i have 5 im going to list

My Darkest Days -10/10
Sick an Twisted Affair

Halestorm -10/10
Strange Case Of.

Evanescence - 10/10
Fallen

Three Days Grace - 10/10
Life Starts Now

Metallica - 10/10
Ride The Lightning

Alina Ibragimova/Cedric Tiberghien - Ravel: Complete music for violin and piano/Lekeu: violin sonata 7.5/10

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Meh.

Cattle Decapitation - The Harvest Floor 6.5/10

Nothing on the album has particularly grabbed me thus far; maybe in time though.

Attack & Release by The Black Keys - 7/10

A Wasteland Companion by M Ward - 8/10

Little Broken Hearts by Norah Jones - 7/10

Pumped Up Kicks (Single) by Foster The People - 9/10 :p

Das Ich - Lava
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5/10.

Poulenc Complete Chamber Music Vol. 1 - 7.5/10

Electric Wizard - Dopethrone 9.5/10

Seriously tasty album.

Fozzy - Sin And Bones - 9/10 - excellent album, quite a few catchy songs.....

Inside My Head is mine..... I loev that song..... they are all good though.....

In This Moment-Blood: 8/10
Mono-For My Parents: 8.5/10
The Classic Crime-Phoenix: 7.5/10

Oakenshield - Gylfaginning - 6/10.
Vinterriket - Gebirgshoehenstille - 8/10
Vento Negro - Do Virtuosismo Pessoal - 8/10

Hot cakes by the darkness - 8 out of 10.

Took me a little bit to get into it, but by the second time around absolutely loved it.

Bought the new fozzy album yesterday too. Need to give that a couple more listens, but am really liking it.

Krystian Zimerman/Pierre Boulez - Maurice Ravel: The Piano Concertos 7/10

Alice in Chains - Black gives Way to Blue 7.5/10

Decent enough album, but it does not touch the old shit.

Paul Simon - Paul Simon 8.5/10
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way 8.5/10

Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble Of Shadows – Flowers In Formaldehyde - 9/10. Fell asleep for a midday nap listening to this awesome album.

Let It Be...Naked - 8/10

Lacrimosa - Schattenspiel, 8/10.

Placenta Kill - Only The Strong Survive 7/10

The xx - Coexist: 9/10

Better than the first in pretty much every way

Patricia Petibon - Airs Baroques Francais 8.5/10
Gianluigi Trovesi/Gianni Coscia - Round About Weill 7.5/10

Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes 9.5/10

Album of the Year Candidate

The Carpenter by the Avett Brothers : 7 out of 10. Falls short of their last album by far but a solid release. A lot slower if you don't mind that sort of thing.

Dave Matthews Band - Away From The World : 7 out of 10. Lacks a really big hit but they haven't really had one of those since the mid 90s. A few amazing ballads but the majority is middle of the set list fodder for the next few tours. Not one bad song but def lacking in that lasting sound overall.

Go Radio-Close The Distance: 9/10. Pop perfection.

Blaqk Audio-Bright Black Heaven: 7.5/10. Need a few more listens, but I might like it a bit more than the first album.

Coexist by The xx - 2/5

Bring back Baria! :mad:

I have been listening to the new self-titled Mindy Smith album, and it is a stronger record than her previous effort. I'd go for 7.5.

Other new (atleast to me) records I have been listening to:

Baroness - Blue Record 7/10
Eugen Jochum/Chor Und Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin - Carl Orff: Carmina Burana 9/10

Elffor - From the throne of hate.

10/10.

Circa Survive-Violent Waves: 5.5/10. It is a Circa Survive record. Kinda boring.
Imagine Dragons-Night Visions: 6.5/10. More than adequate, but just slightly.

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Frehley's Comet - Second Sighting (1988): 9/10
Very underrated post-KISS album from guitarist Ace Frehley. Love the switching back and forth of the singing from Ace and guitarist/keyboardist Tod Howarth.

Down - IV: Purple EP 5/10
Devon Sproule - Upstate Songs 7/10
The English Concert/Trevor Pinnock - Corelli: 12 Concerti Grossi, Op. 6. 8.5/10

Abandoned Pools-Sublime Currency: 7.5/10, pretty solid return.
Billy Talent-Dead Silence: 8/10, vast improvement over the last album.
Deadmau5-Album Title Goes Here: 9/10, excellent electronica.
The Killers-Battle Born-8/10. Their best work since Hot Fuss.
Lupe Fiasco-Food & Liquor 2-The Great American Rap Album Part 1: 7/10. A few excellent tracks. Battle Scars should be huge.

The So So Glos - The So So Glos 7/10

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Mistur - Attende

6/10. Great album, but very repetitive....

almost repped you for this post

but you suck so no

Yes, I think you are a dick as well.

But anyways, I saw them last month supporting The Dum Dum Girls, whilst I was in Copenhagen, and I thought they were pretty decent. Better live, methinks. The singer almost spilt his drink on me after their set, the dozy sod.

Actually, the singer and his brother reminded me of you at the time, Fakelaser.

They live down the street from me. I have chilled with them a couple times. They are big in this local music scene. I've booked them for shows a couple of times. They own and live in the DIY venue Shea Stadium.

Blunderbuss by Jack White - 3/5

Uno by Green Day - 3/5

listen to blunderbuss more. i feel you will end up liking it more than some stripes' albums

Patricia Petibon - Rosso: Italian Baroque Arias 8.5/10
John Adams - Chamber Symphony/Grand Pianola Music 8.5/10
Imaginary Cities - Temporary Resident 7/10

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Enslaved - Frost.

10/10.

They don't make music like this anymore, phenomenal black metal from Norway.
The only thing that detracts from this album for me is that the lyrics are in Norweigean.

Marcus Creed/Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin - Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne/Dixit Dominus 8.5/10

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Dimmu Borgir - Abrahadabra.

9/10. Really awesome album. I know Dimmu get a lot of criticism for moving away from the pure BM sound, but I love the symphonic style they've acquired. Really enjoyable album, and I liked the guest female vocalist on the Gateways track. Wish they would have a permanent female vocalist...

Paul Simon - There Goes Rhymin' Simon 7/10

Andrew Manze and the English Concert - Biber: Missa Christi Resurgentis 8.5/10
Soilent Green - A Deleted Symphony for the Beaten Down 7.5/10

Andrew Manze and Richard Egarr - Schubert: Sonatas for Violin and Piano 9/10
Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel is Wiser... 8/10

Dethalbum III 5/10

Its predecessors have been ball-grinding awesome this one was lacking somehow.

The Dum Dum Girls and the So So Glos

Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra - Theatre is Evil 8/10
Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame 8.5/10
The Cambridge Singers/City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter - Faure: Requiem 8.5/10

Slayer - Reign In Blood. 10/10 - One of my favourite of all time.
Dimmu Borgir - Abrahadabra. 9/10. Prefer Dimmu being all big budget. Glad I caught them live last year.

Dordeduh - Dar-De-Dah - 8/10: Negura Bunget-ish black metal; Band's formed by two NB members; Soothing, chilling, inspiring.

Deadmau5 -"Insert Album Title Here" 8/10. Not as good as 4x4=12, plus pretty good. LOVE Professional Griefers

David Guetta- "Nothing but the Beat 2.0" 5/10. Remember when Guetta wasn't a complete sell-out?

Nevermind - 10/10

Deftones- Koi No Yokan 8.5/10

I would have to go with this as well. I am enjoying the album alot.

Black Circle - A Distand Wind.

Good black metal, but most of the songs sound the same on this album. Could use a lot more variety.
6/10.

Man with the Iron Fists soundtrack

10/10

Bombensturm - Machtwerk = 8/10.

Static X - Wisconsin Death Trip = 10/10.

Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer 8.5/10
Patricia Koptachinskaja - Rapsodia 8.5/10
Isabelle Faust and Florent Boffard - Faure: Sonates pour Violon et Piano 9/10

Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising = 10/10
ICP - Great Milenko = 10/10
Megadeth - United Abominations = 7/10
Limbonic Art - A Legacy of Evil = 9/10
Blutklinge - Call of the Blackened Woods = 9/10

I recently went to an EDM seminar with some world renowned DJs (Richie Hawtin, Carl Craig, Loco Dice, etc) and they spent so much time just shitting on Guetta. Hilarious.

Beach House - Bloom

9/10

Amazing album.

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Bombensturm - Machtwerk. 5/10. Totally average, nothing really stands out, which is a shame because everything on the album is good, it's just all extremely bland.

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Bahal - Striges. 9/10. Really good stuff and I enjoy the italian language vocals.

Punch Brothers - Ahoy! (EP) 7/10
Gianluigi Trovesi and Gianni Coscia - Round About Offenbach 7/10

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Quintessence Mystica - The 5th Harmonic of Death. 10/10. Freaking incredible, never thought an album this good could come from Ukraine of all places.

Also impressed that it's pretty much a two man project,

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It would be cool if the dude with the pipe smoked in when in concert

"Holy Diver" by Dio is one of the greatest hardrock albums ever and I just listened to it in its entirety for the first time (I had previously only listened to about 5 songs or so). Easy 9/10

:y:

Now listen to Last in Line, Dream Evil and Magica.

Pintint, you seem to be into the metal scene, are you familiar with Swedish group Sabaton? I've seen them and they are phenomenal, and their album Art of War is one of the best to come out in a while. Easy 8/10.

Ashdautas - Shadow Plays Of Grief and Pain.

5/10. Poor production quality combined with generic music make for an extremely average album that seems to try too hard for the "kvlt" sound of older albums.

I've heard a few Sabaton songs but I am not all that familiar with them. The few songs that I've heard never caught my interest. I just listened to the title track of "Art of War" and it's a bit too "pompous" (power metal-ish) for my taste. Sort of like Hammerfall, good sound, but not something I would listen to extensively.

Check out "Ghost Division" "Coat of Arms" "40:1" and "Midway". See if you like those tracks.

Pintint, i need to spread some reputation around. Great choice in albums. Mind listing your 2012 best of?

Al DiMeola - Land of the Midnight Sun 8/10
Fine Arts Quartet/Cristina Ortiz - Faure: Piano Quintets 8.5/10

Marduk - Serpent Sermon.

Just found out that I somehow missed that Marduk had a new album out this year.
Pretty good, I need to listen to it more, but first impression is easily a 9/10.

What kind of metal/music do you like?

I would have killed to go to that. Guetta is such a bitch and he acts like he's a martyr by totally selling out. The shit he used to do with Chris Willis on vocals was amazing. But I guess since Willis isn't Rihanna Guetta thumbs his nose at him.

Kaskade "Fire and Ice" 6/10. Kinda disappointing.

Armin Van Buuren "Trance Classics 6" 10/10. Brought back so many great memories

Armin Van Buuren "Trance Classics 7" 7/10. This should and might be the end of these. A few good tracks from Armin, Marco V and Above&Beyond but it seems like he's pretty much run out of classics that were good.

Ferry Corsten "WKND" 9/10. Not as good as Right of Way which is my fav Trance album of all time, but pretty amazing. Brute, Not Coming Down and Live Forever are the standouts.

Damn, that Kaskade Fire and Ice is disappointing? I was about to go get it too =(

May give the Armin Van Buuren 6 a listen b/c i may be the only person in the world who's unfamiliar with his work.

Tom Waits - Blood Money 8/10
Patricia Kopatchinskaja - Bartok/Eotvos/Ligeti 8/10
Maria Kliegel/Nina Tichman - Faure: Cello Sonatas No. 1 and 2 8.5/10


You won't find any trance crap near me.

The Lumineers (2012)

Not one bad song on the record. Unique band to come out of 2012 and have a mainstream hit song.

9/10

Very much enjoy everything about this album. A little Mumfordy with a little folky bluegrassy feel at times. Quite enjoyable in the background.

There is something rather contrived about Mumford and Sons, and The Lumineers. I don't know what it is, but it stops me from listening to them.

Adjective
Deliberately created rather than arising naturally or spontaneously.
Giving a sense of artificiality.


The same could be said for any and all music on the radio. Sometimes it's fun to crawl out from under the rock known as "indie" and just enjoy some awesome Earthy music that was created with basically no intention of succeeding.

Do you think M&S thought they would get to perform with Bob Dylan 2 years ago? No. They may have shared some commercial success but it came from a very natural place. Me thinks. And that is after much research on the roots of the group.


The Lumineers may very well be a ripoff of Fun. or Mumford & Sons, however.

Boo Clan - Angel City Rippers. 8/10.

Keep in mind I'm more of a Trance fan and am picky when it comes to house.

That Armin cd is a compliation album of old Trance songs from his radio show. It's fantastic though.

I totally get this. There was nothing like it and now there's a handful of groups playing banjos and dressing like Amish people and Minonites. Same thing, however, can be said for grunge in the early 90's (Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Soundgarder, Pearl Jam) and thrash in the early-mid 80's (Slayer, Metallica, Anthrax). Success begets success and one group can kick start a pervasive movement as it seems Mumford and Sons with the acoustic, modern singer/songwriter genre.

Conor Oberst, on a smaller scale, brought back folk in america before Mumford came along. And old crow medicine show too.

It is more a case of that I feel the likes of Mumford and Sons are just putting this act on, and don't have any real substance to backup what they play.

Same can be said of manufactured pop. But you know what you are getting with such "artists."

The Slits - Cut (1979)

10/10

really enjoyed

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Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor.

Absolute instant classic, 10/10. :heart:

Sufjan Stevens's five-disc Christmas Sing Along album, very good "takes" on Christmas classics, also like ten "original" Christmas songs pretty crazy, very Sufjan

Death Cab for Cutie - Plans 7.5/10
Trampled by Turtles - Palomino 8/10
The Florestan Trio - Three French Piano Trios: Faure/Debussy/Ravel 9/10

NOFX-Self Entitled 7/10
The Descendants-Milo goes to college 8/10

Milo goes to college is their best album IMO

Just listened to Lagwagon's "Blaze" for the hundredth time. LOVE it.

I haven't heard of anything any of you people listen to. I assume its all noise and not nearly as good as the last tape I listened too: Genesis-Invisible Touch 9.5/10 one of the best tapes of the mid 80s.

Emma Johnson - Brahms: Clarinet Sonatas 8.5/10

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10 Years - Minus The Machine 8/10

Pretty decent. Seemed a little rushed to me considering I never heard any hype for the album until it was already out. It's taking time to grow on me but it I don't think it will feel better to me than Feeding The Wolves, and it certainly isn't it as great as Division was. Still a great album and should definitely be checked out, especially if you're into any of their work including "Wasteland", "Beautiful, "Shoot It Out" and "Fix Me".

Taylor Swift-Red: 8.5/10. Fantastic pop album, just overlong. Cut it to 11 or 12 songs and it could be album of the year.

Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind 9/10

I thought Axe to Fall was great, but this album is even rawer and bad ass. Tasty shizzle.

all the cold play albums - .05/10 they make good target practice.