| 4.0 excellent |
| American Football American Football EP |
| ASG Win Us Over |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil |
| Beach Slang Who Would Ever Want Anything So Broken? |
| Ben Watt Hendra |
| Although lyrically poor at times, "Hendra" by Ben Watt (previously one-half of Everything But the Girl) excels with its relaxed summery charm, complimented by the breezy guitar lines of Suede's Bernard Butler ("The Levels" even features slide guitar/backing vocals from David Gilmour). |
| Black Country Communion Black Country |
| Black Country Communion Afterglow |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Bowling for Soup A Hangover You Don't Deserve |
| Bowling for Soup The Great Burrito Extortion Case |
| Braids Native Speaker |
| Bridget St John Ask Me No Questions |
| Bullet For My Valentine The Poison |
| Chance the Rapper Acid Rap |
| Cloud Nothings Here and Nowhere Else |
Behind all the sloppy punk goodness, Cloud Nothings have put intricate care into this - the hooks creep out with
each repeat listen, making the album that bit more enjoyable each time. Where as Attack On Memory grew off
me pretty fast, I just keep coming back to this. |
| Cocteau Twins Victorialand |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension |
| Crosses EP II |
| Crucial Dudes 61 Penn |
| Currensy The Stoned Immaculate |
| Danny Brown XXX |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism |
| Defeater Travels |
| Don't usually like this type of music, but this is great. A chilling tale told with the usual screamed/shouted vocals and good lyrics. I also like the atmosphere the guitarists create. |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
Here deftones expertly master their distinctive meld of dreamy metal. No, their sound has
not changed; Chino's voice still melts over the pounding rhythm section and the whirling
fuzz of distortion (occasionally coming up for air with a meaty riff or two--see the latter
half of "Tempest"). But the material here is so good that the stasis is more of a
consistency. rOn paper, opener "Swerve city" is a disaster. The headbanging riff pounds,
reassuring the band have not quite abandoned their metal roots, and before we know it, we're
straight into a verse that swerves and swirls under Chino's vocals. And then it's back to
the riff. But it works, and serves as a perfect introduction for what's to come. rEven the
tracks that drift furthest away from the band's nu-metal roots (the beautiful "Entombed" and
closer "What happened to you?), whose sound resembles that of Chino's side project
"Crosses", have something (maybe in the guitar lines that accompany their souring choruses)
that is distinctively Deftones about them. Great album.r"Shapes and colours are all I see." |
| Earl Sweatshirt I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside |
| Enter Shikari Take to the Skies |
There's something about the hypnotic mess of manic hardcore -- complete with a distinctive
techno atmosphere and pretty harmonies (Adieu rules) -- that keeps my inner 14-year-old self
coming back to this. |
| Failure Magnified |
| Fleetwood Mac Bare Trees |
| Forever Came Calling Contender |
| Foxing The Albatross |
| Friendzone DX |
| Funeral for a Friend Hours |
| Funeral for a Friend The Young And Defenseless |
| Funeral for a Friend Welcome Home Armageddon |
| Gary Clark Jr. Blak and Blu |
| George Clanton 100% Electronica |
| Ghost (SWE) Opus Eponymous |
| Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion II |
| Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son |
| Jim Sullivan U.F.O. |
| John Mayer Room for Squares |
| John Mayer Born and Raised |
| Joyce Manor Never Hungover Again |
| Judee Sill Judee Sill |
| Kid Cudi Man on the Moon: The End of Day |
| Lostprophets Start Something |
| Lostprophets The Betrayed |
| LSD and the Search for God LSD and the Search for God |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All |
| Motion City Soundtrack Commit This to Memory |
| Motion City Soundtrack My Dinosaur Life |
| My Chemical Romance Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys |
| My Morning Jacket At Dawn |
| Nirvana Bleach |
| Back when Kurt wrote songs about masturbation, blowjobs and serial rapists/killers. Evidence that Nirvana were actually grunge as fuck. |
| Nirvana Incesticide |
| Papercranes Let's Make Babies in the Woods |
| Posture and The Grizzly Christians and Freemasons Will Kill Me |
| Rich Robinson Through a Crooked Sun |
| Runaway Brother Mother |
| Ry Cooder Paradise And Lunch |
| Ryan Adams Gold |
| Saves the Day Stay What You Are |
| Silversun Pickups Neck of the Woods |
| Simple Minds New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) |
| Sithu Aye Isles |
| Sithu Aye released Cassini, played Skyrim and then released this. Awesome. |
| Snowmine Laminate Pet Animal |
| Soundgarden Ultramega OK |
| Soundgarden King Animal |
| An older, lighter Soundgarden that surprisingly still manages to create a hypnotic energy that one can only love to be engrossed in. They've been away for too long, and it's great to have them back. |
| Stereophonics Language.Sex.Violence.Other? |
| Stone Sour Stone Sour |
| Stone Sour Audio Secrecy |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell |
| Suzanne Ciani Seven Waves |
| Taking Back Sunday Where You Want To Be |
| Tenacious D The Pick of Destiny |
| Tenacious D Rize of the Fenix |
| the fucking D is baacckkkk! yeah this rocks, the honesty in the 'hollywood jack' thing and how their film sucked is cool, and the production is awesome. |
| The Lay-Lows Happy Families |
| The Shins Oh, Inverted World |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Oceania |
| The Story So Far Under Soil and Dirt |
| The Weakerthans Left and Leaving |
| The Weeknd House of Balloons |
| The Weeknd Echoes of Silence |
| The Wonder Years The Upsides |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Formlessness |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Whenever, If Ever |
| Thin Lizzy Nightlife |
| "Just a slight guitar injection", a cool Phil Lynott shouts in Nightlife's opening track, right before we get a first taste of the twin-guitar harmonies that defined Lizzy's career. In comparison to later releases, Nightlife is best described as laid-back, but it is a gem of an album in a discography that is largely underrated. |
| Thin Lizzy Thunder and Lightning |
| Thin Lizzy Vagabonds of the Western World |
| Turnover Peripheral Vision |
| Violent Soho Tinderbox, Neighbour Neighbour EP |
| Wild Nothing Gemini |
| Yellowcard Ocean Avenue |
| 3.5 great |
| +44 When Your Heart Stops Beating |
| Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties We Don't Have Each Other |
| Aramid Obsidian |
| Athlete Vehicles & Animals |
| The electronic influence and infectious hooks on this record proved Athlete both unique and promising. Too bad they settled with becoming a less successful Coldplay. |
| Bay Faction Bay Faction |
| Beach Slang Cheap Thrills On A Dead End Street |
| Beck Sea Change |
| Black Spiders Sons of the North |
| blink-182 Neighborhoods |
| Bring Me The Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It... |
| Bully Bully |
| Caspa and Rusko FabricLive.37 |
| Cloud Nothings Attack on Memory |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow |
| Crosses EP |
| Death Grips No Love Deep Web |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist |
| Don Henley Building the Perfect Beast |
| Down Down IV - Part I |
| riffs man, riffssssssssss |
| Dry The River Shallow Bed |
| Duff McKagan's Loaded The Taking |
| Most of the tracks on 'The Taking' punch you in the face with their hard rock-meets-grunge approach, helped by the low-end production. It's the commercial tracks (e.g. "We Win" SPEW) that let this down. |
| Earl Sweatshirt EARL |
| Enter Shikari Common Dreads |
| Everything Everything Get to Heaven |
| Foxing Dealer |
| Frank Ocean Nostalgia, Ultra. |
| Free Throw Those Days Are Gone |
The guitar work is the highlight for me. The guitars twinkle over the rhythm section creating a
sort of warm, hazy sound (nicely encapsulating the purple of the album art,) that's somewhat
shoegaze-influenced--especially in harmony with the clean vocals. The screamed vocals sound out of
place to me though and all-in-all, it's midwest emo we've all heard before. |
| Funeral for a Friend Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation |
| Funeral for a Friend Tales Don't Tell Themselves |
| Funeral for a Friend Conduit |
| Gary Clark Jr. The Bright Lights |
| Gates (USA-NJ) You Are All You Have Left to Fear |
| His Name Is Alive Detrola |
| James Iha Let It Come Down |
| After hearing 'Take me down' from Mellon collie I had to hear this. Granted, nothing here really sounds like that song, or any other song in the Pumpkins' discography for that matter. But it's a pleasant record full of sunny, country-tinged, 70s soft rock. |
| John Mayer Heavier Things |
| John Mayer Battle Studies |
Decidedly simple and poppy song structures that shot him to stardom, but John's smooth Clapton-esque guitar
lines make this irresistible. A great album to chill to. |
| Lil Ugly Mane Mista Thug Isolation |
| Living With Lions Holy Shit |
Pretty much pop punk we've all heard before. But the vocalist weaves some nice melodies into
the reverb-dipped, flat sounding production (when he's not grunting).. and I just like
listening to it. |
| Lorde Pure Heroine |
| Lordi The Arockalypse |
| Main Attrakionz 808s and Dark Grapes III |
| hear for the beats |
| Masked Intruder Masked Intruder |
| Megadeth Th1rt3en |
| Metallica Death Magnetic |
| Metallica Beyond Magnetic |
| Mild High Club Timeline |
| such a blazed album |
| Modern Baseball Sports |
| Neck Deep A History of Bad Decisions |
| New Found Glory New Found Glory |
| Nirvana Hormoaning |
| Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds |
| Paint in Watercolour Unknown |
| Pity Sex Dark World |
| nice 90's vibe |
| Plan B The Defamation Of Strickland Banks |
| Receivers Haunts |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers I'm With You |
| Ryan Adams Ryan Adams |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon |
| this one's a bit too sparkling pumpkins |
| Sithu Aye Cassini |
| It is in the second half of the album -as its true prog colours are shown- where Cassini shines. The first half falls victim to pedictable song structures and downtuned riffs that chug, chug, chug. EXCELLENT guitar work, though, and the fact that pretty much all of this was done by one guy amazes me! |
| Sithu Aye Invent the Universe |
| another solid release from Sithu Aye, even if some of those riffs and jazzy interludes are losing their punch. |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone |
| Stone Sour Come What(ever) May |
| Stoned Jesus Seven Thunders Roar |
| Sylosis Edge of the Earth |
| Sylosis have crafted what is an excellent piece of modern thrash metal here, possessing an instrumental section that is almost flawless to listen to. The album does, however, run for 70+ minutes - way longer than it should, and the vocals occasionally come off as weak in comparison to the rest of the band. With a few minor tweaks, these guys will be putting out a classic in the near future - no doubt. Heads up for a new album in the works....Safe! |
| Taking Back Sunday Louder Now |
| Taking Back Sunday New Again |
| Taylor Swift 1989 |
| The Bilinda Butchers goodbyes |
| The Blackout The Best in Town |
| The Damned Things Ironiclast |
| The Front Bottoms The Front Bottoms |
| The Get Up Kids Four Minute Mile |
| The Hextalls Get Smashed |
| The Lay-Lows Pick Up And Go |
| The Mothers of Invention Uncle Meat |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Monuments to an Elegy |
| The Weeknd Thursday |
| The Wonder Years No Closer to Heaven |
| Thin Lizzy Renegade |
| Thin Lizzy Chinatown |
| Tyler, the Creator Bastard |
| Violent Soho Violent Soho |
| Weezer Everything Will Be Alright in the End |
| Wiley Treddin' on Thin Ice |
| Wiley Playtime Is Over |
| wiley, the 'Godfather' of grime, put (and still puts) out some great tracks, but his first few LP's were inconsistent and contained a high abundance of shit. |
| You Blew It! Grow Up, Dude |
