Year Album Artist Star Score Genre 2022 Blue Rev Alvvays ★★★ 68 Rock Indie Pop Deam Pop Blue Rev on the surface has everything you’d look for in an Alvvays album. It’s composed of 14 cute dream pop songs that mix in a bit of indie rock energy. There are some fun guitar runs, someContinue reading “Blue Rev – Alvvays ★★★”
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A Light For Attracting Attention – The Smile ★★★½
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2022 A Light For Attracting Attention The Smile ★★★½ 78 Rock Alternative Rock The Smile is the closest we’ve gotten to a Thom Yorke side project actually sounding like a real Radiohead record. His vocals on Eraser obviously sounded like Radiohead, but the songs didn’t have the same rangeContinue reading “A Light For Attracting Attention – The Smile ★★★½”
For the first time – Black Country, New Road ★★★★
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2021 For The First Time Black Country, New Road ★★★★ 82 Rock Alternative Rock Post Rock For The First Time, the debut album from For Black Country, New Road, is a strange, disjointed but highly engaging record that really hits hard at some points musically and lyrically. The bandContinue reading “For the first time – Black Country, New Road ★★★★”
We Have The Facts and We’re Voting Yes – Death Cab for Cutie ★★★½
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2000 We Have The Facts and We’re Voting Yes! Death Cab For Cutie ★★★½ 73 Rock Alternative Rock Indie Rock “Title Track” is a really appropriate opening for Death Cab for Cutie’s second record. It starts with the same raw, kind of muddy sounds and sad, lonely feeling foundContinue reading “We Have The Facts and We’re Voting Yes – Death Cab for Cutie ★★★½”
Something About Airplanes – Death Cab For Cutie ★★½
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 1998 Something About Aitplanes Death Cab For Cutie ★★½ 50 Rock Indie Rock Death Cab for Cutie’s 1998 debut is far from the more accessible, sometimes cutesy and often relatable indie-pop music the band will become known for in the mid to late 2000s. It’s a gritty, raw, grayContinue reading “Something About Airplanes – Death Cab For Cutie ★★½”
Drunk Tank Pink – SHAME ★★★★
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2021 Drunk Tank Pink SHAME ★★★★ 87 Rock Alternative Rock Post Punk Shame’s 2018 debut Songs of Praise was my second favorite punk album of the 2010s, behind Idles’ Joy as an Act of Resistance. Praise was fun, high-energy alternative rock that was easy to listen to and straightforwardContinue reading “Drunk Tank Pink – SHAME ★★★★”
Deathconsciousness – Have a Nice Life ★★★½
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2008 Deathconsciousness Have a Nice Life ★★★½ 77 Rock Shoegaze Post Punk Deathconsciousness is an atmospheric, muddy, desperate feeling record that draws from the dark, post-punk sounds of Joy Division, the heavy, slowcore plodding of Low, the drawn-out post-rock creativity of Slint and the haunting noise-rock production of earlyContinue reading “Deathconsciousness – Have a Nice Life ★★★½”
Turn On the Bright Lights – Interpol ★★★½
Year Album Atrist Stars Score Genre 2002 Turn On the Bright Lights Interpol ★★★½ 74 Rock Alternative Rock Post Punk Revival It’s nice when you can pinpoint the birth — or revival — of a genre. Interpol’s debut Turn On the Bright Lights might not have technically been the first Post Punk Revival record, butContinue reading “Turn On the Bright Lights – Interpol ★★★½”
The Bravery – The Bravery ★★★
Year Album Artist Stars scoore Genre 2005 The Bravery The Bravery ★★½ 57 Rock Alternative Rock Post Punk Revival The Bravery’s self-titled debut is a boilerplate Post Punk Revival record from a band trying to break into what was the genre’s growing scene in 2005. It’s a well produced album, and the band puts everythingContinue reading “The Bravery – The Bravery ★★★”
The Downward Spiral – Nine Inch Nails ★★★★½
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 1994 The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails ★★★★½ 90 Rock Industrial Electronic Rock The Downward Spiral has so many things going for it, and really feels like a starting point for making some of the darkest parts of alternative rock and metal music from the 90s more mainstream. Yes,Continue reading “The Downward Spiral – Nine Inch Nails ★★★★½”
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