| 5.0 classic |
| Adrian von Ziegler Wanderer |
| Aesthesys Camera Obscura |
| Agnes Obel Aventine |
| Anathema Resonance |
| Anathema Falling Deeper |
| Anathema re-evaluates their music from older material such as their doom-metal era to newer material and re-packages it in alternative versions, mostly instrumental. Ranging from excellent to breathtaking, this cd has been a violent grower for me and succeeds in what Anathema was aiming for. |
| Antimatter Leaving Eden |
| Architects Daybreaker |
| An album that shaped my beliefs and fed my general distrust towards politics. Aggressive at times, passive aggressive at seldom intervals, it makes for an engrossing listen that hasn't lost its power over time, even with over 50 listens. |
| Architects Lost Forever // Lost Together |
| This album just works as a whole. The songs vary from moderately calm to brutal but all are within the 5-star radius for me. As a concept album (adressing a multitude of themes) Lost Forever // Lost Together speaks to people of loss, fear, resilience and retrieval of power. It takes itself very seriously and rightly so. |
| Architects All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us |
| Darker, heavier and more complex than any of their previous offerings, "All our gods have abandoned us" pulls in the listener from the get-go. Lyrically, this album comes out on top of the game. With a variety of themes ranging from greed, selfishness, compassion, ignorance, religion and politics, Architects reinvent themselves by perfecting their strong characterists while improving the areas where they lacked. Never for one second did I think they could top their last record, but this one blows it clean out of the water. Album of the year for me, perhaps my favorite of all time. Undoubtedly the tragic death of Tom Searle, lyrical genius of the band, casts a shadow over the current success of the band and its future. It is my biggest hope they continue to pave the way in metalcore. |
| Ben Frost Theory of Machines |
| Ben Frost Steel Wound |
| Ben Frost The Invisibles |
Peacefully sinking into a dark blue ocean, all of your mind's occupations washed away in the
softest sway of the waves. Music of the most organic nature, with all tracks seamlessly blending
into one another. Synthesizer sounds, the soft ticking of wood, lonely piano notes as a haunting
backdrop, with every instrument matching and complimenting the others. |
| Blueneck The Fallen Host |
| Powerful build-ups, ethereal atmosphere, poetical lyrics, this is post-rock done right. |
| Blueneck Scars Of The Midwest |
| Blueneck Repetitions |
| Blueneck Epilogue |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| So much has been said already about this record that I consider it quite problematic to add a new element to the afore-mentioned. TDAGARIM is a grower, most-likely the most determined fellow out there. It's been a couple of years since I've started listening and I keep on coming back to it, no matter what mood I'm in. A melancholic and/or discontent state of mind compliments this album very well in any case. I've grown up listening to this album; I've had the pleasure (or rather displeasure?) of going through every song at some point in my life, experiencing it in the flesh and afterwards rejoicing by listening. I've come to tears listening to it more times than I can count. It's a record defining broken people, the ones in seek of refuge but at home nowhere. The ones in search of rest, peace and quiet yet finding disillusionment, despair, melancholy and unfulfillment instead. It may well be the best record I have in my collection: no fillers, distinct character in each song, each song a grower and sublime. Incomparable to anything else I've ever encountered. |
| Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports |
| Brian Eno Discreet Music |
| The name says it all: Discreet Music is meant to be played in the background in order to reach full potential. Silence is deftly wielded as supplementary instrumentation. There's a constant repetitive tone in the background, overshadowed by soft, melodic touches that blend together into a colourful, warm ambience. |
| Brian Eno Reflection |
| Counterparts The Current Will Carry Us |
| Dead Can Dance Spleen and Ideal |
| This album, rather than a listen, would be most accurately defined as an experience. From the word go, the listener is plunged into a bleak, aberrant, macabre world in which Dead Can Dance pull the strings. You feel powerless, but that very powerlessness is addictive, seeing as the waves of ghastly feelings wash over you, cleansing you of earthly chains. In fact, a comparison with BDSM would be justifiable: indulging in pain and darkness that, upon listening, you make your own.rIn terms of technique, the album makes use of a surprising combination of medieval chants (which they repeat on later albums) and new-wave like drumbeats. Notable also are Lisa Gerrard's both angelic and haunting notes, which will stay with you long after having the listen. |
| Dead Can Dance In Concert |
| Dustin O'Halloran Lumiere |
| Eluvium Static Nocturne |
| Evanescence Fallen |
| Fennesz Black Sea |
| Christian Fennesz is a true innovator when it comes to glitch music. His contemporary plays have the power to create splendid dreamscapes, while retaining the rough edges with the insertion of glitch interjections. His album 'Black Sea' is - in my opinion - his masterpiece. Songs like Vacuum (a dreamy, ethereal melody lingering in the distance) and Black Sea (glitch chaos, then a calm, the eye of the storm) describe the volatility, proper to this album's nature. In a way, it resembles nature. In other ways, it resembles man, who is more often than not less than steadfast in his path. Lush, atmospheric but at no point boring, listening feels like drowning - in a peaceful, submitting way - and fading out into internal slumber. I always find myself reluctant to escape the 'druggy high' as the record draws to a close. It's a place I'd like to reside in forever. |
| Fennesz and Sakamoto Cendre |
| Hearing this album feels as though you're sitting outside on a warm summer's day with a dry mouth, accompanied by a mind that drifts away and a restlessness that you can't put your finger on. The wind is swiftly encircling around you, passing by in short howls, trees all around are swaying. You can almost taste the silence and if it would have a taste, it would be... exquisite. Rather than a general 'listen' this atmospheric/glitchy gem demands to be experienced. |
| Fennesz and Sakamoto Flumina |
| Fripp and Eno Evening Star |
| Hammock Kenotic |
| Hammock Raising Your Voice... Trying to Stop an Echo |
| Hammock Chasing After Shadows...Living with the Ghosts |
| Hammock Asleep in the Downlights |
| Hammock Departure Songs |
| Harold Budd and Brian Eno The Pearl |
| Have Heart The Things We Carry |
| An album that seems to bend h/c according to its will. Inspiring and life-changing, it rolls onward with little room for catching one's breath. Catchy and yet full of murky depths to be explored. |
| Helios Eingya |
| Helios Caesura |
| Helios Unomia |
| Displaying a brooding disposition, you'll find it hard to stay indifferent towards the undeniable versatility found here. One track you'll find yourself spacing out on, hovering any which way, in disregard of the concept 'time' (Velius is an example that is dead-on), and next thing you know you go through a falling motion, crashing down like droplets of rain in a grim winter sky (Homero Hymnus). No doubt that this record crosses bridges: elements of ambient, electro, and post-rock mingle to form a diffused yet coherent concoction of melodies. Timeless. |
| Helios Unleft |
| Howard Shore The Return of the King |
| Howard Shore The Fellowship of the Ring: The Complete Recording |
| Howard Shore The Two Towers: The Complete Recordings |
| Howard Shore The Return of the King: The Complete Recordings |
| Howard Shore The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey |
| If These Trees Could Talk Red Forest |
| Jakob Cale:Drew |
| Johann Johannsson And in the endless pause came the sound of bees |
| Joris de Man Horizon Zero Dawn (Original Soundtrack) |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures |
| Katatonia Discouraged Ones |
| Kauan Kaiho |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair |
| The album deals with heartbreak in a very poetic fashion. Even though it's evident there's gone a lot of preparation into the album, at no point does it feel fabricated. It flows and glides further and deeper, as though it was meant to be made in the harmonic, natural manner that characterizes the music. And maybe it is. I don't think anyone can comprehend this album when they haven't experienced heartbreak and melancholy in the past. It's one of those albums you grasp whenever none other reaches deep enough; when nothing else makes sense, 'Somewhere at the bottom of the river between Vega and Altair' does. There's a near-perfect balance between the clean singing and screams, with each song leading to a devastating climax. It, however, is unpredictable throughout. Changes in intonation, diverse guitar riffs and constant alteration in rhythm make for a fascinating listen time after time. |
| La Dispute Wildlife |
| Admitted: Wildlife seemed like a worse direction to take than was the case with its predecessor 'Somewhere along the bottom of the river...' for the simple reason that it is more catchy and less cross, fierce, impassioned. It took me at least 30 full listens to come to a new conclusion: it makes a statement, however different from SATBOTR, that deserves to be heard. Not only does La Dispute's scope enlarge (dealing with topics such as cancer, suicide and politics), Dreyer's voice seems more controlled at points whereas still retaining his stereotypical edgy 'losing-it' screams/shouts at certain intervals. It is neither better nor worse than SATBOTR (which in itself is quite the achievement), but needs an open-minded person to come to full bloom. Here, in any case, it has struck gold. |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory |
| Linkin Park Meteora |
| Martin O'Donnell Halo Original Soundtrack |
| Max Richter The Blue Notebooks |
| Max Richter Three Worlds: Music from Woolf Works |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Ghosteen |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral |
| Have to be in the mood for this but when this clicks it hits like a ton of bricks. In dark times it's the only album I can stand. If you've ever wondered what a depressed person's mind feels like, this is the place to be. Probably one of the most (if not the most) vehement albums in terms of velocity, brutality, sheer anger and disappointment lashing out at everyone and everything. |
| Nine Inch Nails The Fragile |
| Nine Inch Nails Still |
| A tough listen, but a rewarding one. 9 times out of 10 the album is too inaccessible. But on rare occasions, it all makes sense unlike anything else. 'Losing Hope' is my favourite track here, and it has changed me with every listen. |
| Northlane Alien |
| Where Node and Mesmer saw flickers of Northlane's potential, Alien is a blazing inferno. Lead singer Marcus delves into deep-seated parts of his past, and the lyrics, imagery and overall sounds is phenomenal for it. It's pretty terrific, the gap that was bridged between earlier albums and this one Top-notch with a lot of replay value. |
| Parkway Drive Deep Blue |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come |
| An album that has rather brutally altered my thoughts about consumerism and capitalism. The booklet is art in itself, beside the outstanding quality music. Every song is so relentless that at the moment when you come out of the spiral, you feel like you've been run over by a bulldozer. Definitely the best punk album I'm familiar with. |
| Sigur Ros ( ) |
| Slowdive Just for a Day |
| Slowdive Pygmalion |
| Stars of the Lid The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid |
| Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline |
| Sylvain Chauveau Le Livre noir du capitalisme |
| Tenhi Maaaet |
| The Cure Disintegration |
| The Cure Bloodflowers |
| Late at night, we tend to experience a feeling we can't put a finger on. We're not in the dumps, nor are we exactly happy. We're not happy about the past, present and future. Dwelling in the past, we try to collect answers to solve problems in the present. This is what 'Bloodflowers' is about, this is when this record is spun. At first sight (or: listen), the listener would be inclined to think it's 'yet another' album about heartbreak. It isn't. Surely, the fact that the album's contents revolve around melancholy and nostalgia automatically include heartbreak (ostensibly noticeable in the first song, out of this world, which never fails to grip me even after numerous listens) in the process. But There's more to it. Regret, spite, wishing we could go back, back to re-experiencing a magical, out-of-this-world moment, in the knowledge that we can't, leaves a bittersweet taste that is sure to linger in the back of your throat. Perfectly encapsulating that exact bitter, stingy flavour, this album is a masterpiece all the way. |
| The Ghost Inside Returners |
| The Ghost Inside Get What You Give |
| The Ghost Inside combine the Heavyness of their previous records - Fury mostly - with their knack for songwriting - Returners - to create an album that gets everything just right. At first listen, I must admit, only a handful of tracks seemed semi to fully interesting. After some 10 full listens, every track speaks to me in unimaginable ways. As a grower, this album without a doubt makes its mark. In a sense, this album is a double-edged sword. There's a more or less consistent tension between a feeling of defeatism, and - ultimately prevailing - the sense of hope beyond reason. An album to cherish and keep close at all times. A band to follow up. A modern masterpiece in the metalcore genre. |
| The Ghost Inside Dear Youth |
| What Lost Together // Lost forever was to Architects, Dear Youth is to the Ghost Inside. It was not an easy album to ease into. A lot of rhythm changes leave you dangling during the first listens. Upon familiarising yourself with the tracks, however, you are bound to come across some of the most uplifting lyrics in musical history. Combining heavy riffs and screaming with their melodic counterparts and clean vocals, The Ghost Inside get everything just right. |
| Tim Hecker Harmony in Ultraviolet |
| Touche Amore ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me |
| Touche has turned into a blazing menace, spouting anger and putting forth discouragement. Every song is overflowing with emotion and belongs here. |
| Ulrich Schnauss No Further Ahead Than Today |
| We Came As Romans Understanding What We've Grown to Be |
| In spite of the lack of technical proficiency (WCAR never planned on reinventing the wheel), Understanding what we've grown to be is an inspiring record with an overall positive message. At some points dragging, but only very slightly, it rolls on with great vigour. Tracks such as What I Wish I Never Had share blunt lyrics, which, nonetheless, are straight to the point and somehow manage to bring forward a message of solidarity and decisiveness. |
| William Basinski The Disintegration Loops I |
| Yann Tiersen Eusa |
| 4.5 superb |
| A Winged Victory for the Sullen A Winged Victory for the Sullen |
| A Winged Victory for the Sullen Atomos |
| AFI Sing the Sorrow |
| Great sing-along album and definitely the best effort AFI's pulled out so far. For me, anything beyond this album went downhill. |
| AFI Burials |
| Agnes Obel Philharmonics |
| Agnes Obel Citizen Of Glass |
| Anathema A Natural Disaster |
| Anathema Hindsight |
| Anberlin Vital |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II |
| Architects Hollow Crown |
| Architects Holy Hell |
| Artesia Chants d'Automne |
| AURORA (NOR) All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend |
| Beach House Depression Cherry |
| Beartooth Disgusting |
| Beartooth Disease |
| Ben Frost A U R O R A |
| blink-182 Blink-182 |
| Boards of Canada Geogaddi |
| Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest |
| Lush, atmospheric sound that brings about feelings of lonely, empty open spaces. Excellent blend of trip-hopesque beats and a myriad of electronic inputs. Most electronic music bores me or gets on my nerves, but this is a shining pearl in that black ocean. |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver |
| Ethereal, sophisticated, otherworldly, glorious, resplendent. None of these adjectives come even close to the beautiful mind portrayed by this record. Just when everybody was self-certifying the threshold insurmountability posed by Vernon's debut, he dexterously makes his long-awaited comeback and releases his second masterpiece. Modern classic. |
| Brand New Deja Entendu |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon |
| Brand New Daisy |
| "Daisy, a 4.5? My response to you: "Why not?" The indeniably distinct atmosphere, very different from and seemingly inferior to TDAGARIM was what stopped me from giving it a high score. Inferior, good but unworthy. That view has changed. It is potent, it is fierce, it is relentless and even though the lyrics have more bluntness to them, the ensemble works like a charm. At first sight, (or on first hearing?) the songs appear to rely on brute strength instead of intimate, sophisticated melodies. Nevertheless, somewhere buried under these bitter, twisted wordplays and this seemingly endless amount of musical layers, there exists an allure, a twisted beauty craving discovery by some unexpecting stranger. One would be inclined to think an album such as Daisy would lose its appeal quickly. But instead, Daisy succeeds in achieving just the opposite: it rises, it surpasses and it soars above its former splendour with every listen. The more listens granted, the more the screams and shouts stick with you. It helps one to get the bigger picture, the little details, the beauty underneath. You grow with it, just as was the case with TDAGARIM. The stains are dispersed, but it's these very imperfections that render the whole sublime. Imperfection is also honesty. Taking pride in its aggressiveness and undenying recklessness proves to be Daisy's greatest trait. |
| Brand New Science Fiction |
| Brian Eno Ambient 4: On Land |
| A more than lovely collection of ambient masterpieces. It calls out to you, yet remains most powerful in the background. A fitting paradox for Brian Eno's music as a whole. Paranoia-inducing, spine-chilling and plain baffling, this record is especially fit for writing or other creative purposes, which is precisely what I use it for. It succeeds in transporting the listener to another world, inclusive of the experience of perception. Eno knows what he is doing; however arbitrary the sounds may ring in your ears, every single tone is carefully selected to enhance the listening experience, and the result is one worthy of being both praised and remembered. |
| Brian Eno Neroli |
| Brian Eno Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks |
| Brian Eno I Dormienti |
| Brian Eno Thursday Afternoon |
| Brian Eno Textures |
| Bring Me The Horizon Suicide Season |
| City and Colour Bring Me Your Love |
| Clannad Legend |
| Clannad Nádúr |
| Counterparts The Difference Between Hell and Home |
| Counterparts Tragedy Will Find Us |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles II |
| Crywolf Cataclasm |
| Cult of Luna The Beyond |
| Cult of Luna Salvation |
| Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway |
| Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas Mariner |
| Currents The Place I Feel Safest |
| Currents I Let the Devil In |
| Currents The Way It Ends |
| Daft Punk Tron: Legacy |
| Dangers Anger |
| Daughter If You Leave |
| Daughter Not to Disappear |
| Dead Can Dance Aion |
| Dead Can Dance Within the Realm of a Dying Sun |
| Dead Can Dance Toward the Within |
| Defeater Travels |
| Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights |
| Deftones Deftones |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
| Disturbed The Sickness |
| Dream Theater Images and Words |
| DVSR D.V.S.R |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Heaven Up Here |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Porcupine |
| Eddie Vedder Into the Wild |
| Eluvium Copia |
| Ennio Morricone The Mission Soundtrack |
| FEVER 333 Strength In Numb333rs |
| Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel... |
| Frou Frou Details |
| Gideon Costs |
| God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright |
| Gorillaz Plastic Beach |
| Grimes Halfaxa |
| Grimes Visions |
| Utterly diverse and enchanting, Visions offers a peek into the mind of Claire Boucher, visionary and eclectic musician. Whereas her former works showed much promise, they were incoherent to a lesser or higher degree. It seems as thought all of her work and efforts lead to this record. I tend to compare it to a storm raging in a teacup. It tastes sweet, and then something comes up from under the surface, a beat, a line, that feels like a punch to the gut and entrances you until you are far removed from whatever place you previously found yourself in. Spectacular and overwhelming, this album is a rare gem indeed. |
| Grimes Art Angels |
| This is one of the most eccentric albums I know, and one I've come to love dearly. Art Angels surprises because of its heavily pop-oriented sound, whereas Claire Boucher's earlier expressions demonstrated synth/electronic/ambient-related sounds. Without losing the latter, Boucher manages to come further explore her 'style' (which is so bafflingly diverse it cannot be termed), without losing sight of catchiness in the process. |
| Grimes Miss Anthropocene |
| Hans Zimmer Inception |
| Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard Gladiator |
| Harold Budd and Brian Eno Ambient 2 - The Plateaux of Mirror |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness |
| Have Heart Songs to Scream at the Sun |
| Hayley Williams Petals for Armor |
| Holding Absence Holding Absence |
| IAMX Kingdom of Welcome Addiction |
| IAMX Alive In New Light |
| InMe Caught:: White Butterfly |
| Johann Johannsson Copenhagen Dreams |
| Johann Johannsson The Theory of Everything |
| Joni Mitchell Blue |
| Joy Division Closer |
| Depressing, bleak, aberrant but an indispensable album. |
| Julien Baker Sprained Ankle |
| Julien Baker Turn Out The Lights |
| Katatonia Viva Emptiness |
| Katatonia Brave Murder Day |
| Katatonia Tonight's Decision |
| Katatonia Last Fair Deal Gone Down |
| Katatonia Live Consternation |
| Kattoo Places |
| Korn Issues |
| La Dispute Vancouver |
| La Dispute Here, Hear. |
| La Dispute Here, Hear. II |
| La Dispute Here, Hear. III |
| La Dispute Rooms of the House |
| Levi The Poet Correspondence (a fiction) |
| Listener Wooden Heart |
| M83 Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts |
| Madredeus Os Dias da MadreDeus |
| Madredeus Existir |
| Martin O'Donnell Halo: Reach OST |
| Max Richter Recomposed: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons |
| Memphis May Fire Challenger |
| In spite of not reinventing the wheel, Challenger is ridiculously catchy while boasting some of the most inspiring lyrics in music history. |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank |
| Mogwai Earth Division |
| Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind |
| Morrissey You Are the Quarry |
| Moving Mountains Pneuma |
| Moving Mountains Waves |
| My Dying Bride The Dreadful Hours |
| Neil Young Harvest |
| Neil Young After the Gold Rush |
| Neil Young Harvest Moon |
| Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm |
| Nick Cave and Warren Ellis La Panthere Des Neiges |
| Nils Frahm Streichelfisch |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth |
| Nine Inch Nails And All That Could Have Been |
| Nine Inch Nails Beside You in Time |
| Norma Jean Wrongdoers |
| Norma Jean All Hail |
| Northlane Singularity |
| Heartfelt lyrics, sent forth within a scorching blaze of energy. Themes such as religion/belief, hypocrisy, corruption and fear run rampant throughout the album. What makes this collection so great for me is the hopeful message that runs underneath all the chaos, rendering the album's message a life-affirming one. |
| Northlane Node |
| Nyctalgia Time Changed Everything... |
| This breaks me every time. Some of the rawest music I know in terms of sheer emotion.rIf I would have to explain to someone what loneliness, emptiness and desperation feel like, I would probably serve them this gem. |
| Olafur Arnalds ...And They Have Escaped The Weight Of Darkness |
| Palpitation Palpitation |
| PJ Harvey Rid of Me |
| PJ Harvey White Chalk |
| PJ Harvey Is This Desire? |
| Polaris The Mortal Coil |
| Polaris The Death of Me |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet |
| Portishead Dummy |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine |
| Red (USA) End of Silence |
| Refused Refused Are Fucking Dead |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun |
| Sigur Ros Takk... |
| Silent Planet The Night God Slept |
| Silent Planet Everything Was Sound |
| Simon and Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water |
| Slowdive Souvlaki |
| Soley We Sink |
| Soley Ask The Deep |
| Spiritbox Spiritbox |
| Stabbing Westward Darkest Days |
| Staind Staind |
| Definitely the record Staind had been brewing. It combines catchiness with destructive riffs and rage, reminiscent of their initial records, Tormented and Dysfunction. Truly a return to roots and how! The documentary that goes with it is mindful as well, and focuses on the hardships of musicians, which many people underestimate. I was truly touched with some scenes in it and, of course, with some songs that have already conquered a place in my heart. |
| Stick to Your Guns Disobedient |
| Stray from the Path Subliminal Criminals |
| Summoning Oath Bound |
| i love this to bits, and to me every single song in here is a masterpiece. Though it doesn't strike any emotional strings (yet). So for now, a 4.5 seems a most plausible outcome. |
| Tangerine Dream The Seven Letters From Tibet |
| Tangerine Dream Tangram |
| Tenhi Kauan |
| The Birthday Massacre Violet |
| The Birthday Massacre Walking With Strangers |
| The Birthday Massacre Imagica |
| The Chieftains The Long Black Veil |
| The Cure Pornography |
| The Cure Faith |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute |
| The Receiving End of Sirens The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi |
| The Sisters of Mercy First and Last and Always |
| The Smiths The Smiths |
| The Smiths Meat Is Murder |
| Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind |
| Thousand Below The Love You Let Too Close |
| Three Days Grace Three Days Grace |
| To Destroy A City To Destroy A City |
| Lush and atmospheric sound. Sometimes very simple (on the brink of minimalism), sometimes very complex but always effective. This album's meant to reserved for focused listening, because there are many hidden layers beneath that would go unnoticed otherwise. It's rich in its essence. |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Tool Ænima |
| Touche Amore Live On BBC Radio 1 |
| Touche Amore Is Survived By |
| Touche Amore Stage Four |
| "I'm all used up and out of steamrVacationing somewhere in betweenrA city named catharsisrAnd the other called emptyrIn one I feel so commonrIn the other I am royalty"rA crushing confession of sorts, Stage Four is once again a step forward for Touche Amore. It's been some time since they abandoned their short yet abrasive song structure for a more elaborate one, and their sound has improved since. |
| Toundra III |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo OST |
| Something about this... atmosphere. It makes me feel paranoid, angsty, self-conscious... I've heard many albums that can make one experience(teenage) angst, I've heard others that are embarassing (lyrically or just because of technical incompetence) and make one feel awkward, but I've never actually become paranoid while listening. For that alone, it deserves at least a 4. Overall, tracks are very strong and can each be listened to as stand-alone pieces, but obviously, you would need the entire album to experience the spectrum Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross were going for... There is so much variety and just brilliant musicianship going on. |
| Tycho Dive |
| Tycho Awake |
| Tycho Epoch |
| Type O Negative October Rust |
| Type O Negative Bloody Kisses |
| Vangelis Voices |
| Vangelis El Greco |
| Brooding and epic, El Greco is for me the apex of the aggregate of Vangelis' oeuvre. Ever menacing, it's filled to the brim with slow build-ups, climaxes and unexpected turns. A delight for the avid listener. |
| Vangelis 1492: Conquest of Paradise |
| Verse Aggression |
| Wage War Blueprints |
| Wage War Deadweight |
| While She Sleeps You Are We |
| William Basinski Cascade |
| William Basinski A Shadow in Time |
| Yann Tiersen Tabarly |
| Yann Tiersen Good Bye Lenin! |
| Yellowcard Ocean Avenue |
| Yellowcard Southern Air |
| Yellowcard Yellowcard |
| 4.0 excellent |
| 10 Years The Autumn Effect |
| 12 Stones 12 Stones |
| 12 Stones The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday |
| 3 Doors Down The Better Life |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step |
| Adna Closure |
| Adna Run Lucifer |
| Adna Night |
| Adrian von Ziegler The Celtic Collection |
| Adrian von Ziegler Starchaser |
| Aesthesys Crossing The Shoreline |
| AFI Black Sails in the Sunset |
| Against The Current In Our Bones |
| Aix Em Klemm Aix Em Klemm |
| Alan Menken Beauty And The Beast OST |
| Alex Turner Submarine OST |
| Nothing spectacular to find here, but a charming little album this is. Alex Turner displays a new side of him, a more mellow and relaxed one, which feels like a breath of fresh air. |
| Allan Taylor Looking For You |
| Amy Macdonald The Human Demands |
| Anais Mitchell Anais Mitchell |
| Anathema Judgement |
| Anathema Alternative 4 |
| Anathema We're Here Because We're Here |
| Anathema Weather Systems |
| Anberlin Cities |
| Anberlin Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place |
| Anberlin Lowborn |
| Angel Vivaldi Universal Language |
| Angelzoom Fairyland |
| Angelzoom Angelzoom |
| Anti-Flag For Blood and Empire |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 |
| Architects The Here and Now |
| Architects For Those That Wish to Exist |
| Architects The Classic Symptoms of a Broken Spirit |
| Ashes You Leave Songs of the Lost |
| Ashes You Leave Desperate Existence |
| Ashes You Leave The Passage Back to Life |
| Beach House Teen Dream |
| Beach House Bloom |
| Being as an Ocean Dear G-d |
| Ben Frost By the Throat |
| Ben Howard Every Kingdom |
| Ben Howard I Forget Where We Were |
| Bjork Vespertine |
| Sexually involved, unexplored depths of the human psyche, an abundance of latent anger, mesmerizing artwork and video; this album counts one merit after another and over time I continue to delve into it to find ever more phrases overlooked, meaning left un-analyzed, murky caves un-explored. |
| Black Mirrors Look Into The Black Mirror |
| Black Mirrors Tomorrow Will Be Without Us |
| Blue Foundation Life Of A Ghost |
| Blue Foundation Sweep Of Days |
| Blue Oyster Cult Blue Öyster Cult |
| Blue Oyster Cult Fire of Unknown Origin |
| Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children |
| Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase |
| Bonobo Black Sands |
| Bonobo Migration |
| Bonobo Fragments |
| Brendan Perry Eye of the Hunter |
| Bring Me The Horizon Sempiternal |
| Carole King Tapestry |
| Caspian Dust and Disquiet |
| Celldweller Celldweller |
| The blend of music genres and immense diversity to the tracks make this album stand out in the current that is music. From 'regular rock',mixed with electro-elements (Switchback) over metal-like tunes (One good reason) to inspiring ambience-creating tracks (Welcome to the end), this album is indeed rare in its appearance. The one shadowside could well be its inconsistency, although this doesn't affect my love towards the album. |
| Celldweller Soundtrack for the Voices in My Head |
| Chevelle This Type Of Thinking (Could Do Us In) |
| Chevelle Wonder What's Next |
| "Like a leach,rI hold on as if we belonged,rTo some precious pure dream.rCast off, you've seen what's beneath,rNow fail me."rTo me this album is about growing up and finding out the things you once revered suddenly mean little to nothing anymore. You grow beyond them, and beyond the earlier version of you. Casting off your shell, you find yourself lost, looking for what this new chapter might mean, and how you can fit in. A very personal album for me, and full of hidden depths. |
| Chevelle La Gárgola |
| Chevelle The North Corridor |
| Chevelle NIRATIAS |
| Circle of Dust Disengage |
| City and Colour Sometimes |
| City and Colour Live |
| City and Colour The MySpace Transmissions |
| Clannad Clannad |
| Clannad Clannad 2 |
| Clannad Magical Ring |
| Close Your Eyes Empty Hands and Heavy Hearts |
| Cocteau Twins Heaven or Las Vegas |
| Counterparts Prophets |
| Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile Lotta Sea Lice |
| Crossbreed Synthetic Division |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles III |
| Vastly different from their debut and sophomore release, 'Crystal castles III' delves deeper into the underground, seeking redemption from its earthly chains. Taking what we all loved in 'crystal castles II' (the dark, atmospheric, trancy beats in Year of Silence, Empathy, Violent Dreams etc), and molding it into a more coherent, darker, bleaker aggregation. The lyrics have drastically been evolving for the better (take 'Kerosene' for instance). Crystal Castles are well aware that innovation has always been their greatest trump card and they exploit it: intensely, almost frantically, but the hallucinatory, trance-inducing beats are proof that they still have much untapped potential. |
| Cult of Luna Cult of Luna |
| Cult of Luna Eternal Kingdom |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal |
| David Duchovny Hell Or Highwater |
| David Duchovny Every Third Thought |
| Dead Can Dance The Serpent's Egg |
| Dead Can Dance Dead Can Dance |
| Dead Can Dance Into the Labyrinth |
| Dead Can Dance Spiritchaser |
| Dead Can Dance Anastasis |
| Dead Swans Sleepwalkers |
| Deep Purple Deep Purple In Rock |
| Deftones Adrenaline |
| Deftones Around the Fur |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist |
| Delta-s Voyage to Isis |
| One of those listens you tend to spin late at night when you're contemplating things... It really does feel like a voyage to me. The interludes help you get into the experience of leaving Earth and exploring other worlds. Some songs are flawed but taken as a whole, it's one amazing concept album that really achieves its goal. |
| Departures Death Touches Us, From The Moment We Begin To Love |
| Diablo Blvd. Builders of Empires |
| DIIV Is the Is Are |
| Disturbed Believe |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists |
| Dozer Through The Eyes Of Heathens |
| Dream State Consequences |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought |
| Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory |
| Dream Theater Awake |
| Drowning Pool Sinner |
| Drowning Pool Full Circle |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Crocodiles |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Echo and The Bunnymen |
| Editors In This Light and On This Evening |
| Eluveitie Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion |
| Eluvium Talk Amongst the Trees |
| Eluvium When I Live by the Garden and the Sea |
| Eluvium An Accidental Memory in the Case of Death |
| Eluvium Lambent Material |
| Eluvium Similes |
| Eluvium The Motion Makes Me Last |
| Eluvium Nightmare Ending |
| Eluvium False Readings On |
| Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail |
| Solid effort, lots of emotion and meaningful lyrics, although I have trouble hearing this as a whole. Don't know why, there are a lot of stand-out tracks and some songs are still growing on me, my attention just fades after a while... Shame. |
| Empyrium Weiland |
| Enya A Day Without Rain |
| ERRA ERRA |
| Estas Tonne 13 Songs of Truth |
| Evanescence Evanescence |
| Evanescence Evanescence |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives |
| Eyes Set to Kill Broken Frames |
| Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True |
| Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors |
| Falling Up Captiva |
| Falling Up Fangs |
| Fischerspooner Odyssey |
| Fit for Rivals Steady Damage |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes |
| Fleetwood Mac Rumours |
| Frank Turner England Keep My Bones |
| Frenship Vacation |
| Gary Numan Splinter (Songs From A Broken Mind) |
| God Is an Astronaut The End of the Beginning |
| God Is an Astronaut God Is an Astronaut |
| God Is an Astronaut Age of the Fifth Sun |
| God Is an Astronaut Helios/Erebus |
| God Is an Astronaut Ghost Tapes #10 |
| Goldmund Famous Places |
| Gorillaz Cracker Island |
| Gregory Alan Isakov This Empty Northern Hemisphere |
| Gregory Alan Isakov The Weatherman |
| Grimes Geidi Primes |
| Haken The Mountain |
| Halocraft A Mother To Scare Away The Darkness |
| Halou Wholeness and Separation |
| Halou Halou |
| Hammock Maybe They Will Sing for Us Tomorrow |
| Hammock Elsewhere |
| Hans Zimmer Gladiator: Music from the Motion Picture |
| Hans Zimmer Dark Phoenix |
| Heights Dead Ends |
| Helios Ayres |
| Hungry Lucy To Kill a King |
| Hungry Lucy Pulse of the Earth |
| IAMX The Alternative |
| IAMX Metanoia |
| IAMX Everything Is Burning (Metanoia Addendum) |
| Icon For Hire Scripted |
| Icon For Hire You Can't Kill Us |
| Imagine Dragons Night Visions |
| Imogen Heap Speak For Yourself |
| Imogen Heap I Megaphone |
| Imogen Heap Ellipse |
| Imogen Heap Sparks |
| In This Moment The Dream |
| InMe Overgrown Eden |
| Insomnium Since the Day It All Came Down |
| Insomnium In the Halls of Awaiting |
| Insomnium Across the Dark |
| Insomnium One for Sorrow |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant |
| Jakob Solace |
| Jerk When Pure is Defiled |
| Johann Johannsson The Miners' Hymns |
| Johann Johannsson Virðulegu Forsetar |
| Johann Johannsson Sicario OST |
| Johann Johannsson Arrival OST |
| Jon Hopkins Immunity |
| Jon Hopkins Singularity |
| Joni Mitchell Clouds |
| Jonsi Go |
| Joy Division Heart And Soul |
| One of the best boxsets I've ever seen: a remastered and virtually exhaustive garden of Eden for listeners of the gloomy, the eerie, the depressing. Basically a defining, ground-breaking musical period reduced to 4 CDs, perfectly denoting the feeling of defeatism, despondency, disconsolation typical of the zeitgeist; all of which Ian Curtis incarnated. |
| Katatonia The Great Cold Distance |
| Katatonia Night Is the New Day |
| Katatonia Dead End Kings |
| Katatonia Last Fair Day Gone Night |
| Kidneythieves Zerospace |
| Kidneythieves TryptOfanatic |
| Kitten Kitten |
| Klaus Schulze Timewind |
| La Dispute Untitled |
| Lacuna Coil Dark Adrenaline |
| Leonard Cohen You Want It Darker |
| Less Than Jake Anthem |
| Lights Out Asia Eyes Like Brontide |
| Lights Out Asia Tanks And Recognizers |
| Lights Out Asia Garmonia |
| Linkin Park The Hunting Party |
| Lisa Gerrard The Mirror Pool |
| Lisa Gerrard The Silver Tree |
| Listener Return to Struggleville |
| Loreena McKennitt The Visit |
| Lostprophets Start Something |
| Lostprophets The Fake Sound Of Progress |
| Lunatic Soul Through Shaded Woods |
| Lydia Illuminate |
| Machinae Supremacy A View from the End of the World |
| Machinae Supremacy Redeemer |
| Madredeus Lisboa |
| Madredeus Movimento |
| Martin O'Donnell Halo 3 OST |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine |
| Max Richter Memoryhouse |
| McAuley Schenker Group M.S.G. |
| Mechina Acheron |
| Mechina Progenitor |
| Mike Oldfield Return to Ommadawn |
| Mike Shinoda Post Traumatic |
| Mogwai Les Revenants OST |
| Mono One Step More and You Die |
| Motek Port Sunshine |
| Movements Feel Something |
| Neurosis Through Silver in Blood |
| Neurosis Souls at Zero |
| Neurosis Enemy of the Sun |
| Neurosis Honor Found in Decay |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Push The Sky Away |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine |
| Nine Inch Nails Year Zero |
| Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IV |
| Nine Inch Nails The Slip |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine: 2010 Remaster |
| I never paid much attention to Pretty Hate Machine. It has always seemed like an inferior little brother to the Fragile and Downward Spiral. However, I felt the compelling pull of the remastered CD, luring me in to hear the unraveling of one of those records where everything seems to blend and you have to turn it up tremendously to hear certain effects/sounds (the only reason I never gave the songs a deep listen, was because of the poor quality). And I dare say I was blown away. Especially 'head like a hole', 'terrible lie', 'kinda I want to' (a new instant favourite) and 'that's what I get' are superbly enhanced. Right now, the only band of whom I own nearly all the albums is NIN. They are that good. And this album only does justice to that statement. |
| O'Brother Endless Light |
| Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Architecture & Morality |
| Pale Waves My Mind Makes Noises |
| Pale Waves Who Am I? |
| Paradise Lost Shades of God |
| Paradise Lost Draconian Times |
| Paradise Lost Icon |
| Paramore Riot! |
| Paramore Paramore |
| Paramore After Laughter |
| Parkway Drive Atlas |
| Pelican Forever Becoming |
| Phoebe Bridgers Punisher |
| Phoebe Bridgers If We Make It Through December |
| PJ Harvey Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea |
| PJ Harvey Dry |
| Placebo Sleeping with Ghosts |
| Placebo Meds |
| Poets of the Fall Signs of Life |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia |
| Promise and the Monster Transparent Knives |
| Promise and the Monster Red Tide |
| Pure Reason Revolution Eupnea |
| Puscifer Money Shot |
| Rachel Platten Wildfire |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Radiohead My Iron Lung |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles |
| Ramallah But A Whimper |
| Ramallah Kill A Celebrity |
| Rammstein Mutter |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication |
| Rhian Sheehan Standing in Silence |
| Rishloo Feathergun |
| Rishloo Living as Ghosts with Buildings as Teeth |
| Robert Rich Echo Of Small Things |
| Rush Moving Pictures |
| Rush Vapor Trails |
| Rush Counterparts |
| Rush Snakes & Arrows |
| Rush Snakes & Arrows Live |
| Russian Circles Station |
| Russian Circles Empros |
| Russian Circles Guidance |
| Ryuichi Sakamoto Playing The Piano |
| Saosin Saosin |
| Scale the Summit The Collective |
| Seasick Steve You Can't Teach an Old Dog New Tricks |
| Seether Disclaimer II |
| Seether Disclaimer |
| Sia Colour the Small One |
| Sia 1000 Forms Of Fear |
| Sigur Ros Heima (DVD) |
| Sigur Ros Valtari |
| My god, this is beautiful and scary at the same time. Magic. Sheer magic... |
| Simon and Garfunkel Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme |
| Sirenia At Sixes And Sevens |
| Skillet Collide |
| Sleep Token This Place Will Become Your Tomb |
| sleepmakeswaves In Today Already Walks Tomorrow |
| Soilwork The Living Infinite |
| Soundgarden Superunknown |
| Stabbing Westward Wither Blister Burn & Peel |
| Staind Break The Cycle |
| Staind Dysfunction |
| Staind Tormented |
| Stake When the Candle Dies Out |
| Stake All Is Chaos |
| Stand Atlantic Pink Elephant |
| Stand Atlantic F.E.A.R. |
| Static-X Wisconsin Death Trip |
| Stray Abuse by Proxy |
| Stray Letting Go |
| Stray from the Path Anonymous |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell |
| Sun Kil Moon Benji |
| Tangerine Dream Zeit |
| TesseracT Portals |
| The Birthday Massacre Nothing and Nowhere |
| The Birthday Massacre Show And Tell |
| The Chats Get Fucked |
| The Chieftains Water from the Well |
| The Cure Seventeen Seconds |
| The Echelon Effect Drift Ten |
| The Ghost Inside The Ghost Inside |
| The Ocean Heliocentric |
| The Ocean Pelagial |
| The Radio Dept. Lesser Matters |
| The Radio Dept. Clinging to a Scheme |
| The Radio Dept. Running Out of Love |
| The Sisters of Mercy Vision Thing |
| Though it somewhat pales in comparison to the rest of their already legendary discography, this album in itself most certainly has its merits and knows how to underline them effectively. Catchy, dark, meaningful: your typical Sisters' album. |
| The Sisters of Mercy Floodland |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead |
| The Smiths Strangeways, Here We Come |
| The Smiths The World Won't Listen |
| The Unseen State Of Discontent |
| The Unseen The Anger and The Truth |
| The Unseen So This Is Freedom? |
| Thievery Corporation Saudade |
| Third Eye Blind Blue |
| Third Eye Blind Out of the Vein |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars 30 Seconds To Mars |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie |
| Thornhill Butterfly |
| Three Days Grace One-X |
| Tide Lines An ocean full of islands |
| Tiesto In Search of Sunrise 5: Los Angeles |
| Tom Petty Wildflowers |
| Tonight Alive What Are You So Scared Of? |
| Tonight Alive The Other Side |
| Tonight Alive Limitless |
| Tonight Alive Underworld |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Tori Amos Little Earthquakes |
| Tori Amos Under the Pink |
| Tori Amos From the Choirgirl Hotel |
| Tori Amos Ocean to Ocean |
| Toto The Seventh One |
| Touche Amore Touche Amore |
| Toundra Toundra |
| Toundra Toundra (II) |
| Toundra IV |
| Toundra Vortex |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross The Social Network OST |
| Trentemoller Harbour Boat Trips 01 - Copenhagen |
| Trivium The Sin and the Sentence |
| Type O Negative World Coming Down |
| Type O Negative Life Is Killing Me |
| Unter Null Moving On |
| Verse From Anger and Rage |
| Vision of Disorder The Cursed Remain Cursed |
| VNV Nation Futureperfect |
| VNV Nation Empires |
| VNV Nation Burning Empires |
| Voicians EscApe |
| Warpaint Warpaint |
| Whispering Sons Endless Party |
| William Basinski Watermusic II |
| William Basinski Nocturnes |
| Zeal and Ardor Stranger Fruit |
