4.5 superb |
A Bunny's Caravan Draining Puddles, Retrieving Treasures |
Alice in Chains Dirt |
Balance and Composure Separation |
Ben Howard I Forget Where We Were |
Between the Buried and Me Colors |
Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver |
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy I See a Darkness |
Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
Burial Untrue |
Captain, We're Sinking The Future Is Cancelled |
Chiodos Illuminaudio |
Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo |
Circle Takes the Square Decompositions: Volume Number One |
City of Caterpillar City of Caterpillar |
CunninLynguists Oneirology |
Cursive Domestica |
Cynic Traced in Air |
David Bowie Blackstar |
Deafheaven Sunbather |
Defeater Lost Ground |
Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights |
I really, really, really... just want to have sex with this album. |
Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory |
Ed Alleyne-Johnson Ultraviolet |
Elliott Smith XO |
This album proves that in the world magic CAN happen, as long as you ignore the sad and distressing consequence that stems from it. Even in its happiest moments, this electro-acoustic ballet has a melancholy-like wrapping on it due its sense of desperation, isolation and emotion put in directly by Elliott Smith himself. This album proves that not only can magic exist, but it can also be beautiful. |
Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road |
Elton John Elton John |
Emma Ruth Rundle Marked for Death |
Faith No More Angel Dust |
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada |
Gospel The Loser |
Gospel MVDM: Magick Volumes Of Dark Madder |
Grizzly Bear Veckatimest |
Grizzly Bear Shields |
GZA Liquid Swords |
Jeff Buckley Grace |
Jessie Ware What's Your Pleasure? |
I actually can't get over how good this is. Never cared for Jessie before but holy shit, this is fantastic. It feels like a classic from the 80s without pandering to nostalgia in an obtuse manner. |
Julien Baker Turn Out The Lights |
Justice † |
Justice Planisphere |
Kanye West The College Dropout |
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I |
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly |
Kingston Wall Kingston Wall II |
Ko Otani Shadow of the Colossus: Roar of the Earth |
La Dispute Vancouver |
Lana Del Rey Born to Die |
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II |
Let's Eat Grandma I'm All Ears |
Loma Prieta I.V. |
Martin Grech Open Heart Zoo |
A brilliant debut album by someone who sadly still remains pretty unknown, which is a complete shame because I find this is what Jeff Buckley would end up sounding like if he went insane and NASA decided to fire him into orbit for a week by himself with nothing but food, water and many instruments.
Also, it's nice to note that this album doesn't go in a single direction, it keeps a broad spread over electronica and the more conventional intstruments. Either way, it's beautiful... |
Mastodon Leviathan |
Mastodon Crack the Skye |
Mesa Verde The Old Road |
Metallica Master of Puppets |
Metallica Ride the Lightning |
Miles Davis Kind of Blue |
Mingle Harde Mongol Horde |
Mobb Deep The Infamous |
Mount Eerie A Crow Looked At Me |
Murder by Death Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them? |
My Chemical Romance The Black Parade |
My Chemical Romance Conventional Weapons |
Nas and Damian Marley Distant Relatives |
Nirvana In Utero |
Opeth Blackwater Park |
Orbs Asleep Next to Science |
Patrick Wolf Lycanthropy |
Patrick Wolf Sundark and Riverlight |
Pink Floyd Animals |
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
Portishead Dummy |
Protest the Hero Palimpsest |
Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back |
Radiohead Kid A |
Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come |
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels |
Rush Moving Pictures |
Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun |
Spokes Everyone I Ever Met |
Sufjan Stevens Illinois |
Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell Live |
Talk Talk Laughing Stock |
Tech N9ne All 6's and 7's |
The Beatles Revolver |
The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis |
The Fall of Troy Doppelganger |
The Fall of Troy Ghostship Demos |
The Jezabels Dark Storm |
The Mars Volta Frances the Mute |
The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 |
The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt |
The Weeknd Echoes of Silence |
The Weeknd Trilogy |
The Who Who's Next |
There Will Be Fireworks The Dark, Dark Bright |
Thursday No Devolucion |
Tool Lateralus |
Touche Amore ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse |
Touche Amore Stage Four |
Typhoon (USA-OR) White Lighter |
Weezer Weezer |
X Japan Blue Blood |
Yndi Halda Under Summer |
You Blew It! Grow Up, Dude |
4.0 excellent |
A Lot Like Birds Plan B |
A Lot Like Birds Conversation Piece |
A Lot Like Birds No Place |
Alcest Écailles De Lune |
Alice in Chains Jar of Flies |
Angel Olsen My Woman |
Antonio Vivaldi The Four Seasons |
Baroness Blue Record |
Black Peaks Statues |
Black Sabbath Paranoid |
blink-182 Blink-182 |
Bring Me The Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It... |
Burial Street Halo |
Burial Truant/Rough Sleeper |
C418 Volume Alpha |
Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion |
Charles Spearin The Happiness Project |
Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise |
Circle Takes the Square Rites of Initiation |
City of Caterpillar Driving Spain Up A Wall |
Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 |
Converge All We Love We Leave Behind |
Converge The Dusk in Us |
Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain II |
David Bowie "Heroes" |
Deftones White Pony |
Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 |
Denzel Curry Zuu |
Denzel Curry Melt My Eyez See Your Future |
Devin Townsend Project Addicted |
DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... |
Dream Theater Images and Words |
Dream Theater Live Scenes From New York |
Dua Lipa Future Nostalgia |
Elliott Smith Elliott Smith |
Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk |
Envy A Dead Sinking Story |
Every Time I Die A Colossal Wreck // Desperate Pleasures |
Every Time I Die Radical |
Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place |
Fabrizio Paterlini Autumn Stories |
FKA Twigs LP1 |
Florence and the Machine Lungs |
Frank Turner England Keep My Bones |
Gang of Youths Go Farther in Lightness |
Garry Schyman Bioshock Score |
Girls Father, Son, Holy Ghost |
Glassjaw Worship and Tribute |
Grimes Art Angels |
Grizzly Bear Yellow House |
Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction |
HEALTH Death Magic |
In Flames The Jester Race |
Iron Maiden Powerslave |
Jethro Tull Aqualung |
Jimi Hendrix First Rays of the New Rising Sun |
Joanna Newsom Ys |
Pretty good, I have to say. Her voice is unique and often really compelling, but other times... just eugh. Other than that, it's obvious that Joanna is confident in her harp playing and manages to catch plenty of attention, despite Van Dyke Park's orchesteral arrangements taking up large portions of the album (which, trust me, is a good thing).
For me (and I'm sure many others) the album pushes the idea of folk and creates this truly epic sound that I'm sure Joanna will be able to build on even more in the future. |
Joanna Newsom Have One on Me |
John Frusciante The Empyrean |
Joy Division Closer |
Kanye West The Life of Pablo |
Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue |
Kendrick Lamar Section.80 |
Kids See Ghosts Kids See Ghosts |
King Crimson Red |
King Crimson Epitaph |
Kingston Wall Kingston Wall I |
Kingston Wall III - Tri-Logy |
Kiss Kiss Reality Vs. The Optimist |
La Dispute Untitled |
La Dispute Here, Hear. II |
La Dispute Wildlife |
Lady Radiator Bounce Energy Hear Me Out |
Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell! |
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin |
Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti |
letlive. Fake History |
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory |
Lorde Melodrama |
Mastodon The Hunter |
maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map |
maudlin of the Well Part the Second |
While many people are here to complain about the lack of metal, I'm here to complain about the vocals. I just wanted a BIT more vocals, guys!
Brilliant album though. Not quite bath, mind you but I reckon better than Leaving Your Body Map. |
Megadeth Rust in Peace |
MegaDriver MetalHog |
Metallic Falcons Desert Doughnuts |
Metallica ...And Justice for All |
mewithoutYou Brother, Sister |
Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind |
Mr. Bungle California |
N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton |
Nails You Will Never Be One of Us |
Neil Young Harvest |
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
Nick Drake Pink Moon |
Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral |
Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York |
Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? |
Pantera Vulgar Display of Power |
Patrick Wolf The Magic Position |
Patrick Wolf The Bachelor |
This album took me by suprise, if purely because of the (in my opinion) subpar 'The Magic Position'. 'The Bachelor' allows Patrick Wolf to take a U-turn and build up on his initial sound, while managing to stay fresh. I truly think 'The Bachelor' deserves to be given a change by more people, especially here on Sputnik as this is without a doubt one of the best releases of the year so far. And Chan is right, 'The Sun Is Out Often' is without a doubt amazing. |
Pearl Jam Ten |
Phoebe Bridgers Punisher |
Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After |
Pianos Become the Teeth Keep You |
Pink Floyd The Wall |
Prawn Kingfisher |
Protest the Hero Fortress |
Protest the Hero Volition |
PUP The Dream Is Over |
Purity Ring Shrines |
Radiohead The Bends |
Radiohead In Rainbows |
Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool |
Ramona Falls Intuit |
Red House Painters Red House Painters |
Rina Sawayama Sawayama |
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 |
Run the Jewels RTJ4 |
Rush 2112 |
Rush Permanent Waves |
Rush Exit...Stage Left |
Rx Bandits Mandala |
A truly brutal combination here: mean guitar work, progressive undertones, catchy melodies and when needed, RAW POWER. Without a doubt, it seems like the sound of The Sound of Animals Fighting (heh) is slowly merging with RX Bandits to create a far more balanced yet inventive sound. I seriously think this is a contender for album of the year. |
Saosin Translating the Name |
Saosin Along the Shadow |
Sara Bareilles Careful Confessions |
Sara Bareilles Kaleidoscope Heart |
SebastiAn Total |
Shugo Tokumaru Exit |
Sigur Ros ( ) |
Single Mothers Wild Party |
Solange A Seat at the Table |
Soundgarden Badmotorfinger |
Sufjan Stevens Michigan |
Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans |
Sufjan Stevens All Delighted People |
Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz |
Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell |
Sun Kil Moon Ghosts of the Great Highway |
System of a Down Toxicity |
Taking Back Sunday Louder Now |
Tartar Lamb Sixty Metonymies |
Taylor Swift Folklore |
Taylor Swift Evermore |
Tegan and Sara Sainthood |
The Appleseed Cast Low Level Owl, Volume I |
The Appleseed Cast Low Level Owl, Vol. 2 |
The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation |
The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds |
The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
The Weeknd Thursday |
The Wonder Years Sister Cities |
Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures |
Title Fight Floral Green |
Tool 10,000 Days |
Touche Amore Is Survived By |
Trophy Scars Darkness, Oh Hell |
Trophy Scars Holy Vacants |
Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still |
Weezer Pinkerton |
Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) |
X Japan Jealousy |
3.5 great |
A Fine Frenzy One Cell in the Sea |
With every track, bar three, clocking in at just over four minutes I have to say it is a very consistant album, with no bad song in sight. Sadly the songwriting does lack a bit in the "outstanding" department, but that is quickly forgotten as you're mesmerised by her awesome voice; sexually caressing your ears. It consists of many simple songs, brought to life by an interesting arrangement of instruments. Oh and "You Picked Me" has a helluva catchy chorus. |
A/T/O/S Outboxed |
Adebisi Shank This is the Second Album |
Alice in Chains MTV Unplugged |
Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue |
Angel'in Heavy Syrup III |
Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion |
Arcane Roots Heaven and Earth |
Atlas of ID Cataclysm EP |
BADBADNOTGOOD BBNG2 |
BADBADNOTGOOD III |
Baroness Red Album |
Bat For Lashes Fur and Gold |
BATS Red In Tooth and Claw |
Beastie Boys Hot Sauce Committee Part Two |
Bell Witch Mirror Reaper |
Best Coast Crazy For You |
Between the Buried and Me Colors_Live |
Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect |
Beyonce Lemonade |
Biffy Clyro Infinity Land |
Biffy Clyro Puzzle |
Bjork Homogenic |
Bjork Vulnicura |
Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell |
blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket |
Brand New Daisy |
Brand New Science Fiction |
Bring Me The Horizon Sempiternal |
Burial and Four Tet Moth/Wolf Cub |
Burst Lazarus Bird |
Cacophony Speed Metal Symphony |
Cave In Jupiter |
Chance the Rapper Acid Rap |
Childish Gambino Because the Internet |
Circa Survive Juturna |
Coeur de Pirate Blonde |
Converge No Heroes |
Converge Axe to Fall |
Converge Bloodmoon: I |
Counterparts You're Not You Anymore |
Cynic Focus |
Daft Punk Alive 2007 |
Daitro Y |
Dance Gavin Dance Instant Gratification |
Danny Brown Old |
Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition |
Deafheaven New Bermuda |
Death (USA-MI) ...For the Whole World to See |
Death Grips Exmilitary |
Death Grips The Money Store |
Deftones Diamond Eyes |
Deftones Ohms |
Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction |
dredg El Cielo |
Dua Lipa Radical Optimism |
El-P Cancer 4 Cure |
Eleventh He Reaches London Hollow Be My Name |
Elton John Madman Across the Water |
Emerson, Lake and Palmer Trilogy |
Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP |
Eminem The Slim Shady LP |
Eminem The Eminem Show |
Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou May Our Chambers Be Full |
Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse |
Envy All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead |
Envy The Fallen Crimson |
Faith No More The Real Thing |
Fear Before Fear Before |
Fightstar Behind the Devil's Back |
Fleet Foxes Crack-Up |
Foxy Shazam The Flamingo Trigger |
Genesis Selling England by the Pound |
Ghostface Killah and BADBADNOTGOOD Sour Soul |
Glassjaw Coloring Book |
intense shit. the only song with a hint of weakness is stations of the new cross, otherwise it seems like some seamless progression, kind of Radiohead style. |
Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles) |
Goldfrapp Felt Mountain |
Heaven and Hell The Devil You Know |
Iron Maiden Brave New World |
James Blake James Blake |
James Blake Overgrown |
Jonsi Go |
Joyce Manor Joyce Manor |
Joyce Manor Never Hungover Again |
Justice A Cross the Universe |
While the CD kind of feels very overshadowed by the likes of Alive 2007 and the DVD may not have much emphasis on the actual music, but the DVD's documentary has a real sense of charm (just sadly not in a musical kind of way). A Cross The Universe may not to Justice any favours musically, but it really helps to build a fun and (sometimes) very odd world that they live in. |
Katatonia Night Is the New Day |
Kayo Dot Coyote |
La Dispute Here, Hear. |
Lana Del Rey Ultraviolence |
Laura Marling Alas, I Cannot Swim |
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III |
Lone Wolf The Devil and I |
Love Like... Electrocution Love Like... Electrocution |
Lupe Fiasco Tetsuo and Youth |
Mac DeMarco 2 |
Massive Attack Mezzanine |
Mastodon Blood Mountain |
maudlin of the Well My Fruit Psychobells... A Seed Combustible |
Meg Myers Sorry |
Megadeth Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! |
MegaDriver Action Metal |
Metallica Death Magnetic |
mewithoutYou Pale Horses |
Million Dead A Song to Ruin |
More Than Life Love Let Me Go |
Muse Origin of Symmetry |
Nirvana With the Lights Out |
Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe |
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Los Sueños De Un Higado |
Orchid Chaos is Me |
Pantera Cowboys from Hell |
Patrick Wolf Lupercalia |
Periphery Juggernaut: Omega |
Phoebe Bridgers Stranger in the Alps |
Portishead Third |
Prince Purple Rain |
Protest the Hero Kezia |
Protest the Hero Fortress (Instrumental) |
Public Enemy Yo! Bum Rush the Show |
Pusha T DAYTONA |
Radiohead Amnesiac |
Underrated by many, in my opinion.
This album carries so much BEAUTY in it and sadly possesses what seems to be the only pure Jazz song from Radiohead. Life in a 'Glasshouse', 'You And Whose Army?' and 'Pyramid Song' really make this album for me! While everything else on the album doesn't quite yell out to me with quite so much uniqueness, it is mainly very tight Radiohead songwriting throughout and this is probably one of their more consistent albums.
With Kid A stepping one way, this almost certainly takes a trip back to memory lane and drops some of the electronica for the more 'classic' Radiohead style. |
Radiohead The King of Limbs |
Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II |
Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine |
Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik |
Red Sparowes Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red... |
The Red Sparowes don't play music that can topple mountains, they play music that let's you fly above them... |
Regina Spektor Far |
Rites of Spring End on End |
Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It |
Runaway Brother Mother |
Rush A Farewell to Kings |
Rush All the World's a Stage |
SebastiAn Ross Ross Ross |
Single Mothers Single Mothers |
Slayer Reign in Blood |
Soap and Skin Narrow |
St. Vincent Actor |
Steve Vai Real Illusions: Reflections |
Strapping Young Lad City |
So brutal that sometimes I feel like DEVIN IS FUCKING COMING OUT MY FUCKING SPEAKERS AND FUCKING PUNCHING ME IN THE SHITTING FACE.
While this album IS awesome, I feel Devin is putting it on a bit... Sure, we KNOW all metal bands don't intend to slaughter babies and rape rooms full of schoolgirls, but I can't help but feel the album is given a shallow feel due to this obvious INTENT to be heavy.
Otherwise, I love it and all the things that make it experimental are just plain awesome. |
System of a Down System of a Down |
SZA Ctrl |
Taylor Swift 1989 |
The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine |
The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer |
The Fall of Troy The Fall of Troy |
The Fall of Troy Manipulator |
The Fall of Troy OK |
Maybe it'll grow on me, but it's decent. Better than In the Unshitely Event regardless. |
The Flashbulb Soundtrack to a Vacant Life |
The way I look at this album is; so many tracks, so many textures, so much imagination.
Basically, I feel that The Flushbulb has put together a very varied and distinctive album, with tracks leaping from genre to genre everytime it reaches the next one.
For those who aren't aware, Ben Jordan has bipolar disorder and it almost certainly channels his music into something so varied, yet so beautiful. |
The Jezabels Synthia |
The Mars Volta Live |
The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath |
The Mars Volta Octahedron |
Considering I thought nothing of the leaked songs at first, they began to grow on me... so I'm suspecting the rest of the album will follow suite and I'm reasonably sure my liking of this album will go up!
With Twilight As My Guide currently being my personal highlight of the album, this whole "acoustic" idea (or THEIR idea of acoustic) behind it, it's just becoming a tad tricky to adapt to this new Volta, I guess.
Really, the only track I dislike is Cotopaxi for sounding like it really shouldn't be on the album (sound more like it should be on Bedlam in Goliath than anything else), but everything else is pretty damn solid or good.
Nice to see The Mars Volta have remembered that they are a PROGRESSIVE band... and once again have progressed. |
The National Sleep Well Beast |
The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream |
The Sound of Animals Fighting Tiger and the Duke |
The Sound of Animals Fighting The Ocean and the Sun |
The Weeknd Beauty Behind the Madness |
The Who Quadrophenia |
The World Is a Beautiful Place... Whenever, If Ever |
Tim Buckley Happy Sad |
Title Fight Shed |
Toby Driver In the L..L..Library Loft |
Tool Ænima |
Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me |
Trophy Scars Darts to the Sea |
Tyler, the Creator Flower Boy |
Typhoon (USA-OR) Offerings |
Versailles Noble |
Weezer Everything Will Be Alright in the End |
Weezer The White Album |
Why? Alopecia |
2.5 average |
Alesana On Frail Wings of Vanity and Wax |
Alexisonfire Alexisonfire |
Alexisonfire Crisis |
Alice in Chains Alice in Chains |
At the Drive-In El Gran Orgo |
At the Drive-In Acrobatic Tenement |
At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out |
At the Drive-In Alfaro Vive, Carajo! |
Atreyu Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses |
Atreyu The Curse |
Audioslave Audioslave |
Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil |
Ayreon 01011001 |
BATS The Sleep of Reason |
Billy Talent Billy Talent |
Billy Talent Billy Talent II |
Billy Talent Billy Talent III |
I have now completely removed the idea from my head that Billy Talent can be anything special anymore. Nothing interesting here, move along people. |
Blur The Best Of (Special Edition) |
Bring Me The Horizon Count Your Blessings |
Bullet For My Valentine The Poison |
Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll |
Children of Bodom Something Wild |
Children of Bodom Hatebreeder |
Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet? |
CocoRosie La Maison De Mon Reve |
Cog The New Normal |
Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness |
Dance Gavin Dance Afterburner |
Danny Brown uknowhatimsayin¿ |
Dead Sara Dead Sara |
Deadlock Wolves |
Deadlock Manifesto |
Death Grips No Love Deep Web |
Death Grips Government Plates |
Dr. Dre The Chronic |
DragonForce Inhuman Rampage |
Drake Views |
Dream Theater Octavarium |
El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodriguez Lopez Cryptomnesia |
Enter Shikari Take to the Skies |
Enter Shikari Common Dreads |
Envy Breathing and Dying in this Place |
Envy Angel's Curse Whispered in the Edge of Despair |
Fair to Midland The Carbon Copy Silver Lining |
Frank Zappa Tinsel Town Rebellion |
Gorillaz Gorillaz |
Gorillaz Demon Days |
Green Day International Superhits |
Green Day Bullet In A Bible |
HORSE the band R. Borlax |
HORSE the band A Natural Death |
Hot Cross Risk Revival |
Jemina Pearl Break It Up |
Joe Satriani Super Colossal |
Kanye West Yeezus |
Kanye West ye |
Kasabian Empire |
Kavinsky 1986 |
Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies |
King Crimson The Power to Believe |
La Dispute Here, Hear. III |
Lamb of God Sacrament |
Lana Del Rey Honeymoon |
Lana Del Rey Lust For Life |
LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver |
Mastodon Call of the Mastodon |
Megadeth United Abominations |
MegaDriver Sword, Shurikins & Fists |
Meshuggah Chaosphere |
Meshuggah obZen |
Metallica Kill 'Em All |
Metallica Reload |
Metallica Metallica |
Muse Showbiz |
Nickelback Silver Side Up |
Nine Inch Nails Year Zero |
Nine Inch Nails Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D |
Nine Inch Nails The Slip |
Nirvana Bleach |
Nirvana Incesticide |
Nirvana Nirvana |
Nirvana From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah |
Off Minor Problematic Courtship |
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Se Dice Bisonte, No Búfalo |
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Calibration (Is Pushing Luck and Key Too Far) |
Paramore Riot! |
Paramore Brand New Eyes |
Pendulum Hold Your Colour |
Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson Break Up |
Pink Floyd Meddle |
Porcupine Tree The Incident |
Protest the Hero A Calculated Use of Sound |
Protest the Hero Gallop Meets the Earth |
Quarashi Jinx |
Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze |
Radiohead Pablo Honey |
Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
Raein Il n'y a pas de orchestre |
Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way |
Rites of Spring Rites of Spring |
Run the Jewels Meow the Jewels |
Rush Caress of Steel |
Rush Fly by Night |
Rush Hold Your Fire |
Rush Snakes & Arrows |
ScHoolboy Q Oxymoron |
Slayer Christ Illusion |
Slipknot Slipknot |
Snow Patrol Final Straw |
Soap and Skin Soap and Skin |
While The Sun is a brilliant original track (although it IS later featured on Lovetune for Vacuum) and Janitor of Lunacy is a dark and haunting version of a song by Nico in true Soap&Skin style (and I personally far prefer this cover to the original). On the other hand, Xray Heartland is a yawnfest with no redeeming value what-so-ever and its remix is pretty much the same scenario, although it is marginally better than the original.
While Janitor of Lunacy is a brilliant track, the rest of the EP is a bit of a grind, with one of the songs being on Lovetune for Vacuum and the final two of the tracks being extremely bland. |
Sparta Threes |
Sum 41 All Killer No Filler |
The Black Mages The Black Mages |
The Black Mages Darkness And Starlight |
The Darkness Permission to Land |
The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene |
The Dillinger Escape Plan The Dillinger Escape Plan |
The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works |
The Fall of Troy In the Unlikely Event |
I want to dig this album, it has some sheer awesomeness scattered here and there, with Walk of Fame and Straight Jacket Keelhauled being two of my personal highlights. It's an interesting progression from Manipulator, this is by far their most poppy album with some really catchy vocals but Waior is DEFINITELY right on Battleship Graveyard, Thom's vocals are VERY off... and this is coming from someone who generally enjoyed his vocals. So the way I see this album (with a shitty analogy), an icecream of catchy vanilla mediocrity with a tasty flake of chocolaty goodness in it. |
The Lonely Island Incredibad |
I do think it's a pretty standard comedy album that really doesn't work unless you're watching the video... don't get me wrong though, I'm On A Boat is amazing at all times. Ever. |
The Mars Volta Tremulant |
The Offspring Splinter |
The Offspring Conspiracy of One |
The Offspring Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace |
The Smashing Pumpkins Zeitgeist |
The Strokes Room on Fire |
The Thirty Years War Martyrs Among the Casualties |
Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie |
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV |
Tool Undertow |
Trivium Ember to Inferno |
Trivium Shogun |
U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb |
Unearth The March |
Velvet Revolver Contraband |
Wolfmother Wolfmother |