| 4.5 superb |
| AFI The Art of Drowning |
| Against Me! Reinventing Axl Rose |
| American Nightmare We're Down Til We're Underground |
| Andrew Bird The Mysterious Production Of Eggs |
| Arcade Fire Funeral |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible |
| At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning |
| Ceremony (USA-CA) Still Nothing Moves You |
| Ceremony (USA-CA) Ruined |
| City of Caterpillar City of Caterpillar |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky |
| Converge When Forever Comes Crashing |
| Cursed I |
| Damien Rice O |
| Daughters Canada Songs |
| Daughters Hell Songs |
| The main thing to know about this cd is that it shouldn't be in the grind section. Daughters have definately taken a step away from the grind/noise/hardcore band people fell in love with. This new attempt is a good musical effort, but the vocals are really love or hate. The only way to really experience the new Daughters is to check them out yourself; listen to fiery from their myspace to check out vocals. The weird mix of grindy instruments (yah i made up a word) and acid tripping elvis vocals can be entertaining if looked at in the right light. |
| Death From Above 1979 You're a Woman, I'm a Machine |
| Do Make Say Think You, You're a History in Rust |
| dredg El Cielo |
| Elliott Smith XO |
| Elliott Smith Figure 8 |
| Elliott Smith Elliott Smith |
| Elliott Smith Roman Candle |
| Envy A Dead Sinking Story |
| Every Time I Die Hot Damn! |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute |
| Hot Cross Cryonics |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye |
| Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue |
| Look What I Did Minuteman For The Moment |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West |
| Mono You Are There |
| Mos Def Black on Both Sides |
| Nirvana In Utero |
| Orchid Chaos is Me |
| Orchid Orchid |
| Paint It Black New Lexicon |
| Past Lives Strange Symmetry |
| pg.99 Document #5 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Rx Bandits ...And the Battle Begun |
| Sigur Ros Takk... |
| Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois |
| Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans |
| Sun Kil Moon April |
| Suuns Zeroes QC |
| Tera Melos Untitled |
| The Blood Brothers Crimes |
| The Blood Brothers Young Machetes |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity |
| The Fall of Troy Ghostship Demos |
| The Locust Safety Second, Body Last |
| The Locust New Erections |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute |
| The Microphones Mount Eerie |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Nuclear. Sad. Nuclear. |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Mongrel |
| First time listening through, I can't help but think that this is the one cd i've purchased so far this year that has lived up to every expectation I've had for it. It brings together the sheer brutality of Put On Your Rosy Red Glasses and the technicality and vibe of Nuclear, Sad, Nuclear and still has the ability to thoroughly differentiate itself from both of the previously stated albums. The vocals have made progression, along with all the instrumentation. This entry is more technical, more brutal, and all around a great progression from the band. There is so much more in this that their previous music didn't offer (from clean singing vocals at the end of Sleeping With the Fishes, See? to an upbeat acoustic breakdown in Paper Weight Pigs). Don't hesitate to check this out. |
| The Roots Game Theory |
| The Roots Rising Down |
| The Strokes Room on Fire |
| Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary |
| 4.0 excellent |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Source Tags and Codes |
| 108 A New Beat From A Dead Heart |
| A Black Rose Burial An Awakening of Revenants |
| AFI Sing the Sorrow |
| AFI Black Sails in the Sunset |
| Against Me! Searching for a Former Clarity |
| Against Me! Crime as Forgiven By |
| Alkaline Trio Good Mourning |
| Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha |
| Annuals Be He Me |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| Beirut The Flying Club Cup |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus |
| Blacklisted Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God |
| Botch We Are the Romans |
| Brand New Deja Entendu |
| Bright Eyes Digital Ash in a Digital Urn |
| Bright Eyes Fevers & Mirrors |
| Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People |
| Converge You Fail Me |
| Converge No Heroes |
| Cursed II |
| Cursed III: Architects of Troubled Sleep |
| Cursive The Ugly Organ |
| Damien Rice 9 |
| Department of Eagles In Ear Park |
| Dillinger Four C I V I L W A R |
| Ed Gein Judas Goats & Dieseleaters |
| Elliott Smith From a Basement on the Hill |
| Elliott Smith New Moon |
| Elliott Smith Live at Largo |
| Every Time I Die Last Night in Town |
| Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place |
| Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone |
| Failures Failures |
| Funeral Diner The Underdark |
| Gatsby's American Dream Ribbons and Sugar |
| Genghis Tron Board Up the House |
| Ghastly City Sleep Ghastly City Sleep |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
| Head Wound City Head Wound City |
| HORSE the band R. Borlax |
| Hot Cross Fair Trades and Farewells |
| Hot Cross Risk Revival |
| Idiot Pilot Wolves |
| Iron And Wine The Shepherd's Dog |
| Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds |
| Lightning Bolt Hypermagic Mountain |
| Los Campesinos! We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed |
| Maps and Atlases Tree, Swallows, Houses |
| Maroon 5 It Won't Be Soon Before Long |
| maudlin of the Well Bath |
| maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map |
| Me and Him Call It Us Loss |
| Me and Him Call it Us has always stood out a bit for me, and I loved their first release. Well I loved the four actual songs from the first release, and the ambient filler wasn't really my thing. This new record has mix of spastic grindcore and heartfelt screamo that grasps you in from the first bloodcurdling scream, not to mention there are 14 actual songs this time (13 new songs and a re recording of Peter Jennings from their first cd). More chaotic, better production, more emotional, and definitely one of the better bands out there doing this type of music. Give a listen to Sarsaparilla, The Anticipation is Killing me, Cut-Throat Cardiac arrest, or P.S I love you to get a feel for the album. |
| Mihai Edrisch L'un Sans L'Autre |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank |
| Mount Eerie Lost Wisdom |
| Murder by Death Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them? |
| Muse Absolution |
| Norma Jean Redeemer |
| Orchid Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow! |
| pg.99 Document #7 |
| pg.99 Document #14: Singles |
| Pissed Jeans King of Jeans |
| Poison the Well You Come Before You |
| Protest the Hero Kezia |
| Pulling Teeth Paranoid Delusions/Paradise Illusions |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Radiohead I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings |
| Rancid ...And Out Come the Wolves |
| Refused Refused Are Fucking Dead |
| Russian Circles Enter |
| Tartar Lamb Sixty Metonymies |
| Tera Melos Drugs to the Dear Youth |
| The Blood Brothers ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn |
| The Blood Brothers This Adultery Is Ripe |
| The Blood Brothers March On Electric Children |
| The Dead Weather Horehound |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene |
| The End (CAN) Elementary |
| The Fall of Troy The Fall of Troy |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger |
| The Fall of Troy Manipulator |
| The Locust Plague Soundscapes |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| The Mars Volta Tremulant |
| The Microphones It Was Hot, We Stayed In The Water |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Put On Your Rosy Red Glasses |
| The Riot Before Fists Buried In Pockets |
| The Strokes Is This It |
| These Arms Are Snakes Tail Swallower and Dove |
| Thom Yorke The Eraser |
| Trash Talk Plagues |
| Trash Talk Trash Talk |
| Two Gallants Two Gallants |
| Villa Vina Colony Collapse |
| Weatherbox American Art |
| A mixture of Hot Cross and Say Anything, with just enough math rock thrown in for good measure, Weatherbox creates a sound all their own. Mildly poppy and bouncy, with enough emotion to keep your attention for a good while. While it may suffer from awfully similar riffs from time to time, and songs that seem to go on slightly too long, American Art has substantially more pros than cons. The riffs may seem oddly similar at times, but Weatherbox has a way of changing things just enough to make each song seem fresh. The raw emotion of "Atoms Smash" sets the mood for the rest of the album, "Moments Before..." sounds like a modified Hot Cross song, and "Trippin the Life Fantastic" brings it to an end with a bouncy pop song. On top of that, they actually have something to say. Four out of five thumbs up. |
