |
| for KING and COUNTRY Run Wild. Live Free. Love Strong. |
| Forevermore Integral |
| From Indian Lakes Dimly Lit |
| Fugazi In on the Kill Taker |
| Future Islands In Evening Air |
| Future Teens Breakup Season |
| Ghost Ship (USA-WA) The Good King |
| Girlpool Powerplant |
| Glocca Morra Just Married |
| Goo Goo Dolls Let Love In |
| Goo Goo Dolls A Boy Named Goo |
| Grails Deep Politics |
| Grayscale Adornment |
| Green Day God's Favorite Band |
| Green Day Revolution Radio |
| Gungor Beautiful Things |
| Haken Virus |
| Handguns When The Light Burns Out |
| Why not start the first day of 2020 with a supremely banging punk album? Can't think of anything better, honestly. |
| Haste the Day Pressure the Hinges |
| Have Mercy (Indie) Make The Best Of It |
| Hawk Nelson Smile, It's the End of the World |
| Hawk Nelson Letters To The President |
| HEALTH Death Magic |
| Heath NcNease Who Knows? Who Cares? |
| Higher Power 27 Miles Underwater |
| Hillsong United Wonder |
| Hillsong United Zion |
| Hillsong Worship OPEN HEAVEN / River Wild |
| Hillsong Worship For All You've Done |
| Hodera First Things First |
| Hope For The Dying Legacy |
| Hopesfall A Types |
| Hospital Bracelet South Loop Summer |
| Hot Water Music Forever and Counting |
| House Of Heroes Colors |
| HRVRD The Inevitable And I |
| Hyland Weights & Measures |
| I Am The Storm Fight Musik Vol. 1 |
| I DON'T KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME 1981 Extended Play |
| iamthemorning The Bell |
| Illuminati Hotties Let Me Do One More |
| Imminence Turn the Light On |
| Interpol Marauder |
| Introvert Mending Breaking |
| Ivoryline There Came A Lion |
| Jack River Sugar Mountain |
| Japan Quiet Life |
| Japan Adolescent Sex |
| Jars Of Clay If I Left The Zoo |
| Jason Gray Love Will Have The Final Word |
| Jérôme Minière In the Digital Forest |
| Jenna Kate Brown Covered |
| Jeremy Camp The Answer |
| Jeremy Camp Beyond Measure |
| Jeremy Camp Restored |
| Jeremy Camp The Story's Not Over |
| Jess Williamson Sorceress |
| Jimmy Eat World Singles |
| John Mark McMillan Mercury and Lightning |
| John Mark McMillan Borderland |
| John Mark McMillan People With Dreams |
| John Mark Pantana Love Secrets |
| John Maus We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves |
| Johnny Q. Public Extra*Ordinary |
| Jonas Brothers Happiness Begins |
| Jonsi Go |
| Josh Garrels Lost Animals |
| Josh Garrels Over Oceans |
| Julia Holter Aviary |
| Julien Baker Little Oblivions |
| Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour |
| Kari Jobe Majestic (Live) |
| Kari Jobe Where I Find You |
| Katie Pruitt Expectations |
| Kayak Jones You Swear It's Getting Better Every Day |
| Keane Perfect Symmetry |
| Keith Green No Compromise |
| Kero Kero Bonito Time 'n' Place |
| Kevin Devine Instigator |
| Kevin Max Broken Temples |
| Kim Wilde Kim Wilde |
| King Crimson Lizard |
| Kings Kaleidoscope The Beauty Between |
| Kings of Leon Only By The Night |
| Kitty Rose Gold |
| Korn Korn |
| KT Tunstall Eye To The Telescope |
| Kutless Hearts of the Innocent |
| Kutless To Know That You're Alive |
| Kutless It Is Well |
| This is honestly the best record Kutless ever made. |
| Kutless Sea of Faces |
| Kyuss Welcome to Sky Valley |
| Lady Gaga The Fame |
| Landry Cantrell Projections |
First five tracks are near perfect bops but it's perplexing how far this drops off in its second
half. From track six onwards it shifts into auto-pilot. The infectious hooks and addictive grooves
disappear and I'm left just scratching my head. |
| Lauren Daigle Look Up Child |
| Leeland Invisible |
| I was wrong about this one, I'll admit it. Is it at times standard flair for the worship genre? rYep. But is it executed as flat and lifeless as everything else out there? Far from it. It's rhonestly beautiful how well this was crafted. |
| Leeland Love Is On The Move |
| Leigh Nash The State I'm In |
| Lifehouse Out Of The Wasteland |
| Lifehouse Lifehouse |
| Lifelong Above The Waves |
| Lightning Bolt Sonic Citadel |
| Lightworker Fury by Failure |
| Ling Tosite Sigure I'mperfect |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory |
| As far as nu-metal goes I understand that for many people Hybrid Theory is a classic. However, I'm not a fan of nu-metal so while I can see that it's good I'm definitely not the target audience for this kind of music, at least not in this stage of my life. Hand it to 16-year old me and it may have been a different story. |
| Linkin Park Meteora |
| Pretty much the same story here as with Hybrid Theory. I respect it but I'm probably not going to spin it again. |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight |
| This album makes me feel like a young kid again, excitedly browsing the aisles of my local Video Ezy to find the first live-action Transformers film, during which this record would be blaring out the speakers. Is it a good record? Not really. But the nostalgia is just too good. |
| Liza Anne Fine But Dying |
| Local Natives Violet Street |
| Lorde Pure Heroine |
| Lovebites Clockwork Immortality |
| Low Drums and Guns |
| Luminate Welcome To Daylight |
| Luminate's seemingly final album is a nice pop diversion from Come Home's more stripped back pop/rock sound despite being tainted with modern CCM's plastic inspiration. |
| Lydia Devil B-Sides |
| Lydia Run Wild |
| Macseal Super Enthusiast |
| Mae Singularity |
| Mae (m)orning |
| Maison Book Girl Yume |
| Manafest Glory |
| Manafest Fighter |
| Manafest Stones |
| ManDancing The Good Sweat |
| Mandisa What If We Were Real? |
| Marilyn Manson The Pale Emperor |
| Mark Schultz Mark Schultz |
| Maroon 5 It Won't Be Soon Before Long |
| Mat Kearney Young Love |
| Matchbox Twenty Exile on Mainstream |
| Mayday Parade Anywhere But Here |
| Mayday Parade Mayday Parade |
| McCafferty Thanks. Sorry. Sure. |
| Meer Playing House |
| MercyMe Lifer |
| MercyMe Welcome to the New |
| MercyMe The Hurt and the Healer |
| MercyMe Almost There |
| MercyMe Spoken For |
| MercyMe The Generous Mr. Lovewell |
| Mew Visuals |
| mewithoutYou Pale Horses: Appendix |
| Michael Buble ❤️ (Love) |
| Michael W. Smith Worship Again |
| Michael W. Smith Worship |
| Michael W. Smith Healing Rain |
| Michael W. Smith Stand |
| Michael W. Smith A New Hallelujah |
| Mika Life in Cartoon Motion |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank |
| Monoral Petrol |
| Monoral Turbulence |
| Monoral Via |
| Moose Blood Blush |
| Muse Drones |
| Muse Simulation Theory |
| Muse Will of the People |
| Mutemath Mutemath |
| MxPx Panic |
| My Chemical Romance Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys |
| Nanci Griffith Little Love Affairs |
| Nanci Griffith Storms |
| Neck Deep The Peace And The Panic |
| Needtobreathe The Heat |
| Needtobreathe Daylight |
| New Found Glory Sticks and Stones |
| Newsboys Devotion |
| Newsboys Go |
| This is the first album I ever bought. As a thirteen year old this was everything. |
| Newsboys United |
| NF Mansion |
| NF NF |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Ghosteen |
| I want to like this, I really do. After falling in love with Cave's music I was certain I would. But this album....I mean I can kinda get it? It's very lush and emotionally heavy, however, there is nothing there instrumentally. Take away Cave's vocals and you have a fairly unremarkable ambient record. |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth |
| Nine Inch Nails Year Zero |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| No Mana Secret Level |
| Norma Jean Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child |
| Ah, Norma Jean's debut with The Chariot's Josh Scogin at the helm. It was a solid start but rnot one I see myself coming back to all that often over their later material. |
| Norma Jean Meridional |
| Nothing Tired of Tomorrow |
| Nothing But Thieves What Did You Think When You Made Me This Way? |
| Number One Gun The North Pole Project |
| O'Brother Endless Light |
| O'Brother Disillusion |
| Of Monsters and Men Beneath the Skin |
| Of Monsters and Men My Head is an Animal |
| Off Road Minivan Swan Dive |
| Oh, Sleeper Bloodied/Unbowed |
| The long-awaited Bloodied//Unbowed is finally upon us. Does it live up to expectations? Kinda, sorta? It's a solid return with nothing drawdropping, but then, that shouldn't have been expected. As far as reunion records go it's great. |
| Old Sea Brigade Ode To A Friend |
| One Ok Rock Niche Syndrome |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Replica |
| OneRepublic Waking Up |
| Opeth Deliverance & Damnation Remixed |
| Owel Paris |
| Pale Waves All the Things I Never Said |
| Panic! at the Disco Pretty. Odd. |
| Gotta admit this one was an improvement over their awful debut record. It takes some sweet cues from The Beatles at times which gives it a pleasant and inventive sound overall. It is way too drawn out though. |
| Paramore Paramore |
| Paramore This Is Why |
| Paul Colman Trio New Map of the World |
| Penfold Amateurs and Professionals |
| Penny and Sparrow Tenboom |
| Perfume Genius No Shape |
| Peter Furler Sun and Shield |
| Petra Come And Join Us |
| Petra Beat the System |
| Petra Not Of This World |
| Petra Unseen Power |
| Petra Jekyll & Hide |
| Petra goes out with guitars blazing in an AC/DC inspired riff fest. It's heavy enough to rival their late 80s material. Newsboys' Peter Furler helped bring them back but his influence on this album is overbearing. It's almost a heavy Newsboys album first, a Petra album second. The ingenious, soaring melodies of of their heyday is replaced by Furler's quicky, occasionally goofy ear for melody ("Woulda, Shoulda, Coulda" is song plucked right out of the Newsboys catalogue. Like Revival, this isn't ever looked back on in career retrospectives. |
| Petra Never Say Die |
| Phil Wickham Children of God |
| Phinehas Dark Flag |
| Phinehas thegodmachine |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Wait For Love |
| Pillar The Reckoning |
| Pixies Bossanova |
| Placebo Placebo |
| Playdough Lonely Superstar |
| Plumb Chaotic Resolve |
| Pocket Full of Rocks Song to the King |
| PONY TV Baby |
| Prince Dirty Mind |
| Project 86 Knives to the Future |
| Project 86 Project 86 |
| Psychotic Waltz The God-Shaped Void |
| Purity Ring Shrines |
| PVRIS All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell |
| PVRIS Hallucinations |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris |
| Rachael Roberts Rachael Roberts |
| Racing Glaciers Caught in the Strange |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine |
| Rainbow Kitten Surprise How to: Friend, Love, Freefall |
| Record deserves heaps of respect but musically, this one isn't for me. |
| Rebecca St. James God |
| Red (USA) The Evening Hate |
| Red (USA) End of Silence |
| Relient K Truly Madly Deeply EP |
| Relient K The Anatomy of Tongue In Cheek |
| Remedy Drive Daylight Is Coming |
| Remedy Drive Commodity |
| Rend Collective CHOOSE TO WORSHIP |
| Rend Collective The Art of Celebration |
| Riley Clemmons Riley Clemmons |
| Ritual Howls Rendered Armor |
| Robbie Seay Band Miracle |
| Run Kid Run This Is Who We Are |
| Samestate The Alignment |
| San Cisco The Water |
| Sanctus Real Run |
| Sara Groves Abide With Me |
| Sara Groves Conversations |
| Saves the Day Stay What You Are |
| Scalene Respiro |
| Seabird Rocks Into Rivers |
| Seahaven Halo of Hurt |
| Seether Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum |
| Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols |
| Had to give this a jam because my girl Nana Osaki praised them. It's a fun punk classic to be certain but not quite for me. |
| Sharon Van Etten We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong |
| Shed Seven Let It Ride |
| Sherwood A Different Light |
| Silent Planet The Night God Slept |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas |
| Skillet Comatose |
| Guess it's time to admit that not all Skillet albums are bad. Comatose is actually pretty great. For the most part, it's mainstream rock done right, and while it certainly isn't perfect I have no complaints spinning this one. |
| Skillet Collide |
| Sleater-Kinney The Hot Rock |
| Sleater-Kinney All Hands on the Bad One |
| Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind |
| Slow Coming Day Farewell to the Familiar |
| Snail Mail Lush |
| Sobs Telltale Signs |
| Sorority Noise You're Not As ____ As You Think |
| Soul Embraced Immune |
| Spoken IX |
| Starfield The Saving One |
| Starflyer 59 My Island |
| Starflyer 59 Young in My Head |
| Starflyer is as Starflyer does. |
| Starflyer 59 I Am The Portuguese Blues |
| Starflyer 59 Dial M |
| Steely Dan Katy Lied |
| Steely Dan The Royal Scam |
| Stereolab Mars Audiac Quintet |
| Steven Curtis Chapman Speechless |
| Steven Curtis Chapman First Hand |
| Steven Curtis Chapman This Moment |
| Stryper Fallen |
| Sum 41 All Killer No Filler |
| Sundara Karma Ulfilas' Alphabet |
| Surfer Blood Astro Coast |
| Suzanne Vega Suzanne Vega |
| Swans Greed |
| Switchfoot Fading West |
| Switchfoot Learning To Breathe |
| Switchfoot Legend of Chin |
| Sylvaine Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone |
| There is some massive potential here but, unfortunately, Sylvain seems content with scratching the surface just enough to craft something good and serviceable but not enough to form something notable and grand. |
| Talking Heads Talking Heads: 77 |
| Tame Impala Innerspeaker |
| Tancred Nightstand |
| Tegan and Sara If It Was You |
| Tenth Avenue North Followers |
| Tenth Avenue North The Things We've Been Afraid To Say |
| Tenth Avenue North No Shame |
| The 1975 A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships |
| The Afters I Wish We All Could Win |
| The Almost Fear Caller |
| The Band CAMINO tryhard |
| The Beatles Let It Be |
| The Berries Berryland |
| The Blamed The Church Is Hurting People |
| The Chariot Everything Is Alive, Everything Is... |
| The Chariot Wars and Rumors of Wars |
| The Chicks Home |
| The Choir Flap Your Wings |
| The Choir O How The Mighty Have Fallen |
| The City Harmonic We Are |
| The Clash The Clash |
| The Cure Three Imaginary Boys |
| The Dangerous Summer The Dangerous Summer |
| The Dangerous Summer Mother Nature |
| I never knew summer could feel so underwhelming. |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dead Throne |
| The Digital Age Evening:Morning |
| The Doors Waiting for the Sun |
| The Early November Imbue |
| The Ember Days The Ember Days EP |
| The Fold Moving Past |
| The Go-Betweens Liberty Belle And The Black Diamond Express |
| The Horrors Primary Colours |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain Darklands |
| The Killers Day & Age |
| The Maine XOXO: From Love and Anxiety in Real Time |
| The Offspring Americana |
| The Ongoing Concept Places |
| The Pillows Horn Again |
| The Pillows Penalty Life |
| The Pillows Moondust |
| The Postal Service Give Up |
| The Preatures Girlhood |
| The Sky Life Caves |
| The Starting Line Say It Like You Mean It |
| The Story So Far Proper Dose |
| The Strokes Angles |
| The Weeknd After Hours |
| The Who A Quick One |
| The Who The Who Sell Out |
| The Winter Passing New Ways Of Living |
| The Wonder Years The Upsides |
| The Wonder Years The Hum Goes on Forever |
| THICK 5 Years Behind |
| Third Day Lead Us Back: Songs of Worship |
| Third Day Revelation |
| Third Day Offerings: A Worship Album |
| Third Day Wire |
| Third Day Wherever You Are |
| Third Day Miracle |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Phenomenon |
| Thousand Foot Krutch The Art of Breaking |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vol. II: Water |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vol. III: Air |
| Thrice Horizons/East |
| Tigers Jaw Two Worlds |
| Tim Hughes When Silence Falls |
| Tiny Moving Parts Swell |
| To Speak Of Wolves Find Your Worth, Come Home |
| tobyMac The Elements |
| toe The Book About My Idle Plot on a Vague Anxiety |
| Together to the Stars An Oblivion Above |
| Torche Admission |
| Tourist Everyday |
| Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman |
| Training for Utopia Throwing A Wrench In The American Music |
| Transit This Will Not Define Us |
| Trivium Silence in the Snow |
| Trivium The Sin and the Sentence |
| Trivium What the Dead Men Say |
| Trophy Scars Never Born, Never Dead |
| Truth Club Not an Exit |
| TV COMA Body Negativity |
| Twenty One Pilots Vessel |
| Twenty One Pilots Trench |
| U2 Songs of Experience |
| Gotta be honest, didn't have high expectations for this one after the terribly mediocre Songs of Innocence in 2014 and for the most part, Experience fulfils every one of them. It's a passable U2 record with some pretty moments spread lightly around. |
| Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety |
| Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City |
| Video Age Pleasure Line |
| Volbeat Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie |
| I can't believe how much some of this sounds like Green Day lol |
| Vota Love Found Me |
| If it weren't for "Crying Out" this would be a slightly above average CCM record. However, I respect "Crying Out" greatly for being desperate, honest, and uncertain, something Christian music lacks severely. |
| Wake Low Wake Low |
| Walk the Moon What If Nothing |
| Walk the Moon Talking is Hard |
| War of Ages Supreme Chaos |
| War of Ages Void |
| We Are Only Human Once The Prettiest Boys in Town |
Remember that "main pop girl 2019" album from earlier this year? This is like that but most
of the fun and interesting things about it have been removed. |
| We Are Scientists Helter Seltzer |
| We Are Scientists Barbara |
| We Are Scientists Brain Thrust Mastery |
| We Are Scientists With Love and Squalor |
| We Shot The Moon A Silver Lining |
| We Shot The Moon The Finish Line |
| Weatherstate Born a Cynic |
| This has so much potential but the hooks are just not there. |
| Ween The Pod |
| Weezer Maladroit |
| Wet Leg Wet Leg |
| Whitacre Seasons |
| Wilco Ode to Joy |
| Wild Pink Yolk in the Fur |
| With Confidence Love and Loathing |
| Like the title describes, there are moments you'll love and those you'll loathe. A fine release for the moment but fairly forgettable by the end of the day. |
| Within Temptation Hydra |
| Wolves at the Gate VxV |
| This is the record that got me into the wonderful genre we call metal so it's a personal classic. rEven if that were not the case it's a near flawless release in its own right. It proved this rrelatively unknown band had the potential for greatness. Massive potential. |
| Wolves at the Gate Captors |
| Women Public Strain |
| Woodes Crystal Ball |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Cool It Down |
| YFriday Great And Glorious |
| Young the Giant Mirror Master |
| Zao Parade of Chaos |
| Zao All Else Failed (2003) |
| 2.5 average |
| 10 Years (How to Live) As Ghosts |
| A Day To Remember You're Welcome |
| A Rotterdam November Past, Present, Future |
| A.A. Williams Forever Blue |
| A.A.L. (Against All Logic) 2012-2017 |
| Wish I could get into this more since it's quite a unique project but I found it to be repetitive and rather bland overall. |
| Aaron Sprinkle Moontraveler |
| AC/DC Back In Black |
| Acceptance Wild, Free |
| Blaaah, just another version of the ol "If you like this band (in this case The Killers) then you'll love this Christian band!" |
| Altar Boys GLM (Gut Level Music) |
| Amanda Cook Brave New World |
| American Arson A Line in the Sand |
| American Hi-Fi Hearts On Parade |
| Amy Shark Love Monster |
| Anchor and Braille Tension |
| This record could be a knockout if there was any substance or dynamic turns. As it is, Christian's side project is still yet to completely win me over. |
| Andrew Serino The Golden Thread |
| Arcade Fire WE |
| As Cities Burn Scream Through the Walls |
| Ashes Remain What I've Become |
| Ashland Over the Moon |
| Asking Alexandria Asking Alexandria |
| Avicii True |
| Avril Lavigne Let Go |
| awakebutstillinbed what people call low self-esteem is really... |
The music itself is fine, great even, but those screams.....I get what she's going
for but....they're really bad. |
| BABYMETAL Metal Galaxy |
| Backstreet Boys Backstreet Boys |
| Beach Slang The Deadbeat Bang Of Heartbreak City |
| Beartooth Disease |
| Beyonce Dangerously in Love |
| Big Daddy Weave What I Was Made For |
| Billie Eilish dont smile at me |
| Billie Joe Armstrong No Fun Mondays |
| Bleachers Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night |
| blink-182 Neighborhoods |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm |
| Bon Jovi This House Is Not for Sale |
A fine new album from Bon Jovi. It doesn't shake things up too much and sticks to what he does
best. Not really in my ballpark but far from awful. |
| Bon Voyage Lies |
| Bonny Doon Longwave |
| Bonsai Trees Learn To Grow |
| Boom Boom Satellites To The Loveless |
| Boston Manor Glue |
| It's weird how Brand New's Daisy started a trend ten years after its release. With this and Microwave's latest album, pop/punk bands morphing into screamo is now becoming a popular move. I'm not complaining. |
| Brandon Heath Leaving Eden |
| Brandon Heath What if We |
| Brenton Brown Everlasting God |
| Bring Me the Horizon Music to Listen to... |
| I'm going to attempt to defend this. Does it tend to scream "Aren't I so weird! I'm not like other bands" at points? Absolutely. That 20-minute long slog? Bin it. But the way they just dropped it out of nowhere makes it a lot easier to stomach. I can always respect an attempt to try something ridiculous, even if the end result isn't too far removed from your average EDM record. This is also the only time I've ever been able to endure something with Halsey in it. And the final three tracks are actually fairly decent nightcore tunes. I might not ever choose to listen to it again but hey, it's good to say something relatively nice about this band for a change. |
| Building 429 We Won't Be Shaken |
| Building 429 Building 429 |
| Camila Cabello Camila |
| Capital Kings Capital Kings |
| Casting Crowns Come to the Well |
| Casting Crowns Lifesong |
| Charli XCX Pop 2 |
| Chat Pile God's Country |
| Chevelle This Type Of Thinking (Could Do Us In) |
| Chris Tomlin Hello Love |
| Chris Tomlin Arriving |
| CHVRCHES Love Is Dead |
| It honestly isn't a surprise that this latest Chvrches record is a disappointment. Unlike Every Open Eye, it gets bogged down by forgettable repetition, an uninteresting aesthetic, and an especially dull final quarter. If more songs were like "Graffiti" and "Graves" this would be far better as those songs are everything a Chvrches song should be. |
| Coheed and Cambria Vaxis I: The Unheavenly Creatures |
| Whoever is going to make an AMV with those characters will at least have an easy time finding the music for it. |
| Cold A Different Kind of Pain |
| Coldplay Everyday Life |
| Colony House Leave What's Lost Behind |
| Colton Dixon A Messenger |
| Colton Dixon Colton Dixon |
| Comrades For We Are Not Yet, We Are Only Becoming |
| Craig's Brother Devil's In The Details |
| Creeper Sex, Death and the Infinite Void |
| Somehow they wrote the best track of their career ("Be My End") on a woefully frustrating and inconsistent follow up. |
| Currents I Let the Devil In |
| Cynic Focus |
| Daft Punk Human After All |
| Danny Gokey Haven't Seen It Yet |
| David Crowder Band Can You Hear Us? |
| David Leonard The Wait |
| Dawn Of Ashes The Antinomian |
| Dayseeker Sleeptalk |
| Dead Poetic New Medicines |
| Death Therapy Voices |
In trying to branch out and experiment a little this winds up being an unfortunately
underwhelming and uneven experience. Nothing quite lives up to their brilliant debut. |
| DecembeRadio Satisfied |
| Decyfer Down The Other Side of Darkness |
| Deep Valleys Goldhaven |
| Deftones B-Sides and Rarities |
| Delain Apocalypse & Chill |
| Delirious? Touch |
| Delirious? Mezzamorphis |
| Demon Hunter War |
| Demon Hunter Peace |
| Demon Hunter The World Is a Thorn |
| Demon Hunter Songs of Death and Resurrection |
| Disciple (USA-TN) O God Save Us All |
| Disciple (USA-TN) This Might Sting a Little |
| Doe Grow Into It |
| Dream Theater Distance Over Time |
| Eidola The Architect |
| Emarosa Peach Club |
| Ethan C. Davis Serenade |
A glitchy, autotuned EDM worship album. It works well on occasion but it's mostly superfluous and
shrill. |
| Evanescence Fallen |
| .........Asleep |
| Everyday Sunday Anthems for the Imperfect |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree |
| Falling Up Crashings |
| Falling Up Dawn Escapes |
| Falling Up Captiva |
| Fallstar Backdraft |
| Fight the Fade In Love. in Hope. in Peace. |
| Fireflight Unbreakable |
| Fireflight Innova |
| Fit for a King Dark Skies |
| Fit for a King Descendants (Redux) |
| Five Iron Frenzy Upbeats and Beatdowns |
| FKA Twigs Magdalene |
| Where has the "pop" in pop music gone? |
| Flyleaf Memento Mori |
| FM Static What Are You Waiting For? |
| FM Static Critically Ashamed |
| for KING and COUNTRY Burn the Ships |
| Foster the People Supermodel |
| Fountains of Wayne Fountains Of Wayne |
| Foxing Draw Down the Moon |
| Francesca Battistelli If We're Honest |
| Free Throw What's Past Is Prologue |
| Gang of Youths Go Farther in Lightness |
| Gideon Calloused |
| Gideon Cold |
| Goo Goo Dolls Gutterflower |
| Great American Ghost Power Through Terror |
| Grey Holiday The Glorious Revolution |
| Hail the Sun Wake |
| Half Alive Now, Not Yet |
| Half Alive is an all too fitting name for this group. |
| Hands Like Houses -Anon. |
| Dissonants was an awfully bland and lifeless record. This is a step in the right direction and I'd love to hear them tread even further into pop music next go around. |
| Haste the Day When Everything Falls |
| Hawk Nelson Crazy Love |
| Hawk Nelson Live Life Loud |
| Hayley Williams Petals for Armor |
| For the most part, this is fine, but it severely lacks colour compared to her work in Paramore. Every vocalist has to stretch out and experiment with their craft on their own at some point, but paired with the unexciting sound and unapproachable layout, it's difficult to be invested with what she's doing. |
| HEALTH VOL. 4 :: SLAVES OF FEAR |
| Hillsong United Empires |
| Hillsong United Aftermath |
| Hillsong United All of the Above |
| Hillsong United Across the Earth: Tear Down the Walls |
| Hillsong Worship Let There Be Light |
| Hillsong Worship No Other Name |
| Hillsong Young & Free III |
| Holding Absence Holding Absence |
| Holy Holy My Own Pool of Light |
| Hot Little Rocket Our Work And Why We Do It |
| Hot Mulligan You'll Be Fine |
| Hyland Finding Our Way |
| I Am They Faithful God |
| Ian Noe Between The Country |
| Illenium Ashes |
| Impending Doom The Sin and Doom Vol. II |
| In Flames I, the Mask |
| In Her Own Words Steady Glow |
| Inhale Exhale The Lost, the Sick, the Sacred |
| Invent Animate Greyview |
| ISIS SGNL>05 |
| Jaci Velasquez Heavenly Place |
| Jars Of Clay The Shelter |
| Jars Of Clay The Eleventh Hour |
| Jeremy Camp We Cry Out: The Worship Project |
| Jeremy Camp I Will Follow |
| Jeremy Camp Carried Me |
| Jet Get Born |
| Jimmy Eat World Jimmy Eat World |
| Finally gave this a spin and it honestly wasn't all that bad. An average pop/punk/emo record from a band who would become my all-time favourite. Don't think I'll ever return to this but it's always good to know where they started. |
| Johan Pull Up |
| John Waller As For Me and My House |
| Jonezetta Cruel to Be Young |
| Jordan Feliz The River |
| Jordan Feliz Future |
| Joyce Manor Million Dollars To Kill Me |
| A million dollar lullaby |
| June If you speak any faster |
| Kanye West Jesus Is King |
| Kari Jobe Kari Jobe |
| Katatonia Viva Emptiness |
| Keane Cause and Effect |
| I don't hear a whole lot of vomit-inducing tunes here. It's vapid and pretty empty musically but it's a harmless return. Let em keep doing what they do. |
| Kings Kaleidoscope Power Perfect. |
| Kutless Believer |
| Kutless Surrender |
| Kutless Strong Tower |
| Lauren Daigle How Can It Be |
Daigle has become a big name in CCM and it's easy to see why. The record has
massive musical appeal and Daigle has a strong voice to boot. If the music was a
tad more interesting or innovative I would join the celebration but it's simply far
too vanilla to warrant any kind of frenzy. |
| Les Friction Dark Matter |
| Lifehouse No Name Face |
| Lifehouse Stanley Climbfall |
| Like Pacific In Spite of Me |
| Linkin Park One More Light |
| This got a lot of hate when it was released and while I can definitely understand it at the same time I don't think it was entirely deserved. Half of it (read "Battle Symphony" and tracks 8-r10....maybe 7) actually edges towards being good. The rest is run-of-the-mill commercial pop so while it isn't bad it isn't good either. It's average and that's ok if you ask me. |
| Linkin Park The Hunting Party |
| Lorde Solar Power |
| Love and Death Perfectly Preserved |
| Lucinda Williams Good Souls Better Angels |
| Lydia I Was Someone Else |
| A minute step in a better direction but still terribly unexciting. |
| Machine Gun Kelly Mainstream Sellout |
| Mae Destination: B-Sides |
| Mae Multisensory Aesthetic Experience |
| Manafest The Chase |
| Manchester Orchestra The Million Masks of God |
| Mantric False Negative |
| You can say many things about this album, but you can't say it's falsely advertised. This record sounds just like those woolly bottoms. |
| Marilyn Manson Mechanical Animals |
| Marilyn Manson We Are Chaos |
| Martin Smith Iron Lung |
| Matchbox Twenty Yourself or Someone Like You |
| Matt Maher Alive Again |
| Matt Maher Empty & Beautiful |
| Matthew West Live Forever |
| Matthew West Something To Say |
| Mayday Parade Monsters in the Closet |
| MercyMe Undone |
| Michael W. Smith A Million Lights |
| Michael W. Smith makes an electronic dance record? Does he pull it off? Kinda. Sorta. Not really. |
| Miley Cyrus Plastic Hearts |
| Moose Blood I Don't Think I Can Do This Anymore |
| I don't think I can listen to this anymore. What? Too easy of a jab? It's as creative as the music and lyrics are on this thing. |
| Moriah Peters Brave |
| Mutemath Vitals |
| Mutemath Armistice |
| Mutemath Odd Soul |
| MxPx Pokinatcha |
| MxPx Before Everything & After |
| My Darkest Days Sick and Twisted Affair |
| "Save Yourself" is a great rock anthem but everything else on here? Standard radio rock that tries to be dirty at times. I'll pass. |
| My Epic Ultraviolet |
| Needtobreathe Forever On Your Side |
| Neurosis Enemy of the Sun |
| There is a lot of artistic merit here, however, I know my tastes and this isn't it. It's unforgivingly dark. It also appears to bear some early Swans influence, which doesn't entice me whatsoever. I hope I never have to meet this enemy of the sun. |
| New Found Glory Catalyst |
| Newsboys Step up to the Microphone |
| NF The Search |
| Nickelback Feed the Machine |
| Nickelback's best since All The Right Reasons but that isn't saying much. The music is just as generic and the lyrics can be laughable at times ("the icky of the sticky" and "Humpty Dumpty do your thing") but unlike the slew of albums before it, this isn't bad and may just be the most listenable of everything post-2000. |
| Nine Inch Nails Hesitation Marks |
| Nine Lashes World We View |
| OneRepublic Dreaming Out Loud |
| OneRepublic Native |
| Onward To Olympas Indicator |
| Orville Peck Pony |
| P.O.D. Satellite |
| Panic! at the Disco Vices & Virtues |
| Passion Worship Awakening |
| Passion Worship Take It All |
| Passion Worship Whole Heart |
| Passion Worship Even So Come |
| Passion Worship Salvation's Tide Is Rising |
| Paul Baloche Your Mercy |
| Paul Baloche The Same Love |
| Paul Baloche A Greater Song |
| Paul Baloche Glorious |
| Peter Furler On Fire |
| Petra No Doubt |
| They really lost their way with this one. Bland, contemporary CCM. This ain't Petra. |
| Philmont Attention |
| Pillar Where Do We Go from Here |
| Pink Hurts 2B Human |
Some surprisingly solid pop songs here but half of it is bogged by a needlessly high amount
of slow, acoustic ballads. That's not what I want to hear on a pop album. |
| Playdough Gold Tips |
| Plumb Beautiful Lumps of Coal |
| Plumb Beautifully Broken |
| Pocket Full of Rocks More Than Noise |
| Polaris The Death of Me |
| Pom Poko Birthday |
| Preoccupations New Material |
| Project 86 Sheep Among Wolves |
| Project 86 Rival Factions |
| Rarity I Couldn't Be Weaker |
| Red (USA) Release the Panic: Recalibrated |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Uplift Mofo Party Plan |
| Relient K Is For Karaoke |
| Remo Drive Greatest Hits |
| Well I guess they were never that good...... |
| Rise Against Nowhere Generation |
| Rob Thomas Chip Tooth Smile |
| Ruth Secondhand Dreaming |
| Saint Asonia Flawed Design |
| Sanctus Real Pieces of a Real Heart |
| Sanctus Real The Dream |
| Sanctus Real Changed |
| A pleasant enough change from a childhood staple. The direction the band were going with Matt at the helm wasn't all that great so it's refreshing to have a new vocalist help switch things up a little (heavy emphasis on the little). |
| Shiina Ringo Sanmon Gossip |
| Shinedown Leave a Whisper |
| Shinedown The Sound of Madness |
| Sidewalk Prophets These Simple Truths |
| Sidewalk Prophets Live Like That |
| Sigrid Sucker Punch |
| Sky Sailing An Airplane Carried Me to Bed |
| Sleepstar Lost Machines |
| Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter |
| Something Corporate North |
| Son Lux Remedy |
| Sonicflood Sonicflood |
| Soul Embraced Mythos |
| Spanish Love Songs Brave Faces Everyone |
| I never grew to love Schmaltz. It's a fine record and all, just not what I needed at the time. I'm seeing the same pattern here. Solid musicianship, competentant but generic, gruff vocals, and lyrics about the sorry state of our lives. I just don't really see what separates these guys from everyone else. |
| Spoken Spoken |
| Starfield I Will Go |
| Starset Divisions |
| Stella Donnelly Beware of the Dogs |
| Stephen Christian Wildfires |
| Stereolab Emperor Tomato Ketchup |
| Steve Taylor I Want to Be a Clone |
| Steven Curtis Chapman The Glorious Unfolding |
| Stryper Even the Devil Believes |
| Sum 41 Order In Decline |
| Sunsleeper You Can Miss Something and Not Want It Back |
| Another punk/emo record that will eventually get lost in the sea of similar-sounding nobodies. They offer nothing new, nothing surprising, and nothing that hasn't been offered by countless others before. |
| Supercell Today is a Beautiful Day |
| Switchfoot Oh! Gravity. |
| Switchfoot Float Remix EP |
| Switchfoot Native Tongue |
| Taking Back Sunday New Again |
| Taking Back Sunday Taking Back Sunday |
| Taking Back Sunday Happiness Is |
| Tal Bachman Tal Bachman |
| SHE'S SO HIIIIIIIEEEIIIIIGHHH HIGH ABOVE ME, SHE'S SO LOVELY |
| The Academy Is... Almost Here |
| The Afters Light Up The Sky |
| The Afters Life Is Beautiful |
| The Afters Live On Forever |
| The Afters Fear No More |
| The All-American Rejects The All-American Rejects |
| The All-American Rejects When the World Comes Down |
| The Beatles Yellow Submarine |
| The Beautiful Mistake You're Not Broken. I Am |
| The Brilliant Green The Brilliant Green |
| The Chariot The Fiancee |
| The Classic Crime How to Be Human |
| The Classic Crime Patterns in the Static |
| The Colourist The Colourist |
| The Cure The Top |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord |
| The Devil Wears Prada Plagues |
| The Devil Wears Prada With Roots Above and Branches Below |
| The Devil Wears Prada The Act |
| The Ember Days Your Eyes Light Up |
| The Fray The Fray |
| The Fray Scars and Stories |
| The Get Up Kids Problems |
| The Killers Battle Born |
| The Lumineers Cleopatra |
| This record can be downright dull at times and merely ok at others. The new wave folk movement is pretty much a dead and mostly forgotten fad in the mainstream today and for good reason: it had been run into the ground. Cleopatra is a fine example of a record that tried to fit into that movement but ended up being completely redundant. |
| The Maine Black & White |
| The National The National |
| The National First Two Pages of Frankenstein |
| The Pillows Smile |
| The Pillows Trial |
| The Rival The Rival |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico |
| The Violet Burning Drop-dead |
| The Wedding The Wedding |
| The Wedding Polarity |
| The Wombats This Modern Glitch |
| The Wombats Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life |
| The Wonder Years Sister Cities |
| Third Day Offerings II: All I Have To Give |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie |
| This Beautiful Republic Even Heroes Need A Parachute |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Untraveled Roads (Live) |
| Thousand Foot Krutch The Flame in All of Us |
| Thousand Foot Krutch The End Is Where We Begin |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vol. IV: Earth |
| Thrice Palms |
| Thrice Identity Crisis |
| Thrice Deeper Wells |
| Time, The Valuator How Fleeting, How Fragile |
| Tiny Moving Parts Breathe |
| So disappointing. Celebrate is one of my fav emo records of the 2010s but this sounds like the band has stagnated creatively. They haven't evolved at all. |
| tobyMac Tonight |
| tobyMac This Is Not A Test |
| tobyMac The Lost Demos |
| Trophy Eyes The American Dream |
| Tropical Fuck Storm Deep States |
| Turnover Good Nature |
| Turnover Altogether |
| Twenty One Pilots Blurryface |
| Two People First Body |
| U2 October |
| U2 Zooropa |
| Umbra Vitae Shadow of Life |
| Underline the Sky Here's Looking At You, Kid |
| Underoath The Changing of Times |
| Unspoken (USA-TN) Unspoken |
| Unwritten Law Here's to the Mourning |
| Verbena La Musica Negra |
| Vota Vota |
| We Are Messengers Power + |
| We Are Scientists Megaplex |
| Weathered Stranger Here |
| Weezer Pacific Daydream |
| Weezer Hurley |
| Weezer Raditude |
| Weezer The Green Album |
| Weezer Make Believe |
| Weezer The Red Album |
| Weezer OK Human |
| Another day another goofy Weezer album that I'll probably never listen to again. |
| What We Do in Secret Repose |
| where is my spaceship Never Unhappy |
| Wolves at the Gate Eclipse |
| Wolves at the Gate Dawn |
| Wolves at the Gate Reprise |
| Wolves at the Gate We Are the Ones |
| Wolves at the Gate Eulogies |
| You vs Yesterday You Vs. Yesterday |
| Young the Giant Home Of The Strange |
| Zao Awake? |
