| 4.5 superb |
| A Cosmic Trail The Outer Planes |
| Agalloch The Mantle |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore |
| Anathema Hindsight |
| Arvo Part Tabula Rasa |
| Boysetsfire After The Eulogy |
| Cloudkicker Let Yourself Be Huge |
| Cobalt Gin |
| Cold Body Radiation The Great White Emptiness |
| Crippled Black Phoenix I, Vigilante |
| Damien Rice O |
| David Sylvian Secrets of the Beehive |
| David Sylvian Dead Bees on a Cake |
| Deep Mountains Deep Mountains |
| The most overlooked gem of 2010. Exquisite atmospheric black metal of the highest caliber. |
| Deftones White Pony |
| Disillusion Back to Times of Splendor |
| Drudkh Microcosmos |
| Ea Ea II |
| Ea Au Ellai |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson |
| Elliott Smith XO |
| Eluveitie Slania |
| Empyrium Weiland |
| Equilibrium Sagas |
| Fields of the Nephilim Elizium |
| Foals Total Life Forever |
| Forest of Shadows Where Dreams Turn to Dust EP |
| Freelance Whales Weathervanes |
| Geist Galeere |
| Giles Corey Giles Corey |
| Rage against the hipster anti-hype machine! Album is too cool for cool kids as usual. |
| Guniw Tools Other Goose |
| Halves Haunt Me When I'm Drowsy |
| A toned down blend of Jeremy Enigk, Ryan O'Neal and Thom Yorke in a delicious post-rock broth. |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness |
| Hawksley Workman For Him And The Girls |
| In Vain (NO) The Latter Rain |
| Jacaszek Treny |
| With Treny, Polish composer and electronic musician Michal Jacaszek has created a modern masterpiece of subtlety that fills the acoustic cathedral in the mind with patient melody, melancholy, and contemplation. A lone, often distant voice wordlessly guides us through this place. An underlying drone helps us keep our balance. Throughout, instruments blend seamlessly into the ambient background without becoming the background itself. The electronic elements of this album are the most subtle, only taking a dramatic role in one or two tracks, and they shine in their superb composition as well, Jacaszek using reverb, glitches, electronic drone and other such manipulations to meaningfully shape the atmosphere. |
| Jakob Cale:Drew |
| Jeremy Soule The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Soundtrack |
| Beautiful. I'm going to go listen to this while playing Skyrim... oh wait. |
| Joanna Newsom Have One on Me |
| Johann Johannsson Fordlandia |
| John Frusciante Shadows Collide with People |
| Junius The Martyrdom of a Catastrophist |
| Kalmah 12 Gauge |
| Katatonia Night Is the New Day |
| Kauan Lumikuuro |
| Killing Joke Night Time |
| Killing Joke MMXII |
| Les Discrets Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées |
| Library Tapes A Summer Beneath The Trees |
| Lykathea Aflame Elvenefris |
| Mar De Grises Streams Inwards |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice |
| Motek Dragons |
| Motek Port Sunshine |
| NOFX The Decline |
| Novembre The Blue |
| Of the Wand and the Moon The Lone Descent |
| Okkervil River Black Sheep Boy |
| Okkervil River Don't Fall In Love With Everyone You See |
| Okkervil River Down the River of Golden Dreams |
| Peter Broderick Home |
| Pink Floyd Animals |
| PJ Harvey Let England Shake |
| Propagandhi Supporting Caste |
| Propagandhi Potemkin City Limits |
| Rosetta The Galilean Satellites |
| Scale the Summit The Collective |
| Secret Chiefs 3 Book of Horizons |
| Shearwater The Golden Archipelago |
| Shearwater Animal Joy |
| Sleeping at Last Storyboards |
| Soup (US) Children of E.L.B. |
| It should be noted that this isn't the same Soup as the one from the 70s... eventually I'll stop being lazy and add a Soup (Norway) or something. This album is amazing. |
| Sylvain Chauveau Le Livre noir du capitalisme |
| To those who may be looking for this, it was re-released though limited to 400 copies by Type, titled in English as The Black Book of Capitalism. |
| Talking Heads Remain in Light |
| Talking Heads The Name of this Band Is Talking Heads |
| The Birthday Massacre Violet |
| The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin |
| The Gathering How to Measure a Planet? |
| The Middle East The Recordings of the Middle East |
| The Morningside The Wind, The Trees And The Shadows... |
| The Morningside Moving Crosscurrent of Time |
| Moving Crosscurrent of Time revisits the themes of The Morningside's debut in a more substantial but generally less atmospheric setting. "The Outcome (Admit One)" is the most impressive track on the album with soaring guitar solos, rich bass, and a beautiful lead-out into the final track (kind of a double outro really.) |
| The Notwist Neon Golden |
| The Old Dead Tree The Nameless Disease |
| Thievery Corporation The Mirror Conspiracy |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II |
| Thrice Vheissu |
| Tiamat Wildhoney |
| Tim Hecker Harmony in Ultraviolet |
| Tristania Beyond the Veil |
| Ulver Shadows of the Sun |
| Winterhorde Underwatermoon |
| Woods of Ypres Woods 5: Grey Skies and Electric Light |
| Wovenhand Ten Stones |
| Wovenhand The Threshing Floor |
| Yanni Live at the Acropolis |
| Yes Fragile |
| 4.0 excellent |
| 16 Horsepower Folklore |
| 16 Horsepower Low Estate |
| 16 Horsepower Sackcloth 'n' Ashes |
| Arguably their roughest collection of songs, and lacking the craftsmanship of, say, Secret South or Folklore, or perhaps all of the later albums, this one nevertheless keeps me coming back. There is a certain charm and soul to its twangy, dusty desperation. And as a Colorado native, I can attest that Horse Head, one of my favorite tracks, is the true sound of the dusty southern San Juan mountains, a personal association I'll leave to the non-natives to debate amongst themselves. I would rate this album higher, but certain tracks such as Ruthie Lingle just leave far too much to be desired. |
| 16 Horsepower Secret South |
| Active Child You Are All I See |
| Against Me! White Crosses |
| Agalloch The White |
| Agalloch Faustian Echoes |
| Excellent, it wanders here and there but is much more solid than most if not all tracks on Marrow. |
| Agalloch and Nest Split |
| Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde |
| Alcest Le Secret |
| Altoriu Seseliai Margi Sakalai |
| Amesoeurs Amesoeurs |
| Amon Amarth Versus the World |
| Anathema A Natural Disaster |
| Anathema Judgement |
| Anathema We're Here Because We're Here |
| Apodiablosis Spiral |
| Apodiablosis Tardigrade |
| Appalachian Winter I Become The Frozen Land |
| Appalachian Winter Silence Before the Great Mountain Wind |
| Arafel For Battles Once Fought |
| Arcana Coelestia Le Mirage de L’idéal |
| Autumn Leaves As Night Conquers Day |
| Averse The Endesque Chants |
| One of the most beautiful and impressive progressive albums of the decade. |
| Bark Psychosis Codename: Dustsucker |
| Black Math Horseman Wyllt |
| Blood Of The Black Owl Blood of the Black Owl |
| Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta II - Dialogue With The Stars |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Adults!!!: Smart!!! Shithammered!!! And Excited By Nothing!!!!!!! |
| Boris New Album |
| I've played this album 6 times today. That never happens. I recommend Luna Sea to anyone who likes this album. Different, but good. |
| Boxbomb My Obsession |
| Brandt Brauer Frick You Make Me Real |
| Clive Tanaka y Su Orquesta Jet Set Siempre No. 1 |
| Cop Shoot Cop White Noise |
| Dagoba Poseidon |
| Dark Forest Land of the Evening Star |
| Daylight Dies Dismantling Devotion |
| Dead Prez Let's Get Free |
| Dead Prez Information Age |
| Information Age will be received well by anyone feeling disillusioned by the status quo of today's society. This is largely due to Buddhist, Pan-African and socialist influences in the lyrics. Though rife with references to all manner of conflict and calamity and true to Dead Prez form with an unrelenting distrust of government, capitalism, industry and institution, the album's strength and freshness lies in its ability to draw a hopeful message out of their otherwise bleak vision of a world in turmoil, highlighting solutions and alternative lifestyles with an emphasis on healthy habits ("Dirty White Girl"), fitness ("Time Travel"), atheism/Buddhism ("No Way As The Way"), among other messages ranging from hints of the militant social stances that Dead Prez fans have come to expect and uplifting new-age concepts of spiritual evolution, embracing change and rejecting false realities. |
| Deepset The Lights We Shed Shall Burn Your Eyes |
| Deftones Around the Fur |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist |
| Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech |
| Die Antwoord $O$ |
| Dir En Grey Uroboros |
| Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane |
| Draconian Turning Season Within |
| dredg Leitmotif |
| dredg El Cielo |
| Eluveitie Spirit |
| Empyrium Where at Night the Wood Grouse Plays |
| Enslaved Vertebrae |
| Eternal Deformity Frozen Circus |
| Exilym No More Freedom |
| Faunts Feel.Love.Thinking.Of. |
| Fear Factory Mechanize |
| Foals Antidotes |
| Followed By Ghosts Still, Here |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light |
| Fuel Sunburn |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ |
| Goldmund The Malady Of Elegance |
| Goo Goo Dolls Dizzy Up The Girl |
| Guster Goldfly |
| Hacksaw to the Throat Wastelands |
| Hanging Garden Inherit the Eden |
| Hauschka Ferndorf |
| Have a Nice Life Time of Land |
| Hawksley Workman Treeful of Starling |
| Heinali And Matt Finney Town Line EP |
| Helevorn Forthcoming Displeasures |
| Hood Cold House |
| HORSE the band The Mechanical Hand |
| In Flames Colony |
| In Flames The Jester Race |
| In Flames Whoracle |
| Insomnium Above the Weeping World |
| Insomnium One for Sorrow |
| iNTRiKeT The Woods |
| Istapp Blekinge |
| Jakob Solace |
| Jakob Dominion |
| Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid |
| Jesu Christmas |
| John Frusciante The Empyrean |
| Jon Anderson Olias Of Sunhillow |
| Kalmah The Black Waltz |
| Katatonia Dead End Kings |
| Killing Joke Absolute Dissent |
| At times reminiscent of the early days ("Absolute Dissent," "Here Comes The Singularity") at times a direct continuation of the charging anti-establishment doomsday scenarios that made up a great deal of their first two 21st century releases ("This World Hell"), and thankfully on a couple of tracks, a new twist ("European Super State".) The album succeeds in its ability to balance these three aspects well enough, though the singularly bad track "Depthcharge" feels like a cheap knockoff of almost all of their mosh-pit inducing war-themed anthems of yesteryear. The standout tracks are "The Great Cull", "European Super State" (a track that makes KJ as an industrial band seem like a frighteningly good idea), "Endgame", "Here Comes The Singularity", and the groove-laden closer "Ghost Of Ladbroke Grove" but nothing on this album caught my attention more than "The Raven King" - a stunning and simple anthem that breaks down the walls of anger and cynicism built by the preceding tracks (and albums) and gives us a look at the genuinely emotional force behind it. This album is deceptive and may take some getting used to for old and new fans alike, it's easy to dismiss a band this exceedingly far into a career, but if Killing Joke are anything, they're dedicated to their musical journey and to their fans. They are the band that won't die. After a few solid listens it's an easy 4/5 with the potential to grow even further. |
| Landing Passages Through |
| Lisa Hannigan Sea Sew |
| Luna Sea Style |
| Martriden The Unsettling Dark |
| Matisyahu Live At Stubb's |
| Matisyahu Light |
| maudlin of the Well Part the Second |
| maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About |
| Modest Mouse Building Nothing Out of Something |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West |
| Mono You Are There |
| Monolithe Monolithe I |
| Monolithe Monolithe II |
| Mouth Of The Architect Quietly |
| Mouth Of The Architect The Violence Beneath |
| Negura Bunget OM |
| Neon Indian Era Extrana |
| Nest (FIN) Trail of the Unwary |
| Nimbatus Cyclus One |
| Novembre Classica |
| Okkervil River The Stand Ins |
| Opeth Heritage |
| Panopticon Collapse |
| Panopticon Panopticon |
| Panopticon On the Subject of Mortality |
| This is not a 2011 release, it was released in 2010... |
| Perry Farrell Song Yet To Be Sung |
| Pink Floyd Meddle |
| Prey For Nothing Violence Divine |
| Propagandhi Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes |
| Rauelsson & Peter Broderick Replica |
| I'm do not speak Spanish and Rauelsson is a new voice to me, but fans of Peter Broderick will find this album warm and familiar. Split up into two long tracks, this is a true rainy day album perfect for daydreaming. |
| Raven Woods ...And Emotions Are Spilled |
| Ruhr Hunter Moss & Memory |
| Ruhr Hunter Torn Of This |
| Sabaton Coat of Arms |
| Samael Passage |
| Saturnus Martyre |
| Just came here to say that saying "the songs need the tempo turned up" about a doom metal band just... fails. |
| Scale the Summit Carving Desert Canyons |
| Shearwater Rook |
| Six Organs Of Admittance Luminous Night |
| Skinny Puppy Last Rights |
| Solanaceae Solanaceae |
| Solstafir Köld |
| Surface Of Eceon The King Beneath The Mountain |
| Talking Heads Talking Heads: 77 |
| Talking Heads Naked |
| Talking Heads Fear of Music |
| Talking Heads More Songs About Buildings and Food |
| Tangerine Dream Summer In Nagasaki |
| Opening with a throwback to an older era when layered synth patterns were a staple in any TD album, Summer In Nagasaki proves to be a surprise in a massive and never-slowing discography. Summer expands thematically upon Spring of the same series but feels more experimental and daring. |
| The American Dollar Atlas |
| The Birthday Massacre Pins and Needles |
| The Elemental Chrysalis The Dark Path To Spiritual Expansion |
| The Flaming Lips Clouds Taste Metallic |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots |
| The Flaming Lips Embryonic |
| The For Carnation The For Carnation |
| The Gathering Disclosure |
| The Gentleman Losers The Gentleman Losers |
| The Jezabels Prisoner |
| The Knife Deep Cuts |
| The Knife Silent Shout |
| The Twilight Singers Dynamite Steps |
| The War On Drugs Slave Ambient |
| Theatre Of Tragedy Aégis |
| Thy Catafalque Rengeteg |
| Todtgelichter Angst |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Tortoise TNT |
| Ugly Casanova Sharpen Your Teeth |
| Ulver Svidd Neger OST |
| Ulver Blood Inside |
| Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler |
| VNV Nation Matter and Form |
| VNV Nation Empires |
| Woods of Desolation Torn Beyond Reason |
| World's End Girlfriend The Lie Lay Land |
| Wovenhand Mosaic |
| Wovenhand Consider the Birds |
| Yanni Truth of Touch |
| 3.5 great |
| Agalloch Of Stone, Wind and Pillor |
| Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit |
| This not Pale Folklore. It is not The Mantle. It is not Ashes Against The Grain. It is not rThe White or The Grey for that matter (if anything, it's The Black). It's Agalloch, through rand through. There are moments of warm nostalgia and there moments that blow the roof off of reverything they've done before. Darker and less hospitable than prior journeys, but well rworth the risk. |
| Anathema A Fine Day to Exit |
| Anathema Alternative 4 |
| As Cities Burn Hell or High Water |
| As Cities Burn Come Now Sleep |
| Aves Aves |
| Bat For Lashes Two Suns |
| Be'lakor The Frail Tide |
| Blood Of The Black Owl A Feral Spirit |
| Blue Hawaii Blooming Summer |
| Blutmond Thirteen Urban Ways 4 Groovy Bohemian Days |
| Cepia Cepia |
| City of Ships Look What God Did To Us |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow |
| Damned Spirits' Dance Weird Constellations |
| Most hilarious album cover I've ever seen, but I quite enjoy what's on the disc. "TSS" is a great song. |
| Daniel Bjarnason Processions |
| Deconstruction Deconstruction |
| Defeater Travels |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Devin Townsend Terria |
| Devin Townsend Project Ki |
| DorDeDuh Valea Omului |
| dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion |
| dredg Catch Without Arms |
| Eluveitie Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion |
| Eluveitie Everything Remains As It Never Was |
| Eluvium Copia |
| Empyrium Songs of Moors and Misty Fields |
| Ethereal Beauty/Shyy/Heretoir/Soliness The World Comes To An End In The End Of A Journey |
| Fauna Rain |
| Fear Factory Obsolete |
| Fen The Malediction Fields |
| Fen Epoch |
| Forest of Shadows Six Waves Of Woe |
| Gevolt Sidur |
| Grandaddy Sumday |
| Grandaddy The Sophtware Slump |
| Grey Waters Below The Ever Setting Sun |
| Gwynbleidd Nostalgia |
| Hanging Garden TEOTWAWKI |
| Hawksley Workman (Last Night We Were) The Delicious Wolves |
| In Flames Clayman |
| In Mourning Monolith |
| In Mourning Shrouded Divine |
| Insomnium Since the Day It All Came Down |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city |
| Kwoon When The Flowers Were Singing... |
| Light Bearer Lapsus |
| Longing For Dawn Between Elation And Despair |
| Luna Sea SHINE |
| Luna Sea Eden |
| Martriden Encounter The Monolith |
| Matisyahu Youth |
| maudlin of the Well Bath |
| Melechesh Emissaries |
| Modest Mouse The Fruit That Ate Itself |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank |
| Modest Mouse No One's First, and You're Next |
| Modest Mouse Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News |
| Mono Under the Pipal Tree |
| Mono Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined |
| Monolithe Interlude Premier EP |
| Mount Eerie Wind's Poem |
| Mount Eerie Lost Wisdom |
| Mountains Choral |
| Moving Mountains Pneuma |
| Nokturnal Mortum Goat Horns |
| O. Children Apnea |
| Orphaned Land The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR |
| Pathfinder Beyond the Space, Beyond the Time |
| Phish The Story of the Ghost |
| Propagandhi Failed States |
| Rosetta A Determinism of Morality |
| Sabaton Primo Victoria |
| Sabaton Attero Dominatus |
| Sabaton The Art of War |
| Samael Above |
| Samael Ceremony Of Opposites |
| Savoir Adore Our Nature |
| Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe |
| Sculptured Embodiment |
| Six Organs Of Admittance Shelter from the Ash |
| Six Organs Of Admittance The Sun Awakens |
| Snowing I Could Do Whatever I Wanted If I Wanted |
| Soul Cycle Soul Cycle |
| Talking Heads True Stories |
| Talking Heads Little Creatures |
| The Kindred Lore |
| This album is borderline exhausting. The music is good, almost too good. The production is thick and shiny. There's no doubting this band's capabilities and there are numerous highlights from the soaring riffs to the shouted gang vocals throughout, I'm just a little off-put by the mechanical precision of the record as a whole. The vocalist at times reminds me a bit too much of Fair To Midland, though I personally feel he delivers a tighter performance. |
| Three Steps To The Ocean Until Today Becomes Yesterday |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV |
| Trampled By Turtles Palomino |
| Tristania World of Glass |
| Ulver Kveldssanger |
| Ulver Nattens Madrigal |
| Ulver Perdition City |
| Uncle Tupelo Anodyne |
| VNV Nation Futureperfect |
| Winterfylleth The Threnody of Triumph |
| Wintersleep Welcome To The Night Sky |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade |
| World's End Girlfriend Hurtbreak Wonderland |
| World's End Girlfriend Dream's End Come True |
| Yes The Ladder |
| Yonlu A Society In Which No Tear is Shed... |
| 3.0 good |
| Agalloch Tomorrow Will Never Come |
| Agalloch The Grey |
| Aglarond Embraced by Darkness |
| Anathema Serenades |
| Anathema Falling Deeper |
| Assemblage 23 Defiance |
| Bifrost (AT) Heidenmetal |
| Brand New Daisy |
| Buried at Sea Ghost |
| Camera Obscura My Maudlin Career |
| Current 93 Aleph At Hallucinatory Mountain |
| Cynic Traced in Air |
| Damien Rice 9 |
| Dawn of Tears Dark Chamber Litanies |
| Disillusion Gloria |
| Dolorian When All The Laughter Has Gone |
| dredg Orph |
| Eluveitie Helvetios |
| Envy On The Coast Lowcountry |
| Fear Factory Digimortal |
| Gill Landry The Ballad of Lawless Soirez |
| Hawksley Workman Lover/Fighter |
| Hawksley Workman Between the Beautifuls |
| If These Trees Could Talk Above the Earth, Below the Sky |
| Ihsahn The Adversary |
| In Flames Reroute to Remain |
| In Flames Soundtrack to Your Escape |
| In Flames Come Clarity |
| Insomnium In the Halls of Awaiting |
| Insomnium Across the Dark |
| Modest Mouse Sad Sappy Sucker |
| Modest Mouse Interstate 8 |
| Mono One Step More and You Die |
| Mortemia Misere Mortem |
Mortemia sees Mort minus band, and it is a solid if uninspired effort. Misere
Mortem is a testament to Veland's compositional aptitude, though not his most
engaged work by far. It contains the elements of what made Beyond The Veil
and (most of) At Sixes and Sevens the defining albums they were but
unfortunately lacks the fluidity of those albums, as well as the full, rich sound,
and Veland may never choose to return to the poetic, gothic lyrics that helped
set BTV apart from the rest - the theme of inner demons here is conveyed in a
straightforward and unoriginal manner, but it's a notable album regardless. |
| Obscura Cosmogenesis |
| Orphaned Land El Norra Alila |
| Orphaned Land Sahara |
| Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse of Reason |
| Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing |
| Propagandhi How to Clean Everything |
| Propagandhi Less Talk, More Rock |
| Red Snapper Making Bones |
| Rishloo Eidolon |
| Skinny Puppy Rabies |
| Skinny Puppy The Greater Wrong of the Right |
| Sleeping at Last Keep No Score |
| Sleeping Gods New Sensation |
| Sleepytime Gorilla Museum In Glorious Times |
| Soap and Skin Lovetune for Vacuum |
| Solstafir Svartir Sandar |
| Sulphur Aeon Swallowed by the Ocean's Tide |
| Sun Kil Moon Ghosts of the Great Highway |
| The Absence Riders of the Plague |
| The Duskfall The Dying Wonders of the World |
| The North Sea Exquisite Idols |
| An interesting listen, Brad Rose occasionally manages to stir up a feeling of solitude or even of jubilation in his oftentimes busy free-folk meanderings on Exquisite Idols, but ultimately nothing here extends far beyond the comfort zone of what similar artists (or even Rose under different monikers) have to offer. |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Oceania |
| The Waters Deep Here Sunden |
| This Will Destroy You Young Mountain |
| Thursday Common Existence |
| Ulver Lyckantropen Themes OST |
| VNV Nation Of Faith, Power and Glory |
| Walknut Graveforests and Their Shadows |
| Wormfood Posthume |
| Yes Union |
