November 2012

Recommended:
Action Bronson - Rare Chandeliers: A-
The Evens - The Odds: A-
Holly Herndon - Movement: A-

Other Stuff:
E-40 & Too $hort - History: Function Music: B+
E-40 & Too $hort - History: Mob Music: B+
Emeralds - Just to Feel Anything: B+
Brian Eno - LUX: B+
Deftones - Koi no Yokan: B+
Steve Hauschildt - Sequitur: B+
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - Live from Alabama: B+
Lindstrom - Smalhans: B+
Roc Marciano - Reloaded: B+
Soundgarden - King Animal: B+
Tyvek - On Triple Beams: B+
Crystal Castles - (III): B
Alicia Keys - Girl on Fire: B
Ne-Ye - The R.E.D. Album: B
Gerry Read - Jummy: B
Rihanna - Unapologetic: B
Himanshu - Wild Water Kingdom: B-
Ital - Dream On: B-
Aerosmith - Music From Another Dimension!: C+
Green Day - Dos!: C+
Pitbull - Global Warming: D

Missed Stuff:

August 2012:
Krallice - Years Past Matter: A-
Elle Varner - Perfectly Imperfect: B+

September 2012:
Sic Alps - Sic Alps: B+

October 2012:
Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d. city: A
Ty Segall - Twins: A-
Mac DeMarco - 2: B+
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!: B+
Pig Destroyer - Book Burner: B+
Donald Fagen - Sunken Condos: B
Lil B - Illusions of Grandeur 2: B
Lukid - Lonely at the Top: B
Neurosis - Honor Found in Decay: B
Jason Aldean - Night Train: B-
Taylor Swift - Red: B-

November 2012

October 2012

Recommended:

Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d. city: A
Titus Andronicus - Local Business: A
Bat for Lashes - The Haunted Man: A-
Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind: A-
Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes: A-
Mountain Goats - Transcendental Youth: A-
Ty Segall - Twins: A-
Tamaryn - Tender New Signs: A-
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill: A-

Other Stuff:

...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Lost Songs: B+
Between the Buried and Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence: B+
Black Country Communion - Afterglow: B+
Gary Clark Jr. - Blak and Blu: B+
Curren$y - Priest Andretti: B+
Mac DeMarco - 2: B+
Diamond Rings - Free Dimensional: B+
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!: B+
Graveyard - Lights Out: B+
METZ - METZ: B+
Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream: B+
Van Morrison - Born to Sing: No Plan B: B+
Pig Destroyer - Book Burner: B+
Stone Sour - House of Gold & Bones: Part 1 - B+
Tame Impala - Lonerism: B+
Daphne - Jiaolong: B
Donald Fagen - Sunken Condos: B
Lil B - Illusions of Grandeur 2: B
Lukid - Lonely at the Top: B
Matt & Kim - Lightning: B
Neurosis - Honor Found in Decay: B
Jason Aldean - Night Train: B-
Taylor Swift - Red: B-
Gucci Mane - Trap God: C+
MellowHype - Numbers: C+
Three Days Grace - Transit of Venus: C+
Muse - The 2nd Law: C
Rick Ross - The Black Bar Mitzvah: D

Missed Stuff:

February 2012:
Oren Ambarchi, Jim O'Rourke & Keiji Haino - Imikuzushi: B+
Revenge - Scum.Collapse.Eradication: B-

March 2012:
Lil B - God's Father: B+
Mark Stewart - The Politics of Envy: B-

April 2012:
Zammuto - Zammuto: A-

May 2012:
phon.o - Black Boulder: B+

June 2012:
Serengeti - C.A.R.: B-

July 2012:
Nü Sensae - Sundowning: B+

August 2012:
L.V. - Sebenza: B+
Lil Wayne - Dedication 4: B+
MNDR - Feed Me Diamonds: B

September 2012:
Enslaved - RIITIIR: A-
Blut aus Nord - 777 - Cosmosophy: B+
David Byrne & St. Vincent - Love This Giant: B+
Caspian - Waking Season: B+
Dinosaur Jr. - I Bet on Sky: B+
Freddie Gibbs - Baby Face Killa: B+
G.O.O.D. Music - Cruel Summer: B+
Green Day - ¡Uno!: B-
Mumford & Sons - Babel: C

October 2012

September 2012

Recommended:

How to Dress Well - Total Loss: A
Mala - Mala in Cuba: A
Mount Eerie - Ocean Roar: A
Cult of Youth - Love Will Prevail: A-
Enslaved - RIITIIR: A-
Grizzly Bear - Shields: A-
Menomena - Moms: A-
The xx - Coexist: A-

Other Stuff:

Animal Collective - Centipede Hz: B+
Ryan Bingham - Tomorrowland: B+
Blut aus Nord - 777 - Cosmosophy: B+
David Byrne & St. Vincent: B+
Caspian - Waking Season: B+
Dinosaur Jr. - I Bet on Sky: B+
Bob Dylan - Tempest: B+
The Fresh & Onlys - Long Slow Dance: B+
Freddie Gibbs - Baby Face Killa: B+
G.O.O.D. Music - Cruel Summer: B+
Angel Olsen - Half Way Home: B+
Sic Alps - Sic Alps: B+
Thee Oh Sees - Putrifiers II: B+
The Vaccines - Come of Age: B+
Woods - Bend Beyond: B+
The Avett Brothers - The Carpenter: B
The Killers - Battle Born: B
Devin Townsend - Epicloud: B
Band of Horses - Mirage Rock: B-
Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor 2: The Great American Rap Album Pt. 1: B-
Green Day - ¡Uno!: B-
Steve Harris - British Lion: B-
Cat Power - Sun: C+
P!nk - The Truth About Love: C+
Mumford & Sons - Babel: C

Missed Stuff:

May 2012:
Iamsu - Kilt: B+
Ursprung - Ursprung: B+

June 2012:
The Tallest Man on Earth - There's No Leaving Now: A-

July 2012:
Laetitia Sadier - Silencio: A-
Micachu & the Shapes - Never: B+
Rick Ross - God Forgives, I Don't: B-

August 2012:
The Darkness - Hot Cakes: B+
Holy Other - Held: B+
Ombre - Believe You Me: B+
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes: B+
Yeasayer - Fragrant World: B+
Threshold - March of Progress: C+

September 2012

August 2012

Recommended:

Swans - The Seer: A+
Bill Fay - Life Is People: A-
Krallice - Years Past Matter: A-
Sidi Tourè - Koïma: A- 

Other Stuff:

Sun Araw & M. Geddes Grengas Meet The Congos - Icon Give Thank: B+
The Darkness - Hot Cakes: B+
Dead Can Dance - Anastasis: B+
Matthew Dear - Beams: B+
Lil Wayne - Dedication 4: B+
Holy Other - Held: B+
L.V. - Sebenza: B+
Ombre - Believe You Me: B+
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes: B+
Elle Varner - Perfectly Imperfect: B+
Jessie Ware - Devotion: B+
Matthew E. White - Big Inner: B+
Yeasayer - Fragrant World: B+
A$AP Mob - Lords Never Worry: B
Ash Borer - Cold of Ages: B
MNDR - Feed Me Diamonds: B
Wild Nothing - Nocturne: B
Ry Cooder - Election Special: C+
Threshold - March of Progress: C+

Missed Stuff:

January 2010:
Grimes - Geidi Primes: B+
Tindersticks - Falling Down a Mountain: B+

May 2010:
Thee Oh Sees - Warm Slime: B+

August 2010:
Christian Mistress - Agony & Opium: B+
Spoek Mathambo - Mshini Wam: C+

September 2010:
The Black Pacific - The Black Pacific: B+
Grimes - Halfaxa: B
Lil B - Rain in England: F

January 2011:
Lil B - Angels Exodus: B+
Schoolboy Q - Setbacks: B+
Cloud Nothings - Cloud Nothings: B

February 2011:
La Sera - La Sera: B-

April 2011:
Blut aus Nord - 777 - Sect(s): A-

June 2011:
Devin Townsend - Ghost: B+

March 2012:
Prurient - Oxidation: B
Mi Ami - Decade: C

May 2012:
White Lung - Sorry: A

June 2012:
Änglagård - Viljans öga: A-
Curren$y - The Stoned Immaculate: B+
Polysick - Digital Native: B

July 2012:
Damon Albarn - Dr. Dee: A-
Nas - Life Is Good: A-
Testament - Dark Roots of Earth: A-
Azealia Banks - Fantasea: B+
Jimmy Cliff - Rebirth: B+
Mission of Burma - Unsound: B+
Passion Pit - Gossamer: B+
Family Band - Grace & Lies: B
Gaza - No Absolutes in Human Suffering: B
Ice Choir - Afar: B
Samothrace - Reverence to Stone: B

August 2012

July 2012

Recommended:

Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan: A
Damon Albarn - Dr. Dee: A-
Nas - Life Is Good: A-
Laetitia Sadier - Silencio: A-
Testament - Dark Roots of Earth: A-

Other Stuff:

Aesop Rock - Skelethon: B+
Azealia Banks - Fantasea: B+

Baroness - Yellow & Green: B+
Jimmy Cliff - Rebirth: B+
Cooly G - Playin Me: B+

Debo Band - Debo Band: B+

Delicate Steve - Positive Force: B+

Fang Island - Major: B+

Frank Ocean - Channel Orange: B+
Micachu & the Shapes - Never: B+
Mission of Burma - Unsound: B+

Nachtmystium - Silencing Machine: B+
Nü Sensae - Sundowning: B+
Passion Pit - Gossamer: B+

Twin Shadow - Confess: B+
Family Band - Grace & Lies: B
Gaza - No Absolutes in Human Suffering: B
Ice Choir - Afar: B

Idjut Boys - Cellar Door: B
Samothrace - Reverence to Stone: B

The Very Best - MTMTMK: B
Rick Ross - God Forgives, I Don't: B-

HellYeah - Band of Brothers: C+

Serj Tankien - Harakiri: C+
Yelawolf - Heart of Dixie: C

Matisyahu - Spark Seeker: D

Missed Stuff:

August 2010:

Geotic - Realms: B

October 2010:

Mark McGuire - Living With Yourself: A-

November 2010:

Lone - Emerald Fantasy Tracks: B+

Dark Moor - Celestial Romance: B-

December 2010:

Gorillaz - The Fall: B+

January 2011: 

Geotic - Mend: B+

May 2011:

Thee Oh Sees - Castlemania: B+

August 2011: 

Moonface - Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I'd Hoped: B

January 2012:

Fine Before You Came - Ormai: A-

March 2012:

The Decemberists - We All Raise Our Voices to the Air (Live Songs 04.11-08.11): B+

E-40 - The Block Brochure: Welcome to the Soil 3: B+

E-40 - The Block Brochure: Welcome to the Soil 1: B

E-40 - The Block Brochure: Welcome to the Soil 2: B-

May 2012:

Dawnbringer - Into the Lair of the Sun God: A-

John Mayer - Born and Raised: B-

June 2012: 

Joey Bada$$ - 1999: A-

Lorn - Ask the Dust: A-

Circus Maximus - Nine: B+

Gojira - L'enfant sauvage: B+

R. Kelly - Write Me Back: B+

KonKoma - KonKoma: B+

Smallpeople - Salty Days: B+

Spectrum Road - Spectrum Road: B+

Ty Segall Band - Slaughterhouse: B+

DIIV - Oshin: B

Sonny and the Sunsets - Longtime Companion: B

Lil B - Green Flame: B-

The Offspring - Days Go By: F

July 2012

June 2012

Recommended:

iamamiwhoami - kin: A+
Rush - Clockwork Angels: A
Änglagård - Viljans öga: A-
Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do: A-
Joey Bada$$ - 1999: A-
Hot Chip - In Our Heads: A-
Japandroids - Celebration Rock: A-
Lorn - Ask the Dust: A-
The Tallest Man on Earth - There's No Leaving Now: A-
Bobby Womack - The Bravest Man in the Universe: A-

Other Stuff:

Be'lakor - Of Breath and Bone: B+
Circus Maximus - Nine: B+
Curren$y - The Stoned Immaculate: B+
Gojira - L'enfant sauvage: B+
Ihsahn - Eremita: B+
R. Kelly - Write Me Back: B+
KonKoma - KonKoma: B+
Metric - Synthethica: B+
The Mynabirds - GENERALS: B+
Oh No - Ohnomite: B+
Smallpeople - Salty Days: B+
Smashing Pumpkins - Oceania: B+
Smoke DZA - Rugby Thompson: B+
Spectrum Road - Spectrum Road: B+
Ty Segall Band - Slaughterhouse: B+
Big K.R.I.T. - Live from the Underground: B
DIIV - Oshin: B
Alejandro Escovedo - Big Station: B
Polysick - Digital Native: B
Sonny and the Sunsets - Longtime Companion: B
Spaceghostpurrp - Mysterious Phonk: The Chronicles of Spaceghostpurrp: B
DJ Rashad - TEKLIFE Vol. 1: Welcome to the Chi: B-
Liars - WIXIW: B-
Lil B - Green Flame: B-
Serengeti - C.A.R.: B-
Patti Smith - Banga: B-
Taragana Pyjarama - Tipped Bowls: B-
Waka Flocka Flame - Triple F Life: Fans, Friends & Family: B-
Joe Walsh - Analog Man: C+
The Offspring - Days Go By: F

Missed Stuff:

February 2012:
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Visiting This World: B+
Ital - Hive Mind: B-

March 2012:
Fort Romeau - Kingdoms: A-
The Shins - Port of Morrow: B+
Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball: B-

April 2012:
Ian Anderson - Thick as a Brick 2: Whatever Happened to Gerald Bostock?: A-
Jack White - Blunderbuss: A-
Shackleton - Music for the Quiet Hour / The Drawbar Organ EPs: B
Train - California 37: B
Diamond Rugs - Diamond Rugs: B-

May 2012:
Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music: A
Beach House - Bloom: A-
The Walkmen - Heaven: A-
Best Coast - The Only Place: B+
Kelan Philip Cohran & The Hypnotic Brass Orchestra - Kelan Philip Cohran & The Hypnotic Brass Orchestra: B+
Laurel Halo - Quarantine: B+
Marduk - Serpent Sermon: B+
Marissa Nadler - The Sister: B+
Public Image Ltd. - This Is PiL: B+
Ramona Falls - Prophet: B+
Simian Mobile Disco - Unpatterns: B+
Regina Spektor - What We Saw from the Cheap Seats: B+
Grass Widow - Internal Logic: B
King Tuff - King Tuff: B
Slash - Apocalyptic Love: B
Aldebaran - Embracing the Lightless Depths: B-
Soulsavers - The Light the Dead See: C+

June 2012

May 2012

Recommended:

Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music: A
White Lung - Sorry: A
Beach House - Bloom: A-
David Daniell & Douglas McCombs - Versions: A-
Dawnbringer - Into the Lair of the Sun God: A-
Hilary Hahn & Hauschka - Silfra: A-
Lone - Galaxy Garden: A-
Mount Eerie - Clear Moon: A-
PS I Love You - Death Dreams: A-
The Walkmen - Heaven: A-


Other Stuff:

Ab-Soul - Control System: B+
Best Coast - The Only Place: B+
Chicha Libre - Canibalismo: B+
Kelan Philip Cohran & The Hypnotic Brass Orchestra - Kelan Philip Cohran & The Hypnotic Brass Orchestra: B+
El-P: Cancer 4 Cure: B+
Father John Misty - Fear Fun: B+
Laurel Halo - Quarantine: B+
Heavy Blanket - Heavy Blanket: B+
Marduk - Serpent Sermon: B+
Marissa Nadler - The Sister: B+
Ne Obliviscaris - Portal of I: B+
Norah Jones - ...Little Broken Hearts: B+
Iamsu - Kilt: B+
KTL - V: B+
OFF! - OFF!: B+
phon.o - Black Boulder: B+
Public Image Ltd. - This Is PiL: B+
Ramona Fall - Prophet: B+
Royal Thunder - CVI: B+
Scissor Sisters - Magic Hour: B+
Simian Mobile Disco - Unpatterns: B+
Ursprung - Ursprung: B+
Regina Spektor - What We Saw From the Cheap Seats: B+
Nick Waterhouse - Time's All Gone: B+
Grass Widow - Internal Logic: B
Adam Lambert - Trespassing: B
Light Asylum - Light Asylum: B
King Tuff - King Tuff: B
Slash - Apocalyptic Love: B
Turing Machine - What Is the Meaning of What: B
Aldebaran - Embracing the Lightless Depths: B-
B.o.B. - Strange Clouds: B-
Horseback - Half Blood: B-
Garbage - Not Your Kind of People: B-
Gucci Mane - I'm Up: B-
Lower Dens - Nootropics: B-
John Mayer - Born and Raised: B-
Pennywise - All or Nothing: B-
Soulsavers - The Light the Dead See: C+
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Here: D

Missed Stuff:

April 2011:
Death Grips - Exmilitary: A-

February 2012:
Ariel Pink & R. Stevie Moore - Ku Klux Glam: B+
Voices From the Lake - Voices From the Lake: B+

March 2012:
Chromatics - Kill for Love: B+
Every Time I Die - Ex Lives: B+

April 2012:
Screaming Females - Ugly: A-
Evans the Death - Evans the Death: B+
In Mourning - The Weight of Oceans: B+ Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action at a Distance: B+
Rufus Wainwright - Out of the Game: B+
Santigold - Master of My Make-Believe: B+
Ty Segall & White Fence - Hair: B+
Allo Darlin' - Europe: B
Brendan Benson - What Kind of World: B

May 2012

April 2012

Recommended:

Ian Anderson - Thick as a Brick 2: Whatever Happened to Gerald Bostock?: A-
Death Grips - The Money Store: A-
High on Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis: A-
Huoratron - Cryptocracy: A-
Moonface - With Siinai: Heartbreaking Bravery: A-
Orbital - Wonky: A-
Screaming Females - Ugly: A-
Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light: A-
Torche - Harmonicraft: A-
Jack White - Blunderbuss: A-
Zammuto - Zammuto: A-

Other Stuff:

Amadou & Mariam - Folila: B+
Anhedonist - Netherwards: B+
Evans the Death - Evans the Death: B+
In Mourning - The Weight of Oceans: B+
Dr. John - Locked Down: B+
Kool A.D. - 51: B+
Killing Joke - MMXII: B+
Arjen Anthony Lucassen - Lost in the New Real: B+
Lushlife - Plateau Vision: B+
Maps & Atlases - Beware and Be Grateful: B+
Santigold - Master of My Make Believe: B+
Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action at a Distnace: B+
Bonnie Raitt - Slipstream: B+
Ty Segall & White Fence: Hair: B+
SWV - I Missed Us: B+
Traxman - Da Mind of Traxman: B+
Loudon Wainwright - Older Than My Old Man Now: B+
Rufus Wainwright - Out of the Game: B+
Allo Darlin' - Europe: B
Brendan Benson - What Kind of World: B
Bleeding Knees Club - Nothing to Do: B
Conan - Monnos: B
Shackleton - Music for the Quite Hour / The Drawbar Organ EPs: B
Train - California 37: B
Accept - Stalingrad: B-
Actress - R.I.P.: B-
Inga Copeland and Dean Blunt - Black Is Beautiful: B-
Diamond Rugs - Diamond Rugs: B-
White Suns - Sinews: B-
Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded: C+
Future - Pluto: F

Missed Stuff:

September 2010:
Crippled Black Phoenix - I, Vigilante: B+

November 2011:
Action Bronson & Statik Selektah - Well Done: A-

February 2012:
Vijay Iyer Trio - Accelerando: A
Black Country Communion - Live Over Europe: B+
Wire - The Black Session: Paris, 10 May 2011: B+

March 2012:
Barren Earth - The Devil's Resolve: B+
Willis Earl Beal - Acousmatic Sorcery: B+
Daughn Gibson - All Hell: B+
B.B. King - Live at the Royal Albert Hall 2011: B+

La Sera - Sees the Light: B+
Lil B - #1 Bitch: B+
Spawn of Possession - Incurso: B+
Iron Maiden - En vivo!: B

The Magnetic Fields - Love at the Bottom of the Sea: B

Rocket Juice & The Moon - Rocket Juice & The Moon: B

April 2012

March 2012

Recommended:

Action Bronson - Blue Chips: A-
Fort Romeau - Kingdoms: A-
THEESatisfaction - awE naturalE: A-

Other Stuff:

Barren Earth - The Devil's Resolve: B+
Willis Earl Beal - Acousmatic Sorcery: B+

Big K.R.I.T. - 4Eva N a Day: B+

Ceremony - Zoo: B+
Chromatics - Kill for Love: B+
The Decemberists - We All Raise Our Voices to the Air (Live Songs 04.11-08.11): B+
E-40 - The Block Brochure: Welcome to the Soil 3: B+
Every Time I Die - Ex Lives: B+
Daughn Gibson - All Hell: B+

Julia Holter - Ekstasis: B+
B.B. King - Live at the Royal Albert Hall 2011: B+
La Sera - Sees the Light: B+
Lil B - #1 Bitch: B+
Lil B - God's Father: B+
The Men - Open Your Heart: B+
Mouse on Mars - Parastrophics: B+
The Shins - Port of Morrow: B+

Sigh - In Somniphobia: B+
Spawn of Possession - Incurso: B+

Tanlines - Mixed Emotions: B+
Choir of Young Believers - Rhine Gold: B
E-40 - The Block Brochure: Welcome to the Soil 1: B
Gazpacho - March of Ghosts: B
Iron Maiden - En vivo!: B
The Magnetic Fields - Love at the Bottom of the Sea: B
Margot and the Nuclear So and So's - Rot Got, Domestic: B
Miike Snow - Happy to You: B
Overkill - Electric Age: B
Prurient - Oxidation: B
Rocket Juice & The Moon - Rocket Juice & The Moon: B
Ed Schrader's Music Beat - Jazz Mind: B

Todd Snider - Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables: B

Zeus - Busting Visions: B
E-40 - The Block Brochure: Welcome to the Soil 2: B-
Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball: B-

Spoek Mathambo - Father Creeper: B-
Mark Stewart - The Politics of Beauty: B-

White Rabbits - Milk Famous: B-

Meshuggah - Koloss: C
Mi Ami - Decade: C

Missed Stuff:

February 2010:

MellowHype - YelloWhite: B

March 2010:

Das Racist - Shut Up, Dude: A-

June 2010:

Coma Cinema - Stoned Alone: B+

September 2010:

White Denim - Last Day of Summer: B+

October 2010:

Hauschka - Foreign Landscapes: A-

January 2012:

Bang on a Can - Big Beautiful Dark and Scary: D

February 2012:

Mgla - With Hearts Toward None: A-
Christian Mistress - Possession: B+

Cursive - I Am Gemini: B+
Drudkh - Eternal Turn of the Wheel: B+

Scuba - Personality: B+
Sleigh Bells - Reign of Terror: B+

Otis Taylor - Otis Taylor's Contraband: B+
Beneath the Massacre - Incongruous: B

Xiu Xiu - Always: B-

March 2012

February 2012

Recommended:

Vijay Iyer Trio - Accelerando: A
Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction: A
Stam1na - Nocebo: A
Air - Le voyage dans la lune: A-
Fine Before You Came - Ormai: A-
Mgla - With Hearts Toward None: A-
Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It: A-
Polica - Give You the Ghost: A-

Other Stuff:

Oren Ambarchi, Jim O'Rourke & Keiji Haino - Imikuzushi: B+
Black Country Communion - Live Over Europe: B+
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Visiting This World: B+
Carolina Chocolate Drops - Leaving Eden: B+
Cursive - I Am Gemini: B+
Drudkh - Eternal Turn of the Wheel: B+
Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II: B+
Sharon van Etten - Tramp: B+
Howlin Wind - The Russian Wilds: B+
Lambchop - Mr. M: B+
Mark Lanegan - Blues Funeral: B+
Napalm Death - Utilitarian: B+
Ariel Pink & R. Stevie Moore - Ku Klux Glam: B+
Orange Goblin - A Eulogy for the Damned: B+
Scuba - Personality: B+
Swallow the Sun - Emerald Forest and the Blackbird: B+
John Talabot - fIN: B+
Otis Taylor - Otis Taylor's Contraband: B+
Van Halen - A Different Kind of Truth: B+
Voices From the Lake - Voices From the Lake: B+
Wire - The Black Session: Paris, 10 May 2011: B+
Beneath the Massacre - Incongruous: B
Field Music - Plumb: B
Grimes - Visions: B
Frankie Rose - Interstellar: B
School of Seven Bells - Ghostory: B
Tindersticks - The Something Rain: B
Windy & Carl - We Will Always Be: B
Gucci Mane - Trap Back: B-
Ital - Hive Mind: B-
Revenge - Scum.Collapse.Eradication: B-
Tennis - Young & Old: B-
Xandria - Neverworld's End: B-
Xiu Xiu - Always: B-
Chiddy Bang - Breakfast: C+
Dierks Bentley - Home: C+

Missed Stuff:

September 2010:
Glasser - Ring: B+
Halford - Made of Metal: B-

October 2010:
The Greenhornes - ****: B+
MellowHype - BlackenedWhite: B+


November 2010:
Atlas Sound - Basement Databank Vol. 3: A
Atlas Sound - Basement Databank Vol. 2: A-
Atlas Sound - Basement Databank Vol. 4: A-
Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday: A-

December 2010:
The Damned Things - Ironiclast: A-
Ghostface Killah - Apollo Kids: B+
Yeasayer - Live at Ancienne Belgique: B+

January 2011:
Pepe Deluxè - Queen of the Wave: B+
Trailer Trash Tracys - Ester: B+
Imperial Teen - Feel the Sound: B
Loma Prieta - I.V.: B
Ani Difranco - Which Side Are You On?: B-

February 2012

January 2012

Recommended:

Crippled Black Phoenix - (Mankind) The Crafty Ape: A
Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas: A-
Taranis - Kingdom: A-

Other Stuff:

Alcest - Les voyages de l'âme: B+
Chairlift - Something: B+
Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory: B+
Kathleen Edwards - Voyageur: B+
Matt Elliott - The Broken Man: B+
First Aid Kit - Lion's Roar: B+
Gonjasufi - MU.ZZ.LE: B+
Heems - Nehru Jackets: B+
Hospitality - Hospitality: B+
Lamb of God - Resolution: B+
The Maccabees - Given to the Wild: B+
Pepe Deluxè - Queen of the Wave: B+
Schoolboy Q - Habits & Contradictions: B+
Trailer Trash Tracys - Ester: B+
Al-Namrood - Kitab Al-Awthan: B
Anneke van Giersbergen - Everything Is Changing: B
Imperial Teen - Feel the Sound: B
Loma Prieta - I.V.: B
Not an Airplane - It Could Just Be This Place: B
Ani Difranco - Which Side Are You On? B-
Primal Fear - Unbreakable: B-
Rick Ross - Rich Forever: C+
Kayo Dot - Gamma Knife: C
Bang on a Can - Big Beautiful Dark and Scary: D

Missed Stuff:

January 2011:
G-Side - The One...Cohesive: A-

February 2011:
David Lowery - The Palace Guards: B

April 2011:
Dennis Coffey - Dennis Coffey: B+
Sonny and Sunsets - Hit After Hit: B-

May 2011:
Dead Rider - The Raw Dents: B+

June 2011:
No Surrender - Medicine Babies: B-

September 2011:
Lydia Loveless - Indestructible Machine: B+

October 2011:
The Twilight Singers - Live in New York: A
Wussy - Strawberry: B+
A Classic Education - Call It Blazing: B
Baraka Som Sistema - Komba: B-

November 2011:
G-Side - iSLAND: A-
Chris Cornell - Songbook: B+
Teebs - Collections 01: B+
Slash - Made in Stoke 24/7/11: B-
Taylor Swift - Speak Now World Tour - Live: B-

December 2011:
Guided By Voices - Let's Go Eat the Factory: B+
Shakira - Live from Paris: C+

January 2012

December 2011

The Black Keys - El Camino: B+
Guided By Voices - Let's Go Eat the Factory: B+
The Roots - undun: B+
Anthony Hamilton - Back to Love: B
The Weeknd - Echoes of Silence: B
Shakira - Live from Paris: C+
Gucci Mane & V-Nasty - BAYTL: F

Missed Stuff:

January 2011:
Adele - 21: B+

March 2011:
Soundgarden - Live on I-5: B-

May 2011:
Ben Harper - Give Till It's Gone: B+

June 2011:
Def Leppard - Mirror Ball: Live & More: A-

July 2011:
Ashton Shepherd - Where Country Grows: B

October 2011:
Summer Camp - Welcome to Condale: B+
Yamantaka / / Sonic Titan - YT / / ST: B+
Merle Haggard - Working in Tennessee: B-

November 2011:
Shining - Live Blackjazz: A
Miranda Lambert - Four the Record: A-
Rush - Time Machine: Live in Cleveland: A-
Thee Oh Sees - Carrion Crawler / The Dream: A-
Vektor - Outer Isolation: A-
Esoteric - Paragon of Dissonance: B+
Kylie Minogue - Aphrodite: Les Folies: B+
Lupe Fiasco - Friend of the People: C+
Kidz in the Hall - Occasion: C+
Yes - In the Present: Live from Lyon: C+

December 2011

November 2011

Recommended:

Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow: A+
Shining - Live Blackjazz: A
Action Bronson & Statik Selektah - Well Done: A-

G-Side - iSLAND: A-


Steve Hauschildt - Tragedy & Geometry: A-
Miranda Lambert - Four the Record: A-

Los Campesinos! - Hello Sadness: A-
Rush - Time Machine: Live in Cleveland: A-
Thee Oh Sees - Carrion Crawler / The Dream: A-
Vektor - Outer Isolation: A-

Other Stuff:

Atlas Sound - Parallax: B+
Chris Cornell - Songbook: B+
Esoteric - Paragon of Dissonance: B+
Cass McCombs - Humor Risk: B+
Kylie Minogue - Aphrodite: Les Folies: B+
Meshell Ndegeocello - Weather: B+
Teebs - Collections 01: B+
Drake - Take Care: B
Sepalcure - Sepalcure: B
Thy Catafalque - Rengeteg: B
Blut Aus Nord - 777 - The Desanctification: B-
Korallreven - An Album by Korallreven: B-
Megadeth - Th1rt3en: B-
Rihanna - Talk That Talk: B-

Slash - Made in Stoke 24/7/11: B-

Taylor Swift - Speak Now World Tour - Live: B-

Lupe Fiasco - Friend of the People: C+
Kidz in the Hall - Occasion: C+
Yelawolf - Radioactive: C+
Yes - In the Present: Live from Lyon: C+
Lou Reed & Metallica - Lulu: D

Nickelback - Here and Now: F

Missed Stuff:

June 2011:
The Dear Hunter - The Color Spectrum: The Complete Collection: A-

September 2011:
Roman Flügel - Fatty Folders: B+

October 2011:
A$AP Rocky - LiveLoveA$AP: A-
Noel Gallagher - Noel Gallagher's Flying Bird: B+

АукцЫон - Юла: B+

Freddie Gibbs - Cold Day in Hell: B+

November 2011

October 2011

Recommended:

La Dispute - Wildlife: A+
The Twilight Singers - Live in New York: A
Tom Waits - Bad As Me: A
A$AP Rocky - LiveLoveA$AP: A-
DRC Music - Kinshasa One Two: A-
Insomnium - One for Sorrow: A-
M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming: A-

Other Stuff:

АукцЫон - Юла: B+
Bjork - Biophilia: B+
Crooked Fingers - Breaks in the Armor: B+
Deer Tick - Divine Providence: B+
The Field - Looping State of Mind: B+
Florence + The Machine - Ceremonials: B+
Noel Gallagher - Noel Gallagher's Flying Birds: B+
Freddie Gibbs - Cold Day in Hell: B+
Mayer Hawthorne - How Do You Do: B+
Icebird - The Abandoned Lullaby: B+
My Brightest Diamond - All Things Will Unwind: B+
Rustie - Glass Swords: B+
Summer Camp - Welcome to Condale: B+
We Were Promised Jetpacks - In the Pit of the Stomach: B+
Wussy - Strawberry: B+
Yamantaka / / Sonic Titan - YT / / ST: B+
A Class Education - Call It Blazing: B
High Places - Original Colors: B
Real Estate - Days: B
Zola Jesus - Conatus: B
Baraka Som Sistema - Komba: B-
Merle Haggard - Working in Tennessee: B-
Freestyle Fellowship - Promise: C

Missed Stuff:

June 2011:
Tadeschi Trucks Band - Revelator: B

August 2011:
Julia Holter - Tragedy: B+

September 2011:
The Atlas Moth - An Ache for the Distance: A-
Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost: A-
Mikal Cronin - Mikal Cronin: B+
Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning: B
J. Cole - Cole World: The Sideline Story: B-
Nick Lowe - The Old Magic: B-

October 2011

September 2011

Recommended:

The Atlas Moth - An Ache for the Distance: A-
Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost: A-
Mark McGuire - Get Lost: A-
Mastodon - The Hunter: A-
Thrice - Major/Minor: A-
St. Vincent - Strange Mercy: A-


Other Stuff:

Anthrax - Worship Music: B+
Blink-182 - Neighborhoods: B+
A.A. Bondy - Believers: B+
Mikal Cronin - Mikal Cronin: B+
The Drums - Portamento: B+
Dum Dum Girls - Only in Dreams: B+
Roman Flügel - Fatty Folders: B+
Lydia Loveless - Indestructible Machine: B+
Laura Marling - A Creature I Don't Know: B+
Megafaun - Megafaun: B+
The Rapture - In the Grace of Your Love: B+
Wilco - The Whole Love: B+
Wild Flag - Wild Flag: B+
Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage: B+
Youth Lagoon - The Year of Hibernation: B+
Apparat - The Devil's Walk: B
Chickenfoot - Chickenfoot III: B
Das Racist - Relax: B
Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events: B
Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning: B
J. Cole - Cole World: The Sideline Story: B-
Nick Lowe - The Old Magic: B-
SuperHeavy - SuperHeavy: C+

Missed Stuff:

January 2011:
Curren$y - Return to the Winner's Circle: C+

March 2011:
Graveyard - Hisingen Blues: B+

July 2011:
Prurient - Bermuda Drain: B

May 2011:
The Men - Leave Home: B+

August 2011:
Pistol Annies - Pistol Annies: B+
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter IV: B
Red Hot Chili Peppers - I'm With You: B
Thundercat - The Golden Age of Apocalypse: B
Male Bonding - Endless Now: B-
The Nightwatchman - World Wide Rebel Songs: B-
Sun Araw - Ancient Romans: B-
YOB - Atma: C+

September 2011

August 2011

Recommended:

Danny Brown - XXX: A
Balam Acab - Wander / Wonder: A-
Richard Buckner - Our Blood: A-
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Lenses Alien: A-
Trivium - In Waves: A-


Other Stuff:

Curren$y - Verde Terrace: B+
Ghost Brigade - Until Fear No Longer Defines Us: B+
Julia Holter - Trajedy: B+
Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks - Mirror Traffic: B+
Pistol Annies - Pistol Annies: B+
Tinariwen - Tassili: B+
The War on Drugs - Silent Ambient: B+
The Weeknd - Thursday: B
Jay-Z & Kanye West (The Throne) - Watch the Throne: B+
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter IV: B
Moonface - Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I'd Hoped: B
Red Hot Chili Peppers - I'm With You: B
Thundercat - The Golden Age of Apocalypse: B
Male Bonding - Endless Now: B-
The Nightwatchman - World Wide Rebel Songs: B-
Sun Araw - Ancient Romans: B-
YOB - Atma: C+
Fountains of Wayne - Sky Full of Holes: C
Gucci Mane & Wacka Flocka Flame - Ferrari Boyz: D

Missed Stuff:

October 2010:
Belle and Sebastian - Write About Love: B+
Gold Panda - Lucky Shiner: B+
Warpaint - The Fool: B+

February 2011:
Deaf Center - Owl Splinters: B

May 2011:
Mexicans with Guns - Ceremony: B+

June 2011:
Dolly Parton - Better Day: B+
Lil B - I'm Gay (I'm Happy): B+

July 2011:
Zomby - Dedication: B

August 2011

July 2011

Recommended:

The Cool Kids - When Fish Ride Bicycles: A-
Brian Eno - Drums Between the Bells: A-
Little Dragon - Ritual Union: A-

Other Stuff:

Gucci Mane - Writing on the Wall 2: B+
Eleanor Friedberger - Last Summer: B+
Kendrick Lamar - Section.80: B+
Lil Wayne - Sorry 4 the Wait: B+
Ashton Shepherd - Where Country Grows: B
Pure X - Pleasure: B
They Might Be Giants - Join Us: B
Washed Out - Within and Without: B
Yes - Fly From Here: B
Zomby - Dedication: B
Serengeti - Family and Friends: C+

Missed Stuff:

March 2010:
E-40 - Revenue Retrievin': Night Shift: A-
E-40 - Revenue Retrievin': Day Shift: B

January 2011:
Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers - Teenage and Torture: A-
Vampillia - Alchemic Heart: B+
Iceage - New Brigade: B

April 2011:
Seun Kuti and Egypt 80 - From Africa with Fury: Rise: B+

May 2011:
Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres: A

June 2011:
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Unknown Mortal Orchestra: A-
When Saints Go Machine - Konkylie: A-
Army Navy - The Last Place: B+
Biosphere - N-Plants: B+
Random Axe - Random Axe: B+
SBTRKT - SBTRKT: B+
Symphony X - Iconoclast: B+
Curren$y - Weekend at Burnie's: B
Handsom Furs - Sound Kaptial: B-

July 2011

June 2011

Recommended:

Frank Turner - England Keep My Bones: A+
The Dear Hunter - The Color Spectrum: The Complete Collection: A-
Def Leppard - Mirror Ball: Live & More: A-
Fucked Up - David Comes to Life: A-
Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver: A-
Shabazz Palaces - Black Up: A-
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Unknown Mortal Orchestra: A-
When Saints Go Machine - Konkylie: A-
WU LYF - Go Tell Fire to the Mountain: A-

Other Stuff:

Arctic Monkeys - Suck It and See: B+
Army Navy - The Last Place: B+
Battles - Gloss Drop: B+
Biosphere - N-Plants: B+
Black Country Communion - 2: B+
Cults - Cults: B+
Ford & Lopatin - Channel Pressure: B+
Sondre Lerche - Sondre Lerche: B+
Lil B - I'm Gay (I'm Happy): B+
Marissa Nadler - Marissa Nadler: B+
Dolly Parton - Better Day: B+
Random Axe - Random Axe: B+
SBTRKT - SBTRKT: B+
Ty Segall - Goodbye Bread: B+
Symphony X - Iconoclast: B+
Devin Townsend - Deconstruction: B+
Devin Townsend - Ghost: B+
Curren$y - Weekend at Burnie's: B
John Maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves: B
Tedeschi Trucks Band - Revelator: B
Woods - Sun & Shade: B
Julianna Barwick & Ikue Mori - FRKWYS Vol. 6: B-
Beyonce - 4: B-
Handsome Furs - Sound Kapital: B-
JEFF the Brotherhood - We Are the Champions: B-
No Surrender - Medicine Babies: B-
Pitbull - Planet Pit: C

Missed Stuff:

September 2010:
Superchunk - Majesty Shredding: A-
Neil Young - Le Noise: A-
Aloe Blacc - Good Things: B+
Free Moral Angents - Control This: B+
Margot and the Nuclear So-So's - Buzzard: B+
Swans - My Father Will Gui de Me Up a Rope in the Sky: B+
Bilal - Airtight's Revenge: B
Jimmy Eat World - Invented: B
Pete Yorn - Pete Yorn: B

October 2010:
The Orb & David Gilmour - Metallic Spheres: A
Antony and The Johnsons - Swanlights: B+
The Fresh & Onlys - Play It Strange: B+
Ryan Bingham - Junky Star: B
PS I Love You - Meet Me at the Muster Station: B
Wacka Flocka Flame - Flockaveli: B-

March 2011:
Action Bronson - Dr. Lector: A-
Buddy Miller - The Majestic Silver Strings: B+
Josh T Pearson - Last of the Country Gentlemen: B+
The Vaccines - What Did You Expect from the Vaccines?: B+

April 2011:
EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints: B+
Little Scream - The Golden Record: B+

May 2011:
Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi - Rome: A-
Killer Mike - Pl3dge: A-
Africa Hitech - 93 Million Miles: B+

Frank Fairfield - Out on the Open West: B+

Felice Brothers - Celebration, Florida: B+
Tyler, the Creator - Goblin: B+
Týr - The Lay of Thrym: B+
Eddie Vedder - Ukulele Songs: B+
Mark E - Stone Breaker: B-
Hell - Human Remains: B
Sloan - The Double Cross: B
Wild Beasts - Smother: B

June 2011

May 2011

Recommended:

Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact: A
Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres: A

Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee Part Two: A-

Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi - Rome: A-

Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues: A-
Killer Mike - Pl3dge: A-

Other Stuff:

Africa Hitech - 93 Million Miles: B+
Dead Rider - The Raw Dents: B+
Death Cab for Cutie - Codes and Keys: B+
Frank Fairfield - Out on the Open West: B+
Felice Brothers - Celebration, Florida: B+
Ben Harper - Give Till It's Gone: B+
The Men - Open Your Heart: B+
Mexicans with Guns - Ceremony: B+
Thurston Moore - Demolished Thoughts: B+
My Morning Jacket - Circuital: B+
Okkervil River - I Am Very Far: B+
Poly Styrene - Generation Indigo: B+
Thee Oh Sees - Castlemania: B+
Tyler, the Creator - Goblin: B+
Týr - The Lay of Thrym: B+
Eddie Vedder - Ukulele Songs: B+
White Denim - D: B+
The Antlers - Burst Apart: B
Boris - Attention Please: B
Boris - Heavy Rocks: B
Friendly Fires - Pala: B
Hell - Human Remains: B
Liturgy - Aesthethica: B
Sloan - The Double Cross: B
Wild Beasts - Smother: B
Mark E - Stone Breaker: B-
Stevie Nicks - In Your Dreams: B-
Lady Gaga - Born This Way: C+
Brad Paisley - This Is Country Music: C+

Missed Stuff:

June 2010:
Alejandro Escovedo - Street Songs of Love: B+
Perfume Genius - Learning: B+
Scissor Sisters - Night Work: B+
Hot Hot Heat - Future Breeds: B
Eminem - Recovery: F

September 2010:
James LaBrie - Static Impulse: A-
John Legend & The Roots - Wake Up!: A-
Tamaryn - The Waves: A-
Mavis Staples - You Are Not Alone: B+
The Thermals - Personal Life: B+
Women - Public Strain: B+
Serj Tankien - Imperfect Harmonies: C

January 2011:
Faust - Something Dirty: B

February 2011:
Malachai - Return to the Ugly Side: B

March 2011:
E-40 - Revenue Retrievin': Overtime Shift: A
Coma Cinema - Blue Suicide: B+
E-40 - Revenue Retrievin': Graveyard Shift: B+
Sum 41 - Screaming Bloody Murder: B-

April 2011:
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - Here We Rest: A-
Septic Flesh - The Great Mass: A-
An Horse - Walls: B+
Katy B - On a Mission: B+
Grouper - A I A: B+
Hauschka - Salon des Amateurs: B+
Julian Lynch - Terra: B+
Cass McCombs - Wit's End: B+
DJ Quik - The Book of David: B-
Ponytail - Do Whatever You Want All the Time!: B+
Primordial - Redemption at the Puritan's Hand: B+
Paul Simon - So Beautiful or So What: B+
tUnE-yArDs - w h o k i l l: B+
Bill Callahan - Apocalypse: B
Snowman - ∆bsence: B
Jamie Woon - Mirrorwriting: B

May 2011

April 2011

Recommended:

Blut aus Nord - 777 - Sect(s): A-
Death Grips - Exmiliatry: A-
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light: A-
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - Here We Rest: A-
The Kills - Blood Pressures: A-
Low - C'mon: A-
Prefuse 73 - The Only She Chapters: A-
Septic Flesh - The Great Mass: A-

Other Stuff:

An Horse - Walls: B+
Katy B - On a Mission: B+
Panda Bear - Tomboy: B+
Dennis Coffey - Dennis Coffey: B+
Alela Diane - Alela Diane & The Wild Divine: B+
EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints: B+
Explosions in the Sky - Take Care, Take Care, Take Care: B+
Grouper - A I A: B+

Hauschka - Salon des Amateurs: B+
Seun Kuti and Egypt 80 - From Africa with Fury: Rise: B+
Little Scream - The Golden Record: B+
Julian Lynch - Terra: B+
Cass McCombs - Wit's End: B+

Ponytail - Do Whatever You Want All the Time!: B+
Primordial - Redemption at the Puritan's Hand: B+


Robbie Robertson - How to Become Clairvoyant: B+
Paul Simon - So Beautiful or So What: B+
Thursday - No Devoluciòn: B+
Times New Viking - Dancer Equired!: B+
tUnE-yArDs - w h o k i l l: B+
TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light: B+
Bill Callahan - Apocalypse: B
Snowman - ∆bsence: B
Jamie Woon - Mirrorwriting: B
DJ Quik - The Book of David: B-
Sonny and the Sunsets - Hit After Hit: B-

Missed Stuff:

February 2011:
Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges: B+

March 2011:
Cunninlynguists - Oneirology: A+
The Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck: A-
The Weeknd - House of Balloons: A-
Big K.R.I.T. - Returnof4Eva: B+
Green Day - Awesome as Fuck: B+
Peter, Bjorn and John - Gimme Some: B+
Within Temptation - The Unforgiving: B+
Blood Ceremony - Living with the Ancients: B
Dirty Beaches - Badlands: B
Phideaux - Snowtorch: B-

April 2011

March 2011

Recommended:

Cunninlynguists - Oneirology: A+
E-40 - Revenue Retrievin': Overtime Shift: A
Action Bronson - Dr. Lector: A-
Billy Joel - Live at Shea Stadium: A-
Mastodon - Live at the Aragon: A-
The Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck: A-
Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for My Halo: A-
The Weeknd - House of Balloons: A-


Other Stuff:

Big K.R.I.T. - Returnof4Eva: B+
Coma Cinema - Blue Suicide: B+
E-40 - Revenue Retrievin': Graveyard Shift: B+
Egyptrixx - Bible Eyes: B+
Lupe Fiasco - Lasers: B+
Graveyard - Hisingen Blues: B+
Green Day - Awesome as Fuck: B+
Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes: B+
Buddy Miller - The Majestic Silver Strings: B+
Josh T Pearson - Last of the Country Gentlemen: B+
Peter, Bjorn and John - Gimme Some: B+
The Vaccines - What Did You Expect from the Vaccines: B+
Within Temptation - The Unforgiving: B+
Wye Oak - Civilian: B+
Travis Barker - Give the Drummer Some: B
Blood Ceremony - Living with the Ancients: B
Dirty Beaches - Badlands: B
Elbow - Build a Rocket Boys!: B
New York Dolls - Dancing Backwards in High Heels: B
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong: B
The Strokes - Angles: B
Phideaux - Snowtorch: B-
Rise Against - Endgame: B-
Sum 41 -  Screaming Bloody Murder: B-
Soundgarden - Live on I-5: B-
Gucci Mane - The Return of Mr. Zone 6: C+
R.E.M. - Collapse Into Now: C+
Britney Spears - Femme Fatale: D

Missed Stuff:

January 2011:
The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar: A-
Charles Bradley - No Time for Dreaming: B+
Sidi Tourè - Sahel Folk: B+
Amplifier - The Octopus: B-
Magic Pie - The Suffering Joy: C

February 2011:
Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place: A
Bob Marley - Live Forever: The Stanley Theater, Pittsburgh PA, September 23, 1980: A
Moonsorrow - varjoina kuljemme kuolleiden maassa: A
Deerhunter - iTunes Live from Soho: A-
The Psychic Paramount - II: A-
Beady Eye - Different Gear, Still Speeding: B+
Hayes Carll - KMAG YOYO (& Other American Stories): B+
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972: B+
The Low Anthem - Smart Flesh: B+
The Skull Defekts - Peer Amid: B+
Jònsi - Live at the Wiltern: B

March 2011

February 2011

Recommended:

Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place: A
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake: A
Bob Marley - Live Forever: The Stanley Theater, Pittsburgh PA, September 23, 1980: A
Moonsorrow - varjoina kuljemme kuolleiden maassa: A
The Twilight Singers - Dynamite Steps: A
James Blake - James Blake: A-
Cult of Youth - Cult of Youth: A-
Deerhunter - iTunes Live from Soho: A-
Delicate Steve - Wondervisions: A-
The Psychic Paramount - II: A-
Radiohead - The King of Limbs: A-
Yuck - Yuck: A-

Other Stuff:


Akron/Family - S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT: B+
Beady Eye - Different Gear, Still Speeding: B+
Hayes Carll - KMAG YOYO (& Other American Stories): B+
Cut Copy - Zonoscope: B
The Dears - Degeneration Street: B+
Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light: B+
The Low Anthem - Smart Flesh: B+
Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows: B+
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972: B+
Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise: B+
The Skull Defekts - Peer Amid: B+
Stateless - Matilda: B+
Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges: B+
Telekinesis - 12 Desperate Straight Lines: B+
Toro Y Moi - Underneath the Pine: B+
Deaf Center - Owl Splinters: B
Jònsi - Live at the Wiltern: B
David Lowery - The Palace Guards: B
Malachai - Return to the Ugly Side: B
Bayside - Killing Time: B-
East River Pipe - We Live in Rented Rooms: B-
La Sera - La Sera: B-
Thomas Giles - Pulse: C+

Missed Stuff:

June 2010:
The Goo Goo Dolls - Something for the Rest of Us: C

January 2011:
Over the Rhine - The Long Surrender: A
The Go! Team - Rolling Blackouts: A-
Motorhead - The Wörld Is Yours: A-
MyGrain - MyGrain: B+
Sic Alps - Napa Asylum: B+
Wire - Red Barked Tree: B+   
Pearl Jam - Live on Ten Legs: B
Minks - By the Hedge: B-

February 2011

January 2011

Recommended:

Over the Rhine - The Long Surrender: A
Action Bronson - Bon Appetit.....Bitch!!!!!: A-
Destroyer - Kaputt: A-
G-Side - The One...Cohesive: A-
The Go! Team - Rolling Blackouts: A-
The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar: A-
Madlib - Madlib Medicine Show No. 11 - Low Budget Hi Fi Music: A-
Motorhead - The Wörld Is Yours: A-
Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers - Teenage and Torture: A-
Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde: A-

Other Stuff:

Adele - 21: B+
Charles Bradley - No Time for Dreaming: B+
Braids - Native Speaker: B+
Cold War Kids - Mine Is Yours: B+
The Decemberists - The King Is Dead: B+
Geotic - Mend: B+
Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean: B+
Lil B - Angels Exodus: B+
MyGrain - MyGrain: B+
Sic Alps - Napa Asylum: B+
Tennis - Cape Dory: B+
Schoolboy Q - Setbacks: B+
Sidi Tourè - Sahel Folk: B+
Vampillia - Alchemic Heart: B+
Wire - Red Barked Tree: B+
Cloud Nothings - Cloud Nothings: B
Faust - Something Dirty: B
Iceage - New Brigade: B
Wanda Jackson - The Party Ain't Over: B
Pearl Jam - Live on Ten Legs: B
Social Distortion - Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes: B
Amplifier - The Octopus: B-
Lia Ices - Grown Unknown: B-
Minks - By the Hedge: B-
Curren$y - Return to the Winner's Circle: C+
Magic Pie - The Suffering Joy: C
Mitochondrion - Parasignosis: C
Ulcerate - Destroyers of Us All: C

Missed Stuff:

January 2010:
Eels - End Times: B

May 2010:
The Divine Comedy - Bang Goes the Knighthood: A-
Roc Marciano - Marcberg: B+
Stone Temple Pilots - Stone Temple Pilots: B
Rangda - False Flag: B-
Wild Nothing - Gemini: C+

June 2010:
Nachtmystium - Addicts: Black Meddle Pt. 2: A-
Sia - We Are Born: B+
Against Me! - White Crosses: B

October 2010:
Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz: B+

January 2011

December 2010

Recommended:

The Damned Things - Ironiclast: A-

Other Stuff:

Ghostface Killah - Apollo Kids: B+
Gorillaz  - The Fall: B+
Yeasayer - Live at Ancienne Belgique: B+

Missed Stuff:

June 2010:
Robyn - Body Talk Pt. 1: A
ceo - White Magic: A-
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today: A-
òlafur Arnalds - ...And They Have Escaped the Weight of Darkness: B+

September 2010:
Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini: A-
Jamey Johnson - The Guitar Song: A-
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest: B+
No Age - Everything in Between: B+

October 2010:
How to Dress Well - Love Remains: B+
Kno - Death Is Silent: B
Taylor Swift - Speak Now: B-

November 2010:
Atlas Sound - Bedroom Databank Vol. 1: A-
Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit: B+
Cee-Lo - The Lady Killer: B+
Girl Talk - All Day: B+
Ne-Yo - Libra Scale: B
Yelawolf - Trunk Muzik: 0-60: B-

December 2010