| 4.5 superb |
| 1905 Voice |
Lyrics are reminiscent of System of a Down or La Dispute, seeing as they range between extremely obvious socio-political messages and much deeper, more personal lyrics that often come across as a sociological message anyway. So kind of in between Sunny Day Real Estate, Touche Amore or Brand New and Circle Takes the Square or King Crimson.
Sounds like CTTS with the screams at times, while other times they sound like I Would Set Myself On Fire For You (and CTTS's slightly more melodic segments) when they sing, especially in unison. On the other hand, they manage to mix in songs with guitars that sound almost like Folk music (Folk Punk especially, obviously) and the song A Conversation sounds like something from La Dispute's early work on Hear, Hear.
It's a shame they didn't put out anything more, because in my eyes Voice is a near-perfect album. Unlike so many bands that try to be "intelligent" or "deep," (think Tool and Mastodon) 1905 has the courage to be slightly inventive without lauding their ingenuity as if they're kings of the universe while also focusing on the passion and meanings they put into the music, unlike the plethora of bands that make "honest" music about things that they don't actually care about or that are simply immature and sophomoric (think Taking Back Sunday and post-Pinkerton Weezer). |
| Air Moon Safari |
| AJJ Can't Maintain |
| Animal Collective Fall Be Kind |
| Animal Collective Feels |
| Animal Collective Strawberry Jam |
| BADBADNOTGOOD BBNG2 |
| BATS Red In Tooth and Claw |
| Black Flag The Process Of Weeding Out |
| Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children |
| Boards of Canada Geogaddi |
| Botch We Are the Romans |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Brian Wilson Smile |
| Camel Moonmadness |
| Can Monster Movie |
| Candy Claws Ceres And Calypso In The Deep Time |
| I find the fact that the songwriting has once again become somewhat structured an improvement, but the perfect blend of structure and haze was realized with their first album. As brilliant as the conceptualizations and textures are, I wish they would go back to their original sonic aesthetic, at least in terms of how they mix the songs. |
| Captain Murphy Duality |
| Caravan Palace Caravan Palace |
| Caravan Palace Panic |
| Chilly Gonzales The Unspeakable Chilly Gonzales |
| Comadre The Youth |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind |
| Crippled Black Phoenix I, Vigilante |
| Danny Brown XXX |
| Das Racist Relax |
| David Bowie Aladdin Sane |
| Death From Above 1979 You're a Woman, I'm a Machine |
| Death Grips No Love Deep Web |
| Deer Leap/The World Is A Beautiful Place... Are Here To Help You |
| DIIV Oshin |
| Earl Sweatshirt Doris |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Ocean Rain |
| El-P Fantastic Damage |
| Envy A Dead Sinking Story |
| Flying Lotus Until the Quiet Comes |
| Flying Lotus Pattern+Grid World |
| The best parts of Cosmogramma are here, albeit less in the forefront. The album really listens more like Until the Quiet Comes, because the songs are very similar to UTQC and his earlier dance music tonally. However, the structures are much more like Putty Boy Strut or his dancier songs on Cosmogramma than the majority of UTQC. It's got a lot of nuances in the background, but keeps everything fast paced and beat centered. This is easily one of his best works. |
| Funeral Diner The Underdark |
| Glass Bones Seasons |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
| Grails Deep Politics |
| Joie de Vivre The North End |
| Lemon Jelly Lost Horizons |
| M83 Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts |
| Mane Horse What Do You Mean We're Just Friends? |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine |
| Megafaun Gather, Form & Fly |
| Minutemen What Makes a Man Start Fires? |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News |
| Moving Mountains Pneuma |
| Muse Showbiz |
| Neutral Milk Hotel On Avery Island |
| Neutral Milk Hotel Neutral Milk Hotel Box Set |
| Nirvana In Utero |
| Owls Owls |
| Owls Two |
| Pygmy Lush Mount Hope |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Saetia A Retrospective |
| Saetia Saetia |
| Shabazz Palaces Black Up |
| Shugo Tokumaru L.S.T. |
| Shugo Tokumaru Night Piece |
| Sleestak Skylon Express |
| Sonic Youth Sister |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb |
| STRFKR Starfucker |
| Suffocate For Fuck Sake Blazing Fires and Helicopters... |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Diary |
| The Beatles Revolver |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul |
| The Beatles Abbey Road |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 |
| The Microphones Mount Eerie |
| The Reptilian Full Health |
| The Reptilian Boys Life EP |
| The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Josh Is Dead |
| Touche Amore ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse |
| TTNG 13.0.0.0.0 |
| Weezer Weezer |
| William Bonney Good Vibes |
| 4.0 excellent |
| !!! Myth Takes |
| Absolutist Ave |
| Adult Swim Adult Swim Singles Program 2012 |
| I only really listened to the Earl/Flylo collab and the Death Grips single, but those were fucking excellent and seeing as AS usually has at least decent music featured I figured I'd go ahead and give it a 4. |
| AJJ Knife Man |
| Alexisonfire Watch Out! |
| Alexisonfire Alexisonfire |
| Anamanaguchi Endless Fantasy |
| Anamanaguchi Dawn Metropolis |
| Anamanaguchi Mess |
| Anamanaguchi My Skateboard Will Go On |
| Anamanaguchi Airbrushed |
| Anamanaguchi Aurora |
| Anamanaguchi Power Supply |
| And So I Watch You From Afar And So I Watch You From Afar |
| Animal Collective Water Curses |
| Animal Collective Prospect Hummer |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion |
| Animal Collective Centipede Hz |
| Animal Collective ODDSAC |
| Animal Collective Honeycomb/Gotham |
| Annabel Youth In Youth |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album |
| Aphex Twin Windowlicker |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs |
| Autechre LP5 |
| Autechre Amber |
| BADBADNOTGOOD BBNG |
| BATS The Sleep of Reason |
| Black Moth Super Rainbow Eating Us |
| Black Moth Super Rainbow Lost, Picking Flowers In The Woods |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm |
| Boris Heavy Rocks |
| Brand New Daisy |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon (Deluxe Edition) |
| Burzum Burzum |
| Burzum Det Som Engang Var |
| Burzum Aske |
| Camel Camel |
| Caravan Palace Clash |
| Comadre Cold Rain |
| Comadre More Songs About The Man |
| Comadre A Wolf Ticket |
| Converge Axe to Fall |
| Dan Deacon America |
| David Bowie Space Oddity |
| David Bowie Diamond Dogs |
| Death Grips The Money Store |
| Deathspell Omega Paracletus |
| Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights |
| Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me |
| Does It Offend You, Yeah? You Have No Idea... |
| Earl Sweatshirt EARL |
| Emancipator Safe In The Steep Cliffs |
| Emancipator Soon It Will Be Cold Enough |
| Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) What It Takes to Move Forward |
| Envy Recitation |
| Exploding Star Orchestra Stars Have Shapes |
| Eyehategod In the Name of Suffering |
| Eyehategod Dopesick |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues |
| Flying Lotus Los Angeles |
| Fortune Howl Buy Your Mom a Sweater |
| Foxes Five-Track 2012 |
| Funeral Diner ...Is Dead |
| Giraffes? Giraffes! Superbass!!! |
| Giraffes? Giraffes! More Skin With Milk-Mouth |
| Glass Bones The Hope In Forgiving & Giving Up Hope |
| Glocca Morra Just Married |
| Green Day Dookie |
| Heroin Heroin |
| I Am This Big Black Cloud Double Phantasm |
| Joseph Andreoli and his wife are FINALLY making original songs as I Am This Big Black Cloud. I liked the covers on CVRS because I love Andreoli's production and his wife's voice fits in with the music very well; however, hearing these I can say his song writing is much better than any of the other groups they covered. Definitely worth a listen. |
| I Would Set Myself On Fire For You I Would Set Myself On Fire For You |
| James Blake James Blake |
| James Blake Overgrown |
| James Pants James Pants |
| Joie de Vivre Summer Months |
| Joshua Fit For Battle To Bring Our Own End |
| Justice D.A.N.C.E. |
| Justice † |
| Killer Mike R.A.P. Music |
| La Dispute Here, Hear. |
| La Dispute Wildlife |
| La Dispute Vancouver |
| Short and sweet. It's like Somewhere At The Bottom but less... lengthy, and without the larger concept behind it. |
| La Dispute Here, Hear. II |
| La Dispute Here, Hear. III |
| Lemon Jelly Lemonjelly.KY |
| Les Doux Les Doux |
| Les Doux Dialects |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming |
| Mark Fry Dreaming With Alice |
| Marty Robbins Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs |
| Math the Band Don't Worry |
| Megafaun Megafaun |
| MellowHype BLACKENEDWHITE |
| Men As Trees Weltschmerz |
| Merchant Ships I.W.T.F.A.E.B.T.E.H.E |
| mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright! |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister |
| MGMT Time to Pretend |
| Miles Davis Sketches of Spain |
| Modest Mouse Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank |
| Mount Eerie Wind's Poem |
| Moving Mountains Foreword |
| Muse Absolution |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry |
| Mux Mool Planet High School |
| My Bloody Valentine m b v |
| Oliver Koletzki Get Wasted |
| Para One Passion |
| Pearl and the Beard Black Vessel |
| Pearl and the Beard God Bless Your Weary Soul Amanda Richardson |
| pg.99 Document #8 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix |
| Pink Floyd The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Reverend Glasseye Black River Falls |
| Rosetta A Determinism of Morality |
| SBTRKT SBTRKT |
| SBTRKT Step In Shadows |
| Shpongle Are You Shpongled? |
| Shugo Tokumaru Port Entropy |
| Sleestak Altrusian Moon |
| Snowing I Could Do Whatever I Wanted If I Wanted |
| Snowmine Laminate Pet Animal |
| Sonic Youth Evol |
| Sonic Youth Goo |
| Street Smart Cyclist Street Smart Cyclist |
| Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois |
| Sufjan Stevens All Delighted People |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| The Beach Boys Wild Honey |
| The Beatles The Beatles |
| The Black Heart Rebellion Har Nevo |
| The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading |
| The Dear Hunter Act III: Life and Death |
| The Doors The Doors |
| The Promise Ring Nothing Feels Good |
| The Protomen Act II: The Father of Death |
| The Protomen The Protomen |
| The Rapture In the Grace of Your Love |
| The Rapture Echoes |
| The Rapture Pieces Of The People We Love |
| The Reptilian Unreleased Tracks |
| The War On Drugs Slave Ambient |
| These Arms Are Snakes Easter |
| These Arms Are Snakes Tail Swallower and Dove |
| They Might Be Giants Lincoln |
| This Computer Kills This Computer Kills |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety |
| Thundercat The Golden Age Of Apocalypse |
| Touche Amore Touche Amore |
| Trash Talk Plagues |
| TTNG Animals |
| TTNG Adventure, Stamina and Anger |
| TTNG This Town Needs Guns |
| Twelve Foot Ninja Smoke Bomb |
| Twelve Foot Ninja New Dawn |
| Tycho Dive |
| Tyler, the Creator Bastard |
| Tyler, the Creator Wolf |
| Unknown Mortal Orchestra Unknown Mortal Orchestra |
| Venetian Snares Hospitality |
| Venetian Snares Cavalcade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Pom Poms |
| Venetian Snares Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding |
| Ween 12 Golden Country Greats |
| Ween White Pepper |
| Whirr June |
| Whirr Distressor |
| XXYYXX XXYYXX |
| Yes Relayer |
| Yes The Yes Album |
| Zammuto Zammuto |
| 3.5 great |
| !!! Louden Up Now |
| A Lot Like Birds Conversation Piece |
| Good, but a step back from Plan B. The vocals could have been an awesome addition, but instead they used them to replace the instruments. This would have been alright, but the way Kurt is trying to emulate DGD isn't getting it right. Overall I think the album had too much DGD influence in the vocals, too much La Dispute influence in the guitar, and not nearly enough experimentation. It also lacked the La Dispute/Circle Takes The Square/The Mars Volta style storytelling in the lyrics that it could have had (I felt like I could see them writing lyrics similar to those bands from what I heard on the first album) and the classic ALLB instrumental craziness it could have had.rIn short, they have descended into a lower form of Post-Harcore, and I for one am slightly disappointed. |
| Ajattara Noitumaa |
| AJJ Candy Cigarettes and Cap Guns |
| The songs on here range from extremely good to mediocre. That's about as much description as you need if you've listened to AJJ enough to understand their general sound. |
| AJJ Only God Can Judge Me |
| Anamanaguchi Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game - Soundtrack |
| Angel Annihilation Witch |
| Animal Collective Campfire Songs |
| Animal Collective People |
| Animal Collective Keep + Animal Collective |
| Annabel Each And Everyone |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not |
| Avey Tare Down There |
| Bloc Party A Weekend in the City |
| Bloc Party Intimacy |
| Botch American Nervoso |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon |
| Buke and Gase General Dome |
| Candy Claws Hidden Lands |
| Circle Takes the Square Rites of Initiation |
| I'd give it a 4.5 but because of the large amount of trolls I'm giving it a 5. I think ATRU deserves it's five, although I actually like the general sound of this EP more, it's very incomplete... Therefore if there were less trolls it'd be getting a 4.5. |
| Dinosaur Jr. Bug |
| Does It Offend You, Yeah? Don't Say We Didn't Warn You |
| Ghosts and Vodka Precious Blood |
| Ghosts and Vodka Addicts and Drunks |
| Green Day Nimrod |
| Hodgy Untitled |
| Hot Cross Risk Revival |
| Hot Cross Cryonics |
| Hot Water Music Fuel for the Hate Game |
| I Am This Big Black Cloud CVRS |
| Innards Innards/The Reptilian Split 7" |
| Iselia Adaptations |
| Islands Return To The Sea |
| Jowls Cunt Punch |
| Jowls Cursed |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures |
| La Dispute Winter Tour Holiday CD-R |
| La Dispute Untitled |
| Los Campesinos! Hello Sadness |
| Madvillain Curls And All Caps |
| MGMT Congratulations |
| MGMT Oracular Spectacular |
| Midwest Pen Pals Inside Jokes |
| Mindless Self Indulgence Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy |
| Moving Mountains Waves |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations |
| Mux Mool Drum EP 2 |
| Mux Mool Skulltaste |
| Neutral Milk Hotel Everything Is |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| OFWGKTA Radical |
| Passion Pit Chunk of Change |
| Pearl and the Beard Killing the Darlings |
| Portishead Third |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Ratatat Classics |
| Rustie Glass Swords |
| Sailing On Sailing On |
| Sailing On Hinterland |
| Darker than their S/T EP. It's still a bit heavy handed lyrically, although a lot of their thoughts are in the right place. rVery enjoyable for me, would give it a 4 based on how much I like it but objectively it's not really quite a 4. |
| Say Anything In Defense of the Genre |
| Shugo Tokumaru Exit |
| Sleep Party People We Were Drifting On A Sad Song |
| Slipknot Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. |
| Sonic Youth Dirty |
| STRFKR Reptilians |
| Super Furry Animals Rings Around the World |
| System of a Down Mezmerize |
| System of a Down Hypnotize |
| The Aquabats Charge!! |
| The Beatles Help! |
| The Dear Hunter Act I: The Lake South, the River North |
| The Decemberists Castaways and Cutouts |
| The Promise Ring Wood/Water |
| The Reptilian We Have Become |
| The Reptilian Innards/The Reptilian Split 7" |
| The Unicorns The Unicorns 2014 |
| The Venetia Fair The Circus |
| I wish they mixed the guitar down and made the other instruments (piano, trumpet, etc) louder in the parts that aren't just solos/breakdowns, but other than that this is pretty interesting and generally well done, although the similarities to scenecore are a bit disconcerting... Especially the similarity to PATD. |
| The War On Drugs Future Weather |
| These Arms Are Snakes Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home |
| Thrice Major/Minor |
| Thrice Vheissu |
| Thrice Red Sky |
| TNGHT TNGHT |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me |
| Trash Talk Walking Disease |
| Unknown Mortal Orchestra II |
| Venetian Snares Winnipeg Is A Frozen Shithole |
| Venetian Snares Winter In The Belly Of A Snake |
| Weezer The Green Album |
| Yes The Ladder |
| 2.5 average |
| Alien Ant Farm TruANT |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Breaking Benjamin Phobia |
| Burzum Hlidskjalf |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest |
| Justice Audio, Video, Disco |
| Katatonia The Great Cold Distance |
| Korn Issues |
| Korn Korn |
| Marilyn Manson Portrait of an American Family |
| Mindless Self Indulgence You'll Rebel To Anything |
| Muse The Resistance |
| Oneohtrix Point Never and Rene Hell Split |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey |
| Rob Zombie The Sinister Urge |
| Say Anything Say Anything |
| Slipknot Slipknot |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses |
| The Egyptian Lover On The Nile |
| Three Days Grace Three Days Grace |
| Three Days Grace One-X |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV |
| Thrice Identity Crisis |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Weed is awesome, right? Well, when your bud buddies get into OMG ILLUMINATI SYMBOLISM and WOW THE FIBBONACCI SEQUENCE SO DEEP it's going to get a bit tiring. So when Tool decided to base their entire aesthetic around this kind of person's ideal, I was a bit skeptical. Turns out, Tool is exactly what they look like; the generic, proto-typical Nu-Metal kids who just SMOKED THEIR FIRST WEED and became "enlightened." Except they make music. For the same kind of person I just described. It's all pretty much Nu-Metal with a psychedelic twist, or from my perspective, a stupid gimmick. |
