| 4.5 superb |
| Alice in Chains Live |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 |
| ASC Fervent Dream |
| B12 Electro-soma |
| Bad Brains Rock For Light |
| Bad Religion Suffer |
| Battles Gloss Drop |
| Bauhaus In the Flat Field |
| Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique |
| Ben Frost Theory of Machines |
| Bicep Just |
| Bitch Magnet Ben Hur |
| Black Milk No Poison No Paradise |
| Let's be serious here, Album of the Year was marginally disappointing, it's clear that Cross has improved in the production department, something he never really needed to do, but lyrically he is quickly getting better. While behind the mic was never his strength, his work behind his own beats have steadily improved and No Poison No Paradise is one of hip-hop's best records this year because of it. Its inner-sense of struggle and darkly brooding industrialized atmosphere only blooms when introducing his past roots with Detroit soul and jazz and brash sampling. |
| Black Star Black Star |
| Brian Eno Another Green World |
| Burial Kindred |
| Calyx and Teebee Anatomy |
| Clark Turning Dragon |
| Company Flow Funcrusher Plus |
| Container LP 3 |
| David Bowie Low |
| David Bowie "Heroes" |
| Deerhunter Microcastle |
| Deerhunter Halcyon Digest |
| Deftones White Pony |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Depeche Mode Violator |
| DJ Muggs Vs GZA Grandmasters |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... |
| DJ Shadow The Private Press |
| Drive Like Jehu Yank Crime |
| East India Youth Total Strife Forever |
| El-P I'll Sleep When You're Dead |
| Elliott Smith XO |
| Eluvium Copia |
| Failure Fantastic Planet |
| Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors |
| Faith No More Angel Dust |
| Faith No More The Real Thing |
| Gesloten Cirkel M012 |
| Gesloten Cirkel M011 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
| Head High Home. House. Hardcore. |
| Husker Du Zen Arcade |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights |
| Jacek Sienkiewicz Drifting |
| Jaga Jazzist What We Must |
| Jim O'Rourke Insignificance |
| Johann Johannsson Fordlandia |
| John Frusciante Curtains |
| Jon Hopkins Immunity |
| KMD Bl_ck B_st_rds |
| Lapalux Lustmore |
| Laura Stevenson Sit Resist |
| Laurel Halo Chance of Rain |
| Leon Vynehall Music For The Uninvited |
| Levon Vincent Levon Vincent |
| Levon Vincent knows how to pace this album beautifully. It pulls you in with the second half, in which it's dark synth approach grips you all the way to the closer. It's break apart sense is all too familiar for many, but it still retains structure, so woefully fragile, it's hard not to admire. |
| Light Bearer Lapsus |
| Loess Wind and Water |
| While the style of their debut was equally spacious, slowly paced and cold. Their sophomore effort is a logical step in the short-lived Loess sound. Wind and Water make strides with their sound by adding more textures, creating a synthesized sound that is undeniably euphoric. These sounds that are quickly incorporated seemingly evolve and entrapping themselves within every track. Wind and Water remains to be a superior album to their debut, but not by much considering it was the logical step from their previous record. |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming |
| Mad Season Above |
| Massive Attack Blue Lines |
| Maya Jane Coles Comfort |
| Michael Nyman and Damon Albarn Ravenous (Soundtrack) |
| Mission of Burma Vs. |
| Mono You Are There |
| Mudhoney Superfuzz Bigmuff Plus Early Singles |
| Mumdance and Logos Proto |
| Nine Inch Nails The Fragile |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine: 2010 Remaster |
| Nirvana In Utero |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York |
| Nirvana Live at Reading |
| Nitzer Ebb Industrial Complex |
| Opeth Damnation |
| Orphans of Cush White Noize |
| Oval 94 Diskont |
| Pantera Vulgar Display of Power |
| Pearl Jam Ten |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia |
| Portishead Third |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come |
| Rob Dougan Furious Angels |
| Robert Rich & B. Lustmord Stalker |
| What would feel like a stretch of reality is something more juxtaposed within this collaboration's best effort Stalker. The inner-workings of the dark, drawn-out sprawl of Stalker is essentially what dark ambient music is all about. The mundane, the electronic pulses with eerie instrument choices that do not hinder the overall sound. Lustmord, a dark ambient leader and Rich, a 30-year veteran of the music itself create one of the most interesting dynamic ambient albums of the 1990's. Eclipsing both of their solo works in the 90's itself. |
| Roots Manuva Brand New Second Hand |
| Roots Manuva Bleeds |
| Rrose Merchant of Salt |
| Russian Circles Empros |
| Savages Adore Life |
| Screaming Trees Dust |
| Sepalcure Eternally Yrs |
| Sharon Van Etten Are We There |
| Sigur Ros ( ) |
| Soundgarden Superunknown |
| Soundgarden Badmotorfinger |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb |
| Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between |
| Sun Kil Moon Benji |
| Swans White Light From the Mouth of Infinity |
| TAD Inhaler |
| Temple of the Dog Temple of the Dog |
| The Clash London Calling |
| The Dust Brothers Fight Club: The Original Motion Picture |
| The Field From Here We Go Sublime |
| The Future Sound of London Lifeforms |
| The Knife Tomorrow, In a Year |
| The Knife Shaking the Habitual |
| The Men Leave Home |
| The Nation of Ulysses 13-Point Program To Destroy America |
| The Pineapple Thief Someone Here Is Missing |
| The Prodigy The Fat of the Land |
| The Prodigy Music for the Jilted Generation |
| The Roots Illadelph Halflife |
| The Stooges Fun House |
| The War On Drugs Slave Ambient |
| Tim Hecker Virgins |
| Tool Ænima |
| Tortoise A Lazarus Taxon |
| Amazing collection of remixes, songs, rarities, etc. This is by far Tortoise's best work to date. Something that always catches my ear when I listen to Tortoise - the fact they're unique in every which way. |
| Tricky Maxinquaye |
| Underworld dubnobasswithmyheadman |
| Venetian Snares Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett |
| William Basinski The Disintegration Loops IV |
| William Basinski 92982 |
| Wire Chairs Missing |
| WU LYF Go Tell Fire to the Mountain |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) |
| Xploding Plastix Amateur Girlfriends Go Proskirt Agents |
| Zola Jesus Valusia |
| Zomby Dedication |
| 4.0 excellent |
| *shels Plains Of The Purple Buffalo |
| 2Pac Me Against the World |
| 2Pac Greatest Hits |
| A Guy Called Gerald Black Secret Technology |
| A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory |
| A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders |
| Actress Ghettoville |
| Aesop Rock Labor Days |
| Aesop Rock Float |
| Air Moon Safari |
| Alice in Chains Dirt |
| Alice in Chains Alice in Chains |
| Alice in Chains MTV Unplugged |
| Alice in Chains The Essential Alice in Chains |
| And So I Watch You From Afar Gangs |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album |
| Aphex Twin Come to Daddy |
| Aphex Twin ...I Care Because You Do |
| Aphex Twin Drukqs |
| Aphex Twin Syro |
| Archive Londinium |
| Archive Take My Head |
| Archive Controlling Crowds |
| As Cities Burn Come Now Sleep |
| ASC The Astral Traveller |
| ASC Time Heals All |
| ASC delves deeper into the abyss in more dark ambiance than ever before. His steady progress through his transformation from drum and bass artist to experimental tangents of claustrophobic and crushing atmospheres leap through in Time Heals All. At a whooping 2 hours long, it is undoubtedly, his best effort in the realm of the unsettling. Hecker has some competition. |
| Atmosphere When Life Gives You Lemons... |
| Autechre Tri Repetae |
| Autechre Amber |
| Autechre Chiastic Slide |
| Autechre Quaristice |
| Autechre EP Collection 1991-2002 |
| Autechre Exai |
| Bad Brains Bad Brains |
| Bad Brains I Against I |
| Bad Religion The Empire Strikes First |
| Bad Religion No Control |
| Bad Religion Stranger Than Fiction |
| Bad Religion Generator |
| Bad Religion How Could Hell Be Any Worse? |
| Bad Religion Against the Grain |
| Bad Religion True North |
| Battles Mirrored |
| Beastie Boys Ill Communication |
| Beastie Boys Hello Nasty |
| Beastie Boys Solid Gold Hits |
| Beastie Boys Hot Sauce Committee Part Two |
| Beck Sea Change |
| Beck Midnite Vultures |
| Beirut The Rip Tide |
| Ben Frost By the Throat |
| Ben Klock Before One |
| Ben UFO FabricLive.67 |
| Big Black Atomizer |
| Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot |
| Biosphere Substrata |
| Biosphere Dropsonde |
| Bitch Magnet Star Booty+ |
| Black Milk Tronic |
| Black Sun Empire Driving Insane |
| Blind Melon Soup |
| Blind Melon Nico |
| Blue Scholars Blue Scholars |
| Blur 13 |
| Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children |
| Boards of Canada Geogaddi |
| Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Black Earth |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Vacation |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver |
| Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports |
| Brian Eno Ambient 4: On Land |
| Brian Eno Another Day On Earth |
| Brian Eno The Drop |
| Buck 65 Talkin' Honky Blues |
| Buck 65 Situation |
| Burial Untrue |
| Cannibal Ox The Cold Vein |
| Caravan In the Land of Grey and Pink |
| Caribou Up in Flames (as Manitoba) |
| Caribou Start Breaking My Heart (as Manitoba) |
| Caribou Swim |
| Celldweller Cellout 01 |
| Clark Body Riddle |
| Clark Empty the Bones of You |
| Clark Clarence Park |
| Clark Throttle Furniture |
| Clint Mansell and Kronos Quartet Requiem for a Dream |
| Clint Mansell, Kronos Quartet and Mogwai The Fountain |
| Clubroot Clubroot |
| Coil Horse Rotorvator |
| Coldplay Parachutes |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends |
| Colour Haze Colour Haze |
| Colour Haze CO2 |
| Comets on Fire Avatar |
| Common Market Common Market |
| Crippled Black Phoenix (Mankind) The Crafty Ape |
| CunninLynguists Oneirology |
| Cut Off Your Hands Hollow |
| Cyanotic Transhuman 2.0 |
| Daedelus Exquisite Corpse |
| Daft Punk Discovery |
| Dag Nasty Can I Say (Reissue) |
| Damn the Machine Damn the Machine |
| DangerDoom The Mouse And The Mask |
| Daniel Avery Drone Logic |
| Danny Brown Old |
| Dark Time Sunshine Vessel |
| David Bowie Diamond Dogs |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars |
| David Bowie Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) |
| David Bowie The Next Day |
| David Wise Donkey Kong Country 2 Soundtrack |
| Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| Death (USA-MI) ...For the Whole World to See |
| Deerhunter Cryptograms |
| Deerhunter Monomania |
| Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist |
| Del Tha Funkee Homosapien Both Sides of the Brain |
| Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 |
| Denzel Curry Nostalgic 64 |
| Dispatch Who Are We Living For? |
| While both Silent Steeples and Bang Bang trudge gallantly with their folk and funky roots, Who Are We Living For showcases the group's true boundaries. It is quite an ambitious record and for that it remains to be their best. Jam sessions, folk goodness, funk and reggae charged tracks are all here and those qualities truly set their last album apart from their others. |
| Divination Sacrifice |
| Divination Ambient Dub Vol. II - Dead Slow |
| DJ Sprinkles Midtown 120 Blues |
| Djrum Seven Lies |
| DMX It's Dark and Hell Is Hot |
| DMX Flesh Of My Flesh, Blood Of My Blood |
| Do Make Say Think & Yet & Yet |
| Do Make Say Think Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn |
| Do Make Say Think You, You're a History in Rust |
| Do Make Say Think Other Truths |
| Dr. Dre The Chronic |
| Dr. Octagon Dr. Octagonecologyst |
| dredg Leitmotif |
| Drenge Drenge |
| E.S. Posthumus Unearthed |
| Echospace Liumin |
| edIT Crying Over Pros For No Reason |
| Efterklang Parades |
| Eleven Tigers Clouds Are Mountains |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or |
| Elliott Smith Elliott Smith |
| Eluvium Talk Amongst the Trees |
| Emika Emika |
| Emma Ruth Rundle Some Heavy Ocean |
| Esmerine Aurora |
| Exit_International Our Science Is Golden |
| Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die... |
| Explosions in the Sky How Strange, Innocence |
| Failure Magnified |
| Faith No More Album of the Year |
| FeelAbout Point of You |
| Fennesz Black Sea |
| Fire! with Jim O'Rourke Unreleased? |
| Floorplan Paradise |
| Flying Lotus Los Angeles |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma |
| Flying Lotus Until the Quiet Comes |
| Foals Total Life Forever |
| Forest Swords Engravings |
| Fort Romeau Insides |
| Four Tet Pause |
| Four Tet There is Love in You |
| Frightened Rabbit The Midnight Organ Fight |
| Frightened Rabbit State Hospital |
| Fu Manchu California Crossing |
| Fu Manchu King of the Road |
| Fuck Buttons Tarot Sport |
| Fugazi The Argument |
| Fugazi In on the Kill Taker |
| Fugazi 13 Songs |
| Function Berghain 07 |
| Gang of Four Solid Gold |
| Gang Starr Moment of Truth |
| Gesaffelstein Aleph |
| Ghostface Killah Ironman |
| Ghostface Killah Twelve Reasons to Die |
| Ghostface Killah 36 Seasons |
| Ghostpoet Some Say I So I Say Light |
| Gifts From Enola Gifts From Enola |
| Girlpool Before the World Was Big |
| Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere |
| Grails Doomsdayer's Holiday |
| Grails The Burden of Hope |
| Grails Deep Politics |
| Gramatik Water 4 The Soul |
| Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill |
| Grouper A I A |
| Grouper The Man Who Died in His Boat |
| Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion I |
| GZA Beneath the Surface |
| Halou We Only Love You |
| Heatmiser Mic City Sons |
| Hieroglyphics Full Circle |
| Hum Downward Is Heavenward |
| Iceage You're Nothing |
| Idlewild 100 Broken Windows |
| Idlewild The Remote Part |
| If These Trees Could Talk Red Forest |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View |
| Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E. |
| ISIS Panopticon |
| Jane's Addiction Ritual De Lo Habitual |
| Japandroids Post-Nothing |
| Jazzanova In Between |
| Jeff Buckley Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk |
| Jerry Cantrell Degradation Trip |
| Jerry Cantrell Degradation Trip Volumes 1 & 2 |
| Jim O'Rourke Eureka |
| Joey Anderson Invisible Switch |
| Johann Johannsson IBM 1401, A User's Manual |
| John Frusciante Shadows Collide with People |
| John Frusciante Letur-Lefr |
| John Frusciante PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone |
| John Maus We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves |
| John Murphy 28 Days Later Soundtrack |
| John Murphy Sunshine (Soundtrack) |
| John Tejada Signs Under Test |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures |
| Joy Division Substance |
| Joyce Manor Joyce Manor |
| k-os Joyful Rebellion |
| Ka The Night's Gambit |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| Kanye West Yeezus |
| Kassem Mosse Workshop 19 |
| Kryptic Minds Can't Sleep |
| Kyuss Welcome to Sky Valley |
| Kyuss ...And the Circus Leaves Town |
| Laika Wherever I Am I Am What Is Missing |
| Laika's most mature release in a lyrical and production sense. Both members are on top of their trip-hop games, but mostly the album exudes lush brilliance of sound. Masterly creating a strong trip-hop presence all around without missing a beat, Laika's Wherever I Am I Am What Is Missing would seem to be their best work to date. It neither feels a bit vintage as Silver Apples of the Moon or hampered with boredom like Sounds of the Satellites had. |
| Lamb Between Darkness And Wonder |
| The Trip-Hop group hailing from Manchester have made a few transformations in their sound since they first broke in the spotlight. Yet there are always those constant ---passionate vocals, fantastic fusion of musical elements with an excellent production, but Between Darkness and Wonder teeters on some over ambition - sounding extremely mannered, mixing tons of different aspects of their music in one. An excellent painting of their work, it shows that first and foremost their musical ambitions are spot on, but Lou Rhodes' (female lead singer) for half the time overempowers some of the melodies, electronic synths, and masterful drum and bass backgrounds. While she is by no means band or any different, the production seems to keep her ahead of the overall musicianship of the group, which somewhat deters the sound. Either way it simply put their best work. Musically they've become a whole unit and they just need more time to truly find their niche - balancing both musicianship and vocal work. |
| Laura Stevenson Wheel |
| Laurel Halo Quarantine |
| LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV |
| Leftfield Leftism |
| Leftfield Rhythm And Stealth |
| Lego Feet Lego Feet |
| Leon Vynehall Brother/Sister |
| Lights Out Asia Eyes Like Brontide |
| Liquid Stranger The Invisible Conquest |
| Live Throwing Copper |
| Live Secret Samadhi |
| A very underrated album produced by a air friendly effort before called Throwing Copper, an immensely successful album both on radioplay and music videos. This album is much darker then previous and future efforts and to me this is my favorite Live album in their collection, right ahead of Throwing Copper. Very underrated and unappreciated because of lack of support on the radio, unlike Throwing Copper, this album is not at all radio friendly. |
| Living Colour Vivid |
| Local H As Good as Dead |
| Local H 12 Angry Months |
| Local H Hallelujah! I’m A Bum |
| Loess Burrows |
| Loess Loess |
| Lustmord The Place Where The Black Stars Hang |
| Lustmord Metavoid |
| Lustmord Carbon/Core |
| Lustmord Paradise Disowned |
| M83 Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts |
| Madvillain Madvillainy |
| Magazine Real Life |
| Makoto Souled Out |
| Maps and Atlases Perch Patchwork |
| Marco Polo Port Authority |
| Marek Hemmann Bittersweet |
| Massive Attack Protection |
| Max Richter Infra |
| Melvins Houdini |
| Melvins Stoner Witch |
| Metallica Master of Puppets |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning |
| Metz Metz |
| Mew Frengers |
| Michael McCann Deus Ex: Human Revolution |
| Minor Threat Complete Discography |
| Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates |
| Mission of Burma Unsound |
| Mobb Deep The Infamous |
| Moby Play |
| Moby Hotel |
| Mogwai Happy Songs for Happy People |
| Mogwai Young Team |
| Mogwai Earth Division |
| Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind |
| Monolake Polygon Cities |
| While it lacks in pure creativity and originality, Monolake's Polgygon Cities works in its technique and precision. By no means is this a progressive minimalistic techno, even with its obscure dub influence - it remains a fine example of a group honing its craft in ever-evolving movement that techno has become ever since its beginnings. Pulling back, Polygon Cities guides its way from menacing tones, computerized voice samples and shadowy percussion movements. It is in essence a caricature of the genre, without the dumbing or abuse that one would expect from generic versions of any genre, in particular minimal tech. |
| Monolake Momentum |
| Monolake Silence |
| Monolake Ghosts |
| Monolake I A |
| Mooncake Lagrange Points |
| Mos Def Black on Both Sides |
| Mount Eerie Clear Moon |
| Mount Eerie Ocean Roar |
| Mount Kimbie Cold Spring Fault Less Youth |
| Mudhoney Superfuzz Bigmuff |
| Mudhoney Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge |
| Mudhoney Tomorrow Hit Today |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless |
| My Disco Cancer |
| My Disco Little Joy |
| My Epic Yet |
| Nas Stillmatic |
| Nas It Was Written |
| Nedry Condors |
| Nedry's Condor becomes more than a flick of trip-hop, ambient pieces, dubstep and maybe a little bit of shoegaze in the mix. The maturity that seemed to be embraced within Condors is interesting considering this is their debut. For such a young group they seem to be marking their territory to classic trip-hop groups like Massive Attack and Portishead. Their style differs from those bands, but you can't help, but notice the influence they have on Nedry throughout Condors. It helps that the vocals are Portishead in delivery throughout, without sullying that legendary trip-hop's name. |
| Nedry In a Dim Light |
| Neurosis Through Silver in Blood |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| New Order Low-Life |
| New Order Power, Corruption and Lies |
| Nick Cave and Warren Ellis The Assasination of Jesse James |
| It works well. Is as simple as I can put it. The soundtrack fits extremely well for the time period, not only that, but it has a sense of togetherness. The transitions are done with ease. Cave & Ellis combine to make a excellent soundtrack to accompany a movie in all the right places. |
| Nick Hoppner Folk |
| Nicolas Jaar Space Is Only Noise |
| Nine Inch Nails Broken |
| Nine Inch Nails And All That Could Have Been |
| Nine Inch Nails Year Zero |
| Nine Inch Nails Hesitation Marks |
| Nirvana With the Lights Out |
| Nirvana Live! Tonight! Sold Out!! |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VII: Original Soundtrack |
| Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? |
| Omar S It Can Be Done But Only I Can Do It |
| Omar S Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself |
| Outputmessage Nebulae |
| P.O.S Never Better |
| Pantera Cowboys from Hell |
| Pantha Du Prince Black Noise |
| Parades Foreign Tapes |
| Pearl Jam Vs. |
| Pearl Jam Lost Dogs |
| Pelican Forever Becoming |
| pg.lost Yes I Am EP |
| pg.lost It's Not Me, It's You! |
| Phaeleh Fallen Light |
| Phaeleh Tides |
| Pharoahe Monch Desire |
| Phon.o Black Boulder |
| By far his best effort, mixture of deep dubstep with his previously meticulous minimalistic glitch effort. Unlike his sophomore effort, which grinded away against his abrasive sound and lurid sampling for a complex house record, with mixed results. Black Boulder does no such thing and with its exceptional production and smooth guest vocals make his most accessible work to date. It'll be interesting to see where he goes from here; his minimalistic glitch / tech aspirations are slightly quelled beneath a 2-step garage / dubstep foreground, it seems Phon.o enjoys trying different avenues for the betterment of us all. |
| Phon.o Schn33/Go |
| Pink Floyd Animals |
| Pink Floyd The Wall |
| Pinkshinyultrablast Happy Songs For Happy Zombies |
| PJ Harvey To Bring You My Love |
| PJ Harvey Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea |
| PJ Harvey Rid of Me |
| PJ Harvey Let England Shake |
| Placebo Placebo |
| Plaster First Aid Kit |
| A melting pot of electronic waves, idm break beats, jazz with hints of swing-time in one heaping pile of consistency. Plaster's First Aid Kit may seem to be like the basic barebone electronic album at first, but as time goes on it progresses to new heights. Not only does Plaster's 2005 effort show their patience with their music, but their malleability and sheer ease to mix all of these elements into one, as "Erectus" and "Orgie" show you without hesitation. What started as pure curiosity and boredom at the beginning, turned out to be a highly underrated band with the pieces and elements to soar any expectation. |
| Polar Bear Polar Bear |
| Polar Bear increase their experimental tendencies and rely on more of a ambient/electronic flurry throughout every track. This works exceptionally well and it kept me listening 'til the end. |
| Polygon Window Surfing On Sine Waves |
| Porcupine Tree Signify |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet |
| Port Blue The Airship |
| Port Blue The Albatross |
| It just may too short for its own good, but The Albatross EP continually sustains its calm drive and beautiful short electronic landscapes with ease. |
| port-royal Afraid to Dance |
| Propagandhi Supporting Caste |
| Propagandhi Failed States |
| Protomartyr Under Color of Official Right |
| Quantic Apricot Morning |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork |
| r.roo Deviation |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik |
| Ricardo Donoso Sarava Exu |
| Rites of Spring Rites of Spring |
| RJD2 Deadringer |
| RJD2 Since We Last Spoke |
| Robert Rich Calling Down The Sky |
| Roots Manuva Awfully Deep |
| Roots Manuva 4everevolution |
| Rosetta Wake/Lift |
| Rosetta A Determinism of Morality |
| Rosetta Quintessential Ephemera |
| Rrose Waterfall Variations |
| Rrose Wedge of Chastity |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels |
| Rx Bandits ...And the Battle Begun |
| Sage Francis A Healthy Distrust |
| Sage Francis Human The Death Dance |
| Saltillo Monocyte |
| Sandpeople Honest Racket |
| Scale the Summit Carving Desert Canyons |
| Scale the Summit The Collective |
| Scale the Summit The Migration |
| Screaming Trees Sweet Oblivion |
| Screaming Trees Buzz Factory |
| Sepalcure Sepalcure |
| Shabazz Palaces Black Up |
| Shabazz Palaces Lese Majesty |
| Shackleton Music For The Quiet Hour |
| Shed Shedding The Past |
| Sigur Ros Takk... |
| Sigur Ros Hvarf/Heim |
| Sigur Ros Kveikur |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon |
| Silvie Loto Solstice |
| Six Gallery Breakthroughs in Modern Art |
| sleepmakeswaves ...and so we destroyed everything |
| Slint Spiderland |
| Slowdive Souvlaki |
| Slowdive Just for a Day |
| Small Brown Bike The River Bed |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation |
| Sophie Product |
| Soulsavers It's Not How Far You Fall, It's the Way You Land |
| Soundtrack (Film) The Crow |
| Squarepusher Ultravisitor |
| Squarepusher Selection Sixteen |
| Squarepusher Feed Me Weird Things |
| Steffi Power Of Anonymity |
| Stereolab Emperor Tomato Ketchup |
| Stereolab Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements |
| Stereolab Dots and Loops |
| Stereolab Not Music |
| Steve Roach Structures from Silence |
| Stone Temple Pilots Purple |
| Streetlight Manifesto Keasbey Nights |
| STRFKR Reptilians |
| Sublime 40 Oz. to Freedom |
| Submotion Orchestra Finest Hour |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell |
| Sugar Daddy This Ain't No Party, This Ain't No Disco |
| Suuns Images Du Futur |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| System of a Down Hypnotize |
| Temples Sun Structures |
| Terrence Dixon From The Far Future - Part 2 |
| The Afghan Whigs Black Love |
| The Black Dog Silenced |
| The Black Dog Further Vexations |
| The Black Keys Brothers |
| The Breeders Pod |
| The Brian Jonestown Massacre Methodrone |
| The Brian Jonestown Massacre Bravery Repetition and Noise |
| The Brian Jonestown Massacre Take It From The Man! |
| The Chemical Brothers Come with Us |
| The Cinematic Orchestra Every Day |
| The Cinematic Orchestra Man With A Movie Camera |
| The Clash Give 'Em Enough Rope |
| The Dodos Visiter |
| The Dodos Carrier |
| The Field Looping State of Mind |
| The Flashbulb Flexing Habitual |
| The Flashbulb Arboreal |
| The Future Sound of London Dead Cities |
| The Haxan Cloak Excavation |
| The Horrors Skying |
| The Men Open Your Heart |
| The Menzingers Chamberlain Waits |
| The Menzingers On the Impossible Past |
| The National Boxer |
| The National High Violet |
| The Orb Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld |
| The Orb Orbus Terrarum |
| The Orb Orblivion |
| The Raveonettes Raven in the Grave |
| If anything can be said about Raven in the Grave is that the duo have forged a far more intense sound than on previous albums. Where the power of tracks like "Recharge & Revolt" and "Forget That You're Young", there seems to be an equalizer to all the clatter that it covers. Sure, it's entirely toned down, but the lulling bass within "Summer Moon" and "Apparitions" are clear indicators of keeping the tiresome act of an electric guitar overloaded throughout the album from wandering into a sea of blare. The Raveonnetes have decidedly entered a new dynamic that they've sheltered for quite some time. They've always had the lyricism to approach such a sound, but never really brought the harshness within their music until now. In a recent interview, the Danish act said they're on the brink of failing apart and "subconsciously" named the album after the whole creative process of finding inspiration. It looks to be that they have found it and hopefully they'll move a little further down the grave and see what phantom may pop out at them next. |
| The Roots Game Theory |
| The Roots Do You Want More?!!!??! |
| The Roots Things Fall Apart |
| The Roots Rising Down |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Machina/The Machines of God |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Zero |
| The Stooges Raw Power |
| The Verve Urban Hymns |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Born Into Trouble As the Sparks Fly Upward |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Kollaps Tradixionales |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything |
| Therapy? Troublegum |
| Therapy? A Brief Crack of Light |
| This Will Destroy You Young Mountain |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance |
| Thrice Vheissu |
| Thrice Red Sky |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV |
| Thrice Major/Minor |
| Tim Hecker Mirages |
| Tim Hecker Harmony in Ultraviolet |
| Tim Hecker's "Harmony In Ultraviolet" is atmospheric and eventful. The long drones and spacious sequences within every track remind the listener of Eluvium's "Copia" with more roughness and grit. Not only is "Harmony In Ultraviolet" great it gets better every listen; this truly is Hecker's greatest achievement thus far. |
| Tim Hecker Radio Amor |
| Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 |
| Frost has a clear influence on the structures of these songs. It is more akin to his work within Theory of Machines as Ravedeath, 1972 still holds Hecker's elements intact, the way they are portrayed are much darker then his previous work. |
| Tin Man Ode |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor |
| toe For Long Tomorrow |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Tool Undertow |
| Tortoise TNT |
| Tortoise Millions Now Living Will Never Die |
| Tricky Pre-Millenium Tension |
| Tricky Mixed Race |
| Tricky False Idols |
| Truckfighters Phi |
| Tycho Past is Prologue |
| u-Ziq Tango N' Vectif |
| u-Ziq Somerset Avenue Tracks (1992-1995) |
| Underworld Second Toughest in the Infants |
| Underworld A Hundred Days Off |
| UNKLE Psyence Fiction |
| Unter Null Moving On |
| Vanilla Thought Process |
| Vanilla Soft Focus |
| VAST Visual Audio Sensory Theater |
| Venetian Snares Meathole |
| Venetian Snares Detrimentalist |
| Vessels White Fields and Open Devices |
| Viktor Vaughn Vaudeville Villain |
| Vince Staples Stolen Youth |
| Wagon Christ Toomorrow |
| We Were Promised Jetpacks In the Pit of the Stomach |
| Wild Beasts Smother |
| Wild Nothing Gemini |
| Wild Nothing Nocturne |
| William Basinski The Disintegration Loops I |
| Wire 154 |
| Wool Box Set |
| Wu-Tang Clan Wu-Tang Forever |
| Wugazi 13 Chambers |
| Xploding Plastix Treated Timber Resists Rot |
| Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss |
| Zenker Brothers Immersion |
| Zola Jesus Stridulum |
| Zola Jesus Stridulum II |
| Zola Jesus Conatus |
| Zomby Where Were U In '92? |
| 3.5 great |
| !!! Strange Weather, Isn't It? |
| 10 Years The Autumn Effect |
| 2Pac 2Pacalypse Now |
| A Life Like No Other A Life Like No Other |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms |
| Aesop Rock Music For Earthworms |
| Aesop Rock None Shall Pass |
| Aesop Rock Daylight |
| Ahleuchatistas Even In The Midst |
| Air Talkie Walkie |
| Air Love 2 |
| Extremely laid back and chill, Love 2 isn't a memorizing or memorable outing, but if you're in the mood for a relaxing album Air's latest release should fill that void. |
| Alice in Chains Sap |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue |
| Alice in Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here |
| Alpha Pepper: Remixes & Rarities |
| Alpha Come From Heaven |
| Amorphous Androgynous The Isness |
| Amorphous Androgynous Alice in Ultraland |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion |
| Aphex Twin Windowlicker |
| Aphex Twin Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments Pt 2 |
| Arca Xen |
| Archive Noise |
| Archive Lights |
| Armistice Armistice |
| As Cities Burn Hell or High Water |
| ASC Environments |
| ASC Nothing Is Certain |
| ASC Out Of Sync |
| Astronautalis This Is Our Science |
| Atmosphere Seven's Travels |
| Atmosphere God Loves Ugly |
| Audioslave Out of Exile |
| Audioslave Revelations |
| Aural Method Slumber, Savage Beasts |
| Autechre Draft 7.30 |
| Autechre Move Of Ten |
| Autolux Future Perfect |
| Bad Brains Black Dots |
| Bad Religion Recipe for Hate |
| Bad Religion The Dissent of Man |
| Barrows Imprecari Island |
| Beach House Devotion |
| Beastie Boys Check Your Head |
| Beastie Boys Aglio E Olio |
| Beastie Boys The Mix Up |
| Beck Odelay |
| Beck Mellow Gold |
| Beck Guero |
| Beck Modern Guilt |
| Beck Morning Phase |
| Ben Frost Steel Wound |
| Benn Jordan Louisiana Mourning |
| Binary Star Masters of the Universe |
| Biosphere Microgravity |
| Biosphere Cirque |
| Biosphere Shenzhou |
| Black Flag Damaged |
| Black Milk Album Of The Year |
| Black Sun Empire Lights And Wires |
| Blackfield Blackfield |
| Blind Melon Blind Melon |
| Blue Stahli Antisleep Vol. 01 |
| Blur Blur |
| Blur Modern Life Is Rubbish |
| Blur The Great Escape |
| Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase |
| Brian Eno Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) |
| Brian Eno Music For Films, Volume 3 |
| Brian Eno Drums Between The Bells |
| Brother Ali Shadows On The Sun |
| Buck 65 Secret House Against The World |
| Burial Burial |
| Bush The Science of Things |
| Butthole Surfers Electriclarryland |
| Butthole Surfers Independent Worm Saloon |
| Cannibal Ox Blade of the Ronin |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms Hydroponic Garden |
| Caribou Andorra |
| Carter Burwell In Bruges |
| The heavily tragic movie and dark comedic atmosphere throughout the movie is carried by a great soundtrack that mixes garage rock, folk, opera, and most importantly the fantastic piano / violin driven song. As the movie goes along the variations are suddle for the theme song, but is still refreshing and fantastic. |
| Celldweller Celldweller |
| Chainsaw Kittens Flipped Out In Singapore |
| Clark Iradelphic |
| clipping. CLPPNG |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head |
| Colour Haze Los Sounds de Krauts |
| Colour Haze Tempel |
| Colour Haze All |
| Colour Haze Periscope |
| Colour Haze Ewige Blumenkraft |
| Comets on Fire Comets on Fire |
| Comets on Fire Blue Cathedral |
| Crippled Black Phoenix I, Vigilante |
| Crippled Black Phoenix No Sadness Or Farewell |
| Cyanotic The Medication Generation |
| Daft Punk Human After All |
| Dag Nasty Wig Out At Denko's |
| Dag Nasty Four On The Floor |
| Danny Brown The Hybrid |
| Danny Brown XXX |
| David Bowie Earthling |
| De La Soul Buhloone Mindstate |
| Dead Kennedys Plastic Surgery Disasters |
| Dead Kennedys Frankenchrist |
| Dead Man's Bones Dead Man's Bones |
| Death In Vegas Scorpio Rising |
| Deerhunter Weird Era Cont. |
| Deftones Around the Fur |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
| Del Tha Funkee Homosapien Future Development |
| Delorean Subiza |
| Devin Townsend Project Ghost |
| Digitalism Idealism |
| Dir En Grey Dum Spiro Spero |
| Dispatch Bang Bang |
| Dispatch Silent Steeples |
| Divination Ambient Dub Volume 1 |
| DJ Fresh Escape From Planet Monday |
| DJ Shadow The Less You Know, the Better |
| DMX ...And Then There Was X |
| Doomtree No Kings |
| Dr. Dre 2001 |
| Eagles Of Death Metal Peace Love Death Metal |
| Eagles Of Death Metal Death By Sexy |
| Eagles Of Death Metal Heart On |
| Efterklang Springer |
| Efterklang Under Giant Trees |
| Elliott Smith Figure 8 |
| Elliott Smith Roman Candle |
| Eluvium When I Live by the Garden and the Sea |
| Eluvium An Accidental Memory in the Case of Death |
| Eluvium Lambent Material |
| Emancipator Soon It Will Be Cold Enough |
| Emancipator Safe In The Steep Cliffs |
| Emancipator Dusk to Dawn |
| Emika DVA |
| Error Error |
| Esmerine If Only a Sweet Surrender to the Nights to Come Be |
| Esmerine La Lechuza |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place |
| Explosions in the Sky The Rescue |
| Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone |
| Faith No More King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime |
| Fatboy Slim You've Come A Long Way, Baby |
| Fatboy Slim Better Living Through Chemistry |
| Fennesz Venice |
| Foals Holy Fire |
| Foals What Went Down |
| There's huge promise on What Went Down from the get go. It drives with more pure aggression lyrically and instrumentally than anything Foals have ever brought forward. This approach is mared with the fact they never quite get their footing with an uneven theme, see: middle of album. It states one thing and does another, something that was not a problem upon Holy Fire, but it's overly cautious approach downed it as an average album. Foals just misses the mark on a middle ground - they stick to their indie pop strengths but then shun it for more straight-forward in your face moments like Snake Oil, which sounds like a psychedelic abomination. Seconds later turning everything on its head with one of familiar Foals moments on Night Swimmers. One has to ask, where is this headed? It's unfortunate. A few changes here and there could of made this album a clear cut best since Total Strife Forever, instead it's just marginally better than Holy Fire. |
| Forest Swords Dagger Paths |
| Four Tet Dialogue |
| Four Tet Ringer |
| Frightened Rabbit The Winter of Mixed Drinks |
| Fu Manchu No One Rides for Free |
| Fu Manchu Daredevil |
| Fugazi End Hits |
| Fugazi Repeater |
| Fugazi Red Medicine |
| Fugazi Instrument Soundtrack |
| Gang of Four Shrinkwrapped |
| Sometimes we dislike change and despite what people might think about Gang of Four 20 years ago when this album was released its clearly a different sound. Electronic and voice samples play a major part in their '95 effort and it works for the most part. The mixing on this album is quite dark and masks a lot of the instrumental work that once was a bright light for the group, instead focusing on the more calm King vocals, other than the normal shouts we all loved on his first 3 albums. Shrinkwrapped in essence is a modern day 90's record by Gang of Four, who still possess both musical vitality in both a lyrical and instrumental sense. The production does muddle things a bit, almost shutting out a stabbing guitar that really propels this record. A pleasant surprise by all means, especially since this was their second reformation, it sounds like a more reinvigorated Gang of Four, which still have some massive quality left within them. |
| Gang of Four Content |
| Ghostface Killah Fishscale |
| Ghostface Killah Supreme Clientele |
| Ghostface Killah More Fish |
| Ghostface Killah The Pretty Toney Album |
| Ghostface Killah Apollo Kids |
| Ghostpoet Peanut Butter Blues and Melancholy Jam |
| Gifts From Enola Loyal Eyes Betrayed The Mind |
| Gifts From Enola A Healthy Fear |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress' |
| Grails Red Light |
| Gramatik Street Bangerz Vol. 2 |
| Groove Armada Vertigo |
| Guido Anidea |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction |
| Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy |
| Halou Sawtooth |
| Halou Wholeness and Separation |
| Handsome Boy Modeling School So ... How's Your Girl? |
| Heatmiser Cop and Speeder |
| Heatmiser Dead Air |
| Helena Hauff Lex Tertia |
| Hieroglyphics 3rd Eye Vision |
| Hrvatski Swarm & Dither |
| Hum You'd Prefer an Astronaut |
| Idlewild Warnings/Promises |
| Idlewild Post Electric Blues |
| If These Trees Could Talk Above the Earth, Below the Sky |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Fungus Amongus |
| ISIS Oceanic |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant |
| Jaga Jazzist The Stix |
| Jaga Jazzist A Livingroom Hush |
| Jane's Addiction Nothing's Shocking |
| Jane's Addiction Strays |
| Jeff Buckley Mystery White Boy |
| Jlin Dark Energy |
| John Frusciante Inside of Emptiness |
| John Frusciante Outsides |
| Jonny Greenwood There Will Be Blood OST |
| Joy Division Still |
| The problem with Still is easily categorized. The beginning of the album starts off on a few bumps as it doesn't quite get its feet set until "The Only Mistake" is played, from there on Still manages to keep topping itself. The tough introduction to the album bogs the album down as a whole, but the rest of the material is usually more hit then miss. From rare outtakes and live recordings Still shows some forgotten material still left. Included in this solid collection of Joy Division material is "Isolation" and "Decades" to name a few. Some tracks do feel boring or uninspired "Sound of Music, "Glass", and "Sister Ray". Still remains to be in close similarity with New Order's early work as a band and only start depart a couple of years from their first album, showing that the band can still captivate without Curtis at the helm. Sadly, with his death their status was cemented as it was only started growing; with the demise of Joy Division comes New Order from its ashes. |
| Jurassic 5 Quality Control |
| Justice † |
| k-os Exit |
| k-os Atlantis: Hymns For Disco |
| k-os Yes! |
| Karma To Burn Wild Wonderful Purgatory |
| Killer Mike Pl3dge |
| Kno Death Is Silent |
| Kryptic Minds One of Us |
| Laika Silver Apples Of The Moon |
| Lamb Lamb |
| Lamb What Sound |
| Lamb What Sound [deluxe edition] |
| LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening |
| Leaf Rooted From Within |
| Lee Gamble Diversions 1994-1996 |
| Lemon Jelly Lost Horizons |
| Lemon Jelly Lemonjelly.KY |
| Light Bearer Beyond the Infinite: The Assembly of God |
| Lights Out Asia Tanks And Recognizers |
| Lights Out Asia In The Days Of Jupiter |
| Lights Out Asia Hy-Brasil |
| Little Dragon Little Dragon |
| Live The Distance To Here |
| Local H Pack Up the Cats |
| Local H Here Comes the Zoo |
| Lustmord Heresy |
| M83 Before The Dawn Heals Us |
| Makoto Different Rhythm, What Do You Want? |
| Mando Diao Bring 'Em In |
| Marching Church This World Is Not Enough |
| Martina Topley-Bird Quixotic |
| Massive Attack 100th Window |
Though it's evident the holes that the missing members create, still Massive Attack pulls off an amazing follow-up to mega classic album Mezzanine. This to me, was very close and surprising that it was enjoyable after listening to Mezzanine (very high expectations). Songs like Special Cases,
Name Taken, Butterfly Caught, and Antistar are a continuation of the predecessor album in a way. |
| Massive Attack Collected |
| Massive Attack Heligoland |
| Mathias Grassow Calibration |
| Mathias Grassow Namakar |
| The equivalent in sound and atmosphere to Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works, Vol II. While not nearly as entrancing or pulsating in repetition, Namaker succeeds in creating a long-standing haunting sound that doesn't stop with drawn out drones and sometimes serene moments like in "Abahtima". |
| Melvins Gluey Porch Treatments |
| Melvins Bullhead |
| Melvins The Maggot |
| Melvins Freak Puke |
| Melvins Everybody Loves Sausages |
| MF DOOM Operation: Doomsday |
| MF DOOM MM.. Food |
| Michael Andrews Donnie Darko |
| Minor Threat Out of Step |
| Minus the Bear Menos El Oso |
| Minutemen The Punch Line |
| Mission of Burma The Obliterati |
| Mission of Burma ONoffON |
| Moby Everything is Wrong |
| Moby Innocents |
| Mogwai Rock Action |
| Mogwai Mr. Beast |
| Mono Under the Pipal Tree |
| Mono One Step More and You Die |
| Monolake Interstate |
| Monolake Cinemascope |
| Monolake Gravity |
| Mos Def The Ecstatic |
| Mount Eerie Dawn |
| Mount Eerie Wind's Poem |
| Mount Kimbie Crooks & Lovers |
| Mountain Man Made The Harbor |
| Moving Mountains Foreword |
| Mr. Lif I Phantom |
| Mr. Lif I Heard It Today |
| Mr. Scruff Mrs. Cruff |
| Mr. Scruff Ninja Tuna |
| Mudhoney My Brother The Cow |
| Mudhoney Since We've Become Translucent |
| Muse Absolution |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations |
| My Bloody Valentine m b v |
| My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult I See Good Spirits And I See Bad Spirits |
| N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton |
| Nas Hip Hop Is Dead |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine |
| Nine Inch Nails Further Down the Spiral (UK) |
| Nine Inch Nails Further Down the Spiral (US) |
| Nine Inch Nails The Perfect Drug |
| Nirvana Incesticide |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| Nirvana Nirvana |
| Nirvana Sliver: The Best of the Box |
| Nitzer Ebb Belief |
| Nitzer Ebb Showtime |
| Oasis Definitely Maybe |
| Ocean Colour Scene Marchin' Already |
| Odd Nosdam Pretty Swell Explode |
| Outputmessage Autonomous |
| A clear shift from idm ambient beats of previous efforts to a vocally-friendly pop electro record by Outputmessage actually succeeds on many levels. There are moments where he falters with more cliche lines and delivery, but his superior electro beat carries much of the album. Outputmessage wants you to dance on Autonomous and it doesn't take that long to abide. |
| P.O.S Audition |
| P.O.S We Don't Even Live Here |
| Pantera Far Beyond Driven |
| Pantera The Great Southern Trendkill |
| Pantera Reinventing the Steel |
| Pax and Pry A Day Off |
| Pearl Jam Yield |
| Pearl Jam No Code |
| Pearl Jam Pearl Jam |
| Pearl Jam Backspacer |
| Pearl Jam Lightning Bolt |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... |
| Perfect Pussy Say Yes to Love |
| Perfume Genius Too Bright |
| pg.lost Key |
| Phon.o Partition B |
| Pinback Blue Screen Life |
| Pinback Summer in Abaddon |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Pink Floyd Meddle |
| Pink Floyd The Division Bell |
| Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother |
| Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets |
| Pixies Doolittle |
| PJ Harvey Dry |
| PJ Harvey White Chalk |
| PJ Harvey Is This Desire? |
| Polar Bear Held On The Tips Of Fingers |
| Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream |
| Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun |
| Porcupine Tree The Incident |
| port-royal Flares |
| Portishead Dummy |
| Portishead Portishead |
| Portugal. The Man In The Mountain In The Cloud |
| Prefuse 73 One Word Extinguisher |
| Prefuse 73 Preparations |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R |
| Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire |
| Ratatat Ratatat |
| Ratatat Ratatat Remixes Vol.II |
| Real Estate Atlas |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Mother's Milk |
| Richard Devine Asect:Dsect |
| Richard Devine Sculpt |
| While Devine pounds away at your fleshy ear drums, it doesn't quite get tedious enough to warrant disapproval, he manages to break through the repetitions with meaningful progress in most of Sculpt. |
| Ride Nowhere |
| Robert Rich Electric Ladder |
| Robert Rich Somnium |
| This is practically impossible to listen in one sitting. The 7 hour opus is Rich's version of a dream. Somnium translated from Latin literally means "dream", which is why the concept of this album needs to be touched on. The sounds of water droplets, storm showers, waves of water all signal calmness and peace. While the album itself is overbearing in its track time, its vision may be its greatest strength. |
| Robert Rich Music From Atlas Dei |
| Roots Manuva Alternately Deep |
| Roots Manuva Facety 2:11 |
| Rosetta The Galilean Satellites |
| Rrose Monad XVI |
| Rrose Eating The Other |
| Russian Circles Enter |
| Russian Circles Geneva |
| Saltillo Ganglion |
| Scale the Summit Monument |
| Screaming Trees Uncle Anesthesia |
| Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols |
| Sharon Van Etten Epic |
| Shed The Traveller |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun |
| Sigur Ros Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do |
| Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust |
| Silverchair Frogstomp |
| Silverchair Neon Ballroom |
| Silverchair Freak Show |
| Skalpel Konfusion |
| Skalpel Skalpel |
| Slowdive Pygmalion |
| Small Brown Bike Our Own Wars |
| Small Brown Bike Dead Reckoning |
| Small Brown Bike Fell & Found |
| Sneaker Pimps Bloodsport |
| Sneaker Pimps Becoming X |
| Sneaker Pimps Splinter |
| Son Lux Bones |
| Sonic Youth Goo |
| Sonic Youth Sister |
| Sonic Youth The Eternal |
| Soundgarden Down on the Upside |
| Soundgarden Louder Than Love |
| Soundgarden King Animal |
| Soundtrack (Film) Ocean's 12 OST |
| Squarepusher Hard Normal Daddy |
| Squarepusher Hello Everything |
| Squarepusher really pushes his limits by using a wide variety of instruments. Despite this type of approach the classic Jenkinson is still here after all with the brooding "Planetarium" to back it up. 'Hello Everything' would seem to be the next evolution for Squarepusher; I wonder if 'Just A Souvenir' expands on this. |
| Squarepusher Burningn'n Tree |
| Squarepusher Music Is Rotted One Note |
| Squarepusher Big Loada |
| Stateless Matilda |
| Stereolab Mars Audiac Quintet |
| Stereolab Sound-Dust |
| Stone Temple Pilots No. 4 |
| Surfer Blood Astro Coast |
| Surgeon Basictonalvocabulary |
| Swans Greed |
| Swarms Old Raves End |
| System of a Down System of a Down |
| System of a Down Mezmerize |
| TAD God's Balls |
| Tarentel We Move Through Weather |
| Adding a more dynamic feel all around this entire LP, Tarentel manage to find their niche within their music. Massive amounts of drone and noise with slow burning post-rock movements. Despite the repetitiveness within the music the album stand up on its own well. "Bump Past, Cut Up Through Windows" is the best track up to that point it is heard in the album. Drumming repetition with a hint of variance, not only is it worthy of a listen the violin interludes and background noises are fantastic. So it would seem Tarentel have fixed their glaring problem: the lack of stability within their music. 'We Move Through Weather' isn't astonishing, but only a progressive foot forward within the band's discography. |
| Team Sleep Team Sleep |
| Teebs Ardour |
| The Afghan Whigs Gentlemen |
| The Afghan Whigs Congregation |
| The Black Angels Passover |
| The Black Angels Indigo Meadow |
| The Black Dog Spanners |
| The Black Dog Music for Real Airports |
| The Black Dog Liber Dogma |
| It's a progressively solid minimal techno display that really never goes beyond the limits or falls on its face. |
| The Black Dog Temple of Transparent Balls |
| The Brian Jonestown Massacre ...And This Is Our Music |
| The Cancer Conspiracy Omega |
| It's quite sad to see a band go under by the time they finally realize a hint of their potential. The Cancer Conspiracy's debut 'Audio Medium' was extremely boring and slow. 'Omega' is what the progressive band should have reached for, too bad this was only released after their demise. |
| The Chemical Brothers Dig Your Own Hole |
| The Chemical Brothers Surrender |
| The Cinematic Orchestra Motion |
| The Cinematic Orchestra Ma Fleur |
| The Cinematic Orchestra Late Night Tales: The Cinematic Orchestra |
| The Clash The Clash (US version) |
| The Cranberries No Need to Argue |
| The Crystal Method Vegas |
| The Dandy Warhols Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum |
| The Dodos Time to Die |
| The Field Yesterday and Today |
| The Flashbulb Kirlian Selections |
| The Flashbulb Soundtrack to a Vacant Life |
| The Flashbulb These Open Fields |
| The Flashbulb Girls.Suck.But.YOU.Don't |
| The Flashbulb Réunion |
| 2005 marked The Flashbulb's emergence into something that would work. Re is consistent enough to warrant a full-listen whilst keeping a cool and smooth demeanor, without the schizophrenic previous work that Benn Jordan would always try push through in previous albums. |
| The Future Sound of London The Isness |
| The Future Sound of London Environments 4 |
| The Horrors Luminous |
| The Knife Silent Shout |
| The Men Immaculada |
| The National Alligator |
| The Orb U.F.Orb |
| The Orb Bicycles and Tricycles |
| The Orb Okie Dokie It's The Orb on Kompakt |
| The Orb Baghdad Batteries (Orbsessions Vol. III) |
| The Pineapple Thief All the Wars |
| The Pirate Ship Quintet The Pirate Ship Quintet EP |
| The Prodigy Experience |
| The Prodigy Invaders Must Die |
| The Raveonettes Chain Gang of Love |
| The Roots The Tipping Point |
| The Roots Phrenology |
| The Roots How I Got Over |
| The Roots undun |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Adore |
| The Sound From The Lion's Mouth |
| The Stooges The Stooges |
| The Swellers Good For Me |
| The Verve A Northern Soul |
| The Verve A Storm in Heaven |
| The Verve Forth |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Horses in the Sky |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety |
| Thrice If We Could Only See Us Now |
| Thrice Beggars |
| Thug Life Thug Life |
| Tim Hecker Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again |
| toe New Sentimentality |
| toe The Book About My Idle Plot on a Vague Anxiety |
| Tortoise Standards |
| Tricky Angels With Dirty Faces |
| Tricky Nearly God |
| Tricky Tricky Presents The Grassroots |
| Truckfighters Gravity X |
| u-Ziq Lunatic Harness |
| u-Ziq In Pine Effect |
| Ulrich Schnauss Far Away Trains Passing By |
| Underworld Beaucoup Fish |
| Underworld Oblivion with Bells |
| Underworld Barking |
| UNKLE Never, Never, Land |
| UNKLE War Stories |
| Various Artists Pi |
| Various Artists Lock, Stock, & 2 Smoking Barrels |
| Veil Veil Vanish Change in the Neon Light |
| Venetian Snares Cavalcade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Pom Poms |
| Venetian Snares Winnipeg Is A Frozen Shithole |
| Venetian Snares Doll Doll Doll |
| Venetian Snares Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding |
| Venetian Snares Hospitality |
| May just be me, but it seems Funk made a quick mish-mash of things on Hospitality EP. It still sounds great and even somewhat refreshing, but I just want more. |
| Vessels Helioscope |
| Viktor Vaughn (VV:2) Venomous Villain |
| William Basinski Melancholia |
| William Basinski The Disintegration Loops III |
| William Basinski Shortwavemusic |
| Wire Send |
| Wire A Bell Is A Cup Until It Is Struck |
| Wire Object 47 |
| Wisp Honor Beats |
| Wu-Tang Clan The W |
| Wu-Tang Clan Iron Flag |
| Xihilisk The Black Square |
| This is truly a frantic piece of music from a black-metal beginning to an electronic free-form epic the next. The truth about The Black Square is it keeps you guessing. "Chyrsalis March" is performed ingeniously in its electronic structure while other genres spawn within the album like the idm bass heavy "Eggshells" and violin driven "Massive In Flux". Xihilisk performs an expansive amount of material in one album, leaving his next album's direction open to any avenue or train of thought. |
| Zebulon Pike II - The Deafening Twilight |
| I myself am not fan of progressive instrumental dark metal, the difference between this album and my tastes in music is this keeps me keenly interested throughout the album. The first track doesn't seem anything special, but as Zebulon Pike introduce each track they construct a cohesiveness and this holds the album together very well. Each track is better than its predecessor which is quite good. Though this album can get tiresome due to the length of the tracks; I was entirely expecting this...so before you judge this album by it's 'lack of energy' or 'length' look at the direction and you'll see "The Deafening Twilight" is worth a listen. |
| Zero 7 When It Falls |
| Zero 7 Simple Things |
| 3.0 good |
| 10 Years Killing All That Holds You |
| 10 Years Division |
| 2Pac Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. |
| 2Pac All Eyez on Me |
| Aesop Rock Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives |
| Ahleuchatistas What You Will |
| Ahleuchatistas On The Culture Industry |
| Ahleuchatistas Of The Body Prone |
| Air The Virgin Suicides |
| Air Pocket Symphony |
| Alice in Chains Greatest Hits |
| Alice in Chains Facelift |
| Alpha The Impossible Thrill |
| Amorphous Androgynous Peppermint Tree and Seeds of Superconsciousness |
| What may be truly frustrating is the type of style Amorphous Androgynous take on has yet to develop into anything truly substaintial to warrant attention. The Isness and also Alice In Ultraland both were solid outings, more so for The Isness, but why should we care anymore? I understand the soft-toned psychedelic forms are still there, but whats the point? The incorporation of vocals had worked wonders in their last album, but we barely see any of that in Peppermint Tree and Seeds of Superconsciousness. "Tiny Space Birds" is the hyped up stage of psychedelic embracing I've been looking for, but a little too late. The same goes for "Rocket Fuel", except this time allowing fantastic lead vocals to resonate through. So my question really is: Will Amorphous Androgynous progress their sound or will they steadily decline into boredom? |
| Angelo Badalamenti The Beach (Original Score) |
| Archive You All Look The Same To Me |
| Archive With Us Until You're Dead |
| Archive Axiom |
| Archive Restriction |
| ASC Open Spaces |
| ASC Heights Of Perception |
| ASC The Light That Burns Twice As Bright |
| With its ambient textures, albeit off-putting for ASC mainstays, is indeed a left-field maneuver. That is, one that shouldn't be pushed aside because of previous expectations. Those who are keen to darkly anamorphic music is more obscure than anything he's done. Reminds of Lustmord, without all the religious, sacrilege, chanting and eerily-odd torturous sounds that sometimes is hand-in-hand with the samplings that he uses. |
| Atmosphere You Can't Imagine How Much Fun... |
| Atmosphere Lucy Ford: The Atmosphere EPs |
| Atmosphere Overcast! |
| Atmosphere To All My Friends, Blood Makes The Blade Holy |
| Atmosphere The Family Sign |
| Aural Method When I Drifted I Heard a Faint Melody |
| Autechre LP5 |
| Autechre Confield |
| Autechre Untilted |
| Autechre Oversteps |
| Autechre L-event |
| Autolux Transit Transit |
| Bad Brains Into The Future |
| Bad Religion The New America |
| Bad Religion The Gray Race |
| Bad Religion New Maps of Hell |
| Beastie Boys To the 5 Boroughs |
| Beck Mutations |
| Beck The Information |
| Big Boi Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors |
| Biosphere Patashnik |
| Biosphere Autour De La Lune |
| Black Light Burns Cruel Melody |
| Black Milk Popular Demand |
| Blackfield Blackfield II |
| Blue Scholars Bayani |
| Blur Think Tank |
| Blur Parklife |
| Blur Leisure |
| Boxcutter Glyphic |
| Brian Eno Here Come the Warm Jets |
| Brian Eno Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks |
| Brian Eno Lux |
| Brother Ali The Undisputed Truth |
| Bush Sixteen Stone |
| Bush Razorblade Suitcase |
| Butthole Surfers Locust Abortion Technician |
| Byla Byla |
| C2C Tetra |
| Caribou The Milk Of Human Kindness |
| Cherry Ghost Beneath This Burning Shoreline |
| Clark Totems Flare |
| Cloud Nothings Cloud Nothings |
| Colour Haze She Said |
| Comets on Fire Field Recordings from the Sun |
| Common Market Tobacco Road |
| Daft Punk Homework |
| Dag Nasty Dag With Shawn |
| David Bowie Young Americans |
| Death From Above 1979 You're a Woman, I'm a Machine |
| Death In Vegas The Contino Sessions |
| Deerhunter Turn It Up Faggot |
| Deftones Adrenaline |
| Deftones Deftones |
| Del Tha Funkee Homosapien No Need For Alarm |
| Digitalism I Love You, Dude |
| Divination Akasha |
| DJ Shadow The Outsider |
| DMX The Great Depression |
| Do Make Say Think Goodbye Enemy Airship the Landlord is Dead |
| Do Make Say Think Do Make Say Think |
| Editors The Back Room |
| Editors An End Has A Start |
| Editors The Weight of Your Love |
| Efterklang Tripper |
| Efterklang Magic Chairs |
| El-P Fantastic Damage |
| El-P Collecting The Kid |
| Eluvium Travels In Constants Vol. 20 |
| Eluvium Similes |
| Failure Comfort |
| Faith No More Introduce Yourself |
| Faith No More Sol Invictus |
| Farflung The Belief Module |
| Fennesz Endless Summer |
| Fountains of Wayne Sky Full of Holes |
| Four Tet Rounds |
| Four Tet Beautiful Rewind |
| Frightened Rabbit Sing The Greys |
| Fu Manchu The Action is Go |
| Fu Manchu In Search Of... |
| Fu Manchu We Must Obey |
| Fugazi Steady Diet of Nothing |
| Gang of Four Songs of the Free |
| It may be the replaced bassist, but Song of The Free feels more dreary or depressing in sound then previous efforts. Not saying its substantially bad for it, but when you're comparing albums like Entertainment! and Sold Gold, it feels like a massive disappointment. |
| Gang of Four Free EP |
| Gavin Castleton Home |
| Ghostface Killah Shaolin's Finest |
| Ghostface Killah Bulletproof Wallets |
| Ghostface Killah The Big Doe Rehab |
| Ghostland Observatory Codename: Rondo |
| Gifts From Enola From Fathoms |
| Gnarls Barkley The Odd Couple |
| Groove Armada Love Box |
| Grouper Wide |
| Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion II |
| GZA Legend of the Liquid Sword |
| GZA Pro Tools |
| Halou Halou |
| Handsome Boy Modeling School White People |
| Hans Zimmer Gladiator: Music from the Motion Picture |
| I find Zimmer very overrated as a composer. He has made some fantastic epic songs in his career, but as a whole his soundtracks don't carry enough substance and transitions that we strive for. The Gladiator OST has the same exact dilemma, it carries amazing epic songs, but as a whole the album falls. "The Battle" is completely exciting, each movement is fantastic and the end result is a massive success. There are others as the soundoff below had suggested at the end of the album, more importantly the closer is a great way to end the album. |
| Helena Hauff Discreet Desires |
| Hum Electra 2000 |
| Idlewild Hope Is Important |
| Idlewild Captain |
| Incubus (USA-CA) A Crow Left of the Murder... |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Live at Lollapalooza 2003 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Light Grenades |
| Iselia Life From Dead Limbs |
| ISIS In the Absence of Truth |
| James Horner Glory |
| Somber in tone throughout, as it should be. Horner's Glory soundtrack is extremely slow to moving, yet it's charm is presented in the latter half of the album. Once "Burning The Town of Darien" is started, Glory because a more entrenching experience. The closer is quite excellent. Worth a listen, but a mediocre and dull first half. |
| Jane's Addiction The Great Escape Artist |
| Jazzanova Of All The Things |
| Jeniferever Choose a Bright Morning |
| Jeniferever Silesia |
| Jerry Cantrell Boggy Depot |
| John Frusciante To Record Only Water for Ten Days |
| John Frusciante Enclosure |
| Jonezetta Cruel to Be Young |
| Joy Division The Best of Joy Division |
| Honestly Joy Division are an amazingly deep band and the tracks on here are superb. The problem is the mixing, why the hell does everything sound so clearly overly loud? Is meant to be that way? On merit for the tracks alone its a superb compilation, but the final mastering seems to ask questions. |
| Joyce Manor Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired |
| Karma To Burn Almost Heathen |
| Karnivool Themata |
| Karnivool Sound Awake |
| King Geedorah Take Me to Your Leader |
| Kool Keith Black Elvis/Lost in Space |
| Kyuss Wretch |
| Laika Sounds of the Satellites |
| Lamb Fear of Fours |
| Lard The Last Temptation of Reid |
| LCD Soundsystem LCD Soundsystem |
| Leaf Made Into Itself |
| Lemon Jelly '64-'95 |
| Lights Out Asia Garmonia |
| Liquid Stranger The Intergalactic Slapstick |
| Liquid Stranger Mechanoid Meltdown |
| As well produced as this is, it's hampered by its slick movements with unbearably trite dubstep. |
| Live Mental Jewelry |
| Live V |
| Local H Ham Fisted |
| Lucky Dragons Dream Island Laughing Language |
| Luke Vibert Lover's Acid |
| Luke Vibert Chicago, Detroit, Redruth |
| A true pioneer in the world of ambient material intertwining with trip-hop, Luke Vibert (among other aliases) was most important with his progressive approaches within the name of Wagon Christ. Under his own name it isn't necessarily progressive as he once was. The beats are extremely groove oriented and synth-laden. "ComfyCozy" and "Clikilik" show his strength within the music he produces, but others such as "Breakbeat Metal Music" and "God" unequivocally show his natural weakness with poor, boring, and useless repetitious samples that are supposed to drive the song. This effect doesn't work at all as it was desired to be leaving a good time of the album in limbo. Some tracks are essentially addictive immediately such as precarious "Rotting Flesh Bags", which uses a simple drum break, eerie keyboard harmonies and noises with a hand-clappin' good time. Chicago, Detroit, Redruth is a step forward from Lover's Acid even if its marginally worth noting... |
| Lustmord The Monstrous Soul |
| What becomes a highly repetitive exercise in futility for the first 30 minutes on Monstrous Soul, only is able to show its shadow to all when "Protoplasmic Reversion" begins. This is a solid album, but the continuous sample cycles and well, cycling in general gets tiresome in many ways. Still the second half of the album does not falter, picking up the pieces already set in motion with the previous shaky tracks. |
| Lustmord Juggernaut |
| M83 Saturdays=Youth |
| Martina Topley-Bird The Blue God |
| Mathias Grassow Deeper Purity |
| Melvins Lysol |
| Melvins Honky |
| Melvins The Bride Screamed Murder |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All |
| Metallica Death Magnetic |
| MF DOOM Born Like This |
| Mission of Burma The Horrible Truth About Burma |
| Moby 18 |
| Moby Wait for Me |
| Moby Destroyed |
| Mogwai Come On Die Young |
| Mogwai The Hawk Is Howling |
| Monolake Hong Kong |
| Mos Def The New Danger |
| Mount Eerie Eleven Old Songs Of Mount Eerie |
| Mount Eerie White Stag |
| Moving Mountains Pneuma |
| Moving Mountains Waves |
| Mr. Lif Enters The Colossus |
| Mr. Lif Mo' Mega |
| Mr. Scruff Keep It Unreal |
| Mudhoney Mudhoney |
| Mudhoney Piece Of Cake |
| Mudhoney The Lucky Ones |
| My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything |
| My Disco Paradise |
| Nas God's Son |
| Nas I Am... |
| Nas Untitled |
| New Order Movement |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth |
| Nine Inch Nails Things Falling Apart |
| Nine Inch Nails Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D |
| Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IV |
| Nine Inch Nails The Slip |
| Nine Inch Nails Quake |
| Nirvana Bleach |
| Though production hinders Nirvana's true sound when they first created this album, they still show promise and glimpses of their future. That is, being Cobain's lyrical talents. Unlike their future albums Nirvana's Bleach album is literally raw and open for any listener. The production value as bad as it is does show how excellent Nirvana can be without a clean, shiny production finish as they did in Nevermind. |
| Nirvana From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah |
| Nitzer Ebb That Total Age |
| NOISIA Split The Atom |
| Ocean Colour Scene Ocean Colour Scene |
| Ocean Colour Scene Moseley Shoals |
| Odd Nosdam Level Live Wires |
| Odd Nosdam T.I.M.E Soundtrack |
| Outputmessage Oneiros |
| P.O.S Ipecac Neat |
| Pearl Jam Binaural |
| Pearl Jam Vitalogy |
| Pelican Australasia |
| Pelican City of Echoes |
| Phaeleh Somnus |
| Phon.o Burn Down The Town |
| Pinback Autumn of the Seraphs |
| Pinback This Is a Pinback CD |
| Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn |
| Pink Floyd The Final Cut |
| PJ Harvey Uh Huh Her |
| A more stripped down Polly Jean Harvey is brought forward from her more forceful, grungy material that had evoked so much emotional prowess. Uh Huh Her may still have the same bite and remorse for past relationships, but it still doesn't showcase as well as her previous material. Instrumentally it feels like a letdown; its understandable that Harvey would go in this direction, after all, she never has to this extreme. It comes off as a bit clunky and slow-paced for most people, thus those problems flesh out by the middle of the album with the lyrcism screaming for a hard-edged sound, instead it is accompanied by a subdued, almost lifeless background. |
| Prefuse 73 Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian |
| Prefuse 73 Surrounded By Silence |
| Prefuse 73 The Only She Chapters |
| Propagandhi How to Clean Everything |
| Quantic The 5th Exotic |
| Quantic Mishaps Happening |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze |
| Radiohead My Iron Lung |
| Radiohead No Surprises/Running From Demons |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs |
| Ratatat Classics |
| Ratatat Ratatat Remixes Vol.1 |
| Richard Devine Aleamapper |
| RJD2 The Third Hand |
| RJD2 The Colossus |
| Robert Rich Illumination |
| Roots Manuva Run Come Save Me |
| Roots Manuva Slime & Reason |
| Rosetta The Anaesthete |
| Rrose Artificial Light (1969-1909) |
| Sage Francis Personal Journals |
| Sandpeople All In Vain |
| Sharon Van Etten Because I Was In Love |
| Sigur Ros Von Brigði |
| Sigur Ros Valtari |
| Silverchair Diorama |
| Silverchair Young Modern |
| sleepmakeswaves In Today Already Walks Tomorrow |
| Son Lux At War With Walls And Mazes |
| Sonic Youth Evol |
| Sonic Youth Rather Ripped |
| Speedy Ortiz The Death of Speedy Ortiz |
| Spock's Beard V |
| Squarepusher Port Rhombus EP |
| Squarepusher Venus No. 17 |
| Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline |
| Stereolab Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night |
| Stone Temple Pilots Core |
| Stone Temple Pilots Shangri-La-Dee-Da |
| TAD 8-Way Santa |
| The Afghan Whigs 1965 |
| The Afghan Whigs Up In It |
| The Antlers Uprooted |
| The Black Angels Directions to See a Ghost |
| The Black Dog Radio Scarecrow |
| The Black Dog Tranklements |
| The Brian Jonestown Massacre Who Killed Sgt. Pepper? |
| The Chemical Brothers Push the Button |
| The Chemical Brothers We Are the Night |
| The Clash Sandinista! |
| The Cranberries Wake Up and Smell the Coffee |
| The Crystal Method Legion Of Boom |
| The Crystal Method Tweekend |
| The Crystal Method Divided By Night |
| The Dandy Warhols Come Down |
| The Flashbulb M³ (Daily Assortment Of Sound) |
| If anything M3 feels and sounds like a collection of songs, not an album. Its length may be its greatest problem, yet there are many instances of fantastic work by Jordann. Unfortunately some songs are completely stale and uneventful. M3 remains a rough version of his future work, which eventually would be worth listening too. |
| The Flashbulb Resent And The April Sunshine Shed |
| The Flashbulb Red Extensions of Me |
| The Flashbulb Love As A Dark Hallway |
| The Flashbulb Opus At The End Of Everything |
| The Horrors Strange House |
| The Joy Formidable Wolf's Law |
| The KLF 1987 (What the Fuck Is Going On?) |
| The Knife Deep Cuts |
| The Men Tomorrow's Hits |
| The National The National |
| The National Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers |
| The Orb Cydonia |
| The Orb Metallic Spheres (feat. David Gilmour) |
| The Pineapple Thief Build a World |
| The Prodigy Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned |
| The Raveonettes Pretty In Black |
| The Roots Organix |
| The Sight Below Glider |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Gish |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Lull |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Zeitgeist |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra This Is Our Punk-Rock, Thee Rusted Satellites Gather and Sing |
| They Might Be Giants Glean |
| Thievery Corporation Culture of Fear |
| Thom Yorke The Eraser |
| Thrice Identity Crisis |
| Tin Man Perfume |
| Tool Opiate |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Tortoise Its All Around You |
| Tortoise Beacons of Ancestorship |
| Tricky Knowle West Boy |
| Tricky wasn't lying when he told many people that this album would reflect his entire career. It most certainly does; it doesn't disappoint either. It is obvious Tricky has toned down on his main vocal singings as he has many guest spots. The guests enhance the album with Tricky either backing vocals or duetting with one of them. Surprisingly 'Knowle West Boy' is one of Tricky's most consistent, solid albums he has produced. There are all types of genres spanned on this so it is quite unfair to call it a trip-hop album. From hip-hop, rock, and even punk Tricky somehow holds this album together with all these genres spewing within. The female vocals are amazing and are perfect with Tricky's voice. Although some of the songs do take a step backwards such as 'Coalition' or 'Veronika' this doesn't necessarily destroy the album because it is solid through and through. Great effort by Tricky; I wasn't sure what to expect when he made such a claim, but I am happy with the result. |
| Truckfighters Mania |
| u-Ziq Bilious Paths |
| u-Ziq Duntisbourne Abbots Soulmate Devastation Technique |
| Vanilla High Life |
| Various Artists Heat (Original Score) |
| VAST Music For People |
| VAST Turqoise & Crimson |
| Venetian Snares My Downfall (Original Soundtrack) |
| Venetian Snares Winter In The Belly Of A Snake |
| Venetian Snares printf("shiver in eternal darkness/n"); |
| Venetian Snares Higgins Ultra Low Track Glue Funk Hits 1972–2006 |
| Venetian Snares Filth |
| I may be tiring at my young age of 21, but it seems Aaron Funk wants to pound my head in with hard lashes of breakcore, until my face melts and I have no remembrance of anything in the past 24 hours. Filth is that brutal, it just doesn't stop - its the equivalent of a massive heart attack served breakcore style. Can't say I enjoyed it, but I can't say it wasn't worthwhile either. |
| Venetian Snares Find Candace |
| Weekend Sports |
| Why? Alopecia |
| Wisp The Shimmering Hour |
| Wolf Alice My Love Is Cool |
| Xploding Plastix The Donca Matic Singalongs |
| Any astonishingly experimental use of acid jazz moments mixed with Xploding Plastix's nu-jazz persona in their debut. Not necessarily daring or hugely narrow, its moments are minimal compared to Amateur Girlfriends Go Proskirt Agents, which is why it comes out a bit too mellow and soft, unusually so. No doubt a detriment that occurs from the lack of energetic percussion as seen previously. Still, the new territory the two have decided to tread isn't something to frown upon. |
| Zero 7 The Garden |
| Zola Jesus The Spoils |
| Zola Jesus New Amsterdam |
| Zomby With Love |
| 2.5 average |
| Acrnym Flowers |
| Acrnym's 'Flowers' is truly break-core, IDM, and electronic with no holds barred. The album starts with IDM beats such as 'Kate Says Aye' and 'Repeat', but soon afterwards truly punishes you with the break-core of 'Wrxzwrxzwrxz', 'A 1980s Fetish', and 'Of Corset Horse'. 'Of Corset Horse' is truly mind-numbing and my mind couldn't take it as it started giving me headaches. The perfect antidote to this was definitely the tracks afterwards. Tracks like 'Outbox', 'Knife', and ' ' bring the tempo down whether it be from a basic IDM beat or soothing electronic vibe Acrnym knows how to soothe the listener when it is right. This album truly is a difficult listen. The second half of the album after 'Of Corset Horse' is done amazingly well. |
| Aesop Rock Bazooka Tooth |
| Air 10,000 Hz Legends |
| Alice in Chains Nothing Safe: Best of the Box |
| Alpha Stargazing |
| As Cities Burn Son, I Loved You at Your Darkest |
| Audioslave Audioslave |
| Bad Brains Build A Nation |
| Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill |
| Beastie Boys Some Old Bullshit |
| Beck GameBoy Variations |
| Biosphere and Deathprod Nordheim Transformed |
| Blind Melon For My Friends |
| Brian Eno Neroli |
| Brian Eno Discreet Music |
| Brian Eno I Dormienti |
| Brian Eno Small Craft on a Milk Sea |
| Buck 65 Vertex |
| Very inconsistent; although there are some good spots the lack of direction and odd samples really destroys the album. Buck 65 does have some lyrical talent as he shows it in this album (many tracks about baseball). I wouldn't recommend this as an album to start Buck 65 with. |
| Bush Golden State |
| Cake Showroom Of Compassion |
| Coldplay X&Y |
| Colour Haze Chopping Machine |
| Its interesting to see where a group comes from after listening to their more recent material. Sure the instrumentation is essentially here, that's what makes Colour Haze so good, but the fact the vocals are practically all over the place and are by far the worse thing about Chopping Machine doesn't help one bit. Their later material would finally find them perfecting that art, thankfully. Pass this up, but if you're into Colour Haze it isn't bad to see how far they've come. |
| Dead Kennedys Bedtime for Democracy |
| Death In Vegas Dead Elvis |
| Del Tha Funkee Homosapien I Wish My Brother George Was Here |
| Del Tha Funkee Homosapien Funk Man (The Stimulus Package) |
| DMX Grand Champ |
| DMX Year of the Dog... Again |
| Eiffel 65 Europop |
| Explosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take Care |
| Faith No More We Care a Lot |
| Fatboy Slim Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars |
| Fennesz Hotel paral.lel |
| Flying Lotus 1983 |
| Four Tet Everything Ecstatic |
| Four Tet's illustrious consistency on his electronic records envelope a playful and seething quality within all of them. Much like Rounds, Everything Ecstatic fails to topple Pause or his debut Dialogue. While Everything Ecstatic, unlike its previous album may have shorter sequences and track times it still is plagued by the album's lack of flow. While Rounds was stretched to oblivion on some songs, Everything Ecstatic fails to make a connection with the listener on some songs, which is why it fails to make a great impression. There are a few tracks that do hook you in: "Smile Around The Face", "High Five", and "You Were There With Me" do for a good portion of them, much to the same affect of previous songs by Four Tet like "My Angel Moves Back And Forth", "No More Mosquitoes", and "Parks". These tracks attach themselves to your psyche while the others bring a convulsed and random feeling throughout. Four Tet's new style of mashing tiny drum breaks with abrasive background electronic doesn't entirely work on his recent works, hopefully he'll decide to ditch it. |
| Gang of Four Mall |
| The weirdest thing about Mall is that although the group tries to put out a better effort then the atrocious Hard, it still sounds both under standards and completely different then what we are accustomed too. For one the synth throughout the album makes it sound like a lite-industrial affair, but it really isn't because they aren't nearly hard-hitting as other acts at the time...so whats up with this album? Well, Gang of Four reform to put out a pretty average record that shows flashes of their visceral brilliance, but most of it is untapped potential that is left out to rot in the middle of nowhere. |
| Ghostface Killah Ghostdini: The Wizard of Poetry in Emerald City |
| Grails Burning Off Impurities |
| Grails Take Refuge In Clean Living |
| Groove Armada Soundboy Rock |
| Groove Armada Goodbye Country (Hello Nightclub) |
| Groove Armada Northern Star |
| This may be overly harsh or unwarrented, but Groove Armada's debut is every sense as a groove-tastic affair with funk rhythmns and noticeable house influence. Unfortuntely it goes on and on...and on, 'til the point it becomes redundant and purely repetitive. This album plays like a marathon that never ends, luckily I got that stop button....right...he--- |
| Grouper Cover the Windows and the Walls |
| Idlewild Make Another World |
| Jeniferever Nangijala |
| Jet Get Born |
| Jim O'Rourke Terminal Pharmacy |
| Johann Johannsson Englabörn |
| Johann Johannsson Virðulegu Forsetar |
| Kyuss Sons of Kyuss |
| Live Birds Of Pray |
| Live Songs From Black Mountain |
| Lucky Dragons Mini Dream Island |
| Luke Vibert Rhythm |
| It may be the problems of not breaking through the daily grind of Vibert's work that may be the issue in Rhythm. It feels smoother then his previous stuff under this moniker, but do we really care? I'm not sure if I can stomach another 50 minute session of sample driven stuff that isn't quite exhilarating or to put it bluntly shitty in any way. Hell, we even see the robotic voice from Chicago, Detroit, Redruth make another glorious and unwelcome appearance on "Rhythm", able to make most cringe as of why he needed to even put the damn voice in the song. |
| M83 M83 |
| Massive Attack Danny the Dog |
| Melvins Stag |
| Melvins The Bootlicker |
| Melvins The Crybaby |
| Melvins Hold It In |
| Metallica St. Anger |
| Michael Nyman Gattaca OST |
| If you enjoyed the accompanying score to this fantastic film, then you will enjoy this. The problem with the soundtrack by itself is the fact it is very stale, minimalistic, and not very engaging. The science-fiction film it is supposed to be accompanied with is perfect - the low drones that inhabit the soundtrack give a sense of hopelessness, almost in a prison. Recommended to people who enjoyed the film, but otherwise its a hit and miss deal. Nyman incorporates his minimalistic style well with this movie, but by itself it is weak. |
| Moby Last Night |
| Moby Moby |
| Moby Ambient |
| Moby Animal Rights |
| Mogwai Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will |
| Mos Def True Magic |
| Mos Def's releases has always been given high expectations since Black Star and 'Black On Both Sides' his sensational debut. Yet, his sophomore effort; though well-done in the experimental field felt disappointing. Thus, this release Tru3 Magic was to me of low expectation. It's been said this is his last album with Geffen. I questioned myself whether or not he would go out with a bang after a previous disappointment. I braced myself for the worse, though I knew I was excited to listen to this release. Tru3 Magic starts out amazingly well, that is the first track, the self-titled track of the album. After the first track it goes downhill for most of the album. 'Undeniable' though I enjoyed was easily known to be a Temptations song that he ripped off and remixed on...which to say the least was terrible. From 'Undeniable', 'U R The One', 'Thug Is A Drug', 'A Ha', and 'Crime & Medicine'. These all are mediocre tracks. Some are terrible in my opinion....'A Ha' and 'Crime & Medicine' being the most absurd. 'Crimes & Medicine' is just boredom to the max and unnecessary to say the least. Though there are some glimpses of promise from his older days, songs like 'Dollar Day', 'Napoleon Dynamite', 'Murder of a Teenage Lift', and 'Fake Bonanza' all have a great feel to it. The only good tracks in the whole album, that is the only ones worth listening too. As for the closing track called 'Lifetime', well to say the least it does bring me back to his "Black On Both Sides" album. Thus my expectations are even lower for his next release. |
| Mount Eerie Pre-Human Ideas |
| Mount Eerie SINGERS |
| Mr. Scruff Trouser Jazz |
| Mudhoney Under a Billion Suns |
| I actually anticipated a decent album from these guys since I was into a stage where I would listen anything related to grunge (still do). Unlike their predecessors, this album seems a lot more clean, radio friendly and repetitive. Something I really don't enjoy when it comes with Mudhoney. Mudhoney are on of the few bands still relatively popular and playing music since the golden era of grunge, which is quite amazing considering the largest acts couldn't go through 4 years during that era. |
| Muse Showbiz |
| Muse The 2nd Law |
| Nas Street's Disciple |
| New Order Waiting for the Siren's Call |
| New Order Lost Sirens |
| Nitzer Ebb Big Hit |
| Odd Nosdam Burner |
| ohGr SunnyPsyOp |
| Pearl Jam Riot Act |
| pg.lost In Never Out |
| Prefuse 73 Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives |
| Prefuse 73 Security Screenings |
| Prefuse 73 Prefuse 73 Reads the Books EP |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey |
| Rage Against the Machine Renegades |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers One Hot Minute |
| Roots Manuva Dub Come Save Me |
| Russian Circles Station |
| Screaming Trees Clairvoyance |
| Clairvoyance doesn't lack the lyrical talents of Lanegan and co., but what it does is endearing and memorable tracks. "Orange Airplane" is a good starter for the album, but steadily declines into obscurity with less is more approach that falls flat on its face. The production as well is a low point, even if the Screaming Trees were never backed with much support early in their career it seems to seep through on Clairvoyance, for the worst. |
| Sigur Ros Von |
| Sigur Ros Hlemmur |
| Sonic Youth Dirty |
| Sonic Youth Bad Moon Rising |
| Soundgarden Ultramega OK |
| Squarepusher Go Plastic |
| Squarepusher Just a Souvenir |
| Squarepusher Do You Know Squarepusher |
| Squarepusher Ufabulum |
| Stereolab Peng! |
| Stone Temple Pilots Tiny Music... Songs From the Vatican Gift Shop |
| TAD Infrared Riding Hood |
| Tarentel Ghost Weight |
| Tarentel Mort aux Vaches |
| Somewhat of a rehash in some sense. "Steede Bonnet" and "For Carl Sagan" reprise their roles on this, but they are offered much better entries than the previous 'Bone To Satellite' album. |
| The Black Angels Clear Lake Forest |
| The Brian Jonestown Massacre My Bloody Underground |
| The Cancer Conspiracy The Audio Medium |
| The Clash Combat Rock |
| The Dandy Warhols Welcome To The Monkey House |
| The Dandy Warhols Dandys Rule OK? |
| The Knife The Knife |
| The Orb C Batter C |
| Tortoise Tortoise |
| Unfathoms and Blasphymartyr Votre Cote Mon Cote |
| VAST NUDE |
| VAST April (Retail) |
| Venetian Snares Songs About My Cats |
| Wire The Ideal Copy |
| Wire Red Barked Tree |
| Wisp NRTHNDR |
| Wu-Tang Clan 8 Diagrams |
| Zero 7 Yeah Ghost |
| Zola Jesus Taiga |
